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Samstag, 24. Februar 2018 - 07:15 Uhr
Gas station on the moon. Photo-Illustration: Konstantin Sergeyev/Daily Intelligencer. Photos: NASA; Ty Wright/Bloomberg
The Trump administration wants to turn the moon into a “gas station for the outer space,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC on Thursday.
The development would aid with the exploration of deep space, he said. “Rockets would not need as much thrust leaving Earth if they only had to get to the moon,” Ross said. “Then at the moon, you have very low gravity so you don’t need so much thrust to go from the moon to Mars, for example, or another asteroid.”
The idea has its supporters in the scientific community. In 2015, an MIT study found that refueling near the moon would allow for humans to get to Mars much more efficiently than launching from Earth with all of the resources onboard. “The idea of taking a detour into the lunar system … it’s very unintuitive,” MIT astronautics professor Olivier de Weck said at the time. “But from an optimal network and big-picture view, this could be very affordable in the long term, because you don’t have to ship everything from Earth.”
The Trump administration has not shied away from ambitious proposals related to space. Vice-President Mike Pence announced plans last summer to put “American boots on the face of Mars.” But rather than rely on NASA, the White House wants private industry to do the heavy lifting.
On Wednesday, at a meeting of the National Space Council, Pence promoted the work of ambitious start-ups and argued that onerous regulations are holding them back. So the administration’s plan is to cut back on regulations and hire someone to oversee “all commercial space regulatory functions.” The job description may not be all that exciting, but the title is by far the coolest in all of government: space czar.
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Are the current immigration enforcement strategies effective?
How do you balance immigration enforcement and national security with family unity, crime reduction, and cost effectiveness?
Aggressive immigration enforcement has been a top priority of the current Administration. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expects to deport 404,000 immigrants in 2011 alone, compared to the 448,830 who were deported over a 15-year span from 1981 to 1995. Secured Communities Agreements, which require local law enforcement to report information regarding any arrest they make to ICE, is now being implemented in Putnam and Rockland counties. At Riker’s Island, ICE routinely interviews detainees who have been charged but not yet convicted of a crime about their immigration status. Since 9-11, people are immediately placed in removal proceedings if their applications for lawful permanent resident are denied.
This briefing will focus on how immigration enforcement has escalated in New York, its impact on the lives of immigrant families, and the key elements of effective immigration enforcement strategies.
Donald Kerwin, Vice-President of Programs, Migration Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.; and co-author of "Executive Action on Immigration: Six Ways to Make the System Work Better."
Michelle Fei, Executive Director, Immigrant Defense Project.
Betsy Palmieri, Executive Director, Hudson Valley Community Coalition. Individual impacted by immigration enforcement policies.
Shawn V. Morehead (Moderator), Program Officer, The New York Community Trust.
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Sony Boosts Full-Frame Lens Line-up with Introduction of 35mm F1.8, Lightweight Prime
Press release • Jul 09, 2019 15:03 BST
Sony today announced the latest addition to its E-mount full-frame lens line-up with the introduction of a FE 35mm F1.8 large-aperture wide-angle prime lens, model SEL35F18F.
The compact dimensions and light weight of this full-frame, large-aperture prime lens provide mobility and convenience for shooting a wide range of subjects from everyday snapshots, food photography, landscapes, night scenes and more. The new lens provides outstanding corner-to-corner image quality from a maximum F1.8 aperture and its quiet autofocus and tenacious tracking performance make it a great choice for both stills and movie shooting. Its small size mean it is equally suited to APS-C as well as full-frame bodies, offering a 52.5mm equivalent[i] focal length that is perfect for snapshots, portraits and more.
High resolution and large-aperture full-frame performance in compact and lightweight lens
lLarge F1.8 maximum aperture, weighing in at just 280 grams and measuring 65.6 mm (diameter) by 73.0mm (length); this new lens sets a new standard for portability.
lSmart optical construction including an aspherical element to suppress aberration and deliver high resolution throughout the entire image frame. 9-blade circular aperture enables beautiful bokeh.
lMinimum focus distance of 0.22m and maximum magnification of 0.24x offer easy access to the world of close-up photography.
Versatile control and handling for a wide range of imaging needs
lConveniently placed, customisable focus hold button and a focus mode switch for instantaneous switching between auto and manual focus.
lLinear Response Manual Focus for fine, responsive manual focus control.
lDust and moisture resistant design[ii] add to the versatility and reliability of this new lens and invoke a feeling of confidence in the user.
Quiet AF with excellent tracking for movies as well as stills
lFast, precise and quiet linear-motor AF drive system for precise focus for both stills and movies where “wobbling” is employed for delicate continuous focus control.
“A 35mm prime lens is a go-to lens for so many photographers as its versatility means that it is the right choice for so many different kinds of shot,” said Yann Salmon-Legagneur, Director of Product Marketing for Digital Imaging, Sony Europe. “Our new 35mm FE lens combines brilliant corner to corner clarity with a truly lightweight design and we are confident that it will appeal to a wide range of stills and movie shooters.”
The FE 35mm F1.8 will ship in Europe in August 2019, priced at approximately €700 and £630.
For full product details, please visit: https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/camera-lenses/sel35f18f
A product video on the new FE 35mm F1.8 canbe viewed at: https://youtu.be/5DCL7tYmEnE
A variety of exclusive stories, videos and exciting new content shot with the newest cameras and other Sony α products can be found at
https://www.sony.co.uk/alphauniverse. Sony’s European photography hub is available in 22 languages and details product news, competitions and an up-to-date list of Sony events in each country.
[i]35mm full frame equivalent
[ii]Not guaranteed to be fully dust and moisture resistant
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If you are an accomplished pianist with curiosity and an open mind to delve into the study of piano pedagogy to further performance and teaching aspirations, then the Frost School of Music is the place for you.
The Master of Music in Keyboard Performance and Pedagogy consists of 30 credit hours of graduate study beyond the Bachelor of Music degree in piano-related degrees, such as solo performance, pedagogy, or collaborative piano. This degree program prepares students for advanced teaching as independent studio teachers or for continued doctoral-level study in related disciplines.
Consistent with our school-wide belief in the value of “experiential” learning, our graduate curriculum in Keyboard Performance and Pedagogy (KPED) is uniquely designed to integrate theoretical studies with performance to the maximum extent possible. All KPED students have the opportunity to request performance study with any one of our outstanding piano faculty members. Furthermore, our flexible curriculum affords a customized program of pedagogical study based on the background and interests of each student.
Our innovative curriculum includes both traditional and progressive offerings. Our traditional pedagogy offerings cover topics such as historical and modern private teaching methodologies, didactic repertoire and sequencing, group piano teaching, injury prevention, and peak performance strategies. To help students acquire and maintain a competitive edge, our curriculum also addresses relevant knowledge in other disciplines, such as latest findings about the cognitive process or sport psychology, while providing every opportunity possible to guide students through the process of professional preparation.
A wide variety of options exist for hands-on teaching and learning, and our Preparatory Division provides the platform for those interested in a teaching internship for young students. Research ability is deemed an essential skill for graduate-level study. Students have the opportunity to hone their skills in critical thinking and independent research both through various courses in addition to the Master’s Thesis.
The competitive reality of the market for performers and teachers has never been more demanding. We are proud that many of our piano students (both KPED and MKP) have gone on to DMA studies, won awards at national and international piano competitions, or invited to publish in recognized periodicals or present at conferences.
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The MM in Keyboard Performance and Pedagogy is for serious piano students who also have an interest in teaching. This graduate degree combines dual emphases: you will finely hone your keyboard performance skills as you learn how to teach others your skill sets. This MM sets you up for a variety of careers in the musical field. Because learning keyboard skills can be the basis for playing many different kinds of music, you will be poised to teach a wide range of music students.
What Are the Benefits of Combining Performance and Pedagogy?
The field of piano performance is more competitive than ever before. Many serious competitors are seizing the reins as they vie to place in competitions and play with symphonies. This kind of lifestyle can require constant travel and endless hours in the studio. Many pianists are willing to put in that kind of time, but a good number of these students also find great satisfaction in teaching. A wide range of fulfilling job opportunities are available to those who can play well and want to teach. The benefit of a Performance and Pedagogy MM degree is that you don’t have to choose between these emphases: you can do both.
What Kinds of Classes Will I Take?
Just like any other music degree, your MM will culminate in a grand recital at the end of your course of study. You will begin preparing for this recital early on and continue to polish your performances until your final semester. Depending on the school you attend, you may also choose from some of the following classes:
Keyboard pedagogy
Seminars in baroque, classical, romantic, and contemporary music
Practice strategies
Music bibliography
Keyboard pedagogy diagnostics
You may also have the opportunity to work on a master’s pedagogy project or participate in an internship. Your exact sequence of work will depend on your goals: do you plan to teach group lessons? Teach at the university level? Work with small children who are learning piano for the first time? Work as a university researcher? There are plenty of opportunities to tailor your degree to your specific interests. Meeting with an advisor early on in your program can help you determine the best classes to take and the order in which you should take them.
Will There Be an Opportunity for Collaboration?
While some keyboardists like to perform alone, many keyboardists have found much satisfaction collaborating with other musicians. Whether you’re used to collaboration or not, it can be a valuable learning opportunity. Grad school is a ripe time for collaboration because you are in proximity to so many other kinds of musicians. With over three dozen ensembles, the Frost School offers musical collaboration opportunities to all sorts of students. You may even find yourself clicking with particular students and want to start an ensemble of your own. Many of the finest ensembles in the world were formed when the musicians met each other in graduate school.
Who Will Teach My Classes?
Your classes will be taught by faculty members who have extensive experience both as performers and as teachers. As you practice the craft of keyboard performance, you will also be learning from teachers who have spent extensive time practicing how to teach others what they’ve learned. The best practices for teaching music have been developed over centuries. In recent decades, these methods have been tested using brain science and other evidence-based techniques. Learning pedagogy from those who’ve taken diverse approaches to the field of instruction is a great way to become an excellent teacher.
What Does an MM in Keyboard Performance and Pedagogy Entail?
Your MM will begin with semester-by-semester coursework, similar to your undergraduate studies. Each semester, you will embark upon intensive work in key areas of focus in both performance and pedagogy. You will also take weekly lessons from a music faculty member. Your faculty mentors will work with your closely as you begin preparation for another important part of your degree: your graduate recital. You will develop and polish a repertoire that displays what you have learned throughout your degree. You will also likely have the opportunity to teach your own classes or workshops to get experience that you can add to your CV. It’s important, during your master’s degree, to try out as many experiences as you can. The diverse range of sharp skills you’re honing will aid you no matter what specific career path you choose to pursue later on.
What Kinds of Jobs Can I Get with an MM in Keyboard Performance and Pedagogy?
Some MM students go on to perform professionally, teaching master classes and playing music in front of diverse audiences. Other MM students open up small private music schools, teach in the community, or work in schools. Many MM students have gone on to pursue DMA degrees so that they can teach at the university level. A MM in Keyboard Performance and Pedagogy can set you up for music-adjacent jobs as well: entertainment law, music therapy, and nonprofit administration are all jobs held by MM graduates. Your career journey will depend on your interests and expertise. Contact an MM program directly to speak to graduates and hear more about what they’ve done in their post-graduate lives.
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Assessing the cost, faculty qualifications, location of the school, success of alumni, and other factors are all important considerations as you consider where to apply to MM programs. The MM in Keyboard Performance and Pedagogy at the Frost School of the University of Miami is a recognized program with a storied history. Our numerous alumni have gone on to successful performance and teaching careers around the country and across the world.
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Reconsidering the Virtues of the Blended Cocktail
Often derided as sugar-laden and artificially-flavored, blended drinks have gotten a bad rap with the cocktail crowd over the years. Bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler argues for their place among the classics and offers a 101 on making the perfect blended drink.
story: Jeffrey Morgenthaler
photo: Ken Hawkins
Try this little experiment: Walk into your local craft cocktail bar, ask for a blended Margarita and see what sort of look the bartender gives you. Let’s face it, the blender is the most widely detested tool in the bar world, and mostly by bartenders who have never worked a blender station.
But blended cocktails are no different than any other classic cocktail with a rich history: They’ve enjoyed a heyday, seen a resurgence, suffered a dark period and are poised on the brink of another comeback (if you’ve consumed an Aperol Spritz or Negroni slushy lately, you know what I’m talking about).
Blended Revivals
Blended Grasshopper
A mint-green, cream-based classic gets thrown into a blender with ice cream and Fernet Branca for a bittersweet, cooling digestif.
Daiquiri No. 3
This play on the Hemingway Daiquiri is served blended with ice as a play on the original frappéed version.
It all began, of course, with the blender. Though not an instant commercial success, the blender eventually became a household appliance thanks to the promotional efforts of renowned bandleader (and financial backer of the blender’s inventor, Frederick Jacob Osius) Fred Waring, in 1937. The Waring Blendor, with its iconic chrome beehive base and glass pitcher, found itself at the center of a cocktail revolution that originated in Florida and Cuba in the 1940s, where frappéed Daiquiris were popularized by the likes of Ernest Hemingway.
By the 1950s, the Piña Colada had emerged from Puerto Rico. Though the story of the drink’s origin is shrouded in controversy and debate, there is no denying the Piña Colada dominated at the tiki bar over the next two decades, eventually becoming mainstay at bars all over the country (and inspiring that particularly insipid Rupert Holmes ditty in 1979).
Then, in 1971, Dallas, Texas restaurant owner Mariano Martinez revolutionized the blended drink forever. In an attempt to produce a consistent blended Margarita, Martinez modified a soft-serve ice cream machine, creating the world’s first slushy dispenser. It wasn’t long before the avenues of Las Vegas and New Orleans were lined with Martinez’s revolutionary invention.
A proper blended drink should never be so thin and watery that it splashes around in a pool of its own standing liquid; nor should it be so thick that the cocktail can be separated from the ice when sucked through a straw. Thus, the most crucial component of the drink is the type of ice you use.
But soon enough the slushy machine became synonymous with down-market drinks. Why? One word: sugar.
In order to achieve the correct consistency, slushy machines were routinely dosed with an incredible amount of it (not to mention chemicals and low-quality grain alcohol). In no time, the slushy machine became a symbol of the modern cocktail renaissance’s revolt against all things artificially-flavored. But in today’s craft cocktail world even the slushy machine isn’t safe from reinvention.
So what then, by today’s standards, makes a great blended cocktail?
Two critical elements: dilution and texture. A proper blended drink should never be so thin and watery that it splashes around in a pool of its own standing liquid; nor should it be so thick that the cocktail can be separated from the ice when sucked through a straw.
Thus, the most crucial component of the drink is the type of ice you use. I recommend using only crushed or finely cracked ice, made in a food processor or with a Lewis bag and mallet. Now, I do realize the whole point of the blender is to take care of that problem, but starting with crushed ice will allow for finely-tuning the drink as the blender is running.
As a rule, I begin with equal parts—by volume—drink and crushed ice, and add the whole mess to the blender cup, ice and all. Then I start the blender at the lowest possible speed, and slowly turn up the power as the drink becomes smoother. Then, with the lid off, I slowly add more crushed ice until I see the drink beginning to fold in upon itself in a smooth crease. It takes some practice, but in almost no time, a good bartender will be able to feel that sweet spot.
Though it may not bother the home bartender, part of why blended drinks may have fallen out of favor with most professional bartenders is the simple factor of noise. In a quiet cocktail lounge, the whirring of a two-horsepower motor tearing into a beaker full of ice cubes can be a mood kill. Some Japanese bartenders have adapted an ingenious solution to the problem, though: the immersion blender. If investing in one, I recommend the Barmix Gastro 350, which creates—using crushed ice in a sturdy container—beautifully smooth drinks in under 30 seconds.
When choosing drinks to throw into the blender, some are inherently better suited than others. Sour formulas (sugar, citrus and spirit) generally work best as more sugar can be added without issue. The fact that blended drinks contain a higher proportion of water than, say, stirred or shaken cocktails, means that more sugar is required to translate the proper flavors, otherwise the subtleties of citrus and spirits are drowned out with dilution. Sugar, a conduit ingredient, carries the other flavors through.
Generally, spirit-driven cocktails don’t translate well into the blended format unless there’s an opportunity to temper bitter or sour elements with sugar. I’ve made Negronis with great success in a slushy machine, but not without the addition of a little grapefruit juice and sugar. If attempting an Old Fashioned, consider adding some brown sugar or maple syrup to the mix, likewise with a Manhattan. (Cherry juice wouldn’t be a bad idea either.)
As for me, I appreciate the old standards.
I suspect few people know that the Daiquiri No. 3, Constantino Ribalaigua Vert’s masterpiece now commonly referred to as the Hemingway Daiquiri, was served blended—or as a “frappé”—according to his original recipe. But do me a favor, and don’t prepare it the way Hemingway demanded it—with “double the rum and none of the sugar”—or you’ll risk missing the icy, sweet-and-sour virtues of the blended cocktail.
Tagged: blended drinks, Daiquiri No. 3, DIY, Ernest Hemingway, Grasshopper, Waring Blendor
Jeffrey Morgenthaler
A native Californian, Jeffrey Morgenthaler bartends in Portland, Oregon where he manages the bar at Clyde Common and Pepe le Moko. He writes regularly for Playboy and his first book The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique was recently published. Morgenthaler makes a mean Amaretto Sour.
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A conceptual framework to simulate building occupancy using crowd modelling techniques for energy analysis
Song Wu, Elham Del Zendeh Soumeh Saraei
Department of Architecture and 3D Design
School of Art, Design and Architecture
Innovative Design Lab Research Centre
The causes of the performance gap between the predicted energy demand and actual End Use Energy Demand (EUED) are seen to be underpinned by two main issues. The first issue is the assumptions for the modelling tools in term of physical attributes of buildings, building system and occupants. The second issue, which is more problematic, is whether the given inputs to the modelling tools are realistic or not, in particular, business requirements (fixed or flexible schedules), occupancy (level, pattern & behaviour) and Building Management System (BMS) which can be overly simplified and are unable to address the dynamism between factors within buildings. This over-simplification (often necessary to run the model) is seen the major cause of the performance gap. In this paper, the authors attempt to address one of the issues with regards to the occupancy in large public buildings with significant people movement, such as subway station, museums, public library. The traditional approach is using statistical benchmarking data to establish the basic occupancy schedule, such approach is often not reliable and doesn’t reflect the operational reality which is dynamic and unpredictable. However, the challenges of dynamics of people movement have been tackled in the other areas such as crowd modelling and people moving analysis. Techniques and tools have been developed to simulate people movement in different environment. This paper proposes an approach of employing people movement modelling technique to simulate the occupancy in public buildings.
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference of CIB W78, Brisbane, Australia, 31 October - 2 November
33rd CIB W78 Conference 2016: Application of IT in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry - Brisbane, Australia
Duration: 31 Oct 2016 → 2 Nov 2016
http://www.cibw78.org/conferences/ (Link to Conference Website)
33rd CIB W78 Conference 2016
Wu, S., & Del Zendeh Soumeh Saraei, E. (2016). A conceptual framework to simulate building occupancy using crowd modelling techniques for energy analysis. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference of CIB W78, Brisbane, Australia, 31 October - 2 November [Paper 12]
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GOP Chairman: Who else knew about 'the rape in Champaign'? Students running afoul of the law now eligible for grants under new RISE act Health care policy expert issues warnings about pot legalization Cook among 93 Illinois counties with declining populations Services held Tuesday for labor leader 'Wild Bill' Dugan
Americans for Tax Reform president says Republicans will win seats in 2018 because of tax bill
By Glenn Minnis | Nov 7, 2017
Grover Norquist doesn’t see how Republican lawmakers can lose if they just stick to the plan they've already put forth.
“I believe the Republicans will win the House and Senate in 2018 largely because of this tax bill,” Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, said during a recent appearance on the "Chicago's Morning Answer" radio show.
Norquist insists that the bill's plan to lower taxes on companies to make them more competitive and to drop the corporate tax rate has been a long time coming.
“Taking the corporate rate down from 35 to 20 percent is something we should have done about 20 years ago,” he said. “Socialist China is at 25 percent, we’re at 35 percent, and people wonder why we can’t compete against China. It’s stupid tax policy. Our government, our IRS, our president is responsible.”
But with President Donald Trump and a Republican House and Senate now in charge, Norquist said fiscal responsibility and a practical taxation system are now part of the equation.
“Keep in mind, this is not the last tax cut,” he said. “There will be a tax cut every year we have a Republican House, Senate and president.”
Norquist said all the arguments against the plan, including talk that it will increase the deficit, are way off center.
“If you increase growth from 2 percent to 3 percent a year over the next decade, we will increase revenue by $2.6 trillion,” he said. “That’s a very low estimate on how much growth you will get. (Former President Ronald) Reagan went from 2 percent growth to 4 percent growth for the seven years after his tax cut took effect. In today’s dollars, that would have added trillions.”
Norquist is adamant about that being too good of a deal for Republicans to allow to slip away. He recently wrote a Washington Examiner op-ed where he said “the fate of the tax reform bill is the fate of the modern Republican Congress.”
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Norquist said a win on the tax issue will serve as a signal to voters everywhere that on the big issue of the day, the Republican power base they elected was able to work together and handle power responsibly.
“We’re in good shape, the House is committed to getting this done,” Norquist said. “Democrats have spent the last X- number of decades saying ‘Let’s screw the top 1 percent.’ Two-thirds and maybe three quarters of the people paying that highest rate are in fact businesses. The effort is to bring that rate down to 25 percent. We are particularly damaging small business, self-employed people, and the people that did it are the liberal Democrats.”
Norquist said he wished there was more room to work more tax deductions into the plan, but he still remains convinced the plan will generate significant growth.
With the House having already passed its version of the bill, the measure will now head to Senate for debate with Trump having already indicated he hopes to have the bill on his desk for signature sometime around the Christmas holiday.
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Matt Strassler [July 11, 2012]
Currently, the data from the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] combined with theoretical arguments make it seem likely (to me, at least, and to most theorists I’ve spoken with) that the new particle discovered by ATLAS and CMS is a Higgs particle of some type. But the crucially important question is this: Is it the simplest Higgs, the so-called Standard Model Higgs, or not?
A lot is at stake. If it is the simplest type of Higgs, then the Standard Model — the equations that successfully describe all the known elementary particles and a Higgs of the simplest type — may be the complete story of physics at the Large Hadron Collider [LHC]. There may literally be nothing in the LHC data at the ATLAS and CMS experiments other than one successful test after another of the Standard Model — leaving its many unanswered questions (what determines the strengths of the forces, the masses of the particles, and the detailed patterns of particle decays) for future generations to ponder. But if there is even the slightest thing about nature’s Higgs particle that is not exactly as predicted for a simplest Higgs, than this just by itself would imply that there are new particles and/or forces not included in the Standard Model. This would be a revolutionary discovery, as the Standard Model (with gravity, dark matter and neutrino masses added on) has been our best bet for four decades. Information about the new forces or particles would then be obtained from further studies of the Higgs and searches for those particles and forces at the LHC. What we’d learn from these new phenomena is impossible to guess.
There’s a logical problem that you should keep in mind when understanding what data can and cannot say about this question. Sure, if the new particle differs substantially from the Standard Model Higgs, we may soon be able tell from the data; but if the new particle is a Standard Model Higgs, then the only way to tell is to gradually rule out all other possibilities with more and more data. It’s like this: imagine trying to determine whether or not the amount of money in your pocket is 235 dollars and 78 cents. If you do a quick count of your fifty-dollar and twenty-dollar bills, you may easily and right away see that you have at least $300 dollars, or no more than about $100, and in that case you immediately know that there’s no way you could have $235.78; you’ve ruled out the hypothesis. But to determine that you really have $235.78, no more, no less, requires a careful count of the five-dollar and one-dollar bills and all of your quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. It may or may not be easy to rule out the hypothesis right away, or at least relatively quickly; but to rule it in to the extent possible requires the maximum amount of work and the highest precision that can be obtained. [And you can’t ever rule it in to the exclusion of all other possibilities, because there’s always the possibility that the hypothesis has been cleverly mimicked; for example, suppose one of your one-dollar bills is a fake that you’d need special equipment to recognize as such? On purely logical grounds, the best you can achieve is to get close enough to rule out all of the most plausible alternatives.] This is why — just from logic — it may take the LHC the rest of the decade to bring us to a fairly convincing (but never beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt convincing) conclusion. You can’t learn more than logic allows — sorry.
Where we stand right now
Roughly, all we can say right now [and we’ll look at the data in a moment] is that
the data roughly resembles what would be expected of a Standard Model Higgs,
it is therefore not possible to say the new particle is not a Standard Model Higgs,
many possible alternatives to the simplest Higgs have now been ruled out by the data, though many others still remain.
There have been a number of separate measurements made already: each one consists of looking to see what the rate appears to be for a Higgs particle to be produced in a particular way and then to subsequently decay in a particular way. Some of this information in the ATLAS and CMS data is shown in the figure below. (ATLAS does not yet separate the data into as many categories as does CMS, which is why there are fewer points; all production modes are combined on this plot. ATLAS has shown the two-photon data split into categories, but this is not shown here.) Each black point shows the amount of the corresponding Higgs signal, relative to the expectation for a Standard Model Higgs, that one has to add to the prediction of the Standard Model with no Higgs particle in order to match the data. If there’s no Higgs, the data should on average sit at 0; if there’s a Standard Model Higgs, the data should cluster around 1; if there’s some other Higgs particle in nature, the data might lie scattered anywhere greater than or equal to 0. Each point also has an uncertainty band in red (CMS) or black (ATLAS), showing how large are the uncertainties of one standard deviation up and down from the black point; clearly some measurements are easier than others and have much smaller uncertainties.
Results from CMS (left) and ATLAS (right) on various searches for the new particle being produced and decaying in particular ways. With infinite data and perfect measurements and perfect calculations, the black dots would all lie at 1 for a Standard Model with a Higgs particle at a mass of about 125 GeV, and at 0 for a Standard Model with no Higgs particle. (Note for the CMS plot the black vertical line and green bar show the best fit of the data, not the Standard Model Higgs hypothesis at 1; for the ATLAS plot the blue dotted line is the Standard Model hypothesis, not the best fit.) The horizontal bars on each point show the uncertainty on the measurement (a single standard deviation up or down). That none of the points is three or more standard deviations away from 1, and there is no obvious trend among the points away from 1, means that the Standard Model Higgs hypothesis remains viable. See text for discussion of the most deviant points.
What we see is that not one of the data points differs by three standard deviations (or “sigmas”) from the prediction of the Standard Model Higgs (where the horizontal axis reads “1” — note this is the dashed blue line in the ATLAS figure but lies just to the right of the right edge of the green band in the CMS figure). Nor is there any significant trend in the data to lie well above or well below the expectation. Roughly, this leads to the first two statements in violet above. To get the third statement requires looking at the various alternatives; I’ll comment briefly on this at the very end of the article.
Are there substantive deviations from the Standard Model Higgs hypothesis?
Before even starting to look further at the data, let us remember that the new results are “preliminary”, which means “subject to small changes before the paper actually is submitted to a journal for publication.” Sometimes small changes can have a bigger effect on statistical significance than you might expect, especially on the more difficult measurements and on measurements with low numbers of events.
With that caveat, what are the largest deviations from the Standard Model Higgs hypothesis?
First, there is a deviation upward in the signal for Higgses that decay to two photons; this is a 2 sigma deviation at ATLAS; a similar effect is also seen at CMS, though smaller. In short, the bumps in the two-photon data are more distinct than expected, especially at ATLAS. This could mean that (1) more Higgses are being produced than expected, or (2) that more are decaying to photons than expected. It could be a statistical effect that will go away with more data, or it might just mean that the calculation of the production rate for a Standard Model Higgs is a bit too small, and since this calculation is actually very difficult and quite subtle, that possibility is a real one. So papers that are instead assuming that this deviation is a sign that the Higgs is decaying to two photons more often than in the Standard Model might be basing their result on a combination of a statistical fluke and a perhaps underestimated theoretical uncertainty. [The very tenuous connections between current results on the Higgs and any particular variant of supersymmetry, which for some bizarre reason were reported in the press, are completely untrustworthy at this point; this is a case of seeing what you want to see long before the evidence is clear.] We need both more data (to reduce the statistical uncertainties) and a careful look at the theoretical predictions; and then what we really need even more is a measurement of the ratio of the two-photon rate to the four-lepton rate, which can be calculated with higher precision, and can distinguish the two possibilities… assuming that the deviation even is still there when more data is gathered.
Second, there is a deviation downward at CMS in the data used to look for Higgs particles produced in the p p –> q q H process (vector boson fusion, or VBF) [or p p –> H g g, see this post for more discussion of this subtlety)] and decaying to a tau lepton/anti-lepton pair. ATLAS sees a deviation downward also, but their result currently has less data and is not specifically focused on the VBF region. Notice that CMS does not see a downward deviation for Higgs particles decaying to taus and produced via non-VBF processes! (Or more precisely, not in the VBF selection region of the data.) But the deviation at CMS for VBF production is quite substantial; the relevant black dot lies at -2 times the Standard Model Higgs hypothesis, i.e. it says that the data is consistent with the Standard Model without the Higgs minus twice what we’d expect from the Higgs. We certainly aren’t producing negative numbers of Higgs particles!
So while the data is not particularly consistent with the Standard Model including the Standard Model Higgs particle signal, the data is also not particularly consistent with the Standard Model without the Higgs. This is a warning sign that we’d better look at the data more closely; the statistical significance of the negative result may be a misleading indicator. [Blindly taking statistical significance as the only quantity of importance in evaluating one’s confidence in a scientific result is a bit like using test scores (such as an SAT score in the U.S.) as your only measure for evaluating how promising students are, or the number of publications or an “h-index” for evaluating the quality of faculty; it may make you feel good to have a quantitative comparative test, but it is not going to give you reliable results if it’s the only thing you consider.]
CMS data showing the search for Higgs decaying to taus from the vector-boson-fusion process (see text). A tau itself will decay to neutrinos plus an electron, a muon, or hadrons. The four plots show data from four classes of events that show signs of containing a tau lepton/anti-lepton pair, where the tau and anti-tau decay in various ways. Each plot shows the best estimate of the mass of the Higgs candidate as reconstructed from the observed particles and the missing momentum (ostensibly from the neutrinos). In each plot except that at lower right, the large yellow peak is from Z particles decaying to a tau lepton/anti-lepton pair. The prediction of the Standard Model Higgs hypothesis, times five (!!!), is shown as the white bars.
In the figure, you can see the data for the search at CMS for Higgs particles produced via VBF and decaying to taus. The backgrounds are in color; the signal of Standard Model Higgs, multiplied by five, is shown in the white bars; in short, the signal is tiny compared to the background!
The plot at lower right looks for collisions in which the tau and anti-tau decay to a muon and anti-muon; the background, in blue, is huge relative to the signal, dominated by Z particles decaying to muon and anti-muon, and there’s no way to see anything significant here.
The other three plots show a much smaller background; in these cases, where the tau and anti-tau decay in different ways, the background has a big bump that comes from Z particles that decay to tau and anti-tau. You notice that the Higgs signal is not itself a bump; it is a shoulder on the Z peak. And therefore, any mis-measurement of the Z peak can lead to a problem with the Higgs measurement. Is there any hint of such an issue? Yes: In all three plots, especially those at upper right and at lower left, we see excess events at masses below the peak and a deficit of events above the peak (where the small number of Higgs events would be expected), as though the masses of the events that should be in the Z peak are being slightly underestimated.
How are these masses obtained? In each case, the energies and momenta of detected particles are combined with the “missing transverse momentum” (the measured momentum imbalance in the event, ostensibly due to undetected particles but also receiving contributions from mismeasurements of the detected particles) to form the mass. And a Higgs from VBF production will be accompanied by jets (from high-energy quarks) that appear at relatively small angles from the beampipe, in regions where measurements are potentially subject to larger sources of error. So — would I personally be surprised if this preliminary and somewhat hurried result (remember how little time they had between the end of data-taking in mid-June and the presentation of the result in early July) had a minor problem with the mass measurement that has led to a small distortion of the background, one that is currently being interpreted as the absence of a Higgs signal in this channel? No.
Summing up and looking ahead
All of this is to say that we do see some deviations from the Standard Model Higgs hypothesis, but
they aren’t even that statistically significant yet
even if they were, there are reasons to be concerned about uncertainties from other sources than just statistics
And so, for now, until we have a lot more data (and we should have a chunk of additional results from ATLAS soon, and from both experiments in the fall and then in the winter or spring, before the LHC takes a hiatus for most of 2013 and most or all of 2014 for repairs, adjustments, and higher collision energy) all we can say is what I wrote in violet above; nothing rules out the Standard Model Higgs; any theory that predicted that a Higgs would be found that deviated wildly from the simplest Higgs is now dead; but many other theories remain on the table. Specifically, many theories (including various theories with multiple Higgs particles, theories with accessible “hidden” particles, some variants of supersymmetry models, assorted little Higgs models, and more) have the property that the Higgs particle (or one of several Higgs particles) will rather closely resemble the Standard Model Higgs, too closely to be distinguished with current data. Many of these theories remain viable, for now, and only more and more precise measurements will gradually rule them out, until either the Standard Model Higgs hypothesis finally fails, or we reach the point many years from now, when LHC measurements reach their maximal possible precision, with the Standard Model Higgs hypothesis still intact.
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Greg H | July 12, 2012 at 4:08 PM | Reply
Thanks so much for the great summary. We’re all extremely impatient to know more 🙂
You wrote: “Specifically, many theories (including various theories with multiple Higgs particles, theories with accessible “hidden” particles, some variants of supersymmetry models, assorted little Higgs models, and more) have the property that the Higgs particle (or one of several Higgs particles) will rather closely resemble the Standard Model Higgs, too closely to be distinguished with current data.”
Purely out of curiosity, I’d love an article someday summarizing the various options and how they could or could not be ruled out depending on what is found about the Higgs boson. I’ve read about supersymmetry on this site and others, but I’m less familiar with the others, especially Little Higgs models. (I read the summary on Wikipedia, but that was totally incomprehensible to me.) I know this is a tall order…just thought I’d suggest it 🙂 Thanks again!
Matt Strassler | July 12, 2012 at 5:05 PM | Reply
Let’s see where the theoretical discussion of the coming few weeks leaves us, then I’ll try to summarize.
Stan | July 14, 2012 at 9:32 AM | Reply
Illuminting and very understandable for me as an outsider. My gratitude to you.
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Tim Preece | July 15, 2012 at 2:46 AM | Reply
Has fermiophobic higgs been ruled out yet with latest data? I am right to think fermiophobic higgs is a model where the higgs doesn’t couple directly to the fermions and so the mass of the fermions aren’t generated by the higgs?
Matt Strassler | July 15, 2012 at 11:28 AM | Reply
Yes – ruled out. (the mass of the fermions wouldn’t have been generated by THIS Higgs particle’s field – – maybe by a second one. But it’s ruled out.)
Tim Preece | July 15, 2012 at 11:42 AM | Reply
If the energy in the collision is greater than the vev ( 246Gev ) would one expect that during the collision the higgs mechanism would be effectively switched off and the particles behave as if they were massless?
If that was true would one expect contributions from maybe unknown particles that would otherwise have been too massive to participate?
Matt Strassler | July 15, 2012 at 12:33 PM | Reply
The symmetries among the W particle, Z particle and photon become obvious again when the energy is large compared to 246 GeV, but that means going up to around 1 TeV of energy per particle, or more. BUT the mechanism is not switched off, it just becomes less important for some physical questions, while remaining crucial for others.
For example, the processes quark + anti-quark → two photons, or two Z’s, or W+ W-, all become very similar at high energy. However, the W and Z remain massive and still decay in a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, no matter how much energy they have, while the photon is always massless and stable.
Pavel | July 15, 2012 at 3:56 PM | Reply
Doesn’t the Higgs mass itself contradict the SM? AFAIK, in the SM, the Higgs lighter then 130 GeV makes vakuum unstable.
Matt Strassler | July 16, 2012 at 2:32 AM | Reply
125 GeV for the Higgs mass, within the context of the SM (Standard Model), makes the universe metastable. But that’s fine. Metastable can mean a lifetime of a billion billion billion years… plenty long enough. Unstable is several GeV lower than 125, I forget just now the precise number that people are quoting. And moreover, there is slop in this number. One new phenomenon could change the calculation enough to make it stable. Add a little additional physics at 10^14 GeV and no one will be the wiser (for the moment), but our universe may then be stable. And simply knowing that some kind of unspecified physics has to be added somewhere between 10^5 GeV and 10^18 GeV isn’t really very useful information. Especially since we already know that the Standard Model leaves many questions unanswered (why 3 generations of matter particles? why do they have the specific pattern of masses that we see? why isn’t there CP violation in the strong nuclear interaction? etc. etc. etc.)
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the Siliconopolitan | July 28, 2012 at 7:03 PM | Reply
leaving its many unanswered questions (what determines the strengths of the forces, the masses of the particles, and the detailed patterns of particle decays) for future generations to ponder.
Are these necessarily questions that have answers? Are there any compelling arguments for why the masses, say, can’t just be free parameters?
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“Shock and confusion” as Queensland holds line on solar rules
Despite emergency meeting in Brisbane, solar industry headed for major downturn as state government holds line on contested rules to be introduced on Monday.
Sophie Vorrath Posted on 9 May 2019 10 May 2019 0 Comments
Queensland’s booming large-scale solar industry is headed for an immediate down-turn, the Clean Energy Council has warned, if a state government-led amendment to PV panel installation guildelines goes ahead on Monday.
Queensland solar industry stakeholders have held an emergency round table meeting in Brisbane, just days out from the introduction of the new regulation that threatens to slash jobs and hamstring both commercial and large-scale projects in the state.
The new rule, officially announced just over a month ago, will require licensed electrical workers only to perform basic installation tasks on projects of 100kW and over, including lifting, mounting and fixing solar panels.
The Clean Energy Council, which hosted the meeting, said local industry was in “a state of shock and confusion” about what would happen to their existing staff and projects, in a matter of days.
“There’s a real fear that this will create a real downturn for the large-scale solar industry here in Queensland,” said CEC chief Kane Thornton in comments after the meeting.
“(This rule) would essentially lock out large numbers of local workers who are wanting to do basic and safe handling of solar panels, and force the use of electricians.
“We’ve heard some really concerning examples …in particular of the impact it’s going to have on those local communities where there’s great opportunity for workers to assist in the constriction of these solar power stations.
“We’ve also heard … case studies of the significant cost increase that would come for the solar industry… and also the expected delays; it will be very difficult to get enough qualified electricians out to these projects.”
Anger is also growing over what industry sees as a distinct lack of consultation – and indeed a lack of justification – for a rule that threatens to have such a major negative impact – not least of all on the Queensland government’s own 50 per cent by 2030 renewable energy target.
As we have reported, the amendment to the electrical safety regulation for solar farms was rushed through by the state government, in response to stakeholder concerns that unlicensed workers, including backpackers and labourers, were mounting and removing “live” solar panels.
But the Clean Energy Council maintains that it has not been shown any evidence of a safety breach by an unskilled labourer on a large-scale solar project to justify the move.
“The government has not been able to demonstrate evidence of a single safety breach or incident involving labourers or trade assistants mounting unconnected panels, despite having completed an extensive program of solar farm safety audits over the past year,” said CEC director of energy generation, Anna Freeman.
“Electricians are already required to test the integrity of the electrical earthing, and to undertake the electrical wiring, making this additional regulation unnecessary.
“This is a deeply disappointing outcome for those workers who are trained, experienced and entirely capable of … mounting unconnected solar panels.”
Solar business owners who have spoken to RE and One Step Off The Grid over the past month have also expressed complete disbelief in the concept that basic panel installation could be considered in any way dangerous, or specialist work.
“It’s like saying that when we build a house we need licensed electricians to even lay the bricks,” said Danin Kahn, the CEO of Todae Solar.
“There wasn’t proper consultation carried out in this process. This is just a cheap way of curtailing growth of large-scale solar,” Kahn said.
“There’s been a lack of consultation, particularly with guys like us that are on the ground,” added Jack Hooper, who heads up commercial solar specialist Gem Energy.
“Ruling a line in the sand between small-scale and large-scale based on the cut-off for the large-scale rebate scheme is crazy.
“It means that you don’t need to be an electrician to mount a solar panel to the roof on a 99.9kW job, but you do for a 100kW job, even though the risk profile is the same. And even though, the reality is, installing a solar panel is not electrical work. … It’s outrageous.
“We know that they want to improve safety, and we’re all agreeing with that,” Hooper says in a CEC video explainer of the issue. “But the way they have approached this has been incorrect.”
Ultimately, says Freeman, the rule change will have the unfortunate and unwanted effect of making Queensland a less attractive destination for solar investment.
“(Commercial installers) are already pushing the boundaries in commercial in terms of the pay-back period, which is at the outer limits of what companies expect to make the investment worthwhile.
“A short-term gain for sparkies will lead to a down-turn across the entire industry,” she told RE on Thursday afternoon after the meeting.
“We’re shooting ourselves in the foot… at a time when Queensland has to install roughly 700MW of new generation a year to meet its renewable energy target of 50 per cent by 2030.”
Labourers and trades assistants in Queensland will start losing their jobs, or miss out on new jobs, from this week because the State Gov says that this is work that only licensed electricians can do. #qldpol #auspol2019 @gracextwo @DrAnthonyLynham pic.twitter.com/iYQkqQhPWv
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M.H.F. Deutz (Marike), S.B. Geeraert (Sanne Barbara), J. Belsky (Jay), M. Deković (Maja), A.L. Van Baar (Anneloes), P.J. Prinzie (Peter) and Patalay, P. (Praveetha)
General Psychopathology and Dysregulation Profile in a Longitudinal Community Sample: Stability, Antecedents and Outcomes
Child Psychiatry & Human Development
The general factor of psychopathology (GP, or p factor) and the Dysregulation Profile (DP) are two conceptually similar, but independently developed approaches to understand psychopathology. GP and DP models and their stability, antecedents and outcomes are studied in a longitudinal sample of 1073 children (49.8% female). GP and DP models were estimated at ages 8 and 14 years using the parent-reported Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Youth Self Report (YSR). Early childhood antecedents and adolescent outcomes were derived using a multi-method multi-informant approach. Results showed that the general GP and DP had similar key symptoms and were similarly related to early-childhood antecedents (e.g., lower effortful control, higher maternal depression) and adolescent outcomes (e.g., reduced academic functioning, poorer mental health). This study demonstrates that GP and DP are highly similar constructs in middle childhood and adolescence, both describing a general vulnerability for psychopathology with (emotional) dysregulation at its core. Scientific integration of these approaches could lead to a better understanding of the structure, antecedents and outcomes of psychopathology.
Keywords Bifactor model, Child Behavior Checklist, Comorbidity, Dysregulation, p factor
Persistent URL dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-019-00916-2, hdl.handle.net/1765/118553
Series VSNU Open Access deal
Journal Child Psychiatry & Human Development
Deutz, M.H.F, Geeraert, S.B, Belsky, J, Deković, M, Van Baar, A.L, Prinzie, P.J, & Patalay, P. (Praveetha). (2019). General Psychopathology and Dysregulation Profile in a Longitudinal Community Sample: Stability, Antecedents and Outcomes. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. doi:10.1007/s10578-019-00916-2
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The 2017 recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Mentor of the Year Award is Alexander Boldyrev. This award is given annually as a recognition of faculty members who support their students academically, professionally, and personally. Awardees must encourage degree completion, ethical behavior and use of university resources. They must also provide emotional support and offer criticism to help students grow and achieve.
“Dr. Boldyrev works tirelessly to ensure that his students receive the best research training possible,” said Mark McLellan, Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, “We are happy that he is being recognized for the influence he has had in his students’ careers.”
This year, the Office of Research and Graduate Studies will recognize Boldyrev for his work as a mentor to students. As a professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, Boldyrev has supervised 11 Ph.D. students. Some have become researchers at elite universities such as Yale and University of California at Berkeley. He has also supervised three masters students, all whom have become doctorate students around the U.S.
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According to Ivan Popov, Boldyrev finds it important to make a personal connection with his students in order to guarantee success in their careers.“His fatherly attitude and willingness to offer help at any time closed the distance between Utah and my home and enabled me to begin working on projects more effectively than ever,” Popov, current doctoral student in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, said, “His open-door policy has always made me feel so comfortable that I always thought of Dr. Boldyrev as my colleague.”
Boldyrev also works to foster professional communication in order to prepare students for their career advancements.“Dr. Boldyrev has always provided me with honest feedback on my ideas and helped me to discern whether a project has the potential to be realized and published, or should fail. This skill will inevitably help me in my career as I advance past my graduate studies,” A past graduate student of Boldyrev, Jared Olson, said.
Anastassia Alexandrova, now a professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, had a similar experience as a doctoral student with Boldyrev. She said, “When I was a student in USU, Alex made sure I publish, attend scientific meetings, network, and keep my mind open. He gave me an excellent start. Actually, everyone in his group gets an excellent start. Alex is an incredible mentor, scientist, and a citizen of the world. His research is top class, and his group is well taken care of, at the level that can make any student in any university jealous.”
In addition to receiving the Outstanding Graduate Mentor of the Year Award, Boldyrev has previously received the D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Award and the Utah State University College of Science Researcher of the Year Award. His academic articles have been cited 6,492 times since 2012.
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In Situ Characterization Tools for Bi2Te3 Topological Insulator Nanomaterials
Prosper Ngabonziza, M.P. Stehno, G. Koster, Alexander Brinkman
Interfaces and Correlated Electron Systems
Inorganic Materials Science
In situ characterization of topological insulator nanomaterials using several, complementary surface analysis techniques enables to investigate topological surface states without exposing the samples to ambient conditions. Adsorbants from exposure to air and other ex situ contaminations result in notable changes in the bulk and surface state properties of topological insulators. In this chapter, we describe recent developments in the in situ characterization of topological insulator nanomaterials. Extensive studies on individual samples are made possible by connecting the deposition chamber to a large number of surface analysis tools and by using a vacuum suitcase technology which allows sample transfer in ultra-high vacuum conditions between vacuum systems worldwide.
In-situ Characterization Techniques for Nanomaterials
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Ngabonziza, P., Stehno, M. P., Koster, G., & Brinkman, A. (2018). In Situ Characterization Tools for Bi2Te3 Topological Insulator Nanomaterials. In In-situ Characterization Techniques for Nanomaterials (pp. 223-250). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56322-9_7
Ngabonziza, Prosper ; Stehno, M.P. ; Koster, G. ; Brinkman, Alexander . / In Situ Characterization Tools for Bi2Te3 Topological Insulator Nanomaterials. In-situ Characterization Techniques for Nanomaterials. Springer, 2018. pp. 223-250
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Gresham's Law or Gresham's Fallacy?
Rolnick, Arthur J., 1944- and Weber, Warren E.
Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)
This paper was written for the National Bureau of Economic Research Macro Conference to be held July 7 and 8, 1983, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Specie, Gresham, United States Mint, Currency, Coinage, Greenbacks, and Legal tender
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The Origins of the Monetary Union in the United States
Rolnick, Arthur J., 1944-, Smith, Bruce D. (Bruce David), 1954-2002, and Weber, Warren E.
Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Dept.) and Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)
Colonies, Exchange rates, Federal currency, Confederation, Monetary unions, Seigniorage, Specie, Fiat money, and Revolutionary War
N41 - Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913 and E42 - Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
Interest Rates Under the U.S. National Banking System
Champ, Bruce, Wallace, Neil, and Weber, Warren E.
According to previous studies, the demand-liability feature of national bank notes did not present a problem for note-issuing banks because the nonbank public treated notes and other currency as perfect substitutes. However, that view, when combined with nonbindingness of the collateral restriction against note issue, itself an implication of the fact that some eligible collateral was not used for that purpose, implies that the safe short-term interest rate is pegged at the tax rate on note circulation. Since evidence on short-term interest rates is inconsistent with such a peg, that view must be rejected.
Bank notes, National banking system, and Interest rates
N21 - Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913 and E42 - Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
A Model of Commodity Money, With Applications to Gresham’s Law and the Debasement Puzzle
Velde, François R., Weber, Warren E., and Wright, Randall D.
We develop a model of commodity money and use it to analyze the following two questions motivated by issues in monetary history: What are the conditions under which Gresham’s Law holds? And, what are the mechanics of a debasement (lowering the metallic content of coins)? The model contains light and heavy coins, imperfect information, and prices determined via bilateral bargaining. There are equilibria with neither, both, or only one type of coin in circulation. When both circulate, coins may trade by weight or by tale. We discuss the extent to which Gresham’s Law holds in the various cases. Following a debasement, the quantity of reminting depends on the incentives offered by the sovereign. Equilibria exist with positive seigniorage and a mixture of old and new coins in circulation.
Debasement, Random matching, Asymmetric information, Commodity money, and Gresham's Law
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Costly Banknote Issuance and Interest Rates Under the National Banking System
Martin, Antoine, Monnet, Cyril, and Weber, Warren E.
The behavior of interest rates under the U.S. National Banking System is puzzling because of the apparent presence of persistent and large unexploited arbitrage opportunities for note issuing banks. Previous attempts to explain interest rate behavior have relied on the cost or the inelasticity of note issue. These attempts are not entirely satisfactory. Here we propose a new rationale to solve the puzzle. Inelastic note issuance arises endogenously because the marginal cost of issuing notes is an increasing function of circulation. We build a spatial separation model where some fraction of agents must move each period. Banknotes can be carried between locations; deposits cannot. Taking the model to the data on national banks, we find it matches the movements in long-term interest rates well. It also predicts movements in deposit rates during panics. However, the model displays more inelasticity of notes issuance than is in the data.
National Banking System, Banknotes, Spatial separation, and Interest rates
Were U.S. State Banknotes Priced as Securities?
Weber, Warren E.
This study examines the pricing of U.S. state banknotes before 1860 using discount data from New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Cleveland. The study determines whether these banknotes were priced consistent with their expected net redemption value as securities are. The evidence is mixed. Prices for a bank’s notes were higher when the bank was redeeming its notes for specie than when it was not, and banknote prices generally reflected the costs of note redemption. However, the relationship between prices and redemption costs was not tight, and there were cases in which the notes of distant banks went at par.
State Banks, Bank Notes, and Currency
Bank Liability Insurance Schemes Before 1865
Prior to 1861, several U.S. states established bank liability insurance schemes. One type was an insurance fund. Member banks paid into a state-run fund that paid bank creditors’ losses. A second scheme was a mutual guarantee system. Member banks were legally responsible for the liabilities of any insolvent bank. This paper’s hypothesis is that the moral hazard problem was controlled under a scheme to the degree that member banks had the power and incentive to control or modify others’ risk-taking behavior. Schemes that gave member banks both strong incentives and power were able to control the moral hazard problem better than schemes in which one or both features were weak. Empirical evidence on bank failures and losses on banks’ asset portfolios is consistent with this hypothesis.
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Clearing Arrangements in the United States before the Federal Reserve System
This paper examines two different clearing arrangements for bank liabilities. One was a profit-maximizing private entity, the Suffolk Banking System. It cleared notes for New England banks between 1827 and 1858. The other was a nonprofit collective, the clearinghouses organized in many cities beginning in 1853. The paper examines how well these arrangements prevented bank failures and acted as lenders of last resort. It finds the Suffolk system had fewer failures but acted less like a lender of last resort. It argues that these differences can be explained by the different incentives facing the Suffolk Bank and the members of clearinghouses.
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Francisco González Gragera (1926-2016)
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Francisco González Gragera, creator of the spectacular Capricho de Cotrina in western Spain, died suddenly on September 19, 2016. He was 90 years old.
González’s development into one of Spain’s most inventive and driven art environment builders could never have been predicted. Born on Christmas Day, 1925 to a poor family of subsistence farmers, Francisco left school at age thirteen to work full-time in the fields, and then, by age seventeen, to work in construction. After 11 years in the Basque city of Bilbao, he moved back to Extremadura, near the village of his birth, where he and his brother opened a stonework business, cutting marbles and limestone for walls, floors, counters, and tombstones.
While actively involved in this business, González dreamt about constructing a country home on adjacent land to explore his increasing interest in sculpting natural forms. Beginning in 1988, basing his work only on a few simple pencil or pen outlines drawn in single perspective, he framed and assembled a two-story structure characterized by sinuous lines and organic contours. Despite some obvious congruencies, González staunchly resisted any comparison between his work and the trencadís-ornamented fluid forms of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí: “I didn’t ever visit Barcelona [before I started building],” he noted, “and I couldn’t copy any plans from television,” where he first saw images of Gaudí’s works. Besides, he said, “that man made Pharaonic works and this is just a simple house that I thought up in order to leave to my children” (Poves, Hoy July 18, 2010).
González’s Capricho is linked to aesthetic fantasy and personal dreams but also to the natural and man-made worlds. His architectural whimsy is also tinged with painful memories, marked by images representing the postwar years of starvation across Spain and the deprivations of the wars. His personal campaign to prove to others that he was worthy, that he was special, also underlay his impetus for construction.
Yet over the course of his years of construction he was obstructed again and again: on a personal level, as he periodically ran out of discretionary funds to spend on building materials, but also due to municipal mandates to stop work, given his lack of certification as an engineer or architect, and to his disregard of the inflexible urban codes that allowed no variant for this kind of unusual construction. He lost some 8 – 10 years as he waited, chafing; finally, in 2011 the administration changed, and he joyously returned to work, completing a master bedroom area connected by an undulating hallway to the main house, and undertaking separate projects to enhance other areas of the site, such as an elaborate outdoor cooking area. Although he did not realize his dream, his son Roberto has pledged to bring the Capricho to completion.
Powerful and compelling with its sinuous forms, otherworldly plants, and imaginary animals, Francisco González Gragera did, indeed, evolve from poor unknown farmer into renowned artist, as he created one of the most spectacular art environments in all of Spain.
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"Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and the Missile Headed for Grandma's House"
When it comes to foreign policy, there's less difference among the leading contenders than you might think.
Nick Gillespie | 1.10.2016 12:36 PM
Veteran GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, a self-confessed "card-carrying member" of the Republican establishment, has written an interesting take on the coming presidential primaries.
Snippets:
…our most likely matchup is Cruz v. Trump down the home stretch….
Today, Cruz has one-third of the GOP, Trump has a third, and the remaining establishment third is split between Rubio, Bush, and Christie. Even if the establishment lane comes together, it's still two against one. The GOP has become an outsider's party. Trump's legacy and that of the 2016 "outsiders" will be lasting. For the near future, the GOP will be a more Trump-like, populist party, not the evangelical party of Ted Cruz.
Whether it is an angry and dark populism that rails ineptly against Washington, or an optimistic and visionary populism that decentralizes our outdated top-down government, empowers people bottom-up, and opens up America's economy to the future all remains to be determined.
If Ted Cruz and not Donald Trump were to become the Republican nominee, there is increasing concern among the GOP Washington establishment, in which I confess card-carrying membership, that he would lead the GOP to ruin.
Cruz's strategy for the general election is to polarize the electorate, inflame and turn out the GOP faithful. Cruz would pit the Republican base against the Democratic base. That would be great strategy if general elections disallowed swing voters.
The cost of Cruz's polarization strategy? Surrendering the middle and the future.
Castellanos, who is no fan of Trump, nonetheless sees him as capable of beating Hillary Clinton, almost certainly the Democratic nominee:
Should Hillary Clinton be favored to beat Donald Trump? Not necessarily.
Donald Trump is above all a salesman. He is, as he constantly reminds us, the "Art of the Deal." Trump would adapt, pivot, and do anything to make his next deal; winning the general election….
Trump is little constrained by party or ideology. Unlike Senator Cruz, Mr. Trump would run left of Hillary Clinton when he found an opening.
Additionally, many swing and minority voters, seduced by Mr. Trump's "tell-it-like-is" strength, make allowances for his over-heated rhetoric. They know he is saying what he finds necessary to close a deal. His hyperbolic declarations as mere "opening bids" in his political negotiations. Many voters have grown comfortable with Trump in their homes, as a man who has inhabited their televisions for decades.
There's a lot more in Castellanos' piece, which also looks at whether "establishment" types such as Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, and Marco Rubio (who until just a few months ago was a Tea Party fave, right?) have gas left in their tanks.
I suspect that a lot of Reason readers share my lack of partisan interest in the outcomes and the fates of the Democratic and Republican parties. Having said that, how all this plays out and upon what major themes will have a major impact on the policies that take front and center over the coming years. Currently, I'm probably more worried about foreign policy concerns, since the difference between, say, Hillary Clinton and a Marco Rubio or a Ted Cruz is far less than any of their followers will admit. All are in various ways big defense spenders and interventionists who talk about extending all or most "war on terror" type actions. Cruz is better on the issue of domestic surveillance than either, but his anti-immigrant positions underwrite invasive workplace rules. And his foreign policy seems incoherent: Like Rand Paul, he's rightly chided Clinton for lauding the Libyan bombing but unlike Paul, he's quick to talk about carpet bombing, making sand glow, and all that.
The economy is finally starting to route around all of the damage created first by unrestrained spending and regulation during the Bush administration and then compounded by Barack Obama's grand "triumphs" (stimulus, Dodd-Frank, Obamacare). There's no question that we need a leaner, less-intrusive government when it comes to the economy, for sure, but capitalism always finds a way to regain productivity (not that entrepreneurs and businesses and all of us should have to fight through useless regulations).
When it comes endless war footing and endless interventions, it's much harder for us to figure out ways to wall off the damage, I think. Which makes me especially worried about the 2016 election regardless of what current leading contenders get into office.
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I don’t think any bit of this guy’s conceptual framework will exist after the first few primaries.
IA and NH will decide who the “serious” candidates are, and voters will completely re-align themselves following those depending on which of the 3 or so are the most credible and most likely to win.
Trump’s 1/3 share has been based on his populist charismatic appeal, but zero actual political credibility or ability to win. The things that have floated him in polls will vanish… after SC, at latest, which is one i think he might win. But I don’t think he’ll actually even do as well as projected in IA & NH.
Adans smith
It’s minus 6 in Minnesota.That’s the story.I’m warm and drinking and eating.
Cdr Lytton
I was supposed to be on a business trip in the Twin Cities last week and next week but it got canceled at the last minute. I think I dodged a (frozen) bullet on that one
I thought that for a long time but have changed my mind. I am starting to think he is going to win. All that you say about Trump is correct, except for the issues I talk about below. The problem is that the voters have gotten so fed up with Washington and so angry, none of that matters. In the voters’ mind, especially the GOP voters’ minds, none of the assholes have any political credibility. So the charge that Trump doesn’t have any carried no weight.
Beyond that, unlike the rest of these clowns, Trump has credibility on two issues; doing something about the border and sticking it to the PC culture. Those are big issues. People are tired of being told to fuck off about immigration and really tired of being told what they can and cannot say. And Trump has set himself of as the champion of all of that.
No,he’s wrong all day long.He can’t round up 11 million people,he can’t ‘build the wall ‘ and ‘make ‘ Mexico pay for it.He’s a crony all on board for stealing the property of others and even loves farm subsidies,including ethanol.He’s a ass clown
Just because he can’t get all 11 million doesn’t mean he can’t get a lot of them and make things better than what they are. Moreover, even if he doesn’t get all 11 million, he can sure as hell not sign amnesty and not invite more in.
Come on, you guys would never buy into the “it must be perfect or it is of no good” fallacy in any other context. Don’t buy it here because it makes you feel good and fits your narrative.
Trump is the only politician talking seriously about immigration and who has shown himself to be anything but lying crap weasel waiting to sell out the country at the first chance. That and his willingness to tell the media and the PC culture to fuck off is why he is succeeding and why he stands a good chance of being president.
Okay, John, we get it. You agree with him on immigration.
Here’s the thing, a lot of people here don’t. And, whatsmore, even some who agree with him on immigration recognize that he’s atrocious on a host of other issues.
And, for a lot of us, immigration is just a sideshow issue. What’s going to make or break America over the next twenty years isn’t whether we deport or grant amnesty to a bunch of hispanics. Sorry, but it really isn’t even on the list.
Our debt and budget are a make or break issue.
Reforming (or preferably eliminating) entitlements are a make or break issue.
Figuring out how we can get by in a world where bad actors have vastly enhanced capabilities without giving up our rights and liberties is a make or break issue.
Preserving the rights and liberties that actually made this country great while a sizeable portion of our young people are openly dismissive or contemptuous of those rights and liberties is a make or break issue.
Immigration is about as far from being a make or break issue as stoned Mexican ass sex. And as far as I can tell, Donald Trump either doesn’t give a shit or is on the other side of all of those things.
I’ll add restoring a decent pace of economic growth is a make or break issue.
Sure Bill. And whether you agree or disagree with him on immigration has no bearing on whether you take him seriously or not. The responses to Trump on here boil down to “we hate that so therefore he must not be serious.”.
There is nothing unreasonable about thinking that a federal government as large as ours could not if it really wanted to deport 11 million people or at the very least make a big dent in doing so. You may think that is a terrible idea. If so, then say why you think it is. Don’t try and avoid the argument on the merits of doing that by pretending that it is some crazy idea beyond the laws of physics.
John, Adans smith has listed a number of issues, outside of immigration, that Trump sucks on. It’s simply not the case that people here don’t like Trump because they disagree with him on immigration. There’s a shitload of reasons to not like the guy. He’s a crony capitalist who supports single payer. That alone should be enough to disqualify him in libertarian, or even Republican circles. I’ve joked before that Donald Trump is a white Barack Obama who hates Mexicans. The thing is, it’s really not that far off.
Let me ask you, if Donald Trump were pro-open-borders, would you support him? Why?
I never said he was serious on those issues. I said people don’t care because the public doesn’t think anyone is serious on those issues. I said he was serious about immigration. And he clearly is. You just refuse to admit it because you don’t want to engage the merits of the issue.
Imagine if someone were running against the drug war and said they were going to as President repeal the drug laws and commute the sentences of everyone in federal prison on drug offenses. The drug warriors would say exactly the same things you guys are about Trump. And you guys would love the candidate. The same thing is going on with Trump regarding immigration only you guys are acting like the drug warriors in my example.
No, regerdless of what you seem to want to think, you don’t know our, or at least my, views and opinions better than I do. If there were someone coming here telling me what a serious candidate Bernie Sanders is, I’d probably be even more dismissive of him than I am being of Trump.
Or maybe I could put it another way. If Donald Trump had the same immigration views, but was otherwise a candidate espousing individual liberty, free markets, free markets and rule of law,I’d consider giving the guy a hearing. I’d see him as having a YUGE blindspot in his outlook, but that’s something most of us have in one way or another. But, that’s not what Trump is. On every single issue, Trump is pushing the GOP to sever every principle that still ties me to the Republican party. On every single issue, the guy is behaving like a demagogue, appealing to people’s emotions rather than outlining a rational policy.
This is an election the Democrats deserve to lose. But, if the Republicans are going to respond by running a crony capitalist who loves socialized medicine and tax hikes, they sure as hell don’t deserve to win.
the Republicans are going to respond by running a crony capitalist who loves socialized medicine and tax hikes
That’s who they usually run. They’re trying not to run this one for some reason.
If what you said were true, why would Trump score so well against my views in either the Project Vote Smart or On The Issues voter-candidate match? He doesn’t come out on top, but not so far behind as one would believe to read you.
According to http://votesmart.org/voteeasy , Trump beats Gary Johnson (who hadn’t announced, so wasn’t included, last time I did this) 74-67% in similarity to me! Rand Paul still beats Trump by only 1%. But the real surprise is that tied for greatest similarity to me are Jeb Bush & Ted Cruz at 89%! Bernie Sanders is farthest from me at 22%.
It’s possible that I answered “wrong” the Q on whether I favored “targeting” suspected terrorists outside official theaters of conflict, for which I said “yes” but with the lowest degree of interest. Depends whether “targeting” is to be taken literally, as in trying to shoot them, or just means investigating them. Still, it’s only 1 of 13 Qs.
http://ontheissues.org is more problematic 1st off w its quiz pigeonholing me, asking such questions as whether “marijuana is a gateway drug” or I support “American exceptionalism”, or “stricter punishment reduces crime”?matters that don’t seem to have to do w my preferences?so I don’t trust them as much. (Plus, a lot of what they ask re “personal issues” doesn’t have much to do directly w personal liberty.) But they do ask a greater no. of Qs than Project Vote Smart does, so they have a chance at greater precision or accuracy. There Rand Paul comes out on top, 58%, Trump only 35%, tied w Jindal. But the surprise there is Santorum in 2nd place, 48%.
Chip Woodier
And, for a lot of us, immigration is just a sideshow issue.
True. I don’t care for his immigration prohibition. I certainly don’t think it’ll be any more effective than all the other prohibitions.
The deal breaker on Trump is his support of Kelo-style eminent domain powers of government. I mean, he freaking loooooves it. And I haven’t seen him denounce civil asset forfeiture, either…so fuck him. Hard.
Your a fool,he makes all kind of wild claims of things he can’t ever do.No .he is no serious.He’s a fool,a serious person would want to end the drug war,the war on terror,bring home the troops from South Korea,Japan,and Europe.Also end all business subsidies including Iowa farmers ,solar and wind.No,not serious at all.
You are confusing “wild” with “I don’t like that”. I get it, you think the border should be open and anyone who wants to should be able to cross. Trump’s supporters disagree. That means you disagree with them. It doesn’t mean Trump isn’t serious.
No, John, it’s when he says he’s going to get the Mexicans to pay for it that we know he’s not serious.
OneOut
The amount of money that Mexicans and South Americans remit every year is enormous.
It is Mexico’s second largest source of income behind oil.
A tax on it would most certainly pay for a wall.
I think that might be his plan and it is feasible if indeed one is determined to build a wall.
I keep telling wall supporters that walls work both ways but I just get blank stares mostly.
Except how do you collect that if the Latin Americans working here just decide to send cash in the mail? Is President Trump going to have the government start rifling through people’s mail if they’re sending to Mexico or Central America?
The tax doesn’t have to be onerous enough to give that incentive considering the risk of mailing cash and the amount being remitted each year.
You could easily fund a wall on a pay as it grows basis with 5% to 10% of that
http://goo.gl/T9HVzr
Even it it was borderline high enough, after after some of it started disappearing in the Mexican Postal Service that would be another disincentive to mail cash.
A consumption tax would get a piece of the cash economy that informs most of the illegals’ economic interactions. If you want a piece back, you have to get legit.
Sorry, didn’t mean to imply that cash work is somehow not legitimate. But it’s certainly a way to avoid taxes, unless you’re paying at the register.
Contrarian P
This. He talks a lot, but he’s long on bluster and short on specifics. Of course you could say that about lots of candidates.
Limpee Wiltstock
I don’t get why the fucking wall is so expensive. It seems like it should be possible for people in border communities would easily be able to construct walls along the adjacent border without requiring any sort of ulterior state support. Where I grew up, every community constructed and maintained its own waterways and roads, for that matter, without the need to levee taxes on people thousands of miles away. It wasn’t a big deal.
For that matter, if enough of the marches were privately owned, it would be impossible for invaders to enter without the support of the property owners.
a serious person would want to end the drug war
Trump publicly said we should do just that, repeatedly for over 20 years. There are very obvious reasons why he wouldn’t campaign on that while seeking the nomination of either major party. The president doesn’t have the power to unilaterally end the WoDs but if Trump gets the nomination he’ll be the3 most “anti-drug war” candidate either major party has fielded since prohibition became federal law.
“he’ll be the3 most “anti-drug war” candidate either major party has fielded since prohibition became federal law.'”
You’re acting like his statements have ever been based on principle rather than a momentary belief they might gain him some political traction.
This is a guy who’ll say anything. That you credit him for sincerity in views you find appealing, and dismiss his stupid shit as mere ‘pandering’ says more about you than about him.
That you credit him for sincerity in views you find appealing, and dismiss his stupid shit as mere ‘pandering’ says more about you than about him.
Where have I dismissed his stupid shit as “pandering”? Ending the WoDs isn’t something Trump said once or “in a moment”. Hell, it’s the most consistent political position he’s held.
“Trump is the only politician talking seriously about immigration ‘
You must have a different conception of “seriously” than I do.
Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair
John, he cannot deport 11 million Mexicans. Ir is a logistical impossibility. He won’t even be able to deport a quarter that many.
For one, that’s a lot of police manpower to deploy, at enormous cost and to the detreiment of all other police activity.
For another, the disruption to communities would be enormous. Businesses would go bankrupt, farms would lose a lot of produce, schools would lose a lot of students. The political uproar would swamp those who hate immigrants (legal or otherwise).
You usually come across as pretty pragmatic, but you have lost it on this one. It simply cannot be done.
Citation please? And sorry but wishful thinking doesn’t count.
How about you provide some kind of citation? You’ve done nothing but say Trump will deport 11M people. How about some kind of refutation of even my minimal statements, which are more than you’ve provided.
Stuff it, John, you’ve got nothing here, and as much as admitted it.
PapayaSF
He won’t have to. End all federal support for sanctuary cities, end welfare for illegals, end federal support for states that give illegals drivers’ licenses, and a good chunk of the problem takes care of itself. You don’t have to go all Elian Gonzales on 11 million people. (Though the “11 million” figure everyone repeats may well be low.)
Local sheriffs could take over most of the actual work involved, employing local citizenry as needed for the effort. With enough public enthusiasm, it could easily be done.
Sort of like how ending slavery led to a collapse in the southern agricultural sector. “You can’t take the serfs away! It’ll destroy everything!”
commodious spittoon
If you want to see a bullet put in the brainpan of the Republican party, by all means, let’s start rounding up immigrant families. Whatever your thoughts on the ethics or legality of tolerating illegals, the mood is going to shift sharply against anti-immigrant zealotry after the inevitable media blitz showing incarcerated families nonstop for months.
JeremyR
As opposed to letting them stay and all of them vote Democrat? And their children? And their children’s children?
Look at Mexico, they were content to vote for a corrupt socialist party for 70 years
It’s a country that by all rights should be as rich as California. Except for the corrupt government. And they are bringing that here.
I don’t see why that is the case. You think it is because you assume everyone agrees with you. They don’t .
If illegals stop getting welfare and are fired from their jobs, why would they want to stay? They’ll go home.
Why would they go home? It’s not like things are so much better there, even assuming you can stop illegals from getting welfare and fire them from all jobs, which I would say is a huge assumption. It’s not like there aren’t measures designed to keep them off welfare rolls and prevent them from being employed already. How are those working out?
States (and Democrats in general) are not enforcing the laws. Why should they? More illegals means more clients for the welfare state, more voters, and more population for Democratic districts, which helps in elections even if there’s no vote fraud.
Trump + a GOP Congress could put pressure on the states and localities to enforce the law, simply by withholding money from those that don’t. Don’t turn over arrested illegals to ICE? No federal law enforcement money. Give illegals drivers’ licenses? No federal highway funds. Etc.
Fine, but if you look at the places with the most illegal aliens, they aren’t Democratic controlled. I don’t think the problem is as simple as getting some Republicans in office.
Even if you could magically stop these people from accessing social programs or getting jobs, why would they want to go back to Mexico? They didn’t come here because life in Mexico was so wonderful and jobs were plentiful there.
Also, I’m not sure the GOP is really interested in getting rid of illegals, a cheap labor pool and political bogeyman.
You do know that illegals flock to California and Democrat-controlled cities, right? It’s not exclusive, but it’s a visible trend, I think.
And true, the GOPe likes cheap labor. The GOP base does not.
This seems doubtable. Most people who express outrage at that sort of thing do not strike me as sincere, but more like it’s their way of announcing that they are right-thinking peons. Whereas among those who would be cheering it on, the majority seems very sincere. The majority of USA folk I would guess are kind of ambivalent. At some point, a media frenzy fails to move anything, if there’s nobody to speak of that gives a dam other than the TV people. With enough public support, the emigration would be feasible. Without that support, it may be difficult and expensive but possible natheless, provided enough people aren’t enthusiasticly opposed.
And if you think that the ?conomic effects could put an end to it or even slow down a favoured political trend, you should go back and study Stalinist Russia for a time.
MarkLastname
“The problem is that the voters have gotten so fed up with Washington and so angry”
Yawn. People have been “fed up with Washington” since 1783. By now it’s nothing more than a mantra for heterodox candidates. Cooler heads still nearly always prevail. And when they don’t, as history shows, even people like you end up regretting that they didn’t after the fact.
“In the voters’ mind, especially the GOP voters’ minds, none of the assholes have any political credibility.I think you underestimate
Cruz’s popularity along this issue.
He’s definately not considered a Washingtn insider.
He has burnt the Republican Party leadership and called them liars BY NAME. He exposed their shenanigans and phoney votes and named names on the senate floor.
If you haven’t watched this in it’s you owe it to yourself to do so. i don’t think America has seen a politician of this stripe in my 59 years. Statesman is a better description than politician. Yeah, yeah , yeah ya’ll throw rocks I don’t give a shit. He is the most Libertarian candidate that has a real chance of winning ever so go ahead and let perfect get in the way of good if you want
to be a libertarian purity snob and put ideology ahead of country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aimgwzV-77U
People in Texas consider him the only politician we have sent to Washington that has done excatly what he said he would do if elected and none of what he said had to do with cozying up to washington insiders.
I’m voting for him every chance I get through all the rocks you want. If you are a libertarian then that is your loss as well as mine if that keeps him out of office…
Those are the major issues for people who watch FOX News all day (I mean literally, like my grandma does), not a majority of voters.
You’ve been had in a big way John. You either will or won’t figure that out before you’re dead.
Jickerson
If they’re tired of being told what they can and cannot say, why would they support someone who advocates for government censorship of the Internet?
walkingfeather
Gilmore,
Before I start please let me state I have no horse in this race, so put away your trump card. Now… your analysis is based on ??? You clearly are not seeing the data that I am reading…. Your idea that Trumps numbers will vanish after the early primaries is crack pipe smoking material…. Trump not only has the numbers, but he also has the momentum as well as capturing the nations attention with what is important. (Terrorism, refugees, economy) AND the negatives on the Clinton are astronomical. I have no idea,…. ( well some idea) where you are pulling your analysis from…. Were you around in the 70s with Carter??? The nation was in crisis and carter was demolished… Now the nation is 100 times worse than under Carter… Trump will most likely win the nomination and the election, but I have no idea what you are smoking…
You should have stopped on your 3rd word… ” I dont think” Your statement would be have had some sort of grounding in reality. Your analysis is ….. well can’t be calibrated with any known piece of data. http://www.breitbart.com/big-g…..ing-class/
On an important note.I am making a lasagna with grilled porta bella mushrooms in garlic and butter.A green salad with blue cheese and olive oil and balsamic vinegar and several stouts with the football games.
Suthenboy
We love to cook. Half the time we make something gourmet and half the time something down-home. Last night I fried chicken livers and onion rings.
Right now my wife is stewing a pot of zuppa tuscano, a delicious gourmet soup. Spinach, Cauliflower, bacon in a cream base.
It isnt minus six here, but I have a nice glow in the fireplace. Forty five is cold for Louisianians.
‘I like to cook with wine,and sometimes I put it in the food’ Julia Child.I live by that quote.
Last night I fried chicken livers and onion rings.
Nice ,food of the gods there.
And I really enjoy rumaki.
There’s a pub near me that does Sunday roasts. I think I’ll drop by and see what the dish is.
d3x / dt3
Um, roast?
fried chicken livers
*narrows appetite*
I have a rack of St. Louis style babybacks on the grill being caressed by a mixture of low heat, oak chunks, and mesquite chips for a little spark in the smoke.
And beer.
It’s a Cat’s Paw Pale Ale.
Anyone tried it.
Tommy_Grand
It’s true that capitalism routes around gov. regulations, bans, and taxes. Examples are numerous: underground commerce during Stalinist era, prison economies, bootleggers, grey markets, pirate bay, cigarette smugglers, take your pick. But the cost of current regulations is staggering, reducing productivity and wealth creation enormously. The human brain can sometimes route around stroke damage, but vanishingly few (major) stroke patients regain full function and the majority remain disabled forever.
Sad that progressives can’t see how many of the causes they profess to love (excellent public education, animal rights, fair trade coffee, green energy, etc) are luxury goods. Creating greater wealth enables many many more consumers to purchase such goods, leading to massive increases.
But … but …
Those regulations ?feel? like the right thing to do! Without all those regulations, we’d have 7-year-olds working night and day as monacle polishers!
Well, ?more? 7-year-olds.
Many ‘comrades’ were wealthy due to the black market.
Lord Rollingpin
Hey Reason! Enough with that picture already! I’m getting afraid to come here.
BRING BACK LOBSTER GIRL.
Here, have this one.
NOT BETTER
Better. That composite is positively frightening. Need a reason contest – “Name This Candidate”.
Donarry Trumton?
Tumpery Hilldon
Marco Rubio hasn’t been a “tea party fave” since at least the “gang of 8”, if not before that.
I prefer black tea
Racist?
No,some of my best orphans are wogs.
“Currently, I’m probably more worried about foreign policy concerns, since the difference between, say, Hillary Clinton and a Marco Rubio or a Ted Cruz is far less than any of their followers will admit. All are in various ways big defense spenders and interventionists who talk about extending all or most “war on terror” type actions. Cruz is better on the issue of domestic surveillance than either, but his anti-immigrant positions underwrite invasive workplace rules.”
I think the battle against domestic surveillance is won by separating it from foreign policy in the minds of swing voters.
In terms of going to war on the ground in Syria, I want to avoid that–no doubt–but I think that’s an opinion that’s shared by more and more people. If any President tries to go to war on the ground in Syria, they will quickly find their actions unpopular on both sides of the political spectrum. . . . just like Obama got slapped back for trying to get us into Syria over his idiotic red line.
You know the best way to win the battle over domestic surveillance? Give people some confidence that the government is keeping terrorists out of the country to begin with. Do that and the proponents of surveillance have a lot harder time scaring people with the prospect of it ending.
Sadly, I don’t think that is something Reason is very interested in doing. Worse still, it would never occur to them that adopting reason’s preferred position on middle eastern and Muslim immigration plays right into the hands of those demanding to take away our privacy.
Bull,there are so many more threats to to you life besides ‘the terrorist’. Like driving or crossing the street.Here in SE Ohio across from WV their not even a side note
Sure there are. But just because it is not the only threat doesn’t mean it is not a threat worth eliminating. The answer to people being murdered can’t be “hey what are your chances?”. That is just complete fucking horseshit. Just because any individual’s chances of being killed in a terrorist attack is small doesn’t mean the threat of such is insignificant or that there is no reason to take any effort to limit it.
What were the chances of any individual black person being lynched back in the day? Minuscule. Yet, lynching was a real problem that warranted attention.
I was reading this earlier today, and take it or leave it, but here’s what John is saying with math.
The past is a predictor of the future right up until it isn’t. Based on the past, what were an 18 year old French Male’s chances of dying in combat before he was 21 in 1913? Pretty small, yet we know now his chances were actually pretty good.
Leave it.
Bull,there are so many more threats to to you life besides ‘the terrorist’.
Bull on your bull. You could same thing about threats in Syria. Most Syrians haven’t been beheaded or gassed or shot. Or even Obombed. So, why so refugee?
Welfare ?
The pic of the little drowned boy was possible because the boys grandfather told his son he should go to Europe to get the massive amount of dental work he needed for free.
Google it yourself.
“Give people some confidence that the government is keeping terrorists out of the country to begin with. Do that and the proponents of surveillance have a lot harder time scaring people with the prospect of it ending.”
This is an explanation of exactly why the government will not do it.
They know full well that an immigration flood will have jihadis in it, and they don’t mind as long as it isnt too many of them, just enough to keep people scared.
I saw an interview friday (?) with an ex-homeland security guy. He was asked about the vetting system for ME immigrants. Answer: “What system? There is no system. It’s not like we can pull these people up on a computer and find out who they are. There is no record of who they are. There is no system.”
Another admitted that yes they know there will jihadis but they are banking on there not being too many. A ‘numbers game’ he called it.
It is absurd. How do you vette someone from Syria? The entire country is falling apart. There is no way to tell if someone is who they say they are.
Not only are they lieing about vetting them they are lieing about how many they are arresting for terror activity once here.
http://goo.gl/h4zGwn
Following the discovery of a terrorist cell in Texas allegedly operated by an Iraqi who entered the United States as a refugee, the Washington Free Beacon has learned of an additional 41 individuals who have been implicated in terrorist plots in the United States since 2014, bringing the total number of terrorists discovered since that time to 113, according to information provided by Congressional sources.
So not only is the Fed Gov.knowingly importing jihadists and lieing about it, they are also lieing about how many they have already arrested for jihadist actions once here. And they just past funding to bring 170,000 more in 2016
And people wonder why Trump is doing so well ? Fuck, maybe we should all get our pitchforks out and join him
” How do you vette someone from Syria? ”
Offer him bacon. It’s not that fucking hard. Antiochus figured this out twenty-two hundred years ago, and he was the result of four generations of familial retardism. Certainly it’s not that hard.
“You know the best way to win the battle over domestic surveillance? Give people some confidence that the government is keeping terrorists out of the country to begin with.”
Nonsense. Do you really think people’s fears are in general even remotely related to related to reality? There are a thousand things people should be more afraid of than terrorism that most people never think about.
My libertarian concerns have more to do with Obama’s senseless capitulation to Iran on its nuclear program–something he himself is surely coming to regret given Iran’s missile program.
Libertarian foreign policy is about how the military should be properly used to protect our rights from foreign threats. I am much more concerned about a candidate being insufficiently hawkish on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs than I am about a President putting or keeping troops on the ground in Syria. Keeping troops on the ground in Syria will be widely unpopular regardless, but keeping Iran’s nuclear and missile programs from threatening the life, liberty, and prosperity of the American people in the wake of Obama’s senseless capitulation to Iran will require real leadership.
My problem is any deal should have included all the countries in the region.Not western countries making a deal they have to live with.Typical prog deal making.They are the racist.
‘something he himself is surely coming to regret given Iran’s missile program.’
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-…..1451694590
Just imagine the mess the next president is going to inherit from this POS and I hope the next president reminds this whiny POS and his followers about it on a daily basis.
Oh, and speaking of the Donald and Muslim-bashing, NPR and Vice have gone full retard on the Rapey New Year story out of Germany.
NPR is basically taking Vice’s lead, but Vice is basically blaming German Rape Culture.
“Ever since New Year’s Eve, German media have largely been discussing the violence at Cologne’s central train station in terms of a rape culture that was imported into Germany ? simply because the perpetrators in this case looked “Arab” or “North African”, according to witnesses. The only point being, of course, that the men weren’t white.
That’s an idea that renders sexualised violence and theft harmless by trivialising and exorcising both notions. The fact that our society and its institutions aren’t in any position to protect those affected by the violence and identify its culprits doesn’t in any way mean that there’s never been sexualised violence in Germany before. In fact, Germany’s rape culture is deeply rooted in our collective psyche.”
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read…..s-2016-876
More than 75% of the German population weren’t even born until after World War II. Subjecting themselves to needless suffering doesn’t atone for shameful oppression perpetrated by individuals who died decades ago.
They’re blaming this on Germany’s own rape culture?
Let my people go.
I am totally sure they would take the same stance if the case involved a bunch of frat boys on Spring Break. Remember, these are the same people who turned the Duke LAX case into an American Dryfus case. And now they are all about “we can’t get all judgy here”. Pathetic.
This goes beyond parody!
If this were a satire of how progressives see things, it would have been written the same way.
Shifting the blame for hundreds of sexual assaults by dozens of asylum seekers to German rape culture?!
Are people ever allowed to live down the sins of their ancestors? How much self-loathing for things their ancestors did is enough?
never Ken because the entire point is for leftists to feel superior to other white people. The migrants and even the victims are totally incidental here. Everything leftists do is so that they can show themselves to be more enlightened and superior to other white people. Admitting that the problem is the refugees and not other white people does nothing to accomplish that so they will never admit it.
Look Ken,they have to blame the ‘white ‘people’.They don’t understand that Africa and much of the middle east are still mostly tribal.They do not have the values that the west posses.It’s a 30 years war all over with modern weapons.
BTY,don’t tell the French,Germans Italians,ect,they are all the same race.And the Balkans are still a mess too.
Eine von f?nf vier!!1!
“Demoralization is a great brainwashing process whereby the person, no matter how much information they have, cannot draw a sensible conclusion. In this way they are not able to defend themselves, their families, or their country.”
There you have it right there. This is playing out before our eyes. Bezmenov could not have nailed it any better than that.
