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01 Mar 2019 --
Special assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda has bemoaned the rampant fake news that has continued to flood the nation, noting that the false propaganda is costing the nation millions of Kwacha in lost investment opportunities.
Speaking at the 2019, ZAPRA Conference in Livingstone Chanda said the pervasive threat of disinformation threatened election results and democracies all over the world.
“Those deceptions and manipulations are most damaging when packaged and reported as though they were truths,” he said. “The pervasive threat of disinformation threatens election results and democracies all over.”
He told the hundreds PR practitioners gathered from both the public and private sector that they needed to help government ‘confront the fake news monster’ by equally being on social media platforms and telling the truth.
Chanda observed that peddled fake news mostly by the opposition political parties had caused an attack on GDP, exchange rate, encouraged anarchy attack on market as well as threatened the nation’s democracy.
Chanda noted that the only way to fight back against this is with more freedom, more openness, more traceability, more accountability and more transparency.
He told the gathering that the PF government wants to work closely with public relations and communications industry and told public relations practitioners in public institutions that they had State House backing in defending the truth.
“All public relations practitioners in public institutions have express permission from State House to respond to fake news as it is given out without waiting for the ‘clearance’ which could render the response irrelevant,” Chanda said.
“And that is why I am here with you, not only to pay tribute to your valuable work that this group has done but to show that this government is committed to this issue and committed to protecting democracy,” Chanda said.
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You are here: Home / Arts & Entertainment / Sakura-Con costumed invaders land in downtown Seattle!
Sakura-Con costumed invaders land in downtown Seattle!
April 24, 2014 By John Liu
By John Liu
Super Mario was jumping around Seattle downtown and yes, Batman was eating at Subway among thousands of interesting and strange characters flooding last weekend.<!–more–>
Jann Lee, Ayane, and Kasumi from the video game “Dead or Alive” strike a pose at Sakura-Con. (Photo by John Liu/NWAW)
Sakura-Con estimates more than 20,000 people attended this year’s conference on April 18 through April 20 at the Washington State Convention Center. This is the largest anime convention in the Northwest, and is the eighth largest North American anime convention as of 2013, according to Delahanty from AnimeCons.com.
Dressing up as your favorite anime character, video game character, or comic book hero was the norm when attending Sakura-Con. It claimed 80 percent of attendees were in costume for at least one day at the convention.
What do people say about Sakura-Con’s cosplay?
Street Fighters Cammy, Chun Li and Sakura. (Photo by John Liu/NWAW)
“Too much fantasy. Weird costumes. Weird people.”
“What the heck is cosplay about?”
The majority of Baby Boomers and Generation Xers are lost on the costume thing. “Cosplay” is short for “costume play.” It is a performance art or hobby in which participants wear costumes and use accessories to represent a specific character and has grown in popularity in the last 20 years.
Talk about passion. Some attendees spend $1,000 on the material, and then spend 1,000-plus hours perfecting their costume. You think it’s crazy? It’s no different then an athlete spending thousands of dollars and practicing for hours trying to achieve perfection.
This was my first time at Sakura-Con. No, I didn’t “cosplay.” I was trying to figure out what to see. The last anime series I saw was around 10 years ago. After that, it was the latest U.S. release of Hayao Miyazaki’s cute and adorable animated movies like “Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away.”
League of Legends costumes was quite popular at this year’s Sakura-Con. Here is Blood Moon Akali. (Photo by George Liu/NWAW)
The convention took up 10,000 square feet. The program schedule alone was 12 pages long. A whole exhibition hall was dedicated strictly to merchandising. I had some time to swing by the arcades, game and card-playing rooms, D&D, and sword demonstrations. More than a dozen rooms were showing continuous anime for hours on end. There was definitely something to do for everyone. The Wii Just Dance 2014 – Psy’s Gentleman was impressive.
What a cool sight to see all these cosplayers dancing together!
My friend David was demonstrating Iaido for the first time at Sakura-Con. I was not expecting many people to go since very few people usually show up at their competitions. But when I entered the Exhibition Hall, there was a decent crowd of 40 people watching the Iaido demonstration. Laido’s ancient sword techniques appeal to attendees because of sword fighting in animes.
One of the demonstrators was in a full set of Samurai armor dating back to the 1800’s. The ironic part was that while others at the convention were cosplaying, Emily was the real deal.
If Sakura-Con sounds familiar to those around Chinatown, that’s because a group of the participants have regularly held a costume contest and marched in the Chinatown Parade, the 2014 Dragonfest, and the Chinatown Seafair Parade every year. If you can’t get enough of cosplay, be sure to stop by Chinatown for those events.
Maybe next year, I’ll dress up too to join the fun! (end)
John Liu can be reached at john@nwasianweekly.com.
Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Baby Boomers, Blood Moon Akali, Chinatown Parade, Chinatown Seafair Parade, Chun Li, Exhibition Hall, Hayao Miyazaki, Jann Lee, North American, Northwest Asian Weekly, Princess Mononoke, Seattle, Spirited Away, Street Fighters Cammy, Super Mario, Vol 33 No 18 | April 26 - May 2, Washington State Convention Center
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early and awful Aug. 27, 2010
Sharron Angle Trying to Bring McCarthyism Back Into Style
The tea-party candidate, in a neck-and-neck battle with Harry Reid, agreed with a radio host last year who said that “we have domestic enemies … in the walls of the Senate and the Congress.” Yesterday, after the interview was unearthed just in time for a new Reid ad portraying Angle as “too extreme,” a different radio host gave Angle two opportunities to clarify whether she really believes that certain members of the Senate and Congress are purposefully trying to destroy the country from within (as opposed to, say, just doing what they think is right in a way Angle doesn’t agree with). She declined. No wonder 66 percent of the people who plan to vote for Angle say they wish the GOP had nominated someone else.
Sharron Angle twice refuses to disavow claim that there are “domestic enemies” in Congress [Plum Line/WP]
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Your invitation to Manchester: A Certain Future's 2015 AGM
In Buildings, Energy, Green & blue spaces and Society on 19.06.2015
Contributed by Gavin Elliot
Manchester: A Certain Future's AGM is on 7 July at Manchester Town Hall with Sir Richard Leese opening and a keynote from Craig Bennett, the new Executive Director of Friends of the Earth.
Manchester: A Certain Future is the city’s action plan to reduce carbon emissions by 41%. The action plan is a stakeholder plan written by organisations from the city and so it is owned by the city. And we all have a part to play.
Activities are taking place across the city to assist in meeting the targets of the plan, and we’d like to tell you more about this, and ask for your views and ideas for how the city can work together to tackle climate change.
Our AGM is taking place on Tuesday 07th July 2015 at the Town Hall in Manchester and we would love it if you were able to attend.
Sir Richard Leese will welcome attendees, followed by a presentation from me, the Chair, on the MACF Annual Report 2015. The keynote Speaker is Craig Bennett, the new Executive Director of Friends of The Earth.
There will be an opportunity to question the M:ACF Steering Group panel on progress made so far to reduce carbon emissions in the city and time to network with other delegates. Doors will open at 5:30pm for a prompt 6pm start; a wine reception will follow around 7:30pm.
There are some big names involved in the plan and in the AGM so what a great opportunity to align your business or organisation to the city’s commitment to reduce its carbon emissions.
Please click on this link to register your free place.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss your involvement, please feel free to contact Steph Lynch: manchesteracf@gmail.com
Gavin Elliott – Chair of the MACF Steering Group
Download: Invitation to the AGM [PDF, 3.89Mb]
Q&A: Manchester: A Certain Future
Contributed by Clare Wiley
Manchester: A Certain Future is the city’s recognition of climate change, and a commitment to take collaborative action. Clare Wiley speaks to Gavin Elliot, chair of the MACF steering group
Juniper keynote at a Certain Future AGM
Manchester's climate change plan will report on progress and feature a keynote address from a leading climate campaigner at its AGM on Tuesday, 10 June.
Future climate in focus as 2014 sets new record temperature
As news breaks of another record-setting year for the global climate, what does the climate shift mean for our towns and cities? A ‘Future Climate Forum’ in February will be looking for some answers.
Gavin Elliot
Chairman, Manchester: A Certain Future Steering Group
Articles by Gavin Elliot
Gavin is director of architecture, head of Manchester studio, and head of sport for the architecture practice BDP. Gavin joined BDP straight from university and he has had the good fortune that nearly all the projects he has worked on have been built. Recent completions have been – Aintree Racecourse, Abito apartments and Devonshire Primary school – all award winners and now The Point hospitality building at the Lancashire Country Cricket Club.
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Tower Hill question
Jon Hunt tabled a question to Cabinet member Cllr Tahir Ali on Tuesday about the problems at the Tower Hill junction and the reason why a 30mph zone has been rejected here. The answer speaks for itself. There is no recognition that the measures taken have not stopped the illegal u-turns:
CITY COUNCIL – 16 SEPTEMBER 2014
WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE CABINET MEMBER FOR DEVELOPMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE ECONOMY FROM COUNCILLOR JON HUNT
Could the Cabinet Member indicate if he has definitely ruled out consideration of a 30mph zone on the Walsall Road in the vicinity of Tower Hill, as requested in a residents’ petition of autumn 2012, noting the evidence of strong pedestrian use of the road at this point and that alternative attempts to tweak road safety at this junction seem to have proved counterproductive?
Speed limits on all principal roads are reviewed periodically to determine the appropriate speed limit for traffic. This assessment includes analysis of various factors including measured speeds and accident history.
The A34 route along Walsall Road was assessed in 2011 as part of a city-wide review of speed limits. This particular length of Walsall Road around was assessed again this year following safety concerns being raised. On both occasions when weighed against the criteria governing the setting of speed limits, the professional assessment has been that 40mph is the appropriate speed limit. As part of the latter assessment, the view of West Midlands Police as the enforcement authority was sought and they agreed with the assessment.
The other changes recently made at the junction were primarily to prevent a specific safety issue where drivers were illegally u-turning and near misses were being reported on a pedestrian crossing as a result. Those changes remove that conflict and whilst I understand it may have resulted slight increases in traffic queuing in peak times for one particular manoeuvre (turning right in to Beeches Road), I believe in terms of pedestrian safety this has been a positive change.
Last posting on this topic - July
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Swimming pool at scrutiny
Finally the swimming pool petition has had its day at committee - at the city council's districts and public engagement scrutiny committee yesterday.
City head of sport Steve Hollinsworth tabled a report on the proposals for the pool and Cllr Jon Hunt, chair of Friends of Beeches Pool, explained the background and how the petition came to be, and asked a series of questions. Jon pointed out the pool had been built originally in Great Barr because of a public campaign - and that in fact it serves a large cachment area from Great Barr to Aston and including 18 schools.
There was also an impassioned speech from the floor from one of our campaigners Allan Ball, who stressed the lifesaving benefits of swimming.
Committee members stressed that a petition of 10,000 signatures should not be ignored and promised to keep an eye on future progress.
Steve explained that Beeches Pool would go into the "future framework contract" with a number of other pools, probably across the north of the city. A report confirming the contract is set to go to city cabinet later this month.
Under the deal, which is similar to the one in place in Harborne, contractors will have to provide minimum opening hours, maximum fees, full repairs and protection of clubs and their times.
Jon Hunt asked four questions:
1/ There had been problems at Harborne with the swimming club and these partly centred on the right of the club to run its own learn to swim programmes.
2/ Was there a risk the pool could be moth-balled if the contractor decided the repair bill was too high or something happened requiring major repairs?
3/ Was there a risk the pool could be moth-balled if the contractor decided it could not make enough money?
4/ What would be done about involving the community, especially given the huge amount of good will revealed by the campaign to save the pool?
Steve replied.
1/ Yes Harborne and the swimming club had not worked out. There are a series of meetings planned with the ASA and the clubs about future arrangements over the next few weeks. It appears they are looking for a deal on learn to swim meaning the pools themselves undertake the basic learn to swim - but at some point children can transfer to the swimming clubs for advanced coaching.
2/ The contractors are liable under the contract to keep the pools in good repair for the 15 years of the contract It was recognised there could be significant costs at Beeches and these were being offset by the new builds and other capital investment in the other pools in the area.
3/ Under the contract, the contractors would have to keep the pool open.
In response to 2 and 3, Steve said the contractors would face financial penalties if they decided they could no longer run a pool.
"They cannot withdraw from the site without our permission. It would be a significant contract change."
The council believes that private contractors are much better able to market facilities and encourage use than the council.
4/ Steve promised future public involvement, saying that pools would have user groups and management boards.
There was also a contribution from Oscott councillor Keith Linnecor and some discussion about getting investment from "planning gain", for instance from the site of the former Booths Lane golf course.
You can watch the full discussion here: http://bit.ly/1uAaB2u
More Flashbacks to the campaign last winter:
Karen Hamilton, Jon Hunt and Allan Ball on the first day of campaigning
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ME AND GOD DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD
Milking Ol' Betsy (For All She's Worth)
DECOLONIZING GOD
GENOCIDOSIS
NOAM CHOMSKY in LEBANON: Choosing Dialogue Over Destruction
Left Wing Bastards and Other Details
Global Fund Cup, 2007—be there!
Genetically Modified Colonialism
EVERYBODY HURTS... Introduction Essay for Noam Chomsky
The Long and the
Short of It
On the Verge of India
On The Road To Understanding (Ken)
Activating Something
Breathing and Trusting
I Dream Uganda: Thoughts on Hell, Hope and Humility
Monkey Do
A Meating of Hearts and Minds
Mad Cowboys and an Inconvenient Truth
Eating, Epidemics, Extermination and the Electric Car
June 5/2006 4:28 AM
It was serendipitous that I met Howard Lyman at the Vancouver planetarium last night. Howard is a hulking bear of a man and a former Montana cattle rancher who is now—hold onto your begging bowl—a vegan and author of the anti-factory farming memoir Mad Cowboy.
While on stage, Howard told a story about being asked to speak at the famed and praise-worthy Sierra Club, an environmental organization dedicated to saving the resources of this magnificent planet (including humans, who pay their fees).
At the gala event, steak was served for dinner.
This did not bode well with Howard, who upon reaching the podium called the Club, in his 'down home' way, "...a bunch of hypocrites," and so on.
Evidently, the Sierra Club president was not amused.
Yet how can an environmental organization as fantastic as the Sierra Club not see the irony of serving meat provided by an industry whose practices can be systematically cruel, monetarily unsustainable, devastating to the environment and without significant regard for future generations?
I've actually been noticing for some time now how often environmental groups fail to include factory farming in their objections.
One reason may be it is intensely difficult—some would say impossible—for even highly compassionate individuals and organizations to not get trapped within the systemic abuse of the societal system funding their activities.
We all know that problem. Try not driving to work.
As fate would have it, about the exact hour I met Howard and heard his story, UNICEF—admirably committed for over fifty years to diminishing the suffering of humans worldwide—was holding its Annual General Meeting in Vancouver.
You know where this is going.
At the evening banquet, steak was the main course (an undercover, carnivorous, humanitarian spy tipped me off).
While speakers at the banquet, I am sure, necessarily cried out against the unnecessary suffering of human beings and what must be done—it would be interesting to know who there heard the cries of systemically tortured animals—the evidence neatly hidden, spiced and garnished on the plate before them, and then swallowed into their bodies.
Now I must say, the meat served at the banquet may well have been locally and compassionately produced, which would make me a very happy and humbled knob. For I am as we speak also writing a documentary for UNICEF on AIDS in Africa—which makes this essay possibly the most politically stupid thing I've ever done. But all I'm actually doing is pointing out an oversight—a discordance. The record of UNICEF speaks for itself.
In an interview I did with deeply respected humanitarian Stephen Lewis, he describes UNICEF, "...when it summons the energy...as the single most effective multilateral organization on the face of the planet. I mean it is being challenged now by the remarkable work of the World Food Program and some remarkable work of the World Health Organization, but when UNICEF is unleashed, there is nothing like it. And the excitement that attaches to the [AIDS] initiative in 2005, is that it will be real, it will be rolled out and millions of children will benefit who haven't otherwise benefited."
That's exciting. I wish it changed the many well-documented miseries that hint at the link between the suffering of animals through factory farming and the suffering of humans on the fringe of survival (be it through war, famine or epidemic).
Under the colossus of factory farming, food (crops) once grown for human consumption is more and more converted into feed for animals and then fed back as meat to the wealthiest peoples of the world.
Meat as a cash crop is unsustainable for the world's poor, and often environmentally degrading. It's not even necessarily monetarily pragmatic for factory farmers.
Stephen Lewis points this out in his book Race Against Time, where cattle per head is often subsidized by tax-payer money at rates far higher than what is ever given by Western countries to the desperate children in sub-Saharan Africa.
Regardless of what it serves up to guests at a banquet, UNICEF should speak out against the abomination of unsustainable factory farming, and its effect on world hunger and access to food.
It's a mistake when humanitarian and environmental organizations choose a menu that puts their addictions more in line with the food spread at a banquet of Texas Oil men in Amarillo than those fighting for peace, justice and the poor of the world.
HIGH STEAKS
It is a given that upper echelon humanitarian and environmental agencies are highly dependent on donations from the wealthy for their survival. Likewise, meat has for centuries been a symbol of that status and wealth—and standard fare at banquets and fundraisers.
The dilemma is obvious. It's pervasive in universities, centres of research, schools and wherever else the need for food and funds are entwined. We all feel the crunch. Who will pay and why?
Bart Simpson summed it up in conversation with his environmentally conscious sister Lisa: "All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say, 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?' I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad."
For all Bart's brilliance—and god knows I love him—should he be the integrity monitor for international organizations and NGOs looking after the welfare of the world?
Food is at the core of human existence and well-being. Without good food, what else matters? As far as we know, not even love matters without food.
Environmental and humanitarian groups need to make the complete jump (so simple in the West) to supporting and practicing what they plead for—sustainable, humane living.
Imagine the insanity of a banquet for the abolition of slavery where all the waiters were slaves. Imagine a "Cure for Cancer" banquet that included the handing out of expensive after dinner Cuban cigars. Imagine women being barred from a banquet in support of the Suffragette Movement.(i)
Imagine people at a banquet to raise money to diminish human suffering, yet being served food produced through the systemic abuse of animals—and liking it.
Imagine people at a banquet hell-bent on raising money for the environment while eating food full of unnecessary chemicals and produced in a way that causes great damage to the earth.
It would be tragic if the likes of the Sierra Club, UNICEF and hundreds of other remarkable humanitarian and environmental organizations were to one day look back in shame and regret at their complicity with and silence at the massive moral and practical side-effects of factory farming.
Speaking of silence, I hope Al Gore's upcoming film—An Inconvenient Truth—on global warming turns the tide on my generalized opinions and addresses the environmental disaster of unsustainable factory farming.
After everything the former Vice President didn't say during the 2000 presidential campaign, and what's happened to America since, it would be amazing if he were to speak against this unconscionable suffering.
After all, the term An Inconvenient Truth speaks directly to that ironic and futile moment when we humans sit down at our meal of foie gras, prime rib, bacon and eggs or chicken cordon bleu, and begin both stuffing our face and blurting our hypocritical diatribe (as I have just done) against all the ills that have befallen the world as we know it.
For those of us who know we are so fortunate, we are so fortunate.
Which brings us back to our old ex-cattle rancher friend Howard Lyman. Howard said changing peoples' perception is like putting on coats of paint—you never know which one is going to finish the job.
In the Philosophy of Civilization, Albert Schweitzer wrote: "We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace."
Keep painting, Howard.
Photo: Chris Wayatt
(i) As absurd as "...women being barred from a banquet in support of the Suffragette Movement..." sounds, at an 1840 Anti-Slavery Conference in London, men controlling the convention refused to offer seating for speaker Lucretia Mott and other women delegates. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was there—and outraged.
It has been said that at this moment Ms. Mott vowed to fight for the rights of women—modeled on the methods of the Anti-Slavery Movement. Eight years later, Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were at the forefront of the first ever Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. From here came better educational and employment opportunities, and the Women's Suffrage movement leading to the eventual right to vote.
To this day men are unsure (depending on their political leanings and/or stupidity), whether it is wise or unwise to give up a seat to a woman.
I'm sure there are a few people in the States who still wish no one had said a word about the seat Rosa Parks chose to stay seated in at the front end of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Dec 1, 1955.
Sometimes little actions have big consequences.
Speaking of the Anti-Slavery Movement, Howard Lyman also told a story that night about John Newton (1725-1807), the writer of the more than famous hymn Amazing Grace .
This version of the story goes: John Newton, captain of a Trans-Atlantic slave ship, was carrying a full cargo of shackled slaves back to America when a dangerous swell put the ship in peril. Surrounded by the possibility of death, Newton vowed on board to never again transport slaves; he became a Christian, wrote Amazing Grace and spent the rest of his days fighting for the abolition of slavery.
Historian and writer Adam Hochschild, who wrote Bury the Chains and the painful King Leopold's Ghost, uncovered a different story.
For starters, Newton wrote Amazing Grace while still a slave ship captain.
And to continue the theme of absurd, even woeful, contradictions, the devout Newton supposedly would give Christian sermons on deck to his crew while the "African cargo" languished just below the prayers, chained and packed in the ship's throbbing bowels (no light, no movement, no rights, no hope, nobody to hear their human anguish—notice the similarities to factory farming (slaughterhouses), which supposedly also inspired Henry Ford's assembly lines).
Newton eventually left the slave industry for not moral but health reasons. He became rector of a church in London. For thirty years or so, he said barely a word about slavery, until a radical, relentlessly rabble-rousing, largely forgotten hero by the name of Thomas Clarkson came to see him.
Clarkson aroused some latent remorse in Newton, who at least wrote a pamphlet and gave a few anti-slavery sermons—contributing in its way to that great moral train valiantly chugging and coughing towards universal freedom.
That freedom train has stopped (even broken down) at so many awe-inspiring stations, picking up stories of courage, goodness, fear and hope, picking up people of every age, colour, gender, ability, language, religion and thought. She's even peeked over the mountain top a time or two—but is yet a long way from home.
I just imagined a grazing, happy old cow, lazily looking up and mooing in gratitude for a long life as the freedom train zoomed by.
Mooing back, my eyes got a little teary.
copyright 2006 Pete McCormack
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Atypical Presentation of Main-Duct Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm
Gustavo Kohan, Ornella A Ditulio, Gabriel Raffin, Alejandro Faerberg, Fernando Duek
Department of Surgery, Hospital Cosme Argerich, University of Buenos Aires, José Juan Biedma 773, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gustavo Kohan
Sanatorio de la Trinidad Mitre
Jose Juan Biedma 773. (1405) CABA
Tel: +54 9 11 54212211
Received February 19th, 2017 - Accepted May 18th, 2017
Context Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm is a ductal epithelial tumor characterized by dilation of the pancreatic duct due to mucus production and is a pre-neoplastic disease. The most used diagnostic studies are computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance cholangio-pancreatography. Case Report A Sixty-three-year-old female presented with fever and a painful palpable abdominal mass in the left flank. Ultrasonography revealed a supra-aponeurotic fluid collection that was punctured, obtaining purulent material. Computed tomography scan showed a supra aponeurotic collection communicated with a cystic image that extended behind the stomach and involved the pancreas, which also showed dilatation of the Wirsung duct. Magnetic resonance cholangio-pancreatography showed dilatation of the main pancreatic duct from the pancreatic head up to the tail of the pancreas and was also communicated with a large cystic cavity behind the gastric antrum. The intraoperative finding evidenced a communication of the supra-aponeurotic collection with a cystic tumor that involved the pancreas and the posterior surface of the stomach. Left pancreatectomy with splenectomy and antrectomy was performed, sectioning the pancreas at the neck. Frozen section of the pancreatic duct surface revealed severe dysplasia at the main duct. Resection was completed by performing pancreatoduodenectomy. The pathologic analysis revealed cystic papillary mucinous neoplasia with foci of high-grade dysplasia and invasive colloid-type carcinoma. Conclusions This is an atypical presentation of type 1 intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm, but the diagnosis was suspected in the preoperative period with the computed tomography scan, the magnetic resonance cholangio-pancreatography and the upper GI endoscopy. It is important to know all the possible differential diagnosis to decide the best surgical procedure. In cases of invasive type 1 intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm, involving other organs, an aggressive surgical resection is the best choice for the patient.
Neoplasms; Pancreatic Ducts
IPMN intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm; MRCP magnetic resonance cholangio-pancreatography
Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasia (IPMN) is a ductal epithelial tumor characterized by dilation of the pancreatic duct due to mucus production. It is a pre-neoplastic disease that is usually manifested by acute pancreatitis, abdominal pain, endocrine or exocrine pancreatic insufficiency or by complications of tumors associated with this disease such as jaundice or vomiting due to duodenal obstruction.
The diagnosis of IPMN increased as the quality of the imaging studies improved, being nowadays computed tomography scan (CT scan) and magnetic resonance cholangio-pancreatography (MRCP) the most used diagnostic studies [1]. The aim of this paper is to show an atypical presentation form of IPMN type1.
A Sixty-three-year-old female presented with fever and a painful palpable abdominal mass in the left flank. The patient had history of type 2 diabetes recently diagnosed and asymptomatic diverticula. Ultrasonography revealed a supra-aponeurotic fluid collection that was punctured, obtaining purulent material which was sent to culture (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Ultrasound showing fluid supra-aponeurotic collection. Purulent material obtained by puncture.
Diagnosis was completed with CT scan and MRCP. CT scan showed a supra aponeurotic collection communicated with a cystic image that extended behind the stomach and involved the pancreas, which also showed dilatation of the Wirsung duct. The uncinate process was preserved with a smaller dilation of the pancreatic duct (Figure 2). MRCP showed dilatation of the main pancreatic duct from the pancreatic head up to the tail of the pancreas and was also communicated with a large cystic cavity behind the gastric antrum (Figure 3). Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy was requested and a fistulous tract was identified at the level of the posterior surface of the antrum through which mucinous material was exited (Figure 4).
Figure 2. (a). CT scan, white arrows points supra-aponeurotic collection. (b). CT scan with cystic mass behind the stomach which involves the pancreas body. (c). White arrow shows Wirsung duct dilation. (d). White arrow points uncinate process with pancreatic duct dilation.
Figure 3. MRCP showing main pancreatic duct dilation and associated cystic lesion.
Figure 4. Upper GI endoscopy. Fistulous tract with mucinous material.
Exploratory laparotomy was performed. The intraoperative finding (Figure 5) evidenced a communication of the supra-aponeurotic collection with a cystic tumor that involved the pancreas and the posterior surface of the stomach. The cystic tumor was communicated with the gastric antrum as was reported by the upper GI endoscopy. Intraoperative ultrasound confirmed the dilation of the main pancreatic duct in the pancreatic head without evidence of pancreatic tumor or lithiasis inside the duct. Left pancreatectomy with splenectomy and antrectomy was performed, sectioning the pancreas at the neck. Frozen section of the pancreatic duct surface revealed severe dysplasia with foci of carcinoma at the main duct. Resection was completed by performing pancreatoduodenectomy (Figure 6). The pathologic analysis revealed intestinal-type cystic papillary mucinous neoplasia with foci of high-grade dysplasia and invasive colloid-type carcinoma. Stomach did not showed tumor invasion and the fistulous track showed mucinous material.
Figure 5. Intraoperative image. Yellow arrow points cystic tumor behind the stomach.
Figure 6. Specimen (a). Spleen, pancreas, stomach and open cystic tumor. (b). Scissors through the fistulous tract between stomach and the pancreatic tumor. (c). Pancreatoduodenectomy specimen.
The patient was discharged 10 days after surgery without complications.
IPMN were first classified into a unified diagnosis by the World Health Organization in 1996 [2]. There are two types of presentation of this disease. The Type I involves the main pancreatic duct and has high incidence of malignant degeneration and Type II affects peripheral pancreatic ducts, having an incidence of malignant degeneration much lower than type I [3, 4].
The type I IPMN is characterized by a diffuse or segmental dilation of the Wirsung duct over 0.6 centimeters [5]. However, when analyzing the imaging studies, it must be considered that there are other pathologies that may cause dilatation of the pancreatic duct. Usually the IPMN dilatation is uniform and regular, unlike the dilation in the chronic pancreatitis which is characterized by an irregular dilation of the pancreatic duct. In some situations dilatations of IPMN can be confused with obstructive dilatations produced by small head tumors. The best diagnostic method to assess the pancreatic duct is the MRCP. The CT scan has special utility to detect the presence of an associated tumor and the related complications. On the other hand, the CT scan has the utility to rule out other pancreatic pathologies that can lead to dilatation of the pancreatic ducts. For a correct differential diagnosis it is essential to assess the clinical history of the patient.
In the analysis of the present case, there are three differential diagnoses. The first one is complications of pancreatic necrosis. The retrogastric fluid collection on CT scan and the wall abscess are images compatible with walled off pancreatic necrosis. However, this diagnosis was ruled out because the patient did not report history of any episode of acute pancreatitis. The second differential diagnosis is the rupture of a pseudocyst secondary to chronic pancreatitis. The cystic image on the CT scan and MRCP is compatible with a chronic perforated and infected pseudocyst. But the patient did not have history of alcohol consumption, and there were lack of the characteristic images of chronic pancreatitis, such as intraductal or parenchymal calcifications or irregular Wirsung dilatation. Another differential diagnosis to consider is that cystic image is a retentional cyst caused by a pancreatic head tumor. This type of dilation is not frequent but has been described [6] and should always be consider in the differential diagnosis. There are situations where the tumor is very small and is not detected on the CT scan or MRCP. However, in this case, the presence of a head tumor was ruled out when performing intraoperative ultrasound. Echoendoscopy would have been useful in the preoperative evaluation to rule out the presence of a tumor in the pancreatic head but would not have changed the surgical behavior.
Typical presentation symptoms of IPMN are acute pancreatitis, abdominal pain, diabetes, exocrine insufficiency, or jaundice. The presentation in this patient with fever and wall abscess, makes it a totally atypical presentation which made us doubting about the diagnosis of IPMN.
The other issue to be discussed in this case is the extent of surgical resection. Studies have suggested that IPMNs grow according to the adenoma-carcinoma sequence, and therefore various histopathologies such as adenoma, Carcinoma in situ (CIS), and invasive carcinoma can be seen in the same patient. When deciding on a therapeutic strategy, it is very important to choose a suitable treatment method for each patient [7, 8, 9, 10]. In this patient a left pancreatectomy with splenectomy and antrectomy was performed and the pancreas was sectioned in a place where the caliber of the Wirsung duct was smaller than the rest of the pancreas. Frozen section revealed severe dysplasia with foci of carcinoma, forcing the total pancreatectomy and duodenectomy. Frozen section with mild or even moderate dysplasia is not associated with a higher rate of recurrence than in negative cases [8], allowing the preservation of pancreatic parenchyma and avoiding the complications of total pancreatectomy. However, these patients should be closely monitored with MRCP or CT scan. If there is local invasion of other organs, an extended surgical resection is indicated.
In conclusion, this is an atypical presentation of type 1 IPMN, but the diagnosis was suspected in the preoperative period with the CT scan, the MRCP and the upper GI endoscopy. It is important to know all the possible differential diagnosis to decide the best surgical procedure. In cases of invasive type 1 IPMN involving other organs (like the stomach in this case), an aggressive surgical resection is the best choice for the patient.
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Allen P. The Management of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas. Surg Oncol Clin N Am 2010; 19:297–310. [PMID: 20159516]
Tanaka M, Chari S, Adsay V, Fernandez-del Castillo C, Falconi M, Shimizu M, et al. International consensus guidelines for management of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms and mucinous cystic neoplasms of the pancreas. Pancreatology 2006; 6: 17-32. [PMID: 16327281]
Tanaka M, Fernández-del Castillo C, Adsay V, Chari S, Falconi M, Jang JY, et al. International Association of Pancreatology. International consensus guidelines 2012 for the management of IPMN and MCN of the pancreas. Pancreatology 2012; 12: 183-197. [PMID: 22687371]
Hackert T, Fritz S, Klauss M, Bergmann F, Hinz F, Strobel O, et al. Mainduct Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm High Cancer Risk in Duct Diameter of 5 to 9 mm. Ann Surg 2015; 262:875-881. [PMID: 26583679]
Kohan G, Oria A, Ocampo C, Zandalazini H, Baglietto N. Dilatación quística del conducto de Wirsung por carcinoma neuroendócrino no funcionante de páncreas. Revista Argentina de Cirugía 2008; 94:93-97.
Serikawa M, Sasaki T, Fujimoto Y, Kuwahara K, Cayama K. Management of Intraductal Papillary-mucinous Neoplasm of the PancreasTreatment Strategy Based on Morphologic Classification. J Clin Gastroenterol 2006; 40:856–862. [PMID: 17016145]
Furukawa T, Takahashi T, Kobari M, Matsuno S. The mucus hypersecreting tumor of the pancreas. Development and extension visualized by three-dimensional computerized mapping. Cancer 1992; 70:1505–1513. [PMID: 1516002]
Z’graggen K, Rivera JA, Compton CC, Pins M, Werner J, Fernándezdel Castillo C, et al. Prevalence of activating K-ras mutations in the evolutionary stages of neoplasia in intraductal papillary mucinous tumors of the pancreas. Ann Surg 1997; 226:491–498. [PMID: 9351717]
White R, D’Angelica M, Katabi N, Tang L, Klimstra D, Fong Y, et al. Fate of the Remnant Pancreas after Resection of Noninvasive Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm. J Am Coll Surg 2007; 204:983-997. [PMID: 17481526]
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Epigastric Mass Due to a Hydatid Cyst of the Pancreas. A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Seyed Reza Moosavi, Houman Khajouei Kermany
Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Shohada-e Tajrish Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran
Seyed Reza Moosavi
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical
Siences
Shohada-Tajrish,MedicalCenter
Phone: +98-21.227.8001-12
Fax: +98-21.227.2144; +98-21.228.62756
Received January 8th, 2007 - Accepted February 1st, 2007
Context Primary hydatid disease of the pancreas is very rare. Case report We report the case of a 30-year-old man who presented with abdominal pain and an epigastric mass. A diagnosis of a pancreatic cyst was established by ultrasonography and CT scan before surgery. The treatment consisted of the resection of the protruding dome with a cystogastrostomy. The recovery was uneventful and the patient has remained symptom free so far. Conclusions Hydatid disease should be considered in the differential diagnosis of all cystic masses in the pancreas, especially in the geographical regions where the disease is endemic.
Echinococcosis; Surgical Procedures, Operative; Pancreatic Cyst
Pancreatic location of hydatid disease is extraordinarily rare, with an incidence of less than 1% as compared to the other sites of hydatid disease [1, 2]. Establishing a precise diagnosis may be difficult because the presenting symptoms and the findings of clinical investigations may be similar to other more commonly encountered cystic lesions of the pancreas [3]. Clinical presentation varies according to the anatomic location of the cyst. Abdominal pain, discomfort and vomiting are the main clinical symptoms. The patient may present with obstructive jaundice, weight loss, an epigastric mass, and/or recurrent acute pancreatitis [4, 5]. The diagnosis is based on an enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assay (ELIZA) test for echinococcal antigens, which is positive in over 85% of infected patients [6]. Ultrasonography will typically demonstrate a cyst with a wall of varying thickness. Computed tomographic findings, such as rounded cystic lesions with curvilinear calcification may allow the diagnosis to be made in the appropriate clinical setting [7]. A definitive diagnosis of hydatid disease of the pancreas can be made only at surgery and, during surgical treatment of hydatid cysts, extreme caution must be taken to avoid rupture of the cysts which would release protoscolices into the peritoneal cavity. Multiple surgical procedures, such as proper evacuation, pericystectomy and omentoplasty, are possible. A hydatid cyst in the tail of the pancreas can be successfully treated with a distal pancreatectomy [8, 9]. In this article, we present the case of a patient with an isolated hydatid cyst of the pancreas.
The patient was a 30-year-old man who presented in January 2006 to our hospital with epigastric pain, occasional vomiting, and an epigastric mass of 3 month duration. On physical examination, the vital signs were normal. The only positive sign besides a hard epigastric mass was mild tenderness. Ultrasonography and CT scan showed a cyst at the head of the pancreas, 6x8 cm in diameter (Figure 1). The hydatid cyst was recognized before surgery on the basis of the epidemiological data and the existence of a calcified shell. The indirect hemagglutination test was positive. The patient underwent midline transperitoneal laparotomy and an isolated hydatid cyst of the pancreas was found without communication to the pancreatic duct. The content of the cyst was removed without any spillage and a cystogastrostomy was performed. The patient was started on 800 mg/day albendazole after surgery. Recovery was uneventful and the patient has remained symptom free so far.
Figure 1. CT scan of the pancreatic mass.
We emphasize the low incidence of hydatid disease in a pancreatic site (0.2-2% in the literature) [1, 2, 10]. The most common differential diagnosis between a hydatid cyst and pancreatic cystic tumors is the presence of a serous cyst adenoma. Though very rare, pancreatic hydatidosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of cystic lesions of the pancreas in the appropriate epidemiological setting. In the literature, the surgical treatment of pancreatic hydatid disease is complete excision of the cyst, but this has the potential risk of spillage or of damaging the pancreatic tissue, however, it seems that when we have a large cyst with extensive adherence to the surrounding pancreatic parenchyma, a cystogastrostomy may be a satisfactory treatment. When there is a lack of surgical radicality, we should consider adjuvant medical therapy with benzoimidazoles (e.g, albendazole).
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Khiari A, Mzali R, Ouali M, Kharrat M, KechaouMS, Beyrouti MI. Hydatid cyst of the pancreas.Apropos of 7 cases.Ann GastroenterolHepatol (Paris) 1994; 30:87-91. [PMID 8067682]
Krige JE, Mirza K, Bornman PC, Beningfield SJ.Primary hydatid cysts of the pancreas. S Afr J Surg2005; 43:37-40. [PMID 16035381]
Safioleas MC, Moulakakis KG, Manti C, KostakisA. Clinical considerations of primary hydatid diseaseof the pancreas. Pancreatology 2005; 5:457-61. [PMID15985772]
Ozmen MM, Moran M, Karakahya M, CoskunF.Recurrent acute pancreatitis due to a hydatid cyst of the pancreatic head: a case report and review of the literature. JOP. J Pancreas (Online) 2005; 6:354-8.[PMID 16006687]
Sayek I, Onat D. Diagnosis and treatment of uncomplicated hydatid cyst of the liver. World J Surg2001; 25:21-7. [PMID 11213152]
Missas S, Gouliamos A, Kourias E, KalovidourisA. Primary hydatid disease of the pancreas.GastrointestRadiol 1987; 12:37-8. [PMID 3792756]
Ugras S, Sakarya ME, Arslan H, Bozkurt M, Akdeniz H. The diagnosis by fine needle aspirationbiopsy of hydatid cyst of the pancreas. ActaChirBelg1997; 97:244-6. [PMID 9394966]
Erkan N, Haciyanli M, Yildirim M, Yilmaz C. A case report of the unusual presence of hydatid diseasein the pancreas and breast. JOP. J Pancreas (Online) 2004; 5:368-72. [PMID 15365205]
D'Alia C, Lo Schiavo MG, Tonante A, Gagliano E, Taranto F, Bonanno L, Sturniolo G. Pancreatic Echinococcosis. Report of a clinical case and review of the literature. ChirItal 2003; 55:581-4. [PMID12938607]
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Norwegian Maritime Exporters
About NME
Winner of Ship of the Year 2018
5. September 2018 NME
Ship of The Year is a prestigious and important award for both the maritime industry, the shipbuilding industry and the shipping industry in general. The award is instituted by SKIPSREVYEN, a major Norwegian shipping magazine. The candidates are nominated by the magazine’s readers, but the final election is made by an expert judging panel consisting of the Publisher and Editor of SKIPSREVYEN, Mr. Asle B. Strønen, the CEO of the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association, Mr. Harald Solberg and the Director of maritime sector in Norwegian industry, Lars Gørvell-Dahll. NME is proud and honoured that winners of this prestigious award has been announced at the Team Norway pavilion at Nor-Shipping every other year, and this year at SMM.
NME would like to use the occasion to congratulate this year’s winner, Future of The Fjord. The win marks the second time in three years that owner The Fjords, together with shipyard Brødrene Aa, has secured the title, with sister ship Vision of The Fjords taking the prize in 2016.
Although both vessels share the same energy efficient carbon fibre hull, Future of The Fjords was seen by awards organizer SKIPSREVYEN, its readers and expert judging panel as marking a major leap forward in sustainable transport, both on the water and, potentially, on land.
“We’re proud to receive this accolade and excited about what it means for ourselves, our stakeholders and the wider transport industry,” says The Fjords CEO Rolf A. Sandvik. “Both Vision and Future were designed to showcase and protect the unique Norwegian UNESCO World Heritage listed landscape they sail through – delivering an optimal passenger experience, whereby visitors can become at one with nature, without impacting upon it.”
“However, while Vision, with its hybrid solution, marked the start of that journey, Future, a true zero emission, silent running vessel, really signals the fulfilment of our dream.” Future of The Fjords is the world’s first all-electric carbon fibre vessel, but this wasn’t the only deciding factor in elevating the vessel above fellow award nominees Antarctic Endurance, a krill harvesting ship owned by Aker Biomarine, and PONANT’s expedition cruise ship Le Lapérouse.
The revolutionary ‘power dock’ charging solution was also key to the win, as Sandvik explains:“Due to the limited local grid capability in our port of Gudvangen we could only access a charging capacity of 1.2MWh, just half of what the vessel requires,” he notes. “So we, together with Brødrene Aa, in collaboration with our project partners, had to think a little differently to achieve our aims. Together we came up with the idea of a floating 2.4MWh battery bank contained in a 40m long glass fibre composite body. This could simply and slowly top up capacity from the grid through the day without the need for disruptive and expensive power surges.
“Then we started to think about how else we could utilise the structure. Could we use it to take on black water from the vessels too, so we didn’t have to dump sewage directly into the fjords like other passenger vessels? In this way we could make Future truly ZERO emissions, both to air and to water. And it didn’t stop there. We ended up fitting the dock with a 40 m3 diesel tank for Vision, alongside storage room for on-board consumables, allowing the vessels to maximise passenger capacity. It’s a one of a kind piece of floating infrastructure, with potential far beyond this project.”
The Fjords and Brødrene Aa now believe the dock can be used as a widespread enabler for green transport on land. The idea is that anywhere there’s an electric ferry – often remote rural locations with limited grid capacity – power docks can be used to charge electric cars, buses and other transport modes. In this way they could form cost effective, efficient and easy to install local power hubs, changing the way communities move.
“As such this project, and this win, is about more than just one ship, it’s about the Future,” concludes Sandvik. “We firmly believe it has the potential to make waves right across the globe. It’s great to see that others, including the award jury, see those possibilities too.”
Future of The Fjords launched in May and will now make around 700 round-trip voyages a year, silently sailing between Flåm and Gudvangen, with the highlight of the trip the stunning UNESCO listed Nærøyfjord. Both Vision and Future offer panoramic views from inside, while enabling all passengers, including those of limited mobility, to climb over them outside. In recognition of this accessibility, the design received the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture (DOGA) Universal Design ‘Transport’ award 2017, as well as the overall 2017 DOGA Innovation prize.
Congratulations to The Fjords, and best of luck on your journey ahead!
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PodCastle 136: The Christmas Mummy
Authors : Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt
Narrator : Rish Outfield
Originally published in A Christmas Chapbook.
http://media.rawvoice.com/podcastle/p/media.libsyn.com/media/podcastle/PC136_TheChristmasMummy.mp3
Happy holidays to all of you from all of us at PodCastle!
The Christmas Mummy
by Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt
Trish led Nate from the room, into the hall — their parents’ door was closed — and onto the stairs. She could hear someone moving down there. Trish crept down the carpeted steps. The only light in the living room came from the bright Christmas tree. Even the yule log in the fireplace had burned down.
Two men, dressed in black pajamas with their faces covered, were tying a big red ribbon around a crate that was bigger than the couch.
“Ninjas?” Trish whispered to her brother.
“Christmas ninjas,” Nate said.
One of the ninjas pulled up his mask a little and ate one of the cookies they’d left for Santa. He drank the milk, too, leaving a white mustache on his ninja mask when he pulled it back down over his mouth.
Categories: Podcasts, Rated G
Heather Shaw
Heather Shaw is a writer, editor, bookkeeper, sewist, and lindy hopper living in Berkeley, CA with her husband and 12-year-old son, River. She’s had short fiction published in Strange Horizons, The Year’s Best Fantasy, Escape Pod, PodCastle, and other nice places. She has been the fiction editor at the erotica zine Fishnet, the speculative fiction zine Flytrap, and the pro-SF zine, Persistent Visions. She is currently working on a one-act modern feminist adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, which will have a staged reading in San Francisco in November of 2020. She can be found online at https://www.facebook.com/hlshaw.
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Tim Pratt
Tim Pratt is the author of more than 20 novels, most recently the Axiom space opera trilogy, including Philip K. Dick Award finalist The Wrong Stars, The Dreaming Stars, and The Forbidden Stars. He’s a Hugo Award winner for short fiction, and has been a finalist for Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Mythopoeic, Stoker, and other awards. His latest collection is Miracles & Marvels. He tweets incessantly (@timpratt) and publishes a new story every month for patrons at www.patreon.com/timpratt.
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Rish Outfield
Rish Outfield is a writer, voice actor, and audiobook narrator. He got his start co-hosting the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine and That Gets My Goat podcasts, where he and Big Anklevich attempt to waste time entertainingly. He also features his own stories on the Rish Outcast podcast. He once got a job because of his Sean Connery impersonation . . . but has lost two due to his Samuel L. Jackson impression.
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SAP to Hire Autistic Staff in Foundation's First Global Alliance - Bloomberg
SAP AG (SAP), the biggest business-management software maker, will start employing more people with autism as software testers, programmers and in data management.
SAP is forming an alliance with Specialisterne, a foundation to promote employment for autistic people in technology industries, and will find jobs for those with the disorder as it adds programs around the world, the Walldorf, Germany-based company said in a statement yesterday.
``SAP sees a potential competitive advantage to leveraging the unique talents of people with autism, while also helping them to secure meaningful employment,’’ the company said.
Autism interferes with brain development and is linked to poor social interaction and communication skills as well as repeated body movements, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The disorder has no known cause or cure and about 1 in 88 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with an autism-related condition.
A pilot program involved six software testers in India, and SAP is now hiring five autistic people in Ireland. SAP said it will expand the project to the U.S., Canada and Germany this year and that this is the foundation’s first global agreement with a company.
Specialisterne, originally founded in Denmark, is owned by the Specialist People Foundation, a non-profit organization.
To contact the reporter on this story: Chris Spillane in Johannesburg at cspillane3@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Kenneth Wong at kwong11@bloomberg.net
SAP to Hire Autistic Staff in Foundation’s First Global Alliance
An illuminated logo sits above the SAP AG headquarters in Walldorf.
An illuminated logo sits above the SAP AG headquarters in Walldorf. Photographer: Ralph Orlowski/Bloomberg
April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-chief executive officer of SAP AG, discusses the company's first-quarter profit reported today, growth in Asia and business outlook. He speaks from Walldorf, Germany, with Mark Barton and Anna Edwards on Bloomberg Television's "Countdown." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Rivette Family Genealogy
with associated families
Junior Rivet
#1680, b. 2 Jun 1872, d. 19 Jul 1925
Father Pierre Ernest Rivet b. 8 Jul 1835, d. 31 Oct 1903
Mother Marie Melinda Ross b. Dec 1844, d. 22 Oct 1916
Relationship 4th great-grandson of Etienne Rivet
Charts Descendants of Etienne Rivet of Acadia
Children of Junior Rivet and Annie Eliza Schlatre
Ernest James Rivet9 b. 3 Aug 1901
Roland Bernard Rivet9 b. 1 Jan 1903
Romuald Urban Rivet+9 b. 29 May 1904, d. May 1975
Robert Wickliffe Rivet+7 b. about Sep 1908, d. 12 Feb 1992
Outline of Life Events:
Birth Junior Rivet was born on 2 Jun 1872, probably at Iberville Parish, LA.1
Baptism He was baptized on 7 Jul 1872 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, LA. Sponsors were Auguste Rivet and Roselia Devilliers.1
Census1880, son Junior Rivet (given age 8) was enumerated as a son of Ernest Rivet (given age 45) on the 1880 Census, living in Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, LA.2
Military Junior Rivet served in the military in 1898 as a Private in the U.S. Army during the Spanish American War. He enlisted in Company E, 1st Louisiana Infantry, and mustered out in Florida.3,4
Marriage He married Annie Eliza Schlatre, daughter of Marcus T. Schlatre and Anna Eliza Bell, on 3 Jan 1900 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church at Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, LA. Witnesses were Charles Dupont, Laurence Voce, and Leo E. Rivet.1
Census1900 Junior Revet (given age 28) was enumerated as the head of a household on the 1900 census at Iberville Parish, LA. With him was his wife Anna . They lived in a rented home, and could both read, write and speak English. Junior was a carpenter.5
Census1910 Junior Rivet (given age 36) was enumerated as the head of a household on the 1910 census, living at 303 Court Street at Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, LA. Also living in the house was his wife Annie Rivet (given age 29), son Ernest Rivet (given age 9), Roland Rivet (given age 7), Erwin Rivet (given age 6) and Robert Rivet (given age 1 6/12). Junior was employed as a house carpenter. They rented their home, and could read, write and speak English.6
Residence 1920-1921, Junior Rivet lived at Roseburg Branch, Home for Disabled Soldiers in Hampton, VA.4
Census1920 Junior Rivet (given age 46) was enumerated as the head of a household on the 1920 census, living at New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA. Also living in the house was his wife Annie Rivet (given age 38), son(s) Ernest Rivet (given age 18), Roland Rivet (given age 17), Urbin Rivet (given age 15) and Wickliffe Rivet (given age 11). They rented their home at 5255 Annunciation Street. Junior worked as a carpenter.7
Death Junior Rivet died at age 53 on 19 Jul 1925 in Carville, Iberville Parish, LA.8
Burial He was buried at Baton Rouge National Cemetery in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA .3
[S18] Diocese of Baton Rouge, Catholic Church Records 1707-1900. BRDA : Baton Rouge, LA, 1978-2007.
[S247] 1880 U.S. Census. LA. Iberville Parish. population schedule.
[S284] Ancestry.com. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca. 1775-2006.
[S288] Ancestry.com. U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938.
[S276] 1920 U.S. Census. LA. Orleans Parish. population schedule.
[S752] FamilySearch. Louisiana, Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1960. Online https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1609793
[S1038] Diocese of Baton Rouge, Catholic Church Records, Baptisms 1901-1905. (Baton Rouge, LA: BRDA, 2013).
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Tom Rees has been promoted to offensive coordinator and Lance Taylor is moving up to run game coordinator in a shuffling of the Notre Dame football staff by coach Brian Kelly.
Rees is a former quarterback for Kelly at Notre Dame and had been the quarterbacks coach the past three seasons. Taylor was promoted from his role as running backs coach, Kelly announced Tuesday.
Kelly fired offensive coordinator Chip Long in early December and let the 27-year-old Rees and 38-year-old Taylor work with offensive line coach Jeff Quinn preparing the offense for their bowl game against Iowa State on Dec. 28.
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The Forgotten Christian Terror Cult That Presaged Trump’s Memes
How a right-wing conspiracy blossomed in the pre-internet age
Matt Farwell October 22, 2019
Last Christmas, I found myself alone, stoned, and poolside at the Trump National Doral Miami wearing a “Fake News” T-shirt under a fluffy white Trump robe. Before the noon checkout, I’d gone to catch some rays and take a video of myself reading a passage about Mike Flynn from a galley of my book.
I’d done a lot of reporting on Flynn’s career. In 2012, then a lieutenant general, Flynn was appointed by President Obama to run the Defense Intelligence Agency, but he was unceremoniously fired after two years of tumult and politicking in uniform. He would go on to secretly lobby for Turkey and spout conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health, as well as an imagined pedophilia ring in a Washington pizza parlor. This post-Army fall was fascinating to me because Flynn was a true military believer, a throwback to another era, Colonel Kurtz come home. People I respected in the Army respected him. My CIA friends did not seem to share this respect. He thought differently than most Army general officers I knew.
Flynn’s tenure in the Trump administration was even briefer: He was ousted as national security advisor after just 24 days over pre-election Russia contacts and his foreign lobbying, which also led him to plead guilty to a federal count of lying to investigators. Since then, the main public support he’d garnered was from his family and the QAnon people, who exist in that liminal internet space called the chans and believe a “storm” is coming in which President Trump will bust an international pedophilia ring of Democrats, globalists, and satanists. In these apocalyptic fantasies, Flynn was a good Christian warrior working to bring the deep state cabal down from inside: Some even theorized that Flynn was Q, the anonymous author of the online posts that delineated this alleged global conspiracy. As I pondered the man’s legacy that holiday morning, a single lizard emerged from a crack in the wall, slinked to the hot tub, and swam three laps.
For me, that was a clear sign it was time to go. Doug Laux—the ex-spy I’d spent two consecutive Christmases with, staying in properties owned by the president—and I collected our rental, a red convertible Camaro, from the Venezuelan valet and rolled out, bound for South Beach. Just outside the property a woman stood, wearing a yellow reflective vest, holding a sign that said “Who is Q/I know/Do you?” As we drove past, I shouted the initials “WWG1WGA”—short for ”Where we go one we go all,” a Q tagline—from the convertible. She looked confused by the reference. I wondered who was paying her to stand there and hold the sign.
Those who talk don’t know. Those who know don’t talk. The information wars continue apace. Earlier this month, the Trump Doral hosted the “American Priority Conference.” One panel called “Is America in a Great Awakening?” seemed like a dog-whistle to followers of what I’ve come to think of as “the QAnon psychological operation.” Before the shitshow in Syria and Trump’s grade-school notes to foreign leaders and impeachment intrigues took over the conversation, Twitter was abuzz over a snuff video shown in a side room of the Doral conference: It featured the president entering a “Church of Fake News” to beat, shoot, and stab Trump’s most-hated media members to death.
That Christmas night, at a South Beach hotel, Doug and I watched cable news. Trump had made a surprise visit to Iraq. In a commercial break between the talking heads, The 700 Club advertised a prayer line. I dialed the number. After several minutes of listening to recordings of Pat Robertson and his son asking for money, I was connected with a Filipino-accented 700 Club prayer representative. She asked for my prayer request. I thought I knew the men who needed the most prayers: the brave Navy SEALs protecting Trump in Iraq right now. The prayer she said for them was worth the wait, fierce and fiery, calling doom on the enemies of God, the president, and the SEALs. America had entered a golden age of magical thinking. It was no longer just the fringe awaiting apocalyptic scenarios. An entire political entertainment system that feasted on the next day’s hope for a deus ex machina now did eschatology as well. Not long after, I’d discover the story of The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, a 1980s Christian terrorist cult, and realize they had anticipated this very moment.
Say what you will about doomsday cults; zealots know how to pick killer real estate. The self-castrating Heaven’s Gate members who wore Nikes to commit suicide and travel to a spaceship behind the Hale Bopp comet did so from a California mansion near Encinitas. Well before Joanna and Chip Gaines made Waco, Texas, into a mecca of Shiplap and rusted tin, David Koresh’s Branch Davidians built and lost their own fixer-upper cult compound—Mount Carmel—just outside of town. The Manson family lived for a time at the Spahn Ranch, a Southern California stand-in landscape for western films and television shows.
These were my thoughts last month, driving northeast from my home in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to check an old cult compound.
In the late 1970s, a group un-ironically calling itself the CSA—which was easier to embroider on hats than The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord—purchased 224 acres of Arkansas-Missouri borderland in the lakes of the Ozarks region from the Campus Crusade for Christ. There, they established a separatist commune called Zarephath-Horeb to stockpile food and practice self-sufficiency while awaiting the tribulations. On the way to find Zarephath, I’d pulled off about halfway in Harrison, Arkansas—which had gone from having four white-power billboards to one in 2017—for a cathartic **** in a Hobby Lobby restroom.
The story I was driving toward hit a little too close to home. My paternal great-grandfather hailed from Cassville, Missouri; we still have kin there. My mother’s side of the family are Mormons. The Mormons in Missouri have their own dark history, having settled in Jackson County in the 1830s after Joseph Smith declared it to be his followers’ Zion. The residents of Jackson County had other ideas; attacks followed, and Smith’s followers and a Mormon paramilitary sect calling themselves the Danites carried out a terror campaign of reprisals in the “Mormon Missouri War,” leading Governor Lilburn Boggs to sign Missouri Executive Order 44, known as the “extermination order,” on October 27, 1838, to rid the state of the Mormons and the problems they brought.
The Christian terror cult I was chasing was four hours away from the Mormons’ last Missouri stand, but I was glad my bowels were empty as I continued twisting on mountain roads, saw-toothing around Bull Shoals Lake, near the old CSA border compound.
James Ellison, a Church of Christ minister, founded the CSA as a Christian commune with seven other families in nearby Elijah, Missouri, in 1971. The group grew in fits and starts, and Ellison bought the compound on the Bull Shoals lakefront in ’76. They lived an insular, severe life there. Smoking and drinking were forbidden; everybody worked, gave their personal possessions up to the commune, and listened to Ellison’s increasingly conspiratorial sermons about America’s imminent decline. In 1978, Ellison told his flock that the apocalypse was coming on August 12. To prepare for the inevitable decline that would attend the end of the world, the group stockpiled $52,000 in arms and ammunition, appointed a “defense minister,” and began to study military tactics.
When August 12 passed without the foretold tribulations, some of Ellison’s original flock left the fold, and he took a job on a crew building nuclear missile silos in Missouri, while other men in the group earned money as hired hands or logging cedar, with all money earned consecrated toward the group’s goals. It got weird, fast. “Members of the CSA are tied by a non-traditional religion which includes faith healing, speaking in tongues, and a prophecy which says that society will soon collapse in turmoil,” a 1982 internal FBI report stated:
In preparation for this, the group stockpiles food and weapons and trains themselves in military and survival procedures…taught are firearms and marksmanship, rappelling, foraging for food, **** of such obstacles as punji sticks and barbed wire to detour looters [sic], urban warfare, military field craft, national forest survival, home defense, Christian martial arts, Christian military truths, nuclear survival and tax protesting.
“By 1980, we had grown to about sixty members, including children,” wrote Kerry Noble, a Texas-born spiritual seeker who became the CSA’s second-in-command and public face. Noble helped further radicalize the community when he began to play them tapes by John Todd, a Dallas-based hellfire preacher who claimed to be a defector from the “Grand-Druid Council of 13,” the innermost circle of the evil hidden hand of the world—the Illuminati, who sought to enslave humanity with the aid of demonic forces and the Trilateral Commission.
Todd claimed that the Robert Redford movie Three Days of the Condor was more real than anyone knew: The codebook that Redford’s CIA character discovers was in fact Ayn Rand’s 1950s doorstop Atlas Shrugged, which, Todd argued, was a blueprint for the takeover plan of the Illuminati. Rand’s hero, John Galt, was really a stand in for the Philippe Rothschild, whom Todd asserted was the leader of the cabal. (Ellison, too, had returned from his missile-building to the compound with tapes of sermons—there were no email threads or Twitter accounts to spread ideas then—from the nearby Church of Israel, which promulgated Christian Identity, a racist theology that held whites to be the real chosen tribe of Israel and Jews to be the spawn of Satan.)
In December 1979, the group entrusted its military training to a refugee from the Southern California rock-and-roll scene named Randall Rader, who adopted the title of General. “Rader had no formal military training, but he owned several military fieldcraft books,” Noble wrote later. Noble was in charge of a “Home Guard,” a paramilitary unit that he described as “a man fifteen years older than me that has an artificial leg... an epileptic, retarded man; two half-blind, fat young men; and two men who could care less about the military than I do.”
They began paramilitary training; some footage of the “Endtime Overcomer Survival Training School” remains available in a documentary on YouTube. In it, a CSA instructor explains to a row of eight adolescent long-haired girls standing in formation, rifles slung on their shoulders, why they’re there. “It is our duty as Christians, as Americans, to learn how to survive,” he tells his “cadets.” He is wearing tinted aviator glasses below a low-slung field cap and tanker goggles—just in case. There’s a dusting of snow on the ground. “We’re here to learn how to survive what’s coming on the earth, so we can better serve God’s people for His name’s sake.”
The teens, wearing green fatigues and combat boots, listen intently. On one, a sheathed army surplus combat knife hangs from a leather harness slung over a Wehrmacht field jacket. “Part of how we’ll survive this thing is proper weapon technique,” the CSA man says, before leading girls who do not appear old enough to drive through live fire drills. The lesson ends with a benediction: “Thank you Jesus. Lord, just teach us your ways of war, teach us how to love and how to hate, bless us Jesus and keep us safe.” As they move through the compound, a hand-painted sign above the CSA man’s shoulder becomes visible: It reads US Embassy Tehran. That footage was shot in 1980, shortly after Ellison had prophesied apocalypse. When it didn’t come, the members that stayed on sunk deeper into preparations for the battle against the Illuminati.
Then the polygamy started. Michael Haddigan, a reporter for the Arkansas Gazettein the 1980s, told me a story over the phone: Ellison gathered all the community elders and explained that the Lord had told him, in a dream, that he was to sleep with everyone on the compound, including their wives. This upset some elders. The next day, Ellison gathered them back together and explained that the Lord had told him, in a dream, that he was to sleep with everyone on the compound except for their wives.
That did not go over well with Ellison’s wife, Ollie, who’d grown alarmed at her husband’s shift over the course of their marriage. She’d fallen in love with Jim, the charismatic Texas preacher, a man slightly older than her who was once kind to her, when she was a single mother raising a daughter with Down syndrome.
This other Jim made her uneasy; this “King of the Ozarks,” wholeheartedly embracing the neo-Nazi Christian Identity lifestyle. She thought her husband would keep her safe; instead, he was making alliances with the Idaho- and Washington-based Brüder schweigen of “The Order,” a neo-Nazi revolutionary group founded by a Mormon survivalist named Robert Jay Matthews. The CSA began offering sanctuary and training space to Order members, who funded their revolution with a string of robberies that kicked off in a Spokane sex-shop heist and evolved into bank jobs. Ollie had reason to worry. Ellison and his flock—he’d recruited young psychic casualties of the 1970s, damaged people trying to start over—were beginning to fracture over the polygamy, and the danger was real.
The CSA land on Bull Shoals Lake became a meeting and training ground for white supremacists from all around the United States. A flyer for the CSA National Convocation—held October 8-10, 1982, in Pontiac, Missouri—promised free admission to listen to three guest speakers. The first was Jack Mohr, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former prisoner of war in Korea who ran his own Christian Identity paramilitary group, recruiting through his publication The Christian Patriot Crusader. There was “Pastor Bob” Miles, a one time grand dragon in the Michigan Ku Klux Klan, who’d been arrested and tried for plotting to bomb school buses and stop integration. Finally, there was Richard Butler, an aeronautical engineer from Los Angeles who’d joined an American fascist organization called the Silver Shirts before Pearl Harbor, then founded the Aryan Nations during Vietnam in a northern Idaho compound.
The disparate white supremacist cells were attempting to merge into a body—a National CSA Confederacy—and like any good conference, pre-registration was required. “Only White, Patriotic, Serious CHRISTIANS need apply,” the flyer insisted, promising classes on weapons, the income tax, nuclear survival, the betrayal of America, natural childbirth, food storage, and the Jews. Rappelling was also an option.
In June 1984, Richard Wayne Snell, a free-ranging white militant who operated out of the CSA compound and an Oklahoma safehaven called Elohim City, killed a pawn-shop owner he thought was Jewish in a robbery; in the getaway, he killed an Arkansas state trooper he knew was black. At the funeral for the trooper, Louis Bryant, Governor Bill Clinton announced that investigating extremist groups was among his top priorities.
Things went south for the movement quickly. The Order’s founder, Robert Jason Matthews, was killed on December 8, 1984, following a standoff with the FBI at his Washington state home, in which he donned a gas mask and fired 1,000 rounds at federal agents, including some in a circling helicopter. The confrontation the CSA cultists were waiting for was nigh, and by this time they’d acquired 30 gallons of potassium cyanide for the armory.
Federal officials in Little Rock called FBI headquarters for help with their bubba problem; this activated a newly formed paramilitary cell within the FBI called the Hostage Rescue Team, whose name only hinted at their real function: counterterrorism. These were the FBI’s elite shooters modeled on the Army’s Delta Force, who’d gone operational in late 1983 after Operation Equus Red—a capstone nuclear terrorism scenario in New Mexico in which Hostage Rescue Team operators assaulted a safehouse to recover a mock weapon of mass destruction.
This, now, was the real thing.
The Hostage Rescue Team guys deployed to the Ozarks, posing as white-collar types on a corporate fishing retreat when checking into hotels and lodges from Branson, Missouri, to Mountain Home, Arkansas; they discreetly suited up like commandos and set into concealed positions around The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord property. On April 20, 1985—Adolf Hitler’s birthday, a feast day for white supremacists—“the FBI and ATF, assisted by the Missouri and Arkansas State police, surrounded the compound and began negotiations with Ellison,” the FBI’s report states.
Remarkably, the standoff ended peacefully. Demonstrating that they had overwhelming numbers and overwhelming firepower, FBI agents opened a dialogue with Ellison; behind the scenes, Ollie Ellison convinced her husband that it was God’s will they surrender. Asa Hutchinson, an up-and-coming Arkansas politician, at that time the youngest serving United States attorney, threw on an FBI raid jacket to go in and finalize the surrender deal. Ellison and the order members with active warrants—for membership in “the ORDER, a secret terrorist organization that has close ties to both the CSA and Aryan Nations,” the FBI reported—went quietly.
The agents recovered stolen vehicles, 155 Krugerrands, $800 in U.S. currency, “numerous gold and silver coins,” a rocket for a light anti-tank weapon, two computers, CB radios, records, knives, 94 long guns, 30 handguns, 35 machine guns and sawed off shotguns, a heavy machine gun, two land mines, 25 improvised booby traps, 40 makeshift grenades, blasting caps, detonation cord, dynamite sticks, blocks of C-4 explosives, flares, smoke grenades, and “several hundred thousand rounds” of ammunition. Ellison and Noble and several others at the compound went on to prison. Federal law enforcement would not have such a smooth time with later sieges, such as the one on Koresh’s Branch Davidians in Waco, which ended in a fiery death for 76 disciples on April 19, 1993, a day short of the CSA siege’s anniversary; on that same day in 1995, the state of Arkansas executed Richard Wayne Snell by lethal injection, and a Christian Identity adherent and Army veteran and Special Forces washout with a Bronze Star for valor from the first Gulf War named Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. The CSA first discussed bombing the building in 1983.
It was harder than I expected to find the compound; that was part of the original charm, I supposed. I finally located it with the help of a postal worker, whose kin had moved the family graveyard to higher ground when they dammed and flooded the valley to create Bull Shoals Lake in the early 1950s. The CSA’s old property had been subdivided and sold since the siege, and the owner of one parcel let me walk around as he mowed the lawn. Two outbuildings, carefully hewn beam-and-stone structures—the masonry was excellent—remained, but the structures had fallen into disrepair. Still, the firing positions were there, horizontal notches carved into the boarded-up windows and doors. As chiggers bit my legs, leaving small wounds that would linger for weeks, the infantryman in me imagined what a last stand here would’ve looked like; the human in me is grateful it didn’t go that way then.
Ellison was tried in July of 1985 on federal weapons and racketeering charges. The indictment was full of real criminal allegations arising from the CSA’s fantasy war against the “ZOG,” or Zionist Occupied Government; these included arson attacks on a Springfield, Missouri, church known to be gay-friendly and a Jewish community center in Bloomington, Indiana. Convicted and facing 20 years in prison, Ellison flipped for the feds and got out in six. He currently lives free, wheelchair-bound and elderly, in Elohim City, that Oklahoma white supremacist enclave once preferred by Richard Wayne Snell.
I couldn’t help but see the similarities between Ellison’s situation and ours. Anyone paying attention to the news cycle knows we live in a time of tech- and Trump-driven magical thinking, often ignoring the truth of what’s right in front of us to focus on whatever bullshit baits our social network’s attention that day. The human attention span is finite, easily drawn to scandal, and already prone to suspecting darkness as an explanation for our broken political system. Hucksters, seeding narratives that are simple, neat, and wrong, exist on every frequency of the political spectrum, if not equally so.
Yet for me, of all those proffering a seer-stone to secret knowledge today, Q is the most interesting. Most of the media labels it a conspiracy theory, but that doesn’t quite cut it for me. It is too intentionally dismissive and ignores the tangible, real-world effect of Q. From its start, I watched as an anonymous poster on the chans created a digital guerrilla army. Just as The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord stockpiled guns and ammo, the Q folks stockpile rare Pepes, dank memes and elaborate link-analysis charts for when the cause needs them. If Illuminati and Christian Identity sermon tapes were enough to radicalize the clustered CSA flock in the 1980s—imbuing their day-to-day life struggles with divine meaning—what could a similar Manichean narrative do today when unleashed in a carefully calibrated cyber campaign? How long could such a narrative survive? How many people could it radicalize?
I’ve tried to ask Mike Flynn, the Q hero and information-operations expert, but he’s kept ducking my attempts to get in touch. I would ask Q, but 8chan is still down. Maybe I should reach out to the National Security Council; Flynn is gone, but his protege, Matt Pottinger, was just promoted to second in command.
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Texas State has again been named a top university in Texas for return on investment by the website AffordableCollegesOnline.org.
“AC Online: Highest Return on Investment Colleges in Texas” used data sets from the federal government and private agencies to choose from among four-year, degree-granting colleges that are fully accredited, public or private.
AC Online analyzed 452 colleges and universities in Texas and placed 49 in its rankings, which are here: http://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/online-colleges/texas/.
Texas State comes up 32nd on the list. AC Online said Texas State returns $414,100 for an annual tuition of $7,732. Rice came up on top of the rankings, with a return of $1,069,000 for annual tuition of $37,292.
Graduates from the ranked schools enjoy the largest earnings gap between non-degree holders over 30 years, and earn more on average than graduates from other Texas schools, according to AC Online.
“These are important lists for prospective students to consider,” AC Online founder Dan Schuessler said. “We’ve sifted through comprehensive data sources to find colleges and universities in Texas that offer a high quality education with consistent, long-term payoffs in the workplace.”
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Raphael Chikukwa
Chief Curator National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Born in Zimbabwe and worked mainly as an independent curator for more than ten years before joining the National Gallery of Zimbabwe mid 2010 as its Chief Curator. He is the founding curator of the 1st Zimbabwe Pavilion in 2011 and also curated the Zimbabwe Pavilion 2013, 2015 and 2017 at the Venice Biennale. Chikukwa is also a founding member of the PUMA funded Creative Africa Network as an editor and advisor of the project from 2008 – 2009. After taking Zimbabwe to Venice in 2011, Chikukwa has taken part in a number of Forums that include, Art Basel Salon 2015, Cape Town Art Fair 2016, Re Zimbabwe Pavilion talk at INIVA (London) 1st World Biennale Forum in South Korea, KLA 2012 (Uganda), Condition Report forum in Senegal and Arco Madrid 2013. He is also the co-curator for the Basket Case exhibition 2014, co-curator of Kabbo Ka Muwala: Migration and Mobility in Contemporary Art, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Germany.
His qualifications and international experience earned this position at the national institution, which he hopes to change the visual arts landscape of Zimbabwe. Chikukwa who was awarded the 2006 – 2007 Chevening Scholar now holds an MA Curating Contemporary Design from Kingston University London. The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale in 1997 provided an impetus to Raphael’s curatorial career after working as a volunteer guide for the Biennale. He later moved to his home country Zimbabwe as a process of relocation to his motherland. Chikukwa is a founding staff member of the PUMA funded Creative Africa Network as an editor and advisor of the project from 2008 – 2009. Recently he was among seven Curators from Africa attending the Tate Modern Symposium “Curating Africa” where he presented a paper on his curatorial practice. In 2008, Chikukwa represented Africa at the 2008 Art Basel Miami Conversations in the United States of America. The American Centre Foundation also awarded Raphael a curatorial research grant in 2006 – 2007 and he travelled in West Africa for his curatorial research.
José Roca
Artistic Director FLORA ars+natura, Bogota (Colombia)
José Roca is a Colombian curator working from Bogotá. He is currently the Artistic Director of FLORA ars+natura, and curator of the LARA collection, Singapore. From 2012 to 2015 he was the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate, London. He managed for a decade the arts program at the Banco de la República in Bogotá. Roca was a co-curator of the I Poly/graphic Triennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2004), the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006) and the Encuentro de Medellín MDE07 (2007), and was the Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia’s international Triennial celebrating print in contemporary art. He served on the awards jury for the 52nd Venice Biennial (2007), and was the chief curator of the 8 Bienal do Mercosul in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2011). He is the author of Transpolitical: art in Colombia 1992-2012 (with Sylvia Suárez), and Waterweavers: A Chronicle of Rivers (with Alejandro Martín), published by the Bard Graduate Center in New York in conjunction with the exhibition Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture (2014).
8-11 February – Curator’s Program Mondriaan Fund in collaboration with Art Rotterdam
22-25 February – Aram Moshayedi (cancelled)
5-9 March – Jorge Fernández Torres
26-30 March – Marie Griffay
23-27 April – Lu Yangli
14-18 May, curators from Cuba and the United States
4-8 June – Sang Un Jeon
18-22 June – Antariksa
17-22 June – Sunil Puljhun
2-6 July – Aaron Seeto
21-23 September -Unseen Amsterdam 2018 (Chria Bardelli Nonino, David Campany, Michael Famighetti, Paul Gorman and Alistair O’Neill)
1-5 October – Heejung Park (cancelled)
9-11 October – Claire Le Restif
29 October-2 November – Merve Elveren & Kevser Güler
22 – 25 November – Amsterdam Art Weekend
12-16 November – Marie Dufresne
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Sports Policy
GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN
MINISTRY OF CULTURE, SPORTS AND YOUTH AFFAIRS
Islamabad, the 5th December 2005.
S.R.O.1249(I)/2005.-In partial modification of this Ministry's notification No.F.9-(46)/2000-S-I dated 17th August 2002, and in pursuance of the Cabinet decision in case No.99/10/2005 dated 21st July 2005, the Federal Government is pleased to make the following revisions in the National Sports Policy:-
Revised National Sports Policy 2005
1. This policy aims at promoting sports in the country by developing sports at grass root level. The declining standards of sports in the country has deeply concerned the government to take remedial measures and bring about changes which may remove flaws and bottlenecks for smooth functioning of the sports institutions and revive the booming past of sixties. In the present set up Pakistan Sports Board, Pakistan Olympic Association, National Sports Federations, Provincial Sports Boards, Associations, departments and educational institutions are main sports organizing agencies. Sports at tehsil and district levels are mere formalities and at times not held at all. The sporting facilities in the Provinces are also not up to the mark. Very few stadiums or gymnasiums with proper facility exist in the country. Federations have their own constitutions and do not at times abide by the provision, perhaps due to hegemony of influential office bearers who have been occupying positions in the Federations for decades. Departments have played a vital role in recruitment of players, and keeping the sports traditions alive in the country. We salute them. The educational institutions which are supposed to be sports nurseries almost ceased to produce talented sportspersons who could replace our aging stalwarts. All this has necessitated in looking inwards, and finding a solution to our declining standards in sports.
2. Mission Statement :- The policy aims at promotion of sports at grass root level, enhancing public affiliation with the teams, ensuring all tournaments originate from inter-club level and culminate at the national level.
3. Sports Policy :- The policy envisages initiating sports at grass root level. The people of Pakistan have almost lost interest in games organized at national and provincial levels, due to poor standard of Sports. Besides other measures proper formation of genuine clubs on area basis is essential. The criteria for registration of a club will be enunciated by each sporting National Federation. Clubs in a tehsil/district must also register with the Sports Officer of the Provincial Government deputed in tehsil/district or equivalent administrative area for scrutiny, financial help and utilization of Government sporting facilities, where necessary. This will bring in mass participation and also help improving our sporting abilities. This will also provide an opportunity to our young sports persons to rise upwards and eventually be part of national teams.
4. Games selected for Club based Tournaments :- The Policy of holding Club based tournaments will be applicable to all the National Sports Federations, formed on club basis and affiliated with Pakistan Sports Board.
5. Tournaments to be organized :- The National Sports Federations affiliated with PSB should organize National Senior, National Junior/Youth and National Women Tournaments ( where applicable) every year. Calendar of activities for the next Calendar year will be issued by each Federation latest by 30th November every year. Following sequence of action will be adopted at various tiers:-
a. Club Tournaments
These will be held by District and Tehsil Associations where feasible in close coordination with District and Tehsil Sports Officers and Local Governments Officials.
(2) Registered Clubs in Districts will participate in the Tournaments.
(3) After holding these Tournaments, District teams will be formed to participate in Provincial level Tournaments.
b. Inter District Tournaments
(1) On culmination of Club level Tournaments, district teams will be formed which will participate in Inter District Tournaments.
(2) Inter District Tournaments will be organized by the Provincial Associations of that games in coordination with Provincial Sports Boards and National Sports Federations.
(3) At the end of these Tournaments, a team will be selected to represent the Province.
c. National Tournaments
On formation of Provincial teams, National Tournaments will be organized by National Federations of respective games. One team each from Provinces, Islamabad, AJK, FATA & Northern Areas and one team each from affiliated departments will participate.
National Federations will hold these tournaments in coordination with Pakistan Sports Board.
On culmination of National level Tournaments, National Teams will be selected to participate in International Tournaments.
National Games:- National Games will continue to be organized as per policy of Pakistan Olympic Association.
6. Role of Pakistan Sports Board : - In addition to the tasks already being performed by Pakistan Sports Board, it will undertake the following tasks to assist in implementation of Sports Policy, namely:-
Assist National Federations in holding of national level tournaments by providing sporting facilities free of any charge. Sports facilities under this policy will mean playing fields and grounds only.
b. Assist National Federations in selection of National Teams.
Adjudicate as representative of the Government of Pakistan on any matter requiring adjudication with respect to "Sports Policy".
Construct Sports Complexes for these games down to every District Headquarters in Phase-I and tehsil Headquarters in Phase-II on availability of funds. However, these complexes on completion will be handed over to local governments and District or Tehsil Sports Organizations for maintenance and use.
7. Provincial Sports Boards
All Provinces including AJK, FATA and Northern Areas will appoint Sports Officer down to Tehsil and corresponding level with requisite staff to implement this Sports Policy as soon as possible.
Provincial Sports Boards will assist Provincial Associations of all these games in conduct of Provincial level Tournaments.
Provincial Sports Boards will instruct District and Tehsil Sports Officers to organize local tournaments as enumerated above in coordination with corresponding associations .
8. Role of Civil Administration
Civil Administration at district level will play the most important part in implementing this policy.
They will coordinate holding of tournaments at district level and Tehsil level (where possible).
They will ensure maintenance and availability of sports infrastructure to conduct these tournaments.
d. They will assist Sports Officers and members of local associations in raising funds for tournaments and training of their respective teams.
e. They will provide all possible assistance for training of teams for their districts or tehsils, as the case may be.
f. Due recognition will be given to these civil administration officials for meritorious performance in the field of sports.
