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Catalog start Subject "Internet industry Law and legislation." Remove constraint Subject: "Internet industry Law and legislation."
Law (Crown)8
Fisher, William W.3
Ariyoosu, D. A.1
Bettinger, Torsten1
Bick, Jonathan, 1953-1
Carpenter, David H.1
Cho, Chŏng-uk.1
Cintra Guimarães, Guilherme1
Cohen, Julie E.1
Lemley, Mark A., 1966-1
Platzer, Michaela D.1
Péraldi Leneuf, Fabienne, 1961-1
Spindler, Gerald1
Westin, Richard A., 1945-1
Yeh, Brian T.1
KJE - Europe: Regional Organization & Integration 2
KTA - Law of Nigeria 1
Internet industry12
Electronic commerce4
Internet entertainment industry4
Information technology3
Piracy (Copyright)3
Computer networks2
Internet gambling2
Internet games industry2
Internet of things2
Antitrust law1
Auteursrecht1
Broadband communication systems1
Copyright and electronic data processing1
Copyright infringement1
Data protection1
Droit d'auteur1
Fantasy sports1
Filmindustrie1
Popular works1
Trials, litigation, etc.1
European Union countries2
Korea (South)1
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce2
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development1
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet1
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary1
1. Between truth and power : the legal constructions of informational capitalism [2019]
Cohen, Julie E., author.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Book — 366 pages ; 25 cm
Introduction: Transforming institutions
Everything old is new again--or is it?
The biopolitical public domain
The information laboratory
Open networks and closed circuits
The end(s) of judicial process
The regulatory state in the information age
Networks, standards, and transnational governance institutions
The future(s) of fundamental rights
Conclusion: Countermovements, now and then.
Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, as accountability for industrial-age harms became a pervasive source of conflict, the U.S. legal system underwent profound, tectonic shifts. Today, ownership of information-age resources and accountability for information-age harms have become pervasive sources of conflict, and different kinds of change are emerging. In Between Truth and Power, Julie E. Cohen explores the relationships between legal institutions and political and economic transformation. Systematically examining struggles over the conditions of information flow and the design of information architectures and business models, she argues that as law is enlisted to help produce the profound economic and sociotechnical shifts that have accompanied the emergence of the informational economy, it is too is transforming in fundamental ways. Drawing on elements from legal theory, science and technology studies, information studies, communication studies and organization studies to develop a complex theory of institutional change, Cohen develops an account of the gradual emergence of legal institutions adapted to the information age and of the power relationships that such institutions reflect and reproduce. A tour de force of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship, Between Truth and Power will transform our thinking about the possible futures of law and legal institutions in the networked information era.
Find it Stacks 1
KF1617 .C65 C64 2019 Unknown
2. Software and Internet law [2000]
Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen Law & Business, c2000.
Book — xxviii, 1115 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
KF3024 .C6 S617 2000 Unknown
KF3024 .C6 S617 2000 TEACH. MAN Unknown
Find it Locked stacks: Ask at circulation desk
3. State of Modern Application, Research, and Trends of IoT Act : report (to accompany H.R. 6032) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office) [2018]
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce, author.
[Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. Government Publishing Office], [2018]
Book — 1 online resource (6 pages).
purl.fdlp.gov
Book — 6 pages ; 24 cm.
Find it US Federal Documents
Y 1.1/8:115-1003 Unknown
5. Taxation of electronic commerce in Nigeria [2014]
Ariyoosu, D. A., author.
Ibadan, Nigeria : Stirling-Horden Publishers Ltd., 2014.
Book — xvii, 114 pages ; 22 cm
KTA2807 .E43 A75 2014 Available
6. Internet protocol and broadband services legislation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 9, 2005 [2005]
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2005.
Book — iii, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
purl.access.gpo.gov
Y 4.C 73/8:109-68 Unknown
7. Vertragsrecht der Internet-Provider [2004]
2. Aufl. - Köln : O. Schmidt, 2004.
Book — lx, 1024 p. ; 24 cm.
KK164 .C66 V47 2004 Unknown
8. 101 things you need to know about Internet law [2000]
Bick, Jonathan, 1953-
1st ed. - New York : Three Rivers Press, c2000.
KF390.5 .C6 B49 2000 Unknown
9. International taxation of electronic commerce [2000]
Westin, Richard A., 1945-
The Hague ; Boston : Kluwer Law International, c2000.
Book — xxx, 776 p. ; 25 cm.
1. Introduction and Background.
2. United States Domestic Tax Rules Applicable to Electronic Commerce.
3. State Sales and Income Taxes and Federal Excise Taxes.
4. VAT and Electronic Commerce.
5. U.S. Income Taxation of `Outbound' E-Commerce.
6. The Tax Character of E-Commerce Payments.
7. United States Taxation of Inbound Electronic Commerce.
8. Value Added and Withholding Tax Rates on Dividends, Interest and Royalties.
9. The Emergence of `Tax Havens' to Facilitate Electronic Commerce.
10. Attacking Tax Havens: Survey of the Foreign Base Company and Other Anti-Deferral Rules.
11. International Civil and Criminal Investigatory Powers.
12. Actions of Particular Countries.
13. Institutional Thinking: United States, Australia, OECD, W.T.O., and European Union.
14. Predictions.
15. Canadian Taxation of Electronic Commerce-- L.H. Saltman.
16. Irish Taxation of E-Commerce-- P. Keane.
17. Netherlands Taxation of Electronic Commerce-- M.L. Molenaars, D.P. Dijkhuis. Appendices. Index.
The bricks and mortar of commercial law as we know it are crumbling into dust. Electronic commerce - or "e-commerce" as it is familiarly called - sweeps away the very foundations of what was not so long ago our most solid, comfortable, and secure legal system. In its most advanced form e-commerce allows unidentified purchasers to pay obscure vendors, in "electronic cash", for products that are often goods, services, and licenses all rolled into one. A payee may be no more than a computer that can take up residence anywhere at the drop of a hat; national boundaries are of no consequence whatsoever. Taxation authorities are understandably dismayed. This book is a minutely detailed picture of current reality in the worldwide huddle of revenue regimes as they try to cope with the most daunting challenge they have ever had to face. It analyzes a number of fast-moving trends in the behaviour of national taxation authorities, web-based companies, certain low-tax (or no-tax) jurisdictions, and international organizations that have significant bearing on the future development of the taxation of e-commerce, including the following: how United States domestic and international tax rules are being interpreted in the effort to accommodate e-commerce; the powerful retailers' lobby against the moratorium on U.S. state and local sales tax on Internet transactions; how VAT rules in EU countries and other jurisdictions are being restructured to accommodate international e-commerce; new theories of income and payment characterization, and in particular the influential OECD ongoing study; the crucial discussion over what constitutes a permanent establishment for tax purposes; the emergence of tax havens especially adapted to e-commerce, with a detailed study of Anguilla; and the danger to e-business of international criminal investigatory powers created as weapons in the drug wars. Three special chapters - on e-commerce taxation in Canada, Ireland, and The Netherlands - add a comparative dimension to the analysis. Appendices include an IRS audit guide, the relevant OECD Draft Model Tax Treaty, and a selection of pertinent IRS forms. Notable for its clarification of the issues surrounding this new and complex subject - and for its detailed treatment of how these issues are being dealt with at national and international levels - this volume should be of enormous value to businesses in the electronic marketplace, whether they are established there or entering.
K4487.E43 W47 2000 Unknown
10. The copyright infringement liability of online and Internet service providers : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, on S. 1146 ... September 4, 1997 [1998]
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary.
Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1998.
Book — iv, 117 p. ; 23 cm.
Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.105-366 Available
11. Promises to keep : technology, law, and the future of entertainment [2004]
Fisher, William W.
Stanford, CA : Stanford Law and Politics, 2004.
The promise of the new technology
The baseline : entertainment law and practice in 1990
What went awry
Taking property rights seriously
Online entertainment as a regulated industry
An alternative compensation system.
During the past fifteen years, changes in technology have generated an extraordinary array of new ways in which music and movies can be produced and distributed. Both the creators and the consumers of entertainment products stand to benefit enormously from the new systems. Sadly, we have failed thus far to avail ourselves of these opportunities. Instead, much energy has been devoted to interpreting or changing legal rules in hopes of defending older business models against the threats posed by the new technologies. These efforts to plug the multiplying holes in the legal dikes are failing and the entertainment industry has fallen into crisis. This provocative book chronicles how we got into this mess and presents three alternative proposals-each involving a combination of legal reforms and new business models-for how we could get out of it.
KF3035 .F57 2004 Unknown
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.
13. Taxation and electronic commerce : implementing the Ottawa Taxation Framework Conditions [2001]
Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, c2001.
new.sourceoecd.org
K4487 .E43 T39 2001 Available
14. Jeux et paris en ligne : vers un cadre juridique européen [2015]
Bruxelles : Editions Larcier, 2015.
Book — 300 pages ; 25 cm.
Les enjeux de la qualification du joueur : regard privatiste sur le cadre juridique des jeux d'argent et de hasard en ligne
La France, un "modèle" pour l'Union européenne en matière de lutte contre l'addiction aux jeux d'argent en ligne?
Protection européenne des droits des personnes et de la vie privée sur Internet et sécuisation des données
Publicité des jeux de hasard et pratiques commerciales déloyales : le consommateur est-il suffisamment protégé?
Les dispositions en matière d'éthique de jeu : la protection du joueur et de l'ordre public
La stratégie européenne de lutte contre la cybercriminalité des jeux et la lutte contre les sites illégaux
Le défi de la lutte contre le blanchiment confronté aux jeux et paris en ligne
La lutte contre le trucage des compétitions sportives
Le marché allemand des paris sportifs en ligne : un marché sans frontière?
Le rôle comparé des autorités de régulation en matière de contrôle et de sanction des activités des opérateurs
La destination des flux financiers : le financement d'intérêt public de la filière hippique
Une harmonisation fiscale européenne en matière d'imposition des jeux en ligne est-elle possible?
L'examen de la conformité des législations nationales en matière de jeux en ligne au regard des libertés de circulation
Illustration : la procédure d'infraction de la Commission européenne à l'égard de la belgique : un non-sens
Commentaire de la recommandation no 2014/478/UE de la Commission européenne du 14 juillet 2014 relative à des principes pour la protection des consommateurs et des joueurs dans le cadre des services de jeux d'argent et de hasard en ligne et pour la prévention des jeux d'argent et de hasard en ligne chez les mineurs.
KJE6065 .G35 J48 2015 Unknown
15. Global technology and legal theory : transnational constitutionalism, Google and the European Union [2019]
Cintra Guimarães, Guilherme.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Book — xii, 213 pages ; 25 cm.
Constitutionalism and world society
The architecture of cyberspace
Disrupting markets and tax bases
Privacy, social memory and global data flows
The rise and spread of the Internet has accelerated the global flows of money, technology and information that are increasingly perceived as a challenge to the traditional regulatory powers of nation states and the effectiveness of their constitutions. The acceleration of these flows poses new legal and political problems to their regulation and control, as shown by recent conflicts between Google and the European Union (EU). This book investigates the transnational constitutional dimension of recent conflicts between Google and the EU in the areas of competition, taxation and human rights. More than a simple case study, it explores how the new conflicts originating from the worldwide expansion of the Internet economy are being dealt with by the institutional mechanisms available at the European level. The analysis of these conflicts exposes the tensions and contradictions between, on the one hand, legal and political systems that are limited by territory, and, on the other hand, the inherently global functioning of the Internet. The EU's promising initiatives to extend the protection of privacy in cyberspace set the stage for a broader dialogue on constitutional problems related to the enforcement of fundamental rights and the legitimate exercise of power that are common to different legal orders of world society. Nevertheless, the different ways of dealing with the competition and fiscal aspects of the conflicts with Google also indicate the same limits that are generally attributed to the very project of European integration, showing that the constitutionalization of the economy tends to outpace the constitutionalization of politics. Providing a detailed account of the unfolding of these conflicts, and their wider consequences to the future of the Internet, this book will appeal to scholars working in EU law, international law and constitutional law, as well as those in the fields of political science and sociology.
KJE6946 .C56 2019 Unknown
16. Daily fantasy sports : industry trends, legal and regulatory issues, and policy options [2018 - ]
Platzer, Michaela D., author.
[Library of Congress public edition]. - [Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service, 2018-
Journal/Periodical — 1 online resource.
17. Innovation and competition in the digital network economy : a legal and economic assessment on multi-tying practice and network effects [2007]
Cho, Chŏng-uk.
Alphen aan den Rijn : Kluwer Law International ; Frederick, MD : Sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by Aspen, c2007.
Book — xxviii, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Dozens of cases worldwide continue to challenge Microsoft Corporation's superdominance of the global digital network economy, focusing in particular on the multi-tying practices that leverage Microsoft's market power into adjacent markets and reinforce its dominance. This is the first book to analyze this international line of cases, detailing both grounds for legal action (including unfair competition, restriction of consumers' freedom of choice, abusive pricing) as well as Microsoft's defenses and administrative settlements. The author also demonstrates the serious economic repercussions of Microsoft's monopoly, such as accumulation of inefficiency and stifling of innovation in this crucial sector of twenty-first century economy and society.Through an in-depth analysis of the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) case - which led to a December 2005 decision, currently under appeal at the Seoul High Court, condemning three fundamental tying practices embedded in Microsoft's global business strategy - the author clearly establishes the precise nature of Microsoft's anticompetitive practices, complete with clear technical descriptions of the underlying applications and digital media systems. The discussion develops valuable guidelines on such core issues as the following: network effect, tipping effect, and lock-in effect; separability of Microsoft's tied and tying products; forced purchase by consumers of multiple tied products; Microsoft's reinforcement of market entry barriers; Microsoft's "normal business practice" defense; and cumulative damage to consumers' interests.The book's ultimate legal and economic assessment clarifies ways in which government competition authorities can select from globally available options on a case-by-case basis, enforce re-pricing measures, avoid belated remedies, and continuously monitor new types of anticompetitive conduct.In its analytic rigor, focus on important economic issues, and its unwavering commitment to fair competition, this book will be of immeasurable value to practitioners and policymakers at every level concerned with the digital network economy, now and in the years to come.
K4315 .C56 2007 Unknown
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law and Politics, 2004.
Book — 1 online resource (x, 340 pages) : illustrations
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‘Not A Dry Eye In The Room!’: Boy With Spina Bifida Walks For First Time At Preschool Graduation
MARION, Ohio (CBS Local) — A young Ohio boy with spina bifida has touched hearts around the world after walking for the very first time in public at his preschool graduation.
5-year-old Blake Mompher walked across the stage Saturday for his graduation from Crosswood UMC Preschool in Marion, Ohio. Blake’s mom, Megan Mompher, shared the moment on social media.
“Blake walked on the stage today for his preschool graduation, a goal I set for him at the beginning of this year, not knowing what medical trauma was ahead of us,” Megan wrote on a Facebook page called “Team Blake.”
“Not a dry eye in the room! So proud of my guy. Never, ever give up,” she continued.
Megan says Blake was walking a little in the fall but had some medical complications. He underwent surgery in November and had to stay in the hospital for over a month.
Blake started walking again three weeks ago and worked with a therapist to get him ready for the big day on Saturday.
This isn’t the first time Blake was a social media sensation. In October, Blake went viral with his creative school bus Halloween costume.
Blake’s next stop will be kindergarten!
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Scholar Commons > College of Marine Science > Faculty Publications > 836
New Production in the Northeast Water Polynya: 1993
Walker O. Smith Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Michel Gosselin, Universite du Quebec a Rimouski
Louis Legendre, Universite du Quebec a Rimouski
Douglas Wallace, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kendra L. Daly, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleFollow
Gerhard Kattner, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Marine and Polar Research
Arctic, polynya, production, nitrogen
The Northeast Water Polynya has been suggested as acting as a sink for carbon, especially during the spring and summer when phytoplankton growth is active. During 1993 the polynya was sampled for the entire growing period (late May through mid-August) in order to more accurately assess the magnitude, controls and patterns of new and total (ammonium, nitrate and urea) nitrogen production. This represents the first assessment of new production throughout an entire season in the Arctic. We found that, in 1993, new production, based on 15N-tracer techniques and integrated over the euphotic zone, was 0.141 mmol N m−2 h−1 (0.361 g C m−2 d−1 when converted using observed C/N ratios). Measured f ratios averaged 0.65 and demonstrate that the system, to a great extent, was using nitrate as a nitrogen source. In general f ratios were greatest early in the season and minimal in mid-summer. Urea uptake was highly variable and contributed slightly less than ammonium to phytoplankton nitrogen demand. Nitrate uptake at stations with low (< 0.5μM) nitrate concentrations was significantly reduced, implying that nitrate concentrations limited phytoplankton growth late in the growing season. Long-term new production rates calculated from nutrient depletion patterns from the polynya as a whole as well as a time-series constructed from a single location were ca. 0.144-0.281 g C m−2 d−1. The relationship between new production as measured by incubations and nutrient depletion budgets suggests that phytoplankton growth is the dominant factor influencing the nitrogen budget of the polynya. The amount of material available for removal from the euphotic zone is limited and constrains the degree to which the polynya can act as a regional carbon sink.
Journal of Marine Systems, v. 10, issues 1-4, p. 199-209
Smith, Walker O. Jr.; Gosselin, Michel; Legendre, Louis; Wallace, Douglas; Daly, Kendra L.; and Kattner, Gerhard, "New Production in the Northeast Water Polynya: 1993" (1997). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 836.
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/836
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Home LifeStyles Vicki Zhao, a huge fan of Li Nanxing as a young girl,...
Vicki Zhao, a huge fan of Li Nanxing as a young girl, is now close friends with him
SINGAPORE – Chinese actress Vicki Zhao used to be a huge fan of local veteran actor Li Nanxing.
The 43-year-old said: “When I was in primary school, I would watch (Li’s) dramas like Paint A Rainbow (1986) and I really liked him.
“In recent years, Singapore dramas aren’t really aired in China, so even the youngest people in China who have watched his dramas would be (around) my age.”
Zhao, who was in town on Tuesday (Sept 24) for a launch of wines from vineyards she owns in France, has since gone from fan to friend. She now manages Li’s acting engagements in China.
But when Li, 54, who was also present at the launch at The Fullerton Hotel, called Zhao his boss, she quickly refuted: “I’m working for him! I’m just there to facilitate his activities in China, to let more people know about him.”
Their close friendship was apparent during a group interview with Zhao, who was accompanied by Li.
They bantered easily, joking about Zhao’s alcohol tolerance.
“She can drink three bottles of wine,” Li remarked, before Zhao quickly rebuffed: “If I drink three bottles, I won’t be able to catch my flight home tomorrow.”
Their friendship, which began when Li met Zhao and her husband at a dinner function more than 10 years ago, has helped Zhao, a fervent wine lover, expand her wine business to Singapore.
Wines from her vineyards will now be available here via Grand Cru, Wine Concierge at The Fullerton Hotel and on the menus of the hotel’s restaurants.
The actress, who married Chinese billionaire and entrepreneur Huang Youlong in 2008, began buying chateaus after the birth of her daughter in 2010 in Singapore.
She now owns four vineyards in France, which sells wines in markets like China.
Li recalled: “We were filming a drama in China earlier this year when I drank her wines on set. I found it so good that I told her she should consider bringing it to Singapore.”
Zhao is best known among local audiences for her portrayal of Little Swallow in the 1990s period series My Fair Princess.
She is one of the executive producers of Shei Dou Ke Wang Yu Jian Ni (Everyone Wants To Meet You), a romance drama which will feature Li in a supporting role. It is set to air on Chinese streaming platform iQiyi later this year.
“Nanxing was such a charmer on set – so professional, so well-mannered. He’s a favourite among all our female staff,” says Zhao.
While she now wears many hats – she has also directed two films, including her debut, the 2013 hit movie So Young – she is still an actress at heart.
“My priority is acting and producing. Wine is a side gig, if anything,” the savvy Zhao says, adding cheekily: “Of course, when I produce any films or shows, I will give my wines product placement.”
A new film starring her and Chinese actor Ge You is slated to screen in China later this year and she will be singing the movie’s theme song.
Zhao, who is also a singer with seven albums under her belt – the last release was in 2009 – says this does not signal a return to singing: “I have no plans to ever release an album again. That’s all in the past for me now. When I do sing now, it’s more for fun.”
Her third directorial movie is also in production.
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“Actors have to be backed by their professional abilities and work – that’s the advice I’ll give to young people.”
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‘Bundling’ deal between the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and the Golden State Warriors will make a ticket to Warriors games, concerts and other events a ticket to ride Muni
San Francisco, CA — In an effort to boost public transit ridership to events at Chase Center, Mayor London N. Breed today announced an innovative partnership between the Golden State Warriors and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) that will make taking Muni to a game or concert easier and more seamless than ever before.
The SFMTA and Chase Center, which will open in September as the new home of the Warriors, have created a “Transit Bundling” program, in which all event tickets will serve as Muni tickets for event patrons. Under the deal, the Warriors have agreed to pay for the Transit Bundling program.
“We want people to take public transit to Chase Center, so we’re making it affordable and easy to do so,” said Mayor Breed. “This breakthrough agreement demonstrates the commitment by both the City and the Warriors to get people out of their cars so everyone can easily get to games and concerts.”
Any Chase Center patron who shows his or her event ticket at Muni turnstiles and boarding platforms will be able to ride Muni without charge. Both electronic and physical tickets for events—including Warriors basketball games, concerts and other events at Chase Center—will serve as proof of payment for Muni service throughout the day.
Mayor Breed has convened a working group of department heads, staff and Warriors personnel for months in the run-up to Chase Center’s opening in September to ensure that all the relevant departments are working together to plan for the Center’s opening. This transit bundling program is an integral part of Chase Center’s transportation plan, where public transit is recommended and encouraged as the main mode of transportation for getting to and from events. The partnership also supports the City’s goals of reducing congestion in the Mission Bay neighborhood.
Warriors President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts said the team is investing millions of dollars in transportation infrastructure to make it as simple as possible to take buses or trains to events, which is a reflection of the team’s commitment to being a good neighbor.
“One of the best things about Chase Center is how easy it will be to get to by train, by bus, by ferry, by bicycle and by walking,” Welts said. “We are embracing this innovative tool because it may be the best incentive yet to get people to take Muni, and that’s important to the Warriors, our patrons, our neighbors and this city.”
San Francisco will be one of the first cities in the world to offer Transit Bundling to arena event attendees. The only other NBA city to do so is Phoenix, where NBA fans and concert-goers can use their event tickets to Talking Stick Arena to ride metro trains.
“We are delighted to see the Golden State Warriors embrace San Francisco’s ‘transit first’ values by making Chase Center one of the most transit-friendly arenas in the United States,” said Tom Maguire, SFMTA Acting Director of Transportation. “Bundling transit fares with event tickets will make riding public transit a more compelling, convenient and, ultimately, sustainable transportation option for Chase Center patrons.”
The Warriors chose the Mission Bay site for the new arena largely because of its transit-rich location. With a Muni Metro T Line stop right at its doorstep, dedicated Muni special event bus shuttles (78X and 79X), and a Muni stop serving the 55, 48 and 22 lines within one block, Muni will be the best way to get to Chase Center.
Chase Center also has regional connections including easy access to BART, at both the 16th Street/Mission and Embarcadero stations. Visitors from the Peninsula can connect to Caltrain at Fourth and King Streets. Ferry service will be available at the temporary Ferry Terminal at Pier 48 to serve all Warriors games and large events, as well as at Pier 52 and the Ferry Building.
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Hannah LeeTouching Spirit Bear SummaryAt the beginning of the novel, fifteen-year-old Cole Matthews from Minneapolis arrives on an island in Southeastern Alaska with his hands in handcuffs. He is accompanied by two Tlingit Indians, named Edwin and Garvey. These two are guiding Cole on the terms of his banishment.After many years of trouble with the law, Cole takes it too far when he beats a school classmate against a sidewalk, Peter Driscal. Cole had robbed a hardware store and bragged about his story at school. Peter reports it to the authorities, causing Cole to become infuriated. Consequently, Peter suffers with speaking, ongoing nightmares, and head trauma.Garvey, a parole officer offers Cole two options. One is to take the path of Circle Justice or go to prison. The Circle Justice is a Native American originated program that is a”healing form of justice.”Cole agrees to join, but only to get out of prison. He goes through a series of meetings in order to prove how worthy and committed he is to the program. Cole also tells The Circle Justice about his alcoholic father that had physically abused him. The Circle decides that by banishing Cole to a remote island, they can teach Cole a lesson and also protect others at the same time.Once Cole arrives on the barren island, he is filled with anger. As soon as Garvey and Edwin, a Tlingit elder leaves, Cole sets his shelter and supplies on fire. Cole attempts to swim to another island for “freedom” and almost freezes to death along the way. Within his next few days on the new island, he has several encounters with a white bear, known as Spirit Bear, and he is determined to kill it out of rage. He spots the Spirit Bear once more, and attempts to stab it with a spear. The bear is not affected and instead violently attacks Cole. The bear breaks Cole’s hip and right arm and also knocks him out. He notices a few dying baby birds and wonders how he would die. Left to die after the attack, Cole comes to realize his own internal problems and his need to immediately change in order to survive. A while after the attack, the Spirit Bear calmly approaches Cole. Cole reaches out to touch the bear and grabs a tuft of hair from it. Cole is shocked by how peaceful the bear is. He manages to survive by grass, worms, and a mouse until Edwin and Garvey arrive to check on Cole. They find him nearly dead, with mosquitoes and decay surrounding him.Edwin and Garvey take him to a nurse named Rosey who cares for him until he is taken to a hospital in Minneapolis. He reunites with the special blanket that he had on the island. While recovering, he finds that his mother, had confronted his abusive father and agreed to press charges against him Cole is extremely anxious to return back to the island, however the members of the circle disagree, saying that he already used up his chance. Edwin returns from Alaska to defend Cole and insists that he should be given a second chance with The Circle. Edwin’s request is successful.Back on the island, Cole is forced to rebuild his own shelter, and Edwin teaches him several different rituals that will maintain his healing process throughout the year. He is instructed to take a bath in a freezing lake every morning to clear his mind filled with anger. Then, he must take a large rock up a hill, and then roll it back down as a symbol of releasing that anger. And lastly if he sees a wild animal, then later that day he must do a dance imitating that specific animal, to learn a lesson from it. He does a wolf dance, eagle dance, and many others. However, he is filled with worry as he had not seen the Spirit Bear since his return . He occupies himself from winter to spring by carving a totem pole and doing assigned school work.As he continues to heal, Edwin tells Cole that Peter had developed extreme depression and attempted suicide twice. Cole suggests that a way for Peter to heal is to have him come to the island and see how Cole had changed. At first Cole scares Peter, however Peter is soon encouraged by Cole’s lack of violent action towards him. Peter starts to shove Cole and throw punches. Cole shows Peter around the island and the healing process he had went through, which allows Peter to understand Cole’s situation.As the two continue to forgive each other, they see the Spirit Bear once more. At the end Peter and Cole carve a circle onto the last empty space on Cole’s totem pole, symbolizing the peace that they had now found.
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Which country in the world censors the congratulatory greetings of friendly governments ? That’s precisely what the government controlled mainstream daily THE STAR did to a congratulatory note by President Obama (USA) to Najib Razak who assumed the Premiership shortly after the GE13 despite the dubious election result. See how THE STAR, turned a congratulatory note into propaganda, use this link:
GE13: US hopes for continued cooperation with Malaysia
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KUALA LUMPUR: The Office of the White House Press Secretary congratulated Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on his general election victory, saying it looked forward to continuing the close cooperation with the Malaysian government and its people to strengthen democracy, peace and prosperity in the region.
“On behalf of the President and the people of the United States, we congratulate Prime Minister Najib on his coalition’s victory in Malaysia’s parliamentary elections on May 5,” a statement from the US Embassy here said.
The general election saw Barisan Nasional returned to power after winning 133 of the 222 parliamentary seats to form the new federal government.
“We also congratulate the people of Malaysia who turned out in record numbers to cast their votes as well as the parties of the opposition coalition on their campaigns as a vibrant opposition is a foundation of democracy,” the statement said. – Bernama
They left out something crucial. See this link for the missing piece of Obama’s note.
Statement by the Press Secretary on Malaysia’s Elections
Najib has already set up a Cabinet, including two or three appointed persons, who were not elected representatives of the Rakyat. These are fast-tracked ministers who were ‘sworn in’ not in accordance with due process of law. Is this a legitimate government?
Malaysians are used to the BN‘s trumpeting especially when a small word of encouragement is blown completely out of proportion to sound like high praise. But, to blackout the things that everyone knows should be said, shows a delusion gone too far. BN deludes themselves by pumping out propaganda through all the mainstream media channels, with blackouts of real news about the mushrooming “Blackout 505” rallies and “Release Adam Adli” candle-light vigils taking place all over the country. This self-assumed government is certainly in for a bumpy ride from now on.
Yesterday, the BN went on a rampage to smother the voices of protest against the GE13 outcome which has been made official today, by seizing more than 1000 hard copies of PKR’s “Suara Keadilan”, PAS’s “Harakah” and 70 copies of DAP‘s “The Rocket” on the allegation they had broken the law by distributing these publications to non-members. The Pakatan 3 are prominent political parties with hundreds and thousands supporters and there seems nothing to prohibit members from giving their copies of publications (whether free or for nominal payment) to non-members who want to read them. Following the arrest of Adam Adli, who is now released on bail, more arrests have been made of Pakatan members and sympathizers. The BN has gone into “Operasi Lalang” like mode, attempting to silence the increasingly loud clamor for recognition of the Rakyat’s desire for a clean, just and anti-discriminatory Malaysia.
The mainstream government controlled media has completely blacked out all reports and references to these rallies and more. Still, no matter how many congratulatory messages Najib Razak receives from foreign governments, this will not banish the sour taste of BN’s Pyrrhic victory in this mother of all Malaysian elections.
Anwar to furnish ‘proof of GE13 fraud’ to Obama (hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com)
Malaysian police arrest opposition leaders (upi.com)
Malaysia student on sedition charge (bbc.co.uk)
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Author jasminetea2Posted on May 24, 2013 Categories ComplaintTags Adam Adli, Barack Obama, Barisan Nasional, Malaysia, Najib Razak, Pakatan Rakyat, Press Secretary, United States
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Saudi Arabia Wants Events to Put It on the Global Tourism Map
Sarah Algethami and Abbas Al Lawati, Bloomberg
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Maybe Saudi Arabia is finally turning a corner in dismantling some of its obstacles to tourism. If so, perhaps those citizens who spend their money going to Dubai or Egypt will spend it in the kingdom instead.
Known for decades as the home of the religious police and stringent public decency laws, Saudi Arabia now hopes to transform itself into an entertainment hub.
With more than 5,000 live shows, festivals and concerts planned in 56 cities nationwide this year, the kingdom will invest 240 billion riyals ($64 billion) on entertainment infrastructure over the next decade to put itself on the global tourism map, the chairman of its General Entertainment Authority said.
“We have started building this infrastructure,” Ahmed Al Khateeb told a news conference in Riyadh on Thursday.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been breaking social norms since his rise to power in 2015, including an easing of public entertainment rules in a country that practices strict gender segregation.
The speed of social changes in the kingdom have not been welcomed by conservatives, who see it undermining the strictly devout form of Islamic practice they espouse. While the power of the kingdom’s religious police has been curtailed, it still patrols streets in Riyadh and some Saudis question privately whether the crown prince is pushing forward too quickly.
Developing a local entertainment industry may be an attempt to redirect leisure spending by Saudis, who plow billions of dollars annually into travel abroad, back into the kingdom.
Work has begun on the the country’s first opera house, Al Khateeb said. Last year, the entertainment authority helped to create 17,500 jobs and attracted 8 million people to events; by 2030 it aims to create more than 220,000 jobs. The government is also offering grants up to 1 million riyals to small entertainment companies, he said.
In keeping with Prince Mohammed’s declaration last year that he was returning Saudi Arabia to “moderate Islam,” the government now sponsors concerts that draw mixed-gender crowds. Women will soon be allowed to drive.
The Public Investment Fund, headed by the crown prince, said in September that it was setting up a $2.7 billion entertainment company that would aim to serve more than 50 million visitors a year. Saudi Arabia has also lifted a 30-year ban on cinemas, foreseeing an economic contribution of $24 billion from the industry by 2030.
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What makes the Rwandan genocide of just a quarter of a century ago so disturbing is how intimate it was. There is a brumal callousness in the Nazi gas chambers, a genocide of Jewish innocents that mirrored the mechanisms of industry. But Rwanda was up close and personal, enacted with nothing more than machetes, knives and hatchets, in which the slayer and the slain had sight of each others eyes and could simultaneously smell the fear of death and the fetid irrationality of murderous hate.
Her eyes have haunted me for quarter of a century.
She was tall and beautiful, in her mid 20s, with long flowing black hair, knotted with braids that reminded me of my Celtic roots.
She never smiled. Nor did she make eye contact during the two days that I existed in her presence somewhere in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Her eyes seemed empty, as if she was a hollowed vacuum behind the outer casing of her body. Not unlike a humanoid robot that appears to have everything but a soul. She was cold and distant and one might imagine she was aloof but for the brutal reality into which I had just arrived.
It was only a few weeks after the Hutu majority had fled Rwanda to neighbouring Zaire, having exacted one of the most barbarous culling of fellow human beings since Nazi Germany half a century before; or the genocide enacted under Leopold II in the Belgian Free State at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries.
Two month before, I travelled to Pretoria for the inauguration of President Nelson Mandela, on May 10, 1994. During a telephone call home my seven-year-old daughter, Therese, knowing that I was in Africa, fearfully asked, ‘Did you fly over Rwanda, Daddy?’ It was a shocking question, that one so young would be aware of what was happening somewhere on the continent I was visiting.
The stark reality of the genocide, still ongoing while I was in South Africa, was clearly beginning to make headlines. The following week, as I was departing a country that was celebrating its historic rebirth, I froze before a newsstand in Johannesburgh Airport on which Time Magazine had a picture of a bewildered mother and child behind the grim headline:
“There are no Devils left in Hell,” the missionary said, “They are all in Rwanda”.
When a couple of months later I encountered the beautiful young woman in Kigali I wondered what devils she had met. The apparent emptiness in her eyes was, in fact, the expression of a traumatized human being barely able to exist and who, very likely, wasn’t even aware of my presence. What appeared to me as a hollow shell was nothing less than a young woman who was numbed by an encounter with dehumanised forces that murdered, maimed and violated her loved ones, and herself.
Ntrama Church, Rwanda, where hundreds of Tutsi children, women and men, seeking refuge, were massacred and burnt. Photo: Wikipedia
Over 100 days Hutu neighbours murdered over 800,000 Tutsi neighbours – women, babies (born and unborn), children and men – on average 8,000 per day. Amongst these were some moderate Hutu journalists and politicians, considered traitors.
The UN has estimated that some quarter of a million women and girls were raped by Hutu militias and very likely that statistic includes the young woman I encountered.
While UN, French and Belgian forces were present in Rwanda at the time, none intervened. The US were reluctant because of US Marine losses suffered in Somalia the previous year. Effectively, the world stood by until the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), supported by the Ugandan army, invaded from neighbouring Uganda, causing a mass exodus of Hutus fearing revenge for what they had done. Over two million Hutus fled to neighbouring countries, including Zaire. By the time the genocide had ended up to 70 percent of the entire Tutsi population had been slaughtered.
But lest some might dismiss the Rwandan genocide as an entirely African barbarity let us not forget the role of the European colonization of Africa, especially Belgian colonialism, including elements of the Catholic Church, who favoured the Tutsi minority over the Hutu majority, thus allowing acquired privilege and diminished status to fester discontent across generations.
Given that, to this day, equestrian statues of Leopold II populate towns and cities across Belgium, including the capital of the European Union, it suggests Europe has learned little from the divisions its conquering nations bequeathed to Africa. It is unthinkable that a statue to Adolf Hitler would be acceptable in any public space in the world today. Why then are statues of Leopold II acceptable in Belgium, particularly Brussels, given its privileged EU status? Is it because African people are considered of less importance to Jewish people?
Let us pray for the people of Rwanda who are living with the memory of atrocities inflicted and atrocities endured. Let us pray for the generations born in the wake of the genocide and for generations to come that, irrespective of ethnicity, they will grow to understand that our common humanity is what makes us all children of God, each endowed with inalienable rights. May this understanding be the living memorial to all those whose lives were ended so cruelly.
And let us pray for the descendants of colonial European powers who over four centuries altered the face of the earth, especially in Africa. Powers that created divisions through divisive favoritism, imposed boundaries – including partition – which are still the source of discontent today. May those descendants recognize that our acquired wealth and power has come at a heavy and disproportionate cost. And may they recognize that as we face an uncertain future, overshadowed by the impact of Climate Breakdown, we have no option but to willingly build a renewed Earth, based on fairness and justice, in which the vulnerable are valued in a new dispensation that begs sustainability.
On August 1st 1994 Time Magazine led with another gruesome cover photo and headline. It depicted a carpet of trampled corpses of Hutu refugees stampeded to death at the border between Rwanda and the crossing to Goma, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). The headline read: “This is the beginning of the final days. This is the apocalypse,” spoken by a resident of Goma.
Rwanda is, indeed, a stark reminder that sinister forces can manipulate the masses into a frenzy of hate. As the second decade of the 21st Century draws to a close, and as powerful voices accentuate divisions through fear, may Rwanda remind us, in the words of Dom Helder Camara:
Each of us is responsible for the destiny of humanity by our actions or omissions.
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Georgina Gratrix was born in Mexico City in 1982 and grew up in Durban, South Africa. She studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, and graduated in 2005, specialising in painting. In 2018, Gratrix was awarded the Discovery Prize at the 50th Anniversary edition of Art Brussels, for her presentation with SMAC Gallery in Brussels, Belgium. Gratrix is a recipient of the Ampersand Fellowship Award and completed a residency at the Ampersand Foundation in New York City, USA in 2018. She completed a residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, in association with a Centro de las Artes Augustín (CASA) culminating in an exhibition entitled Crossing Night in the same year.
Most recently, Gratrix was included in the following group exhibitions: Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles, USA; Skin Stealers at Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles; the Ampersand Foundation Award 21 years celebration exhibition curated by Gordon Froud at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) in Johannesburg, South Africa, all in 2019.
Solo exhibitions include: On Repeat, at SMAC Gallery in Johannesburg, in 2018; Puppy Love, at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town, in 2016; The Berlin Paintings at Die Tankstelle in association with Nolan Judin Gallery in Berlin, Germany, in 2013; My Show in 2012 at SMAC Gallery in Stellenbosch; and Everything Ecstatic, at Ten Haaf Projects in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 2010.
Further notable group exhibitions include: Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart at the New Church Museum in Cape Town, South Africa in 2015; PAPERWORK: An Exhibition of Contemporary South African Works on Paper at SMAC Gallery in Stellenbosch in 2014; The Beautyful Ones at Nolan Judin Gallery in Berlin, Germany, in 2013 and Dialogues with Masters: Visual Perspectives on Two Decades of Democracy, a curated exhibition for the 2013 FNB Joburg Art Fair. Also in 2013, Gratrix’s work formed part of Paddle 8: Curator’s Selection by Tania Pardo for ARCOmadrid International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain. In 2012, Gratrix exhibited in Subject as Matter at the New Church Museum and in PAINT 1: Contemporary South African Painting at SMAC Gallery, both in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work was also included in 1910- 2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa in 2010 and Fresh Fruits at Ten Haaf Projects in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2009.
Gratrix’s works have been included in SMAC Gallery’s presentations at artmonte-carlo in Monte Carlo, Monaco in 2019; UNTITLED, Art at Miami Beach in Miami, USA in 2018 and MiArt at Fiera Milano City in Milan Italy in 2017, as well as editions of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair and FNB Art Joburg in South Africa. In 2020, Gratrix will present a solo booth at The Armory Show in New York, USA.
To date, SMAC Gallery has produced two publications on the artist, Georgina Gratrix (2016) and Some New Paintings by Georgina Gratrix (2018). Her work is included in the following collections: Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Missoni Collection, Milan; University of Cape Town (UCT) Art Collection, Cape Town; Matthais and Gervanne Leridon Collection, Paris; Spier Arts Collection, Cape Town; Ellerman House Art Collection, Cape Town; Nandos Arts Collection, London, UK.
In 2020, Gratrix will present a new body of work at SMAC Gallery’s presentation at The Armory Show in New York City, USA. The far will run from 5 – 8 March 2020.
In 2019 Gratrix’s work was included in Punch, curated by artist Nina Chanel Abney at Jeffrey Dietch Gallery in Los Angeles, USA and Skin Stealers at Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles, USA.
Gratrix presented a new body of work at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco in artmonte-carlo Monte Carlo, Monaco as well as participated in multiple group presentations with SMAC Gallery at art fairs both locally and abroad. Her work was recently acquired by Collection Leridon in Paris, France.
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Danielle Walsh | Vanity Fair | 9 of the Most Exciting Artists to Follow from Miami Art Week 2018 | 13 December 2018 – PDF
Dekat | Aspire Art auctions in major market breakthrough | 30 October 2018 – PDF
Denis Maksimov | Ocula Magazine | Golden Jubilee: Art Brussels | 27 April 2018 – PDF
Amy Gibbings | ARTAFRICA | Georgina Gratrix awarded Discovery Prize | 26 April 2018 – PDF
Lucy Scovell | Apollo | Art Brussels celebrates it’s 50th anniversary by looking to the future | 21 April 2018 – PDF
Nate Freeman | Artsy | Art Brussels Dares Collectors to Take Risks on Young Artists – and Succeeds | 20 April 2018 – PDF
Mary Corrigall | Sunday Argus | Let Them Eat Canvas Cakes | 27 March 2016 – PDF
Mary Corrigall | Times Live | Art of the matter: Painting’s gone to the dogs | 23 February 2016
Ashraf Jamal | ART AFRICA | Symptoms Articulated as Objects: FNB Joburg ArtFair 2015 | December 2015 – PDF
Matthew Partridge | Mail & Guardian | Different Strokes for Different Folks | 13 April 2012 – PDF
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Explore Appeasement in human emotion, social practice, and personality
Appeasement in human emotion, social practice, and personality
Dacher Keltner (Author), Randall C. Young (Author), Brenda N. Buswell (Author)
Abstract: In this article we examine the role of appeasement in human emotion, social practice, and personality. We first present an analysis of human appeasement. Appeasement begins when the conditions of social relations lead one individual to anticipate aggression from others, is expressed in submissive, inhibited behavior, which in turn evokes inferences and emotions in others that bring about social reconciliation. Our empirical review focuses on two classes of human appeasement: reactive forms of appeasement, including embarrassment and shame, which placate others after social transgressions; and anticipatory forms of appeasement, including polite modesty and shyness, which reduce the likelihood of social conflict and aggression. Our review of the empirical evidence indicates that embarrassment, shame, modesty, and shyness share the eliciting conditions, submissive behavior, and social consequences of appeasement. We conclude by discussing social processes that allow humans to appease one another, such as teasing, and those that prevent appeasement, such as legal and negotiation practices, to the benefit and detriment of human relations. Aggr. Behav. 23:359–374, 1997. © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Museum Programs
This accession primarily consists of 1", 1/4", and 3/4" (U-Matic) audiotape recordings of educational training programs. The programs address issues such as conservation of museum objects, protection of museum property, museum accessibility, and educator interpretation of collections. Program lecturers include R. M. (Robert M.) Organ, Director...
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This accession consists of audiovisual recordings created for exhibitions as well as recordings of performances, conferences, or lectures done in conjunction with exhibitions. Exhibitions documented include: "Pathways of Tradition: Indian Insights into Indian Worlds;" "Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the Nati...
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary
This accession includes records documenting the administrative activities of Lawrence M. Small during his fifth year as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The records document issues with regard to the Institution's museums, exhibitions, research, fundraising, programs, and special events. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, ...
This accession consists of records maintained by the Audiovisual Program for Distribution Coordinator, Office of Museum Programs. Materials include outlines, booklets, evaluations, scripts, and logbooks created during the making of videos for Robert M. Organ lectures, basic basketry conservation, curatorial examination of paper objects, a...
Smithsonian Associates, Resident Associate Program
This accession includes 35mm photographs, slides, negatives, and contact sheets of Resident Associate Program (RAP) sponsored events. The materials document lectures and seminars; musical performances; film premiers, adult socials; and family programs.
This accession consists of records documenting the administrative activities of Lawrence M. Small during his seventh year as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The records document issues with regard to the Institution's museums, exhibitions, research, fundraising, programs, and special events. Materials include correspondence, memorand...
Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, Office of the Director
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NASA Completes First Internal Review of Concepts for Asteroid Redirect Mission
Posted on 31 July 2013 by Jay Tate
NASA has completed the first step toward a mission to find and capture a near-Earth asteroid, redirect it to a stable lunar orbit and send humans to study it.
In preparation for fiscal year 2014, a mission formulation review on Tuesday brought together NASA leaders from across the country to examine internal studies proposing multiple concepts and alternatives for each phase of the asteroid mission. The review assessed technical and programmatic aspects of the mission.
“At this meeting, we engaged in the critically important work of examining initial concepts to meet the goal of asteroid retrieval and exploration,” said NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot, who chaired the review at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. “The agency’s science, technology and human exploration teams are working together to better understand near Earth asteroids, including ones potentially hazardous to our planet; demonstrate new technologies; and to send humans farther from home than ever before. I was extremely proud of the teams and the progress they have made so far. I look forward to integrating the inputs as we develop the mission concept further.”
In addition to the internal reviews of concepts for the mission, managers also discussed the recently received more than 400 responses to a request for information in which industry, universities, and the public offered ideas for NASA’s asteroid initiative. The agency is evaluating those responses.
With the mission formulation review complete, agency officials now will begin integrating the most highly-rated concepts into an asteroid mission baseline concept to further develop in 2014.
The asteroid redirect mission is included in President Obama’s fiscal year 2014 budget request for NASA, and leverages the agency’s progress on its Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and cutting-edge technology development. The mission is one step in NASA’s strategy to send humans to Mars in the 2030s.
‹ NASA Sees Enthusiastic Response to Asteroid Call for Ideas
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Acquisition of Metcalfe’s Skinny Popcorn by Diamond Foods
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Spayne Lindsay & Co. advises on the acquisition of a minority interest in Metcalfe’s skinny by Diamond Foods.
Spayne Lindsay is delighted to announce that it has advised Diamond Foods, one of the US and UK’s leading snack food companies with the well-known KETTLE®, Diamond of California® and Pop Secret® brands, on its acquisition of a minority shareholding in Metcalfe’s skinny from its founders.
Metcalfe’s skinny was co-founded in 2009 by Robert Jakobi and Julian Metcalfe, who also co-founded the Pret A Manger and Itsu food dining chains, to meet the need for healthy but tasty alternatives to traditional snacks. Since launching into the popcorn category, the brand has expanded quickly from ready-to-eat premium popcorn into popcorn crisps, popcorn thins and ricecakes, and is one of the fastest growing popcorn brands in the sector with 67% year-on-year growth to September 2015 (as per Nielsen data).
Ashley Hicks, Managing Director of KETTLE® Chips UK
“We are very excited to acquire an interest in Metcalfe’s skinny, which is an incredibly innovative, fast-growing, premium brand appealing to ‘foodie’ consumers looking for lighter great tasting snacks. We look forward to working with the management team to support their future growth ambitions in the on-trend, high growth popcorn snack category in the UK.
Spayne Lindsay has been very helpful in advising us. Their vast experience in this sector has helped us to continue to develop our ongoing M&A strategy, and the tactical and executional support we received on this deal was invaluable.”
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NBA 2016-2017 preseason rankings: Eastern Conference
By MichaelDay on October 24, 2016 • ( 1 )
The 2016-17 NBA Season tips off on Tuesday, the 25th of October, which doesn’t leave much time to post the preseason rankings. Nothing like waiting until the last-minute to complete an assignment – yep, old habits are hard to break. Anyway, the ranking criteria will stray a bit from the normal positional hierarchy. Instead of awarding teams with first, second, or third place finishes, they will receive a rating based on their “party” ranking. No, not a political party, but a party where there is music, dancing, and fun. Think of the NBA season as a party invitation. For 82 games, fans get invited to watch their team play. What type of party can the fan expect? Does the team get the “A-List” ranking or the “No one attends but friends” label? Here are the Eastern Conference rankings.
No one attends but friends
Everyone has encountered this scenario: a friend decides to throw a party when either no one is in town, or everyone has other plans, which means that only the circle of friends will attend. The goal of a party is to meet other people, right? Attending a party like this is a disaster, but hey, sacrifices are made for real friendship.
Philadelphia 76ers – This is the franchise that turned losing into a “process” where the goal was to generate lots of great draft picks, accumulate talent, and then watch the talent win. Well, it did generate draft picks, but we are still waiting for the wins.
Brooklyn Nets – Brooklyn was a playoff team a few years ago. Their owner spent a ton of money and mortgaged future draft picks in an effort to make the NBA Finals. It didn’t work. Now, other teams enjoy their draft picks.
The C-List
Like struggling actors trying to find a part among stiff competition, these teams face the same uphill climb. Maybe the talent is there, poised and ready to pounce on one opportunity, but there is no recent track record of success. In other words, the team may have good players but missed the playoffs the past few years, or the team made the playoffs but lost in the first round, or the team recently went through a major roster upheaval that changed the talent level.
Miami Heat – All-Star Chris Bosh failed his physical and may need to retire as his medical condition is life threatening. Dwyane Wade, the face of the franchise, took his basketball game to Chicago. The Heat still have Goran Dragic, Hassan Whiteside, and a promising young player in Justice Winslow; however, this isn’t exactly the star-studded lineup that featured LeBron James.
Milwaukee Bucks – Young players like Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jabari Parker trying to break things open and make a playoff run – the definition of a C-List team.
Orlando Magic – The Magic still haven’t recovered from the Dwight Howard trade. The talent brought in via the draft picks still hasn’t produced meaningful playoff appearances. They do have the services of veteran Serge Ibaka this year, though.
Washington Wizards – John Wall and Bradley Beal apparently aren’t on the same page regarding the pecking order. Does it really matter if Beal can’t stay healthy? A classic problem confronts this team: c-level stars with delusions of grandeur.
New York Knicks – New York Knicks fans are probably wondering how a team with a star like Carmelo Anthony gets a C-List rating. Well, sure, Carmelo is a star, but when was the last time the Knicks made the playoffs? The Knicks record for the last three years, 32-50, 17-65, and 37-45. Not exactly stellar, right? The last playoff appearance was 2012-2013, by the way. Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis, Brandon Jennings, Joakim Noah, and Derrick Rose may lead the way to a playoff appearance, but that outcome is far from a lock as four out of the five players mentioned have trouble staying healthy.
Chicago Bulls – How will Jimmy Butler and Dwyane Wade play together? How many minutes can Wade play? Rajon Rondo and Wade aren’t great outside shooters, and the model for NBA teams now is “pace and space”, so who are the three-point shooters on this team, Doug McDermott and Nikola Mirotic? Won’t teams just rotate or play off of Wade and Rondo to force them to shoot from the outside? Plus, they have a second-year coach in Fred Hoiberg still adjusting to the NBA.
Detroit Pistons –The Pistons are another team with a nice core group of talent. To my surprise, Reggie Jackson’s contract doesn’t look horrible now. Hopefully, he comes back strong from his injury. If only Andre Drummond could make 50% of his free-throws. (Fortunately for Andre, if they haven’t done so already, the league will probably change the rule so he won’t get intentionally fouled during crunch time minutes.) Just like the other teams with a solid base of talent, the question is how will that talent develop over time?
Charlotte Hornets – Kemba Walker, Nicolas Batum, and Marvin Williams are all nice players. Frank Kaminsky can do good things offensively; however, on the defensive end, he struggles. Cody Zeller provides frontcourt depth. Unfortunately, even when healthy Michael Kidd-Gilchrist still doesn’t shoot the ball well – He’s a career 24% three-point shooter. How much can Roy Hibbert contribute? This team’s ceiling is another early round playoff exit.
Atlanta Hawks – Losing Al Horford will hurt this team in more ways than just Horford’s basketball play, because the Hawks chose to roll the dice with Dwight Howard as Horford’s replacement. Teams rolling the dice with Howard haven’t exactly fared well. Dwight can still rebound and block shots, but he thinks he can do more; as a result, he causes problems in the locker room. Yeah, sometimes, the locker room cancer theme is overplayed, but it’s applicable in Howard’s case. They also lost point guard Jeff Teague, who at least was a dependable player. Perhaps, Dennis Schroder can get to the rim at will and create passing lanes for Kyle Korver, who is now 35 by the way, but he doesn’t shoot the ball particularly well. Paul Millsap is fantastic, but he can’t carry the whole team to the NBA Finals. There are too many unknowns for this team.
Indiana Pacers – On paper, the Pacers are worthy of the B-list ranking. Paul George is an outstanding player. The Pacers have also added some extra scoring by acquiring Jeff Teague, Monta Ellis, Thaddeus Young, and Al Jefferson, so what’s the problem? Well, Larry Bird decided to change the head coach by firing Frank Vogel and hiring Nate McMillan. The reason: Bird wanted more offense. However, isn’t McMillan known more for defense? Obviously, talented players are the primary focus of any organization, but the head coach does matter, and what kind of coach is McMillan?
The B-List
Teams in this category are backed by sound front offices, they’ve made consecutive playoff appearances, and have the pieces in place to make a nice playoff run. However, just as B-list actors aren’t the bankable stars movie producers count on, these teams aren’t penciled as favorites to make the NBA Finals. One thing to remember, though, B-list actors also make a good living and can appear in A-list movies. The same thing goes for B-list teams.
Toronto Raptors – DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowery, two All-Star and Olympic gold medal winners, along with Jonas Valanciunas form the core of a team that gets out-of-this-world support from a great fan base, making opposing teams trips to Toronto a nightmare. (They easily beat the Cavaliers twice in the post season at Toronto.) DeMarre Carroll didn’t live up to the contract he signed due to injuries, but maybe after a year he can return to the form that made the contract offer possible. Even with the loss of fiery big man Bismack Biymobo, the Raptors should once again go deep into the playoffs.
Boston Celtics – Brad Stevens is a great coach who definitely gets the most out of his team. The Celtics acquired Al Horford, who should add some versatility to the Celtics offense while not degrading anything defensively. This team is tough as nails (e.g. Avery Bradley, Marcus Smart, Jae Crowder, Isaiah Thomas, etc.). Adding Horford may not propel them to the NBA Finals, but they’ll definitely get out of the first round of the playoffs this year.
Cleveland Cavaliers – The Cavs have LeBron James, the best player in the league, a dynamic, All-Star point guard in Kyrie Irving, and oh yeah, they are the defending NBA Champions. Tristan Thompson returns to provide rim protection. Plus, J.R. Smith is always must see TV.
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The 1994 Springbok team is regarded as the worst Springbok side visiting New Zealand. They were unable to win a single test –losing the first two and drawing the 3rd test- and losing one provincial match out of 11 against Otago (12-19).
In total they lost 3 matches and drew one out of 14 matches. Compared to the 1965 Springboks probably a better overall result; excluding the fact that they couldn’t win a test match. It was nonetheless a disappointing result considering the fact that this team also completed tours -with the same coach, Ian McIntosh- through Australia and Argentina in 1993. They won one test in Australia and both test matches in Argentina with reasonable good margins. In addition they played two test matches against England at the start of the 1994 season losing the first one 15-32 at Loftus Versfeld and winning the second one 27-9 at Newlands in Cape Town. From that backdrop there was understandingly an expectation that SA rugby and particular the Springboks will shed the impact of the isolation years and begin to adjust to the requirements of the international rugby if not win test matches.
In addition there was an aura of expectation with regard to the New Zealand tour amongst the connoisseur rugby followers in South Africa because New Zealand -at the time- seemed absolutely ripe for the plucking. The All Blacks were playing in an overlapping series against France and where besieged with problems of their own. The French were playing an exciting and attractive style of rugby scoring brilliant tries and the New Zealand public were getting increasingly annoyed with All Black team’s inability to field an effective backline combination particularly in the midfield.
Coach Laurie Mains was under pressure and fending a strong challenge from Auckland coach John Hart. The multiple amounts of debates raging over talkback radio, television and newspapers indicated that the election of the All Black coach was of more importance to the nation than any parliamentary election. By the time of the first test between South Africa and New Zealand eventuated the All Blacks had lost both test matches against France at home. It was a tentative but desperate New Zealand side lacking confidence that lined-up for the first test of the series against South Africa. It was a test that New Zealand simply could not afford to lose. In the dressing room before the test Captain Sean Fitzpatrick told his players that it was a case of winning or being issued with razor blades; committing hara-kiri.
South Africa, however, was not brimming with confidence upon arrival in New Zealand on Tuesday, 21 June 1994. The Springboks had yet to reassert themselves as a top rugby-playing nation. They had won only 5 out of 13 test matches since losing the return match against the All Blacks at Ellispark in 1992.
In hindsight a number of aspects can be isolated which went wrong on the 1994 tour; there was squad selection; injuries; coach under pressure; players not being streetwise enough and referee/ill-discipline issues all of which played a role in the team’s inability to find rhythm and score tries in tight situations. The worst mistake was going on tour without a recognised goal kicker; both the first and third test matches could have been won if not for missed penalty kicks.
Ultimately, it was the fact that SA rugby was still struggling with the demons of 13 years of isolation that caused South Africa to lose a series that could have been won. Coach McIntosh was battling to convince players and administrators of the merits of 15-man rugby. The fact that South Africa played a more attractive brand of rugby than the All Blacks but still lost –due to lack of a recognised kicker- did not help McIntosh to keep his job. Neither did the team’s inability to maintain momentum because it lacked discipline and structure at the tackle ball. A harrowing Louis Luyt –attending most of the matches- and the South African public was not convinced that test matches can be won by throwing the ball around. As a South African supporter it did feel like a situation of South Africa losing it and not one of New Zealand winning it.
There were however more to the story than the type of rugby McIntosh had his stooges playing.
At play were a few insidious cancers that were at large in the SA rugby which players, coaches and administrators were slow to recognise and address.
Provincialism has been a long standing problem in SA rugby and it was an open secret that Coach Ian McIntosh didn’t get the team he wanted. Uli Schmidt for one didn’t make himself available because he was not happy with the prop forwards selected.
The teams that played in 1993 (Australia and Argentina) and the one touring to New Zealand in 1994 can be seen in the table below. Notice the multiple changes to the midfield, the locks (some forced by injury) and the frontrow. It is no co-incidence that the midfield, the line-out and the frontrow was the problem areas for South Africa during the 1994 tour.
It is a mystery to me why Honiball and Stransky did not go on the 1994 tour (maybe they were injured or unavailable). Why was Teichman (after having been selected for the Argentinian tour) left at home for a player like Adriaan Richter? Johan Styger was regarded by the Australians in 1993 as the best scrummager in the Springbok side yet he was not selected. Instead loose cannon Johan le Roux went on tour.
1993 to Australia
1993 to Argentina
1994 to New Zealand
Fullbacks
Hugh Reece-Edwards
Andre Joubert
Theo van Rensburh
Chris Dirks
Gavin Johnson
Theo van Rensburg
Gavin Johnson (replaced van Rensburg)
Jacques Olivier
Chester Williams
James Small
Deon Oosthuysen
Chris Badenhorst
Kabous van der Westhuizen
Heinrich Fulls
Pieter Muller
Henry Honiball
Tinus Linee
Hennie le Roux
Jannie Claassens
F.A Meiring
Brendan Venter
Japie Mulder (replaced Pieter Muller)
Flyhalves
Joel Stransky
Lance Sherrel
Scrumhalves
Robert du Preez
Joost van der Westhuizen
Hentie Maartens
Johan Roux
No 8 loose forwards
Adriaan Richter
Tiaan Strauss
Gary Teichman
Flankers
Deon Lotter
Ruben Kruger
Wahl Bartman
Wahl Bartmann
Fritz van Heerden
Rudolf Straueli (replaced Ruben Kruger)
Lock forwards
Nico Wegner
Steve Atherton
Hannes Strydom
Kobus Wiese
Rudi Visagie
Adri Geldenhuys (replaced Wiese)
Krynuaw Otto
Nico Wegner (replaced Otto)
Front rowers
Heinrich Rogers
Balie Swart
Johan Styger
Keith Andrews
Willie Hills
Guy Kebble
Ollie le Roux
Johan le Roux
Uli Schmidt
Naka Drotske
Gysie Pienaar
Jannie Engelbrecht
Green = not selected again. Blue newly selected for that particular tour.
Wahl Bartmann who left for home after getting injured in the 2nd tour match against Counties
The Springboks –probably partially due to breaking-up the squads that went on tour in 1993 but also due to the fact that New Zealand played a different style of rugby than Australia and Argentina- struggled to get momentum right from the very first game.
Decision making with ball in hand and silly mistakes like botching-up kick-offs, poor throw-ins at the line-out and penalties at the tackle ball were the main culprits. The scoreboard did not always reflect how challenging they found some of the tour matches. One gets a distinct feeling -looking at replays of tour and test matches- that there was not enough attention to detail on the training paddock. The problem of throwing 50/50 passes and of backline play breaking down between numbers 9, 10 and 12 seems to have been a persistent problem that was never adequately addressed/solved; it kept-on featuring up to the last test match.
The third cancer was ill-discipline.
World rugby was busy cleaning up its act and the pugnacious South African players were at pains to re-adjust to the high standard of discipline required at international level. Trigger happy referees and streetwise New Zealand players -quick to milk the re-active truculent constitution of the South Africans to their advantage- conspired into situations where the Springboks lost the plot in virtually all three test matches.
The Springboks had opportunities to win all three test matches, but lost due to conceding crucial penalties and failing to convert penalties into points. In the first test both teams scored one try but Shane Howarth kicked five penalties to clinch the match for New Zealand. The Springboks started the match with such ferocity that they could have won the match in the first quarter if it wasn’t for their impatience and inability to maintain phase play. The Boks enjoyed 75% territorial advantage in the first 20 minutes and three times came close to scoring. The backs were running confidently from within their own 22-meter area and the forwards were mauling effectively and with discipline.
Unfortunately, Ireland referee Brain Stirling spoiled the party and played a major role in the home team’s ability to ride the tide and building up a 12-3 halftime lead. Rated just third in his own country here was Stirling in charge of the most intense Test rivalry in world rugby. Seen slumped and completely exhausted in the referee room after the game it was clear that the perceptions -as the match progressed- that he was out of his depth was correct. So incensed was Ian McIntosh with the first half 12-4 penalty and free kick count in favour of the All Blacks that he instructed stand-in Captain Tiaan Strauss to start querying Stirling.
Springbok coach having an animated discussion with Tiaan Strauss during the halftime break of the first test.
Ian McIntosh was right to be frustrated at halftime with the All Blacks’ tactics and referee Stirling’s inability to keep up. Stirling embarked on one of his many schoolmasterly lectures when the tempers flared for the first time in the match. This flare-up resulted when Robin Brooke committed a professional foul by playing the ball openly with his hand in a ruck with the Springboks on a strong attacking flow.
Stirling’s obtuse interpretation of the situation just increased the South African frustration. His imperceptions continued to incense the Springboks when he missed the way the All Blacks responded to the pressure exerted upon them by frequently drifting offside and by mountaineering in the rucks and mauls. The temperature raised another notch when Balie Swart had to leave the field after one of those frightening pile-ups. This shifted the balance in power and the New Zealand pack started to dominate. Under pressure the Springboks frustration turned too ill-discipline. Johan le Roux was twice penalised for obvious offences.
When Balie Swart had to leave the field in the first test New Zealand started to dominate in the scrums.
Staggering against the cumulative amount of penalties and free kicks the inexperienced Springboks –unsure about the offside law and Stirling’s fuzzy interpretations- became tentative at the breakdowns. At the lineouts the ball always went to Mark Andrews and the All Blacks -quick to pick that up- started to make life very difficult for him. The Springboks became increasingly more distracted even though at that stage they were back in the game (12-11) as a result of a try by Rudolf Straueli and a Joubert penalty. Had Joubert goal kicked more accurately the tide might have turned.
In the end it was ill-discipline that proved to be the decisive factor as it was a reversed penalty that took the match away from the Springboks.
When the touch judge intervened to point out that Johan le Roux had stomped on Fitzpatrick, in the 23rd minute of the second half, a kickable penalty awarded to South Africa, was reversed. New Zealand kicked the ball up-field and from the resulting line-out swept on attack winning ruck after ruck until Kirwan was given enough space to run in a try. Fact that the reversed penalty was awarded against Zinzan Brooke for playing the ball while on the ground did not improve the mood in the Springbok team at that stage. The score went to 21-11 for the All Blacks –where 5 minutes before it could have been 16-12 in the Springboks favour – when Stirling awarded yet another penalty against the Springboks.
Then an incident that would eventually determine the fate of Johan le Roux was again totally misinterpreted and wrongly officiated by the incompetent referee. Stirling, whose performance in the last 10 minutes bordered on hysterical, saw fit to only warn Le Roux when he reacted to being kicked between the legs in a ruck by Fitzpatrick. This set Le Roux up to do something really stupid in the second test that would end his international rugby career.
Ian McIntosh barred his teeth at the post-match conference. Inconsistent interpretations of ruck and maul laws and allegations of All Black illegalities like barging at the lineout and collapsing the scrum were on the agenda. But a pattern had been set. A pattern of judicious and cunning All Blacks constantly riding on the edge of the law -looking utterly innocent when caught in the act - was in place. Sean Fitzpatrick in particular took milking penalties and manipulating the referee to a new level. On the South African side a pattern of tentativeness and law interpretation uncertainties at the tackle ball had been established.
When it comes to the second test of this series South Africa was its own worst enemy. The problems started with ill-discipline in the week before the second test. First, James Small went mental in the game against Ranfurly Shield holder Waikato. His antics started when he recklessly charged into a line-out and knocked Waikato lock Steve Gordon unconscious with his knee. He then continued with his inappropriate behaviour by blowing kisses to a Waikato player -when scoring a try- and gesticulating rudely to another after a long chase back on defence. The crowd and media were incensed; it became a witch hunt. So much so that broadcaster Murray Deaker called Small a ‘nutter’, on national TV before adding, ‘What would you expect from a bloke who says he’s used dope?’