Another point worth making: Weren’t the 60’s counterculture sexual revolutionary people the ones who campaigned so hard against the notion that rape victims were responsible for their victimization because of the way they dressed?
Angela Merkel, one of the sexually liberated, is now advising women in Germany not to dress so provocatively.
They are, as someone yesterday said, going full retard victorian. They are evil people.
Something something Poe’s Law.
Jerry on the rocks
Oh FFS, there is no ‘white’ rape culture in Germany simply because of the many Laufh?user.
There’s certainly been some degeneration in the Prussian culture if it is even possible for immigrants’ raping the folk to continue on enough to develop to a recognisable problem. I don’t think it’s likely that this could have come about a hundred years ago, even if somehow the same immigration had taken place. And since then, weapons technology has advanced somewhat. There’s no explaining it without factoring in a degeneration of the native culture that somehow favours this sort of thing. Not to detract responsibility from the actual rapism sufferers. Folks with a mental illness like rapism shouldn’t be able to terrorise a populace of normies, but still they are the only ones ultimately responsible, like anybody, no matter how crasy or weird, for their own actions. All the same, one ought to consider the possibility that a cultural shift is occurring that fails to strongly discourage people with debilitating sociopathies from brutalising everyone they meet.
Are you seriously suggesting that something bad can actually not be a white man’s fault? The horror!
Sidenote: the moment someone says the phrase ‘collective psyche’, they should be immediately prescribed a heavy dose of anti-psychotic drugs. That’s as absurd a concept as dry water.
There is little,if any, difference between Hillary and Rubio’s foreign policy. They are both neoconservative to the core. Cruz and Trump are both decried by the establishment as radical isolationists.
The scaremongers are trying to convince us that ISIS is gonna invade the country and rape our wimmins and radicalize the chillens. We must continue to counter that propaganda where it pops up. Also there is a full-on campaign to limit speech rights. For Hilary it’s ‘hate speech incites violence’ like campus hate codes and blasphemy as in ‘a video caused Benghazi’. For Trump it’s ‘shut down parts of the internet’. Cruz might be slightly better but unlikely for long. Again, these absurd claims must be confronted and neutralized. It’s a ‘war on speech’ just like the war on drugs with all the same tactics and rhetoric. E.g. “Is your child already radicalized? Take this quiz to find out!” – government pamphlet in London.
You make some valid points. And they all point to why letting in huge numbers of Middleeastern and Muslim refugees is a very bad idea.
In fact speaking out against the influx was criminalized in Germany – a huge victory in the war on speech. Even now Merkel is browbeating Facebook to suppress ‘hateful rhetoric’. Like the war on drugs it creates a vicious cycle of increasing legislation and criminalization. We should not follow Europe’s lead on this. But we must continue to let in well vetted refugees. Bombing them and saying “sorry not welcome here” is not just cruel, it’s un-American.
There is no such thing as a well vetted refugee. There is no way to vette them. And we don’t owe them entry into our country.
Refuse to grant them refuge? That is un-American but fine, then stop bombing them with the lie that otherwise they will rape your wimmins and radicalize your chillens. The only thing we should be doing is providing humanitarian aid. (If there are factions that support human rights and democracy and teach their children the same then I have no problem supporting them. Sand monument consecrations of fealty are meaningless.)
Where’s Cytotoxic to clear all this up for us?
If bombing them makes them hate us, how is it in any way safe to let them in the country? You are on the one hand claiming that bombing them makes them terrorists and then on the other claiming we can let them in the country with no risk even though we are and will continue to bomb them.
You know what John, I think you’ve got me convinced. Bombing the shit out of these Muslim nations doesn’t cause them to hate us. It makes them love us. The love it when friends and family are blown to bits by missiles launched by cowards sitting at computer screens on the other side of the globe. Why wouldn’t it? They’re not human beings. They’re Muslims. They don’t care about their friends or their family. They were probably planning to cut off their heads anyway, so the drone operators just saved them the trouble. And you’re right about not letting them into the country either. Yeah, they’re infinitely pleased that we’re killing the people who are close to them, but they’re all murders anyway. Like you’ve said so many times, they’re not human beings. They’re Muslims. They would like to thank the drone pilots by killing them. That’s how they show thanks. So you’re rights. We need to keep bombing them out of love, and prevent them from entering the country so they can’t show us how much they love us. You’re right John. So right. They’re not humans. They’re Muslims.
“stop bombing them with the lie that otherwise they will rape your wimmins and radicalize your chillens.”
We didn’t cause the Arab Spring to come to Syria. It would have come to Syria–even if we’d never invaded Iraq.
Because the Arab Spring destabilized Syria does not make us responsible for what happens there and is no reason why we are in any way obligated to accept refugees from Syria.
“Refuse to grant them refuge? That is un-American but fine”
Granting them refuge and bringing them to live among us are two different things. There are lots of ways to help refugees that do not involve bringing them to live among us. No reason to conflate the two.
OK and what part of “stop bombing them” don’t you understand? Would you like me to repeat it more slowly for you?
Our continued efforts to destablize the Assad regime kind of do give us some responsibility for what happens there, though. I’m still at a loss to explain how a decades old government suddenly “must go” in our mind, despite the fact they’re fighting our supposed greatest threat in existence (ISIS).
“Our continued efforts to destablize the Assad regime kind of do give us some responsibility for what happens there, though.”
Our leaders are morally obligated to do what is in our best security interests.
Even IF IF IF we have a moral obligation to help these people, that does not mean we are obligated to compromise our security interests by bringing them to live among us.
Fine. So how exactly is our involvement in destabilizing Assad, which continues, helping our security interests?
I agree that we aren’t obligated to import Syrians. That’s a separate discussion from whether we bear some responsibility for the current shitstorm in Syria.
Iran is convinced that their own security depends on keeping Assad in power. I don’t see why I should argue with them.
That’s why Iran has fully committed both the Iranian Revolutionary Army and Hezbollah to fight on behalf of Assad in Syria.
I believe Iran represents the biggest long term security threat to the United States, certainly in terms of its nuclear capability and its missile program. Iran is scared to death of the Arab Spring turning into a Persian Summer, and if our enemy Iran could be destabilized from within–like they’re afraid they would be if Syria fell–then that would be ideal for America’s long term security interests.
It’s important to remember that the United States isn’t the primary force behind destabilization in Syria. The Syrian people saw to that for their own reasons. They didn’t check with us to see if it was okay with Obama if they rebelled.
We are not bombing them.
Many of them aren’t even from Syria as it turns out and even the ones that are aren’t the target of US bombing campaigns.
I see no reason at all why we should let any of them into this country.
Even their fellow lovers of the Religion of Peace won’t offer them shelter.
We have assces to all the cheap labor we need in this hemisphere.
“We are not bombing them.” – Liar, liar: “As of 3:59 p.m. EST Jan. 3, the U.S. and coalition have conducted a total of 9,379 strikes (6,217 Iraq / 3,162 Syria).”
http://www.defense.gov/News/Sp…..nt-Resolve
“why letting in huge numbers of Middleeastern and Muslim refugees is a very bad idea.”
Because the Muslim ideology and the Arab culture are extremely delusional and frequently inimical to the association of free men. I say that, and I’ve got Muslim family from Palestine that actually make the more tolerable part of that branch of the family. It’s not really disimissible if one examines the facts with an open mind. The only reason they aren’t a lot of clinical psychotics is because they are naturally found in cultures where everyone is that crasy. There’s no question that a big influx of these people would fuck everything up. The problem is how to prevent it. Unfortunately, there’s no way to go about it that does not take one along a course of action that is also inimical to the association of free men and encouraging to delusional beliefs, such as that that it is possible to unlace ends and means dickloach.
Most of your concern about propaganda promoting fear of ME immigrants should be directed at the immigrants themselves dajjal. They are the number one producers of it.
I’m all for the Arab staets taking care of this and bringing US troops home.Europe ,Japan and South Korea too.
Oh yeah, because the Arabs have always been so great at getting their own shit together. Just look at what a paradise it’s become since the Turks let them off the reservation.
Teach your children right and wrong then you don’t have to worry about them getting radicalized by an extremist cleric posting youtube videos from the levant and then you don’t have to bomb them and then you don’t have to let them into your country by the millions and then complain when they behave the same way they always have and then blame the resulting mess on the people who point out what you failed to do. Simple.
I am not in disagreement with you there.
I was facetiously saying that the spate of jihadi attacks recently here in the US are creating far more fear and resistance to the idea of letting them in than anything anyone is saying.
Friday morning the country awoke to the news of two jihadis being arrested and a third shooting a policeman and then of a bomb factory in Belgium and an online video of an ISIS bomb making instructional. When this kind of stuff happens we don’t really need propaganda to pump people up about it. The Jihadis are doing a find job of that all on their own.
“fear and resistance to the idea of letting them in” – you guys always change the argument when we’re talking about dropping bombs on them. Let’s watch as you do it again:
But different cultures have a different conception of right and wrong.
In Islam, raping women is considered right. In Islam, killing infidels is right.
Islamic terrorists think what they are doing is moral and that the West is the immoral one.
I agree completely, and I’ll say it again: if they embrace western values then we should let them in. Otherwise send ’em back. (For example, a test where they must draw a cartoon of Muhammed.) But still you must teach your children right and wrong, or don’t complain when they say, “But a muslim cleric on youtube told me it was right to kill people!”
“Teach your children right and wrong then you don’t have to worry about them getting radicalized ”
No, as they are free agents and can do whatever stupid fucking thing they decide to. No amount of educating can stop them from going however in hell they want to go, though it’s a fuck of a lot easier to find the path if a person starts out with some valid referents. My only point is that a person’s fuckuppedness can be maximised no matter how perfectly he’s raised. The only determiner is his own choice of belief. On the other hand, the salvation through ignorance folks are totally wrong and reducing the aperture of the memory stream is most certainly not going to improve the moral sturdiness of the youth. Censorship favours moral weaklings and the dishonorable.
“Cruz might be slightly better but unlikely for long”
What evidence do you have that backs up that assumption ?
JoWaDat889
I honestly believe Trump just likes to hear his own voice.
http://www.Full-VPN.tk
Technological Singularity is nigh!
Someone better scorch the sky, I think the matrix was just born.
Setting aside the desirability of a GOP victory . . .
The cost of Cruz’s polarization strategy? Surrendering the middle and the future.
Okay, when’s the last time the Republicans won a popular vote majority playing to voters in the middle, instead of running a polarizing candidate? C’mon.
Romney lost. The “maverick” McCain lost. Iraq War Bush was polarizing, if not conservative, and won. “Compassionate Conservative” Bush was non-polarizing, and didn’t get the popular vote. “Dole lost. The Bush-41 who compromised on taxes with the Democrats lost. “No New Taxes” Reagan-Bush’s third term won. Reagan was very much polarizing. Ford was not polarizing, and he lost. Was Nixon polarizing? I would say so, though he, I grant, wasn’t very conservative.
Sure, maybe 1964 could have been won by a moderate (or at least been less embarrassing), but every election since then has fit a simple-enough polarizing=win, moderate=lose formula for the GOP. The last two non-polarizing GOP presidential candidates to win a popular vote majority were Eisenhower and Hoover.
So either Alex Castellanos and his ilk are fucking idiots on the same level as people who still spout Marxism despite the best efforts of reality to penetrate their skulls, or they’re lying Democrat operatives pretending to be pro-Republican. Either way they should be ridiculed.
Raven Nation
Sure, maybe 1964 could have been won by a moderate
1964 is so unpredictable because of the assassination of Kennedy. Certainly Goldwater ran an inept campaign, but he was running against the ghost of JFK and the manufactured reality of Camelot.
1964 was certainly an anomaly by any standard.
It is so frustrating to see candidate after candidate with no actual principles. If 51% of people in a poll say they want something, the candidate says he wants that too!
When Rand Paul stood on principle and filibustered, he got people interested/talking. Then he runs to the center-right, and now he polls in the low single digits.
I dislike Trump rather a lot, but I do get the feeling that he really believes much of what he says. At least that gives you something to vote for or against.
Then he runs to the center-right, and now he polls in the low single digits.
Every time I hear a GOP establishment operative talk I think this.
Mitt fuckin’ Romney? They ran an east coast liberal who invented and implemented Obamacare FFS, something nearly every republican voter hated with the heat of a thousand suns. The guy couldn’t have gotten elected dog catcher. That is who they thought would win.
I have even heard that they have considered trying to get him to run again.
These people are beyond incompetent.
I would speculate that it’s a case of reverse causality; parties run more extreme candidates when they can afford to get away with it (when it looks like they have a sure win), and more moderate candidates when they’re in a losing position and desperately trying to win the center. For example, had the Dems run a a more moderate candidate than Obama, they might have won by an even wider margin, but what would be the point? Bush gave the such a big advantage they could afford to run someone further to the left and still win.
Moderate candidates, imo, tend to lose because they are run in elections where a loss is almost inevitable anyway. Had the GOP run a candidate to the right of Romney (Santorum? Perry? don’t sound like winners to me), they still would have lost, perhaps by an even bigger margin.
Alex Castellanos and his ilk are there to burn through the candidates money, winning isn’t part of the deal.
Homple
Say what you will of Trump, his contract with a political consultant would be more detailed than the standard “Here’s $_____ million, go spend it and get 15% commission on the ads you book.”
Bill E
Hey, hey, so what about that missile heading for grandma’s house? How can Nick keep us hanging like that, nobody here cares about granny?
Granny’s a jihadi – she got radicalized by online propaganda. Evidently she has a thing for thick bearded militants and they took advantage of her loneliness. Call your grandma before it’s too late.
Paul Ryan pushed granny over a cliff in a wheelchair back in 2008. Her bone shards are scattered among the surf tossed shingle at the base of the cliff.
I think libertarians need to prepare for a Trump presidency. I think he’ll beat Hillary like a rented mule. (Assuming she survives the election: her health seems terrible.)
Trump likes to win, so libertarians need to tailor our ideas into things that look like winners to Trump. He’s a business guy, so he appreciates efficiency and hates waste.
Yes, we won’t get everything we want, and the open borders types will have to take it in the shorts, but Trump is a good opportunity for a lot of changes that we should like. I can see Trump going along with closing entire cabinet departments.
There’s going to be a big shake-up. Get ready to get accomplished what you can. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Remember, incrementalism is what got us into this semi-socialist bankrupt mess in the first place. The socialists didn’t just sit around and whine about how un-socialist the US was, they took over the Democratic Party and slowly made the country more socialist.
Think judo: use your opponents momentum for your purposes.
american socialist
Hilarious. Libertarians for Donald Trump? Why not libertarians for Hitler and Mao? I’m not voting for any of the Republican nominees and pretty sure not for the Democratic ones either. It’s a pretty sorry scene to watch a once-principled movement throw up its hands and go along with whatever wall-builder and warmonger the RP puts forward. Or, maybe, you guys never had any principles at all and this talk about libertarianism is more bullshit put forward to prevent Black people and Mexicans from getting a dime from the taxpayer.
Hyperbolical (wadair)
Says the socialist who ideologically does support Mao and Hitler, both of whom purged undesirables by the millions. As long as your handle includes the word socialist and your commentary reeks of it, you have no grounds for lecturing anybody about principles.
It really pains me to say this, but I agree with amsoc on this one. Donald Trump may have some accidental areas where he lines up with libertarian thought, but there’s no way he’s at all sympathetic to libertarian ideals if you look at his record. Sorry, but there’s nothing in his record that makes me think a Trump presidency will be at all good for libertarians on virtually any front.
I’m not saying Trump is the ideal libertarian candidate, of course. I’m saying that even if he isn’t an ally, he can be an opportunity.
I’m saying libertarians should emulate Fabian socialists: get what you can, when you can. And there is some overlap between the Trump/populist positions and libertarian positions. And where there aren’t, make some. At times of revolution, things are in flux. Come up with things that he might go for: selling useless federal property. Shrinking and turning the Department of education into a bureau inside HHS. That sort of thing.
I don’t think Donald Trump cares what libertarians think regardless of how they tailor their ideas.
January.11.2016 at 11:41 am
But he cares about succeeding and looking good. That’s my point.
“There’s no question that we need a leaner, less-intrusive government when it comes to the economy, for sure,”
Why? Unemployment is at 5% now with a milquetoast centrist President. What evidence is there that we need to change course and replace successful policies with some right-wing Extremist?
“but capitalism always finds a way to regain productivity (not that entrepreneurs and businesses and all of us should have to fight through useless regulations).”
Rates of entrepreneurship are down. Again, what evidence is there that an economy built on people designing picture-sharing and music-downloading apps is any better than an economy built on people who work at jobs or for the government? Economic growth in the 20th century was highest when most people were working for the government in order to defeat Nazism.
coloraDOOM
LPR, licencing fees to start any brick and mortar/ service business.
Who the president is has nothing to do with the economy. That being said, labor participation is at horrid levels, so the unemployment statistic is misleading as hell. Of course I’m sure you knew that.
Also, economic growth was not highest during World War II, but only looks that way when you factor in government spending which of course was at extreme levels, but that’s a problem with the definition of GDP. That spending generated loads of subsequent problems with inflation and other issues, so you need to have a much more sophisticated analysis when making such claims that just comparing GDP numbers which have hosts of flaws. Then again, I don’t expect anything more than bloviation from you, so I won’t hold my breath.
The rational, emotionless economy doesn’t care who’s paying. Capitalism never even promised to deliver full employment, not under any theory of it. That’s not even part of the deal.
I see some arm waving but no point.
What did that screed even mean? And what did it have to do with the topic under discussion?
Proposition: Obama = great economy
Me: Obama doesn’t have anything to do with the economy and it isn’t great in any event
Tony: Capitalism bad!!!
Maybe you are a bot.
Tony|1.10.16 @ 10:40PM|#
“The rational, emotionless economy doesn’t care who’s paying.”
Tony reports in full of shit as always. stealing from productive people and then paying them back does not develop the economy, so, yes, the economy cares who’s paying if the money is stolen.
Deal? Promise? What are you even talking about? Cyclically adjusted full employment is in fact best achieved by a free (“capitalist”) labor market. If producers were permitted to hire workers at the market wage, and were made to compete with each other for market share, any unemployed workers would be readily hired a a lower wage by those evil capitalists so they could lower costs, and therefore prices, so they could gain an advantage over competitors (and also, in turn make their customers better off), and the only unemployment would be the inevitable (but generally short-term) seasonal and structural unemployment. But thanks to your wonderful government, we have a bunch of wage controls, price controls, licensing regulations, and government sanctioned monopolies and oligopolies make doing most of that stuff impossible, and what of it is possible takes a lot of time and money and effort and redtape. So, government hires the people in line to dig ditches, and kinda sorta not really solves a problem it created. Progressive success story!
Yes, you’ve stumbled upon an important point.
Capitalism just describes free people exchanging goods and services. It makes no promises.
Politicians promise infinite growth and everyone being taken care of, regardless of what happens.
Guess who is really full of shit.
With a Participation Rate of only sixty- two percent, that unemployment rate looks like a big fat statistical lie.
Well he’s a socialist, so he’d probably just send all the retired people, insufficiently (part-time) employed, and discouraged unemployed to labor camps, so I guess that’s why he doesn’t count them,
WhatAboutBob
5% unemployment doesn’t mean much when the participation rate is at a 30 year low. And only a socialist would call Obama a centrist and Trump an extremist. Honesty and socialists don’t mix very well.
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“…And only a socialist would call Obama a centrist and Trump an extremist….”
Not quite. A lying piece of shit like commie-kid would regardless of his supposed political leanings.
Presume if commie-kid posts, it’s a lie. You will be correct far more often than the alternative; the slimy twit is pathological.
Commie-kid proves his ignorance one more time:
“Again, what evidence is there that an economy built on people designing picture-sharing and music-downloading apps is any better than an economy built on people who work at jobs or for the government?”
In the first instance, there is a free exchange in which both parties gain; that is axiomatic even among lefty econs.
In the second instance, the money was coerced from the owner, so there was an immediate loss of value, and there are few gov’t programs sufficient to recover that value.
If there were, it would not require the gov’t stealing money; people would eagerly trade to accomplish those goals.
I know your stupidity is such that this will never get through to you; just admit that adults have certain knowledge that fucking brain-dead, infantile ‘socialists’ will forever ignore, leading to, oh, the USSR and mass murder.
What a piece of shit…
Of course, the government using expropriated money to pay people to dig ditches no one needs is far more productive than companies manufacturing goods people actually wanted in order to stay in business because they don’t get to force their customers to buy their goods on threat of throwing them in a fucking box.
And in case you didn’t notice, that milquetoast centrist” president is running half a trilling dollar a year deficit in a time of supposed prosperity. Don’t you read your Kenyes? Deficits are for recessions. Even assuming the economy remains stable (and recent news isn’t auspicious on that front), in a few years it’ll be the largest deficit proportional to gdp in US history combined with the slowest long-term growth in US history. Now explain to me again how this deficit financed sub-standard growth is markedly different from a pyramid scheme?
Johnimo
“there is increasing concern among the GOP Washington establishment, in which I confess card-carrying membership,”
Let ’em fret! Who cares about “GOP Washington establishment” and what they’re concerned about. They’re all a crowd of do nothings. As far as “leading us to ruin,” one can only laugh. How ’bout Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain and Romney. To what, if not to ruin, have they led us?
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The Case for Creating "Constitutional Small Claims Courts"
Clark Neily's excellent proposal for addressing small, but troubling politice violations of constitutional rights.
Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 12.23.2019 8:17 PM
After over two hundred years of debate about American constitutional law, there aren't many new ideas in the field that are simultaneously good, original, and potentially useful in the real world. But Cato Institute scholar Clark Neily's proposal for "constitutional small claims courts" is one of them. Here's the problem:
A public defender pseudonymously named Don Zeko posted an infuriating thread on Twitter yesterday in which he describes confronting a police officer in the parking lot of a courthouse as the officer was in the process of citing a woman for saying the word "b*tch" in public.
The officer claimed this was disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail. Zeko pointed out to the officer that it is, in fact, not illegal to curse in public (as a constitutional lawyer, I would add that there is a First Amendment right to do so) and that the charge would certainly be thrown out.
The officer then ordered Zeko to get in his car and drive away, and Zeko believes he would have been arrested had he stood his ground, as he later wished he had.
This may seem like a trivial incident… But there are three key points to make about this encounter.
First, this kind of thing happens all the time. Just noodle around on YouTube a bit and you'll be struck by the utter banality of it all: The casual disrespect, intimidation, deceit, manipulativeness—it's shocking how so many officers misbehave so flagrantly, even when they know they're being recorded.
Second, as discussed below, there are rarely any consequences for officers who engage in the sort of low-level harassment described by Zeko and depicted in the links above….
Third, while this sort of petty tyranny may pale in comparison to beatings and shootings, these micro-assaults on people's freedom are antithetical to liberal democracy and, in the aggregate, corrosive to the rule of law. The message is clear: "I'm a cop. If you don't want to get hurt, don't challenge me."
Unfortunately, our system is not well designed to address constitutional violations that do not produce significant physical injuries or otherwise provide the opportunity to recover substantial monetary damages…
And Neily's original solution:
[T]here's an easy, virtually off-the-shelf solution that involves nothing more than combining two utterly commonplace features of our existing system: traffic tickets and small claims court….
[I]magine a system like this: The city has a website where people can file small claims against police officers like the one described in Zeko's Twitter thread. There's one field for the officer's name and/or badge number, another for a brief description of what you claim happened, and another where you can list any injuries or damages you believe you sustained. And as with small claims court, there's a way to include any documentation you might have, including a recording of the incident, photographs of bruises or other physical injuries, witness statements, etc….
But won't officers constantly be tied up in constitutional small-claims court to the detriment of their other duties? Nope, not at all. First, as with traffic tickets, there will be a way for them to simply admit liability (or decline to contest it) and pay up….
Second, traffic courts typically schedule hearings on all of the contested citations a given police officer has issued in the past X weeks or months for the same day so the officer only has to spend one day in court testifying about those cases. We could do the same thing in constitutional small claims court: Schedule all of the contested cases against a particular officer on the same day, just like traffic court but in reverse……
And again like traffic court, there could be a set schedule of fines—or, in this case, damages awards—for particular sorts of misconduct….
Clark goes on to address a variety of possible objections, and also proposes a clever way to find the necessary funds to pay successful claimants, while simultaneously incentivizing officers to minimize these sorts of violations. As the saying goes, read the whole thing!
Even if fully implemented, this idea will not fully end police misconduct of the sort Clark describes. Far from it, most likely. But it would give victims a real shot at getting compensation, and could give police considerably stronger incentives to avoid such shenanigans.
I would like to propose two extensions of Clark's idea, which I hope he might regard as friendly amendments:
First, these constitutional small claims courts are unlikely to be effective unless the doctrine of qualified immunity is lifted as a possible defense, or at least severely limited. Currently, that defense gives misbehaving police such broad protection that they are not held liable even for such blatantly illegal acts as stealing $225,000 in private property while conducting a search, and shooting a helpless child who was lying on the ground (the officer was actually trying to shoot the family dog, who posed no threat). If this license to kill and steal applies in Clark's proposed constitutional small claims courts, they are unlikely to be effective, as officers would not be held liable for the vast bulk of the misconduct these courts are supposed to provide compensation for. Clark himself is an advocate of abolishing qualified immunity, so I suspect he would not contest this point.
There is a simple fix for the problem: a state or local government that establishes constitutional small claims courts can also mandate (in the same legislation) that the defense of qualified immunity does not apply to claims filed there, or at least should be given a narrow scope. Even if qualified immunity persists in more high-stakes cases, it is implausible to argue that officers must have it in small claims cases, where all they stand to suffer is a modest financial loss.
My second extension is to apply the constitutional small claims concept to other government employees who often violate constitutional rights in small, but painful ways: regulators, CBP and ICE agents (they also get away with far more serious abuses, of course), CPS/child welfare agencies, public school administrators, and others. It may be that different agencies will require somewhat differently structured small claims systems. But the basic idea is broadly applicable.
Others may well have their own ideas on how Clark Neily's idea can be extended and improved. For the moment, I will end by applauding him for this valuable contribution to the debate over how to remedy constitutional rights violations.
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Ilya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University.
Police Police Abuse Qualified Immunity
I think that SCOTUS considers immunity a “superConstitutional” right, akin to abortion, and thus, States would be powerless to nullify it. And there has to be a way to deal with nuisance suits [ACLU, anyone]; loser pays, e.g.
Loser pays would solve soooo many problems. Consider the common complaint that poor people (aka minorities) can get a fair deal, that they are over-charged and over-sentenced. If defendants have a good case, and loser pays means ALL costs, then any lawyer who takes the case and wins is guaranteed payment, regardless of his client’s ability to pay. Well, unless it’s poor vs poor, but those aren’t the problem; it’s MegaCorp against the poor, or Big Brother against the poor, usually in the shape of po-po.
This small claims idea is useless. Loser pays would do everything — cops want to contest a constitutional claim and drive the cost up, they will just owe that much more in the end. Cops who violate the constitution (or procedures, policy, etc) too often, and cost their departments too much in court costs, will be a lot less likely to be defended by the government or union, and eventually be fired or put on a desk job.
Loser pays probably scares governments too damned much to ever be implemented.
David Nieporent
No. There already is fee-shifting in these cases. Police don’t care because insurers or taxpayers are the ones paying.
Meanwhile, QI means that most of the time people challenging the police lose, so all you’re doing is adding insult to injury.
(To be clear, loser pays may be a good idea, but it has nothing to do with the issue being discussed.)
Krayt
Every description of qualified immunity suggests it is a one-shot use, and after that, no officer can use it for that particular violation.
If the violations for small claims court are as pervasive as the YouTube argument suggests, QI defense would be few and far between, and as such, no statistical issue of concern.
Brett Bellmore
Every description of it *I’ve* heard suggests that “that particular violation” can, in practice, be defined so narrowly as to distinguish facially identical offenses. Though, yes, in theory running enough cases through such a court would seem to whittle away at the defense.
In theory. In practice, I suspect the Court would invent some new doctrine to revive it.
JeffDG
Only if the court rules that the conduct was in violation of the Constitution.
Take the case of the $200k theft during an illegal search. The court in that case ruled that there was no “clearly established law” on point and dismissed. They never reached the merits of whether the theft of money during a search was unconstitutional, so the next time it happens, there will still be no “clearly established law” on point. And even if they had, if the next officer stole $190k, he could argue there was no clearly established law that $190k was a violation of rights.
alaskan15
No, loser pays is a horrible idea because it means that no one could ever sue the rich for fear of having to pay for their 20 expensive lawyers. It would be a standard tactic to always spend more than your opponent could ever afford to pay.
Dilan Esper
No, it doesn’t. Qualified immunity is a common law doctrine. Congress could, of course, abrogate it.
Wikipedia says “The modern test for qualified immunity was established in Harlow v. Fitzgerald [1982].”
Before that, it was case by case: “the U.S. Supreme Court granted immunity to government officials only if (1) the official believed in good faith that his conduct was lawful and (2) the conduct was objectively reasonable.”
Doesn’t sound like common law to me. But IANAL, and if you mean something else, please say what.
RestoreWesternHegemony
The courts created it, but with respect to statute (42 usc 1983, among others), so Congress can amend the statute.
I think the point is, the courts created the “right” to abortion, too.
The question becomes, how devoted to “unqualified immunity” IS the Supreme court? Merely, “Would permit a statute to override it” devoted? Maybe, “Would require a constitutional amendment to give up on it.” devoted?
LawTalkingGuy
If Congress amended Section 1983 to repeal the Court’s current qualified immunity jurisprudence, perhaps by replacing it with a much less deferential affirmative defense for officials, I think the Court would have to accept it because qualified immunity is essentially a statutory interpretation. Would there be other ways around that. Possibly.
Assuming Congress doesn’t also finally amend 1983 to explicitly include federal officials when they abrogate qualified immunity, it would be interesting if the Court continued qualified immunity for Bivens claims. Bivens flows from Constitutional rights themselves on the assumption that if the rights exist there must be a remedy for their violation. But it also incorporates the same qualified immunity defenses. So if there is a statutory change for 1983 the Court’s devotion to qualified immunity would be apparent if they are unwilling to modify qualified immunity for Bivens claims.
Consider what would happen if States explicitly elimination immunity for prosecutors. Do you think SCOTUS would sit by idly and allow that attack on judicial divinity supremacy to succeed?
There’s a rule of statutory interpretation that says the legislature is presumed to not abrogate the common law unless it’s clear that’s what they are doing. So when the Court began interpreting Section 1983, it assumed that Congress left a common law good faith defense in place for public officials because it did not explicitly abrogate such a defense. This morphed into the qualified immunity doctrine we know and love today.
It doesn’t sound like common law to you because YANAL.
If states chose they could create state law claims for state constitutional violations (which are generally equal to or broader than federal constitutional protections) and the federal courts would be unable to say anything about it.
arbirary aardvark
this. introducing state legislation to repeal any state QI is a reasonable objective many of the readers of this blog could get accomplished. passing something through congress is more difficult, even for the conspiracy. a statute that awarded legal fees for state constitutional violatiuons could go a long way too. i think there are a couple of states that have this sort of thing.
My experience with traffic court is that judges almost always believe the police and nobody else. Example: The driver was cited for following too closely. The officer admitted he was 5 cars back. The driver’s argument was that nobody could see what was happening 5 cars ahead. The judge ruled guilty “because of the cop’s years of experience”.
I was there for blowing a red light. I had google map pictures with my position marked, testified that when I pulled out of a gas station I was so many feet from the intersection, that the light was green until I moved two lanes to the left to get out of the right-turn-only lanes, and at that point I was so many feet from the intersection, that I had measure these distances with a tape measure on the sidewalk, and that the 35 zone speed limit required a 3.2 second yellow light but it was only 3 seconds, that the city did not have the required END 35 sign so it was still a 35 mph 3.2 second zone, and I would have had to be going only ten mph to not be in the intersection on the 3.0 second yellow. The judge ruled I must be guilty because I admitted I lost sight of the green light.
This idea of Constitutional small claims court would fall apart for the very same reason. The only way to convict a cop is with expensive lawyers and lots of time.
I’ve fortunately never had a similar experience, but know many who have. I’ve heard things like “If the officer said it, it must be true,” but on the flip side, when the cops are called out for obvious lies, the judges never do what the law allows, which is to assume that everything else is a lie as well.
Last time I challenged a traffic ticket the judge basically declared everyone guilty by listing off all defenses he would not accept. He ended by saying that the radar is always right because the law says so, so even if you have irrefutable proof that it was wrong you are still guilty.
Traffic court is a revenue machine. It has nothing to do with public safety. This is the only country that ruthlessly extorts money from its citizens via traffic enforcement. As a result Americans are among the worst drivers in the world because we drive according to the signs, not the conditions. We’re so focused on obeying traffic signs to avoid getting pulled over that we ignore the snow or ice or whatever else is on the road.
This is the only country that ruthlessly extorts money from its citizens via traffic enforcement.
I mean, that’s loony.
Robert Beckman
Loony because it’s true and a terrible policy? Or because you know of other countries doing the same?
I’d exclude directly corrupt countries low enforcement, like India, who use traffic law as the excuse to extract a protection fee regardless of any illegality, though that may be what you had in mind.
Jimmy the Dane
I guess one unintended result of this would be no one in their right mind would ever, ever, ever want to work for the government under a regime like this.
The only people who would be hamstrung by this are serial abusers; cops, mostly, some bureaucrats, and all full of themselves, who think they are God’s gift to morality.
The easiest way for other people to avoid being taken to Constitutional small claims court is to apologize profusely as soon as they are called out. Librarian who won’t rent a meeting room to the KKK — as soon as the KKK points out her error, if she admitted her error and rented it out in spite of her disgust, I bet she’d never be taken to court, or if she was, the Judge would dismiss the charges or reduce damages to a minimum because she corrected herself pronto.
Hell, that’s all most people want: politeness. Cops could learn a lot by being called to Constitutional small claims court and hearing other cases.
ducksalad
Who said anything about unintended?
Seriously, I don’t think this would drive out ordinary more-or-less decent officers and officials, anymore than traffic court deters people from driving.
Either no one will want to do an already thankless job (which is fine by me). Or we will just have to pay more in taxes because the only people insane enough to take the job and end up in constitutional small claims court several days a month will demand extremely high compensation.
The one error I think everyone has here is assuming the process will be used in good faith. Every single crank, unemployed loser, and guy with beef on his shoulder is going to abuse the heck out of this system. Maybe not a bad thing if it means less overall government goons. But maybe will be if we have to pay a ton of money to find someone to do necessary government jobs.
There is such a thing as the vexatious litigant, which easily addresses serial abuse.
If you’re concerned about many people at small scale, add a $10 increment per case beyond the first, so the filing fee is 0, 10, 20, 30… which is refunded after winning.
Rossami
And yet, customer service reps are not held to this standard by statute but are routinely held to it by company policy – and there is no shortage of customer service reps in the hiring lines.
Your claims that “no one in their right mind would ever, ever, ever want to work for … under a regime like this” is belied by the evidence.
Are you seriously comparing customer service reps to say police officers? Really? How are they even remotely analogous? Logic is not your strong suit I take it…
You don’t want to work for the government unless you can violate the Constitution?
Gee. Maybe we don’t mind.
Krychek_2
One question, and one point:
Question: Is there any reason to believe a constitutional small claims court wouldn’t be any more pro-police than the entire rest of the judiciary?
Point: Next time a conservative complains about liberal judicial activism, please feel free to point out that qualified immunity was a fairly breathtaking bit of conservative judicial activism.
Is it? I’ve heard that argument regarding marijuana scheduling as well, and I haven’t seen any real effort from the Democrats to repeal that. Do you see all 4 liberal judges consistently voting in the dissent to undo qualified immunity?
My experience has been, what the Democrats are theoretically good on, (From a libertarian standpoint, of course.) they don’t really care about, and what they’re bad on from that same stand point they’re fanatically devoted to.
The same is true to a limited extent about the Republicans, but minus the fanaticism; They seem to be content accomplishing little and raking in graft. The Democrats are willing to take serious damage to accomplish their horrific ends.
I think that’s largely right, although I think some of it is due less to dedication, but to competing goals. While the Democrats (theoretically) are okay with personal moral choices that don’t affect anyone else, they also like to ban things that are unhealthy. That’s their nanny state desire coming in. That’s why they so ardently fight for motorcycle helmets, soda and trans fat bans, cigarette bans, and so forth. Marijuana falls into that category, which is why they claim to support legalization but don’t really take any steps to further that.
However, some unhealthy behaviors, like homosexual male sex, are so destructive to Western society and our moral fiber that they’ll ardently support that, the unhealthiness aside.
I’m a Democrat. I, and most Democrats I know, oppose bans on soda, trans fats or cigarettes, so I really don’t know what you’re talking about. Motorcycle helmet laws seem to have broad support across the political spectrum.
Sotomayor has been the most consistent on this point, at least when it comes to saying the Court should stop summarily reversing appeals courts who don’t find qualified immunity. I know Thomas has recently questioned the doctrine, but he also wrote Connick v. Thompson which was one of the worst qualified immunity decisions ever. So I won’t hold my breath on his coming around anytime soon.
Connick v Thompson (aside from having the best Kagan quote ever) was about respondeat superior liability, not merely qualified (absolute) immunity for the individual prosecutorial misconduct, so I don’t think we can read that far into it for Justice Thomas opinion on qualified immunity itself.
He may consistently believe that the individual bad actor should have no immunity whatsoever while rejecting any theory of liability for the incompetent supervisors of those bad actors. Of course that leaves open the perverse circumstance where the prosecutor isn’t liable because he incompetently believes in good faith that he can cheat, and his supervisor isn’t liable for intentionally leaving him in ignorance because it benefits him too. But that’s another hill to climb if we get there – right now no government agent is ever* liable.
*some exceptions apply
That’s a good point. I should have been more careful when pointing to Thompson. I guess it just sticks out in the mind as showing the lengths certain justices will go to shield unconstitutional conduct from liability, whether individuals or a municipality. Overturning a jury verdict that was upheld by the Fifth Circuit is quite an aggressive move.
At the moment, congressional action repealing qualified immunity is a political nonstarter, so there’s no reason for Democrats to waste time on it. But the fact that there’s no serious move to undo it doesn’t change the central point that the original decision creating qualified immunity was a massive bit of conservative judicial activism. The Supreme Court basically re-wrote the statute to achieve the desired result.
What’s your point? Blame conservatives? Blame Trump? Who fucking cares who created qualified immunity? The only question that matters is how do we kill the abomination.
When you bleat “Conservatives did it! Conservatives did it!” you sound like a whiny leftist version of lc or some other conservative sheep that shits all over this forum.
My point was not so much that conservatives did it, as that the same conservatives did it who routinely scream bloody murder when liberals do the same thing. I was directing my comments to the fact that on this issue conservatives are hypocrites, not that they are bad people in general
Why do you say that “conservatives” did it? Wouldn’t it be just as accurate to say that “Democrats” did it?
Carrying forward political adjectives from a century (or more) ago often don’t carry forward meaningfully. For the same reason you could rightfully say that Republicans added liability for abuses by state actors, while Democrats voted to immunize the nascent KKK. It’s true, but disingenuous when used as the basis of an argument about the parties of today.
From a purely philosophical perspective (liberal = change, conservative = remain the same) then it was the liberal expansion of qualified immunity beyond any historical defenses that led to the abuses. Recall that at the founding an agent of the state could be (often privately) prosecuted for assault and abduction, and could present a duly issued warrant as an affirmative defense, “Yes I did abduct him, and had to thrash him in doing so, but a Judge warranted it based on probable cause to believe he had committed a crime, and here’s the singed proof.”
If you’re trying to argue it was the philosophical conservatives that insisted qualified immunity remained unless explicitly overruled that would be right, but it was the liberals who extended it far beyond any historical power it once had.
Sarcastr0
Liberal and conservative are politics brands; don’t pretend ignorance about what they mean these days.
I’m not quite sure I buy your delineation of philosophy liberal = change, conservative = remain the same
It seems to me when it comes to qualified immunity, it is liberal = qualified immunity, conservative = case by case. Isn’t this a more relevant description?
Even if that is true, the Democrats have had plenty of opportunities, in Congress and the Supreme Court, to undo it over the past 50 years. At some point, you become responsible for allowing something to remain when you have the opportunity to remove it, even if we accept that you had nothing to do with creating it in the first place.
Politics is the art of the possible. That aside, that Democrats haven’t fixed it hardly exonerates those who did it in the first place. “Why haven’t you cleaned up my mess yet” is hardly a winning talking point.
I think this “solution” will be rendered moot by 21st century technology (cell phones and social media), an increase in the public’s awareness of police misconduct (due to the technology), and a public/political willingness to make changes in police oversight.
Maybe some national group will be created specifically to fight police misconduct (similar to the Innocent Project or the ACLU), and offer assistance to victims.
I’m optimistic that we are moving in the right direction – maybe not as fast as we should – but still progressively moving.
I hope you’re right, but think you’re wrong – at least over a moderately short time horizon.
There are almost no groups actually trying to fight police misconduct (Institute for Justice notwithstanding) and none who make that their focus (that have any size or effectiveness, at least).
Even the most recent uprising focusing on police abuse was quickly co-opted to progressively more and more absurd demands (Black Lives Matter, of course).
Politicians have plenty of institutional incentives to immunize their agents – they are their agents, after all. Even those who campaign on some form of justice for the downtrodden claim invariably (and often instantly) switch to greater empowerment of their agents. Just look at Kamala Harris as AG of California, who beyond declining to prosecute essentially any police misconduct also argued to an appellate court that her state couldn’t release people in prison early because the state needed their cheap forced labor – essentially an argument for enacting enslavement to all prison sentences (reminder that’s explicitly permitted by the 13th Amendment).
But even if there were a real will that persisted longer than a single election cycle, there are no structural incentives to make it work. Could a billionaire fund it? Sure, but more lives would be saved with drinking water in Africa. Could the State fund it? Sure, but we have those groups already, and they rarely prosecute. Until we add at least a form of recoupment for winning a case – even if no damages because of qualified immunity – there just won’t be the structural incentives to actually make progress. Once an organization can bring suit knowing that they’ll get paid even if all they do is get the court to agree that the state actor acted unlawfully (and no dodging the question) then we can make real progress, but not before then.
The other problem is that many (I’m not going to say most) victims of QI are often bad people themselves. That usually keeps the public from getting too excited about the abuses.
I see a lot of problems here. People lie a lot, so giving a lottery ticket every person who is willing to make up a story defaming the police seems likely to bring out a lot of false accusations. And the problem being addressed, the abrogation of the “right” to curse in public, doesn’t strike me as all that serious. I’ll bet Prof. Somin would use his authority as an agent of the state to prevent inappropriate speech in his classroom.
Well, obviously you need to couple this with mandatory badge cams, with failure to have them turned on treated as spoliation. Don’t want the court to have to assume the allegations against you are true? Keep your badge cam turned on!
Honestly, within 10-20 years, I expect people to routinely wear recording gear anyway, due to the need to be able to prove that allegations against them are untrue.
Or recording gear will be banned via some law to “protect privacy” precisely because trust in government will have greatly diminished due to pervasiveness of police dishonesty coming to light.
Yeah, there’s little reason to think that advancing technology will be used to lessen the power of the state, when every example in the past went the other way.
Remember that Tasers were positioned as a decrease in force since police would only ever use them when firing a bullet was also justified – this just let the police use slightly less force when they could have used greater force. Instead what happened is that Tasers now get used when no force at all is justified, like a guy threatening to jump off a roof, or a guy laying face down and handcuffed, squirming.
An alternative would be a constitutional small fines court rather than a small claims court, but with ordinary citizens allowed to bring cases. If the officer got hit with a fine it would go to general revenue or a victims fund or something similar.
Anyway, I hope you can see that cursing in public was just an example. I’m thinking a fine schedule something like this:
Police- Brief stop without reasonable suspicion: $200. Surcharges: $100 for demanding ID, $200 for looking in the glove compartment or trunk, $500 for a frisk, $20/minute for taking it past 10 minutes.
Threatening (but not doing) an arrest when no cause exists: $200. Telling someone to stop recording, stop talking, etc: $200 + $200 if backed up with a threat of arrest. $500 surcharge if victims were engaged in a legal protest.
City Hall – Illegally hassling someone entitled to a building permit, business permit, carry permit, etc: $200 for first day of improper delay, plus $50/day after that.
State university or public library – Viewpoint discrimination in room reservations or event scheduling, $200 plus $5/seat. Fines doubled for cancelling after previously agreeing. $50 and $1/seat surcharge per day of continued denial after being warned.
Feels good just typing it.
You misspelled alternative world.
Who would enforce this? Nobody. The people with the last word in violence can literally do anything they want. Who will stop them?
Exactly..
With out a sufficient incentive (filer gets the money, or a large part of it) the only benefit to prosecution is a feeling of vindication, which won’t be much, and may be not better than nothing (because nothing agitates for something more).
You ever hear of witnesses and body cameras?
People lie a lot?
This objection could also be used to eliminate small claims court. And, while we are at it, all courts altogether.
It is the JOB of courts to decide credibility.
This proposed constitutional small claims procedure sounds a lot to me like the New Jersey rules on internal affairs that are allegedly designed to force police departments to take civilian complaints “seriously.” In reality, they create a procedural minefield of “protections” for the miscreant officers that often allow them to escape the consequences of their misconduct.
MoreCurious
I wish your suggestion was available to me last year. One Sunday morning in September I stopped at well-known convenience store in the major East Coast city where I live. I parked my car and as I was walking toward the store I saw a man exposing himself and urinating on the sidewalk about 20 feet from the front of the store. There were children nearby who witnessed the same thing I did.
A police car was parked in the handicapped space near the front door of the store. I approached the car and asked the police officer sitting inside to intervene. She ignored me. I asked again and told her all she had to do was turn her head and she would see the man in the act of urinating. This time she shrugged and said she was busy and there was nothing she could do. I got angry and asked her what could be more important than a man exposing himself to little children. When I realized that she had no intention of intervening, I went into the store.
After a couple of minutes, the police officer followed me into the store and confronted me while I was waiting in line to make my purchase. She stood within a foot of me, angrily cursed at me, and said she could arrest me for disrespecting her. My only response was to comment on her unprofessional behavior both outside and inside the store, and to let her know that I would report her behavior to the police department. I made a point of letting her know that I was looking at her name tag and badge number (A second officer was standing beside her as she was yelling and swearing at me, but he said nothing to me. I did not get his name or badge number.)
I reported the officer’s behavior to her district commander as well as to the police department’s internal affairs division. Both assured me that the incident would be investigated, but I later learned that no one bothered to view the videotapes and that no action was taken against the officer.
ReaderY
One of the basic facts about our court system is that most people are shut out of it, and authorities can, as a practical matter, often act with impunity. So long as they avoid messing with rich people or people who somehow know the system, there will only occasionally be consequences.
Bill Poser
Perhaps such constitutional small claims courts could help to eliminate ridiculous qualified immunity defenses. Let’s require that every decision of such a court be published on-line in a readily searchable format and that the judges be required to rule on any constitutional defense presented even if they grant the police officer qualified immunity. This will result in a large number of rulings on specific situations, which plaintiffs or their lawyers can cite to defeat claims of qualified immunity. It won’t completely solve the problem, but it will greatly increase the number of situations declared to be constitutional violations and will thereby undermine qualified immunity, which relies on the vast number of ridiculously specific situations that can arise.
It would scarcely even begin to solve the problem, because you’re confusing reason and pretext.
The courts routinely grant unqualified immunity in cases where any cop with two firing neurons would know they weren’t supposed to do something, and didn’t need to be informed of a court ruling to realize it.
It isn’t based on the cops genuinely not being aware they’re violating somebody’s rights, it’s just an excuse on the part of judges who think cops SHOULD be able to violate rights with impunity.
When reasons are stripped away, decisions change. When pretexts are stripped away, you simply find a new one to justify the pre-determined decision.
Johnathan Harcher
Way back in time,cursing was illegal punishable by jail,disobeying a lawful command of an officer can get you arrested. You cannot have an empowered police force trained(training is only as good as the trainers) in the law ,and then try to look at every little issue and cry foul. Constitutionally or perhaps “Declaration of Independence ” there is a price and we all(last few lines) have agreed to the terms,The court”constitutional small claims” court should be1 year of mandatory service for all lawyers “after the bar” and should be free,with the express purpose of refining the law. All verdicts should automatically be pushed state and federal courts for review and implementation if worthy. This would give serious folks a lace to Vette a case and non serious folks would stay away because of the “inability to make a gain philosophy” who pays the salaries of these young lawyers? A pool all lawyers and states contribute to annually- it is a set salary.
PS just because it’s on the internet obviously doesn’t mean a thing,what is the percent of violations based on population,what pool are the affected coming out of that makes them more of a target etc. How much of this is their fault vs societal situations(like cultural learning).
The Constitution is a framework we know but as Frederic Bastiat has said in the past,law is an agreement of all parties choosing to live together in peace,(my paraphrase),how many choose to ignore or modify what peace is to claim righteousness while being totally wrong??
Charles Nichols - CRTC
“Others may well have their own ideas on how Clark Neily’s idea can be extended and improved.”
Cut their balls off and if they don’t have balls then give them to the Arabs.
Deep Lurker
The deeper problem is that innocent people abused by cops have an incentive to just take it, be quiet, and back down, because protesting would just paint a target on them. So legal claims against police abuse are predominantly made by unsympathetic persons in a “as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb” position.
I don’t see a “Constitutional Small-Claims Court” doing much good against this incentive.
What I’d like to see is some way to challenge how a police officer’s badge has become a defacto patent of nobility. Some grant of standing to challenge things like the law granting retired cops (but not us commoners) a national CCW permit, and the general practice of “We Need More Rights Than You, Citizen!“
MaverickNH
How about Extreme Disrespect Protection Order (EDPO) laws, or Blue Flag Laws, where anyone can submit anonymous accusations with ex parte judicial action against law enforcement officers? No due process or union representation allowed. Police lose – I dunno, something – until they can prove they are nicer. Depolicing and retribution not allowed.
I think they do that in big cities to some degree already – Community Police Complaint Boards.
I like the idea as a way to curtail bad behavior, but there is a big difference between a police officer having to do the paper work for a ticket and one where the officer defending themselves – just like there is a lot more work for a civilian having to defend against a ticket. I think soon enough the number of complaints would go down as the officers would simply change their behavior. But then this whole process may deteriorate into a situation where every single incident becomes an opportunity for the civilian to game the system in the same way ADA can be used to force small business into compliance with nuisance laws.
jdgalt1
There are several practical problems with this idea. Others have raised some of them (for example that judges are biased in favor of believing cops — partly because the judicial system, by design, purges any judge who leans toward believing accused persons). But here are some that I’ve seen.
1. Officers who expect to use force in controversial ways (for instance, before a demonstration) often tape over their badge numbers or have colleagues block any cameras’ view.
2. The kind of officers who habitually use un-called-for force will not hesitate to destroy evidence, thus giving themselves impunity.
3. Bad cops will also not stop because they lost a “small claims” case. They’ll get even. So any remedy that doesn’t at least threaten the cop’s career will be ineffective.
My preferred solution would be to give each neighborhood its own police force, which answers — including for personnel matters, with no confidentiality — to a public “town meeting” where anyone can bring a complaint and where the local population decides what actions by their officers are or are not permissible. And I would make it mandatory that any findings against an officer be reported to the federal authority that licenses police officers, so that a justly fired officer can never be an officer anywhere again.
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Texas appellate court upholds release for claims of gross negligence in trampoline accident that left plaintiff a paraplegic.
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However, the decision is not reasoned and supported in Texas by other decisions or the Texas Supreme Court.
Quiroz et. al. v. Jumpstreet8, Inc., et. al., 2018 Tex. App. LEXIS 5107
State: Texas, Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, Dallas
Plaintiff: Graciela Quiroz, Individually, a/n/f of Xxxx (“John Doe 1”) and Xxxx (“John Doe 2”), Minors, and Robert Sullivan, Individually, a/n/f of Xxxx (“John Doe 3”)
Defendant: Jumpstreet8, Inc., Jumpstreet, Inc. and Jumpstreet Construction, Inc.
Plaintiff Claims: negligence and gross negligence and as next friend of two minor children for their loss of parental consortium and their bystander claims for mental anguish.
Defendant Defenses: Release
Holding: for the Defendant
Adult paralyzed in a trampoline facility sues for her injuries. The release she signed before entering stopped all of her claims, including her claim for gross negligence.
However, the reasoning behind the support for the release to stop the gross negligence claim was not in the decision, so this is a tenuous decision at best.
The plaintiff and her sixteen-year-old son went to the defendant’s business. Before entering she signed a release. While on a trampoline, the plaintiff attempted to do a back flip, landed on her head and was rendered a paraplegic from the waist down.
The plaintiff sued on her behalf and on behalf of her minor. Her claim was a simple tort claim for negligence. Her children’s claims were based on the loss of parental consortium and under Texas law bystander claims for seeing the accident or seeing their mother suffer. The plaintiff’s husband also joined in the lawsuit later for his loss of consortium claims.
The defendant filed a motion for summary judgment which the trial court granted and the plaintiff appealed.
Analysis: making sense of the law based on these facts.
The original entity named on the release was a corporation that was no longer in existence. Several successor entities now owned and controlled the defendant. The plaintiff argued the release did not protect them because the release only spoke to the one defendant.
The court did not agree, finding language in the release that stated the release applied to all “jumpstreet entities that engaged in the trampoline business.”
…it also stated the Release equally applied to “its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, other related entities, successors, owners, members, directors, officers, shareholders, agents, employees, servants, assigns, investors, legal representatives and all individuals and entities involved in the operation of Jumpstreet.”
The next argument was whether the release met the requirements on Texas law for a release. The court pointed out bold and capital letters were used to point out important parts of the release. An assumption of the risk section was separate and distance from the release of liability section, and the release warned people to read the document carefully before signing.
Texas also has an express negligence rule, the requirements of which were also met by the way the release was written.
Further, on page one in the assumption of risk paragraphs, the person signing the Release acknowledges the “potentially hazardous activity,” and the Release lists possible injuries including “but not limited to” sprains, heart attack, and even death. Although paralysis is not specifically named as an injury, it is certainly less than death and thus would be included within the “but not limited to” language. Also, the release of liability paragraph above Quiroz’s signature expressly lists the types of claims and causes of action she is waiving, including “negligence claims, gross negligence claims, personal injury claims, and mental anguish claims.
Next the plaintiff argued that the release covered her and her sixteen-year-old minor son. As such the release should be void because it attempted to cover a minor and releases in Texas do not work for minors.
The court ignored this argument stating it was not the minor who was hurt and suing; it was the plaintiff who was an adult. The court then also added that the other plaintiffs were also covered under the release because all of their claims, loss of parental consortium and loss of consortium are derivative claims. Meaning they only succeed if the plaintiff s claim succeeds.
The final argument was the plaintiff plead negligence and gross negligence in her complaint. A release in Texas, like most other states, was argued by the plaintiff to not be valid.
The appellate court did not see that argument as clearly. First, the Texas Supreme Court had not reviewed that issue. Other appellate courts have held that there is no difference in Texas between a claim for negligence and a claim for gross negligence.
The Texas Supreme Court has not ruled on whether a pre-injury release as to gross negligence is against public policy when there is no assertion that intentional, deliberate, or reckless acts cause injury. Some appellate courts have held that negligence, and gross negligence are not separable claims and a release of liability for negligence also releases a party from liability for gross negligence.
(For other arguments like this see In Nebraska a release can defeat claims for gross negligence for health club injury.)
The court looked at the release which identified negligence and gross negligence as claims that the release would stop.
Quiroz’s Release specifically stated that both negligence and gross negligence claims were waived. The assumption of risk paragraph that lists the specific types of claims/causes of actions that were included in the Release was encased in a box, had all capital lettering, and appeared above the signature line. As noted above, Quiroz received fair notice regarding the claims being waived.
Although not specifically writing in the opinion why the release stopped the gross negligence claims, the court upheld the release for all the plaintiff claims.
The court affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s claims.
First this case is a great example of believing that once you have a release you don’t have to do anything else. If the defendant’s release would have been checked every year, someone should have noticed that the named entity to be protected no longer existed.
In this case that fact did not become a major issue, however, in other states the language might not have been broad enough to protect everyone.
Second, this case is also proof that being specific with possible risks of the activities and have an assumption of risk section pays off.
Finally, would I go out and pronounce that Texas allows a release to stop claims for gross negligence. No. Finger’s crossed until the Texas Supreme Court rules on the issue or another appellate court in Texas provides reasoning for its argument, this is thin support for that statement.
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Quiroz v. Jumpstreet8, Inc., 2018 Tex. App. LEXIS 5107
Posted: October 7, 2018 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Assumption of the Risk, Indoor Recreation Center, Legal Case, Release (pre-injury contract not to sue), Texas | Tags: bystander, Cause of action, consortium, conspicuousness, cross-motion, derivative, distinguishable, enforceable, entity, Gross negligence, Issue of Material Fact, Jumpstreet, lettering, matter of law, mental anguish, Negligence, negligence claims, Notice, notice requirements, parental, partial, pre-injury, Public Policy, signature line, signing, specifically named, Summary judgment, Texas, Trampoline, unenforceable, Void, waive, waiving | Leave a comment
Graciela Quiroz, Individually, a/n/f of Xxxx (“John Doe 1”) and Xxxx (“John Doe 2”), Minors, and Robert Sullivan, Individually, a/n/f of Xxxx (“John Doe 3”), Appellants v. Jumpstreet8, Inc., Jumpstreet, Inc. and Jumpstreet Construction, Inc., Appellees
No. 05-17-00948-CV
COURT OF APPEALS OF TEXAS, FIFTH DISTRICT, DALLAS
2018 Tex. App. LEXIS 5107
July 9, 2018, Opinion Filed
PRIOR HISTORY: [*1] On Appeal from the 298th Judicial District Court, Dallas County, Texas. Trial Court Cause No. 15-02671.
In re Quiroz, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 7423 (Tex. App. Dallas, Aug. 7, 2017)
CASE SUMMARY:
OVERVIEW: HOLDINGS: [1]-The trampoline facility owner met its burden of establishing it was entitled to summary judgment as a matter of law because the release was enforceable when it met both the fair notice requirement for conspicuousness and the express negligence rule.
OUTCOME: Order affirmed.
CORE TERMS: summary judgment, entity, gross negligence, public policy, negligence claims, partial, matter of law, cause of action, pre-injury, consortium, waive, cross-motion, notice requirements, trampoline, bystander, specifically named, unenforceable, signing, mental anguish, signature line, conspicuousness, distinguishable, enforceable, derivative, lettering, parental, waiving, notice, void, issue of material fact
COUNSEL: For Graciela Quiroz, et al, Appellant: John T. Kirtley, Lead counsel, Ferrer, Poirot and Wansbrough, Dallas, TX.
For Jumpstreet8, Inc., Jumpstreet, Inc. and Jumpstreet Construction, Inc., Appellee: Cassie Dallas, Shelby G. Hall, Wade C. Crosnoe, Lead Counsel, Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P., Dallas, TX; Michael A. Yanof, Lenahan Law, P.L.L.C., Dallas, TX; Randy Alan Nelson, Thompson Coe, Dallas, TX.
JUDGES: Before Justices Myers, Boatright, and O’Neill.1 Opinion by Justice O’Neill.
1 The Hon. Michael J. O’Neill, Justice, Assigned
OPINION BY: MICHAEL J. O’NEILL
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Opinion by Justice O’Neill
Appellant Graciela Quiroz brought a negligence suit against appellees Jumpstreet8, Inc., Jumpstreet, Inc., and Jumpstreet Construction, Inc. (collectively Jumpstreet) for injuries she sustained while jumping on a trampoline at a Jumpstreet facility. Jumpstreet moved for summary judgment based upon a pre-injury release signed by Quiroz. Quiroz responded and filed a cross-motion for partial summary judgment. The trial court granted Jumpstreet’s motion for summary judgment, denied Quiroz’s cross-motion for partial summary judgment, and dismissed all of Quiroz’s claims. In one issue, Quiroz contends the trial court erred in granting Jumpstreet’s motion for summary judgment and denying her motion for partial summary judgment. We affirm the trial court’s order.
On November 29, 2014, Quiroz and her sixteen-year-old son went to Jumpstreet. Prior to using the facility, Quiroz was given a pre-injury release form that was titled “Jumpstreet, LLC Release [*2] and Parent/Guardian Waiver of Liability and Assumption of Risk.” The Release recited the following statements under the title: “PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY. BY SIGNING IT, YOU ARE GIVING UP LEGAL RIGHTS.” After signing the Release, Quiroz and her son jumped on a trampoline. When Quiroz attempted to do a flip, she injured her neck. Quiroz is now paralyzed from the waist down. Quiroz brought suit, individually, against Jumpstreet for negligence and gross negligence and as next friend of two minor children for their loss of parental consortium and their bystander claims for mental anguish. Robert Sullivan (Quiroz’s spouse) joined the suit for loss of consortium and as next friend of a third minor child for loss of parental consortium and a bystander claim for mental anguish.
Jumpstreet filed a “Traditional Motion for Summary Judgment” alleging summary judgment was proper because Quiroz had signed a Release. In the motion, Jumpstreet stated that because Quiroz alleged negligence and gross negligence claims against Jumpstreet arising from her utilizing a Jumpstreet facility, the Release signed by Quiroz expressly released any negligence and gross negligence claims. Jumpstreet asserted [*3] the Release was valid and enforceable because it specifically named the party to be released, it met the fair notice requirements of conspicuousness and the express negligence rule, and it met the contractual elements of mutual intent and valid consideration.
Quiroz filed a response to Jumpstreet’s motion for summary judgment and a cross-motion for partial summary judgment that alleged summary judgment for Jumpstreet was improper because there was an issue of material fact regarding the Release. Quiroz alleged she was entitled to a partial summary judgment because the Release was “void, voidable and unenforceable” because the named entity did not exist at the time of her injury, the Release was ambiguous, a parent could not waive claims of minors, and the Release could not waive gross negligence claims because it would be against public policy to do so. The trial court granted Jumpstreet’s traditional motion for summary judgment and denied Quiroz’s cross-motion for partial summary judgment. Quiroz timely filed this appeal.
Issue Presented
In her sole issue on appeal, Quiroz contends the trial court erred by granting Jumpstreet’s motion for summary judgment and denying her cross-motion [*4] for partial summary judgment. Quiroz asserts that as a matter of law, no contract existed between her and Jumpstreet, LLC, the entity named in the Release. Quiroz argues there was no “meeting of the minds on the contract’s essential terms” between her and Jumpstreet, LLC because Jumpstreet, LLC had been dissolved in June 2011 and did not exist at the time of her injury in November 2014. Quiroz contends that because a nonexistent entity cannot form or enter into a contract, the Release is void and unenforceable as a matter of law.
Quiroz further contends the Release did not meet the “fair notice requirement” because none of the Jumpstreet defendants are named in the Release; only the nonexistent entity “Jumpstreet, LLC” is specifically named in the Release. Quiroz argues the Release also never specifically identified or released a claim for an injury due to paralysis. Further, Quiroz asserts that as a matter of law, a parent cannot waive a minor’s claims, and a Release cannot waive any claims for gross negligence because that is against public policy.
Jumpstreet responds that the trial court properly granted summary judgment in their favor because Quiroz signed a valid, enforceable Release [*5] before using its facility. The Release satisfied both the fair notice requirement and the express negligence rule as to both negligence and gross negligence claims. Jumpstreet also argues the Release meets the general requirements of a valid contract because it shows a “meeting of the minds” and valid consideration. Jumpstreet further responds that because the consortium and bystander claims are derivative claims, they are barred as a matter of law.
[HN1] We review a trial court’s summary judgment order de novo. Travelers Ins. Co. v. Joachim, 315 S.W.3d 860, 862 (Tex. 2010). A party moving for summary judgment has the burden of showing that no genuine issue of material fact existed and that it was entitled to judgment as a matter of law. City of Dallas v. Dallas Morning News, LP, 281 S.W.3d 708, 712 (Tex. App.–Dallas 2009, no pet.); see also Tex. R. Civ. P. 166a(c). When reviewing a summary judgment, we take as true all evidence favorable to the nonmovant, and we indulge every reasonable inference and resolve any doubts in the nonmovant’s favor. Valence Operating Co. v. Dorsett, 164 S.W.3d 656, 661 (Tex. 2005). When both sides move for summary judgment, however, each party bears the burden of establishing it is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. City of Garland v. Dallas Morning News, 22 S.W.3d 351, 356 (Tex. 2000). When the trial court grants one motion and denies the other, we review the summary judgment evidence presented by both parties and determine all the questions presented. [*6] S. Crushed Concrete, LLC v. City of Houston, 398 S.W.3d 676, 678 (Tex. 2013).
The Release signed by Quiroz was a prospective release of future claims, including claims based on Jumpstreet’s own negligence. [HN2] A release is an absolute bar to the released matter and extinguishes a claim or cause of action. Dresser Indus., Inc. v. Page Petroleum, Inc., 853 S.W.2d 505, 509 (Tex. 1993). Jumpstreet had to show that the Release’s language met the fair notice requirement of conspicuousness and the express negligence rule. See id. “Conspicuous” means the terms must be presented in a manner that a reasonable person against whom it is to operate ought to have notice. Quintana v. CrossFit Dallas, L.L.C., 347 S.W.3d 445, 450 (Tex. App.–Dallas 2011, no pet,).
The express negligence rule is not an affirmative defense, but it is a rule of contract interpretation. See Fisk Elec. Co. v. Constructors & Assocs., Inc., 888 S.W.2d 813, 814 (Tex. 1994). This rule states that if a party intends to be released from its own future negligence, it must express that intent in clear, unambiguous terms within the four corners of the contract. Atl. Richfield Co. v. Petroleum Pers., Inc., 768 S.W.2d 724, 726 (Tex. 1989); Quintana, 347 S.W.3d at 450.
[HN3] Parties have the right to contract as they see fit as long as their agreement does not violate the law or public policy. In re Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., 148 S.W.3d 124, 129 & n.11 (Tex. 2004). Texas law recognizes and protects a broad freedom of contract. Fairfield Ins. Co. v. Stephens Martin Paving, LP, 246 S.W.3d 653, 671 (Tex. 2008). Under Texas law, a release is a contract and is subject to avoidance just like any other contract. Williams v. Glash, 789 S.W.2d 261, 264 (Tex. 1990). When construing a contract, the court’s primary concern is to give effect to the written [*7] expression of the parties’ intent. Forbau v. Aetna Life Ins. Co., 876 S.W.2d 132, 133 (Tex. 1994). Public policy dictates that courts are not to interfere lightly with this freedom of contract. See, e.g., Gym-N-I Playgrounds, Inc. v. Snider, 220 S.W.3d 905, 912 (Tex. 2007) (commercial lease expressly waiving warranties); In re Prudential, 148 S.W.3d at 129 & n.11 (contractual jury waiver); BMG Direct Mktg., Inc. v. Peake, 178 S.W.3d 763, 767 (Tex. 2005) (liquidated damages clause); Missouri, K. & T. R. Co. v. Carter, 95 Tex. 461, 68 S.W. 159, 164 (Tex. 1902) (contract waiving responsibility for fires caused by railroad engines).
[HN4] A tortfeasor can claim the protection of a release only if the release refers to him by name or with such descriptive particularity that his identity or his connection with the tortious event is not in doubt. Duncan v. Cessna Aircraft Co., 665 S.W.2d 414, 420 (Tex. 1984); see also Frazer v. Tex. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co., 4 S.W.3d 819, 823-24 (Tex. App.–Houston [1st Dist.] 1999, no pet.) (with use of “and its affiliated companies,” release sufficiently identified Texas Farm Bureau Underwriters such that its identity is not in doubt.). Here, the Release clearly and unambiguously stated it applied to all Jumpstreet entities that are engaged in the trampoline business. Although the Release specifically named “Jumpstreet, LLC,” it also stated the Release equally applied to “its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, other related entities, successors, owners, members, directors, officers, shareholders, agents, employees, servants, assigns, investors, legal representatives and all individuals and entities involved in the operation of [*8] Jumpstreet.”
The record shows the entity named “Jumpstreet, LLC” was dissolved in June, 2011. The record also contains a deposition transcript from Martin L. Brooks who testified he and Tim Crawford were cousins and the sole owners of all the Jumpstreet entities, all the Jumpstreet entities were engaged in the trampoline business, and the entity named “Jumpstreet, Inc.” was the parent company. The record shows that in her original petition, Quiroz named seventeen different Jumpstreet entities, including “Jumpstreet, Inc.,” the parent company. In her “fourth amended petition” that was in effect at the time of the summary judgment hearing, however, she named only three of the Jumpstreet entities, including the parent company. The Jumpstreet appellees in this case are all engaged in the trampoline business and described with such particularity that their identity was never in doubt. Duncan, 665 S.W.2d at 420; Frazer, 4 S.W.3d at 823-24.
Although the Release in this case contains two pages, it conspicuously contains several paragraphs with bolded headings and capitalized font. On page one, an “assumption of risk” section is separate from a “release of liability” section. The Release warns prospective patrons to “please read this document [*9] carefully” and “by signing it, you are giving up legal rights.” This warning appears directly under the title of the Release and is written in all capital letters. On page two, the Release has an “assumption of the risk” paragraph in all capital letters and surrounded by a box, calling specific attention to it. On both pages, there are several references to the risks and dangers of participating in Jumpstreet services throughout the Release. The “waiver and release” language is repeated a final time, in capital lettering, immediately above the signature line where Quiroz printed her name, date of birth, age, address, and telephone number. See Quintana, 347 S.W.3d at 452 (concluding a two-page contract titled “Health Assessment Waiver and Goals Work Sheet” that included word “release” in larger and bold print near top of second page and initialed by party was “sufficiently conspicuous to provide fair notice”).
The Release also does not run afoul of the express negligence rule. As noted above, the waiver and release language is in capital lettering immediately above the signature line where Quiroz printed her name, date of birth, age, address, and telephone number. See Quintana, 347 S.W.3d at 452. Further, on page one in the assumption of [*10] risk paragraphs, the person signing the Release acknowledges the “potentially hazardous activity,” and the Release lists possible injuries including “but not limited to” sprains, heart attack, and even death. Although paralysis is not specifically named as an injury, it is certainly less than death and thus would be included within the “but not limited to” language. Also, the release of liability paragraph above Quiroz’s signature expressly lists the types of claims and causes of action she is waiving, including “negligence claims, gross negligence claims, personal injury claims, and mental anguish claims.” Id.
Quiroz next argues that a parent cannot waive a minor child’s claims. Quiroz asserts Munoz v. II Jaz Inc., 863 S.W.2d 207 (Tex. App.–Houston [14th Dist.] 1993), is the leading Texas case. In Munoz, the parents sued an amusement park for damages after their child was injured on a ride. The trial court granted the park’s motion for summary judgment based upon a pre-injury release signed by the parents. The appellate court reversed, holding that the Family Code did not give parents the power to waive a child’s cause of action for personal injuries. Munoz is distinguishable from Quiroz’s claims in that Quiroz sustained the injury and not her children. [*11] Moreover, [HN5] the cause of action for loss of parental consortium, like the cause of action for loss of spousal consortium, is a derivative cause of action. As such, the defenses that bar all or part of the injured parent’s recovery have the same effect on the child’s recovery. Reagan v. Vaughn, 804 S.W.2d 463, 468 (Tex. 1990), on reh’g in part (Mar. 6, 1991). And although bystander claims are considered independent and not derivative, it is also true that the bystander plaintiff cannot recover unless the injured person can recover. Estate of Barrera v. Rosamond Vill. Ltd. P’ship, 983 S.W.2d 795, 799-800 (Tex. App.–Houston [14th Dist.] 1998, no pet.).
Quiroz lastly argues a pre-injury release cannot apply to gross negligence claims because that is against public policy. Generally, a contract provision “exempting a party from tort liability for harm caused intentionally or recklessly is unenforceable on grounds of public policy. Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 195(1 (1981). Quiroz cites our case in Van Voris v. Team Chop Shop, 402 S.W.3d 915 (Tex. App.–Dallas 2013, no pet.), for this proposition. There is disagreement among the courts of appeals as to whether a party may validly release claims for gross negligence. The Texas Supreme Court has not ruled on whether a pre-injury release as to gross negligence is against public policy when there is no assertion that intentional, deliberate, or reckless acts cause injury.2 Some appellate courts have held that negligence [*12] and gross negligence are not separable claims and that therefore a release of liability for negligence also releases a party from liability for gross negligence. See Tesoro Petroleum Corp. v. Nabors Drilling U.S., 106 S.W.3d 118, 127 (Tex. App.–Houston [1st Dist.] 2002, pet. denied); Newman v. Tropical Visions, Inc., 891 S.W.2d 713, 722 (Tex. App.–San Antonio 1994, writ denied).
2 We note that Quiroz cited Zachry Construction Corp. v. Port of Houston Authority Of Harris County., 449 S.W.3d 98 (Tex. 2014), in her “First Supplemental Brief,” for the proposition that “a pre-injury release of future liability for gross negligence is void as against public policy.” In Zachry, the Texas Supreme Court had to decide, in a breach of contract case, whether a no-damages-for-delay provision shielded the owner from liability for deliberately and wrongfully interfering with the contractor’s work. In Zachry, the Texas Supreme Court held the no-damages-for-delay provision at issue was unenforceable as against public policy. Zachry, however, is distinguishable because that case concerned how a no-delay-for-damages provision could be enforced if the Port’s intentional misconduct caused the delay. Here, Quiroz has not asserted that Jumpstreet’s alleged negligence was intentional, deliberate, or reckless.
In contrast, we recently held that a plaintiff’s execution of a contract specifically releasing a defendant from liability for negligence did not release the defendant from liability for gross negligence. Van Voris, 402 S.W.3d at 926. We reasoned that the public policy requiring an express release from negligence also requires an express release from gross negligence. See id. We specifically pointed out that “our conclusion is limited to the context presented by this case.” See id. Other courts have held that pre-accident waivers of gross negligence are invalid as against public policy. See Sydlik v. REEIII, Inc., 195 S.W.3d 329, 336 (Tex. App.–Houston [14th Dist.] 2006, no pet.); Smith v. Golden Triangle Raceway, 708 S.W.2d 574, 576 (Tex. App.–Beaumont 1986, no writ).
Van Voris is distinguishable from the case here in that Quiroz’s Release specifically stated that both negligence and gross negligence claims were waived. The assumption of risk paragraph that lists the specific types of claims/causes of actions that were included in the Release was encased in a box, had all capital lettering, and appeared above the signature line. As noted above, Quiroz received fair notice regarding the [*13] claims being waived. See Quintana, 347 S.W.3d at 450.
The Release met both the fair notice requirement for conspicuousness and the express negligence rule. It was, thus, enforceable. See Quintana, 347 S.W.3d at 452. As a result, Jumpstreet met its burden of establishing it was entitled to summary judgment as a matter of law. See City of Garland, 22 S.W.3d at 356. We conclude the trial court properly granted Jumpstreet’s motion for summary judgment. See Travelers Ins. Co., 315 S.W.3d at 862.
We affirm the trial court’s order granting Jumpstreet’s motion for summary judgment and denying Quiroz’s cross-motion for partial summary judgment.
/s/ Michael J. O’Neill
MICHAEL J. O’NEILL
JUSTICE, ASSIGNED
In accordance with this Court’s opinion of this date, the judgment of the trial court is AFFIRMED.
It is ORDERED that appellees Jumpstreet8, Inc., Jumpstreet, Inc. and Jumpstreet Construction, Inc. recover their costs of this appeal from appellants Graciela Quiroz and Robert Sullivan.
Judgment entered this 9th day of July, 2018.
A loss of consortium claim started as a way to compensate a husband for the loss of his wife and the duties she performed in the home, including sex.
Posted: July 2, 2018 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Maine, Racing, Release (pre-injury contract not to sue) | Tags: bleachers, Cause of action, citation omitted, civil action, claimant, common law, consortium, contractual, contractually, crew, derivative, Derivative Claim, extinguish, Indemnification, indemnity agreements, indirectly, loss of consortium, married, negligence claim, negligence liability, occasioned, own name, own negligence, particularity, pit, plain language, Public Policy, raceway, Release, releasee, spouse, tort action | Leave a comment
In most states, a loss of consortium claim is a derivative claim, meaning that the claim is successful if the original claim, the husband’s claim is successful.
In Maine, a loss of consortium claim may be derivative or independent and is based on a statute.
Hardy et al. v. St. Clair d/b/a Wiscasset Raceway,1999 ME 142; 739 A.2d 368; 1999 Me. LEXIS 161
State: Maine, Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Plaintiff: Brent D. Hardy et al.
Defendant: David St. Clair d/b/a Wiscasset Raceway
Plaintiff Claims:
Defendant Defenses:
In the majority of states, a loss of consortium claim is a derivative claim, and a release stops those claims as well as the original claim of the injured plaintiff. In Maine, a loss of consortium claim is a separate claim and not stopped when the plaintiff signs a release.
The husband was part of a pit crew for a race car. He signed a release to enter the track and work on the race car he crewed for. During the race, a specific set of seats in the bleachers were reserved for the pit crew. While sitting in the bleachers, a plank on a set of bleachers collapsed, injuring him.
The trial court granted summary judgment on the husband’s claim but allowed the wife’s loss of consortium claim to continue.
Maine’s loss of consortium claims originally only available to a husband when a wife was injured. When the first claims from wives appeared based on husband’s injuries the courts determined it was not their job to make that decision on whether the wife had a claim, that it was the legislature’s responsibility. “However, “under common law, a wife had no cause of action for her loss of consortium occasioned by her husband’s injuries.”
The Maine legislature passed a law giving both husband and wife, when married, loss of consortium claims. The statute stated the claims were available to be brought in the person’s own name or in their spouse’s name.
In most states, a loss of consortium claim is a derivative claim. Meaning the claim is brought with the injured spouse’s claim and is subject to the defenses to the injured spouses claim. Alternatively, the non-injures spouse can only win if the injured spouse wins.
Based on the language of the Maine Statute, the trial court determined the loss of consortium claim of the non-injured spouse could continue. The defendant appealed that decision and this is the Maine Supreme Court’s decision on that issue.
The court started by reviewing the release, and Maine release law. As in most states the court started its analysis with:
Courts have traditionally disfavored contractual exclusions of negligence liability and have exercised a heightened degree of judicial scrutiny when interpreting contractual language [that] allegedly exempts a party from liability for his own negligence.”
Under Maine’s law, this means that a release must “expressly spell out with the greatest particularity the intention of the parties contractually to extinguish negligence liability” That means the court must look at the plain language of the agreement and determine the intent of the parties as set forth in the agreement.
Although the release was mainly written to cover injuries received as a member of the pit crew and stock-car racing, the court found that since the seating area where the injury occurred could only be occupied by members of a pit crew, the release covered the injuries the plaintiff suffered when the plank broke. The court stated.
…had Brent not been participating in the race events, he would not have been on the section of bleachers that collapsed because that section was reserved for members of the pit crews and not open to the general public
The plaintiff’s injuries were determined to have risen directly from the racing event. Overall, the court determined the agreement was written to extinguish negligence liability.
Finding the release prevented the claims of the husband, the court then turned to the issue of the loss of consortium claim of the spouse.
Looking at the law of releases, a release only bar’s claims of the person who signed the release. If the wife’s claims are derivative, then her claims would be barred also when the husband signed the release.
States adopting the derivative approach generally conclude that a cause of action for loss of consortium is subject to the same defenses available in the injured spouse’s underlying tort action. States adopting the independent approach generally conclude that a consortium claim is not subject to such defenses.
However, under the statute, the court found that loss of consortium claims in Maine are separate, independent causes of action. The wife’s loss of consortium claim could continue.
In Maine, and the minority of states that follow this line of reasoning, to bar all claims for injuries, a defendant is going to have to get a signature on a release for everyone who might have a claim based upon the injury of the injured person.
That could mean the spouse would have to sign a release, minor children if they are allowed, heirs of the plaintiff if he dies, or anyone else that could bring a claim all would have to release any possible defendant.
Understand if you live in a state where loss of consortium claims is derivative and covered by a release or stand alone and not covered by your release.
Posted: June 25, 2018 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Legal Case, Maine, Release (pre-injury contract not to sue) | Tags: bleachers, Cause of action, citation omitted, civil action, claimant, common law, consortium, contractual, contractually, crew, derivative, extinguish, Indemnification, indemnity agreements, indirectly, loss of consortium, married, negligence claim, negligence liability, occasioned, own name, own negligence, particularity, pit, plain language, Public Policy, raceway, releasee, spouse, tort action | Leave a comment
Brent D. Hardy et al. v. David St. Clair d/b/a Wiscasset Raceway
Wal-99-107
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MAINE
1999 ME 142; 739 A.2d 368; 1999 Me. LEXIS 161
September 10, 1999, Argued
October 15, 1999, Decided
DISPOSITION: [***1] Judgment affirmed.
CORE TERMS: consortium, spouse, loss of consortium, cause of action, derivative, raceway, public policy, common law, negligence liability, negligence claim, indemnity agreements, releasee, own negligence, own name, civil action, citation omitted, indemnification, contractual, extinguish, indirectly, occasioned, claimant, married, bleachers, crew, pit, plain language, tort action, particularity, contractually
COUNSEL: Attorneys for plaintiffs: James C. Munch III, Esq., (orally), Marvin G. Glazier, Esq., Vafiades, Brountas & Kominsky, Bangor, ME.
Attorneys for defendant: Richard L. Suter, Esq., (orally, George D. Hepner III, Esq., Suter & Hepner, P.A., Falmouth, ME.
JUDGES: Panel: RUDMAN, DANA, SAUFLEY, ALEXANDER, and CALKINS, JJ.
OPINION BY: RUDMAN
[**369] RUDMAN, J.
[*P1] Brent D. Hardy and Carie Hardy appeal and David St. Clair cross-appeals from a summary judgment entered in the Superior Court (Waldo County, Marsano, J.) concluding that a release signed by Brent D. Hardy barred his negligence claim, but did not bar his wife’s claim for loss of consortium. We agree with the trial court and affirm the judgment.
[*P2] This action arises from injuries allegedly sustained by Brent D. Hardy at the Wiscasset Raceway, a facility owned by David St. Clair. As a condition to Brent’s service as a member of a pit crew supporting a race car racing at the raceway, Brent was required to sign a document entitled “Release and Waiver of Liability, Assumption of Risk and Indemnity Agreement.” Brent was injured when a plank on a set of bleachers at the raceway reserved for members of the [***2] pit crews collapsed under him. The trial court granted a summary judgment in favor of the raceway on the basis that the agreement barred Brent’s negligence claim, but concluded that the agreement did not bar Carie’s loss of consortium claim. This appeal ensued.
[*P3] The Hardys contend that the agreement is ambiguous and violates Maine law and public policy and that the peril which caused Brent’s injury was not contemplated by the parties. “Courts [HN1] have traditionally disfavored contractual exclusions of negligence liability and have exercised a heightened degree of judicial scrutiny when interpreting contractual language [that] allegedly exempts a party from liability for his own negligence.” 1 [HN2] Doyle v. Bowdoin College, 403 A.2d 1206, 1207 (Me. 1979). Accordingly, a release must “expressly spell out with the greatest particularity the intention of the parties contractually to extinguish negligence liability.” Id. (internal quotations omitted). To discern the parties’ intention, we look to the plain language of the agreement.
1 Wiscasset Raceway cites Doyle v. Bowdoin College, 403 A.2d 1206, 1207-08 (Me. 1979) and Emery Waterhouse Co. v. Lea, 467 A.2d 986, 993 (Me. 1983). In support of its contention that, “under Maine law, release and indemnity agreements exempting the releasee/indemnitee from liability for his or her own negligence are considered lawful and are not against public policy.” In Doyle, 403 A.2d at 1207 n.2, we declined to address whether such agreements were unlawful and contrary to public policy, stating:
Because we do not construe the documents executed … as releases or indemnification agreements, we have no occasion to reach the further issue whether contractual provisions which relieve a party from liability for that party’s own negligence would be unenforceable and void as contravening public policy. See, e.g., Tunkl v. Regents of University of California, 60 Cal. 2d 92, 32 Cal. Rptr. 33, 383 P.2d 441 (1963); Prosser, Torts § 68 (4th ed. 1971).