9. Provincial Governments :- All Provincial Governments and the Government of Islamabad, AJK, FATA and Northern Areas will issue their own instructions in line with this policy for its implementation. All the Provincial Governments will promote the popular games of their Provinces.
10. National Sports Federations :- National Federations will be restructured on the following lines, within one year, namely:-
Applicable to National Federations
Their voting members, and executive bodies will comprise Provincial Associations and corresponding Associations of Islamabad, AJK, FATA and Northern Areas with Punjab, Sindh, NWFP, Balochistan with two votes each. Islamabad, AJK, FATA and NA and affiliated departments will have one vote each.
They will raise and organize Provincial Associations, where not in existence presently, within one year of issue of this policy.
Provincial Associations will be elected directly by District Associations. Islamabad Associations will be elected by the Clubs.
(4) District/Tehsil Associations will be elected by member clubs.
(5) Tenure restriction of Office-Bearers.
(a) One tenure of any member of Federation or Association will be of four years only.
President, Honorary Secretary and the Treasurer will be allowed a maximum of two tenures, in any office of the Federation or Association, after which they will become ineligible for holding the same posts of that particular Federation or Association. However, they will be allowed to contest for next higher Post/Association at any time.
Tenure restrictions will not be applicable on the office-bearers of the Federations holding posts of President or Secretary of World/Asian Federation.
An office bearer of one Federation or Association, except the representatives of departments, will not be allowed to be a member of any other Federation or Association within the country. He will however be allowed to hold office in International Federations or Associations without any bar.
Women Sports :- All Sports Federations will organize appropriate sports for women. Women Wings(where feasible) will be created in Federations/Associations.
c. Elections as per this Policy
All Federations will organize themselves in line with this policy by holding elections from club level upwards in all Tehsils/Districts or Corresponding administrative units of the country.
2) Representatives of Pakistan Sports Board and Provincial Sports Boards will be invited as under:-
a) Election of National Sports Federations
Rep. of PSB
b) Election of Provincial Associations
Rep. of Provincial Sports Board
c) Election of District Associations
District Sports Officer
d) Election of Club
Tehsil Sports Officer/District Sports Officer
3) Federations may ask for any assistance from Provincial and Pakistan Sports Board as deemed necessary for conduct of smooth elections to form sporting bodies from District upwards in line with this policy.
One individual will be allowed to represent one club, or district only. Violator will be liable to disciplinary action by the Provincial or Pakistan Sports Board, as the case may be.
e. The implementation of these instructions will be completed within one year of issue of this policy.
11. National and Provincial Olympic Committees
These will be elected by constituent National Sports Federations/Departments and Provincial Sports Associations.
b. One tenure of any office bearer of these committees will be of four years.
President, Secretary and Treasurer will be allowed two tenures only. They will become ineligible for any office after two tenures and must vacate their position for new incumbents. However, an individual will be allowed to contest for next higher Association at any time.
12. Sports Policy for educational institutions
Ministry of Education will create a Sports Cell to monitor all sports activities of Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education in implementing instructions pertaining to educational institutions. Higher Education Commission will monitor all the activities at University level.
Every School to participate in minimum of 4 games including Martial Arts. Each College must have at least 6 teams including Athletics.
The choice of selecting Games will be of the concerned Education Institution.
All schools to organize proper games in games period, a minimum of two periods per week.
All schools, colleges and equivalent institutions and above, to create sports facilities or get affiliated with sports grounds within one year. Failure to do so will make these schools and colleges liable for action against them as considered appropriate by the Ministry of Education.
The Ministry of Education to establish a separate directorate to handle and monitor sports affairs preferably headed by an officer in Basic Pay Scale 20.
13. Sports academies :- On availability of funds, Pakistan Sports Board will create an academy (Residential) in selected games at Islamabad. Minimum of one academy each will be created by each Province based on local talent:-
Boys of 12 years of age in class 7th, will be selected and put in these academies.
These academies will hire the services of the best coaches, and International level sporting infrastructure will be created for their use.
Students, besides going through normal academic pursuits, will be trained on most modern lines in various sporting disciplines.
Students who will complete F.A./F.Sc in these academies by the age of 18 years, will have undergone enough training to be part of National Teams.
These will be residential academies run on the lines of Cadet Colleges.
The main stress in these academies will be on sports.
14. Financial donors :- The donations to any Sports Board or institution recognized by the Federal Government for the purposes of promoting, controlling or regulating any sport or game, are exempt under clause (61) (i) of Part-I of the Second Schedule to the Income Tax Ordinance 2001, up to the following extent:-
In case of a company fifteen percent of the taxable income of the person for the year, and
In other cases upto thirty percent of the taxable income of person for the year.
Apart from above, exemption is available under Clause (98) Part-1 of Second Schedule to the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 in respect of any income derived by any Board or other organization established in Pakistan for the purpose of controlling, regulating or encouraging major games and Sports recognized by Government.
15. Conclusion :- This policy will "Insha Allah" give opportunity to our sportspersons to excel beyond the frontiers of our beloved country and achieve laurels at International Level in the coming years. The Government of Pakistan, however, reserves the right to modify any of the above, staying within the main parameter of this policy. May "Allah Almighty" help us to achieve glory in the field of sports and make our future generations the proudest Pakistanis. Ameen!
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by Degulus on October 8, 2015 at 12:01 am
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maybe the king did something to them, but who knows…You strike me as the type of writer that has ‘things’ he wants to happen, and then they do, but you don’t always think it through?
Nooot sure if that’s what I mean but…
Well, Samantha and Jericho come to mind. Jericho’s impact was pretty minimal all things considered, thanks to his poison powers being either you can beat them or you can’t, with no in-between, which leaves him…Well, basically rendered a non-combatant, and thus unable to really make a proper impact. And Samantha seemed like she did nothing of any obvious use or value until waaaay down the line when Law showed up.
Both of their powersets strike me as having the same base issue on a certain level-they’re tanks without a means to draw aggro. And since combat kind of tends to be 1v1 whenever possible, there’s no real way for them to actually win a fight- either their opponent can’t fight them and runs off…Or they can and the duo gets whomped…
I dunno, I’m digressing from my actual point but simultaneously, I’m not really sure what that point is.
AgentFaith/Yukitty
Unfortunately, it’s not out of character either. They are children of Sloth (Arthur) and represent both Famine (Samantha) and Pestilence (Jericho). They’re thematically designed to be incredibly slow killers.
Otherwise, I can’t clarify how the writing process goes, as I can only talk for myself and I don’t really have much of a say in how the story develops or is presented. I can say that plans often changed as things kept going and it’s very apparent that resources are getting stretched really thinnly without the new locations being made. Most of the writing is being done in the moment as a result.
Degulus
My process can pretty much be summed up by TVtrope’s page on “writing by the seat of your pants” I have an overall plan. I have places I want the story to go and things I want done there, but what happens along the way is more a matter of dropping characters into place and seeing what each one does when playing off of each other. It’s like a table top RP where I play all the characters and the DM. I may have plans for the party, but they do their own thing while going through the dungeon and those plans may not work for what actually ends up happening. I really can’t picture writing any other way… it would have so many out of character nonsense moments… if you put the plot before the characters then then you are stuck making excuses for why the actions they take, even if foolish or against their nature, were their best option… or worse only option. You see that kinda thing all the time… it’s stupid.
But coming back the the example of Jericho and Samantha, I used them to kinda sow some plotline seeds, since they clearly weren’t going to cut it as normal antagonists. Samantha didn’t even use her powers until late in the story. Her purpose from the start was as a non-combatant. She was hard to get rid of and would just show up, spout some nihilism and then leave. She thematically completes the four horsemen set, but she isn’t really meant to do much but express resentment for her situation. This sets up for Arthur’s backstory as using her as an experiment and serves as another example of what Alaster is standing up against. He treats her kindly, despite her being annoyed by it and seeing it as sarcastic.
On the flip side is Jericho who is also used to set up some thematic things in a similar fashion. He’s better equipped to be a proper antagonist, but despite his arrogance, even at his best he’s only lethal when outside circumstances are stacked in his favor. Such as being in an area with poor ventilation. Yeah, Jericho’s actual function was also to set up Alaster taking a stand for his own generation, and in this case even further against Jericho’s wishes than Samantha’s. Jericho, despite claiming to be a badass, has the most life shattering powerset in the comic. He wears a hazmatsuit with a clunky gas mask and huge tanks on his back… all of which limit his ability to fight because his powers wreck everything around him just by existing. He might claim that he loves what he became, but by his second appearance it’s clear that he paid a huge price and got garbage in return. It’s only when Kolt steals his body that he gains any control over his abilities.
It’s a small moment, but Alaster and Jericho’s interaction is pretty telling when you know the full depths of how their philosophies clash. They hate each other’s guts, and it at first seems to be all about how Alaster is a nut job and Jericho is more serious. Jericho is proud of being undead, despite his version being the most curse-like of all the Wight’s we’ve seen (and in fact is used as torture for the zombies being farmed for acid blood). Alaster hates what Maxwell and Arthur have done to the family. And there is the matter of Samantha… It’s very very small but Jericho has been nothing but a jerk to the rest of the family in the few scenes where it has come up. Alaster think’s he’s a super shitty brother to the poor girl.
I’m sure I’ll be able to do more with both of them moving forward, though. I have plans… that will happen differently once I write them down, I’m sure.
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Shameless Plug of the Day - Ringtone (one weekend only)
Starting tonight (Thursday) and continuing the next two nights only, a new offering from Alan Berks and his latest batch of co-conspirators, called Ringtone. (There's a link to a trailer here and at the end of the post, if you're curious)
I'm mighty fond of Alan. His work is always funny, but that runs alongside whatever other subject matter he may be hunting at the moment. It's been alternately romantic (How To Cheat), creepy as hell (3 Parts Dead), and tragic (Everywhere Signs Fall). Plus, he's one of the three masterminds behind the scrappy instant theater experiment Thirst Theater, which was fun to both write for and be part of the audience.
So if Alan's gathering artistic friends of similar talent together for an experiment, it's definitely worth checking out. Here's his message with the details...
I want to invite you to this work-in-progress, Ringtone, about how technology is drawing us together and keeping us apart and there are only three performances (Thursday, April 30, Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2) and very limited seating. At 8 pm.
At the Rogue Buddha Gallery (next to the Ritz Theater). Space is limited to 40 per night.
Tickets are only $5-10
PLEASE CALL 612-886-2868 TO CONFIRM YOUR RESERVATION
Ringtone was created collaboratively with Katie Kaufmann, Lindsay Marcy, Ben McGinley, Matt Sciple, Anna Sundberg, and Adam Whisner -- incredible performers and generous to a fault. With sound design by Mike Hallenbeck.
It's a site-specific play with movement. Or a hodge-podge of dramatic event with cell phones and televisions and a dj. Or a funny new work with six actors in search of their identities in an art gallery even when they can't get their cell phones to stop ringing.
I really hope to have a friendly but discerning and engaged bunch of folks fill up the Buddha for this experiment with dialogue, movement, and technology that combines or plays with or teases out different structural or thematic aspects of the work (Thirst Theater, "How to Cheat," "3 Parts Dead") that I've been working on for the last four years. I promise you'll be amused at times; I'll bet you'll be confused at times -- but I'll look forward to hearing your honest reaction afterwords.
O, did I mention there will be wine and beer available for small donations?
You can check out a trailer that, I think, captures the spirit of the collaboration, at http://vimeo.com/4207808
Shameless Plug(s) of the Day - Jewblatt and April Fools
This is one of the many nights I wish I'd been cloned, or could astral project, or something. I'm working the second job tonight, but even if I weren't, there are two great "one night only" events floating around out there I'd love to see. Check 'em out. One or the other is bound to be your cup of tea...
Jewblatt - an evening of short films from Ben McGinley and company. I've liked Ben's work since I saw him in Forks at the 2007 Fringe, and this looks to be another amusing outing from him, and one he's largely been the driver behind, so I wanted to help get the word out.
It's an oddball private eye saga they tout as being a cross between 24, Airplane, and David Lynch, which, hey, sign me up.
"In this goofball-comedy-split-screen-thriller, a private investigator is sucked into a spiral of incidents that force him to choose between morality and love."
There's all kinds of teaser clips on their site - www.jewblatt.com, so you can get yourself a healthy preview before the big event tonight. It looks like a lot of fun.
Plus the messages getting sent out about this makes it sounds like they're working hard to turn it into an enjoyable unusual event, in addition to the film screening aspect.
Bryant Lake Bowl, tonight, April 1 (no fooling) - starts at 7pm, doors at 6pm - tickets are sliding scale from six to twelve bucks (ridiculously cheap) and you can drink in the BLB theater - unlike many movie theaters, so take advantage :)
Details at www.bryantlakebowl.com and the Jewblatt site.
Plus, how can you not love a group that thinks up the name RazorClown Enterprises?
Also on the docket this evening...
April Fools - an evening of foolish beauty from the guys at Four Humors Theater
This one's over at Bedlam Theater - dinner and festivities start at 6pm, show starts at 7:30pm.
It's a combo fundraiser and performance for the Four Humors crew (they do have at least a couple of things percolating for the Fringe this year, after all, and other outings in before and beyond). I've been pimping Nick Ryan's work lately (he's the anchor leg of my dream theater season conjured for MinnesotaPlaylist.com) so I thought I should continue the trend.
They describe it thusly...
"Join us once a year on April 1st, to celebrate foolishness in all its beauty.
Join the creators of "Mortem Capiendum" and "Deviled Eggs" in their annual, one night only April 1st performance! An hour-long show following four fools on a quest to capture laughter, April Fools was conceived, created and stars Four Humor's Artistic Directors Jason Ballweber, Brant Miller, Nick Ryan and Matt Spring.
Part show, part fundraiser, the evening will feature food, drink specials, music, as well as a raffle for fantastic prizes!
This is your only chance for 365 days to laugh with the Four Humors AND give them money!
We'll announce our 2009-2010 season!
Will you be King or Queen for the night?
Suggested donation $15 general, $10 students."
Their website is www.fourhumorstheater.com
Details also available at www.bedlamtheatre.org
And though the fundraising aspect is one night only, the April Fools show will also perform at 10:30pm on both Thursday and Friday, April 2nd and 3rd.
So, that might be a way to see both, if, like me, you can't quite decide because they both sound good (and of course, unlike me, you've got the night off).
This is original stuff, and a good way to end a foolish day, so go support either or both.
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`Group of 20' and EU issue a surprise statement on trade
AFP , BRASILIA, BRAZIL
The EU and a coalition of developing nations, which clashed recently over contentious farm subsidies, issued a surprise joint statement in Brazil on Friday calling for a speedy resumption of global trade talks.
Officials of 19 of the 20 nations of the so-called G20 coalition, including Brazil, China, India and South Africa, and EU negotiators were wrapping up a two-day summit here Friday ahead of a key WTO meeting in Geneva next week.
The WTO has set a December 15 deadline to relaunch global trade talks that collapsed in Cancun, Mexico, in September amid deep rifts between rich and poor nations.
One factor in that collapse was the emergence of the G20 coalition, which demanded curbs on farm subsidies in exchange for a broader agreement on free trade rules. The G20 countries are all WTO members.
However, Friday's joint communique appeared to signal that the rift has been eased, and that the trade rivals are ready for a fresh round of talks.
"The dialogue proved to be fruitful and positive with both sides explaining their own positions in a business-like manner and acknowledging the importance of this dialogue to achieve progress in the negotiations," the two blocs said in a joint communique.
The statement said there was "general agreement that we need to intensify negotiations early next year" with a view to finalising the Doha round of trade talks by a 2004 WTO deadline.
Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorin said the statement underlined "the preference for negotiation between the two blocs."
EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, who prior to the communique's release had also struck an upbeat tone, expressed satisfaction with the talks.
"The impression is that the G20 wants to be a force for movement and it is a positive developement," he told reporters.
However, the EU trade commissioner conceded tough negotiations remained, saying, "Discussions were frank open and rather precise, even if the purpose of the meeting was not to negociate."
"The impression I had is that we [the EU and G20] not only want to pursue negociations but also to show some flexibility. If we start where we were [after Cancun] we will not succeed," Lamy said.
He said tough negotiations on market access, domestic support for agriculture and exports now lay ahead.
The EU and the G20 stressed they should "move as quickly as possible into an increased dialogue among all partners to achieve real and substantive progress in line with the Doha mandate and the timeframe defined therein," the statement said.
"The G20 reiterated its disposition to contribute to the success of negotiations and to move into a negotiation mode early next year," it added.
WTO director-general Supachai Panitchpakdi, who also attended the meetings here, said the talks had been "very useful."
"This meeting was indeed a very useful one. I've been encouraged by open and frank discussions," the WTO chief said.
"I hope we'll see more of those disciussions in Geneva and other places once we move back to our negociation process," Panitchpakdi said.
Both blocs agreed to continue pursuing their negotiations after the Brasilia meetings through their Geneva delegations, and at a ministerial level to achieve "a successful and timely completion of the Doha round."
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PROJECT INFO: I-10 from La Cantera to Ralph Fair
This page last updated December 2, 2019
I-10 West from La Cantera Pkwy. to Ralph Fair Rd.
Under construction (85% complete)
This $70 million project is adding one general-purpose mainlane (for a total of three) and one high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane in each direction. These lanes are generally being added in the open center median of the current roadway with the HOV lanes in the middle between the general-purpose mainlanes (see cross-section below.) No entrance or exit ramps will be changed as a result of this project.
The westbound HOV lane will start just north of La Cantera Pkwy. There will be an intermediate entrance/exit point between Camp Bullis Rd. and Dominion Dr. for traffic to exit for Boerne Stage Rd. and Ralph Fair Rd. The HOV lane will then continue and end just north of Boerne Stage Rd. where it will merge into the left general-purpose mainlane. That left mainlane will then end just north of Ralph Fair Rd.
On the eastbound side, the third general-purpose mainlane will be added to the right from a forthcoming entrance ramp located just north of Ralph Fair Rd. The HOV lane will then start on the left just south of Ralph Fair Rd. There will be an intermediate entrance/exit point between Stonewall Pkwy. and Camp Bullis Rd. for traffic wanting to exit to Camp Bullis Rd. and La Cantera Pkwy. The HOV lane will then continue and end just south of Camp Bullis Rd. where it will merge into the left general-purpose mainlane.
EXISTING CROSS SECTION
FUTURE CROSS SECTION
Number of access road lanes varies depending on location.
Diagrams are for illustrative purposes only and are not to scale.
How this project will help
This section of I-10 is growing rapidly and experiences recurrent daily congestion. The additional lanes will provide additional capacity. The HOV lanes will be the first in an envisioned system of HOV lanes in San Antonio and are intended to help reduce congestion by encouraging carpooling and mass transit usage.
This project started in September 2017 and is expected to be complete in Spring 2020.
Will this project be tolled?
No. Although an earlier version of this project proposed tolled managed lanes, funding was secured to remove the toll component. Instead, two toll-free mainlanes and two toll-free HOV lanes (one of each per direction) will be added.
I will not use the HOV lane, so it won't benefit me. My taxes shouldn't pay for something I won't use.
Even if you don't use the HOV lane, you will still get the benefit of it in that every vehicle that uses the HOV lane is one or more vehicles that won't be in the general-purpose mainlanes, thus reducing congestion there. We all pay taxes for many things we don't use or directly benefit from but that benefit everyone generally. Don't forget that the people who will use the HOV lanes are also taxpayers.
Instead of an HOV lane, another general-purpose mainlane would provide more capacity.
Yes, having an extra mainlane in place of an HOV lane would provide more general-purpose capacity. But the benefit would be short-lived because that extra lane will soon also become congested and will leave less room (if any) then to expand. With an HOV lane, planners build-in a corridor that can be used now and well into the future to move more people per vehicle through the corridor, people who won't be clogging the mainlanes in their single-occupancy cars. Freeway corridors are more than just pathways for vehicles-- they're high-capacity transportation corridors that need to be considered not only for their ability to move vehicles, but also their ability to move people. These two purposes can coexist and HOV lanes are a way of doing that. A new general-purpose mainlane, while providing immediate gratification, is myopic in the long-run; HOV lanes reflect a more sophisticated long-term planning desired by many citizens.
Nobody wants HOV lanes.
That's simply not true. Of the over 3,500 respondents to the recent SA Tomorrow transportation planning survey, 76% either agreed or strongly-agreed that HOV lanes should be an important part of San Antonio's transportation future. Anecdotally, the author of this website attends nearly every public meeting for transportation projects and has consistently heard broad-based citizen support for HOV lanes.
Why build an HOV lane here when there aren't any others in San Antonio?
The inclusion of HOV lanes in freeway projects is a recent change in local transportation planning and this project was in development when that policy was put into effect, so it was included in the project. Consquently, this could be considered a "starter" HOV lane. Another is under construction on US 281 North, and HOV lanes are also included in the latest expansion plans for I-35 North and for Loop 1604. Furthermore, planners are already considering how to continue the I-10 and US 281 HOV lanes inside 1604. This piecemeal approach to building HOV lanes is actually quite common. Remember that San Antonio's freeway system started with a short section of I-10 between Woodlawn and Culebra that provided no significant connectivity but was part of a bigger plan. "Rome wasn't built in a day."
What will be the requirements to use the HOV lanes?
It is planned that the HOV lane will be open to vehicles with two or more passengers (HOV 2+), transit vehicles, motorcycles, and emergency vehicles. The HOV lanes will operate full-time.
Why wasn't this done when the Camp Bullis and Dominion overpasses were built?
At that time, TxDOT had not completed the required planning and environmental studies for a mainlane expansion and there was no funding for such a project. The Camp Bullis overpass was rebuilt to provide space beneath it for urgently-needed turnarounds and intersection improvements necessitated by nearby development (mainly The Rim.) The overpasses had to be lengthened and raised, which required raising the approaches on I-10. The area between Camp Bullis Blvd. and Dominion Dr. was in a flood plane, so since they were raising the roadway for the Camp Bullis overpass, they needed to address the drainage issues there, which required rebuilding the roadway. However, planners designed that section to facilitate the future expansion of the mainlanes.
The Dominion overpass was built to facilitate convenient circulation and emergency access in conjunction with converting the access roads to one-way, which itself was necessitated by traffic growth in the area. (See next bullet for more details.)
Waiting to complete those overpass projects until the mainlane expansion project development was completed and funded would have delayed the much-needed improvements they provided by nearly a decade. Like many things in life, highway improvements often are incremental due to real-world constraints.
The overpass at Dominion Dr. was only built to give the residents of The Dominion easy access to inbound I-10.
This doesn't really have anything to do with this project, but this seemed like a good place to answer this persistent but false allegation among some frankly cynical people in this area. An overpass was needed between Camp Bullis Rd. and Boerne Stage Rd. to provide a convenient crossover for residents on both sides of I-10 in order to convert the access roads to one-way. Without an overpass in this area, traffic needing to go the opposite direction on I-10 would have to travel up to four miles out of the way to do so. This location was selected because it's nearly halfway between Camp Bullis Rd. and Boerne Stage Rd., because it was at a location that connected a roadway on the east side of I-10 with an already-planned arterial (Stonewall Parkway) on the west side (this arterial had been on the City of San Antonio's major thoroughfare plan for many years prior), and because it was the best location to facilitate emergency vehicle access to locations on the east side of I-10 from the fire station located on the west side of I-10 just north of there. The fact that it provided improved access to I-10 from The Dominion was certainly a beneficial consequence for them, but it was not the determining factor for the need and location for that overpass.
Below is an annotated detailed project schematic and a rendering of what the finished roadway will look like.
Click on the image below to see a detailed annotated schematic of this project
Rendering of future I-10 looking inbound north of Dominion Dr
TxDOT - I-10 from FM 3351 to La Cantera Parkway
http://www.txdot.gov/inside-txdot/projects/studies/san-antonio/i10-fm3351-la-cantera-pkwy.html
I-10 project animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0JoFYAt8k&feature=youtu.be
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TSU President Glover Encourages Community to ‘Stand Strong’ at 8th Presidential Prayer Service
January 8, 2020 Emmanuel Freeman
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Tennessee State University President Glenda Glover provided encouraging words of perseverance at the 8th annual Presidential Prayer Service on Jan. 8.
Nashville Mayor John Cooper thanked President Glover for her leadership. (Photo by Michael McLendon, TSU Media Relations)
Dr. Glover was the keynote speaker, as TSU and the Nashville faith-based community joined hands to begin the New Year with a morning of prayer at Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church.
Faith-based leaders of various denominations from across Metro Nashville, as well as Mayor John Cooper, Vice Mayor Jim Shullman, and TSU alum and gospel legend Dr. Bobby Jones, participated in the program. Also participating was Bishop Joseph Walker III, chairman of the TSU Board of Trustees and presiding bishop of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International.
During her speech, Glover encouraged the gathering — community, state and local leaders and citizens, TSU staff, administrators, alumni and students — to “stand” in the face of difficulties.
A cross-section of faith-based leaders participated in the 8th Annual Presidential Prayer Service at Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church. (Photo by Michael McLendon, TSU Media Relations)
“There will be difficult days in accomplishing goals, when others will challenge you and or doubt you, but you must stand and be steadfast,” Glover said. “We had some ups and downs, we had some trials and tribulations, but we are here. We are thankful for people who have stood up for TSU.”
Before Glover’s presentation, Mayor Cooper thanked her for her leadership, and the community for coming together in prayers for the city, TSU and residents.
Darrien Phillips, a TSU senior commercial music major, performs a musical rendition at the prayer service. (Photo by Michael McLendon, TSU Media Relations)
“Dr. Glover, this is your day as you go into your eighth year as president of Tennessee State University,” Cooper declared. “The city of Nashville and I thank you for all you have done for not just this community but across the nation. TSU graduate students, teachers, engineers, to name a few, continue to nurture our students that come from TSU to go out near and far. The city of Nashville is so fortunate to have you here. We thank you for this annual prayer service.”
Following Glover’s address, ministers offered prayer in several areas, including peace, the global community, the Nashville community, children and youth, and the TSU community.
Rev. Aaron X. Marble, pastor of Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church, presided over the program. He praised Dr. Glover for her leadership and said the annual prayer service “is a wonderful tradition that she’s established.”
The prayers concluded with the Rev. Derrick Moore, pastor of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, praying fervently for Glover as various ministers gathered around her in a display of unity and support.
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US State Department Designates TSU a ‘Fulbright HBCU Institutional Leader’
December 23, 2019 Emmanuel Freeman
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Tennessee State University is a Fulbright HBCU Institutional Leader for Academic Year 2018-2019, solidifying its position even more on the global stage.
The designation was recently announced in a letter to TSU President Glenda Glover from Marie Royce, U.S. assistant secretary of state for Educational and Cultural Affairs.
TSU is one of 19 HBCUs to receive the Fulbright designation for demonstrating noteworthy support for Fulbright exchange participants during the 2018-2019 academic year, as well as for promoting Fulbright program opportunities on campus.
“We are extremely excited to be recognized for our participation in this prestigious program,” Glover said. “With our diverse student, staff and faculty population, TSU identifies with the Fulbright program’s goal of promoting mutual understanding between people of the United States and other countries through cultural exchanges.”
Last year, TSU became the first historically black university to host the Fulbright Pakistan Re-entry Seminar (April 25-28). The seminar, funded through a grant from the Institute of International Education, was intended to help students from Pakistan, who have studied in the United States for two to seven years, prepare for the culture shock they may experience when they return home.
Earlier this year, TSU professor Janice M. Williams received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to South Africa in Dental Sciences. She was one of over 800 U.S. citizens who were selected to teach, conduct research, and/or provide expertise abroad for the 2019-2020 academic year.
According to Dr. Jewell Winn, executive director of the TSU Office of International Affairs, having this designation with Fulbright, which has partnerships with more than 160 countries worldwide, positions the university to be more attractive globally.
“It has been challenging to develop cultural exchange programs with major research institutions around the world,” she said. “But this designation will show that we are among the most prestigious and respected HBCUs implementing comprehensive internationalization.”
In the State Department’s letter, assistant secretary Royce congratulated TSU for attaining the Fulbright HBCU Institutional Leadership status, along with the other 18 HBCUs.
“ECA has established this new designation to acknowledge the strong partnership between the Fulbright Program and HBCUs, and to encourage the entire network of HBCUs to increase their Fulbright engagement,” the letter said. “This initiative is part of the U.S. State Department’s long-standing commitment to build diversity and inclusion within the Fulbright Program and within the Bureau’s international exchange program overall.”
TSU will be recognized at a special reception hosted by the Fulbright Program on Feb. 18, during the annual Association of International Education Administration in Washington, D.C.
Terrence Izzard, TSU’s associate vice president for Enrollment Management and Student Success, said the designation helps the university’s recruitment effort by further opening the pipeline for engaging more foreign students.
“We have a large international population of students, and this designation certainly helps to enhance our outreach to continue to attract the best and brightest from abroad,” Izzard said.
Added Katelyn Thompson, president of Tennessee State’s SGA, “TSU’s diverse student population makes us unique. I think the Fulbright Program would help to expose our students to more cultural exchanges, as well as bring in more students from foreign countries.”
As part of the State Department designation, TSU received a certification of congratulations, as well as a Fulbright HBCU Institutional Leader digital badge to display on the institution’s website and on its social media platforms.
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Tennessean Names Conference Room in Honor of Late Reporter and TSU Professor
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – The Tennessean newspaper has named a conference room in honor of the late award-winning business reporter and TSU adjunct professor Getahn Ward, who died in 2016. He was 45.
The Meter staffers visit the Getahn Ward Conference Room in The Tennessean new office building. Pictured are, from left, staff writer Brianna Sparrow, Editor-in-Chief KaBria Kirkham, and staff writer Nyah Peebles. (Courtesy photo)
The Getahn Ward Conference Room, in the newspaper’s new office building, includes a table with four chairs, a cabinet displaying awards Ward won while he worked there, as well as a white board for writing ideas. The multimedia room in the TSU Department of Communications is also named in honor of the fallen professor.
An active member of the Nashville chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, where he chaired the scholarship committee, Ward was an adjunct in the Communications Department at TSU, teaching an introductory course in journalism for many years.
Former students and staffers of The Meter, the TSU student newspaper, which Ward headed as editor-in-chief while a student at TSU, visited the Getahn Ward Conference Room recently. The experience, one said, “was very moving.”
Three visiting Meter staffers sit in on the morning editorial staff meeting at The Tennessean. (Courtesy Photo)
“Although I did not know him personally, but as soon as I saw his picture I felt an immediate connection …seeing his accomplishments and the remarkable person he was,” said KaBria Kirkham, editor-in-chief of The Meter, who came to TSU the year after Ward’s death.
She said as an aspiring journalist, she was inspired by Ward’s dedication to excellence and how he went about his work.
“I was just amazed to see something so important dedicated to him in recognition of his work and contribution to his community and individuals he came across,” Kirkham added.
During visit to the Getahn Ward Conference Room, The Meter staffers had an opportunity to interact with their counterparts at The Tennessean. (Courtesy Photo)
Meter staff writers Brianna Sparrow and Nyah Peebles accompanied Kirkham during the visit to The Tennessean. The group also toured the newspaper’s elaborate facility at its new 1801 West End Avenue location, and sat in on the paper’s morning editorial meeting, where the plan for the day’s coverage is discussed.
Following Ward’s death, TSU, The Tennessean, the Gannett Foundation and NABJ partnered to create a scholarship in Ward’s name to benefit aspiring journalists. The new scholarship is the first endowed scholarship in the history of the TSU Department of Communications.
“At a time when our majors are working multiple jobs to offset the cost of a college education, this (scholarship) will go a long way in helping some of our best and brightest students,” Dr. Tameka Winston, chair of the TSU Department of Communications, said during the launching of the scholarship. “This scholarship represents a man who devoted much of his life to the field of journalism and to the education and success of students at Tennessee State University.”
Ward, who previously worked at the Nashville Banner before it closed in 1997, had a passion for teaching students and advocating for black journalists. He earned two degrees at TSU, where he was a proud alum.
To contribute to the Getahn Ward Endowed Scholarship Fund, visit https://bit.ly/35kPUjK
About Tennessee State University
Founded in 1912, Tennessee State University is Nashville’s only public university, and is a premier, historically black university and land-grant institution offering 38 bachelor’s degree programs, 24 master’s degree programs, and seven doctoral degrees. TSU is a comprehensive research intensive institution with a R-2 Carnegie designation, and has a graduate school on its downtown Avon Williams Campus, along with the Otis Floyd Nursery Research Center in McMinnville, Tennessee. With a commitment to excellence, Tennessee State University provides students with a quality education in a nurturing and innovative environment that prepares them as alumni to be global leaders in every facet of society. Visit the University online at tnstate.edu.
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Award-Winning Filmmaker Returns to TSU To Premiere Latest Project “Wear The Crown”
December 11, 2019 Michael McLendon
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Tennessee State University Alum and Award-Winning Filmmaker Alan Nettles returned to campus on Dec. 14 to premiere his latest film project, “Wear The Crown.”
In ”Wear The Crown,” Nettles, who secured his Bachelor of Science degree in communication studies with a concentration in TV and film production from TSU in 2019, takes viewers inside the trying world of a family rocked by the news that their mother, Winnie Price, has been diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer.
The Phoenix Troupe (Photo Submitted)
The evening began at 6:30 p.m. in the Cox-Lewis Theater with a pre-show performance by a group of creative artists called the Phoenix Troupe.
Filled with touching music and engaging subplots, “Wear The Crown,” which took five days to shoot, showcases various locations in Nashville, including Tennessee State University, Arlington United Methodist Church and Diamond Sound Studios. The crew also shot on location in Cadiz, Kentucky.
“Our preproduction was also very intense. We had about six weeks of rehearsals with the cast,” Nettles said. “We had a lot of different marketing events that we participated in from September until now. We did a huge crowd-funder campaign, and there were just so many different things that we were doing to really bring this film to life.”
Alan Nettles, founder and CEO of Moving4ward Productions (Photo Submitted)
Nettles, founder and CEO of Moving4ward Productions, the company responsible for the film, said “Wear The Crown” features numerous TSU alums, including Lynn Summers who portrays Winnie Price and Pamela Bennett, who portrays Mrs. Alexander.
Summers said the film takes a close look at the dynamics of family relationships.
“This film mirrors true society today. These are the trials and tribulations we go through each and every day,” she said. “Regardless of what happens, family is family. We should still love one another, and we should still get together.”
TSU Alum Lynn Summers portrays Winnie Price in “Wear The Crown.” (Photo Submitted)
“Wear The Crown” was produced by an all-female team which includes: Cillea Houghton, producer; Janice Wheaton, executive producer; and Sabrina Moore, line producer. This is the first time all three have produced a film.
Moore, a former nuclear engineer who recently graduated from TSU with a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications, said the film encourages people to take ownership of their lives, particularly their health.
“This film spotlights not only the issue of cancer, but of gender identity, depression and just how to accept yourself wherever you are in life,” she said. “Deal with your issues. Deal with your health. Deal with your mental stability. You can deal with it. Everybody is dealing with something in some shape, form or fashion, so take ownership of your body and your life.”
Nettles, whose debut film “3 Blind Boys on the Block” was named Best of Fest at the 2015 Chi-Town Multicultural Film Festival, said witnessing his aunt, Tracey Reid, battle cancer inspired him to make the film. He said the cast and crew worked tirelessly to produce a high-quality project that should strike a chord with anyone who has grappled with depression, grief or sickness.
“I’ve had to sacrifice life in order to breathe life into this production,” he said.
Nettles credits many of his professors at TSU, as well as his parents, with giving him the guidance and support necessary to achieve his creative aspirations.
“The faculty in the Department of Communications truly does care about its students, and if you allow them to love you, they will love you. You just have to be open to receive them,” he said.
Houghton said she hopes the film gives a voice to the voiceless.
“It’s shining a spotlight on important issues that I think will kind of resonate with everybody, from cancer to mental health, which is such a prominent issue today,” she said. “We just really hope they feel that their voice is in this story, that their story is in this film.”
“Wear the Crown” also features performances by the Phoenix Troupe, a group of African-American singers and creative artists, including 2014 Essence Festival “You’re My Star” contest winner Megan Broadnax; Jeffrey White of gospel duo Same Seed; Lynn Echo, who appeared on former BET show “Bobby Jones Gospel,” along with Kyiara Jackson, Aundra Keo Brown and April Sledge.
The premiere event also included a screening of the short film, “Loose Change,” written and directed by Moving4ward Productions assistant director of Creative Development, William Jenkins.
The event also honored cancer survivors related to members of the cast with the presentation of a special gift.
For more information about “Wear The Crown,” visit https://bit.ly/2PtbH1Z .
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TSU-Apple Coding Initiative Introduces Girls To Coding and STEM
November 21, 2019 Michael McLendon
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Tennessee State University recently partnered with Apple, Inc. to teach middle and high school girls how to code, as well as consider careers in STEM.
Youth from ages 6 to 19 from various schools, including McKissack Middle School and HIllsboro High School, had the opportunity to experience coding at a free camp on Nov. 2, 9 and 16 in TSU’s Farrell Westbrook Complex (The Barn) on the main campus.
Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted about the camp: “We’re proud to team up with @TSUedu and @nc100bwinc to show girls in Nashville how coding can help them realize their dreams. Can’t wait to see where your imaginations take you! “
Dr. Robbie Melton, TSU’s dean of Graduate and Professional Studies, serves as the program director for the coding initiative.
“We were able to introduce these girls to coding in a very fun, active and stimulating way,” she said. “The students were only supposed to pick one Saturday, but some of the girls came back every Saturday.”
During the camp, participants moved around to different stations where they learned basic coding principles, and “actually coded drones and robots to move and function.”
Melton said because of the success of the camp, her office has received requests from local high schools, as well as schools in Memphis, Clarksville and Shelbyville that hope to explore coding.
“The students went back to their schools and talked to their teachers, and because of that we are now having special sessions for schools,” Melton said. “We got a call from Hillsboro High School’s parent community where we went on Monday to do ‘Everyone Can Code. Everyone Can Create.’ Antioch is also on board. These are schools that have reached out because of their students to say, ‘Hey, can we have more? Can we bring students to you, or can you all come to us?”
Students from various schools in Nashville gather for photo following a free coding camp held in TSU’s Farrell Westbrook Complex. (Submitted Photo)
In July, TSU launched HBCU C2 “Everyone Can Code and Create,” a national initiative supported by Apple, which seeks to bring coding experiences to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and underserved communities. The initiative is part of TSU’s newly established National Center for Smart Technology Innovations, created through the HBCU C2 Presidential Academy. The girls coding camp is an extension of the initiative.
Dr. Veronica Johnson is president of the Metro Nashville Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., which partnered with TSU and Apple. She said black women and girls are “vastly underrepresented” in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as performing arts.
“By exposing STEM projects at an early age, it could help increase their chances of exploring these fields, as they pursue academic degrees and seek future career opportunities,” Johnson said. “Having access to develop needed skill sets to survive in the 21st digital landscape will be critical to the economic impact of the future of black communities.”
Eleven-year-old Genesis Wells, who attends Cresswell Middle Prep School of the Arts, said she found out about the camp from her mother, Ariel Wells, who works at TSU.
Genesis Laniah Wells, a student at Cressell Middle Prep School of the Arts, attended the girls’ coding camp with her mom Ariel Wells, who works at TSU. (Submitted Photo)
“I enjoyed playing in Swift Playgrounds the most and GarageBand,” she said. “I enjoyed Swift Playgrounds because you get to control a character named Bright and make him collect coins, and it makes your brain think a little bit. I enjoyed GarageBand because I got to make beats and I love music, so that’s just a dream for me.”
Wells, who aspires to be a singer, actor and dancer, said she is also considering a career as a pediatrician.
Dr. S. Keith Hargrove, dean of TSU’s College of Engineering, said the camp was also beneficial to the participants’ parents, or guardians.
“The program also informs parents and adults about the digital world of information technology, and how as individuals you can take control of your learning and knowledge based on your own needs and career goals,” said Hargrove. “The ability to manage information and make data-driven decisions will continue to be a major skill for today and tomorrow’s workforce”
TSU has been charged with strengthening the collaboration by offering the company’s coding curriculum to new audiences. That expansion also includes providing TSU alums the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of app design and app development for free.
To date, TSU has impacted 32 HBCUs with the HBCU C2 Initiative, including visiting every HBCU in Arkansas and meeting with a representative from each HBCU located in Louisiana. Melton said in April 2020 Apple will establish an HBCU Appstore, where HBCUs can share the various apps they have created.
“If you can dream it, we can design it and we can code it. Everyone is not going to be a coder, but everyone can think and create.,” she said. “We leave every academy with apps that they have designed to address a community, an education or a workforce need.”
Also in July, TSU launched the first community “Everyone Can Code and Create” initiative for youth on its Avon Williams Campus. The initiative is also part of the National Center for Smart Technology Innovations.
For more information about the girls coding camp, contact ablack1@tnstate.edu, or call 615-963-7269.
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TSU Remembers Founders During 2019 Homecoming
October 15, 2019 Michael McLendon
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) –Tennessee State University held it’s Founder’s Day Convocation on Oct. 15 in Kean Hall.
TSU President Glenda Glover, accompanied by keynote speaker Nashville General Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Joseph Webb, led a procession of faculty, student leaders and administrators to mark the university’s 107th birthday.
President Glenda Glover presents 2018 Founders’ Day speaker Dr. Joseph Webb with a plaque at the ceremony in Kean Hall. (Photo by Emanuel O. Roland II)
The University Wind Ensemble, led by Dr. Reginald McDonald, offered selections to a cheering audience, following presentation of colors by the Air Force ROTC Color Guard.
“We honor our founders, and we celebrate our excellence,” Glover said, as she reflected on the significance of the university’s contributions. “It is my esteemed pleasure to be here on this founders day.”
Miss TSU, Jada Crisp, and Mr. TSU, Damyr Moore, shared a brief history of TSU, followed by a musical selection from the University Choir.
In his keynote address, Webb reminisced about his days as a student at TSU.
Miss TSU Jada Crisp, joined by Mr. TSU Damyr Moore, gives the university history at the Founders’ Day program. (Photo by Michael McLendon, TSU Media Relations)
“For me this is truly a homecoming because I am back in what we used to call ‘Kean’s Little Garden,’” Webb said. “They call it Kean Hall now, but we had a lot of experiences here as an athlete. As a basketball player, I had two goals in mind: one was on this end, and one was on that end.”
He reminded the students, faculty and alumni that as members of the TSU family, they are part of a proud legacy.
“TSU, founded in 1912, has a rich history of producing public service and great leaders. It is still that beacon of hope where many aspire to gain a better life with the motto of ‘Think.Work.Serve,’ and a charge of ‘Enter to learn, and go forth to serve.’” he said.
The University Wind Ensemble, led by Dr. Reginald McDonald, offer a selection at Founder’s Day Convocation. (Photo by Michael McLendon, TSU Media Relations)
Webb, who joined Nashville General Hospital in 2015, has more than 25 years of experience managing for–profit and not-for-profit healthcare organizations. He obtained his doctorate of science in health services administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and holds a bachelor of science and master of science in health and physical education from TSU.
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Tennessee State University Students Hold Candlelight Vigil for Fallen Classmate
October 15, 2019 Emmanuel Freeman
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Rickey Scott had a ready smile and willing hand to help anyone in need. That’s how Tennessee State University students, faculty, and staff remembered the freshman Monday night at a candlelight vigil.
Students hold hands as they console one another at the vigil for their late schoolmate. (Photo by Erynne Davis, TSU Media Relations)
Scott, 19, died Sunday afternoon at a local Nashville hospital from a critical gunshot wound, according to authorities. The case remains under investigation.
Many held hands, while others wiped away tears, as students said prayers and sang songs during the vigil organized by the SGA and Freshmen Class. TSU’s Amphitheater on the main campus served as the backdrop for the very emotional event. The university was stunned by the sudden death of the engineering major from Ohio, who was just entering his third month as a freshman. Many of the students did not know Scott personally, but attended the vigil to show their support for his family and friends. Others who encountered the spirited young man remembered his smiles, lightheartedness and caring personality.
TSU President Glenda Glover was among university officials at the candlelight vigil. She lamented Scott’s death, expressed sympathy to Scott’s family who attended the ceremony, and thanked the students for coming together to remember their fellow student.
Students join the parents and other family members for a walk across campus following the vigil as a show of solidarity. (Photo by Erynne Davis, TSU Media Relations)
“We ask the Almighty God to put his arms around us as a university, a student body to protect us and strengthen this family during this time,” Glover said. “We are heartbroken by this loss and we grieve with Rickey’s family and those who knew him. In times like these, we must come together and support each other as one university community.”
Tiona Williamson, a sophomore majoring in cardiorespiratory care, did not know Scott too well, but fondly remembers talking to him just days before his passing.
“I met him and we had a couple of conversations,” said Williamson, of Jackson, Tennessee. “I didn’t know him personally, but thought he was a really sweet person. He was really nice, cool and laid back. It is so sad what happened to him.”
“He was loved,” one of Scott’s family members added.
Also speaking at the candlelight vigil were Katelyn Thompson, president of the Student Government Association; Mr. TSU Damyr Moore; and Caleb Jarmon, President of the freshman class.
Frank Stevenson, associate vice president for Student Affairs and dean of students, said the vigil was a show of unity among students, especially the freshmen, who wanted to make sure that they came together, to hold hands and to encourage one another.
“This is somewhat of a cloudy day in the Land of Golden Sunshine,” Stevenson said. “We have a Tiger that has fallen and the students have paused to celebrate his life with this vigil.”
Miss Freshman, Ashanti Mitchell, said it was sad to lose a classmate just shortly after starting their college journey.
“We have been here no more than three months and just now starting our first Homecoming and to lose one of our classmates is just unfortunate,” said Mitchell, a biology major from Louisville, Kentucky. “I wish coming together was under a better circumstance. The fact that my class came out and supported even though some of them didn’t even know him, I really appreciate it and I hope that we keep this close bond and be supportive of each other going forward.”
Sunday was the start of Homecoming week at TSU, but Glover assured the gathering of increased TSUPD and Metro police presence to ensure safety due to the expected high traffic on campus.
Law enforcement is continuing to look into all information, including video surveillance. TSUPD say there was no report of a shooting or suspicious activity on campus prior to receiving the call from Metro police dispatch. They’re still trying to determine exactly where he sustained the fatal injury and a motive. School administrators are asking for the public to come forward with any information that may help in the investigation.
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TSU Aristocrat of Bands Ranked No. 1 Among HBCU Bands
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – The Tennessee State University world famous marching band has done it again. Just in time for homecoming, The Undefeated has named the TSU Aristocrat of Bands the Best HBCU marching band in America.
Ranked No. 4 in the September poll, AOB moved slightly ahead of North Carolina A&T State University to take the title, with top finishes in all categories, including No. 1 in drum major.
This is the third ESPN/The Undefeated HBCU Ranking this season. Bands are evaluated based on musicality, drill and design, percussion, auxiliary crops and drum majors. The rankings are conducted by two six-person panels consisting of current and retired band directors from HBCUs, as well as choreographers.
The AOB is not new to national or international recognition. They have performed at the White House, at NFL games, and appeared at events and performed with many other big stars.
During the recent NFL Draft in Nashville, the AOB thrilled fans with a performance on ESPN’s “First Take.” Percussionists from the band performed in the Rose Bowl Parade. The AOB performed with country music legend Keith Urban, and performed at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
Lizzo, a rising star topping the charts, gave a shout out to the band recently after they performed a dynamic medley including her hit song “Truth Hurts” at TSU’s game against Mississippi Valley State on Aug. 31, and delivered a repeat performance at the National Battle of the Bands in Houston, Lizzo’s hometown.
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Tennessee State University’s World-Renowned Marching Band to Perform at the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons’ Home Opener
September 9, 2019 Emmanuel Freeman
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – The Tennessee State University Aristocrat of Bands will be front and center Sept. 15 when the Atlanta Falcons take to the field in their season home opener against the Philadelphia Eagles.
The marching band has been invited to perform at half-time of the Falcons-Eagles game in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the second AOB NFL invitation this season. The band will also perform during the half-time show of the Tennessee Titans-San Francisco 49ers game at Nissan Stadium on Oct. 6.
Just a day after performing at the Southern Heritage Classic, the Aristocrat of Bands will be in Atlanta to perform in the half-time show of the Falcons’ home opener against the Philadelphia Eagles in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. (Photo by Lalita Hodge, TSU Media Relations)
For Atlanta native Julien Dooley, a drum major with the AOB, performing in his hometown, especially in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, is special. He knows his family will be thrilled, but he plans on surprising them.
“I have not told anyone yet, but this is just so exciting,” said Dooley, a senior commercial music major and a graduate of Atlanta’s Southwest DeKalb High School, who also plays trombone for the AOB.
“I am a huge fan of the Atlanta Falcons. It is very exciting that the AOB gets the opportunity to perform for the Falcons, which means I get to go back home, something I rarely get to do because of our busy band schedule.”
Dr. Reginald McDonald, TSU’s director of bands, said he received the Falcons’ invitation last week, with a choice to perform at any one of their next three home games. The band performs at the Southern Heritage Classic in Memphis between TSU and Jackson State University on Saturday, the day before the Falcons game in Atlanta.
“Our preference was the Sunday after the Southern Heritage Classic. Needless to say, that’s going to be an extremely busy weekend for us again,” he said, noting the band’s back-to-back performances at the John Merritt Classic on Aug. 31 in Nashville, and the Battle of the Bands competition in Houston the following day.
“One thing we learned last week that even after the John Merritt Classic our kids did a great job. We got on the bus and drove 14 hours to Houston. The show in Houston was even better than the one we did Saturday night. So, we know that our kids are performers and they will rise to the occasion.”
McDonald, who previously performed for the Falcons as a high school band leader at Southwest DeKalb (1999 playoffs – Falcons vs. 49ers) said going to Atlanta is also personal and special.
“That was a huge moment in my career as a young man, and to have that opportunity 20 years later as a college band director, is even more significant,” said McDonald. “This is a market where we get a lot of our band kids from. Majority are from Memphis and West Tennessee, the next largest group – 30 percent – of our kids come from the Atlanta area , and those connections that I have with band directors from Atlanta and the school system are tremendous.”
Sophomore Tiara Thomas, a political science major from Olive Branch, Mississippi, plays the French Horn in the AOB. She said the invitation to Atlanta gives band members the chance to play in another NFL arena away from home.
“I am really excited because normally (since she came to TSU) we only perform for our home NFL team – the Titans,” said Thomas, a member of the TSU Honors College, with a 3.9 grade point average. “So, to be invited to a whole other state to showcase our talent, that’s really big.”
The Aristocrat of Bands made global headlines last week when Lizzo, a rising star topping the charts with her hit “Truth Hurts,” gave a shout out to the band. During the halftime of TSU’s game against Mississippi Valley State at the John Merritt Classic, the AOB included Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” in its medley. They also delivered a repeat performance the following day at the National Battle of the Bands in Houston, Lizzo’s hometown.
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TSU President Glenda Glover and Linebacker Christion Abercrombie receive top HBCU Digest Awards
August 5, 2019 Emmanuel Freeman
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Tennessee State University received two of the top awards from HBCU DIGEST this year. President Glenda Glover was named HBCU Female President of the Year, while Christion Abercrombie was selected Male Athlete of the Year.
President Glenda Glover receives the Female President of the Year Award at the annual HBCU Digest Awards in Baltimore. (Submitted photo)
Glover received the coveted award Aug. 2 at the ninth annual HBCU Digest Awards in Baltimore. She also accepted the award on behalf of the TSU standout who continues to recover from an on-the-field injury.
Glover, the eighth and first female president of TSU, was presented with the awards during the ceremony in the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture.
“I am extremely honored that HBCU Digest named me HBCU Female President of the Year, and Christian Abercrombie of Tennessee State University Male Athlete of the Year,” Glover said. “I expressed to the audience that it is working through challenges that defines leaders. This is not my recognition alone. I’m truly grateful and appreciate the support of the entire TSU family. Thank you all for your support.”
Glover, who reached out to Abercrombie’s family with the news of him being named Male Athlete of the Year, said, “Christion Abercrombie is a walking miracle.”
“It’s only fitting that he should be named the HBCU Digest Awards’ Male Athlete of the Year,” Glover said. “His perseverance, as well as his incredible spirit, is an inspiration to anyone going through adversity. He is proof that you can make it, if you just have faith, and believe.”
Abercrombie suffered a severe brain injury Sept. 29, 2018, during a game against Vanderbilt.
His mother, Stacie Abercrombie, thanked President Glover for reaching out to her with the news.
“It is amazing; it just shows that God is still in control,” Staci said. “Christion is very thankful that he is being acknowledged in such a way.”
Head TSU football coach Roderick Reed said he was not surprised that Abercrombie received the award.
“Even before the incident,” Reed said, referring to Abercrombie’s injury, “he was always an outstanding character with outstanding leadership.”
“I think any award he gets is richly deserved,” Reed added.
In winning the two top awards, TSU was a finalist in 11 categories of this year’s HBCU Digest Awards.
TSU has won several HBCU Digest awards in the past three years, including Best Marching Band, for the Aristocrat of Bands; Best Student Organization, the TSU Collegiate Citizens Police Academy; Best Alumnus, James Shaw Jr.; Best STEM Program, the College of Engineering; Alumna of the Year, Dr. Edith P. Mitchell; Female Coach of the Year, Chandra Cheeseborough-Guice; Female Team of the Year, Women’s Basketball Team; and Best Student Organization, Student Activities.
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The Phantom Tollbooth - Ad Astra - self/titled
Ad Astra - self/titled
Written by Bert Saraco
Ad Astra is a Latin term meaning “to the stars,” and this strong debut certainly is paving the way to a bright future for this band in the prog universe…
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11 tracks / 52:55
The danger to avoid in prog rock is basically having no direction. The pretentious nature of the genre is fed by shredders of every stripe doing their best to cram speed-metal riffs into every musical nook and cranny of a given track until the song itself is forgotten and just the technique remains. All toppings and no pizza – know what I mean? Ad Astra has avoided that trap by delivering an hour (almost) of prog-fusion that delivers the goods and doesn’t leave you hungry for musical meat.
Ad Astra’s self-titled album starts off explosively with “La Cosa Nostradamus,” a heavy, fast paced composition elevated by sophisticated chord changes and featuring our first taste of what this excellent band can do. This, along with “Hiding the One” and “Wednesday’s Child,” are convincers that, yes – this band can play. Founding member/guitarist Joe Nardulli wrote or co-wrote all of these instrumental pieces along with keyboardist Eric Davis, drummer David Penna, and bass player J. Levine. Each band member gets his time to shine, and Nardulli himself is well on the way to becoming a guitar superstar.
The hard and heavy tracks are balanced by more textured, mid-tempo (although the tempos tend to change mid-song) tracks like “First Life” and “Someday Isle” – beautifully-layered songs with nice melodic lines and wonderful, clean production. “Awakening” allows for some fluid keyboard synth lines and an overall soundscape that reminds me of Phil Keaggy’s The Master and the Musician phase – any comparison to Keaggy is high praise indeed. Drummers will enjoy the furious fills and breaks on “Quantum Café,” while fans of prog organ styles will delight in “Garden Jam” – some nice, rocking prog with an atmospheric change in the middle and some tight ensemble playing throughout. Now that the band has established its bona-fides as a rockin’ prog machine, the way is paved for more solid melodies to emerge and to explore more emotional, structured composition.
Ad Astra is a Latin term meaning “to the stars,” and this strong debut certainly is paving the way to a bright future for Nardulli and company in the prog universe.
4 Tocks
Bert Saraco
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Reading Scholarly Sources
Managing Information from your Sources
Incorporating Information from your Sources
Let the Writing Begin
Now let's see if you can tell the difference between different ways of incorporating information from sources into your writing.
In the following exercise, you will see a block of text, and then be shown examples of ways that that information could be used in an academic paper. Your job is to tell whether each example is a direct quote, summary, or paraphrase.
First, read the original source text...
For most of the women, imprisonment meant an almost total loss of freedom in many basic decisions and activities of everyday life. Surviving the difficult routine required some source of hope or meaning, which the women often described as their motherhood. The women used to cope with daily difficulties by thinking about their children and their relationship with them in prison, as well as by planning for their future relationship after their release: ‘‘What enabled me to cope was the endless thinking about my daughter." "The only hope was these two children. This gave me a reason to get up in the morning." Analyzing the women's descriptions elicits four forms in which motherhood is experienced as a motive for survival: (a) the children as boundaries of sanity; (b) the struggle to maintain contact with the children; (c) taking care of other women’s children within the prison; and (d) acknowledging motherhood. Some women used more than one of these motives.
Shamai, Michal, and Rinat-Billy Kochal. "Motherhood Starts in Prison: The Experience of Motherhood Among Women in Prison." Family Process 47.3 (2008): 323-340. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 10 June 2015.
...then click here to begin.
"Surviving the difficult routine required some source of hope or meaning, which the women often described as their motherhood" (Samai, 327-328).
direct quote
Women who are incarcerated frequently feel a loss of basic freedoms, as well as the loss of support and relationships which help them cope with daily life. Most use the concept of motherhood to help them stay connected with their lives and families outside of prison; this shared identity takes many forms, but overall helps the women survive the prison experience and plan for their lives after release (Samai, 327-328).
Imprisonment means not only a loss of freedom, but a loss of the support and connection through relationships which help women cope with daily life. Many women think about their children and relationships as a way to maintain a sense of sanity and hope throughout incarceration. There are four basic forms in which the concept of motherhood can be identified as a method for coping with the prison experience: children as a means of maintaining sanity, problems with contacting and communicating with children, caring for other women’s children while in prison, and identifying with the concept of motherhood in general. Women often use a combination of these techniques (Samai, 327-328).
Not quite...
Summarizing is condensing the information from a source and presenting the main ideas in your own words.
Paraphrasing a source means going into the same level of detail as the original, but restating the information in your own language.
For a direct quote, the exact text should be used and in quotation marks.
Learning how to properly use information from your sources and cite the work of others will lend credibility to your own work and help you avoid accidental plagiarism
Done! Close this tutorial.
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MIT World Series: Earth System Revolutions - Key Turning Points in the History of Our Planet
Whales to Wood, Wood to Coal/Oil- What’s Next?
author: Daniel Nocera, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
published: Aug. 29, 2011, recorded: October 2007, views: 2756
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In 1845, the Dietz Company of New York introduced the sperm oil lantern, which nearly wiped out some whale species. A decade or so later, Dietz began to manufacture lamps using other oils, and gas lighting fixtures, giving whales a reprieve. More than a century has passed, and we’re “about to do it again,” says Daniel Nocera, consuming a precious resource and endangering this time not whales but our world. Nocera wonders, “What will be the savior,” the answer that will save the entire planet?
He ticks off the grim details of our fossil fuel habit -- how the world is rapidly moving from its energy consumption of 12.8 terawatts per year, to 28 terawatts by 2050. This is a simple calculation, Nocera tells us, requiring only population, GDP per capita and energy intensity. The upshot, unfortunately, is that though we do have enough carbon-based energy (oil, methane, coal) to last all of us quite a while, the CO2 we’re emitting may choke off our current way of life long before the end of the fuel.
Nocera advises his audience to put aside dreams that biomass or nuclear energy will give us what we need. Plaster the entire planet with crops we can convert to energy, and you’d still only get seven to 10 terawatts. And you’d “need one nuclear plant every 1.6 days for the next 45 years” to get eight terawatts of power. “There aren’t enough whales to get there in 45 years,” says Nocera.
His alternative for saving the planet is “far from pragmatism and reality.” Nocera’s ultimate solution seems almost magical: “water plus light equals oil.” The proposal is to emulate photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert the energy of sunlight to fuel. Scientists are racing to design structures that can catch light the way a leaf does, then capture the energy of this light using chemical bonds, and then somehow store this energy. Some researchers are focusing on photobiological water splitting. Nocera’s group is working “on a wireless current, an artificial leaf.” While the goal “is to see what nature’s structures tell you,” Nocera acknowledges that “if you try to place what’s in nature in a beaker, it probably won’t work.”
There’s massive urgency to working out the basic science of solar energy conversion. Forget 2050, says Nocera. “Science has got to get it done in the next 10 years, because it will take an enormous amount of time to implement".
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[Return to Main Soapbox Q&A page]
Question: Evaporation on Contact?
by Ron Smith
Could the Vurdalak have radiated enough heat during its flight through the atmosphere to have dropped below the critical mass and ‘instantaneously’ completely evaporated, creating the 40 Megaton explosion?
Doctor Jack's Answer
I’ve got to say that’s a pretty ingenious scenario. Not that it’s the first time someone’s used PBH evaporation to explain why the exit event predicted by the original Jackson-Ryan hypothesis never happened, of course. But all the other attempts I’ve seen rely on the coincidence of the primordial black hole (PBH) happening to evaporate just as it was passing through the Earth. And that’s one colossal coincidence! After all, what are the odds that — after 13 or so billion years of radiating away like crazy — the clock would conveniently run out right at that precise instant?
If I’m reading you right, your explanation at least has the advantage of suggesting a reason why Vurdalak should have chosen 7:14 a.m. LT on June 30th, 1908 to give up the ghost. Namely, that some sort of interaction with Earth’s atmosphere might have tipped the scales and caused it to evaporate just then.
Problem is, far as we know, the process of Hawking radiation isn’t affected by external environmental factors like that. (Oh, there might conceivably be some set of circumstances that would accelerate the creation of the virtual-particle pairs that drive the process, but we’re pretty sure passage through a planetary atmosphere isn’t one of them.) So, it’s hard to see how Vurdalak’s chance interaction with the air molecules along its flight path could have influenced its internal evaporation countdown one way or the other.
But even setting that aside, the Tunguska blast was way too small to have been the product of a PBH evaporation event. Based on the evidence of forest fall and globe-circling atmospheric shockwaves, Tunguska was “only” some 2 to 40 megatons in magnitude. On the other hand, Stephen Hawking estimated the energy released by a black hole in the final run-up to total evaporation at ten to the thirtieth ergs. At 4.2e22 ergs to the megaton, that works out to some 25 million megatons, or about a million Tunguska Events!
The late Charles Sheffield, former president of the American Astronautical Society, gave us a handy way to get our arms around just how big 25 million megatons is: the nuclear-war scale. According to Chuck an all-out thermonuclear exchange between superpowers (back when there still were two) would release about 25,000 megatons of energy. On that scale, Tunguska’s too small to even jiggle the needle, but a PBH evaporation event tops the 1,000 mark! Think of it: one World War III every day — for three straight years! Enough to wreck Earth’s whole biosphere.
So, it’s a neat idea (and one I personally had never seen before), but — no, the Tunguska blast itself couldn’t have been the result of PBH evaporation. Or we wouldn’t be around to talk about it.
Jack Adler
[1] Not to be confused with Harvard’s Fred L. Whipple, leading authority on comets and coiner (in 1950) of the “Dirty Snowball” theory of cometary composition. [Return to text.]
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HomeNewsThe Gathering 25th Anniversary Photos
The Gathering 25th Anniversary Photos
The 25th Anniversary of The Gathering!!!!!!
Over three days, friends came from all corners of the globe to celebrate the music of Mike Peters & The Alarm and to celebrate 25 years of this long standing event.
Friday’s event saw the welcome return of Dave Sharp who opened the show and thrilled the audience with cuts from his extensive catalogue of songs.
The Friday show saw a surprise change to the usual acoustic set with Mike being joined on stage by Smiley, James Stevenson and Jules Peters to premiere songs from the forthcoming BLOOD RED / VIRAL BLACK albums, and a selection of Mike Peters and The Alarm standards.
Saturday saw the premiere of the concert film from last year’s Gathering – shot and edited by local students. This was followed by the annual Mastermind, suitably tough for a 25th Anniversary. Mike Peters then had one hour to answer questions from those present.
Saturday evening was kicked off by the next generation when OCD took to the stage followed by special guest Ian McNabb …. a great start to what was to be a memorable night which left everyone in no doubt that The Gathering 25 was the best yet!
Sunday was the official launch of Love Hope Strength 10th Anniversary year and the official launch of BY YOUR SIDE WALK. The day started with an emotionally charged talk from Mike’s lifelong friend Kevin Davies, who recently became a life saving donor through LHS followed by a version of Walk Forever that left not a dry eye in the room. Mike Peters then led the crowds on the annual walk to the end of the pier for a resounding rendition of Love Hope Strength.
Three days of music…. Not one song repeated!!!!
The event was filmed throughout by the BBC for later transmission and hopefully they will have captured a world record of card throwing!
Our grateful thanks goes to Stuart Ling for his tireless work capturing the weekend and to Andy Labrow and Dr Ian for additional photography.
Thursday – Smileys Pre-Gathering Party
Friday – Evening Show
Saturday Daytime – Mastermind, Interview with Mike Peters and Soundcheck
Saturday – Evening Show / Aftershow
Sunday – Walkathon and Signing Session
COMPLETELY SOLD OUT – New York Gathering April 29th 2017
Dave Sharp to appear with The Alarm as special guest in Glasgow and London
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Campaign to help combat elderly loneliness
Campaigns 15th December 2016 By Laura Jones
Northern Quota launches its Never Feel Alone Campaign
Reporter Laura Jones aims to raise awareness to help combat elderly loneliness and encourages people to get involved
According to charities, around 1.2 million older people are chronically lonely in the UK and half of all older people in the UK (that’s 5 million) consider TV to be their main form of company. Older people can very suddenly find themselves in a situation where they are on their own - perhaps due to losing their partner or having become cut off from the outside world. Especially over Christmas, it can be incredibly difficult to carry on living alone. Northern Quota has therefore decided to launch the Never Feel Alone campaign, in aim to raise awareness and encourage people to help anyone who may be alone however possible, to ensure they never feel as though they are on their own.
NQ has been given the chance to speak to several elderly people who currently struggle to be on their own as well as charities and organisations who are already on the right path to helping those who are alone to reconnect and find their way again.
Visit our campaign website and support us on Twitter using #neverfeelalone
http://14028670.wixsite.com/neverfeelalone
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Now That You're Gone (Diana Ross)
I'm not posting a comic tonight.
They're doing theme posts.
Favorite R&B song from the eighties or 90s.
And I wasn't sure I was going to take part.
I thought someone might grab my favorite underrated song from that period.
So I waited and now everyone's posted.
Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross
"As We Lay"
Vanessa Williams 'The Right Stuff'
Stacy Lattisaw
Fast Love
fame is the luck of the draw
There are a lot of good songs there.
In fact, I love everyone selected.
But no one picked my pick.
So here goes, "Now That You're Gone."
That's from Diana Ross' classic 1980 album diana -- back then it was done in lower case.
And it included the huge hits "Upside Down" and "I'm Coming Out."
Then they had to make room for a song she did for a film, "It's My Turn" -- huge ballad. And next thing you know, it's 1981 and another film song, Diana and Lionel Richie's "Endless Love."
So "Now That You're Gone" is pretty much just an album track on that 1980 album for most people.
But it's an incredible song and one of my all time favorites.
Friday, September 9, 2016. Chaos and violence continue, lying and spinning continue, where does it all end? Not with the current government in Iraq -- according to CIA Director John Brennan.
Silicone party barbies
To the left and
Joan of Arcs to the right
No one feeling insecure
We were all gorge and famous in our last lives
In the glories of the 80's
You said 'the end is nothing to fear'
I said: blow the end now baby
Who do I gotta shag to get out of here
-- "Glory of the 80s," written by Tori Amos, first appears on her TO VENUS AND BACK
Welcome to the never ending election, where nothing is ever proposed and Trump and Clinton supporters spin and lie in the ongoing campaign of "Yes, my candidate lies but not as much as the other!"
That's what Democratic and Republican politics have come to, "Vote for the liar who lies a little less often than the other."
The madness never ends as FOIA requests are something to ignore -- a long with the destruction of evidence subpeoned by Congress.
Everything can be justified by lying to yourself.
Hiram Lee (WSWS), while reviewing JASON BOURNE --Matt Damon's desperate attempt to extend his flat acting career -- observes this behavior:
The name of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is mentioned at various times throughout Jason Bourne. Damon, for his part, came out publicly in Snowden’s defense in a 2013 interview with the BBC, saying, “I think it’s a great thing that he did.” Around the same time, Damon told Black Entertainment Television that Obama “broke up with him” and that he questioned “the legality of the drone strikes and these NSA revelations.”
By 2015, Damon and Obama had patched things up. Now Damon described the individual at the head of the government responsible for those drone strikes and NSA programs as “a remarkable human being” who was “shockingly easy to be around.”
“I don’t ever question that it’s coming from the right place with him,” Damon reassured the press.
The problems and pressures revealed in that turnabout, as much as anything else, explain why Jason Bourne is ultimately such a poor film.
"I don't ever question that it's coming from the right place with him"?
Maybe you have to picture him saying that with a cock in his mouth to truly appreciate it?
Calm down, Matt. You're getting uglier and fatter, people will stop wondering if you're gay shortly. And then when no one cares about you and even TV won't take you, you'll miss the days when you went around teasing the media that you might be gay -- only two decades later to blame others for the rumors.
Equally disgusting is Daniel Ketchum.
At the website INQUISITR, he apparently believes he can just lie:
As proof of his stellar foreign policy experience, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has frequently claimed that he did not support the Iraq War. However – as Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton pointed out at the NBC Commander-in-Chief forum yesterday – Trump did in fact support the war in the beginning and there is clear audio and video evidence backing this up.
Oh, great, I thought, I don't have to be fair anymore. There's multiple interviews of Donald Trump supporting the Iraq War.
I don't like Trump.
I've never liked him.
And so this was great news. I didn't have to sit here and be fair anymore.
He'd dug his own grave.
So I read Ketchum eagerly only to discover that he has nothing.
There is no "clear audio and video evidence."
There's the Howard Stern September 11, 2002 interview where all Donald says is "I guess so."
The media does need to push back.
It needs to push back against this wave of lies.
Matthew YglesiasVerified account @mattyglesias Sep 7
You can’t just let Trump tell obvious, widely-debunked lies in interviews
For those who don't know or don't remember, Matthew Yglesias cheerleaded the Iraq War.
I guess that explains why he's a liar today.
Because "I guess so" is not support for the Iraq War.
It's a month before Congress is even voting.
It's six months before Colin Powell's 'blot.'
And the words are "I guess so."
Now if you're an idiot, a newborn, a hack or a liar, that's support for the Iraq War.
If you're someone who spoke out against the Iraq War, that's not support for it.
People who spoke out against the Iraq War were targeted.
Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Janeane Garofalo, Harry Belafonte, the list is long.
People who supported the Iraq War felt they could lie and publicly attack anyone and everyone.
If the worst any of us had to fear was an Iraq War supporter saying "I guess so," the number speaking out would have been much greater.
I started speaking out in February of 2003.
The fact that I didn't do it in January of 2003, does that mane I supported the Iraq War?
No, I never said "I guess so" but I don't see "I guess so" as support.
I see "I guess so" as let's move the interview along.
And I'd wonder if Howard Stern supported the Iraq War?
That would even more explain why one friend speaking to another on radio would answer "I guess so."
(I don't know Howard Stern's opinions. I don't like him. Unlike THE NATION magazine, I've never hailed him -- or Bill Maher -- as examples of the great left. They're sexist pigs and I have no tolerance for either.)
But "I guess so" in September 2002 is not support for the Iraq War.
If you think it is?
(A) You weren't old enough to remember the start of 2003, (B) You've chosen to forget or (C -- most likely) you went along with the mob attacking those of us who spoke out.
I hate Donald Trump but I'm not going to let a lot of little whores rewrite that period.
You were attacked if you spoke out.
There's the pot head columnist who fancies himself a hippie who has repeatedly apologized to me -- I wasn't attacked by him, I just blew him off because of the column -- who floated in a column in February 2003 that those peacefully protesting against the Iraq War were committing "treason" -- he used the term.
So don't come to me now and start your b.s.
Sheryl Crowe was attacked in the press for where she stood on the Iraq War.
The orders came down from editiors -- and I have a list of ten editors -- that in their Grammy pieces, they had to attack Sheryl.
Three years later, Jane Fonda returned to film with MONSTER-IN-LAW which was a funny comedy. And yet you still had editors giving orders to trash the film.
Don't come to me now with "I guess so" is support of the Iraq War.
Because it isn't.
And you're not going to lie for your War Hawk Hillary and get away with it.
So as you read Ketchum's awful article in search of these pre-war interviews -- this evidence he has! -- you find he has nothing but the 2002 interview.
The lying needs to be called out by the press.
But, of course, that would be depending on the same press that sold the Iraq War.
And we all know they don't do their job.
Alan Greenspan would eventually admit the Iraq War was about oil -- he would do that on live radio and TV (DEMOCRACY NOW!). He would have to retract it under pressure.
But the Chair of the Fed knew it.
So why we are giving Andrea Mitchell a pass?
Why isn't she being Judy Miller-ed?
She's been married to Greenspan for decades.
So she knew what was what.
Didn't stop her from filing pro-war pieces in the lead up to the Iraq War, did it?
Liars clearly can't call out other liars.
I hate Donald Trump.
I find him offensive on every level and have for years and years.
But that doesn't give me the right to lie about him.
And if I do lie about him to score some political points, then I'm far worse than he is.
I'll never rank as the greatest person in the world -- or in the country -- or in the state -- or even just in the room.
But I do have ethics and I will not turn myself into trash by ignoring my ethics.
I really fear for this crowd today, these whores and liars who sell themselves for politicians.
Where does the whoring end?
They used to say Mary Matalin was him in a dress.
Lee Atwater.
Is that how this whoring ends?
You go through life smearing others and lying and then, on your deathbed, you try to apologize for it?
Like that makes any difference?
Because it doesn't.
You've already done the damage and you just look pathetic -- someone frightened of dying and judgment rushing to be absolved.
As for changing stories, there's always Hillary.
Michael Tracey @mtracey 10h10 hours ago
Contra her claims last night, the central premise of HRC's 2008 campaign was that the Iraq vote was *not* a mistake
AFP reports:
In an interview this week with the CTC Sentinel, a publication from the West Point military academy’s Combating Terrorism Center, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency said the current system of governance in the two countries might change altogether.
“I don’t know whether or not Syria and Iraq can be put back together again. There’s been so much bloodletting, so much destruction, so many continued, seething tensions and sectarian divisions,” Brennan said.
“I question whether we will see, in my lifetime, the creation of a central government in both of those countries that's going to have the ability to govern fairly.”
Well Iraq's certainly not governed fairly today. We'll give Brennan credit for telling the truth there.
It's hard to tell who isn't persecuted in Iraq because it's pretty much everyone and has been that way since the start of the Iraq War.
Among those persecuted are Christians.
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY reports:
After the United States has declared that genocide is taking place against Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq, what is the next step for genocide victims displaced from their homes?
“Together, we will advocate for the Christian, Yazidi, and other communities in Northern Iraq that they may return to their homes on the Nineveh Plain to be secured there by coalition and successive international forces,” Andrew Doran, senior adviser to the group In Defense of Christians, stated at the Sept. 7 press conference beginning the group’s advocacy convention in Washington, D.C.
Years and years of persecution in Iraq ignored by the White House until the right wing p.r. campaign to promote war via the Yazidis came into place and finally, as sop, the word genocide got applied to the systematic eradication of Christians in Iraq.
For those who've forgotten, the Iraqi Christians who were not forced to leave (or killed) began relocation to northern Iraq.
On northern Iraq, we'll note this.
Kurdistan24 English @K24English 4h4 hours ago
ICYMI: President Barzani: No country is against Kurdistan independence http://bit.ly/2cyzfyl #TwitterKurds #Iraq
7 retweets11 likes
President Barzani may be a little optimistic.
Yesterday, the US Defense Dept announced:
Fighter aircraft and rocket artillery conducted seven strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:
-- Near Albu Hayat, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed two bunkers and two vehicles.
-- Near Haditha, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed a building.
-- Near Mosul, two strikes engaged an ISIL financial center and destroyed a weapons storage facility.
-- Near Qayyarah, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed a vehicle, 12 rocket rails, four rocket systems and an assembly area.
-- Near Ramadi, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit.
-- Near Sinjar, a strike destroyed an ISIL tunnel entrance and suppressed a mortar position.
And out of the rubble grows -- as Hillary Clinton would put it -- business opportunities.
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Don Cherry facing backlash over poppy comments
Hockey Night commentator Don Cherry is facing backlash after he made comments about immigrants not wearing poppies.
Cherry, 85, seemingly singled out new immigrants in Toronto and Mississauga, Ont., where he lives, for not honouring Canada’s veterans and dead soldiers during his weekly Coach’s Corner segment on Hockey Night in Canada.
“You people … you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that,” Cherry said.
“These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada, these guys paid the biggest price.”
The National Hockey League said in a statement that Cherry’s remarks were “offensive and contrary to the values we believe in.”
Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie called his comments “despicable.”
“We’re proud of diverse cultural heritage and we’ll always stand up for it,” she said on Twitter. “New immigrants enrich our country for the better. We’re all Canadians and wear our poppies proudly.”
Toronto Mayor John Tory implored Cherry to come to Old City Hall on Remembrance Day to “see thousands of Canadians of all ages, nationalities, faiths and backgrounds” who honour veterans.
“Don Cherry is way off base to question the devotion of newer Canadians to the very same veterans and the sacrifices we will honour tomorrow on Remembrance Day,” Tory said in a statement.
“His comments are unfair and just plain wrong.”
Outrage was building online on Sunday with many on Twitter calling for Cherry to be fired.
Yet hundreds of social media users supported Cherry’s comments. Some said they wanted more people to wear poppies, while others pointed fingers at immigrants.
Sportsnet apologized Sunday for Cherry’s televised rant. “Don’s discriminatory comments are offensive and they do not represent our values and what we stand for as a network,” Sportsnet President Bart Yabsley said in a statement earlier Sunday. “We have spoken with Don about the severity of this issue and we sincerely apologize for these divisive remarks.”
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July 20, 2015 Abram, Amraphel, Audio Torah Teaching, Babylon, Be Fruitful and Multiply, Journey through Torah with Michael Didier, Nimrod, Yasheramraphel is nimrod, Nimrod is crowned king, nimrods kingdom, peleg earth divided, tower of babel, yasher 10, yasher 9Michael Didier
It was Ham (a man of the flesh) and all of his seed whom, Noah said, were to serve Shem, Japheth (men of the spirit) and all their seed. Shem was to lead the family with Japheth dwelling in his tent; under his authority. And Ham was to be their servant; a man of the flesh must never be allowed to lead a man of the spirit.
So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. Then he said: “Cursed be ; a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren.” And he said: “Blessed be Yehovah, Shem’s Elohim, and may Canaan be his servant. May Elohim enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in Shem’s tent; and may Canaan be his servant.” (Gen 9:24-27)
Did Noah really curse Canaan (his grandson) for something his father had done? You will have to read “Noah Cursed Canaan?” to deepen your understandings.
It was Ham who stole the garments (garments which came from Adam and his woman) from his father (Noah) when he came off the ark; garments meant for Shem. He stole them and gave them in secret to Cush, so his seed would become great on the earth.
