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+G. Shontah B. (Gary Bertram)
+One day while I was at work and Chata had carried our daughter over to the neighboring Pioneer Bakery in the baby back pack, our place in Venice was broken into. The thief stole our bicycles, cameras, radios, electric shaver and just about everything else that mattered. Just to make matters worse, within days of that event, my employer decided to let me go in spite of all the free overtime hours I had been putting in over the past several months to meet every one of his company deadlines.
+Hiring as my replacement to manage the department the very woman whom I'd been recently been given permission to hire as an employee, it was beginning to seem as though I were simply born on the wrong side of the moon. Hoping to move someplace safer, an old friend told me of a place just up Topanga Canyon in the Malibu hills where we might be able to house while the owner traveled and surfed for a few months down in South America. Without hesitation, we jumped on the opportunity.
+Initially invited to simply move our 8-foot travel trailer beneath a bamboo grove in the Rodeo Grounds just inland from Malibu's Topanga Beach until his departure date, life instantly changed for the better. After having lived as a threesome in those cramped quarters for nearly a month, we were least safe and in an amazingly beautiful environment. After being allowed to shower every few days at my little sisters, we were finally allowed to move in to the spacious house.
+Surrounded by low-lying chaparral covered hills, banana plants, eucalyptus and oak trees as well as the purple and white morning glories which seemed to have woven endless bouquets both throughout the yard and around the perimeter of our every window, we were living in a fantasy land.
+As Tiger Swallowtails, Monarchs, Viceroys and Cabbage butterflies haunted the well kept flower gardens throughout a front and back yard whose upkeep he had put in our hands, the multiple windows throughout the house looked out upon a picturesque world of green hillsides and blue skies. Even the responsibility of house-sitting for his three cats kept our daughter entertained during the days and nights alike. As she learned to crawl, and finally stand, she never tired of watching the cats leap into the air in attempt to bat butterflies with their furry paws.
+A sanctuary of not just plants, but of bird life as well, we were living in a neighborhood consisting almost entirely of surfers, artists and musicians who had been renting the houses for as little as $200 per month from the Malibu Athletic Association and a good number of years. Having possibly been the best kept secret in the entire L.A. Basin, we were living among some very fortunate families.
+Managing to land a new full time night job with trailer Life Magazine in the San Fernando Valley, my dayss were spent almost as if I were retired. Paddling out into the surf by dawn of nearly ever day of the week, we spent the rest of the midday hours either on the beach making sand castles and listening together as Chataqua read children's stories to our daughter. Other days were spent either in the tranquility of our own yard among the bamboo groves, birds of paradise and eucalyptus trees either reading, playing or photographing our child in and around the creek and surrounding wildflowers I couldn't help believing that we could have stayed there forever had the opportunity presented itself. But it didn't.
+After several wonderful months of sunshine, warmth and new daily discoveries of our childs growth in both knowledge and instinct, the rains began to arrive. Along with the rains, that once dry and slowly meandering creek bed slowly began transforming into a stream. From that it slowly grew into a bigger stream. As the rains of the year 1977 around the Los Angeles basin continued day after day, the river began to grow both wider and deeper.
+Those with 4-Wheel drive vehicles managed to drive through the creek for a time to their homes, but as it creek continued to rise, we watched on weekends as more and more of the two or three dozen vehicles owned by local residents were having to be towed out of the creek by AAA. Vehicles were getting stuck so often, in fact, that the company literally stationed a daily tow vehicle on the far side of the creek.
+Not even chancing the drive, we began having to hike bare-foot across the knee deep twenty five foot width of the creek. As the waters rose to the depth of our thighs, residents began using the sway-bridge which hadn't been improved since the flood of 1969. However, with the increased traffic on the old wooden hand-built escape bridge, more and more of the floor boards began to break through, leaving larger and larger spaces between boards. As most everyone seemed convinced that the rains would soon subside, repairs simply were not undertaken.
+As the runoff waters from surrounding hills kept to the sandy creek bottom, the lagoon at the beachfront mouth of the river finally filled to capacity. As the rains continued, landslides along the Pacific Coast Highway caused all coastal traffic to detour the twenty some miles up canyon roads to the Ventura Freeway in order to bypass the whole lower Malibu area.
+As the fast moving waters continued to race beneath the sway bridge, the depth of the once only three inch deep creek increased to nearly fifteen feet in depth, by which time some of the bridge's supporting cables had collapsed. At that point the reliability of the bridge was seriously in question. But when the moon approached its full stage, the problems began to compound even further.
+As higher tides combined with much larger than normal surf whose whitewater had begun to force its way upriver against the current, the creek began backing up to a point where it began seriously overrunning it banks. The safety oflocal Topanga Creek homes wasnow in jeopardy. Quickly realizing that ours was among the lowest lying of all the resident houses in the so-called Rodeo Grounds, flash-flooding began to cut a brand new branch of the creek directly through our own front yard and within six feet of our front door.
+Being one of the nearest homes to the actual main flow of the Topanga Creek which was now a river, when radio and television news stations began broadcasting flash flood warnings for our area, residents began preparing for the upcoming highest tides of the year over the next few days.
+"We're in trouble, Chata. I don't really know how much trouble as yet, but I think it'll be a bunch, I told her.
+"Yea, well floods are nothing new to me, having lived in Marietta as long as I have. Our place up there has been getting flooded ever since I can remember as a kid. Let's just do our usual homework of raising the furniture right now rather than when we have to start swimming to save ourselves."
+She just took the bull by the horns and began by first trying to help save everything belonging to John Clemmons who had so graciously allowed us to live in his place. Picking up empty sand bags from the local fire department personnel who were handing them out just above high water mark of the creek, we began filling them at a sand pile which had been freely dumped for the benefit of everyone in the area.
+Sandbagging both the front and back doors, we knew that the evening tide was scheduled to be a six footer. While at work that evening, I kept my ears pinned to a portable radio while typesetting articles for the upcoming Trailer Life issue. When the news station announced that flooding was occurring throughout the lower canyons, I telephoned home.
+"So, are you guys still safe there, or what's happening?" I asked.
+"I don't want you to worry you or anything, but water is already coming in through both the back and front doors of the house. It's only a few inches deep inside the place though, so far. So I guess we're probably ok for now. We just set up our sleeping bags in the raised floor area of the kitchen. The water will have to rise a couple more feet to reach us in there, and I think it's already done rising for the night."
+To be on the safe side, however, I decided to ask the boss if I could take off a few hours early, as I didn't want to rely on the news to determine how badly the predicted flash floods might effect our place. Once back at Topanga some 45 minutes later, I parked as always among the fleet of local cars, then had to use the sway bridge over the swift flowing river to make it home. But before reaching the bridge I realized that some guy was about to walk out into the river with clothes and all. Although I was the only other person around at the time, one could easily see that he would have been instantly swept down current and through a maze of hazardous obstacles which had already been washed downriver during the flooding.
+Trying to talk the guy out of it, he told me that life sucked and that he was done with it. After yelling back and forth for a time, he finally conceded and turned away from the waters. Then crossing the bridge I realized how slowly I had to step, as nearly one of every three footboards had already fallen due to the heavy recent traffic on the aged wood.
+At the house, I was surprised to find Chata between sitting in my kayak, paddling through the front yard with our daughter sitting on her lap. Even our own recently adopted cat stood balanced precariously on the front of the kayak. Having to walk chest deep through the yard before climbing up the stairs to the house, she paddled over to meet me with a smile on her face. Without doubt she seemed to be enjoying the adventure.
+"I kept the kayak in the kitchen and when the water began growing deep enough in the house, we just got in and paddled through the hall to the living room then out the front door.
+As it was shortly before dark, Chata had already lit candles in preparation for the evening, which were lined up on the kitchen countertop. "I've already switched off the electrical fuse box;' she told me.
+Then a neighboring lady called in to us from the high ground out front. ''I'm afraid to shut off power to our place next door, and if I don't I'm worried that it might short circuit and burn down. You think maybe you can help out?"
+Putting on my full length wetsuit including rubber gloves and booties, I walked chest deep through the water to her home while she waited up on the high road which was only two feet deep at the time. Using my flashlight, I wandered through the place until spotting the fuse box, grabbing hold of a broom, I aimed its handle towards the breaker. Not the least bit certain as to whether or not I would be electricuted in the process, I managed nonetheless to flip off the switch without issue. Once home I stripped out of my wet suit, hung it up high above that days water line and we called it a night. Soon enough we were asleep on the mattress which rested dryly atop some wooden boxes which Chataqua had had piled up in the kitchen area.
+As the tide had completely receded by morning, the house had emptied itself of water, leaving the floors muddy and the place smelling of an unwanted humidity. After hosing out as much as we could of the mud, we mopped as best we could from one end to the other. At 3:00pm the next afternoon I headed off to work as usual. Working once again under the stress of realizing that there would not only be high tides once again that night, but the highest of the year, I kept my ears pinned to my personnal portable radio. Once again, late into the afternoon they began announcing on the news that flooding was occurring in the lower canyon areas, and that Malibu Canyon Road was closed to all but local residents.
+Knowing that I had taken off work early the night before, I feared having to take off early once again, but decided nonetheless that I had better head home before dark After having gained permission from my boss, I soon found that I also needed to gain the permission of a Highway Patrol officer who was working the Malibu Canyon Road. Warning me of falling rocks and a highway that was probably full of others, he let me through. The entire drive along the winding road, however, proved to be an obstacle course requiring me to motor around hundreds of fallen rocks of all sizes.
+Parking among the resident Topanga cars as I had the night before, I made my way very slowly across the now truely dangerous state of the sway bridge. Frighteningly aware that the water was considerably higher than it had been the night before, I trudged through the now chest high waters on the former road which led past the trail towards our house.
+Quickly apparent that I would have to swim to the front door rather than walk as I had the night before, I yelled towards the open window and front door. Answering back that they were in the kitchen, I swam through the front yard, then in through the door. From there I walked chest deep through the house. Both of them were sitting calmly atop the kitchen table where Chata was reading a story to our daughter by candlelight, the water being only knee deep in the kitchen area.
+With all the electricity having already been turned off for their own safety, our child could be seen surrounded by her toy animals, seemingly totally entertained by both the incoming waters and the story itself.
+"Gees, you guys. I thought you'd be screaming by now."
+"Well, it is getting kinda spooky, but the story is keeping our baby calm. Anyway, I knew that we could climb the hill behind this place if we had to, I'm not really all that worried."
+"Yea, well I am, so come on. We're getting out of here. I heard that one of the nearby homes was already washed down to the beach."
+"Seriously?"
+"Yea, it's gone according to the radio."
+Grabbing hold of our daughter, I lifted her to my shoulders and waited as Chataqua gathered some baby food, books and a few of our daughters favorite toys which she quickly stuffed into a backpack. We then headed over to the bridge.
+As far as I could tell, the water was still rising, and the tide had not as yet reached its maximum high. That and the fact that the waves were still really large for this area, and were completely stopping up the outflow of the river. Apparently a good many others had already evacuated, as there wasn't a soul in sight, let alone the beam of a flashlight. Well aware that only one of the several homes in the entire Rodeo Grounds was actually setting on high enough ground to be considered safe from rising floodwaters, it seemed likely that some of the locals were probably hanging out with them.
+When we reached the bridge, I told Shaleena to hang onto my neck with all her might, as I needed my hands to hold onto the cables, and for Chata to snuggle in tightly right behind to make sure she was hanging on safely enough. Having practiced this many times before, just because I enjoyed jogging with her on my back, we kept a turtle's pace over the few remains of a bridge. With very few boards to step on, we mostly had to place our feet on the cables themselves between boards. With the mud and debrie filled waters raging beneath us, it must have required a good five minutes to cross over to the dry land on the other side.
+Once safely back in the car, we drove to my younger sisters house where we were invited to stay as long as we needed to. After cleaning up mud and moisture from the Topanga home for the last time that next afternoon, we applied for Federal Assistance, and thankfully received an allowance for three months of free rent wherever we could find a place.
+Leaving Santa Monica, we moved for those three months into a tiny bath house that we found right on the sand of Oxnard beach in Ventura County. Located within the back yard of what had once been Clark Gable's actual home, the former swimming pool which had since been filled with sand was now our own back yard.
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+. Thanks, My sentiments eggzackly.
+loved alf…..thanks for the recommendations for older teachers, the perfect examples are BKS Iyengar and Geetaji and Prashantji, GURUJI, 94 yrs young, now retired but still practices openly, trains his granddaughter, has taught at conventions in china and russia recently…
+What a wealth of experience and knowledge….but you will find in the younger teachers at RIMYI, also very qualified to teach anyone anywhere…
+love it! but it depends, too, on how long they've practiced and have been a teacher. I've encountered some new over 40/50 teachers that were terrible.
+All of us over 40 yoga teachers thank you!
+Erin – thanks for your response, it was one I was thinking as I read the article. I know a couple of late-40's gals who took a few classes, "just loved it", took some weekend yoga teacher trainings and now offer classes. I would not take class from these women, their ignorance is frightening. Length of practice is a good yardstick – there are teachers in their late 20s early 30s who have practiced since their teens who offer more than these older newbies.
+Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is why becoming a yoga teacher should not be that easy . . . this is a science.
+I teach yoga, and I am 50 years old. I've been practicing since my early 20's. I recall a moment in the very early days of my practice, on my mat, contemplating whether I should teach or not, and I recall the thought coming to me that I would not, or should not, teach until I had grey hairs on my head. Well, I do have some grey hairs on my chin, so I think that counts. Ha! What I meant by that, was that I wanted to practice for 20-30 years before really teaching yoga. Not yoga the exercise, but yoga the yoga. That kind of internal wisdom comes from more than just physical effort and time. It comes from time and time. Life and time. I've been teaching several yoga disciplines for several years, and in my 40's I often wondered if I was really mature enough to teach. Whether I was even walking my talk, much less mastering it. Life is complicated. I agree that older yoga teachers are better, not older people teaching yoga for 2 years, but older practitioners who've been practicing a long time. I would take a great practitioner over a great teacher any time. The wisdom is in what we gain from the practice, not just from the teaching itself. Thanks for the lovely article, and I think we all know exactly what you intended by older teachers. Om!
+Thanks, Annabel, I am an older yoga teacher, much older than the 40 year olds. I am 65 and have been teaching for 35 years and practicing yoga for 41 years. I did my teacher training with Swami Vishnudevananda (who has long left us) at the Sivananda Ashram in 1976. We lived the yogic lifestyle for 4 weeks at the ashram. We were immersed in yoga from morning to night. And, no I don't teach senior yoga. I practice Ashtanga Primary Series and love to teach challenging postures. I am still advancing in my own practice!
+Hi James, Thanks for sharing your experience. I actually had a really similar one when seriously considering whether or not to pursue teaching a year ago. I just, personally, did't feel quite old enough yet.
+It takes a long time and a lot of what life has to hand out to "soften." And this softening is what it takes to truly hold the space filled by students looking to be led. As you say, yoga is way more than a series of postures. Another issue is beautiful body competitiveness, a real danger in today's yoga market. Sadly, I've witnessed way too many practitioners who think of yoga as a workout, first and foremost. I agree that it takes many years to acquire the skill to bring all these elements to the mat. More than just age, it's a matter of time, and experience.
+amen sister and thank you from someone way past 40 and still feeling significant
+Surprisingly educational many thanks, I believe your trusty subscribers may possibly want far more posts along these lines continue the great content.
+As an older teacher I love this article! I didn't start teaching until I was nearly 50. Unfortunately I've noticed that drama level has more to do with personality than age. I've known older teachers who were way to busy worrying about if they were "fat" or what was going on in their love life, I've had younger teachers who totally rocked.
+So Ive been doing Yoga for 43 years and recently I took a class from a 21 year old teacher in Fort Collins Colorado. The class was yin and much to my surprise the class was outstanding, the teacher outstanding if i didnt have sight I would have thought him much older. Sometime we need to open our minds
+I hate to break it to you but I'm way under 40 and I have a HUGE book collection and could change your life in a private session with me… My life experiences have brought me the same wisdom as a 40 year old, but you won't receive from me because in your mind I'm "young"… Sorry for you!
+Your response is exactly why she avoids teachers your age.
+Jennifer~just be in your own truth. When we are (you know, all that 5th chakra stuff), there is nothing to prove, defend, or posture around. We're all enlightened, of course but "seasoning" comes with time. We get a bit more tempered and rarely feel "sorry" for anyone, just a sense of understanding and compassion. Blessings to you~
+Pure blinkered, generalised dogma. I've attended classes with exceptional, inspirational instructors far younger than me (I'm a 52 year old yoga teacher with 20 years studying and 13 years teaching under my belt), as well as having taken class with older, cynical, jaded teachers, laden with 'issues'.
+Great article, great subject! As a 40+ er, I can tell you that while I have experienced great classes from younger, well experienced teachers as well as older experienced teachers, there is one main difference I have encountered. This is the Soulful aspect that gets imbued quite naturally by the more-life-lived demographic. It does stand to reason that as we experience more life ourselves, we will not only have more life experience to share, but less hesitation to do so. It becomes ever increasingly clear to me that every day that I live, I find more in common with others…there is so much beauty in knowing this and sharing it…
+I LOVE this.
+News flash. Yoga teachers can become certified at any age. Just because they are "old" doesn't mean they are better teachers or even more insightful. Realize this. A younger teacher can teach everyday, and absorb herself (or himself) in yoga from morning to night and with in a year or two become much more knowledgeable than an older teacher who has been teaching once a week mindlessly for 20 years. Be open to all teachers, chose who you will for the reason that they connect with you. But do not judge a yoga teacher on their age.
+-Erin
+Experienced practitioners are qualified by life! I can't think of a finer or more exclusive accreditation.
+Thank you for this article….I trained in ballet for 16 years and after coming into the yoga world, I was baffled that people thought they could teach something after a three week workshop. In the ballet world, injuries are so common and the technique is so complex that it takes years and years to come into a place where teaching would be appropriate. Now that my practice has switched to yoga, I too really enjoy classes with more seasoned teachers who understand the intricacies of proper alignment because I know how much time and effort that takes. That being said, I have found many amazing younger yoga teachers who value proper alignment and respect the practice as more than a physical exercise, so I can't say that I agree with your rule entirely.
+…And an art. The art of living requires much water of life to flow under the bridge.
+dear, oh, dear, someone needs to take some advice from that big, huge book collection of hers and chill… the tone of your response implies that you are not ready. yes, age doesn't necessarily equate wisdom, but there's a certain haughtiness in your attitude that is not helpful at all. hopefully, in a few years' time you'll understand what I mean 🙂
+Thank you for this article. Even though I have yet to meet a really good younger teacher I feel blessed to have been able to train with some of the senior these days called "master" teachers around. Transfer of knowledge from those who also have had a solid long term practice that goes through all limbs of yoga and not just gets stuck at asana practice. Being 43 now myself and having had a life long practice with all ups and downs, I feel I have a back pack of experience to offer students who come to my classes where safety always comes first. And if it means refusing some to the classes because these would not be suitable in their cases than so be it. It has happened before. I'm grateful to my teachers and hope that I am able to share their knowledge in the same inspiring way as they did with me.
+I will be visiting Chicago in a few months… what was the name of the studio and who was the teacher!?
+I love this. I am fairly new to yoga and have recently realized this. I've been going to a studio owned by two fairly young sisters and have hurt myself repeatedly because what they teach is too fast for anyone without a ton of experience. So glad to know I'm not alone in this way of thinking. I've felt really bad for putting my membership on hold but I'm looking for a new studio.
+I am over 50. What I will say is that many yoga teachers regardless of age, revel a bit much in the expert role. Red Queen/King yoga may best describe it (Alice in Wonderland, The Red Queen says "All ways are My ways"). As teachers if we spent more time ASKING what we can do for students rather than assuming what we can do TO students, whether some one is old, middle or young would make very little difference. Letting go of what something should look like, and spending more time asking what it could look like opens the teaching practice to much more curiosity, creativity & compassion. Curiosity cannot coexist with judgment, they are mutually exclusive.
+I'm really glad you wrote this. This is everything I've thought for years but been reluctant to say out loud.
+Thanks for sharing this article. As an 'older' teacher (45… gasp!) I know that my teaching has definitely morphed over the years. Age, life experience, body changes… all that fun stuff have definitely influenced what and how I teach. But I also beleive that in the end a teacher is simply another human being… we're just people doing what we do. Some do it well and some, not-so-well, like any other human on earth. No matter what the age. For me, life experience, the ablity to move forward, playfullness, compassion and a huge sense of humour are important. Some have this at a younger age and some never really fully grasp it no matter what the age. ~ beso from Tulum!
+Well, I tend to subscribe to the old adage "with age, comes wisdom" about most things in life, including yoga, however that is not to say that all younger yoginis are automatically less qualified than their more experienced counterparts.
+But what I do find rather annoying is how many of these younger women that display themselves in all of the online social media forums look more like cheerleaders and beauty contestants. They all have the same formula, young and exceptionally good looking, wear cute little yoga outfits (like it is a fashion show) and strut around trying to look sexy. That is not what yoga is about. Sure, they are young and beautiful, (like we used to be), but they are superficial and shallow. Their day will come when they are older and not so cute anymore. Then what?
+Sarawak DAP wants 20,180 postal voters in Sarawak who are mostly security personnel from Peninsular Malaysia to be barred from voting and deciding the future destiny of Sarawak.
+“A fair election system should ensure that the fate of a country be determined by her own people.
+“Similarly, the future destiny of Sarawak should be determined by those who are intimately connected to Sarawak and not by those who come from outside Sarawak state,” said State DAP Chairman Wong Ho Leng.
+This is one of the recommendations submitted by DAP to the Parliamentary Select Committee which met in Kuching last week to seek views of various people including political parties with regard to electoral reform to be introduced by the government before the next general election.
+Wong, who is the MP for Sibu said: “According to Parliament answer, as at 30th June 2011, there are 20,180 postal voters in Sarawak.
+“We believe that the bulk of these are from the armed forces and police, and most of them are stationed in P.195 Bandar Kuching (2,142), P.196 Stampin (4,147), P.197 Kota Samarahan (4,259), P.212 Sibu (3,468) and P.219 Miri (1,359).
+“Much that there is nothing in the Constitution to prohibit security personnel and police from Peninsula Malaysia who are posted to Sarawak to vote in Sarawak, DAP Sarawak feels that it ought to be a public policy that only those who have genuine connection with Sarawak be permitted to vote in Sarawak, whether Parliament or state elections.
+“Connections can be by marriage and not by short term posting to Sarawak. These security personnel and police should vote by post in elections of their own state of origin,” he suggested.
+On fair Representation by Sarawak/Sabah, Wong said that in accordance with the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement, 34% of parliamentary seats must be from Sarawak and Sabah but it has now been reduced to a mere 25%.
+The voters of Sarawak and Sabah have thereby lost their rightful and proportionate representation in Parliament, he said.
+“Instead of enhancing the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement, the present representation in the lower house of Parliament is skewed in favour of Peninsula Malaysia. This is because the Election Commission had re-delineated constituencies which reduced the representation by Sarawak and Sabah in Parliament.
+“Before Sarawak and Sabah joined to form the Federation of Malaysia, it was clearly and carefully stated in the Cobbold Commission Report and the Malaysia Agreement that the number of parliamentary seats in Peninsula Malaysia must not be more than 2/3 of the total parliamentary seats.
+“This is in order to ensure that Parliament shall not be able to amend the Constitution willy-nilly. In so doing, the special rights and safeguards of the Borneo states are protected.
+“Any amendment thereof would require the support from the Borneo states. During those days, of the 155 Parliamentary seats, Peninsula Malaysia was allocated 104 seats, Singapore 15 seats, Sabah 16 seats and Sarawak 20 seats.
+“Peninsula Malaysia had therefore 67% of the parliamentary seats. However, after re-delineation in 1974, Peninsula Malaysia had an additional 10 seats, while there was no increment for Sarawak and Sabah. With the withdrawal of Singapore from the Federation, Peninsula Malaysia is able to secure a two-third majority without the support of Sarawak and Sabah.
+“The representation by Sarawak and Sabah has been further eroded recently when Peninsula Malaysia has 166 parliamentary seats. That represents 75% of the total 222 seats. With a total of 56 seats, Sarawak and Sabah has a mere 25% representation in Parliament,” he said.
+Wong said the imbalance is unjustified because it violates the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement.
+“It violates the sanctity of the federation that Sarawak and Sabah actually joined to form the Federation of Malaysia as equal partners.
+“Further, the re-delineation by the Election Commission apparently failed to consider the geographical sizes of Peninsula Malaysia (166 seats for land size of 131,598 sq km), Sarawak (31 seats for land size of 124,450 sq km) and Sabah (25 seats for land size of 73,631 sq km).
+“To rectify the imbalance, the Election Commission should reinstate the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement, and re-delineate and increase the Parliamentary seats for Sarawak and Sabah,” he said.
+For Sarawak, the average population per constituency is around 30,000.00. However, pursuant to the electoral roll as at June 2011 there are five constituencies with less than 20,000 voters.
+These are P200 Batang Sadong (17,898), P.203 Lubok Antu (18,334), P.206 Tanjong Manis (17,754), P.207 Igan (16,193), P.210 Kanowit (18,135), P.216 Hulu Rajang (19,900) and P.222 Lawas (17,217).
+On the other hand, urban/semi urban centres show a concentration of voters. There are seven constituencies with voters exceeding 40,000.
+These are P.194 Petra Jaya (44,741), P.195 Bandar Kuching (53,276), P.196 Stampin (76,494), P.211 Lanang (53,486), P.212 Sibu (60,284), P.217 Bintulu (54,821), P.219 Miri (62,147).
+“Considering the geographical vastness of Sarawak, it is acceptable to give certain weightage to rural constituencies, but the larger urban/semi-urban constituencies do provide justification to increase Parliamentary seats.
+“Such re-delineation will ensure that there is ‘fairer’ representation of urban/semi-urban folks in Parliament,” Wong said.
+The DAP leader wanted the government of the day to be care-taker government as soon as Parliament or state assembly is dissolved, pointing out that there is no reason why a care-taker government is allowed to use public facilities such as government vehicles, town halls, Dewan Suarah to entice voters’ support.
+“The care-taker Government should not be allowed to dangle development projects as election bait. No money or monetary gratification should be distributed in the name of it being a “caring Government” in order to enhance support during the campaign time.
+“The Election Commission should ensure that such unhealthy political and electoral manoeuvring is stopped once Parliament or state assembly is dissolved,” he said.
+He went to say that in order to gain public trust, the Election Commission should be truly independent and not beholden to any political party, especially the Government.
+“No election officer or returning officer shall practice double standard. One example of double standard was recently practiced in Sibu.
+“The same Returning Officer for the Sibu by-election had disallowed the winning DAP candidate from making a victory speech on 16th May 2010 but he allowed the BN/SUPP winning candidate of Bawang Assan to give a lengthy victory speech in the Sarawak state election of 16th April 2011.
+“Such glaring double standard ought to be avoided,” he said.
+Calling on returning and presiding officers to be properly trained, Wong said that many do not even know that counting agents are to be given tally sheets such as Borang 15 and Borang 16, duly signed by the Returning Officers or Presiding Officers and the counting agents of political parties.
+“Even more scary have been cases of unlawful restraint of candidates at the nomination centres until the objection time has expired.
+“The candidates for Pelawan were restrained by the Returning Officers during nomination in the 2006 and 2011 state elections. The candidate for Padungan in the 2011 Sarawak state election was similarly restrained and disallowed to leave the nomination centre until after the objection time had expired.
+“When candidates were at the mercy of the Returning Officers or Presiding Officers, unless they were prepared to risk being disqualified, they had no choice but to stay behind, though unlawfully restrained or wrongfully imprisoned by the Election Commission,” he said.
+The Election Commission should ensure that all officers involved in election be adequately trained from nomination process to voting and counting, he added.
+3 comments:
+Correct me if I am wrong,Datuk Seri Daneil Tajem lost to Donald Lawan in Bukit Begunan constituency because of postal votes from army personnels in Pakit Camp.
+In civil service, the federal posts mean for Sarawak are filled by West Malaysians. A good example, the intake of Immigration Officers before.
+That is how Malaya going to colonise Sarawak and Sabah.
+Well done YB Ho Leng how can we allowed Orang Malaya to vote in Sarawak, what say other YBs especially from BN
+May 2 questions be posed to the proposition that "destiny of Sarawak be determined by Sarawakians": (i) what if either PKR or DAP or both were to be elected in a Sarawak State Elections would not the issue of they both and their fitability by the fact of being Malaya based political parties comes to pass as well?; and (ii)is it not very obvious that this society has been built over by propaganda machines of BN, the economic manipulations, the divide and rule tactics,the electoral gerrymeandering, and the I-Lord-Over-Thou syndrome, since Independence by UMNO led Barisan to the extent the poor rural peoples, in particular, and the Sarawakians in general, have accepted it without asking that government leaders cannot be wrong is the truth and nothing can change that unless one would want a country without its government?
+With that premise, and this can be compared with the Report by Lord Cobbold Commission on plesbecite before Malaysia came to be wherein a very large percentage of people (mostly of the rural based communities)who were interviewed for basis to the Report did not know what it was all about and preferred to leave it to the "government" to "decide" for them, it is a long time away before Sarawakians can determine its own destiny. For the immediate term at least PBB inspired agendas will still hold sway in Sarawak politics. Hence, for the most part of it our destiny will be determined by them unfortunately or fortunately depending on from which perspective one is looking at it..
+Computer Science
+Courses
+Units : 8
+Lecturer : Jawaher Abdulwahab Fadhil
+Description :
+AIM
+To Study the structure and behavior of processors, memories and input and
+output units and to study their interactions.
+OBJECTIVES
+o To study the various representations of data, register transfer
+language for
+micro- operations and organization and design of a digital computer.
+o To teach the concept of micro-programmed control unit, the
+central processing
+unit, stack and instruction formats.
+o To Study the various
+arithmetic operation’s algorithms and their hardware
+implementations and concept of pipelining and vector processing.
+o To illustrate the techniques to communicate with input and output devices.
+o To study the organization
+and operation of various memories and memory
+management hardware.
+Contents
+1 Inside the computer
+o Internal organization of computers
+o Data types and Data definition.
+o CPU and its relation to RAM and ROM
+o Inside CPU
+2 Brief history of the CPU
+o CISC vs RISC
+o Evolution from 8080/8085 to 8086
+o Pipelining
+o Register Set
+3 An introduction to BEBUG programing
+o Segments of a program
+o Logical Address and physical address
+o Mov instruction
+o ADD and ADC instruction
+o Flag Register
+o Use of the zero flag for looping
+4 Arithmetic instructions
+o Subtraction of unsigned numbers
+o SBB (Subtract with borrow)
+o Unsigned Multiplication numbers
+o Unsigned Division numbers
+5 Logic Instructions
+o And, OR instructions
+o XOR Instruction
+o SHIFT (shift right and shift left)
+o COMPARE of unsigned numbers
+6 Input–Output Designs and Organization
+o Programmed I/O
+o Interrupt-Driven I/O
+o Direct Memory Access (DMA)
+References:
+o Sajjan G. Shiva, Computer Organization Design and Architecture, Fourth Edition, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2008
+o Muhammad Ali Mazidi, The 80x 86 IBM PC and Compatible Computer (Volum I), Second Edition.
+Units : 8
+Lecturer : Majid Mohammad Noori
+Description :
+Course Overview
+Understanding programming language is the major prerequisite to the study of most of computer science. This course teaches students how to use the C++ programming language well; furthermore, teaches students to become competent in languages that make use of the object oriented programming.
+The course also includes those skills and concepts that are essential to programming practice. As a result, this area includes units on fundamental programming concepts, basic data structures, and algorithmic and problem solving process.
+Course Objectives
+The subjects in the course give students knowledge about structured programming with C++ as the selected programming language. Passing through basic language tokens: Statements, Selection, Lopping, Arrays, Functions, Structures and Files. So the student can then analyze and explain the behavior of programs involving the fundamental programming constructs covered by the unit.
+Students also will be familiar with the importance of algorithms in the problem–solving process by knowing problem-solving strategies, the role of algorithms and implementation strategies for algorithms. Students also can choose the appropriate data structure for modeling a given problem after getting the basics of data structures.
+Course
+Syllabus
+1. Introduction (12 Hrs)
+1.1 An Introduction to C and C++ Programming Language
+1.2 Program Comments
+1.3 The #include Directive—Header Files
+1.4 The main() Function
+1.5 Program Statements
+1.6 Whitespace
+1.7 Statement Blocks
+1.8 Defining Variables
+1.9 Naming Variables
+1.10 Keywords in C++
+1.11 Declaring Variables
+1.12 Initial Values for Variables
+1.13 Integer Variables
+1.14 Character Data Types
+1.15 The Boolean Type
+1.16 Floating-Point Types
+2. Input/Output (6 Hrs)
+2.1 Basic Input/Output Operations
+2.2 Input from the Keyboard
+2.3 Escape Sequences
+2.4 The Assignment Statement
+2.5 Arithmetic Operations
+2.6 The const Modifier
+2.7 Constant Expressions
+2.8 Calculating a Remainder
+2.9 Modifying a Variable
+2.10 The Increment and Decrements Operators
+3. Decisions (9 Hrs)
+3.1 Comparing Values
+3.2 The if Statement
+3.3 Nested if Statements
+3.4 The Extended if Statement
+3.5 Nested if-else Statements
+3.6 Logical Operators and Expressions
+3.7 Combining Logical Operators
+3.8 The Conditional Operator
+3.9 The switch Statement
+3.10 Sharing a Case
+4. Loops (12 Hrs)
+4.1 Repeating a Block of Statements
+4.2 What Is a Loop?
+4.3 Using the for Loop
+4.4 Variations on the for Loop
+4.5 Using Multiple Counters
+4.6 The Infinite for Loop
+4.7 Using the continue Statement
+4.8 Floating-Point Loop Counters
+4.9 The while Loop
+4.10 Using the while Loop
+4.11 The do-while Loop
+4.12 Nested Loops
+5. Arrays (9 Hrs)
+5.1 Declaring Arrays
+5.2 Initializing Arrays
+5.3 Character Arrays and String Handling
+5.4 String Input
+5.5 Multidimensional Arrays
+5.6 Initializing Multidimensional Arrays
+6. Functions (15 Hrs)
+6.1 Why Do We Need Functions?
+6.2 Structure of a Function
+6.3 The Function Header
+6.4 The General Form of a Function Header
+6.5 The Function Body
+6.6 The return Statement
+6.7 Using a Function
+6.8 Function Prototypes
+6.9 Passing Arguments to a Function
+6.10 The Pass by value Mechanism
+6.11 Passing by value
+6.12 Pointers as Arguments to a Function
+6.13 Pass by pointer
+6.14 Passing Arrays to a Function
+6.15 Passing Multi-Dimensional Arrays to a Function
+6.16 References as Arguments to a Function
+6.17 Use of the const Modifier
+6.18 Arguments to main()
+6.19 Accepting a Variable Number of Function Arguments
+7. Defining Your Own Data Types (9 Hrs)
+7.1 What is a struct?
+7.2 Defining a struct
+7.3 Initializing a struct
+7.4 Accessing the Members of a struct
+7.5 Structure Members
+7.6 Arrays of Structures
+7.7 Nested Structures
+References
+Beginning Visual C++ 2005, Ivor Horton's
+C++ How to Program, DEITEL
+Units : 4
+Lecturer : Nashwan Maslah Fares
+Description :
+Course Overview
+The computer skills consist of seven modules these include:
+Module 1 Concepts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that gives the main concepts of ICT at a general level, and to know about the different parts of a computer.
+Module 2 Using the Computer and Managing Files, it gives the ability to demonstrate competence in running and managing a personal computer.
+Module 3 Word Processing, it gives the ability to use a word processing application to create everyday letters and documents.
+Module 4 Spread sheets, it gives the understanding to the concept of spread sheets and demonstrates an ability to use a spread sheet to produce accurate work outputs.
+Module 5 Using Databases, it gives the understanding to the concept of a database and demonstrates competence in using a database.
+Module 6 Presentation, it gives the ability to demonstrate competence in using presentation software.
+Module 7 Web Browsing and Communication is divided into two sections. The first section, Web Browsing, it gives the knowing about the Internet and to use a web browsing application.
+All modules presents all the necessary computer skills an individual may need in a straightforward and intelligent way. It demystifies computers and is ideal for those wishing to develop their skills and confidence in the subject whilst working at their own pace.
+This course covers the fundamental understanding of computer functions and how to navigate the desktop. Computer Skills implies that one is comfortable with using computer software and other applications that are related to the computer such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access. Also it covers the hardware components that the desktop content.
+Course objective:
+This course aims to give the students the main concepts of computer as general term, computer hardware with all physical parts, computer software with deferent types of software that the computer used, interaction with computer programs and managing files, understanding and using the capabilities of Microsoft Office applications 2010 (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access), connection to the internet and the work and definition of cloud computing.
+By the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the computer with all physical components, how to manage the files. They also will be able to produce a wide range of word-processed documents, prepare illustrated slides to aid talks, store and search for information systematically, and gain confidence handling simple numbers or charts. They will also learn how to connect to the Internet and understand the significant of cloud computing.
+Student learning outcome:
+The student shall learn to:
+Understand what hardware is and know about peripheral devices. Understand what software formats, Insert tables, insert images, drawn objects, adjust the page settings, check and correct spelling, prepare them for mail merge operations and save them in different file formats.
+Work with MS spread sheets such that select, sort, copy, move and delete data. Edit rows and columns. Copy, move, delete and rename worksheets. Create mathematical and logical formulas. Format numbers and text. Choose, create and format charts. Adjust their page settings and check and correct them and save them in different file formats.
+Work with MS database and understand how it is organized and operated. Create a simple database, create tables, define and modify fields and their properties; enter and edit data in a table. Run queries to retrieve specific information from a database. Create a form to enter, modify and delete records and data in records.
+Work with MS presentations and save them in different file formats. Choose different slide layouts and designs. Enter, edit, format text and applying unique titles to slides. Choose, create and format charts. Insert, edit pictures or images and drawn objects. Apply animation and transition effects to presentations.
+Understand what the Internet is and common terms associated with it. Search for information. Save web pages and download files from the web.
+The Topics:
+Introduction to Computer Skills.
+o Explain the course book (seven modules) in general and what they consist of. What are the student obligations?
+General concepts of Information Technology (IT).
+o What is IT, what it is consisting of, how can be IT, Why IT?
+Hardware (part1).
+o What are computer components? What are CPU, RAM and ROM.? How memory is measured, File size.
+Hardware (part2).
+o Input devices, Output devices, Input/output devices, Storage devices and Input/output ports
+Software (part 1)
+o Software types(operating system, applications and utilities )
+Software (part 2)
+o What is BIOS, why computer need it, how does it operate.
+Networks
+o Understanding Local area network and Wide area network. Understand the Term Client/Server and Peer-to-peer.
+Intranet/Extranet
+o What an Intranet Is, what an Extranet Is.
+The Internet
+o What is the Internet, what it is used for.
+Use of the Telephone Network in Computing
+o What are WWW, PSTN and ISDN, ADSL
+Digital vs. Analogue
+o What digital data or signal is. What analogue data or signal is
+Modem
+o What is modem, Baud rate and Transfer rate
+The Use of ICT in Everyday Life
+o Computers in business, in government, in healthcare and in education
+Teleworking
+o What is Teleworking, why Teleworking. Advantages and Disadvantages of Teleworking
+Legal issues and security
+o Copyright, Personal privacy and Data security
+Backup
+o Backing up data, why backing up data, cloud computing.
+Computer viruses
+o Viruses, malware, computer worms, malicious software. Protection against viruses
+Course Reading List and References :
+o ICDL Books version 5.0 (Blackrock Education Centre)
+o ICDL Books version 5.0 (Aston Swann Education Courseware)
+o Europees Computer Rijbewijs (ECDL) Books version 4.0
+o
+o
+o
+o
+Units : 4
+Lecturer : Dilveen Michaeel Ahmed
+Description :
+Course
+overview:.
+Course objective:
+o Student will analyse and evaluate limits (including infinite limits) graphically, numerically, and analytically.
+o Student will analyses functions for continuity.
+The Derivative:
+o Student will evaluate derivatives by the limit process.
+o Student will memorize basic differentiation rules.
+o Student will apply basic differentiation rules.
+o Student will apply the product, quotient, and chain rules to find derivatives.
+o Student will apply differentiation techniques to find tangent lines, normal lines, and rates of change.
+o Student will evaluate derivatives by implicit differentiation.
+o Student will apply differentiation techniques to evaluate higher order derivatives.
+Applications of Differentiation:
+o Student will analyse and apply differentiation techniques to related rate problems and approximation theory (Newton’s Method).
+o Student will apply differentiation techniques to identify (relative and absolute) extreme.
+o Student will apply Rolle’s Theorem and Mean Value Theorem.
+o Student will identify relative extreme by using the first and second derivative tests.
+o Student will apply differentiation techniques to optimization problems.
+o Student will apply differentiation techniques to find intervals of in/decreasing and concavity.
+o Student will demonstrate knowledge of curve sketwching.
+Integration:
+o Student will memorize basic integration rules.
+o Student will demonstrate basic integration techniques (including integration by substitution, inverse trigonometric functions, and logarithmic functions).
+o Student will describe, find, and apply differentials.
+o Student will use the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus parts one and two.
+o Student will interpret and apply integration as area through Riemann Sums and definite integrals.
+o Student will analyse hyperbolic functions and apply differentiation and integration techniques.
+Student learning outcome:
+Upon completion of this course a student will be able to:
+o Describe, graph, compare, and contrast polynomial, rational, algebraic, trigonometric, and exponential functions and their inverses.
+o Define and interpret the concepts of limit, continuity, and derivative of a function verbally, algebraically, and graphically.
+o Evaluate limits of functions.
+o Interpret the derivative at a number in multiple ways, including slope of a tangent line and instantaneous rate of change.
+o Calculate derivatives of a wide variety of functions obtained by applying transformations, algebraic operations, and compositions to the families of functions mentioned in outcome A.
+Course Reading List and References:
+1- Calculus 5th Edition, by: M. L. Bitinger.
+2- Thomas’ Calculus 11th Edition, 2005.
+3- Calculus 5th Edition (International Student Edition), by: James Stewart, 2003.
+4- Brief Calculus and its Application 9th Edition, by: L. J. Goldstin.
+The Topics:
+Chapter One: Preliminary and Functions:
+1- Number, Intervals, Inequalities and Absolute Values.
+2- The Cartesian plane.
+3- Function and their graphs.
+4- The trigonometric function.
+Chapter Two: Limits and continuity
+1- The limit of a function.
+2- The precise definition of a limit.
+3- Properties of limits.
+4- Continuity.
+Chapter Three: Differentiation
+1. The derivative.
+2. Differentiation formulas.
+3. Derivatives of trigonometric function.
+4. Applications.
+Chapter Four: Inverse Function
+1. Exponential function.
+2. Logarithmic function.
+3. Inverse trigonometric function.
+Chapter Five: Integration
+1. Techniques of integration.
+2. Application of integration.
+Units : 4
+Lecturer : Khalid A. Tawfiq
+Description :
+Syllabus of Module:
+Week1: Computer Science Department basics introduction:
+Lecture 1: Welcoming Students
+o Introducing Lecturers
+o Introducing Module
+o University Roles
+o Classroom Behaviors
+o Student self introduction
+Week2: Project Principle & Management
+Lecture 2: Teamwork
+o How to build a team of people to manage and succeed a task?
+o Building A team of Five Students for future work
+Week3: Project Principle & Management
+Lecture 3:Personal profile Development
+o Creating Curriculum vitae (CV)
+o Covering Letter
+o Background Check
+Week4: Project Management & Principle
+Lecture 4: Local Problem Statements
+o Discussing Project Problem Statement
+o Case Study
+Week 5: Project Management & Principle
+Lecture 5: Projects Work plan
+o How to Manage Project duration
+o Creating Project work plan Chart
+Week 6: Project Management & Principle
+Lecture 6:Software System
+o Systems Descriptions.
+o Project Planning
+o Feasibility Study
+o The Triangle of Forces
+o Exercise
+Week 7: How to write a scientific report.
+Week 8: Presentation as group &Individual presentation
+Units : 5
+Description :
+No available.
+Units : 4
+Description :
+No available
+I m Amit and am 20 yrs. old. I wanted to share one of my experience Sex With My Teacher which occurred when I was studying in school. Well it was a boarding school with only boys. We used to see very less girls as our school was out of town and due to this we only had to satisfy ourselves by seeing the lady teachers of our school. Few of them were quite aged but few were young and real hot. One of them was Mrs. Uma Mehta. She was married and had a kid but then also she was too hot to handle. She had the body of a goddess. She had the body that any guy should die for. All the students of the school had their eyes on her. She had those big breasts that were always visible while she used to bend and thus give an erection to every student of the school. There were few other teachers also such as Miss Madhu, who was divorced and had a kid who studied in our school in lower class. She was quite old but then too she looked a lot younger and everybody thought her to be in her mid twenties. She had that lovely ass that guys would jump for. There were rumors that she had affairs with many students and one of them was a classmate of mine named Suhel.
+Then there was Mrs. Abha, she had real big breasts and also she was quite old with three daughters, eldest of them might be around 16 yr. right now. But then also Abha looked quite young and also real sexy. She had those real big breasts that were sized liked football and whenever she moved they would jump up and down. Sometimes she used to wear those semitransparent blouse which turned every guy around the campus on even few male teachers. Rumors were that Suhel has affair with Abha also and has even had sex with Abha and Madhu. He was a frequent visitor of their house. Well but then Uma was the one whom I had sex with.
+Well when I was in class 10th that time this incident occurred with Uma and me. I was a bit weak in geography that was her subject. So one day she told me that to meet her after the classes. I met her and she told me to come to her house in the evening with my subject books. As it was a boarding school so the teachers had their residence in the school campus itself. I went to her house in the evening. She was wearing a salwar suit and was looking cool. We sat on the chairs and she started teaching me. While teaching she used to bend down and being close to her I can’t resist my eyes following her cleavage, which were visible quite clearly. Then suddenly a person came out of the next room holding a kid. He was Mr. Mehta, her husband who is a doctor.
+He said that now its time for him to go out with the kid and she should continue teaching me. With that he left and she started teaching me. Again I adjusted my eyes on her cleavage, which were now visible more clearly. I started getting an erection and now it was a problem for me sitting over there. So I asked her to use the toilet and asked where is it. She said that there is only one toilet and it is next to the other room and for that one has to cross the bedroom. I went to the bathroom and closed the door behind me. And then my eyes fell on her few things that were in the bathroom. It was her bra and other cosmetics. I took her bra and started sucking it and then I took out my dick rubbed it on her bra and then opened her lipstick and started rubbing the head of my dick on its tip. Now I wanted to shag, so I shagged thinking of her big breasts and her lovely rosy cunt and shagged on her bra.
+Then I came out and told her that I ain’t feeling well and I am leaving. Next day when she came to class she didn’t say anything but asked me to come to her house daily. I asked her whether I have to come on Sunday also to which she replied yes. Now I started going to her house daily and her husband would leave daily after I would arrive for a walk with her kid and then I would go to the toilet, shag on her bra or panty and rub her lipsticks on my dick.
+Then on Sunday I had my breakfast and went to her house. She opened the door and on seeing me asked that why had I came to early today. I replied saying that today is Sunday and I had some work in the afternoon so I wont be able to come. She said ok and asked me to come in and sit down. She was wearing a nightgown and looked as if she didn’t have a bath yet. She then asked me to wait for some time as she had to clean up her house and if I want I can watch TV meanwhile. I said its ok with me and asked her where is the tv, to which she said that its in her bedroom and I can go in and watch as her husband has gone home along with the child. I got excited on listening this, as now we would be alone for quite a some time. I went into her bedroom and there I saw a vcr and then I asked her whether I can watch any movie or not on her vcr, to which she replied that whatever I wish I can do and should not disturb her and told me that there are some cassettes in the TV rack and whichever I want I can watch.
+So I started looking for the cassettes and found that there were some English movies and some Hindi movies. I thought of watching some English movies, but then I saw the names of hindi movies and it seemed to me that I haven’t seen any movie with names such as ‘Din mein suhaagraat; Pyasi Jawaani’ and English movies were ‘Speed, The Entity’ and some others such as ‘Animal Instinct and Basic Instinct’. I thought of watching the hindi one first and so I inserted the cassette of Pyasi Jawaani and started rewinding it. Now I switched the play button and got on her bed and started watching the movie. I didn’t knew that the movie was an adult movie until a scene came of a man fucking a woman and the woman was shouting “oooooooohhhhhh, aaaaaaaahhhhhhh, marrrrrr gaaaaaayyyyyyyeeeeeee maaaaaaaa, meri choot phad dali tune sale harami and all these kind of words. On seeing the scene I started getting horny and wanted to shag, but then I thought why to shag just now and I should watch the whole movie and without being afraid of Uma I again started the movie and now the movie was full of those kinds of scenes only.
+Then there was a scene of two girl having sex with ten men and that scene really turned me on and I also wanted to do something. So I opened up my pant and took out my dick and now I was completely naked from my waist down and then I started rubbing my dick on her bed sheet and then I went to her cupboard and opened it up and took out her bra and panty and started rubbing my dick on to it. Then suddenly the door opened and she came in and seeing me in that position asked me that what the hell am I doing, but then on seeing my dick she also started getting horny ad I replied that after seeing this thing in the movie I wanted to do it. She asked me which movie am I seeing to which I pointed over to the TV and said that movie. She went over to the TV and told me to sit over near her and watch movie with her. I was really happy by this time and I went over to her and sat down on the bed and as I started wearing my underwear she stopped me and pointing to my dick said that underwear will create problem for my dick and I should watch the movie without it.
+I did as she said and sat on the bed semi nude and then she instead of sitting on the bed sat on my lap and asked me to hold her from behind. To which I took my hand and placed it on her stomach and started caressing her gently. Now she was getting horny and now I was time for me to struck and then I moved my hand down to her thighs and started touching her cunt and then she told me to wait for a minute and the she went to the cassette rack and took out a cassette and inserted it in the VCR. Then she switched on the play button and came and sat down on my lap.
+I started sucking her nipples like a mad guy and started biting them one by one.. With that we got in position 69 and I inserted my dick in her mouth and started sucking her cunt. I started. She wanted more of it but I said that as it is my first time she should stop and take it once more in her mouth to get it erected. She obeyed faithfully and started sucking it until it got erected and I kept on sucking her cunt and she had another orgasm. is she ready to take it in. she told me to go ahead. So I gave a jerk to my dick and nearly one fourth of it went into her cunt. She started shouting with pain and begged me to stop, as it was paining very much. But I said that it was she only who wanted to get fucked and she should bear it. With that I gave one more push into her cunt and she again shouted, but instead of stopping I kept on pushing my dick until I was completely into her.. Then I laid on her for quite a some time.
+Then I got down from top of her and told her that now I wanted to fuck her ass hole. She got afraid and said that her husband. I slapped on her ass and asked her to be quite other wise I will insert reddish in her ass hole. She started crying but I instead of stopping started inserting rest of my dick in her ass hole. wont leave her. Then I cummed into her and when I took out my dick I saw that her ass hole was bleeding and it was torn. After that I left. Our game continued for a much long time.
+I left the school after my 10th class. I haven’t seen her after I left the school but wish to see her again and enjoy the same old time with her.
+ANY GIRL INTRESTED AND WANNA GET FUCKED BY ME CAN CONTACT ME AT amit_rk11@rediffmail.com and any comments too are welcome at the same.
+Yours truly,
+Amit
+Internet Engineering Task Force T. Chown Internet-Draft Jisc Obsoletes: 6434 (if approved) J. Loughney Intended status: Best Current Practice Intel Expires: September 20, 2018 T. Winters UNH-IOL March 19, 2018 IPv6 Node Requirements draft-ietf-6man-rfc6434-bis-08 Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 1]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EH options . . . . . . . 8 5.4. Neighbor Discovery for IPv6 - RFC 4861 . . . . . . . . . 9 5.5. SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) - RFC 3971 . . . . . . . 10 . 12 6.5. Stateful Address Autoconfiguration (DHCPv6) - RFC 3315 . 15 6.6. Default Address Selection for IPv6 - RFC 6724 . . . . . . 16 7. DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 8. Configuring Non-Address Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 8.1. DHCP for Other Configuration Information . . . . . . . . 16 8.2. Router Advertisements and Default Gateway . . . . . . . . 17 8.3. IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration - RFC 8106 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 8.4. DHCP Options versus Router Advertisement Options for Host Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9. Service Discovery Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 2]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 10. IPv4 Support and Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 10.1. Transition Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 10.1.1. Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers - RFC 4213 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 11. Application Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 11.1. Textual Representation of IPv6 Addresses - RFC 5952 . . 18 11.2. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) . . . . . . . 18 12. Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 13. Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 13.1. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 13.2. Transforms and Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 14. Router-Specific Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 14.1. IPv6 Router Alert Option - RFC 2711 . . . . . . . . . . 22 14.2. Neighbor Discovery for IPv6 - RFC 4861 . . . . . . . . . 22 14.3. Stateful Address Autoconfiguration (DHCPv6) - RFC 3315 . 22 14.4. IPv6 Prefix Length Recommendation for Forwarding - BCP 198 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 15. Constrained Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 16. Network Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 16.1. Management Information Base (MIB) Modules . . . . . . . 23 16.1.1. IP Forwarding Table MIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 16.1.2. Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 16.1.3. Interface MIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 16.2. YANG Data Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 16.2.1. IP Management YANG Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 16.2.2. Interface Management YANG Model . . . . . . . . . . 24 17. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 18. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 19. Authors and Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 19.1. Authors and Acknowledgments (Current Document) . . . . . 25 19.2. Authors and Acknowledgments from RFC 6434 . . . . . . . 25 19.3. Authors and Acknowledgments from RFC 4294 . . . . . . . 25 20. Appendix: Changes from RFC 6434 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 21. Appendix: Changes from RFC 4294 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 22. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 22.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 22.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 1. Introduction This document defines common functionality required by both IPv6 hosts and routers. Many IPv6 nodes will implement optional or additional features, but this document collects and summarizes requirements from other published Standards Track documents in one place. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 3]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 4]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 1.2. Description of IPv6 Nodes From the Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification [RFC8200],. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 5]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 - Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks [RFC2464] -. As recommended in [RFC8021], nodes MUST NOT generate atomic fragments, i.e., where the fragment is a whole datagram. As per Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 6]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018  headers. An exception is Routing Header type 0 (RH0), which was deprecated by [RFC5095] due to security concerns and which MUST be treated as an unrecognized routing type. Further, [RFC7045] adds specific requirements for processing of Extension Headers, in particular that any forwarding node along an IPv6 packet's path, which forwards the packet for any reason, SHOULD do so regardless of any extension headers that are present. As per RFC 8200, when a node fragments an IPv6 datagram, it MUST include the entire IPv6 Header Chain in the first fragment. The Per- Fragment headers must consist of the IPv6 header plus any extension Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 7]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 need to follow the format described in Section 8 of RFC 8200. For further background reading on this topic, see [RFC6564]. 5.3. Protecting a node from excessive EH seven. In this case, if the more than seven consecutive PAD1 options are present the packet should be silently discarded. The rationale is that if padding of eight or more bytes is required than the PADN option should be used. A host MAY limit number of bytes in a PADN option to be less than eight. In such a case, if a PADN option is present that has a length greater than seven then the packet should be silently discarded. The rationale for this guideline is that the purpose of padding is for alignment and eight bytes is the maximum alignment used in IPv6. A host MAY disallow unknown options in destination options or hop-by- hop options. This should be configurable where the default is to accept unknown options and process them per [RFC8200]. If a packet with unknown options is received and the host is configured to disallow them, then the packet should be silently discarded. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 8]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 A host MAY impose a limit on the maximum number of non-padding options allowed in a destination options and hop-by-hop extension headers. If this feature is supported the maximum number should be configurable and the default value SHOULD be set to eight. The limits for destination options and hop-by-hop options may be separately configurable. If a packet is received and the number of destination or hop-by-hop optines exceeds the limit, then the packet should be silently discarded. A host MAY impose a limit on the maximum length of destination options or hop-by-hop options extension header. This value should be configurable and the default is to accept options of any length. If a packet is received and the length of destination or hop-by-hop options extension header exceeds the length limit, then the packet should be silently discarded. 5.4. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 9]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 for paths between routers. However, all nodes MUST respond to unicast Neighbor Solicitation (NS) messages. [RFC7048]. [RFC7559], and thus deployment experience remains very limited to date. At this time, support for SEND is considered optional. Due to the complexity in deploying SEND, and its heavyweight provisioning, its Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 10]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 deployment is only likely to be considered where nodes are operating in a particularly strict security environment. 5.. As described in RFC 8201, nodes implementing Path MTU Discovery and sending packets larger than the IPv6 minimum link MTU are susceptible to problematic connectivity if (and thus these should not be filtered, as per the recommendation in [RFC4890]). An extension. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 11]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018. order to resolve this scenario IPv6 Nodes MUST implement [RFC4191] and SHOULD implement the Type C host role defined in RFC4 and in particular MLDv2 is required for support for source-specific multicast (SSM) as per [RFC4607]. Previous versions of this document only required MLDv1 ([RFC2710]) to be implemented on all nodes. Since participation of any MLDv1-only nodes on a link require that all other nodeas on the link then operate in version 1 compatibility mode, the requirement to support MLDv2 on all nodes was upgraded to a MUST. Further, SSM is now the preferred multicast distribution method, rather than ASM. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 12]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 Note that Neighbor Discovery (as used on most link types -- see Section 5.4) depends on multicast and requires that nodes join Solicited Node multicast addresses. 5.12. Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) - RFC 3168 An ECN-aware router may set a mark in the IP header in order to signal impending congestion, rather than dropping a packet. The receiver of the packet echoes the congestion indication to the sender, which can then reduce its transmission rate as if it detected a dropped packet. Nodes that may be deployed in environments where they would benefit from such early congestion notification SHOULD implement [RFC3168]. In such cases, the updates presented in [RFC8311] may also be relevant.. Routers SHOULD support [RFC7934] for assigning multiple address to a host. Host SHOULD support assigning multiple addresses as described in [RFC7934]. Nodes SHOULD support the capability to be assigned a prefix per host as documented in [RFC8273]. Such an approach can offer improved host isolation and enhanced subscriber management on shared network segments. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 13]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 6.3. IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration - RFC 4862 Hosts MUST support IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. It is recommended, as described in [RFC8064], that unless there is a specific requirement for MAC addresses to be embedded in an IID, nodes follow the procedure in [RFC7217] to generate SLAAC-based addresses, rather than using [RFC4862].. [RFC7527] discusses enhanced DAD, and describes an algorithm to automate the detection of looped back IPv6 ND messages used by DAD. Nodes SHOULD implement this behaviour where such detection is beneficial. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 14]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 6.4. Privacy Extensions for Address Configuration in IPv6 - RFC 4941 A node using Stateless Address Autoconfiguration [RFC4862] 5453] for more details. 6.5. Stateful Address Autoconfiguration (DHCPv6) - RFC 3315 DHCPv6 [RFC3315] can be used to obtain and configure addresses. In general, a network may provide for the configuration of addresses through SLAAC, observed Router Advertisement messages, IPv6 nodes MAY initiate DHCP to obtain IPv6 addresses and other configuration information, as described in Section 5.5.2 of [RFC4862]. Where devices are likely to be carried by users and attached to multiple visisted networks, DHCPv6 client anonymity profiles SHOULD be supported as described in [RFC7844] to minimise the disclosure of Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 15]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 identifying information. Section 5 of RFC78 [RFC6724] document MUST be implemented. [RFC8028] updates rule 5.5 from [RFC6724]; implementations SHOULD implement this rule. 7.]; - Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0) [RFC6891] to allow for DNS packet sizes larger than 512 octets.]. 8. Configuring Non-Address Information 8.1. DHCP for Other Configuration Information DHCP [RFC3315] Specifies a mechanism for IPv6 nodes to obtain address configuration information (see Section 6.5) and to obtain additional (non-address) configuration. If a host implementation supports applications or other protocols that require configuration that is only available via DHCP, hosts SHOULD implement DHCP. For specialized devices on which no such configuration need is present, DHCP may not be necessary. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 16]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 An IPv6 node can use the subset of DHCP (described in [RFC3736]) to obtain other configuration information. If an IPv6 node implements DHCP it MUST implement the DNS options [RFC3646] as most deployments will expect., and thus a Standards Track document has been published to provide this capability [RFC8106]. Implementations MUST include support for the DNS RA option [RFC8106]. 8.4. DHCP Options versus Router Advertisement Options for Host Configuration In IPv6, there are two main protocol mechanisms for propagating configuration information to hosts: Router Advertisements (RAs) and DHCP. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 17]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018. 9. Service Discovery Protocols [RFC6762] and [RFC6763] describe multicast DNS (mDNS) and DNS-Based Service Discovery (DNS-SD) respectively. These protocols, collectively commonly dicovery would be beneficial, e.g., for users seeking to discover printers or display devices, mDNS and DNS-SD SHOULD be supported. The IETF dnssd WG is defining solutions for DNS-based service discovery in multi-link networks. 10. IPv4 Support and Transition IPv6 nodes MAY support IPv4..2. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) There are a number of IPv6-related APIs. This document does not mandate the use of any, because the choice of API does not directly relate to on-the-wire behavior of protocols. Implementers, however, Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 18]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 201867. 12.]. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 19]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 More usage and deployment experience is needed with mobility before any specific approach can be recommended for broad implementation in all hosts and routers. Consequently, [RFC6275], [RFC5555], and associated standards such as ] for delivering IPv6 prefixes on the LAN link. either can provide end-to-end security between nodes or or can provide orginal IP packet and then pre-pending a new IP header. In Transport-mode, IPsec provides security for the transport-layer (and above) by encapsulating only the transport-layer (and above) portion of the IP packet (i.e., without adding a 2nd IP header). Although IPsec can be used with manual keying in some cases, such usage has limited applicability and is not recommended. A range of security technologies and approaches proliferate today (e.g., IPsec, Transport Layer Security (TLS), Secure SHell (SSH), SSL VPNS, Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 20]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 20187296].. Because most common platforms now support IPv6 and have it enabled by default, IPv6 security is an issue for networks that are ostensibly IPv4-only; see [RFC7123] for guidance on this area.]. Algorithms for Use in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2)" [RFC8247]. IPv6 nodes implementing IKEv2 MUST conform to the requirements in [RFC8247] and/or any future updates or replacements to [RFC8247]. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 21]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018. 14., [RFC7084]). Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 22]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers" [RFC7084] requires implementation of a DHCPv6 server function in IPv6 Customer Edge (CE) routers. 14.4. IPv6 Prefix Length Recommendation for Forwarding - BCP 198 Forwarding nodes MUST conform to BCP 198 [RFC7608] and thus IPv6 implementations of nodes that may forward packets MUST conform to the rules specified in Section 5.1 of [RFC4632]. 15. Constrained Devices The target compromises are made, the interoperability of devices should be strongly considered, paticularly where this may impact other nodes on the same link, e.g., only supporting MLDv1 will affect other nodes. The IETF 6LowPAN (IPv6 over Low Power LWPAN) WG defined six RFCs, including a general overview and problem statement ([RFC4919], the means by which IPv6 packets are transmitted over IEEE 802.15.4 networks [RFC4944] and ND optimisations for that medium [RFC6775]. If an IPv6 node is concerned about the impact of IPv6 message power consumption, it SHOULD want to implement the recommendations in [RFC7772]. 16. Network [RFC8096] clarifies the obsoleted status of various IPv6-specific MIB modules. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 23]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 The following two MIB modules SHOULD be supported by nodes that support a Simple Network Management Protocol  the support an SNMP agent. 16.2. YANG Data Models The following YANG data models SHOULD be supported by nodes that support a NETCONF or RESTCONF agent. 16.2.1. IP Management YANG Model The IP Management YANG Model [I-D.ietf-netmod-rfc7277bis] SHOULD be supported by nodes that support NETCONF or RESTCONF. 16.2.2. Interface Management YANG Model The Interface Management YANG Model [I-D.ietf-netmod-rfc7223bis] SHOULD be supported by nodes that support NETCONF or RESTCONF. 17. Security Considerations This document does not directly affect the security of the Internet, beyond the security considerations associated with the individual protocols. Security is also discussed in Section 13 above. 18. IANA Considerations This document does not require any IANA actions. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 24]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 19. Authors and Acknowledgments 19.1. Authors and Acknowledgments (Current Document) For this version of the IPv6 Node Requirements document, the authors would like to thank Brian Carpenter, Dave Thaler, Tom Herbert, Erik Kline, Mohamed Boucadair, and Michayla Newcombe for their contributions. 19.2. Authors and Acknowledgments from RFC 6434. 19.3. Authors and Acknowledgments from RFC 4294 The original version of this document .. 20. Appendix: DOD IPv6 Profile as it hasn't been updated. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 25]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 4. Updated to MLDv2 support to a MUST since nodes are restricted if MLDv1 is used. 5. Require DNS RA Options so SLAAC-only devices can get DNS, RFC8106 is a MUST. 6. Require RFC3646 DNS Options for DHCPv6 implementations. 7. Added RESTCONF and NETCONF as possible options to Network management. 8. Added section on constrained devices. 9. Added text on RFC7934, address availability to hosts (SHOULD). 10. Added text on RFC7844, anonymity profiles for DHCPv6 clients. 11. mDNS and DNS-SD added as updated service discovery. 12. Added RFC8028 as a SHOULD as a method for solving multi-prefix network 13. Added ECN RFC3168 as a SHOULD, since recent reports have shown this as useful, and added a note on RFC8311, which is related. 14. Added reference to RFC7123 for Security over IPv4-only networks 15. Removed Jumbograms RFC2675 as they aren't deployed. 16. Updated Obseleted RFCs to the new version of the RFC including 2460, 1981, 7321, 4307 17. Added RFC7772 for power comsumptions considerations 18. Added why /64 boundries for more detail - RFC 7421 19. Added a Unique IPv6 Prefix per Host to support currently deployed IPv6 networks 20. Clarified RFC7066 was snapshot for 3GPP 21. Updated 4191 as a MUST, SHOULD for Type C Host as it helps solve multi-prefix problem 22. Removed IPv6 over ATM since there aren't many deployments 23. Added a note in Section 6.6 for RFC6724 Section 5.5/ Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 26]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 24. Added MUST for BCP 198 for forwarding IPv6 packets 25. Added reference to RFC8064 for stable address creation. 26. Added text on protection from excessive EH options 27. Added text on dangers of 1280 MTU UDP, esp. wrt DNS traffic 28. Added text to clarify RFC8200 behaviour for unrecognized EHs or unrecognized ULPs 29. Removed dated email addresses from design team acknowledgements for RFC 4294. 21.]. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 27]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018. 22. References 22, <>. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 28]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 27 2004, <>. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 29]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 42, <>. [RFC4293] Routhier, S., Ed., "Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP)", RFC 4293, DOI 10.17487/RFC4293, April, <>. [RFC4311] Hinden, R. and D. Thaler, "IPv6 Host-to-Router Load Sharing", RFC 4311, DOI 10.17487/RFC4311, November 2005, <>. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 30]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 450 2009, <>. , <>. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 31]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 [RFC5942] Singh, H., Beebee, W., and E. Nordmark, "IPv6 Subnet Model: The Relationship between Links and Subnet Prefixes", RFC 5942, DOI 10.17487/RFC5942, July6891] Damas, J., Graff, M., and P. Vixie, "Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0))", STD 75, RFC 6891, DOI 10.17487/RFC6891, April 2013, <>. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 32]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 , <>. [RFC7112] Gont, F., Manral, V., and R. Bonica, "Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains", RFC 7112, DOI 10.17487/RFC7112, January 2014, <>. [RFC7217] Gont, F., "A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)", RFC 7217, DOI 10.17487/RFC7217, April 2014, <>. 27] Asati, R., Singh, H., Beebee, W., Pignataro, C., Dart, E., and W. George, "Enhanced Duplicate Address Detection", RFC 7527, DOI 10.17487/RFC7527, April 2015, <>. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 33]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 7739] Gont, F., "Security Implications of Predictable Fragment Identification Values", RFC 7739, DOI 10.17487/RFC7739, February 2016, <>. [RFC8021] Gont, F., Liu, W., and T. Anderson, "Generation of IPv6 Atomic Fragments Considered Harmful", RFC 8021, DOI 10.17487/RFC8021, January 2017, <>. 8064] Gont, F., Cooper, A., Thaler, D., and W. Liu, "Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers", RFC 8064, DOI 10.17487/RFC8064, February 2017, <>. [RFC8106] Jeong, J., Park, S., Beloeil, L., and S. Madanapalli, "IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration", RFC 8106, DOI 10.17487/RFC8106, March, <>. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 34]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 8311] Black, D., "Relaxing Restrictions on Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Experimentation", RFC 8311, DOI 10.17487/RFC8311, January 2018, <>. 22.2. Informative References [RFC0793]2923] Lahey, K., "TCP Problems with Path MTU Discovery", RFC 2923, DOI 10.17487/RFC2923, September 2000, <>. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 35]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 ,42]6275] Perkins, C., Ed., Johnson, D., and J. Arkko, "Mobility Support in IPv6", RFC 6275, DOI 10.17487/RFC6275, July 2011, <>. , <>. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 36]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 [RFC4191] Draves, R. and D. Thaler, "Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes", RFC 4191, DOI 10.17487/RFC4191, November 2005, <>. [RFC4302] Kent, S., "IP Authentication Header", RFC 4302, DOI 10.17487/RFC4302, December 2005, <>. 43 2007, <>. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 37]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March6563] Jiang, S., Conrad, D., and B. Carpenter, "Moving A6 to Historic Status", RFC 6563, DOI 10.17487/RFC6563, March, <>. . Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 38]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 371] Boucadair, M. and S. Venaas, "Updates to the IPv6 Multicast Addressing Architecture", RFC 7371, DOI 10.17487/RFC7371, September7934] Colitti, L., Cerf, V., Cheshire, S., and D. Schinazi, "Host Address Availability Recommendations", BCP 204, RFC 7934, DOI 10.17487/RFC7934, July 2016, <>. , "IEEE Std. 1003.1-2008 Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), ISO/IEC 9945:2009", <>. Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 39]
+Internet-Draft IPv6 Node Requirements March 2018 [USGv6] National Institute of Standards and Technology, "A Profile for IPv6 in the U.S. Government - Version 1.0", July 2008, <>. Authors' Addresses Tim Chown Jisc Lumen House, Library Avenue Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11 0SG United Kingdom Email: tim.chown@jisc.ac.uk John Loughney Intel Santa Clara, CA USA Email: john.loughney@gmail.com Timothy Winters University of New Hampshire, Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) Durham, NH United States Email: twinters@iol.unh.edu Chown, et al. Expires September 20, 2018 [Page 40]
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+I enjoy the old Sherlock Holmes stories. My favorite way is a Talking Book from the library. In addition to his sharp wit and intelligent banter with Dr Watson, I realize I thoroughly enjoy the satisfaction of gathering the clues, solving the mystery, and--usually--the bad guy gets what's coming to him.
+So, when I keep stumbling across the SAME message in my life in a short period of time, I look at it as though it were a CLUE. Sometimes it takes a Sherlock attitude to figure out what it means for me. Other times, LIKE NOW, it doesn't take a magnifying glass to get it... it's as obvious as the nose on my face!
+The clues: several blogs I have been reading are all talking about TIME MANAGEMENT.
+Anyone that has been reading here for very long might remember I keep mentioning Time Management, and how I want to get better at it. Yeah, right. Talk, talk, talk... but where are the results?!
+Identifying the problem is only step one.
+I have even read information of how to improve productivity, how to better manage my time. It's all good stuff, but for me it's been like reading a bunch of different recipes, grabbing ingredients here and there, throwing them all into the same pan, and expecting it to turn into something edible!
+I need one simple recipe, with few ingredients, that will work for ME.
+I have lists... schedules... calendars. It helps... but there is still something missing. I am still always behind...
+Time Management. It is now at the top of my Improvement List. Priority One status.
+Step one: less time on the computer writing about living life, and more time LIVING life. Gee... I'm a genius... I'll bet no one ever thought of THAT before!!! Yeah... right!!! :-D
+If anyone has Time Management tips that have worked for them, lay 'em on me. I am gathering info to create my own simple plan.
+From Dr Phil's book: "Demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself."
+My verse for today: "But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me."
+My quote for today: "The hardest part is what to leave behind... It's time to let go! --Winnie the Pooh
+9 comments:
+I took a great class in college Loretta about problem solving. Time management was a large part of the class. One thing he taught us that I liked was the idea of making a "to do" list then breaking it down into what we had to do right away, what we could delegate to others and what could be put off to a later day. It was the delegating that was new to me. I always feel like I have to do it all myself. I don't know if you are that kind of person too, but it is really freeing to ask someone for help once in a while.
+I've noticed that the compouter does eat up a lot of time "unawares" so to speak. You know, I'll just stop by and check my messages for a minute. Then, before I know it, it's been 45 minutes.
+I'm trying to limit that time to particular periods. Like now when Kenna is taking her nap and I don't want to make a lot of noise.
+And when I would ordinarily be watching the news. I have a little TV on my huge desk--so, I watch the news and do my computer playtime then, too.
+I just have to NOT get on just before bed, tho, or else I'll still be here at 2 a.m. Makes for a tired nana that next day and lots of ineffectiveness, too.
+Good luck with your T.M. strategy!
+Deb
+Is the computer your biggest time-sucker? Identify where your time is going, then make a conscious effort to do other stuff. It's easier to focus on what you can/need/want to do than it is to try to avoid the computer (or whatever else is stealing your time).
+KAREN: It would nice to be able to delegate, but there is no one to delegate TO, except hubby. And he already does more than his fair share. One of the reasons I want my mobility back is so I CAN stand long enough to do the vacuuming, or the grocery shopping and errands. Even run across the street to our mail box! So, until then, I am looking to get make better use of my time, so I have time to do my art work, not just always feel like I am barely keeping up with basics... if that! Yep, I have my work cut out for me. ;-)
+DEB: Oh, wow, I just recently had to start telling myself NO! I loved checking the computer right before bed... I had a little nitetime ritual, because some of my favorite bloggers post right around my bedtime, pacific time.... Well, like you said, the next thing I know, it's 2am!! And I must get up to get hubby's 2 meals fixed to take to work. For some reason, he doesn't like the idea of fasting. ;-)
+By the way, I finished "God Went Out of His Way", and one phrase has stuck with me: a tiny seed of faith—a little ember of hope.
+Thank you so much for sending me that.
+CHRISTINA: Yes!! And I love it so much... and it's helped me SO much, on this journey. To focus, to find others that understand, to connect. I finally had to sadly, reluctantly, almost with tears, stop visiting new blogs, and limit to my current list. It's hard, when you not only feel it is beneficial, but you ENJOY it so much. An enticing combination!
+But yes, if I had to pick the ONE thing that eats up most of my free time, it would have to be computer. :-(
+I guess I need to figure out how to still participate, without OVERdoing. Fine line, methinks.
+Loretta
+=^..^=
+Well you know I would be devastated if I lost you reading my whining and complaining - err I mean blog. But you do have to do what is best for you. Getting on at night is my biggest problem - I have to be up at 5:30am so I do my best to shut down at 10pm at the latest. So far its working. And guess what all those lovely blogs are waiting for me - I have a bit of spare time during the morning right now (at work) and use it for my blog writing and checking.
+Just pick a time and stick to it - I know easier said than done. Just be good to yourself and your awesome hubby.
+I schedule my day. I use what time of day is best for what activity as a guide.
+My most creative time is morning. So I dedicate that time to work.
+Mid morning is a great workout time for me. So when I'm done with work, I go workout.
+I decided I can not blog every day any more. I love it, but it is time consuming. I have to be on Twitter & FB for my budding profession, so that's a habit I need to instil over blogging.
+It comes down to priorities. What needs the bulk of my attention? Writing and health are way up there with Husband & family. To me, other stuff can be shuffled around. Yeah, so some of that doesn't get done as often as it should. LOL
+Schedules & structure are my friend. This block of time is for this, that block of time is for that.
+JOANNE: You made it under the wire, LOL! Your blog is not new to me, so I get to still visit you. ;-)
+"Just pick a time and stick to it.." Oh dear... I. JUST. SAID. THAT. TO. MYSELF, just 10 minutes ago! Could it really be that simple??!!
+MARY: And, just ten minutes ago, I was just looking at my "daily schedule". I tend to block out the time the same way, putting things when they work best for me. But... isn't there always a but... I don't always FOLLOW it. And there always seems to be extra and new stuff, that must be done, and something gets bumped from my routine schedule... hence, always behind.
+The things with time deadlines get bumped to first in line (cut-sies we called it in school). So the artsy/crafty things, with no time deadline, get pushed farther and farther back. And that makes me feel pushed farther and farther away from the authentic ME, if that makes sense.
+I totally relate to structure and schedules. I have always enjoyed their benefits... heck, I even PAINT using structure. That's what thumbnails are, and sketches, and underpaintings. No matter how loosey-goosey the final look, underneath it all is a foundation. I like that.
+Well, I feel like I'm on the right track. I'll work on priorities, and block it out, and STICK to it. Hmm... sounds like an eating plan.... !! Hey, I know how to do that... ! Take the same skills in the weight loss arena, and use them on this different goal. Hmm.. I'll think on that.
+Thanks!
+Loretta
+=^..^=
+i really like your blog..you are very creative..im not sure if i would have any tips on time management though..the one you came up with sounded good to me..lol i need to do that myself..iam trying to spend more time with my mom and sister and less time on here.so maybe make the blogs short so you dont have to spend alot of time doing it..i know you will find a way..have a great tuesday..loveya,kelli
+My days are pretty much already planned out - staying on track is the thing!
+I've been doing some advance reading in preparation for a possible trip next year. I will have one week and will rent a car.
+From the limited information I've found so far, it sounds as if the area might be best covered from at least two different bases: (Paestum or) Castellabate in the north (west) and Palinuro, Pisciotta, or CasalVelino further south (east). Is this true, or can I cover the coastal areas from one base?
+There seem to be appealing lodgings in each of these areas. Our interests on this trip would be to take in glorious scenery, learn about, and devour, great local food, swim, and explore appealing small towns.
+I would love to read about experiences in this region, along with hotel recommendations. I would also be interested in reading about Maratea, which is further south just over the regional Basilicata border.....worth trying to include?
+CILENTO--Where to base on a week-long trip....(?)
+I've been doing some advance reading in preparation for a possible trip next year. I will have one week and will rent a car.
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+We were in Maratea last month.
+The weather was unusually cool for early June.
+We stayed at the La Locanda delle Monache. The hotel is
+actually in the town of Maratea, (100 steps up from one of the main streets), far from any beaches, although there are places on or very close to the area beaches. We enjoyed Maratea and the surrounding area. Close enough for day trips to Calabria. I would recommend La Locanda delle Monache if you prefer stayingin a city vs. the beach ara. Nice rooms, great service, and a very good restaurant. The town is attractive but small. Only a couple of restaurants, pizzeria, and shops, but 44 churches.
+Thanks so much, TCC. I have that hotel marked on my list, but I was a little puzzled by descriptions of the town that mention how it spreads out a lot, making a car necessary. I guess that it what you mean when you say that the hotel is far from the town's beach area.
+We will have a car, but I do like to have a good selection of eating places within walking distance so we do not have to drive far after dinner.
+Is Maratea town pretty? How are the beaches? Was it empty in June? (I would hope to go at that time of year)
+Did you do any day trips to Calabria? Any thoughts on those? Where else did you visit on your trip, or was Maratea the focus?
+I am so glad that you responded; thanks very much.
+More info on Cilento:
+There is somebody on Frommer's who goes to Calabria every year. You might try over there.
+ek - personally, I don't know anything but Paestum in that area, but I have a friend who is from the Cilento, and used to live there until recently, and still visits regularly. If nothing else, I can testify that he's a great gourmet! If you are not hurried with your planning, I can ask him when meeting him next time (perhaps in two weeks or so). As with most Italians, it wouldn't make much sense to discuss that with him by phone. So if you have approximately two weeks, ask any questions in the meantime that I should ask him for you.
+eks,
+I'm also going to add one thing for your consideration:
+I have heard Rick Steves is writing a guide to Sardegna, to be published some time soon. If you've ever had the urge to go, you might consider it before it changes forever.
+eks
+Maratea doesn’t actually have a beach, however there are many beaches within close (driving)proximity. The town has a certain charm about it. The Locanda delle Monache sits in a position high above the main streets and piazza of the citta. You can easily walk down (not so easily up) the 100 steps at the hotel exit closest to the pool area, to the town. We only had one dinner in town, and that was at one of the two pizzeria there, and a gelato at one of the three shops we noticed.
+We were only there for 4 nights and had dinner at the hotel restaurant (Il Sacello) one night,a great restaurant further up the mountain from the hotel another night, one dinner in Calabria,and pizza in town.
+The hotel was very nice and functional rooms. We opted for the least expensive one, no view but clean and comfortable. There is also a very nice pool, but we had unusually cool weather for early June and only used it once.
+Breakfast, which was included, was just O.K. It was a standard Italian breakfast buffet, but it was served in the lovely restaurant. The hotel service was excellent.
+Beaches
+The hotel has an arrangement with a local beach about 3 or 4 miles away. They charge you for parking,I think about 6 euro, but provide you with 2 lounge chairs and a beach umbrella for the day. It is in a cove with really no view, but the water was warm and very clean and clear. They also have kayaks to explorethe cove area. There are many other beaches in the same area. Lots of the beaches are black sand.
+We also took a boat trip from the Marina di Maratea. Interesting trip up the coast into Campania.
+The boat stops for swimming near a very pretty beach.
+In early June the area was not crowded at all. Only a couple of other people at the beach, and the hotel appeared to be only about half full. Same for the restaurants and cafes.
+One of the highlights of our trip was taking the long and winding road up the mountain to see the Statue of Christ Redeemer. Our favorite restaurant for the entire trip was also up this road.
+We only spent 4 nights in Maratea. It was part of a 3 week long trip to
+Sicily - Capri Leone
+Maratea
+Caserta - stayed at a winery just outside of town, visited Caserta, lots of small towns, and the Sannio valley.
+Genzano di Roma - stayed near here to attended the Infiorita
+and finally the last 3 nights in Rome
+We enjoyed Maratea and the surrounding area. Not the easiest place to get in and out of, so I’m not sure if it would be a good base for traveling from. However, it is a charming town in a beautiful area.
+I have lots of other, more specific info. If you decide to go to this area please let me know if I can be of any help
+I've stayed around Santa Maria di Castellabate quite often. I really like it - good beaches, many decent restaurants and bars. It is not the livliest of places, but it is friendly and relaxed. It is within an easy drive of Paestum, Agropoli and up into the Cilento hills.
+The roads around Cilento tend to be slow and winding so distance is not always a good indicator of time to drive. There is a station at Agropoli if you want to use the train into Naples (or Salerno). There is also a limited ferry service (Depending on time of year) to Capri, possibly one to Salerno and another to Palinuro.
+Thanks to all for the wealth of information.
+Franco, I would not make this trip before next spring (early June would be a good bet, I think) so there is plenty of time to plead with your friend for any and all information on the area. I would most like to hear of favorite towns and recommended hotels; later we can tackle restaurants.
+Zeppole: That is truly depressing. Can it be true? I have mixed feelings about a Sardinia trip; of course I would love to visit the island, but have to prioritize. It is frustrating to usually be limited to the 7 days at a time. From what I am reading, the food scene on Sardinia is heavily tourist-oriented along the coasts which is one reason why I have cooled a bit on the idea of a trip.
+TCC and Willit: I hope you will not mind if I beg for more details further down the road. I am trying to figure out which towns to use as bases for a week-long stay. Maratea is very tempting but because it is so far south, I would probably have to give up a night in the area and stay near the airport on the last night, rather than make the drive from the Naples airport to Maratea. And the same would be true if I used Maratea as my first stop... I could also consider flying into Bari and combining Maratea with a location in Puglia....and then moving up to Naples for the flight home..(I wish I had a map on hand right now)
+I need to do more reading when I return home (am away for a few days) and return with more questions....thank you all so very much!
+Ok, so I'll wait until you're back home and tell me more precisely what you wish to know; I'm not sure about hotels, since of course, hardly anybody knows the hotels at the place where s/he lives - why should they?
+A few years ago (about seven), my Neopolitan sister in law said she was going to a sort of resort just north of Palinuro. My wife and I decided to go along with them. We were lucky to be able to secure a cabin there. Let me say this, I have never had such a great relaxing two week period in my life! The resort consisted of about twenty cabins and a large main building in which there was a DEVINE dining room and a nice dance and recreation area. We were directly on the beach, and the Cilentano beach area is great. The water is crystal clear and pretty gentle. When the proprietor rang the cow bell, it was eating time. The food was tremendous. The main recreation was the great beach, but at night, a musician played the keyboard, and people could dance or just sit around with a drink or whatever. It was a completely relaxed environment. If we wanted to take a very short drive, we would head into the town of Palinuro, a nice place to just walk around and window shop for the ladies, and just look aroung for the gents. It was completely enjoyable, and I would love to do it again. I can't pinpoint the place, but I remember the owner,s name was Ettore, and I'll never forget him because he sounded exactly like my father who was Calabrese. As I recall, it was very inexpensive, although I'm sure it ain't so anymore. The whole area is beautiful.
+That's ok, eks. I talked myself into it. I'll go once ferragosto is over and done and tell you all about it. I won't be going to the coast -- partly because it's redundant in my case but also because, historically, the Sardinians hid well inside their mountains, as far away from pirates and corsairs as they could get. So that's my target, among the shepherds, lots of cheese and lots of chestnuts and I guess no sardines!
+You might see if Arthur Schwartz has anything to say about areas south of Salerno. Maybe he's a maven of that area too
+I am SO glad you are going soon! I did read about some great sounding agriturismi inland and I have no doubt that you will find a few! The Nuoro area sounded particularly rich, food-wise.
+Anthony Bourdain is married to a woman with Sardinian connections and he did a show highlighting the inland cuisine of the island; it fanned the flames for me but after all my reading, I am not so sure if I would put it (Sardinia) first on the list right now..
+Arthur Schwartz has a connection with an agriturismo near Paestum, but read the reports and you might have doubts about the place, as I do. I used to like his radio show and his books are good, but I am not certain about his restaurant reviews..we need to discuss this in more detail...I am hampered right now because I am away from home and all my books, notes, etc...
+eks,
+you do know about this already, yes?
+How funny! We were posting at the same time!
+I once had a good time at a restaurant Schwartz recommended in Rome -- and that's the sum total of my experience with his recommendations.
+If I can, I'll dig up the Plotkin quote that got me thinking I wanted to eat in Sardegna.
+Here it is. From an e-mail exchange he had with Frank Bruni, when Bruni misquoted him as ranking Piemontese food as Italy's best:
+FP wrote:
+“For a few years now, when people ask me to rank food regions, I do not name one, but three top. Alphabetically they are Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Liguria. E-R is the most opulent, FVG the most varied and sophisticated, and Ligurian is the food I would eat every day if I could only pick one. It is so bright, delicious, healthful and pleasing.