In Emery Waterhouse Co., 467 A.2d at 993, we stated that “indemnity [HN3] clauses to save a party harmless from damages due to negligence may lawfully be inserted in contracts . . ., and such clauses are not against public policy.”
[*P4] [***3] The pertinent provisions of the Agreement state that, by signing the document, Brent:
2. HEREBY RELEASES, WAIVES, DISCHARGES AND COVENANTS NOT TO SUE [Wiscasset Raceway] FROM ALL LIABILITY [sic]… FOR ANY AND ALL LOSS OR DAMAGE, AND ANY CLAIM OR DEMANDS THEREFOR ON ACCOUNT OF INJURY TO THE PERSON OR PROPERTY … ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE EVENT(S), WHETHER CAUSED BY THE NEGLIGENCE OF THE RELEASEES OR OTHERWISE.
[**370] 4. HEREBY ASSUMES FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY RISK OF BODILY INJURY, DEATH OR PROPERTY DAMAGE arising out of or related to the EVENT(S) whether caused by the NEGLIGENCE OF RELEASEES or otherwise.
6. HEREBY agrees that this Release and Waiver of Liability, Assumption of Risk and Indemnity Agreement extends to all acts of negligence by the Releasees . . . and is intended to be as broad and inclusive as is permitted by the laws. . . .
The Agreement further provides:
I HAVE READ THIS RELEASE AND WAIVER OF LIABILITY, ASSUMPTION OF RISK AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT, FULLY UNDERSTAND ITS TERMS, UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE GIVEN UP SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS BY SIGNING IT, AND INTEND MY SIGNATURE TO BE A COMPLETE AND [***4] UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF ALL LIABILITY TO THE GREATEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW.
[*P5] According to the second and fourth paragraphs of the Agreement, Brent cannot recover for any injuries “arising out of or related to the EVENT(S).” The term “EVENT(S)” refers to Wiscasset Raceway’s “Regular Races & 50 Lap Heavyweight.” Although Brent did not receive injuries directly “arising out of or related to the events,” his injuries were related to the events and indirectly resulted from them. The race events did not directly cause the bleachers to collapse under Brent. However, had Brent not been participating in the race events, he would not have been on the section of bleachers that collapsed because that section was reserved for members of the pit crews and not open to the general public.
[*P6] In light of other broader language in the Agreement, however, this appeal does not turn on whether the Agreement expressly extinguishes Wiscasset Raceway’s negligence liability for injuries indirectly arising out of the racing events. The sixth paragraph provides that the scope of the Agreement “extends to all acts of negligence by [Wiscasset Raceway] . . . And is intended to be as broad [***5] and inclusive as is permitted by the laws.” Further, the last portion of the Agreement indicates that Brent intended his signature to be “A COMPLETE AND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF ALL LIABILITY TO THE GREATEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW.” Even when strictly construed against Wiscasset Raceway, the Agreement “expressly spell[s] out with the greatest particularity the intention of the parties contractually to extinguish negligence liability.” Doyle, 403 A.2d at 1207 (internal quotations omitted). In light of the plain language of the Agreement, the trial court did not err in concluding that the Agreement barred Brent’s negligence claim.
[*P7] By way of cross-appeal, Wiscasset Raceway contends that the trial court erred in concluding that the Agreement did not bar Carie’s loss of consortium claim. Wiscasset Raceway argues that, “under Maine law, although a loss of consortium claim is often referred to as being both ‘derivative’ and ‘independent,’ such claims are often greatly limited by statutory and common law defenses associated with the injured spouse’s cause of action.” Wiscasset Raceway further contends that, regardless, the indemnification provision bars Carie’s [***6] loss of consortium claim. 2 In response, the Hardys argue that Carie’s consortium claim was independent, and [**371] that Brent did not have the ability to release her claim without her consent.
2 Although we recognize that the indemnification clause contained in the Agreement may render this determination a pyrrhic victory, the existence of that clause, by itself, cannot eliminate the noninjured spouse’s claim.
[*P8] “For centuries[,] courts have recognized a husband’s right to recover damages for the loss of consortium 3 when a tortious injury to his wife detrimentally affects the spousal relationship.” Macomber v. Dillman, 505 A.2d 810, 813 (Me. 1986). However, “under common law, a wife had no cause of action for her loss of consortium occasioned by her husband’s injuries.” Dionne v. Libbey-Owens Ford Co., 621 A.2d 414, 417 (Me. 1993). In 1965, in Potter v. Schafter, we declined to “judicially legislate” such a cause of action and, instead, deferred to the Legislature [***7] so that “the diverse interests affected by such proposition may be heard.” Potter v. Schafter, 161 Me. 340, 341-43, 211 A.2d 891, 892-93 (1965). In 1967, “fun response to our decision in Potter v. Schafter, the Legislature enacted section 167-A of Title 19[,] [which] provided that ‘[a] married woman may bring a civil action in her own name for loss of consortium of her husband.'” Dionne, 621 A.2d at 417 (footnote omitted) (citation omitted). Thereafter, the Legislature repealed section 167-A and replaced it with the gender-neutral section 302 of Title 14, which provides that [HN4] “[a] married person may bring a civil action in that person’s own name for loss of consortium of that person’s spouse.” 14 M.R.S.A. § 302.
3 [HN5] The term “consortium” refers to “the nonpecuniary interests a person may have in the company, cooperation, affection, and aid of another.” BRYAN A. GARNER, A DICTIONARY OF MODERN LEGAL USAGE 208 (2d ed. 1995). “Consortium” [HN6] means the “conjugal fellowship of husband and wife, and the right of each to the company, society, co-operation, affection, and aid of the other in every conjugal relation.” BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY 309 (6th ed. 1990). BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY further states:
Loss of “consortium” consists of several elements, encompassing not only material services but such intangibles as society, guidance, companionship, and sexual relations. Damages for loss of consortium are commonly sought in wrongful death actions, or when [a] spouse has been seriously injured through [the] negligence of another, or by [a] spouse against [a] third person alleging that he or she has caused [the] breaking-up of [the] marriage. [A] cause of action for
“consortium” occasioned
by injury to [a] marriage partner[] is a separate cause of
action belonging to
spouse of
married partner and [,]
in the sense
of being occasioned by injury to [the]
spouse, is a
injury to the spouse
who has lost the
consortium.
Id. (citations omitted) (emphasis added).
[*P9] [***8] As an initial matter, the Agreement did not directly bar Carie’s consortium claim because she did not sign it and was not a party to the contract. [HN7] A release is a contract that can only bar a claim if the claimant was a party to the agreement. See, e.g., Bowen v. Kil-Kare, Inc., 63 Ohio St. 3d 84, 585 N.E.2d 384, 392 (Ohio 1992); Arnold v. Shawano County Agric. Soc’y, 111 Wis. 2d 203, 330 N.W.2d 773, 779 (Wis. 1983). Hence, the issue facing us is whether, by expressly barring Brent’s negligence claim, the Agreement indirectly barred Carie’s consortium claim. Stated otherwise, we must determine whether a consortium claim is “derivative” or “independent.”
[*P10] Jurisdictions are divided over whether to treat a loss of consortium claim as a “derivative” or “independent” cause of action with regard to the underlying tort claim. 4
See, e.g., McCoy v. Colonial Baking [**372] Co., 572 So. 2d 850, 856-61 (Miss. 1990) (comparing positions of state courts); Carol J. Miller, Annotation, Injured Party’s Release of Tortfeasor as Barring
Action for
of Consortium, 29 A.L.R.4th 1200 (1981) [***9] (analyzing state and federal cases). States adopting the derivative approach generally conclude that a cause of action for loss of consortium is subject to the same defenses available in the injured spouse’s underlying tort action. See Miller, supra. States adopting the independent approach generally conclude that a consortium claim is not subject to such defenses. See id.
4 The terms “derivative” and “independent” are imprecise, and may be misleading. See, Jo-Anne M. Balo, Loss of Consortium: A Derivative Injury Giving Rise to a Separate Cause of Action, 50 FORDHAM L. REV. 1344, 1351-54 (1982) (noting that “there is no precise definition of a derivative action”). According to another commentator:
Writers have observed that the conflict which has developed in such cases “suggests the need for basic explanations of which there has been something of a shortage” and that a court’s adoption of either the derivative or independent approach “sounds more like a conclusion than a reason.” The question confusing courts is whether the consortium claim is dependent upon the injury or the injured spouse’s cause of action.
Antonios P. Tsarouhas, Bowen v.
Kil-Kare,
Inc.: The Derivative
Independent Approach to Spousal Consortium, 19 OHIO N.U. L. REV. 987, 990-91 (1993) (citations omitted) (emphasis added).
[*P11] [***10] Although we have heretofore declined to address whether a consortium claim is “derivative” or “independent,” see, e.g., Morris v. Hunter, 652 A.2d 80, 82 (Me. 1994); Box v. Walker, 453 A.2d 1181, 1183 (Me. 1983), 5 our case law lends support for the trial court’s conclusion that consortium claims are separate, independent causes of action. In Taylor v. Hill, 464 A.2d 938, 944 (Me. 1983), we recognized that [HN8] a consortium claim, “though derived from an alleged injury to the person of [the claimant’s spouse], constitutes a distinct and separate cause of action.” Similarly, in Dionne, 621 A.2d at 418, we indicated that a wife’s statutory right to bring a consortium claim “belongs to the wife and is separate and apart from the husband’s right to bring his own action against the party responsible for his injuries.”
5 In Box v. Walker, 453 A.2d 1181, 1183 (Me. 1983), we declined to decide whether a consortium claim is “derivative” or “independent,” but noted that [HN9] “an independent cause of action accrues when the plaintiff is damaged by the negligent conduct of the defendant; the law will imply nominal damages from any violation of the plaintiffs rights.” Box v. Walker, 453 A.2d 1181, 1183 (Me. 1983).
[*P12] [***11] The express language of section 302 offers no support for the conclusion that a consortium claim is entirely “derivative.” See 14 M.R.S.A. § 302. To the contrary, section 302’s provision that a consortium claimant may bring a civil action “in that person’s own name” suggests that the cause of action is independent and separate from the underlying tort action of the victim spouse. 14 M.R.S.A. § 302. Further, we have recognized that the Legislature, by enacting the statutory predecessor to section 302, “established a separate right to the wife.” Dionne, 621 A.2d at 418 (holding that damages wife recovered under consortium claim were not subject to husband’s employer’s lien). Although derivative in the sense that both causes of action arise from the same set of facts, the injured spouse’s claim is based on the common law of negligence while the claim of the other spouse is based on statutory law. Each claim is independent of the other and the pre- or post-injury release of one spouse’s claim does not bar the other spouse’s claim. A consortium claim is an independent cause of action, and, therefore, the trial court committed no error in ruling that [***12] the Agreement failed to bar Carie’s consortium claim. 6
6 We need not determine whether a loss of consortium claim may be subject to traditional common law or statutory defenses to the claims of the injured spouse. We decide only that [HN10] a release of the injured spouse’s claim does not simultaneously release the loss of consortium claim of the noninjured spouse.
The entry is:
A season pass release for a Pennsylvania ski are was limited to the inherent risks of skiing. Consequently, the plaintiff was able to argue his injury was not due to an inherent risk.
Posted: May 14, 2018 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Pennsylvania, Ski Area, Skiing / Snow Boarding | Tags: Assumption of risk, atmosphere, contravene, derivative, Downhill, exculpatory, Exculpatory clause, experienced, hazardous, Ice, icy, Inherent Risks, loss of consortium, matter of law, Notice, particularity, Pennsylvania Skier Safety Act, plain language, Public Policy, Release, release agreement, releasing, Resort, risk doctrine, season, Ski, Skier, skiing, Snow, Snowsports, Sport, website, written applica-tion | Leave a comment
The defendant one because the court was able to interpret the risk as one that was inherent in skiing. The defendant also, laid out the risks of skiing quite broadly in its information to the plaintiff.
Cahill v. Ski Liberty Operating Corp., 2006 Pa. Dist. & Cnty. Dec. LEXIS 444; 81 Pa. D. & C.4th 344
State: Pennsylvania, Common Pleas Court of Adams County, Pennsylvania
Plaintiff: Timothy Joseph Cahill and Anne Leslie Cahill
Defendant: Ski Liberty Operating Corp. t/d/b/a Ski Liberty and t/d/b/a Liberty Mountain Resort and Snow Time, Inc.
Plaintiff Claims: negligent for failing to properly maintain its ski slopes in a safe manner and/or failing to adequately warn concerning an icy area
Defendant Defenses: Assumption of the Risk and Release
Plaintiff was injured when he skied over an icy spot and fell at the defendant’s ski area. However, this case was quickly dismissed because he had signed a release and the risk of ice at a ski area was an inherent risk of the Pennsylvania Skier Safety Act.
The plaintiff purchased a season pass to ski at the defendant’s ski area. He purchased his season pass on-line and signed a release at that time, online. When he went to pick up his season pass, he signed another written release. (See Too many contracts can void each other out; two releases signed at different times can render both release’s void.)
While skiing one day the plaintiff fell on an icy section. He claimed he was unaware of the ice. He severely injured is face, back, ribs and left hand. He sued the defendants for his injuries.
The defendant filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings. A Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings is an argument that the pleadings do not make a legal case to continue the litigation.
A motion for judgment on the pleadings is in the nature of a demurrer as it provides the means to test the legal sufficiency of the pleadings. All of the [P]laintiffs’ allegations must be taken as true for the purposes of judgment on the pleadings. Unlike a motion for summary judgment, the power of the court to enter a judgment on the pleadings is limited by the requirement that the court consider only the pleadings themselves and any documents properly attached thereto. A motion for judgment on the pleadings should be granted only where the pleadings demonstrate that no genuine issue of fact exists and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.
The court looked at Pennsylvania law. Like most states in Pennsylvania “exculpatory agreements, or releases, are valid provided, they comply with the safeguards enunciated by our Superior Court.”
Under Pennsylvania law, a release to be valid must:
The contract must not contravene any policy of the law. It must be a contract between individuals relating to their private affairs. Each party must be a free bargaining agent, not simply one drawn into an adhesion contract, with no recourse but to reject the entire transaction…[T]o be enforceable, several additional standards must be met. First, we must construe the agreement strictly and against the party asserting it. Finally, the agreement must spell out the intent of the parties with the utmost particularity.
The court then went through the facts in this case to see if the requirements under the law were met.
The plaintiff was not forced to sign the release but did so freely. The release was signed based on a personal choice of the plaintiff to ski at the defendant’s facilities. “Clearly, this activity is not essential to Cahill’s personal or economic well-being but, rather, was a purely recreational activity.”
The release does not violate public policy because the agreement was private in nature and “in no way affect the rights of the public.”
The court found the release was unambiguous. The release spelled out the intent of the parties and gave notice to the plaintiff of what he was signing.
The releases executed by Cahill are unambiguous in both their language and intent. The language spells out with particularity the intent of the parties. The captions clearly advise patrons of the contents and purpose of the document as both a notice of risk and a release of liability. The waiver uses plain language informing the skier that downhill skiing is a dangerous sport with inherent risks including ice and icy conditions as well as other forms of natural or man-made obstacles, the condition of which vary constantly due to weather changes and use. Importantly, after advising a patron of these dangers, the documents unequivocally, in both bold and capital letters, releases Ski Liberty from liability for any injuries suffered while using the ski facilities regardless of any negligence on the part of Ski Liberty, its employees, or agents. The application of the releases to use of Ski Liberty facilities is not only spelled out specifically in the document but is reinforced by other references to the releases throughout the body of the document.
The plaintiff had ample opportunity to read and review the release before paying for it. The court found the release was clear and spelled out in detail in plain language the intent of the parties.
The plaintiff argued the icy condition was a hazardous condition created by the defendant and is not an inherent risk of the sport of skiing. Because the condition was hazardous, the plaintiff argued you could not assume the risk of the icy area, and the release should be void.
The court found that icy conditions were an inherent risk of skiing in Pennsylvania.
Cahill is an experienced skier who obviously has personal knowledge of the inherent dangers involved in the sport. His experience undoubtedly has taught him that the sport of skiing is not conducted in the pristine and controlled atmosphere of a laboratory but rather occurs in the often hostile and fickle atmosphere of a south central Pennsylvania winter. Those familiar with skiing, such as Cahill, are aware that nature’s snow is regularly supplemented with a man made variety utilizing water and a complex system of sprayers, hydrants, and pipes. Human experience also teaches us that water equipment frequently leaves puddles which, in freezing temperatures, will rapidly turn to ice. The risks caused by this variety of ever-changing factors are not only inherent in downhill skiing but, perhaps, are the very nature of the sport. The self-apparent risks were accepted by Cahill when he voluntarily entered into a business relationship with Ski Liberty. He chose to purchase a ski ticket in exchange for the opportunity to experience the thrill of downhill skiing. In doing so, he voluntarily assumed the risks that not only accompany the sport but may very well add to its attractiveness.
The court upheld the release and granted the defendants motion for judgment on the pleadings. This effectively ended the lawsuit.
It is rare that a Judgment on the Pleadings works, normally; the plaintiff can make an argument that the court finds requires more investigation, so the case can continue.
Here though, the release was well-written and the plaintiff’s argument was thrown out as a risk covered in the Pennsylvania Skier Safety Act.
In this case, the plaintiff was dealt a double blow, with only one being necessary for the defendant to win. He signed a valid release and the risk he undertook was an inherent risk of skiing in Pennsylvania.
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Bill Nye slams creationism
By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
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(CNN)–Famed TV scientist Bill Nye is slamming creationism in a new online video for Big Think titled "Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children."
"Denial of evolution is unique to the United States," Nye begins in a YouTube video posted on Thursday. The video quickly picked up steam over the weekend and as of Monday morning had been viewed more than 1,100,000 times.
Nye - a mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, "Bill Nye the Science Guy" - said the United States has great capital in scientific knowledge and "when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back."
"Your world becomes fantastically complicated if you don't believe in evolution," Nye said in the Web video.
Creationists are a vast and varied group in the United States. Most creationists believe in the account of the origins of the world as told in the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible.
In the creation account, God creates Adam and Eve, the world, and everything in it in six days.
For Christians who read the Genesis account literally, or authoritatively as they would say, the six days in the account are literal 24-hour periods and leave no room for evolution. Young Earth creationists use this construct and biblical genealogies to determine the age of the Earth, and typically come up with 6,000 to 10,000 years.
Your Take: 5 reactions to Bill Nye's creationism critique
The Gallup Poll has been tracking Americans' views on creation and evolution for the past 30 years. In June it released its latest findings, which showed 46% of Americans believed in creationism, 32% believed in evolution guided by God, and 15% believed in atheistic evolution.
During the 30 years Gallup has conducted the survey, creationism has remained far and away the most popular answer, with 40% to 47% of Americans surveyed saying they believed that God created humans in their present form at one point within the past 10,000 years.
Survey: Nearly half of Americans subscribe to creationist view of human origins
"The idea of deep time of billions of years explains so much of the world around us. If you try to ignore that, your worldview becomes crazy, untenable, itself inconsistent," Nye said in the video.
"I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's fine. But don't make your kids do it. Because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems," he said.
Creationists' beliefs about the origins of the Earth are often a narrow focus, based in large part on religious beliefs, and while they reject evolution as "just one theory," they often embrace other fields of science and technology.
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In "The Genesis Flood," the 1961 book that in many ways help launch the Young Earth creationism movement in the United States, the authors write: “Our conclusions must unavoidably be colored by our Biblical presuppositions, and this we plainly acknowledge." Their goal for the book was to harmonize the scientific evidence with the accounts in Genesis of creation and the flood.
The idea of creationism has been scorned by the mainstream scientific community since shortly after Darwin introduced "The Origin of Species" in 1859. By 1880, The American Naturalists, a science journal, reported nearly every major university in America was teaching evolution.
"In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it. So..." Nye ends his video.
Eric Marrapodi - CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
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Religion is a by product of evolution. Prevents brains being overly frightened by dangerous but statistically rare and random natural threats like lightening floods, earthquakes, preators t.c.
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DrTom
Anyone who believes in God and is, therefore, a Creationist and who denies in evolution, is a person of very weak Faith. They refuse to believe in God and the Bible unless they can understand it using their limited human knowledge. Evolution and other scientific theories, such as the atomic theory, are the facts that should be taught to our children and that should guide most of our human activity during our short time on this planet. Religion should be kept out of the public arena, not taught in public schools and not factor into civic decisions (such as voting), at least in a non-theocracy. I fully believe in Evolution and I also believe in God and the Bible. To those of you who think that is inconsistent, I say "Oh, you of little faith, I hope one day you can see the way."
Saby
Do you believe in the miracles of the Bible?
Miracles of Bible? You mean stories?
Evolution is a relgiion
Stephen Hawing and Bill Nye hang at strip clubs... to solve the mystery of the universe and . I'm suppose to believe in the Nye monkey religion? Most of you on here never studied the Bible but are authorities.. at least be intellectually credible and study it before you make stupid statements. such as there are facts? what the appearing CNN monkey man ever 2 years that turns out to be a farmers pig? Stop reading evolution books for your for you evidence.. take your dollar bills and go with Hawking.. .he is the evolving brain.. make love to him.. as there are no moral absolutes.. in your universe!
Really-O?
@Evolution is a relgiion –
Parody, right? Oh lord, please tell me this is parody.
Religious scientist
Maybe you should try studying evolution before you make absurd extrapolations about it.
evolution is a religion
Obviously you've never studied evolution
GodFreeNow
That being said... I would KILL to go to a strip club with Bill Nye and Stephen Hawking!
Religion without collection plates would have died out thousands of years ago.
@GodFreeNow
That's exactly what I was thinking too. THat's the only thing I understood from the post anyways.
You're talking about intellectually credible, yet your comment is totally unintelligible. Nice.
RichardSRussell
"there are no moral absolutes in your universe!"
wiredone
Studying Alice in Wonderland you be more productive.
Dr. K
Wow... coming from a scientist (geophysicist), that is a very sad sad comment. Please read more scientific publications (peer reviewed) on the subject and brush up on the scientific method while your at it 🙂
Its people like you that slow down our evolution on earth, science is better than religion...religion is just a bunch of deluded people hanging on to a fictional story because they are to scared to face the truth that there is no Heaven in the after-life and that it is just YOU...Not a crazy man watching your every move that can't hold on to money!
Dick Izinya
America: God, Guns and Groceries! 😀
@Dick,
no the American pantheon is God, Guns, Money and Divinely ordained exceptionalism.
They have appropriated the divine right of kings for themselves.
Dieu et mon droit the motto of the English monarchy.
Nietodarwin
PRAISE BE PRAISE BE UNTO HIM THE ALMIGHTY...............BILL NYE
FedUpwithLA
Pencil-neck geek with a lousy physique . . .
filthburger
who is extremely intelligent and understands things.
Yup, we'd much prefer it if he could only look like Joel Osteen or Rick Warren 🙂
"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." – Genesis 1:3
You think HIS physique is lousy, look up a pic of Stephen Hawking.
Those who equate evolution and science are mistaken. The proof is that there was science before Darwin.
paulbark
Imagine that...a science guy slamming a theory that is totally non-supported by even a shred of scientific evidence. Good for him. Shame, shame on those who want to push creationism in our public schools. Keep religion out of the public schools.
Monkey religion is not a fact.... Communism was the utopia of evolution... anyone moving to China or Cuba that is for evolution... thought not!
@Evolution is a relgiion,
........... huh?
Evolution is based on scientific fact. Creationism is based on belief, with no scientific evidence. I'm Jewish and have my religious beliefs. But my beliefs are based on my faith, not factual. So, I wouldn't want my beliefs presented as facts in our schools. And, I don't want your religious beliefs to be presented as facts either.
Wren, I find it sad that you believe our chief Founders were Deists. It demonstrates exactly how little you know of them, or understand their writings. Even with your cognitive distortions and poor reading comprehension skills, you should know they were not the end-all and be-all where faith is concerned. My remark stands, and holds up to your distortions; They were Christians, along with the Pilgrims, and if it weren't for Christians, and their quest for freedom, you would not be free to speak the way you are today. Not even remotely close.
Have a nice day anyway.
Do you believe that Thomas Jefferson was a "chief Fonder"?
therealpeace2all
@TJ
I know I'm jumping in here between you and -Wren... but, being a member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, I can tell you that the "pilgrims" wanted to practice their own crazy evangelical brand of Christianity. They (the pilgrims) could be very much just as oppressive to non-believers, and then some.
BTW– There is -0- mention of "Jesus" "Christianity" etc... in our Consti tution. If they were so "Christian" seems like a big error to not even mention these things, yes ?
Peace...
Speaking of knowing and understanding little, the FACT is that Thomas Jefferson thought that the Bible contained so much NONSENSE, that he edited his own copy down to less than 50 pages.
A few of the Founders were indeed Christians, but the most famous ones were deists. You aren't by any chance getting your "information" from THE LIAR David Barton, are you? Try reading actual history by actual historians.
CNew
Many came to the US to escape religious persecution by other Christians claiming they had the 'truth'. Christians have a rich history of denying freedom to those who disagree with their narrow view of the world.
Jduff
So then we should run and operate our country as a CHristian Theocracy? Let's see how Saudi arabia is doing with their theocracy....
Copy Paste Errata
Every word that you have ever read in a Bible (any version) was copied (with changes sometimes) from another copy.
The original words were written down after someone took stories passed down orally and committed them to various written records.
Everyone is aware of the parlor game telephone: Alice whispers a message to Bob, who whispers it to Carol, who whispers it to Dave, etc., until Zachary receives the message. When Alice and Zachary repeat their messages the two messages have absolutely nothing in common.
Translation also changes information:
Also, try translating a phrase in google translate through 6 languages and see if the original matches the result...
Zkuste také překládat fráze v Google Translate přes 6 jazyků a uvidíme, jestli původní zápasech výsledek
Probeer te vertalen zinnen in Google Translate meer dan 6 talen en kijken of het overeenkomt met de oorspronkelijke
Kokeile Google Translate kääntää lauseet yli 6 kielellä ja katso jos se vastaa alkuperäistä
ಗೂಗಲ್ ಹೆಚ್ಚು 6 ಭಾಷೆಗಳ ವಾಕ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಭಾಷಾಂತರಿಸಲು ಅನುವಾದ ಮತ್ತು ಮೂಲ ಸರಿಹೊಂದಣಿಕೆ ನೋಡಲು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಿ
جوجل ترجمة لترجمة الجمل لأكثر من 6 لغات، ونحاول أن نرى مباريات الأصلي
Google Translate to translate sentences of more than 6 languages, and try to see the original games
Wrenn_NYC
You forgot language drift. A word means something now, that it didn't mean 100 years ago. Now add that to differnt languages and thousands of years.
Excellent point, Wrenn_NYC!
One of my favorite stories was about feeding a common phrase into an internet translator, then feeding the result back in and having it translated back to English.
This went in: "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
It got converted into Russian. THAT went in. THIS came back: "Ghost is wh0re, and meat is rotten."
Anyone want to disengage? I want all the creationists together in one place where they can be as dumb as they want, kill each other if they want to. Wouldn't you guys like that? WOuldn't you like to live all by yourselves, away from the evil scientists and evolutionists that are ruining your lives by providing you with technological advancements and good health care? Wouldn't that be your dream come true?
Shame on Bill Nye. I thought you were smarter than to deny Intelligent design (ID)
Moby Schtick
Nye is a scientist; ID is a conclusion. Learn the difference.
little flap
Not all people who read the Bible believe in 'Creationism'. I don't even know what that is. I've never heard of it. A 'Creative Day', itself , can and may have been, thousands of years in span. And the Bible say's there were six of them. Six creative 'periods'. A very simple example of this idea would be if a person 100 years old today, would say, "Back in my day.....they didn't have such a thing as......blah, blah, blah......." The 100 year old person is NOT referring to an actual 24Hour day. They would be talking about a 'peroid of time'. A whole entire generation different than the current one. Back in their 'Day'.
@Little Flap
Creationism refers to people who believe that god created the world 6,000 years ago. However, what you wrote about is the apologetics answer in reconciling the bibles genesis with what we've scientifically proven to be earths age (close to 4 billion years I believe). Even if the "day" that you speak of was 1,000 years, or even a million years, you'd be billions of years off from the actual age. More importantly however is that ancient hebrew had words for spans, eons and other long periods of time. When they said day, they meant day. It's pretty simple, if you understand and accept earths age to be greater than a billion years then creationism is absurd.
Many fundamentalist Protestants believe you are spouting dangerous heresy by daring to question whether "a day" really MEANS "a day". To quote a bumper sticker popular among them: "The Bible said it. I believe it. That ends it." IF those guys still ran the world the way they did back in the Dark Ages, you'd be looking at the dunking stool at a minimum.
Yes, not all people who believe in Christianity or believe in the bible are Creationists.
We know that.
What you need to know is that these people – who believe in Creationism – will tell you that YOU aren't a Christian, because you don't believe in the literal interpretation of the bible.
I expect god is smart enough to say what he means. Or are you smarter than god?
In reply to the post called' Science' - Reason, meaning the ability to use reason, thinking ability, - does not mean the same thing as 'Apologetic'.
In reply to the post called 'Science' - True science, proven science, fact, reinforces the Bibles account of Creation as true, when the Bible speaks of there being 6 'Creative Days'. 6 'Creative Periods'. Using proven Science, and seeing that the Earth is aeons of time old, and using reasoning ability along with that information, ( thinking ability ), it is easy to conclude that A 'Ceative Day', a 'Creative Period', was quite some time.
In reply to the post called 'Science' - The ability to think , andf use 'Reason', ' reasonimg ability' , and draw conclusions, is NOT the same thing as, 'Apologetic' .
It boggles my mind that ANYONE accepts creationism as truth. To believe that nonsense shows nothing less than laziness and foolishness. I am definitely a member of the 15%.
pensimmon
Among Millennials, it's more like 32%
Love me Millenials.
Like talking to them. Finding out how their preacher has told them that the end of the world will come, in their life time. Finding out how long they've been with their church, how long their preacher has been teaching this 'end of the world in their lifetime' shtick.
Then asking them how many of their church members have died in that time.
In their lifetime... right.
...right, you're one of the 15% that believes "in the beginning, environmental pressures, and self generating matter accidentally made the heavens and the earth."
Interestingly enough, Isaac Newton, da Vinci, Pascal, Linnaeus, Faraday, Pasteur, Cuvier, Herschel, Stokes, Fleming...all of them were members of the 46% I don't see how their belief interfered with science. Why should it? Nye's world view doesn't seem to keep him from being productive, though maybe it has – has he discovered anything?
Revaluation is a hoot. It actually depicts god, creator of the universe sitting on a throne like some c rated movie.
Revelation - an early sci-fi / horror / fantasy script.
Screenwriter – yup.
What we have is a tome including fantasies, parables. Some highly romanticised histories, poems, more parables and aphorisms, an erotic poem. four divergent character studies, some letters and a horror story.
All coming in at about 300,000 words short of the Harry Potter books.
The bible is a dated book although it has many metaphors. Human's aren't capable of making the solar system or universe. Science is simply an observation of god's creation and how god created the universe. People like Bill Nye or Hawking become increasing arrogant. Hawking attempts to use reductionism and claims gravity made the universe. When matter(energy)combines it makes gravity. What made gravity or more likely what had the power to make billions of suns, galaxies and the universe. That energy and resulting gravity comes from the creator. It wasn't humans or ET. Even if it was ET what made ET and why?
Tony, how should we go about testing your theory?
Wow, man. You're right. You just totally blew Hawking out of the water!!
So who made the creator?
wrong questions, the point is no one should pretend to know the answer to things they have no way of possibly understanding
then your left with the age old questions what came first the chicken or the egg.
daisyyy1
TruthPrevails :-)
Who created your imaginary friend?
Hitchslapinator
Nothing like the mind of a follower to think they can argue with evolutionary biologists, astrophysicists, geologists, and mathematicians using nothing more than some words out of a 3k year old book of stories told by illiterate middle eastern sheep herders. True arrogance is thinking you have something to contribute to an argument that you know absolutely nothing about, not dedicating your life to a scientific discipline and radically changing the way the world is viewed.
In other news, Max Headroom hates Pepsi
uncommonsense
Have YOU taken the Pepsi challenge?
chrisrobnorcott
Correction: Reading the comments on this topic, I see nothing but a bunch of know-it-alls and bullies. It almost effects a couple of minutes in my day, almost...
still wrong but nice try
Wut the holey fvck?
haha. But at least comprehensible this time.
creation_myth
This is an old debate, but the reason Scientists vehemently oppose it is precisely because creationist teachings ARE one of the first lessons we teach our children. Bill Nye is talking about the damage to scientific inquiry being done to CHILDREN being taught creationism. The damage done to future generations of Americans who we need to be scientifically-oriented and inquisitive and able to objectively evaluate the evidence available through experimentation.... the future of scientific progress and technology. Not Americans who blindly believe a myth-story about creation that has no evidence whatsoever and is really a proxy for religion to control your mind.
Let's face it people, creationism is the "canary in the coalmine", it is the first stone thrown in a battle that is world-over... That is, the over-reaching influence of religion in areas that should be left to scientific thought. We need BOTH religious teachings for moral/social well-being, and scientifically-derived thought for technology and understanding nature. Religion needs to know what it can handle, and what it needs to stay out of... and that is explaining how the world got here and how we developed.
Where did matter and antimatter come from originally?
Does science have an answer? It shouldn't. Science is about observing the here and now. As soon as "scientists" begin to fling about hypotheses that cannot be tested, they've taken off their lab coats and put on occult robes.
Religion isn't automatically counterproductive. Many great scientists were religious men – consider Newton, Kepler, and da Vinci.
It's SCIENCE that needs to learn its place. Science is a process, not a world view, not a belief system. As soon as it becomes a world view, it ceases to be science.
Well done. Leave the why to the religions to debate, but by all means turn to science for the how.
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Most popular Christmas songs on the radio — Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree is #1
Posted by: pam kueber • December 10, 2011
The most popular Christmas songs on the radio? This cool infographic — citing data from ASCAP — says Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, Jingle Bell Rock and Blue Christmas were tops from 2000-2009. But hey, where is Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt…. and how about Bruce Springsteen doing Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, which I’m thinking is ’90s? Also, I don’t think it’s a “Massive Project to Carefully Recreate the Christmases of Baby Boomers’ Childhoods” — I think we just like playing music… we like Christmas… and the best Christmas songs came from this era! Thanks to xkcd.com for this rockin’ graphic.
What is your favorite retro Christmas song?
Craig Smith says
There’s a problem with the above article, in that it leaves out a HUGE number of very popular Christmas songs which get a lot of radio play, the most noteable being Carol of the Bells, Silent Night, and, O Holy Night, among others which find their origin long before the chart.
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For the third year straight Vanuatu’s domestic champions Amicale FC will face off with the competition’s defending champions Auckland City FC in the group stage of the 2016 OFC Champions League competition which will be held in Auckland and Wellington fro
Joining the two sides in Group A will be Papua New Guinea club Lae City Dwellers, a side making their regional debut, as well as the yet-to-be-determined Solomon Islands S-League winners.
The 12 teams taking part in the competition now know their opponents following the official draw for the 2016 OFC Champions League which was live streamed out of Auckland, New Zealand yesterday.
Auckland City FC coach Ramon Tribulietx witnessed the draw live, sharing a smile with captain Ivan Vicelich after learning their team would once again be taking on Amicale FC, a side they met twice in 2014 including the home-and-away final, and again in 2015.
“We are playing Amicale again, we’ve played them quite a few times in the past few years and that means we know them pretty well.”
Having once again been drawn against the Solomon Islands champions, Tribulietx says the group has turned out fairly similar to this year’s, with the addition of a Papua New Guinea side.
“We will have to do the proper scouting on these teams,” he says, “we need to try and get footage of all the teams, the first team we will play especially.
“With the second and third team we can watch them during the tournament but we will try and collect as much footage as we can. We know the style the Solomon Islands champs will play and even with PNG we have an idea.
“We know the style of football these nations play and we just have to tick all the boxes going into the competition.”
Group B will feature the 2016 OFC Champions League’s second host and 2015 runners-up Team Wellington.
Midfielder Alex Feneridis made the trip to witness the draw in which he saw his side drawn alongside Hekari United of Papua New Guinea, Suva FA of Fiji and New Caledonia club AS Lossi.
For the second year in-a-row, Team Wellington will face 2010 champions Hekari United, with the hosts hoping they can once again topple their opponent after securing a 2-0 victory in 2015.
The final group consists of Fiji club champions Nadi FC and AS Magenta of New Caledonia, both sides making a return after sitting out the previous edition, as well as AS Tefana and the OFC Champions League Preliminary winner.
Preceding the 2016 OFC Champions League draw was the draw for the preliminary competition which will be held in Cook Islands from 26-30 January.
Opening the action at the Cook Islands Football Association Complex in Matavera will be an intriguing encounter between 2014 OFC Champions League Preliminary winners Kiwi FC of Samoa and American Samoa club champions Utulei Youth FC.
Tonga champions Veitongo FC, who have ousted long-time domestic champions and three-time preliminary participants Lotoha’apai United, will open their campaign against Cook Islands club Tupapa Mararenga FC who are set to make their regional return.
2016 OFC Champions League Draw Results
Auckland City FC (NZL)
Amicale FC (VAN)
Lae City Dwellers (PNG)
Solomon Islands club champions (SOL)
Team Wellington (NZL)
Hekari United (PNG)
Suva FA (FIJ)
AS Lossi (NCL)
Nadi FC (FIJ)
AS Magenta (NCL)
AS Tefana (TAH)
OFC Champions League Preliminary winner (TBC)
2016 OFC Champions League Preliminary Tournament
1. Utulei Youth FC (ASA)
2. Kiwi FC (SAM)
3. Veitongo FC (TGA)
4. Tupapa Maraerenga (COK)
Fiji Samoa Tonga
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Turandot – Royal Opera House Muscat
Posted on October 15, 2011 by mia0909
We just came back from a lovely evening… and I must say that Turandot was just amazing …. Franco Zeffirelli was the directer and the set design as well…. the set was honestly out of this world … but the star of the evening was Plácido Domingo he was the Maestro tonight.
Turandot is the beautiful cold-hearted femme fatale princess who basically lures love-struck princes to their death. Anyone who wants to marry her is asked three riddles: If he answers them right he gets to marry her, but if he doesn’t he is beheaded. This is stated at the very beginning of the opera as “the law” (“La legge è questa”).
ACT I.
In front of the imperial palace (Peking)
In a square filled with people near the Forbidden City, a Mandarin reads an edict: any prince seeking to marry Princess Turandot must answer three riddles – and if he fails, he will die. Her latest suitor, the Prince of Persia, is to be executed at the rise of the moon. Bloodthirsty citizens urge the executioner to go ahead, and in all this chaos a slave girl called Liù, cries out for help when her aged blind master is pushed to the ground. A handsome Prince recognizes him as his long-lost father the King Timur, who fled a long time ago. When the old King tells his son, Prince Calàf, that only Liù has remained faithful to him, the Prince asks her why. She replies it is because once, long ago, he Prince Calàf smiled at her…… The crowd cries for blood again….. the moon emerges, and everyone falls into sudden, fearful silence. The doomed suitor passes on the way to execution,the crowd feels sorry for him and asks Princess Turandot to spare his life. Turandot appears and, with a small gesture, bids the execution to proceed. The crowd hears a death cry from a distance…… Calàf, falls in love with the princess at 1st sight, and is determined to win her heart, striding to the gong that proclaims the arrival of a new suitor. Turandot’s 3 ministers and advisors Ping, Pang and Pong try to discourage the unknown Prince, they warn him that he will die…..Timur and Liù also warn him and beg him to change his mind…… But despite their pleas, Calàf strikes the fatal gong and calls out Turandot’s name.
ACT II.
Scene 1: A pavilion in the imperial palace. Before sunrise
Ping, Pang, and Pong prepare themselves for either a wedding or a funeral!!!
Ping longs for his country house in Honan, with its small lake surrounded by bamboo…..Pong remembers his grove of forests near Tsiang, and Pang recalls his gardens near Kiu. The three share fond memories of life away from the palace but are shaken back to reality. At the palace trumpet sounds, the ministers prepare themselves for another spectacle as they await the entrance of the Emperor Altoum (Turandot’s father)
Scene 2: The courtyard of the palace. Sunrise
The Emperor Altoum, urges the the unknown Prince to withdraw from this challenge but the Prince refuses ….. Turandot enters and tells the story of her ancestor Princess Lou-Ling and how she was brutally treated by a prince who later murdered her …… and as a result Turandot has sworn never to let any man possess her. She warns the Prince to withdraw, but again he refuses. The Princess then presents her first riddle: What is born each night and dies each dawn? she asks….. the Prince correctly replies, “Hope.” The Princess, unnerved, presents her second riddle “What flickers red and warm like a flame, but is not fire?”…. The Prince thinks for a moment before replying, “Sangue” – “Blood”. Turandot is shaken. The crowd cheers the Prince, provokes Turandot’s anger. She presents her third riddle “What is like ice, but burns like fire?”……. As the prince was thinking, Turandot taunts him “what is the ice that makes you burn?” The taunt makes him see the answer and so he answers…. “It is Turandot!”
The crowd cheers for the triumphant Prince. Turandot throws herself at her father’s feet and pleads with him not to leave her to the Prince’s mercy. The Emperor insists that an oath is sacred, and it is Turandot’s duty to wed the Prince. As she cries out in despair, the Prince stops her, saying that he has a proposal for her: “You do not know my name. Bring me my name before sunrise, and at dawn (all’ alba), I will die.” Turandot accepts. The Emperor declares that he hopes to call the Prince his son come sunrise.
Just a side note:
I know that it doesn’t look like a smart move from the Prince, I mean he has already won right? So why should he give her another chance to get away?…. You see, nothing in this opera makes sense if taken literally…… the Prince’s statement here is poetic. He actually wants to “lose” !!!! he wants her to tell him his name and he wants to “die.” The Prince tells Turandot “Bring me my name before sunrise, and at dawn I will die.”…. Notice that he does not say IF you guess my name…. He doesn’t want to force her to marry him he wants her to fall in love with him….so in other words he wants her to find out his name and to choose not to execute him!!!!
ACT III.
Scene 1: The palace gardens. Night
In the distance, heralds call out Turandot’s command: “This night, none shall sleep in Peking! The penalty for all will be death if the Prince’s name is not discovered by morning”. The Prince waits for dawn and anticipates his victory: “Nessun Dorma“– “Nobody shall sleep!…(this is my favorite aria)
Ping, Pong, and Pang appear and offer the Prince women and money if he will only give up Turandot, but ofcourse he refuses. A group of soldiers then drag in Timur and Liù. They were seen speaking to the Prince, so they must know his name. Turandot enters and orders Timur and Liù to speak. The Prince tells her that they know nothing. But when the guards begin to treat Timur harshly, Liù declares that she alone knows the Prince’s name, but she will not reveal it. Ping demands the Prince’s name, and when she refuses, she is tortured. Turandot is taken aback by Liù’s resolve and asks her who put so much strength in her heart. Liù answers “Love!”. Turandot demands that Ping tear the Prince’s name from Liù, and he orders her to be tortured even more. Liù tells Turandot “You are like ice but you too shall learn to love”…… (The words of that aria were actually written by Puccini. Waiting for Adami and Simoni to deliver the next part of the libretto, he wrote the words and when they read them, they loved it and decided to keep it.) …….Anyway Liù somehow gets a dagger from a soldier’s belt and stabs herself…. and then she walks towards the Prince and falls dead!!! (she does this to make sure that he knows her sacrifice for him and that she loved him!!!) ……the crowd screams and asks Turandot to speak the Prince’s name….. Since Timur is blind, he had to be told about Liù’s death, and cries out in anguish when he finds out. Timur warns the crowd that the gods will be offended by this outrage,….. the crowd is suddenly subdued with shame and fear….. The grieving Timur and the crowd follow Liù’s body as it is carried away. Everybody leaves, and so the Prince and Turandot are alone. He tells Turandot how cruel she is but then takes her in his arms and kisses her in spite of her resistance. (Puccini dies before completing this opera and this is actually where his work ends. The remainder of the music was completed by Franco Alfano.)
The Prince tries to convince Turandot to love him by kissing her. At first she is disgusted ofcourse, but after he kisses her, she gets overwhelmed and admits that, ever since he came, she had both hated and loved him…… She begs him to ask for nothing more and to just leave, and taking his mystery with him. But the Prince, reveals his name to her, “Calàf, son of Timur” and places his life in her hands!!!
Scene 2: The courtyard of the palace. Dawn
Turandot and Calàf approach the Emperor’s throne. She declares that she knows the Prince’s name……. “Amore” ……The crowd cheers.
Here is a translation of my favorite aria Nessun Dorma though in my opinion the libretto of Opera Turandot in general doesn’t translate easily because it’s very poetic….. I don’t mean just the lyrics, but the entire plot doesn’t make much sense if taken too literally…. but for what it’s worth here it is!
Nessun dorma, nessun dorma …
Tu pure, o Principessa,
Nella tua fredda stanza,
Guardi le stelle
Che tremano d’amore
E di speranza. No one sleeps, no one sleeps…
Even you, o Princess,
In your cold room,
Watch the stars,
That tremble with love
And with hope.
Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me,
Il nome mio nessun saprà, no, no,
Sulla tua bocca lo dirò
Quando la luce splenderà,
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio
Che ti fa mia. But my secret is hidden within me;
My name no one shall know, no, no,
On your mouth I will speak it
When the light shines,
And my kiss will dissolve the silence
That makes you mine.
Il nome suo nessun saprà
E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir. No one will know his name
And we must, alas, die.
Dilegua, o notte!
Tramontate, stelle!
All’alba vincerò! Vanish, o night!
Set, stars!
At daybreak, I shall conquer!
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Pathway of the Birds explores a neglected epoch of world history, one that saw Polynesians expand their territory across the world's largest ocean in one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory. Were Polynesians adept at navigating return voyages or had they settled the Pacific in a more random fashion?
In an effort to find out, Crowe surveys a wealth of evidence from surprisingly diverse sources, including archaeology, palaeoecology, genetics, ethnology and linguistics, and presents it here in the context of Polynesian poetry, the long-distance migration of birds, non-instrument navigation, and wind tunnel experiments. From this, a spell-binding picture emerges of a people who have been deprived of recognition for some of their most illustrious achievements.
Through an engaging narrative, integrating a diversity of research and viewpoints, and over 400 maps, diagrams, photographs and illustrations, Crowe conveys the skills, innovation, resourcefulness and courage of the people that drove this extraordinary feat of maritime expansion in a format that is both accessible to the lay reader and required reading for any serious scholar of this fascinating region.
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University > Research portal > Research publications > Habitat use of culturally distinct Galápagos sperm whale Phy...
Habitat use of culturally distinct Galápagos sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus clans
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12822
Ana Eguiguren, Enrico Pirotta, Maurício Cantor, L Rendell, Hal Whitehead
Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution
Sea Mammal Research Unit
Ecological niche is traditionally defined at the species level, but individual niches can vary considerably within species. Research on intra-specific niche variation has been focussed on intrinsic drivers. However, differential transmission of socially learned behaviours can also lead to intra-specific niche variation. In sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus, social transmission of information is thought to generate culturally distinct clans, which at times occur sympatrically. Clans have distinct dialects, foraging success rates, and movement patterns, but whether the niches of clan members are also different remains unknown. We evaluated the differences in habitat use of clans off the Galápagos Islands, using data collected over 63 encounters between 1985 and 2014. During encounters, we recorded geographic positions, determined clan identity through analysis of group vocalizations and individual associations, and used topographical and oceanographic variables as proxies of sperm whale prey distribution. We used logistic generalized additive models, fitted with generalized estimating equations to account for spatiotemporal autocorrelation, to predict clan identity as a function of the environment descriptors. Oceanographic variables marginally contributed to differentiating clans. Clan identity could be predicted almost entirely based on geographic location. This fine-scale, within-region spatial partitioning likely derives from whales preferring areas where members of their clans occur over temporal scales of a few months to a few years. By identifying differences in clans’ space use, we have uncovered another level of sperm whale life that is likely influenced by their cultural nature.
Habitat preference, Cetacean, Culture, Generalized additive model, GAM, Generalized estimating equation, GEE, Galápagos
Cognitive styles: speed–accuracy trade-offs underlie individual differences in archerfish
Jones, N. A. R., Webster, M., Newport, C., Templeton, C. N., Schuster, S. & Rendell, L., 24 Dec 2019, In : Animal Behaviour. 160, p. 1-14 14 p.
Multi-scale analysis reveals changing distribution patterns and the influence of social structure on the habitat use of an endangered marine predator, the sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus in the Western Mediterranean Sea
Pirotta, E., Brotons, J. M., Cerdà, M., Bakkers, S. & Rendell, L. E., 18 Nov 2019, In : Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. In press, 10 p.
Habitat use of a coastal delphinid population investigated using passive acoustic monitoring
Palmer, K., Brookes, K. L., Davies, I. M., Edwards, E. & Rendell, L. E., 6 Sep 2019, In : Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 29, S1, p. 254-270
Migratory convergence facilitates cultural transmission of humpback whale song
Owen, C., Rendell, L., Constantine, R., Noad, M. J., Allen, J., Andrews, O., Garrigue, C., Poole, M. M., Donnelly, D., Hauser, N. & Garland, E. C., 4 Sep 2019, In : Royal Society Open Science. 6, 9, 15 p., 190337.
Causes and consequences of female centrality in cetacean societies
Rendell, L. E., Cantor, M., Gero, S., Whitehead, H. & Mann, J., Sep 2019, In : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences. 374, 1780, 13 p., 20180066.
Behavioural ontogeny of bearded seals Erignathus barbatus through the first year of life
Hamilton, C. D., Lydersen, C., Fedak, M. A., Freitas, C., Hindell, M. A. & Kovacs, K. M., 26 Sep 2019, In : Marine Ecology Progress Series. 627, p. 179-194 16 p.
Sex differences in migration and demography of a wide-ranging seabird, the northern gannet
Deakin, Z., Hamer, K. C., Sherley, R. B., Bearhop, S., Bodey, T. W., Clark, B. L., Grecian, W. J., Gummery, M., Lane, J., Morgan, G., Morgan, L., Phillips, R. A., Wakefield, E. D. & Votier, S. C., 18 Jul 2019, In : Marine Ecology Progress Series. 622, p. 191-201 11 p.
Spatio-temporal patterns in fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) habitat use in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence
Schleimer, A. C. H., Ramp, C., Plourde, S., Lehoux, C., Sears, R. & Hammond, P. S., 30 Jul 2019, In : Marine Ecology Progress Series. 623, p. 221-234
Context-dependent reduction in somatic condition of wild Atlantic salmon infested with sea lice
Susdorf, R., Salama, N., Todd, C. D., Hillman, R., Elsmere, P. & Lusseau, D., 15 Nov 2018, In : Marine Ecology Progress Series. 606, p. 91-104
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Posted on October 9, 2017 by robert okaji
All memories ignite, he says, recalling
the odor of accelerants and charred
friends. Yesterday I walked to the sea
and looking into its deep crush
sensed something unseen washing
out, between tides and a shell-cut foot,
sand and the gull’s drift, or the early names
I assign to faces. This is not sadness.
Somewhere the called numbers meet.
“The Draft” first appeared in Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art.
This entry was posted in Memory, Poetry and tagged creative writing, life, memory, peace, perception, philosophy, poems, poetry, politics, writing by robert okaji. Bookmark the permalink.
19 thoughts on “The Draft”
nananoyz on October 8, 2017 at 8:10 am said:
robert okaji on October 8, 2017 at 8:24 am said:
Thank you, Leslie. There are so many stories out there…
A friend’s husband had been in-country for less than a day when his commanding officer took him and two other guys up river for a couple of klicks. When they returned their camp had been decimated. He was never the same.
robert okaji on October 8, 2017 at 10:04 am said:
That would do it.
fritzdenis on October 8, 2017 at 9:32 am said:
I like (intellectually) and dislike (fear) the Buddhist idea of emptiness, that we arise from emptiness (a void of potential being) and return to it. Your image of the ocean washing out coupled with “the early names I assigned to faces” reminded me of that teaching. But your reassurance at the end gave me comfort.
I like that concept but still admit to a seed of distrust.
ダニエル・ シュネー on October 8, 2017 at 11:06 pm said:
Buddhist concepts are merely semantics that we “fear” because we are also assigning value to them. It is easy to not fear something we add no value to. Dead squirrels fear nothing.
stephanielharper on October 8, 2017 at 1:42 pm said:
This one is a tour de force. I’d say that the “shell-cut foot” prohibits empty resignation. Its sting immortalizes those early names, faces, and their called numbers — reverently and aptly so.
robert okaji on October 8, 2017 at 1:53 pm said:
Those were such strange times, but our current “all-volunteer” military hasn’t changed circumstances much. Now, as they did then, the privileged classes mostly avoid serving.
Jeff Schwaner on October 8, 2017 at 7:42 pm said:
Great poem, RO.
Thanks, Jeff. Sort of a minimalist take on so much of my life…
You do yourself an injustice by calling it minimalist. It’s just compact, even truncated … “sensed something unseen washing / out” has nothing minimal about it. There’s no room for anything in this poem but good lines. The pairing of “early” names you’ve “assigned” to faces with the doom of numbers being called, all these things say what they need to say without you saying anything for them. The recurring tide of the living and the dead, the floating away, the pain of detail, it’s all there with nothing missing.
Well, I got nuthin to add to that. Thanks, Jeff!
“something unseen washing out…” beautiful line…
Thanks, Daniel. We may not see it, but we know it’s there.
Val Boyko on October 9, 2017 at 6:33 am said:
So powerful 💛
Thank you, Val.
Sabrina on October 17, 2017 at 10:34 am said:
All memories ignite, he says, recalling
the odor of accelerants and charred
Feel this
rothpoetry on December 31, 2017 at 9:15 pm said:
Do you think all those lost numbers lost in the conflict are washing up in the grains of sand??
Happy New Year Bob!
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Yum Brands' Big, New, Growth 'Habit'
Jan. 8, 2020 7:11 PM ET
| About: YUM! Brands, Inc. (YUM), Includes: HABT
by: J.G. Collins
J.G. Collins
Managing Director, event-driven, macro
The Stuyvesant Square Consultancy
Yum Brands, Inc.'s purchase of The Habit Burger Grill was announced recently.
We are thrilled at the prospect of Yum being able to build out and truly nationalize The Habit, which we believe to be a tremendously undervalued brand.
Not only does The Habit fill out Yum's missing "burger" concept but also moves the holding company into the fast-casual lane, on par with Chipotle or Shake Shack.
The Habit earns high marks from customers as a superior food concept.
We estimate Yum will outperform the sector soon after the The Habit is integrated into Yum and substantially outperform it in years to come.
New York (January 7) - We had suggested a "buy" for The Habit Burger Grill (NASDAQ:HABT), principally for long-term investors, back in September. Recently, it was announced that Yum Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire HABT at $14 per share, or approximately $375 million. (So much for "long term", but what a great payout from when we recommended it at $8.80 per share!) The transaction is anticipated to close by the end of the second quarter. "Yum Brands intends to fund the transaction using cash on hand and available borrowing capacity under its credit facilities, according to its Form 8K press release filings. (The definitive agreement has not been published as of this writing.)
Credit: Amin Eshaiker, pursuant to the Creative Commons License.
While we are happy to see The Habit bought out, we are less happy to see that its current CEO, Russell Bendel, will retain his position. We hope his tenure will be short, as he does not strike us as someone who has kept pace with changes in the restaurant industry and doubt very much that he can improve the lackluster performance of the chain over which he has presided for over a decade. That said, assuming HABT shareholders approve the deal, we believe HABT having access to the Yum platform creates a significant opportunity for value creation for the brand, for the following reasons:
Yum is an unparalleled multi-brand restaurant franchiser;
Yum's stated intent to reduce Pizza Hut's "dine-in" concept and expand its delivery and carry-out ("Delco") dining concept opens up pizza restaurant leaseholds for franchisees (old or new) who might wish to swap out from a Pizza Hut dine-in pizza concept to a fast casual grill concept. (And please, NOT a "burger" grill!!! -- for reasons we detailed in our September post on The Habit. It is far too limiting relative to the HABT menu. ) A change from dine-in pizza to The Habit fast casual concept -- or a consolidation of of HABT and other YUM brands into a delco concept under a single roof --may be a better option for the hundreds of Pizza Hut dine-in restaurant franchisees the company plans to close down.
Yum's embrace of delivery for Pizza Hut will cause it to invest more in delivery technology apps that can be adapted to Yum's other brands, to upgrade the already serviceable HABT app, and to build relationships with a single delivery platform.
We believe the last step is essential to avoid slamming kitchens and maintaining a Lean Management pull system. Yum's "holy grail", and one it should pursue, in our opinion, would be to somehow work out the logistics to deliver orders in urban areas from all three of its restaurant chains in a single delivery, promptly and hot. This would avoid the so-called "veto vote" of group ordering, an especially important consideration for corporate accounts and family deliveries.
We think Yum is well-suited to grow HABT from a largely regional chain to a truly national chain from its corporate platform. We urge management at the holding company to adopt recommendations we made in our September "outperform" recommendation on HABT to build out the value of the smallest of its chains. There is considerable value to be grown by positioning HABT in the Chipotle (CMG) fast-casual lane with a wider "grill" menu.
We rate this new habit "Yum"
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THE LEGENDARY ARMOND BLETCHER | FALLEN HELLS ANGEL OF UNHUMAN PROPORTIONS
“Hell’s Angels love to fistfight. There’s never a shortage of drunks or foolhardy motherfuckers willing to take us on, and a lot of times we’ll take on each other. Armond Bletcher stood 6″8″ and weighed 350 lbs. He was so strong he could pick up a couple motorcycles and put them on the back of a pickup truck. In the early ’70s Armond could bench 705 lbs., but he had to arch his back to do it. He was never in competition, but he took steroids and was unbelievably big.”
–Ralph “Sonny” Barger
Jesus-H-Christ this was a big ass dude. Depending on who’s telling it, Armond Bletcher was somewhere between 6′ 3″ – 6′ 8″, and tipped the scales around 300 – 350 lbs. A friend of the Fresno Hells Angel, and a feature favorite with the staff at Easyriders magazine, Armond was literally a giant among men and a controversial figure to this day. There are many colorful tales– It’s reported that as a doorman he got away with shooting a man to death, that he was a known hitman, also Frank Sinatra’s bodyguard, and that he took horse steroids to achieve and maintain his enoromous size.
He met his match at the wrong end of a .357 when a baseball bat beating couldn’t diffuse his anger– just pissed him off more. He was dead at 33 yrs old. Armond had allegedly gone after his cousins to “mess them up” when they refused to put him on their shop payroll, which he desperately needed to show an honest source of income while being investigated by the Feds for numerous illegal activities. Having his personal lifestyle and exploits plastered on the pages of Easyriders magazine probably didn’t help matters much.
“His willpower is strong enough to put down wine, women, and song in pursuit of his occupation, but his chopper remains his achilles heel.” –Easyriders magazine article, ca. 1976
“Anyone who has been on a 500-pound Hog knows that it is one heavy machine to handle– and because of its weight. If for any reason you get off balance, it’s really a bitch to get it upright. Flop it on its side and it usually takes two guys to stand it up again.
With this in mind, flash on Armond Bletcher, a 6’3″, 310-pounder who dwarfs his big 80, and makes it appear as if he’s putt-putting around on a Yamaha 125.
He earns his coins by being a strong-arm bodyguard –strong-arm meaning that his bad news, mangler-of-men appearance, and obvious capability is used instead of a gun to protect his clients.”
“Armond lives the good life of his wealthy clients while on duty and manages to spend three to four hours lifting weights everyday on his own time, while chug-a-lugging quarts of milk along with his five meals a day. ‘Not huge meals– just five spread out across the entire time I’m awake.’
His chopper, as with most chopper riders, is his “escape”— so much so in his case that he won’t even allow himself near it until after his workout, and most of the time he restricts his riding to weekends because, ‘Once I get on it, I want to go, and keep on going– and the hell with everything else.'”
“He’s been lifting weights for seven years, since he was 20with 60-pound bells, and has maintained a daily schedule except for “A couple of times when I broke my fist in fights.”
Really ape for his lifting and good health, he doesn’t drink or smoke, has 22″ biceps, can press 350 pounds, can bench-press — “I cheat a little with an arched back.” — 590 pounds. His daily routine consists of four sets of each exercise, sets of at least six reps– such exercises as curling 270 pounds.”
“He alternates his lifting schedule to workout different parts of his body, every other day, and increases the amount of weight as the exercise becomes too easy. He doesn’t workout for the usual definition and small waist, but rather lifts to develop and maintain overall brute strength. As he puts it, “A bear has a gut, and you know what he can do to a guy.” (His waist is 38″.)
Working out in his own gym (“Because I don’t like the creeps that frequent the public gyms”), he puts his lifting before anything else– he feels it’s vital to his occupation. An occupation that requires he stand near his client, and merely from his size and looks, be able to discourage most people from hassling his client or even think about attempting anything, yet at the same time being physically able to do battle if the occasion calls for it.
He’s a protector, an enforcer, a collector, and yet he has one admitted weakness– his chopper.”
Armond Bletcher’s Harley chopper photographed at the Malibu ER Ranch. Late ’70s or early ’80s Frank Kaisler (via)
“…A shot of Armond when he was probably 19, in Santa Cruz, and I am the chesty blonde. :)” –Indian Sue (via)
Armond Bletcher’s prized motorcycle and car, ca. 1963
A young Armond Bletcher with his prized car, ca. 1963
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THE LEGENDARY BIKE BUILDER TOM FUGLE | SCOTT POMMIER’S FILM TELLS IT STRAIGHT UP
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL | PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMS FOR FLAUNT MAGAZINE BY SCOTT POMMIER
3 thoughts on “THE LEGENDARY ARMOND BLETCHER | FALLEN HELLS ANGEL OF UNHUMAN PROPORTIONS”
Wikkid61 says:
These are the posts that make you guy’s rule! I dug this guy in the ORIGINAL Easyriders daze/days. Killer story fella’s. The guy was taught by a real pro in power lifting. His eating habit’s too, are the standard today. The body can utilize the (clean) intake of food, feed the muscle constantly to rebuild and grow by this 5 meal method. The ‘gear’ or ‘juice’ allowed a much faster result than natural obviously. If you stay conservative, you can go many years of cycle on (bad pun) cycle off and retain a good portion. Maybe some more information on this big man can be found and updated. Keep the unique subject matter & people coming!
Vince Benz says:
Armand looks taller than 6’3. The horse steroid mentioned in the article is probably Equipoise. Sold in Mexico. It turned some big guys into monsters. That is combined with hard work and plenty to eat. Armand certainly dwarfed any chopper that he rode !
Garland Sharp says:
When you look up the word Bad In the dictionary it should say Armond I was proud to be his friend.
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Gulf Coast Legal Update
David G. Meyer
As their owners, operators, and charterers are all too aware, foreign-flagged vessels calling in U.S. ports routinely face the threat of becoming entangled in U.S. civil litigation, such as through arrest and/or attachment actions. This can happen even when the underlying
litigation involves matters completely unrelated to the affected vessel. A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Licea v. Curacao Drydock, No. 14-20619, 2015 WL 7445504 (5th Cir., November 23, 2015), highlights this particular aspect of the complex web of risks attendant to U.S. port calls.
2008: The Florida Human Trafficking Case against Curacao Drydock
The plaintiffs in Licea were seeking to recover a portion of a default judgement they had previously obtained in Florida federal court against Curacao Drydock Company. The earlier Florida case involved sensational and highly disturbing claims: according to court filings, the plaintiffs
were “victims of a forced labor scheme through which Curacao Drydock, in concert with and employing the full threat of the totalitarian
regime of Fidel Castro, trafficked them to Curacao and extracted their labor … Curacao Drydock, well-aware of the brutal tactics and repressive schemes that the Cuban regime employed to extract forced labor from Cubans, conspired with Cuba to take advantage of that forced labor by hosting an outpost of the Cuban forced labor system
in Curacao.”
Curacao Drydock initially appeared and defended itself
in the Florida case. However, at some point, Curacao
Drydock stopped participating and eventually the Florida
court granted default judgment on liability against Curacao
Drydock. In October 2008, the Florida court granted an $80
million judgment for the plaintiffs.
2013: Licea Plaintiffs Seek to Collect Their Judgment in Texas
Fast forward to 2013. As part of their international efforts to collect the judgment they had obtained, the plaintiffs registered their judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, whose jurisdiction includes the busy ports of Houston, Texas City, and Galveston. The plaintiffs then began filing garnishments against various entities that, while having no involvement at all in the underlying case, the plaintiffs believed were indebted in some manner to Curacao Drydock.
The three entities involved in the Licea appeal were from a “related corporate family”: Formosa Brick Marine Corporation (“FBMC”), Formosa Plastics Marine Corporation (“FPMC”), and Formosa Plastics Corporation, America (“FPCA”). FBMC and FPMC were overseas entities with no apparent contacts with Texas, while FPCA operated a large refinery in Texas and had a registered agent for service of process. Garnishee FPMC was the operator of two foreignflagged cargo ships, the M/V FPMC 30 and the M/V FPMC 19. The vessels were owned by a separate entity that was not a named garnishee in the action, but was apparently part of the same “related corporate family” as the garnishees. FBMC did not have any direct relationship with either vessel.
Perhaps because the underlying claims against Curacao Drydock did not fall within the categories of maritime tort or breach of contract,1 the plaintiffs did not invoke the garnishment remedies
available under Supplemental Rule of Admiralty B. Instead, they relied on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 64 and 60, which provide that the law, both substantive and procedural, of the state where the federal court sits, governs writs of garnishment unless a federal statute provides otherwise, to invoke Texas state law garnishment remedies.
The plaintiffs were able to serve FPCA with a writ of garnishment through its registered agent in Texas. Service of the foreign entities was more problematic. Absent being able to invoke the arrest and attachment remedies of Rules C and B, which allow service to be made on vessels and other property located in the U.S., serving overseas entities can be a difficult, expensive, and time-consuming process. Perhaps in recognition of the foregoing, the plaintiffs attempted to effect service of process of the garnishments on FPMC and FBMC by having U.S. Marshals deliver the service papers to the masters of the M/V FPMC 30 and M/V FPMC 19 during separate Texas port calls.
The Texas District Court Awards the Licea Plaintiffs $2,639,000
FPMC and FBMC answered the writs of garnishment in the Houston federal court proceeding and moved to dismiss on the basis that the court lacked personal jurisdiction over them and that service of process was improper. FBMC admitted it owed $2,639,000 to Curacao Drydock, but FPMC denied any indebtedness. The plaintiffs then demanded that FBMC deposit $2,639,000 with the court, which FBMC did, subject to the motion to dismiss. The court denied the motion to dismiss, finding that the owner of the FPMC 19, garnishee FBMC, and garnishee FPMC were all “alter egos” of each other, and therefore, service on the master of the FPMC constituted sufficient service of process on FBMC and FPMC. The district court issued a final judgment on September 19, 2014, awarding the $2,639,000 to the plaintiffs. FPMC and FBMC appealed.
The Fifth Circuit Reverses on Appeal Due to Lack of Jurisdiction over the Garnishees
The Fifth Circuit reversed, taking particular issue with the district court’s findings on alter ego. Specifically, the Fifth Circuit noted that for jurisdictional purposes, Texas law uses the alter ego doctrine to determine whether “a corporation is organized and operated as a mere tool or business conduit of another corporation.” Under the doctrine, to “fuse” the parent company and its subsidiary for jurisdictional purposes, a plaintiff must prove the parent controls the internal business operations and affairs of the subsidiary to a degree greater than that normally associated with common ownership and directorship. Specifically, the plaintiff must have evidence that the two entities cease to be separate so that the corporate fiction should be disregarded to prevent fraud or injustice. There must be a “plus factor, something beyond the subsidiary’s mere presence within the bosom of the corporate family.” The Fifth Circuit noted that for evidence of alter ego, the district court had relied almost exclusively on two “organizational charts” submitted by the plaintiffs and purportedly obtained from the garnishees’ website. The Fifth Circuit held that the charts were simply not probative on the issue of alter ego, stating as follows:
First, the charts do not actually depict corporate structure. There is no indication of ownership; they do not indicate which entity owns what, which entities are parents, or subsidiaries, or brother/sister. Nor is it even clear that the “entities” on the chart are formal entities, because they have no corporate form designations. Normal organizational charts make distinctions for, e.g., corporations, LLCs, disregarded entities, or foreign entities. Further, garnishees FPCA and FBMC are not even represented on the charts.
Second, the charts do not show the functional relationship among the entities. The organizational charts show only the structure, but not the relationships between the Formosa entities. They do not indicate any “plus factor” that entails “something beyond the subsidiary’s mere presence within the bosom of the corporate family.” At best, they demonstrate mere affiliation, which is insufficient to pierce the veil, or common names, which are irrelevant to jurisdictional veil piercing. They do not even appear to show that the entities share common functions; the “Group Administration” boxes report to the Executive Board, but there is no indication that these functions are performed for the entities listed on the chart. In no way do these descriptions suggest control “greater than that normally associated with common ownership and directorship” or that the “entities cease to be separate so that the corporate fiction should be disregarded to prevent fraud or injustice.”
Based on the foregoing, the Fifth Circuit reversed the district court’s decision and remanded the case to the district court with instructions to dismiss it. The Fifth Circuit also ordered the return of $2,639,000 to FBMC.
The Licea opinion is a reminder to those involved in international vessel commerce of the critical importance of strictly maintaining corporate/business enterprise formalities at all levels of commercial operations. Even though the garnishees ultimately prevailed, the time and costs involved in achieving the victory were likely substantial, and had the Fifth Circuit not ruled for the garnishees, the costs could have grown exponentially. While U.S. port calls always involve the risk of arrest, attachment, and other civil litigation actions, paying attention to such details can undoubtedly play a significant role in mitigating these risks
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Category Archives: SMCSO Sgt. Weidner
By Michael G. Stogner
San Mateo County Board of Supervisors met in Closed Session yesterday Jan. 14, 2020 to discuss settling the Maureen Okobi vs. San Mateo County and 5 of its 6 Employees case.
Maureen Okobi is the mother Chinedu Okobi who was legally walking down the sidewalk on the Millbrae side of El Camino Real at 1:00PM on Wednesday October 3, 2018. After interacting with SIX San Mateo County Sheriff Employees for 9:10 he was completely Unresponsive. When a monitor was put on him 10 minutes later it was Flatlined. At San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office closed to the public Press Conference on March 1, 2019 Steve Wagstaffe was asked by KQED Reporter Julie Small “What was the Manner of Death?” At that point he confirmed what SMCCO Deputy Coroner Heather Diaz reported in December 2018. Chinedu Okobi’s death was ruled a Homicide.
The only San Mateo County District Attorney Employee to Include SMCSO Employee civilian CSO Joseph Gonzales was SMCDA Inspector Gregory Giguiere 80215
San Mateo County Sheriff Sgt. Trickett was the Incident Commander at the scene. He identified the “Involved Parties.”
Involved Parties:
Sergeant David Weidner
Deputy Joshua Wang
Deputy Alyssa Lorenzatti
Deputy John Demartini
Deputy Bryan Watt
Community Service Officer (CSO) Joseph Gonzales
So the question is Who & How many San Mateo County Employees/Elected Officials had knowledge and were involved in the False Narrative of FIVE SMCSO INVOLVED PARTIES.
It’s pretty simple if you are willing to Falsify Police Reports, and produce 3 False Sheriff News Releases (Sheriff Carlos Bolanos & PIO Rosemary Blankswade) Why should the residents of San Mateo County believe anything you say or report?
Video prepared and provided by SMCDA on March 1, 2019
7:21 mark clearly shows CSO Joseph Gonzales spraying O.C. that equals Involved.
Get involved San Mateo County Residents, you are responsible for your elected officials behavior.
Filed under #Blacklivesmatter, #SanMateoCountyNews, #SMCJUSTICE, 911, Attorney Generals Office, AXON, Bill Silverfarb, Board of Supervisors, Carole Groom, Charles Stone, Chinedu Okobi, Chris Hunter, Citizen Journalist, Citizens Oversight Committee, Community Service Officer Joseph Gonzales, Criminal Enforcement Task Force, CSO Joseph Gonzales, D.J. Wozniak, Dave Canepa, Dave Pine, David Burruto, David Silberman, DDA Al Serato, Deputy Alyssa Lorenzatti, Deputy Bryan Watt, Deputy Coroner Heather Diaz, Deputy John DeMartini, Deputy Joshua Wang, DOJ, Don Horsley, Government Hiding the Obvious, Grand Jury, Jamie Draper, John Beiers, John Burris, John Warren, Jordan Boyd, Kevin Mullins, Mark Simon, Marshall Wilson, Maureen Okobi, Michael G. Stogner, Michelle Durand, Millbrae City Manager Tom Williams, NAACP, Outrageous Government Conduct, Prosecutorial Misconduct, R.E.A.C.T. Task Force, Rick Decker, RICO, San Mateo County District Attorney Office, San Mateo County Grand Jury, San Mateo County Manager, San Mateo County News, San Mateo County Sheriff Office, Sean Gallagher, Senator Jerry Hill, Sergeant David Weidner, Sgt. Bob Pronske, Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos, Sheriff's Public Information Officer, Silicon Valley, SMCDA Inspector Gregory Giguiere 80215, SMCSO PIO Rosemerry Blankswade, SMCSO Sergeant Jacob Trickett, SMCSO Sgt. Irfan Zaidi, SMCSO Sgt. Weidner, Steve Wagstaffe, Those Who Matter, Tony Serra, Uncategorized, Victim's Advocate, Warren Slocum, Whistleblowers
January 2, 2020 · 8:06 am
San Mateo County News.com Names Deputy Coroner Heather Diaz Employee of the Year.
By Sarah Navratil & Michael G. Stogner
December 27, 2018 and signed off on December 31, 2018, Became public on March 1, 2019 after the San Mateo County District Attorney made it available on their website. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe held a Private Press Conference where he gave a 26 minute presentation of the Investigation of the In-Custody Homicide of Chinedu Okobi. HOMICIDE was never mentioned.
We at San Mateo County News.com can just imagine the pressure she must have felt for simply doing the job she was hired to do. The amount of other SMC Employees who had knowledge of her Homicide ruling and Omitted that word is shocking.
Congratulations Heather Diaz.
San Mateo County Deputy Coroner Heather Diaz # 21 stated: “Upon arrival of Paramedics and Fire Personnel Chinedu Okobi was assessed and found to be unresponsive.”
“As the death was the result of multiple measures to subdue Chinedu Okobi by law enforcement, and based on the information contained in the Coroner’s Investigation Report, Toxicology Report, medical records, and multiple videos,
“I have determined the manner of death to be homicide.”
March 1, 2019 SMCDA’s Work Product made public.
You will notice the District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office only names five names. There were SIX Everybody knows that.
The only San Mateo County District Attorney Employee to Include civilian CSO Joseph Gonzales was SMCDA Inspector Gregory Giguiere 80215
Filed under #Blacklivesmatter, #SanMateoCountyNews, AXON, Bill Silverfarb, Board of Supervisors, Brady List, California State Bar, Carole Groom, Chief Deputy District Attorney Al Serrato, Chinedu Okobi, Chris Hunter, Citizen Journalist, Citizens Oversight Committee, City of Millbrae, Community Service Officer Joseph Gonzales, CSO Joseph Gonzales, D.J. Wozniak, Dave Canepa, Dave Pine, David Burruto, David Silberman, DDA Albert Serrato, Deputy Alyssa Lorenzatti, Deputy Bryan Watt, Deputy Coroner Heather Diaz, Deputy John DeMartini, Deputy Joshua Wang, DOJ, Don Horsley, Excessive & Unnecessary Use of Force, Jamie Draper, John Beiers, John Warren, Jordan Boyd, Kevin Mullins, Marshall Wilson, Michael G. Stogner, Mike Callagy, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Rick Decker, Sean Gallagher, Senator Jerry Hill, Sgt. Bob Pronske, Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos, SMC, SMCSO PIO Rosemerry Blankswade, SMCSO Sgt. Irfan Zaidi, SMCSO Sgt. Jason Peardon, SMCSO Sgt. Weidner, Steve Wagstaffe, Those Who Matter, Victim's Advocate, Warren Slocum
SMCDA Inspectors Jamie Draper and John Warren should be on the Brady List.
A reasonable person would expect the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office Lead Investigator and his boss to provide Honest & Accurate Information at all times. In the Chinedu Okobi In-Custody Homicide Investigation involving SIX Sheriff Employees that is not the case.
Inspector Jamie Draper identifies CSO Joseph Gonzales as a Witness not a Participant. Why? He’s the one spraying the O.C. spray in the video.
The statement below was provided (Unknown date) by SMCDA Inspector Jamie Draper and approved by SMCDA John Warren.
OMMISSION: Homicide
December 31, 2018 Deputy Coroner Heather Diaz #21
CORONERS REPORT SUMMARY
On December 31, 2018 I received the Coroner’s Office Report, prepared by Coroner’s Investigator Heather Diaz. The report included redacted sections related to Decedent Chinedu Okobi’s medical treatment on October 3, 2018 as well as redacted sections related to his previous medical and mental treatments pursuant to 56.10 of the California Civil Code. The “Conclusion Report” by Coroner’s Investigator Diaz included a summary of the attempts by San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office personnel to detain Decedent Okobi and noted Okobi was found be “unresponsive” upon the arrival of paramedics and fire personnel on the scene. It should be noted that this information is contrary to what was scene upon review of the Mobile Audio Video (MAV) footage at the scene and from the statements provided by fire department paramedics who stated they had determined Decedent Okobi had a pulse and was breathing when they arrived on scene to begin treatment.
prepared by Coroner’s Investigator Heather Diaz. Heather Diaz is Deputy Coroner.
The “Conclusion Report” by Coroner’s Investigator Diaz. Heather Diaz is Deputy Coroner.
“unresponsive” upon the arrival of paramedics and fire personnel on the scene. It should be noted that this information is contrary to what was scene upon review of the Mobile Audio Video (MAV) footage at the scene. The video provided to the public by District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe CONFIRMS Deputy Coroner Heather Diaz’s statement.
and from the statements provided by fire department paramedics who stated they had determined Decedent Okobi had a pulse and was breathing when they arrived on scene to begin treatment. Jamie Draper should identify the Fire Department Paramedics by name and what time on the video did that take place, there are NO CAPTIONS and the video DOES NOT support his statement.
On March 1, 2019 San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe held a private Press Conference announcing his decision not to charge the Five Sheriff Employees with any criminal charges. During his 26 minute presentation he Omitted the SIXTH Sheriff Employee CSO Joseph Gonzales and Omitted the word Homicide. That only popped out at the 47:40 mark when KQED Reporter Julie Small asked what was the manner of Death?
That doesn’t seem very Honest does it?
Steve Wagstaffe also stated:“From that point on” approaching the 9 minute mark on the video.” “The Sheriff Office and our review of their conduct is done. Sheriff Office turned him over to AMR.”
The video that Mr. Wagstaffe provided the public does NOT SUPPORT that statement, it shows AMR people at 17:54 mark. not approaching the 9 minute mark. That is a 9 minute difference, not a couple of seconds.
Video By SMC Government
Filed under #Blacklivesmatter, #SanMateoCountyNews, AMR, Attorney Generals Office, AXON, Board of Supervisors, Body Camera Video, Carlos G. Bolanos, Carole Groom, Chinedu Okobi, Citizen Journalist, Citizens Oversight Committee, City of Millbrae, CSO Joseph Gonzales, D.J. Wozniak, Dave Canepa, Dave Pine, David Burruto, David Silberman, DDA Albert Serrato, Deputy Alyssa Lorenzatti, Deputy Bryan Watt, Deputy John DeMartini, Deputy Joshua Wang, DOJ, Don Horsley, Evidence Tampering, Grand Jury, Jamie Draper, John Beiers, John Warren, Michael G. Stogner, Mike Callagy, Millbrae City Manager Tom Williams, Organized Crime, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Rick Decker, San Mateo County District Attorney Office, San Mateo County Firefighters, San Mateo County Manager, San Mateo County Sheriff Office, Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos, SMC, SMCSO Det. Rosemerry Blankswade, SMCSO Sgt. Irfan Zaidi, SMCSO Sgt. Weidner, Steve Wagstaffe, Those Who Matter, Victim's Advocate, Warren Slocum, Whistleblowers
San Mateo County Supervisor Don Horsley opposes Citizen Oversight Committee. I’m not surprised.
The reason I said I’m not surprised is Don Horsley is dedicated to supporting Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos the employer of his son. Some readers might recall that I am the citizen that saved San Mateo County Tax Payers at least $250,000 when I encouraged Supervisor Don Horsley to get back on track and keep his political campaign promise that he reneged on which was to not accept the Supervisor salary if elected. The reason I was so interested in it was he said it several times sitting next to me when we both were campaigning for Supervisor.
When asked by Bay City News whether they supported a new citizens’ oversight body, only one of five of the county supervisors, former Sheriff Don Horsley, responded to say that he unequivocally opposed the idea. Why did the other Supervisors refuse to answer the question?
“I just don’t think that having an oversight body adds anything other than more conflict and I don’t think it would have solved anything” in Chinedu Okobi’s case, Horsley said. How would Supervisor Horsley know?
October 3, 2018 News Release: Below is a list of the names of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Personnel who were involved in the critical incident on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018. Deputy John DeMartini, Deputy Alyssa Lorenzatti, Deputy Joshua Wang, Deputy Bryan Watt, Sergeant Weidner. OMITTED from this list is the SIXTH Employee CSO Joseph Gonzales, Why?
Supervisor Don Horsley is unconcerned with Dishonest behavior by the Sheriff.
One thing Supervisor Don Horsley refuses to address is why did Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos produce this False statement on October 3, 2018. “The deputy exited his vehicle to contact the suspect and the suspect immediately assaulted the deputy.”
This subject was never mentioned over the radio, on the video, or in any reports. Where did Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos get this FALSE INFORMATION and why did he approve it and allow it to remain on the County’s website for 5 months until I asked Steve Wagstaffe about it at his March 1, 2019 Press Conference. He told me “You’ll have to ask the Sheriff Bolanos.” I have and he refuses to respond.
Horsley said that he thinks that the sheriff’s office has been transparent through the investigation and was unconcerned that it took five months for the inaccurate information to be corrected. It was not inaccurate information it was FALSE INFORMATION approved by Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos, It was a LIE.
“I think it was good of them to correct the statement,” he said.
The Sheriff’s Office did not correct the statement they simply removed it from the Website and produced another false statement dated March 1, 2019
Horsley said that in addition to the use of force policy changes, the sheriff’s office has added implicit bias training and the county has expanded its mental health outreach.
“It’s understandable why the sheriff’s deputy thought they had to stop him,” Horsley said.
Stopping a person is one thing Killing a person and offering NO CPR for almost 10 minutes is something entirely different.
Chinedu Okobi was killed while In-Custody by SIX NOT FIVE San Mateo County Sheriff Employees.
San Mateo County Coroner’s Office ruled Chinedu Okobi’s death a Homicide.
San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe at his March 1, 2019 Press Conference confirmed it was a Homicide. He said “The Coroner of this County Labeled it a Homicide.” He went on to say Homicide occurring during interaction with that individual.” That means the SIX Sheriff Employees.
Supervisor Don Horsley knows all of this information and he is Unconcerned and Uninterested.
The March 1, 2019 Lie by San Mateo County Government was Chinedu Okobi died after he was turned over to the Medics and they had him for Several Minutes, Both Sheriff Carlos G, Bolanos and Steve Wagstaffe are promoting that Lie.
I have asked Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos to identify the MEDICS, He has refused.
Filed under #Blacklivesmatter, #SanMateoCountyNews, #SMCJUSTICE, AXON, Board of Supervisors, Body Camera Video, Carole Groom, Charles Stone, Chinedu Okobi, Chris Hunter, Citizen Journalist, Citizens Oversight Committee, City of Millbrae, Community Service Officer Joseph Gonzales, CSO Joseph Gonzales, D.J. Wozniak, Dave Canepa, Dave Pine, Deputy Alyssa Lorenzatti, Deputy Bryan Watt, Deputy John DeMartini, Deputy Joshua Wang, Don Horsley, John Beiers, John Burris, Jordan Boyd, Judicial Misconduct, Michael G. Stogner, Mike Callagy, NAACP, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Rick Decker, San Mateo County District Attorney Office, San Mateo County News, San Mateo County Sheriff Office, San Mateo County Supervisors, Sergeant David Weidner, Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos, SMCSO Det. Rosemerry Blankswade, SMCSO Sgt. Weidner, Those Who Matter, Victim's Advocate
Chinedu Okobi SMC Sheriff In-Custody Death Lawsuit filed. Key Defendant not included, Why?