And it was when Cush gave the garments to Nimrod at 20 that he became the “profaned mighty one” on the earth.
This is the reason his father and uncles served him, and not Shem and Japheth’s seed. They were all rebelling against Yehovah and his eternal and unchanging ways. Listen to what these men decided to do.
Yasher 9:21 And all Nimrod’s princes and his great men took counsel together; Phut, Mitzraim, Cush and Canaan with their families, and they said to each other, Come let us build ourselves a city and in it a strong tower, and its top reaching heaven, and we will make ourselves famed, so that we may reign upon the whole world, in order that the evil of our enemies may cease from us, that we may reign mightily over them, and that we may not become scattered over the earth on account of their wars.
Of course, all Nimrod’s princes are Ham’s sons. And their enemies are Shem and Japheth’s seed (that is all that is left). Yehovah told Noah and his sons to be fruitful, then multiply and then fill the earth; but these wicked men of the flesh want to make a name for themselves and keep from being scattered over the earth. Instead of exalting Yehovah’s name and His eternal kingdom, they want to make a name and a kingdom for themselves. Is that really any different from what men are doing all over the face of the earth right now?
Nimrod and Abram’s brother’s were born very close together and Haran (Abram’s eldest brother) was 32 old when Abram was born. In Yasher 9 and 10 we will see that Abram (living with Noah and Shem) was about 40 years old when the tower of Babel was begun and 48 when it was destroyed.
Yasher 9:39 39 And many of ha·a·dams seed died in that tower, a people [all men] without number.
We will see today this is where Nimrod gets his nickname; Amraphel.
Yasher 10:1 And Peleg the son of Eber died in those days, in the forty-eighth year of the life of Abram son of Terah, and all the days of Peleg were two hundred and thirty-nine years.
This also answers a question that we had in Torah. Genesis says,
To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. (Gen 10:25)
“For in his days the earth was divided?” What does that mean? Peleg’s days are also Noah’s days, Shem’s days, Arphaxad’s days, Shalach’s days, Eber’s days, his brother Joktan’s days and even Terah’s (and all of his sons’ days), and that includes Abram’s days.
It appears to me that Peleg was one of them who was working on the tower of Babel and was killed during destruction.
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The 15th day of the 7th month is the start of Sukkot / the Feast of Tabernacles. Sukkot is a 7 day feast in which we are commanded to dwell in booths. But who actually is commanded to dwell in booths (sukkot) during this moed, this appointed time, and why?
[Note: The 7th month new moon was sighted in Israel on Sun., 9/29/19, a day earlier than expected. This means that, Sept. 30th will be the first day of the 7th month, Yom Yeruah, and Monday, Oct.14th will be the 1st day of Sukkot., beginning at sunset on Sunday, Oct. 13th. We have also updated the 2019-20 Hebrew Calendar.]
Sukkot is for Israel
Yehovah’s holy nation, Israel, are made up of two groups of men. The first is the Ger, commonly translated as “stranger.” The Ger has repented [this repentance process is the circumcision of the heart], left the country of his birth and joined himself to the Ezrach, commonly translated as “one born in the land” or “native-born“.
The Ezrach were also Ger at one time. Each year at Passover the Ger has two choices; get circumcised in the flesh, eat the slaughtered Passover and become as one born in the land or leave Israel and have his sins remain on him. Sounds like a “no brainer” huh, but so many love the doctrines and traditions of men more than Yehovah’s plain word and ways.
Together these two groups comprise Yehovah’s currently “invisible nation” and what I like to refer to as “true Israel.” They keep only the Father’s statutes, judgments and ordinances and follow no other elohim (law makers of judges) but Yehovah.
“But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says my Master Yehovah, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live? (Eze 18:21-23)
But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the offering of Yehovah at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin. ‘And if a stranger [Ger] dwells among you, and would keep Yehovah’s Passover, he must do so according to the rite of the Passover and according to its ceremony; you shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger[Ger] and the native of the land [Ezrach].’ ” (Num 9:13-14)
One law shall be for the native-born [Ezrach] and for the stranger [Ger] who dwells among you.” (Exo 12:49)
At Sukkot, Only Israel’s Seed Dwell In Booths
I have gone through all this because I want you to read carefully and understand the last three verses of Leviticus 23 says about Israel’s Sukkot instructions.
You shall dwell in booths (sukkot) for seven days. All who are native [Ezrach] to Israel shall dwell in booths (sukkot) , that your generations may know that I made Israel’s seed [a.k.a “the children of Israel,” a.k.a. “the sons of Israel,” a.k.a. “my son, Israel,” a.k.a. “Israel’s son”] dwell in booths (sukkot) when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Yehovah your Elohim.’ ” So Moses declared to Israel’s seed the feasts of Yehovah. (Lev 23:42-44)
Notice: The native-born (Ezrach) of Israel are Israel’s seed, and the heirs of Abraham as well, and they are all men! Becoming Ezrach of Israel is what my “Born Again” series is all about. All Yehovah’s feast instructions are for Israel’s seed; look at the last verse of Leviticus 23.
So Moses declared to Israel’s seed the feasts of Yehovah. (Lev 23:44)
Sukkot Has An 8th Day Attached To It
Sukkot begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month is actually an eight-day feast but Yehovah commands the Ezrach, Israel’s seed, to dwell in booths (sukkot) for only seven days as seen above.
‘Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yehovah for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest. (Lev 23:39)
During Sukkot Israel’s seed dwells in booths for only seven days, but Yehovah added a day, for holy convocation, to it. Could this be a shadow picture of how Yehovah’s righteous men with their families (and perhaps their servants) are to dwell on the earth for 7000 years? Remember what Peter said,
But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment [the end of the final millennium] and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with Yehovah one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Yehovah is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. (2Pe 3:7-9)
Sukkot – Big Picture
I think that by having Israel’s seed dwells in tents, or other temporary coverings during Sukkot, Yehovah is giving Israel a practical demonstration of how His Ezrach, His set apart men live/dwell all year-long and how Yehovah’s righteous men have been dwelling since the beginning of time (the last 6,000 years). We will dwell the same way throughout the millennial kingdom as well. We must learn to dwell in earth, as if in a strange country. This is how Noah, Shem, Eber, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and countless others have dwelt throughout time.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is Elohim. (Heb 11:8-10)
These all died in faith [faithfully keeping Yehovah’s ways], not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth [they dwelt in heaven]. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly if they had called to mind the country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desired a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore Elohim is not ashamed to be called their Elohim, for He has prepared a city for them. (Heb 11:13-16)
So the boys grew. And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was an upright man, dwelling in tents. [“tents,” Jacob dwelt under Yehovah’s authority – I like to call it dwelling under Yehovah’s “the big-top”] (Gen 25:27)
Is it possible that the reason we only dwell in coverings for seven days is because after the final millennium (1000 years) there will be a new heaven and a new earth and at that time everyone will be under the direct authority of the Creator? I think so, and because of what I have seen here I plan to return home on the morning of the 7th day of the feast. That way I will only be dwelling in a sukkah (temporary covering) for only the seven days and be back home in time for the day of rest.
You shall dwell in booths (sukkot) for seven days. All who are native [Ezrach] to Israel shall dwell in booths (sukkot) , that your generations may know that I made Israel’s seed dwell in booths (sukkot) when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Yehovah your Elohim [Your lawmaker and judge].’ “(Lev 23:42)
Sukkot – What Do These Booths Look Like?
In Part 2 – What is a Sukkah? I discuss what these “booths,” or “covering,” in which Israel’s seed are to dwell, actually are. It is a temporary dwelling place designed to keep the Ezrach protected from the elements and predators. We will see that the construction of the coverings was not the important part of Yehovah’s plan, it was how we dwelt in them, that is. We dwell in them as if only a short time. This also is how we, who have left the kingdoms of our birth (mine was the corporation of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA), now dwell on the earth; we dwell on earth as in a heavenly country just as Abraham dwelt in the land of Canaan.
Sukkot – Only Israel’s Seed Dwells In Temporary Coverings
Right now Yehovah is “looking for a few good men.” These men, because of the new birth, are virgins and follow only one Elohim (one law-maker and judge), unlike the rest of the world. The covering over these men is what the rehearsal we do at Sukkot each year is all about. Only Israel’s seed dwells in temporary coverings. This is the topic of Part 3 – Cover Israel / Chuppah Israel.
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Hope in a stone
While sitting in the coffee shop of a bookstore in Manchester, Vermont, I decided to check my email and found there an announcement of great import regarding my former bishop.
The announcement was shocking, not because of what it said about my bishop ("a credible allegation of recurrent marital infidelity") -- I'd been aware of his activities for some time -- but because the church had actually moved to discipline him.
Part of my disaffection with the church over these last 15 years or so has been the sense that the hierarchy has a tendency to protect its own; that the clergy are not always held to standards that reflect what I believe to be the values Christ espoused. And of course my views on my bishop's behaviors -- and his tendency to protect other clergy behaviors in the diocese -- were significantly less tolerant due to my own experiences of recurrent marital infidelity (in a former marriage, not this one); I know first-hand what that feels like to a wife, and have perhaps less sympathy for those of God's creatures who venture into this realm, and for those who close ranks to protect them.
So it was curious, indeed, to walk out of the coffee shop with this new information and see before me in the walkway the words on this granite slab. I have for some time known that marriage vows do not appear to be written in stone, that the 10 commandments do not appear to have been written in stone, and that the laws of our country and community are not written in stone: in most of these cases the rules seem to become more flexible for those who have power and money.
Knowing such things can make you cynical; it sometimes takes considerable effort to remain upbeat and optimistic about faith and the human condition. I am thankful that, over the years, I have found great solace in meditation and study, but I have consciously held myself somewhat apart from faith communities for fear my cynicism might leak. And that has been challenging: I've missed the connection and innocent optimism inherent in church community involvement.
But it was surprising to note that I had assumed "the church hierarchy protects its own" was pretty much written in stone. And, understanding that, I am intrigued to see that, for me, this message has shifted from one of discouragement to one of hope. Perhaps things are not, as so many people tell me, "going to hell in a handbasket." I'm not certain where this takes me, or if, in fact, it will have any lasting effect on me. But I am determined to pay attention to my responses; to remain conscious and alert to any shifts that may occur in my faith as a result. Because a little glimmer of hope would be lovely.
Louise Gallagher said...
I think it is all we can do Diane. To stay conscious, to watch for shifts, to hold onto hope, no matter how slim the glimmer.
As you so beautiful say -- nothing is written in stone.
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Mr McConnell's journey to parenthood was documented in a film called Seahorse and included his thoughts and footage of him going through fertility treatment, conception and the birth of his baby boy.
A transgender man, who has given birth to a child and does not want to be described as “mother” on a birth certificate, has lost a legal battle.
Freddy McConnell wanted to be registered as “father” or “parent”.
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Mr McConnell’s journey to parenthood was documented in a film called Seahorse and included his thoughts and footage of him going through fertility treatment, conception and the birth of his baby boy.
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“Whilst that person’s gender is ‘male’, their parental status, which derives from their biological role in giving birth, is that of ‘mother.'”
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“A birth certificate will stay with a child for life and it will be factually and legally inaccurate under current rules.”
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Initial reaction to the judgement has been varied – as well as transphobic comments being shared online, some people in support of the transgender community have also said they think that today’s ruling was correct.
Some transgender individuals I have spoken to say they are “deeply disappointed” by this ruling, but they are not surprised by it.
Aside from legality, some see this decision as a “missed opportunity to send a much-needed positive message about transgender identity”.
Legal representatives have told me that they are hopeful that if Freddy does not appeal, other transgender parents will continue with their fight for equality.
The ruling means that transgender people will not be recognised as their trans identities in all areas of their lives; in some circumstances, like this, they will now be forced to “out” their birth gender.
A transgender man, whose child calls them “Dad”, will be listed on the child’s birth certificate as their mother.
One transgender individual told me that this will cause further anxiety around trans parenting.
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Mission 8 — Wednesday, 24 May 44 — Melun
While the B-17s were ordered to resume the air strikes into Germany, the 2nd Air Division, the B-24s, continued the attacks on airfields in France. The 492nd was assigned to bomb an airfield near Melun.
The 492nd dispatched 36 of its planes but 2 of them had to abort. Another pair weren't able to bomb their target but were given sortie credit.
In terms of numbers the fighter protection was excellent. It's hard to say if their presence kept the Luftwaffe away or if there were any Luftwaffe left stationed in the area.
For the third mission in a row the Luftwaffe was absent. The only threats made were by anti-aircraft batteries. The assigned bombing route taken by the Group was fairly light of flak guns.
Since there was no resistance to speak of, bombing the target was easy.
Light flak was found on the way back. Although there wasn't any severe damages, the planes still got their usual supply of new holes. The Group returned intact without any loss of aircraft or casualties.
The only casualty for the day came after the Group had landed. Lt Kuntz fell off his wing while inspecting his plane's flak damage. His injury wasn't serious but it did ground him from combat duty until after the Group was disbanded.
When any group had an easy day, they could easily assume all of the other groups did too. There probably wasn't one person at North Pickenham who knew that 33 B-17s had been lost that day.
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TiFlo
Location: Ottawa, eh!
PANGI wrote: if i understand good there weren't any marine corps during peace years until 1755 so i suppose after canceling in 1748 they had to be redressed in 1755.
You're spot on!
I hadn't thought about that. Here is what I could find (wikipedia, but this one seems reliable). See especially this part:
A large number of English and British marine regiments were raised for various specific wars. After the war for which they were raised, these regiments either became ordinary army infantry regiments or were disbanded. His Majesty's Marine Forces raised in 1755 are the oldest direct predecessor of the Royal Marines.
1664: Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot raised from the Trained Bands of London and later re-named Lord Admiral's Regiment. This marine regiment is the predecessor of The Buffs, itself a predecessor of the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment.
Two Marine Regiments of the Army raised in 1690 and disbanded in 1696: Earl of Pembroke's Regiment and Torrington's, (later Lord Berkeley's) Regiment.
1697: Mordaunt's Regiment and Seymour's Regiment converted into Marines.
1702: Six Regiments of Marines and six Sea Service Regiments of Foot raised. In 1713, three of these Regiments were transferred to the Line to became the 30th Foot (a predecessor of the Royal Anglian Regiment), 31st Foot (a predecessor of the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment), and 32nd Foot (a predecessor of the Rifles). The others were disbanded.
1739-1748: Marine Regiments raised in the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1741: Spotswood's Regiment, later re-named Gooch's Marines, later becoming the 61st Foot (a predecessor of the Rifles) was raised from North American colonists.
1755: His Majesty's Marine Forces raised. The oldest predecessor to which the Royal Marines can trace a direct lineage.
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PANGI
also found this:
In 1755, Marine forces were formed on a permanent basis. At this period, the uniform was red, faced white, with white linings, waistcoats and breeches, and silver Officers’ lace. The Marines are also recorded as wearing caps similar to those of earlier Regiments, although these were probably reserved for ceremonial dress, and the day-to-day headgear was the cocked hat.
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausnavy/Royal_Marines.htm
ok...ive made this:
maybe youre talking what exactly i made new...the facings are really white
I'm assuming there are no gaiters because it's mainly an on-board duty, right?
Ian Coote
Hi Guys.I really like your uniform mod,it adds much to an already great game.I do have a question though.I'm reading Andersons book "Crucible of War", he mentions that in Shirley's force, there are two regts. the 50th and 51st that were deactivated at the end of King Georges War and resucitated for the FIW. I'm not sure,but should these maybe have redcoats ?
That's some heavy reading you're tackling here
For what I remember, Shirley's and Peperell's wore redcoats, being early provincial regulars. Do they use the provincial blue uniform in game?
TiFlo wrote: Looks good!
dont know...maybe. Mainly i want to make them different from regulars.
Yes. Peperell's and Shirley's should have red coats with red facings. Really like to have them in game, but again, game operates only with one model for provincials, so yes, they have blue coat.
... and the provincial model you chose is that of late Washington's Virginians (BTW the early unit, in 1754, wore red coats). As it is now, there is only so much we can do without having to modify the game database. And provincials in blue make them easily distinct from British regulars.
And the marine is fine like that. I don't think gaiters were used on-board anyway.
TiFlo wrote: ... and the provincial model you chose is that of late Washington's Virginians (BTW the early unit, in 1754, wore red coats). As it is now, there is only so much we can do without having to modify the game database. And provincials in blue make them easily distinct from British regulars.
I made him according to virginians but similar uniform was used by many regiment through the states. Surely they were very colorful but i think this type was quite common.
(im not sure what they wore in 1754 - but at monongahela virginians had blue coats (but i think they maybe left them in alexandria))
edit: yes. you're right. virginians have plain red uniforms in 1754
TiFlo wrote: And the marine is fine like that. I don't think gaiters were used on-board anyway.
Maybe. For example british forces in india in SYW didnt wear gaiters. But im not sure about the reason.
Blue was indeed commonly used. Still, there were red, brown and green coats for provincial units throughout the war, as well as units that didn't have any special uniform due to the lack of funding for them.
You're right, the Virginians were issued blue coats in 1755.
As for the absence of gaiters in India, I would say it has to do with the nature of the terrain they were on. In North America, backwoods can be pretty treacherous and you do want that extra protection on your legs when walking in there. Even now, I use a pair when I go hiking. The heat may have played a role too. Those things are a boiling pot in hot weather.
TiFlo wrote: Blue was indeed commonly used. Still, there were red, brown and green coats for provincial units throughout the war, as well as units that didn't have any special uniform due to the lack of funding for them.
Yes. Your language ability allows you to wright what i can only think
You're probably right about gaiters, they were simply not needed in India and onboard ships (and maybe even obstruct).
TiFlo wrote: Even now, I use a pair when I go hiking.
small revisions:
spanish infantry and grenadier, british grenadier version two
You never stop, do you?
They look great! Although I kind of liked the grenadier with white gaiters. It emphasized on their elite status. Sort of like Napoleon's imperial guard who went into battle wearing white gloves. But they probably wore such brown gaiters at some point too, so I'll just shut up and do my own personal modification of regular troops with white gaiters for the days I want parading soldiers (to go alongside your cocky Highlander)
EDIT: Actually, thinking about it. Why don't you make two packs? One with clean parade looking soldiers, and one with soldiers on campaign dress. I know I'm a pain asking for multiple releases, but there is just so many different models that I find it sad if some were put out of use.
TiFlo wrote: Sort of like Napoleon's imperial guard who went into battle wearing white gloves.
Never heard. But it means nothing becouse of my little interest in Napoleonic era.
But do you mean brits or spaniards? I agree with you in case of british grenadier and it was my original intention left him white gaiters to look more "elite". But at some point i change my mind and after looking at various sources i want to have him more rustical just like regulars and royal americans. (In american wilderness (but i think in other battle conditions) they realy werent much showy...) Yes, its only matter of taste (maybe i should make a poll here to save some work) but if you give me a time, probably tomorrow i will like the version with white gaiters...
TiFlo wrote: ...your cocky Highlander...
cocky? what a word...
But you really didnt talk about spaniards, did you? Who wore white gaiters (like french) in every condition...
btw i'd like some criticism of them too (dont disappoint me TiFlo )
"Cocky" as "proud": the guy is wearing as much clothes and equipment as possible, but for no real use in wilderness warfare
I won't be able to say much about the Spaniards, they're out of my field. Except that I really like the red cockade on the tricorne and the grenadier cap. What sources did you use?
ouet:Arsan??!!!
EDIT: My humble try.
the highlander: Oooh. (ive finished the sleeves so far ) make UNIT file also.
edit: and what about the inaccurate bonnet? shame on you!
about the spanish sources: so there's a problem. not many - ive almost completely trust http://www.kronoskaf.com (modeled according to aragon regiment) but also looked here http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=120417&word=
(but they're mainly against themselves )
I'll wait to see yours before doing more work
It looks like several regiments have pants of the same colours as the regimental facings (blue or red). Maybe you could add that?
TiFlo wrote: It looks like several regiments have pants of the same colours as the regimental facings (blue or red). Maybe you could add that?
edit: but according to kronoskaf not.
Im playing around with it just now. Also trying to unbotton the coat.
TiFlo wrote: "Cocky" as "proud": the guy is wearing as much clothes and equipment as possible, but for no real use in wilderness warfare
I'm still reading this thread hoping that a consensus will be reached for the
most likely looking highlander for Pontiac's War
@ PANGI
Mmh... That's a difficult call to make. Still, I would go with Kronoscaf, their sources seem as accurate as it can be. Also, their uniforms are per a 1759 book, while those from the NYPL are from the early 1760's. Things can change really fast: the "new" reorganized French army of 1762 wears the uniforms you will see during the American War of Independence.
PS: Very well, I'll butcher the work you did on the bonnet since you want it so hard.
@ Hobbes
There is no consensus to be reached
If you want a Highlander that fits into the 1760-1763 period in North America and the Pontiac War, your choice comes down to those 3:
The 1st one can only be an officer, as they would be the only men keeping their Broadsword. And yet, most of them would discard it in favour of the duo musket-bayonet. They all knew too well that the least recognizable they were form the rank-and-files on the field, the less likely they were to be shot as valuable targets by enemy marksmen (remember the Monongahela battle for that matter). Furthermore, the tartan is still worn, which again would be out of use by then (Actually, mounted officers would wear regular breaches and boots).
The two other can make pretty good soldiers, minus the laces on the coat, that PANGI and I are removing right now.
for everyone who is interested in uniforms - classic from David Morier in great quality:
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/egallery/maker.asp?maker=12356
Just saw your update PANGI. Great, thank you for all the work!
Brothers in arms:
thanks fellow
oh...the bonnet! do you have it also in UNIT file? i could adopt it (if you dont mind).
Here you go. A darker blue would be even better, but then we might not be able to see the difference with black. I believe that one to be a good compromise.
Alternative Highlander - Pontiac War edition.zip
TiFlo wrote: Here you go. A darker blue would be even better, but then we might not be able to see the difference with black. I believe that one to be a good compromise.
Thanks for all the work chaps.
I will be adding this version to Pontiac in the next week or so (unless there are more amendments). The mod should be available in a couple of weeks and then part of the next patch.
I've managed one minor thing...
...did you observed?
just toying with this...
but still dont know how to manage the "Army" appearance - still show the original colonial look...
so Shirley's or Pepperell's:
50th_51th.rar
Wow. Now you have to tell us what you did there, that looks very promising!
PS: Pepperell's for me.
Just now i must say that im not completely sure (still cannot manage the "army" look).
I think Hobbes is the person who can give us some answers (and give me a hand before my mind will go)
Ok. You may want to ask lodilefty too. There are also a couple of info here.
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Marketing Myopia is probably the best-known and most influential marketing article ever written — the foundation of modern marketing.
In 1960, Harvard Business School Marketing Professor Theodore Levitt wrote in the school’s magazine about how companies were too focused on producing specific goods and services. Through that near-sightedness, they were missing what consumers really need over time. Railways thought they were in the train business, when in fact their customers wanted transportation.
Levitt suggested that leaders ask: What business are we really in?
But Harvard professor John Deighton recently told the magazine the best answer is to be found by asking another question: What are we really doing for the customer? You need to focus on customer needs, not your products and services, since the latter can always be replaced by competitive alternatives.
He points to publishing. “There seems to be a myopic attachment to the word ‘publish’ that is a production-oriented take on the industry,” he says. But customers don’t want newspapers or magazines. Instead, he feels they want to be entertained, informed and stimulated by people who are more interesting than their friends and acquaintances. The form of delivery is less critical than the experience delivered.
The concept of an “industry” has also been challenged recently. The industry a company is in today may not be the same next year: “In today’s very fluid times, it’s more accurate to say ‘eco-system.’ Disruptions are constantly challenging the stability of industries,” Deighton notes.
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To motivate employees, it helps to understand the different forms of motivation. Generally, the focus has been on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. But consultant Susan Fowler says we should also pay attention to two lesser-known concepts: aligned and integrated motivation.
On Smart Brief Blogs, she notes that extrinsic motivation — from outside factors like incentives — can flop outright or limit results, creativity, innovation and well-being. And extrinsic incentives can undermine internal motivations, even if the ideal would seem to be intrinsic and extrinsic together.
But she talks positively about aligned and integrated motivation, which leaders can encourage.
Aligned motivation occurs when people connect their personal values to the work they are doing. That can lead to flow, well-being, and high performance. But people need to know what they value and how their personal values translate into values at work.
“Most organizations do a decent job of identifying organizational values, then stop the process, failing at the individual level,” she warns.
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“When powered by purpose, people do amazing, creative, and innovative work for extended periods of time — and thrive while doing it,” she says. A difficulty can be that people may claim to have a life purpose but not consider how an activity plays into their work or life purpose.
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In his e-newsletter, Toronto-based consultant Donald Cooper shares a top ten list of what employees want from their working environment, as tabulated by The Public Agenda Foundation:
Work with people who treat me with respect.
Interesting work.
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An opportunity to develop my skills.
Work for people who listen when I have ideas about how to do things better.
An opportunity to think for myself rather than to carry out instructions. Not to be micro-managed.
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Working for efficient managers who provide clear and consistent communication and don’t waste a lot of my time redoing work.
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“So, how could you improve your business culture in each of these 10 areas?” he asks. “Sit down with a few of the best minds and hearts in your business and get specific about what you’ll do to attract, engage, challenge, and retain top performers.”
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“Most of the things that we do have two possible outcomes: They might work or they might not. Being able to live with the possibility of either is essential if we’re going to move forward,” he writes on his blog.
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Can we talk? In recruiting, activity is king. In particular, says consultant Tim Sackett, you must interact with the live person you are considering hiring – not by email, or messaging, or text, but by speaking to that individual. (Source: The Tim Sackett Project)
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Are you centred? Centred logos are appearing more and more on the web these days, but getting back to the home page is about six times harder when it’s placed there instead of in the top left hand corner, research indicates. (Source: NielsenNorman Group)
Try small solutions: Entrepreneur Michael Alden says to spend 5% more time with your current customers, increase product-service prices by 5%, do something 5% differently from your competitors, or motivate your team 5% more. (Source: Eric Jacobson On Management)
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Start slow to go fast.
The tendency will be to plunge in. But first you have to build a sense of team and joint purpose.
You have, I assume, been assigned the specific team members. You may or may not know them well. But you have to take time to improve your understanding and also to have them learn about each other. And if you have all worked together before, that’s probably even more important. After all, familiarity can breed contempt. You want to breed a sense of commonality and trust.
Gather the team and have each person speak about themselves, in turn. Just that act — in which everyone gets a few minutes and all the others listen — starts to build trust and a sense of equality. Down the road, some members may play more important roles or be the stars, and they or others may dominate discussions. Today, equal time for everyone.
What people talk about specifically can depend on their shared past history. It can range from three-minute nutshell bios to sharing “three things you didn’t know about me.”
There could be a round in which individuals say what they most feel they can provide to the team, which starts to edge into assignments but gives them a say. You might also want to invite people to talk about their own work-life balance situation or limits they would prefer (such as no emails after normal work hours).
Next, at another meeting, you will want to take time for what is increasingly called problem finding. Usually, we rush to solve problems. But it helps to understand the nature of the problem(s) you are being asked to solve before seeking solutions and to get agreement on what it is you need to do.
There’s obviously more, but I’ll just stress critical path. Set a deadline for earlier than you have been given. Outline the major steps you will need to achieve and a logical time frame. Also consider what or who will be barriers to achieving each step, so you can keep an eye on those factors.
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Nicolas Cole notes on Inc.com that if we develop bad daily habits, “we find we wake up in deep holes while at the same time wondering how we got here in the first place.”
As we move out of a more relaxed summer tempo, it may be an ideal time to examine any self-defeating little habits that may have slipped into our routines. Cole identified 17 tiny habits that make our days a little more difficult — here are some of our favourites:
You don’t follow through. Deliver on what you promise to do, and finish your work. It will take a lot more time to finish the work if you have to go back later and get into the assignment all over again.
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You “have to be right”. Cole wryly notes that there’s nothing like an endless argument.
The nice thing about focusing on “tiny” bad habits is that it doesn’t take much to just pick one and start changing it.
8. Closing Thought:
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
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(A short story in the style of Neha Vish’s fiction fragments. With sincere apologies to her for ripping her off, and to my readers for inflicting this upon them.)
He feels happy. After six years away, he is now home again. He doesn’t have to put aside some amount of his salary to buy furniture for his flat any more. He can spend the evenings talking to his parents and grandmother. He will also be well fed by his mother who has made gaajar halwa for him. The carrots in Delhi are longer and pinker and the halwa you get from them is dark red unlike the orange halwa made in South India. This is the good life.
That evening, all his relatives have come home to welcome him back to Delhi. His grandfather had wanted many children. So now he has many uncles and aunts and even more auntyjis. They are all here. They are talking to each other in Lahori Punjabi and asking him when he will get married. He doesn’t mind. He is just happy to be home.
Suddenly something shatters his sense of peace and calm. His Kitty Aunty is talking. He had never noticed this before. But now, seven years after he last met her, he realises that he cannot tolerate the the way she speaks. Her voice is incredibly high pitched. She starts her sentences by calling his mother, and ‘Veena’ emerges in a shriek. He glowers. Why is this woman who he does not even know well mutilating his mother’s name and giving him a headache? He moves to a corner to escape the shrill tones and daydreams about throwing bricks at Kitty.
Once he is in the corner, he feels even more annoyed. Her voice still reaches here and she has started to laugh also. The laugh is even more excruciating than the speaking. He remembers the dubbed Japanese cartoons he used to watch when cable TV first came, and how the alien princesses in those would giggle manically whenever they were plotting some villainy. It feels like that.
He wonders why he never noticed this about Kitty Aunty before. And then he realises that it is because his time in Bangalore has spoilt him. He has started taking the South Indian accent, with its enunciation of vowels and middle vocal range, for granted. And Kitty Aunty now feels like an intrusion on this comfortable and pleasant way of speaking.
Suddenly he realises that though he is at home, he will feel out of place unless he can hear the Bangalore accent. And that Kitty Auntyji might be too high a price to pay for gaajar halwa.
Czech Chutzpah
This story hasn’t appeared in the Indian press as far as I know, which is a shame. It’s one of the most awesome practical jokes/ pranks/ hoaxes ever devised. So I’m summarising it for your reading pleasure.
OK, the European Union has a rotating presidency which passes between the member-countries. France just handed the presidency over to the Czech Republic. The Czech government decided to commemerate the occasion with a piece of sculpture about Europe. A Czech artist called David Cerny said that he would get artists from all the 27 member countries to contribute to the piece. This was nicely symbolic and he got the job.
So here’s where things get interesting. What Cerny finally produced was a giant map in which each country was depicted in a joyously stereotypical manner. France was just a metal outline with a Strike! banner across it. Italy was a football field where the players were all assaulting each other. Germany was a dull grey map with autobahns at right angles stretching across it. You get the picture. You actually get the picture over here (Spiegel Online slideshow). Cerny got the contract and used it to yank the European Union’s chain in a delightful manner. Even better, he charged 373,000 Euros to do this.
OK, but things don’t end there. First Cerny revealed that he had done the whole thing as a joke, causing shock and horror in the EU bureaucracy that people could actually make fun of them. Then, to make things worse, he revealed that the twenty-seven artists from each EU country did not actually exist. He had cooked them up. To add even more masala to the mix, he had also submitted tongue-in-cheek descriptions of the sculpture by these fake artists (PDF download). 5.7 MB, but do download and read, it’s well worth it.
This of course would be awesome enough in itself. But there’s something even better to come. Since the whole thing is about national stereotypes, Bulgaria was shown as a bunch of squatter-potties. This is apparently because they used to be ruled by the Ottoman Empire, who introduced Turkish toilets there, and they’re still over there. The Bulgarians have taken grave offence to being depicted as a nation of commodes, and have now summoned the Czech ambassador to demand an explanation.
I think a practical joke which results in diplomatic action being taken is pretty much the gold standard. David Cerny is my new hero.
शुभारंभ
So thanks to airfares going down again, I had enough money spare to buy the awesome Nikkor 50 mm f/1.8 lens, which Chandru and Nega have been praising and taking awesome photos with. It seemed appropriate to inaugurate the lens by taking photos of my mum’s many Ganesh idols.
Unfortunately, my first few attempts didn’t quite work out and the first decent photo that I took on the lens was one of my mum, not of Ganapati. A day later, I did get this awesome shot of a painted Ganapati in front of a stone one.
The photo was cropped to squareness in Picasa, but the soft focus on the background is entirely the lens’s good work.
Review Coming Up
Ashish Jaiswal, the author of True Dummy – a Fable of Existence, has asked me to review the book (psst: it launched two days ago). He’s also asked me to be honest about the book in the review, and not asked for special treatment.
I’m reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao right now. Once I’ve finished that, I’ll start True Dummy and review it. Normal blogging will happen in the interim (if it happens at all).
2009 in Preview
After all the horrifying stuff we faced in 2008 – bomb blasts, rampaging inflation, a global financial crisis, and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, – 2009 can only get better, right?
Ha ha ha. Oh, you crack me up. The rest of next year, we’re going to get further into a global economic downturn, we’re going to have a general election which’ll remind us of how crapulent our political choices are, and Himesh Reshammiya has five new movie releases. 2009 is going to be even worse then 2008 ever was.By the time we get through it, we’ll be wishing for the good old days of 2008. Still, forewarned is forearmed, and in keeping with the grand tradition of this blog, I’m letting you loyal readers know exactly what 2009 has in store for you. Words shall describe the unspeakable horror.
The Danish band Legodeath sells their touring van and announces that they will move their gear and members around on horse drawn carriages instead. Band frontsman Nils explains with a Goth poem: ‘Sweet Möther Death/ will take us all/ even these horses/ but not General Motors/ båilout after båilout/ keeps death away/ like a Žombie horde/ time to end now/ this rapacious mônster.’ Rahul Raguram excitedly informs everyone about the promising new musical genre of Scandianvian creative destruction metal.
The Home Ministry announces its firm intention to make cheating on husbands a criminal offence. In this it receives strong support from most people who bother to cast their vote in SMS polls.
A survey reveals that Omar Abdullah has replaced Howard Roark as the foremost crush of teenage girls in English medium public schools. Shobhaa De writes a column about how this represents a new political awakening in Indian youth.
The BCCI asks the Pakistani Cricket Board to ban all Pakistani players who are playing in the Indian Cricket League. Asif Ali Zardari insists that there is no proof that any Pakistani is playing the ICL. He is criticised by Barack Obama who says that Pakistan should take better efforts to co-operate with India.
Barack Obama begins his presidency, and people all over the world are hopeful that this will lead to an improvement in the economy and a ew era of peace and prosperity. However skeptical conservatives point out that Obama is not the messiah.
Anil Ambani changes Reliance Mobile’s name to BIG Phone, to match his existing naming system of BIG TV, BIG Home Video, BIG Movies, and BIG Flix. Questioned why, he replies “I may not be the big brother, but I can have a bunch of BIG companies.” He then smirks.
The economic slowdown continues. Restaurants in Mumbai are so empty, diners can now overhear the conversation of only one other table. Surjit Bhalla writes a series of columns on how this is the fault of the RBI refusing to lower interest rates.
Abu Salem issues supari on Rahul Mahajan for outraging Monica Bedi’s modesty. However nobody kills him.
Restaurants and hotels in Indian metros do not see their usual Valentine’s Day spike in revenues. Due to the economic crisis, people in love skip expensive dinners to save money. Instead they take follow the lead of small town India and stand outside girls’ colleges holding flowers. Barkha Dutt reports live from outside these colleges and asks the cameraperson to pan over the whole crowd.
The Home Ministry insists that not criminalising female adultery will open the floodgates of delinquent behaviour and the current situation provides unbridled license for women to cheat on their husbands. Asif Ali Zardari insists that there is no proof that wives are cheating on their husbands and that if proof is found, they can be prosecuted in Pakistan.
With Lok Sabha elections approaching, political observers are keenly watching the regional parties to see which ones will join the NDA, which ones will join the UPA, and which ones will send their leaders to hold their upraised hands with Chandrababu Naidu on the front page of the Hindu.
The Deccan Chargers become the latest Gult company to go under in scandal. It is revealed that they had never actually employed Andrew Symonds.
Campus placements at IIT slow down to such an extent that even more IITians commit suicide than usual. Farmers in Vidarbha angrily criticise them for stealing the limelight.
After having one-upped Mukesh Ambani’s private jet purchase by buying a super luxury yacht, Anilbhai upstages Mukeshbhai’s 60 floor home Antilia by announcing plans to buy Andaman Island and convert the Cellular Jail to a private mansion, which he will rename BIG House.
Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel start spring training with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The BCCI requests the MLB to ban them from playing as only the IPL is official and legitimate.
The fog over Delhi’s airport finally clears and flights can start taking off on time. V Anantha Nageswaran writes a series of columns insisting that the takeoffs are only because of a flood of cheap money and that the worst is yet to come.
The underworld still does not kill Rahul Mahajan.
With the Lok Sabha set to dissolve, no substantive legislation is discussed. In this matter, the budget session is no different from the last five years of parliament.
In another continuance of the last five years in Parliament, Rahul Gandhi makes a stirring speech about a woman in the Amethi constituency called Padmawati who leads a miserable life without access to electricity, education, or clean drinking water. The TV channel Colors promptly announces that it will start a new daily soap opera based on her life.
Sheila Dixit announces the extension of the BRT program in Delhi to another road. This is ignored by everyone who actually uses the bus service, supported by a number of urban planners and NGOs, and angrily criticised by Delhi’s motorists. Asif Ali Zardari assures Delhi’s car drivers that there is no evidence that the BRT leads to traffic snarls.
The BCCI requests the CBSE to stop holding board exams, as the time spent by children in studying will distract them from watching the IPL.
Continuing the grand tradition of Gult companies exploding spectacularly, Country Club founder Y Rajeev Reddy announces that he has been committing massive fraud over the past few years, and that the number of country clubs has been grossly overstated over the past few years. TV viewers are relieved as this suggests that they will no longer have to endure Country Club ads with Rajeev Reddy sticking his thumb up. Barkha Dutt reports live from Hyderabad and interviews random passersby, informing viewers about how traumatised they are.
BP Singhal appears on CNN-IBN’s Face the Nation to explain that adultery cannot be tolerated by Indian society and therefore it is imperative to criminalise it. He angrily accuses the middle class New Delhi audience of being Westernised and unable to appreciate the Indian mindset.
Anil Ambani changes Reliance Energy’s name to BIG Bijli.
Surjit Bhalla writes a series of columns about how Anilbhai would be able to truly grow Reliance Energy instead of just renaming it if interest rates were lower.
Rahul Mahajan nearly kills himself while driving drunk, but the underworld had nothing to do with it.
In preparation for the upcoming elections, the government announces a cut in fuel prices to reflect the easing in the price of crude oil. Over the rest of April, the price of crude rises by fifteen dollars a barrel.
The English news channels begin their annual hysterical coverage of the CBSE board exams. Barkha Dutt broadcasts live from outside a CBSE examination centre, and chases Class X students as they leave the centre, asking them how they feel. The students run away in terror at the sight of Barkha Dutt shrieking at them. She then turns towards the camera and informs the viewers that they can see how traumatised the students were.
Due to the slowdown of the economy in general, and the real estate sector in particular, DLF is unable to sponsor the IPL this time around. Lalit Modi asks the Federal Reserve for a bailout. This prompts Legodeath to release a fresh song titled Bowlout Bailout in which they protest the use of taxpayer money to rescue questionable business plans. Rahul Raguram excitedly asks all his Facebook contacts to download it as soon as possible.
Indian corporations begin to release their annual financial statements and there is clear evidence of slowing earnings and ravaged balance sheets. However Asif Ali Zardari insists that there is no proof of a slowdown, and that if any is found it can be tackled internally by Pakistan’s finance ministry.
Anilbhai agrees to take over the naming rights of the controversial New York Mets stadium from Citi, and announces that the stadium will now be known as the BIG Ballpark. However he does not announce how much he is paying for the naming rights. Headline writers across the Indian media go orgasmic when they realise that they can now speculate about the ballpark figure.
After Genelia and Asin, Trisha becomes the next South Indian actress to break out in Bollywood movies. V Anantha Nageswaran writes a series of columns warning that this is an unsustainable trend and that commodities are the only safe refuge.
Rahul Mahajan continues to live unscathed.
The bailout funds for Detroit automakers run out and there is now no way to avoid bankruptcy. The auto unions as well as the management criticise Barack Obama for not doing enough. Obama defends himself and points out that he isn’t the messiah.
The Lok Sabha is dissolved and the Election Commission sets dates for elections. Young middle class voters and not so young rich celebrities all declare their intention to register to vote and to vote for the first time on the front page of Bombay Times, Delhi Times, Pune Times, and so forth. However nothing comes of it when they realise that even after taking jaagore.com’s help, they still need to submit the registration form at the local sarkaari office on their own.
The CBSE results are announced and it turns out that the mathematics paper has been extremely low scoring, and thousands of Class XII students have performed badly, putting them at a disadvantage against students who took Physical Education or Psychology instead. This leads to a huge outcry. Arundhati Roy joins the protests by writing an essay in which she questions the justice of infinite algebra.
Anilbhai renames Reliance Mutual Fund and Reliance Money to BIG Profits.
The peak temperature in Delhi hits 52 degrees Celsius. This is initially blamed on global warming but later on it turns out that the cause is actually the hot air being spewed by Rajdeep Sardesai ahead of the elections.
Meanwhile, the BCCI appeals to the Election Commission to postpone the elections as election coverage is distracting viewers from the IPL.
The one saving grace of hot weather all over India is that the mango crop is doing well. Unfortunately mango farmers are not getting good prices. The BJP accuses the government of letting down the aam aadmi.
Surjit Bhalla writes a series of columns explaining that the low prices of mangos are proof that inflation is not a threat and that interest rates should be cut.
Rahul Mahajan is not only alive but is rumoured to be the host for the next season of BIGG BOSS. Abu Salem starts giving up in life.
Campaigning for the elections becomes hectic as the last phase of polling begins. All major parties assure voters that they will criminalise female adultery.
The economic slowdown continues and commodity prices hit all time lows. Somali pirates are perturbed when they discover that the ships they hijack have worthless cargoes and the shipping companies can’t be bothered to pay the ransom. Therefore they appeal to the US Treasury for a bailout.
The 24 hour news channels are thrown into a tizzy because elections and Delhi University admissions are occurring simultaneously. To make matters even worse, a boy falls down a well. News channels rapidly switch feeds from outside North Campus to election rallies to the well, while the anchors desperately try to keep up. Barkha Dutt later writes an op-ed describing it as the most traumatic time in her life.
The elections finally end. The Election Commission announces that it has actually held the elections at a profit. This is because the five thousand new parties which decided to ride the wave of middle class outrage and campaigned on a platform of opposing corruption, promoting the national interest and fighting against caste-based reservations have all lost their deposits. Also, Parliament is extremely hung, with no political alliance getting a clear majority. It appears that there will not be a working government for the next five years. So it will be exactly like the previous five years.
Anilbhai announces that Reliance ADA Group will set up sewage treatment plants in Indian metros. This will be done by a company named BIG Shit. This naming and renaming spree finally gets noticed by Shobhaa De, who writes a column wondering if Anilbhai is insecure.
The only good news to come out in the entire month is that the Bandra-Worli Sea Link is finally opened to the public. Unfortunately after two days of operation it is blockaded by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena workers who protest about the toll booths being manned by migrants from UP and Bihar. When it is pointed out to them that the toll plazas are automated and use state-of-the-art smart card readers, they demand that the smart card readers be replaced by the Marathi manoos.
V Anantha Nageswaran writes a series of columns in which he warns his readers that the Bandra Worli Sea Link only got built because of a flood of cheap money and that this is unsustainable in the long run.
Rahul Mahajan remains unharmed, because everyone in the underworld has realised that it is more profitable to ask for a bailout.
Legodeath announces plans to release a concept album on bailouts. Frontsman Nils states that the band wants to challenge the concept of money being spent to rescue businesses that are no longer relevant or viable. He also provides a partial track listing. The tracks include Sçhumpeter Screams for Mercÿ, The Ċreative are Ċhoked While The Zombies Are Fed, and Dřowning Ëquity. Rahul Raguram hails the (unnamed) album as a masterpiece of Danish financial protest metal.
Efforts to form a government continue and both the Congress and the BJP ask the BSP to support the government. However they are both unwilling to give Mayawati the PM’s post, and offer her the Defence Ministry instead. Mayawati insists that she wants the Prime Ministership and nothing else, and laughs in their faces. Headline writers across the Indian media wet themselves when they realise they can now print stuff like ‘Behenji turns down MoD’.
With no government to propose legislation, the number of laws discussed in Parliament falls from already abysmal lows to zero. However the MPs are not completely unoccupied, as three different TV Channels start signing them up for dance shows featuring male MPs paired up with female models. This leads to a furious bidding war between SET Max, Star Plus, and Colors for Omar Abdullah.
Surjit S Bhalla points to the bidding war as evidence that it is impossible to use monetary policy to control Indian inflation, and that interest rates should therefore be lowered.
Anilbhai ignores Shobhaa De’s column and changes Mumbai Metro One’s name to BIG Rapid Transit.
Everyone is so miserable about the economy and the political situation that nobody notices that the monsoon has been on time, normal, and well distributed over India. Everyone, that is, except Barkha Dutt, who broadcasts live from Delhi in the middle of a drizzle, where she explains to the viewers that they can see how traumatised everyone is. Despite there being no real government, the additional solicitor general appears before the Supreme court and testifies that female adultery is evidence of perverted minds.
Asif Ali Zardari realises that he has been away from the public spotlight. Therefore he insists that there is no evidence that he had been inactive.
Rahul Mahajan is in the pink of health. Abu Salem’s lawyer informs the press about the anguish his client faces.
All efforts to form a government remain unsuccessful. The MPs who are not appearing on dance shows therefore decide to do fact finding tours of Thailand and Belgium to see how they manage to make do without a government. Mystifyingly they do not include Somalia or Northwest Pakistan on the itinerary.
The English Premiership is about to start. However the BCCI asks the FA not to conduct it as it will distract television viewers from IPL reruns.
Anilbhai announces that he is starting a BPO which will serve the US Treasury and Federal Reserve and process bailout requests, and that it will be named BIG Bheek. Legodeath frontsman Nils condemns Anilbhai’s action and gloomily talks about how the forces of bailouts unleashed earlier are now sucking all entrepreneurial activity towards them instead of into more productive pursuit. Nils explains with a Goth poem: ‘Like carrioŋ they comē/ in search øf funds/ not their moneÿ/ but ÿours/ but mine/ and now comes Ãnil/ to help them feed/ but they feed/ on our blood and marrow/ the living get nothing/ the corpses feed/ take them now/ Sweet Mother Đeath.’ Rahul Raguram is delighted and spreads the news on his blog, on his Facebook posted items, and his Google Reader shared items.
Obama does not share Rahul Raguram’s sentiments and promptly appoints BIG Bheek to streamline the process of demanding bailout money. He is attacked by both trade unions and Lou Dobbs for sending jobs overseas. The Democratic base complains bitterly that Obama has let them down and they no longer think he is the messiah.
In his Independence Day address to the Pakistani nation, Asif Ali Zardari insists that there is no evidence that Pakistan is an independent nation. V Anantha Nageswaran writes a series of columns in which he informs his readers that Asif Ali Zardari will continue to deny everything and that the only way out is to withdraw from the equity markets and use commodities as a safe haven.
Abu Salem accuses Rahul Mahajan of racism after he shows up at Arthur Road jail and makes monkey gestures at Abu Salem through the bars.
In a shocking development, it turns out that Genelia D’Souza’s career in movies actually began with Mere Baap Pehle Aap. In a faxed confession, she states that the Telugu films she claimed to have done did not really exist.
Queen Elizabeth becomes the latest member of the British Royal Family to be involved in a racism scandal after she calls someone a Paki. However Asif Ali Zardari comes to her defence and insists that there is no evidence that the person in question was Pakistani.
After a lifetime of screaming hysterically at the camera and informing the audience about how traumatised everyone is, Barkha Dutt develops laryngitis. NDTV instantly appeals to the the US Treasury for a bailout.
Anilbhai now renames Reliance Infrastructure BIG Bridges. By now even Amar Singh thinks he is going too far.
After years of controversy related to equipment, bidding rules, tender procedures, technology, regulation, financing and ownership, 3G services are finally launced in India. Unfortunately they only last for three days after which the BCCI has them suspended when it realises that 3G networks are being used to share videos of Twenty20 matches.
The Government remains unformed. This is because the Communist parties have promised to support any formation from outside without joining the government. As a result of this everyone loses enthu.
Surjit S Bhalla writes a series of columns warning his readers that the absence of a Central government is keeping the rupee at unreasonably high levels, and that firm action is required to push its value lower.
Rahul Mahajan is alive, and confirmed as the host of the new season of BIGG BOSS. Abu Salem is practically in tears.
On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, Sanjay Dutt goes back to promoting Gandhigiri, as that is the only thing that has worked for him in the past five years. A hysterical Rajdeep Sardesai informs the audience that India is demanding answers on this development.
Legodeath announces that its anti-bailout concept album will be titled Deathśuck. Rahul Raguram is overjoyed and tells everyone that Deathśuck is a milestone in the evolution of Scandinavian capitalist death metal. He is not disheartened by people who tell him that death sucks.
There are riots in West Bengal when Mamata Banerjee leads a protest against farmers’ land being acquired. Later it is discovered that the land was being acquired in Gujrat and not West Bengal. However Asif Ali Zardari insists that there is no proof of this. He also calls Mamata Banerjee gorgeous. This latest statement is strongly and angrily criticised by Omar Abdullah fangirls all over Orkut.
Anilbhai announces that he will reshuffle his entire portfolio of businesses, reform them under a holding company called BIG Business, and issue grossly overpriced equity in the holding company.
Government formation still does not take place, because the parliamentary debates are stuck on the vexed topic of how fast prospective governments will move to criminalise female adultery.
The Sanand factory finally rolls out Tata Motors’ Nano. Tragically because of the economic situation the target customer group has downgraded from scooters to bicycles. V Anantha Nageswaran writes a series of columns explaining that this will continue as long as interest rates remain artificially low.
Rahul Mahajan continues to live the good life.
Due to global warming, the winter in Delhi is unusally mild and temperatures only go down to 18 degrees Celsius, as a result of which Delhi-ites don’t bother taking out their woollens. Meanwhile, also due to global warming, the winter in Bombay is unusually sharp and the temperature falls to 18 degree Celsius. Everyone in Bombay buys sweaters and jackets.
Anilbhai renames Reliance Life Sciences BIG Pharma, ignoring fervent appeals from everyone from Kokilaben to Amar Singh to give it a rest.
The government is still not formed at the centre because nobody can decide whether Rahul Gandhi or Omar Abdullah is better looking. Rajdeep Sardesai goes on air and states that enough is enough. However he does not actually propose solutions.
Due to the continuing economic crisis, summer placements at the IIMs are almost at their worst ever. MBA students are unable to get internships on Wall Street as Wall Street no longer exists. As a result of this they appeal to the US Treasury for a bailout. Expectedly they are criticised by Legodeath and Rahul Raguram.
Also criticising them are farmers in Vidarbha, who accuse them of making a big deal out of nothing while they lead miserable lives plagued by crop failure, unbearable temperatures and Sainath hovering around them like a helicopter parent. However there is relief in store for Vidarbha farmers as Colors announces that it will start a new daily soap based on their tragic lives. Asif Ali Zardari, however, insists that there is no evidence that farmers are dying in Vidarbha and insists that this is just the Indian media flinging allegations.
The Bangalore Metro construction remains as slow as ever and remains months away from any sort of completion. V Anantha Nageswaran writes a series of columns explaining to readers that this sort of inefficiency is the inevitable fallout of cheap money and that Bangalore’s commuters’ only hope is to seek a safe haven in commodities.
Rahul Mahajan is interviewed by the Hindustan Times and asked how he manages to lead a healthy and spiritual life. Abu Salem is wracked with paroxysms of grief.
With the year practically at an end, and no good news in sight, people are utterly depressed. This is commented upon by Barkha Dutt, who tells the viewers that they can see how traumatised everyone is; by Rajdeep Sardesai, who says that enough is enough, and by Arnab Goswami, who says that Arundhati Roy is disgusting.
Capping off a perfectly bad year, Obama’s past as an Illinois politician catches up with him. The press finally gets over their adulation, and starts investigating the shady deals he was involved with in Chicago. Conservative commentators explain that Obama is actually a very naughty boy.
It is revealed that the actual reason government formation has been stalled this while is that the BCCI has been working actively to prevent it, reasoning that a televised vote of confidence will distract viewers from watching cricket on TV.
Asif Ali Zardari assures everyone that there is no evidence that Gult companies have been falsifying information. He does this even before any new fraud is brought to light, leading everyone to wonder what he knows.
V Anantha Nageswaran writes a series of columns explaining that Surjit Bhalla will keep writing columns as long as there is a flood of cheap money in the financial markets. Surjit Bhalla on his part writes a series of columns explaining that V Anantha Nageswaran’s columns will continue unless Indian interest rates are brought down to global levels and the rupee is devalued. They agree to sort out their differences over coffee. Barkha Dutt, reporting on this, informs the viewers that they can see how traumatised everyone is.
Anilbhai buys Colors, renames it BIG Drama, and announces that for all seasons to come, he will be the voice of BIGG BOSS. He also assures Rahul Mahajan that his job as host is safe. Abu Salem is so disgusted that he appeals to the US Treasury for a bailout.
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Singapore, UPR Report Consideration - 31st Meeting 32nd Regular Session of Human Rights Council
24 Jun 2016 - Consideration of the Outcome of the Universal Periodic Review of Singapore A/HRC/32/17, A/HRC/32/17/Add.1
Agenda Item:6 Universal periodic review - 31st Plenary Meeting 32nd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council.
H.E Mr. Foo Kok Jwee , Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Singapore to the Unog (Presenting Additional Information)
Cuba, Ms. Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mr. So Se Pyong
Egypt, Mr. Amer Essam
Ethiopia, Mr. Yibza Aynekullu
Qatar, Ms. Doha Amer
India , Mr. Alok Ranjan Jha
Indonesia, Mr. Michael Tene
Iran (Islamic Republic of), Mr. Mohammad Zareian
Kyrgyzstan, Ms. Nurayim Tynybekova
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mr. Bovonethat Douangchak
Malaysia, Ms. Ms. Subashini Kamarapullai
Maldives, Ms. Rishfa Rasheed
Myanmar, Mr. Ko Ko Shein
Oman , Mr. Yousuf Said Mohamed Al Amri
Pakistan, Ms. Mariam Saeed
Philippines, Ms. Cecilia B. Rebong
International Service for Human Rights, Ms. Sarah Brooks
International Commission of Jurists, Ms. Doireann Ansbro
International Federation for Human Rights Leagues, Dr. Heok Kay Heng Adrian
Franciscans International, Mr. Mr. Budi Tjahjono
International Lesbian and Gay Association, Ms. Ms. Diana Prado
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Ms. Chong Yan Lih
Action Canada for Population and Development, Mr. Fernando d’Elio
Human Rights Watch, Mr. Mr. John Fisher
Association of Women for Action and Research, Ms. Ms. Tan Siyu Jolene
Singapore Council of Women's Organisations, Ms. Das Malathi
Amnesty International, Ms. Marianne Liliebjerg
H.E Mr. Foo Kok Jwee , Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Singapore to the UNOG (Concluding Remarks)
Mr. Bertrand de Crombrugghe ,Vice-President & Rapporteur (Adoption)
H.E Mr.Foo Kok Jwee, Ambassador of Singapore to the UNOG (Presenting Additional Information) 00:01:04
Cuba, Ms. Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo 00:06:44
Democratic Peopl's Republic Of Korea, Mr. So Se Pyong 00:08:16
Egypt, Mr. Amer Essam 00:09:41
Ethiopia, Mr. Yibza Aynekullu 00:11:02
Qatar, Ms. Doha Amer 00:12:16
India , Mr. Alok Ranjan Jha 00:13:33
Indonesia, Mr. Michael Tene 00:14:24
Iran (Islamic Republic of), Mr. Mohammad Zareian 00:15:44
Kyrgyzstan, Ms. Nurayim Tynybekova 00:16:58
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mr. Bovonethat Douangchak 00:17:58
Malaysia, Ms.Subashini Kamarapullai 00:19:01
Maldives, Ms. Rishfa Rasheed 00:20:21
Morocco, Mr. Ahmed Amine Bahnini 00:21:44
Myanmar, Mr. Ko Ko Shein 00:22:55
Oman , Mr. Yousuf Said Mohamed Al Amri 00:24:02
Pakistan, Ms. Mariam Saeed 00:25:03
Philippines, Ms. Cecilia B. Rebong 00:26:13
International Service for Human Rights, Ms. Sarah Brooks 00:27:38
International Commission of Jurists, Ms. Doireann Ansbro 00:29:42
International Federation for Human Rights Leagues, Dr. Heok Kay Heng Adrian 00:31:36
Franciscans International, Mr. Budi Tjahjono 00:33:42
International Lesbian and Gay Association, Ms. Diana Prado 00:34:56
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Ms. Chong Yan Lih 00:37:02
Action Canada for Population and Development, Mr. Fernando d’Elio 00:38:58
Human Rights Watch, Mr. John Fisher 00:41:06
Association of Women for Action and Research, Ms. Tan Siyu Jolene 00:43:17
Singapore Council of Women's Organisations, Ms. Das Malathi 00:45:23
Amnesty International, Ms. Marianne Liliebjerg 00:47:30
H.E Mr.Foo Kok Jwee, Ambassador and Representative of Singapore to the UNOG (Concluding Remarks) 00:50:11
Mr. Bertrand de Crombrugghe ,Vice-President & Rapporteur (Adoption) 00:59:06
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Tuesday Trade Turmoil – Rumors Drive the Market
May 7, 2019 /in Main /by Phil
Is this fun or what?
After being down 500 points in the morning, the Dow almost fully recovered into the close, getting all the way back to 26,400, which was a lovely $2,000 per contract gain on our Futures play from yesterday's Morning Report. Playing a pre-market move like that for a bounce off support – especially when the "news" was a tweet from the President that had no official standing ("the whim of a madman").
This morning we have Team Trump accusing China of reneging in it's trade commitments, which is an odd thing to say as they are in the middle of negotiating so nothing is actually commited yet. Also, unfortunately, the Trump Administration says many, many things that are not true – so it's kind of hard to take their word over China's – even though they are "on our side". In fact, this past weekend, Trump celebrated his 10,000th false statement since he took office less than 1,000 days ago. Trump has single-handedly created an entire division of fact-checkers, now employed at almost every media outlet and he does keep them busy at over 10 lies per day.
Yesterday's briefing from Lighthizer (the anti-China fanatic) and Mnuchin (withholder of Trump's tax returns), which took place after U.S. markets closed on Monday, made it clear there are deep concerns about the direction of the talks and the Futures tanked again and are still down more than half a point this morning but not so low that we want to go long again.
“The level of brinkmanship on both sides and their obvious mutual distrust has made the path to even a temporary cease-fire a lot murkier than just a few days ago,” said Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy at Cornell University. “It is likely a cooling-off period will be needed to get the talks back on track, but the imposition of additional tariffs by the U.S. later this week could keep the talks derailed for a while to come.”
I love the fact that we have actual Ivy League Professors of Trade Policy but they comment from the sidelines while people with no experience whatsoever are
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Turf War At The Bay Area Largest Water Agency
Tor Mclean, the resident of Lafayette, California, solved the California historic drought issue at his own backyard. He tore away his water-thirsty lawn and turned it into a beautiful, eternally green retreat that requires zero maintenance and lowers approximatly 70% of his monthly water bill. Plus, he is getting a rebate from East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) to decrease the cost of transition.
"I want it look pretty. I want it look good, " -said Tor Mclean. "Don't have to spend a lot of money on it, and conserve water. No matter if the drought is over or not," - he said, "this project is going to stay."
Abby Figueroa, the East Bay Municipal Utility District, told ABC7 News that the agency planned the cap up to $2,500 in cash rewards to homeowners who are switching to the drought-tolerant natural plants. They might extend rebates to those who go with artificial grass with a cap of $1,200. But California Redbud, Cleveland Sage and Cofee Berry, though look decent on the front lawns, can't replace traditional California backyards, the place for kids to play and for adults to enjoy the 4th of July barbeque. But not everyone is happy.
As a continuous effort to minimise the plastic waste, the Alameda County public recycling agency, sent a letter in protest to Est Bay Mud. "This stuff has no place to go after its useful life other than a landfill, and people may install it and send it to landfill a few years after the drought is over," Stop Waste spokesperson Gary Wolff said.
But the question is: will the drought be over in a few yeas? Artificial grass life expectancy under regular traffic is at least twenty years. Most Californians realize that no matter what agencies say, July 1 water price increase is just a beginning.
EBMUD raised water rates three years in a row. Someone has to pay for aging infrastructure, and this someone is California residents. Last year, Abby Figueroa mentioned that increasing water prices are "politically challenging." Now, when the California drought got to the catastrophic stage, it is time to invest in a new technology, and it will affect the cost of every household in the state.
"The drought has been the main drive in the industry. People look for the alternatives to their real sod," - said Andrew Gao, Global Syn-Turf's CEO, in his interview with Cornell Barnard, ABC7 News.
As Cornell Barnard mentioned on air, the artificial grass business is booming. "Grass is always greener at Global Syn-Turf. The demand is so high for the fake grass they make it's been hot for their business for the last two years."
Most synthetic turf manufacturers in the United States have a challenging time to keep with growing demand. Some of them have at least three months in back orders. At Global Syn-Turf, we are happy to give an immediate solution to our customers. Global Syn-Turf is the largest manufacturer of artificial grass in the United States with the largest inventory of highest quality synthetic grass in the country. Every order is fulfilled in the timely manner. While most companies have no manufacturing capacity to produce enough turf for sky-rocketing demand, we can supply turf TODAY. Plus, if you walk through our website, you will see the biggest collection of grass and the widest range of technologies we have innovated throughout years.
Global Syn-Turf collection of artificial grass is impressive and contains more than 65 different types of turf - from landscape applications and sports fields to professional putting greens and unique grass with exceptional drainage intended for pet areas.
With warehouses in Northern and Southern California and all around the country, there is no need to wait three months or more to lower your water bills. Call us today and start saving water immediately.
Cornell Barnard, ABC7 News, believes that "during the drought there is nothing fake about saving water."
Watch ABC7 New with Cornell Barnard
June 24, 2015 | Artificial Grass, Artificial Grass, Artificial Turf, Artificial Turf, Fake Grass, Fake Grass, Synthetic Grass, Synthetic Grass, Synthetic Turf, Synthetic Turf, Artificial Grass Cost, Artificial Grass Cost
Bernhard Langer Triumph at Belmont. Magic Week.
The 2015 Constellation Senior Players Championship was "a magic week" for Bernhard Langer, two-times Masters Champion, who lead wire-to-wire victory at the Belmont Country Club, Massachusetts. It became Bernhard's 81st individual triumph. This time, he won six shots over Kirk Triplett.
In the last round of the Constellation Senior Players Championship, ending with a 3-under 68 closing round and a 6-shot margin of triumph, Langer achieves his 24th career win on the Campions Tour. He became the first senior golfer to repeat as Senior Players winner since Arnold Palmer in 1984-1985.
The triumph extended Langer's streak of winning at least one Champions Tour event each year of his membership, starting in 2007. Usually, Langer didn't wait long for his opening victory of the season. He won twice in his first start, three times in his third, twice in his fourth.
Over his initial nine starts, Langer had his share of consecutive ends (five top-10s), but no wins. Only in 2012 Langer won on his 14th Champions Tour. This year, calm and methodical Langer was growing impatient by the start of the 48th week.
Called the golf's international man of mystery for 25 years since his first Masters championship in 1985, Bernhard Langer is the golf's most pronounced stoic. He was placed in the Top 10 88 times, and he finished in the top 25 120 times.
Most players are struggling to understand the Belmont's greens, but with a help of Terry Holt, Langer felt comfortable. He opened 65-65, three-putted twice the week and averages thirty putts per round. Impressive 89 percent for someone who doesn't recall being in the Boston area before.
"I think I was, throughout my career, fairly consistent and had a lot of good years," - said Langer once. "I might have been a little bit better than the average player as well. I tried to stay in shape and I'm still playing some golf and having fun doing it. There're lot of other guys who do the same. I think I just feel that I can still improve myself, I can still learn about my technique and the way I play golf. I can still become a better chipper and putter of the golf ball and if I can improve just a little bit, let's say a stroke a day, that would be phenomenal because it would mean three of four shots for the week, which means that I would be up there at the top of the leaderboard somewhere."
"Congratulations, Mr. Langer!" - Dave Maronic is excited to see the golf legend win once again. Dave with the team visited Bernhard Langer private residence in Southern Florida two years ago. "It's amazing what a man can do if he spent as much time on green as Bernhard Langer. He loves the game, and with a golf settings in his backyard, he can practice anytime. As some say - no pain or suffering with Mr. Langer - just pure, beautiful golf."
As you know, Global Syn-Turf's premium quality putting greens never requires watering and mowing, and designed to receive shots like real bent- and Bermuda grass greens. It helps professional golfers by allowing them to practice swings without leaving their comfort zones.
Global Syn-Turf putting greens provide golfers with a first-class golf experience. It gives resilience, smoothness and firmness - which characteristics contribute to the overall speed of the putting green and yield green speeds up to 15 with infill and nine to 10 without. Moreover, Global Syn-Turf putting greens are pet, child and environmentally friendly with no need for watering, fertilizing, disposal of grass clippings, and greatest of all, no need for lawn mowers all of which free up the golfer's time for practicing his game. And finally, Global Syn-Turf has a full range of colors, heights, and thickness to fulfill the requirements of any professional golfer's ideal grass.
June 16, 2015 | Golf Course, Golf Course, Bernhard Langer, Bernhard Langer, PGA Golf, Golf Club, Golf Club, PGA Golf, Golf Clubs, Golf Clubs, Golf Equipment, Golf Equipment, Pga Golf Leaderboard, Pga Golf Leaderboard
Jon Stewart References California as a Jurassic World But This Time... BOOM! Everything Went Horribly Wrong.
The "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart has his own idea of how to solve the California Drought issue.
"First, as you know, California goes through historic unprecedented dry spell. " - says Jon Stewart at Thursday's Daily Show. "We are talking about original movie ideas. BOOM! Take that Jurassic world. Hey, what if they build another dinosaur theme park, but this time things also went horribly wrong."
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Then, Stewart explains why there is a little hope for Californians to avoid the consequences of the drought: "I am talking about the catastrophic four-year drought. Californian's reservoirs are empty. The snow pack is gone. What little water remains in control of ruthless, disfigured warlord, doling out precious moisture from his mountain stronghold" (referencing this year blockbuster hit Mad Max.)
In the next clip, Stewart demonstrates, is an image of Immortan Joe, the lord of the Citadel (the place that beholds the water supply) in Mad Max, and states "Wow, Jerry Brown has not aged well."
"I am just kidding, " - says Stewart. "Jerry Brown didn't age at all. He is still good old governor, putting a water scarcity issue in terms that anyone on "shrooms" can understand. "
In the next clip presents the Jerry Brown quotes: "Someone will call water a right. Someone will call water an essence of life. Water is a baptism. Water is a poetry."
Jon Stewart seems to have a hard time to agree with a poetic associations of the governor of California. He says: "Roses are read. Violets are blue. Can I wash my f#* wash car or not?"
Can California conserve enough water to support life in the state? Stewart thinks there is time to get on top of the disaster: "California instituted mandatory water restrictions. They are tempting to get overall water usage down to 25 percent, obviously not including agriculture which is most of the water usage. But right now, usage is only down 9 percent, so it is time to get real."
As we know, apart from the state government ideas to desalinate the water from the ocean, which will inevitably increase the cost of water five times or more, and the latest plan of Jerry Brown to build two tunnels to divert water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the south, the water recycling plan sounds more realistic as now. Some Southern California communities are using the recycled water, and it works well for them and the environment. But what do people think of this alternative?
"This 620 million dollar water recycling plant turns treated sewage from the sanitation department next door into drinkable water. The water that comes out is cleaner than most tap water in the country. It's officially called "Indirect potable reuse", but it's more descriptively known as toilet-to-tap."
It is easier to say from the East Coast location, where the Daily Show is filmed, but Stewart is more open-minded than most of us. He says: " It's known as toilet-to-tap, but there are steps in between. You are not just sticking a drinking straw in somebody's ass. There is a process it goes through. But, obviously, thanks to the name toilet-to-tap, people tends to react to this God-sent drought solution like this."
What do people think about the recycled water? Or, rather, how do they feel about it?
"That's dirty. That's nasty."
"It's kind of disgusting."
"Yucky factor."
"Major icky and gross factor."
Gayle King is not an exception: "Of course when you how it is done, it's just a graphic in my mind - what I've seen in the toilet it's scary."
"Californians! If you want to buy something you don't call it what it's really is. You have to spice it up a little bit. Like, porn. You think the Valley would have porn, if porn were renamed "Sad Romanians. F*# for money?" - asks Stewart.
Snitching, according to Stewart, is a "far more renewable resource" of water conservation than technologies to recycle water. He mentions that some water agencies in California launched the app for people to report water wasters.
June 15, 2015 | Water Conservation, Water Conservation, California Water, California Water, California Drought, California Drought, Drought, Water Scarcity, Water Scarcity, Drought In California, Drought In California, Drought California, Drought California, Drought
How Do You Feel About California's Water Restrictions?
Al Madrigal, L.A. resident, wasn't in mood to discuss California drought with Jon Stewart.
"I'm sick of it," - he says. "Back home it's all we talk about. We use to go to dinner and discuss movies. Which stars are secretly gays. But now it's just - "How long was your shower. Did you use a backet? Hey, that's a guy whose lawn is green. Call the cops! "
Man, it feels good! I am taking an advantage of your unregulated East Coast Water-topia! Man, it feels good!
Jon, I have to get it out of my system before I go home and slip the recycled toilet water.
I haven't wasted water like this in years!
I am going to paint this town wet, Jon!
Named Best Stand-Up Comedian by the HBO/U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Al Madrigal's comedy has been called "dynamic" by The New York Times. His unique, spontaneous and fast-paced lyrical storytelling style has made him a regular on television with numerous appearances on Comedy Central including his own half-hour Comedy Central Presents Special and appearances on John Oliver's New York Stand-up Show and Pretend Time with Nick Swardson. Al has also appeared with Conan O'Brien (as one of the first 20 guests during his stint as host of "The Tonight Show," and on "Conan" on TBS) as well as multiple appearances on ""Lopez Tonight," "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
June 11, 2015 | California Water, California Water, California Drought, California Drought, Water Scarcity, Drought In California, Drought In California, Drought California, Drought California, Drought, Drought, Water Scarcity
Pet Grass 85 Complete Installation Guide By Dr. Simmons at Drake and Other Fallen Police Dogs Memorial
We are honored to be a part of the remembrance of Drake and other police canine companions, fallen protecting us. Drake was shot four times on November, 18 2012. He was a German Shepherd retired from a force. In spite of heroic efforts by the best veterinarians in the country, Drake didn't make it. He passed away five days later after shooting.
In the interview to local news, Dr. Simmons' stated: "They (police dogs) are currently classified as equipment, - the depreciable equipment with no value when they are retired. Do dogs deserve some form of status? Hero Status really..."
The video has been captured at K-9 dedicated Drake and other fallen police dogs Memorial in Greenacres, Florida where GST donated one of our best products - PetGrass-85. Dr. Ken Simmons gives a complete overview of the project done at the Memorial and the ultimate guide to every step of the installation process. Thank you, Dr. Simmons!
Global Syn-Turf produces more than 65 different lines of artificial grass, and some of it needs special care during the installation. The good example of it is our Pet Grass 85. Designed for an ideal drainage, the backing of this product has no stitch lines, and as an installer you must pay an extra attention to details.
"We've been using this product for the better part of ten months, and some rain storms have come through that were quite substantial, and we've had absolutely no flooding. There are no smell issues at all. " - said Dr. Simmons. "We have large dogs running at high speeds turning on a dime. Carpet (artificial grass) is not separating. It is no falling apart anywhere. And clients, the perception, that they have now of our park is that it looks like an Augusta National Golf Course. I am very impressed with Dave Maronic and his team for providing us this turf for the Drake Memorial because it is very special thing for us since we have a veterinary hospital, and now we have a Memorial Park that is absolutely spectacular. The turf is just made it wonderful."
Below is the full transcript.
If you already own a dog care facility, where lots of dogs are playing at the regular basis, you know that regular grass, although beautiful and very friendly, often dies from disease, it dies from the urine. It gets wet with puddles from rain, and it turns into a mud bath, and all of your pets are playing in this.
Once you are committed to the idea that you are going to spend the money to have your natural grass replace with an artificial turf, the very first step is to remove the existing material that's in your park. And so, my suggestion is to take out, depending on the value of dogs that are going to be playing in the park, up to 8, maybe even 10 inches of fill, so you end up with a space that can then be packed with the drain rock, and other products.
There is actually quite a lot to this first stage of removing the fill that is there. So you must be careful because of the sprinkler pipes, water lines, electrical wires, antennas, cables, whatever might be in the ground. You need to be very careful and identify all those things. If there are sprinkler zones, they need to be relocated outside of the perimeter of where the turf is going to be laid, so you don't have to dig it physically up to get to it.
If you encounter something that needs to be remained in its current position, identify it and place it in the protective box or cabin of some sort, and ultimately you can still cover it with the turf, and allow yourself access at the later date.
Once the fill has been removed to a measured grade, the next step is bringing in number 57 rock. It's essentially septic drain fill rock. It's an inexpensive product, and here is where you are really want to be an opposite to thrifty. You want to use a lot of this rock. Give yourself at least six to eight inches of base rock compacted, and you are going to end putting a concrete screening over the top of this, but the very next step is to bring the rock in, approximate the level, and then go over it with a compactor, and follow it with a concrete screening, which is a fine concrete dust. That would be laid on top of the septic drain rock and compacted as well. That would be about four-inch bed.
During the removal of the fill, you are going to encounter the places in your project that do not have linear or a hard surface upon which to attach the turf. That's where you need to pour a concrete curb to give yourself that option. If you have an existing sidewalk, it can be used nicely. Even existing paver or walkways that have a concrete edging can be used to attach the turf. But where there is nothing, you need to replace it with a concrete curb, probably a four-inch wide curb 6 or 8 inches deep that allows you to tack turf to the curb.
Compacting the septic drain rock as well as the concrete screening is the essential part for this, and needs to be done very carefully and very meticulously. The rock should be moistened with water and tamped as a wet rock, and, ultimately, once the septic drain rock is tamped down, and you are going to lay this four and five inches of concrete screen on top, you do the same thing and tamp it down. It will be surface, but very pervious surface when you finished. You want to take extra care to make sure the details are done correctly on the curb edge, around any objects that might be left behind, trees and the like sometimes can be in the middle of your project. You want to cut around those trees and put some formed curb around them. And this part is very critical.
Once you finished placing the rock and tamping it down and doing all the prepping that needs to be done, the next step is roll out the carpet. And this is a very important step because the carpet needs to be rolled out, so the grain matches anywhere you seam it. You can't turn the carpet perpendicular to itself, and end up with a good seam. The company that worked for us did a great job. Coastal Synthetic Turf has some technicians that were able to make the seams completely invisible. So the carpet is laid out in its approximate location as the first step and trimmed to fit the location.
Any place where the seam is required with the dog's turf s really-really important to take a time, to make sure the edges match up perfectly. And then a piece of double-sided, large, white material is laid down, and nailed to the ground such that when the turf is applied to the top of the glue that would be laid on top of that will stick and create a perfectly nice seam.
Once the seam is placed together on top of the glue, carpet is actually nailed to the ground to ensure that it stays tight to the seam.
Once the seams are completely finished, large, heavy bags of sand are laid across a scene to make sure they are hold up together.
As always during this process there will be a lot of clipping, and trimming, and edging things perfect, and that's critical. The details make all the difference.
And the final stage is to apply sand in quantity to weigh carpet down, to keep it from fluffing around. And then it's brushed very aggressively with a broom to settle into the carpet.
The goal behind this entire process is to give yourself a fairly significant drainage system beneath the carpet so that when water is applied to it in a great quantity, it flows to the carpet and directly to the drain system.
June 10, 2015 | Artificial Grass For Dogs, Artificial Grass For Dogs, Dog Park, Dog Park, Drainage, Drainage, Dog Run, Dog Run, Dog Parks, Dog Parks, Hotel For Dogs, Dog Hospital, Dog Hospital, Hotel For Dogs, Dogs, Dogs, Fake Grass For Dogs, Fake Grass For Dogs, Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs
Can You Tell Real or Fake? 19 out of 20 people make a mistake...
Take a look at the picture above. Is the lawn real or fake? 19 out of 20 people make a mistake. Test yourself.
June 8, 2015 | Artificial Grass, Artificial Grass, Fake Grass, Fake Grass, Lawn Care, Lawn Care, Grass Carpet, Grass Carpet
California Drought Salvation - Global Syn-Turf at San Francisco's Fox News
As a drought becomes a major concern in California, the idea of replacing old lawns with artificial grass becomes more and more attractive to home and business owners. In the interview with Ken Wayne, Fox News, San Francisco, Jim Luthi, the homeowner of Newark, confessed he has bit the bullet and replace the sod with artificial turf: "Thirty something years of having droughts on and off. "
As every homeowner knows, a nice lawn takes a lot of work and water, and for some it doesn't worth it anymore.
"A few years ago I wouldn't have got this because I didn't like the artificial turf, but they've gotten so good now that I figured you know what, I'm going to do it. And I wanted to lessen the workload on myself a little too," Jim said.
Michael McGinnis, a landscaper, loaded his pick up with a giant roll of artificial turf at Global Syn-Turf's warehouse in Hayward, California. He says he is getting a lot more business installing turf.
"It's becoming extremely popular. People can't get enough of it I guess," he told KTVU.
The artificial grass industry is exploding. Global Syn-Turf, the largest artificial grass manufacturing company in America runs 45,000 square foot warehouse in Hayward. But that's only a small part of their business. They carry artificial turf products all around United States, including large metropolitan areas in Florida, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, New York and East Coast. Residents and landscaping businesses in Southern California pick up turf directly from GST's huge Los Angeles and San Diego warehouses. With increasing popularity of artificial turf in United States, most manufacturers run out of products quickly, but not Global Syn-Turf.
Dave Maronic, a company vice-president, told KTVU the business is booming. "We've doubled, tripled every month," he said. "Different engineered blades is the way of the world right now."
Global Syn-Turf produces more than 65 types of artificial grass of different colors, heights and weights. Engineered blades are designed for high performance, impeccable resilience, super-natural looking turf. It is not your old-fashioned, carpet looking Astroturf.
"It looks just like the real thing, feels like the real thing. It's environmentally safe for the kids, for the pets," said Maronic.
With the late concern about a crumb rubber linked to health issues and used by other artificial grass manufacturers, Dave Maronic made it clear that Global Syn-Turf has never been in favor with the use of old, used crumb tires, and always recommended natural infill solutions to their customers.