+“After these three regions, I add four more: Campania, Piemonte, Sardegna, and Sicilia. Then come the others, and I absolutely prefer Lazio to Toscana, unlike many people. I spent a couple of weeks in the Marche last summer and had a lot of wonderful food. It was like tasting Trattoria Monti on its home turf.
+“When it comes to wine, there are the big three — FVG, Piemonte, and Toscana, with Alto-Adige charging hard, and Trentino and Veneto following. Then there are all the rest. Every region makes good wines. Even Liguria makes some excellent wine, but so little is planted and they have Piemonte, Toscana, and E-R (provinces of Parma and Piacenza) at their border, so great wine is right next door.
+“If I were to name regions in which both food and wine are at an equally high level, then Friuli-Venezia Giulia is first and Piemonte is second, and I think that Alto-Adige, Lombardia and Sardegna would follow. That issue of balance is important."
+We get some excellent wine, cheese and produce from Sardegna in the local market, including a pair of guys who sell strictly Sardegnan food stuffs. I've been making pane frittau from on-line recipes, but I've never actually tasted any other version than my experiments -- so I want to try the real thing.
+We're on an epic camping trip in the West, ekscrunchy, but will reply when we get back!
+In 1997 we stayed at Residence Pietre Rosse which is Centola, which is right by Palinuro. It was a part of our timeshare group. It had an agreement to use the nearby beach. It was the most magical part of our 1 month trip to Italy (this was our 1st trip). We returned in 2003 to Pietre Rosse. While not part of the timeshare group anymore, we were able to rent a room very cheaply. As is often the case, we were not able to recapture the "magic" of our 1st visit, but the area is still one of our favorites.
+We have also been as far South as the City of Reggio di Calabria, where my family is from. We love the Southern part of Italy. The people are warm and the food is incredible.
+Zepple thanks for posting that exchange; I found it very interesting and of course, I now have a new region to think about for the future! I am sure you know that FP has written yet another wonderful book. Our of print, like so many of the great ones, but still available, used:
+Texas: I will look forward to hearing more from you when you return. And Travel52: Thank you so much. Was there anything specific that you did NOT like on the second visit?
+ekscrunchy,
+What a timely link! I am now planning to go to Friuli-Venezia instead of Sardegna!
+ekscrunchy: There wasn't anything that we did not like on our 2nd trip. What happened was, on our 1st visit, we connected with the family who ran the timeshare (they were from Milan), the staff and others staying there. We would be up until 2am on the rooftop talking with them, learning Italian and teaching English. The 2nd trip, the family was gone and the staff had changed. It just didn't hold the magic that the 1st visit did. Having said that, it is a wonderful area.
+Thanks so much. I will be back after further research, with more questions....if anyone else has experience in this region, please chime in with any and all comments or opinions..
+ek, tomorrow, I hope to meet that person from the Cilento. Are you still interested that I ask him for you? If so, just where to base yourself, one or two locations for one week, and probably some hotel tips? Or any other/further questions?
+YES, please, Franco! I would have 7 nights and so far it seems as if I should choose two bases. So the most important choice is: Which two towns? The bases should offer a good choice of restaurants, either in the town, or a short driving distance away.
+Extra points for hotel on the sea, or with swimming pool. We will rent a car, and probably fly into and out of Naples. This would be for spring, or fall, 2011, so there is no real rush.
+I am interested in any and all restaurant tips! This will be a great help and I thank you in advance, Franco..
+Will do, ek - if nothing comes amiss, I'll be reporting back tomorrow!
+ek, first, bad news: sorry, but I had got that wrong. He is not from the Cilento but from Naples; just his sister is living in the Cilento, that's why he always goes there. So he deems his expertise on the Cilento insufficient to guide you.
+Second, good news: he promised to call his sister, and a friend who lives in (and is from) the Cilento, as well; and he said he would come up with all answers and recommendations you're looking for within a few days, and in detailed form. I'm going to see him again next Wednesday - probably he'll have done his research until then, at least I hope so!!
+Franco, my dear, thank you so very much! I will look forward to reading the results of your sleuthing next week!
+And regarding another thread, by coincidence, two friends from Florida will be in New York next weekend and they have expressed a desire to have dinner at Peter Luger, where I have not been in about 25 years. They do not have reservations but are willing to eat dinner at 5pm and have invited me to join them. So if my schedule allows me to go along, I will have the results of my research to report to you!
+So we'll exchange sleuthing results - wonderful!
+Alright sorry for the delay.
+And we have not stayed in any hotels along there so I have no advice really about that.
+All of your general wants though (glorious scenery, learn about, and devour, great local food, swim, and explore appealing small towns), the Cilento will certainly deliver.
+I'm not sure about two bases - I always like to settle in and prefer not to move but this is personal preference. The distances are not very great although travel is slow.
+I think you would do much better to base in Castellabate for the northern part (whether Santa Maria di C, San Marco di C at either ends of the beach or or C itself which is up on the hill) than Paestum. We adore the temples but the beach part of town is lots of bland new hotels on a long sandy, but otherwise not very interesting beach.
+We have not been south as far as Palinuro - not past Velia - but the coast along there and I'm sure right down to Palinuro is dazzling. Note - these towns are very quiet out of season and their season is very short (although no doubt they are packed in the short high season). When we have been (2nd and 3rd weeks of June), while Castellabate is up and running, Acciaroli and the other small towns to the south have still been absolutely (and I mean absolutely) dead quiet - seem totally out of season still. Santa M di C is far far far quieter then than the AC coast at that time but there are people about ....
+ek, here's the first part of my sleuthing results: he has talked to his sister about where to stay - how many places, and which one. (The second part will be about more restaurants - in September, when his gourmet friend will be back home.)
+Both his sister and he think there's no point in moving to a second home base; with a car, the Cilento is small enough to stay put in one place and reach everything in convenient daytrips. And the place his sister recommends (it's where all her friends are usually staying on her recommendation) is La Giacaranda, a B&B in S. Marco di Castellabate. They don't have their own website, but this one is giving a pretty complete description: - pretty reasonably priced, too.
+His sister says it's crucial that you book "the suite" (obviously, there's just one suite). (Which may be more expensive - I don't know.) The beach is 1.5 kilometres away, which may not be what you are craving... but then, it's perhaps not too bad with a car.
+And what's of particular interest for you: they are running a slow food restaurant on the property (open upon reservation only)! My friend said this restaurant should keep you entertained for two evenings, and for the remaining evenings, he'll check with his friend (in September, as I said).
+Hope that helps!
+I forgot to mention: please take note that they're also running cooking classes there, which might perhaps be interesting.
+Thanks to both of you! I will be more focused on this trip once I return from Puglia next month, so please stay tuned and prepare for more questions!
+Franco, you are a gem for taking the time to ask around and gather all of this very helpful information. The B&B looks lovely and I will consider it, although I had hoped for a place on the sea, or with a pool. (I do realize that this really constrains me, especially in this area..). But La Giacaranda is tempting so I will keep it in mind and will surely have at least one dinner there.
+One issue that disturbs me is Texas' comments about how shut up the towns are, even well into June. I would not consider traveling in July or August, although I am sure everything is up and running by then. So where does that leave us? I wonder if you would mind delving into this topic with your "gourmet" friend---does he feel that I would encounter enough truly local places to eat dinner, for example, in early June? I would also look forward very much to hear as much of the information about eating places as your friend can bear to discuss!
+No problem, I'm going to ask him as soon as I meet him again - which will probably be only in September, as well. Of course, I had told him that you wanted a beach or a pool, but his sister was so determined about La Giacaranda that there was no room for any second thought about any other place: for her, that's THE place to stay, sorry ek. Anyway, perhaps at least their advice to stay put in one place will be useful for you.
+Just wondering if Franco, or anyone else, has an update to this thread.
+ek, hello - frankly, my impression (not a very founded one, perhaps, since I haven't been around too regularly over the last few weeks) was that you've given up on your Cilento plan and are returning to Puglia this year; that's why I didn't ask my friend again about the Cilento. But if you do still plan on going there, I gladly will.
+ek?
+Franco, many thanks! I am so glad you are "back" here!
+I had all but given up on the idea and, indeed, plan to return to Puglia in May with my usual travel partner. But my two older friends have just resuscitated the idea of the Cilento/Amalfi trip for the fall. (Actually, they had the idea of an Amalfi Coast visit and I tacked on Maratea and the Cilento. My tentative itinerary must pass muster with them so I am gathering ideas now) The trouble is that the places that look quite charming, especially the one you recommended above, will be too basic for these two friends. It is a bit of a puzzle to find what look like suitable hotels.
+I found this one, in Palinuro; try to ignore the prominent photo of the reception desk on the home page! Not sure what that mud is in the beach photos--maybe they use it in body treatments!
+Charming it's not, but it does get decent reviews and has a nice pool. I wonder if Palinuro would be a good base for a couple of days after Maratea. Scenery should be excellent, which will be critical. And there must be some good seafood in those parts..
+Ummm, do you want me to be honest? No, you don't. But I wouldn't certainly recommend staying at such a hotel. If it's obviously difficult to find accomodations in the Cilento, what about staying in Maratea and doing the Cilento in daytrips from there? The trip to S. Marco di Castellabate e.g. is just 19 kilometers longer from Maratea than from Palinuro, and takes just 15 minutes more as per Google Maps (a reliable source IME).
+Do you already have a hotel in Maratea? If not, what do you think of this find? (I recently researched Maratea for a possible franco trip). On the beach, no it's not, but they seem to have arrangements with no less than 11 beaches on the Maratea coast, and in beach season, there is a daily shuttle for the hotel guests to and from each of those beaches. Plus this hotel is really beautiful IMHO.
+Ah yes, and if you really go to the Amalfi Coast, I'll ask that friend about it, too - restaurants, above all. Amalfi, this is where he is a real expert, he said. (But I'll make him phone that other friend, the gourmet from the Cilento, as well!)
+Franco: You mean you did not like the lap at the reception desk?? I do know what you mean, and did not realize that Maratea was so close. Villa Cheta looks lovely, but they have no pool.
+This hotel does:
+Will return soon--must pick up a pizza I ordered at Artichoke on 14th Street...ek
+Franco: I just re-read your last post. Via Michelin is telling me that the drive from Palinuro to Maratea takes about 1.5 hours and is 35 miles. Those roads must twist quite a lot! That was the reason that I put in an overnight at Palinuro...
+I realize that the hotel in Palinuro that I linked above is not charming. But I am curious as to why you would not stay in "such a hotel." Is there anything I am missing here?
+ps. Pizza was disappointing. The crust became very soggy by the time I reached home.
+So sorry about the pizza.
+"Such a hotel" was referring to the hotel's (inexistent) style, above all; but also to the sad fact that hotels on the beach are all too often built and decorated in a "style" like this. But the Locanda delle Monache seems fine to me.
+As far as Maratea - Palinuro, the problem is the road down to Palinuro, obviously. Just check the distance and time from Maratea to S. Marco di Castellabate, and from Palinuro to S. Marco, and you'll see what I mean.
+Hi Franco: Please forgive this scattershot response. I am trying to do too many things at once but cannot resist "talking" about this forthcoming trip..
+I am not certain that I understand your point in your last post. I see, on ViaMichelin, Maratea to Castellabate in either 2.25 hours or 2.5 hours, depending on the route. (The SP430 for the former and the A3 highway for the latter).
+Palinuro to Castellabate is a 1.5 hour drive along the coastal road, which will be the most scenic, I am guessing.
+TCC: Is Maratea is too far to use as a base for daytrips to the southern Cilento coastal towns...??? I would love to read more about your visit to Maratea; you mention that you have more specific information....(??)
+The exciting news of the day is that my friends have approved the general itinerary that I sent them. This is only tentative, but it begins in Lamezia Terme, where we rent the car:
+1 night: I needed a place that was not too far from the airport, and found this SlowFood agriturismo near Altomonte in northern Calabria which is 1.5 hours from LT airport:
+Alternative would be to head for Amantea on the sea, which is closer to the airport.
+3 nights: Maratea, at Locanda delle Donne Monache. (extend to 4 nights and do daytrip to Palinuro, etc from here???)
+1 night: Paestum (perhaps increase to two nights and use as base for daytrip to Castellabate, etc) Or does anyone have any other hotel recommendations in the Paestum area. I am not sure that we will be visiting the archeological site since I toured it a few years back.. If not, perhaps it makes little sense to stay in Paestum, but the area does seem to have a good selection of attractive-looking places to stay...
+From here, the trip continues in the Amalfi Coast area, where the current, very tentative plan includes a few days in Ravello followed by hotel on the coast, in Praiano, Amalfi, etc..
+Franco and anyone who has visited this region: I would love to hear your thoughts on the above!
+ek, I suggest using Google Maps for distances and travel times. Even though Viamichelin sometimes knows small roads that are not on Google, I found Google's travel time indications far more realistic. I'm a pretty quick driver, but even I want to survive, and I'm not sure I would if I drove as quick as Viamichelin usually suggests to... and even though it's the other way round in this particular case (Google driving quicker than Viamichelin), I'd still stick to Google since I simply trust their indications.
+I was calculating the trip from Villa Cheta since that would be my hotel choice; Villa Cheta is located in Acquafredda (a few kilometers north of Maratea). If you look up the route "Acquafredda, Maratea - San Marco, Castellabate", that's 99 km or 1 h 46 min; "Palinuro - San Marco, Castellabate", 79.3 km or 1 h 26 min on the inland route suggested by Google; true, the coastal route is just 58.2 km, but still 1 h 22 min.
+But I like the new plan that seems to emerge from your last post even better: exploring southern Cilento from Maratea, and northern Cilento from a second base (I'd stay there for two nights since I'm not a big fan of one-nighters). Which could be Domus Laeta, of course; Domus Laeta seems great, I found that place, too, on a previous internet search. Or alternatively, if you can perhaps do without a pool for just two nights (considering that you have about two weeks, all in all, and will have a pool everywhere else), you might "return" to La Giacaranda, mentioned much earlier on this thread. The choice is between having a pool for EVERY night or reducing distances, particularly after dinner (since you said you wanted to dine at La Giacaranda in any case).
+To be clear: I've never been to Maratea, and my last visit to Paestum and the Cilento was in 1989. What I said was that I've researched Maratea for a POSSIBLE trip, but it could well be that I'll be able to report BEFORE you go.
+bkmk
+eks
+I'm not sure if Maratea is too far to use as a base for day trips to the southern Cilento coastal towns. We stayed and day tripped south during our stay in Matera, except for our boat trip from the Marina di Matera up the coast.
+I hope that you have as pleasant an experience at Locanda delle Donne Monache as we had. Beautiful place, nice pool, good restaurant, very helpful service. As I noted earlier they have arrangements with a nearby beach club. They also arranged for our 1/2 day boat trip up the coast.
+Don't miss driving up the mountain to see the Staue of Christ the Reedemer. It is up long and winding mountain road from town. Our favorite restaurant for the entire trip was also partially up this road. It is called Il Giardino di Epicuro.
+Excellent local family run restaurant. Great food, wine and service.
+Please let me know, and I will try to answer any specific questions about the hotel or Maratea. Have a great trip.
+I am in Spain at the moment, so have not been able to thank you both for your comments above. I did peek at this site for the moment, and want to add this comment, from another thread, to this one. I will be back here in a week or so with further questions, and discussion!
+Willit: "I have driven Salerno to Castellabate fairly often over the last 5 years or so. The road from Paestum through to the A3 is horrible. It is 50km/h most of the way, full of heavy trucks , and nobody seems to be going anything under 100km/h. I normally end up going throuh Eboli rather than Battipaglia, but both are fairly unpleasant.
+There is an alternate Coastal road which has beautiful views in part but can also get extremely busy."
+The Coastal road, Paestum to Salerno is the SP175. I thought it had a nam as well ? Liteoraneo? or similar, but I haven't been able to find that anywhere.
+Hello ek. I've met my Neapolitan friend, and when I asked him, he immediately remembered that he had promised (and forgotten) to ask his friend from the Cilento about "your" restaurants. He said he's going to do that now. (That person from the Cilento that is meant to provide the recommendations seems very reliable in culinary matters. He's a producer of excellent Slow-Food-branded salumi.)
+But I have two substantial informations for you, directly from my Neapolitan friend: one, he said bluntly that you have to give up on the private-beach-or-pool idea if you wish to stay in the Cilento proper. He said the beauty of the Cilento is that life is so simple there, so down-to-earth; what only his eyes said is that for him, looking for a pool or a private beach in the Cilento is obviously close to looking for Alba truffles in the Central African Republic.
+Two, Costiera Amalfitana (where my friend is really "at home"): his favourite restaurant there (and he, too, is a connoisseur!) is - well, do you remember our discussion, long long ago, of colatura di alici? FANFAREEEEEE - his favourite restaurant at the Amalfitana is called San Pietro, and is located in Cetara, the colatura village!!!! (Which he, by the way, called "the most beautiful village on the Amalfitana because it's the last one that really smells of fish".) He says the chef-owner of the S. Pietro has had a career in the more sophisticated gastronomy, but now runs this obviously unpretentious place, and while his cuisine is firmly rooted in local tradition, even my friend discovers, he said, two or three combinations of flavours on each visit that are completely new to him. That chef, said my friend, is THE master of cooking with colatura. I hope all that makes you, ek, as curious as it's making me...
+I also found the restaurant's website:
+Franco: You are a gem! I am in the midst of cooking right now and will get back to you, but for the moment, I direct your attention to the May 8, 2008 post on this (somewhat tedious) report:
+Fear not, because Cetara is already on the menu, so to speak, for a lunch stop on this trip. My trouble just now is convincing my two travel partners that we really do need to spend more time in the area...
+Ooops - I see. It's so tough to advise somebody who already knows EVERYTHING on food! Admittedly (and everyone can see it now, anyway), though I had of course noticed that trip report of yours, I didn't study it since that region is not "my" Italy.
+Let's hope the salumi producer will have some Cilento tips for you that you don't know yet!
+Tiny piece on Cilento as the "anti-Amalfi" in NYTimes.
+Dear ek, I suppose you'll leave soon for the Cilento, right? At long last, I have first-hand information from my Neapolitan friend - he spent part of his own holiday in the Cilento this August, and tried himself all the restaurants his sister and the salumi producer had recommend him. The result, though, is somewhat disappointing: he said he always dined well, but nowhere well enough to send a serious eater like you there - good, but nothing particular, was his general judgement. This includes the restaurant at La Giacaranda. Sorry to have no better news! But he said once more that San Pietro restaurant in Cetara, where he stopped en route from the Cilento home to Napoli, is absolutely sensational, and his favourite restaurant all over Italy.
+Let's not rush to forget the tragic happenings of a year ago:
+From the EU Parliament:
+... a short report in English with pictures:
+... and even:
+As the anniversary approaches, the crime remains unsolved:
+Peter
+The murder of Angelo Vassallo is a reminder of what goes on under the sunny surface. Does Ischia feel afflicted by this heavy criminal presence?
+Thanks, Franco. Grim news, indeed, on several fronts here.
+We leave in about two weeks and can only hope for the best on the food aspect. I do plan to work in lunch in Cetara. I've done what feels like hours upon hours of research on the restaurants but your note has brought in a needed note of caution. Better to hope for the worst and be surprised than have my hopes too high and have them dashed!
+I did book a lunch (on the second day) at Locanda d'Alia in Castrovillari (Calabria) which has a very good reputation, so perhaps we will get off to a good start as we move north.
+One more detail, he said the beauty of eating in the Cilento is the excellent quality of local produce. The preparation, less so. Have a nice trip, ek, nonetheless!
+eks... on a few more cheerful notes, stuff you may not have found already?
+Should you be in the Cilento by the 18th, or just want to crib their tour ideas, you may like to try this:
+For more, start from the English version of this, and look for the Terre d'Amare section...
+I can't see that these two have been posted here before, so perhaps of interest - some of the "Ristoranti stellati", in Naples province:
+...and Salerno province:
+And I've certainly mentioned this, but it bears repeating - if only for the photos!
+Peter
+PS.... Tarquin - put simply, fortunately it doesn't.
+However there's surely no country where one sort of organised criminality or another doesn't exert an influence in particular fields - and it's hard to believe that the entire supply chain of all the goods and products we get here isn't affected in some manner, somewhere down the line?
+Dear ek, I haven't been around much recently, but I never saw any report on your Maratea/Cilento trip. Did you write one?
+Ciao, Franco!
+(Hanging head in shame): No, I did not. It was an excellent trip overall and I will see if I can write up something short when I get some time...I loved that part of Italy and would like to return to explore in more depth. Perhaps with a new set of travel companions.
+Just to answer my own original question, we ended up staying in not one, not two, but three (!) hotels in the Cilento! Spent the first night (after driving north from Maratea) in the agriturismo A Machina in the gorgeous village of Pisciotta. This is a lovely place to stay apart from the rather disappointing breakfast. The rooms are lovely and the wood floors, by the way, are about the most beautiful I've seen in a hotel. My friends were not happy with their room, with the breakfast, and with the lack of laundry service, not to mention the lack of English speakers within 10 miles, however and I, being the obliging travel companion that I am, agreed to check out early, thus losing one night's payment. (Two good restaurants in Pisciotta--Per Bacco and Angiolina)
+And so we moved on, a few miles south, to the rather Brutalist San Pietro Hotel which I believe incurred a comment or two from you in the past. The saving grace there was the pool which was great for swimming, if quite cold in mid September. (Note photo of reception desk on website:
+Palinuro is beautifully situated but entirely dedicated to summertime frolicking; there is no town center, just a long strip of fairly ugly hotels and shops selling limoncello and its ilk in every conceivable flavor and bottle shape, and gaily colored plastic inflatables. But the beaches around there are lovely. Not so, however, the beach at the San Pietro.
+And for the third base camp, we drove to Castallabate, to the Villa Sirio. Quite a pleasant hotel just off the beach. Friends were not happy with the lack of English fluency among the staff and lack of weekend laundry service, but other than that, gave it high marks. I liked it and it makes a good base from which to visit Paestum and the Vannulo buffalo farm, to mention two jaunts that we took. Not a great eating town, as you might imagine.
+You may detect from my comment this morning that all did not go completely smoothly among the featured players on this jaunt. And that may account for my lack of usual diligence in filing my report!
+In shame, why?? Nobody is obliged to write trip reports, my goodness - I just knew it's your habit, and was curious how this trip worked out since we had talked several times about it while you were in the planning process. Sorry to hear that not everything went as it should... but the landscape at Maratea is spectacular, isn't it?
+F: First of all, I want to wish you a happy new year which I neglected to do earlier.
+My answer is an emphatic "si!' That coastline ranks with the most beautiful I've every had the pleasure to behold! We spent 3 nights in Maratea town at the Donna Monache and very fortunately, the hotel has an agreement with La Secca beach which you had recommended.
+Franco, I have swam in many seas and I can tell you right now that that morning at La Secca was magical. I don't think I've had most pleasurable sea swimming anyplace in Europe. The rock formations rising from the sea, the warm, near-transparent water, the relaxed scene, etc etc.
+I only had a morning there because a front moved in and brought wind and rain and they were closed the two following days...but I am so thankful as that was a highlight of the trip.
+I am going to do a short food report soon...I do feel guilty as I always ask so many questions in the planning but I could just not muster the energy to report on every day of a 15 day trip that was mostly focused on scenery and food.
+Oh yes, I neglected that, as well, so a happy 2012 to you, too! Well, I told you there's unfortunately a very high probability of bad weather in Maratea, that's the big con; but I'm glad you could enjoy La Secca at least for half a day. (It was precisely the same situation for me: only a morning at La Secca, bad weather the two days before!)
+My friends were not happy with their room, with the breakfast, and with the lack of laundry service, not to mention the lack of English speakers within 10 miles>>
+oh dear - [shades of a recently resurrected 2005 thread] your choice of travelling companions might not have been the optimum. Fancy an italian hotel not speaking english - the very idea!
+I'd certainly love to read anything you'd care to post about the food, and the rest!
+I'll pull something together Ann.
+But perhaps you will not want to read it once I confess my further travel "sins!" For example, I did not lose my temper when I had to ask for the dinner check several times. And (shudder) I often engaged in lengthy conversations with the wait staff before placing my dinner order and thus dragged out the meal. But aside from all that, I long to return!!
+For example, I did not lose my temper when I had to ask for the dinner check several times. And (shudder) I often engaged in lengthy conversations with the wait staff before placing my dinner order and thus dragged out the meal.>>
+lol eck - you appear to have gone native!
+wherever we went my friend and teacher on my stay at the language school in Tuscany spent what seemed to me as a Brit an inordinate time discussing with the waiting staff the merits of each of the dishes on the menu [and some that weren't]. whats more, they seemed to expect it. how fresh was the fish, where do they get their meat from, whether it's the best season for a particular vegetable?..and then when we got to ordering the main course, they started all over again!
+I learnt a lot from her about ordering meals in Italy which I'm looking forward to putting into practice.
+Ann: And no doubt you will be ordering your meals in fluent Italian!
+I was always told that the menu in Italy is only a suggestion and that the actual ordering should be done in consultation with the waiter. I suppose I was vilified for taking that advice to heart! And with the language barrier, no doubt it took up valuable minutes that then stretched out the length of the time at table.
+We (usual travel partner, not these two) always chuckle at the length of time and the animated back-and-forth between the wait person and the seated diners before an actual order is written.
+And with the language barrier, no doubt it took up valuable minutes that then stretched out the length of the time at table. >>
+time like that is never wasted, ek! vilified? Never.
+do i gather that you won't be going travelling with "these two" again?
+By the way, I have to add that I just love the sentence you wrote, Ann:
+<Fancy an italian hotel not speaking english - the very idea!>
+That's such a great wording; we should quote your post on every third thread on the Italy forum.
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+How do I get to Bayfront Event Space?
+Address: Bayfront Event Space, 12A Bayfront Ave, Singapore 018970
+By Bus: 97, 97E, 106, 133 (Aft Bayfront Station Exit E, bus stop no: 03511)
+97, 97E, 106, 133, 400, 513, 654 (Marina Bay Financial Ctr, bus stop no. 03391)
+By MRT: Bayfront (CE1 / DT6)
+Please note there is no parking on site. We do not encourage drinking and driving.
+Where do I collect my wristband?
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+I am attending all three days of the festival (3-day pass) - will I receive more than one wristband?
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+I purchased a Party Pack but my friends aren’t here yet. What happens next?
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+Is re-entry allowed?
+Yes, as long as you are wearing your wristband you are free to move in and out of the Festival Village.
+I forgot my complimentary tickets at home, can I just give you my name?
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+Why do I still have to pay for booking fees when I’m not booking online?
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+Where do I collect my Cocktail Shaker?
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+The Cocktail Passport is your wingman for all things cocktails around the city during #SGCF2020! This year our Cocktail Passport has gone mobile to bring you exclusive drink promos at over 45 SG Bars, Information about Special Events, Guest Shifts, Masterclasses and Workshops during #SGCF2020.
+SGCF is partnering with Sluggr to present you an exclusive SGCF portal in-app, during April 2020. More details to be released soon when we launch this in April!
+No, deals are only available during the festival dates of May 15-22.
+No, you can use the Cocktail Passport without attending Festival Village. All you need to do is download the Sluggr app. The SGCF portal within this app will be launched in April 2020.
+Each drink promo can be used as many times as you would like!
+Visit more than 15 bars during the SGCF Promo Period (15 to 22 May 2020) and unlock cocktail promotions using Sluggr App to win an exclusive SGCF cocktail shaker set. You will also automatically qualify for a lucky draw to win a 2D1N stay at Grand Park Orchard Hotel, $500 cash and a cocktail hamper.
+At the SGCF Participating Bar, inform the staff that you are a Sluggr user. They will enter a unique code into your mobile when you order the promotion drink available in the app. You can redeem that promo as many times as you like but only one purchase is needed to tick off your list of 15 bars!
+Drinks purchase and #SGCFCocktailChallenge entry only permitted to patrons above 18 years of age (based on Date of Birth, passport or ID Card). The Challenge period is from 15 May 2020 until 22 May 2020 (both dates inclusive). Participation are open to all Sluggr app users except employees of The Events Artery, 916 Labs and their immediate families. One account is only applicable for one user, and hence participation of the competition is only allowed 1 account holder. Winners of cocktail shaker sets as well as the winner of the Grand Prize will be notified via phone and email by 31 May 2020. The winner(s) must produce his/her identification document to claim his/her prize within the stipulated dates. Prizes are not redeemable for cash. Refunds and/ exchange will also not be entertained by the organiser. Prizes not collected by end June 2020 will be forfeited and organizer reserves the rights to give the prize to the reserved winner. The Organizers reserve the right to replace/change the prize with one of equivalent value. There is no cash alternative to any prizes offered. Worth of prizes is reflective of market changes and may differ from stated value on date of award. Prize winners will be required to allow their names to be used for publicity reasons. The Singapore Cocktail Festival management reserves the rights to publish photograph(s) and/ or statement from prize winners. The terms & conditions are subject to change without any prior notice. The Organizer’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entertained. The Organizers shall not be liable for any loss (including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss), damage, personal injury or death in connection with the #SGCFCocktailChallenge
+Once you’ve decided which tour to join, select and make a purchase. Do bring your voucher, either printed or on your mobile, to the tour for redemption.
+Each tour will make 4 stops to visit one bar each, to taste the exclusive cocktails created specially for the Festival. Each stop will entitle you to one drink. We will also provide transportation between stops and a guide for each tour group.
+If time permits, you will be able to order food on a stop of the Bar Tour. However, we are on a strict timeline so please take that into consideration. Any food purchased will be at your own cost.
+Once confirmed, no cancellations, refunds, or changes may be made to your ticket purchase. However, if the tour is cancelled due to unforeseen reasons on our part, a full refund will be issued.
+The meeting point will be the first bar on the list of stops. This is where you will meet your tour guide and begin the tour. The tour will then end at the last stop on the tour.
+$
+Happy New Year everyone!
+Well, everyone whose calendar actually starts a new year these days. Also both Christmases, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Yule, Festivus... whatever you guys decided to celebrate, I hope it was nice, warm and spent with loved ones. I also hope you got some Magic cards in those presents, I know that opening packs was the best part of Christmas for me when I was a bit younger, so I hope you got to enjoy it as well!
+At one point in my Magic career (if you can call it a career), I was at a crossroad. Well, to be honest, I was at a crossroad many a time, but this is one of those times. At that time, Wizards of the Coast just recently rescinded the old DCI ratings system that was in place of the current Planeswalker Points system. This troubled me heavily since I had one of the top total ratings in Europe at that time and this allowed me to participate in every Pro Tour without having to qualify for them. Due to my poor financial status at that time, I used this only to participate in one Pro Tour, the one that was in Paris, since it was cheap enough that I could afford to go easily. Just as I was getting ready to actually start attending the Pro Tours and all, Wizards made the change and just made the DCI rating obsolete. I considered quitting Magic, or at least competitive Magic altogether after this, since I thought it was too hard to get on the Pro Tour considering my geographic location, and even harder to stay there barring some weird streak of luck. I didn't completely quit trying, I was still going to GPs and to a PTQ (before the PPTQs) here and there, but even though I mostly had pretty good finishes, I was missing the qualification for some time and started questioning if playing in the main events of GPs made any sense. (see my Not So Grand Prix article) Since I really like travelling with friends I started thinking what should I do, should I stop going, stop playing in the main event, or all events altogether, just travelling for the sightseeing, until a MTG judge friend of mine suggested that I should become a judge. That made me think - "Hey, if I was a DCI Judge, I could attend GPs with friends, judge there and have my expenses more or less covered! This might not be a bad idea!" This is not the best motive for becoming a judge, and it wasn't the point where I actually went and became a judge, it came a bit later, when I figured out that there are also judge conferences just prior to GPs, as well as outside of the tournaments where you can attend or even hold seminars and get rewarded with not only good company and knowledge about the game, but also some more judge foils. Quickly I realized that the judge life offers a lot of travel, a whole new community to make friends in, as well as decent compensation for all the work you put in.
+Becoming a judge was a simple affair; I helped judging at a PTQ and took a level one test after the tournament ended. The exam itself was a pretty easy thing that a long term player like me didn't really need to study for to pass, but I would lie if I said I didn't prepare at all. Even before I took the level one exam, I decided this was just a short stop on my way to level two and judging GPs. I can be a stubborn guy, so I joined the level two preparation group of the Europe-East judge community and participated in the group for some weeks while the preparations lasted. After that, I felt prepared, but still worked on my knowledge whenever I had time to do so. Soon after, my regional judge coordinator, Giorgos, approached me and asked if I would be willing to go for level two. I didn't want to pass up on the opportunity, so I accepted. I took a judge level two exam at GP Vienna, around three months from the moment I became level one. I successfully passed the exam and became a level two in just three months from having basically no judging experience. This felt like quite a success for me and at that time, I was pretty sure that every GP I ever attend in the future will be as a judge.
+Right after that, I applied to judge at GP Strasbourg and got accepted. This experience was pretty great for me - I met a bunch of interesting people, had a lot of fun and learned a ton. I was assigned as a head judge for pickup events on Friday, and as part of the deck check team in the main event. The work was pretty hard, and my feet hurt quite a bit at the end of the weekend, but all in all I was quite happy with the work, as well as with the judge foils and booster boxes I got for the effort. I decided to apply for the next GP, but didn't get accepted there. There wasn't a GP close by in a while, so I decided to wait until the next opportunity. In the meantime, I had fun judging locally when needed and playing some limited. I decided to play one of the last limited PTQs ever (just before they changed the system to PPTQ/RPTQ one) just for fun and ended up winning it. Suddenly, I was again qualified for a Pro Tour without even trying. I neglected judging while preparing for the PT, where I ran pretty well, which qualified me for the next PT… you get the picture, while back on the Pro Tour, I almost completely forgot about judging, only judging when needed locally so the community wasn't suffering from te lack of level twos. When I finally fell off the Pro Tour again, my first thought wasn't - 'great, now I can get back to judging, I really enjoyed that', it was - 'man, I need to get back on the Pro Tour!'.
+I did try for a bit, but my work schedule and location prevented me from going gung-ho on the PT qualifications, but the few premier events I could attend, I played, rarely judging at all.
+In the meantime, the judge foils at GPs were discontinued, and the new exemplar program was introduced. The exemplar program, if you aren't already familiar with it, is a system where judges recommend each other and they get rewarded for their efforts with judge foils. This encouraged me even less to attend GPs and more to focus on the local community and coordination with judges in my region. All in all, I can say that becoming a judge was a great decision for me, I have an impressive collection of judge foils and made a lot of friends while judging and attending conferences, but still, it was very hard for me to make the complete transition from player to judge, no matter how good the judge life was to me. In the end, I am still balancing somewhere in the middle, but I can't say I will ever give up on playing the game so I can judge more.
+Playing Magic the Gathering has its well known pros - having fun, spending time with friends, presenting a challenge, a sense of accomplishment and joy when you manage to win something etc. but it has also many cons, most prominent of which is the cost of both products and tournament entry fees, but also having to spend time with all kinds of people you might not like, high variance, a sense of disappointment and dejection whenever you fail miserably, even though you put in money and effort to do well.
+Judging, on the other hand, has many pros that are similar to those mentioned above - judging can be fun when you get into it, you still get to spend a lot of time with friends and at the end of the day you are left with a feeling of satisfaction with a job well done, but the main difference is that judging pays - and well. Playing Magic is pretty expensive for most of us, while judging costs far less (just the travel costs) it also pays far more consistently and far better. I do remember that we once came to the conclusion that you need to make top 8 of a GP to actually get more value out of a GP than a random level 2 floor judge. The only real 'con' that judging has is the fact that you don't get to play. You are not playing Magic, the best game in the world, you are working, and no one likes working. I guess you could argue that having to learn the rules and how to enforce them is a 'con' as well, but I found that pretty interesting and enjoyable so I can't agree on that.
+My experience is that judges are perceived with mixed feelings by the players - some of them appreciate them a lot, while many others consider most judges incompetent or resent them for what they considered unfair treatment. Judges are taught to put a lot of effort in user experience and to be very careful how they deal with the players - easily comparable to how hotel staff is expected to treat guests - and most judges do exactly that, but still, many players have a story where a judge's ruling was wrong, or where they think they were treated without the appropriate level of... well... care? These negative stories about judges are what is told far more often than the positive ones and it creates an air of resentment between judges and players. A good example was at a recent GP I attended where the tournament was running pretty slowly in general and obviously, many of the players got nervous. I was standing in a pretty big crowd when a player noticed that judges were taking a group photo - a customary thing at every GP - there was a huge murmur of negative comments and remarks aimed towards judges - blaming them for the tournament going slowly, and instead of putting more effort into speeding things up, they were taking a picture. I was pretty angry at the players at that moment, since I noticed many judges literally running around doing their best to make things go as swiftly as possible the whole day and no one ever commented on that, on what a good job they were doing. No one commented on the fact that as soon as the photo was taken, most of the judges went running back to their duties and I felt that was pretty unfair, since I know almost all the judges are hard working guys who really try their best.
+On the other hand, I don't think I ever heard a negative comment coming from a judge regarding players as a whole. You can often hear stories in judge booths about players being rude or even aggressive towards judges, but negative comments are aimed towards individuals always, never towards the community. Judges understand and are taught that there are many different types of players and that you need to be very careful and patient when dealing with each individual since you cannot know what type of person he or she is and what is his level of competency in both Magic and social situations. This training, I believe, is something that makes judges very tolerant and understanding towards players and helps them do their job with a smile.
+There is no 'best' role in Magic - both being a player and being a judge is amazing and a reward in its own way, but while almost all judges started out as players and then found that judging fits them better, very few players tried judging and decided it was not for them. I feel that might be a mistake, since even if you don't think that judging is for you, getting ready and learning for a judge exam is something that might improve your playing more than a bit, and even if it doesn't, it will certainly help you understand the game better. And, you know, you get to win every Magic rules argument by saying: "Trust me, I'm a judge.".
+Judges arent to blame, but rules are ?
+Jorge and Rafi discuss 4 Ways to Lessen the Impact of Rising Interest Rates on Real Estate. They discuss stress tests, leverage, and other methods.
+Related:
+Video Transcript
+Rafi: We’re good. You’re good.
+Jorge: Yes.
+Rafi: Good afternoon and welcome to another installment of our Graystone Brown Bag Sessions. I’m Rafi, Chief Operating Officer of Graystone Investment Group.
+Jorge: This is Jorge Vasquez, CEO of Graystone Investment Group.
+Rafi: And as always, we have the excellent, you know, producer of this segment, Stephany, in the background. Hi, Stephany!
+Stephany: Hello guys.
+Rafi: She’s back there very proud wearing her Columbia jersey. For those of you that are watching live, today, Columbia plays France in the World Cup qualifiers.
+Jorge: That’s going to be a good game.
+Rafi: Good luck, Columbia. I don’t know any French people so I’m going to prefer Columbia. You know, because we want to make her feel good and all that kind of stuff.
+Jorge: Stephany, when was the last time Columbia
+Rafi: Last time they were
+Jorge: They played France?
+Rafi: Oh played France, I don’t know.
+Jorge: It’s been a while.
+Rafi: The last World Cup they went far and they told me James so that is good. Now, Jorge, where can they find us?
+Jorge: Rafi, they could always find us at Homes, the number four, income, dot, com; that’s Homes, the number four, income, dot, com where you invest
+Rafi: We do the rest.
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, it’s in the description over there so you can subscribe and you know watch this video. We have other videos there, too where you can basically get some knowledge. And today we have a very relevant topic. This week the Fed increased the interest rates by a quarter percent which sends ripples throughout the whole economy. The Fed from their perspective, they were trying to curb inflation, you know the unemployment rate is pretty low so that’s a way that they use especially with such low interest rates right now. That’s a way that they use to make sure that inflation is kept at a level that is manageable.
+Jorge: Uh-huh.
+Rafi: And at the same time, you know, financial institutions, you know they make a little bit more money because of that. Positive impact for savers because now their accounts
+Jorge: Savings accounts.
+Rafi: Savings accounts go up by a quarter percent, negative impact for borrowers because now loans and those kind of instruments, you know, the rates go up. Credit cards, if you have a variable APR credit card, guess what, your next month, your APR is going to go up by a quarter percent. If you have lines of credit, you know, Helox and that kind of stuff that are tied to the interest rate, guess what, you’re payment next month is going to go up by a quarter percent so impacts throughout the economy, but today we’re going to focus on the impact to
+Jorge: Investment homes.
+Rafi: Investment homes. Real estate. How that impacts. And we’re going to talk about four ways to lessen the impact of rising interest rate on real estate investing. So we’re going to give you some perspective, things that you can do, okay, things that you should be doing either when you acquire property or when you dispose of properties or throughout your investing to make sure that the impact of rising interest rates on your investment is lower. So, Jorge, what would be the first one we talk about, the first tip of four, because we’re always going to give them four ways to lessen the impact. The first one is one that a lot of people are not that much aware of it. And the first one is stress test every deal. Now, I’m stressed today. You know, there’s a transaction I’m trying to close on that is getting me crazy. So what you telling me that properties have stress, too? What do you mean by stress testing?
+Jorge: Well, you know, you don’t want your property, you want to stress test your property because you don’t want to commit suicide. (Jorge laughing).
+Rafi: Say that two times. Stress test.
+Jorge: Stress test.
+Rafi: Stress test.
+Jorge: Stress test.
+Rafi: Stress test, stress test.
+Jorge: So in other words, what you want to do is you want to put your property through some stress related to, can I increase the rents, eventually. Is it feasible increasing the rents if I need to, if I need to borrow money.
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: Is my house going to be okay against the stress of borrowing those funds and the interest is going up. We tell investors that you surely and assets should be able to withstand six percent mortgage. So that’s how you would do your interest rate stress. Is taking your property and saying okay if the market turns down or goes down could my asset be okay with a six percent interest rate on a mortgage.
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: You know, am I able to cover those payments and so forth. So that’s one of the stress that you put your property through.
+Rafi: Stress test.
+Jorge: Stress test from the beginning.
+Rafi: Yup. Well, and this is something that you should do, guess what, before
+Jorge: Before.
+Rafi: Let’s do it again. (break in video) You sit down and you go okay this property based on my previous lender, because you have a lender on your team already, I know I’m probably going to pay this much, the cap rates are going to be this much, the repairs are going to be this much, and you have your estimate, right, before your purchase, but then what you need to do, what we talk about when we talk about stress testing is, hey what if the repairs instead of fifteen thousand, is twenty thousand? Right, does it still make sense? What if your mortgage that you were getting at five percent, like you say, you get it at six percent, right, can you still make sense.
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: What if the rents go down, instead of a thousand, you know the rents go down to nine hundred does it still make sense for you. So those are the things, those are the stress testing you basically are going worst case scenario before you acquire the property
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: Because that means that hey, if things stay well you’re going to be great. Now, that’s a conservative approach. And we for example, in our calculator we’re very conservative so we estimate a month’s worth of maintenance, you know, we estimate you know five to seven percent vacancy. That’s the other one. Oh, Tampa right now, vacancy is like two percent. Guess what, we always calculate it with five percent and some properties we may make, we may say, you know what, I’m not going to buy that property, it may work with two percent vacancy but it doesn’t work with five.
+Jorge: Absolutely.
+Rafi: And that’s what we mean about stress testing. When you buy you need to make sure you go worst case scenario on all your factors and if it still makes sense, it’s a slam dunk. Okay, now we don’t say hey don’t buy that property. You may take a risk, that’s what investors do, that’s what we do. We take risks, but we manage that risk. So if for example you do that scenario and it doesn’t bode well, but you know that the equity is going up tremendously maybe you say you know what, I’m going to risk it because I think the equity is higher, right. But at least you did the exercise and you’re not caught off guard and that’s what we want to make sure, that you stress test your portfolio, you stress test those properties before you acquire them and then guess what interest rates go up, you know that you can at least cover. I know that you have tons of stories of people that in 2007, 2008 went belly down because they didn’t stress test, you know, their portfolio, right.
+Jorge: Absolutely and this goes to the second point we’re going to be talking about, leverage.
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: but over-leveraging is what got those people in trouble.
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: in 2007. A couple of numbers to think of; your investment should be able to, at the very minimum be able to withstand a six percent
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: Remember that number. And also your property should be able to withstand a twenty percent drop in value.
+Rafi: Got it.
+Jorge: Twenty percent drop in value and six percent in case you need to borrow money or get a mortgage. So use those numbers, put them to the test through the stress test to your property
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: And see if is still cash flowing. That’s the best way to do it.
+Rafi: And again, if you stress test it and it doesn’t look good and you still want to go for it, that’s okay because what we want to make sure is that you don’t get caught off guard. I think what happened to a lot of them in 2008, is people didn’t do that and they were caught off guard. If you do it and you know, wow it drops twenty percent, I may start losing some money, but I’m still going to go for it. You know what, guess what, that’s okay because if it drops twenty percent you knew about it, right and you can manage better versus getting surprised. And surprise is the one thing that as an investor you never want. You never want surprises.
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: So that’s what we’re. I know some people may say there’s no way, I will never buy a house if I do that. We want you to manage the risk and not be surprised. That’s the thing. The second tip, the number two tip is use leverage responsibly. You need to use leverage in a responsible way. What do we mean by that Jorge? We’ve talked about this before.
+Jorge: Yes, yes. So you want to leave a gap. In the ideal world you want to leave a gap of thirty percent cushion, thirty percent equity, ideally from the beginning, from day one.
+Rafi: So you do that before you buy the property.
+Jorge: So, ideally, in the ideal world you put a thirty percent down payment and you have that thirty percent cushion. But if you cannot do that because, yeah, I know that some people won’t be able to put thirty percent down on every property.
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: Do that twenty, do that ten, but knowing that you need to shave that down, that mortgage, shave it down little by little even if it’s extra payments, principal, something.
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: But it has to be part of your business plan.
+Rafi: Absolutely.
+Jorge: How are you going to do that.
+Rafi: Absolutely. We always advocate, you know, eighty/twenty. That’s the highest that we advise our investors to go. Eighty percent you know loan to value. We actually prefer to your point, seventy percent; that we have that thirty percent, you know, cushion there in terms, if the market goes down or something like that you can actually do something about it. But, I think like the key thing here is, for example a lot of our investors buy cash first and then they re-finance, right. That’s great you have to try to make sure that the whole portfolio is thirty percent. And by the way, using the previous number that we said, hey a drop in twenty percent, when we talk about stress testing
+Jorge: Uh-huh.
+Rafi: Well, if it drops twenty percent but you did a seventy/thirty loan, you still have ten percent. You still have ten percent.
+Jorge: Exactly.
+Rafi: You still have ten percent. You still have ten percent.
+Jorge: Exactly. Exactly.
+Rafi: So your point, what happened in 2008, people were going ninety, a hundred.
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: They didn’t stress test it
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: So when it went down twenty percent they were caught with their pants down, basically.
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: The other thing, and I know you’re a huge advocate of this, is if you take a refinance loan make sure that that payment always includes principle. Those interest only loans, watch out.
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: Watch out, right, because to your point, you put principle it comes down, the equity goes up right.
+Jorge: Well the tear is that even if you didn’t know what you were doing you bought the wrong asset at the wrong time, as long as you give it enough time, you will pay it off.
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: So that’s why it’s so important that paying the principle is going to give you that safe net just in case everything else goes bad.
+Rafi: Excellent, excellent. Man, a bunch of people joined, so we want to say hi to Lowe Vasquez, best photographer in the Tampa Bay area. Lowe you got to take a picture. Pose. Not two, four. Lowe, what do you think? We’re going to make it happen. We have Lowe, we have Dahlia, Mike Akia from Capital One, man long time no see. When you come to Tampa we need to hook up. We also have Marta Avera, Eddie Verdejo, Dahlia. My brother, Chef Ricardo Castro from Picante, and who else. Now do we have any questions here, let’s see. People are joining. I think they’re getting information and then they’ll go for it. Now let’s go over. Again, the first tip stress test, stress test, stress test your properties, the second, use leverage in a responsible way and the number three tip to make sure that you lessen the impact of interest rates in your real estate investment is build value to create a cushion. So we talked about, you know, leverage, but this is different it’s building value to create a cushion. What do you mean by that, how do we build value on our properties?
+Jorge: Rafi, adding components to the property that are going to increase the value of the property.
+Rafi: Got it.
+Jorge: And this is something where you’re finding the property actually guys from day one, you might see an area where you say, “Hm, there could be a third bedroom there.”
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: Maybe in two year, three I’ll do that in case the value of the property goes down twenty percent, I know that if I build this area up,
+Rafi: Or make a bedroom there.
+Jorge: I would make the bedroom there then I have
+Rafi: Maybe twenty percent or ten percent increase.
+Jorge: So, identify from day one, start improving the property as fast as you can, obviously as the rent comes in bring that value up, very important.
+Rafi: I think that’s where having a contractor on your team makes a huge difference. Because when you are acquiring a property, okay, he can spot these areas where you’re going, you know what, I can add a second bathroom here, I can add a third bedroom here, maybe I can add a garage or a carport. So it’s very important that you have a contractor on your team because these things are the ones that really he can identify and he knows. You know, if you have a contractor that has worked on rental properties, you know, he knows what adds value, what doesn’t add value.
+Jorge: Uh-huh.
+Rafi: So again, it’s very important that you have a contractor in your team.
+Jorge: You know we have that investor, Gero.
+Rafi: Oh.
+Jorge: He buys properties with a car garage that he can convert eventually into another room. But obviously, it has to be in areas where they convert a car garage makes sense for the neighborhood.
+Rafi: Makes sense. Yup, yup.
+Jorge: You know, not a neighborhood that requires a two-car garage, you know.
+Rafi: Got it. Got it. So again, how do find ways to build value okay, repair, add bedrooms, add bathrooms. Like Jorge said, you don’t have to do it right away just make sure that it’s part of your plan to say, “You know what, maybe the first year I cannot, but in the second I can add a third bedroom.”
+Jorge: Absolutely.
+Rafi: “I can add that second bathroom.”
+Jorge: People don’t think of that.
+Rafi: And not only that, it helps you in terms of equity. So there’s different ways of building value helps you. The obvious one is equity, right so if you had a three/one and now it’s a three/two, maybe before it was eighty thousand, now it’s ninety thousand.
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: So that’s the easiest one. But guess what.
+Jorge: Splitting lots, too.
+Rafi: That’s another way, but also by adding that second bathroom or that third bedroom,
+Jorge: Uh-huh.
+Rafi: Your rents are going to go up.
+Jorge: There you go.
+Rafi: So, by doing that instead of nine hundred, now your rents go to a thousand. So again, we go back to the first one of stress testing. Well again, your building, your adding to your property by doing these things. Your equity went up. Your rents go up. So that worst case scenario we were talking about, now it’s harder to happen because you have these kind of things. So this cushion is very important. Key, to have a contractor in your team that can identify these things, you know, previously.
+Jorge: Absolutely.
+Rafi: Now, who just joined? Um, wow. Hector Torres, Mata Herrera, Capital One again. And Demarcos Durich. Demarcos, wholesaler, right? Awesome, man. Matt Nagy the best wholesaler in Tampa joined us, too. So that’s great. Now, and then Janet
+Jorge: Your sister, oh your mom.
+Rafi: Janet Arana. Viva Columbia! I have to make parentheses. Janet, me dijieron que nos ibas traer arepas el lunes, asi que, esta pendiente.
+Jorge: Si.
+Rafi: So we have a [incomprehensible] here but when you’re Janet, las espero el lunes So again, we did those things. Number four, the fourth tip, this one is for buy and hold investors like us, it’s huge.
+Jorge: Yes.
+Rafi: But at the same time, Jorge, every time I sit down with a first time investor or a novice investor, this is probably the one that they miss the most.
+Jorge: Uh-huh.
+Rafi: You have the number fourth tip make sure you have a long enough runway and by that we mean don’t plan if you’re a real estate investor, when we say long term we really mean long-term, right.
+Jorge: Yes absolutely. I think this is another layer of protecting yourself.
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: Making sure because we don’t know, we don’t have a magic ball, a mirror ball
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: However you call it to be able to tell the future, so we don’t know if the market is going to turn next year, or five years from now, but if you do your mortgage loan the right way, long-term, ten, I’ll say ten years minimum, ideally but seven to ten.
+Rafi: The risk covers at least five you know at least five but definitely the goal ten if you can.
+Jorge: And the idea behind it is you’ve done your improvements.
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: in five years, seven years whatever the case may be. You’ve paid some principle.
+Rafi: Uh-huh.
+Jorge: So you’re hedging there, hedging there and hopefully if the market turns five years from now, you’ve paid enough down that now you’re in a safe spot to let the property go if you have to sell it or do whatever. More options for you at the end.
+Rafi: Well you think about it if you made a loan, let’s say in 2007, right before the crash,
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: 2007 and you did a ten-year loan,
+Jorge: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
+Rafi: Guess what, if you dispose of the asset now, (laughing) you’re going to be fine. We have an investor, Tony, what’s up that bought right prices were very very depressed, right.
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: He bought at that time, a ten-year loan, now you refinance and guess what you refinancing a fifty-thousand dollar property that you bought back then, now the price you know is probably a hundred-thousand because if you bought cheap at that time, especially in the Tampa Bay area, you’ll probably double your investment, right.
+Jorge: Uh-huh.
+Rafi: But if he had a three-year loan and he had it since 2011, guess what.
+Jorge: Uh-huh.
+Rafi: He probably would have lost
+Jorge: Well, Rafi, I’ve got
+Rafi: a lot of money
+Jorge: I’ve talked to several investors that bought before 2007, 2005 and 2006, that bought at the highest peak possible
+Rafi: umm.
+Jorge: They are now telling me that they are actually in the black now.
+Rafi: Oh.
+Jorge: After. Why? Because they paid some principle. They had a fixed thirty-year mortgage, the property values started valuating more.
+Rafi: And maybe they’re just catching up with that original price.
+Jorge: And they only have left fifteen years on the mortgage.
+Rafi: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
+Jorge: And as we know, mortgages at the beginning is everything towards interest.
+Rafi: Interest.
+Jorge: Interest. So, he’s ahead even as it is.
+Rafi: Right. So having that long runway is the key that has to be part of your portfolio, something that when you look at every year because every year you need to make sure that you take a look at your portfolio. You make sure you have that flexibility and hey the exercises that you have to do, these are exercises that we do for our own properties at the beginning of the year look at what’s due that year, right. What are the properties that your loans are due on that specific year and then plan on what you are going to do. Some properties, guess what, we’re going to sell because based on the appreciation, based on the loan that we have, you know based on the rents and you know the conditions of the property, the best thing right now is to sell that property. We have some other properties that we made that same analysis and we say you know what, the rent if very good, the cap rate is very good, it makes sense to put a new roof or something and you keep it. So, but the good thing is that we can do that because we have that long runway, we have that seven-year plan, okay and we have that seven-year plan you give yourself flexibility in terms of what you do, so. Let’s go over the four tips again just to make sure. The number one tip, man, this word, stress test your properties. Make sure that before you buy the property you stress test it. The number two is use leverage responsibly, seventy/thirty.
+Jorge: Uh-huh. That’s what
+Rafi: Eighty/twenty max. No nineties, no hundreds. Eighty/twenty is your max. If you’re watching this video I know that you’re going to stick to that seventy/thirty, eighty/twenty max. The third tip, number three, build value once you buy the property, okay. Repairs, adding bedrooms, adding bathrooms, garage.
+Jorge: Also identify that from day one as you’re looking for properties.
+Rafi: Absolutely. We’re just buying some lots.
+Jorge: Uh-huh.
+Rafi: But the reason we’re buying them is that they can be divided.
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: So, so if it was one lot, we probably would not buy it.
+Jorge: No.
+Rafi: Most likely. But we identified that opportunity to create value by splitting the lots. Yeah, they may be smaller lots, we get it. It’ll be tighter, we get it. But we think we can put two houses and create value.
+Jorge: Right.
+Rafi: Right.
+Jorge: Perfect sense.
+Rafi: And the number four, the fourth tip is give yourself a long enough runway, right. We advise at least a seven-year plan when you know you have it, when you’re going to have a loan we recommend at least a ten-year loan, but bare minimum five years so that you have some flexibility. Actually, we just had an investor that wanted to sell something but because of pre-payment penalty, it was too early so he decided not to.
+Jorge: Uh-huh.
+Rafi: So those are the kind of things that you want to have. By the way if you’re looking to refinance or cash out on your properties you can contact us and we’ll help you with that and it’s something that we definitely can help you with. But again, these four tips, now that the interest rates went up, the smart investors apply these tips. And by the way, you can still do it, building value, you can do it right now. This is something that if you didn’t do it when you bought the property, you can apply some of these things, some of these tips and make sure that you’re better. The stress test you can do it even after, we recommend before, but even after you can sit down and go “Wow! I listened to these guys with sunglasses, they said to stress test. Let me do it to my current properties. What would happen?” That way you’re not surprised. So don’t think that you have to do it always before. You do it right now at least you know where you stand.
+Jorge: The extra benefit is that your tenants will be happier that you’re constantly improving the property.
+Rafi: Exactly.
+Jorge: Take care of it a little more.
+Rafi: Exactly, exactly. So, uh, Stephany do we have any questions? Man people have been shy in the last couple of times. We want questions, people.
+Jorge: Come on, guys.
+Rafi: Ask us questions.
+Jorge: One question.
+Rafi: We want to be challenged. We want you to think that we don’t know it so that you can send it to me, and we do know it. Or we’ll make our best to show that we know it. Or even better, we’ll tell you, “You know what, we don’t know it, we’ll get back to you and we’ll send something in there.” So, again, four tips to lessen the impact of rising interest rates on your real estate investing. Jorge, where can they find us?
+Jorge: They could always find us, Rafi, at Home, the number four, income, dot, com; that is Homes, the four, income, dot, com. Where you invest
+Rafi: We do the rest. New location.
+Jorge: Yes.
+Rafi: I forgot to say it.
+Jorge: That’s right.
+Rafi: We moved to a new location so if you see things a little bit different, it’s the first time we do it here so if you see that I’m too much to this side or too much to that side we’re still trying to figure out. Give us feedback if you think that it’s too loud or too close, whatever and we’ll go from there. So, thank you so much for joining today. We had a lot of people join today.
+Jorge: Uh-huh.
+Rafi: That’s awesome. Don’t forget to share this video in your network so that they can join us the next time. Next time, are we going to do the next time from the NetZero building?
+Jorge: Probably.
+Rafi: Maybe we’ll do it from the NetZero building that we have over there in St. Petersburg. You stay tuned and don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel.
+Jorge: We’re at eighty-four, giving away
+Rafi: When we get to a hundred subscribers, every time we get to a hundred, two hundred, three hundred, we’re going to give a hundred dollars in gift cards and when we get to a thousand subscribers, we’re going to give out
+Jorge: A house, no just kidding (laughing).
+Rafi: Laughing. We’re going to give out a thousand dollars in gift cards and a little tiny house in foam, one of those little stress test, one of those (laughing). Want to thank as always, Stephany in the background. Thank you, Stephany.
+Stephany: See you, guys.
+Rafi: Viva, Columbia, they’re going to win today. Papita nos dio the prediction, two to one Columbia today.
+Jorge: Yeah, yeah.
+Rafi: Papita from Mary’s Café. He said dos-uno. I believe him. We’ll see you next time in our next Graystone Brown Bag session.
+Jorge: Si.
+Randall Robinson Interview
+By Amitabh Pal
+October 2005 Issue of The Progressive
+Randall Robinson is a disillusioned man. So much so
+that he decided to leave the United States in 2001 and
+settle down in St. Kitts, where his wife is from. He
+has written a book, Quitting America: The Departure of
+a Black Man from His Native Land, explaining the
+reasons for his relocation. Robinson hasn't completely
+quit the United States, though. He still maintains a
+home in Virginia and comes back often for visits.
+A lifelong activist, Robinson is best known as the
+founder of TransAfrica Forum, an organization he
+established in 1977 to push U.S. policy toward Africa
+and the Caribbean in a more progressive direction. He
+has also been in the forefront of the reparations
+debate, having written The Debt: What America Owes to
+Blacks.
+Robinson was born in 1941 in segregated Richmond,
+Virginia. His father was a schoolteacher and coach.
+After dropping out of college for a brief stint in the
+army, Robinson graduated from Virginia Union University
+and then got accepted into Harvard Law School. When he
+finished, he went to Africa to support the liberation
+movements there. Upon returning, he worked for the next
+few years as a legal aid lawyer and community organizer
+in Boston. In September 1977, Robinson launched
+TransAfrica in Washington, D.C. Through his
+organization, Robinson lobbied against the white regime
+in South Africa and sought to end U.S. support for
+dictatorial governments elsewhere in Africa and the
+Caribbean. Among his actions: Robinson organized a
+sit-in of the South African embassy, went on a hunger
+strike to urge U.S. intervention to restore democracy
+in Haiti, and dumped a ton of bananas on the steps of
+the U.S. trade representative's office to protest U.S.
+trade policy toward the Caribbean. Robinson finally
+announced his retirement from TransAfrica in December
+2001.
+I met Robinson in February at the Hyatt Regency in
+Atlanta, where he had come to participate in a
+conference on the role of the religious leadership in
+the African American community. We sat down at the
+hotel cafe and spoke for more than an hour.
+Question:.
+Q: Would you offer similar advice to progressives who
+feel beleaguered?
+Robinson: A good many white Americans are leaving the
+country, too, moving to Canada. My book provoked a lot
+of mail, but it is the first time I have written a book
+where at least half the mail came from white Americans.
+So while the parts about race may not have resonated
+with them, the diagnosis of the culture did.. So they are very happy about
+what we're doing to Iraq--and the menace we present now
+for Syria and for Iran--because they think that the
+apocalypse is an important thing to get into so that
+they can see vindicated their most literal
+interpretation of the Bible.
+Q: What do you make of the Iraq War and occupation?
+Robinson: This enterprise in Iraq is coming a-cropper.
+This is an unwinnable situation. I don't know of any
+situation except the Brits in Malaya--when they were
+fighting an insurgency that had no local support--no
+other event of an insurgency in the twentieth century
+that was suppressed. You cannot do it. They have
+learned to fight the giants, and they do it with a
+self-belief that is more important than one's life. I
+don't think this country was prepared for that because
+Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the
+world. It's a part of this kind of arrogance that I was
+talking about, and it will cost us. Bush has done more
+to create passions for what they call terror than any
+other Administration in this nation's history. I get
+rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world
+talks to, and gets answers back from, God.
+At the same time, I think the business community knows
+that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the
+low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the
+scramble for what remains, and they are willing to do
+anything to take--as Henry Kissinger called it once--our
+oil. What they don't talk about publicly is how they
+are prepared to use up lives of white and black poor to
+realize these ambitions. We are up against an
+anti-democratic foe that is prepared to do anything to
+preserve its position of avaricious privilege. I am not
+hopeful that anything could happen one way or the other
+without a good deal of tumult. And I'm aware that
+because America is so powerful--with its tentacles
+reaching out to the world--one doesn't escape it by
+leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time
+in my life.
+Q: More than during Reagan's or Nixon's time?
+Robinson: Those were Republicans. This is a different
+animal. Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach
+global management with an unbending religious zeal.
+Fear the zealots. Survival is at stake.
+In an interior way, I am not as bleak as I sound. I'm a
+fairly happy human being. But am I in the short term
+optimistic? No. I search for reasons to be, and I'd be
+interested in you telling me what some might be, but I
+haven't found anything in the short term. So I'm sorry,
+but I'm just not hopeful. And then there's the
+collaboration or the accommodation of prominent blacks
+like Dorothy Haight and Andrew Young who stood up for
+Condoleezza Rice. One asks the question: Well, doesn't
+one have to be something more than black to elicit your
+support?
+Q: What's your assessment of Rice and Powell?
+Robinson: I think that they're both dangerous people.
+What they did in Haiti is a good measure of it. They
+destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had
+been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank.
+They did everything behind the scenes, including arming
+the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're
+frauds, every one of them. But Powell labored
+relatively more successfully under the guise of charm.
+Q: You personally know Aristide. In fact, you
+accompanied him in his exile from the Central African
+Republic to Jamaica. Has that compromised your ability
+to objectively assess his record?
+Robinson: I don't think so. I've always thought I had
+pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list
+of people I've worked with over my career with whom
+I've not been able to distinguish easily between the
+public persona and the real private person. [Former
+Jamaican Prime Minister] Michael Manley was one case of
+a man that I had an enormous personal high regard for.
+I thought he was of impeccable integrity. Aristide is
+another. I don't know many people I can say that about.
+And I've never had any trouble opposing people I've
+been close to. I've never worried about offending or
+bothering people I feel strongly about. I've opposed
+black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and
+rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have
+respect for him, but all that is beside the point.
+There's only one point that counts: Democracy requires
+that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you
+have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the
+next time around. Aristide said simply that we must
+learn in this nascent democracy to move from election
+to election. It was as simple as that. These people
+invaded and threw out 7,000 elected officials, and
+replaced them with [Gerard] Latortue, who had been all
+this time in Florida. A woefully unqualified fellow.
+I'm not suggesting that Aristide didn't make mistakes.
+But he was put in a place by the United States where it
+was impossible for him to succeed. I don't know of any
+situation where you're going to have an officeholder in
+a country of eight million people who's cut off at the
+knees by the most powerful force in this world and who
+can still make it fly.
+Q: So you don't buy the criticism that the 2000
+elections in Haiti weren't completely free and fair.
+Robinson: There were only, I think, four or five
+disputed elections out of thousands, and Aristide's
+party was willing to throw those out. It was a pretext.
+That wasn't the issue. The issue was, the Bush people
+didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't
+like him because they don't like democracy. They like
+you to have an election, but they like you to elect the
+people they want you to elect..
+Q: What was the formative experience that made you
+decide to become an activist?
+Robinson: Segregation, surely. I never met a white
+person till I was a grown man. I never went to school
+with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at
+Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was
+searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar,
+and will be with me for the rest of my life. It causes
+you in terror to form reflexes of protection. It's
+unnatural but necessary. So I decided a long time ago
+to join the social justice movement. It was salvaging.
+We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one
+death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without
+response is to die many deaths.
+Q: Why did you turn down an honorary degree at
+Georgetown in the summer of 2003?
+Robinson: Well, I knew the moment I saw that George
+Tenet had been given a similar honor just the day
+before that I couldn't accept an honorary degree from
+Georgetown. Rejecting it caused me a great degree of
+discomfort. First, because the people who fought for
+Georgetown to confer the degree on me were occasioned a
+certain amount of discomfort by me. But I knew just no
+other way out. So I explained my situation to the dean.
+And if they were annoyed, they masked that. I think
+they understood why I took that position. I wouldn't
+have come that far to receive an honorary degree if I
+didn't think that it wasn't an important thing. So I
+was vastly disappointed to read about Tenet. But from
+that point onward, the degree meant absolutely nothing.
+Q: How involved are you with the day-to-day running of
+TransAfrica?
+Robinson: Not at all. Twenty-five years. I thought it
+was time. I think people involved with institutions
+find it harder to know the time to go than the time to
+come. I thought it was time for me to go. I wanted to
+do other things. I wanted to write and think. Activism
+is a displacing kind of passion.
+Amitabh Pal is the managing editor of The Progressive.
+Source URL:
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+portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news,
+discussion and debate service of the Committees of
+Pervez Musharraf became president of Pakistan in October 1999 when he ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a bloodless coup. After September 11, the man that some in the United States once denounced as a "tin pot" dictator became, overnight, a pivotal player on the world stage and a very close friend of the United States. His willingness to work with the United States has come at a great cost back home. Many in Pakistan denounce him as a traitor and in March 2005, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Pakistan, declaring Musharraf unacceptable because of his pro-American policies. Read his complete interview with NBC’s Tom Brokaw below.
+Tom Brokaw: Mr. President, this is our third meeting in the last year. We have talked at great length about the war on terror. Going into the summer of 2005, what is your overall assessment about how that war is going?
+Pres. Pervez Musharraf: I think we are talking of our region, fighting the al-Qaida. I think it is going well. We are on the winning side. I think things are improving.
+Brokaw: Osama bin Laden. He was, for a long time, the poster child of al-Qaida. Now there's a belief in many quarters that he has been neutralized. What’s your judgment?
+Musharraf: I would agree with that. Neutralized to an extent, because [of] the successful operations against al-Qaida on our side of the border, where we have almost eliminated them from our cities. Then we have all eliminated them from their bases, we seized all their bases which were in the valleys, their sanctuaries which they were using as their command bases, their logistic bases, their propaganda bases. We got truckloads of discs and CDs and computers. So that was their command center. They were controlling things from there. Having seized all that, they are now on the run in small packets, in the mountains. What I, as a military man think, is that we have broken their vertical and horizontal homogeneity, their command and control, which is so important to have a well-organized, well-orchestrated body. So therefore they cease to exist as a well-coordinated body because their vertical and horizontal linkages - communication linkages, command linkages - are broken.
+Brokaw: But where do you think he is, and why is it so hard to capture him?
+Musharraf: Well, I cant say where he is. He could be anywhere on the border, on Afghan side, or even on the Pakistan side. Or he may be shifting regularly, changing places.
+Brokaw: But up and down that area, you think, in the tribal areas?
+Musharraf: I would think so, I would presume. That is what my logic says. Because there are operations going on on both sides, and they are not in the same area. Therefore, while an operation may be going on on the Afghan side, he may prefer to come onto the Pakistan side. So therefore, he could be shifting and why we can’t get to him, because really this is a very inhospitable [area.] There is no communication infrastructure except that we are building it now, since the last two years, for more than two years, with the army [in grass] inside, army is helping out. We are making [over] their tracks now… inside, developing human intelligence. It’s an ongoing process, which is, with every passing day, improving. Human intelligence is improving. Otherwise, previously, we didn't have any human intelligence. Nobody was there to inform us what was happening. So I think gradually, we are improving our presence, our intelligence, our technological intelligence, but they're also getting wiser. On the technology side, they do understand that they shouldn't be doing something where they can be picked up. They realize the dangers now. So I would say, the terrain allows it, and facilitates, and maybe there are people who may be harboring him also.
+Brokaw: There's widespread belief in the United States that even some elements in the Pakistani army in that region are sympathetic to him because they come from that area, they have relatives there, it will make their lives very difficult if they're the ones who are, picking off Osama bin Laden.
+Musharraf: I don't think so at all. There is absolutely no chance. First of all in the army, the army is predominantly - we have a mixed army. Predominantly they are from Punjab, but there are people from Baluchistan, there are people from Sindh and also frontier. And these people from frontier are not necessarily from the tribal agencies. They are from other areas. Frontier has very different [people]. It's a tribal society, which is different from different areas of frontier. So there’s no question that that is the case in Pakistan, in the Pakistan army. Especially when they went in and suffered so many casualties, they are absolutely clear who the enemy is. And also, the locals realize that these people are more trouble for them than anything good. And thirdly, many of them were harboring them and supporting them not for any religious motivation. It was for money. Business. These people, now that we've interrogated so many of them, even in madrassas, whenever we caught them and they were hiding, many of them were paying very heavily, thousands of dollars, for hiding there. And also getting a house in those tribal areas, getting a compound, they were paying thousands of dollars. They had a lot of money. So the issue was greed for money as much as maybe religious motivation.
+Brokaw: Are they running out of money in al-Qaida?
+Musharraf: I think so. I would presume so. I can’t say it for sure, but I am sure with all the squeezing that is being done worldwide, and also by us, through the financial channels operating, I am quite sure they are running short of money. And in fact there are indications that they are, yes, they are running out of money.?
+Musharraf: Well, there will be effects. But we shouldn't be so naïve as to capture him and then go around telling everyone and going around with him everywhere. I mean there is a method of dealing with the situation.
+Brokaw: So you would do it discreetly?
+Musharraf: One should work out methods, moralities of how one should deal with the situation, whenever he is confronted.
+Brokaw: But it would be delicate, wouldn't it.
+Musharraf: It would be. Certainly delicate. Not only here, but even in the Islamic world.
+Brokaw: Gen. David Barno, who is the commander of American forces in Afghanistan, has said recently that Pakistani forces will be involved in major operations along the tribal frontier regions late this spring and this summer. Is that the case?
+Musharraf: We are involved there. We've got I think roughly about 75,000 troops. We've got 44, if I'm not wrong, 44 wings of frontier. We've got I think 27 battalions of infantry. There are two division headquarters involved and there are about six brigade headquarters involved. This is a tremendous force. And certainly they are operating, they will keep operating. We have to sustain the pressure.
+Brokaw: But will they be stepping up their activity?
+Musharraf: Who?
+Brokaw: The Pakistani army.
+Musharraf: Well, it’s not an issue of -- you see, this is more intelligence than operations. The operations against them is more intelligence based. Wherever we can [get] confirmed intelligence from various sources, we attack that target and come back. So that is it. So there is nothing like holding of defenses by them where we increase our operation and we reduce our operation. There are no static lines. There are no defined lines. It's a matter of whenever we get information, so if we start getting more intelligence, we'll operate more. The bottom line is clear. Whenever we get intelligence we will strike that.
+Brokaw: One of the frustrations I hear from American military commanders and intelligence officials in Afghanistan and in Washington is that when they provide the Pakistani military units with intelligence, they're too slow to act on them.
+Musharraf: I think this is a very wrong expression on the force. I don't want to lay down certain areas. For three years we have been talking of what we need. We need, and I have always from day one been saying, aerial mobility, capability of moving during day and night, and capability of shooting during day and night. And you'll be surprised if I told that even today, we have hardly been provided that capability for night. So let’s not talk about these details, we have a lot of such things. Our troops, there's a special operations task force – SOTF -- and we have even moved troops very close to the areas of operation so that we have a faster response. But these capabilities were denied to us for years, I'm telling you. Even now, we are not fully capable.
+Brokaw: Gen. Barno also said this past week that the United States military is much more involved now in training Pakistani troops right on the border.
+Musharraf: No. That's not true. That's not true at all. There is no training going on, except, we needed training of our pilots for night flying, for night fighting and night flying, and also for cooperation on the intelligence. Otherwise, our troops are extremely well trained. We do interact. We have joint exercises of our special service group with the United States Special Forces. That is a feature which has been going on for years, and we do that also now. I think our special services group is extremely well trained, and our troops are war-hearted. They've fought wars and they've fought conflicts.
+Brokaw: But why not have more cooperation. Would that cause you more trouble politically in this country?
+Musharraf: Yes, indeed. I think presence of any foreign troops is not looked very favorably in Pakistan. And under the present environments, that would be not a wise thing to do.
+Brokaw: When we met last fall in New York, you told me that you thought the American war in Iraq was a distraction from the war on terror. That in many ways, it enraged and energized radical Muslims in this part of the world because of what they were seeing on television. Now that there have been elections in Iraq and they're trying to form a new government. Is that still your judgment?
+Musharraf: Well I think things are improving rapidly. With more involvement of Iraqis and a national government in place, and more raising of Iraqi security forces, and withdrawal, gradual withdrawal, reducing the visibility of foreign forces, more Iraqi forces coming up. I know about 155,000 Iraqi forces have been trained. That is the right course. And I think things are improving gradually.
+Brokaw: So there's not as much resentment in the Islamic world now as there was say a year ago about what was going on in Iraq?
+Musharraf: I think it is less. I think it is less.
+Brokaw: Is there less anti-Americanism in your country?
+Musharraf: I think, again, yes, gradually less. It was much more in the past with whatever happened in Afghanistan and the Taliban. And then over that when Iraq occurred. But gradually, or number one, a lot of elements in Pakistan, even the political elements who were talking against whatever was happening in Wana and all that, and trying to accuse the government of anti-Islamic, anti-religious stance, I think they are all convinced that this is nothing to do with religion. This is a pure issue about law and order in Pakistan, and pure issue of terrorism, where we cannot allow any foreign element using our territory to cause terrorist acts in Pakistan or elsewhere. I think everyone has understood and there is no criticism of our action anywhere whenever we undertake them now.
+Brokaw: I was just in Afghanistan. The parliamentary elections are scheduled for this fall, as you know. Great concern there about the Taliban and al-Qaida cells trying to disrupt those elections. And military commanders on the ground and at the highest levels are telling me that there's just a lot more Taliban activity now in Afghanistan and much of it comes from across the border in your country to Afghanistan.
+Musharraf: Well, coming across from this border from our border, I wouldn't subscribe to this. There is a possibility, certainly, I will not deny that nothing's happening from this border. There is certainly a possibility. And that is where intelligence comes in. If at all there is information that there is some movement, or if a movement has taken place and some action has taken place, normally what happens is, many times, several times, that we are told after two weeks that these, there was so-and-so action, done by Taliban, came from here, went back to your country. Now what is this? I don't know. If they went from here, if you know that they are acting, why don't you keep following? We have all the means. There are predators, we'll keep tracking them. And if they are moving in a certain direction towards our border, why are we not informed? They are moving, they are on foot. Or in vehicles. We can take them on. So accusing unnecessarily without understanding ground operational realities to me is very unfair. And unfortunately I know that there is some bad-mouthing from the Afghan side which should not be, and I've made this very clear, please don't do this. Because I think there is much more void, in, within Afghanistan. American forces are not operating everywhere. So are not Afghan forces. Many areas are absolutely vacant. Where would they go? I think, where would the Taliban be if they wanted to hide? We are everywhere. So okay. But, terrain is bad here also. And there may be sympathizers. So I will not deny this, that there are Taliban here. They may be moving across, but they should not blame Pakistan that most of it is happening from here. Who's giving this? Let me have the figures. Let them substantiate this statement. Let anyone substantiate this statement. They won’t. So this is not correct. I think we shouldn't blame each other. Things are going well. We are both fighting. There should be no doubting intentions. Capabilities could be -- one could say that maybe we didn't act fast enough, as you said. Or we should have moved but we didn't move. But intentions should not be doubted. That is very bad. It really frustrates when you are doing so much. We have suffered about 250 deaths, casualties.
+Brokaw: Have you conveyed all this to President Bush?
+Musharraf: Yes indeed, whenever we discuss. I do talk in this same manner. That this is, I don't think he accuses me actually, one does not have to talk like this. He has never accused us like this. He always talks very -- expressed gratitude. Everyone who comes here expressed gratitude. Now who says that things are -- we are doing so much as I said. 75,000 troops, suffered 250 deaths and about 115 or 200 injured. This is what this army has paid. This is unfair.
+T: Are you surprised the Taliban still has as much support in your country and in Afghanistan as it seems they have?
+Musharraf: Yes it does… We must understand what Pakistan has gone through. Go back to 1979. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, what happened? The whole world launched a jihad. Mujahideen were brought from the whole Islamic world. And from Pakistan, Taliban from Pakistan. From the madrassas of Pakistan, were trained, equipped, financed by Pakistan with Western support. Our ISI in the lead. For 10 years we did this. For 10 years. And then, when we won, Soviets were defeated and cold war was over. East-West conflict, Berlin Wall finished, everyone went off. Because strategically we were more eurocentric. Everyone left this area and 4 million refugees in Pakistan, and warlords, dozens of warlords fighting themselves, each other in Afghanistan. All this for whoever wanted to escape to a better place, Pakistan. Because there was nothing in Afghanistan. Afghanistan was ravaged. They came into Pakistan, into our cities, into our mountains. Then, to top it all, Kashmir freedom struggle started in ’89, and for 16 years, the effect of that on us. Then came Taliban. And then came 9/11. All this. There were hundreds of mercenary groups operating in Afghanistan. I know it because I happened to be in the special service group. And my own colleagues -- I know many of them, I met them -- what are you doing in those 80s? They had about hundred people. They were fighting in Afghanistan. They've come back for rest… So this is the effect of this. Now hundreds of group, mercenary groups, Taliban, from all over the world, Islamic fighters, now, they stayed here. They are here. And they started turning their focus after the Soviets left to other places. They had their own political agenda in their own countries. Like the Uzbeks, they have political agenda in Uzbekistan. Saudis, they have political agendas of their own country. And so also in all other countries. They are all here! And we had to deal with them. And nobody to help us. After 89, from 89 till 2001 sir, nobody. I calculated the support that we got from the United Nations welfare agency. It came to about $12 to $13 per anum per head. This is the kind of support. So all our economy was getting shattered, and the people were there. Now we had to swing 180 degrees opposite after 9/11. Now we are trying to wind them up. 'okay hold on. Get back. Get out of the country. Stop this mercenary activity.' So please be patient. This country has suffered.
+Brokaw: Some people in this country, however, with all due respect, believe that you have not stood up enough to the religious leaders who have an extreme point of view, and that you have not pushed hard enough for the economic, political and cultural reforms that are necessary to dampen the Taliban.
+Musharraf: Now these are the accusations, I know. I know these accusations. On the economy front, I don't know who is saying, our economy is doing exceptionally well. Yes, on the religious front, I want to make a point. The world must understand how the religious issue has to be dealt with. In the Muslim countries… if you, as a government, try to adopt a policy where you suppress religion, any religious group, and you make an environment where people start thinking that the government is some kind of a non-religious, they don't believe in religion, why they religious groups are there, and that's why they suppress them. Now this mass of moderates in the middle, who are quite illiterate and poor also, they will swing to the religious side. Now it is wiser to show that you are equally religious. You're not non-religious. You believe. You are religious. We are all very religious. But what religion these people are talking is extreme religion. That's not the real spirit of Islam. So defeat them in their own, number one. And in that, there are a lot of religious groups - this is not one entity. Religious groups are not one entity… It was Sufis through which Islam came here. These are very peaceful, they promote love and harmony. It is political religious parties have a different -- they were against the government of whatever. Don't do something where you take all the religious groups and they go on one side. And then the people start seeing that the government is non-religious and all religion -- I mean you have to handle this with care. We are handling this with extreme care. And I think we are doing very well. I could have spoken hours on this subject, what we are doing and how we need to handle. What is the strategy to do it.
+Brokaw: You have two other big issues, especially with your neighbors to the East. You’re a nuclear power, so is India. You seem to be making some progress on Kashmir, why not take it all the way out, India and Pakistan, show the world how to deal with the realities of nuclear power and put down your nuclear weapons simultaneously?
+Musharraf: There’s no problem with Pakistan, I’ve been saying this openly, let me repeat, south Asia should be a de-nuclearized south Asia, but we will not do it alone, let India agree to it and we are game.
+Brokaw: Would you put that on the table with the Indians?
+Musharraf: Anytime, I've said it openly, it has to be on a bilateral basis and it has to be mutually decided how to de-nuclearlize.
+Brokaw: But would you give up your nuclear weapons if India gave up its nuclear weapons and North Korea did not?
+Musharraf: As far as we are concerned, we have no word connotations on our nuclear capabilities, we have our capability, our strategy is defensive deterrence, a strategy of defensive deterrence, and we have quantified this strategy of defensive deterrence into conventional forces Army, Navy of course and non-conventional. Initially it was totally conventional, but when India went nuclear, we had to rectify the imbalance that they created and went nuclear. They made missiles, again an imbalance had been created and we had to make missiles.
+Brokaw: I know you have been concerned about the relationship between the U.S. and Israel, and Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians and the effect of all that on the Muslim world. Are you less concerned now that there seems to be some movement between the Palestinians and Israelis now between resolving territory?
+Musharraf: Yes, I am less concerned because I do see some movement but I only hope that we succeed ultimately, and I made this absolutely, clear to President Bush, that failure is no longer an option for us unfortunately, and for the sake of the world for the sake of peace and harmony in the world, this Palestinian issue has to be put behind and the only country and only individual maybe to be able to do this is President Bush and the United States. So if you fail to do it, you are failing the world, I think
+Brokaw: One of the most significant developments in the war on terror was the capture of Khalid Sheik Mohamed, here, where is he at this moment.
+Musharraf: I really don’t know. They’ve captured him and I think he's been taking by, because Saudi Arabia didn’t want him, he's been taken by the United States. I don’t know.
+Brokaw: And they have him in Dago Garcia is the speculation. Is that your belief?
+Musharraf: “In Dago Garcia? I don’t know at all, I'm not keeping track. As long as he’s out of Pakistan, I don’t care where he is.
+Brokaw: There was some confusion about who was responsible for his capture. The Americans tell us the CIA was 95 percent responsible for his capture and the Pakistanis were given a lot of the credit for obvious political purposes. How would you assess who was responsible?
+Musharraf: All the actions that have taken place, we have captured around 703 to be exact, intelligence cooperation with India is no doubt that we get a lot of support, intelligence backup, information leading to where they are. But the physical action, never has American done that, let that be very clear, where there are bullets and fighting and hand grenades, it’s the Pakistani troops that are ahead, it’s the Pakistani law enforcement and the Pakistani intelligence. If at all there is anybody at that time, who maybe handing some technical equipment, he's way behind, sitting very safe and cozy. I think this is very unfair on anyone’s part to say that.
+Brokaw: And Pakistani journalists tell me that there’s still some confusion about the house from which he was taken, that there were video tapes that were made that didn’t seem to match up with the house when they went there. There’s some confusion about just where he was hiding out, no?
+Musharraf: I don’t know at all. I wouldn’t be able to comment, but in operations like this, there’s always some confusion some because you call on a certain lead, you get information, you confirm it from a number of sources that information. That intelligence is never perfect but when you feel that okay, this is enough to launch an action, surround and go in, you do that, and it is not always, the situation is not always the same as what we, I think whoever talks on these and criticizes should understand how these things operate.
+Brokaw: Do you think there’s too much back and forth about who gets the credit for capturing Khalid Sheik Mohamed?
+Musharraf: I didn’t know that there was so much controversy. I find it rather childish to get involved in this. I know there are three intelligence agencies here in Pakistan, our own, and whenever they try to compete with each other and take credit I always tell them, why, I mean, whoever has done it, I am interested in the outcome, why are we squabbling among ourselves, who initiated, who found out and who acted? These sting operations start with a certain information about a certain person or a group, then, that gets confirmed, you have to confirm it through technological means. If you get information through technology you want to further confirm it through human intelligence, so all resources are honest and focused on whatever this initial information comes, and then that info is sometimes not 100 percent, but you take a leap in the dark and you go for the sting operation. Many times it fails, the man is not there, so many times it has happened, that you went and you found that no, the man has escaped. He’s not there, wrong information. So these are not black and white that you’re moving when you know a 100 percent the man is there, and who has done it. There are many people who have contributed to the success of an operation, so I think one shouldn’t even get involved in it. But one thing is clear, we have earned millions of dollars from the United States for the head money. I wonder if the U.S. is very naive if they gave us millions of dollars for Khalid Sheik Mohamed because and we didn’t even do anything, so why did they give us all that money? They should have then.
+Brokaw: There were two conspicuous attempts on your life and as a result of that, some major figures in al-Qaida and Taliban were grabbed. Is it easier to find them in the cities than the rural areas?
+Musharraf: Yes, it’s easier in the cities because of technological means, which you can hone on.
+Brokaw: And they're more protected in the rural areas? Harder to get at them?
+Musharraf: In the rural areas, areas are inaccessible, so first is to locate, in rural areas, is human intelligence which is predominant in the cities. More technological means are dominant than having the human intelligence. Then confirming it and then moving to the place is another issue. In the cities you can move by air, so movement is restricted in the rural areas, getting information, intelligence is hard.
+Brokaw: Not as many constraints in the city?
+Musharraf: Yes, No, in the cities, less constraints.
+Brokaw: It’s been almost four years since the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. How close are we now on winning the war on terror -- or are we farther away?