Chinedu Valentine Okobi
Attorney John Burris filed a lawsuit Friday May 31, 2019 representing Maureen Okobi mother of Chinedu V. Okobi who died in Millbrae, October 3, 2018 In-Custody of SIX San Mateo County Sheriff Employees. Four Deputies, one Sergeant and one Civilian. The Civilian CSO Joseph Gonzales was very involved in the physical take down of Chinedu Okobi and can be clearly seen in the District Attorney’s video at the 7:18 mark dispensing O.C. Spray. You will also notice on the Government’s Video they don’t mention CSO Joseph Gonzales either. So he was not investigated period, Why? The D.A.’s Office treated him as a Witness.
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe’s Video
March 1, 2019 Steve Wagstaffe held a private Press Conference for select media, public not welcome. At around 8 minutes into the presentation he stated the Cause of Death by the pathologist to be “Cardiac Arrest”. Reporter Julie Small of KQED asked about 40 minutes later “Do you know the manor of death?” Wagstaffe responded “The Coroner of this County labeled it Homicide.” Why didn’t he say that at the beginning? He went on to say “Homicide occurring during Interaction with that Individual.” That means with the Six Employees.
KQED reported that Dr. Rogers determined the cause of Death to be Homicide. I reported that Deputy Coroner Heather Diaz #21 determined cause of Death to be Homicide.
Filed under #Blacklivesmatter, #SanMateoCountyNews, #SMCJUSTICE, 911, Attorney Generals Office, Board of Supervisors, Chief Deputy District Attorney Al Serrato, Chris Hunter, Citizen Journalist, Citizens Oversight Committee, City of Millbrae, Community Service Officer Joseph Gonzales, CSO Joseph Gonzales, D.J. Wozniak, Dave Canepa, Dave Pine, David Burruto, David Silberman, DDA Albert Serrato, Deputy Alyssa Lorenzatti, Deputy Bryan Watt, Deputy John DeMartini, Deputy Joshua Wang, DOJ, Excessive & Unnecessary Use of Force, Google, Grand Jury, Jamie Draper, John Beiers, John Burris, John Warren, Marshall Wilson, Matthew Graves, Michael G. Stogner, Michelle Durand, Mike Callagy, Millbrae City Manager Tom Williams, NAACP, Organized Crime, Positional Asphyxia, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Rick Decker, San Mateo County District Attorney Office, San Mateo County Sheriff Office, Sergeant David Weidner, Sgt. Bob Pronske, Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos, Silicon Valley, SMC, SMCSO Captain Paul Kunkel, SMCSO Sgt. Weidner, Steve Wagstaffe, Those Who Matter, Victim's Advocate, Warren Slocum, Yahoo
SMC Sheriff Sgt. Irfan Zaidi Qualifies as a Brady Officer. Is He on the List? Who controls the list? Is there even a List?
The law enforcement profession requires integrity and trust and an officer who lies violates that trust and tarnishes the integrity of the profession.
October 3, 2018 at 1:00 PM Millbrae, California, Chinedu Okoki a 36 year old man was walking down the sidewalk on El Camino Real. Within 10 minutes he was Tasered 7 times, sprayed in the face with O.C. spray as six San Mateo County Sheriff Employees were on top of him. He was completely limp, unconscious, and never made a sound again. He died there on the spot in the Custody of the Sheriff’s Office.
San Mateo County Sheriff Sergeant Zaidi was not one of the Six Sheriff Employees involved in the In-Custody Death of Chinedu Okobi. Nineteen days later, On October 22, 2018 he filed an Official Report with the District Attorney’s Office making knowingly false statements.
” I directed Deputy Lorenzatti to remove the metal handcuffs from the suspect which she did, and the suspect was placed on his back. The Fire Department and AMR promptly began CPR.”
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe on March 1, 2019 provided a video that he and his Team produced for the public it can be found on his website. The placing Chinedu Okobi on his back and CPR starts at the 18:50 mark. The video shows Deputy Lorenzatti did Not remove the handcuffs.
SMCSO Deputy Lorenzatti made an official statement on 10/04/2018 3:50 PM. to Inspector Eric Suzuki.
“They were like, well let’s get him on his back and start CPR, So then I, you know helped em, bring him to his back.
Question? “Okay and were his Handcuffs off at that point?”
Answer: No they were still on.
Eng. #37 Mazza Statement: “When decedent was lifted onto the gurney, a police officer cadet or trainee removed the Handcuffs from the decedents wrists.”
AMR #94 Retanubun Statement: “They put the decedent on to a “Mega Mover” when noticed the decedent still had handcuffs on.” “Saw police cadet nearby who assisted them with the removal of the Handcuffs.”
AMR #37 Uhland: “So they laid the decedent on his back with the Handcuffs still on his wrists.”
AMR #94 Pham: “Decedent was on his back with Handcuffs on when he arrived.”
AMR #37 Holman: “When they rolled the decedent over to remove the Handcuffs, she noticed several scrapes on his hands and a few small abrasion on his back.” “She was unsure if the injuries were there prior or if caused by the CPR application.”
According to Wagstaffe’ Video, Chinedu Okobi was placed on his back at 18:26 mark.
CPR starts at 18:50 mark with Handcuffs On and Hands behind his back.
Handcuffs Removed at 28:47 mark after almost 10 minutes of Chest Compressions.
What caused Sheriff Sgt. Zaidi to file this Bizarre False Official Statement?
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe’s Video and Data made public March 1, 2019
LATIMES Article June 6, 2019
Note: 300 Deputies on the list. Sheriff Alex Villanueva, has called the Brady list a “fake list” and says it was the result of corrupt investigations designed to retaliate against certain deputies.
Should deputies’ misconduct be disclosed to D.A.?
Justices seem split on ruling that bars sheriff from giving officers’ names to prosecutors.
By Maura Dolan and Maya Lau
The California Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over a ruling that barred the Los Angeles County sheriff from giving prosecutors the names of deputies who have committed misconduct.
During a hearing, the state high court weighed an appeal of a decision that prohibited the sheriff from giving the district attorney the names of deputies with a history of bad behavior, including lying, taking bribes, tampering with evidence, using unreasonable force or engaging in domestic violence.
By law, prosecutors are required to disclose to defendants exculpatory evidence, including information that could diminish the credibility of police officers who worked on a case.
Several justices suggested Wednesday that prosecutors need the information to fulfill their constitutional duty to disclose potentially exonerating information.
That position has been endorsed by defense lawyers, prosecutors and the California attorney general.
Justice Goodwin Liu noted that prosecutors ultimately bear liability for failing to disclose favorable evidence.
If the prosecution is unaware that such evidence exists, convictions — even valid convictions — may eventually be overturned because of a failure to disclose, he said.
“The prosecution can’t take an ostrich-like approach to this very important duty,” Liu said.
But Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye suggested that the Legislature, not the court, might want to take steps to ensure that exonerating information is disclosed to the defense.
She said one possible remedy was to give trial judges sealed lists of law enforcement officers who have a history of misconduct. The judges could review those lists privately in chambers to determine whether the officers’ records were relevant in the case and should be disclosed.
“Doesn’t delivering the list directly to the court under seal … meet the problem without intruding overtly on the officers’ privacy?” she asked.
Justice Ming W. Chin also repeatedly asked whether that path, if carved out by the Legislature or by the court in a future case, could resolve the problem.
The case before the court stems from a lawsuit filed by the L.A. deputies union to prevent former Sheriff Jim McDonnell from turning over to the district attorney about 300 names of deputies with a history of misconduct.
A divided, Los Angeles-based court of appeal ruled in 2017 that the list must be kept secret, even in pending criminal cases in which errant deputies were expected to testify.
The state high court’s decision, due in 90 days, would affect law enforcement agencies throughout the state.
The case pits the privacy rights of law enforcement officers against the constitutional duty of prosecutors to give the defense evidence that might cast doubt on a defendant’s guilt, reduce a potential sentence or diminish the credibility of prosecution witnesses.
That duty stems from a landmark 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case, Brady vs. Maryland, which said suppression of evidence favorable to the defense violated due process.
At issue is only whether the names can be turned over to prosecutors, not whether they would become public.
But the presence of the names on a list means deputies could be one step closer to having their disciplinary files scrutinized by a judge and their police work called into question during a court proceeding.
Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar noted that the constitutional duty to disclose evidence favorable to the defense trumps state law intended to protect the privacy of law enforcement officers. He suggested the court could “harmonize” the laws.
He called the case “very challenging,” but also noted that “the Brady responsibility is on the state.”
Justice Joshua P. Groban expressed skepticism about the union’s legal arguments.
“You are saying as long as we can bar the door and keep the law enforcement agency from sharing that with the prosecution, then there is no Brady violation?” he asked the lawyer for the union.
Justice Carol A. Corrigan noted that officers whose names were on a list would have less privacy protection than others.
But she also said that a state law intended to protect officer privacy while allowing some disclosures may be hindering the release of information a criminal defendant is entitled to under the Constitution.
Under the system in place for four decades, defense attorneys and prosecutors may ask a trial judge to review an officer’s personnel file to determine whether there is evidence that must be disclosed.
But without knowing an officer’s history, a defense lawyer may not be able to persuade the judge to undertake a review.
“There are cases in which legitimate and material evidence is eluding their review,” Corrigan said.
Justice Leondra R. Kruger asked whether there were legal safeguards that could be imposed to protect officer privacy after the names were disclosed to prosecutors.
Aimee Feinberg, representing the state attorney general, said courts could issue protective orders to ensure the officers’ names were shielded from the public.
Geoffrey S. Sheldon, who argued for Los Angeles County, said he felt “good” about how the hearing went.
“I’m cautiously optimistic that we will prevail in the case,” he said.
Judith Posner, representing the union, said she couldn’t predict the outcome.
“There were a lot of interesting and probing questions on both sides,” she said.
Police departments in at least a dozen counties, including San Francisco, Sacramento and Ventura, have had a regular practice of sending prosecutors the names of so-called Brady list officers.
California’s strict laws protecting officer personnel files — which underpinned the appellate court’s ruling for the deputies union — were dramatically altered by a new transparency law that opened up records of confirmed cases of lying and sexual misconduct by officers, as well as shootings and serious uses of force.
SB 1421, which went into effect Jan. 1, allows the public to see many of the documents at issue in the L.A. County sheriff’s case.
But the new law does not apply to the broader range of misconduct that could put an officer on a Brady list, including domestic abuse, sexual harassment, racial discrimination and bribery.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who ousted McDonnell in a stunning upset last fall, has called the Brady list a “fake list” and says it was the result of corrupt investigations designed to retaliate against certain deputies.
Filed under #Blacklivesmatter, #SanMateo, #SanMateoCountyNews, #SMCJUSTICE, Associated Press, Attorney Generals Office, AXON, Bill Silverfarb, Board of Supervisors, Body Camera Video, Brady List, California Bar Association, California State Bar, Carole Groom, Charles Stone, Chinedu Okobi, Chris Hunter, Citizen Journalist, Citizens Oversight Committee, City of Millbrae, City of San Carlos, Community Service Officer Joseph Gonzales, D.J. Wozniak, Dave Canepa, Dave Pine, David Burruto, David Silberman, Deputy Alyssa Lorenzatti, Deputy Bryan Watt, Deputy John DeMartini, Deputy Joshua Wang, DOJ, Don Horsley, Google, Grand Jury, Jamie Draper, John Beiers, John Burris, John Warren, Kevin Mullins, Mark Church, Marshall Wilson, Matthew Graves, Menlo Park Police Department, Michael G. Stogner, Mike Callagy, Millbrae City Manager Tom Williams, NAACP, Organized Crime, Positional Asphyxia, Prosecutorial Misconduct, R.E.A.C.T. Task Force, Rick Decker, RICO, San Mateo County District Attorney Office, San Mateo County Sheriff Office, Senator Jerry Hill, Sgt. Bob Pronske, Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos, SMC, SMCSO Captain Paul Kunkel, SMCSO PIO Rosemerry Blankswade, SMCSO Sgt. Irfan Zaidi, SMCSO Sgt. Weidner, Steve Wagstaffe, Susan Bassi, Those Who Matter, Victim's Advocate, Warren Slocum, Whistleblowers, Yahoo
Chinedu Okobi In-Custody Death, San Mateo County Sheriff’s News Release was a lie. “Suspect Immediately Assaulted the Deputy,” Why?
Fact: There was No Immediate Assault of a Deputy. Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos knew that.
Who word crafted that? How many people were involved in that false statement?
A Reasonable Person after viewing the Video prepared by District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe will come to the conclusion that Chinedu V. Okobi died on El Camino Real, Millbrae California at the 9:10 mark 87 seconds before his body was sat up on his rear end with his legs straight out and his head slumped forward closing his airways. That is a full 9 minutes 40 seconds before CPR Chest Compressions were given while his hands were handcuffed behind his back. During this time there was a lot of talk and captions about checking his pulse but there is little evidence any of the 5 Sheriff Deputies or the Civilian CSO Joseph Gonzales did actually check his pulse.
SMCSO Deputy De Martini’s statement, He said he felt a pulse, but said due to the fact he had just been struggling with Okobi, he was NO LONGER Certain if he felt Okobi’s pulse or his own. That’s pretty honest. He also said “I kind of raised up his Head a little bit.”
SMCSO Sergeant David Weidner “I Never take his pulse or anything like that.”
SMCSO Watt He was Unsure if decedent Okobi was breathing because he was not moving around to the extent Deputy Watt expected after the struggle. Regarding checking pulse.”Trying to reach” “I stopped trying to take a pulse because he was moving his head around.”
SMCSO Deputy Wang Did not check Okobi for a pulse.
SMCSO Lorenzatti “Put him in a seated position Paramedics arrived on the scene and she recalled seeing a paramedic determine Okobi did have a pulse.” Deputy Lorenzatti did NOT check pulse. This statement makes it look like the paramedics were right there and started caring for Chinedu Okobi. It was 10 minutes and 29 seconds of Okobi sitting with his head slumped down before paramedics at 17:59 Caption “Paramedics try to awaken Okobi and attempt to locate a pulse.”
Jeffrey Martin the expert hired by Steve Wagstaffe and paid approx. $15,000 by Taxpayers stated 7:10 as the time Okobi was Handcuffed. Wagstaffe’s video doesn’t give a caption for time handcuffed. Weidner states Okobi was placed in seated position within 10 seconds of being handcuffed. That would be 7:20 Martin says 20 seconds so 7:30 Okobi in seated position. The video shows 10:27 Chinedu Okobi sat up on his rear end completely limp and unresponsive with head slumped forward which would have stopped his breathing if he was in fact breathing at that time. That is a 3 MINUTE difference between Expert and Deputy statements and the Video evidence.
Positional Asphyxia
Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos
SMCSO Press Release October 3, 2018
The deputy exited his vehicle to contact the suspect and the suspect immediately assaulted the deputy, that is the biggest lie of the two. a male adult who was running in and out of traffic on El Camino Real is the second.
Chinedu Okobi was not running in and out out traffic before Deputy Wang tried to herd him with his vehicle including driving the wrong way on ECR.
Supervisor Don Horsley while serving as Sheriff terminated the employment of a Correctional Officer for being dishonest, lying to a law enforcement officer during an investigation.
Don Horsley Terminates Employee for Dishonesty
The False San Mateo County Sheriff Office Press/News Release is the same thing. Everybody in the DA’s Office, County Counsel, and Sheriff’s Office who had access to the data knew the Press Release was Dishonest. There lies the problem for SMC residents/
PIO Rosemerry Blankswade and Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos are responsible for this press release to be put out to the public.
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe took 5 months to finally release a highly edited creation of video/some-audio including Captions he felt would be helpful in misleading the public to believe that Chinedu V. Okobi “He was still breathing when the Sheriff Deputies turned him over to the AMR people.” He takes it a step further and said it was several minutes after AMR had him. If several means 3 minutes that would be around the 21:00 in his video. Wagstaffe does not tell you what time in the video that transfer of responsibility occurred.
Wagstaffe also fails to identify CIVILIAN CSO Joseph Gonzales 6:26 mark who was physically involved in the takedown of Mr. Okobi. It was Illegal for him to be involved. “He had multiple red/brown stains located on his person from the altercation.”
You can see him in action at the 7:18 mark when several deputies get pepper sprayed. Wagstaffe’s Caption at 7:22 mark “A deputy attempts to subdue Okobi with pepper spray but mistakenly hits his fellow deputies and sergeant.” Joesph Gonzales is not a San Mateo County Sheriff Deputy, Wagstaffe knows that. He doesn’t identify the deputy, Why? Wagstaffe’s Expert Jeffrey Martin says Deputy Wang did it. There are 5 deputies and 1 CSO that makes 6 people involved. Three of them got sprayed, that leaves two deputies, Deputy DeMartini’s statement rules him out. The person who did the spraying said “I did, I did that.” Jamie Draper has access to voice recognition software it should be simple to identify who said those words. It’s one of two people Deputy Wang or CSO Civilian Gonzales.
Wagstaffe & Bolanos only identify the 5 deputies Why? It was Illegal for CSO Joseph Gonzales to be involved that’s why.
Wagstaffe fails to put a caption at the 10:57 mark. Deputy DeMartini Tampering with Evidence
D.A. Stephen M. Wagstaffe
Wagstaffe’s Video and Data Released March 1, 2019
Partial Video of March 1, 2019 Press Conference KPIX CBS SF
I attended the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Press Conference on March 1, 2019. At the -12:02 mark I asked Steve Wagstaffe “After Mr. Okobi stopped breathing, By putting him in a seated position did his head not go forward and stop his breathing?”
Steve Wagstaffe responded “It did not.” “The belief was not.” “That did not occur.” Because they continued to check for the breathing.
“But he was breathing and he had a pulse at that time.”
“He actually uttered some words.” Really? What were the uttered words, who heard them, and what time on the video? No caption for this important assertion.
The Video Wagstaffe produced shows otherwise at 10:27 mark.
A thought for the readers, Steve Wagstaffe and his TEAM and Sheriff Carlos Bolanos have had all of the data for 5 months. It was withheld from reporters and the public for 5 months.
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Home / Visas / Family Visas / Parent Visas
Australian citizen, Australian permanent residents or Eligible New Zealand citizen (NZ citizens resident in Australia prior to the 26 February 2001), are able to sponsor their parent(s) for a permanent visa to join them in Australia – on the condition parent applicants can satisfy the ‘balance of family test’ .
The Department’s website is reporting extensive queues for these visas and potential applicants should be aware of these:
Non-Contributory Parent visa (CPV) – approximately 30 years
Carer visa – approximately 4.5 years
Remaining Relative and Aged Dependent Relative – approximately 56 years
If you are interested in investigating the Aged Parent and Aged Dependent relatives and other on-shore visa categories which will allow the issue of a bridging visa during this lengthy processing, then please use our Contact Us page.
The Amendment – discontinued
On 26 March 2018, the Minister for Social Service Dan Tehan introduced a legislative instrument to significantly increase the financial criteria for Assurance of Support (AOS) which would have seriously impacted Australian citizens and permanent residents who wished to sponsor their overseas parents to come to Australia under SC143/173 Contributory Parent visa program.
As a result of public outcry, the government has decided to shelve the amendment and the situation will revert to the pre-amendment position.
Aged Applicants
Contributory Parent visas include an ‘aged’ parent category which entitles a qualified applicant – 65 years for men (born before 1952) and 61+ for women- depending upon the year of birth– to apply for the visa whilst in Australia. For those males born after 1952 the qualification age will increase incrementally in line with the entitlement to an Australian aged pension.
As an application lodged in Australia the visa applicant(s) will be granted a bridging visa upon lodgement BUT parents waiting on bridging visas are not entitled to Medicare unless they come from countries which have reciprocal health rights. Even then this is limited, so they are advised to obtain private health insurance.
Contributory parent require a mandatory Assurance of Support (AOS) and bond payable but the amounts vary.
Longer term visitor visas for parents
Parents who have applied for parent visas and also those who have not yet applied or even those who do not intend to apply, have the opportunity of applying for visitor visas up to 12 months in any 18 month period to visit their Australian citizen or settled permanent resident children. This acknowledges the appallingly long processing wait for the non-Contributory Parent visas.
This may give parent applicants the opportunity to visa for longer where they do not pass the Balance of Family test, or cannot afford the very high 2nd visa application charge attaching to the Contributory Parent visas (see below) or do not wish to live in the twilight zone in Australia on a bridging visa for the next 25 years!
Contributory Parent visa (CPV) category
Contributory Parent category visa applicants can choose to apply directly for a permanent visa or to go through a two-stage process. Under the two-stage process, applicants initially apply for a temporary Contributory Parent category visa. The temporary visa is only valid for a period of two years and cannot be extended or renewed. At any time during the two-year validity period of the visa, the temporary visa holder can apply for the corresponding permanent visa. Applicants must pay a first and second instalment of the VAC for both temporary and permanent visas.
The net costs of the two-stage process are broadly similar to the option of applying directly for a permanent Contributory Parent category visa except that the costs are staggered across two applications. The first and second VAC payable per applicant are based on the charges in place at the time that the respective application is made.
Note: All VACs are subject to annual adjustment.
For more differences between the two parent visas categories please see below- courtesy of DIAC:
Differences between onshore and offshore Contributory Parent visas
The primary applicant must meet the aged requirement at time of application, Do not have to be “aged parent”
Must meet health and character requirements prior to queuing Do not have to meet health and character prior to queuing
If the applicant(s) is in Australia and they are not “aged” and there is no bar on their applying, they may still be able to make a valid visa application for an offshore Parent (subclass 103) visa or an offshore Contributory Parent category visa whilst they remain in Australia. The application must however be sent to the Parent Visa Centre (PVC). In these circumstances, the applicant(s) is not eligible for a Bridging visa and will need to obtain another type of visa to remain in Australia while their application is being processed.
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English footballer and commentator (1963-)
Ian Wright is a footballer turned television personality. He has played for England national team. He is the adopted father of Shaun Wright-Phillips and the father of Bradley Wright-Phillips.
Ian Edward Wright MBE
(1963-11-03) 3 November 1963 (age 56)
Woolwich, London, England
1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Striker (retired)
→Nottingham Forest (loan)
Club career statisticsEdit
1985–86 Crystal Palace Second Division 32 9 2 0 34 9
1986–87 38 9 5 1 43 10
1987–88 41 20 4 3 45 23
1989–90 First Division 26 8 7 1 33 9
1991–92 8 5 0 0 8 5
1991–92 Arsenal First Division 30 24 3 2 33 26
1992–93 Premier League 31 15 15 15 46 30
1993–94 39 23 13 11 52 34
1998–99 West Ham United Premier League 22 9
1999–00 Nottingham Forest First Division 10 5
1999–00 Celtic Premier League 8 3
1999–00 Burnley Second Division 15 4
International career statisticsEdit
↑ "Ian Edward Wright - International Appearances". www.rsssf.com.
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**BOOK BLITZ** Orenda by Ruth Silver
by Ruth Silver
a Young Adult Fantasy Adventure series
published by Patchwork Press
Join forces with a parallel universe.
Dark forces, magical creatures, and the world Lil thought she knew collide when a dream transports her to the strange world of Orenda. Stunned and terrified, Lil comes face to face with her doppelganger, Willow, who possesses the ability to travel between the two worlds. Everything Lil knows logically says that Orenda can't exist, but a small clue may be proof that it was more than an ordinary dream. With the threat of her younger sister in danger, Lil crosses dimensions but it may cost her even more than she bargained for.
A sword wielding girl, the eternal suit, and a parallel universe come together in this action-packed Young Adult fantasy adventure that will keep readers of all ages turning the pages. Orenda is the first novel in the Orenda series.
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Lil stood firm, sword-in-hand, staring at the beast as it flew directly at her. “How do I kill it?” She raised the sword above her head with two hands.
Hudson glanced at her. “With what we taught you. The dragon is no different than a man.”
“It has wings and is flying at me. I’d say it’s different!”
Ruth Silver is the best-selling author of ABERRANT, a young adult dystopian adventure series published by Patchwork Press and Lazy Day Publishing, in 2013. Silver attended Northern Illinois University and graduated with a Bachelor's in Communication in the spring of 2005. While in college, she spent much of her free time writing with friends she met online and penning her first novel, Deuces are Wild, which she self-published in 2004. Her favorite class was Creative Writing senior year where she often handed in assignments longer than the professor required, because she loved to write and always wanted to finish her stories. Her love of writing led her on an adventure in 2007 to Melbourne, Australia. Silver enjoys reading, photography, traveling and most of all writing. She loves dystopian and fantasy young adult stories. Ruth has been actively writing since she was a teenager. Upcoming works include Royal Reaper, a young adult series about grim reapers, due for release June 3rd, 2014. She currently resides in Plainfield, Illinois.
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Book Review: Betrothed by Wanda Wiltshire
Betrothed
By Wanda Wiltshire
Amy Smith has always known she was different. Severe allergies, fragile health and taunts at school have made life an endurance test for the adopted seventeen year old.
When Amy starts having strange dreams, everything changes. Night after night, she becomes trapped in a shroud of black - a void of silence but for a male voice calling for a girl named ‘Marla’.
One night, the darkness clears, Leif is revealed and Amy discovers that she is the girl he has been searching for.
Immediately the two are swept up in a passionate yet forbidden love. Leif isn’t like the other boys Amy knows. Breathtakingly gorgeous, he speaks with her telepathically … not to mention, he can fly …
Desperate to find a way to be with her, Leif tells Amy of the terrifying threat to his Fae homeland, the danger to the people, and of an unforgivable betrayal to his King. He urges her to seek her true identity…. But Amy is confused... isn't it all just a dream?
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Wanda Wiltshire has long been a lover of reading and writing. As a child she was often found
spellbound by a novel stashed beneath her desk or tucked between the pages of her geography
book. Alternatively she could be found sketching or penning during maths and science lessons.
Wanda has also always been an incurable dreamer, each of her school reports a testament to
her pastime of staring out of classroom windows. But now that she is long grown and has finally
found her passion for writing novels, Wanda puts her daydreaming to good use, spending many
long and satisfying moments gazing across the sea cavorting with fairies and other magical
creatures as she develops scenes and storylines for her latest work.
Betrothed is the first in Wanda's young adult fantasy series. It is the exciting story of a girl
caught between two worlds - Earth and the enchanting land of Faera.
You can contact Wanda..
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5 SASSY BOOKS!
Book provided by author in exchange for an honest review.
Wow...just wow! I've read my share of Fae books and have loved them all but this one is...
fan-frickin-tastic!
Amy lives in Caringbah (it's in Sydney, Australia), and she isn't your average teenage girl. Being allergic to nearly EVERYTHING, it doesn't make life very easy but, she gets by with a loving family and two best friends that she'd do anything for and would do anything for her.
Amy's nights a filled with these weird dreams, nothing but black fog and a mysterious male voice calling for someone named, Marla. Who's Marla? And why is this voice calling for her in Amy's head? Hmmmmm well, after a few nights the fog begins to lift and the mysterious male voice has a face, a gorgeous face at that. His name is Leif, and he's been searching for Marla for so so long. Finally, he's found her!
Leif sweeps Amy off her feet (he can sweep me off my feet any day!) with spine tingling dreams, which he claims are the real deal. Amy aka Marla, doesn't know what to feel or believe, she's so confused. What's she to do?
Just the prologue alone had me intrigued to read on and every word after that was just icing on the cake, I became hooked! Wanda brings a unique light to the fairy realm, I just love the idea of Faera, a place we'd all love to venture too. A place dreams are made of.
I love how this story is based in places I visit all the time. I could envision everything like I was standing there with them. I even went for a drive just to revisit lol. Brings back loads of happy memories. :-)
With an alluring storyline, characters you'll fall in love with, new and wonderful places to adventure too, this book is definitely a must read!
I truly loved it!!!
Before you go I wanted to share with you all the cover for book 2, Allegiance...
Just gorgeous!!!! CAN'T WAIT!!!!
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**BOOK BLITZ** An Aria in Venice by KaSonndra Leigh
An Aria in Venice
(A Musical Interlude, #1.5)
by KaSonndra Leigh
Publication date: April 22nd 2014
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
**This novel is a standalone with no cliffhanger.**
His goal…One night with the ballerina.
Her goal…To beat the player at his game.
The outcome…Something completely unexpected.
Adriana Dostov pegged Luca Martuccio from day one: gorgeous, talented, arrogant, a man who has had difficulty committing to one woman in the past. He is known in fashion circles as the player with a scandalous history. So when the girls in her ballet troupe suggest she gives up her virginity to him, she doesn’t say no. But she’s not sure that a ‘yes’ is the right answer either. Yet, she can’t stop herself from making the offer…a one night stand in Venice.
Luca wanted fiesty little Adriana the moment they first met – and he fully intends to have her, hence why he’s agreed to accept her proposal. In the end, he’ll get what he wants. No commitment. All sex.
But, as Luca discovers, there’s more to the ballerina with the overbearing mother – and he can’t help but care about the frightened girl behind those sad eyes.
Adriana discovers Luca isn’t just walking sex on a stick – he has a wildly passionate side, a lost soul who has suffered just as much grief as her. And it could be, they’re exactly what the other one needs.
Temptation Blog Tour! by K.M Golland. Hosted by Harlequin- Review & Author Interview
Title- Temptation
Author- K.M Golland
Genre- Romance/ Adult Fiction
Release Date- 1st of May 2014
Publisher- Harlequin MIRA
Review copy provided by publisher.
Blurb- Sometimes being happily married and completely content is not at all what it seems.
That is what 35 year old, happily married mother of two, Alexis Summers finds out when she decides it is time to return to work. After being a stay-at-home Mum for the past nine years, Alexis now realises a complete career change is just what she needs.
She becomes a Concierge Attendant in a prestigious hotel in Melbourne working for the owner of the hotel, Bryce Clark. He resides in the penthouse, is extremely hot, and is a man who always gets what he wants and what he wants is Alexis.
She does a relatively good job resisting Bryce at first, but the undeniable chemistry, sexual tension, and playfulness between the two of them is intense. Bryce has copious amounts of money, sex appeal, and above all else, is a genuinely nice guy. Bryce has been waiting for his one true love to come along, and he is positive that one true love is Alexis.
There is one problem, she is happily married to Rick. And, no matter how strong her feelings for Bryce are, she is adamant she will not cheat. She draws a line in the sand but finds it increasingly hard not to cross. Will she succumb to Temptation?
Review- This woman sure knows how to write! Thank you K.M Golland for making me almost wet myself with laughter, curl my toes in anticipation and sweat from all of the deliciousness that is Bryce Clark.
We follow Alexis as she leaves her mummy wardrobe and housewife life to head back out into the workforce. She didn't know how much more than just a job she would be getting. The immediate attraction between Alexis and her boss Bryce was electric and full of sexual tension. I was half expecting the pages to ignite right in front of me. His want and need for her was so powerful and the fact that he wasn't afraid to show it, regardless of her marital status, made him all the more sexy and alluring.
"There was a snigger around the room, and I noticed one of the ladies in the front row licking her lips. I wanted to slap her, hard! Better still, I wanted to slap both her ears at the same time and poke my fingers into her trachea."
Golland created such an intense chemistry between Alexis and Bryce. Even though Alexis is married, I still found myself warring over what was right and wrong. I was sucked into the story and voiced my opinions as if they mattered and the characters were real. "You may be happily married girl, but you can't deny the fire you feel with Bryce." I felt myself cringing at times trying to shield myself from what I knew was going to happen because when it came down to it, she's still married.
"You have played on the obvious sexual tension we share and have forced me to cross the line. this might be a game for you, but it's not for me. So, if you want to play your little touchy-feely wine and dine games with Miss Hogan , go right ahead. I'm going home to fuck my husband."
The storyline is addictive and smoldering in all the right places. I felt consumed by every word Golland wrote. She made it so easy to read and easily relateable with her smooth writing. I especially enjoyed the quick wit and sharp tongue of Alexis' inner monolog.
"Without a second thought, he hooked his thumbs into his elastic waistband and pulled them down, kicking them aside. I nearly spat my mouthful. 'You want this, Ms Summers?' he asked standing proudly before me. For the love of all things fuckable, yes!"
All in all Temptation is THE must read for the year so far with it's creative yet realistic storyline, sexually charged characters, hilarious scenes and a sinfully intense relationship.
Move over E.L James and Sylvia Day because K.M Golland is about to take over the adult fiction scene.
Christian Grey who? I want me some Bryce Clark!
Temptation will be available to purchase from all good book stockists in Australia from the 1st of May 2014. It is also available online through the following links:
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I was lucky enough to be able to ask Golland a few questions. Here is what went down.
Firstly congratulations of the release of your debut novel Temptation.
Thank you. It has been a wonderful ride so far.
What inspired you to write a story like this?
My inspiration to write this story came from enjoying and devouring stories in the same genre, except, that quite often I failed to relate to the leading female character in those books. I wanted to write a story that had fictional elements and fantasy, but also contained characters that were just like us.
In the past did you ever see yourself as a writer?
No, definitely not. I’ve always loved reading and have a vivid imagination. Oh, and I continuously have something to say. So I guess when you put those things together, there was a hidden writer in me all along.
Is there an author that you looked to for inspiration while writing Temptation?
I wouldn’t say that any writer in particular inspired me, but I do have my favourites and those who I admire for their skill and creativity. I am a big fan Sylvia Day, Zack Love and Tiffany Reisz. But I grew up admiring John Marsden, Roald Dahl and Dr Seuss.
Are you a big reader yourself?
Yes, I try to read at least one book a week regardless of whether I am writing or not. This can sometimes be a curse ☺
Do you see a bit of yourself within Alexis?
Yes, being that she was the first ever character that I wrote, I couldn’t help but put some of myself into her in parts.
Is there someone you pictured while describing Bryce?
My visual inspiration for Bryce was Alexander Skarsgard but, in saying that, all my characters have very minor blurred faces when I write them. I think this is their way of remaining somewhat indistinctive.
I found your writing style to be quite laid back and realistic, not too serious. Do you think readers will relate better to the story because of this?
I hope so as that was my intent. I wanted the story to be relatable but still have those fictional elements of fantasy that we all love to read about in a book.
What do you hope your readers will get out of reading Temptation?
A sense of association with the characters, that excited feeling when reading fiction, and the notion that life is not always what it seems therefore opening our eyes and our hearts to truly appreciate what it has to offer.
Can you tell us a little of what to expect in Satisfaction, book 2 in the Temptation series? (I'm really excited for it)
Satisfaction, for me, is all about Alexis letting go. She faces many hurdles in the book, which I enjoyed helping her jump over them. For Bryce, it’s about showing his softer side, proving his intentions and basically sweeping Alexis off her feet.
Ok so here are a couple of questions so your readers can learn a little more about the real you.
Favourite colour?
I love black but I know it is not a colour, soooo... I will go with green.
Favourite movie?
I cannot give you just one. For me, that is impossible. I can, however, watch The Star Wars saga and any of The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies over and over and over. Oh, and I love Pretty Woman ☺
Summer or Winter?
Definitely Summer.
Favourite flower?
This is where parts of me come out in Alexis... it’s a rose.
Favourite actor?
Oooh... that’s a tough one, I’d probably say Will Smith.
Pepsi... although, I don’t drink soft drink all that much.
Favourite smell?
Coffee.... although, I am a tea drinker. Go figure, LOL.
If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go?
I’ve always said Europe, and it just so happens that I am going there for the first time in July to sign at the Romance Author and Reader Event. So as you can imagine, I am beyond excited.
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. I wish you all the success with Temptation, you really deserve it.
Thank you very much for having me. And thank you for reading ;)
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**BOOK NERD BLAST** Big Fat Disaster by Beth Fehlbaum
Big Fat Disaster
By Beth Fehlbaum
Insecure, shy, and way overweight, Colby hates the limelight as much as her pageant-pretty mom and sisters love it. It's her life: Dad's a superstar, running for office on a family values platform. Then suddenly, he ditches his marriage for a younger woman and gets caught stealing money from the campaign. Everyone hates Colby for finding out and blowing the whistle on him. From a mansion, they end up in a poor relative's trailer, where her mom's contempt swells right along with Colby's supersized jeans. Then, a cruel video of Colby half-dressed, made by her cousin Ryan, finds its way onto the internet. Colby plans her own death. A tragic family accident intervenes, and Colby's role in it seems to paint her as a hero, but she's only a fraud. Finally, threatened with exposure, Colby must face facts about her selfish mother and her own shame. Harrowing and hopeful, proof that the truth that saves us can come with a fierce and terrible price, Big Fat Disaster is that rare thing, a story that is authentically new.
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In addition to writing Young Adult Contemporary Fiction, Beth Fehlbaum is an experienced English teacher who frequently draws on her experience as an educator to write her books. She has a B.A. in English, Minor in Secondary Education, and an M.Ed. in Reading. She is currently a Library Science student at Sam Houston State University. Beth is the author of Big Fat Disaster (Merit Press/F+W Media, March 2014); Courage in Patience (Kunati Books, 2008); and Hope in Patience(WestSide Books, 2010). Hope in Patience was named a 2011 YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. Truth in Patience, which rounds outThe Patience Trilogy, is as yet unpublished. The Patience Trilogy has been revised and is available for acquisition!
Beth has a following in the young adult literature world and also among survivors of sexual abuse because of her work with victims’ advocacy groups. She has been the keynote speaker at the National Crime Victims’ Week Commemoration Ceremony at the Hall of State in Dallas, Texas and a presenter for Greater Texas Community Partners, where she addressed a group of social workers and foster children on the subject of “Hope”.
Beth is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, like Ashley in The Patience Trilogy, and the day-to-day manager of an eating disorder much like Colby’s in Big Fat Disaster. These life experiences give her a unique perspective, and she writes her characters’ stories in a way meant to inspire hope.
Beth lives with her family in the woods of East Texas.
You can find Beth online at http:www.bethfehlbaumbooks.com on Facebook, and on https://twitter.com/bethfehlbaum
Choosing You Blog Tour!
Choosing You
(The Jade Series, #1)
by Allie Everhart
Publication date: September 23rd 2013
When Jade is given a scholarship to an elite private college in Connecticut, she sees it as a chance to finally escape her painful past and get a fresh start. She’s determined to succeed and that means keeping her focus on school and not guys. But her plan falls apart her first day on campus when Garret, a rich prep school boy with swimmer abs and a perfect smile, offers to help her move in.
Jade tries to push him away, but she can’t deny her attraction to him and Garret won’t let her. Things quickly heat up between them, but then come to a sudden halt when reality hits and Jade realizes that a relationship with Garret may never be possible. He comes from a world of wealth where there are rules, including rules about who he can date. And not following those rules has consequences.
As the two of them try to overcome the obstacles working to keep them apart, Jade is confronted with another challenge. On her 19th birthday, she receives a letter that her now deceased mother wrote years ago. In it are revelations that explain her traumatic childhood but also make her question the past she’s been running from.
The Jade Series is a New Adult Romance that follows the relationship of Jade and Garret in their first year of college. In Choosing You, (book 1), Jade and Garret meet on Jade’s first night at Moorhurst College and despite their strong attraction to each other, they’re not allowed to date because of the strict rules that control Garret’s life. In Knowing You, (book 2), Garret breaks the family rules and begins dating Jade. Their relationship grows deeper but issues from Jade’s past complicate matters. Loving You (book 3) shows Jade and Garret growing closer as a couple but also hints at the trouble that lies ahead in Promising You (book 4), in which a new challenge emerges for Garret that could interfere with the future he wants with Jade. Originally, book 4 was the end of the series, but fans wanted to read more about Jade and Garret, so Allie is now in the process of writing Forever You, an all-new, full-length follow-up book to The Jade Series releasing later this spring!
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**COVER REVEAL** Fruit of Misfortune by Nely Cab
Fruit of Misfortune
(Creatura, #2)
Publication date: May 1st 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult
Isis and her boyfriend, David, are on the brink of a horrible transformation and they are eager to stop it. Together, they set out on a quest to Greece to find Isis’ biological father—the only person that may be able to help them. Their journey comes to an abrupt stop before it even begins when Isis falls ill, and Eros, David’s best friend, arrives in Athens, unannounced and curious…with a plan of his own.
The hunt for her father leads Isis on the turbulent path of deceit, death, and demons as she anticipates the dawning of the beast that stirs inside her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T4ugw4zqkU
Nely Cab has lived and resided in a small, quiet South Texas town most of her life. She worked in banking for several years, before she relocated to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 2001, where she dedicated time to the study of culinary arts and the art of oil painting. After her return to the U.S., Nely resumed her employment in banking and later transitioned to the field of Social Work.
Today, Nely Cab writes from the comfort of her home, where she lives with her husband and son. Her life goal is to check-off Bucket List Item No. 95,623,351: To Conquer the World. While she aspires world domination, Nely can be found lost in other fantasy worlds in front of her computer, sipping coffee.
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PRELUDE BUY LINK: Amazon
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Review- Perfectly Broken by Prescott Lane
Title- Perfectly Broken
Author- Prescott Lane
Genre- Contemporary Romance/ Adult
Release Date- 25th of March 2014
Self Published
Review copy provided by author.
Blurb- Even after years of trauma therapy, Peyton still believes she’s broken. She has little desire to date or show off her natural beauty, content simply to hang out with her best friends and run her pie shop in New Orleans. But her world turns upside-down when a handsome architect and self-confessed player shows up in her shop and thinks she’s perfect, much more than the usual hook-up. While Peyton does her best to resist his charms, believing she could never be enough for him, she can’t deny the obvious heat between them. With Reed determined to have her, Peyton must decide whether to continue to hide behind her apron and baggy clothes or take a chance and share her scars with Reed, a man with a playboy reputation and scars of his own -- a dark past he can’t possibly share with Peyton, not after learning the horrors she’s endured. But if they can find a way to trust each other, and themselves, they just might be able to heal, to save each other, to live perfectly broken together.
Review- Perfectly Broken is a story of overwhelming heartache and trauma and fighting to overcome the nightmares that haunt Peyton on a daily basis. When Reed comes along, Peyton's world is thrown upside down and she is forced to face her demons head on. She is forced to open herself to learn to trust again and to be loved which she doesn't think she deserves.
Prescott Lane delivers a story that is raw and emotional with a storyline that is sure to capture it's reader. It was touching and brought out so many feelings and emotions in myself as a reader, which is so important. I found myself going from happy to sad and at times found myself frustrated and anxious. I fell in love with the realistic characters which had unique and different personalities. I also loved the true and honest friendships Prescott created between the characters.
While the writing style could use a tweaking here and there, Prescott sure has a promising future as a really great author.
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Labels: Adult Fiction, Prescott Lane, romance
**BOOK BLITZ** Freedom by S.A. Wolfe
(Fearsome, #2)
by S.A. Wolfe
Publication date: April 7th 2014
*This is a stand-alone sequel to Fearsome. No cliffhanger!
Dylan Blackard is back in town and certain everyone knows his secrets.
Putting away his notorious reputation as the wild guy with a womanizing past, he’s now on a new path, wanting to be the good guy his brother can stop worrying over. As long as he gives up his old vices—including women—he can keep himself on the straight and narrow and finally live up to everyone’s expectations.
However, obsessing about his lack of self-control is making Dylan one humorless, cranky hermit. That all changes, though, when his brother hires a new employee, the stunning Emma Keller, who will be sharing an office with him and all of his tightly wound nerves.
Emma, a spunky young woman from New Jersey, isn’t about to feel sorry for Dylan and his situation. She is beyond distracting to him, and that is enough to turn his emotional balancing act upside down. Not only is she intelligent, and a smart aleck, she’s also very determined to pull the sexy Dylan Blackard out of his self-imposed isolation.
From the moment he meets her, he feels alive again, but Emma doesn’t come as a gift with a pretty bow; she comes with major baggage—a family embedded in its own tumultuous history.
Will Emma be the tipping point that causes Dylan to regress into his past destructive behaviors…or will he actually pursue her for keeps?
*Due to adult language and sexual content, this New Adult Contemporary Romance is intended for readers over the age of 18.
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(The Resistance Trilogy, #4)
by Rachael Wade
Publication date: August 25th 2013
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For Gavin and Camille, the Amaranthian war is over. But they’ve evolved since then, and so has the realm they’ve come to know as home. Now comfortable and happy in their new life, they soon discover that something groundbreaking is brewing, threatening to disrupt the peace they’ve worked so hard to secure. And whether they’re prepared or not, it’s about to be unearthed.
Review & Giveaway- The Right Temptation by Diane Escalera
Title- The Right Temptation
Author- Diane Escalera
Genre- Romance
Release Date- 3rd of June 2013
Publisher- Lyrical Press
Blurb- Can a childhood crush mature into the real thing? Kayla Martinez has recently landed an RN position at a prestigious hospital in her hometown. The new job is everything she's hoped for, especially when one hot specimen shows up in the ER. She hasn't seen her childhood crush in years, and considering how much hotter he's gotten over time, she almost ends up needing resuscitation. The last thing Nico LaCosta needs is a broken arm. Now his pal's kid sister wants to soothe his pain, but he'd rather keep his distance so her big brother doesn't break his other arm. Kayla's no child anymore, though. She's one hot-blooded woman, determined to remind him of a mind-blowing kiss back when they were teenagers. Leave it to Kayla to drop by his house unannounced and play Nurse Seductive. A guy has to follow the buddy code, or face the consequences. Still, sometimes giving in to temptation is worth it...
Review- This smoking hot novella is sure to get your blood heated with it's sexually charged tension and deliciously hot scenes. With a determined Kayla set on getting what she wants, we finally have a read where it's the woman who has the power to get what she wants. A 'go get em' kind of girl. And who can resist a spunky Latino trying to do the right thing, then unleashing his devilish self.
The Right Temptation has an addictive storyline that's easy to follow and is delicious in all the right places. Put this on your 'must read list' ladies!
Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, Diane Escalera makes her home in coastal North Carolina. The sultry surroundings are a steady source of inspiration for her hot love stories. Diane is married, has two children and a super cute dachshund she can’t get enough of. She writes contemporary romance and is published with Kensington Publishing and Lyrical Press.
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(Uni Files, #1)
by Anna Bloom
Publication date: September 25th 2013
For Lilah McCannon, life has taken a bit of a wrong turn. Engaged to a guy she is not in love with and stuck in a job with her tyrannical father as her boss, life has definitely not turned out the way she expected.
At twenty-five years old, Lilah knows that she has a simple choice: live the life she has created or change it.
Enrolling on a course at the local University, Lilah sets out with some clear rules to ensure her success at being a grown-up. No alcohol, no cigarettes, no boys, and no going home. But the last thing she anticipates is meeting Ben Chambers, the lead singer of a local band. With Ben, it’s instant, it’s hot, and it’s deep, but when Ben is offered the opportunity of a lifetime and it looks like his future lies on a different path to hers, Lilah has some heart-rending decisions to make.
With the academic year slipping by too quickly, Lilah faces a barrage of new challenges. Will she ever make it up the library stairs without having a heart attack? Can she handle a day on campus without drinking vodka? Will she ever manage to read a history book without falling asleep? Most of all, will she be able to make the ultimate sacrifice and learn The Art of Letting Go?
**BOOK BLITZ** One Broke Girl by Rhonda Helms
One Broke Girl
(Edgewood Falls, #1)
by Rhonda Helms
Anna Parker’s life disintegrates with one phone call. Her dad’s selling their ritzy New York City condo because her Wall Street banker mom emptied their bank account and ran off with another man. Which means Anna has to drop out of her elite college and move with Dad back to their small Ohio hometown. Anna’s determined to reclaim her life ASAP, so she’ll use the next few months to save money, help Dad get back on his feet, and find and confront her mom.
But Anna doesn’t anticipate things going so wrong. The only job she can get is working as a lunch lady in an elementary school. Their money-pit duplex is falling apart around their feet. And her dad is depressed without her mom, who’s proving hard to find.
One bright spot in the chaos is Gavin Metcalf, a kindergarten teacher she dated when they were young teens. With his easy wit and sexy smiles, he makes her forget her stresses—and the fact that her boyfriend Steven back in New York doesn’t know the truth yet about her dire circumstances. When past and present collide, Anna has to decide where her future lies…
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(Life, #2)
by Claudia Y. Burgoa
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult
…I need time. Time to heal those wings and learn to use them…
Was part of the letter Rebecca Trent, Daniel Brightmore’s fiancée and best friend left when she ran away. The person he trusted the most for the past decade disappeared without giving him a second glance. She taught him how to love, believe in family and that everyone deserves a happily ever after. Now he’s struggling between wiping any traces of her from his life and drowning his sorrows away with the help of his new best friends—Don Julio and Jack Daniels.
Rebecca’s past suffocated her to the point of not wanting to continue, her lifeline and the only reason to live began to withdraw from her. She wished it had been her imagination, but heard it loud and clear: “If not, there’s always a divorce, nothing is forever.” This time it became a leave or die situation. Something has got to change—she had to change. Packing light and leaving a letter behind, she takes a journey that can help her find herself through the shards of her painful childhood.
As letters, memories and stories are exchanged, two once inseparable people reconcile what’s left of their relationship. Beyond the confines of everything they built together, they’re left with two lonely people searching for what it means to be whole. Will they find meaning under their bruised psyches or will their pasts get the better of them?
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Maru Nihoniho discusses Māori culture, New Zealand’s gaming industry, Metia Interactive and her latest game “Guardian Maia”
"...Dealing with cultural content isn’t something to take lightly, especially if you are from that culture as well..."
by Nicholas Yanes February 25, 2019
When people discuss the video game industry’s presence around the globe, many overlook what is going on in New Zealand. Though New Zealand is small, it is home to a growing and vibrant video game industry. One such member of this community is Maru Nihoniho and her company Metia Interactive. Metia just released its most recent game, Guardian Maia – Episode 1 (which you can get for free on iOS here and Android here). Wanting to learn more Guardian Maia, Metia Interactive, game dev in New Zealand, and her background, I was able to interview Nihoniho for ScifiPulse.
You can learn more about Metia Interactive by visiting its homepage, following it on Twitter at @MetiaNZ, and liking it on Facebook. And feel free to follow Maru Nihoniho on Twitter at @MaruNihoniho.
Nicholas Yanes: Growing up, what were some video games that you loved playing? Are there any games from your youth you still enjoy revisiting?
Maru Nihoniho: In the 80’s I used to play arcade games in the takeaway shops, like Moon Patrol, Galaga, Defender and Space Invaders. A game that I still enjoy playing today from the 90’s is Sonic the Hedgehog.
Yanes: When did you know you wanted to pursue a career in game development? Was there a specific moment this goal crystalized for you?
Nihoniho: That happened about 16 years ago, that’s when I decided to start my own games company. I thought to myself that I want to make games because I enjoyed playing them. I had no game development experience so decided to put myself through a one-year course to gain some relevant knowledge that could help me in my journey ahead. After I finished that course, I founded Metia Interactive and 2 years later had my first internationally published game called Cube on the PlayStation Portable.
Yanes: Like most Americans, I am sadly unaware of what goes on in other countries. Could you take a moment to describe what the gaming industry in New Zealand is like? (On this note, do know that I am insanely jealous you get to live in New Zealand which just looks beautiful.)
Nihoniho: Although small compared to the international scene, the gaming industry here is growing fast. We have large studios and small ones like mine with a strong indie scene here as well. The games industry here could be our next creative industry boom if our government supports it as much as they do our film industry. In the meantime, we’re all just making our mark and creating cool content.
(New Zealand is beautiful, we have great landscapes and scenery which makes for excellent backdrops for Guardian Maia 😊 We’re quite multicultural here too especially in Auckland which is known as the Pacific capital of the world. The climate is not to bad either.)
Yanes: You founded Metia Interactive in 2003. What were the motivations behind founding Metia? Specifically, were there gaps in the market you wanted to fill?
Nihoniho: I wanted to tell Maori stories through games. I could see that Maori made and told stories were having success in the film industry so thought games would be the next step in getting our stories out there. My first attempt was to create a fictional story based on Maori cultural elements and mythology with a sci-fi twist, something different and not told yet.
Yanes: Metia Interactive has now been around for over 15 years. In this time, what do you think are some of the biggest changes the gaming industry has gone through?
Nihoniho: The biggest change I have seen was the mobile game market, changing the way games are published and the business models that go with that. Previously you would develop a game and get it sold through publishers to retail stores off and online. Today you can develop a mobile game quickly and cost effectively and publish it yourself however making the game is only half of what you do now, analyzing data, marketing and making audiences aware of your game is a completely different story and that itself is a challenge.
Yanes: Metia Interactive recently released the game Guardian Maia. What was the inspiration behind this game’s creation?
Nihoniho: Guardian was an idea I had before I started Metia back in 2003. I had planned for it to be my first game, an action adventure styled game like Tomb Raider but realized quickly a game like that was going to require a large team to develop and a large budget. At that time, I had neither. Fast forward a few years and the mobile market presented opportunities to get the same story told but in a different format. I was able to design a proof of concept which ended up becoming interactive fiction now published on Google Play and the App Store and now called Guardian Maia Episode 1, part one of a duology. Maia is the lead character and she is a guardian.
Guardianship or kaitiakitanga is an important aspect of our culture. The Maori world view kaitiakitanga means protection or preservation where there is kinship between humans and the natural world. A guardian or kaitiaki is a person who is recognised by the people of a tribal group or Iwi and this person acts as the protector of their assigned area such as a lake or forest or special valued items.
Guardian Maia is a way to highlight aspects of the Maori culture here in New Zealand and around the world. It is a way to promote Maori culture and New Zealand in a unique way. Popular games based on other cultures have introduced players to the stories of other peoples and I see a future where the rest of the world will know more about the Maori culture from games made here.
Yanes: Guardian Maia is based on Māori beliefs and myths. Were there any challenges in adapting these stories into the videogame medium?
Nihoniho: Dealing with cultural content isn’t something to take lightly, especially if you are from that culture as well. I did take creative license in a respectful way. The main challenge was to integrate the cultural elements with the sci-fi setting, so it made sense. The mythological themes in the story lent itself well to the sci-fi elements.
Yanes: The homepage for Guardian Maia mentioned that a live-action movie is being planned. What would need to happen for this film to become a reality? Additionally, what are your other long-term goals for Guardian Maia?
Nihoniho: Initially Guardian Maia was a proof of concept, a story that I wanted to tell. That story lends itself to different formats such as the gamebooks, a planned action adventure game and potentially a movie. I’m not sure if that movie will be real-life or animated. It could be an interactive film because we already have a game script based on choice and consequence. I’m currently looking at using the Unity game engine to create an animated feature. I’d like to see Guardian Maia expand into one or more of the above as there’s so much more to show and tell.
Yanes: When people finish playing Guardian Maia, what do you hope they take away from the experience?
Nihoniho: I have had comments about the Maori content in my story, things like “no-one overseas will get it” or ‘won’t know who Maori” are and “it’ll be a hard sell”. There’s only one way to find out and that’s just to do it and get something out there. From my perspective it doesn’t matter if someone doesn’t even know where New Zealand is or who Maori are because the story is relatable. I think other indigenous cultures will connect with our idea of guardianship and everyone will get the story. It’s unique, cultural, interactive, historical science fiction and I hope that my small contribution will get people interested in our culture and they will want to learn more.
Yanes: Finally, what else are you working on that people can look forward to?
Nihoniho: We are a couple of months away from releasing Guardian Maia Episode 2, the conclusion. This will also be available on both the App and Google Play stores.
Apart from that we are to finish up a completely different game for the mobile called Takaro that teaches coding concepts in a 3D environment. That game also integrates Maori language and is based on a space hub called Matariki. Matariki is the Maori name for the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades and when it rises in May or June, we celebrate our new year. Integrating the Maori cultural element into this game was done purely for our young people to see something relevant to them, something they can see themselves in. I want to incorporate our culture into our games whether that’s obvious or subtle.
Remember, you can learn more about Metia Interactive by visiting its homepage, following it on Twitter at @MetiaNZ, and liking it on Facebook. And feel free to follow Maru Nihoniho on Twitter at @MaruNihoniho.
And remember to follow me on twitter @NicholasYanes, and to follow ScifiPulse on twitter @SciFiPulse and on facebook.
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In Review: Turok (2019-) #2
by Ian Cullen - Feb 25, 2019
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Mon-Khmer leids
The Mon-Khmer leids are a leid family o Sootheast Asie. Thegither wi the Munda leids o Indie, they are ane o the twa traditional primary branches o the Austroasiatic family. Housomeivver, several recent classifications hae abandoned this dichotomy, either reducin the scope o Mon-Khmer (Diffloth 2005) or breakin it up entirely (or equivalently reclassifyin Munda as a branch o Mon-Khmer: Peiros 1998). See Austroasiatic leids.
The reconstructed ancestor o the Mon-Khmer leid is the Proto-Mon-Khmer leid.
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Adams, K. L. (1989). Systems of numeral classification in the Mon-Khmer, Nicobarese and Aslian subfamilies of Austroasiatic. Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 0858833735
Diffloth, Gérard. A History of the Khmer Language. [199-].
Filbeck, D. (1978). T'in: a historical study. Pacific linguistics, no. 49. Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 0858831724
Hemeling, K. (1907). Die Nanking Kuanhua. (German language)
Shorto, H. L. Bibliographies of Mon-Khmer and Tai Linguistics. London oriental bibliographies, v. 2. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
Shorto, Harry L. edited by Sidwell, Paul, Cooper, Doug and Bauer, Christian (2006). A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary. Canberra: Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 0-85883-570-3
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Mon-Khmer leids at SEAlang
Mon-Khmer.com: Lectures bi Paul Sidwell
Mon-Khmer languages at Ethnologue
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* March 23, 2017: [http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1085297/ CTV Toronto] covers the 9th annual Toronto (ON)School SCRABBLE Championship.
* December 11, 2019: [https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg-scrabble-club-a-community-of-competitive-word-lovers-seeking-their-next-highest-score-1.4725115 CTV News] visits Winnipeg (MB) NASPA Club #498.
* November 28, 2019: The [https://www.expressnews.com/news/education/amp/San-Antonio-boy-10-to-compete-in-Scrabble-world-14867781.php?fbclid=IwAR1sn-4aYr5u7CO_c6UMVv9u2XuUWwGzFzXcF2ccDJgGneK-jZDxqGS9y74 San Antonio Express-News] profiles Ricky Rodriguez before the WESPA Youth Cup.
** December 2, 2019: San Antonio Express-News published a [https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/V-I-C-T-O-R-Y-seven-times-for-young-San-Antonio-14874426.php follow-up article] after the tournament.
* [[Dean Saldanha]] and Dielle Pinto will be on Team Canada at the [[2019 WESPA Championship |WESPA Championships]] in Goa, India, in mid-October.
** October 12, 2019: [https://www.princegeorgematters.com/local-news/scrabble-challenge-takes-these-bc-siblings-to-india-1731707 Prince George Matters] article.
** October 6, 2019: [https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-scrabble-champions-to-represent-canada-at-goa-championships-oct-16-20 Vancouver Sun] article.
** September 30, 2019: [https://www.richmond-news.com/news/scrabble-challenge-takes-siblings-to-india-1.23962165 Richmond (BC) News] article.
* September 11, 2019: [https://smile.amazon.com/Your-Move-Board-Games-Teach/dp/1999439546/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g3905707922?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&ie=UTF8 Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life], a book written by Jonathan Kay and Joan Moriarity, features [[John Chew]] in its chapter on SCRABBLE.
* August 14, 2019: [https://www.barrietoday.com/whats-up-wednesday/whats-in-a-word-could-be-lots-of-points-at-the-barrie-scrabble-club-1639985 Barrie Today] spotlights the recently formed recreational club in Barrie (ON).
* August 13, 2019: [https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2019/08/13/orlando-scrabble-club-art-moore?fbclid=IwAR3u7Yg_i2BHhwyboN9GmIzR5EVhvq5bN01I1VTjnLl5JCJwefgxtdceHSE# Spectrum News 13] visits Casselberry-Orlando NASPA Club #438 and talks to director [[Arthur Moore |Art Moore]].
* 2019 North American SCRABBLE Championship in Reno (NV)
** July 26, 2019: [https://lynnwoodtoday.com/lynnwood-man-becomes-youngest-north-american-scrabble-champion Lynnwood Today] reports on Lynnwood resident and North American SCRABBLE Champion [[Alec Sjoholm]].
** July 24, 2019: [https://www.kolotv.com/content/news/Top-scrabble-players-compete-for-national-title--513135661.html KOLO 8 ABC] interviews [[Joshua Sokol]] and [[John Chew]].
** July 24, 2019: [https://www.ktvn.com/story/40833013/intense-wordplay-in-reno-the-north-american-scrabble-championships KTVN 2] interviews Deborah Komatsu, Cheryl Kagan, [[Andy Hoang]], and [[John Chew]].
* July 24, 2019: The Angry Grammarian at the [https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/scrabble-dictionary-tournament-words-language-20190724.html Philadelphia Inquirer] interviews 2017 North American SCRABBLE Champion [[Will Anderson]] and [[John Chew]] about why slurs are allowed in tournament and club play.
* [[Cornelia Guest]] ran a SCRABBLE tournament in conjunction with the Newtown (CT) Bridge Club's 3rd annual Longest Day fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association on June 19th.
** July 1, 2019: The [https://www.newtownbee.com/bridge-fans-scrabblers-converge-%E2%80%98longest-day%E2%80%99-fundraiser/07012019 Newtown Bee] covers the event.
** May 24, 2019: The [https://www.newtownbee.com/longest-day-fundraiser-support-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-association/05242019 Newtown Bee] announces the event.
* May 8, 2019: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJuLtETpzms&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2KvBEaWrcHDabwapCNRYvsiME9rL6ld83s5Dbj56IJVlRAr5w-Fbnr9ho WGBY] profiles Northampton (MA) NASPA Club #667 - including interviews with director Brett Constantine, NASC 2018 Div 4 champion Evan Yurko, and 2019 North American School SCRABBLE Championship director Ben Greenwood.
* May 2, 2019: The [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/arts/scrabble-new-words.html New York Times] interviews NASPA co-president [[John Chew]] about the release of the Collins 2019 lexicon.
== Older Mention ==
* Youth player Ricky Rodriguez is interviewed by local San Antonio (TX) media.
** May 7, 2019: [https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/kid-scrabble-champ-gains-national-attention Fox29] in San Antonio interviews Ricky after his return from the North American School SCRABBLE Championship where his team placed 3rd in the Challenge Division.
** April 26, 2019: The [https://therivardreport.com/after-finding-success-in-scrabble-san-antonio-kid-heads-to-national-championships/?fbclid=IwAR1ZGlsm2q2PvQW2qZ5Rx3PEQHqXQogwHV2UXLK2zVp6_MxKwXlGlkMh5ZU Rivard Report] profiles Ricky as he heads to the North American School SCRABBLE Championship.
** February 1, 2019: [https://www.kens5.com/video/news/young-scrabble-genius-from-sa-competes-all-over-the-country/273-61b7870f-bbe7-46f7-9a4c-eb24f40e11a5?fbclid=IwAR3829p0wxdmbMnAQqrtoUK7XO4eTFzrQ040Sq5bb3v8SlfLLK6PEk8z9MA CBS KENS-TV] interviews Ricky and his mother, Erin, at Austin (TX) NASPA Club #234.
** December 30, 2018: [https://www.ksat.com/news/whats-up-south-texas-boy-on-autism-spectrum-dominates-the-game-of-scrabble?fbclid=IwAR0Poo0aBIddRkuNAdGbYqy9EwIRvflym7vWd_mI-3BEWLLOv2AY4LnaeB0 ABC KSAT12] interviewed Ricky on the "What's Up South Texas" segment.
** November 22, 2018: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IysIy-jqpqc Fox 29's Daytime at 9 with Kimberly and Esteban] invited Ricky to share some SCRABBLE tips and tricks.
* April 1, 2019: [https://www.pressreader.com/usa/readers-digest/20190401/textview Reader's Digest] profiles [[2018 North American SCRABBLE Championship | 2018 NASC]] champion [[Joel Sherman]] in its I Won! series.
* Business Insider reporter and NASPA member Mark Abadi offers SCRABBLE tips to readers:
** February 10, 2019: [https://www.businessinsider.com/scrabble-vs-words-with-friends-differences-2019-2 Play SCRABBLE rather than Words With Friends]
** February 2, 2019: [https://www.businessinsider.com/scrabble-tips-biggest-mistakes-2019-2 Avoid these mistakes]
** January 27, 2019: [https://www.businessinsider.com/scrabble-strategy-tips-hotspots-2019-1 Look out for hotspots]
** December 29, 2018: [https://www.businessinsider.com/scrabble-improve-skills-anagrams-bingos-2018-12 Learn the 2-letter words]
* March 21, 2019: [http://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/scrabble-queen-cornelia-guest-is-training-child-champions-of-the/article_9793643e-4697-11e9-9f6f-0ffbdd3ea6d2.html?fbclid=IwAR28fPWeRR9_Ozy1Mn7rc9FRPCtLmfJKWVB0lRNuGg_Qg1KVu7nQWJQNqKk Connecticut Magazine] profiles NASPA Person of the Year [[Cornelia Guest]] with a focus on her Youth SCRABBLE coaching.
* March 8, 2019: An [https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/words-words-words-a-reporter-challenges-a-scrabble-fanatic/article_e4458f70-3fba-11e9-83bc-53fc38b6d282.html East Oregonian] reporter takes on NASPA member John Lauck.
* January 7, 2019: [[Stefan Fatsis]] discusses ties in tournament SCRABBLE on the [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hang-up-and-listen/id327595087?mt=2 Hang Up and Listen] podcast. Jeffrey Jacobson had 3 ties in a 7-game tournament in [https://www.cross-tables.com/tourney.php?tourneyid=10546 Levittown (PA)] on January 5, 2019.
* December 22, 2018: The [https://nypost.com/2018/12/22/scrabble-savant-campaigning-against-adding-ok-to-official-list/ New York Post] reports on [[Joel Sherman]]'s campaign against the inclusion of OK.
* December 13, 2018: [http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/does-scrabble-need-to-be-fixed?fbclid=IwAR3atsOQ10cM0Thl2jBsM_G3M6oHHQUx9FOR876tsnqCdTB2Wak5Ju_A4BY Nautilus] article on SCRABBLE tile distribution includes interviews with NASPA members Lynda Woods Cleary and [[Stefan Fatsis]].
* November 1, 2018: [https://www.awslife.com/filerepository/archives/11-18awsl/index.html Altamonte-Wekiva Springs Life] puts Casselberry/Orlando NASPA Club #438 on the cover.
* Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary 6th Edition (OSPD6)
** October 4, 2018: The [https://www.wsj.com/articles/scrabble-is-a-lousy-game-1538667637 Wall Street Journal] comments on the release of OSPD6 and SCRABBLE as a game. Author Jonathan Kay mentions NASC champions [[Adam Logan]], [[Nigel Richards]], and [[James Leong]] and recalls tournaments he attended with [[John Chew]].
** September 27, 2018: [[John Chew]] and [[Robin Pollock Daniel]] conducted 22 interviews with Canadian media, including the [https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1330770499966 Calgary Eyeopener].
** September 24, 2018: The [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/arts/new-scrabble-words.html New York Times] interviews [[John Chew]] about the release of the OSPD6.
** September 24, 2018: [https://www.businessinsider.com/ok-added-to-scrabble-dictionary-2018-9 Business Insider] reporter and NASPA player Mark Abadi discusses the addition of OK with [[Jackson Smylie]], [[Judy Cole]], and Ben Schoenbrun.
** September 24, 2018: Associated Press release, as seen in the [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-scrabble-adds-300-new-words-ok-20180924-story.html?outputType=amp New York Daily News] and other publications, mentions Merriam-Webster's consultation with NASPA on new words.
* August 31, 2018: The [http://www.centraljersey.com/news/the_princeton_packet/stories/local-club-celebrates-two-decades-of-scrabble-games-tournaments/article_5941ad7b-5ebd-5875-9c4a-153d524f4016.html Princeton Packet] reports on the 20th anniversary of Princeton (NJ) NASPA Club #513.
* Nigerian asylum seeker Olakunle Azeez Omopariola joins Cote St Luc (QC) NASPA Club #83.
** September 11, 2018: [https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/nigerian-asylum-seeker-finding-solace-through-scrabble-1.4089963 CTV News]
**August 29, 2018: [https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/nigerian-scrabble-champion-seeks-asylum-in-montreal Montreal Gazette]
* August 25, 2018: [https://www.businessinsider.com/scrabble-improve-score-two-letter-words-2018-8 Business Insider] reporter and NASPA member Mark Abadi advises readers to learn the 2-letter words.
* August 16, 2018: The [https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/2018/08/16/scrabble-coach-named-person-of-the-year/ Ridgefield Press] reports on [[Cornelia Guest]] being named NASPA Person of the Year.
* 4th Niagara Falls International Open
** July 29, 2018: [https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news-story/8768788-niagara-to-host-international-scrabble-tourney/ The Niagara Falls Review]
* 2018 North American SCRABBLE Championship
** August 22, 2018: [http://dailytimes.com/promotions/article_f0908c22-a60d-11e8-beba-e73f90798560.html Kerrville Daily Times] - Interviews [[Deborah Gaudier]] on the NASC and Niagara Open.
** August 19, 2018: [https://www.gazettenet.com/Editorial-Monday-mix-on-potato-kings-Scrabble-champ-young-bakers-19538057 Daily Hampshire Gazette] - Congratulates Evan Yurko on his Division 4 win.
** August 14, 2018: [https://www.gazettenet.com/Evan-Yurko-Scrabble-champ-19400455 Daily Hampshire Gazette] - Includes interviews with NASC Division 4 winner Evan Yurko, Brett Constantine, and Ben Greenwood.
** August 10, 2018: [https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-scrabble-champions-spellbinding-comeback-1533898800 Wall Street Journal]
** August 10, 2018: [https://buffalonews.com/2018/08/10/wordsmiths-of-the-gaming-world-unite-in-buffalo/ Buffalo News]
** August 8, 2018: [http://event.scrabbleplayers.org/2018/nsc/build/nasc-winner-release.pdf NASPA Press Release]
** August 8, 2018: [http://news.wbfo.org/post/scrabble-lovers-buffalo-north-american-tournament WBFO NPR 88.7] - Includes interviews with Evan Berofsky, NASPA co-president [[John Chew]], and NASC division leader [[ Jason Idalski]].
** August 7, 2018: [https://www.wkbw.com/news/2018-north-american-scrabble-championship-spells-its-way-into-buffalo WKBW ABC 7] - Includes interviews with Brett Constantine, Karen Richards, [[Sue Tremblay]], and [[Jason Broersma]]
** August 7, 2018: [https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/scrabble-players-compete-for-title-in-buffalo/71-581463622 WGRZ NBC 2] - Includes interview with NASC director [[Arthur Moore]].
* 2017 NASC champion [[Will Anderson]] throws out first pitch as part of Jacksonville (FL) Jumbo Shrimp team's celebration of SCRABBLE's 70th anniversary.
** July 19, 2018: [https://www.milb.com/milb/news/jacksonville-jumbo-shrimp-stage-a-scrabble-celebration/c-286300622 MiLB.com]
** July 19, 2018: [https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/sports/back-to-the-minors-exploring-america-through-minor-league-baseball/77-575569218 First Coast News]
** July 11, 2018: [http://news.sportslogos.net/2018/07/11/jumbo-shrimp-target-world-record-on-words-with-fans-day/ SportsLogos.net]
** July 11, 2018: [http://arizonasports.com/story/1594715/double-a-baseball-team-wear-scrabble-inspired-jerseys/ Arizona Sports 98.7 FM]
** March 20, 2018: [https://frntofficesport.com/why-the-jacksonville-jumbo-shrimp-are-celebrating-the-anniversary-of-a-board-game/ Front Office Sports]
* 2018 [[Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]]
** June 19, 2018: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canadian-national-scrabble-championship-eric-tran-winner-1.4712256 CBC News] reports about [[Eric Tran]] winning the CNSC, based on an earlier interview on CBC Radio's Calgary Eyeopener program
** June 18, 2018: [https://www.bttoronto.ca/videos/the-10th-annual-canadian-scrabble-championship/ Breakfast Television] interviews NASPA co-president [[John Chew]] about the 2018 [[Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]].
* June 19, 2018: [https://www.wdel.com/features/wordless-wilmington-scrabble-club-gets-a-visit-from-national-scrabble/article_36da33aa-7426-11e8-b9cf-f76e9e04eba2.html WDEL 101.7 FM] reports on a visit by 2017 NASC champion [[Will Anderson]] to [https://sites.google.com/site/delawarescrabble/home Wilmington (DE) NASPA Club #599].
* May 23, 2018: [https://www.ozy.com/provocateurs/could-he-be-the-youngest-scrabble-champ-ever/86265 OZY] profiles SCRABBLE Grandmaster [[Mack Meller]].
* May 22, 2018: [http://newton.wickedlocal.com/news/20180522/newton-scrabble-champion-has-game-plan-for-success Newton Wicked Local] interviews Lexington (MA) NASPA Club #108 member Marvin Kraus about his division win at the annual BAT (Boston Area Tournament).
* May 13, 2018: The [http://www.philly.com/philly/news/scrabble-champ-will-anderson-lancaster-strategy-20180513.html Philadelphia Inquirer] interviews NASC champion [[Will Anderson]].
* May 13, 2018: The [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2018/05/13/scrabble-with-the-stars-spells-success-for-pal-toronto-charity.html Toronto Star] profiles jazz artist/composer and NASPA member [[Fern Lindzon]] who will serve as one of the experts at this year's SCRABBLE With the Stars fundraiser.
* April 12, 2018: [http://www.rhodes.edu/stories/can-scrabble-help-teach-writing-one-rhodes-professor-thinks-so Rhodes College] professor (and SCRABBLE Expert) Scott Garner works SCRABBLE into the curriculum.
* February 17, 2018: [http://shep.ca/waffles/audio/Josh-and-Shan-Interview.mp3 CFRC-FM] interviews [[Shan Abbasi]] and [[Josh Greenway]] about the Kingston (ON) Open.
* Northampton (MA) NASPA Club #667 organized a charity tournament to benefit 3 local charities.
** February 19, 2018: The [http://www.gazettenet.com/Editorial-Monday-mix-on-dyslexia-podcast-Scrabble-for-charity-Jewish-Book-Award-15596411 Daily Hampshire Gazette] commends the club for its efforts.
** February 11, 2018: The [http://www.gazettenet.com/Charity-Scrabble-event-benefits-three-local-charities-15469507 Daily Hampshire Gazette] reports that over 50 people attended the event, which raised over $1700.
** February 7, 2018: [http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2018/02/northampton_scrabble_club_plans_charity_tournament.html MassLive] previews the event.
* January 14, 2018: The [http://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article194659899.html Herald-Sun] covers the 8th annual SCRABBLE tournament to benefit the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center took place this weekend in Durham (NC).
* [[2017 North American SCRABBLE Championship]] winner [[Will Anderson]] played SCRABBLE with ITRI's IVS robot at CES 2018 on January 9, 2018.
** April 7, 2018: Paul Gallen of [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/ The Times] analyzes Will's games with the robot in his weekly SCRABBLE column.
** January 12, 2018: NASPA co-president [[John Chew]] offers his account of [[CES 2018]].
** January 12, 2018: [http://www.wdtv.com/content/news/Robots-walking-talking-and-barking-at-CES-469038173.html WDTV] covers the robots at CES 2018 with a quote from Will.
** January 9, 2018: [https://www.cnet.com/au/videos/scrabble-playing-robot-at-ces-2018/ CNET] interviews Will about the experience.
** January 3, 2018: The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)of Taiwan [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180103005456/en/ITRI%E2%80%99s-Intelligent-Vision-Based-Robot-Play-SCRABBLE%C2%AE-North announces] the match.
* December 12, 2017: The [http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/hip-hop-grandpop-matt-hopkins-holiday-dance-moves-we-the-people-20171213.html?mobi=true Philadelphia Inquirer] profiles 2004 [[Person of the Year]] [[Matt Hopkins]].
* Winter, 2017: [http://magazine.columbia.edu/features/winter-2017/letter-head?page=0%2C0#undefined.gbpl Columbia Magazine] profiles freshman [[Mack Meller]] who placed 2nd in this year's [[North American SCRABBLE Championship]].
* December 6, 2017: [http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/December-2017/Wordplay/ Honolulu Magazine] profiles NASPA's recreational club organized by Darren Seu and Claire Dunham.
* [[Marty Gabriel]] and Scott Garner set a Guiness record for the highest SCRABBLE score in 24 hours.
** January 15, 2018: The [http://www.illinoishomepage.net/ciliving/charleston-scrabble-enthusiasts-spell-way-to-a-guinness-world-record/917393513 Illinois Home Page] interviews Marty and Scott about their achievement.
** January 8, 2018: The [http://www.purplepawn.com/2018/01/scoreboard-51/ Purple Pawn] includes the record in its list of monthly gaming news.
** November 17, 2017: The [http://jg-tc.com/news/local/local-man-gets-confirmation-of-setting-scrabble-world-record/article_69472800-b7f5-5704-98a6-a56fa3fb1f70.html/ Journal Gazette and Times-Courier] reports on the achievement.
* November 27, 2017: [http://news.hamlethub.com/fairfield/places/46310-pequot-library-has-scored-a-specialist-for-its-new-scrabble-sessions Fairfield's Hamlet Hub] reports that Dustin Brown will be coaching the Pequot (CT) Library's SCRABBLE Club for children.
* November 17, 2017: The [http://www.vnews.com/Vermont-Scrabble-Catamount-Cup-tournament-at-Norwich-Public-Library-13733092 Valley News] covers the annual Catamount Cup where players from Northern Vermont face off against a team from Southern Vermont.
* November 16, 2017: The [http://video.newyorker.com/watch/professional-scrabble-champions-replay-their-greatest-moves New Yorker] interviews [[Will Anderson]], [[Conrad Bassett-Bouchard]], [[Kate Fukawa-Connelly]], [[Jesse Day]], [[Debbie Stegman]], and [[Joe Edley]] about their favorite, most improbable, worst, most patient, most regretful, and most humbling plays.
* November 5, 2017: [http://wlos.com/news/local/annual-autumn-leaves-scrabble-tournament-is-full-contact-mind-sport/ WLOS] covers the Asheville (NC) tournament directed by Bill Snoddy.
* October 6, 2017: Per the [https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-baseball-manager-who-cant-get-enough-scrabble-1507293022/the Wall Street Journal], Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona is an avid SCRABBLE player on his iPad. NASPA co-president [[Chris Cree]] issues a challenge to Terry.
* September 25, 2017: [http://www.skidmore.edu/news/2017/0925_oconnor_matthew.php/ Skidmore College] interviews Junior World SCRABBLE champion Matthew O'Connor '20.
** September 2, 2017: Division 3 player Mark Abadi reports on the words played at the NASC in [http://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-scrabble-words-2017-8/#atemoya-1/ Business Insider].
** September 2, 2017: The [http://alumni.dailytarheel.com/qa-with-scrabble-king-mark-abadi/ Daily Tarheel] interviews Division 3 player and University of North Carolina alum Mark Abadi.
** August 5, 2017: [http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/lititz-man-s-love-of-words-pays-off-with-top/article_15aa3b8a-795e-11e7-ac8d-5335315cf685.html Lancaster (PA) Online] reports on local resident [[Will Anderson]]'s win at NASC.
** August 1, 2017: Word Freak author [[Stefan Fatsis]] interviews 2017 NASC champion [[Will Anderson]] and runner-up [[Mack Meller]] about NASC and reviews one of their matches on [http://www.slate.com/articles/life/gaming/2017/08/a_breakdown_of_the_best_game_at_the_north_american_scrabble_championship.html Slate].
** July 31, 2017: Word Freak author [[Stefan Fatsis]] interviews 2017 NASC champion [[Will Anderson]] on the Slate podcast [http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/hang_up_and_listen/2017/07/girls_in_baseball_sneakers_and_scrabble_on_hang_up_and_listen.html Hang Up and Listen].
* Youth SCRABBLE - Coverage of Ian Whitehurst and Kevin Zeng being named as the top Elementary School team.
** August 28, 2017: [http://www.theridgefieldpress.com/93427/farmingville-student-becomes-scrabble-champion/ Ridgefield Press]
** August 12, 2017: [http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Ridgefield-10-year-old-is-North-America-s-top-11746165.php/ Danbury News Times]
** August 7, 2017: [http://news.hamlethub.com/ridgefield/neighbors/57032-10-year-old-ridgefield-boy-wins-national-scrabble-championship/ Ridgefield Hamlet Hub]
** August 4, 2017: [http://www.theridgefieldpress.com/92531/ridgefield-student-named-nations-top-elementary-school-scrabble-player/ Ridgefield Press]
* July 7, 2017: Joshua Zinn from the radio program [http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2017/07/07/220425/inside-the-world-of-competitive-scrabble-playing-in-houston/ Houston Matters] interviews Robin Lewis of Houston (TX) NASPA Club #359.
* July 1, 2017: The [http://jg-tc.com/two-seek-to-break-scrabble-guinness-world-record/article_f4fc6abf-5931-57b6-a392-93d085bb1689.html Journal-Gazette & Times Courier] reports on the attempt by Scott Garner and [[Marty Gabriel]] to set a Guinness record for the highest SCRABBLE score in 24 hours.
* June 14, 2017: The [https://www.theet.com/westonnews/news/kaia-does-more-than-check-out-books-as-a-librarian/article_e74742c2-ebe9-562f-b480-25a1b70d798e.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share/ Weston (WV) News] profiles Kaia - Peace Corps volunteer, librarian, and SCRABBLE player.
* May 21, 2017: The [http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2017/05/21/a-war-of-words-at-niagara-tournament/ Welland Tribune] interviews [[Chris Lipe]], youth player Tyler Lee, and director [[Sue Tremblay]] at the 3rd Niagara Falls (ON) International Open.
* March 29, 2017: The [http://www.commercial-news.com/news/local_news/scrabble-event-to-benefit-dacc-program/article_dd7a60b0-d1ca-5b75-9f92-254cec39da40.html/ Commercial-News] previews the 12th annual SCRABBLE for Literacy tournament in Danville (IL).
* March 23, 2017: The [http://tinyurl.com/orlando20/ Orlando Sentinel] profiles [http://www.orlandoscrabble.com/ Casselberry/Orlando (FL) NASPA Club #438] on its 20th anniversary.
* Toronto (ON) School SCRABBLE Championship
**March 26, 2017: [http://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/how-a-canadian-crossword-game-may-have-inspired-the-invention-of-scrabble-1.3341636/ CTV News] covers the Toronto Championship as well as a School SCRABBLE competition in Edmonton (AB).
**March 23, 2017: [http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1085297/ CTV Toronto] covers the 9th annual Toronto (ON)School SCRABBLE Championship.
* January 30, 2017: The [http://www.philly.com/philly/living/412007105.html Philadelphia Inquirer] reveals the impact that a Marian Anderson concert had on Philly SCRABBLE legend [[Matt Hopkins]] as a child.
* January 22, 2017: [http://www.standard-freeholder.com/2017/01/22/cornwall-scrabble-tourney-where-words-are-a-weapon/ Coverage of the 7th annual Ottawa-Montreal Scrabble Challenge]
** August 5, 2016: [http://www.news-sentinel.com/news/local/Local-Scrabble-players-look-forward-to-taking-part-in-national-championship-in-Fort-Wayne News-Sentinel] profiles local players Kathleen Long, Timothy Long, and Dan Wenger.
** August 5, 2016: [http://www.tribstar.com/news/indiana_news/north-american-scrabble-championship-comes-to-fort-wayne/article_9c0bd463-3e84-5e5f-8898-f184cc7dd450.html Terre Haute Tribune Star] previews NASC in Fort Wayne.
* July 24, 2016: [https://www.google.com/amp/www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/amp/Scrabble-players-compete-in-Stamford-8406032.php# Stamford Advocate] covered weekend tournament held in Stamford (CT).