"It's environmentally safe for the kids, for the pets," said Maronic. "There's different padding to meet G-Max ratings for fields that you don't have to use that rubber. So it's not something we carry. Not something we sell," he said.
G-Max is the measurement of the shock attenuation of sports surfaces. The performance values of an artificial grass field can be understood as a reflection of the field's G-Max rating. With the G-Max below 120, the surface is too soft and may not provide enough energy return to the athlete, and leads to premature exhaustion. When G-Max rating is above 180, it creates an overly hard field, and will cause a performance hazard introducing the risk for severe injuries. The use of crumb rubber is not required to achieve perfect G-Max rating, and there are other ways to achieve a maximum level of protection to athletes.
This year, Global Syn-Turf installed a million square feet of turf at the Twin Creek Sports Complex in Sunnyvale, California.
You may think that installing artificial grass is a more expensive alternative to a natural sod, but in a long haul it pays for itself by reducing water bills and the maintenance costs. In California, major water agencies run rebate programs to help homeowners transition their lawns into the drought-tolerant landscape. According to professor of Earth sciences at UC Santa Cruz Lisa Sloan, who predicted a severe California drought back in 2004, "the actual situation in the next few decades could be even more dire that our study suggested." But even the scientists are wrong, for most homeowners swapping to artificial lawns makes more sense money and maintenance wise.
At least that's the thinking of Jim Luthi as he gazes at his pristine Newark yard. "I think it looks great. Looks fabulous. Looks like regular grass."
June 5, 2015 | Artificial Grass, Artificial Grass, Artificial Turf, Artificial Turf, Fake Grass, Fake Grass, Outdoor Carpet, Outdoor Carpet
If you are living in a hot and dry climate, searching for the appropriate desert plants can be one of your great choices. Even though you cannot grow hybrid flowers, yet there is plenty of ornamental grass, cacti, and succulents that will let you make a spectacular garden. Usually, these plants desert plants don't take a lot of care, obliging little water and general they are amazingly independent and hardy. At the end of the day, these sorts of plants are great workhorses that will flourish in parched or desert areas.
So for those who really love gardening, and searching for a garden design ideas. Listed below are some of the desert plants that you can use. These are as follows:
Sedums
Sedum is another type of plant that are perfect to utilize in any patio nursery or scene attempt. These are the top options for a desert garden, or wherever where water may be rare, the sun's beams are relentless and long, hot days are the standard.
Postman, Autumn Joy, and Matrona are every top varieties of Sedum that may survive in harsh locations and long stretches of the dry spell. Matrons and Autumn Joy have a thick, meaty green leaves that hoard accessible water for the plants to utilize later on. In the late spring and fall, the plants light up the desert scene with bright splashes of red and pink blossoms.
A cactus is a kind of plants that you may utilize for gardening in the desert since it is very dependable. Aside from that, there are varieties of cacti that are accessible for your gardening to choose from. There are colorful and small cacti while the others grow very large. By this, you may utilize an unusual or large shaped of the cactus plant in your garden ideas.
The Cast Iron Plant
This plant appears to be effectively unyielding and its leaves that are sword-shaped add attraction and speculate to garden design ideas.
The Desert Ornamental Grasses
Zebra grass, Buffalo grass, and Maiden grass are the excellent options for a desert garden. These grasses make little stipulates and might stand a diversity of unpleasant temperature, water and soil conditions. On the other hand, the airy spears of grass append an ethereal value to the garden design.
The Aloe Vera Plant
This plant is also famous in the garden, desert since they are not just capable to grow vigorously in dry climates, yet you may also utilize its leaf by breaking it off when you have rashes or sunburn to alleviate your skin with the clout that oozes away. Another good thing about this plant is that, even though you don't put a lot of water and proper maintenance of it, they can able for a long period in the heat and drought without being damaged.
If you are a gardener or if you want to be a gardener, you can keep in mind these desert plants that you can efficiently use for your garden desert ideas. Aside from that fact, that they require minimal care, you can also take advantage from its different usage not just for your garden but also for yourself.
June 2, 2015 | Backyard Ideas, Backyard Ideas, Landscape Ideas, Landscape Ideas, Landscape Design, Landscape Design, Desert Landscaping, Backyard Landscape Ideas, Backyard Landscape Ideas, Desert Landscape, Desert Landscape, Desert Landscaping
Global Syn-Turf Launches Premium Double S Blade Artificial Grass Technology
Global Syn-Turf, Inc. today announced the release of new line of artificial grass developed with one-of-the-kind Double S shape technology designed to create super-realistic look and higher resilience of synthetic turf surfaces. With this latest release, Global Syn-Turf further satisfies the industry's demand for a proven and reliable outdoor solution which is inherently low-maintenance and zero-irrigation; a synthetic grass which provides greater resiliency, realistic appearance and lasting durability.
The latest enhancements with Double S shape blade allow wider than regular, texturized look to the end-product. This update nests neatly with core value of the synthetic grass - the capacity to withstand severe weather changes, intense and constant use in combination with a soft, plush touch.
The new Double S fiber technology features multi-color emerald green and olive green blades with double thatching in brown and green for additional elaborate feel. First releases of Double S Blade line of artificial grass is available for distribution country-wide. Double S-72's pile height is 1 7/8 inches with 3/8 inches turf gauge and the face weight 72 oz.Double S-61 comes with the pile height of 1 3/4 inches and face weight 61 oz. The sturdy backbone of the fibers makes the grass stand up for a longer time and give the surface a remarkable resilience. This unique fiber blade significantly reduces glare to create super-realistic appearance.
May 29, 2015 | Artificial Grass, Artificial Grass, Artificial Turf, Artificial Turf, Fake Grass, Fake Grass, Synthetic Grass, Synthetic Grass, Synthetic Turf, Synthetic Turf, Artificial Grass Cost, Artificial Grass Cost, Outdoor Carpet, Outdoor Carpet, Turf Grass, Turf Grass, Lawn Services, Lawn Services
Do You Like To Mow The Lawn? Then You Better Think Twice Before You Do It
As many people waits for spring to come, many of the people also are beginning to mow their lawn. Hence, towards the end of the midyear a year ago, homeowner's gas lawn mower had been running rather drowsily. Much like snow blowers, people found that there are two ways you can go when acquiring a lawn mower.
You can either go for the old school system with the gas-controlled mower or you can go the most present day course and buy an electric lawn mower. Before you go to a store and purchase whichever you think sounds best, try to take a second to consider the disadvantages of whichever type of mower you choose. You might want to read this fact just before you headed your way.
An Electric mower comes into two different types: the cordless and the corded. Even if there are some advantages of having an electric mower, it cannot deny the fact that is can also be an advantage not just for you but also to your family and environment.
Hence, a gas lawn mower is an old type of lawn mower that uses gas. Therefore, it is not very effective when it comes to your finances and whatever type of mower you choose, the new lawn mower or the old type of mower they contain some disadvantage that can bring harm. Below you can find the disadvantages of a mower.
Lawn mowers are not environmentally friendly
Even the if you use a new type of lawn mower that does not produce smoke, there are still harmful chemical that are released once you use it. However when compared to an old lawn mower, the new lawn more produces less smoke.
Lawn care takes time or you need to pay maintenance fees
When damage occurs to your lawn mower, therefore you need to have it repaired. Lawn mower repair is not as cheap as you think it would be. Furthermore, once you bought a lawn mower, you must be prepared of its maintenance and having it maintain might take a lot of money. So if you want to have a lawn mower you got to be ready for this kind of event.
It damages water system
If your lawn mower runs to your run system, it can damage it and possibly completely destroy it. As a result, more of your money will be wasted for the water system repair and at the same time your lawn mower repair.
Riding a lawn mower
You can get injuries once you slip in the lawn mower. It is not perfectly safe for driving and especially it is not safe mowing the lawn with your children because accident might happen and that accident might be connected to your children.
In conclusion, whatever lawn mower you choose, it can only bring harm. Therefore, the only solution to your problem is having a synthetic lawn. A synthetic lawn doesn't need to be mowed. In addition, it can save you lots of money and your family is far from danger. Not only that, you can also contribute to the cleanliness of the environment because it doesn't need any lawn maintenance, lawn services, or fertilizers.
May 28, 2015 | Lawn Service, Lawn Service, Yard Maintenance, Lawn Mower, Lawn Mower, Riding Lawn Mowers, Riding Lawn Mowers, Lawn Mowers, Lawn Mowers, Fertilizer, Fertilizer, Lawn Equipment, Lawn Equipment, Lawncare, Lawncare, Lawn Treatment, Lawn Treatment, Yard Maintenance
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As We Know
Amaranth Borsuk & Andy Fitch
"whatever he writes , it will always be a vested discourse, in which the body will make its appearance (banality is discourse without body). In other words, what he writes proceeds from a corrected banality.
—Roland Barthes, “As We Know”
Roland Barthes introduces us to this remarkable book: a “corrected banality.” I can imagine no better spokesperson than the one who announced the death of the author, for As We Know is truly a work of “destroyed origin,” in which “all identity is lost.” Borsuk takes hold of Fitch’s notebooks, filled with their gorgeous banalities, and forges them into a graphic sprawl that belongs to no one of no gender. And yet, we read these confessional fragments with as much eagerness as we bring to the secrets of our best friend, or the stars, or our selves. This “I” who speaks, who can never be known, lets language spin its own brilliant tales. “I” or “we” are enraptured.
—Julie Carr
Part day book, part accounting ledger compounded of morning into evening, part calendar of days removed from the A train and S-bahn, Andy Fitch and Amaranth Borsuk have unwritten most of their days, and thus outlined their lives, sometimes by crossing out, sometimes by adding a little cinnamon and cardamom to tomorrow, sometimes by simply not saying, “it’s definitely going to rain.”
Amaranth Borsuk and Andy Fitch’s collaborative work, As We Know, is the daybook of a singularly personable fiction—a graduate student preoccupied by an unraveling dissertation, a Chaplinesque flaneur, a connoisseur of people and cats and “[s]emi-wild daisies looking breeze blown / as they wilt / and some / Floating / construction along water’s edge.” Re-imagining memoir as a palimpsest of erasures, As We Know invents a new kind of Personism that, remarkably, feels more human, more intimate, and more buoyantly alive precisely because of its artful subtractions.
—Srikanth Reddy
Amaranth Borsuk’s and Andy Fitch’s As We Know is beautifully set adrift within the lines of a diary from April to June, cross-wired (10 AM-as-hingepoint) in three locations: New York, Home, and Berlin. Deftly keen, the language here moves within the realm of sensorium and sensation, open lines and strikeouts: a “platform smells like caramel. / This split / in my crotch is now comforting…” This brilliant collaboration in which “The one who writes / doesn’t know any more than the other,” proceeds with subtle cultural critique: “The whole idea of being a hipster is just / showing yourself through signs.” Meditating in a world of Whole Foods, Mom, black flats, books, old tennis rackets, and discarded computers, the “one who writes” is compellingly reflective “(as an American, I could beat up at least 10 European Kids / I’ve never gotten / in a fight)” throughout this arrestingly honest and poignant book.
—Ronaldo Wilson
Selected by Julie Carr for the Subito Prize, As We Know (Boulder: Subito Press, 2014) attempts to invert the gendered history of editorial intervention as it has played out in the famous cases of figures such as Dorothy Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson.
At the same time, it repositions erasure procedures at the origins of (rather than in response to) a published text. Here Amaranth Borsuk has taken Andy Fitch’s summer diary and reshaped 60 passages (formatted as daily calendar notations in homage to Robert Creeley’s A Day Book, with its cover design by Robert Indiana) into a new type of collective confessional/constructivist collage that brings her own voice into the text and foregrounds the tensions of authorship.
Embracing Roland Barthes’ call for a “corrected banality,” this project presents the most unmediated-seeming idiom—the diurnal, journalistic record—as itself the consequence of methodical and/or whimsical extraction. Nonfiction subjectivity emerges as the product of, not just the source for, erasure poetics. As in Barthes’ own elided memoirs, the resulting work calls into question exactly who we are and what we know.
Available through Small Press Distribution and Amazon .
Selections have appeared or are forthcoming in:
Barzakh (which includes audio of us reading the work), Comma, Court Green, Dusie, Evening Will Come, Heavy Feather Review‘s “Vacancies” issue (available for pre-order), MAKE Literary Magazine‘s “Misfits” issue, Matter, Ocean State Review, Pageboy, Sierra Nevada Review, and Seneca Review‘s “Beyond Category” issue.
Amanda Ngoho Reavey reviews AWK in Galatea Resurrects #24 (May, 2015).
Bryce Bullins reviews AWK at Sierra Nevada Review (April, 2015).
Genevieve Kaplan writes about AWK on her erasure and book arts blog, The Forest and the Trees.
Gina Myers reviews AWK for Fanzine (March, 2015).
Bill Carty reviews AWK for Seattle City Arts (March, 2015).
Seth Abramson writes up AWK for Huffington Post (January, 2015)
AWK reviewed in Publishers Weekly (December, 2014)
Amanda Ngoho Reavey shares part of the lovely introduction she gave us when we performed in Milwaukee in December at her website, Space Inside Borderline
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October 14th-Action in Philippines novices in China
Agusan del Norte, Philippines
The better of two Asian shows comes from the Philippines, where we get two national title fights and the chance to see the ring return of Orlie Silvestre, who impressed us earlier this year.
One of the title bouts will see the once beaten Genisis Libranza (16-1, 10) defending the GAB Flyweight title against against the hard matched Renz Rosia (14-6-1, 7). On paper this looks like a mismatch in favour of the champion but the reality is that this should be very competitive. Libranza has been matched much easier than Rosia. Both have lost to Moruti Mthalane but Rosia has also come up short against the likes of Giemel Magramo, Makazole Tete and Kongfah CP Freshmart, all of whom are above the level of Libranza's best wins.
Another title bout on this show will see the hard hitting Jayar Inson (17-1, 11) take on the battle worn Allan Tanada (15-7-3, 7), in what will be Inson's first defense of the GAB Welterweigth title. The 27 year old Inson impressed us in 2016, when he demolished Ryota Yada in 7 rounds, and despite losing to Thulani Mbenge after that fight, he is on a good run with a notable win over Terry Tzouramanis last time out. The 26 year old Tanada will be fighting for the first time in over a year and is 2-5 in the last 4 years, a long way removed from the fighter who upset Rikiya Fukuhara for the OPBF Super Featherweight title in 2010. Despite being 26 Tanada might be the oldest 26 year old in the sport, and is likely to be under-sized here against the powerful Inson.
As mentioned we'll also see Orlie Silvestre (11-4-1, 7) on this card, as he takes on Indonesian visitor Hengky Baransano (13-12, 5). We were really impressed by Silvestre last time out, when he pushed Reiya Konishi all the way, and can't see anything but a win for Silvestre here. Baransano has been stopped in 10 of his 12 losses and we expect to see him being taken out again here.
In China there's a small show, which is unlikely to get too much attention that's despite the fact it does feature some notable talent on it.
Included on the show with be China's Junjun He (1-0), who takes on Tanzania's Sunday Kiwale (13-10-4, 7). On paper He looks to be the under-dog but he was a very good amateur, with WSB experience, and looked impressive on his professional debut this past September. Kiwale on the other hand is limited, and his only win outside of Tanzania saw him coming in over 4lbs over-weight.
Another Chinese prospect on this card is Lanhai Xiao (1-0, 1), who also debuted in September. Xiao will be up against Thai foe Worawatchai Boonjan (12-17-1, 11). The Chinese fighter is a 23 who looked excellent on his debut in September, but was up against a fellow novice. In this fighter he's up against a fighter with plenty of experience, but a man who has been stopped 12 times in his career, and 4 times this year! We have to worry about Boonjan's health going forward given how frequently he is being stopped.
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SHILLONG, Oct 10 - Three Nigerian nationals have been arrested for illegally crossing over from Bangladesh in West Jaintia Hills district, the police said today.
Four Indians, who facilitated their unauthorised entry, were also held, they said.
The arrest came a month after 17 African nationals were nabbed in the neighbouring East Jaintia Hills district for the same offence, they said.
Acting on inputs that a few Nigerians have landed in Bangladesh and were en route to the international border, a police team was alerted and they were arrested from Pdengshakap village close to the Indo-Bangladesh border in the wee hours of Thursday, district SP Lakador Syiem said.
The Nigerians identified as Chukwuma Celestine Okwuwa (34), Lucky Osas Enebi (36) and Ndubuisi Moses Chime (28) were apprehended from an SUV and later arrested for travelling without valid papers.
Four of their accomplices from the district have also been arrested on charges of facilitating their illegal entry, the SP said.
They were identified as Ronaldo Syndai (21), Ni Pohleng (20), Kliar Mon Pohthmi (18) and Rihok Chyrmang (28) of Syndai village, the SP added.
The SP said that during preliminary inquiry, the arrested foreigners said they had left Lagos (Nigeria) on October 6 and reached Istanbul (Turkey) the next day, from where they travelled on and reached Dhaka on the October 8 morning.
On their flight from Istanbul, they met one fellow Nigerian and came together up to Dhaka, the SP said.
On reaching Dhaka, the man disappeared, while the three Nigerians were guided to the border by one Bangladeshi.
The three crossed through a swampy area on the border and were later provided a vehicle, which was intercepted at Pdengshakap village, after travelling about 45 minutes from the riverside.
The police are investigating the modus operandi and the likelihood of a human trafficking ring even as the arrested persons told the police they wanted to start garment exports in India. They were produced before a local court at Jowai in the district during the day. � PTI
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Griffey Jr. Leads The 2016 Hall Of Fame List
(Photo: TheBaseballJournalist.com)
(Photo: BostonGlobe.com)
He's the greatest hitter of all time, with the greatest swing off all time, and no one is going to convince me otherwise. The baseball writers have been voting and Wednesday we find out who will join the greatest of all time in Cooperstown, and like much of his career, Ken Griffey Jr. is the headline. It was more than 25 years ago that Griffey made his debut with Seattle in 1989. His 22 year career included over 2,600 games, 2,700 hits and most impressively 630 home runs (6th all-time).
Even with names like Bonds, McGwire and Clemens, the big story for this years nominees is Ken Griffey Jr. Excluding the Mariners slugger, the names above have all been tied, in some way or another, to performance enhancing drugs. There are certain big names mentioned when discussing steroids, but none bigger than Bonds, Clemens and McGwire.
Although you hear about performance enhancing drugs throughout all sports, there is no argument that it has been most prominent in baseball over the last 25 years. For a few members of the BBWAA (Baseball Writers Association of America) the term steroids is just a shorter way of saying "He's not getting my vote". For these people, steroids is a mortal sin and as far as they're concerned, their career doesn't count. For me, this is not the case.
Although I'm not a pro-steroid, I think its ridiculous to exclude some of the greatest players we've been lucky enough to watch play, solely based on PEDs. A lot of people would like to just forget that baseball from the late 1980's to the early 2000's didn't exist, and those are probably the same people who believe in "safe spaces." Some will argue that McGwire, Bonds or Clemens wouldn't be good without steroids; another ridiculous piece of logical thinking. With that thought process, I could start taking steroids right now and hit 500 homeruns in the MLB, which may or may not have crossed my mind once or twice. However, this simply isn't the case. These guys were elite athletes before the thought of steroids ever entered their minds, not just some John Doe on a La-Z-Boy with Cheetos crumbs in his belly button.
While those particular players get my vote, there are other great players involved in the steroid controversy that do not belong in Cooperstown. The big hitters throughout the 90's and early 2000's were McGwire, Bonds and Sosa, however, I'm keeping Sosa off my list of Hall of Fame hitters. Yes, he was another great hitter throughout that era, but steroids weren't his only controversy. In 2003, Sosa broke his bat and revealed he was using a corked bat, and was suspended 8 games. He claimed it was meant to be used in batting practice only, but you lose the benefit of the doubt when you're already under suspicion of cheating. This was the nail in the coffin for me, even as a teenager who loved watching home runs, Sosa had ruined his legacy forever in my eyes.
A very interesting name on the list is shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, whom I assume needs no introduction among Red Sox fans. Aside from Pedro Martinez and Mo Vaughn, there was no Red Sox player more fun to watch during the 90's than Nomar. From the batting glove ritual, to the flip-up sunglasses and sidearm throw, Nomar is no doubt one of the most famous Sox players in the last 25 years. However, as disappointing as it is, I don't believe it will be enough to get him into the Hall of Fame. A main reason for this is because he was overshadowed by his counterpart wearing pinstripes in New York, who might be the greatest shortstop of all time. Nomar's career only lasted 14 years, while Jeter played 6 years longer, amassing almost 2,000 more hits. I believe it's only a matter of time before he is enshrined in the Red Sox Hall of fame, however, I think Red Sox fans will have to settle for only one Hall of Fame induction.
With time winding down for the class of 2016, the only player who seems to be a shoo-in is Ken Griffey Jr., and my 15 year old self could not be more excited. 75% of the voting is needed for an induction, and I have a hard time believing he gets anything less than 90% of the votes. Along with the rest of the baseball world, I am very interested to see what happens with the Mark McGwires of the list. This year provides a very difficult decision for those who are voting, especially if you are on the fence about the steroid-linked players. While the teenager in me would love to vote for Nomar and Gary Sheffield, the mid-20's me knows they were just short of belonging with the best of the best.
My Picks for the 2016 Hall of Fame
⬜Garrett Anderson ⬜Mike Lowell
⬜Brad Ausmus ✔Edgar Martinez
✔Jeff Bagwell ⬜Fred McGriff
✔Barry Bonds ✔Mark McGwire
⬜Luis Castillo ✔Mike Mussina
✔Roger Clemens ✔Mike Piazza
⬜David Eckstein ✔Tim Raines
⬜Jim Edmonds ✔Curt Schilling
⬜Nomar Garciaparra ⬜Gary Sheffield
⬜Troy Glaus ⬜Lee Smith
✔Ken Griffey Jr. ⬜Sammy Sosa
⬜Mark Grudzielanek ⬜Mike Sweeney
⬜Mike Hampton ⬜Alan Trammel
⬜Trevor Hoffman ⬜Billy Wagner
⬜Jason Kendall ⬜Larry Walker
⬜Jeff Kent ⬜Randy Winn
Also, free hug to whoever can tell me what the hell happened to Sammy Sosa, and why he hasn't appeared in the Walking Dead yet.
(Photo: Reddit.com)
By Matt Watts
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Great read! Couldn't agree more.
Photos used under Creative Commons from tsyp9, Keith Allison
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Pass The Ghost Story
Threads That Never End They go on and on my friend.
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psychoDiablo
Thx for the memories
Re: Pass The Ghost Story
It was just a dream. Desmound, Chad, Billy, Britney, and Valerie were all in the same tent as Shaniqua. Maybe that blow to her head by the laptop had stunned her long enough to be knocked out and dream all of this.
Her eyes looked around. The tent was cool, Britney had her hair, Billy had his pants. Something didn't feel right to Shaniqua though. She examined her eyes around the tent more. The flashlights worked. Not a dull battery in the place. She remembered something about a green neon flash from her dreams. She just couldn't remember if that was a dream or not. Nothing came to mind.
"I'm hungry." She blurted out, and with that realizing just how hungry she was.
"Why there's a cold-mocha waiting for you in our fridge. Take it, it's yours. :)"
Shaniqua, at that moment, knew she was dreaming or in the middle of something. They had no fridge.
I wouldn't say I'm psycho only because I'm able to handle it.
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To chill is to be chillin.
Chillin is cooperating with your surroundings, unknowing'st of what everything is capable of; and all the while, as it happens and after, to accept without any thought of good or bad, but mainly, just enjoying rather deeply, the moment you had to sit and think. (Not thinking.)
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Orange you glad she's not a banana?
Despite her bewilderment, Shaniqua took a sip of the Double-Blended Mint Mocha Chip Frappuccino from the tent's inexplicable fridge.
"Oooooooo girrrrrrrllllllll, this is good!"
She closed her eyes and savored the iced delight, and when she opened them, she was shin-deep in what appeared to be a shopping mall fountain.
"Ugh! Why did I come in here after you?!" Shaniqua heard Chad screaming from the upper level.
"'Cause I've got magical hair!" Britney replied with abrasive femininity.
Shaniqua trudged towards them. Desmond was yet nowhere in sight.
As Pseudo-Billy began pulling on Billy's pants with zombie-like deftness, they sighed once more.
"Oh well. I suppose this is better than being on the same rack as those prudish capris in the Gap. Bloody muffin... (muttering)"
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Desmond thought of the Top Worst Three Moments of His Life:
1. The morning after a party that involved Billy giving him some acid, and he woke up, naked, in a strange bed with a traffic cone on his head and a piece of bacon on his shoulder.
2. When he freaked out at his 5th birthday party after the clown had a severe gusher of a nosebleed.
3. When the brakes on his car gave out, and he drove into the Blockbuster Video store to return his movies.
He tried to figure out where this moment ranked: spinning around a Starbucks office, with a tiny demon on his back, biting into his shoulder.
As he spun in the middle of the room, he saw flashes of what happened to Shaniqua: she had a dazed look, she opened the floor fridge, she drank something--"Oooooooo girrrrrrrllllllll"--and then she vanished.
Des could feel blood running down his arm from the demon's teeth. The best he could do was to smack it on the head with a clipboard and twirl around.
Then, Billy walked up to the manager's door, "Hey, boss, I'm about to start my shift...Um, a piggy-back merry-go-round? Me next, Des?"
Billy's obliviousness so enraged Des that in one fluid movement, he grabbed the demon, flipped him over his shoulder and drop-kicked him into the fridge. As Des pushed a filing cabinet over to block the fridge door, Billy asked, "So, fifteen minute break, then?"
Des needed to snap Billy out of it. "Billy, I need to wake you and Valerie up. Are you ready for the pimp hand?"
"Pimp--what?"
"Well, it's better than hot coffee on your jollies and a pen in your leg."
And, with that, Des smacked Billy in the face.
"I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel."
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"Tee-hee." Britney Spears giggled. "Hee hee hee." She kept blowing her bangs up and then let them fall slowly back into her face, just to blow them up again. She was having the time of her life. She was sitting, playing on a bench when Chad came stumbling out of an escalator.
"Fuckin a..." He looked down as if something tried to trip him, to play off the fact he almost face planted himself. He looked at Britney and her cheery oblivious to the world smile and grabbed her by the wrist.
"OMG, Hey! Don't be so rude Chaddy...Chaddy baby. tee hee."
"Don't call me Chaddy. And dont call me baby."
"You're Mr. Chaddy the grouchy." Britney pouted.
"Now isn't the fucking time Brit. We have to get out of here. Where the hell is the exit?"
"Nooooo!" Britney pulled her wrist away and started to back away from Chaddy. "I don't wanna go! How could you go when there's all this shopping to do!?" She stamped her foot. Then her eyes lit up "Ooo! A bunny!" and she ran right past Chad. He turned around and saw a little pet shop. One of the animals must have gotten free, because there went Britney, running across to the other side. He started in her direction when a familiar voice called to him.
He listened to hear where it was coming from. A tv in the window caught his eye. It was Shaniqua. She was calling out to Chad.
"Chad! Chad!! You have to find us. We're in this mall. Billy and Des...something is happening to them! Chad!"
"Shaniqua? Hey how did you get on tv? Damn I recognize those big lips of yours anywhere, but tv really does add some weight. Are your lips that big, been awhile since I've seen em.." He started day dreaming, reminiscing.
"Chad, shut up, listen to me. I don't have much time. Find us. You have to!"
"I'm trying to find everyone Shan. Fuckin Britney is a pain in my ass....Speaking of, I have to find her ass, she ran off on me again."
"Forget Britney Spears! You have to find us." Then Shaniqua turned around, someone was trying to get into the room she was in. Her face turned to panic. "Please Chad!!!!"
Chad could see in the background that Shaniqua was serious. "Well, where are you? What the fuck?" He looked at the tv, his hands banged the window.
"Chad... Ahh!!" Just then some men broke into her room and surrounded her. Chad could hear the commotion.
"You! What are you doing in here?! This place is off limits!"
"I thought it was the employee break room! I'm sorry!" Shaniqua turned back to the monitor. Chad could see she was terrified. The men grabbed her and took her off. She struggled and then the tv went blank.
Chad thought to himself. "Employee break room...?" He looked around the stores and every window held a small Now Hiring sign.
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"Britney, would you put your Bunny-ophilia aside for one second? Did you see what just happened to Shaniqua?!" Chad screamed, eyes crazed.
"What?" She replied in the most prissily vapid voice imaginable, stroking the trembling bunny and adjusting her alleged hair, "why are you so mad and stuff, Chaddy Waddy?"
Chad snorted involuntarily with rage, pointing furiously over the balcony, "Shaniqua. She was walking towards that escalator down there. A Barista then tackled her, forcing what looked like a rag soaked in coffee over her mouth--and they both vanished! Then we saw her on the T.V. freaking out and getting surrounded in the 'employee break room.' Remember?"
"Oh." Britney Spears squinted intensely, "wait, what?"
Chad charged away.
"Like, wow! What a drama queen!" Britney cantered daintily after him, bunny in hand.
Billy's eyes teared and he rubbed where Des had "pimp-handed" him, "geez, man, was that really necessary?"
"Yes," Des said, compressing a wad of paper towels on his no-doubt-going-to-get-infected shoulder, "how do you...feel?"
"Well, I was feeling fine until you smacked me across the face!"
Muffled objections came out of the mini-fridge.
"Okay. Looks like you're back to 'normal.' Don't drink anything." Des exited the office, and found Valerie serving a campy-looking, middle-aged couple two Frappucinos.
"Please enjoy your bev-er-a-ges!" Valerie grinned robotically, as the couple literally disappeared.
Des and Billy looked at each other.
"I'll smack her," Billy offered too quickly.
"No. Um." Des scanned the area for a suitably-sized, non-deadly object, "here."
"How can I help y--?" Valerie wrenched as the bag of French Roast struck the side of her face.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Would it be impertinent of me to ask where you're going?" Billy's pants asked Pseudo-Billy as they trudged deeper and deeper into the woods.
"Brrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnn nnnnnnnnssssssssssssssssss," Pseudo-Billy wished.
"I guess that answers my question."
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"This seems like it would get us to the back rooms, right?" Chad asked none other than Britney. "Huh?"
"This door. Do you know what a door is?" Chad placed a hand on his head. He paused to collect his thoughts.
"This door, do you know where it goes?"
"Ummmm....No!" Britney smiled enjoying this 20 questions game.
"This door leads to a hall way. A hall way leads to the break rooms. The break rooms lead to..." He waited for Brit's answer...
"Employee discount shopping!!! Weeee!!" Britney jumped up and down laughing excitedly.
"Goddamnitwoman,makemejustwannakillmyself." Chad muttered under his breath.
"What was that Mr. Grouchy-Wouchy Chaddy?"
"I said don't call me that name!" Chad yelled at her. Britney's smiled turned to a frown and she started to cry.
"Just what I need!" Chad looked to curse the sky. Then he saw the ceiling. He had an idea. He looked back at Britney with a smile. "Let's go chick!" They snuck themselves down the hallway to the break rooms.
The elderly couple sat astonished and didn't stop drinking their mochas as the boy's clubbed Valerie over the head. Des grabbed her arms, Billy her legs. The boys carried her behind the register to the back door. Des kicked it open and they ran down as fast as they could down the corridor.
"Right turn coming up! RIGHT TURN RIGHT TURN!" Des ordered. As they rounded the corner they slammed into the Manager.
"What are you boys doing? You're supposed to be up front waiting the customers! Billy...I'm ashamed of you."
"I'm sorry sir. I won't do it again." Billy responded, freaking out Des.
"Fuck that Billy! We quit!" Des yelled and struck the Manager in the temple. The Manager fell to his knees, his face slamming against the concrete wall.
"Get her legs! We're outta here!" The boys carried Valerie and ran down the hallway, coming up to another corner.
Slam! Des crashed right into Chad. Britney followed Chad and leaped over him landing on unconscious Valerie. Billy tripped all over Valerie and landed on top of the dog pile.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!" They all yelled together.
"Chad!" "Desmound!" "Britney Spears!" "Wow great to see you guys!! What happened to Val?"
"No time to explain. We gotta get outta here!" Des said. "The Manager of this joint is behind us. Where's the exit?"
"Dude! I was hoping you knew....Anyway, I thought of how to get out. It's our only chance, but let's find the roof." Chad said aloud. The other's nurtured Valerie, hoping she'd wake back up. No use. They quietly snuck around the hallways and eventually find a flight of stairs. Desmound and Billy carrying Valerie started up the stairs. Britney carrying her rabbit followed. Chad stood at the door halfway in.
"Chad, let's go man!" Des cracked.
"Dude, they still have Shaniqua. I saw her in one the back rooms. She said the employee break room, something."
Des stopped in his tracks. Not his girl! No, they could have Britney or anyone else, but not his girl. He dropped Valerie, who coincidently conked her head on the stairs and woke back up.
"Owww...heeeeyy guyss..." Valerie said slowly.
"Chad help Valerie, I'm going back after Shaniqua." Des stormed his way to the door. He stood in front of Chad. They looked at each other for approval.
"If I'm not back in 5 minutes....You know what to do." Before Desmound turned away, Britney ran up to him and gave him her rabbit. "I'll miss you Mr. Nibbles, you nibbler. hee hee."
Everyone ran up the stairs, but Desmound headed back into the hallways.
As he ran down the hallway to save his girl, Des imagined triumphant, pounding music in the background to herald his heroism. But then he realized that the scene would be diminished a bit by his carrying a fluffy bunny named Mr. Nibbles.
Des seemed to be in a maze of hallways, with some that went five feet and stopped and others that stretched on forever. He opened as many doors as he could. Some opened into very dull, frustratingly-free-of-sharp-objects rooms. Others opened into a brick wall, or blank space, or above the raging river they swept down earlier, or on top of a tree in the woods, and other strange places.
Acting on instinct, he put down the bunny.
"Mr. Nibbles, you're from around here, aren't you? Maybe you know your way around an unpredictable place like this."
Mr. Nibbles bounded into action, leading Des through twisting hallways with certainty and whisker-twitching determination.
"Yes, Mr. Nibbles! Yes!"
The bunny stopped at a door. Des took a breath and opened it.
A room full of carrots.
"Mr. Nibbles, you suck."
"Brrrrraaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnsssss ssssssssss," came a slurred voice behind him.
"Wha-?"
Pseudo-Billy grabbed Des and threw him through a wall.
The wall was surprised, to say the least.
Des landed on a very comfortable couch. Dusting some of the wall off, Des saw Pseudo-Billy distracted by Mr. Nibbles gnawing at his ankle. Des looked around the room and was shocked to see a wall full of TV monitors and a control board of dials. He saw a video camera. This must have been where Shaniqua broadcasted her message to Chad!
He went over to the board and saw dials that went to "11" and had names: "undead," "doppleganger," "smelly time tunnel," "Starbucks," "rivers," "bridges" on and on. The monitors showed places in the mall and the places they'd been throughout this long night.
He turned "doppleganger" to zero, and then looked to see the effect on Pseudo-Billy...whose face became un-deformed--puffed back out as if it just needed some air--and then had the mental agility to kick Mr. Nibbles across the room.
"Ohbloodyhellcrapsticks," Des muttered and then ran out another door.
With Pseudo-Billy on his heels, Des charged down another hallway, bursting through double doors. Ahead of him, he saw two men--with their backs to him--pushing Shaniqua down the hallway. Unable to contain his excitement, he botched the element of surprise by bellowing, "Shaniqua, I'm here to rescue you!"
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Desmound freezes! He thinks to himself, "DID I REALLY JUST SAY THAT OUT LOUD!?!?!"
The whole moment took a while to forward itself. As soon as Des blurted that out, the whole moment flashed before his eyes, so he knew what he was already going to do to get out of this.
Des stood still anticipating the 2 men in black robes to turn around to face him. He remembered that Pseudo-Billy was running after him, but didnt know just how far behind him he was.
Shaniqua turned around when she heard him rank the ambush. She had a rag tied around her mouth and her hands tied behind her back. The man on the right pushed her one extra time before dealing with Des. Des backed up a step, hoping he wasn't too far back that he was standing in the door way. The two men in black robes both reached out their arms to grab Desmound, but at the right time, Desmound dropped to the floor and leaped forward between the two men. At the same time the two men lunged for Desmound, Pseudo-Billy came charging in through the doors. The doors flew open, crashing right onto each of the men's heads. Pseudo-Billy then crashed into the men and fell down, becoming confused.
Desmound jumped to his feet. He ran over to Shaniqua. He grabbed her and held her close. The smell of her hair made him think back to the times with her. The being chased by Undead and floating down river, to a walk in the woods to a romantic starlit night. He held her so tight, she was trying to speak but her moans and groans were muffled.
"Baby, I came back for you! I had to... You're my love." His eyes watered up and Shaniqua just wiggled.
"I wont ever let you leave my side again, baby." He gave her a kiss on the cheek, then realized she was tied up. He set her mouth free.
"Desmound, will you untie me already. Get us the hell outta here!"
Pseudo-Billy got up, the 2 men in black robes lie dead on the floor. Pseudo-Billy enraged now, let out a roar. His muscles bulged and his heart rate sped up. He fixated his eyeballs on the two, who were at this point, trembling in fear.
"...D-D-Des...why aren't we running away...?" Shaniqua muttered through her clenched jaw.
Des gulped, "Because Shan...The exit is behind him..."
Just then Pseudo-Billy moved at them. Shaniqua screamed and ducked behind Desmound. Desmound stood his ground until Pseudo-Billy was upon him. Just as Pseudo-Billy was gonna drop his fist through Desmound's face, a neuron short-circuited in it's brain and a voice came over a loud speaker.
"No no, don't do that."
Pseudo-Billy flinched his head to regain his senses. Fixated again on the two stuck in fear. Again as it raised it's fists, it dropped back, this time into a severe seizure.
Des and Shan were astonished. They heard some commotion over the loud speaker. Some ill shrieks of bad mic tuning and a couple people talking at once.
"...I wanna talk..." "No...get away...I'm doing it." Sounds of pushing, and objects falling are heard. Des and Shaniqua looked at each other.
"Just give it to her, please!..." "There's no time for this!......fine, fine, here..."
A couple mic taps, "Uhh, hello?" It was Britney.
"Heeeeeey guys! Like Oh my god, i'm totally on the radio!...Hey does my voice always sound that high pitched? So not cool..."
"Britney!...." There was struggle for the mic.
"For fucks sake, this girl is pissing me off....Yo it's Chad. We found a cool device to control the fake Billy. Anyway, I think you two need to leave now. Head back the way you came. We've got killer tech here. Monster survelliance. We were about to jam, and we heard Desmound. Ha! Nice going pal. Glad you got your girl back...Over."
Desmound's face turned red as the gang probably heard him declare his love. They walked over the dead bodies and up the stairs to the rest of the gang.
"Hey, Shan, can I ask you a question?" Desmond said to Shaniqua between breaths as they jaunted up the stairs.
"Other than that one, you mean?"
"Yeah...ummm..." Desmond's voice cracked, "do I impress you?"
Shaniqua almost dispelled all the air left in her lungs in a sputter of laughter; she quickly silenced herself.
Des scowled.
"Of course you do." Shaniqua replied, smiling.
"Um. Okay...?"
"Wow, you don't have to be a--"
"No, sorry. D-d-do you see that?"
A black, wispy, human-sized figure hovered between them and the door to the room where the others waited.
Shaniqua's eyes teared fearfully.
In one, abrupt motion, it whooshed towards them, then slowly undulated up and down about a picnic table's length away. It spread out its arms suddenly and awkwardly, as if it just missed its cue. Its coal-colored, ragged form stood in stark contrast to the brightly illuminated, neat hallway. Its eyes glowed green.
"What the heck? Sorry, guys," Chad said over the intercom, "I don't know where that came from. I don't know how to stop it, or, um, control it."
"Well, what is it?" Desmond yelled.
"Des, it looks like a ghost," Shaniqua guessed.
It lunged. Des tried jumping between it and Shaniqua, but it soared right through them both, then through a wall.
"Pshaaa! Stupid ghost!" Desmond guffawed.
"Des, let's go!" Shaniqua grabbed his arm.
"Youuuuuuuuuuu'''''''''''''''''''''rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrreeeeeeeeeeee noooooooooooooooooootttttttttttt goinganywhereeeee!" Came a raspy voice from behind.
Desmond almost didn't care enough to look back.
The ghoul floated back towards them, seemingly trying too hard to look menacing.
Des could not bring himself to feel afraid of it, despite its dreary and otherworldly appearance. Shaniqua still clutched Des' arm.
"Dooooooooo yoooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuu knnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn--?"
"Okay, seriously. Stop stretching out all your words," Des barked.
"Okay, fine," the thing mumbled, "Do you know who I am, boy?"
Des thought of many snarky responses.
"Weeeeeeeell...?"
"No,whoareyouI'msocurious," Des blurted perfunctorily. He just wanted to get out of this bizarro place.
"Is that a rabbit?" Shaniqua frowned in confusion, finding it strangely easy now to get distracted.
"Anyway," Des sighed, "is there a point to any of this?"
"YES! IF YOU WOULD JUST ALLOW ME TO FINISH, MORTAL!" The ghost exploded, completely unprofessionally. It flapped its tattered-rag arms in a small tantrum.
"I'm sorry, but you're kind of a lame ghost," Des said.
"I, my boy, am the creator of this place. My name is Salvador The Quasi-Flatulent, but, please, call me Sal. I am The Great And Mystical Overlord of the Darkened Woods."
Des splutter-laughed.
"...The Inventor of the Interdimensional Hall," its voice lowered into a mutter, "...sponsored by Starbucks."
"Wait, what was that last part?" Shaniqua raised her eyebrows.
"Look, we just want to leave. This has all been very 'mystical' and all, but we just wanted to go on a frickin' camping trip," explained Des, "and you ruined it by sucking us into your little fantasy world."
"Ruined?" The ghost scoffed, "RUINED?! Are you naive, boy?"
"Stop calling me 'boy.' I have a name. It's Desmond, or Des, if you like."
"Sorry."
Shan casually started walking towards the control room. Des did a double-take, then strolled after her.
"THAT'S IT! YOU DAAAAAAAAAARRRRRREE IGNORE SALVADOR THE QUASI-FLATULENT?!"
They kept strolling, hand in hand, and nodded to each other with a smirk.
It clenched its fists and the hall went completely dark.
Billy's Pants, still on Pseudo-Billy, empathized with the wall's plight.
"Believe you me," it said, "things will only get worse."
The rest of the group stood in the now dark control room, panicked.
It was pitch black. Desmound could see the control room in his mind.
"I know where to go. Here, grab my hand Shan.....That's not my hand..." Des laughed. Shaniqua quickly let go. "You can still hold on to me Shan." He smiled in the darkness.
"You pig!" Desmound laughed some more and Shaniqua punched him in the arm. They continued walking down the hall in the dark.
"Uhh...Hey! You guys still there? Everything is black, can't see a thing. I hope you guys make it back here. We'll be waiting." Chad told his friends.
"Yeah guys, hurry up! I so want to get out of this creepy place. I need to wash my magical hair, tee hee." Britney chimed in.
"Damn it Brit, your hair isn't magical!" The intercom was shut off.
"Looks like we're on our own Shan...are you afraid?" Asked Des.
"A little bit. At least I have you with me, Desmound." Finally some assurance for Des that Shan really liked him. It made it him braver. He took up stride and walked with his chest out into darkness.
"The door should be around here somewhere. Feel around for the knob." Desmound said. "Ohh, not that knob, Shan."
"I thought you said I could hold on to you..." Shaniqua said being playful.
"Wow, right now..? We...mmm...We should get out of here first...shouldn't we?"
Shaniqua started kissing him, "You know I am glad you came back for me. I don't know what those guys would have done to me. This whole situation kinda has me seeing you in a new light, Des. You're really brave for me." She kissed his neck and they stood there in the dark.
"Baby, we have to get out of here. What if that ghost thing launches a fireball at us. I don't have a shield to block it."
"Shhh, big boy." Shaniqua silenced him by putting her finger against his lips.
Chad, Billy, Valerie, and Britney all huddled together.
"Okay, follow me and stay close." Chad commanded.
"Yes sir! hee hee." Britney said jumping up and down. "This is fun lol."
Chad not letting his aggravation get to him, slowly crept along the wall to where the ladder to the roof was.
"Alright up the steps everyone." He let everyone go first.
"All of you go up, I'll wait here for Des and Shan."
Billy unlocked the latch and climbed up on the roof. He helped the girls up and looked back down to Chad.
"Don't take too long Chaddy."
"Don't call me that. Lock up that latch. I'll knock when we're ready."
Chad stood there in the dark. He heard moaning close by. He creeped along the wall, getting closer to it. He called out.
"Sh-Shan? Des..?"
The moaning became muffled and Chad could make out there were two people. He was curious now. He moved closer and suddenly felt the hairs stand on the back of his neck. His mind scared him and he ran back to the ladder and knocked on the latch for Billy to open it. No one did and Chad was losing his grip, freaking out in the blackness.
"Chad!" Desmound spoke out loud at the same time Billy opened the latch.
"AHH!" Chad screamed.
"Ahhhh!!" Shaniqua screamed.
Billy screamed down at them, "HEY!"
Desmound was startled, "What the fuck?!"
Billy started laughing. "What are you fools doing? Hurry the hell up here. Britney is driving me nuts!"
Chad laughed at that and asked Des what took them so long. They both just smiled smugly and held each other close.
"Oh god, hurry up you lovebirds."
Once up, everyone could see the sky again. It was a cool, crisp, clear night.
Everyone started walking to the escape ladder except Billy. They looked back at him and he was smiling.
"Come on you guys...Look at where we are. It's beautiful out here. You know what this calls for..." He smiled and reached into his shirt's front pocket. He pulled out a fat spliff. "We are getting high..." He patted his pockets down and forgot he didnt have his regular pants on, but his man-skirt the Manager gave to him.
"Please tell me one of you has a lite..." Billy asked hopeful.
Everyone shook their head.
"I have a lite for you boy! Hahaha." It was the black ghost and he launched a fireball at the group.
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A fireball roared toward the group. Salvador The Quasi-Flatulent laughed a deep, evil laugh, and then farted--but only a little, and it sounded like a bugle.
The group standing near the escape ladder ran and rolled to the side in different directions. Billy, standing closest to Sal, saw the fireball coming straight at his face. He staggered backwards as the flame tickled his nose--and lit his spliff, which he inhaled deeply from in his sheer terror--and sent him right over the roof's edge.
"Billy!" Desmond yelled.
"AHHHHHHHHH!" Valerie concurred.
When it couldn't seem to get any worse, the clouds above crackled with an angry roar. Waiting for an onslaught of rain and lightning, the group and Sal were surprised to see beachballs falling from the sky.
Valerie laughed in relief and stood up to catch the first one--and the rest of the group screamed as it smashed onto her face, with blood erupting from her nose, and she fell to the ground unconscious. The group dodged the other beachballs, which struck the ground with loud, shaking "thuds" and then bounced again.
And then it rained ketchup.
"What? What the...? This doesn't..." As he dodged the heavy beachballs, Chad was mystified and angry at how these nonsense events were happening.
Britney, in a rare moment of clarity, had a vivid flashback to the control room before the lights went out. When everyone else was discussing boring-blah-blah-escape-blahs, she was writing a song about "knobby knob ka-bob love," and "mixing" it with the control panel knobs. She *might* have sent the world haywire.
"Who knows, Chaddy? Maybe it's just magical, like my hair!" She chirped, back in the present, the only time that mattered.
Sal took credit for the maelstrom: "Feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel MY WRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH," he bellowed, with a tiny bugle noise behind him.
Meanwhile, Billy was stuck between two buildings. He had fallen from the roof, spinning around, and heading down the gap between two lower buildings. His wooden-board hat--firmly on his head where his doppleganger had whacked him--stuck out far enough on each side of his head that it bridged the two sides of the buildings. He couldn't pull himself up or reach the buildings to his left and right. His spliff remained intact. So, Billy dangled...and toked.
"Well, that turned out better than expected," he said. "Whoa. Wild ketchup rain. This is some good shit."
Chad, Shaniqua, and Des gathered beachballs to make a charge at Sal. Britney pulled Valerie out of danger. Ketchup violently swept over the roof in torrents. Beachballs had stopped raining but continued to bounce with thick, loud reverberations.
Sal bellowed, "YOOOOOOOOU SHAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL NEVER LEAA--"
"Now!" They threw their beachballs with force...and they passed right through Sal.
"What did you expect to happen?" Sal asked. "I mean, really. I'm a ghost." He cleared his throat. "UH, I MEAN. IM A GHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!" A french horn tooted from his back region.
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These things are getting too epic. You all should condense a little.
The above being said before I contribute one myself though I wholeheartedly--in all my longwindedness glory--intend to. Right after I finish reading all of this.
So far, I'm loving it. I mean... At one point, Rachael wrote: "AHHHHHHHHH!" Shaniqua Valeried and I started roaring with laughter.
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Originally Said by Jasondead
No! No condensing for you!
Seriously...I like the lengthiness/epic-ness (scrap that 1-3 sentence business). But you should add a segment when you catch up. And I'm glad you've enjoyed what you read thus far.
Salvador The Quasi-Flatulent laughed his mightiest as lightning and thunder crackled behind him. He became a silhouette against the bloody red ketchup rainclouds and seriously tough beachballs. He roared again, this time with all his glory, "IIIIIIII AMMM SALVADORRRRRRRR!!! THE QUASI-FLATULENT! THE GHOST WITH THE MOST--" of course he was cut off to rip one. PVVVVFFFFB.
"Woo...gotdang beans..." He scooted himself over to the left. "Where was I? Ah yes..."
Before he could start up again Britney with all her brilliance stepped forth.
"Say, if your a ghost, then can't you go through things?" She asked as an inquisitive young kid would.
"Um, I thought that was established with the whole throwing beachballs and them going right through me thing?"
"Hee hee, Your funny Mr. Ghost Man." She smiled at him, ketchup dripping all over her face.
Salvador, now feeling self-conscious asked, "Wha? Hey, how am I funny?"
"Seriously, this ketchup is ruining my hair! I'm going to have to spend 2 hours blow drying it. OMG!"
Sal's state of mind changed and the ketchup rain stopped. He swooshed over to Britney.
"Hey, I asked you a question."
"You know I liked the bunny I found in the woods the most. It was an unique bunny. Hee hee, he had green eyes. Did you ever have a bunny Mr. Ghosty Wosty?"
Taken off guard, Sal stuttered, "Huh..Wha...But...No...No I never had a bunny."
"Oh they are so playful." Britney closed her hands together and pretended she was holding a bunny, hugging it.
By this point Chad and Des, carrying Val (again), and Shaniqua slowly started their way down the stairs, as Britney had the Ghost's attention. Everyone was climbing down, then Chad had to get Britney. He whispered to her, hoping she'd know it was time to leave. He looked back down to his crew, "I think we should leave her."
"Shut up Chad! Get her and get out!" Shaniqua fired back.
Chad whispered and psst'ed at Brit.
"Hey did you know my hair is magical my friends dont think so but i think that maybe valerie thinks so like i do but definitely not shaniqua, billy is cool he is a fun guy but chad is my heart and he doesnt think my hair is magical at all, he thinks im stupid."
Sal, dumbfounded took her story to heart. "Hey now, you aren't stupid. You're--"
"Thanks Mr. Ghosty! Wow! Hey, have a piece of my hair. hee hee omg!" Britney could hardly contain her excitement, she grabbed a few strands of her hair and ripped them right out. She gave them to the ghost and Chad helped her down the stairs as they made their escape.
Salvador stood there with some crazy chick's hair in his hand and he was all alone. Then he farted and hung his head and drooped his body in shame.
The group made their way down the stairs and were down in the maze of hallways again. Charging down the hall, Shaniqua suddenly stopped.
"You guys! Billy?!"
Des turned to comfort her, "Shaniqua, baby, Billy's gone. We're all hurting. We're all feeling that loss, but we have to keep--"
Shaniqua interrupted, "No, you don't understand--"
"Shan, I understand perfectly," Des stroked her hair, flung ketchup off his hand. "You're in pain. It's okay. Let it out. Let it all--"
"No, Des, he had the van keys."
Chad, Des, and Shan all looked at each other. Britney was wringing ketchup out of her hair.
Chad dropped Valerie.
Then, it clicked. All three yelled, "Billy's pants!"
Britney: "Magical hair!"
Valerie: "AHHHHHHH!"
Billy's pants were in another hallway, still being worn by the dead Pseudo-Billy. "Can't decide what's worse, really: being worn by a stoner, being chewed on by an undead rabbit, being worn on the head of a lunatic woman, or being worn by a stoner's dead doppleganger. Sigh. I should have been lingerie."
Sal floated down to where Billy dangled between two buildings, supported by a wedge of wood stuck to his head that bridged the gap. Finally, he had a captive audience.
BURRRAAP...BUURRRRRRRUUUUUPPPP....FWEEEP
"What is that, music? A brass band?" Billy asked.
Sal floated into view, only feet away.
Sal cleared his throat, "YOUR FRIENDS HAVE ABANDONED YOOOOOOUUUU!"
BUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPP-FERRRAP
"You're a ghost! How are you gassy?"
Sal ignored this and got ready for a big speech, "YOU ARE DOOMED TO STAY IN MY DOMAIN FOREVER! YOU, AND YOU ALONE, WILL KNOW THE SEC--"
Just then, a beachball fell from the building above, smacking the piece of wood, unlodging Billy's head--with a satisfying *pop*--and dropping him twenty feet into a trash bin.
"Does no one value the extended speech of the villain anymore?" Sal whined.
"Hey, did you guys hear that?" Britney asked the group.
"Not now Brit. We have to figure out how to get back in so we can get Billy's stupid pants."
The gang brainstormed.
Billy laid there in the dumpster bin. "Pretty comfy," he said, looking back up at the stars. He took a couple more tokes from his joint and exhaled. He laid there enjoying how high he was. He started thinking about this adventure.
"I was in a tree, comfortable. Didn't smell as bad as this though. Then that asshole biter came along and smashed me into a rotting bridge, which then floated me down river. I lost my friggin pants!... Come to think of it, that asshole Billy had my pants on! Motherfucker, those were expensive too. I gotta get em back."
He flicked the roach away, jumped out of the dumpster and checked the first door he could find. Locked. He tried the one next to it. Bingo. He walked in.
Sal stood there all alone again, still clutching Britney's hair. Feeling sad he brought it closer to his face to look at it. Pretty blonde hair. He sniffed it and a special whiff sent a wonderful sensation through his bony nostrils. He felt a little braver now. The pain in his heart had subsided. And since he was a specter, he had an uncanny ability to see 10 minutes into the future. It did not look good for Billy, nor for any of his pals, as they tried to get back into the building to reclaim the pants.
"Okay, guys...GUYS!" Chad bellowed over the bedlam of everyone shouting at once, "let's...calmly...think about this. What would Billy's clone want? We could lure him to us."
"We don't have any weed!" Shaniqua blurted.
"Well, it kept groaning 'braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains,' so it might want some of those," Desmond suggested.
"Great, uh, that's a start, I guess," Chad scratched his head.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Valerie Valeried, having regained consciousness, yet discarded on the floor as Britney's irreparably sticky wig had been.
"Hee hee! Why don't we ask Sal for help?" Britney asked, licking the ketchup from her fingers.
Glaring at her with the intensity of 5000 un-milked cows on a Saturday afternoon, Shaniqua snapped, "Well, at least we know Billy's double won't go lookin' for you."
"Thanks!" Britney chirped.
"Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnn nnssss?" Pseudo-Billy inquired, presently hobbling towards them.
And just at that, Sal hovered down through the ceiling, looking oddly lugubrious while holding Brit's golden, fake lock.
"I see that, once again, no one cared to ask for my opinion on the matter," Billy's pants grumbled.
Meanwhile, back on the ranch...Billy found the door he chose actually did transport him to a dude ranch.
He saw a slinky-looking fellow leaning against a fence, cowboy hat tilted down o'er his face and chewing on some whacky tabacky.
"Hey..." Billy pointed slightly, "that stuff'll kill your teeth, you know."
He joined him at the fence.
"Share the love, man!"
The dude pointed his pistol at Billy's forehead.
Billy raised his hands in the air, "Whoa! Chill man. I'm chill!" Billy backed up hoping not to get shot. He started plea-bargaining.
"Hey, I got something you might like. It's better than that tar crap you put in your mouth. Look it's in my shirt pocket, I'll hook you up." Billy slowly reached into his front pocket and pulled out yet another joint. He put it between his lips and patted down his pockets. Crap!
"Do you have a lite eh?" Billy asked the strange cowboy.
The cowboy held his gun at Billy, then slowly pulled his arm back and holstered the gun. The man seemed to reach behind him and then suddenly extended his arm at Billy with a lit match.
"Whoa, nice. How'd you do that?" Billy leaned the joint to the flame and inhaled.
"Here brother, hit this." He passed the j to the strange cowboy who exposed his hand to grab it.
Billy saw nasty, dry skin. As if the man hadn't drank a drop of water in 20 years. Nor had this town seen water in 120 years! The cowboy took a puff and held his breath.
"Hey man exhale it, that's the best part. Taste it!"
No smoke exhaled out the man. Billy thought it rather odd..."Must be the herb."
"There's the pants!" Desmond was excited by the prospect of getting the keys.
"But the pants are being worn by an unkillable undead creature with superhuman strength and a desire to eat our brains," Shaniqua reminded them.
"I hate camping! I told you that!" Chad punched the air in anger.
Pseudo-Billy was still about ten feet away, hobbling slowly--just a tad winded from being killed so much.
Sal hovered, still regarding Britney's lock of hair with sadness. "I don't want any harm to come to her," he said, pointing to Britney.
"Awwww. That's sweet, Mr. Ghosty," Britney giggled.
"You don't have to harm any of us," Des said. "You can stop the undead creature and let us all go."
"No, there will be pain for all of you," Sal said.
"But it doesn't have to--"
"It's already happened. In about two minutes, something very unexpected is going to happen to the wall behind you. I know this...because I CAN SEEEEE THE FUUUUUUUUTURE." VVVVVVVVeerrrrrrBUP-FEWEEEEVERP.
Pseudo-Billy coughed and waved at the odor washing over him.
Rising from the floor, Valerie panicked from the predictions and the flatulence, from the smell of death and beans in the air, and she ran. She made it a few steps before a small section of the ground *clicked* from her pressure and sank three feet. The uneven ground tripped her--arms pinwheeling, her voice Valerie-ing--and knocked her out cold.
"Why does she get to nap all the time?" Chad fumed.
Deeper rumblings and the sounds of gears turning followed the *click*
"That must be what utter doom sounds like" Des muttered.
"Kind of negative, don't you think?" Shaniqua steadied her voice.
"Been that kinda day."
Evening came for Billy and the strange cowboy, now sitting by a fire, taking turns toking. Billy was beautifully high at this point. The strange cowboy continued to inhale and kept it in.
In the firelight, Billy still could not see the cowboy's face, obscured by the hat and the darkness. And he didn't much care to see it, with the glimpses of dry, crusty skin on the man's arms.
"I always wanted to be a cowboy, you know," Billy rambled. "Roping cattle, riding horses, shootin' a gun...digging post-holes...getting chicks, avoiding...malaria. The LIFE, man! The LIFE!"
The cowboy nodded.
"Hey, man, can I see your piece--er, your gun?"
It was handed to him. Billy admired it for a few seconds and then pointed it at the cowboy.
The cowboy didn't stir.
"Nah, just kidding. Here you go, man." Billy handed it back. "Y'know, I was bummed about my pants earlier, but all that's gone, my silent, stalwart friend. No pants, no regrets. That's how I'm living. Hey, are those friends of yours?" he asked, seeing lights in the distance coming closer.
"Ah...hahahaha...AHAHAHAHAHA...AHA AHA AHA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAA!" Sal spewed the most powerful bout of flatulence yet after his maniacal laughing spasm; the undead-bean-suffused tempest blew back everyone's hair and fluttered pungently into their disheveled clothes with a PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEt! Britney's ketchuped wig, too, swept down the hall and out of sight.
"Seriously, I HATE camping!!" Chad squealed.
Smoke began slinking into the hallway and dramatic, orange lights beamed up from somewhere near the floor. A four-tile square column of the floor began rising between everyone and Valerie. They gawked in awe.
"NOW, MORTALS, YE SHALL TASTE THE WRAH-TH OF SALVADOR...THE SUPAH*-FLATULENT!" Shaniqua fainted from the intensity of the odor.
What they saw, as the smoke circuitously drifted away to reveal the figure upon the platform, made their hearts stop.
It was the undead bunny, sniffing a corner of its new environment curiously.
"PSSSHAHAHAHA!" Chad leaned over in a laughing fit, "For real?"
"Bunny wunny Mr. Nibbles bear!" Britney extended her arms and bounced towards it.
Desmond rubbed his eyes from the stress and looked again.
Pseudo-Billy wobbled in place in a moment of confusion. And Billy's pants made no comment.
Sal smirked quietly, looking at the wall next to Valerie.
"Hey, they don't look very happy," Billy noted, backing away a bit.
"Nah. Don't expect they would," the stranger replied.
Billy chuckled awkwardly and pointed at their torches, "eh, smoke?"
They surrounded him.
*Super....
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By Bircher Exterminating
The mosquito is a disease carrier and an irritant, but the mosquito is not impossible to control. Understanding mosquito’s biology and the mosquito breeding cycle can result in effective pest control for mosquito infestation. This pesky mosquito is found worldwide.
The mosquito affects humans only in their adult stage, all other mosquitoes stages occur in water. There are about three thousand species of mosquitoes worldwide, approximately 170 species in North America. Breeding sites, biting preferences, time of day they bite and ability to transmit diseases vary with the species.
Mosquitoes undergo complete metamorphosis, egg, larvae, pupae and adult. The adult male feeds on nectar and is important only for mating. The female usually must have a blood feast in order to produce viable eggs and that is where the problems begin. They feed on mammals, and humans are among some species favorites. This is annoying and at times unbearable, but not as scary as the diseases some are able to carry. Certain female mosquitoes are capable of being vectors (disease carriers,) of Malaria, West Nile Virus, Yellow Fever, Dengue, and Dog Heartworm.
Breeding occurs with mosquitoes in any area there is standing water such as stagnant ponds, discarded tires, tree stumps, etc. The more rainfall per season, the more numerous the mosquitoes. With mild winters and excessive rainfalls the possibility of a troublesome mosquito season is more likely.
Complete development from egg to adult varies with species and temperature, but usually takes from 10-14 days. Once the eggs hatch into larvae or wigglers they begin feeding on algae and other organic matter in the water. The larvae develop through four molts and pupate. The pupae do not feed but are mobile spending much of their time near the water surface to breathe, and after one to three days emerge as an adult. The adults mate 24-48 hours after emergence.
The male dies after six or seven days, the female, depending on the species, lives from two weeks to 3 months during the summer. Once she has had a blood meal she will lay her first and largest brood of 50-500 eggs. Subsequent broods will be smaller but there will be 8-10 broods. Consider an average brood of 200 eggs per brood and that this insect can complete its development in less than two weeks, we can obtain in only five generations some 20 million of these pests.
Mosquito control can be achieved using a biological environmentally safe bacteria that kills only mosquito larvae or an I.G.R. (insect growth regulator.) The best time to control mosquitos is before they become adults. Through careful inspection of breeding sites and timely applications of a larvicide you can achieve up to ninety percent control.
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The Final Reg BI Package: What to Know and What’s Next
To nobody’s great surprise, on June 5, the SEC approved the “Reg BI Package,” which includes a series of new standards governing the fiduciary responsibilities of broker-dealers and investment advisers. The approved items consisted of the Regulation Best Interest – Standard of Conduct for Broker-Dealers; Form CRS Relationship Summary; Standard of Conduct for Investment Advisers; and Interpretation of “Solely Incidental,” all of which seem likely to have considerable impact on the industry going forward.
Drinker Biddle’s Best Interest Compliance Team issued an alert summarizing the June 5th meeting, certain statements made by the commissioners, and examining the potential effects of the new standards.
Read the full client alert.
Written by: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Category: BD, Best Interest Standard of Care, Compliance, IA, SEC, SEC Reg BI
The Continuing Convergence of Retail and Retirement Regulatory Oversight
Last month the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued its “2019 Examination Priorities.” The release of OCIE’s 2019 Priorities this year was earlier than in years past. In retrospect, the date of issuance being the last day before the vast majority of the SEC staff was furloughed may just be coincidental, but the federal government shutdown allowed the industry more time to study OCIE’s 2019 Priorities for compliance planning for the upcoming year. Another impact of the shutdown and furloughs in an area directly related to OCIE’s first priority is that the SEC’s efforts and the timing of the finalization of the Reg BI proposals have very likely been slowed as well. The recent ending of the SEC furloughs and OCIE’s continuing prioritization of retail and retirement regulatory issues presents us with an opportune time to re-visit these important topics.
Continue reading “The Continuing Convergence of Retail and Retirement Regulatory Oversight”
Written by: James G. Lundy and Fred Reish
Category: Best Interest Standard of Care, Compliance, Conflicts of Interest, Enforcement, Examination, Fees, Fiduciary, Fiduciary Duty, IRA, OCIE, Prohibited Transactions, Retirement Account, Rollovers, SEC, Seniors
Fiduciary Status for the Unwary
If you thought that avoiding fiduciary status would be a slam-dunk after the “new” DOL fiduciary advice rule was vacated, think again. The DOL’s old fiduciary regulation is back and it casts an unexpectedly wide net.
Let’s start with the background. The reinstated fiduciary definition says that a broker-dealer and its advisor (a “broker”) are fiduciaries to a plan if a functional five-part test is satisfied: (1) the broker provides advice about investments for a fee or other compensation, (2) on a regular basis, (3) under a mutual understanding, (4) that the advice will form a primary basis for the plan’s decisions, and (5) that the advice is individualized based upon the plan’s particular needs. For this purpose, a “plan” includes not only an ERISA plan, but also an IRA. (In the context of IRAs, being a fiduciary under the five-part test does not itself implicate a standard of care, but does apply to the applicability of certain prohibited transactions.)
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Written by: Joan M. Neri and Joshua Waldbeser
Category: Compliance, DOL Fiduciary Rule, Fiduciary, IRA, Recommendation, Service Providers
Why Fiduciary Status Still Matters in a Post-Fiduciary Rule World: A Look at Prohibited Transactions And Compensation
In a previous post, we discussed why broker-dealers and their representatives will likely still be fiduciaries to ERISA plans and IRA investors in many cases despite the DOL Fiduciary Rule’s impending death (we say “impending” because, while the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in mid-March vacates the Fiduciary Rule in its entirety, the court’s official order implementing this decision has yet to be issued). To review, this is because broker-dealers and their representatives often satisfy all the prongs of the soon-to-be reinstated 1975 fiduciary regulation’s “Five-Part Test” defining when investment recommendations rise to the level of “fiduciary” advice. Previous industry assumptions that brokers and other “sellers” of investments generally were not fiduciaries under the 1975 regulation should no longer be relied upon. In this post, we’ll examine how the Fiduciary Rule’s impending demise will affect prohibited transaction and compensation issues for broker-dealers in light of their likely continuing status as fiduciaries. Continue reading “Why Fiduciary Status Still Matters in a Post-Fiduciary Rule World: A Look at Prohibited Transactions And Compensation”
Written by: Brad Campbell and Joshua Waldbeser
Category: Compensation Issues, Compliance, Concurrent jurisdiction, Conflicts of Interest, DOL Fiduciary Rule, exemptions, Fees, Fiduciary, Fiduciary Duty, FINRA, FINRA Notice 13-45, Investor, IRA, Prohibited Transactions, Prudence, Recommendation, Retirement Account, SEC, Suitability
Old Standard, New Day: The Death of the Fiduciary Rule Doesn’t Mean That Broker-Dealers Won’t be Fiduciaries
The “old” rules will again prevail—but the old rules will not be applied in the old ways, and this will have some significant impacts on broker-dealers.
As the DOL has not asked for a rehearing of the Fifth Circuit’s decision vacating the Fiduciary Rule, or yet sought to appeal the decision, it is widely anticipated that the March 15 ruling will soon take effect, restoring the DOL’s 1975 regulation defining fiduciary investment advice to plan and IRA investors (we say “widely anticipated” because, while the official mandate vacating the Fiduciary Rule is expected soon, it has been delayed while the court considers efforts from certain states and other third parties to intervene in the case). While the SEC has proposed new regulations for broker-dealers, and while we expect the DOL to propose new prohibited transaction exemptions or regulations that will coordinate with the SEC’s actions, it will be at least a year before these initiatives could begin to apply. Continue reading “Old Standard, New Day: The Death of the Fiduciary Rule Doesn’t Mean That Broker-Dealers Won’t be Fiduciaries”
Bye-Bye Fiduciary Rule?
Should you say goodbye to the Fiduciary Rule? Maybe, but not just yet. The DOL has until the end of April to decide whether to let the 5th Circuit decision vacating the Fiduciary Rule stand or try to get it over-turned. If they do nothing, the ruling becomes effective May 7, and bye-bye Fiduciary Rule – the regulation re-defining fiduciary investment advice for plans and IRAs and the related prohibited transaction exemptions.
Many pundits say this is what will happen. But it’s possible that the DOL will either ask the court to reverse itself – this would mean the 15 judge panel agreeing to re-hear and re-decide the case – or try to get the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to accept an appeal. SCOTUS doesn’t have to do that, so those who think the DOL won’t let this go are betting on the re-hearing request. While requests for rehearing are rarely granted, in this case there might be a better chance. The decision vacating the Fiduciary Rule was a split decision, with Chief Judge Carl E. Stewart dissenting in favor of the Rule.
Continue reading “Bye-Bye Fiduciary Rule?”
Written by: Fred Reish, Bruce Ashton, Sandra D. Grannum, Joshua Waldbeser and Joan M. Neri
Category: Compliance, Conflicts of Interest, Fiduciary, Investor, IRA, Prohibited Transactions, Recommendation, Retirement Account, Service Providers
Family Members as Investors in IRAs and Plans
Most of us want to help family members – especially with issues in our realm of experience. But helping family members with their IRAs creates a problem under the “prohibited transaction” rules of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). (Similar issues arise in connection with retirement plan accounts under the ERISA rules, but as we discuss later, the consequences aren’t quite as severe. Thus, our focus in this article is on IRAs.)
In our experience, this problem is not well-known and will come as an unpleasant surprise to many. To help you make sense of this, we are getting a little deeper into the legal weeds than we usually do.
Continue reading “Family Members as Investors in IRAs and Plans”
Written by: Bruce Ashton and Joan M. Neri
FINRA’S First Ever Public Release of Exam Findings: Top 6 Observations for Improving Compliance
As part of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) efforts to protect investors, FINRA regularly conducts examinations of its broker-dealer members. Despite requests to release the reports to assist other FINRA members in improving their compliance with securities rules and regulations, FINRA has traditionally kept the reports private. That all changed this month.
On December 6, FINRA released a Summary Report of several observations from recent examinations. FINRA selected key issues based on their “potential impact on investors and markets or the frequency with which they occur.” The Summary Report will help FINRA members address potential areas of concern and improve their compliance and supervisory programs prior to their own examinations.
The Summary Report provides observations in 11 exam areas, and the notable ones include:
Continue reading “FINRA’S First Ever Public Release of Exam Findings: Top 6 Observations for Improving Compliance”
Written by: Sandra D. Grannum and Isabelle Kountz
Category: Anti-Money Laundering, Best Execution, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Enforcement, Examination, Exchange-Traded Funds (“ETF”), FINRA, FINRA Rule 3310(c), FINRA Summary Report, IRA, Market Access Controls, Outside Business Activities (“OBA”), Private Securities Transactions (“PST”), Suitability, Unit Investment Trusts (“UIT”)
The Delay of the Fiduciary Exemptions: Now Is Not the Time to Relax (Part 2 of 2)
This is Part 2 of our post on important issues for broker-dealers during the extended transition period for the fiduciary exemptions. In Part 1, we discussed the need to develop written supervisory procedures under the Best Interest Contract Exemption (BICE) and the importance of engaging in – and being able to demonstrate – diligent and good faith efforts to comply with the exemptions.
Two other important issues are how to demonstrate compliance with the transition exemptions and the protections that are not afforded by the non-enforcement policy.
Continue reading “The Delay of the Fiduciary Exemptions: Now Is Not the Time to Relax (Part 2 of 2)”
Written by: Fred Reish, Bruce Ashton and Sandra D. Grannum
Category: Best Interest Standard of Care, Compliance, Enforcement, Impartial Conduct Standards, Policies and Procedures, Prohibited Transactions
Some broker-dealers may be tempted to view the DOL’s extension of the transition period for the fiduciary exemption to July 1, 2019, and the extension of the DOL and IRS non-enforcement policies, as an opportunity to relax and take a break from compliance issues for the next 18 months. Unfortunately, that could turn out to be a risky decision.
We are concerned that firms may not be paying sufficient attention to some of the most critical transition issues, including adoption of policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the Impartial Conduct Standards and taking affirmative steps to ensure diligent, good faith compliance with the rules.
Written by: Fred Reish and Bruce Ashton
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This week's jazz picks for Minneapolis-St. Paul
Are you in your car or near a radio at 8:30 CST on Friday mornings? Tune to KBEM to hear me and station manager Michele Jansen talk about these events and more. 88.5 FM in the Twin Cities, streaming live on the Web.
Saturday: JoAnn Funk CD Release at the Lobby Bar. Pianist/singer/arranger JoAnn Funk's new CD (her third) is called Pick Yourself Up, and I like it a lot. Here's a review. JoAnn and bassist Jeff Brueske perform every weekend at the classy Lobby Bar in the Saint Paul Hotel; for the CD release on Saturday, they'll be joined by drummer Nathan Norman.
7 p.m., Lobby Bar at the Saint Paul Hotel (no cover).
Saturday: George Cartwright's Merciless Ghost at the Black Dog. Saxophonist/composer George Cartwright is an improvising monster in our midst. He spent several years in NYC, playing with his band Curlew at the Knitting Factory. He moved to Minneapolis for love in 1999 (his wife's family lives here) and formed a band called GloryLand PonyCat with Adam Linz and Alden Ikeda. Merciless Ghost is his brand-new band, with Josh Granowski on bass and Davu Seru on drums and percussion. Get a sneak preview here. (Check out the "Art of This Madame" tracks, recorded during a Tuesday Series performance at Madame of the Arts.) I once asked George to define improvisation, and he replied, "I would say it was somebody who was trying to make the very best music they can at that moment." You can read an interview with George here. All three members of Merciless Ghost are powerful players. I would describe their music as fresh, immediate, deeply engaging, and also (if this makes sense--it does to me) open-hearted and generous.
8 p.m., Black Dog (no cover, but respect the tip jar).
Friday and Saturday: The Dave King Trucking Company at the Artists' Quarter. Nationally and internationally, Dave King is best known as the drummer for The Bad Plus. But here in the Twin Cities, where he lives, he's kind of the Johnny Appleseed of bands. A short list of Dave King joints, present and past, includes Happy Apple; Halloween, Alaska; The Gang Font; Buffalo Collision; Golden Valley Is Now; 12 Rods; F*K*G; and Siamese Fighting Fish. One of his latest ventures, the Trucking Co. features Eric Fratzke on guitar, Adam Linz on bass, and Brandon Wozniak on saxophones. Expect surrealistic stories, dry jokes, and big, beautiful music.
9 p.m., Artists' Quarter ($12).
Sunday: French 75 with Maud Hixson at the Artists' Quarter. Jazz in the afternoon? Sounds like a plan, especially on a school night. The cool and lovely Maud Hixson and French 75 (named for a cocktail popular during WWI) will perform a program titled "Beyond the Sea: Jazz from the Continent," featuring jazz standards that came to the States from Europe (and some from here). With Tony Balluff on clarinet, Gus Sandberg on saxophone, Robert Bell on guitar, Steve Pikal on bass, and Nathan Norman on drums. Continental jazz extraordinaire, sponsored by the Twin Cities Jazz Society.
Monday and Tuesday: Joe Lovano and Us Five at the Dakota. No matter where you are on the jazz fan spectrum, from rabid to mildly curious or willing-to-be-dragged-to-a-show, don't miss Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer Joe Lovano, (If you can afford the ticket price. I understand the pain of coughing up $40 or more for a seat at the Dakota. Tip: The later shows are almost always more affordable.) Lovano is one of the great jazz artists of our time, a master on the tenor sax who has played with other luminaries including Herbie Hancock, Charlie Haden, Dave Holland, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and many more. Bird Songs, his latest CD (and his 22nd for Blue Note), explores the music of Charlie Parker. Lovano will be here with his ensemble Us Five. Esperanza Spalding (named Best New Artist at this year's Grammys) is their usual bass player; she's in France on tour, so we'll hear Tetar Slavoe on bass, along with James Weidman on piano, Otis Brown III on drums, and Francesco Mela on drums. You read that right--two drummers.
7 p.m. and 9 p.m., Dakota ($40/$25).
Monday: Lori Dokken's Singer Showcase at Camp Bar. Remember Monday and Tuesday nights at the old Times Bar & Cafe, when area singers took the stage? Piano bar entertainer/cabaret singer Lori Dokken is bringing that feeling and spirit back to Camp Bar with her Singer Showcase, This week's co-host is Aaron Keith Stewart. Guests include Doug Anderson, Christina With, and Wendy Zaro-Mullins, who recently released a CD with Laura Caviani.
7:30 p.m., Camp Bar ($5).
Check the live jazz calendar at the right or here for many more events.
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The Four Toucans of Costa Rica
“Sounds like demons escaping Hell”
You go to Costa Rica for the wildlife. So, straight down to business.
Toucans, mackaws, quetzals, herons, kingfishers, egrets, hummingbirds, vultures, swallows, finches and tits. Iguanas, geckos, basilisks and chameleons. Bats. Howler, squirrel, capuchin and spider monkeys. Squirrels, opossums and racoons. Wild boars, or is it wild boar? Frogs and turtles. Sloths, both types. Countless insect and butterfly species. A crocodile pile-up. Various dogs, a cat and a rat.
During a fortnight in Costa Rica, we saw all of that. Quite the bounty.
But the data’s incomplete. For example: four toucans, in the land of toucans. This is not enough toucans.
Two of them were at it, actually, up a tree in the first of our ports of call: Tortuguero, on the Caribbean coast. You can only reach the area by boat, and along the way the driver/spotter team eyed up what they claimed was a crocodile, about 30 metres away, looking suspiciously log-like. Along with any form of (scary, non-Koala) bear, the crocodile was one of the last two creatures on my ‘must see wild’ list. And here was a crocodile, on day one! Shut up that is a crocodile too, logs don’t have eyes yes I can tell they’re eyes from this distance oh I said shut up.
Two weeks in Costa Rica, in five locations across the country, with a goal to see as many creepies, crawlies, climbees and critters as possible. And the sights of this country were remarkable. But it’s the sounds that live with you.