+Musharraf: In Pakistan, in this area, I think we are closer to winning. I am very sure of that, I am very confident, that here, we’re on the winning side and things are improving, even on the Afghan side, so therefore, we don’t have to blame each other for anything. Taliban are moving, but the closer we get to the election, because they know they have to disrupt that, they want to disrupt the presidential election. Did they do it, no. We acted very well, we took action, we established posts, we denied them movement and we succeeded. The presidential election went very well. I’m very sure that now again, disruptions will come again in the parliamentary election. I’m very sure that if we take proper action like we did, we will succeed again.
+Brokaw: But you expect a long, hot summer?
+Musharraf: I don’t think as bad as in the past. I think gradually there are many in the Taliban who are showing gradual inclination towards resigning and compromising…
+Brokaw: There’s a fair amount of turmoil, in the American intelligence agencies now. The CIA is being reorganized, there’s a new national director of intelligence, people are trying to find out where they fit in all of that, who reports to whom. Has that had any effect on the quality of intelligence you receive from the U.S. and are you concerned about these new lines that are still being formed?
+Musharraf: I don’t think its having an effect here. I think there were problems in the beginning, when the intelligence cooperation was not smooth. We always were given information which was cold. This game is very fast, the targets move very fast. You have to have immediate information, immediate action, faster the better and if you are telling us something that happened a few days back, it’s useless, the information is useless. That was the problem. But now we have integrated extremely well, and then the intelligence on the Afghan side, the intelligence on our side, operational linkages on both sides, communicational operational linkages on both sides, strategic levels technical level I think fairly well organized, we are quite satisfied.
+Tb: But you still don’t want American forces going into tribal areas alone.
+Musharraf: No, that would be very unwise and secondly, the issue is, is there a complaint that we're not doing. Now, the complaint that you said, I don’t know who is saying this. I would like to know who is saying this, that we are not operating strongly.
+Tb: “It’s not that you’re not acting strongly, it’s that you’re not operating swiftly on this.
+Musharraf: No, I think we operate very swiftly. As I said, we have to have the capability, which we have now. We are not fully capable of night effective, and the delay is not from our side. I can assure you, the delay is form the other side, your side that we were not made capable enough in training -- the pilots to be able to fly at night. Now we do and we move quite fast. We’ve made troop deployments that can be made very fast.
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+Save the Children’s recent report[1] is very clear that the early years workforce needs more Early Years Teachers. The charity says they are necessary to continue and sustain the impact of graduate leadership on the quality of provision for our youngest children, particularly in areas where families are currently experiencing economic difficulties.
+Despite the fact that numbers applying nationally to enter Early Years Initial Teacher Training have declined, at Best Practice Network we continue to see Early Years Teacher Status as a tremendous success story and most definitely encourage graduates who want to make a difference to young children’s lives to apply. Working across England we have sustained our numbers over the past few years and are currently working with groups of trainees, in partnership with excellent settings, in locations across the country. We are very proud to share some success stories of how newly qualified Early Years Teachers are successfully leading practice in their settings
+In a unique position...
+An early years teacher trainee is in a unique position to critically evaluate practice in their placement setting. Trainees need to be able to meet Standard 8 of the Teachers’ Standards (Early Years - to ‘take responsibility for leading practice through appropriate professional development for self and colleagues’ and to ‘reflect on and evaluate the effectiveness of provision, and shape and support good practice.’ This can be a tall order for a teacher in training so in agreeing to support and train an EYITT trainee, setting managers must agree to to both provide these opportunities and to support the trainee in giving constructive, sensitive and supportive when they feed back their reflections and analysis and work with colleagues to move practice forward.
+Constructive criticism and improved practice
+Sandra Matthews manages Acorns Pre-School in Harrogate, Yorkshire. Sandra is also a tutor on our EYITT programme and provides placement opportunities. Here she reflects on the sometimes uncomfortable process of opening up to constructive criticism as she shares experience at Acorns.
+'When Early Years Professional Status was first introduced, we had a trainee who identified a range of improvements that enabled us to move forward in our practice, but I will be in honest in saying that at the time I found it quite uncomfortable being criticised, even more so by someone less experienced than me. However, several years later, the ideas that the trainee introduced are still part of our practice, perhaps adapted over time, but her influence has remained in one form or another, demonstrating the value of accepting the advice of an outsider, even if it is sometimes uncomfortable to hear.
+'I believe that I learnt from this experience to become more open to criticism. On a group visit to Danish nature kindergartens, our facilitator used a saying, "If you want to know about the water, don’t ask a fish". This phrase has resonated with me over the years and I have tried to seek a different perspective. In the same way, having someone from outside your own setting to reflect on your practice and provision, though perhaps unsettling, allows you to gain a perspective which you may never have seen yourself.'
+Welcoming a critical friend...
+Sandra continues: 'Last year we trained Tracy as an Early Years Teacher. I wanted to embrace the opportunity of welcoming a critical friend who, as a new employee, could look with fresh eyes. I wanted the evaluation to be methodical and based on those aspects of our practice that were important to our ethos. I had been on Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being Scales training (SSTEW) (Siraj and Kingston; 2015) and felt that this approach would help us. So, I charged our EYT trainee with assessing all staff against the scales which assess interactions between adults and children and look at a range of aspects of practice. Using the SSTEW Scales alongside other environment scales (including ECERS-E, ECERS-R or ITERS-R) gives users a clearer picture of what high-quality early childhood education and care can look like. It is an aspirational approach that considers high-quality pedagogy and practice,.
+'Of course, the biggest challenge was finding the time to be able to step back and observe. Having done the observations, Tracy was able to assess staff against the scales and make recommendations on ways we might improve. She had to be very diplomatic and was careful that no one was singled out as falling below expected standards in wider feedback. All suggestions were directed to all staff and examples were given of good practice as well as areas for improvement. So, it became an easy process for staff to recognise how they could change their practice to meet the targets set.
+'The SSTEW scales are a strong methodical framework for evaluating early years settings and we found the assessments valuable. We have asked our trainee, now employed as an Early Years Teacher with us, to continue to regularly use the scales to help us to improve in other aspects.'
+Reflecting on personal practice
+Tracy Hatten, now employed as an Early Years Teacher at Acorns, take up the story.
+'Sandra charged me with assessing the whole staff team using the Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-Being Scales. My first task was to study the scales and the research which informs them and decide how I was going to carry out my observations. I decided that I would initially concentrate on just two of the five sub-scales, making it more manageable and meaningful. I selected: "Supporting and extending language development” and “Assessing language and learning".
+'When the day of the observations came, I felt prepared. I had done my research, including finding out how other practitioners on the EYITT programme had used the SSTEW scales. However, the prospect of observing and assessing my very experienced colleagues, three of whom were my managers and employers, was daunting to say the least. The setting had been rated outstanding by Ofsted and the whole staff team are continually reflecting on practice and making improvements so I wondered whether there was anything useful that I could contribute. However, I was also aware that, as reflective practitioners, my colleagues had confidence in their own practice and so were comfortable with receiving criticism and I felt sure they would view it as an opportunity to improve.
+'I was careful to ensure that each of my colleagues was observed throughout the allocated day and that I noted everything relating to the sub-scales. I then analysed my observations in relation to the SSTEW scale scoring system, arriving at a score for the setting as a whole in relation to each sub-scale. I produced a report detailing our setting’s successes in relation to items in the scales and also put forward recommendations for improvement in some areas, being careful to provide examples which supported my observations.
+'When I presented my report I enjoyed telling everyone how well we had done. I ensured that successes were praised specifically and directly to individuals. When explaining areas where we had, perhaps, not quite met the highest scores, I was careful to detail why we hadn’t, in a general way, not picking out individuals. I wanted to show my team that I understood why we did things the way that we did in those areas and that I wasn’t picking fault with anybody, or the setting as a whole, but merely highlighting what the SSTEW scales suggested and explaining why another way would have positive outcomes for the children. For example, one of the criteria for achieving the highest score in the "Assessing language and learning" sub-scale is to encourage children to give positive feedback to each other. I pointed out that this is what the scale states and that peer assessment can help children to foster a deeper understanding of their own learning.
+'I also informed the team that this exercise was very informative to me as it allowed me to reflect upon my own personal practice. I waited with bated breath as I finished the presentation, hoping that I had been successful in delivering the feedback positively and enabling colleagues to reflect constructively. I was relieved that the first comment was that the whole exercise very informative and that this colleague was now going to put some of the improvements into practice.
+'I think that I was in a great position to give this feedback because I’d been charged with the task by my manager, the research-based SSTEW scales were behind my recommendations and I had a staff team who are already seasoned and effective reflective practitioners with a joint vision to provide the best for our children. The whole experience has given me the confidence to take on more responsibility this year, knowing that I will have the support of the managers in the challenges I take forward and that I’ll be able to use my Early Years Teacher training to really make a difference to the children and families we support.
+'I feel privileged to have been trusted to take forward this piece of work and to be in a position to enable and encourage the reflection which the SSTEW scales facilitate.'
+Staying focused on professional development
+Sandra is very positive about Tracy’s leadership achievements, both for herself and the setting.
+'Now that the self-evaluation form is no longer an Ofsted requirement it would be easy to forget that self-evaluation and improvement planning are still vital aspects of practice to ensure that settings are moving forward and striving to develop. So, for me, the SSTEW scales and their equivalents are important tools for identifying areas for improvement for both setting and staff. Tracy has enabled us to recognise specific aspects we can look at and continues to help us to challenge ourselves in meaningful ways which will really have a positive impact on outcomes for our children.'
+The Save the Children report calls for improvement in the induction and career support which early years teachers receive to support their retention and to help them have the most impact on children’s development. Early years teachers with EYTS do not benefit from the statutory induction arrangements that apply to newly qualified teachers with QTS so our programme has a strong focus on planning for the post-EYTS year, setting teaching and professional development targets with the trainee and employment setting. Tracy’s target for the year after achieving Early Years Teacher Status was to disseminate and lead practice within the work environment and to demonstrate leadership, ensuring others are working within acceptable policies and practices which she has embraced very positively.
+Long term career support
+The next case study is also a good example of long term career support from an employment setting and good induction practice in EYITT target setting coming together to enable a newly qualified Early Years Teacher to take a lead.
+Abbie Hill works an Early Years Teacher at TickTock Day-care in Tockwith, North Yorkshire. Supported by the setting’s Director, Abbie has made an impressive professional journey since starting at the setting seven years ago at the age of 16 working in the holiday club. Here Abbie describes her responsibilities and achievements since beginning Early Years Initial Teacher Training in 2017.
+'Since achieving Early Years Teacher Status in summer 2018 I have taken on a range of leadership roles, including responsibility for the teaching of maths and strengthening opportunities for children’s communication. At the end of EYITT we had a helpful process of setting professional development targets and mine were to develop a programme of maths and incorporate it into the setting, to use my knowledge from the EYITT programme to train and support the other staff and to mentor apprentices.
+'Mathematics is an area that often seems to fall behind in the early years and always seems to be flagged as missed in the cohort tracking. I have found that the majority of practitioners don’t feel that they have the confidence to teach maths, maybe due to lack of success in their own education or for fear of getting something wrong. Quite a few parents feel the same way and so there is a real need to ensure that children become confident mathematicians and break that cycle. I wanted to use my Early Years Teacher Status to drive forward maths in our setting and make a real difference to how colleagues, parents and the children feel about the subject.
+'I’ve approached this by building in additional teaching time into the weekly programme where I can take small groups of children and boost their knowledge in maths through a range of fun and engaging activities, working alongside the EYFS. For example, to consolidate knowledge in shape and space I set out our big shape resources in an inviting way so children spend time playing with and exploring the shapes, learning their names and copying them using lollipop sticks. The children have responded extremely well and have shown their growing knowledge by confidently telling other members of staff what they have been doing. This boosts the children’s knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of mathematics through a fairly simple mathematical activity but one that is very visual and something all colleagues can carry out.
+'For the coming year I plan to support other practitioners by inviting them to observe me working with the children in maths. I will then observe them leading their maths activities with the children, offering my help and knowledge where needed. I make sure all the other practitioners have access to the maths planning that I have put in place, so they can see what I am doing and when. In quite a short time we have started to build the foundations of a changed attitude to mathematics across the setting, something which parents are picking up on and becoming more confident about too.
+'My other area of new responsibility was to strengthen the children’s communication skills. I started this through introducing communication fobs, which all staff carry with them on a daily basis. The fobs include basic pictures with the word for reinforcement for the children to point to. The pictures include everyday actions, items and directions such as washing hands, toilet, nappy, snack, lunch, coat, shoes as well as emotions such as happy and sad. The fobs are working well. Staff report that they have seen results from the children and so we now need to build on this with more ideas to enhance our practice. I am planning to involve the staff in coming up with these ideas, so we all feel involved and part of the process. Again, it is often the simple ideas that lead to good results and can be the focus of discussion with colleagues about improved practice and confidence.'
+These Early Years Teachers are just two of the many who tell us about their achievements during and since completing EYITT. I hope that these success stories will encourage more graduates to apply for EYITT next year. EYTS is definitely valued by settings and it is worth studying for. As Tracey and Abbie have emphasised, achieving EYTS has given them greater knowledge, confidence and the opportunities to move to new levels of success in improving outcomes for the children in their care.
+- Key Points
+Early Years Teachers are making a strong impact on their placements and settings.Having an EYITT trainee on placement is an opportunity to use fresh eyes, enthusiasm and up to date knowledge for the benefit of the setting.New teachers need encouragement and support to frame reflective feedback – from the setting and from a credible methodical framework.It’s not always comfortable to invite and receive constructive criticism but it’s part of everyone’s professional journey and is to everyone’s benefit.
+[1] Save the Children report here
+.
+This is exactly the way I approached it with my husband – concern for the safety of others, and doctor’s orders. In addition, since he no longer drives, whenever he wants to go somewhere, I drop everything and we go. I know how I would feel if I no longer had the freedom to jump in the car and go, so I try to give that back to him. I don’t get much done around the house, yard, etc., but he stays a bit more content.
+Macbeth
+Liked by Debby - @tavi, edna317
+I would like to read the advice of others too. My sister is exactly the same. She wants to drive but I am only making excuses to be going where she wants to go and not facing her lack of concentration and slow reflexes.
+I found this information on the AAA website about driving and cognitive impairment:
+– Driving & Dementia
+– Professional Assessment
+As Scott says, it may be a conversation that your doctor has directly with your husband in Clayton’s case or your sister in Sallysue’s case. I can imagine your suggesting that they get a clinical driving assessment would not be well accepted. But if their doctor “prescribed” the assessment, it would be more difficult to refute.…
+My husband was in the car business, a car lover and a mechanic, he had a commercial garage and taxi business and was a car collector with 30 vintage cars and trucks at one time, (that he rented to movies etc.) and he essentially drove me around. Although at the time I didn’t get it, he started making mistakes (probably related to the ALZ) around 7 years ago, including driving mistakes. He got a left turn ticket and I don’t remember the exact details but he failed to pay some fine so the government pulled his license as punishment for a year. I took over driving then, all our cars were always old, and I hated driving them. Then after a year for some reason he had to retake the drivers test to get his license back and he passed (but this was 4 years ago or so).
+Something scary happened then, the neighbor told hubby to take his car into the garage (for repairs) and hubby “disappeared”, for hours I couldn’t reach him on his cell. It was late, dark, winter. The neighbor asked where he was. Finally he picked his cell, I said where are you, he said he was out of gas in Niagara Falls! What??? How could I find him? He was suppose to be at the garage or emission test center. It was when he got bad, (sundowning), and he was disoriented. I asked him to look at the street signs and tell me the name of the cross streets which he did. Then I googled it and found he was not in Niagara Falls at all but entirely opposite, way out in Pickering near the lake far east of Toronto. So he had driven for miles on the super highway in a daze. But something in his subconscious mind could still do it. I called the tow truck companies and they said they would not tow him that far. I got in the old car and went out to get him with a gas receptacle, then we had no choice but for him to follow me home in the neighbors car. Luckily we made it safely.
+Then our very old car broke down and was scrapped. I got a new (used) one for myself and he NEVER DROVE AGAIN nor asked to, so I’m grateful. Something told him he shouldn’t drive, though generally he denies the ALZ. During the past 4 years we sold every one of the collector cars, and he doesn’t have the garage. Now there is only my car. Sometimes I say I’m going to get a brand new car and he says then you’ll give me your old one, right? I say yah but I might have to trade it in.
+The doc asked if he drives and we said no, (though he still does have a license). So far she let it go. I think they make one take the test again at 80, that’ll be in three years, I doubt he’d pass again and we won’t bother taking it. He just carries the license for ID and dignity.
+Liked by Colleen Young, Connect Director, macbeth, edna317
+Thank you for all of your advice and input. I, too, am the sole caregiver and I am forced to make all decisions relative to his life and mine. I’m a strong person and I have worked in the legal field for 30 years. However, there are times I don’t want to be strong, I don’t want to be the decision maker and I want to be taken care of. I know that is unrealistic but you lose yourself when you are the caretaker. I have always been the dominant spouse, Clayton is sweet, kind and caring, my heart breaks to watch him struggle and become angry. We have been blessed that he has continued to have good cognition for three plus years and he can take are of himself while I work. I am 61 he is 69, I have to work another three years. The driving has been my biggest hurdle and I also believe it is one of those “milestones” that you have to deal with that he really does have ALZ. I don’t want him to have it, I want my husband back! I pray daily that God gives me grace and wisdom so I can manage the worsening symptoms in him and the anger I have for slowing losing my sweet, loving husband. I continue to pray for a cure, I know it won’t come in Clayton’s life time but I pray that our children and your, will not have to be faced with this terrible disease.
+Merry Christmas and many prayers to all.
+Liked by macbeth, Debby - @tavi, pearlandpeacock
+@clayton48, How well I can relate to your situation. We have been in this situation since we retired ten years ago but during the past two years, I have almost lost my husband completely. Like you, I was always the dominate one but now the load gets pretty heavy some days. I am having a good Christmas because my only child and only grandchild are visiting us for ten days. They both are trying to take care of Mom. My daughter insisted I go to the doc for a pretty major problem for which I am having an MRI tomorrow. Take a little advice from me and don’t ignore your pain or discomfort. I am in a situation now that I may be required to take my husband to a facility for a few weeks while I recuperate. Take care of yourself. Be angry – it’s OK. It’s much better than holding it all inside and then exploding someday – which you will. Life you, I pray for a cure even though it won’t come in time to help my hubby. Know there are others in your situation and we all understand those things – like praying for grace and wisdom. If I can help, please let me know. I’ve been living this life for several years. Merry Christmas and warm hugs.
+Liked by macbeth, Debby - @tavi
+Having to tell my husband he could not drive anymore was one of the biggest worry my family had, but luckily we didn’t have to make that decision. I had been doing most of the driving when we went any distance or used “my” car. He had an older pickup that he drove around town and not more than 5 miles from home. Then he had a Dr appointment in April and when the subject of blacking out and falling several times came up, the Dr. very emphatically said he shouldn’t be driving and reminded him that he could black out while driving. We drove home and he has never mentioned driving again. The pickup sits in the yard and I have driven it a few times when we needed, but he has not protested to getting in the passenger side at all, and I am very thankful for that. We thank God everyday that the decision was made for him and he accepted it.
+He still has his license, but had been having trouble with the vision test and needed affidavits from his eye Dr to get his license the past two years. I’m hoping he will accept the suggestion that he should just get a Photo ID in March when his current license will need to be renewed. I’m sure he couldn’t pass the drivers test as he doesn’t have enough mobility in his legs from several small strokes he has suffered in the past year.
+I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year with family and friends.
+Liked by Debby - @tavi
+I am right there with you in every aspect of this post – hating to lose my sweet husband by degrees, missing his old self, missing being a partner, rather than a caretaker, hating the disease, praying for a cure. Only, I HAD to stop working five years ahead of time, due to a surgery that left him much worse, and unable to be left alone – now having to pay for individual insurance, no longer paying into pension, etc…oh well, you gotta do what you gotta do, and pray – if you can still believe – for things to work out o.k.
+Thoughts and prayers,
+Macbeth
+Liked by Debby - @tavi
+Hi IndianaScott:
+Thanks for the tip on driving. I will be facing this issue in February and his children do not want him driving; however, they do not live here
+and will not see them until April/May when we make a trip to Mayo. Was the test given at Mayo an expensive one? Trying to keep
+costs down as we all are with medical, trust you are doing well and will have a good New Year!! OZYS
+Liked by Scott, Volunteer Mentor
+IndianaScott: Thanks so much for your reply, it would probably be worth whatever we have to pay to save some grief for both of us.
+ozys.
+For months I have been following this chat room.However never had time to respond due to either no time or energy as I adjusted to my husband’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s plus spatial dementia. Four years ago he was diagnosed but there was no help from our insurance group. Finally I contacted the VA and received the help we needed.It has been a merry go round as he one day didn’t know that I was his wife and began flirting with me and started telling me about his back ground and asking me about mine. Finally decided he loved me but since he was married and hadn’t seen his wife in many months, he felt that he was cheating on her. My husband is 80 and we have been married for 56 years.We have a long mirrored wall in our living room and mirrors on the back splash area on the kitchen. It is all one room so the mirrors pick us up on various angles and he thinks there are four or six or even eight of us in the room. Also the sliding closet doors in the two bedrooms are mirrored.Covering the mirrors are not as option so I live with this daily.I have some friends who are my support system. I also have my husband in adult day care two days a week. Our only child lives in California and we live in Honolulu so my support from him is over the phone. He is very helpful and will try to fly to be with us every three months. We just returned from spending Christmas with him and his family and I feel this will be our last flight. My husbsnd just has such a difficult time with the flight even with medication.I want to share how I solved the driving problem with my father who had Alzheimers and refused to stop driving. Watching him drive one day when I was driving a car next to his, I realized his license must be pulled and sent a letter to the department of motor vehicles. By mail they requested he come into the office for testing and he failed. Of couse he wasn’t happy and refused to give us his key. I called the local Toyota dealership and it was suggested we have a kill switch installed. It was installed on the lower area of the steering wheel shaft. A special key had to be inserted before the ignition key was inserted Then the engine would start. Without the special key, the engine would not start. So his key didn’t work and we told him there must be a problem with the car. He never saw us insert the special key and our fear of him driving was finished.Toyota didn’t do this type of work and suggested a place that installed radios.I hope this info will be of help to someone.Bless all of you who share your burdens. Now I know I am not the only one living in this cloud.
+Hello @foxylady42 Nice to e-meet you here! YES indeed you are not alone, although caregiving is a very isolating endeavor! That was one of the most difficult challenges for me. Being a people person cutting off so much human interaction was tough. Still trying to get back into pre-caregiving style, but after 14 years it may be a lost cause 🙂
+That is a great suggestion on the driving. Wish I had thought of that! It is quite a problem to overcome and this was a good one.
+On the mirror issue, at least on smaller ones, I have seen folks put colored Saran wrap over them to mask the reflections. I did it in our bathroom and it really helped.
+I recall when my wife could no long travel, either by air or car. Simply became too stressful and would increase her anxiety far too much.
+I wish you strength and courage! Know we fellow caregivers are here!
+Liked by Jamie Olson
+@IndianaScott
+In reply to @clayton48
+Hi @clayton48 This is indeed a tough issue. It was one of the tougher early issues with my wife’s diminished mental capacity. We took her to Mayo and they had an electronic set up for driving testing. It was magnificent. Measured reaction times, signals, etc.
+Her results were just slightly under acceptable and her doctor kindly told her she could not longer drive. Period. It saved a lot of anguish and arguing with family members. With my MIL, the family tried to do it all themselves and it took far too long. She came very close to injuring a pedestrian before they finally laid down the law and took the keys.
+While the independence issue of driving is undoubtedly a difficult one, sadly it will not be the last nor the worst.
+I wish you courage and strength,
+The Harambe variations
+INTRODUCTION, or GORILLA ZERO, the META-APE OF UNDERSTANDING: Harambe in the chaos of the world
+Harambe is the dead ape that will not die. It’s been months now since the Cincinnati Zoo ruthlessly dispatched its prize 440 lb Western lowland gorilla with a single deadly gunshot after a three-year-old boy fell into his enclosure, but his name lives. During the recent parliamentary elections in Australia, many voters wrote ‘Harambe’ over their ballot papers, with one telling an Independent journalist, who appeared to take it in full sincerity, that this was because ‘we Aussies feel our government should have done more to save Harambe and now we’re voting for his corpse.’ In Ohio, a street was renamed ‘Harambe Drive’ on Google Maps after multiple reports to the company from three local teenagers. ‘Bush did Harambe’ signs appeared at the Republican National Convention. ‘Dicks out for Harambe’ has become a global cri de cœur. Clearly something has happened, and is continuing to happen. Isn’t it natural to want to explain?
+At the start of this month, an undergraduate student at the New School for Social Research called Alexander Fine wrote a short blog post about the enduring legacy of Harambe, noting that the people most fascinated by the gorilla tended to be on the political left, and attempting to draw some kind of relation between Harambe and its wider social and political context. ‘Harambe memes,’ he wrote, ‘reflected, and continue to reflect, the left’s disillusionment with our political reality and the media at large. The left keeps Harambe alive because we see ourselves in the dead ape. Harambe’s death was inevitable, and so too was the defeat of an ageing presidential candidate who identified as a socialist.’ It’s hard to remember what else he wrote, because the post was quickly deleted – it became the subject of a mass outburst of derision; there was something in this form of interpretation that was recognised as being fundamentally inappropriate. Fine’s essay was judged to carry an unacceptable excess of thinkpieceiness, to be uncomfortably commingling the weighty and the ludic, to deal with something inherently silly in far too serious a manner, even despite its evident playfulness. It was agreed to be a bad take. But why?
+It’s not as if other attempts haven’t been made to ask the same question, of why people remain so attached to Harambe, or why he’s still funny, without generating the same backlash. See, for instance, a recent essay by Brian Feldman in New York Magazine, which does much the same thing as Fine did, without attracting any of the same scorn. Feldman attempts to classify the Harambe memes (they ‘aren’t the topical equivalent of dead-baby jokes; they’re fairly standard internet non-sequitur nonsense humour’); he relates them to current events and to asymmetries in the discourse (noting, for instance, their echo of Cecil the Lion memes); he even situates his discussion within a broadly Marxist framework. If there is a central difference between the two interpretations it’s this: Fine situates the death of Harambe within the political order and sensuous reality; he relates the loss of an ape to the other senses of loss that dominate the experience of the twenty-first century; he approaches Harambe as an overdetermination, a sign that points to a phenomenal referent. Feldman, on the other hand, situates the death of Harambe within a network of other memes. In other words, to draw meaning from a sign is tacitly forbidden, to present the world as being explicable through signs is classed as a risible proposition. Signifiers relate only and always to other signifiers, and Harambe has become a metasignifier, taking on a Barthesian dimension of myth. To say that Harambe must be a symbol for something, that the fascination with Harambe points to something else, is a sacrilege.
+This is not an essay about Harambe, the ape who died, but one about interpretation, the ways in which people take the raw material chaos of the world and fashion it into something meaningful. I’m not interested in denying the dominant position that Harambe can only be meaningfully related to other signs, only in testing it or situating it; all I want to say is that a silverback gorilla is a very large animal, and it can carry many things.
+The NAÏVE, MAGICAL, or PRESIGNIFYING Harambe; the APE OF SIMILITUDE.
+(Humour: Blood. Element: Air. Planet: Jupiter. Gemstone: Sand.)
+The magical ape begins in curiosity and terror. The curiosity of the child, looking into the enclosure and unable to differentiate between the friendly monkeys of cards and cartoons and the brute sweating thing before him. The terror of the child, taking its first lesson in depth analysis as a creature beyond language drags him through the water by the legs. The curiosity of the ape, padding down to sniff at this tiny, fragile thing of a type he’d seen before, but only ever seen, as if through a television screen, now tumbling from image to object. The terror of the ape, rattled by the screams from outside his cage, puffing himself up, ready to deliver death or be dealt it. The terror of the parents, the terror of the zoo authorities, the terror of the marksman. And then the questions: was Harambe threatening the child, or protecting him? Is a gorilla’s life worth more than an infant’s? The body of a gorilla is strong, and any number of interpretative schemata can tense or flex under his skin.
+The first ape is the visual ape. Under its regime symbols do not simply emerge through mimesis or signifiers through onomatopoeia; the ape beheld by the eye codes a world in which words and things endlessly refer back to one another. Prior to the initial phallic signification the snake is shaped after its own name, while the penis leaks poison in imitation of its zoological archetype; there’s no genitality in the Garden of Eden. Oedipalisation occurs only when the child crawls into that enclosure in the Cincinnati Zoo: now we’re faced by a dyad, the child and the gorilla, the child and the father. On the terrain of magic or similtude an ape is a visual intensification of the father, physically terrifying, hirsute, a potent castrator. Here the principles of Darwinian evolution are only a minor feature of Oedipus: the ape is the father of humanity. Remember the originary father in Freud, half-man, half-ape, pure threat and pride, who must be killed by his weaker, more glabrous sons. Only then is the father mourned, and his arbitrary law incorporated into the psyche.
+But animals are also gods or totems, and God the Father is also the paternal superego. Pure identity, without representation, without one prior to the other. Christ on his cross cries out: eli, eli, lama sabachthani? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Was he not told the entire plan? The death of Harambe is a blasphemous inversion of the passion of the Christ; here it’s the father, and not the son, who dies for our sins. The name for this heresy is patripassianism, or Sabellian modalism, an immanent possibility in Christianity denounced since Tertullian, and endlessly produced in its denunciation. The Trinity, Sabellius declared, is only a mask, describing aspects of one person. He could not bring himself to say it, but the implication is unavoidable. The Godhead in its entirety suffered and perished on Golgotha. It’s easy to see why this doctrine prospered, and why it was so ruthlessly stamped out: this is the Oedipal fantasy, the cannibalistic feast of the first father. They killed the ape in Cincinnati, and as they did so they unleashed the vastness of a heretical third-century theology; we are fascinated by a dead gorilla, because something that started two thousand years ago on a hill outside Jerusalem is now finally complete.
+The CRITICAL, PRODUCTIVE, or REVOLUTIONARY Harambe, the APE OF TUMULT.
+(Humour: Melancholia. Affect: Embarrassment. Constellation: Pisces. Gemstone: Ruby.)
+Six days before the death of Harambe, two lions were shot dead by a zoo in Santiago after a man climbed into their enclosure, intending to commit suicide. There was, briefly, an explosion of anger at the zoo. Why the ape? Why not the lions? Why Harambe?
+For much of his life, Georges Bataille was obsessed with the anal scrags of great apes. In The Pineal Eye, he describes a tropical sacrifice ceremony: a gibbon is buried alive, head down, with only the ‘bald false skull’ of its anus protruding; a nude woman crouches over it and ‘the beautiful boil of red flesh is set ablaze with stinking brown flames.’ Later he declares that ‘the little girls who surround the animal cages in zoos cannot help but be stunned by the ever-so lubricious rear ends of apes.’ In The Jesuve, he notes that with a hint of sadness that ‘anal obscenity, pushed to such a point that the most representative apes even got rid of their tails (which hide the anuses of other mammals), completely disappeared from the fact of human evolution,’ but takes comfort from the fantasy of a new sexual organ located in the human forehead. (It could be added, after Deleuze and Guattari, that ‘the first organ to suffer privatisation, removal from the social field, was the anus… it is the anus that removes and sublimates the penis.’) The obsession with apes is an obsession with a brutal and a terrifying freedom we’ve lost long ago.
+We have done terrible things to the animals: most of them are wiped out and gone for good; some are slaughtered by the billions, mulched up and turned into hundred-gram increments of edible slurry; a few still sulk in the furthest wildernesses and the deepest oceans, hunger-crazed and desperate. The unluckiest become objects of contemplation. Watch a pig in a pen and try to see that brutal and terrifying freedom; walk along the rows of cloistered cattle, each tagged and microchipped, each staring in dull incomprehension, a living thing in a hard shell of cruelty, its feed dispensed by computers, its milk sucked out by machines, its death decided by algorithms, and try to find an erotic thrill.
+But at the same time, an ape hovers on the edge of meaning. There is another gorilla, Koko, which has been taught basic sign language; not only can it signify, it’s capable of the rudiments of abstract thought. This is the ape as metaphor; the political ape. Killing a lion represents the cruel mastery of animals by humans, a kind of heroic mastery, with all that implies – in many societies only the king could hunt a lion. The decision to shoot a gorilla with a sniper rifle, on the other hand, represents the subjection of rational beings to the principle of reason. There is no heroism, not even a transcendental subject; only system. Aren’t we all, in some way, trapped in an enclosure, with the marksman’s single shot – delivered, of course, for very good reasons – always a possible threat? As Baudrillard writes, ‘animals have preceded us on the path of liberal extermination. All the aspects of the modern treatment of animals retrace the vicissitudes of the manipulation of humans, from experimentation to industrial pressure in breeding.’ But when it happens to an ape – an ape with a name, no less – it becomes impossible to ignore the fact that we are not free. We say Harambe’s name because he is the hero we lack, because he is the sign of our own unfreedom. We say Harambe’s name because the new orifice Bataille imagined really has opened across our foreheads, plugged in to the internet, and that’s the name it screams.
+The DESPOTIC or PARANOID Harambe, the APE OF FIXATION.
+(Humour: Choler. Voltage: 240 V. Disposition: Agitated. Gemstone: Topaz.)
+It’s possible to discern several stages in the general reaction to Harambe’s death. First, the non-ironised, the determinate, the unfunny. Was what the zoo did justified? Donald Trump said yes. Others said no. Many were furious, petitions were signed, there were calls for the child’s parents to face criminal charges. This first movement was also the last phase in which it was at all possible to talk about image and object. Next, hyperbolic descriptions of animal slaughter at the zoo. Instances overwhelm. ‘Zoo employs troop of insane hollering teen infantry to ride multiple M1 Abrams tanks through lemur enclosure, shooting them with the tanks.’ ‘Child Plays Calypso On Ancient Galapagos Tortoise’s Shell Before Zoo Crew Obliterates Beast With M-4s.’ ‘The gorilla was killed by a tungsten rod dropped from a satellite in geosynchronous orbit over the zoo.’ Then, rewording song lyrics to be about Harambe – but this intentionality is anaemic and ironised; the songs are not about Harambe so much as the word Harambe, and a set of other words that have come to coalesce around it. This advanced form marks Harambe in the purity of its irony: a signifier without any signified whatsoever.
+The ape is simply not there; this is Feldman’s ape, the mythic meme-ape, the ape as empty signifier. Its differential nature is expressed not as a relation between signifiers but as one between ‘Harambe’ and the systematicity of the signifying system itself. As Laclau points out, however, the outside which is from within the system constituted as ‘pure negativity, pure threat to the system’ is in fact ‘the simple principle of positivity – pure being.’ Harambe therefore eventually comes to signify the immanent positivity of ironic superimposition; performatively, in its discursive rather than semiological meaning, it is invoked to signify the presence of an irony – itself an empty signifier. Something called irony occurs, but rather than being in the form of any kind of antiphrasis or anything that could be understood as a substitution of meanings, meaning itself is challenged by its other.
+But then something unusual occurs. The current moment – dicks out, signs at protests, streets renamed – is marked by a return to veneration of the dead ape, a kind of dialectical recuperation of the first phase. The living and dying animal itself returns, but here no longer as an event to be coded by interpretation, but an interpretation by which to code other events. The moral question of whether his shooting was justified is no longer in effect; in fact, the zoo and the child and shooting have disappeared entirely. We are angry that Hillary Clinton refused to mention Harambe in her acceptance speech. We are worried that North Korea is testing new ballistic missiles, and Harambe is not here to protect us. We wonder, in times of crisis, what Harambe would do. Word and thing are reuinited. This is the point at which the Harambe thinkpieces proliferate, attempting to interpret the phenomenon. But all such attempts at a transcendental critique necessarily fail, because the dead body of Harambe has become isomorphic with the heuristic as such; we are in Harambe, we cannot hope to think outside our present Harambe.
+The NIHILIST Harambe; the APE OF DISAPPEARANCE.
+(Humour: Phlegm. Articulation: Multifoliate. Sex: I’ve. Gemstone: Space Junk.)
+I love Harambe, the ape who died. I love the dead ape Harambe.
+According to the website of an advocacy foundation, coverage of two recent clinical trials published in in Journal of Psychopharmacology evaluating psilocybin for distress among cancer patients garnered over 1 billion views in the social media. To put that in context, the advocacy group claimed that this is one sixth of the attention that the Super Bowl received.
+In this blog post I’ll review the second of the two clinical trials. Then, I will discuss some reasons why we should be concerned about the success of this public relations campaign in terms of what it means for both the integrity of scientific publishing, as well as health and science journalism.
+The issue is not doubt that cancer patients will find benefit from the ingesting psychedelic mushroom in a safe environment. Nor that sale and ingestion of psilocybin is currently criminalized (Schedule 1, classified same as heroin).
+We can appreciate the futility of the war on drugs, and the absurdity of the criminalization of psilocybin, but still object to how, we were strategically and effectively manipulated by this PR campaign.
+Even if we approve of a cause, we need to be careful about subordinating the peer-review process and independent press coverage to the intended message of advocates.
+Tolerating causes being promoted in this fashion undermines the trustworthiness of peer review and of independent press coverage of scientific papers.
+To contradict a line from the 1964 acceptance speech of Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater, “Extremism in pursuit of virtue is
+no [a] vice. “
+In this PR campaign –
+We witnessed the breakdown of expected buffer of checks and balances between:
+- An advocacy group versus reporting of clinical trials in a scientific journal evaluating its claims.
+- Investigators’ exaggerated self-promotional claims versus editorial review and peer commentary.
+- Materials from the publicity campaign versus supposedly independent evaluation by journalists.
+What if the next time the object of promotion is pharmaceuticals or medical devices by authors with conflicts of interest? But wait! Isn’t that what we’ve seen in JAMA Network journals on a smaller scale? Such as dubious claims about the wondrous effects of deep brain stimulation in JAMA: Psychiatry by promoters who “disappeared” failed trials? And claims in JAMA itself that suicides were eliminated at a behavioral health organization outside Detroit?
+Is this part of a larger trend, where advocacy and marketing shape supposedly peer-reviewed publications in prestigious medical journals?
+The public relations campaign for the psilocybin RCTs also left in tatters the credibility of altmetrics as an alternative to journal impact factors. The orchestrating of 1 billion views is a dramatic demonstration how altmetrics can be readily gamed. Articles published in a journal with a modest impact factor scored spectacularly, as seen in these altmetrics graphics the Journal of Psychopharmacology posted.
+I reviewed in detail one of the clinical trials in my last blog post and will review the second in this one. They are both mediocre, poorly designed clinical trials that got lavishly praised as being highest quality by an impressive panel of commentators. I’ll suggest that in particular the second trial is best seen as what Barney Caroll has labeled an experimercial, a clinical trial aimed at generating enthusiasm for a product, rather than a dispassionate evaluation undertaken with some possibility of not been able to reject the null hypothesis. If this sounds harsh, please indulge me and read on and be entertained and I think persuaded that this was not a clinical trial but an elaborate ritual, complete with psychobabble woo that has no place in the discussion of the safety and effectiveness of medicine.
+After skeptically scrutinizing the second trial, I’ll consider the commentaries and media coverage of the two trials.
+I’ll end with a complaint that this PR effort is only aimed at securing the right of wealthy people with cancer to obtain psilocybin under supervision of a psychiatrist and in the context of woo psychotherapy. The risk of other people in other circumstances ingesting psilocybin is deliberately exaggerated. If psilocybin is as safe and beneficial as claimed by these articles, why should use remain criminalized for persons who don’t have cancer or don’t want to get a phony diagnosis from a psychiatrist or don’t want to submit to woo psychotherapy?
+The normally pay walled Journal of Psychopharmacology granted free access to the two articles, along with most but not all of the commentaries. However, extensive uncritical coverage in Medscape Medical News provides a fairly accurate summary, complete with direct quotes of lavish self-praise distributed by the advocacy-affiliated investigators and echoed in seemingly tightly coordinated commentaries.
+The praise one of the two senior authors heaped upon their two studies as captured in Medscape Medical News and echoed elsewhere:
+The new findings have “the potential to transform the care of cancer patients with psychological and existential distress, but beyond that, it potentially provides a completely new model in psychiatry of a medication that works rapidly as both an antidepressant and anxiolytic and has sustained benefit for months,” Stephen Ross, MD, director of Substance Abuse Services, Department of Psychiatry, New York University (NYU), Langone Medical Center, told Medscape Medical News.
+And:
+“That is potentially earth shattering and a big paradigm shift within psychiatry,” Dr Ross told Medscape Medical News.
+The Hopkins Study.
+The trial’s website is rather drab and typical for clinical trials. It contrasts sharply with the slick PR of the website for the NYU trial . The latter includes a gushy, emotional video from a clinical psychologist participating as a patient in the study. She delivers a passionate pitch for the “wonderful ritual” of the transformative experimental session. You can also get a sense of how session monitor structured the session and cultivated positive expectations. You also get a sense of the psilocybin experience being slickly marketed to appeal to the same well-heeled patients who pay out-of-pocket for complementary and alternative medicine at integrative medicine centers.
+Conflict of interest
+The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Roland Griffiths is on the Board of Directors of the Heffter Research Institute.
+Heffter Research Institute is listed as one of the funders of the study.
+The introduction.
+The Hopkins study starts with some familiar claims from psycho-oncology ] that portray cancer as a mental health issue. The exaggerated estimates of 40% of cancer patients experiencing a mood disorder is arrived at by lumping adjustment reactions with a smaller proportion of diagnoses of generalized anxiety and major depression.
+The introduction contradicts a large body of literature that suggests that the prevalence of mental disorder in cancer patients is no greater than other chronic health conditions and may approximate what is found in primary care waiting rooms . There is also a fundamental confusion of psychological distress associated with diagnosis of cancer with psychiatric disorder in need of treatment. Much of the initial psychological distress in cancer patients resolves in a short time, making it difficult to demonstrate benefits of treatment beyond this natural trajectory of decline. Prescription of an antidepressant would be ineffective and inappropriate.
+The introduction ends with a strong claim to the rigor and experimental control exercised in the clinical trial:
+The present study provides the most rigorous evaluation to date of the efficacy of a classic hallucinogen for treatment of depressed mood and anxiety in psychologically distressed cancer patients. The study evaluated a range of clinically relevant measures using a double-blind cross-over design to compare a very low psilocybin dose (intended as a placebo) to a moderately high psilocybin dose in 51 patients under conditions that minimized expectancy effects.
+The methods and results
+In a nutshell: Despite claims to the contrary, this study cannot be considered a blinded study. At the six month follow-up, which is the outcome assessment point of greatest interest, it could no longer meaningfully considered a randomized trial. All benefits of randomization were lost. In addition, the effects of psilocybin were confounded with a woo psychotherapy in which positive expectations and support were provided and reinforced in a way that likely influenced assessments of outcome. Outcomes at six months also reflected changes in distress which would’ve occurred in the absence of treatment. The sample is inappropriate for generalizations about the treatment of major depression and generalized anxiety. The characterization of patients as facing impending death is inaccurate.
+The study involved a crossover design, which provides a lower level of evidence than a placebo controlled comparison study. The study compared a high psilocybin dose (22 or 30 mg/70 kg) with a low dose (1 or 3 mg/70 kg) administered in identically appearing capsules. While the low dose might not be homeopathic, it can be readily distinguished soon after administration from the larger dosage. The second drug administration occurred approximately 5 weeks later. Not surprisingly, with the high difference in dosage, session monitors who were supposedly blinded readily identified the group to which the participant they were observing had been assigned.
+Within a cross over design, the six month follow-up data basically attributed any naturalistic decline in distress to the drug treatments. As David Colquhoun would argue, any estimate of the effects of the drug was inflated by including regression to the mean and get-better anyway effects. Furthermore, the focus on outcomes at six months meant patients assigned to either group in the crossover design had received high dosage psilocybin by at least five weeks into the study. Any benefits of randomization were lost.
+Like the NYU study, the study Johns Hopkins involves selecting a small, unrepresentative sample of a larger group responding to a mixed recruitment strategy utilizing flyers, the internet, and physician referral.
+- Less than 10% of the cancer patients calling in were randomized.
+- Almost half of the final sample were currently using marijuana and, similarly, almost half had used hallucinogens in the past.
+- The sample is relatively young for cancer patients and well educated. More than half had postgraduate education, almost all were white, but there were two black people.
+- The sample is quite heterogeneous with respect to psychiatric diagnoses, with almost half having an adjustment disorder, and the rest anxiety and mood disorders.
+- In terms of cancer diagnoses and staging, it was also a select and heterogeneous group with only about a quarter having recurrent/metastatic disease with less than two years of expected survival. This suggests the odd “life-threatening” in the title is misleading.
+Any mental health effects of psilocybin as a drug are inseparable from the effects of accompanying psychotherapy designed by a clinical psychologist “with extensive experience in studies of classic hallucinogens.” Participants met with that “session monitor” several times before the session in which the psilocybin was ingested in the monitor guided and aided in the interpretation of the drug experience. Aside from providing therapy, the session monitor instructed the patient to have positive expectations before the ingestion of the drug and work to maintain these expectations throughout the experience.
+I found this psychotherapeutic aspect of the trial strikingly similar to one that was included in a trial of homeopathy in Germany that I accepted for publication in PLOS One. [See here for my rationale for accepting the trial and the ensuing controversy.] Trials of alternative therapies notoriously have such an imbalance of nonspecific placebo factors favoring the intervention group.
+The clinical trial registration indicates that the primary outcome was the Pahnke-Richards Mystical Experience Questionnaire. This measure is included among 20 participant questionnaires listed in the Table 3 in the article as completed seven hours after administration of psilocybin. Although I haven’t reviewed all of these measures, I’m skeptical about their psychometric development, intercorrelation, and validation beyond face validity. What possibly could be learned from administering such a battery?
+The authors make unsubstantiated assumptions in suggesting that these measures either individually or collectively capture mediation of later response assessed by mental health measures. A commentary echoed this:
+Mediation analysis indicates that the mystical experience was a significant mediator of the effects of psilocybin dose on therapeutic outcomes.
+But one of the authors of the commentary later walked that back with a statement to Medscape Medical News:
+As for the mystical experiences that some patients reported, it is not clear whether these are “a cause, consequence or corollary of the anxiolytic effect or unconstrained cognition.”
+Clinical outcomes at six months are discussed in terms of multiple measures derived from the unblinded, clinician-rated Hamilton scales. However, there are repeated references to box scores of the number of significant findings from at least 17 clinical measures (for instance, significant effects for 11 of the 17 measures), in addition to other subjective patient and significant-other measures. It is unclear why the authors would choose to administer so many measures that are highly likely intercorrelated.
+There were no adverse events attributed to administration of psilocybin, and while there were a number of adverse psychological effects during the session with the psilocybin, none were deemed serious.
+My summary evaluation
+The clinical trial registration indicates broad inclusion criteria which may suggest the authors anticipated difficulty in recruiting patients that had significant psychiatric disorder for which psychotropic medication would be appropriate, as well as difficulty obtaining cancer patients that actually had poorer prognoses. Regardless, descriptions of the study is focusing on anxiety and depression and on “life-threatening” cancer seem to be marketing. You typically do not see a mixed sample with a large proportion of adjustment reaction characterized in the title of a psychiatric journal as treatment of “anxiety” and “depression”. You typically do not see a the adjective “life-threatening” in the title of an oncology article with such a mixed sample of cancer patients.
+The authors could readily have anticipated that at the six-month assessment point of interest that they no longer had a comparison they could have been described as a rigorous double-blind, randomized trial. They should have thought through exactly what was being controlled by a control comparison group of a minimal dose of psilocybin. They should have been clearer that they were not simply evaluating psilocybin, but psilocybin administered in the context of a psychotherapy and an induction of strong positive expectations and promise of psychological support.
+The finding of a lack of adverse events is consistent with a large literature, but is contradicted in the way the study is described to the media.
+The accompanying editorial and commentary
+Medscape Medical News reports the numerous commentaries accompanies these two clinical trials were hastily assembled. Many of the commentaries read that way, with the authors uncritically passing on the psilocybin authors’ lavish self praise of their work, after a lot of redundant recounts of the chemical nature of psilocybin and its history in psychiatry. When I repeatedly encountered claims that these trials represented rigorous, double blinded clinical trials or suggestions that the cancer was in a terminal phase, I assumed that the authors had not read the studies, only the publicity material, or simply had suspended all commitment to truth.
+I have great admiration for David Nutt and respect his intellectual courage in campaigning for the decriminalization of recreational drugs, even when he knew that it would lead to his dismissal as chairman of the UK’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). He has repeatedly countered irrationality and prejudice with solid evidence. His graph depicting the harms of various substances to the uses and others deserves the wide distribution that it has received.
+He ends his editorial with praise for the two trials as “the most rigorous double-blind placebo-controlled trials of a psychedelic drug in the past 50 years.” I’ll give him a break and assume that that reflects his dismal assessment of the quality of the other trials. I applaud his declaration, available nowhere else in the commentaries that:.
+His description of the other commentaries accompanying the two trials is apt:..
+The other commentaries. I do not find many of the commentaries worthy of further comment. However, one by Guy M Goodwin, Psilocybin: Psychotherapy or drug? Is unusual in offering even mild skepticism about the way the investigators are marketing their claims:
+The authors consider this mediating effect as ‘mystical’, and show that treatment effects correlate with a subjective scale to measure such experience. The Oxford English Dictionary defines mysticism as ‘belief that union with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender’. Perhaps a scale really can measure a relevant kind of experience, but it raises the caution that the investigation of hallucinogens as treatments may be endangered by grandiose descriptions of their effects and unquestioning acceptance of their value.
+The commentary by former president of the American Psychiatric Association Paul Summergrad, Psilocybin in end of life care: Implications for further research shamelessly echoes the psychobabble and self-promotion of the authors of the trials:. None of us are immune from the transitory nature of human life, which can bring fear and apprehension or conversely a real sense of meaning and preciousness if we carefully number our days. Understanding where these experiences fit in healing, well-being, and our understanding of consciousness may challenge many aspects of how we think about mental health or other matters, but these well-designed studies build upon a recent body of work that confronts us squarely with that task.
+Coverage in of the two studies in the media
+The website for Heffter Research Institute provides a handy set of links to some of the press coverage of the studies have received. There’s remarkable sameness to the portrayal of the study in the media, suggesting that journalists stayed closely to the press releases, except occasionally supplementing these with direct quotes from the authors. The appearance of a solicitation of independent evaluation of the trial almost entirely dependent on the commentaries published with the two articles.
+There’s a lot of slick marketing by the two studies’ authors. In addition to what I wrote noted earlier in the blog, there are recurring unscientific statements marketing the psilocybin experience:
+.
+There are also recurring distinct efforts to keep the psilocybin experience under the control of psychiatrists and woo clinical psychologists:
+The new studies, however, suggest he doubts the drug would ever be distributed to patients to take home.
+There are only rare admissions from an author of one of the studies.
+If psilocybin is so safe and pleasant to ingest…
+I think the motion of these studies puts ingestion of psilocybin on the path to being allowed in nicely furnished integrative cancer centers. In that sense psilocybin could become a gateway drug to quack services such as acupuncture, reiki, and energy-therapy therapeutic touch.
+I’m not sure that demand would be great except among previous users of psychedelics and current users of cannabis.
+But should psilocybin remain criminalized outside of cancer centers where wealthy patients can purchase a diagnosis of adjustment reaction from a psychiatrist? Cancer is not especially traumatic and PTSD is almost as common in the waiting rooms of primary care physicians. Why not extend to primary care physicians the option of prescribing psilocybin to their patients? What would be accomplished is that the purity could be assured. But why should psilocybin use being limited to mental health conditions, once we accept that a diagnosis of adjustment reaction is such a distorted extension of the term? Should we exclude patients who are atheists and only wants a satisfying experience, not a spiritual one?
+Experience in other countries suggests that psilocybin can safely be ingested in a supportive, psychologically safe environment. Why not allow cancer patients and others to obtain psilocybin with assured purity and dosage? They could then ingest it in the comfort of friends and intimate partners who have been briefed on how the experience needs to be managed. The patients in the studies were mostly not facing immediate death from terminal cancer. But should we require that persons need to be dying in order to have a psilocybin experience without the risk of criminal penalties? Why not allow psilocybin to be ingested in the presence of pastoral counselors or priests whose religious beliefs are more congruent with the persons seeking such experiences than are New York City psychiatrists?
+“A new world demands a new employee experience.”
+Cloud Summit Workspace Summit Security Summit
+Welcome to the second installment of Citrix’s Summit Series. First, if you happened to miss our Cloud Summit recap from October 8th, jump on over here to read, or access the on-demand Cloud Summit content, available until the end of year. On October 29th, Citrix will conclude their Summit Series with a focus on Security – be sure to access the content on that date and visit us to read our summary.
+Citrix’s CEO, David Henshall, begins by addressing the incredible jobs IT teams and organizations have done in accelerating the shift to cloud and rapidly enabling remote work functionality during this global crisis. At Third Octet, we can certainly appreciate the nod, and pass on the thanks we have for our clients who placed faith in our ability to overcome the hurdles and challenges. It certainly was, and remains, a stressful period; however, for those that were already well invested in Citrix technology and cloud, the transition was certainly less painful.
+Now, a focus on Citrix Workspace.
+As you may recall from weeks back, there are several ideas contributing to business challenges and creating opportunities for innovation including that remote work is here to stay; back to office is anything but back to normal; and agility is the key competitive advantage.
+As we look at the innovations driving support for a hybrid work future, Citrix’s Workspace sees enhancements to support a productive and engaged workforce. The tendency is to find that organizations have too many applications, too little usage, and employees who struggle to find the right resources to satisfy the needs of their jobs. Further, if the distractions of yesteryear were not enough, the constant disruptions we are all facing today heighten the need for a secure, reliable, and consistent experience. And that experience must be achievable regardless of where we are.
+Although the jury is still out, Citrix believes that the global work from home experiment has challenged misconceptions about work being a place, instead of a measurement of outcomes and accomplishments, and businesses are realizing the benefit and positive impact remote work can have on productivity, cost reductions, higher engagement, and work-life balance.
+We tend to agree, especially on the last point (it is our tagline after all); however, productivity and engagement can sway in both a negative and positive light, depending on the context of work that requires completion and the most effective form of tackling that work. Though virtual meetings and instant messaging have become the norm, the spur-of-the-moment watercooler chats and brainstorms have all but disappeared, as have the accidentally overheard open-office or over-the-cubicle comments from our coworkers that have sparked massive creativity, caused decreased time in task completion, and generally inspired open collaboration. Virtually, these sparks are lost.
+Hybrid work models are here to stay, especially as organizations struggle to define their own return to work strategies while we collectively overcome the global pandemic. As hybrid work becomes the standard, businesses must also ensure infrastructures that support both in-office and remote workers are adaptable and scalable over the longer term.
+Highlighted by Quartz Insights research, workplace technology is the number one contributor for businesses ability to innovate and be creative. Even prior to the pandemic, employee experience and productivity were becoming a massive priority for businesses. Citrix can certainly help make everyone more productive with Workspace being the key method to centralizing and securing everything needed to tackle our best work, drive greater employee experience, increasing productivity and engagement.
+Citrix Workspace provides everything your employees need to do their best work – through organizing, guiding, automating and securing. Workspace removes the noise, allows for deeper focus on our best work, and guides users through automating key tasks and insights relevant to their role in the organization.
+Citrix is not just VDI and VDI is not for everyone.
+One of the major obstacles of Citrix technology was driven by a legacy perception of who and what Citrix is. Citrix’s long-time dominance in virtual applications and virtual desktops – which continues today, in our humble opinion – remained as the foremost and, in certain cases, the only perception of what Citrix provided to business and IT. If technical requirements did not warrant a virtual desktop infrastructure, or derivative thereof, Citrix was off your radar.
+Though Virtual Desktops provide the most safe, secure, familiar and productive experience possible, they do not suit all requirements, especially as businesses move towards a web-forward world. As a matter of fact, businesses can be entirely operational within a web browser using software-as-a-service and other web-based or mobile applications, as several of our clients can attest to. For them, a virtual desktop did not make any sense, technically. Yet, as we explored the additional value Citrix and Citrix Workspace brought to their environment, the misconceptions of who and what Citrix is were brought to light. Citrix actually does play a role in a web-forward world, especially in the ability to wrap common security and risk mitigation strategies we have become dependent on with traditional applications.
+More on that in our October 29th Citrix Security Summit recap.
+Citrix Workspace goes beyond Traditional
+As the ideal solution for organizations and employees in a world of constant disruption, Citrix Workspace is not just a portal for delivering traditional on-premises applications or desktops, but a platform that incorporates a series of integrating services to build a unified experience regardless of the service needed – desktop, traditional app, web app, SaaS app, data – and within a simple interface that is maintained regardless of device or location.
+Citrix Workspace becomes a Platform with integrations to the most widely-used applications; offering contextual security for SaaS, web and virtual applications, driven with embedded analytics to simplify and personalize, and tools to extend core capabilities to drive massive extensibility using low-code/no-code tooling.
+And, if Citrix is to “deliver a solution where employees do their best work”, businesses must think about everything they need – not just applications and data, but also critical business services, which leads to the high-level announcements made, including:
+- Business service integrations, including Upwork.
+- Microapp development and examples, including Citrix’s own utilization of Microapps and workflows to safely support return to office initiatives;
+- Broader Workspace integrations with Microsoft Teams, Zoho, Zoom, Google Identity and G Suite; and
+- A much needed shift to employee health and wellbeing, including a fantastic “what’s possible” demo of Citrix Workspace and wellbeing integration.
+Bravo on Wellbeing Stance
+Employee wellbeing has become an increasing priority for leaders who understand that a general neglect of employee wellbeing can have detrimental impacts on the overall success of the organization. People are the most valuable and most costly asset of any organization, and it’s an amazing opportunity taken by Citrix and partners such as Microsoft (who recently announced inclusion of Calm into Teams through virtual commutes) to seize an aggressive position on supporting employee health.
+At Third Octet, we launched an initiative in July 2020 to gauge how our team was feeling – about productivity, engagement, collaboration, and importantly, personal wellbeing. As our scores remained relatively consistent over time, one area screamed out as a challenge – mental wellbeing. Our results showed that we needed to do more to support our staff and it has become a major focus of ours to lessen the stressors in areas we can control and introduce measures to support our staff’s health. As a first and small step, we acquired Calm subscriptions for our entire workforce and demanded they take time for themselves.
+You can use it; we don’t mind.
+In his address, Henshall dropped two things near and dear to our heart and to the ultimate purpose of our company. “Work-life balance” and “technology can help better the world”. Thanks for reaffirming our purpose, Citrix – you are on the right path. We’ve been “Bettering the World through Technology to help clients achieve Work. Life. Balance” for many years now. Happy to have you join the fight.
+-M
+Citrix Workspace Platform
+Building on their approach of organizing, guiding and automating work, Citrix announces greater capabilities of Workspace through Workspace Platform, including additional integrations, provisioning, identity and access security, analytics and automation, assistants and bots, and APIs and tools. Designed as a highly personable and extensible platform, Citrix Workspace Platform provides customers with ultimate choice and flexibility in how, when, and where to deploy services.
+Analytics and Automation is not to be confused with Performance and Security Analytics. In the Citrix Workplace approach, analytics and automation is designed to observe what users are doing within the Workspace, learn what matters most, and proactively drive recommendations to simplify user experience and interaction.
+Assistants and Bots take this a step further by simplifying the process of finding workflows (i.e. “Hey, Citrix” – kidding) through search, chat, and exposing the right data and information.
+Further, to meet unique industry or function specific requirements, Citrix will make additional APIs and tools available as well as Citrix-sponsored open source content (centralized in GitHub). As “no platforms thrive on their own”, Citrix is placing a great dependency on partners – channel, business service providers, and global system integrators – to drive customizations to clients.
+As a long-time Citrix specialist, we certainly do appreciate the low-code/no-code approach for microapps development; however, there is still an innate requirement to fundamentally understand how applications operate and, more importantly, how business-specific workflows need to be captured and mapped to a usable microapp. Though this is a step above traditional workspace design, it is a necessary shift to drive intelligence and engagement in Workspace and we have accepted the reskilling challenge to stay ahead of microapp design, development, and integration.
+New Integrations
+Soon to hit Workspace, Citrix announced out-of-the-box integrations with Microsoft Teams, Zoho, Upwork, Slack, Zoom and Google Identity and G Suite. Be wary of notification overload! This builds on existing out-of-the-box integrations with ServiceNow, Workday, Salesforce, Office365, Jira, Tableau, SAP Concur, SAP Ariba, Zendesk, SAP SuccessFactors, and Microsoft Dynamic 365.
+Top of Mind Considerations
+If you’re currently or contemplating using the delivery of services via Citrix Workspace in your organization, keep these three points in mind.
+- Leverage Citrix Cloud services to benefit from Citrix Workspace. Cloud services have been built as a hybrid solution that provides customers with choice to continue operating on-premises and scale to cloud at your pace. Move what makes sense… once!
+- Think broadly about the use of Workspace. Remember, VDI or derivatives are not the only capability of Citrix Workspace – think beyond into web, mobile, and SaaS applications and broader into business processes, workflows, and custom microapp development to interact with applications, even those on-premises. And, for ideal productivity impacts, consider providing the whole organization with access.
+- Continue Workspace innovation. If an integration or connector is not there now, it will be some day either through Citrix or broad industry and channel partners who all have a common goal of helping customers achieve desired outcomes and their best work. As capable as the workspace is today, it will only get better, and we hope to contribute to the microapp community very soon.
+BHAG
+Certainly a “big hairy audacious goal” (or goals), Citrix has set to “give employees back one day a week through the Workspace” equating to two months of additional productivity, or over three million additional hours, to drive the business. Time is valuable, a fleeting resource if you will. From what we have seen in the enterprise space, Citrix’s goal is certainly possible if they and their partners are able to deliver on the need for workflow and microapp design and development, especially due to the limited native integrations. While we see that growing with time, it will be important to have the backing of large business service providers and system integrators, Citrix included, to drive greater integrations. As a small fish in a big sea, we are not uniquely suited to aid in every single possible application, workflow design, or microapp development. Yet, from the exposure through the Workspace Summit, we see the potential for broader and native integrations as well as Citrix making the necessary skilling available for consumption by the channel and end users as well.
+And as additional organizations take a broader approach to joint integrations – Microsoft Teams comes to mind – it will be interesting to see how complimentary competing current and disparate solutions will become. Is everyone racing towards the same goal – a single place to do everything? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
+That is all folks.
+At least for our write up. Head on over to Citrix Summit and check out the content for yourself. Be sure to watch the following partnership integrations including Microsoft, Upwork, Deloitte and HPE, and catch the wellbeing session with a great demonstration of what is possible. Citrix customers Ohio DOT, City National, Northcott, eBay, and Centrica also share their interesting stories and highlights of Citrix technology in the real world. Lastly, Citrix’s own CIO outlines how Citrix technology played a pivotal role in their own pandemic response as well as a staged return to offices across forty globally distributed offices.
+We will see you next time – same bat channel – for our recap of Citrix Security Summit running October 29th, 2020. Interim, if you’re interested in exploring Citrix Cloud and Workspace technologies, contact us today!
+There’s a common misconception that businesses need to acquire new customers if they want to make more money.
+Getting new customers is obviously beneficial and can help your business grow. But that’s not the only way to boost your profits.
+Focusing on customer retention is a much more viable and cost-effective marketing strategy.
+In fact, it will cost you six to seven times more money to acquire a new customer than it will to retain an existing one.
+Not only is retention cheaper than acquisition, but it also has a very high ROI. Research shows that you can increase your profits anywhere from 25-95% just by increasing your retention rates by 5%.
+Imagine how much more money you’ll make if you increase those retention rates by 10% or even 20%.
+Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying you should completely ignore your acquisition efforts. But if you are looking for ways to market your company on a budget, it’s in your best interest to focus on your existing customers.
+Take a look at these loyalty statistics for ecommerce brands:
+As you can see, customers who have made multiple purchases with a brand have a higher add-to-cart rate and conversion rate than new shoppers.
+These customers also generate more than six times the revenue per session than new shoppers.
+So it only makes sense that you should be prioritizing these customers.
+I’m sure you’ve heard this age-old proverb: “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
+You’ve already got these customers in your hand. Don’t risk losing them by putting all your effort into customer acquisition.
+I’ll show you the best ways to increase profits with customer retention.
+Leverage your blog to establish loyal readers
+Most people may not associate blogging with customer retention. But blogging overall is one of my favorite content marketing strategies.
+In addition to helping you increase website traffic and generate new leads, blogging can also help you engage with your loyal customers. This is especially true for ecommerce brands.
+Ask yourself this question.
+How often does the same customer visit your website?
+I’m guessing you’re not getting repeat purchases from the same customer on a daily basis.
+But if you’re releasing new blog posts each day, or even a few times per week, you give your customers a reason to keep checking your website.
+Hook these readers with your content. If they use your products and read your blog, your brand will be on their minds more often.
+Plus, the more they visit your site, the greater chance you have of getting them to buy something else. This strategy is extremely cost-effective.
+The only major cost is the time it takes to write each post. In 2017, the average time it took people to write a blog post was just over three hours.
+It’s well worth your time and effort if you’re able to leverage this strategy to create loyal readers and retain your existing customers.
+Use surveys and interviews to get feedback
+In order for you to properly focus on retention, it’s important for you to understand what causes customers to leave a business.
+Research shows 68% of consumers leave a business because they don’t feel the brand is valuing them.
+Only 14% will leave because they’re unhappy with your product or service. And 9% of customers leave because of your prices.
+What does this tell you?
+Customers care significantly more about how they’re treated than the products and prices of what they’re buying.
+One of the best ways to show your customers how much you care about their opinions is by asking them directly. You can use surveys and interviews to generate more revenue for your business.
+This strategy accomplishes a few things.
+First, it shows customers you care about them, which we already established. But the results of these surveys and interviews can also help you make your business better.
+If you’re doing something wrong or your brand could use some improvement, you’ll find out from these campaigns.
+Once you’re able to identify what needs to be fixed, customers will be happy to see these changes get applied.
+This type of service enhances the customer experience, which I’ll elaborate on in greater detail shortly.
+Implement a customer loyalty program
+The name says it all. The purpose of establishing a customer loyalty program is to create loyal customers.
+Research shows that consumers are much more likely to shop at stores with loyalty programs.
+Give your customers what they want.
+There are many different ways to approach your loyalty program. For example, you can reward your customers based on how often they shop.
+These types of programs have been around forever, and I’m sure you’ve participated in them during your life.
+A local pizza shop in town may give out punch cards to their customers. After ten visits, they get a free pizza.
+But with the advancements in technology, this type of “punch card system” has evolved. Businesses with mobile apps have been able to eliminate the need for customers to carry a physical card. We’ll discuss mobile apps in greater depth as we continue.
+If your business operates online, you can track your customers’ purchases through their profiles.
+Another type of loyalty program rewards your best customers. For example, let’s say two customers each made a purchase from your store ten times in the last six months.
+Should they both be rewarded equally?
+If one customer spent $100 and the other customer spent $1,000, it makes sense to reward the customer who spends more money.
+You can implement a customer loyalty program with various spending tiers. Each time a new customer reaches another level, they’ll receive a more significant benefit.
+This strategy gives your existing customers an incentive to spend more money since they know they’ll be rewarded. As a result, it will be much easier to retain these customers.
+Grow your email list
+Another great way to focus on customer retention is through email marketing.
+As you can see from this chart, email yielded the highest results for customers who return to ecommerce websites compared to other referring channels.
+You should be collecting email addresses from your current customers.
+Once you have their email addresses added to your list, you’ll be able to send them exclusive offers and promotions.
+This will increase the chances of them buying again. They won’t not be making repeat purchases so frequently if you aren’t reminding them of these offers via email.
+Just don’t go overboard with these messages, or it could backfire.
+Don’t send promotional content to your subscribers on a daily basis. This will annoy them and lead to lots of unsubscribes from your list.
+Instead, only send content that adds value to their lives. For the most part, you can’t go wrong with a discount. It’s a great way to drive sales from your existing customers.
+Incentivize customer referrals
+Most businesses would consider customer referral programs as an acquisition strategy.
+While I’m not disputing that, I want you to understand that they can also double as a retention strategy if you set them up properly.
+The whole idea of a referral program is to get your current clientele to bring in new customers. But most people won’t do this out of the kindness of their hearts.
+Sure, they might like your brand and be happy with your products, but do they love you enough to go out of their way to spread the word to their friends and family?
+That’s why you need to offer an incentive for referrals. Check out this example from Airbnb.
+It’s a simple structure. Customers who refer their friends will receive a $20 credit after the person they referred books a trip.
+So yes, they’re getting a new customer. But their existing customer also has a reason to make another purchase since they want to take advantage of their credit.
+The more people they refer, the more money they’ll receive in travel credits.
+You can implement this same type of referral structure to your business. It will reward your customers for their efforts and give them a reason to continue making purchases in the future.
+Offer product suggestions
+You should be encouraging your customers to create a profile on your platform.
+This will help you personalize their shopping experience. Personalization has major benefits to consumers and brands alike.
+These customer profiles will allow you to monitor their purchase history and browsing behavior.
+Now you can use this information to recommend products to your customers.
+As you can see from these numbers, consumers are more likely to buy from brands that suggest products based on their purchases and browsing behavior.
+Nearly half of consumers say they purchase more from retailers who personalize their shopping experience and send personalized emails.
+These product suggestions are a great way to make more money. For example, let’s say you have an ecommerce store that sells sporting goods.
+If a customer adds soccer cleats and a soccer ball to their shopping cart, it’s a pretty good indication that they’re playing soccer.
+So before they checkout and complete the purchase, you could recommend shin guards, soccer socks, and a water bottle as potential suggested items they might be interested in buying.
+This will help increase the average amount of each transaction.
+Provide excellent customer service
+I briefly touched on this subject earlier when we talked about using surveys and interviews to get feedback from your customers.
+But excellent customer service goes far beyond that.
+This needs to be a priority for your business. Customer service needs to part of your overall company culture.
+From the CEO all the way down to the employees at the bottom of the organizational chain, everyone needs to know how to treat customers.
+Improving the customer experience will help you drive loyalty and retention.
+Make sure you’re available to help your customers.
+Let them reach out to customer service agents via as many methods as possible:
+- phone
+- live chat
+Just because your business operates from 9 AM to 5 PM EST on Monday through Friday doesn’t mean your customer service hours end then.
+What if a customer on the West coast has a question on Friday at 6 PM local time? Don’t make them wait until Monday morning to call you.
+Give them options. Go the extra mile to keep your customers happy.
+According to studies, 86% of people say they are willing to pay more money for better customer service.
+That’s right. You could charge more for your products and services if you treat your customers the right way. They’ll still keep coming back to buy more.
+Segment your email list
+Earlier I explained that you need to add subscribers to your email list.
+Now I’m telling you to take that strategy one step further. You need to segment your subscribers to maximize your email campaigns.
+There are plenty of ways in which you can do this. For example, you can put them in lists based on their age, gender, or location.
+You can even segment your target audience with generational marketing.
+Putting your email subscribers on separate lists helps you deliver more personalized content to each person.
+Take a look at some of the top benefits of email segmentation:
+If you go through each one of these benefits, you’ll notice they all translate into one common result.
+All of these will help you generate more profits.
+Develop a mobile app
+We live in a world where mobile technology has seemingly taken over.
+When was the last time you saw someone without a cellphone?
+Building a mobile app can have tons of benefits for your business.
+As I explained earlier, an app can replace a physical customer loyalty card. You can also use your app to implement other strategies I’ve discussed, such as a customer referral program, product suggestions, and a platform for customer surveys.
+Furthermore, you can use your app to improve your customer service. Allow app users to contact a representative directly from within the app.
+As far as retention goes, mobile apps create a 50% greater chance that an ecommerce customer will return to your online store within 30 days.
+Mobile apps also have extremely low shopping cart abandonment rates.
+The average shopping cart abandonment rate for a desktop site is 68%. When customers add an item to their shopping carts from a mobile browser, that number jumps to 97%.
+But with mobile apps, the shopping cart abandonment rate is only 20%.
+You can get that percentage down even lower if you follow my high ROI shopping cart abandonment prevention tactics.
+Conclusion
+New customers aren’t the only way to increase profits for your business. Focusing on customer loyalty is more effective and cost-efficient.
+Use your blog as a way to get your customers to visit your website on a more frequent basis.
+Show your customers you care about them by asking their opinions with surveys and interviews. Create a customer loyalty program.
+Provide incentives to your customers who refer friends and family.
+Add customers to your email list and segment those subscribers to personalize your marketing campaigns. Take that personalization one step further, and suggest products based on the browsing history and previous purchases of your customers.
+If you enhance your customer service, you can even charge more money for your products and services.
+Develop a mobile app to help you implement these strategies and drive more sales.
+By prioritizing customer retention, you’ll be able to generate higher profits.
+What customer retention strategies does your brand use to drive more sales?
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+69 70 3. The Black Vulture Is A Scavenger That Sometimes Kills. Black Vultures are large raptors. Uniform black with silvery patches on undersides of wingtips. They have small, bare heads and narrow but strongly hooked bills. In low flight, it proceeds with several quick flaps followed by a flat-winged glide; when rising thermals provide good lift, it soars very high above the ground. To buy, select Size. >> Vultures prefer meat as fresh as possible and won’t eat extremely rotted carcasses. Note splayed wingtips or "fingers" in flight. White "stars" in underwing can be hard to see at distance. L 24-28” / WS 55-63”. In fact, the black vulture range has expanded northward in the past 50 years. The black vulture has a quicker, shallow flap, shorter tail, and obvious white patches at the base of the primaries on its shorter, broader wings. 81 67 63. The South American black vulture, which is the smallest of the three subspecies and is found in Central American and northern South America. These birds are uniform black except for white patches or “stars” on the underside of their wingtips (this can be hard to see in strong light or from far away). Black Vulture’s nests, eggs, and chicks are well known, but most of this information comes from a relatively small number of nests. >> Vulture fecal matter is free of bacteria, viruses, and fungi due to the strong stomach acids in the stomach. Black vultures mainly eat carrion. Length: 23.6-26.8 in (60-68 cm) Weight: 56.4-77.6 oz (1600-2200 g) Wingspan: 53.9-59.1 in (137-150 cm) © Holly Merker | Macaulay Library. Movements: Partial migrant (Bildstein 2006). General Admission The Black Vulture Is A Scavenger That Sometimes Kills. Vulture Bird Animal. Look for Black Vultures in open areas within forested landscapes. The tail is relatively short. Size : Length: 25 inches; wingspan: 58 inches. So here are the top black vulture facts. Bald Eagle it is then. In August 2007, this was revisited and they were removed from the Stork family. The black vulture is a large bird of prey. Seen from below, the wings are mostly black, with a white patch near the outer end of the wing; the tail is short. Its ranges from the Mid-Atlantic States in the U.S. all the way down through Central and most of South America. The black vulture has an average wingspan of 155 cm and weighs around 5 pounds.This bird species has an average length of 60 to 75 cm. It appeared on a stamp for El Salvador in 1963, Belize in 1978, Guatemala in 1979, Honduras in 1997, Bolivia in 1998, and Nicaragua in 1999. Black Vulture. Sunday 12PM - 5PM, Wildlife Clinic Hours Seen from below, the wings appear black with the trailing half of the wing gray or sometimes silvery in certain light. The Center found that effigies which simply resembled a full-grown vulture -- 25 to 26 inches in length and feathered -- were effective. Larger than × px Color ... 100 138 15. They feed almost exclusively on carrion, such as road-killed animals, and spend much of the day in flight searching for carcasses. Turkey vultures have wingspans up to 70 inches and bodies as long as 32 inches, while black vultures have shorter wingspans, up to 60 inches, … Because of its large size and beauty, the king vulture is …. For example, the size of the griffon vulture is 93 to 120 cm weighing 6.5 to 11kg while the black vulture being 93 to 120 cm and weighing 1.2 to 1.9 kg. Animal Vultures Avian. 68 31 13. The Sanctuary recorded its first migrating Black Vulture in the autumn of 1979. Black vultures nest on the ground under cover, in tree stumps or sometimes in caves. the tail measures around 25 cm. Entirely black except for silvery patches on the underside of the wingtips. The Black Vulture is more gregarious and easily distinguished in flight by its flatter flight profile, more frequent and rapid flapping, and large white patches at the tips of the wings. Black Vultures have a discreet and reclusive family life. They have a similar appearance to eagles. They typically nest and roost in wooded areas and soar above open areas to seek their food. Numbers appear to be stable, if not increasing as indicated by their expanding range. However, black vultures in particular have become more locally resident as they have adapted to the presence of human activity. Black Vulture Coragyps atratus. Perched birds are entirely black with a gray and unfeathered head. 72 83 7. 9135 Willeo Rd Roswell, GA 30075 >> The black vulture is long-lived, usually about 25.5 years, and without natural enemies as adults. The Black Vulture is a large bird of 60 cm to 68 cm in length, with broad wings, a short tail, and a small head. Vulture Bird Aas Face. We now know, however, the important role these scavenging birds fulfill by “cleaning up” dead animals from our forests and fields. The cinereous vulture, sometimes called the black vulture (Aegypius monachus), is one of the largest flying birds. Vultures have long been perceived as loathsome creatures because of their repulsive feeding habits. Black vultures are 22 to 27 inches long with a 4.5 to 5 foot wingspan, and weigh 4 to 5 lbs. 134 77 109. They are more visual hunters than the turkey vulture and often watch the latter from above while it hunts by scent. The Black Vulture can also be used as a daily driver in your quiver since it can be surfed at a high level through the entire mid range of surf, and does have a solid small wave game. Their feathers are glossy black except for white patches at the base on the underside of their wings. Found throughout southeastern North America through Mexico extending down into South America. This widespread species has many interesting things about it. Their flight style is distinctive: strong wingbeats followed by short glides, giving them a batlike appearance. A Turkey Vulture’s wings will be largely silvery-white underneath, while the Black Vulture only has small patches of white at the tip. They are often seen feeding in groups on large items but will eat almost anything. Black vultures are fairly large birds of prey with wingspans of 5 feet. Color Pattern. Usually seen in flocks. Feeds almost exclusively on carrion, locating it by soaring high in the skies on thermals. 60 45 28. Animal Beak Bird. Its ranges from the Mid-Atlantic States in the U.S. all the way down through Central and most of South America. Size . Sep 10, 2006 #6 Thanks for your help guys. Did you know? An immature Turkey Vulture’s head is dark gray. The black vulture has a quicker, shallow flap, shorter tail, and obvious white patches at the base of the primaries on its shorter, broader wings. Warner Bros. releases the first trailer for their movie Godzilla vs. Kong, which is scheduled to be released in theaters and on HBOMax simultaneously March 26. In some states, USDA Wildlife Services issues permits for shooting and displaying nuisance birds to frighten other black vultures. When trying to identify a Black Vulture from a Turkey Vulture while on the wing (in flight), one may do so by looking at the underside of the bird’s wings. Vultures Bird Watching. Monday – Saturday 10AM – 4PM Learn more. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) They are predominantly found in America, so they are also called … Black Vulture. Often spreads its wings to cool down or warm up by exposing the underwings.. Size: Select Size Chart 100% preshrunk cotton Navy Blue t-shirt Features a picture of six different kinds of Vultures including the Black Vulture, Egyptian Vulture, Hooded Vulture, Andean Condor, King Vulture and Turkey Vulture. Color Pattern. Lee fell in love with his 5 5 Black Vulture and claims its one of the fastest boards he has ever ridden. Black Vultures have substantially increased their range northward in recent decades. 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+Bad Brains
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+No pictures of Titus because Tim was downstairs during their quick set, and we're not even sure if Children ever ended up playing.
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+Fuck you Vice for hiring the worst security of all time. I watched them get violent with at least 20 people in an hour.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 12:17 PM
+Leave it to Vice to hire the Mafia for security.
+Posted by Ryan Tomorrow | November 2, 2009 12:35 PM
+people are dumb. i had a great time.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 12:39 PM
+Was there around 1:30 a.m. If they weren't going to let anymore people in, why didn't the security and/or cops in the vicinity make any attempt to disperse the crowd?
+That would have made a lot of sense and defused a lot of the line tension.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 12:40 PM
+leave it to you kids to complain on the security
+but not a word on any other aspects of that failed
+production. how long have you been standing in line to get in? that hold up at the door was caused by what? did anyone check if you were on the list?
+not to mention the extremly wet slippery floor with broken glass all over.
+Posted by ajaxson | November 2, 2009 12:42 PM
+is it true that the yeah yeah yeah's are playing a free secret show on friday ??
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 12:46 PM
+David Yow is THE MAN.
+Duane, you are equally as awesome
+Posted by TXn | November 2, 2009 12:49 PM
+awesome:
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 1:12 PM
+Duane looks eerily like John Cleese these days.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 1:13 PM
+This party was fucking awesome. The Jesus Lizard killed it. Thanks Vice.
+Posted by bvllets | November 2, 2009 1:17 PM
+Children Did not end up playing due to security problems
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 1:17 PM
+Show was great. Security did suck, even though we had wristband/invites and guest list we werent getting in. Luckily the space had a shitload of doors around it to just stroll into. Once inside it was great, free booze and great sets of music and tits haha. Videos of both sets, half pipe and the line outside. BV feel free to update if you'd like.
+Posted by Crook from the Bronx | November 2, 2009 1:22 PM
+My girl chilled in the back and she said she saw security literally dragging people across the filthy glass ridden floor at least a dozen times in an hours time. In that hour she said she saw at least 4 fights. I mainly went for The Jesus Lizard set and it was fucking great. I also really enjoyed the freedom of smoking cigs all over that place, I hate being trapped in a show worried about getting booted for a fucking cigarette. The only people complaining are the ones who didnt get in.
+Posted by Crook form the Bronx | November 2, 2009 1:29 PM
+1) where's the pix of titus' girlfriend?
+2) the security at this show were pussies
+Posted by hells angels, altamont chapter | November 2, 2009 1:30 PM
+i love the passed out pig photo at the end. ha!
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 1:32 PM
+@1:29
+"she saw security literally dragging people across the filthy glass ridden floor at least a dozen times"
+"The only people complaining are the ones who didnt get in."
+story does not check out.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 1:34 PM
+@1:34
+How does it not check out?
+She wasn't complaining, we had a hell of a time. Drinking and partying for free. If we didnt get in, yep, I'd be here bitching haha. But instead or crying in the rain we found a door that led to a stairwell that led to the party.
+Posted by Crook from the Bronx | November 2, 2009 1:47 PM
+can't wait to see the lizard at irving.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 1:52 PM
+GREENMAN!
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 1:54 PM
+@1:47 i was referring to the people dragged across the floor filled with broken glass...they obviously did get in, but were likely to also be complaining.
+unless they were some sort of weird japanese fetishists.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 2:14 PM
+Skateboarders. Woo.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 2:18 PM
+How about the fact that there wasn't a single chair to sit on in the entire 30,000 sq ft space party. It would have been nice to not have to sit on the wet floor to take a quick break from the chaos.
+Actually aside from the Jesus Lizard and Bad Brains which were great, it was pretty much the shittiest party i've ever been to. Pretentious and generally stupid crowd, and corporate advertising along with douchey security made things almost impossible to enjoy.
+Nice one Vice. You've succeeded once again in alienating your constituency. Might as well sell yourself off to Viacom if you haven't already sucked Clear Channel's dick.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 2:40 PM
+they already sold themselves off to viacom, duh
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 2:49 PM
+the things people will do for free alcohol... and thats what this was about, without the free alcohol, a lot less people would have cared
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 2:58 PM
+"How about the fact that there wasn't a single chair to sit on in the entire 30,000 sq ft space party."
+hahahaha, what a douche. do yourself favor, if you like to sit, sit the fucking next one out if you dont like their parties.
+Posted by whineroner | November 2, 2009 3:04 PM
+can anyone tell me what in the world they spent $250,000 on? I'm sure the booze was donated by sponsors, obviously they had to pay the bands and rent sound and lights, but what else could have cost that much? Did they give out prizes or some shit like that?
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 3:06 PM
+its funny and a bit sad that not only did "crook from the bronx" not notice the contradiction between "only people complaining didnt get in" and "at least 4 fights and dozens of people being dragged out by security", he also needed someone to provide a detailed explanation after it was mentioned.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 3:06 PM
+this comment was left on gawker about the 250k and seems relatively cogent. Who knows if it was really 250k though, vice has a history of lying to the media
+"Bucky Turco is not too good at seeing what goes into an event that big. You could spend 250k pretty easy on that party. Bad Brains and Jesus Lizard 25k each, maybe as much as 40k each for a private event like this. 10k in DJ fees. 10k or maybe more for venue rental. 20k-30k for security (who were douches), 15k for bar staffing, 5k for insurance, 2k for architectural renderings for the city, 2k for permits, 2k for cleanup, 10k for portapotties, sound and staging could have been 40k or more, stage managing and sound guys 5k, the smaller bands maybe 1k or 2k each, renting out several studios in Fast Ashleys for the green rooms 5k, etc. That's around 200k right there and I'm probably thinking these are cheaper than they really are and I'm sure I'm leaving a lot of stuff out. It was a big, big event. A lot of fun for those who got in. NewGonzo promoted this comment"
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 3:14 PM
+great photos man. nice recap.
+Posted by matth | November 2, 2009 3:22 PM
+was I there?
+god what happened
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 3:59 PM
+Went for Bad Brains only. Got in right before they played, left right after they played. Drank some, went to the bathroom. Had fun. Great stuff. Thanks Vice.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 4:13 PM
+hands down party of the year. give me an example of a better one.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 4:22 PM
+Vice man. jesus, they always fuck everything up!
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 4:23 PM
+no one goes to vice parties anymore, obviously
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 4:33 PM
+4:33, note these 2 draws that this party had (though both turned out to be bogus on many levels):
+free entry
+open bar
+still, even with those giveaways to draw in the crowd, there were hardly any savvy hipster showgoer types there.
+It's true SOME people go to Vice parties, but they're yahoos and bridge-and-tunnel amateur hour types, and even those losers have to be lured there by (misleading) claims of free entry and booze.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 4:41 PM
+no one goes to vice parties anymore, they're too crowded.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 4:52 PM
+dumbasses go to Vice parties in droves.
+congrats on the dumbass appeal, Vice!
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 4:55 PM
+Vice and American Apparel will be remembered only as cringe inducing relics of mid-2000's kitsch.
+It's almost 2010, expect their final sunset any second. They're both way past their half-life moments already.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 5:07 PM
+ree entry
+open bar
+2 draws?
+MEthinks the 2 draws were
+Bad Brains
+Jesus Lizard
+There would have been just as many hipster idiots waiting on line to get in for the free drinks and the 'say I was there' attitude, but seriously, this party would have been completely meaningless had those two bands not been on the bill.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 5:44 PM
+anyone discerning who would typically have psyched for that bill immediately saw it was a Vice party and decided to skip it
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 5:53 PM
+id bet most people on line barely heard of those two bands. they were there because the event, and most importantly the alcohol, was free.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 7:03 PM
+vice is so 90's
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 7:17.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 7:33 PM
+Vice is so proud of their ability to draw in crowds with free entry and free booze.