* July 21, 2016: [http://www.vicnews.com/news/387813641.html Victoria News] interviews Victoria (BC) NASPA members Tim Thielmann and Rhonda Reece.
* January 14, 2016: [http://www.omaha.com/living/nebraska-s-top-scrabble-player-works-to-be-one-of/article_10727ec7-76b7-5bf7-a8a5-372226b554ce.html Omaha.com] reports on [[George Asaka]] and the Omaha Scrabble Club.
* November 22, 2015: [http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article45955330.html The Lexington Herald Leader] reports on the Bluegrass Scrabble Fall Classic, interviewing [[Lindsey Dimmick]], [[Steve Bush]], [[Jeff Clark]], [[Joey Krafchick]] and others.
* September 30, 2015: [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/scrabble-brain-university-of-calgary-1.3249149 CBC] reports on research led by [[Peter Sargious]] into the brains of SCRABBLE players.
* [[2015 North American SCRABBLE Championship]]
** August 6, 2015: [http://www.ottawasun.com/2015/08/06/ottawa-man-wins-north-american-scrabble-championship Ottawa Sun] interviews Matthew Tunnicliffe.
** August 8, 2014: [[Oliver Roeder]] reports on the [[Nigel Richards]] phenomenon on [http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-makes-nigel-richards-the-best-scrabble-player-on-earth/ fivethirtyeight.com].
* 2015 Changes to [[OSPD]] and [[OTCWL]]
** August 27, 2014: [[Robin Pollock Daniel]] quotes about the new words on the [http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/8ye61k/scrabble-s-updated-dictionary Colbert Report].
** August 27, 2014: [[Robin Pollock Daniel]] quoted about the new words on the [http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/8ye61k/scrabble-s-updated-dictionary Colbert Report].
** August 5, 2014: [[Chris Cree]] and [[John Chew]] help [http://mentalfloss.com/article/58236/14-fun-scrabble-facts MentalFloss] with some fun facts about our game.
** August 5, 2014: [[John Chew]] gives the Canadian perspective on the new words in the [http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/08/05/canadian-sourced-words-such-as-qajaq-and-quinzhee-some-of-powerhouse-game-changers-added-to-scrabble-dictionary National Post]
== Older Press Releases ==
* [http://event.scrabbleplayers.org/2018/nsc/build/nasc-winner-release.pdf 2018 North American SCRABBLE Championship Results]
* [http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150805006883/en/Matthew-Tunnicliffe-Racks-High-Score-2015-North#.VcfJZTBViko 2015 NASC Results]
* [[2014 SCRABBLE Word Showdown Announcement]]
For further information, please contact the NASPA Chief Executive Officer John Chew in Toronto, ON.
December 11, 2019: CTV News visits Winnipeg (MB) NASPA Club #498.
November 28, 2019: The San Antonio Express-News profiles Ricky Rodriguez before the WESPA Youth Cup.
December 2, 2019: San Antonio Express-News published a follow-up article after the tournament.
Dean Saldanha and Dielle Pinto will be on Team Canada at the WESPA Championships in Goa, India, in mid-October.
October 12, 2019: Prince George Matters article.
October 6, 2019: Vancouver Sun article.
September 30, 2019: Richmond (BC) News article.
September 11, 2019: Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life, a book written by Jonathan Kay and Joan Moriarity, features John Chew in its chapter on SCRABBLE.
August 14, 2019: Barrie Today spotlights the recently formed recreational club in Barrie (ON).
August 13, 2019: Spectrum News 13 visits Casselberry-Orlando NASPA Club #438 and talks to director Art Moore.
2019 North American SCRABBLE Championship in Reno (NV)
July 26, 2019: Lynnwood Today reports on Lynnwood resident and North American SCRABBLE Champion Alec Sjoholm.
July 24, 2019: KOLO 8 ABC interviews Joshua Sokol and John Chew.
July 24, 2019: KTVN 2 interviews Deborah Komatsu, Cheryl Kagan, Andy Hoang, and John Chew.
July 24, 2019: The Angry Grammarian at the Philadelphia Inquirer interviews 2017 North American SCRABBLE Champion Will Anderson and John Chew about why slurs are allowed in tournament and club play.
Cornelia Guest ran a SCRABBLE tournament in conjunction with the Newtown (CT) Bridge Club's 3rd annual Longest Day fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association on June 19th.
July 1, 2019: The Newtown Bee covers the event.
May 24, 2019: The Newtown Bee announces the event.
May 8, 2019: WGBY profiles Northampton (MA) NASPA Club #667 - including interviews with director Brett Constantine, NASC 2018 Div 4 champion Evan Yurko, and 2019 North American School SCRABBLE Championship director Ben Greenwood.
May 2, 2019: The New York Times interviews NASPA co-president John Chew about the release of the Collins 2019 lexicon.
Youth player Ricky Rodriguez is interviewed by local San Antonio (TX) media.
May 7, 2019: Fox29 in San Antonio interviews Ricky after his return from the North American School SCRABBLE Championship where his team placed 3rd in the Challenge Division.
April 26, 2019: The Rivard Report profiles Ricky as he heads to the North American School SCRABBLE Championship.
February 1, 2019: CBS KENS-TV interviews Ricky and his mother, Erin, at Austin (TX) NASPA Club #234.
December 30, 2018: ABC KSAT12 interviewed Ricky on the "What's Up South Texas" segment.
November 22, 2018: Fox 29's Daytime at 9 with Kimberly and Esteban invited Ricky to share some SCRABBLE tips and tricks.
April 1, 2019: Reader's Digest profiles 2018 NASC champion Joel Sherman in its I Won! series.
Business Insider reporter and NASPA member Mark Abadi offers SCRABBLE tips to readers:
February 10, 2019: Play SCRABBLE rather than Words With Friends
February 2, 2019: Avoid these mistakes
January 27, 2019: Look out for hotspots
December 29, 2018: Learn the 2-letter words
March 21, 2019: Connecticut Magazine profiles NASPA Person of the Year Cornelia Guest with a focus on her Youth SCRABBLE coaching.
March 8, 2019: An East Oregonian reporter takes on NASPA member John Lauck.
January 7, 2019: Stefan Fatsis discusses ties in tournament SCRABBLE on the Hang Up and Listen podcast. Jeffrey Jacobson had 3 ties in a 7-game tournament in Levittown (PA) on January 5, 2019.
December 22, 2018: The New York Post reports on Joel Sherman's campaign against the inclusion of OK.
December 13, 2018: Nautilus article on SCRABBLE tile distribution includes interviews with NASPA members Lynda Woods Cleary and Stefan Fatsis.
November 1, 2018: Altamonte-Wekiva Springs Life puts Casselberry/Orlando NASPA Club #438 on the cover.
Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary 6th Edition (OSPD6)
October 4, 2018: The Wall Street Journal comments on the release of OSPD6 and SCRABBLE as a game. Author Jonathan Kay mentions NASC champions Adam Logan, Nigel Richards, and James Leong and recalls tournaments he attended with John Chew.
September 27, 2018: John Chew and Robin Pollock Daniel conducted 22 interviews with Canadian media, including the Calgary Eyeopener.
September 24, 2018: The New York Times interviews John Chew about the release of the OSPD6.
September 24, 2018: Business Insider reporter and NASPA player Mark Abadi discusses the addition of OK with Jackson Smylie, Judy Cole, and Ben Schoenbrun.
September 24, 2018: Associated Press release, as seen in the New York Daily News and other publications, mentions Merriam-Webster's consultation with NASPA on new words.
August 31, 2018: The Princeton Packet reports on the 20th anniversary of Princeton (NJ) NASPA Club #513.
Nigerian asylum seeker Olakunle Azeez Omopariola joins Cote St Luc (QC) NASPA Club #83.
September 11, 2018: CTV News
August 29, 2018: Montreal Gazette
August 25, 2018: Business Insider reporter and NASPA member Mark Abadi advises readers to learn the 2-letter words.
August 16, 2018: The Ridgefield Press reports on Cornelia Guest being named NASPA Person of the Year.
4th Niagara Falls International Open
July 29, 2018: The Niagara Falls Review
August 22, 2018: Kerrville Daily Times - Interviews Deborah Gaudier on the NASC and Niagara Open.
August 19, 2018: Daily Hampshire Gazette - Congratulates Evan Yurko on his Division 4 win.
August 14, 2018: Daily Hampshire Gazette - Includes interviews with NASC Division 4 winner Evan Yurko, Brett Constantine, and Ben Greenwood.
August 10, 2018: Wall Street Journal
August 10, 2018: Buffalo News
August 8, 2018: NASPA Press Release
August 8, 2018: WBFO NPR 88.7 - Includes interviews with Evan Berofsky, NASPA co-president John Chew, and NASC division leader Jason Idalski.
August 7, 2018: WKBW ABC 7 - Includes interviews with Brett Constantine, Karen Richards, Sue Tremblay, and Jason Broersma
August 7, 2018: WGRZ NBC 2 - Includes interview with NASC director Arthur Moore.
2017 NASC champion Will Anderson throws out first pitch as part of Jacksonville (FL) Jumbo Shrimp team's celebration of SCRABBLE's 70th anniversary.
July 19, 2018: MiLB.com
July 19, 2018: First Coast News
July 11, 2018: SportsLogos.net
July 11, 2018: Arizona Sports 98.7 FM
March 20, 2018: Front Office Sports
June 19, 2018: CBC News reports about Eric Tran winning the CNSC, based on an earlier interview on CBC Radio's Calgary Eyeopener program
June 18, 2018: Breakfast Television interviews NASPA co-president John Chew about the 2018 Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship.
June 19, 2018: WDEL 101.7 FM reports on a visit by 2017 NASC champion Will Anderson to Wilmington (DE) NASPA Club #599.
May 23, 2018: OZY profiles SCRABBLE Grandmaster Mack Meller.
May 22, 2018: Newton Wicked Local interviews Lexington (MA) NASPA Club #108 member Marvin Kraus about his division win at the annual BAT (Boston Area Tournament).
May 13, 2018: The Philadelphia Inquirer interviews NASC champion Will Anderson.
May 13, 2018: The Toronto Star profiles jazz artist/composer and NASPA member Fern Lindzon who will serve as one of the experts at this year's SCRABBLE With the Stars fundraiser.
April 12, 2018: Rhodes College professor (and SCRABBLE Expert) Scott Garner works SCRABBLE into the curriculum.
February 17, 2018: CFRC-FM interviews Shan Abbasi and Josh Greenway about the Kingston (ON) Open.
Northampton (MA) NASPA Club #667 organized a charity tournament to benefit 3 local charities.
February 19, 2018: The Daily Hampshire Gazette commends the club for its efforts.
February 11, 2018: The Daily Hampshire Gazette reports that over 50 people attended the event, which raised over $1700.
February 7, 2018: MassLive previews the event.
January 14, 2018: The Herald-Sun covers the 8th annual SCRABBLE tournament to benefit the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center took place this weekend in Durham (NC).
2017 North American SCRABBLE Championship winner Will Anderson played SCRABBLE with ITRI's IVS robot at CES 2018 on January 9, 2018.
April 7, 2018: Paul Gallen of The Times analyzes Will's games with the robot in his weekly SCRABBLE column.
January 12, 2018: NASPA co-president John Chew offers his account of CES 2018.
January 12, 2018: WDTV covers the robots at CES 2018 with a quote from Will.
January 9, 2018: CNET interviews Will about the experience.
January 3, 2018: The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)of Taiwan announces the match.
December 12, 2017: The Philadelphia Inquirer profiles 2004 Person of the Year Matt Hopkins.
Winter, 2017: Columbia Magazine profiles freshman Mack Meller who placed 2nd in this year's North American SCRABBLE Championship.
December 6, 2017: Honolulu Magazine profiles NASPA's recreational club organized by Darren Seu and Claire Dunham.
Marty Gabriel and Scott Garner set a Guiness record for the highest SCRABBLE score in 24 hours.
January 15, 2018: The Illinois Home Page interviews Marty and Scott about their achievement.
January 8, 2018: The Purple Pawn includes the record in its list of monthly gaming news.
November 17, 2017: The Journal Gazette and Times-Courier reports on the achievement.
November 27, 2017: Fairfield's Hamlet Hub reports that Dustin Brown will be coaching the Pequot (CT) Library's SCRABBLE Club for children.
November 17, 2017: The Valley News covers the annual Catamount Cup where players from Northern Vermont face off against a team from Southern Vermont.
November 16, 2017: The New Yorker interviews Will Anderson, Conrad Bassett-Bouchard, Kate Fukawa-Connelly, Jesse Day, Debbie Stegman, and Joe Edley about their favorite, most improbable, worst, most patient, most regretful, and most humbling plays.
November 5, 2017: WLOS covers the Asheville (NC) tournament directed by Bill Snoddy.
October 6, 2017: Per the Wall Street Journal, Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona is an avid SCRABBLE player on his iPad. NASPA co-president Chris Cree issues a challenge to Terry.
September 25, 2017: Skidmore College interviews Junior World SCRABBLE champion Matthew O'Connor '20.
September 2, 2017: Division 3 player Mark Abadi reports on the words played at the NASC in Business Insider.
September 2, 2017: The Daily Tarheel interviews Division 3 player and University of North Carolina alum Mark Abadi.
August 28, 2017: Ridgefield Press
July 1, 2017: The Journal-Gazette & Times Courier reports on the attempt by Scott Garner and Marty Gabriel to set a Guinness record for the highest SCRABBLE score in 24 hours.
September 30, 2015: CBC reports on research led by Peter Sargious into the brains of SCRABBLE players.
August 27, 2014: Robin Pollock Daniel quoted about the new words on the Colbert Report.
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March 12, 2019 Category: Hiring, New Job, Software Testing Careers
UNIX Interview Questions for Software Testers
Which UNIX interview questions for software testers often come up when trying for a new job? Having an idea of what to expect at interview can be useful.
It’s beneficial for every software professional to have a good knowledge of different operating systems so they can work effectively in a range of situations and with different teams. In order to be proficient in performing testing in a UNIX operating environment, informative UNIX interview questions for software testers need to be asked so the most suitable candidate can be appointed to the job.
UNIX is an operating system designed and developed in 1969 at AT&T Bell Labs, NJ. It was written in C and is a stable system used to facilitate multi-tasking and multi-user functionalities. UNIX has a user-friendly GUI similar to Windows, although command knowledge is required to operate where there is no interface available.
No matter what stage you are at in your software testers career, preparing well for an interview is time well spent. Let’s take a look at the kinds of UNIX interview questions for software testers that you might be asked.
Q) What do you know about Kernel?
A) Kernel is considered to be the hub of UNIX. This master program controls the resources of the system and acts as an interface between an application and the hardware. The sole aim is to manage the communication between software (user application) and the hardware.
Q) What are the main tasks of Kernel?
A) Device Management, Process Management, Memory Management, Interrupt Handling, I/O Communication, File System.
Q) What is Shell, and what are its responsibilities?
A) The shell is the interface between user and system. It is a command language interpreter that executes commands from input device or file.
Responsibilities include Input/Output Redirection, Environment Control, Program Execution, Filename Substitution.
Q) What is meant by Superuser? What is the role of Super User?
A) The authorized user who has access to all files and commands within the system is known as the Superuser. The credentials of superuser are secured with the root password.
In UNIX, there are three main accounts: Root account, System account, User account. The root account is referred to as the Superuser and that user has complete access to all the files and commands on a system. This user can also be considered as a system administrator who has the ability to run any command without limitation.
Q) What do you know about the absolute path and related path?
A) The absolute path refers to a specific path as defined by the root directory. The absolute pathname addresses are system configuration files that do not change their location. The related path refers to the path defined by the user’s current working directory, i.e. present working directory (pwd).
Q) Specify the general format of UNIX command syntax.
A) We follow the pattern:
Command (-argument) (-argument) (-argument) (file name)
Q) What is FIFO?
A) UNIX has a useful feature known as ‘pipe’ which allows separate processes to communicate with each other in a separate manner. FIFO is similar to the pipe which act as a one-way flow of data. Data is read-only in the written order. This inter-process communication happens when data writes from the end of the pipe and reads from another side.
Q) Explain the command “rm –r *” in UNIX.
A) This command is used to erase all files in the directory along with subdirectories.
‘rm’ use to delete files
‘-r’ use to delete directories and subdirectories from within the file
‘*’ indicate all the entries
Q) Name different file types available with UNIX.
A) Regular Files, Character Special Files, Directory Files, Block Special Files, FIFO, Socket, Symbolic Links.
Q) How do you kill any process in UNIX?
A) By using the syntax: kill PID
Kill command accepts process ID as a parameter.
Q) How do you determine if you have enough disk space available in UNIX server?
A) By using the command: df-kl
It will produce detail of the remaining space available in the server.
Q) What command should be used to make a new directory?
A) We use mkdir directory_name
Q) Explain ‘nohup’ in UNIX?
A) Nohup (or, no hang up) is a background process command that overrides the hup (hang up) signal, which is the conventional way a terminal is informed of a logout. Instead of being directed to a terminal, the file is redirected to a nohup.out file, if it hasn’t been redirected yet.
Q) Do you know about protection fault?
A) Protection fault occurs when a process tries to accesses a page for which it does not have permission to access.
Q) What is piping? List two commands where piping is used.
A) When two or more commands need to be combined, piping is used. The output of the first command is used for the input of the second command. Piping is represented in UNIX by this sign (|).
grep command: search file for a matching pattern
sort command: arranges lines of text alphabetically and numerically
Q) List some filename manipulation commands used in UNIX.
A) Few of them are as follows:
cat filename – will display the content of the file
mv old name new name – will move/rename an old name to the new name
rm filename – will remove/delete filename
Is –F – will display the information about the file type
cp source destination – is used to copy a source file into the destination
Q) Explain system call and library function?
A) In a system call, the call requests the OS to perform any task on behalf of the user programs. It is an interface which the kernel itself uses. Library functions are those common functions that are not part of the kernel but are used by the application program. Library functions are portable and perform certain tasks only in kernel mode as compared to the system call. Also, the library function takes less time to execute as compared to the system call.
This article lays out some frequently asked questions with their answers that are often part of software testers interviews. Although it is useful to remember the answers from the printed page, is recommended that learning by practice is the best way to master different commands.
Ali Imam
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A Love Letter to That 60’s Boy Dancer
By Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer on December 10, 2013 December 10, 2013
This is a love letter to Bobby. No, not Bobby Kennedy, Bobby Brown or even Robby Williams…Bobby Banas. You probably don’t know his name. But you probably know his work, particularly if you are a fan of old musicals. I had a beautiful reminder yesterday morning about a huge part of my past that I rarely take the time to really hold on to and appreciate. Dance.
My friend Mimi Quillin posted a clip from the 1963 Judy Garland Show of a dance called the “Nitty Gritty.” In it you see your typical 1960’s dancers for the most part (women with beehive hairdo’s lacquered into place, flirty chiffon skirts and heels…gentlemen in skinny tuxedos.) They are performing a dance that has shades of the Frug and the Mashed Potato and they are dancing with great reserve…except for one. This one male dancer is letting his head fly about, his back slip and his hips literally wiggle (gasp!) The camera moves in for a closeup and the expression on his face says,”I could care less that I’m on national TV, I’m just dancing for me, baby”…wheeeee!
That is Bobby Banas.
Why am I writing a love letter to a 1960’s dancer? Because, quite simply, when I was a little boy, I wanted to be him. Other little boys wanted to be astronauts and policemen (it was the 60’s and 70’s) but I wanted to point my toes and stretch my legs and make beautiful shapes with my body. What’s wrong with that? According to the world at that time: everything. Officially, I was a little boy in the 70’s and despite the whole free love, peace, hippies, Black Power and any host of other liberation movements that gave rise to the age of disco…boys still didn’t have hips, and definitely wouldn’t or shouldn’t wiggle them if they did. The message was very clear that ideally, I should probably stop wiggling my hips by the time I was 10, despite the best efforts of John Travolta to change a generation. Alas, by the time I was 11, I was still wiggling.
My parents tried to embrace my wiggling by pointing me toward great black male dancers (Arthur Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Geoffrey Holder) but I knew that they were hoping I would outgrow this fantasy and settle into wanting to change the world as a lawyer…or at least something with a good stable income. I accepted their desire and outwardly focused my dance ambitions on the most regal and noble art of the ballet. But what they didn’t know is that my ballet fixation was a clever rouse; in my heart, I really wanted to be one of those dancer boys on TV or in the movies…like Bobby Banas. I had seen the movie Sweet Charity with Shirley MacLaine and the Rich Man’s Frug became my life ambition. But how does one tell one’s parents that not only do you want to be a dancer, but you really want to be that third dancer from the left who has just a little bit more spice and body English than the others.
Bobby Banas’ career is amazing. He danced with Marilyn Monroe (she kisses him at the end of the opening number of Let’s Make Love), Ann Margret and Debbie Reynolds, in movies like The Unsinkable Molly Brown and the Holy Grail of Hollywood Musicals, West Side Story. He was a Jet. He was sexy. He was strong. He was impish and Puck-like; an unpredictable beatnick in a world of dance that was careening toward the great cliff of the 1970’s when the great movie musical would go out of vogue. He wasn’t in front like Russ Tamblyn, Elliot Feld or George Chakiris, but he had just that right kind of quirky freedom that made you look, more than once. He is part of a generation of dancers who did the hard work of the movie musicals. They made the impossible choreography of Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Gene Kelly, Onna White look not only easy, but fun. I can only imagine choreographers seeing him come on to the set, looking at his elfin face and feeling his raw energy and saying, yes, yes, please make my dance look much better than I could ever have imagined.
I was very, very lucky. I had enough talent to be able to pursue the whole ballet thing and get a good foundation. It was good enough foundation for me to eventually drop ballet altogether and focus on musical theater, but not before taking class with people like Bobby Blankshine and Michael Vernon where I danced (poorly) alongside the likes of people like a retired but still magical Allegra Kent. Although I happily left 180 degree turnout and stretching my feet for a better pointe, I will always be grateful for the discipline that ballet gave me.
But why a love letter to Bobby Banas? I guess its a bit like those boys who watched Joe Namath or Doug Flutie or Willy Mays. Not only did I want to be part of that club, I learned an important lesson about my masculinity by watching dancers like him. I learned that it was good to be able to express myself physically with joy and not violence; I learned that my wiggle had nothing to do with my sexuality. I learned that I had value and uniqueness that no one could take away from me. In my pursuit of dance, I gained an appreciation for my body as an instrument that required constant and loving care, from the food I put into it to the way I trained it, to the things I asked it to do. I also gained appreciation for those who came before me and achieved much, much more than I did working with the greats. My chance encounters taking class with or meeting people like George Chakiris, Suzanne Charney, Donna McKechnie and others were moments of touching greatness that I will never forget. There is a wonderful You Tube channel out there, Dancers Over 40 (http://www.youtube.com/user/dancersover40) where you can see some of the great dancers from “back in the day” remembering their early careers and the spectacular times in which they lived and created great work. The were and still are incredible
But I write a love letter, primarily because my dancing didn’t just stay my dancing. It became life experiences on Broadway and abroad; it became a career in the fitness industry including my appearance in P90X; most importantly, as I’ve grown out of the body that could do 10 Russian splits, it became perspective on the changes that we go through in life, both physically and emotionally and has given me a foundation for my path as a minister that lets me respect the beauty that once was and the beauty that one becomes.
I can think of no greater gift than to give a little boy the freedom and encouragement to dance. Even today, boys aren’t encouraged to move their bodies in ways that aren’t goal driven. Why must a little boy run toward something, or faster than someone? Why do we ask young men to be able to push someone over, hit harder than and be strongest? Let boys move just for the sheer joy of moving. Somewhere in that boy who can bench 250 and can knock down a line of defensive linemen on the football field, there might just be a man who would rather be doing something else altogether…he might actually want to wiggle instead. And because of that wiggle, he might just turn out to be as remarkable, inspired and inspiring as someone like Bobby Banas was to me.
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kevin bogue says:
How inspiring. Thanks Adam and Mimi for being so thoughtful to share this. What a gift!
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Christian Delp says:
Love this story… and loved the look back. Thank you!
Paula Billings says:
What an amazing story.Thank you so much for sharing your feelings about dance particularly from a young boy’s perspective. All should be encouraged to express their musical fervor through whatever outlet feels right to you.Warmest wishes to you and to Bobby who no doubt is up there dancing.
Jmason says:
Bobby Banas is Not dead – He is on Facebook actually😃😊👍 – 84 yrs Young ..- and Still Rockin’. …..🌟☀ !!!😌🙂❤✨💨🎶⭐💨🕶💨🎥🎆💨💪💨👣👞👞💨🏆💨❗✌👍😊
Adam Lawrence Dyer says:
Thank you! Actually, I know he’s still alive. I communicated with him right after I wrote this piece. He’s awesome.
Judy Ann Bennett says:
What a beautiful letter! When I was an animation major at CALARTS many years ago, loved to watch and paint the dancers eventually putting a dance scene in one of my films.
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Studies show U.S. airfare hikes are decreasing each year
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Baseline airfares aren’t increasing, because airlines are turning to ancillary fees for baggage and seat elections to increase profits while still luring flyers with cheap tickets on online booking sites.
— Samantha Shankman
The bad news for air travelers is that domestic fares have increased about 4.5 percent in 2012, bringing the average airline ticket to about $375.
The good news is that the increase has been modest compared with 2011, when fares jumped 8.3 percent. Even better news, industry analysts predict air fares will rise even less in 2013.
But before you pop the cork on the champagne, know that industry experts warn fares could still soar in the last two months of this year.
Southwest drives the most airfare hikes that stick in the US. Photo by Douglas Muth.
In fact, Southwest Airlines, the nation’s largest carrier of domestic passengers, raised domestic prices last week $4 to $10 per round trip, depending on the route. It was a hike matched by all the major U.S.-based carriers.
The increase was the 14th price boost in 2012, half of which were matched by all the major airlines and half of which were rescinded after few, if any, airlines went along with the hike.
“At the moment, it’s impossible to say if 2012 will see more airfare hikes but don’t bet against it, not if history is any guide,” said Anne McDermott, editor at airfare news website FareCompare.
The average domestic fare for September was $375.35, according to the Airline Reporting Corp., the Arlington, Va., company that manages payments for tickets between travel agents and airlines.
A forecast released last week by American Express Global Business Travel predicted airfares in North American would rise 1 percent to 4 percent in 2013, depending on the airline seat and the length of the flight.
An earlier forecast by business travel management company Carlson Wagonlit Travel came up with a similar conclusion, a rise of 2.8 percent for the year.
“While the economies of the United States and Canada are experiencing slow and steady improvement, there is no major growth expected in the foreseeable future, which will help contain travel price increases in 2013 for most categories,” the Carlson forecast said.
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Lasith Malinga Says Sri Lanka Will Look To Target Fit-Again Jasprit Bumrah
India vs Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka skipper Lasith Malinga said they will look to target Jasprit Bumrah as bowlers struggle to get into the rhythm when making a comeback after the injury.
Sri Lanka captain Lasith Malinga won't mind walking into the sunset if his team qualifies for the knockout stage at this year's T20 World Cup in Australia. The only bowler with 100 scalps in T20 Internationals, Malinga had said in March that he could retire after the T20 World Cup scheduled in October-November but later expressed his desire to play for another two years. The pacer, known for his toe-crushing yorkers, said he wants to lead the 2014 T20 champions to at least the knock-out stage at the upcoming edition.
"I've already retired from Tests and ODIs. Now whatever is required for SL cricket. If they say it's enough for me now then I'll be really happy to retire from T20s also," Malinga said on the eve of the series-opener against India.
"My only target is to play qualify round in the T20 World Cup. If Sri Lanka qualify for the knockouts, I would never mind retiring anytime after that," he added.
Talking about the series, Malinga said they would target Indian pacer and his Mumbai Indians colleague Jasprit Bumrah since he is returning from an injury and it is not easy to make a comeback.
"He's got the skill and accuracy. But coming after the injury when you don't play much cricket for last four months, the bowlers struggle to get into the rhythm for the first few matches. We want to use that to our advantage."
"I can pass all the information of his attitude and bowling skill. But batsmen will have to be smart enough to handle him carefully," he said of the No. 1 bowler in the ODIs.
Leading an inexperienced side, Malinga pointed out that they don't have the luxury of playing franchise tournaments back home but still they managed to win in 2014, beating India at home.
"We are looking for new start in the New Year. T20 is an unpredictable format. We can't predict say who's the best. Anyone can change the momentum in one over. I want to give opportunity to the young players. They are talented, have skill but lack experience. It's an important series to set the tone for us."
Taking inspiration from their final win in 2014, Malinga said bowlers can win T20 matches more than the batsmen.
"In this format, the key is to to win the situations and bowlers can win you the matches," he said recalling how they restricted India to a below-par 130 for four before sealing a six-wicket win.
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Pogba must 'take more responsibility', says Matic
Paul Pogba will only get better but he must step up for Manchester United, team-mate Nemanja Matic said.
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Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic told star team-mate Paul Pogba he needed to "take more responsibility".
Pogba, 25, has been criticised for some of his displays this season, with manager Jose Mourinho unhappy with the midfielder's form at different times.
But the France international produced a stunning half in United's come-from-behind derby win over Manchester City earlier this month, scoring a brace.
Matic said his team-mate would only get better, but he urged Pogba to deliver more often for United.
"With his quality, personality, he needs to have more confidence, needs to take more responsibility," Matic told UK newspapers ahead of United's FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham on Saturday.
"Of course he's still young, he can improve and he will improve and he showed in this game [against City] that he always can play better and better.
"He took responsibility, he scored and give to other players more confidence – after his first goal we started to believe we can do something. It is exactly what he has to do."
Pogba has scored five goals and assisted 10 in 23 Premier League appearances this season.
Matic feels it is obvious just what Pogba can produce, saying: "He is a great player.
"He runs a lot, has quality with the ball, he can score and he can also defend very well."
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Trump Likely to Go Ahead With 25% Tariff on $200Bln in Foreign Cars – Reports
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The US president met with EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday in an effort to smooth over the escalating trade conflict between Washington and Brussels, which began when the US lifted exemptions to tariffs on EU-made steel and aluminum.
Donald Trump plans to go ahead with plans to slap 25 percent tariffs on nearly $200 billion in foreign-made automobiles later this year, The Washington Post reported, citing three people briefed on discussions in the president's inner circle.
The president threatened to impose stiff tariffs on European cars earlier this year, after the European Union retaliated to US steel and aluminum tariffs by putting tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of iconic US goods such as blue jeans, motorcycles and whiskey.
Ahead of talks with Juncker, Trump urged Americans to "be cool" and trust his business acumen in negotiations to get a balanced trade deal, while attacking his political opponents for being "weak" in their desire to avoid the use of tariffs.
When you have people snipping at your heels during a negotiation, it will only take longer to make a deal, and the deal will never be as good as it could have been with unity. Negotiations are going really well, be cool. The end result will be worth it!
Every time I see a weak politician asking to stop Trade talks or the use of Tariffs to counter unfair Tariffs, I wonder, what can they be thinking? Are we just going to continue and let our farmers and country get ripped off? Lost $817 Billion on Trade last year. No weakness!
The US already charges a 25 percent import tariff on light trucks and sport-utility vehicle imports. The EU has a 10 percent across-the-board import tariff on US automobiles. The US imported $192 billion in passenger vehicles in 2017.
A Commerce Department official speaking on condition of anonymity told WP that the department had yet to complete a review on whether auto imports pose a sufficient national security threat to the United States to justify new tariffs.
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Iran Reportedly Turns Off Oil Tanker Tracking Systems as US Sanctions Loom
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Analysts at a watchdog that monitors global oil shipments have revealed that they have been utterly exhausted from trying to track Iran’s oil exports amid a looming US embargo on the petrochemical sector.
According to TankerTrackers.com, in late October all Iranian ships switched off their transponders to avoid international tracking systems for the first time since the watchdog started operating in 2016.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen a blanket black-out. It’s very unique,” said TankerTrackers co-founder Samir Madani.
Currently, the vessels can only be monitored using satellite imagery, and analysts at the online service believe that such a shift to lesser transparency is part of Iran’s relentless efforts to keep oil flowing ahead of the impending US sanctions, slated to take effect on Monday.
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Oil industry experts suggest that going dark could pose a problem for ship-tracking services trying to pinpoint the exact date and sometimes the exact hour when a tanker loaded its crude cargo.
Between 2010 and 2015, when Iran was hit with international sanctions, it found another way to maintain oil deliveries, which was to keep oil on large tankers off the Gulf coast.
According to TankerTrackers.com, today there are six ships with a total capacity of 11 million barrels anchored offshore as floating storage containers, which allows Iran to proceed with quick deliveries.
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JPL Small-Body Mission-Design Tool Search: [ help ]
Design Interface
The interactive interface of the JPL Small-Body Mission-Design Tool includes three sections:
Mission Options: contains an interactive data table presenting different mission options to the specified small body. Initially, the table is populated with a set of pre-computed trajectories. Details on the selection process and the back-end algorithms can be found in the Introduction. Missions selected by the user using the interactive tools will appear in this same table, with increasing "Id" numbers.
Mission Selection: its main component is an interactive pork-chop plot. Solid markers represent the solutions listed in the table of mission options. Select new missions by clicking on the figure, or simply hover the mouse over it to explore different transfer opportunities.
Launch Vehicle Selection: the plot shows the capabilities of different launch vehicles, considering both flyby and rendezvous missions. Click on the plot to add missions to the data table.
A tutorial is available for first-time users with detailed information about each component of the interface. This tool can be used in combination with the Small-Body Search Engine, designed to find potential candidates for future missions.
Orbit Data
Classification: -
SPK-ID: -
Orbit Id: -
Condition code: -
Data arc span (days): -
Low Thrust
Estimate of the ΔV required to reach the target orbit, disregarding the phasing within the orbits and the transfer time, and assuming constant acceleration. Phase-free transfers are only valid for closed orbits.
ΔV estimate: - km/s
Mission Options:
The following table lists relevant mission options. Each mission is assigned a unique "Id" to distinguish it from the rest. Initially, it contains the set of pre-computed solutions which includes the optimal launch opportunities (minimizing the departure C3). The pre-computed trajectories also include the cases of minimum time of flight and minimum arrival V-infinity. Switch to Mass mode to assess the capabilities of several launch vehicles. Order by decreasing "Id" (default) to see the user-added records on top.
Use the interactive tools Mission Selection and Launch Vehicle Selection to add missions to the table by simply clicking on the plots. Selected trajectories can be plotted in the ICRF system, using the Ecliptic Earth's equator at J2000 as the reference plane.
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Atlas V (401) (kg)
Falcon 9 (kg)
Falcon Heavy (kg)
Delta IV-H (kg)
SLS 1B (kg)
SLS 2 (kg)
(cal)
(MJD)
Rdzs
Mission Selection - Pork-Chop Plot:
Click on the pork-chop plot to select a mission and to add it to the Mission Options table. Each blue marker represents one of the pre-computed missions, whereas orange markers represent the missions selected by the user. Use the controllers to customize the contours and the axes of the figure. The pork-chop plot is recomputed on the fly everytime you request a different launch period using the drop-down menu in the "Axis Setup" section. There are two selection modes available:
Add new points: the tooltip and the table under the pork-chop plot will display information about any point, and clicking on feasible missions will add them to the Mission Options table.
Explore selected: use this mode to see detailed information about the solid markers, which correspond to the missions listed in the Mission Options table.
For rendezvous missions, we assumed a specific impulse of 320 s to compute the arrival impulsive maneuver. Check the HOVER INFO to understand why certain missions cannot be selected. Keep in mind that each launch vehicle has a particular C3 limit; when operating in Rendezvous mode, you will only be able to select missions with C3 values within the capabilities of the selected launch vehicle.
Update figure
Reset contours
Reset axes
Selection Mode
Add new points
Explore selected
Contour Setup
Choose the variables to be displayed in the interactive contour plot. Use the input fields to define the ranges of the corresponding color bars, and the drop-down menu to specify the preferred number of contour levels in the plot.
Primary: C3 (dep) V-infty (dep) V-infty (arr) Total ΔV Phase ang. (arr) Range (arr) Approach angle SEP angle Launch declin. Rendezvous - km/s Levels: 5 10 15 20
Secondary: None C3 (dep) V-infty (dep) V-infty (arr) Total ΔV Phase ang. (arr) Range (arr) Approach angle SEP angle Launch declin. Rendezvous - km/s Levels: 5 10 15 20
Select launcher for rendezvous mode: Atlas V (401) Atlas V (421) Atlas V (531) Atlas V (551) Falcon 9 (FT, ASDS) Falcon Heavy Delta IV Heavy SLS Block 1B SLS Block 2
Axis Setup
The launch period starts in 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 2036 2037 2038 2039 2040 2041 2042 2043 2044 2045 2046 2047 2048 2049 2050 2051 2052 2053 2054 2055 and spans 5 years. Use the controls below to focus on a specific range of dates within the selected 5-year time span.
Dates Displayed: - yyyy-mm-dd MJD
Specify the range of flight times to be displayed.
Time of flight: - days years
HOVER INFO: Hover the mouse over the figures
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Launch-Vehicle Selection:
The figure below shows the maximum mass of the spacecraft that will reach the target body when launched on a certain date. Note that the times of flight might vary across the plot. Use the control panels to select the mission type (flyby or rendezvous), and to update the list of launch vehicles. Click on the plot to add missions to the Mission Options table. Zoom in using the slider under the figure or by clicking and dragging on the chart. In Rdzvs mode, you cannot select missions if more than one launch vehicle is active.
Select Mission Type
Select Launch Vehicle
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Didier Deschamps discusses Anthony Martial’s form after leaving Man Utd star out of France squad
Posted November 12, 2019 9:23 by
France manager Didier Deschamps says Manchester United striker Anthony Martial is one the players ‘likely to be called up’ after again being overlooked ahead of the international break.
Martial has been excellent for the Reds this season and his impact on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side was highlighted when he was sidelined for eight weeks through injury.
United look far less threatening in Martial’s absence and the 23-year-old has become the focal point of the attack upon his return.
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Ahead of upcoming Euro 2020 qualifiers against Albania and Moldova, Deschamps spoke about Martial, revealing that he is still in his thoughts for the national side.
“He was part of the French team on a regular basis, but recently he was often injured,” Deschamps said, as quoted by Manchester Evening News.
“He came back not so long ago and it’s going well in his role as a central striker with Manchester United. For a long time he’s been part of the players likely to be called up.”
It certainly is going well in a central striker role for Martial and it’s difficult to understand why he still wasn’t called up to his national side for the latest round of international fixtures.
Martial is pivotal to United providing any danger to opposition defences and was central to all of United’s good link-up play in the dominant performance against Brighton on Sunday.
He has scored 3 goals and contributed 3 assists in 6 Premier League games this season and Solskjaer will be pleased that he will get a full fortnight’s rest before the tough test away to Sheffield United coming up after the international break.
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NetEntertainment has collaborated with 20th Century Fox to bring three-dimensional graphics in their game for video slot machines known as Aliens. This is a game based on the second edition of blockbuster film series and cult film favourite directed by James Cameron.
There are three levels to be played in our Aliens slot machine game. Players can expect re-spins, collectable multipliers, and wild substitutions.
5 Reels
15 Pay lines
This video slot game promises plenty of suspenseful gameplay for players as they have to scan the infested sections on the reels in terms of alien activity and then shoot relentless alien attack waves in order to reach the goal and that is the Queen Hive.
The goal in Level 1 is to fill up the Alien Activity Meter with as many multipliers as possible. This allows the players to set themselves up for big wins in the second level after the completion of the nine steps in this level. The next stage brings the players to an Encounter where a symbol guarantees an overlay win from its initial spin. The players can expect a massive alien attack in this level. Completion of this successful Encounter brings the players to the third level where they have to seek out the Queen Hive. With an earning of five re-spins, the Queen Hive can be routed with one grenade for achieving maximum wins. Players must complete individual steps on the Hive Health Meter to get close to destroying the Queen as well as her Hive in order to claim the Aliens Max Win of Stake Cash Prize multiplied by 240 times. Players have to remember that there is no guarantee that the Queen Hive will be destroyed. So, they have to keep searching for multipliers on middle position of a multiplier reel to boost up the earlier damage by about ten times.
Five reels and fifteen pay lines have to be played from fifteen pence on every spin up to a maximum of GBP 150 on a spin. The multipliers start collecting from the very first level and they can be applied to the second level to be used on the symbols which appear during this stage. If the players are lucky, they can get a six-multiplier on three symbols on their spin for big wins. They may come across an Ammo Clip reel containing ammunition symbols. If it shows up on a middle position of the reel, it will increase the Ammo Clip Counter to trigger more Aliens free spins. This counter will keep going down after each re-spin as the aliens are being shot down.
The graphics are brilliant as the game is viewed from the vantage point of the helmet camera of a marine. The background music is lively, as it motivates the players to seek out alien activity and survive their attacks to arrive at the Queen Hive and destroy it in order to claim their huge cash prize.
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Good to be Gus: Poyet extends deal at Sunderland through 2016
By Mike PrindivilleMay 28, 2014, 8:56 PM EDT
The Gus Bus will remain parked at the Stadium of Light for the foreseeable future as Sunderland manager Gus Poyet extended his contract with the Black Cats through 2016 on Wednesday.
“I am delighted to extend my stay with Sunderland AFC, after an unbelievable season and our famous great escape,” Poyet said referring to his side’s 14th place finish in the Premier League after being at the bottom at the mid-point of the season.
The Uruguayan manager, who took over for an unhinged Paolo Di Canio in October 2013, had been linked with a number of potential moves away from Sunderland with Southampton becoming late favorites to capture his eye. But the 46-year-old stuck recommitted to the Wearside club hoping to build on this past season’s success.
From Sky Sports:
“Stability is absolutely key to long-term and sustained success for any football club, and this new contract gives both the club and me that stability going forward.
“Now it’s a different challenge for me and the club and I am relishing the next stage with Sunderland. We achieved so much last season, working together – the club and the fans – and we took many good memories from the season.
“The prospect of creating more of those memories is one which excites me, and now I cannot wait for the next chapter in my career and the history of Sunderland AFC.”
In addition to Sunderland’s impressive 14th place finish, Poyet also drove the Black Cats to the Capital One Cup final where they lost 3-1 to Manchester City. From all indications Poyet will be handed significant funds to build a squad of his own liking this summer after inheriting a team that Di Canio built last summer when he brought in 12 new players.
After struggling with the personnel left to him Poyet made some strategic moves last January, bringing in Sebastien Vergini and Marcos Alonso to firm up a leaky defense and Liam Bridcutt to add grit to the defensive midfield. His true stroke of genius, however, was recalling Connor Wickham from loan and setting the 21-year-old free to score five goals in a three match span and help drag Sunderland out of the relegation zone.
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How do I graph #16x^2+y^2+32x-18y=119# algebraically?
Precalculus Translation and Rotation of Axis Graphing Conic Sections Algebraically
Get the equation into a familiar form, and then figure out what each number in that equation means.
This looks like the equation of a circle. The best way to get these into a graphable form is to play around with the equation and complete squares. Let's first regroup these...
#(16x^2 + 32x)+(y^2-18y)=119#
Now take out the factor of 16 in the x "group".
#16(x^2 + 2x) + (y^2-18y)=119#
Next, complete the squares
#16(x^2+2x+1)+(y^2-18y+81)=119+16+81#
#16(x+1)^2+(y-9)^2=216#
Hmm... this would be the equation of a circle, except there's a factor of 16 in front of the x group. That means it must be an ellipse.
An ellipse with center (h, k) and a horizontal axis "a" and vertical axis "b" (regardless of which one is the major axis) is as follows:
#(x-h)^2/a+(y-k)^2/b = 1#
So, let's get this formula into that form.
#(x+1)^2/13.5 + (y-9)^2/216 = 1# (Divide by 216) That's it!
So, this ellipse is going to be centered at (-1, 9). Also, the horizontal axis will have a length of #sqrt13.5# or about #3.67#, and the vertical axis (also the major axis of this ellipse) will have a length of #sqrt216# (or #6sqrt6#), or about #14.7#.
If you were to graph this by hand, you would draw a dot at (-1, 9), draw a horizontal line extending about 3.67 units on either side of the dot, and a vertical line extending about 4.7 units on either side of the dot. Then, draw an oval connecting the tips of the four lines.
If this doesn't make sense, here's a graph of the ellipse.
graph{16x^2 + y^2+32x-18y =119 [-34.86, 32.84, -8, 25.84]}
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ASDA Live cassette
It was a warm summer’s evening, the sun had only just set and the rose petals were still mid-air, floating between couples holding hands, walking through Bristol’s picturesque parks and walkways. There was a dark-orange glow behind the buildings and the smell of romance could be made out in the air, even on Portland square, between the architects and the prostitutes, the young kids meeting at McDonalds, the wide-eyed students and the stoned skaters passing by. Something felt good this evening. Later that night, when asda began to play down in the basement of Cosies, the romance and warmth quickly got turned into the aural equivalent of sex and a kind of sickly heat… The mic was feeding back like there was no tomorrow, answering the screams of this bunch of people in that basement… chester did not give a fuck about their feelings, no fuck at all. Seb was just playing, luring them from one rhythm to the next, taunting their ears with sounds that were easily above pitch register and answering them with equal blasts of bass through those hand-built speakers like a knock to the gut. I’ve been to cosies for many a nice session, but that was the first time I entered a mosh-pit in this place. It was fun, really fucking fun. A good thing is, that the recording now exists on cassette, to be released via FuckPunk this Thursday 20/10/16 - Recorded over some old children’s bible tapes, the perfect antidote to chester and seb’s utter blasphemy. Packaged in the original Death Disko poster designed by Sam ‘Neek’ Barrett - because that makes absolute sense. There’s also a lovely picture of asda inside, and contact details for FuckPunk showcase bookings.
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Protecting the Head with Modernized Technology
“With a better understanding [of] how traumatic brain injuries occur, a Brown-led research team hopes to develop new standards for head protection and next-generation helmets,” reads a news story from Brown University. In July, the Office of Naval Research granted the university $4.75 million to study brain injury, specifically as it relates to helmet use in the military and in athletics.
Currently, helmets must essentially follow standards that were set in the late 1970’s (there have been changes in sizing since that time), with the technology that was available 40 years ago when computers were still an anomaly. “[Brown University associate professor Christian Frank’s lab] has developed a novel technique for measuring for effects of traumatic forces on individual neurons… a custom-built device that can apply compressive forces to neurons inside three-dimensional cell cultures [not a 2D petri dish, as is presently used].” With these updated and more stringent standards, Brown University and their associates hope to first develop a helmet that can gather all the data about the brain during the action that resulted in its injury. Ultimately, because they are now learning about the effects of injury on a cellular level, researchers hope to develop a helmet prototype to completely prevent such injuries.
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Beyond The Lane Lines: Michael Phelps Ranked #1 Outside The Water
Olympians Michael Phelps and Daiya Seto are among the swimming stars highlighted in this edition of Beyond the Lane Lines. Archive photo via Mike Lewis/Ola Vista Photography
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Get your news fix on happenings outside the pool with the latest ‘Beyond the Lane Lines.’ With each edition, we collect personal stories, little known facts and general items of interest from around the world. Read on and learn something new this week.
#1 – Michael Phelps Ranked #1 Health Influencer
Olympic icon Michael Phelps is used to seeing his name in lights for his aquatic prowess, but the 34-year-old father of 3 is continuing to make a big impact on the world in the realm of mental health advocacy. Earlier this year he was honored with the Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion and now he has been slotted #1 on PR Week’s list of Health Influencers.
Phelps is heavily involved with the online therapy system Talkspace, which offers on-demand consultations of which 1 million people have used to date. CEO and co-founder Oren Frank says of the 23-time Olympic gold medalist’s impact on the company’s initiatives, “It really is a labor of love. Michael does not get paid for his involvement, he’s actually a partner. He wants to be part of what we’re doing and not just a paid spokesperson.”
Frank notes Phelps makes people think, “If this guy struggles with this and does something to actively counter it, maybe I should do the same.”
“He’s doing an incredible service to everyone he meets and we are able to feel it,” he adds. “You can see the same dedication, commitment and tenacity he used as a swimming champion in how he applies that to mental health.”
#2 – Mel Marshall Among UK Coaching Award Nominees
Tokyo 2020 Olympics-bound coach Mel Marshall is among those shortlisted for a national coaching award. The coach of Adam Peaty at Loughborough is a finalist in the UK coaching High-Performance Coach of the Year award, one of twelve categories in which a winner will be announced during a ceremony at The Tower Hotel London on Thursday, December 5th.
Of her nomination, Marshall said, “It’s a real honour to be nominated for the UK Coaching Awards, but it is recognition of all the hard work which goes behind the scenes from the entire staff team at British Swimming.
“I’ve had the pleasure to work with some of the most talented swimmers of our generation, and it is their commitment to achieving their best which inspires me to coach.
“I see how our athletes are inspiring young people to take up swimming and being involved in the England Talent Coaching programmes gives me an opportunity to see that first hand.”
Danielle Brayson, who coaches teenagers at the City of Glasgow Swim Team, has also been shortlisted in the Talent Development Coach of the Year category.
#3 – Australian Junior Excellence Program Criteria Revealed
Swimming Australia has announced the criteria and qualifying times for its Junior Excellence Program, an initiative designed to recognize performances of swimmers aged between 9-13 years-old. Times swum between May 1 of this year and April 30 of next year will be deemed gold, silver, bronze or blue standard-worthy, based on the qualifying times achieved.
The standards are based on times raced at this year’s World Junior Swimming Championships.
Per Swimming Australia, the Junior Excellence Program was established in 2007 to recognize, reward and incentivize junior swimmers who are on a key part of their swimming journey, learning and refining as they develop into senior swimmers. Each year Swimming Australia releases the JX criteria and standards for the forthcoming season which swimmers, parents, and coaches can use to as targets throughout the year.
#4 – Daiya Seto Part of P & G Olympic Campaign
Global consumer packaged goods company Procter & Gamble has selected Japanese Olympian Daiya Seto as an ambassador to the company’s ‘Thank you, Mom’ 2020 Olympic Games campaign.
Seto recently took home 2 gold medals at this year’s World Championships, earning an automatic berth on Japan’s Olympic roster with his performances. The 25-year-old dad was selected partly for this reason, but also because he ‘expresses gratitude to family members and his mother who have supported his achievements so far.’
Of his selection, the ANA athlete stated, “I am very honored to be appointed as the “Thank you, Mom” campaign ambassador for P & G Tokyo 2020.
“I am deeply grateful to my mother who has supported me since I was a child that I have been able to continue my career as a swimmer and have qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Games. Also, in my private life, I had a girl last year and I realized how big a family is. I hope that this campaign will make many people realize their gratitude to their families and mothers.” (CNET)
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Marianela Nuñez: ‘Ballet isn’t elitist – it’s our responsibility to make people get it’ The Royal Ballet principal on her changing roles, how she dances through difficult emotions, and being ‘a complete bunhead’Marianela Nuñez is one of the most acclaimed ballerinas in the world. Born in Buenos Aires, she joined the Royal Ballet when she was 16 and became a principal at the age of 20. Now 37, she is in her prime. She excels in the big ballerina roles in the famous 19th-century classics – she’s just finished performing Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty and will be soon playing Odette/Odile in Swan Lake and Tatiana in Onegin. Known as “Nela”, she was married to fellow Royal Ballet principal Thiago Soares for four years. You were performing leading roles with the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires by the time you were 14. What made you love ballet so much?I don’t know! When I was three, I went to a school where the teacher had her studio in a garage, and she would take the car out and we would do lessons there. But by the time I was five, I said to my mum, this is not for me. I want to do ballet and I want to do it properly. It wasn’t a game, I wanted to take it seriously. That determination was in me from a very young age. I think you are born with a calling. Otherwise you can’t explain it. Continue reading...
Try a novella and ditch your snobbery: five ways to read more books
Reading is good for the brain and the soul, but we don’t always find the time, the inclination – or the right book. That can be easily changedStruggling to find the time to read could suggest you are reading the wrong books. Sian Cain, the Guardian’s books site editor, says people often aspire to read books they feel they “should”, rather than ones they actually want to read, then end up putting them off. “Get over your snobbery, as there is literally a book for everyone out there.” John Rampton, an entrepreneur who has written about building a voracious reading habit, adds: “If I go for one or two books that are just OK, my rhythm gets thrown off.” Continue reading...
Try a novella and ditch your snobbery: five ways to read more books Reading is good for the brain and the soul, but we don’t always find the time, the inclination – or the right book. That can be easily changedStruggling to find the time to read could suggest you are reading the wrong books. Sian Cain, the Guardian’s books site editor, says people often aspire to read books they feel they “should”, rather than ones they actually want to read, then end up putting them off. “Get over your snobbery, as there is literally a book for everyone out there.” John Rampton, an entrepreneur who has written about building a voracious reading habit, adds: “If I go for one or two books that are just OK, my rhythm gets thrown off.” Continue reading...
Los equipos de hockey están haciendo un esfuerzo para aumentar su base de fanáticos latinos
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Los equipos de hockey están haciendo un esfuerzo para aumentar su base de fanáticos latinos Los Kings y los Ducks están entre los equipos de la NHL que trabajan para llegar a una nueva audiencia. "A medida que la demografía de América del Norte está cambiando, sabemos que debemos ser relevantes", dice un funcionario de la liga.
Pitched battles between police and demonstrators as leaders fail to form new governmentProtesters hurled fireworks and ripped branches from trees to use against security forces firing rubber bullets and teargas in the most violent night of protests in Beirut since the beginning of mass anti-government demonstrations in Lebanon three months ago.Lebanese medical groups said at least 377 people were injured, including 80 who were hospitalised on Saturday during the unrest that organisers have called the “week of anger”, after a relative lull in the protests that have rocked the country since October. Continue reading...
Hundreds injured in Lebanon as violence flares in 'week of anger' Pitched battles between police and demonstrators as leaders fail to form new governmentProtesters hurled fireworks and ripped branches from trees to use against security forces firing rubber bullets and teargas in the most violent night of protests in Beirut since the beginning of mass anti-government demonstrations in Lebanon three months ago.Lebanese medical groups said at least 377 people were injured, including 80 who were hospitalised on Saturday during the unrest that organisers have called the “week of anger”, after a relative lull in the protests that have rocked the country since October. Continue reading...
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born and raised in the American South, but his dream of racial equality and social justice reverberated out of his region, into the whole country and then around the world.
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A pivotal moment for civil rights history in Tallahassee
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Corporate and Commercial Employment
Tal Keret heads the firm’s Employment Law practice group. Tal’s practice covers a wide range of matters associated with employment law, both individual and collective.
Tal regularly advises leading Israeli and foreign corporations, employers, representatives of companies' executive management, workers’ unions, employers' unions, employee organizations, and employees, through liquidation and foreclosure proceedings, as well as for the suspension of proceedings.
Tal regularly advises clients regarding a wide variety of matters within the field of labor law, including providing legal counsel, expert opinions and representation before both civil courts and labour tribunals, in drafting and negotiating contracts and collective agreements, consulting on and accompanying corporations and other legal entities in a variety of commercial transactions, including restructuring, mergers, and the sale and purchase of activity, in connection with all aspects of employment law relating to such transactions.
Earlier in her career, Tal was a partner and head of the employment law department at Zysman, Aharoni, Gayer & Co. (2007 to 2012).
Prior to that, Tal was the owner and managing partner of Tal Keret & Co., a boutique employment law firm, head of the employment law department at Samet Steinmetz Haring & Co., and head of the employment law department at Gilat Knoller & Co., where she also articled.
In the past, Tal served as a board member of “Teuza”, a public VC Fund ( 2003-2009), a board member for an Israeli-Chinese joint venture (2006-2008), a judge for “Reshut HaShiphut”, an arbitration institution of the “Histadrut”, and the chairman of the central election committee for the “Histadrut” elections of 2012.
Tel Aviv University LLB
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Client Update | Employment | September 2019
How long are work days on the eve of national/religious holidays? How about during the 'intermediate days' ("Chol HaMo'ed")? Can employees...
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The General Elections for the 22nd Knesset, which fall on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 (Elul 17, 5779), are a nationwide holiday. What are employees' rights on Election Day?
Amendment Gives Employees Day Off for Local Authority Elections
Under Amendment 44 to the Local Authorities Law (Elections), the day of general elections for local authorities will now be a rest day in those localities where elections are taking place. This also applies to elections to regional councils.
Tal Keret Discusses Ruling that Tips Constitute Income
In an interview on “Praklitim Ad Habait”, Tal Keret discusses the ramifications of the new ruling that all tips given to waiters are to be considered business revenue.
Employers Finding Favour Before the Courts?
Is the National Labour Court beginning to side with employers? Tal Keret and Shir Ariely share their view on this unprecedented change in the balance of power.
Israeli Labor Courts and The Sexual Harassment Law
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Passover: The Rights of Employees and Employers
Tal Keret, Head of the Employment Law practice at Tadmor Levy & Co., provides a comprehensive guide to the rights of employees and employers during the Passover holiday.
Employee Rights: Sick Leave and Sick Pay
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Pandora is Now Free
Michael Arrington @arrington?lang=en / 14 years
Pandora, the great music disovery service and player, is now offering a free version of its service.
Pandora has hired 30 musicians who have spent years analyzing 400 attributes of songs, like melody, rhythm and vocals. They’ve analyzed over 10,000 artists and 300,000 songs to date. Users pick a band or song to get started, and create a “channel” based on that type of music and which you can stream over their site in high quality audio. Over time, by telling Pandora whether or not you like a given song, the channel will evolve. You can share these channels with other Pandora users.
For more information, see our profile (one of my more effusive) from August 20, 2005.Pandora launched nine weeks ago.
Before today, Pandora charged $12/quarter or $36/year after a 10 hour free trial. Now, users can choose between a free, ad supported version of Pandora, or choose to pay for the service without ads.
Users who have paid for Pandora previously will have the option of having their money refunded, or an extension added to their subscription. Quarterly subscribers will have a year added to their account, and yearly subscribers will have two years added.
Pandora has also added new features, including a favorites list, increased feedback functionality for tailoring stations, better playlist generation and dozens of other minor tweaks.
Pandora has 1 million stations based on 70,000 unique artists or songs.
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Smart Move or Gimmick? This Bar Only Lets Its Facebook Friends in After 9PM
August 31st, 2013 by Hazel Chua
Suppose you’re a bar owner who’s getting tired of dealing with a rowdy crowd of undesirables who do nothing but mess up your interior decor and ruin the mood in the entire place with their antics. What would you do? Hire more bouncers, or implement a digital bouncer-type of system instead?
Tony Mannor, the owner of Stockton, California’s Finnegan’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, opted to go with the latter. So far, it seems like he made the right decision. The doors are closed to people who aren’t “friends” with the bar’s Facebook page after 9PM. That means patrons have to add the pub in the social media network before they can enter.
Mannor took to YouTube to explain that slots are “limit[ed] to an overall percentage of total occupancy and other factors.” He added that the bar has about 7,500 names on their guest list – with Mannor himself knowing the faces of at least 75% of them.
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Fuel to the Fire
Tens of millions of gallons of fuel. One of the largest storage facilities on the East Coast and dead center in the middle of Broward County's Port Everglades. One look at the place sends the mind racing with worst case scenarios.
WSVN -- Possibilities like these. Thankfully for us, BSO firefighters have somewhere they can see it all, before they must fight it for real.
At Texas A&M University, a facility with a worldwide reputation.
Battalion Chief Kelli Allen: "This is the Disneyland of firefighting. Every kind of thing you could think of that firefighters could use to train, they've got at this facility."
Including a full-fledged disaster city with collapsed buildings and train wrecks. With instructors with a combined 500 years of experience.
Firefighter: "Forty-three."
Firefighter: "I have 29 years right now."
Firefighter: "Thirty-years."
Firefighter: "Twenty-six years."
BSO Battalion Chief Kelli Allen is one of them. Twice a year, she travels here to help train firefighters from around the globe.
Battalion Chief Kelli Allen: "I feel like it's an honor that these people invited me to work with them."
She's been at Port Everglades for decades, and she brings fellow BSO firefighters here to go through five days of some of the worst experiences they can imagine, like fires on the massive tankers you may see coming into port everyday.
Firefighters watch up close as the engine room ignites, attack the fire from the hatch above with foam and feel the burn until they're up to their necks in it, a true trial by fire, to learn how to control the uncontrollable.
Battalion Chief Kelli Allen: "To actually go down these stairs and to feel that intense heat that you feel and when you get done and you can't touch the rail because its so hot. It really all comes to home."
And what about those massive fuel tanks? If one isn't perfectly sealed, you could get this: from the ground up, a line of firefighters attack, marching right into a face-to-face firefight, just close enough to attach a foam hose to the tank's lid.
And, just when they think they've tamed the monster by day, by night he rears a head uglier than some firefighters may ever see in real life. Instructors let loose liquid propane gas, free to go wherever it pleases, and it always does.
Firefighter: "It burns at 3,750 degrees."
And then the fight is on.
Dave Kartunen: "Propane tanks like this are all over South Florida, and firefighters have to be very careful to tamp down these flames to make sure the vapor doesn't seep out because something as simple as a cigarette butt could reignite it and set it off all over again."
Capt. Drew Pelton: "These guys have to be sure they don't move, or they could have that fire come right underneath them."
And each time brave firefighters have to go right at the source with only their hands, if they want to win this fight. BSO firefighters know Port Everglades is chock-full of pipelines like these that burn hot enough to melt concrete.
Capt. Drew Pelton: "That's exactly what we're going to come across and exactly what we're going to find."
Capt. Drew Pelton: "Grab that chain!"
Teamwork takes them right to the source.
Firefighter: "Hey, hey, hey, that's all I got!"
Firefighter: "Good job, Taco!"
When you add fuel to the fire, trust and communication win out with the help of a whole lot of foam and water.
But sometimes the simulations are so real, they win the fight. Four lines of firefighters with water and foam couldn't take down this monster. So powerful it burned the skin off their noses and reminded all of them why they're here.
Capt. Drew Pelton: "If things are going to go bad, they're going to go bad."
Capt. Drew Pelton: "This gives us the hands-on you're not going to get unless you have these kinds of fires."
So, next time you see the port and imagine the possibilities, remember BSO's finest trained with the best and survived the worst.
Battalion Chief Kelli Allen: "Think it would make people feel better to know the extent of training we go through."
Capt. Drew Pelton: "You always want to try to give everyone that edge because if you don't give them that edge, why do you want to be here?"
Kathy Fraser
Email: media@teex.tamu.edu
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The Real World, Theater Edition: An Interview with Alan Olejniczak
Barbara Jwanouskos interviews, Alan Olejniczak about his upcoming show, “Present Tense.”
I had to feel instant comradery with Alan Olejniczak and having a complicated last name with a silent “J”. In case you were wondering, Alan gives you a little tip on his website on how to pronounce his name, which I’m totally going to steal for my own forth coming website.
“How in the heck do you pronounce that last name?”
OH/la/KNEE/check
We had the chance to bond over email about opera libretti. I was inspired by Alan’s story of the serendipitous outcome of a little facebook post he put out to the world when he had submitted to a company he admires that actually didn’t take unsolicited playwriting submissions. Partially because while I make adjustments to my own playwriting trajectory, I’m feeling the need to be bold and put myself out there more and more.
What follows is my email exchange with Alan. I am looking forward to meeting him, geeking out about Pearl S. Buck and of course, seeing his plays.
Babs: I’m interested in people’s trajectory into writing. Tell me how you got involved in the Bay Area theater scene. Did you come in originally as a playwright? Was anything an impetus?
Alan: While I have a BFA with a focus in Performing Arts, I studied the classics but had little idea of how plays were written or even developed. Up to that point, I never considered the idea of writing one. About six years ago, I saw a developmental reading of a play by Lauren Gunderson at Marin Theater Company. I was inspired and strangely determined to write one myself. After all, how hard could it be? For me, playwrighting has become a passion and continues to be the most difficult and most rewarding personal endeavors I have ever undertaken.
Babs: This tends to be such a loaded question, but do you think you have a writing style, and if so, what is it like? How would your friends describe your writing and the subject matter that you’re attracted to?
Alan: It’s too early for me to claim any particular writing style, and in many ways, I’m still finding my voice. I enjoy writing dramas and I’m naturally drawn to mythology and the stories of powerful historical figures. My work has been described as classically-styled, intellectual, but most often, operatic. I believe theater should be distinct from film and I’m not always attracted to realism, despite Present Tense being written this way.
Babs: Tell me about your upcoming production of “Present Tense” at ACT Costume Shop. What is it about? Where did it grow out of? What might we expect?
Alan: Present Tense is really my second play. It’s a play cycle of five separate vignettes. It’s about loving families and dilemmas that some us face. It’s drawn from personal experiences and those of people I love. The focus is on intimate stories rather than the grand and the characters are drawn from real life rather than archetypes. I wrote the Present Tense with my friend, Rik Lopes in mind and I’m thrilled that he is able to direct and perform in this play.
Babs: I read on your website that you are also very much interested in opera. Could you talk a little about that? What drew you to it and have you written any libretti, out of curiosity?
Alan: While working on my undergrad at UW-Milwaukee, I studied theater production, but outside of school, I sang in the chorus of the Florentine Opera Company. I graduated, moved to Atlanta, and didn’t sing again for another fifteen years. I loved working with the Atlanta Opera and sang three seasons before moving to California. For now, I simply enjoy being a season ticket holder with the San Francisco Opera.
I love opera and believe it’s one of the greatest western art forms. It combines the highest expressions of vocal and orchestral music with the greatest demands on stagecraft. Currently, I’m in the early stages of developing a play for We Players. It’s drawn from Greek mythology and combines spoken drama with song, spectacle, and dance. I’m excited for the opportunity to work with such amazing and dynamic company. My crazy dream is to adapt Pearl S. Buck’s “The Good Earth” into a grand opera.
Babs: I mentioned that this month’s themes are “luck and chance”. Can you tell me a story of how this might have intersected with your playwriting/theater trajectory?
Alan: Connecting with We Players was certainly serendipity. Last summer, I posted on Facebook that I foolishly submitted an unsolicited script to a company I love. Never a smart move, but I was feeling bold and guessed that my email was already deleted. By chance, my friend Arthur Oliver, who I worked with at the Atlanta Opera read the post and privately messaged me, asking which company it was? He knew Ava Roy personally and he really made this connection happen. I’m forever grateful.
Babs: What keeps you writing?
Alan: Humans have always had a deep need for sharing stories. It’s primal. We are also drawn to meaningful and satisfying work and playwrighting for me fills both of these needs. I find I’m most productive and inspired in the mornings. I wake early, make a pot of coffee, and write. Playwrighting, for me, has become literally the reason I get up in the morning.
Babs: Any advice for those that might want to write a play and have it produced?
Alan: Frankly, I’m still learning myself. However, I would say to write a play, one must learn the mechanics of dramatic structure and how to develop compelling characters and dialogue. You must also really love the subject of your play as it may take years to develop. Lastly be persistent and be open to thoughtful critique. I know the surest way to bring your play to the stage is to self-produce. Take the risk yourself rather than ask others. I remember speaking to Stuart Bousel who stated there is no right way to produce a play or be successful in theater.
Babs: Any plugs for anything of yours (or others) coming up?
Alan: Well, certainly We Player’s Ondine. I hope to work front-of-house on the production after the run of Present Tense. Ondine will be spectacularly staged at the Sutro Baths and will not be a show to miss. I would also recommend Patricia Milton’s Enemies: Foreign and Abroad with Central Works Theater. I’m also looking forward to Impact Theater’s Richard III and Piano Fight’s ShortLived.
You can find out more about Present Tense and ticket information at the ACT Costume Shop website. For news on Alan Olejniczak, check out his website at www.alanolejniczak.com.
Barbara Jwanouskos is a SF Bay Area-based playwright with an upcoming reading of her untitled punk play through Just Theater’s New Play Lab on April 28th. You can follow her on twitter @bjwany and now on Facebook.
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Theater Around The Bay: Year-End Round-Up Act 1
Well, we’ve made it- the end of 2014! It’s been a tremendous year of learning and change, tragedy and triumph, and our eight staff bloggers are here to share with you some of their own highlights from a year of working, writing and watching in the Bay Area Theater scene (and beyond)! Enjoy! We’ll have more highlights from 2014 tomorrow and Wednesday!
Ashley Cowan’s Top 5 Actors I Met This Year (in random order!)
1) Heather Kellogg: I had seen Heather at auditions in the past but she always intimidated me with her talent, pretty looks, and bangin’ bangs. Luckily for me, I had the chance to meet her at a reading early in the year and I immediately started my campaign to be friends. She also just amazed me in Rat Girl.
2) Justin Gillman: I feel like I saw Justin in more roles than any other actor in 2014 but I was completely blown away by his performance in Pastorella. What I appreciated so much about his time on stage was that underneath an incredible, honest portrayal was an energy that simply longed to be; there’s something so beautiful about watching someone do what they love to do and do it so well.
3) Kitty Torres: I absolutely loved The Crucible at Custom Made and while so many of the actors deserve recognition for their work, I really wanted to commend Kitty for her part in an awesome show. She had to walk the fine line of being captivating, but still and silent, while also not taking attention away from the action and dialogue happening around her in the play’s opening scene. And she nailed it. I met her in person weeks later in person and my goodness, she’s also just delightful.
4) Vince Faso: I knew of Vince but we officially met at a party in February of this year. I enjoyed getting to know him both in person and on stage but it was his roles in Terror-Rama that made me realize that Vince is like a firework; while the sky may be beautiful on its own, when he walks on stage, he naturally lights it up in a new way.
5) Terry Bamberger: I met Terry at an audition and she’s the opposite of someone you’d expect to meet in such an environment. She was incredibly kind, supportive, and while you’re hoping you get into the play, you start to equally root for her to be in it too. And after seeing Terry in Three Tall Women, it’s clear that she’s also someone who deserves to be cast from her range and skills alone.
Barbara Jwanouskos’s Top 5 Moments in Bay Area Theater Where I Admired the Writer
This year has been one of momentous changes. I spent the first five months completing the last semester of the Dramatic Writing program at Carnegie Mellon University and receiving my MFA. I moved back to Bay Area and since then, have tried to become enmeshed in the theater scene once again. I haven’t had the resources to see all the performances I would have liked, but this list puts together the top five moments since being back that I’ve not only enjoyed the performance, but I found myself stuck with an element of the show that made me appreciate what the playwright had put together. In no particular order…
1) The Late Wedding by Christopher Chen at Crowded Fire Theater: Chris is known for his meta-theatrical style and elements – often with great effect. I have admired the intricacy of Chris’s plays and how he is able to weave together a satisfying experience using untraditional narrative structures. While watching The Late Wedding, I found myself at first chuckling at the lines (I’m paraphrasing, but…), “You think to yourself, is this really how the whole play is going to be?” and then finding a deeper meaning beyond what was being said that revolved around the constructs we build around relationships and how we arbitrarily abdicate power to these structures. Then, of course, I noticed that thought and noted, “Man, that was some good writing…”
2) Superheroes by Sean San José at Cutting Ball Theater with Campo Santo: I was talking with another playwright friend once who said, “Sean can take anything and make it good – he’s a phenomenal editor,” and in the back of my head, I wondered what types of plays he would create if behind the wheel as playwright. In Superheroes, there is a moment where the mystery of how the government was involved in the distribution of crack unfolds and you’re suddenly in the druggy, sordid, deep personal space of actual lives affected by these shady undertakings. Seeing the powerlessness against addiction and the yearning to gain some kind of way out – I sat back and was just thinking, “Wow, I want to write with that kind of intense emotional rawness because that is striking.” I left that play with butterflies in my stomach that lasted at least two hours.
3) Fucked Up Chronicles of CIA Satan and Prison Industry Peter and Never Ending Story by Brit Frazier at the One Minute Play Festival (Playwrights Foundation): Clocking in at under a minute each – these two plays that opened the One Minute Play Festival’s Clump 6 after Intermission were among the most striking images and moments for me of that festival. Brit’s two plays were hard-hitting, pull-no-punches, extremely timely works that I just remember thinking, “Now that is how to tell a whole story in just one minute.” I was talking to a friend about the festival and he said, “Even though they were only a minute, it’s funny how you can tell who really knows how to write.” I totally agree, and the first plays that I thought of when he said that were Brit’s.
4) Millicent Scowlworthy by Rob Handel at 99 Stock Productions: I was only familiar with Aphrodisiac and 13P on a most basic level when I decided to apply to Carnegie Mellon, but, of course, training with a working playwright and librettist, you can’t help but be curious about his other work. Though I hadn’t read Millicent Scowlworthy, the title alone was something that I figured I’d enjoy. Seeing the production this summer, I had another “So grateful I got to train with this guy” moment as I watched the plot swirl around the looming question that the characters kept on attacking, addressing, backing away from at every moment. The desperate need for the kids to act out the traumatic event from their past and from their community felt so powerfully moving. I understood, but didn’t know why – it was more of a feeling of “I know this. This is somewhere I’ve been.” And to me, what could be a better feeling to inspire out your audience with your writing?
5) Year of the Rooster by Eric Dufault at Impact Theater: I’d met Eric at a La MaMa E.T.C. playwriting symposium in Italy a number of years ago. We all were working on group projects so you got less of a sense of what types of plays each person wrote and more of their sources of inspiration. I have to say, going to Impact to see Year of the Rooster was probably THE most enjoyable experience I’ve had in theater this year – just everything about it came together: the writing, the directing, the space, the performances… There was pizza and beer… But I was profoundly engaged in the story and also how Eric chose to tell it and it was another moment where I reflected, “where are the moments I can really grab my key audience and give them something meaty and fun?”
Will Leschber’s Top 5 Outlets That Brought You Bay Area Theater (outside of a theater)
5) Kickstarter: The Facebook account of everyone you know who crowd-funded a project this year. Sure, it got old being asked to donate once every other week to another mounting production or budding theater project. BUT, the great news is, with this new avenue of financial backing, many Bay Area theater projects that might have otherwise gone unproduced got their time in the sun. This could be viewed as equally positive or negative… I like to look on the bright side of this phenomenon.
4) Blogging: San Francisco Theater Pub Blog- I know, I know. It’s tacky to include this blog on our own top 5 list. But hey, just remember this isn’t a ranking of importance. It’s just a reminder of how Bay Area theater branches out in ways other than the stage. And I’m proud to say this is a decent example. There, I said it.
3) YouTube: A good number of independent theater performances are recorded for posterity. Theater Pub productions of yesteryear and past Olympians festival readings are no exception. I’d like to highlight Paul Anderson who tirelessly recorded this year’s Olympians Festival: Monsters Ball. Due to his efforts and the efforts of all involved, the wider community can access these readings. For a festival that highlights a springboard-process towards playwriting improvement, that can be a very valuable tool.
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1) The Born Ready podcast: Each week Rob Ready and Ray Hobbs tear into the San Francisco theater scene with jokes and, dare I say it, thoughtful commentary. Looking for a wide spanning podcast that touches on the myriad levels of theater creation, production, performance and all things in between? Crack a beer and listen up! This is for you.
Charles Lewis III’s Top 5 Invaluable Lessons I Learned
This past year was a wild one; not fully good or bad. I achieved some career milestones AND failed to meet some goals. I got 86’d from some prominent companies AND formed new connections with others. With it all said and done, what have I got to show for it? Well, here are five things that stand out to me:
1) “Be mindful of what I say, but stand by every word.” I said in my very first official column piece that I had no intention of trolling – and I don’t – but when I start calling people “asshole” (no matter how accurate), it can run the risk of personal attack rather than constructive criticism. I’m trying to stick to the latter. And believe me, I have no shortage of criticism.
2) “Lucid dreams are the only way to go.” There are some projects, mostly dream roles, that I now know I’ll never do. What’s occurred to me recently is that I shouldn’t limit the creation of my dream projects to just acting. Lots of venues opened up to me recently, and they’ve set off cavalcade of ideas in my head. They might not be what I originally wanted, but it’s great to know I have more options than I first thought.
3) “It’s only ‘too late’ if you’ve decided to give up.” I don’t believe in destiny (“everything is preordained”), but I do believe in fate (the perfect alignment of seemingly random circumstance). I kinda took it for granted that the chances of me making a living at performance art had passed me by, then this year I was offered several more chances. Which ones I take is still in flux, it’s made me reassess what’s important to me about this art form.
4) “Burn a bridge or two. It’s nice to see a kingdom burn without you.” This year someone (whom I shall call “Hobgoblin”) tried to put a curse on me. Nothing magical, but more along the lines of a “You’ll never work in this town again” kinda curse. Years ago I might have been worried, but I knew his words were just that. Instead I threw back my head, started laughing, and said “Oh, Hobgoblin…”
5) “If you EVER have the chance to work with Alisha Ehrlich, take it.” If I had to pick a “Person of The Year” for Bay Area Theatre, she’d be it. I acted alongside her in The Crucible this year and when some of us were losing focus, she brought her A-game Every. Single. Night. Most of us can only hope to be as dedicated to our work.
Anthony Miller’s Top 5 People I Loved Working With This Year
There were way more than 5, but I just wanted these people to know how much I appreciated everything they did this year!
1) Colin Johnson: This fucking guy, he was a huge part of my year and the success of Terror-Rama. He’s a fantastic Director, resourceful as hell a never ending source of positivity and enthusiasm and a swell guy .
2) Alandra Hileman: The courageous Production Stage Manager of Terror-Rama. Smart, unafraid to give an opinion or tell an actor, designer director or producer “no”, in fact she’s fantastic at “No”.
3) Brendan West: Brendan is the Composer of Zombie! The Musical!, we had our first conversation about writing the show in 2007. Since then, it’s been produced a few times, but never with live music. Working with Brendan again to finally showcase the score live in concert was incredible.
4) Robin Bradford: In the last 3 years, when no one believed in me, Robin Bradford believed in me. This year, I was lucky enough to direct staged readings of her plays, The Ghosts of Route 66 (Co-Written by Joe Wolff) and Low Hanging Fruit. I love getting to work with the amazing actors she wrangles and incredible work she trusts me with.
5) Natalie Ashodian: My partner in life, devoted cat mother and so much more, this year, she has been my Producer, Costume Designer, Graphic Designer, Film Crew Supervisor, Zombie Wrangler and Copy Editor. She is the best. The. Best.
Allison Page’s Top 5 Moments That Made Me Love Being A Theater Maker In The Bay Area
1) The Return Of Theater Pub: I just have to say it – I’m thrilled that Theater Pub’s monthly shows are starting up again in January. It’s such a unique theater-going experience and encourages a different type of relationship to theater which is essential to new audience bases who maybe think that it isn’t for them. It infuses life and a casual feel to our beloved dramatics and welcomes any and all to have a beer and take in some art. I look forward to seeing what the new year will bring for TPub and its artistic team! And obviously, we’ll be here with ye olde blog.
2) Adventures At The TBA Conference: That sounds more thrilling and wild than it actually is. What happened is that I found I had a bunch of opinions about things! WHO KNEW?! Opinions about things and shows and companies and ideals and art and the conference itself. Conferences aren’t a perfect thing – never will be, because they’re conferences – but it does shine a light on what it is we’re doing, and that’s a biggie. Also I had a lot of whiskey with some new and old theater faces before the final session so that was cool.
3) The Opening Of The New PianoFight Venue: This is clearly getting a lot of mention from bay area theater people, because it’s exciting. No, it’s not the first theater to open up in the Tenderloin (HEYYYY EXIT Theatre!) but another multi-stage space is really encouraging. This next year will be a big one for them. Any time you’re doing something big and new, that first year is a doozy. Here’s hopin’ people get out to see things in the TL and support this giant venture. I will most definitely be there – both as an audience member and as a theater maker. It’s poised to be a real theatrical hub if enough people get on board. GET SOME!
4) Seeing The Crucible: Seeing Custom Made’s production of The Crucible was exciting for a bunch of reasons, starting with the fact that I’ve never seen a production of it filled with actors instead of high school students. IT WAS GREAT. Yes, surprise, it’s not a boring old standard. It can be vital and thrilling and new but somehow not new at the same time. It was so full of great performances in both the larger roles and the not so large ones, and it really felt like everyone was invested in this big wrenching story they believed in – thus getting the audience to believe in it, too. Maybe that sounds like it should be common, but it’s not as much as it should be.
5) Everything That Happens At SF Sketchfest: Man, I love Sketchfest. Not just participating in it, but seeing everything I can (you can’t see all the things because there are so many, but I do what I can do). It’s this great combination of local and national stand up, improv, sketch, tributes, talkbacks, and indefinable stuff which takes over the city and points to the bay area as a place able to sustain a gigantic festival of funny people. And audiences go bonkers for the big name acts who come to town. The performers themselves get in prime mingling time with each other – something funny people can be pretty awkward about, but in this case we all know it’s going to be weird and we just go for it.
Dave Sikula’s Five Theatre Events That Defined 2014 for Me
1) Slaughterhouse Five, Custom Made Theatre Company: I’ve previously mentioned the night we had to abort our performance because of an actor injury. (I insisted at the time that it was the first time that it had happened to me in 40 years of doing theatre. I’ve since been informed that, not only had it happened to me before, it happened at the same theatre only two years ago.) Regardless, it marked for me a lesson about the magic, and hazards, of live performance. The idea that, not only can anything happen on stage, but that, if the worst comes to the worst, a company of performers will do all they can to come together and make a show work even in the most altered of circumstances.
2) The Suit, ACT: A touring production, but one that provided an invaluable reminder about simplicity. In the 80s, I’d seen Peter Brook’s nine-hour production of The Mahabrarata, and what struck me at that time was how stunningly simple it was. Brook’s faith and trust in cutting away pretense and bullshit and concentrating on simple storytelling – in a manner that is unique to a live performance; that is to say, acknowledging that we’re in the theatre, and not watching television or a movie, was a lesson in stripping things down to their essence and letting the audience use their imaginations to fill in and intensify the story.
3) The Farnsworth Invention, Palo Alto Players: I’ve written at extreme length about the controversy over our production. I’m not going to rehash it again, but I mention it as another lesson; that, in the best circumstances, theatre should provoke our audiences. Not to anger them, but to challenge and defend their preconceptions; to make them defend and/or change their opinions.
4) The Nance, Century at Tanforan: Something else I’ve written about is my frustration at how, even though we’re finally getting “televised” presentations of plays in movie theatres, they’re almost always from London. I have nothing against British theatre (well, actually, I have plenty against it, but nothing I want to get into here …) I realize American producers don’t want to cut into their profits if they can help it, but not only did film versions of Phantom and Les Mis not seem to hurt their theatrical box office receipts, is there any reason to believe that shows like The Bridges of Madison County or even Side Show wouldn’t have benefitted from either the extra publicity or extra cash that national exposure would have given them? Similarly, would broadcasts of the Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen Waiting for Godot or the Nathan Lane/Brian Dennehy The Iceman Cometh do any harm? I’ll stipulate they don’t have a lot of title recognition, but did The Nance or Company other than their star leading performers? And let’s not limit it to New York. I’d like to see what’s happening in Chicago or Denver or Ashland or San Diego or Dallas or DC or Atlanta or Charlotte or Louisville or Portland or Seattle or Boston or Cleveland – or even San Francisco. The shortsightedness of producers in not wanting to grow their audiences at the expense of some mythical boost to the road box office (and even that, only in major cities) is nothing short of idiotic.
5) The Cocoanuts, Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Another one I wrote about at the time. One of those frustratingly rare occasions when a production not only met my high expectations, but wildly surpassed them. Hilarious and spontaneous, it was another reminder of why a live theatrical performance is so exciting when the actors are willing to take chances in the moment and do anything and are skilled enough to pull them off.
Marissa Skudlarek’s Top 5 Design Moments in Bay Area Theater
1) Liz Ryder’s sound design for The Crucible at Custom Made Theatre Company: Mixing Baroque harpsichord sounds with the frightening laughter of teenage girls, it created an appropriately spooky atmosphere. The friend who I saw The Crucible with went from “What does a sound designer do, anyway?” to “Now I see what sound design can do!” thanks to this show. I also want to honor Liz for the work she did on my own show, Pleiades, composing delicate finger-picked guitar music for scene transitions and putting together a rockin’ pre-show/intermission mix.
2) The Time magazine prop in The Pain and the Itch at Custom Made Theatre Company:
This play takes place on Thanksgiving 2006, and the subtle but real differences between 2006 and 2014 can be tricky to convey (after all, clothing and furniture haven’t changed much in these eight years). But the November 6, 2006 issue of Time, with President Bush on the cover, takes you right back to the middle of the last decade. Even better, actor Peter Townley flipped through the magazine and paused at an article about Borat. Since Townley’s character was dating a broadly accented, bigoted Russian, it felt just too perfect.