With the Springbok management considering legal action against national TV the NZRFU judiciary with a mind on ‘ensuring the good of the tour’ took -to everyone surprise- no action against Small. Like a stalker on the prowl New Zealand television now intensified their scrutiny of Springbok behaviour from here on forward. In the very next match against Manawatu a punch by Adri Geldenhuys was pinpointed and highlighted to the extent that he was banned for a week while worst acts of violence by local players were not shown at all on news and rugby talk programs.
In the second test Springbok courage and enterprise were nullified by own errors while ill-discipline was yet again exploited by New Zealand gamesmanship. New Zealand players in contrast entered the realm of angelic beings; white as snow and faultless in execution. The first New Zealand try for instance was so well constructed and so beautiful in execution that the referee overlooked the fact that the All Black pack had gone over the top in the build-up. Shortly afterwards with New Zealand leading 5-3 Fitzpatrick stood up from a collapsed scrum and punched François Pienaar openly without so much as a murmur from the referee or linesmen.
South Africa was leading 6-5 when Theo van Rensburg carried the ball over his own line and into touch-in-goal to force a 5 meter scrum that resulted in a push-over try. This while Van Rensburg could have let the ball run roll out or he could have fallen on the ball to force it dead for a 22-metre drop-out. Worst was the fact that technically it was not a try. The ball emerged and re-entered the scrum before emerging again for Zinzan Brooke to score.
The inclusion of Theo van Rensburg as fullback in place of Andre Joubert in the hope that he will sort SA place kicking woes was not a success story.
Playing against the wind in the second half South Africa started to claw their way back. They put together some good sequences even though the forwards were often guilty of taking the ball too far and getting isolated and penalised. Johan Roux came agonisingly close to scoring. A scrum followed and All Blacks got penalised for collapsing the scrum on their line. While the obvious compensation should have been a penalty try Van Rensburg went forth and missed the kick. This could have taken the score to 12-10 (in case of converted penalty) or 16-10 (in case of penalty try under the posts) in South Africa’s favour. Unbelievingly, New Zealand then moved ahead 13-9 due to a penalty awarded for ‘sledging’; most probably the first and last time that a penalty was awarded for ‘sledging’ in a international rugby match. Meanwhile several blatantly high tackles by the All Black three quarters were overlooked by the referee.
Right at the end Fitzpatrick rubbed salt into the wounds by wasting time expertly, and finally the referee blew the game a minute short. It was pure agony for the South African fans; the 4th test of 1976 and Gert Bezuidenhout is not even a comparison.
The ignominy of South African rugby dropped to extreme uncomfortable levels in the aftermath of the match when TVNZ footage was revealed which captured Springbok prop Johan le Roux biting Sean Fitzpatrick’s ear.
The South African management acted swiftly and pre-empted the judiciary deliberations by sending le Roux home. His disgrace was completed the next week in Wellington when a judiciary committee banned him from rugby for 19 months, a penalty that was not reduced on appeal.
The media was having a field day with the pugnacious nature of South African rugby players the flavour of the month. A situation was created where New Zealand players could do nothing wrong while the slightest retaliation or acts of aggressive play by South African players resulted in lectures and penalties on the field and endless replays and discussions on television and radio.
Meanwhile back at the ranch Fitzpatrick continued his niggling and pestering so much so that South African public’s view of Sean Fitzpatrick turned from dislike to hatred. An elbow here, a jersey tug here, the use of an opponent’s face to help himself off the ground were all Fitzpatrick’s trademarks, and his disbelieving face when retaliation ensued was convincing. Brendon Venter’s flailing fists -provoked by a sneaky jersey tug- was one of 6 Shane Howarth penalties which helped New Zealand to a draw the last test match in spite of the fact that SA scored two tries against none.
New Zealand won the rugger but it was a bit of an empty victory. The NZ public knew that South Africa caused their own demise. Consequently, Laurie Mains’ whinging that he didn’t receive the recognition he deserved -for being the coach of the first NZ team that didn’t drop a match in a series against SA- had a bit of an empty sound to it. It was a case of lack of ‘pagodeneitelkeit’ as the German’s like to say; New Zealanders did not have that smug feeling of self-satisfaction that one who sits behind the wheel of a vintage car experiences.
New Zealand entered the Bledisloe Cup and lost both test matches against Australia giving them 2 wins out of 6 played for the season.
The South African team left for home and Engelbrecht and McIntosh got fired. There was a sense of ‘luftfahrtorigaminiedergesrhlageheit’ (that sense of deflation you experience when your diligently folded paper plane breaks immediately to the floor) when it comes to Springbok rugby for the fans at home. Quietly, however, -while condemning le Roux’s act on the one hand- most fans were wondering why biting is considered a worse crime than eye gouging or a kick to the groin.
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Castrol roadside billboard ANPR snoopvertising - another DVLA database privacy scandal
on September 27, 2009 1:04 PM | Permalink
Various motoring blogs etc.(e.g. Honest John) have been reporting about the Castrol motor oil company's (ab)use of Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology for roadside "snoopvertising" billboard marketing purposes.
This Mail on Sunday report, however, uncovers Yet Another "data sharing without prior, individual, informed consent" scandal involving the notorious Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
Drivers' details sold by DVLA are used in bizarre roadside adverts for Castrol
By Christopher Leake
The Government's controversial Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has launched an investigation into how the car registrations of millions of motorists were sold for use by a giant oil firm.
Castrol spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on a campaign promoting its oils, using giant advertising billboards on five major routes in London.
But when The Mail on Sunday contacted the DVLA on Thursday, the campaign - which has also raised safety fears - was halted, just four days after it began. It was due to run for two weeks.
The DVLA says it restricts the release of data chiefly to car parking enforcement companies, solicitors, finance firms and property companies - but insists that in every case the privacy of motorists is 'properly safeguarded'.
That is obviously a lie.
However, the agency does sell data, including the registration number, engine size, year, make and model of individual cars, to a number of organisations, including five motor industry data providers.
This is used to ensure garages fit vehicles with the correct tyres, batteries and replacement parts. But sources have admitted that in the Castrol campaign, the DVLA data was passed on by one of the five companies to a third-party contractor, which then used it in contravention of the ban on the use of registration numbers for marketing purposes.
Both the DVLA and Castrol have refused to identify the data firm at the centre of the scandal while the official inquiry is being carried out.
Presumably these are the DVLA Accredited Trade Associations:
* The British Parking Association (BPA) - www.britishparking.co.uk
* The Association of British Investigators (ABI)- www.theabi.org.uk
* The Finance and Leasing Association (FLA) - www.fla.org.uk
* British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS) - www.bossuk.org
* Consumer Credit Trade Association (CCTA) - www.ccta.co.uk
Which one of these betrayed the DVLA data ?
Who is the "third-party contractor" ?
A spokeswoman for Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, the data watchdog, said last night that its officials had contacted the DVLA to seek assurances that drivers' personal details had not been released.
Remember that the definition of "personal data" includes partially or poorly "anonymised data", which can easily be cross referenced with another system e.g. Vehicle Number Plate and just the first part of the Post Code of the Registered Keeper address will be enough to identify the driver , in most cases.
The new Information Commissioner Christopher Graham needs to prove that he is not tainted by having been in charge of the Advertising Standards Authority, and therefore having had previous dealings with the Ogilvy advertising agency and with the Clear Channel Outdoor advertising billboard company, who seem to involved in this scheme - see our comments on the Clear Channel Create press release below.
A DVLA spokesman said: 'We have not provided any vehicle information to Castrol or received any fee from them in relation to their campaign. As soon as we became aware that vehicle information had been used inappropriately we contacted the organisation concerned to ensure this was stopped and are urgently investigating the case.'
There are two parts to the DVLA, the Vehicle data and the Driver data. This quote evades any mention of Driver data which might have been supplied to Castrol.
So what action will the DVLA actually take to punish those individuals and companies responsible ?
Chris Sedgwick, Castrol's UK & Ireland marketing director, said last night: 'We conducted this campaign as a short-term extension to the long-term service we have been running by web and text for years and believed it was entirely in line with the service provided by our data supplier.
'As soon as we were alerted to the issue we took steps to cease the interactive trial.
Castrol does not have direct access to DVLA data.'
So Castrol are trying to say that they are somehow not to blame either - what a surprise.
Will they punish their advertising agencies and other sub-contractors ?
This Clear Channel Create press release names some of the advertising people who have unprofessionally ignored, or sought to sneak around, the internationally recognised laid down in the Data Protection Act 1998.
The senior officials at the DVLA and the Directors of each of the companies mentioned are personally legally responsible for safeguarding the public's personal data.
The Clear Channel press release raises all sorts of Data Protection and personal Privacy and Security questions:
Castrol leads the way with UK's first personalised billboard advertising campaign
ANPR,
Castrol,
Clear Channel Outdoor,
DVLA,
Information Commissioner,
Ogilvy Advertising,
snoopvertising
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Information Commissioner mildly criticises the Home Office's centralised communications traffic database plan
on July 15, 2008 1:43 PM | Permalink
The Information Commissioner has commented on the Home Office's wretched plan to scrap the current system of obtaining Communications Traffic Data from the Communications Service Providers i.e. the telecomms and internet companies, and instead slurping all those log files into a massive centralised, and secret, Government database
15 Jul 08 - A communications database would be 'a step too far' (.pdf)
Speaking at the launch of his annual report,
Information Commissioner Annual Report 2007 - 2008 (.pdf)
Richard Thomas will say: "I am absolutely clear that the targeted, and duly authorised, interception of the communications of suspects can be invaluable in the fight against terrorism and other serious crime. But there needs to be the fullest public debate about the justification for, and implications of, a specially-created database - potentially accessible to a wide range of law enforcement authorities - holding details of everyone's telephone and internet communications. Do we really want the police, security services and other organs of the state to have access to more and more aspects of our private lives?
"Speculation that the Home Office is considering collecting this information from phone companies and internet service providers has been reinforced by the government's Draft Legislative Programme which, referring to a proposed Communications Data Bill, talks about 'modifying procedures for acquiring communications data'."
See our previous blog article Communications Data Bill announced:
Will there be strict limits and adequate safeguards regarding exactly who has access to such retained log files ?
Will there be a cheap, easy, rapid, fair and decent error correction and complaints procedure for individuals and businesses ?
Will there be criminal penalties for data abusers, generous financial compensation and prompt public apologies from senior officials and politicians when, not if, things go horribly wrong ?
Can pigs fly ?
Richard Thomas believes that there has not been sufficient parliamentary or public debate on proposals to collect more and more personal information without proper justification, citing the expansion of the DNA database and the centralised collection and retention of data from Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras as two recent examples.
The Information Commissioner is not being tough enough - he should be threatening to prosecute the Home Office for planning to breach the fundamental principles of Data Protection, with this disproportionate scheme.
This Home Office scheme would circumvent even the weak auditing and alleged safeguards provided by the single, censored and increasingly deliberately delayed annual reports to the Prime Minister, of the Interception of Communications Commissioner and the Intelligence Services Commissioner.
It would make it easier for secret disproportionate speculative "data trawling" through innocent people's data, instead of narrowly targeted, proportionate searches of actual terrorist or serious criminal suspects.
It would also allow secret exports of the data to foreign governments, without any oversight from the UK RIPA Commissioners, or any private individuals or companies in the UK.
This plan would circumvent even the weak auditing and alleged safeguard provided by the single, censored and increasingly deliberately delayed annual reports to the Prime Minister, of the Interception of Communications Commissioner and the Intelligence Services Commissioners, and would presumably make it easier to do speculative "data trawling" through innocent people's data, instead of narrowly targeted, proportionate searches of actual terrorist or serious criminal suspects.
These RIPA Commissioners are even weaker than the Information Commissioner, as they have no legal powers to prosecute any abuses, and no budget to investigate any complaints from the public.
The Earl of Northesk has asked four Questions in the Lords about the Home Office's Interception Modernisation Plan. The Home Office's former Admiral Lord West of Spithead fails to convince us that the Home Office has any clue about the technical feasibility or costs involved in this project, even to the nearest billion pounds - i.e. a replay of the wretched ID Cards scheme all over again.
Part of this Interception Modernisation Plan presumably, includes the secret centralised Communications Traffic Data snooping database.
The Earl of Northesk's Questions:
Communications Traffic Data,
Lord West of Spithead,
RIPA,
The Earl of Northesk
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Parliamentary Privilege allows OGC to win Appeal against having to disclose Gateway Reviews on ID Cards scheme
on April 11, 2008 5:46 PM | Permalink
Today's High Court Judgment regarding our FOIA request, made over 3 years and 4 months ago is totally unacceptable:
High Court upholds OGC appeal against Information Tribunal and suppresses publication of the Home Office ID Cards Gateway Reviews, on grounds of "Parliamentary Privilege"
Bad news for Transparency, Open Government,and Freedom of Information - the OGC has won their appeal in the High Court against the Information Tribunal, over the disclosure of the early Gateway Reviews of the Home Office's Identity Cards Programme.
Having decided that Parliamentary Privilege was engaged, because the Information Tribunal had made a reference to a House of Commons Select Committee Report, referring to the desirability of publishing OGC Gateway Reviews, Mr. Justice Stanley Burnton then actually rejected all the other OGC grounds for appeal.
It is utterly despicable that Article 9 of the Bill of Rights 1689, which is supposed to protect freedom of speech in Parliament, has, instead, been abused to suppress the disclosure of the early Office of Government Commerce Gateway Reviews of Home Office Identity Cards Programme, requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
What use is the whole system of Parliamentary Select Committees, if their publicly published Reports cannot be made use of in this way ? They might as well all be scrapped.
The politicians and civil servants are making fools of themselves over this whole national centralised biometric database scheme, and in their wasteful attempts to keep their failings secret, by delaying and denying Freedom of Information rights.
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More illegal Mobile Phones in Prisons, more re-cycled Answers and Policies from the Ministry of (In)Justice
on October 15, 2009 6:03 PM | Permalink
Is the Ministry of Justice pretending to be "environmentally friendly", by re-cycling Parliamentary Written Answers, or are they simply re-cycling their ineffective "do nothing" policies ?
Compare and contrast these two Written Answers about the ongoing scandal of Mobile Phones in Prisons:
The earlier Answer by David Hanson (now the replacement for Tony McNulty at the Home Office) gave totals of Mobile Phones and SIM cards seized in 2006, 2007 and 2008 for each prison, but does not bother to total them up, so we have done so, in order to compare them with the mid 2008 to mid 2009 figure trotted out six months after the fact in the latest Answer, which only breaks out a High Security estate figure from the total.
July 2008 - June 2009
High Security Category A and Lifer 292 325 391 255
Lower Security Category B, C, D, YOI, Juvenile, Female, Local and Remand 1776 3347 6897 8393
Total 2068 3672 7288 8648
Why has there been no visible progress whatsoever by the Ministry of Justice in preventing Mobile Phones being smuggled in or used illegally in Prisons in the last six months or a year, does there ? As some of the media and bloggers have pointed out, there are only about 80,000 prison places in England and Wales, so that looks like about 1 mobile phone for every 10 or so prisoners !
House of Commons Written Answers 12 Oct 2009 : Column 139W
House of Commons Written Answers 5 May 2009 : Column 74W
Prisoners: Mobile Phones Prisons: Mobile Phones
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many mobile telephones were found in the possession of prisoners in (a) top security and (b) all other prisons in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [287998] Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many mobile telephones were seized in each prison in England and Wales in the last five years for which figures are available. [260436]
Maria Eagle: Prisons in England and Wales are asked to send mobile phones and SIM cards they find to a central unit for analysis. In the last 12 months (from July 2008-June 2009), 8,648 mobile phones and SIM cards were analysed. 255 were from the high security estate and 8,393 were from the non-high security estate. These figures include items discovered within prison perimeters and on entry to establishments. We do not keep central records of mobile phones found in the possession of prisoners. Mr. Hanson: Prisons are asked to send mobile phones and SIM cards they find to a central unit for analysis. The numbers analysed are set out in the following table for each of the last three years. There are no figures available for the years prior to 2006, because this information was not collated centrally
The figures include items discovered within the prison perimeter and on entry to establishments. However,
We believe that these figures may understate the actual number of finds, because they do not include items retained by the police for evidential purposes, and because in some instances prisons have not sent items for analysis. NOMS is putting in place new procedures to ensure that we have a more comprehensive picture in future. While the numbers of phones found indicates the scale of the challenge in tackling illicit mobile phones, it is also a reflection of prisons' increasing success in finding them and better reporting. we believe that these figures may understate the actual number of finds, because they do not include items retained by the police for evidential purposes, and because in some instances prisons have not sent items for analysis. NOMS is putting in place new procedures to ensure that we have a more comprehensive picture in future. While the numbers of phones found indicates the scale of the challenge in tackling illicit mobile phones, it is also a reflection of prisons' increasing success in finding them and better reporting.
NOMS is implementing a strategy to minimise the number of phones entering prisons, and to find or disrupt those that do enter. As part of the strategy, prisons have been provided with technologies to strengthen local security and searching strategies, in line with the recommendations in the Blakey report, "Disrupting the Supply of Illicit Drugs into Prisons", published in July 2008. This includes the roll out of "BOSS" chairs to all prisons, and the deployment of other detection and disruption technologies, including mobile phone signal blockers. NOMS is implementing a strategy to minimise the number of phones entering prisons, and to find or disrupt those that do enter. As part of the strategy, prisons are being provided with technologies to strengthen local security and searching strategies, in line with the recommendations in the Blakey report, Disrupting the Supply of Illicit Drugs into Prisons, published in July 2008. This includes the roll out of "BOSS" chairs to all prisons, and the deployment of other detection and disruption technologies, including mobile phone signal blockers.
We have also strengthened the law, through the Offender Management Act 2007 (implemented in April 2008), which makes it a criminal offence with a punishment of up to two years' imprisonment to bring an unauthorised mobile phone or component part into a prison. We have also strengthened the law, through the Offender Management Act 2007 (implemented in April 2008), which makes it a criminal offence with a punishment of up to two years' imprisonment to bring an unauthorised mobile phone or component part into a prison.
There is another Written Answer which gives a monthly breakdown of figures for each prison , between Mobile Phones and SIM cards "sent for analysis to the central unit". from April 2008 to March 2009: Prisons: Mobile Phones - Justice Written answers and statements, 23 April 2009. It is unclear if the the figure for SIM cards includes the SIM card almost always found in a Mobile Phone handset (i.e. double counting both the handset and its usual SIM card) .
Has anyone actually been arrested, charged, prosecuted or convicted under this section of the Offender Management Act 2007 came into force over 18 months ago ? Why is the Ministry of Justice simply ignoring the more than 8,000 criminal offences which these figures show have been perpetrated since April 2008 ?
Why are there still no "BOSS" chairs (sensitive metal detectors built into a chair to check inside body cavities) in use at every single prison, to check all prisoners and visitors and including the prison staff and contractors ?
Instead of wasting billions of pounds of tax payers money on Identity Cards and on snooping on millions of innocent people's mobile phone and internet communications data, why not spend a few millions on proper Mobile Phone security at every Prison ? This would have an immediate effect on Serious Crime etc.
See the previous Spy Blog article Wandsworth Prison IMB report 2007-2008 - things have got even worse with illegal drugs and mobile phones in the last year
Mobile Phone Location Tracking,
Path Intelligence FootPath(tm) mobile phone tracking - a few more details
on May 20, 2008 6:29 PM | Permalink
Toby Oliver from Path Intelligence has, via email, answered a few of our Questions and Concerns but raised a few new ones - see below.
As a general point we don't use the phones IMEI's we use the TMSI and occasionally part of the IMSI
See our previous article "Path Intelligence - Phorm for shopping centres ?"
More coverage and comment at The Register
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Path Intelligence - Phorm for shopping centres ?
on May 18, 2008 12:07 PM | Permalink
Just in case you thought that Phorm was the only threat to your privacy, here is an example of similar "no opt out" snooping technology being installed in the infrastructure of a public space, a shopping centre, which secretly snoops on individuals, without their informed prior consent, in the hope that advertising and sales revenues can be maximised.
There is no way, short of switching off your mobile phone, of opting out or avoiding this snooping scheme.
The Times has a story:
From Times Online May 16, 2008
Shops secretly track customers via mobile phone
Signals given off by phones allow shopping centres to monitor how long people stay and which stores they visit
Jonathan Richards, San Francisco
Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones.
The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route they take as they walked around.
All the same issues about the lack of informed, prior consent of members of the public who have been, or are now being snooped on in secret, for the commercial benefit of others, apply to Path Intelligence Ltd. (technology provider), the shopping centres (public infrastructure providers), and retailers (profit makers), just as they do to Phorm (technology provider), the Internet Service Providers (public infrastructure providers) and web advertisers (profit makers).
If you look at the demonstration (needs Flash) of the interactive mapping and reporting software which Path Intelligence seem to have developed for this snooping technology, you will see that it could also be easily applied to display and analyse inputs from other "spy on the public without their knowledge or consent" technologies which exploit things which large numbers of people might be carrying on their persons, like BlueTooth or unkilled consumer product RFID tags, or "Biometric" Passports or ID Cards.
It should be relatively simple to link such a system to the existing CCTV surveillance camera networks which modern shopping centres all employ.
Sharon Biggar, the company's chief operating officer, said that one of the stores which had already deployed the receivers did not want its name revealed for fear of alarming its customers.
Who is this snooping retailer ? Why should we not boycott them ?
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Archive for ‘Levi Johnston’
NBC Reliable Source: Ricky Hollywood!
Yes, when respectable mainstream journalists like NBC’s Ann Curry want the authoritative word on Republican Party politics, they know who to call: High-school dropout, unemployed has-been hockey jock, the world’s most famous deadbeat dad . . .
MEET RICKY HOLLYWOOD!
OK, so who’s the bigger laughingstock: Curry or her source? Talk about someone whose 15 minutes of fame should have ended 16 minutes ago . . .
And can anyone now doubt that Pat Buchanan had the right answer to this problem?
(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.)
UPDATE: Troglopundit has the perfect match for NBC’s new political correspondent. And if Meghan McCain and Mr. Hollywood don’t work out, his next conquest . . .
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Pat Buchanan’s Very Excellent Idea
Via Hot Air:
The problem with Pat’s approach is that it’s far more humane than this punk deserves. As I’ve said before, the big mystery to me is why Levi Johnston’s horribly mutilated corpse hasn’t been fed to a pack of wolves.
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Levi Johnston: ‘Mindless bag of hormones’
So says Laura at Pursuing Holiness, discussing the latest interview from the Bristol Palin baby daddy:
“Abstinence is a great idea,” he said, “but I also think you need to enforce, you know, condoms and birth control and other things like that to have safe sex. I don’t just think telling young kids, you can’t have sex, it’s not going to work. It’s not realistic. ” … It’s a great idea and a great message she’s trying to send out to the world and all the young kids. It’s not easy raising a baby. But I do think there’s more things to it than just not having sex.”
Yeah, Levi, but if you had stuck to the “just not having sex” part, you wouldn’t be famous now, would you? You’d still be just some small-town jock chasing tail in Wasilla, and CBS News would never want to interview a nobody loser like that.
I remember back when the news broke of Bristol’s pregnancy. My first post about it was critical of Bristol, even more critical of Levi Johnston, and yet more critical of the way the story was handled by the “media strategy geniuses” who were busy doing what they do best, running the Republican Party off a cliff. There is a right way and a wrong way to handle a scandal in the New Media age, and Republicans haven’t figured it out yet, because they’re too busy paying gazillions of dollars to “media strategy geniuses” who never worked a day in the news business. But we digress . . .
Many of my conservative readers excoriated me for daring to criticize the Romeo and Juliet of Anchorage. But (a) that’s just the way I roll, people, and (b) I know enough about 17-year-old boys to recognize Levi Johnston for what he is.
Yeah, big-deal hockey star, doin’ the governor’s daughter, braggin’ to all his buddies about it. There was a reason, you see, that when the media flew up to Wasilla, every other person they talked to was telling them about Levi and Bristol. Because that’s the kind of guy Levi Johnston is.
Dimwit losers like that are a dime a dozen.
But a conservative isn’t supposed to say such things! Blame everything on the evil “media”! As I noted even before we knew Levi’s last name:
Little Miss Attila refers to the press as “jackals” and “bottom-feeders.” Hey, it’s their job, OK? By this time tomorrow, you’ll have Levi’s full name and biography, you’ll know how he met Bristol, etc., etc. You’ll read it. You may feel guilty about reading it, but you’ll read every word of it.
Will you be grateful to the reporters who dug up those facts? No. Some poor shmuck of a reporter is even now knocking on doors in Alaska, getting rude responses and threatening gestures, in order to satisfy your pathological curiosity, and you diss him as a “jackal.” Fine. Don’t read the story when Drudge puts a siren on it tomorrow.
But you will read it, won’t you? So, who’s really the bottom-feeding jackal here?
Facts are facts. Any journalist who is halfway intelligent and stays in the game a while will learn secrets he can never report, because you don’t burn a source. You are always skeptical of “the story too good to be true,” and so when I saw the Republican spinners portraying the fairy-tale romance of Levi and Bristol . . . well, I shut up.
Nobody wanted to hear my appraisal of the situation. I focused on other stories and just let the whole Levi and Bristol business go on to its sorry, and utterly predictable, denouement. None of the nice, respectable Republicans who were telling me not to criticize Levi back in September will ever say now, “Hey, you know something? He was right.” And what did I tell you Feb. 5, 2008?
[John] McCain is not a conservative, he will lose in November . . .
I was right about that, too. A guy gets tired of being right all the time, and watching fools prosper.
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Bristol Palin calls Baby Daddy Levi ‘white trash’
Well, this little bit of tabloid gossip is helpful, isn’t it? A source says Bristol broke up with the teenage sperm donor Levi “Sex on Skates” Johnston two months ago, won’t even let him see the fruit of his loins, and has denounced the entire Johnston family as “white trash.”
I love Sarah Palin, but Bristol’s judgment is questionable. Really, Bristol: What do you expect people to call a girl who gets herself knocked up by white trash? This does not reflect favorably on you.
UPDATE: Noting the negativity of some of the comments, but didn’t realized I’d been linked on this by Videmus Omnia at Conservatives4Palin:
As a final note, I am very disappointed in our friend R. S. McCain. Do all McCains like to stick the knife into Palins when their backs are turned?
Sorry, I’m not wired that way. I support Sarah Palin. But if Bristol Palin is conducting herself in such a hideous manner, I’m not going to turn a blind eye and pretend it’s not happening. I’ve got three teenagers of my own, remember, and if they act disgracefully, my judgment would be quite harsh indeed.
Read what I wrote about the role of lax discipline in the apparent decline of evangelical churches. I am not a violent or brutal person, but neither do I believe that indulgent condescension is an appropriate way to instill character in the young. In sharing some unsavory details of my own tragic adolescence, I should hope I made it clear that I understand the potentially disastrous consequences of wrong choices and bad companionship.
It is not kindness to a wayward child to shelter and protect them when they are doing the wrong thing. While the full circumstances of the situation are of course not known to us, doesn’t it seem that Bristol is going out of her way to bring shame and disgrace to her parents? And what about Levi Johnston, the hockey stud? Am I the only one who thinks that his role in all this has been of a selfish, shallow cad?
I would call to your attention the difference between Michael Reagan, older son that Ronald Reagan adopted with his first wife, Jane Wyman, and Ron Jr., the natural son of Reagan’s second marriage to Nancy. If you talk to people who knew the family, the cause of the difference between the two sons is obvious.
As a boy, Michael felt somewhat “second best,” and had a deep hunger to win his father’s admiration and acceptance. Michael went through some wild years, but in his maturity, he was a respectful, dutiful son. By contrast — and Reagan admitted this privately to friends — Ron Jr. was treated with too much favoritism as a child, and thus grew up arrogant and disrespectful.
A child’s misconduct always reflects poorly on the family. I’m sure that Bristol is breaking her parents’ hearts by her shoddy behavior. But I’m thinking back to some TV interview Bristol did, and if she demonstrated an attitude of humility and remorse, it didn’t stick in my mind.
Why would anyone think it was helpful — to her, to her parents, to the GOP or to the conservative cause — for conservatives to pretend that everything with Bristol is just hunky-dory? If my kid was acting like that, would a true friend ignore it?
And since Videmus Omnia brings up the subject of Crazy Cousin John, how do you think his daughter Meghan got such an impudent attitude? Way back years ago, when I was a single fellow, there was a type of girl I labeled “Daddy’s Little Darling.”
Maybe some of y’all know the type — snooty, stuck-up, cliqueish, insufferable demanding, with a high-handed and disdainful way of dealing with people beneath her status, having a self-important attitude.
Once, after I’d been covering sports in Calhoun, Ga., a few years, I was at the season-opening high school football game. Before the game, I was talking to a group of non-football athletes — baseball, basketball, wrestling — who were hanging out by the end zone. This girl comes walking up, apparently attracted magnetically to a cluster of high-status students.
So she managed to find an opportunity to introduce herself, “I’m Heather So-and-So.” Yes, OK, fine nice to meet you, but there wasn’t any recognition on my part, because the only kids I knew were the ones who played sports. Seeing that I wasn’t impressed, the girl then repeated her name, “Heather So-and-So. My dad is Jim So-and-So, he owns So-and-So Carpet Outlet.”
If that wasn’t the tackiest thing I’d ever heard! But that’s the “Daddy’s Little Darling” attitude, and it’s always a source of misery. Whether that has anything to do with the original subject from which I have sadly digressed, you be the judge.
Video: McCain greets Palin family
Raw video from Associated Press, notice him talking to baby daddy Levi:
“We’re going to fight back,” Maverick says. And the (oddly optimistic) Allah says, “Before this story’s done circulating, Maverick’s standing with the base is apt to be at an all-time high.”
Any time Allah gets optimistic, something strange must be going on.
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Levi Johnston: ‘Sex on skates’
New York Magazine:
We’ll have a roundup of pundit reactions later, and we’re sure that you have your own points of view. . . .
We have a different question: HOW HOT IS THE BABY DADDY? . . . . Look at that face. John McCain is definitely winning the cougar vote now, on top of the Jamie-Lynn Spears vote.
Johnston is basically the quintessential example of that guy who you are constantly worried is going to impregnate your daughter (and occasionally does). He’s a handsome stud, an athletic star, and he has a criminal record.
OK, I’ve been getting a lot of grief for slogging Levi “f—in’ redneck” Johnston on an earlier post, mainly because I figured by knocking up Bristol Palin, he was helping Obama. But traffic is through the roof with people Googling for “boyfriend Levi Johnston” and so I’m sensing that this might go the other way.
Between “Sarah Palin bikini pics” and this young studpuppy shagging 17-year-old Bristol, the choice of the VPILF has added a sexy factor to the GOP ticket. America loves a good soap opera, especially the R-rated kind on HBO where the studly teenage hockey player is getting jiggy with the governor’s jailbait daughter.
Brangelina, Britney and K-Fed, Levi and Bristol — look, if the American people want “The OC” at the Naval Observatory, who am I to argue? So I’m beating Ace to the punch and jumping to the front of the line for Google hits for “Levi Johnston hung like a moose.” Also, if anyone has photos of Levi Johnston in his underwear, send ’em on.
I’m a capitalist blogger, and traffic is traffic.
UPDATE: Getting lots of e-mails from people weighing in on the issue, mostly seeing the human-interest side of the story. Conservatives definitely seem to be rallying in support of Bristol Palin, and so Team Maverick may come out ahead on this after all.
Despite my ribald reaction to all this, I am a father of six (including three teenagers) and I do believe that babies are a blessing, not a “punishment.” And long before I’d ever heard of Bristol Palin, I said “thank God for Jamie Lynn Spears” and blogged about my favorite famous teenage mothers. So those of you supporting Bristol, I’m on your side.
However, I’m also a journalist writing about politics and as such, I have to wonder how this is playing with the undecided swing voters out there. (Obama just hit 50% for the first time in Gallup’s daily tracking poll.) Does the sudden eruption of distracting chatter about Palin’s family make Team Maverick look incompetent? Was she properly vetted? What does this decision say about Crazy Cousin John’s executive judgment?
Politics ain’t beanbag. The Democrats and the MSM smell blood in the water, and I have no idea what the result will be Nov. 4. Maybe, just maybe, the story of how “Bristol Gone Wild” got knocked up by Levi “f—in’ redneck” Johnston will strike a sympathetic chord in the American psyche, finally bringing out a pro-life majority.
Stranger things have happened, I suppose, and God moves in mysterious ways. But at this point, objectively, I’d say a Republican victory in November would be a miracle. Conservatives need to spend more time praying, and less time hassling capitalist bloggers who are guilty of nothing more sinister than shameless traffic-baiting.
UPDATE II: Just checked with Dr. Melissa Clouthier, who confirms that Levi had totally got the I-want-to-have-his-babies factor working in his favor: “He’s hot,” says Dr. Melissa.
UPDATE III: As much as studly young Levi brings out Dr. Melissa’s inner cougar, Little Miss Attila says she’s more eager to see shirtless photos of Todd Palin. Yeah — chicks dig the rugged, macho, 40-something dudes. I get that all the time.
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Bristol Palin’s boyfriend, Levi Johnston
Musclehead 18-year-old hockey player:
Doe-eyed Bristol Palin, 17, and ruggedly handsome Levi Johnston, an 18-year-old self-described “f—in’ redneck,” have been dating a year, locals in Wasilla, Alaska, told the Daily News.
And the pregnancy? An open secret in the close-knit town of 9,780. . . .
On his MySpace page, Johnston proudly declares: “I’m a f—in’ redneck.”
“I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing,” he says on the site.
He also warns that if anyone messes with him, “I’ll kick ass.”
Way to go, f—in’ redneck. Your f—in’ stupidity might have just elected f—in’ Obama.
By the way, in my column today, I predicted it would take less than 24 hours for the press to ID Mr. Teen Inseminator, and they did the job in barely 12.
UPDATE: Somebody just e-mailed me this touchy-feely blog post about the Palin family, and it merely infuriates me:
I wish her and her husband-to-be and their baby safety and joy. And as much privacy as they can find. I intensely admire both her decision to choose life, and her decision to further sacrifice her privacy in order to support her mom for the betterment of our country. And as far as I’m concerned, that’s the end of that.
Don’t you people realize that politics ain’t beanbag? You’re up against the Democratic Party and the MSM, and they’re not going to cut you any slack. This is the biggest possible game for the highest possible stakes — the presidency of the United States — and all your tender-hearted concern for two teenagers in love isn’t worth squat in such a situation.
Send me no more such sentimental gush. It’s worse than useless at this point.
UPDATE II: The Washington Post put no fewer than five reporters on the story, including one who knocked on the door of Johnston’s family home in Wasilla. Did Team Maverick warn the Palin family about this?
UPDATE III: An anonymous commenter says I should “be ashamed” for “laying a trip like that on” Mr. Baby Daddy. Why? Because he’s a teenage jock? C’mon, who doesn’t know how teenage jocks behave? Do you really expect me to believe that Levi “f—in’ redneck” Johnston wasn’t bragging to all his buddies about nailing the governor’s daughter?
Why do you suppose Bristol’s pregnancy was “no secret” in Wasilla, hmmm? Because that musclehead braggart told everybody in town, that’s why. And I should be “ashamed” of denouncing this cretinous hoodlum? Make. Me. Laugh.
UPDATE IV: Jeralyn Merritt has started a pool on when Sarah Palin will resign from the ticket. I don’t think that will happen. Team Maverick is aware of the Eagleton precedent, and they know there’s no second chances on the veep pick. For better or worse, they’ve got to ride this one out.
UPDATE V: Levi is “sex on skates.” This kid might be the new pro-life poster boy because, apparently, lots of teenage girls (and some older ladies, too) would love to have his babies.
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Transfer rumor roundup: Man Utd eyes $32M teen phenom; Bruno Fernandes latest
By Nicholas MendolaJan 19, 2020, 10:06 AM EST
Friday reports claimed Bruno Fernandes may be in the stands as a Manchester United player as soon as Sunday’s match with Liverpool.
Then came claims that Sporting Lisbon had waffled on either price of payment plan for their megastar midfielder, throwing the deal back in the balance.
Sky Sports says the deal is far from dead, with Fernandes “desperate” to make the move to Old Trafford, one made by countrymen Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani before him.
Still, it’s all a bit wild after Friday, where United fans watched the Lisbon Derby just hoping for the player’s healthy passage in what was largely viewed as a farewell to the fans.
It still may be, but nothing’s coming easy for the Red Devils these days.
The Times claims that United is making a big investment in its long-term future with more than $30 million in the offing for a 16-year-old Championship star.
There would reportedly be an 18-month loan back to Birmingham City for Jude Bellingham, whose Championship side is lagging near the bottom of the table.
Bellingham doesn’t turn 17 until the summer and has already rung up 25 senior appearances with four goals and an assist for the Blues.
United’s Sunday rivals Liverpool are also eyeing a youngster, albeit one with less first team experience.
Pedro Brazao of Nice is 17 years old and being tracked by plenty of teams, according to RMC Sport, with Liverpool joining the fray.
The Portuguese youth international made his Ligue 1 debut off the bench in April, but has yet to hit the pitch this season. Nice isn’t exactly channeling goals, either, but Brazao is an exciting prospect. Chalk this one as one for the future.
Tags: Birmingham City, Bruno Fernandes, Football League Championship, Manchester United, Portugal, Premier League, Sporting CP, Sporting Lisbon, Ba, Bruno, Nani, Pedro
Transfer rumor roundup: Moses reunited with Conte, Lazaro to Newcastle
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Inter Milan is still working the wings and it’s now affecting two Premier League sides.
One day after Ashley Young left Manchester United to join Antonio Conte‘s project, Chelsea and Newcastle are set to be impacted by a Milanese departure and arrival. Jacob Bruun Larsen
First, Sky Sports Italia reporter Gianluca Di Marzio says Newcastle has agreed to a $3 million loan fee with a $27 million option to buy Austrian international Valentino Lazaro. The player’s agent is reportedly on Tyneside.
The 23-year-old made his name with Red Bull Salzburg, going on to earn 28 caps for Austria. He moved to Hertha Berlin and earned five goals and 13 assists in two seasons before a transfer to Inter.
He’s only collected 513 minutes under Conte, registering two assists. Lazaro has played a lot of right midfield but is capable up and down the flank on either side. He’s played pretty much everything but center back and center forward in his career.
Fun fact: Lazaro’s middle name is Lando.
As for the arrival, ex-Chelsea boss Conte is looking set for a reunion with Victor Moses. The 29-year-old Nigerian is currently on loan at Fenerbahce, where he’s got a goal and an assist in seven matches.
A thigh injury has cost Moses spells of six and four matches on the sidelines this season, but he should have plenty of treads left on the tires considering Maurizio Sarri only used him for 176 minutes last season.
Finally, Bournemouth looks ready to tempt Borussia Dortmund’s resolve over Jacob Bruun Larsen.
The 21-year-old Dane certainly has the goods to improve Eddie Howe‘s stagnant attack, but he may be rusty. Larsen has only played 158 minutes this season, grabbing an assist.
Prolific for BVB at youth levels, perhaps a change of scenery would trigger senior success for a man who made his Denmark senior debut in March.
Sky says BVB wants the deal to be a loan with an option to buy in the summer.
Tags: Antonio Conte, Borussia Dortmund, Bournemouth, Bundesliga, Chelsea, Inter, Jacob Bruun Larsen, Newcastle United, Premier League, Serie A, transfer news, Transfer Rumor Roundup, Valentino Lazaro, Victor Moses
Transfer Rumor Roundup: Ashley Young to Inter
By Kyle BonnJan 16, 2020, 5:25 PM EST
Manchester United is offloading captain Ashley Young, with multiple reports in both England and Italy claiming the 34-year-old is set for a medical at Inter Milan on Friday.
According to The Telegraph, the deal is worth $1.7 million, netting Manchester United a small sum of money before Young’s contract was set to expire this summer. Italian publication Gazzetta dello Sport is also reporting the move. It was reported a few days ago that Young was nearing a deal with Inter through the summer of 2021.
Young has made 12 Premier League appearances for Manchester United this season, but it was unlikely the club would offer him a contract this summer, and he has been slowly phased out of the squad as Luke Shaw began to earn the lion’s share of time at left-back.
He will have plenty of familiar faces at Inter, with Former Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku and on-loan playmaker Alexis Sanchez both currently playing at the San Siro. It is unclear where Young fits in at the Italian side, with Antonio Conte favoring a three-CB system and Young’s skill set more defensive-minded, not exactly suited for a wing-back role.
According to The Guardian’s Nick Ames, Arsenal is paying special attention towards Paris Saint-Germain full-back Layvin Kurzawa, hoping to secure a deal this winter.
The 27-year-old has made 11 Ligue 1 appearances for PSG this season, sharing time with Juan Bernat at left-back. Kurzawa’s contract at PSG expires this summer and he has made just 90 appearances since joining from Monaco in 2015.
Kurzawa would be of special interest to Arsenal given the massive amount of injuries suffered by the Gunners along the back line this season. Kieran Tierney remains sidelined with a dislocated shoulder, with surgery keeping him out through March, while Calum Chambers begins ACL rehab, and both Hector Bellerin and Sead Kolasinac work their way back from thigh injuries.
The Guardian report says the clubs have made contact but a deal is still “some way off.”
Tottenham is desperate to find a short-term replacement for injured talisman Harry Kane, which is proving more difficult than believed as the team looks to convince a player to join knowing they are only needed for a few months.
However, with Gedson Fernandes having already signe don, asking a player to agree to a switch is not the only problem they have reportedly faced. 28-year-old Porto striker Ze Luis is a target for the club according to a number of reports, including the Evening Standard. Unfortunately, it appears work permit issues are at the heart of the holdup.
Portuguese publication Record reports that Ze Luis does not possess a European passport, and as a Cape Verde international, it would seem unlikely that he would be set to earn a British work permit. Cape Verde was ranked 75th in world by the latest FIFA release, and the Premier League usually only considers players from top 50 countries.
After joining this past summer from Spartak Moscow, Ze Luis has scored seven Liga NOS goals in 12 appearances for Porto this season, earning the majority of minutes to this point before sitting the last two games in favor of Brazilian striker Tiquinho Soares.
According to The Guardian reporters Ed Aarons and Paul Doyle, Aston Villa is “close” to a deal for Genk striker Mbwana Samatta in a deal worth $11.1 million.
The deal was likely spurred on by an injury to Villa striker Wesley who suffered a knee injury that is set to keep him out the rest of the season.
Mbwana, a 27-year-old Tanzania international, has seven goals in 20 Jupiler Pro League games this season – although he has just two since the start of September – plus three more in Champions League play. He was the top scorer in the league last season, with 20 goals in 28 appearances, including a streak where he scored 10 goals in nine games through the winter.
He will also need a work permit to complete the switch, which could be an issue given Tanzania is ranked 134th in the world by FIFA, but he has 51 international caps and could be eligible for a special exemption. His status as top scorer last season, earning him the Soulier d’Ébène award as the best African player in Belgium, could be enough to trigger that exemption.
Tags: Antonio Conte, Ashley Young, Ba, Calum Chambers, Doyle, Harry Kane, Kieran Tierney, Luke Shaw, Romelu Lukaku, Sead Kolasinac, Wesley
Transfer rumor roundup: Everton to Everton, Koulibaly to Man Utd
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Sometimes, the gossip mill gives us legit laughs.
Gremio executive director Klauss Camara had the distinct privilege of giving a truly wondrous comment regarding one of his players.
“Everton in Everton is a situation that has been coming out more intensely. But there is no proposal put forward.”
The club is Premier League side Everton, and the player is 23-year-old winger Everton Soares. He’s scored 30 of his 47 career senior goals the past two seasons in becoming a 14-times capped Brazil international.
Sky Sports reports that Arsenal, Spurs, and a host of other clubs have registered interest in the player, but that Everton the club may leap into action this January.
That could also make for a lot of difficulties for media, not that that should discourage Carlo Ancelotti or Marcel Brands. Then again, Everton stars for Liverpool might make the world explode in irony.
Could Kalidou Koulibaly end years of life in the transfer rumor roundup by actually transfering this month?
Football.London says the 28-year-old center back wants out of Napoli, and that Manchester United may be willing to pony up the big bucks.
United reportedly bid over $100 million for the player in the summer, and it’s almost certain that United would have to break its own defender transfer fee record to land Koulibaly. He’s been an absolute monster for the Neapolitan set, racking up 232 senior appearances since arriving from Genk.
Partnering with Harry Maguire at center back or joining Maguire and Victor Lindelof in a three-man back line would allow attacking fullback talents Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Brandon Williams to create plenty of headaches for the Premier League.
Koulibaly also has been lauded for his class in discussing the racial abuse he’s suffered in his career.
Tags: Everton, Everton Soares, Gremio, Kalidou Koulibaly, Klauss Camara, Manchester United, Napoli, Premier League, Serie A, transfer news, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Ba, Brandon Williams, Carlo Ancelotti, Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelof
Transfer rumor roundup: Kabasele to Arsenal, Man Utd; Spurs, Newcastle eye Cyprien
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Oh, the rumors are picking up around England…
Newcastle United is looking into perhaps the perfect cure for what ails them, but faces competition from Spurs.
The Magpies have incredible depth at the back and have made good investment across the top, but have been lacking a star midfielder to drive the attack since Yohan Cabaye or Georginio Wijnaldum.
Enter Wylan Cyprien, the $30 million rated Nice playmaker.
Cyprien, 24, has seven goals and three assists for Nice this season. Ranked 10th in Ligue 1 for goals and shots, he’s also a terrific passer and quality on set pieces.
Why Nice would sell him in season is the question, and it seems likely Patrick Vieira would revolt if his top playmaker left with the club in competition for the Champions League places.
The Magpies are the least likely of a host of teams reportedly chasing Watford defender Christian Kabasele.
The 28-year-old Belgian center back is very much wanted by the Vicarage Road set, but will enter the final year of his contract next summer.
If Watford cannot lock him down, he’ll have no shortage of suitors. Le 10 Sport links Newcastle, Manchester United, Arsenal, and West Ham wil his services.
Kabasele has appeared 88 times for the Hornets since arriving from Genk, pitching in five goals. It’s odd to see him linked with Newcastle, as he’s more needed at the other reported members of the trio.
Aston Villa is not messing around when it comes to January transfer targets.
The Villans have already added Pepe Reina, and are reportedly seeking another pair of Serie A stars.
Jose Callejon and Fernando Llorente will be familiar to most who watch the European game.
The former, 32, has a goal and eight assists for the Neapolitans this season as part of a glittering career. The latter arrived from Spurs this summer and has four goals on the season.
Villa definitely needs a center forward with Wesley Moraes out for the season, but Llorente has scored more than six goals in a season since his 15-goal campaign for Swansea City in 2016/17.
Tags: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Christian Kabasele, fernando llorente, Jose Callejon, Ligue 1, Manchester United, Napoli, Newcastle United, Nice, Premier League, Serie A, Watford, Wylan Cyprien, Ba, Christian Kabasele, Fernando, Fernando Llorente, Georginio Wijnaldum, Pepe Reina, Wesley, Yohan Cabaye
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PRO SOCCER TALK | NBC SPORTSPST Derby County
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Stoppage time equalizer for American midfielder Duane Holmes
Derby County stayed unbeaten with Wayne Rooney on the pitch thanks to a last minute goal from an American playmaker.
Duane Holmes hit a beautiful volley in the first minute of stoppage time to give the Rams a point away to Middlesbrough on Saturday.
It was the American’s first goal of the season and third in 56 appearances for the Rams. Holmes earned his first two USMNT caps this summer.
The 25-year-old has been an every week starter for Philip Cocu dating back to mid-October.
🎯🤩! @DuaneHolmes. #dcfcfans pic.twitter.com/eU4xtv36VA
— Derby County Talk (@derbycountytalk) January 11, 2020
Rooney went 90 minutes as Derby is 17th with 34 points, eight back of the promotion playoff picture.
Back to Holmes, he admitted that the goal was lucky; He swung his peg but it struck his shin pad to fool the goalkeeper.
Tags: Americans Abroad, Derby County, Duane Holmes, Football League Championship, Wayne Rooney, Ba, Rooney
Report: Wayne Rooney holding talks to join Derby County as player-coach
By Kyle BonnAug 5, 2019, 2:25 PM EDT
According to a report by James Ducker of The Telegraph, D.C. United striker Wayne Rooney is in talks with Derby County about a return to English football as a player-coach for the Championship club.
Derby County signed former Barcelona player Phillip Cocu as manager on a four-year contract in the wake of Frank Lampard‘s departure, and the club may look to capitalize on Rooney’s solid Major League Soccer form by bringing him on as a player while also getting his feet wet in the coaching ranks.
According to the report, Rooney’s agent Paul Stretford has already met with the club and plans to continue talks in the coming days. Yesterday the Sun had reported that Rooney was thinking about a possible return to Manchester United in a coaching role alongside Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, but this would see him able to continue his playing while also learning the coaching ropes. He has two years remaining on his D.C. United contract that runs through December of 2021.
Rooney looked behind the pace during his final Premier League season with Everton in 2017/18, but he joined D.C. United that summer and has seen somewhat of a revival. During his time in MLS, Rooney has scored 23 goals in 44 matches while dotting the highlight reel with spectacular strikes including one from the midway line.
It’s possible that Derby believes Rooney has something to offer on the pitch while also beginning his coaching career, serving as an asset on the field while also potentially learning to follow-up Cocu should he not impress or be lured away after a period of success. For time on the field, Rooney would compete with 29-year-old opening day starter Martyn Waghorn, 30-year-old Championship veteran Chris Martin, and 24-year-old Jack Marriott for time at the striker position.
Derby signed Lampard to his first managerial job back in May of last year, and it was a smashing success, with Derby reaching the Championship playoff final before losing to Aston Villa to agonizingly miss out on Premier League promotion. Lampard left after just the one year to serve as manager of Chelsea, and now Derby owner Mel Morris could be looking to add yet another high profile former England star.
Tags: DC United, Derby County, Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney, Ba, Frank Lampard, Martin, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Pote, Rooney
Fan arrested after American player Holmes racially-abused in England
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By Nicholas MendolaApr 7, 2019, 10:52 AM EDT
A man has been arrested for racially abusing American midfielder Duane Holmes during a Football League Championship match on Sunday.
The incident occurs as a high-profile time for racism in soccer, which has seen Moise Kean and Raheem Sterling racially abused during matches in recent weeks.
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Holmes, 24, is having a terrific year for Frank Lampard at Derby County following his arrival from Scunthorpe United. The diminutive right midfielder, who also plays centrally, is starting regularly and had a goal and an assist last week against Rotherham United.
Saturday at Brentford was a different story, as Holmes was targeted by a Bees season ticket holder after subbing off the pitch.
Here’s Derby manager Frank Lampard, from the BBC:
“Duane Holmes complained that he was racially abused – I didn’t see it, I was facing play and a fan came up to him at the side of the dugout and abused him,” he told Sky Sports.
“Because it’s such an important issue I don’t want to go beyond what I know, but it was very clearly reported by the players and the people around.”
The arrest shows that Lampard’s comments were backed by authorities.
Holmes, for his part, retweeted a supporter’s message backing “Kick It Out,” which aims to eradicate racism from the game.
👊👊👊🐑🐑🐑⚽️ pic.twitter.com/NmLgZ32qRU
— Jonathan Davidson (@jondavo70new) April 6, 2019
Tags: Americans Abroad, Derby County, Duane Holmes, Football League Championship, Frank Lampard, Racism in Football, Frank Lampard, Raheem Sterling
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THE DRAGON FACTORY By Jonathan Maberry – Reviewed
Posted in Reviews, Uncategorized with tags action, action thriller, agent, attachedpatient zero, billion, blackmail, book, books, brilliant, characters, climax, cyrus jakoby, department of mikltary sciences, devided, dms, dragon, entertaining, evil, exciting, extinction wave, fantasy, fiction, former cop, genecide, geneticists, girlfriend, hell for leather, homeland, homeland security, horror, horror novel, insightful fragmented, intelligently, intense, jakoby twins, joe ledger, jonathan maberry, legendary creatures, maberry, murder, nature, novel, novels, people, plausible, plot, president, proud, read, reading, reality, review, reviewed, reviewer, reviews, scarily, sci fi, science-based, secret, security, several, SF, sf-twisted, story, taut, the dragon factory, thriller, tricked, twist, twisted reality, ultimate solder, unicorn, unique pets, united states, vice president, wave, writer, written, zombie, zombie-fest on March 14, 2012 by stanleyriiks
When a colleague asked me what I was reading I had to describe this book as an action-thriller with SF overtones. But that’s like describing the Boeing A380 as a big plane. It barely scratches the surface of this taut sci-fi action thriller.
The DMS (Department of Military Sciences) is the secretist secret government agency there is, and the Vice-President of the United States is tricked into trying to close it down in the belief that the head of the DMS is blackmailing the President (who is currently enduring heart-bypass surgery, leaving the VP in charge). Homeland Security are raiding DMS headquarters across the country and picking up agents.
Joe Ledger, former cop, and DMS agent, is at the grave of his former girlfriend when the agents turn up to collect him. But Joe doesn’t plan on going quietly.
The Jakoby twins are rich and powerful geneticists, turning nature on its head to create their rich customers unique pets, ultimate soldiers and legendary creatures (unicorn, dragons, etc) to hunt.
Cyrus Jakoby, the twins’ father, is also working on a large-scale project. A secretive scheme behind the twins’ backs, adapting existing diseases and blights for use in his Extinction Wave that will wipe out seven eighths of the world’s population. Everything is in place, the one hundred hour clock begins its countdown. Is it too late for anyone to stop it?
This book is just so much fun! Ledger is a broken hero, insightfully fragmented in his reality, in love with his colleague and running hell for leather from crisis to crisis in his attempts to find out what’s going on and stop the murder of several billion people.
The action is intense, half way through the book the climax begins to build with wave after wave of attacks against larger and nastier opponents.
The science is used incredibly well. Maberry makes you believe this could happen.
His first book Patient Zero was a rip-roaring zombie-fest with a brilliant science-based twist that made you believe, and was massively readable, edge of the seat stuff, that I thought would be difficult to follow-up. But Maberry has done us proud, creating another SF-twisted reality that’s equally (and scarily) plausible.
Brilliant devised, intelligently written. A book that you sweeps you up in its evil and twisted reality.
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Leaving Nothing But Footprints
Mt. Phu Si – Luang Prabang, Laos
Mt. Phu Si is a small hill (about 100m high) that stands above Luang Prabang. On top of the hill is a gilded stupa with a white base called Wat Chomsi which pokes out from the thick green canopy of trees framing it. Mt. Phu Si also acts like a geographic boundary because it divides the old town of Luang Prabang from the new town which spreads out behind it towards the west. There are a couple of different routes that one can use to climb to the top of Phu Si. My plan was to walk up the hill from the stairs that were across from the Royal Palace and then come down via another route that would take me through a monastery complex. But, before doing the climb, I would have to wake up at the ghastly time of 6:30am in order to do a boat trip up the Mekong River to see the Pak Ou Caves. These caves are about 25km north of Luang Prabang and the river journey to and from the caves takes at least 4 to 5 hours, so I had to catch an early morning boat in order to have enough time to see the caves and then do an afternoon walk up Mt. Phu Si.
Cliffs along the Nam Ou River – Laos
Below where Wat Xieng Thong sits at the eastern tip of old Luang Prabang, there is a small jetty where long wooden boats ferry people up and down the Mekong River. I hopped on one of these long wooden boats for a ride to the Pak Ou Caves at around 8:15am. As the boat slowly chugged to the middle of the river, I began to be slapped in the face with the early morning chill of a late December day in central Laos. I knew it would be cold, but in my haste to get up early and walk from my hotel to the jetty, I wore only a t-shirt and my tattered NorthFace “adventure” pants. I favored these pants because they had cut-away sections that could transform the pants into shorts (awesome!), but the pants were porous and provided me with no defense against the whipping wind bouncing off the river and into my core. So, I had to endure a brutal, teeth-chattering 2-hour journey to the caves while battling insidious thoughts of the inevitability of turning into an icicle. I had one brief respite from the freeze when the boat stopped at a whiskey brewing village along the way. I spent nearly the entire time there warming myself over a fire that was being used to make the whiskey (and sampling a few whiskeys) before returning to the boat. For the last half-hour of the boat ride, the sun was still struggling to bust out of the morning cloud cover. When it did happen to push through, I tried to put my face in any sunbeam I could find. While trying to stay in the sun, I noticed that although the Mekong became wider and wider as the boat traveled north, the river was still very shallow all around. This was the dry season and there had been no serious rain for months. I saw a few fishermen on small boats laboriously using wooden poles to push down on the riverbed in order to slowly move in the direction they wanted. The landscape also began to be dominated by limestone cliffs. It was at one of these cliffs — where the Nam Ou River met the Mekong — that the Pak Ou Caves had been founded and subsequently used for several centuries as shrines and places of worship.
Entrance to Tham Theung – upper cave of Pak Ou
There are two caves that make up the Pak Ou Caves. The lower cave is called Tham Ting and the upper cave is called Tham Theung. Tham Ting is actually an outcrop of the limestone cliff above it and is located just above the Ou river. Tham Theung, on the other hand, is in fact a cave which tunnels inside the limestone core for a few hundred meters and is positioned high above Tham Ting. Both caves contain countless statues of the Buddha — mostly wooden — in various standing and sitting poses.
Inside Tham Ting – lower cave of Pak Ou
When my boat docked at the entrance to the caves, I first walked up the stairs to see the upper cave of Tham Theung. The inside of the cave was dark and I had a small flashlight that came in handy as I made my way through the sections of the cave that were open to the public. Parts of the cave walls contain faded paintings and etchings of the Buddha. When I entered the central chamber of the cave, what I noticed was a large slab of stone that at one time may have served as a pedestal or platform for large statues of the Buddha — either in sitting or reclining poses. If large statues had been placed or fixed into this stone backdrop, they had long been removed or pillaged but their presence seemed to remain. The key area of focus in the main chamber is a wooden replica of a stupa with a gold-colored tip that was wrapped with a ceremonial saffron-colored cloth at the time of my visit. This stupa sits on a squared platform with small Buddha statuettes placed around it. To the left of this stupa is a tall wooden pole that was also wrapped in a ceremonial cloth.
Inside Tham Theung
I was not able to find any information about the construction or meaning of the stupa or pole inside Tham Theung. There simply is not a lot of details or records about the origins and history of the Pak Ou Caves. One sign inside Tham Theung did mention that the caves are over a thousand years old, so this would mean that the caves likely predated Buddhism’s arrival in the region. I also did find out later that the local people of the region did have a tradition of seeking blessings from the “river spirit”, and so it would make sense that the initial purpose of the Pak Ou Caves was to allow for a place to make offerings to this deity. At some point afterwards, the caves then became converted or combined to provide a place of Buddhist worship as well. However, the information on how and when this may have taken place is scant.
Stupa inside Tham Theung
The lower cave, Tham Ting, has larger white statues that appeared to me to be of Khmer origin — such as lions. Because Tham Ting is really just a secluded area covered by an enormous overhang of the cliff above it, one can see the Nam Ou River and the surrounding scenery while standing inside in it. I think its accessibility to the riverfront allowed Tham Ting to serve as a waterside shrine and any passerby on a boat could easily dock alongside it, walk up to pray (or stay in the boat to do so), make an offering, or seek a blessing before venturing onward.
Tham Ting – Khmer lion?
As a result of this quick accessibility, the amount of Buddhist statues and figures that populate what seems like every inch of the main altar platform of Tham Thing is staggering. The thick dust on most of these statues indicates they have not moved at all for centuries and are well-protected from the storms that hit the area during the monsoon season.
Statues galore – Tham Ting
I walked up and down the sides of Tham Ting studying the thousands of Buddha statues around me. I was tempted to reach out and touch them, but thought better of that. If these statues had been resting unmolested in the same spot for centuries, then I did not want to be the one who disturbed them. I walked up to a vantage point on the far left-hand side of Tham Ting and took in all the tiny figures below. I felt like Gulliver in Lilliput! With that last glance, I turned and walked back to my waiting boat which took me back to Luang Prabang. The return trip took about an hour and fifteen minutes and I wanted to grab some lunch before heading to Phu Si. I was craving a local dish — fried Mekong riverweed. This is an oily, crispy, sesame-seed laden appetizer consisting of flash-fried riverweed plucked from the Mekong. It is served with a chili paste dip called “jaewbong”. It looks like pieces of a thin dark green fabric and upon first taste, there is a grittiness to it, but then that gives way to something eerily welcoming and delicious! I found a place on Sisavangvong Road and ordered the riverweed along with larb — minced meat salad — a staple of Laotian cuisine. A much-needed pick-me-up.
Wat Chomsi – summit of Mt. Phu Si
After lunch, I began to walk up the stairs leading to Mt. Phu Si. The first flight of stairs led to a big terrace and I saw a derelict temple (I believe it is called Wat Pa Huak) to my right with a warped teak roof. I went inside and saw some very interesting frescoes behind the altar and along the side walls which depicted scenes with tigers, villagers, and some kind of diplomatic exchange with a Chinese delegation — this image was very clear and showed Chinese women’s faces and their garb.
Fresco inside Wat Pa Huak
Continuing up the stairs, I reached a gated area where I purchased my entry ticket. One last of flight of stairs remained before I got to the top and there before me was Wat Chomsi. Wat Chomsi was constructed in its current form in the early 1800s — nearly 300 years after Luang Prabang’s heyday. Wat Chomsi has a small prayer room inside it with a seated Buddha altar. On the outside wall of the temple, the words “no intoxicants allowed inside temple” are written in English. This is because many tourists come to Mt. Phu Si to watch the sunset and they bring alcohol and sit around Wat Chomsi boozing — utterly oblivious to the fact that Wat Chomsi is a sacred Buddhist temple. From Wat Chomsi, I had sweeping views of old and new Luang Prabang and the surrounding mountains. Below me, I could see the angular rooftops of many temples — including Wat Visoun and the dark grey, stumpy stupa on its grounds called “That Makmo” by locals (makmo meaning “watermelon”).
That Makmo (or That Pathum)
As I headed away from Wat Chomsi, I walked past a missile launcher monument of some sort and came to an area that felt like a small, neglected Buddhist theme park. There were a few grottoes with large yellow painted Buddha images accompanied by walls adorned with long nagas (serpents). I strolled through this area until I came to a weathered painted sign that said “Imprint of Buddha’s Foot.”
Doorway to Buddha’s Footprint
Needless to say, I was immediately intrigued and my mind cast back to my ascent of Adam’s Peak which I had climbed during the monsoon season years before in order to see the most revered Buddha’s Footprint in the world [see post: Sri Pada (Adam’s Peak) – Prologue at http://wp.me/p2Bq4y-hZ%5D. But, unlike that arduous trek, here I was with pristine conditions and an opened doorway in front of me. No one else was around and I would have the footprint all to myself. I crouched inside the small doorway and was surprised to see that it did not lead to any kind of room. Instead, there was only limited space where one could stick a head inside and look down at a light-colored stone within which was a shadowy foot-like impression.
What kind of petrosomatoglyph is this?
There were many things about this imprint that I found fascinating. First, it appeared to be a left foot with 5 pointy toenails and a pronounced arch. This was radically different from all other standalone depictions of Buddha’s feet that I had seen. These other depictions were all highly stylized depictions with Buddhist iconography (lotuses and wheels) and were completely flat, symmetrical (meaning all toes were the same size and the foot/heel were in a size bearing some geometric proportion to the toes). The imprint at Phu Si is also completely devoid of any artistic flourishes. It looked to me like a footprint left behind in concrete — albeit the person would have to be at least 20ft tall and in dire need of a toenail clipping! The overall look of the imprint also reminded me of some the casts that people have created from alleged “bigfoot” tracks left behind!
Wat Phra Bat Tai
The next day, I happened to be visiting Wat Phra Bat Tai (a 17th century Buddhist temple with strong Vietnamese influence) and as I walked behind the monastery and towards the riverfront, I found a small chapel where another Buddha’s footprint was housed. This footprint could be seen in 2 ways — either through the main opening in front of the footprint, or through a hole behind the footprint.
Chapel of the Buddha’s Footprint – Wat Phra Bat Tai
I studied the footprint from both openings and saw that it was very similar to the traditional depiction of Buddha’s footprint. The toes each were decorated with a wheel-like symbol. They were rounded — not pointy — and each was equal in size and shape to the other. As I compared the footprint at Wat Phra Bat Tai to the one at Phu Si, I thought that maybe the footprint at Wat Phra Bat Tai was created first and so had to have been known by the local people prior to the creation of the other imprint a Phu Si. But, there was something almost prehistoric about the footprint at Phu Si that stuck with me. Perhaps the footprint at Phu Si was not originally a depiction of Buddha’s foot at all — it could have been a natural formation in the rock and that formation had been in existence prior to the footprint at Wat Phra Bat Tai.
Footprint viewed from hole behind it
What may have then happened was that the people and monks around Phu Si interpreted (or modified) what was really a natural rock formation as a superhuman footprint that could only belong to the Buddha. While there are probably records held by the monks of Wat Phra Bat Tai that document the creation of the footprint there, I’m not sure what information may exist about the origin of the footprint at Phu Si. My walk down Phu Si took me through a monastery on its eastern slope, so the monks there may know the story behind the footprint. But, as I’ve learned when trying to comprehend the sights, realms, and artistry of the East, things do not always lend themselves to tidy explanations or allow for fact-checking or cross-referencing. That doesn’t make these things any less real. Instead, it is up to the individual to understand these things through a lens which requires detachment from preconceived notions as to what the nature of things must be. I didn’t need to go on a quest in order to suss out the origin stories of these footprints. These were the indelible imprints left by the Buddha. I understood and leave it at that.