+you guys are really marketing geniuses! really next level there!
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 7:45 PM
+We showed up around 11:30 and there was a huuuge line outside at the main entrance, so we went to another entrance, showed our wristbands and got right in. All three guards smiled and greeted us. Got lots of free drinks by very friendly bartenders...
+The djs were playing really fun songs and everyone was dancing. Then the Jesus Lizard came on and they were amazing, and everyone was having a good time. To be fair, security didn't really even come near the stage until some tard started climbing on the sprinkler system (think about it--sprinklers go off = party's over).
+The only bummer was the security at the main entrance. We wondered why they weren't letting people in when it wasn't crowded inside at all. And when we left to use the bathrooms down the street (we didn't want to wait in line), they wouldn't let us back in. They wouldn't let anyone in, even though people were leaving in droves. Oh well, so we left. I'm sure those security people had to deal with a lot of assholes all night long so we gave them a break.
+We had a good time and it was all free, so why complain. True, some didn't enjoy it (some of my friends didn't, so they just left without bitching about it), but a lot of people worked hard to put on a fun party. It's all what you make of it, I guess.
+ps: HR did suck, but what else is new. Dude's old and wasted, leave him alone!
+pps: I stopped reading Vice many years ago but I still appreciate their parties (Les Savvy Fab at cakeshop? amazing!)
+Posted by live and let live. | November 2, 2009 7:47 PM
+Uh, $250,000? I've seen Live Fast Die shows that cost about $7 that were just as sweaty. Someone wanna tell me why DJs get paid that much? I mean, I realize cab fair just went up 50 cents, but...Guess the fact I saw Jesus Lizard when they were only kinda old made this whole "crazy idea" seem dull in the first place. And everyone knows the Bad Brains should never have started these reunion gigs. But whatever, it was Halloween, probably fun for half the people...Now a Devil Dogs reunion, that would be news!
+Posted by Eric | November 2, 2009 9:00 PM
+Great pics....
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 9:24 PM
+you were not supposed to smoke, there were "no smoking signs" posted. could you not see the signs in the dark? now my clothes smell like 1994.
+Posted by my cloths smell | November 2, 2009 9:32 PM
+i could not find a bathroom so i just urinated in an unlit area on the floor.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 9:39 PM
+Man people are like battered wives with these vice events...they just keep going back and complaining.
+But what is there to complain about...Vice isn't trying to sell us anything.
+So if it cost them $250k, how much do you think they made in Sponsorship? Big profit methinks
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 9:52 PM
+Good point, battered wives DO complain too much.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 10:07 PM
+everyone there was from jersey
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 10:19."
+Oh come on now. Vice held a contest which was open to everyone and anyone in the world without mentioning in the contest just how many people would be winning. Then they went and sent invites to more people than could easily get in. They made sure that all those publications and websites you mentioned were aware of the event and wrote about it. Vice promoted the crap out of this 'private party' in the public world.
+If Vice wanted a cozy invite only party they could have easily done it without anybody knowing or caring. They did not want that. They wanted a spectacle.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 10:46 PM
+Let's face it, if you didn't get in, you weren't important enough to get in. It was their party, they can do what they want.
+Let's have a fundraiser and throw our own party!
+Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2009 11:46 PM
+im down to throw our own party, i can contribute $5
+Posted by Anonymous | November 3, 2009 12:15 AM
+i got two blowjobs at that shithole.
+Posted by jazz from crooklyn | November 3, 2009 3:05 AM
+Vice loves contributing little bullshit pellets to anonymous forums like this one.
+the "let's face it, if you didn't get in you weren't important enough to get in" line is classic Vice. manages to express their "douchebags are awesome" and "velvet elitism is super cool" contrarian ethos, and forcingly attemps to paint over the fact that there is no way any intelligent process was in play managing that line - as it was obvious to anyone that it was a complete chaotic disaster.
+They couldn't have been employing any kind of elitist agenda, as they barely had their shit together enough to even card people effectively.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 3, 2009 8:15 AM
+Agreed on the fact that there is no intelligent way to manage a line of 3000 shitfaced folks on Halloween trying to get into a killer party. Chaos.
+I dunno though. Even if HR phones it in, shit still looks fun:
+Posted by Anonymous | November 3, 2009 10:52 AM
+3000 people is not that many people. It's not as Vice is the only organisation to ever attempt to put on a big show/party/rave!
+Btw, can I mention that Bad Brains and TJL can easily outdraw 3000 people together even when there is no free booze and tickets cost $25 or more?
+Looks like Vice has a negative affect on turnout, even with the freebies.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 3, 2009 12:23 PM
+So for those just tuning in, here are the takeaway points to consider:
+*The party was expected to be the biggest clusterfuck of all time
+*It was the biggest clusterfuck of all time, maybe 2nd biggest
+*People were pissed they didn't get in
+*Seems like most of the people who got in came early
+*Most people inside seemed to have a blast, there are a few who didn't
+*One guy was mad he couldn't get in to see Jesus Lizard because he walked around 12pm up and there was a line
+*Security supposedly went rogue on Vice and were out of control
+*Security didn't appear to let the party get to capacity, upstairs full, downstairs not so much
+*The Jesus Lizard were great, people went nuts
+*Bad Brains (or just HR) phoned it in, people went nuts
+*Titus beardo got roughed up by security and blogged it into some generational rallying cry, played a set of Weezer covers, got paid.
+*Children didn't get to play, didn't blog about it, got paid.
+*Lots of people complaining about everything
+*Lots of people laughing at the complainers and calling them entitled hipsters
+*Lots of people wondering why others are so shocked that a party like this on Halloween was chaos on all levels
+*Lots of media attention from the blogs and Vice competitors
+*Feasible that they spent $250k, should have hired a better security firm
+*Probably time to do away with anonymous comments on Brooklyn Vegan
+And that's that.
+Posted by hector | November 3, 2009 12:30 PM
+"3000 people is not that many people."
+"Bad Brains and TJL can easily outdraw 3000 people together even when there is no free booze and tickets cost $25 or more?"
+You really think that those two bands could sell out Roseland or another roughly 3000 person venue? Come on now. Together the ticket would be $40-50...
+Lizard has two shows at Irving coming up, one of which is not sold out, Bad Brains would play something similar.
+You're just plain wrong if you think that a free event with those bands would attract less people....
+Posted by Anonymous | November 4, 2009 8:43 AM
+Irving Plaza has capacity of 1100. If Jesus Lizard is playing two shows there (after they just played in the same town for free, mind you) and has already sold out one of them, then their draw - with a pricey ticket and an expensive bar - is around 2200 in New York City.
+You also say that Bad Brains would do about the same venuewise... and you're right. Last time Bad Brains came through NYC they sold out Irving Plaza.
+So you're talking about two bands who's combined draw is more than 3000, plus it was a free show, plus free booze, plus on Halloween, plus Vice promoting the fuck out of the party and getting it hyped on every blog in town.
+Even so, Vice could only pull out less than the regular combined draw of both bands. Not very impressive at all!
+Posted by Anonymous | November 4, 2009 12:15 PM
+good or bad, the amount of press this got will dwarf the reach of any Irving Plaza show.
+also I hear they are doing an LA one later this week
+hope they dont hire tight security for that one
+also this is funny, a vice employee who planned the ny event got kicked out & manhandled by security then threatened to quit
+Posted by Anonymous | November 4, 2009 12:34 PM
+Taji got some mean airfeet
+Posted by Anonymous | November 4, 2009 12:40 PM
+@12:15PM
+Err...except that you're not considering what would happen to ticket prices if TJL and BB played together. $50? $60? What happens then? Other than pure conjecture... and you're also talking about Manhattan, at a venue, not Brooklyn at a warehouse.
+Were you really even there on Sat? The draw wasn't the problem at all. There was over 1000 inside, and another what, 1000-2000 outside? Seems like a success as far as draw goes, anything else is just apples and oranges.
+Sorry.
+Posted by Anonymous | November 4, 2009 2:58 PM
+Fuck, who cares how many people were there. This looks fun as fuck
+Posted by Anonymous | November 4, 2009 3:10 PM
+Fuck Vice! I hate them so much but I just can't stop talking about them! No homo. Just can't stop! Fuck!
+Posted by Anonymous | November 4, 2009 3:25 PM
+Posted by Anonymous | November 6, 2009 4:48 PM
+How downtown Staunton fought suburbanization and won.
+1 of 11
+2 of 11
+Staunton Economic Development Director Bill Hamilton.
+3 of 11
+Camera Heritage Museum owner David Schwartz.
+4 of 11
+Statue found at Staunton Antiques.
+5 of 11
+Ellen Bode, co-owner of Staunton Antiques Center.
+6 of 11
+Weeping willow tree on Duck Pond Island in Gypsy Hill Park.
+7 of 11
+Exterior of Zynodoa restaurant on Beverley Street.
+8 of 11
+James Harris, executive chef at Zynodoa restaurant.
+9 of 11
+Seth Hendrick giving a glass-blowing demonstration at Sunspots Studio.
+10 of 11
+Glassware for sale in Sunspots Studio; statue found at Staunton Antiques.
+11 of 11
+Staunton Director of Planning Sharon Angle outside City Hall.
+In 1971, the state of Virginia wanted to bulldoze Staunton’s historic downtown and build a four-lane highway through the middle of the city. Had the state succeeded, motorists would be zooming through the downtown wharf district today, on their way to somewhere else. But that isn’t what happened. Instead, concerned citizens banded together to halt the demolition plans and revitalize the dying downtown, and today the center of Staunton is a compact cluster of art, commerce and culture in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. Victorian-era architecture houses 300 independent businesses, 30 restaurants and 80 specialty stores, and rich, red-brick streets slope gently up toward the Appalachian Mountains. And instead of driving through town, you can walk everywhere—between galleries, antique stores, coffee shops, hotels, restaurants, theaters and bars, without even breaking a sweat.
+It is as if someone took a metropolis, San Francisco maybe, and shrunk it down into about 10 small, hilly blocks. Because of this, Staunton (the “u” is silent, by the way), a city of less than 25,000 people, is now receiving some serious national attention. It was named one of the 20 Best Small Towns in America by Smithsonian Magazine in 2012, and that same year, Travel + Leisure recognized Beverley Street as one of America’s Greatest Main Streets. With such high-profile publications singing Staunton’s praises, I was keen to visit. And the question I wanted to answer was, how? How does a city go from having its downtown almost flattened and asphalted over to being hailed as a national model for other small cities to emulate?
+Staunton’s resurgence arguably begins with the threatened highway through the city because it galvanized Stauntonites into some much-needed action. With the opening of Staunton Mall (then called Staunton Plaza) in 1968, the national suburbanization trend had arrived, and downtown was emptying out. “When I got here in the ’70s, the main street had about 25 vacancies,” says Bill Frazier, an affable architect and urban planner who knows the story behind every building here. “Everything was beige and white with plywood over the windows, and it was pretty sad looking,” he says. “Everyone would say, ‘What are you going to Staunton for?’”
+The Historic Staunton Foundation formed in 1971 to save downtown from demolition by having it declared a historic district. “The state transportation people had to take an environmental impact study, and destroying the whole district was obviously a bad impact .… ” Frazier—who was hired as the HSF’s first executive director in 1977—says with a grin. HSF then set about persuading merchants and business owners to invest in renovating their storefronts, using historic tax credits to return the architecture to its Victorian-era splendor. “We said, ‘Wait a minute, you’ve got a city full of old buildings, why wouldn’t you decide to have a preservation strategy for economic development instead of a demolition strategy?’” explains Frazier. The public, the city council and the press took a little persuading. “They thought we were radical environmental wackos!” he recalls. “I got interviewed by the newspaper [The News-Leader] as the first director of HSF, and the reporter said, ‘Why did you come to Staunton? We don’t have any historic buildings.’ He said, ‘It’s not Williamsburg.’” But not all history wears a three-cornered hat, and so HSF launched an education campaign, including weekly columns and quizzes about architectural details in The News-Leader, newsletters and special events. “For example, we promised restaurants that we’d bring 500 people to their door if they did benefits,” says Frazier.
+The city manager was not convinced and was still determined to tear down buildings to make way for new developments, but Frazier and HSF stood strong, promising the city what Frazier calls “a long war,” if they tried to demolish more buildings: “Getting things designated protected you from highway people and anyone coming in to do federal projects, so that helped.” But a city at war with itself cannot survive, and it wasn’t until the city government decided to get on board that Staunton really started seeing results. “Oh, those days are long gone,” says Frazier. “The last 20 years the city has been a partner ... [and] has done a number of public improvements in terms of parking areas, walks, trees, landscaping, historic light fixtures, brick sidewalks, stone curbs and all that.”
+Today, the renovated downtown is filled with thriving businesses like Black Swan Books, an airy store where you can buy paperbacks and hardbacks, old and new, as well as vinyl records, classic and contemporary. There’s the Staunton Antiques Center where you could very literally—and very happily—get lost for hours in its treasure trove of antiques. Art galleries like the Beverley Street Studio School and Sunspots Studios, where you can watch glass-blowers explain their craft while they create objects, welcome visitors, and there’s more food than you could ever eat from the farm-to-table favorite Zynodoa restaurant, where the tasting menu is filled with carefully balanced plates of locally sourced ingredients. Downtown also offers two small movie theaters (the Visulite and the Dixie), a premier performing arts venue in the American Shakespeare Center, some quirky attractions like the Camera Heritage Museum, where David Schwartz has a collection of antique cameras and much more. And all is within walking distance of everything else.
+Two key players at City Hall, itself a renovated Victorian building that sits at the top of Beverley Street, are city planner Sharon Angle and Bill Hamilton, director of the Economic Development Authority. Both have worked for the city for almost three decades. Angle’s enthusiasm for the city is immediately obvious. Her eyes light up when she talks about what’s been accomplished in Staunton; she may be the closest reality has to offer to Leslie Knope, the good-hearted, overachieving city employee played by Amy Poehler on NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation.
+I asked Angle specifically about the walkability of the city, because the second I arrived in Staunton with my wife, we parked the car and left it where it was. “We have what some would call a challenging terrain, because it is not flat,” says Angle. “So Staunton is definitely a walkable city, but it didn’t just happen …. These things took place over a long time.” It began with improvements around Gypsy Hill Park, located close to downtown. “In 1985, we adopted a Sidewalk Plan,” says Angle. “Back then, we didn’t talk about walkability; we talked about pedestrian access [to the park]. So we instituted our sidewalk plan that identified where we needed to put more pedestrian access and new sidewalks. We indicated where they needed to be improved, and we gave a cost. That plan has been updated all along.” The plan was shared with everyone in city government so that, for example, when sewer or water lines were being replaced in locations that either had no sidewalk or had been identified as needing the sidewalk fixed, Angle could ask, “You are going to be tearing up that right of way anyway, so when you put it back, can you put a sidewalk in as part of this project?” Smart city government with a long-term plan and all departments working in tandem may sound like a fantasy, but the evidence is there in Staunton being walked on every day. However, the real test of how far the city and its citizens were willing to go came in 1998.
+“We were trying to find people to invest in our downtown,” says Angle. “And when they came here, they said ‘You have great bones, but when we look at your main street [Beverley Street], we don’t see an investment that you have made in your community.’” So, in Angle’s words, the city “bit the bullet” and committed to spending $1.5 million of city money to both improve infrastructure and deliver some much-needed beautification to four blocks of Beverley Street. The plan was to replace aging sewer and water lines, bury all power lines and install an underground fiber optic loop, as well as improve the streetscape with new streetlights and traffic lights, installing attractive brick sidewalks and crosswalks and granite curbs. Aware of the unpopularity of Boston’s “Big Dig,” which began in 1991, city officials did everything they could think of to pre-empt negative reactions, even making light of the Beverley Street project’s inconvenience by giving it the affectionate label, “Our Big Dig.” A local laundry donated red carpets, so that businesses could make clear their doors were open, even if the sidewalk was in pieces, and prevent people from walking debris into the stores. The city also had Our Big Dig staff on hand to react if any of the Beverley Street businesses had a problem that required immediate attention.
+“We thought it would drive people away from downtown,” says Angle, “but people in Staunton love its history and were fascinated to know what was beneath the streets. So they actually came down to watch what was going on and we kept finding things underground—like pottery.” Angle says the city offered to compensate merchants for some of the downturn in profits caused by the work but, Angle laughs, “They actually made money!”
+The investment paid off, with private money following the city money; $42 million in private investment on 92 historic tax credit projects, for example, contributed to an overall assessed value in city property of $78 million as of January 2013, more than triple the $25 million assessed value in 1990. And the public investment continues. This past April, the city spent just over $200,000 to replace the Sears Hill Bridge, a privately-owned pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks that connected downtown to the Sears Hill neighborhood and Wilson Park. Built between 1904 and 1909, the bridge was in such disrepair that it was condemned in 2010, cutting Sears Hill off from downtown. But funds were raised to lift the entire bridge up by crane, truck it out to a nearby facility, restore it, then return it to its rightful place.
+Like Frazier and Angle, Bill Hamilton has played a key role in steering the city toward its current success. The 62-year-old director of the Economic Development Authority arrived in 1988, following a spell in D.C. as a staffer for Senator Wendell Ford from Kentucky. “I gave the city manager a two-year commitment,” says Hamilton, and thought that would be that. “But every time I get a job offer from somewhere else, I make a list of what I like about Staunton and what I like about the other place, and then I decide to stay.” When the EDA began forming a strategic plan to revitalize the central business district in 1989, it emphasized anchor projects: destinations and activities that would attract people.
+The jewel in the downtown crown is the American Shakespeare Center, which opened in 2001. Its 300-seat Blackfriars Playhouse is the world’s only re-creation of William Shakespeare’s original indoor theater and features professional actors performing plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries 52 weeks a year. “What interested us was its uniqueness,” says Hamilton. “One of the things we worked hard on was not to copy or emulate communities ... The [ASC] was a unique opportunity, and our city was willing to invest in it. And it has paid some very handsome dividends. It’s brought people from all over the world to Staunton who would otherwise not have come.”
+My wife and I attended a Thursday evening performance of Twelfth Night and can attest that the ASC does Shakespeare unlike any other company we’ve seen before or since. The ASC isn’t a place to go and revere The Bard; it’s a place to enjoy a show. Actors perform on a spartan stage featuring minimal props and set dressing and, crucially, the lights stay on for the entire show. We met with ASC co-founder Dr. Ralph Cohen in the empty theater before the performance, and he explained the philosophy of his theater: “There is a relationship between keeping the lights on and the pace of a show,” he explains, which means no long, ponderous line readings. The actors talk and move quickly to keep your attention, and this works so well that the language feels contemporary, even though not a single line of text has been altered. The actors even perform contemporary songs on stage before the show and at the interval, their heads appearing from behind curtains to form a chorus that feels more like watching The Muppet Show than being in English class, while audience members go up on stage to buy beer and wine. It’s Shakespeare as a good night out, with no academic pretension: “We take quite seriously the ‘two hours traffic’ of the stage idea,” says Cohen. “We want people to be able to get home and pay the babysitter by 10 o’clock.”
+As Staunton’s big draw, the ASC also highlights everything the city, local businesses and the community are doing right, as well as how the city fits together. We ate dinner at Zynodoa, and our server, the knowledgeable and gracious Bill Broach, was very conscious of curtain time and making sure we made it. Returning the favor, when Cohen talks about the “dream” of adding a Globe Theatre to go with the Blackfriars, he talks about doing it at the other end of town: “It will force people to walk past the shops, because I love these people, they’ve been so supportive.”
+The city also played its part by getting a federal grant to add a wider sidewalk to accommodate crowds of people entering and leaving the theater, and as Bill Hamilton notes, the ASC was “directly responsible” for the $21.1 million renovation of the Stonewall Jackson Hotel and Conference Center, using both city and private money to restore the luxury hotel to its former glory. This being Staunton, the hotel is just around the corner from the ASC, with the New Street parking garage, designed by Frazier himself as an ingenious “hidden” downtown parking structure, its red brick blending seamlessly with the surrounding architecture, sitting between the two.
+The ASC’s success has also attracted other arts organizations to downtown Staunton, and Bill Hamilton is not surprised. “If we bring creative people like that into downtown, and if they succeed, then others will want to be here as well,” he says, using retired concert violinist Daniel Heifetz as an example, after Heifetz decided to move his Heifetz International Music Institute, a summer program which attracts the world’s most talented young string musicians, from Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, to Staunton. “He could see the effort and the investment we had put into supporting ASC, and that helped him make a decision to relocate here.”
+The city and citizens of Staunton have taken some big risks in the last 30 years, but they’ve stayed the course, stuck to the plan and are now finally reaping the rewards. But no one in Queen City—a nickname Staunton earned in the 1700s when Augusta County, of which Staunton is the county seat, stretched all the way to the Mississippi—is taking the awards and recognition as an indication that the job is done, that downtown Staunton is the finished article. There is always work to do, and there always will be.
+“We will never be finished. And that’s one of the most positive things we can say about Staunton,” says Hamilton.
+“There is no such thing as treading water in community development. You’re either making progress, or you’re falling behind.” Staunton.Va.us
+This article originally appeared in our Dec. 2013 issue.
+.
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+Bill Ruane Quotes
+101 Bill Ruane Quotes
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+[In June 2001.] American industry's 2001 earnings are plunging 20% to 30% depending on how one factors in restructurings. (Definition of restructuring: the CEO says, ‘The dog ate my homework last year, teacher, and it cost my stockholders a fortune.’) It is clear to us that expectations remain too high and shareholders maintain a certain complacency about the safety of their capital.
+Bill Ruane
+[In June 2001.] We are confident that our economy is basically sound and that the current slowdown will end, but unlike the Wall Street strategists on CNBC we haven't the slightest idea when that will occur. We are also confident that we will find some attractive stocks to buy with our substantial cash reserve…
+Bill Ruane
+[In September 2001.] We continue to find it difficult to find stocks priced at attractive levels by our standards but in these rapidly changing times we are sure opportunities will present themselves to the patient. With regard to the word patient we will try to remain the adjective so as not to become the noun.
+Bill Ruane
+[In June 2002.] A quote of Benjamin Graham comes to mind at this time: ‘The market over the short term is like an election and any damn fool can vote, but over the long term it is like a scale and properly weighs the values.’ Momentum tends to carry election results to extremes. The landslide vote in favor of equities from 1990 to 2000, turbo-charged towards the end by false expectations in technology, led to significant overvaluation of most equities. We view the present declines as the invisible mechanics of the underlying ‘scale’ at work, leading the market to a more proper valuation. Many excesses are being wrung out by bankruptcies, revelations of fraud, and even clearly misleading accounting by otherwise decent corporations.
+Bill Ruane
+[In June 2002.] Disenchantment and fear can lead to major outflows in mutual funds from redemptions, causing money managers to sell stocks to meet cash demands as well as perhaps selling additional equities in anticipation of further redemptions. This behavior can best be described by the old saying of a mouse, ‘To hell with the cheese, let me out of the trap.’ We do not pretend to know what the market will do over the next few years. However, we are fairly confident that the earnings of our fine roster of companies will be considerably higher five years from now.
+Bill Ruane
+[In September 2003 on Walmart and recent investment in Walgreen.] The first three letters of the two greatest retailers in the U.S. are W-A-L.
+Bill Ruane
+[In September 2003.] We have no aversion whatsoever to economically cyclical stocks per se. In fact, we own a few of them (as well as stocks of companies that are subject to other cycles). Having said that, many economically sensitive companies tend to have characteristics that we dislike. They often produce undifferentiated commodity-type products and consume large amounts of capital, a combination that leads to lower returns on invested capital and less free cash flow than we typically prefer. They also often come with the potentially heavy baggage of large pension and health care liabilities. As a result, economically sensitive stocks have historically been under-represented in our portfolio.
+Bill Ruane
+[In September 2003.] Many investors continue to ignore options issuance, we consider it a very real corporate expense.
+Bill Ruane
+[In September 2003.] The stock market, in our opinion, is not cheap.
+Bill Ruane
+[In February 2004.] Most of our biggest mistakes over the years have involved the sale of interests in wonderful businesses on account of temporary changes in valuation, rather than permanent changes in intrinsic worth and long-term competitive prospects.
+Bill Ruane
+[In February 2004.] Past lessons in the pitfalls of impatience make us wary of liquidating a position for reasons other than (1) truly extraordinary overvaluation, (2) a discernable decline in intrinsic business value or (3) the emergence of alternative opportunities that we think are simply too good to pass up.
+Bill Ruane
+[In May 2005.] I don’t think you have to make an investment. That’s one of the problems that we have today in the investment field. People think they have to be doing something when the prudent thing might be to not do anything. And there are times when things are ridiculously high, and there are times when things are ridiculously low. And there are times when you have distortions in particular industries. At this particular time, I find in most areas where you can invest a lot of money, the prices simply are unlikely to reward you in a significant way, whether it’s real estate or the bond market or stocks.
+Bill Ruane
+[In May 2005.] I think one of the interesting things about evaluating Berkshire is just considering that you’ve got the smartest investor of all time, as far as I know - Keynes or somebody might give me an argument on that - but you have Warren carrying a portfolio of $105 billion that yields less than 3% after taxes. And here’s a person who historically has averaged a total return of about 21% after taxes. When we tell you Sequoia’s total return is 16%, that’s before taxes. Warren will not make a 21% return in the future. But if you ask me, is he capable and healthy enough, etcetera, to make a return of 10% or 12% over the next ten years - and I think the insurance tables might lead you to think that he could live that long - well, I am making a bet that he will. And then you take the difference between the 3% and the 10%, and you come up with a fairly large number that is potential earning power just sitting there waiting for the right opportunity. It’s not calling the market. It’s just waiting for something that hits you in the gut.
+Bill Ruane
+[In May 2005.] We’ve owned many hundreds of stocks over the life of Sequoia, but we made most of our money in a couple dozen securities that we bought at the right price and stayed with.
+Bill Ruane
+[In May 2005.] There’s nothing like patience.
+Bill Ruane
+[In May 2005.] A couple of years ago, we calculated the ratio of the number of stocks on which we realized gains to the number of stocks on which we realized losses. And the ratio was something like 80:1. One of the things we try very hard to do is to buy a stock only when the company is right, the price is right, and we have real conviction about it. And the nice thing about not doing a lot of things, but having a real conviction when you do is that when it goes down, you can add to it and ultimately make money.
+Bill Ruane
+[In May 2005.] We’ve certainly made mistakes, but using the standards we’ve had over the years, we’ve been fortunate to avoid any major ones.
+Bill Ruane
+[In May 2005.] I am basically an optimist.
+Bill Ruane
+[In May 2005.] In my particular class at the Harvard Business School, we had 645 graduates. And only eight came to Wall Street, which is an indication of some sort. We were a manufacturing-dominant country. And the interest in finance was about zero. We happened to really enjoy it, and that is why we went into the business with low expectations. But I am an optimist.
+Bill Ruane
+[In 2005 on what he was told whilst being interviewed at a Wall Street Investment firm back in 1949 that college graduates were paid $35 a week, whilst Harvard Business School Graduates were paid $37.50.] And there you have the value of a Harvard Business School degree in 1949. Things have changed.
+Bill Ruane
+[In May 2005.] I go back to Warren Buffet, as I do so often. He has two rules of investment: Rule #1, Don’t lose money. Rule #2, Don’t forget Rule #1. We try hard not to forget those two rules.
+Bill Ruane
+Bonus
+[In October 1969 on recommending Bill Ruane.]There is no way to eliminate the possibility of error when judging humans… [but] I consider Bill to be an exceptionally high-probability decision on character and a high-probably one on investment performance.
+Warren Buffett
+[In October 1998 on Bill Ruane.] Ruane just isn’t interested in money. And he’s the most generous guy I know.
+Warren Buffett
+[In August 1984.] We didn’t want to attract hot money. It would have taken us forever to invest the money and we didn’t think it was fair to our existing shareholders.
+Richard Cunniff
+(Co-founder of Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb)
+[In August 1984.] Most stocks are selling for less than they are worth, but they are not cheaper than government bonds of almost any maturity. And that’s our dilemma.
+Robert Goldfarb
+[In August 1984.] Bonds have moved with stocks, so it’s still a hard decision.
+Robert Goldfarb
+[In May 2005.] It’s extremely important in my mind to be and stay humble.
+Robert Goldfarb
+[In April 2008 on eliminating a 15% limit on foreign investments.] In this day and age, it just doesn't make any sense to limit yourself geographically.
+Robert Goldfarb
+[In July 2010.] To understand our culture you need to understand Bill Ruane. Bill Ruane loved the craft of investing. He wasn’t interested in raking in profits by continuously bringing in money from new investors. And it was crucial to Mr. Ruane that the firm be independent and not part of a big mutual-fund company.
+Robert Goldfarb
+[In July 2010 on how his father in 1971 mentioned to Warren Buffett that his son (Robert Goldfarb) was looking for a job on Wall Street.] Mr. Buffett suggested getting in touch with Mr. Ruane. But he cautioned that given Mr. Ruane's attitude toward maximizing profits, ‘I'm not sure Bob is going to make serious money.’
+Robert Goldfarb
+[In January 2012.] We have the advantage of small numbers. We are not in Warren Buffett’s league. He can play so many keys on the piano that we can’t. He can buy whole companies and arbitrage the private market versus the public market.
+Robert Goldfarb
+[In September 2005 on Bill Ruane passing away.] Bill was an unusual capitalist, as he cared deeply about building up the funds entrusted to him by his clients, but very little about compounding his own. Bill looked for perfection in businesses and could wait patiently, sometimes for years, until he found the right stocks at the right prices. But if he had a cool eye for the market, he kept a warm heart for people. He wanted to improve the world around him and, in his energetic way, launched a number of entrepreneurial philanthropies. He cared deeply about education and mental health issues and took personal interest in the people he helped, especially children. He derived satisfaction from reading annual reports, but took true delight reading the improving report cards of youngsters he'd sent to school on scholarships. He could bend your ear on the subject of the capacity of disadvantaged children to learn. Then he'd smile and buy you a beer. He took his work seriously, but not himself. Yeats wrote of the choice between perfection of the work or of the life. Bill was the rare man who never had to make that choice. He was exuberant, an optimist, and happy in the way that only a truly good man can be. He built a firm that was more like a second family, which grew over the years with new members astonished at their good fortune to have arrived in such a comfortable home. He respected every employee, rewarded hard work handsomely and endeavored always to strengthen the fabric of the firm. He was without guile, with no trace of meanness in him. He insisted there be nothing mean in the way the firm did business. The slogan ‘First Class Business in a First Class Way’ may be borrowed, but Bill proved that possession is nine-tenths of the law. He leaves us a precious legacy, which we treasure: a commitment to do right by clients, by employees, and by our own best selves.
+Richard T Cunniff, Robert D Goldfarb and David M Poppe
+(Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb)
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+Living in a Changing World
+Let me begin with 2 striking contrasts:
+Today, 43 percent of Nigeria’s population is under 16. Though Nigeria has high youth unemployment today, some argue that in the 21st century it will be youth, not oil that becomes Nigeria’s most precious resource.
+Contrast that with China – a country poised to go through a wrenching demographic change with the doubling of the ratio of old to young people over the next 20 years – with the loss of some 200 million workers over the next 30.
+· These forecasts highlight some key fundamental transformations and challenges facing the globe over the next decade and beyond.
+· We are in an era of transition. Global power is shifting from west to east, from north to south, but even within the south there is no one size fits all. And today’s weaknesses – like the youth bulge – may turn out to be tomorrow’s strength.
+· There are other key changes: the world’s population is increasing, is moving to cities, is becoming more connected and better armed with technology. But that also means increasing demand for natural resources – already China is the world’s biggest consumer of minerals such as copper, aluminium, and nickel - and it means coming to grips with the harsh realities of a changing climate.
+Behind the Wheel of Global Growth
+· So what lies behind changing patterns of global growth? As engines, Europe and the United States have stalled. The drivers of global growth are likely to be led by a handful of economies, most from the developing world.
+· And in contrast to the current unequal distribution – where high income countries hold more than two thirds of the global stock of capital and wealth – the world in 2030 will likely see global capital stocks about equally distributed between high income countries and countries that are now developing ones.
+Just consider a few projections:
+· By 2025, the combined real output of six major emerging economies – Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and Korea – is expected to match that of the Euro Area, the largest economic area of the world today.
+· By 2025, economies such as Indonesia and Brazil will likely be as important economically as Japan and the United Kingdom.
+What are the implications of these changes?
+· Today, people are living longer, with more access to education and health care, less chronic disease, and lower infant and maternal mortality. But there has also been another shift: - call it a residual of two successive financial and economic crises in the United States and Europe; or call it another illustration of history's relentless rise and fall of empires - but the fact remains that after centuries of western and northern dominance, developing and emerging economies are no longer looking at Europe and North America for their economic models. Countries are looking to Mexico and Brazil for lessons on innovative poverty reduction programs – conditional cash transfers – which put money into the pockets of the poor; to India on how to build an IT outsourcing industry; and to Chinese examples of how to reach development scale.
+· Many developing countries have designed and implemented solutions that have no precedents in the developed world – like the microfinance models in Bangladesh and Indonesia and some of the rapid bus transit systems in Colombia and Brazil, or the use of mobile technologies for all kinds of services in Africa and elsewhere.
+· The past four decades has been marked by the outsourcing of manufacturing tasks from industrial countries to the developing world, especially East Asia. The same pattern is now obvious for services. In fact, services are the fastest growing component of world trade. Developing countries are now exporting not only traditional services, such as transportation and tourism, but also modern and skill-intensive services such as financial intermediation, computer and information services, legal and technical support and other business services.
+· And the shift in economic gravity, influence and exemplars is likely to bring with it a shift in global decision making and changes in the governance of world bodies, including the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO.
+Let me focus on four key changes.
+I. First, A Rising Middle Class
+· Continued rapid growth in emerging markets will give rise to an unprecedented expansion of the global middle class – by one estimate up from about 1.8 billion in 2009 to about five billion in 2030.
+· By some estimates, by 2030, 8 out of 10 of the world’s middle class people are expected to be living in the South, accounting for 70 percent of total consumption expenditure. A middle class that can worry much less about basic food and housing and more about their rights and voices as citizens.
+· And for the first time in decades, Africa is no exception to these trends—Africa is on the rise going through unprecedented growth. Sub-Saharan Africa has been growing at nearly 6 percent on average over the last 8 years – partly due to commodity prices.
+· If Africa can deal with its three main challenges: key infrastructure constraints, conflict, and fiscal transparency, there is the opportunity of an even deeper transformation than we have seen in the past decade.
+· A new World Bank Group report finds that of the 50 economies making the most improvement in business regulation for domestic firms since 2005, 17 are in Sub-Saharan Africa. The implications of this for growth and business are big.
+What does this rapid expansion of the global middle class mean in practical terms?
+· It will trigger an explosion in demand for housing, consumer durables, and cars. Take India. It was just 24 years ago that the first car was manufactured in Mumbai. In the 1990s job opportunities in the car, IT and other industries fuelled the wealth and purchasing power of the middle class. Today, India’s car market is poised to become the third largest automobile market next only to the United States and China.
+· And India isn’t alone. It’s estimated that in just one year – 2010 - the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – added about 14 million cars to their circulation – a figure that implies about 46 million people were added to the middle class – roughly the population of Spain.
+· More cars means more congestion and pollution highlighting an even greater need for alternative mass transport systems like the Bus Rapid Transit Systems (BRTs). From the world’s first BRT put in place in Curitiba in the 70s, the concept has spread throughout the Latin America region.
+· And we’ll see greater demand for education and millions more tertiary educated workers joining the global workforce. The signs are already evident. India has close to 20 million students in higher education, nearly as many as the United States. Both countries are outpaced by China, with 30 million post-secondary students. It’s predicted the number of Chinese college graduates could swell by 200 million over the next two decades – more than the entire labor force of the United States.
+· A rising global middle class will ratchet up demand for energy, natural resources, food, and water, with climate effects exacerbating food and water shortages in some areas. Demands will change. It’s already evident in East Asia on the food front. The importance of rice is on the decline in all countries, while demand for meats, fish, poultry, fruits and vegetables and processed foods is on the rise.
+· If this rising middle class consumes the same overall as rich countries do today, by the middle of this century we will need two worlds instead of one. Managing this rising demand while allowing developing countries to grow is, in my view, the defining challenge of our time.
+· Climate change will only serve to amplify existing resource stresses. On current trajectories, half of the global population will be living in water scarce countries by the end of the century and 35 percent of Sub-Sahara’s cropland will become unsuitable for cultivation, with severe impacts on food security. The world’s farmers will need to produce 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed a population expected to pass nine billion people.
+· And a rising middle class is also poised to trigger political changes in emerging economies. As these countries become more participatory and the middle class gets a stronger voice, the challenge is to maintain the focus on inclusive, pro poor and climate- smart growth.
+II. Second, Galloping Urbanization
+· We all know cities have been long been a magnet, but the numbers today are growing exponentially. Today’s urban population of about 3.6 billion people is projected to reach 5 billion by 2030. The world will then be two-thirds urban, with 90 percent of this growth in the cities of South Asia and Africa.The built up area used by cities will double from 2000 to 2030. At the same time, urban densities are decreasing which will see the cost of delivering infrastructure services rise and make housing costs higher and less affordable. The move to urbanization is of course not unique to the developing world. Virtually no country has moved up the ladder to high income status without urbanising.
+· Urbanization matters for people wanting a path out of poverty. For every ten people lifted out of poverty in the East Asia and Pacific region, two were helped simply because of the urbanization process. Even in Sub-Saharan Africa, half of the drop in poverty originated in urban areas and through the urbanization process.
+The Megacities
+· But urbanization today is much more about the growth of megacities - where the sheer number of residents can easily be larger than those of many countries. In 1970, the world only had two megacities – Tokyo and New York. In 2011, there were 23 – accounting for 9.9 percent of the world urban population. Basically the number of people living in megacities had multiplied almost ten times.
+· By 2025, the number of megacities is expected to increase to 37. Asia will have gained another nine, Latin America two, and Africa, Europe and Northern America one each. And it will be people living in megacities in the developing world who’ll feel those cities swell. Some estimate that in cities, one billion people will enter the global “consuming class” by 2025, with enough income to become significant consumers of goods and services – injecting around $20 trillion a year in extra spending into the world economy.
+The Urban Face of Poverty
+· But the growth of cities and megacities has also brought an urban face to poverty. There are now some one billion people living in urban slums in developing countries. And their numbers are projected to grow by nearly 500 million between now and 2020. Slums are growing the fastest in Sub-Saharan Africa, south-east and western Asia.
+· And its women and children who bear the brunt of improper sanitation and poor health care in slums. Lack of adequate sanitation can affect a teenage girl’s schooling. In Kenya’s urban slums girls in grade 4 to 8 who’ve reached puberty miss – on average – six learning weeks a year.
+III. Third, The Mobile Revolution
+· Today more people have access to a mobile phone than a toilet. With some six billion mobile phone subscriptions in use worldwide, three quarters of the world’s inhabitants now have access to a mobile. The developing world is now more mobile than the developed. Innovations that began in Africa – like dual SIM card mobile phones or using mobiles for remittance payments – are now spreading across the continent and beyond.
+· ICT’s directly contribute around 7 percent of Africa’s GDP, which is higher than the global average. While that’s impressive, it’s also transforming the lives of ordinary Africans with mobile phones used for financial services in Kenya, agricultural market information services in Ghana, electronic filing of taxes in South Africa or sensor based irrigation systems in Egypt revolutionizing traditional practices. New tools are helping Africans face challenges like climate change or HIV/AIDS and the wider use of ICT in government is bringing more openness and transparency. We’ve already seen mobile money has transformed the Kenyan economy, where mobile-facilitated payments now equate to a fifth of the country’s gross domestic product.
+· And with improvements in fibre optic connectivity and open platforms, Africa’s now being touted as being on the verge of becoming a major beneficiary of massive open online course – leapfrogging into digital education.
+· Some 68,000 kilometres of submarine cable and over 615,000 kilometres of national backbone networks have been laid in the past few years. The internet bandwidth available to Africa’s one billion citizens grew 20-fold between 2008 and 2012. These electronic highways will provide the trading routes of the future.
+IV. Fourth: Women, the Next Emerging Market.
+· Today women are the next emerging market. The financial power of women is expanding at a faster rate than at any other time in history, with much of this growth in emerging markets.
+· Global consumer spending by women is projected at $28 trillion in 2014, up from $20 trillion in 2009.
+· And the growth of women-owned businesses is one of the most profound changes in the business world today.
+· But that potential is still grossly under-supported.
+· On average only five to ten percent of women owned businesses in the developing world have access to commercial bank loans. And women owned businesses account for only 3 percent of venture capital investments globally.
+· And yet we know that under-investing in women not only limits economic and social development, it puts a brake on poverty reduction. Seeds and fertilizer in the hands of a woman can boost crops. Cash in the hands of a woman can increase twentyfold the chance of her child’s survival. And a business in the hands of a woman can thrive. In the USA today women owned firms are growing at twice the rate of all other firms, contributing nearly $3 trillion to the US economy and directly responsible for 23 million jobs. we also know that Today, worldwide fewer than half of women have jobs, compared to almost four-fifths of men and yet interviews with women in 93 communities across 20 countries show that women aspire to work for pay.
+· So why is there this vast untapped economic and productive potential? Worldwide, education levels of women have increased. It is barriers like legislation, cultural restrictions, informal work, and limited access to finance which are holding women back. Our Report on Women Business and the Law surveyed 141 economies to look at those barriers to gender equality. In 102 out of those 141 economies, there is at least one legal difference that can hinder women’s economic opportunities. That’s a pretty large indictment, but it also means that there is potential for a big shift in this area.
+What does all this mean for the future?
+· Having lived through two financial crises, we should be modest about our ability to predict the future. Perhaps the one certainty is that we will all be living amid greater volatility. The course of a lifetime will be more variable, job security or consistency will be less reliable, the divide between home and work will be more fluid.
+· In developing countries and emerging markets, people will have more knowledge of what their government is spending on public services. They may be consulted more about local municipal budget priorities and where services should be located. They may, report on corruption and bribery, they may be better able to hold governments to account for service delivery, knowing whether teachers or textbooks arrive at school. If they are women they may have greater control over their household expenses which will mean more investment in their children’s health and welfare. For the first time they may work for pay, have access to a loan to join the formal economy, or grow a small business.
+· Or they may not.
+For let's not forget some of the clear challenges ahead:
+· The challenge of jobs: Unless employment conditions change dramatically in parlous youth-bulge states such as Nigeria, Pakistan, and Yemen, these countries will remain ripe for continued instability and state failure. More than 620 million young people worldwide are neither working nor studying. Just to keep employment rates constant, the worldwide number of jobs will have to increase by around 600 million over a 15-year period, mainly in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
+· The challenge of inequality - which can lead to increased instability and societal tension. At this year’s World Economic Forum, rising inequality was cited as one of the top five global risks. We know that over a billion people worldwide still live on less than $1.25 a day, and income gaps are in many cases growing.
+· The challenge of infrastructure – Just consider one aspect, energy. Over 1.3 billion people today have no access to electricity and to make the leap to universal access to modern energy services by 2030, new capital investments of about $48 billion will be needed every year. That’s in addition to worldwide annual investments of about $450 billion just to sustain energy services at current levels.
+· The challenge of climate change: The world is barreling down a path to heat up by 4 degrees by the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change. That means extreme heat waves, declining global food stocks and sea-level rises affecting hundreds of millions of people. All regions of the world would suffer – some more than others – but it will be the poor who suffer most. And rapid urbanization already means much greater damage and costs in the wake of natural disasters.
+· The challenge of managing the destabilizing effects of technology. Cyber security – how can we improve security without compromising on openness, transparency and accountability, so harnessing technology in a socially responsible way?
+Where can we look for solutions to address these challenges?
+· Some solutions can seem relatively simple – just think of Mexico which distributed almost 23 million energy saving light bulbs for free – with a bit of help from the World Bank. Or solar panels which are now delivering power to 70 percent of Mongolia’s herders.
+· For some challenges we know what’s needed – educating girls to adulthood is smart economics because of its value to families and development. Will more be able to done to use technology to speed education for girls? Or to give women access to property rights through simpler land tenure systems?
+· Innovation is vital. It’s an essential element of economic growth – for every country. The evidence shows – on average worldwide – half a country’s long term growth is due to innovation and technology enhancements.
+· We are expecting to see advances like a growth in biotechnology pharmaceuticals, prompted by an ageing population….in innovations in energy management advances driven by the need to reduce carbon usage and reliance on fossil fuels; in desalination programs, and the development of disease resistant crops.
+· So there couldn’t be a clearer – or more urgent a case- for more innovation and collaboration to help meet present and future challenges.
+· It’s time to think outside the box.
+· What will Intel do to help meet the challenges over the next decade and also capitalize on opportunities in a rapidly changing world? A world characterized by a young and growing middle class, living increasingly in cities, connected, tech savvy, climate-conscious, and aspiring to a quality of life similar to our own?
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+Keeping Old Games Intact
+Yahtzee calls for a game archive to keep them playable after technology has moved on.
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+Perhaps we can ask CD Projekt to make a Good Old Games for consoles? I've only bought one or two games off that site but I'm still astounded by how amazing it is.
+People still use their old consoles though, the only time I ever go to Gamestop is to see what's in the PS2 bargain bin. Although the majority of the games people trade in are terrible, for every 10 Fifa 2004s, there's one Sly Raccoon.
+To preserve the medium you should trade in games after you're finished and take good care of your consoles, allowing old farts like me to relive them in all their glory. Ape Escape needs love too you know.
+It seems to me that every console maker should be willing to put together an emulator for all their consoles that are more than 1 generation old. I know that every current gen console has the computing power necessary to emulate a PSone or Sega Saturn.
+It seems like it would be a win-win because for minimal effort you could then re-release every game ever made in their orignal format (if they were CDs) or in digital format and they would instantly be playable on modern consoles.
+I'm very thankful for GOG.com because they're been able to keep old PC games coming out at exceptionally low prices. Now if only the console makers could get together to support something similar on their end.
+I know what you mean about backwards compatibility. I had to buy a PS2 this year for just one game, and will probably go for months before buying another one.
+I'm sure there are already at least a dozen sites that run '80s games in a web browser like this.
+And this is what the PC is best for. Almost infinite backwards compatibility.
+This is why I love Good Old Games. They update the games to run on current operating systems, then sell them for cheap. Nothing else. Oh, and they pile in lots of extras, and no DRM. That's awesome as well.
+I love GoG and CD Projekt Red. Only ones that really seem to care about their games and their customers.
+If only there was a similar group for console games...
+The Smithsonian has begun this process, but yes, a museum of interactive media is going to be needed soon.
+Babitz:And this is what the PC is best for. Almost infinite backwards compatibility.
+Yeah, but only if you're willing to put in some blood, sweat and tears just to get old games to run properly on newer operating systems. It was a royal pain in the ass for me to get classics like Tie Fighter and Daggerfall to run properly on my current computer. Fortunately services and programs like GoG and DOSBox are helping to alleviate some of these issues.
+Speaking as a history enthusiast, I am often disappointed at the general apathy towards archiving old games. I agree wholeheartedly with Yahtzee's disgust at how console manufacturers really dropped the ball with backwards compatibility. Some of my favorite last-gen games simply won't start at all, and others have technical hiccups when I play them on current machines.
+As for enhanced re-releases, it all depends on how it's handled. Generally I don't mind visual overhauls, but changing the gameplay or "feel" is a no-no. For example, I despised the later versions of X-Wing and Tie Fighter because they ditched the dynamic and original iMUSE soundtrack for a lazy Redbook conversion of music from the Star Wars movies..
+I had this idea too. How many games will be lost to history if there is no place to preserve them? The big names will likely carry on, but what about the brilliant, but flawed games that flew under the radar?
+That's partly why I never "upgraded" from the original model DS- the newer ones removed backward compatability with GBA games (which includes some of my favorites).What's more is that no one seems to understand my frustration- when I tell people I'm mad that it's getting harder to play my GBAGs (my original DS just broke) they look at me all askance and ask why I even bother playing old games.
+Ask and ye shall receive. It's a start at any rate.
+Gaming definitely has a weird relationship with its history. Good Old Games is at the forefront of preserving old games and making them playable on modern machines, but they're all alone. Publishers keep cranking up the DRM, require us to be online to play, require constant authentication to use our downloaded games and DLC... it's honestly getting worse and worse, and the games are becoming more and more temporary and ephemeral. Which is ironic, because the wii virtual console, playstation network, and x-box live have all given a second life to previously released games, allowing for new and legitimate downloading.....
+Yeah, I have to agree with your point. Even the greatest games will go forgotten if they aren't made available to new generations of gamers. But show these games as they were, not with digital Botox injections and tummy tucks.
+sniddy:
+Babitz:And this is what the PC is best for. Almost infinite backwards compatibility.....
+sniddy:
+For every old game I've ever wanted to play on 7 or XP, I just had to google a bit. Also, there's tons of emulators out there for different systems. I believe there are some games that are tricky or even impossible to run for the time being, but we can really run a lot of stuff. A lot more than our console brethren. Of course Sony doesn't want ps3 to have backwards compatibility when they can just rerelease a game and earn more money.
+I agree, and this is why I love the sites like Good Old Games, and DotEmu. And don't ever mention CG'ing Shia LaBeuf into Raiders, George Lucas might see it and think it's a good idea. Remember Star War Episode 6 the Special Edition?
+Speaking of keeping the old things alive, the main reason why I'm not getting a Wii U is because it fails to completely reflect upon the Wii. It is one of the reasons why I got a Wii: backwards compatibility to the Gamecube.
+This is exactly why 3D/HD Remastering speaks to the lowest form. It's not out of the company's "good will." Look at Square constantly rereleasing FF4 knock-offs while refusing to touch the rest. I wouldn't mind having a newer version of FF6 that didn't have the load time bugs that the PS collection had. Other features like eliminating random battles, fully fledged voice acting and CD quality audio would be nice. It won't happen though, because we've seen how far Square employees are lodged up their *****.
+I disagree that changing voice acting would be a problem. I know two games that have definitely improved because of the fix: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Symphony of the Night. Not every choice was pitch perfect (Alucard was such a wasted opportunity), but those actors all have massive experience and know how to provide quality performances day in and day out. It's a delicate balance between keeping the old-school mentality, fixing problems, and finding out how to avoid the companies from ****** us for extra money.
+Yahtzee Croshaw:Yahtzee calls for a game archive to keep them playable after technology has moved on.
+Just for you Yahtzee.
+Heres a question. In 70 years do all the copyrights expire and all these games become free game?
+One of the best things Yahtzee talked about is context. Let me explain why.
+I'm an avid reader, and have read most of what would be the pillars of modern sci fi and fantasy. This includes the mythologies they evolved from (Norse, German and English mostly). I'm also a huge Asimov fan. Thing is by modern standards his works are often simplistic, or lacking in areas like character development, and plotting. Does this make his writings less worthwhile?
+Thing is that you have to read in context of his day, which is largely different than ours. What everyone takes for granted now he pioneered. He distiller ideas down to their core, and explored the possibilities they offered. Snow Crash and Enders Game might do the same with better characters and plotting, but Asimovs traces are there. To really appreciate his works this context is essential. Taken out of context and you would wonder what the fuss was about.
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+But isn't there a profit to be made, though? I mean, if we look and think about it, having backwards compatibility is a great way to ensure fidelity over generations. I know it was one of the factors weighing on my mind when moving from PS1 to PS2. And they could still make money off the old games, something which at least Sony is doing with selling some PSOne classics on the PSN. The fact that my PSN has all Final Fantasies (V to IX), Medievil, Syndicate wars, Vagrant Story, Oddworld and quite a few others for prices between 4.99€ and 9.99€ (for the Final fantasy games). Which really makes it all the more perplexing that they're not adopting backwards compatibility with the PS2 and/or selling the games in PSN. If I can play PSOne, why not PS2?
+The PC community has embued almost all of gamings history with almost magical powers to run on almost any modern PC. From the abononware havens, to the murky waters to emulation and ROMs there is varying degree of effort required but you can get almost anything to run in some form or another.
+This is why I own and maintain as many old consoles and games as I can.
+Fuck legality, this is why emulation needs to be legalized. Anything other than the current generation of consoles is going to swiftly disappear to the mists of time, and we've gotten pretty damn good at emulation the really old stuff. Anything from the SNES/Genesis era and earlier is nearly perfect.
+I seriously agree to everything in that article. Since I found out about emulators I enjoyed a lot of the old SNES, Genesis, Arcade games that I played or missed out on. I wouldn't want them to be remastered because they'll just up the graphics which really didn't need help and try to remix and or "modernize" the soundtrack which would alienate the original fanbase. This is why I respect the PC as the true king of gaming. Some might say its elitist but hell when you can play games from the from the 80's all the way up to modern games on one platform. That makes any console look like udder shit right there easy and we use your controllers too.
+While I agree with your points in the article, part of your opinion regarding videogames as special cases (unlike books, music and movies) because of the way technology evolves is not entirely true. After all, I might get into trouble trying to play my betamax version of Star Wars, my HD-DVD version of Lord of the Rings or my vinyl record copy of Revolver.
+Personally, I love finding emulators for old consoles and playing old games. My favorite is Tales of Phantasia on the ZSNES Emulator.
+This whole column almost reads like the "About Us" section
+CGing Shia Laboeuf into Raiders of the Lost Ark.
+Don't say that aloud Yahtzee. Need I remind you what George Lucas is like?
+gtu
+You can try to emulate them on your PC. If you have a ps2 already, it's perfectly legal.
+I tried that my PC cannot handle PS2 emulation.
+Well history is one thing, but playability is completely another.
+I'll watch the original Star Wars trilogy someday basically for historical reasons, but to watch the movies casually, I'll watch the remastered versions, just because they look better.
+Same for games. I want to check out some old games, such as RPGs, but I really don't want to read the dialog. So if someone re-releases them with voice acting, they'll be much more tempting.
+I have the original American McGee's Alice on CD for my nostalgic reasons, but to actually play it, I'll play the re-released version, because it's playable on the gamepad.
+So, I'm absolutely all for preserving the history intact, but to make the old art enjoyable is another thing.
+After all, you can read Homer's Odyssey in a completely different form than he has written it.
+bombadilillo:Heres a question. In 70 years do all the copyrights expire and all these games become free game?
+Nope. Because then all the movie companies will have extended copyright protection by another century or so, and probably eliminating the concepts of Fair Use and Public Domain from copyright law just to be on the safe side, as well as convincing the government to monitor everything anyone does on a computer remotely in order to catch all "illegal" activity.
+I'm aware of at least one such software preservation project: - it started with "classic" Amiga games but these days I think they do quite a bit more than that. HTH
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+Death Proof (2007) - 100% Death Proof - Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) gives Pam (Rose McGowan) a ride in his Death Proof car. The catch is, the car is only 'death proof' if your sitting in the driver's seat.
+Big Trouble in Little China (1986) - Trailer #1 - An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.
+Touchback (2011) - What If It Wasn't A Dream? - Scott Murphy (Brian Presley) and Coach Hand (Kurt Russell) have a discussion about being young again.
+Touchback (2011) - You're Afraid You Might Get Hurt? - Scott Murphy (Brian Presley) explains to his Coach (Kurt Russell) why he can’t play.
+Touchback (2011) - Red Raiders On Three - Coach Hand’s (Kurt Russell) team gets beaten badly by the Red Raiders.
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+Overboard (1987) - Trailer #1 - Directed by Garry Marshall and starring Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Mike Hagerty, Roddy McDowall, Jared Rushton. A kind of African Queen gone berserk, “Overboard” chronicles the misadventures of a bitchy society queen (Goldi Hawn) who lives on a luxury yacht with her class-conscious husband (Edward Herrmann) and put-upon butler (Roddy McDowall). When the yacht docks for “repairs” (that is, for more closet space), Hawn refuses to pay the local carpenter (Kurt Russel) because he used oak instead of cedar for the closets. The argument results in Hawn pushing Russel overboard. Hawn falls overboard herself and is rescued by a garbage scow. However, she remembers nothing of her pampered past. Through a series of high-energy, high-wit escapades the two protagonists find each other, the kids turn into lollipops and all is well that ends well.
+Stargate (1994) - Trailer #1 - Directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Kurt Russell, James Spader, Alexis Cruz, Leon Rippy, John Diehl. Two very different men join forces to unravel the mystery of the “Stargate,” an ancient human transmitter discovered in the Egyptian desert. Once activated, it enables scientists and the military to travel light years from earth to a strange and alien world.)...
+Silkwood (1983) - Trailer #1 - Directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig Nelson, Fred Ward. The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant..
+Backdraft (1991) - Trailer #1 - Directed by Ron Howard and starring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, and Jennifer Jason Le_15<<
+Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) - You Came Home! - Ben (Kurt Russell) surprises Cale (Dakota Fanning) by making her the proud owner of Soñador.
+Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) - A Great Champion - Soñador wins The Breeders’ Cup Championship.
+Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) - The Breeders' Cup - Cale (Dakota Fanning) announces that she wants Soñador to race in The Breeders’ Cup World Championships.
+Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) - She Was Our Horse - Ben (Kurt Russell) explains to Cale (Dakota Fanning) the harsh reality of horse racing.
+Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) - You Just Sold Soñador - Soñador wins her first race after the accident and gets claimed, much to the chagrin of Cale (Dakota Fanning).
+Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) - We're Going to Run Away - When Soñador gets startled and runs away with Cale (Dakota Fanning) on her back, Ben (Kurt Russell) chases after them in his truck.
+The Thing (1982) - Trailer #1 - Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills..
+Tombstone (1993) - Trailer #1 - A successful lawman’s plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.
+Overboard (1987) - Haughty Joanna - Joanna (Goldie Hawn) prances around in a thong bathing suit; Joanna and Dean (Kurt Russell) get on each other’s nerves.
+The Mean Season (1985) - A Tape for Malcolm - Investigators find a tape left for Malcolm (Kurt Russell) at the serial killer’s apartment announcing that his girlfriend has been murdered.
+The Thing (1982) - Blowing the Base - Attacked by a giant mutation of the Thing, Macready (Kurt Russell) blows it up, and a large part of the base, with dynamite.
+The Thing (1982) - Tied to This Couch - MacReady (Kurt Russell) administers the blood test on Childs (Keith David) and Garry (Donald Moffat). Both are found to be not infected and demand to be untied from the couch.
+The Thing (1982) - Human Mutant - Bennings (Peter Maloney) is taken over by the Thing, but the process of imitation is incomplete. He stumbles out into the snow, with claws as hands, before he is immolated by MacReady (Kurt Russell)..
+Breakdown (1997) - Truck to the Face - Jeff (Kurt Russell) finally turns the tables on Earl (J.T. Walsh). Amy (Kathleen Quinlan) finishes him off.
+Big Trouble in Little China (1986) - Battle Royale - Jack (Kurt Russell), Wang (Dennis Dun) and Egg Shan (Victor Wong) have an epic battle with Lo Pan (James Hong) and his minions.
+Big Trouble in Little China (1986) - Visiting the Brothel - Jack (Kurt Russell) goes in disguise to a Chinese brothel to rescue Miao Yin (Suzee Pai), but meets Lightning (James Pax).
+Big Trouble in Little China (1986) - The Three Storms - While Jack (Kurt Russell) and Wang (Dennis Dun) are caught in a gang war, three sorcerers and their leader arrive.
+Big Trouble in Little China (1986) - Rescuing Gracie - Wang (Dennis Dun) kills Rain (Peter Kwong) while Jack (Kurt Russell) rescues Gracie (Kim Cattrall).
+Vanilla Sky (2001) - A Real Life - David (Tom Cruise) faces his last fear and chooses to live.
+Silkwood (1983) - Fight Later - Despite Drew’s (Kurt Russell) protests, Karen (Meryl Streep) heads to the plant to retrieve something she needs.
+Silkwood (1983) - The Biggest Bitch God Ever Made - Drew (Kurt Russell) talks about his infatuation for Karen (Meryl Streep) as the two share an intimate moment.
+Dark Blue (2002) - Things Get Ugly - Arthur (Ving Rhames) gives his forecast to Eldon (Kurt Russell) as the city burns.
+Dark Blue (2002) - Built With Bullets - Eldon (Kurt Russell) goes on the defensive when Bobby (Scott Speedman) starts to question their mission.
+Dark Blue (2002) - The Setup - Eldon (Kurt Russell) figures out that Jack (Brendan Gleeson) is setting him up.
+Dark Blue (2002) - Motivational Speeches - Arthur (Ving Rhames) publicly declares his mission, while Eldon (Kurt Russell) motivates a task force.
+Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004) - Kurt Russell Interview - Jiminy (Martin Short) interviews Kurt Russell.
+The Mean Season (1985) - Jumping the Bridge - Malcolm (Kurt Russell) races to the school to try and catch the killer before he kidnaps his girlfriend.
+The Mean Season (1985) - The Killer Calls - Malcolm (Kurt Russell) gets an unexpected call from the killer.
+Escape from New York (1981) - You Gonna Kill Me Now, Snake? - Hauk (Lee Van Cleef) offers Snake (Kurt Russell) another job, only to get a reply of “the name’s Plissken.”) - I Heard You Were Dead - The Duke (Isaac Hayes) captures Snake (Kurt Russell) while trying to rescue the President (Donald Pleasence).
+Escape from New York (1981) - Don't Call Me, Harold - A bitter Snake (Kurt Russell) reacquaints himself with an old friend Brain (Harry Dean Stanton), and demands to know where the President is.
+Escape from New York (1981) - Chock Full O' Nuts - While on his search for the President, Snake (Kurt Russell) meets a Girl in Chock Full O’Nuts (Season Hubley), before she’s grabbed through the floor by hooligans.
+Stargate (1994) - Mistaken for Gods - When the “natives” see Jackson’s (James Spader) pendant, he and the others are mistaken for gods.
+Stargate (1994) - Activation of the Stargate - Jackson (James Spader) figures out the seventh symbol and the Stargate is activated, opening a wormhole.
+Stargate (1994) - Stepping Through the Stargate - O’Neil (Kurt Russell), Jackson (James Spader) and the rest of the team step through the Stargate and travel through a wormhole.
+Stargate (1994) - I Wouldn't Feed That Thing - Jackson (James Spader) has a wild ride after meeting a “domesticated” alien creature.
+Stargate (1994) - Destroying Ra - The soldiers help the people overthrow the Horus guards while Jackson (James Spader) and O’Neil (Kurt Russell) try to disarm the bomb.
+Stargate (1994) - Taken Before Ra - When Jackson (James Spader) and O’Neil (Kurt Russell) are taken to see Ra (Jaye Davidson), O’Neil’s secret intentions are revealed.
+Overboard (1987) - Was I Always This Miserable? - Dean (Kurt Russell) fools an unsatisfied Annie (Goldie Hawn) with doctored photos of their life together before the accident.
+Overboard (1987) - The Washing Machine - Dean (Kurt Russell) and the kids surprise Annie (Goldie Hawn) with a washing machine.
+Overboard (1987) - Annie Is Catatonic - Dean (Kurt Russell) throws a catatonic Annie (Goldie Hawn) into a bucket of cold water, but she still insists that she doesn’t belong in this life.
+Backdraft (1991) - You Go, We Go - Stephen (Kurt Russell) has a dramatic face off with Axe (Scott Glenn) amidst the fire as Brian (William Baldwin) watches.
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+Red Wings check all boxes in feel-good win
+DETROIT – From offense to defense, from goaltending to special teams, the Detroit Red Wings checked every box Saturday in what was arguably their most complete performance this season. “This was a big win, especially at home, after getting shut out last game (3-0 vs. Winnipeg on Thursday),” Tyler Bertuzzi said. Obviously, Alex (Nedeljkovic), he’s played good hockey lately and getting the shutout you feel really good. It was good to get rewarded.”The Red Wings outshot Buffalo 22-6 in the first period, getting power-play goals from Bertuzzi and Robby Fabbri. It kind of took the life out of them.”More: Red Wings end four-game slidemlive.com
+Red Wings stop skid with complete effort vs. Sabres
+DETROIT – The skidding Detroit Red Wings got well again in several areas Saturday. The Red Wings (17-17-5) stopped a four-game losing streak (0-2-2) with one of their most complete games of the season. The Red Wings scored twice on the power play for the only the second time this season. The Red Wings needed a fast start after the way they have been struggling for offense, and they got it in the first period, one of their best periods in some time. The Sabres had ample opportunities to trim the Red Wings’ lead in the second period with three power plays in the first 10:01.mlive.com
+Lucas Raymond in goal-scoring funk but Red Wings not concerned. “I think he’s been a consistently good player defensively. I think he’s a guy who goes out and does the right things to win a shift. He’s on the ice practicing those things and just being a good pro.”More: Red Wings must find ways to scoremlive.com
+Red Wings’ Dylan Larkin: We have to find ways to score
+DETROIT – Dylan Larkin’s bounce-back season, a healthy Tyler Bertuzzi, the additions of rookies Lucas Raymond and Moritz Seider have helped boost the Detroit Red Wings’ offense. The Red Wings were shut out an NHL-high fifth time in 38 games this season, losing 3-0 to the Winnipeg Jets behind Connor Hellebuyck’s 33-save performance at Little Caesars Arena. We have to find ways to score.”The Red Wings (16-17-4) are winless in four (0-2-2) heading into a pair of games against Buffalo, Saturday at home and Monday on the road. “I thought there was times that the energy was there,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. Hellebuyck played good, but we have to find a way to score.”More: Dylan Larkin earns second All-Star Game selectionmlive.com
+Red Wings’ Filip Zadina should feel urgency after being scratched
+The Detroit Red Wings envisioned Filip Zadina playing on the top line with Dylan Larkin and Tyler Bertuzzi in training camp before it quickly became apparent rookie Lucas Raymond was more effective there. Zadina has gone from first line to second line to third line to healthy scratch in a matter of months, not the trajectory the Red Wings envisioned their No. Whenever Zadina is back, he will feel more urgency to produce, knowing his spot in the lineup isn’t guaranteed. The Red Wings selected Zadina sixth overall, one spot before Vancouver took Michigan defenseman Quinn Hughes, who has quickly become a star. He’s just got to stay with it.”More: Several Red Wings stepped up in key win before road tripmlive.com
+5 areas of focus for Red Wings coming out of extended break
+All teams had a longer-than-planned break before and after Christmas due to COVID-19, but it was especially lengthy for the Detroit Red Wings. It will be the Red Wings’ first game in 13 days, since a 5-2 victory over New Jersey on Dec. 18. “Probably the biggest challenge is playing 60 minutes of competitive hockey,” Red Wings defenseman Moritz Seider said. I think we can build on that and go from there and get excited for tomorrow.”Here are five areas of focus for the Red Wings (15-13-3) coming out of this extended break:Playing tighter defensivelyThe Red Wings have managed to take a significant step this season despite regressing defensively. They are the Red Wings’ three-leading scorers, combining for 37 goals and 78 points.mlive.com
+Washington Capitals vs. Detroit Red Wings - NHL (12/31/21) | Faceoff, How to Watch
+Prior to the break, the Red Wings are having a better season than many have expected. Watch the Detroit Red Wings on DirecTV StreamThe Capitals have been one of the best teams in the NHL this season. The two teams have played tight in their first two meetings, with the Wings winning in D.C. in October, prior to the Capitals winning in Detroit last month. Check out more stories about the Detroit Red Wings here on MLiveWhat: NHL HockeyWho: Detroit Red Wings (15-13-3)When: Wednesday, December 29Time: 7:30 p.m. ETWhere: Little Caesars Arena (Detroit, Mich.)Channel: Bally Sports DetroitStream: DirecTV StreamCheck out the NHL standings and results on NHL.commlive.com
+Red Wings’ Lucas Raymond, Nick Leddy enter COVID protocol
+The Detroit Red Wings announced Sunday that rookie forward Lucas Raymond and veteran defenseman Nick Leddy have entered the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol. The NHL on Friday postponed all Monday’s games, including the Red Wings’ contest at the New York Rangers. The Red Wings haven’t played since Dec. 18, a 5-2 victory over New Jersey at Little Caesars Arena. The Red Wings were scheduled to return to the ice Sunday for a limited practice. More: How Red Wings prospects at World Juniors are progressingmlive.com
+Robby Fabbri steps up against former team but Red Wings don’t capitalize
+But Fabbri’s two goals was the extent of the Detroit Red Wings’ offense in a 6-2 loss at the Enterprise Center, and it left him less than satisfied. “At the end of the day, we’ll get another shot at it to come back next year and win in this building.”The Red Wings (13-11-3) have dropped back-to-back games and continue to struggle on the road (4-8-1). Even after Colton Parayko scored at 16:01 of the second to give the Blues back their two-goal lead, the Red Wings had ample time to mount a comeback. It probably speaks to the fact that even with unfavorable matchups he can still produce offense, which is certainly a good sign.”The Red Wings face another unfavorable matchup Friday at Colorado (14-7-2). More: Red Wings falls to Blues after player recalled from AHL nets hat trickmlive.com
+Red Wings fall to Blues despite two goals from Robby Fabbri vs. former team
+The Red Wings (13-11-3) have lost two in a row following a five-game winning streak and fell to 4-8-1 away from home. Robby Fabbri scored both of Detroit’s goals in his first game back in St. Louis since the 2019 trade that brought him to the Red Wings. Alex Nedeljkovic made 35 saves to lead the Red Wings in their first meeting with St. Louis. Fabbri cut the Blues’ lead to 2-1 at 4:17 of the second, capping a nice passing play. Walker completed the hat trick by deflecting a shot past Greiss at 9:27 of the third.mlive.com
+New York Islanders vs. Detroit Red Wings - NHL (12/4/21) | How to Watch, Start Time
+The Detroit Red Wings are on a roll heading into the weekend, taking the phrase “home-ice advantage” literally. They will look to extend their winning streak when they host the New York Islanders, who have had their share of struggles so far. The Red Wings have extended their win streak to four since returning from a rough road trip out west. Watch the Detroit Red Wings on DirecTV StreamDetroit will be meeting the Islanders for the first time since February 2020, with New York looking like a much different team. Check out more stories about the Detroit Red Wings here on MLiveWhat: NHL HockeyWho: New York Islanders (5-10-2) vs. Detroit Red Wings (12-9-3)When: Saturday, December 4Time: 7:00 p.m.mlive.com
+Dynamic rookies Raymond, Seider make Red Wings relevant, entertaining
+DETROIT –.mlive.com
+Streaking Red Wings finding ways to win when not at their best
+DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings are finding ways to win games when they are not at peak performance, a sign of a good team. The Red Wings (12-9-3) have won four in a row and are 4-0-1 in their past five. “But we weren’t at our best and we found ways to win, which I think is critically important. But you want to do it while you’re winning, and we did that.”The Red Wings on consecutive nights came back to win after allowing the tying goal in the third period. The Red Wings got shootout goals from Dylan Larkin and Adam Erne -- the winner in the fourth round.mlive.com
+Red Wings top Kraken in shootout for fourth win in a row
+Raymond scored his 10th goal of the season and Seider provided a pair of assists as the Detroit Red Wings defeated the expansion Seattle Kraken 4-3 in a shootout at Little Caesars Arena in the first-ever meeting between the teams. Adam Erne scored the deciding goal in the fourth round of the shootout. The Red Wings (12-9-3) have won four in a row for the first time since their six-game winning streak from March 23-April 2, 2019. Robby Fabbri and Vladislav Namestnikov also scored for the Red Wings in regulation. Each team scored twice in the second period.mlive.com
+Red Wings have back-to-back winners of NHL rookie of the month award
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+Detroit Red Wings vs. Boston Bruins - NHL (11/30/21) | How to Watch, Start Time
+The Detroit Red Wings are coming out of the holiday weekend hanging around the top of the Atlantic Division, and are going to look to keep up their winning ways when they head east to meet the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night. The Red Wings have certainly have bounced back from the lackluster four-game road trip. Despite giving up the lead in the waning minutes of the game, the Red Wings wasted little time in overtime, as star rookie Lucas Raymond scored his ninth of the season just 26 seconds into overtime to give the Red Wings the 3-2 win. Watch the Detroit Red Wings on DirecTV StreamThey will meet the Bruins who are behind Detroit, sitting fifth in the division, though they have played five less games than the Wings. Check out more stories about the Detroit Red Wings here on MLiveWhat: NHL HockeyWho: Detroit Red Wings (10-9-3) vs. Boston Bruins (10-7-0)When: Tuesday, November 30Time: 7:00 p.m.mlive.com
+Lucas Raymond’s overtime goal lifts Red Wings past Sabres
+DETROIT – Lucas Raymond scored 26 seconds into overtime Saturday to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres at Little Caesars Arena. The Red Wings (10-9-3) have won back-to-back games and improved to 7-2-2 at home. Raymond carried the puck into the offensive zone and snapped in a wrist shot from the slot. After a scoreless first period, the Red Wings carried the play the second half of the second period and took a 2-1 lead on goals by Carter Rowney and Pius Suter 1:19 apart. Lindstrom committed a turnover trying to make a cross-ice pass in the offensive zone.mlive.com
+Alex Nedeljkovic steps up big as Red Wings beat Blues to stop skid
+DETROIT – Alex Nedeljkovic made 35 saves, including some spectacular stops, Wednesday to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues at Little Caesars Arena. The Red Wings (9-9-3) snapped a four-game skid (0-3-1). Lucas Raymond also scored for the Red Wings. The Red Wings needed to kill two penalties in the final 11:08 to preserve the lead. Earlier, David Perron tied it at 2-2 by sneaking a sharp-angle shot past Nedeljkovic at 1:11.mlive.com
+Red Wings’ rookies meeting challenges of demanding NHL schedule
+The smooth adjustment Lucas Raymond and Moritz Seider have made as NHL rookies has been even more impressive considering the Detroit Red Wings’ hectic early-season slate of games. But they are only one-quarter of the way through what will be the busiest, most demanding schedule they have experienced. “We certainly have some veteran players, but we have a lot of young players playing key roles, guys that haven’t been through the NHL schedule. It’s part of the learning process.”Raymond (seven goals, 12 assist) leads the Red Wings and all NHL rookies with 19 points. The Red Wings had six healthy defensemen at practice Tuesday, but Renouf provides insurance in case someone else isn’t able to dress tonight.mlive.com
+Red Wings after 20 games: the good and the concerning
+The Detroit Red Wings have made progress roughly one quarter of the way through the season, though it might not seem like it on the heels of a four-game skid. It would have been better if not for an 0-3-1 trip that included a 5-3 loss in Columbus and 2-1 overtime defeat in Arizona, games the Red Wings led in the latter stage of the third period. Here are three negatives through 20 games:Defensive struggles: Defense was the Red Wings’ biggest area of improvement last season. Record without Tyler Bertuzzi: Bertuzzi hasn’t needed an adjustment period following back surgery on April 30. Power play not potent enough: Sure, it was the preseason, but the Red Wings showed positive signs on the power play under new assistant coach Alex Tanguay.mlive.com
+Red Wings squander late lead in stinging loss to Blue Jackets
+The Detroit Red Wings were in a good position to earn two points Monday but skated away with none. The Columbus Blue Jackets scored twice in the final five minutes of the third period to take the lead and went on to defeat Detroit 5-3 at Nationwide Arena. Dylan Larkin and Lucas Raymond each had a goal and an assist for the Red Wings (8-7-2). But another rookie, Yegor Chinakhov, scored his first career goal to tie it with 4:18 remaining in regulation. Larkin staked his team to a 1-0 lead in the first period, scoring his seventh goal at 14:45.mlive.com
+Red Wings-Oilers pits leading NHL scorers and top rookies
+The NHL’s two-leading rookie scorers will be trying to defend the league’s two top scorers tonight when the Edmonton Oilers face the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena (7:30, Bally Sports Detroit). “If Larks’ line is out against them, I have no worries in any three of those players, Bert, Larks or Raymond. If you have one line out against them it’s another challenge because of how much they play, and at times they have really long shifts. Your whole team has to be ready to play against them, but I have confidence in Lucas.”Raymond leads NHL rookies with six goals and 14 points. Somebody was showing the goal yesterday and then they went through a whole montage of goals that might rival it.mlive.com
+Red Wings display depth in 5-2 victory over Vegas
+DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings’ power play was productive, their penalty kill perfect, their goaltending good, their depth of scoring dangerous, and their captain was back. In perhaps their most complete game of the season Sunday, the Red Wings defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 5-2 at Little Caesars Arena, winning back-to-back games on the weekend after losing four in a row. Pius Suter and Tyler Bertuzzi each picked up a goal and an assist as 10 Red Wings registered points. The Red Wings scored multiple power-play goals for the first time this season, both in the first period, when they led 3-1 despite registering only seven shots on Brossoit. But the Red Wings held on, killing a decent chunk of the clock with a pair of power plays in the final 11:26.mlive.com
+Dylan Larkin returns to lineup for Red Wings
+Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin returned to the lineup for Sunday’s game against the Vegas Golden Knights at Little Caesars Arena after missing three games due to undisclosed personal reasons. The Red Wings went 1-2-0 without Larkin, who has three goals and five assists in eight games. Defenseman Gustav Lindstrom also returned to the lineup after missing six games with a lower-body injury. To make room on the 23-man roster, the Red Wings were expected to reassign Joe Veleno to the Grand Rapids Griffins. More: Moritz Seider, Lucas Raymond continue having huge impact for Red Wingsmlive.com
+Moritz Seider, Lucas Raymond continue having big impact for Red Wings
+The Detroit Red Wings expected great things from Moritz Seider and Lucas Raymond after drafting them fourth and sixth overall, respectively, in 2019 and 2020. It enabled the Red Wings (5-5-2) to salvage what could have been a disastrous four-game road trip and end a four-game slide (0-3-1). The Red Wings, playing their third consecutive game without captain Dylan Larkin (personal reasons), might not have reached OT if not for Raymond’s playmaking. They’ve been pretty good on a night-to-night basis,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. “He’s a great competitor, he’s a great person and he’s a hell of a player,” Blashill said.mlive.com
+Tyler Bertuzzi leads Red Wings’ comeback capped by Moritz Seider’s OT goal
+The Detroit Red Wings’ first extended road trip of the season was on the verge of being a complete disaster until Tyler Bertuzzi spearheaded a comeback and Moritz Seider sealed the deal. Seider’s first career goal enabled the Red Wings (5-5-2) to end a four-game slide (0-3-1) in their third consecutive game without captain Dylan Larkin, who is away from the team for personal reasons. Suter is the third player the Red Wings have had centering the top line in Larkin’s absence and his line provided an immediate boost. The Red Wings started strong and had two other glorious opportunities on one-timers from Filip Zadina and Robby Fabbri that Tokarski was quick to move side-to-side to deny. The Sabres took a 3-1 lead at 6:08 of the third period when Arttu Ruotsolainen banged in the rebound of Colin Miller’s shot.mlive.com
+Detroit Red Wings vs. Buffalo Sabres - NHL (11/6/21) | How to Watch, Start Time
+After arguably their most disappointing loss of the season, the Detroit Red Wings are going to try and rally to stop the skid they find themselves on when they head to upstate New York to take on the rebuilding Buffalo Sabres. In their meeting with the Boston Bruins on Thursday night, penalty trouble doomed the Red Wings in their 5-1 loss. Watch the Detroit Red Wings on DirecTV StreamThe Buffalo Sabres have had quite the week off the ice, following trading their start center, and former captain, Jack Eichel to the Vegas Golden Knights. Check out more stories about the Detroit Red Wings here on MLiveWhat: NHL HockeyWho: Detroit Red Wings (4-5-2) vs. Buffalo Sabres (5-4-1)When: Saturday, November 6Time: 7:00 p.m. ETWhere: KeyBank Center (Buffalo, N.Y.)Channel: Bally Sports DetroitStream: DirecTV StreamCheck out the NHL standings and results on NHL.commlive.com
+Special teams contribute to Red Wings’ slide
+The Detroit Red Wings were feeling good about their game just one week ago. The Red Wings’ 5-1 loss to Boston Thursday extended their winless streak to four (0-3-1), including three in a row in regulation. The Red Wings (4-5-2) have scored only one goal in the past two games and have registered only 26 shots over the past five periods. Offensively, the Red Wings could have applied more pressure. We don’t create any chances because we didn’t want to shoot the puck enough.”More: Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand dominate Red Wingsmlive.com
+Patrice Bergeron scores four as Bruins whip Red Wings
+Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand formed an unstoppable combination Thursday for the Boston Bruins, as the Detroit Red Wings’ struggles continued. The Red Wings (4-5-2) have lost four in a row, the past three in a regulation. Lucas Raymond scored the Red Wings’ lone goal, their only goal in the past two games. Bergeron added two more goals in the second period to compete his seventh career hat trick. The Red Wings are 1-11-2 in their past 14 games in Boston, including the playoffs.mlive.com
+Red Wings’ Moritz Seider named NHL’s rookie of the month
+Moritz Seider’s smooth transition to the NHL earned the Detroit Red Wings defenseman rookie of the month honors from the league on Tuesday. Seider led all rookies with eight assists and an average ice time of 22:26 through nine games. He edged out teammate Lucas Raymond, who has four goals and nine points in nine games. Seider, 20, had points in seven of the nine games and will take a five-game points streak into tonight’s game at Montreal (7 p.m., Bally Sports Detroit Plus). Drafted sixth overall in 2019, Seider became the first Red Wings rookie (forward or defenseman) with at least eight assists in a calendar month since Pavel Datsyuk in January 2002 (eight in 13 games).mlive.com
+Michael Rasmussen moves to Red Wings’ top line with Dylan Larkin out tonight
+Already missing Tyler Bertuzzi tonight in Montreal, the Detroit Red Wings will be without another top-line player in Dylan Larkin, who is out due to personal reasons. Bertuzzi and Larkin have combined for nine goals and 17 points, joined on the top line by rookie Lucas Raymond (four goals, nine points). Michael Rasmussen moves up from the third line to center the top line with Raymond and Robby Fabbri. “But just play the same way, play hard, play good defensively. “He’s going to have to get into a practice or two before I’d be in a position to get him in.mlive.com
+Joe Veleno makes strong season debut but Red Wings fall to Leafs
+Joe Veleno made a significant impact Saturday in his season debut for the Detroit Red Wings, but the Toronto Maple Leafs held on for a 5-4 victory at Scotiabank Arena. The Red Wings needed to bring up Veleno because they were short two forwards. The Red Wings entered the game 4 for 31 on the power play (12.9 percent). These teams hadn’t met since the COVID-shortened 2019-20 season, when Toronto won all three games from the Red Wings, outscoring them 15-3. It was the start of a four-game trip for the Red Wings.mlive.com
+Lucas Raymond’s attitude, confidence contribute to fast start with Red Wings
+DETROIT – Dylan Larkin can relate to Lucas Raymond’s smooth NHL transition, having experienced a strong start to his NHL career as a 19-year-old with the Detroit Red Wings in 2015. Raymond leads NHL rookies with four goals and seven points in six games. Lucas, it seems like he plays on the right side of the puck, he doesn’t cheat much, which is of big value here. “It’s early, but what he’s done is impressive.”Larkin praised Raymond’s attitude and demeanor. In five games played, Tyler Bertuzzi has six goals and nine points while Larkin has two goals and seven points.mlive.com
+Red Wings score dirty, Alex Nedeljkovic steps up, Filip Hronek sits
+These are the kind of dirty goals coach Jeff Blashill wants his team to score more often. We found ways to score dirty goals. We got to find ways to score dirty in order to be a team that scores enough. “If you want to score goals, you have to get into those areas,” Raymond said. More: Lucas Raymond earns place in history alongside Red Wings legendsmlive.com
+Lucas Raymond earns place in history alongside Red Wings legends
+OK, nobody is comparing the Detroit Red Wings prized rookie to franchise legends, but for one memorable night, Raymond earned a place next to those names. “Of course, it feels great,” Raymond said. The Red Wings began training camp with Filip Zadina on the top line. “He’s getting a hell of an opportunity, and he’s earned some of it. I’m trying to get in there more and more.”More: Seider, Raymond usher in new era for Red Wingsmlive.com
+Lucas Raymond’s historic night lifts Red Wings past Blackhawks
+It was a historic night for the Detroit Red Wings rookie. The Red Wings (3-2-1) got well following losses to previously winless Calgary (3-0) and Montreal (6-1). The Red Wings needed to kill three penalties, including a five-on-three power play for 1:34, midway through the third period to prevent the Blackhawks from mounting a comeback. Carter Rowney and Vladislav Namestnikov also scored goals for Detroit while Mitchell Stephens contributed a pair of assists. The Red Wings scored three goals in a span of 4:57 during the first half of the second period to take a 4-1 lead.mlive.com
+Calgary Flames vs. Detroit Red Wings - NHL (10/21/21) | How to Watch, Start Time
+The Detroit Red Wings are having a solid start to their 2020-21 season. The Red Wings have won back-to-back games since dropping their season opener in overtime to the defending Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning. Watch the Detroit Red Wings on DirecTV StreamThe Flames are trying to bounce back after a disappointing 2020-21 season, but have not had the most ideal starts to this season. What: NHL HockeyWho: Calgary Flames vs. Detroit Red WingsWhen: Thursday, October 21Time: 7:30 p.m. ETWhere: Little Caesars Arena (Detroit, Mich.)Channel: Bally Sports DetroitStream: DirecTV StreamCheck out the NHL standings and results on NHL.commlive.com
+Red Wings’ Lucas Raymond displays dynamic ability on ‘special night’
+DETROIT – Lucas Raymond has adjusted quickly to the smaller ice surface, faster pace and physical play in the NHL. He has not looked out of place as a 19-year-old on the Detroit Red Wings’ top line. Three games is a small sample size, but Raymond is fueling much hope for the future, and the present. “Him and (fellow rookie Moritz) Seider both have a real good combination of confidence but yet real calm people and real respectful, real good inner drive. “Bert does a real good job getting pucks and so does Larks.mlive.com
+Lucas Raymond scores first NHL goal as Red Wings beat Blue Jackets
+DETROIT – Lucas Raymond scored his first NHL goal Tuesday while Tyler Bertuzzi’s fifth goal of the season proved to be the difference in the Detroit Red Wings’ 4-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets at Little Caesars Arena. The Red Wings (2-0-1) have gained five of a possible six points to start the season. The Red Wings controlled much of the play throughout the game, outshooting Columbus 45-23. The Red Wings had an excellent opportunity to open the scoring in the second period during a five-on-three power play but managed only two shots during 1:34. The Red Wings wrap up a four-game season-opening homestand Thursday against the Calgary Flames.mlive.com
+Lucas Raymond looks to prove himself after making Red Wings’ season-opening roster
+Like if it goes well, it goes well; if it doesn’t go well, then we’ll take it from there.”It went well, as the Detroit Red Wings general manager informed the team’s No. He led the Red Wings with six points (two goals, four assists) in six preseason games. “Larks was able to play with (Henrik Zetterberg) right away, which was a positive for him and hopefully Raymond playing with Larkin can help Razor. “We’ll have to see how the first games go and how I play,” Raymond said. More: How Red Wings’ season-opening roster shapes upmlive.com
+Red Wings send Joe Veleno to Grand Rapids, set 23-man roster
+The Detroit Red Wings would prefer Joe Veleno continue his development as a top-line player with the Grand Rapids Griffins rather than be a bottom-six NHL forward to start the 2021-22 season. That is why the Red Wings assigned Veleno to Grand Rapids Monday, setting their season-opening 23-man roster. Veleno and Lucas Raymond, who made the roster, were the last remaining waiver-exempt forwards in camp. The Red Wings also assigned forwards Riley Barber and Taro Hirose to the Griffins after they cleared waivers. The Red Wings earlier today announced that right wing Bobby Ryan was released from his professional tryout
+Injuries might impact Red Wings’ roster decisions
+The Detroit Red Wings played their eighth and final exhibition game in 11 days Saturday afternoon, missing several regulars due to injuries. It’s good for evaluation purposes.”The Red Wings (4-4 in preseason) open the regular season Thursday against the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning at Little Caesars Arena. We’ll make (roster) decisions when we have to make decisions and not before that.”The Red Wings might be inclined to sign veteran right wing Bobby Ryan, in camp on a tryout. The Red Wings have several young players pushing for job, mostly notably former first-round picks Joe Veleno and Lucas Raymond, who are waiver-exempt, and Taro Hirose, who is not waiver-exempt. Bobby Ryan has played a lot, Veleno has played a lot
+Joe Veleno lifts Red Wings past Penguins in preseason
+DETROIT – Joe Veleno snapped a tie late in the third period and assisted on another goal Thursday to lift the Detroit Red Wings past the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 in a preseason game at Little Caesars Arena. Thomas Greiss made 22 saves for the Red Wings (4-3-0). The Red Wings led 1-0 after the first period on Suter’s second preseason goal, coming two seconds after a power play expired. The Red Wings wrap up the preseason Saturday at Buffalo (3 p.m.). The Red Wings released forwards Turner Elson, Jon Martin, Dominik Shine, Tyler Spezia, Kirill Tyutyayev, Hayden Verbeek and Dennis Yan from their professional tryouts.mlive.com
+Yzerman weighs in on Red Wings: ‘A much harder team to play against’
+Yzerman on Red Wings right now: 'Playing much better collectively'DETROIT – Steve Yzerman is not one to simply talk for the sake of talking -- we’ve known this for decades. He’s optimisticSo when he does start speaking, specifically about the status of his Red Wings, we listen closely. Team PDO (shooting % + save %) is up: 99.5 through 20 games this season vs. 97.2 through 71 games last season. AdYzerman could boast a better Red Wings offense, too, but with the team failing to score in all situations -- 5-on-5 and, of course, that dismal power play -- it’s tough to say they’re any better up front. AdBoth of these players are of course expected at Red Wings training camp later this year.