3) Eric Sinkkonen’s set design for Wittenberg at the Aurora Theatre: This clever comedy takes place in the 1500s, but features puns and allusions of a more recent vintage. The set design perfectly captured the play’s tone: sure, Martin Luther nails his 95 theses to the church door, but the door’s already covered with flyers advertising lute lessons, meetings of Wittenberg University’s Fencing Club, etc. — just like any bulletin board at any contemporary university.
4) The whirring fan in Hir, at the Magic Theatre: I am, somewhat notoriously, on record as disliking this show. But the holidays are a time for generosity, so let me highlight an element of Hir that I found very effective: at the start of the play, the sound design incorporates a whirring fan. (The monstrous mother, Paige, runs the air conditioning constantly because her disabled husband hates it.) You don’t necessarily notice the white noise at first, but the whole tone of the play changes when another character turns the AC off at a dramatic moment.
5) Whitehands’ costume in Tristan and Yseult, at Berkeley Rep:
Technically, I saw this show in late 2013, but it ran into 2014, so I’m including it. Whitehands (played by Carly Bawden) is Tristan’s other, less-famous lover. Her little white gloves were a clever nod to her name – and, crooning “Perfidia” in a yellow Fifties suit, pillbox hat, cat-eye sunglasses, and handbag hanging perfectly in the crook of her arm, she made heartbreak look impossibly chic.
What are your top choices, picks, experiences from the last year? Let us know!
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Introducing The Writers Of Pint Sized Plays IV! (Part One)
Pint Sized Plays IV is only a few weeks off and we’re excited to have two writers who are contributing a play to Pint Sized for the very first time! Though Carl Lucania has been a staple of Theater Pub from early on, this marks his first time as part of the festival, while Peter Hsieh will be making his Theater Pub debut! We took a moment to get to know these guys a little bit better, and find out what drew them to Pint Sized, what challenges they faced, and what they’re excited about both at Theater Pub and beyond!
So how did you hear about Theater Pub’s Pint-Sized Play Festival and what possessed you to send something in?
Carl Lucania: I got in on the ground floor, having worked with all the Theater Pub founders at some point or other as an actor. I love to tell stories and enjoy writing, but I’d never written a play before.
Peter Hsieh: I probably saw stuff about it on Facebook, but it was during one of my meetings at Asian American Theatre Co’s New Works Incubator that Sunil or Kirk brought up Theater Pub and my first time submitting was actually for the evening of sci-fi and horror that Sunil was producing. Also I like beer and short plays.
What’s the hardest thing about writing a short play?
Peter Hsieh: Keeping it concise and to the point, there’s no beating around the bush when it comes to short plays and a lot of times it is hard to know what to keep and what to change and what to get rid of.
Carl Lucania: The most difficult thing for me in any self-motivated project is blocking out the time to get it done. After that it seemed fairly intuitive; who doesn’t have at least one good story that takes place in a bar?
What’s the best thing about writing a short play?
Carl Lucania: That it isn’t a full length play. That would make my head hurt.
Carl Lucania: Never One To Let His Head Hurt
Peter Hsieh: It is more focused, for me at least. When I’m writing a short play I usually know where to go and I more easily connect the beginning to the end to give it that extra kick. Also I feel there are a lot more production opportunities for short plays in terms of being an emerging writer, theaters may do maybe one new work a season that is a full length but produce an evening or weekend of five to eight short plays once or twice in their season.
Who do you think is a major influence on your work?
Carl Lucania: I was greatly influenced by Audrey, an 11 year-old whose short play got produced In Pub From Another World back in May. It convinced me to get over myself and contribute something.
Peter Hsieh: Keroauc. I’ve always loved his writing style, his form, his poetry, his sense of rhythm. I think I take a lot from his style and incorporate that in my plays and poems. American Haiku is so good it makes my balls hurt. Seriously. I am also a big fan of Sarah Kane, I’ve read 4.48 Psychosis more times than I’ve read any other play.
Peter Hsieh: Keroauc cool.
If you could pick one celebrity to be cast in your show, who would it be and why?
Peter Hsieh: Michael Fassbender. Hands Down. He is an awesome and incredible actor and I like him in everything he’s been in. Hunger. Shame. X-men First Class. Heck I’d probably change the script so he takes off his pants so I can have some full frontal Fassbender in my play.
Carl Lucania: Since I’ve got an older woman of Italian heritage in the piece, how about Isabella Rossellini? I’d watch her do just about anything.
What is a writing project you are currently working on?
Peter Hsieh: I am currently working on a new full length play, which is about two high school friends who kinda hold these grudges against each other over different things. Things escalate when one beats the other at this video game and ends doing it with the other kid’s mom. There will be flame throwers, chainsaws, fast cars, gaming, college applications, and a splash of futuristic dystopia. I hope to have a first draft by end of July so I’m pretty stoked.
Carl Lucania: I have this notion to try and adapt Isherwood’s Christopher and his Kind into a sort of Cabaret: The Real Story type piece that includes some music of the Weimar era. I thought an adaptation would be easier than writing an original piece. I was wrong. So wrong.
Peter Hsieh: I have an art installation / open house gala of my monologue and poems called Collectives: Volume One going up July 12th at Avid Coffee in San Jose. There are these paintings, installations with headphones that play my poems and monologues mixed to cool music and ambience and stuff. There will be an auction there as well for my installations. Also on that same weekend Rama and Sita a play that I collaborated on with my friend Steve Boyle is going up as part of SJREAL’s Late Night Series at San Jose Rep. My play Even Spies sit on Park Benches is being workshopped at West Valley College as part of Alpha Project, a summer festival of new plays and that is going up end of July and playing through early August I believe. We are also planning our next season for SJREAL so I’m looking forward to cool and innovative new season.
Carl Lucania: Good question. Anyone have any interesting parts for a middle-aged man with all of his hair and most of his marbles?
So what upcoming shows or events are you most excited about in the Bay Area Theater Scene?
Peter Hsieh: Wow, there are so many. I’m excited to see Bay One Acts when it goes up. No man’s Land at Berkeley Rep. The Snow Queen at San Jose Rep this winter. Mutt by Christopher Chen at Impact. City Lights Theatre Co, has an amazing entire season that I’m really looking forward to, and I always enjoy their shows. There are a lot of them, but one thing that I am probably most excited about is the SF Olympians Festival this year, I don’t think I’ve ever been in such an awesome and big festival with so many talented individual, and the fact that these are all new works by local Bay Area playwrights make it even more exciting, so I guess that one is probably the one I’m most excited for.
Carl Lucania: I’m pretty amped for SF Olympians. I love Greek mythology, love the creativity that goes into the telling and reinventing of these stories. Plus I’ve had the good fortune to be associated with some great pieces that have come out of the festival.
What’s your favorite beer?
Carl Lucania: Big Daddy IPA. Read into that what you will.
Peter Hsieh: Shock Top Belgian White. Actually I like most Belgian Whites.
You may have heard it’s our last show at Cafe Royale. What do you look forward to for the future of Theater Pub?
Peter Hsieh: Ah, I wish I had seen more shows at the Cafe Royale! I guess I look forward to being more involved and seeing more productions. I’m a big fan of new works and edge works and re-imagined classics and there is nothing more exciting than seeing your friends and peers do that sort of stuff.
Carl Lucania: My hope for Theater Pub is to continue to keep doing what it does best: to be a cross-breeding ground for amazing local talent and a place I can drink with people who always have something interesting to say. And for everyone involved to make a kajillion dollars so they can keep at it. Or at least have some great rehab stories to tell.
Don’t miss Pint Sized Plays IV, playing five times this month: July 15, 16, 22, 29 and 30, always at 8 PM, only at the Cafe Royale! The show is free and no reservations are necessary, but we encourage you to get there early because we will be full!
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>In the absense of distraction, there’s no charm in ravaging the splendour – aKING
Written by Tecla Ciolfi on 6 November 2009
I’m going to try and make this as short and concise as possible because week five of media is calling my name. I can hear it hollering its head off at me.
If you weren’t at Assembly last night, you missed one hell of a gig, seriaaas. Mikey and I arrived half-way through Thieve’s set and I obviously made a bee-line for the stage to find out what the hectic reverberation I heard downstairs was. Turned out it was Laudo. Guest vocaling on a track or two of Thieve’s. Now I think it’s pretty awesome when they all jump on the stage and support each other during their sets (especially taking into consideration that Thieve is nowhere near an aKING status) but as Z very plainly put it in-between Tequilas “What the hell is it with these boys from Bellville, stealing the limelight???” I never really thought of it like that. But then again, taking into consideration Thieve’s Andrew (vocals) and Phil (drums) live in a house with Snake IN Bellville, they’re probably up in each other’s grills so much that a cameo or two wouldn’t make a difference. “Up in each other’s grills??” I sound like I’m on gangsta crack today.
Retrospectively, it was a solid set (well what I saw anyway) and ‘Heart of Gold’ went down very very very nicely with the crowd. I love it when I’m right. There was some dude looking at me very strangely while I was singing along though. And no, I had nothing in-between my teeth.
A Mini-break at the bar was followed by a flawless aKING, with the exception of Laudo’s voice on one track towards the end that sounded as if he was gargling gravel, but nonetheless, these guys are epic. Snake was beating his drum kit so hard that after their second song the resident sound engineer had to readjust his mic. The man’s like a goddam hurricane. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the raised platform on that Assembly stage goddam shake like that.
It was also lekker to hear ‘The Wishing Well’ which Laudo explained they’ve never performed live before but honestly, I can understand why they would leave it out. It’s just not a crowd pleaser like, let says, ‘Safe as Houses’. The sheep love that shit. And it’s a brilliant excuse to get your lighter out and do a little sing-a-long. Don’t me wrong, when they blast that tune, I become a sheep like everyone else. Or perhaps a lamb. I’m going off on a tangent here…
The cherry on top was Laudo doing ‘Shine your light’, where he became the Piped Piper of Harrington Str. Well nearly anyway, basically singing the clothes off almost every girl watching. It’s a talent the man has – and I have to give him props for it. Also, is it just me, or does Hunter have masking tape holding his guitar together? Or perhaps it’s keeping the chords in place? Whichever. It’s gotten to the point where aKING’s set is just too big for places like Mercury/Assembly/Klein Libertas now. These guys have a sound so huge and all-encompassing that they need a stadium in which to do it justice. Bottom line, go big or go home. My money’s on go big.
And then it was tyd vir ‘n beitjie branna en so en so met Jack Parow. Now I love Jack Parow. I love everything about him. From that snor to that hat to that wife-beater. The man can do no wrong in my books. But I think his only downfall is the fact that not everybody will understand what he’s on about. It’s a shame. They should do PAROW101 as an introductory course at every tertiary education institution. Hell, they probably have one at Stellies already. Jack also interacts very nicely with his crowd, making people piss themselves laughing not only at his smart lyrics, but at his hilarious jokes. It’s not all just an act though, the guy genuinely is uber-funny. But honestly, my attention was pleasantly Savaged during his set, so I can’t really do it justice like I did at Klein Lib. Although I did manage to see Frannie and Pierre make nice little cameos during Jack’s set.
Highlight: The DJ playing a mish-mash of all Andy Samberg’s songs. Inggs and I almost had a heart attack. And on that note, I shall leave you with the genius that is Samberg on a goddam boat.
Side note: Electro group Does It Offend You, Yeah? has a manic instrumental track on their album called ‘Attack of the 60 ft Lesbian Octopus’. True Story. Also, does anyone know what the title of this post means?? Hmmm.
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Pabst’s Milwaukee Taproom Will Re-Open as Captain Pabst’s Pilot House
Pioneered by Captain Frederick Pabst, Pabst Brewing Company (Pabst) has been brewing beer since the late 1800s. 175 years later, the Captain’s vision, foresight, and commitment to excellence transformed a small-scale brewery into one of the nation’s largest and most admired. Today, driven by these same inspirations, Pabst proudly unveils a new luxury beer brand, Captain Pabst, and launches with its flagship IPA, Seabird.
Seabird is a highly sessionable, premium India Pale Ale, brewed with Magnum, Citra, Cascade, and Mosaic hops. The beer takes its name from Captain Fredrick Pabst’s last steamship, which was a catalyst in his decision to enter the beer business. Caught near the shore in December of 1863 during an unexpected storm, Captain Fredrick Pabst strategically beached “The Seabird” on the sands of Whitefish Bay on Lake Michigan without casualties. With irreversible damage to The Seabird, Captain Pabst made the fateful decision to walk away from the sea. Hanging up his captain hat, he purchased a brewery that would eventually bare his name and deliver some of the most iconic American beer brands of all time.
Seabird is available now, as a Midwest exclusive, for sale across Wisconsin and the greater Chicago area.
“We’re lucky enough to be the stewards of so many great, classic American trademarks. But none of those marks really highlight the person or the people that founded the original brands,” said Matt Bruhn, Pabst General Manager. “We thought creating something new, based on someone who played such an integral part in pioneering brewing in this country, was a really romantic and deserving story that consumers would be interested in hearing.”
Pabst is also transforming its taproom in Milwaukee and relaunching it as Captain Pabst’s Pilot House. The taproom offers a beer hall experience in the heart of Milwaukee, Pabst’s hometown, fit to honor the Captain and the brewing traditions that have lasted over a century.
“Captain Frederick Pabst was wild; his life was filled with random endeavors that all seemed to stem from his adventurous spirit and his willingness to push the boundaries. To do things right, but differently. Here at Pabst we can certainly appreciate a life lived that way – it’s closely aligned to our values” added Bruhn.
The Pilot House will focus on imaginative craft beer offerings while paying homage to Captain Pabst’s historic recipes. In addition to Seabird, the Captain Pabst Signature Series will feature new and exciting, quality brews the Captain would have crafted generations ago. Beyond beer, the venue experience includes the addition of a craft spirits program, where spirits are blended and barrel aged in-house, an expanded merch offering, and a loyalty program called the “Blue Jacket Club.”
The Captain Pabst Pilot House will have its grand opening and reveal March 28, 2020 – Captain Pabst’s 184th birthday.
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Home >> Daily Dose >> Pushing Back Against the Banning of Single-Family Zoning
Pushing Back Against the Banning of Single-Family Zoning
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A report by the Willamette Week found that Oregon’s House Bill 2001—a law effectively ending single-family zoning in most Oregon cities—is now facing backlash from local leaders.
"People are absolutely outraged," says City Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who is the Portland City Council's liaison to the League of Oregon Cities. "There were multiple people saying it needs to be repealed."
House Bill 2001 went into effect on August 8 and mandates that cities with a population of more than or equal to 25,000 must allow high-density zoning on development’s previously reserved for single-family housing.
The bill also requires that the state’s cities must come up with an implementation plan by the end of next year. The Willamette Week states two cities—West Linn and Lake Oswego—have been the most prominent detractors, as the majority of both cities have single-family housing and the region’s highest home values.
West Linn Mayor Russ Axelrod referred to the legislation as “stupid” during an October 21 work session.
"This seems like it will create more problems than it will solve," Axelrod said, according to the Willamette Week.
The mayor noted single-family zoning w used was as a tool for segregation in Oregon and across the country.”
"Tragically, the concern is, these will not be affordable housing units when built-in these more isolated locations," Axelrod said, "and the benefits to the state-required allowed housing will principally be to the developer's pockets."
Joining Oregon in its move from single-family are California, Minnesota, and North Carolina.
A Los Angeles Times report from October details how California lawmakers successfully passed pieces of legislation over the past several years that have chipped away at single-family zoning.
The report says that California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed multiple bills into law this week that allowing property owners to build a backyard home of at least 800-square-feet. The bill would also allow homeowners to convert a garage, office, or spare room into living quarters. The new legislation would allow for three homes on land previously zoned for single-family.
“We’re on the precipice of single-family zoning functionally not existing,” said Ben Metcalf, former Director of the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development.
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I was ‘worst dressed at the Brownlow’ and for that I’m grateful
Entertainment Books I was ‘worst dressed at the Brownlow’ and for that I’m grateful
9:28pm, Jul 15, 2017 Updated: 10:06pm, Jul 15
Cassie Lane was ridiculed for her appearance at the 2006 Brownlow. Photo: Getty
Cassie Lane
I’m not sure if you noticed, but a few years ago, the world ended. Maybe you didn’t feel the ground tremble, or see the shadow eclipsing the earth as a meteor hurtled towards us. But I did.
You see, on that fateful day, I was labelled worst dressed at the Brownlow. Upon reading the derisive article, the ground swallowed me up and I died of shame. Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but it was pretty bad.
For WAGs the Brownlow is the indicator of success in the same way as, say, the Olympic Games are for a swimmer. And the best-dressed column is like the gold medal. So, in this metaphor, I am essentially Eddie the Eel.
Cassie’s gown in all its glory. Photo: Getty
AFL players are worshipped for things like their ability to dribble goal a torpedo slingshot into the ruck (okay, I admit, I’m not fluent in footy).
WAGs, on the other hand, are celebrated for one thing: their bodies and the way they are decorated. The Brownlow is an occasion for WAGs to exhibit this feature.
They do a little spin, tell the grinning, dead-eyed presenter who they are wearing and then shuffle back into their partner’s shadow where they will remain until the following year (unless they’re lucky enough to get a weather girl gig or a squillion Instagram followers).
“The only thing worse than her dress, is that hair!” the article about me began, and continued to escalate in its nastiness. I flung myself onto the bed and sobbed.
Later my phone rang and I unleashed my anguish onto my friend, who lived in America and had therefore never been infected by footy fever (unfathomable as that may seem).
My friend thought the whole thing was hilarious and she cackled loudly. I started to giggle too and, before I knew it, couldn’t stop laughing. The world inflated, the meteor retreated back into the sky and I realised that the Brownlow article was silly and meaningless.
Why had I cared so much about that stupid article? Why was the public reaction to this event so inextricably linked to my worth?
Cassie Lane has redefined her self worth.
From a young age I was taught to identify as an object. I don’t mean like those people who think they’re a tractor, or whatever. I came to be defined by my body and I believed that being praised as a sexual object was the ultimate form of empowerment.
The Brownlow mania serves to perpetuate this lie. A lie so pervasive that women internalise it until it is as true to them as the Earth’s roundness.
Studies have shown that self-objectification (viewing oneself as an object) increases the chance of depression, eating disorders and body shame. It depresses cognitive functioning and lowers political efficacy.
When a woman sees herself as an object, her body is paramount and her thoughts become secondary.
As a result, in a world where being female already puts you at a distinct disadvantage, women are dedicating the lion’s share of their attention, time and money to their image. Just imagine what would happen if we focused all of that energy on trying to get ahead, instead!
And so, I’d like to say thank you to my anonymous Brownlow critic for breaking the spell. If it weren’t for you, perhaps I’d still be labouring under the delusion that my body was my sole currency and I would have no idea just how much I have to offer beneath my skin.
Cassie Lane’s memoir How to Dress a Dummy (Affirm Press, RRP$29.99) is out now. You can purchase a copy here.
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John Setka’s refusal to quit raises threat of CFMMEU deregistration
News National John Setka’s refusal to quit raises threat of CFMMEU deregistration
11:13am, Jun 12, 2019 Updated: 4:58pm, Jun 12
John Setka and wife Emma Waters at Wednesday's media conference. Photo: AAP
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The Morrison government will consider deregistering the CFMMEU after Victorian secretary John Setka confirmed he will not quit, even if he is convicted of criminal charges of harassing a woman.
Unions are bracing for an all-out assault on the labour movement in the wake of this week’s Setka drama.
Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie has previously called for deregistration, meaning the Coalition could need just two more votes in the Senate to deregister the controversial construction union.
Another option would be to revive the “fit and proper” person test, which would prohibit Mr Setka, if he is convicted, from holding the union role.
Flanked by his wife Emma Walters on Wednesday, a defiant Mr Sekta said he would not resign from his $200,000-a-year job leading the Construction Forestry Mining Maritime and Energy Union in Victoria and Tasmania.
“There’s no reason for me to resign,” Mr Setka told a media conference in Melbourne.
“I represent CFMMEU members, right? They employ me. They’re my bosses. If people want to expel me out of the Labor Party over false accusations then, so be it.”
Mr Setka’s ALP membership was suspended on Tuesday and federal party leader Anthony Albanese has said he will move to expel the union boss after reports he disparaged the work of anti-violence campaigner Rosie Batty.
He also faces charges of having used a carriage service to harass a woman. Mr Setka has indicated he will plead guilty to those charges, after a plea deal with Victoria Police.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus faces a major leadership test after the embattled Mr Setka signalled his determination to retain his job.
A statement from ACTU secretary Sally McManus on Wednesday afternoon.
The powerful CFMMEU was one of the biggest donors to the ACTU’s Change The Rules election campaign, led by Ms McManus. It is estimated to have cost up to $25 million.
“I’ve never seen a greater gift presented to the Libs to go after deregistration and to hit the broader movement as collateral,” a union source said.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison first raised the prospect of deregistering the CFMMEU in September 2018, after Mr Setka used his children on Father’s Day to send an offensive message to the Australian Building and Construction Commission. The idea was quickly shot down by the cross bench.
“The CFMEU has behaved under John Setka like a bunch of thugs, and to involve children in that, I think, is one of the ugliest things I’ve seen,” Mr Morrison said last year.
Several years ago, Senator Lambie called for the union to be deregistered.
“If the Abbott government was serious about tackling crime and corruption in the building and construction industry and lowering costs, they would have moved very quickly to deregister the CFMEU – and perhaps other unions,” she said.
The government is expected to use the Setka issue to revive laws that union leaders must meet a “fit and proper” person test.
In NSW, police have charged assistant CFMMEU secretary Michael Greenfield with buying cocaine from two union organisers. The three NSW officials remain, like Mr Setka, employed by the union as the legal cases play out.
A defiant Mr Setka said he could see no reason to quit as CFMMEU secretary. Photo: AAP
Mr Albanese will bring a motion to expel Mr Setka from the Labor Party at its next executive meeting. He has stressed that move does not relate to the criminal charges, which allows the party to act before Mr Setka’s next court appearance in late June.
“What I said about Rosie Batty … Well, I just made reference to what legal people had sort of said in regards to laws and that was it,” Mr Setka said on Wednesday
“There was no denigration of Rosie Batty whatsoever. And whoever says that should be ashamed of themselves.”
However, the question of Mr Sekta’s ongoing employment as the Victorian CFMMEU secretary is another matter.
If he refuses to quit, the only option is to charge him with bringing the union into disrepute.
The ACTU and Ms McManus would then come under pressure to back the CFMMEU to remove Mr Sekta.
Mr Setka conceded he faced criticism from his union, where he is understood to have fallen out with deputy Shaun Reardon, and the broader Labor movement.
“Our union is made up of a whole heap of different divisions; I’m the secretary of the construction division, which is the biggest … I’ll be honest, there’s some people in the trade union movement that we call ALP hacks. Members pay our wages. ALP don’t pay our wages,” Mr Setka said.
He refused to comment on the criminal charges he faces of using a carriage service to harass a woman by sending vile text messages.
“It’s before the court. I would love to comment on it. I can’t,” he said.
Union leaders said some members were disappointed by the “radio silence” on Mr Setka from Ms McManus, ACTU president Michele O’Neill and CFMMEU national secretary Michael O’Connor and president Tony Maher, as they wrestled with how to deal with the complex situation.
“Younger women, I think, feel very let down by everyone’s radio silence on it,” a union source said.
The union’s ACTU affiliation is matter for the federal branch. But the CFMMEU’s Labor Party affiliation is a matter for state branches, so one option Mr Setka could pursue is cutting ties with the ALP and funding.
The idea of the CFMMEU charging Mr Sekta with “bringing the union into disrepute” is risky legally.
“The Federal Court has been extremely reluctant to allow someone who is elected to get sacked. There would be question of whether a sanction of expulsion would be proportionate,” a union source said.
“There might be another penalty like suspension without pay.”
Mr O’Connor and the other national officers are not directly elected.
“John Setka might try to blow the show up,” the source said.
“Which is why Michael O’Connor and Tony Maher would be moving slowly and carefully.”
‘Our leaders must demonstrate our values’: Union bosses tell John Setka to resign or face the sack
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Black Panther (2018), the latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), takes the multibillion-dollar superhero franchise to new and unexplored locations—and I don’t just mean the fictional central African nation Wakanda. Black Panther is directed and co-written by Ryan Coogler, who broke into the movie scene with the similarly socially-charged Fruitvale Station (2013). Coogler attempts to meld a socially-conscious narrative with the action-packed silliness of an Avengers film, and for the most part, he pulls it off quite well. It is the presentation of these social issues that is certainly the film’s greatest strength. Its plot is carefully woven together to present the complex problems and histories surrounding race adeptly and without leaning too heavily upon generalization. At no point is the audience being hamfisted by issues either. Instead, these ideas are constructed incredibly thoughtfully, resisting opportunities to excessively villainize or victimize. Black Panther seems to primarily want to further the dialogue surrounding the issue of race by challenging common assumptions and educating those who may not understand its intricate complexities.
As a white man, there is no way for me to adequately describe the importance of this film to the those of African descent. But to hazard a guess, it must be incredibly gratifying to finally see a major blockbuster production taking this specific social climate and identity seriously and on such a large scale. Additionally, the success of the film itself speaks to its importance. At the time of writing, the film has grossed more than $900 million worldwide, ranking second in the MCU behind only the first Avengers film. A response like that not only furthers the attention these issues are demanding from the population of movie-goers, but will also hopefully ensure that companies will now focus their efforts on the production of like minded films.
However, despite its critical social importance, the film as an artistic endeavour—even one as genre-specific as a superhero film—has room for improvement. As should probably have been expected, Black Panther shares many of the common inadequacies of its preceding generations of superhero films, providing very little in the way of any kind of cinematic creativity. If the Marvel formula works for you, all the better as it is on full display here, but if not, well … this is your warning.
The film runs at least 20 minutes too long, relying on needless exposition that seems to teeter on the edge between lazy world-building and cliched backstory. What results are several scenes that are too vague to be interesting and too complicated to be thrilling. Despite this, as the scattered plot begins to weave itself together more tightly, characters become entangled in more eccentric and intriguing situations and tension finds room to build.
These tense sequences are punctuated throughout the film by a variety of classic blockbuster set pieces. Explosions, crashing vehicles, sophisticated weaponry, slow motion acrobatics—it’s got it all. However, it’s an all that is incredibly dull. These scenes are used frequently, and are so excessive and grandiose that the violence becomes banal, trite distractions from any interesting character development or plot point.
Coogler makes some questionable decisions with cinematography in this film. Commonly he chooses to have the lens float through large sets, spinning around frantically and following the violence like a spastic housefly, and resulting in a look of comparable aesthetic.
Breaking the patterns of previous Marvel films in a positive way is Black Panther’s villain, Killmonger. Typically, otherworldly forces antagonise the hero, bent on destruction for no particular reason apart from that they are simply evil—nothing more or less. Played by Michael B. Jordan, Killmonger does away with such simplicity in favour of creating a character who, like many of this film’s supporting characters, is complexly motivated and even justified in his exploits. This ties into the film’s treatment of its social themes, but all the same, was a welcome shift.
While the film’s technical and creative shortcomings are lamentable, they pale in comparison to the critical importance this film carries socially. Black Panther fails to challenge what a superhero film can be, but positively redefines what a superhero film can do.
This article was originally published on our old website at https://thenewspaper.ca/the-opinion/black-panther/.
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Day: 5 December, 2015
Piaf, Charing Cross Theatre
Icon Edith Piaf inspired numerous films and plays, including 1978 play with music, Piaf. The four foot, 8 inches tall chanteuse from a broken home died at just 47, but left a songbook often heard in popular culture. These songs, which feature heavily, epitomize the defiant spirit of a France under attack, painfully relevant today. Addicted to drink and painkillers, the little sparrow must have struggled immensely with her inner demons but Pam Gems’ script avoids such nuance, for her or any of the other characters. Cameron Leigh’s belter of a voice reveals Piaf’s passion and turmoil through her songs, and the rest of the cast provide good vocal support, but Gems’ diabolically awful book manages to be rushed, tedious and two-dimensional all at once.
Portrayed as a selfish, junkie nymphomaniac who treats people as commodities, there is little room for audience sympathy in the first half. The scenes are short and delivered with an even, speedy pace; it’s as if director Jari Laakso feels uncomfortable with Piaf’s poor characterization and the gaping jumps in time that leave even the most important of events glossed over, and he wants to get to the interval ASAP. The second half marginally improves as Piaf’s health declines and she is seen as frail, vulnerable and poor. A few of the lines get laughs, as the humour is less distasteful than earlier in the play.
Cameron Leigh is an explosive barrage of rudeness as Edith Piaf and clearly struggles to find any decency in the script’s portrayal. Instead, she wisely focuses on revealing the character’s emotional life in her songs, the best feature of this play. Backed up by her best friend Toine (Samantha Spurgin), Marlene Dietrich (the imposingly glam Valerie Cutko) and an array of multi-rolling men and actor-musos, their vocal prowess makes this production bearable. It’s a small cast for the number of characters, but there is some good physical multi-rolling and costume indications help make up for scarcity in the dialogue.
Laakso and the cast energetically do their best, but the overwhelming issue in Piaf is Gems’ atrocious script. Otherwise, the songs are well sung, the production suits the theatre well and the set (Phillipa Batt) and lighting (Chris Randall) are well considered and often striking. It’s just a shame Gems isn’t alive to re-write it.
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Bound by Art: Interview With ruby onyinyechi amanze and Wura Natasha Ogunji | By Bukola Oyebode
On Saturday October 3rd, an exhibition of drawings by Wura Natasha Ogunji and ruby onyinyechi amanze titled Magic opened in Lagos at Omenka gallery. It was accompanied by a spectacular drawing performance which the small crowd found more interesting than they had expected. This was not the first collaborative performance by the two artists who enjoys working together to explore similar but independent themes.
In light of this ongoing exhibition, Bukola Oye of The Sole Adventurer (TSA) interviews ruby and Wura on their drawings, multicultural backgrounds, and other areas of their work.
Wura Natasha Ogunji, We are loving under dark skies (diptych)
ruby onyinyechi amanze, ada rests in places unknown
TSA: When was the first time you had an exhibition together and what led to this collaboration?
Wura: Our first joint exhibition was no one belongs here more than you, at the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos. ruby exhibited drawings she had created as part of her Fulbright Fellowship, and I displayed images of several performances created with a Guggenheim Grant. At that time we also started performing together.
TSA: How often do you have a drawing performance together, like you did at Omenka gallery? And how are you able to move simultaneously when drawing together?
Wura: Our first drawing performance was at the MoCADA, Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Art in New York. This was part of the exhibition Six Draughtsmen which included six Nigerian women artists using drawing in their work. We created a performance entitled Twin. We were connected at the wrist and were making mirrored drawings onto a large sheet of plexiglas that separated us from the audience. In terms of moving simultaneously while drawing together, there’s a kind of kinesthetic response that happens so even if you’re not looking at the person you have a sense of where they are in the space and can move in tandem or riff off of what they are doing.
Previous performance poster – Twin. Source: mocada.org
TSA: Do you practice before the performance or is this spontaneous?
Wura: We talk and look and move around the space. We set up the conditions for the actions, but the performance is always a fresh and new occurrence.
ruby: Yeah, our movements are never choreographed. At this point, we’ve done quite a few performances together- though not all drawing related. And we correspond about drawing/life almost daily. So there’s a trust there- of each other and also of our own movements. We’re also interested in similar things when it comes to performance drawing- like endurance, mark making and tension. It’s very much about being in that moment.
TSA: When you work together, do you agree on same themes and subjects or work individually?
Wura: We work independently. There are, of course, intersections and resonances between the work which is why we thought it important to exhibit together, but the creative spaces that we each create in our studios are completely separate and independent. At the same time there are moments when similar ideas or questions appear in both of our drawings or one person might create a piece from something the other person talked about.
TSA: You mentioned in other narratives you consider the works you create an escape from identity issues arising from a multicultural background, How has this opened up discourse for people in similar situations?
ruby: It’s not so much an escape. When you feel free, there’s nothing to escape from. People can always find some topic to relate to identity- particularly when you’re a person of color. The work for me just isn’t about that anymore. Yes, it began as a way to explore my multicultural background, but it’s become it’s own thing now. And personally, I no longer have angst about being from many places. It feels perfectly normal actually.
I think the work is definitely participating in opening up a conversation about hybridity…which is exciting to me. There have been many times, when I’ve met someone at an opening who feels a sincere and personal connection to the story I’m telling. There are many versions of the story, but I think in an overarching way, that people like to just know that it’s being told. Even at the Omenka opening, someone approached Wura and I and said that they understood it and that we understood them. We’d never met them before, but those types of connections happen frequently and are always touching and invaluable.
TSA: Do you address these subjects with a sense of responsibility to represent a larger group?
ruby: I’m not sure I’m trying to represent a larger group. There’s so much nuance. I acknowledge that one exists and I feel a kinship there…almost a validation. But when I sit down to draw, it’s not coming from that place. It’s not even really coming from my own story anymore. The “group” is intrinsically connected. We find ourselves. I don’t feel a need to take that mission as it were, to the drawing board. It’s there already, but it’s subtle.
ruby onyinyechi amanze, We are fools, not clowns
Wura Natasha Ogunji, The end of beautiful
TSA: What are the connections between humans and the particular animals used in creating your hybrids, including the plants infused in the landscapes?
ruby: The humans and animals are one visual way for me to convey hybridity. I like that I didn’t invent it. I appreciate its historical references from the sphinx to mermaids to many other mythological appearances. To me they always feel other worldly, but also relatable because we know both halves of the hybrid and recognize them as living creatures. The choice of the animals varies, but they all have stories behind them. For example, the pigeon was to personify Pidgin English and also to represent the kind of freedom birds have. The plants are a symbol of domestic stability or permanence. They’re the opposite of nomadism.
ruby onyinyechi amanze, tenderhearted crosses the sea
Wura Natasha Ogunji, Three Birds
TSA: I realized some other elements you play on as metaphor in your works are only different on the surface but represent similar things when examined closely and in relation to the other. An example is Wura’s infusion of music as a global element of connection and flying birds connoting no boundaries. Ruby uses webs and connecting lines For same purpose. Which other symbols can you share with us and what do they imply?
Wura: I understand what you are seeing, though my own starting point for the two examples of music and the birds is quite different. I’m not interested in the global or symbolic per se. In terms of audio and the presence of the dj and also Soundman in another work, I was really interested in creating a visual language from the sonic…so that on the page, in the drawing itself, there could be a kind of communication between characters that had a similar weight that sound does in the real world. It started with the visual. With Sound Man and the Sea, the dj has his hands on the ocean and sits across the page from an Ife head. To make a sound mix with the ocean…that can mean so many things. I think about our relationship to history, memory, physical landscapes and locations. The sound wave is a vibration, much in the same way that we humans are. Sound transforms, takes us to another place. And what do we mean when we say that? What is that place? Are we experiencing a kind of time travel? The thing about symbols is that they fix meaning; they make it easy for people to understand or know. And the world is not actually easy in that way.
ruby: I agree. I think that we do pull from certain things that have meaning to us, but that meaning varies in its abstraction or clarity. And it’s not necessarily important for it to reach the viewer in the way that it first came to us. It’s not that things are intentionally convoluted to exclude people. It’s just that they evolve in the process. And like Wura said, the world is not easy in this simplistic way. So much happens in between….things morph and lose or gain meaning. They go off on tangents where they meet other “symbols” and become other things. Symbols in a traditional sense feel like a puzzle that one can piece together. Some of the piecing together for me is purely a visual decision. Or because it’s raining or because it’s Wednesday. In that sense, the puzzle becomes less about x + y = z and more about the often simple, yet meandering journey that they all took together.
TSA: What about the upside down images? Do they have same meaning on both sides?
Wura: In my work you may be referring to the piece Even the dj must die. [I thought he was just flying backwards.] The orientation of the dj is very important to the work. If he were the other way around he would probably be falling. Your observation of upside down images is important because we’re both changing the way we look at space as well as experimenting with different kinds of spatial and architectural orientations. The worlds we are creating aren’t fixed.
ruby onyinyechi amanze, cover-ups for secret doors (not falling, rising down)
ruby: Similarly for me, I’m interested in reorienting the space we understand as the world. I think of space as being malleable and fluid, so if something appears upside down or otherwise disoriented, it’s playing with the idea that the planes and dimensions we exist in can all shift.
TSA: To Wura, “River” seems to carry more tension considering how migration happens in recent times. Can you share how it connects with the other works in Magic?
Wura: River definitely feels different than the rest and certainly has a relationship to the current context of global migrations and movements, especially these recent waves of people navigating the sea to cross into Europe. But, when I first drew the figure into the piece I thought he would be falling through the space of the paper [as if someone might fall in love or fall with complete trust, a gentle–though perhaps slightly precarious–kind of falling]. When I stepped back from the work I thought, Oh, no, the dj is dead. Or maybe sleeping. I still don’t know. Then the river emerged. I made Three Birds after that. It’s the same person, holding the birds, clouds moving overhead. Perhaps the dj is just floating down the river. Many of these drawings are about these impossible contradictions that life presents: beauty from trauma; the co-existence of tragedy and possibility; how difficult questions cause us to expand our capacity to love and create. Nothing is ever concretely as it seems. Even our perceptions are in constant flux.
Wura Natasha Ogunji, River
Wura-Natasha Ogunji_Sound Man and the Sea
TSA: Going to techniques, you both work with paper, do you draw on other surfaces? And does the use of paper have underlying messages connected with the illustrations? For instance, the fragility of the type of paper Wura uses. There was a discussion on this at the exhibition opening.
Wura: I use tracing paper, the kind that architects use for preliminary drawings. I love the way the thread looks against it and the way the large sheets of paper move against the wall. It can appear fragile but it also has a weight to it. When I’m working on the drawings, especially when I’m sewing into the paper and because of it’s translucency, it feels quite filmic, as if I’m creating one cell of a filmstrip. We can talk about the meanings of the paper, but for me, it’s about a simple love of the material.
ruby: I studied textiles and photography in undergrad and fell in love with the process of both. Dying and overdying fabric or submersing paper from one chemical bath to another. The surfaces hold such memory of the actions- they remember the scratched film or that certain knots weren’t as tight as others so the dye could move through them more easily. My choice of paper stems from that. It’s like a fabric in that sense. It has a fiber and a grain and is a natural, once living material. It feels vulnerable in that way. That it can hold or remember every single mark (even if you can’t see the trace of it) like skin. But it’s also very strong. I draw on 100% cotton. It’s heavy and delicate all at once.
TSA: This particular question is unavoidable at this time in the history of globalization. What are your views on borders, boundaries and the slowly dissolving concept of a singular ‘national’ identity?
ruby: Hmmm….this one is tricky to answer. I think borders are imaginary lines that people arbitrarily, or very precisely draw in the sand. They’re not imaginary to the people who fight over them or who have theirs encroached upon, but in the drawing sense of a line, they’re entirely constructed/made up. So a car, bus or person can be in Pennsylvania one second and in New Jersey the next…or maybe in the case of walking, both at the same time. What does that even really mean? Singular national identities, I think are becoming obsolete.
TSA: Which other narratives do you explore with your art?
ruby: Play. The narrative of invention and freedom.
Wura: In my performance work I’m very interested in the physicality of the body, pushing that physicality, and endurance. These narratives also enter the drawings.
TSA: Aside collaborating on Magic, which other projects are you working on presently? Any exhibition coming up soon?
ruby: I’ll be in a group show called “A Constellation” that opens at the Studio Museum of Harlem in New York on November 11th 2015. I’m also preparing for a solo called SALTWATER that will open at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg on November 19th, 2015.
Wura: I’m in the Seattle Art Museum’s exhibition DISGUISE: Masks and Global African Art which opens at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles on October 17. I was commissioned to create a performance for the show that riffs off of Egungun. I also be doing a performance called The Kissing Mask at the opening.
Interview cover collage: ruby’s image courtesy her web page, Wura’s image courtesy austin360.com
Tags: CCALagos, Fulbright Fellowship, Goodman Gallery, Guggenheim, Magic, MoCADA, omenka, Omenka Gallery, ruby onyinyechi amanze, Seattle Art Museum, Studio Museum of Harlem, Twin, Wura Natasha Ogunji
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November 11, 2016 Sweden
In this post, I give away silly awards to things in Stockholm! Cue the teleprompter and polite applause.
The first category is…
Most Inhabitable Public Bathroom
Winner: The women’s WC on the Intermediate Level of the MOOD Stockholm boutique mall
In terms of public bathrooms that I could live in, this place is indisputably at the top of the list.
I didn’t measure, but I think this bathroom is slightly bigger than our apartment when we lived in San Francisco. And Lord knows, the monthly rent would have to be cheaper.
Each of the stalls is huge. And they have accent walls, which I hear is all the rage these days. So living in this bathroom would obviously be extremely classy. And I mean, stainless steel trashcans, people. That’s how you know you’ve made it big.
Plus, there’s an inexplicable side room, with absolutely nothing in it except a couch. (And Jessica, modeling said couch.) This is where I would sleep. And any time someone came in to pee, I’d pop up from my couch and say hello. I would make all kinds of new bathroom friends this way.
It’s basically perfect, and I would move in tomorrow, except that Michael probably isn’t allowed to live in the women’s bathroom at a shopping mall. (Oh right, and I’m probably not either.)
Most Confusing Food Item
Winner: The Smörgåstårta Sandwich Cake
If you didn’t think the words “sandwich” and “cake” could go together, the Swedes have proved you wrong. This puzzling food is a mixture of crab, cream cheese, butter, mayo, and sour cream slathered in between layers of white bread.
It’s topped off with salmon, a hard boiled egg, a lemon slice, and a sprig of dill. And to make matters even more confusing, this sandwich cake was served on top of a small salad.
So is this a starter, main, and dessert, all in one? Idk. Still confused.
Most Likely To Transport People to Another Dimension
Winner: The underground metro station escalators
The escalators in Stockholm are absurdly long. (In fact, the Västra skogen metro station holds the record for the longest escalator in western Europe.) And while I never found the secret passageway myself, I’m pretty confident these escalators can transport people to alternate dimensions.
How else do you explain all the super serious men in suits?? They are undoubtedly Swedish government spies, sent to consort with the aliens.
And there’s the fact that all of my photos of the escalators came out blurry and grainy. (Spooky!) But we can’t have photographic proof of otherworldly portals or aliens, so there’s probably some sort of weird magnetic field altering pictures taken in the area.
It’s certainly not the fact that I took these photos with my iPhone in low lighting conditions, and that I didn’t even stop walking while snapping away.
The Biggest Boat I Have Ever Seen Inside a Building
Winner: The Vasa, a Swedish warship from the 1600s
The Vasa Museum showcases the only preserved 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged. Approximately 95% of the ship is original, meaning that it’s almost fully intact from it’s heyday in 1628.
But more importantly, it’s the biggest boat that I’ve ever seen inside of a building. Did you notice that smaller boat in front? Yeah, that’s a tiny scale model. And even that is pretty huge.
The Vasa is visible from 6 different floors in the museum, because it’s gigantic. And while all of the history and various archeological findings are interesting, you mostly just wonder how on earth they got this thing inside of a building.
Most Likely To Cause Sensory Overload
Winner: The National Museum of Science and Technology
So many angles, so many lights, and so many reflective surfaces. Walking through this exhibit was like being inside of a disco ball.
Thankfully, there was no Saturday Night Fever playing, because that might have been the final straw.
At one point, I was able to take 22 selfies simultaneously. I don’t know whether to give the museum another separate award for that, or to take away the one that I already gave it.
Most Likely to Win a Game of Freeze Tag
Winner: The Royal Guards of the Swedish Armed Forces
The Royal Guards are a subset of the Swedish Armed Forces that have been protecting the Royal Palace in Stockholm since 1523. They also act as honorary guard to King Carl XVI Gustav.
But what I, personally, gathered from the changing of the guard ceremony is that these guys can stand really, really still.
And although we never actually saw them run, if I had to guess, I would imagine they can also probably run pretty fast. In conjunction with their ability to stand very still, they would totally win a city-wide game of Freeze Tag.
(You might be asking, “Wait. Can you even win Freeze Tag??” The answer is: Whatever. I don’t care. I’m making up awards. Don’t question me.)
Outstanding Achievement in Interrupting My Sleep Cycle
Winner: The freaking sun
During the summer, the sun stays up forever in Scandinavia. When we were in Stockholm, it didn’t really get dark until about 11pm. And then… about 5 hours later, the sun would come up at 4am.
Like idiots, Michael and I didn’t completely close our curtains, and all this extra daylight got my circadian rhythms completely out of whack.
There were some nights where I just didn’t sleep, and many days where I was completely dependent on caffeine to fuel my body. The silver lining is that I got to see a gorgeous sunrise at 4:00 in the morning. (And I took a picture of the clock to prove it.)
Wooo Stockholm! Wooo made up awards! The real prize here is that I’m finished blogging about Stockholm, and will be moving on to Oslo next.
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Welcome to Friday. If you’ve been paying attention, you already know the drill: Publicists stuff my email with songs and videos before fleeing into the night. I slap them together into the fast ’n’ furious Friday RounDUMP. And then I flee into the night. Or at least the other room. Let’s move it:
1 Mobina Galore must have their act together. Or at least they must know something the rest of us don’t. After all, why else would the Winnipeg punk duo title their Sept. 6 album Don’t Worry? Perhaps it has something to do with the Escape Plan behind their latest single. Or perhaps I’m just reading too much into random titles. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “Singer and guitarist Jenna Priestner comments Escape Plan came together very quickly in my backyard on a hot summer day in 2018 when I was spending more time writing acoustic jams; stuff that I didn’t think would get the full Mobina vibe, but when I released an acoustic video on YouTube that winter I got so much good feedback people we’re requesting it at shows, so we made it a little pop-punk banger.” Get on your bikes and ride:
2 Singer-songwriter Eamon McGrath’s Tantramar was one of the best Canadian albums you probably didn’t hear last year. Don’t make that mistake again this year when his seventh album Guts arrives Sept. 6. To help you remember, make his acquaintance with the help of his new live performance video for the tune In Like a Lion. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “This was filmed earlier this month with Welcome To The West when he stopped in Calgary as part of his Canadian summer tour. He’s joined by Darrek Anderson, his touring pedal steel player.” Enjoy the mane event:
3 Of the umpteen zillion albums coming out this fall, one I’m looking forward to is Zed for Zulu, the sophomore release from Those Pretty Wrongs, the duo of Big Star drummer Jody Stephens and singer-guitarist Luther Russell. Thankfully, I am lucky enough to get advance copies of these things. And you are lucky enough to get a taste of what’s in store, via the single Ain’t Nobody But Me. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “It was actually a friend of Stephens’ named Robert who inspired both the jangly Ain’t Nobody But Me and, in its wake, the rest of Zed For Zulu’s diverse 10 tracks.”He calls from time to time and says, ‘Hey, ain’t nobody but me, Robert,'” Stephens explains. “It breaks my heart a little bit because he’s had struggles in his life, so the song has more to do with a relationship. That was the first one. That got us started again on that path for writing songs for this record, and here we are with another one.” Huzzah:
4 They say that breaking up is hard to do. Breaking Down isn’t necessarily a cakewalk either, as award-winning alternative-electronic artist iskwē illustrates in her powerful new single of the same name — a preview of her Nov. 8 album achakosuk. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “Breaking Down is about me finding my way back to my clan, the butterfly clan, which represents my family in the spirit world. I wanted to show the emergence of self, by shedding layers of the past while discovering strength in being true to who I am. Our vision, director Jessica Lea Fleming and myself, was to be as inclusive as possible, with each of the dancers representing different communities – Indigenous, people of colour, LGBTQ, as a way to honour our various stages of emergence and growth in finding comfort in who we are.” Step right up:
5 For Matthew Chaim, this time it’s personal. Well, truth be told, it’s probably almost always personal for the Montreal singer-songwriter who now makes his home in L.A. But his latest single Sunflowers is even more personal: They were his late father’s favourite flower. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “Sunflowers is a deeply personal ode to parental loss. Matthew explains that the song was written as a conversation between father and son; it’s a chance for him to be able to share “with him both the helpless sadness of missing him – of missing those days that are now so far gone – and also the anger I have towards him for leaving so early in life.” Stand tall:
6 D.C. electro masters (and Friends of Tinnitist) Color Palette are back — but not for long, based on the title of their latest single Marrakech to Bombay. Sounds like a helluva trip. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: Who has time to write a press release when you’re moving that far in less than four minutes? Hang on for dear life:
7 It’s a big day for Devarrow. The Canadian singer-songwriter (whose real name is Graham Ereaux) is celebrating a brand new record deal that will see the release of his as-yet-untitled sophomore album on Oct. 4. Join the celebration by checking out his new video for the track Heart Attack. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “Inspired by artists such as Neil Young, Shakey Graves, and Fleet Foxes, Devarrow writes music which is lyrically and sonically inspired by the attempt to reconcile a wandering spirit with the demands of the modern world.” Sounds like he’s as serious as …well, you know:
8 Australian metacore dealers Thy Art is Murder clearly know a thing or two about life and death. For instance, they know the old gods are dead. And that they’ve been replaced by technology, drugs and social media. Don’t take my word for it: Check out New Gods, the latest single and video from their just-released fifth album Human Target. Or just keep reading. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “New Gods is interwoven in theme with the song Chemical Christ, discussing the idea of mental health and modern inventions’ intervention with a natural state of consciousness. The idea that social media is one of the major driving forces of increasing levels of depression in the western world was fascinating to us, and we thought what better way to use the platform ironically to discuss these ideas than by using an aspect ratio designed specifically for it. We hope you watch the clip and then put your phone down, life is better through the eye of the beholder than the lens of an algorithm.” Bull’s-eye:
9 Today, Icelandic folk-rockers Of Monsters & Men released their third album Fever Dream. So what better day for California metalcore brigade Of Mice & Men to announce the release of their sixth album Earth & Sky on Sept. 27 — and to share the new SF-flavoured video for the title cut. And if you think that’s a little confusion, just wait until we hear what the band Of Mice & Monsters have to say about all that? (Note: That last one is not a real band. I hope.) SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “Earth & Sky is a song about resilience,” said singer/bassist Aaron Pauley. “It’s about understanding that you can rise above whatever it is that keeps trying to drag you down, no matter what. For me, a lot of the time, I’m writing about battling with my own mind. For you, it may be a person, or an obstacle, or a circumstance. Regardless of whatever it is that’s trying relentlessly to drag you down, I hope this song empowers you to rise above it with authority, like it does me every time I sing it.” Man up:
10 Vancouver’s all-queer, all-female alt-garage rockers Strange Breed have been called a “grittier B-52’s” — or what a collaboration between Veruca Salt, Paramore, Bikini Kill and Hole would sound like. If you can imagine that, great. If not, no sweat; you don’t have to. You just have to check out their new video for the song Closer below. That’s way easier. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “Says lead vox Nicolle Dupas, “The song is about queer desire, or desire as a whole: to be loved, to be accepted for who you are. To be pushed away or taken advantage of, but to fight for who you are and what you want. To be learning and finding yourself through your identity.” They’re getting warmer:
11 Finnish rock vampires The 69 Eyes will rise again when their dozenth studio album West End arrives Sept. 13. If that doesn’t get you motor running, maybe this will: The roaring clip for the preview track Cheyenna. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “Jyrki 69 reveals the following about his lyrics: “When I heard the demo of the song, I had the chorus for Cheyenna immediately in my mind. It was like a wind whispering or a canyon echoing her name from the past. Who was she? A Native American princess? As I googled the name, it turned out that a lot of American girls under that name have gone missing. A female ghost rider story was born! Cheyenna is freedom’s child – forever.” Hit the road, jack:
12 You know Mr. Green Jeans. Maybe you also know Mr. Green Thumb. But have you ever met Mr. Greenlight? No. This is your lucky day: Montreal singer-songwriter Hua Li is only too happy to introduce you via her song from her Sept. 20 album Dynasty — which is conveniently titled (yes) Mr. Greenlight. Of course, you may not really want to meet him. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “Proclaimed a daddy issues anthem, Mr. Greenlight stitches together different musical moods to depict the conflict-ridden feelings of love and repulsion experienced by the daughters of philandering fathers. A desire for validation strikes against Hua Li’s condemning words, alternating longing melodies with quick-witted rap verses.” Punch it:
13 If at first you don’t succeed, pray, pray again. That seems to be the motto of veteran Canadian/American composer, performer and transgender activist Beverly Glenn-Copeland: Some 15 years after the release of his album Primal Prayer, he’s reissuing it on Aug. 9. But first, get a glimpse of the big picture with his single In the Image. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “In the Image takes the form of non-secular sermon, a glorious list of rules and affirmations for happiness and fulfilment. Glenn-Copeland’s astounding voice radiates light and positivity as he sings “Don’t let a little worry make you crazy, don’t let a little heartache make you cold…. you are beautiful, you are wonderful, you are marvellous”. In the Image features a typically audacious soundscape, a multi-layered backing of Latin and western percussion lays an unstoppable groove while slow moving synths and gospel-tinged backing vocals combine to create a stunning amalgamation of dance, gospel and meditative ambience.” Quite the scene:
14 Dearly beloved: We are gathered here today to get through this thing called a video. More specifically, the animated video for the “weird-ass love song” wandering eye from L.A.’s Astronots. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “The single narrates the true story of a couple who despite their fairytale wedding, were living a complete lie. Sonically the single features 60’s soaked melodies, soaring harmonies and an infectious toe-tapping rhythm.” Speak now or forever hold your peace:
15 You gotta start somewhere. For Winnipeg duo The Bros. Landreth, it all started in 1987 — the year they became brothers. So no wonder ’87 serves as the title of their highly anticipated sophomore album due Sept. 27. Get an early start on the proceedings with the upbeat lead track Got to Be You. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “The tune, co-written by Joey and Dave Landreth alongside longtime Zac Brown Band collaborator Wyatt Durette, is a light hearted earworm about being so over the moon in love with a knock-out human being. Love, however, is not a story often heard in the band’s musical catalogue of heartbreakers. Joey Landreth quotes, “Whenever ideas like this come around, I usually let them fall by the wayside. I found myself in a room writing with Wyatt he asked if I wanted to go for lunch or try another tune? We ended up with Got to Be You, and also going for lunch. I brought it home to Dave and he made a few Dave-esque songwriting tweaks, and what you get is what you got!” Your number’s up:
16 When you have no destination, any road will get you there. Even a road called Hugo Alley. Or a rock band from Kitchener called Hugo Alley, who have a new single called No Destination. See how it all ties together? SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “Close your eyes and allow yourself to be immediately transported to an ocean highway, pine trees lining the road on one side and endless ocean on the other. That’s just one version of the utopia we hope to create with No Destination.” Good luck with that:
17 Nobody wants to die. Everybody wants to live forever. But L.A. indie-pop singer-songwriter Alex Barnes — who operates under the handle Girl Wilde — has taken it one step further: She’s written a single called I Don’t Wanna Die about the topic. And she’s sharing it here. Live it up. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “I Don’t Wanna Die marries ecstatic electro-pop melodies with glam-rock stylings in order to create the ‘bubblegum grunge’ sound that Girl Wilde has become known for.” Is it to die for? Or something to live for? You decide:
18 Another week, another instalment in North Carolina indie-electronic artist Crywolf’s ongoing Oblivion [Reimagined] series. This time, L.A. producer Eliminate offers up his reimagined remake of the track Fallout. Is everybody in? Then we’ll begin. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “Eliminate infuses Fallout with his signature wonky bass-lines and dubstep sensibilities, transforming Crywolf’s track into a pulsing, high-energy listen.”
Oblivion awaits:
19 We all know what girls want. No, not that. Get your mind out of the gutter. They want to have fun. Cyndi Lauper taught us that a generation ago. And Toronto alt-rockers Nikki’s Wives stylishly and subtly reinforce the message with their ultra-soft cover of the chart-topping classic. Who says we’re not the fortunate ones? SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: “Ahead of their upcoming EP, their debut with AntiFragile Music a (expected to be out later this year), Nikki’s Wives have shared their original take on Cyndi Lauper’s classic Girls Just Want To Have Fun. A soft, lullaby feel, vocalist Nikki Whitehead loving coos barely go above a whisper.” Hey, what else you gonna do with your life?
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Serial offender spared jail over drugs charge after probation officer's 'surprising' recommendation for leniency
A serial offender from a prominent Hong Kong family who has had several brushes with the law avoided jail on Thursday for possessing cocaine.
Instead, Amina Mariam Bokhary was sentenced to 12 months' probation after Eastern Court magistrate Colin Wong Sze-cheung adopted the suggestion of her probation officer for a non-custodial sentence.
Wong said he was "surprised" by the probation officer's conclusion, but said he would respect the recommendation and gave Bokhary one more chance.
The probation officer suggested probation for Bokhary, despite a string of previous convictions, as this was the first time she had been convicted of possessing a dangerous drug.
Amina Bokhary has previously served time at the Tai Lam Correctional Institution. Photo: SCMP
Bokhary pleaded guilty to the charge after she was caught carrying 0.14 grams of cocaine on May 11.
The court heard that the financial analyst was caught after she began acting strangely inside a restaurant on Queen's Road in Central that day. Police officers later found the drug inside a plastic bag she had with her.
In sparing Bokhary jail, Wong said a non-custodial sentence was suitable in this case as she was willing to cooperate with the probation officer, attend clinical and psychological treatments, and undergo regularly drug testing.
He scheduled a further hearing on April 3 to hear Bokhary's progress report. He warned the court would reconsider sending her to jail if she violated her probation terms.
"As I can see in your criminal record, you have a wide experience in breach of the court's probation order. So if you are in breach of this probation order, you know what will happen," he said.
Bokhary was seen grinning outside the court building as she walked away with her lawyers.
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Who benefits from the Tory decision to axe BBC recipes?
Three recipe websites are awaiting launch now the Cameron government has forced the BBC to remove their on-line recipes.
taste.co.uk is registered to Sainsbury’s Supermarkets ltd and is waiting to launch.
bestrecipes.co.uk is also awaiting launch as a website and mobile phone app. It is registered to Scottish millionaire Richard Emanuel (living in tax exile in Monaco).
recipes.co.uk is registered to Mark Singleton (an entrepreneur famous for pet websites). The website and mobile app is due to launch this year.
bestrecipes and taste are also the two largest recipe websites and mobile phone apps in Australia and provide massive ad revenues to their owner.
Both are owned by Rupert Murdoch.
42 thoughts on “Who benefits from the Tory decision to axe BBC recipes?”
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GringoPeruano said:
Time will tell. A story is a conspiracy until proved otherwise. I’m sure that Tom will unreservedly apologise personally to you Robeson if he is proved wrong; will you apologize unreservedly and politely if he is proved right?
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curi56 said:
Reblogged this on HumanSinShadow.
Mike Hamblett said:
This is yet another example of cronyism, if not corruption – and we all stand around hardly believing that the snouts in the trough have so much contempt for people, institutions and society.
James M said:
Or it could be that they just want to reduce the cost in having all that data online. I am sure those sites were being prepared before this came out. Not everything is a conspiracy.
bobchewie said:
TASTE seems to be run by a save the earth company..
best recipes is run by..???
James, relative hosting costs are so miniscule in this instance that they’re essentially non-existent. BBC Food is first in Google UK for “Food”, amongst thousands of other search terms. The value of this kind of brand-awareness far outweighs any insignificant hosting costs.
BTC said:
Reblogged this on Recipe Resources.
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dralanwilson said:
taste.co.uk = 213.86.51.225 appears to be registered to COLT, a UK ISP. How is this connected to Sainsbury’s again?
Ah, contact details are http://www.akqa.com/work/ , a digital agency.
person: Dan norice-Jones
address: AKQA
address: 38 German Street
address: London
address: SW1 Y6DN
dralanwilson, look again at the registrant’s details:
taste.co.uk
sainsbury’s supermarkets ltd
UK Limited Company, (Company number: 3261722)
Tony said:
dralanwilson That’s the IP address that the domain resolves to, not the domain itself.
taste.co.uk is registered to Sainsbury’s http://whois.domaintools.com/taste.co.uk and it has been since 1997
Also bestrecipes.co.uk has been registered since 2000 and the domain is up for sale https://sedo.com/search/details.php4?language=us&domain=bestrecipes.co.uk
So not sure how you came up with it about to launch a site.
[see here:
https://tompride.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/bestrecipes.png ] -TOM
BDB said:
How exactly do you arrive at the conclusion that the Gov’t has FORCED the BBC to remove these recipes?
There’s certainly no evidence of it in the article linked.
JamesM said:
I think we can all agree that this article is bullshit
pollen8 said:
“How exactly do you arrive at the conclusion that the Gov’t has FORCED the BBC to remove these recipes?” – well forced may be not, but strongly suggested for sure… “If you’ve got a website that’s got features and cooking recipes – effectively the BBC website becomes the national newspaper as well as the national broadcaster. There are those sorts of issues we need to look at very carefully,” Osborne
Jessica Triana said:
That’s terrible. BBC recipes were the best ones. The website was really easy to use and the recipes were always brilliant. 😦
billbrewster said:
Taste was originally a joint venture between Carlton TV and Sainsbury’s, but it flopped and in 2001 was closed down with all assets (and presumably the URL) returning to Sainsburys. Not seen any mention of it re-launching anywhere. What’s the source for this?
Rab McKnight said:
They say it costs too much to run two websites.. So they are cutting the one that is in keeping with their Charter – containing NO adverts – and keeping the one that has paid advertising on it.. And fewer recipes.
Obviously, it’s about privatising.. Again!
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Don’t forget that Jack Monroe’s is freely available https://cookingonabootstrap.com/
Elle Em said:
The Tories are hellbent on extracting everything of value that has been built up by taxpayers over decades and stuffing the lot into private pockets. They are not ‘saving’ money for taxpayers they are making money for themselves.
Michael Snelgrove said:
This is what they do. Chip away at little things, everybody gets bored, suddenly BBC sold off to their billionaire chums ‘cos ‘nobody wants it.’
Michael Johnson said:
While I deplore the way the Conservatives are backing the BBC into a corner, I don’t think the notion that withdrawing the BBC recipes is some sort of a cunning plan to help Rupert Murdoch take over the world.
In the first place, I see no reason why the BBC has to completely junk its recipes altogether. Why not just transfer them over to http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes ?
A specialist site, all about food, with its own recipe section – and funded by advertising, not by the licence fee, so doesn’t have to abide by government-enforced cost savings. An ideal alternative berth, which neatly takes the recipes out of the argument. If they’ve got to go somewhere, why not here?
In the second place, the assumption that the demise of BBC recipes will leave a massive gap into which the likes of Rupert Murdoch can slickly insert themselves is just that – an assumption.
The web is absolutely stuffed with recipe sites, including….
http://allrecipes.co.uk
http://www.food.com
https://www.epicurious.com
http://www.simplyrecipes.com
http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk
http://www.thekitchn.com
http://www.yummly.com
http://www.chowhound.com
http://www.cookinglight.com
http://www.cooks.com
http://www.myrecipes.com
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes
http://www.mydish.co.uk
…and so on. There are more – many more – than those I’ve listed, but I think that lot illustrates my point. If you want to see more, Google ’em up, like I did.
So even if the BBC recipe site vanished tomorrow, it would not leave a particularly big gap in the market. If anything, I’d say the market is already overcrowded – it could probably do with a bit of thinning out. It’s not like there’s an easy prize here for an opportunistic entrepreneur.
And in the third place…it’s not happening now, anyway.
Panic over, everybody. Conspiracy theories back in the box….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/17/bbc-recipes-more-than-60000-sign-petition-against-closure-plans/
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Ken Penethby said:
Let’s hope it wasn’t because the beef recipes might have offended our Hindu citizens
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/17/bbc-climbdown-over-online-recipes-after-public-outcry?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=172714&subid=8440029&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/17/cuts-bbc-recipe-website-final-straw?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=172714&subid=8440029&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Mark Goodge (@MarkGoodge) said:
Anyone can set up a recipe website. It’s a simple enough task for any competent web developer. That’s precisely why it’s not something that the BBC should be wasting public money on.
Yes, Mark Goodge, as a more than competent web developer I could put a recipe site together fairly quickly, though it would be pretty useless without the recipes to load into the database.
The BBC has invested in thousands of them, perhaps that’s worth spending money on, whether you think that’s a waste or not is up to you, but I think it’s a waste not to utilise a resource that has been built up at the licence fee payers expense.
CQuilty said:
i just went online to save all of my favourite recipes from the BBC site and found they were actually on BBC Good Food Magazine which is an entirely separate website and not being closed down.
I think it’s a shame this happening – there is a public service in being able to look up a recipe used on the telly – but the internet is awash with great recipes.
My niggle is that most recipes on the net are in US english – we’ve gone metric and don’t use “cups” to measure – and we dont have access to half the US ingredients.
It isn’t just hosting costs – it is a massive database that needs to be maintained on a daily basis, using resources – each article needs to be written and tagged.
Still think it’s a shame – perhaps more of an ideological cut.
Shirley Young said:
Well it’s in line with their policy of let’s keep making the rich richer – vested interest decisions.
aaagreenman said:
Ken Penethbysaid:May 18, 2016 at 12:32 am
Let’s hope it wasn’t because the beef recipes might have offended our Hindu citizen
First they came for the Muslims, and ….
Then they came for the Hindus ….,
Liza said:
If you’re going to start a new a conspiracy theory then you really ought to make it about something a bit more interesting than a recipe web site! Here’s a suggestion…. How about one where the world is controlled by alien lizards?
:@ LIZA
One can but assume that you didn’t read, or bother to read, this rather good entry:
Michael Snelgrovesaid:May 17, 2016 at 8:22 pm
This is what they do. Chip away at little things, everybody gets bored, suddenly BBC sold off to their billionaire chums ‘cos ‘nobody wants it.’/ [was paying attention]
@aaagreenman – I ignored the entry because the author seemed to think who “THEY” are was irrelevant and so not worth mentioning. Did he mean the Tories, the BBC, the ‘Establishment’, Rupert Murdoch?…… or maybe alien lizards!
Paul J said:
Add this to the list http://goodfood.kitchen seems to have also taken advantage of the of the pending vacuum with another recipe food website.
I don’t always agree with the BBC and have felt that we are paying too much for a TV license that we have no say in where the money is spent. I don’t particular want my money spent on BBC pursuits of interest that are broadly covered by other websites equally or much better, and would rather it utilized for their TV programming and the news.
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Network Working Group S. Hartman
Internet Draft Painless Security
Intended status: Informational D. Zhang
Expires: July 28,, 2015 Alibaba
M. Wasserman
Painless Security
Z. Qiang
Mingui Zhang
Security Requirements of NVO3
draft-ietf-nvo3-security-requirements-04
The draft describes a list of essential requirements in order to
benefit the design of NVO3 security solutions. In addition, this
draft introduces the candidate techniques which could be used to
construct a security solution fulfilling these security requirements.
Requirements Language
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working
documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet-Drafts is
at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/.
time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
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2. Terminology....................................................3
3. NVO3 Overlay Architecture......................................4
4. Threat Model...................................................5
4.1. Capabilities of Outsiders.................................5
4.2. Capabilities of Insiders..................................5
4.3. Capabilities of Malicious TSes............................6
5. Scope..........................................................6
6. Security Requirements..........................................8
6.1. Control Plane of NVO3 Overlay.............................8
6.2. NVE-NVE Data Plane.......................................11
6.3. NVE-Hypervisor Data Plane................................13
7. Candidate Techniques..........................................15
7.1. Entity Authentication....................................15
7.2. Packet Level Security....................................15
7.3. Authorization............................................15
8. IANA Considerations...........................................16
9.1. Automated Key Management in NVO3.........................16
10. Acknowledgements.............................................17
11. References...................................................17
11.1. Normative References....................................17
11.2. Informative References..................................17
As described in [RFC7365], the NVO3 framework is intended to aid in
standardizing protocols and mechanisms to support large-scale multi-
tenancy data centers. In such kind data center, security is a key
issue which needs to be considered during the network design. This
document discusses the security risks that a NVO3 network may
encounter and tries to provide a list of essential security
requirements that needs to be fulfilled. In addition, this document
introduces the candidate techniques which could be potentially used
to construct a security solution fulfilling the security
The remainder of this document is organized as follows. Section 2
introduces several key terms used in this memo. Section 3 gives a
brief introduction of the NVO3 network architecture. Section 4
discusses the attack model of this work. Section 5 lists the scope of
the security considerations of this memo. Section 6 provides a list
of security requirements as well as the associated justifications. In
Section 7, the candidate techniques are introduced. Section 9
discusses additional security considerations.
This document uses the same terminology as defined in the NVO3
Framework document [RFC7365] and the Hypervisor to NVE Control Plane
Requirements document [I-D.ietf-nvo3-hpvr2nve-cp-req]. The Followings
are the additional terminologies that are used by this document.
Hypervisor: This memo uses the term "hypervisor" throughout when
describing requirements at the Split-NVE scenario where part of the
NVE functionality is off-loaded to a separate device from the
"hypervisor" that contains a VM connected to a VN. In this context,
the term "hypervisor" is meant to cover any device type where part of
the NVE functionality is off-loaded in this fashion, e.g. a Network
Service Appliance, Linux Container.
NVO3 device: In this memo, the devices (e.g., NVE and NVA) work
cooperatively to provide NVO3 overlay functionalities are referred as
NVO3 devices.
3. NVO3 Overlay Architecture
+--------+ +--------+
| Tenant +--+ +----| Tenant |
| System | | (') | System |
+--------+ | ................. ( ) +--------+
| +---+ +---+ (_)
+--|NVE|---+ +---|NVE|-----+
+---+ | | +---+
/ . +-----+ .
/ . +--| NVA | .
/ . | +-----+ .
| . | .
| . | L3 Overlay +--+--++--------+
+--------+ | . | Network | NVE || Tenant |
| Tenant +--+ . | | || System |
| System | . \ +---+ +--+--++--------+
+--------+ .....|NVE|.........
+---+
| |
+--------+ +--------+
| Tenant | | Tenant |
| System | | System |
Figure 1 : Generic Reference Model for DC Network Virtualization
Overlays [RFC7365]
This figure illustrates a generic reference model for NVO3 overlay
where NVEs provide a logical L2/L3 interconnect for the TSes that
belong to a specific tenant network over a L3 networks. A packet
received from a tenant system is encapsulated by the ingress NVE.
Then encapsulated packet is then sent to the remote NVE through a
proper tunnel. When reaching the egress NVE of the tunnel, the packet
is decapsulated and forwarded to the target tenant system. The
address mappings and other related information are distributed to the
NVEs by a logically centralized Network Virtualization Authority
(NVA).
4. Threat Model
To benefit describing the threats a NVO3 network may have to face,
the attacks considered in this document are classified into three
categories: the attacks from compromised NVO3 devices (inside
attacks), the attacks from compromised tenant systems, and the
attacks from underlying networks (outside attacks).
The adversaries performing the first type of attack are called as
insiders or inside attackers because they need to get certain
privileges in changing the configuration or software of NVO3 devices
beforehand and initiate the attacks within the overlay security
perimeter. In the second type of attack, an attacker (e.g., a
malicious tenant, or an attacker who has compromised a virtual
machine of an innocent tenant) has got certain privileges in changing
the configuration or software of tenant systems and attempts to
manipulate the controlled tenant systems to interfere with the normal
operations of the NVO3 overlay. The third type of attack is referred
to as the outside attack since adversaries do not have to obtain any
privilege on the NVO3 devices or tenant systems in advance in order
to perform this type attack, and thus the adversaries performing
outside attacks are called as outside attackers or outsiders.
4.1. Capabilities of Outsiders
In practice, an outside attacker may perform attacks by intercepting
packets, deleting packets, and/or inserting bogus packets. With a
successful outside attack, an attacker may be able to:
1. Analyze the traffic pattern within the network by performing
passive attacks;
2. Disrupt the network connectivity or degrade the network service
quality (e.g., by performing DoS attacks); or
3. Access the contents of the data/control packets which are not
properly encrypted.
4.2. Capabilities of Insiders
Besides intercepting packets, deleting packets, and/or inserting
bogus packets, an inside attacker may use already obtained privilege
1. Interfere with the normal operations of the overlay as a legal
NVO3 device, by sending packets containing invalid information or
with improper frequencies;
2. Perform spoofing attacks and impersonate another legal NVO3 device
to communicate with victims using the cryptographic information it
obtained; and
3. Access the contents of the data/control packets if they are
encrypted with the keys held by the attacker.
4.3. Capabilities of Malicious TSes
It is assumed that the attacker performing attacks from compromised
TSes is able to intercept packets, delete packets, and/or insert
bogus packets. In addition, after compromising a TS, an attacker may
be able to:
TS, by sending packets containing invalid information or with
improper frequencies to NVEs;
2. Perform spoofing attacks and impersonate another legal TS or NVE
to communicate with victims (other legal NVEs or TSes) using the
cryptographic information it obtained; and
During the specification of security requirements, the following
security issues needs to be considered:
1. The NVO3 connections may be considered as secured if there is a
security solution supported by the underlying network. However
such kind security solution normally only can protect the NVO3
network from outsider attacker.
2. During the design of a security solution for a NVO3 network, the
attacks raised from compromised NVEs and hypervisors needs to be
considered.
3. It is reasonable to consider the conditions where the network
connecting TSes and NVEs is accessible to outside attackers.
The following issues are out of scope of consideration in this
1. In this memo it is assumed that security protocols, algorithms,
and implementations provide the security properties for which they
are designed; attacks depending on a failure of this assumption
are out of scope. For instance, an attack caused by a weakness in
a cryptographic algorithm is out of scope, while an attack caused
by failure to use confidentiality when confidentiality is a
security requirement is in scope.
2. An attacker controlling an underlying network device may break the
communication of the overlays by discarding or delaying the
delivery of the packets passing through it. The security
consideration to prevent this type of attack is out of scope of
this memo.
3. NVAs are centralized servers and play a critical role in NVO3
overlay network. A NVE will believe in the mapping information
obtained from its NVA. After compromising a NVA, the attacker can
distribute bogus mapping information to NVEs under the management
of NVA. The security requirements discussed in this document is to
protect a NVA from any security risk. And if a NVA is attacked, it
should be detected. However, this work does not consider how to
deal with the problem after a NVA is compromised.
4. Because this memo only tries to provide the most essential high
level requirements, some important issues in designing concept
security mechanisms are not covered in the requirements. Such
issues include:
- How to manage keys/credentials during their life periods
- How to support algorithm agility
- How to provide accountability
- How to secure the management interfaces
- Use underlying security protocols versus design integrated
security extensions
6. Security Requirements
6.1. Control Plane of NVO3 Overlay
In this section, the security requirements associated with following
control plane are described:
- The NVE-NVA control plane: allows a NVE to obtain information
about the location and status of other TSs with which it needs to
communicate; to provide updates to the NVA about the attached TSs;
and to report any communication errors. In this case, the term
"NVO3 device" is referring to a NVA or a NVE.
- The NVA-NVA control plane: Multiple NVAs may be deployed in a NVO3
overlay for better scalability and fault tolerance capability. The
NVAs may use unicast and/or multicast to exchange signaling
packets within the control plane. In this case, the term "NVO3
device" is referring to a NVA.
- The NVE-NVE control plane: As specified in [RFC7365], in order to
obtain reachability information, NVEs may exchange information
directly between themselves via a control-plane protocol. In this
case, the term "NVO3 device" is referring to a NVE.
- The NVE-Hypervisor control plane: In the Split-NVE scenario, the
NVE and hypervisors may also need to exchange signaling packets
over network in order to facilitate, e.g., VM online detection, VM
migration detection, or auto-provisioning/service discovery as
described in [RFC7365]. In this case, the term "NVO3 device" is
referring to a Hypervisor or a NVE.
REQ 1. The security solution for NVO3 MUST enable the two NVO3
devices to mutually authenticate each other before exchanging
any control packets.
Entity authentication can protect a NVO3 device against imposter
attacks and then reduce the risk of DoS/DDoS attacks and man-in-the-
middle attacks. In addition, a successful authentication normally
results in the distribution key materials for the security protection
for subsequent communications. More detailed discussions are provided
in Section 6.1.
REQ 2. The security solution of NVO3 MUST be able to provide
integrity protection, replay protection, and packet origin
authentication for the control packets exchanged between two
Message authentication is performed on each incoming packet. Packet
level security protection can prevent an attacker from illegally
interfere with the normal operations of NVO3 device by injecting
bogus control packets into the network. Through message
authentication, the NVO3 device receiving a control packet can verify
whether the packet is generated by a legitimate NVO3 device, is not
antique, and is not tampered during transportation.
Such protection must be deployed if there is any possibility that the
control packets could be accessed by outside attackers. This
protection can prevent an attacker locating in the middle between the
NVO3 devices and modifying the information in the control packet so
as to redirect the traffic as wished. In addition, with the support
of properly distributed keys, these level protections can also
benefit the detection of spoofing attacks raised from insiders.
REQ 3. The security solution of a NVO3 network SHOULD provide
confidentiality protection for the control packets exchanged
between two NVO3 devices.
On many occasions, the control packets can be transported in
plaintext. However, if the information contained within the control
packets is considered to be sensitive or valuable, it is recommended
to encrypt the packets in order to prevent outsiders from accessing
the sensitive data, especially when the underlying network is not
secured enough. Note that encryption will impose additional overhead
in processing control packets and make NVO3 devices more vulnerable
to DoS / DDoS attacks.
REQ 4. Node authorization procedure MUST be supported before
processing any received control packets in the NVO3 device
When receiving a control packet, besides authentication,
authorization needs to be carried out by the receiver to identify the
role that the packet sender acts as in the overlay and then assess
the sender's privileges. If a compromised NVO3 device tries to
illegally elevate its privilege, it will be detected and rejected.
For instance, a compromised NVO3 device may use its credentials to
communicate with other NVEs as a NVA, or attempting to access or
update the mapping information of the VNs which it is not authorized
to serve.
REQ 5. The security solution of NVO3 SHOULD be able to provide
distinct cryptographic keys for each NVO3 device to protect the
unicast control traffics exchanged between different NVO3
devices respectively.
During the exchange of control packets, keys are critical in
authenticating the packet senders. The purpose of this requirement is
to provide a basic capability to confine the damage caused by inside
attacks. After compromising a NVO3 device, an attacker may be able
to use the keys it obtained to exchange control traffics with other
NVO3 devices. But it will not be able to use the keys it obtained to
breach the security of the control traffics exchanged between other
REQ 6. The security solution of NVO3 SHOULD be able to assign
distinct cryptographic group keys for each multicast group to
protect the multicast packets exchanged among the NVO3 devices
within the group.
In order to provide an essential packet level security protection
specified for integrity and confidentiality, at least one group key
may need to be shared among the NVO3 devices in a same multicast
group. It is recommended to use different keys for different
multicast groups.
REQ 7. The resistance at DOS/DDOS attack MUST be considered in the
design of NVO3 control plane
Any NVO3 devices may be used by an attacker to initiate a DOS/DDOS.
One example is that in a NVO3 overlay, NVAs can be the valuable
targets of DoS/DDoS attacks, and large amount of NVEs can be
potentially used as reflectors in reflection attacks. Therefore, the
DoS/DDoS risks needs be considered during designing the control
planes for NVO3. The following requirements, but not limited to this
listed, are used to benefit the migration of DoS/DDoS issue.
REQ 7.a. A NVO3 device MUST have a frequency limitation at
sending its control packets and processing any received
control packets.
Without this limitation, an attacker can attempt to perform DoS/DDoS
attacks to exhaust the limited computing and memory resources of a
target NVO3 device by manipulating a compromised NVO3 device to
generate a significant amount of control plane packets in a short
REQ 7.b. The amplification effect MUST be avoided
A distributed denial-of-service attack may involve sending forged
requests of some type to a very large number of NVO3 devices that
will reply to the requests. If in certain conditions, the responses
generated by a NVO3 device are a much longer process than the
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received requests. An attacker may take advantage of this
amplification effect procedure, which the NVO3 device is used as a
reflector to carry out DoS / DDoS attacks towards a victim NVO3
For instance, the attacker may send request messages to a NVO3 device
with a spoofed source address set to the targeted victim. In that
case, all the replies generated by the NVO3 device will be sent (and
flooded) to the target. Another example is that as discussed in [I-
D.ietf-nvo3-arch], a NVE may wish to query the NVA about individual
mapping when receiving a packet with unknown destination address.
This query procedure may also be triggered at ARP / ND message
handling or when NVE-NVE interaction message is received. An attacker
may take advantage of this query procedure which the NVE is used as a
reflector to carry out DoS / DDoS attacks towards the NVA.
Specifically, the attacker can concurrently send out a large amount
of spoofed short request messages to multiple NVO3 devices which the
amplification effect can be enlarged which may overwhelm the victim's
processing capability quickly.
REQ 8. The security solution of a NVO3 SHOULD be able to provide
different security levels of protections for the control
traffics and data traffics exchanged between NVO3 devices.
In NVE-NVE interface and NVE-Hypervisor interface, the same security
solution may be used to protect both the control plane and data plane
traffic. In many cases, the control and data traffics between NVO3
devices may be transported over the same path or even within the same
security channel. However, the control traffics and data traffics may
have different levels of security sensitivity. Therefore, the
protection on the traffic needs be distinguished. In this case, the
security solution may need to provide different security channels for
control traffics and data traffics respectively and protect the data
traffics and control traffics exchanged between NVO3 devices with
different keys and ciphers.
6.2. NVE-NVE Data Plane
As specified in [RFC7365], a NVO3 overlay needs to generate tunnels
between NVEs for data packet transportation. When a data packet
reaches the boundary of an overlay, the ingress NVE will encapsulate
the packet and forward it to the destination egress NVE through a
proper tunnel.
REQ 9. The security solution for NVO3 MAY enable two NVEs to
mutually authenticate each other before establishing a tunnel
for data transportation.
This entity authentication requirement is used to protect a NVE
against imposter attacks. Also, this requirement can help guarantee a
data tunnel is generated between two proper NVEs and reduce the risk
of man-in-the-middle attacks.
In order to protect the data packets transported over the overlay
against the attacks raised from the underlying network, the NVO3
overlay needs to provide essential security protection for data
packets.
REQ 10. The security solution of NVO3 SHOULD be able to provide
authentication for data traffics exchanged between NVEs.
This requirement is used to prevent an attacker who has compromised
underlying network devices on the path from replaying antique packets
or injecting bogus data packets without being detected.
data packets could be accessed by outside attackers. This protection
can prevent an attacker locating in the middle between the NVEs and
modifying the tunnel address information in the data packet header so
as to redirect the data traffic as wished.
REQ 11. The security solution of NVO3 MAY be able to provide
confidentiality protection for data traffics exchanged between
NVEs, if information leaking is a concern.
If TS data traffic privacy is required, the TS data traffic needs to
be encrypted when being transported within the overlay. In practice,
tenants may select end-to-end security solutions to encrypt their
sensitive data during transportation. Therefore this confidentiality
requirement for data plane is an optional requirement.
REQ 12. The security solution of NVO3 SHOULD be able to assign
different cryptographic keys to protect the unicast tunnels
between NVEs respectively.
This requirement is used to confine the damage caused by inside
attacks. When different tunnels secured with different keys, the
compromise of a key in a tunnel will not affect the security of other
tunnels. In addition, if the key used to protect a tunnel is only
shared by the NVEs on the both sides, the egress NVE receiving a data
packet is able to distinctively prove the identity of the ingress NVE
encapsulating the data packet during the message authentication.
REQ 13. If there are multicast packets, the security solution of
NVO3 SHOULD be able to assign distinct cryptographic group keys
to protect the multicast packets exchanged among the NVEs within
different multicast groups.
In NVO3, a NVE may need to support data plane multicast capability.
(including authentication, integrity, confidentiality) for the
multicast packets transferred within the group, at least one group
key may need to be shared among the NVEs of the same multicast group.
It is recommended to deploy different keys for different multicast
groups, in order to confine the insider attacks on NVEs.
REQ 14. Upon receiving a data packet, an egress NVE MUST be able
to verify whether the packet is sent from a proper ingress NVE
which is authorized to forward that packet.