Tags: Adam's Peak, Buddha's footprint, fried Mekong riverweed, jaewbong, larb, limestone cliffs, Luang Prabang, Mekong, Mt. Phu Si, Ou River, Pak Ou Caves, petrosomatoglyph, Phousi, Tham Theung, Tham Ting, That Makmo, That Pathum, Wat Chomsi, Wat Pa Huak, Wat Phra Bat Tai, Wat Visoun, Wat Xieng Thong
Categories Buddhism, Dharma, Laos, Travel, Wanderlust
Pra Bang Man
Wat Phabang, Luang Prabang – Laos (2014)
The origin of its name — Luang Prabang — is attributable to a small 1-meter high statue called the “Pra Bang”. The Pra Bang is the most revered Buddha image in Laos and is thought to have been cast in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BC. The image shows the Buddha in the “double abhaya” mudra [see Laos Calling at http://wp.me/p2Bq4y-Ik%5D and was given as a wedding present to the Lane Xang King, Fa Ngum, by a Khmer King whose daughter King Ngum married in the mid-14th century AD. King Ngum was the first major king of what was to become the Lanna Kingdom and he reigned between 1353 to 1373 AD. At that time, the Khmer Empire was at its height and Buddhism had been adopted as the new religion of the Khmer replacing Hinduism. King Ngum’s marriage to the Khmer princess was important not only for the purpose of cementing of royal blood lines, but ultimately it served as the ceremonial circumstance that allowed Buddhism to become the official state religion of Laos. The Pra Bang bestowed an immediate legitimacy to King Ngum that he was able to leverage as he further extended his sovereignty and helped push the boundaries of his kingdom.
Sneaky pic of the Pra Bang
The Pra Bang was kept in the royal palace at Luang Prabang through the centuries and taken out on a few important Buddhist holidays where it was paraded through the streets of the old capital. In 2013, a new temple called Wat Phabang was built solely to house the Pra Bang. The Wat Phabang is located on the grounds of the Royal Palace where the last Lao King, Sisavang Vatthana, resided starting in 1959 after the death of his father (King Sisavang Vong). As Laos became swept up in the socialist fervor and political change which blanketed most of Southeast Asia at the time, the idea of a “king” became untenable and King Vatthana was forced to abdicate and turn the country over to the Pathet Lao in the 1975. The King died a few years later and the Royal Palace was converted to a state museum.
The Royal Palace – Luang Prabang
When I went to see the Pra Bang at the Wat Phabang, I first walked into the Royal Palace and what I found most interesting was a salon area where various gifts were on display. These gift had been presented to King Vatthana by others leaders and heads of state from around the world as gestures of cultural exchange and goodwill. Most of the gifts represented some indigenous or artistic link to the country that was represented. I found it interesting that the gift from the United States was a couple of fragments of moonrock in small glass capsules along with a metal engraving containing a statement from President Nixon which said something to the effect of: “These pieces of the moon represent the continuing friendship of the U.S. with the Laotian people.” I walked out of the Royal Palace and headed to Wat Phabang. The Wat Phabang is brand-spanking new and gleams brightly when the sun’s rays hit it. I bounded up the stairs to the opened door of the temple and found a rope blocking entry along with a security guard. The public is not allowed inside the Wat Phabang and no photos of the Pra Bang are allowed. I craned my neck into the shadowed interior of the temple and could see the Pra Bang standing within an altar. The familiar double abhaya mudra position of the image was clear. I also noticed that the Pra Bang had what appeared to be a crown on its head. I tried to snap a few photos surreptitiously of the Pra Bang, but it was difficult to capture a clear view of the image. Admittedly, the moment of my face to face with the Pra Bang felt a bit rushed given the fidgety security guard nearby and the other visitors awaiting their turn to stand in the doorway in order to peer at the image.
The procession of the Pra Bang – April 2014 (courtesy of Jason Kittisak)
The next day when I was visiting Wat That Luang (the “Royal Monastery”), I met a young monk named Somchit Kittisak. He had selected “Jason” as his name in English and we struck up a conversation almost from the very moment I parked my bike in the shade of a tree and strolled into Wat That Luang’s grounds. As Jason showed me the inside of Wat That Luang and we walked around the two Thai-styles which flank the temple — one of which is a golden funerary stupa that holds the cremated remains of King Sisavong Vang — I asked him about when the Pra Bang is taken out of its temple and paraded through Luang Prabang. He told me that this ceremony took place in the spring which usually fell on the 18th of April. On that the day, the Pra Bang is removed from its temple and placed on a carriage which is then pushed through the streets of Luang Prabang to another temple. When it arrives at the designated temple, select monks from around Luang Prabang are vested with the right to pour water on the image and perform other rites. After the ceremony is finished, the Pra Bang is taken back to Wat Phabang. I have stayed in touch with Jason and he emailed me some photos of the Pra Bang during its last procession. I was excited to see the pics and have a clearer look at the Pra Bang.
Golden funerary stupa at Wat That Luang
Interestingly, as Jason and I discussed the Pra Bang ceremony, he brought up the “Burning Man” festival in the United States and asked me about it. I never in my wildest dreams would have thought about the parallels between the Pra Bang parade and the Burning Man spectacle that takes place every August in the northern Nevada desert. I first laughed when Jason brought it up. But, then I thought about it some and said that at the very first Burning Man there may have been the same kind of spiritual force or energy that was similar to the effect the Pra Bang has in Laos when it is carried through the streets accompanied by pageantry and the public comes out en masse to see it.
Stenciled door panel at Wat That Luang
But, I wasn’t sure what Burning Man represented now since all I had heard was that with each passing year it had become more extravagant and “VIP”-oriented and it was no longer something that interested me. So, I had tuned it out. But, it was fascinating to see that in far off Luang Prabang a young monk like Jason had heard about Burning Man and wondered how it might represent the same kind of spiritual energy that he understood.
Wat Xieng Thong
Aside from the Pra Bang, the most important site in Luang Prabang is Wat Xieng Thong (Temple of the Golden City). This temple was built by King Setthathirath in 1560 and there are many small chapels and other buildings — including a funerary temple and a temple that houses a golden carriage that was once used to carry the Lao Kings — found on its grounds. Everything about Wat Xieng Thong — its broad wooden flanks, bright green naga-style roof points, pillars, glass mosaics, red, gold & black coloring, and interior hall (or sim) — are wondrous. But, perhaps, the most beautiful aspect of Wat Xieng Thong are the well-preserved Laotian stencil designs that are found all along its pillars, panels, exteriors, and interiors.
Stencils and design of Wat Xieng Thong
This stencil design process — called “mak mak” in Lao shorthand — is unique to Laotian arts and not something I’ve seen elsewhere in Buddhist religious imagery. There are a few shops in Luang Prabang which offer classes to foreigners who want to learn the Lao stencil process. The stencilwork around Wat Xieng is over 400 years old — some patterns are infinitely intricate while others are straight representations of Buddhist iconography.
Main altar inside Wat Xieng Thong
Inside the main hall of Wat Xieng Thong is a seated Buddha flanked by 4 standing Buddhas with 6 smaller seated Buddhas placed in front of it. There are red circular wooden pillars which frame the central Buddha. Each pillar is detailed with intricate gold stencil designs, patterns, and images of the Buddha. One cannot walk behind the main seated Buddha because it sits up against the far wall of the temple. There is some space to the 2 sides of the altar area where one can walk through in order to see the Buddha from a side view. Off to the left-hand side of the Buddha, there is a replica of the Pra Bang that stands within its own altar.
Exterior stencilwork – Wat Xieng Thong
The back of Wat Xieng Thong has a lush mosaic piece referred to as “Tree of Life” which was created in 1964 — as part of commemorations in Luang Prabang of the 2500th anniversary of the Buddha’s attainment of Enlightenment.
Tree of Life mosaic – Wat Xieng Thong
The “Tree of Life” mosaic is seamless in the way that it integrates with the centuries old stencil designs which predated it. The mosaic elements of the Tree are so close in their look and feel to the stencil design elements of Wat Xieng Thong it is as if the 2 had been crafted by the same artisans at the same time. There are other glass mosaics found on the smaller chapels which sit on the grounds of Wat Xieng Thong. These mosaics depict scenes from the life of the Buddha, elephants, animals, and scenes of everyday life during Luang Prabang’s heyday as capital of the country. One of the chapels surrounding Wat Xieng Thong is called the “Red Chapel” or “Sanctuary of the Reclining Buddha”. Inside this chapel is a bronze Buddha statue in the reclining pose the Buddha assumed before his death. Only 1 or 2 people can enter this chapel at a time because it is very small and there is little standing room inside.
The “Red Chapel” / “Sanctuary of the Reclining Buddha” on the left
Everyone must remove their shoes before entering and once inside the chapel it is better to sit down and absorb the windowless interior which is bright red and filled with hundreds of small gold Buddha statues. At the back of the temple is where the reclining Buddha image lies. Its central position in such a cramped space effectively commands one’s attention. There is no escaping the flowing beauty and almost haughty vibe of this image. The Buddha appears languid and bored through his facial expression and the manner in which his hand props up his head. The image also has an obsidian-like dark coloring and smoothness that enhances this “ice prince” effect.
The reclining Buddha in the Red Chapel at Wat Xieng Thong
There is an inscription on the statue’s base which states it was created under the instruction of King Setthatirath in what would have been 1569 AD. This image was at one point whisked away by the French who had on it display in Paris in the 1930s and then it was transferred to Ha Phreow in Vientiane for some time before being returned to Luang Prabang. The chapel of the reclining Buddha has red and gold coloring and mosaic work on its outside, and it stands out from the other chapels that dot the grounds of Wat Xieng Thong.
“Dok So Fa” roof centerpiece – Wat Xieng Thong
When viewed from afar, the 7-tiered roof of Wat Xieng Thong is easy to see. The first tier is slung so low that it appears at first glance to nearly touch the ground. As your eyes follow each tier up above ibe another until you get to the final tier a final artistic flourish awaits. Located right in the center of Wat Xieng Thong’s last roof beam is the “dok so fa” — which can be translated from Lao to English as “jutting outward to the sky”. This decorative piece is meant to represent the Buddhist universe. At Wat Xieng Thong, there are multiple individual spires that cascade upward from the left and right side up to a center spire that stands above all the rest. This central spire represents the sacred mountain of Mt. Meru and the other spires below it show the rest of the universe as they come into and go out of existence through infinity.
Dok So Fa of Wat Maha That
I saw another interesting dok so fa at Wat Si Mahatat or Wat Maha That (the “Monastery of the Stupa”) which is located to the east of Luang Prabang. Wat Maha That was founded by King Setthathirath in 1548 and its dok so fa consists of 15 spires. Each spire is in the shape of a small pagoda similar in style to that of Wat Xieng Thong. This kind of ornamentation in the central roof beams of Lao temples is radically different than the simple roof ornamentation found in Thai temples [see photo of the dok so fa of Wat Si Saket in Vientiane in Laos Calling – http://wp.me/p2Bq4y-Ik]. When I had met Jason at Wat That Luang, I also asked him about the meaning of the dok so fa. When I pointed to the dok so fa sitting on top of Wat That Luang and asked him about Mt. Meru, he explained that the representation of the Buddhist universe was just one layer of the dok so fa and that it had a dual meaning. He explained that the moving upwards from each lower spire to the one above it and then ultimately reaching the central and highest spire was also meant to remind the Buddhist practitioner of the path towards attaining Enlightenment. At its core, the Buddha’s teaching to his followers was that the cessation of suffering could occur through maintaining a “Middle Way” and actively using 8 principles in their spiritual practice — one had to invoke the right understanding, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness and concentration. In looking up at the dok so fa at Wat That Luang and counting each spire — whether from the left or right side – each set of spires led upwards to the central spire in 8 steps. The dok so fa was then a reminder to Jason and his fellow monks to follow the principles of spiritual practice that the Buddha taught in order to attain the ultimate goal — Enlightenment. It was incredible to see the convergence between art and spiritual practice through such an ornamentation. I had only Jason to thank for providing me with that insight.
Post-script: Some months later, Jason sent me a video which provides a snapshot into the monastic life of young monks studying at Pasaviet Temple in Luang Prabang. Please take a look — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8RvVORSvEY&feature=share. Jason himself appears at the beginning and strikes the call to prayer bell. The chanting is rich and billows out in waves of purity…
Tags: Burning Man, dok so fa, King Fa Ngum, Laotian stencil, Luang Prabang, mak mak, Middle Way, moonrock, Mt. Meru, Pasaviet Temple, Pathet Lao, Pra Bang, President Nixon gift to Laos, red chapel, sanctuary of the reclining Buddha, Setthathirath, Sisavang Vatthana, Sisavang Vong, Tree of Life mosaic, Wat Maha That, Wat Phabang, Wat Si Mahatat, Wat That Luang, Wat Xieng Thong
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Mackay Regional Council wins award at IWA World Water Congress 2016
by Taggle | Oct 13, 2016 | Awards
Taggle Systems is pleased to congratulate it’s first customer, Mackay Regional Council (Qld), on receiving an award at this week’s IWA World Water Congress 2016 in Brisbane. The prestigious Project Innovation Award was presented for MRCs submission “Transformation of a Water Business” in the operations and management category.
The award follows its recent 2016 National Award for Excellence in Local Government and places Mackay Regional Council firmly at the forefront of water business management in Australia, if not the world.
Taggle Systems has worked closely with Mackay Regional Council (MRC) over the past four years, providing the backbone of its fleet-wide automatic meter reading (AMR) network. Taggle’s LPWA network delivers about 292 million meter readings per year to MRC along with data from rainfall gauges, water pressure, sewer overflow and other sensors.
As part of its innovative work with AMR data, MRC developed meter data management software (Miwater) and a web-portal for its customers (MyH20), which enable the council to manage its water resources more efficiently and gives its customers direct access to their water usage information.
MyH2o on tablet device
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EQs, Signal Processors
Thermionic Culture: Pullet mini passive EQ
Reviewed by John Baccigaluppi
This is one of the best sounding EQs I've ever used. I'm a big fan of passive EQs for their smooth sound, especially when boosting. The Pultec is one of the best-known examples of a passive EQ. In layman's terms (and I'm definitely a layman), a passive EQ doesn't actually boost the signal when you boost a frequency. A passive EQ cuts the entire audio spectrum by about 30 dB, and then when you boost, you're actually un-cutting a frequency range, not really boosting it in the strict sense of the word. Think about it for a minute. That's gotta be a good thing sonically-not actually amplifying a signal, but just decreasing a passive cut. In a Pultec, there is a full-range gain-makeup preamp after the EQ section that restores the signal to line level. One really unique thing about the Pullet is that it has no gain-makeup section; it is completely passive. There is nowhere to even plug in an IEC power cable. Thermionic designer Vic Keary figured that many recordists already have mic preamps that are sitting around unused during mixing, and he designed the Pullet's outputs to be at mic level so they can be plugged into any mic preamp to bring the signal back to line level. This keeps the cost much lower than most passive EQs on the market. Another benefit of this design approach is that you can use different preamps to change the sound of the Pullet. (Interestingly, Thermionic's Earlybird 2.2 tube preamp has dedicated inputs for the Pullet, as well as having standard mic and line inputs.) I have several passive EQs in my studio: a Pultec EQH-2; a Summit Audio EQP-200B, which is based on the Pultec EQP-1A and utilizes a tube gain-makeup stage like a Pultec; and a pair of completely passive (like the Pullet) Fairchild 665 EQs. All these EQs sound great, and they all have in common that they are, like the original Pultecs, intended as "program EQ." That is, they were originally designed (like a lot of what is now considered great audio gear) for use in radio to gracefully shape the frequency output of the "program." To this end, they are mostly just addressing the bottom and top of the frequency spectrum. My Pultec has no frequencies available between 100 Hz and 3 kHz-in other words no midrange. (Pultec did make the passive MEQ-5 midrange EQ, but this is a much rarer piece than the other two program EQs.) Besides the Summit, several other companies like Manley and Tube Tech already make EQs based on the Pultec program EQs. Here is where Mr. Keary made another really interesting design decision; the Pullet is almost exclusively a midrange passive EQ. The Pullet operates from 230 Hz to 8.5 kHz-in other words, all the places my other passive EQs won't go. The Pullet does a have a high-end control that lets you cut or boost by a preset amount in the 6-15 kHz range. But, this is a very gentle slope and while useful as an adjunct to the Pullet, not even close to my other passive EQs for tweaking in this higher range. But I just don't care. This is the best sounding midrange boost I've ever heard on any EQ. In my initial tests of the Pullet, intending to mimic the original Pultec designs, I used two different tube mic preamps: my UA 2-610 (re-tubed with NOS tubes), and my vintage Telefunken V72s. Both sounded great and worked perfectly with the Pullet. I am looking forward to experimenting with Neve or API mic preamps for a more aggressive tone when I want that. After my initial tests, we installed the Pullet into our Neve broadcast console. By this I mean it sits inside a wooden frame built for the console and is essentially inside the acoustic shadow of the console. We were able to do this because the passive Pullet is so shallow and has no power supply or power requirements. Rather than using the XLR connectors on the back, we actually hard-wired the cable to points inside the unit, which kept the depth to less than four inches. To do this, we had to open up the unit, which revealed the very sturdy and quality build within. I do have one small gripe with the Pullet. Within minutes of using it, the switched knobs all slipped from their shafts, and you couldn't tell where anything was set any longer. One fell off, and in trying to put it back on the pot, it kind of exploded and fell into the unit. Luckily, our tech/engineer Bryce Gonzales was able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. We've since tightened up all the knobs a bit more than they were from the factory, but like I said, this is a minor gripe. Once the Pullet was installed front and center as part of the console, it got used daily as we had nearly a month of mixing work with Bryce and engineers Robert Cheek and Thom Monahan. All three of them used the Pullet and commented to me how amazing it sounded, especially in the midrange. Using it with a console, like our little Neve, is super easy as you can just put a channel into mic input and away you go. Phantom power will damage the Pullet however, so you'll need to be careful there. We put a little note on the Pullet to warn engineers about this. To be honest, I expected to plug this thing in, compare it to my other passive EQs, write this review, and then send it back to Thermionic, thinking I just don't need seven channels of passive program-type EQ. But as soon as I heard the midrange EQ boost on this, I was blown away. I've never heard a midrange EQ that sounded this good, and I almost immediately emailed Thermionic to enquire about buying the unit. In fact, now that we've used it for a few weeks, I'm thinking of buying another. Bottom line-the Pullet is like having two Pultec MEQ-5s but with a much better range of frequency selections. I suspect this will get used on just about every session, particularly on guitars. ($1750 MSRP; www.thermionicculture.com)
Dynamics, EQs | No. 49
EQ-P Tube Program Equalizer, EQ-H Tube Program Equalizer, M72s Microphone Amplifier, M76m Microphone Amplifier, Mercury 66 Limiting Amplifier
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For years, David Marquette cultivated a reputation for elegantly racking and powering Neve, Telefunken, and other desirable vintage modules. He eventually decided to branch out and produce his own...
Amplifiers, Signal Processors, Tools | No. 112
IsoGtr DI, re-amp, and splitter
Brad Avenson is great at packing a lot of hi-fi functionality into the smallest possible, heavy-duty aluminum cases. His latest product aimed at guitarists and studios is a "remix" of his IsoDi....
EQs, Mic Preamps | No. 52
2032 mic preamp/EQ
The GML 2032 is a single-channel preamp/equalizer that draws from the designs of the GML 8300 mic preamp series and the GML 8200 equalizer, adds a high-impedance instrument input on the front panel,...
Signal Processors | No. 111
DDL-500 500-series delay
Okay, Eventide has just officially become my favorite pro audio manufacturer on the planet. I had almost finished this already favorable review, and then I got something in the mail that made me come...
EQs | No. 96
Q4 500-series semi-parametric EQ
This is a fantastic-sounding EQ. It's not a surgical tool, and given the density of knobs on the front of its real-estate- limited 500-series faceplate, setting the controls is not a precise affair....
Plug-Ins, Signal Processors | No. 83
Pitch 'N Time LE plug-in
by Jeff Elbel
My musical tastes are relatively populistic, but I’ve got the merest hint of music snob in my bones. It’s the part of me that recoils when Antares Auto-Tune is used as an overtly applied...
500 Series, EQs | No. 121
E27 500-Series EQ
When I bought my API 1608 console [Tape Op #81] almost ten years ago, one of the reasons I was attracted to it was the option to put different EQ modules in it. I had two vintage API 550A EQ modules,...
EQ-200 Parametric Equalizer
by Eric Broyhill
As a mastering engineer, a good analog EQ is not only one of many very important tools, but the one I am most critical of. Having had the opportunity to use almost every EQ made, up to this point the...
1073LB EQ 500-Series Module
by Geoff Stanfield
The Neve 1073 is arguably the most famous and cherished preamp/EQ channel strip of all time. It has been endlessly cloned, copied, updated, and tweaked by countless manufacturers trying to cash in on...
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StefLoz Book Blog
The Perfect Mother By Caroline Mitchell @Caroline_writes @AmazonPub @BOTBSPublicity #Thomas&Mercer #ThePerfectMother #bookreview
January 18, 2020 January 3, 2020 ~ stefloz ~ 1 Comment
Blog Tour 18th January 2020
Today it’s my stop on the blog tour for Caroline Mitchell’s new release, The Perfect Mother. Thank you to Sarah Hardy for the invitation to take part, I’m delighted to do so.
Not as dark as previous books by this author, still pretty seedy though.
A move away from her detective series, this turned out to be a rather sinister story.
It certainly creeped me out and there was lots of suspense.
Roz is living in Dublin and has a difficult decision to make. Pregnant and keeping the identity of the father a secret, even from her best friend and flatmate Dympna. A Catholic girl in her 20’s with not much money, she doesn’t want to have a termination so looks for other options. She finds a website for couples looking for a baby to adopt. It’s an elite site and she has to pay a fee to register. A couple of days later she is contacted by a couple who are interested. They are known as a ‘diamond’ couple which means they are millionaires and willing to pay a lot of money for a baby. These diamond couples like to keep their real identities secret until they have met the mother, they could possibly be from the world of politics or Hollywood and in the public eye.
Roz thinks she could make some money here, and agrees to fly to New York to meet them. She doesn’t tell the whole truth to Dympna, who is understandably worried about her best friend.
She’s met at the airport and taken to a posh hotel by one of the couple’s staff. Her phone is taken from her, although she also has an emergency phone hidden away which Dympna made her take.
She’s taken to a fabulous house and is astonished to find out that the couple interested are none other than acting royalty Sheridan and Daniel. Daniel is a heartthrob English actor and Sheridan a US child star of her own real life show. They want to bring up the child as their own. This sounds too good to be true!! Roz is to move into their plush basement apartment until the baby arrives and have everything provided for her, even a visiting doctor.
A few strange things start to happen when Roz moves in. Hidden notes being left for her among other things. She starts to feel suspicious and very worried that she’s never going to see the light of day again, especially as there are no windows. Roz suspects that she’s not the first person to live in the basement suite. Sheridan’s behaviour is very erratic and she overhears conversations from the floor above that cause her concern.
Roz tells Sheridan that she wants to attend church and is surprised when she allows it. Accompanied by Sheridan’s PA she attends and I wanted her to shout out that she was being held against her will, but she didn’t because she feared for her own and the baby’s safety.
Back in Ireland Dympna is beside herself with worry after hearing nothing from her best friend for far too long. She has a chat with her dad John who is in the police force and asks his advice. He has some contacts and they start to search for any information.
The clock is ticking and it’s nearly time for the baby to be born. You will need to read the book to find out what happens but it had me totally gripped.
Fast paced with a very good twist!!
Caroline Mitchell always goes to the top of my reading pile. I cannot recommend her books enough, although I missed the addition of a raven/crow in this one!
Thanks to Caroline Mitchell and Thomas & Mercer for the early review copy in which I give my honest opinion.
She thought they wanted her baby. But they won’t stop there.
Roz is young, penniless and pregnant. All she wants is to be the perfect mother to her child, but the more she thinks about her own chaotic upbringing, the more certain she is that the best life for her baby is as far away as possible from her hometown in Ireland.
Determined to do the right thing, Roz joins an elite adoption service and can’t believe her luck. Within days she is jetting to New York to meet a celebrity power couple desperate for a child of their own. Sheridan and Daniel are wealthy and glamorous—everything Roz isn’t. Her baby will never go hungry, and will have every opportunity for the perfect life. But soon after Roz moves into their plush basement suite, she starts to suspect that something darker lurks beneath the glossy surface of their home.
When Roz discovers she isn’t the first person to move in with the couple, and that the previous woman has never been seen since, alarm bells start ringing. As the clock ticks down to her due date, Roz realises her unborn baby may be the only thing keeping her alive, and that despite her best intentions, she has walked them both into the perfect nightmare…
Publication date 14th January 2020
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UK : The Perfect Mother
An international #1 and New York Times, USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author, Caroline originates from Ireland and now lives with her family on the coast of Essex. A former police detective, Caroline has worked in CID and specialised in roles dealing with vulnerable victims, high-risk victims of domestic abuse, and serious sexual offences. She now writes full time, with over a million books sold.
As well as her crime series, Caroline also writes stand-alone psychological thrillers. The most recent, Silent Victim reached the Amazon number 1 spot in the UK, US and Australia and won first place as best psychological thriller in the US Reader’s Favourite Awards. Her previous thriller, Witness, was shortlisted for the International Thriller Awards in New York. She has also been shortlisted for ‘Best Procedural’ in the Killer Nashville awards. Her crime thriller, Truth And Lies recently became a No.1 New York Times best seller and has been optioned for TV. Her works have been translated worldwide and her book, The Silent Twin, has been converted as an interactive app in the Chapters Interactive game.
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Nine Elms by Robert Bryndza @RobertBryndza @TheCrimeVault #NineElms #KateMarshall #blogtour
January 12, 2020 January 9, 2020 ~ stefloz ~ Leave a comment
Today it’s my stop on the blog tour for Nine Elms by Robert Bryndza. Thank you to Kirsteen Astor at Little, Brown Book Group for the invitation to take part, I’m delighted to do so.
I also have an extract from the beginning of the book to share with you on this link
My Thoughts – I loved it!
I am a huge fan of this author and he certainly knows it!!
I couldn’t wait to get started with this one. What a great plot. Robert Bryndza has the ability to hook me in straight away.
I like the fact that it isn’t actually a police procedural, rather more of a private investigation from characters who just couldn’t let it lie. Kate Marshall is now lecturing in Criminology at a University on the South Coast. She has an assistant, Tristan Harper. I like Tristan, early 20’s, tall, cropped hair, tattoos. I had a good visualisation of him. They made a good team. Forensic pathologist, Alan Hexham, was a guest lecturer at the University and provided valuable information to Kate. Since her days in the force are behind her she’s tried live a peaceful life. But, when a body is found, Alan Hexham contacts Kate due to the injuries he finds in the autopsy. They are just like a previous case. When another body is found Kate feels like a copycat killer is at large as the similarity to her last case is alarming. She just can’t help getting involved.
Kate receives a message from the parents of Caitlyn Murray about their daughter who went missing in the 90’s and she feels something isn’t quite right so offers to look into it.
A brilliant story, gripping and thrilling. Quite seedy subjects too. Unexpected twists and turns made for an unputdownable book. Really gruesome in parts, it made me cringe. But I just couldn’t stop reading, it’s packed with action. I feel like it’s something you’d see in the news, one of those horrible things that shocks the nation.
There was a horrible description of a waxy-faced redhead who, bizarrely, I felt I’d seen in my dreams/nightmares.
Towards the end I felt I could see the direction I thought it would take starting to unfold, I was panicking big-time!!
If you’ve never read any books by Robert Bryndza….why not?!
I’ve recommended Robert Bryndza’s books to people all over the world and everyone loves them, he’s a global superstar!!
Hardback copy out on 9th January 2020
Get your copy on the link below:-
Nine Elms book link
A Kate Marshall Thriller, Book 1.
Robert Bryndza is ready to take the world by bestselling storm again with the introduction of Kate Marshall, a woman with a dark secret and a powerful sense of justice.
A DETECTIVE WHO WOULD STOP AT NOTHING
Kate Marshall was a rising star in the London Metropolitan police force. Young, ambitious and with a keen sense of justice, she solved several high-profile murder cases.
UNTIL A KILLER STOPPED HER IN HER TRACKS
But when Kate was tasked with tracking down a vicious serial killer, even her sharp instincts couldn’t help her find him – until he found her.
NOW, HE’S BACK FOR MORE
Sixteen years after her narrow escape, Kate lives a quiet life on the English coast, though her years with the police are still with her. And when one day she receives a letter from someone in her past, she is pulled back into the twisted mind of a murderer she knows only too well – and into a case only she can solve.
Robert Bryndza is the author of the international #1 bestselling Detective Erika Foster series. Robert’s books have sold over 3 million copies and have been translated into 29 languages. He is British and lives in Slovakia.
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The Man Across The Street by Marcie Steele @marcie_steele @BOTBSPublicity #bookreview #blogtour #fabulous
January 4, 2020 December 16, 2019 ~ stefloz ~ 1 Comment
Blog Tour 4th January 2020
Today it’s my stop on the blog tour for The Man Across The Street by Marcie Steele. Thanks to Sarah Hardy from Book On The Bright Side Publicity & Promo for inviting me to take part, I’m delighted to be part of it.
My Thoughts – I adored it!
Part 1 of The Hope Street Series.
Hope Street is in the town of Somerley, a town that has a village-feel about it. It’s a close-knit community where everyone seems to know everyone, where people stay through the generations. Where the shops and the pub, the Hope and Anchor, are mainstays of the community.
Hannah Lockley lives at number 34. She is 39, soon to be 40, and a hairdresser working part time at Hope Street Hair. Her mum Martha has recently died and Hannah is feeling a bit lost in life. Hannah had been caring for Martha who was injured in a car crash that took the life of her dad a long time ago. She’d had to take it all on as her younger sister Olivia had disappeared 18 years ago and never been in touch.
Phoebe lives at number 41, across the road from Hannah, and is Hannah’s best friend. They’ve known each other since they were 5 years old. Phoebe is divorced with two children, Tilly 14 and Elliot 7. She runs Hope Street Hair and is tall, blonde and athletic with a very dirty laugh.
Workaholic Doug is 49 and has just had a heart attack. He has a building company with his brother Alex and after his health scare he needs to relax and focus on getting his work/life balance at a more sensible level. He decides to move away from home and rent in a different area for a little while. He moves into number 35, directly across the street from Hannah. On their first encounter he feels a spark….and so does Hannah.
Being such a close-knit street everyone is soon wondering who the handsome new stranger is, and they all try to find out! Doug starts working for Robin Marriott, who has a training company for maintenance and other odd jobs.
Thelma, 78, who lives at number 32 right next door to Hannah is a smartly dressed and beautifully made up lady. Sharp witted too. She’s having a bit of boiler trouble so cheekily asks Doug if he can help. Of course he agrees and is shocked to find out how shabbily the landlords contractors are treating the tenants. Thelma gives him a bit of a grilling too.
I love the interactions between the residents, the normality of it all. Lovely, warm characters that you can easily relate to. It made me want to live there and have lots of friends and acquaintances rather than being a bit antisocial as I am! I look forward to getting to know some of the other residents in the books to follow.
All in all this was a feel-good story that I adored. Marcie Steele has the knack of drawing me in from the first page and I just couldn’t stop reading.
Thank you to Marcie Steele for the early review copy, it was an honour to read it x
Marcie Steele also writes crime thrillers as Mel Sherratt.
Maybe I’m scared to be happy…
Meet Hannah – she’s been her mum’s sole carer since she was eighteen. Now alone after Martha’s sudden death, Hannah feels lost in the only place she’s known as home, Hope Street. Coming up to a milestone birthday, she’s wondering what her purpose in life is.
Meet Doug – a workaholic, he’s in the office from dusk ’til dawn, and when he has a heart attack. Now on the mend, he needs to de-stress his life and focus on living it, to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Doug moves to Hope Street, number 35. Hannah lives at number 34, directly opposite. From the moment they meet, there’s a spark.
But there are secrets too. Hannah’s mum has been keeping something from her, her sister upped and left over twenty years ago, and there can’t be such a simple reason why Doug has moved to Somerley. Can there?
The Man Across the Street is the first of a new series by bestselling author, Marcie Steele. It features a host of characters living on Hope Street in the market town of Somerley, also featured in The Somerley Series. Each character will have their own standalone story in books to follow.
‘Marcie Steele writes with such down to earth warmth that you wish you could live in her stories. The Man Across the Street is no exception, full of characters that you’d love to be friends with.’ Tilly, Tenant.
‘Love, secrets, intrigue, heartache. Find it all on Hope Street. An engaging tale of ordinary lives to warm you heart
and restore your faith in mankind.’ Imogen Clark
If you love an uplifting story about new beginnings, then The Man Across The Street is the perfect read to curl up with. Fans of Hannah Ellis, Debbie Johnson and Emily Harvale will love this book.
Publisher: Blood Red Books
Publication Date: 1st January 2020
Amazon Link: The Man Across the Street
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a meddler of words. Born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. I’m a romantic at heart and have always enjoyed writing about characters that fall in and out of love, have good friends to hang around with, and live in communities with great spirit.
I have written three books in The Somerley Series and the first in The Hope Street Series, The Man Across The Street.
I can often be found sitting in my favourite coffee shop, sipping a cappuccino and eating a chocolate chip cookie, either catching up with friends or writing on my laptop.
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December 16, 2019 December 11, 2019 ~ stefloz ~ 3 Comments
It’s been a tough choice but I’ve narrowed down my 10 favourites of the year. All but one were published in 2019.
In the order I read them, here they are:-
Rosie’s Travelling Tea Shop by Rebecca Raisin. Published by HQ Digital. @HQDigitalUK
Amazon UK link Rosie’s Travelling Tea Shop
An absolutely perfect laugh out loud romantic comedy.
Rosie Lewis has her life together.
A swanky job as a Michelin-Starred Sous Chef, a loving husband and future children scheduled for exactly January 2021.
That’s until she comes home one day to find her husband’s pre-packed bag and a confession that he’s had an affair.
Heartbroken and devastated, Rosie drowns her sorrows in a glass (or three) of wine, only to discover the following morning that she has spontaneously invested in a bright pink campervan to facilitate her grand plans to travel the country.
Now, Rosie is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime, and the chance to change her life! With Poppy, her new-found travelling tea shop in tow, nothing could go wrong, could it…?
Betray Her by Caroline England. Published by Piatkus. @PiatkusBooks
Amazon UK link Betray Her
Best friends forever.
That’s the pact you made.
You’d do anything for her.
And you have.
She’s always had it all.
If you could take it for yourself . . . would you?
The Summer of Chasing Dreams by Holly Martin. Self published on Amazon.
Amazon UK link The Summer of Chasing Dreams
Discover an unforgettable romance this summer.
Eva Blue is about to go on a trip of a lifetime, but one adventure she didn’t count on was falling in love…
Eva is quite content with her life in London. In her job as a cover designer, she works at home, and often in her cosy pyjamas. She’s happy to stay in her safe little world and not explore much outside of it.
She is the opposite of her mum, a free spirit who craved finding adventure and thrills in all corners of the world. But on the day her mum’s will is finalised, Eva finds a list of all the dreams her mum wanted to achieve in her life. Things she never did because she fell pregnant with Eva.
Eva decides these dreams will not go unfulfilled – she is going to be brave and complete them for her mum. As Eva has no experience travelling the world, she hires a guide to go with her on this holiday.
Gorgeous but rude Thor Anderson is not the person she would choose to accompany her on this adventure, but somehow she gets stuck with him. As they discover the world together Eva starts to think he might not be as bad as she first thought. She is swept away by Thor’s kindness and mischievous sense of humour. While Eva wrestles with moving out of her comfort zone, Thor is running from a past heartache. Sparks fly between them, but will a simple holiday romance be enough or can they put aside their pasts to embrace their futures?
Her Best Friend’s Secret by Anna Mansell. Published by Bookouture. @bookouture
Amazon UK link Her Best Friend’s Secret
She deserves the truth. But it will ruin her life. What would you do?
In summer, the small Cornish village of Gorran Haven fills with tourists, but in the colder months its pretty narrow streets are blissfully quiet, the bell on the village shop door rings only for locals, the beach is unspoilt, empty and safe.
It’s been over twenty years since four very different teenage girls sat on that beach, and swore to be best friends forever. Their lives went different ways after Emily left. But each remembered that promise. And none truly found friendship like it again.
Now, Emily’s back, with a secret she can’t face. She tries to hide away, take time to heal and make some difficult choices, but she runs into one of her old friends, and soon the four are reunited. Lolly, warm as ever, is a successful physiotherapist, married with kids. Yet smart, strong Amanda, who cherishes her teenage daughter, is alone and seemingly stuck in a dead-end job. And creative Jess is so much quieter than Emily remembers.
The bond is still there, and Emily realises their friendship might keep her together, but there are reasons why the women fell out of touch. Secrets that have lain dormant for decades start to surface, and then one of the women discovers a betrayal so big, it could turn each of their lives upside down.
It’s always those we’re closest to who have the power to tear us apart. Can friendship give Emily and her friends the strength to survive a devastating shock, or are some things unforgiveable?
Little Darlings by Melanie Golding. Published by HQ Digital. @HQstories
Amazon UK link Little Darlings
THE TWINS ARE CRYING.
THE TWINS ARE HUNGRY.
LAUREN IS CRYING.
LAUREN IS EXHAUSTED.
Behind the hospital curtain, someone is waiting . . .
Lauren is alone on the maternity ward with her new-born twins when a terrifying encounter in the middle of the night leaves her convinced someone is trying to steal her children. Lauren, desperate with fear, locks herself and her sons in the bathroom until the police arrive to investigate.
When DS Joanna Harper picks up the list of overnight incidents that have been reported, she expects the usual calls from drunks and wrong numbers. But then a report of an attempted abduction catches her eye. The only thing is that it was flagged as a false alarm just fifteen minutes later.
Harper’s superior officer tells her there’s no case here, but Harper can’t let it go so she visits the hospital anyway. There’s nothing on the CCTV. No one believes this woman was ever there. And yet, Lauren claims that she keeps seeing the woman and that her babies are in danger, and soon Harper is sucked into Lauren’s spiral of fear. But how far will they go to save children who may not even be in danger?
One Last Greek Summer by Mandy Baggot. Published by Aria. @Aria_Fiction @HOZ_Books
Amazon UK link One Last Greek Summer
Beth Martin is 31, newly divorced and wondering just what life holds for her…
Best-friend, Heidi, is adamant that all the answers lie in Corfu – the island where the girls partied away their youth. So cue a trip to a sun-drenched Greek island, ouzo cocktails, a trip down memory lane… and Alex Hallas, the man Beth has never quite forgotten.
As they dance under the stars, the sand beneath their toes, old feelings begin to resurface and Beth might just have a chance to take back her life. If they can learn to love the people they’ve become…
The Little Village of Happiness by Holly Martin. Self published on Amazon.
Amazon UK link The Little Village of Happiness
Let The Little Village of Happiness warm your heart and make your spirits soar.
Willow McKay needs a fresh start. Her recent break-up may not have left her heartbroken but it’s certainly wounded her pride. Desperate to escape the whispers and stares of her town’s gossips, an advert offering homes in a picturesque village in the grounds of a majestic castle on the Cornish coast sounds like just what she needs. Without thinking twice Willow applies for a cottage and packs up her life for the village of Happiness.
But when Willow arrives she finds a crumbling ruin and ramshackle cottages, nothing like the pretty picture the advert had boasted. It seems Happiness was too good to be true. That is until she meets the incredibly handsome estate manager Andrew Harrington…
His passion for restoring the village to its former glory is contagious and soon they are working together to bring happiness back to Happiness. And as sparks fly between them Willow can feel herself falling. But Andrew is holding something back.
Can Willow risk her heart again? And will they succeed in transforming the old village to its original beauty before it’s too late?
Escape to Giddywell Grange by Kim Nash. Published by Hera Books. @HeraBooks
Amazon UK link Escape to Giddywell Grange
A dog’s life is just what Maddy needs
Maddy Young thought she had it all.
Swanky city apartment? – yep. Fancy car? sorted. High-flying career? – tick.
Even if she’s lost most of her friends because of spending all her time at work, and can’t remember when she last had fun, it’s worth it.
Until she’s suddenly made redundant. Now she’s 37, jobless, and after the breakup with the former love of her life, unhappily single.
Enter Maddy’s childhood friend, Beth, the owner of Growlers, the doggy daycare centre at Giddywell Grange, on a mission to make Maddy see there’s more to life than work.
Soon, Maddy is swapping spreadsheets for volunteer duty at the library, daily Starbucks for cups of tea with elderly neighbours, and her Prada handbag for doggy poo bags… And with Beth’s gorgeous brother, Alex, back from the States, Maddy starts to think that Giddywell Grange might just be her happy place.
But when her old life – and her old boyfriend – comes calling, will Maddy go back to the job she loved so much? Or will she discover that the key to happiness lies in making others happy?
Nine Elms by Robert Bryndza. Published by Little, Brown Book Group UK. @BooksSphere
Amazon UK link Nine Elms
Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey. Published by Simon & Schuster UK. @simonschuster
Amazon UK link Letters to the Lost
Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2016
1943, in the ruins of Blitzed London…
Stella Thorne and Dan Rosinski meet by chance and fall in love by accident. Theirs is a reluctant, unstoppable affair in which all the odds are stacked against them: she is newly married, and he is an American bomber pilot whose chance of survival is just one in five.
… He promised to love her forever
Seventy years later Dan makes one final attempt to find the girl he has never forgotten, and sends a letter to the house where they shared a brief yet perfect happiness. But Stella has gone, and the letter is opened by Jess, a young girl hiding from problems of her own. And as Jess reads Dan’s words, she is captivated by the story of a love affair that burned so bright and dimmed too soon. Can she help Dan find Stella before it is too late?
Now forever is finally running out.
The Blossom Twins by Carol Wyer @carolewyer @bookouture #TheBlossomTwins #bookreview #booksontour #blogtour
Blog Tour 12th December 2019
Today it’s my stop on the blog tour for Carol Wyer’s new release, The Blossom Twins. Thanks to Sarah Hardy and Kim Nash for inviting me to take part, I’m delighted to be part of it.
A horrible crime is committed and Natalie’s team are assigned to the case. Natalie is shocked at the scene and the familiarity of it to an old case she worked on where two girls were murdered, posed and petals were scattered around the scene. But that killer was locked up back then. The ‘I’m back’ note was not one she was expecting to receive.
When two girls are found in an almost identical pose she suspects that the ‘Blossom Twins’ killer has returned. DS Briggs, a colleague from the original investigation is brought in to help Natalies’s team and she still doesn’t like him!
It’s such harrowing case to read about.
The author weaves the case in with Natalie’s home life in a very chilling manner.
We get a bit more of her personal life in this one, things I hoped for and things I just can’t ever imagine. I was totally reeled in, all the emotions. The tension in the last quarter of the book was unbearable and I couldn’t put it down.
Oh my gosh!
Seriously!….
This totally shocked me!
What a twist!
Carol, all those days with hardly any sleep are totally worth it to a reader like me. Thank you x
Thanks to Carol Wyer, Bookouture, and NetGalley for the early review copy in which I give my honest opinion.
(Detective Natalie Ward Book 5)
Their parents thought they were hiding…
One beautiful summer’s evening, thirteen-year-old twins Ivy and Erin Westmore snuggle down in a tent in their back garden, giggling and sharing secrets.
When their mother goes to wake the girls the next morning, their tent is empty.
The alarm is raised and Detective Natalie Ward is put onto the case. When the twins’ bodies are discovered on nearby marshland, covered with deep pink petals, an icy shiver travels down Natalie’s spine. Everything about the girls’ deaths reminds her of a horrifying case she worked on earlier in her career, which saw a killer of the worst kind placed behind bars.
The next day, that feeling is heightened when she receives a chilling note saying ‘I’m back’. Is this killer a copycat or did Natalie put the wrong person in prison all those years ago? In a small town, where no stranger goes unnoticed, what is Natalie missing?
Consumed by the case, determined to prevent more deaths, Natalie misses the fact that it is her attention the killer wants. And to get it, he has his sights set firmly on her precious daughter Leigh…
Gripping, fast-paced and nail-bitingly tense, this book will keep you flying through the pages long into the night. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott and Karin Slaughter.
Publication Date: 12th December 2019
Amazon.co.uk: The Blossom Twins
Amazon.com: The Blossom Twins
Winner of The People’s Book Prize Award, Carol Wyer is an award-winning author and stand up comedian who writes feel-good comedies and gripping crime fiction.
A move to the ‘dark side’ in 2017, saw the introduction of popular DI Robyn Carter in LITTLE GIRL LOST, the #2 best-selling book on Amazon, #9 best-selling audiobook on Audible and Top 150 USA Today best-seller.
A second series featuring DI Natalie Ward quickly followed and to date her crime novels have sold over 600,000 copies and been translated for various overseas markets, including Norwegian, Italian, Turkish, Hungarian Slovak, Czech and Polish.
Carol has been interviewed on numerous radio shows discussing ”Irritable Male Syndrome’ and ‘Ageing Disgracefully’ and on BBC Breakfast television. She has had articles published in national magazines ‘Woman’s Weekly’ featured in ‘Take A Break’, ‘Choice’, ‘Yours’ and ‘Woman’s Own’ magazines and the Huffington Post.
She currently lives on a windy hill in rural Staffordshire with her husband Mr Grumpy… who is very, very grumpy.
To learn more about Carol, go to www.carolwyer.co.uk or follow Carol on Twitter: @carolewyer.
Carol also blogs at www.carolwyer.com
One Night on Ice by Mandy Baggot @mandybaggot @Aria_Fiction @HOZ_Books #OneNightOnIce #bookreview
December 5, 2019 November 14, 2019 ~ stefloz ~ 1 Comment
Previously published as Breaking The Ice, I had totally missed it with the original title.
True Mandy Baggot style, a lovely romantic story.
Mandy writes a leading man who I fall for every time and Jimmy Lloyd was the one this time, with his ‘Minstrels’ eyes. I warmed to skater Jimmy from the start, he’d had some bad press and I felt for him.
Samantha, her whole life revolved around her job at the Civic Hall and when its very existence was threatened it was awful for her. She went into fight-mode, and Jimmy did too.
A fabulous story of an ice show and the goings on at the Civic Hall.
Samantha’s sister Cleo played a big part in the story too.
I absolutely loved it!
The cover design is gorgeous.
Her other Christmas books are definitely worth a try if you enjoy this one, and her books set in Corfu will take you through the Summer season with a smile.
Thanks to Mandy Baggot, Aria, Head of Zeus and NetGalley for the review copy in which I give my honest opinion.
Two very different people. One magical city. A chance to fall in love.
When routine-driven box office assistant, Samantha Smith, meets the stars of Skating on Broadway her life is turned upside down.
Immediately attracted to lead skater, Jimmy Lloyd, Samantha does her best to deny her feelings. But when all you can do is burst out laughing and hyperventilate every time you’re under pressure, keeping things under wraps is a hard task.
When the future of her beloved Civic Hall is threatened, Samantha must rise to the challenge to ensure its survival. Constantly scrutinised and criticised by her zany sister Cleo and her brogue-wearing boyfriend Jeremy, can Samantha save her job, save the Civic Hall and stop her panic attacks just long enough to give away her heart?
Previously published as Breaking the Ice.
Publication date 5th December 2019
Get your copy here:-
Amazon UK:- One Night On Ice
Mandy Baggot is an international bestselling and award-winning romance writer. The winner of the Innovation in Romantic Fiction award at the UK’s Festival of Romance, her romantic comedy novel, One Wish in Manhattan, was also shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year award in 2016. Mandy’s books have so far been translated into German, Italian, Czech and Hungarian. Mandy loves the Greek island of Corfu, white wine, country music and handbags. Also a singer, she has taken part in ITV1’s Who Dares Sings and The X-Factor. Mandy is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and the Society of Authors and lives near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK with her husband and two daughters.
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Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey @Iona_Grey #LettersToTheLost @simonschuster #wonderfulbook #bookreview
November 13, 2019 December 4, 2019 ~ stefloz ~ 7 Comments
This is not the kind of book I would usually pick up with it being set in the war years.
I’m reading it long after it was first published and I have a friend to thank for the recommendation.
My friend is Kerry from https://chataboutbooks.blog/. She has been going on and on about how fabulous it was so when the opportunity came along to attend #ChaseBookfest in Staffordshire, where Iona Grey was one of the featured authors, me and Kerry jumped at the chance as it wasn’t far from where we live in North Staffs. We listened to the author read an extract from her latest book, and Kerry attended a Q & A session with tea and cake too. There was a pop up Waterstones shop and we purchased a paperback to have signed by the author. Kerry was astonished to realise that her review for another book by Iona Grey, The Glittering Hour, was ‘top Amazon review’ and the author knew who she was. It was a lovely moment to witness and Kerry had a real fan-girl moment. I also had my copy signed where the author wrote ‘Hope it’s not a disappointment’. It certainly wasn’t!! The Glittering Hour is now on my reading pile.
This has got to be one of my favourite ever books!
It has two stories running parallel, one set in the war years and the other in the present day.
Jess, a singer in a band, runs away from her abusive partner at the end of a gig and finds herself in a derelict cottage in a back lane in London. It’s obviously been empty for a while and has no services, but there are still a few belongings there from the previous occupant. She hides out in there and is surprised when a letter arrives. She opens it and finds it’s from Dan, an old guy in the USA, and he’s searching for a lost love from seventy years ago. She has a look around and comes across a box of letters, filed in date order. She has nothing else to do so starts reading them. The letters are from Dan to Stella during the war years. She is touched to read these and wants to help Dan in his search. Jess is discovered hiding at the cottage by Will, who is an heir hunter. Things don’t run smoothly here and after a few hiccups Will wants to search too.
The story of Stella and Dan was set in some incredibly difficult times during the war.
Stella is a girl with no family, educated in the poor school. She is still firm friends with Nancy who she’s known since those school days. Stella becomes a housekeeper at the vicarage and ends up marrying the vicar. It seems a perfect happy-ever-after partnership, but it is far from it.
A chance meeting between her and Dan at a bombed church is the spark.
Dan is a pilot stationed in East Anglia for the US Air Force. Reading about some of the bombing raids on Germany was very tough, and many of his comrades were lost in the war. We know that Dan is still alive, but not well, as we meet him as an old man at the beginning of the book. The worry of being a casualty of war is felt as his letters are read throughout the book.
I loved reading the letters and got a real insight into his feelings for Stella.
A truly beautiful love story.
Stella and Dan, Jess and Will will stay on in my head for a long time. I love how the two stories run seamlessly into each other. This book made me feel so many different emotions from sad to happy, I was totally swept along by the story. The ending was perfect and I finished it in tears.
I can’t recommend it enough.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK; Paperback Original edition (23 April 2015)
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Incalculable Good
On April 3, 2015 October 18, 2015 By Adam GurriIn Philosophy
Patrick’s post is probably my favorite defense of telescopic morality in the ongoing conversation on the subject. Like most of those defenses, he focused almost entirely on charitable giving. I think most people would be surprised to learn that charitable giving was not really what I had in mind when I wrote the first piece on this. Nevertheless, the argument undeniably applies. And I have a bone to pick with Patrick’s argument that admitting “that distant persons have some non-trivial value” means that mathematically we can demonstrate we should be doing a certain amount of charitable giving.
Let’s get this out of the way first. I do not have a problem with charitable giving. I do think that people overestimate the good that it will do. William Easterly’s many books on the subject are my main source material here; a great deal of energy and resources have been poured into aid over the decades with very little impact. Sometimes, with largely bad results, such as simply lining the pockets of corrupt and tyrannical regimes.
Since the first post on telescopic morality, people have been telling me about GiveWell, and their whole mission to get better at measuring the effectiveness of different charitable organizations. It seems like a very admirable thing they are doing. To the extent that they both help givers do more good than they could have, and help charitable organizations learn from one another’s mistakes, their measurement entrepreneurship has contributed real value.
But it’s unclear to me how well it does actually work. I’ve heard a lot of claims, but we’re talking about an organization that has been around for less than ten years, and been prominent for even less than that. Consider that while there is now plenty of conversation over how wasteful organizations like the Red Cross can be, for many decades it was considered a given that they were a great place to donate to. At the end of the day, these are people I have never met aggregating and analyzing metrics that imperfectly capture what they attempt to measure. The source of the data is often the organizations themselves, or some third party whose trustworthiness (in terms of reliability, but perhaps ethics as well) is also not exactly something I can simply know at a glance.
But I don’t want to overplay my hand here. Even Easterly believes there are several fairly reliable ways to help specific people in poor countries. Patrick actually alludes to this in his post:
I regard each choice as a kind of ethical unit—an object of discrete analysis—and one which may have its own merits or demerits. That choice should not be thought of as just another block on a progress bar, its value determined by how many percentage points it has brought you closer to 100. (By analogy, if asked whether you would rather have paid down 1% of your mortgage or 5% of your credit card, looking only at the percentages would be silly.)
I’m reminded of an old story about a man who was throwing starfish back into the sea. Someone comes along and points out that there is no way that the man will be able to save all or even most of the starfish. The man throws another in and then says “I helped that starfish.”
Easterly says that the aid projects that work tend to have fairly specific and unambitious goals. Like getting a particular village mosquito nets, or distributing vaccines during an outbreak. These don’t move the needle in aggregate statistics; they don’t lower overall malaria rates or anything like that. But they help that village and those people.
Patrick thinks that I don’t accept that logic, but actually I think it’s wonderful. That is not at all the sort of thinking I want to criticize. I might be skeptical about the effectiveness of particular organizations, but in as much as there’s good reason to believe it’s actually at work, the starfish story logic is very appealing to me.
Commensurability
Here’s one point where I strongly depart from Patrick:
One could also make strong claims about the importance of distant persons based on fundamental rights, or working off some Kantian imperative of universalizability, or perhaps even through the virtue of compassion. Yet I don’t think we need to go all the way to the fundamental equality of man to embrace “telescopic morality.”
No, all we need to do is demonstrate that distant persons have some non-trivial value and then let math do the rest of the work. Getting over this hurdle is fairly easy. Whatever you think about the methodological foundation of ethics, our collective ethical instincts have some pulling power. And you will be hard pressed to find allies if your starting position is that distant persons have zero value. If you accept that distant persons have some ethical value then, as the old joke goes, you’re just haggling over the price.
Math can only come in if moral worth is measurable on some commensurable scale. And even if it is (it isn’t), wellbeing is clearly not. That is the spirit of some of Easterly’s feedback to GiveWell.
I think that a lot of the “what works in aid” debate is phrasing the question wrong. You really want to know what works for whom, which will then lead to the question at the heart of economics and politics: who gets to decide what happens? This isn’t necessarily answered by randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that show that an intervention improves some quantitative measure of well-being. Markets and democracy are better feedback mechanisms than RCTs, and they provide resolution on “who gets to decide?” Seeing what people buy and asking them what they want gives better indicators of what works for them than quantitative indicators coming from RCTs.
Further down:
There are a lot of thing that people think will benefit poor people (such as improved cookstoves to reduce indoor smoke, deworming drugs, bed nets and water purification tablets) that poor people are unwilling to buy for even a few pennies. The philanthropy community’s answer to this is “we have to give them away for free because otherwise the take-up rates will drop.” The philosophy behind this is that poor people are irrational. That could be the right answer, but I think that we should do more research on the topic. Another explanation is that the people do know what they’re doing and that they rationally do not want what aid givers are offering. This is a message that people in the aid world are not getting. The rational choice paradigm has never been fully accepted in the development community. We should try harder to figure out why people don’t buy health goods, instead of jumping to the conclusion that they are irrational.
GiveWell has a very reasonable response:
We agree that, all else equal, “Markets and democracy are better feedback mechanisms than RCTs [randomized controlled trials].” We believe there are cases where markets and democracy fail and aid can provide help that they can’t, and would guess that Prof. Easterly agrees on this as well.
Prof. Easterly observes, “a lot of things that people think will benefit poor people… {are things} that poor people are unwilling to buy for even a few pennies … The philosophy behind this is that poor people are irrational. That could be the right answer, but I think that we should do more research on the topic.” We have some sympathy with this view and agree that more evidence would be welcome, but we are probably less hesitant than Prof. Easterly is to conclude that people simply undervalue things like insecticide-treated nets.
I’m basically on board with the Christian and Stoic doctrine that moral worth is universal across humanity and around the globe, so commensurability isn’t really so big an issue there. But wellbeing is definitely incommensurable. It has many facets and most of them are controversial when it comes time to make choices about the most effective use of resources. Easterly leans hard on the dimension of choice, because as an economist he comes from the school that leans heavily on revealed preferences as a gauge for welfare.
I think there are problems with making preferences too central, but it does have the great strength of forcing the technocratically inclined to respect the people they’re supposed to be helping. In other words, it’s often better than the alternatives. But it seems hard to deny that having fewer instances of malaria constitutes an improvement in wellbeing, so malaria nets would improve someone’s wellbeing even if that person didn’t think they worked. Giving straight cash seems to be the most respectful, but if people have cash and die of malaria, the respect seems rather hollow. A starfish that is respected but not thrown back in the water is not really helped, is it?
Again, I am not making this argument to discredit charitable giving. I’m specifically targeting Patrick’s claim that it is “just math”. Math is a useful tool but cannot replace unquantifiable judgments when the matter in question involves incommensurability.
Cosmic Moral Quests
But as I said, charitable giving was never really my main target.
I have known many, many people who let stories (the general representativeness of which are questionable at best) of faraway things they cannot control dominate their attention and emotional state. Lately I’ve taken to framing this in terms of our relationship with media and information, and that is definitely a big part of it. The people I have known have sucked up every story on a given subject—often politics—and taken the bad stuff very hard and very personally. I had a few years there myself; first in college, and then later, around the 2008 crash when I was feeling my most ideologically libertarian.
But it’s more than just the news cycle or the online outrage machine. It’s about wanting to be able to have a global or cosmic level impact as an individual. If you want that, you will be disappointed. If you want that badly enough, you will be crushed under the weight of it.
I still believe that my dad, whose posts at Vulgar Morality years ago were a big part of what inspired my critiques of telescopic morality, has it right. We should give most of our focus to the small sphere in which our lives are lived. It’s where we have the biggest chance to make an impact with the least amount of uncertainty around whether we actually did or if we did more harm than good. And I want to stress the importance of that uncertainty. When we pursue cosmic moral quests that take place far away from where we can actually see them, we don’t always end up subsidizing the mass eviction of some of the poorest people on Earth—but we certainly do some of the time.
Giving our focus to the smaller sphere is an important part of really being committed to the relationships we have with the people actually in our lives. And most of the really big advances over the last two centuries have come from people tinkering with problems that were right in front of them.
Participation and Renegotiation
The funny thing about the timing of Patrick’s piece was that I had only just made another stab at talking about our responsibilities to the larger whole, beyond just our small sphere. Here’s the relevant passage:
We are responsible for both the extent and the details of our participation in group processes. The extent to which Obama can be held personally responsible for what the NSA has done and continues to do is a murky question that is hard to answer while observing the system as an outsider. But he can certainly be held responsible for not doing his part to end it, and for publicly defending it. Indeed it is made worse by the visible abandonment of the principles he promised to adhere to as a candidate.
The consequences of individual actions are necessarily small compared to the whole, especially the average individual and the average action. Within a life, a family, and a small community, however, those consequences are relatively large. That is one good reason among many to give this sphere special attention. But this does not imply that we lack responsibilities outside of this sphere.
Libertarians like to claim that voting is pointless because a single vote never sways national elections. I myself have made a version of that argument many times. But it is wrongheaded; it assumes the point of voting is to have your one vote determine the outcome. I think the point of voting, in our system, is to have a feedback mechanism that draws from a broad base of the population. The more people there are that participate in that process, the broader the input into that feedback mechanism.
And yesterday:
Thus, democracy is imperfect, and does not really aggregate preferences, but is that grounds for abandoning the enterprise? I say not. I say the American project is still worthy of our commitment. Making such a commitment just is to take responsibility for your role as citizen, member of your community, neighbor. It is to take ownership of your own influence, however small, on our conjective reality. And in practice it involves the exact sort of shouldering of burdens and public mindedness that Nathan calls for. But it also involves participation in politics—as voters as well as in other roles, which require individuals to fill them.
Here’s the thing: telescopic morality for me was never really about whether big picture stuff mattered. Of course it matters. For me it’s mostly about prudence in managing our affairs, not letting the ineradicable imperfection of the world be a barrier to living an emotionally healthy life, and having reasonable expectations.
And I have most of the same heroes as everyone else who largely break this mold: the civil rights activists being, in my mind, canonical. But they also got their hands dirty; they went right to the source of the problem and stared it in the face. They did not gaze at the various small town thugs occupying the Sheriff’s offices of the country from a distance; they met them in person.
There’s also a sense in which extreme examples don’t make very good guides for living life, or at least for living most of your life most of the time. Some people make a lot of money and end up accomplishing a lot of good with highly risky business ventures, but I don’t think anyone would suggest that’s what everyone should do. I’m fairly certain there’s a valid analogy here with moral entrepreneurs; most would-be MLKs do not actually end up being MLK, and often for good reason.
One of the ironies of writing about telescopic morality has been the much greater success of the more polemical posts. Turns out ranting about ranting is popular for the exact same reason that any ranting is popular! But I hope this post has made my position seem a bit more reasonable.
Reject the Siren Song of Telescopic Morality
Your Media Diet is Immoral
Telescopic Morality vs Myopic Morality
How to (Really) Make a Difference
powerlessness and nihilism
The Morality of Futility
Critiquing “Vulgar Morality”
Between Callousness and Telescopic Morality
Free Yourself from the Telescopic Morality Machine
Looking the wrong way down the telescope
charitytelescopic moralityWilliam Easterly
Unifying Moral Philosophy With Virtue Ethics
McCloskey’s Representative Foe: The New Institutional Economics
3 thoughts on “Incalculable Good”
boatfloating
” But it seems hard to deny that have fewer instances of malaria constitutes an improvement in wellbeing, so malaria nets would improve someone’s wellbeing even if that person didn’t think they worked. Giving straight cash seems to be the most respectful, but if people have cash and die of malaria, the respect seems rather hollow.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/world/africa/mosquito-nets-for-malaria-spawn-new-epidemic-overfishing.html
The people have chosen.
Hah! Perfect.
paulcrider
Some disconnected thoughts:
One of the reasons I was hostile to the telescopic morality concept back when Adam first started going on about it was because I think that most people actually err in the opposite direction. That is, most folks care a lot about what is close to them and pay too little regard to the moral claims of those distant in kind or space. I still think this is true to some extent, but I’ve been convinced there is value in Adam’s critique now that I understand it better.
GiveWell and GiveDirectly are two of the small number of charities I’ve committed myself too. One way I rationalize this is that I’m a cosmopolitan by nature. It’s simply easier for me to see the value of giving money to foreigners than it is for most other people, even without suggesting that other people are ethically derelict for not caring enough about the welfare of foreigners. It’s a like charitable comparative advantage.
I have the impression that many people in the Effective Altruism community could really benefit from the telescopic morality critique. I have seen some of these people wrack themselves to despair over whether their chosen career path is Effective enough Altruistically. This, I think, is just nuts, because …
If we look to the ancients for just a little bit of guidance, we’ll recall that morality is actually about the *happiness of the moral actor*, where of course happiness is understood in a broad way. How does the agent live well? Well, part of it is living in harmony with others and taking their welfare as important, even that of the furthest Mysian. Christ also died for E.T. But if you take the hardcore utilitarian (or Effective Altruist) stance, your own every little pleasure (that venti frappuccino habit or bouquet of flowers for your romantic partner) becomes morally suspect. And what is society left with in the limit that every citizen of the rich world follows the EA principles? A much poorer rich world where everyone has forgotten what a flourishing civilization of arts and science and letters even looks like.
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Councillor waste
December 13, 2010 by trialbyjeory
A kind reader has sent me this link to an FoI request that’s just been disclosed by Tower Hamlets council. Actually, there was no need to FoI it as it is a public document, but all the same, I think it will make interesting reading for most people.
It’s a list of the Special Responsibility Allowances paid to Mayor Lutfur Rahman and 24 councillors. That means almost half our 52 elected representatives are being paid over and above the £10,065 they get as basic councillor pay. And that’s before Lutfur, if he finally manages it, fills another few members of his cabinet at £13,325 a go.
Some of these positions, such as the chairs of the Development Committee (Cllr Carli Harper-Penman) and Overview and Scrutiny (Cllr Ann Jackson), do involve a fair amount of work, but whether an extra £10,710 is the right amount, I don’t know.
Other positions attracting serious pocket money defy belief. Take the General Purposes Committee, for example. Its chair, Cllr Helal Uddin of Bromley-by-Bow, trousers almost an extra annual £8,000 for presiding over a few hours extra work a year, if that. Check out this link and you’ll see there has only been three meetings this financial year. In total, there have been four agenda items, all of which were simple rubber stamp reports such as agreeing the terribly crucial appointments to the Billingsgate Market Consultative Advisory Committee. I once sat in one of these meetings to see exactly what went on and the answer was pretty much nothing. The councillors usually arrive late, the officers (who claim the evening sessions as lieu time) sip tea and nibble biscuits, and then the meeting is usually over within a matter of minutes.
Then there is Mizanur Chaudhury who get £5,800 for being an “Olympics Ambassador”. What?? Why?? Shouldn’t he be doing whatever he does for free, just for the pure privilege?
That there are so many paid positions is a corruption of our system. They are the paid vote. Some 500 council staff will soon lose their jobs. Many of these payments should also go. Given that most of the recipients are Labour members, Mayor Rahman, who while council leader was the worst offender for paying his mates, might well propose such a move.
Councillors wouldn’t dare squeal if that happened. Not even Tower Hamlets councillors…or would they?
on December 13, 2010 at 11:16 pm carole
Ted how comes you were never interested in how much Christeen Gilbert awarded herself and the Michael Kieth and of course Maureen Mcelenney and her team they were on saleries with a few extra zeros
So £10.000 really does not make such a good story jet some juicy news out there not silly little FOI that others have passed on to you
Perhaps a bigger story should be WHY is it that Oona King can now recieve more than £6.000 upwards per month just to sign her name
When the people of Bethnal Green and Bow regected her and even the Labour party did not want her perhaps that would be a far better story for you to cover
And so much more interesting
on December 13, 2010 at 11:23 pm trialbyjeory
Oh come now, Carole, was my previous writing and hard work so wasted on you? I remember clearly the days when you used to sing my praises for doing exactly what you said I didn’t. I frequently criticised the fat cat salaries of Christine and Maureen and council leaders.
What I also clearly remember is you criticising councillors for being paid for doing virtually nothing…so why the change of heart?