+Tracking Red Wings prospects at 2021 World Juniors
+(Photo by Codie McLachlan/Getty Images)Here’s a look at how the seven Detroit Red Wings prospects participating in the 2021 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships are performing. Here’s how they’re doing. Only the top four teams in each group will proceed from the preliminary round to play in the single-game elimination playoff round. The United States is competing in Group B with Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic and Austria. View: Detroit Red Wings 2020 NHL Entry Draft picksFollow updates here:
+Red Wings prospects at World Juniors: How they’re doing
+(Photo by Codie McLachlan/Getty Images)Here’s a look at how the seven Detroit Red Wings prospects participating in the 2021 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships are performing. The United States is competing in Group B with Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic and Austria. The Red Wings have seven prospects playing in this tournament:🇸🇪 Team Sweden -- five Red Wings prospects:🇫🇮 Team Finland -- one Red Wings prospect:🇨🇿 Team Czech Republic -- one Red Wings prospect:Here’s how they’re doing:Here is Soderblom’s between-the-legs goal against Czech Republic:Another angle of this ridiculous Soderblom goal. 🇷🇺 Team LarionovFormer Russian Five member Igor Larionov is coaching Team Russia in this tournament. I’m happy to see some good signs of listening to how we played back in the day and in Detroit with Russian Five.”The “Professor’s” Russian team defeated the Americans, 5-3, on Christmas.
+Watch Red Wings prospect Lucas Raymond WJC highlights here
+Raymond, who was selected 4th overall by the Detroit Red Wings at the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, is representing Sweden. The 18-year-old right wing is one of seven Red Wings prospects competing in this tournament. Raymond highlights:This pass by Lucas Raymond. pic.twitter.com/zeQy1E5zn3 — IcehockeyGifs (@IcehockeyG) December 26, 2020Albert Johansson and Lucas Raymond with a give-and-go, a potential view of the future in Detroit. Tracking Red Wings prospects at WJC.
+View: Detroit Red Wings 2020 NHL Entry Draft picks
+(Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Here are the 2020 NHL Entry Draft picks by the Detroit Red Wings:Detroit GM Steve Yzerman was able to add picks through in-draft trades -- he also traded for a future pick:Read more: Red Wings' Kris Draper drafts his son, Kienan Draper, in 7th roundView: 2020 NHL Entry Draft first round selectionsRead back: Here’s who Red Wings selected in 2019 NHL DraftSign up for my Red Wings newsletterSign up here for the latest news on the team and from around the league, and some jokes (good ones).
+Red Wings in 2020 NHL Draft: Follow updates here
+The 2020 NHL Draft got started Tuesday night with the first round. The Detroit Red Wings selected Swedish forward Lucas Raymond at 4th overall, then Swedish defenseman William Wallinder at 32nd overall. Here’s another look at Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman’s list of picks in this draft -- he started with 10 picks but added another in a trade with the Los Angeles Kings, and then another in a trade with the Minnesota Wild. He did trade away the 125th pick for a future pick:Read more: Red Wings' Kris Draper drafts his son, Kienan Draper, in 7th roundFull first-round draft order:Sign up here for the latest news on the team and from around the league, and some jokes (good ones). Follow live draft updates here:
+Red Wings select F Lucas Raymond at 4th overall in 2020 NHL Draft
+The Detroit Red Wings have selected forward Lucas Raymond at 4th overall in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. Few weaknesses overall and is a player that doesn’t wait for the play to happen, but the one that generates the play and make things happen.”Lucas Raymond highlights:Round two of the 2020 NHL Draft continues Wednesday morning. The Red Wings have the 32nd overall pick, which is the first pick of the second round. Lucas Raymond väljs som nummer fyra av Detroit Red Wings i årets draft. pic.twitter.com/yZlUrrgUr8 — Frölunda Indians (@frolunda_hc) October 6, 2020Here are the rest of the Red Wings' draft positions in the draft:Read back: Here’s who Red Wings selected in 2019 NHL DraftView: 2020 NHL Draft results
+View: 2020 NHL Entry Draft first round selections
+Here are the first round selections from the 2020 NHL Entry Draft held virtually on Oct. 6, 2020. NY Rangers -- LW Alexis Lafrenière Los Angeles -- C Quinton Byfield Ottawa (from SJS) -- C/LW Tim Stutzle Detroit -- F Lucas Raymond Ottawa -- D Jake Sanderson Anaheim -- D Jamie Drysdale New Jersey -- RW Alexander Holtz Buffalo -- RW Jack Quinn Minnesota -- C Marco Rossi Winnipeg -- C/LW Cole Perfetti Nashville -- G Yaroslav Askarov Florida -- C Anton Lundell Carolina (from TOR) -- C Seth Jarvis Edmonton -- C/LW Dylan Holloway Toronto (from PIT) -- LW Rodion Amirov Montreal -- D Kaiden Guhle Chicago -- LW Lukas Reichel New Jersey (from ARI) -- C/RW Dawson Mercer NY Rangers (from CGY) -- D Braden Schneider New Jersey (from VAN via TBL) -- D Shakir Mukhamadullin Columbus -- RW Yegor Chinakhov Washington (from Calgary via NYR via CAR) -- C Hendrix Lapierre Philadelphia -- RW Tyson Foerster Calgary (from Washington) -- C Connor Zary Colorado -- D Justin Barron26. St. Louis -- LW Jake Neighbours Anaheim (from BOS) -- RW Jacob Perrault Ottawa (from NYI) -- C Ridly Greig Vegas -- C Brendan Brisson Dallas -- C Mavrik Bourque San Jose (from TBL) -- RW Ozzy Wiesblatt
+How To Find Drop Shipping Suppliers – Csfd 30 Dní Dlouhá Noc Doba Temna
+Today, I’m mosting likely to be taking the most popular question of exactly how to expand your online eCommerce service. I will certainly complete a breakdown of just how you’re going to find dropshipping providers and afterwards how you can call them and after that begin collaborating with them. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna.
+Previously, revealed you just how to find providers using retail websites like Etsy, Houzz, as well as Wayfarer, and it is still a approach that I use myself as well as I believe it’s really a really great technique since you’re going on to these retail sites and also you’re locating items that these companies sell and then you’re going to speak to these firms to see if you can really begin dealing with them.
+One more reason that I such as getting in touch with companies on retail websites, generally that are sites offering in the United States, like Houzz as well as Wayfarer, is that these business are satisfying a mainly United States consumer base as well as I go down ship on Amazon, ebay.com, and also I additionally have my very own web site. A lot of my clients lie in the US, which means I need quick delivering times, top quality things as well as I truly most notably require to be able to reach out to the business to talk about if something’s going on, maybe a return.
+Finding Dropshippers – Csfd 30 Dní Dlouhá Noc Doba Temna
+Whatever it is, I require to ensure that they’re able to comprehend me and that it’s mosting likely to take place efficiently. Previously, I showed just how you can find United States suppliers on Alibaba and on Aliexpress. Now those are not specifically United States vendors. A lot of those vendors are actually Chinese production firms, worldwide manufacturing firms, and also they simply take place to have manufacturing facilities and also storehouses in the US that they can head out as well as ship from. Still, the delivery times are fairly long, and the quality is not all that fantastic.
+What I’ll do is I’ll go on the sites and I’ll just browse for whatever marketing best. You may see some of the very same items and some of the very same sellers, however commonly I’ll simply go as well as I’ll locate an item and they’ll simply speak to the supplier as well as message them asking if I can in fact offer their items so on Etsy.
+Working With Dropshippers – Csfd 30 Dní Dlouhá Noc Doba Temna
+What I’ll typically do is I’ll most likely to a product I’ll most likely to the store page of this vendor and then either it’s going to offer me their site. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. They might also link their e-mail or you have the call attribute which you’ll see right here on top of the web page as well as if you scroll down you’ll see get in touch with store owner as well as typically I’ll simply do that and also I’ll shoot them a message and sometimes they will reply it.
+Often they will not a lot of times, they’ll say that they can not do it, as well as in some cases you could be able to locate a brand-new drop shipping vendor that lies in the United States. Currently the procedure is extremely comparable on a lot of various other retail websites, however simply to reveal you it on Houzz, typically I’ll just go on and I’ll discover an product you could always go ahead as well as Google the company, if you can not find it or if they do not, truly have a get in touch with function.
+An additional point that you can likewise do gets on Houzz below product requirements, you go and also you’ll see that it’s manufactured by and then you go ahead and you open this web link in another tab and that will certainly bring you up, and afterwards you can just basically contact them. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. Or you may even be able to Google them, discover their e-mail, or locate their internet site and also call them making use of that approach.
+Csfd 30 Dní Dlouhá Noc Doba Temna – Dropshipping Questions
+Currently, this is a question that I was asked a whole lot. This was possibly one of the most asked for inquiry that I got asked and also the inquiry was: just how do you proceed and contact them as soon as you in fact find them? Exactly how do you actually begin collaborating with them? The solution to this is actually reasonably basic. I have a theme that I utilize that I will certainly send to prospective distributors and the template is relatively basic, and also it’s primarily simply this. It’s hi, and after that you place their call name and afterwards my name is and then your company name and then you can either put in house design. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. You can place in games whatever kind of business that you are. Generally sells on eBay and also Amazon. Again, you can switch over those out for Shopify or you can put your internet site or you can just put whatever system that you want to sell on dealing with wholesale companies. I am contacting you to ask about drop shipping and marketing your things.
+We work with a few other Etsy vendors, or you can claim Houzz or you can just claim we collaborate with a couple of other business as well as various other dealers. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. We would just put the products on the marketplace or once again, we would love to begin selling your products eagerly anticipating dealing with you. Thanks.
+I might even switch it up a little bit depending on the distributor, yet this is the preliminary message that I will constantly send out to a provider that I find on a retail site. If I find them on Google, if I find them using Facebook.
+If I locate them utilizing a different technique, after that I might send them a different message, so this is mainly just if I locate them off of Etsy. If I discover them on Houzz or if I discover them on a retail website, that other customers are going to have the ability to take place so simply to reveal you an instance of sending out a distributor, a message, this was a distributor that I located on Etsy. That was marketing planters as well as I actually really wanted to begin collaborating with them. I assumed their products would do well on eBay as well as Etsy, specifically since I do already sell a lot of planters, so I contacted them.
+Locate Dropshippers – Csfd 30 Dní Dlouhá Noc Doba Temna
+I shot them a message as well as inevitably it really really did not function. I heard back from them, but they informed me that their things were also expensive that they just started, and that they weren’t actually curious about dropshipping. Inevitably, they claimed that they would certainly obtain back to me, but they never ever did, and also that was in April as well as it never in fact started functioning.
+Currently, to put that right into contrast with a message that I sent on October 31st, which was not as well long ago – and in this message, I simply got in touch with another distributor. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. I intended to see if I could begin marketing their products and then they really got back to me regarding 3 hrs ago prior to shooting this video clip and also they claimed that they were interested, but they wished to know more about how they were going to do whatever.
+What are the logistics of really working with a decrease shipper. Currently the next action for in fact starting to work with various providers, as well as what you do after the first message, is going to entirely differ upon the different suppliers that you are contacting.
+Some distributors are in fact going to be bigger firms that could currently have a wholesale internet site that they’ll just essentially let you create an account, then you can go on and area orders, which is extremely simple, which is essentially the easiest manner in which you can do.
+This another means is that they could simply be a tiny firm, they may just sell on Etsy or they might sell on Etsy or in Houzz, and when you call them and they’re in fact interested and they’re going to let you sell on eBay and Amazon.com. But they have no idea just how to do this, they’re asking you all the concerns because they’ve never ever done this. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. You’ve never done this.
+Just how do you continue from there now, some of the major things that you constantly want to ask a new provider before you start working with them. The rates: how much is something going to cost, just how much is mosting likely to cost you? Do you go off the rates of the site that you discovered them on? What is it mosting likely to be for the overall? How is it going to work out for the price of shipping? To ensure that’s probably among the main things.
+Another point is ordering exactly how you are going to order items. Are you mosting likely to do it with email? Are you mosting likely to do it through the website? Are they going to provide you a voucher, also settlement? That’s another large point: are you mosting likely to pay them with PayPal? These are some of the 3 greatest things that I always try to establish right from the beginning. A few other things that you constantly intend to develop or how you’re going to manage returns. If they’re going to permit you to just essentially return an product, are they mosting likely to charge you the shipping? Is there mosting likely to be a restocking fee? So that’s a actually various other crucial elements.
+An additional thing is the product magazine. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. How are they going to be able to update you on what’s in supply and also what’s out of supply?
+One more point that I always ask is: can I utilize the pictures on Etsy or on their site, for when I in fact publish the things? Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. Do they mind if I cost Etsy and eBay as well as primarily once you establish all the standards as soon as you really develop the cost, can you use their images, their returns, the settlements, those are primarily all the various things and then I start providing their things.
+I additionally just want to add that you can constantly ask them, in the future, if something comes up, they need to be able to address any of your concerns if they’re a actually good distributor. I’ve worked with distributors that are brand brand-new to this and also as we’re working this out as I’m publishing their things and also stating them, orders points do come up as well as then I’ll just basically ask them right there and after that and also in some cases they’re not so great regarding it.
+The following point is just locating which of their items offer well. Now I normally like to upload all the different products onto my site on Amazon and eBay. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. Some individuals like to focus on just a particular product or only on a few items, so the manner in which you can do this is you can go to either Etsy or Houzz or whatever, as well as generally every one of these sites will certainly tell you what’s the very best vendor.
+On Etsy, it will certainly inform you what’s the most effective vendor right next to the item. An additional manner in which you can do it is, you can go to the store’s testimonials as well as in the testimonials, you can actually see which item is getting one of the most evaluations or you can simply see which things are in fact being very reviewed, which ones you possibly need to prevent. By doing this you can simply obtain a excellent concept of which items you must be offering from the supplier.
+So when you have actually started listing the products that then you’re most likely going to start obtaining some sales, and when you get your first order, you’re going to need to recognize just how to put it in addition to exactly how you’re really mosting likely to pay your provider. Various suppliers are mosting likely to process the orders in various methods. The most usual means is that they’re mosting likely to have a wholesale internet site you’re mosting likely to visit to the wholesale website.
+The rate that you’re mosting likely to pay will certainly be the wholesale cost after you go on and also order. You’re going to require to put in the consumer’s, info as well as they’ll just deliver it out to the customer, as well as you can pay by credit scores card. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. You can pay by Paypal, often that’s normally one of the most common manner in which it’s done.
+An additional point I perform with a great deal of various vendors is I’ll in fact email them. So if an thing obtains gotten, after that I’ll send them an email, I’ll tell them, which product I’ll tell them which amount. If it’s a specific variant, I might tell them the color and then in the order.
+I will also send the purchaser’s address and afterwards often, I’ll even pay them with PayPal. Occasionally I’ll either pay them on their web site. There are different ways that you can do it, yet this is an additional typical means is a combination between e-mail as well as PayPal. Another actually good thing about this – is that you can also automate this.
+You can have software that’s attached to either your ebay.com store or your Amazon, and when a specific thing obtains ordered, then the software will instantly send out an email to the various other email address which is going to be your distributor, so it’ll automatically send out the purchaser’s address. In this manner you don’t really have to do anything, you may need to pay them with PayPal.
+You can additionally develop terms, and also what that implies is that at the end of the month, allow’s state you do a total of $ 1,000 worth of orders. You can just go in advance as well as PayPal them $ 1,000. There are just different ways that you can collaborate with providers which’s an additional common manner in which I do order which I do pay vendors.
+The last main means that I do location orders is, I utilize the dealer’s retail site. That might appear complex, but a lot of dealers will just have their own retail website where they do offer to customers as well as they’ll give you a special coupon or a unique code. Then you can really place it in at check out, and also this will certainly activate the wholesale price. By doing this you can checkout. Typically, you might just put in the purchaser’s, information as well as in this manner you’ll obtain a discount, and after that they’ll ship the thing.
+That’s one more way that I do place orders and usually you can either pay with PayPal or you can even your credit-card. As a side note, I simulate using a credit card as my major repayment technique. In this manner I get to keep an eye on all of my expenses on one card. Also, I reach obtain cash from cashback as well as likewise from signup rewards. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. Probably the most effective factor is that it truly does help with monitoring overhead, specifically throughout tax obligation period.
+The last element to working with all these providers is, what do you do after you position the order? It’s mosting likely to depend on the handling time of the distributor. Generally, a great deal of my vendors will certainly send the monitoring number within one to 2 organization days as well as they will certainly always provide rapid shipping times once more. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. It’s mosting likely to depend on the handling time of your provider, however always I get a monitoring number and also if you don’t obtain a tracking number: this is why it’s actually essential to be able to contact your vendor. In this manner you can go on and also email them or call them to see if the thing has actually been delivered.
+Locate Dropshippers – Csfd 30 Dní Dlouhá Noc Doba Temna
+That’s going to cover the entire process of exactly how I speak to drop shipping distributors, how I locate drop shipping providers, exactly how do I buy and also how do I additionally do the settlement. Another question that I got was: how do I handle returns? This is additionally going to rely on the vendor, but most providers will certainly approve returns, especially if the product is damaged, they will always approve the returns. This is why I constantly ensure that I collaborate with great providers. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. If the thing shows up damaged, after that the distributor will take mistake for it.
+Sometimes they could not accept returns if the thing is not damaged, but that will certainly always rely on the provider as well as you can always ensure as well as verify this information before you start collaborating with them.
+So hopefully you individuals enjoyed this whole procedure of just how I discover drop shipping suppliers as well as exactly how I begin working with them. Csfd 30 dní dlouhá noc doba temna. I in fact have found a great deal of suppliers utilizing this. I still deal with a great deal of drop shippers using these various approaches, so I hope this assists.
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+Submitted December 2, 1907.
+Decided December 16, 1907., § 10. 32 Stat. at L. 695, U. S. Comp. Stat. Supp. 1907, p. 214. By the article mentioned a public official is subjected to imprisonment and fine if he commits a falsification, clause 4, 'by perverting the truth in the narration of facts,' or, clause 7, 'by giving out an authentic copy of a fictitious document, or by stating therein a contrary or different thing from that contained in the genuine original.' It is assigned as error that the plaintiff in error was required to answer without being advised of the nature and cause of the accusation against him, and that he was convicted without due process of law. It is argued further, although not assigned as error, that the sentence inflicted a cruel and unusual punishment, by reason of the amount of the fine and the length of the term of imprisonment; and still further, that the fine was greater than that which the statute imposed, all contrary to the Philippine Bill of Rights. Act of July 1, 1902, chap. 1369, § 5. 32 Stat. at L. 691, 692.
+There is no suggestion in the record that any of these questions were raised at any stage below, except in an agreement of counsel that the full record showed that before any evidence was received the plaintiff in error asked leave to withdraw his plea of not guilty and substitute the statement that he did not know how to plead, which was denied, and that he objected to the reception of any evidence in support of the complaint, because it was incapable of being sustained by evidence, which objection was overruled. There was a motion for rehearing, on the grounds set out in the assignment of error, but, as the motion was denied, that cannot be relied upon here. See McMillen v. Ferrum Min. Co. 197 U. S. 343, 49 L. ed. 784, 25 Sup. Ct. Rep. 533. It would be going far in allowance for different habits of thought and action, to treat what was done as equivalent to a demurrer. The court below does not so interpret it, but says that no exception was taken to the sufficiency of the complaint. It would be going farther to treat it as setting up the Philippine Bill of Rights in analogy to a claim of constitutional rights in a circuit court of the United States. If a case is brought up from the circuit court on the ground that it involves the construction or application of the Constitution of the United States, the record must show that the question was raised for the consideration of the court below. Carey v. Houston & T. C. R. Co. 150 U. S. 170, 181, 37 L. ed. 1041, 1044, 14 Sup. Ct. Rep. 63; Ansbro v. United States, 159 U. S. 695, 40 L. ed. 310, 16 Sup. Ct. Rep. 187; Cornell v. Green, 163 U. S. 75, 78, 41 L. ed. 76, 77, 16 Sup. Ct. Rep. 969; Cincinnati, H. & D. R. Co. v. Thiebaud, 177 U. S. 615, 619, 620, L. ed. 76, 77, 16 Sup. Ct. Rep. 969. There was no hint that he relied on the Bill of Rights or contended that the complaint would not satisfy that. The Bill of Rights, in all probability, was an afterthought when everything else had failed.
+Our consideration of the case properly might stop here. But, as the rule laid down probably was not well known, we will add that we find nothing in the errors assigned. The complaint, however open it might be to criticism on demurrer, supposing the strict rules of the old common law should be applied, would leave no doubt in the mind of any person of rudimentary intelligence that it meant to charge the defendant with falsely entering on the stubs of certain specified tax certificates smaller sums than those shown by the certificates and actually received by him, and with altering such stubs to lower sums, with intent of gain; that is to say, with intent to settle his accounts as a public officer on the showing that less was due than was due in fact, contrary to article 300, clauses 4, 6, and 7 of the Penal Code. If the Philippine Code had sanctioned this form, it is extravagant to contend that the enactment would have been void under the laws of the United States. Yet that is a test. See Missouri v. Dockery, 191 U. S. 165, 171, 48 L. ed. 133, 134, 24 Sup. Ct. Rep. 53. The Bill of Rights for the Philippines, giving the accused the right to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, does not fasten forever upon those islands the inability of the seventeenth century common law to understand stand or accept a pleading that did not exclude every misinterpretation capable of occurring to intelligence fired with a desire to pervert.
+We do not feel called upon to consider errors not assigned. See O'Neil v. Vermont, 144 U. S. 323, 331, 36 L. ed. 450, 455, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 693.
+Writ of error dismissed.
+Mr. Justice Harlan dissents.
+The complaint is as follows, omitting the title, signature, and verification:
+The undersigned accuses Jose Paraiso of the crime of falsification, committed as follows: That the said Jos e Paraiso, in his capacity as municipal treasurer of Lumbang, entered upon registration tax certificate No. 481,054, issued at Lumbang the 31st of May, 1904, to one Pedro Robie, the amount of $6.00, and erased from the stub thereof the figures written thereon, with the exception of the two 00, leaving traces of the figure thus erased, there appearing, however, upon the same stub, written in pencil by the accused, the figures 2.00, this being the amount shown on the abstract submitted to the provincial treasurer, all of this with intent of gain.
+That on registration tax certificate No. 481,052, issued at Lumbang on the 31st day of May, 1904, to Francisco Guimoc, he entered the amount of $4 as the price of the said certificate, whereas on the stub thereof he only entered the amount of $2, thereby committing the crime of falsification of a document, provided for and penalized under paragraphs 4, 6, and 7 of § 300 of the Penal Code. It further appears from the abstract submitted by him that the amount received was $2.00, thus defrauding the government to his personal advantage and gain.
+That at different times during the year 1904, in his capacity as municipal treasurer of the town of Lumbang, Laguna, he issued registration tax certificates to the following persons under the following numbers:
+Eduardo Llantos, No. 481,053; Damaso Garcia, No. 481,044; Apolinario Almario, No. 339,727; Cenon Labra, No. 339,899; Pablo Cristobal, No. 339,897; Luis Abi, No. 339,877; Leon Mondes, No. 339,852; Luis Valdomora, No. 339,848; Gregorio Mulingbayan, No. 339,846; Filemon Mercado, No. 339,840; Pablo Samonte, No. 339,795; Mariano Magano, No. 339,785; Vicente Valdeavella, No. 339,783; Juan Wadis, No. 339,763; Mateo Laguartilla, No. 339,744; Faustino Rosales, No. 339,707; Deogracias Babia, No. 339,701; Dionisio Abad, No. 339,694; Eduardo Ramillosa, No. 339,673; Monico Abad, No. 339,660; Conrado Lagunda, No. 339,632; Juan Tablico, No. 339,605; Ubaldo Mercado, No. 339,541; Juan Puhauan, No. 339,510; Antonio Eborda, No. 339,379; Cirilia del Castillo, No. 339,375; Valeriano de Ramos, No. 339,341; Mateo Pacoma, No. 339,313; Mariano Valdeavella, No. 339,491; Benedicto Valdeavella, No. 339,490; Juan Mercado, No. 339,477; Epifanio Vellestro, No. 339,445; Marcelino Cabalsa, No. 339,499; Marcelo Tabirao, No. 339,905; Placido Macadagay, No. 339,837; Juan Valeavella, No. 339,604; Bernabe Yamballa, No. 339,558; Leon Abi, No. 339,540; upon which said certificates there appear to have been entered and collected by the accused larger amounts than those shown on their corresponding stubs after he had settled his accounts with the provincial treasurer; and that the said stubs, or most of them, contain erasures, changes, and alterations, all of which said acts are punishable under paragraphs 4, 6, and 7 of § 300 of the Penal Code, relating to the crime of falsification, for the purpose of gain.
+Right now I’m watching a 2001 student recreation of the 1974 Chris Burden performance art piece “Velvet Water.” What strikes me is the futility and cruelty of such types of performance art.
+In the piece, the performer attempts to breathe water. Both Burden and this student reenactor – Don Simmons of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design – prefaced the piece by saying that breathing water “is the exact opposite of [from] drowning, because when you breathe water, you believe [the] water to be a thicker, richer oxygen, capable of sustaining life” (the bracketed words are from Chris Burden’s original recording).
+Nevertheless, as I’m watching, this student is drowning. Rather, he is waterboarding himself. Because, as one commenter on Simmons’ “Velvet Water” YouTube page succinctly points out, “You cannot breathe water.” No matter how much you believe that water is “a thicker, richer oxygen,” it is not, for human beings anyway. (Fish will experience it differently.)
+The recording cuts back and forth between two cameras, one recording the performer, and the other recording the audience, which is composed of about a dozen people seated in a semicircle behind tables watching the performance (which is taking place in a small viewing room next to them) on T.V. monitors in front of them. They each also have a tub of water placed before them. They were warned by the artist at the beginning of the piece that “the following performance involves a non-rational act,” and were invited to “feel free to leave the room or to participate with me.”
+No one participates, at least in terms of interacting with the tubs of water in front of them. They all stare at the screen. One woman pushes back in her chair, away from the table and the screen. This happens about halfway through the almost six minutes of self-drowning. Everyone else is fairly still, though there is some nervous movement.
+Don Simmons reports on his YouTube page that “the audience reactions were much more extreme than I foresaw. Some upset individuals were mad at me, while some were mad at themselves and others cried.”
+This description of audience reaction is reminiscent of the reaction described by Burden to the 1972 piece “Jaizu” in which he sat in a room next to a box of marijuana cigarettes and a couple cushions, wearing a pair of dark sunglasses as he faced each individual audience-visitor as they were alone in the room with him. He didn’t move or speak. He reported afterward that “many people tried to talk to me, one assaulted me, and one left sobbing hysterically.”
+The hallmark of Burden’s art is aptly described by Peter Schjeldahl in his New Yorker article on Burden, “Chris Burden and the Limits of Art.” According to him, Burden’s performances had the effect of “creating a double bind, for viewers, between the citizenly injunction to intervene in crises and the institutional taboo against touching art works.” Many of Burden’s pieces involved him putting himself in danger, such as “Shoot” (1971, gets shot in the arm with a rifle), “Trans-Fixed” (1974, crucifies himself to Volkswagen Beetle), “Icarus” (1973, has gasoline poured onto plates of glass resting on his naked body and then has the gas lit on fire), and “Doomed” (1975, determines to lie under angled piece of glass until someone interferes with the piece, which a museum employee finally does almost two days later by putting some water next to him to save him from dehydration). There are many others, including “Deadman” (1972, lies down on La Cienega Boulevard at night under a dark tarp with only a couple 15-minute flares to protect him).
+After the event in “Shoot,” he asked the audience why nobody stopped him. This is a fundamentally unfair question to ask, and Simmons put his audience in the same “double bind.” When audiences show up to these kinds of performances, they hear from the performer (expressed in the situation rather than through words) this basic statement :
+“I’m an artist, doing an important art piece. You are the audience, here to observe. Hey, why did you only observe? You’re morally obliged to get involved!”
+This type of performance art purposely puts its audience in a position where they’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t. It’s cruel. It places the audience in the position of feeling like they have a moral duty to stop the pain the artist is inflicting upon himself, while also desiring to respect his sovereignty as a free human being and a thinking artist. To place them in the schema of “audience,” and then suddenly switch the schema on them, is to confuse and hurt them.
+Are such artists trying to break down the dichotomy of performer/audience? If so, do they mean to say that audience members should become performers, and share the creation of the performance with the instigating performer?
+I think this must be what they mean, but if so, how about they give the audience a more valuable experience in which to perform? Simmons’ invitation to his audience to participate in “Velvet Water” with him is not worth much, because what sane individual is going to watch someone waterboarding himself and think, “Yeah, that’s a good idea, I think I’ll do that, too?” (Of course, this is exactly what Simmons himself did when he decided to replicate Burden’s piece. I leave you the reader to draw the resulting conclusion on the relative sanity of performance art.)
+Of course, maybe Simmons didn’t mean for his audience to participate in the same way he was participating. Maybe, as the museum employee interfered in Burden’s “Doomed,” he would have allowed someone to burst through the room to pull his head out of the sink and keep him from ingesting any more water. But how is his audience supposed to know that? Is he wanting them to think for themselves, to come up with their own way to participate? But again, how are they supposed to know that? The invitation to the audience to participate in this type of performance art is again unkind, because the performer does not provide the audience with any help to understand what is going on. They’re left in a sea of novel experience, with no lifesaver tossed to them to help them make sense of it all. So, not having any tools with which to find their way to solid land, they’re left adrift, and implicitly chided for not swimming all the way to shore themselves.
+The performer should not oppose themselves to the audience. If the performer wants the audience to be a partner, he should treat them as a partner, and that includes showing them respect and giving them the dignity of being initiated into the meaning of the piece. When you partner with someone, you don’t make demands of them without giving them the tools or information needed to fulfill those demands. Otherwise, you become a dictator, and instead of being the freeing iconoclast you see yourself as, you become worse than the creators of the traditional performance rubrics that you think you’re destroying. At least performers who use traditional forms give their audience the ability to participate in the art piece, because they use symbols and structures that they share with their audience as members of the same community. Performance artists like Burden and Simmons demand responses of their audiences that their audiences are in no way equipped to give, and therefore set themselves up as the powerful and secretive Other, cutting off all meaningful communication between themselves and their audiences. For if they refuse to use language that their audiences can understand, how can their audiences share in their secret? No wonder these artists evoke anger and suffering in their audiences.
+P.S. – One fan of Chris Burden’s work asks, “To what extent, if any, and under what conditions, does morality have a higher claim on our actions and reactions than esthetics?” I would reply that morality always and without exception has a higher claim on our actions and reactions than aesthetics. The fact that a person would even consider that the creation of an artwork could justify immoral behavior shows how far modern art has become divorced from any framework that gives it true meaning. For if art can exist for art’s sake alone, then what does art provide, except just another meaningless experience?
+I understand that modern performance artists may be trying to find, or create, meaning in a world that seems to have lost it. I sympathize. As human beings, we all need to make sense of our world, and artists do it through our art. However, the meaning is there to be found. It’s not gone. We don’t have to create it out of whole cloth, or find it only in our own idiosyncratic experience. Humanity through all time has found meaning in community, and found meaning in art shared as community. That’s where we’ll find it. Meaning is to be found in the beauty, truth, and goodness that is our common heritage as humans, and which finds its expression in our art, and has done since artists first created.
+4 thoughts on “Performance Art & the Cruelty of the Artist as “Other””
+On the off chance this is a genuine question (since, no disrespect intended, most messages of this format aren’t): Sorry, Fabrice, I am neither a representative of the Catholic Church, nor a representative of a grant-giving organization. (As a matter of fact, I could use a grant or two myself to help pay for my own studies!) My suggestion is to contact your local Catholic church or mission to ask about organizations that may provide scholarships for music students.
+God bless,
+Cole
+Good morning.My name is Claude Fabrice UMUHOZA.I am rwandan.I want to ask you if you may give to christian artists from Ctaholic church a grant to learn music as training or as graduation?
+If yes ,whatare process?
+Thank you very much.
+Sincerely
+Fabrice
+In fact I believe Chris Burden was required to see a psychiatrist after “Shoot,” and he was arrested at the end of “Deadman” “for causing a false emergency to be reported,” as his statement about the work says.
+I’m willing to be very liberal with the use of the word “art,” and accept as an artwork anything an artist tells me they created specifically as art (though if they do/make something not originally intended as art, and then later label it as art, I don’t buy that – I think it has to be specifically intended to be art at its creation). However, that doesn’t mean an object or performance’s status as art exempts it from morality or the standards of truth, goodness, and beauty.
+We studied Chris Burden at NYU as part of the World through Art course, which is a required foundation course for all Tisch School of the Arts freshmen. In that same class, we spent half of one class period discussing the claim by British conceptual artist Damien Hirst that 9/11 was a piece of art unprecedented in scale, and that the terrorists “need congratulating.” Now, Hirst did acknowledge that 9/11 was “wicked,” but he thought its quality as art was spectacular. The class came to the conclusion that it wasn’t art because it wasn’t intended as art (though there were several hold-outs in the “everything is art” crowd, to which I would reply, “If everything is art, nothing is art”). However, let’s say for the sake of argument that 9/11 was intended as art. In that case, one might be able to say with Hirst that it was effective, but also that every artist participating deserves execution. They would not be martyrs to art, either, because martyrs die for something that is good and true, and the wickedness of the 9/11 act would far outweigh any value it had as an artistic image. Art is only truly itself when it is serving principles higher than itself.
+Not that Chris Burden’s or Don Simmons’ work is anything near as bad as this hypothetical 9/11 artwork. But it does create an enmity between the artist and the audience which I think is harmful instead of helpful. There are better ways to communicate truth, goodness, and beauty, though I will admit that some of Burden’s work does have a certain level of truth, goodness, and beauty to it. The image of Christ dying for the people can be seen in “Trans-Fixed,” and the color image that records “Icarus” has a beauty to it. If the artist wants to have nails thrust through his hands and be in close proximity to lit gasoline, that’s his choice. (There are Holy Week pilgrims who have themselves crucified in order to experience a kind of unity with Christ.) But when the audience is accused for not coming to his rescue, that’s when I object.
+I’m sorry but this sort of thing use the classification art to justify indulging in sheer lunacy. Without the performance art title such people would normally be given a padded cell and rightly so.
+Of Men and Wolves: & Tolerance on the Range
+F521 wandered alone, looking for other wolves. F521 had grown old. She was 12 and had lost the dominant status in her pack. She wandered from her home range and met up with her son-in-law and two grandsons.
+Toward the end of her life F521 was slowing down. She stayed in one location for many weeks. Her grandsons visited her often. The two young Mexican wolves may have tried to mate with F521, or perhaps they were bringing her food. F521 wasn't able to kill game like she once was able to do. She had grown thin and weak.
+Wildlife managers and biologists avoid giving wild animals' names. F521 was no exception.
+Jeff Dolphin described F521's life story to illustrate the strength and ability of Mexican wolves raised in captivity and then released in the wild. Dolphin leads the Mexican wolf recovery team for the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
+Five agencies co-manage the project. The Interagency Field Team is made up of wildlife specialists from the Arizona Game and Fish Department, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, White Mountain Apache Tribe, USDA Forest Service, and USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services.
+When F521 was 13, she was shot and killed in western New Mexico, near the Arizona border. The gunman is unknown.
+To date, she is the longest-lived Mexican wolf in the wild. "There are a lot of wolves out there that are directly related to her," Dolphin said.
+Reintroducing a predator species to its historical habitat manifests dispute between wildlife agencies, environmental organizations, and people who are affected by the animals' presence on the landscape. The effort to reestablish the Mexican wolf in Arizona and New Mexico has met many challenges because the wolf competes with human use of the land. Wolves roam among domestic animals, threatening the livelihood of ranchers and perhaps altering the future of public land and the wilderness. Despite differences, and in some cases, opposition to the reintroduction of the Mexican wolf, the challenges have been met with sometimes ingenious, and sometimes practical and straightforward solutions.
+"The reintroduction of the Mexican wolves was the most difficult of any projects to reintroduce wolves anywhere," L. David Mech said. Mech is a senior research scientist at the Northern Prairie Research Center with the U.S. Geological Survey. He has studied wolves for almost 60 years.
+"The animals were all captive-bred and lacked the skills to survive in the wild," Mech said. Even though the wolves were catching elk, initially they also attacked livestock and roamed near human activity. "They were released in an environment that lacks large, expansive wilderness areas free of livestock."
+Conflict was inevitable.
+On Their Own
+When the first captive-raised Mexican wolves were released into the wild in 1998, no one knew what the outcome would be. In captivity the wolves were protected. They were fed. They didn't hunt or raise pups while exposed to harsh winter conditions.
+Once the wolves were released some supplemental food was provided, but the wolves would have to rely on instinct to survive. F521's release was part of the test for the future of the Mexican wolf in the wild.
+F521 had been brought into the Mexican wolf restoration project from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2000. She was taken to a pre-release facility in east-central New Mexico, where she mated with M507.
+F521 was released into the recovery area with her mate and a litter of their pups in 2002. F521 and M507 became the alpha female and male for the new pack, Bluestem.
+The pair had no training on how to hunt and kill prey, yet they quickly acclimated to their new environment and learned on their own how to catch elk and deer.
+F521 and M507 raised many litters of pups together. Then, in 2006, M507 disappeared. When he was found he had been dead for so long the cause of his death was unknown.
+The pack finished raising the pups without the alpha male, and in 2007, F521 took a new mate. She was now 10, and the new litter was the last of her pups. In 2008 one of her daughters pushed her out of the pack.
+For a while, F521 was accepted by the Fox Mountain pack. The alpha female, F521's daughter, was shot, and the alpha male, F521's son-in-law, was left with their three pups. F521 joined the pack for a while, but ended up roaming alone again before she was shot.
+Good Guy or Bad Guy?
+Historically, wolves were vilified. As European settlers migrated to North America, wolves were in direct conflict with humans and considered incompatible with civilized society. Wolves preyed on livestock and competed for populations of wild game also sought by humans. Wolves were shot, poisoned, and trapped. "An all-out war was launched against them," Mech said.
+For a while, even Aldo Leopold, known as the forefather of wilderness conservation, encouraged the killing of wolves—that is, until he watched a wolf die from his own gunshot wound.
+By the mid-1900s, a viable breeding population of the Mexican wolf ceased to exist north of Mexico. Not long afterward, the same fate befell the population south of the U.S. border.
+As the environmental movement of the 1960s took hold, the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966 became law in 1973. The legislation didn't yet protect native species of fish and wildlife but encouraged conservation. At the same time a new perspective on wolves developed. They were no longer considered villain, but victim.
+In 1974 all gray wolves (Canis lupus) were protected under the Endangered Species Act. Two years later the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) was recognized as an endangered subspecies separate from other gray wolves.
+The Mexican wolf subspecies listing was revoked in 1978. "Genetic sequencing wasn't yet available," said Dolphin, the wolf team leader. "No evidence could confirm the Mexican wolf was a subspecies."
+Genetic testing, which was developed in the 1980s, now shows that the Mexican wolf is a subspecies. In January 2015 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service again listed the Mexican wolf as a separate subspecies under the Endangered Species Act as part of a revision that would influence the wolf's recovery plan.
+A New Beginning
+In 1977 and 1980 the last three Mexican wolves known in the wild were captured in Durango and Chihuahua, Mexico. A single pregnant female and two male wolves were captured. These three wolves and two breeding pairs already in captivity were later certified as pure Mexican wolves. One of the two pairs was identified at the Aragon Zoo (Zoológico de San Juan de Aragón) in Mexico City, and the other pair was found at the Living Desert Museum in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
+The seven became the founding population for the captive-breeding program. "All Mexican wolves in both the captive and wild population can be traced back to those seven individuals," Dolphin said. "The descendants in captivity were selectively bred, and 93 percent of the genetic integrity of the founder wolves was maintained."
+Most founder populations need 15 individuals to retain the genetic diversity that prevents inbreeding and genetic anomalies. "But all we had were seven," Dolphin said.
+Thirty years passed before descendants of the seven founders were released in the wild. On January 27, 1998, 11 captive-reared Mexican wolves were trucked to Alpine, Arizona, where they were kept in pre-release pens for two months. The three packs—three breeding pairs and their offspring—were released into the wild on March 28, 1998, as a blizzard approached.
+Supplemental food was distributed for the wolves. "The wolves lived in captivity and were used to being fed at the same time every day," Jim deVos said. "They didn't know how to hunt in the wild." DeVos is the assistant director of wildlife management with the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
+Radio collars indicated the location of each of the three packs. By tracking the wolves, the Interagency Field Team, which was responsible for managing the recovery program in the wild, knew not only where the wolves were moving but could also check on their activities. Soon after release, the wolves were killing elk.
+Today, 109 Mexican wolves live wild primarily in a 6,800 square mile stretch from east-central Arizona in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests into the Gila National Forest in central New Mexico. Some wolves have begun to disperse into other parts of the recovery area.
+Beating the Odds
+Restoring a predator to its former range has many challenges. "One of the biggest challenges with the Mexican wolf recovery is that a large portion of the recovery area is on public land," Dolphin said.
+The region is a multi-use landscape dominated by humans. People hunt, fish, and camp, sometimes close to wolves. Livestock graze in the national forests. Logging operations are also allowed. Inevitably, the demand for the land creates a demand for more roads. More roads bring more people and more conflict with the growing population of wolves.
+By comparison, wolf territory in the northern Rocky Mountains is made up of expanses of undisturbed wilderness. Hunting and grazing are not allowed in Yellowstone National Park, where a viable population of reintroduced wolves thrives. Wolves don't come in contact with livestock unless they venture outside the park.
+The wolves in multi-use areas die more often from unnatural causes than in wilderness areas with more limited human access. Cars hit wolves. Sometimes hunters mistake wolves for coyotes, which are legal to hunt.
+Between 1998 and 2014, 111 Mexican wolves released into the recovery area died in the wild: 75 were shot illegally or killed accidentally, 21 died of natural causes, and 15 died of other or unknown causes. A number of wolves were also lethally removed, relocated, or returned to captivity, many after attacks on livestock. Some wolves were released again when they were older.
+Achieving a balance between restoring wolf populations and managing their behavior is part of the challenge, especially in areas where livestock grazing exacerbates the conflict between wolves and humans.
+For wolves everywhere, "the only way to minimize conflict is to dedicate large expanses of wilderness for them," Mech said. "Where there are livestock and wolves together, eventually the wolves will prey on livestock."
+Tit for Tat
+Almost daily, the Arizona Game and Fish Department deals with ranchers who lose livestock to wolves. Livestock owners are legal users of the land, in accordance with the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960. "They pay to graze their livestock on public lands," deVos said.
+Compensation for livestock killed by wolves has helped ranchers cope with the challenges of raising domestic animals in areas designated for wolves. In 1987 Defenders of Wildlife established the Wolf Compensation Trust to reimburse ranchers when wolves killed their cattle, sheep, or other livestock.
+The program was originally designed to protect wolves in other Western states. Ranchers received $800 in compensation for a calf if it was a "confirmed" wolf kill. If the cause of death was "probable" predation by a wolf, the rancher received $400. Compensation for livestock losses changes based on the market value of livestock at the time.
+Although the Wolf Compensation Trust currently provides $1,450 for the loss of a cow and $2,500 for a bull, livestock operators experienced additional losses when a wolf killed a cow. They also lost the calf that the cow would have produced that year and possibly other calves in subsequent years.
+In addition, it can be difficult to find a dead animal on Western ranges. In the Midwest, livestock are kept in fenced pastures. "A livestock owner can wake up in the morning and go out and count their animals," deVos said. "Western livestock production is in rugged country. If an animal is missing, it is difficult to prove that a calf was taken by a wolf."
+The Defenders of Wildlife compensation program ended in 2010. The organization shifted its focus from compensation to prevention, working with ranchers to develop preventive techniques to reduce conflicts between wolves and livestock. Federal funds for state-run compensation were expected to transition the program to the states, but Congress did not pass the federal provision initiated in 2009.
+In 2011 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which oversees the management of wildlife designated under the Endangered Species Act, established the Mexican Wolf/Livestock Coexistence Council. Its goal, with support from Defenders of Wildlife, is to create incentives for ranchers to employ preventive practices that stop wolves from preying on livestock in the first place. The council took control of the compensation, which is funded by donations kept in a trust fund. "Livestock operators fund the program and are compensating themselves for their losses," deVos said.
+Federal grants are also a source of funding and an Arizona-based compensation program, SB1466, was recently passed.
+Ranchers from Arizona and New Mexico serve on the council, along with representatives from the Mexican Wolf Fund, Defenders of Wildlife, San Carlos Apache Tribe, White Mountain Apache Tribe, and rural counties in Arizona and New Mexico. Government agencies, such as the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Arizona Game and Fish Department, also work closely with the council.
+The council supports the "pay for presence" policy, a management effort that compensates ranchers who graze their livestock in wolf habitat. If wolves are present or a wolf den is located near a pasture, a rancher is compensated for the extra costs of raising livestock close to predators.
+Many ranchers believe that livestock respond negatively in areas where wolves have preyed on domestic animals. Some of the effects reported include lower birth rates, a decline in meat quality, and weight loss. Calves raised near wolves tend to weigh less when weaned from their mothers. At roughly $2 a pound, a calf weighing 100 pounds less than average equals a $200 loss.
+More Creative Solutions
+Although compensation for livestock losses continues, other approaches are now used to prevent wolves from preying on livestock. One non-lethal method is turbo-fladry. This technique works best to protect sheep from wolves, said Dolphin, the team leader with Arizona Game and Fish. The sheep are penned up at night in corrals surrounded by electrified fencing. A series of red or orange flags, known as fladry, hang from the electric fence. The fladry has also proved successful in deterring bears, mountain lions, and coyotes.
+Range riders are one of the best ways to prevent wolves from preying on livestock, said Craig Miller, the Southwest representative for Defenders of Wildlife. Range riders can track where radio-collared wolves are in relation to a domestic herd. Guard dogs can also alert range riders or sheepherders of approaching wolves.
+Another way to stop wolves from preying on livestock is by keeping livestock away from elk, Dolphin said. If wolves are chasing elk through livestock herds, then the predators will encounter the domestic animals. "If the elk and livestock are kept separate then wolves are less likely to prey on livestock," Dolphin said.
+Hands On
+It took eight years for the Mexican wolf population to rise above 50 animals. In other restoration areas, such as Yellowstone and Idaho, recovery took three or four years to reach the same number because wolves were still found in the wild and conflicts did not exist with domestic animals.
+Establishing a wild-born population of the Mexican wolf was important to the success of its restoration. "A few generation of wolves have now been born in the wild," Mech said. "Those individuals survive much better than the wolves released from captivity."
+The wolves released early in the project had been raised in captivity and were used to human scent and sounds. "Sometimes wolves turned up in the middle of a community eating dog food off of porches," Dolphin said.
+Since those early release days, the wolves have learned to be more secretive and avoid human contact. "The wolves are doing what we want wild animals to do," Dolphin said. "They are being cryptic, which is a good indicator of the success of the project."
+In 2005 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service implemented a policy to remove, kill, or return to captivity any wolf that attacked three cattle in a year. Known as SOP 13, this policy continued until 2009.
+The importance of maintaining a diverse genetic pool made it tough to follow this policy. Removing a wolf with important variability to the gene pool could weaken the genetic makeup of the entire population. Nevertheless, several wolves were removed each year until a public outcry and lawsuit ended the policy in 2009.
+Today, every wolf that preys on livestock is treated according to the special dynamics of that individual. If a wolf poses a continued threat to livestock, it may be relocated, killed, or taken into captivity.
+The Future
+After SOP 13 was abandoned in 2009, 52 Mexican gray wolves, including only two breeding pairs, remained in the wild. Today, 19 packs of wolves roam in the recovery area—the most wolf packs since the beginning of the project, Dolphin said. Packs often consist of two to 14 members. The 2014 census results, revealed in February, show that the wild population has grown to at least 109 wolves, including 39 pups born last year.
+Recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service revised the section (10)j regulations to the Endangered Species Act regarding the Mexican wolf. Among other changes, the new guidelines include increasing the recovery area so the wolf can expand farther north into Arizona and New Mexico and south into its historical range in Mexico.
+Increasing the Mexican wolf's territory has advantages, but expanding its range into desert and other unsuitable habitat not part of its historical habitat could harm recovery and management efforts. The more wolves that get into trouble in those less suitable areas translate into more management. "We already lack the funding to launch a larger-scale wolf recovery program," deVos, from Arizona Game and Fish Department, said.
+Only a tiny portion of historical habitat remains in the U.S. Southwest, he said. The southwestern U.S. comprised about 10 percent of the Mexican wolf's original range, with the remaining 90 percent in Mexico. "They aren't called Mexican wolves for any other reason than they came from Mexico," deVos said.
+The revisions to the management of the Mexican wolf includes increasing the number of wild wolves from 100 to as many as 325 animals, as well as new guidelines on when a Mexican wolf can be killed for preying on livestock.
+Some critics of the program say that in order for the Mexican wolf to become self-sustaining, the entire recovery population should increase to about 750 wolves.
+To secure the natural and historical role the Mexican gray wolf played in the ecosystem as a predator throughout the Southwest, it is important that a large enough population, to insure their survival over time, is restored, Miller from Defenders of Wildlife said. That number may exceed 750.
+The cost of reintroducing the Mexican wolf has been high. The federal government, Arizona, and New Mexico spent $28.8 million for the recovery of the Mexican wolf from 1977 to 2012, deVos said. The federal government provided 90 percent of the funds through grants and direct funding, with the remaining costs covered by state wildlife agencies. (The total funds used by private organizations for wolf recovery is not included in this estimate.)
+The vision of Mexican wolves becoming a self-sustaining population may soon become a reality. In 2014, 13 Mexican wolves birthed 39 pups—the most ever produced and surviving in a year.
+Human Perception
+Some believe that if humans are the stewards of the Earth, then restoring wolves to their historical range is our obligation.
+Many Native American cultures associate wolves with loyalty, strength, and courage. Several tribes in North America believe that wolves are close relatives of humans. The Zunis think the wolf possesses hunting and healing powers. To many, the wolf is a symbol of the wilderness. It represents what is left of the most pristine areas in North America.
+Few people have seen a wolf in the wild. Those who have describe the wolf as enchanting, mysterious, bold, and beautiful. When threatened, some say the wolf becomes larger, its deep growl mesmerizing. Alert and yet cautious, wolves seem to possess an acute awareness of their surroundings, almost as if they can predict what will happen next.
+Wolves avoid humans, perhaps because they are naturally secretive or perhaps as a result of persecution or distrust. Since prehistoric times the relationship between humans and wolves has fluctuated as humans' perception of the wolf changes.
+When someone does encounter a wolf, the experience can have a life changing effect. Some say when, by chance, you meet up face to face with a wolf it feels as if the wolf can peer into your soul.
+Aldo Leopold said that to look into the eyes of a wolf is to find new meaning in the value of the wild and wilderness. Perhaps Leopold could have also said that when you look into the eyes of a wolf, you experience something so unusual and alluring you crave another encounter.
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+Live-Blogging Obama’s Town Hall Meeting on Health Care
+Louise Radnofsky reports on politics.
+The Obama administration’s enthusiasm for all things Web-based continues this afternoon with an “online town hall” to discuss health care at 1.15 p.m. EDT.
+Washington Wire will be bringing you a live-blog of the event, in which President Barack Obama will answer questions from a live audience at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va., as well as comments sent in through YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
+President Barack Obama is promising Internet users that their “engagement” on health care is “just as important as that of our lawmakers” and that “we won’t be able to achieve reform without you.”
+Republicans are complaining that the president “did not directly answer many of the questions posed to him during last week’s primetime town hall event”, and are running their own simultaneous live-blog.
+The potential for crashing your work computer is growing. But our live blog will begin shortly and we hope you’ll be reading.
+1:20 Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat, is describing Obama’s achievements for the state, on issues such as economic recovery.
+1:24 Now he is introducing Valerie Jarrett, a key adviser to the president, who will be moderating the meeting.
+1:25 Valerie Jarrett steps up, saying she’s “just delighted” about the event. She adds that Annandale, Va., where the town hall is being held, has been particularly hard-hit by the “crisis” in health care. She also talks about the administration’s desire to “engage” with Americans on this debate.
+She’s just offered still more ways to crash your computer: there is a live chat going on via the Facebook page, too.
+1:27 We’re starting. Obama’s being welcomed in to the town hall. The room gets on its feet, and applauds loudly. Now he’s thanking and praising various dignitaries.
+1:30 In introductory remarks, the president says, “We’re living through extraordinary times” and repeats a common theme of his speeches – that this generation is being called to confront challenges of a magnitude unlike anything seen in recent history, including two wars, a tough recession, and health care and education problems that weaken the economy as a whole. He also says that it’s not “too soon,” and not too much, to expect to tackle all of these problems now.
+If it seems too hard, Obama adds: “The costs of inaction… are even greater.”
+He then reiterates a series of statistics on problems in health care: rising premiums, especially relative to wages, small businesses reducing benefits, and the amount the government is spending on Medicaid and Medicare – which could one day outstrip government spending on everything else, combined.
+The only way to control deficits is to control health-care costs, the president says. He also explains that he understands the personal horror stories that people have over health-care experiences: both from town hall meetings, and from the letters he receives.
+1:36 The president makes a commitment to pass health care reform, not in five or 10 years, but “this year.”
+He says naysayers in Washington have already been surprised, and that many stakeholders in the issue have been coming around, fast.
+1:38 He says the Senate committee handling the issue, led by Sens. Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy, has already made great progress on the issue, but now the U.S. needs to finish the job.
+Obama reiterates the main points of his administration’s health-care stance: getting to keep your doctor if you want to, electronic medical records, investment in prevention and changing incentives in the health-care system to equate expensive care with good care, “which drives up your costs but doesn’t make you better.”
+1:41 Obama calls for a system that does not reward doctors for distorting medical priorities, and for covering uninsured Americans, as “a moral imperative.” He says that this is in their interest – and will drive down health-care costs of people who are insured.
+1:43 Now he is touting the benefits of a “one-stop-shop” to compare plans, a health care exchange, with a public option and private insurance plans that do not deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions. “You can make the decision,” he says.
+Whatever we do, we have to pay for it, he says. Any health-care reform must be “deficit-neutral.“ But, that can be done – mostly by reallocating costs.
+1:46 One-third of the overhaul will have to be paid through increased revenues: capping itemized deductions for the wealthiest 2% of Americans to pay for the rest of reform.
+He says he isn’t including savings from reforms such as the use of electronic medical records because they aren’t – to use a congressional word – “scoreable.”
+1:48 Obama has been speaking for a while now, but promises that he’s nearly done. This is a big, complicated topic, he says, so he hopes he’s forgiven. Just to round off, he slams “scare stories,” and asks their proponents what they have to say to Americans struggling with health care. “All of us are in this together,” he says, bringing schools and energy into the mix. He refuses to accept the status quo, he says, “and you shouldn’t either.”
+1:50 It’s one of those rare moments where everyone’s ready to move into the future – “We just can’t be scared.” It’s time for ordinary Americans to stand up, he concludes.
+On to some of those ordinary Americans… after a round of applause.
+1:51 In case there was any doubt, the president has NOT seen the questions ahead of time, Ms. Jarrett says.
+1:52 First question is one that has been among the most prominent on the Facebook noticeboard – why isn’t the administration pursuing a single-payer plan?
+Medicare is a single-payer plan, the president says..
+1:55 The second question is a personal story – a woman in the audience who prefaces her tale by saying she is going to try not to cry. And while she’s managing not to cry, it’s only just: She speaks quickly, desperately, as she describes how there’s nothing in the health-care system to help her treat a new cancerous tumor, and she just wants to know what to do.
+1:57 The president asks her to come over to him – he says he will work with her to try and find help, but right now, he doesn’t want her to be alone. Now he explains why she is an example of why the system is broken.
+1:58 “Debbie, you are exhibit A,” the president says to the woman, before repeating the commitment to get health care reform this year.
+2:00 Now a video from two small business owners comes up – with a very, very cute kid narrating their question about how they can be helped.
+2:01 The president says he understands how bad the situation has become for small-business owners. He praises drug companies, while beating up on them, and then pivots back to the merits of his “health-care exchange” which, he says, will help families and small businesses decide what the best plan is for them. He also says the reform package will help small businesses which currently can’t get the right coverage on their own.
+2:04 Next question, from a health-care reform advocate in the audience. He wants to the president to talk about affordability.
+Obama answers by stressing “the costs of doing nothing,” and criticizes opponents of reform, who he says sometimes seem to suggest that the current system works brilliantly and that the president is just fiddling for the sake of it.
+The president lists the situations on his current to-do list, including Afghanistan, North Korea, and swine flu, and then raises his voice: “If the health care system is really working well, I would be happy to leave it alone!”
+He returns to the theme that there’s a big cost in doing nothing, and then links the deficit to the long-term costs of Medicaid and Medicare. He takes a swipe at critics of the economic stimulus plan saying that it’s not the reason for the deficit, and “it’s done its job.”
+The answer then goes back to some of the points in the president’s opening remarks, including capping itemized deductions. In case anyone’s eyes glazed over at that, perhaps, Obama tries to crack a joke. He’s talking about rich people, like Valerie Jarrett was before she came to work for the federal government, so, now she won’t be affected.
+Now – COBRA fixes for the unemployed or job-changers are really important, he says – but they are piecemeal.
+Every nation around the world that is as wealthy at the U.S. can make this work, he adds. They don’t do it perfectly, which is why we need that “uniquely American” situation, he says.
+One last point from the president: He attacks the suggestion that we shouldn’t rush into health care reform because it’s complicated. That’s why Congress is broken, he suggests. Hearings and white papers rumble along for a long time, then lobbyists and special interest pile on, and a decade passes.
+2:12 A question from the Web: why is the administration so keen to tax people on their health coverage? Does it make sense?
+The president discusses the origins of tax exclusions for health care, and why it’s starting to break down. He notes that this set-up gives no leverage to people outside of a pool looking for coverage. Insurance companies “want to cover the young, healthy folks – like Mark Warner,” he jokes, referencing the Virginia senator.
+Ultimately, capping itemized deductions is the only way to meet all the conflicting issues and to prevent people’s existing premiums go up, he says — but this is something that’s going to be debated, he concedes.
+2:19 A video question from a Texas physician, taking issue with the president’s stance against capping medical malpractice suits – which the doctor says leads to “defensive medicine.”
+The president says he doesn’t like the idea of an “artificial cap” if there really was negligence. He gives a gory example: a surgery that leaves a sponge in the patient’s gut. The audience seems to be able to stomach this image.
+The Texas doctor had said that the caps in his state showed how well they could work. The president highlights a town in Texas which has extremely high-health-care costs and says it suggests that rising costs is not related to whether there are caps or not. He praises other places (including El Paso) for their ability to keep costs down, and gives shout-outs to some particular practices such as co-ordinating care which are “common sense approaches.”
+“I’m not saying they do it consciously,” he clarifies. It’s the reimbursement system.
+2:25 One more question, from the audience. An SEIU member in the audience has the microphone. What can I do as a member of the union to help the president, she asks.
+The most important thing the American people can do right now is to just be informed, Obama says. It’s complicated, and he doesn’t expect everyone to be an expert, but he does want them to be able to shrug off scare tactics, such as accusations of a “government takeover of health care!”
+Again: If you like your health-care coverage right now, you can keep it, he says. Reforming the system is the most likely way for you to keep it, he adds.
+I do think we should have a public plan to compete with the private plan, he says. If private plans are as good as the companies say, why are they afraid, Obama asks.
+The president talks about claims of rationing. This has been a hot-topic on the liberal blogosphere. The bloggers think he should be aggressive in arguing that the U.S. has de facto rationing.
+He doesn’t go for that argument. Instead, he talks about research on clinical effectiveness, and says that a patient and doctor knowing whether there is a “blue pill” that costs half of what the “red pill does’ but works as well is not rationing, it’s “just being sensible.”
+So – to sum up – the president is saying people should be more critical of claims of “Canada-style health care!”
+“Don’t be scared,” he concludes.
+2:30 There’s hand-shaking, a chirpy rendition of “Stars and Stripes Forever,” and the town hall meeting is over.
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+The process starts with inserting the apparel image in photoshop with a mannequin in it. The first step is to select the mannequin and then erase it. You can use any selection tool, but the pen tool will be the best to choose the mannequin from the image. After selecting the mannequin manually using the pen tool, delete it from the photo, After deleting the mannequin, there will be a gap, and now you need to fill that gap. Now clip out the inner part from another image and attach it to your main photo. With this step, you will get your ghost effect in photoshop for your apparel product ready to present.
+People now are leaning towards online shopping rather than going to the mall. So as an online retailer, every brand is trying to impress consumers with their product photos. Impressing consumers is becoming challenging day by day because new technologies are evolving fast. Ghost mannequin effect service is one of the uses of new ideas of retailers for their apparel products.
+With ghost mannequins, photography retailers are getting rid of the hassle of hiring models for their every project. Now ghost mannequin editing gives your clothing product the same realistic look that a model would do. On top of that, photography a dummy is a lot easier than a model. You can make any pose you like using a dummy and later in the post-processing change it with a model.
+If you use an invisible ghost mannequin at its best, it can become your trump card for your business. Photography mannequins provide you with almost the same benefits as a model and can be efficient and cost-effective.
+The invisible or Ghost mannequin service can increase sales for the online clothing business. How? Let me tell you. While shopping online, consumers can't see or feel the product as they could when visiting the mall. So they have to stick with what the product photo shows and clothing manufacturers tell them in the description. Getting impressed by an image and its description is a big risk to take.
+That's why the online clothing business is tricky, and getting that first sale is the toughest. If you are thinking of starting an online boutique, you must get these things straight and clear. So before you start selling clothes online, know how to start a clothing business online successfully. You have to provide a reason to your consumer to trust your brand.
+And offering them the proper form of your clothing product is the key to increase sales. To sell clothes online, use ghost mannequin photography as it will help you to enhance the product's photo. Your clothing product will get a 3D look that provides a more clear view to a consumer.
+Photo manipulation is changing the elements of a photo and giving it a completely new look in photoshop. In the ghost mannequin effect, experts erase the mannequin and add new elements to the image. In that sense, ghost mannequins are also a part of photo manipulation photoshop.
+The difference is, the invisible mannequin effect is perfect for apparel or clothing photography. On the other hand, with photo manipulation, you can edit any image you want. You can make your imagination accurate with image manipulation by editing the photos.
+With mannequin editing, you can edit only your clothing product photos, make them stunning to impress your customers. There is a limit in invisible mannequin editing that you do, but in manipulation, the limit is only the sky. You can follow photoshop tutorials for photo manipulation and start giving your imagination the wings it needs. But if you want to edit and make your clothing product photo impressive, a ghost mannequin is the key.
+We can assure you about the pricing that ghost mannequin service will cost you way less than it would if you hire a model. To hire a model for your fashion photography, you have to spend a large amount of money. On top of that, you have to match their scheduling.
+Sorting out the suitable model for your product is another tough job to do. Even if you found the right model, what if they had issues with their skin on the shooting days? You can't control that either. So as you can see, the hiring model costs you money, and you have to go through a lot of hassle as well.
+On the other hand, you don't have to go through any hassle with a dummy or mannequin. You can make them any pose you want, and there will be no scheduling or sudden pimple issues to face. Set the dummy and shoot. The post-processing makes it ghost away at an affordable price. Find the best price for the ghost mannequin effect at edit picture online. We offer industry bottom rates for clothing mannequin editing.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+Certainly, with (what I would consider) far better email advertising and marketing tools like ActiveCampaign and GetResponse being the same rate or less expensive, it’s difficult for me to advise AWeber in all. In spite of the truth that it does end up being a whole lot extra competitively valued at 10,000+ customers, it still never ever rather manages to make the ideal financial sense for marketers on a spending plan.
+When I first started out, AWeber was the best tool for newbies and also experts alike, as well as it was a terrific device. Is that still the case today?Unfortunately not. Extremely bit has transformed because the golden era of AWeber as well as the competitors have actually plainly left it in the dirt. While a novice doesn’t require high-level features, AWeber lacks even some of the most standard requirements of a good e-mail advertising and marketing tool in 2017, which does not want to transform whenever quickly.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+I would certainly suggest that ConvertKit is a FAR BETTER alternative for newbies at a comparable price-point, with a much cleaner interface and an effective, yet user friendly automations home builder. So, AWeber isn’t the most effective selection for those on a budget, neither is it optimal for novice blog owners yet what concerning seasoned marketers?Well, if you have actually read this review from top-to-bottom, you won’t be stunned by what I’m about to say.
+The most significant reason and think me, I can detail many is that the automation capabilities are REALLY rudimentary. In 2017 as well as past, email advertising automation is the real golden-goose, and AWeber just can not supply in that regard. If that wasn’t factor enough, I found AWeber to be extremely buggy, with countless mistakes as well as web pages constantly loading on numerous events:.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+Creating a personal is a wise advertising method that permits you to build commitment with your customers. You’ll likewise be able to educate current and prospective customers concerning the current business offers and news as events unfold. In addition, a personal connection with consumers allows you to obtain real-time feedback from your clients, which consequently will certainly put you in a much better setting to enhance your organisation.
+And also study shows it creates the highest possible amount of ROI return on investment of all marketing techniques. Regrettably, by hand developing as well as sending out individual emails to your entire client listing can be time-consuming. This is where autoresponder tools.Aweber is a prominent email advertising and marketing solution with autoresponder ability. It assists local business develop efficient email marketing projects that improve involvement, loyalty, and also sales.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+Several of the most popular features of AWeber include: Dozens of to use your favorite devices even simpler for third-party appsTop-notch by phone, live chat, and emailEasy-to-use Over 100 customizableRobustAbility to identify emails to so you can see what is workingHigh Among the most preferred features of AWeber is the ability to send out automated emails.
+You could additionally create various series of post-purchase emails, based on the kind of item the individual bought. Additionally, you can produce In conclusion, Aweber’s autoresponder e-mails enable you to actually involve with your clients by sending them customized, prompt, and targeted, e-mails that keep your company on their minds.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+The (over 100) and also variety from simple call-to-action techniques such as uploading email registration types on the web site and also social networks systems of your service, to incorporating your account with favored on the internet buying devices such as Several of the most popular combinations are: WordPressShopifyMagentoGoTo WebinarSalesforceShopifyWooCommerceClickFunnelsUnbounceFreshbooksThere’s likewise the incorporation of, a flexible programs interface that includes several powerful functions that allow you to create your really own customized email-marketing apps that assist you totally optimize your advertising methods.
+AWeber supplies you with an important checklist feature that makes it simpler for you to.This feature allows you to divide customers right into various groups relying on various aspects such as their value in your firm, their shopping behaviors, or the length of time they been with your company. You can create, VIP customers, clients that resource your service/products repetitively, and so on.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+From the integration capacities to the listing division function to the, Aweber takes out all the quits to ensure you have the smoothest experience possible when managing your contacts. You are given a simple that allows you to easily make adjustments to your projects whenever you want. If you’re not certain whether Aweber would certainly make a great suitable for you, the business permits you to figure out firsthand with an economical tester plan (Aweber How To Create A Landing Page).
+A non-commitment plan, Aweber permits you to cancel after your totally free test if the firm’s services do not match your email advertising requirements. Do not have any experience when it comes to creating emails? No stress over that since Aweber allows you to produce some amazing looking emails from the, which can be customized to your preference.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+The forms provide you with accessibility to countless potential customers as they can be positioned on your company’s site, blog page, and also social media systems. Up to, that makes e-mail development easy as well as quick by removing the need for you to produce your project messages from square one. All you need to do when producing e-mails is customize the chosen layout making use of intuitive tools in the e-mail editor.
+When it comes time for your individuals to register for your e-mail listing, there is more to the process than just collecting their information. One decision you need to make is whether you desire to carry out a process or a process. With a single opt-in process, your individual enroll in your email checklist.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+The user can opt-in in any kind of variety of means, consisting of making use of a custom-made opt-in type that you construct and also offer on your web site. After they subscribe, there is nothing more the individual has to do before they can obtain your e-mails (Aweber How To Create A Landing Page). This implies that the entire sign-up process is fairly easy for all events entailed.
+Your customer will certainly opt-in to your list, yet then, you will ask the individual to verify their subscription. This is typically done by means of a welcome e-mail that asks the customer to acknowledge that a) they have actually supplied their information to you and also b) they are selecting to receive extra interaction from you.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+Single opt-in is less complicated for your users, which suggests that you are more most likely to garner a higher overall number of email addresses. Aweber How To Create A Landing Page. Dual opt-in, nonetheless, makes certain the e-mails you obtain stand and are not being utilized by robots and so on (bear in mind, sending also lots of e-mails to dead e-mail addresses signifies a spammer, and you do not desire to be mistaken for a spammer).
+Study generally shows that you’ll obtain a bigger email checklist via solitary opt-in, as well as greater opens up, clicks, and also conversions, whereas with double opt-in you’ll obtain a higher price (as a portion versus the whole) of opens up, clicks and conversions. No matter which alternative you select, AWeber supports very easy execution of either opt-in procedure.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+After that, you contrast the success rates of either e-mail by taking a look at metrics like:: the amount of e-mails efficiently reached a valid inbox?: the amount of individuals opened your e-mails?: the amount of individuals clicked the web links you included in your email?As you can visualize, the success prices decline as you relocate from shipment price to open price to click-through price.
+While AWeber does not ship with a committed attribute called “split screening,” it is relatively simple to create your segments (groups of customers) and send out tailored e-mails. Aweber is known for their high quality support, which is offered by useful and pleasant agents who react to queries as well as troubles quickly – Aweber How To Create A Landing Page.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+Aweber Live chat support is additionally supplied on Saturdays and also Sundays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.Also included in the aid and also support division are: on a range of subjects varying from account configuration to incorporating your Aweber account with numerous tools. that focus on informing customers on all issues associated with email advertising.
+Weekly providing email advertising advice and general ideas. Email advertising and marketing that can be downloaded as pdf documents. platforms where you can upload questions. The coverage devices Aweber gives are one step ahead of many various other email advertising and marketing solution companies. such as brand-new clients, e-mail opens, clicks in time, ad tracking, customer place, client development, follow-up statistics, therefore a lot more.
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+What’s more, you’re supplied with the flexibility of choosing a default record style with options varying from standard raw numbers, to percents, to graphes – Aweber How To Create A Landing Page. Whatever layout you pick Aweber provides you with comprehensive info that will enable you to produce better as well as more efficient campaigns. If you are considering AWeber, chances are that you have stumbled upon a contending email advertising system called GetResponse.
+The adhering to sections will certainly cover a few of the differences we observed between the two items. Both AWeber and GetResponse enable you to create sign-up kinds. Nonetheless, while AWeber ships with form-creation functionality, GetResponse goes one action additionally by giving what the company calls its.In addition to developing an aesthetically enticing website that your consumers can utilize to provide their details, GetResponse offers bonus functionality like and also automated roll-out of the layout that is one of the most effective at garnering leads. All plans feature the specific very same features, so you (for instance, if you are getting to out to less than 500 consumers, you can choose for the most affordable plan). Obtain Action’s pricing plan is a little extra challenging. The company uses four various plans, each of which supplies a various set of features and functionality.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+For those who desire to start with as little money as possible, GetResponse is less expensive. As your requirements grow, nonetheless, you will certainly need to make a direct contrast entailing the plans that use the features you require to fulfill your goals. Both AWeber as well as GetResponse supply layouts you can utilize to develop your emails.
+What takes place if you run into problems with your email advertising and marketing campaigns?AWeber supplies prize-winning support through Live Conversation 24/7 and also telephone support Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 8 PM (Eastern Time). The firm likewise uses a robust Assistance Facility that includes an expertise base, webinars, and also video clip guides.GetResponse additionally uses 24/7 Real-time Conversation support, along with email-based assistance in 7 different languages. Is AWeber a good e-mail advertising and marketing software program.
+Aweber How To Create A Landing Page
+? It relies on your needs. Listed below, we lay out one of the most crucial benefits and drawbacks. Permits you to sneak peek emails prior to sending them out. Permits the creation and editing and enhancing of firm newsletters. All Aweber packages include a special Telephone call Loop function, which accumulates the contact number of clients as well as allows you to send SMSs( text messages) and also voice mail messages to your clients. Does not allow you to import your contact listings from other companies. Aweber has a rigorous anti-spam plan that limits you from including contacts that have actually not sent out a membership verification.( As this keeps their e-mail deliverability prices high, this could likewise be viewed as a pro.) Despite the listed disadvantages, AWeber offers you every little thing you need to develop a successful email advertising and marketing campaign. Best of all, you’re given with routine records that allow you to remain at the top of the email advertising game. So, if you desire to run your e-mail.
+marketing campaign efficiently and easily, Aweber is one of the options that deserve some severe consideration. and get all the tools you require to be successful with access to the complete set of features AWeber uses.
+A proposed federal rule on implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act includes opportunities to support patients’ access to their electronic health information and improve the transparency of health care price information. Based on what we have learned from our work in our Empowering Health Care Consumers program area, NYHealth submitted the following comments to encourage policy-makers to ensure that useful health care information is easily available to patients.
+May 2, 2019
+The Honorable Alex Azar
+Secretary
+U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
+200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
+Washington, D.C. 20201
+Re: 84 FR 7424
+Dear Secretary Azar:
+On behalf of the New York Health Foundation (NYHealth), a private, independent philanthropy, I am writing to provide comments to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (84 FR 7424) 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program published in the Federal Register on March 4, 2019.
+NYHealth believes that information transparency is a gateway to improving affordability, quality, and competition in the health care system and making the system work better for all Americans. One of our priority areas, Empowering Health Care Consumers, is focused on promoting transparency of health care price, quality, and patient experience information. We support projects to develop and spread information resources for patients and encourage diverse stakeholders (including plans, providers, and policymakers) to advance transparency in health care.
+A national survey by Public Agenda, co-funded by NYHealth and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,. The survey also found that nearly two-thirds of Americans don’t believe that there is enough price information about how much medical services cost. These findings dispel misconceptions that people are not interested in this information.[1]
+We applaud the Administration’s efforts to promote meaningful price and information transparency in the health care system. Our experience and the work of our grantees on this topic provide important lessons:
+- Making timely information on prices easily accessible in consumers’ electronic health information (EHI) systems and having actual price information (rather than chargemaster data) available on public websites will help empower patients to be effective consumers of health care.
+- Leadership and direction by the federal government, especially the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), is needed to motivate and direct participation by all stakeholders required for such meaningful price transparency to occur.
+- Patients should have easy access to notes written by their providers—and patients want them. OpenNotes, a global leader in the note-sharing movement, has found that more than 90% of patients want easy access to their health care visit notes.[2] Patients, parents, and care partners report many important clinical benefits from reading shared notes, including better understanding of their health conditions, improved adherence to medications and their care plans, and increased trust of doctors.
+Below, we respond to the Department’s specific requests for feedback in the proposed rule:
+HHS question: Should prices that are included in EHI reflect the amount to be charged to and paid for by the patient’s health plan (if the patient is insured) and the amount to be charged to and collected from the patient (as permitted by the provider’s agreement with the patient’s health plan), including for drugs or medical devices; include various pricing information such as charge master price, negotiated prices, pricing based on CPT codes or DRGs, bundled prices, and price to payer; be reasonably available in advance and at the point of sale; reflect all out-of-pocket costs such as deductibles, copayments and coinsurance (for insured patients); and/or include a reference price as a comparison tool such as the Medicare rate and, if so, what is the most meaningful reference?
+Meaningful information on prices faced by consumers needs to be available in advance of the point of care. Patients should have access to the estimated prices that they will be responsible for paying (including deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance if they are insured), and they should have that information before the service, drug, or medical equipment is provided..[3]
+In nearly every other sector of the economy, people know what they are paying for, and how much, before they pay. Such a priori knowledge could empower patients to seek care from more efficient providers. Without such information, patients have no ability to comparison-shop for the highest-value care.
+Good faith estimates are useful. Given the complexity of health insurance plan benefit designs, exact price information may not be easily generated in a constant real-time (or on-demand) basis. In such cases, good faith estimates may be required. Such estimates should be automatically and seamlessly updated as patients’ histories of benefit utilization and network information changes.
+Patients should receive an “all-in” price. It is much more meaningful for consumers to see the “all-in” price for a health care event or episode (for example, having a baby) than to see a confusing array of prices for isolated procedures related to the episode (for example, the price of an anesthesiologist or a lactation consultation). The federal government, as well as many commercial insurers and states, has invested considerably in the development of episode groupers, as well as new payment and delivery models geared toward specific episodes and conditions.[4] Sharing this information with consumers as part of transparency tools would be an enormous step forward. Having an “all-in” price would also help limit the occurrence of surprise bills. Without information about the prices for all services involved in an episode of care, surprise bills may occur even after a patient has taken steps to ensure that the providers involved in their care would be in-network and covered by their insurance plan.
+Some services, episodes, drugs, and devices are more conducive to price-shopping than others. Not every health care service is shoppable; in an emergency, no patient is in a position to act like a consumer and comparison-shop. But low-risk acute care services like common imaging and lab tests are often delivered at different sites of care (e.g., physician offices, urgent care centers, and emergency rooms) with fairly uniform quality; these services offer the most obvious opportunities for price-shopping. Expensive and well-defined procedural episodes of care that can be planned for well in advance (e.g., knee replacement) also represent important opportunities to help steer patients to more efficient providers. ONC should prioritize price transparency efforts on the types of care that are most conducive to price-shopping.
+Reference prices should be relevant to a patient’s specific circumstances. For example, prices should be relevant to the networks and benefits available to a particular patient. Insured patients should be able to see price information relevant to the specific network of providers available to them, as opposed to all providers within their geographic area. Providing the median price available within the network can be a useful starting point for patients. They can use this reference point to get a sense of whether what they are being charged at a specific provider is higher, lower, or on par with alternative options.
+HHS question: Should price information be made available on public websites so that patients can shop for care without having to contact individual providers, and if so, who should be responsible for posting such information?
+Making prices transparent on public websites can ensure that all consumers have the information they need. Navigating the health care system is challenging and time-consuming; consumers should have access to up-to-date, accurate, user-friendly information that allows them to compare prices and make informed decisions about where to get their care. Centralizing this information and making it publicly available so that patients are not required to contact multiple providers to compare price information would be a welcome step.
+Federal and State leadership is required. Meaningful price transparency requires substantial commitment by providers and payers. Not only will they need to dedicate resources to develop and maintain new processes for information dissemination, but they may also be required to collaborate with each other in ways that are unfamiliar. Moreover, payers and providers that have negotiated favorable price levels may not have strong incentives to reveal prices. Some providers and payers may have even negotiated contractual restrictions prohibiting such action.
+Involvement by federal and State regulators is necessary to help overcome such operational, contractual, and regulatory barriers. The federal government, particularly ONC, is uniquely positioned to establish and support the interoperability of price information across payer, provider, and patient electronic health information systems. This kind of interoperability would likely be required to seamlessly make available the actual prices faced by consumers.
+States are also well-positioned to be leaders in transparency efforts. States have relevant legal authority over a substantial portion of commercial insurance plans operating in their states and Medicaid. They can manage the collection of data, as well as the processes needed to ensure the credibility of the information provided. Some of these efforts can build on resources states already manage for other purposes that use similar data, such as the All-Payer Databases that are being developed in several states, including in New York.
+Federal and State involvement will build public trust and awareness. Research shows that health care consumers are skeptical of data that come from a source that has a financial or other interest in providing the information, and may view it as an advertising pitch instead of impartial education.[5] Government actions are less likely to be tainted by these conflicts, whether real or perceived.
+Importantly, such participation by government regulators would be welcomed by the general public. A survey conducted by Public Agenda found that 80% of Americans think that it is important for their State governments to provide people with information that allows them to compare prices before getting care.[6]
+HHS proposal: Specifically, we propose to include the following clinical note types for both inpatient and outpatient (primary care, emergency department, etc.) settings in USCDI v1 as a minimum standard: (1) Discharge Summary note; (2) History & Physical; (3) Progress Note; (4) Consultation Note; (5) Imaging Narrative; (6) Laboratory Report Narrative; (7) Pathology Report Narrative; and (8) Procedures Note. We seek comment on whether to include additional note types as part of the USCDI v1.
+The HHS proposal is comprehensive, and we affirm the need to include clinical notes in an expanded set of data that must be exchanged electronically and made easily accessible to patients. NYHealth has supported the implementation of OpenNotes, an international movement to give patients access to their own clinical notes written by their doctors, nurses, or other clinicians, in hospitals across New York State and is poised to expand the program in federally qualified health centers and other non-hospital provider settings. Research has shown that easy access to patient notes brings substantial benefits for both patients and clinicians.[7] Patients who do read their notes have reported that they feel more in control of their health care, have better medication adherence, and trust their doctors more.
+Conclusion
+As you consider comments on your proposed rules, priority should be placed on making genuinely useful information easily available to patients. Americans across the country are concerned about health care affordability and they want to know what their care is going to cost them, before they receive a service. HHS’s leadership can increase the availability and utility of this information. and CEO
+New York Health Foundation
+[1] Public Agenda, “Still Searching: How People Use Health Care Price Information in the United States,” April 2017., accessed April 2019.
+[2] Bell SK, Gerard M, Fossa A, et al “A patient feedback reporting tool for OpenNotes: implications for patient-clinician safety and quality partnerships.” March 2017., accessed April 2019.
+[3] U.S. Government Accountability Office. Health Care Transparency: Meaningful Price Information Is Difficult for Consumers to Obtain Prior to Receiving Care, September 2011., accessed April 2019.
+[4] Examples of episode groupers used by CMS and commercial payers include: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, “Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Initiative: General Information.” Available at:; Optum Insight, “Symmetry Episode Treatment Groups.” Available at:; Prometheus Analytics, “The Episode.” Available at:.
+[5] De Brantes, F., Delbanco, S., Butto, E., Patino-Mazmanian, K., and Tessitore, L. 2017. Price Tansprancey & Physcian Quality Report Card 2017. Available as of March 16, 2018 at:.
+[6] Public Agenda, “Still Searching: How People Use Health Care Price Information in the United States,” April 2017., accessed April 2019.
+[7] Mishra,V., Hoyt, R., Wolver,S., Yoshihashi, A., Banas, C. 2019. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Patients’ Perceptions of the Patient Portal Experience with OpenNotes., accessed April 2019.
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+- Work confidently with special needs population (hip/knee/back surgery, pregnancy, depression/anxiety, geriatric, etc.)
+- Clear grasp on yoga history and philosophy
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+- Hatha Yoga Illustrated by Martin Kirk, Brooke Boon, and Daniel DiTuro
+- The Heart Of Yoga by T. K. V. Desikachar
+- Chakra Balancing Kit by Anodea Judith
+- The Concise Book Of Muscles by Chris Jarmey
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+- Inside The Yoga Sutras by Reverend Jaganath Carrera
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+On the Feast of the Proto-Martyr, killed for proclaiming Christ in the public square, we should take note of the erosion of the Catholic identity our forebears died for.
+Notice that in the background, there is a Gothic chasuble.
+The site Bad Vestments does us a great service.
+Bad Vestments
+Because Christian worship is not supposed to be about you.
+Tuesday, November 1, 2011
+PAGANIANITY. [I recall that, recently, an ELCA former presiding bishop, remonstrated with Archbp. Nienstedt for defending marriage.].
+Wow.
+Luther would be so proud to know what abuses he bequeathed the world in his name. This is what you get for deciding you know better than the holy Catholic and apostolic Church. Lessons for anyone in the SSPX?
+dnicoll,
+Don’t go there. The SSPX has never, to use the quote in the article, “decided that Christianity just isn’t cutting it”
+With charity to Luther, neither did he.
+There is a wicca site which has the meditations for the goddess rosary. Blasphemy Level One.
+I must confess my ignorance of Luther. I only know one direct quote of his: “Sin boldly.” ["Pecca fortiter sed crede fortius... Sin boldly, but believe even more boldly". This is a tenet of Luther, which he wrote to Melancthon about justification by faith alone. Justification, not sanctification, by the way. The idea is that, provided we believe, that we have faith in Christ, no matter what we do we will nevertheless be saved. Christ will impose Himself between the Father's wrath and our inherent filthiness. It strikes me that Luther came to this idea as a salve for his own struggles with scrupulosity.]
+What stuns me about the Feminist/Whateverist movement is that those wymyn never seem to realize that all women are ALSO made in the image and likeness of God, just as men are. Women are no less noble in the eyes of God simply because God chooses to reveal Himself and interact with humanity in the persons of Father and Son, and that He chose in His wisdom to be incarnate NOT as a hermaphrodite but as a MAN.