In cooperation with authentication, authorization enables an egress
NVE to detect the data packets which violate certain security
policies, even when they are forwarded from a legal NVE. For
instance, if the remote NVE is not authorized to forward data packet
of a given VN, the packet needs to be detected and discarded without
processing. Note that the detection of an invalid packet may not
indicate that the system is under a malicious attack. Mis-
configuration or byzantine failure of a NVE may also result in such
invalid packets.
6.3. NVE-Hypervisor Data Plane
As described in the NVO3 architecture draft [I-D.ietf-nvo3-arch], in
split-NVE scenario, a number of link types are possible between NVE
and hypervisor. One simple deployment scenario may have a simple L2
Ethernet link. A more complicated scenario may have the server and
NVE separated by a bridged access network, such as when the NVE
resides on a ToR, with an embedded switch residing between servers
and the ToR.
In any of above deployment scenarios, the data link between NVE and
hypervisor may be potentially accessible to attackers, e.g. with a
shared link. In that case, security solutions, including integrity
protection and confidentiality protection, may be needed to secure
the data link.
integrity protection, replay protection and origin
authentication for the data packets exchanged between a NVE and
a hypervisor.
Packet level security protection can prevent an attacker from
illegally interfere with the normal operations of NVEs and
hypervisors by injecting bogus packets into the network. Because it
is assumed that the network connecting the NVE and the hypervisor is
potentially accessible to attackers, security solutions need to
prevent an attacker locating in the middle between the NVE and the
hypervisor from modifying the information in the data packet headers
so as to redirect the traffic as wished.
REQ 16. The security solution of a NVO3 network MAY provide
confidentiality protection for the data traffics exchanged
between a NVE and a hypervisor.
If TS data packet privacy is required, the data packet needs to be
encrypted. The security solution of a NVE network may need to provide
confidentiality for the data packets exchanged between a NVE and a
hypervisor if they have to use an insecure network to transport their
data packet.
REQ 17. The security solution of a NVO3 network MAY be able to
provide different cryptographic keys to secure the unicast data
traffic exchanged between different hypervisors and their NVEs
This requirement is used to benefit the damage confinement of inside
attacks. For instance, data traffic may be forwarded over a shared
link between a NVE and a hypervisor. In that case, the compromise of
a hypervisor or a NVE will not be able to affect the security of data
traffics exchanged between different hypervisors and their NVEs.
REQ 18. The security solution of NVO3 MAY be able to assign
distinct cryptographic group keys to protect the multicast
respectively within different multicast groups.
If there are multicast data traffic between hypervisors and their
NVE, in order to provide an essential packet level security
protection (including authentication, integrity, confidentiality) for
the multicast packets transferred within the multicast group, at
least one group key may need to be shared among the hypervisors and
their NVE of the same multicast group. It is recommended to deploy
different keys for different multicast groups, in order to confine
the insider attacks on the hypervisors and their NVE.
7. Candidate Techniques
This section introduces the techniques which can potentially be used
to fulfill the security requirements introduced in Section 5.
7.1. Entity Authentication
Entity authentication is normally performed as a part of automated
key management, and a successful authentication may result in the key
materials used in subsequent communications.
In the circumstance where no authentication protocols are applied,
the communicating entities could use message authentication
mechanisms to verify each other's identity.
The widely adopted protocols supporting entity authentication
include: IKE [RFC2409], IKEv2 [RFC4306], EAP [RFC4137], TLS [RFC5246]
It is recommended to cryptographically verify the devices' identities
during authentication. Therefore, an inside attacker cannot use the
keys or credentials got from the compromised device to impersonate
other victims.
7.2. Packet Level Security
There are requirements about protecting the integrity,
confidentiality, and provide packet origin authentication for
control/ data packets. Such functions can be provided through using
the underlying security protocols, e.g., IPsec AH [RFC4302], IPsec
ESP [RFC4303], TLS [RFC5246], or MACsec [802.1AE]. Also, when
designing the control protocols people can select to provide embedded
security approaches (just like the packet level security mechanism
provided in OSPFv2 [RFC2328]). The cryptographic keys can be manually
deployed or dynamically generated by using certain automatic key
management protocols. Note that when using manual key management, the
replay protection mechanism of IPsec will be switched off.
7.3. Authorization
Without any cryptographic supports, the authorization mechanisms
(e.g., packet filters) could be much easier to be bypassed by
attackers, and thus the authorization mechanisms deployed on NVO3
devices should interoperate with entity authentication and other
packet level security mechanisms, and be able to make the access
control decisions based on the cryptographically proved results.
An exception is packet filtering. Because packet filters are
efficient and can effectively drop some un-authorized packets before
they have to be cryptographically verified, it is worthwhile to use
packet filters as an auxiliary approach to dealing with some simple
attacks and increasing the difficulties of DoS/DDoS attacks
targeting at the security protocol implementations.
For instance, a NVE may maintain an authorization NVE table. This
table may be distributed by a trusted entity, e.g. NVA, in
combination with the inner-outer address mapping table. And NVE may
use this table to filter the received control / data packets over
NVE-NVE interface. The NVE may effectively drop any packets received
from an unauthorized NVE before processing it, e.g.
cryptographically verification procedure.
This document makes no request of IANA.
Note to RFC Editor: this section may be removed on publication as an
RFC.
9.1. Automated Key Management in NVO3
Because entity authentication and automated key distribution are
normally performed in the same process, the requirements of entity
authentication have already implied that it is recommended to use
automated key management in the security solutions for NVO3 networks.
In the cases where there are a large amount of NVEs working within a
NVO3 overlay, manual key management becomes infeasible. First, it
could be tedious to deploy pre-shared keys for thousands of NVEs, not
to mention that multiple keys may need to be deployed on a single
device for different purposes. Key derivation can be used to mitigate
this problem. Using key derivation functions, multiple keys for
different usages can be derived from a pre-shared master key.
However, key derivation cannot protect against the situation where a
system was incorrectly trusted to have the key used to perform the
derivation. If the master key were somehow compromised, all the
resulting keys would need to be changed [RFC4301]. Moreover, some
security protocols need the support of automated key management in
order to perform certain security functions properly. As mentioned
above, the replay protecting mechanism of IPsec will be turned off
without the support of automated key management mechanisms.
10. Acknowledgements
Many people have contributed to the development of this document and
many more will probably do so before we are done with it. While we
cannot thank all contributors, some have played an especially
prominent role. The followings have provided essential input:
Melinda Shore and Makan Pourzandi.
11.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
[I-D.ietf-nvo3-arch] Black, D., Narten, T., et al, "An Architecture
for Overlay Networks (NVO3)", draft-narten-nvo3-arch, work
[I-D.ietf-ipsecme-ad-vpn-problem] Manral, V. and S. Hanna, "Auto
Discovery VPN Problem Statement and Requirements", draft-
ietf-ipsecme-ad-vpn-problem-09 (work in progress), July
[I-D.ietf-nvo3-hpvr2nve-cp-req] Yizhou, L., Yong, L., Kreeger, L.,
Narten, T., and D. Black, "Hypervisor to NVE Control Plane
Requirements", draft-ietf-nvo3-hpvr2nve-cp-req-01 (work in
progress), November 2014.
[I-D.mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan] Mahalingam, M., Dutt, D., Duda, K.,
Agarwal, P., Kreeger, L., Sridhar, T., Bursell, M., and C.
Wright, "VXLAN: A Framework for Overlaying Virtualized
Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks", draft-mahalingam-
dutt-dcops-vxlan-09, (work in progress), April 2014.
[RFC2328] Moy, J., "OSPF Version 2", STD 54, RFC 2328, April 1998.
[RFC2409] Harkins, D. and D. Carrel, "The Internet Key Exchange
(IKE)", RFC 2409, November 1998.
[RFC4046] Baugher, M., Canetti, R., Dondeti, L., and F. Lindholm,
"Multicast Security (MSEC) Group Key Management
Architecture", RFC 4046, April 2005.
[RFC4137] Vollbrecht, J., Eronen, P., Petroni, N., and Y. Ohba,
"State Machines for Extensible Authentication Protocol
(EAP) Peer and Authenticator", RFC 4137, August 2005.
[RFC4301] Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the
Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, December 2005.
[RFC4302] Kent, S., "IP Authentication Header", RFC 4302, December
[RFC4303] Kent, S., "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)", RFC
4303, December 2005.
[RFC4306] Kaufman, C., "Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol", RFC
[RFC5246] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
(TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008.
[RFC5996] Kaufman, C., Hoffman, P., Nir, Y., and P. Eronen, "Internet
Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)", RFC 5996,
[RFC7364] Narten, T., Gray, E., Black, D., Fang, L., Kreeger, L., and
M. Napierala, "Problem Statement: Overlays for Network
Virtualization", RFC 7364, October 2014.
[RFC7365] Lasserre, M., Balus, F., Morin, T., Bitar, N., and Y.
Rekhter, "Framework for Data Center (DC) Network
[802.1AE] 802.1AE - Media Access Control (MAC) Security
Sam Hartman
North Andover, MA 01845
Email: hartmans@painless-security.com
URI: http://www.painless-security.com
Dacheng Zhang
Chaoyang Dist. Beijing
Email: Dacheng.zdc@alibaba-inc.com
Margaret Wasserman
Email: mrw@painless-security.com
Zu Qiang
8400 Decarie Blvd.
Town of Mount Royal, QC, H4P 2N2
Phone: +1 514 345 7900 x47370
Email: Zu.Qiang@ericsson.com
No. 156 Beiqing Rd. Haidian District,
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Topics in Subtropics
A collaborative blog by UC farm advisors and specialists in subtropical horticulture in California.
Shot Hole Borer on the Move
Author: Ben Faber
A note from UC Riverside Plant Pathologist, Akif Eskalen
We just confirmed that the riparian forest in the Tijuana river valley in San Diego is infested with Kuroshio Shot Hole Borer. Rod Dossey and his team from WRA, Environmental Consultants first noticed the sign and symptoms of the beetle on Sept 25th, and contacted us for the confirmation. I have visited the site last week and mortality is already occurring on many trees including Arroyo Willow, Black Willow and Castor Bean. Please let me know if you have any questions.
PSHB/KSHB distribution map
http://ucanr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Viewer/index.html?appid=3446e311c5bd434eabae98937f085c80
Akif
Tags: avocado (293), Euwallacea (3), KSHB (21), Kuroshio Shot Hole Borer (7), Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (15), PSHB (33), shot hole borer (9), willow (9)
Polyphagous and Kuroshio Shot Hole Borers
Author: Akif Eskalen
FUSARIUM DIEBACK AND POLYPHAGOUS SHOT HOLE BORER ON AVOCADO
Akif Eskalen1, Richard Stouthamer2
1Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, UC Riverside
2Department of Entomology, UC Riverside
Polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB), Euwallacea sp. (#1) (Fig.1) is an invasive beetle that carries three fungal symbionts in a special structure in their mouth called a mycangium. These symbiotic fungi are Fusarium euwallaceae, Graphium euwallaceae and Acremonium pembeum (Freeman et al. 2013, Lynch et al. 2015). The adult female tunnels galleries into a wide variety of host trees, where it lays its eggs and grows the fungi (Fig.2, 3). The fungi cause the Fusarium Dieback (FD) disease, which interrupts the transport of water and nutrients in over 38 tree species that are suitable for beetle reproduction. A separate invasion was recently detected in San Diego county and is now being called Kuroshio shot hole borer (KSHB) and is another closely related species to PSHB (Euwallacea sp. (#5)) carrying two new fungal species - Fusarium and Graphium. Both species have been found causing damage on avocado in the los Angeles basin and San Diego County.
BEETLE BIOLOGY
Adult females of PSHB and KSHB (Fig. 1) are black in color and 1.8-2.5 mm long. Adult males (Fig. 4 ) are brown and smaller than females at 1.5 mm long. More females are produced than males, which are flightless and very rarely leave the galleries. Mature siblings mate with each other so that females are already pregnant when they leave to start their own galleries. Males do not fly, but stay in the host tree.
SYMPTOM AND SIGNS
External Symptoms: Attack symptoms, a host tree's visible response to stress, vary among host species. Staining (Fig. 5), sugary exudate ( also called a sugar volcano) (Fig. 6-7), gumming (Fig.8), and/or frass (Fig. 9) may be noticeable before seeing the tiny beetles. Beneath or near these symptoms, you may also see the beetle's entry/exit holes, which are ~0.85 mm in diameter Fig 10). The abdomen of the female beetle can sometimes be seen sticking out of the hole. Advanced fungal infections will eventually lead to branch dieback, as seen on this Avocado (Fig. 11).
Internal Symptoms: Fungal species associated with the beetle PSHB and KSHB cause brown to black discoloration in infected wood. Discolored wood can easily be seen when bark is scraped away around the entry/exit hole (Fig 10). Cross-sections of cut branches (Fig. 12) show the extent of infection.
KNOWN REPRODUCTIVE HOSTS OF PSHB and KSHB
PSHB attacks hundreds of tree species, but it can only successfully lay its eggs and/or grow the fungi in certain hosts.
Known Suitable Reproductive Host Trees of PSHB:
Avocado (Persea americana)
Box elder (Acer negundo)
California Sycamore (Platanus racemosa)
Big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum)
Evergreen Maple (Acer paxii)
Trident maple (Acer buergerianum)
Japanese maple (Acer palmatum)
Castor bean (Ricinus communis)
Mexican sycamore (Platanus mexicana)
Red Willow (Salix laevigata)
Mimosa (Albizia julibrissin)
English Oak (Quercus robur)
Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia)
London plane (Platanus x acerifolia)
Cottonwood (Populus fremontii)
Black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa)
White Alder (Alnus rhambifolia)
Titoki (Alectryon excelsus)
Engelmann Oak (Quercus engelmannii)
Cork Oak (Quercus suber)
Valley oak (Quercus lobata)
Coral tree (Erythrina corallodendon)
Blue palo verde (Cercidium floridum)
Palo verde (Parkinsonia aculeata)
Moreton Bay Chestnut (Castanospermum australe)
Brea (Cercidium sonorae)
Mesquite (Prosopis articulata)
Weeping willow (Salix babylonica)
Chinese holly (Ilex cornuta)
Camelia (Camellia semiserrata)
Acacia (Acacia spp.)
Liquidambar (Liquidambar styraciflua)
Red Flowering Gum (Eucalyptus ficifolia)
Japanese wisteria (Wisteria floribunda)
Goodding's black willow (Salix gooddingii)
Tree of heaven (Alianthus altissima)
Kurrajong (Brachychiton populneus)
Black mission fig (Ficus carica)
Known Suitable Reproductive Host Trees of KSHB:
Coral tree (Erythrina humeana)
COMMENTS OF THE PEST AND DISEASE COMPLEX
Fusarium dieback (FD) is a new, invasive, beetle-vectored disease that has caused damage on avocado and other host trees in urban forests and wild lands in the Los Angeles basin since early 2012, and Orange and San Diego County since early 2013. This pest/disease complex has also impacted the avocado growing regions of Israel since 2009. DNA analyses of polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) beetles indicate that those from San Diego County are different from those in Los Angeles.and these beetles are now being called Kuroshio shot hole borer (KSHB) and are genetically similar to a beetle population in Taiwan. The beetles from Israel and the Los Angeles basin are genetically similar to those from Vietnam (Stouthamer unpublished data). Other studies have shown that species of Euwallacea, as well as thefusariumfungi they cultivate, are genetically distinct, including those from the Los Angeles basin (which are identical to those in Israel) and San Diego (O'Donnell 2014). These results indicate that at least two introductions into California have occurred. Each beetle carries its own novel pathogenic fungal species of Fusarium and Graphium, while the beetle from Los Angeles additionally carries a species of Acremonium (Lynch et al. in press).
Rapid spread of the beetle/fungi throughout various land use areas is attributed to the diverse range and quantity of suitable hosts in Southern California (Eskalen et al., 2013). Establishment of the beetle is a source of concern for the avocado industry, of which 90% of the United States crop is produced in California (California Avocado Commission). Several commercial avocado groves in Los Angeles County have been infested since 2012. The second invasion in San Diego County was not detected in commercial avocado groves until October 2014, one year after the initial finding on sycamore in El Cajon. Since then, 20 commercial avocado groves in San Diego County have been confirmed infested.
Currently there are no control measures to control this pest. Early detection of infestation helps reduce the population of the beetle by removing infested branches where beetle can reproduce their offspring.
-If the infestation is on the branch collar, cut into branch collar and spray pruning wounds with a registered product of Bacillus subtilus.
-Chip infested wood on-site to a size of one inch or smaller. If the branch is too large to chip, solarize them under a clear tarp for several months
-Sterilize tools to prevent the spread of the disease with either 25% household bleach, Lysol® cleaning solution, or 70% ethyl alcohol.
-Avoid movement of infested firewood and chipping material out of infested area.
-For more information visit http://eskalenlab.ucr.edu
The insect and the damage on avocado
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Recent finding on Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer, Fusarium Dieback – A pest-disease complex on Avocado
The Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB), Euwallacea sp. #1, is an invasive beetle that carries three fungi: Fusarium euwallaceae, Graphium sp. , and Acremonium sp. The adult female tunnels galleries into a wide variety of host trees, where it lays its eggs and grows the fungi. The fungi cause the Fusarium Dieback (FD) disease, which interrupts the transport of water and nutrients in over 35 tree species that are suitable for beetle reproduction.
Once the beetle/fungal complex has killed the host tree, pregnant females fly in search of a new host.
A separate invasion was recently detected in commercial avocado groves and landscape trees in San Diego county. It has been determined that the damage has been caused by another closely related species of PSHB (Euwallacea sp. #2), carrying a new species of Fusarium and Graphium. The beetle in LA, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties are morphologically indistinguishable, but genetically distinct from the beetle found in San Diego County.
Attack symptoms, a host tree's visible response to stress, vary among host species. Staining, sugary exudate (B), gumming, and/or frass may be noticeable before the tiny beetles (females are typically 1.8-2.5 mm long). Beneath or near these symptoms, you may also see the beetle's entry/exit holes, which are ~0.85 mm in diameter. The abdomen of the female beetle can sometimes be seen sticking out of the hole.
Sugary exudate on trunks or branches may indicate a PSHB attack (photos A-E). Note that exudate may be washed off after rain events and therefore may not always be present on a
heavily infested branch.
PSHB attacks hundreds of tree species, but it can only successfully lay its eggs and/or grow the fungi in certain hosts. These include: Avocado, Box elder, California sycamore, Coast live oak, White alder, Japanese maple, and Red willow. Visit eskalenlab.ucr.edu for the full list.
Fusarium dieback pathogens cause brown to black discoloration in infected wood. Scraping away bark over the entry/exit hole reveals dark staining around the gallery, and cross sections of cut branches show the extent of infection. Advanced infections eventually lead to branch dieback and death of the tree
How to report a suspect tree
Please report suspected tree infestations to UC Riverside (eskalenlab@gmail.com).
Submit the following information:
•Contact information (name, city, phone number, email)
•Suspect tree species
•Description of suspect tree's location (and/or GPS coordinates)
•Description of suspect tree's symptoms
•Photos of suspect tree and close-up photos of symptoms (see examples)
Take photos of suspect trees from several distances. Include photos of:
1. the trunk or symptomatic branches;
2. the symptoms (close-up); and
3. the entry/exit hole, if visible, with a ballpoint pen for scale (remove exudate if necessary). If dieback is observed, take a picture of the entire tree.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015 | Last updated about 5 hours ago
The first view of Uckfield High Street for Tour of Britain cyclists will be the Cinque Ports Club.
Uckfield bunting out to welcome Tour of Britain cyclists
Bunting now runs the length of Uckfield High Street and into Church Street in time for Uckfield Carnival and ready for the arrival of Tour of Britain cyclists on Saturday, September 13.
PipeDreams is ready for the Tour of Britain.
Uckfield Mayor Cllr Ian Smith thanked helpers from Uckfield Rotary, Lions, Carnival Society, Chamber of Commerce and town councillors who gave up time over the weekend to put up the bunting.
He also thanked John Rose for the loan of ladders and City Electrical for donating cable clips to fix the bunting.
Sir Bradley Wiggins in Tour of Britain
The Tour of Britain cycle race is expected to arrive in Uckfield soon after lunch on Saturday, September 13. Tour de France winner in 2012, Sir Bradley Wiggins, is seeking to defend the British title he took last year. He will be in the colours of Team Sky.
Riders will come along the A272 from Haywards Heath, through Newick and at Piltdown take Shortbridge Road, Rocks Road and Church Street into Uckfield.
Exact time of arrival will depend on the speed of the race.
Updated race times for Uckfield
Updated estimated times show the race arriving in Uckfield at 12.54pm (fast speed), 1.12pm at average speed and 1.29pm at slow speed. The lead cars will be about 15 minutes in front of the cyclists.
Wiggins should, if all is going according to plan, be in main field going through Uckfield, surrounded by team-mates.
After going down the High Street, the riders will turn left at the traffic lights in Framfield Road and head to Blackboys on the B2012 where they will arrive six or seven minutes after going through Uckfield. Timings for Framfield are + four minutes on the Uckfield times.
Spectators in the High Street will only get a brief glimpse of the race with speeds of around 60mph being attained down the hill.
During this year’s British stages of the Tour de France, the riders had all gone by a location within five or six minutes.
Some of the team big names of international pro-cycling will be represented including Garmin Sharp, Movistar, Omega Pharma-Quick-Step, Tinkoff Saxo, Giant Shimano and Britain’s Team Sky.
Marcel Kittel rides for Giant Shimano and won the Tour de France stages into Harrogate and The Mall, London. He also won further stages in Lille and Paris.
Other big name competitors include Nicholas Roche (Tinkoff Saxo)
The race starts in Liverpool and runs from September 7 to 14.
Here’s the official Tour of Britain website.
Bunting strung along Uckfield High Street in time for Uckfield Carnival and ready for the Tour of Britain cycle race.
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August 8, 2013 / 10:14 AM / 6 years ago
Nikon cuts full-year profit target as mirrorless cameras lose their shine
Sophie Knight
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nikon Corp cut its full-year profit due to disappointing demand for mirrorless cameras that were once seen as a revolutionary invention that could save the industry from the threat of increasingly advanced smartphone cameras.
Nikon Corp's logo is pictured at an electronics store in Tokyo August 9, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
Nikon executives said that sales were particularly disappointing in the United States and Europe for mirrorless cameras, which are lighter and cheaper than single-lens reflex (SLR) devices and offer higher image quality than other compact models.
“In Europe and the U.S. the ratio of mirrorless to SLRs hasn’t grown at all, unlike in Asia, where it’s quite popular with women because it’s light. We had higher expectations for other regions,” said Yasuyuki Okamoto, president of the imaging company. “But people who like cameras tend to just go for SLRs, even though they’re very heavy.”
Japanese camera makers were hoping that mirrorless cameras, which work with a sensors, could pick up the slack as compact camera sales continue to slide as consumers are increasingly shifting to high-resolution smartphone cameras.
But so far, they have only seen strong mirrorless sales at home, where shipments grew 16.8 percent in the six months to June, while dropping 18.5 percent globally, according to data from the Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA) of Japan. Compact camera shipments plummeted 48 percent.
Rival Olympus Corp said on Thursday that its sales of its signature mirrorless model, the PEN, had fallen 12 percent in the first quarter, below its expectations.
Okamoto warned that Nikon may have to rethink its product mix in other regions as falling prices for mirrorless cameras are pinching margins and hurting the interchangeable lens division even as SLR sales remained strong. It cut its full-year forecast for the division to 6.55 million units from 7.1 million.
Okamoto said that the ratio of mirrorless cameras to SLRs was still growing in China, but that many consumers still preferred to go for the top-of-the-range cameras.
However, slower growth in China and other emerging economies was seen likely weighing on the company’s bottom line for longer than initially anticipated. Nikon says it now hopes for a recovery of the Chinese economy some time next year, against earlier expectations of a pick-up this autumn.
“That would be good if that’s how it works out. But (the Chinese economy) could still be bad next year. No one knows. Inventories will probably build up,” said Mitsushige Akino, chief fund manager at Ichiyoshi Investment in Tokyo.
Nikon also cut its forecast for steppers, multi-million dollar lithography machines that are a vital part of the semiconductor manufacturing process, to 37 machines from 38 after selling just two in the first quarter compared to six last year.
The Japanese firm now claims less than a fifth of the market, down from less than 40 percent a decade ago, as Dutch rival ASML Holdings NV has gained a share of over 80 percent.
Nikon, the world’s second-largest camera maker behind Canon Inc, booked 6.03 billion yen in operating profit for the first quarter, short of expectations of 9.07 billion yen, the average of seven analysts’ estimates according to Thomson Reuters StarMine.
Nikon cut its operating profit forecast to 65 billion yen ($673 million) for the year to next March, down nearly one-quarter from its forecast issued three months ago of 85 billion yen, although this would still be a rise of 27 percent from a year ago.
Shares of Nikon closed down 1.3 percent before the earnings announcement, in line with a 1.6 percent loss for the benchmark Nikkei average. The shares, which have swung wildly after the last two quarterly earnings reports, are up a relatively modest 12 percent since mid-November, when hopes for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reflationary policies sparked a stock market rally. The Nikkei average has risen 57 percent over the same period.
Reporting by Sophie Knight; Editing by Matt Driskill and Edmund Klamann
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PSG's Herrera out 3-4 weeks with calf injury
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Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Ander Herrera has picked up a calf injury before the Ligue 1 season has even started and will miss as much as one month at the start of the French champions' 2019-20 campaign.
The 29-year-old Spain international suffered the injury toward the end of Wednesday's training session, according to PSG's official Twitter account.
Herrera will need "three to four weeks" to recover "depending on how his injury evolves," so he will likely be missing until after the September international break.
The former Manchester United man, who arrived at Parc des Princes from Old Trafford on a free transfer earlier this summer, has won PSG admirers early on for his consistency and tenacity during preseason.
📍@AnderHerrera injured his left calf this morning at the end of training.
He will resume training with the group in three to four weeks depending on the evolution of his injury.
— Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_English) August 7, 2019
Herrera also played 61 minutes of the Ligue 1 giants' 2-1 Trophee des Champions win over Rennes in Shenzhen, China, last weekend to register his first piece of silverware with PSG.
Les Parisiens' coach Thomas Tuchel will be keen to get fellow summer signing Idrissa Gueye operational as soon as possible after Marquinhos deputised in defensive midfield, as he did on numerous occasions last term, over the weekend.
In other PSG news, Neymar has been training with the squad ahead of Sunday's Ligue 1 opener at home to Nimes and is likely to play some part. He avoided even a single minute of summer friendly action after his recovery from his latest injury, which forced him out of this summer's Copa America success on home soil.
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The Mindy Project and the Rom-Com Narrative Part 3
As I mentioned yesterday, TV Ate My Wardrobe turns 1 this month (I still can’t quite get my head around the idea that it’s been a year) and to celebrate this anniversary there will be special attention paid to the shows and discussions that have featured heavily over the past year. One such show is The Mindy Project and TAMW has a penchant for the “will they/won’t they” phenomenon and so The Mindy Project’s return after a two month hiatus to deal with this HUGE step forward means it’s time to check in and see how they deal with the “What next?”
My position on Mindy and Danny has shifted from liking them as just friends, to conflicted pro and con feelings about a potential hookup to being all in with them getting together. My original reticence stemmed from the usual “will they/won’t they” worries as this friendship was one of the only consistently good things about the uneven first season of The Mindy Project. As the quality and focus has improved, my desire to see Mindy and Danny together has also changed. From the super swoony Aaliyah dance, followed by the even swoonier airplane kiss the progression has never felt false. The chemistry between Chris Messina and Mindy Kaling is part of what makes this potential coupling so compelling and it’s one reason I’m happy they are pushing forward with this pairing.
So how well did they handle the post kiss double bill? With aplomb, starting with this brilliant line from Danny post first kiss; “I’m going to count to three, and if you don’t kiss, me, I’ll realize this was a big mistake and I’ll return to my seat in humiliation. One, two, three . . . four.” That extra number is all Mindy needs to commit to this and after this super romantic moment we get a scene that shows how Mindy straddles the rom-com line and then injects a bit of reality into it all. As with the sex in the shower scene with Casey, this was nowhere near as romantic as movies tend to make it out to be, getting frisky in an airplane bathroom will likely end up with one person getting their arm stuck in a bin and the other with their head down a toilet. Despite this early clumsy making out session, Mindy and Danny return to her apartment holding hands and ready to see where this is heading.
Romantic obstacles stand in the way and this was never going to be easy; first up is Cliff who thinks they are back together after Danny wrote the amazing email posing as Mindy. Mindy does her best to get dumped including going to the bathroom with the door open and mentioning the eight kids her psychic says they’re going to have together.
What follows is a series of setbacks including Cliff’s grandmother dying, followed by a sex tape Mindy made with Tom ending up on the internet in the second episode. The path of true love is not meant to run smooth and a spot of viral meningitis lands Danny (and later Mindy) in the hospital. Mindy wants to take things slow with Danny and she doesn’t want to jump into bed straight away with him. Danny’s not entirely happy with this decision and the timing of the sex tape ending up on Sploderzz (A+ on that name) has Mindy worried that it’s going to be over before anything has really happened.
The thing with a “will they/won’t they” couple on TV is they generally know a lot about the other person’s dating history as they’re usually friends first. So Danny knows that Mindy has dated quite a few guys, no he doesn’t know the intimate details (well, until now) and so initially he doesn’t understand why she is treating him differently. Mindy has all of these romantic notions that never pan out the way they do in the movies she constantly refers to, but Danny isn’t just some guy who can play a part in an Empire State Building fantasy; he’s a co-worker and a friend who she has known for a very long time and so to screw this up, means screwing up those other parts of her relationship with him.
Now one thing a rom-com generally has is the best friend character who acts as a truthsayer, while Peter doesn’t have BFF status just yet and he’s a self confessed “party hungry bro-dawg” he is the one who brings them back together. Rom-coms are all about misunderstandings and resolutions and Peter plays his part perfectly – Peter is finally becoming a more fleshed out character and Adam Pally is excellent in both of these episodes. Peter also figures out why Danny is so pissed about the video and the repeated use of “wait” plus his eye bulge when he puts two and two together is pretty magical.
So we have the friend who knows what is going on, but is half-pretending he doesn’t – “maybe she even wants to get boned by the practice” – several obstacles and a super cute resolution that suggests these two have a chance. Plotting this kind of relationship change and satisfying an audience can be tricky to navigate. Off the basis of these first two episodes back, Mindy Kaling has a handle on how to make this a successful transition and it is a welcome relief to see romantic joy on TV after shows like The Good Wife, New Girl and HIMYM have been putting us all through the emotional wringer recently. It’s been a tough two weeks for viewers so Danny coming to Mindy and getting into her hospital bed to read Bridget Jones’s Diary to her (with different voices) is enough to warm this TV watching broken heart. Those red reading glasses are pretty much everything.
For parts 1 and 2 of this evolving discussion on The Mindy Project and the Rom-Com Narrative head here and here.
Tags: "French Me You Idiot", "Indian BBW", Adam Pally, Chris Messina, Mindy Kaling, The Mindy Project, will they/won't they
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4 Responses to “The Mindy Project and the Rom-Com Narrative Part 3”
headoverfeels April 2, 2014 at 12:12 pm #
I wrote earlier this seasons that Pally was playing “straight Max” still, so I’m so pleased that Peter is being fleshed out. Having him become invested in Mindy and Danny’s happiness was unexpected, but totally endearing. And, as you said, Pally killed that scene. –S
Emma Fraser April 2, 2014 at 12:14 pm #
I still need to watch Happy Endings (I’m hanging my head in shame as S1 is sitting on my shelf waiting). Yeah, I was really happy with his involvement in the second episode and I hope there’s more of these moments ahead.
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The 10 Best Movie Gunfights of All Time
Paul 4 years ago
There are some moments in cinema that you never forget, and a lot of my favorite ones involve an unruly amount of firepower. These ten bullet-laden scenes have been selected for their status as iconic moments, but also there’s also a few that earn a place on pure style points alone. Here are my picks for the best movie gunfights ever.
10) Tombstone – The OK Corral
One of the most famous gunfights in real world history, the onscreen adaptation in Tombstone made the legend come to life. Val Kilmer is a dead-eye as Doc Holiday and poor Thomas Hayden Church never had a chance. Tension breaks 4 minutes in.
9) Terminator 2 – Do No Harm
The only shootout on the list where no one gets hurt, Arnold’s Terminator is under direct orders from John Connor not to hurt humans. But that doesn’t include their cars. Whipping out his trusty minigun (why do they call it that anyways?) he shreds the police cruisers until they all run away terrified. Human casualties: zero.
8 ) Shoot Em Up – Roll in the Hay
I really did hate Shoot Em Up, but I have to hand them the innovation prize to orchestrate a gunfight where the participant, Clive Owen, is literally inside Monica Bellucci for the whole thing. The video is a bit NSFW as you might imagine, but there’s no outright boobie action.
7) Heat – Run and Gun
This is possibly the most unnecessary and over the top gunfight in movie history. What started as a bank robbery turns into a city-wide firefight with automatic weapons. The bodies pile up and you start to think that they really probably could have gone about this whole thing another way.
6) Desperado – Bar Crawl
Before Robert Rodriguez was adapting graphic novels and banging Rose McGowan, he was making low budget action flicks like Desperado. If you don’t think this deserves a spot on the list, take a look.
5) Equilibrium – Puppy Guardian
There were a few clips from the often overlooked sci-fi thriller Equilibrium that could have gone here, but nothing tops Christian Bale and his gun-karate acrobatics in this scene. And there’s also a puppy! Aww. Shooting starts at the 3:30 mark.
4) Boondock Saints – Through the Ceiling
It’s probably the most clumsily executed gunfight ever, but also one of the most effective. The poor Russian mobsters never knew what hit them. Good thing they brought that rope eh?
3) Scarface – Go Down Swinging
Sure it’s not remotely based in reality, as any one man probably can’t take on an entire drug cartel for more than five seconds, but it’s still one of the most iconic gunfights in cinema 25 years later. And of course it’s paired with one of the most memorable movie lines to date, “Say ‘ello to my little friend!”
2) Wanted – Storm the Gates
I had mixed feelings about Wanted as a whole, but my jaw was on the floor during this minute and a half that can only be compared in terms of awesomeness to the final scene on our list. It’s more a ballet than it is a gunfight. Check it out at the 7 minute maker.
1) The Matrix – Lobby Scene
Often copied but never duplicated, the lobby scene opened our eyes to action sequences we never envisioned to be possible. I’m not sure how many times I watched this clip, but it never gets any less cool. And nothing will ever beat the metal detector intro.
I think I'm a part of the first generation of journalists to skip print media entirely, and I've learned a lot these last few years at Forbes. My work has appeared on TVOvermind, IGN, and most importantly, a segment on The Colbert Report at one point.
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Total B.S. I can see this was done by someone under 30. Rent “The Wild Bunch” and maybe a few other movies made before 1998.
Ever see a feakin Western? November 6, 2008
Try the gunfight at the end of Open Range. It has the most badass start to a gunfight I’ve seen in years, and certainly tops the freakin’ Matrix for classic appeal.
Disappointed November 6, 2008
No John Woo?
silentsanta November 6, 2008
Often downloaded but never duplicated?
You have missed out on a lot…
John November 6, 2008
Another excellent one is the finale of True Romance.
I mean, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Madison November 7, 2008
Is FAIL the new PWNED? Schadenfreude is so typical of the geeky Internet culture. It’s pathetic and yet amusing.
Hari Seldon November 7, 2008
What?! No Pulp Fiction? No, “say What again!”?
Also Disappointed November 7, 2008
Thank you I was going to scream that there was no John Woo, Watch Hardboiled or The Killer.
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bob December 9, 2008
@Hari Seldon
I wouldn’t call that a gunfight, more of a one sided massacre if anything. Thou you could consider some of the gunfights in “the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “Once upon a time in the west”, real one sided fights.
Soapdish December 9, 2008
Face/Off, the final shootout between Archer and Troy.
Or The Killer, the final shootout in the church.
truth December 10, 2008
How about “The Way of the Gun” Probably the baddest and the most realistic gun fight ever!
purgatoreos December 10, 2008
Personally, I thought the opening gun fight from Equilibrium was a lot cooler than the puppy scene.. but that one was pretty freaking awesome too.
null December 10, 2008
The big fight scene in Hot Fuzz. Sure it’s a parody, but it’s awesome in its own right.
Sub-Zero December 10, 2008
yes, you are right on sir, I can’t believe I forgot that one, I love that movie
cinephile December 11, 2008
I must reiterate, John Woo was the inspiration for at least half of these gun fights. Hard Boiled’s factory scene or one of the hospital scenes must be on this list. If you don’t want to open the flood gate of asian awesomeness, at least put faceoff there. The mirror is scene is pretty epic.
GettoPhilosopher December 15, 2008
The “mini” in minigun references the design. It’s based on previous models like the Vulcan or the Avenger; all of these were multiple-barreled cannons, firing 20mm or 40mm shells. The minigun fires a 7.62x51mm NATO round, just like out of an assault rifle.
yellowchilli December 16, 2008
hAHAHhAhAhAhhAHahahahahAH@ silentsanta’s indian matrix
Hitman9188 December 20, 2008
I can’t BELIEVE the gunfight scene in Open Range did NOT make this list!! That HAS to be one of the best in ANY movie ever filmed!
Roach December 23, 2008
What about the train station staircase scene in The Untouchables?! Far better than any modern shootout scenes!
Stephen Coley January 9, 2009
I liked this list. I think that if Equilibrium made it, then one of the scenes from UltraViolet should have made it as well. Same director, and same fight choreographer.
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Greg January 16, 2009
You forgot this gem from Raiders of the Lost Ark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DzcOCyHDqc
No one says that there has to be more than one shot to make GREAT scene.
asdf January 16, 2009
Yea, seriously. No John Woo?
Hard Boiled has some great scenes, not to mention the hospital long shot.
A Better Tomorrow II has the brilliant mansion shootout near the end.
Bullet in the Head has a bunch of good ones.
Also, Wild Bunch?!?!@ Come on.
brogs January 16, 2009
What about main characters trying to survive gunfights they don’t want to be involved in? Children of Men, storming the refugee camp long shot, sublime. The Pianist, the jewish revolt. etc.
Unforgiven perhaps?
Also, I don’t remember these well, but what about Snatch, Lock Stock and two smoking barrels, etc, brit crime pics.. maybe they are more style than blow-em-up substance but..
Sidenote: Would you count war movies? D-day in Saving Private Ryan could be considered a pretty nasty gunfight…
Good list, keep em coming
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joshybauer January 26, 2009
Very good… but this is my ranking
http://blogs.elcorreodigital.com/culocortos/2008/12/5/culoranking
Dirtydanchez January 29, 2009
It’s hard to call some of these “fights” when the whole movie is one huge “fight”. I agree with Desperado, Matrix, and Scarface; however the other one’s are all just big action hard-ons people like Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay fantasize about. Now Children of Men, that is an awesome scene. I was blown away by the continous shot sequence and if you haven’t seen it…do. Also, its not really a gunfight, but the bridge scene from “Duck You Sucker” is really fun to watch. Oh and John Woo films.
johnnyC January 29, 2009
I cannot believe that anyone has not referenced the gunbattle in HEAT, after the bank robbery coming out, one of the best automatic gunfights
zsasz January 30, 2009
got to agree as mentioned previously..the wild bunch should go down as a true pinnacle. pure brutality.
shawn January 31, 2009
ok nobody remembers true romance? cops vs. mob vs.drug dealers/movie directors vs.christian slater and elvis
RK January 31, 2009
Is the stair case at the start of scarface the smae one as in the second matrix film the scene where they meet the frenchman and the Twins
Chris February 9, 2009
The Minigun is the smallest gun that can be mounted on an attack helicopter, and when compared to OTHER guns mounted on aircraft, is pretty small. However, even compared to a guy built like Arnold, it seems pretty huge.
Richard February 9, 2009
Director Sam Peckinpah’s Gun battle finale in “The Wild Bunch” and the final gun battle in “The Magnificent Seven” Along with a newer western movie’s gun battle in “3:10 To Yuma”
Alex February 9, 2009
It’s pretty crazy that The Wild Bunch isn’t on this list. Also, the final showdown in Good Bad & Ugly.
Elle February 9, 2009
I’m going to scold you for John Woo like everyone else … and add the finale of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Because sometimes tension is the best part of the fight.
And actually, the gunfight in the International is pretty sick. It’s the best thing about the film.
KevinR February 9, 2009
You should just do a “10 more greatest gunfights” list.
Anyway, two words: Wild Bunch
Taylor February 11, 2009
Of all the gunfights that you find unnecessary and unreal is from the one movie that went to extreme lengths be realistic?
Take this chance to watch the behind-the-scene footage of “Heat;” not only because it shows how realistic that shootout really was, but because it will also open your eyes to events that have actually happened (IE: the LA shootout back at that Bank of America).
Great list. But I can’t believe you left off the Hospital Fight from Hard-Boiled. How can you have a list of the best gunfights in movies and not have a single John Woo film mentioned. For shame, sir. For shame.
Bob February 14, 2009
End of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly tops all these.
Derin February 17, 2009
I would add Gunfight scenes from Devil may cry 3 and mybe 4 too. yeah, its no movie but it IS cool and it is MoCap, so it is somehow real. never forget how dante and Vergil fight on that rainy tower roof.
BigBadLarry February 26, 2009
Yeah nice selection. I have another scene – it is out of the movie “Four Brothers”. One of the very few movies where some people actually run out of ammo and DON’T have another 100 ammunition clips stored away in the tight pockets of their jeans and have to use what is lying around as weapons. Only downer is a used knife which has the lotus effect – no blood on it after repeated use.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz2sblKMsI0
Why are so many people into John Woo movies anyway? Okay we have all the right to our own taste but for me John Woo’s movies are unbelievably cheap. The cutting, the five million bullets one gun can have, the indestructible hero. In comparison to the hero of a John Woo movie Die Hard & John McClane are placed in reality.
In my it is no action but a scifi movie like Matrix.
BassmanBP March 5, 2009
I’m sorry, I know this isn’t a real gunfight, but it’s just as good as anything out there….
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skeej April 17, 2009
I would nominate the Equilibrium end fight above the puppy fight. It’s more dynamic and fluid, and also more of a “fight”.
In the same vein as the Heat shootout scene, you forgot a similar scene in terms of semi-realistic style, namely the showdown scene from Way of the Gun. Not only is it better shot and stylized, it is also a gazillion times more realistic. There are lots of awesome small details they got spot on. And you gotta love the little nod to style-over-substance-Woo-inspired movies when Philippe’s character takes a heroic dive into the fountain, which ends a little different than expected.
Also of course, the usual Woo suspects: ABT2 mansion scene, The Killer church scene, Hard Boiled endless hospital showdown (including the unedited long shot where they clear 2 floors of the hospital)
New school HKBO is pretty good as well. Johnny To does an amazing job at shootouts, sometimes even surpassing Woo. I love the Fulltime Killer apartment building shootout, but his best is in one of his latest movies, Exiled. Can’t really choose the best gunfight there! The restaurant scene is amazing, the doctor’s apartment building + escape is genious, and of course the end scene. And honorable mention goes to the scene with the money truck, where the protagonists decide to help the cop protecting his truck whilst smoking a cigarette.
Another newschool HKBO: Time and Tide. Anyone who has seen this movie knows which scene i mean. The apartment building scene. Guys shooting eachother whilst rapelling from a building, and the cameramen jumping out of the same windows as the combatants. Epic.
terryterryd April 17, 2009
I’m with asdf withand skeej regard to “A Better Tomorrow II”:
Fantastic shootout at the end: the white painted baddie’s mansion house is a blood spattered bomb site after the “Resevoir Dog” looking heroes storm in for the finale.
(I am sure this is the film QT nicked the dark-suit-and-shades-look from…)
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A_Flama April 29, 2009
NICE! hehehe…
Chuck May 3, 2009
The gunfight at the end of Open Range beats all of these like a big drum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq3zjTmVLbM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3agDSq2DJA&feature=related
mike May 7, 2009
you are missing the gunfight from lucky number slevin fuckin awesomee
John May 23, 2009
No John Woo? This list sucks major league dick!
Jacks Medula Oblongata June 5, 2009
Unforgiven ??
Hedelex June 7, 2009
What about John Woo’s Face of chapel sequence? X-D
Eric June 20, 2009
no John Woo is an immediate fail
and even though everyone already said it, I have to protest the exclusion of Open Range
one of my favorite moments in a film, Western or otherwise:
“You the man that shot our friend?”
“That’s right. I shot the boy too, and I enjoyed it.”
*BANG!*
no tense musical build-up
no one-liners
just… bang
also, am I the only person who didn’t hate Shoot ‘Em Up?
HulkGogan June 21, 2009
I’ve seen all the moview on your list but I only vaguely remember the gunfights in all but Heat. Well done I’m sure, but generic.
So how about the Professional? “Bring E V E R Y O N E!”
P.S. Boondock Fucking Saints!? Have you not seen Overnight?
http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/1668/overnight/
This list sucks July 15, 2009
This list is bullshit. Where’s “The Wild Bunch”? Where’s “The Killer”?
Madison July 15, 2009
Not on this list. Why don’t you make your own?
DJ July 20, 2009
How the hell isn’t the scene at the end of Way of the Gun NOT on here??? Maybe the most realistic shoot out ever.
@ DJ
Not to be a dick, but have you been in a gunfight? I ask only because you claim how realistic the one at the end of Way of the Gun is. Or maybe you just watch a lot of COPS, I dunno.
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joe schmoe July 30, 2009
Boondock Saints is a piece of shit movie. Tries be like Tarantino, horribly written and full of stupid moments
Babcock August 1, 2009
Way of the Gun…nice gun fights…the rest of the movie…ehhh…
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pm September 3, 2009
Does the final major scene from Bugsy Malone count? Splurge guns are guns, right?
Brandon Taber September 9, 2009
I agree with people on the epic fail of not including John Woo.
I also can’t help but express my feeling of nausea after reading Michael Man’s epic and realistically inspired shootout referred to as not only “over the top” and “unecessary” but also somehow THE MOST of BOTH in movie HISTORY! Umm… No. Especially not after listing The Matrix in spot number one or Wanted in spot two. How exactly does this work anyway?
Props for Desperado… Another example of a shootout that is WAAAAY more over the top.
You know also, if you think the shootout in Heat is unecessary. The guards in the lobby shootout in Matrix were probably plugged in. Why don’t they just run around the world shooting everybody they come across if they’re afraid they’ll turn into agents? They usually do anyway.
Brandon Taber September 10, 2009
“are all just big action hard-ons people like Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay fantasize about”
Okay “Dirty” I’m certain you’ve never seen Heat. And if you have you’ve got your facts mixed up – Matrix actually kind of fits the above description *throws up hands* I’m just sayin’!
Yes Children of Men. Agreed, completely, but the main character never uses a gun, so it’s hardly any kind of fight from a subjective standpoint.
cp September 18, 2009
End of “Grosse Point Blank” and “Long Riders”
Ray September 24, 2009
Wow this has to be the worst list I’ve ever seen.
The fact that Heat is not even in the top 2 and the fact that Equilibrium (one of the stupidest movies with the corniest fight scenes ever made) is even on this list, let alone AHEAD of Heat (are you serious?) says it all.
The fact that Open Range (which should be at the top of this list with Heat) is not even on this list is just astonishing.
Worst list ever.
bad bob September 25, 2009
i’m going to chime in on Open Range. Maybe it got points deducted for the interminable, outright painful “ending” that followed… when the gunfight ended, I would have thought the movie a classic; thirty or so minutes later, I wanted one of the bad guys to just shoot Costner and get it over with… just kiss the girl and fade out, Kevin!!!
amovie watcher October 7, 2009
How about Aliens (2)????????? When the marines first land and they take on the hordes? Definite gun battle, although one side had guns and the other acid and claws! 🙂
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Dennie October 9, 2009
@Boondock saints
Alrite get your stupid fucking rope LOL
G October 17, 2009
Collateral; The alley shoot out and the club shootout are the standard for awesome.
Blood Diamond; Fall of Freetown, Air assault on the diamond field
The Kingdom; Ambush scene
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Ryan October 30, 2009
John Woo fans should watch “Hard Target” with Van Damme. Its like watching Seinfeld after someone points out the laugh- track.
mumbles November 3, 2009
yeah, I can’t believe The Matrix is on this list. horrible, horrible stuff. you know, even Terminator 2 borrowed from John Woo’s ‘Hard Boiled’ and that made it on here… but at least Cameron has the decency to acknowledge what he’s borrowing from. The Wachowski’s are hacks.
‘Hard Boiled’ and ‘The Killer’ are *THE* definitive gunfights. and don’t even even bother adding ‘of all time’ unless you’ve done your homework and are really passionate about films. ‘The Good, The Bad and The Weird’ is another film which deserves to be on this list, even though it’s newer. I can think of at least 2 scenes in that movie that should be on here… albeit they’re truncated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKAcpi-kbLk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLHlZ23TAlo
9 out of 10 of these are from the 90’s and on… bah. as far as newer films go for out and out gun slaughter–i’d think Rambo and Punisher: War Zone would be considered.
Da Gecko November 11, 2009
Ok, props for ‘Boondock Saints’ (those who don’t like it, ya didn’t understand it since it is about more than just mindless violence and tits), Equilibrium and ‘Heat’… but no ‘Open Range’? No ‘Unforgiven’? No ‘The Good, the Bad and The Ugly’? ‘Once Upon A Time in the West’? A couple from ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’, and the above mentioned ‘Way of the Gun’ (another badly misunderstood movie if all you want is mindless adrenalin fare).
gunfights are more than just ammo being wasted on walls… there is intent… the degree of viciousness… the mercilessness… the despiration… One of the reasons I didn’t mind John Woo missing on the list, his stuff is gratituous fluff… TOO stylish and over the top to be in any way serious – be like listing ‘Mission Impossible II’ on ANY ‘Best of..’ list. ‘Die Hard’, while an extremely enjoyable and iconic movie that created the modern version of the genre had better gun fights that half the list… and I would hardly rate any of its in a ‘Best Gunfight List’.
It’s not just ‘guns’ it is also ‘fights’. If you tend to forget that people f’in DIE in them because of all the action, the cinematography and style, it is not a good ‘gun fight’ movie.
ThePet November 13, 2009
What about Pulp Fiction? Or that one scene from Smokin’ Aces?
That was the cats pajammas.
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sobank November 21, 2009
This is a total BS list. From top of my head I can think of better fight scenes.
-way of the gun
-opening fight from The Big Hit
-open range
-3000 miles to graceland
-The good the bad and the ugly
-and though not typical gun fight, sniping scenes of Enemy at the gates are great.
-and how can you forget Assassins
atheistlibertariancriminalasshole December 23, 2009
i gotta agree w/ hulk: “BRING EVERYONE!!”
Moe Badderman January 30, 2010
> 8 ) Shoot Em Up
> http://www.youtube.com/v/LVLr7GgVPFo
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Nice dead link.
AzGhostrider February 10, 2010
Seems Dirty Harry got forgot….
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid last blast in Bolivia….
Right... February 15, 2010
You suck. Heat’s shootout scene was overdone? Go suck on a chode. Fuckin bitch
John February 18, 2010
Gunfights better than this list (other than John Woo and war movies – battles don’t count)
– Bad Boys 2, fighting the Haitians inside their hideout
– Leon the Professional, defending his apartment
– Public Enemies, fight at the motel and through the woods
– Wild Bunch, ending fight
– Miami Vice (new), ending fight
Most westerns and cop movies end with pretty good gun battles, and it takes a combination of choreography and special effects for a truly amazing fight. There are more I missed. Add your own lists
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Me March 7, 2010
The fact that you put Heat at 7 shows you don’t know what the f/uck you are talking about….!
Dan March 17, 2010
How about the end of “The Gauntlet” with Clint Eastwood. Armored bus versus hundreds of cops?
PortalFTW March 20, 2010
The gun fight in “Lock, Stock, and the two Smoking Barrels” where the fight is in the main charecter’s house.
The Man With No Name March 26, 2010
FAIL. FAIL. FAIL. Shootout in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the best ever.
Abhi April 4, 2010
You did not include Predator, Saving private ryan
eric April 20, 2010
Whoa! hold on, one of the best things about this movie is the gun fight… so many gun fights are totally unrealistic with bullets flying everywhere and people being able to run faster than the trail of bullets. But this one! epic, patient, no slowmo (if i remember). kudos to michael mann on this
Uncle Tim April 23, 2010
I’d would have to join the chorus on the Woo films, especially after just watching the single-take insanity at the end of Hard-Boiled recently.
I’d also throw in the pier shoot-out from the end of David Mamet’s Heist. It’s smaller scale but ends with a fantastic and highly quotable exchange.
There’s also the unnerving silencer siege from the original Assault on Precinct 13.
And as for Terminator, I realize I’m in the minority but I always preferred the police station attack from the first film to the minigun assault from T2. Arnold is incredibly bad-ass in that scene and there’s something really terrifying about the concept that you’re not even safe from this guy in a building filled with armed police.
dred April 25, 2010
The matrix scene is too much of a copy from Ghost in the shell in my opinion to be on this list.
Del May 3, 2010
I’m pleased someone finally recalled Saving Private Ryan. Nothing like realism to mark a great gunfight. Ever see To Hell and Back, where the hero runs into a hail of gunfire and jumps up on a burning tank to shoot Germans? True effing story. And The Lost Battalion took some liberties with why the men were lost, but was pretty accurate with what happened to them in the Argonne forest.
As for fictional movies, gotta agree with Open Range (way over Tombstone) and Hard-Boiled. Which, until today, I didn’t know what it was called, having only seen the hospital part of it and couldn’t remember who was in it.
bugado May 11, 2010
Joining the chorus, hard-boiled is gun-fighting at it’s best. Just looked up hard-boiled to remind myself about how badass almost every gunfight scene is in that movie.
Pekinpah May 16, 2010
Did a teenager make this list?
sammy g May 26, 2010
Ok I must admit I only skimmed over most peoples comments, but it seems everyone has failed to aknowledge smokin aces when all the assasins are trying to get to the penthouse of that hotel to whack that arie gold guy from entourage. Balls out over the top violence with nearly every gun and melee weapon available. Fair enough it was a fairly cheesy film, but come on!Also for those who’ve mentioned the good the bad and the ugly, i think there was even better scenes in for a few dollars more, especially when Lee Van Cleef unloads his saddle bag full of custom firearms
mike May 26, 2010
OK, lemme sum up:
(a) Any list that includes Equilibrium will be forgiven for whatever it left out. More people need to see Equilibrium, because it’s totally awesome. The studio was in the green on it by selling the overseas distribution rights and decided not to risk anything on publicity, so nobody saw it. That was a stupid, stupid thing they did because we could finally get something into the public consciousness that fits roughly into the category of the Matrix and yet blows it away.
(b) If you want to get a list of great movie gunfights, pick ten recent ones, call them the best of all time, and open it up for comments :). I think this was probably the real motivation behind posting this, and you all fell for it and did his work for him–watch for a DVD coming out soon called “Best Cinematic Gun Fights of All Time” hosted by Paul Tassi”.
jay June 24, 2010
Are you serious? Theres not one mention of a John Woo film. No Hard Boiled, The Killer, A Better Tommorrow, not even Face Off? I mean c’mon. Even Tarantino paid homage to Woo in True Romance at the theater scene. You guys dont know anything about Best Gun Fights. Without Woo, there would be no Tarantino or anything else after. Woo started it all!
Dan June 25, 2010
@Uncle Tim
Glad someone has mentioned this. I grow tired of people talking about the scene in T2 as if it was something out of the ordinary.
It was a wow moment like a lot of things in T2 but nothing quite matches seeing the attack on the police station for the first time in the 80’s. I’m pretty sure there weren’t many scenes like it at the time where else the T2 scene was just an extension of what had been seen in Predator a few years before.
Oh and The Terminator is by far the better film (T2 is all about the effects which have really dated).
rohit August 30, 2010
seriously no wanted??? omg that shit was fucking fantastic… ????
Gerald September 2, 2010
Wanted was unrealistic in almost every way possible. But as long as we’re going that route then I’d suggest the opening fight scene from The One, better than any matrix scene hands down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-GvyqvVk7o
Scene from The One… very one sided but still sick. No CGI, just wires.
Qwerty October 9, 2015
Actually the final in the final scene a real Jet Li fights against air and the bodies are CGI. The wired version wasn’t satisfactory. It’s all explained in the behind the scenes.
Anaughtybear September 22, 2010
Way of the Gun. It was one of the most realistic you’ll see. Stick Wanted in your ass sideways and pull the trigger.
mig September 23, 2010
i cannot believe way of the gun didnt make this list…..
fucking failure
Slipstick September 25, 2010
I’ll agree with some of the above posters and say that the final fight in Miami Vice should be included. As my friend said when he watched it, “Holy shit! They’re actually using cover!”
I’ll also agree with The Outlaw Josey Wales and The Untouchables. As much as I don’t like John Woo’s use of slow motion to stretch an hour twenty movie into 3 and a half, the shootouts in Hard Boiled are very imitated (take a look at the video game Rise to Honor.)
A couple of my suggestions would include a couple of the shootouts in Ronin starring Robert DeNiro and when Ghost Dog takes on the entire mafia family in Ghost Dog; The Way of the Samurai.
And while not worthy of a spot in the top ten, but worthy of an honorable mention should be Bruce Willis’s character in Last Man Standing.
sonny burnett October 4, 2010
What about the final gunfight in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
I’m old.
AhClem October 13, 2010
The scene in the Wild Bunch was made by physically cutting the celluloid to fit the action unlike the much less expensive modern ways. Most of the modern films mentioned here are just cheap movie porn that contain little tension or “meaning.” If satisfaction is any measure of quality gunfights then those in High Noon or Liberty Valance or The Wild Bunch must be on this list.
Finlay Mahoney October 15, 2010
Watch the Korean Western “The Good, the bad, the weird”. Now THAT has the best gun fights EVER!!!
Canadian Bacon November 22, 2010
One word: Léon.
Mark Gor December 21, 2010
This has simply got to be one of John Woo’s best.
The restaurant scene from A Better Tomorrow, the first and the best and for some strange reason completely overlooked.
MrM January 12, 2011
They definitely excluded many great gunfights from Westerns, most notoriously ‘Open Range’. Watch it in surround sound at or near reference level and the neighbors will get you evicted. Most recently, ‘The Town’ has a decent gunfight towards the end but it still doesn’t top ‘Heat’, ‘Equilibrium’, or ‘The Matrix’.
Rune February 24, 2011
The final gunfight in Taxi Driver is pretty gritty and nice!
Kyle March 25, 2011
Wow… Heat deserves to have the number one spot, but where are Copland(scene where Sly is deaf and you hear nothing in spots and Liotta gets his back), The Way of the Gun or The Wild Bunch? Even the Devil’s Rejects has an opening scene far more deserving than Wanted, the Matrix or Desperado. Gritty realism always beats CGI, lame clean shootouts which you seem to love. Another person who forgot Full Metal Jacket’s sniper scene… doesn’t get better than that.
Trisomy21 May 22, 2011
Seriously, Wanted and the Matrix? are you retarded? Heat should be better ranked, add Way of the Gun and obviously you need to watch some Clint Eastwood. wtf, retarded kid.
Crowley November 29, 2011
The comment on Heat and the lack of The Way of The Gun and Children of Men (And I don’t even count older movies way better than anything else than Heat on this list) shows me all I need to know: you don’t know anything, you’re either young or have the attention span of a toddler and your list sucks.
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Before the Cuban Revolution in 1958, when Fidel Castro confiscated nearly all private property, Havana was a legendary playground for gangsters, American society types, and anybody who wanted to hang around to soak up the neon-lit ambiance of the city. Havana in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s was a tropical Las Vegas rival, known as much for its famous nightclubs, hotels, and restaurants festooned with radiant lit signs as its atmosphere of lawlessness.
Castro’s rule over Cuba changed that culture significantly, as the "decadent" era gave way to the seizure of private property by the state, and a turn away from anything identified as part of the overthrown capitalist regime.
“Neon became known as modern and American,” said Eric Lynxwiler, board member at the Museum of Neon Art. And Cuba had violently turned its back on anything modern and American.
A period of literal darkness followed. Most neon was simply switched off, and many of the signs that displayed brand names--such as Coca Cola or Chevrolet--were actively destroyed. Others decayed from lack of use. But all of that is starting to change, thanks to an initiative that has seen a partnership between neon artists and enthusiasts from both Cuba and America working actively to reclaim some of the pre-Revolutionary past, especially in cities like Havana, as the country experiences a political thaw. The neon-lit glow that defined an earlier era is slowly but steadily returning thanks to an international exchange.
Adolfo Nodal, a native Cuban, spent much of the 1980s and ‘90s restoring neon signs in L.A. professionally. In 2014, he began to focus his attention on his home country, where he joined with Kadir Lopez’s Habana Light Neon + Signs initiative in Havana, which has been restoring neon in the city sign by sign. Lopez, a neon artist, has already restored 50 signs in Havana at places like the REX theater and Fin de Siglo. Additionally, the group began a partnership with Let There Be Neon, a neon supplier based in New York City, in 2017, which has donated supplies, materials and expertise to the cause.
The Fin de Siglo sign restored by Habana Light Neon + Signs. courtesy: habana light neon + signs
The Museum of Neon Art, located just outside L.A., also plays a large role in preservation and public education about neon art. They’ve been conducting neon tours of LA for the past 20 years, showing guests the bright sights in the city via double-decker buses.
The museum has now partnered with Project Por Amor to take a neon-centric trip to Havana, Cuba. The trip, scheduled from May 7 through 11, 2020, will be the museum’s first international venture.
Lynxwiler says the trip highlights the culture of Havana. In 2019, the city is celebrating its 500 year anniversary and a resurgence in arts and culture. Lynxwiler took a recent trip to Cuba with Nodal, and was fascinated with the architecture, the music, the food, the art and the people.
“What we discovered in talking to native Cubans was how much they love their city and culture, and how much they want to share it with the world,” he said.
The itinerary of the trip reflects this broad, cultural picture of Havana that includes more than the neon landscape: notable stops include a tour of Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban home, late night visits to local jazz clubs, and a meal prepared at a restaurant run by Fidel Castro’s former chef.
This experience allows for the added benefit of boosting to the Cuban economy and contributing to local artists and businesses there. Part of that comes through the trip’s partner Project Por Amor, which organizes trips in relation to the arts.
“The US and Cuba have always had a very close bond through arts and culture,” the Por Amor tour company's general manager Sage Lewis said. “It’s probably the one and only sector of society between both countries who has always had a very functional and positive relationship.”
The other purpose of the trip is to recognize and celebrate the restoration of neon art in Havana. The neon that remains is still commercial, but it has a distinctly Cuban appearance: signs light up the exteriors of diners, movie theaters and hotels. Even the art style is different from the flowy, cursive, primary-colored American neon. Lynxwiler describes Cuban neon as “bold and masculine,” using blocky fonts; he describes the colors as “tropical, dazzling to the eye,” often funky pinks and greens that clash in a visually appealing way.
This has created beautiful, well-lit parts of town and brought more neon artists to Havana.
“Neighborhoods are enjoying this miniature renaissance, seeing this neon coming back,” Lynxwiler said.
Vintage neon signs in Havana, depicted in black and white. courtesy: museum of neon art
Attendees will get the unique opportunity on this trip to hear from both Nodal and Lopez about their work in neon restoration, and have dinner at Lopez's Havana home.
The price is $2,653 per person for double occupancy and $2,977 for single occupancy. This cost includes all expenses but airfare, tips, trip insurance and a few optional activities.
About 30 guests have already registered. There’s no limit on the number of guests who can attend, but Lynxwiler said they’re “hoping for a 40-person bus full.”
Lynxwiler and his partners hope to make this trip a unique cultural experience, showcasing the city of Havana and allowing neon art and signs to transport visitors into the past.
“I can’t wait to share this time warp of a city with people,” he said.
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Is there an overland route to Kashmir from Europe?
I want to travel to Kashmir from Europe. I know that I can easily go to Russia, but what next? What will be the route from there? If I go to Pakistani-administered Kashmir, will I be able to cross the line of control to the Indian administered part, and vice versa?
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According to Wikipedia, there are three parts to modern Kashmir: Pakistani, Indian, and Chinese controlled regions. By "cross line of control", I assume you mean from Pakistan to India? – Jonik Sep 11 '12 at 8:53
Exactly.... from Pakistan to India and if I go to indian administered Kashmir then other way around. – moCap Sep 11 '12 at 9:27
The way of the world, by Nicolas Bouvier is a must-read if you plan to travel from Europe to Kashmir. – mouviciel Sep 11 '12 at 18:34
Me too! But I want to start in Mongolia (-; – hippietrail Dec 21 '12 at 6:53
The historic principality of Jammu and Kashmir is split between the Pakistani Azad Kashmir ('free Kashmir') and the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. India and Pakistan have fought wars over the control of Kashmir and you can absolutely not cross the line of control which serves as the de facto border.
Not only that, but as a foreigner you are are not even allowed to enter Azad Kashmir although with a little luck you can still do so. Pakistani-controlled Kashmir also suffered from a devastating earthquake in 2005 and even if you do manage to enter, be aware that it will not have completely recovered.
Travel in Indian-controlled Kashmir is possible, if somewhat restricted due to violence between the Indian military and Kashmiris who do not wish to be part of India.
Getting to either Kashmir from Europe is fairly straightforward and there are two obvious routes, the northern and the southern. Note that the 'middle' Caucasus route is not viable due to war, closed borders and general instability in the north Caucasus.
North: if you are in Russia, then you must travel to China via Mongolia or, preferably, Kazakhstan. China's Xinjiang province borders Pakistan and the two are connected by the Karakorum highway. Parts of the Karakorum run parallel to the border of Azad Kashmir, so it is a convenient route if that is your destination. You can also follow the Karakorum to Islamabad and from there go to Lahore, which is next to the border crossing between Pakistan and India.
South: starting in Turkey, travel through Iran to Zahedan and cross the border to Quetta in Pakistan. From there you can make the long journey to Lahore (for India) or Islamabad (for Azad Kashmir).
Getting into Azad Kashmir is possible if you avoid detection by the authorities at the internal border. There are minibuses which travel from the towns Mansehra and Murree to Muzaffarabad (the capital of Azad Kashmir) and if no one sees you at the checkpoint, you are in. Even so, hotels will immediately report the arrival of a foreigner to the police, so you should make good use of your time before they come to kick you out!
Many tourists in India visit Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, so getting there is easy enough.
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Azad Kashmir is one of the provinces administered by Pakistan, there's Gilgit-Baltistan too. And while I am not concerned by it, I can imagine a comment war breaking out soon here about "most Kashmiris don't want to be a part of India". :) – Ankur Banerjee♦ Sep 11 '12 at 15:14
@AnkurBanerjee I thought the Indian Kashmiris (and not everyone in Jammu & Kashmir is Kashmiri of course) almost universally want either independence or to be part of Pakistan. Is that incorrect? – SigueSigueBen Sep 11 '12 at 16:10
Also, Gilgit, Baltistan and the other Northern Areas are not populated by Kashmiris. – SigueSigueBen Sep 11 '12 at 16:15
Ah I see you're using the pedantic interpretation of 'Kashmiris' as those specifically living in Kashmir Valley. In the Indian subcontinent (both sides of the border), 'Kashmiris' alternatively - and you can say incorrectly - is supposed to mean everyone in the regions mentioned here. – Ankur Banerjee♦ Sep 11 '12 at 16:51
On separation, there's a lot of propaganda on both sides on what the 'majority' wants. It has never been put to an actual referendum because both sides claim it as legitimately theirs, and hence a referendum is "not needed because we already know what the answer is". It also gets muddied along religious lines since there are Muslim Kashmiris on the Indian side who want it to be a part of India, some don't; then there are Hindus too native of the region called Kashmiri Pundits who were displaced and claim the land as theirs / part of India. It's a complicated mess. – Ankur Banerjee♦ Sep 11 '12 at 16:55
Your options are legion. It's more a matter of how challenging you want to make it to yourself and how much time you want to spend.
Assuming you refer to western Europe as your starting point, your easiest route would be:
Western Europe - south east Europe - Turkey - Iran - Pakistan (though southern Pakistan can be unsafe).
If you want to go through Russia:
Ukraine - Russia - Kazakhstan - China - Pakistan. Ukraine - Russia - Mongolia - China - Pakistan.
For any of the above routes, you could also detour through the Caucasus, pass through Belarus, go through central Asia and try Afghanistan.
I think that as an outsider you can cross the line of control. But I'll let someone else answer that.
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Plan Your Vivid Sydney Visits – Don't Miss Any of the Colour and Creativity
Vivid Sydney Lights On is just one day away, and the final touches are in progress as dozens of light art installations and projections are completed across the city.
From 6pm tomorrow evening, Sydney will shine bright and guests are reminded to plan their visit to make the most of the largest festival of light, music and ideas in the Southern Hemisphere.
Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney Stuart Ayres said there were great options for all people including families, youth, the elderly and people with disability.
“Vivid Sydney is incredibly popular and last year 2.25 million people attended across the 23 days and nights of the festival,” Mr Ayres said.
“With guests of all demographics, nationalities and abilities visiting Sydney for this event, it's important that everyone is considerate and enjoys the sense of community throughout the CBD and nearby precincts.
“Vivid Sydney is on every night from May 24 to June 15, and we encourage visitors to be mindful of popularity on weekends. Some people may consider coming to the city Monday to Wednesday nights for a more relaxed atmosphere, while others could choose to visit Taronga Zoo, Chatswood and Luna Park north of the Harbour for family-friendly activities with parking available.
“Visiting over several days is another great option, and all planning should start via the Vivid Sydney website for transport details, road closures and highlights across the program.”
Minister for Transport and Roads Andrew Constance said public transport was the best way to get to Vivid Sydney.
“There are 5,000 additional public transport services available to visitors during Vivid Sydney to help get guests to and from the festival,” Mr Constance said.
“Police, Transport and event organisers work side-by-side to ensure the event runs as smoothly as possible so attendees can travel safely to and from Vivid Sydney precincts.”
For more information visit: www.vividsydney.com
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From 27 May - 18 June, riders can experience this incredible underwater world exclusively through the Uber app.
scUber will showcase the world's largest living structure as a biodiverse playground, rich in marine life and offering remarkable underwater experiences.
The launch will support the ongoing protection and conservation of the world's largest coral reef system through Uber's partnership with Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef.
Heron Island, Queensland Australia – 23 May, 2019: Queensland, Australia, in partnership with Uber, today announces the launch of scUber( http://www.scuberqueensland.com/), the world's first rideshare submarine experience, coming to the Great Barrier Reef on Monday 27 May.
This once-in-a-lifetime experience will offer riders an unfiltered lens to Australia's underwater icon. For a limited time only, scUber riders will gain exclusive access to the world's largest ecosystem, renowned as a biodiverse playground, rich in marine life and offering remarkable underwater experiences.
From 27 May, scUber will be available for a limited number of riders to request through the Uber app and riders will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the exquisite beauty of the Great Barrier Reef – all without the need for a snorkeling mask or a diving license!
Tourism and Events Queensland's Chief Executive Officer, Leanne Coddington, commented on the significance of Queensland's partnership with Uber in helping put the spotlight back on the reef.
“In late 2018, consumer research identified that exploring the Great Barrier Reef in a submarine was the most desired future travel experience sought by visitors. scUber makes this wish a reality and reaffirms Queensland tourism's commitment to providing locals and visitors alike with truly remarkable ways to explore nature's wonderland.
“We're thrilled to partner with Uber to showcase the beauty of the reef through this innovative experience. In addition, we're giving several adventure seeking travellers from around the globe, the chance to win a scUber experience for two as part of a global travel competition launched today.”
Susan Anderson, Regional General Manager of Uber, Australia and New Zealand, commented on the importance of this innovative first for the Reef: “Uber is committed to harnessing the power of technology for good. We are proud to partner with Queensland to help showcase the Reef to the world with the launch of scUber.”
“At Uber, we believe good things happen when people move - whether that's by getting people from A to B in their city, or by making dreams come true experiencing the world's greatest natural wonder, the Great Barrier Reef,” Mrs Anderson said.
“We're looking forward to seeing how visitors to the Great Barrier Reef embrace this new form of movement and become advocates of the Reef for years to come.”
The scUber experience will be available starting on Heron Island, off the coast of Gladstone in the Southern Great Barrier Reef region from May 27, before moving to Agincourt Reef off the coast of Port Douglas in Cairns & the Great Barrier Reef region from June 9. Availability is strictly limited.
The scUber experience will cost $3,000 AUD for two riders and includes:
Pickup from your location with the Uber app;
Return scenic helicopter ride to either Heron Island (for riders requesting from Gladstone) or the Quicksilver Cruises pontoon off the coast of Port Douglas (for riders requesting from Cairns, Port Douglas and Palm Cove);
One hour ride in a scUber submarine;
Return trip back to your original pickup address with Uber.
To celebrate the launch, Queensland and Uber are offering this exceptional bucket-list experience to one lucky winner and a friend from each of the following countries: USA, Canada, United Kingdom, France, New Zealand and Australia. To enter the competition, go to scUberQueensland.com and explain in 25 words or less why you should experience the wonder of the Great Barrier Reef with scUber. Terms and conditions apply.
Today also marks the beginning of Uber's partnership with Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef. The organisation is committed to engaging the world in the protection and conservation of the Great Barrier Reef and reefs all over the world, using tech, data and a collaborative approach to conservation.
Uber's partnership with Citizens will focus on supporting several initiatives including their Reef Tracks program and the Great Reef Census through a financial and resource investment program. Find out more about the partnership here.
Please see here a suite of video, audio and visual assets for usage, along with details of spokespeople available for interview.
For more information on scUber, the consumer competition and partnership between Queensland and Uber, visit: www.scUberQueensland.com.
How to request your scUber ride?
scUber rides are charged at $1,500 AUD per person with a minimum cost of $3,000 AUD per ride, and include scenic helicopter transfers to and from mainland Queensland. The scUber ride is an hour in duration and is bookable via the Uber app. Availability is not guaranteed.
About the Great Barrier Reef
Greater than 69 million football fields in size, the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest and longest coral reef system and is home to 600 different types of coral (one third of the world's coral species), approximately 1,625 species of fish and more than 1,000 islands. Tourism to the Great Barrier Reef is significant, with almost three million tourists visiting the World Heritage Area every year. Around 80 per cent of all tourism activity occurs within 7 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef marine park.
You can stay in the Men in Black: International Headquarters
Just in time for the release of Men in Black™: International, Booking.com, the global leader in connecting travellers with the widest choice of incredible places to stay, have teamed up with Sony Pictures to present an out-of-this-world place to stay - recreating the movie’s London based Headquarters.
Following in the footsteps of the new duo of galaxy defenders - Agent H and Agent M, lucky guests of this exclusive stay will be able to heroically prepare, equip and guard themselves (and the universe) against any extraterrestrial mayhem during their stay… Just don’t forget to pack your neuralyzer!
Available exclusively on Booking.com and accommodating up to two guests per night, those lucky enough to book this unique stay will enjoy a fully immersive Men in Black experience and an exclusive look at the original set pieces used in the move.
From the agent check-in area, to the main hall of the HQ (including a recreation of the all-seeing eye, which features prominently in the movie), to the undercover agent’s bedroom, the space has been inspired by the futuristic world of the Men in Black.
The guest experience:
● In true Men in Black fashion, the entrance of the recreated HQ is barely recognisable from the street
● Once guests have identified this grand, traditional building as the HQ, they will enter an industrial space with just a subtle identifier in the centre
● Upon confirmation they are the newest Men in Black ‘agent’, and once fitted with their black suit and sunglasses, as befits all true Men in Black agents, the doorway will slide open to reveal the first of many interstellar experiences
● Through the doorway guests enter a pristine white and mirrored check room where they receive their initial agent and accommodation inductions
● Following this, guests will finally be able to enter the impressive Men in Black HQ, where their experience as an agent will take a lot of unexpected turns…
Pepijn Rijvers, Senior Vice President of Accommodation at Booking.com says: “We know that travellers are inspired by what they see in movies when planning their vacations, so we are very excited to collaborate with Sony Pictures, to recreate the Men in Black Headquarters in London.
“With over 750 Million guest arrivals in alternative accommodations, we’ve been connecting travellers with the most diverse range of incredible places to stay for decades and the Men in Black HQ is no exception and is sure to be one of the most out-of-this-world places to stay this summer.”
Andre Seddoh, Vice President International Marketing Partnerships Sony Pictures says: “We are always looking to be innovative and entertain people all over the world, so we are delighted to be working with Booking.com. The collaboration has enabled us to offer a once in a lifetime opportunity to stay in a recreation of the London MIB HQ and extend the hidden universe of Men in Black™: International from the big screen and into the real world”
Book your stay at Men in Black HQ:
Travellers who want to take advantage of this opportunity must be quick as only two nights are available for booking. The Men in Black HQ will open bookings for its 30th May stay on 21st May at 10 a.m. GMT, with the stay for 31st May being released at 10 a.m. GMT on the 23rd May. Priced at just £99 per night, this once-in-a-lifetime experience can be booked by visiting the Booking.com listing here: www.booking.com/hotel/gb/men-in-black-international-headquarters.en-gb.html
SeaLink Launches Kangaroo Island Self-Drive Packages
There is no better way to explore magnificent Kangaroo Island than with one of SeaLink's self-drive KI short break packages. Discover the island at your own leisurely pace, its amazing sights, food and wine, beaches, wildlife and landscapes and soak up experiences of a lifetime.
Read full report »
Switzerland Tourism Asks Visitors to Take A Hike
Go Classic, Go Wild or Go Soft
Switzerland Tourism has launched their 2019 Summer Campaign, which encourages visitors to take a hike. Literally.
A continuation of the tourism boards' overarching 'Nature Wants You Back' campaign, which kicked off in 2017, this year's hiking theme aims to showcase the 65,000km of trails on offer around the country.
Known for its pristine natural assets of majestic snow-capped mountains, glassy lakes, waterfalls, verdant valleys and moors, Switzerland also has the densest network of hiking trails, all of which are clearly marked by 50,000 signposts and way-markers, thanks to the work of 1,500 volunteers who help to set up and maintain these signage.
With about half of Aussie visitors to Switzerland embarking on at least one hike during their stay, the tourism board reports that 85% of these hikes are independently arranged.
The three key hiking trails in this year's campaign, where travellers and hikers can go classic, go wild or go soft are the Via Alpina, the Alpine Passes Trail and the Jura Crest Trail.
The Via Alpina is the classic among the long-distance hikes in Switzerland. Crossing 14 of the most beautiful alpine passes, it leads through the northern Alps of Switzerland (Vaduz – Montreux, via six cantons), where hikers can experience the picture-postcard scenery first hand.
The Alpine Passes Trail is challenging and wild, with a promise to deliver an amazing experience in the great outdoors. Connecting Chur with Lake Geneva via some of the most stunning passes in the Graubünden and Valais Alps, this trail is ideal for long-distance hikers, where they will enjoy endless pristine nature, views of 4,000m peaks and classic mountain huts,
Gentle and relatively unknown to non-Swiss hikers, the Jura Crest Trail is the oldest long-distance trail in Switzerland. Connecting Zurich and Geneva via the Jura mountains, the untouched landscape and tranquil appeal of the remoteness and glorious views make this easy graded hike a local favourite.
For more information on hiking in Switzerland, visit www.MySwitzerland.com/hiking
Help UTracks Build a Forest
UTracks, Australia's leading active European specialist is planting a tree for every booking on its Austrian Lakes and Dachstein Circuit walking itineraries.
"With World Environment Day happening on 05 June and National Tree Day on 28 July, it is a timely reminder that travellers can painlessly contribute to the greening of our planet," UTracks General Manager, Kate Baker said. "It's a great way for our travellers to make a positive impact on the region."
UTracks, in partnership with the Salzkammergut Tourism body and the Austrian Federal Forest Authority, will plant a tree in the stunning Weißenbachtal Valley for each booking on the Austrian Lakes Walk and Dachstein Circuit walks.
Each planted tree will be tagged with the booking number, photographed and the photo included in the clients documents.
"We're also encouraging travellers on the Austrian Lakes Walk trip to visit their tree during their hike," Ms Baker continued.
The self guided eight day walks in the UNESCO World Heritage listed area of Salzkammergut are available daily until mid October.
Austrian Lakes Walk - departs daily from Bad Ischl, priced from $1150 per person.
https://www.utracks.com/WIA
The Salzkammergut alpine region of Austria encompasses 76 crystal clear lakes, the Dachstein Glacier, lush summer meadows and impressive rock faces up to 3000 vertical metres high. During this inspiring walk, there is ample time to appreciate the natural beauty of the region and the alpine villages of wooden chalets decorated with colourful window boxes while at night you will enjoy the warm hospitality of your hosts.
Dachstein Circuit - departs daily from 1 July to 30 September from Gosau, priced from $2290 per person.
https://www.utracks.com/DCT
South east of Salzburg is the Dachstein massif, a lime stone mountain containing some of the largest caves in Austria. The walk is typified by its series of peaks over 2500m, glaciers and sharp descents to the valley floor. Take in the awesome views of ice fields and alpine meadows, limestone peaks and dramatic lakes as you trek this exhilarating circuit. At night you stay in atmospheric mountain hotels interspersed with nights in mountain huts high up on the central massif.
Why Aussie travellers dislike group touring
A national survey of 1,000 travellers has revealed what puts Aussies off when it comes to large group tours abroad.
The survey, commissioned as part of Intrepid's Adventure Travel Index, asked consumers to rank what deters them about large group tours from a list of common complaints. At the top of the list was feeling like they're part of mass tourism - proving travellers are seeking out more personal and bespoke experiences. The second biggest concern with group touring was only visiting places where the leaders get a commission, followed by a fear of having a lack of free time.
Travellers also said group tours wouldn't allow them to experience a destination like a local and they were deterred by 'cookie cutter' experiences with nothing unique on the itinerary.
Luckily for Intrepid Travel, these concerns don't translate to their small group tours. To answer why size matters so much, CEO James Thornton said: "Small group tours are based around 16 or less people guided by a local and visiting places on and off the tourist trail. The itineraries take the guesswork and lengthy planning out of it, but allow for free time to explore a place. In small groups, the tour leader has the opportunity to ad lib and share what's unique about his or her home country."
He went on to say that Intrepid would hate for sceptics of touring to lump us in the same category as all group tours.
"Small group tours address what's wrong with mass tourism by minimising the impact on the local environment. At Intrepid, we use only local tour leaders meaning out travellers can immerse themselves completely in their chosen destination, and our specially designed itineraries go to places that large groups, and cruise ships, simply can't access."
Art Macao - five month festival kicks off in June
MACAO is set to stage its largest array of art exhibitions as part of its year-long 20th-anniversary celebrations as a Special Administrative Region of China (SAR).
The five-month festival - Art Macao – will officially begin in June with a host of public venues and integrated resorts unveiling internationally recognised exhibits.
Vital travel trends revealed in Intrepid's second Adventure Travel Index
SECOND ANNUAL INTREPID ADVENTURE TRAVEL INDEX REVEALS NEW RESEARCH
Intrepid claim ‘undertourism is the new overtourism’ releasing new density ratios and a ‘health check’ for destinations
Emerging destinations predicted as Tajikistan, Papua New Guinea and Iran
Australia’s first ‘Travel Wellness Index’ revealed as active trips captivate travellers
PNG children welcome visitors (R Eime)
Intrepid Travel has released their second annual Adventure Travel Index sharing new research, expert opinions and industry insight with all Australians.
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Islamic & Ottoman History // Cultural & Political Critique // Poetry & Prose
An Anthology of Ottoman Saints’ Lives
Devotion to Muhammad in Early Modern Islam
History of Islamic Societies
The Many Lives of Others
The Attempted Assassination of Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn by the Coward Shakhyzāda Jamāl al-Dīn
On January 10, 2020 By JonathanIn Art, History, Islam, PersianLeave a comment
The second of the four assassination attempts upon Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn. The shaykh is the slightly larger than others figure near the center of the composition. Interestingly, the illuminator of this manuscript, completed in 1582 in Safavid Shiraz, illustrated the shortest of the four scenes of attempted assassination, filling out the surrounding context left unsaid by the text itself (which, readers of Persian might note, varies slightly from the critical edition I have used for the translation below). Also note that the illuminator has depicted one of the assassins pulling back an arrow, which does not exactly fit with the textual content. Perhaps for this reason a later viewer made a mark down over the hand and bow of the shooter, either as a ‘correction’ or as a ritual act of ‘disarmament.’ Source: AKM264 (fol.349r).