And if you read the post properly, you’ll see that my argument is more than a point about finance…
on December 14, 2010 at 12:16 am Judoker
It’s appropriate to look hard at cllrs allowances on the current climate and with the brutal cuts the Lib-Con govt are making to east London councils. That said, it’s an easy pop to have a go at cllrs allowances – it’s an emotionally draining job which f&@ks up your life and job prospects.
on December 16, 2010 at 8:46 pm AMD
I’m sure like many jobs there is an element of emotional drain but ffs they DO have a choice about going into the role of councillor.
on December 14, 2010 at 12:57 am Taj Miah
So we are paying over a £1million pounds (once the mayors recruited the rest of his cabinet, advisors, iphones, ect) of our hard earned money for a bunch of monkeys to hurl insults at each other and fight to climb the political food chain….hmmm….not sure what happened to the notion of ‘pay peanuts, u get monkeys’, cos it seems we are paying their weight in gold and still getting monkeys.
Wonder how many teachers, school support assistants, social workers, pensioners luncheon clubs, refurbished properties that money can buy each year.
on December 14, 2010 at 1:01 am Taj Miah
Shocking that Abbas, who spoke only once, maybe twice for a minute or 2 each time at the last 2 council meeting and has no real responsibility of services/departments/portfolios gets an extra £13,325. SHOCKING!!!!
on December 14, 2010 at 8:08 am Fighting4EdMiliband
Spot on Ted. However, as with much of your work where you sometime incoherently mix things to spice up a story, please state at the top…”Mayor LR and 24 councillors ‘of which 20 are Labour’…”, otherwise many would assume that he is responsible for this unless they can differentiate by reading the bottom part of your article. The solution to the SRA problem is simple: half the payments. Cllr Carli Harpa Penman (who apparently got nearly £10,000 basic plus over£8,000 for attending just 6 licensing 1-2 hour meetings as its chair according to the council’s records for last year) should get a maximum of £5,000 and as chair of Development Committee that money could come from the Section 106 pot. It’s reasonable to say O&S reps also get, say, a maximum of £5,000 in addition to the £10,000. That’s still £600-700 per meeting just for asking questions, which they should be doing anyway. General Purposes and Olympics Ambassador should be abolished by the mayor immediately which could pay for and save a council job, say admin, at £14,000). Cabinet members (and deputy mayor for going on jollies) should only get £10,000 on top of their basic £10,000, which still gives them an earning of a £1,000 per cabinet meeting they attend (plus the £1k more for talking nonsense at meetings with below ESOL level English). Perks like free boroughwide parking permits which isn’t stated above should also be abolished. These cuts could save quite a few jobs. Labour councillors must welcome any such motion by the otherwise manipulative and ultra-cunning Mayor Rahman.
on December 14, 2010 at 11:00 pm Judoker
Dont think they get perks.
Additionally, opposition leaders’ allowances should be capped at £5000 too because that’s what they’re in politics for anyway if they are unable to attain power and as they aren’t responsible or accountable for delivery. The deputy chair’s £4,000 for nearly doing nothing should be abolished too. That money could be used to upgrade the council’s uninteractive website or on hi-tech webcams as someone mentioned in your earlier blog!
on December 14, 2010 at 10:42 am You couldn't make it up!
I wonder how many of the current councillors we would still have if the Council abolished ALL councillor allowances – including that of the Mayor.
Now there’s a thought – and a possible vote winner at that!
Tell me Ted – just how much does the Council spend each year on payments to Councillors for allowances, jollies, iphones, free parking permits and the like?
Let’s start translating that into real frontline services when we start hearing what’s going to get cut!
on December 14, 2010 at 11:33 am Fighting4EdMiliband
I hope Mayor Rahman’s negative association with iPhones makes cllrs feel guilty about ordering them! There should be a TH CSR on iPhones, laptops, SRAs, allowance and perks like £2000 per cllr 4 year boroughwide parking permits!
on December 14, 2010 at 11:54 am shahanara
I know all too well of councillors absenteeism and lateness at meetings. I also know of the councillors who are repeat offenders in this regard. I have raised it outside of meetings but no one wants to take any action. I don’t think they can. At Tower Hamlets Homes Board we publish quarterly attendance graphs and the councillors regularly have the worst attendance.
on December 14, 2010 at 12:01 pm You couldn't make it up
You should try checking their timesheets sometime to see how they spend their time and just how many hours each month they actually spend on cases relating to constituents they deal with each month.
Or maybe I should say how few hours?
The timesheets are available on the page for every councillor – just click the link on this page to find the ones for your councillor
http://sps2ksrv.towerhamlets.gov.uk/meetYourCouncillor/
on December 14, 2010 at 1:00 pm Fighting4EdMiliband
Since most cllrs are Labour, the party shouldn’t have chosen (imposed!) candidates that had attendance issues. But I doubt that was the criteria as I suspect it might have been nepotism and factionalism that determined their candidature by the London Labour Party’s stupid egotistical monkey-mafia boss, Kenneth Clarke, who some say is apparently regarded by Bengali Labour councillors in a ‘master and slaves’ relationship. And the reason he didn’t want Lutfur Rahman as mayoral candidate is because Mr Clark would lose control over the ‘slavish’ councillors. Perhaps someone can enlighten us on the real power structure in Tower Hamlets, I mean who exactly do Labour members need to appease in order to become a ‘profession slave’?!
on December 14, 2010 at 1:22 pm Mike Law
Obviously, he’s following the example of Wales in Newham.
I take that back. At least there’s no councillors on an extra £30k a year as there are in Newham; but then, Lutfur doesn’t have any personal friends on the council as far as I’m aware.
Funny how the Spitalfields by-election tomorrow isn’t gaining any coverage on this blog. Is it because Labour will lose? Surely, bloggers would love to have talked about it here!
on December 15, 2010 at 7:34 am You couldn't make it up!
Like I said earlier – you’re obviously badly in need of a blog of your own so you can talk about the things YOU want to talk about.
Speaking personally I’m not in the least interested in the outcome of the Spitalfields by-election. Politics in that part of the borough seems to be a complete farce from beginning to end – and that’s not a farce which makes me laugh.
Is the by-election getting any coverage anywhere?
[went to have look] Not a lot! Having said that, Maggie Crosbie the Green candidate looks like an interesting alternative – see http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/greens_name_spitalfields_and_banglatown_by_election_candidate_1_746567
Now – just for a change – why don’t we focus on a political party which is not mired in a mess in Tower Hamlets?
And what exactly are you doing then talking about the Greens on a thread like this? Isn’t Spitalfields part of Tower Hamlets no more? I am loyal to Ted’s blog and do not have competitive thinking over virtual domination. I’m still waiting for your response on why you think it is OK for a male, elected politician in the UK to change their surname without a valid reason, just give me an example of just one other Labour politician! Don’t get off Google til you have news. I don’t care if you’re interested in SBT or not, ur choice, just don’t try to be patronising.
Well you were completely off topic (you didn’t notice?) so I thought I would go off topic too! <i?(funny how you noticed that!)
I just thought it would be really nice to extend the horizons of those reading this blog to the fact that there are in fact real alternatives in the by-election – ones who are NOT tainted by those who have made such a mess of things so far
We don’t often get a choice of a Green Candidate for Councillor in Tower Hamlets so I thought it was worth highlighting.
Cool TMG! Please ask Greens to campaign for retention of green lands in TH, as they’ve done little to prevent construction, eg Furze Green E3.
Dearie me – got your accountabilities in a twist haven’t you!
It’s the Councillors who run the Council who have done little to prevent construction on the green space in Tower Hamlets.
Why don’t you ask the Councillors of the Strategic Development Committee in the last administration and this one about their voting credentials on over development / developments on green space?
Look around Tower Hamlets and you’ll find local community groups everywhere who are campaigning to save their green spaces and protect their communities.
But Councillors in Tower Hamlets don’t have a great track record at getting out and listening to the community groups do they? Some of them are also pretty partial as to just who they listen to – witness how all the people living around Victoria Park were ignored last summer.
In fact quite a few of the Councillors don’t do much of anything.
Returning to topic(!) – maybe we should start looking at how little some of the current Councillors actually do?
on December 15, 2010 at 2:44 pm anon
Think the councillors did do something about the Victoria Park festival overload. They highlighted a 7 year standing problem with events in the park. See the ELA article, July 15 2010:
“ANGRY residents living beside Victoria Park say the summer’s music festivals are making their lives a misery…
They have been complaining to Tower Hamlets council’s environmental health officers for the past seven years but fear the problems could get even worse as the park gets ready to host three weekends of live music in a row….
This month Victoria Park will be hosting the three-night Lovebox weekender, followed by the two-night High Voltage festival and then another three-night event for the Field Day Concert.
In August there is the dance LED festival and then the Underage Festival.
Bow East ward councillor Marc Francis said: “It is evident that the major events team views Victoria Park as little more than a cash cow that can be milked mercilessly to deliver an outcome for the council.
“The grotesque exploitation of Victoria Park is an absolute scandal.”
But council bosses insist that the money raised by staging the festivals pays for “popular free community events”, including Paradise Gardens and the November firework display, and that the influx of party-goers into the borough boosts businesses.
A spokeswoman said: “We understand that for some residents, large-scale events in Victoria Park can be disruptive and we do everything we can to minimise this.
“This includes having additional officers working to make sure the festivals are running well, licensing conditions are met and noise levels are monitored throughout.”
So you can see that councillors did try to represent communities affected by this growing problem.
Seems that the LBTH Arts & Events Team (in Hanbury Street but under the Communities, Localities and Culture Directorate) control the contracts dished out to the commercial sector. These are very lucrative and the LBTH team justify ‘intensifying’ the use of the park for commercial events by saying these underwrite the grant funded community events (peanuts as compared Lovebox, Field Day etc) like Paradise Gardens etc.
It does seem odd though that Licensing do not get involved which is where Councillors might have got to have a say/represent the community. Were the LBTH Arts and Events Team allowed to increase Lovebox to three days without having to put this (increased) application before any Committee (Licensing? Planning?)
Can it be true that it is officers on the LBTH Arts and Events Team in total control of the decisions made to hire out the park for these commercial events and no councillor has a say/or any involvement? If anyone knows (around the park): are LBTH Licensing Committees or Planning Committees, ie, Councillors involved? This year – or for the past 7 years?
on December 15, 2010 at 4:31 pm Joe
I’m aware of going off topic but we do get Licence Notices for events in Victoria Park.
However there is the issue of LBTH being co-promotor (LBTH’s name on posters as sponsor), licensing authority, landlord and in charge of the heath & safety / noise nuisance issues, it just feels we are powerless.
I think next year more of us may object but it feels pointless. I was informed Judicial Review is one way forward but of the groups it may be possible for none have the funds to make it happen, that I am aware of.
Joe, this isn’t off-topic as we are trying to fathom out our Councillors’ roles in this. They sit on these Committees and get paid for it (as Ted shows above), so we residents are not going off-topic, if Councillors were involved in the decisions re park events.
So, when you objected, were your objections put before the Licensing Committee? If so, which one, (date etc.) so we can see which Councillors ignored the objections?
Agree, it feels useless objecting in this borough, particularly when LBTH are the authority in all depts…and making the mega-bucks from the park contracts. Back on topic though, if Councillors on a Licensing(?) Committee did ignore you earlier this year (and the previous 7 years?), then that is actually worse than “Councillor Waste” as they take the Allowances to then ignore residents.
Now then, coming back to the topic of Councillor Waste tomorrow’s by-election in Spitalfields and so called BengaliTown will have cost taxpayers nearly £20,000 excluding potential policing. But the real cost will be borne by Tower Hamlets Labour because it will not only lose a symbolic seat but also face in the borough. Having said that people lacking any sense of shame (or its cognitive faculty!) wouldn’t find losing face as an issue. December 16 is apparently Bangladesh’s national independence day. THLP should have given Bangladeshi (and non Bangladeshi) ward party members the independence to select their own candidate instead of imposing Abul Aleem against the wishes of people like Mussabeer Ali, chair of the Spitalfields Labour Party, who has been quoted in Peter Kenyon’s blog as asking “Who is this unknown candidate?”! Labour’s arrogant self appointed bosses in Tower Hamlets should get ready for a sleepless electoral post mortem weekend and bang their heads for recreating a Respect victory. Respect’s popular ex-councillor Fazlol Miah will be the clear winner tomorrow for giving voters independence from Labour’s shackles of self-delusion. We should all ask ourselves why white residents in Spitalfields are NOT campaigning for Labour at all. Insomnia for THLP…
@ Anon: I haven’t objected but I’m told people have and they have been allowed to speak at the meeting then ignored.
Do you remember the date of this Committee Meeting? Was it a Licensing Committee meeting? Planning Committee meeting? (Councillors and officers would have been in attendance – and all paid allowances – so still on topic!)
Sorry I don’t know the details, I was told at a meeting last year about the park.
on December 16, 2010 at 2:08 am Robin
All senior management of the council, plus all the councillors should take a 15% pay cut for the next two years to offset some of the cuts that the council need to make.
Will they though. No. The greedy bastards.
Not looking particularly good in Spitalfields today. I wonder why? Preparations for a post mortem could be under way as some people will be expected to give answers. Or get fired!
on December 16, 2010 at 7:15 pm Not Shanara (still Bill)
Dan McCurry|Fighting4EdMiliband: “strawman sockpuppet”.
on December 16, 2010 at 11:13 pm Fighting4EdMiliband
Ted has suddenly vanished following the publishing of this thread on Councillor’s allowances. It is not yet know whether he will return with the S&BT by election result or a bunch of pear-shaped bananas…
The atmosphere at the count is tense…
Insomnia for top brass Labour idiots for failing to snatch a golden seat. 2 Fast 2 Furious.
on December 17, 2010 at 10:40 pm shahanara
I’m shahanara, not Bill, what’s your comment supposed to mean???
Cllrs have gone to THH staff to moan about my previous post regarding cllr absenteeism and punctuality. Poor babies it transpires I have hurt their feelings. Well at least they were nice and warm in their homes when I trudged in deep snow for the board inspection and pre inspection, just one cllr agreed to come.
I joined THH Board because I wanted to bring positive change to the most fundamental of peoples needs: housing. I don’t get paid a bean for volunteering my time for the board unlike the cllrs. I do it because I care.
I have many responsibilities yet strive to attend all meetings and events organised. It is not fair on the rest of the team if some do not pull their weight, particularly if your paid for the privelege.
We had one very effective cllr who was not selected this time round for the THH Board. Far be it from me to accuse TH politicians of nepotism and favouritism but the decision to not re appoint a competent cllr was very odd.
Shahanara, which councillors have been absent from THH board meetings and from LAP 1? Thanks, Ted
Also at the last LAP 1 meeting 4 out of 9 cllrs turned up. this is not unusual.
on December 18, 2010 at 1:31 am Verdi
We also need to keep a record of councillor attendence of their surgeries.
I know of one serving councillor that had not done a single surgery after more than 3 months of being elected.
on December 18, 2010 at 1:24 pm You couldn't make it up!
What do his/her timesheets on the website for the last three months say about holding surgeries?
i will not comment on THH at this sensitive time. At the last LAP 1 meeting in attendance were cllrs bill, rofique, kabir and stephanie. it was unusual for Cllr amy not to attend, she almost always does.
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Shangani Fashion’s
Shangani Fashion’s debut presentation during New York Fashion Week conveys contemporary cuts that are accented with vintage accessories. Shangani Fashion Designs are a juxtaposition of culture and style. Shangani is an African tribe who dwelled near the Shangani River in Zimbabwe, Africa. The tribe was named after its founder; and the name “Shoshangani” means traveler. Shangani Fashion is a brand inspired by the experience of travel and the exposure of different cultures.
Creations by Shangani’s Designers merge their travel experiences with colorful ethnic prints, and contemporary shapes to create a high fashion, ready-to-wear look. Traditional African fabrics with a modern mix, is the passion behind Shangani Fashions.
The design duo collaborating on the aesthetics are Fashion Designers Elesia Peterman and Mary Moore. Moore is a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe and a world traveler.
“My inspirations are fusions of my cultural, travel experiences and my Zimbabwean heritage and styles. Shoppers will find divers influences from the Caribbean, European and Middle-Eastern expressions in my fashions. I enjoy mixing various African influences with a contemporary cut and shape for a modernized look. And the result is a ready-to-wear brand that is suitable for all occasions” explains Mary Moore.
“My creative inspiration comes from a fusion of time, epoch periods and cultures, while remaining Afrocentric.” States Elesia Peterman. “I want our line to show that African print transcends. The looks can be worn strictly as traditional wear, but the looks can also be incorporated in business and everyday casual use. What makes our line unique is that it isn’t just an African meets Western cohesion. Our goal is to reach and inspire a much bigger market. Our line is an international fusion. Also, being a millennial, I feel I can relate with the style trends my peers are excited about.. I want to use clothing design as my voice and demonstration of creativity
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BawnTV Presents “About Him: Freshman Year”
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After a successful Season One, Tyson Anthony decided to part ways with Signal 23 and take the About Him fan fav to BawnTV. No Shade on the front end, however, word on the streets is that tho Tyson Anthony owns the book rights, he doesn’t own the television rights. These rights are alleged to belong to famed Signal 23 creator, Henderson Maddox.
As if that’s not enough, we hear Signal 23 is still planning to continue with their own About Him, minus a few cast members, as we see they have migrated to the BawnTV side of life…. Don’t worry tho, Signal 23 still has Gary LaVard (Vincent)…..
In any case, get into the New Season and let us know what you think…. Will it be as EPIC as Season One? Or, Nah…..
There’s no denying that it’s all about him – Damien. After experiencing his first encounter with heartbreak Damien dives into the chaotic world of college life. Damien stumbles around campus like the other lost freshmen doing his best to keep his eyes glued to his books and off of shirtless jocks, fratboys, and handsome intellectuals. But Damien’s level of discipline may prove to be no match for the ways of a manipulate college senior who threatens to establish a degrading reputation for the freshmen.
Damien’s cousin Kendall begins his own journey of self-discovery. Kendall not only reconnects with himself, but with a love from his past – a cute church boy. It’s a forbidden love that may require Kendall turning his back on the person who has aided him in keeping his sexuality secret from friends, family, and their church for years – his mother.
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Oh yeah, we are already 4 episodes into Season Two, or would this be considered Season One again???? LoL!
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Rae Sremmurd slays Cayler & Sons
Get into the latest in Fashion as Rae Sremmurd sets the trend with Cayler & Sons. This cooperation marks the second time the Munich-based streetwear label has joined forces with the iconic rap duo, whose anthems like “Black Beatles” or “No Type” (among many others) have amassed a casual 1.8 billion views on YouTube alone. The two brothers from Tupelo, Mississippi have long eclipsed the status as a household name in rap, conquering Billboard’s Hot 100 #1 spot and holding it down for weeks.
The campaign’s photos, shot during Rae Sremmurd’s sold out SremmLife II Tour through Europe, capture the characteristic energy that the fashion-savvy brothers Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi bring to each and every one of their performances while showing off highlights from CAYLER & SONS’ spring/summer ’17 collection as well as the newly launched All Day Denim program.
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TSB Film Review: Beauty and The Beast
We all know the legendary story of Beauty and the Beast.
Belle (Emma Watson), a bright, beautiful and independent young woman, is taken prisoner by a beast (Dan Stevens) in its castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the beast’s hideous exterior, allowing her to recognize the kind heart and soul of the true prince that hides on the inside.
Last night, we took a trip to see our childhood favorite film. Expecting to smile and have a few childhood memories it was an absolute surprise what we walked away with.
Beauty and the Beast was a life changing experience. Upon paying attention to the Beast, you learn how treating others poorly could have a negative impact on your life. Through watching Belle, you learn to never judge a book by its cover and allow for a person to show you who they really are.
As far as this remake is concerned, it was truly amazing. The costuming was sheer genius. The acting was perfectly executed and the musical delight were earpleasing.
This film gets a 10/10 for Relateability and Costuming. Emma Watson was an awesome pick for Belle. Her talent and Beauty really allow her to shine in this role. As always, Chip (the teacup) stole the whole show. LoL! His cuteness will always be epic.
If you haven’t make sure you take time to enjoy a tale as old as time and go see Beauty and the Beast in your local theatre.
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T. R. A. D. E Season 2
K & D Productions and a new App called AGTV (African-American Gay Television) Online has teamed up to bring you T.R.A.D.E Season 2 which is an a spin off of the original series T.R.A.D.E IT ALL.
Series Overview: In a world where emotions are ferociously explored in private, but in public are evaded mainly due to society’s homophobic stain on its citizens, where events are demoralizing to a specific race or gender, where uncomfortable and uncontrollable statistics burdened a specific sexual orientation devoid of education and prevention, only one web-series truly captures the essence of life on the down-low, while providing a fascinating political and psychological twist. T.R.A.D.E is a provocatively stunning thriller with deep dramatic variations intent on captivating its audiences. Our web-series depicts and showcases profound systemic bias and racism that certain elements of our society embody and utilize successfully to the detriment of others. The Reality About Down low Experiences captures the essence of living in the LGBTQ community in the twenty-first century along with various hurdles that are yet to be cleared if maximum acceptability is society’s ultimate goal. The main philosophical force behind the writers of T.R.A.D.E is not fame or fortune, which is always welcomed, but instead to educate our communities of the challenges we still haven’t overcome.
Plot: Following the mysterious disappearance of Atlanta’s most prominent business figure, marketing guru and psychopath, JAMIL CHARLES-STANTON positions himself as the new influential face of the city and in doing so decides to run for the Governor’s Mansion to advance his own special interests. T.R.A.D.E focuses on the psychopathic life of MR. STANTON, 32, the CEO of a fortune 100 marketing firm. Plagued by the murder of his childhood friend and fierce business competitor who’s currently presumed missing, JAMIL strives to assume the title of the city’s most eminent figure. With an insatiable appetite for popularity and power, MR. STANTON engages into a down low relationship with Atlanta’s current mayor and candidate for Governor, MR. ADRIAN POWERS. With the two attached intimately, the mission is to destroy one another to win the election with MR. STANTON stopping at nothing to succeed even if it means murdering whoever stands in his way. T.R.A.D.E is simply a dark gritty psychological crime drama about affluent public figures whose secrets catapult their careers. T.R.A.D.E is Executive Produced By Celebrity Fashion Designer KL Allen and Urban Media Personality DiamondKesawn. The series is written by Dante Black and Sheldon Crawford.
With the success of LGBTQ Web series, we have been given a platform to have a voice. While there are many complaints about the portrayal of Black Gay Actors being glorified through images of sex, drugs and criminal activities, we want to touch on these subjects not to portray our characters in a bad light but show some of the problems we face in our community as a whole and educate while resolving their issues throughout the entire season.
This Season we will touch on the following topics:
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AGTV (African American Gay Television) Online is a new digital network that will stream Black Gay Content such has Original Series, Feature Length Films and Documentaries. AGTV was created due to the surge in popular web series and films of created by Black Filmmakers who have no major network to take their work to the next level. With AGTV they plan to work exclusively with independent box aspiring Black Filmmakers to bring out of the box LGBTQ content to the network.
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Shoe Game Freshness 101
As the weather starts to get warmer it’s bout time to pull that mean sneaker game out the closet. For those who are anal about scuffs and dirt, let’s talk shoe game freshness.
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Contemporary, minimal and sleek–Sneaker LAB is recognised as the ‘green’ brand when it comes to premium shoe care and sneaker accessories. The brand offers a range of products to treat, clean, care and protect shoes – sneakers in particular. What makes it so unique and innovative? They’re using innovative biological and protection technology that works on a molecular level and continues to actively work long after use. From leather care balm to on to go sneaker cleaning wipes, Sneaker LAB does a little more than just shine your shoes. And then there’s exclusive items for the sneaker addicts out there–the collaborations. The brand has collaborated with the likes of Lacoste, New Balance, Stampd, Puma and Eytys to come out with elite co-branded sneaker cleaning kits. Everyone’s sneakers crisp at the event.
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Ship to shore, Onslow’s ready for business
Peter WilliamsThe West Australian
Saturday, 21 October 2017 11:06AM
Onslow Marine Support Base
VideoThe $125m Onslow Marine Support Base has been opened. Stage 2 is waiting on NAIF funding confirmation at the State Government's tick.
Until recently a muddy Pilbara creek, the $125 million first stage of the Onslow Marine Support Base is open for business and touting for customers.
Managers from Chevron, Woodside Petroleum, Quadrant Energy and others rubbed shoulders with uniformed navy and army personnel yesterday at the official opening.
“A lot of it has been build it and they will come,” operator Agility Logistics’ Australasia chief executive Frank Guerra said of the project’s development. “I don’t think at one stage did we ever think this is not going to work.”
The facility is being offered as an alternative to Dampier and Exmouth, with cost-saving proximity to offshore oil and gas fields in the northern Carnarvon Basin, equipment and its 204m laydown area the selling points.
“We’ve got a space that if all four (oil and gas) majors wanted to be here at one time it’s no problem,” developer OMSB’s managing director Andrew Natta said.
Mr Natta said the base could help bring project assembly work back to Australia because of its ability to handle large modules on a waterfront.
Camera IconAndrew Natta, OMSB director, Transport Minister Rita Saffioti and Frank Guerra, Agility Logistics. Credit: The West Australian
On the interest of Defence personnel, he said: “It’s important for anyone and everyone that runs logistics or operations offshore to know the capabilities of all the locations.”
Privately-owned OMSB is pushing ahead in a matter of weeks with work on stage two of the project — including dredging of the waterway for bigger boats — as it awaits Federal and State approval of a $16.8 million loan.
“That’s all going to be sorted out in the next few months,” WA Transport Minister Rita Saffioti, who opened the base, said.
“I suspect the State is very very supportive of this. Of course, that’s a further decision to be made.”
The reporter travelled to Onslow courtesy of Agility Logistics.
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Scene: Toronto Rallies for Michael Brown
Thousands gathered on Tuesday to protest police brutality in the wake of a U.S. grand jury decision not to charge the white Missouri police officer who shot and killed the black teen.
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WHERE: University Avenue, near the U.S. consulate
WHEN: Tuesday, November 25
WHAT: A rally against police brutality spurred by the recent U.S. grand jury decision not to charge white police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. About 2,000 protestors showed up outside the U.S. Consulate building at 360 University Avenue on Tuesday evening, many chanting, “No justice, no peace, no racist police.” Others held signs bearing slogans such as “Black lives matter” and “Hands up, don’t shoot”—the latter a reference to the events of the Ferguson shooting, during which some witnesses allege (although accounts vary wildly) Brown raised his hands in surrender before he was killed.
Although the demonstration was ultimately a peaceful one, organizers sparked controversy before it began by requesting on the event’s official Facebook page that non-black attendees “refrain from taking up space,” “never be at the centre of anything,” and “refrain from speaking to the media.” Nevertheless, when, during the event, organizers asked non-black protestors to move to the back of the crowd, they did so without incident.
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UPDATED: Are Meghan and Prince Harry the most relatable members of the Royal Family?
by Victoria Howard Tue 06 March, 2018
A new poll has shown that Britons think Prince Harry and soon-to-be Royal, Meghan Markle, are now considered the most relatable members of the Royal Family.
The poll, which quizzed 2311 people on their opinions of the Royal Family, shows Brits believe that Prince Harry is the most relatable Royal, or most ‘in tune with the public’, taking 32% of the vote, and his fiancee the next most-relatable, with 29% of the vote.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are believed to be the most relatable members of the royal family. Picture by Stephen Lock / i-Images
The American actress, who only ‘joined’ the Royal Family three months ago, will the Prince wed in May, with 1200 members of the public allowed into Windsor Castle.
31% of those who could relate to Ms Markle said it was because she was an actress in the public eye before her engagement to Harry, while 14% said it was because she was down to earth and 11% because she was a feminist. Meghan’s comments at the recent Royal Foundation Forum certainly speak to this.
But 72% admitted they would not like to see the couple as King and Queen (it would take an immense tragedy for this to occur), with 61% believing such a role would change them too much.
Interestingly, third place is a tie, shared between Princess Beatrice of York and Prince Philip, whom 15% thought were relatable.
people think princess beatrice is relatable (us embassy)
prince philip is also felt to be relatable! (NI office)
Prince Andrew’s eldest daughter is 29 and works in business; she carries out a handful of royal engagements each year to support the small number of charities with which she is affiliated, while The Duke of Edinburgh retired from his royal responsibilities in August 2017, after 65 years working at The Queen’s side.
Fifth place went to The Duchess of Cambridge, with 13% of the vote; it seems people (49%) believe she has become less relatable since joining the Royal Family in 2011, when she was then ‘a commoner’. Others thought ‘she never seems to do or say anything’ (28%).
Kate, Duchess of Cambridge was only felt to be a relatable royal by 13 of people. Picture by Andrew Parsons / i-Images
The poll was conducted from 26th February to 3rd March, meaning Catherine’s decision to not wear black to the BAFTA’s (which was a visible sign of support for the Time’s Up campaign) might have influenced this outcome.
Her husband, Prince William, sits down in 8th, with 9% of the vote, and his cousin, Zara, follows Kate in at 6th place.
Only 4% of people found The Queen a relatable figure, down in 12th place; not surprising, considering she has a very unique job and is almost 92 years old! However, Sarah, Duchess of York beat her in 11th place!
Of those polled by VoucherCodesPro.co.uk, 27% said the Royal Family was great for tourism (it is!), and 26% said they loved the Royals (we do!).
Meanwhile, 20% were not entirely sure what the Royal Family did, and 14% felt the Monarchy was an outdated institution (they clearly haven’t visited The Crown Chronicles). However, the latter figure is lower than a number of polls for those who favour a republic in the UK.
George Charles, of VoucherCodesPro.co.uk, said: “Whether you know what the Monarchy do and whether you love them or not, you can’t deny that they’re a huge attraction in the UK for foreign visitors.
“And I bet most people confess that they’ll find themselves glued to the TV when there’s a royal wedding or something similar. Love or hate them, we’re all a little bit obsessed with them, even if it’s a guilty pleasure of ours.”
The top 15 go:
Prince Harry – 32%
Meghan Markle – 29%
Princess Beatrice of York – 15%
The Duke of Edinburgh – 15%
The Duchess of Cambridge – 13%
Zara Tindall – 12%
Mike Tindall – 11%
Prince William Duke of Cambridge – 9%
Princess Eugenie of York – 6%
Princess Anne – 5%
The Duchess of York – 5%
The Queen – 4%
The Duchess of Cornwall- 2%
Prince Andrew Duke of York – 1%
Prince Edward Earl of Wessex – 1%
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Disfrutar In Barcelona Wins The Miele One To Watch Award 2017
Disfrutar in Barcelona has been named this year's Miele One To Watch by The World's 50 Best Restaurants. Opened in December 2014, Disfrutar is a collaboration between chefs Mateu Casañas, Oriol Castro and Eduard Xatruch. The three met while cooking at former No.1 restaurant El Bulli, where they worked alongside legendary Spanish chef Ferran Adrià.
Disfrutar's founders will be presented with the coveted award at The World's 50 Best Restaurants awards in Melbourne on April 5th. The Miele One To Watch Award celebrates emerging global talent and recognises a restaurant that is outside the 50 Best itself but has the potential to rise up the list in the near future.
William Drew, Group Editor of The World's 50 Best Restaurants, said: “Disfrutar showcases the individual talents of these three chefs and broadens their influence on Spain's culinary scene. Their commitment to pushing the creative boundaries of gastronomy makes them worthy winners of the Miele One To Watch Award."
Following El Bulli's 2011 closure, Casañas, Castro and Xatruch opened Compartir (meaning “share") in the nearby coastal town of Cadaqués. Building on the success of their initial venture, the trio launched Disfrutar (meaning “to enjoy") to widespread acclaim, earning their first Michelin star in 2016.
Centrally located in Barcelona's Eixample district, Disfrutar evokes a Mediterranean spirit with its décor and laid-back ambience. Beyond the entrance, guests walk past two open kitchens and are led into the spacious, whitewashed dining room that extends to an open terrace. Bright and earthen-coloured ceramics in various forms dominate the space, a symbolic nod to Barcelona's cultural heritage and the restaurant's focus on artistry.
While Disfrutar's multi-course tasting menus uphold modernist culinary principles, they also reveal the chefs' quirky personalities. Avant-garde, theatrical and inventive, each course aims to delight and excite the senses. Signature dishes include macaroni made from gelatin, tossed in truffle foam and smothered in Parmesan at the table. A deconstructed whisky tart invites guests to wash their hands in whisky and inhale the scent as they eat.
Eduard Xatruch of Disfrutar, said: “Being named this year's winners of the Miele One To Watch Award is a huge recognition of our collective work. In addition, this award helps Disfrutar, which is a very young project, to become established and obviously encourages us to continue working and challenging ourselves."
“We at Miele congratulate the Disfrutar team on winning the Miele One To Watch Award," said Sjaak Brouwer, Managing Director, Miele Australia and New Zealand. “Just as innovation is at the heart of Miele's 'Forever Better' credo, this award recognises these three chefs for their ability to give focus to the extraordinary in culinary creativity. Miele understands the passion, talent and dedication that is required to win at these most prestigious global awards, for which Miele is honoured to be a partner."
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What is Certificate Transparency? How It helps Detect Fake SSL Certificates
Do you know there is a huge encryption backdoor still exists on the Internet that most people don't know about?
I am talking about the traditional Digital Certificate Management System… the weakest link, which is completely based on trust, and it has already been broken several times.
To ensure the confidentiality and integrity of their personal data, billions of Internet users blindly rely on hundreds of Certificate Authorities (CA) around the globe.
In this article I am going to explain:
The structural flaw in current Digital Certificate Management system.
Why Certificate Authorities (CA) have lost the Trust.
How Certificate Transparency (CT) fixes issues in the SSL certificate system.
How to early detect every SSL Certificates issued for your Domain, legitimate or rogue?
First, you need to know Certificate Authority and its role:
Certificate Authority and its Role
A Certificate Authority (CA) is a third-party organization that acts as a central trusted body designed to issue and validate digital SSL/TLS certificates.
There are hundreds of such trusted organizations that have the power to issue valid SSL certificate for any domain you own, despite the fact you already have one purchased from another CA.
...and that's the biggest loophole in the CA system.
SSL Chain-of-Trust is Broken!
Last year, Google discovered that Symantec (one of the CAs) had improperly issued a duplicate certificate for google.com to someone else, apparently mistakenly.
This was not the first time when the power of CA was abused or mistakenly used to issue forged digital certificates that put millions of Internet users' privacy at risk.
In March 2011, Comodo, a popular Certificate Authority, was hacked to issue fraudulent certificates for popular domains, including mail.google.com, addons.mozilla.org, and login.yahoo.com.
In the same year, the Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar was also compromised and issued massive amounts of fraudulent certificates.
Since the chain of trust has been broken, millions of users were subject to the man-in-the-middle attack.
Also Read: How CT Monitoring Tool Helped Facebook to Early Detect Fake SSL Certs
Further, the documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA (National Security Agency) intercepted and cracked massive numbers of HTTPS encrypted web sessions, indicating that some so-called trusted CAs are widely suspected to be controlled or under the authority of Governments.
What if, Government asks any of these 'trusted-turn-evil' certificate authorities to issue duplicate SSL certificates for secure and popular websites like, Facebook, Google or Yahoo?
That's not just my speculation; it has already happened in the past when Government organizations and state-sponsored hackers have abused trusted CAs to get fake digital certs for popular domains to spy on users.
Examples of Incidents that involved Governments
1.) In 2011, forged digital certificates issued by DigiNotar CA were used to hack Gmail accounts of approximately 300,000 Iranian users.
2.) In late 2013, Google discovered fake digital certificates for its domains were being used by the French government agency to perform man-in-the-middle attacks.
3.) In mid-2014, Google identified another incident: National Informatics Centre (NIC) of India was using unauthorized digital certificates for some its domains.
You can see here, how easy it is to compromise the security of HTTPS websites protected by other well-behaved CAs.
Do you still Blindly Trust CA Organizations?
The DigiNotar and Comodo incidents worked as a wake-up call, ending an era of blindly trusting CAs to issue digital certificates.
Problem: How are you supposed to check whether a rogue certificate for your domain has been issued to someone else, probably a malicious attacker?
Solution: Certificate Transparency or CT, a public service that allows individuals and companies to monitor how many digital security certificates have been issued secretly for their domains.
In 2013, Google started an industry-wide initiative, called Certificate Transparency (CT), an open framework to log, audit, and monitor certificates that CAs have issued.
What is Certificate Transparency system?
The Certificate Transparency (CT) framework includes:
Certificate Logs
Certificate Monitors
Certificate Auditors
Certificate Transparency requires CAs to publicly declare (to Certificate Log) every digital certificate they have generated.
Certificate Log offers users a way to look up all of the digital certificates that have been issued for a given domain name.
It is worth noting that Certificate Transparency model does not replace traditional CA-based authentication and verification procedure though it is an additional way to verify that your certificate is unique.
Certificate logs have three important qualities:
1. Append-only: Certificates records can only be added to a log. They can not be deleted, modified, or retroactively inserted into a log.
2. Cryptographically assured: Certificates Logs use a special cryptographic mechanism known as 'Merkle Tree Hashes' to prevent tampering.
3. Publicly auditable: Anyone can query a log and verify its behavior, or verify that an SSL certificate has been legitimately appended to the log.
In CT, Digital Certificate contains a Signed Certificate Timestamp (SCT), which proves that it has been submitted to the log before being issued.
Google, DigiCert, Symantec, and a few other CAs are currently hosting public logs.
Although CT does not prevent CA from issuing forged certificates, it makes the process of detecting rogue certificates much easier.
Such transparency offers them the ability to quickly identify digital certificates that have been issued mistakenly or maliciously and help them mitigate security concerns, such as man-in-the-middle attack.
Earlier this year, Certificate Transparency system and monitoring service helped Facebook security team to early detect duplicate SSL certificates issued for multiple fb.com subdomains.
In a separate article, I have provided details about Facebook's Certificate Transparency Monitoring Service that is designed to discover SSL issues instantly and automatically.
Facebook confirmed to The Hacker News (THN) that it will soon make its experimental Certificate Transparency Monitoring Service available for free to the broader community in the coming months.
Certificate Transparency Search tool
Comodo has launched a Certificate Transparency Search tool that lists all issued certificates for any given domain name.
Or, try Google's Certificate Transparency Lookup Tool to check all certificates present in public Certificate Transparency logs that have been issued for a given hostname
If you find a fraud certificate issued for your domain, report respective CA and address it immediately.
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August 21, 2013 / 4:47 AM / 6 years ago
Thailand, conservative but tolerant, may legalise gay marriage
Amy Sawitta Lefevre
BANGKOK (Reuters) - On a sweltering Saturday night in Bangkok’s Patpong entertainment district, a group of men spill out of a neon-lit bar blasting dance music. Among them is Aashif Hassan and his long-term partner, both visitors from Malaysia.
Phanlavee Chongtansattam (L) and Rungtiwa Tangkanopast (R) chat as they work together in their office in Bangkok August 16, 2013. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
“We’re celebrating tonight. Where we’re from, it’s illegal to be gay. Here we feel liberated,” said Hassan.
Known for its laissez-faire attitude, Thailand has positioned itself as a holiday destination for gay couples and could soon be cashing in on another niche market if a proposed law makes it the first Asian country to legalise gay marriage.
Other Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei ban sexual relationships between men, but Thailand has become a regional haven for same-sex couples.
A civil partnership law in the works aims to give lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples the same rights as heterosexuals. One lawmaker sees it passing by next year.
Same-sex unions are not currently recognised under Thai law, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. That stops gay couples applying for joint bank loans or medical insurance.
In 2012, a group of lawmakers and LGBT activists formed a committee to draft legislation recognising same-sex couples. But critics of the law say it will not give a level playing field because it raises the age of consent to 20 from 17 for homosexual couples. For heterosexuals it is 17.
Rights activists have another problem: the law would force transgenders to register their birth gender on their marriage certificate. Thai law makes it impossible for people to change their gender on a national identification document.
Beyond legal aspects, some wonder whether Thailand, quite conservative in many ways, is really ready to blaze this trail.
Homosexuality was decriminalised in 1956 but considered a mental illness as recently as 2002. Many Thai Buddhists believe homosexuality is a punishment for sins committed in a past life.
SUPERFICIAL ACCEPTANCE
In one notorious case in 2011, Nurisan Chedurame, 24, was found dead on her village rubbish dump with her head smashed in. Local media quoted police as saying her involvement with another woman was the reason she was murdered.
That same year, two women thought to have been in a sexual relationship were shot in a rice field outside Bangkok.
A worrying pattern of violent crimes prompted the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission to write to the Thai government in 2012 demanding that police stop dismissing gender-based violence as crimes of passion.
Anjana Suvarnanda, a co-founder of the Anjaree Group, an LGBT rights group, said violence towards lesbians was often blamed on the victims. Many turn to mainstream social networking sites like Facebook to air their grievances.
“Our inbox is overflowing with messages from women whose parents are pressuring them to marry men,” said Anjana.
Thai film and television has no shortage of LGBT stars. But Prempreeda Pramoj Na Ayutthaya, a transgender rights activist and programme officer at UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, in Bangkok, said acceptance is often superficial.
“The entertainment industry accepts us with open arms because we poke fun at ourselves and make people laugh. But if we want to be taken seriously in a field like medicine we are not afforded the same courtesy,” Prempreeda told Reuters.
Her friends will hesitate to back the draft bill, she said, because they do not want to be identified by their birth gender.
Wiratana Kalayasiri, an opposition lawmaker pushing the civil union bill, said getting it on the agenda was tough as most members of parliament have conservative views on the issue.
“At first they bad-mouthed me and wondered if I would be struck by lightning for backing this,” he said.
But many now see the merits of appealing to LGBT voters, he said, predicting the bill would pass in “less than a year”.
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Rights activist Anjana believes there is no time to waste.
When her friend collapsed and fell into a coma, it took hours for staff at a Bangkok hospital to attend to her.
“They insisted her husband sign the medical release form. Her partner is a woman, but the nurses refused to acknowledge this,” said Anjana. “We urgently need the law to protect us. The rest, including less societal pressure, will follow.”
Editing by Alan Raybould, John O'Callaghan and Ron Popeski
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November 23, 2015 UncategorizedAmpophrenon the Gold, Asfaneh Shavayad, Bishop Darling, Colonel Ontambe, Emperor Sharidan, Empress Eleanora, General Panissar, Gravestone Weaver, Joseph P. Jenkins, Longshot McGraw, Razzavinax the Red, Sabrina Price, Tinker Billie, Underminister Darouzheh, Varsinostro the Green, Zanzayed the BlueD. D. Webb
The Imperial Guard were well familiar with Underminister Darouzheh, which undoubtedly saved his life when he burst in on the Emperor and Empress having a state lunch with the Sifanese ambassador. Indeed, the fact that he was well known around the Imperial Palace was the only reason he could have possibly been permitted to dash pell-mell through its halls the way he apparently had, to judge by his breathless state of near-collapse upon entering.
Instantly, five staves were pointing at him, humming audibly with conjured destruction waiting to be unleashed. More guards moved to cover the windows and doors in case of further intruders, while the currently present Hand of the Emperor placed himself between his liege and the intruder so rapidly he almost appeared to have teleported.
Darouzheh completely ignored all of this.
“Your Majesties,” he gasped, doubling over. His paunchy frame was clearly not designed for the kind of exertion he had just experienced. “Emergency! Dragons!”
With that, he slumped forward, panting so hard he could barely stand. The guards powered down and lowered their weapons, the nearest actually stepping over to gently brace the Underminister lest he collapse entirely. At a flick of the Empress’s fingers, a maid darted forward to pour a carafe of water, which she carried to the gasping bureaucrat.
Sharidan had risen to his feet, gently moving the Hand aside with a touch to his shoulder. Ambassador Fujimatsu finally set down his teacup, studying the scene with admirable calm.
“That,” Eleanora said flatly, “is an unacceptable combination of words.”
“Dragons,” Darling said, “and chaos.”
“That’s a bad combination of words,” McGraw noted.
“Don’t I know it,” the Bishop replied, his expression serious. “Unfortunately, that’s not the scary part.”
“How is that not the scary part?” Billie demanded. “Why is there always a scarier part?”
They sat in the comfortable downstairs parlor in the Bishop’s home, Darling in his customary seat at the head of the coffee table, the others around it. No one had yet commented on Mary’s absence from the group, but it was even more palpable than her presence. When she was there, she had a way of quietly deflecting attention from herself.
“This is all I’ve been getting out of the Archpope’s oracular resources for the last week,” Darling continued. “You probably know how it is with oracles—or you may not, Justinian does seem to have a good percentage of them squirreled away. It’s all ‘that from beyond which is not,’ and ‘the titans of two forms,’ and an innumerable throng of vague metaphors to that effect. These things are difficult to read at the best of times; it took me a solid day’s work to suss out the consistent themes. Dragons, and chaos.”
“I think I see what the scary part is,” Joe murmured. “Now, granted, all I know about oracles is from readin’, and most of what I’ve read I suspect is more fictional than it liked to pretend, but any event in which all the oracles shut down and refuse to talk about anything but a coming disaster…”
“Yes,” Darling said, nodding at him. “In fact, that’s more than just common sense. This is a recognized apocalyptic portent.”
“Never staved off an apocalypse,” Billie said thoughtfully. “Bet that’s a feather in the ol’ cap, an’ no mistake.”
“Sounds like a titanic pain in the ass even for those who survive it,” Weaver grunted. “Who else knows about this?”
“And now we come to the complicating factor,” Darling said with a sigh. “Obviously, Justinian knows. There are the other Bishops who have access to his oracles, too; I don’t know how frequently any of them make use of the resource, but if they’ve tried in the last week, they know. None of them have mentioned it to me. What the Empire does or does not know I can’t be sure. I passed the warning on to the Hand of the Emperor with whom I work, and was told that the matter had been foreseen a good long time ago and the Empire has resources in place.” He shrugged.
“Just who are these other Bishops?” Joe asked.
“Don’t worry about that,” Darling said, waving a hand. “Justinian’s the one who demands our attention.”
“I’m sorry, Mr. Darling,” Joe replied very evenly, “but we are well past the point of that bein’ an acceptable answer.”
A momentary silence fell, Darling lifting his eyebrows in an expression of mild surprise. Standing by the door, Price shifted her head infinitesimally, focusing her attention on Joe.
“After that stunt you pulled this spring,” the Kid continued, staring at the Bishop, “I am just about done gettin’ the runaround from you. Pardon my pushiness, but when I ask for details, you provide details or I walk out.”
Weaver snorted softly. Billie raised an eyebrow, turning to regard the Bishop expectantly.
“Well,” Darling said with a slight smile. “Upon reflection, I really don’t have any counter to that, do I? Fair enough. Not that I think it’s any concern of yours and I am possibly risking clerical censure by sharing the details, but the Bishops of Avei, Shaath and Izara also have access to the Church’s hidden oracles.”
“That,” McGraw mused, “is a right peculiar assortment.”
“Bishop Syrinx has been off in Viridill on some Avenist business for the last few weeks,” Darling continued, “and I dismiss Varanus and Snowe from consideration because I’ve had indication several times before that both are fully behind his Holiness in whatever he chooses to do. Anyhow, this leads us back to the problem at hand, and what we intend to do about it.”
“Dragons and chaos,” Billie mused, kicking her legs idly. Sitting on the edge of the loveseat as she was, her feet didn’t nearly reach the floor. “Well, it does bring to mind an obvious answer, dunnit? Shame that’s almost certainly an ol’ wives’ tale.”
“Y’mean Belosiphon?” McGraw replied. “Or however you pronounce it.”
“You said it correctly,” Weaver said, rolling his eyes. “Which is kind of impressive when it comes to any dragon’s name. Tell me, Elias, does this ‘confused old man’ act usually succeed in deflecting suspicion?”
“Sorry, sonny,” McGraw said innocently, tugging his earlobe. “You’ll have to speak up, I’m a mite deaf on this side.”
“Yeah, well, point being,” Billie said with a grin, “we’re talkin’ about a legend from the time of the Elder Gods. You’re a bard, Damian, you know as well as I that any tale from that long ago’s not gonna have more’n a smidge of fact in its lineage.”
“Don’t use my first name,” Weaver growled.
“Yes, quite so,” Darling said, nodding seriously. “It’s inconceivable that there could really have been a chaos dragon, and the story is so old and from a time of such confusion that it’s just not sensible to give it any credence. So, imagine my surprise when I learned that the Church has specific records of Belosiphon, and knows roughly where his skull is buried.”
“Typical,” Joe muttered.
“Are you rubbin’ me ankles?” Billie demanded.
“I…have no idea,” Darling said, blinking.
Weaver shrugged. “Doesn’t particularly surprise me. One of the gods is chaos-tainted; why not a dragon? If anything, the odd thing is how no dragons since have ended up that way.”
“Nothin’ odd about that,” McGraw said. “Dragons tend to be wiser sorts than the average run of mortals, even before they’ve lived a few thousand years. Takes somebody exceptionally stupid to meddle with the powers of chaos.”
“Which is precisely the issue,” Darling said firmly. “Everytime a significant chaos artifact has surfaced, some imbecile made a good effort at seizing and using it. You being adventurers, I’m sure you know most of those stories, and how they ended. With the oracles giving warning, we can make two solid assumptions: at the intersection of ‘dragons’ and ‘chaos’ is Belosiphon the Black, and action has to be taken to prevent someone from meddling with his skull. It’s in the northernmost region of Upper Stalwar Province. That’s right about where the plains meet the desert in a particularly unappetizing little corner of flat scrubland, just below the foothills where the Dwarnskolds and the Stalrange intersect.”
“I’ve been there,” McGraw said, nodding. “The Badlands. Beautiful country, if you don’t have to live in it.”
“There’s actually a place called the Badlands?” Weaver said scornfully.
“Aye,” Billie replied with a grin. “After tryin’ to keep their butts alive in it, the residents were too worn out to think of anythin’ more poetic.”
“Here’s where it gets even more interesting,” Darling continued, his expression grim. “I’ve been rooting around in every official record I could find, both Church and Imperial. The actual location of Belosiphon’s skull is not known, merely the general region, but there are hints that more precise records do exist. It is worth mentioning, here, that I do not have access to all of Justinian’s hidden archives. Second, the Empire has almost no presence in the area. Third, this is mining country. Silver, copper, turquoise and coal. It was hit almost as hard as the dwarven kingdoms by the Narisian treaty and all those shipments of free Underworld ore, but people do still dig there. And prospect.”
“What better way to stumble across buried horrors,” Joe murmured, staring at the table.
“Justinian has not mentioned anything about it to me,” Darling continued, “nor I to him. He surely would have…unless this is to be another act in our ongoing cold war of misinformation.”
“And if he had the same idea you did,” McGraw said, frowning, “who better to send after something like this than adventurers?”
“Which means,” Weaver growled, “Khadizroth and the Jackal. And whoever else he’s rounded up.”
“Peachy!” Billie said, grinning psychotically and cracking her knuckles. “I have been just itchin’ fer another crack at those two assholes.”
“Not to be a wet blanket,” said Joe, “but we fought them to a bare stalemate last time, and that was with the aid of our most powerful member, who is not even here.”
A glum silence descended upon the room.
“Justinian’s silence on the matter does strongly indicate to me that he is going to use his adventurers,” Darling said gravely. “There are things he keeps from me, but he had to know I would discover what the oracles were doing. This is the only topic on which we remain mutually silent, both knowing that we both know what’s going on. So yes, what we are talking about here is sending you off to contend with the dragon and the assassin, not to mention whoever else—because I haven’t a clue who else he might have found—with the quest for an artifact of unspeakable danger as the backdrop and battlefield. I’ve gotta level with you, folks: this is above and beyond the call. If you don’t want to go, I’ll not hold you in violation of our agreement. I will still be at work getting your answers, though I’m afraid that has to wait until the oracles start speaking again.”
“Hell with that,” Billie snorted. “We’re in. Let’s skip the part where we all go ’round the table and agree—you all know damn well you all want your payback, fer a variety o’ reasons. But Joe’s got the right of it. We need to find Mary. Anybody got a clue where she is?”
“All I know,” Darling said, “is that another elf came here looking for her a few weeks back.”
“Who?” Joe asked.
“Nobody I knew,” Darling said with a shrug. “She was sent by Professor Tellwyrn, though. Elder Sheyann, I think her name was.”
“Tellwyrn?” Weaver said, narrowing his eyes.
“Did you say Sheyann?” Joe exclaimed.
“Ah, yes, I did,” Darling said, looking at him oddly. “Don’t tell me you know her.”
“Well, I don’t so much know her, but you don’t grow up in Sarasio without hearing the name. She’s the most senior of the Elders in the nearby grove.”
“Huh,” Darling mused. “Well. That gives us two places to start looking for Mary: Sarasio and Last Rock. Because, to be frank, we have a good bit of preparatory work to do before setting off on this particular adventure. Quite apart from the need to catch the Crow, there’s the question of what to do with the skull of Belosiphon itself. Pretty much the only certainty is that Justinian cannot be allowed to get his grabbers on it.”
“We could hand it over to the Empire?” Joe suggested.
“Assuming we can even handle something like that,” Weaver said. “Chaos is not healthy to be around.”
“Also,” Darling said firmly, “with all respect to his Majesty’s government, it is a government. I will sleep better it it does not get its hands on this slice of unimaginable destructive power. And I sure as hell don’t want the thing. I have to admit I’m against a wall here, my friends. This is outside the purview of either a thief or a priest. How do you dispose of a chaos artifact?”
“Destroy it,” said Joe.
“Very bad idea,” McGraw said emphatically. “You destroy a thing like that, and what you’re left with is pieces of said thing. Do your job well, reduce it to dust and smoke, and it disseminates into the air, the ground, the water, tainting the whole region for… Who knows? Centuries, millennia, maybe forever. Or you may get bigger pieces, which sure as the tides will get strewn to the four corners of the earth to work a thousand smaller mischiefs until some giftedly sinister idjit goes on an epic quest to gather ’em all up and ruin everyone’s day.”
“Okay,” Joe said slowly. “So, no destroying. That was my last idea. Sorry.”
“It’s simple enough,” said Weaver. “We’ll take it to Arachne.”
They all stared at him.
“Are you quintessentially outta your gourd?” Billie demanded. “Of all the people who does not need to get her hands on a chaos artifact—”
“I’m talking about the only person who probably should,” Weaver shot back. “Let’s face it, by any standard you could choose to apply, Arachne is a giant bitch.”
“Now, see here,” Joe began, scowling.
“For that reason,” Weaver continued loudly, “she doesn’t get nearly enough credit. Most of the world has no idea how many times she’s rescued it from the brink. With regard to chaos artifacts in particular, she’s already got two. Arachne Tellwyrn owns the Book of Chaos and the Mask of Calomnar. She’s got them both tucked away in a sealed pocket dimension where nobody can get at them and they can’t affect the mortal plane. In fact, she found the Book of Chaos twice, and made this particular setup after someone dug it up from its first hiding place. She has the sense not to meddle with chaos and the power to secure it. It’s simple. We take the skull to Arachne, and neither the Church nor the Empire nor anybody else will ever see the damn thing again.”
“Well,” McGraw mused, “that sounds like a workable solution, indeed, if you don’t pause to consider how irate the lady will be to have a thing like that dropped on her doorstep.”
“Omnu’s balls, we’re not gonna just drop it at the University,” Weaver said scathingly. “Arachne’s one of our leads in tracking down Mary anyway, right? So we go to Last Rock, ask if she’s seen the Crow and tell her what’s up so she knows to prepare a place for Belosiphon’s skull. She might even help retrieve it.”
“Tellwyrn is not going to cross the Church’s agents directly,” Darling said, frowning. “Her carefully protected neutrality wouldn’t survive that; she won’t risk her students’ safety by dragging the University into world politics. For that reason, we will tell her the whole situation, so she doesn’t accidentally stumble into that, blame us for tricking her and blast us all to ashes.”
“I like this plan,” Billie said brightly. “Anything that ends with me not gettin’ blasted to ash is aces in my book!”
“I’ll have to sit that stretch of it out,” McGraw said with a rueful grin. “I’m already on record as getting’ the ash treatment if I show my face in Last Rock.”
“What’d you do?” Joe said, frowning.
“Well, it’s a long—”
The old wizard broke off suddenly, grabbing his staff and half-rising. Joe bounded to his feet in the same moment. Price, by the door, suddenly zipped across the room to hover protectively over Darling’s shoulder.
“What?” the Bishop demanded, looking around at them. “What’s going on?”
“Someone has just teleported into the house, your Grace,” Price said in a low voice.
Weaver also got to his feet, scowling and placing a hand on his holstered wand. Billie stood up on the loveseat, tucking both hands into pouches at her belt.
There came a sharp knock at the closed door of the parlor.
Darling raised his eyebrows. “Come in?”
The door opened, and a young woman in Army uniform stepped in and saluted. Her insignia had a blue eye behind the standard Imperial gryphon, the mark of a Tiraan battlemage.
“Pardon the interruption, your Grace,” she said in a clipped tone. “Your presence is urgently requested at the Palace by Lord Vex.”
“What’s going on?” Darling demanded, rising.
The mage glanced briefly but pointedly around the group. “My orders are to teleport you to the Palace, your Grace,” she said in a level tone. “I’m sure you will be fully briefed once there.”
“Ominous,” Weaver said.
“Well, my friends, I guess we’ll have to continue this conversation later,” said Darling, stepping carefully around McGraw and toward the Army mage. “In fact, though… Given the time frame involved, please go ahead and pursue the avenue we were just discussing. We’ll regroup tomorrow, or whenever you get back, hopefully all with more information. All right, Lieutenant, I’m all yours. Let’s go see what’s so urgent, shall we?”
“We’re receiving up-to-the-minute reports via telescroll,” General Panissar said. “Based on their flight path, this gate seems the most probable point of arrival. They are unmistakably making for Tiraas.”
“What can you tell me about the path they have taken, General?” the Lady asked.
“Oddly meandering,” Panissar said with a frown. “We are tentatively not considering this an attack. Dragons can be upon you from miles away before you know they’re even in the province, if that’s what they want. These four have been gliding all the way from north of Calderaas, tracking back and forth as if to deliberately waste time. Lord Vex is of the opinion that they want to be seen, to give us time to prepare.”
“Lord Vex is correct,” she replied, nodding. Lady Asfaneh Shavayad was a stately woman in her middle years, and apparently the leading expert on dragons in the Imperial Diplomatic Corps. That was the only explanation Panissar had been given as to why she was in command of this operation. Standing calmly in the main gate to the fortified border town, which she had insisted would remain open, she glanced around at the assembled soldiers, clearly considering them even as she continued to speak. “This is their custom when approaching one another, as well. It is a sign that they come in peace, seeking to talk.”
“Odd that they’ve never wanted to talk before,” Panissar growled.
“Indeed,” said Lady Asfaneh. “This is unprecedented for several reasons. Dragons are famously solitary creatures, and when they do associate, they markedly prefer the company of those of their own color. Are you certain of your intelligence regarding this group’s composition?”
“As certain as I was the last time you asked,” he grunted, choosing not to react to the amused look she gave him. “Red, gold, green and blue, one of each.”
“Very well,” she said, folding her hands in front of her, still a picture of serenity. “We shall see soon enough what they want. Are the tower artillery emplacements positioned as I said?”
Panissar nodded, his own expression not lightening. “With all due respect, Lady Asfaneh, I do not see the wisdom in disarming ourselves with a threat of this magnitude approaching.”
“It is symbolic,” she said calmly. “In any case, your mag cannons would not be useful against dragons.”
“We’ve brought down a dragon before with a mag cannon.”
“I am very familiar with the accounts of that incident, General, and I’m sure you are aware that it was quite possibly the luckiest shot in all of recorded history. If this does come to violence, the strike teams will be our best hope by far.” She nodded at the six teams which had assembled in the avenue behind them. “The presence of these armed soldiers is a show of our strength; they will not begrudge us that, and in fact will likely respect it. Aiming our largest and most visibly powerful weapons at them, however, is a provocation. Keep them pointed at the sky and their operators visibly absent from the controls. We must hope that violence does not occur. No one has ever fought off four dragons.”
“You don’t need to tell me that,” he said quietly.
There came a faint buzzing noise, followed by a sharp pop, and an Army battlemage materialized beside them, saluting. “General Panissar! Newest report from Madouris on the dragons’ approach. ETA less than five minutes.”
“Thank you, soldier,” Panissar said, nodding to him. “Colonel Ontambe! Is the area cleared of civilians?”
“Evacuation just completed, sir,” the Colonel replied, saluting as he strode up to them. “The last of the town’s residents have been moved into the city. Only military and diplomatic personnel are left here.”
“Then we wait,” Lady Asfaneh whispered, eyes on the horizon to the north.
For all that it was possibly the tensest seconds of their lives, it was considerably less than five minutes. The assembled soldiers stiffened further, even Panissar drawing in a sharp breath, as the four massive forms suddenly appeared in the sky above the northern foothills, gliding around in a wide arc as if to survey the city from a distance as they passed.
“Well,” he murmured, eyes glued to the four titans, “I suppose they could be just passing by…”
This time, Lady Asfaneh didn’t even spare him a glance.
They were not just passing by. The dragons wheeled all the way around, pumping their wings as they descended to the flat ground on the outskirts of the border town. This was the widest stretch of highway in the region, close as it was to the gates of the city itself, but there was not room for even two of them to land side-by-side. They settled to the earth in a formation that nearly rivaled the fortress itself in size.
“Gods be good,” Colonel Ontambe whispered. “Four of them. One of each.”
“Report to rear command, soldier,” Panissar said quietly. “You’ll lead his Majesty’s army if I fall.”
Ontambe, he reflected as the man saluted and strode off, was too old and too seasoned a soldier to publicly lose composure like that, but considering the circumstances, he was inclined to be somewhat lenient.
It was all Panissar could do not to take a step backward as the four dragons approached them on foot. Beside him, Lady Asfaneh’s composure remained totally uncracked.
Fortunately, they shifted as they neared. They were still an impressive sight in their human-sized forms, and not merely because of the palpable aura of majesty that emanated from them. Panissar had never met a dragon before, but he’d been briefed on this effect and steeled himself against it; these creatures were powerful beings, nothing more, and did not deserve the awe he felt welling up in him. At least they were marginally less terrifying this way.
In the lead by half a step came the gold dragon, dressed in golden armor and with a two-handed sword as long as Panissar was tall slung on his back. The blue wore robes more elaborately decorated than what the ladies of the court wore to formal balls. His cobalt hair was as exquisitely coiffed, too, and his fingers glittered with jewelry. The other two were less over-the-top; the green dressed simply in wood elf fashion, with a blousy-sleeved green shirt and soft leather vest, trousers and moccasins. The red dragon looked like he belonged on the cover of one of the tawdry novels Marie pretended not to enjoy, with his improbably tight pants and ruffled shirt unlaced down to his navel, both black.
They came to a stop a few yards distant, and then to the General’s astonishment, all four bowed deeply.
“Good day,” said the gold dragon, straightening up. “We apologize for so abruptly intruding upon you, but there is a lack of standing traditions for making such an approach as this. I am Ampophrenon the Gold. With me are Zanzayed the Blue, Razzavinax the Red, and Varsinostro the Green. We most humbly request an audience with his Imperial Majesty Sharidan Julios Adolphus Tirasian.”
“Greetings, exalted ones, and welcome to Tiraas,” Lady Asfaneh replied, executing a deep and flawless curtsy. A half-second belatedly, Panissar bowed from the waist. “I am the Lady Asfaneh of House Shavayad, and it is my honor to be the Emperor’s servant in the diplomatic arts. With me is General Toman Panissar, who commands the Empire’s armies. What brings you to seek our Emperor’s ear?”
“We will discuss that with his Majesty,” Ampophrenon said, as calmly as ever.
The blue dragon cleared his throat. “Do you remember, Puff, when you asked me to warn you if you were being overbearing?”
The gold tightened his lips, half-turning to stare at his companion. “It was my assumption you would do so in private, Zanzayed.”
“Yes, and your proclivity for these assumptions is half the problem,” the blue said with a irrepressible smile. “Considering our aims here, it does these people good to see us as individuals with flaws. Such as, for example, a lack of social skills. Be nice to the Lady Shavayad, please. She can’t just bring four giant avatars of destruction into the Emperor’s presence without something to go on.”
“My companions speak truth,” Razzavinax added, smiling. Considering that he was a red dragon, he oddly seemed the most personable and at ease of the four. “Simply put, dear lady and honored general, we have come to announce the formation of our government.”
“Your…government?” Finally, Lady Asfaneh’s composure flickered for a moment.
“Indeed,” Ampophrenon said solemnly, returning the full weight of his attention to her. “No longer will we be as individuals, alone before the world. We stand together, as do your own races. We have come here, today, to be counted among the nations of the earth. The Conclave seeks now to open formal diplomatic relations with the Tiraan Empire.”
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Bowen University’s Faculty of Law allegedly warns DJ against playing Naira Marley’s songs
The student association of the Faculty of Law of Bowen University has sent a warning letter to the DJcoming to play at their dinner event requesting the DJ to shun any song from Naira Marley at the event.
This news iscoming as a surprise to many people on the internet who feel the letter by the body is totally uncalled-for, as playing Naira Marley’s song wouldn’t have any hazardous effect on the people that would be present at the dinner.
This move by the sub-authority under Bowen University has further stressed the claim by Naira Marley about the society seeing him as a bad influence and a damaging presence around the Nigerian youths.
With this move looking like one that would be enforced, what would now be the fate of the Marlians in Bowen who are waiting to lose their manners at the sound of the music of their leader?