+@Mvhcpa
+Don’t even try to figure out the thought process of feminists. It will only cause undue frustration and your brain may explode in the process. Your dealing with a movement that wants the equal murdering of babies when parents opt to have gender-selection abortions. I kid you not. I just finally got through my required Women’s Studies class. I thought I misunderstanding what I was reading, but no. Just smile and shake your head.
+Father,
+The photo gives me the creeps. It is truly shocking to actually see one of those instruments of the devil.
+Actually, the ELCA and the ECUSA have been in communion since the 1980s. If clergy at herchurch are properly ordained Lutherans, they can preside over the eucharist at an Episcopal church.
+The truly ironic,” to the point of stupid IRONIC ” part is the charm they put in place of the crucifix is a FERTILITY symbol. Fertility so they can abort more, these old hags and cows haven’t desired fertility in ages, all they know is barrenness and death, all in the practice of their wymynness or what ever the hell they call it. Purely PAGAN
+Whoops, I was wrong on the date, the ECUSA and the ELCA were in full communion as of 2001. A space odyssey?
+Thank you, Father, for your clarification. Is it me, or do I suspect a sneaking tenderness in you for the soul of that old arch-heretic! [You have an active imagination.] Reminds me of the Bishop of Metz (I believe it was) who prayed every night that those he was forced to excommunicate “Please dear Lord! let them survive the night!”
+I think the article mis printed and it was supposed to say a “Godless Rosary” as opposed to a “godess rosary”.
+Beautiful Rosary, where can I get one?
+Reminds me of Christa on the cross, who, since 1975, has been showcased in churches around the world, including Rome.
+Sadly, I must confess that my own cousin, a woman who previously served as a fund raiser for Guest House in Lake Orion, MI, an addiction treatment facility for Catholic clergy and religious, she has now been ordained in the ELCA. I have refrained from attempting any discussion with her, but I have no doubt that she is as committed to her priesthood as ever she was to the other works in which she was involved.
+My aunt, whose father was a Lutheran minister, has herself resigned formally from her membership in the ELCA, a need which grew slowly, but reached full flower when the ELCA voted to embrace actively homosexual clergy.
+An irony of the SF Ebenezer church, of course, is that is based in a city where women are men and men are women. Or trying to be. Where Sodom and Gomorrah are re-enacted on the city streets, with Pride.
+A review of Caligula might seem tame just now.
+I have no idea whether these are the end times described in Revelation, but I am increasingly confident that these are the end times of western civilization.
+For those unable to make their way through the tortured syntax at the Ebenezer site to find the fun links, here is their idea of a “Mass”:
+Nice! Mujerista. That’s so…well, I guess new. To me, anyway.
+It strikes me that this church in San Francisco is a better, and enviable, version of St. Joan of Arc in St. Paul, MN. At the very least, I can only think that many in this Roman Catholic parish would find much to be admired in this (Lutheran?) parish in San Francisco.
+My point, that is, is that this sort of silliness does not seem to be a uniquely Lutheran problem. At the very least, when I point out these sorts of parishes to my confessional Lutheran friends, they introduce me to many Roman Catholic parishes that do many of the same things, just not as well. Though sometimes better.
+Sorry. Christmastide is a always a bittersweet time to be Catholic for this former Lutheran.
+That said, Bad Vestments has to be one of the best websites on the internets.
+I truly wonder why these people continue to want to be called Christian. I got bamboozled into taking Liberation Theologies this past semester due to a lack of a cross-listing in the course book at my Jesuit University. The coure was taught by a feminist theologian, who is a self-proclaimed expert on Vatican II (no suprise there) and also St. Thomas Aquinas (I kid you not), who could not believe me when I said the Church, in her divine constitution, is not sexist and that all liberation theologies, feminist, mujerista, etc., are simply sociological theories or issues covered under morality., e.g. we do not need a new “theology” to determine that wage inequality is immoral. These people seriously believe that all theology starts with us and our physical needs, so seeing this goddess garbage does not suprise me an iota. The good news though is that they are starting to lose power, at least in soem Catholic circles, and if we fight them confidently they usually back down (at least in my experience).
+Ok, I wasn’t going to post this, but decided it is better to know what one is up against and not be silly in thinking this type of rosary and worship is harmless. It is very, very dangerous.
+Should one keep a list of who desperately needs prayer? I find I cannot keep track, and my prayer intentions feel like I could go on and on to actual infinity….Solution anyone?
+Oy, the women, my own kind, how they grieve me, and know it not.
+Simple-minded, and I say this with heartache! Chasing after rainbows, desirous of the soothing strokes to vanity…the odd rejection of true and authentic femininity (cooperating with God and bringing forth life! instilling in that life all the necessary aspects of a well-lived Christian life, forming their values and morality according to God’s word, keeping a home free from vice of any kind, enabling a carefully selected Christian spouse to go forth from home to make a living, and come home to sanity, a place of warmth and respite….making one’s best effort to effect the larger world in a positive manner by encouraging and facilitating the tenets of her Christian faith wherever she can….
+fools! imbeciles! You reject the true and authentic God and worship yourselves! You bear children like cattle and refuse to raise them well…..you leave them abandoned to the world….and the world will eat them. They are your playtoys, little copies of yourself that you yearn to see represent you in your beauty…..While your children hunger for your attention, your caring, your teaching, you leave them to violent and sexist video games, to addiction, to television, to daycare, to public schools which fill their heads with atheism….to horrible movies and media…..
+you run to the gym to firm your backside so every man in your company can admire you….your bum personifies what too many women have become…..an a–, an a– only, and you are blithely content to be just that, ignorant in the truest sense of the word that there is anything else possible for you and your daughters. You have traded a women’s true dignity for one or two anatomical aspects which our demented culture has easily convinced you you are only as worthwhile as they are young and firm. And you so easily bought this.
+Your daughters will become virtual tramps, and your sons perverts, whose view of women is strictly utilitarian. This is as you willed it.
+You gave away everything women had that was good, emeralds and diamonds beyond compare, for cheap tinsel and cracker jack. God help us, as women decline, civilization is lost. Women are the purveyors of culture and virtue. Historically we stem the tide of brutishness and vulgarity, at home and in the public arena. Without the voice of true femininity, the strength of that femininity requiring and insisting upon a virtuous and honorable atmosphere, all that is left is brutishness and vulgarity. It is woman who has held that line. It is now women who abandon their true calling and place in life to throw it away on self-worship and an existence where they are dooming themselves to become obsolete, because younger, sexier, prettier, is always arriving, and now you have nothing to offer.
+It is just all so sad. The fruits of the inability to transmit the truth of Christianity. Thank God for the internet and good faithful priests like Fr. Z and Fr. Finigan, and all those like them. Without them and the links/comments etc I could be just another lukewarm catholic without a clue about my faith. I am so grateful for the ability to read and use the internet, I have learnt so much in the 16 years I have had internet, I know God has guided me, and that there is a reason, but I thank Him for you all.
+I think men are longing for a return to the Goddess and want their worship to be focused on Her. –Steve
+It seems Steve is still bitter that, in the beginning, Adam chose Eve over him.
+Correction: My cousin has been ordained in the Episcopal Church, not the ELCA.
+Smad0142
+Amazing, at a Catholic University? At the Lutheran university where I just completed a course in dogmatics, the highly Lutheran professor (and minister) spent about 15 minutes on Liberation Theology and we all agreed it was very silly!
+Wow. I’ve been thinking about the Spanish Inquisition lately and questioning the severity its measures. This article, however, has me yearning for Torquemada’s return.
+Dnicol said:
+“This is what you get for deciding you know better than the holy Catholic and apostolic Church. Lessons for anyone in the SSPX?”
+Say what??!!! This kind of stuff is going on in the Catholic Church too and especially on so-called-Catholic-University campuses. Everything goes today except the Society of St. Pius X which simply preserves the One, True, Catholic and Apsotolic Faith!!
+THE
+WAKING
+OF
+MAN
+Beware goddess green
+Mother earth’s pagan queen
+She’ll recycle man’s faith
+Unto doubt.
+They will question their existence
+Contracept with persistence
+If Catholic man does not wake…
+He’s waked out!
+This church is not far from where I live on the western side of the city. I pass by it occasionally and when I saw the Goddess Rosary banner go up on the outside of the building (which is a particularly virulent shade of purple) I was miffed. No, I was more than miffed. I was hopping mad. I was angry that some cockamamie quasi religious group had suddenly decided to appropriate that most rich and personal of Catholic devotions for other reasons than was intended. But, after thinking about it, my anger turned to sadness. Sadness that these poor people were wandering down a false path, sadness that this was all a fruitless effort on their part.
+I would hope that we’d be able to refrain from referring to women as “hags and cows” no matter how intensely we may disagree with them?
+I liked the comment over at Bad Vestments to the effect that it’s possible to be so open-minded that your brain falls out. Best explanation for all of this yet.
+Helena Augusta,
+I think, while perhaps not gracefully expressed, the Egyptian was referring to the death-dealing and anti-human aspect of all this supposed “goddess worship”, not the attributes of the mulieristas or whatever they’re calling themselves this week.
+While these women claim to be pagan, they are simply using a few catchwords and trappings to justify whatever they want to do. And unfortunately what they mostly seem to want is to abort their babies and emasculate men and make themselves as unattractive as possible. Hence the hags (killing men and eating little children) and the cows (making themselves less than human).
+The clincher for me is that the vast majority of the hard-core feministas I meet are desperately unhappy. All the ranting and raving covers an emptiness of heart.
+What the hell is that, the golden spike? All aboard the crazy train.
+Centristian,
+I think it’s supposed to be one of the ancient fertility objects.
+But these women are such slaves to the zeitgeist that they have slimmed her down like a Barbie doll.
+When I saw “goddess rosary”, I read “godless rosary“.
+Apr 20, 2018
+The Muti Water Project
+Posted in: Best of the Blogs, Miscellaneous
+If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may know about the Muti Water Project, an initiative I had been busy working on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa, where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live today.
+I've written two blogs about it already, “A Story About Muti” and “Why is There No Water”. This was a long, arduous process, seriously affected by not only logistics, weather, and funding, but also politics. Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog posts + this podcast).
+But finally, against many odds, the well is actually finished!!!!
+Photos of the well I received from our contractor (finishing touches of concrete being placed!)
+It was actually finished some months ago (last semester, November 2017) but today I woke up and realized that I’d left everyone hanging, without actually announcing this positive development (such MIT lol).
+Targeted Issues and Solutions
+In “Why is There No Water”, I’d highlighted some key qualitative issues I’d discovered from interviewing Muti residents.
+- Children (as young as 5) are the ones who typically fetch water from rivers and streams. They can have lifetime health problems afterward a from carrying the heavy containers back and forth.
+- People regularly die digging shared, shallow water wells either from collapses or lack of oxygen.
+- Children have died or gotten injured from falling into said shallow wells (fortunately, not as often anymore because people are aware of this problem and small children are not sent to fetch water from wells)
+- During the rainy season, there’s an increase of typhus/typhoid infection due to the rain and river-swelling problems I discussed earlier
+With this well, made with an AfriDev pump (the part of the well that will need the most maintenance and we sourced locally from within Ethiopia), several of these issues are addressed:
+Children (as young as 5) are the ones who fetch water
+Children, followed by women, are the household members most frequently tasked with obtaining water. This will probably still be true, and in some ways is actually intended with the development of this well (we placed the water source next to the primary school, so the youngest children attending school are closest to the clean water). But in addressing other issues, we hope access to water will be safer for these children.
+People regularly die digging shared, shallow water wells either from collapses or lack of oxygen.
+This is a problem with the construction of the well. Since this well was much larger in diameter than the shared, shallow wells people just make in their backyards with a shovel, the risk of asphyxiation from the digging process was lower. Additionally, the well was constructed in coalition with trained professionals (whereas wells people construct in their backyard are typically untrained local men, simply digging). This well was also lined with concrete during the construction process.
+Children have died or gotten injured from falling into said shallow wells and from typhus/typhoid infection
+The AfriDev pump is, on the one hand, simply necessary for this well, as it is much deeper than shallow backyard wells. But as a side effect, it is also much safer than an open cavity, which is how children can fall or be pulled into shallow wells by the weight of the water vessel (think rope-and-bucket that you pull to retrieve water). The depth of this well is also what makes the water clean, and prevents typhus/typhoid bacteria from inhabiting the water.
+This point is particularly counterintuitive for most Americans--how can digging into the ground, the dirt and soil, of all places, be clean? In fact, most of the things that make dirt dirty (bacteria, bugs, decaying debris) are in a thin, shallow layer close to the surface of the soil. This is very simple and obvious when you think about it--most living things (Typhoid bacteria included) need oxygen, and you can’t find much oxygen as you progress lower and lower into the ground. As an example, in natural disaster scenarios, temporary graves as shallow as just one meter below the surface are constructed to bury bodies while preventing decomposition, so they can later be withdrawn and identified (even “six feet under” would be overkill).
+This is why I chose this hand-dug well concept (over 15 meters, but under 30) for the Muti region. I knew it was simple enough that there were people (contractors and workers) who were familiar with how to construct this system with the parameters we specified, and in this particularly lush, rainy region, we didn’t need to go very deep. We simply needed to get away from the “dirty” dirt to the “clean” dirt--sediment found in water at this depth is more or less larger chunks of whatever’s already in your fancy mineral water: possibly calcium and magnesium deposits, or other inorganic precipitates. No living, typhus-causing things!
+A Sustainable Solution
+In many ways, this is the beginning rather than the end. The real goal of this project was to try and see how long the water source would last--if we can beat 3-4 years without the well truly failing (a broken pump, as I mentioned, can easily be replaced) then I will consider the project a success, as the main issue we were trying to solve involved clean water sources frequently failing, going “dry” in as little as 3 months. That success would motivate further hand-dug well projects in the region, where right now spring protections are the default constructed water source. And the proliferation of hand-dug wells would hopefully continue to solve all the above problems--right now with this well, these water problems are solved mainly for those living nearest to the well, and the children at the school.
+The reasons why water sources can go “dry” are a whole other hydrology lesson, but the core of the issue is that, the water “table” (you can think of it as a line of water under the soil) is not perfectly flat or uniform. Sometimes, you may think you’ve hit the water table, but really, you’ve just hit a little pocket, which can actually become “dry”. In other situations, if your water sources conflict, you can end up “lowering” the water table in that area with frequent use. Sometimes, you can inadvertently turn one of your sources into a drain for another source, causing the first source you built to fail.
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+Of course, there’s still not a great way to “x-ray the ground” which is a silly question I asked in a conversation with the incredible Professor Strzepek of the TATA Center. Professor Strzepek agreed to assist with this project (he provided the above graphic and taught me everything I know about water). Though it was cool to learn about this, I was a little dismayed: I did not have access to sophisticated surveying equipment, and there’s very little water data available about this region.
+I tried still, though, to make sure we made a good decision about the well location in a pretty hack-y way: with Google Maps.
+Google maps has some pretty neat features I learned about entirely while trying stuff for this project. For one, it allows you to view the elevation in these cool altitude plots collected from Google satellite data, where those curves in the photo represent a line of the same elevation (for those of you who’ve taken physics, it’s sort of like voltage potential rings). The map is also shaded for an intuitive visual effect. All the other wells are flagged, and the location next to the primary school is the star. Using this feature, I could at least feel mostly confident that the well was far enough from the other springs (and, importantly, not on a hill) so that any interference with the water table wouldn’t affect the life span of the well. Of course, if future sources are built in the next few years, this would need to be revisited.
+I also gained some intuition as to why the other spring protections failed. Spring protections have to be constructed where there is already surface water, which severely limits your options in location as you have to find a spring, creek, or river to work with. As you can see from the terrain diagram, many of the springs are at points of locally high elevation--they’re on hillsides. They’re also close together--springs 3 and 4 in particular failed particularly fast, with spring 3 failing in only 3 months after it was constructed. You can see a little bit more clearly which water sources are likely to be inadvertent drains for other sources.
+Performing this project helped me understand water a lot better, but also opened my eyes to the problems engineering alone will never be able to solve. The village, Muti, has a local government and collects tax--the things governments do, in exchange for creating infrastructure. Clearly, in Muti and other rural areas, there is a disconnect between the resource collection and the infrastructure distribution. This can be for a variety of reasons--farmers don’t have much tax to give, and infrastructure is especially hard and expensive to develop in this mountainous, rainy region with dense forest. There’s also a sort of exponential effect in infrastructure development--a road makes it easier to transport materials, which in turn makes it easier to build roads. So, starting “from scratch” is especially difficult.
+Of course, there obviously might be issues in accountability or management at the resource-collection level--corruption, incompetency, misunderstanding--but I want you to understand that this is not the only problem, as developing infrastructure in this area is a monumental task to begin with.
+All I can say, at the end of the day, is that this project was just a small drop in the ocean of what needs to be done, and which will hopefully happen in the future. As Ethiopia faces waves of economic, political, and technological changes, I hope to continue being a part of them! (those enough water puns for you? x))
+<3
+I made a small video of the whole experience--apologies for the low quality, but I hope you still find it a fun glimpse into life among my family in rural Ethiopia. Uncles, aunts, cousins--they are the reason I had so much passion for this project.
+You can also see here the types of open, hole-in-the-ground wells that are common "DIY" kinds of solutions in the village, and how the final hand-dug well is much different from those!
+If there’s anything I’ve learned at MIT, and especially from this project, it’s that the only thing ever standing in our way is fear--fear of failure. “I’m too young” or “I’m not wealthy enough” or “I don’t have the time” or even as basic and seemingly valid as “I don’t know how to do this” (I literally knew nothing about water before starting this project), these are all excuses we tell ourselves to let that fear fester and convince us we can’t do something. But if we are courageous enough to simply try, to work hard and be dedicated, you find that those obstacles slowly, surely fall away, until you’ve achieved incredible things.
+Thanks to everyone who supported me on this incredible journey, either as part of the project or just with your wonderful words of encouragement <3
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+From Day One of the programme, I felt positive and highly-motivated and have been able to stick to the guidelines with very few problems. What a good feeling to eat well, knowing that I will be burning that excess fat!
+My family and friends have been very impressed, and I’ve been stunned at the transformation in myself. Even my gym instructor took Indra’s phone number! Some friends have taken her details, too.
+I never really believed it would be possible to turn back the clock to fine the “old me” again, but here I am, an even slimmer version, and so much more healthy than ever before, with lots of energy and sparkle. I truly feel 20 years younger than I did. All my small but worrying symptoms, aches and pains, dizzy spells, palpitations etc have totally disappeared. Even a constant throat problem has gone! I feel much calmer, able to cope with a lot more and I am a much happier person, thanks to Indra, my personal guru!
+~ Margaret
+Have you ever seen the Bupa commercial?
+You know the one about finding a healthier you. The one that doesn’t really tell you how to find the healthier you! Well I have achieved the healthier me, literally with Indra’s guidance, advice & supplements.
+I am a female in my early 50’s; about 5 years ago I started a steady decline in health putting on a whopping 25 kilo’s in weight. Weight has always been a struggle for me however this was the heaviest I had ever been. I was always a very healthy person very rarely ill and when I was I always bounced back within a couple of days. During the last few years every time I got sick it sent me literally to my bed for a week at a time, with multiple repeats of antibiotics. Just getting out of bed every morning was a constant struggle. I was operating on auto pilot; I was there in body however not mentally. Everything was just in a heavy fog that I could not see out of. My body was heavily inflamed causing me a large level of discomfort and pain. When it was suggested that I might benefit from seeing Indra my first thought was unrealistic diet and lots of awful potions. I was advised this was not the case, so I agreed to an appointment and have never looked back. Well actually I don’t think I was even capable of saying no by this stage.
+From my very first visit Indra prescribed me with a number of supplements (not awful tasting potions) and suggested changes to my diet. She even gave me permission to stop my daily struggle to walk a few kms every morning until she got me back on track. When I arrived home and discussed the visit with my daughter her first comment was but you do eat healthy Mum. Well there is healthy and then there are healthier better choices, something I have learnt over the last 12 months working with Indra. The first thing I noticed within a week of my first visit was my head was feeling much clearer; the inflammation in my body was reducing. To date I have lost 13 kilos very sensibly over the last 12 months through Indra’s guidance on informative diet choices, which means I should be able to maintain this loss. I continue to work with Indra on a monthly basis as the body at this time of life is going through many changes. Every time I bring a different symptom Indra is able to assist me with a supplement which rectifies whatever is bothering me. The changes made have been reasonably easy to incorporate into my life, I can still enjoy going out for a meal I just look for the better options. I can still have a glass of wine if I want however I now tend to not to do this as I do notice the change in my body after a glass of wine. Even today I am sometimes still surprised at how clear my brain feels, marvel at the energy level I have back. I am still not perfect however I feel we have achieved at least an 80% improvement in my overall well being which I am delighted in. I am extremely happy and feel very fortunate that Indra was recommended to me and that I took up the suggestion. I would hate to think where I would be today without Indra’s guidance and help. To anyone who is unsure however really feels they just need help, I would say make an appointment with Indra and help yourself to find the healthier you
+~ Anne
+My name is Michelle I had been suffering constant fatigue, bloating, brain fog, along with many other symptoms that I did not know at the time, were all linked to my diagnosis. After blood tests with my doctor showed up nothing, and they had no other solutions for me, I turned to Naturopathy after reading fatigue often being linked to food allergies.
+On my first visit I was very nervous as doctors couldn’t help me and I was in desperate need of help, and was worried that turning to naturopathy still wouldn’t provide some answers.
+I was quickly put at ease when I met my naturopath Indra. She was very, smiley, bubbly and very sympathetic. She asked many questions and suggested some testing to be done.
+Her prognosis was correct, with a change to my diet and taking herbals I was on the mend.
+My bloating along with the other symptoms has cleared. My fatigue has greatly improved.
+Like an onion we have been peeling back the layers, so whatever has come up, I am always confident that on my next visit Indra will have a solution.
+My friends have seen the changes and have asked me for Indra’s contact details. I have given it to them without hesitation, as I would highly recommend Indra for anyone looking at seeing a naturopath.
+~ Michelle
+I have always been drawn to seeking health and well being through holistic approaches. Before coming to live in Darwin, I was fortunate to experience healing through Naturopathy with Indra. I am so grateful now to have been treated by Indra and appreciate her care and depth of knowledge. She has helped me effectively with every issue I have brought to her, from allergies, to stress and digestive problems. After suffering from severe chronic hay fever for as long as I can remember, I went to see Indra who healed me through every step of my journey. I now have more energy and the main symptoms of hay fever that had impacted on my life for so long no longer effect me. As a practitioner myself I appreciate her unique approach to treatment and her compassionate nature. I know she’s only a phone call away and would fondly refer any patients whom I think would benefit from her treatment.
+Thank you Indra!
+~ Lauren (Myotherapist)
+Over the past 6 months, Indra Share’s support, knowledge and guidance have transformed my life.
+I’d been feeling gradually worse over the last few years and was really starting to feel quite low by the seemingly untreatable irritable bowel syndrome that the third doctor in a string of many diagnosed me with.
+My first appointment with Indra filled me with hope. She was able to explain my condition, the underlying causes and a manageable treatment plan to me. Prior consults with other practitioners had left me with a vague understanding of my diagnosis but with many grey areas and unanswered questions. My forays into internet self help only worsened my confusion! Indra’s clarity and knowledge basically turned night into day for me. Over my consults in the ensuing months she tailored diet, lifestyle changes and supplementation that I was easily able to adapt into my daily routine.
+I have so much energy and am so happy about the freedom in my attitude and my body that I feel now. The embarrassing and debilitating daily discomfort that I once suffered is under control. My husband says I’ve even got my sense of humor back!
+~ Mel
+I came to Indra suffering from unexplained allergies. Working with her, I have developed an understanding of my allergies. This has left me feeling much healthier, and in control again. I have consulted Indra on other things since, and always found her helpful, open and knowledgeable. One of the things I have sought assistance with is weight loss. Following Indra’s advice, I have had a great result with my weight loss. The most important things for me have been the improvement of my health and energy levels.
+~ Faye J
+Hello, my name is El and I am 36 years of age, married with two beautiful boys.
+After giving birth, my body just would not go back to normal. I tried many diets however nothing seemed to work. It was hard to get the weight off (bearing in mind that I had my kids very close together).
+I then decided, right, I need to dig into this further! I searched in the Yellow Pages for Naturopathy and discovered Indra Share. It was the first and only place I called upon and came across my savior, Indra.
+I have lost 8 kilos so far, and still going, and I have not felt better. I seem to have more energy, especially with my kids and I am able to do more things in less time. My skin is much cleaner and I feel much more focused and calm with everything. The diet has helped me understand good foods and bad foods. The beauty of it all is that I have had to give clothes away which leaves more room in my cupboards for new attire. That is a bonus!
+My husband is thrilled and my friends and family are astounded by how my body has changed. The looks on their faces are truly amazing.
+I truly thank Indra for guiding me through this. We all know losing weight is not an easy task. It’s not just losing the weight but also knowing what is good and nutritional for you and your body. Thank you Indra!
+A genial giant of a man, Nate Thurmond was one of the all-time great NBA centers, with a rugged, in-your-face style of play that frequently intimidated even Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wilt Chamberlain.
+The Hall of Famer played 14 professional seasons in the 1960s and 1970s, posting career averages of 15.0 points and 15.0 rebounds per game. Among the all-time NBA leaders in career rebounds and rebounding average, Thurmond was selected to play in seven NBA All-Star Games and was selected to the NBA All-Defensive First or Second Team five times. He still holds the NBA record for most rebounds in a quarter with 18, and he owns the distinction of being the first player ever to record a quadruple-double.
+Some basketball observers have suggested that the 6-11 Thurmond provided the best mix of offense and defense in basketball history. Many say that his defense was better than Chamberlain's, and that his offense was better than Bill Russell's. With quickness and long hands, a smooth outside shooting touch, tenacious rebounding, classic shotblocking ability, and a total team attitude, Thurmond offered a perfectly balanced San Francisco Warriors selected Thurmond with the third overall pick in the 1963 NBA Draft, behind Art Heyman of Duke and Rod Thorn of West Virginia. Thurmond played 11 seasons for the Warriors, becoming nearly as familiar in the Bay Area as the Golden Gate Bridge.
+Thurmond spent his rookie season as an apprentice to Chamberlain, who had come into the league with the Philadelphia Warriors in 1959 and then moved with the franchise to San Francisco in 1962. While Chamberlain was averaging 36.9 points and 22.3 rebounds in 1963-64, Thurmond put up modest numbers in limited playing time. Still, his 7.0 points and 10.4 rebounds per contest earned him a berth on the NBA All-Rookie Team. led by Chamberlain.
+Meanwhile, Thurmond developed into a consistent star. He played in three straight All-Star Games between 1965 and 1967 and averaged at least 18 rebounds each season, including a monstrous 21.3 in 1966-67. Thurmond's offensive skills began to take shape as well. He poured in 18.7 ppg in 1966-67 and then 20.5 ppg in 1967-68, beginning a string of five consecutive seasons above 20 points per game. Early in the 1965 season, Thurmond hauled down 42 rebounds against the Detroit Pistons, the best single-game rebounding effort of his career and the seventh-best performance in NBA history.
+Thurmond's finest statistical season came in 1968-69, when he averaged 21.5 points and 19.7 rebounds. His rebounding average ranked second only to Chamberlain's 21.1. The Warriors, by then settled into a seven-year run of mediocrity, finished 41-41 and fell to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Division Semifinals.
+After struggling for the next couple of years, the franchise was renamed the Golden State Warriors and put together a winning season in 1971-72, finishing in second place in the Pacific Division with a 51-31 record. Thurmond, then in his ninth season, spearheaded the drive by ranking fourth in the league in rebounding (16.1 rpg) and 19th in scoring (21.4 ppg). Golden State advanced to the playoffs but met the Milwaukee Bucks and Abbdul-Jabbar in the conference semifinals. Milwaukee took the best-of-seven series in five games.
+By now Abdul-Jabbar had been in the NBA for three seasons, and Chamberlain for a decade longer. It was an era of supercenters, big men who could dominate games by scoring nearly at will, and by defending with long arms, quick reflexes, and sheer intimidation. Thurmond, while never reaching the rarefied level of Chamberlain or Abdul-Jabbar, was nevertheless one of the elites of his era.
+But not everyone felt that way. It was a source of considerable anguish to Thurmond that some fans and and members of the media often overlooked him because he wasn't flashy and didn't produce huge offensive numbers.
+"I'm just not a tricky basketball player," he once told Sport magazine. "Being flashy takes unnecessary effort. Once I got cute and tore up a leg muscle that kept me off the court for four weeks.. I suppose I could make a reputation for myself by dunking the ball and other stuff. But what would it get me?"
+He took solace in the fact that his opponents respected him, which meant more to him anyway. "The other players think I'm the best defensive big man in professional basketball," Thurmond added. "They're always coming up to me and saying that. I get the same reaction from other players that Bill Russell used to get."
+Both Abdul-Jabbar and Chamberlain have gone on record saying they felt."
+Others praised Thurmond's consistency, work ethic, and balanced, all-around game. In Basketball Digest, former teammate Walt Hazzard said: "Night in and night out you can depend on him doing his job. His statistics aren't overwhelming, but his presence on the court is unbelievable. As for blocking shots, I've seen guys get offensive rebounds and then go back 15 feet to make sure they can get a shot off. They know Nate is there."
+It seemed that Thurmond was determined to play tough defense almost as a way of making up for his lack of a dazzling offensive game. It was also a source of pride. "I never want to walk off a court where my opponent did not have respect for me," he once said.
+Thurmond's production began to drop as his career entered its second decade. By 1973-74 his scoring output had dropped to 13.0 points per game, though he still posted an impressive 14.2 rebounding average. But the Warriors wanted an infusion of young energy at the center position, so after the season they traded Thurmond to the Chicago Bulls for 25-year-old center Clifford Ray, a draft pick, and cash.
+It marked the end of a sensational 11-year run for Thurmond in San Francisco. During his time with the Warriors, he had become the club's all-time leader in games played, rebounds, and minutes played. He had made two trips to the NBA Finals but come away both times without a championship ring. Ironically and sadly, a Golden State team without Thurmond finally won the title in 1975.
+Meanwhile, Chicago Bulls Coach Dick Motta hailed the trade for Thurmond as the best in the team's history. Chicago had logged four straight 50-win seasons under Motta but had fallen short of a division title each time. Motta believed Thurmond's veteran leadership was just what the Bulls needed to propel them over the top.
+On the first night of the 1974-75 season Thurmond gave the Bulls everything they had hoped for -- and then some. Making his Bulls debut against the Atlanta Hawks on Oct. 8, 1974, Thurmond scored 22 points, grabbed 14 rebounds, dished for 13 assists, and blocked 12 shots. It was the first quadruple-double in NBA history, a feat that would only be matched three times since.
+Thurmond didn't quite keep up that pace for the rest of the year, although his assists numbers were the best of his career. Motta's system in Chicago emphasized scoring from the forwards, with the center acting primarily as a passer. As a result, Thurmond averaged a career-best 4.1 assists, but his point production dropped considerably. He suffered through a horrid offensive slump at midseason and averaged only 7.9 points on .364 shooting from the field. Though Thurmond remained solid defensively (11.3 rpg, 2.44 blocks per game), his lack of offensive production caused Motta to remove him from the starting lineup for the postseason.
+Chicago did win a coveted division title, finishing with the best record in the Midwest Division at 47-35. The Bulls then advanced deep into the postseason, coming within one game of reaching the 1975 NBA Finals. But their opponent in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals was Golden State, Thurmond's former team, and the Warriors prevailed, 83-79, to advance. Thurmond then watched painfully as Golden State swept Washington in the Finals to claim the NBA crown.
+Thurmond opened the 1975-76 season with Chicago, but after 13 games the Bulls sent him to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Steve Patterson and Eric Fernsten. The deal brought Thurmond home to his native Ohio, where he was warmly received by Cleveland fans, and where he seemed to revitalize a Cavaliers team that had struggled in the early part of the season. Having gone 6-11 before Thurmond's arrival, the Cavs went 43-22 the rest of the way and, in what has been called "the Miracle of Richfield," won the Central Division and reached the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. The team didn't stop there, eliminating Washington in a seven-game conference semifinal series before falling to Boston in the Eastern Conference Finals.
+His year at Cleveland was a huge personal redemption for Thurmond, although his statistics were unremarkable (4.4 ppg, 5.3 rpg). "That team didn't just excite me at a stage when my career could have been ending, it excited the whole town," Thurmond reflected in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "To come back home and to have the team reach the playoffs for the first time, to have 20,000 people jammed in there screaming your name.. What could compare to it?"
+The following season, Thurmond's 14th and final year in the NBA, was anticlimactic. He saw limited action, though his point production was roughly what it had been the previous year. Cleveland again had a winning record and made it to the playoffs but was stopped by Washington in the first round. To the cheers of his appreciative hometown fans, Thurmond retired at the end of the season, without a championship ring but knowing that his name would not be forgotten.
+Both Cleveland and Golden State retired his number, and in 1984 he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. In 1996, his 14 years of NBA service earned him a spot on the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team. After leaving basketball Thurmond settled in San Francisco, where he opened a restaurant and served as director of community relations for the Golden State Warriors.
+Thurmond passed away at the age of 74 on July 16, 2016.
+Recently, someone asked me how grieving my son is different now (four and a half years later) than it was during the first year he was gone. Those first months I could barely feel my way through the dark, dark endless abyss of pointlessness. I could not have cared less if my life continued one more day. My life felt shattered. My reason for being: gone.
+And it felt as if that feeling would never, ever, ever end.
+It does.
+It’s not that the sadness goes away or that you finally stop missing your baby. It’s not that you don’t still have moments of regret and “what ifs”. All of that is still there, but somehow it is not AS paralyzing, not AS numbing, not AS devastating in that Oh-dear-God-please-put-me-out-of-my-misery way. I promise.
+Initially, if it hadn’t been for friends and family who held me up (literally and figuratively), I wouldn’t have made it. During the first month, I barely had a moment to myself. And believe me, I pushed people away. Hard. A few stuck with me, persisted, didn’t take “no” for an answer. Thank goodness for them (although, at the time I just wanted everyone to leave me the fuck alone).
+My therapist suggested a grief support group. They’re not for everyone, and not every support group will be a good fit for you and your circumstances. I attended two different groups. The first was for parents whose children had died, many of them from physical illnesses or accidents, none from suicide. I stopped going to that group. My circumstances felt too different; I felt like the weirdo parent because my child had actually chosen death. The second group was specifically for parents who had lost their children to suicide. I attended weekly for six months. I strongly encourage grieving parents to at least try the support group route, and if it doesn’t feel right the first time you go, wait a few months and go back. Being in the safely held company of other mourners can be very comforting.
+The best kind of help for me came from those who could listen to me in complete silence. Besides my therapist, there were probably only two friends who were able to be there for me in that way: no words of comfort or advice or how to-s. If all I could muster up during our time together was sobbing, and they could be with that without attempting to make me feel better or change me in some way, this gave me permission to feel whatever I needed to feel.
+I learned it’s not about getting over the feelings, or even getting through them; it’s about being with them. Knowing that at any given moment I was doing what I could, even if all I could manage was to breathe. You will have days when breathing will be a lot. Be grateful for the body’s immense wisdom in keeping the breathing going, even when all you want is to die.
+Grief will not kill you…even when you so desperately want it to. It starts out as a monstrous, overwhelming feeling that seems infinite. It doesn’t remain that powerful. Time chips away at it; love from others begins to transform it; your own inner wisdom is able to shush it down to a quiet roar and then to background noise and then to an intermittent beep. Never silent, though, never completely silent. Memories can be noisy.
+So I wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote about every memory. Granted, writing is not for everyone, but finding an outlet – any outlet – to express my raw experience was critical to processing my grief. And although I refer to it as a “healing process”, I don’t know that anyone ever truly feels “healed.” Living just becomes more tolerable. Each year that passes is a little bit more tolerable than the last. It will not always be this bad. One day you will find yourself engaged in life again, smelling the roses, noticing the things that matter. The shift is almost imperceptible. Pay attention.
+Getting busy is another coping mechanism. I did that, to some extent. I traveled across the country during months 4 and 5, visiting friends and family, reminiscing about my son, telling his story, our story over and over, taking in the love, and sharing my grief. It was important to me to be seen and heard and held by others, to know that I wasn’t in it by myself, and that my son’s life might be remembered by someone other than his mother.
+Getting busy can be a trap, though. It can be a way to put your feelings on hold. Granted, sometimes that’s exactly what’s needed. But trust me; whatever is stored away is going to come flying off the shelves at some point, and will knock you on your ass. So beware when it comes to stifling or suppressing those unbearable emotions.
+Instead of turning away from all the feelings, I aimed myself right into them. I wanted to get on with all those stages of grief. Not rush through them, but really have them, live them. I figured once I’d been through one stage, I could check it off my list and get on with the next one. They may be called “stages” of grief, but they are not lived in a linear way (step one: shock, step two: denial, and so on). For instance, just because I’d already been angry as hell, didn’t mean I was done with being angry and wouldn’t feel angry again. Ha! If Only! No, the stages come and go in no particular order, and come back when they damn well please. There’s no knowing how the journey’s going to unfold, no packing smartly for it, no predictable schedule. I’m along for the ride, and grief is in the driver’s seat with lousy navigation skills.
+I allowed that first year, and probably quite a bit of the second, to be about taking care of me. Whatever that meant, whatever that looked like. If it meant I needed to scream and rage in my bedroom for 30 minutes, then that’s what I did. If there were others in the house, I screamed into a pillow. If I was at work, I took a break, got into my car and had my mini-breakdown right there. I was unapologetic about it. Most people understood. I can’t speak for them, but I imagine they were just grateful not to be in my shoes.
+You may believe that with the death of your child, you have lost all reason to live, or that happiness is never again going to be a part of your emotional repertoire. It will be. You may not be willing to contemplate this right now. That’s OK. It will probably sneak up on you. One day you’ll be watching late night TV or chatting with a dear friend, and you’ll have yourself a hearty, uncensored laugh. You may be horrified by this, and feel guilty about it (“My child is dead; how dare I feel any joy?”). I’m here to tell you: It’s OK. Your baby wants this for you…more than anything. Be on the lookout for this moment. When it comes, rather than beating yourself up for it, relish it.
+This confrontation with death will put a lot of things into perspective. Things that once seemed really important are now the stupidest bullshit. You’re not going to sweat the small stuff because, compared to what you’ve been through, everything else is a cakewalk. You will no longer have patience for idiots; you will no longer tolerate people wasting their gifts and their time, because you know – in a very visceral way – how precious each moment is.
+Although it seems very wrong, the young die too. Freakish accidents happen. Illness doesn’t consider a child’s age; it’s just looking for a host, a body where it can flourish. Evil and sick people do unthinkable things, even to our young. Mental illness grabs hold of very young minds and can result in suicide. Our young die. It’s not the way it’s supposed to happen. No mother gives birth imagining her child’s funeral; we imagine our children by our side when our time comes. But “supposed to” is not reality. The reality is: your child is dead and you are not. And it’s no one else’s job (not even your partner’s, not even your parents’) to decide what you are going to do and how you are going to be with that.
+These days, I choose living, but that first year (which was a bit of a blur) I was barely aware, barely paying attention to anything but my own sorrow, and certainly not making any conscious choices! It took a whole first year of abominable pain. It took a whole second year of noticing the months slowly shifting from heinous, to hideous, to harrowing, to horrible. “Horrible” was an improvement. It took a third year of beginning to address that damn question of “now what?” There were many false starts. It took a fourth year of baby steps back to the world of the living. In this almost fifth year, I realize that aiming for a return to “normal” is ridiculous; I’ve settled for what I call a “new normal.”
+This is not the life I expected to be living at the age of 56. My son would be turning 25 this year. He would be a college graduate, embarked on a career, possibly in a relationship with someone willing to marry him and have his children, my grandchildren. None of that is going to happen. Does it hurt my heart when friends talk about or share photos of their children or grandbabies? You betcha. Do I go home and have myself a good cry? For sure. Does the anger at my son for ending his life resurface? Of course. Do I begrudge my friends the happiness their children continue to bring into their lives? If you must know: yes, a little.
+I know now (although I didn’t at first) that everything – including the worst pain ever – is temporary. When an intense surge of emotion surfaces, think of it as a rogue wave that can’t be avoided. It will be a crazy, wild, uncontrollable ride. You will feel un-tethered, flailing and fighting for breath. You will most likely wipe out and get thrashed by the force of that wave (emotion), but the Universe will always deliver you to shore, depositing you on solid ground. Stand up. Congratulate yourself for surviving that one. There will be other waves of emotional intensity, and you will – out of necessity – become an expert surfer.
+The alternative, after all, is to drown, which might be tempting as you begin this grieving journey. I know this temptation well. My son took his own life. He was my only child. I wanted nothing more than to be with him again, even if it meant being dead myself. All I can tell you, almost five years later, is I’m glad I did not pursue that impulse. At the time of those feelings and thoughts, I could not imagine a tomorrow that looks like today. So wait. Wait for your future “today.” It is waiting for you.
+On Tuesday, June 1, 2010, at 2:36 p.m., when I learned of my son’s death, I became “The Lady Whose Kid Killed Himself.” I will always, till the day I die, be that lady. In spite of this, I can confidently say I am not the same person I was on that dreadful, nightmare of a day. I have come a long way in a little over four years. There’s no secret to getting here; it’s one breath and then another, one step and then another, one day and then another.
+I recently attended a birthday celebration for one of my sisters. She told me her friends noticed how I’d changed since they saw me less than two years ago: that I seemed “lighter”, as if I were carrying the burden of my son’s death – not with more ease, but with more grace. There are enormous lessons that come with this kind of suffering. I encourage you to be open to this learning. It won’t bring your child back, it won’t undo the pain, but it will make still being here, without your beloved baby, seem a little less pointless.
+Tell your story. Tell your child’s story, over and over to whoever will listen. You never know whom it might affect or help. And in helping others, I swear to you, you will be healing another little part of your ravaged heart. Say your child’s name, out loud for all to hear. Because, even though it may be only wishful thinking on my part, every time I say or even think his name, my son, my Julian, lives on.
+Hello Celenia. I may have read this one before, but now I am here re-reading. Thinking of you. It’s seven years now for you. Wondering about Julian and if he is at peace and well. I thank you for sharing.
+Thank you Deana for connecting with me as we travel our individual, but similar, roads.
+Thank you for sharing this post with me, a lot of your words reasonated with me. Learning to ride the rogue waves in particular stood out to me today and it’s true it is only temporary and we become expert surfers.
+I am in awe of you, I am still here because I had another daughter aged 19 at the time who had just found out she was pregnant 2 days before Órla passed. I knew she needed me and that I had a responsibility as a single mom to be there for her, I cannot for one second imagine my only child dying and surviving it.
+I look forward to reading more of your earlier posts.
+Xxxxxx
+This blog has paid a lot of attention to the debate over high speed rail on the Peninsula here in 2009. So much so that I'm sure folks sometimes wonder whether this is actually the Peninsula HSR blog or whether Clem's is. (In case anyone was wondering - Clem's blog is still the best place for Peninsula HSR discussion by quite a distance.)
+That is a function of two basic factors. The first is that I simply don't have as much time to do HSR research as I did in 2008. While I'd like to have had time to develop a new platform for the blog, do some original research, and generate more original discussions, that time simply hasn't existed for me. That's the story of work in 2009 - one is either overwhelmed with it or has none and is desperate to get it. So I remain dependent on other news sources to generate posts here at the blog, with occasional help from folks who send in tips and story ideas (and thanks to you who do that!).
+And that leads into the second factor: what remains of the state's media has spent more time on the Peninsula HSR battle than on any other aspect of the project. And that's because squeaky wheels get the grease. Peninsula NIMBYs have worked their media contacts quite well, aided by the existence of several online news outlets in the Menlo Park and Palo Alto communities. Whereas the Innovation Place project struggles to get public attention, the folks filing absurdist lawsuits get plenty of coverage. (And am I the only one who has noticed how these people are working at cross-purposes? If you succeed in giving Union Pacific veto power over the corridor, then a tunnel will never happen.)
+Some of this is due to the ingrown bias of the media in this state. Having become familiar with NIMBYism over the decades, they are willing to make it sound as if the only thing that is newsworthy about the HSR project is the folks on the Peninsula who are flipping out about it.
+Don't get me wrong - those NIMBYs do have very real power. They represent, alongside State Senator Alan Lowenthal, one of the primary threats to the project's viability. They have the money, skills, and tactics needed to block the project.
+But we should not mistake that as a sign of their relevance to the overall project, the mistake John Horgan made in yesterday's Mercury News in his assessment of Quentin Kopp's recent op-ed:
+Local folks foresee high-speed rail and Caltrain combining to produce precisely that sort of devastating and grim scenario here, particularly in vital downtown areas, although Kopp and other HSR types have stated that four tracks, not six, would be used on the Peninsula. But even that remains to be seen...
+Kopp concluded his essay in a conciliatory tone, noting that engineering and design solutions are "achievable and can be adopted here at home to preserve the character and healthy environment of our communities while supplying California with a sustainable transportation alternative to gridlock."
+Let's hope he's right. There is no area of the Golden State with more at stake than this one.
+It's that last line which I find so stunning. There are plenty of areas of California with more at stake than the Peninsula. The Transbay Terminal is a key element of downtown San Francisco's transportation plans. San Jose will experience significant new growth - of the desirable centrally located urban in-fill sort. Southern California will have a revolutionized transportation network that will help ease congestion and fuel the growth of more mass transit options.
+But if you want to find a part of the state with more at stake than any other when it comes to high speed rail, you need to look not amidst the wealth of the Peninsula. You need to look in the Central Valley. Merced, Fresno, and Bakersfield will be utterly transformed by high speed rail. Cities that are struggling with some of the state's highest unemployment rates and some of the world's highest foreclosure rates will have the opportunity to enjoy major and sustained economic growth. HSR will take these cities, currently and unfairly seen as backwaters in a state focused on the two coastal megalopolises, and give them the chance to participate in the 21st century economy. Fresno and Bakersfield will be less than 2 hours away from downtown SF and downtown LA. That's a reasonable commute time, meaning workers in the SF and LA areas can afford to live in the Central Valley, where housing is currently quite affordable. That will in turn bring new jobs and other opportunities to those cities that at present lack other options.
+Ultimately, of course, it is the state as a whole that has an enormous amount at stake with the HSR project. It is essential to our future economic security, our energy independence, our strategies to reduce pollution and address global warming, and to our efforts to seed and support urban infill density that we build the high speed rail project as laid out in the voter-approved Proposition 1A.
+Squeaky wheels may get all the attention, but it should not lead us to ignore the rest of the train.
+62 comments:
+The central valley does have the most to gain and rightly so as they have been left out of the loop for so long. Southern California sucks up most of the transportation budget... and everything else, in this state. One thing that hsr will do, is to disperse and equalize the state's population by making the middle of the state more viable. With a built out hsr system in place, someone living in fresno will have better access to more of the state than anyone else.
+Yesterday I read through a so called rail supporter newspaper for california and it was about 4 pages of anti hsr sentiment. I couldn't believe it. and these people are suppose to be supporting rail. One article made a reference that sounded like they are upset because this is somehow a northern california project and they need to fonally turn it into a southern california porject. wtf?
+wow, you gotta see this apparently the city of tomorrow is all about more and better cars and hsr is nowhere in the picture.
+I wouldn't really call "less than 2 hours" a reasonable commute. However, 1 hour (Fresno-SJ) and 55 minutes (Bakersfield-LA) are. (For reference, there are thousands who commute from Pittsburg/Bay Point to SF every day, and that is 52 minutes.)
+What did you expect? Take the cheapest and ugliest scheme Bechtel can devise and try to ram it down the throats of affluent suburbs. BART can only get away with that crap in a ghetto or a rundown industrial area.
+Everything about the CHSRA is a backroom concoction now declared to be sacrosanct and cast in ooncrete.
+The whole concept has been dumbed down to suit developers. Let California decide whether it wants I-5 Grapevine or 99 Tehachapis. Prop 1A was passed thru fraudulent advertising. I wish some Jarvis-Gann types would file an official election complaint about those commercials depicting trenches all the while Bechtel was only planning elevateds.
+some on this blog might like to check out this contest reburbia
+"One thing that hsr will do, is to disperse and equalize the state's population by making the middle of the state more viable."
+You're talking about sprawl. Period. HSR induced sprawl. (Gee, Maybe there's a physical reason that the central valley is not 'as viable' as other parts of california?)
+Maybe you should go look at the measure 1A propoganda, or the TOD developer propoganda. You really out to get on message.
+We're circling around getting to the truth here - which is that HSR is a vehicle for cashing in on real estate development across california, NOT for encouragement of TOD, nor for eliminating dependence of foriegn oil, or global warming, or reducing auto or air traffic, or any other such thing. Its about increasing the populuation of California at an accelerated rate, and increasing the amount of travel across the state, solely for the benefit of developer interests. What about water? Any money in teh HSR plans for more dams or resevoirs? What about energy production? Any money in the HSR plans for new power plants? What about schools and roads, any money in the plan for that. Hell no. That's all someone elses problem. Developers say, we're just about building the houses, and the rail line to get them there.
+I'd at least like to see HSR supporters be honest about what they're about here. Lets stop trying to credit HSR with saving the world. Get real, its a train in a straight line. If trains in straight lines would have proven to be economically superior, we'd have trains all over place today. No, they went under. They don't make any sense. The government mostly stopped subsidizing them, and the more efficient methods of door to door transportation took over. Shipping is the only thing trains are actually economically viable for anymore.
+Now, show us a train system that promises to take big rigs/shipping industry off the roads between SoCal and NoCal, and we'll talk about environmental beneifts, reduction of sprawl, etc.
+Moving people around that don't really need to be moved around - thats a losing proposition. The only 'investors' you'll ever attract are people who want trains for the sake of trains (ie; train equipment mfg's and train builders) Its a losers vicious circle.
+@ anon 9:39am
+"OMG!! I did absolutly no research into what i voted for in November and now I feel defrauded!"
+Please show us exactly where Bechtel (who hasn't been awarded a single contract yet) decived you into thinking anyone was building a trench on the peninsula.
+Also, by "ram it down the throats of affluent suburbs" are you refering to the peninsula suburbs who (with the exception of Atherton) overwhelmingly voted for building a high speed train through their towns, or are you talking about some other affluent suburbs that we should know about?
+Or are you just pulling everything you say out of you-know-where in order to feign rightious indignation?
+@ Observer
+Wow, amazing what you folks can come up with.
+Please fill me in on the history of government subsidies for private railroads and how their demise lead to the decline of railroads in the second half of the 20th century. Sounds like quite a thesis. I'm sure you have sources and such which informed your deft analysis. Perhapse you would like to share so that we can all learn what chumps we are?
+I always thought that rail was a profitable private enterprize until the Federal governemnt decided to spent $450 Billion on the Interstate Highway system, providing cars with (seemingly free) infrastructure that could compete with an antiquated and federally unfunded rail system.
+Do you know how long it took to drive to LA before there was I-5? How about before hwy 101? I bet the Coast Starlight was competative with driving until the big-bad gov'nament decided it wanted you to buy a car.
+I assure that if 1A were voted on today it would lose.
+Anon @ 10:34 - I assume you have some polls to back up that "assurance" that you made? No? There were plenty of people that "assured" me that prop 1A would fail last November. It didn't. This isn't a best-of-seven series.
+@anon
+but it isn't being voted on today it was voted onlast year on won. and rest assured that when the economy recovers and people are working and traveling, they will say "where is the high speed rail we voted on?" oh the deniers stopped it. You people act like we will be in a permanent state of recession for all of eternity.
+@observer -- growth, which is coming to california now matter what - does not equal sprawl. ( except in your simple mind)
+hsr will bring economic benefit to the part of the state that needs it most. California's population will continue to grow. The new people have to live somewhere. Most tof them can't afford to live in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, not too mention those places are packed full already. so they will have to live somewhere. The three areas of the state that have affordable housing and lots of potential are the inland empire, the high desert and the central valley. That is where the new people will be. In addition to giving the new people access to the whole state, hsr will give all of us acces to the whole state thus equalizing the state's population. If (excluding the rural far north) all californians gain equal access to all job centers, affordable housing, urban amenities, natural wonders, recreation and friends and family, we can finally pull the state together as one, with a unified sense of place, and an unstoppable economic force.
+California is essentially a small nation. California could easily ( probably more easily) function without the Umbrella of the US government. Oour economy and lifestyle should be dealt with in the same way an economy such as japan, france, or spain would be. Hsr will serve as the premier transportation backbone. One which can be built upon by future generations just as the original freeways were. our transportation system consists of road, rail, air, and ports. Three of those four have received heavy investment. hsr brings rail up to par.
+@ observer, anon -
+it must be soooo liberating to live in a fact-free bubble where you can constantly rail against everything and everyone on the basis of your own preconceived notions. Who needs truth when you can have truthiness and blind rage against "them"?
+Faux News at 11.
+@ Jim
+That reburbia site is fun. Check out this one. Some guy put a bunch of work in to it. Mega Fail.
+@ Anon 10:34am
+Well it is unfortunate for you then that the election in the real world was held on November 4th, 2008 and Prop 1A won with somthing-like 53%.
+Maybe in bizzaroland the propostion would fail today, maybe in bizarroland red is blue, up is the number 42, and houses are made of ginger bread...
+I wouldn't know 'cause I'm stuck living in actual reality where we had an election last November, prop 1A won, and we are building a railroad. Welcome!
+@matt "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics, young lady!"
+Is there a tool to ignore anonymous comments? They don't seem to add anything.
+To "by making the middle of the state more viable."
+observer lied, saying: "You're talking about sprawl. Period. HSR induced sprawl."
+People living somewhere is not sprawl. People living an hour travel from where they work is not sprawl.
+Classical sprawl development is people living at low densities with retail, commercial, professional and industrial uses each in a distinct zone requiring a distinct (and therefore, normally car) trip to get to.
+If a person lives 120 miles and one hour travel from where they work, and where they work is a fairly dense multi-use urban core, and where they live is a multi-use transit-oriented development at urban density (and that is the typical "HSR commute" niche), that is less sprawl than living 60 miles away by car in a suburban cul-de-sac.
+BTW, Ryan Avent would have eviscerated Ed Glaeser's latest piece, if there was anything there, so instead he shows how empty it really is
+Sick of NIMBYs said...
+"Is there a tool to ignore anonymous comments? They don't seem to add anything."
+Scroll bar?
+We keep hearing from posters, ignore Anonymous comments.
+What is the difference between posting anonymous than posting with a pseudonym.
+Rafael is one of the most prolific and knowledgeable posters, yet we don't know who he is. I guess maybe Robert knows, but we don't.
+Does he work for the Authority or one of the other groups involved in the project?
+We sure don't know who Sick of Nimbys is, yet he does this complaining all the time.
+The nimbys that visit this board are the same ones screaming on the PaloAlto online..and usually about more than just HSR..YES WAAAAAA to much coverage is given to them.. ..most people are busy and go about there busy day and DO want this project to move forward.
+@ anon @ 3:19pm -
+the issue isn't really who you are, it's how easily other commenters can reply to or reference something that you wrote.
+Note that Blogger lets you get an arbitrary unique handle with a made-up email address. I'm pretty sure that none of "spokker", "rail>auto", "flowmotion" and "adirondacker12800" appear on anyone's birth certificate.
+Therefore, you don't have to give up any of your privacy to emerge from the shadows of anonymity just enough for us to have a more civilized discussion. You may have noticed that those who choose a handle tend to be treated more respectfully by other commenters, even if they disagree on the substance of the argument.
+Anonymous @3:19-
+So far there have been four posts from "Anonymous" in this thread. There is no way for others to know how many different authors are behind those comments. It makes it hard to distinguish among these comments.
+The people who post with pseudonyms over time acquire a personality; I grow to understand their positions, and while I don't always agree, at least I can keep who is who straight in my head.
+Anonymous posts don't contribute to that. Instead, I tend to discount much of what anonymous posters say, because I figure if they really cared, they would bother to create a pseudonym of one sort or another.
+As mentioned by myself before, I have felt too much attention on this blog has been devoted to the peninsula.
+This has particularly been the case with the itsy bitsy tiny and free daily or weekly rags.
+That said, the op'd piece in the Mercury is an example of articles meriting attention; however, this one should be kept in perspective that the piece is an opinion piece and not a news article.
+Which, the writer and tries to undermine planning assumptions and necessary ROW width when speaking to the uncertainty with necessary trackwork.
+Granted, on one hand the CHSRA says 4 tracks are needed on the peninsula and then on the other hand say 6-tracks in the East Bay.
+That said, it would behoove the writer to do a little more research, particularly if they are staffed with a legitimate paper. A little research would have properly conveyed the context for the added necessary width; and which I suspect there is a logical explanation.
+And I can think of at least one....
+... Altamont includes a junction. Once northbound trains get to the Fremont area, trains will need to be directed north to Oakland or south to San Jose. It's probable that additional connections may be included to provide a San Jose to Oakland connection.
+This junction will almost nessitate the need for special trackwork to temporarily stop/layover trains on each side of the junction... so that other tains are not blocked while making a conflicting maneuver. Of course, this may only be needed when trains are off schedule. But, because of the speeds involved the approach distance could be quite far; but, I would not expect that to be more than a mile.
+No one spoke to how long the 6-track segments would be... did they?
+While certainly not in the NIMBY camp, I am somewhat sympathetic to this argument:
+"Take the cheapest and ugliest scheme [consultant] can devise and try to ram it down the throats of affluent suburbs."
+CAHSRA has been working the legal side of this, but they certainly didn't get out in front of the issue politically.
+As Robert C reminds us, support for HSR was quite strong in Palo Alto. But the "YIMBYs" haven't been given anything specific to advocate, and as a result FUD has filled the vacuum. It's a shame there wasn't a meeting point halfway, before the battle lines hardened and the lawsuits dropped.
+(Or perhaps CAHSRA is treating this as an object example, so when every other NIMBY in California comes after them, they can argue that they're getting the same thing as Palo Alto.)
+@ Brandon -
+it's true that we have published more posts on the peninsula and the TTC up in SF than on other segments of the line. That's because that's where most of the problems are right now, technically, legally and politically.
+However, I don't think we haven't ignored the other segments. There have been posts on Sacramento, Fresno, Bakersfield, Palmdale, LA, Anaheim, Riverside, several on San Diego and several more on tying in Lost Wages. In fact, we're close to 500 posts total on this blog now - most of them Robert's.
+I will accept that we haven't published one on the nitty gritty of getting from San Jose to Gilroy yet, other than touch on UPRR's lack of interest in selling any of its ROW or air rights above it.
+@ flowmotion -
+the rules for the EIR/EIS process mean CHSRA must not advocate a specific implementation proposal until after it has studied all of the options submitted during the project-level scoping process. The program level was essentially about selecting the route and where possible, the ROW. The project level is about the vertical alignment, straightening curves, details of secondary stations etc.
+CHSRA did put together a first cut for rough cost estimation, see its Google map of the route and the Caltrain corridor section of Appendix 2-D of the Final Bay Area to Central Valley Program EIR/EIS. A dollar figure for total network construction cost was needed to justify the $9.95 billion volume of the prop 1A(2008) bond authorization.
+That said, any locally preferred alternative on any segment that ends up (substantially) more expensive than this first cut will raise a red flag on funding.
+As for lawsuits, this is California. Someone somewhere is guaranteed to sue, since that is really the only mechanism the EIR/EIS process provides to resolve conflicts. The most substantial complaint to date relates to Altamont vs. Pacheco.
+In that context, you mentioned 6 lanes in Fremont vs. 4 in the peninsula. The reason for that is very simple: BART is a broad gauge system that can't share track with UPRR between Niles and Milpitas. Also, UPRR could not share track with HSR through its Fremont yard.
+In the Caltrain corridor, Caltrain can and does share track with UPRR. The primary argument for 4 instead of 2 (or 3) tracks is the speed mismatch between Caltrain locals and HSR express trains.
+Some commenters - notably Richard Mlynarik over at the Caltrain-HSR compatibility blog - claim quad tracks all the way down the peninsula is expensive overkill, but he's hazy on the line haul times HSR could achieve without dedicated tracks. Relaxing the requirement for SF-SJ from 30 to 40 minutes would reduce average speed from 100 to 75mph (and cruise speed from 125 to 100mph), but that's 10 minutes AB3034 doesn't allow CHSRA to give away. They would be hard to make up anywhere else, because 2h42m for SF-SJ is aggressive as it is.
+Besides, as long as Caltrain insists on running all-stop locals (as opposed to two interlocking leapfrog services), it has no hope of getting anywhere close to 75mph average speed.
+Six tracks for passenger traffic should not be required anywhere in the SF peninsula, it's just an option the lawyers are keeping open because Caltrain hasn't figured out if/how HSR will affect its existing baby bullet service.
+@ Brandon, flowmotion -
+sorry, I got mixed up on who asked the 4 vs. 6 track question.
+Rafael - to be fair, Richard only said four tracks would be overkill if Altamont had been selected, but has said that four tracks are needed with Pacheco.
+Rafael writes:
+"but that's 10 minutes AB3034 doesn't allow CHSRA to give away."
+A very weak argument to say the least. AB-3034 had other provisions that are being ignored, most obvious being the Authority didn't produce a business plan. You wonder if any of the provisions would be enforced, and who is going to do the enforcing.
+There is to be an audit of the Authority starting in September, looking at the whole life time span of the Authority and trying to expose any miss-deeds that have taken place.
+Surely they will expose the now forbidden Los Banos station, and bring to light any other rumored schemes that were hatched.
+So, I would think that adding just 10 minutes to the SJ to SF route is no big problem. And as Rafael has pointed out, the 2 hr. 42 minutes, is a time that will never be met anyway, except in some kind of demo for show run, since there are not planned any non-stop SF to LA trains, when in regular service.
+since there are not planned any non-stop SF to LA trains, when in regular service.
+Nice canard. No official timetable has been released, so no "plan" is available. That's like saying that CHSRA doesn't plan on having seats in the train, because they haven't officially shown us what the seats will look like.
+@Looking on: And as Rafael has pointed out, the 2 hr. 42 minutes, is a time that will never be met anyway, except in some kind of demo for show run, since there are not planned any non-stop SF to LA trains, when in regular service.
+Well, the most recent draft timetable from the powerpoint presentation shown in the board meeting video we were talking about in another thread, shows one non-stop train per-hour from SF to LA (no stop at SJ) making the trip in 2:38. In the meeting, Tony Daniels states that the schedule is based on simulated run-times using the AGV trainsets along their currently planned route. When the board members tried to state that the route times, speeds and schedule were "just drafts, and could be changed dramatically", Daniels pushed back and said "No, they're actually very, close" (I forget the wording exactly).
+Also on that time table is a "limited express" making the SF-LA trip in 2:47 minutes, running twice an hour and stopping in Redwood City, San Jose, and Gilroy. If you figure that means 3-minutes per stop (probably only 1-2 minutes of dwell and 1-2 minutes of acceleration/deceleration), you could put a San Jose stop in there and still make the SF-SJ-LA trip in under the 2:42 required by 1A.
+-Well the speed thing then, bodes well for agv. yay.
+-if too much focus has been on the bay area then how bout some research on what the various cities are doing in their planning departments around hsr. - fresno- bakerfield- etc.
+-could the reason for 6 tracks on the altamont route be die to the fact that unlike the peninsula, it is a busy freight row, plus ACE, plus hsr.? I haven't looked at it that closely.
+-as for schedules, the schedules will be adjusted per demand anyway so speculation is meaningless.
+@jim: Well the speed thing then, bodes well for agv. yay.
+And their run simulations assume a 350kph top speed, not the 360kph top speed targeted for the AGV, so technically the Velaro should be able to achieve similar times, and the AGV should be able to make the run slightly faster.
+@AndyDuncan running twice an hour the limited express runs once per hour on the schedule, sorry. So you have an express or limited express on the top and bottom of the hour. Not bad, hopefully that's accurate.
+velaro schmelaro ...Where can I find the latest "sample schedule"?
+Tis is how Id do it
+sf-la
+express on the hour
+local at :15
+semi on the half hour
+local at :45
+express on the hour.
+easy to remember. and plenty of capacity for at least the first few years.
+@jim slide 14 of this presentation.
+I can't find the more detailed ones, thought I had them somewhere.
+omg. what politician's intern came up with that schedule? and those ridiculous train numbers. ugh.
+we're doomed.
+@Jim omg. what politician's intern came up with that schedule? and those ridiculous train numbers. ugh.
+we're doomed.
+Hey, just be glad it wasn't the LA MTA. You'd have the the Green train, the Blue Train, the Baby Blue train, the Aqua train, the Sea-Foam train, the Chartreuse train the Yellow, Gold, Orange, Burnt Orange, Sunset Orange, Orange-Red, Red and Infra-Red Trains. The Pink, Purple, Violet, Ultra Violet (express, natch), and X-Ray trains.
+And last, but certainly not least, the Cosmic Ray train, though that one isn't listed on the schedule and makes no stops. ever.
+lol which one gets me to burbank.. the marigold line?
+eveyone knows that train numbers run in series and odd numbers are opposite direction than even number
+single numbers east and west double number north and south -- similar to interstate numbers.
+corridors with three numbers specials with four.
+but the train numbers on that hsr sked...
+s123857308080 WTF?
+One of the biggest sticking points in getting poeple on the trains in time is schedule. If you don't make a schedule that a 1st grader can read, people will be unable to read it, remember it, and make their trains.
+you could number them
+express southbound
+1001
+1003
+1005
+1007
+1009
+1011 etc
+northbound express
+1002
+1004
+1006
+1008
+1010
+southbound locals
+011
+013
+015
+017
+019
+021
+023 etc
+northbound locals
+012
+014
+016
+018
+020
+southbound limiteds
+311
+313
+315
+317
+etc
+700a 1001
+715a 011
+730a 311
+745a 013
+800a 1003
+815a 015
+830a 313
+845a 017
+900a 1005
+@Jim, I'm surprised you didn't say anything about their six-southbound trains stopping at Palmdale each hour.
+Who, exactly is going to be on those trains? They MUST be figuring on a DX connection, that's the only thing to justify that kind of service level.
+Meanwhile, Sylmar, projected to be the busiest station between Los Angeles and San Francisco, is only getting 4 tph...
+Here's a better plan: start by running two classes of train, one making all stops, and one running super-express, stopping only at SF, SJ, and LA and the stations to its south. You could even skip Sylmar. Call one of them Echo, since it will finally allow an LA-SF return trip in one day, and the other Light, because light is fast and this service may be the fastest non-maglev train in the world. If there's very high demand on some intermediate stops, such as Sylmar or PA/RWC, then have the Light trains stop there too; you can expect stops to be added to both services as technological improvements increase both top speed and acceleration rates.
+@Alon Levy: It might be the busiest, but 4 TPH is still a lot for Sylmar, Metrolink makes 11 southbound stops there per day currently.
+I'm also a bit incredulous that it will be busier than San Jose, where did you see those ridership numbers?
+Does any of you how many people fly daily on average from the Bay Area to LA area airports? and viceversa?
+@Jim
+There numbering is not totally random.
+They have it as DPPHHMM
+Wher....
+D is direction (N or S)
+PP is pattern number. (see the timetable headers)
+HH is hour it left TBT
+MM is minute it left TBT
+However the la-sf express has an error, and the all-stop originating in Merced never was at SFT
+I like your style numbering pattern better. With one quick glance you can see the pattern and direction. (although so can theirs) But you drop quite a few digits. Time it left SFT is really unless you are departing SFT. But it is much easier to refer to a train by 3 or 4 digits than 7.
+@AndyDuncan, Jim
+Speed apart, AGV and Velaro are very different. Alstom trainsets are articulated and don't jacknife if they derail. But this safety feature also has its drawback: an AGV train has to have 7, 11 or 14 cars. Velaro trainsets can have any number of cars, which may make them cheaper to run. So, the choice is between more safety or more flexibility.
+Don't forget the Gamma ray line... but that's a private train only used by the Fantastic Four ;)
+I'm also a bit incredulous that it will be busier than San Jose, where did you see those ridership numbers?
+On CHSRA's website. Look under "Routes" and check the ridership at each station. The implication is that residents of the Valley will ride HSR to NorCal via Sylmar, not LAUS.
+The implication is that residents of the Valley will ride HSR to NorCal via Sylmar, not LAUS.
+Makes sense.
+Andt Duncan
+- To be fair, LA MTA only has the Red, Purple, Gold, Green and Blue lines. Of course, the Red & Purple lines are a subway... and are often combined and just refferred to as the Red Line.
+Rafael
+Not sure why you responded the way you did. Mis-communication? Anyway, I am saying that this blog has been to responsive to the little rags... and has elevated the credibility of their arguments beyond what they should be. Their arguments are not in perspective with the whole.
+Thanks for the clarity on why there are 6 tracks in the East Bay. But, that is hard to digest ... assuming the info came from Kopp.
+@matt
+currently at amtrak we use numbers such as 3,4 5,6 48,49 8,9 for long distance routes
+four digits for acela 2280 etc
+and three numbers for corridors.
+again odd and even alternate per direction - the san joaquins are an annoying anomaly though, not quite a long distance and not quite a corridor,
+the odd evens are opposite. normally even numbers are northbound and eastbound odd numbers are south and west
+SJQ train are even south or east depending on what you call it and odd north or west.
+before cahsr spoke of limiteds, they were going to cal them suburban express - they would pick up and drop off at several of each of the ends of the line and skip the whole central valley. ( this would give more service to slymar)
+In all honesty, There needn't be more than hourly express, (sfc-sjc-lax-ana )and twice hourly limited (sfc-sjc-fno-bfd-syl-lax and twice hour locals (all stops) That gives the major cities 6 per hour, and the intermediates 4 per hour.
+- at least for the first 5 years that will do unless we hit an economic boom period similar to dot.com (god help us all - if it happens again socal is gonna have to take one for the team cuz sf can't go through it again)
+oh and antoher important factor is that inorde to make maximum use of equipment, and crew, they turn trains on schedules that don't seem to be a clean as we'd like. that bugs me.
+So called "memory schedules" in my opinion would do more to build ridership than anything since the bar car.
+californians in particular are simply baffled by printed schedules and I don't see that changing. Its going to take two generations of young people before californians catch up the east coasters in grasping the concept. ( its never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to explain departures arrivals and transfer to europeans - even with a language barrier, and nearly impossible to get these stoned and stupid kids to find their way to the bus stop. I'' never foget the time I was standing in front of the train in sac and the woman asked me "but where is the train"?
+or our other favorite...
+"is the train here" (do you see a train?)
+its going to be a long road folks. but we'll get there.
+...actually the train really is here but we are hiding it in the coat closet cuz we don't want you to see it yet)
+@ Brandon -
+before the HSR project, Quentin Kopp was in charge of planning the BART extension to SFO and the new east span of the SF Bay Bridge.
+He's a major BART aficionado and never wanted HSR to be in direct competition with it for any right of way. That includes the Niles-Milpitas section of the WPML, which runs immediately east of UPRR's Milpitas line. North of 101, the latter is still used for heavy freight trains.
+@Brandon: Don't forget the Orange line busway (and don't confuse that with the Gold line), also, the Exposition line is slated to be called the Aqua line, and the connection between the Red and Purple lines down Santa Monica Blvd is being referred to as the Pink Line on most Metro maps and discussions.
+So no, we don't quite have an "infra red" line yet, but we have built or in planning:
+Gold, Orange, Red, Purple, Pink, Blue, Aqua, Green
+Hope you're not color blind.
+Shouldn't the line to the beach be the tan line?
+@Jim: Clever, but oh god, I can't even imagine the hoopla surrounding that the moment they put up the maps where the line to predominantly white santa monica is beige-colored. I don't know if you've been following the "environmental racism" attacks that are going on down here due to who gets heavy subway, who gets grade separated LRT, who gets at-grade LRT, and who gets BRT.
+People would lose their minds.
+@Jim, although calling the line from Hollywood through WeHo and down to wilshire the "white line" might be incredibly accurate regardless of the ethnicity of it's patrons. *sniff*
+On a note more related to this article, I was talking to my friends last night who live only a few blocks away from the metrolink lines in Orange county about the alternatives analyisis and the options they had for the 50' ROW between Fullerton and Anaheim, they seemed unanimous in their "Screw the tunnel, I don't want to pay for that, use eminent domain to take people's houses. Heck, if they're willing to pay off my loan, take my house, I'm underwater on it." opinions.
+They also flatly said "I don't care about the train noise or more trains, I just want them to not blow the fucking horn".
+These are people who live less than four blocks from the tracks along which the HSR is planned to go (one of them lives in a complex along the tracks).
+This is, of course, anecdotal, but not everyone is an irrational NIMBY.
+or just call it "the line".
+The line out to simi valley could be the adolf line, the line to east la could be the caesar chavez line, the blue line count be the martin luther king jr line and sta ma line could be the harvey milk line, wilsire could be the ann frank line. 9 the barbara streisand line?) and so forth.
+that should keep everyone happy
+I think the Adolf Line would make everyone smile except those who live in Simi Valley.
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+[Note: This article was written in 2016. The propositions advanced still remain valid as of 2019]
+How are plastic waste, growing hemp, organic farming, and water, connected?
+The fabric of life is built up of many threads, which are supposed to combine to make a wondrous fabric. However the generation of waste and dealing with it, makes an ugly tear in the fabric, and patchwork does not work.
+We have a tendency to view things in isolation, whereas everything in the universe is inter-connected. What is considered as ‘waste’ is the starting point for something that is useful, and so on, till we arrive at a state of zero-waste. Nature does not waste anything, only man does.
+So a solution is produced for one ‘problem’, without taking into account interconnections with that ‘problem’, and in the end we have produced more problems than solutions.
+Shall be joining some dots to put some things into perspective. As always, the viewpoint is India-centric, but the solutions can be applied anywhere.
+Plastic ‘Waste’ to no landfill and no pollution
+This is a world-wide problem and has solutions. Banning plastics is not a solution. Dealing with plastic waste as a resource is. Taking a somewhat contrarian view I am proposing that till alternatives are developed to the use of plastic packaging and products, plastic waste be used as a valuable resource.
+What we see around us are two things, civic illiteracy which makes us throw things (especially polythene bags, plastic products, paper, etc.) on the streets, and civic inefficiency in collection of that waste.
+Political parties display a lot of zeal when it comes to renaming cities. That zeal is missing when it concerns improving the quality of life of citizens. If political parties had to pay from their coffers for properties vandalised and damaged, business lost, and the cost of re-printing stationery of hundreds of thousands of businesses, they would lose a lot of their enthusiasm for re-naming. Airports and stations are given grand names, which are then reduced to acronyms, and the places are still referred to by their old names.
+As per a survey conducted by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in 60 cities of the country, the quantum of plastic waste generation is estimated to be 15,342.6 tonnes per day, or 5,600,000 tonnes per year. The total may be much more.
+,” said Dr Harsh Vardhan at the Institute of Petroleum campus in Dehradun on 17 April 2015. (Source)
+The diesel thus produced burns more cleanly than the diesel produced from crude oil.
+Now to see the potential of that amount of plastic waste for India. That 5.6 million tonnes of ‘waste’ translates to 4,760,000,000 litres (or 4.76 billion litres) according to the IIP projections. The Indian Railways consume 2 billion litres annually. Commercially available plants produce ca. 600–900 litres/tonne of plastic, which would give us 3.36–5.06 billion litres. The diesel so produced, needs to be viewed as a strategic resource. Viewing it in a different way, of the total amount of diesel consumed, consumption by the railways is 3.24%, and buses 9.55%. The agriculture sector is a major consumer with about 13% of the total consumption accounted for by it. Within agriculture, the consumption is as follows: tractors (7.4%), pump-sets (2.9%) and agriculture implements (2.7%). (Source).
+Also generated is 200 kilogrammes of petcoke per tonne of plastic.
+Processes are also available for complete combustion of the plastic waste with no waste leftover.
+A company based in Scotland offers this process for what it calls End of Life Plastics, for producing alternative synthetic fuels, which are direct and commercially profitable liquid fuels that are direct import substitutes for fossil fuels. The have created from 1 tonne of end of life plastic, approximately 1,000 litres of liquid fuel:
+— 700 litres Diesel,
+— 100 litres of Kerosene,
+— 200 litres of Lite Oil.
+Delhi generates 251,850 tonnes of plastic every year (CPCB), which means there is a potential of 151.11 million litres of diesel and 50,370 tonnes of petcoke. Used without gasification, the petcoke generated can be used to run a 10–12 MWe plant, as per the figures of consumption for Reliance’s proposed 4×90 MWe plant, at Mora Village, in Surat district.
+The nature of the problem is brought out in these images. Civic apathy by citizens, no segregation and collection, and inefficient municipal services, which do not allow the waste to be used as a resource. (The cows should be in a shelter and not eating rubbish. Easier to protest rather than to take up the responsibility of looking after them). So it is not plastic waste, (which includes bags), which is the culprit, and as mentioned above banning it is not the solution.
+Plastic waste needs to be segregated at three levels:
+(1) Homes: Bag to collect milk poly-packs, polythene bags, disposable plates and cups, water bottles, any other items like plastic wrapping used for packaging.
+(2) Roadside vendors, restaurants, places of worship, shopping complexes, market places, Parks: Use red coloured bins, since the volume will be larger.
+(3) Roads and streets: Red coloured bins with an efficient collection system. Involve NGO’s who can coordinate resource collectors (waste collectors).
+Once bins are made available on roadsides, market places, office and shopping complexes, parks, etc., implement littering fines. Involve ex-servicemen here. (CCTV systems like the ones to be installed in Delhi, should prevent theft of bins).
+Commercially available plants, with a capacity of processing 10 tonnes of plastic daily, with an output of 6,000–9,000 litres of diesel are available in India. The plants costs Rs 10–12 crores (approx 1.47–1.76 million US$), and have a payback time of 3 years.
+Solution: Delhi generates at the municipality level 689.5 metric tonnes every day, (CPCB). Assuming 90% of this can be processed, Delhi would require about 62 plants of this size, so that the collecting area for that plant is within a 5–7 kilometre radius. These can be distributed all around Delhi, rather than having two or three huge plants.
+Result: There will be no plastic waste to throw, which means no clogging of drains, no animals or birds ingesting it, and nothing going to a landfill. Clean diesel will become available, which can be used by a wide range of users. This would also be an employment generator.
+However there is a bigger opportunity, to solve a bigger problem. Plastic waste in the oceans.
+This system has been devised by a 19-year old to collect plastic waste in the oceans. The headline of the article reads, 19-Year-Old Develops Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From the World’s Oceans. To quote, ‘His ingenious solution could potentially save hundreds of thousands of aquatic animals annually, and reduce pollutants (including PCB and DDT) from building up in the food chain. It could also save millions per year, both in clean-up costs, lost tourism and damage to marine vessels.’
+India can use this method and start an initiative in the oceans surrounding it. It would have three spin-offs: (1) the oceans would be cleaner, which would mean more and healthier fish, and marine life in general, (2) it would get raw material for its plastic-to-diesel industry, and (3) fishing boats can get their requirements of diesel from this source. (However should other countries decide to go in for the same initiative, there would be need to define geographical boundaries of operation).
+Growing Hemp (IH)
+The Hemp referred to here is Industrial Hemp. The reason why it figures here is because it is a source for bio-plastics, along with more than 25,000 products which can be made from it. Since we started this article with plastic, we shall keep our main focus on plastics which can be made with hemp.
+Henry Ford swinging an axe at his 1941 car to demonstrate the toughness of the plastic trunk door made of soybean and hemp. (From the collections of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.)
+In case you are not aware, aside from plastics, Hemp can be used for:
+Unfortunately even though the government is aware to some extent of the uses of hemp, there has been no significant investment in the growing of hemp. As things stand, it would require a significant amount of investment to get the whole hemp eco-system to be established.
+Organic Farming and Urban Farming
+The effort is to present solutions to cut down pollution and have zero-waste going to landfills. Have already written about this in ‘Kitchen “Waste”, Surplus Power, and No Pollution’.
+The highlights of the article were total conversion of kitchen and organic waste to electricity and liquid fertilizer.
+At his juncture I would like to differ with those advocating using kitchen waste for composting. Composting is good in its place, but can only be used for growing activities. Whereas, the method I have advocated, provides electricity, as well as organic fertilizer. When we say use waste as a resource, then we need to extract the maximum potential from that resource. Composting does not do that.
+I had mentioned Urban Farming in that article as well. This would utilize a part of the organic fertilizer and provide organically grown fresh vegetables and greens in each locality at fair prices. There is no reason that organically grown vegetables should be sold at premium prices. Also vegetable supplies would not be hit in case of agitations and strikes.
+Any surpluses can be preserved by organizations such as the one below, so that there is no wastage of fruits and vegetables, which according to some estimates is around Rs 40,000 crore per annum.
+Water
+This is a picture of dead fish in Ulsoor Lake in Bangalore which appeared in the press. One of the reasons cited is the discharge of untreated sewage into the lake.
+Having lived in Bangalore, (renaming doesn’t sit well having used that name for over 6 decades), from 1953 to 1957, and visiting the lake a few time every month during my stay there, remember Ulsoor Lake as a beautiful place. Again a victim of civic illiteracy and civic inefficiency.
+The solution for this situation, as it is all over India, is to treat sewage at localised points all over a city, and not take the sewage to a few ‘big’ sewage plants. Have a large number of water bodies for recharging ground water, as well as water sources. (Heavily penalize any real estate development over or near a water body).
+This what environmentally insensitive governments have done to what was once called Najafgarh Jheel (Lake), which is another name for the Sahibi river, a tributary of the river Yamuna, which once occupied more than 300 square kilometres of area in Southwest Delhi. Read more here.
+Why can’t our drainage channels, (in Delhi) be waterways like this one in Holland,
+instead of being like this.
+According to International Wastewater Systems: Sewage is the Ultimate Renewable Energy Source. According to their site, ‘In the search for new and sustainable energy sources few people realize that there is an energy source flowing beneath the surface of our cities. Sewage! This abundant, free energy source remains mostly untapped.’
+Here is a video presentation of two of their installations.
+And here is one from the Arizona State University titled ‘From Wastewater to Renewable Energy’ (June 2012). When algae are put to work cleaning up wastewater, they can produce biofuel at the same time. A team of ASU graduate students is working with the Arizona Centre for Algae Technology and Innovation to clean up the environment while creating clean, renewable energy. Their project received initial funding from the EPA’s P3 program (People, Prosperity and the Planet). The video is produced and edited by Kirk Davis, Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development. Additional photography by Keith Jennings and Matthew Larsen.
+Solution: I don’t see municipalities investing in these processes. (Delhi recently experienced a strike by sanitary workers on account of non-payment of salaries). Companies need to come forward with entirely new PPP business models which have to break free of tripping and tipping contracts. Municipalities and land-owning authorities have to accord priority to allotting land for sewage processing facilities, and other waste-processing facilities, rather than shopping malls. (Not much use having shiny malls with no water or power).
+Result: Availability of potable water, groundwater recharge, source of renewable energy for power, source of biofuel. (Tax concessions, such as no excise duty on fuels produced from waste, like the one given to biodiesel).
+Citizens and the government will have to think very differently, if they want an energy rich, (the first building block of development), pollution free nation. Those beautiful smart cities and towns being thought of will have to use these processes, to remain smart, otherwise they will just be real estate ‘developments’, which will enrich a few people and impoverish the nation.
+All these areas would present an excellent area of investment for humanitarian funds. These are all community focused activities, with the accent on the community rather than profits. Would be pleased to provide advice and support to any such investor/s.
+Top 16 Captivating Movies Like 'Triple Frontier' Nobody Should Miss out On
+Rahul is a movie addict who can never get enough of good films. His all time favorites are Inception, 12 Angry Men, and Scarface.
+What Films Are Like Triple Frontier?
+This action thriller directed by J. C. Chandor may be the first of its kind on the Netflix platform, making it stand out from hundreds of other indistinguishable ones. The burden of a soldier is something we as ordinary people will never experience; they risk death every day for a foreign cause in a war they did not choose and barely make enough to support themselves and their families.
+So when former Special Forces operatives, who have had enough after having nothing to show for the relentless missions during their 17 years of service, plan a heist to rob 75 million dollars from one of the biggest cartel heads, we can't help but root for them. This is the first time these soldiers are fighting for themselves, using the skills they honed during years of service.
+But plans change as things get out of hand after the robbery turns into murder, with little hope of returning back to normalcy. These skilled fighters seem to get through everything in front of them but their inevitable fate eventually catches up to them. The country demands blood from its soldiers but can’t pay them back for the countless sacrifices made, so they’re made to choose between country and family. That’s a choice no one should have to make, but they do.
+If you enjoyed this pic, you’ll certainly enjoy my compilation of some movies like Triple Frontier. Check them out if you want to experience some gory and violent action sequences along with some heartbreaking content at its core.
+Movies Similar to Triple Frontier
+- Die Hard
+- The Heat
+- The Foreigner
+- I Saw The Devil
+- John Wick
+- Taken
+- Inception
+- Mad Max: Fury Road
+- Lucy
+- Speed
+- The Terminator
+- Leon: The Professional
+- Sherlock Holmes
+- Mission Impossible
+- Casino Royale
+- The Equalizer
+1. Die Hard
+"Yippee Ki-yay motherf **ker." These words bring back memories from the classic thriller franchise, Die Hard, which has five movies under its belt.
+John McClane gets to spend this Christmas with his wife and daughters as a Christmas miracle granted by Santa, but celebrating Christmas becomes secondary to saving his family when a group of terrorists takes everyone in the building as hostages.
+It’s not a job this time, it's personal. He is forced to deal with these uncompromising men and their ruthless methods, using the skills he acquired over many years as a New York policeman. The last thing these men wanted was for a man like him to get in their way and change the predator-prey dynamic.
+2. Heat
+Heat brought Al Pacino and Robert De Niro together for the first time since The Godfather, and what followed was a cinematic masterpiece. Neil McCauley and his crew are facing turbulence after their last robbery doesn’t go as planned and they’re being chased by Lt. Vincent’s team. Neil plans one last heist before he leaves for good, risking everything to prove a point to his equally stubborn counterpart.
+Both these people have mutual respect for each other, realizing they’re the same and just happen to be on different sides of the law. Who among the two identical men will be victorious? That depends on the simple act of being able to pull the trigger before the other one.
+Those looking for some thriller like Triple Frontier will not be disappointed by this no-holds-barred flick.
+3. The Foreigner
+It’s the same old story of a good man turned bad after facing a certain tragedy, but with a blockbuster budget and lovable action star in Jackie Chan. After Quan’s daughter dies in a politically motivated bombing, he seeks out the killers after not receiving help from anyone. He’s willing to go to any lengths to make the perpetrators pay for their actions and attacks powerful officials who he thinks know the location of the bombers.
+After a long back and forth with this apparently common man, the government officials start to hunt him down and learn about his capabilities and a tragic past. The struggles he faces shows you how far one would go to avenge the people they love.
+4. I Saw The Devil
+This sly feature from South Korea is a story about revenge with tons of gore and violence that takes you to dark places and makes you question your morals.
+Serial killer Choi-Chul ruthlessly murders a woman and leaves her severed head to be discovered by her husband and trained agent, Kim Soo-Hyun. Soo-Hyun hunts down his wife’s killer, only to punish him and leave him for dead. This is a mistake he gravely regrets later on.