We have now met Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn (1252/3–1334), the eponym of the Safavid dynasty and one of the most important Muslim saints of the late medieval and early modern Persianate world, a few times, first as a young man seeking out the presence of other holy people, and then as an increasingly proficient adept in the arts of taṣawwuf. The extended story that I’ve translated and presented below (sans, I must confess, the Persian and Arabic couplets interspersed, which, time and energy pending I will later add) is set at a critical moment in the shaykh’s career, not long after the death of his primary shaykh, Shaykh Zāhid. While our source, the sprawling hagiographic treatment of Ibn Bazzāz (d. 1391–92), is somewhat circumspect around the details, it is clear that succession to Shaykh Zāhid’s post was contested. While Ṣafī al-Dīn laid claim to the succession, and was acclaimed by some of the late master’s followers, all was not well. The new shaykh was soon met with opposition, a group of ‘obstinate ones,’ in the words of the hagiography, forming and deciding to get rid of Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn, quite literally in fact, by killing him. In the rather (unintentionally?) humorous story that follows, while on his annual pilgrimage to the shrine of his departed master in Lāhijān near the coast of the Caspian Sea, this group, led by rival claimant to Shaykh Zāhid’s position Shaykhzāda Jamāl al-Dīn, the son of the late shaykh (hence his name, ‘shaykh-descendant’) and therefore seemingly possessed of a stronger claim. Not to give things away, but he does not win out, instead admitting defeat and being reconciled to Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn, who is shown being remarkably chill about the whole affair.
The story is relatively self-explanatory; worthy of note are various small but insightful details such as the presence of a female supporter of Ṣafī al-Dīn and her role in the tale, or the fact that some people at least in this world knew how to swim, whether for utilitarian purposes or for fun is not evident here.
It was Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn’s custom that at an appointed time he would go and make pious visitation (ziyārat u mazār) to Shaykh Zāhid’s tomb [in Lāhijān]. When that time came and he set out to make his pious visitation, Khwāja Fakhr al-Dīn Yusūf, who was the brother of the shaykh, came to the holy shaykh and said, ‘It is assuredly not safe for you to go and make pious visitation to Shaykh Zāhid, for a group of deficient obstinate ones are waiting in ambush, God forbid, to commit a sin!’
The shaykh, God sanctify his secret, replied: ‘If it is destined for me that in this time that in going I fall into their hands, then turning back the decree of God cannot be done, and if not, then there is no fear to be had.’ So the shaykh went on his pious visitation [as usual]. Through that group of obstinate ones the fire of obstinacy and anger was lit in Shaykhzāda Jamāl al-Dīn, God be merciful to him. They agreed to seek the death of the shaykh, God sanctify his secret, and furthermore agreed upon the means of killing him: they would set the shaykh’s retreat cell (khalwat) on fire, consuming the shaykh in the flames and so killing him. They came by night and first on the outside they fastened the door of the retreat cell shut with a nail so that when the fire blazed up [the shaykh] would be unable to come out. But when they lit the fire, due to the shaykh’s sainthood (vilāyat) the fire would not flame up and instead went out, even though houses and retreat cells in that place are all built of wood and beams which after a passage of time become dried out.
When this tack did not work, the flame not flaring up and the retreat cell not catching fire, the flame of their anger and envy only increased. They decided to shoot the shaykh with arrows. They sent out a party to shoot the shaykh from ambush. But when they put their hands to their bows, their hands were all dried out and unable to work the bows, none of their hands being able to work.
When their corrupt intention could not be realized by these sorts of stratagems, again they concluded that they would destroy the shaykh by using poison. So they put a measure of poison in honey and along with a sufra of food brought it before the shaykh, God sanctify his secret. However, the wife (ḥaram) of Shaykhzāda Jamāl al-Dīn, God be merciful to him, who was the mother of the departed Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad, God be merciful to him, secretly sent a message to the shaykh, God sanctify his secret, saying, ‘Take care! Do not stretch out your hand for the honey, beware against accepting any of it!’ When this condition was made known to the shaykh he was wary of the honey and did not accept any of it. And it was likewise with any food with which they schemed and plotted—that pious matron secretly gave report and the shaykh did not stretch out his hand to it.
When their vain desire and wish was not realized through this stratagem, they again determined that there was no other possible plan remaining save that at the time of [the shaykh’s] return [from the shrine of Shaykh Zāhid in Lāhijān], they would seat the shaykh in a boat, and a group of people who knew how to swim would also board the boat with him. Once they were underway in the water, they would sink the boat and escape by swimming, while the shaykh, God sanctify his secret, not knowing how to swim, would certainly sink with the boat and so die. In preparation for this task they donned light clothing, and wanted to board the ship and seat the shaykh in it. But, the shaykh said, ‘I saw Shaykh Zāhid, God sanctify his secret, coming towards me upon a gazelle-like horse and saying, “O Ṣafī! Ride upon this horse and travel the dry road—do not board the boat!”’
Having seen and heard this from Shaykh Zāhid, the shaykh, God sanctify his secret, said ‘I’m not going to travel by way of the water and will not be boarding the boat, rather, I’ll be going by dry land.’ This having happend, Shaykhzāda Jamāl al-Dīn saw that their idea [of getting rid of the shaykh] was never going to be feasible, so he went with the shaykh and spent an hour with him in his retreat cell. The shaykh, God sanctify his secret, said, ‘Shaykhzāda! I know what you aimed to do to me and what treachery against me became lodged in your heart—but God, exalted is He, has made it impossible for your goal to be achieved, even after this goal was repeated and enmity established. Yet, if your desire is for my destruction and cannot be otherwise, bring a measure of poison so that I can consume it and your intention be fulfilled, and no one else will be aware of this secret.’
When Shaykhzāda Jamāl al-Dīn heard these words, the sweat of shame ran down his face, and he sought forgiveness for this crime and begged clemency for his treachery. Having manifest purity of state, he brought forth the gazelle-like horse for the shaykh, and mounting him the shaykh made his return journey.
Ibn Bazzāz Ardabīlī, Ṣafvat al-ṣafā: dar tarjumah-ʼi aḥvāl va aqvāl va karāmāt-i Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn Isḥaq Ardabīlī, ed. Ghulām Riẓā Ṭabāṭabāʼī Majd (Tabriz: G.R. Ṭabāṭabāʼī Majd , 1373 [1994]), 798-791. Translated by Jonathan Parkes Allen, 2020.
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Shāh Ni’matullāh Valī in the Very Snowy Mountains of Samarqand
On January 4, 2020 January 10, 2020 By JonathanIn Culture, History, Islam, PersianLeave a comment
A group of elites visit two dervishes in a cave, albeit in more hospitable autumn weather than described in the hagiographic excerpt below. Otherwise the motif of members of the ruling elite- whether of Turkic, Persian, or other background- seeking out ascetic sufi saints in the mountains is shared between this image and the story below. From a 1560/1 illumined copy of Sa’dī’s Gulistān, by the painter Maḥmūd Muzahhib, who worked primarily in Bukhara, and hence may well have had stories of Shāh Ni’matullāh Valī’s exploits in the mountains of Samarqand in mind in composing this miniature (private collection, sold by Christies, Sale 6622, Lot 12, London, October 4, 2012).
The late fourteenth into fifteenth centuries across much of the Islamicate world were a period of both great turmoil and of great religious experimentation and vitality, particularly in the areas of sainthood and sufism. Out of the many sufi shaykhs and saints to flourish in the expansive Persianate world stretching from the western edge of the great central mass of Eurasian highlands east to Anatolia, few would obtain as long-lasting or widespread success as Shāh Ni’matullāh Valī Kirmānī (c. 1330-1430/1). Unlike many saints of originally Sunni background, Shāh Ni’matullāh Valī’s veneration as a saint and the sufi ṭarīqa descended from him, the Ni’mat-Allāhiyya, would both survive the rise of the Safavids and the transformation of the core Persian lands from a largely Sunni domain to a Twelver Shi’i one. His shrine in Māhān, begun in 1436, would be patronized by Safavid rulers and continues to be venerated to this day.
Among the practices and charismatic marvels for which he was remembered were his rigorous feats of asceticism and what we might describe as his closeness to the natural landscape, including as a farmer, cultivation of the soil by himself and his followers one of his distinctive practices. In the set of stories I have translated below, taken from an early 16th century Persian hagiography of the saint, his asceticism as well as his fondness for wild places are emphasized, though neither preclude his having an audience, fortunately for his memory among posterity. The stories are relatively self-explanatory, though it’s worth noting that the practice of pious retreat or seclusion (Ar. khalwa) was not unique to Shāh Ni’matullāh Valī but featured in many sufi regimes of the period- though usually not in snowbound mountains.
For his forty-day retreat and for his great chilla which lasted a hundred and twenty days, Haẓrat [Shāh Ni’matullāh Valī] would go in the wintertime to Mount Mulkdār, which they say is at any season inaccessible due to its height and the abundance of snow. When it was time to break his fast he would taste some snow, not eating or drinking anything else! This was transmitted from the saint by Sayyid ‘Alā’ al-Dīn Mahdī, whose probity and nobility of purpose is well known.
Niẓām al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Wā’iẓ al-Dā’ī has transmitted: ‘I heard him say: “One time during the days of autumn while I was occupying myself with worship and pious retreat (khalwat) in a cave in one of the great mountains around Samarqand, a great snow fell and blocked the entrance to the cave.” And that holy one remained there until winter had passed and even part of spring! Once a group of hunters pursuing prey came up onto that mountain, and as nightfall was approaching and the sky was promising rain, the dug away the snow from the mouth of the cave and went in. Striking up a fire that saw that the holy one was sitting upon his prayer-rug facing the qibla, utterly apart from all other than God. They were bewildered, but after supplication he explained the reality of his state. One of their number, by consulting the holy one and occupying himself with his sagely counsel, became deeply God-fearing as a result. After taking sustenance they departed.’
And there is that which this poor one has seen in the writing of his own teachers: ‘This holy one and Khwāja Wāq were practicing austere ascetic disciplines in the vicinity of Samarqand. I heard that they were occupied with ascetic disciplines in the Cave of the Lovers (Ghār-i ʻāshiqān) in Kūh-i Ṣāf, one of the mountains of Samarkand. I do not know whether this holy one bestowed these names upon the cave and the mountain or whether they predated him. Regardless, some from among the Turkish chiefs and their followers who were nearby sent a notice [to Shāh Ni’matullāh Valī and Khwāja Wāq] saying, “Winter will be extremely cold and no one can survive in this cave!” But the holy one did not pay any heed to their words, and instead completed a forty-days retreat with minimal food. When the weather turned a little the chiefs of the Turks came so that they might ascertain the condition of [Shāh Ni’matullāh Valī and Khwāja Wāq], certain that they had perished. But when they had cleared the snow away from the entrance of the cave and entered in, they found the holy one sitting upon his prayer-rug, facing the qibla!’
‘Abd al-Rizzāq Kirmānī, Tazkira dar manāqib-i Ḥazret-i Shāh Ni’matullāh Valī, in Jean Aubin (ed.), Matériaux pour la biographie de Shâh Ni’matullah Walí Kermânî: Textes persans publiés avec une introduction (Teheran: Département d’iranologie de l’Institut francoiranien, 1956), 40-41.
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A Self-Taught Shaykha in Early Modern Fes
On December 26, 2019 December 26, 2019 By JonathanIn Arabic, Art, Culture, History, IslamLeave a comment
Detail from a swathe of embroidered silk textile, seventeenth or eighteenth century Morocco, with the word Allāh rather faintly visible running in a band near the center. The polemicist author described below might have had such colorful textiles in mind in castigating women in Fes for their material exuberance in following their female shaykha. (Cleveland Museum of Art 1916.1236)
The place of women in early modern Islamicate societies varied greatly depending on particular place, general cultural norms, social status, prevailing madhhab, and many other intersecting factors. Far from being static, the role and status of different sorts of women often fluctuated over time, and was frequently contested, particularly during periods of change such as marked much of early modernity in the Islamicate world as elsewhere. Of a particularly contentious nature was the question of women’s public religious life, a question that for Muslim communities entailed tension between (albeit limited) recognition in Islamic tradition of female religious authority, beginning with hadith-transmitting wives of Muḥammad himself, and prescriptions on women’s authority and public mobility and visibility. The historical reality of female saints and even masters of sufism added extra dimensions to such tensions. In the Islamic West- the Maghrib- from the medieval period forward highly restrictive attitudes towards women’s public participation in religious life existed alongside prominent, and outspokenly public, female saints such as Sayyida ‘Ā’isha al-Mannūbiyya (1199–1267). The anonymous woman who is described in the below text suggests other possibilities, which were accepted by some but strenuously rejected by others, as we will see.
The text below comes from a major eighteenth century bio-hagiographic compilation, Ṣafwat man intashar min akhbār ṣulaḥāʾ al-ḳarn al-ḥādī ʿashar, written by a scholar whose family was originally from the Draa region in the far south of Morocco, Abū ‘Abdallāh Muḥammad al-Ifrānī (also spelled al-Īfrānī and al-Ufrānī). Born in Marrakesh around 1670, al-Ifrānī eventually settled in Fes, where he would live and work as a scholar, sufi, and author, becoming particularly well known for his historical works, dying in either 1743 or 1745. His Ṣafwat man intashar provides important insight into the shape of early modern Maghribi sainthood as well as many other social realities of the period, including in the vast and often autonomous countryside, as seen in a previous selection from this work translated here.
The following selection comes from the life of a scholar and saint, originally from the town of Ksar el-Kebir but who settled permanently in Fes after his course of studies there, Abū Muḥammad Sayyidī ‘Abd al-Qādir (d. 1680). ‘Abd al-Qādir embodied a form of sainthood that had once been common across Islamic societies but by the early modern period was largely a Maghribi phenomenon: that of the ‘exoteric’ scholar whose vigorous personal asceticism, scrupulosity, and careful adherence to the sharī’a were acclaimed as evidence of sainthood. His karāmāt- miracles or charismatic signs- were many, al-Ifrānī tells us, his saintly status no doubt helped by the fact that his son wrote not one but two manāqibs- hagiographic accounts- of his father’s life. Unlike many of his contemporaries, ‘Abd al-Qādir did not produce in books or compilations; instead, his followers compiled his sayings and fatwas into their own compilations. The passage I have translated here comes from such a compilation, and is reminiscent in form of a fatwa although it is not presented as such:
Another fā’ida: [Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Qādir] was asked about a woman who recited the Qur’an for women, and they would gather around her and take her as their shaykha. He answered with the following: ‘He, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: “A people ordered by a woman will not know success,” as well as “Hinder them as God has hindered them,” and “They are deficient in reason and religion.” It is not permissible that a woman act as an imāma or shaykha, and as for what the women do on the day when they gather together in the woman’s presence and take her as their shaykha, that is not permissible either, and is an aspect of corruption and evil in the earth due to various reasons: among them, that women pilfer from their husbands and take it to her; and that each of the women dresses in finery, beautifies herself, and goes out into the streets, that being ḥarām and not allowed. And perhaps she leaves without her husband’s permission or pleasure in that, it becoming a cause for anger and division, with things that cause such being ḥarām.
Also, she presides over the reading of books and fatwa collections concerning the religion (dīn) of God, but is without knowledge (‘ilm), not having received that from an ‘ālim, there being things in the books which are comprehensible and things which are not [to those not instructed by a scholar], ‘ilm not being received save from the mouths of scholars. Taking it from books and pages is ḥarām, and all which she receives [in terms of material things] from that is illicit and one ought not eat of it, such that her livelihood is pure ḥarām. Continue reading “A Self-Taught Shaykha in Early Modern Fes” →
Safavid Devotional Art in Steel, Script, and Scroll
On December 5, 2019 January 10, 2020 By JonathanIn Art, Culture, History, IslamLeave a comment
A Safavid pierced steel plaque, probably late 17th century, featuring a calligraphic rendering of part of a poem in praise of Muḥammad, Fāṭima, and the Twelve Imams, formerly part of a larger set distributed in a shrine or similar structure. Metropolitan Museum of Art 1987.14
Pierced metal plaques such as the one above must surely count among the most spectacular instances of Safavid art to modern eyes, with their stark contrasts, incredible fineness of detail, bold clean lines surrounding delicate ornament, and obvious evidence of extremely skilled craft. Plaques such as this one- see below for another, quite similar example- once formed part of the interior of Safavid shrines, either to one of the Twelve Imāms or to the far more frequent imāmzādehs, the descendents of the Imāms, who were also more likely to be found in Safavid controlled territory (there were also cases of saints’ shrines of various sorts being ‘converted’ to an imāmzādeh after the rise of the Safavids). Others were found on the tombs of Safavid shahs and in the massive shrine complex of Ṣafī al-Dīn, the Safavid eponym, in Ardabil. In 1550 large number of such plaques were ordered and installed by Shah Tahmāsp I in the shrine of Imām Riḍā in Mashhad, with further production through the rest of the Safavid dynasty.
The interior of the shrine of an Imām or an imāmzādeh, from a circa 1550 Safavid Fālnāmeh (‘book of divination’). Besides showing the internal architectural layout of a Safavid shrine, it provides a nice view of the activity that might go on there. (David Collection Inv. no. 28/1997)
So far as I know none remain in situ, a consequence of their likely original location- probably upon the grill-like structure surrounding the location of the tomb itself (see the 16th century illustration above for an idea of what such a space would have looked like). Such structures, as well as the built fabric of shrines in general, tend to be subject to great use, wear-and-tear, and continual renovation; as a result these plaques were dispersed and now reside in various museums and collections. Originally, however, they would have been visible to those making pious visitation (ziyāra) to the holy people whose tombs they adorned.
Another Safavid pierced plaque, here extolling the last of the Twelve Imāms, also from the late 17th century. (Freer & Sackler F1997.21)
In terms of content, these plaques extoll and in some cases supplicate the prayers of the Twelve Imāms, as well as Muḥammad and Fāṭima, acting both to channel the intercessory power of these figures while linking the entombed person to the ‘People of the House.’ While devotion to the Twelve Imāms was not limited to Shi’i Muslims historically- contemporaneous Ottomans who would have regarded themselves as good Sunnis venerated the Twelve Imāms as well- such devotion was especially central to Shi’i Islam and to Safavid religious identity. These plaques signaled, to those who could read them (or have them read to them), that centrality, while also acting as inscribed requests for intercession, connecting the People of the House and their baraka to whatever shrine their names were place within. The sheer skill, time, and resources that were involved in producing such works were in themselves acts of devotion (along with the patronage of such work).
Above and below: sections from a Safavid Qur’an scroll written in ghubār (‘dust’) script with extensive illumination (Chester Beatty Library Is 1623)
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A Cultural Entrepreneur in Late Eighteenth Century Cairo
On November 22, 2019 By JonathanIn Arabic, Culture, History, Islam, OttomanLeave a comment
The Wakālat Oda Başa, built in 1673 by an Ottoman Chief White Eunuch and now, so far as I can determine, no longer extant, but depicted here as it existed in the 1830s, displaying the spatial configuration and use of an Ottoman wakāla (also voweled wikāla) akin to that in the biographical entry below, with vendors active on the ground floor, storage directly above. (Pascal Coste, Architecture arabe; ou, Monuments du Kaire, mesurés et dessinés, de 1818 à 1826, Typ. de Firmin Didot frères et compagnie, 1839: Volume II plate XLIV.)
The following short biography is taken from the famed chronicle- which is also a biographical dictionary- of the Ottoman Egyptian scholar al-Jabartī (1753-1825), best-known for his accounts of the French invasion and occupation of Egypt under Napoleon. His chronicle contains numerous fascinating slices of every-day life in the late eighteenth century, such as this entry concerning a person of middling estate (which he made up for, as we will see, in other types of ‘capital’):
Ismā’īl Efendī ibn Khalīl… known as al-Ẓuhūrī al-Miṣrī al-Ḥanafī al-Muktib died. He was a good person, satisfied with his lot in life, who earned his living through book-copying and fineness of calligraphy which he had improved in and reached perfection under the tutelage of ‘Alī Aḥmad Efendī al-Shukrī. He wrote with his fine handwriting numerous books (kutub), copies of al-Saba’a al-munjiyyāt [seven selected Qu’ran suras with reputed prophylactic power], Dalā’il al-khayrāt, and full copies of the Qur’an. He also had a storehouse wherein he sold coffee beans, located in the caravanersai of greens (wikālat al-baql) close to the Khalīlī Khan. He was also very knowledgeable in the science of music, melody, the playing of the ‘ūd, and the composition of poetry, having composed madā’iḥ, qaṣā’id, and muwashshaḥāt.[1] He died, God be merciful to him, in 1211/1796.[2]
The picture that emerges from this brief life is of a man who deliberately cultivated a wide range of skills and forms of cultural expertise, while also participating in the flourishing marketplace of goods and commodities. His enterprises were such that they could overlap: selling coffee beans at the scale suggested here would have only occupied so much time, Ismā’īl otherwise working at what al-Jabartī presents as his primary trade, that of a copyist. Despite sporadic in-roads of moveable print in the eighteenth century Ottoman world, manuscript production remained dominant, with men like Ismā’īl turning out often prodigious numbers of texts for an expanded market compared to earlier periods. His specified repertoire consists of works that households with few other texts might very well have owned, either for reading and recitation or simply for their role as potent conveyors of baraka (and, secondarily perhaps, markers of cultural prestige). It is striking that, like several other copyists profiled by al-Jabartī, the Dalā’il al-khayrāt is given as part of Ismā’īl’s calling card, a text of such popularity that it could form a stable item all of its own regardless of individual customer commissions. Continue reading “A Cultural Entrepreneur in Late Eighteenth Century Cairo” →
The Heat of the Divine Lights: The Story of a Rural Maghribi Majdhūb
On October 18, 2019 October 18, 2019 By JonathanIn Arabic, Culture, History, Islam1 Comment
Scripts of sainthood weren’t the only things shared between the early modern world of the Islamic West and that of the Ottomans, of course. As discussed previously here, art motifs moved back and forth between the two regions, with Maghribi adaptations of Ottoman elements taking on distinctive local styles, such as this 17th century tile which incorporates distinctively Ottoman floral elements but in a quite different context. (V&A 1718-1892)
The following extensive hagiographic entry comes from an important eighteenth century compilation of saints’ lives from Morocco, the Ṣafwat man intashar min akhbār ṣulaḥāʾof the scholar, historian, sufi, and man of letters Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr al-Ifrānī (c. 1669-1743 or 45), who was originally from the Draa region of southern Morocco, but who lived and traveled in Fes, Marrakesh, and various countryside zāwiyas. He forged ties with many saints of his native land, collecting accounts of holy figures from both his own lifetime and the generation before.
The saint featured here, Shaykh Abū al-Qāsim, lived in the Middle Atlas region south of Fes, then as now predominantly rural, many traces of which are visible in the life al-Ifrānī renders. Islamic Sainthood in Morocco, in medieval and early modern times, has often been centered in rural areas as much as urban ones, with a constant interplay between the two (al-Ifrānī probably learned the accounts of Abū al-Qāsim through one of the latter’s disciples, Sīdī Aḥmad al-Madāsī, a sometime resident in Fes whom al-Ifrānī would much later take as a spiritual master). While in the anthropological and sociological studies of ‘maraboutism’ that long dominated the study of Islam in Morocco, these saints and their devotees are often taken as examples of the exceptional, ‘syncretic’ nature of Moroccan Islam, we can in fact see connections with the wider Islamic world in these saints’ lives as well as the traces of long-standing debates and discussions within sufism and fiqh over the nature of sainthood, sufi practices, what constitutes a proper shaykh, and the nature of the knowledge of God. In this particular life, Abū al-Qāsim is described as a majdhūb, a divinely attracted saint, a type of saint that became increasingly prominent in both the Maghrib and the Ottoman world during this period, even if the mechanisms for those parallels are for now hard to determine. The reality of interconnections between ‘West’ and ‘East’ is alluded to in this life, in fact, by the saint’s dispatch of disciples to ‘the East,’ meaning for this period the Ottoman lands. I’ll note briefly some other parallels and some differences below, but first here is al-Ifrānī’s account of this sometimes quite shocking saint:
Abū al-Qāsim ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Lūsha al-Sufyānī: His companions called him Abū ʿAsrīya, because he used to do most things with his left hand, and he was, God be merciful to him, from among the ones distracted in love of God, and from among the folk of effusive states and lordly ecstatic utterances. His sainthood was firmly established among both the elite and the common, his distinctiveness being well-known in both the east and the west. Early in his life he was renowned as one of the brave young men of his tribe (qabīla) and among those of perfect horsemanship from among them. When the inrushings of gnosis began to flash upon him and the illumined beneficence draw him, he went about in the wild upon his face, distracted from his senses, becoming acquainted with wildness and familiar with solitude, such that knowledge of him was cut off from his folk for one or two years or more. They didn’t know anything of his dwelling nor location until there came a hunter or shepherd who mentioned to them his description, so they rode out in search of him, and when they brought him back he stayed with them a few days then returned to his former inclination, until his spiritual condition calmed down enough to settle down in his homeland, his spiritual states (al-aḥwāl) subsiding somewhat.
Then he began sitting with the fuqarā’, discoursing with them and imposing [spiritual disciples?] upon them, but when his spiritual state (ḥāl) would seize him, he would grab at them and they would flee from him. Among the remarkable things that befell him is that when the spiritual state would seize him, he would rend his clothes and remain totally naked, yet no one ever saw his genitals (ʿawra) [1], and whoever wished to gaze upon his genitals would not see them, no matter how much he strove to see them. The one to whom it was granted to see them would go blind from the very moment. A number of people went blind in such manner until it became well-known among the people and they began to protect themselves from such.
At the beginning of his career, he would stay at length in meadows, ponds, and creeks due to the intensity of what descended (mā nazala) upon him of the [divine] lights (al-anwār), which he would cool off from by means staying close to water until it stopped. In the latter part of his career his spiritual state became calm and serenity prevailed in him. He returned to his senses, now having control over his spiritual state. More than one trustworthy person has related to me that a group of his companions went to the East with his permission, living adjacent to Medina the Noble, and would sit opposite the Noble Room [of Muḥammad] and discuss stories and accounts of him [2]. One day they were doing that when a woman clothed in tattered old rags and of ragged mein stopped before them. She said to them, ‘Do not know other than Qāsim—rejoice, for my Lord has given him the station of the Quṭb today!’ They wrote it down that day, and when they returned to [Abū al-Qāsim] they learned that his state had become calm on the very day that the woman said to them what she said—God knows best! [3]
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Imām al-Layth, the Debtor, the Parakeet, and the Ruler
On September 24, 2019 September 24, 2019 By JonathanIn Arabic, History, Islam, OttomanLeave a comment
The minaret and street entrance to the shrine-mosque of Imām al-Layth, as it existed c. 1920 when it was photographed by Sir K.A.C. Creswell (V&A 1573-1921)
During his various journeys,ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731) visited many, many shrines of saints and prophets, some known throughout the world, others of only local purchase. In his accounts of his journeys he makes much of these visits, recording them in sometimes great detail and with his own poetic contributions. Very often he reports local accounts of the holy person venerated in the shrine, providing precious insights into the ‘oral hagiography’ and local practices of saintly veneration and saintly space that prevailed in the late seventeenth century around the Ottoman world.
One of the many holy tombs al-Nābulusī visited in the course of his extended stay in Cairo during the pilgrimage journey recounted in his al-Ḥaqīqa wa-al-majāz fī riḥlat bilād al-Shām wa-Miṣr wa-al-Ḥijāz was that of Imām al-Layth ibn Saʿd (713-791), a major figure in the early elaboration of Islamic jurisprudence. Rather like his ‘neighbor’ Imām al-Shāfiʿī, by al-Nābulusī’s time Imām al-Layth was regarded as much, if not more, as a wonder-working saint than as a scholar of jurisprudence, as the story I’ve translated here suggests.
While the central point of the story is pretty straightforward- and rather charming- certain details stand out for thinking about how Ottoman Muslims experienced the built space of such shrines. First, it should be noted, as al-Nābulusī does in introducing this structure a bit before the translated passage, and as can be seen in the photographs, reproduced here, taken by K.A.C. Creswell in the late 1910s, the shrine sat pretty much continuous with the surrounding houses, marked off by its dome (qubba, see below) and relatively low but ornate minaret, both of late Mamluk provenance. The line between house and shrine could be blurred in other ways: the man in the story practices the venerable rite of ‘incubation,’ sleeping in a holy place so as to receive a vision or answer to a prayer. If the shrine was seen as a sort of ‘home’ for the entombed saint, incubation was equivalent to a guest spending the night.
The fact that al-Nābulusī heard this story, perhaps from a neighbor to the shrine, indicates that the space remained ‘alive’ to local residents and devotees, as did the saint himself, even to the point of attracting an additional element to his name (at least among his local devotees). It’s a good reminder that whatever the intentions of the original founders of the tomb (which certainly predates the ‘modern’ late Mamluk construction visible now to us) or of later patrons and builders, those intentions might have only partially been respected or even recognized by later participants in the sanctified space.
The qubba- dome- and rooftop of the shrine, fairly typical of mausoleum architecture during the Mamluk period (V&A 1571-1921)
The reason for his being given the kunya [1] of Abū al-Makārim [that is, ‘Father of Noble Deeds’] among the people of Cairo is what was told us in the following manner, namely that there was a man with many debts. He set out sincerely for a pious visit to [Imām al-Layth], and recited the Fātiḥa for him and supplicated God, asking for relief from his debt. He slept here in the shrine and saw [Imām al-Layth] in a dream. He said to the man: ‘When you arise from your dream take hold of and possess what you see upon my tomb!’
When the man arose from his sleep, he saw upon his tomb the bird known as parrot (babbaghā’) or parakeet (durra), and it could recite in the manner of an expert reciter the Qur’an in all its seven recitations! [2] So he took hold of it, and soon the people had heard of it, to the point that word of it reached the ruler of Cairo, and he commanded that the man be brought to his presence so that he might take the bird from him. When he came into the ruler’s presence the ruler bought it from him, and with the money the man was able to repay all of his debts.
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The Continuing Evolution of Extreme Ultra Violet Lithography
On July 17, 2013 in a qualified safe harbor statement, an ASML press release (NASDAQ:ASML) announced its second quarter earnings and also indicated that its EUV platform, scanner imaging and overlay performance improved to levels enabling engagement with customers on a strategy targeting insertion at the 10nm logic node. Additional discussions concerned strategies in which the first NXE:3300B systems running at currently available EUV power levels are utilized for production of future nodes at reduced throughput in place of mask strategies utilizing 193i multi-patterning techniques. Customers will be able to upgrade their systems as higher power levels become available and avoid a costly process transition from 193i to EUV HVM. Combined with currently available multiple-patterning capabilities on existing 193i platforms, ASML could provide the best possible options for customers. In the second quarter, ASML achieved good performance, stability and reliability of the pre-pulse source concept at power levels up to 55 Watts, and remains confident of targeted throughput of 70 wafers per hour in 2014. ASML projects availability of upgraded systems with 125 wafer per hour throughput in 2015 provided further development of EUV power output progresses as planned. Additional strategies are being considered for continued funding of additional R&D on EUV. 450mm HVM insertion is anticipated in 2018. News Source: Seeking Alpha.com 7/17/2013.
The semiconductor equipment industry participants driving the evolution of EUV (Extreme Ultra Violet) and nanometer scale lithography might be characterized as "tag team" players as process enabling technologies provided by an interactive vendor base will often trigger a cascade of new concepts and innovation frequently spawning “disruptive technologies” The semiconductor lithography market is technologically unique, supporting many diverse products demanding application specific process solutions. Although this market place can seem extraordinarily complex it is commonly bound by the semiconductor industry phenomenon known as Moore's Law which states that the number of transistors on semiconductor devices doubles approximately every two years, reducing costs. During the past several years semiconductor lithographers have been pursuing the means to create a sufficiently powerful source of EUV (Extreme Ultra Violet) light for use in next generation lithography stepper/scanners. These complex machines are used to mass produce semiconductor “computer chips” utilizing a photolithography process similar to conventional film photography, the difference being the “photo negative” is actually comprised of many individual photo masks (as many as 50 or more), providing the discrete image negatives required for each process layer in a complex semiconductor device. EUV light source technology is being pursued as the emitted 13.5nm light's wavelength is short enough to produce high resolution circuit imaging for present and future 14, 10 and 7 nanometer scale device structures. Although several well established companies in the field of semiconductor lithography have participated in the development of EUV technology the expense and diminishing returns on investment have narrowed the playing field to a few. Lithography giant ASML based in the Netherlands recently purchased a key lithography light source supplier, Cymer, in an effort to consolidate EUV development efforts and secure the timely delivery of critical source components. Underscoring the strategic value of EUV lithography are recent investments made in ASML by Intel, Samsung, and TSMC which total more than $6 Billion. To date, ASML and Cymer have produced excellent EUV lithography imaging with an available light source power output approximating 55 watts. This is about half the power required to support the throughput of high volume manufacturing (HVM). After years of industry anticipation, delayed development of EUV power output has put some semiconductor industry professionals in an uneasy holding pattern. Although multiple patterning techniques for 193i lithography provide feasible lithography solutions in the interim, most would prefer a simplified EUV lithography process solution requiring fewer mask levels at reduced cost. In light of ASML's recent announcements some are reconsidering the current status of EUV lithography development and the implementation of available alternatives such as double patterning and Directed Self Assembly (DSA) techniques. In an effort to gain additional insight and inspiration from established experts in the EUV community my inquiries revealed that many are reluctant to speak to the current situation and perhaps for good reason. It is difficult to speculatively comment on the efforts of lithography industry experts who have diligently achieved the excellent results obtained thus far. It appears we've hit a physical wall which has temporarily stalled EUV development and delayed the HVM insertion time line. As we have learned over the years, difficult tasks sometimes take longer to complete.
In the interim 24 months ahead we must also realize that the semiconductor industry will assimilate a new crop of scientists, electrical engineers, sales, marketing and application specialists along with the traditional complement of Wall Street industry analysts and investors. To the new and uninitiated intelligentsia, EUV technology might require some explanation. Educating new entrants to our industry is always a challenge. As a technologist you might have a friend or relative who've asked about your work in semiconductors and observed their eyes glaze over as you explain. As we pause to await news of higher EUV output power, I will utilize the available “dwell time” to provide an EUV primer for new industry participants and observers and hopefully fill in the blanks for our current, friends and colleagues. Where to begin?
Plasma 101
Unlike solid, liquid or gas, plasma, the fourth state of matter exists within a narrow, low pressure domain approximating 1/760th of our atmosphere at sea level. Positively ionized plasma can be created in this low pressure regime by inducing high energy electron collisions with gas molecules displacing orbital electrons normally found in the stable atoms comprising the gas. The imparted electrical imbalance causes the gas molecules to gain a net positive charge as there are more positive protons remaining in the atoms/molecules than negatively charged electrons. The resulting plasma is a glowing cloud of charged particles and gas molecules having a positive electrical potential and the conductivity of copper while simultaneously emitting light comprised of photons with the characteristic color of its elemental spectra. Utilizing Italian physicist Torricelli’s scale, the pressure of the air at sea level is 760 Torr. More specifically, the pressure at which electrical gas plasma can be created and sustained approximates 5x10-4 Torr, a near vacuum at less than 1/760th of the pressure of our atmosphere. At an altitude of 84 kilometers above the earth and well below the international space station, the pressure in near outer space falls within this range and is conducive to the natural creation of plasma known as the aurora borealis. This phenomenon occurs when high energy “solar wind” from the sun ionizes oxygen, nitrogen and other gases in the upper atmosphere in the presence of earth's magnetic field. Back on terra firma, high vacuum technologists design and maintain carefully engineered process chambers simulating pressures ranging from ambient atmosphere to the ultra high vacuum of deep outer space. Scientists and electrical engineers utilize these physical phenomena and resources to generate, contain and control high energy plasma by electrically ionizing specially selected process gases at precise pressures in high vacuum systems. Plasma etchers utilized in semiconductor wafer fabs were among the first process tools to adapt this technology. In this application, plasma is generated to produce ions for etching semiconductor wafers. The incidental light emitted from the plasma can be utilized to monitor the process. The primary methods for ionizing these gases include hot cathode/filament electron discharge, microwave excitation, and RF (Radio Frequency) energy excitation. Interestingly the Federal Communications Commission has designated special radio frequencies for use in plasma etch systems. A common frequency utilized for RF plasma etchers is 13.56 MHz. As a ham radio operator I am more spectrum conscious than most and when near a wafer fab I sometimes tune in with my mobile transceiver to listen for “etchers on the air”. The received signal is not particularly exciting and is usually a continuous uninterrupted carrier wave sometimes producing a loud heterodyne when tuned in the single side band mode.
In this semiconductor manufacturing application of physics, positively charged high energy ions are created in these special plasma systems and utilized to etch semiconductor circuits on silicon wafers. The ions having mass and kinetic energy bombard the surface of product wafers and selectively etch surfaces to form intricate device structures and circuit patterns from the metal film and materials left behind. A variety of gases are utilized to etch process specific materials on product wafers. Some of the gases utilized are also chemically reactive and can selectively enhance the etch rate of specific materials on a wafer's surface. Other noble gases are chemically inert (non-reactive) and advantageous for a wide range of etch applications. Plasma etch chambers emit a characteristic light whose primary color/wavelength is determined by the elemental composition of the process gas. Argon gas for example emits a purple glow which is pleasing to the eye. This spectral phenomenon is often utilized as a process indicator to determine when a critical etch step must stop. While etching a thin film metal, a faint light emitting plasma with the metal's signature color/wavelength is also produced. Using optical end point detectors, process engineers can sample the spectrum of light emitted from the plasma to detect the metal's specific signature wavelength. When this spectral signature disappears the metal etch process is deemed complete as there is no remaining metal being ionized. This “end point” signal is typically used to automatically stop the etch cycle providing highly accurate process control and negates any manual intervention by wafer fab engineers. A key observation of these phenomena are that elementally specific positively charged particle ions (mass specific) and photons (wavelength specific light) are created during the ionization process. The science of plasma physics for etching semiconductor circuits has been refined over the years by companies like Applied Materials, Lam Research and Veeco Instruments (there are many others) however, the plasma physics required to produce 13.5nm EUV for lithography are quite different and much more challenging.
Producing Extreme Ultra Violet Light With Plasma
For several years the semiconductor industry has been engaged in the research and development of next generation nanometer scale lithography requiring a precision stepper/scanner equipped with a 13.5nm light source. For lithography applications, plasma is created for the purpose of generating light at specific wavelengths. The production of ions and other charged particles is incidental and sometimes suppressed to avoid etching and erosion of sensitive components in the source and wafer stage. Utilizing the most current methods for producing this light, lithography research engineers create a plasma which emits 13.5nm EUV from the resulting ionization of xenon gas (Xe), or the solid metal tin (Sn). As a gas, xenon ionizes easily but has a lower energy Conversion Efficiency (CE) than tin. ASML has chosen solid tin as the plasma feed material for its EUV light source because of its higher energy conversion efficiency. Creating an ionized tin plasma is more difficult and also creates unwanted particulates which can potentially contaminate EUV masks and product wafers. Although the 13.5nm spectra has been dubbed EUV (Extreme Ultra Violet) it can also be described as “soft x-ray” radiation or “vacuum EUV” as it is absorbed by many gases and propagates most efficiently in a high vacuum environment. Extremely short wavelength EUV light will enable semiconductor lithographers to print ever smaller transistors and associated circuitry on computer chips reducing CD features (Critical Dimensions) down to nanometer scales and below. Utilizing a current 22nm fabrication process, a state of the art Intel Quad core i7 microprocessor introduced in the year 2012 contains 1.4 billion transistors. Moore's law marches on and future process nodes will soon shrink to 14, 10 and 7nm. Imagine your smart phone's chip sets with the processing power of another billion or so transistors.
A Best Of Breed EUV Source?
As there has been significant wide ranging research on the subject of EUV source technology, I will focus on the most current technology utilized by ASML and will discuss possible alternately efficient means of EUV production. Having conducted research on past experimentation and published papers, I will direct attention to recent prior work having potential to enhance EUV source performance. By “borrowing” concepts from the most promising efforts I will propose a possible “best of breed” hybrid EUV source design. I suspect similar dialogue and debate has been conducted previously. My intention is to foment new discussion which might yield solutions providing the EUV power output and performance required for HVM lithography (High Volume Manufacturing).
ASML's EUV Source Design
ASML/Cymer's current technique for production of EUV light utilizes Laser Produced Plasma (LPP). In this different approach to producing plasma, small droplets of tin approximating 30 microns in diameter are injected into an ionization source and targeted by a solid state “pre-pulse” laser. The imparted energy from the pre-pulse laser enlarges the tin droplet and raises its energy state, providing a larger cross sectional profile for a more powerful 20 kilowatt CO2 laser. After pre-pulse conditioning, the tin droplet is targeted with the larger CO2 laser resulting in the high energy evaporation and ionization of the tin, releasing 13.5nm EUV light as a result. A continuous stream of tin droplets and sustained laser interaction produces stable EUV light output commensurate with requirements for precision lithography and dosimetry. Utilizing this technique, current EUV power output levels of 55 watts have been achieved, about half the power required for HVM (High Volume Manufacturing). In the quest for more EUV power output, I suspect ASML and Cymer will experiment with larger, more powerful lasers while optimizing other coincidental parameters. While successfully producing EUV light, an Sn/LPP source produces a large number of tin particulates as the targeted tin droplet residue collects on exposed surface areas in the ion source and wafer stage. Reflective EUV optical mirror surfaces can lose efficiency (reflectivity) when coated with tin, while EUV masks and product wafers can be compromised if contaminated with particles as small as one nanometer. A more recent technique for keeping surfaces clean is to direct a beam of hydrogen ions from a small, integral ion source at critical optics and wafer stage components. Experiments implementing a hydrogen plasma clean cycle as part of a periodic maintenance regimen have also been suggested. The challenges in the design and implementation of EUV technology for high volume manufacturing are formidable.
Z-Pinch Discharge Produced Plasma Source Technology
A Z-pinch source, consists of an insulated containment cylinder with electrodes attached on either end, mounted inside a vacuum chamber. For the creation of EUV light emitting plasma, a gas such as SnH4 (Stannane) or xenon (Xe) is fed into the cylinder and pre-ionized with the resulting plasma having the electrical conductivity approximating that of copper. A large pulse of electrical energy stored in a bank of capacitors or from a power supply is applied to the electrodes at the ends of the cylinder. As a result, a large current flows through the electrically conductive plasma causing it to contract as a phenomenon known as the Lorentz force compels the mutual attraction of the ions flowing uniformly along the z-axis of the plasma. The term z-pinch is derived from the fact that the current flows along the z-axis of the plasma as it is being compressed and pinched. The contraction continues until the plasma becomes highly dense and further compression is resisted by the gas pressure comprising the plasma. Ultimately, the maximized “pinch” density releases a large burst of energy comprised of ions and characteristic spectral light. In the case of SnH4 and Xe, Discharge Produced Plasma EUV light with a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers is emitted in the process. A continuous, controlled flow of source gas and carefully timed high current pulses through the source cylinder repeat this cycle, sustaining the plasma and output of EUV light. This is achieved by pulsing the power supply and the resulting high current flow through the conductive plasma between 6 and 8 thousand times a second. A power supply pulsed at approximately 7 Khz usually delivers maximum output for this design. Z-pinch operation can be further optimized by controlling the power supply frequency, pulse width and amplitude providing effective wave form control and regulation of power fed to the source. With the power supply operating at a the relatively low frequency of 7 Khz, a computer operating at 1.5 to 2.0 GHz can be utilized to sample the sinusoidal/waveform input power and resulting EUV output at the wafer stage making it possible to close loop control associated lithography dosimetry and related functions.
Ushio's Sn/DPP EUV Source Design
At the SPIE 2007 International EUVL Symposium, Ushio published a paper on results obtained from experimentation conducted on a Discharge Produced Plasma EUV source utilizing SnH4 (Stannane) as the feed material: Development of Sn-fueled high-power DPP EUV Source Enabling HVM. In this design a Z-pinch DPP source was fed with gaseous SnH4 providing the energy conversion efficiency of tin while affording the simplicity of source gas handling with conventional mass flow controllers and pressure measurement instruments. Interestingly, Ushio's Discharge Produced Plasma (DPP) source produced 62 watts of EUV output utilizing gaseous SnH4 as compared with ASML's recently quoted EUV power output of 55 watts obtained with a Laser Produced Plasma sustained with source fed solid tin droplets. A power output comparison of the two technologies builds a case for continued development of an SnH4 Discharge Produced Plasma EUV source with a more simplistic design. An additional benefit of using SnH4 as a source feed material is it minimizes the erosion of electrodes and critical surfaces in the z-pinch tube.
Zplasma's Xe/Stable DPP Z-Pinch Source With
Sheared Flow Stabilization (SFS)®
In my previous blog articles I've had the opportunity to interview Henry Berg, CEO of Zplasma, and discuss his company's Xenon based Discharge Produced Plasma EUV source. Zplasma's Stable DPP source is quite different from the generic DPP description above. Zplasma's stable pinch operation results from a patented, proprietary technique called Sheared Flow Stabilization (SFS)® which stabilizes the plasma and eliminates explosive pinch terminations. The stable pinch operation of an SFS design DPP source is required to produce the high power levels required for HVM lithography. As described by Henry Berg, there are six critical advantages to Zplasma's SFS source technology:
f) Adjustable Geometry: SFS makes pinch geometry adjustable for optical matching to the stepper IF.
Given Discharge Produced Plasma (DPP) and Laser Produced Plasma (LPP) design concepts, how might we improve EUV power output and system performance?
Minimizing Source Plasma Opacity
Maximizing EUV light Output
EUV light emitted from a tin or xenon plasma discharge is partially absorbed by the opacity of source plasma. More specifically, the 13.5nm light is readily absorbed by many gases and solid materials, inclusive of the low pressure vapor state of the tin or xenon utilized to create the plasma. This means that the intensity of the emitted EUV light diminishes as it is partially absorbed and diffused during its transit through the plasma cloud and transport to the stepper's intermediate focus (where the EUV light is collected). A reduction in the rate of absorption and diffusion by the plasma can sometimes be achieved by reducing the pressure of the gas comprising the plasma. This has the effect of reducing the density of the plasma, lessening its opacity, and potentially increasing power output by increasing the transmission efficiency of the emitted EUV light. This pressure adjustment is critical as the plasma will be extinguished if the pressure is too low (insufficient gas density/pressure to sustain the plasma) and will similarly cease to ionize if the pressure is too high. Experimentation is required to determine the optimal pressure and plasma density for maximum production and transmission of EUV light. I suspect ASML has optimized this parameter on their Sn/LPP EUV source. This technique is discussed in a 2005 paper: Comparison of experimental and simulated extreme ultraviolet spectra of xenon and tin discharges by E.R. Keift, K. Garloff, J.J.A.M. van der Mullen and V. Banine.
Maximizing the Transmission Efficiency
of EUV Light to the Wafer Stage
To carry the EUV transmission efficiency discussion further, in some EUV system designs the wafer stage chamber is maintained at the same vacuum pressure (approximately 5x10-4 Torr), as the plasma source chamber and share the vacuum environment sustained by the pressure controllers and vacuum pumps supporting the EUV plasma. The pressure inside the wafer stage area is also critical as additional absorption and diffusion of the EUV light can occur there during transit from the intermediate focus coupling (IF) to the wafer stage. Reductions of EUV energy propagation efficiency in the wafer stage chamber can be pressure related and contribute to path loss concerns exemplified in the source plasma opacity discussion above. It is probable that higher levels of EUV dosing can be obtained by maintaining the wafer stage chamber under high vacuum pressure at <1x10-7 Torr.
An excellent example of increased energy transfer efficiency under high vacuum conditions and the resulting effects on lithography are illustrated in a 2006 Nano Letters paper by Benjamin D. Myers and Vinayak P. Dravid, Variable Pressure Electron Beam Lithography (VP-eBL): A New Tool For Direct Patterning of Nanometer Scale Features on Substrates With Low Electrical Conductivity. I found this paper quite interesting in that it addresses concerns common to both EUV and eBeam technologies. The primary purpose of this paper was to illustrate a methodology for mitigating surface charging effects on electrically insulated wafer substrates patterned with eBeam lithography while simultaneously optimizing the resolution of the patterned images. The paper also illustrates how differences in vacuum pressure effect eBeam (energy) propagation. In the experiment, a differentially pumped vacuum system maintained an electron beam column under high vacuum while enabling operation of the wafer stage within pressures ranging from high vacuum to 3 Torr. It was determined that a decrease in beam-gas path length (BGPL) and resulting electron beam scattering occurring at higher pressures mitigated surface charging and secondary electron proximity effects while enhancing image resolution. However, the beam scattering also reduced the number of electrons available to dose the patterned resist requiring longer write times. Longer write times or specialized dose requirements can now be optimized with computational lithography techniques inclusive of shot tasking and dose modulation. To follow the discussion of exhibits in this paper, click on the link above. In Figure 1, exhibit (A) illustrates the insulated substrate surface charge induced displacement and distortion of eBeam imaging at high vacuum pressure. Subsequent improvement in image resolution and accuracy are illustrated in exhibit (B) at .4 Torr, and in exhibit (C) at 1 Torr. In Figure 2, Exhibits (A) through (D) and similarly Figure 3, Exhibits (A) through (C), illustrate eBeam induced surface trenching in the resist which decreases when the pressure is increased. These examples illustrate the increase in energy transfer efficiency under high vacuum conditions and resulting decrease at higher pressures. Figure 4, illustrates how electron beam dose requirements increase at higher gas pressures along with the interactive effect on minimum line width. While there have been studies and process gas specific absorption coefficients established for electron beams and spectral light across a range of pressure regimes, it is well recognized that both forms of energy propagate most efficiently in a high vacuum environment, hence the term “vacuum EUV”.
It follows that an EUV source and wafer stage chamber maintained at separate optimal pressure levels, approximately 5x10-4 Torr for the source (plasma opacity optimized), and <10-7 Torr for the wafer stage chamber, more efficient transfer of EUV light can likely be obtained. This scenario requires a means of isolating the two vacuum chambers, perhaps by differential pumping, and transferring the EUV light through a transparent window or aperture at the intermediate focus (IF). There are candidates for low loss EUV window material which could facilitate such a design. In addition, there is a patented EUV source design featuring a differentially pumped source and wafer stage chamber coupled by a gas flow/conduction limiting optical aperture which efficiently conducts the EUV light across the two pressure regimes. http://www.google.com/patents/US6576912
Dueling Etendue – A Hybrid Dual DPP Source Design
to Double Power Output
The search for high power EUV production techniques has been primarily focused on identification of energy conversion efficient source materials (solid and gaseous) and the most efficient means of ionizing them. Recent research has determined that the best two ionization techniques are Discharge Produced Plasma (DPP) and Laser Produced Plasma (LPP). As I point out in this article, the two techniques seem to be tied at maximum EUV power levels of 62 watts for DPP and 55 watts for LPP. An approach to achieving higher power levels might be to operate two DPP sources simultaneously within one vacuum system, theoretically generating twice the power output. The challenge would be optically coupling two sources to the stepper IF to truly double the power. This might not be easily achieved. Simultaneously capturing the maximum brilliance of two plasma sources could be challenging as the hardware interface to the IF must accommodate the optimal plasma profile angles for two discrete light sources to effect the most efficient etendue. It's possible Bragg Cell EUV mirrors could be utilized to assist in effecting dual source DPP etendue. Any concerns with absorptive losses from the Bragg Cell mirrors would be negated by the additional power afforded by the dual source design.
In my opinion a good candidate design technology for a hybrid EUV source resides with Zplasma. The original system built by Zplasma utilized Xe as its source gas feed which produced a 2% bandwidth energy conversion efficiency (CE) of 0.5% which is low, however the efficiency will increase to 1.5% with a power supply optimized for the source. By substituting Xe with SnH4, the energy conversion efficiency could be increased further to become competitive with Sn Laser Produced Plasma efforts to date. In addition to the increase in CE, higher EUV output power levels might be obtained if Zplasma's patented Sheared Flow Stabilization Z-pinch performs as well with SnH4 as it does with Xe. Zplasma's system design might also accommodate the concept of Dual DPP sources as etendue match concerns might be minimized by its z-pinch source characteristics affording side on collection of light from the plasma. In addition, the DPP configuration could accommodate an optional H2 plasma clean maintenance regimen. A successful technique utilized by Gigaphoton in its source development program minimizes tin (Sn) particulate contamination by optimal positioning of a superconducting magnet in the source which deflects tin particles away from critical wafer stage and optical components. Assuming a viable hybrid EUV source design is identified, how might further R&D funding be obtained given the current economic climate?
A Proposal for a New National Photonics Initiative Agenda Funding High Priority Challenges
to Manufacturing
An important SPIE co-sponsored initiative took place on February 28, 2013 in Washington, DC, titled, “Optics and Photonics: Lighting a Path to the Future.” Other organizations co-sponsoring the event included the IEEE Photonics Society, Optical Society of America (OSA), IEEE Photonics Society, American Physical Society, and the Laser Institute of America. The event was attended by many government agencies who traditionally sponsor research. The goal of the conference was to foster better government collaboration with American optics and photonics industries and forge a National Photonics Initiative (NPI). The value of this proposed initiative is best exemplified by recent (non-government) semiconductor industry manufacturers' investments in ASML and Cymer. The collaboration of industry and government in key photonic and optical science endeavors could distribute R&D expenditures among participants and reduce costs across many disciplines. While I was researching and writing this blog article, the benefits of a coordinated NPI program became more apparent. After reviewing the many technical papers written on the subject of EUV and related technologies, I believe it is accurate to say that the level of participation by private industry, universities and government sponsored funding is probably unprecedented, and has created a reciprocally proportionate wealth of intellectual property and patent filings spanning many entities and corporations. While we all support the concept of independent research, competitive concerns with ownership of applicable intellectual property may have slowed investment in the development of the EUV program. It is my opinion that a hybrid EUV source with superior power output and HVM performance might be assembled from the assortment of promising technologies and IP developed thus far. Should a hybrid EUV concept be successfully proven, ensuing IP cross licensing concerns could potentially inhibit cooperation and progress. This concern has been addressed previously by SEMATECH and other groups cooperatively sponsoring other past and present research programs. The current pause in the pace of EUV development should foment renewed enthusiasm for jointly developed technology, intellectual property and reduction of R&D costs outside the domain of the foundries in order to prevent further stratification and/or dissolution of the traditional semiconductor equipment vendor base.
On July 25, 2013 I received the following communication from NIST from which I have excerpted the following:
MEMORANDUM FOR Advanced Manufacturing Distribution
From: The NIST Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia (AMTech) Program Team
“It is my pleasure to inform you that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) for the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia (AMTech) Program. This is a new competition for awards to establish new or strengthen existing industry-led consortia in planning research that addresses high-priority challenges impeding the growth of advanced manufacturing in the United States. NIST anticipates awarding $4 million in early 2014 as a result of this AMTech announcement. Awards are expected to be up to two-years in duration and range between about $250,000 and $500,000. As a leading voice in advanced manufacturing, we believe your members or constituents may have interest in AMTech and this newly announced funding opportunity. AMTech-supported consortia will identify and prioritize long-term, pre-competitive industrial research needs; enable technology development; and create the infrastructure necessary for more efficient transfer of technology. Teaming and partnerships are strongly encouraged including participation by the full value chain, including small-and mid-sized firms. By convening key players across the entire innovation life cycle, the objectives of the AMTech Program are to eliminate critical barriers to innovation; increase the efficiency of domestic innovation efforts; and collapse the time scale to deliver new products and services based on scientific and technological advances. The end goal will be a growth of advanced manufacturing in the U.S. and an increase in the global competitiveness of U.S. Companies. The AMTech Program will host two webinars on August 15, 2013, and August 20, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. Participants are required to register in advance. The events will offer guidance on the AMTech Program and preparing proposals, and will provide an opportunity to answer questions from the public about the program. Participation in the free event is not required to submit an application. Information on and registration for the event is available at www.nist.gov/ampo. To assist in identifying potential collaborators for a consortium, the AMTech Program is creating a LinkedIn group where individuals can provide their area(s) of interest and communicate with each other. Visit www.nist.gov/ampo for more information about joining.”
In considering this proactive initiative by NIST, I believe it is accurate to state that timely availability of EUV lithography technology is one of the high-priority challenges impeding the growth of more advanced manufacturing in the United States.
I propose that SPIE and the industry groups comprising the National Photonics Initiative consider establishing an additional agenda coordinated with SEMATECH to pursue government funding of advanced research in EUV development. Further, there should be emphasis on directing available grant funding to the many promising start up companies whose entrepreneurial potential for technological contribution have been precluded by the prevailing economic climate in Silicon Valley, Wall Street and the larger U.S. economy. We all applaud the cooperation of major players such as Intel, Samsung, and TSMC as they collectively support the efforts of ASML, but we must also ensure proactive support for promising, small business based entrepreneurial start up companies that have traditionally made the best and brightest contributions to Silicon Valley and the semiconductor industry.
Thomas D. Jay Investment Commentary
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Correction: A previous reference in this article was made crediting Ushio for a technique utilizing a superconducting magnetic field to mitigate tin particulate debris. This statement was made in error and corrected on August 8, 2013. Gigaphoton developed the superconducting magnet particulate mitigation technique as reported by Business Wire on July 1, 2013. My apologies to Gigaphoton and Ushio for this unintentional error.
Thomas D. Jay, August 8, 2013
Acknowledgments and Links
ASML News Release Source: Seeking Alpha.com 7/17/2013
Intel's Quad Core i7 Microprocessor
Intel Corporation, You Tube
ASML/Cymer's current technique for production of EUV light, ASML, You Tube
The challenges in the design and implementation of EUV technology for high volume manufacturing are formidable,
Jos Benschop, ASML, You Tube
Z-Pinch DPP Source Reference, Wikipedia.org
Development of Sn-fueled high-power DPP EUV Source Enabling HVM, Yusuke Teramoto, Zenzo Narihiro, Daiki Yamatani, Takuma Yokoyama, Kazunori Bessho,
Yuki Joshima, Takahiro Shirai, Shinsuke Mouri, Takahiro Inoue, Hiroshi Mizokoshi, Gohta Niimi*, Tomonao Hosokai*, Hironobu Yabuta, Kohkan C. Paul, Tetsu Takemura, Toshio Yokota, Kiyoyuki Kabuki, Koji Miyauchi, Kazuaki Hotta, and Hiroto Sato Gotenba Branch, Hiratsuka Research and Development Center, Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography System Development Association *Ushio Inc.
www.zplasma.com, Henry Berg, CEO, Zplasma, Inc.
Comparison of experimental and simulated extreme ultraviolet spectra of xenon and tin discharges by E.R. Keift, K. Garloff, J.J.A.M. van der Mullen and V. Banine
Variable Pressure Electron Beam Lithography (VP-eBL): A New Tool For Direct Patterning of Nanometer Scale Features on Substrates With Low Electrical Conductivity, Benjamin D. Myers and Vinayak P. Dravid
www.nist.gov/ampo
National Photonics Initiative
NPI Agenda
SEMATECH
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Spotlight: Star Wars’ Forgotten Heroines, Part 2
Welcome back, readers! Once more we fly into the breach to learn about Star Wars’ forgotten heroines!
I know I am repeating myself here, but the fact that Disney ditched these women still astounds me. After forty years of build-up, the new owners for this beloved franchise cast aside characters they could have used in new stories. Even if they declared everything after Vision of the Future non-canon, there would have been enough leftover material to spawn new books, several dozen movies, and more than enough subject matter for TV shows like Rebels.
Every time I sit down and really think about it, I look sideways at Disney and say, “Why? Why waste all of that good material? You had a gold mine here, and you shut it down because….well, why did you shut it down?”
Several people have theories about why Disney dropped the old EU, but I won’t bore you with a recital, since these posts are supposed to be relatively cheerful. I already alluded to my own opinion in the post about the final season for Star Wars Rebels, which has not changed. I doubt it ever will, sadly. But the fact is that what’s done is done, and there is no point trying to alter it.
Yes, I know there are people petitioning for Disney to redo Episode VIII. While I sympathize with them, since Carrie Fisher is (hopefully) residing in a galaxy far, far away now, there is no method by which that film can be redone while including her. Disney has already signed an agreement stating they will not use CGI to bring Leia back into the franchise, and even if a cast and crew could be found to remake the rest of the movie, working in Fisher’s existing scenes to a new movie would take a lot of work. It might not result in a good film, either.
More to the point, there’s no way in Mustafar that the kingmakers in Hollywood would let a remade Episode VIII into theaters. Most of the “important people” in Tinseltown have hated Star Wars and the majority of its fans since the first film came out, and many will go on hating it and us ‘til the day they die. I’m sorry, but there’s just no way around that or The Last Jedi. The only things which those of us who dislike the new films have got are the original movies, the original EU, and stories by some bright creators who want to do homage to the original movies.
With that in mind, let’s go back to the listing I started yesterday. One of the best ways to keep the original Star Wars alive is for its fans to show the old EU to new readers and prospective fans, which is why I wrote these two posts. So, without further ado, let’s look at some more of the leading ladies from the original SW timeline:
Jan Ors: Jan Ors was a Rebellion operative/spy who reported directly to Mon Mothma. While in a Rebel asteroid base, she was one of several Rebels captured – but not executed – by Imperial Stormtrooper and future Jedi knight Kyle Katarn. Although on opposite sides in the war, Kyle immediately felt a connection with Jan, as she did with him. This led him to spare her life and the lives of most of her compatriots. It was after this act of mercy that Kyle learned his father, Morgan, had been killed in a “Rebel” strike on their homeworld of Sulon.
At first, this made Kyle extremely hateful toward the Rebellion, including Jan and her friends, whom he met again before he was to enter Imperial service fully. It was during a brief fight with Ors’ companions that Kyle was to have his eyes opened to the truth; during the conflict, Jan name dropped Sulon, catching Kyle’s attention. She was able to prove to him that his father – who was a Rebel sympathizer and supporter – had been killed by the Empire, not the Rebellion.
Jan Ors and Kyle Katarn
Kyle immediately defected after this, helping Jan and her fellows escape back to the Rebellion. There he became an agent who specifically answered to Mon Mothma, running missions she would trust to no one else. Kyle soon proved to be a one-man wrecking crew, carting up to six or more heavy weapons during his missions. Jan accompanied him on some of his assignments, one of the most famous being his operation to stop the Empire’s Dark Trooper program. In that event, she was his “mission officer.” This basically meant that she sat in front of enemy lines and, after giving Kyle needed info, watched with a bag of popcorn while he cut a swath of carnage through enemy ranks.
From what I have read, we never got to see Jan run her own missions very often. Usually, when she appeared, it was because she was being rescued by Kyle. This wasn’t because she was an incompetent agent and couldn’t handle her own; the reason she needed rescuing so often was because everyone who wanted Kyle Katarn knew the best way to get him angry was to threaten or “kill” Ors. During her own missions, it seems, Jan didn’t have near as much to worry about. She was a good shot and a capable fighter – at least where the average Imperials were concerned.
Throw in Dark Jedi, though, and she was out of her depth. On those occasions she very wisely did the sensible thing, which was to sit down, shut up, and pray Kyle would find her before the bad guys decided she was more trouble than she was worth. Because he was Force-sensitive, Kyle always managed to find her, despite the fact that her friendship with him was what usually got her into these messes.
None of this is what led Jan to turn down Kyle’s repeated offers of marriage, though. No, she turned him down because they were both fighters involved in the myriad wars which afflicted the Star Wars galaxy following Return of the Jedi. Any day could be their last, and Jan didn’t want to have Kyle for a brief space of time only to lose him a day, a week, or an hour later. It is also probable that she knew that, whenever she was captured or appeared to “die,” Kyle skirted dangerously close to the Dark Side in order to rescue/avenge her. If she actually died in combat with an enemy, the last thing Jan wanted was for her death to make him into one of the monsters they fought so hard against. Better they stayed friends; that way, whatever happened wouldn’t hurt as much as if they were man and wife.
Since Kyle was originally one of the agents who stole pieces of the plans for the first Death Star, there is no compelling reason explaining why he and Jan were not included in the film Rogue One. The writers could have written the story so that Galen Erso was Galen Ors, making Jyn the twin or older/younger sister of Jan Ors. If they had gone that route, the story would have been twice as interesting and complex as it was; remember, in the original EU, Jan worked directly for Mon Mothma. The film writers could have maintained this for the movie; in order to protect Jan from general interest, Mon Mothma could keep the younger woman as her private agent.
It would have added extra tension for Jyn’s story, too. Say the sisters were both “dumped” by Saw Gerrera, but one returned to the Rebellion (Jan) while the other rebelled in her own way (Jyn). Throw Kyle into the mix to play off of the wayward Cassian Andor and Jan, and the writers have got a boiling kettle of emotions to play with. Then, at the end, Jan and Kyle are the only members of the Rogue One team to survive the mission, emailing the plans to Leia moments before hightailing it back to Yavin for their next assignment. Boom, you have material for more fill-in movies starring Jan and Kyle as they deal with the aftermath of the Rogue One mission and Kyle’s Jedi adventures. It’s a win-win all the way around.
But the new guys didn’t do that. Bummer.
Mallatobuck: Mallatobuck is here because I do not know if she survived the switch to the new timeline. In the original EU, Chewbacca married Mallatobuck several years before A New Hope. Together they had one son, Lumpawarrump (yes, that is really his name, and yes, Lowbacca was a better choice). I do not know too much more about her, having not encountered her anywhere outside my New Essential Guide to Characters. I understand she was in the less-than-appealing Star Wars Christmas Special, but really, that show was not her fault. If, as I suspect, Mallatobuck did not make the new timeline’s cut, we are down yet another interesting character.
Vima-Da-Boda: Descended from the famous ancient Jedi Nomi Sunrider and her daughter, Vima Sunrider, we first hear about Vima-Da-Boda in Kevin J. Anderson’s Jedi Search. A Jedi from the pre-Clone Wars Order, Vima went mad after her own daughter fell to the Dark Side. She ended up in the spice mines of Kessel, where she met and gave rudimentary training to the future maverick Jedi Knight Kyp Durron. It was apparently enough for the kid to pull off mind tricks on the people running the mines.
Somehow, Luke or one of our other heroes found Vima in time to solicit her help fighting the reborn Emperor Palpatine (that part is complicated). Later on she became an instructor at Luke’s new Jedi Academy, seemingly recovered from the despair-induced madness she suffered when she lost her daughter.
The old EU was initially more flexible about Jedi breaking the ban on marriage before the Purge than the new one is. Corran Horn, as we saw yesterday, was descended from a long line of upstart Corellian Jedi. New Jedi Knight Kam Solusar’s father, Jedi Master Ranik Solusar, caused a real upset in the old Jedi Council when he married and fathered Kam, who was old enough to run off into Wild Space rather than die in the Purge or become a Dark Side follower of Palpatine.
And during the years between the Jedi Purge and the Rebellion, there were surviving Jedi like Kanan Jarrus who just plain ignored the ban because it did not matter any more. All of this makes Vima’s descent from a long line of Jedi women rather unsurprising. It was actually one of the things I really liked about the old EU; by the time of the Purge, Jedi were practically banned from marriage. But when Luke’s new Order came on the scene, they could break with that ban because, like the original Jedi Knights millenia ago, they were starting almost from scratch.
I would have been REALLY happy if the writers had kept this aspect of the original EU for the sequel films. It is still mind-boggling to me that they wiped out Luke’s new Jedi Order prior to TFA. What would be wrong with having new Jedi from the books Force-jumping out of drop ships into the melee on Takodana? The writers could have gotten Kyle Katarn, Corran Horn, Kam Solusar, and lots of other cameos into that film and Episode VIII easily in that manner.
But they didn’t do it. *Sigh.*
The Dark Woman: This Jedi, who wielded a purple lightsaber like Mace Windu and Jaina Solo, was so devoted to the Force that she renounced her very name in its service. A Jedi Master, the Dark Woman trained Ki-Adi-Mundi to Knighthood but failed to take care of future bounty hunter Aurra Sing. Her inability to train Aurra, while not entirely her fault, made her unpopular with the Jedi Council.
Nevertheless, two years after the Battle of Naboo, the Dark Woman took over the training of A’Sharad Hett, the son of the great Jedi Knight Sharad Hett. A’Sharad had been raised among the Tusken Raiders of Tatooine and was Ki-Adi-Mundi’s apprentice until he accidentally brushed the Dark Side. At that point, the Dark Woman stepped in and took over his training.
I do not know how things ended for A’Sharad – I hope he lived to meet Luke at some point in the old EU – but I know that the Dark Woman died on an Outer Rim world shortly before the Battle of Yavin. Rumor has it Mara Jade was the one who located her, but it was unquestionably Darth Vader who killed her. Aurra Sing must have been disappointed, since she had already accepted a contract on the Jedi Master’s life just before Vader found the Dark Woman. Sing joked she would have killed her former master for free, since she was still smoldering over the woman’s perceived abandonment of her years earlier.
The Dark Woman is here primarily because I do not know if she made it into the new timeline. Apart from the fact that she is interesting on her own, I would really like to know if her last apprentice survived the Purge by going back to live with the Tusken Raiders. There would have been a very interesting story there if he had – not to mention another new candidate for Luke’s Academy.
Tahiri Veila: Like A’Sharad Hett, Tahiri Veila was raised by Tatooine’s Tusken Raiders. They killed her parents on their homestead but, for some reason, the Sand People decided Tahiri was worth keeping around. Luke eventually discovered her and brought her to Yavin IV, where she and Anakin Solo quickly began a Romance Reel. Captured and brutally abused/brainwashed by the Yuuzhan Vong, Tahiri was eventually rescued by Anakin. The two never got past their first kiss; Anakin died a little later in order to destroy creatures the Yuuzhan Vong had designed specifically to hunt Jedi.
This must have really upset Tahiri, since Jacen was later able to take her as his Dark Side apprentice. Even after being redeemed from the Dark Side, Tahiri never went on to become a full Jedi Knight. Instead she became a bounty hunter, which I think was a total waste of her potential by the writers for those stories. Seriously, why didn’t the writers for the new timeline have Tahiri and Anakin married by The Force Awakens? It would have been nice if they had had a child or several children, too.
I have always thought it was highly unfair that the old EU writers never let Leia and Han have more than one grandchild to carry on the Solo name after losing both their boys. It is one of (several) things I had half-hoped the new timeline would correct. Giving Anakin and Tahiri a child would also have prevented her from falling off of the Light Side bandwagon, something else which has always upset me. Truly, readers, I think the destruction of Star Wars began toward the end of the old EU, as will be demonstrated when we look at the next heroine on our list….
Tionne Solusar: The near-human wife of Jedi Knight Kam Solusar, Tionne could use her voice and music to amplify her Force powers. In the Young Jedi Knights series, Luke liked to cede the floor to her so she could teach his students Jedi history by singing it. According to the books, her voice was spell-binding; listeners did not quite see visions of the past when she played and sang, but neither could they find the heart to interrupt her or take their minds off of whatever lesson she was teaching.
I do not know much about Tionne. She was an under-used heroine in Star Wars long before the new timeline. Recently, I learned that during Jacen Solo’s Dark Side reign, Tionne was killed and mutilated by his forces. Her husband, Kam, was in the same battle. Though he was left for dead, he didn’t die, but I sure don’t envy those who had to tell him about Tionne. And if he saw what was done to her – blogger winces – Good Lord, that was even worse for the two of them.
If this brutal end for Tionne Solusar does not prove that the Star Wars haters had already gotten their talons into the franchise before Disney bought it, I don’t know what does. There was no reason for the authors to murder Tionne like this – none. It was done out of pure spite to the franchise and its fans. That was my big problem with Star Wars from the Yuuzhan Vong War onward; characters were killed off either for shock “value,” to add “gravitas” to the universe (how can you get more grim than “planet destroying, man-made moon”?), or as a way to demoralize and dishearten new readers and old fans.
Everything people are complaining about in the new film trilogy started with the old EU’s Yuuzhan Vong War. This is why I find the new films even more disappointing than most others do; Disney had a chance to clean up the mess the novel writers were making with the new trilogy. But instead of seizing this opportunity with both hands, they let it pass.
There is no excuse for that, readers. None whatsoever.
Moranda Savich: Moranda Savich is the last heroine on this list that I will discuss in detail. A pickpocket and information courier for Talon Karrde’s organization, Moranda played a big role in Vision of the Future, trying to help Wedge Antilles and Corran Horn find out who wanted to sabotage the Bothawui planetary shield generators.
Spunky and sharp, with a whiplash wit and keen mind, I am pretty sure Moranda bit the dust before the book ended. She was a lot of fun, and I was sad to lose her. So having a young Moranda Savich chasing around the galaxy in Rebels at some point would have been great for me. I get the feeling there were a lot of stories behind the old, grandmotherly woman we meet first in Specter of the Past.
Oh, well, what’s done is done, and there is no undoing it now. *Sigh.*
Well, readers, that was a long post, wasn’t it? I am going to finish this article with a list of heroines I do not know enough about just yet. Others I know a little something of, but because they are in a video game (KOTOR), I will let those who are interested pick the program up and play it to encounter them personally.
Right now, I am off to plan my next torture routine – ah, I mean, post. So here are the Honorable Mentions from Star Wars’ very, very lengthy list of heroines. You can look them up at your leisure, or wait for me to get around to writing about them in the future. That will probably be a long wait, though, so you may want to check ‘em out yourselves:
Gaeriel Captison Thanas, Callista, Siri Tachi, Xaverri, Lorana Jinzler, Teneniel Djo, Anja Gallandro, Releqy A’kla, Tash Arranda, Aril Nunb, Lieda Mothma, Sera Faleur Darklighter, Mirith Sinn, Dr. Qwi Xux, Mission Vao, Nomi Sunrider, Vima Sunrider, Jori Daragon, Bastila Shan, Tendra Risant Calrissian, Jysella Horn, Rianna Saren – and many, many more I cannot yet name, but which I hope to know in the future.
May the Force be with you, readers
This entry was posted in Star Wars Characters and Stories and tagged Anakin Solo, Aurra Sing, Cassian Andor, Disney Star Wars, Han Solo, heroines, Jacen Solo, Jan Ors, Jedi, Jyn Erso, Kam Solusar, Kyle Katarn, lightsabers, Luke Skywalker, Mallatobuck, Mission Vao, Moranda Savich, Princess Leia, Princess Leia Organa Solo, Rianna Saren, Star Wars, Star Wars Characters and Stories, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: Rogue One, Tahiri Veila, Tendra Risant Calrissian, the Dark Woman, The Force, Tionne Solusar, Vima-Da-Boda on July 27, 2018 by The Mithril Guardian.
[Guest Post] Rogue One: A Catholic Story — The Catholic Geeks
Robert Towne writes about Catholic parallels in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
via [Guest Post] Rogue One: A Catholic Story — The Catholic Geeks
This entry was posted in Star Wars Characters and Stories, Youth Books and tagged Catholic Geeks, Dark Side, Disney Star Wars, Jedi, light and dark, lightsabers, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars, Star Wars Characters and Stories, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars trilogy, Star Wars: Rogue One, X-wings on December 14, 2017 by The Mithril Guardian.
If you guessed that I have at last seen Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, readers, then you have good deduction skills. Yes, I saw Rogue One a day late and a dollar short. But after the less-than-exciting The Force Awakens, I was a little leery of any Star Wars fare.
I enjoyed the trailers for the film – I even reposted one from borg.com here at Thoughts on the Edge of Forever. I wanted to see Rogue One. I wanted to like it. But I did not want to spend money on a film I would later wish I had not paid good cash to see. So I waited and saw it on DVD.
It was a great movie, and it belongs right up there with the original Star Wars trilogy, in my opinion. Yes, there were a few small things about it that I did not like – Leia’s CGI face was kind of scary, and I never got to see the Ghost escape the Battle of Scarif. But since Hera and Chopper have appeared in Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, I guess our Rebel band got through the battle safe and sound.
On the whole, the film was a hit with this viewer. Cassian and Jyn came off as sullen more often than not, but their supporting cast more than made up for this. Chirrut Îmwe, Baze Malbus, K2-SO, and Bodhi Rook were great fun. I would have to say that Îmwe was my favorite. From his Force mantra to his, “Are you kidding me? I’m blind!”, Îmwe was one lovable character. Yoda would have found him an apt pupil.
K2 would probably be my second favorite, partly because he is portrayed by actor Alan Tudyk, the pilot of Serenity in Joss Whedon’s Firefly series. The other reason I liked him is because he came off perfectly as a sassy former Imperial droid you could not force to behave. Despite that tough shell, though, he also proved to have a soft side, such as when he apologized for smacking Cassian and when Jyn handed him a blaster in the Imperial base on Scarif. And watching him kill Stormtroopers was a scream – for them more so than for me!
Baze was my third favorite and the perfect counterpoint to Îmwe. Where Îmwe is the true believer despite all the evidence that calls for despair, Baze is the former believer who has become a cynic due to the heavy losses he has suffered since the Empire came to power. I have to admit, I really wish I could have his blaster mini-gun as well!
My fourth favorite would probably be Cassian. Raised in the Rebel Alliance, fighting the Empire from the (rather unbelievable) age of six, he is a Rebel assassin and spy. He also happens to hate most of his job. There is very little warmth in him at first; as I said above, he and Jyn tend to come off as grim for most of their time on screen. This is kind of irritating, which is why Îmwe and K2 are higher on my favorites’ list.
But considering that Cassian and Jyn have dealt with the Empire’s brutality and the often necessarily nasty tactics of rebelling against it, there is very little reason for either of them to smile or joke or be lighthearted. Îmwe and Baze have suffered losses at the Empire’s hands, but they have never had to compromise their moral compasses when fighting it. K2 is a droid built to kill, much like the Knights of the Old Republic’s HK-47, so he regards battle as just another day at the office. Bodhi is new to the Rebellion. He has also never stepped outside of the “law” prior to Galen Erso’s urging to defect to the Rebellion. Cassian and Jyn did not have any of these luxuries.
Jyn was not a bad character, though after a while I did become a little bored with her. I enjoyed the scene where, after her father has been killed and her Rebel escort has returned to the ship, she raises her hand – only for Îmwe to catch and hold it in the manner of a friend. He was silently reminding her not to return death for death, and I thought it was a very touching gesture. Yes, Cassian was going to kill her father. Yes, the Rebel Alliance bombed the base in order to kill him. But killing Cassian would not undo any of that, which is why Îmwe took her hand to stop her from losing her temper.
Finally, we come to the Battle of Scarif. What a fight! I loved every minute of the X-Wings zooming around and zapping TIE fighters to atoms. I have not winced, jerked, and bucked in my seat while watching a Star Wars battle since I was young and viewing A New Hope for the millionth time.
Speaking of which, the reused footage of Red and Gold Leader from A New Hope was great. I almost squealed with delight as I recognized the actors. I could tell that the footage was original – I watched A New Hope almost as often as I watched 101 Dalmatians or Peter Pan when I was small. I made the trench run with Luke and the other Rebel fighters zillions of times, so I knew Red and Gold Leader very well by sight alone. Finding them in Rogue One was a treat!
The other wonderful – and amazing – thing about the Battle of Scarif was the land battle. As someone I know pointed out, the footage of the Rebels fighting in the jungle was reminiscent of the way American soldiers fought in the Vietnam War. The way the troop ships dropped Rebel fighters onto the beach was a parallel of the deployment of soldiers and Marines in the jungles of Vietnam, too. The Rebels charging across the beach resembled Marines running up the beach on Iwo Jima and the soldiers storming the beaches of France on D-Day, but the drops by the troop ships were unmistakably based on Vietnam deployments.
Some of the Rebels’ gear, too, resembled the uniforms used by American soldiers during Vietnam. Several of the unnamed Rebels’ helmets and jackets were the same style as Vietnam War helmets and uniforms used by American soldiers during that conflict. The door gunner shooting at the AT-AT Walkers was also a direct nod to Vietnam door gunners. I was proud to see these parallels. It is high time our Vietnam veterans were acknowledged like this and I think it is a compliment.
Finally, no review of Rogue One would be complete if I did not mention the winks and nods the writers added to let us know that the cast of Star Wars Rebels lives beyond their fourth season. At least, Chopper, Hera, and the Ghost survive the series’ final season. When Cassian shows Jyn the force of Rebel assassins and spies he has collected to help her steal the Death Star’s plans, someone can be heard paging “General Syndulla” over the PA system. Hera Syndulla, captain of the Ghost and Phoenix Sqaudron’s fighters, is at some point raised to the rank of general during or after season four of the television series.
Chopper can also be seen by the keen-eyed when the Rebel radio operator charges out to speak to Senator Mon Mothma. This is after the Rogue One crew begins their attack on Scarif. I missed Chopper in the film, sadly, but I had already seen him on the Internet during one of the Rebels’ Recon episodes. And I did hear him grumbling while watching the film. Huzzah!
Just like Chopper, I also could not keep track of the Ghost for most of the space battle above Scarif. This upset me because I could not see if the Ghost had escaped before Darth Vader’s Star Destroyer arrived and began blasting the Mon Calamari carrier to bits. My friends went back to the battle scenes after we had finished the film and replayed them in slow motion so I could see the Ghost. (I have very kind, patient friends who put up with A LOT from me.) With the film slowed down I was able to see the Ghost in action for much of the fight. As in the television series, she was protecting the carrier in the fleet rather than swinging farther out into the battle with the star fighters.
However, we never get to see the Ghost jump to hyperspace before the Executor, Vader’s flagship, arrives. I am still a little upset by that, I admit; I would have liked to see them fly away from Scarif safely. But c’est la vie!
I was also not as impressed by Darth Vader’s “temper tantrum” aboard the Mon Cal cruiser, as others were. But I can just picture what some of the Rebel crewers had to say when the scene was over and the director called “Cut!”: “Killed by Darth Vader. BEST DAY EVER!!”; or “This is so going on my resume!”; and the perennial, “I feel fulfilled!”
All in all, Rogue One was just as good as I hoped it would be. I was bummed that the main cast died, so I do not think I will be watching it as often as I once watched A New Hope. But I did enjoy the film, and I do wish I had gone to theaters to see it on the big screen. Those, however, are minor quibbles. This was a great movie, and I highly recommend it to you, readers! So remember –
The Force will be with you, always!
This entry was posted in Movie Reviews, Star Wars Characters and Stories and tagged Alan Tudyk, Anthony Daniels, Baze Malbus, Ben Mendelsohn, Bodhi Rook, borg.com, Chirrut Îmwe, Chopper, Dark Side, Darth Vader, David Ankrum, Diego Luna, Disney Star Wars, Donnie Yen, Dr. Evazan, droids, Felicity Jones, Firefly, Forest Whitaker, General Jan Dodonna, Genevieve O’Reilly, Hera Syndulla, HK-47, James Earl Jones, Jiang Wen, Jimmy Smits, Joss Whedon, Jyn Erso, K2-SO, Knights of the Old Republic, Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, Mads Mikkelsen, Movie Reviews, Princess Leia, Princess Leia Organa Solo, Rebellion, rebels, Riz Ahmed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Saw Gerrera, Serenity, Star Wars, Star Wars Characters and Stories, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: Rogue One, Stormtroopers, The Dark Side, The Force, The Ghost, Vanessa Marshall, Vietnam, Vietnam Vets, X-wings, Yoda on August 18, 2017 by The Mithril Guardian.
First look–A Rebel goes undercover with the Empire in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The first trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One is out, fellow Jedi! It looks VERY interesting! Borg.com has more details on the upcoming film, so by all means, read on!!
But still… No Mara Jade…? (Hangs head and moans in disappointment.)
This entry was posted in Star Wars Characters and Stories and tagged Ben Mendelsohn, Daisy Ridley, Dark Side, Darth Vader, Death Star, Disney Star Wars, Donnie Yen, Felicity Jones, Forest Whitaker, Genevieve O’Reilly, George Lucas, Jedi, light and dark, lightsabers, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars, Star Wars Characters and Stories, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Rogue One, The Dark Side, TIE fighter on April 8, 2016 by The Mithril Guardian.
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