On our penultimate day, we did a short guided tour in a bid to see a few more of the blasted creatures who’d been hiding from us for a fortnight. Again we saw little, barring a couple of boars our guide got a bit energetic about. You can find them in Hampshire mate, calm yourself.
But then, as it started to belt it down with rain, the noise. Sweet suffering Christ, the noise, from the very depths of hell. The sound of an F1 car changing down gears for a hairpin in the Hades Grand Prix. Howler monkeys. Alouatta aaaarghwhatthebloodyhellisthat, to give them their scientific name. They were right above us, and the only word to describe their spine-chilling racket is monstrous. Under the circumstances, we loved it.
The howlers are what woke us at 4.48am on our first night in a room without walls, curtains or anything more than a bit of mesh to keep the bugs out. They were joined soon after by ear-piercing toucans, sounding like an already angry man getting one caught in the zip. Lizards bark like dogs, locusts whine like generators and frogs actually whistle somehow. And almost all the time every one of these little sods refused to show itself to the deafened, camera-wielding ape.
It’s a land of many trees, verdant and lush thanks to the abundant rains for many months of the year. We heard, as we have in many places in the last few years, that climate change is amending established weather cycles and making dry what once was wet. But here there’s still enough rain to float the arks they’ll need to keep their various pairs of creatures above the water, such as the monogamous mackaws that screech across the sky like bickering old couples on their way to the bingo.
Those very trees are the key to the visual dilemma. Day after day the squarks and howls of birds and beasts would have us whipping our necks left and right. But trees, always trees. The greenery is so dense, you can be 10 metres from a family of monkeys and not know it, unless they hurl themselves from one branch to another.
Which they do a lot, and ohoho, that’s brilliant. When you can see what they’re up to, monkeys are just great. That’s all I’m telling you; go find your own.
Those same trees did provide perspective. After the first few days, when we’d begun to realise there wouldn’t be so many hummingbirds about they’d be carrying us to lunch like a living Sedan chair, we came to appreciate the Costa Rican environment itself. My first truly delighted moment came on a hike up a hill in Bajos del Toro, cold and splattered by driving drizzle, with not so much as a dickie bird about. Tramping on dodgy forest paths at San Gerardo de Dota was exercise made fun, if you can imagine such a thing in the terrifying age of the treadmill.
There are many walks to be had here, often steeply up and down in forests and jungles. At one point we found ourselves navigating back and forth across a stream, looking for a waterfall, on the Osa Peninsula. We were in an isolated section of a jungle in Costa Rica, surrounded by whatever creatures wanted to do their worst, nobody knew where we were, and it was lost on neither of us. And it was just brilliant.
Mind you, there’s hazards all right. We did a night-time tour of a nature reserve in Manuel Antonio. Our guide brought his 11-year-old daughter with him; it was the first time Papi had taken her along and she proceeded to identify as much wildlife as him, if not more. But not even the redoubtable Sophia was prepared for the torch to alight on the first of the four tarantulas we encountered that night.
Tarantulas. Wild. In a jungle. At night. Right bloody there.
Thankfully the 40-odd crocodiles were a bit further away. On the road to Manuel Antonio there’s a bridge over the Tarcoles River where crocodiles congregate, apparently for tourists to gawp at. You wonder why, until a man appears and throws meat in and they writh about like they’re just downstream from Indy’s Temple of Doom. Still, crocodiles, in the wild. Tick that box, son, and away to Vancouver with you.
Our journeys across the country were handled principally by an excellent driver named Darwin, who taught us many things about his country. People still generally live with their parents until they marry, and still go to church. Crime is slowly getting worse in the capital, San Jose, but the tally of homeless people on that city’s streets is ‘about eight’. Our single night there hinted at a calm enough place with a horrific traffic problem, with fleets of huge commuter buses clogging up a disastrous one-way system.
We also found out that Costa Rica has become the world’s leading exporter of pineapples. (Second place goes to Belgium, somehow, so scepticism is allowed.) Thing is, pineapples are not native to Central America, and the land has to be wracked with chemicals and pesticides to make them grow, which has grim effects on the ecosystem. Same is true for bananas, and worst of all the palm trees grown industrially in huge numbers for their oil. Costa Ricans are currently trying to work out where the line between agricultural and tourism profit lies. Let’s hope they judge it right, but so far, looking at the countless dull grids of palms from a light aircraft on the first leg of our journey home, it’s not looking great.
Strangely, one thing you don’t see growing a lot is beans. Oh God, the beans. An all-pervading menace contaminating every Costa Rican meal, you think you’d be safe with a plate of sunny-side up on toast smothered with spicy tomatoes, only to find they’d somehow smeared some kind of black bean paste on the underside of the eggs.
By Christ, the food is diabolical, and this is coming from an Englishman. It was epitomised by the ‘traditional Tico breakfast’ (Tico being how Costa Ricans refer to themselves). This was two fried eggs, a slab of Dairylea-like ‘cheese’, plantain, a small pancake containing unspecified vegetable matter, a pot of sour cream, some pineapple and the ubiquitous ‘gallo pinto’ (rice and beans). I stared at it. Went for it. Stared at it some more. Left hungry.
That said, I must commend the national beverage: Imperial. In the implausible alternate universe where I fight for sobriety in the war of temperance, lager would be first up against the wall as for the most part it’s hateful pish, but Imperial hit the spot more than once.
As did Costa Rica as a whole. This was unlike other trips in that we weren’t sure what to expect before we went, and weren’t entirely sure what we’d had by the end of it. But we knew this had been an excellent place to visit.
It’s a lovely, natural landscape. More than once the thought came into my mind that the scene I was looking at, be it the tops of thousands of trees from a hillside road or a beautiful waterfall in a forest glen, must have looked exactly like this for millions upon millions of years. There’s a simple peace in realising that, like looking at the stars.
Add the bounty of creatures hiding themselves behind every bush, and this becomes one of the most relaxing destinations you could hope to visit. And I hope it resists the lure of industrial capitalism and stays that way, though there’s a tough road ahead. We would do well to let it stay the Land Before Time. We don’t have to milk the entire planet for every last resource. We don’t as a species need more more more all the damn time.
This is a big planet and we’ve got plenty of places humanity can mess with already. Let’s try to leave Costa Rica to the birds and the beasts playing the world’s biggest ever game of hide and seek.
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Cameroon Concord News
30, November 2019
Trump pulling Cameroon’s preferential trade status: Are human rights concerns the real reason or just a pretext? 0
President Trump has announced his intention to declare Cameroon ineligible for a trade program that allows African countries to sell goods to the United States on a duty-free basis. The reason? The Oct. 31 White House statement cited “persistent human rights violations being committed by Cameroonian security forces” as justification.
Trump’s actions might be a win for human rights activists, who have called for increased international pressure to end abuses in Cameroon. However, other U.S. interests might be driving Trump’s decision. Here’s what you need to know.
This U.S. trade program has a human rights linkage
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a U.S. trade program created in 2000 for up to 49 potentially eligible countries in Africa. AGOA status allows eligible countries to export 1,800 types of products to the United States without the purchasers on the U.S. side having to pay import duties.
In exchange for duty-free access under AGOA, countries must have or be moving toward free-market economies, the rule of law and labor protections. AGOA also requires that countries not pursue “activities that undermine United States national security or foreign policy interests” or commit “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.”
Robust human rights conditions are a critical feature of AGOA. The U.S. president may grant a country AGOA beneficiary status, subject to review and the possibility of termination for violations.
Does linking trade to human rights work?
Some scholars argue that linking trade to human rights performance could improve human rights. The threat of withdrawing trade benefits might deter governments from violating the human rights of their citizens. But this perspective does not take into account other U.S. interests that may influence decisions on AGOA eligibility and trade benefits.
New Afrobarometer data shows Africans want elections — especially if they bring change at the top
In our research on AGOA, Eric Reinhardt and I find that a country in which the United States has strong trade, investment and security interests is less likely to experience AGOA termination. If a country is highly nondemocratic or has experienced a successful coup d’etat, the United States is more likely to end its AGOA beneficiary status. However, the country’s human rights record has a less consistent and weaker effect on its AGOA status.
In fact, the decision to withdraw a country’s AGOA privileges appears to have little to do with even the most extreme human rights violations. Here’s what that means: Governments with a poor or worsening human rights record may be under-sanctioned. But countries with improving or good records may be over-sanctioned, depending on their relative importance to U.S. trade, investment and security interests.
Here’s how this played out in Kenya
Kenya’s experience in 2007 and 2008 illustrates this phenomenon. The U.S. government considered terminating Kenya’s status following a massive wave of post-election violence, which left about 1,200 dead and 600,000 displaced. U.S. officials knew that Kenya’s security forces had committed abuses, including extrajudicial killings and the torture and beatings of detainees.
But the United States decided not to terminate Kenya’s AGOA status. Why? Kenya was a leading participant in the global coalition against terrorism. In addition, business associations lobbied the U.S. trade representative’s office to retain Kenya’s AGOA eligibility to facilitate its members’ profitable AGOA apparel trade.
Another example occurred in 2018, when Trump suspended Rwanda’s duty-free access to the United States. He did so not because of Rwandan human rights violations but because the Rwandan government had banned the import of used clothing from U.S. firms.
Cameroon saw election violence — a year ago
Trump’s termination of Cameroon’s AGOA status comes one year after President Paul Biya won a seventh term in office. Biya, who has ruled Cameroon since 1982, won about 71 percent of the votes. But election violence and allegations of fraud and intimidation marred this election. Many Cameroonians were frightened to vote, because of insecurity that began in 2016, when security forces repressed largely peaceful demonstrations from the country’s Anglophone minority who demanded greater autonomy.
Cameroon has an election Sunday — and everyone already knows the winner
The violence was horrific. Government security forces used live ammunition against protesters and bystanders, killing at least a dozen people and injuring many others. The government detained and tortured others.
The conflict escalated as separatist leaders declared independence, establishing an aspirational country called Ambazonia in western Cameroon. According to the International Crisis Group, the conflict between government security forces and separatists has left 1,850 dead, displaced 530,000 and led tens of thousands to seek refuge abroad. Numerous schools closed, and more than 170 villages were destroyed. The local economy, accounting for one-fifth of Cameroon’s GDP, has been devastated.
The abuses haven’t stopped — but why is the Trump administration acting now? Cameroon recently released several political prisoners, including a key opposition leader, Maurice Kamto, and adopted a special status for Anglophone regions, a concession meant to reinforce the regions’ autonomy.
Despite the country’s overall human rights record, the United States previously considered Cameroon a key U.S. security partner in the fight against extremist groups such as Boko Haram, which is active in northern Cameroon. The government of Cameroon promoted U.S. national security interests, which insulated it from human rights sanctions.
That key security position changed nine months ago when the United States announced it would no longer provide military aid to Cameroon.
Human rights abuses by Cameroonian security forces certainly appear to violate the eligibility requirements of AGOA. However, terminating Cameroon’s status is more likely a reflection of a shift in U.S. interests in the region than it is a signal of Trump’s commitment to improving human rights.
Culled from The Washington Post
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The US and the UK are the only close allies of Cameroon to have voiced public concern regarding the ongoing situation in Ambazonia
Crime Syndicates and Politicians in both Ambazonia and French Cameroun: An Unholy Alliance
Ambazonia Revolution Pastors: Professing Christ and serving the devil
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Tenor Zach Taylor Wins Music Competition
Congratulations are in order for tenor Zach Taylor for not only being awarded first place in the Sydney Lieberman Music Competition, but also being announced as the co-winner of the Sylvia and Irving H. Cohen scholarship! On his recent successes, Zach said "I’m so incredibly grateful to everyone who has helped me come this far, as I couldn’t have gotten this far without the support of family, friends, and teachers." Catch Zach performing alongside other winners in the Lieberman Honors Recital on April 4 at 11am at Towson University.
Singer/Scholar Austin Nikirk
Soprano Austin Nikirk was one of nine students from Gettysburg College who presented their research as part of the Kolbe Fellowship last Thursday, January 24. Phoebe Doscher described Austin's research and the other Fellows in an article for The Gettysburgian:
"Austin Nikirk '20 took an arts-oriented approach to her research and studied Floral Imagery and Birdsong in the Art Song of Amy Beach. Nikirk spoke passionately about Beach, an American composer, who pioneered women’s music performance and composition. Nikirk primarily studied Beach’s art songs, analyzing a variety of nuances in her stylistic tendencies, harmonies, and poetry. Nikirk described Beach’s modification of early strophic songs, and how she expanding upon melody and mood that was unprecedented for the time period. Ultimately, she intended to find how Beach used certain techniques to display originality and express emotion in her works. Nikirk will be singing songs by Beach during her junior voice recital at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music in March."
Of the experience, Nikirk said "it was an invaluable experience to do faculty-mentored research so early in [her] academic career. [Her] mentor, Dr. William O'Hara, was incredibly supportive of [her] many interests in the field, and helped me synthesize them into a research topic that was both challenging and inspiring." To learn more about Austin's research, and to hear her perform these pieces, see her lecture-recital on April 12 in Paul Recital Hall at 3:00pm, at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College.
Senior Recital: Robby Napoli
Director Robby Napoli passed his recital hearing this week, which means his senior recital is official! After a months-long process of preparing music, program notes, and planning, he performed with collaborators Dr. Scott Crowne, Jasmin Eddy, Rick Hale, and Aaron Thompson, in front of his judging panelists, who approved his recital. We are incredibly excited to announce that his recital, featuring just over 30 minutes of music ranging from Bach to Barber to Craig Carnelia, will be on Sunday, October 28, at 2:30 pm. Aside from his student-teaching, which he will do in the Spring, this is one of the large projects leading up to his graduation at the end of the academic year! The recital, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Paul Recital Hall, at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. For more information or to see the Facebook Event, click the button below!
A Singer & A Scholar
Congratulations to Austin Nikirk who finished up the first portion of her Kolbe Fellowship at Gettysburg College last week. Over the Summer, she was housed at the college to conduct research on the art song of one of the first American female composers to be performed by major ensembles, Amy Beach. During that time, she met with her mentor, Dr. William O'Hara, on a weekly basis, working together to formulate a plan for her research. Last week, after months of in-depth harmonic, formal, and poetic analyses of seven of Beach's art songs, and even a trip to the University of New Hampshire's library to study Beach's original scores, Austin presented on her topic in culmination of the first part of her research. She plans to continue researching leading up to a lecture-recital she plans to give in the Spring of 2019. To read more about her research, find her Kolbe Summer '18 Fellows profile by clicking the button below!
Welcome back, Eby!
While we have had to say quite a few goodbyes this past week, we are ecstatic to welcome back soprano Eby Buscher from Urbania, Italy! As an artist in the Si Parla, Si Canta summer program, she took intensive Italian classes, studied Italian art song with elite vocal coaches, and performed opera scenes in recitals across Italy. We're excited for Eby to join us for the July portion of our season: she'll be singing with us on our recording project this month, and you can see her in our July 22 concert! Enjoy pictures below of her time in Italy.
See you soon, Hannah!
Last weekend, we continued our goodbyes by watching as Hannah left town from her administrative internship at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. She enjoyed her time in the Nation's capital thoroughly, and hopes to come back in the near future. While she goes back to her home in New Jersey now, we can't wait to see her again for our concert in Gettysburg. Below you'll find a slideshow of a few pictures from her internship. Thanks for a wonderful season, and see you soon, Hannah!
Great Musicians & Great Scholars
Congratulations are in order for soprano Austin Nikirk, who has recently been accepted into the Kolbe Scholars Program at Gettysburg College! This summer, she will be conducting research on the art song of American composer Amy Beach with Dr. William O'Hara of the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College, culminating in a lecture-recital in the Spring of 2019.
Austin Nikirk, Soprano
Congrats, Nicole!
Congratulations are in order for soprano Nicole Densmoor, whose research project has been approved! This Summer, Nicole will be researching and presenting on Indonesian art song with Dr. Susan Hochmiller at Gettysburg College. Learn more about Nicole by checking out her profile below!
Nicole Densmoor, Soprano
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Discuss DVDs and Blu-rays released by Second Run and the films on them.
Bikey
#1 Post by Bikey » Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:15 am
Thank you so much for your postings about Second Run DVD. We are flattered and a little bit humbled by your interest in what we are trying to achieve.
We will post here on a semi-regular basis when we have some news that we think may be of interest to you.
Coming Soon releases :
Karel Kachyna's The Ear and Shirley Clarke's Portrait Of Jason are now confirmed for 26th September .
Ryszard Bugajski's Interrogation and Karoly Makk's Another Way will be released on 3rd October .
Jim McBride's David Holzmans Diary and Ivan Passer's Intimate Lighting are scheduled for end-October.
and within a week or so, our Website will have full details about the films and the DVDs.
That should be it for releases in 2005. We will then be preparing our early 2006 releases. More details on them will follow sometime later in October/early November but we are delighted to have some wonderful films that we love coming your way. We have planned to release over 20 films next year from all around the world. Eastern European classics will again feature but also look out for some surprises from South America, Africa, Iran, India and, of course, the USA and UK.
A shop function should be up on our website very shortly. One of the other features on our website was going to be a Forum to discuss our releases but now, as you guys seem to have happily beaten us to it, we will simply suggest to our visitors that they all go to your Criterion Forum --- and we hope that will increase the community for all the Labels and discussions that happen at your Forum.
Thanks for all of your comments on the suggestions thread here. Rest assured we do pay attention to your posts. Some of your suggestions are already on a list of ours and others have sparked off memories of long-forgotten gems and some furious hunting through piles of old VHS' . Please keep on adding to the thread.
Various people have mailed us at our website info address with suggestions and some other questions. If you have not yet received a reply, please accept our apologies as we are a VERY small and very busy organisation. We do read all of your mail and always try and reply as soon as we can.
Finally, if any of you are London-based you might want to keep the evening of 29th September free. We are looking at having a launch party on that night to which you are invited. It will be at a central London venue. We will post confirmed details early next week. If you are really nice we might even shout you a beer.
Keep on posting / mailing.
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#2 Post by What A Disgrace » Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:04 am
Three words: Africa, Iran, India.
Thank you, Second Run.
rs98762001
#3 Post by rs98762001 » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:14 pm
Thanks for the post. Looking forward to the next set of titles, and seeing what's up your sleeves in the future.
My own humble suggestion is that there's a wealth of fantastic US experimental films from the 60s and 70s that have never seen the light of day on DVD.
NABOB OF NOWHERE
Location: Brandywine River
#4 Post by NABOB OF NOWHERE » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:59 pm
Are you reading this Mulvaney??????????
kieslowski
Location: Somewhere in England
#5 Post by kieslowski » Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:08 pm
If the DVD of The Ear is as good as I'm hoping it'll be, the beers are on me.
#6 Post by Bikey » Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:43 pm
SECOND RUN PRESENTS SECOND RUN TUESDAYS
An intimate free film night is to be held by Second Run on the second Tuesday of each month, beginning on 8th November.
Each night will feature a film from the Second Run catalogue, screened free, in the delightful setting that is The Flea-Pit on Columbia Rd, London E2.
The first month sees an exclusive screening of Karoly Makk's film LOVE (Szerelem), Hungary 1971
Spare and elegaic, LOVE, the Jury Prize winner at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, is one of Karoly Makk's finest films. A wonderful meditation on love and longing, it is set in 1950s Hungary but has an absolutely universal appeal. Haunting, atmospheric, beautifully performed and brilliantly shot… an outstanding film.
Reviews, articles and full details on LOVE can be found at www.secondundvd.com
You are all very welcome; those of you in far-flung places can be with us in spirit and we look forward to meeting those of you in London at the Second Run Tuesdays.
#7 Post by Bikey » Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:35 pm
It appears that I previously posted details on our Film Night with a dodgy link. Apologies. Correct information is below:
Reviews, articles and full details on LOVE can be found at www.secondrundvd.com
Second Run Tuesdays in 2005Â
8th November – LOVE (Szerelem)
13th December – In The Land Of The Deaf (Le Pays des sourds)
Film starts 8pm. Free Entry.
The Flea-Pit
www.thefleapit.com 020 7033 9986
#8 Post by Bikey » Sun Nov 27, 2005 10:31 am
The next Second Run Film Night takes place on Tuesday 13th December at The Fleapit, Columbia Road, London E2.
December's film will be an exclusive screening of Nicolas Philibert's wonderful documentary IN THE LAND OF THE DEAF (Le Pays des sourds), France 1992.
The films and methods of Nicolas Philibert, maker of Etre et avoir, have shown him to be one of contemporary cinema's most acclaimed documentarists. An elegant portrait of the rich culture and diversity of the deaf community, IN THE LAND OF THE DEAF educates and transports us to another way of occupying this world. In a pleasurable, unrushed and intelligent fashion this film, using the magnificent spectacle of Sign itself, provides a brilliantly perceptive view of the lives of deaf people.
Reviews, articles and full details on IN THE LAND OF THE DEAF can be found at www.secondrundvd.com
Film starts 8pm. Free Entry. Mince pies may be served.
#9 Post by Bikey » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:09 pm
We are delighted to announce that our online Shop is now open at the Second Run DVD website.
All of our catalogue is available at the shop. Prices are competitive and include all postage and packaging to anywhere around the world. All orders should be dispatched within 48 hours.
To celebrate the launch we are running a number of grouped special offers which you will find on the Shopfront page.
The process is all automated, fully secure and complies with the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000. The purchase process shouldn't be that different from other online shopping experiences.
The shop is here:
http://www.secondrundvd.com/shop.php
Please do visit it.
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Waster of Cinema
#10 Post by Gordon » Sat Dec 17, 2005 5:32 am
From the Second Run newsletter:
Other new releases scheduled to follow in the first few months of 2006 include:
Blissfully Yours (Sud sanaeha)
A film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand 2002
(Second Run DVD 013)
This is the first time that Apichatpong's film will be presented uncut, with newly translated English subtitles and in its original aspect ratio. And the first time that Second Run release a film from this century!
The Red and the White (Csillagosok, katonak)
A film by Miklos Jancso / Hungary 1967
The first of a collection of director Miklos Jancso's films which Second Run will be releasing through 2006. A brand new anamorphic transfer, with newly translated English subtitles.
The Cremator (Spalovac mrtvol)
A film by Juraj Herz / Czech Republic 1968
"A surrealist-inspired horror", "an expressionist fantasy", "a dark and disturbing tale of terror" - however you might describe it, Second Run is proud to release Juraj Herz's remarkable film.
Every Little Thing (La Moindre des choses)
A film by Nicolas Philibert / France 1997
Following on from our acclaimed release of In The Land of the Deaf, we are proud to release a second film from Nicolas Philibert, one of the most respected documentary filmmakers in the world.
Fuller information on these releases will follow in our next mail out in January.
Kino's DVD of The Red and the White is awful, apparently, although it is anamorphic. It is said to be scratchy, cropped slightly and has some major interlacing and the subtitles are burned-in and the sound is hissy and crackles and pops throughout the film. I have avoided buying it in hope of a better version and this looks it!
I have the Czech DVD of The Cremator, which has English subtitles and a decent transfer, but I might double-dip if the extras are enticing and the transfer is superior.
Second Run are an awesome company!
Oedipax
#11 Post by Oedipax » Sat Dec 17, 2005 5:48 am
Fantastic news, especially about Blissfully Yours. I'm badly in need of more by Weerasethakul. I'm glad I don't have to pick between the flawed offerings of Blissfully Yours already on DVD now.
shirobamba
#12 Post by shirobamba » Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:00 am
Oh, wow! What an incredible program! Looking forward to see them all!
#13 Post by rs98762001 » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:18 pm
Fantastic line up of films. Keen to know what other Jancsos are on the way.
#14 Post by What A Disgrace » Sat Dec 17, 2005 6:08 pm
What excellent news! Especially in regards to the Miklos Jancso collection being planned. I'll be getting each of these. Second Run has their own shelf in my room.
I'm still anxious to hear what South American, Indian, African, and Iranian films they will be releasing next year. I'm sure they'll be something special.
#15 Post by Gregory » Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:27 pm
Congratulations on the opening of your shop and on being able to offer competitive prices directly to all your customers from your own site. I suggested that Criterion do the same thing a couple of years ago and many people argued that it wouldn't be feasible. Anyway, I just ordered all four of the special offers. I'm glad I waited around to buy these titles and that my purchase entirely benefits Second Run, not a middleman as well. I wish you all the best in the coming year.
#16 Post by solent » Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:17 pm
The only concern I have, as an Australian buyer, is that Second Run won't take responsibility for items lost in the mail. All other major e-tailers do so. This is a minor point since I have never lost anything form any type of buyer over the many years I have been dealing on the net. Hence, if SR's price beats Amazon's then I would still chance it.
#17 Post by Bikey » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:07 pm
The next Second Run Film Night takes place on Tuesday 17th January at The Flea-Pit, Columbia Road, London E2.
To welcome in 2006, January's film will be an exclusive pre-release screening of Jim McBride's groundbreaking 'mockumentary' DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY, USA 1967.
Shot in 1967 on a miniscule budget, DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY is a milestone in contemporary film history. It manages both to be simultaneously very much of its time and very many years ahead of its time. Arguably the first mockumentary, it has been little seen but hugely influential on filmmakers over the years. Profoundly clever, it lampoons the pretensions of the then-burgeoning underground film scene and examines how we define our own reality and how our perceptions can alter that reality. It could also be said that it pre-empts our current times when seemingly everyone is recording everything to do with their lives on camera.
This is the first time ever that DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY has been released on DVD and reviews, articles and full details on the film can soon be found at
http://www.secondrundvd.com
http://www.thefleapit.com tel:020 7033 9986
#18 Post by Bikey » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:42 pm
The next Second Run screening is on Tuesday 14th February at the Fleapit, Columbia Rd, London E2.
As it's Valentine's Night we thought we would show a dark, paranoid masterpiece about the disintegration of a relationship set against a background of state oppression - Karel Kachnya's The Ear (Ucho).
Although made in 1970, The Ear (Ucho) was immediately banned by the Czech authorities and remained unseen for twenty years, being finally released only after the Velvet Revolution took place in Czechoslovakia. This landmark film is an extraordinary mix of one of the most direct indictments of life under an oppressive totalitarian system and an examination of a disintegrating marital relationship.
The events in The Ear take place over one very long night. Ludvik (Radoslav Brzobohaty) is a senior ministry official in the bureaucracy of Prague's ruling Communist Party. Anna is his alcoholic wife, daughter of a small town pub owner. They return home from a party function to find their gate open and a spare set of house keys missing. Initially they dismiss this as of no consequence but other strange findings - including a power outage that only appears to affect their property and a dead phone - make them start to wonder whether they are being surveiled by the authorities. Ludvig runs through party in his mind. Events and conversation that previously seemed innocuous start to appear loaded with a dangerous double meaning. His paranoia increases and what previously seemed like the bickering of tired married couple breaks down into downright hostility. The night reaches a bizarre climax with the sudden appearance of a number of Ludvik's Party colleagues who want to drink their way into the dawn. The film ends with a bitter, ironic twist that confirms Ludvik and Anna's worst fears.
As well as being an indictment of the regime that was governing the Czech Republic at the time The Ear is a brilliantly nuanced observation of a couple who are beginning to find it increasingly difficult to cover the cracks in their relationship. These scenes of Ludvig and Anna's rival the likes of Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf in their of depiction of marital disintegration. One of Kachyna's best films The Ear is a wonderful combination of film noir, political thriller and kitchen sink drama.
“Directed with awesome control... masterlyâ€
#19 Post by Bikey » Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:54 pm
March's Second Run screening will be on Tuesday 21st March at The Fleapit, Columbia Rd, London E2.
The film being screened will be:
Mother Joan Of The Angels (Matka Joanna od aniolow)
One of the landmarks of Polish cinema, this film is based on the documented story of the ‘possession' of a group of nuns that led to the burning of a priest at the stake in Loudun, France in 1634 ( the same story that Ken Russells 'The Devils' was based upon).
Mother Joan of the Angels is a spare, visually rigorous, and profoundly disturbing exploration of faith, repression, fanaticism, and eros. Anyone who is a fan of classics of the strange will find much to savour in Mother Joan of the Angels.
The film starts at 8pm.
Free booze for anyone who turns up dressed as a nun.
The Fleapit
www.thefleapit.com
#20 Post by tryavna » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:13 pm
Bikey wrote: Free booze for anyone who turns up dressed as a nun.
What about real-life nuns?
#21 Post by Bikey » Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:39 am
If anyone can find me a real life nun who is prepared to come down and talk about ' faith, repression, fanaticism and eros' then I'll happily keep you both in wine for the night (red claret served in a silver goblet obviously).
#22 Post by Bikey » Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:57 am
Movie Mail are podcasting reviews of David Holman's Diary and Portrait Of Jason here:
http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/scripts/podcasts.pl
We hope to have a podcast of our own Andy Townsend appearing on Resonance FM's OST show up very soon.
#23 Post by Bikey » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:05 pm
This month's Second Run Tuesday takes place on Tuesday 18th April at the Flea Pit, Columbia Road, London E2.
On that Tuesday we will be screening Juraj Herz's 'The Cremator'. This brilliantly chilling film has been described as a cross between Dr Strangelove and Repulsion. It tells the story of Karl Kopfrkingl, a professional cremator in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. The political climate allows Kopfrkingl free rein to his increasingly deranged impulses for the 'salvation of the world'.
Featuring a terrifying performance from the lead actor (Rudolf Hrusinsky), brothel-loving Nazis, a spectral Dalai Lama and a comb, Juraj Herz has produced a film that is weird, unnerving and bleakly funny. The Cremator has been screened occasionally at film festivals over the last 20 years but, for reasons we cannot fathom, has been forgotten by all but the most dedicated cinephiles. We are delighted to be able to screen it and you should not miss the chance to see this wonderfully expressionist film.
Beyond Hollywood recently called it 'a unique example of modern gothic cinema, being both fantastic and grimly realistic... a sinister gem that deserves rediscovery'.
Screening details:
Tuesday 18th April - The Cremator
Film starts at 8pm. Free entry.
The Flea Pit
The Cremator will be released on DVD on Monday 10th April. As a very special extra the DVD features an introduction from the Quay Brothers who are long term fans of the film.
For more information check the pages on the Second Run website at http://www.secondrundvd.com/release_tc.php
#24 Post by Bikey » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:06 am
In a quite startling engagement with technology we have managed to get trailers for some of our films up at the You Tube website.
The Cremator is up now. Blissfully Yours and The Red & the White should be up sometime over the weekend.
Just go to www.youtube.com and search for the film by name. Tell your friends.
(We have a minor 'ratio issue' on the Cremator that we will be resolving shortly. Be gentle to us - we are new with all this stuff.)
There are a number of other sites where we will also be putting the trailers up. I will let you know as and when.
If any of you have any recommendations of other sites where we can place them then please let me know.
Bikey.
#25 Post by Bikey » Fri May 05, 2006 9:47 am
Podcast reviews of Mother Joan and Cremator at Movie Mail:
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Written by James M. Tate / 4/30/2016 / No comments / bo hopkins , burt young , james caan , jerry fielding , robert duvall , sam peckinpah , seventies
CAAN & DUVALL UNDER PECKINPAH FOR 'THE KILLER ELITE'
It takes two GODFATHER actors: the already iconic and borderline legendary James Caan and Robert Duvall, to perfectly kickstart a movie about a secret operation even "worse" than the CIA (are portrayed on screen) acting like a couple slap-happy Playboys, or, perhaps, the way they really were with each other behind the scenes, laughing with delicious inside quips, throwing dirty jokes back and forth, cracking wise and unwise about women and yet only one of them guffaws about the other's possible venereal disease... For themselves, a hilarious moment indeed...
Duvall and Caan
All in a car driving over the Golden Gate bridge shot by director Sam Peckinpah in a modern setting... Starts out with a building exploding and Caan and Duvall, as Mike and George, harboring a "snitch" who... Let's just say things don't go well for this man, and his future turns out much worse than a horrible, game-changing injury for Caan's Mike after a double-cross that's extremely suspenseful, in fact even more-so than most films being that, after experiencing two pals acting like they've known each other since grade school, Duvall's sudden transition, taking place fully-clothed, sitting on a toilet seat, gun in hand with an icy stare... especially contrasted to the funny guy he was minutes before... And in another minute's time, Caan's Mike winds up with a busted knee cap and one nearly dead arm, and some of the best, most personal scenes occur in the hospital thereafter.
bo hopkins, burt young, james caan, jerry fielding, robert duvall, sam peckinpah, seventies
Year of Release: 1975 It takes two GODFATHER actors: the already iconic and borderline legendary James Caan and Robert Duvall, to perfec...
Labels: bo hopkins, burt young, james caan, jerry fielding, robert duvall, sam peckinpah, seventies
Written by James M. Tate / 4/29/2016 / 1 Comment / action , al lettieri , clu gulager , david huddleston , eddie albert , john wayne , neo noir , roger e. mosley , seventies
JOHN WAYNE GETS DIRTY HARRY WITH A BULLITT IN 'MCQ'
year: 1974 cast: John Wayne, Diana Muldaur, Eddie Albert, Clu Gulager, Roger E. Mosely, Al Lettieri, Julie Adams
Sounding like an upbeat version of a jazzy New Orleans funeral march or a car honking to a clunky yet catchy rhythm, McQ’s main theme takes our hero, the title character played by John Wayne, through a string of mysterious and dangerous elements that starts out reminiscent of cop thrillers DIRTY HARRY and BULLITT but winds up very Film Noir, beginning with an unnamed gunman slaying several victims throughout the pre-dawn city streets, we soon realize he’s the partner of a veteran cop named McQ.
When that killer’s quickly shot down, McQ has to investigate… not knowing his partner had pulled off the murders beforehand… going from an ex wife, a former lover, a reluctant ratting pimp and a notorious drug dealer to get clues, mostly red herrings which lead him (the first time round) absolutely nowhere.
action, al lettieri, clu gulager, david huddleston, eddie albert, john wayne, neo noir, roger e. mosley, seventies
year: 1974 cast: John Wayne, Diana Muldaur, Eddie Albert, Clu Gulager, Roger E. Mosely, Al Lettieri, Julie Adams Sounding like an upbeat...
Labels: action, al lettieri, clu gulager, david huddleston, eddie albert, john wayne, neo noir, roger e. mosley, seventies
Written by James M. Tate / 4/28/2016 / No comments / comedy , ensemble , garry marshall , hector elizondo , julia roberts
MARSHALL MISDIRECTS THE ENSEMBLE MOTHER'S DAY
Before we begin and finish as quickly as possible, reviewing a movie that, following banal versions of Robert Altman style NASHVILLE, A WEDDING and SHORT CUTS ensemble pieces (but winding up closer to READY TO WEAR), it should be noted that Garry Marshall, the man who helped Generation X grow up with Fonzie, Lenny, Squiggy and... everyone from HAPPY DAYS and LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY... and entertained "The Greatest Generation" and their Baby Boomers with THE ODD COUPLE... As a television Executive Producer/Mogul, turned into an, at first, pretty good theatrical director: A great one, actually. Or perhaps THE FLAMINGO KID, starring Matt Dillon as a young Brooklyn card-shark spending the summer at a rich resort as a cabana boy, winding up boy-toy for Janet Jones and a wishbone for proud yet unapologetically stubborn blue collar plumber dad Hector Elizondo and crooked fancy car salesman Richard Crenna, was a great movie with a good director...
comedy, ensemble, garry marshall, hector elizondo, julia roberts
Year Released: 2016 Before we begin and finish as quickly as possible, reviewing a movie that, following banal versions of Robert Altman...
Labels: comedy, ensemble, garry marshall, hector elizondo, julia roberts
Written by James M. Tate / 4/27/2016 / No comments / biopic , dark comedy , kevin spacey , michael shannon
SHANNON & SPACEY IN ELVIS & NIXON
Oh how much hope so many folks probably had for the potential of a political comedy/true life satire of epic proportions, but somehow, somewhere along the way, in a movie about a has-been legendary rocker, wanting to battle drug-taking hippies, planning and then having a secret meeting with one of the most hated Presidents ever, especially unforgotten in Hollywood, both Elvis Presley and Richard M. Nixon wind up looking... pretty damn cool, somehow...
Perhaps it's for the opposite reason that Eric Stoltz was fired from BACK TO THE FUTURE and replaced by Michael J. Fox...
The FUTURE makers needed a comic actor who could hit the right comic "marks." A mark is something not every actor can do in a comedic sense, and Michael Shannon, while speaking to Nixon about how the youths are really underground Communists; how television and drugs have made them hate the American flag; how he could actually disguise himself, like he did in a decade worth of films, to actually infiltrate the backstage touring with The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead and bust them right on the spot; and how he can use Kung Fu on lethal drug dealers...
biopic, dark comedy, kevin spacey, michael shannon
Year: 2016 Oh how much hope so many folks probably had for the potential of a political comedy/true life satire of epic proportions, but...
Labels: biopic, dark comedy, kevin spacey, michael shannon
Written by James M. Tate / 4/25/2016 / No comments / carol reed , espionage , forties , rex harrison , thriller , war
CAROL REED 1940 PRE-WW2 THRILLER 'NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH'
NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH: By the time we're on that title train to the title location, the dialogue-driven espionage is pretty much done and, for the most part, all the confusing matter of whether our leading man Rex Harrison, as Dickie Randall a.k.a. Gus Bennett, is a Nazi, a British agent or a Nazi for the British or a Brit for the Nazis, is still in the dark, and that makes for a good performance since in any thriller genre, a touch of mystery is needed to keep things fresh, and the subtle chase, following said character, on a windswept pace, leads to more of an action/adventure at the end, though a bit too little, too late.
As for direction, Carol Reed moves his chess pieces around nicely, including lovely first-billed Margaret Lockwood, who has to trust this dashing, talky mystery man to help her and her scientist father escape from the world-dominating villains, and there's more than a touch of dark humor being that NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH was made before World War II, right on the verge, in fact, of America's involvement, making this a journey on the edge that never goes full-out where it needs to be, not quite sure whether to satirize or despise the overall enemy. Had the same plot and, for the time, decent special effects occurred, say, in 1946, this might have been a lot stronger for the characters and audience alike. But what's there to experience is a decent visual page-turner; although it goes in one ear and out the other... The best thing about this TRAIN is the Criterion DVD cover, perhaps the best ever, ever, in their series consisting of some of the best artwork ever, ever created for collectors of vintage motion pictures.
carol reed, espionage, forties, rex harrison, thriller, war
year: 1940 Rating: *** NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH : By the time we're on that title train to the title location, the dialogue-driven espi...
Labels: carol reed, espionage, forties, rex harrison, thriller, war
Written by James M. Tate / 4/24/2016 / No comments / classic , elia kazan , fifties , marlon brando , tcm
RANT FOR BRANDO KAZAN THREE: ON THE WATERFRONT
Marlon Brando turns in a performance of a lifetime, and many other lifetimes, in ON THE WATERFRONT
Popular cinematic line about not being able to take it anymore and being mad as hell and all that business, but it'll be a cold day in that very same hell before another film is viewed on the big screen of the classic Golden or Silver Age nature when hosted by Robert Osbourne's Bat Faced TCM replacement, who told the audience tonight that it's up to us, we the audience, we the people, to decide whether or not so-and-so is a good movie, or not, after all we've heard during his preamble that, having to do with behind-the-scene elements of an incredible film harboring one of the greatest performances to date, one that the likes of Millennial favorites Leo and Johnny D., and many others, aspire to be... And whose attempt to equal this man's talent, frozen in time and history, is very unlikely...
classic, elia kazan, fifties, marlon brando, tcm
Marlon Brando turns in a performance of a lifetime, and many other lifetimes, in ON THE WATERFRONT Popular cinematic line about not bein...
Labels: classic, elia kazan, fifties, marlon brando, tcm
LINKLATER 70'S/80'S DAZED CONFUSED DOUBLE-FEATURE
DOUBLE FEATURE REVIEW OF DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993) & EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (2016)
DAZED AND CONFUSED: It might have been the 1980's when the tide started to reel back, and kids regarded the decade for what it was, speaking the very word in sentences like: "This is the Eighties," followed by something like, "Don't just stand there chewing on a leaf, take a pill." And that generation, in constantly reminding themselves of who they are and where they were, picking up stuff from a proverbial antique shop of former eras including the streamlined 1950's, the psychedelic 1960's (where the truly great music began), and the decade that Richard Linklater's intentionally unpretentious DAZED AND CONFUSED is set, consisting of a handful of guys and dolls during the last day and night of High School, 1976....
ben affleck, matthew mcconaughey
DOUBLE FEATURE REVIEW OF DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993) & EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (2016) DAZED AND CONFUSED : It might have been the 1980...
Labels: ben affleck, matthew mcconaughey
Written by James M. Tate / 4/23/2016 / No comments / biopic , eighties , morris day , musical , prince
LIVE 2 SEE THE DAWN: PRINCE IN PURPLE RAIN
Price as The Kid with a spooky puppet looking like The Count and goading his poor bandmates into eerie submission
"Dearly beloved... We are gathered here today, to get through this thing called," well since Thursday, April 21st, 2016, what's followed that sentence is instead "this thing called" death, that of a music icon; an eclectic, eccentric, hydrogenous, brilliant and distinguished performer who was around long before hitting it big with 1999, and then, with his band THE REVOLUTION, the album PURPLE RAIN and the likewise titled motion picture put Prince into the legendary stratosphere, relatively early on...
biopic, eighties, morris day, musical, prince
Price as The Kid with a spooky puppet looking like The Count and goading his poor bandmates into eerie submission "Dearly beloved.....
Labels: biopic, eighties, morris day, musical, prince
Written by James M. Tate / 4/21/2016 / No comments / 2016 , romance , tom hanks
TOM HANKS STARRING IN HOLOGRAM FOR A KING
Thomas of Arabia in Hologram for a King, Release Year: 2016
There's a feeling of peace and tranquility when... no, not as yet another American film set in a Middle East/Arab country provides an optimistic, non-terrorist glimpse that Hollywood feels is a necessary means of diplomacy concerning a maligned religion when in fact it's another polar opposite belief-system that gets a perpetually awful rap, since the 1960's, in that place called Tinsel Town: But when a gentle, mellow film abruptly ends before you realize it's even really begun, despite having sat there for a swift ninety-minutes, there's something unique and satisfying as our main character Tom Hanks, whose world-weary company man Alan, along with a handful of employees, traveling from America to Saudi Arabia to sell a Holographic system to, you got it, The King, discovers a giant lump on his back and, eventually, like the trailers already spoiled, there's a romance between Alan and his pretty doctor (more of a "handsome" lady), Sarita Choudhury as Zahra, who has as genuine a chemistry with Hanks as comic relief driver Yousef, sans the romance. Thus, Alexander Black steals a movie that needs stealing since the beloved Tom, at this point, though still embodying that good old unique charm and a genuine ability to wield both an endearing smile and sincere pathos, resembles a cross between W.C. Fields and someone he's always been visually similar to, and who should've, at one point in his long, eclectic career, played his sister: that being GREASE starlet Stockard Channing.
2016, romance, tom hanks
Thomas of Arabia in Hologram for a King, Release Year: 2016 There's a feeling of peace and tranquility when... no, not as yet anothe...
Labels: 2016, romance, tom hanks
Written by James M. Tate / 4/19/2016 / No comments / 2016 , gary oldman , kevin costner , ryan reynolds , thriller , tommy lee jones
KEVIN COSTNER & RYAN REYNOLDS IN CRIMINAL
Costner resembling an aged Travis Bickle RELEASE YEAR: 2016
Lately, within private circles and treadmill conversations, Cult Film Freak has been accused of writing posts that are long. Not too long, mind you, just... long.
Well that doesn't concern reviews but "articles" about old classic films since it's downright ludicrous to, at this point where any "old school" motion picture has their own dedicated following with books and websites and just about everything else, making just another review about them, just another review: But we'll keep this one, like most of the new release write-ups, short and to the point even though the movie itself doesn't seem to have a point, followable plot, or purpose. Just a few otherwise talented old actors and one young A-list star who recently got his mojo back as the sarcastic superhero DEADPOOL (while ironically, MAN OF STEEL didn't hurt a fledgling Costner). And where Ryan Reynolds fits within the Kevin Costner vehicle is as mysterious as Kevin's own role as a really bad dude, sounding a cross between Kurt Russell's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK anti-hero Snake Plissken and the man Snake's based on, Clint Eastwood. And yet, by the plot summary alone it's clear that Ryan's an FBI agent whose memories are placed into Costner's CRIMINAL mind, and from this point he and the audience slowly learn that... prepare for a shock coming from Hollywood... the CIA is as crooked as a barrel of venomous rattlers: Seriously, at what point does a Revelation become a timeworn cliché?
2016, gary oldman, kevin costner, ryan reynolds, thriller, tommy lee jones
Costner resembling an aged Travis Bickle RELEASE YEAR : 2016 Lately, within private circles and treadmill conversations, Cult Film Freak...
Labels: 2016, gary oldman, kevin costner, ryan reynolds, thriller, tommy lee jones
Written by James M. Tate / 4/18/2016 / No comments / comic book , eighties , franchise , jack nicholson , kim basinger , michael gough , michael keaton , tim burton
UNMASKING JOEL SCHUMACHER'S INFAMOUS BATMAN MOVIES
BATMAN FOREVER: At the very end of his first motion picture in which Jim Carrey got a gigantic boatload of money, that being LIAR LIAR following those god-awful yet extremely popular PET DETECTIVE films and of course his catapult in IN LIVING COLOR (following an underrated vampire romp, ONCE BITTEN) that paved the way for his ultra success in the 1990's, there was, if you stick around LIAR's end credits, a trick played on the rubbery madman when character-actress Swoozie Kurtz, as a defense lawyer, and Jim are arguing in a scene where both scream names at each other before she goes purposefully off script, shouting: "Over actor!"
Ice Man with Maverick's wife
And for the first time you can see Carrey unfold, melt his hyper countenance and become very real with a wide albeit embarrassed grin that, if able to capture this kind of vulnerable moment on screen, he could really be something (TRUMAN SHOW almost reached that kind of reality)... And yet, that accusation, meant as a joke by the director handed to the actress, just isn't true. For "Overacting" is when someone reaches to BECOME a character, not a character who is loud and crazy and insane while being that person, basically the reason why Jim got those immense paychecks: in a world of dry sarcasm, people needed a human cartoon, and he was it, in droves...
The Lightweight Heavies
Well this was the first time he could prove his worth as a, or what could have/should have been a, somewhat serious turn being the second-tier villain in the third Caped Crusader film, BATMAN FOREVER, the first directed by Joel Schumacher while produced by Tim Burton. Yet Carrey, as hammy as he gets as The Riddler, has nothing on an actor who, throughout his career, from THE EYES OF LAURA MARS to COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER to his shift from character-actor to leading man via THE FUGITIVE, landing him an Oscar for simply being his cool and collected self (a brilliantly evil Ray Fiennes was robbed), Jones is, surprisingly enough given his genuine talent to fit within just about any genre, the truly distracting overcooked ham on board, trying too hard to play Harvey "Two Face" Dent with prosthetics one one side when he turns his head the wrong way. While on the better side his annoying tirades are just as loud, and vapid...
Kilmer looking serious
Funny that Michael Keaton had quit because he felt the villains were more important than the person the movie's are named after. Too bad because here more than ever, Keaton could have subdued these guys better than first-timer Val Kilmer, seeming downright awkward and speaking in a sexy deep HISSSSS much like, dare it be said, the beloved Christian Bale in the Christopher Nolan films, which were very much needed to reboot a franchise that started out alright and ended up downright horrible, thanks or no thanks to director Schumacher who turned Burton's dark atmosphere into a Gotham resembling a surreal Variety Show.
And while Tim Burton's first two and far superior ventures, especially the original with Jack Nicholson, weren't stranger to the Dutch Angle, where the camera is tilted to establish the scene a bit askew to intentionally put the audience off balance, there's nothing but Dutch going on here, followed by a shaky-cam, insane close-ups and editing liken to a music video aka the films of Tony Scott and on the other side of the mainstream "catered to opening night audiences" style of filmmaking, Michael Bay, making FOREVER flow like a locomotive chugging towards a cliff where lies the bottomless pit. If only it reached there a lot sooner...
Riddler and Batman
On the prettier side, our stock ingenue is a shrink played by a sexy Nicole Kidman, who, despite trying really hard, and both being terrific actors otherwise, she shares zero chemistry with Kilmer, who, unlike Keaton's bedded-down lady's man always making the first move, she all but glues a mattress to the smug Bruce Wayne's back, deleting any sort of genuine romance these two could have had, had she been more subtle as the plot, dealing simultaneously with Two-Face's vengeful reign of terror and The Riddler's plan to control people's minds...
And in the next venture, the most maligned of the four covered here, BATMAN AND ROBIN, that second name was established in FOREVER: for we actually first meet Chris O'Donnell as the iconic sidekick to the Caped Crusader, Robin, who, having lost his entire family after a tightrope act interrupted by an act of terror, gives him the speed and agility and deep-rooted anger to keep up and compete with his new mentor. Only thing is, Val Kilmer, usually a "giving" sort of method actor and intriguing to watch, seems completely alone here... And word came out quickly that he never wanted to play the part in the first place, and it actually shows: He's as uncomfortable in that stiff suit as the plot is to logic, and the entire movie glides along like clips of a prolonged movie trailer that hadn't been edited into a linear structure, and, speaking of which, a lot of trimming was needed to make this overlong saga much less torturous.
Rushing to end things
Although, on the brighter side, there is a certain camp value within the overall pandemonium: watching both villains trying so hard to outdo each other becomes as relaxing as one of those hyper kids given speed pills to wind down. There's simply nothing to do but try to catch everything the flamboyant director throws at us in his vivid comic book styling.
Yet the colors are more befitting a neon sign for an 80's Nightclub than a "graphic novel" page-turner, and it might be hard to get through the "first issue," much less two hours of a catastrophe that, if Kilmer only took the role with what he can do dramatically and comically instead of remaining in mannequin mode throughout, not only could he have saved Gotham City, but the motion picture as well...
How many superheroes plain give up less than halfway through? It's no wonder he never returned to the role...
And that's where the swarthy progressive Hollywood kingpin glided in, straight from mediocre melodrama on television's hit ER and two fantastic, timeless roles in both Quentin Tarantino's FROM DUSK TO DAWN (written and co-starring the former video rental clerk) and, bathed in the QT style, Elmore Leonard's adaptation of his own novel OUT OF SITE, by far Clooney's best (or at least, most natural) performance to date. So now, to close, let's discuss what could very well be his worst motion picture ever... Although not all blame goes to Georgie boy...
BATMAN AND ROBIN: Well someone gave director Joel Schumacher the green light to do another BATMAN, just in case no one was paying attention the first time around... It was quite easy to lose interest stuck in FOREVER and this final Tim Burton Production starring A-List preachy heartthrob George Clooney, now wearing the muscular-shaped tights and cape, living in a mansion and working underground and, with more colors than ever, Gotham City resembles a roller-rink CLOCKWORK ORANGE had it been set in a MY LITTLE PONY universe yet still with that touch of Dystopic BLADE RUNNER combined with a disco glow of XANADU that includes gangs of all shapes and sizes ala THE WARRIORS, only looking straight out of an eclectic Metrosexual discothèque...
Study in Blue Cheese
And how we see this new light-bright Gotham is through the bedazzled yet surprisingly tough, resilient and experienced eyes of Alfred's niece, Barbara, soon to become Batgirl, which, by name, seems more important and linked to Batman than Robin himself. But CLUELESS starlet Alicia Silverstone, on the verge of her 15 minutes running out, is more Robin's type given her age and penchant for running away and trying to find an intriguing world beyond the mansion she's holed up in... All the while being shadowed by a concerned, and quickly lovestruck, Robin, played by a returning Chris O'Donnell in a bigger role than his entrance in FOREVER, not really a surprise since his famous sidekick's name is shared within the title...
Clooney with COD
And for the record, Clooney actually gets second-billed credit following Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dr. Freeze, giving his usual one-liners (like "Cool It" and "Chill Out") and, in order to save his almost-dead cryogenic wife, providing his character an ambiguous, sympathetic peripheral, he's a vengeful villain with no limitations, turning the colorful Gotham into a blue hue of endless winter. But there's green in there too, and plenty of it: For surprisingly, even worse than Arnold, acting-wise, like Jones stunk more than Carrey, is Uma Thurman as temptress Poison Ivy...
With an endless array of boring lectures and stagy scenes where she struts around, hitting her hammy marks within a lab seeming straight from a Saturday Morning kid's show, she goes from a befuddled, environmental, virginal geek doctor into a sultry, sexy, slutty ingenue more easy than Pfeiffer morphed into Cat Woman... a quick "backstabbing" death followed by a transition that isn't fully explained while comic book favorite, Bane, the bald muscular heavy who would serve as the socialist, mouth-covered co-lead ala Tom Hardy in the last Chris Nolan Political Thriller-style venture. Here he's but a big bad bodyguard that does very little but resemble a WWF wrestler, destroying things that Mr. Freeze doesn't turn to ice.
Evil Tin Man
Meanwhile, Clooney, like Ben Affleck in the (at this time) current BATMAN VS SUPERMAN, doesn't do a horrendous job at BAT, simply going through the motions, jiggling his head in the usual fashion and basically playing it mild and mellow... perhaps too much... an obvious attempt as a Steve McQueen type, not having to exert a lot of energy or dialogue despite given the superhero lead, seeming more lethargic than world-weary, and is perhaps why he's given the "worst Batman ever" status, not seeming to care about much with a one-note expression, whether he's perplexed by his young duo's romantic curiosity pointed to the dangerous Gotham City, or "snowboarding" with Robin, literally from the outskirts of outer-space itself, all the way back into town in one of the cheesiest scenes ever shot, and while viewing you might not be able to do anything but laugh, smile, or throw up endlessly...
Uma T
In that, BATMAN AND ROBIN is actually a much "better" time than the plodding FOREVER simply because all the room leftover to have fun poking at the glorious camp, wherein the Kilmer episode traps the audience within the pontificating villains (and to note, Arnold is far more entertaining than either Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey combined): Could it be this reviewer's penchant for the "so bad it's good" sub-genre or just the fact the plot is simplistic and never tries overriding what director Joel himself seemed to be attempting: a pure rollercoaster ride as opposed to a whirlwind of talky lectures attempting depth where it doesn't belong...
For when it comes to stupidity, BATMAN AND ROBIN is THE GODFATHER and CITIZEN KANE combined while FOREVER is a hyperactive version of those first two Keaton ventures...
By the time right before BATMAN was handed over to the extremely serious and complicated MEMENTO filmmaker and an intense former child actor, the Keaton BATMAN duo were actually regarded as being, at the very least, flawed classics while Joel's double-mess is fitfully forgotten altogether. And check for the ratings for all four movies under the insignia picture directly below.
SCORES for BATMAN FOREVER: *1/2 for BATMAN AND ROBIN * FUN TO BAG ON CAMP VALUE SCORE: ***
CLICK FOR THE REVIEW OF TIM BURTON'S ORIGINAL BATMAN MOVIE W/ JACK NICHOLSON
comic book, eighties, franchise, jack nicholson, kim basinger, michael gough, michael keaton, tim burton
Year Released: 1995 BATMAN FOREVER : At the very end of his first motion picture in which Jim Carrey got a gigantic boatload of money, t...
Labels: comic book, eighties, franchise, jack nicholson, kim basinger, michael gough, michael keaton, tim burton
Written by James M. Tate / 4/15/2016 / No comments / action , camp , darrell zwirling , ensemble , janice heiden , pamela hensley , paul gleason , paul wexler , pulp , robyn hilton , ron ely , seventies , warner archives , william lucking
Ron Ely in the pulpy adventure of Doc Savage YEAR: 1976
Just when you thought you'd seen everything, up comes something you missed because of being too young at the time and then, older, you discover a curio that epitomizes lost cult phenomena...
Robyn Hilton
For DOC SAVAGE, the last film backed by the original WAR OF THE WORLDS producer George Pal and directed by Michael Anderson before the beloved LOGAN'S RUN and maligned MARTIAN CHRONICLES, is almost beyond words, centering on TARZAN stud Ron Ely playing a scientist just as smart as he's fit and equally tough and well-read and who, along with five partners including muscular construction developer William Lucking and young BREAKFAST CLUB detention lord and VIGILANTE FORCE thug Paul Gleason as a few of the men under Doc's supervision that really don't do much but marvel at boss's glory, which includes gadgetry the likes of the then-popular Roger Moore James Bond films...
Sexy bimbos Janice Heiden and Robyn Hilton
And fight scenes trying for the Kung Fu craze and mirroring just about everything the drive-in 70's had to offer and, although theatrical, SAVAGE plays out like the pilot episode of a television series that never came to be (a sequel was mostly filmed and then scrapped following poor box office returns), with a low-voiced, antique radio SHADOW style narrator basking in what sounds like intentional camp yet Ely's ultra-serious nature within the plot-line, trying to find out how his father was killed in South America while being toyed with by an intentionally charming villain named Captain Seas, wherein the late Paul Wexler looks so much like the Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes stock actor (and beyond) Timothy Carey, if you narrow your eyes it's as if Carey were, actually, during the KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE era, right on board...
action, camp, darrell zwirling, ensemble, janice heiden, pamela hensley, paul gleason, paul wexler, pulp, robyn hilton, ron ely, seventies, warner archives, william lucking
Labels: action, camp, darrell zwirling, ensemble, janice heiden, pamela hensley, paul gleason, paul wexler, pulp, robyn hilton, ron ely, seventies, warner archives, william lucking
Written by James M. Tate / 4/14/2016 / No comments / 2016 , bill murray , disney , kids
DISNEY REBOOTS THE JUNGLE BOOK
Computers take place of hand-drawn animation in the reboot of the Disney classic THE JUNGLE BOOK circa 2016
Most people will remember the original Disney JUNGLE BOOK by one character and one name and one color. A blue bear named Baloo, and here he's as brown as any big Grizzly, looking like the real deal with CGI that fits the entire canvas, only now, with the voice of Bill Murray, Baloo not only seems the most genuine of all the animals, he steals the show in a mellow, unforced fashion, providing not only comic relief but a gentle break from the routine...
2016, bill murray, disney, kids
Computers take place of hand-drawn animation in the reboot of the Disney classic THE JUNGLE BOOK circa 2016 Most people will remember th...
Labels: 2016, bill murray, disney, kids
BAD LONGER VERSION OF MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
Review of the much too extended version of IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD before having seen the original
AN IMPORTANT NOTE before reading this review... IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD MAD WORLD was viewed, for the very first time, on the big screen in a retro theater, just last week, and it was the version that is reviewed below, which was written before even realizing there was a much. much. much, much better original version at all...
"What's in the bawwwwwx?"
Thus, the film is torn apart for an abundance of flaws, and yet now, after ordering the beautiful Criterion Blu Ray/DVD package, and watching the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL CUT, it's like experiencing an entirely different motion picture, one that actually has wonderful, flowing motion instead of sinking slowly into proverbial quicksand for nearly three overlong hours...
Getting the plot and misadventure underway in five minutes instead of twenty is one of many changes... Again, like just mentioned, yours truly had no idea there was an extended edition, and why, if playing classic old movies in theaters, would the "Director's Cut" or "Extended Edition" be shown instead of the one originally viewed on the big screen to audiences seeing it for the first time? (Same thing happened with GOOD BAD UGLY... promoting the original but instead showing the one where scenes, like Tuco with the chickens, are added with a completely different film stock). In that, newcomers to MAD WORLD should see the original theatrical version just like people did in 1963, without the Director or Studio, or whoever is responsible for this catastrophe trying to improve upon a Classic: Being too close to the material at hand, there seems to be no realization that what's left out is, in fact, shown even more clearly by not having it there at all. For this is where the viewer's imagination comes in, which is what makes a film worth watching, again and again and again. And, so, before journeying through this writeup, note that the long, long, long, long version is downright horrible while the original is absolutely fantastic... Scenes that cut to lead to others are extended to the point that when you reach the next scene you forget about why there was a last scene... And so much time's spent talking there's simply no adventure or journey happening at all... So there you have it... Alas, since the Landmark Presentation Series decided to overindulge modern audiences with a piece much different than what made it truly shine and memorable and incredible way back when, that's what this somewhat negative review is centered on... Passing the buck, but with reason... Thus the...
REVIEW OF THE EXTENDED CUT BEGINS HERE: Many films have followed the heels and back bumpers of IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD... That's four MAD's for four cars, at first, whose inhabitants witness another car drive off a cliff and a whispered, dying man's secret – like a few years later would happen to Clint Eastwood against poor Elli Wallach in THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – is heard by a couple of fellas: Yet soon enough their women and a few others catch wind of a race to find a bunch of loot buried underneath a mysterious, unknown "W"...
buddy hackett, car, ensemble, jonathan winters, milton berle, race, sid caesar, sixties, stanley kramer
Review of the much too extended version of IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD before having seen the original AN IMPORTANT NOTE before ...
Labels: buddy hackett, car, ensemble, jonathan winters, milton berle, race, sid caesar, sixties, stanley kramer
Written by James M. Tate / 4/12/2016 / No comments / 2016 , comedy , kristen bell , melissa mccarthy , team-up
MELISSA MCCARTHY & KRISTEN BELL IN THE BOSS
Here are the only two good things about THE BOSS... Bell's breasts...
A movie that works in reverse, and yet, doesn't really work at all, THE BOSS stars Melissa McCarthy as, you got it, an overweight (though not as overweight) bitch who doesn't take crap from anybody. Sound familiar?
And here, like most of her other ventures after hitting the A-list from BRIDESMAIDS, the overall punchline revolves around her title character who, in this case, after growing up in an orphanage (seen in a short prologue), McCarthy's Michelle Darnell becomes really, really rich... Something that's supposed to mean everything, and yet we only witness her reign of (abuse of) power in two relatively quick scenes, and during one she's giving a speech to a horde of fans who love her for... what exactly? Did we miss something? Is this a sequel?
2016, comedy, kristen bell, melissa mccarthy, team-up
Here are the only two good things about THE BOSS... Bell's breasts... A movie that works in reverse, and yet, doesn't really wor...
Labels: 2016, comedy, kristen bell, melissa mccarthy, team-up
Written by James M. Tate / 4/11/2016 / No comments / 2016 , cable , colman domingo , horror , TV , zombies
STRAND YOUR GROUND IN FEAR THE WALKING DEAD
Victor Strand playing with an empty head in FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Season One, and he's progressed in Season 2..
Victor Strand played by Colman Domingo. Right on, bro! Is it racist to enjoy seeing an old school black dude on a series that really needed an, um, old school black dude? Seeming from the 1970's blaxploitation genre, lean and mean and swift and cool, Strand takes us back to basics and, putting color aside, his character is, so far, the best on FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, which began on pretty decent ground, at the beginning of Season Two, by simply getting off it...
2016, cable, colman domingo, horror, TV, zombies
Victor Strand playing with an empty head in FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Season One, and he's progressed in Season 2.. Victor Strand played...
Labels: 2016, cable, colman domingo, horror, TV, zombies
JOHN HUGHES PRESENTS 'SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL'
The beautiful Mary Stuart Masterson is the Master of the credit title sequence in SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL
By the time SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL hit theaters, and thereafter looped on afternoon cable television, John Hughes had already been a household name, and within his wheelhouse of motion pictures, including those he didn't direct but served as producer and, most important, writer, involving awkward kids with more secret confidence than the popular jerks whose open campus stardom has to do with good looks and money, and not in that order...
comedy, eighties, elias koteas, eric stoltz, high school, john ashton, john hughes, lea thompson, mary stuart masterson, teen
The beautiful Mary Stuart Masterson is the Master of the credit title sequence in SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL By the time SOME KIND OF WONDER...
Labels: comedy, eighties, elias koteas, eric stoltz, high school, john ashton, john hughes, lea thompson, mary stuart masterson, teen
Written by James M. Tate / 4/10/2016 / No comments / christopher collet , corey haim , eighties , peter weller , robert downey jr. , suspense , teri garr
CHRIS COLLET FIRSTBORN, PETER WELLER MOVING IN
Peter Weller doesn't trust no one and holds all the cards in FIRSTBORN
One of the best performances by an actor, soon be known as a metallic-robotic cop for the rest of his career after traveling the 8TH DIMENSION, Peter Weller downright nails it as Sam, who is MOVING IN, the original title or some kind of alternate for FIRSTBORN, with a family that has a mother, a youngest son and of course, the oldest, which the real title explains right up front: In the part of Jake, Christopher Collet seems, in a way, sort of related to his "poor me" mom's new nefarious yet at first just sneaky, "bullshit-artist" boyfriend in that both have facial expressions that don't take much dialogue to get across what becomes a similar (and perhaps overused) standoff scenario screaming "I don't like you and you don't like me!" This line, never spoken, could go either way. Both Collet and Weller are facially-intense, bubbling juicy pride and determination from the pours of their skin, with expressions that mount like ticking time bombs, again and again. And never in a film has there been so many people just kind of, standing around. Wherein, surprisingly enough, that's where much of the "action" occurs.
christopher collet, corey haim, eighties, peter weller, robert downey jr., suspense, teri garr
Peter Weller doesn't trust no one and holds all the cards in FIRSTBORN One of the best performances by an actor, soon be known as a ...
Labels: christopher collet, corey haim, eighties, peter weller, robert downey jr., suspense, teri garr
Written by James M. Tate / 4/06/2016 / No comments / adventure , bill mckinney , clint eastwood , eighties , geoffrey lewis , juliette lewis , sam bottoms , scatman crothers , sondra locke , tessa richarde , walter barnes
Sam Bottoms, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood and Bill McKinney in BRONCO BILLY Year: 1980
At one time this was Clint Eastwood's favorite movie directed and starring, Clint Eastwood. Not sure if that's changed from when the statement was originally stated by the man who has directed plenty... But for Cult Film Freak it holds up as completely logical and legit, still...
adventure, bill mckinney, clint eastwood, eighties, geoffrey lewis, juliette lewis, sam bottoms, scatman crothers, sondra locke, tessa richarde, walter barnes
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SAUL AND WALKING DEAD RACE THEIR OWN DEVILS
Robert Downey Bardeem has an idea, and it's probably that he's gonna be Rick's biggest WALKING DEAD foe
It could have been one of the best episodes of BETTER CALL SAUL last week, for the fact that Michael McKean, as super-lawyer turned super-crazy Chuck McGill, finally stops being a "human potato," really, truly, and strategically shedding that vapid foil blanket to get his big client back from Rhea Seehorn's idealistic good-lawyer Kim Wexler in a brilliant way that perhaps now we know only Michael McKean, the actor that began as one of two dumb-bells upstairs and then progressed into a fake rock god and played thereafter countless thankless roles, can...
2016, cable, TV
Robert Downey Bardeem has an idea, and it's probably that he's gonna be Rick's biggest WALKING DEAD foe It could have been o...
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Written by James M. Tate / 4/02/2016 / No comments / charlie sheen , daryl hannah , eighties , james karen , michael douglas , oliver stone , oscars , stock market
GREED & MONEY RULE OLIVER STONE'S 'WALL STREET'
One of Gordon Gekko's paintings he won't take a bath on
Oliver Stone didn't win an Academy Award for writing and/or directing WALL STREET. His Vietnam opus PLATOON, also about two mentors pulling at a vulnerable Charlie Sheen wishbone, was the anticipated Gold Statue followup to his Best Screenplay for MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, which got the ball rolling a decade earlier. And having been an American soldier in Vietnam, PLATOON was his canvas to paint, and everyone knew it then and still does...
Painting and Douglas
And yet, accolades were and still are very few concerning WALL STREET, giving props to Best Actor Winning Michael Douglas as the iconic Gordon Gekko, a Corporate Raider whose "Greed" speech was as important to his victory as, in a few years, Joe Pesci's barroom clown lecture would be. It's often that that one scene seems to usually nail it. But according to both Stone and Douglas, they weren't the best of friends: On the first day, the director asked the big-named actor... on a tremendous roll after ROMANCING THE STONE and FATAL ATTRACTION cleared memory of his STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO television status... if this were a motion picture or soap opera? And while it's never been disclosed exactly what scene in particular Stone referred to, it just might have had to do with playing a villain in a noticeably villainous fashion: The worst kind of cinematic bad guys (or girls) are the ones who seem like nothing else in the process, and with no pulse pumping in-between: as if instead of eating breakfast in the morning they meditate in perpetual darkness...
Real life father/son Sheen
In fact, Douglas's best moments are bringing a sort of genuinely "twisted" humanity to this film's first-billed star, wonderfully playing the ultimate heavy against a lightweight climber in Stone's PLATOON leading young man, Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, who sells his soul more convincingly by, in this case, using info on his father's union/airlines, than actual Faustian-inspired tales set in the modern world, like, for instance, THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE, which this is not only much better than but seems the cinematic origin/inspiration of... For Douglas, at first... instead of harboring the intensity of some demonic manipulator... he's more like a deer springing gleefully through a forest as Fox's motivation isn't to equal that impossible stride, but to follow the heels upon which is tragically predicted an unlucky outcome by dad Martin Sheen in a terrific father/son (mostly one shot) scene within a silent elevator going down as Martin plays better than he speaks, often spouting blue collar values as if Stone were kissing his typewriter with every punch of the keys. And yet, shocking for a writer/director with a heart usually soaking on his sleeves, and with all the "good greed" abounding during the Reagan era (that baby boomers preferred to call selfish instead of prosperous), this movie is, surprisingly, far more ambiguous than one might think, and that, other than the actor, is what makes Gordon Gekko so timeless... beneath all his money that never runs out, he really is a climber that only knows to move forward, without looking back – traits embracing any intrepid motion picture hero as opposed to a villain.
Bud Fox is born to be lectured/mentored
And taking a glimpse into the director's personal history, this movie was to Oliver Stone's youth what PLATOON was to his slightly older (yet still young) years; his dad was a hard-working Right Wing stockbroker and, in that, is who Hal Holbrook's friendly yet lecturing, waiting and wisely anticipating office broker Lou Mannheim is inspired: on par with Martin Sheen's "work hard without taking shortcuts" virtues and, despite having backed Nixon in the early-1970's and cruising along on a nowhere road in the same office for decades, he sees through Fox even before dad does, and also, doesn't trust money or Bud's foreknowledge of it, one bit.
James Karen pouncing Fox
A film that never stops entertaining, the value is in the "action" of the first half as Sheen goes from put-upon cold-caller in a relatively mediocre firm, bringing you into the caged, hectic setting and, like Bud, wanting out despite the great actors and flowing dialogue; to being a crooked investigative underling, following his prime target (Terrence Stamp, dammit!) on a motorcycle while thinking up ways to cut corners to bring info and money back to his boss; while the suspense lies with equal momentum the rest of the way through, as Fox rides the tail-wind of success to what could be his own "abyss"...
Meanwhile, grooving throughout the good times and bad is a non-dated yet still completely discernible 1980's soundtrack, highlighted by several David Byrne Talking Head tunes that the techno main theme plays variations of in-between, sounding as if one of those old black and green computer screens magically played music all by themselves, somehow, like a pianola for determined, workaholic yuppies in rhythmic repose. And there are corny moments, that Stone is often prone to in any of his projects, like an exhausted Fox looking out his million dollar penthouse window whispering to himself, "Who Am I?" as interior designing "trophy" girlfriend Daryl Hannah as Darien, equally vulnerable and desirable (who also butted heads with Stone), waits in a large bed, the set bathed in a sort of ominous glow, like Hell itself anticipates their every move.
Picturing Wall Street Life
And to cover some other... contrived moments: One scene shows a bum with a shopping cart, and a stalwart businessman, standing together in the rain, on a street corner, as limo-cruising Gekko makes a point, literally pointing-out to Bud about their contrast: both just happening to be standing there, like an earlier scene in a club locker room where, as Gekko tells Fox about the importance of acquiring information, a guy conveniently walks up and quietly asks Gordon for an illicit stock tip...
An Unfairly Unbalanced Fox
These things seem straight out of a play, or perhaps a coloring book, but somehow it's an old-fashion, dime-novel or even Film Noir approach that works. And returning to Bud's "Who am I?" moment, occurring just when hitting his stride (and literally after peaking sexually following a fantastic meal), would he realize he lost his soul so quickly and/or even care at all? Stone mentions this moment during a great commentary track on the DVD, discussing and often defending a movie that most critics saw as a potential yet pale followup to his "greatest motion picture achievement," PLATOON, which is, really, if you look closely at Charlie Sheen's duo mentors... both obvious in their agendas... is completely the reverse of within a far more subtle WALL STREET...
More Smoking of Winston Cigs
Gekko is what he is the whole way through, and the genuine acting triumph lies far beyond just one of those performances that exceeds the film itself, which WALL STREET, to many, is the epitome of, and yet is very far from being. Working backwards here, from the 1980's to the 1990's, using Quentin Tarantino as a comparison: while the sublime Vietnam flick was Stone's PULP FICTION, exploding with epic grandiose while putting him on both the Hollywood and Household map, this is more of a grounded-in JACKIE BROWN, paying more laid-back attention to the devil than the details. For any fans of the John Landis comedy TRADING PLACES knows, the convoluted work going on with the actual Stock Market "Floor Traders" makes little to no sense to the audience, no matter how many times viewed: You just have to go with it, and let the characters make more sense to the story – beyond what they're actually doing.
JCM Rules
TRIVIA: Most of the information has been already mentioned, as you should see this movie on DVD or BLU RAY to hear the terrific director commentary that covers a whole lot of ground, but there are still things to take notice of: Like Oliver Stone himself in a cameo as a broker... His son, who played a young, plump, dead-Indian watching Jim Morrison later in THE DOORS, plays Gekko's son... While the usually villainous greedy yuppie type James Spader plays a nice cautious fella with no guts while the equally jerk-off casted Sal Rubinek, as Gekko's lawyer, is in his usual weenie form... And not only is Sheen returning from Vietnam in PLATOON, but scene-stealer (in both films) John C. McGinley also returns, playing Bud's best friend/partner in the cold-calling firm run by an always-watchable James Karen, the Murray Hamilton of POLTERGEIST... In another small role, this a cameo, THE SHOOTING starlet, and the first cinematic Anne Frank, that being, Millie Perkins, turns up as Bud's mom while Sean Young has an even more (or rather, less) wasted potential as Gekko's wife, and yet her scenes are intriguing and realistic, as usual with the controversial yet talented and beautiful actress... Martin Scorsese regular goon Frank Adonis plays one of the blue collar root-for characters... Franklin Cover, best known as "the white guy married to Lenny Kravitz's mom" on THE JEFFERSONS turns up in one of his few movie roles • And the eerie portrait at the very top of this article/review, that Bud says would only be worthwhile "If you're on mushrooms," is one of the many modern paintings that Hannah's character bought with either Gekko or Fox's dough.
Wide Shot of Gekko's War Room including a painting of the GHOST demons and what look like pinball machines
"You're fired, but maybe you can talk the networks into a possible Jeffersons spin-off called... The Zebra Bunch."
Here's a shot of the famous, or infamous, GREED IS GOOD scene, and to Wall Street, and Hollywood, it's Truth.
A very great scene between Martin & Charlie Sheen, both who starred in popular Vietnam Flicks
Daryl, it could be worse news, believe us, wait a few years, Charlie just couldn't stop... And he's not winning.
Nice use of what was popular during the 1960's and 1970's, Split-Screen Cinematography featuring Sean Young
Canvas that provides THE END closing credits layout and father dedication for WALL STREET
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One of Gordon Gekko's paintings he won't take a bath on Oliver Stone didn't win an Academy Award for writing and/or directin...
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Six key Industrial appointments in Western Sydney
Cushman & Wakefield, a global leader in commercial real estate services, is pleased to announce the continued expansion of its Industrial platform in Western Sydney, with the announcement of six key appointments to the NSW Industrial Sales and Leasing Team based in its Parramatta office.
Orlando Maciel will join Cushman & Wakefield as Head of Industrial Sales and Leasing, Western Sydney, following nearly 4 years as a Director, Industrial Sales and Leasing, Parramatta for JLL, and over 7 years as a Divisional Director for Industrial Property for Savills. Orlando has over 16 years of experience in the industrial property market.
Christopher Snaith joined the company as Director of the firm’s Industrial Sales & Leasing team in Parramatta. He has over 15 years of experience in the real estate industry, specialising in industrial agency, development and construction, with an extensive property background and exposure to a wide range of Industrial corporates.
Robert Dowdy has been appointed as Associate Director, Industrial & Logistics. Robert spent the last 5 years with LJ Hooker Commercial Silverwater and has an extensive understanding of construction, investments and private and corporate sales and leasing. Robert has been closely involved in transactions throughout various metropolitan Sydney locations particularly along the M4, M7 & M5 infrastructure corridor.
Stephen Chronopoulos has joined the company as a Manager, Industrial & Logistics, following his recent position as an Executive for Industrial Sales & Leasing for JLL Parramatta.
Matt Chambers has joined the company as Negotiator, Industrial & Logistics. Matt was formerly with Colliers International where he worked as an Industrial Leasing Analyst.
Sherman Rose has also joined the company as Negotiator, Industrial & Logistics, formerly a sales and leasing negotiator at Bawdens Industrial.
Tim Cassidy, Cushman & Wakefield’s Head of Industrial Sales & Leasing, New South Wales, said: “We are seeing substantial growth in the industrial property market in New South Wales and are investing in our industrial platform to meet ongoing demand from vendors and investors.”
“The small business tax deductions announced in the Federal Budget will further support demand, adding to the increasing competition for industrial assets as investors seek to secure sites suitable for future residential development.”
Commenting on the key appointments Phillip Rockliff, Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield Commercial Real Estate NSW: “I am pleased to welcome these six key people to the team, to be led by Orlando Maciel. Combined, we have built an extremely powerful and able Industrial Sales & Leasing team in Western Sydney. Their experience will provide a depth and breadth of support needed to continue building our presence in the growing industrial property sector in New South Wales.”
“With a strong outlook for the New South Wales industrial property sector, we expect this demand will continue to intensify, and the addition of these six industry experts to the team further strengthens our capability to deliver the best outcome for our clients in the sector,” Mr Rockliff concluded.
Tim Cassidy
NSW Head of Industrial
tim.cassidy@cushwake.com
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Cerebral Matter - March '09
Elite scientists are well-rounded... I like to believe this, knowing that my basketball players and other student-athletes at Caltech are talented in a number of areas. It's math and science first and basketball (hopefully) a close second. And many are expert musicians and artists as well:
"Some of the best scientists recommend looking for breadth of skills and talents in a variety of endeavors beyond the sciences.
In two previous posts, we argue that training in the arts benefits scientists in a variety of different ways. The best scientists are much more likely to be artists, musicians, actors, craftsmen, and writers than are typical scientists, or even the general public. Scientists draw skills, knowledge, processes, concepts, and even inspiration from their non-scientific avocations. Many are well aware of these advantages."
Leading and listening are skills. And being able to change one's mind is as well. Malcolm Gladwell explains.
Where are your thoughts? The past, present, or future? And are you now concerned that you didn't enjoy yourself when you had the chance? Some people could be suffering from hyperopia:
"They’re so obsessed with preparing for the future that they can’t enjoy the present, and they end up looking back sadly on all their lost opportunities for fun."