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A Nigerian lady has taken to social media to state that people afraid of destroying other people’s relationships will die single.In a video which has gone viral on social media, the lady wrote that for every heartbreak one experiences, someone is responsible for it.So if one continues to feel pity for others, one might remain single for the rest of one’s lifeSee video below:
Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong’o wore $3.5 million worth of diamonds and a Louis Vuitton gown embellished with 32,000 sequins and crystals to the 2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday night.Nyong’o’s custom gown at the SAG Awards was created with Louis Vuitton creative director Nicolas Ghesquière. Inspired by the cruise 2020 collection, the dress has a white satin draped bustier and intricate floral embroidery on the body and skirt. The dress is embellished with 20,000 sequins and 12,000 glass beads; it took more than 1,400 hours tocomplete and over 106 hours just to cut and assemble the dress from a pattern.Her three rings from Forevermark, Forevermark by Rahaminov and Forevermark by Premier Gem include 23 carats of diamonds.The twdo bracelets she wore by Forevermark and Forevermark by Rahaminov included over 33 carats of diamonds.The talent was styled by Micaela Erlanger, with hairstylist Vernon Francois, makeup artist Nick Barose and nail artist Vanessa Sanchez McCullough.The Kenyan star was nominated for the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor In A Lead Role honor for Us, but she lost to actress Renée Zellweger, for Judy.See more photos below;
Fishermen of Foropa Community, in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on Saturday caught a giant sea turtle.The marine creature has been identified as a Leatherback Sea Turtle.An indigene of Foropacommunity, Identified as Fawei Egbonkuma Young, confirmed the killing of the Sea Turtle.Fawei speaking to Punchngcom correspondent, said, “Actually, it was caught yesterday (Saturday). It was caught with a net. It was struggling with the net when it was caught and brought to the shore.”However, another resident of thecommunity, Binaebi Oyeghe Mangrove Don, said the animal was butchered shortly after it was captured, adding that it was shared and eaten by the residents of thecommunity.See photos below;
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Visit To The Oceanside
On February 25, 2016 January 31, 2019 By Cyrille ClémentIn 🇺🇦 Ukraine, English, Faces Of Kyiv
Comment on the former restaurant Таверна (Tavern),
beyond the Pedestrian Bridge on Dniprovs’kyy Island
The New Era promotes, if not prescribes, social events. We must be included in a numerical account. “On your own, brother ?” to quote George Orwell in his famous novel 1984 would be the relevant inquiry of the day. Our experiences must be groupal.
But, to approach a new town, a new world, to go beyond the cultural shock, at times, solitude may be, if not instrumental, at least appropriate. To become available, “context sensitive” — to metaphorically use a terminology inherrited from the formal linguistics —, to the environment, to the situation. To be perceptive, not already saturated by the influx of signals coming from the group, from the life of the social cell. That’s how I enjoy to “appreciate” a new place, to listen to it, to be reactive, immersed in it, without being the solitary wolf (let’s be clear about this point).
When you discover Kyiv, it may really be disconcerting. In a sense, two separated cities are linked or united by a forest thriving on the wide islands amid the different streams of the Dnipro river. Until 1923, Kiev (Russian spelling of the name) was only represented by the city on the right bank, the left one being known as the village of Darnitsya. Soviet authorities, newly arrived the previous year, decided otherwise and this decision has not, since then, been contested or overturned.
Anyway, despite this declared unity, something remains in the conscience and landmarks of the Kyivians : people living on the right bank of the river (where you can find among others : the Place of The Independance, the Parliament, the Presidential Palace, Khreshchatyk Bld, the Olympic Stadium, the Central Railway Station, the Lavra of the Caves, St Sophie’s, St Andrew’s, St Volodymyr’s and St Mikhail’s Cathedrals, as well as Taras Shevchenko’s and Mohyla Universities…) may never come across the Dnipro to visit the left bank. You will say that they would not have any good reason to attract them until that remote left bank. But, the gap is deeper than that. Some people from the right bank consider that they will never go to the left bank throughout their life, even if nothing prevents them from doing so. An imaginary boarderline.
Ok, let’s take it for granted. Once you start to get used with the distances covered by the network of public transportation (metro, bus, trains), you consider that there is some relevant meaning in this odd fact that I just described. But, that’s hard to feel the city of Kyiv without diving in the forests of the islands on the Dnipro, as paradoxical it might appear. Talented photographers have published many marvelous shots of these sites, under the burning heat of late June as well as caught by a thick cover of ice and snow in January.
Forest in Dniprovs’kyy Park
The Pedestrian Bridge which you reach by walk when you arrive from the metro station Poshtova Ploshcha (Post Office Square) in the Podil district intrigued me while I discovered it in the touring guide “Touring Kyiv”. To what led this huge iron and concrete footbridge ?
The Parkovy Pedestrian Bridge seen from the belvedere
of the Statue to St Volodymyr (source : Cyrille Clément)
The Parkovy Pedestrian Bridge seen from Dniprovs’kyy Island
During my first travel to Kyiv in July 2006, I did a first very short visit to the first beach beyond it, late in the afternoon when the burning sun was going north to set in flamboyant colours and I felt a very strange atmosphere among the people laying on the sand or swimming in the glowing light, atmosphere that I was not yet able to translate. That’s why, in June and July 2009, I decided to go further in my impressions and to try to capture it, to get it all.
Resort on the Island of Dniprovs’kyy
I went there several times, walking through the woods, visiting the resort Водна Станція, the Water Station, searching I don’t know what exactly in the heat of the dusty tracks.
And eventually that was that. The oceanside. Yes, I was on the oceanside of Kyiv.
Not surprising that the great reservoir lake on the Dnipro River northwards of Kyiv is called the Kyivian Sea or Sea of Kyiv.
Crowded beach on the Saturday afternoon, mid July
The sand, the smell of the pine trees in the hot air, the excitement of inhabitants on the beach and in the “resort”, the shorts, the games, the laughters, the shouts, the screams, the retailers of drink and ice-creams. Just dream that you are on a beach in France or Spain on the Atlantic Ocean and that’s the same. You are there. The dream makes it. The dream embellishes life and gives it a price.
The text reads : “Wild Beach”, an advertisement for a beach on the Dnipro River, Hidropark, Kyiv, July 2009
This is where a statistical study, published in the French review of Foreign Affairs “Politique Étrangère”, about the behaviour of Ukrainians during holidays came to make sense to me : the conclusion of this study stated that a majority of the population stays at home during Summertime, without travelling, for financial considerations. But people must not be diminished because reality is not providing all the matter of fact goods. Imagination completes what is not granted.
Returning home from the beach (source : Cyrille Clément)
In my attempt to experience a subjective dimension of the Ukrainian life, I first had a lunch in a restaurant on the beach, a few meters away from the Pedestrian Bridge. I enjoyed very fine Ukrainian dishes, like varenniky, under the pine trees, the sun beams and the hot wind. And I thank the personnel of this restaurant who kindly granted me the authorisation to take some pictures.
Two days before leaving Kyiv, I went a second time to the restaurant. The personnel recognised me and I was the first customer this precise very hot Saturday midday of mid July. I took a wooden table amid the trees and the blond waitress turned on the stereo on the bar the give some animation. The radio station was Люкс ФМ, in other words, Lux FM, a 24/7 Ukrainian and Russian pop music station. But suddenly, immediately I must say, the first notes of the first song I heard were the ones of a song I had not heard since years before. A French pop song from the 1980’s. I felt a violent emotion. The song was “Voyage voyage” from the group Desireless.
I was stunned, silenced. Suddenly, the text had a profound meaning to me and I listened to it carefully for the first time. I told the girl that I did not ear this song since twenty years and she watched me, a mysterious smile on the lips, satisfied of the emotional impact she had on me, as a sorceress she was, though she did not understand a single word in French. “It’s like that here”. She behaved exactly as if she had the power to program the song on this radio station right at that moment. The hazard was miraculous. And there, I thought to the magical literature left by Nikolai Gogol like Viy.
The whole lunch happened in this extraordinary atmosphere. I watched them, these young men and women, dressed like beach boys, with their sharp body language, their absolute expressions, their intense gazes. They were reactive, intuitive, definitive.
Personnel of the former restaurant Taverna, July 2009
A few years later, this Summer restaurant was demolished after a decision of the city authorities.
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Bamidele’s shooting: EKSUTH rejects claim of lack of equipment
in News, News Update
The management of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) has faulted the claim that former House of Representatives member,
Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele, was moved to Lagos for further treatment because the hospital lacks required equipment.
The Chief Medical Director, Dr. Kolawole Ogundipe, faulted the statement credited to Bamidele’s media aide, Ahmed Salami.
Ogundipe in a statement signed by EKSUTH Head of Corporate Affairs, Mrs. Rolake Adewumi, on Monday described the allegation of inadequate equipment at EKSUTH as “unfortunate and derogatory.”
Ogundipe said Salami supposed to have stated the true story instead of maligning the image of the hospital that rose to occasion to save the lives of his boss and other victims of the shooting.
The EKSUTH boss, noted that the story was ill motivated, full of ingratitude and a deliberate falsehood directed at smearing the image
of the hospital.
According to him, the decision to move Hon. Bamidele by the family was based on social reason only and not due to dearth of any equipment or personnel as Salami falsely stated.
The CMD added that the treatment and attention given to Hon. Bamidele and other victims by Medical experts in the Hospital was in accordance with the world best practices in the Medical Profession.
He pointed out that EKSUTH has received accreditation of both the West African and National Post graduate Medical Colleges in virtually all the departments.
Adding that the hospital even recorded one Hundred percent success rate at the just concluded Part One examination in the Department of Surgery of the National Postgraduate Medical College held in May 2018.
But Salami in another statement on Monday said Bamidele did not show ingratitude to EKSUTH saying the alleged dearth of equipment was made in good faith and not to malign the hospital.
Salami said: “The position I maintained that there was dearth of equipment and personnel in the course of treating Bamidele’s gunshot wounds was made in good faith and not intended to neither denigrate nor impugn on the integrity of the hospital.
“I want to restate that our position and that of the APC political family remains that the EKSUTH’s doctors did excellently well within
the limit of the available facilities and Bamidele shall eternally grateful for their proficiency and candour in saving his life.
“As much as we align with the CMD’s well expatiated position that social reason accounted for why Hon Bamidele was moved to Lagos for further treatments, it is our humble position that he needed more sophisticated facilities for post surgery recuperation.
“Our position on my principal’s movement to Lagos could have been needless, but for online postings by some interested individuals
painting a hopeless and lugubrious pictures of his health status that had stabilized shortly after he was brought into EKSUTH drenched in blood and in critical condition.
“We even stated shortly after he was relocated that he had stabilized and this further accentuated our beliefs and profound appreciation of the expertise of the doctors at EKSUTH.
“We want to restate that our position shouldn’t be misinterpreted to mean a desecration of the tertiary health institution as we hold the facility in high esteem.”
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YouTube’s need to disable comments highlights how shitty the internet is
by Abhimanyu Ghoshal — in insights
Headlines over the past several days have been dominated by stories about problematic content on major platforms, and the harrowing task of policing them.
The most recent bit of news comes from YouTube, which noted that it’s now disabled comments of tens of millions of videos featuring minors, in an effort to prevent predatory behavior in the comments section of these clips.
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It’s not the first time YouTube has had to deal with users sexualizing children on its platform; as The Verge notes, the company has been tackling such issues since at least 2013. It’s a big step for a service whose communities of viewers around the world primarily interact with each other through comments.
It’s tragic that the company has had to resort to this drastic measure, despite having the wherewithal to deploy artificial intelligence and thousands of human content moderators to tackle violative content. But that’s the world we live in now, and that’s why we can’t have nice things on the internet, at least for the time being.
We’ve seen people misuse online platforms for decades now, so this isn’t a new problem per se. However, we now have far higher expectations of hygiene and safety from these services, and technology hasn’t kept up with those needs. In YouTube‘s case, it’s helped the company purge its site of hundreds of thousands of extremist videos faster than it could with a reasonably sized team of human reviewers – but such systems apparently can’t keep pace with skeezy commenters.
Should we squarely blame tech firms? I believe companies should certainly do more to ensure their services are safe to use as they scale up, and they should be held responsible for policy violations and harm that users face as a result of their failure to enforce said policies. At the same time, it’s important to remain cognizant of how big a challenge this is. For reference, YouTube delivers a billion hours of video per day, and some 1.9 billion users with accounts log in each month.
It’s in YouTube‘s best interest to sanitize its platforms as best as possible. You might argue that being lax about policing comments and allowing alleged paedophiles to run loose there could be good for business, but think about all the money it stands to make from millions of people watching its videos instead of tuning into cable channels – and those are mostly videos that the company didn’t have to spend money to produce.
Yes, you could put even more people to work on moderating comments and videos. But that’s not a great option either, as we’ve learned in several stories chronicling the difficult lives of contracted content moderators since 2014. Trawling through problematic posts has reportedly caused many of these workers mental trauma, and led several of them to quit those low-paying roles in a matter of months. YouTube itself limited its workers to four hours a day. That’s a job you probably don’t want, so it’s not exactly fair to demand that many more people be tasked to do this.
Ultimately, artificial intelligence needs to get a lot better at flagging violative content and interactions on such platforms; at the same time, companies need to enforce their policies more stringently to keep bad actors out. Until then, maybe moves like disabling comments are indeed necessary – because we sure as hell can’t be arsed to act like decent human beings online.
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December 6, 2018 ReviewsA. J. Bentley, Alison Fitzjohn, Andy Williams, Curtis T Johns, Emily Joyce, Faye Christall, Jack Ryder, Jayne McKenna, Jon Bausor, Katy Clayton, Kim Gavin, Lauren Jacobs, Leon Downing, Luke Halls, Marc Frankum, Martin Miller, Matt Crockett, Nick Carsberg, Nick Lidster For Autograph, Patrick Woodroffe, Rachel Lumberg, Rachelle Diedricks, Ryan Carline, Sarah Kate Howarth, Sario Soloman, Steve Parry, Take That, Terry Jardine, The Band, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Tim Firth, Yazdan Qafourithespyinthestalls
Theatre Royal Haymarket & UK Tour
Reviewed – 5th December 2018
“tries to pack in a some messages along the way, some of these work and add a touch of sentiment to the show, but others feel a little unnecessary”
OK, from the start let’s make it clear – this is not, definitely not, a Take That musical. Set in Manchester, featuring five lads in a hugely successful boyband and blasting out the back catalogue of aforementioned supergroup, we’re clear from the onset … this is not, repeat not, a Take That Musical.
As we walk into the auditorium, we’re transported back to 1993 with a giant screen on stage rolling through the pages of Ceefax – a little lost on some of the younger audience members, but to us of a certain age, pure nostalgia. As the show starts we’re in what could be any teenaged girl’s bedroom of the time, with walls adorned with Smash Hits posters. We meet young Rachel (Faye Christall) who brings us up to speed about how she, and her mates Heather (Clayton), Debbie (Rachelle Diedricks), Claire (Sarah Kate Howarth) and Zoe (Lauren Jacobs) are in love with a certain boyband. Skip forward twenty five years and Rachel (Rachel Lumberg) wins a competition to see her beloved pop heroes in Prague. Having drifted apart from the others, she tracks them down and invites Heather (Emily Joyce), Zoe (Jayne McKenna) and Claire (Alison Fitzjohn) to see their childhood idols.
Throughout the plot opportunities are created to shoehorn in some of Take That’s biggest hits, with scenes that cleverly switch from us following the girls/women to us being in the audience of a concert. Most people will know that the lads in the band (A. J. Bentley, Yazdan Qafouri, Nick Carsberg, Curtis T Johns and Sario Soloman) were picked in the BBC contest ‘Let it Shine’. In the year and a half since, they have become a close knit five piece and the show (touring since September last year) has become the fastest selling musical theatre tour of all time.
However, Take That are masters of their game, from lad band to dad band, they have always been talented showmen who excel at everything they do so it’s hard not to compare the boys in The Band with Howard, Jason, Robbie, Gary and Mark; therein lies a problem – however hard they work, they are never going to compete either vocally or performance wise. Don’t get me wrong, AJ, Nick, Curtis, Sario and Yazdan are talented young performers, but there were a few duff notes and the choreography at times wasn’t quite as polished in places as it should have been for a West End stage.
The set (Jon Bausor) was fun with a few nice surprises. However, it did look a little like it was created just to be easily toured with. There were some clever use of video projection (Luke Halls) to flesh out scenes but this was inconsistent as for every outstanding part there was one which was rather unexciting.
The Band tries to pack in a some messages along the way, some of these work and add a touch of sentiment to the show, but others feel a little unnecessary. There are some parts which may raise a few eyebrows in this day and age – dodgy Polish accents and fat jokes to name a couple. This isn’t outstanding musical theatre and doesn’t deliver anything new. However, if you take it at face value, it is a fantastic, fun experience and certainly one you’ll Never Forget.
Reviewed by thespyinthestalls
Photography by Matt Crockett
Theatre Royal Haymarket until 12th January then continues UK tour
Previously reviewed at this venue:
The Rat Pack – Live From Las Vegas | ★★★½ | January 2018
Broken Wings | ★★★ | August 2018
Heathers | ★★★★ | September 2018
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The Band – Full Cast
The full cast are now announced for David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and Take That’s UK Tour of Tim Firth’s new musical, THE BAND, with the music of Take That. The tour will begin at Manchester Opera House on 8 September, with a national press night on Tuesday 26 September 2017.
The advance box office for the tour has now topped a record-breaking £10million.
LtoR Curtis T Johns, Nick Carsberg, AJ Bentley, Yazdan Qafouri, Sario Solomon
Joining the previously announced AJ Bentley, Nick Carsberg, Curtis T Johns, Yazdan Qafouri and Sario Solomon, collectively known as 5 to 5, winners of BBC’s Let It Shine, who will play The Band, Rachel Lumberg as Rachel and Faye Christall as Young Rachel, will be Emily Joyce as Heather, Alison Fitzjohn as Claire, Jayne McKenna as Zoe, Katy Clayton as Young Heather, Sarah Kate Howarth as Young Claire, Lauren Jacobs as Young Zoe, Rachelle Diedericks as Debbie, Martin Miller as Jeff and Andy Williams as Dave.
AJ Bentley studied dance before taking part in Let It Shine. Nick Carsberg was a classic car restorer before taking part in Let It Shine. Curtis T Johns has been a songwriter for the last eight years, writing for artists such as Matt Cardle and Ray Quinn. He also owns and runs a rugby club in his home city of Leeds. Yazdan Qafouri is originally from Iran, but was raised in the North East of England. Sario Solomon made his professional debut at the age of 11 in Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Rachel Lumberg’s most recent tours include This Is My Family, The Full Monty, Dandy Dick and Calendar Girls. Faye Christall’s theatre credits include Broken Biscuits (Paines Plough), Gone Viral (St James Theatre) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and she is part of the Cirque Du Soleil Company.
Emily Joyce’s television credits include series regulars Jill in My Almost Famous Family, Sarah Fletcher in Mutual Friends and Janet Dawkins in My Hero. Her most recent theatre includes Judy in the West End production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. Alison Fitzjohn has just finished as assistant director and performer in David Walliams’s tour of Gangsta Granny. She also played The Queen of Hearts/Duchess in the Olivier-nominated immersive production of Alice’s Adventures Underground by Les Enfants Terribles. Over the past 12 years, Alison has performed all over the world in Horrible Histories, Barmy Britain and Horrible Science. Jayne McKenna’s recent theatre credits include Rose Naracott in War Horse in the West End, Sylvia in This Happy Breed for the Peter Hall Company, Lily Gibb in Men Should Weep at the National and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at the Northcott Theatre. She also appeared in the film version of the National Theatre’s production of London Road as Imelda.
Katy Clayton made her first TV appearance at the age of six on Coronation Street. She appeared in various TV shows such as Casualty, Shameless and Waterloo Road and played series regular Samantha Booth in Where the Heart Is for four years. Sarah Kate Howarth’s theatre credits include Copycat (Southwark Playhouse), Whistle Down The Wind (Union Theatre), Tess of the D’Urbervilles (New Wimbledon Theatre) and Spring Awakening (Edinburgh Fringe). Lauren Jacobs and Rachelle Diedericks will be making their professional debuts in THE BAND.
Martin Miller’s recent theatre includes Antonio in The Revenger’s Tragedy and Keith Haines in Darkness, both for Nottingham Playhouse, two UK tours of The Full Monty as Dave, and Alfred Hitchcock in The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock (Leicester Curve, UK Tour and Brits Off Broadway). Andy Williams’s recent theatre credits include Arnold in Hir (Bush Theatre), Giles/Captain in Emma Rice’s production of Rebecca (Plymouth Theatre Royal/Tour), The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre), Ted Narracot in War Horse (New London Theatre) and Albert/Fred/Stephen in Kneehigh Theatre’s Brief Encounter.
For further show information and full tour details please visit:
www.thebandmusical.com
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June 9, 2017 Show news, Tour newsAJ Bentley, Alison Fitzjohn, Andy Williams, Curtis T Johns, Dafydd Rogers, David Pugh, Emily Joyce, Faye Christall, Jayne McKenna, Katy Clayton, Lauren Jacobs, Martin Miller, Nick Carsberg, Rachel Lumberg, Rachelle Diedericks, Sarah Kate Howarth, Sario Solomon, Take That, The Band, Tim Firth, Yazdan Qafourithespyinthestalls
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by Glenn Erickson Jun 19, 2018
Near the top of the list of movies we do not recommend as a date picture, no way no how, Wes Craven’s gut-wrencher presented a real problem for critics. Whose movie exactly is this? The producer wanted a commercially daring pornographic gore shocker. The writer-director envisioned a political scream of rage against America he considered Evil. Is the film an abomination, or an honest reflection of society in chaos?
Arrow Video USA
1972 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 84, 92 min. / 3-Disc Limited Edition / Street Date July 3, 2018 / 3-Disc Limited Edition / Available from Arrow Video
Starring: Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler, Gaylord St. James, Cynthia Carr.
Cinematography: Victor Hurwitz
Film Editor: Wes Craven
Special Effects: Troy Roberts
Original Music: David Hess
Produced by Sean S. Cunningham
Written and Directed by Wes Craven
For an unsuspecting audience Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left is a tough subject, an ordeal, an unjustified assault. For diehard gore-horror fans it’s simply another rite of passage. Its director Wes Craven apparently took it on as a genuine cinematic rage against the America that committed atrocities on other peoples but back home pretended to be pious and good. The movie thus has appeal to both mouth-breathing bloodthirsty gorehounds, and to self-styled intellectual rebels. The main obstruction to my personal endorsement is its foundation in porn film production. The movie is both a legit expression of political rage, and the cheapest form of screen exploitation. That’s the price of Freedom, so let it screen.
In 1972 Last House on the Left was just a shocker heralded by grimy newspaper ads, following in the still-notorious tracks of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. I remember seeing the name ‘Wes Craven’ and thinking that it had to be a fake, for sure. Even in partly trimmed versions, the film represented a quantum leap forward in what could be shown on American screens. Few prints survived circulation without being censored by distributors, or by exhibitors right in the theaters where it played. For a standard audience it’s still an indefensible carnival of cruelty, with unendurable pain and suffering meted out to two innocent girls by a quartet of pitiless human monsters. The movie can claim a certain legitimacy, but it’s also a commercial product made by daring filmmakers that took to heart (and stomach) the notion that the only way to get attention in the film biz was to be as shocking as possible.
It all starts as an ordinary day. Virginal but adventurous Mari Collingwood (Sandra Cassel) leaves her country home to attend a rock concert with her more worldly friend Phyllis Stone (Lucy Grantham). They stop off to score some dope on the way, and like lambs to the slaughter, fall into the clutches of Krug Stillo (David Hess) and his informal group of craven criminals: ‘Weasel’ Podowski (Fred J. Lincoln), the aptly-named Sadie (Jeramie Rain) and Junior (Marc Sheffler), a neurotic drug addict. Mari and Phyllis are driven to the woods in the trunk of Krug’s car, where they’re tormented through sick games, and then sadistically raped and murdered. When the killers’ car won’t start, they stop off for help at a local house, posing as harmless straights. But what Krug and Co. don’t know is that they’ve come right back to Mari’s neighborhood, and their friendly hosts just happen to be the parents of their victim.
Most horror fans are aware that the plot of this shocker is borrowed from Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, although the producer of Last House, Sean Cunningham, prevaricates by claiming their source was the same Scandinavian folk tale that Bergman used. The notoriety surrounding this film hasn’t gone away, from the ‘It’s Only a Movie’ tagline to the ballyhoo suggestion that the movie had value as a warning lesson for parents to teach their children.
Last House is undeniably frightening. Its first section, before we get to the Collingwood house, is competently filmed. The acting is excellent and extremely believable, especially David Hess and his ferocious partners. Although it began as an ‘adult’ movie made by adult filmmakers, Wes Craven’s aim to make the worst possible horror scenario has a legitimate artistic basis. A growing number of contemporary mainstream films like The Wild Bunch had expressed the boiling violence of the times; I believe Craven when he says his cinematic atrocities were his reaction to the turmoil of Vietnam, Charles Manson, the ’60s assassinations and Richard Nixon’s America in general. In 1971, the country was a pressure cooker that some radicals believed would actually spiral into revolution. Some of the ‘Silent Majority’ were disturbed by the thought of a rising tide of violence.
Charlie Manson laughed at the establishment, predicting that its own children would ‘come at them with knives’ in retribution for society’s hypocrisy. Krug and Co. is that exact nightmare, an alternate family of sex killers and dope addicts, a fusion of sick personalities that encourage the worst in one another. They respect nothing. They have free sex. They sell drugs. Mari and Phyllis’ very innocence triggers Krug’s lust to defile and destroy, to outrage even himself.
Last House differs from previous, relatively tame terror sieges like Lady in a Cage in that it tears up the assumed ‘contract of politeness’ with the audience. Critics often made facile observations about violence in movies, saying that every new cinematic wrinkle in cruelty or sadism further desensitized audiences. But the violence was usually not directly depicted: in Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen, the German victims are not actually shown being blasted or incinerated. Last House is totally outside this idea. The basic brutality here laughs at unspoken agreements, and shows everything directly.
The torments in Last House are direct and pitiless, and covered with a documentary eye so passive that it all could be real. Nothing is stylized, not even to the extent that the atrocities in something like Salo are ‘aestheticized.’ Craven knew that terror is in the details, and that’s why he adds the disturbing incident where Phyllis is made to urinate on herself. It’s a relatively tame humiliation, but the line has been crossed. Ever have a boss, or a ‘friend’, insist you do something just for the principle of demonstrating who’s in charge? It’s the same principle: “See what I can make you do? See what I can do to you?” The horror shared by all is that both victim and tormentor know the stakes will soon escalate.
Phyllis and Mari are breathing, shivering, pleading girls one minute, and after an extended agony, dead meat. When their mutilated victims are gone, the killers collapse into sullen silence. They are beyond the pale, yet there remains a pitiful humanity in their nervous, self-disgusted ‘regrouping’ after the crime.
Craven’s plan to bring the horror full circle with the borrowed structure of The Virgin Spring is sound, but, unlike the later Tobe Hooper and Sam Raimi gore-fests, his production lacks the basic technical sophistication for the third act at the Collingwood house. It’s all interiors, which require experience to light. The cramped spaces cause the camera coverage to be broken up into more conventional angles, which can’t match the docu veracity of the exteriors. The final reels are distractingly amateurish.
The violence in the house is also less honest than the horror in the woods. The Collingwoods use the best tricks they can come up with, but this is more plotted and hyped — with one of the first manic uses of a chainsaw. There’s an obvious obscene bit where Estelle Collingwood (Cynthia Carr) bites off a piece of Weasel’s anatomy. It’s a cheap bit of obscenity straight from the Herschel Gordon Lewis school of exploitative shock. The pandering instincts of the filmmakers is what makes it cheap.
The self-serving Cunningham again sidesteps when he describes his previous soft-core and borderline hardcore work as being ‘documentary.’ It’s important to remember that Last House on the Left was made by pornographers attempting to diversify. In general, the whole third act is an artistic betrayal of the honest terror in the woods. ‘Just remember,’ the advertising should say of this section, ‘It’s only degrading exploitation.’ Of course, blatant sadism is a frequent commodity in much of today’s horror filmmaking, what with Gore Porn like the Saw franchise.
The ‘Crime and Retribution’ angle doesn’t work too well. The random, senseless slaughter of the two girls is the kind of crime that happens too often to be ignored, and therefore has validity. But when the killers are delivered unto the Collingwoods for a payback slaughter, the show becomes an even uglier vigilante fantasy. The Collingwoods aren’t Max Von Sydow. They don’t pull heirloom swords from the attic and re-forge them as weapons for a ritual slaughter. They’re an average couple that presumably hasn’t had survivalist and terror scenarios running through their heads for years (as many people do now, admittedly). Their response is a horror-comic fantasy entirely different than the raw realism in the woods. The show really stumbles when the Collingwoods retrieve their daughter’s body. They just sit over her a moment, and then it’s back to Killing 101. There’s no pause for them to recover from their emotions. When they go into battle with such cool heads, the believability connection is lost.
True, a consistent finale would definitely not have been as thrilling for the audience. Krug and his fiends might believably escape direct punishment, even if convicted of other crimes. If they were caught, legalities would probably mandate a protracted, agonizing trial, as in The Onion Field. But The Last House on the Left is first and foremost an exploitation film. Viewers sobered by the horror in the woods respond like a mob in cheering the slaughter at the house. I wouldn’t be surprised if Craven and Cunningham originally planned a more naturalistic variation on a Herschel Gordon Lewis film, and their superior cast inspired them to overachieve in the first section of the movie.
Arrow Video USA’s 3-Disc Limited Edition Blu-ray of The Last House on the Left is a return to this genuine horror landmark. The disc notes say that the new transfers were done from 35mm enlargement elements, because the film’s original 16mm long ago went missing. The three cuts included are The Unrated Cut, the R-Rated Cut and a third called the Krug and Company Cut. I was surprised to discover that the long, 92-minute cut is the R-rated version.
Advances in scanning techniques certainly make a difference, and the encoders/colorists have used good sense in optimizing the one good picture element they had. The grain is down and the color up from earlier transfers, but they haven’t tried to disguise the 16mm source. The cameraman has only two credits under this name, but he obviously had a lot of experience — the picture is rather sharp for a 16mm original. The rough & ready filming conditions in cars and in the woods still look good; I think the previous MGM encoding tried for too much contrast.
Arrow doesn’t call this an ultimate edition, but the compilers of extras have done their best to be inclusive with extras. The old MGM items are here, but in some cases improved; the lengthy reel of outtakes have been given an entirely new transfer, for instance. The old, lengthy documentary presents the producers and actors in fairly frank interviews. All comment on the film’s enormous influence. Wes Craven characterizes himself as being stoned half the time during shooting; although he was no kid, in the outtakes he looks like a longhaired art student. In some of the old interview materials Craven betrays ambivalence toward his film and sometimes sounds almost sounds ashamed of it. Cunningham makes curious claims to loftier ambitions: his allusions to this being a spiritual film like Bergman’s are mildly offensive. The fact that Last House gives its heroines an undeveloped lesbian relationship points not to a progressive attitude, but to the exploitative spin of a (presumably) more sexually explicit original concept.
Both producer and director participate in the engaging commentary, telling the story of the making of the film while poking fun at themselves. They come off better here than in the docu — Craven has a wry sense of humor and Cunningham is more open about the primitive level of production he was able to muster. Appropriately, they sober up somewhat around the area of the murder. It’s obvious that Craven, at least, is still somewhat conflicted by his exercise in horror.
The Outtakes section, for those who need to know, includes a lot of fake entrails pulling that will either sicken or amuse. The short bits of film include a great many stage waits and post — “Cut” moments that happily show that the actors are just acting. I have to say though, that it’s still upsetting whenever Lucy Grantham twists her face into agonized mode. It’s a professional cast, even though most of the main players made few movies (at least as listed in the IMDB). David Hess has a continuous list of acting credits, and Fred J. Lincoln became a prolific porn director — the list of titles he’s directed is mind-blowing.
Another old section called Forbidden Footage is not legendary gore cut from the film but a discussion of the roughest scenes already in the movie. It plays like a chapter exiled from the docu. Lucy Grantham seems pleased that her urination scene was authentic. I don’t think the extras show any excised footage but instead offer alternate or extended bits from the outtakes. (A couple of added bits, like a longer view of Junior’s head wound, are in the docu as well).
The volume of newer extras, spread across two discs, is mind-boggling. David Hess plays his guitar at every opportunity, and his tracks seem to dominate the soundtrack CD that comes with the set as a third disc. As ground zero for a lot of gore-film worship, Last House was a frontrunner in the English ‘video nasties’ flap, covered elsewhere. One extra on disc two is video footage from a first-ever public screening in England, in 2000. A full list of extras is below.
Pictures like The Last House on the Left moved horror away from abstract and romantic notions to gut-wrenching literalizations of real terror in the real world. Raw sex and raw violence in films have an instinctive attraction of their own that works outside of dramatic and aesthetic considerations. This ordeal isn’t about suspense, subtlety or cinematic graces. It even has cheap comic relief with bumbling cops and a black chicken farmer to lower the sophistication quotient. The example of the late ’60s porn explosion naturally gave horror directors the notion of transgressing even farther than had Night of the Living Dead, and with The Last House on the Left, the genre took a plunge into X-rated territory.
I’ve heard enough creepy reactions from horror film fans to know that Last House is no longer even considered strong stuff. That’s too bad because I believe that desensitization does have an effect on mental health. I still respect the work of Wes Craven, and much of his later output satisfies me that his goals here were not perversity for its own sake. The show itself remains a genuine horror landmark, one of several that put an end to older, stylized, beautiful horror: we’re not going back again, only forward. I can just see William Friedkin seeing this movie and knowing that the time was ripe for a mainstream horror picture to blow the culture wide open.
3-Disc Limited Edition Blu-ray rates:
Movie: Good, but not recommended for any but fans of gore
Video: Very Good
Sound: Very Good
Supplements (via Arrow): Disc One: New: Isolated score remastered from the original 17.5″ magnetic tracks; audio commentary by podcasters Bill Ackerman and Amanda Reyes; Junior’s Story — interview with actor Marc Sheffler; Blood and Guts — interview with makeup artist Anne Paul; The Road Leads to Terror — featurette revisiting the film’s original shooting locations. Archival: audio commentaries: (1) with Wes Craven and Sean S. Cunningham, (2) with stars David Hess, Marc Sheffler and Fred Lincoln. Introduction by Wes Craven; Still Standing: The Legacy of The Last House on The Left — interview with Wes Craven; Celluloid Crime of the Century — documentary with interviews with Wes Craven, Sean S. Cunningham, actors David Hess, Fred Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler and Martin Kove; Scoring Last House on the Left — interview with actor/composer David Hess; It’s Only a Movie: The Making of The Last House on the Left — documentary; Forbidden Footage — the cast and crew on the film’s most controversial sequences; Deleted Scene — Mari Dying at the Lake; Extended Outtakes and Dailies newly transferred in HD; Trailers, TV Spot & Radio Spots; Image Galleries. Disc Two: New: Q&A with Marc Sheffler from a 2017 screening of the film at The American Cinematheque; The Craven Touch — interview featurette with Sean S. Cunningham, composer Charles Bernstein, producer Peter Locke, cinematographer Mark Irwin and actress Amanda Wyss; Early Days and ‘Night of Vengeance’ — filmmaker Roy Frumkes remembers Wes Craven and ‘Last House on the Left;’ Tales That’ll Tear Your Heart Out — excerpts from an unfinished Wes Craven short; Krug Conquers England — archival featurette charting the theatrical tour of the first ever uncut screening of the film in the UK. Disc Three (CD): original motion picture soundtrack, newly remastered. Additional: Limited Edition 60-page book with essay by Stephen Thrower; 6 lobby card reproductions; Double-sided poster.
Packaging: One Blu-ray in Keep case
Reviewed: June 15, 2018
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Preview: Season 32 Episode 6 | 2m 5s
Passionate teenage innovators from around the globe create cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats—found right in their own backyards—while navigating the doubts and insecurities that mark adolescence. These inspiring teens prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world: the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyncote Foundation. Additional funding comes from The John S. and James Knight Foundation, Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Chicago Media Project, Lefkofsky Family Foundation, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and public television viewers. POV is presented by a consortium of public television stations, including KQED San Francisco, WGBH Boston and THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG.
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Join An Apocalyptic Street Race In REWIND’s ‘Curfew’ VR Experience
by Alaster Armitage-Brain
‘Curfew: Join The Race’ is an immersive, interactive VR experience for Oculus Rift inspired by the exhilarating new drama.
The Endemol Shine UK Multiplatform team has partnered with immersive content studio REWIND to produce Curfew: Join The Race, which will be available to download for free on the Oculus Rift February 22nd alongside the programme launch.
Curfew is an eagerly awaited street race drama starring Sean Bean, Billy Zane, and Adrian Lester. By day the world seems very much like the world we know – but at night the shutters come down, the streets are cleared, and a curfew is enforced to protect the population from an infectious virus that has decimated the country. However, there is hope of escape when ordinary people are given the opportunity to race their way free and escape the world of the curfew. Win, and they’ll have the chance for a better life in a better world.
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To take part is to embrace rebellion and recklessness; but also hope, bravery, and self-belief. This interactive narrative adventure lands you on the starting grid of an illegal street race inspired by the Curfew universe. You meet your driver, ‘Eduardo’ and the mysterious ‘Helena’ who communicates to you from her hideout over CB radio. As co-pilot, you must make decisions in the hope of evading the police, other racers and surviving the night.
The experience was created using REWIND’s in-house version of Unreal engine along with a set of narrative and interactive tools, purpose-built for making immersive VR experiences. The process involved extensive reference photography, motion capture, immersive sound design, and a notable cast of actors and talent.
Daryl Atkins, ECD at REWIND and Creative Director on Curfew – Join The Race said: “The ambition was to create a narrative experience which meshes deeply with the timeline and themes of the show itself, providing an immersive alternative angle on the action. The experience allows fans to step inside the world they see on screen and get closer to the race. Virtual Reality can give audiences a new way to experience stories set inside the universes of their favourite shows. With Curfew we wanted the user to not only watch a story, but be a part of it.”
Karolyn Holbon, Head of Online Video and Multiplatform for Endemol Shine UK said: “We’re all hugely excited to have produced our first scripted, interactive VR experience alongside REWIND and can’t wait for the experience to launch in conjunction with the series so fans can experience it first hand.”
“To be able to place a viewer at the centre of a scripted universe originally created for linear broadcast – is truly innovative and we are extremely proud of the end result.”
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Alaster is the UK Editor-at-Large for VRScout. Outside of VRScout he is producing VR content for leading brands around the world.
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Students trek deep into the Amazon and scale the Andes to learn about global food security
Professor Ozzie Abaye (left) led a group of students on a trip to Ecuador this summer to learn about food security.
Emily Burke’s “aha” moment came under a giant kapok tree that towered over the blanket of green that envelopes the Ecuadorian rainforest.
It was there, as a Quechuan guide spoke about how deforestation has changed the way his family survives in the jungle, that Burke fully appreciated why she flew south of the equator this summer to study food security.
“It made me feel like I’m learning about things that are important to the future of our world,” said Burke, a rising junior from Vienna, Virginia, who is double majoring in agricultural and applied economics and environmental policy and planning. “Feeding the world is one of the biggest challenges of the next 20 years. I wanted to get a first-hand experience to find out how we are going to do that.”
But it was more than that for the group of students from the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who spent two weeks in Ecuador trekking in the Amazon, scaling the Andes, and exploring the Galapagos. It was a chance to learn how they could better understand food security and production challenges and use agriculture as a means to help the world.
“I wanted to study food and agriculture through an international lens because I believe that so many of the problems we have — poverty, lack of education, crime — can be traced back to a lack of access to food,” said Sarah Bateman, a rising senior from Cambridge, New York, who is majoring in crop and soil environmental sciences with an option in international agriculture and a minor in global food security health. “You cannot set out to solve problems related to development or even begin to clearly see them until you are looking them in the face, standing on the ground, and are adequately exposed to the sociological aspects of the problem itself.”
Some of the students on the trip were taking a class called Agriculture, Global Food Security, and Health. The class is part of the college’s global food security and health minor, which examines some of the most pressing issues that will be facing our planet as the world population swells by an additional 2 billion people over the next 30 years.
“I want them to know that everything is interconnected in the food chain, from the moment we put the seed in the ground to the moment we eat it,” said Ozzie Abaye, a professor of crop and soil environmental sciences and Virginia Cooperative Extension specialist who led the students on the journey. “The students are learning that people around the world have the same needs. We all need food, shelter, and clean water. I want them to understand that we are not that different from one another.”
The class and the new minor are part of a larger push by the college to expand students’ opportunities to study overseas and examine their studies through a global lens. The diversity of students on this trip highlighted how interdisciplinary this global charge of feeding the world is. They included students majoring in crop and soil environmental sciences; food science and technology; agricultural and applied economics; human nutrition, foods, and exercise; and environmental policy and planning, which is in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.
“In order for students to learn the vital role of agriculture and life sciences in an increasingly globalized world, it’s imperative that they travel to the far corners of the globe where they can immerse themselves in the culture and understand the unique challenges facing various countries,” said Tom Thompson, associate dean and director of Global Programs.
And immerse themselves they did.
On their first day in the country, the students visited local food markets in Quito and gobbled down spicy soups swimming with charbroiled tripe. Deep in the rainforest, they ate live grubs as thick as a thumb that locals eat as a source of protein and one student described as “delicious and velvety.” They crossed wide rivers to visit tiny villages and drank chicha, a beverage made by women who chew cassava root and spit it out to create a sour, fermented drink. At a banana plantation that exports more than 300 million bananas a year around the globe, they met a woman named Fernanda who puts stickers on bananas for $7 a day. In the Andes, they ate guinea pig with a local who is fighting to hold on to his ancient culture in a rapidly changing world. After hiking on hardened lava flows on the Galapagos, the group learned the challenges of food security vulnerability when living on an island.
Chloe Rogers samples chicha, a traditional fermented drink.
Ecuador is a prime place to for the students to learn the complexities of a developing and quickly changing world. Farmers are feeling the impacts of climate change as the rainy seasons get rainier and the dry seasons get drier. Deforestation in the Amazon is changing the way the locals eat and hunt. Technology is creeping into the most remote corners of the country.
The students traveled to a remote town in the Amazon accessible only by boat, where a Quechuan medicine man blessed the group of students in a traditional cleansing ceremony by blowing a cloud of tobacco smoke over them. A few minutes after the ceremony, the medicine man joined his grandson playing a video game on a smart phone.
“The world is an increasingly complex place and we want our students to experience first-hand how these emerging global issues relate to what they learn in the classroom ,” said Susan Sumner, associate dean and director of academic programs.
The trip was so moving for Charley Han (the student who said the grubs tasted “velvety”), a senior majoring in agricultural and applied economics from Centerville, Virginia, that she said when she is old enough and far along in her career, she wants to fund a scholarship so other students can experience what she did.
“Being here has taken my blinders off,” she said. “I want others to be able to have the same transformative experience I have.”
Matt Dennis looks out into the crater lake at the Quilotoa volcano.
The students submitted journal entries on their experiences daily, as well as final reflection papers on their journey, sharing what they learned over the course of two weeks in South America.
“This was the trip of a lifetime,” wrote Lester Schonberger, who is earning a master’s degree in food science and technology and was using the trip as part of his research. “It is the responsibility of those who went on this trip to act as ambassadors for what they learned and act as advocates for food security in Ecuador and beyond. This trip, the connections made and the knowledge gained, act as the start to create lasting change.”
To learn more about the many global programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, visit www.cals.vt.edu/global.
Elizabeth Gray dances with the Salasaca locals.
Lester Schonberger gets ready to participate in the local dance in the Salasaca region.
Students in the Salasaca region.
In the Salasaca region, locals are trying to hold on to their traditional customs.
Lester Schonberger helps make chicha, a local drink made by women who chew up cassava root.
Students and locals at the Quechuan village.
Students learned how to throw spears and use a blowgun to hunt for food.
Emily Burke tries her hand at throwing a spear.
As Kristina Estrada learns, smoke is part of a traditional cleansing ritual.
Chloe Rogers and Kristina Estrada said they felt a sense of tranquility after the ritual.
A Quechuan child.
A Quechuan medicine man performs an ancient cleansing ritual.
Sarah Bateman wrapping a fish in banana leaves before cooking it.
Lester Schonberger trekking through the Amazon.
A local guide shows how to make a basket out of plants.
Charley Han finds a grub in the forest, which she later ate in the local way – while it was still squirming.
Emily Burke jumps off a boat to visit a village that is accessible only by the Napo River.
Lester Schonberger birdwatching in the Amazon.
Charley Han visits a banana plantation.
Elizabeth Gray shows Ecuadorian college students how to do a soil survey.
Professor Ozzie Abaye led the students on the trip, which included a stop at a banana plantation.
The students visited a banana plantation that sends 300 million bananas around the world every year.
Local farmers wash their crop of potatoes in a roadside ditch.
One of the students' many visits included a stop at a rose farm.
Abaye talking with students about crops cows graze on.
The students sampled countless different foods – including roadside stand tripe soup that everyone loved.
The second day in Ecuador included a tour of the historic buildings in Quito.
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Women's Alpine Speed Team Wraps Camp in Portillo
By Megan Harrod
Alice McKennis, Alice Merryweather, Galena Wardle and Jackie Wiles dive in to the frigid Inca Lake for some recovery after training. Legend has it that Portillo's Inca Lake or Luguna del Incas is enchanted, and on some nights you can hear eerie, mournful cries across the lake. (Ian Fohrman, Spyder)
It’s been three years since the women’s speed team has traveled to longtime U.S. Ski & Snowboard training site nestled in the Andes, at Ski Portillo, Chile. Though snowfall in recent years has been a challenge, the women’s speed team were excited to travel back to the oldest ski area in South America. Two athletes in particular - Alice Mckennis (New Castle, Colo.) and Jackie Wiles (Portland, Ore.) - were looking forward to strapping on the downhill boards and getting back into speed action.
Due to a lack of snowfall that caused many ski areas surrounding northern Chile to close early, the men’s speed team relocated to La Parva, Chile and then further south to Nevados de Chillán, Chile. However, since Portillo upgraded their snowmaking system, head women’s alpine coach Chip White decided to give it a shot. And, “in hindsight,” White reflected, “we definitely made the right decision, and it was the perfect place for Alice McKennis and Jackie Wiles to do their return to gate training. The snow was clean, no rocks, and hard like winter snow.” Portillo did not disappoint.
Joining McKennis and Wiles in return to gate training was tech teammate Galena Wardle (Aspen, Colo.), and a healthy and stronger-than-ever Alice Merryweather (Hingham, Mass.) rounded out the squad. “We started out slowly with a skills and drills, then graduated to brush gates doing a GS progression,” White explained. “The progress was so positive and the return to training athletes felt so good we were able to graduate into limited full gates. The coaches and the new team physio, Torey Anderson, monitored the volume closely, and were able to put together a solid plan that allowed the group to exceed their expectations.
“With Alice (McKennis) and Jackie not skiing or training for such a long time this was extremely exciting for the athletes and staff,” White exclaimed. “With calculated rest days and limited volume to start, the ladies were chomping at the bit for more. This was extremely motivating for the staff, knowing that U.S. women’s speed was coming back! We had to hold them back a bit but that is what you want in true thoroughbreds. As the camp continued we were able to start running some super-G also with progression in mind, again we were all amazed as to how well the girls responded and did. Thanks to constant feedback from our new PT, Torey, the ladies were handling the load and progression well - so well in fact that by the end of the camp we had Alice and Jackie running short length super-G courses on downhill skis. This was a very uplifting camp for the Alice and Jackie’s return to training”
Although McKennis felt uncertain the first few days in brush gates, she quickly realized she was able to really try to send it and push hard in super-G/downhill the last few days of their two-week camp in Portillo. “I couldn’t be more thrilled with the progress I made in Portillo!” McKennis reflected. “I truly feel like I have shot at this sport again and the ability to be successful, which was something I doubted for a long time.” The confidence both McKennis and Wiles gained in Portillo will allow them to push even harder and look for more speed in their second Chile camp, in Corralco, Chile in early-mid October.
“My body feels really good, better than I expected and I’m very grateful for that,” noted McKennis. “Getting to this point where you feel like you really have a chance again reminds me of how much work it took not only from myself by from so many of those around me - doctors, physical therapists, coaches, family and friends so I want to say thank you to them for all the support through this process. I’m not “there” yet but am confident by the time Lake Louise rolls around I’ll be feeling sassy, confident and ready to get sendy!”
Wiles, who tore her ACL, MCL, LCL, POL, lateral Meniscus, tib/fib joint, and broke her fibula with perennial nerve damage in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany prior to the Olympics in 2018, wrote on Instagram, "Finally back on DH skis 17 months later and starting to feel like a racer again! Thanks Ski Portillo for the incredible training!" It's natural for injured athletes to to have some uncertainty returning after such a long time away, but Wiles took it all in stride.
"Getting back on snow has been the most amazing feeling in the world," Wiles commented. "I had some uncertainty returning after such a long time away from the sport especially with a totally new reconstructed knee. Once I took my first run, immediately I was back in my happy place and all the hard word had paid off. I still have a couple markers to hit but I’m on my way to be back racing next season and I can’t wait!"
Additionally, White noted that Wardle is returning to snow and made great gains in slalom and giant slalom both, and Merryweather’s early season training has been nothing short of impressive. “One of the bright stars was Alice Merryweather’s constant drive to rise to the next level when she starts the WC season,” said White. “She’s stronger than ever and skiing very confident and fast. If Thin Lizzy were to write another song it might be titled ‘The Girls are Back in Town.’ We can’t wait for the return of Breezy Johnson (Jackson Hole, Wyo.) and Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore.), when that happens, WATCH OUT, WORLD!”
Up next for the women’s speed team is a two-week training camp down in Corralco, Chile, followed by their final prep period camp at the U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper Mountain, Colorado in mid-late November before the FIS Ski World Cup speed opener at Lake Louise, Canada on December 6-8.
After plenty of suffering, pain, five surgeries, sweat, hard work and determination, Alice McKennis is back on the downhill boards and was loving that speed in Portillo, Chile.
Alice McKennis, Jackie Wiles and Alice Merryweather smile big on the chairlift in Portillo.
Alice Merryweather, Alice McKennis, Torey Anderson (physio), Jackie Wiles, and Galena Wardle pose for the cam after taking a dip in the iconic Inca Lake at Portillo.
Jackie Wiles is back on the downhill boards after 17 months and she's starting to feel like a racer again!
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Galena Wardle joined the D Team in 2016 and made the jump to the C Team in 2017, where she is today. She'll be one to keep an eye on in the future, as she snagged her first National title in the 2016 season at U.S.
Alice Merryweather
Alice Merryweather learned to ski at four years old on the wintery slopes of Attitash Mountain, chasing her brother down the hill. This was how she discovered her passion for speed.
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Northwesterner Jackie Wiles blasted onto the race scene early in the 2013 season in a big way. She won the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championship downhill title at the U.S. Ski Team Speed Center hosted at Copper Mountain. She then won it again in 2014 and went to her first Olympics.
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Formerly coached by five-time Olympian Casey Puckett, Alice McKennis knows a thing or two about speed events.
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Kabukiza Theatre
Nohgaku, Kabuki, and Bunraku embellished the Edo theater scene, and they continue to fascinate audiences to this day. However, how shows are performed and how audiences experience them have undergone many changes since Edo period.
According to Professor Kodama, electricity played a major role in the evolution of Kabuki. Without electricity, it had been impossible to light the stage perfectly in time with stage cues, like an actor clapping his hands. When the stage needed to be lit, the stagehands behind the set would have to hurry to raise the window shutters all at once. With an electrical lighting system in the theater, it became much easier to adjust the lighting and perform various effects. This changed the theater atmosphere completely.
Kabukiza Theatre (4-12-15, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)
Kabuki Performance
Every year, more novel and diverse motifs are being fused with Kabuki theater. For instance, the international manga sensation “One Piece” premiered as a Kabuki play with the performance “Super Kabuki II: One Piece” in 2015. It blended traditional Kabuki acting with prerecorded modern music and advanced set pieces. This year another beloved manga/animation will grace the Kabuki stage. In December, a play based on the world-acclaimed animation director Hayao Miyazaki’s “Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä” (“Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind”) will begin running. Western ideas have also started to appear in the world of Kabuki. In 2009, the performance of Sistine Kabuki debuted at the Otsuka Museum of Art in Tokushima staged under a replica of Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Japanese theater is boundless in its expression, channeling forms of popular culture found in film, comics, and social media.
Even for many English speakers who have now been gracing the Kabuki theater in huge numbers, the attraction to Kabuki is the drama itself. In 1975 English earphone-guides were introduced, and in 1982 came English play guides and English subtitles; but in Professor Kodama’s opinion, those aids might be distract-ing during a performance. He feels that reading plots written in English on flyers or websites in advance and focusing on the stage makes understanding it better.
National Noh Theatre (4-18-1, Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Discover NOH & KYOGEN
Takigi Noh, a type of Noh performed outdoors at night lit by large torches, created a completely different theater experience than traditional indoor viewings. It was first played at Kokufu-ji Temple in Nara during the Edo period, and gradually touched venues in Tokyo and other parts of Japan after the war. It has become very alluring for people who may be less interested in Noh itself but are drawn to its absolute beauty and charm. This autumn, Takigi Noh performances will be held at Zojo-ji Temple, Shinjuku Gyoen, Meiji Jingu shrine and many more venues throughout Tokyo.
“Discover NOH & KYOGEN,” Noh Performance for the Audience from Abroad will be held on 31 October at the National Noh Theatre. Click to find more details
National Theatre (4-1, Hayabusa-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
Bunraku Performance
In Bunraku, performances began getting innovative and have been presenting three puppeteers from mid-80s, as opposed to a single puppeteer in early days. The Sugimoto-Bunraku production emerged with avant-garde technology, such as video installation, and revived Japanese classics with a modern approach. However, many masterpieces of Chikamatsu Monzaemon, such as the Bunraku classic ”Sonezaki Shinju” (“Love Suicides at Sonezaki”), have been perpetually loved for over 300 years and continue to be performed in various forms.
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Is there Any Downside to Active Entrepreneurs Making Angel Investments?
By Arun December 28, 2015
In an article titled "The Curious Case of Entrepreneur-Angels", Santosh Sreedhar of Avalon Consulting and Neeraj Gupta of Excubator explore whether the founders Flipkart, SnapDeal, CommonFloor, etc. should be turning Angel Investors "even as their core venture has still not turned around profits". Extracts:
However, there are a few who believe the trend should not be encouraged as it distracts the entrepreneur from the core business, which in many cases is still not profitable. They feel that even though some of these entrepreneurs have “made money”, many are still to prove their capability to “build businesses”. As one leading VC put it - “Its not a business if its not profitable”. They argue that such investments are bound to distract the entrepreneurs from focusing on turning their core business profitable. Putting a clause in the term sheets restricting entrepreneur investments in outside ventures is not a norm in India or elsewhere. However, disclosure rules …
What went wrong at Avigo Capital? An Analysis of the Firm's Portfolio
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Dr. Lal Pathlabs Signs off a Good Year for Private Equity-Backed IPOs
Why Does India Celebrate Rahul Yadav?
The reason, according to Sumanth Raghavendra - in his post titled "Why a prize idiot like Rahul Yadav is precisely the kind of startup hero India deserves…and exactly the opposite of the one it needs" - is our "obsession with funding".
First a quick extract from Sumanth's post:
Despite all the buzz around India having arrived as a hot startup destination, there have been precious few aspirational startup exemplars since the halcyon days of Sabeer Bhatia and Narayan Murthy. A false dawn if ever there was one… Equally tragic is the fact that folks who could potentially be startup heroes—a Sachin Bansal or a Vijay Shekhar Sharma—seem to be idols with feet of clay…either
backing the likes of Rahul Yadav with angel investment to continue this cringe-worthy charade of faux startup-ism or needing him to fill seats at their own events. How I wish the media highlighted the story of a Santosh Panda who has diligently persevered to build Explara over several years with …
Startup Failures of 2015
Techinasia has rounded up a list of 11 startups that gave up in 2015. The list includes
From Foodtech:
Dazo
Investors: Rajan Anandan of Google, Amit Agarwal of Amazon, Kunal Shah of FreeCharge and Founders of CommonFloor, TaxiForSure, and Yo China.
Spoonjoy
Investors: SAIF Partners; Sachin Bansal of Flipkart
From E-Commerce:
DoneByNone
Investors: Seedfund
From HR Tech:
TalentPad
Investors: Helion Ventures
From Hyperlocal:
Townrush
Investors: Lightspeed Ventures
From IoT:
Interestingly, Yash Kotak, a co-founder of Lumos, has published a detailed article in YourStory listing "7 Reasons Why My IOT Startup Failed".
Private Equity Exits Via Public Markets on the Rise
Private Equity Investments Down For The Fourth Straight Month
Why do Bill Gurley & Jason Fried Hate Unicorns?
Silicon Valley VC and Benchmark Capital partner Bill Gurley has been calling a bubble for a couple of years now. Gurley explains why he is so concerned with bubbles in his latest interview to Technology Review magazine:
Great entrepreneurs are relatively disadvantaged in these markets where so much capital is available. In a market where capital is hard to come by, they can still raise money. In this market, they can raise a ton of money, but so can a lot of [less capable] competitors that wouldn’t be in business otherwise. ...Imagine two companies. One is told, “I want you to get to $100 million in revenue and you have to be profitable when you get there.” The other is told, “I want you to get to $100 million in revenue and I don’t care if you lose $40 million getting there.” Which of those two exercises is harder, and by how much? I would argue it’s at least 10 times harder to do the first. Until you can prove that you can generate cash flow, you don’t have a sustainable business.…
Businessworld article on Startup Acquisitions
By Arun November 28, 2015
Businessworld has an article based on Venture Intelligence data on VC-backed startups acquiring their peers.
Why won't NSE & BSE eat their own dog food - aka become listed entities themselves?
The Firm show on CNBC-TV18 has a report enquiring into why the leading Indian stock exchanges - BSE and NSE - haven't gone public themselves - especially after raising Private Equity capital with a clear understanding that such investors would seek profitable exits within a few years. With no revert from SEBI on clearances for the exchange IPOs, the PE investors in these exchanges have written to the Finance Minister and speak openly about their frustration.
View the report video here and text version here.
Sohil Chand, MD, NVP India:
“I think what is important is to see what has happened to the multiple and the Rs 3,950 represents a multiple of only 14 times trailing earnings. When we look at comparable stock exchanges, the listed stock exchanges whether it is Hong Kong or Singapore or other comparable markets, they traded 30 times forward earnings. So, in our estimate the NSE right now, the private markets are undervaluing it by 50 percent.” ...“The listed stock excha…
VC-backed Startups Solving Exit Problem?
Economic Times has an infographic based on Venture Intelligence data on the phenomenon of VC-backed startups acquiring their peers.
The Venture Intelligence infographic on the same phenomenon:
How Many E-Tailers Will Remain Standing by Diwali 2016?
Alok Goyal of SAIF Partners (and prior to that CEO of FreeCharge and redBus) writes in Economic Times:
According to various industry sources, the total burn rate across the top 10 ecommerce players appears to be ~$9 million per day...If we were to assume a year-on-year growth of 150%, by next Diwali, the top 10 companies would need about $22 million per day to sustain business with the current unit economics. That means companies will burn about $6 billion to sustain the current trend until next Diwali. There are hardly any investors out there who can support that pace of cash burn. Venture Intelligence is the leading provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India. Click Here to Sign Up for the FREE Weekly Edition of the Deal Digest: India's First & Most Exhaustive Transactions Newsletter.
TinyOwl Tamasha Triggers Advise Avalanche
A lot of pontification is flying around for TinyOwl, the food ordering startup that's landed in big trouble - much like the other young IIT Bombay alumni founded startup Housing.com. (Prior to the latest "layoffs triggered hostage crisis" at the company, one had noticed TinyOwl - apart from its remarkable back-to-back funding announcements - mainly for a tweet on how, between cash backs from it and Paytm, one could get paid to eat!)
Arvind K. Singhal, Chairman and MD of retail consulting firm Technopak, has used the goings on at TinyOwl, to ring the death-knell for startups across categories. "These incidents highlight some bitter realities about the Indian startup ecosystem, which have so far been overshadowed by the multi-billion dollar valuations of a handful of companies, and the multi-million dollar funding rounds they have done. I believe that such ugly incidents are in store for several other companies in India’s fledgling startup ecosystem. In fact, these p…
CanBank Venture Capital Fund to manage Government of India's Electronics Development Fund
As part of Digital India Agenda, Government of India it is envisaged to develop the Electronic System Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) and IT Sector to achieve net zero imports by 2020. As part of this initiative, Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India has appointed CanBank Venture Capital Fund Limited (CVCFL) as Fund Manager to house and manage the Electronics Development Fund (EDF).
EDF as a “Fund-of-Fund” shall participate in “Daughter Funds” which in turn will provide risk capital to companies developing new technologies in the area of Electronics, Nano Electronics & Information Technology. The corpus of the EDF could be up to Rs.2,200 crore to be committed in select Daughter Funds by March 31, 2017. CVCFL organized a pre- launch event -Symposium on Electronics Development Fund in Mumbai (on November 5, 2015) for announcing the EDF to Angel/VC/PE…
Why Uber is Not Going to Stop Anyone (in India) from Owning A Car Anytime Soon
Deepak Shenoy of Capital Mind has an interesting post on MediaNama titled "The Economics of Using Uber in India". Extracts:
Uber advertises its lowest fare in Bangalore at Rs. 7 per km charge but that is utter bull. For an average 10 km ride in the city, it costs much more:
a Rs. 35 base charge that has no free usage, which would be Rs. 3.5 per km.
Rs. 7 per kilometer run
Rs. 1 per minute as a driver fee. For an average of 3 minutes per kilometer this comes to Rs. 3 per km. These add up to Rs. 13.5 per kilometer. That’s how much you pay for an auto as well.
...The annual costs of a car are tiny nowadays (Rs. 1 per kilometer, assuming Rs. 12,000 service costs for Rs. 12,000 driven). So if my car gives me 12 kms to a liter of petrol, i’m still paying just Rs. 5.5 per km for petrol and Rs. 1 for parking. Add to this the convenience of owning a car, the ability to get groceries from hypermarkets that can’t or won’t deliver, the ability to drive your kids to a location just 2 mi…
Why Private Equity Investors are Very Hungry!
By Arun October 29, 2015
If Venture Capital (VC) investors are busy chasing Internet & Mobile companies, how are their Private Equity cousins keeping busy? Some of them at least are gobbling up food businesses:
VC Firm Ventureast invites Pitches via Twitter!
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Surge in Early Stage deals powers Venture Capital investments to all time high
Early Stage investments cross $1-B mark for first time; Internet & Mobile Cos continue to rule the roost
In just the first nine months of 2015, Venture Capital investments in India – at 323 deals worth $1,438 million - have crossed the previous historical high of 2014 (which had witnessed 304 investments worth $1,170 million across the entire year), according to data from Venture Intelligence , a research service focused on private company financials, transactions and their valuations. (Venture Intelligence classifies Venture Capital as first to fourth round of investments of not more than $20 million each by financial investors into companies not more than 10 years old.)
Venture Capital firms invested $536 million over 111 deals in India during the three months ending September 2015 – again record figures for a single quarter, the Venture Intelligence analysis showed. The investment activity during Q3’15 was 41% higher compared to the same period in 2014 (which had witnessed 79 …
What's Up with the Canaan India Team?
Ever since US-based venture capital firm Canaan Partners decided (in 2014) to scale down its India operations, Venture Intelligence has been keenly tracking what its India team - headed by one of the country's first entrepreneur-turned-VC Alok Mittal- would do next. The answer is now in...
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Record Jul-Sep quarter poises PE investments to cross all time high in 2015
By Ashok - Venture Intelligence October 05, 2015
Q3’15 tally up 125% to $5.9-B; IT & ITES Cos Grab Majority of the pie; Buyout deals make a comeback
With the nine month investment tally touching $13 billion (across 504 transactions), Private Equity investments in India for 2015 are poised to cross the historical highs of 2007 (which had witnessed $14.7 billion being invested across 535 transactions), shows data from Venture Intelligence (http://VIonWeb.com), a research service focused on private company financials, transactions and their valuations. PE firms invested a record $5,893 million (across 177 deals) during the quarter ended September 2015, up 125% over that invested in the same period last year ($2,621 million across 126 transactions) and 38% higher than the immediate previous quarter (which had witnessed $4,272 million being invested across 151 transactions). The nine month PE investment tally for 2015 is 82% more than the $7,131 million across 387 transactions in the first nine months of 2014, the Venture Intelligenc…
Are Corporate Accelerators a Farce?
Anand Sanwal of CB Insights believes they are. Extract from his recent newsletter article.
When I see a big corporation launch a buzzwordy accelerator program, I hear the sound of money getting flushed down the toilet. They launch these to get some buzz/look cool and, in theory, support and learn from startups. But here's the rub: if you're a giant, slow-moving company not known for being particularly innovative, the startups attracted to your accelerator are going to be 2nd or 3rd tier. ..That said, if you are focused on trying to "look innovative," here is the full list of tactics..: * Build a startup-y office with an open floor plan, showers, and an Xbox/Playstation... * Launch an innovation lab or accelerator. It doesn't matter what it does (if anything) — but do this. * Tell people that you don't wear suits and that you wear jeans to work. Venture Intelligence is the leading provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (…
Why Flipkart & Snapdeal Can't IPO and Why the Chinese are Invading the Indian Internet Market
By Arun September 30, 2015
The latest $700 million funding for Flipkart got announced not in the form of press releases as on previous occasions, but through leaks and confirmations. Also, the new round does not seem to have attracted any new investors. The closure of rival Snapdeal's $500 million round is reported to have been protracted over mismatch in valuation expectations.
Why the seeming nervousness among investors over India's two E-Commerce poster children?
Is it the crash of Alibaba's stock price in recent months? Or something else?
Media executive-turned-Private Equity investor Haresh Chawla has some answers in his new post at Founding Fuel. Extracts:
On why an IPO is impractical for Flipkart, SnapDeal
Most listed Unicorns in the West eventually trade at earning multiples that range between 40 and 60 times their earnings. Listed Indian internet companies like Naukri, Justdial and Makemytrip trade at similar multiples....Flipkart, now eight years old, to justify its $15 billion valuation s…
Do VCs need to be "good" guys to succeed?
Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham thinks so. Citing the example of uber angel investor Ron Conway (Google, Facebook, Twitter), he explains why in his recent blog post (emphasis mine):
The startup world became more transparent and more unpredictable. Both make it harder to seem good without actually being good. It's obvious why transparency has that effect. When an investor maltreats a founder now, it gets out. Maybe not all the way to the press, but other founders hear about it, and that means that investor starts to lose deals. The effect of unpredictability is more subtle. It increases the work of being inconsistent. If you're going to be two-faced, you have to know who you should be nice to and who you can get away with being nasty to. In the startup world, things change so rapidly that you can't tell. The random college kid you talk to today might in a couple years be the CEO of the hottest startup in the Valley. If you can't tell who to be nice to, you have to b…
Will InMobi Continue to Rejoice its Spurning of Google's $1-B Offer?