+When a man meets pure evil and his soul starts getting corrupted as a result of the rage he’s burdened to carry, the only choice he sees is vengeance that completely destroys his moral compass.
+The acting from both the leads will take you through a journey of moral dilemma yourself, as you try distinguishing right from wrong.
+5. John Wick
+On the verge of collapse after the death of his wife, the only thing holding it together for John Wick is the dog she left and a car he loves. But after an unpleasant encounter with some Russian thugs, he gets severely beaten, waking up to find the dog killed and his car stolen. This forces John to take out the hidden artilleries and take on an entire Russian-mafia empire by himself.
+It turns out John has an unsavory past, being a highly trained assassin who left the criminal world after falling in love and vowing to never go back. But now after all these years and nothing left to lose, he's back in the business again. The Russians call him Baba Yaga or The Boogeyman because there seems to be no end to what he can do, and now they’re forced to fight back as he hunts them down.
+Unflinching cruel and flashy, John Wick is one-of-a-kind thriller - one nobody should miss out on.
+6. Taken
+After his daughter gets kidnapped while on a vacation with her friend in Paris, Bryan Mills, a former government operative, needs to track these assailants quickly and find her. But soon the objective changes from saving his daughter to tormenting these unsavory men who are about to experience the wrath of an angry father.
+Mills, prepared to do anything to avoid losing his daughter, uses violent investigation tactics to find her whereabouts before it’s too late. This action trilogy featuring Liam Neeson has great fight sequences and memorable one-liners that will keep you on your toes.
+If you're looking for some nail-biting thriller Like Triple Frontier, Taken will not disappoint you.
+7. Inception
+Like other great Christopher Nolan movies, this one will have you talking about it well after you’ve seen it. What if you had the ability to enter dreams, where people hide secrets and dark fantasies they don’t want others to find out? Cobb, a virtual robber, has this special ability thanks to a gadget and uses it for his own selfish purposes, which has cost him everything he holds dear.
+The next task he's about to take isn't as easy, as it requires placing an idea inside a mogul's mind instead of extracting it. The only way to plant an idea in someone’s head is to make them believe they came up with it, which requires more than a dream-entering ability, and Cobb is sure he can handle it with some help. Things, however, quickly go south as Cobb learns the cost of pushing his luck too far.
+This visually stunning story of a dream inside a dream will have you questioning the fabric of reality, hoping these people can wake up and escape the elusiveness of fantasies.
+Nolan's Inception is a once-in-a-generation movie - an epitome of perfection, to say the least!
+8. Mad Max: Fury Road
+This new reboot of the Mad Max franchise featuring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron is just as enticing as the old ones but with upgraded visuals. The story is set in a future dystopian world where people have gone back to being savages and the only goal is survival; you fight for every second you breathe or you die.
+When Furiosa, a young woman, helps five women escape the cruelty of their husband and tyrannical leader, Immortan Joe, she meets escapee Max on the way. The two, despite having different goals, help each other survive this disaster.
+Though the story is breathtaking, this sly feature's saving grace is its unflinching action-sequences, as you hold your breath waiting to witness the next acute twist in the movie.
+9. Lucy
+Following her unfortunate encounter with some large scale drug dealers who intend on turning her into a drug mule, Lucy is never going to be the same again. When surgically implanted drugs leak into her system, she gains super-human abilities and increased access to her brain.
+As Lucy begins to unlock more mysteries of the human mind, she seeks help from a renowned neurologist to help her understand these newly discovered abilities. The more powerful she becomes, the further she moves from normal human emotions that tie her to humanity.
+Though the plot lacks originality, Lucy's unsavory shenanigans more than makeup for it. Give this underrated gem a shot.
+10. Speed
+A bomb placed inside a bus will go off if the vehicle goes below 50 miles an hour. LA police officer Jack has to figure out a way to save the passengers and find the bomber's location while making sure to prevent the explosion.
+Will the driver keep up with the speed? When will this crazed maniac stop playing games? Will these questions in mind, Jack is forced to make split-second decisions because each moment counts and every decision leads to life or death.
+In the world where superhit movies like Triple Frontier get all the attention, underrated films like Speed never get much of a chance to shine. If this sly feature slipped under your radar, now is your chance to make it right.
+11. The Terminator
+This James Cameron movie turned Arnold Schwarzenegger into a household name. The award-winning actor never looked back since then.
+The Terminator shows the ultimate battle between man and machine. An indestructible cyborg from the future has a mission of killing Sarah Connor as her unborn son may be the only thing standing in the way of a future AI uprising. The Terminator kills every one that comes in the way of its quest and the only person that can save Sarah is Kyle Reese, another man sent from the future to protect her and save the only hope of defeating the machines.
+What is more resilient? The human spirit and its desire to survive or a perfect being that follows every command without question, making no errors?
+12. Leon: The Professional
+Leon is a highly skilled hitman and a nightmare for his targets, but he’s just like the rest of us during his off-days. After getting involved with some bad company, his neighbors get slaughtered, leaving only a little girl, Matilda, who wants to exact revenge upon the murderers by learning the art of killing from the man himself.
+The once care-free Leon starts to grow fond of this girl and teaches her all the necessary skills, hoping she makes the right call when the time comes and doesn’t lose herself in the wrath of vengeance. This highly unlikely companionship between the two makes for enjoyable moments until the guns start firing and we see Leon at his best.
+13. Sherlock Holmes
+This big screen adaptation of the book by British author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tells the story of a fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes and his most trusted ally, Dr. Watson, who work together to solve cases in the most unorthodox of ways. Sherlock finds his intellectual rival in the form of Lord Blackwood, who takes the duo on a spiraling journey, trying to solve the case at hand.
+Sherlock and Dr. Watson often argue and don’t see eye to eye on many things but no one could argue about the effectiveness of their partnership. With Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in the lead roles, you see the chemistry between the characters brought to life as they make you go on crazy adventures.
+14. Mission Impossible (Series)
+Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt is no ordinary agent, as we have witnessed over the years. For the uninitiated, MI's story revolves around Cruise's character for the most part, as he takes on impossible missions (of course), saving the world in the process. The situations always appear to grow tenser with each passing second as Hunt tries his best to resolve them.
+With a staggering six movies under the franchise already and a couple more yet to be released, Mission Impossible series will have you believe that there really is nothing impossible for this dogged agent.
+And if that wasn’t enough, Tom Cruise performs all his stunts, so the action sequences you see on screen are not fabricated. Those looking for some heart-stopping films like Triple Frontier will love what Mission Impossible series brings ton the table.
+15. Casino Royale
+Casino Royale rebooted the James Bond franchise and introduced Daniel Craig as the new British secret agent with a license to kill.
+Bond is sent on a mission to foil the plans of Le Chiffre, a man linked with funding terrorist organizations. The agent will have to beat the man at poker as he’s planning on raising money in a high stake poker game looking for his next funding.
+The charming agent who likes his martinis shaken, not stirred, teams up with Vesper Lynd to tumble Chiffre’s empire and apprehend him. Can agent 007 complete this mission like the others before it or will the antagonist finally get under his skin? Though you already know the answer, Casino Royale is a nail-biting ride nonetheless, as our protagonist plays with fire everytime he gets camera time.
+16. The Equalizer
+Robert McCall has a mysterious past he has buried for years but is forced to unleash it after Teri, a teenager, gets severely beaten by Russian mobsters. He offers these goons money in exchange for her life, which they refuse, and it appears to be the biggest mistake of their lives as he uses his skills to neutralize all of them.
+Soon after, he’s followed by ruthless killers seeking revenge for their fallen friends, but this too might be a mistake as he appears to elude them and hunt them down, one after another. A simple man by day and protector of the helpless by night, McCall becomes a nightmare for a certain breed of the sinful population.
+The Equalizer might lack the grandeur of Mission Impossible and Bond movies, but it packs a punch where it matters.
+Larry Slawson from North Carolina on March 27, 2019:
+Interesting article. Always on the lookout for a good movie. Thank you for sharing.
+So, it’s about that time again. Every so many years, people in the Canadian Forces (along with other Canadian government agencies and departments) start looking at what potential raises and pay adjustments will be coming out. And I’ve been paying attention to a couple of online Reddit groups, message boards, etc., etc., and see that things are somewhat hammered out.
+The PSAC union (Public Service Alliance of Canada), the group which oversees the majority of Canadian government public service employee groups, along with the Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) and the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), generally sets the bar for what to expect as it relates to pay increases and such. The talk looks to be about a 6% pay raise, retroactive to 2012. So, it looks to be that the tentative agreements lay out the following:
+- 1.75% for 2012
+- 2.0% for 2013
+- 1% for 2014
+- 1% for 2015
+- Then, also tentative for 1.25% for 2016 and 2017 also
+Now, this all appears to be tentative. Everyone’s waiting on the Treasury Board / government to sign off on all these tentative agreements, which should take place by the middle of June apparently. The RCMP is also negotiating and trying to sort things out (they’re still in the process of hammering out a union formation, since the Supreme Court of Canada recently awarded them unionization rights).
+This would then trickle down to similar retroactive pay raises across other federal government departments and organizations, including down to the Canadian Forces. Meaning, a trained Corporal (at a 4-year pay incentive level, which is the vast majority of Forces members) would go from earning $58,000 or so a year, to just over $63k for 2017 (not including Specialist pay levels, or any other perks). Plus, with this all being retroactive, there would be back-pay of about $8000 pre-tax owed to said Corporal.
+In my opinion (and yes, I’m only the “little guy” in the room with this as well), it’s a good thing. More money (generally) is always good. It helps retention, recruitment, morale and esprit de corps (which is really at some all-time lows within the Forces based on many formal and informal estimates and surveys going on recently).
+But it’s paltry too. Some of those numbers look good, but it’s only 6% – inflation, based on Bank of Canada numbers, has worked out to be 6.71 percent, from April 2012 until April 2017. So SHIIIIIIIIEEEEETTTT, this (currently still hypothetical and hoped-for) retroactive raise doesn’t even keep up with the pace of inflation.
+Now, reading some of those Reddit threads and message board and forum discussions, it funny how there are lots of those that come out of the woodwork with the typical tripe – “we’re the second-highest paid Forces in the world already”, “if you don’t like it, quit”, “everyone else has frozen pay too” [not quite true, in actuality, apples-to-apples as much as it can be], “no one joined to get rich”, etc., etc. These are the same types of pricks who argue for the sake of arguing, who bitch about everything but offer no suggestions or improvements towards it, who become the new “old dinosaurs” who stick to the age-old way of doing things in the military “just because that’s the way it’s always been done, so why change/fix/improve it”, etc., etc.
+I also HATE hearing the old adage, “you joined to serve your country”, and that money’s not everything, and that “to serve with honour” sacrifices must be made, etc. Well, yes, we make sacrifices – to serve as Military Police, rather than on a civilian police service, there’s more sacrifices than normal. There’s extended absences from home (not just missing a simple birthday or being out on a call rather than being home for dinner, but being days and weeks away instead). There’s international taskings, ops, and missions that all come into play, and not just working in your own “backyard” or home neighbourhood. But sacrifices like those are what’s expected for the added “honour of serving one’s country”. You’re simply willing to give up certain comforts and privileges for the added honour of being one of the few. But, sorry, but pay doesn’t NEED to be one of those sacrifices too.
+I for one (obviously) would definitely like to see the raises and improvements. As I mentioned, so many things are not looked at positively within the forces right now. Pay improvements help. As Military Police especially, we’re already 20-30% less than comparable civilian agencies, and that’s not including any overtime or court-time pay (which we do NOT get as MPs).
+As well, over the past number of years, there’s been many things cut out of our pay, besides not having raises or getting a cost-of-living-increase. Over $400 a month cut from my pay, in my case alone, just in my first two years. Now, also add in that we don’t have money for many “typical” things – uniforms are back-ordered, we can’t get new boots in place, something that should take a week or two takes 10 months to work through the bureaucratic red-tape nightmares that have been put in place, many units (especially on the Reserve side) can’t get enough bullets and other consumable items for regular-enough training, much equipment is in such disrepair and Red-Green-duct-tape’edness (just to get through another day) that things are getting onto the side of embarrassing. And hell, all that tied in with the fact that many Forces members live in PMQ / RHU housing on the bases, in houses owned by an arms-length civilian agency, where the rental cost on a house is about 80% of what an actual mortgage cost would be on a comparable local house. This is insane to be charging Forces members that, when you consider these homes are on DND property, most built and paid for since the 1940s to ’60s, that are long paid for and don’t cost the government all but a dime to have, and yet they’re fleecing our Forces members that way. And, since it’s an arms-length civilian property-management agency, THEY always make sure they get their annual price increases, and stay ahead of inflation with annual fee increases. It’s such a joke.
+Could it be worse? Hell yes. We in the Forces do (I know, I know) have the ability to leave; it IS indeed a voluntary choice to be in the Canadian Forces. Granted, they make it an ABSOLUTE BITCH for those wanting to transition out (six-months minimum to “voluntary release” and get out; this ain’t your civilian aspect of “two-weeks notice” and you’re good-to-go, darling). But we’re not a conscription Forces, and as I mentioned before, we are definitely up there on the remuneration paid (though our taxation and cost-of-living is also higher than most too).
+But it could be made much, MUCH better too. The Forces loses SO MUCH money in retention and recruitment and training – how many pilots are lost early to civilian companies, MPs to civilian police forces, CF firefighters to municipal services, military medical staff to public agencies and hospitals, etc., etc. If you want the skills and the training and the experience to stay (ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES TO “PURPLE TRADES” AND CERTAIN SPECIALTIES), to not have such heavy retention losses, then pay up. Make things at least somewhat comparable to civilian rates of pay – not 40 to 50% less. (It’s absolutely disgusting when CF firefighters make what they do, but then the CIVILIAN-run DND firefighters [who do the “regular” CF bases aside from those with airports/airstrips themselves] have their pay tied to within 30% of the very top tier of what outside civilian agencies get, and so, they just recently got a 20% or so pay raise to factor in changes from the last 5 years or so. Meaning the same rank/position from CF fire to DND/civilian fire can be a difference of almost double the pay. Fucking disgusting.) So why not automatically attach a cost-of-living increase that matches the annual inflation rate??? You’d get rid of the need for all this money wasted on giant TEAMS of people negotiating new contracts, leg work needed, lengthy negotiations and man-hours spent doing all this, etc., etc. Short term, yeah, it may cost more. But the long-term savings from higher retention rates, and then less costs in recruitment and training, and people staying longer to continue to serve, will pay dividends.
+Ask civilians what they want from their agencies – do you want the vast majority of people working for emergency services to have 5-10 years experience only, or the vast majority to be in the 10-30 year experience level??? I know I sure as shit would rather have a doctor doing surgery on me with 24-years-experience and X-amount of previous procedures performed, rather than a doc with only 7-years under his/her belt, and “that’s the best we have, right now, due to recruitment and retention”, etc., etc.
+Emergency services (police, fire, ambulance), doctors, nurses, etc. – these make up a fair portion of what we call the “purple trades” in the CF. In civilian society, these professionals and trades are quite generously paid – and that’s because (put gruffly) these people do shit, see shit, and prepare for shit that the average person can’t or won’t be able to handle. They are, day-in and day-out, prepared and preparing for everything that the average person couldn’t even IMAGINE sometimes. They make up a part of why everyday society is simply able to function and continue to operate, blinders-on sometimes. Now….take these trained professionals….and put them into an armed-forces mandate and concept-of-operations. Take them, doing these jobs, and insert it into both domestic and international operations. Where our clearly-defined Canadian lines-of-operation start to get fuzzy, and a billion other variables start coming into play.
+And yet, WE PAY THEM ANYWHERE FROM 20-50% LESS THAN WE PAY CIVILIAN COUNTERPARTS, AND WE WONDER WHY EXPERIENCE / RETENTION IS SO PISS POOR, AND THEN WE WONDER WHY AVERAGE EXPERIENCE LEVELS ARE IN THE 5-10 YEAR RANGES COMPARED TO 10-/15-/20-YEAR-PLUS ON THE CIVILIAN SIDE?!?!?!?!
+The problem is….the government (from ALL parties; this is a problem that has gone on far too long, and covered across many successive governments) and the greater bureaucracy in charge….they just simply don’t have a long-term view on this. They spend millions and millions every couple of years on workplace satisfaction surveys, to see where to improve, to see what would help, but they DON’T LISTEN TO THE ANSWERS, and use it as simply a “check in the box” that they’re “listening to the troops” and hearing what the front lines have to say, etc. And, what we end up from the top is that all anyone is looking at (for those in charge) appears to end up being budgetary bottom-lines, the next promotion, re-election, “what’s best for ME”, etc., etc., etc., and NOT the greater picture unfortunately.
+But hey, what do I know….I’m only the low guy on the totem pole.
+Cheers all.
+2 thoughts on “On Pay, Recruitment, Retention, and “Satisfaction”…”
+You don’t get paid enough mate. Before I get political, I will just leave it at that! -R
+Our Stance on Head Covering
+by Jason Ashe
+When God commanded Noah to build the ark, he told him to first spread tar on the inside before he attempted to do the same on the outside (Genesis 6:14). Perhaps Noah initially thought that the order didn’t matter seeing as the entire ark would eventually get covered anyway, but had he done things any differently, he would have been rebelling against the instructions of the Lord. This is a good example for us today.
+As disciples of Christ, we are commanded to prioritize our inner life over all things external and seek to please Him on earth as we would in heaven (Matthew 23:26, 2 Corinthians 5:9). So although as a church we desire to obey God exactly even in non-essential biblical traditions, this is secondary to our desire to have the spiritual reality of these traditions alive in our heart and the truths which they proclaim made evident by our lives.
+One such tradition we seek to follow is that of head covering. We believe that the practice as taught in 1 Corinthians 11 applies to Christians today. This means that women should cover their heads while praying or prophesying and that men should not (1 Corinthians 11:4).
+God's Glory on Display
+The first reason men do not cover their heads while praying or prophesying is because Christ is our figurative head. 1 Corinthians 11:3-4 says, “But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head. A man who covers his physical head while praying or prophesying in church is symbolically covering Jesus and bringing him disgrace. Men also do not cover their heads because man is the glory of God in the creation order. 1 Corinthians 11:7-9.” Man is the image and glory of God. So not only is he symbolically covering Jesus and disgracing Him when he chooses to cover his head while praying or prophesying, but he's also symbolically hiding the glory of God.
+Woman on the other hand is the glory of man. This certainly doesn’t mean that women are not made in the image of God, that's silly talk (Genesis 1:27). All human beings were created in the image of God. By pointing to men here and saying that man not only bears the image of God but also displays His glory, it should cause us to take a closer look at the creation account.
+In the context of these verses, the word “for” in 1 Corinthians 11:9 is a synonym for “because.” We are then given two reasons as to why the woman is the glory of man. It is because:
+She was created from man: “… for man does not originate from woman, but woman from man.”
+She was created for man: “… for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.”
+Both of these truths are clearly seen in Genesis 2 in the story of Adam and Eve (Genesis 2:18, 2:21-22). God created Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed life into his nostrils. God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden and commanded him to use his hands to take care of it (Genesis 2:15-20). In the early days, plants had not sprouted up because there was no rain and no one to cultivate the ground (Genesis 2:5). Although Adam was given authority over the whole earth, God also instructed him not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and presented him with the responsibility of giving all the animals a name (Genesis 2:15-20). All of this occurred before Eve was created. The animals were initially created as a helper for Adam, but none of them was a suitable helper. So God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep, fashioned Eve from Adam’s rib, and she became an equal partaker with him in the earthly dominion and a fellow heir (Genesis 1:27-28, 1 Peter 3:7).
+Similar to how woman was created from man—his rib, and created for man—as a helper and fellow heir, man was also created from God—formed from the earth, and created for God—to care for the garden and be an earthly representative of his universal dominion. This is why sin came into the world only when Adam disobeyed God (Romans 5:12). He was given the responsibility to uphold God's order. Now, this is not to say that man’s primary purpose was to cultivate the Garden or that women aren't also called to glorify God, but it does indicate that man had a specific course assigned to Him by God in order that by His design, he may further glorify his creator through proper management of His creation.
+One of the most beautiful things about the creation account is that despite being created first, being commissioned with the awesome task of cultivating the garden, naming the animals and even naming the female, Adam chose to call her woman meaning “bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh”—an equal. Different, but in no way inferior. In fact, after stating that man does not originate from women, that woman was created for man and should have a symbol of authority on her head when she prays and prophesies, 1 Corinthians 11:11-12 says, “However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as the woman originates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God” (1 Corinthians 11:11-12).
+The first woman was created from the rib of the man in the Garden of Eden, but ever since then, man has always come from the woman. We all know this. Without the man, there is no woman. And without the woman, there is no man. The Holy Spirit makes it a point to emphasize the equality of both men and women in the eyes of God. He does not want there to be any room for using this teaching to suggest the inferiority of women based on some silly idea that insinuates the sole importance of men. The Bible actually makes it abundantly clear that men and women are both called to minister in some capacity in the local church.
+Whenever a woman reads this passage and learns that man is her head, she immediately reads that Christ also has someone as His figurative head. Here she can see that this is a matter of divine order and arrangement, not leadership ability or equality. In the book of John, it says that “before anything else existed, there was Christ, with God. He has always been alive and is God Himself. He created everything there is—nothing exists that he didn’t make” (John 1:1-4, The Living Bible). God is the head of Christ, but the Bible is clear that Jesus and the Father are equally one. All members of the Trinity are equal in essence, but they do not have the same roles. No one would claim that there is an ontological submission of one member of the Trinity to another (where the Son is lesser than the Father or the Spirit is lesser than the son) but a quick read through the Bible shows that there is still a functional submission in which the Son submits to the Father and the Spirit submits to the Son.
+Jesus was equal to God long before the creation of the world. His name was not Jesus or Christ at that time. He was the Son, the second person of the Trinity. The word “Christ” means: the Messiah—the anointed one, the savior. The Bible says that the Son was made Christ by God when He submitted to Him and was sent to the earth to die on our behalf (Acts 2:36). Simply put, God the Holy Spirit, conceived a body for God the Son, God the Son was born in that body and grew up before the eyes of God the Father (Isaiah 53:2). Although Jesus is God, the creator of the universe, He willingly chose to come to earth as a man (Philippians 2:6-7). That was a huge step and display of humility. Jesus laid aside His rights, His power and His glory as God. Even though He did this, He never stopped being God. God can never cease being Himself.
+The sisters in the church are blessed to identify with Jesus by following His example of humility and submission despite their equality with man. Since woman is the glory of man because she was created from man and created for man, she must wear a covering. The glory of man has no place in the church.
+Likewise, the Bible teaches us that the glory of woman should also be covered in the meetings. The glory of women is long hair (1 Corinthians 11:14). The fact that women naturally glory in their hair in virtually every culture is not debatable. Have you ever thought about why Lazarus’ sister Mary used her long hair to wipe Jesus’ feet after pouring out her expensive perfume? You don’t have to be a genius to know that hair isn’t the best drying agent, even her clothes would have worked better. The thing that made what she did even more amazing than using that expensive perfume to wash dirty feet, was that this woman—even unknowingly—was also using that which naturally brought her glory to honor the Lord Jesus Christ. There’s a great lesson in that story that we often overlook.
+It’s easy for a short-haired woman to read verse 15 and refuse to cover her head because according to it, she doesn’t have any natural glory. However, even without long hair, she is still the glory of man according to the order of creation because she is a woman. As such, during the meeting, she should have a covering on her head—the epicenter of the body—to symbolically prevent the glory of man from being displayed. The only alternative given is that “if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her cover her head” (1 Corinthians 11:6). The first “if” proves that this covering is one that the woman must decide upon whenever she is preparing to pray or prophesy. This isn't referring to the natural covering of hair referred to in verse 15.
+For example, consider verse 6, “For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off” (1 Corinthians 11:6). If the woman’s hair was the required covering, the words “does not cover her head,” could be substituted for “does not have hair” and the verse should technically still make sense. The verse would then read, “For if a woman does not have hair let her also have her hair cut off.” It would be impossible for someone who doesn’t have hair, to cut off what they do not have.
+We could also look at verse 4 for further clarity. It says that “Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head” (1 Corinthians 11:4). If we use the same logic of hair being a covering, the verse would translate as, “Every man who has hair while praying or prophesying disgraces his head” (1 Corinthians 11:4). That would mean that every man must be completely bald when praying or prophesying because being covered or to “have hair” while doing so, would be a dishonor to Jesus. We know this isn’t the case because Paul himself had a head full of hair during his first two missionary journeys until he mistakenly shaved his head as a vow (Acts 18:18). We can conclude that the covering being mentioned in this passage is more than just the natural covering of hair. It is something else that the woman must willingly choose to apply, and the man must decide not to.
+The point of all of this is that no one within the body of Christ deserves glory but God. Only His glory is to be exalted and on display (Isaiah 42:8). Not man’s glory which is woman, or the woman’s glory which is her long hair. In the church, the glory of the woman must be covered just like the glory of man. Therefore, the woman’s long hair—that which gives her glory—must be covered when praying or prophesying.
+A Symbol to Angels
+The woman’s head covering also serves as a testimony to the angels. 1 Corinthians 11:10 says, “Therefore, the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels" (1 Corinthians 11:10). I’ve heard it said that whenever we read the Bible and notice the word, “therefore”, we should always go back and see exactly what it’s “there for.” As I've already mentioned, verses 7-9 summarizes part of the creation account—woman was created from man and woman was created for man. This is why the word “therefore” is used at the beginning of the verse. Together, the verses reads as follows, “For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man; for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake. Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.” The context reveals that this creation order is one of the primary reasons for this symbol of authority that angels can see. Two of the epistles that speak the most about church life, both make mention of the fact that the church is on display to heavenly beings (1 Corinthians 4:9, Ephesians 1:10).
+Although we cannot say exactly what "because of the angels" means, we know that this verse speaks about the incredible privilege given to a human woman, created a little lower than the angels, to be an example to them in heaven. If no other reason then “because of the angels” was given, even without thorough understanding, it would still be more than enough to prove that we as the church need to be obedient to this teaching today. When we do, the angels can point to Christian women and marvel at them, saying, “Look at that! We are always obedient to God, but we’re angels, in heaven, before the actual throne of God. Those women are living on the earth and are still obeying God. Wow!” If the sisters today choose to die to themselves, cast away their cultural influence and set aside their human reasoning, the church can be an even greater testimony to angelic beings that we cannot even see.
+Many of those who reject the practice of head covering will say, “It’s only a symbol, why does it matter?” I would then ask them the same question, “It’s only a symbol, why does it matter?” This isn’t even dealing with the far more important and costly issue of being a Christ like leader or being submissive from the heart. It's simply suggesting an outward representation of these hidden things. Nearly every Christian denomination teaches that we should keep the tradition of baptism, which I believe they should, but baptism is also a traditional symbol, though a very important one I might add. It’s not something essential to being born again for that would nullify the truth that we are saved by grace through faith and no works of our own (Ephesians 2:9). There are also symbols which play a big roll in our culture outside of the church. Countless Christian men and women will likely become anxious if they lose their wedding ring. The loss of the ring doesn’t mean that the marriage is over, nor is it an indication that any love has been lost. Still, it’s an important symbol none the less. In various countries, it’s illegal to revile or damage the national flag in public. Such crimes are punishable by law with a fine or imprisonment, but once again, a flag is just a symbol. When we consider things like this, we obviously cannot deny the fact that symbols and signs are important things.
+Not A Cultural Commandment
+Others will say, “But that was specifically for Corinth because of the time and culture they were in. The prostitutes went about with their heads uncovered so they could easily be recognized. That’s why Paul was saying this. He didn’t want the Christian women to be mistaken for ladies of the night. Today that sort of thing really wouldn’t hold the same significance.” Whether the claim about the women in Corinth is true or not, it would in no way nullify the principles of this teaching. We need to be straightforward and just look at the verses. None of the arguments presented by Paul suggest that the presence of this commandment was the result of Corinthian culture. Hypothetically, if this was the case, immediately we would also have to acknowledge that men are also given a clear commandment not to cover their heads. This would then pose the question, what was the cultural significance for that? How would this be handled by newly converted Jewish men in the first century who traditionally covered their heads?
+Although there are a few cultural commandments in the New Testament, when commandments, promises, or traditions are emphatically connected to numerous eternal realities which transcend time, culture, and geography, it should be a clear indication that such things cannot be limited to their original audience. For example, the tradition of the Lord’s Supper (known as Communion today) was originally established in a Jewish society with only Jewish people present as they obeyed the Jewish law to eat the Passover meal, and yet, it is not regarded as irrelevant on the grounds that many of us aren’t Jewish or that we happen to live in a different culture.
+Why is that?
+It’s because the practice finds its theological footing on the blood of the New Covenant, the broken body of Christ, and the unity of the church. These are three Christian fundamentals that stretch beyond societal boundaries. Head covering is no different. For this reason, the tradition of head covering was embraced by nearly all believers for over 1900 years. Anyone who studies church history from the first century onward will discover this.
+One of the most eye-opening things about this whole ordeal is that when the church initially began to turn away from this biblical tradition, even the unbelieving world took notice of our compromise. In 1935, a pastor in England made headlines simply because he began to teach that women shouldn’t be asked to cover their heads in church. Not only was the article written in a secular newspaper, it was also featured on the front page on the Montreal Gazette. An article in the Brooklyn Times references the same incident saying, "The only English church, so far as known, in which women may go hatless is in Kingston, Surrey." Evidently, this incident was considered newsworthy in 1935, and I believe that the primary reason for this was because it ran contrary to the beliefs and practices of most churches at the time.
+This also isn’t the only instance in which the matter of head covering has made headlines. An article titled “Rector Bars Hatless Women” was seen in the New York Times on August 28, 1900. A similar piece “Hatless Women Barred”, was first published in the Indianapolis Journal on September 16, 1902. “Hatless Women in Church”, appeared in the Chicago Tribune on August 14, 1902, and, “Hatless to Church? No”, was issued by the same paper on September 25, 1905. Another article titled “Hatless Women in Church”, was written in The Chester Courant and released on September 6, 1905. It was circulated in the Chester area, Shropshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and North Wales. And there are thousands of similar articles (See gallery below).
+The Indianapolis Journal, Tuesday, September 16, 1902
+Chicago Tribune, Sunday, October 20, 1935
+Now, some people may say that these articles simply reflect the culture of that time. A time when even many non-church going women regularly wore headgear. We could agree with that claim if it wasn’t for the fact that nearly every church that was in defence of the practice of head covering—legalistic as some of them may have been—cited 1 Corinthians 11 as the basis for their argument. For most of them, the secular culture had absolutely nothing to do with their obedience. In the same way, it’s imperative that Christians today also stand apart from both the secular and religious world and preserve the standard outlined in the Word of God in this age of widespread compromise. People can say whatever they want about us because of this, but let God be proven true and every man a liar (Romans 3:4).
+Various news paper articles from 1900-1967
+from newspapers.com
+We need to understand that any boundary that God has set for us is for our good. Many people have died in car accidents that have occurred in residential areas just because they decided to exceed the speed limit or drink alcohol prior to driving. Some have even claimed the lives of others in the process. Had they simply obeyed the law of the land, they would still be alive today. Likewise, God has set specific guidelines for us as believers which if we fail to adhere to, will ultimately lead to us becoming a danger both to ourselves and to others. Not that I know much about building the church, but I'm certain that the true church can only be built when men and women, full of the Holy Spirit, learn to function together the way that God had originally intended. There is absolutely no other way.
+Disagree in Love
+Regardless of what we believe about this teaching, it should never be the source of contention, the Bible is clear about that. Discuss it? Of course, but we should never hold bitterness or anger toward those who hold a different opinion on this matter. If zealous folks wish to argue for or against such things, we do not have to join in with them. This teaching should also never become grounds for judgment or excluding ourselves from mingling with other believers, or other believers from mingling with us. We may not be permitted to partner in ministry with certain congregations based upon our convictions on other doctrinal matters, but we can still come together for times of mutual encouragement.
+To those who are still vehemently opposed to this teaching of head covering, I would ask them to sit down and just think about what is being commanded of both sexes. Men should not cover their head during prayer and prophesying in the meetings, and women should cover their heads. How long does the average church meeting last? 2 hours, maybe? What’s so difficult about obeying this teaching for 2 hours? The mere fact that this issue of head covering is so controversial and that those who do it are often met with angry looks and accusations of being in a cult, is valid proof that there is much more to it than just deciding to cover or not to cover one’s head. It’s a call to the body of Christ to deny ourselves, bear the reproach of Christ and symbolically give glory to God alone.
+This teaching is far from being the most important in the Bible, that’s a given. There are certainly weightier matters that we could consider, such as being filled with the Holy Spirit, loving Jesus more than anything, and being free from besetting sins. Nonetheless, if we are people who claim that all Scripture is God-breathed, then we must pay special attention to everything written in it, especially that which pertains to life in the New Covenant.
+The key is that it’s not only a matter of what is being said whenever we read the Bible but also who is saying it. In that case, even minor commands from a great God should be taken seriously. Although this is not a doctrine essential to salvation, we should still seek for revelation and clarity on the matter. I believe that since Jesus said that our love for Him is proved by our obedience to Him, the litmus test of just how much we love Him is our initial attitude toward the smaller and more neglected commandments. This topic of head covering is no exception.
+To simplify things even further, this tradition of head covering is meant to symbolize three things ensuring that only the glory of God is displayed:
+That the glory of man—which is woman— is to be covered in the church (1 Corinthians 11:7)
+That the glory of woman—which is long hair—should also be covered in the church (1 Corinthians 11:15)
+That women are an example to the angels by being under the authority of the man—her husband, father, elders (1 Corinthians 11:10)
+The crux of the matter is that through head covering, we as unified members of the body of Christ in our locality, are making a huge and powerful statement, and we pray that our lives do the same.
+HEAD COVERING
+(Inspired by my wife’s sweet spirit)
+“Must I wear it?” some ask with dread,
+“This covering of cloth upon my head?”
+As if the command were stern to obey-
+But I ask the question a different way:
+If by this simple act I honor the Lord,
+And model obedience to His precious Word;
+If the Church may thus learn,
+as the Scripture hath said,
+Her own sweet submission to her glorious Head;
+If thus may the brothers be challenged to lead;
+If in this small sign the daughters may read;
+A woman’s true beauty; if angles discern,
+And pause from their praises to wonder and learn;
+Then I ask not “Must I?” but “May I?”
+-M.A. Frees
+Sources
+Montreal Gazette, “Hatless Women in Church Approved”, Montreal, Canada, October 26, 1935
+The New York Times, New York, New York, August 28, 1900, 3.
+Indianapolis Journal, Marion County, Indianapolis, September 1902, 7.
+The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, August 14, 1902, 6.
+The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, September 25, 1905, 1
+The Chester Courant, Chester, Wales, September 6, 1905, 5.
+Star-Phoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatechewan, Saturday, Nov 7, 1942,
+The Morning Call, Paterson New Jersey, Wednesday, August 05, 1931, 22
+Omaha Daily Dee, Omaha, Nebraska, Monday, August 31, 1903, 7
+The Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois, Friday, September 01, 1933, 34
+The Windsor Star, Saturday, October 28, 1967
+Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alberta, August 7, 1965, 25
+The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, August 23, 1921, 6
+Evangelical Visitor, Abilene, Kansas, March 1901, 11
+The Presbyterian of the South, Atlanta, Georgia, June 12 1912, 18
+Shiner Gazette, Shiner, Texas, January 5, 1933, 7
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But I thank you for your continued leadership.If you’re not an NAM member, I’d encourage you to talk to Jeff Pierce, our senior vice president of strategic development, or representatives from our member companies about how and why you need to join our manufacturing army.***America’s future and the future of manufacturing go hand-in-hand. You know that. But I remind you for an important reason: We all have a shared duty to tell and retell that story.Without manufacturing, the story of this great country wouldn’t be possible.I’m proud to go to work every day leading the NAM. We are the unified voice that advocates for the promise of manufacturing in America, and I’m proud to be associated with innovators and problem solvers.Manufacturers lead by example—and we succeed because we live every day the values that also happen to be the foundational principles of the country we love.The first of these is free enterprise: market forces that drive innovation and growth better than any system ever conceived.These values unite all of us, even at a time when our country seems more divided than ever. And they can help strengthen manufacturing in the United States for generations.***Now, just how crucial is manufacturing to America?Look at the direct economic impact. Every year, manufacturing contributes more than $2 trillion to the economy—one of every eight dollars.If U.S. manufacturing were its own country, it would be the ninth-largest economy in the world.Manufacturing also has the biggest multiplier effect of any industry. A single manufacturing job can lead to the creation of three to five more jobs in other industries. Every dollar spent on manufacturing means another $1.37 added to the economy.You can see why manufacturers have a disproportionate responsibility to keep our economy humming. If we want to grow the economy, support for pro-growth manufacturing policies will yield the highest return on investment.And today’s manufacturing doesn’t always look like yesterday’s. Consider some of our members’ work.From 3M’s strides in the food safety field to reduce pathogen outbreaks……to Amgen or Bayer’s research and production of cancer-fighting and life-improving medicines.From Boeing’s unmanned airborne vehicles that provide surveillance, disaster relief and search and rescue…to Lockheed’s defense equipment…keeping our men and women safe as they defend our freedom.We’re talking about everything from a small firm in Hershey, Pennsylvania, that turns autonomous automobiles to transcontinental pipelines.Thanks to Honeywell, for example, you can control your home security and energy management with the touch of a button from around the world.Meanwhile, Caterpillar can use digital analytics to know when machinery may be malfunctioning and proactively initiate maintenance.That’s the Internet of Things…and that’s modern manufacturing.By some estimates, 26 billion objects will be linked together by the Internet by the year 2020. Manufacturing is truly changing everything…and all these things are changing manufacturing and America.***So this is a chance for our industry and our country to lead the world. But we do face challenges. We face global economic volatility. We’ve all felt it, especially in recent weeks and months. Yet, for the most part, there is only so much we can do about that volatility.Which makes it all the more frustrating that in addition to this challenge, we also face headwinds and stumbling blocks that are completely avoidable—all because our leaders in Washington act against the interests of our working families and manufacturers.Start with regulations. Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our workers and consumers. We all want clean air, clean water, safe and secure food supplies. But regulations need to be smart, fair and transparent. We need better regulations that aren’t controlled by special interest groups.Today’s inefficient system costs small manufacturers nearly $35,000 per employee per year. Let me repeat that…$35,000 per employee per year. And every dollar that goes to compliance is one that doesn’t go into a worker’s paycheck—and comes out of a consumer’s pocket.We have to streamline and simplify the system. Because every regulation, well-intended or not, increases the cost of doing business.The NAM represents more than 14,000 manufacturers, from multinational corporations to family businesses along Main Street. Those family businesses ask me all the time: How can we make the government understand that its regulations hurt us more than anyone?For example, when you look at what’s happening with ozone regulations and greenhouse gas rules, it’s clear the Environmental Protection Agency isn’t just in the business of environmental protection; it’s involved in full-scale economic regulation.That’s certainly true of the latest ozone regulation, which came down last Friday. The administration tightened the ground-level ozone standard from 75 parts per billion to 70. The compliance costs alone will mean lost job opportunities and delayed expansion. Never mind that the current standard was working—and that manufacturers, America’s innovators, have worked hard to reduce emissions successfully.There was some good news here. After our vocal advocacy, we avoided the worst-case scenario, which was a standard as low as 65 ppb. But this is still a reminder of the damage that the EPA can do.Right now, we have the chance to make the United States energy secure and North America energy independent. But if the EPA keeps getting in the way, that’s not going to happen. We’ll create fewer jobs and face higher utility bills.Again, we need to tell our side of the story. Manufacturers are leading the way on recycling and reducing waste. Manufacturing and other industrials’ carbon emissions are down 13 percent since 2005, while manufacturers’ value added to the economy grew by 19 percent over the same time period. That’s astounding progress…and a tribute to many of you. We’ve produced more growth with less energy.We’re the ones building more efficient power plants, factories, cars and appliances. On the environment, we are doing our part—and will continue to do so.Then, of course, there are taxes. America leads the world with the highest corporate tax rate among developed countries. That’s not a distinction to brag about. It’s a problem to fix.And so is our trade policy. We’re glad we achieved Trade Promotion Authority. Yet, that huge battle was just over the framework to negotiate new market-opening agreements. Now we are working very closely on trade deals with the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, and we hope those final agreements will eliminate international regulatory divergences that increase costs and undermine our competitiveness.The Trans-Pacific Partnership talks just concluded earlier this week. We’re now waiting to hear all the details, including tariff and nontariff issues that affect manufacturers around the country and those of you in this room. We have pushed very hard for an agreement that will open markets, tear down barriers and set rules that level the playing field for our manufacturers. It is a big and complex agreement, so we will be taking a very detailed look.And here at home, too many of our ports, roadways and runways are getting worse by the year and are in desperate need of repair. We have roads and bridges built for a bygone era.The government must invest in improving our aging infrastructure. Congress has to pass a well-funded, multiyear surface infrastructure bill. Enough with these short-term fixes. Stop-gap measures aren’t good for anyone. Now is the time for a long-term highway bill. If you haven’t spoken up, I encourage you to do so.But tomorrow’s destiny is not only about cement, steel and asphalt. It’s about strengthening, innovating and protecting connections of a different sort: data transmitted through broadband lines.Our digital communications must be faster—and safer.First, we need to keep what works: the free flow of data, services and ideas online while creating a climate that supports private investment in broadband networks.We need to say “no” to the administration’s plan to regulate the Internet with an 80-year-old law from the era of rotary telephones and radio tubes. The Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order will curtail investment in our broadband infrastructure and hinder the creation of game-changing technologies on America’s shop floors.The NAM’s Manufacturers’ Center for Legal Action is leading a business community coalition to address this order. Our coalition filed a brief supporting the telecommunications industry’s challenge arguing that the FCC’s decision is contrary to the Communications Act of 1934 and is in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.Second, we need to protect intellectual property. We’ve all been alarmed over the past few months by astonishing security breaches and cyberattacks on both public and private servers. The government must partner with the industry to protect sensitive proprietary and financial information. Cybersecurity means economic security, and economic security translates into national security.Manufacturers must be able to rely on their government for protection from counterfeiters and be able to pursue bad actors. Intellectual theft and corporate espionage pose significant challenges to the manufacturing industry in particular with estimated costs surpassing $1 trillion.***Now, there are still a number of other ways to make our nation stronger.Our health care system needs more work to reduce costs, increase options, and help employers and employees make informed decisions. Policymakers should eliminate the so-called “Cadillac” tax, which is really a tax on employee benefits and doesn’t just hurt manufacturers but holds back funds for research and development.Comprehensive immigration reform has to become a reality, not a wedge, if we’re going to create opportunity for today’s workforce and tomorrow’s innovators. And because it’s simply the right thing to do in a nation of immigrants.But the final challenge I want to address is the skills gap. If something does not change, we will not have enough manufacturing workers in the next decade.As many of you have seen firsthand, skilled workers are in high demand at manufacturing companies large and small. Here’s the problem: Young people aren’t seeking out the training that makes them qualified for those jobs.According to a study by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, “The United States faces a need for nearly 3.5 million manufacturing jobs over the next decade, and 2 million of those jobs are likely to go unfilled due to the skills gap.”If we want to keep building things in America, if we want to lead the world, we need to grow the manufacturing workforce—and fast!But just 18 percent of people see manufacturing as a top career option. And only 37 percent of parents say they would encourage their children to pursue a career in manufacturing.We have a good case to make. The average manufacturing worker earns about $15,000 more than the average worker across all sectors. Manufacturing workers also enjoy the best job security in the private sector.This is one area where we can all make a difference, especially when manufacturers open their doors to welcome students and educators…just like we did last week and are doing this month for Manufacturing Day—with more than 2,300 events across the country.Finally, there’s one other important way we can make a difference: voting.While it may seem early, the campaigns to elect our next president are moving forward very fast. Primaries are just around the corner. And the outcomes of the elections, primary and general, could reshape our industry, for better or for worse.That’s why the NAM is launching our 2016 Election Center. You can find it on our website, are more than 12 million manufacturing workers in this country, but an NAM survey earlier in the year found only 17 percent had heard from their employers about the importance of voting during the 2014 elections. We can—and we MUST—do better in the 2016 election.We’re committing more resources this election cycle to our get-out-the-vote efforts than in past elections. If you’re a manufacturer, the Election Center has all the tools your employees need for election season, such as information on how to register to vote, candidate voter guides and best practices for building a successful voter education program. The Election Center has all the resources employers need to talk legally and effectively with employees about voting.We can’t be political observers. We have to be participants. There’s too much at stake to sit on the sidelines. *** And it comes back to what I said at the beginning. There are four pillars by which manufacturers are grounded: free enterprise, competitiveness, individual liberty and equal opportunity.But they are more than that. These are the pillars—the values—that define American Exceptionalism. The notion that more than any country in the world, unlike any country in the world, we are defined by our future, not just by our past. As Americans, we are driven not by what was, but by what we will become.As long as we are a forward-looking, aspirational people, we will continue to be an exceptional nation. And as leaders in this free enterprise system, we have an obligation to ensure that future.We have to ensure America doesn’t get off track. And yes, I am concerned for the future of our country. I don’t go to work at the NAM because it’s a job. I go to work because it’s a mission. We are all, in one way or another, part of that mission.Manufacturing isn’t about machines. It’s about people and the potential we can unleash.And it’s about the people we have yet to inspire.Today in America, there’s a young girl or a young boy, inquisitive, open-minded, ready to take on the world. He or she could be the next person to revolutionize our industry—in years or decades from now—the next Thomas Edison, the next Henry Ford, the next Charles Pfizer, the next iconic name.But if that mind is not cultivated, if that talent isn’t molded, if that inquisitive nature isn’t directed toward innovation…manufacturing will have lost out. America will have lost out.So all of us in the manufacturing industry have an important role. It’s not just making things; it’s making a difference. It’s not just building stuff; it’s building the future.If we all do our part, America will remain exceptional—and this exceptional nation will offer the next generation even greater opportunities than it offered us.Thank you so much.
+Does Technology Transfer from Universities to Industry Contribute to Innovation?
+Abstract
+Japan’s industry-academia collaborations started against the backdrop of economic stagnation. A variety of legislation was passed, leading to the birth of technology licensing offices and head offices of intellectual property. However, industry-academia collaborations really started to take off in 2004. That is why it is too soon now to determine whether technology transfer contributes to innovation in Japan. However, the prospects for the future look bright if we take into consideration the fact that the number of licenses from universities has now reached the level that the United States was at 20 years ago and is continuing to grow steadily. Furthermore, promising university-based startup companies (university spin-offs) are continuing to form, and technology transfer intermediaries are continuing to learn and grow. Thus, technology transfer from universities to industry is likely to contribute to innovation.
+KeywordsIntellectual Property Technology Transfer Initial Public Offering Japanese Version Startup Company
+1 The Background of Industry-Academia Collaborations in Japan
+The growth of industry-academia collaborations in Japan occurred against the backdrop of Japan’s sustained economic recession. The technology licensing organization (TLO) bill was passed in 1998, approximately 5 years after the collapse of Japan’s bubble economy. At around that time in the United States, Google was born in Stanford University, Netscape was born at the University of Illinois, and Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems, companies that had been formed more than 10 years earlier, were already growing rapidly. For Japan, the success stories of industry-academia collaborations in the United States had a powerful impact. In every era, people look for a silver bullet when faced with sustained economic stagnation. The Japanese government was also keenly interested in finding a way to escape from the era that would later be referred to as Japan’s Lost Decade. It appears they put their hope in industry-academia collaborations. The TLO bill of 1998 led to the formation of numerous technology transfer institutions known as technology licensing organizations (TLOs) around universities. At that time, inventions made in universities generally belonged to the inventor. Thus, if the university professor who made an invention had no interest in patents, no patent application would be made, and the research results would merely be presented to academic conferences and published in technical journals. The advantageous aspect of this situation was that anyone could use published research results. However, no special advantages could accrue for Japanese companies. According to an independent survey by a large European pharmaceutical company, approximately 15% of the world’s medicines were first discovered in Japanese universities. Unfortunately, the majority of these medicines were not made into products and sold by Japanese companies. Foreign pharmaceutical companies further developed the research results of Japanese universities to come up with marketable therapeutic and diagnostic medications. Because neither the university nor the researchers applied for patents in the early stages of the pharmaceutical development process, neither received royalties from the medications. Some university researchers may have been aware of the possibility of applying for patents before they released their findings to the public. However, for researchers who believe that having their research results recognized is everything, applying for patents and forming licensing contracts seemed like extraneous labor. That is why the majority of research results were provided to industry free of charge.
+To change this situation, it was necessary to make the technological findings of universities into intellectual property before transferring them to industry. TLOs were established as specialized organizations for carrying out this conversion and transfer of technology. Also, in 1999, the year after the TLO bill was passed, the Japanese version of the Bayh–Dole Act was passed. This law stipulated that the results (primarily patents) of research funds from the government belong not to the government but to the university to which the researchers belong. The passing of this law in 1980 in the United States had a significant impact on the state of industry-academia collaborations. However, the impact of the Japanese version of the Bayh–Dole Act was not actually felt until 2004. This is because until 2004 national universities did not have corporate status; just as the universities did not have their own land (at the time, the land of a national university belonged to the government of Japan), they also did not have their own patents. The legal framework truly came to resemble that of the United States when national universities gained corporate status in 2004. Thus, industry-academia collaboration activities in Japan became fully functional in 2004. It is thus still too early to argue about the effects of industry-academia collaborations in Japan. This is because at Stanford University, for example, licensing started to earn the university money about 15 years after the foundation of the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL). Also, after the founding of Stanford’s OTL, Niels Reimers was dispatched to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and used his experience to create a TLO there. It took about 10 years for licensing to start earning MIT money. Given these examples, it seem that the effects of industry-academia collaborations in Japan will start to appear sometime after 2015.
+2 The Position of Industry-Academia Collaborations and Innovation in Japan
+Currently, Japan needs to develop a system to take advantage of highly advanced technology. The concern is spreading that even though Japan has the necessary technology, it may become a country that loses in business. The essential question for Japan is how to develop a system within the country that takes advantage of technology. I would like to avoid imposing a strict definition of innovation here. Whether we are talking about Schumpeter’s “new combinations” or the more common concept of technological innovation, there is a limit to how perfectly we can define innovation. However, as a long-time participant in industry-academia collaborations, I sense that in universities there are clearly many potential seeds of new high-level technologies that could have a tremendous impact on future generations. There is no way for Japan to commercialize highly advanced technologies without commercializing university technologies. Thus, if we examine how technology transfer from universities to industry is progressing, we will see whether industry-academia collaboration activities have the potential to trigger innovation.
+2.1 Comparing the Number of Licenses in Japan and the United States
+The line graph shows the number of new licenses at United States universities, and the bar graph shows the number of new licenses at Japanese universities
+Trend diagram of continued licenses in Japan and the United States. The line graph shows the trend in the United States, and the bar graph shows the trend in Japan
+2.2 Royalty Breakdown
+Breakdown of income from licensing by Japanese universities to industry
+3 New Developments for University-Based Startup Companies (Spin-Offs)
+Comparison of licensee company sizes in Japan and the United States. Sizes of companies that universities license to in Japan (a), the United States (b)
+In the United States, the percentages in this figure have changed very little in the past 10 years. Universities transfer approximately 15% of their technology to startup companies and about half to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Large companies are the recipients of about one third of the transferred technology. Meanwhile, in Japan, the amount of licenses that go to startup companies is very small. Even when we look at past data, in the year when the most licenses went to startup companies these licenses still only accounted for 5% of the total number of licenses. Any baseball or soccer team whose young players do not actively participate loses vigor. In this sense, there is a problem with the strategies for supporting startup companies in Japan.
+It is certainly the case that there was a phenomenon that could be called a boom in university-based startup companies that took place around the time of the initial public offerings (IPOs) of AnGes MG in 2002 and OncoTherapy Science in 2003, when university-based startup companies went public one after the other. However, the economic stagnation and collapse of Lehman Brothers that followed sent the boom into hiding.
+Not all the news has been bad. If we look at the IPOs that have taken place over the past few years, we can see that they have included a number of university-based startup companies, also known as spin-offs. Examples of spin-offs that have had successful IPOs over the past few years include the 2009 IPO of Tella, a spin-off from The University of Tokyo; the 2011 IPO of Morpho, another spin-off from The University of Tokyo; and the 2011 IPO of Chiome Bioscience, a spin-off from RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research). Of course, IPOs are not the only sign of a successful spin-off. For example, The University of Tokyo spin-off PeptiDream has not yet had an IPO, although it has been producing good results since its founding in 2006 and is forming alliances with various large pharmaceutical companies in Europe and the United States. Thus, while there might not be as many startup companies in Japan as there are in the United States, startup companies that have commercialized university technology and are growing steadily are continuing to form, and there is a strong possibility that promising enterprises will arise from these companies.
+Looking at the past, Teijin started as a spin-off from Yamagata University, TDK started as a spin-off from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Ajinomoto and Ebara started as spin-offs from The University of Tokyo. These companies were formed and grew in an era when there were no head offices of intellectual property or TLOs. When discussing startup companies, many people emphasize the differences between the economic and cultural environments of Japan and the United States. Nevertheless, it is clear that Japan has successfully brought forth innovation in the past.
+4 Training Industry-Academia Collaboration Intermediaries
+As has been set forth thus far, Japanese research seeds are being steadily patented and transferred to industry. Sometimes this has led to the formation of promising university spin-offs. Focusing on the present, it may appear that Japan’s industry-academia collaborations are lagging behind, but that is not necessarily the case when we look at the issue on a larger time scale. There is a professor at the University of Texas whose analysis of industry-academia collaborations in Japan concludes that it is amazing and proceeding at a breathtaking pace. As someone who is involved in industry-academia collaborations, there are in fact times when I feel a sense of sluggishness, although I can still see that this field is growing steadily.
+To solidify this trend and bring about even greater development, it will be important to train workers in the field of industry-academia collaborations. For a new sport from a foreign country to be established in a new country, it is important for new players of the sport to be trained. For industry-academia collaborations, the question can be asked whether technology transfer intermediaries are being trained. The answer is both yes and no. When it comes to this issue, differences between universities are extremely pronounced. There are a variety of reasons for this. One reason is that at many universities, technology transfer intermediaries are hired for limited terms. It is difficult to attract talented workers to a profession that requires a person to change his or her job every 3 or 5 years. Whether a university has a leader who can manage licensing and marketing and guide his/her younger associates is also a significant issue that sets universities apart. When national universities gained corporate status, many universities not only did not understand technology transfer, they also did not understand the step before technology transfer of applying for patents. That is why many national universities hired people from the intellectual property and patent divisions of private sector companies. While there is a great deal of individual variation, most people from intellectual property divisions are professionals in applying for patents but have little experience when it comes to licensing and marketing. Universities do not commercialize technology on their own, so rather than the ability to patent technologies, what industry-academia collaboration intermediaries really need is intimate knowledge of licensing and the ability to market technologies. This type of hiring mismatch can be seen in various universities.
+Overall, however, the training of industry-academia collaboration intermediaries is proceeding. It is impossible to quantitatively measure how the skills of industry-academia collaboration intermediaries are growing. Thus there are no data that clearly show this growth. However, the UNITT holds an annual conference similar to the annual meeting held in the United States by the AUTM. The 9th conference will be held in 2012. Each year, about 500 people associated with universities gather at the conference and discuss a variety of themes for 2 days. The content of these discussions has been increasingly advanced each year. Also, UNITT holds a number of fundamental and applied licensing training seminars each year. These seminars teach participants what they need to know about licensing. At these seminars, I have spent about 10 years teaching a variety of people associated with universities how to license university technology. I have seen how the participants in these seminars have become more capable over the past few years. In that sense, I think the overall level of technology transfer intermediaries is rising.
+Human potential is incredible. Only 66 years after the first flight of the Wright brothers, humankind made it to the moon. In the field of industry-academia collaborations in Japan, we are probably at the point where we have finally managed to get an airplane to fly. However, I believe that this single step is sure to pave the way to new innovations, and I am looking forward to the future.
+Reference
+- 1.University Network for Innovation & Technology Transfer (2012) UNITT Survey 2011. University Network for Innovation & Technology Transfer, Tokyo, JapanGoogle Scholar
+Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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+Part 3
+Here's the latest Not Mamas...Yet tribe thread.
+Book Recommendations
+We decided to start a book recommendation list halfway thru this thread, so we're parking it here for now, but it will be one of the standard first posts in our subsequent threads. Names following book titles are the NMY grads who recommended the title.
+Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
+Sihaya
+Bright from the Start
+PiePie
+The Continuum Concept
+zoebird
+Diaper-Free Baby
+snozzberry, zoebird
+Einstein Never Used Flashcards
+PiePie
+Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
+Maela
+Nursing Mother, Working Mother
+PiePie, snozzberry
+Odd Girl Out
+PiePie
+Our Babies, Ourselves
+PiePie, snozzberry
+Parenting from the Inside Out
+zoebird
+Playful Parenting
+PiePie, snozzberry
+The Second Shift
+PiePie
+Taking Back Childhood
+Maela
+Tender Hooks
+PiePie
+Toilet Learning (though won't be popular with ec'ers)
+PiePie
+Unconditional Parenting
+PiePie, snozzberry)
+- zoebird & Hawk Octavian
+: (8/30/08)
+- MujerMamaMismo & Sebastian Felix
+: (12/21
+zoebird
+MujerMamaMismo
+If you have other important links to add, please PM me.
+Expecting #2 in May 2013!
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+zoebird,
+Shanna, still just
+arelyn, I'd love that GF carrot cake recipe if you don't mind sharing it!
+Me update: Abby fell out of bed for the first time last night...onto our hardwood floors. She has a quarter-sized bruise on her forehead, a bigger bruise on her cheek, and a huge bruise on her side.
+It was a dumb mistake that shouldn't have happened. We knew she was getting too mobile for our pillow-fortress nap solution. I even posted on this thread a couple weeks ago about how it wasn't going to last!!! So I feel guilty for not doing something sooner. And *then* I heard her tossing and turning while DH was brushing his teeth, but I was in the next room from her doing the bills, and I was trying to finish them up before I went to check on her. So double the guilt there.
+So I think we're going to get a pack-n-play or something because I'm uncomfortable with the idea of bed rails (i.e. her getting caught in them), we can't put our bed on the floor (we've got a bedframe with drawers in as our dresser--small house), and we don't really have room for a full-on crib.
+I know it happens to a lot of babies, but I'm still just unbearably
+Expecting #2 in May 2013!
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+shanna, confess i haven't read those pieces myself, they are just the most recommended on mdc and hence on my to read list. wonder if you could apply gordon's method for nights to naps? anyway it sounds like he's a capital napper!! so you must be doing something right
+Thanks for the new thread, Snozz.
+Okay, back to my lurking.
+Hi, I'm TJ!
+| NMY Grad
+| Mama to DD 5/13
+My baby is the next to turn one. *faint*
+In us news, we had our first overnight without DS last Friday. We went to a B&B for our 3rd anniversary fully expecting my mom to bring him to us around bedtime (10pm here), but he went down for her (despite not taking a bottle) and did fine overnight. I, on the other hand, nearly died of engorgement and pledged not to do another overnight without him until he's night-weaned
+Moving is going very slowly. Things have been crazier than usual around here and now DH's work is demanding he work overtime for the next 1-2 months. I have no clue when/how we're going to clean/fix up the new place and pack up the old place when I have no car and no help.
+Mama to
+Finally diagnosed with APS after 3
+a
+And for the big update....DH got the job!
+back to my deposition
+and
+I'm having trouble keeping up, or at least responding, so I just want to send out lots of
+In our news, we have a tooth! It is just barely cutting through the gums, but it's there. (and I'm not crazy.
+And J took her first bottle yesterday. Nothing bad happened.
+Kelly, good luck with the solids! I've been giving that a lot of thought too, since Josephine will be 6 months in only 6 weeks! I'm not in any rush to give her food, and I feel like whether or not she's ready for it, I'm not ready. Did anyone else feel like this?
+Cking yay for the tooth!!!
+Dd and I took a bike ride to the store today and she fell alseep 5 minutes before we got home. She woke up when I took her out of the trailer and apparently that was her nap for the day.
+Her new favorite past time is pulling the books down from the bookshelves.
+Oh and Happy Anniversary!!
+Mama to
+Finally diagnosed with APS after 3
+at least she's in a better mood now.
+I bet that tooth will show up again soon! Maybe the gums are just swollen & covering up the bit you saw earlier?
+Maela, I'm sorry about the lack of napping!
+Now I'm off to search for not-so-plastic-y pack-n-plays...
+Expecting #2 in May 2013!
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+Kelly, sorry about your baby falling off the bed. The first (out of two
+ETA: Dd finally went down for a nap. I was going to try to get her to stay up and just go down for the night early, but she was crying and obviously very tired, so I nursed her sleep. So now she's going to be up late late late tonight. Yay! *sarcasm*
+Snozz: Poor you. I'm sure Abby will be fine. Think of it as resilience training or something... I know I'll feel terrible for days when Squeak falls out of bed too!
+I'm tired and achy and sick of reflux today. I'm also at work and haven't done a single work related task because my back is so sore that I can't sit still for more than 3 minutes. Methinks I need some acupuncture and an osteopath appointment. Gawd pregnancy is expensive!
+One gorgeous solstice babe 12/08, two smitten mothers - mothering consciously with conscience and compassion. Birth & Postnatal Doula. Student Midwife. Expecting #2 November '12.
+well dh and my mom claimed they saw a tooth 2 mos ago that i still haven't seen. of course my mom is certifiable.
+oh yes. and at least you get a mw-assisted birth covered!
+Maela, how did last night go?
+Thrush: What do y'all know about it? I'm nervous I have it. My right nipple is sore to touch and hurts pretty bad during nursing/pumping, although it does start to feel a little better by the middle of the feeding/pumping. Abby bit me on that side a couple days ago, so I assumed it was just soreness from that.
+Expecting #2 in May 2013!
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+everything in the house is ready. i just finished washing and organizing all of the baby clothing, my clothing, and my husband's clothing.
+the bed was supposed to come yesterday, but the delivery guy had something come up, and so he'll come on friday. also, the cleaning service comes on friday. so, that will be interesting.
+it always gets piled up like that.
+also, the local obama campaign called to ask me to canvas again--which wuold be awesome except it's from 2-6 on sunday afternoon. that's 4 hours of waddling around. that might be too much.
+but it might also make for great press: "
+ah, 10 seconds of fame.
+now I just have to decide whether to put yesterday as the date for her first tooth in the record books, or to wait until a tooth actually pops up.
+Zoebird,
+Expecting #2 in May 2013!
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+Today made up for the last three days. She woke up at 6:45AM (not bad), took a nap from 11:15AM - 1:15PM without waking up (woo-hoo!), and went to sleep at 8:50PM (pretty good). I got so much done during her nap, and I had time to relax. We had Dh's parents over for dinner, and I was able to make a nice dinner while Dh watched Dd.
+A question: The dropping things over and over and over. I know she's learning about gravity and how she can control how some things happen. I think that's great, and I usually try to humor her by picking the thing up over and over. However, there are times when this is kind of unreasonable. Like today we were in the grocery store. She likes to sit in the cart and I always bring toys for her to play with. She dropped a few out of the cart over and over. Finally I took them away because I wasn't able to go five feet without having to pick something up. She cried and screamed for about 10 seconds, but then she was fine. Was that mean of me? What do you all do?
+Expecting #2 in May 2013!
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+So much more to say and hear, but Fenton is trying to carry his popper up the stairs
+Also an awesome Insurance Agent in Michigan:
+Home, Auto and Life
+PiePie, how goes the world of working and pumping?
+zoebird, how are you feeling?
+How is everyone's sleep situation?
+Shanna, what's a "popper" and why does Fenton have one?
+Christina, how's that tooth looking?
+MMM, did your appts help?
+Expecting #2 in May 2013!
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+so if you want to install a secondary
+fuse block this is what you’ll basically need I’ve got some six b&s cable I’ve
+chosen 6b&s for a specific reason which I’ll talk about later and most
+importantly I also have a circuit breaker which is put between the battery
+and this cable so in the event of electrical fault somewhere along this
+cable length this shuts off and stops a fire after that I’ve got a STfuse
+block holder then of course various connectors grommets and shrink wrap and
+then the lighter duty cable for running to my accessories such as this 12 volt
+socket so let’s get into the installation for your fuse block i’d
+recommend something like this st fuse block holder this one comes with the
+negative bus which i’d recommend as it allows you to trace all your earths back
+to the one single source which is your 12-volt battery so your main cable lead
+will come here connect to this the positive connects to this it reduces any chance
+of reliability issues being introduced from poor earths if you try earthing to
+the chassis in various points something like a defender for instance with
+corrosion in different areas dissimilar metals cause aluminium corrosion old
+rust dirt in between panels it reduces the effectiveness of the earthing system
+but by running all the earth back to one place then you reduce or minimize
+completely that reliability issue from poor Earth’s plus all the fuses are in
+one place and can be labeled and easily found these are made in six and twelve
+block fuse holders so this time I opted just for a six fuse holder as I
+don’t need much more but should ever want to upgrade I can pull this out swap
+it over to the 12 fuse variety and I’m good to go again
+I found a spot in the back end in my rear storage box where I’m going to
+install the fuse block it’s a fairly protected spot so I know it’s safe and
+it’s easy to get to if I have a blown fuse another thing to consider for your
+wiring to ensure reliability is to make sure you don’t have any places where
+you’ve drilled a hole and run a wire through that is bare steel it’s using
+this scrap steel as an example if a wire went through a hole it would sit on the
+bare steel and over millions of corrugations it would sit there rubbing
+and rubbing and rubbing until eventually the insulation rubs through and it
+earths to your bodywork which could cause a fire or at least many blown
+fuses so to stop this from happening you should always use rubber grommets these
+basically run the cable through it so you’re protecting any holes in your
+firewall or any bodywork panels you’ve ran wires through and this now protects
+the wire so it’s bouncing around and protected by insulation another
+possibility is to use split tubing if you’re running a wire on the outside of
+the vehicle this is a simple way of running it into the split tubing through
+in the inside as you see there it’s nicely protected
+so that could also be used if running through a wall a hole in the in the
+bodywork just again making sure you have a reliable electrical system which isn’t
+gotta start a fire when you’re in the middle of nowhere. The following section
+is a general guide for entertainment purposes only. Consult an auto
+electrician for your particular needs. So let’s look now at the two cables I’ve
+chosen this is six b&s cable it has a thirteen point five millimeter square
+cross-section of copper and has a maximum carrying capacity of eighty two point
+four amps at thirty degrees Celsius this one is six millimeter auto cable and
+it’s 11 b&s approximately it is a four point five millimeter square
+cross-section of copper and has a maximum of thirty eight amps so to work
+out which cable is good for what we need to take into consideration the
+voltage drop so there are three ways of calculating voltage drop for your system
+there are formulas you can use which I have two here to show you as an
+example there are tables online plenty available online Just do a quick search
+for 12 volt voltage drop calculator or table and there are apps available as
+well such as on your smartphone or as free calculators online so there’s
+plenty of ways to do it if you don’t want to work out the maths itself let’s
+look here at a couple of these formulas which you can work out so voltage drop
+equals amps by the total length of a positive and minus so if it takes three
+meters to run to the battery to the fuse block then it’s three meters of
+positive and three meters of negative totaling six meters You times that by the
+resistance the ohms per meter which you can get from the manufacturers website
+so in this case six b&s I made a theoretical 50 amp carrying capacity
+just in case I want to add a anderson plug in the back end in the future and
+run maybe a small inverter for 240 electricity or if I buy a secondary
+fridge which might take another six amps or so to run or any future additions I
+want to make sure that I never have to upgrade this again so 50 amps by 6
+meters at the two lengths times the resistance equals point four two volt
+voltage drop which works out three point five percent loss so three point five
+percent is between three and four percent which is about the maximum you
+want in the 12 volt system so 6 b&s for my particular cable run here of 3
+meters from the battery to the fuse block is excellent this will be plenty
+for all future additions in reality I’m only drawing twelve point five maximum
+now with all my current accessories so assuming I do get a second fridge or a
+little camp oven or something crazy like that then we’ll say 20 amps of a maximum
+current draw by the six meters by the resistance equals 0.16 volt or 1.4
+percent loss so this is more than capable of running a highly efficient
+electrical system to my fuse block without any real power loss
+let’s look at the six millimeter auto eleven b&s. this is running from the fuse
+block out to the accessories the most I’d ever draw through a 12 volt
+cigarette lighter adapter it’d be about 10 amps a laptop is currently the
+greatest draw I have which is at a 8 amps so assuming a 10 amps for a bit of
+leeway 10 amps by the 8 meters by resistance equals 0.33 volts or 2.7
+percent loss so again this is below the three percent recommended maximum so
+this is also quite sufficient of carrying 10 amps the 4 meters with less
+than 3% voltage drop which makes quite an effective reliable system
+another calculation you can get if you do not have the ohms per meter or ohms
+per kilometer manufacturer’s numbers is to use this formula down here voltage
+drop equals a total length of the positive and minus times the amps you
+want the cable to carry times point zero one seven which is a standard rating for
+resistance of copper divide that by the copper cross-section in millimeters
+squared which you get up here such as six millimeter Auto is four point five
+millimeter square you can get that from tables online if you don’t know the
+exact number that works out down here to 0.30 volt voltage drop which works out
+very similar to the 0.33 volts of 2.7% again using either formula I’m well
+within a safe range for voltage drop for this particular sized cable for the
+length that I wanted to carry and the current it must transport so hopefully
+that’s a bit of a rundown of why I’ve chosen these particular cables another
+thing to note too is I also chose to get fully sheathed dual core positive and
+negative in a single wire that just adds an extra layer of protection
+on the outside to protect the wire from chafing I also chose marine tinned
+copper cable which is a higher spec for marine environments good
+for when it’s getting near water such as a Defender going through water crossings
+as this cable will be running on the outside of the vehicle down below along
+the bottom chassis rail so it’s just one extra level of protection to ensure a
+long-term reliable system not necessary but I was happy to spend the extra few
+dollars to get tinned copper wire I found a spot I’m going to run my cables
+unfortunately there’s a lot of wiring there already so rather than trying to
+force the cable through the grommets already in place I’ll drill a new hole
+put a new grommet in and that way it keeps everything separate and there’s
+less chance of wires chafing and rubbing together or contacting bare steel and
+rubbing through the insulation and there’s two of my finished cables
+one end has Spade terminals for the 12-volt sockets and the other end ring
+terminals for the fuse block everything’s crimped heat-shrinked so
+there’s very little chance of any moisture getting into the cable and
+causing corrosion down the track this cable should give me many years of
+reliable service in the outback when running cables on the outside of the
+vehicle I like to add split tubing just as an extra layer of protection although
+this cable does come in its own protective sheath it’s just one extra
+layer which protects against heat for example if it comes close to the exhaust
+or from any other stones or chips or potentially even rats or mice out in the
+bush climbing in and having a nibble which I’ve had happen before all the
+connections were completed with the battery and the fuse block wired up I
+added a cover over the socket connections for protection on the
+passenger side I have a 12 volt socket and a dual USB charger and the driver
+side to 12 volt sockets the fuse box also powers all the lights in the
+backend I also did something crazy and bought myself a 12 volt oven. Did you enjoy this video? Then please
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+31 COMMENTS
+Perfect timing, thats what Im gonna planing next weekend ^^
+Thanks for the tips and tricks 🙂
+Good job Bret 👍
+You are going to love that oven I have one. You can even do a nice roast in it when on the road
+Great vid. Thanks!
+Very helpfull video for anyone doing their own elec work, as well as pointing out the mandatory through bulkhead use of grommets. It was a little funny as well when seeing the botchy older wires coming up next to the new work you were doing, I know this was older work probably not done by yourself but would have been a good "what not to do example" anyway mate good video as always.
+Impressive! You know your stuff! After figuring that out how long did it take you to install?
+Super video Brett.. Some one didn't like ur VIDEO MAY BE JEALOUS..
+Nice work as always Bret – what size circuit breaker did you use (would have been good to see how you wired it up)
+Looking at setting up a dual battery in the 110. I have most of the wiring sorted on paper, however having not done this before a bit lost on the starter/Aux battery isolation wiring setup. As I understand th purpose it to isolate the starter battery to maintain starting capability whist the Aux/Acc battery can be discharged etc… I have acquired a projects DC/DC unit to manage this … all good here. Where i am lost is actually how to isolate Acc power. On the Defender there is power to IGN which is is used for both starter primary and accessories, so how does one isolate AUX power with only one connection for power to IGN?
+Can't you buy charts to calculate wire gauges. Because listening to your calculations gave me an almighty headache .lol
+A handy tip to weather seal your exterior cables is to use conduit/tubing but NOT the split variety, get the un-cut tubing instead, fully sealed. Run the tubing the full length of the wiring to the terminals at each end and use 'glue-lined' heatshrink to cover the tubing and the terminal so all that's exposed is the ring/lug/spade terminal at each end. Provided you melted the heatshrink long enough for the glue to work and you covered any holes on the terminals (some are sealed, some are not) you have a super long lasting cable that won't corrode after many many years. Very good video 🙂 Always informative 🙂
+Do you have a link to that ST fuse block holder?
+It’s always good doing a bit of wiring and then benefiting from the installation. I bet down the track you will find something more to add. Bravo from Victoria Australia
+Hey I'm planning of setting up some 12v sockets and usb sockets up on the backboard of my tray (trayback ute) from my second battery with this same fuse box and wiring but the box and wires are going to be on the outside of my car (inbetween backboard of tray and the cab)… will they be okay outside of the car? They wont be easily knocked or hit or anything but will be exposed to the weather and dirt….
+Outstanding, thank you for showing the math used to calculate it makes more sense that way.
+Those Land Rovers are rugged vehicles. They are real 4wd's,, not like the chincy vehicles Ford and GM makes.
+12 AWG work as long as thier 12v qccessories and fires for relays
+What a Easy-to-Follow, thoughtful video. I wish other people kept the viewer in mind as much as you did when you made this.
+Felt like I was more in a math class than watching someone install wires and doing electrical stuff. Did not see any install segment, just clips of the already finished product.
+I cannot believe how many Amps a laptop draws, also how many Amps does that oven draw?. Great video by the way….
+does an auxiliary fuse block affect the orignal wiring and fuse box as its hooked it up via the ignition ?
+Excellent video but one minor word of advice. Buy a professional quality crimping tool (i.e. with ratchet action and die type jaws). For a long time I used an amateur crimping tool and had periodic problems with terminals loosening under vibration. I have had no problems since buying the professional tool (I carry the simple crimping tool for repairs on the road). A further tip – buy a tool wth interchangeabl dies because you will occasionally encounter uninsulated terminals (esp. on Japanese equipment) which require a tighter bite.
+It's an excellent idea to use heat shrink sheathing at the terminals since iit acts as a bend restrictor and reduces the chance of flexural failure. This is essential for any cables attached to the engine which will fail otherwise.
+The common earth is a great idea for a new installation. If you are dealing with an old installation with local earths (as on my old bus) the best tip is to use star washers with silicone compound or grease to prevent oxidation of the contact area.
+Keep up the good work.
+great vehicle and nicely described … I feel I can do my own install now. nice!
+That's a really clean installation. I like things to be well-organized.
+Thanks alot brett, very thoroughly spoken and easy to understand im goin to run basically the same system i think 🤔
+just wondering for all your accessory sockets what size fuses did you run on each input? (Eg 10a for 12v socket, 20a for fridge etc?)
+So for the B&S =0.48v. How was the 3.5% loss figured out?….. Can't do basic maths at the moment
+Bloody helpful video mate. Explained a lot for what I want to do for my LC. Thanks for putting in the effort.
+10:54 It looks like the insulation is starting to tear away from where the cable joins the far socket.
+You did an excellent job at explaining this my dude thank you!!
+That's a badass Land Rover. Wish they were as easy to come by here in the states. I'd pick one up in a New York minute.
+Great video man! A lot of help
+The ultimate webcam: DSLR, mirrorless or iPhone?
+Sometimes your video calls just need to look great: you’re giving an important presentation, raising capital, doing live training, or perhaps you just hold yourself to a higher standard, even when wearing pyjama bottoms off-camera.
+There are several ways to improve the quality of your calls, from better camera placement to enhancing the lighting in your room, but after nailing the basics, at some point you’ll want to go further. We’ve already determined that standalone webcams aren’t good enough, so that leaves two options: use a DSLR or mirrorless camera, or take advantage of the excellent hardware and software in your iPhone.
+Just had my first @zoom_us call using CAMO by @reincubate. That's a super extra sweet setup and the image quality is so much beyond that of my built-in MBP webcam. And world easier than setting up my DSLR. Don't think I'll try and find a different setup for a while.— Nicolas Steenhout (@vavroom) February 5, 2021
+Both approaches will give you better image quality, but tradeoffs abound. For instance, connecting a typical camera isn’t as simple as plugging a USB cable into your computer; not every camera model is supported; batteries are almost guaranteed to run out at the wrong moment; and if you’re using your cell phone as your webcam, you can’t respond to messages or distract yourself during boring meetings.
+That may sound daunting, but when your video calls need to look great, the quality improvements are worth the up-front effort. In this article, I’m going to deconstruct what you need to use a smartphone or a digital camera for streaming video calls, by comparing four devices.
+I'll look at how each option shapes up in terms in each of the following categories:
+I’ll score each device on a scale of 1 to 5 in each category, so you can come away with a comprehensive picture of each option before you start making investments in time and hardware.
+Devices tested
+You can go buy all new gear, but you may already own a camera that will work as a webcam, such as an old iPhone or a DSLR that comes down from its shelf only during vacations and holidays. For this article, I’m testing the following:
+- Fujifilm X-T3 mirrorless camera with a Fujinon 27mm f/2.8 lens
+- Canon 7D Mark II DSLR with a Canon 35mm f/1.4 lens
+- iPhone SE (2020 model)
+- iPhone 12 Pro
+The iPhones are running Camo, the software that enables them to function as webcams. The Canon and Fujifilm cameras were tested using both computer-based webcam software from their respective manufacturers and USB capture card hardware that converts the video signal from the cameras to the computer. (From here on, I’m going to combine DSLR and mirrorless cameras as simply “digital cameras” to avoid repetition, even though you and I know that all the cameras are digital.) On the computing side, all of the cameras are connected to a 16-inch MacBook Pro (Late 2019 model).
+In most situations, I’ve set both digital cameras to roughly the same settings for consistency: video mode, f/2.8 aperture, ISO 800, shutter speed of 1/60 (in video, a general rule is to set the shutter speed to double the frame rate), and positioned to have similar framing.
+Cost
+Let's start by looking at how much each option will set you back. Let me stress that these are going to be very rough figures, because there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, and the prices of plenty of components, like tripods, range from ultra-cheap to I-can’t-believe-someone-would-pay-that.
+If you already own an iPhone, using Camo with that will be the cheapest option. If you use the free version of Camo, and have some way to prop your phone up for calls, you won't have to pay anything to use your iPhone as a webcam. As I've looked at Pro features in this article, such as Portrait Mode, I'm including the price of Camo Pro, alongside an iPhone mount and a good lighting to USB cable.
+Apple’s current least-expensive model is the iPhone SE (2020) at $399 if purchased new. The most expensive is the iPhone 12 Pro Max at $1,099. I'll use the average of those here. For use as a webcam, it’s worth looking for older, used models on eBay or wherever you prefer to shop for such things. I bought an iPhone 6 last year for $80 to test, though to be honest, for everyday use I’d consider a model with a better camera, such as the iPhone 8, which currently runs around $175.
+Setting up a DSLR or mirrorless camera is going to be more expensive. The cameras themselves are more expensive, and the setup involves more equipment, and therefore more money. Digital camera bodies vary widely, so to narrow the field, I'm including the price of the sort of camera I'm testing here. There are a number of cheaper DSLR options on the market, but, as the Reincubate team receive a large number of messages from customers who have 'upgraded' from this option to an iPhone, I won't be discussing them here.
+This is @reincubate Camo (virtual webcam software) *wired* to an iPhone 12. Next to it is a real Sony A6000 to an Elgato 4k. Very reasonable solution if you want a WAY better webcam than what you have today. pic.twitter.com/BPWkEuzc7v— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) January 28, 2021
+The Fujifilm I'm using retails at $1,900 (with a kit lens) and the Canon retails at $1,700 (body only), so I'll take the average of these costs. You can sometimes find used versions at as much as half the price, though they continue to be in high demand. As you can see, if you already have a compatible digital camera on a shelf that doesn’t get used much, you'll be able to cut down costs significantly, though you'll likely still need to purchase some other bits of kit.
+Since the goal is quality, I’d say a fast lens that has a maximum aperture of f/2.8 is the starting point, with f/1.8 being even better for that soft background look. Look for a 16mm, 28mm, or 35mm model, depending on how wide you want the field of view to be; “nifty-fifty” 50mm f/1.8 lenses are plentiful and relatively inexpensive, but that focal length would require placing the camera fairly far away from your computer. So, let’s say $350 for a decent lens.
+We’re going to take the capture card route, since that gave the best results in my head-to-head testing below, which means getting the Cam Link 4K ($120) and an HDMI cable ($8).
+For the camera tripod, you want something sturdy enough to hold a camera and lens. Depending on your space, you may want one that stands on the floor behind your desk or table — which will occupy more space — or a tabletop model that stands just behind your computer screen. You can get decent tripods in the $50 to $75 range, which include a ball head for adjusting the camera. I do not recommend camera tripods with flexible, adjustable leg segments, unless you want to spend all of your energy trying to level the camera and swearing.
+For power, you can buy dummy batteries that plug into AC power for $25 to $30 online, but definitely research reviews and look for reputable brands, since you don’t want a cheap power source frying your camera. (More reliable options, such as from TetherTools, can run $150.) That brings our starting-from-scratch total to $2,358, or $1,458 if you can find a used option. Assuming you already own a camera, the price drops to $558.
+Ease of setup and use
+Next, let's look at how easy each option is to use for video calls. The significant advantage that standalone webcams have over an iPhone or a digital camera is that they’re plug-and-play. Connect one to your computer’s USB port, mount the webcam to the top of your monitor (most have a clip design that can be attached to nearly anything), and you’re good to go.
+For an iPhone running Camo, you’ll need a Lightning cable to connect it to the computer, and a tripod or other way to mount the phone so its camera is at the correct height; a good place to start is How to mount an iPhone webcam: which mount is best.
+If you plan to use your everyday iPhone for video calls, your main consideration needs to be how easy or difficult it is to get the phone into place. Suppose someone important asks to jump on a quick video chat. You’d need to launch Camo, plug the iPhone into the computer, and attach it to the mount. And if you get a phone call during the video meeting, you probably won’t be able to answer it. This is the argument for repurposing an old or inexpensive iPhone for use as a dedicated webcam. If the phone is already in place and connected, you just need to make sure it’s powered on and running Camo.
+Similar considerations apply to setting up a digital camera as your webcam. You’ll need a tripod that’s sturdy enough to hold the camera and lens, plus the cabling to connect the camera to the computer via USB or via HDMI if you’re using a capture card. In the latter case, you may also need to purchase an HDMI cable or adapter with the correct connector type: regular size (Type A), mini size (Type C), or micro-size (Type D). On my example cameras, the Canon 7D Mark II includes a mini size port, and the Fujifilm X-T3 has a micro-size port.
+If the camera is one you grab frequently to shoot photos and video, you’ll incur the hassle of setting it up as a webcam each time it returns to your workspace. If it’s in a place where the tripod and cabling can live permanently, switching gears isn’t a big deal. If you’re setting up in another room for video calls, you’ll have to factor in the time it takes to set up (including any lighting) and tear down all the pieces. And don’t forget the camera settings, which trips me up too often: I take my camera out to photograph something, press the shutter button, and realize I forgot to exit the video mode and reset the ISO and shutter speed settings.
+The most important, and potentially most annoying, component required for streaming using digital cameras is power. With the iPhone, as long as it’s plugged into the computer, it’s receiving power. Digital cameras, meant to be portable, rely on batteries, which deplete faster when you’re shooting video. The last thing you want in the middle of a call is to swap batteries because your video died.
+the battery problems of @Sony's ZV-1 are starting to get in the way. battery capacity is tiny, and you can "power" through USB, but the battery still drains rather quickly. for any longer streaming tasks, this doesn't work. what's your camera of choice?— Erik Wilde (@dret) June 8, 2021
+To keep power flowing, a few options are available. Some cameras can charge the battery via the USB port; if you’re using a capture card and sending via over HDMI, you could plug in a USB cable connected to a USB power adapter or power bank.
+On my X-T3, I attach a battery grip accessory that holds two extra batteries and makes it easier to shoot lots of portrait-orientation photos. The grip also comes with an AC adapter and power plug so I don’t need to use the batteries at all.
+A less expensive option is to purchase a dummy battery that plugs into AC power. It slides into the camera’s battery port and trails a power cord and adapter you can plug into the wall. Make a point of researching your camera model to see if you’d need to remove or adapt the battery door; many cameras won’t operate if the door isn’t closed securely.
+The last consideration is heat. As you record video or stream to a computer, the internal components build up heat, such as from the battery expending energy and data being written to the memory card. To protect against damage, some cameras will automatically shut down when a specific heat threshold has been reached. Some camera models that shoot 8K or 4K video, like the Canon R5, are notorious for heat buildup, lasting only 20 or 25 minutes before turning off, and then requiring a lengthy cool-down period before they’ll turn back on. Although my Fujifilm X-T3 has never overheated, the body is noticeably warm if I’ve had it on for several hours acting as a webcam; I accidentally left it on overnight and, fortunately, it was only warm, not toasted.
+Any suggestions for a reliable streaming camera? I had the Sony A6400 but it would over heat (even with the temp option off) and shut down eventually even with a dummy battery after 2 hours.— ilan Bluestone (@iBluestone) April 17, 2021
+I lost my canon doing that overheat and killed the motherboard— Rui Marinho (@ruiespinho) February 20, 2021
+There are a few things you can do to mitigate heat. Setting the camera to 1080p/FHD requires less processing and therefore less heat. Turn off the camera’s LCD (since you’re able to view the output on your computer screen). If the LCD is adjustable, move or angle it away from the camera body to help dissipate heat. Using a dummy battery will also help, because the internal battery isn’t inside the body expending energy.
+Older iPhone models, such as the iPhone 5S, are also susceptible to overheating, though newer models are not. This can be addressed by using the iPhone 5S in 720p.
+Whether it’s heat, power, or setup, the digital cameras and the iPhones require more work compared to standalone webcams. In this category, I’m scoring the iPhones as 3s, to account for a typical situation where someone would use their everyday phone with Camo; assume that climbs to 4s if you’ve repurposed an old model that can remain in place as the webcam.
+The digital cameras get scored as 2s here, simply because there are more pieces and settings to keep track of. Again, that score goes up slightly if you can press an old camera into service that won’t be used for anything else.
+Connection options
+Connecting an iPhone to the computer is simple: plug it in via USB and make sure the Camo apps are installed on both the iPhone and the computer.
+For DSLR and mirrorless cameras, though, you have two choices, one software and one hardware: install a manufacturer’s webcam utility software on the computer and connect the camera via USB cable, or purchase a separate capture device that connects to the computer via USB cable and to the camera via HDMI cable.