So, players DO think during the game. But not too much. And sometimes not at all. But then a little bit to help them later. Actually, it's all about having a really quick mind... which is an effect of practicing and playing and understanding the situations that may present themselves. Vince Carter summarizes:
"It’s all about memory through repetition and memory throughout the course of the game."
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Even Bill Simmons is thinking like a coach. He wants details, man. Details about the inner game of statistical analysis. Simmons, like yours truly, was at the MIT Sloan Sports Business Conference, and the Sports Guy was seeking answers:
"I want to know Wade's percentages on contested, wide-open and clock-saving threes. I want to know how many uncontested jumpers LeBron creates for teammates. I want "mega-assists" (passes that create a layup or a dunk) and "half-assists" (for each made foul shot). I want "unforced turnovers," like in tennis (Tony Allen would be Wilt Chamberlain in this category), and "nitty-gritties" (some combination of charges taken, deflections, balls saved from going out of bounds and rebounds tipped to teammates). I want "Unselds" (a long outlet pass that leads to an assist for a layup or a dunk) and "Russells" (a blocked shot directed to a teammate)."
Basketball instituted a 3-point line, a shot clock, replay, and a host of other changes as player development made the game too easy. Now, how about an adjustment in Scrabble?!
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The gathering of automobilists on New Years Day at Brooklands has established itself as the opening highlight of Britain’s classical motoring calendar. It being the first day of the year helps but the event has grown in popularity as the Brooklands site has been redeveloped to reflect some of the past glories. Our Special Correspondent braved the conditions and a few rather dull exhibits to bring us this first dispatch from the 2019 Motoring Front.
The New Year’s Day gathering at Brooklands is the biggest such event and in 2019 the majority of cars were nothing special – too many MGBs, VW Golfs, Triumph Stags etc. – but the day was saved for your correspondent by the arrival of a few “gems”:
First in the line of small sports cars that quickly gave the company its international reputation, the “M” type M.G. Midget was based on the newly introduced (in 1928) Morris Minor and shared with it the excellent Wolseley-designed overhead camshaft engine.
This car is an early Oxford-built example (before the final move to Abingdon) and has the central throttle pedal and transmission brake. It has Brooklands racing history and is equipped like the two cars that ran at Le Mans and Spa in 1930.
The pioneering Lanchester company amalgamated with Daimler in 1931 and this co-incided with Daimler casting aside their sleeve-valve engines (which they had used since 1908) and resorting to the use of poppet valves. In 1931 an interim Lanchester model, the 15/18, was introduced using the Daimler fluid flywheel and an example won the first R.A.C. Rally in 1932.
In October 1932 a completely new design was announced with a 6-cylinder ohv engine and the Lanchester cars were increasingly “Daimlerised”, this example having a 1378 c.c. 6-cylinder driving through a fluid flywheel and bodywork by Mulliners of Birmingham.
For Britain’s first post-war Motor Show in 1948 the Nuffield Group introduced a completely new range of Morris and Wolseley cars, quite unlike anything to emerge from their factories before. The Issigonis-designed Morris Minor was one of the Earls Court stars but two new Wolseleys were there as well: the 4-cylinder 4/50 and the bigger 6-cylinder 6/80. These both had, in the best Wolseley tradition, overhead camshaft engines (the 6-cylinder shared with the new Morris Six) and they were the first Wolseleys to have independent front suspension, this being an adaption of the Issigonis wishbone and torsion bar design. And steering-column gear changes, all the fashion at the time, were also new for Nuffield.
They were not sporting cars, although some private owners turned up for the Monte Carlo Rally for a few years, and the Police chose them in quantity as Patrol cars.
The car shown is a typical 6/80 saloon.
In July 1937 Lord Austin introduced to the Press at Longbridge the Big Seven. This was a supplementary model to the famous Seven and had a longer chassis and an engine of 900 c.c. It was intended to bridge the gap between the Seven and the Ten. It turned out not to be a best seller and production stopped on 1939 when it was replaced by the Leonard Lord-inspired Eight which became a real success.
The Big Seven did compete on a small scale, four works cars, for example, taking premier awards in the 1939 Exeter Trial.
David Blumlein February 2019
This entry was posted in From A Special Correspondent, Nostalgia and tagged Austin Big Seven, Brooklands, Lanchester 15/18, MG Midget, Wolseley 6/80 on February 10, 2019 by John Brooks.
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Last night, the Tigers had 14 base runners and hit a lot of other balls hard but they were held to 3 runs by spectacular Angels Fielding. Tonight, they hit the ball solidly again but this time they found some gaps and cleared some fences and beat the Angels 8-7. Magglio Ordonez led the way with his 11th and 12th homers of the year and Carlos Guillen and Curtis Granderson had one apiece. Tigers with multiple hits were Pudge Rodriguez with 3 and Granderson, Ordonez, Placido Polanco and Sean Casey with 2 apiece.
Chad Durbin did not pitch great tonight but left with a 6-3 lead in the 6th. The struggling Jason Grilli came in with a man on second and nobody out in the 6th and got the Angels down 1-2-3 and also pitched a perfect 7th. Jose Mesa entered in the 8th and continued to pitch poorly giving up a 3 run homer to Mike Napoli to make it 7-6. He then gave up a triple to Howie Kendrick but Tim Byrdak put out the fire by striking out Chone Figgins. Todd Jones gave up his usual 2 singles in the 9th but once again held on to get the save.
After his first three starts (See Table 1 below), most fans assumed that Durbin and his 10.54 ERA would get removed from the rotation and everyone was guessing who would replace him. Would it be Andrew Miller? Virgil Vasquez? Zach Miner ? Would Will Ledezma become a starter again?
A month later, Durbin is still in the rotation and his job appears safe. He has not dazzled anybody but has allowed 3 runs or fewer in each of his last 6 starts (see Table 2 below). His 21/16 K/BB ratio in those games is not impressive and he has been quite wild at times. One difference between the first three games and the last six games is GB/FB ratio. It was 20/23 in the first 3 and 57/30 in the last 6. It has translated into fewer hits and a 2.52 ERA in his last 35 2/3 innings.
Table 1: Durbin's First Three Games
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Table 2: Durbin's Last Six Games
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Tomorrow afternoon, Jeremy Bonderman comes off the disabled list after missing two starts with a blister problem. He will be opposed by Ervin Santana who is notoriously bad on the road.
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Professor COE Onwuliri Fellowship Honors: The Light Never Dims!
ecudomef ♦ May 19, 2016 ♦ Comments Off on Professor COE Onwuliri Fellowship Honors: The Light Never Dims!
Late Prof COE Onwuliri
Indiana USA May 2016: Professor (Rev. Fr.) Anthony Nwachukwu, a faculty of the Graduate Theological Foundation reported that “History was made at Graduate Theological Foundation, Indiana, USA last May 05, 2016, when, after two consecutive years of search for an African Genius, to be created for Academic Fellowships and Prizes in Scientific Research and Human Values, particularly for PhD Awards in Research and academic excellence at the named International Institution, Prof. Celestine Onwuliri was unanimously considered. It was also on record, that the said Academic Awards, in his name, were the first to be granted in the history of the Institution to three students of GTF at the same time. Consult the school website, www.gtfeducation.org and search for “2016 Graduate theological foundation & Congratulations to that class for the entire ceremony”. As it were, three Nigerian students benefited from the Prof. C .O. E Onwuliri Fellowship in Scientific Research and Human Values namely;
The Rev. Dr. Joachim Chukwujekwu Adione,
The Rev. Dr. Kyrian Chukwuemeka, AND
The Rev. Dr. Valentine U. Ibeh,
due primarily to the intimidating academic profile of Prof. C. O. E Onwuliri. May the soul of Prof. C.O.E. Onwuliri, already immortal at GTF, USA, ever remain fresh in the hearts of society and serious academic researchers for posterity? Amen!”
Prof (Mrs) Viola Onwuliri
In response to this honor, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, the Widow of Prof. Celestine Onwuliri, and former minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State Education said “On behalf of my family, I commend the GTF, Rev. Professor Anthony Nwachukwu, Rev. Dr. Jude Onuoha and Professor Eddie Oparaoji, for their various roles in facilitating establishing this fellowship in honor of my husband. Please be reassured that my family is now part of the GTF family, and I will do whatever I can to ensure the continued growth of the GTF family”
While Rev. Prof. Nwachukwu was the prime mover of this initiative, Rev. Dr. Onuoha and Prof. Oparaoji were facilitators.
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Peaks Mill Elementary Principal Selected
Cassie House named principal of Peaks Mill Elementary School
Frankfort, Ky, April 25, 2019 –Franklin County Schools Supt. Mark Kopp announced today that Cassie House will be the new principal of Peaks Mill Elementary School. House will replace Dana Blankenship, who is retiring on June 30 after six years as principal of Peaks Mill.
"We are very excited to welcome Cassie House as the new principal at Peaks Mill Elementary School. Her energetic leadership, belief in fostering a culture of high expectations, and her knowledge of the students, staff, and parents of Peak Mill Elementary will serve her well as principal. We are confident Cassie has what it takes to lead Peaks Mill to even greater heights" said Kopp.
House, a resident of Frankfort, has spent her entire 8-year career as an educator working for Franklin County Schools. She began her career in July of 2011 as an Elementary teacher at Collins Lane Elementary School. She has been the Elementary Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Coach at Peaks Mill Elementary since July 2017.
“Over the past two years I have had the opportunity to serve alongside the amazing Peaks Mill staff. I have seen firsthand the hard work and dedication they have for our students and I am thrilled to continue our journey together. Being a Franklin County girl this is a dream job to have the opportunity to serve the families in our community” said House. “I have had incredible role models to learn from throughout my education career in Franklin County; educators who have inspired me with their passion and commitment to growing learners. Mrs. Blankenship has been an open book for me to learn from and I have tried to soak up as much as I can before she retires. I will forever be grateful for her coaching and support. I am excited to continue the work that is happening and to carve out new ways for us to continue growing as a team.”
Dana Blankenship, the outgoing principal, joined Peaks Mill in 2013. She is retiring after 33 years in education, including stints in Menifee County Schools and most recently with Franklin County Schools.
Blankenship said of House’s appointment, “When I announced my retirement to the staff, I asked them to find a new principal who will continue the work we have been doing. Someone who recognized the needs of our PME students and community and will hold high expectations. And someone who loves these students as much as I do. Cassie House is the perfect choice to lead Peaks Mill Elementary. She embodies all of those qualities and will work hard for the students and staff success.”
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Method and apparatus for facilitating comprehension of on-line documents
The present invention improves the comprehensibility of a document being read on a computer system. Rather than requiring a reader to stop and look up the meaning of a word, either on-line or with a printed copy, the present invention will automatically translate unknown words into words known to the reader. By checking each word in a document against a known word list maintained on the computer, the present invention improves the readers comprehension of a document as well as simplifies the reading thereof.
Manthuruthil, George C. (Coppell, TX)
Parikh, Shrikant N. (Mesquite, TX)
Reddy, Hari N. (Colleyville, TX)
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
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5283737 Mechanism for generating linguistic expressions based on synonyms and rules derived from examples 1994-02-01 Van Praag 364/419.14
5256067 Device and method for optimal reading vocabulary development 1993-10-26 Gildea et al. 364/419.01
4773039 Information processing system for compaction and replacement of phrases 1988-09-20 Zamora 364/419.14
4456973 Automatic text grade level analyzer for a text processing system 1984-06-26 Carlgren et al. 364/419.13
4384329 Retrieval of related linked linguistic expressions including synonyms and antonyms 1983-05-17 Rosenbaum et al. 364/419.13
Newsbytes News Network; "Japanese Ministry's Multi-Language Translation Sys"; Dec. 17, 1992; Tokyo, Japan. Abstract.
MCELHENY JR, DONALD E
A. BRUCE CLAY (IBM CORPORATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW, 40-B2-07 1 EAST KIRKWOOD BOULEVARD, ROANOKE, TX, 762990015, US)
1. A computer implemented method of teaching a specific individual reader and automatically improving comprehensibility of a document on a computer system for that reader, comprising the steps of:
storing a business thesaurus file in a storage device accessible by the computer system;
storing a list of reader identified known words in said storage device;
associating reader defined parameters with said known words in order to ensure said known words are currently known to the reader;
automatically comparing all words in the document to said list of known words to identify unknown words;
automatically accessing said business thesaurus file to obtain a synonym for each of said unknown words, said synonym also being on said list of known words;
automatically updating said list of known words to remove words that have become not currently known and to add words that have become currently known in accordance with said reader defined parameters; and
automatically displaying the document to the reader with said synonym displayed adjacent each of said unknown words corresponding thereto, wherein the reader learns a meaning of said unknown words and the document is automatically more comprehensible to the reader.
2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein said step of associating comprises the steps of:
assigning a first numerical value to said known words to reflect how many occurrences of a word are required for said word to become a known word; and
assigning a second numerical value to said known words to reflect a period of time of no occurrences after which a known word becomes an unknown word.
3. A computer system for teaching a specific individual reader and automatically improving comprehensibility of a document on the computer system for that reader, comprising:
means for storing a business thesaurus file in a storage device accessible by the computer system;
means for storing list of reader identified known words in said storage device;
means for associating reader defined parameters with said known words in order to ensure said known words are currently known to the reader;
means for automatically comparing all words in the document to said list of known words to identify unknown words;
means for automatically accessing said business thesaurus file to obtain a synonym for each of said unknown words, said synonym also being on said list of known words;
means for automatically updating said list of known words to remove words that have become not currently known and to add words that have become currently known in accordance with said reader defined parameters; and
means for automatically displaying the document to the reader with said synonym displayed adjacent to each of said unknown words corresponding thereto, wherein the reader learns a meaning of said unknown words and the document is automatically more comprehensible to the reader.
4. The computer system of claim 3, wherein said means for associating comprises:
means for assigning a first numerical value to reflect how many occurrences of a word are required for said word to become a known word; and
means for assigning a second numerical value to reflect a period of time of no occurrences after which a known word becomes an unknown word.
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates in general to computer software, and in particular to a method and apparatus for facilitating comprehension of on-line documents.
With the advent of computer on-line access to remote databases such as libraries, as well as the use of computers to review documents, it has frequently been necessary to resort to a dictionary and/or thesaurus to understand the material. Anytime it is necessary to refer to either an on-line reference or a printed reference to understand the meaning of words, the effort becomes tedious. Thus, if material being read is considerably above the reading level of the user, comprehension may suffer considerably. Thus, there is a need for a better mechanism to allow a reader to understand a document which demands above average and/or uncommon vocabulary without losing continuity.
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for facilitating comprehension of an on-line document in a fashion which substantially reduces or eliminates the problems in the prior art. The present invention allows a computer system to automatically provide words that are known to the reader.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided for improving the comprehensibility of a document on a computer system. All words in the document are checked to identify a list of unknown words. The unknown words are determined by comparing all words to a list of known words maintained on the computer system. The unknown words are then supplemented with synonyms which are known to the reader. The document is displayed to the reader with the unknown words and the synonyms.
It is a technical advantage of the present invention in that it is no longer necessary to utilize either a hard copy dictionary/thesaurus or an on-line dictionary/thesaurus to look up unknown words. The reader of a document is presented with a translation already done obviating the necessity to constantly revert back and forth from the document to a reference.
For a more complete understanding of the present invention and the advantages thereof, reference is now made to the Detailed Description taken in conjunction with the attached Drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a data processing system in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the broad concept of the present invention; and
FIGS. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are flowcharts illustrating the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 1, there is depicted a graphical representation of a data processing system 8, which may be utilized to implement the present invention. As may be seen, data processing system 8 may include a plurality of networks, such as Local Area Networks (LAN) 10 and 32, each of which preferably includes a plurality of individual computers 12 and 30, respectively. Of course, those skilled in the art will appreciate that a plurality of Intelligent Workstations (IWS) coupled to a host processor may be utilized for each such network. As is common in such data processing systems, each individual computer may be coupled to a storage device 14 and/or a printer/output device 16.
The data processing system 8 may also include multiple mainframe computers, such as mainframe computer 18, which may be preferably coupled to LAN 10 by means of communications link 22. The mainframe computer 18 may also be coupled to a storage device 20 which may serve as remote storage for LAN 10. Similarly, LAN 10 may be coupled via communications link 24 through a subsystem control unit/communications controller 26 and communications link 34 to a gateway server 28. Gateway server 28 is preferably an individual computer or IWS which serves to link LAN 32 to LAN 10.
With respect to LAN 32 and LAN 10, a plurality of documents or resource objects may be stored within storage device 20 and controlled by mainframe computer 18, as resource manager or library service for the resource objects thus stored. Of course, those skilled in the art will appreciate that mainframe computer 18 may be located a great geographic distance from LAN 10 and, similarly, LAN 10 may be located a substantial distance from LAN 32. For example, LAN 32 may be located in California, while LAN 10 may be located within Texas, and mainframe computer 18 may be located in New York.
Referring to FIG. 2, a flowchart indicates the overall concept of the present invention. At block 40, a document Is input to a computer system creating a Business Document File (BDF-- FILE1). At block 42, the document is processed through a comprehension module signifying the present invention. In summary, the present invention reviews the input document, parses the document, eliminates stem words (i.e., the, a, and, etc.), checks the vocabulary files included in the present invention, and translates any words not known to the user. After completing the translation process in the comprehension module of block 42, the document input at block 40 is output as a Business Document File with translation (BDF-- FILE2). Thus, by utilizing the present invention, a user would be able to read a document with all words therein translated into words known and understood by the user without the necessity to look up meanings of words in dictionaries.
In order to properly utilize the present invention, it is necessary to install two databases onto the computer system in which the present invention is used. The first database is a Business Thesaurus File (BTF). The BTF is a complete repository of terms for a specific business the user is interested in. Each entry in the BTF comprises a word and a set of synonyms associated with each word.
In addition, it is necessary to use a Personal Vocabulary File database (PVF). The PVF is a repository of words that are known to or encountered by a user. The PVF file can be managed as a text file which allows manual entering and/or deletion of words. The PVF file can be initialized in several ways. Entries may be made manually into the PVF file either using a simple electronic editor/word processing software or by providing an interaction panel which allows the direct entry of data. Alternatively, a standard business database of the correct proficiency level can be used to initialize the PVF file. For example, a vocabulary database reflecting a tenth grade level of proficiency can be used to initialize the PVF file. Another alternative would be to allow all words encountered for a predefined period to be entered into the PVF file and then appropriate adjustments could be made.
Referring to FIGS. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, flowcharts illustrating the present invention are shown. Referring first to FIG. 3, the present invention starts at 50 followed by reading of the input document at block 52. The input document is then parsed at block 54. At block 56, the words in the document are obtained by the present invention, i.e., the present invention goes through each word in the input document one at a time. At block 58, a COMP-- NO and at block 60 a COMP-- TSLO parameters are read. These parameters are set optionally by a user of the system and are used to set guidelines. In particular, the COMP-- NO is used to tell the present invention how many occurrences of a particular word are required before it is assumed that the user understands the meaning thereof. The COMP-- TSLO is used to indicate (using a predefined period of time) how much time since the last occurrence of a word has occurred. Thus, if a user has not seen a particular word in a period of time greater than the parameter set for COMP-- TSLO it will be assumed that the user no longer remembers the meaning of the word.
It is then determined at decision block 62 whether or not the last word in the document has been reached. If the response to decision block 62 is yes, the end of job is indicated at block 64. If the response to decision block 62 is no, the next word is read at block 66.
At decision block 68, it is determined whether or not the next word is a stem word (i.e., a, an, and, the, etc. ). If the response to decision block 68 is yes, the word is printed to a BDF-- FILE2 (i.e., the Business Document File which will be presented to the user for reading upon completion of all translations. If the response to decision block 68 is no, it is determined at decision block 72 whether or not the word is in the PVF (i.e., is this a word that the user knows). If the response to decision block 72 is yes, the word is processed as a PVF-- WORD (i.e., the known word is processed to include appropriate flag encounter settings).
If the response to decision block 72 is no, it is determined at decision block 76 whether or not the word is in the BTF. If the response to decision block 76 is yes, at block 78 the word is processed as a BTF-- WORD (i.e. the word is considered to be beyond the level of the user and synonyms are therefore presented). If the response to decision block 76 is no, the word is considered to be unknown and is highlighted and printed to the BDF-- FILE2 for display upon completion of translation at block 80. Subsequent to block 70, block 74, block 78 or block 80, the present invention returns to decision block 62 as previously described above.
Referring to FIG. 4, process PVF-- WORD as shown in block 74 of FIG. 3 is described in greater detail. At decision block 82, it is determined whether or not the word is known to the user. If the response to decision block 82 is no, the present invention proceeds to connector A as will be discussed in greater detail with FIG. 5. If the response to decision block 82 is yes, the PVF file has a TSLO (Time Since Last Occurrence) field updated at block 84. This TSLO field is then compared to the COMP-- TSLO parameter as previously described at decision block 86. If it is determined at decision block 86 that the TSLO is not greater than or equal to the COMP-- TSLO, the word is printed without highlighting to the BDF-- FILE2 at block 88. If it is determined at decision block 86 that the TSLO is greater than or equal to the COMP-- TSLO, a known word flag is set equal to N (for no) at block 90. By setting the known flag equal to N at block 90, the word is now indicated to be a new word not known to the user. At block 92, a number of occurrences for this word Is set equal to zero (i.e., treated as a new occurrence).
At decision block 94, it is then determined whether or not this word is in the BTF-- FILE. If the response to decision block 94 is yes, the word is processed as a BTF-- WORD as will be discussed in greater detail in reference to FIG. 7. If the response to decision block 94 is no, the word is highlighted (to indicate an unknown word) and printed to the BDF-- FILE2 at block 98. Subsequent to block 88, block 96, or block 98 the present invention returns to decision block 62 of FIG. 3.
Referring to FIG. 5, connector A from the no branch of decision block 82 in FIG. 4 is described in greater detail. At decision block 102, it is determined whether the TSLO field of the PVF file is less than the COMP-- TSLO. If the response to decision block 102 is no, the present invention proceeds to connector B which will be discussed in greater detail in reference to FIG. 6. If the response to decision block 102 is yes, it is determined at decision block 104 whether or not the number of occurrences field of the PVF file is less than the COMP-- NO parameter. If the response to decision block 104 is no, the known word flag is set to Y (indicating that the word has met the COMP-- TSLO and COMP-- NO parameters as set by the user). At block 108, the number of occurrences field of the PVF file is incremented to indicate this occurrence. At block 110, the word is printed with no highlighting.
Returning to decision block 104, if the response thereto is yes, it is determined at decision block 112 whether or not the word is in the BTF file. If the response to decision block 112 is yes, at block 114 the word is processed as a BTF-- WORD as will be discussed with reference to FIG. 7. If the response to decision block 112 is no, the word is deleted from the PVF file at block 116 followed by highlighting and printing the word at block 118. Subsequent to block 110, block 114, or block 118 the present invention returns at 120 to decision block 62 of FIG. 3.
Referring to FIG. 6, the connector B from the no branch of decision block 102 in FIG. 5 is further discussed. At block 122, the number of occurrences field of the PVF file and the TSLO field are both set equal to zero. It is then determined at decision block 124 whether or not the word is in the BTF file. If the response thereto is yes, the word is processed as a BTF word as will be subsequently described with reference to FIG. 7. If the response to decision block 124 is no, the word is deleted from the PVF file at block 128. The word is then printed with highlighting at block 130. Subsequent to block 126 or block 130, the present invention returns at 132 to decision block 62 of FIG. 3.
Referring to FIG. 7, the process BTF-- WORD block 78 of FIG. 3 is discussed in greater detail. At block 140, the word is printed highlighted. At block 142, a synonym flag field for at least one synonym of the word is set to "N" (no). A set of synonyms is then read for the word at block 144. At decision block 146 it is determined whether or not there are more synonyms for the word to be processed. If the response to decision block 146 is yes, the next synonym is obtained at block 148. It is then determined at decision block 150 whether or not the synonym is in the PVF file. If the response to decision block 150 is no, the present invention returns to decision block 146. If the response to decision block 150 is yes, at least one synonym flag field is set to "Y" (yes) at block 152. The synonym is then printed to the BDF-- FILE2 at block 154 followed by a return to decision block 146.
Returning to decision block 146, if the response thereto is no, it is determined at decision block 156 whether or not a known synonym field flag is set to "Y" (yes). If the response to decision block 156 is no, the present invention returns at 158 to decision block 62 of FIG. 3. If the response to decision 156 is yes, it is determined at decision block 160 whether or not this word is in the PVF-- FILE. If the response to decision block 160 is no, a record of the word is created in the PVF file at block 162. If the response to decision block 160 is yes or subsequent to block 162, the number of occurrences field is incremented and the TSLO field is set to zero at block 164. The present invention then returns at 158 to decision block 62 of FIG. 3.
As an example, at startup of January 1, 1993, assume the COMP-- TSLO parameter is set equal to twelve months and the COMP-- NO parameter is set equal to two by a user of the present invention. The user's Personal Vocabulary File (PVF) is as follows:
Word The Known Number of # Word Word? TSLO Occurrences
1 properly Y 0 0
2 known Y 0 0
3 name Y 0 0
4 given Y 0 0
5 tell Y 0 0
6 former Y 0 0
7 day Y 0 0
8 good Y 0 0
9 housewife Y 0 0
10 country Y 0 0
11 husband Y 0 0
12 village Y 0 0
13 market Y 0 0
14 habitual Y 0 0
15 liking Y 0 0
16 tarry Y 0 0
17 romantics Y 0 0
18 always Y 0 0
19 fall Y 0 0
20 love Y 0 0
21 candy Y 0 0
22 child Y 0 0
23 guest Y 0 0
24 last Y 0 0
Note: Multiple occurrences of the same word in the same document are treated as a single occurrence for record keeping purposes.
The following indicates a portion of a passage input on the startup date as a BDF-- FILE:
" . . . properly known by the name of Tarry Town. The name was given, we are told, in the former days, by the good housewives of the country, by the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about their village tavern on market days . . . ".
After being translated by the present invention, the following passage would be output:
" . . . properly known by the name of Tarry Town. The name was given, we are told, in the former days, by the good housewives of the country, from the inveterate {HABITUAL} propensity {LIKING} of their husbands to linger {TARRY} about their village tavern on market days . . . ".
As a result of the translation process, the PVF file as shown above would be modified as follows:
25 inveterate
26 propensity
27 linger N 0 1
Continuing the above example, on Mar. 1, 1993, the following passages are input:
" . . . Inveterate romantics are always falling in love."
" . . . The last guests lingered until 2 a.m."
" . . . Children have a propensity for candy."
As a result of translation, the following is output:
" . . . Inveterate {HABITUAL} romantics are always falling in love."
" . . . The last guests lingered {TARRIED} until 2 a.m."
" . . . Children have a propensity {LIKING} for candy."
As a result of the above translation, the PVF file is modified as follows:
Continuing the above example, on Apr. 1, 1993, the following passage is input:
After translation, this passage is printed as:
". . . properly known by the name of Tarry Town. The name was given, we are told, in the former days, by the good housewives of the country, by the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about their village tavern on market days . . . ", i.e., no change is made to the text.
As a result of this passage's input, the PVF file becomes:
Y 0 3
27 linger Y 0 3
Thus, it can be seen that since the words in the passage as input meet the system parameters, there is no need for translation as the words are assumed to be known by the user.
Continuing the above example, on Jun. 1, 1994, the following passage is input;
As a result of translation, the passage becomes:
As a result of this translation, the PVF file has become:
1 properly Y 14 0
2 known Y 14 0
3 name Y 14 0
4 given Y 14 0
5 tell Y 14 0
6 former Y 14 0
7 day Y 14 0
8 good Y 14 0
9 housewife Y 14 0
10 country Y 14 0
11 husband Y 14 0
12 village Y 14 0
13 market Y 14 0
14 habitual Y 14 0
15 liking Y 14 0
16 tarry Y 14 0
21 candy Y 14 0
22 child Y 14 0
23 guest Y 14 0
24 last Y 14 0
N 14 0
27 linger N 14 0
Thus, as can be seen from the above PVF file, as a result of the passage of time being greater than the COMP-- TSLO parameter, the words in the passage which were previously considered known had once again become unknown to the user. The words were therefore translated as before and the appropriate adjustments made to the PVF file.
As a result of the present invention, a user is provided with a constantly updated Personal Vocabulary File which will allow the translation of words not known to the user into words that are known to the user. This will provide the user with greater ease in reading and understanding documents presented for review. The present invention eliminates or greatly reduces the need for the use of either an on-line dictionary/thesaurus or a printed hard copy thereof.
Although the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to a preferred embodiment, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be made without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention.
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The One With Joey's Porsche
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Rachel and Ross go to a judge to get their annulment, but they air too much dirty laundry. The judge decides they don't qualify for an annulment, so they go to Ross's lawyer for a divorce. Ross makes it pretty obvious that he still loves Rachel. Rachel reveals that it was her drunken idea to get married. Joey finds the keys to someone's Porsche. He decides to wait by the car until the owner shows up. He gets mistaken for the owner, and likes the attention he gets so much that even after the owner takes the car away, he keeps up the charade. Phoebe, Monica and Chandler take care of Frank and Alice's babies. Chandler gets a toy stuck in his throat and Monica takes him to the doctor. Phoebe has to take care of the babies by herself.
The one where they said....
Ross: Okay, maybe it wasn't my best decision. But I just couldn't face another failed marriage.
Chandler: Okay, let me just jump in and ask: At what point did you think this was a successful marriage?
Joey: Hey, somebody left their keys. Oh, to a Porsche! Hey Gunther, these yours?
Gunther: Yeah, that's what I drive. I make four bucks an hour. I saved up for... 350 years.
Ross: Look, if you'd had two failed marriages, you'd understand!
Rachel: Well, you know what? Thanks to you, I'm half way there! Oh! I am so mad! Ross, I don't think I have ever been this angry!
Ross: What about the time I said we were on a break?
Monica: Pheebs, it's going great. Look at Chandler with little baby-girl Chandler.
Chandler: "Little baby-girl Chandler," where I have heard that before? Oh right, Coach Reuben.
Phoebe: Oh, look at little Leslie stretching in her sleep!
Monica: Oh, it's so cute. I wonder what age it is when you stop being able to put both legs behind your head.
Phoebe: Oh, I can still do that.
Monica: How are you still single?
Chandler: Well, I was trying to prove that I was right, you know? And it turns out I was wrong. And now it's lodged in my throat.
Monica: Damn it! You know, this whole time we were concentrating on watching the babies and... and no one was watching Chandler!
Joey: So the Porsche guy took his car back.
Chandler: But you found the keys to his clothes?
Joey: No. No, I just, uh... I just love the way it feels when everybody thinks I own a Porsche.
Monica: And people will think you own a Porsche because you're wearing the clothes?
Joey: Of course! Only an idiot would wear this stuff if you didn't have the car! Right?
Chandler: That is true.
Phoebe: Yeah, but only a genius would swallow a sonic blaster gun.
Joey: Oh, I've been there. Yeah, I am gonna go drive my Porsche.
Monica: Joey, you know, you don't actually have one.
Joey: Come on! What are you doing? I'm in character! Would you talk to her!
Rachel: I didn't want to say anything, but it kinda it just... it kind of kept coming back to me, and umm.... Remember we were in the casino and for some reason you thought it would be funny to eat a lot of grapes. And, uh, and I thought it would be funnier if we got married. So as a... as a compromise we decided first to get married, and then [Ross joins in] to eat a lot of grapes.
Written by Perry Rein & Gigi McCreery
Directed by Gary Halvorson
Conchata Ferrel as The Judge
James Michael Tyler as Gunther
Kevin Ruf as The Porsche Owner
Charity Nicole James as The Woman
Shane Nickerson as Guy #1
Dennis Singletary as Guy #2
Steve Pierce as The Passerby
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Nostradamus on the Fate of Gaddafi
By John Hogue | Published: 23 February 2011
Muhammar Gaddafi.
The Muslim world has its own North Korean style hermit kingdom, virtually closed off from the world, from journalists and the Internet. Yet, just like a very positive variant of a virus, the spread of Arab revolution out of Tunisia to Libya’s west and out of Egypt to Libya’s east has infected the closed kingdom of strongman Muhammar Gaddafi with an information dis-ease. The vectors of this fever of openness with symptoms of democratic desires are cell phones, iPhones and laptops. It is a social disease of an electronic networked kind carried by Facebook and twittering software on electronic communication gadget “mosquitoes” that can infect even a starkly free-information quarantined country like Libya with a “malarial” wave of free speech contagious and fatal to dictators. Before Gaddafi’s regime came down with this “cold” a statement of the late Hafez al-Assad of Syria echoes again in the halls of Damascus, Teheran and down the totalitarian’s halls of Tripoli. Regimes in the Arab world with the guts to fire on their own rebellious people never fall. Now that totalitarian theory is being tested in Libya.
Word is getting out of a life-and-death struggle of the people of Libya with the Gaddafi regime. More “infections” of the truth buzz ring cell phones in and tweet out of Libya revealing cracks appearing in the cyber-hermetically sealed dictatorship.
I predict Gaddafi is going down violently, like Ceausescu in 1989, “Romanian-style”. The question is, how long will it take and how bloody will it be?
Comparisons have been drawn comparing the current regional revolution of Arabs to that of the fall of Eastern European communist regimes in 1989 when the Soviet Union gave up the standoff with the Western democracies as the Cold War began to end. The Berlin Wall fell, then the regime of East Germany collapsed. Where East Germany went so went the region, being the most influential satellite member of the Soviet Warsaw Pact alliance, just like Egypt in the Arab world today is a trendsetter.
The fall of the Erich Honeker regime in East Berlin caused a regional chain reaction across Eastern Europe with communist dictatorships falling mostly with a whimper except one: the eccentric strongman Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, every inch as daffy a dictator as Gaddafi. Relinquish power? Only over his dead body, like Gaddafi threatens today.
Romanian street demonstrations quickly turned into massacres then pitched battles between opposing regular and police military units for and against Ceausescu in a short, sharp, tank shell riddled and exceedingly bloody civil war, ending with support of Ceausescu rapidly — literally — draining out like blood poured over the cobble stones of Bucharest. Ceausescu tried to escape, was arrested, lined up against a wall and summarily shot with automatic weapons.
What happens in Libya will be similar but I fear it will take longer and be a far more bloody civil war. Unlike Romania’s civil war, Libya is among the most deeply entrenched tribal societies in the Arab world. This civil war will be won or lost by who can manage the complex alliances and promise patronage to key Libyan tribes. Western Libya mostly has tribes allied with Gaddafi, whose stronghold is Tripoli.
Most of the rebels who seized Benghazi and the eastern half of Libya are from tribes out of favor with Gaddafi. The oil profits from the world’s 17th largest oil producer go mostly to the western Libyan tribes. Western Libya has oil fields but they just lost the lion’s share located in the eastern provinces. Gaddafi will try to take them back, promise reward of the rich oil industry to those western tribes and sub-tribes leaders who support the crackdown.
People inside Libya phone the outside world about Gaddafi’s acts of genocide. Believe it. This civil war could descend into a Libyan tribal life struggle to control oil resources before and Gaddafi is gone.
At the time of this writing (22 February 2011), Gaddafi and his tribal allies in the secret police and armed forces are ruthlessly fighting with and liquidating rebels in Tripoli while air strikes on Benghazi continue.
I predict Gaddafi intends to launch his heavily armored forces against Benghazi, the heart of the revolution.
The main Libyan tribe, Warfallah, numbers one million people. They were the first tribe to support the current anti-government movement. Not a good sign for the future of Gaddafi’s regime, or his plans for a crackdown because they man much of the militia and regular army forces of the 120,000-man Libyan military. Nevertheless, the Libyan military continues to unleash jet bombers, helicopter gunships and naval gunships taking pot shots at Benghazi. That indicates both sides have a mix of military might. People are taking sides.
Gaddafi pays for an unknown number of ruthless sub-Saharan mercenaries numbering 7,000 operatives, including tank and armored units in what is known as Gaddafi’s Pan Islamic Legion. I sense because of his dwindling support from the Warfallah, he is calling in favors from many more guerilla and terrorist forces across Africa whose insurrections he bankrolled for four decades. These gathering mercenary forces flying in by transport are the spear point of a planned strike on Eastern Libya. It is because of them and the atrocities to come that Gaddafi will soon lose support from all of his people — East and West Libyans — and come to bloody ruin
Another reason why this could be far worse than the Romanian revolution of 1989, Ceausescu’s bloody fall did not rock oil prices across the world threatening high prices that could stall economic global recovery. Libyan oil fields have stopped pumping and exporting. Uncertainly hit the stock markets hard on Tuesday with the Dow Jones dropping -178.46 points. The Oil APR price today closed $96.92 a barrel, close to passing an ominous threshold, rising beyond the $100 mark. The last time that happened was in 2008. Then came the Great Recession.
The week is young, like the Libyan civil war. Prepare for triple digit per oil barrel prices sinking economic growth soon. What is coming is not a stock market correction of the DOW Jones by five or six percent. The next economic crisis begins. The one I foresaw in detail. Triggered by oil prices and dated in my predictions for 2010 and forecasts for 2011.
If I were you, reader, I would top my gas tank. The fall of Gaddafi is coming but this Jim Jones of Arab dictators could take the Libyan oil industry with him in a bloodbath stretching for weeks. That means Africa’s fourth largest oil exporter will be off line for a while. That means oil exports across Africa are disrupted. Expect this to bring fuel and food riots in South Africa. Europe is the biggest importer of Libyan oil. Expect this to trigger another EU financial crisis that will impact the US and Chinese economy, as I detail in Predictions for 2011.
Facebook shot from around 21 February. Celebration of freedom on beach in Benghazi under the tricolor of pre-Gaddafi regime. Source: Reuters.
The 16th-century French prophet, Michel Nostradamus (1503-1566) might have set down a verse or two about the fate of Muhammar Gaddafi.
Century 4 Quatrain 62 of his history of the future Les Propheties states:
Vn coronel machine ambition,
Se saisira de la plus grand’armée,
Contre son prince fainte inuention,
Et descouuert sera soubz sa ramée.
A colonel will through machinating (plotting) ambition.
He will seize the greatest part of the army,
Against his Prince through a false invention.
He will be discovered under his branches.
In 1995 I wrote the following interpretation that was published on p. 345 of my 1,000-page tome Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies:
In 1969 Colonel Gaddafi overthrew King Idris in the Libyan Revolution. He seized the greatest part of the Libyan army’s support in a secret coup (false invention). The final line of the quatrain may cryptically relate details of a notorious milestone in Gaddafi life to be reached 17 years later. On the night of 5 April 1986 … a terrorist bomb exploded in a Berlin disco, killing two people, including a US serviceman. The [US] Reagan government chose to find evidence suggesting that the order for the bombing came from Gaddafi. (Actually, other far more compelling evidence implicating the Syrians and Iranians in the bombing was ignored by Reagan. But I suppose an attack on the most vulnerable terrorist-sanctioning nation would suit his political movie script better than a military attack on the deep heartland of Islamic terrorism.) Nine days later…US bombers attacked terrorist-related targets in Libya. Bombs were also aimed at the Al Aziziya barracks in the desert outside of Tripoli where, it is said, Gaddafi and his family sometimes reside in a bedroom designed to look like a Bedouin tent. Gaddafi’s two sons were slightly injured by flying glass and his 15-month-old adopted daughter, along with 100 people, were killed in what was clearly an assassination bombing mission. Gaddafi survived unscathed.
A translation of line 4 is difficult. In earlier books I had taken the figurative meaning of ramée to deduce a green arbor or green flag symbolizing Gaddafi’s Libya. A more down-to-earth translation of ramée as branches might better describe Gaddafi the moment two bombs slammed into his tennis court and another took out his front door. One might have found him crouched beneath the branches (or legs) of his desk, hiding his face from the flying glass.
Rebooting my interpretation fourteen years later, let us take on the riddle of line four in the context of Gaddafi’s near future.
With the word ramie Nostradamus may describe the scene of his end. It means branches; arbor, green bows, green arbor. The etymology could mean by extension a green Bedouin tent, the green Libyan flag, or perhaps the scene of his end is such a tent pitched in an oasis. Although I do not personally believe he will leave Libya alive, I could be wrong. Gaddafi may escape to the green arbor, bows and luscious vegetation of the tropics. He could fly out of the desert living out his days a guest of dictator Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Perhaps it is there he will be killed when Chavez falls.
Another quatrain and famous anagram indexed Century 10 Quatrain 96 could describe the life and bloody fate of Gaddafi and his son:
Religion du nom des mers vaincra,
Contre le secte fils Adaluncatif,
Secte obstinee deploree craindra,
Des deux blessez par Aleph & Aleph.
The Religion named after the ocean will overcome,
Against the sect of the son Adaluncatif,
The obstinate, deplored sect will be afraid,
Of the two wounded Aleph (A) and Aleph (A).
The anagram Adaluncatif has baffled interpreters for the past several centuries. I take it to be a riddle about Gaddafi. Adaluncatif is an anagram. Reshuffle the letters and they form “Cadafi Luna.” Allowing for phonetic spelling changes, it is possible to get “Gaddafi Luna,” “Gaddafi of the Moon,” or “Gaddafi of the Crescent of Islam.”
Now the next riddle. What Religion is named after the ocean that will overcome the sect and son of Gaddafi?
The term “Oceanic religion” could be somewhat awkwardly describing Gaddafi’s bed on the night of the US bombing raid on his home in 1986.
Author and former British Parliament member George Tremlett has been one of the few Westerners invited into Gaddafi’s house in the center of a military barracks outside of Tripoli. The bombed bedroom is enclosed in glass, like a shrine, without one shard of shrapnel or piece of broken masonry disturbed since the night of the bombing. Tremlett’s book Gaddafi: The Desert Mystic contains a photograph of the bed; at the head we see an illuminated and vividly colored panoramic photo of ocean waves crashing on the rocks. Could this wall papered photo religiously bemuse the 16th-century prophet?
A number of religions, such as Tibetan Buddhism, describe themselves as oceanic.
We could go out on a limb a little further.
Around the same time in early 1986 that US jets bombed Gaddafi’s bedroom, the Oregon Commune of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh disbanded. Bhagwan was in the midst of a world tour seeing him thrown out of 21 countries by CIA and Reagan administration pressure until his meditation resort/university was reestablished in Pune, India in 1987.
Rajneesh changed his name to Osho before he died in early 1990 from what his followers and doctors claim was heart disease accelerated by being poisoned with the heavy metal Thallium in November 1985. He claimed to have been poisoned during the three days he disappeared from all contact by the press and his lawyers, while under the custody of US federal agents.
Rajneesh explained that the new name Osho was derived from William James’ word “oceanic,” which means dissolving into the ocean. Oceanic describes the experience of being simply religious without the limits of mafias of the soul or dead dogmas. You are it and it is an oceanic, blissful experience.
Osho is also used as a Zen salutation that can essentially be translated as “oceanic consciousness.”
Gaddafi gets bombed around the same time the guru of a new religion metaphorically named after the ocean is spreading its message on a world tour. Though this association of Gaddafi and Osho might sound far-fetched, it would not be the first time Nostradamus dated an incident in future history by chronicling two unrelated events happening at the same time only as a time clue rather than having any direct connection.
Nostradamus also hid more than one decodable meaning in his anagrams. (For instance, see Mabus.)
The anagram Adaluncatif gives us Cadafi Luna. Yet, remove “A(dal)u(n)cat(i)f” and we also get Nidal.
Gaddafi was once a close friend and patron to the notorious Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal in the 1980s.
Drop the c and the remaining letters a-u-a-t-f can phonetically spell “fatau,” for Fatah, as in the Palestinian Fatah party.
Fatah now runs the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank region under Israeli occupation. At one time it included a terrorist branch known at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
In other words, Cadafi Luna is linked to Abu Nidal (terrorist) and the PLO of Fatah as it may relate to the near future.
The secular workweek begins with Gaddafi Luna threatened with overthrow. The workweek will soon end with Friday — (the Muslim holy day, church day, their “Sunday” according to their calendar).
This Friday watch the Fatah Party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank join the radical Palestinian party of Hamas, controlling the Gaza Strip for a “Day of Rage” demonstration across all Israeli occupied Palestinian territories.
Gaddafi, a patron of Hamas, will drag his country down into civil war this week while the Arab Revolution reaches the doorstep of Israel this Friday in a protest against the US veto that put a kibosh on a recent United Nations Security Council resolution to declare Israeli settlement construction illegal.
Watch Friday when the Arab Revolution amps up in intensity to a whole new dimension, shifting from an uprising against the oppression of its own Arab-born dictators to an rebellion against oppression of the US-backed Israelis in Palestine.
If these interpetated layers of the Adaluncatif anagram message are correct, Gaddafi’s civil war and fall is linked to the coming rage in Palestinian streets.
Where then do the clues walk us to next?
Solving the riddle of the last two lines of 10 Q96:
The sect of Gaddafi is afraid of the two wounded A and A. How do we decode just what the Hebrew letter for A (Aleph) and its Arabic variant (Alif) represent?
Gaddafi intends to give his dictatorship to one of his sons, of which he has seven. The most likely grooms for dad’s dictatorship are Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi and Mutassim Gaddafi.
The prophecy might imply the two will be wounded, after the father is deposed.
Apparently, these Hebrew/Arabic letters are not the same as our letter A. Instead they correspond not to the vowel sound “ah” but to the glottal stop that precedes it. With that said, one cannot rule out that Nostradamus the obscurer would lead the idle seeker off the etymological trail. Perhaps he was more interested in the spelling of the word in Roman letters to hide a name consisting of two “A”-sounds when spoken?
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi.
If so, then the first and second Alif could represent a kind of phonetic spelling of the most likely heir apparent’s name, Saif (a)l-Islam (a)l-Gaddafi (meaning Sword of Islam from Gaddafi)
He is the son of Adaluncatif. The designated successor to lead the obstinate and deplored sect of Gaddafi’s mutant Marxist-Socialist-Islamic system now rejected by the people of Libya.
Successor A and A will be mortally wounded?
A and A also could be Nostradamus hinting the most popular chant of the demonstrators in Libya: Allahu Akbar! (God is Great!) In this way the faith of Allah is the oceanic religion foreseen to succeed over this obstinate, deplored sect.
If we move beyond all the tangled speculation inherent in picking loose a line of clarity out of cryptic Nostradamus, the fires of revolution overtaking the Middle East could cleanse the way for a better and more democratic era.
My oracle’s forecasts for 2010 and those published for 2011 indicate sudden and unexpectedly positive breakthroughs in the Middle East are quite possible.
Israel in 2011 has an excellent opportunity to be a positive game changer, supporting Arab democratic aspirations while isolating radical Islam based in Iran. I wrote a chapter about this potential destiny in my prophecies for 2011.
(22 February 2011)
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Notra Damus
Posted 19 October 2011 at 11:18 pm | Permalink
5:50 PM 20/Oct/2011
Gaddhafi has been killed today!
Yes. I have seen the videos from al-Jazeera. It’s him. He’s dead. I’m working on my article about it today and hope to have it up later.
Brian Grisham
Posted 4 July 2011 at 12:05 am | Permalink
Gaddafi’s adopted daughter didn’t die in the attack when Reagan bombed Gaddafi’s residence. that was a false press release by Gaddafi, and several western press bought into it. I think you should look up your info before posting it online or publishing it in your books. When dealing with Nostradamus you need to use facts. Please check and double check them.
Brian, usually when I accuse someone of not doing their research I don’t just leave it written there as an idle comment. I back it up with the evidence. So, with that said, upon what evidence to your claim that Gaddafi’s press release was false? If you wish to be a critic, back up your statement. I’m happy to be corrected if you will do the proper follow through.
Posted 30 November 2012 at 9:45 am | Permalink
WHO CAME UP WITH THE WORD MABUS???? AS THE RETURN NEGATIVE ONE???
Umm, humm… Let’s see. Anybody out there in Hogue-land knows? Let me think… It will come to me, Natalie. It must be loud and obvious, so it will pop in there. Maybe you might find it sooner if you actually made an effort to “read” some of these articles… Ah! I think I remember now. Who came up with “Mabus”, you ask? I think it’s Nostradamus. It is a code for the Antichrist. The third one in his unique list. I could be wrong. 🙂
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Is it important to quantify hepatic fibrosis? p. 341
Anirudh Kohli
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Hyperglycemia-induced seizures - Understanding the clinico- radiological association p. 343
Shivaprakash B Hiremath, Amol A Gautam, Prince J George, Agnes Thomas, Reji Thomas, Geena Benjamin
Objectives: To highlight the typical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in hyperglycemia-induced seizures and compare the results with similar previous studies with a brief mention of pathophysiological mechanisms. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included medical and imaging records of six consecutive patients with hyperglycemia-induced seizures. The data analysis included a clinical presentation and biochemical parameters at admission. The MRI sequences were evaluated for region involved, presence of subcortical T2 hypo-intensity, cortical hyper-intensity, and restricted diffusion. Similar previous studies from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) were analyzed and compared with our study. Results: Twenty-four patients were included from four studies in previous literature for comparison. In our study, on imaging, posterior cerebral region was predominantly involved, with parietal involvement in 83.3%, followed by occipital, frontal, and temporal involvement in 33.3% patients compared with occipital in 58.3%, parietal in 45.8%, and frontal and temporal in 16.6% of patients in previous literature. The subcortical T2 hypo-intensity was present in 83.3% of the patients, cortical hyper-intensity in all patients, and restricted diffusion in 66.6% of the patients in our study compared with subcortical T2 hypo-intensity in 95.8% of the patients, cortical hyper-intensity in 62.5%, and restricted diffusion in 58.3% of the patients in previous literature. Conclusion: Although many etiologies present with subcortical T2 hypointensity, cortical hyperintensity, restricted diffusion, and postcontrast enhancement on MRI, the clinical setting of seizures in a patient with uncontrolled hyperglycemia, hyperosmolar state, and absence of ketones should suggest hyperglycemia-induced seizures to avoid misdiagnosis, unnecessary invasive investigations, and initiate timely management. Advances in Knowledge: Our study highlights the presence of posterior predominant subcortical T2, fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR), and susceptibility-weighted angiography (SWAN) hypointensity; cortical hyperintensity; and restricted diffusion in hyperglycemia-induced seizures. The presence of T2 and SWAN hypointensity could support the hypothesis of possible deposition of free radicals and iron in the subcortical white matter.
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Neonatal hypoxic encephalopathy: Correlation between post-cooling brain MRI findings and 2 years neurodevelopmental outcome p. 350
Emilia Rosniza Mohammed Rusli, Juriza Ismail, Wong Saw Wei, Shareena Ishak, Rohana Jaafar, Faizah Mohd Zaki
DOI:10.4103/ijri.IJRI_62_19
Objective: This study aims to evaluate the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain patterns among hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) babies who underwent post-cooling MRI brain as well as to correlate the post-cooling brain scoring with patient's neurodevelopmental outcome at 2 years. Subjects and Methods: It was a retrospective cross sectional study carried out at a tertiary university hospital. Record of patients diagnosed with neonatal HIE from 2007 until 2016 who completed 72 h of cooling therapy and had MRI brain within 2 weeks of life were included in this study. A new scoring system by Trivedi et al. that emphasizes on subcortical deep gray matter and posterior limb internal capsule injury were utilized upon MRI assessment, using TW, T2W, and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) sequences. Cumulative MRI brain score was obtained and graded as none, mild, moderate, and severe brain injury. The MRI brain scoring was then correlated with patient's 2 years neurodevelopmental outcome using Fisher's Exact Test. Results: A total of 23 patients were eligible of which 19 term neonates were included. 13% of these neonates (n = 3) had mild MRI brain injury grading with 52.2% (n = 12) moderate and 34.8% (n = 8) severe. There was no significant correlation seen between MRI brain grading and developmental outcome at 2 years old (P > 0.05). Conclusion: There was no significant correlation between neonatal MRI brain injury grading and 2 years neurodevelopmental outcome. Nevertheless, the new MRI brain scoring by Trivedi et al. is reproducible and comprehensive as it involves various important brain structures, assessed from different MRI sequences.
Evaluation of cerebral microstructural changes in adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea by MR diffusion kurtosis imaging using a whole-brain atlas p. 356
Sameer Vyas, Paramjeet Singh, Niranjan Khandelwal, Varan Govind, Ashutosh Nath Aggarwal, Manju Mohanty
Purpose: The association between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and cognitive impairment is well-recognized, but little is known about neural derangements that underlie this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) using a whole-brain atlas to comprehensively assess microstructural tissue changes in the brain of patients with OSA. Methods: This prospective study was conducted in 20 patients with moderate-to-severe OSA and 20 age- and gender-matched controls. MRI data acquisition was performed with 3 Tesla and data was analyzed using a whole-brain atlas. DKI data were processed and transformed into a brain template space to obtain various kurtosis parameters including axial kurtosis (AK), radial kurtosis (RK), mean kurtosis (MK), and kurtosis fractional anisotropy (KFA) using a 189-region brain atlas in the same template space. These kurtosis measurements were further analyzed using a student t-test in order to determine kurtosis measurements that present significant differences between the OSA patient set and the control set. Results: Significant differences (P < 0.05) were found in AK (54 regions), RK (10 regions), MK (6 regions) and KFA (41 regions) values in patients with OSA as compared to controls. DKI indices, using an atlas-based whole-brain analysis approach used in our study, showed widespread involvement of the anatomical regions in patients with OSA. Conclusion: The kurtosis parameters are more sensitive in demonstrating abnormalities in brain tissue structural organization at the microstructural level before any detectable changes appear in conventional MRI or other imaging modalities.
Role of the weight-bearing cone-beam CT in evaluation of flatfoot deformity p. 364
Khushboo Pilania, Bhavin Jankharia, Pradeep Monoot
Introduction: Till date, weight-bearing radiographs have been the cornerstone for planning surgeries on flatfoot. The technique, however, has limitations due to the superimposition of the bones and the lack of reproducibility. Weight-bearing CT with its unique design overcomes these limitations and enables cross-sectional imaging of the foot to be done in the natural weight-bearing position. In this paper, we report our initial experience in weight-bearing cross-sectional imaging of the foot for assessment of flatfoot deformity. Materials and Methods: Around 19 known cases of flatfoot were scanned on the weight-bearing CT. Each foot was then assessed for the various angles and also for the presence/absence of extra-articular talocalcaneal impingement and subfibular impingement. Other associated abnormalities like secondary osteoarthritic changes, were also noted. Results: The Meary, as well as the calcaneal angles, were abnormal, in all but one separate foot. Forefoot abduction was seen in 7 of the 19 feet. The hind foot valgus angle was greater than 10° in all patients. Extra-articular talocalcaneal impingement was seen in 13 of 19 feet. Secondary osteoarthritic changes were seen in 14 feet. Conclusion: Weight-bearing CT scan is a very useful technique for evaluation of flatfoot and associated complications. It overcomes the limitations of the radiographs by providing multiplanar three-dimensional assessment of the foot in the natural weight-bearing position and at the same time being easily reproducible and consistent for the measurements around the foot. The definite advantage over the conventional cross-sectional scanners is the weight-bearing capability.
Spondyloarthropathy - Is sacroiliac joint imaging sufficient? A study of 431 patients p. 372
Saurabh Gupta, Neha Nischal, Lucky Sharma, Rajiva Gupta, Jatinder Pal Singh
Background: Sacroiliac (SI) joint involvement (sacroiliitis) is considered as major criteria for diagnosing Spondyloarthropathy (SpA), although involvement of spine and hip can also occur. The aim of our study was to assess the utility of including sagittal short-tau inversion recovery (STIR) sequence of dorsolumbar spine and coronal STIR/proton density (PD) fat saturated sequence through both hips, to routine SI joint magnetic resonance (MR) imaging protocol, in patients clinically suspected to have SpA. Material and Methods: A retrospective observational study was conducted between February 2013 and February 2018 on clinically suspected SpA patients referred to our department for imaging. The images obtained using this new SI joint protocol were evaluated for findings suggesting SpA diagnosis as per the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society criteria. Other differentials for similar symptoms were also looked for. Results: Of the 431 patients (313 M and 118 F), 255 had features confirming the diagnosis of SpA and 176 had no radiological manifestations of SpA (56 were normal and 120 had other findings to suggest clinical symptoms; e.g., degenerative SpA, Pott's spine, skeletal metastases, early AVN of hip, cysticercus, iliofemoral impingement). 19/255 patients had normal SI joints but other findings to suggest diagnosis of SpA, e.g. romanus lesions, costovertebritis/costotransversitis, pubic symphysitis, inflammatory hip arthropathy, enthesitis, iliofemoral/trochanteric bursitis. 33/61 patients with chronic sacroiliitis had disease activity in spine or hip. Conclusion: Inclusion of sections through dorsolumbar spine and both hips to routine SI joint protocol, helped in identifying: (a) early disease in 19 patients, who had normal SI joints and may have otherwise been missed with routine only SI joint imaging, (b) additional findings in SpA-related sacroiliitis, (c) disease activity in chronic sacroiliitis, and (d) other causes of low back pain and thus helped in further patient management.
Is MRI diffusion-weighted imaging a reliable tool for the diagnosis and post-therapeutic follow-up of extremity soft tissue neoplasms? p. 378
Amr Farouk Moustafa, Mai Maher Eldaly, Rania Zeitoun, Ahmed Shokry
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the benefit of using quantitative diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) mapping in the initial diagnosis and post-therapeutic follow-up of extremity soft tissue masses. Patients and Methods: This study included 90 patients with extremity soft tissue masses. The DWI was obtained with 3 b values, including 0, 400, and 800 s/mm2. Calculation of the ADC value of the lesion was done by placing the region of interest (ROI) to include the largest area of the lesion. ADC values were compared with the histopathology. Eighteen patients had posttherapeutic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Results: Benign masses, fibromatosis, and malignant soft tissue masses had mean ADC values of 1.18 ± 1.0191 × 10−3 mm2/s; 1.31 ± 0.245 × 10−3 mm2/sec; and 1.3 ± 0.7 × 10−3 mm2/s, respectively. Myxomatous malignant masses had an ADC value of 2.6 ± 0.55 × 10−3 mm2/s, while nonmyxomatous malignant masses had an ADC value of 1.1 ± 0.8 × 10−3 mm2/s. ADC cutoff value between benign and non-benign (including malignant and locally aggressive masses) was 0.6 × 10−3 mm2/sec with 98.3% sensitivity and 50% specificity (P = 0.5123). The statistical difference between malignant soft tissue masses (mean ADC 1.309 ± 0.723 × 10−3 mm2/s) and fibromatosis masses (mean ADC value 1.31 ± 0.245 × 10−3 mm2/s) using a comparative T-test proved to be of poor significance level (P value ~ 0.9757). Nine patients with soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) had pre and post-therapeutic MRI examinations showing a mean increase of the recorded ADC values by about 0.28 × 10−3 mm2/s in the post-therapy study as compared with the recorded initial pretreatment values. Analysis of the post-therapy follow-up studies of fibromatosis showed that lesions with favorable response to chemotherapy or radiotherapy (8/12) exhibited significantly lower ADC values than those showing progressive disease course. Conclusion: DWI with ADC mapping of extremity soft tissue tumors are so complicated that they alone may not be of much value in differentiating between benign and malignant tumors; however, it can be used as a tool for monitoring response to treatment.
Dual energy CT and research of the bone marrow edema: Comparison with MRI imaging p. 386
Luca Saba, Massimo De Filippo, Francesco Saba, Federica Fellini, Pierre-Yves Marcy, Robert Dagan, Philippe Voituriez, Jacques Aelvoet, Gérard Klotz, Roland Bernard, Valérie Salinesi, Serge Agostini
Aims: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the Dual Energy Computed Tomography (DECT) in the research of the bone marrow edema. Methods and Material: The MRI images of 100 patients with episodes of articular and or bone pains with or without traumatic lesion were prospectively evaluated during a period between March 2018 and February 2019. In the presence of bone marrow edema, a DECT was performed. The measurement of the density of the bone marrow edema in the DECT was compared with healthy bone in the same patient by two operators. Result: The DECT and MRI images of 15 patients with bone marrow edema were compared. The mean of pathologic bone marrow edema was 1008.20 (Standard Deviation (SD) 23.00), for healthy bone marrow 947.53 (SD 16.42), and t = 11.75, with a statistical significance P < 0.05 (Statistical significance 95%). The agreement between the measurements of the two radiologists has a statistical significance (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The DECT presents an excellent diagnostic accuracy to detect the bone marrow edema, comparable to MRI. The utility of these recent possibilities is maximum where access to MRI is still very difficult.
The role of an IVC filter retrieval clinic—A single center retrospective analysis p. 391
Philip A Schuchardt, Junaid T Yasin, Ryan M Davis, Sanjit O Tewari, Ambarish P Bhat
Background: Inferior vena cava (IVC) filter placement still plays an essential role in preventing pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with contraindications to anticoagulant therapy. However, IVC filter placement does have long-term risks which may be mitigated by retrieving them as soon as clinically acceptable. A dedicated IVC filter clinic provides a potential means of assuring adequate follow-up and retrieval. Aim: To assess the efficacy of our Inferior vena cava (IVC) filter retrieval clinic at improving the rate of patient follow-up, effective filter management, and retrieval rates. Materials and Methods: During the period of August 2017 through July 2018, 70 IVC filters were placed at our institution, and these patients were automatically enrolled into our IVC filter retrieval clinic for quarterly follow-up. We retrospectively reviewed data including appropriateness for removal at 3 months, overall retrieval rates, removal technique(s) employed, and technical success. Results: 62.9% of the potentially retrievable filters were removed during the study period. The technical success of extraction, using a combination of standard and advanced techniques, was 91.7%. Overall, 15% of the patients were lost to follow-up. Conclusion: Our findings add to the growing body of literature to support the need for a robust IVC filter retrieval clinic to ensure adequate follow-up and timely retrieval of IVC filters.
Stem cell therapy in critical limb ischemia: Current scenario and future trends p. 397
Arun Sharma, Mumun Sinha, Niraj Nirmal Pandey, SH Chandrashekhara
Critical limb ischemia (CLI) represents the most severe manifestation of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). It imposes a huge economic burden and is associated with high short-term mortality and adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Prompt recognition and early revascularization, surgical or endovascular, with the aim of improving the inline bloodflow to the ischemic limb, are currently the standard of care. However, this strategy may not always be feasible or effective; hence, evaluation of newer pharmacological or angiogenic therapies for alleviating the symptoms of this alarming condition is of utmost importance. Cell-based therapies have shown promise in smaller studies; however, large-scale studies, demonstrating definite survival benefits, are entailed to ascertain their role in the management of CLI.
ONCORADIOLOGY
Role of ADC values in assessing clinical response and identifying residual disease post-chemo radiation in uterine cervix cancer p. 404
Ankush Jajodia, Vivek Mahawar, Arvind K Chaturvedi, Avinash Rao, Rishu Singla, Swarupa Mitra, Sumit Goyal, Sikha Kesan, Sunil Pasricha, Udip Maheshwari, Rupal Tripathi, Venkata Pradeep Babu Koyyala
Objectives: To evaluate the role of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values in assessing response after chemo-radiotherapy in cervix cancer and investigate the utility of ADC as a tool to identify residual disease, after the treatment completion. Methods: A prospective study was done in 100 patients with histopathologically proven cancer of uterine cervix who were classified as either complete response (CR) or residual disease posttreatment. MRI was done pretreatment and after 6 weeks post-treatment with chemo-radiation. 53 patients among the cohort also underwent a fluoro-deoxy glucose positron-emission computed tomography (FDG-PET CT). ADC values, change in ADC values, and metabolic activity obtained from FDG-PET CT were correlated with clinical outcome, and statistical analysis was done to determine the better tool for assessing response evaluation between ADC and PET-CT. Results: Residual lesions have notably lower ADC value than that of posttreatment changes. The mean ADC values of residual tumors: 1.26 ± 0.238 × 10−3 mm2/s and mean ADC values of lesions due to posttreatment changes: 1.540 ± 0.218 × 10−3 mm2/s (statistically significant difference between malignant and posttreatment lesions, P < 0.05). ADC has 67% sensitivity, 83% specificity, 35% positive predictive values (PPV), 95% negative predictive values (NPV), and 81% accuracy in differentiating residual disease from post treatment changes. PPV, NPV, sensitivity, and specificity with PET-CT were 93%, 89%, 98%, and 73%, respectively. PPV, NPV, sensitivity, and specificity of contrast MRI were 16%, 91%, 58%, and 59%, respectively. Conclusion: Diffusion imaging differentiates residual cervix malignancies from post treatment changes based on ADC values and can be a promising and evocative biomarker. Complimentary use of ADC and PET/CT may increase diagnostic confidence.
FETAL IMAGING
Samrakshan: An Indian radiological and imaging association program to reduce perinatal mortality in India p. 412
Rijo M Choorakuttil, Hemant Patel, Rajalingam Bavaharan, Palanisamy Devarajan, Saneej Kanhirat, Ramesh S Shenoy, Om P Tiwari, Rajendra K Sodani, Lalit K Sharma, Praveen K Nirmalan
Context: India has a high perinatal mortality rate. The Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (IRIA) is supplementing efforts to address perinatal mortality in India through the Samrakshan program. Aims: To describe various elements of the Samrakshan program that aims to reduce perinatal mortality in India. Methods: Samrakshan focuses on two priority areas, preeclampsia (PE) and fetal growth restriction (FGR). Samrakshan aims at technical skill upgradation, specifically focused on improved interpretative ability, prognostic and therapeutic efficacy using Doppler studies, a free online learning platform and offline continuous medical educations (CMEs), building an evidence base from the program to develop policy and guidelines, and improving synergy with the RAKSHA program of IRIA and other fetal care stakeholders. Results: Two courses on Doppler studies focused on first trimester and third trimester, supplemented by case discussions and journal articles, have started on the online platform with 230 registrants. The first statewide CME was held at Indore. Samrakshan screening identified 10 (17.24%, 95% CI: 8.59, 29.43) women at high risk for preterm PE and 29 (50.00%, 95% CI 36.58, 63.42) women at high risk for FGR in the first trimester. Ten fetuses (7.63%, 95% CI: 3.72, 13.59) including 9 with stage 1 FGR were identified in the third-trimester screening. Conclusions: Samrakshan is a flagship program of IRIA that aims to reduce perinatal mortality in India through a synergistic, holistic approach that complements and supplements existing efforts in India.
CHEST IMAGING
Chest radiography in adult critical care unit: A pictorial review p. 418
Sanjay N Jain, Tanvi Modi, Yashant Aswani, Ravi U Varma
Patients in the intensive care units suffer from a myriad of cardiopulmonary processes for which portable chest radiography is the most utilized imaging modality. A pragmatic approach toward evaluating the nearly similar radiographic findings seen in most of the pathologies with comparative review and strong clinical acumen can help the radiologists and clinicians achieve a rapid and precise diagnosis.
Acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion (central sparing type)—MRI and MR spectroscopy findings p. 426
Rahul S Ranjan, Gaurav Arya, Vikas K Yadav
Acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizure and late reduced diffusion (AESD) is a clinico-radiologic syndrome of acute encephalopathy characterized by biphasic seizure and altered consciousness in acute phase followed by restricted diffusion in bilateral cerebral parenchyma on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the subacute stage. Here, we present the MRI and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) findings in a case of AESD presenting in 4-year child and diagnosed based on clinico-radiological correlation.
Metronidazole induced encephalopathy: A rare side effect with a common drug p. 431
Venkatesh Vaithiyam, Ranveer S Jadon, Animesh Ray, Smita Manchanda, Ved P Meena, Piyush Ranjan, Naval K Vikram
In hospitals, seizures and encephalopathy are one of the common complications observed in critically ill patients. Drug intoxication, metabolic derangements, and anatomical abnormalities can cause altered mental status. We encountered an uncommon case with a diagnostic dilemma due to persistent encephalopathy, where metronidazole toxicity was an etiological factor. A 45-year-old male, who was admitted with the diagnosis of ruptured amoebic liver abscess. During the course of his management, he developed seizures and altered sensorium. After excluding other etiologies for in-hospital de novo seizure, a suspicion of metronidazole toxicity was considered. MRI brain was done which suggested the same. Metronidazole induced encephalopathy (MIE) is an uncommon adverse effect of treatment with metronidazole. Diagnosis is made by identifying specific radiological findings. It characteristically affects the cerebellum and subcortical structures. While the clinical and neuroimaging changes are usually reversible, persistent encephalopathy with poor outcomes may occur as seen in our case.
Hypertrophic olivary degeneration: A case report p. 435
Meltem Özdemir, Aynur Turan, Rasime Pelin Kavak, Alper Dilli
Hypertrophic olivary degeneration is a rare occurrence in which different pathological processes including enlargement and vacuolation of the neurons, demyelination of the white matter, and fibrillary gliosis of the inferior olivary nucleus take place. It mostly develops secondary to a destructive lesion involving the Guillain–Mollaret pathway. The mostly reported destructive lesions causing hypertrophic olivary degeneration are stroke, trauma, tumors, neurosurgical interventions, and gamma knife treatment of brainstem cavernoma. It presents with symptomatic palatal tremor, and typically appears as an expansive nonenhancing nodular lesion that shows increased signal intensity on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The identification of hypertrophic olivary degeneration on MRI is of great importance as its MRI appearance is very similar to those of more severe pathologies, including tumors, infarction, demyelinating lesions, and infections. We present a case of hypertrophic olivary degeneration in a patient with a history of ischemic stroke two years before the development of palatal tremor.
Imaging in a rare case of intramuscular angioleiomyoma around the knee joint p. 438
Vinay Maurya, R Ravikumar, Krishnendu Sarkar, Richa Ranjan
Angioleiomyoma are rare benign tumors originating from smooth muscles of veins. They are found more commonly in extremities and are seen in subcutaneous tissue. Intramuscular angioleiomyoma is rare and can be confused with hemangioma. Though they do not have any characteristic imaging features but they should be considered in the differential diagnosis due to certain specific imaging findings on MRI which are discussed in this article.
Imaging diagnosis of Crouzon syndrome in two cases confirmed on genetic studies - with a brief review p. 442
Shabnam Bhandari Grover, Aanchal Bhayana, Hemal Grover, Seema Kapoor, Harish Chellani
Crouzon syndrome is the most common form of craniofacial dysostosis, characterised by a classical triad of abnormal skull shape, abnormal facies, and exophthalmos. The clinically overt dental abnormalities in these patients, distracts clinicians from the developmental neurological defects and therefore this entity remains relatively under - highlighted in radiology literature. We report and highlight the role of imaging in diagnosis of Crouzon syndrome in two patients, and discuss the relevant differential diagnosis. Moreover, our report is among the few Indian studies in which Crouzon syndrome was confirmed by genetic studies. The classical clinical triad of Crouzon syndrome was observed in both patients. The skull radiographs and cranial CT with 3D reconstruction VRT (Volume rendered technique), revealed characteristic radiological features. Genetic studies reconfirmed the clinical and radiological diagnosis of Crouzon syndrome, in both patients.
Prenatal diagnosis of congenital harlequin ichthyosis with fetal MRI p. 448
Kiran A Kale, Nitin P Ghonge, Anita Kaul
Most of the fetal deformities are caused due to genetic abnormalities. Although magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be used to accurately diagnose these deformities, it has been reported that gene analysis is a more accurate diagnostic method. Harlequin ichthyosis (HI) or Ichthyosis fetalis (IF) is a rare and extremely severe hereditary skin disorder with autosomal recessive inheritance. The ultrasound features have been described well and the diagnosis can be made with a fair degree of confidence. However, the final diagnosis needs to be established by prenatal invasive tests. In the present study, we describe the diagnosis of HI in the third trimester on fetal MRI referred to our department with suspicion of anterior encephalocele which was later confirmed through postnatal genetic evaluation.
Prenatally diagnosed case of tricuspid valve dysplasia: A case report with review of the literature p. 452
Prateek Agarwal, Rajesh Agarwal
We present a case of fetal tricuspid valve dysplasia (TVD) and pulmonary atresia, diagnosed during a routine obstetric ultrasound scan. Serial fetal echocardiographic evaluations revealed progressively augmented prodigious thickening of the tricuspid valvular and subvalvular structures, which eventually extensively obliterated the right ventricle cavity. Thickened dysplastic valve displayed a “cotton-wool” appearance. Unusual configurations of three vessels in the three-vessel view were also observed on a consecutive gray scale and color Doppler scans. During pregnancy, the fetus exhibited satisfactory growth parameters, and complications of progressive hemodynamic compromise associated with TVD and pulmonary atresia such as grievous hydrops or arrhythmia did not develop till 39 weeks of gravidity.
Perineal scar endometriosis p. 457
S Shanmuga Jayanthan, G Shashikala, N Arathi
Endometriosis is defined as the presence of ectopic endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. It is a benign condition commonly observed in women of the reproductive age group. It can occur in both pelvic and extra-pelvic sites. Moreover, pelvic endometriosis is relatively common, as compared to extra-pelvic endometriosis. The most frequent site for pelvic endometriosis is ovary. It can also affect rectum, uterosacral ligaments, rectovaginal septum, urinary bladder. Extra-pelvic endometriosis is rare and when it occurs, does so more frequently in surgical scar sites, especially in caesarean section scar. Endometriosis in an episiotomy scar is extremely rare but can lead to significant morbidity in patients due to local infiltration. This condition can be diagnosed by the presence of the classical clinical triad of history of episiotomy, tender nodule at the scar site and cyclical pain. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a very useful imaging modality to diagnose and assess the deeper extension of the lesion. Herein, we report one such case of episiotomy scar endometriosis in the perineum.
Hepatic arterial communicating arcades—Case series and review of literature p. 462
Nischal G Kundaragi, Sonal Asthana, Jayanth Reddy, Rajiv Lochan
This case series describes the hepatic arterial communicating arcades and their importance in the endovascular management of hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm, pediatric post liver transplant lobar arterial occlusion, and lobar arterial stenosis due to gall bladder carcinoma. We describe new types of arterial communicating arcades which have not been described earlier.
Osseous metaplasia of antrochoanal polyp: Case report and radiological–pathological correlation p. 468
Samrat Mandal, Arindam Bhandari, Sunil Jalan, Rajib Kumar Mondal
Teratoma involving adrenal gland – A case report and review of literature p. 472
Amit Ban, Jay Satapara, Ketan Rathod, Nandini Bahri
Teratomas are germ cell tumors which are mainly gonadal in origin. Other common extra-gonadal sites are mediastinal, sacro-coccygeal and pineal regions. Adrenal teratomas are extremely rare and primary adrenal teratomas are even rarer. We reported a case of primary adrenal teratoma in a 60-year-old male. We reviewed literature from 2000 to till date, and found 29 adult cases and 6 paediatric cases of adrenal teratoma. Usually, they are asymptomatic and identified as an incidental finding. Imaging modality such as USG, CT and MRI are useful in diagnosis. Though these tumors are mostly benign, malignant transformation may occur. Treatment includes surgical removal.
Holography applications for orthopaedics p. 477
Abid Haleem, Mohd Javaid, Raju Vaishya
Segmental spinal dysgenesis: A rare congenital spinal malformation p. 480
Suprava Naik, Sanjeev K Bhoi, Keshaba Panigrahi, Nerbadyswari Deep
Quality of radiology training in India p. 481
Ankita Ahuja, Chinmay P Mehta, Palak B Popat, Akshay D Baheti
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Jerry Archer
Trevor Hughes
International Association of Privacy Professionals
Can DMARC Hook Online Phishers?
Experts Debate Merits of E-Mail Authentication Initiative Tracy Kitten (FraudBlogger) • February 29, 2012
How effective will the DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance, be at curbing phishing attacks? Industry experts gathered in San Francisco this week for RSA Conference 2012 say it's the best effort the online industry has put forth to date.
During a Feb. 28 panel session, online security experts from Hotmail, American Greetings and PayPal said DMARC's call for a thorough and strong e-mail authentication process is the only viable way to conquer increasing e-mail threats organizations and businesses face in the wake of increased social media and engineering risks.
"The biggest problem facing all of us is malware," says John Scarrow of Hotmail.
An employee or other user connected to an organization's database unknowingly clicks and opens a malicious link in an e-mail, inadvertently launching a phishing attack that has the potential to severely cripple or, worse, take an organization down.
"Well over 90 percent of any organization's vulnerability is sitting behind the keyboard," he says. "It's the socially engineered schemes that pose the greatest risk, not outside intrusions or other types of network vulnerabilities."
DMARC and Addressing Social Risks?
DMARC standardizes how e-mail receivers perform e-mail authentication by providing a uniform reporting mechanism, says Andy Steingruebl of PayPal. "DMARC offers a way for senders to be verified, and it creates a system that's built on reputation."
E-mail senders will experience consistent authentication results for messages at AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, as well as other e-mail receivers that implement DMARC. "We hope this will encourage senders to more broadly authenticate their outbound e-mail, which can make e-mail a more reliable way to communicate," DMARC says.
In December, BITS, the Technology Division of the Financial Services Roundtable, announced its support of DMARC, as a way to curb financial losses linked to socially engineered schemes that compromise users' online banking credentials. [See BITS: Focus on Emerging Technology.]
Increased use of social media, coupled with the ubiquity of e-commerce, has fueled growth in socially engineered schemes waged for financial gain. E-mail is easy to spoof, and cybercriminals are increasingly improving their techniques.
Critics say DMARC fails to address the core problem - the user, who is too easily fooled. Joseph Steinberg, CEO of online security and authentication provider Green Armor Solutions, says until the human is taken out of the equation, online fraud will grow.
"We don't want to require what I call 'active thinking,'" Steinberg says. "Phishing can't be addressed by technology. It's a social problem."
Anytime a consumer is asked to make a voluntary decision, phishing schemes will work, because humans are easy to manipulate. It's the nature of being social creatures - we want to trust, Steinberg says.
"These spear-phishing attacks rely on the same methods that we have seen since the dawn of time, or the human race, anyway," he says. "It's a social problem, not a technical problem, at its core. Initiatives like DMARC won't work, because they fail to address the real problem, and that is the need for more education."
NIST Updating Catalogue of Controls
Netgear Updates Security Line
Tracy Kitten
Director of Global Events Content and Executive Editor, BankInfoSecurity & CUInfoSecurity
Kitten was director of global events content and an executive editor at ISMG. A veteran journalist with more than 20 years' experience, she covered the financial sector for 10+ years. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2010, she covered the financial self-service industry as the senior editor of ATMmarketplace, part of Networld Media. Kitten has been a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences, and was the keynote at ATMIA's U.S. and Canadian conferences in 2009. She has been quoted by CNN.com, ABC News, Bankrate.com and MSN Money.
Alarming Trend: More Ransomware Gangs Exfiltrating Data
Senators Field Legislation to Build Huawei 5G Alternatives
How Wireless Carriers Open the Door to SIM Swapping Attacks
https://www.govinfosecurity.com/dmarc-hook-online-phishers-a-4542
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Giacomo Balla: The Hand of the Violinist - 1912
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In 1910, together with several other Italian artists, Giacomo Balla signed two Futurist manifestos. Futurism was the creation of the poet Filippo Marinetti who, the previous year, had published the first of a number of manifestos in the French newspaper le Figaro. The movement wanted to set Italy free from the suffocating burden of its artistic past and glorified all things modern — powerful cars were a particular favourite; as Marinetti famously quipped, ‘a roaring motorcar, which runs like a machine-gun, is more beautiful than the Winged Victory of Samothrace’.