Silicon Valley lore has several famous episodes of acquisition talks that did not materialize: from that of Google by Excite (whose CEO apparently refused to pay up $75,000) and by Yahoo (when the Google founders walked away from a $3-B offer) and that of Yahoo (for $44.6 B) by Microsoft.
In March 2015, the lore extended to Indian shores when, InMobi - which dares to combat Google and Facebook in the mobile advertising segment - walked away from a $1 billion offer from the search engine giant (according to multiple media reports, sample: Business Insider).
Will InMobi CEO Naveen Tewari's decision to walk away turn out as well as that of Google's own or more Yahoo like? Only time will tell. But questions are being raised as to why, when other Indian startups like Flipkart, Snapdeal and Ola are able to attract investments at valuations of multiple billions of dollars with seeming ease over the last couple of years, hasn't InMobi (that last raised a reported $200 million …
Zero in on Cos Seeking Angel Funding in Your City
With enthusiasm for angel investments in India at an all time high, Venture Intelligence is happy to announce a new feature to its Angel Investments database: the ability to search listings of companies seeking angel / seed capital in your city.
Integrating company and investor profiles from the world’s best known angel deals platform - AngelList - the Venture Intelligence Angel Investments database allows its users to further search and filter listings by company name, city and amount of funding sought.
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Zoho Founder on Competing with Companies Raising "Series QE" Funding
From the article by the Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu in Economic Times:
Another day , another hot tech company raises $500 million (or is it a billion?) in Series D, Series E -I propose we just call all of it Series QE, because that is where all the money comes from anyway , right? ..If you are in one of those hot companies burning cash, enjoy the ride as long as it lasts--and make sure you have a safety net if, heaven forbid, something bad happens. But what about companies that cannot or don't want to raise that kind of money? ...In the world of business and finance, following fashion is the path to the poorhouse. Avoiding the fashionable location, the fashionable field and, dare I say , fashionable employees, may be the best way to survive a bubble.Venture Intelligence is the leading provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India. Click Here to Sign Up for the FREE Weekly …
Why Angels & Seed Funds Might Be Better For Seed Rounds
With Tiger Global and other global investors straying into VC territory in the hunt for the next set of Unicorns, the ( Lee Fix(el)ated ? ) Indian VC firms - whose fund size mathematics earlier disallowed them from "writing cheques" of less than $1-2 million - have been actively foraying into seed funding zone competing and often co-investing with angels and seed funds.
But what type of investor should entrepreneurs prefer for their seed round - if they have the luxury of a choice between angels, seed funds and VC firms? Mukund Mohan, the former head of Microsoft Ventures, recommends going with angels and seed firms. Extracts from his post titled "Does raising institutional money at the seed stage help or hurt?":
If you are looking to raise money and you have an interested later-stage VC investor willing to put money in your company, by all means you should take it. Assuming they will invest later is a big leap of faith. There are, like most things in the startup …
Is Mr.Tata Risking Too Much Capital on Startups?
Is Angel Investing Worth the Bother?
Haresh Chawla, an angel investor in Housing.com, has a list of do's and don'ts for fellow angel investors in Founding Fuel. Extracts:
2. Don’t do it for the money. Most angel portfolios won’t beat returns on Indian small-caps and mid-caps. Plus you’ll save a mighty load of your time. So learn to play the guitar if you are bored. 3. If you still persist, choose a style or a combination from here:
Spray and Pray: Put in Rs 5-25 lakh—do tens of deals. Eight angels in a start-up means you are hardly going to have a say, or the inclination to spend time. But sure you’ll meet interesting people, and be covered in business newspapers. Sometimes you’ll also be mentioned in the same breath as *trophy* investors.
Consortium: A new structure that has cropped up lately—everyone can be an Angel now! One guy fronts 20-30 of you investors. It works. Downside? The front is usually too busy monitoring than mentoring. Oh, and you’ll miss out on the PR as well.
The Real Deal: You’re ready to lose b…
Will the Education Sector Throw Up a Billion Dollar Company? Yeah, Fine "Unicorn".
Siddhartha Jain has a nice analysis on why we haven't seen an Indian Education Unicon emerge yet. And why we still might.
Forbes India "Hidden Gems" List
Forbes India has put out its latest "Hidden Gems" Cover Story profiling 13 interesting businesses -from bus operator Prasanna Purple to lifestyle brand Hidesign, jewellery maker Kalyan Jewellers to coaching firm Resonance Eduventures and pharma venture Laurus Labs. For the fourth year running, we at Venture Intelligence, are happy to have partnered Forbes journalists in putting together this list by leveraging our databases on Private Company Financials, Transactions their Valuations.
Healthy Sign: IPOs Do Well Despite Shaky Secondary Market
Logistics: The "Shovels & Pickaxes" of E-Commerce Gold Rush?
IT Deals Dominate M&A Landscape
Snapping the Deal
It all seems to have started with Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl and Mr Ratan Tata (in Aug 2014)
Source: NBW
And then Paytm/One97's Vijay Shekhar Sharma took it international with Alibaba's Jack Ma (Feb 2015)
Source:FirstPost
According to Economic Times, the latest $500 million investment in Snapdeal (led by Foxconn, Alibaba and SoftBank ) - which has been reported about for several months now - faced "protracted negotiations" over the company's valuation. Another angle journalists might want to consider (for such delays) is how long it takes to synch up schedules of international personalities (who seem to call all the shots in Indian E/M-Commerce these days) to line up something like this:
Snapdeal founders with Alibaba's Jack Ma and SoftBank's Nikesh Arora
The Venture Intelligence PE/VC Deals Database currently captures 25+ data points for private company transactions - with valuation multiples enjoying pride of place. Going by the trend of deals g…
On Indian E-Commerce Valuation
In an interview to Mint, Aswath Damodaran - the well known US-based valuations expert - has opined that India’s e-commerce and consumer technology start-ups "may be collectively overvalued". "The size of the macro story may not justify the micro-valuations," he says.
Economic Times (in its Corporate Dossier supplement) had earlier featured the views of two local practitioners - Sharad Sharma, Angel Investor and Jacob Mathew, Founder of MAPE Advisory - on the same topic.
Sound Byte from Sharad Sharma:
"Unfortunately, due to just one individual - Lee Fixel of Tiger Global - Flipkart has gone from being a poster child to being the single biggest risk to the technology ecosystem."
His main argument:
Right now, Flipkart is valued at about $500 per transacting user. This is comparable to what Vodafone paid for Hutch in 2007 - the most expensive mobile operator acquisition ever. Built into the Vodafone offer at that time was a belief that the hockey stick su…
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Recommendations for Email Marketing by VCs
Anand Sanwal, Founder of US Venture Capital databased firm CB Insights, has an interesting critique of email pitches he receives from VCs (which, going by number of email types he's quoting, happens quite a lot. Ah, the US market!). Extract:
Strategy 4: The Warning
Hey Anand,
Joe here from Scary Partners. Love CB Insights and what you guys are doing.
I know there has been a lot of companies getting funding in your space so was wondering if you have more seriously begun to think about fundraising. I know you’ve grown out of revenue to-date but as competitors get funded, raising might make some sense to ensure you stay ahead of them.
I would love to chat.
....Cons: For us, someone else raising doesn’t mean much. We’ve seen a bunch of companies come and go in our space with a lot more money than us. The new entrants will be the same. And so while this email gets a response, it doesn’t do anything to frame why the firm might be an interesting partner and assumes we…
Justdial's Mani on Making Real Money Online
In an interview to Mint, local search firm Justdial's founder VSS Mani talks about building an Internet business that actually charges customers enough money to make an actual positive bottom line :
It would be fair to say that Mani comes across as a contrarian; one who doesn’t believe in the view that an e-commerce business must lose money. “JD did Rs.600 crore of revenue last year. That is equivalent to roughly Rs.60,000 crore revenue of an e-commerce company in terms of GMV,” he says. Gross merchandise value, or GMV, is a term used in online retailing to indicate total sales of merchandise through a particular marketplace over a certain time frame. "Commerce means making money. You cannot have deep discounts; you cannot buy things for Rs.100 and sell at Rs.80. Or (give) cash back." ..."we are extremely worried about the way things are,” says Mani. “Today we have the talent pool. In the dotcom days, it was a big challenge. People used to join organizations at do…
Where Indian Private Equity investors can tread without fear - well almost!
By Arun July 27, 2015
Khaitan & Co. Tops League Table for Legal Advisors to M&A Transactions in H1 2015
AZB & Partners, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas complete the Top 3 slots
Khaitan & Co topped the Venture Intelligence League Tables for Legal Advisors to M&A transactions for the first six months of 2015 advising deals with a value tag of $2,237 million (across 14 qualifying transactions). Khaitan & Co. was followed by AZB & Partners which advised deals worth $1,970 million (across 16 deals); Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas ($1,353 million across 9 deals). Amarchand & Mangaldas, before its split, had advised M&A deals worth $1,084 million (across seven deals).
The Venture Intelligence League Tables, the first such initiative exclusively tracking transactions involving India-based companies, are based on value of PE and M&A transactions advised by Transaction and Legal Advisory firms.
The Khaitan & Co. advised M&A deals during the period included the $315 million buyout of Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals by Advent International & Temasek and th…
AZB tops Legal Advisor League Table for Private Equity Transactions in H1 2015
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Khaitan & Co. claim the No.2 & No.3 Slots
AZB & Partners has retained its status as the top Legal Advisor for Private Equity transactions during the first six months of the 2015. According to the Venture Intelligence League Tables, AZB advised PE deals worth $2,446 million (across 23 qualifying deals), followed by Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas ($1,219 million across 12 deals); Khaitan & Co ($827 million across 10 deals) and J Sagar Associates ($823 million across 9 deals).
AZB advised deals during H1 2015 included the $383 million investment by Apax Partners in Shriram City Union Finance and the $150 million investment by TPG Capital into Manipal Health Enterprises. Transactions advised by Shardul Amarchand Mangald…
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Private and public debt in crises: 1870 to now
Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick, Alan Taylor, 18 October 2013
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, few would dispute the risks of excessive borrowing. But which debts should one worry about – public or private? This column presents new research on the interplay of public and private debts since 1870 in 17 advanced economies. History demonstrates that excessive private-sector borrowing plays a greater role than fiscal profligacy in generating financial instability. However, when the credit boom collapses, the government’s capacity to alleviate the downturn is limited by the prevailing level of public debt.
IMF failings in the EZ crisis
Susan Schadler, 15 October 2013
The IMF loans to Greece, Ireland and Portugal are considered controversial by some analysts. This column argues that these loans – granted without having agreed on convincing paths to manageable debt levels – constituted a substantial departure from IMF principles. The situation is costly for Europe and, having now permanently changed the principles guiding large IMF loans, it will be costly for crises to come. A serious rethink of the management and decision-making structure of the IMF is needed.
Enhancing the global financial safety net through central-bank cooperation
Edwin Truman, 10 September 2013
Should we expect more global financial crises? This column argues that we should. Global financial crises are far from being a thing of the past because they are often caused by buildups of excessive domestic and foreign debt. To successfully address them and to limit negative spillovers, we need coordinated actions that prevent a contraction in global liquidity. Unless we establish this more robust, coordinated global financial safety net centred on central banks (which is where the money is), we may end up being incapable of addressing inevitable future crises.
External liabilities and crisis risk
Luis Catão, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, 04 September 2013
Debt seems to be a lightning rod for crises. This column presents new research showing that the ratio of net foreign liabilities to GDP, and in particular its net external debt component, is indeed a significant crisis predictor for both advanced economies and emerging markets. Large current-account deficits and real exchange rate appreciation – the standard predictors – still matter, but we should be thinking more about net external debt.
Eurobonds: The design is crucial
Roel Beetsma, Kostas Mavromatis, 21 December 2012
Are Eurobonds a desirable solution to Eurozone members’ debt crises? Unhappily, it’s difficult to say. This column argues it very much depends on how the system is designed. However, looking at the most prominent proposals, it seems a cleverly designed Eurobonds system may well provide governments with the right incentives to encourage both issuing less debt and pursuing meaningful structural reform.
Macro heresy: Rethinking policy options to avoid a lost decade
Richard Wood, 19 December 2012
Five years after the subprime bubble burst, the self-correcting nature of business cycles is being questioned and, subsequently, orthodox macroeconomic policy is starting to be challenged. This column introduces a radical rethink of options open to macroeconomic policymakers, suggesting that in order to simultaneously achieve economic stimulus without increasing debt, new money creation should be used to directly finance on-going budget deficits.
Cut deficits by cutting spending
Alberto Alesina, 30 November 2012
Should debt-ridden and economically struggling Western governments be doing everything possible to reduce their deficits? Should we cut spending or hike taxes to reduce our debt-to-GDP ratios? This column argues that the answer is obvious: the cheapest, most effective and confidence-inspiring route is to cut spending. Coupled with other pro-growth policies, the evidence suggests that it is only really spending cuts that will spur private investment and economic recovery in Europe.
Commodity windfalls help reduce debt… in democracies
Rabah Arezki, Markus Brückner, 15 June 2012
Booming commodity prices generate large foreign currency inflows for exporting nations. This column argues that in countries with executive constraints and political competition windfalls from commodity booms lead to a significant reduction in external debt. In autocratic regimes, on the other hand, the windfalls are used to increase consumption expenditures.
Financial repression: Then and now
Carmen Reinhart, Jacob Kirkegaard, 26 March 2012
Rich nations worldwide have a problem with debt. In the past, such problems have been dealt with by several tactics, including 'financial repression'. This column explains how the tactic works and documents its resurgence in the wake of the global and Eurozone crises.
Fiscal consolidations for debt-to-GDP containment?
Gianluca Cafiso, Roberto Cellini, 20 March 2012
As fiscal-consolidation policies are being implemented across the EU, a debate has been developing concerning the effects of such policies on the dynamics of the debt-to-GDP ratio. This column examines past episodes and finds that following fiscal adjustment may have favourable effects in the short term but that the two-year cumulated changes have been mainly adverse.
A series of unfortunate events: Common sequencing patterns in financial crises
Financial crises often unfold according to common patterns, but the post-2007 contraction is in fact different from other post-WWII crises in its unusual severity, says Carmen Reinhart in CEPR DP8742. But the patterns of past crises may still provide clues on the future of housing, labour, and international financial markets. This paper outlines what that future might look like.
Sovereign debt, government myopia, and the financial sector
Raghuram Rajan, Viral Acharya, 24 November 2011
Why do governments repay external borrowing? This column argues that myopic governments seeking popularity do not default when they are poor because they would lose access to debt markets and be forced to reduce spending. And they do not default when rich because of the adverse consequences to the domestic financial sector. This explains why governments continue servicing debt when default is beneficial for the country.
Public debt in the Eurozone, Japan, and the US
Charles Wyplosz, 16 September 2011
Europe’s debt crisis is unfolding while Japanese and US debt problems are on hold. The problem of public debt in advanced economies will be with us for decades. This column introduces a new Geneva Report on the World Economy that addresses the nuts, bolts, and worries surrounding the issue.
Public Debts: Nuts, Bolts and Worries
Barry Eichengreen, Jürgen von Hagen, Charles Wyplosz, Jeffrey Liebman, Robert Feldman, 16 September 2011
The 13th CEPR/ICMB Geneva Report on the World Economy takes a long-term perspective on debt sustainability, arguing that fiscal stabilisation is easier the faster the economy is growing.
A Decade of Debt
Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff, 28 March 2011
With public debt in the US higher than it's been since 1945 and private debt burgeoning, governments are panicking about the impact of debt overhang on growth. In CEPR DP8310, Reinhart and Rogoff argue that governments have increasingly resorted to undercover restructuring by using the tools of "financial repression" that characterized the Bretton Woods era. If states continue to ignore or distort their debt problems, the authors predict, their bond markets could become ever more repressed.
Are buybacks an efficient way to reduce sovereign debt?
Stijn Claessens, Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, 05 March 2011
Commentators have recently floated the possibility of debt buybacks as a way of reducing a country's debt, particularly in the crisis-ridden Eurozone. Are buybacks a good idea? This column argues that, while there could be some circumstances in which debt buybacks are efficient, theory and experiences suggest that buybacks are generally costly and inefficient, and in practice (concerted) debt exchanges have been preferred.
Major public debt reductions: Lessons from the past, lessons for the future
Christiane Nickel, Philipp Rother, Lilli Zimmermann, 21 November 2010
Record levels of government debt in the EU have forced some countries to call for help. This column presents data from the EU between 1985 and 2009 covering episodes when governments have tried to rapidly lower public debt. It shows that appropriate policies, especially on the expenditure side, can help make this reduction sustainable.
Debt, deleveraging, and the liquidity trap: A new model
Paul Krugman, 18 November 2010
Debt is the crux of advanced economies’ current policy debates. Some argue for fiscal expansion to avoid recession and deflation. Others claim that you can’t solve a debt-created problem with more debt. This column explains the core logic of a new model by Eggertsson and Krugman in which debt shocks and policy reactions can be examined. Relying on heterogeneous agents, the model naturally produces the paradox of thrift but also finds new supply-side paradoxes, those of toil and flexibility. The model suggests that most economists have been misthinking the issues and that actual policy in the US and EU is misguided.
The Greek package: Eurozone rescue or seeds of an unravelled monetary union?
Charles Wyplosz, 03 May 2010
Eurozone members, the IMF, and the ECB have announced significant commitments to assist debt-laden Greece. This column outlines a dark scenario in which the plan fails and contagion spreads, necessitating further assistance to other indebted Eurozone governments. That could risk high inflation or debt problems for the entire Eurozone.
From financial crash to debt crisis
Carmen Reinhart, 09 April 2010
Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the sequencing of the cycle of debt build-ups – from private debt surges to banking crises to sovereign debt crises – and the four ‘deadly D’s’ that once again threaten many governments as a consequence of the current crisis – deficits, debt, downgrade and default. The interview was recorded at the Royal Economic Society’s annual conference at the University of Surrey in March 2010.
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Provo’s Most Eligible contestants share experiences at finale viewing
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About 429 people gathered at Megaplex Theatres at Geneva on Nov. 21 to watch the finale of Provo’s Most Eligible.
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Approximately 10 million people have already purchased Disney+ subscriptions since the company’s official launch on Tuesday, Nov. 12, according to a Disney press release.
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The launch of Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, on Nov. 12 represents a new trend in the industry in which content creators offer subscriptions directly to consumers.
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The Peery Film Festival brought 10 films to campus — the largest number of films to be screened on campus at one time throughout the festival's nine years. The films are being screened until Nov. 16.
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Season two of Provo’s Most Eligible (PME) — a spoof of "The Bachelor" — premiered over the weekend, pulling in 41 thousand views in just a few days.
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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is planning to update legislature that would protect families’ rights to filter content in the wake of the VidAngel’s legal conflict with movie studios like Disney.
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Containment Cast Talks Walking Dead Comparisons and 'Waiting for the Zombie Reveal' — VIDEO
By Vlada Gelman / April 13 2016, 12:07 PM PDT
The CW’s upcoming viral outbreak series Containment is basically The Walking Dead with a huge twist — there are no zombies!
“It’s just dead,” star George Young explains to TVLine’s Michael Ausiello in the above video.
Whereas the AMC drama is pure fiction, the CW medical thriller (premiering next Tuesday at 9/8c) is “based on something real, grounded [and] that can actually happen,” Young adds. (Leading lady Claudia Black nonetheless concedes, “When I read the pilot, I was waiting for the zombie reveal. I was like, ‘This is a really amazing, subtle, sophisticated zombie story.'”)
While the cast welcomes the chance to play realistic life and death stakes, it comes with a downside: a gruesome end can’t be ruled out for any of the characters. (Job security? Pssh!)
“There’s several thousand people quarantined within the cordon” — including much of the main ensemble — “and all of those inside are certainly not safe by any stretch,” executive producer Matt Corman teases.
As for Containment‘s own life expectancy — it’s now being billed as a limited series event — EP Chris Ord says, “We’re looking at the first season as its own thing, but it’ll leave us room to go forward and do more.”
Press PLAY above for a preview of the dangerous drama, then hit the comments to let us know if you’ll be tuning in.
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Art in the age of asymmetrical ... warfare
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2015. Art in the age of asymmetrical ... warfare. Witte de With, Rotterdam, London
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J.
Just as World War II began with a charge on horseback, and ended with the atomic bomb, the technological escalation of killing machines continues today. Art In The Age Of…Asymmetrical Warfare, the third and final iteration of Witte de With’s year-long exhibition series Art In The Age Of…, considers the irregular, and often uneven nature of the hybrid battlefield. As always, war is ever-present, however, its theater has now extended from the so-called real to the virtual. While hard power is still asserted face-to-face and hand- to-hand, remotely controlled weaponry and other means of telecommunicated violence are broadcast and delivered digitally through cyber attacks, and via social media propaganda platforms. Not surprisingly, these new channels have created their own forms of representation in which morale and information have become equal to, or are greater than, traditional military superiority. Instead of simply producing images of war, a new war of images is being fought and sold. As such, Art In The Age Of…Asymmetrical Warfare asks the question: What role do artists play when they slip into these networks and try to reveal the engines and effects of contemporary conflict?
Art, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Thomson, Craighead, Thomson and Craighead, A short film about war, war, film, Art in the age of, asymmetrical warfare2
http://www.wdw.nl/en/our_program/exhibitions/art_in_the_age_of_asymmetrical_warfare
http://thomson-craighead.net/warfilm.html
Anytime Now
Craighead, A. 2018. Anytime Now. TENT Rotterdam, Holland
The Academy of Saturn
Craighead, A. 2018. The Academy of Saturn. Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, USA
The Internet of Living Things
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2018. The Internet of Living Things. in: Kholeif, Omar (ed.) I Was Raised on the Internet Prestel Publishing. pp. 244
Life Time - Biological Clocks of the Universe
Craighead, A. 2017. Life Time - Biological Clocks of the Universe. MU Eindhoven
Humans Being Digital
Craighead, A. 2017. Humans Being Digital. The Lowry, Salford
Hybrid Landscapes
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2017. Hybrid Landscapes. Digital Catapult, London
Wake me up when it's over
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2017. Wake me up when it's over. Young Projects Gallery, Pacific Design Centre, West Hollywood, LA
I Want! I Want!: Art & Technology
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2017. I Want! I Want!: Art & Technology. Birmingham Museum
Recruitment Gone Wrong @ The New Observatory
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2017. Recruitment Gone Wrong @ The New Observatory. Fact, Liverpool,UK
Monsters Of the Machine
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2016. Monsters Of the Machine. LaBoral, Gijion, Spain
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2016. The Story. The Story.
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2016. Stutterer. The Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge
Perpetual Uncertainty
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2016. Perpetual Uncertainty. Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Nuclear Material Culture
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2016. Nuclear Material Culture. Karst, Plymouth
Big Bang Data
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2016. Big Bang Data. Somerset House, London
Real Time: Art en temps real
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2016. Real Time: Art en temps real. Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona
Party Booby Trap
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2016. Party Booby Trap. Carroll / Fletcher, London
Electronic Superhighway (2016 – 1966)
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2016. Electronic Superhighway (2016 – 1966). Whitechapel Gallery, London
Tecnologies de la violència
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2016. Tecnologies de la violència. Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Artist Use of Open Data
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2015. Artist Use of Open Data. Open Data Institute summit 2015. BFI Southbank 03 Nov 2015 Open Data Institute.
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2015. Hello World. Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, UK Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, UK.
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2015. Right Here Right Now. The Lowry, Salford
Data as Culture 3: Data Anthropologies
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2015. Data as Culture 3: Data Anthropologies. Open Data Institute, London
Maps DNA and Spam
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2014. Maps DNA and Spam. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2014. Flat Earth. Germany MEWO Kunsthalle and Dundee Contemporary Arts.
Never Odd or Even: Thomson & Craighead
Craighead, A., Thomson, J. and Auerbach, D. Stevenson, D. (ed.) 2013. Never Odd or Even: Thomson & Craighead. London Carroll/Fletcher.
Never Odd or Even
Craighead, A. and Thomson, J. 2013. Never Odd or Even. Carroll / Fletcher Gallery, London
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2012. October. Brighton
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2012. Belief. InSpace Gallery, Edinburgh
Short Film about War
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2010. Short Film about War. Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2010. London Wall. United Kingdom
Several Interruptions: Web commission for the relaunch of The Arts Council of England website
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2009. Several Interruptions: Web commission for the relaunch of The Arts Council of England website.
Horizon & BEACON
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2009. Horizon & BEACON. Dundee Contemporary Arts, United Kingdom
Beacon; Horizon
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2009. Beacon; Horizon. Dundee Contemporary Arts
Unprepared piano
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2008. Unprepared piano. Eyebeam NY
Thomson-Craighead at Studion
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2008. Thomson-Craighead at Studion. Stockholm, Sweden
My contacts; Signals; Flat Earth
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2008. My contacts; Signals; Flat Earth. Cube Exhibition
Flipped clock
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2008. Flipped clock.
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2008. Flat Earth. Newcastle
Decorative news feeds; beacon
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2008. Decorative news feeds; beacon. Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Decorative news feeds
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2008. Decorative news feeds.
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2008. Beacon.
Short films about flying
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2007. Short films about flying. Laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, Gijon, Spain
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2005. Beacon. Tate Modern, London
e-poltergeist
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2001. e-poltergeist. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
CNN Interactive just got more interactive
Thomson, J. and Craighead, A. 2001. CNN Interactive just got more interactive. Tate Britain, London
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Police: 12-year-old boy grazed by bullet while playing video games in his bedroom
Posted 6:34 PM, November 28, 2019, by Dana Rebik, Updated at 05:17AM, November 29, 2019
CHICAGO — A 12-year-old boy is in fair condition after he was grazed by a bullet that came through the wall of his bedroom Thursday afternoon.
According to police, the boy was playing video games in his room when gunfire erupted on the 100 block of west 114th Street in the Roseland neighborhood around 3:45 p.m. Thursday.
A bullet went through the wood frame of a window, grazing the boy, who ran into the dining room to his family. After they called 911 he was rushed to Comer Children's Hospital by paramedics, who said the boy was alert and talking to them. He's now listed in fair condition.
Police taped off an area across the street from the boy's home on south Perry Avenue where they believe the shots came from, and investigators recovered nearly two dozen shell casings from the ground.
"It is a shame but these individuals cowards don't care what day it is it could be Christmas it could be New Years they're making a bad choice and a bad decision," crisis responder Andrew Holmes said at the scene.
Police do not believe the 12-year-old was targeted.
Police said no one is in custody, and area south detectives are investigating.
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SHIMMY ISAACS
Born and raised in the Boland in the town Worcester; Shimmy Isaacs matriculated at age 17 and set her sights on the Mother City of Cape Town to pursue her need and purpose in the entertainment industry of writing and acting. With financial difficulties she encountered to further her acting studies, Shimmy started in 2001 as a wardrobe assistant for various Local South African Magazine Stylists. In 2003 Shimmy Isaacs is awarded a full scholarship from AFDA (African Film, Television and Live Performance University) where she was rewarded various accolades for performance in film and stage.
Shimmy obtained a Honors Degree in Screenwriting and Acting, from AFDA (African Film, Television and Live Performance University). She obtains an International Certificate from acting school BLACK NEXXUS, NEW YORK, where she specialized in the Susan Batson Technique for film acting “THE NEED”. In 2006 she became the youngest appointed Lecturer at AFDA Acting Department specializing in Physical Theatre and Human Behavior. In 2008 she becomes a full time freelance actress, writer, producer and comedian .
“Dens Wit Me” 2009 became her first producing, acting and writing production that won the Best New Play at the Baxter Ikwezi Festival (now known as Shabalaza)
In 2010 she produced her first One Woman Physical Theatre Comedy “Allie Pad Funny Worcester” directed by Rob van Vuuren at the Baxter Theatre Studio. “Allie Pad funny Worcester” earns Shimmy Isaacs the best Play and Act in a Solo performance. In 2011 she joins forces with some of Cape Town’s leading ladies, Marianne Thamm, Anthea Thompson, and Anne Hirsch in the Production “Cracks in the City”.
In 2012 Shimmy creates and produces two time national award winning production “HOWZIT MY BRA” which earned her the KKNK OUDSHOORN ART FESTIVAL and the KYKNET FIESTA AWARD for best actress in solo performance and best new comer for script.
Showbiz Reports ranked Shimmy the 7th funniest comedian and actress in South Africa’s top ten comedians of 2011.
In 2012 Shimmy performs at the Royal Carre Theatre Amsterdam where she hosted the annual South African Heritage day Celebrations Concert.
2013 November Shimmy stars in Hollywood Warner Brothers movie “Sophia Grace and Rosie’s Royal Adventure” working along renowned film Director Brian Levant.
Shimmy Isaacs has performed and work alongside South Africans beloved top Comedians, Mark Lottering, Kurt Schoonraadt, Tumi Morake, David Kau, Loyiso Gola, Mark Banks, and many more.
In 2013 Shimmy Isaacs returns to AFDA University where she is currently obtaining a Master’s Degree in Film Producing.
From Small town, to Big City to corner stages to small screens and big screens Shimmy Isaacs can be seen at Cape Town’s various Stand-up Comedy Venues along with theatre productions following.
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Sotalia fluviatilis
Home > About whales & dolphins > Whale and dolphin species guide > Tucuxi
South American fresh-water dolphins, tucuxi are as enchanting as they sound: playful, vivacious and highly social.
Known as the ‘other dolphin’ of the Amazon, there is still a lot to be learned about tucuxi, including their range. Part of the Sotalia genus, the two supposed-populations have now been recognized as separate species: the freshwater tucuxi and the marine Guiana dolphin.
Sotalia, Gray dolphin
1.5m 1.5m 0.7m
Unknown 53kg Unknown
IUCN conservation status: Data Deficient
What do tucuxi look like?
Tucuxi are highly aesthetic dolphins who aren’t dissimilar to bottlenose dolphins in appearance. Smaller than Guiana dolphins, they only grow to a dainty 1.5 metres long and weigh around 50kg. Whilst their bodies are coloured in muted tones of blues and greys, their bellies are much lighter in shades of ivory, grey or pink. Stood proudly on their backs, tucuxi have low, triangular dorsal fins. To their sides, they bear broad flippers whilst their faces have pronounced beaks. Although tucuxi can be up to 30% smaller than the Guiana dolphins, their ranges overlap and it’s nigh on impossible to tell them apart when only brief glimpses are seen.
What is life like for Tucuxi?
Whilst they have been seen in larger groups, tucuxi are most often found in small pods of just a few individuals. Together, they are extremely sociable and execute impressive stunts such as spyhopping, lobtailing, flipper-slapping and porpoising. They are, however, not so keen on socialising with people. Not ones to bow-ride or seek out human interaction, they prefer not to be approached and generally keep themselves to themselves. When they dive, tucuxi tend to only stay down for short periods of time, usually lasting 30 seconds to one minute. As well as other tucuxi, these dolphins are also happy to mingle with botos, the majestic, pink river dolphins.
The estimated population size for tucuxi is unknown.
What do Tucuxi eat?
Tucuxi eat a wide variety of freshwater fish and crustaceans.
Where are tucuxi found?
Tucuxi have made themselves at home throughout the Amazon basin and possibly in the Orinoco River too and are found therefore in rivers throughout Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil. Although protected in some areas because of their legendary importance, in other areas tucuxi are deliberately targeted by fishermen who view them as threats to their trade and for use in traditional medicine. As well as this, they also face very real dangers in the form of pollution, accidental bycatch and getting caught in fishing gear, human interference, habitat loss and the constructions of dams.
The eyes and genital organs from tucuxi are used by some local people as aphrodisiacs.
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Tucuxi need your help
The main threats...
Pollution – toxic chemicals along with plastic, litter and oil spills seriously harming their health and their ability to have young.
Fishing gear – tucuxi get accidentally caught in fishing nets and lines, injuring or even killing them.
Hunting - tucuxi are killed for their body parts or because fishermen see them as competition.
You can help save tucuxi...
By supporting WDC, you can help tucuxi to live safe and free. Together, we can:
Create healthy seas and rivers
Stop dolphin hunts
Please help us save whales and dolphins
By adopting a whale or dolphin, by making a donation, or by fundraising for WDC, you can help us provide a safe future for these amazing creatures.
Adopt a dolphin and help us protect these amazing creatures.
Your gifts help us take action for whales and dolphins.
Run, bake, walk, cycle… what could you do for whales and dolphins?
Cecilia Gasparrou/WDC, Bottlenose dolphin - Charlie Phillips/WDC, Humpback whale underwater - Vanessa Mignon, Orca spyhop - Rob Lott/WDC
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Tag Archives: @bechdeltheatre
March 8, 2016 by whoopnwail
Let’s talk about female characters, not just the lack of them.
@bechdeltheatre’s Beth Watson meets up for a coffee with Whoop ‘n’ Wail’s Ali Kemp to celebrate the upcoming Bechdel Theatre Festival launch.
So Beth, as a fellow actress and feminist, you wanted to do something about representation of women in theatre – what did you do?
I set up a Twitter page. I did it while I was in a room full of feminist theatre types. Actually, I’m not sure if it was my idea or not. I raised the idea of using the Bechdel Test for theatre and someone came up with the idea.
I’m friends with the Bechdel Test Fest people and we started making comparisons between film and theatre.
Twitter is a way of spreading a simple one line message and getting people involved simultaneously. The Bechdel Test is perfect for Twitter because it reduces a very complicated argument to a simple point.
So, why not get people to tweet about Bechdel-busting plays?
When did you know you were onto something?
The amount of tweets I got really quickly. Within a month, I had double the amount of followers than my personal account.
With Twitter, it’s a really supportive thing. Before we’ve even seen a play or passed judgement, we can celebrate that it has women in it, retweet and spread the love.
How did you get from @bechdeltheatre to the Bechdel Theatre Festival?
There is a limit to how far Twitter can take the debate.
I started my own blog but I don’t like ‘Here’s my opinion, take it or leave it’. It’s not my natural way of doing things.
I get a lot more from ‘Hey, let’s meet up for a coffee’.
Where did you find people to meet up for coffee with?
Operating as I normally do by going to lots of events, but rather than saying ‘Oh, it’s a bit shit that there are no parts for women’, I was saying ‘I’ve set up at Twitter page’.
As soon as you say you’re doing something, people say ‘You should speak to …’
Amy Clare Tasker from Gap Salon said why don’t you speak to Whoop ‘n’ Wail; director Bruce Guthrie suggested Naomi Paxton’s Suffrage Plays; Helen Barnett from Sphynx Theatre invited me to one of their salons, and Jo Caird from The Stage wanted to write an article.
You’ve really answered my next question, which was: was it a conscious decision to pull together all the great work that is already being done by practitioners in this field?
Initially I thought, I’ll produce a bunch of new plays that pass the Bechdel Test – but then I found out that’s what you guys do with Whoop ‘n’ Wail Represents… and I like it a lot but I don’t want to copy it!
So, I decided I’d be more of a vehicle for spreading the word.
Bechdel Theatre Festival planning Feb 2016. (L-R) Beth Watson, Bechdel Theatre; Lizzie Milton, playwright; Ali Kemp, WnW; Ellie Bland, Siberian Lights; Deborah Klayman, WnW; Sophie Dickson, actor/producer; also present Jen Wallace, Bechdel Test Fest; Karen Healy, Pondering Media
And in doing so, you’ve taken a very collaborative approach to your work.
People were asking me, is it just you? Are you doing this on your own? But I want it to be everyone.
There is a lot of talk about when women make theatre, collaboration is the way we work and I thought this approach was more feminist, but a lot of the people who have been involved with Bechdel Theatre have been men.
Perhaps it’s my social conditioning. Before I do anything, I want to ask everyone else’s opinion. We can see it as asking for permission, and women in particular get slagged off for this, but maybe it’s a positive thing.
If you are doing something about feminism, then it’s about supporting other women and so, how could I do that on my own?
And how does talking about women in theatre connect to women in the world?
It’s the feeling of being welcomed into a room because you share certain struggles or lack of privileges.
That’s what I get when I watch a play that represents women. I want to share what I’ve experienced with other women who don’t usually go to the theatre – it’s a misconception that you have to have a degree to understand theatre.
The best conversations I have about theatre are: ‘Oh my god, wasn’t that woman on stage just like your mum?’ or ‘I couldn’t believe she did that, I thought she was making a huge mistake, but maybe she did it because…’.
How will you know that the Bechdel Theatre Festival has been a success? What does success mean to you?
To get people to see plays with women in them and that someone, if not everyone, brings a friend who doesn’t usually go to the theatre.
I want to bring together theatre buffs and first time theatre goers with the people who make theatre. Not just in a Q&A situation where writers, actors and directors tell audiences what feminist theatre is, but by talking together as equals about how female characters affect them.
And ultimately, I want people talking about female characters, in a way that’s not talking about the lack of them.
Meet Beth at The Bechdel Theatre Festival, which launches a series of pop up conversations on Sunday 20th March 2016 at The Arts Theatre, London;
Or follow the conversation @Bechdeltheatre
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Posted in Ali Kemp, Bechdel Theatre Festival, Deborah Klayman, gender equality, Uncategorized, Whoop 'n' Wail
Tagged @bechdeltheatre, Ali Kemp, Amy Clare Tasker, Bechdel Test, Bechdel Test Fest, Bechdel Theatre Festival, Beth Watson, Bruce Guthrie, Deborah Klayman, Ellie Bland, female characters, female representation, feminist theatre, Gap Salon, Helen Barnett, Jen Wallace, Jo Caird, Karen Healy, Lizzie Milton, Naomi Paxton, Pondering Media, Siberian Lights Theatre Company, Sophie Dickson, Sphynx Theatre, Suffrage Plays, The Stage, Whoop 'n' Wail, Whoop 'n' Wail Represents..
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Huashan National Park
Revision as of 23:20, 27 December 2012 by 27.115.121.40 (talk) (→Eat)
Mount Hua (华山 Hua Shan)is a sacred Taoist mountain located in Shaanxi Province, China. It is one of the Five Great Mountains.
The 2,154-meter-tall mountain, true to its reputation as the "most precipitous mountain under heaven", is a cluster of five peaks with breathtaking cliff faces and a tough challenge to mountaineers. Hua is popularly known by tourists as the "Most Dangerous Hiking Trail in the World" because even though the climb did not require any technical climbing skills, the hike contains a few steep ascents with via ferrata and narrow passes. The biggest danger to safety is often due to overcrowding in the Summer months. Hua was historically the location of several influential Taoist monasteries, and was known as a centre for the practise of traditional Chinese martial arts. It is also one of the five holy Taoist mountains of China.
Huashan Huoche Bei Zhan (华山火车北站）- located in the town of Mengyuan Frequent minibuses between the train station and Hua Shan （华山）
Luoyang - takes about 4-5 hours
Taiyuan Takes about 9 hours
Xian - takes about 30min -3 hours, depending on the train and time. Below is a partial schedule of Apr 2012, taken directly from the Chinese Railway website, that only includes the fast D and G trains and the first and last train:
K1295/K1298 Yinchuan Guangzhou 01:55 03:20 0d01h25m
D1002 Xian North Zhengzhou 08:15 08:56 0d00h41m
D1022 Xian North Luoyang 08:40 09:22 0d00h42m
G2004 Xian North Zhengzhou 09:05 09:37 0d00h32m
D140/1 Xian North Wuhan 11:20 12:03 0d00h43m
D132 Xian North Beijing West 12:55 13:37 0d00h42m
2672 Xian Datong 22:48 00:19 0d01h31m
Ticket Price (2nd - 1st class): Normal Trains (K and Non-Letter): ￥18/$3 - ￥104/$17 D Fast trains: ￥35/$6 - ￥60/$10 G Express trains: ￥55/$9 - ￥90/$15
From Xi'an: buses (coaches or minibuses) leave from the East side of the train station's southern parking lot. Buses leave regularly during daylight hours. These are mixed in with buses to the Terracotta Warriors, and other destinations. Ride time is about two hours and costs 33 yuan for one way or 55 for a return. Beware scam buses that try to charge 10x as much. You'll be dropped off in the village near Mt. Hua. From there take a taxi (see the get around section).
Be aware these are independent private companies, or just two guys with a bus. They don't operate on a schedule, but will leave when full of passengers. So For the quickest departure, find a bus already mostly full of people, since if you choose an empty bus you could be sitting in the parking lot a while.
The entrance fee for the National Park is 180 yuan.
The buses from Xian will drop you off in the village. From here, the only option is to take a taxi (typically ¥10 per taxi, regardless of number of passengers) to the East Gate, which is the ticket office. Buy your entrance tickets here, then board buses that depart to the mountain itself. However the East Gate will be closed at night, thus if you are planning to climb overnight, proceed to the the West Gate. After the bus from the ticket office (20yuan) deposits you at the mountain proper, you have 3 options for ascending the first bit. Note that all start, and finish, almost right next one another.
Watch out for scams, especially if you are planning to climb the mountain overnight to watch sunrise at the East Peak. The only transportation available then are cabs. There will also be unofficial "cabs" (basically normal cars operated by locals) called hei che (black cars) parked near the train station. Drivers will approach you offering to bring you to the entrance for a price of around 30 yuan. On the way, if it has rained recently, they will claim that there was been a slight erosion which has caused a blockage of the paths and thus closure of the entrances. To make the story sound more convincing, some may even pretend to call their "brother" or "friend" on the mountain who will then speak to you to confirm that the roads have been closed. If the weather is good, the driver will claim that the roads are under maintenance. Knowing that you would need a visual confirmation to be fully convinced, the driver will then take you to the East Gate, which is always closed at night. At that crucial moment where you are thinking to yourself that your plans have been spoilt, he will recommend that you stay in a hotel before attempting the climb the next morning, and very conveniently, there will be an "affordable" hotel right next to the entrance, which he will point out. If he succeeds in getting you to fork out money to stay the night, he will earn a commission.
1) Climb the North Peak--main route. Plan for more than four hours to reach the North Peak. There will be plenty of shops by the side of the path selling food and drinks for you to replenish your energy. Eating hot noodles in the cold will be a very pleasant experience.
2) Take the cable car (80 yuan one way, 150 yuan for a return) to the North Peak. Be warned - the line to enter the cable car often last over two hours - so try to arrive early. Thankfully, line cutting is surprisingly rare, and most of the line is blocked from the sun and with water misting, so sans boredom, it's still fairly comfortable even in summer. The cable car is only available from the East Gate.
3) Climb the North Peak--alternate route below the cable car. Called "Solider's Way" - it's the more difficult, but faster of the two hiking routes. This takes an estimated 2 hours, and is nothing but steps. It also contains one section with optional ~80 degree steps, for those who have seen the famous photos online. The steepest steps on the mountain (approaching 90 degrees) are also here, though now chained off in favor of a far more forgiving route.
These three routes meet up again just below the North Peak summit. One can of course, take any of the 3 routes up, and then either of the other two remaining down.
From this meeting area (just below the North Peak summit), there is initially only one route to the other peaks. This passes through the area known as the "Heavenly Steps" (上天梯，literally "ascend heaven ladder", "Sun and Moon Cliff" and "Black Dragon Mountain," the latter called that because it looks like a dragon's wavy back. The route is no more than a meter wide at places. This should take about 2 hours.
At the top of this section is the "Gold Lock Pass." Here the route branches. Paths lead towards the East, South, Center and West Peaks, as well as other points of interest. As most of the elevation gain is done, the final ascent to each of the peaks is not too severe. You likely only have time to climb one (probably the South, the highest) or walk a circuit. In this are there are temples, lodges and other sites. This includes the infamous Changkong Boardwalk.
Green Dragon Ridge - (Canglong Feng) narrow rock ridge with vertical cliffs on both sides (not for the faint of heart)
North Peak - (Bei Feng) the first of the five mountain peaks
Watch the sun rise from East Peak (Dong Feng) by attempting a night hike. It won't be as crowded as during the daytime, but you will see other hikers ascending as well. Be sure to bring along a flashlight, spare batteries and warm clothing. Such equipment can be rented from a store along the road leading to the West Gate entrance. Check the weather forecast before climbing because a rainy night will result in dense fog in the early morning which conceals the sunrise.
At East Peak, prepare yourself mentally as you ascend the famous yun ding, which are narrow steps half the length of your feet, carved into the stone, and stacked up at an angle so sharp that you are virtually climbing a stone ladder. Experience the thrill of clinging onto the iron chains by the side of the path with your arms, while slowly groping for a foothold on the slippery steps.
Next morning, walk from East Peak to the other peaks, where the scenery changes from rock outcrops to lush foliage (in spring). The mist will gradually fade away to reveal a breathtaking expanse of valleys if you look over the edge of the cliffs. Indulge in a sense of satisfaction as you survey the arduously long journey you had completed during the night.
With a safety harness (since 2005!) walk out on the 长空栈道 （Changkong zhandao, "Vast Sky Plank Walk"). Climb a ladder that's nothing more steel rods driven into a crack in the rock, and walk on planks a foot wide along the edge of a cliff dropping thousands of feet, and in places put you trust in footholds carved into the rock.
A golden lock at the golden lock temple and add it to the iron railings as a prayer for your family. Couples also often buy locks and inscribe their names on them as a symbol of everlasting love. While people symbolically place their locks at the golden lock pass, many choose to randomly place them on railings by the side.
A gold or bronze medal that you can inscribe with your name to commemorate your ascent of the mountain.
Biang Biang Mian (Noodles) Special Shaanxi noodles available on the mountain. The character for biang is a special character with 57 strokes only used in Shaanxi Province. Small shops also sell typical snacks and drinks.
It is also advisable to bring your own snacks or food. For example, a bowl of instant noodles at North Peak is 17rmb as of Dec 2012, about four times more expensive than back in town, and despite being located right by the lifts.
In winter the restaurants close early due to low volume. If you arrive at dinnertime it is not uncommon for restaurants to be closed or to only have instant noodles. Cooking can also be difficult for the staff due to frozen water pipes.
Be sure to bring enough water for your hike. You may need to buy water on the mountain which will cost you about 5 Yuan (up to 10 Yuan when furthest up on the mountain). If you buy the water before coming the price should be about 1.5 Yuan. Most people will drink Red Bull from small golden cans. This Red Bull is not carbonated and is a little more watery than those available in the United States.
Most of the peaks have guesthouses where you can sleep in communal rooms of about 4 to 10 people. The price should be around 60 to 120 Yuan.
For a more authentic experience, sleep by the edge of the cliff at East Peak. The ground slopes upwards towards the edge, thus it is relatively safe to sleep near the edge even though there are no railings. Alternatively, huddle up closer to the metal posts away from the edge of the cliff if you would like a safer place to sleep. Prepare enough warm clothes as the temperature drops close to zero at East Peak, with the wind chill.
In Huashan village, minibuses leave from the intersection of Yuquan Lu and Xitong Gonglu, as well as the East Gate that gives access to the cable car station, on a frequent basis. Although some guides say they stop at 7:00, unlicensed transportation continues. In a worst-case scenario a rickety village taxi could surely be persuaded to make the trip back to Xi'an for ¥300-500.
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* '''The Fat Cat'''
* '''Club 147''' (membership required)
* '''The Palladium''' (the flagship Welsh pub of the J.D. Wetherspoon chain set in a former cinema. A very impressive sight.)
For a great night out visit the area's number one independant Cafe Bar, The Lounge which offers the best in music, beer and value for money alcohol.
Then take a taxi (but be warned, competition is fierce!) to '''Broadway Boulevard''', a nightclub set in a huge ex-theatre for a night of cheesy music and good times.
===Gay Scene===
Though Llandudno is traditionally more popular with older travellers, it has developed a younger atmosphere in recent years. A product of this is the advent of Llandudno's small but very active Gay scene. Other gay venues include '''The Washington''' on the North Shore Parade which hosts frequent gay-specific nights under the ''Hellbent'' title. Bars aimed at a younger market like '''Club 147''', '''Fountains''' and '''The Palladium''' are all popular with the gay community. The venues most frequented by the gay community in Llandudno are situated on Upper Mostyn Street and the immediate area.
Though Llandudno is traditionally more popular with older travellers, it has developed a younger atmosphere in recent years. A product of this is the advent of Llandudno's small but very active Gay scene. Llandudno is home to one specific 'gay bar' - '''The Lounge''' in Upper Mostyn Street. Other gay venues include '''The Washington''' on the North Shore Parade which hosts frequent gay-specific nights under the ''Hellbent'' title. Bars aimed at a younger market like '''Club 147''', '''Fountains''' and '''The Palladium''' are all popular with the gay community. The venues most frequented by the gay community in Llandudno are situated on Upper Mostyn Street and the immediate area.
[[Image:top_town.jpg|thumb|Upper Mostyn Street]]
Llandudno bay from the Great Orme
Llandudno [1] is a Victorian seaside resort and town in North Wales. It lies on the coast between Bangor and Colwyn Bay, and has a population of about 20,000. Llandudno is just off the main rail line between Chester and Holyhead, the latter being the main ferry port for travel to Ireland. Llandudno is served by a branch line from Llandudno Junction.
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8.1 Gay Scene
Llandudno has the distinction of being the largest seaside resort in North Wales. It lies between two notable carboniferous headlands, the Great Orme and the Little Orme with the Irish Sea on one side and the estuary of the River Conwy on the other. It is these headlands and the two waterfronts, the North Shore and the West Shore, that give Llandudno its special appeal.
Although settlements have existed on the Great Orme since the Stone Age and an Iron Age hill fort survives at Pen-y-Dinas, Llandudno was developed as a seaside resort in the Victorian era. As such, it has Victorian charm - large Victorian houses, fine hotels lining the bay, a pier, boat trips round the headland, Punch and Judy on the wide promenade, an excellent lifeboat service, and a fine theatre with ballet, opera, orchestral concerts, ice shows and pantomime in season.
Llandudno from the entrance to the town
Llandudno has a prominent Welsh speaking community, greatly increased by the frequent visitors from rural communities further inland whose primary day-to-day language is Welsh.
Through Train from London Euston, Mondays to Fridays 11am (3½ hours).
Through Trains from Manchester, every hour on weekdays (2½ hours).
Trains from Crewe, every hour on weekdays, change at Chester and/or Llandudno Junction.
Trains from Cardiff, every two hours on weekdays, change at Llandudno Junction.
Trains from Holyhead, every hour on weekdays, change at Llandudno Junction.
From England: From the M6, take the M56 in the direction of Chester, North Wales. Take the M53 in the direction of A55, North Wales at the end of the M56. This becomes the A55, stay on this for 30 miles or so until you see signs for the A470 turn off. From here follow signs for Llandudno.hhhih
Nearest airports are Liverpool and Manchester but only Manchester is linked by train (from airport by train to Manchester Piccadily, then change train). By hire car, little to chose between the two - use the above directions.
Local buses operate from Rhyl (every ten minutes), Bangor (six per hour), Caernarfon, Llanberis and Llangollen but there are no daily long distance coach services to Llandudno. National Express have a daily service from London calling at Llandudno Junction (three miles away).
Take the scenic Conwy Valley Train from Llandudno to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Gwynedd Red Rover Tickets cost £5 for unlimited day travel on the Conwy Valley train, on all buses in Snowdonia and on all buses in the Conwy Valley and throughout western Conwy, Gwynedd and Anglesey.
Panorama of the Great Orme, with Llandudno infront
Bronze Age Copper Mines, ph: (0)1492 870 447 [2] - Recently discovered bronze age mines on the upper slopes of the Great Orme. Tours start off with a brief talk on the mine and seeing tools found in excavations, before heading down into the mines! Great fun and well worth a visit, although the tours aren't very long.
Fossils in the exposed limestone faces of Bishop's Quarry near the summit.
The Victorian Pier, the finest in Wales, second longest in Britain and one of a dwindling number of recreational piers in the country.
View of the promenade from the end of the Pier
Ride the traditional tram (built in 1902) to the summit of the Great Orme, enjoy the visitor centre and visit Randolf Turpin's Bar in the Summit Complex.
Go for walks over the Great Orme, perhaps visiting Saint Tudno's church.
Walk, cycle, drive or ride a coach around the Marine Drive. There is a toll of £2.50 for cars but that includes free parking at the summit car park, which is reached by a side road via Saint Tudno's Church.
Take the cable car from the Happy Valley to the summit of the Great Orme.
Walk in the Happy Valley and the Haulfre Gardens and enjoy the magnificent views.
Visit the Happy Valley artificial ski slope ot take the toboggan run from the top...
Ride a donkey or just enjoy the sun on either of Llandudno's two beaches, North Beach and West Shore
The Great Orme from the Pier
Llandudno has most of the usual town centre shops that you would expect from any modern shopping district. There is a mix of local gift shops and national chain stores. The newest addition to Llandudno's shopping district is Parc Llandudno (which translates into English as "Llandudno Park" - though it is never referred to as such and its branding is exclusively Welsh) which contains many designer clothing stores. The Mostyn Champneys retail park is almost next door and is home to consumer outlets like DIY stores and supermarkets.
Llandudno is home to many food venues catering for all tastes and budgets.
For a traditional ice cream, visit Llandudno's famous Fortes which has been serving freshly made ice cream for the past century.
Cheaper venues include:
The Palladium (Pub/Bistro of the J. D. Wetherspoon chain. Be aware that there is often a very long wait for food here at peak times, owing to the popularity and sheer size of the venue)
The Albert (Pub)
Cafe Culture (Bistro)
Fortes (Italian & Bistro)
Fountains (Trendy bar/bistro with decent selection of good quality sandwiches, pizzas and wraps)
J. D. Wetherspoon's "Palladium"
Medium Range
For those seeking a medium priced meal, there are several Italian and other ethnic cuisine restaurants in the town:
Romeos (Italian)
Casanova (Italian)
Candles (Italian)
The Bengal Dynasty (Bangladeshi)
Taste of India (Indian)
Home Cookin' (Bistro)
The Fat Cat (Chain bar/bistro that offers more substantial medium-priced meals as part of its offering, alongside slightly cheaper range of sandwiches and lunches.
More up-market venues in the town include:
The Empire Hotel
Richard's Restaurant
Llandudno has experience an advent of European style cafe culture in recent years. Coffee houses have sprung up all over town. These include:
Waterstone's Cafe
Upstairs At Clair's
Fortes
Badgers (which specialises in traditional-British lunches and pastries).
Visit one of the bars in the "top of town" (Upper Mostyn Street). These are
The Fat Cat
Club 147 (membership required)
The Palladium (the flagship Welsh pub of the J.D. Wetherspoon chain set in a former cinema. A very impressive sight.)
Then take a taxi (but be warned, competition is fierce!) to Broadway Boulevard, a nightclub set in a huge ex-theatre for a night of cheesy music and good times.
Gay Scene
Though Llandudno is traditionally more popular with older travellers, it has developed a younger atmosphere in recent years. A product of this is the advent of Llandudno's small but very active Gay scene. Llandudno is home to one specific 'gay bar' - The Lounge in Upper Mostyn Street. Other gay venues include The Washington on the North Shore Parade which hosts frequent gay-specific nights under the Hellbent title. Bars aimed at a younger market like Club 147, Fountains and The Palladium are all popular with the gay community. The venues most frequented by the gay community in Llandudno are situated on Upper Mostyn Street and the immediate area.
Upper Mostyn Street
There are a wide array of Victorian bed & breakfasts in Llandudno. There are also some more upmarket hotels including The Empire and the St. Georges Hotel.
Llandudno is considered safe by any standards, though as with any tourist destination, it is easy to fall into a false sense of security about your own safety. Though Llandudno is a tourist center, it is also a fully functioning medium sized town and is therefore subject to the same difficulties as any other town.
There are areas in Llandudno which toursts should avoid, though these areas are not areas where tourists would normally travel to. Most of these areas are safe in the day, but crime is not uncommon at night. These areas include:
The area behind and around the ASDA supermarket, opposite Parc Llandudno
The council estate behind the Llandudno Rugby Club
Parts of West Shore, particularly the council estate and King's Road
The area around Llandudno Hospital
Much of Llandudno Junction (particularly at night)
Conwy - fantastic castle and walled town, just 5 miles away from Llandudno.
Chester - Roman walled city, 30 miles away.
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Displaying 80 of 488 Agencies that recruit for Trainee Solicitor jobs in the Legal industry.
Trainee solicitors undergo specialist training to be able to provide legal advice to clients. Clients may include members of the public, companies, voluntary organisations, charities and government departments.
The majority of trainee solicitors in England and Wales gain their A levels before choosing to study for a qualifying law degree. Following gaining their degree, they embark on vocational training through a Legal Practice Course (LPC) and follow up their studies with a training contract at a solicitors firm. This route enables them to gain experience by working with qualified legal staff. The competition for places on law degrees, LPCs and training schemes is fierce. Candidates with relevant work experience or prior employment in a field relating to law are often at an advantage.
Trainee solicitors must be confident and able to remember detailed facts and figures. They must be proficient at explaining complex legal jargon and able to work successfully under pressure. While much of the work of a trainee solicitor is office based, time may be spent in courts of law. Candidates should therefore feel comfortable with working in both environments.
Trainee solicitors are employed by law firms across the UK, with vacancies being advertised directly by law firms, in law publications and newspapers, and through recruitment agencies.
Trainee solicitors earn around £14,000 a year. Once qualified, solicitors may choose to set up their own private practices or become partners in established law firms. It is possible for experienced solicitors to become heads of the legal departments in which they work.
MP Resourcing LTD
Trainee Solicitor - Legal
Covers: Berkshire and Oxfordshire | Contract, Part Time, Permanent | Salaries £15k - £100k+
99 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4RY
MP Resourcing understand the diverse needs of today’s businesses and job seekers and offer expert help for clients and candidates. From candidate sourcing through to advertising, response handling, screening and interviewing, MP Resourcing offers local Permanent Recruitment Services providing comprehensive and tailored solutions that improve efficiency and reduce costs.
Badger Associates Ltd
Covers: East Anglia and surrounding areas | Part Time, Permanent | Salaries from £17k - £100k+
Pottergate Street, Aslacton, Norwich, Norfolk, NR15 2JU
For many years the name Badger Associates has been synonymous with identifying the finest legal people around the UK who want to live and work in East Anglia.
JT Recruit Ltd
Covers: East Midlands, West Midlands, | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k+
34 Charnwood Street, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 2GU
4B Bank Court, Weldon Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 5RF Suite 5, Queens Place, 1 Queens Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 1JN
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JT Recruit is a well respected local agency and we have a great deal of experience in recruiting the right person for you or finding the right job for you. What makes us different from a lot of our competitors is that we care about you!
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Equation Recruitment
Covers: UK wide | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k+
12 Deans Court, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 6RD
We market ourselves as a generalist recruiter due to the multiple specialist desks within our office, all of which are occupied by qualified consultants with extensive experience in their respective field. We have consultants focusing exclusively on; - Commercial roles, - Luxury Retail, - Industrial roles, - Engineering As a business we are Gangmaster licensed and REC audited to a gold standard.
Busy Bee Recruitment Ltd
Covers: London, East Anglia and Home Counties | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k
7B Regal Lane, Soham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB75BA
I8 Stirling House, Cambridge Innovation Park, Denny End Road, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, CB259QE
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We pride ourselves on offering recruitment solutions that suit not only large and established enterprise companies, but also small and medium businesses looking to grow their organisations with the support of a friendly, local recruitment agency.
HRSS Recruitment Specialists
Covers: England | Contract, Part Time, Permanent | Salaries £15k - £100k+
Foregate Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1 1DB
Regent Crescent, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M17 8AA Bristol Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 4FJ
10% Intro fee for new clients. FULL REFUND if candidate leaves within 3 months. HRSS are trusted recruitment specialists with one simple aim: find the right talent with the right skills, personality and ambition for our valued clients. We deliver competitive staffing solutions to UK businesses and cover multiple key markets - including Accounting, Engineering, Human Resources, IT, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Marketing, Pharmaceutical and Sales
Universal Staffing Solutions Ltd
Covers: North West & Wales | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k+
Liverpool Business Centre, Goodlass Road, Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside, L24 9HJ
Universal Staffing Solutions is a specialist recruiter in the heart of Liverpool established in April 2018. Universal strives on helping people and making a difference to others. We aim to deliver a service to support all parties. We want to put an arm around the City
Berry Recruitment - Office and Professional division
20 Woodland Road, Darlington, County Durham, DL3 7PL
Exeter, Harlow, Hatfield, London, London, Northampton, West Wickham
Recruiting expert staff across the Finance, Insurance, Legal, Marketing, Secretarial, Administrative and Consulting sectors, our specialist Commercial Division at Berry Recruitment is a trusted extension of businesses throughout the UK. From SMEs to blue chip nationals, our friendly consultants are committed to delivering unbeatable customer service when supplying personnel for all permanent, temporary or contract Commercial roles.
Flexible Solutionz Limited
Covers: North West England | Part Time, Permanent | Salaries £15k - £100k+
The Offices, 53 King Street, Manchester, M2 4LQ
Springfield House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5BG
Flexible Solutionz have been servicing many of the North West's leading Legal Practices. Track record in delivering candidates across ALL disciplines within the legal sector. We are able to provide testimonials & references on request. We offer excellent rates & rebate schemes to protect your investment.
Sellick Partnership
Covers: All of the UK | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k+
Century House, 13 St. James Court, Friar Gate, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 1BT
Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Stoke-on-Trent
Sellick Partnership provide professional financial and legal recruitment services across a network of seven offices nationwide. We pride ourselves on our integrity, and offer an unrivalled quality of service to our candidates, having built lasting relationships with clients who return to us time and time again.
XLR8 Recruitment Solutions
Industries covered: Banking, Executive / Management, Financial Services, Personnel / HR, IT, Legal, Project Management
31 Hunts Mead, Enfield, Middlesex, EN3 7LX
Wells Tobias Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Personnel / HR, Legal
44 Bedford Row, Holborn, London, WC1R 4LL
GB Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Personnel / HR, IT, Legal, Marketing, Sales
Unit B8, Elmbridge Court, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL3 1JZ
Work Wales
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Construction, Engineering, Executive / Management, Industrial, IT, Legal, Logistics, Manufacturing / Production, Marketing, Sales
4 Pell Street, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 3ES
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Agriculture, Arts, Banking, Catering and Hospitality, Charity, Construction, Creative / Design, Education, Electronics, Engineering, Executive / Management, Graduate, Health Care, Personnel / HR, Insurance, IT, Legal, Manufacturing / Production, Marketing, Media, Pharmaceutical, PR, Project Management, Property, Rec 2 Rec, Sales, Training / Learning, Science, Social Care, Sport, Recreation & Leisure, Travel, Energy / Renewable Energy
Park Wood Technical Center, Park Wood, Doddinghurst Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM15 0SN
Renowned Resourcing
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Legal, Manufacturing / Production
76 Glebe, Ln Maidstone, Maidstone, Kent, ME16 9BD
WorkAdvisor
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Banking, Catering and Hospitality, Construction, Creative / Design, Call Centre / Customer Service, Engineering, Executive / Management, Financial Services, Graduate, Headhunting, Health Care, Personnel / HR, Information Industry, Insurance, IT, Legal, Manufacturing / Production, Marketing, Media, Pharmaceutical, PR, Property, Rec 2 Rec, Retail, Sales, Social Care, Sport, Recreation & Leisure, Telecommunications, Travel, FMCG, Digital
Suite 3, 4 Bellevue Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 2AY
Wells-Brooks Associates
Industries covered: Construction, Engineering, Health Care, IT, Legal, Science, Social Care
West Hill House, Dartford, Kent, DA1 2EU
Farringdon James
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Engineering, Executive / Management, IT, Legal, Sales
The Linhay, Trebant Barns, Altarnun, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 7RR
DK Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Construction, Creative / Design, Engineering, Executive / Management, Personnel / HR, Industrial, Legal, Marketing, Media, Retail, Sales
Thrive Hubs, 25 The Crescent, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 3AD
Adversa Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Construction, Health Care, Personnel / HR, Legal, Social Care
Fiveways, 57 - 59, Hatfield Road, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 1HS
Jones Kemp
Industries covered: Legal
1 King Street, City Of London, London, EC2V 8AU
Diamond Blaque
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Catering and Hospitality, Creative / Design, Education, Engineering, Executive / Management, Health Care, Personnel / HR, Industrial, Legal, Marketing, Media, Retail, Sales, Social Care
31-33 College Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 1EJ
Sutton Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Construction, Creative / Design, Engineering, Food & Drink, Personnel / HR, IT, Legal, Manufacturing / Production, Sales
9-11 George Street, Hull, North Humberside, HU1 3BA
Interpersonnel UK
Industries covered: Administration, Banking, Call Centre / Customer Service, Industrial, Legal, Manufacturing / Production, Sales
Falcon Court, 73 College Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 6TF
King Recruit Ltd
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Personnel / HR, Legal, Marketing, Retail, Sales
First Floor, 5 Kew Court, Exeter, Devon, EX2 5AZ
Kirkland Associates
Industries covered: Legal, Marketing, Sales
Herald Way, Pegasus Business Park, Derby, Derbyshire, DE74 2TZ
Lawson Clark Recruitment
105 Bishopsgate, City Of London, London, EC2M 3UE
Alfred Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Creative / Design, Call Centre / Customer Service, Personnel / HR, Legal, Marketing, Media, Retail, Sales
Wyndham Court, 12-20 Pritchard Street, Bristol, Avon, BS2 8RH
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Automotive, Legal
Lancaster House, Amy Johnson Way, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY4 2RP
Radial Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Creative / Design, Personnel / HR, IT, Legal, Marketing, Media, Rec 2 Rec
3 Melville Crescent, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH3 7HW
S4 Personnel
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Call Centre / Customer Service, Legal, Marketing, Purchasing
Grenville Court, Britwell Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 8DF
Peel Solutions
Industries covered: Health Care, Legal, Social Care
82 Buttermarket Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 2NN
Peter Knight Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Banking, Construction, Engineering, Executive / Management, Industrial, IT, Legal, Marketing, Retail, Sales
Broxbourne Business Centre, Pindar Road, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, EN11 0DB
Continental Recruit
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Banking, Education, Legal, Property
Ensign House, Admirals Way, Poplar, London, E14 9XQ
TalentHQ Recruitment
Industries covered: Administration, Legal, Purchasing, Rec 2 Rec, Sales
Censeo House, 6 St Peters Street, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 3LF
Kings Court Business Centre, London Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2NG
CGW Legal
Kemp House, 152 City Road, Finsbury, London, EC1V 2NX
Lancaster Associates
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Banking, Personnel / HR, Legal
West Clayton, Chorleywood, City Of London, London, EC2M 7QD
One Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Catering and Hospitality, Call Centre / Customer Service, Engineering, Personnel / HR, Legal, Manufacturing / Production, Marketing, Sales, Tax
T1 House, 63a Black Street, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, ML6 6LU
Akton Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Automotive, Aviation, Construction, Engineering, Personnel / HR, IT, Legal, Logistics, Manufacturing / Production, Social Care, Energy / Renewable Energy
First Floor, Garden Place, Victoria Street, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1ET
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Creative / Design, Engineering, Personnel / HR, Legal, Marketing, Media, Sales
Stirling Park, Clifton Moor, York, North Yorkshire, YO30 4WU
HR GO Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Aviation, Catering and Hospitality, Construction, Creative / Design, Call Centre / Customer Service, Driving, Health Care, Industrial, Legal, Marketing, Sales, Social Care
2 Park St, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8LG
Bishop's Stortford, Bridgwater, Canterbury, Chatham, Chatteris, City of London, Crawley, Dartford, Doncaster, Dover, Dudley, Ellesmere Port, Folkestone, Huntingdon, Luton, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Ramsgate, Rhyl, Stockport, Sunderland, West Drayton
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CLP Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Catering and Hospitality, Creative / Design, Engineering, Personnel / HR, Industrial, Legal, Marketing, Sales
Suite 2036, Letraset Building, Wotton Road, Ashford, Kent, TN23 6LN
Masson Appointments
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Executive / Management, Legal
The Office, South Wing, Crawley Business Quarter, Manor Royal, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 9AD
reesmarx
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Consulting, Executive / Management, Personnel / HR, IT, Legal, Marketing, Project Management, Sales
18-20 Hillgate Place, Balham, London, SW12 9ER
Cripps Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Financial Services, IT, Legal
Treadwell House, High Street, Bloxham, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX15 4PP
Acorn Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Aviation, Construction, Call Centre / Customer Service, Defence, Driving, Engineering, Executive / Management, Health Care, Industrial, IT, Legal, Logistics, Manufacturing / Production, Marketing, Rail, Sales, Science, Energy / Renewable Energy, Digital
2 Boutport Street, Barnstaple, Devon, EX31 1RH
Blackwood, Bournemouth, Bridgwater, Bristol, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Chippenham, Crewe, Exeter, Flint, Gloucester, Neath, Newport, Newton Abbot, Plymouth, Preston, Sheffield, Swansea, Tiverton, Truro, Weston-super-mare, Widnes, Wrexham, Yeovil
1-1 Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Catering and Hospitality, Child Care, Creative / Design, Call Centre / Customer Service, Facilities Management, Financial Services, Health & Safety, Personnel / HR, Industrial, Legal, Logistics, Marketing, Media, PR, Purchasing, Sales, Training / Learning
5 Faraday Office Park, Faraday Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG24 8QQ
Canister House, 2, Exchange Square, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8FJ
BSS Recruitment
Industries covered: Administration, Catering and Hospitality, Executive / Management, Personnel / HR, Industrial, Legal, Logistics, Sales
Victoria House, 70A Tavistock Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 2RP
HRL-Higgins Recruitment Ltd
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Banking, Catering and Hospitality, Charity, Construction, Creative / Design, Defence, Driving, Education, Engineering, Financial Services, Government / Public Sector, Health Care, Insurance, IT, Legal, Logistics, Manufacturing / Production, Marketing, Media, Not-for-profit, Pharmaceutical, PR, Printing & Publishing, Rec 2 Rec, Retail, Training / Learning, Science, Travel, Energy / Renewable Energy
75a High Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 1NE
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Banking, Construction, Engineering, Environmental, Executive / Management, Financial Services, Health & Safety, Personnel / HR, IT, Legal, Logistics, Manufacturing / Production, Marketing, Property, Rail, Sales, FMCG, Digital
Scottish Provident Building, 7 Donegall Square West, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 6JH
MPA Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Catering and Hospitality, Construction, Consulting, Call Centre / Customer Service, Engineering, Executive / Management, Graduate, Health Care, Personnel / HR, Industrial, IT, Legal, Marketing, Property, Rec 2 Rec, Retail, Sales, Energy / Renewable Energy, Digital
Armagh Business Park, Suit H, Hamiltonsbawn Road, Armagh, County Armagh, BT60 1HW
5 Greenvale Street, Ballymena, County Antrim, BT43 6AR 29-31 Montgomery Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 4NX 5 Stone Row, Coleraine, County Londonderry, BT52 1EP 18 Great James Street, Londonderry, County Londonderry, BT48 7DA 13 Sedan Ave, Omagh, County Tyrone, BT79 7AQ
Hayward Hawk Recruitment.