Movement and speed were central to the Futurist creed and in this picture Balla, whilst not choosing a subject which was symbolic of modernity, is nevertheless exploring how he can depict the speed with which the musician’s hand and bow move across the strings of his instrument. It was painted during a visit to Germany in order to complete a commission for murals at the home of a former pupil, Grete Löwenstein. Her husband, Arthur, was an amateur violinist and he became the model for this composition.
Balla, like his fellow Futurists and other contemporary artists, (such as Marcel Duchamp whose famous Nude Descending a Staircase was painted in the same year as this picture) was fascinated by recent photographic experiments which were trying, in one way or another, to isolate the constituent elements of human and animal movement. Étienne-Jules Marey was one such photographer who produced sequential photographs which strove to freeze each instance of movement. Balla would have seen his work at the Exposition Universelle when he visited Paris in 1900. He also knew of the photography of Eadweard Muybridge and his countryman Anton Giulio Bragaglia. Balla has used these influences and fused them with the divisionist techniques of the French Neo-Impressionists (who he had seen during his Paris visit) and their Italian followers.
The initial image of the violin is quite distinct at the top of the sequence, becoming less so until the outline of the neck is almost lost. The hand and finger movements form a marvellous composite image which again blurs to semi abstraction, each instance represented with lines of yellow paint. The cuff of the violinist morphs into a continuous outline as it follows the enclosed wrist in its passionate excursions. Here is a perfect example of the assertion, contained within the Technical Manifesto of 1910, that ‘movement and light destroy the substance of objects’.
1912 Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1912 Pablo Picasso: Ma Jolie, New York, Museum of Modern Art
1912 Lovis Corinth: Self Portrait in White Smock, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum
1913 Pierre Bonnard: Dining Room in the Country, Minneapolis, Institute of Art
Divisionism
Further Paintings of Interest
Circus Sideshow (La Parade)
Palais des Papes, Avignon
The Figure 5 in Gold
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week of july 2nd
Dearest Indivisibles,
It's been a pretty rough week of news, no mistake. And we've got a long email with plenty to share to show for it.
But when Saturday came, and hundreds of thousands of us took to the streets across the country to show up for families and immigrants - that's something to really move your spirit.
Thousands of you have showed up to speak out in the past week. Thank you.
If you weren't able to make it, here are a few photos and quotes to get you fired up and facing the week:
"I am tired of politicians talking about family values and they produce policies that have no value to families at all! I am sick and tired of politicians opening their meetings with prayer, but not knowing what the Bible said about ‘welcoming the stranger.’ I am tired of Christian nationalist groups praying for more wealth while we have children ripped apart from their families on our borders!
I am tired of America not being what #America said it ought to be! But there is a groundswell of people that are also tired as well! We're going to have to stand together: black and white; immigrant and native-born; gay and straight.
TOGETHER, there is no challenge that we cannot overcome!
No mountain we can't climb!
No political power we can't overcome!
No ICE we can't melt!"
- Rev. Rodney Williams, Pastor of Swope Parkway United Christian Church
“The next time you vote I want you to vote for love. If we center in on love and we know that we love ourselves, we know that we love our neighbors regardless of what country of origin they come from, regardless of what border they came through, regardless of what they’re leaving or regardless of what they are trying to achieve, we must look at it first with love.”
- Rev. Randy Fikki, Unity Southeast Church
"It was so good for my state of mind, to be among so many other people who are heartbroken, but ready to fight."
- Heather M., rally attendee
Keep up with the most impactful stories and be ready to take action on developing stories.
The resounding primary victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York proves that it's possible for passion and grassroots effort to overcome incumbency and big money spending. So get out and support the candidates you love!
With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, another supreme court seat is about to be filled. Kennedy generally sided with the conservative wing of the court, including on Citizens United and gutting the voting rights act, but occasionally crossed the aisle for decisions like Obergefell, the case that legalized gay marriage nationwide. McConnell has removed the filibuster for Supreme Court judges so combating extreme nominations will be an uphill battle.
Following more escalation in rhetoric against the media, a man opened fire on a newspaper office Thursday. He was angry about their coverage of his past stalking conviction and had previously tied his hatred of this particular media outlet to Donald Trump's anti-media statements.
The Department of Homeland Security asked the military to house more than ten thousand detained immigrant families. This military housing would be even less accessible to journalists and childcare professionals than current facilities. Meanwhile, the republicans are unable to agree on an immigration bill, and hundreds were arrested at an ICE protest in Washington D.C. including multiple Democratic party legislators. All appear to be free at this time.
Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort appears to owe ten million more dollars to a Russian oligarch than were previously disclosed. Manafort is still in jail. There have been five guilty pleas so far in the Trump-Russia investigation
The dark money groups that brought Greitens to power are taking further heat, including investigation by the Federal election commission, and a new lawsuit. We may find the truth out yet.
Governor Parson signed the Missouri budget. Missourians were lucky that Governor Greitens' scandals kept the Missouri legislature from fulfilling all his budget agenda, but the budget is morally lacking nevertheless. Read more
Take action on your own schedule! Use your phone and computer to make your voice heard.
ACT ON TRUMP'S SUPREME COURT NOMINATION
Call Senator McCaskill and tell her to refuse to confirm any Trump nomination to the Supreme Court.
Sample call script: "Hello, my name is [your name] and I'm a constituent from [your zip] in [your town]. I'm calling to ask the Senator to vote against Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Too much hangs in the balance to let Trump fill this seat with someone from his list of totally unqualified, extreme judges. That includes a woman’s right to choose, the Affordable Care Act, and marriage equality. I want Senator McCaskill to use every tool at her disposal to stop Trump from filling this vacancy with anyone on this list. I will be watching her actions closely on this issue."
Read about Indivisible's two step strategy to win the Supreme Court fight.
ACT ON IMMIGRATION BILLS
Two GOP-led immigration bills failed the House this week. Call your Representative (Graves or Hartzler) and tell them you expect them to 1) put pressure on leadership to bring smaller, passable bills to the floor. If a clean Dream Act or measure on Family Separation were brought to the floor alone, they would pass. 2) work with Democrats to craft a bill that can pass both chambers of Congress. The White House is too unpredictable, and it's time Congress began to act like a coequal branch of government.
DONATE
Sometimes it helps to remember that funding PoC-led organizations is a great way to resist. Here in KC, the KS/MO DREAM Alliance has been leading our community in the fight for immigrant rights. If you're able, keep their work going with a donation.
STRUT YOUR STARS AND STRIPES!
Wear your red, white and blue and bring your family as volunteers for the Moms Demand Action march in the annual Parkville July Fourth Parade this Wednesday. Parade line-up begins at 9:00am at the corner of 63rd Street and Highway 9, and the parade kicks off at 10:00am. Please RSVP so that we know you'll be joining us.
EVENTS
HELP GET OUT THE VOTE IN MISSOURI
Action Night: Get Out the Vote! IKC is teaming up with Indivisible St Louis to get out the vote in 2018! We are sending handwritten postcard reminders to newly registered young people to get them out and voting this August 7th and November 6th! These postcards are short an sweet so we hope to get through a lot of them quickly. Join us at Bier Station in Waldo on Monday July 9 at 6:30 pm, where we can chat and enjoy some burgers and beverages as we encourage new voters!
LEARN TO PHONE BANK!
Never phone banked before and feeling nervous? Let's jump in and try it for the first time, together! Newbie and seasoned phone bankers are welcome to join IKC and our friends at Jobs With Justice on Tuesday July 10 at 5:30 at 1101 E 87th St, Suite 105 as we spread the word that "Right to Work" is Wrong for Missouri Workers, and we all need to vote, "No Way on Prop A!"
KEEP MARCHING!
Don't let the end of the parade in Parkville be the end of your involvement with Moms Demand Action. Come to the KC group's monthly meeting from 6:00pm - 7:00pm on Wednesday, July 11, at the Waldo Branch of the KC Public Library, 201 E 75th Street. Let us know if you can join us
ATTEND DISTRICT 8 MISSOURI SENATE CANDIDATE FORUM
(District 8 includes Independence, Blue Springs, Grain Valley, Oak Grove, Lee's Summit, Lake Lotawana, Greenwood and Pleasant Hill, Mo.)
Hands Up!: Got a question for candidates running for the District 8 Missouri Senate seat. Here's your chance to ask incumbent Mike Cierpiot (R) and challengers Hillary Shields (D) and Leonard Jonas Hughes IV (R) their views in a forum open to the public on July 12, from 6:30pm - 8:00pm at John Knox Village in Lee's Summit. The event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters KC. Lee's Summit is a short drive from urban KC and the SD 8 election will be a close, important one in determining the balance of the MO senate in the 2019 session. It all adds up to SD 8 being a great place to put in your campaign volunteer hours this election season.
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Internet Protocol – Intellectual Property Policy
& Brexit
EU Policy
Internet Freedoms
Internet Threats
Internet Trials
IP in Trade
Telecoms Package
3rd Reading
For the backstory to the upload filter check my book The Closing of the Net - PAPERBACK OR KINDLE - £15.99!
Britain UK 3-strikes bill: Code to limit Internet access
UK 3-strikes bill: Code to limit Internet access
Monica Horten
Published on 27 January 2010
The Digital Economy Bill includes a new Code to limit Internet access. The government may bypass consultation process to bring it into force.
The UK Digital Economy Bill, currently going through the House of Lords, provides for a new Code which will implement the government's plans for dealing with peer-to-peer filesharing and any form of copyright infringement via the Internet. The Code is to be drawn up behind the scenes, by Ofcom, without scrutiny of Parliament.
The new code is outlined in
clauses 12 and 13 of the Bill: Code by Ofcom about obligations to limit Internet access. This code will set out the proposed implementation of ‘technical measures' - this will be the third strike of the three strikes system . Technical measures are the means of punishing Internet users who are alleged to have downloaded copyright infringing material. They include automated suspension of Internet access, and throttling of bandwidth.
The Internet limitations Code will follow the Initial Obligations Code (see previous article on iptegrity.com. ) which sets out the system of warnings to users concerning alleged copyright infringements.
Although the Bill sets out a process for bringing in Internet limitations over time - and even for making these measures optional pending the outcome of a market report by Ofcom - the word from Westminster is that the this process will not be followed. Instead, the Secretary of State may take advantage of a power in Clauses 10 and 11 of the Bill, which would effectively permit him to override this process and bring the measures in more quickly.
It is understood that Clause 10 of the Bill is intended to enable Ofcom to move ahead with the technical measures as soon as the Initial Obligations code has been introduced. In other words, the government is planning to jump the gun, and go right ahead with the Internet-limiting measures without waiting for Ofcom to do the appropriate consultation.
Moreover, the government is using the Codes in order to avoid any scrutiny of the 3-strikes measures by Parliament. This has been questioned, although rather weakly, in the House of Lords debates.
The point is that a code of practice set up by Ofcom, does not have to go before Parliament in the same way that a new law has to. If the government set out the 3-strikes measures properly in the law, then Parliament would have the opportunitty to decide what should happen, and the public would have the opportunity to voice their opinion. If a sharp-suited Ofcom employee draws it up, only his boss will oversee it.
Under this process, the public will get no say in the Code. Given the implications of the code for freedom of expression and due process under both UK and EU law, this would seem to be inappropriate.
NB: Interestingly, the language of 'limitations' mirrors the language of the Universal Services directive in the EU Telecoms Package.
Clause 12 “
124I Code by OFCOM about obligations to limit internet access
(1) For any period during which there are one or more technical obligations in force under section 124H, OFCOM must by order make a technical obligations code for the purpose of regulating those obligations.
Clause 11
“124H Obligations to limit internet access 20 (1) The Secretary of State may at any time by order impose a technical obligation on internet service providers if the Secretary of State considers it appropriate in view of— (a) an assessment carried out or steps taken by OFCOM under section 124G; or 25 (b) any other consideration.
Obligations to limit internet access: assessment and preparation After section 124F of the Communications Act 2003 insert— “124G Obligations to limit internet access: assessment and preparation (1) The Secretary of State may direct OFCOM to— 35 (a) assess whether one or more technical obligations should be imposed on internet service providers; (b) take steps to prepare for the obligations; (c) provide a report on the assessment or steps to the Secretary of State. 40
Read the Digital Economy Bill
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EU Copyright Directive - who pays the bill for the upload filter?
Brexit White Paper - a common rulebook for 21st century business?
Galileo: EU blasts off to space future but holds UK on red signal
Galileo satellites illuminate EU-UK divorce tensions
EU Withdrawal Agreement: a deep and special loss of influence
Ground control to Mrs May – have we lost the signal?
10 years of Internet wars
Consent and consensus: 5 ways the European Parliament influences Brexit
New EU proposal writes Internet hosts into copyright law
Parma ham exposes Brexit sensitivity over IP rights
European Parliament Micro-targetting & Profiling Event November 2019
Council of Europe Workshop on Internet Intermediaries, Tbilisi December 2018
Post Brexit International Trade - Maidenhead Chamber of Commerce Feb 2018
GDPR & Brexit Presentation BCS - EuroCIO Event April 2018
Data is the new currency
Content responsibility: The looming cloud of uncertainty for Internet intermediaries
Freedom of Expression, Human Rights Standards and Private Online Censorship
The Policy Challenge Of Content Restrictions: How Private Actors Engage The Duties Of States
Internet Policy Review - The Aereo dilemma and copyright in the cloud
JIPITEC - The Digital Economy Act in the dock
States v the 'Net?
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Danish landlords have held considerable power throughout history. Those loyal to the Crown helped to set up an army of knights, were exempted from paying taxes and given dominion over the population of entire villages. During the 16th century, lords came to be known as nobles, and by the 17th century they came to hold half of the country’s farms and fields. The king owned the other half. Times were tough for peasants.
Around the year 1200, the king was looking to set up a mounted army, an army of knights, modelled on other Western European armies. But a war horse, weapons and armour were expensive investments, so in order to pay for the new army, the king offered tax exemption as a form of pay to the men, lords, who were willing to arm themselves at their own cost and fight for the Crown. The more land one held, the greater the value of the tax exemption, so it comes as no surprise that property and service as a knight went hand in hand. Many lords emphasised their new martial role by fortifying their farms or manors, as they came to be known. The traces of many of these fortifications can be found throughout the country. Most of them date from the 13th and 14th centuries, a period of civil war and power struggles between competing lords.
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Home / Journal of Scientometic Research, Vol 2, Issue 2, May-Aug, 2013 / A scientometric study of human computer interaction research in India
A scientometric study of human computer interaction research in India
Journal of Scientometric Research,2013,2,2,116-125.
DOI:10.4103/2320-0057.128996
Published:May 2013
Type:Research Article
Author(s) affiliations:
Suresh Kumar*
CSIR-National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi, India
The research output of India in human computer interaction (HCI) research during 1987-2011 is analyzed in this paper on several parameters including total research output, its growth, rank and global publication share, citation impact. It also analyses the characteristics of most productive institutions, authors and high-cited papers. India is at 16th position in the world in HCI research publications with 2656 papers by 3691 Indian authors from 693 institutions of India. The Transformative activity index suggests that India’s research activity in the fi eld of HCI is improved greatly in the last 5 years. Although highest number papers are contributed by Indian Statistical Institute, about half of publications are contributed by engineering colleges. All the papers published by Indian researchers have appeared in journals with impact factors between 0.090 and 5.211 with an average impact factor of 1.455. Indian authors preferred to publish in journals originated from United Kingdom, the Netherlands, USA and Germany. Citation analysis for Indian publications gives 9.8 citations/paper.
Keywords:citations, human computer interaction, India, relative citation index, scientometrics
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Kumar S. A scientometric study of human computer interaction research in India. Journal of Scientometric Research. 2013;2(2):116-125. doi:10.4103/2320-0057.128996.
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Commentary on the screening for occult lower-extremity deep-vein thrombosis upon admission to acute inpatient rehabilitation: A cross-sectional, prospective study
Mansi M Jhaveri1, Mary E Russell2
1 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Joint Appointment in Department of Neurology and Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA
2 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA
Date of Decision 07-Apr-2019
Date of Acceptance 15-Apr-2019
Dr. Mansi M Jhaveri
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Joint Appointment in Department of Neurology and Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas
DOI: 10.4103/jisprm.jisprm_50_19
Jhaveri MM, Russell ME. Commentary on the screening for occult lower-extremity deep-vein thrombosis upon admission to acute inpatient rehabilitation: A cross-sectional, prospective study. J Int Soc Phys Rehabil Med 2019;2:115-6
Jhaveri MM, Russell ME. Commentary on the screening for occult lower-extremity deep-vein thrombosis upon admission to acute inpatient rehabilitation: A cross-sectional, prospective study. J Int Soc Phys Rehabil Med [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 19];2:115-6. Available from: http://www.jisprm.org/text.asp?2019/2/3/115/268380
The quest to detect occult deep-venous thrombosis (DVT) is ambitious. As more medically complex and disabled patients are admitted to inpatient rehabilitation centers, the need for better surveillance in the prevention of secondary medical complications is of utmost importance. DVT, a clot in motion that lands in the lung, and pulmonary embolism (PE) are common complications associated with severe morbidity and mortality. The authors conclude that ultrasound screening within 72 h of admission to inpatient rehabilitation may not be beneficial in detecting occult DVT, but the study findings pose several dilemmas.[1]
This cross-sectional, prospective, single-site study was conducted over 3 months, from October, 2017, to December, 2017, which may be considered too short to draw any meaningful conclusion. Of the 127 patients included, 13.3% were on full-dose anticoagulation, which is known to rapidly extinguish clot formation.[2] Therefore, the 1% study finding of DVT by Doppler ultrasound is questionable. Study participant characteristics such as whether patients were ambulatory were not included, and the authors acknowledge that 16.5% of the patients declined to participate in this noninvasive study for unclear reasons, possibly skewing the study results. High-level functioning patients and patients with less risk factors for DVT/PE, including lack of hypercoagulable state, ambulatory status, nonsmoker, nonpregnant, nonobese, and free of kidney or heart failure,[3] are less likely to present with DVT/PE, and these participant characteristics were not adequately accounted for in the study findings. In addition, 34% of the study participants were found to have a ventilation requirement, and the possibility of PE should have been excluded because DVT often migrates to cause PE.
The authors are applauded for seeking to shed more light on the detection of occult DVT in inpatient rehabilitation patients. Merit of the study includes the use of a prospective design at a major university center with a diverse patient population. Future studies would benefit from study duration of at least 1 year and follow-up of patient clinical status at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. A case–control approach, taking into account different participant characteristics/type and timing of prophylactic anticoagulant used, would yield valuable information. In addition, exclusion of patients on full-dose anticoagulation treatment is strongly recommended.
Hence, the question remains: To screen or not to screen for DVT. The following data support the importance of screening for DVT upon admission to inpatient rehabilitation among certain populations.
The article also highlights a changing population among admitting rehabilitation diagnosis in the past 20 years, as well as changes in treatments for DVT. Looking at data from eRehab in 2018 across the nation,[4] there were 197,622 admissions to inpatient rehabilitation facilities. Two high-risk populations, brain injury and spinal cord injuries, made up roughly 20.5% of the admissions. These populations have been shown to have a cost-effectiveness for screening for DVT.[5],[6] Orthopedic trauma, not including amputations, made up 12.2% of admissions to inpatient rehabilitation in 2018. Lower-extremity fracture carries 30% incidence of DVT preoperatively and 43% postoperatively.[7]
Critically ill trauma patients were also found to have high rates of DVT despite mechanical chemoprophylaxis. Rates of DVT found within 1 week of injury were over 15% among those trauma patients despite the treatment.[8] Trauma registry metrics have focused on complications such as DVT and PE. Neurosurgical patients, especially those with craniotomies, also have high rates of DVT.[9] This population is especially difficult given the propensity for bleeding events postoperatively and the magnitude of injury potential that exists. These patients are also frequently admitted to inpatient rehabilitation facilities. Søgaard et al. found that the first 30 days and up to 1 year after venous thromboembolism carried the greatest risk of mortality [10] in their 30-year follow-up study. This timeframe can also coincide with the timing of inpatient rehabilitation.
Given the populations that are seen in acute rehabilitation facilities and the increased risk of DVT and PE, screening on admission should be considered. Nearly one-third of all admissions to inpatient rehabilitation have an acquired brain injury, spinal cord injury, and trauma. These have also shown to be cost-effective for screening individuals with these injuries. Given that the first 30 days to 1 year is the highest risk for mortality for these individuals due to venous thromboembolism and the intensity of acute inpatient rehabilitation, it is reasonable to screen these individuals on admission.
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Date of Decision 28-Jun-2019
Date of Web Publication 06-Jan-2020
Keywords: Environmental disinfection, surface decontamination, ultraviolet C, ultraviolet light technology
Elgujja AA, Altalhi HH, Ezreqat S. Review of the efficacy of ultraviolet C for surface decontamination. J Nat Sci Med 2020;3:8-12
Elgujja AA, Altalhi HH, Ezreqat S. Review of the efficacy of ultraviolet C for surface decontamination. J Nat Sci Med [serial online] 2020 [cited 2020 Jan 19];3:8-12. Available from: http://www.jnsmonline.org/text.asp?2020/3/1/8/275169
The ultraviolet (UV) light is conventionally known for the effectiveness of its antimicrobial activity, but there is significant doubt about its relative effectiveness in surface disinfection. Currently, there is convincing evidence that contaminated surfaces in hospital settings increase the risk of the transmitting hospital-acquired infections to other patients. The old argument that the environment does not contribute to the transmission of infection is fast loosing credence as the plethora of evidence are abound suggesting that a new patient stands the risk of inheriting the pathogens left behind in a room by the previous occupant.[1] Hence, existing studies imply that improved environmental surface cleaning and decontamination can lower the rates of healthcare-associated infections.[2],[3],[4]
However, evidence have also shown that housekeeping practices of cleaning and disinfection of the environmental surfaces of even the best hospitals are suboptimal, and thereby missing out on nearly half of the high-risk environmental surfaces.[5] Therefore, the quality environmental cleaning depends on the operator, and there is evidence that manual cleaning can spread bacteria on surfaces.[6] This is more so as many hospitals outsource their housekeeping tasks of environmental surface disinfection to private companies which raises the question of whether they meet the acceptable standards. The local Saudi Arabian MERS-CoV guideline (which is the only one that dwelt on the use of UVC and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) for surface decontamination) recommend using either of the two as a mandatory part of terminal cleaning.[7] It did not make a distinction between the two in terms of preference.
A quest for a better solution for environmental decontamination has led to the application of an old concept, the UV light, for decontamination of environmental surfaces. The UV light was well known for its antimicrobial effects and had been hitherto used for disinfection of water, food, and air ducts. Several UV light technology products are available in the market with even sporicidal label claim. Consequently, there is an increasing interest in novel and more efficient technological tools which can consistently decontaminate hospital's environmental surfaces.[8] This article reviews the efficacy of UVC in surface decontamination and compares it with H2O2 with a view to proffering a practical and more efficient disinfectant for hospital environmental surfaces.
Role of Ultraviolet Light in Decontamination of the Environment
UV light is electromagnetic radiation containing 265-nm wavelengths that are not long enough to be visible to the eyes. At this wavelengths, UV is capable of inducing mutation to bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms due to its effects on the molecular structures of the pathogens. Its action results in destroying the structural bonds in the DNA of the pathogens, with a resultant rendering of the pathogens harmless or thereby inducing a bacteriostatic action on the pathogens.[9]
UV light is conventionally used for both air disinfection and water purifications,[10] and recently, to inactivate microorganisms on surfaces. The novel application of UV gamma irradiation is the use of UV light technologies to disinfect environmental surfaces in vacant rooms. These technologies come as moveable or fixed units to disinfect an entire vacant room.[9]
Some studies[8],[11],[12] have evaluated the effectiveness of using UV technologies for disinfecting patient rooms in hospitals [Table 1]. All of these studies cited have variously reported that UV light can, significantly, decrease the bio-burden of common multidrug-resistant as well as spore-forming pathogens including MRSA, Acinetobacter spp.,[20] VRE, Mycobacteria, Ebola virus,[21] and Clostridium difficile.[22] on contaminated environmental surfaces in the health-care settings by up to 4 log.[6]
Table 1: Studies on the effectiveness of ultraviolet C
the Pitfalls of Ultraviolet Technologies for Environmental Surface Disinfections
Studies[19],[20] have shown that the UV light can reduce the microbial load on environmental surfaces, and can potentially contribute to reducing infection rates, in conjunction with other infection control measures like improved housekeeping practices. However, UV light is not without its own drawbacks when applied for environmental surface decontamination. For instance, concerns have been raised about its effectiveness in shadowed areas. In some of the models evaluated in the studies, items that are not in direct line of the light have a lower inactivation rate as compared to those in direct line of the light. That necessitates multiple-position or multiple-machine decontamination process. A study has suggested that using a reflective coated wall could reduce the time limit by about 50%, but it did not further increase its log reduction capability.[23]
Furthermore, the presence of organic matter on the environmental surface can decrease the lethal effect of the UV radiation on pathogens.[24] Accordingly, none of the studies or reviews suggests that UV light technology can be used as a stand-alone measure, but perhaps, as a supplement to the existing housekeeping practices. This requires that the surface must be physically cleaned before applying the UV light as an adjunct. This is in addition to its other disadvantage that the room must be vacated before using the technology because of its effects on, among others, the skin of humans (cutaneous inflammation),[25] of some adverse inflammatory responses, including the creation of inflammatory mediators, and changes to vascular responses.[26] The UV light also has effects on the eyes and visual systems,[27] including potential changes to the cornea, pterygium, and acute photokeratitis (snow blindness), among others.[28]
Discussion: Ultraviolet C Versus Hydrogen Peroxide
An alternative surface disinfectant with similar antimicrobial action, including sporicidal property, is the vaporized H2O2 that destroys pathogens, including spores by degrading the bacterial cell.[29] H2O2, which is commercially available in a range of concentrations from 3% to 90%, is also considered eco-friendly, as it can quickly disintegrate into harmless by-products: water and oxygen.[30] Published literature have attributed good antimicrobial activity to H2O2 and have confirmed its biocidal activity against a wide range of pathogens, including bacteria, yeasts, fungi, viruses, and spores.[5] It also has an additional advantage of overcoming the drawbacks arising from the use of UVC; The ability to reach all nooks and corners of the room, including part of the air vents when the air conditioners are not operating.[31]
When compared to its peers, for example, glutraldehyde, peracetic acid, and orthophthaldehyde, it has far better favorable chemical characteristics, including its use as a sterilant (at the concentration of 6%–25%, and a contact time of 6 h), and has a high level of disinfection claim (sporicidal). In addition, it has a longer reuse life (2 days), a long shelf life (2 years), it does not require activation, and has a good materials compatibility.[5]
Furthermore, a study, in which a new activated H2O2 wipe disinfectant was used to disinfect high-touch surfaces in patient rooms has demonstrated that 99% of surfaces yielded <2.5 colony-forming units/cm, 75% yielded no growth.[32]
Analyzing [Table 2], it could be deduced that both the UV and the H2O2 technologies can be used for room surfaces and equipment decontamination because of their broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity against pathogens, including C. difficile for. Furthermore, in both cases, the room must be vacant prior to decontamination, they do not remove dust and stains, and hence, proper cleaning must be completed before the disinfection as part of a terminal cleaning (as the room should remain vacant prior using the UV technology).
Table 2: Comparing the merits and demerits of ultraviolet light and hydrogen peroxide for surface disinfection
However, H2O2 is a relatively better choice for the following reasons:
There is no prospective (known to authors) clinical study to show that UV light decontamination can decrease the rates of hospital-acquired infections. Clinical trials have shown that using the H2O2 for surface disinfection can decrease the rates of hospital-acquired infections
No reported study that suggests that UVC is effective in shadowed areas, even when the room contents have been moved away from the walls. H2O2 can be conveniently used for disinfecting room with complex equipment and furniture without necessarily moving the contents away around
H2O2 has no harmful residue. Hydrogen Peroxide is converted into oxygen and water with conducive environmental impact
The automated dispersal system ensures uniform distribution in the room, including all corners, crannies, and openings, including even air vents
At the concentration of 3%, it can be safely and effectively used as an intermediate level surface and semi-critical items disinfectant.
Making a choice
As can be seen in this review, a better alternative to UVC for surface decontamination is the vaporized H2O2 in the concentration of 3%–6% which can permeate its sporicidal property in all areas of the room, including shadows and ventilation ducts
Apart from using it for decontaminating inanimate environmental surfaces, H2O2 vapors can be effectively used for high-level disinfection of medical devices such as soft contact lenses, ventilators, and endoscopes. Furthermore, it can also be used for spot-disinfecting fabrics in patients' rooms[5]
Manual terminal cleaning of patient rooms using neutral detergent according to the standard hospital protocol should always precede the use of H2O2
Apply the H2O2 vapor according to the manufacturer's recommendations.
If the choice is for UVC, then follow these steps[9]
UV light systems can be used as an additional measure when performing terminal room decontamination
The use of UV light systems for environmental decontamination should only be undertaken following completion of a manual clean as residual dirt can reduce efficacy
Before a UV light system being considered, an assessment of the area to be decontaminated must be undertaken to ensure the area can be sealed and the use of UV light made safe
UV light systems must only be used in an area which has been cleared of all patients and staff. No entry to the decontamination area is allowed once the decontamination process has commenced
Manufacturers' instructions for use must be followed to reduce the risk of sub-optimal UV light dosage on microorganisms. This could result in the mutation of the remaining microbes
UV light systems in use must be maintained in good working order and a system of programmed maintenance in place with documented evidence
A quality assurance mechanism should be in place to monitor the functionality of the UV light system using samples before and after cleaning
UV light systems should not be used for routine cleaning
Risk assessments should be in place for possible exposure of staff or patients to UV light
Ensure appropriate time is given to the UV light decontamination process. Use of UV light systems will increase the overall decontamination time for cleaning. Additional time should be included in cleaning specification guidance [Table 2].
Although both UVC and H2O2 are broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents that are used for room surfaces and equipment decontamination, for their effect against pathogens, including C. difficile, in both cases, the room must be completely vacated before decontamination. However, H2O2 is a relatively better choice for the following reasons:{Table 2}
There is no prospective clinical study that demonstrates that UV room disinfection can reduce the rate of healthcare-associated infections.[13] One retrospective study showed a decrease in rates, but other infection prevention measures were also implemented along with the use of UV light. Some studies have shown that the use of H2O2 for surface disinfection can reduce the rate of healthcare-associated infections[19]
None of the studies suggest that UVC is effective in shadowed areas, even when the equipment and furniture are moved around
H2O2 can be used for disinfecting rooms that contain complex equipment and furniture without moving them around. The automated dispersal system ensures uniform distribution in the room, including all corners, crannies, and openings, including event air vents
H2O2 has no residue the HP is converted into oxygen and water with conducive environmental impact.
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ag亚游欧洲厅重磅照"Without implementing these, we also will consider it as noncompliance with the resolution," Nebenzia said, Reuters reported
有驾月要During the 35-day training course, they learned from Li Mingxu, the fifth generation successor of the Jinzhou Lion Dance, a provincial intangible cultural heritage that has been passed from generation to generation for more than a century恭喜Ten students from Nigeria and Zambia learned how to perform Chinese lion dance at the Jinpu New Area in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province
巨变These changes may look pleasant, but not quite so to Derek Hyra, an associate professor at the American University School of Public Affairs and an expert on neighborhood change重磅照Chen Weihua/China DailyHaving lived in Washington DC for almost five years, I have seen the city growing, with new construction and renovation projects happening in many streets and neighborhoods有驾月要Hyra described how the "dark ghetto" has been turned into a "gilded ghetto"恭喜To Hyra, it has caused not just residential displacement for African Americans but also political and cultural displacement巨变His book this year, Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City, is the result of his many years of field research on the issues
重磅照Whites are the majority now, accounting for 55 percent of the community有驾月要The 14th Street near U Street, a traditional African American neighborhood, is now lined up with hip restaurants and bars in this photo taken on Sunday恭喜After finishing middle school and high school studies in the city, Cho's elder son was admitted to Peking University for undergraduate studies, and then returned to Hefei later for his MBA at the University of Science and Technology of China
巨变The Obama administration had done everything it could to internationalize the South China Sea issue and had used the Philippines, a US ally, to advance the American strategy重磅照However, the Pew survey finds that Duterte and his policies are widely popular at home despite concerns expressed by some governments, in particular the US, over Duterte's clashes with drug cartels and alleged human rights violations有驾月要A quarter now name China as the world's leading economy, up from 14 percent the last time the Philippines was surveyed恭喜At the same time, 78 percent believe the current economic situation is good, and 57 percent are satisfied with the direction of the country, a 21 percentage-point increase from 2014, the last time this question was asked in the Philippines
And despite the Philippines being the most pro-Trump nation in Pew's spring 37-country survey, confidence in Trump now is lower than it was in then-President Barack Obama in 2015The Philippines under Duterte has tried to develop an independent foreign policy rather than being a US puppet most of the time
Since becoming Philippines president in June 2016, Rodrigo Duterte has refused to be used by the US to advance its strategyThat was certainly not the policy under Obama when he launched the US pivot-to-Asia policy, trying to gang up US allies on ChinaAnd on global economic status, about half of Filipinos (49 percent) say that the US is still the leading economic power, but that is down from 66 percent who said so in 2015The survey released on Sept 21 bore a title saying people in the Philippines still favor the United States over China, but that the gap is narrowing
This represents a dramatic shift since that question was last asked in 2015Such an independent policy is dealing a heavy blow to those who still view the relationship between the three countries as zero-sumSome even believe that he would not able to serve the full six-year termAnd overall, the perception gap between the US and China in the Philippines is narrowing
It clearly suggests that one's gain is another's lossMeanwhile, two-thirds say having a strong economic relationship with China is more important for ties between the two nations, while only 28 percent say being tough with China on territorial disputes is more vital
His tough rhetoric on the US and softened rhetoric on China, especially compared with his predecessor Aquino III, has worried many in the USThe report finds that people in the Philippines still like the US and have confidence in its leader, President Donald Trump
The US was believed to be fully behind the scenes when the Philippines, under President Benigno Aquino III, filed the arbitration suit in 2013 against China in a tribunal in The Hague, a case in which China had refused to participateBy comparing these figures, Pew seems to suggest that China and the US are engaging in a popularity contest in the PhilippinesA zero-sum mentality about China-US relations is reflected not only in the thinking of some US politicians, but also in a new survey conducted by the Pew Research CenterAccording to the survey, 78 percent in the Philippines have a positive view of the US as of this spring, down from 92 percent who expressed positive sentiments in 2015The US government, lawmakers and pundits have generally expressed negative views of Duterte since he took office last JuneBut Filipinos also share positive views of China and its leader, President Xi Jinping
Fully 86 percent have a favorable view of Duterte himself; 78 percent support his handling of the illegal-drugs issue; and 62 percent say that the Philippines government is making progress in its anti-drug campaignIn 2014, the Philippines was still led by Aquino III
But the Philippines, and indeed all the countries in the region, should be encouraged to have good relations with both China and the US, a real win-win situation for not just the three countries involved, but for the region and the worldAUCKLAND - New Zealand's parliamentary elections on Saturday yield no clear winner as tally ended in the wee hours of Sunday, leaving the third largest party with 7
The negotiations may take days or weeks before a deal is struck between the future governing partnersWinston Peters, the party chief of the New Zealand First Party, however, refused to say which party he would side with
8 percent votes or seven seats in the congress would just make enough seats to form a government if they can successfully get the New Zealand First Party on boardThe New Zealand First Party has garnered nine seats, making it the indispensable coalition partner for both the National Party and the Labor Party to form the governmentThe ruling National Party has secured 46 percent of the party votes, which transfer to 58 seats in the 120 member Congress in an Mixed-Member Proportional voting system, with the opposition Labor Party lagging behind at 35BEIJING - China on Friday urged all relevant parties to avoid any action that may increase tension on the Korean Peninsula after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said it might test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean
"Only if all sides bear their due responsibilities, can the peninsula nuclear issue be truly resolved and peace and stability restored to the region"The DPRK knows well that China opposes its development of nuclear weapons and nuclear tests, Lu said
"What parties concerned should do now is to strictly and comprehensively implement UN Security Council resolutions and make positive efforts to resolve the issue through dialogue"The current situation on the peninsula is severe and complicated," Foreign Minister spokesperson Lu Kang said at a daily press briefing
ag亚游欧洲厅The minister said that if there is any change needed, it is the denuclearization of the peninsula, and that would be more comprehensive, thorough and irreversible"Whatever changes may take place, no matter how long it will take, and whatever difficulties we may face, China will stay firmly committed to denuclearizing the peninsula and moving toward talks," he said
Kono said Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs have posed a practical threat to regional peace as well as Japan's security"We call upon the US to honor its 'Four Nos' commitment, and we call upon all parties to play a constructive role in easing tensions," Wang said"We urge the DPRK not to go further on along a dangerous direction," Wang saidIf Japan only discusses sanctions in the absence of dialogue, and even resists dialogue, it will be considered as violating the resolutions
"There is still hope for peace, we must not give up," Wang said during his speech at the UN General Assembly on ThursdayTwelve years have passed since a joint statement was issued from the Six-Party Talks, signed on Sept 19, 2005, Wang said, but things that follow the progressive trend of the times never become outdated and decisions on the right side of history never become obsolete
"There should be no new nuclear weapons state, whether it is in the north or south of the peninsula, whether it is in Northeast Asia or other parts of the world," Wang addedForeign Minister Wang Yi urged Pyongyang not to go further in a dangerous direction, and said there should be no new nuclear state in either of the Koreas or elsewhere
Wang said sanctions and peace talks are both part of the Security Council resolutionsThe remarks came as rhetoric and even personal name-calling has flared up in recent days between Washington and Pyongyang
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In the States
Spotlight: Texas
Turning Lies into Laws
Across the country, politicians are using lies about abortion to pass laws that make it more difficult or even impossible for women to access abortion care. According to the Guttmacher Institute:
States have enacted nearly 1,200 abortion restrictions since 1973 when abortion became legal in the United States.
Of these abortion restrictions, 395 have been enacted since the beginning of 2011.
Thus far in 2017, more than 400 abortion restrictions have been introduced and 57 were enacted.
An analysis from the National Partnership for Women & Families shows that of the 353 abortion restrictions that have been introduced in just the first two months of 2016, 251 restrictions in 37 states are based on lies:
150 of the restrictions are based on lies about abortion and the trusted health care professionals who provide abortion care.
101 of the restrictions are based on lies about women who decide to have an abortion.
Stop Turning Lies Into Laws
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Abortion opponents lie about abortion safety
"Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures performed in the United States," according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Medical Association, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Osteopathic Association and American Academy of Pediatrics.
Abortion opponents lie about the physical health impact of abortion
The American Cancer Society has stated that there is no link between abortion care and breast cancer.
Abortion opponents lie about how women feel after abortion
The American Psychological Association has debunked claims that abortion causes depression. In fact, a large, nationwide study found that over 95 percent of women who had an abortion felt it was the right decision, both immediately afterward and three years later.
Abortion opponents lie about women who decide on abortion
In a nationally representative survey, 92 percent of women reported they had made up their mind to have an abortion prior to making an appointment, yet anti-abortion politicians impose medically unnecessary delays and mandated ultrasounds based on the lie that women have not thought through the decision.
Abortion opponents lie about abortion providers
Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers, or TRAP laws, are promoted based on lies about abortion providers and abortion safety. In truth, these laws "are contrary to accepted medical practice and are not based on scientific evidence. In fact, [they] impede women’s access to such care by imposing unjustified and medically unnecessary burdens on providers," according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Medical Association, and other leading medical groups.
The National Partnership joined with state partners around the country to raise awareness about the real motivation behind abortion restrictions and debunk the anti-abortion lies.
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The National Partnership and Texas Freedom Network Education Fund are collaborating to spread the word about politicians turning lies into anti-abortion laws in Texas.
The National Partnership and Lift Louisiana are raising awareness about dangerous abortion restrictions based on falsehoods that block abortion access for Louisiana women.
Trust Women, a leading nonprofit with clinics in Kansas and Oklahoma, is partnering with the National Partnership to highlight the staggering number of abortion restrictions based on lies in Kansas.
The National Partnership and Trust Women, a leading nonprofit with clinics in Kansas and Oklahoma, are collaborating on digital ads that sound the alarm on Oklahoma’s alarming number of anti-abortion laws based on lies.
The National Partnership and the Pennsylvania Campaign for Women’s Health exposed Pennsylvania’s anti-science abortion restrictions.
The National Partnership and Preterm, a leading nonprofit health clinic that provides abortion care and other sexual health services, used billboards and ads to call attention to lies being turned into laws in Ohio.
The National Partnership and Progress Florida Education Institute drew attention to the increasing attacks on abortion access in Florida.
Get Lies Out of the Exam Room
A large majority of people agree that when politicians turn lies into laws, it's bad medicine and bad policy. A 2016 nationwide survey conducted by the National Institute for Reproductive Health asked voters about their views on abortion policy.
Think of a woman who has decided to have an abortion. How would you want that experience to be? Would you want it to be...
Informed by medically accurate information 94%
Safe 93%
Respectful of her decision 82%
Legal 76%
Supportive 75%
Without pressure 73%
Affordable 72%
Available in her community 72%
Polling by PerryUndem commissioned by the National Institute for Reproductive Health, 2016
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Together, let's stop the lies. Add your name:
Yes, I agree. It's time for politicians to stop using lies to push abortion out of reach.
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Comics for Business
Samples of use
Comics are Able to Make Difficult Things Simple and Funny
Comics become more and more popular day by day. It is the most versatile and understandable language in the habitable part of the Galaxy. If to believe the British scientists, beautiful graphics of comic stip story is much easier to understand than a simple text or image.
Since the days of cave paintings humanity hasn’t come up with anything more understandable than using drawing to tell about desires and intentions.
Comics Give a Clear Picture of Situation
Graphic stories are incredibly diverse and multi-faceted, you can use the comics to tell anything you want. Comics differ with an incredible ease of information assimilation as its meaning can be easily understood after reading it only once.
The fact is that the graphic story speaks to the consciousness using the clear language of images, which are perceived very easily and quickly.
Comics Can be Used for Business
Comics attract attention and simplifies the perception of any material. Sure that these abilities make comics used widely in any area, whether it’s online auto parts store that requires an increase in sales or a computer game, which you want to attract the interest of potential buyers for.
Comics Make the Process of Studying More Effective
Recent research experts in the field of pedagogy and psychology confirm things that were theoretically true for many years: the comic stories become the more effective learning tool than traditional textbooks. In Japan, comics have already replaced the safety instructions and school textbooks.
It was proved that using comics with superheroes may affect the process of learning, especially if we are talking about schoolchildren. Children like comics so much because they combine all that children love because of their age and psycho-physiological peculiarities of perception. Teachers may use comics for the better feedback from their pupils.
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REVIEW: Seraphon Battletome
The Seraphon, or as we used to know them as, the Lizardmen, are the first returning race in Age of Sigmar. Everything up to this point had been entirely new, or mostly new factions, but now we had true survivors of the World-That-Was. So how were they handled and how do they fit into the new Mortal Realms?
When this Battletome came out I was really excited to get my hands on it and give it a read, even though I didn't play Seraphon at all or have any intention of starting to. It was really hard for me to justify spending money on it when I was never going to use it, luckily for me though, my friend plays them and picked it up. After he had read through the whole thing I asked if I could borrow it to review.
Right off the bat, I have to say that I absolutely love the cover art for this book. There is something so peaceful and majestic about it. Even though the Saurus is armed for war, he's not actually fighting. The colors on it are very soothing as well, showing a perfectly clear night sky somewhere within the Realms. I think this suits the Seraphon perfectly. Although they can be swift and brutal, in the end they strive for balance and peace. Their goal is to create and maintain order, and ideally, a perfectly peaceful world. I won't lie, this cover was my phone's background image for a few weeks. I would say that it's my favorite Battletome cover so far.
Once you crack the book open we immediately move into the lore. These are literally the exact same Slann who fled the Old World during the End Times. Having been cast adrift in deep space within their temple space ships for millennia, the Slann themselves are the only real survivors by the time we get to the Age of Sigmar. All of the other Saurus and creatures presumably having died off from old age or other ailments. So how do they have an entire army you may ask? I'll get to that in a minute. Isolated and alone, the remaining Slann were found by Dracothian who took pity on them and led them back to the eight Mortal Realms. Here they set up base in "high Azyr", which I assume to mean outer space above Azyr. Now the Slann seemed to have gained an interesting ability during this long stretch of time. They can now call forth their memories into reality. It's pretty similar to the Chaos Demons being summoned into the real world in fact. The Slann remember Saurus Old Blood Bob and all of a sudden Bob is there. Not just a memory of Bob, but really, actually Bob. Somehow.
This is where it all starts to fall apart. I think this was a really cool idea, but they didn't follow through on it and contradict themselves several time throughout the book. At first it's implied that the rest of the Seraphon race only exists within the memories of the Slann, and when they are not on the field doing battle, they literally don't exist in reality. Other times though it's made to seem like they do exist, just in some other time or place and are drawn into the Mortal Realms by the Slann's memories. For instance, a Saurus warrior can take an enemy's head as a trophy and then disappear at the end of the battle. Then in the next battle it's summoned to, it will still have the very same trophy it took in its last battle. To me this implies that the Saurus is a real, physical being, who went somewhere real after the last battle and didn't just vanish into memory. They can also obtain scars that will stay with them.
There is also a small vignette story where a Slann is sleeping (presumably on board its space ship) and it is woken by a Skink Priest, who informs him of some Khorne warriors they need to go kill. Again, this makes me think that the Skink exists independent of the Slann and isn't just a fragment of its mind. Unless that Skink represents the Slann's subconscious. It's all very confusing and is never really cleared up. I don't know which I would prefer, but I think I'm leaning towards wanting the Seraphon to be real and actually exist somewhere outside of distant memories. One last point, if they really are just memories then why have all the special characters been removed? Surely at least one of the Slann would remember the greatest general they ever had in Kroq-Gar? I may have made it seem like there is a lot written there too, but it's only about seven pages, and mostly pictures. This is definitely less then the Stormcast and Bloodbound book. It is cheaper though in price. Like I said, both ideas are fairly cool and definitely unique, but since they never clarify which one it is it's hard to get behind either of them.
There is also a timeline like in all of the books so far. I always enjoy these since it allows the writers an opportunity to sprinkle in cool hooks and ideas. There's not much to talk about here, but the Seraphon one is just as good as the others with plenty of battles mentioned.
After that we move onto the individual unit descriptions. This helps to flesh things out a bit more, but not by much. We learn that Skink Starpriests can act in the place of the Slann with summoning and maintaining a Seraphon army, which again raises questions of if they are real or not. For the most part though it just tells you what the unit DOES on the battlefield, not WHO they are. It's mostly just descriptions of how ferocious they are and stuff like that. One notable change is that Kroxigor are no longer the dumb brutes mostly used for manual labor like they were in the past. Now they are highly skilled and respected warriors. That makes sense when you consider there is no longer any manual labor for them to do, but if they are just memories of the same Kroxigor from the Old World that were dumb brutes wouldn't they still be that way? Again, contradictions. The only special character to return is Lord Kroak, and he is literally given about one sentence of explanation. I know he's dead and all, but he was REALLY killed during the End Times. A meteor fell on him. His death had meaning, it was important, and it was shown, so why and how is he back? You know whose death wasn't explicitly shown? Kroq-Gar, but he's no where to be found.
I do want to mention that the artwork in this is fantastic as always. There are some truly great battle scenes scattered throughout. I have heard a lot of people picking on the army that's used for a lot of the shots of miniatures. I'll admit, it's definitely not 'Eavy Metal quality, but they have been using these non 'Eavy Metal studio armies in their books for awhile now. It's their effort to present a less intimidating standard for new hobbyists to live up to. I do wish they had more professional level paint jobs scattered throughout though. If you look at the Stormcast and Bloodbound books they did the same thing. I think they just painted those models better, or maybe it's just that we are not use to seeing the Seraphon models in such bright and cosmic colors.
This book does have some interesting battleplans. The first one is called The Temple of Dead Gods and is intriguing right off the bat since it involves the forces of Slaanesh. Essentially a Slaaneshi Herald is trying to find their lost god, and have made it all the way to this temple where an ancient relic that could help them lies. The Seraphon of course don't want to see the return of the missing Chaos god, so they teleport in to stop it. It's a decently enthralling story, with some cool art and maps. The scenario itself is another variation on the relic retrieval ones we have seen so far. The attacking player has five turns to try and claim the relic, which sits in the middle of the Seraphon deployment zone, and make their escape. There are some cool rules to represent how the temple is haunted, as well as how the Seraphon spring their ambush. The way the enemy hero must escape with the relic is also somewhat unique and requires the defending player to really stay on top of them. Overall it's a pretty cool battleplan.
The next one involves the Seraphon attempting to cleanse an area of land infested by the forces of Nurgle and the Skaven, and stop a vile ritual they are attempting to complete. The battleplan for this is actually really unique and fun looking. The Seraphon player must destroy the skaven spawning pits, and can only win a major victory if they destroy all of them within six rounds. This whole time the chaos player can spawn new units from any of the pits still intact. There are rules on how to destroy the pits, as well a special piece of scenery that can help the Seraphon player destroy them quicker, but it's deep within the chaos player's deployment zone. It really seems like it would be an uphill battle for the Seraphon player, with the odds stacked against them. These are some of my favorite kind of battleplans and I wouldn't mind giving this a shot.
The last one is the first official multi-player battleplan I have seen. It involves the Seraphon coming down in a comet to help out some Stormcast who are fighting a Bloodbound horde. Unfortunately the comet strike seriously destabilizes the island they are on and causes it to start sinking over the course of the battle. The battleplan has only the Stormcast and Khorne player deployed to start with. The Stormcast are completely surrounded and the Khorne player is given first turn as well as a bunch of buffs to really represent how doomed the Stormcast were. Then on the order player's first turn the Seraphon arrive. Their arrival can actually hurt any Khorne forces nearby to represent the comet striking. From that point on there are also rules to represent the island falling apart, so models can die from falling in gaping chasms of lava. For the order players to win they must completely wipe out every single opposing model by the end of the sixth turn. Again, this can be pretty hard for the order players to win. I really like how unique everything is in this one, and it seems like it could be a ton of fun.
After all of the scenarios we get the Warscrolls for each unit. There's not much to talk about here, except for the fact that these are missing something every other book has had. There is no two to three sentence description of the unit below the picture. Usually there is a little blurb giving you some brief context for the model. Here they left that out, which just makes it seem like they took the warscrolls we already had for the Lizardmen and gave them a Seraphon facelift without putting much thought into it. Which is okay rules wise. I didn't really expect the rules to change much or at all. It may have also been an issue of space since the Seraphon rules take up more of the page then the units brand new to AoS tend to. The Battalion formations are okay, but it's hard for me to get excited about any of them. I just don't really understand how the Seraphon are organized enough to become enthusiastic about a particular formation from a lore point of view.
The whole thing finishes off with the four page main rules and that's that.
All in all I was disappointed with this book. I had high hopes for it, and to me it just seems like they had no clear picture of what they wanted to do with the army when they wrote it. The editor should have caught all of the discrepancies and gone back and made sure all of the lore was in line with itself. As it stands I have no clue how they really operate or what they really are. I understand that they like to leave stuff to explore in the future, and that would have been fine here, but you don't even have a consistent base to work off of. I really hope GW fixes this in the future with some sort of major plot reveal that explains everything. Remember how Kroak broke off pieces of the Jungle, protected them in magic, and sent them into space along with the temple ships as Lustria was being torn apart in the End Times? What happened to those? Was that plot thread just dropped, because to me it seemed like it was setting up the Lizardmen to have somewhere to still live that at least somewhat resembled Lustria. If there are floating pieces of jungle up in the heavens with the Slann ships that the Seraphon are hanging out on I think that would be pretty cool.
I sadly have to say I think this book was somewhat of a mess. There were a ton of really cool concepts and ideas, but there was no consistency between the different parts. The best part of it for me were the battleplans. It does have pretty cool artwork though as well as a few other redeeming parts. If you played the Lizards before this is probably still worth picking up, since there is plenty of visual inspiration and cool story seeds you could expand on your own. I do think a lot of the issues I raised will be less of an issue to anyone new to AoS who has no baggage from the previous editions of Warhammer. To them the Seraphon would probably just be a pretty cool army of dream-lizards and dinosaurs kicking butt and taking names.
Final Score - 2.7/5
The art direction was solid as always, but the new lore lacked the impact needed to really make the Lizards feel at home within AoS. Some interesting new concepts were set up, but so far, have failed on the follow through.
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On 10 December 1830, Michael Faraday(1791-1867) gives a lecture at the Royal Institution. The publication appears in February 1831: "On a peculiar Class of Optical Illusions". Continuing on what Peter Mark Roget (1779 - 1869) had published in the Philosophical Transactions, he describes two parallel discs, revolving on the same axis, in opposite directions, each having 16 cogs. When viewed in a mirror a stationary image is seen. He does not refer to Plateau's work, done before 1831 and which had been published in the Correspondance mathémathique et physique. Later Faraday writes that the honour is due to Plateau.
Draft for a phenakistiscope disc representing a pirouetting dancer
J. Plateau, Corresp. Math. Phys. 1832 VII p.291
In "Sur un nouveau genre d'illusions d'optique", Plateau describes the construction and the action of a disc with 16 slits and 16 intermediate sectors. When 16 identical drawings are put in the sectors, one sees a stationary image, when looking through the slits at the revolving disc in a mirror. This is in fact the experiment of Faraday. The brilliant contribution of Plateau comes when in stead of putting 16 identical images in the sectors he draws 16 images, which change little by little. Because of the visual persistence the images seen in swift succession will fade into each other and a suggestion of movement is created. It is for this reason that Joseph Plateau is cited as the precursor of the movie, more accurately he is the precursor of the animation film.
Demonstration of the use of the phenakistiscope
Photo MD,
Museum for the History of Sciences, Ghent
Phenakistiscope discs
A small selection of the rich collection of phenakistiscope discs in the Museum for the History Sciences of the University Ghent.
Joseph Plateau and the artist-painter J.B. Madou
Melanie Christine Lannuyer (1808-1896), stepsister of Quetelet marries the painter Jean Baptiste Madou (1796-1877) in 1833. In this way Plateau gets into contact with Madou, a relationship that is not just superficial, since a real collaboration between the scientist and the artist develops.
Two discs (a phenakistiscope-anorthoscope combination) for which the painter J.B. Madou drew the first image are extant. One depicts a monk, the other the head of a devil. Plateau then painstakingly derives the other images:
"L'un de nos grands artistes, M. Madou, a bien voulu dessiner, à ma prière, le modèle de la tête au moment où elle souffle avec le plus de force. J'ai transporté ensuite ce dessin dans l'un des compartiments du disque, en augmentant les dimensions angulaires de toutes les parties dans le rapport de 4 à 5, puis je l'ai modifié convenablement dans les autres compartiments, et j'ai apporté les plus grands soins à l'exécution de ces figures.", writes Plateau.
Collection J.Plateau, Gent.
Disc with flower and bee.
Of this disc we know for sure that Joseph Plateau himself has drawn it by hand. The precision of the drawing is not perfect, and thus the animation is not fluent.
Collection J.Plateau, Ghent
It is remarkable that in the original paper the discs and the experiment itself are described, but they receive no name. It is only in a later paper in 1831 "Des illusions optiques sur lesquelles se fonde le petit appareil appelé récemment Phénakisticope" that a name is introduced. It is not clear who introduced the name "phénakisticope". The title of the paper suggests that it was not Joseph Plateau himself. Ackerman in London sells the discs in 1833 under the name "Fantascope", Alphonse Giroux in Paris introduces them first as "phénakisticope", later as "phénakistiscope". Plateau himself also uses the term "phénakisticope". To day the spelling "phenakistiscope" is preferred.
Detail of the original hand-coloured disc compared to a printed version.
The figure which is completely red is a hand-coloured draft for a disc. The red-and-blue figure is the printed version by Ackermann (London). Only the first discs printed by Ackermann bear the mention "by prof. Plateau".
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Water Country USA: The Ultimate Summer Family Vacation
July 13, 2017 749 Comments
We hope you’ll find some helpful tips to plan the ultimate summer family vacation at Busch Gardens VA and Water Country USA.
A trip to Busch Gardens VA was already on our family bucket list. It’s a popular family destination for New Yorkers, whether traveling by car or by plane. So when we had the chance to experience Water Country USA (just down the road from Busch Gardens), we knew it would be a memorable way to mark the official kick-off to summer!
After a fun vacation, full of whipping down water slides like an exploding-mom-cannon, hearing chants of “ONE MORE TIME!” on repeat, and waiting at the bottom of rides for my super-enthusiastic kiddos, we have a few helpful tips to share.
UNLEASH YOUR INNER CHILD: When my kids immediately expressed their love for the Nitro Racer freeway, I’ll never forget the looks on their faces as I hightailed it up the line and then came sliding down like an out-of-control belly-down-mom-torpedo. And the kids continue to talk about the funny expressions and noises that their dad made while rafting together down the adrenaline-packed rides (“He was more scared than we were!!!”). In our experience, the kiddos love to see their parents let loose and dive head first into fun. While many of the rides can accommodate for all four of us, there were plenty of times when my husband and I playfully argued about who could go first. Bring your inner child; the rides are that much fun!
Map Out a Plan: With a ton of thrilling rides and attractions, it’s great to have a plan. Our do-not-miss favorites include Big Daddy Falls, Aquazoid, Hubba Hubba Highway, Colossal Curl, Nitro Racer and more.
Our kids are on the cusp of being tall enough for many of the thrilling rides while still appreciating the kid-friendly attractions for ages nine and younger. If you have little ones, there’s plenty of areas designed for their fun at Kritter Korral, H20 UFO, Cow-A-Bunga, and many others.
GO FOR THE QUICK QUEUE: The option of purchasing Quick Queue will grant you access to short lines and even shorter walks to the top of a few rides. Although your day will certainly still be a blast sans Quick Queue, the passes spit our kids out of the bottom of their favorite rides faster than we could have imagined.
DINE IT: With a bunch of delicious dining options, our group consensus led us to Tex-Mex at Hot Spots Cafe. The kiddos went for chicken tacos, while my husband and I filled up on salads. The kids will never let a promised vacation-treat be missed, and there are so many fun options for dessert, other than what I assumed they’d go for (ice cream!). Also, don’t forget to purchase a refillable water bottle to stay hydrated.
RENT A CABANA: Elevate your park experience with your own private shaded area to settle in, store your belongings, hydrate and relax. A cabana rental comes with a private attendant, locker rental, two drinks per person and even towels to take home as souvenirs. Even though the park is packed with ample loungers and locker rentals, there’s nothing like having a central (and private!) VIP spot to rest sun-tired bodies after the important work of splish-splashing down water slides.
GRAB A SOUVENIR: While we’re big on choosing experiences over things, allowing the kids to select a small souvenir is a fun way to add to the vacation memories. In addition to every possible water park necessity, all of the shops are filled with fun trinkets galore. The kids each chose a goodie from Wipeout Gifts and Apparel. This is also the spot to grab a new suit and cover-up if you need one! They’ve got you styled with options from Roxy, Quicksilver, Salt Life, and more.
Get in the Picture: Special vacation memories quickly become an important part of our collective family story. And while I’m often on the other side of the lens (like a lot of parents), family photos are important! Our trip to Williamsburg VA is certainly one for the memory books. We can’t wait to return!
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That looks like so much fun! My family loves to spend the day at water parks. It’s so refreshing to hit the pool and woosh down all the slides.
Sandra Holt says
I love love love the beach. I wish I was close to one all summer. Catching waves, body surfing.
Alexis Lavko says
I’m looking forward to spending time with my kids on the beach this summer. Ones loves the water and one lives the sand.
Sounds like my kiddos too, Alexis!
Stefanie says
This places sounds incredible! Amazing for kids… and adults!!!
Nancy Bowers says
I am looking forward to spending time with our grand hildren this summer.
https://twitter.com/jnbwrs/status/885610203051425793
Marcie W. says
What an awesome place to enjoy some family fun while beating the summer heat. I love that you made it a point to get in a few photos too. Such precious memories!
I am looking forward to heading to North Carolina- relaxing by the pool and sleeping late!
tweeted https://twitter.com/NYCLaurenBeth/status/885618350524690432
That looks like so much fun. My family has always loved visiting water parks together.
Melissa Chapman says
I di not think of a road trip from NY but it could be a fun road trip. My kids love waterparks so this would be a great destination and also check out Busch Gardens.
It was so much fun! We flew in and it was the shortest flight ever from NYC which was perfect.
Darcy Koch says
I am looking forward to backyard get togethers with friends and family. I also am looking forward to having my grandsons spend time with me.
Having some fun here and cooling off would be great. I would definitely try to get on all of the slides and rides! The quick queue would be a good option.
Ellen Schmidt says
Thanks for the recap – we’re still trying to figure out plans for an August getaway and this would be perfect!
Joyce Brewer says
You had me a cabana rental! Can I chill their while my family explores the park?!
Where we live it has been so hot & humid that it gets hard to breathe at times! I would love to release my inner child with a lot of water fun!
Thank you so much for the opportunity!!
My Twitter link:
https://twitter.com/susie84q/status/885688123400880128
Anita Jude says
I am looking forward to going camping out for a few days with the family
https://twitter.com/JudeAnita/status/885694787650760706
Veronica Solomon says
How fun! Water, kids and summer make for lots of fun
crystal mccord says
We have been looking forward to our season passes at our local water park. We have really been putting them to great use and so much fun! I also tweeted this giveaway at: https://twitter.com/modestmom/status/885858358863040513
Lesly f says
Looking forward to go camping and swimmimg🤗
Rachel Jenkins says
Im looking forward to our yearly summer vacation trip to the lake house, all the family gets together and we cook out, swim etc! So much fun!
Tweeted @mhjenkin
I look forward to spending time with my girls as we head to see family and friends. My older two are at camp and once they get back, we are on the go! A $100 would definitely be well spent for some summer fun!
Here is my tweet!
https://twitter.com/SavvyMomNYC/status/885875489977638912
This looks like so much fun! We already did our big family vacation, but I’m looking forward to a road trip to my hometown in Pittsburgh to celebrate Blake’s first birthday.
I have never been to Busch Gardens, but we should totally plan a vacation there! I’m looking forward to visiting Turks and Caicos this year!
I am looking forward to the yearly family reunion camping trip in a few weeks’ time.
tweet https://twitter.com/LuLu_Brown24/status/885926442751582210
Julie Wood says
I look forward to spending time doing fun things with the kids. We already went to the Water Park, and we will be taking our big camping trip next week. We are all excited!
tweet-https://twitter.com/JewelWood/status/885929659484917760
I am looking forward to traveling on a road trip to Colorado to see my brother and baby niece!
tweet – https://twitter.com/yarbr012/status/885929972799590401
I am looking forward to go to the beach
https://twitter.com/ElenaIstomina/status/885932742516498432
Every year we go the the beach for a week along with my brother and his family. Looking forward to going there next month. Thanks so much.
I look forward to things being more carefree, not having to wear boots, multiple layers, etc., especially as I have to walk most places.
Tweeted: https://twitter.com/peg42/status/885935574259052544
kelly tupick says
I am looking forward to going out to Colorado and visiting my brother. Hoping there is a nice water park out there to cool down from the hot heat.
I tweeted https://twitter.com/kt3us/status/885938373785006080
mami2jcn says
I’m looking forward to a trip to South Carolina.
Shannon Gurnee says
I didn’t know they had a Busch Gardens in Virginia. It sounds like you had an awesome time! Love all the pictures you took.
tweet—https://twitter.com/mami2jcn/status/885941717475708930
Jessica To says
I’m looking forward to going to the lake with my nephews.
I am looking forward to several weekend trips with friends where we will have access to a pool and hopefully get a chance to relax and read! That is assuming the husbands watch the kids but I bet we can convince them to do that…:)
My tweet – https://twitter.com/krisgan07/status/885949032136355843
Wendy Polisi says
What an absolutely fun place to visit for a getaway. We would love to go here!
I’m looking forward to going on a family vacation to the beach this summer.
Gina M says
I am looking forward to attending a family reunion this summer!
tweet–https://twitter.com/WildOrchid985/status/886017953178759169
Mary Edwards says
We’ve been to two waterparks this summer already – this one looks like one we would love to go to as well. It’s so HOT here in Florida, we look for every chance to cool off!
Rija says
https://twitter.com/rijalove_s/status/886039334205493249
I am looking forward to traveling on a road trip with my husband and kids ,we are so excited as it will be our first time 🙂 !
AnnMarie John says
Who wouldn’t want a summer vacation like this! I think it’s an amazing place to go to for the summer and it’s definitely a lot of fun for the whole family!
Jacquelyn Cannon says
I would love to take a vacation here with my grandchildren.
We love summer and I am looking forward to spending time with my family and doing a lot of swimming and hiking together.
my tweet – https://twitter.com/myway070/status/886050175050850304
Ephraim says
I love summer because I live near both the beach and mountains. It’s a great season for going to the beach, camping, lounging by the pool & most importantly – eating! 🙂
I’m looking forward to my son learning how to dive this summer!
chei says
We all love to be out for a swimming party. My kiddos and cousin, it’s so fun. Btw, all your pics are great. Your kids look so lovely.
I’m looking forward to having a lot of bbq’s
Chrystal D says
I’m looking forward to getting my truck back on the road and finding a job!
I am looking forward to camping.
Margo Smith says
I’m looking forward to time down with the kids. We live in a very hectic place and always rush around. The summers are our time to kick back and appreciate each other.
Clem says
https://twitter.com/nacleme/status/886073903004569600
Looking forward to a road trip and amusement parks.
Lauryn R says
This definitely looks like an extremely fun family place!! I am really looking forward to going camping, my all time favorite past time! 🙂
https://twitter.com/Larescoe/status/886077331982475264
Looking forward to go camping and swimming with my family
I’m looking forward to spending time with my family and visiting a new city.
I looking forward to time at the pool.
KENNETH OHL says
some down time from work 8 month’s of the year we are so busy need some rest
TENN says
Lazy Days at the Beach.
Kimberly Owens says
I live for the summertime because I adore warmer weather and longer days. Spending time with my family and enjoying the season no matter what we choose to do or where we choose to go.
Tracey L says
I’m most excited to spend lots of time with my kids! The school year can be so hectic and crazy and we don’t spend enough quality time together! Summer let’s me catch up on time with my boys!
Shayna Brookman says
I am looking forward to having fun w/my kids, at the park, at the pool, etc.
We are hoping to go to Kalahari in Ohio!
Love Water Country. Went in Portsmouth NH. Hope they open one closer here in SC or I’ll have to go home to NH to enjoy all the BEST State in the USA has to offer.
I am looking forward to a trip to Italy with my mom.
Heather W says
We are looking forward to our big move this summer! And the solar eclipse 🙂
Cindy Merrill says
Looking forward to a few days camped out by the ocean this summer! Cooks outs, campfire stories, lots of laughs.
i love summer. looking forward to going to amusement parks with my family.
Pamela Gurganus says
What I’m looking forward to this summer is going to the beach!
I tweeted about this promotion! https://twitter.com/PJGurganus/status/886215918308794369
Ashley C says
I’m looking forward to going to the beach with my family!
Cathy Philipps says
I’m looking forward to lots of time with my grandkids fishing and swimming at our cabin!
I am looking forward to an evening visit to the San Diego Zoo, one of my most favorite places to visit.
kathy Agate says
water parks are so much fun & safe as the grandchildren get older as we can gather in one section and enjoy the fun!
Suzanne K says
I’m looking forward to a whale watching cruise out of Ventura, CA and very much hoping to see blue whales!
I am looking forward to going to the beach
monique s says
I am looking forward to a big family barbeque
https://twitter.com/gneiss_schist/status/886212653160554496
Jenna Hudson says
I am looking forward to camping for the first time with our kids!
Leela says
Spending time with my family.
I tweeted! https://twitter.com/HudsonJenna/status/886267864554057728
Jessica W. says
I’m looking forward to vacation time and relaxing with the family.
https://twitter.com/Brightstar4580/status/886272747457925120
relaxing and watching my son hang out with his new friends in the neighborhood
Joy Runge says
I’m looking forward to time with my girls, no school for them and no work for me all summer! its so nice to really reconnect after the busy school year schedules!
I’m looking forward to spending more time with my family at the beach this summer!
https://twitter.com/ultijanel2017/status/886289099556098048
I am looking forward to our summer vacation. We are headed to the beach week after next.
https://twitter.com/fdp4life/status/886292335214157824
Kelly Kimmell says
I’m looking forward to sleeping in late this summer.
https://twitter.com/KyMomKelly/status/886293144085696513
David Hollingsworth says
I’m looking forward to eating more ice cream. I haven’t have any for a long time.
Keri Barhorst says
Looking forward to a couple weeks when my sister and I take our kiddos to the Columbus zoo and we stay overnight and the next next day go to zimbeeza way. It is a water park connected to the zoo
Im looking forward to wedding planning this summer. We are getting married at disney in the fall, and I couldn’t be more excited.
I posted on twitter here https://twitter.com/docshananigans/status/886300375858458624
Gina Blades says
I’m looking forward to al fresco brunches, white wine, and travel to Santa Ynez/Solvang and Carmel.
Derek Jennings says
I am looking forward to flying 4,000 miles back home this summer and visiting family!
Vikki P says
I’m looking forward to taking vacation and relaxing in the sun.
Julie Matek says
I am looking forward to going to a water park next month:)
Shanna Brayman says
I am looking forward to cook outs, picnics, sun fun and water play.
Nicole H says
I’m looking forward to traveling with my family this summer. We already went to the Omaha Zoo and are heading to Seattle too.
joanne wisniewski says
relaxation, fun, family
claudia davis says
https://twitter.com/davisesq212/status/886305586228449280
I am looking forward to heading back to the Maine coast for a week or so this summer.
Carrie Conrad says
I am looking forward to water parks and county fairs!
Anne S says
Believe it or not, I am looking forward to getting our house painted finally. One more major project to cross off that list! Oh, and my beach days while they paint! 🙂
Cindy Bates says
We are looking forward to spending time on the lake with family and friends this summer. We love sharing out love of the water with everyone.
Here’s a link to my tweet, thank you for the opportunity!
https://twitter.com/MissHeartofGold/status/886309897654198272
Kim Henrichs says
I’m on a top 50 best of Texas BBQ road trip adventure this summer.
Kristen Joiner says
I’m looking forward to the beach the most. Just being out in the sun and feeling the sand beneath my feet would be nice.
shared on twitter: https://twitter.com/EvilTreeFrogs/status/886310557938311168
Patrick Gwinn says
I am looking forward to staying cool, hopefully in water
We are looking forward to a trip to CA.
tweet – https://twitter.com/tcarolinep/status/886311834319429632
Mindi Eden says
I am looking forward to going to Cumberland Falls this month!
I plan on floating around in my unicorn all day in our new pool!
Karen Moore says
I am looking forward to lots of quality family time, camping, fishing and family fun games
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Enter%20to%20win%20a%20%24100%20VISA%20GC%20%23sweeps%20via%20%40MarinoBambinos%20%26%20check%20out%20Water%20Country%20USA%20travel%20tips%20%23SweepstakesEntry%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marinobambinos.com%2F2017%2F07%2Fwater-country-usa-the-ultimate-summer-family-vacation%2F&source=clicktotweet&related=clicktotweet
Janice Dean says
I am looking forward to vacationing with my grandsons up in northern Michigan!
Sheila V. says
This looks like so much fun! I plan to swim a lot to cool down from the heat!
Christine White says
Fun contest! Here s hoping!
Dawn Kaestner says
I’m looking forward to enjoying the veggies from our garden.
Sabrina Zehner says
Looks like great fun
Dolores Q. says
Actually, I’m looking forward to working in my garden. I love flowers.
Linda Szymoniak says
We’re staying close to home this summer, and since we just redid our deck last year and got a beautiful new set of patio furniture and grill this year, I think we’ll be spending a lot of time at home. I do want to do some day trips with my girls, too – there are a couple of Japanese festivals not far from us, and of course we have some great hiking nearby. I’m really wanting to go to the Indiana Dunes just a short distance from us and to one or more of our state parks for hiking.
Tweeted – https://twitter.com/Urdchan/status/886332436405252097
Schmeka Legree says
I’m taking my children on a cruise for the first time, I truly hope they enjoy it
I look forward to pool time with our children.
connie danielson says
looking forward to spending time with my 5 grandchidren
https://twitter.com/Qauikay_462/status/886334351247634432
Anel Winney says
This summer I’m looking forward to welcoming my second baby!
https://twitter.com/anelw4/status/886335460636856320
sarah k says
I’m looking forward to relaxing and maybe going to some local state parks.
Rebecca kish says
Cant wait to spend time with family!
I tweeted: https://twitter.com/sarabird26/status/886336834107826177
https://twitter.com/Carrotcakelovee/status/886336666172051456
Looking forward to long, lazy days at the pool this Summer
https://mobile.twitter.com/BionicSix/status/886339473679765505
Tweeted: https://twitter.com/mccartypaula/status/886339736146771968
going to the beach
Debra Miller says
My family is going on a 2 week camping/fishing trip. Totally out there with limited social contacts. It is going to be a blast! Your summer adventure looked like so much fun.
I am looking forward to swimming
Delores Frisby says
Looking forward to a wonderful time with family and friends.
summer for me is grilling all the time
I tweeted: https://twitter.com/debsails/status/886341367961616384
I’m looking forward to spending leisure time with my granddaughter and not have to rush to school and no homework!
https://twitter.com/pkm1965/status/886345323102314506
linda ricotta says
looking foreward to spending more time outside with my kids enjoying the sunand the beach
Wendy Pesce says
I’m looking forward to our family vacation ion Myrtle Beach
Tweeted here: https://twitter.com/savingwithwendy/status/886348364027179008
Isabella T. says
I’m looking forward to traveling this summer 🙂
Onyinye Elochukwu says
https://twitter.com/onyiakpanisi/status/886356772159496192
Lorena Keech says
I love spending time with my garden, and eating outdoors when the weather allows.
CINDY C says
https://twitter.com/cindyloulo/status/886364943225729024
Jennifer Curry says
I just found out I was in remission this week. I am looking forward to no more chemo this summer!
That’s incredible Jennifer! I hope that you have the most wonderful summer. 🙂
I look forward to spending some time at the beach and pool with the kids. https://twitter.com/5studts/status/886366789927555072
alicia peterson says
I look forward to going to Mexico with my husband to celebrate our ten year anniversary! Our family looked forward to visiting the Dells, we went last weekend and it was a blast!
Amanda Hoffman says
I’m looking forward to the eclipse! I really hope I can make it into the path of totality
Harry Knopp says
I’m looking forward to long shadows from tall shade trees, a reclining lawn chair, and a tall glass of ice-cold lemonade.
Jennifer Red says
I am looking forward to hanging out with my mom more and finishing some beading projects. Also eating the corn we are growing in our garden, never had fresh before.
I look forward to taking my kids to the beach.
https://twitter.com/Kellydpa/status/886376285915709440
Eleanor Cooper says
I’m looking forward to going to the beach
https://twitter.com/Iris3287/status/886381192337137665
Carol Moore says
I am looking forward to my daughter starting kindergarten. We are all excited!
Steven Epstein says
looking forward to fishing and boating and maybe a trip to Hershey in August
https://twitter.com/fabric2000/status/886384999062228992
Gal Colleen says
I’m looking forward to being on the beach with a great book!
Marilyn Nawara says
We are looking forward to taking our granddaughter on a trip to Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village this summer. This is the first time we’ve taken her on a trip without her parents.
Giveaway Tweet:
https://twitter.com/contest_crazy/status/886390552966680576
Kelly mcgrew says
Well I already went to OBX so I would like to just chill with my nephew and have some fun in the sun!
mary loveland says
This water park looks fun
Ina Gribbins says
I have been moved for a while and I am looking forward to finishing everything that has to do with the new place as soon as I have my new furniture!
Janine H says
I look forward to swimming in the summer!
I’m looking forward to going to the beach!
Paula Gillespie says
I look forward to spending quality, extra time with my daughter doing whatever she wants from going to the local museums to local parks to the mall to our local YMCA swimming. We love spending time together and laugh almost the entire time.
velder S Dixon says
Going to the beach with grandchildren
I’m looking forward to going to Colorado to visit family this summer.
John Joseph says
Annual summer vacation trip is always looked forward to in our household.
Will G says
I am looking forward to going on several bike rides.
https://twitter.com/willgriesmer/status/886414977443266560
krystal wethington says
More outdoor family time.
helen t says
More bike rides
https://twitter.com/SuperHelenT/status/886421091861893120
Valerie Ann C. says
i’m hoping for a late summer vacation with the kids!
Tami Vollenweider says
I’m looking forward to going fishing with my husband this summer!
bn100 says
looking to hiking with friends
Carla W says
We love to spend time at the pool and the beach.
Looking forward to having no schedule and just relaxing with the kids
Valerie L says
https://twitter.com/chanceuse19/status/886432186567491584
Angie W says
I’m looking forward to enjoying some time in the sun with my husband!
Lauren Olivia Wood says
I am looking forward to spending time in the sun.
Andrea Pena says
family time with our college munchkin
We are looking forward to going on a cruise this summer.
Donny says
Hiking with my girl
I’m looking forward to our annual family camping trip! 🙂
I tweeted as well: https://twitter.com/DeeGee13/status/886500824008060928 Thanks for the chance! 🙂
Tina Aguilar says
Can’t wait to just chill and relax this summer.
Kimberly O says
My workplace has summer hours which means early Fridays! I look forward to that every year! Thanks
https://twitter.com/KimCon101210/status/886509021930418176
Karla Franklin says
I’m looking forward to a few day trips to the mountains with my son to get some relief from this heat!
https://twitter.com/sosofofomomo/status/886551120528670720
Thea Horrell says
I am looking forward to spending time with family. After being in and out of the hospital for the last year and still seeing doctors time with them will feel wonderful. The place looks like something the grand kids would love!!!! Thank you
Tammy K says
I’m looking forward to the warmer weather.
Claire D says
I’m looking forward to completing plenty of our home renovation projects! We purchased our first home in February and it’s been nonstop fixer upper mode since then!
Looking forward to all the beach time and watching my kids learn how to swim better! Thanks for the opp to win
Dale Fish says
I’m looking forward to fishing and gardening goodness!
Char says
Wow, thank you so much! I sent it as iceyninja 🙂
tim kaiser says
Peace and Relaxation
Summer brings lots of fun water activities. We like to set up sprinklers and water toys for the kids to play in the back yard. We also take a road trip to spend time visiting the Grandparents who just happen to live close to the beach.
I sent the message: https://twitter.com/cowladydeland/status/886581873127849984
patricia caradonna says
URL: https://twitter.com/pcaradonna/status/886582811578294272
We just got back from a family cruise to Alaska. Also my son just got married on 7/8/17. He is the first of four to get married. Our twin daughters just turned 30 – milestone birthday. I am looking forward to a 7 day cruise in a Aqua suite Labor Day weekend plus weekend getaways to the beach in our RV.
https://twitter.com/arlandriaw/status/886589650541752323
deanna hanson says
going to the beach this summer
Jodi Boulier says
Summers are when we get to catch up on some of our grandchildren. We look forward to visiting our children. The kids ae so busy with work and raising our grandchildren we make it easier by spending time with them. Traveling to another state to see a couple and doing weekend trips to visit. Which always results in taking a kido home with us for a week or two!
Yasmin Jefferson says
I am looking to spend time with my kids in the beach or the sand. My babies are water babies.
I look forward to relaxing, going to the beach, and seeing movies in theaters.
Tweeted with the unique terms. https://twitter.com/DarkMysticNight/status/886600404871589888
I’m looking forward to a family vacation
Denise P says
I look forward to lots of cookouts and watermelon!
Ellie Wright says
I’m looking forward to watching my grandsons play for their Little League district championships.
https://twitter.com/eswright18/status/886614043502542848
My favorite week each year is the week we spend at the beach with family! So I’m really looking forward to that again this summer!
elcane desir says
I’m looking forward to swimming lessons and lots of sunny days before fall and winter comes to fill me up with holidays and lots of busy days
Lester Cavey says
I like being outdoors in the summer time. I tweeted at https://twitter.com/lestercavey/status/886627894193160193.
Kathryn Hoehn says
My daughter’s wedding!
Here is the link to my tweet: https://twitter.com/KathieHoehn/status/886631950198333440
Arionna Stanley says
I’m looking forward to my daughter’s first birthday 7.22. It’s been such an amazing tear just think of how miserable I was to be pregnant in the summer last year. Looking forward to celebrating her day at the DC Zoo.
Sandy Klocinski says
Summer to me is going somewhere you don’t usually go.Somewhere new and different, doing new things rather than doing your daily activities.Summer is the time to have fun and go to the beach, pool,hang out with friends or travel around with family.Whether its just walking my dog or even visiting the zoo, at least I’m doing something to start off or even finish summer.
CJ Queen says
I look forward to spending time with family.
KellieRose Wilson says
We are looking forward to a family trip to N. California!
tweeted https://twitter.com/kellierose914/status/886641970680123392
Sandy H says
I’m looking forward to our cruise!
rickel bart says
my daughter coming home from overseas
I’m looking forward to doing more traveling. 🙂
A trip to a water park is always a fun activity for my family. My inner child resurfaces the moment I set foot inside the park.I love water slides, but not the extreme ones where you spend a few seconds inside a tunnel. I am slightly claustrophobic so that won’t be my kind of jam.
I’m looking forward to concerts the most!
We love amusement parks and water parks!! We look forwarding to lots of swimming whether it be in a pool, a lake or tubing in a river!
Valerie Parker Thurman says
my grandson is hone for the summer after graduating with honors from college. he’ll attend grad school in another state in September so I look forward to preparing all his favorite foods and spending time telling him about our family history.
Elisse says
Looking forward to gardening in our garden (and getting a tan!), and ATVing here in the mountains of southern WV!
We aren’t planning on going on a vacation but just doing things locally like going fishing, going to the movies and going swimming.
lauren knott says
That looks awesome! I am looking forward to pool time with my kids.
Cheryl S says
Looking forward to California Sisters’ trip!
tweeted https://twitter.com/deallieb/status/886669912386785282
I’m looking forward to hiking in the sunshine
Lisa Spieth says
Love the warm days and the sun and water.Love to just feel the day with those I love! Enjoying the time we spend together!
I’m looking forward to some time in the good old outdoors camping!! I just love this time of year and your post is inspiring me to get out there and take advantage of it 🙂
Josh Lippman says
Looking forward to some quality time with my kids
https://twitter.com/SarahParm/status/886671304430166016
Christina O says
I look forward to the rest of my vacation.
I love visiting my kids – one in SD, the other in MN. We usually take the RV and get to spend time catching up, exploring the area, and enjoy the great outdoors!
Kristine Paull says
County fairs wirh the family. Love me some fair foods and rides.😁
Carol LuBien says
I’m looking forward to drives by the ocean.
We’ve been looking forward to relaxing outdoors and doing nothing!
https://twitter.com/AnnaZed/status/886703368541921281
elizabeth miller says
What I am most looking forward to this summer is going to Hershey Park with my 11 year old and her best friend for 2 days to celebrate her 12th birthday.
tweeted https://twitter.com/lyzjus2/status/886706525141688320
im looking forward to relaxing at the beach
Nicole Bowers says
I TWEETED for a chance to #WIN! https://twitter.com/NicolesChoice1/status/886719147169783809
As a single working Mama with 2 jobs, I am looking forward to spending some fun, quality time with my family camping, hiking, and swimming and letting my cares just float away!
Angela W says
Going to the pool and beach! Love the photography at the water park.
Cheryl Johnson says
Spending time at our son’s lake cabin watching the kiddos have fun
Looking forward to doing some wedding planning in the sunshine this summer. Such a fun way to stay busy!!
Beatrice Pierre says
I’m looking forward to moving
elishia bakle says
I am looking forward to spending some time with my youngest brothers whom I have never spent a lot of time with since there is a 20 year age difference.
Sleeping in and relaxing!
Christine Labelle says
I tweeted! https://twitter.com/cristene37/status/886755482643439622
Noah Ramer says
I’m looking forward to all the warm weather!
BIRDIE SKOLFIELD says
iM LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE BEACH TIME WITH THE KIDS
tweeted https://twitter.com/birdson777/status/886759573335425024
Stephanie Fossum says
I am looking forward to taking my kids camping.
Meridith Belfield says
Our summer is almost over but I’m looking forward to spending more quality time with my kidlets and making more memories!
I tweeted https://twitter.com/mamawinsitall/status/886716681791426560
Linda Wheeler says
Looking forward to days at the beach and pool, and maybe getting to Busch Gardens and Water Country USA!
Carrie Messer says
I am looking forward to spending time with my kids and my husband.
https://twitter.com/cjjmesser/status/886785925694599168
I’m just looking forward to having fun with the kids and sleeping in.
Erin Will says
This summer we are looking forward to moving into our new home! We close on our first house next week, I can’t wait to start decorating!! My kids can’t wait to play in their large backyard! 🙂
Tweeted! https://twitter.com/elw484/status/886788988278898688
Christel Elliott says
I’m looking forward to my sister visiting! She lives in Williamsburg and has season passes for her entire family and is lucky to be able to visit Water Country and Busch Gardens frequently. I can’t wait to see her and my nephews and niece.
https://twitter.com/christelelliott/status/886792065983672321
My tweet
I can’t wait to go to the beach!
laurie steiner says
We love to go camping and taking the grandkids on adventures in the summer!
Kristin C says
I’m looking forward to celebrating my kid’s birthdays. They are both summer babies.
Looking forward to traveling with my grandson to Florida!
Melanie Johnson says
I’m looking forward to relaxing and taking a little road trip this summer.
I’m looking forward to making a couple trips to Six Flags St. Louis to ride the coasters and see the shows. Thanks.
Jen Haile says
I’m looking to forward to going to the beach some time this summer! The temperatures have been relentlessly brutal here!
https://twitter.com/XArea51/status/886857697194201090
ARLENE MCCU says
I’m looking forward to Traveling ,Visiting my grandkids for the summer
Brigitte Bauman says
Yes, I am looking forward and actually enjoying this summer spending time with family and friends.
alisha eiler says
I love going to flea markets and rummage sales.plus it saves me money and is so much fun.
Todd Ingham says
I am looking forward to our road trip to NY. We are going to be ale to visit family ad friends and have my son’s 5th birthday party.
Marge Bowman says
I am looking forward to getting some outside projects done!
Ariel S says
Looking forward to fun in the sun with my husband and daughter!
Theresa Jenkins says
We’re looking forward to a couple of weeks of a Staycation so we can play catch-up with our house and then a couple of weekend of fun with our 5 grand kids
https://twitter.com/TheresaJenkins/status/886920024342097921
I’m looking forward to our family reunion trip to Florida. We don’t get to go every year, always fun to see everybody!
I tweeted – https://twitter.com/ICdragon3/status/886954191465455616
Marie Beauregard says
I am most looking forward to no homework, lazy mornings, swimming, healthy tan little babies 🙂
Love all the outdoor time!
Cynthia Schmied says
We love to visit amusement and waterparks with the whole family. It is often the only time we get together in the summer.
https://twitter.com/winkytinky/status/886985382839144451
Vincent says
I’m looking forward to a camping trip with friends.
https://twitter.com/rubylorikeet/status/886994730243850240
Look forward to gardening, relaxing in the backyard.
Roxanne Marie Moon says
I’m looking forward to swimmimg with my little boy for the first time this summer
Connie Blasing says
https://twitter.com/CBlasing/status/887002476175667200
Looking forward to just spending time with friends and family.
sheila ressel says
I am looking forward to spending lots of time in the water on our boat.
tweeted: https://twitter.com/slr8/status/887004958960254976
jeremy mclaughlin says
Looking forward to taking my sons on a lot of fun day trips.
eva kiss says
I am looking forward to take my son who just learned how to swim to a beautiful watermark.
Looking forward to spending more time with my kids!
Jacqueline Morillo says
I am looking forward to my daughter’s first birthday, my son’s third birthday, and my family’s first vacation away from home.
Here’s what I tweeted: https://twitter.com/JacksBeautyShak/status/887024615096233984
TRACY SIMMS says
Spending time at any water park with my sons. Thanks for this cointest.
I’m looking forward to spending some quality time with my family.
Rachel Wilt says
I can’t wait to take my two daughters out to do some swimming and relaxing this summer.My oldest is 12 and is such an over acheiver!! She deserves to relax!! My youngest is 20months and is Autistic..so I’m excited to have her enjoy her real first summer!! We have alot of love in my family…just not alot of money for extras!! Thanks for the chance to WIN!!
diane baum says
I’m looking forward to ‘puttering’ in my garden-hoping, something will actually grow. And reading some good novels
Estela Medina says
I’m looking forward to going to the beach with family this summer.
Kathryn El Shamy says
Looking forward to being outside with my daughter, teaching her to swim, soaking up some sun and nature.
I’m looking forward to going camping in the mountains near our home.
Anne Marie Carter says
I am looking forward to having time at home and also having more time to spend with the grandchildren.
https://twitter.com/annemariecarte5
Jenny H says
I looking forward to camping with the kids this summer!
kathy c says
I’m looking forward to taking my grandsons to a local fairy tale-based amusement park!
Sharon Nelson says
The link to my tweet:
https://twitter.com/SHARONPLUS4/status/887106917817999360
I’m looking forward to lots of relaxation and family bonding time. Summertime is when my family slows down a bit, and I want to soak up all the memories I can.
I’m looking forward to going to the beach-I love the Jersey shore. I also plan on doing a lot of kayaking.
https://twitter.com/flyergal82/status/887112620775546880
Danielle Magee says
This summer, I’m looking forward to watching my daughter play softball.
Jennifer Hess says
I am looking forward to spending more time with my 4 kids. I have 2 in College, a senior and a 6th grader. Time is flying by way too fast.
Anthony S says
It’s all about being in, on, or near the water.
Jenette says
I am looking forward to spending time at the beach.
https://twitter.com/JenetteRausch/status/887137006106628096
Cassandra French says
Busch Gardens is a blast! I went for the first time two summers ago. The main park & water country are my favorite parks now! We bought a week-long pass to both parks – plenty of time for those “one-more-times!”
This summer, I’m mostly stuck in the shade with my two month old, but I’m looking forward to taking her on her first beach trip & to visit all of the family!
wendi says
we are looking forward to my DAUGHTER graduating college and taking her and moving her into Disney!! She will do a 6 month Internship there!!! Big move coming up!
https://twitter.com/wblack1125/status/887171517108420608
I’m looking forward to taking the kids to the water parks! I can’t wait.
Tweet: https://twitter.com/Stephanie64030/status/887185156150317061
spending more time having fun with my family
Lauren Lat says
I am looking forward to swimming at the beach
Jess G. says
We’re always looking forward to time on the water – lake, river, beach, doesn’t matter!
I’m looking forward to a road trip to the Smokey Mountains later in the fall when the colors will be gorgeous.
https://twitter.com/rusthawk/status/887264468291526656
I am looking forward to getting out and enjoying the warm weather with my family, doing fun things locally, travelling.
https://twitter.com/MicKatMom/status/887299042492940289
Regina says
I am looking forward to visiting friends in Tennessee.
We are looking forward to visitng the beach.
https://twitter.com/ardy22/status/887355700145524738
https://twitter.com/obeezer/status/887366315572305920
Jennifer H. says
We like to grow a garden.
https://twitter.com/75Yeah/status/887402062832685058
Audrey Stewart says
I tweeted / https://twitter.com/AudreyS23511436/status/887412654817628160
We are spending our summer painting our house. Fun Hey?
I’m looking forward to my 5 year old learning how to swim!! She’s so close!!!
Alejandra Carreno says
https://twitter.com/acarreno78/status/887467289213366279
I’m really looking forward to both my vacations this Summer! This is the 1st year in a long time since my family & I have been able to travel twice in Summer. Doing a road trip to SD & WY to see Devil’s Tower & Mt Rushmore. Then heading to the Houston Space Center in August 🙂
jacqueline v says
definitely looking forward to some beach time
amanda whitley says
i look forward to taking a road trip next month
Jamie Stanley says
I am looking forward to swimming!
https://twitter.com/planealabama/status/887495488534192136
sherri crawford says
our family loves to camp
LAMusing says
Looking forward to a BBQ
tweet – https://twitter.com/LAMusing/status/887523312535875584
Julie Hawkins says
I’m looking forward to our annual summer family reunion this summer.
im looking forward to evening weather.
Theorn Willis says
Looking forward to a hunting trip in Hawaii. Wild boar!
Definitely looking forward to our annual family reunion beach trip!
https://twitter.com/mjamestribe19/status/887553610644639744
Del says
I am looking forward to family trips and visiting relatives.
https://twitter.com/del894/status/887556703608123392
I’m looking forward to spending more time outside with my family.
donna porter says
I am looking forward to our summer beach vacation. We truly do need some time away!
tweeted… https://twitter.com/mybutterflies/status/887599423030792192
I am looking forward to spending time with family during our annual beach trip
Going to Korea
Kurt Hoffmann says
Looking forward to my kid heading off to college and a new chapter in his life.
Jessica Miller says
I look forward to going to the beach
https://twitter.com/jessicamillerrm/status/887693381878599681
tammy ohagan says
The best part of summer for me is the fresh flowers in my yard, Dahlberg Daisies to be exact! I love all flowers, but these are special to me! I love ’em!!
A few years back, I discovered some Dahlberg Daisies (Thymophylla tenuiloba) at my local nursery, and it was love at first sight… I mean with their feathery foliage and cheerful yellow flowers, whats not to love? They give me a “happy-place” feeling!
I planted them as a border in my front yard because it super sunny out there, and they did very well until wet summer weather set it, and they all died back. I thought for sure they would all die… but no it wasn’t the end of these little plants, – each spring, after a bit of winter rain, seedlings of Dahlberg Daisies pop up around my front yard, thriving with absolutely no attention from me at all until summer sets in once again.
Jennifer Abrams says
Tweeted: https://twitter.com/sbjfap2/status/887736699228499969
What a timely post! We are planning a trip next summer to the Williamsburg, VA area, and want to spend a day at Water Country USA!! Thank you so much for all of the information. This is very helpful in our planning!
Cathy Coibion says
I look forward to more time with my grandchildren!!!
Candace Miller says
I am looking forward to many beach days.
Tweeted https://twitter.com/heidiho5152/status/887802946003410946
I’m looking forward to riding our bikes on our local bike trail and taking a couple mini trips around our state.
I always look forward to vacation at the beach with my husband
https://twitter.com/klp1965/status/887837262842646528
I’m looking forward to spending more time with my kids.
Enter to win a $100 VISA GC #sweeps via @MarinoBambinos & check out Water Country USA travel tips #SweepstakesEntry http://www.marinobambinos.com/2017/07/water-country-usa-the-ultimate-summer-family-vacation/
Sorry meant to put the link to my tweet in the comment.
https://twitter.com/cochran_maryann/status/887852183554863104
We are looking forward to trips to the beach and pool.
Belinda Burton says
I’m looking forward to lazy mornings and later bedtimes, days by the pool, and smores by the campfire!
https://twitter.com/krazykabbage/status/887862933299974144
I am looking forward to spending time with my family outdoors.
I’m looking forward to happy fun filled days at the beach with my family!
Candace Galan says
I am looking forward to road trips and camping!
Oliver says
https://twitter.com/OliverSpax/status/887902039425953792
rosemary says
Sue H says
Every summer I look forward to spending time with my family.We always have so much fun swimming,barbecuing,and enjoying outdoor fun together as a family!
https://twitter.com/Ladibug151/status/888064301826625540 Thanks for the chance !
Byron says
Here is my tweet! https://twitter.com/bcarasco/status/888174209007927296
Jessica Lynn says
This summer I hope to go camping and to the beach with my family!
When I’m not working, I plan to stay cool and catch up on my Netflix queue 🙂 It will be lovely to relax!
Tweeted 🙂 – https://twitter.com/Anastasia_Fall/status/888191506493734913
Cat Hare says
https://twitter.com/LuckyCat7/status/888241321403666432
Looking forward to taking a trip to Disney.
https://twitter.com/bronxieburger/status/888458075111391234
I’m looking forward to the eclipse. We live in the best viewing area or so I’ve heard. It will be a fun family time since our daughter won;t be at school that day.
Heather Hollands says
I have a grandbaby on his way here in the fall, so this summer I am excited to help my daughter prepare for his arrival.
I am looking forward to the warm weather and summer vacations!
tweeted – https://twitter.com/BoutiqueOfLuck/status/888614270421880834
Alison Little says
Such awesome tips thanks so much for the post! The thing I’m most excited about for summer is just relaxing out on the porch during the summer nights just feeling the warm weather, smelling the bonfires, just relaxing, I absolute love that part of summer! !
Heres my tweet. Thanks so much for the opportunity!
https://twitter.com/MarinoBambinos/status/885591689204834304
betty arthurs says
https://twitter.com/stupefied10/status/888755614406594562
Nothing. for summer to be Over
We had 2 Scout trips and a family reunion on our summer to-do list, and only the reunion is left to attend. Crazy Horse monument is terrific, but the little one just couldn’t make it the last of the hike to the arm. The old fashioned train trip was fun for everyone, and who knew there was an alligator rescue/farm in Colorado!
Pam Flynn says
I’m looking forward to my granddaughter coming to visit. She is going to be 7 really soon!
Every year my family visits NYC over the summer break
Just looking forward to my husband coming home from his year deployment.
chambanachik(at)gmail(dot)com
amy stonger says
I’m looking forward to seeing my niece and nephew for the first time in three years.
https://twitter.com/astonger/status/889042953569783809
Joseph Gersch says
i am looking forward to hot weather
OFG says
https://twitter.com/OneFrugalGirl/status/889218415294119937
Spending lazy mornings reading in bed and snuggling rather than rushing off to school.
to do a few staycations with my family
Klydra Pugh says
I’m looking foward to hanging out and relaxing with friends.
I am looking forward to lots of time with my children, creating wonderful memories.
Tweeted https://twitter.com/mummytotwoboys1/status/889261075291615232
We really have no plans this summer.
https://twitter.com/avrilsgranny/status/889406282112925697
I am looking forward to going to Chicago next month and seeing tons of extended family!
Laura Santaita says
I am looking forward to spending time with my kids and doing fun things!
Betsy Dillon says
I am looking forward to spending more time with my son and husband. I lost my daughter in June at the age of 22 so I have realized that every minute and memory made could be the last! So I intend to make them good ones!
Also, my twitter link is: https://twitter.com/betsydillon/status/889566377547362304
Kristine C says
Looking forward to fishing with the kids and hanging out with family.
Janet OBrien says
I’m looking forward to doing more outdoor activities
Rhonda Y says
I’m looking forward to a road trip with my daughter.
I am looking forward to being active and having fun with my son this summer!
https://twitter.com/Carter35638650/status/889875227064377344
Amity J says
I have chronic pain and love the warmer weather.
Melissa Storms says
I am looking forward to getting my 13 year old away from the keyboard and outside more the rest of this summer.
I’m looking forward to going to Washington, D.C. this summer to tour the museums and White House.
Tweet link: https://twitter.com/shala_darkstone/status/890029540273250304
looking forward to heading to North Carolina
Natalie U says
Unfortunately for me, summer is the busiest time at my place of employment and I take no time off…I’m just waiting for it to end!!
Kamla L. says
I looking forward to enjoying great weather and relaxation.
Natalie S. says
We are heading to the Oregon coast in a few days! It’s our favorite vacation spot!
Going to the beach and sleeping in.
I’m personally looking forward to spending some more time with my family! We just went on a short weekend-long trip up to Maine, and we’re thinking of taking another weekend to go somewhere else (hopefully with another beach lol) 🙂
ANNETTE FISHER says
I AM LOOKING FOWARD TO THE SUN.
Ashley M says
I am looking forward to so many things this summer! I love that I am able to spend extra time with my children since they are out of school! We make an adventure out of any where we go, near and far! Some of our favorite things to do include camping out right in our own backyard, spending the day at the beach, going for family bike rides, and going to our local drive-in to watch movies!
darby says
I am looking forward to the weather!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/josnjevsmom/status/890665694760546305
We are looking forward to the warm summer weekends to hang out at the beach
Robyn Sanders says
I’m looking forward to walking around and trying new things in sanfrancisco this summer. It’s not a huge vacation but I thought it’s about time for me to start showing love to local businesses near me. You can have fun without having to board an airplane. hope I inspire someone to check out their local businesses and try something new.
Melissa Marinho says
This summer, I’m looking forward to boating, bbq’s, beaches, amusement parks, pool time, fireworks and lobster feasts!
Twitter tweet URL: https://mobile.twitter.com/MelissaJMarinho/status/891220024689659905
Cassandra D. says
Traveling.
Jill Bensinger says
Being with my kids!
Bobbie S says
the barbecues
I’m looking forward to going to our family cabin on the water in the San Juan Islands and seeing the orca whales up close!
https://twitter.com/bohofoxbabe/status/891330451582795777
Currently looking forward to the solar eclipse! It passes right over us, and I’m excited to witness it 🙂
Elicia P says
https://twitter.com/lesh4537/status/891498309692665862
I am looking forward to my youngest 1st birthday. It is sad too though.
I looking forward to my birthday in August.
https://twitter.com/benz1171/status/891567888540160000
I’m looking forward to traveling to visit my mom.
https://twitter.com/raggammuffin/status/891641010429849600
Kristen Nicholls says
I am looking forward to doing a lot of yard work around the house, growing our new apple trees, and playing in the pool with my to-be-stepson
Marissa Clark says
Looking forward to the MN State Fair! A great way to end the summer on a high note!!
Blaire Ruch says
I’m looking forward to going to the Outer Banks for a week with my family!!
https://twitter.com/blairefierce/status/891835932927827968
I’m looking forward to a road trip to the beach with friends later this summer.
kathy Persons says
My daughter is getting married this summer
https://twitter.com/mkjmc/status/892065483184365570
Mel M says
Just so much family time.
Nicole Arliss says
I’m looking forward to introducing my son to his baby pool this summer 🙂
Doree ann says
I’m looking forward to creating family memories with my children.
Jeff Baluch says
I was looking forward to a relaxing trip to Colorado.
Darla Peduzzi says
I would love to take my little Grandson there. Looks like so much fun!
Tweeted: https://twitter.com/Darla412/status/892463093376307201
I’m looking forward to hiking in Permberton Park this summer.
SHIRLEY SYMON says
Looking forward to the beach and lots of miniature golf. Just being outside and relaxing.
Michelle Bartley says
My Granddaughters’ Birthdays are both in August! Caleah will be 3 and Olivia 8! We’re having a big Double Celebration party!
Tweet: https://twitter.com/RascallFlatts/status/892481040983392257
Christine Burd says
I think we are heading to the badlands of S.Dakota . We’ve never been there and then maybe to Yellowstone
I’m looking forward to splash pads with the kids, and our trip to Santa Ynez/Solvang for wine tasting in a few weeks.
Steve Acosta says
Ok summer, I like spending time with my niece. She makes the summer great.
We are moving to a new state so were most excited about exploring & having some fun adventures
Chuck Bell says
Rebecca W says
Our family loves to camp during the summer. We enjoy hiking and fishing! We like to make fun family memories while the kids are still little.
https://twitter.com/Michael64263870/status/892500190879416323
Renee Elbel says
I am so looking forward to getting away from all the hustle and bustle of everyday life and just having some time with my sweetie!
https://twitter.com/?lang=en
I am looking forward to spending time with my 5 wonderful grandchildren
Erin Walsh says
I am looking forward to fresh produce out of our garden.
We are looking forward to go to the beach.
Tweet- https://twitter.com/mitajdav/status/892522544313630720
Looking forward to BBQ!
tweeted – https://twitter.com/LAMusing/status/892529847985094656
Anitra Crumpton says
We’re looking forward to celebrating 2 birthdays this month.
Deborah Blake says
Seeing my new granddaughter!!!
Looking forward to spending vacation with the family
chris hoey says
Looking forward to spending vacation with my grand kids.
Rosanne says
I’m looking forward to time with family and friends, vacations, weddings, showers graduations ball games etc.
Tweeted: https://twitter.com/rosannepm/status/892570414844694528
https://twitter.com/linmolloy321/status/892730138940645376
I am looking forward to go to Cape Code labor day week
Kayla D. says
I’m looking forward to going swimming at the springs!
Agness of eTramping says
Such a spectacular place! I’d love to spend my summer holiday there one day!
Holly Thomas says
I am looking forward to day trips to Busch Gardens, we go several times a year.
https://twitter.com/HollyThomas61/status/892851550913085440
Jessica G says
What I am looking forward to this summer is no screaming and yelling, and temper tantrums about doing homework. Also not waking up early and rushing out of the house.
Michelle Levine says
I’m looking forward to all of the picnics that I will do! I love picnicking in the summer.
karyn koehler says
Looking forward to going to the beach with my kiddos 🙂
https://twitter.com/karynkoehler/status/893109918810689536
I’m looking forward to spending a lot of time at the pool with my kids this Summer.
https://twitter.com/susan1215/status/893223539763027968
I’m looking forward to visits with family members this summer before school starts. I also look forward to visiting one or two state parks. Grilling out is another thing that I’m looking forward to this summer.
Sue V says
looking forward to beach days with friends
Melina Ramirez says
This summer I am looking forward to weekly pool visits and movie theaters.
Katrina C says
I’m looking forward to laying out in the sunshine and reading good books!
Linda Walker says
Camp ends for the kids next week so we are hoping to get some day trips in before school starts.
I am looking forward to more relaxation, traveling, and quality time with loved ones!
Kathryn Russell says
It already started, but monsoon season was what I was looking forward to. Actually getting rain this year – it’s so nice.
Looking forward to relaxing pool side with my family!
robin s. says
This summer our goal has been to go to the pool as much as we can.
Alicia Schmidt says
The best part of summer is spending time with my kids outside
latoya says
I am looking forward to spending time with my cousins.
https://twitter.com/sweeper785/status/895176972225085441
I am looking forward to some pool time
I am looking forward to doing a massive closet cleanup and donation.
Tweeted-https://twitter.com/birdiebee52/status/895834683526725632
I am so looking forward to seeing two of my grandkids that I have not seen for almost 3 years.
I looked forward to our family vacation this summer.
looking forward for a fun packed summer
Looking forward to swimming in the lake and good peaches.
I am looking forward to lots of beach and boardwalk time and outdoor BBQs.
Tweet: https://twitter.com/PrettyHotPink6/status/897135929537830912
Amy Tong says
I am really looking forward to spending time and cooking with my kids this summer! That’s what we love to do and always fun!
amy [at] uTry [dot] it
https://twitter.com/uTry_it/status/897319915727671298
I’m looking forward to finishing my around the house projects.
https://twitter.com/fishwithagun/status/897885649881190410
Leah Shumack says
Summer is almost over! We’re heading out on a 11 day road trip in 3 days! It’s our last hurrah before we’re back to work and school and all those activities!
Tweeted – https://twitter.com/ClairFreebie/status/898205886073720832
I looked forward to swimming and seeing several movies in theater this summer.
I tweeted -> https://twitter.com/DarkMysticNight/status/899135508634361856
Jason Vaughn says
I was excited to travel to Annapolis this summer.
Looking forward to going to amusement parks with my family.
paula peterson says
I like taking my daughter to the water parks.
Love to BBQ in the summer!
looking forward to a couple more bbqs
Dorothy Boucher says
I think what I have and have been looking forward to this summer is spending more time with the grandchildren and being outdoors more.
https://twitter.com/tisonlyme143/status/901873243820351488
Gina Freire says
I like to spend more time at the beach to catch the last rays of the sun before summer is over.
i AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SPENDING MORE TIME WITH MY FAMILY. I do not like the heat too much.
https://twitter.com/darrenswife1/status/902971730704162816
Evanell Baker says
Summer is almost over, but I am looking forward to one last cookout with the neighbors this weekend. Complete with hot dogs, beer, smores and lots of laughs!
Here’s my tweet:
https://twitter.com/VLN_RNR/status/902980529200537600
Maryellen Ferguson says
I’m looking forward to moving into a new place, and then visiting my brother’s family down the shore in NJ.
Thanks for the awesome opportunity to win. https://twitter.com/CBlasing/status/903314440451444738
Can we have a do-over? It’s gone by way toooooooo fast and there’s only one day left. *sniff, sniff*
.Christine L says
I look forward every Summer to spending more times with the kids & sleeping in on occasion.
Christina Graham says
Camping and hiking is what we look forward to the most in summer. Just having lazy adventures with my kids and no stress.
Entry #2: https://twitter.com/gcbabykisses/status/903800890494115840
Jessica H says
We went to Disneyland this summer .I’m looking forward to going camping too.
Karen M says
No big vacation plans this summer. Just a couple of days off for a quick day trip or just a day doing nothing. thanks
Making awesome memories with my husband and 2 boys!
Tweet: https://twitter.com/AshButton90/status/904480143103709184
Summer’s almost over and I’m looking forward to a few more warm & sunny days!
S. Carter says
I always look forward to outdoor concerts in the summer!
This summer I am looking forward to weekends at the cabin – talk about fun!
Tweeted https://twitter.com/JalapenoMama/status/904908061961310208
Kenia says
I will be spending more time with my girls this summer. From going swimming classes to teaching them to roller blade!
https://twitter.com/YamiYali/status/905078590290702336
Cheryl B says
I am looking forward to our road trip to see Mt. Rushmore.
https://mobile.twitter.com/arress83/status/905244714588405760
al says
No cold!
Janice Cooper says
Going to the park and beach! Also hiking! I love summer especially the weather.
https://twitter.com/disneyfan40/status/905451273830486016
@simplkindalife says
https://twitter.com/simplkindalife/status/905516501461078016
I am looking forward to camping with my family and spending quality time with them.
We had a great time on vacation over the summer!
I was pretty excited about gardening season. Flowers and home grown tomatoes are the best!
Spending time outdoors riding bicycles, kayaking, and hiking.
Jaclyn Reynolds says
Getting outdoors and enjoying the long days.
We had 2 staycations this year and enjoyed our new pool.
Dave L says
As I write this, summer is winding down, but every summer I look forward to family barbecues and enjoying the warm weather outdoors. Thank you for the chance to win.
I am looking forward to getting outside and enjoying time with my family this summer. I love the hot weather.
I am looking forward to a camping trip.
I always look forward to our family beach trip!
Tweet: Enter to win a $100 VISA GC #sweeps via @MarinoBambinos & check out Water Country USA travel tips #SweepstakesEntry http://ow.ly/Btih30f2oOG
golden storm says
i am looking forward to working in my vegetable garden this summer
https://twitter.com/goldengirl7763/status/906640311706890240
Karen Behrman says
we always look forward to our local amusement and water park each summer, we take the grandkids
Summer is pretty well over, so now is fair season in my area (which is winding down). We’re hoping to visit a few more fairs and just enjoy each day as it comes.
Erica B. says
I was just happy to do a lot of day excursions.
Liz N says
I’m looking forward to going to visit my grandma – she’s my only remaining grandparent, so I try to love on her whenever I can!
https://twitter.com/Giantsis/status/906896397915574282
I’m looking forward to taking my mom to Jamaica for her 60th bday.
We are looking forward to lots of fishing and camping.
Melissa OMalley says
Summer is for family vacations!
looking forward to having lots of bbqs with my friends
Susan Will says
Love building memories with my family. If it makes them happy, then it makes me happy.
Seyma Shabbir says
Looking forward to some down time. Just time to rest!!
https://twitter.com/SeymaShabbir/status/907032309416779777
This summer, I backpacked through and into the 14th state on the Appalachian Trail.
Cleaning the house out. Getting some more sleep in. Relaxing in the sun while we still have it
Kelly Freeman says
I’m looking forward to the warmer weather!
Debra Guillen says
Summer is over here and the kids have gone back to school. I enjoyed and always look forward to each year, spending more time with my kids. We unfortunately didn’t get to go to the beach this year..hopefully, next year.
tweeted https://twitter.com/aliasr2/status/907230425663373312
DeeAnn S says
Summer is just about over. What I always look forward to in the summer is working in and reaping the rewards of my veggie garden. Salt shaker, here I come. 🙂 Nothing like a picking and eating a fresh tomato from the garden!
Roberta F says
I look forward to having family time at the each and catching movies in the partk!
Summer is over but I enjoyed a family trip we took to the Ozarks and a couples trip we took to wine country. We also had a kitchen remodel done this summer which was exhausting but I now am glad it is done.
Shorts and sandals!
beverly shelden says
I want to have alot of fun.
Holly Kennedy says
Im looking forward to a big family reunion.
We’re looking forward to spending some time at the beach.
Shawn A. says
My daughter just got married in August in Vermont. It was beautiful there and so was the wedding and I had been looking forward to this all summer.
We are looking forward to going to the local orchard.
I tweeted the contest.
https://twitter.com/74What/status/907385957103665152
Rose Santuci-Sofranko says
Sadly, the Summer is almost over….so, just looking forward to spending time with my sweet hubby….and maybe go on a day trip before the Summer is out.
Also, I tweeted about the giveaway here:
https://twitter.com/Artists4God2/status/907420174965526528
Thanks and God bless!
Rachel O says
Trips to Michigan
Every summer, I look forward to the family camping trip.
Connie Merritt says
I am sad that summer is almost over. I am always looking forward to spending more time with my grandsons with each passing season. I tweeted too. Thank you! https://twitter.com/gottobe2/status/907434147928559616
Austin H. says
Camping, boating, BBQing…that is the best part of summer. It’s great to be out in nature.
https://twitter.com/austinh324/status/907209120805244930
Summer was fun, had a lot of family events to look forward to. Now that fall is almost here I am ready to relax!
https://twitter.com/motioncitycutie/status/907462393567092736
Shane A says
I’m still looking forward to the final camping trip of the year. Hopefully we make it before it gets too cold.
Twitter entry: https://twitter.com/ShaneAZoom/status/907465174440800256
We had a great 4 day trip to Santa Fe for the opera. Good food, good music and good friends.
https://twitter.com/slehan/status/907517896221376513
Summer’s about over now. Now I’m looking forward to the cooler weather and being able to do more things outdoors with my girls. We really want to go to the zoo so we will do that when it’s a little cooler. Thank you!
Kerry p says
Summer is almost over. I’m going to miss flip flops, skirts and not having to let my car warm up in the mornings!
Ying-Tsun Lin says
During the summer, I look forward to bike rides!!
I am looking forward to swimming with my four kiddos!
Elizabeth A De Castro says
That looks like a blast! We have never done the waterparks but this looks like so much fun!
Julie Waldron says
I’m looking forward to going to NYC with my mom & daughter in 2 days.
Tweet https://twitter.com/farmermomwife/status/907600061328187393
I always look forward to vacationing at Hampton Beach NH
Looking forward to going to the beach with my family.
We are looking forward to one last camping trip before summer ends. My kids love to go camping and fishing so they can’t wait.
I’m looking forward to spending time with my grandchildren and outdoor entertaining with friends and family.
I’m looking forward to grilling and outdoor entertaining with family and friends.
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Debbi Wellenstein says
I’m looking forward to visiting my family this summer.
Karen L. Drake says
I am looking forward to spending some cool summer evenings on the front porch.
Bebhinn says
Well, summer’s now just about over, but I was looking forward to all the outdoor activities we have to do in Virginia. Got a chance to hike, kayak, snuggle goats, drive the skylines. It was a great summer.
Amy Smeltzer says
Sounds like a fun place. I didn’t get to do any summer stuff this year.
Mindy COFFEY says
I love going to the waterpark with my kids. I love being near the water.
https://twitter.com/unchained7783/status/907671963321163776
I haven’t had any plans this summer. I’ve just been relaxing as much as possible and keeping cool.
Just spending more time outdoors with my family.
Eva Mack says
This summer we welcomed our first granddaughter!
thischickwins says
i’m looking forward to hanging out in many air-conditioned locations
Emily L says
Summer’s just about done but I did have a most amazing visit with my bestie in San Diego! It was perfection!
I enjoy and have enjoyed spending time with my mom in Maine this summer!
Philip Lawrence says
I’m looking forward to outdoor BBQ’s in Kansas City!
We have been looking forward to fun family trips
Iliana Blair says
https://twitter.com/madreblair/status/907769749236535298
Summer is over but I enjoyed being out in the garden.
I’m looking forward to spending time with my family.
Trisha McKee says
I most look forward to fishing and road trips
I like going to the beach in the summer with my kids
Twitter https://twitter.com/doctorjanine/status/907783418536108033
Andrea P. says
https://twitter.com/is4drea2/status/907785627264942080
Buddy Garrett says
We are looking forward to remodeling our house.
Summer is over but I enjoyed the weather and outdoors
Roxann says
We went to a few water parks and road trips. Summer was a lot of fun.
Tweet https://twitter.com/ladyt64/status/907796186517688320
AEKZ2 says
We had fun visiting Busch Gardens for the first time in July.
Tim Moss says
Summer is about over now but I would’ve loved to have gone to the beach.
Time with family and a break from working as a school bus driver.
I’m back working for the school district, so my summer break is over. But I had fun times with the family, trips, water park, wild animal park, & beach.
Heaven Kelough says
I love summer, though sadly it’s almost over! 🙁 I love visiting water and amusement parks, and going camping! Thank you so much for the awesome chance to win!
Jonathan Watson says
Since it is almost over, I enjoyed my summer with family and friends! I look forward to Summer 2018!
i loved visiting with my kids this year
https://twitter.com/lindilala/status/908165408422813696
I always look forward to summer BBQ!
Starla says
I have had a great Summer while spending a ton of time at the lake house with friends and family! We have had a blast on the boat and jet skis and all of the delicious foods and cocktails!
I tweeted : https://twitter.com/mmstarla/status/908589081050927104
I had such a blast at water country usa
https://twitter.com/linjumimom/status/908783761063587840
We had a great summer, the best part was watching my kids play baseball. We also took some day trips here and there, but our big family vacation isn’t till next spring break..A cruise with my family and our parents!
I tweeted: https://twitter.com/FireRunner2379/status/909511459666825218.
Kris O says
Summer is over; but I loved all the outside walks, grilling, and spending time with family doing outdoor activities.
https://twitter.com/KRISOTTO2276/status/909983992526655489
Denise L says
I always look forward to lots of time in the water each summer. Alas, I did not get enough water fun this summer!
We’re looking forward to our trip to Napa Valley
Looks like you had a fun time! We didn’t go anywhere special this summer, but had a fun time anyways — visited the library A LOT!
westiemks5 at yahoo dot com
Tweeted! https://twitter.com/pixel_berry_pie/status/911056418211495937
I love experiencing the water park with the kiddos!
Stephanie Phelps says
I was looking forward to taking the kids to the mountains this year! We were going to hike to the falls and just have some family time!
https://twitter.com/my4boysand1/status/912012164751388672
Emily N. says
I look forward to eating all the delicious fruit in season in the summer!
https://twitter.com/prizepuzzle/status/912014890658881536
Spending time on the lake!
Betty Curran says
We love to spend time a the lake. We may camp or just go for a day, but either way we can fish or swim or hike – whatever our mood is.
Tweet – https://twitter.com/willitara/status/913629573970984960
I am looking forward to my camping trip.
This summer I am looking forward to weekends at the lake.
Tweet https://twitter.com/JalapenoMama/status/913952265333039104
I was looking forward to relaxing some this summer
tweeted at https://twitter.com/vranasweep/status/914146790781353984
Kathryn C says
#Sweeps #SweepstakesEntry- comment
This summer I got to spend a lot of relaxing time at the lake in town and read a good number of books
kacor7@hotmail.com
my #Sweeps #SweepstakesEntry tweet:
https://twitter.com/thrincor/status/914210648497717249
Jerry Marquardt says
My summer has gone very well, and I loved that great eclipse.
I publicly Tweeted this giveaway: https://twitter.com/versatileer/status/914211457042141184
I usually look forward to the beach and amusement parks
tweet https://twitter.com/ChelleB36/status/914219153292132352
The Texas State Fair!
Frankie says
This water slide was one of the most relaxing water sides I have ever been on!
Bill Sweeney says
Busch Gardens VA looks like a great place to take the family. I think the whole family would love to experience Water Country USA, especially on a real hot day. The giant inner tubes have my inner child wanting to go!
I’m really looking forward to my trip to Cali with my family!
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Lord Of The Rings TV Show Gets An Official Release Date
Thank the Lord!
Amazon has given an update on when we can expect to see the highly-awaited Lord Of The Rings TV show. And let’s just say you’ve got plenty of time to rewatch the Peter Jackson trilogy AND the Hobbit movies, because it’s not coming for a while…
Amazon executive Jennifer Salke has been discussing the project, and has suggested that production on the new show won’t kick off for ages yet. “It'll be in production in two years,” says Salke. “2021 is the hope (to air), but there are other people who wish it was 2020.”
Hit play on the video to watch the MTV Movies Screening Room: Solo: A Stars Wars Story...
Yep, you can count us in the latter camp, Jen. Meanwhile, Salke was a little hazier on Jackson’s potential involvement. The director had previously suggested that he might be involved, but it sounds as though things are slightly more up in the air…
“He may say he is involved or he's not involved,” says Salke. “We're still very much in conversation with him about what kind of involvement he would propose.” At least they have a couple of years to work on a deal…
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Peter Jackson 'Will Direct Doctor Who Episode'
Ian McKellen 'To Marry Patrick Stewart'
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On D&H South Line takeover, NS team shines
NS Harrisburg Division training coordinators Jeff Mockler, at right in red shirt, and Eric Wright, at left with back to camera, discuss NS operating rules, including the proper method to mount and dismount equipment, with new train crew employees hired from CP.
Planning, teamwork, attention to detail add up to smooth start
As far as railroad acquisitions go, Norfolk Southern’s purchase of the D&H South Line was considered a “minor transaction” by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board. Bringing the 282-mile line under NS’ ownership and control, however, was a major undertaking for employees, touching nearly every department at the company.
“It was one of those rare efforts that required everyone to pitch in and coordinate, and I’m really happy with the job that representatives from all the departments did,” said John Friedmann, vice president strategic planning, who oversaw planning efforts.
“There were dozens if not hundreds of things that had to be done, and done very quickly, to maintain fluid operations.”
— Jim Ogle,
assistant superintendent, Harrisburg Division
“The biggest challenge was preparing for the day everything was switched over and not knowing if things were going to work as intended – and then having contingencies in place if they didn’t,” said Jim Ogle, assistant superintendent, Harrisburg Division. “There were dozens if not hundreds of things that had to be done, and done very quickly, to maintain fluid operations.”
After NS applied in November 2014 for STB approval to buy the line, Ogle, formerly superintendent of Croxton Yard in New Jersey, moved to Binghamton, N.Y., to understand how Canadian Pacific operated the line and to serve as NS’ “eyes and ears.”
For months before switch over day, Ogle participated in weekly conference calls with members of the NS team to discuss progress and challenges to overcome. In addition to strategic planning and transportation, key players included representatives from labor relations, human resources, information technology, communications and signals, maintenance of way, bridges and buildings, mechanical operations, dispatching, operations service and support, marketing, transportation systems, network service design, revenue accounting, law, and government relations.
“At any time, we probably had 50 people at NS working on implementation over a period of six months, in addition to doing their day jobs,” said Chip Meador, director strategic planning, who helped orchestrate planning.
At a training and orientation session held in Binghamton for former CP employees hired by NS, Jim Ogle, assistant superintendent, in white shirt and tie, discusses differences between NS and CP operations with some of the new hires, from left, Ken Kertesz, engineer, and yardmasters Anthony Albanese and Mike Simonds.
Chad Morris, track supervisor, kneeling, and Keith Zerbe, assistant track supervisor, change mainline switch locks from CP to new NS standard locks along the D&H South Line.
Keeping nimble
When compared with deals that NS has brokered over the past two decades, Meador said the D&H line acquisition, while much smaller, is second only to the Conrail transaction in terms of complexity.
“There were a lot of details,” he said. “Knowing that the best laid plans don’t always work, we had to be nimble on our feet.”
Getting STB approval was the first step. Attorneys in NS’ law department – about eight were involved from start to finish – assembled an STB application five inches thick that examined every angle of why the deal should be approved. NS government relations, strategic planning, and marketing generated support from key constituents.
“It was a very collaborative public outreach effort across several departments. We had elected officials, shippers, and short lines supporting the transaction.”
— Maqui Parkerson,
general attorney
“One of the reasons I think it went so smoothly is that we did our homework,” said Maqui Parkerson, general attorney, who oversaw the STB approval process. “It was a very collaborative public outreach effort across several departments. We had elected officials, shippers, and short lines supporting the transaction.”
NS’ execution of operations on the South Line has been relatively flawless since Day 1 of ownership. Hiccups were addressed quickly. For example, on the first day, a Saturday, communications and signals hustled to start connecting signals directly to NS’ network after getting reports that signals data being routed to NS via CP’s Minneapolis dispatch center were moving slower than anticipated.
The original plan called for passing the data through CP’s system for about the first two weeks to allow time to connect each signal directly to NS’ network. Instead, to ensure smooth train operations, C&S engineers from Atlanta and local crews worked through the weekend to install software and rewire equipment at 23 control points.
“They knew what they had to do, and they did it,” said Shane Mills, C&S senior electronic engineer. “To keep the trains moving, we work weekends, holidays, nights – it doesn’t matter.”
At sunrise on the first day, about a dozen operations service and support people dispersed along the South Line to count and inventory rail cars that CP was handing off to NS for local customers. They covered the territory in about 12 hours, counting around 850 cars.
“They checked every siding for cars tucked away and to make sure tracks we said were clear were actually clear,” said Patrick Horgan, manager OSS. “CP had sent us electronic data about the cars that were on the territory, and once we put eyes on a car, we added it into our system and brought the waybill for it over.”
In the months before that, OSS employees visited multiple times with local customers to understand their business model and gather information to design a local service operating plan. “We wanted to make sure we could give them what they needed to run their operation efficiently,” Horgan said.
In concert, employees from network services developed an operating plan for merchandise trains moving over the South Line, setting up train schedules and plans to efficiently build and route blocks of rail cars to yards and customers across the Northeast.
“It’s a dynamic plan, and we’re continuing to tweak and improve it,” said Gregg Cronk, system manager interline service.
Working mostly behind the scenes, IT employees helped to integrate operations of the new territory into NS’ computer system, and they also ordered and helped install computers and other communications infrastructure.
IT employees tweaked computer programs and helped enter data to update key business applications used by departments across the company, said Angela Glass, senior technology analyst. “A lot of coordination was required between many business areas and IT application areas,” she said. These efforts ranged from ensuring the receipt of waybills from CP to assisting with entering track elevation data to ensure safe delivery of high-wide loads over the D&H line.
Danny Arnhart, senior technology engineer, oversaw IT work on the operations side that included hooking up computers and wireless access points and working with C&S in transferring voice, data, and other communications circuits from CP’s system to NS’ network.
“We built spreadsheets and started from scratch on much of what we needed to do,” he said. In the weeks leading up to cutover day, IT rehearsed scenarios on things that could go wrong.
“Everybody knew what their function would be,” Arnhart said. “When the day actually hit, we were pleased at how smoothly things did go.”
The successful outcome is a credit to talented employees who rolled up their sleeves and worked together to advance NS’ business goals, said John Anthony, C&S assistant general supervisor.
When they were called on, they stepped up to the plate to make things happen,” Anthony said. “When you needed something done, people were there and ready to respond and got it done.”
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I’m off to focus on my own films now.
Here is my last post, my thoughts on Django, completely unedited. This is what something I write looks like before it’s anywhere close to being finished. Before I’ve toned it wayyy down or toned it way up, all out of order etc. I better get out of here before I start making disclaimers up the wazoo.
Blood is so red. Thank god for its color. Thank god for blood’s redness and thank god for red blood in Django. In January. Its good to see guts in the wastelands of winter.
In winter, the exteriors of everything rub on the exteriors of everything else. Coats pass other coats. Gloves shake other gloves, and the sole of every shoe treads on the outmost layer of a sleeping frog’s bunker.
I’ve never before understood the beauty of violence in a film the way I have when watching Django in January next to a brittle Christmas tree. Django was guts, the insides. and pointed out how we’ve been skulking around the outsides of slavery.
In movies about race especially, the form of the film is now more important to me than the content. If a film comments on race but is traditional in terms of narrative structure, casting, aesthetics etc in one way it’s defeated its points already. Fighting inequality is about changing a way of thinking. It involves locating the systems, large and small, that support tradition, and smashing them. A movie’s worth is directly related to how effectively it disrupts ways of thinking. The less power you have in the world, the more necessary this disruption is for your identity.
I’ve never been called a nigger and I keep this in mind when writing in favor of Django. Though I’m half black most people looking at me see my Malaysian side, and so don’t immediately recognize me as a negress, or even, as an angry but eagle eyed commenter once put it, a “tragic mulattaâ€. But though my ancestors were Virginian slaves, my experience with racism is different than a dark-skinned friend of mine who walked out on the film. This might seem like a strange distinction but it’s important to know whose immediate external character is on the line (how the outside world sees you immediately regardless of if its right or wrong). It’s certainly not the director’s.
Everything’s worth (friends, food, art, clothing) can be evaluated by whether it helps dismantle a constructed character or does it it coddle us into believing the process doesn’t exist or has been heroically, and most beautifully solved and soared beyond.
Hollywood allows black stories only in certain contexts. These are mainly historical dramas, comedies, or inspirational feel-good ___. Blacks are allowed to exist in our imagination in the appropriate places. This makes all these movies frustrating.
It’s frustrating that Django was made by a white director, someone who can play with black images at no risk to his own identity. White people telling black stories with black bodies is aggravating, unfair, infuriating, tiring, boring, and every other adjective. All are true. But maybe it takes Tarantino’s pulp aesthetic to revive slavery from the ‘ghost we handle with kid gloves’ way Glory, Lincoln, made us familiar with, to a real live thing that will be regarded as matter-of-fact.
It was a matter of fact reality for 400 years. Its that frankness that makes white audiences uneasy and causes black viewers pain. It is painful to remember that this brutality was a real every day occurrence. And that the threat of this violence was present every second of every day. Kerry Washington’s tiny perpetually rigid and tense frame communicated this so effectively, I cried nearly every time she appeared on screen. In Django no soaring music or somber negro spiritual plays while a slave is whipped or torn apart by dogs. We don’t have that magic carpet of emotional manipulation to come sweep us off our feet to hold us hovering at a safe distance from the horror. “Hush†the magic carpet usually says, “Yes, Denzel is being whipped, but he sheds a single tear in a way that’s dramatized just enough to allow you to feel deep sadness but not be overly traumatized. Hear the lone oboe play. Close..but not too close… now up up and awayyy!â€
That famous scene from Glory was an extremely sad one to watch. If something is ancient history, long gone, and is presented in a way that respects its place in history (with all your traditional period piece trappings) we can feel sad safely and we can mourn safely. Time grants us that buffer. We feel “sad for†the slaves and maybe we feel “sad for†our country. We’re more than familiar with experiencing sadness when watching films about slavery, but in this context, Slavery Sadness keeps the viewer at a distance. Slavery Sadness, has always allowed us hold ourselves at bay from the subject, perhaps because it’s too horrifying a truth to face. If we are feeling “sad for†something that means we are not right there with them. Not only are we somewhere else, perhaps on the other side of the room, but we are viewing them through time, sadness is slower to manifest in the individual after receiving violence, and our sadness is informed by history. Ferris Bueller feels sad watching Denzel, we feel sad watching Denzel, but Denzel himself feels fear, number one, then pain, humiliation, and anger. Sadness is too small an emotion. Despair, grief, numbness.
But if slavery is suddenly wrenched from the holy bosom of history that Lincoln, Glory, Amistad, etc cling to, and the appropriate historical trappings and negro spirituals are discarded with, replaced instead with blaxploitation camera work, dialogue with the cadence of modern speech, and contemporary music, it instantly becomes more immediate and we’re faced with other unexpected emotions. In a flashback scene where Django and Brumhilda are captured attempting to escape, an Anthony Hamilton/Elayna Boynton song plays. With the sound of barking dogs behind then, Brumhilda’s face trembles with terror. She kisses Django hard on the mouth and they run on. Captured, Django pleads unsuccessfully for his wife to be spared the whip. She is strung up by each hand and as the whip meets her back her mouth contorts. She screams in pain and fear. When watching this scene, I felt not only Brumhilda’s terror, but in that hard kiss, the pain and helplessness of being parted with the one you love, and the inability to protect them. There has never been a depiction of slavery that has made me feel so immediately connected to the emotions of the individual slave herself, not of my emotions about “slaveryâ€, as an institution.
The gruesome Mandingo fight scene may have been historically inaccurate, but it depicted the despair, grief, control, and animalization of male slaves in a way I haven’t previously seen on screen. If historical revisionism in a film about slavery produces emotions more truthful to the actual experience of slavery (fear, disgust and anger not sadness), then it succeeds in leading us closer to the truth of our history and to ourselves. (every historical film compresses and combines ideas, emotions, and conversations in order to convey them in a 2 hour film)
When a person from the group in power employs historical revisionism to tell a story about the group with lesser power, it should always be regarded with suspicion. America has difficulty in understanding the facts of it’s own crimes. Many people fight everyday for their experiences to be respected as legitimate. The most destructive effects of racism is not the blatant, but each generations inheritance of the micro effects of dehumanization. I think there is fear that a tale where a slave rides off into the sunset after blowing up white people, will allow white viewers to happily trot off with him savoring a history that assuages their guilt by applauding their aggressive liberalism.
There is concern, a legitimate concern, that White Americans will take any opportunity to look away. And if they look away, we continue to be invisible.
I’m sure that Django is an effective escape route for many white viewers, but I’m okay with letting them go because I suspect that for many others, the film re-introduces something they’ve intellectually long understood as “tragicâ€, to produce a truer more immediate emotional understanding of it.
Tags: Adios, Quentin Tarantino, Race in film
Uncategorized | 17 Comments »
Edgar W. Hopper February 21st, 2013
Kartina, you know I love you my little sister who is the best writer about movies ever, buy I’ve been called a nigger, many times. Been called a nigger as a little boy, as a high shcool, college and grad school student. Been called a nigger as a man in his Lieutenant’s uniform during the Korean War and as tallented as Tarantino is I won’t watch his damn film because my life experience tells me that Denzel’s tear isn’t real and he’s getting a big bundle to make people feel something that can’t really be felt unless you can suck it up and allow yourself to feel like you’re being treated as a nigger yet again. Im coming up on my 84th birthday and, honestly, I’ve long been tired of people calling us niggers even obliquely in a vehicle designed to make some white folks rich no matter what the audience feels. Bottom line: when the lights come up in the theatre many in there will go out and use that word in a hurtful way again as if licensed to do so. Sorry to sound so vitriolic, but your words always make me go deep and I’m thankful for that. Be Blessed!
Gerard McNeil de Robinson February 21st, 2013
If art must be held responsible for people misusing it and ignoring what the movie is centrally about then it cannot survive.
Doug Bruner February 21st, 2013
You’ve got to follow your dreams. Here is a poem Henry David Thoreau wrote. He uses the word man in the poem but it applies to both men and women. I thought you might like it.
“If a man (or woman) does not keep pace with his (or her) companions,perhaps it is because he (or she) hears a different drummer. Let him (or her) step to the music he (or she) hears, however measured or far away.
I do have movie ideas if you are interested. You can contact me through my Facebook page.
Wishing you the best of luck!
Doug Bruner
the other mike February 21st, 2013
good luck with your new endeavours. will miss your writing. by the way, you put words together beautifully.
as for django i look at it on two levels, one as entertainment. on that level, i give it 4 outta 5. might even be higher after i watched zero dark 30 and lincoln, which were both so boring i couldnt even be bothered to take any lessons from it.
the second part is more comlicated. people i respect enormously have polar opposite views. i think it comes down to this. do i trust tarantino? he has hired black actors and i am happy about that. that is no small thing when you look at how the hollywood system works. and while many high brow director/auteurs hide behind ” i’m telling my specific story” to exclude black people, QT deserves plaudits for at least trying to engage our community.
the problem comes with his portrayals of black people. the black men are always cool but wicked. think of all of samuel jacksons characters in his films. think about the character QT himself plays in Pulp Fiction and his pointless use of the word nigger. its just seemed like a white hipster who is obsessed with viloent rap music and gets off on it and who is not aware of his white privelage. i think his heart is in the right place, and that is better than nothing, but ultimately, still not good enough. harsh but fair?
it doesnt help that he poses in W Magazine with a naked objectified black woman. i guess we dont know if we are being laughed at or not.
Max Oblivion February 23rd, 2013
When one door closes another opens, or so they say. I hope you enjoy your new adventures. You did cause me to rethink issues I thought I’d resolved long ago and there’s nothing wrong with that. I do regret that I never was able to draw you out and into a little bit of dialog. I did try.
I hope you’re able to overcome the shyness you say inhibits you. During the early part of my life I was painfully shy and introverted as a result of some early childhood abuse at the hands of a much older sister. It took me probably 40 years to work all of that out and become the charming extrovert I am today. Some stuff like that just requires a little time. To be your age again with my whole life ahead of me would be sweet. Good luck.
Kartina Richardson February 23rd, 2013
“You did cause me to rethink issues I thought I’d resolved long ago and there’s nothing wrong with that.” That is really all I could ever ask for. I am really honored.
Oh Max Oblivion, I will miss all your comments. Even the worst ones, but just wait til you see my films. You’ll be so mad! You’ll comment like you’ve never commented before.
Edgar Hopper February 23rd, 2013
Forgive me my bad manners and vitriolic burst re D’jango. I’m afraid I didn’t think to wish you all the best in your new direction. I’m not much of a movie goer however, of late I’ve been content to enjoy film through your reviews or to relive the pleasure of a film when you review one of the oldies that I’ve seen. I’ll certainly be looking forward, however, to your film work. The best of luck and good wishes. You’ll be one of the greats I’m sure.
Max Oblivion February 24th, 2013
Maybe when you’re on the stage accepting your first Oscar and about the time you’re thanking your family, cast and crew you could give a shout out to Max Oblivion. No one would know what the fuck you were talking about but that would be a genuine thrill for me. Just imagine what a moment that would be.
Kyle Meyers February 23rd, 2013
Thanks Kartina. My two obsessions with cinema in the past two or three years have been this blog & Nathaniel Dorsky’s essay “Devotional Cinema” (though currently I am indulging in Mark Cousin’s “The Story of Film”). I still processing your holy/deadly cinema post – and will wait eternally for “part 2”. 🙂 Although, I have to believe that all this will be integrated into your own films – of which I am looking forward to experiencing. Thanks for the rough thoughts on Django. After two viewings, I am still trying to process my own emotions. My immediate process was “Wow…Lincoln made me feel really good about my being white. Django, however, did not. Why? and Why is that an important distinction/discussion?”. Your thoughts here obviously speak directly to those questions. You liberate me to acknowledge my experience & process my emotions – while also challenging the (race/gender) nature with which we approach the history of cinema. -All of which now comes with me to the theater. So grateful.
Eternal thanks for sharing your many Malick experiences with us. …and all the rest.
Would be great to hear about your creative process with filmmaking sometime in the future.
That’s all. 🙂
blood is so red. thank god for it’s color.
Edgar Hopper February 24th, 2013
Well now, haven’t you convinced me to not have a closed mind and go see Django. Will wait awhile though until I can watch it in a near empty theater in the daytime or late night. I really like that your review wouldn’t leave my head and eventually opened me up in a way I hadn’t anticipated. Nice.
I think what I admire most about you is your courage. If I was a writer or filmmaker I don’t think I could be as open and genuine as you are and put myself out there for everyone to see. If you can make the film you have in your head it will be a “success”. Would it make any money? Is that important? I don’t know. Why some films generate interest and make money and others don’t is a mystery to me. Do it and I’ll pay money to see it.
I’m wondering, who you would cast for the leads if money wasn’t an issue? I think Daniel Day-Lewis would work if he was a little prettier and a lot younger and Kerry Washington is very impressive but is she what you have in mind?
This post was intended for your “Greed” lookbook. That’s what happens when I try to watch the Oscars and operate a computer at the same time.
Dave Smith February 26th, 2013
I liked this film a lot. I have a preference that in a film with violence, I want to see it as real as it gets. In a Scorsese film, if I guy gets shot in the head, it LOOKS like he got shot in the head. In this film, the torture scenes were shown in that style, and I thought them to be terrifying, nauseating, and very effective.
I have noticed in every Tarantino film, the use of the n-word is all over the place. I can understand it entirely in a Spike Lee film, but with Quentin, I sometimes wonder if he sees a certain humor in it. I assume you stayed through the credits: At the very end of the credits, we hear Samuel L. saying, “Who was that Nigger?!†Was THAT necessary? It struck me as being in there to get a cheap chuckle, after a masterful work.
Kartina, whether it be on FB or elsewhere, I wish you would do an essay on some of the Spike Lee films, or about his directing in general. At the risk of sounding like the big, corny white guy in The Jeffersons, Spike Lee films bring the dilemma of race home to me like no other. In, “Jungle Fever†when Flipper and Angie were doing some hard-ball playing around on the car, the cops rolled up. She starts complaining to the cops that they were treating Flipper unfairly. Flipper THEN tells he to shut up, because one of the cops threatened to blow his head off. Right then, and there, I GOT IT when it came to race. – At least as much as a white guy could.
What if you woke up one day and you weren’t a white guy anymore? Consider the possibilities.
Michelle April 3rd, 2013
I LOVE this piece. It’s brilliant. Translates exactly how I felt about the film (and I’ve seen it three times in theaters now). But I have one minor complaint: The song that plays during the flashback sequence with Django and Broomhilda on the run is not an Adele song; it’s “Freedom” recorded by Anthony Hamilton and Elayna Boynton specifically for the film’s soundtrack. I just wanted to add that because I love that song so much and they deserve the credit.
Paul April 12th, 2013
I guess it’s not good to generalize. Humanity is vile. I don’t think things ought to be reduced to white vs. black or this vs. that. I’m romanian and hatred against hungarians is hundreds of years old, not to mention against turks, who colonized us for centuries. Races have been divided within themselves for so long. It’s sad that there’s still so much hatred and racism around, and I wish it weren’t so. I just can’t stand it when people generalize and say “all white people were evil toward blacks” or “all blacks are inferior to whites.” They do nobody good. There are good people and not so good people is all I see it as.
God bless all.
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by: Jacob Hederstierna-Johnse [ HEDERSTIERNA ]
The Sonderkraftfahrzeug or Sd.Kfz. 234 Panzerspähwagen was an improved version of the earlier Sd.Kfz. 231. The development began in 1940, and the 234/4 was the last of the Sd.Kfz. 234 variants. It housed a 75 mm PaK 40/46 gun and an MG 42 in an open-topped superstructure. The vehicle was produced between December 1944 and March 1945, though only 89 ever left the production line. Hitler personally approved this project, and like the Sd.Kfz. 251/22, it was meant as a more-efficient way of providing mobility to the excellent PaK 40 anti-tank gun. The Sd.Kfz. 234/4 had good maneuverability, however the gun had limited traverse and elevation, and the vehicle only held 12 rounds of ammunition for its main gun.
The Dragon kit comes in the familiar box, with a good-looking picture of the vehicle on the front by Ron Volstad. On the back and sides of the box, there’s some of the great features of the kit. Inside are over 530 parts, including the following:
20 sprues molded in light grey styrene
1 sprue molded in clear styrene
1 slide molded hull bottom
1 slide molded under carriage
1 small fret of PE
1 small plastic bag with 8 pre bended brake fluid lines
1 small decal sheet
1 instruction booklet (not in color)
The construction starts off with the assembly of the wheels and the lower hull. Dragon has provided two kinds of wheels for the vehicle: the older ones, where the tires come in two halves, and the new ones, which are made up by no less than 9 pieces. The tires are made up by 6 “slices” each. The kit also provides two options for hubs, which is kind of nice.
The suspension and steering is a complex assembly, but once done it really looks great. Dragon even provides pre bend metal wires for brake fluid tubes, which is a fine detail. Using the parts from the new “Z” sprue, the wheels can be adjusted to different positions, and personally I think the vehicle looks more realistic when the wheels are turned a bit, so this is a feature I really like.
Next the assembly jumps to the interior of the lower chassis and the gun mount for the PaK 40. When all of this is installed, the suspension hull part is attached to the lower chassis, and the last of the steering is completed. In my opinion, I would choose to assemble the interior after I attached the suspension part and the lower chassis, but that is just my humble opinion. I do know that I would break off some of the smaller parts in the process, so it makes better sense to assemble things in two stages.
Anyway, the interior assembly is pretty straightforward, and it features lots of small and crisp details. I would probably add some wiring here and there, which can be seen in real photos of 234a, especially from the radio and the antenna mount. The ammo bin can be open or closed, but I think it’s kind of strange that if left open, it’s completely full of shells. Why not leave a couple of shells out? It would be more realistic, especially if doing a fighting scene. I know it’s “nitpicking”, but I think it would look more cool.
Steps 13-15 are the assembling of the interior of the upper hull. Again Dragon has provided lots of great details and options. The vision ports can be built open or closed, and the armored glass parts are made from clear styrene. The engine deck ventilation louvers can be assembled open or closed, which is a nice detail, and the instrument panel comes with some lifelike decals, which adds to the realism. One really has to look very carefully to catch all this detail, but it’s there.
Next is the completion of the hull. It would be a wise move to finish the interior painting before assembling the upper and lower parts. It will be downright impossible to reach all the details once the hull is put together. If you are careful with the amount of glue, the glue line at the assembly areas will not show on the inside. Also, glue on the protective side and rear armor of the fighting compartment before painting the upper hull part, as this will make the masking-off much easier when painting the exterior.
The storage lockers or side bins in the fenders have some nicel-detailed hatches, but they are molded shut. It would really have been sweet if these were made separate, so one could choose to leave them open. This would have added to the realism on the kit. The front bumper section is pretty straightforward, and is in standard Dragon quality.
On the rear end, you can choose to mount a spare wheel, or just leave the empty mount. The spare wheel is in same high quality as the other road wheels, and here you also can choose from two different hubs as pointed out already. The mufflers can be assembled with the exhaust pipe bending either inward or outward.
Tools and Jerry cans are high quality. The Jerry cans come with the PE middle part, making them stand out from Dragon’s older production cans. The only thing I find a bit odd is the lack of Dragon’s 2nd Generation tools with the small handles molded on the tool holders. Lifting hooks come both in molded styrene and PE, and Dragon has been farsighted enough to provide some extra ones in PE since these suckers are minute, and are certain to go “Pling” from the tweezers into the great carpet monster. Good thinking, Dragon.
Next up is the gun assembly: Dragon gives you some options here as well. There are actually three different muzzle brakes to choose from, and the highly detailed gun breech can be left open or closed. The MG 42 is unfortunately not from Dragon’s “2nd Generation” range, but from their older production. Still nice details, though.
The gun shield is very fine and thinly-molded, and features some crisp details. Some PE plates are to be sandwiched between the two shield parts. One might want to paint the gun and the shield separately, since some of the inner places between the two parts will be very hard to reach. And for an added bonus, Dragon has provided a sprue with some spare ammunition, spent shell cases, a stowage box and tubes, which can be open or closed. This adds to the realism of the kit.
In the final assembly the gun, wheels and antenna is mounted.
Painting and markings
Unidentified unit, Prague 1945
Unidentified unit, Western front 1945
Unidentified unit, Czechoslovakia 1945
Unidentified unit, 1945
This is a very nice kit, but something does bother me: it is supposed to be a Premium edition kit, and yes, Dragon gives us some really nice new wheels, which can be positioned as turning, and the pre-bent metal brake fluid lines are a well thought-out detail.
BUT… why has Dragon removed parts like the turned metal barrel, the brass width indicators and reduced the PE that was included in their older Sd.Kfz. 234/4 (kit #6221)? This makes absolutely no sense at all. These are items which normally find their way into Dragon Premium editions kits. And since they are already produced for the older kit, why remove them? Sorry Dragon, but this is not a wise move.
Highs: Some newly-designed, highly-detailed wheels and pre-bent metal brake fluid lines.
Lows: The absence of a turned metal barrel, brass width indicators and PE, all of which were present in the earlier kit.
Verdict: A very well-detailed model of a cool vehicle. It might even tempt soft skin builders.
PUBLISHED: Jun 14, 2013
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thebear
Hi Jacob ...So I guess I'm better off with my old kit and the upgrade kit that was available way back when the first kit came out ..Seems all the new stuff was in the upgrade.. Thanks for the review ..I was wondering what they had done to make this a Premium kit ..You saved me some money.. Rick PS... this is a great kit and if you don't have the first kit ..BUY IT!
JUN 14, 2013 - 09:18 AM
panzerbob01
Nice and informative review, Jacob! Sounds to me like the D has indeed maybe drifted away a bit by leaving those previously-included parts out of this "premium" edition! And I was just about to plunk down some money to get one of these... Saved by the review bell, I guess. Looks like it is indeed a cool kit, and the art-work is quite Volstad-stellar, but it doesn't seem to actually take things much beyond the earlier edition. And, at least right now, these things do not come cheap. Seeing as I have a couple of those, with the turned metal barrels, etc.... and the update kit along-side... I'll "make do" and do a bit of fiddling to get those wheels turned. It can be done. And adding those brake lines (and some suspension travel-limiter straps, too) is not too difficult. More challenging will be to make those hull-side access hatches open... But I do have some plan for that! Cheers! Bob
I have done the old kit, and at the time it was perfect build, fitting, detailing, great extras. Honestly I think it might be better to get the old kit, if you're planning on getting this version of the 234.
Hederstierna
Glad you licked it and found it usefull. Feedback like yours makes all the effort worth it. Jacob
Uhh! LIKED it, sorry Jacob
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For as long as Prudence can remember, it has been understood that her sister will one day wed the eldest son of their nearest neighbor. Such an alliance will benefit both families and bring a great deal of joy to all parents involved.
Unfortunately, Prudence has never been able to feel as joyful. She believes her sister is mad to consider marrying a man she hardly knows, even if he will one day make her a countess. Titles and wealth shouldn't factor into matters of the heart, and as an aspiring romance novelist, Prudence cannot fathom how anyone could even think of settling for less than love. She certainly wouldn’t, and she doesn't want her sister to either.
Unable to stand by and do nothing, Prudence sets out to help the awkward couple discover the best in each other with the hope that they will eventually find love. What she neglected to foresee, however, was the possibility that she might fall in love with Lord Knave herself.
When Prudence lifted her eyes to his again, they sparkled with a challenge. “I was going to save this question until later so as not to shock you from the get-go, but I really do need to know . . . What does it feel like to kiss a woman?”
A large lump formed in Brand’s throat, and his mouth went dry. What the deuce? She had promised not to ask questions that would make him uncomfortable, but already he wanted to flee like a frightened kitten. How could he possibly explain how it felt to kiss a woman?
Brand searched his mind for a way to avoid answering until he heard a snicker escape her lips. She was laughing at him. Him! Hildebrand Ethan Cannon, Viscount Knave—a man at least eight years her senior and a great deal higher in social standing.
“You are teasing me,” he said, hoping it was true. If she’d posed the question to make him squirm—and perhaps make him more inclined to answer her other questions—then she wouldn’t be expecting an answer.
She shook her head, still smiling. “I’m afraid not, my lord, although I did find the look of terror on your face vastly amusing.”
“I’m glad I could entertain you.”
“I hope you will be equally glad to instruct me on a few things as well. The first scene in my book will include a kiss, and I have no idea how to describe the experience. Do a woman’s lips feel warm or soft or even moist? Would your pulse quicken? Aside from touch, what other senses are engaged? How would it make you feel and what would you notice when you held a woman in your arms?”
If she thought he’d appeared terror-stricken before, there would be no word for how he looked now. Did she earnestly expect him to answer such questions? Surely even she knew how inappropriate it would be to discuss such things, her being an innocent.
“I cannot say,” he finally muttered.
Her brow puckered in confusion. “Have you never kissed a woman, my lord?”
Brand was sorely tempted to lie and say he had not, but he couldn’t bring himself to do so. Any man of six-and-twenty who had never experienced a kiss would be laughed out of his manhood. Women were expected to remain innocent until married. Men were not.
“Yes, I have kissed a woman,” he finally admitted, “but I have no intention of discussing any of the details with you.”
“Why not?” she asked, her large brown eyes blinking at him curiously. “Would you rather I invent the information?”
She obviously didn’t appreciate his retort because she scowled. “Can you not tell me at least a little?”
“Because a kiss could never be described with any sort of accuracy, at least not by me. It involves too many feelings and sensations and complexities of thought. If you wish to know what a kiss feels like, you’ll have to experience it for yourself.”
Too late, Brand realized his mistake. Her expression became contemplative, as though she was actually considering doing just that. Good gads, had he really just encouraged an innocent young woman to go hunting for a kiss? Who would she ask? A groom? Stablehand? The next peddler that came to town?
“I think you are right,” she said at last. “I really must experience a kiss for myself if I am to describe it with any sort of accuracy.” She blinked up at him with that innocent expression again. “Will you kiss me Lord Knave? No, how silly of me. You are to marry my sister, so that would never do.” She pursed her lips for a moment before musing, “Perhaps one of the footmen would be kind enough to show me how it’s done.”
Kind enough? Brand could think of a great many reasons a footman would comply with such a request, and kindness did not factor into any of them. Brand would kiss her himself before he allowed a footman near her.
He rubbed the bridge of his nose, feeling a headache coming on. “Perhaps I can try to explain what it feels like after all.” Better that than having her chase after a footman.
“But you only just said you couldn’t do it justice,” she pointed out. “I realize I sound dreadfully forward, but I really must know, and experience is the best teacher, is it not?”
“No, it isn’t,” he lied. “And you are not going to kiss a footman.”
“Then who? Felix or Lionel, perhaps? I’m fairly certain I can convince one of them to do it, if given the opportunity. The question is how to go about it?”
It was plain to see by the firm set of her jaw that she would not rest until she had experienced a kiss of her own. She didn’t seem to care who did the deed, only that the man did a thorough job of it. A quick peck on the lips wouldn’t satisfy her curiosities.
“Perhaps I could send a note to Felix and ask him to call on me,” she continued to muse. “We could take a stroll through the maze in the gardens. There is a hidden alcove on the south side, which could be quite perfect. We would have to evade Ruth, obviously, but—”
“Devil take it,” Brand growled as he pulled her to him. Her quick intake of breath was the only sound she made before his mouth covered hers.
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"In all four dogs, there has been a significant reduction in tumor size without any toxic side effects or discomfort," Joseph A. Bauer, a research at the Cleveland Clinic, said in a media release from Science Daily.
Bauer and his research colleagues detailed the extraordinary achievement recently at the 237th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Salt Lake City.About six million dogs are diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute.
The Morris Animal Foundation of Denver - which has launched a global campaign to raise $30 million money to find a cure for cancer in dogs in the next 10 to 20 years - says one in four dogs die of cancer, and the disease is the number one cause of death in dogs over age 2. Some of the most popular breeds are especially susceptible to cancer. Sixty percent of Golden Retrievers die of the disease.
The first dog treated with nitrosylcobalamin, a 10-year-old Bichon Frise named Oscar, was diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of cancer called anal sac adenocarcinoma. The dog, bedridden and unresponsive to chemotherapy or radiation, was give a survival time of three months at best. But the dog's cancer receded after he began taking nitrosylcobalamin and he was walking again within two weeks.
Since then, the other dogs treated with the drug are doing well. A 6-year old Golden Retriever named Buddy was unable to walk due to a spinal tumor pinching nerves leading to his right hind leg. After nine months of daily treatment with the drug, Buddy's tumor shrank by 40 percent and he was going on two-mile walks. A 13-year-old female Giant Schnauzer with inoperable thyroid carcinoma also showed tumor reductions of 77 percent in less than 10 weeks.
"This is one of the most rewarding things I've ever done in my life," said Bauer, who owns a 2-year old Beagle. "It gets boring working in the lab, but to see the fruits of your labor in a positive outcome like this and to know you're responsible in some small way, that's pretty cool."
Nitrosylcobalamin targets cancer cells with "biological Trojan horse technology." A Trojan horse is a damage-causing substance hidden in something apparently harmless.
Cells have receptors for vitamin B12 on their outer surface. The receptors serve as docking ports where molecules of the vitamin, essential for cells to divide and multiply, attach and then enter the cell.
Cancer cells grow extra B12 receptors - 100 times more than normal cells - in order to divide at their abnormally rapid pace. Scientists have been trying since the 1950s to exploit that vulnerability and make B12-based drugs that attach to the receptors, sneak into the cell and deliver medication.
Bauer and his colleagues attached molecules of nitric oxide, which kills cancer cells, to vitamin B12. The B12 acts as the Trojan horse, easily slipping into unsuspecting cancer cells. The subsequent release of toxic nitric oxide destroys the cancer cells from within.
"We are one of the few research groups that is offering to treat dogs with cancer that otherwise have no hope," Bauer said. "With no other options available, most people in this situation opt to euthanize so that their pets don't go through the pain of disease and trauma of surgery."
Bauer's goal is to successfully treat 10 dogs with nitrosylcobalamin and slingshot the drug into human use as soon as possible. "[Dogs] breathe the same polluted air and drink the same polluted water that you and I do every day. If you can find an agent to treat cancer that occurs in a dog with success, there is a higher likelihood that you can take that to the human population and have a much higher response rate than with mice."
Bauer says his approach should have a much better chance of getting through the FDA's strict drug approval chain because of the genetic similarity between dogs and humans.
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But Bauer stresses he wants to get the nitrosylcobalamin dog treatment approved, too. "I'm committed to the animals, and my goal would be to do a dual clinical trial, Phase One human and Phase One dog," he said.
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