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Banking, Creative / Design, Engineering, Personnel / HR, IT, Legal, Marketing, Sales
The Scottish Provident Building, 7 Donegall Square W, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 6JH
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Automotive, Catering and Hospitality, Call Centre / Customer Service, Education, Engineering, Financial Services, Government / Public Sector, Health Care, Personnel / HR, Industrial, Insurance, IT, Legal, Logistics, Marketing, Media, PR, Property, Rec 2 Rec, Retail, Sales, Shipping
13-15 High Street, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 5BB
Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Coventry, Croydon, Derby, Doncaster, Durham, Edgware, Edinburgh, Enfield, Guildford, Hammersmith, Harlow, Harrow, Hemel Hempstead, High Wycombe, Hull, Inverness, Leamington Spa, Leeds, Lincoln, Liverpool, Maidstone, Manchester, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newport, Northampton, Nottingham, Oxford, Preston, Reading, Rugby, Southampton, Southend-on-sea, St. Albans, Staines, Stratford, Sutton, Telford, The Strand, Tunbridge Wells, Walsall, Watford, Woking, Wolverhampton, Worcester, York
Longbridge Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Legal
3rd Floor 3 London Wall Buildings, City Of London, London, EC2M 5SY
4 Resourcing Limited
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Creative / Design, Call Centre / Customer Service, Education, Engineering, Executive / Management, Graduate, Personnel / HR, IT, Legal, Marketing, Purchasing, Sales
Hub 26, Hunsworth Lane, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, BD19 4LN
Advantage XPO
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Engineering, Industrial, IT, Legal
No. 1 Poultry, City Of London, London, EC2R 8EJ
Petrie Recruitment
Industries covered: Creative / Design, Engineering, Personnel / HR, Industrial, Legal, Media
19 Newport Road Cardiff, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, CF24 0AA
Ardent Recruitment
30 Moorgate, City Of London, London, EC2R 6DA
Placing People
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Automotive, Aviation, Banking, Biotechnology, Catering and Hospitality, Construction, Consulting, Creative / Design, Call Centre / Customer Service, Defence, Driving, Education, Engineering, Fashion, Government / Public Sector, Health Care, Housebuilding, Personnel / HR, Insurance, IT, Legal, Logistics, Manufacturing / Production, Marketing, Media, Not-for-profit, PR, Printing & Publishing, Property, Rec 2 Rec, Retail, Sales, Training / Learning, Science, Sport, Recreation & Leisure, Telecommunications
70 St. Loyes Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 1EZ
Radical Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Catering and Hospitality, Creative / Design, Financial Services, Personnel / HR, IT, Legal, Marketing, Media, Rec 2 Rec
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WA Government warned not to give beverage industry control of container deposit scheme
By Rhiannon Shine
Updated March 15, 2019 20:00:21
Photo: Environment Minister Stephen Dawson and Premier Mark McGowan are yet to announce who will manage the scheme. (ABC News: Jessica Strutt)
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The West Australian Government is being warned against handing control of its new container deposit scheme to the beverage industry.
WA Parliament this week passed laws to pave the way for a container deposit scheme
Several community groups do not want the beverage industry to have direct involvement
The Environment Minister does not believe it would be an issue, but says no decision has been made
West Australians will soon be able to exchange cans, bottles and other containers for a 10-cent refund after the WA Parliament this week passed legislation to make way for a container deposit scheme (CDS).
The Government has said that by 2037, the scheme would have reduced the number of containers dumped in landfill by 5,902 million, and prevented 706 million beverage containers from being littered.
It is yet to announce who will coordinate the scheme, which will entail developing a statewide collection network and managing contracts with operators of refund points.
But there is growing speculation the beverage industry, or a group formed by it, will be appointed to the role.
Conflict of interest concerns
The Australian Beverages Council and the Australian Food and Grocery Council are among the organisations in the West Australian CDS advisory group.
Conservation Council of WA director Piers Verstegen said it was a conflict of interest.
"The beverage industry have a commercial incentive to minimise recycling because the fewer containers are returned, the fewer refunds they will have to pay out to consumers," Mr Verstegen said.
"This means that a beverage-run scheme is likely to be less convenient for consumers and have fewer refund points.
"We urge the department and the minister not to hand control of the scheme to the beverage industry, but instead to choose scheme operators whose commercial incentives are aligned with the stated objectives of the scheme — to maximise recycling rates and reduce litter," he said.
Photo: The scheme is expected to divert nearly six million containers from landfill by 2037. (Pixabay: Pasi Maenpaa)
Calls to avoid Queensland's lead
Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia chief executive Gayle Sloan believed the board should not include beverage industry representatives.
"The real test now is whether the scheme is designed to deliver the best outcomes for the community, or if its design will be compromised by vested interests," she said.
Ms Sloan pointed to Queensland as an example where a beverage industry-controlled scheme had not proven very successful.
"We have genuine concerns about how the Queensland scheme was rolled out," she said.
"It has gone far too behind closed doors, it has not been implemented well.
"The last thing we want is a similar outcome to Queensland where collection points are opening 80 metres from one another while there are none in whole regions of Far North Queensland."
However she said in New South Wales a beverage industry-controlled scheme had worked well because the coordinator had set KPIs, which included penalties, and the Government maintained strict oversight.
Photo: Container deposit schemes are already operating in several Australian states. (ABC News: Sarah Maunder)
Greens MLC Robin Chapple called on the Government to guarantee the beverage industry, or a group set up by the industry, would not be the appointed scheme coordinator.
"This has been known to happen, with NGOs (non-governmental organisations) set up to run programs like this, with a board and executive made up of beverage industry representatives," Mr Chapple said.
"I am urging the Government to get it right, and appoint a coordinator for the community, not the beverage industry."
A spokesman for the Australian Beverages Council said it would not comment on the appointment of the scheme coordinator because the tender process was ongoing.
"We congratulate the WA Government on taking this important step by implementing a container deposit scheme for the West," the spokesman said.
"We look to other states and territories around Australia where the beverage industry is the scheme coordinator as examples of effective coordination of these schemes."
"We would only comment on the scheme and its coordination after a decision has been made."
Photo: Thousands of containers are processed at a recycling centre in the Perth suburb of Canning Vale each year. (ABC News: Jessica Strutt)
Minister has power to sack coordinator
Environment Minister Stephen Dawson said the legislation would give him the power to direct the scheme coordinator and to sack them if necessary.
He said a range of groups were being considered for the role, and he was not involved in the process.
"Other jurisdictions around Australia and indeed around the world actually have the beverage industry as part of the scheme coordination company," he said.
"It has worked elsewhere and I don't see any reason why it couldn't work in Western Australia if that's what the process throws up at the end of the day."
Mr Dawson said the scheme coordinator would be announced before the middle of the year and the scheme would start in 2020.
The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation said the scheme coordinator would be a not-for-profit private company under the Corporations Act.
"Its board will include a chair who is independent of both the beverage and waste industries and approved by the Minister, [plus] at least four directors independent of the beverage industry and at least five additional directors independent of the waste industry," a spokesman said in a statement.
"This ensures a diversity of views.
"The Minister of Environment approves the chair and at least one director who represents the community and is independent of both the beverage and waste industries."
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, recycling-and-waste-management, perth-6000, wa
First posted March 15, 2019 18:41:35
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Raw milk: separating facts from fads
Not all raw foods are good for you. Dr Karl explains why raw milk is one of the world's most risky food products.
Raw milk is one of the best culture mediums for growing bacteria (Source: Getty Images)
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If you hang around health food shops, you might hear the words, "raw milk" whispered reverentially. This is milk that has not been pasteurised, and it's supposed to be much better for you than regular pasteurised milk. Well, that's not right.
But before we get into raw milk, what is pasteurisation? And furthermore, if pasteurisation is supposed to kill all the germs in raw milk, why does pasteurised milk go off after a week or so?
Basically, pasteurisation is a heat process that kills most of the bacteria in liquid foods — let me emphasise "most", not "all".
Pasteurisation aims to kill 99.999 per cent of the microbes (yeasts, moulds, bacteria and the like). The remaining microbes are so few in number that you've got about a week to a fortnight after pasteurisation, before they multiply enough to cause a problem.
Pasteurisation was invented by the French chemist, Louis Pasteur, to treat wine, not milk. On a summer holiday in the community of Arbois in 1864, he found that the local winemakers had a problem with their wines turning acid. Pasteur discovered he could kill microbes in wine by heating it to about 55 degrees C for a few minutes. Bingo, the wines no longer turned acid.
But it took many decades to be applied to milk. In the USA, routine pasteurisation of raw milk began in the 1920s, and was widespread by 1950.
The reason for pasteurising milk is to make it safer. Milk, by an unfortunate coincidence, is one of the best culture mediums for growing bacteria. Raw milk has not been pasteurised, and is crawling with nasties.
In the USA between 1998 and 2011, thanks to raw milk or raw cheese products, there were 284 hospitalisations and two deaths. In Australia, raw milk killed a three-year-old Melbourne child in December, 2014.
Regular pasteurisation can be done by heating the milk either at around 60 degrees C for about 20 minutes, or about 72 degrees C for about 15 seconds.
Does pasteurisation destroy nutrients?
The nutritional losses are insignificant — calcium and phosphorus drop by 5 per cent, vitamins B1 and B12 10 per cent, and vitamin C down by 20 per cent.
UHT, or ultra-heat-treating, heats the milk to about 140 degrees C for four seconds. This should kill all bacteria.
If the UHT milk is then packed, under sterile conditions, into a pre-sterilised airtight container, it should last for nine months.
The high-temperature sets off the Maillard reaction, which alters the taste and flavour. The structure of the milk proteins is also changed, so is not really suitable for making cheese. Most other nutrients are at similar levels to regularly pasteurised milk, except for folate — it's dropped by about 90 per cent.
This is what makes raw milk so attractive — the fact that the potential goodness in the milk is still there, untouched.
For example, it's claimed that raw milk has special enzymes so that your body can better digest the fats, proteins and carbohydrates, and get more nutrition from them. That's simply incorrect.
Can raw milk cure or prevent diseases?
Another claim is that raw milk can cure or prevent diseases such as cancer, heart disease, allergies and asthma. These claims are also incorrect.
However, immune system conditions such as allergies and asthma can sometimes be very sensitive to certain chemical triggers in the environment. It can be worthwhile trying different pasteurised milks.
Another claim is that raw milk has special enzymes that kill bad bacteria. Unfortunately, it doesn't and bacteria love to grow in milk.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control, raw milk is one of the world's most risky food products. Here is a typical example. Before widespread pasteurisation, in England and Wales, between 1912 and 1937, about 65,000 people died from tuberculosis they got from milk.
Is raw milk safer it if comes from a healthy cow?
Another claim is that if the milk-producing animal (cow, goat, etc) is clean and healthy, and raised in sanitary conditions, then the milk will end up free of bacteria. Again, no.
An animal can be perfectly healthy, and still carry bacteria that don't affect that animal. But these bacteria can affect us. Of course, once the bacteria get into the milk, their numbers increase very rapidly.
Are products processed from raw milk safe?
It's also claimed that because cheeses and yoghurts made from raw milk have been processed more, that means they are safe to eat.
No. In fact, the two US deaths (between 1998 and 2011) caused by raw milk and its products were caused by a fresh Mexican-style cheese made from raw milk.
Raw onions only make you cry, but raw milk might make you die.
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Insolvency, turnaround, advisory and forensic firm SV Partners learns about the financial health of the business at the touch of a button.
SV Partners is a national specialist accounting and advisory firm, with 13 offices in the metropolitan and regional areas of each state, across the eastern seaboard. With so many offices spread around the country, it is essential the management team is able to keep a watchful eye over the health of the group as a whole, without getting bogged down in individual P&L and working capital. Until recently, that wasn’t possible.
An end to end-of-month consolidation
For nearly a decade, the business had been using MYOB Premier as its accounting software. “We liked Premier,” says chartered accountant, Director of Forensics at SV Partners, Rohan Youngman.
A Guiding Hand
Integral to the success of the new system was QLD-based MYOB implementation partner ABC Business Solutions, who helped to ensure the structure of accounts in EXO was tailored precisely to SV Partners’ model. The benefit of working with a company like ABC Business Solutions – who are not just software specialists but trained accountants – is that as well as assisting with the technical implications of setting up a system like EXO, they understand the complex statutory and board reporting requirements.
“We didn’t want to develop a heap of individual EXO general ledgers and then have to worry about consolidation at year end,” says Mr Youngman. “We wanted the opposite – a single, general ledger that could give us the financial position of the group in an instant, but also shed light on geographical locations, disciplines or even directors as and when we needed more detailed visibility.” ABC Business Solutions were able to make that happen, and also support the integrity in the procedures and protocols to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
Understanding Performance Measures
The detailed information relating to SV Partners’ financial health is built from the bottom up: information on a particular business unit (insolvency in QLD, for example) is fed into a state report; the state reports consolidate into a national discipline (eg insolvency in Australia). The national disciplines ultimately consolidate into the overall group.
The snapshot view, however, is from the top down. Management can get an instant picture of the balance sheet at group level, without getting bogged down in P&L or working capital at a regional or local level.
A Significant Improvement
Subsequent to July 2013, SV Partners have a much better feel for the performance and management of the business as a whole. “In the past”, says Mr Youngman, “we had all the parts but we could only go about adding up the sum of the parts on a quarterly basis – usually when we had to comply with reporting deadlines to our external stakeholders. “Now, understanding our financial perspective is a button pressing exercise – which is a significant improvement as a whole in relation to the financial management of the business.” Rohan Youngman, Director of Forensics, SV Partners.
“It was easy to use, had good functionality and it was intuitive in relation to structuring of charts and reporting.” For SV Partners, the need to move to a new system was a consequence of the significant growth of the business that required more sophisticated and timely consolidated reporting. “We had individual entity ledgers in Premier,” explains Mr Youngman, “so if we wanted to report at group level, we’d have to go through a lengthy consolidation process.” In 2010, realising the only way to streamline their accounting was to implement an ERP system, SV Partners made the switch to MYOB EXO.
The Move to a Single General Ledger
Mr Youngman admits that for the first couple of years, they were little more than babes in the woods. “When we first switched to EXO,” he says, “we were hoping to use an overlay system called Alchemex to generate divisionalised and consolidated reporting. But that never really got off the ground.”
It was only at the start of the 2013 financial year – when all of the operational business units moved to a common group ownership – that SV Partners decided they could operate under a single general ledger system. “It was then we really started using EXO as an ERP system, structuring the accounts in such a way that we could slice and dice them pretty much.” The advantage of this approach is that it still allows SV Partners to benchmark its individual locations. “We’re always looking for efficiencies that we can adopt across the board. Using EXO, we’ve got that ability to understand what those performance measures are, with a view to isolating and focusing on areas where improvements need to be made,” says Mr Youngman.
Integrity of Data the Number One Priority
Asked how the business has acclimatised to EXO following nearly a decade with Premier, Mr Youngman is upbeat. From a processing and reporting perspective, he says staff are now reaching a standard of comprehension where they can be more definitive and independent in their use of the system. “We still need support when it comes to the report writing process.” Fortunately that’s something ABC Business Solutions – with their high level expertise in creating complex clarity financial reports for multi discipline, multi level GL structures – can provide.
“But we’re not creating new reports every day,” adds Mr Youngman. Knowing how to use EXO is only half the picture. In many respects, it’s more important that staff are disciplined and focused in the manner in which they input their information. “Given the effort that’s gone into restructuring our chart of accounts,” says Mr Youngman, “it’s essential that we can rely on the information that comes out. We can only do that if we’re entering information in the correct way to start with. The old adage rings true: garbage in, garbage out.”
AUTOMATED POSITIONING SYSTEMS
Archerfield, Queensland Australia
Automated Positioning Systems was established on the 1st July 2002. The company develops and
supplies machine management systems for mining and earthmoving mobile equipment. They offer
integrated solutions which merge GNSS spatial information and advance database technologies to
help manage a wide range of equipment found on most mining sites. Their technologies help the
productivity, utilisation and safe operation of the mining equipment.
Automated Positioning Systems depicts itself as a medium size company and is based in Acherfield
in Queensland Australia.
At present, Automated Positioning Services have not developed into different markets and their managers continue to strive for the same objectives each year.
With these same objectives still in place, Automated Positioning Systems has evolved. They have expanded their customer base and have developed their business into North America. With such an expansion, they have required more personnel, equipment and tracking inventory.
The time came for them to realise they required an IT and Software review when their current QuickBooks system was not sufficient, and they needed an extra level of software.
The main change in the business that made them decide they needed a new software system was their Inventory Control including warehousing, serial number tracking, kit building and cost control.
Partnering with ABC Business Solutions and Ostendo
Kirby Grimes, the accountant for Automated Positioning Systems mentioned that “the knowledge of software” ABC Business Solutions has, was an advantage when choosing software partners. Kirby Grimes also noted that having a mid sized group with different staff was an advantage, as well as the support she receives from her ABC Consultant: “Our ABC Consultant is great. She is helpful and investigates any issues that we have.”
Automated Positioning Systems has changed their process and roles now with the implementation of Ostendo. “We have changed our process with our Inventory Control and follow the guidelines of the Ostendo program.” Kirby Grimes notes that the way ABC has set up the Ostendo system and how ABC have trained them also encouraged them to do processes differently. “ABC Business Solutions give us guidance on how do things differently and I have had previous discussions with ABC on how to get Ostendo to work with us.”
In regards of Automated Positioning Systems moving forward, there is a 5 year plan in place. However, their level of reporting is the main focus. “The original reporting in Ostendo was not sufficient, we needed full customised management reports and a higher level of reporting to move forward.” Ostendo has a full report writer facility. “Not a month goes past that I am not having training with ABC for help and guidance on different platforms.”
Automated Positioning Systems has plans to expand their warehouse and inventory holdings in Australia, as well as setting up the company over in North America to have the same structure. “ABC Business Solutions are continuing to assist with ongoing issues, which will support us in moving forward.”
“ABC Business Solutions staff listen and help me. They investigate and are aware of our outstanding tasks. Our consultant always touch’s base with me to give me updates on anything outstanding.” Kirby Grimes, Accounts, Automated Positioning Systems
AUS MEAT LIMITED
Murrarie, Queensland Australia
Aus Meat Limited commenced in 1992, and is incorporated with Meat and Livestock Australia and the Australian Meat Processor Corporation. Aus Meat is responsible for setting standards for meat for export under Regulation 3 of the Australian Meat and Livestock Industry.
They offer a range of services to the Meat and Livestock Industries including Management, Auditing, Training and Consultancy. Their main charter is to provide services to the Meat and Livestock Industry. Aus Meat Limited is a large company located in Murrarie, Queensland Australia.
Partnering with ABC Business Solutions and Wage Easy
Aus Meat realised a change was required for the software review when their industry needs changed. They decided on implementing Wage Easy to handle all of their payroll needs. With a large number of employees in Australia and two employees in New Zealand, Wage Easy was the perfect fit for their business.
Elise LePage-King, HR Manager for Aus Meat Limited, noted that it was the skill ABC Business Solutions had with Wage Easy which was the advantage with choosing ABC as their software partner. “Working with ABC has made the process easier. I still have ABC do our End of Year.”
Elise LePage-King said that their company uses the consultancy service well.”
Previously using MYOB Account Right for their payroll, Elise LePage-King comments “Wage Easy is better suited to the company and we definitely benefit from it.” Since using the new software, Elise LePage-King also mentioned that they do their business processes and roles “significantly differently” with the way ABC Business Solutions has set up their Wage Easy. “We get assistance from ABC when we need it and they always has quick responses for us.”
“ABC is assisting us in moving forward with keeping us up to date with our software. They ensure our payroll system works for what we need to do and the service that ABC provides works.”
Aus Meat have always kept the same goals to service their clients and have not found the need to develop into different markets. Over the past few years, Aus Meat have watched their company evolve extensively and as much as their industry needs have dictated. They have increased in staff members, programs and turn over. However, as large as they have evolved, they are still a not for profit business.
Aus Meat have a 5 year plan in place and are looking at growing and expanding their company over the future years. Every year they are planning to expand by a small percent each time, so they can stay in control with the ever evolving company.
To expand they plan to communicate with their clients to see where the growth is needed and hope to increase the ability to service the agricultural industry. Elise LePage-King said that ABC can assist in their future and be a part of a long term relationship. To develop this long term relationship, Elise LePage-King made the powerful statement: “ABC Business Solutions needs to just keep doing what they are doing.” Elise LePage-King, Human Resources Manager, Aus Meat Limited
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Aberdeen International Airport puts best paw forward for Sports Pup-sonality Awards
Aberdeen International Airport passengers will be met by some paws-itive ambassadors ahead of a busy weekend with the Sports Personality of the Year Awards on Sunday.
The award winning Therapets will be on hand to greet passengers and visitors between 1pm-3pm to the Granite City ahead of the spectacle at night.
The airport’s Therapets project, a partnership with Canine Concern Scotland Trust, is designed to reduce anxiety associated with travelling through interaction with therapy dogs and has now been internationally acknowledged as industry leading.
Fraser Bain, Airport Duty Manager at AIA and Diane Wood, lead representative and Trustee from Canine Concern Scotland Trust brought the initiative to the terminal which won the National Geographic Traveller’s Award for innovation on December 4.
Diane and Fraser collected the award at a glamorous ceremony in London.
Three canine friends Cullen (Beagle), Enzo (Red Labrador) and Grace (Scottish Deerhound) will help passengers using the airport on Sunday.
Fraser Bain, Airport Duty Manager at Aberdeen International Airport, said “The team have been a doing a fantastic job since the launch of the scheme in April and we look forward to building on this in 2020.”
Steve Szalay, Managing Director at Aberdeen International Airport, said: “Being awarded for innovation from the readers of National Geographic Traveller is a huge honour.
“There has been a real buzz in Aberdeen since the Sports Personality of the Year was announced and the airport is no different.
“Aberdeen International Airport, like many other organisations, has been preparing for the event and we are delighted our award-winning Therapets will be able to greet visitors.
“Our Therapets dogs are already much-loved by our regular passengers and we look forward to welcoming visitors to Aberdeen for such a fantastic event.”
Passengers can share their pictures on social media using the hashtag #caninecrewabz
The Canine Crew will be returning to the airport on Wednesday 18th December as part of a fundraising day for Canine Concern Scotland Trust. Various members of four-legged crew members will be in attendance and looking for some attention.
To find out more about Aberdeen International Airport and our Therapets programme visit https://www.aberdeenairport.com/aberdeen-airport-guide/special-assistance/therapet-dogs-programme/
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For further information, please contact Lee McCann on 07724 701343 or lee.mccann@aiairport.com
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Effect of perturbation in the numerical solution of fractional differential equations
DCDS-B Home
A comparison of boundary correction methods for Strang splitting
September 2018, 23(7): 2661-2678. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2017185
Positive symplectic integrators for predator-prey dynamics
Fasma Diele , and Carmela Marangi
Istituto per Applicazioni del Calcolo M.Picone, CNR, Bari, via Amendola 122/D, Italy
Received October 2016 Revised May 2017 Published July 2017
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We propose novel positive numerical integrators for approximating predator-prey models. The schemes are based on suitable symplectic procedures applied to the dynamical system written in terms of the log transformation of the original variables. Even if this approach is not new when dealing with Hamiltonian systems, it is of particular interest in population dynamics since the positivity of the approximation is ensured without any restriction on the temporal step size. When applied to separable M-systems, the resulting schemes are proved to be explicit, positive, Poisson maps. The approach is generalized to predator-prey dynamics which do not exhibit an M-system structure and successively to reaction-diffusion equations describing spatially extended dynamics. A classical polynomial Krylov approximation for the diffusive term joint with the proposed schemes for the reaction, allows us to propose numerical schemes which are explicit when applied to well established ecological models for predator-prey dynamics. Numerical simulations show that the considered approach provides results which outperform the numerical approximations found in recent literature.
Keywords: Positive numerical integration, symplectic integrators, Poisson systems, predator-prey dynamics, Rosenzweig-MacArthur model.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37M15; Secondary: 65P10.
Citation: Fasma Diele, Carmela Marangi. Positive symplectic integrators for predator-prey dynamics. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2018, 23 (7) : 2661-2678. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2017185
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Figure 1. On the left: positive first-order schemes (7) and (8) compared with the symplectic Euler (SE) method, its explicit variant (EVSE) applied to the LV system at $T=8.3$, with $u_0 = 0.2$, $v_0 = 1.1$ and $\Delta t = 1.1$. Parameters: $a =b =1$. On the right: numerical accuracy of Poisson integrators at $T=10$, including Strang splitting (SS) and Yoshida composition (YC), applied to the LV system with $\Delta t = 1/k$, for $k = 3,\dots,8$. Parameters: $a = b = 0.5$. Initial values: $u_0 = v_0 = 0.2$
Figure 2. Positive symplectic Euler (17) compared with the explicit Euler method applied to the Z-controlled LV dynamics (21) with $u_0 =v_0 = 40$ and $\Delta t = 0.1$. Parameters: $\alpha=\delta=0.6$, $\beta=\gamma=0.01$, $u_d=100$, $\lambda=1.4$. Phase space portrait (left), predator function versus time (right)
Figure 3. Plots of the concentration profiles of $u(x,t)$ (right) and $v(x,t)$ (left) with positive Lie Splitting (solid line) and nonstandard positive method (dashed line) at $t=100$. Step sizes $h=0.4$ and $\Delta t=0.32$ for positive Lie Splitting. Refinements are obtained with $h=0.4,0.8,0.08$ and $\Delta t=0.32,0.8,0.032$ for the nonstandard positive approximations
Figure 4. Prey densities approximation with IMEX (left), IMSP (center) and $\Phi^{(RM)}$ (right) schemes for different temporal step size: $\Delta t = 1/3, 1/24, 1/384$ (left and center columns), $\Delta t = 1, 1/3, 1/24$ (right column)
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Circular Priorities in Secured Transactions Law
Roderick J. Wood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29173/alr171
Circular priority problems are endemic in secured transaction law. A circular priority situation arises when there are three or more parties with competing claims to the same asset and there is no clear ranking of priority among them. There are multiple approaches applied by courts or advanced by commentators to resolve circular priority problems. The different mechanisms used by the courts to resolve a circular priority problem are evaluated using criteria that reflect the general values and goals of commercial law, and the mechanism that best accords with this criteria is identified. Although consensus on the best way of breaking a circularity will reduce litigation costs, it does not provide a complete solution, as it can be undermined by ex post bargaining among creditors. Given this instability, priority rules should be designed so as to limit the occasions when such problems can arise.
Wood, R. J. (2010). Circular Priorities in Secured Transactions Law. Alberta Law Review, 47(4), 823. https://doi.org/10.29173/alr171
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The Hidden Crisis in Civil Legal Services
Longworth House Bldg, Rm B-208
15 Independence Ave SE
Back to past events
The national crisis in civil legal services facing poor and low-income Americans was the focus of this panel discussion featuring authors of essays in “Access to Justice”, the Winter 2019 issue of Dædalus. Topics for discussion and featured in the issue of Dædalus included the challenges of providing quality legal assistance to more people, the social and economic costs of an often unresponsive legal system, and opportunities for improvement offered by new technologies and professional innovations.
The introduction to the issue, coauthored by John G. Levi (who offered the welcoming remarks) and David M. Rubenstein, begins:
Emblazoned on the facade of the United States Supreme Court building are four simple words intended to embody the overriding principle of the U.S. legal system: EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW. Yet after more than 225 years, the nation still has not developed the means to fulfill this principle.
The essays written by other speakers, in a conversation moderated by Judge Diane Wood, are:
How Rising Income Inequality Threatens Access to the Legal System by Robert H. Frank
The Twilight Zone by Nathan Hecht
The Public’s Unmet Need for Legal Services & What Law Schools Can Do about It by Andrew M. Perlman
Access to What? by Rebecca Sandefur
The Role of the Legal Services Corporation in Improving Access to Justice by James J. Sandman
All of the essays in the “Access to Justice” issue of Dædalus are online.
Welcoming Remarks
John G. Levi
Board of Directors, Legal Services Corporation
Diane P. Wood
Chief United States Circuit Judge
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Nathan Hecht
Supreme Court of Texas
Andrew M. Perlman
Dean and Professor of Law
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Associate Professor of Sociology and Law
James J. Sandman
Congressional Briefing
Making Justice Accessible: Designing Legal Services for the 21st Century
The goal of the project is to advance a set of clear, national recommendations for closing the justice gap that currently exists between the demand for legal services and the supply.
Kenneth C. Frazier, John G. Levi, and Martha Louise Minow
Dædalus| Winter 2019
The Role of the Legal Services Corporation in Improving Access to Justice
Author James J. Sandman
Access to What?
Author Rebecca L. Sandefur
The Public’s Unmet Need for Legal Services & What Law Schools Can Do about It
Author Andrew M. Perlman
Author Nathan Hecht
How Rising Income Inequality Threatens Access to the Legal System
Author Robert H. Frank
Editors Lincoln Caplan, Lance Malcolm Liebman, and Rebecca L. Sandefur
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Words You Lead By
By Susan J. Bethanis
Do you “check up on” your team members or “check in with” each member? Do you try to “fix” your employees or do you help “develop” your employees' skills to be more successful? This is neither semantics nor idle wordplay. It’s about effective leadership and success through language.
It’s imperative that today’s leaders realize that it's the language of leadership that actually influences what occurs within their organizations. Leaders have the ability to change their organizations by changing their language! The words we use can “make or break” relationships with employees. Carefully crafted messages go a long way in personal and organizational success.
Today’s workforce wants more choice, creative license and autonomy. They don’t want to be micromanaged. “Micromanaging” is one example of leaders using 20th-century “command and control” language for a 21st-century mindset and workforce. Leaders all too often use language that is riddled with militaristic or hierarchical metaphors (i.e., “let’s gather the troops to drum out a killer application”). Not only can this language incite a fear-based culture, it also works against what leaders say they are striving for: to be more collaborative and engaging. The problem is that you wouldn’t know this from some leaders’ language.
Susan J. Bethanis, author of Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage, offers leaders six suggestions to think differently about language and to convey messages more powerfully and positively:
1. Slow down and be conscious that your language and intent may not be aligned. If it’s team building you’re after, use “empowering” language rather than “overpowering” words.
Don’t say: “It’s a minefield out there. Let’s divide and conquer on this next project.”
Do say: “We are in a tough situation, which means it’s even more important to work together for success. Let’s start by creating two teams to flesh out these two parts of the project.”
2. Expunge absolutes. Avoid using “always” and “never” when communicating with others, especially when giving feedback.
Don’t say: “You always show up to work late and never finish your work on time. You need to get your act together!”
Do say: “I’ve noticed that you have shown up for work late twice in the last week, and you slipped two milestone deadlines on Project X. What’s your plan to change this pattern?”
3. Make sure to balance your need to “drive” change with words that actually “inspire” change.
Don’t say: “This project has to be done by the end of the week or heads are going to roll.”
Do say: “Completion of this project is critical to the survival of the company. What will it take to finish the project on time?”
4. Use inquiry (ask) more than advocacy (tell) when you coach and problem solve with your employees.
Don’t use: “You didn’t make your sales numbers last month. Please recontact the 10 CIO names I gave you and get back to me.”
Do use: “I noticed that your sales numbers are down from the month before. What do you attribute the change to? What have you tried so far to make up for it? What options have worked, what hasn’t worked? What support do you need from me?
5. Be clear in your requests of others. Include specific actions and date needed.
Don’t say: “Will you do me a favor? I need a draft of the marketing plan for my boss.”
Do say: “I have a request: Will you do a first pass on the marketing plan? Please use our Excel template and do two pages of activities to start. Does Wednesday work for you to get it to me?”
6. Reframe how you think about “change” when it comes to people on your team. We “fix” cars and planes; we don’t “fix” people. And, definitely, avoid “quick fixes.”<
Don’t do a quick “structure” fix (i.e., a “re-org” like tucking someone you don’t get along with “under” someone else)
Do look at “culture” first, then the “structure.” What skills need to be developed across your team in order to work with customers better, sell better, get along better, and so on. What are the gaps that exist? How can we then reskill, restructure or add people to fill those gaps?
Language plays a primary role in how well we lead. In order to change our language, we must slow down and be aware of what we say and notice the influence and impact our words have. Start by noticing now: What are the words you lead by?
Susan J. Bethanis is CEO/Founder of Mariposa Leadership, Inc., a 12-person San Francisco-based leadership coaching firm in its 10th year; and author of Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage (Kaplan Publishing, 2004), voted 2004 Top 10 Business Books by CEOrefresher.com. Her 1993 doctoral dissertation focused on the inexplicable link between language and change in organizations. You may contact Sue at [email protected] Please go to www.mariposaleadership.com for more information on Mariposa Leadership, Inc.
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Harder for Females to Gain Weight Because of their Brain
New Antioxidant Makes Old Blood Vessels Look Young
Men, More than Women, Harm Others to Move Forward
Moderate Drinking Linked With Heart Disease & Shorter Lifespan
Sweet Tooth Gene Linked With Less Body Fat
Breast Cancer Slowing Drug Found in Sea-Sponge
November 4, 2014 Trishti Sabane Biology, Health 3 Minutes Read
Deep seas are often associated with precious treasures, perhaps because of hyped pirate stories? A sea sponge has, however, proved to be invaluable for breast cancer patients, more specifically those afflicted with TNBC. A drug, eribulin, was manufactured from the marine creature that has been shown to prolong the lives of patients who have reached advanced stages of TNBC. No disease is without cure, right? We just have to find them, on land, or at sea.
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Breast cancer is affecting more and more women worldwide. One of its various forms is known as triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), which is characterised by the absence of receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone, together with a dearth of the expression of protein HER2.
Breast cancer, like any other type of cancer, greatly decreases quality of life of the patients. If death itself cannot be averted, doctors make use of whatever means that is available to prolong one’s life, as is humanly possible. A new such strategy involves a drug manufactured from a sea sponge that could potentially extend the life of women affected by advanced stages of the disease.
The scientists carried out their research on more than 1800 participants who had metastatic cancer, whereby the breast cancer had propagated to other body parts. This stage marks one of the advanced phases of the disease. The subjects were administered the sea-sponge-based drug called eribulin. Eribulin was made from the sea spong Halichondria okadai. It is meant to prevent the cancer cells from multiplying by arresting the process of cell division, inhibiting the action of microtubules. The latter are cell apparatuses that contribute to cell division. The individual diseased cells thus do not divide into two and therefore do no propagate.
Eribulin does not by itself cure the breast cancer patients. Rather, it limits the damage being done and life can thus be sustained for a longer period of time than it would have without the treatment. The greatest improvement was observed in women with advanced TNBC whose survival increased by around 5 months.
The earlier cancer is detected, the greater is the chance for the patient to live longer. Early treatment is easier, but it becomes more and more difficult at later phases, when the patients become less responsive to the existing methods of treatment. However, this study gives hope to those patients whose diagnosis is made at advanced stages.
One of the researchers said in a statement: “Eribulin isn’t a cure, it’s an extra treatment option for patients with advanced breast cancer, which can be priceless to them and their families“.
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Milton Falls
Gauge LAMOILLE RIVER AT EAST GEORGIA, VT
Flow Rate as of: 17 hours ago 11800 [CFS] ℹ️
Reach Info Last Updated 11/18/2013 11:47 am
Milton Falls is found just off the main drag of route 7 in 'downtown' Milton. Situated below a dam just downstream of Arrowhead Lake, the Lamoille drops 100' over the course of 1/10th of a mile. The first half is a series of ledges and cascades. To my knowledge none of these have been run. The river then splits into 3 separate channels. River right flows over two back-to-back slides both of about 20-25ft in height. The center channel funnels down into a crack, cascading 30ft or so and being immediately rejoined by the left most channel. The left channel drops over a few smaller ledges and then flows over a 20ft freefall. The geology here is far from pretty, with undercuts, seives, tunnels in the rock, and rocks in landing zones all present in one location or another. Each drop has significant dangers and dilligent scouting and or safety is suggested for anybody contemplating a run here.
NOTE: THE RIVER LEFT 20FT FALLS HAS 2 ROCKS IN THE LANDING ZONE MAKING IT VERY DANGEROUS. Successful descents have been had, but I would highly recommend a low water scout before considering this drop! Please refer to the photos page to see why.
Driving North on route 7 through Milton, look for Ritchie Road on the left (if you have crossed the bridge just below the dam impounding Arrowhead Lake you have gone too far). Follow this road to the bottom lot where you can park. The falls can then be accessed by foot, with the river right side accessed by a ferry across and hike on that bank.
Flows:
Optimal flows will vary depending on the section of river you are looking to run. 1200-1500 on the East Georgia gauge have been considered good for running both the right channel's slides and for a sketchy run off the left side falls.
Despite the caution I have encouraged, these falls can be enjoyed with proper judgement. Have fun and be safe.
VT Supreme Court Protects Whitewater Boating on the Green River
AW Wins Court Battle Protecting Green River (VT) Boating
Northeast Boaters Seek To Expand West River (VT) Boating
Bellows Falls (VT) Flow Study Reveals Hidden Whitewater
Located in East Georgia, approximately 5 miles upstream (above the Arrowhead Mountain Lake and the impounding dam). More information is needed to know how much both dams alter the flows found at this reach.
Located at the bottom of Ritchie Ave, in Milton, VT. Shuttle is done on foot.
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Robert Nasdor
The Vermont Supreme Court decided today that whitewater boaters have the right to paddle on the Green River. The Supreme Court affirmed the decision by the Environmental Division of the Superior Court that required the hydropower project on the Green River in Morrisville to provide three annual scheduled releases. This is a precedent setting decision because it establishes that whitewater boating is a designated and existing use protected under the Clean Water Act, that scheduled releases are necessary to protect that use, and that Vermont ANR failed to meet its burden to show that providing scheduled release would result in a lowering of water quality.
The Vermont Superior Court sided with American Whitewater in a long-running dispute with the state over whitewater boating on the Green River in Morrisville. The Court overturned state restrictions that would have eliminated any meaningful opportunity for boaters to enjoy this extraordinary river and required scheduled releases in a ground breaking decision.
In response to of the state’s draft basin plan for southern Vermont, American Whitewater and scores of boaters pressed the state to support the expansion of releases on the West River. Restrictions by the Corps of Engineers and Agency of Natural Resources have led to the elimination of nearly all scheduled boating opportunities on the West River over the past two decades, eliminating recreation opportunity and hurting the local economy. AW and its partners have been working to restore these releases.
A hardy group of northeast boaters climbed into the natural river channel below a hydropower dam to participate in a flow study designed to assess whether whitewater flows should be restored to this dewatered river reach on the Connecticut River. While significant obstacles remain, this site has the potential for providing instruction, playboating, and a big water feature that that could be run throughout much of the year and provide a much needed boost to the local economy.
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Android News / Tech News / Broadcom Rethinks Its Attempted Coup Of Qualcomm's Board
Broadcom Rethinks Its Attempted Coup Of Qualcomm's Board
By Dominik Bosnjak
Broadcom on Tuesday rethought its attempted coup of Qualcomm's board of directors, having eliminated five of its eleven proposed directorial nominees ahead of the San Diego, California-based firm's annual shareholder meeting scheduled for March 6. According to the revised move, the unsolicited suitor is seeking to replace six Qualcomm's directors, enough to ensure a majority vote that would greenlight the proposed merger. Leaving five of Qualcomm's existing directors on the company's board should also ensure its "continuity," the bidder said. The semiconductor giant said electing its nominees is the only way for Qualcomm's investors to be certain they can benefit from the company's "best and final" offer for the chipmaker which the existing board already refused, claiming it still undervalues its assets and comes with major and possibly insurmountable regulatory scrutiny.
Broadcom is proposing by far the largest tie-up in the history of the tech industry, having offered $121 billion for Qualcomm, or $60 in cash and a $22 equity payment for every Qualcomm share. Should Broadcom's nominees lose the election or the annual stockholder meeting is delayed, the offer will be withdrawn, the suitor reiterated. The only other alternative is for the existing board to come to a definitive merger agreement with Broadcom but given its reluctance to even agree to enter talks on the matter, that scenario remains highly unlikely. The two entities spent the last several days discussing the situation with independent advisory agencies in hopes of having them back their directorial nominees and will only meet face-to-face tomorrow when Broadcom Chief Executive Officer Hock E. Tan is expected to be grilled by Qualcomm's management.
Qualcomm remains adamant that Broadcom isn't capable of completing the merger within 12 months like it's promising, whereas the Singapore-based tech giant is claiming it's prepared to part with additional compensation in such a scenario and even suggested that an unprecedentedly high break fee would be part of the deal should the consolidation be unconditionally blocked by any antitrust regulator. Qualcomm is dismissive of such promises as it's currently struggling to conclude its much smaller acquisition of Dutch NXP Semiconductors which it originally agreed in late 2016 yet is still without a regulatory approval from China, with the fate of its $38 billion bid remaining uncertain. If Broadcom eventually manages to acquire Qualcomm, it would likely streamline its operations in an aggressive manner and focus on the company's mobile chip and connectivity businesses, as suggested by Mr. Tan's track record with M&As.
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Boarding passes and tickets coming soon to Google Pay
2018/05/08 6:10pm PDT May 8, 2018
Airline and event tickets have been making their way to Google Pay for a while. But at today's Build with Google Pay session, the company has finally publicly announced the feature, in concert with Urban Airship. With it, you'll be able to quickly and easily access tickets for everything from flights to sporting events, all from the convenience of the Google Pay app.
Google has been working to add native support for transit tickets and passes for some time—we've reported on related transit ticket findings via APK Teardowns before. We also knew that airline boarding passes were specifically due to hit sometime soon, and 9to5's Abner Li was even able to trigger the behavior a bit early on his trip to this year's I/O developer conference.
According to Urban Airship's press release on the subject, it's been working together with Google to ensure its platform and APIs are compatible with Google Pay. Urban Airship's services are used by companies such as Alaska Airlines, Jet Airways, Caesars Entertainment, and Regal Cinemas; and Google has further announced partnerships with Singapore Airlines, Southwest, Eventbrite, and Fortress GB.
There's no information yet on precise availability details (they're likely to vary from airline to airline, etc.), but with that sort of sponsorship behind the effort, it may not be long until those tickets are in your Google Pay app.
Urban Airship Powers Real-Time Mobile Wallet Tickets and Boarding Passes with Google Pay
New Urban Airship mobile wallet tickets make it easy for airlines, movie theaters and all types of events to streamline and enhance “day of” experiences
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & PORTLAND, Ore. — May 8, 2018 — Today, digital growth company Urban Airship unveiled the first digital customer engagement platform to support Google Pay tickets—a new capability announced on the mainstage at Google I/O 2018. Leveraging its experience managing mobile wallets for travel, hospitality and entertainment leaders, Urban Airship worked with Google Pay to create streamlined and engaging ticketing and boarding pass experiences. The combination of Google Pay’s new ticket support and the Urban Airship platform now make it easy for any business to provide best-in-class user experiences that maximize convenience while delivering customers valuable up-to-the-minute information.
Unlike paper tickets or emailed boarding passes, these mobile wallet tickets unlock new levels of convenience for travelers, with real-time updates (like departure time changes) sent to the lockscreen and personalized one-to-one messaging within the card. Urban Airship sends real-time updates on flight details, gate changes and other valuable information to 250 million travelers for more than a dozen airlines and major airports annually. Urban Airship’s Digital Growth Platform and its enterprise-class APIs enable companies to create personalized mobile wallet tickets and boarding passes at massive scale and deliver them through any digital channel, including apps, websites, SMS, email and other emerging platforms.
“As an online exchange with billions of dollars in ticket inventory for concerts, sports and theater events around the globe, we provide a host of solutions that better connect sellers and buyers,” said Doug Kruse, CTO and co-founder, TicketNetwork. “Mobile wallet tickets not only offer greater convenience for attendees and lower ticket distribution costs, they offer a path for post-event re-engagement as we can update tickets with other events they may be interested in attending with an easy path to purchase. Google brings scale and ubiquity to this global proposition, which is truly exciting.”
The Urban Airship platform removes many obstacles from the process of creating, distributing and utilizing mobile wallet passes. Adaptive Link technology makes it easy to create and distribute personalized tickets and boarding passes, using a single link to detect the customer’s device and automatically display a pass based on the user’s location. To maximize the value of information presented to customers, Urban Airship’s enterprise-class APIs can directly connect to flight information and reservation systems for real-time ticket updates and alerts. Urban Airship’s platform also supports segmented messaging and real-time automation rules that enable companies to target special offers, including in-flight entertainment and special meals, or concession deals and merchandise for specific showings or locations.
“We help businesses reinvent the customer experience by delivering the right information at the right time on any digital channel, and mobile wallets fill an increasingly critical role in that vision” said Brett Caine, CEO and president of Urban Airship. “Google Pay’s new support for tickets and boarding passes means customers will always have up-to-date information when they need it most - on the go. Urban Airship has the only platform proven to operate at the scale necessary to ensure that this information is delivered quickly, accurately and reliably to hundreds of millions of people.”
“Our goal at Google Pay is to make transactions as seamless and functional as possible for consumers,” said Pali Bhat, VP of Payments Products at Google. “Digitizing users’ wallets and creating rich experiences that leverage Google’s great assets brings us one step closer to that goal.”
About Urban Airship
Urban Airship® is trusted by thousands of businesses to drive growth with digital customer engagement. Every day, marketers and developers depend on Urban Airship to deliver billions of personalized, interactive notifications that inspire interest and drive action across all digital channels. Urban Airship is used by many of the world’s most admired companies, including Adidas, Alaska Airlines, The Home Depot, NBCUniversal, Sky Plc and Zillow. For more information, visit www.urbanairship.com, read our blog and follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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CREATIVE FREEDOM
ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES
FAST AND EASY CONSTRUCTION
BUILDING ENGINEERING PHYSICS
BUILT ON EXPERIENCE
In a fast-changing world, Knauf Exterior Wall with AQUAPANEL® Technology delivers creativity, certainty and complete peace of mind whatever the building type – from offices and high-rise residential accommodation through to hospitals and stadia.
Geislinger | Bad St. Leonard, Austria
Challenging the dominance of brick and block, Knauf Exterior Wall is helping shape some of the world’s most ambitious and breath-taking projects, including the Allianz Arena (Munich), the Chinese Opera House (Xiqu Centre) in Hong Kong, the Eagle in Flight (Tirana) and the ‘A House’ in Yongin (South Korea). Knauf Exterior Wall doesn’t just build on the skills and experience of architects. It helps them step away from traditional thinking and conventional construction methods – and to build inspirational spaces for the world to enjoy.
As a complete and lightweight drywall system, it sets a new standard for strength, versatility and performance. It can be shaped and curved into endlessly imaginative designs. It can carry a wide range of finishes – from paint, render and tiles through to decorative cladding. Its lightweight properties mean it can be used to create floor extensions and facade systems which repurpose old buildings and extend their service life. It’s a truly sustainable and future-proofed solution, helping create energy efficient buildings. It’s also easy to work with, promoting safe and speedy construction.
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Cloud N°7, Stuttgart, Germany
Stuttgart’s new high-rise Cloud N° 7 is the highest residential building in town – and its state-of-the-art design and innovative façade technology...
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
A centennial project that shapes the perception of Hamburg on an international level: the new Elbphilharmonie on the river Elbe. The concert building...
Vauban 6, Freiburg, Germany
Seen from outside, the residential complex Vauban 6 in the German city of Freiburg has a distinctive look. But thanks to Knauf Exterior Wall the walls...
DEDICATED SYSTEM SOLUTIONS
Knauf Exterior Wall comes in two basic types: drywall, or as a rear-ventilated rainscreen facade. It therefore offers an extremely flexible and adaptable solution which can accommodate an impressive range of designs, opening up new architectural possibilities and helping to turn vision into reality, whether it’s being used to create commercial or high-rise residential buildings, or sports arenas or healthcare establishments. Truly, we are changing the way the world builds.
Knauf Exterior Wall: Double Stud System, Installed Between Floors (WM411C.1)
Knauf Exterior Wall: Rear-Ventilated Rainscreen Facade, With Thermal Insulation (WL132C.1)
Knauf Exterior Wall – drywall solution
Drywall systems are available as single stud or double stud solutions with a variety of creative design options. And although it is most commonly used in skeleton constructions comprising reinforced concrete, drywall is also suitable for timber or lightweight steel-frame constructions.
Knauf Exterior Wall – rear-ventilated rainscreen facade
With rainscreen facades for use above solid substructures such as brick or concrete, thermal insulation is separated from the weather protection materials ensuring a constant flow of air in the ventilated space to remove moisture from the building and to optimise indoor climate. Even if the facade is damaged, the insulation remains intact.
Note: Please consult the local partner organisation of Knauf Aquapanel for more information on country-specific building requirements and legislation. Technical advice on this website is based on standard criteria.
CREATIVE FREEDOM WITHOUT LIMITS
Architects and specifiers worldwide are discovering the liberating potential of Knauf Exterior Wall with AQUAPANEL® Technology. Strong, light and easy to shape into inspirational designs, the system is also able to accommodate a huge range of finishes to beautiful effect. And thanks to its easy adaptability and simple integration of building technology, Knauf Exterior Wall always remains flexible against any usage – or weather-related influences.
ÖAMTC | Austria
NEW DESIGN POSSIBILITIES FOR CURVED WALLS
With a bending radius of 3 metres (full board) and 1 m (300 mm strips), AQUAPANEL® Cement Board Outdoor allows designers to introduce a variety of curved shapes and creative designs, including domes and arches. Moreover, by using double studs, it’s possible to create different interiors and exteriors: for example, a wall that’s concave on the outside, and convex on the inside.
Piller Blowers and Compressors | Moringen, Germany
Detail – Arrangement with different radius
STUNNING SURFACES AND FINISHING OPTIONS
Compatible with an extensive range of surface finishes, from paint and renders, through to adhered materials like clinker bricks, tiles or glass elements, Knauf Exterior Wall solutions offer unlimited scope for creative expression. Even a variety of cladding systems can be realised, resulting in very thin ventilated constructions, because the required insulation is already integrated inside the drywall.
Adhered materials
Ventilated facades on drywall constructions
FASTER PAYBACK AND A HIGHER RETURN ON INVESTMENT
The lightweight nature of Knauf Exterior Wall doesn’t just help deliver efficient and economical builds, it delivers significant financial benefits too, both in terms of construction costs and rental or resale value.
Student Hostel | Germany
LOWER CONSTRUCTION COSTS
Because Knauf Exterior Wall with AQUAPANEL® Technology is a lightweight solution, there is significantly less bearing load in both primary construction and foundation works. How significant the weight difference between traditional construction methods and Knauf Exterior Wall can be, is shown in the graphs at the bottom of this page. As a result, the building design and its construction can be executed much more cost-effectively. Weight for weight, Knauf Exterior Wall solutions also cost less to transport than traditional building materials such as brick, while the speed of installation reduces the extended need for scaffolding, helping cut
rental costs. Equally, the use of drywall solutions eliminates water waste, while a faster drying time minimises the amount of energy needed to dry out the construction. These advantages drive cost benefit into the project right from the start.
Minimum weight savings due to the usage of Knauf Exterior Wall compared with traditional solutions*
These figures show the minimum difference in weight per square metre of an undisturbed wall based on the six drywall solutions.
Economic Advantages | Minimum Weight Savings
INCREASED SALE AND RENTAL VALUE
With Knauf Exterior Wall, it is possible to achieve the same thermal performance as brick and block with a thinner wall thickness, meaning that more internal floor space is available for sale or for rent. The graphs at the bottom of this page show how much of the area occupied by the exterior wall in traditional ways of construction can be converted into usable, productive space by using Knauf Exterior Wall. Equally, speedy construction means that a sale – or rental return – can be achieved more quickly than with traditional construction methods. Both factors combine to ensure a faster and higher return on investment.
Gerber Quartier | Germany
Minimum difference in wall thickness of Knauf Exterior Wall compared with traditional solutions*
These figures show the minimum difference in wall thickness based on the six drywall solutions.
Economic Advantages | Difference In Wall Thickness
FASTER, EASIER, MORE EFFICIENTLY
The installation of Knauf Exterior Wall is fast and efficient. It’s components are light and easy to handle and due to the just in time window installation and the fast closing of the building envelope, the construction is largely weather-independent and interior works can begin significantly earlier than with conventional building methods.
Upper East | Germany
Simplified installation
Knauf Exterior Walls with AQUAPANEL® Technology are easy to use. All drywall and facade works – exterior, interior and finishing – can be carried out by a single trade, meaning fewer hands and less risk as well as a streamlined construction process. Only the cabling and pipework inside the interior stud frame as well as window and windowsill installation require the involvement of additional parties.
Easier handling
The core component of Knauf Exterior Wall – AQUAPANEL® Cement Board Outdoor – is a lightweight board, making it much easier to handle. No pre-drilling is required, while a simple ‘score and snap’ technique means it can be cut quickly and efficiently. It also has a bending radius of up to 1 m in a dry state, further simplifying construction.
Similarly, Knauf’s glass mineral wool with ECOSE® Technology delivers significant advantages in handling. As well as being odourless and generating significantly less dust, over 90% of professional installers state that glass mineral wool with ECOSE® Technology is softer and less itchy than conventional mineral wool. A majority of installers also say it’s easier to cut.
Accelerated construction
The building envelope can be closed immediately after the joint treatment of the boards, significantly earlier than with conventional methods such as brick and block. (Once jointed, the boards can also be left for up to 6 months, providing added peace of mind). As a result, interior works (including screeding and the installation of stud frames, vapour barriers, lining and insulation) can progress simultaneously with exterior finishing, resulting in a more efficient construction.
1. Install the scaffold
2. Install exterior stud frame
3. Insulate floor front and temporarily bond water barrier to the studs
4. Install ACB outdoor
5. Joint treatment
6. Apply base coat and finishing
Working to precise plans and dimensions, manufacturers can build windows in advance and transport them to the site, ready for immediate installation. This adds reassurance to project delivery deadlines and significantly contributes to accelerated construction and weather independence compared to traditional ways of construction. In masonry variants, such as aerated concrete or sand lime brick, if the windows are not installed in the insulation layer, the openings must first be measured after erection of the exterior wall. Unlike Knauf Exterior Wall, this is a disadvantage which brings considerable time delays.
Construction Time | Masonry
Construction Time | Knauf Exterior Wall
OPTIMUM DESIGN, MINIMUM IMPACT
In today’s construction environment, there is a drive to reduce the impact of the building on human health and the natural environment. This must be considered at every stage of the process, from planning and design through to construction, use, renovation and demolition. There are various ways this can be achieved, and Knauf Exterior Wall solutions offer strong capabilities in each case.
Orange House | Turkey
Energy efficiency and CO2 reduction
Energy is used both in the production, transportation and installation of building materials (the ‘embodied’ energy), as well as during habitation and use (the ‘operating’ energy).
Embodied energy
This represents up to 30% of the overall life-cycle energy consumption of a building and is therefore a significant factor. The exact percentage varies based on factors including the age of building, the local climate and the exact nature of materials used. Historically, this percentage has been lower. However, the intensifying focus on minimising operational emissions – e.g. by driving efficiency improvements in heating and cooling – has meant both a relative increase in embodied energy, and in its importance as a measure.
Many of the products within Knauf Exterior Wall with AQUAPANEL® Technology possess an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) as per ISO 14025 and EN 15804. In addition to referencing environmental impact and waste categories, these EPDs at least provide a product life cycle assessment from cradle-to-gate, including the energy resources needed to supply and transport raw materials and to manufacture the end product.
As a complete system, Knauf Exterior Wall has a 50% less primary energy requirement during manufacture than conventional brickwork construction. Equally, CO2 output in material production for a Knauf Exterior Wall is 30% lower than brick and block construction. As a specific example, mineral wool with ECOSE® Technology from Knauf Insulation uses a formaldehyde free binding agent, reducing energy demand during manufacturing.
Additionally, because of its lightweight properties, Knauf Exterior Wall uses less energy and generates less CO2 during transportation, while – because it is a drywall construction – the drying time of the building and therefore the energy required are significantly reduced during the construction phase.
Operating energy
Buildings with a high-performance envelope in a cold climate require just 20% to 30% of the energy required to heat the current average building (source: the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development – OECD). The insulation within the walls is a critical factor, and Knauf Exterior Wall has many advantages in this respect – not least superior thermal insulation compared with traditional constructions of an equal thickness.
This can be further enhanced by minimising thermal bridges. These advantages are at their biggest with the initial layer of insulation – especially in developing countries where insulation is often not being installed – but can also be significant in developed countries. This is especially the case in renovations of poorly insulated stone, masonry or concrete constructions, where Knauf’s rear-ventilated rainscreen facade with insulation offers a smart and effective solution. The ability to install varying thicknesses of mineral wool in that system, means that the desired energy standard can be reached, even in the most demanding situations.
Materials efficiency and waste reduction
Efficient building materials include products that are reusable, renewable, and/or recyclable. The reuse and recycling of these materials require that buildings at the end of their useful life are not demolished and hauled to landfills. ‘Deconstruction’ is a method of harvesting and reclaiming useful building materials. Selective demounting and separation of Knauf Exterior Wall with AQUAPANEL® Technology can be carried out easily, reducing the volume of waste while increasing the potential for recycling.
Simply re-imagining a building and extending its useful life also reduces waste. The adaptability of Knauf Exterior Wall facilitates modifications and reutilisations, even while the building is in use. Renovations with rear-ventilated facade systems guarantee continued use without being forced to make compromises in design or energy-efficiency. And once installed, a service life of approximately 50 years can be achieved (according to Environmental System Declaration).
Waste arising during production of AQUAPANEL® Cement Board Outdoor is fed back into the production process. The amount of recyclable materials in the composition of AQUAPANEL® Cement Board Outdoor is approximately 5-10% by mass.
Protecting occupant health
In LEED standards, the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) sets out to measure and improve the well-being and comfort of building occupants using five key categories – one of which is indoor air quality (IAQ). Here, the focus is on minimising the effects of air impurities – including volatile organic compounds (VOC) and other microbial contaminants – which are present in the majority of building materials and maintenance products, and which have the potential to negatively impact on occupant health and productivity. Choosing zero or low VOC emission materials and finishing products – such as those built in Knauf Exterior Wall – improves both the building’s IAQ and the comfort of its occupants.
Most of the products of Knauf Exterior Wall are classified A+ according to French VOC regulation. As an example, the ECOSE® Technology from Knauf Insulation enables the production of natural mineral wool insulation materials bonded with a bio-based technology free from formaldehyde, phenols, acrylics and with no artificial colours, bleach or added dyes. These products passed a VOC emission chamber test, where the sum of VOC measured was below the limit values of 1,000 μg/m³ after 3 days and 100 μg/m³ after 28 days. The products were awarded with the Eurofins Indoor Air Comfort Gold Certificate.
The accumulation of moisture and the knock-on effects of damp – including mould, viruses and bacteria – are also contributing factors to poor IAQ. Using water and mould resistant products helps to minimise or eliminate these issues.
To achieve reliable moisture protection, Knauf Exterior Wall has a layered structure with a carefully designed sequence of vapour barring and breathable materials. In an unfavourable climate, this helps to diffuse condensate safely to the ambient air. To protect the insulation, the water and windproof AQUAPANEL® Water Barrier is installed behind the AQUAPANEL® Cement Board Outdoor, while to avoid condensate formation inside the wall, a vapour barrier is installed behind the interior lining.
Essex Business School | United Kingdom
BUILDING ENGINEERING PHYSICS – A CERTAIN SOLUTION
The defining quality of Knauf Exterior Wall solutions is the ability to prevent water from entering the construction. Combined with moisture protection, thermal and acoustic performance and effective resistance to both fire and seismic activity, Knauf Exterior Wall with AQUAPANEL® Technology allows you to create the buildings you want, with the attributes you demand and the quality assurance you need.
Flow Tower | Germany
Knauf Exterior Wall solutions feature a layer design which combines a sequence of vapour barring and breathable materials to enable moisture and condensate within the construction to be safely released. The result is reliable protection in even the most unfavourable climates.
The Knauf Exterior Wall consists of a lightweight steel construction including fastener, connecting and anchoring materials. The steel components are to be protected against corrosion. The minimum corrosion protection category to be chosen is C3-high according to EN ISO 12944 (urban and industrial atmospheres with moderate air pollution) to ensure the serviceability and longevity of the Knauf Exterior Wall of 50 years. For higher requirements and the corrosion protection category to be chosen, a detailed analysis of the object-related atmosphere has to be carried out.Generally, the category of corrosion protection has to be determined by the planner on an object-related basis.
All components within Knauf Exterior Wall are non-combustible, with the exception of the membranes which dissipate quickly without causing damage. By exchanging or adding components, Knauf Exterior Wall can meet a variety of fire safety requirements. For example, fire resistance class EI30 of an undisturbed wall construction can be achieved by lining the interior stud frame with two gypsum boards.
Because of its construction and sequence of layers, Knauf Exterior Wall creates a spring-mass system which helps maximise sound reduction. Window installations and other penetrations of the wall can influence the sound protection of the exterior wall and have to be considered object-wise.
Knauf Exterior Wall provides superior thermal insulation compared with traditional constructions of an equal thickness. And the thermal performance of each Knauf Exterior Wall can be further enhanced
with various measures, each helping to minimise the impact of thermal bridging.
Examples include using:
A second insulation layer, such as ETICS
A double stud system instead of a single stud
Intermediate insulation between the stud frames in a double stud system
Offset/staggered profiles
Ventilated construction or a construction in front of floors to minimise thermal bridges between
Knauf Exterior Wall and the concrete slabs
With respect to thermal insulation, the construction related advantages of the rear-ventilated rainscreen facade are the heat insulation and the good room climate conditions in the summer. The discharge of hot air over the ventilation gap prevents a potential heat accumulation or a heat up between facade and insulation. Furthermore the exterior wall warms up to a lesser extent and more slowly than with direct contact with solar radiation. That way the temperature inside the building remains comfortable in the summer, the room climate is less vulnerable to variations in outdoor temperature, and the energy demand for cooling is reduced.
Earthquake safety
During seismic activity, Knauf Exterior Wall experiences a lower risk of failure than traditional construction materials, thanks to its ductility and positive deformation behaviour. Moreover, in the event of actual failure, its lightweight properties are less potentially damaging to the surrounding area. Compared with most other building types, Knauf Exterior Wall is also easier to repair and rebuild, making it ideal for use in earthquake zones.
Expansion joints have to be provided at a distance of ≤ 15 m, in order to allow weather-related expansion and shrinkage. Building separation joints and expansion joints in the primary construction have to be incorporated into the facade. Some facade geometries such as complex surfaces and facades that are subject to increased stress may require additional expansion joints.
Ex Cinema Livorno | Italy
BRINGING EXCELLENCE AND EXPERTISE TO YOUR PROJECT
Knauf Exterior Wall encapsulates versatile components and features – but, more importantly, it embodies the expertise of our pioneering past. Because of this, we’re able to help shape a better present and future. Our whole focus is on supporting our partners and customers, giving them the inspiration and solutions they need to create better buildings.
International Training Centre | Dortmund, Germany
Established in 1932, Knauf is a global group employing over 27,000 people across 86 countries. Supported with an extensive distributor network, we deliver an exceptional local service across all territories – and all from one single source. A key part of this group – and of Knauf’s Exterior Wall with AQUAPANEL® Technology – Knauf AQUAPANEL is based in Germany. Since 2002, Knauf AQUAPANEL has pioneered drywalling solutions and technology and applied its expertise to help create certainty in a changing world.
AQUAPANEL® IS THE HOME OF THE KNAUF DRY EXTERIOR WALL COMPETENCE CENTRE
Knauf AQUAPANEL is also the home of the Knauf Dry Exterior Wall Competence Centre. Sitting at the heart of our innovation and technical expertise, this centre acts as a pivotal resource, gathering insight and best practice and offering advice and technical support at every stage of the process – from design, specification and planning through to installation and beyond, ensuring that the full benefits of Knauf Exterior Wall solutions are available to our customers.
OUR SUPPORT INCLUDES
Local expertise delivered via country-based Specification Managers
(with the back-up of an International Technical Support team)
Project-related system recommendations including static pre-dimensioning, physical analyses, U-Value calculations and hygrothermal simulation
Site visits and support, via an experienced team of Application Engineers
Assistance with the certification of products and systems,
including approval tests and building law examinations
The supply of samples, mock-ups or demonstrations to aid decision-making
Wide range of technical documentation including consumption tables,
installation guides, leaflets and CAD Files
Wide range of technical and practical training, available locally or at our
International Training Centre in Dortmund
ISO 9001 certified, ensuring Quality Control and high standards of service
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A Final Journey by Horse
By JARRETT A. LOBELL
The Thracians could not have imagined life without horses—they even took their horses and chariots into the afterlife, to carry their souls to heaven. While many chariot burials have been found in Bulgaria, a recently discovered tomb from the site of Sveshtari is a rare example in which the horses were found standing upright, positioned with their heads resting on stone “cushions,” almost to appear as if they were still moving or standing, says archaeologist Diana Gergova of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The burial dates to the end of the fourth century B.C. and likely belonged to a member of the Getae, one of the most powerful Thracian tribes.
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Roman Britain's finest work
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Firestation Berendrecht / Bovenbouw
© Filip Dujardin
http://www.archdaily.com/590433/firestation-berendrecht-_-naiji-jiao-and-seven-xiru-chen/
Architects: Bovenbouw
Photographs photographs: Filip Dujardin
Main Contractor : Brebuild NV.
Energy: K27
Concrete Structure: Betca/ Peikko
Client: AG VESPA
Gross External Internal Area: 1126 m2 - 993 m2
Build Cost: 1.765.323,41 € excl. VAT
Text description provided by the architects. A new fire station north of Antwerp near the harbour. The site is triangularly shaped and surrounded by infrastructure on all sides. The design of the new fire station doesn’t want to have a formal resemblance with the nearby hangars, but is a synthesis of the general character of the building typology of the harbour.
On top of the two utilitarian floors there is a domestic floor with a living room, kitchen, fitness, sleeping rooms and an outdoor sports field, arranged around a patio. The sports field, located on the corner of the building, is covered with a semi-transparent wooden panelling and therefore stays in contact with outside. An open staircase relates the domestic floor to the two lower floors.
The offices become a transition between the living and the hard program; from which there is a visual relationship to the fire trucks and with the street. Within this transition zone the offices, dressing rooms and showers are located. Situated below is the garage and, along the service entrance, a bicycle storage and car park.
Address: Kruisweg 22, 2040 Antwerpen, Belgium
Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.
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International condemnation of the Benghazi bombings
January 24, 2018 Politics 0
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) condemned, on Tuesday the bombings in Al-Salmani area in Benghazi, which killed dozens of people. “Direct or indiscriminate attacks against #civilians are prohibited under international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes”, said the mission on Twitter. The embassies of Italy and the …
UN and AU support completion of transitional phase in Libya
The UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, agreed to strengthen cooperation with African Union (AU) to support the completion of the transitional process in Libya and to move it to unified, stable and effective institutions, during his meeting with AU President, Moussa Faki in Addis Ababa. United Nations Support Mission …
Salama: We will double our efforts to stabilize Libya in 2018
January 4, 2018 Politics 0
UN special envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame said he will double his efforts to move Libya from a state of “turbulence to certainty” in 2018. Salame said in a statement published on the official page of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Thursday, that he hoped the …
National Human Rights Commission in Libya : More than 400 dead in 2017
January 2, 2018 Human Rights, Politics 0
The National Human Rights Commission in Libya (NCHRL) said that 433 people, 79 children and 10 women, were killed by clashes, bombings and extrajudicial killings across several Libyan cities, in 2017. In a statement on its official website, the NCHRL said that it recorded the extrajudicial killings of 201 people, …
UNSMIL: 5 civilians killed in December as a result of hostilities
January 2, 2018 Human Rights 0
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has documented the deaths of five civilians, three men and two children, and the injury of another in December in three cities: Benghazi (3 deaths and 1 injury), Zawiya (1 death) and Sabratha (1 death). The mission said that explosive remnants …
UN envoy to Libya: We aim to organize a credible election
December 28, 2017 Politics 0
UN special envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salameh said the UN mission is seeking to register 1 million new voters in the voter register to give greater credibility to the elections. Salame told Saudi newspaper Al-Hayat on Thursday, that the previous elections were not credible enough with a participation rate of …
Supreme State Council : Egypt cannot sponsor the reunification of the Libyan army as it is a “non-neutral party”
December 13, 2017 Municipalities 0
The Supreme State Council expressed to the UN their rejection of Egypt’s hosting of meetings for the unification of the military establishment “because it is a non-neutral party” in the Libyan crisis. On Tuesday, the head of the Security and Counterterrorism Committee of the Supreme State Council, Belkacem Dabarz, met …
The National Commission for Human Rights: Human rights violations in Libya reached a “very serious” level
December 11, 2017 Human Rights, Municipalities 0
Libya’s National Commission for Human Rights said that human rights violations have reached a “very serious” index with no legal accountability. In a statement released on Sunday on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Commission stated that the United Nations Support Mission …
Ghassan Salame: More than 350 Libyans were killed or injured in 2017
On Sunday the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Ghassan Salame, said that “human rights violations in Libya” are disturbing due to the lack of legal accountability for them. On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, Salame said that in 2017 alone, at least 365 Libyan …
The Presidential Guard is discussing technical and logistical support for the apparatus with the UN Mission
December 5, 2017 Municipalities 0
In a meeting with the delegation of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, the leadership of the Presidential Guard discussed joint cooperation between the two sides and the technical and logistical support expected from countries and organizations supporting the Presidential Guard. On Tuesday, the Presidential Guard mentioned on its’ …
Libya protests: Second city Benghazi hit by violence
Protests spread to Libya
Qaddafi’s Son Warns of Civil War as Libyan Protests Widen
Qaddafi’s Grip on the Capital Tightens as Revolt Grows
HRW – Libya: Growing Human Rights Crisis
Libya Tripoli Haftar ISIS UNSMIL Fayez Al-Sarraj Tobruk Government of National Accord Martin Kobler United Nations Khalifa Haftar House of Representatives Agilah Saleh General National Congress United Nations Support Mission in Libya Bengazi Fayez Sarraj Presidency Council Libya Political Agreement Khalifa Ghweil Hiftar Libya Constitution National Oil Company Nouri Abusahmen GNA
Salama: I say to the countries that interfere in Libya, “Lift your hands off her.”
Libya attains 3 memberships in the Arab Labor Organization
GNA Will Distribute 150 Million Dinars to Municipal Councils
#Government #Libya #News – 146 illegal migrants from Burkina Faso were deported to their country via the airport in coordination with the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Italian energy giant ENI cuts production in Libya
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The current Mars Mission Plan for Humans landing and waking on the surface of Mars by 2035.
Sending Human to Mars is not cheap or easy. The mission that will require building the Mars Space Transport Ferry and have people live on Mars for a year will not happen in the 2030’s.
But NASA and Boeing are determined to have people walking on Mars by 2035. Their Mars mission is modest and doable.
Using the SLS Rockets (both 70 and 130 tons), components for a habitat module will be launched from Earth and put into orbit around the Moon. Astronauts will live in the habitat module on the way to Mars and back.
About 4 astronauts (US, European) will launch from Earth aboard the Orion Space Ship and rendeavous and dock with the Habitat orbiting the Moon. From Moon orbit they will leave for Mars on a 7 month journey.
At this point you may be wondering why we are assembling the Mars Space Ship in Moon orbit and leaving from there? The reason is “gravitational escape velocity”. To leave from Earth you need to reach an escape velocity (speed) of 7 miles a second (25,000 miles per hour). From the Moon, the “gravitational escape velocity” is only 1.5 miles per sec (5,000 miles per hour) thus reducing the rocket power needed to send a very heavy space ship to Mars.
When they arrive in the Mars vicinity, Orion/Habitat will go into a Mars orbit and rendeavous with a waiting orbiting Descent Module put there by an SLS Rocket prior to their arrival. At this point Mars is at it’s close point to the Earth, 35 million miles away. The Astronauts will go into the Descend Module and land on Mars near another module called an Ascent Module already there and also put there by an SLS Rocket.
The 4 Astronauts will explore Mars for less than 30 days. They will climb into Ascent Module and be launched into a Mars orbit, rendeavous with the orbiting Orion/Habitat ship leave Mars orbit and return home in 7 months.
It is very important that the Astronauts leave for home within 30 days of landing on Mars. After 30 days, the distance between Mars and Earth will start increasing by millions of miles up to a distance of 250 million miles. Then Mars will be on the opposite side of the Sun. If they miss their departure time, it may take up to a year before the Astronauts are within the 35 million mile range for returning to Earth.
Mars Space Transport Ferry
The above illustration of the Mars Space transport Ferry, also referred to as the Mars Space Tug, is courtesy of the Boeing Company which is building the Rockets and other Components for the Mars Mission.
The Mars mission begins by launching into Earth orbit Modules and Space Components on top of the SLS Rockets (www.explore-universe.weebly.com). In Earth Orbit, the Astronauts will assemble the Modules and Components into a Mars Space transport Ferry.
Components of the Mars Space Transport Ferry
1. Orion Space Ship: See picture of Orion at “To Boldly Go - 1 Asteroid Redirect Mission”.
Astronauts destined for the Mars voyage, will be launch from Earth aboard the Orion Space Ship and rendezvous and dock with the orbiting Space Transport Ferry. Orion now becomes part of the Space Transport Ferry.
When all the preparations steps are completed, the Mars Transport Ferry will fire SLS Rockets to propel the Mars Space Ferry to a velocity that escape the Earth’s gravity (25,000 miles per hour) and towards Mars. Keep in mind that while in Earth Orbit, the Mars Space Ferry is already traveling at 17,500 miles per hour.
The voyage to Mars will take from to 2 to 6 months depending on which of the two rocket propulsion engines will be used to propel the Mars Space Transport Ferry.
In the vicinity of Mars, the Mars Space Transport Ferry will go into orbit around Mars. The Astronauts will board the Mars Lander and descent onto the Mars surface. After a few months of exploration, they will rocket off the Mars surface and get back to the orbiting Mars Space Transport Ferry that will return them to Earth. Once in the Earth vicinity, the Orion Space capsule will safely splashdown in the ocean.
2. Space Transport People Habitats
On the 2 to 6 months journey to and from Mars, the Astronauts will live and work in one or more Habitat Modules that are part of the Mars Space Transport Ferry. The Habitat Modules will be similar to the ones that make up the International Space Station Modules. It is possible that some of the International Space Station Modules will be refurbished and used on the Mars Space Ferry.
3. Multiple Mars Landers with Inflatable Decelerator Heat Shields
The above pictures are of a new technology landing system being developed by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory for landing on Mars and Planets that have an atmosphere. It’s called the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD). In 2014 a prototype of the LDSD was successfully tested near Hawaii. It will be used to land people, Habitat Modules, and chemical processing Modules on Mars.
Once the Mars Space Transport Ferry is safely in orbit around Mars, multiple Mars Landers will leave the Ferry and land on Mars. They will include one or more Housing Habitats for the Astronauts to live and work for a few months or possibly a year on Mars. Then land the Supply Modules that will include a chemical processing Module that will interact with Mars Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Atmosphere and produce Water, Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Methane.
If all goes well with landing the multiple Modules, Astronauts will board the People Module and land on Mars.
4. Rocket Propulsion Engines for the Mars Voyage
There are two possible propulsion engines for the trip to Mars. The first one is Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) and will take about 6 months to get to Mars. The solar arrays capture energy from the Sun and then convert it into electricity. The electricity ionizes a propellant like xenon and expels the IONs as ionized gas to create continuous trust power to the Space Ferry. The ION Propulsion engine is being used for deep space missions of robotic spacecraft. (IONs are extra electrons that are added or removed from neutral molecules of propellants)
Solar Electric Propulsion Rocket Engine (SEP)
Vasimr plasma engine is the second propulsion engine. With this engine the Mars trip should take about 2 months. It works by converting ionized hydrogen or helium fuels into plasma and ejecting the plasma to create trust. This engine is still in the development research stage and maybe ready in the 2030’s.
Vasimr Propulsion Plasma Rocket Engine
5. Mars Launcher
In the Apollo Moon missions, both the Moon Lander and Moon Launcher were part of the same Module. The top part of the Lander also served as the launch vehicle to launch the Astronauts into a Moon orbit and rendezvous with Apollo ship that would return them to Earth.
Similarly the Mars Lander top section will be able launch the Astronauts into a Mars orbit and rendezvous with the Mars Space transport Ferry that will bring them back to Earth.
Will this Mars trip every happen? The answer is yes! If you ever were curious and tried to understand Human History, you would discover that God wired us to create new things and explore and try to know everything that makes up our world. In doing so, we learn a little more about God and prolong our existence on Earth.
When will the Human mission to Mars happen? There is a good chance it may take place in the current target date of 2035. But first, two things have to come together for the Mars mission to occur. Just like in Human History, a realization that Human survival is linked to this exploration coupled with the advancement of technology.
Example: Our planet is threatened by pollution, climate change, and carbonic acidification of our oceans. One of the major causes is too much carbon dioxide in our atmosphere due to Human activity. Guess which planet’s atmosphere is 95 percent carbon dioxide? If your guess is Mars, you are correct.
The chemical processing module that will land on Mars will contain hydrogen. The hydrogen brought from Earth will interact with Mars Carbon Dioxide atmosphere to produce water and methane (fuel). The methane is liquefied and stored. Some of the water is electrolyzed (broken apart) into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is stored and the hydrogen is recycled through the chemical processing module to generate more water and methane. At this point if you are thinking that the development of a workable and practical technology to reduce carbon dioxide in our atmosphere may help save our planet, you are again correct.
The next evolutionary step is for us will be to convert the Mars Space Transport Ferry to a Solar System Space Transport Ferry. This Space Ferry will visit planets and especially their moons (that may contain life), Asteroids, comets and strange things that we did not know are out there. Humanity has a lot of questions about our origins and how God created us and the world around us. Some of those answers are hidden in our Solar System for us to discover.
This series of articles and our Human exploration is just the beginning.
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Written By: Luke Delaney
Narrated By: Robin Bowerman
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK
Duration: 14 hours 9 minutes
The second novel in the DI Sean Corrigan series - authentic and terrifying crime fiction with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride.
Thomas Keller knows exactly who he's looking for...
They tried to keep them apart, but when he finds her, he's going to keep her. Just like he knows she wants him to.
DI Sean Corrigan is not like other detectives. His dark past has given him the ability to step into a crime scene and see it through the offender's eyes. He understands what drives a person to commit terrible acts - but sometimes his gift feels more like a curse.
When women start disappearing from their homes in broad daylight, Corrigan's Murder Investigation Team is reluctant to take on a missing persons case. But then the first body turns up, and Corrigan knows he must quickly get into the mind of the murderer. Because this killer knows exactly who he wants. And he won't stop until he finds her.
by Luke Delaney
This title is due for release on August 29, 2013.
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The Flower No Longer Smells as Sweet as It Did Before
Here, I found some flowers for you.
Don't you find them beautiful, these tiny purple wildflowers? See how proudly their stems shoot up from the ground, each one culminating in elegant purple trumpet forms? They draw they eye not through ostentation but pure, simple beauty, like refined ladies gliding through a crowd of overly ornamented women who wish they too could shine so easily. Surely, these flowers must have a name that reflects their name. Oh? Orobanche uniflora? How lovely. It's like an angel whispering a sweet secret to a princess. And the common name?
I must have misunderstood you. Please say it again?
“Naked Broomrape!”
I see. So I did hear you correctly the first time. I don't think I shall talk to you anymore.
(And... scene.)
Yes, this little flower — technically a parasitic herb — is known to English speakers as naked broomrape, although I'd imagine most people take care when actually speaking this name since it's the kind of thing that could draw a lot of negative attention. The rape here is the plant one, from the Latin rapa, meaning "turnip." The broom is basically the same as our word broom, just not referring the stick and instead to the bristles at the bottom, which back in the day would have been made from whatever shrubby plants would collect dirt.
In looking up the etymology of good ol' broomrape, I stumbled upon this blog post that also notes how awful the name sounds, even after you learn where the term comes from. The author notes several different wildflowers, including another one that, like Naked Broomrape shall join my "Ha ha — This [Thing]'s name" series: the pussytoes.
Hat tip to Dina for this. May I encourage readers unfamiliar “Ha ha — This [Thing’s] Name” series to give it a spin if they ever feel like their parents saddled them with a clunker of a name?
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Seeing Things / Running Through Your Head
Sprawling and sinister though the clouds may have seemed, I was willing to give them a pass on size and character and instead just appreciate them for their color. I usually see chromatic displays like this only in the form of screensavers.
Then, on my drive home through L.A. traffic, it began to rain — just two days after the hottest day ever recorded in the city. Then thunder and lightening. And then a double rainbow. Yep, should have gone with my gut; these were clearly apocalypse clouds.
And I just moved all my stuff in, too.
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Famous, Blue Teeth
I love words and brand names and anything that sounds like an urban legend, yet I'd never looked into the history of the term Bluetooth until friend/associate/fellow conspirator Katie brought to my attention where this term came from.
Bluetooth, which now serves as a catchall descriptor for all manner of wireless technology, came into the worldwide lexicon as a result of either a historically-minded techno geek or a technologically-minded history geek. It takes its name from Harald I of Denmark, in honor of his unification of dissonant Danish tribes, as Wikipedia puts it. Similarly, Bluetooth technology aims to do the same with modern communications. How amazing: A cool-sounding brand name with a sensible origin rooted in a figure historical but nonetheless obscure (at least to those who didn't grow up learning Scandinavian history). My first reaction, of course, was that that this must be a folk etymology, because things that sound too-cool-to-be-true often are.
Nope. It's legit.
Harald existed. Born in 920 BCE to Gorm the Old and Thyra Dannebod — and yes, this is some Lord of the Rings shit right here — Harald was known to his subjects as Harald Blåtand, which could be translated as "Harald Bluetooth" but, according to a Snopes message board thread, could also be "Harald the great man," "Harald the black man," "Harald the great chief" or "Harald the black chief," depending on who you ask. (BTW, "Greatman," "Blackman," "Greatchief" and "Blackchief" don't make such snappy brand names.) But none of these alternate translations explain how this Blåtand nickname got attached to Harald. Theories abound online — there's everything from a janky, rotten tooth to a predilection for blueberries — but I have yet to find a definitive answer. If you know, please don't hesitate to tell me.
I realize this very story has probably been reported to death on techie and word nerd blogs worldwide, but the history was just too weird for me to ignore, even if I technically ignored it for an entire month after Katie sent it to me. (Hi Katie!)
Personally, I would like to think that Harald's chompers remained blue only because his servants feared the man strong enough to unify warring viking tribes and therefore would not dare to point out that he had some blue crap in his teeth.
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What Happened to Kirby?
It shames me little to admit that I still receive emails from Nintendo about upcoming products that I may or may not be interested in. The gaming blogosphere actually keeps me informed of such happenings well in advance of these emails, but I still enjoy them — little candy-colored breaks during my day that remind me of the franchises that I so loved as a kid and (in many cases) still love today. Just this week, Nintendo sent out one about the first Wii to title starring Kirby, that pink puffball whose main attack against enemies is sucking them into his mouth.
Indeed, Nintendo, what did happen to Kirby? Did he take Viagra? Get a certain surgery to increase his manliness? (And if it’s the latter, should we be surprised, given that he can most easily be described with the words “pink puffball”?)
It’s no smutty joke, at least not intentionally, but still one must wonder why the Nintendo marketing team wouldn’t try to keep gamers’ minds from leaping straight into the gutter and wallowing in the filth therein.
Here’s the full image, by the way:
What at first glace would appear to be a humongo schlong is actually a shooting star — one of the iconic Kirby series items that seems to be making a reappearance in the new game, Kirby’s Epic Yarn Kotaku put it best when it dubbed the image “Kirby’s Epic Yard.” Bonus points for allowing me to feel like I’m not the only one who went there.
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The Weirdness of the Lambs
I cannot turn down a chance to look at something alleged to be weird. So when I see a headline “Those Catherine trailers aren’t getting any less bizarre” in Google Reader, I click through, knowing full well the article will tell me about some video game I won’t ever play. Anyway, yeah, I watch the trailer, which is weird even for me but is also from Japan, where people fly robots to work and, like, marry houseplants in lavish ceremonies. Our weird, to the Japanese, is normal and their weird, frequently, is brain-melting. Click through and watch for yourself, if you must. (In may not be safe for work, unless you work in Japan, in which case you probably watched it on the hologram screens on the subway on the way to work.) But you only need to know that what I saw was weird enough that I looked up the Wikipedia page for this game Catherine to see why I just watched these things. And I found a passage that I honestly didn’t think I’d read today or ever:
It is stated, from [gaming magazine] Famitsu, that Vincent will not be alone in his nightmares and that he’ll be encountering a large number of lambs. In a dream sequence, the lambs, as well as Vincent, are being chased by a giant pair of hands, one of them holding a blood-covered fork.
This is under the section “Gameplay.”
So yeah, I wouldn’t have thought to do that.
And in case you might think that I just happened across the page after it got vandalized, there was also this:
Story checks out. Inasmuch as it could, I mean.
Read more: i wouldn't have thought to do that, things japanese, video games
Up There With Schenectady, Sheboygan and Rancho Cucamonga
A brief open letter to a reader in Walla Walla:
Hi there, reader. I have noticed you in my Google Analytics because you visit the blog fairly regular, but also because I think your city name is funny. But you always find this blog by Googling my name. May I ask why? I mean no offense, I’m just curious as to why you always Google my name instead of just bookmarking my site.
Do you think your town name is funny too?
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Mongra the Ape Woman
I’m not TV pretty. I’m not sure I’m even TV ugly. However, regardless of my looks or my lack of TV stardom, I feel I could pull off a better magazine cover that Real Housewives of New York participant Teresa “No Forehead” Giudice did on the current In Touch Weekly.
Not to knock an entire family, but HOLY CHRIST. This was the best picture they could get? My first reaction was an out-loud “Gah!” as I stood in line in the grocery store. And my second was a mental association with Tod Browning’s Freaks and the “Gooble gobble / Gooble gobble / One of us! / One of us!” scene. I’m honestly not sure if the lead photo editor at In Touch Weekly has a bigger grudge against the Giudices or Drew Mackie, as this image will no doubt flash through my mind when I’m lying in bed tonight.
Read more: die wunderkammer, freaks, i swear i'm visually literate, in touch, real housewives
Lindsay Lohan, Emma Stone and the Maiden-Jailbird-Crone Cycle
A quick thought: Has the strangeness struck anyone else that in the very week while Lindsay Lohan is facing an actual jail sentence, the delay of her Linda Lovelace movie and possibly the lowest point of her career so far, a very Lindsay Lohan-esque actress is receiving wide acclaim for her performance in a very Mean Girls-esque movie?
I speak, of course, of Emma Stone, she of Superbad and Zombieland fame. Her new high school movie Easy A has garnered enough positive notice that I think I may actually go see it — and I haven’t seen a teen-centered movie in theaters since Mean Girls. (Hey, Sanam — remember?) But in all the praise being heaped on Stone — a pretty girl who doesn’t fit the high school queen bee stereotype, who has red hair, who is not a stick figure and whose roles so far have had her playing the smart, attractive girl rather than the dumb, attractive girl — no one I’ve read has mentioned that she would seem to be the second coming of Lindsay Lohan. Perhaps that’s because critics want to like Stone and can’t think of a way to compare her to Lohan without making it sound like an insult. But, for the record, the Mean Girls-era Lohan had promise — a glint of intelligence and comic timing that made many of us think she’d move on to big things. Remember that first episode of Saturday Night Live she hosted? Gold, I tell you — gold.
Curiously, both Lohan and Stone are being reported as hosting SNL this new season, behind such big names as Amy Poehler, Jane Lynch, Bryan Craston and Jon Hamm. What better way to decide who gets to be Hollywood’s go-to smart-sexy redheaded ingénue other than dueling SNLs? (Aside, of course, from a coliseum battle to the death. If this option gets chosen, can I suggest that Lohan be given the poison-tipped sword, to compensate for intoxication and resulting delayed motor responses?)
EDIT: If this subject actually interests you, may I suggest that you read a lengthier, related essay that I wrote for my new job?
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Find the Hidden Galoshes on the U.S. Dollar Bill!
Most of my words-of-the-week tend to be ones normal people would never use, either because these words refer to obscure things or because a more familiar term already exists. However, I occasionally offer words for things that you might encounter on a daily basis but which you did not realize have specific names. Those — the “There’s a word for that?” posts — are probably my favorites. And this is one.
guilloche (gi-LOHSH or GEE-yohsh, with either one rhyming with brioche) — noun: : 1. an architectural ornament formed of two or more interlaced bands with openings containing round devices. 2. a pattern (as on metalwork) made by interlacing curved lines.
It’s that second definition that should be notable to anyone whose exchanged American paper currency for goods or services, as guilloche can refer to that intricate “webbing” pattern that appears in the background of the various dollar notes. (Hat tip to Kottke.) I would have guessed that the second definition referred to mechanical, hand-directed processes, but apparently these designs are today more likely created by feeding mathematical formulas into computers.
Now get lost in some guillocity.
The etymology of guilloche seems to be debated. (It’s one of the first words-of-the-week in a long time to not have an entry at Online Etymology Dictionary.) The American Heritage Dictionary says the term comes from either the French word for the tool used to make this type of ornamentation or from the French guillochis, which, confusingly, seems to mean “guilloche.” This Merriam-Webster etymology gives only guillochis, but a different Webster definition cited by the less reliable yourdictionary.com traces the history back to Latin: from guillochis to the French guillocher, “to ornament with lines,” to the Old Italian ghiocciare, “to drop or drip” and ultimately to the Latin gutta, “a drop.” Wikipedia’s article on guilloche (or, rather, guilloché) claims the term comes from a French engraver Guillot, who invented the technique. Finally, dictionary.com — which isn’t exactly trustworthy — reports the Collins Dictionary — which I’ve never heard of before — states that guilloche could trace back to the French name Guillaume, “William.” So make of that what you will.
Fun fact: Have you ever tried to scan a dollar bill? Oh, the fun little threatening messages you get when you do that. Also: “Encyclopedia Drew and the Case of the Mixed-Up Currency”and the purported history of the U.S. dollar sign.
Previous strange and wonderful words:
adulterine, ageusia, ambeer, anosmia
barrack, bissextile, bloofer, breastsummer
catholicon, cecaelia, couvade, cranberry morpheme, crwth, cummingtonite
deasil, decussate, deuteragonist, dingle
eidolon, epeolatry, epopt, espalier, etui
fabiform, fissilingual, Föhnkrankheit, folderol, froward
gallinipper, grandgore, grue, gyaru
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, hogo, honorificabilitudinitatibus
itaiitai, ignivomous
jabroni, jamais vu, jehu, jumentous
kaffir, kakopygian, knipperdollin
leman, lemniscate, limnovore, linsey-woolsey, longicorn
malacia, malison, milt, mongo, morepork
nef, nihilartikel, nobiliary particle, nosism
ombré, ooglification, orchidectomy, ordured, orf
pace, pareidolia, pavonated, petrichor, pismire, pong, puggle, purse
quacksalver, quagga, qualtagh, quidnunc
ronion, roynish, rubirosa
salmagundi, scrutator, seneschal, shebang, sinople, stevedore, suovetaurilia
tergiversate, thagomizer, thon, tiffin, tittery-whoppet, tmesis, toby, tyro
ucalegon, ultramontane
veneficial, verdigris, vespertilionine, vinegeroon
williwaw, witzelsucht, wooper looper
xenodocheionology, xyster
yazoo, ypsiliform, yoink
zanjero, zenzizenzizenzic, zinnober, zugzwang
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Read more: all things verbal, money, strange and wonderful words, things french
On Doors, Windows and Politely Shooing Away Unwanted Persons
For no particular reason, I recalled a sentence often spoken by unpleasant, uncreative people to those who tread into their line of sight: “You make a better door than a window.”
If you have spoken this phrase, you may well be awful.
In addition to being a rude way to ask someone else to move, this cliché doesn’t hold up to careful consideration. It infers that a door always blocks one from viewing something in a way that a window does not. But doors don’t always impede vision. Aside from exceptions like glass doors, screen doors and doors that themselves have windows in them, even regular, opaque doors should be open at least sometimes. That’s their function: opening occasionally to allow passage through. So to accuse someone of being a door doesn’t really make sense, unless this person facilitates travel from one side of something to another, in which case being called “door” could actually be a compliment. But if you share literal qualities with doors — that is, the ability to let something pass easily from one side of you, through you, and over to the other side — you may want to see a doctor, for you’ve likely been shot with a high-powered rifle.
If you really wanted to accuse someone of blocking your view, you should accuse them of being “a wall without windows or doors.” Excluding the glass ones that prevent their owners from throwing stones, walls are opaque, permanent structure and are in most cases prevent people from crossing from one side to the other. If you frequently tell people about how their door-like attributes surpass their window-like attributes, you might want to reconsider how you use doors. If, for example, you have a door that you never open, you’re not really taking advantage of your full door benefits. You might as well have a wall without windows or doors. Hence my new coinage, “You make a better wall without windows or doors than a window.”
And yes, you can blame Chuck Klosterman’s attack on “like comparing apples to oranges” for this little essay.
Read more: all things verbal, idioms
My Friends Mario and Dorothy
So Tuesday marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the release of Super Mario Bros. (in Japan, at least) and Nintendo commemorated the event with some fanfare, including a Wii re-release (in Japan, at least) of the Super Nintendo game that compiled the main eight-bit Mario titles. Nintendo also put out the below video, which is the stuff game nut dreams are made of: a retrospective of the major Mario games — Super Mario Bros. through Super Mario Galaxy 2 — bookended by some retro-fantastic sequences based the sprites and music from the original game.
And so I was prompted to think back on how much fun I’ve had with these games and how big of an impact they had on my early years. The impact continues today, even though there exists a good decade-long gap during which I forgot about them. But I’ve since rediscovered Mario and how happy this Italian stereotype makes me. And now I wonder how much they’ve affected my brain. Do I instinctively fear the collision of turtle shells and pipes? (Maybe not.) Do I think that, no matter how stacked-against-me the odds may be and how much the world seems hostile to my very presence, I can still achieve my goals? (Maybe yes, provided I receive a few chances to try again when I fuck up).
Keeping in mind that I nearly let Super Mario Bros.’s twenty-fifth slip by me, you should understand how surprised I was when I learned that yesterday, September 14, marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Golden Girls (in America, at least). The Awl commemorated this with a posting of Bea Arthur’s interview on the Today show shortly after the series began airing on NBC.
Having grown up in a remote enough location that my every Saturday night had me in the TV room, watching whatever my parents wanted, The Golden Girls played a prominent role in my young life. I watched the show every week. Then, as I got older, I stopped caring, only to rediscover the show’s greatness in the past few years. Come to think of it, I can’t imagine why I liked the show back then. I couldn’t have possibly understood the jokes about sex and menopause. Not being a menopausal woman (biologically, at least) I’m not sure I can fully do so today, but I can appreciate the cast’s amazing comic timing, even in awkward “special moment” episodes like the one where Rose gets molested by her dentist. If Super Mario Bros. could have possibly taught me lessons about determination, Golden Girls taught me that a person could enjoy life even if he or she didn’t fit society’s perception of who should be allowed to be free and happy. (Wrinkly-crinkly wins the race.) Also, the wonderful Sophia Petrillo taught me many swears and insults that I never would have heard on the elementary school playground, including slut, whore, screw you and flat-chested. (She said that last one to Rose’s slut whore daughter. Screw her.) Come to think of it again, I don’t know why my parents thought The Golden Girls constituted appropriate TV for a young boy, but, again, perhaps the comic timing won them over. They also let me watch Mighty Aphrodite when I was twelve, and now I love Woody Allen.
But Woody Allen will have to wait for another post. Today, I’m thinking about the strangeness of these two disparate culture landmarks, Super Mario Bros. and The Golden Girls, coming into the world just a day apart. I can only imagine that if Bea Arthur were alive today and someone were to inform her of this fact, she’d stare blankly for a few beats and then growl “What the hell is an Intendo?”
Read more: a funny story, golden girls, new super mario bros. wii, tv, video games
Queen Sirloin, I Am Done With You
Sometimes, a purse made of meat is just a purse made of meat. Apparently.
I watched and enjoyed the Bravo reality competition Work of Art. It, like its fellow Magical Elves productions, managed to teach me a bit about the subject at hand. For example, among the show’s contestants was a performance artist named Nao Bustamante. Not understanding performance art, I usually gave Bustamante’s work a pass. However, the judges felt differently, and despite Bustamante’s seniority over the rest of the show’s cast and her apparent status as the show’s resident troublemaker, she got the boot the in fourth episode. One judge, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, seemed particularly irked by Bustamante’s decision to respond to the Andres Serrano-inspired “shocking art” challenge with a performance as some kind of incontinent, Matthew Barney-esque bag lady. Rohatyn called it “a scatological mess,” I remember. But the problems seemed to lie less in the performance itself so much as Bustamante’s explanation of it. In short, she couldn’t say what she was trying to do. And while I’m sure many artists and art buffs might quibble with the notion that an artist must have a specific intent with their work, Rohatyn’s criticism stuck with me. It turns out that I too may be someone who also thinks that good art can’t come from someone who has no plan, no reason for doing a given thing, no justification for making a viewer observe their creation.
I thought of Nao Bustamante and her bag of shit today when reading blogs about MTV’s Video Music Awards and seeing that Lady Gaga wore another meat dress. I’m not breaking any ground by claiming that Lady Gaga’s schtick incorporates a lot of performance art and that it’s sometimes more performance art than anything else, but I usually let her antics slide because she’s doing something unique — unpleasant, weird and challenging to mainstream values — and somehow still winning the hearts worldwide. That, and “Paparazzi” was a near-perfect pop song with a kickass music video. But the meat dress — the item of Slim Jim couture — I have issues with. The dress, which seems to be an updated version of what she sported recently on the cover of Vogue Hommes Japan seemed like an attention-getter and nothing more. It didn’t seem to have any connection with her work so far or anything else she brought to the show — like, say, the space princess-looking Alexander McQueen dress she wore on the red carpet or the retinue of discharged gay soldiers that accompanied her — and I felt like she must have worn it to stir up controversy more than anything else. (Hasn’t she thought about her vegetarian fans? Is she criticizing the meat industry? The fashion industry? Her sexy image, playing off the connection between lustful carnality and the more mundane kind you see in butcher shops? At least she has to be doing something with the matching meat handbag and the term spam purse, right?)
(via huffpo)
I might feel differently if Gaga had given any reason for why she wore such an objectionably eye-catching dress, but she didn’t. On The Ellen DeGeneres Show yesterday, she offered only this Sarah Palin-worthy string of nonsense:
Well, it is certainly no disrespect to anyone that is vegan or vegetarian. As you know, I am the most judgment-free human being on the earth… However, it has many interpretations but for me this evening. If we don’t stand up for what we believe in and if we don’t fight for our rights, pretty soon we’re going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones. And, I am not a piece of meat.
That doesn’t mean anything. Not a word of it.
Saying something is not disrespectful doesn’t make it not disrespectful. Saying an action has many interpretations doesn’t justify it. And claiming that “if we don’t fight for our rights, pretty soon we’re going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones” strikes me as especially bizarre, given the gradual widening of the American waistline. (Do heavy people enjoy greater liberty?) Gaga’s explanation of the meat dress stunt forces any thoughtful person to conclude either that she had no idea what she was doing or she wore it just for attention and couldn’t even half-ass a phony explanation — not even to Ellen, who is not exactly the most hard-hitting of interviewers.
I don’t feel that an artist needs to spell out everything they were trying to do, because mystery enhances the viewer’s experience of a given art piece. To take the point back to Work of Art, I’m not sure Andres Serrano has ever explained his piece “Piss Christ”, and its ambiguity led to an interesting back-and-forth on what it could mean on Work of Art, to say nothing about the uproar it caused back when it debuted. But if the artist does chose to open his or her mouth, the words coming out had better make sense. If they don’t, smart people will think less of the blabbering artist than they do of the one who keeps quiet.
As for Lady Gaga, I feel the meat dress puts her in an awkward position, professionally speaking, because she now has to not only one-up herself but also do so without sounding like more of an attention-seeker. I think Lady Gaga is a talented singer-songwriter who has eye for spectacle and who has the potential to affect positive social change, even if I mostly agree with Camille Paglia that her tendency to cloak herself with the cause of gay rights and misfit liberation is tiresome and sometimes even manipulative. But this latest stunt has me rethinking Gaga-ness, for what once seemed fresh now stinks like raw meat that spoiled beneath bright stagelights.
Read more: art, i swear i'm visually literate, lady gaga, things more or less sexual, work of art
Mr. Ghostface Goes to Prom
Spotted on Pico: A terrifying window display that suggests the killer from Scream dressing in drag to go to a rave.
Still doesn’t unseat the Halloween costume I’m suggesting to anyone who will listen: Temple Gradin. Visualize it.
Read more: die wunderkammer, halloween, scream, things creepy and/or horrifying
Pandora Spocks
They found my blog. They left. Google failed them. (A long-overdue round-up.)
andrew bird isla vista
Lionel Frankenstein
Transvestite roller derby+Twitter
Lisa Simpson baha'i
googie googie the office
(This site is the number two hit. The first? The link to Google Docs. Go figure.)
facts known about sally jessy raphael in her life
pheasant egg fun facts
blue anteater
names that sound like other things
(Like swear words? Like hilarious body parts? Like kitchen utensils? We will never know.)
HOW DO SPELL RICK SHAW A JAPANESE TAXI ?
Obscure prepositions
(At last, a Googler my blog could make happy.)
"apparently it made sense at the time"
cranberry raisin typhoon
lampsex
saying sweet n low + harassment
(Sir, you are no longer allowed to have sweetener packets in the office.)
what is the name of cartoon character with mushroom on his back
HANDSOME FIGHTERS NEVER LOSE BATTLES
teddy bear villians, hoverboard
what is aaron from lost named after
Which cereal's mascot disappeared from cereal boxes in 1985 leaving a question mark where his face should have been?
(Interesting question. I have no idea, and I have never written about this on my blog. Anybody know?)
nikki and richard cereal
(Worst cereal ever.)
centauress transformation VIDEO
what did drew mackie
(Insert your own verb, I guess.)
strawberry shortcake when she was a baby
nothing rhymes with the word woman
unique shape of watermelon
name a event that might cause the local news to interrupt
(I caught you using the internet to do your work for you, local TV news producer.)
"I'm stabbing her"
Read more: search results
A Facebook Block Is Not an Invisibility Suit
Finally having left Santa Barbara, I purged Facebook of various Santa Barbara-centric groups that served only to litter my email inbox with invites to various terrible concerts. Not all bad, of course, but mostly, yes, terrible, terrible. Invitations basically amounted to “Hey, come to Isla Vista and see a band that’s made up of, like, twelve fifteen-year-olds and they all play three instruments, sometimes at once, and if you did go you’d just feel old because your DNA has made fashionable hair an impossibility for you. Opening bands include Toy Piano Peony Parade, Astrid and the Astrogliders, Twee Penis, and Flintheart Glomgold (which used to be Launchpad McQuack but they had to change it because of Scott Pilgrim). All ages. No booze.” If you attended UCSB in the last ten years, you should know exactly who I’m talking about.
But in attempting the purge, I found that I wasn’t even a member of some of the offending groups, only friends with some of the people promoting these shows. So to ensure that I never have to waste valuable seconds deleting emails about these concerts that I never go to anymore, I decided to bypass Facebook’s labyrinth of privacy and notification options and just block the fuckers. Done and done.
That’s when I found that Facebook gives an unusual disclaimer:
(highlighting by drew)
Okay, fine, good to point out that these folks may still contact you via roundabout Facebook methods, but REALLY? It “does not extend elsewhere on the internet”? Shocker — both because Facebook is the only thing I use the internet for and because I honestly thought Facebook owned the internet and would just magically remove all evidence of me from this person’s computer.
If a I believed that blocking someone on Facebook would completely prevent that person from contacting me or that person having some awareness of my activities anywhere online, I would be better off donating my computer to deserving elementary school students. Because I could probably get all the information I need from, let’s say, the last hour of The Today Show, pamphlets handed out on street corners, and Christmas letters. Of course, Facebook has to tell us this for a reason, much in the same way the makers of those supplements that allegedly prevent hangovers must print on the packaging that the product will not prevent you from getting drunk, will not nullify the effects of narcotics and will not function as an STD blocker or contraceptive unless you save the bag it came in and stuff it into an orifice. And then it will also have to say “Please do not do this with your bag.”
As you read this, I’m busy not getting an email about a once-in-a-lifetime free show featuring Andrew Bird, whose tour bus broke down in Isla Vista and who has decided to spend the next three days playing for any and all and frequently writing songs about the people in the audience.
Read more: a funny story, facebook, music, stupidity
My Dog Sam Eats Purple Flowers
Another one for the “things are like other things” file: Cut Copy’s latest, “Where I’m Going,” sounds remarkably like “Draggin’ the Line” by Tommy James (who at the time of the song’s release in 1970 had ditched the Shondells that helped make him famous).
“where i’m going… to drag the line”
Right? The older of the two songs might be more familiar to people who read this blog for it being covered by R.E.M. on the soundtrack to the second Austin Powers movie, and perhaps I hear the resemblance more in that version. However, if a cause-and-effect relationship does exist between one song and the other, I’d hope Cut Copy were inspired by the Tommy James version and not one released on the same album as a Spice Girl’s cover of “Word Up.”
Read more: cut copy, music, things are like other things, tommy james
Special Hobo Flavor
Who goes there? Oh, it’s just you, antiquated, faint taint of rot! Why don’t you step over and be the word of the week?
hogo (HOH-goh) — noun: a subtle flavor of decay
As far as concepts closely associated with the Richie Riches of yesteryear, I can think of few more symbolically appropriate than that of hogo. The term — a sloppy Anglicization of the French haut goût, “high taste” — was often used to describe a once-desirable flavor in meats: the beginning of rot. I’m fairly certain that I’ve never tasted this flavor, mostly because people today are reluctant to let living animals kill them, much less dead and butchered ones.
The credit for this week’s word comes from David Wondrich’s article in the current Esquire on how rum ain’t like it used to be. Today, rum tastes all fun and pirate-y, but long ago those aforementioned Richie Riches of yore drank rum that had hint of piss — what Wondrich calls “a sulfurous, funky tang.” It still exists in some rums and can be masked with limes and sugar to make an overall flavor more complex than those mere good-tasting spirits you’ve been wasting your time with. Tasty! (Allegedly.)
Along the same lines, for you boozy and wordy readers: the list of terms the American Homebrewers Association uses to pinpoint the taste of beer. What’s a twelve-letter word for “tastes like green apples”?
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, honorificabilitudinitatibus
ooglification, orchidectomy, ordured, orf
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The New Season
I can’t decide which makes the better life-as-TV metaphor: that The Drew Show has ceased to air and instead has been spun off into a more focused series (minus most of the supporting cast of the past few seasons) or that shifting among the network higher-ups has resulted in a massive retooling of The Drew Show, whose lousy ratings prompted its reinvention as something wholly different than it ever was before. Either way, the programming will continue but not as it has in the past. (The recent hiatus should not be interpreted as a cancellation, please note.) The setting of the show has shifted to something more familiar to the masses. Look for more flashbulbs and city lights in the background. Await the reintroduction of minor players from seasons past. And, finally, expect some indication of where this show will go in the years to come.
Heavy-handed, wasn’t it? Damn, I knew I was beating it to death.
Read more: a funny story
Some Hybrid Animal Math
An animal of one species plus one of another species usually results in two animals wondering why they were confined to the same enclosed area. Or, you know, lunch. But as our friend the zedonk has taught us, some species can interbreed, creating hybrid offspring that are often tragically infertile but always adorably named.
Beefalo (domestic cattle + American bison)
Yakow (a.k.a. dzo or zho; domestic cattle + yak)
Yakalo (a.k.a. alternative bison; yak + American bison)
EDIT: A reader has informed me that the animal pictured here is not a yakalo but a Himalayan ovine called the takin. There is a photo of a yakalo in this Modern Farmer piece, however.
Zubron (domestic cattle + wisent, the European bison known in Polish as żubr)
Note: Zubron beat out hundreds of other choices in a Polish contest to name this creature in 1969. I love learning about other countries’ national pastimes.
Geep (sheep + goat)
Note: A sheep-goat hybrid can also be called a shoat, but let’s not since that word already refers to a baby pig. We don’t want to throw a third animal into this mess.
Cama (camel + llama)
Note: The resemblance to cama, the Spanish word for “bed,” is entirely coincidental, as these hybrid beasts of burden are used not for sleeping but instead more as one might use a loveseat.
Huarizo (male llama + female alpaca)
Note: I would have called it a alallamapacala.
Coydog (male coyote + female dog)
Note: The product of love between a male dog and a female coyote, however, would be a dogote. I’m perplexed about animals that take their names regardless of the gender of their parents, as opposed to animals like this one whose parents’ genders seem to dictate its name. A coyote-wolf hybrids seem to be called a coywolf in all instances — a pity, since wolfote is fun to say. Also, dog-wolf hybrids are known variously as the Kunming Wolfdog, the Saarlooswolfhond and other names, but tragically never as the dolf or the wog.
Wholphin (whale + dolphin)
Note: Thank Dave Eggers for making you know this.
Mule (male donkey + female horse) and hinny (male horse + female donkey)
Note: Pictured here are hinnies. Because god dammit you should have seen a mule by this point in your life.
Yet even more zebroid madness:
Donkra (male donkey + female zebra)
Zorse or Zebrule (male zebra + female horse)
Zony (male zebra + female pony)
Zetland (male zebra + female Shetland)
Zebrass (male zebra + any female ass)
Zebret or Zebrinny (female zebra + male donkey)
Hebra or Horbra (female zebra + male horse)
Note: A peculiarly high number of names exist for zebra hybrids. I can only assume that zebras are the sluts of the equine world.
Wallaroo (wallaby + kangaroo)
Note: The casual observer would have difficulty in differentiating the kangaroo-wallaby offspring from mere smallish kangaroos and largish wallabies. Veterans of the Australian outback, however, can spot the hybrids easily, as wallaroos tend to spend their day seeing how many small rocks they can stuff in their pouches and then try to show off to their full-blooded counterparts.
Blynx (lynx + bobcat)
Note: Pictured feline is not a blynx. I could not find any pictures clearly marked as being of bobcat-lynx hybrids, so Pretty Kitty is subbing in. But isn’t Pretty Kitty pretty? Yes him is! Yes him is!
Caraval (female serval + male caracal)
Note: After much searching, I found the above image, which I understand to depict a typical caraval, known worldwide for its elaborate parades and buxom dancers. The offspring of a male serval and a female caracal would be a servical. Whereas caravals are celebrated by many South Americans on the last day before Lent, servicals are celebrated by Ecuadorians twelve days after Christmas, on the day known to Catholics as Epiphany.
Pumapard (puma + leopard)
Note: Is fun to say! This particular pumapard, however, is sad to look at.
Other anomalous felids!
Note: If zebras are harlots, making stripey babies with any member of the equine world that trots their way and offers them a sugar cube, then the Panthera genus is a sort of megafeline swinger party. Wikipedia lays out the various combinations that can result from the mating of lions, tigers, jaguars and leopards and notes the names of each. (Personal favorites: Leopon, Leguar and the puzzling Dogla.) No pictures needed. They all look about the same — like cats, but bigger. Read about them at your local Wikipedia!
The Grizzly-polar hybrid bear (a.k.a. the Pizzly or the Grolar)
Note: Is last because the best picture I could find depicts a dead pizzly. Whamp-whamp.
Now that you know some of the more famous mammal hybrids, can you make your own new crimes against nature? Let your imagination run wild! But please — show your work.
Animal weirdness, previously:
The adventures of Slut the Pig
The plural of Komondor is Komondorok
Oh my god, this puffin
Baby kangaroos are not as cute as you might think
Clint Eastwood and an armadillo, Salvador Dali and an anteater and a lingerie model and another armadillo
The testicle frog
The sad plight of the moorpork
The Fantail Dutch pheasant, the dumbest bird ever to live ever
Of axolotls and wooper-loopers
The sugary horror that is the honeypot ant
The puggles that are not dogs but baby platypi
A fox that should make you feel uncomfortable
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Airspeed Limited
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Founded in York in 1931 by A. Hesell-Tiltman and designer Nevil Shute Norway who later became famous as an author.
Airspeed was founded Alfred Tiltman and Neville Shute Norway in 1931 in Yorkshire with other famous names of the day such as Alan Cobham, Amy Johnson and Lord Grimthorpe being listed as shareholders.
The company's first aircraft was the AS.1 Tern, a small glider created to gain publicity through record breaking. Launched from hillsides, it could be privately purchased for just £248 although, even at such a low cost, only 2 aircraft were ever produced.
In 1933, the Airspeed relocated to Portsmouth and the following year it became associated with Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd, after which it became known as Airspeed (1934) Limited.
Various aircraft designs followed including the AS6 Envoy, AS8 Viceroy and then in 1937, the extremely successful AS10 Oxford (of which over 8,500 were produced).
In 1940, it was announced that De Havilland Aircraft Company Limited had purchased a controlling interest in Airspeed (1934) Limited although the firm continued to operate and market its products under its own name.
At the same time Airspeed (1934) Limited were brought in to manage the Ministry of Aircraft Production factory at Christchurch, where it built nearly 700 of the 3,600 Horsa Gliders used to great effect during the D-Day landings.
In 1944, the company reverted to its original name of Airspeed Limited and in addition to the production of various De Havilland Types such as the Mosquito, Sea Vixen and Vampire, it concentrated on the development of the AS57 Ambassador.
23 Ambassador aircraft were produced, with the primary user being British European Airways (BEA) on their ‘Elizabethan Routes’.
BEA Elizabethan Service passengers boarding for a flight to Paris
The last aircraft marque to carry the Airpseed designation was the AS65 Consul, a type which flew in 1946 and was a direct development of the Airspeed Oxford, dating from the 1930's.
The company produced 162 aircraft which saw service with smaller airlines around the world and with a number entering military service with both the RAF and Isreali Air Force.
Airspeed Limited was fully merged into the De Havilland Aeroplane Company in June 1951 and thus the name disappeared from aviation production.
1931 Airspeed Limited
1934 Airspeed (1934) Limited
1940 Purchased by De Havilland Aircraft Company Ltd but retained name
1951 De Havilland Aeroplane Company
1963 Hawker Siddeley Aviation
1977 British Aerospace
1999 BAE Systems
1931 AS1 Tern 1937 AS30 Queen Wasp
1932 AS4 Ferry 1940 AS39 Fleet Shadower
1933 AS5 Courier 1941 AS45 Cambridge
1934 AS6 Envoy 1941 AS51 Horsa I / AS58 Horsa II
1934 AS8 Viceroy 1946 AS65 Consul
1937 AS10 Oxford 1947 AS57 Ambassador
A British Commonwealth Aircrew Navigational and Radio Communications Trainer during World War II.
Airspeed AS30 Queen Wasp
An attractive Cheetah-powered cabin biplane intended for use as an unmanned target aircraft.
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BAE Systems Successfully Launches Multiple 155-MM Long Range Land Attack Projectiles
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BAE Systems recently completed a series of successful gun fire tests of the 155-mm Long Range Land Attack Projectiles (LRLAP) as part of ongoing testing at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
The purpose of the tests was to evaluate the performance of the LRLAP tactical rocket motors at ambient, cold and hot temperatures, and to test the live fire performance of the tactical warhead. The tests demonstrated that achieving accurate long-range fires through rocket-assisted, gun-launched, and Global Positioning System (GPS) guided projectiles can be done reliably and affordably while providing the desired effects on target. All test requirements were met or exceeded.
“We are pleased by the success of these guided flight gun tests,” said Steven Schultz, acting vice president and general manager of Vehicle Systems at BAE Systems. “This is a critical step forward for the U.S. Navy’s 155-mm LRLAP program. BAE Systems continues to progress on track for our qualification to support deployment of the Advanced Gun System on board the DDG 1000.”
The LRLAP is effective against a variety of targets in multiple mission areas and was designed to provide expeditionary forces with an affordable, ship-launched alternative to currently used missiles. The LRLAP is guided by a GPS and Inertial Measurement Unit, allowing for a high degree of accuracy. This, in turn, assists expeditionary forces in reducing costs by requiring fewer rounds to achieve desired effects on targets. In addition, its accuracy minimizes the potential for collateral damage.
BAE Systems’ next step is a Critical Design Review for the LRLAP, which is expected to occur in December 2012.
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“Right now, people from our member companies are working on the ground to support firefighters, emergency services and communities in practical ways during this terrible situation,” Business Council President Tim Reed said today.
“Many of our member companies have staff who have volunteered to fight the fires. Some of those staff have lost homes and loved ones. Our thoughts are with those people.
“We are all proud of these people and all the firefighters and volunteers for their tireless efforts. As a business community we seek to expand our support for them, and for the local communities they are fighting to save.
“On that basis, we have written to our members to encourage all companies to support their volunteer staff with a minimum of 20 days paid leave.”
“We know that many companies, such as ANZ, Coca-Cola Amatil, Coles, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Qantas, Rio Tinto, Virgin Australia, Wesfarmers, Westpac, Woodside and Woolworths have already announced they are providing paid leave for emergency services volunteers. We ask others to follow their lead.
“As a business community we will also be there once the immediate crisis has past and the recovery effort begins,” Mr Reed said.
The BCA has put in place two specific initiatives to help once the immediate emergency is over.
“The BCA, in partnership with Equity Trustees (EQT), has founded the Australian Volunteer Support Trust to assist the families of any volunteer in Australia who tragically loses their lives through their volunteer work.
“The trust will be a permanent and ongoing fund to support the children of volunteers who have died fighting these fires and in future disasters.
“The primary focus of the trust will be on supporting children to adulthood with a particular emphasis on their education.
“It will be effective from 1 July 2019 to include the current bushfires and be administered by Equity Trustees to respond to the current situation and future emergencies.
“The trust aims to raise an initial sum of $25 million from donations to respond quickly to the immediate needs of families,” Mr Reed said.
The trust will be overseen by an advisory panel chaired by the Hon Jeff Kennett AC and supported by Jennifer Westacott AO, David Gonski AC, Dame Quentin Bryce, Lisa Paul AO, PSM, representatives from the Australian emergency service volunteer organisations and other prominent Australians.
“Equity Trustees are pleased to be part of this initiative with governments of Australia and the Business Council of Australia,” said EQT Chairman the Hon Jeff Kennett AC.
“Volunteers have been the unsung heroes of Australian life and will continue to be so in the future.
“EQT’s involvement therefore has two motivations to salute volunteerism in Australia, and secondly to support the families of those volunteers, of any registered volunteer service, male or female, who sadly lose their lives, while volunteering.
“In particular, the trust will provide for applications based on needs, to educate the children of those who have given lives in service, until 21 years of age.
“Equity Trustees will set up and manage the trust, on a pro bono basis, forever.” Mr Kennett said.
The BCA is also planning for the recovery phase of the crisis.
“We know that for now the focus needs to remain on responding to the ongoing fires and emergency efforts,” Mr Reed said.
“But we also need to start thinking about the role ahead and how businesses can work side by side with governments to rebuild lives and communities.
“Our members cover all sectors of the economy, work in communities all over the nation and the people who make up those companies have a vast range of skills and expertise essential to rebuilding communities,” Mr Reed said.
The BCA is establishing a Community Rebuilding Initiative which will be the first point of contact for companies to coordinate during this crisis and will work as an interface with federal and state authorities.
It will be a five-year initiative working closely with the National Bushfire Recovery Agency headed by Andrew Colvin, APM, OAM to coordinate help, mobilise resources to where they are most needed and assist with rebuilding efforts.”
The Community Rebuilding Initiative will be chaired by General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK, CVO, MC and supported by a committee including John Anderson AO, Katie Page, Tim Reed, Tony Shepherd AO, representatives from the Australian Emergency Service Volunteer Organisation and other prominent Australians.
Sir Peter said today that it is a privilege to lead this group of eminent business and community leaders to work with government and the community in the rebuilding process.
The initiative will focus on coordinating support from the business community such as providing employment opportunities for volunteers and victims who have lost work as a result of the disasters, additional services for communities, reconstruction support and financial relief.
In addition, this initiative will have two trusts established to receive corporate donations to assist community rebuilding. These funds will be held in trusts managed by Equity Trustees. The trusts will be independently audited and report their activities regularly to the market.
Going forward, the BCA will establish a permanent capability to mobilise and co-ordinate the business community’s response in times of future disasters.
As Australia’s national business publication, The Australian Financial Review is supporting these initiatives.
“This has been a devastating, frightening and shocking time for Australia and our hearts go out to all of those who have lost so much” Business Council CEO Jennifer Westacott said.
“We are so grateful for the efforts of our brave volunteers and emergency services personnel, just as we are proud of the efforts of the entire Australian community to support those in need.
“The BCA and the entire business community is in this for the long haul.
“Like all Australians, the business community is capable of incredible things. We will work with governments to ensure we do everything we can to match resources with need and help in the recovery effort to rebuild people’s lives and communities,” Ms Westacott said.
Businesses who would like to make a financial contribution to the trusts can do so by directing funds to EQT’s account the details of which are:
Account Number: 570 808 888
Please note in the description if you are donating funds to the Australian Volunteer Support Trust or the Community Rebuilding Initiative.
For more information on how businesses can be involved in the initiatives, please send an email to community@bca.com.au.
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In Memory of Fred Shen
By Steve Emspak (AV Network) 2016-06-02T20:05:00Z
It was a long and winding road that got me to meeting and ultimately working with Fred, and what he ultimately represented to me was an even longer road that has taken over 27 years to traverse. Just saying things like a mentor, visionary, serious, creative thinker, and things of that nature don’t really tell the tale—they’re too superficial.
Though many may not have seen it—or even realized it, he was a deeply sensitive person behind what many termed a stern appearance. He was always concerned about his employees’ well being and that they had a good comfortable work environment. As a clear example, when I first started at SM&A (Shen Milsom & Associates back then) my “office” was literally a windowless closet without a door. Almost daily, Fred would stick his head in and apologize. I eventually got a poster of a window and within a year or so moved into an office with a door AND a window. Guilt is good!
Needless to say some things one never forgets, and I clearly recall my first international business trip to Hong Kong in late 1989 where Fred personally made certain that my flights were in order, that I would be picked up at the airport, and everything was covered. And then at the last minute, he stopped in, handed me a slip of paper with a phone number on it, and told me that I had to take his parents out to dinner!! REALLY?? Actually it was great—in three hours I learned so much more about Fred than I could ever have otherwise.
He was totally driven by business. He was an astute businessman that understood what many engineers did not—the business of the business. His clients were always foremost in his mind, working tirelessly on highly detailed proposals, delivering the best, creative and most cost-effective solutions, and incorporating that notion into every person that set foot within our office walls.
And of course one can’t forget that SM&W is a family business—and I was an outsider (as he would inappropriately call me a “round eye”) looking in. He taught me the finer things in life, beginning with learning to eat peanuts… one at a time…using chopsticks. My take-away from that was patience and moderation.
But probably the most important lesson was in two parts, first is to put yourself in your clients shoes, take their seat at the table, seeing things as they see them, and truly represent their values. The second, and maybe the most important, was to carefully listened to the client, looking to understand the true meaning of what they were saying—extrapolating that into a concept that would represent their long term goals.
So that long and winding road has come to an end. Two people that in many respects were polar opposites finding a common ground to work together closely; the intense discussions we would have—at times rather adversarial where we would totally disagree or misunderstand what the other was saying, at other times deeply personal with a strong bonding between us as we talked about our staff, our projects, and our families. Regardless, the lessons taught by The Master will never be forgotten.
Thank You Fred for those lessons, the benchmarks you have set, and the legacy you have left behind.
Steve Emspak is a partner at Shen Milsom & Wilke.
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By AVNetwork Staff (Digital Signage Magazine) 2014-10-29T16:09:00Z
Digital out-of-home technology makes a difference in a Canadian nuclear power plant
As one of the largest nuclear power plants in the world, Bruce Power is a major energy supplier to the province of Ontario, Canada. This bustling, privately owned plant has two generating stations consisting of six operating units, and billions of dollars are being invested to refurbish two more units in the Bruce A Restart Project. The Bruce site will be the largest nuclear power plant in the world when all eight units are running next year.
Approximately 10,000 people work at this massive site. With almost 100 buildings and even its own water and waste treatment facilities, it resembles a small city. For this reason, the company has invested heavily in an enterprise-wide, digital out-of-home (DOOH) network to keep the entire work force apprised of news and information to enhance productivity and safety.
Bruce Power launched its TV initiative five years ago. The original communications plan called for producing a weekly television newscast from a closed-circuit studio, but that proved too costly and labor-intensive.
A Harris InfoCaster media player purchased for other purposes was running in test mode in their studio facility. This became the seed that initiated the first phase of a full Harris DOOH solution with content creation, network management and media play-out components.
The network started small with a few players in the security guardhouses, where workers queue to gain entry into the stations. More players were soon added in cafeterias and lobby areas. There are now more than 40 players in the network, several of which feed into existing fiber networks that distribute the show to screens throughout both power stations.
Dynamic Media Displays
Digital signage conveys a wide range of media content in a very impactful, visual way. This system supports high-quality graphics, data and full-motion video. The majority of programming over InfoCaster is created with the understanding that most employees and visitors have limited time to view the screens and are most interested in quickly consuming a wide variety of information at a glance.
A single person manages the entire network, with five unique shows distributed to more than 100 screens. The Network Manager software allows the user to easily monitor and manage the players remotely and update shows and content with incredible power.
InfoCaster’s TitleMotion graphics tool was used extensively to integrate and display the data sources with broadcast-quality graphics. All shows and content were developed with InfoCaster software on a single computer that works as the command center for the whole network, pushing out shows and content first to a shared network drive and then out to each player.
A key factor in the design of the shows was having the ability to allow people with little technical experience to update content without touching the software. InfoCaster players pick up a wide variety of files as they hit the folder, and they quickly become part of the loop.
The nuclear industry thrives on data. The signage system had to tie into real-time metrics to be relevant. Internally generated data sources constantly update information, including unit production and output, as well as vital on-site weather statistics and intake water temperature—the latter of which affects reactor efficiency.
External sources also supply up-to-the-minute data. The Independent Electricity System Operation, which controls the distribution of electricity in Ontario, provides market data in a publicly available XML file. Information includes how much electricity is being used, market price and how much power is being generated from nuclear, wind, coal, gas or hydroelectric sources.
Other external data sources include Environment Canada, which provides a seven-day RSS weather feed, complete with local weather warnings. The Weather Network provides a paid service for local weather radar. Another company manages a Bruce Power employee recognition program and provides a secure RSS feed of the 10 most recent employees who are recognized for hard work.
Bruce Power is pushing the envelope even further through custom applications, many of which are developed by software specialist Bannister Lake of nearby Cambridge, Ontario.
Powerful Custom Apps
A site-wide public address system notifies employees of emergencies, such as severe weather, road closures or other situations. But it’s difficult to know what’s happening if the message is not heard. When announcements are made in the control room, operators can now launch a Bannister Lake application, click on a prewritten message, edit as necessary and hit submit. The message appears on screens across the site within seconds.
The work force kicks into high gear with a 24/7 effort when a unit comes offline during a planned maintenance outage for repairs or upgrades. It’s a highly organized campaign, and leaders that oversee work in the Outage Control Center have an application to quickly and easily update outage status and key work.
Bannister Lake created a number of other apps, including a very specialized display for the Bruce Learning Center, a nuclear university where most on-site training occurs. Working with Bruce Power’s IT department, they tap into the training database to list the daily course offerings and classroom information. It is seamless and fully automated, similar to an airport arrival/departure board.
Bruce Power TV is dynamic and ever-changing. Each step comes with technical challenges, but the network continues to grow and evolve with the help of Harris Customer Support, Bannister Lake and the internal IT department.
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