+If you already own a camera that’s supported, the software-only option is direct and free. Some of the utilities provide just a pipeline for video from the camera to the computer, while others offer a way to change camera settings such as exposure compensation without getting up and adjusting the camera’s controls.
+The free utilities can be found at the following links; make sure you check that your camera is on the appropriate compatibility list:
+- Fujifilm X Webcam
+- Canon EOS Webcam Utility
+- Nikon Webcam Utility
+- Sony Imaging Edge
+- Panasonic LUMIX Webcam Software
+- Olympus OM-D Webcam
+The experience of using the utilities is mixed. Some of them are still in beta, so expect rough edges. I tested the Canon EOS Webcam Utility and the Fujifilm X Webcam Utility, both of which are shipping versions, but the quality varied widely. The Fujifilm X Webcam 2.1 software has surprisingly low resolution and a slow, jerky frame rate, whereas the Canon EOS Webcam Utility is smooth and decent. Although I didn’t test it, Sony’s Imaging Edge utility states a maximum resolution of 1,024 by 576 pixels.
+You may run into other complications. Some webcam software implementations work only with browser-based versions of video calling services, not native apps. For example, the Slack app on macOS doesn’t recognize the Canon EOS Webcam Utility, but if you connect via Slack’s web interface using Google Chrome, the camera does appear.
+Being able to just plug in your digital camera and run an app in the background is appealing, and because the utilities are free, by all means give them a try. However, you’re likely to get much better results using a USB capture card device. (The ones I’m looking at are all stand-alone units that plug into USB; the “capture card” name comes from internal boards that can be added to tower PCs.)
+A capture card connects to a camera’s HDMI port and converts the video signal so it is UVC (USB Video Class) compatible, which is how apps like Zoom see it as a video source. These devices can output higher resolution images, up to 4K if the camera and device supports it. They also offer less lag between your movements and what appears onscreen.
+The most popular of these is the Elgato Cam Link 4K, $120. When that model wasn’t available last year, I ordered a device labeled just “USB3.0 Video Capture HDMI 4K,” which is made by several Chinese manufacturers you may never have heard of; mine didn’t have a company listed. This one from Goodan looks like the exact same model I own, and costs about $50 USD. I also tested an inexpensive $20 USD Y&H HDMI Video Capture Card.
+Keeping in mind that your video resolution is going to be reduced in transit (see the video quality section for more on this), why consider a more expensive capture card? Primarily you’d want 4K capability if you were recording straight from the camera, not just streaming a video call. However, I found that using the Cam Link 4K produced better video than the other two, perhaps due to better internal components. The Cam Link can send a 4K signal to the computer over its USB 3.0 connection; although the no-name USB 3.0 box connects via USB 3.0, it outputs only 1080p; and the Y&H card accepts and outputs only 1080p over a USB 2.0 connection.
+The differences between the devices are pretty clear, not only in resolution, but also in color quality. The Cam Link 4K looks better, both when the X-T3 is set at 4K recording resolution and FHD/1080p. I didn’t see much difference between the 4K and FHD settings on any of the cards, which could be attributable to the X-T3’s video handling; they didn’t exhibit the artifacts we saw earlier with my friend’s Sony mirrorless camera, which was also connected via a Cam Link 4K.
+One thing to be wary of with capture cards is whether the camera can output clean HDMI, or video that shows only what the sensor sees. Another thing is that, with a capture card, you won't be able to remotely control the camera settings from your desk as you can with Camo or a camera webcam utility. The Canon 7D Mark II initially shows everything you’d see on the back LCD panel; pressing the camera’s physical Info button twice removed those. But it’s worth checking online to see if your camera can output clean HDMI. On some early Canon models, the only way to get clean HDMI is to install special software from the Magic Lantern project that runs alongside the camera’s firmware.
+To be fair, even the Y&H capture device gives you the benefits of using a better camera and lens, wide apertures for shallow depth of field, and the no-hassle, no-software approach of simply plugging the camera and device into the computer. Although I find the image to be over-exposed and too warm compared to the Cam Link version, those are qualities easily adjusted on the camera by reducing the ISO to 400 and changing the White Balance setting. For many video calls, this quality would be OK if you’re on a budget.
+To score this category, I’m breaking Connections into two parts: Software and Capture Card. The Fujifilm X Webcam software fell down hard (2), while Canon’s EOS Webcam Utility fared well (4), though neither are as good as the iPhones running Camo (5). Yes, I know that sounds like I’m being a biased judge here, but since we’re looking at the quality of the output, the Camo software not only piggy-backs on the iPhone’s camera technology, but also offers many controls for adjusting parameters such as exposure, white balance, and saturation.
+For the Capture Card part, each digital camera receives 4 points, since the discrepancies I saw were between the cards, not necessarily between the cameras themselves. Because you can just plug in the iPhone, you don't need a capture card, so they both get 5 points.
+Image quality
+I’m sure you’ve heard someone say, “Nice pictures! You must have a great camera.” A common misconception in photography is that if you just buy a better camera, your photos will automatically improve. Although a good photo can, in fact, come from any camera, for our discussion of webcams, it turns out that having a better camera can lead to a higher-quality look.
+In the case of a DSLR or mirrorless camera, it has a physically larger image sensor, the component that records the light coming through the lens. The Fujifilm X-T3 uses an APS-C sensor measuring 23.5mm by 15.6mm, with 26.1 megapixels of resolution. The Canon 7D Mk II’s sensor, also technically APS-C, measures 22.4mm by 15.0mm, with 20.2 megapixels of resolution. High-end digital cameras use full-frame sensors measuring 36mm by 24mm. (And if you wanted to go crazy, you could look at the RED Monstro 8K sensor measuring 40.96 mm by 21.60 mm, which gives you 35.4 megapixels of resolution and greater light-gathering ability.)
+By comparison, sensors in cell phones and standalone webcams are deliberately small to keep the size of the device compact. The iPhone camera sensors measure roughly 7.6mm by 5.7mm (the wide camera in the iPhone 12 Pro Max is 47 percent larger, according to Apple). Although a sensor may include enough pixels to capture 4K or 1080p video, each pixel is minuscule, and not able to absorb much light, particularly in reduced-light situations.
+Remember that cameras crave light, so the more light you throw at a scene, the better the overall quality should be. That doesn’t mean overexposing the room and burning out your retinas, but rather making sure enough light is on you so the camera isn’t trying to artificially make up for it in software.
+Another digital camera advantage is the ability to choose and swap interchangeable lenses on some models. That gives you more control over the field of view, represented as a millimeter (mm) measurement. For example, the 18-55mm telephoto lens that is often bundled as a “kit lens” for many cameras can be zoomed in, so only the corner of your living room workspace is visible to other people on your calls (at the 55mm range), or opened wider if you need to move around or use visual aids in your talk (at the 18mm setting).
+Good lenses with larger maximum apertures can also expose more light to the sensor. A typical maximum aperture for that 18-55mm lens is f/3.5, which isn’t bad. But a 35mm f/1.4 lens allows more light, because the shutter opens wider when the aperture is set to f/1.4; lower values are better when talking about aperture. (Large-aperture lenses are referred to as “fast” lenses, because photographers would have to use fast shutter speeds to avoid overexposing the image.)
+However, the most visible advantage of many digital camera lenses is how they can make a background appear soft and out of focus, an effect that many apps like Zoom artificially replicate with their background blur settings. This control over the depth of field determines how much of the scene is in focus. A lens set to a wide aperture, such as f/1.4 or f/2.8, exhibits a shallow depth of field, putting a narrow plane of the scene in focus. That can keep your face in focus and render the objects behind you slightly blurry.
+Not only does a shallow depth of field convey a more professional appearance, it also keeps viewers’ attention on you, and not on the titles on the bookshelf behind you. If you do want to show off your background, you can set a smaller aperture such as f/5.6, which increases the depth of field and puts more area in focus. This option of choosing aperture settings gives you control over what’s in focus, with one tradeoff: the smaller the aperture, the less light reaches the sensor, so you’ll need to add more light in your environment.
+Now, let’s turn to the iPhone models. Looking just at specifications, you’d think iPhone (and most other cell phone cameras) would be the opposite of digital cameras. Due to their overall size, the camera sensor inside the iPhone is small, and the lenses are fixed. On models such as the iPhone 12 Pro, you can shoot in three standard fields of view — wide, ultra-wide, and telephoto — because there are three separate cameras, each with its own sensor, working together.
+The cameras also have fixed apertures that are quite fast (between f/1.6 and f/2.2 for the rear cameras on the iPhone 12 Pro), but with no actual physical shutter, you don’t have the same control over depth of field as with a digital camera. In fact, the small components are designed to get as much of a scene in focus as possible, making it nearly impossible to create a shallow depth of field effect optically, especially in a typical workplace setting.
+So why are we even considering them? The cameras, for their sizes, are still quite good, but it’s not just the lenses and sensors at play in the iPhone. Apple’s extensive research and development over the years have merged software with dedicated image processing chips to compensate for the optical limitations.
+On most digital cameras, you press the shutter button, the shutter opens, light is exposed on the image sensor, and the data is recorded to a memory card. On the iPhone, the image processor is automatically analyzing the scene as you’re lining up the shot, and when you tap the shutter button, a series of images of different exposures are captured, processed, and blended to create a high-quality final photo. For video and webcam use, the built-in image processing system is doing the same thing in real-time.
+Although you don’t get the optical advantages of larger sensors and lenses, the iPhone’s computational processing delivers an image that’s considerably better than standalone webcams.
+And what about those soft blurry backgrounds? Software does all the work there, too. Camo’s Portrait mode (currently in beta), working with the fast processors in the iPhone, determines the edges of foreground objects and blurs the background in a way that’s much more realistic than Zoom’s heavy-handed Blur background effect.
+So how do these cameras score on the image quality front? One of the main considerations for these scores is the flexibility you have in shaping the image to your liking. In addition to depth of field and field of view, the digital cameras include controls for adjusting exposure via ISO, aperture, and shutter speed, as well as specifying white balance and, in some models, color profiles and presets. The iPhones use Apple’s algorithms for exposure and color, but those elements can also be fine-tuned in the Camo Studio app.
+The two digital cameras are capable of producing the best image compared to the iPhones and other webcams, so they get top scores of 5 each. The iPhones, though not as sharp as the digital cameras, still give you a much better image than standalone webcams and built-in laptop cameras, so I’m grading the iPhone SE a score of 4 and the iPhone 12 Pro a score of 4.5..
+Video quality
+Composing a good image is important, but the “video” part of “video calls” brings up a couple of considerations.
+When we talk about cameras of all types, one of the first things that jumps out is resolution, or the total number of pixels that make up the image. The video mode on your digital camera or iPhone may capture “4K” or “Ultra HD” (Ultra High Definition) resolution measuring approximately 4,000 pixels across (actually 3,840 by 2,160 pixels in most cases). More common is “1080p,” “Full HD,” or “FHD” (Full High Definition), which has a resolution of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels. Cameras that shoot at “720p” or “HD” (High Definition) record at 1280 by 720 pixels.
+(Note that video resolution and image resolution are two different things. For example, even though the Sony a7R IV shoots massive 60.1 megapixel still images at 9,504 by 6,336 pixels, it still outputs 4K video at 3,840 by 2,160 pixels.)
+Generally speaking, higher resolution leads to higher-quality video, because there are more pixels available to render more details. Great! Bring on more pixels!
+However, we need to maintain some perspective, because what you see and what your viewers see appear quite different. Even if you’re looking at a crisp, 4K version of yourself, Zoom isn’t sending 4K resolution from your computer to the company’s servers en route to your call participants. When the pandemic spread last year and suddenly millions of people were working and learning from home, Zoom throttled connections to 720p to maintain performance; sometimes that quality downshifts to 360p or lower during peak usage times. That results in soft or blocky video, because the pixels are being enlarged to fit the screen. (You can open Zoom’s preferences and view the Statistics panel to reveal the current resolution during a call.)
+So, when using the Fujifilm X-T3 set to its 4K video resolution, the preview in Zoom looks pretty crisp. But when I join the call using an iPad Pro on my desk, my image from the X-T3 isn’t as sharp, even though the iPad Pro and the MacBook Pro are on the same internal network. That’s because the video is sent from the Zoom app on my Mac to Zoom’s servers, and then returned to the Zoom app on my iPad Pro, with Zoom reducing the resolution in-between those steps.
+In fact, if your digital camera supports 4K video capture, you may want to switch it to 1080p/FHD to reduce the effects of shifting the resolution. In a test with a friend of mine who lives in Portland, Oregon, his incoming video exhibited an excess of blocky aliasing and moire patterns in areas such as his hair and his glasses. When he switched his camera (a Sony a7R III) from 4K resolution to 1080p, those artifacts went away. On the iPhone, Camo’s maximum resolution is 1080p for these reasons.
+The next video consideration is focus. The iPhones handle autofocus well, in part due to the technology built into them, and partly due to the small sizes of the sensors and lenses involved, which naturally have broader depth of field.
+On digital cameras, autofocus depends a lot on the specific camera and lens. When you’re using a fast lens set to a wide aperture, the shallow depth of field means you could move in and out of focus as you lean forward or back, or the camera could shift focus to your hands, especially if you’re an expressive speaker.
+Modern camera models are pretty good with autofocus, and some excel at identifying faces and focusing on eyes. Check your camera model’s menus to activate its facial identification settings, if present, or to enable active scanning in a sports mode, for example. Even without those specific features, for webcam use, where you’ll likely be in the middle of the frame most of the time, focus should be fairly easy to lock.
+What can be tricky is how a lens behaves when it focuses, which varies depending on the lens model. Some lenses focus more quickly than others, and nearly all of them exhibit some “breathing,” where the edges of the frame expand and contract because the glass elements in the lens are shifting as items go in and out of focus.
+There isn’t a lot you can do about it aside from buying lenses that show minimal breathing effects (good reviews should mention it, or look it up in customers’ online feedback), and to be honest, it may not be something you notice often. It’s more of a problem if you have a slow-focusing lens or a very shallow depth of field, leading to distracting pops or jumps as the camera frequently adjusts focus.
+The alternative is to set the camera to manual focus and use an aperture narrow enough that you’ll remain in focus even as you move around.
+When contemplating scores for video quality, I’m inclined to award 4s all around. Many digital cameras and recent iPhones can capture 4K video, but there isn’t a great benefit, given how the video calling services reduce the resolution anyway. In terms of autofocus, it’s highly dependent on the camera and lens combination for digital cameras, while autofocus on the iPhone just works.
+Conclusions
+If we’re looking solely at image and video quality, the digital cameras connected via a good capture card would be the clear winner in our tests. However, it’s impossible to ignore the additional complexity that the setup requires.
+For that reason, when we tabulate the scores, the iPhone solution comes out ahead due to having fewer pieces in play and still delivering image quality that surpasses standalone webcams. If you’re using your everyday iPhone as the video calling camera, some of that advantage goes away, but that also depends on whether you participate in a video call every now and then, or if you’re spending most of each day in meetings.
+Overall, the good news is that it’s possible to increase the quality of your video calls in several ways. It may take more setup and a little extra money, but the results are worth it.
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Fanart Mob from Mob Psycho 100. drawing illustration digital painting fanart art artwork anime art mob psycho 100. This Edward Elric and Envy fan-art might contain anime, bande dessinée, manga, and dessin animé. texting AU with these two? 4 Comments. 837 notes . It turns it from a burden into an indulgence. Animal Crossing New Leaf: Stuffz for A Place Follow. This fanart, done by eernarts, is super cute and shows more of what life is like for the married couple. The artist made sure to add that element by using the lighting from the window in the background. Some beautiful EdWin fanart I found on a bunch of Japanese sites. Edward is small for his age, standing at only 149 cm (4'11\") at the beginning of the series, despite his attempts to appear taller, (due to the notation that he cannot stand regular milk). Winry, blushing, stops Ed. edward elric. This one is so cute due to the fact that Ed waits all night for her to finish working. You guessed it: black. Their height differences are also the same, meaning that this artwork took place moments after that scene occurred. Hello there! tevali reblogged this from starpaw0007. Edward Elric and Winry Rockbell Fan Art: 2gether. 1. Winry begins to cry after this, her reasoning is that she does so for Ed, who never cries for himself. So… giving a try to different coloring styles my past post and this one has the same kind. xomii-ink. Close. All their fanart of the pairing are also extremely adorable and depicts them through the ages. Alphonse Elric, FMA. He stalks off grumpy that he couldn't kiss her but blushing at the thought of it all. Article from fanpop.com. Notes: For iluxia, aventria. This edward elric y winry rockbell arte de los fans might contain animado, cómic, manga, historieta, anime, and dibujos animados. Tags. Winry tilts her head back, allowing herself to take in his presence as she stops working for a moment. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more. Oct 13, 2020 - This Pin was discovered by TheAmethystAlpha01. everyone thank you for watching my video. hide. The warm light can almost be felt through the screen as Ed goes to keep Winry company as she works on automail. Late hours❤️#edwardelric #winryrockbell #edwin #FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood #FullmetalAlchemist pic.twitter.com/rhdbBzZKV6. Fullmetal Alchemist - Edward Elric :. The two smile warmly at each other, looking as if they are just so happy to see one another again. This was also around the age where they finally confessed their feelings to each other. Pen sketch, full metal alchemist, edward elric. edward elric: short king or manlet? Fan Art. Cute:"). So… giving a try to different coloring styles my past post and this one has the same kind. 29 notes. level 1. Fanart of Edward Elric from the fanfic Catalysis by Iluxia and Aventris. All the latest gaming news, game reviews and trailers. After the new update of Catalysis I had this urge to draw some fma art. At the end of the series, Ed has to venture out and travel a lot before he can come back and settle down, so instead of just leaving, he promises to return and give Winry the rest of his life. Discover (and save!) Edward Elric UA STUDENT CONCEPT FANART (FMA x BOKU NO HERO MASHUP) Artwork. 8.0k. best. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Pixiv Id 292401, Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Edward Elric, Fanart From Pixiv, Fanart, Pixiv. I love the Elric brothers \'shROOM_Grower. about ... #rb #text #spn #fanart #q. Dec 26, 2020. bagginshield. 332 comments. エドウィンおめでとう大好き愛してる pic.twitter.com/Lu4FCZypAV. share. It makes the sadness feel at home. Posted by 5 months ago. It debuted in episode 27, replacing Let it Out. May 20, 2019 - This Pin was discovered by Cooper Assassin. NEXT: Fullmetal Alchemist: 10 Vital Facts You Didn't Know About Winry Rockbell. This short comic is totally adorable and captures such a cute moment between Ed and Winry. fan art. :"), What do you mean this isn’t canon dialogue, "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. Powered by Tumblr. It's quite hilarious and made me laugh and smile like an idiot a bunch of times (and I am not even finished yet) so please check it out! Hello there! Favorite Add to FMA Edward Elric - PRINT clivenzu. Human Transmutation Circle. Well you're in luck, because here they come. Hi! bigskycastle: mipha. i don't kin crowley crowley kins me. 475 Views. The fic for the second one is called Love Can Melt the Ice, and can be found on AO3~ #fullmetalalchemist #edwin #myart #digitalart #fanart #artistsoninstagram, A post shared by Io Kay (@eernarts) on Mar 21, 2020 at 3:29pm PDT. 800x700 180kB envy. Published: Sep 7, 2019. ar ed fullmetalalchemist alphonseelric anime brotherhood character drawing edward edwardelric elric fanart fma illustration manga. edward elric: short king or manlet? Open in app; Facebook; Tweet; Reddit; Mail; Embed; Permalink ; … winry rockbell. He frowns and looks totally flustered, blushing all the way up his ears. 1. Ed~Envy. 67 16 265 (1 Today) By PkBlitz | Watch. It’s the first time to create content in my channel. And now a final piece from Viria as well. This is not exactly a moment from the fic, but It's not a big deal totally planted the whole texting/modern AU seed in my head. Edward and Winry :) I give all the credit to the amazing artist 55 Edward Elric. Come post anything related to Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga franchise! AHarpist DAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMNN Nice. It is also cute to see Winry so focused and in her element that she doesn't have time to break away and won't let Ed's kisses distract her. Edward--Elric Sep 9, 2007 Yeah I've been a risembool ranger since I met Vic Mignogna at Connecticon ^^ Ummm I add everybody I talk to XD No Not really I like your art and your icon XD But no really I add people who talk to me And I think I'll call you Mako ^-^ 1, The Seven Deadly Sins: 5 Characters Who Are Stronger Than Escanor (& 5 Who Aren't), Naruto: 10 Things About Boruto That Make No Sense, The 10 Most Confusing Things About The Shonen Genre, Explained, Sword Art Online: 5 Swordsmen Who Are Stronger Than Kirito (& 5 Who Aren't), Bleach: 5 Anime Characters Who Can Outsmart Aizen (& 5 Who Can't), Naruto: 10 Things Every Fan Should Know About Hashirama Senju, 5 Anime Heroes Who Went Bad (& 5 Villains Who Turned Good), 10 Terrifying Serial Killers In Anime (That You Didn't Know About), 10 Anime Heroes Who Went Bad (Who Aren't Light Yagami), 10 Ways Shonen Anime Has Changed Since Dragon Ball, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: 10 Fights That Are Better In The Anime. This fanart kind of resembles the idea from the piece done under "Working." Jan 1, 2013 - Explore loki laufeyson's board "Edward elric" on Pinterest. Me too! Edward Elric. It's meant to replicate the scene in the series in which Ed helps an exhausted Winry to sit in a chair during the episode entitled "Miracle at Rush Valley.". Jun 28, 2016 - Edward and Winry Pixiv ID: 26386594 Member: ゴクリン .. arte de los Fans. best. save. Uploaded Dec 25, 2020 8:30 PM EST Category Illustration File Info 3000 x 3000 px JPG 5.2 MB. M7Angela on Tumblr has made this super adorable fanart of the pair that totally encapsulates their height difference. Some fanart is VERY NSFW. Edward Elric and Winry Rockbell from Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood has been a long-time favorite couple in the shonen genre. Nov 22, 2018 - Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. 10 comments. Edward Elric Fanart + Top 10 FMA characters Fanart, Sin categoría . Dec 19, 2012. Winry is shedding a few tears and Ed wipes them away and attempts to kiss her. Nearly every interaction they had involved one or both of them blushing like crazy. Edward Elric. Comments (English) brittaneysmothers. hide. they/them. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. 67 16 265 (1 Today) By PkBlitz | Watch. 3d anime edit edward elric fanart manga mmd model shounen mikumikudance fullmetalalchemist. RELATED: 5 Fullmetal Alchemist Relationships Fans Are Behind (& 5 They Reject). Log in or sign up to leave a comment Log In Sign Up. Winry was Ed's automail mechanic and was always venturing for a new way to fix it. Viria is another popular artist who made a ton of EdWin and RoyxRiza fanart over the years. ", the very specific annoying uncle/gremlin nephew relationship that edward elric and roy mustang share is both the funniest and most heartwarming thing ever like...they hate the everloving shit out of each other but they're so fucking ride or die its so funny, #not me quoting the bible buT I FELT IT WAS FITTING, #I love them so much my heart yearns for these two every day, #painting them is very cathartic but i also make myself sad. maggie. manga. There are 617 edward elric for sale on Etsy, and they cost $15.87 on average. Pretty much every fan knew that the two were destined to be together from the beginning, but after the original series ended with little more than a hug, fans became unsure as to whether to couple would ever properly take off. Edward Elric fan art. Published: Sep 7, 2019. ar ed fullmetalalchemist alphonseelric anime brotherhood character drawing edward edwardelric elric fanart fma illustration manga. added by ablevins. added by gulczas000. Their body languages read like they are totally in love with one another, as everything looks so soft and gentle. See more ideas about edward elric, fullmetal alchemist, fullmetal alchemist brotherhood. Attack On Titan: Eren's 10 Best Fights, Ranked, Fullmetal Alchemist: 10 Pieces Of Ed & Winry Fan Art That Are Too Adorable, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Ed &Winry Vs Roy & Riza For Best Couple, Fullmetal Alchemist: 5 Couples That Are Perfect Together (& 5 That make No Sense), 5 Fullmetal Alchemist Relationships Fans Are Behind (& 5 They Reject), Fullmetal Alchemist: 10 Vital Facts You Didn't Know About Winry Rockbell, One Piece: 5 Marines Closest To Garp's Level (& 5 That Are Average), Tower Of God: 10 Differences Between The Anime & The Manhwa, Season 1, Dragon Ball: 5 Fights Vegeta Should've Won (& 5 He Deserved To Lose), Avatar: 10 Anime Characters Who Are Just Like Uncle Iroh, Naruto: 5 Characters Capable Of Defeating Baryon Mode Naruto (& 5 Who Would Fail),. edwin. Ed also doesn't take his eyes off of her, as he finally got the girl. Winry just helped deliver a child and her legs went numb. 1. Fan Art of 2gether for fans of Edward Elric and Winry Rockbell 6118994. ed. He parts his bangs in the middle so that they frame his face on either side as they fall and, in the center of the … blogroll. Encontre (e salve!) It captures the couple teasing one another and how flustered they get at the other's advances. Edward Elric. share. Saved from zerochan.net. At 18 (around when the show ended), the two had deep feelings for one another and started having a harder time hiding it. Since it's alredy October 3rd at Japan, happy fullmetal alchemist day , childhood friends in a zombie apocalypse AU? i don't kin crowley crowley kins me. alchemist; alchemy; alphonse-elric; edward-elric; fanart; fullmetal-alchemist; illustration; philosopher-stone; photoshop; Frontpaged December 26 , 2020. edward. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, FMA fanart, Elric Brothers, Alphonse Elric, Edward Elric Anime Manga Art Poster Print, Wall Decoration ofSkySociety. about . 28-feb-2020 - Explora el tablero "Edward Elric" de Sandra Carranza, que 178 personas siguen en Pinterest. Some Edwin comms for winryofresembool on tumblr! 169 notes. Discover (and save!) alchemist. Posted by 5 months ago. 76. It is performed by Li'l B, and would later be replaced by Shunkan Sentimental in episode 39. fma. In the original series, he stayed the same height, but in Brotherhood, Ed grew and his character developed, and by the end of the series he ended up taller than his future wife. Edward Elric UA STUDENT CONCEPT FANART (FMA x BOKU NO HERO MASHUP) Artwork. At 5, Ed and Al fought over who was going to marry Winry when they grew up and Ed always showed deep care for her, even if he teased her a lot. Jul 29, 2018 - Fanart pulled from all over the web since sometime in 2002. Credit given when aware - if you know a certain fanart belongs to someone, give me a referral link so I can give credit where credit is due! In the second picture, the roles have reversed. And they're a really accurate portrayal of real siblings set in a super unlikely environment. Edward Elric by 白 . 1. Sort by. Ed's blushes and smoldering looks in the first two panels add to it as well. I choose to draw Edward like he was portrayed in the new chapter, with his red coat and the book he was researching in the first Library. Apr 6, 2018 - Tsunaida Te (つないだ手, Held Hands) is the third ending theme for the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime series. The most common edward elric material is metal. Oct 6, 2017 - Explore Joey Najera's board "Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Art", followed by 656 people on Pinterest. … Showing edward elric fan art (1-99 of 118) Ver más ideas sobre fullmetal, fulmetal alchemist, alphonse elric. fan-art. 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+Hey all we are preparing to go into PRI weekend and we want everyone to be aware of our 2019 schedule plan.
+We are going even further than ever and to more races than ever.
+So mark your calendars now and come watch us race in 2019!
+April 26-28 Charlotte, NC National
+May 17-19 Norwalk, OH Regional
+May 31-June2 Chicago, IL National
+June 21-23 Norwalk, OH National
+July 12-14 Chicago, IL Regional
+August 16-18 Brainerd, MN National
+August 29-Sept 2 Indianapolis, IN National
+October 4-6 St.Louis,MO Regional
+Can't wait!
+Hey Everyone!
+I'm really excited that I'm now working in collaboration with PMP on a driver's blog. The blog is available through their website and the first one is up already. Take a look.
+Hey All!
+We published our 2018 schedule! Currently we are thinking it will look like below with potential to adjust if needed. We are planning on being at a lot of races close to home next year, which we are extra excited about!
+May 4-6 Columbus, OH
+May 18-20 Norwalk, OH
+June 1-3 Chicago, IL
+June 22-24 Norwalk, OH
+July 13-15 Chicago, IL
+October 19-21 St. Louis, MO
+Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Can't wait to see you in 2018!
+The work continues into the offseason. It's a little more relaxed of a pace but there are still a bunch of things that need to get done. If you're not a racer yourself you may not know that there are safety equipment (for example) & the chassis that need to be certified every year or sometimes every 2 or 5 years. In the offseason we get these things accomplished. In addition we are working on doing any updates that we have been thinking about as we learned so much through the 2017 season. In the last race St Louis we qualified and went our best time of 5.47 at 240 but the weekend was cut short after only one qualifying pass because we hurt a head and didn't have a spare ready to go yet. We began the process of obtaining spares a little over a year ago actually. Unfortunately we aren't set up with a ton of extra space in the trailer or spares just yet but the reality of this happening at our last race made getting spares ready a priority for the offseason too! We do the best with what we have. We feel so fortunate just to go to races and we know that this low budget alcohol team with a big heart is going to be very competitive. SOON!
+Looking forward to spending time with family during the holidays, meeting new and old friends while at PRI in Indy and getting back out there in 2018! We have space to include additional marketing partnerships on a race by race basis next year. Contact us for more info.
+There are times I have to remind myself that I am already living the dream that I never thought I would have. I feel so fortunate to be able to do this with hard work and the support of my family. We went to the NHRA Earlville Iowa race over the weekend with the best of intentions. 10 cars fighting to be in an 8 car field and being relatively new to the competition scene I was a little intimidated. Q2 on Saturday ended up being my new personal best 5.49! Finally into the 5.40s. Another goal of mine was accomplished and it felt great. I've been trying to take it step by step. The car wasn't even running that great on half of that run so we now know that it can and will go even FASTER! Unfortunately the number 8 spot ended up being a 5.46, so we did not qualify for this one. We went from the highest highs running in the 40s to finding out we did not qualify. I always say that I'm not that competitive but the truth is I strive to be better at all times. That may be one of my biggest strengths that is also a weakness. It's not about being better than anyone else, it's about being better than myself. It was disappointing to end the weekend early but we move on by focusing on the good progress that we had. The cars in this field are very competitive and we can't wait to go to St Louis and pulling out the rest of the potential from the car.
+Racing can definitely be a fun time too, if you make it that way. Earlville is very close to the movie set for Field of Dreams. We decided to go there Sunday morning before heading home and I of course had to run the bases and explore in the corn. Little adventures while traveling to different race tracks make the memories even better. Make sure you enjoy the memories, the little things and the small wins. Life is too short not to focus on the positive.
+We just got back from the trip to Brainerd! It was honestly a very good experience. We had a couple of setbacks that we are taking back as learnings. Fortunately we were able to fix them on while at the track and qualify with a 5.54 at 229. It was our best run ever and I lifted just a little early. Going into first round we tried our best but the car dropped a couple holes and ran a similar 5.58 to the number one qualifiers 5.26.
+Just prior to round one on Saturday night we learned that we were the recipient of the Edelbrock Never Rest Performer for the weekend! I am honestly so humbled that we got this honor and that we got to take home a mini wally from our first race! It was a huge learning experience. We didn't break anything, we went faster than we ever have and figured out a couple things on the car. This is a car we built on a very low budget, but with lots of heart, hard work and dedication. This is just the beginning for me and the Anderson Family Dragster team. I'm so addicted and will keep working until this car goes fast but I am really proud with how far it's come in the 2017 season. I'm very thankful for all of our supporters especially the crew, the teams that have helped push us in the right direction, Comp Fab, Zrodz, PMP, Champion Auto Parts, and Goodson.
+Check this out! -----we made it onto Comp Plus!
+Wow how time flies! It is almost August. The summers always fly by because every moment spent not racing is spent working on the car to get it ready for the next race or I'm at the track trying to learn more.
+It's crazy how addicting this sport is. This weekend was supposed to be my first race, the St. Louis division race. It was postponed due to hot weather. Although this was probably the right call, I couldn't help but be disappointed since this was going to be my first official race I enter as a licensed TAD owner/driver.
+The last time I was in the car was already 3 weeks ago and I'm itching to get back in the seat. We were fortunate enough to put on a show for the ADRL fans at one of my favorite race tracks US 131 in Martin, MI. It was the AFD team vs the NitroU Gas Monkey Energy car driven by Alex Laughlin. Friday was a rain out so we made two runs on Saturday. The first run we went 5.89 @ 224 but Alex went 5.41 @ 265. This was my first time ever staging and running a fast car with another car in the other lane. I was nervous. After deploying the chutes, slowing down and turning off the track I was getting out of the car and Alex told me that I did a great job (knowing that it was my first time). It definitely calmed my nerves for the second run. Right before we started up the cars for the second run I was told we are going to do side by side burnouts and whoever has the longest burnout gets $100. Knowing that I am the car owner I smiled because I knew I could win this. And that I did. It was the most exciting and fun burnout I have ever done, I loved it and so did the crowd! The second run was better for us 5.78 @ 228 but Anthony had the NitroU car really flying for that run because I could not catch Alex with his 5.30 @268 run.
+Overall we had so much fun that weekend in Michigan and we learned a lot about the car. We previously were having a couple of issues like intake springs breaking which were resolved after these runs. We actually had to get them closer to coil bind! ( I know these racecars are so crazy most people don't believe it)
+The weekend after Martin was our local national NHRA event in Chicago. We were expecting quite a few cars so we hadn't planned on entering this, at least not this year. Only 16 TAD cars showed up. Ouch! Any drag racer knows it's very difficult to be at the track without working on or driving something. So many people asked where my car is since they know I'm licensed but we just had not planned on it. It takes us a little more time with being new to the routine and the whole team working full time jobs on top of trying to get the AFD team going just doesn't give us much shop time. There are so many things that go into getting a nitro car ready for a race.
+Luckily a couple different friends welcomed me into their pits to learn more about how to run afuel, show them things I had questions on and I got to hang out with my friends for the week too. I am so thankful to all these people that are constantly showing me so much hospitality at the race track. Definitely a great group. One of my favorite examples of this was when an afuel starter didn't work a bunch of other afuel guys were running all over trying to get them a starter. I wouldn't be able to do this without the help of so many teams throughout the years. Even though I didn't bring my car it turned into a great weekend. I learned a lot and not one but TWO good friends walked away with wallys and I got to be a part of it. I was Megan's PR girl for the weekend so I got to video every run for her all the way into the winner's circle. The other friend that won was Sean Bellemuer, he was running in the Bartone Bros TAFC. Both are just great people and I was so thrilled that they won.
+So what's next? Well I have a family vacation planned where we are actually going to the Seattle national event (because what's vacation without racing) but like I said I'm itching to be back in the drivers seat AFTER ONLY 3 WEEKS. It's a sickness. St. Louis was postponed until October and my next planned race was not until Earlville in September. That is just way too long to wait. I need to put this license to good use.
+After talking it over with the crew and making sure it's possible the team has decided we will be entering in the Brainerd MN national event. We originally had said we wouldn't be doing any national events this year, but we are going to make an exception for this race. I can't put the excitement I have into words. It's not going to be easy for us to get there but it's going to be so worth it and I can't wait to get to be out there on this level in 2017! It's really happening!
+We will also be running the Frantic Fueler the weekend before (on Aug 12) at Byron IL! I get to have some fun outside of the drivers seat when we run this.
+2017 has been a great year and I can't wait to see where else it takes us. What a journey!
+I AM OFFICIALLY LICENSED!
+This past weekend was one of the best of my life I'm sure. There has been so many years of hard work leading up to this and finally it happened. The recap is that we made one run on Friday after the Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car Qualifying session. I went to about 1000 ft before lifting to get a 6.27 @ 185mph. I was excited that I jumped from a 6.98 to a 6.27 but at the same time I was disappointed that what I needed to make it count toward my license was 6.20 @ 205. It was just 7 hundreths off. ugh! When we took the engine apart there was a small amount of damage that we would need to fix the next morning before running again for the Burndown at Sundown show.
+The Burndown at Sundown was so much fun to be a part of. I got to make two runs on Saturday night after qualifying again. A ton of family and friends came out to see us run. We made a few different tune up changes and went out there and I was able to make my first full quarter mile pass! The pass turned out to be 5.84 @ 223 mph. It felt so good to turn off the track and have NHRA officials tell me "I think they said a 5...80something" my response was "WHAT?! ARE YOU KIDDING?!" I definitely miss the excitement of watching the car go down the track and seeing the board light up with the numbers. I've realized this weekend that you don't get that part when you're the driver. I was so excited that the car improved from a 6.27 to a 5.84 I was just in shock and all smiles. Many people know that this isn't good enough usually in the TAD class but for us in this car that I built it was a huge accomplishment to finally have a 5 second ET.
+The celebration literally didn't last because my only focus was going out there and getting another good full pass to finish my license. We had a couple hours to turn around the car and we decided to make a couple safe tuning changes and go out there to see what it would do on the second run of the night. The run felt good, faster than the last one in the beginning but it nosed over a little and I corrected an drove through it to the finish line. I pulled off the track and here comes the NHRA official on the scooter saying "You did it!". I finished my license runs with a 5.63 @ 232!! Another huge improvement for the team. This time actually would have put us in the number 9 out of 11 qualifying position in an 8 car field. It all still feels like a dream. Everyone is asking what is next now that I'm licensed. We are looking at possible races and funding. Martin, MI ADRL race and St. Louis NHRA division race are both on our radar.
+There are so many people that have helped us get to this point that I can't even name them all but thank you to you all. The other teams that are rooting for us and pointing us in the right direction or selling us parts. The new and the old sponsors that believe in our team. My family and my friends that are all so supportive. & Definitely my team who has been working on this for 7 years with me from fabrication to 5 seconds. THANK YOU!
+Marina
+FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
+‘Search for a Champion’ Finalist Marina Anderson Kicking off 2017 Season with Final Licensing
+JOLIET, Ill. (May 31, 2017) – After being selected as one of 25 finalists in Champion Spark Plugs’ ‘Search for a Champion’ contest, Marina Anderson will begin her 2017 season with the final passes required to earn her NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster license..
+“It was definitely rewarding to be named a finalist because there were over a thousand entries,” Anderson said. “It was an honor to know that I was in the top 25 of the thousand on-the-track entries. It’s been a really big honor to be a part of it and to have people, some that I didn’t even know, telling me that they voted for me. It’s been a humbling experience.”. Once she has her Top Alcohol Dragster license, the Anderson Family Dragster team plan to attend the ADRL race in Martin (Michigan) and an NHRA regional event in Earlville, IA, while additional race dates are tentatively planned.
+“This season is special to us because this will be the first time we get to bring the car to races. We’re really getting somewhere and all of the hard work is paying off. People are believing in what we’re trying to do, and want to support us and want to see us out there. I’m excited to be out there with the support of so many,” added Anderson, who is also involved with tuning the dragster alongside her father, Scott.
+Marina Anderson and the Anderson Family Dragster team welcome the connection with Indianapolis-based Premium Motorsports Products (PMP), a high performance drag racing parts, product and service company founded by noted nitro tuner Mike Domagala.
+“We’re teaming up with PMP because they believe in what we’re doing,” Anderson said. “We feel like they’ll be a great partner because we’re both working our way up and building our brands. They’ve been in drag racing for a long time, while we’re working our way into it. They’re a reputable racing parts supplier for premium new and used parts.”
+For more information on Marina Anderson and the Anderson Family Dragster, please visit.
+Hi!
+There has already been so much going on in 2017! The very fun ride of the Search for a Champion has come to an end. We are really honored to be a part of #TeamChampion for the year since we were one of the twenty five finalists. So many people were voting everyday and I appreciate you all. It was a long road for us all to remember to vote and then wait to hear results but so much fun too. I'm sure my many vote reminders got to be annoying to some.
+Champion has a whole lot more than spark plugs to offer so be sure to check out their products out for your vehicle, lawn mower, motorcycle etc.
+As we were finishing up putting the car together to go testing in April I was also patiently awaiting the arrival of my niece. Avery Rae came into this world on April 19, 2017. She was perfect from the start (I may be biased). Her parents are doing so well with her already and I love my new title "Auntie". Sorry but I'm not really sorry for all the adorable baby pics to come on social media. I have to break up the racecar posts with a little bit of what makes me, me and being an aunt definitely is important to me.
+We have already had a few challenges in 2017 as a race team. Unfortunately it's very difficult to try to race in the spring in the Midwest. There has been rainy weekends after rainy weekends or no place open to test. We made the trip out to Earlville IA in April for a beautiful day. The track was great and the car ran fairly well but not as good as we would like so we took it back home and made a few updates to get ready for the Indy NHRA northcentral region race.
+The Indy race brought more rain than any other weekend. Looking at the weather we knew it wasn't going to be favorable so dad and I went down there to look the car over with tech. Being a brand new car we wanted to make sure we would be prepared for the Joliet, IL race in June and everything looked good. We watched one round of qualifying before the pits turned into a lake (literally) from all of the rain. It was kind of an entertaining day because of it. (Also I highly suggest the garlic rolls at Sal's)
+After Indy we were on the hunt for another place and time to test. We tested at our local track Route 66 in Joliet, IL in May. I finally got to see a time slip in the 6 second range and signed off on one of the three passes needed for my upgrade! Definitely progress in the right direction. We have been learning and updating a few things since then and we are finalizing everything to go to the race in Joliet next weekend. It will be a fun weekend. I will be able to make 3 runs after the other alcohol cars qualifying runs to try to finish up my TAD license upgrade. I definitely can't wait to get back in the drivers seat.
+Thank you all for your continued support!
+Marina
+euchrelinks.com
+The Official Rules and Laws of Euchre
+Standard euchre game rules:
+The Deck:
+24 cards
+The ace, king, queen, jack, ten and nine of; clubs,
+diamonds
+,
+hearts
+and spades.
+Players:
+4
+Two teams consisting of two players each are seated across from each other.
+Object:
+The Deal:.
+According to
+The
+makers
+(the partnership of the player who named or ordered trump) must try to win at least three of the five tricks. Taking three tricks or more will score points, while failing to adds points to the opponent's score instead.
+The Official Laws of Euchre
+II.
+The cards must be shuffled by the dealer and
+may
+be cut by his right-hand opponent. The dealer should never hold the deck in his hand when presenting it for the cut, but instead should place it on the table near his right-hand adversary. The latter also has the privilege of shuffling them, and if he does, the dealer, who is always entitled to the last shuffle, may shuffle them again if he chooses. After the cards have been cut for the deal however, no one except the dealer, can touch the deck prior to dealing.
+III.
+In dealing, five cards are distributed to each player, either by three and two, or by two and three, in two rounds; but the dealer must continue to follow whichever mode he at first adopts, and should he depart from it, either of the adverse parties may, before looking at his cards, require a fresh deal.
+IV.
+If a card is exposed, or is turned in dealing, unless it is the twenty-first card (which is normally turned up anyway), the same dealer re-shuffles. Should the dealer show more than one card while turning up, the deal is likewise void, but again, the same dealer re-shuffles.
+V.
+Should either of the dealer's opponents, during the deal, expose a card, the dealer may have a fresh deal, or not, at his option, but he must decide before looking at his own cards. If the dealer's partner exposes a card, either of the adversaries, before the upcard is turned, may request a new deal.
+VI.
+No player is permitted to take up, or to look at his cards during the deal, and should a misdeal occur, the dealer does not lose his privilege and may deal again. It
+must
+be considered a misdeal however, if the dealer's partner commits the fault.
+Aside from the rules above, any variation should be agreed upon by all parties prior to a game in order for the variation to be in effect.
+I.
+To determine who the players will be in a euchre game, the cards need to be shuffled by one (potential) player, then passed to the right for a cut. The person who cuts should then deal one card face up to each person who wants to play, starting to their left and continuing clockwise. The player who receives the first jack will become the first dealer when the game begins. The cards should be dealt in this manner, skipping players who already have jacks, until all four bowers are dealt. The players with the same-colored jacks will be partners. Players that don't receive a jack must sit out.
+VII.
+When too few or too many cards are dealt, if the mistake can be rectified, and the proper order of the distribution of the cards ascertained before the 21st card is turned up, the deal is valid; but if the error is not discovered until after it is turned, the deal is forfeited, and passes to the next player.
+VIII.
+If the cards are dealt by a player who is not entitled to the deal, and the error is discovered before the turned-card is up, the cards must be restored to the player entitled to the deal. If the dealer has turned up a proposed trump card however, the deal stands. The current dealer's left-hand opponent will deal the next hand.
+IX.
+If, in any deal, the pack is ascertained to be imperfect, by containing too many, or too few cards of the proper value in any suit, that particular deal is void, but all the games or points made in the preceding deals with the same deck are valid; and the deal in which the error is discovered is not forfeited.
+X.
+The dealer may leave the trump card in view on top of the kitty until it is his turn to play. At this time, he must remove it to his hand. After he has taken up the trump card, no player has a right to demand what particular card was turned up, although he may ask what suit is trump.
+XI.
+Whenever a misdeal occurs, the deal is forfeited and the opponent to the left gets to deal.
+XII.
+Each person, in playing, should place his card on the table immediately before him, but if this practice should not be pursued, no player has a right to ask who played a particular card, although he may require the other players to draw their cards before them.
+XIII.
+If the eldest-hand leads before the dealer has discarded, he cannot withdraw his card and change his lead, nor can the dealer be deprived of his right to play alone. The discard is not completed until the dealer places his card under the
+kitty,
+or on the table, and has quitted it; and when the dealer has once quitted the discarded card, he cannot change it.
+XIV.
+If a player leads, or plays out of turn, he may be compelled to withdraw his card, subject to the penalty of the call; if it causes an error in the play of any other party, that player may withdraw his card without penalty; but, in the case of an improper lead, if four cards have been played before the error is discovered, the lead is good and the player winning the trick is entitled to the next lead.
+XV.
+Any card which is separated from those in hand and has touched the table, is deemed to have been played- even if the face be downward - though if a card is played to a lead of a suit different from the one led, it may be taken up, subject to the call, and another of the proper suit played. But if the player should have none of the suit led, and plays a card which he did not intend, he is not permitted to take it up again after he has once quitted it.
+XVI.
+If a player plays two or more cards to a trick instead of one, the adverse parties have the right to compel him to play either one of the cards they please, without regard to the order in which they were played, and the other card, or cards, shown may be called in the subsequent tricks, like other exposed cards.
+XVII.
+No player is allowed to look at any of the tricks during the play of a hand, after they have been turned, except the last trick played only.
+XVIII.
+If any player plays with six or more cards, or, if the dealer plays and omits to discard and fails to announce the fact before three tricks have been turned, such player or dealer cannot count the point, or points, made on their side in the hand, and they lose the deal. But if the adverse party win under such circumstances, they are entitled to count all they make.
+XIX.
+If a player, designedly, or for any reason, places his cards on the table, faces turned up, he is not permitted to take them up again, and his adversaries may call each card like other exposed cards. Thus, if a player, sure of winning, exhibits his cards, his opponents can continue the play, and have the right to call each card so exposed. The penalty is the same if a player believing he has lost shows his cards in a similar way.
+XX.
+Whenever a player, who is entitled to the privilege of making the trump, once names a suit, he cannot be permitted to change it, and should he, by mistake, name the suit turned down, it is equivalent to passing, and the right to make the trump then belongs to his left-hand opponent.
+XXI.
+A player intending to play alone must announce his determination to play without his partner in such an audible and distinct expression that no doubt must exist of his intention, for if his manner of announcing it is ambiguous, and a legal lead is made, by himself or an adversary, he loses the privilege of playing alone and must be compelled to play with his partner.
+XXII.
+The revoke is not completed until the trick in which it has been made is turned and quitted, and the player committing the revoke, or his partner, has again played.
+XXIII.
+If a player revoking perceives his error previous to the turning or quitting of the trick in which it has been made, he can withdraw his card from the trick and follow the suit led, but his left-hand antagonist may compel him to play the highest or the lowest card he holds of that suit; or, if it seems more advantageous to his side, he may call the card so exposed and taken back whenever it is the offending player's turn to play, or lead, in a subsequent trick.
+With the utmost respect for the work of:
+A. Professor -1862
+abridged and adapted in 2006
+more
+XXIV.
+If the partner of a player, who has made a revoke, but has discovered it in time to correct it, has played to the trick, he is not permitted to change the card he has played, but the adversary who has played after the revoke occurred may withdraw his card from the trick without penalty, and play another, if he thinks it may give him and advantage.
+XXV.
+Should either of the adversaries mix the cards together when a revoke is alleged against them, they incur the penalty of the revoke, and the players claiming it are entitled to score the two points.
+XXVI.
+When the cards have been cut for a new deal, no party is entitled to claim the penalty of a revoke; and, in case of a reciprocal revoke in one hand, one error offsets the other, and a fresh deal must be had.
+XXVII.
+If a player shows or exposes one or more of his cards intentionally or by accident, the card or cards so shown may be called by an opponent, either as a lead, when the offending player's turn to lead, or to the exposed card's suit when led. A card is shown if it is purposely, or accidentally exposed, and either of the opposite players can distinguish its character, and name it. In addition, a card may be called if the holder names or indicates that it is in his hand.
+XXVIII.
+A player called upon for an exposed card must play the card or submit to the penalty of a revoke.
+XXIX.
+The right to call one or more cards, improperly played or exposed, by an opponent, belongs only to the left-hand adversary of the offending player. In no case can such a card be called if it causes a revoke; nor, can the player entitled to call, require his opponent to throw away a commanding card to a lead of different suit, when holding no card of the suit led, whether he can trump it or not. If two or more players, in any one deal, expose a card, the law is the same.
+XXX.
+Neither adversary is permitted to call the attention of his partner to the state of the game at the bridge without forfeiting their right to order up, and the dealer, or his partner, may then play alone, or not, at the option of either.
+XXXI.
+If the counter marks more points than he is entitled to score to the game, either adversary - or bystander even - may call attention to the error, and the opponents are entitled to count to their score, the point, or points, which their adversaries erroneously added to theirs. But the error cannot be rectified after the trump card has been turned in the deal next ensuing that in which the error occurred. So if he fails to count, or counts fewer points than he is entitled to, he loses the right to score such point, or points, when the next deal is completed.
+XXXII.
+Should a player from loss of temper - or upon supposition that he has lost or won the proper number of tricks - or from any other cause - throw down his cards upon the table, with their faces turned up, he cannot take them in hand again, and his left-hand adversary may call each card so exposed as he deems most advantageous to his side. Who leaves the game loses it, is a maxim of this as of all other games.
+XXXIII.
+Every species of unfairness is strictly prohibited; and if a player, at any time between the turning up of the trump card and the playing of the last card of the deal, indicates to his partner the strength of his own hand, either by words or gestures; or advises him how to lead or play; or invites him to make a trump, by such expressions as "follow the rule," "make it something," or any similar phrase; or, asks any questions about the game except such as are specifically allowed by the Laws of Euchre, the adversaries shall immediately add one point to their game.
+XXXIV.
+In every case of a penalty which entitles one party to add a point, or more, to the score of their game - for the revoke, or any other wrong practice in play, - the offending party cannot count a point, or more, which they may have won in that deal - or round - in which the penalty was incurred; and the regular routine of the deal continue.
+XXXV.
+Every penalty incurred by the misconduct of a player must be shared and submitted to by his partner - for partners are mutually responsible for each other's faults.
+XXXVI.
+If a player who has incurred a penalty imposed by a provision of any of the preceding Laws, refuses submission to such penalty, his opponents may immediately throw down their cards, and that game, at any state of the score, is declared to belong to them.
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+Keeping score can be done in a variety of ways (scorecards, pegboards, chalkboards etc.), but most importantly, the method adopted must be agreed to and understood by all parties prior to engaging in play.
+The side marking a score should announce their total in an audible voice when doing so. The adversaries have until the time the next upcard is turned to challenge the scoring, otherwise the score stands as marked.
+The player sitting closest to scorekeeping device is responsible for marking it correctly. He may be reminded by his partner or any outside party however.
+To be the first team to score 10 points.
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+Who is Vladimir Putin, and why does he behave the way he does? Much has been written, but little has been revealed. It has been said that Putin represents a return to Bolshevik rule. But what does this mean? Part of the answer may be found in “The Bolshevik Code,” the operational value system of the Soviet leadership before the fall of communism in 1991. Putin is a 21st Century incarnation of The Bolshevik Code, and his conduct is better understood with reference to this Code.
+Putin’s character and his core beliefs, ingrained in his world view and behavior, stem from a conflicted mélange of Tsarist authoritarianism and Marxism-Leninism. In his struggle for legitimacy and power Putin reflects the same preoccupations that shaped the psychology and history of old Russia.
+Putin’s behavior fits a psychological pattern that was defined in the landmark work of sociologist Nathan Constantine Leites, a Russian émigré at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, who applied the principles of psychoanalysis to Soviet behavior. Leites’ two major works, The Operational Code of the Politburo, published in 1951, and A Study of Bolshevism, in 1953, analyzed Russian classical literature along with the speeches and tracts of Lenin and Stalin to describe and define the rules of Soviet political conduct, the value system of the Bolshevik Code.
+Pondering Putin’s erratic behavior, his actions become less mysterious when matched with and tested against the rules laid down in the Code. According to Leites, the Bolshevik Code denies the rule of law and replaces it with the rule of the Communist Party and the supreme leader, the Vozhd. A key adjunct to the Code is the doctrine of “the means justify the ends,” a precept clearly adopted by Putin.
+Leites argued that the Bolshevik self image formed before the October 1917 Revolution did not change even after the Bolsheviks took power. Soviet leaders “have continued to see themselves in the same position as they were in relation to the tsarist government , i.e., out of power and in a dangerous position.” Their self image was that they had no legitimacy.
+To buy his own legitimacy Putin spent a record $51 billion dollars on remont, ( refurbishing,) and new building of sites in Sochi for the 2014 Olympics to demonstrate Russian prowess.
+Let us examine how Leites defined the key elements of the Bolshevik Code and how Putin’s behavior and actions fit the Code:
+- • Politics is war.
+- • Push to the limit in any political encounter, such as a negotiation.
+- • Assume deception by an adversary.
+- • Pressure creates opportunities.
+- • It pays to be rude to one’s counterpart or adversary. Rudeness intimidates and forces an adversary to seek acceptance by compromise.
+- • Do not yield to provocations from one’s adversary.
+- • Avoid the danger of allowing personal feelings to intrude into matters of policy (“the party line”). The party leadership (read Putin) knows best.
+- • More force is better than less force. Annihilating the enemy and starting anew is better than trying to convert a class enemy.
+- • Know when to stop.
+- • Retreat before superior force.
+- • Enemies cannot be persuaded to accept the Bolshevik position by rational means.
+- • All politics is a life and death struggle of who will dominate whom.
+Thus, Lenin’s formula of who-whom (kto-kogo)---the destruction of the enemy ---is necessary not only for victory but also for the survival of the Communist Party. The interest of the Party and the enemy are so incompatible that their coexistence is unstable. In 1919, Lenin wrote, ”if the Party does not use violence against it enemies it lays itself open to violence from them; the question is only who will destroy whom.”
+The doctrine of who-whom was exemplified in Stalin’s mass terrorism and purges, and Brezhnev and Andropov’s selective repression of “enemies of the people” by placing them in psychiatric institutions. Who will destroy whom continues through Putin’s brand of selective repression.
+Perseverance, guile and opportunism are keys to conduct in the Bolshevik Code. “The Party leadership,” according to Leites, “need not be concerned with consistency in its public statements. Again, only effectiveness is important.”
+Under Putin, just as under the Soviet system, when the communist leadership declared a new reality all the forces of the government, police , military and propaganda coordinated their efforts to create a new political line. Putin’s justification for the invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine fits this pattern as do the words and actions of his Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.
+In fact, the falsification of reality has an honored tradition in Soviet rule and even before the Soviets. It is doubtful that Putin, in his studies at the KGB’s Higher School Number 1 in Leningrad in the 1970s, ever read Sociologist Margaret Mead’s 1951 study of Soviet character, but it is worth noting. Mead wrote:
+“In Tsarist Russia there were attempts to give an appearance of reality and solidity to matters of dubious truth, as in the insistence on written confessions as early as the seventeenth century or in the Potemkin villages…In Bolshevik doctrine, what the leadership decides shall be done is what history has already ordained is going to happen (although it is also what needs the utmost effort to make it happen)…Nevertheless a great variety of falsifications and theatrical enactments of the ardently desired or the deeply feared do occur.”
+As a good student of Lenin, Putin follows Lenin’s definition of compromise as an act which can be exploited as part of a tactical moment and deception to weaken the opposition and create a new favorable reality. Any agreement can be canceled if the balance of forces changes to allow Russian advantage. There are no rules for agreed procedures, only pressure to gain immediate goals. Putin’s scenario for the Russian invasion and seizure of Crimea follow the Bolshevik Code. The invasion of Russian forces (“ little green men in unmarked uniforms and masks”) was denied despite concrete evidence to the contrary. The cease fire of February 15, 2015 is continually being violated.
+When it comes to negotiating style the Russians, according to Leites, “strive to push to the limits of their strength, using verbal assaults as one of their means and trying hard and long for all their objectives, whether big or small. They fiercely resist anything which seems to be a concession unless a condition of duress requires them to retreat—then, perhaps, quite substantially.”
+The readiness to falsify reality is the keystone of the Bolshevik Code. In 1968, under Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet press portrayed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia as an attempt to suppress “counterrevolution” and “German revanchism,” code phrases for the revival of German influence. In actuality the liberal government of Czech President Alexander Dubcek was advocating “ socialism with a human face,” an attempt to reconcile communism with modernization.
+The readiness to falsify reality to justify repressive actions is an essential element of Russian behavior in extreme situations. Witness Boris Yeltsin’s public insistence in December 1994 that the bombing of the Chechen capital of Grozny had stopped even though the rest of the world was watching television footage of Soviet aircraft firing rockets at civilian targets in Grozny.
+In September 1999 a series of bombings of apartment houses in Moscow, and other cities killed 300 people and wounded hundreds of others spreading a wave of fear across Russia. A similar explosive device was found and defused in the city of Ryazan on September 22. The next day Putin, then Prime Minister of Russia, praised the vigilance of the inhabitants of Ryazan and ordered the bombing of Grozny which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War and Putin’s rise to the presidency, succeeding Boris Yeltsin.
+In Ryazan, the three Federal Security Service (FSB) agents who had planted the explosive device were arrested by the local police. The incident was publicly characterized as a training exercise. However, suspicions were raised that the bombings were a “false flag” attack perpetrated by the FSB in order to legitimize the resumption of military activities in Chechnya and bring Putin to power. There has never been a satisfactory public examination of who was responsible for planning and executing the bombings. Putin denied he had any part in the bombings which aroused strong public anger and support for retaliation against Chechnya. The Russian people’s reaction to the bombings have been compared to the terrorist attack on the New York City World Trade Center in 2001.
+In March 2014 Putin ordered the annexation of Crimea, Ukraine’s internationally recognized territory, with Russian troops and heavy weapons.
+For a year Putin and his Foreign Minister continued to vigorously deny the presence of Russian troops and heavy weapons in Crimea despite photographic and intercepted signals evidence to the contrary. Only In March 2015, a year later, in a Russian TV documentary titled, Crimea: The Road Back Home, did Putin admit what had been obvious for months. Threatening more force, Putin even said he was willing to arm nuclear weapons if necessary. Read the Bolshevik Code: More force is better than less force.
+In the view of human rights activist Vladimir Bukovsky, ”Compromise is a bad word in the Soviet Union. In this, ideology reinforced cultural traditions. The traditional view of how a person should be is principled, strong, honest. Ideology reinforces this with the notion of no compromise with the class enemy. To the Soviet to call something a principled, uncompromising position is a compliment. In the West, it would be called rigid. There is a belief in Russia that there is one Truth, and that you are supposed to try and achieve it, not compromise it. This is reinforced by Marxism/ Leninism.”
+The coup to oust Gorbachev in 1991 that led to the fall of the Soviet Union and Putin’s revival of the Bolshevik Code have brought forth new contradictions of income inequality in Russia between the broad masses and Putin’s allies who have amassed huge fortunes. Russians still claim moral superiority for their system over the evils of capitalism, but the return of the Bolshevik Code under Putin has forced living standards for the average Russian to deteriorate. Putin’s best defense has been to blame it all on the United States. In his March TV documentary Putin openly described the Ukrainian revolution to oust Viktor Yanukovich in February 2014 as an armed coup “masterminded by our American friends.” Putin has retreated to the cover of attacking the United States while defending Mother Russia and its historical destiny to defend and recover Crimea and the former Soviet naval base at Sevastopol.
+Putin’s new Russian authoritarianism has revived the Hegelian dialectic that posits all events in an ever changing cycle of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. What was agreed upon by diplomatic consensus can be changed by the new objective reality of invasion by force to defeat an enemy who cannot be permitted to strike first--- kto-kogo- who-whom. Kill or be killed---- expanding the rule of the Bolshevik Code.
+Jerrold L. Schecter is an independent Cold War historian and the author and co-author of nine books including Russian Negotiating Behavior, Continuity and Transition, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC, 1998
+North.
+Among the report’s key findings:
+“Just as they did in 1962 when Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, our migratory birds are sending us a message about the health of our planet,” Salazar said.
+“The dangers to these birds reflect risks to everything we value: our health, our finances, our quality of life, and the stability of our natural world,” Audubon’s Glenn Olson said in a prepared statement. “But if we can help the birds weather a changing climate, we can help ourselves.”
+So what comes next for all of these threatened birds? .”
+Read ScientificAmerican Online‘s coverage of last year’s “State of the Birds” report here.
+Image: Flock of birds, via Stock.xchng
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+I don’t know how they can report something like this, when climate change is so obviously for the birds.
+The nonsensical mental acrobatics used to come to these conclusions are positively mind bending.
+"Overfishing and invasive species also threaten these oceanic birds." but let’s make that a footnote and blame future climate change for the real risks posed.
+"…will be threatened by rising sea levels…" — really? 4mm +/-2mm per year poses that much threat? Or are we on the "imagine if" fantasy ride of extreme projections based on observations.
+"…which will damage or destroy the fragile ecosystems on which they rely." — beware ANYONE who couples "fragile" or "delicate" with the word ecosystem.
+Just about everything in this strong evidence of grant money wasted on "what-if" climate scenario connection with birds is based on speculation.
+But, I guess a new, loveable, icon/mascot was needed, seeing how the overexposure of stable and thriving polar bear populations had run its course. Once the public becomes educated about the birds, and gains perspective, and knows the actual real dangers posed to them, this too will be put on the shelf as so much Hitchcockian scare pabulum.Link to this
+Who needs those 67 beautiful and environmentally friendly bird species anyway flying around and clogging up our jet engines and pooping on our nice golf courses? Did you ever notice what those 67 species do to your beautiful fossil fuel car after you wash it? Who needs those birds messing up your nice new car like that anyways? And did you notice how most of those 67 species have a bad habit of chasing our three year-old children away from their nests? How many bandaids are we going to have to buy because of these sharp mouthed birds?Link to this
+"…those 67 beautiful and environmentally friendly bird species…"
+Yep, I think the warmists have found their new mascots! It went from, "Who needs all those cute and cuddly polar bears, pooping in our water and smashing our nice, gas guzzling SUV’s if they ever got the chance, who are now forced to tread the melted waters of climate change doom in the midst of our extremely delicate, fragile, free market polluted, poisoned and contaminated ecosystem, going about and eating their young, and each other, in the middle of bouts of massive drownings…", to now…"Why do you hate and want to kill all the pretty birdies?"
+Class, your assignment is to draw a picture of all your favorite birdies. Done? Good. Now imagine what it would be like when all of them are completely destroyed because we didn’t take drastic action soon enough. Now draw a picture of you and your friends and all the other young animals with tears running down the cheeks, asking your mommies and daddies why they didn’t care enough to do something about it."
+Send in the clowns.Link to this
+We need birds mainly because they eat bugs, bugs that can carry illnesses.Link to this
+Overfishing and invasive species also threaten these oceanic birds. The only truth in the whole story. The fiction called Global warming. Find a new $$ source we are not falling for the lie’s any more, Flame on, but We won the hype has been disproved.Link to this
+The fearmongering pseudo-scientist reporters needed to add an something to the heading of this article; the words should be ‘infinitesimally small" right before the world ‘toll’.Link to this
+The climate change, so small it can barely be measured or even distinguished from natural variation, may be happening, and may have something to do with human impacts, but birds fly and it’s been a strategy that has permitted them to survive when other species don’t. If climate changes they will fly to where conditions are better for them. To presume that they can’t is to ignore how previous climatic changes has occured, but then that’s more or less the hallmark of much of this apocalyptic posture regarding the environment and climate change.
+Please don’t misunderstand. I know that bird populations are a small percentage of what they once were, world wide, but the sad thing is that if we stop climate change it will not bring those numbers back, but only stop the slide. Instead of wasting tons of money on the remote possibility of climate change becoming anything but a minor issue in most cases, we need to begin the re-construction and re-establishment of productive and interconnected habitat for animals on land, in the sea and in the air. And it CAN be done if the sort of attention that has been usurped by the climate paranoids were only put into enforcing worldwide the already established laws and if we were to work internationally to create realistically modelled management procedures and then put some muscle into them.
+Imagine what 20 million dollars devoted to cleaning up the plastic patch in the middle of the North Pacific ocean…now imagine that money going to a non-profit climate change study group so they can build an office space in San Francisco’s Hunter’s point…great, just what SF needs…another overpriced and soon to be all but empty office building, employing a bunch of ideologically deluded eco-wannabees…that is how we loose the ability to get anything really done; by frittering away our precious resources on PR and pointless gestures which exemplify the overwhelming bulk of the efforts to combat climate change…what a preposterous situation.
+Sorry, but you guys have lost all credibility when you mention climate change or rising tides. You act like I’m gonna step in water when I wake up tomorrow morning. You know, the birds will move and life will go on just like it has for last 100 million years. Quit trying to predict the future and deal with life today.Link to this
+It’s worrisome that comments like some of these are coming from readers of Scientific American. Climate change IS for the birds, and for the mammals, insects, plants, amphibians and HUMANS –not a hoax perpetrated by leftists and socialists to ruin the fun.Link to this
+Oh, wait the government, other countries and literally thousands of scientists are in on the "conspiracy" ?
+And you deniers have the nerve to talk about credibility – while grossly and inaccurately restating commonly agreed facts?
+Here’s a suggestion – try playing Russian Roulette with five bullets, probability is just part of the conspiracy, you’ll be fine.Link to this
+Shame on the fraud warmists trying to steal our children’s future! Birds are alive and well. I just saw one outside my window.Link to this
+"Climate change IS for the birds, and for the mammals, insects, plants, amphibians and HUMANS –not a hoax perpetrated by leftists and socialists to ruin the fun."
+True enough. The climate is changing, has always changed, and always will change. And humans do contribute to that change, on that there is also consensus, although by what amount there is not, nor can there be any consensus. Either way, that isn’t something you "fight", although that remains controversial, and there is no consensus there either.
+The hoax part is where the climate change is portrayed as a) unprecedented, significant, anomalous, even dangerous net warming of the planet, b) caused primarily by human burning of fossil fuels which will c) lead to future catastrophe and untold calamity, all of which we will have "done something about" if we but d) curb our burning of fossil fuels, alter global economies, etc., – those are the hoax parts that get scared people throwing out simplistic analogies, talking about frogs in slow boiling pans, canaries in coal mines, Russian Roulette, precautionary principles and whatnot.Link to this
+Just a suggestion, but for any of you doubting human impact on the environment, read Jared Diamond’s "Collapse." We have a pretty good history of being able to mess up our own nests.Link to this
+I guess this will be the one time in the history that when the climate changes natural species do not adapt or new ones do not arise.Link to this
+The article title "Report: Climate change is taking a toll on U.S. bird populations" makes a claim not supported by the article. If one simply reads the title, one would conclude that birds are suffering due to climate change. In fact nothing of the sort is claimed in the article. Each claim contains the phrase "will be threatened" or "will lose" or "will suffer".
+This fits the mold of the typical article on Global Warming which goes something like "if temperatures increase as we speculate they will then we further speculate that this particular bad stuff will happen". Real informative.Link to this
+They also eat vast quantities of weed seeds. And the bugs do not merely cause illness, but damage crops and gardens as well.Link to this
+Check out all the climate change deniers. It’s a claque attack.Link to this
+troooooolllllLink to this
+trrrroooooollll
+Rather than attacking the writer’s article, take it with a grain of salt and as speculative opinion?
+The world is changing. It has changed over the course of billions of years, and will continue to change.
+We won’t be here until the end of time, but it doesn’t seem right that we should make every other living thing on the planet suffer from our own greediness, and laziness.
+That’s just plain selfish, and spiteful. They seem to be the most enduring traits of humankind.Link to this
+LOL at those who believe that the climate can be made to NOT change. Guess what folks, humans and other species do effect the climate to varing degrees and will continue to do so. Some species simply adapt better to the changes than do others.Link to this
+The biggest issue facing humanity is not potential climate change, but human population growth
+Some of you seem to be under the impression that sea level rise is anticipated to be in the millimeter range, and that we shouldn’t worry about it. Anticipated sea level rise by 2100 is in the meter range, enough to significantly change coastlines in low-lying areas. I really don’t see why deniers seem to think scientists are making this up to get money, how many of these scientists are rich? If they wanted to get rich by cheating people, they would’ve gone to Wall Street, not science. Seriously, how much money do you deniers think they make off of this? They don’t want climate change to happen, it will only cause bad things for them too, they get nothing out of it. Compare that with what the oil companies stand to lose if anthropogenic climate change is real, and then think about who has a bigger motivation to lie and spread misinformation.Link to this
+I am a denier that we are the largest responsibility for the tremendous shift in earth positioning…. In the terms of man’s (affect) this is low; in the terms of natural polar rotation (cause ) is very high…
+Equally, Scientists say that sudden changes in the dimensions of the Earth’s tectonic plates can alter the velocity, affecting the speed of the Earth’s rotation…
+We should seriously observe the species in the wild…
+It is likely that we are seeing a weakening in earth’s magnetic field; as a natural shift in earth positioning appears to be influencing land quakes, from oceanic plate-shifts and rifts…
+I believe in possible goals, including how to save 200 thousand people in distress, and relocate them& Even as a cooling ice age cannot slow crust formations; the tax can only help aid survivors&Link to this
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+Enriching Literacy With Arts, Enriching Arts With Literacy Laurie J. Curtis, Ph.D. February 19, 2010 Springdale, Arkansas
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+There once was a singing kindergarten teacher… …who now likes to visit classrooms and look for connections between literacy and music!
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+Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era 349 school districts: Since % districts reported that they have increased time for English Language Arts and Math
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+44% of districts reported cutting time from one or more other subjects or activities- decreases averaging 145 minutes per week (nearly 30 minutes a day) These increases/ decreases were more prevalent in districts with schools identified for improvement.
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+Stagger testing requirements to include tests in other academic subjects Encourage states to give adequate emphasis to art and music** Require states to arrange for an independent review at least once every three years for high quality standards and rigor Provide federal funds for research to determine the best ways to incorporate the teaching of reading and math into social studies and science.
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+Identify ways to engage children in literacy learning through music ◦ Culture ◦ Creativity ◦ Content area instruction Provide educators with resources to integrate music with literacy instruction
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+English Language Learners in our schools- can read, write, and express themselves in the language of music. Music is processed in the brain more on the left hemisphere of those who have been trained in music- neuroscience is determining that it is processed there as a “language”. Untrained listeners process in other parts of the cerebral cortex
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+There are shared connections existing between auditory and visual processes activated through music and language/ literacy acquisition. (Hansen, Bernstorf, & Stuber, 2004 )
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+Music is an integral part of every culture that has been studied on earth Children are surrounded by music throughout their days- within and outside our classrooms Music is used to record the history of people
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+Music is a receptive art… ◦ Listen ◦ Read ◦ View Music is an expressive art… ◦ Sing ◦ Play ◦ Write
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+Research-based Assessment-based Comprehensive Integrated Dynamic With a purpose of learning to read for meaning, understanding, and joy. (Cowen, 2003).
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+Reading and music go together because singing is a celebration of language” (Harp, 1988, p. 454)
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+Musical scores and written text are written left to right with a return sweep Written score/text comparison: ◦ Note/letter ◦ Chord/word ◦ Phrase/sentence ◦ Chorus-verse/ main idea-supporting details ◦ Dynamics/punctuation
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+Repetitive practice/ rehearsal is meaningful Personal preferences are held regarding music and texts Music connects friends and family: socially constructed Music has multiple purposes- educational/ entertainment
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+Language is symbolic, as is music Similar to the genre of poetry with instructional elements ◦ Opportunities for decoding ◦ Opportunities for rich vocabulary experiences ◦ Opportunities for building fluency ◦ Opportunities for comprehension of rich, meaningful “texts”
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+Critical importance of phonological and phonemic awareness in early literacy learning. ◦ Predictor of early reading success (Share, Jorm, Maclean, & Matthews, 1984) ◦ Phonemic awareness can be taught (Lundberg, Frost, & Peterson, 1998) ◦ Music is an avenue used to facilitate phonemic awareness (Yopp & Yopp, 2000)
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+Drawing the attention of a child to the sounds of language/ void of the letter ◦ Chant: Who Let the Letters Out (Dr. Jean) ◦ Songs with a focus on rhyme (Row, row…/ ō/, /ē/) ◦ Helping children identify pitch -high/low… ◦ Songs with phoneme manipulation: Willaby, Wallaby… ◦ Songs with alliteration: Yankee Doodle…
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+“I like to eat, eat, eat…” a, e, i, o, u…..
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+Linking a grapheme (letter) to sound (phoneme) ◦ Children wearing name tags with letter around their neck. Sounding out/ spelling the name of friends to the tune to Fr è re Jacques. ◦ Referencing the letters used in the context of music. For example, referring to the letter name of the bars on the Orff instruments. Writing the notes by name for children to see. Drawing their attention to any letter/word relationship.
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+Songs provide additional practice for children dealing with word play and rhymes. Children can also integrate what they learn through song with their future reading/writing experiences. ♪ I Know and Old Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello…
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+cellofellowbellow harpsharp saxrelax fiddletwiddle nimblecymbal flutehoot shakequake rumbletumble swelledbell
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+Word identification, rate, and prosody to allow children to read smoothly allowing the focus to shift to comprehension. Repetitive reading builds fluency. Using musical lyrics and “singing” stories builds confidence and reading stamina of young readers. ◦ Repeated rehearsal of songs ◦ Children patting their legs as they chant the names of their friends/ feeling the steady beat
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+Determine a song and provide children with a copy of the lyrics. Mark lyrics for “vocal variety” (be selective) ◦ L = loud volumeQ = quiet volume ◦ = high pitch = low pitch ◦ (F) = fast rate(S) = slow rate ◦ / = pause ◦ _____ = emphasis
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+Children practice (rehearse) the reading of the lyrics which have been marked or highlighted In groups of 4, children provide feedback for peers with PQP format P = Praise Q = Question P = Polish
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+Moss, L. (2003). Music is. Illus. by P. Petit- Roulet. New York: Putnam’s Sons.
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+Teachers and music educators can utilize songs and musical terms to build academic/ conceptual vocabulary and encourage children to use the rich, descriptive words found in songs to enhance their writing.
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+Frayer Model Word Sightings/ Bulletin Board Lansdown Word Cards Anything Goes Partner Password
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+Focus on constructing meaning at the word level ◦ Time being spent to review words in songs that children may not be comprehending. ◦ Helping children to identify figurative language: simile, metaphor, descriptors. ◦ Modeling of curiosity of word meaning and encouraging children to initiate asking about words that they may not understand.
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+Description: The tune that I can sing or hum Definition: A sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying ♬ ♫ ♩♩♩ Mary had a little lamb … ♪ Non-Example Example Melody
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+Children locate target words from your classroom (texts or lyrics) that they are to locate outside the classroom- on radio, television, books, or oral conversation and share the context for where they heard them and what they meant. Please find a partner…
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+singing humming chanting rapping serenading opera
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+tango waltz polka orchestra quartet trio
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+One syllable wordsTwo syllable words and the through the house go we horse knows over river carry drifted dapple
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+1. Place word and illustration on front 2. Inside of card student writes 1.Child’s own definition of the word 2.Sentence or phrase it is used in from the song 3.Part of speech as it is used 4.Dictionary definition found for word 3. Children share word in rotation with peers
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+proudly dawn hailed twilight perilous ramparts gallantly streaming banner bursting haughty triumph towering fitfully discloses reflected desolation victory gleaming peace
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+a ribbon of highway endless skyway roamed and rambled sparkling sands of her diamond deserts wheat fields waving dust clouds rolling fog was lifting
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+Focus on the meaning of text/ song ◦ Who is this song about?/ Who is the audience for this piece? ◦ What is this song about? ◦ How was this piece historically important? ◦ Why was it written? ◦ What cultural significance might this have? ◦ How is this a reflection of culture and tradition ◦ Instrumental: What does this make you think of, feel like…
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+Songs often carry a plot with main ideas being stated in the refrain or chorus and details provided within the verses. Songs often provide sequencing opportunities, conflict/ resolution, and an interesting plot for children to follow. ♪ Froggy went a courtin’
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+Making Connections Building Background Knowledge Questioning Inferring Visualizing Determining Importance ◦ Main Idea- chorus ◦ Details- verse Application
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+Sequential: ◦ When Johnny Comes Marching Home ◦ Follow the Drinking Gourd Descriptive: ◦ You’re a Grand Old Flag ◦ God Bless the U.S.A
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+Critical Profiler Guide (Wood, Lapp, Flood, Taylor, 2008) After-listening, Critical Stance Questions Student response after listening or reading of lyrics Student follow-up View Whose viewpoint is expressed? What does the writer of lyrics want us to believe? How might alternative perspectives be represented? What action might you take based on what you have heard? Write a speech to take a stance from the song. Write an editorial voicing your opinion on the subject Make an illustration based on what you have learned Create a slide presentation on what you have learned
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+Students compile a journal of responses to music of the civil war related to origins of the Civil War and struggles of the Civil War: Battle Cry of Freedom All Quiet on the Potomac Battle Hymn of the Republic John Brown’s Body
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+What I’ve Learned Grand Old Flag Star-Spangled Banner Literal Level In the song- right there Inferential Level- In the song- think and search Evaluating the Song- In my head- On my own.
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+Opportunities to integrate music should be utilized to strengthen literacy instruction. Children should be exposed to a wide variety of musical styles as well as multiple genres of literature. Music and music education programs should be viewed for their inherent value- but also as a resource for literacy instruction.
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+Music is a language That kindles the human spirit, Sharpens the mind, Fuels the body, And fills the heart.
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+Over the last few years there have been two dark spots on the Los Angeles Lakers roster that have left much to be desired. The first being the dollar bin selection of point guards, which received a full on facelift when Steve Nash was smuggled from Phoenix, Arizona. The small forward position, however, remains virtually untouched.
+The depth at small forward is razor thin, having to rely on the consistency of the man now known as Metta World Peace, the growth of a question mark in Devin Ebanks, and the apparent suicide mission in sending Antawn Jamison to defend out on the perimeter. It isn't ideal, but with such a top heavy roster, there were bound to be flaws on the bottom.
+The association may have two "superstar" small forwards in Kevin Durant and LeBron James dominating both the headlines and the basketball court, but dangerous small forwards are lurking on every team. Ranging from the likes of Andre Iguodala with the Denver Nuggets, who makes players work on both ends of the floor, to Paul Pierce who will still score in a number of crafty ways if his defender makes a mistake, there are wing men ready to take advantage of a lesser opponent. The Lakers won't be asking for an overflow of production, if much at all, from their troop of small forwards. Just provide stability and hold down the fort, fellas. Play a sound game of basketball. Hang tight.
+Metta World Peace
+For all of the shortcomings one can list in regards to MWP, rarely will a lack of desire be a bullet point to discuss. Basketball is his first love going back to his days of growing up in Queens, New York and playing in the many summer leagues that he was invited to. His game isn't appealing to the eye. World Peace has an old school basketball mentality and would gladly bruise down low in the post against his defender every single possession. He doesn't even need to touch the ball, just let him outplay his match-up in a show of his basketball IQ and brute strength. Let him battle. The man loves basketball, and loves being loved, the latter being a point of contention amongst fans of the Lakers as of late.
+Metta World Peace the basketball player has never added up to his Ron Artest days. Last season he averaged a career low in almost every offensive category. Yes, the 7.7 points per game, 39.4% field goal percentage, and absolutely ABYSMAL (and I mean ABYYYYSMAL) 29.6% shooting percentage from beyond the arc are cause for serious concern that he will bring anything worthwhile on the offensive end. But this isn't the same Metta World Peace that the Lakers have had on the court over the last three seasons. For starters, he has slimmed down drastically since a year ago. The last time the autobot Lakers rolled out to begin a new season, World Peace was out of shape and dragging his 274 pound frame around the floor. This year? A noticeably lean Metta World Peace has returned to the Lakers, and according to the LA Times is now down to 249 pounds. That's almost a 30 pound swing, and as someone who personally dropped 40 pounds in the past, that is a monstrous change. On the offensive end, his new physique has already shown improvements across the board. Through the preseason he is averaging 9.5 points per game on 43% shooting and 35% from deep. He has been engaged, and his mix of quickness and strength have him bowling into defenders to get around the rim when the ball is in his hands. The issue with World Peace on the offensive end, however, is his decision making. In Tuesday's game against the Utah Jazz, there were at least two instances where MWP simply tunnel visioned once the ball got into his hands, leading to a disruption in the flow of the offense, and going so far as to wave off Steve Nash who was begging for the ball to reset the offense. Partner the mental lapses he falls victim to from time to time with his marginal offensive ability and it's very clear why he is at the bottom of the pecking order on the offense.
+However, his defensive prowess is right near the top for the Lakers, and having the best defensive player in the league in Dwight Howard along with Mike Brown, a defensive-minded coach, will give MWP a great environment in which to thrive. World Peace is far and away the best defender the Lakers have on the perimeter, but his strength also gives him the ability to defend the post effectively (per Synergy he held opponents to 34% in post-up possessions). Overall, Metta allowed .82 points per possession, holding opponents to 37% shooting, leaving him ranked at 147th overall in the league. For comparisons sake, here's a look at the Synergy numbers LeBron James put up on the defensive side of the ball last season. Players being defended by James scored .83 points per possession on 39.2% shooting, numbers that made LeBron the 166th ranked defender in the league. While World Peace didn't have the impact he did when he was considered elite on the defensive end, he still has the ability to make a difference. Metta World Peace's game isn't based solely around basketball fundamentals, he's a very instinctive player who has
+faster hands than Floyd Mayweather great hand speed.
+With all of the adept scorers at the small forward position, the cumbersome offense MWP provides receives a pass. On top of that, the talent surrounding him should, in theory, provide the majority of the scoring load. That, along with Steve Nash hopefully finding him in prime position to make things easy on him, should help disguise this. All things cogitated, having Metta World Peace as the fifth best player in the lineup isn't such a bad thing.
+Devin Ebanks
+Devin Ebanks hasn't been an NBA journeyman, but he certainly has been up and down the Lakers since he was drafted in 2010. Immediately after the draft, he was assigned to the D-League. A month later, he was brought back to the team to play in spots for Matt Barnes. Another month passed and he fractured his leg, and that was all she wrote for a very unsuccessful introduction to the NBA. With a new season to look at, and a new coaching staff, Ebanks found his way into the starting lineup to begin the 2011-2012 NBA season at the small forward. Then, after having unsatisfactory results, found his way right back to the D-League. Months passed before he made his not-so-triumphant return, where Mike Brown brought him in as a reserve both at the small forward AND the shooting guard positions. He was never very impressive, and gained a bit of a cult following after a double overtime game in which he hounded Kevin Durant to a small measure of success.
+One of the issues for young Ebanks was the lack of a clear cut role. He is a young player who isn't particularly effective at any one facet of the game, and without direction, this spelled disaster. His length and youth make him an average defender who can deal with lanky guys like Durant, but his lack of strength still makes him an easy target. His inexperience shows on both ends of the floor. On the offensive end, he still blows open layups, open jumpers, and hasn't shown himself to be much of a threat from beyond the arc (he missed all of his attempts in the regular season through 2011-2012). In the Princeton offense, he should find himself getting plenty of clean cuts to the basket. The onus is on him to finish once he gets to the rim.
+So far in the preseason, Ebanks has played at best average, which is fine; all the Lakers need right now is solid play off the bench. His 33% from deep is an improvement over the... 0%... from last season, but still isn't an admirable number. However, his mid-range game appears noticeably improved. In 15.8 minutes per game, he's averaging 8.5 points per game on 39% shooting. Not standout numbers, but just enough to keep him floating as an early body off the bench. Another thing to note, Mike Brown has played Ebanks both as the backup shooting guard, and small forward. To go with that, Ebanks has seemingly outplayed Meeks through the preseason, which creates a bit of a logjam because of an idea that Mike Brown can't pull himself away from. Here goes...
+Antawn Jamison
+When Antawn Jamison was brought in for the veterans minimum, it was yet another steal for the Lakers. It really is this simple- he can score off the bench. In a limited role, without the responsibility that he has had to carry through his career thus far, his efficiency should see an uptick when he's playing in an offense he knows along with finding Steve Nash passes floating into his hands.
+That's all fine and dandy, really. It's a good addition. The Great Mambino detailed Jamison in his power forward preview and laid out everything there is to say in regard to his role with the Lakers as a POWER FORWARD. Yes, power forward, where he should log the majority of his minutes.
+But Mike Brown went and got cutesy. He decided he could see Jamison as more of a small forward. What this does is slide Ebanks over to shooting guard and Jodie Meeks (the three point specialist that the Lakers have needed for the last three seasons) to third string shooting guard. Yes, playing 'Tawn against small forwards who will be able to bust out the Gangnam Style dance while driving right by him on the perimeter (I hope Staples Center will have it ready to fire up) seems like a great idea! While his offense off the bench will be swell, something the Lakers clearly needed to address, it's arguable whether it's worth putting him out on the perimeter to be mercilessly butchered. There will be blood. He really is that bad of a defender. Aaron McGuire of Gothic Ginobli spends the off-season scribing player capsules that are excellent, and he completely ethered 'Tawn in regards.
+While Dwight Howard has covered up for a lot of bad defensive players in the past, I don't think any defensive player Dwight's covered for has been nearly as bad as Jamison.
+This move is a headscratcher, especially when considering how much more sense the bench rotation is when Jamison stays at the 4, Ebanks at the 3, and Meeks at the 2. But that would be too simple now, wouldn't it?
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+The Lakers small forwards, as a unit from top to bottom, add up to be the weakest link on the roster. Which is fine. Again, this is a roster where the talent is busy hustling and bustling at the top of the Empire State Building, not down in the grimy basement. But that's the beauty of it, because Metta World Peace isn't inclined to live the lush life in luxury suites, his neck being strangled by a silk tie. He's a warrior who finds enjoyment doing all the dirty work while the rest of the guys take care of the endless, mundane, paperwork. At the end of the work day, when it's all said and done and the time has come, he'll join his comrades at the top. Ready to look out at the city that raised him and made him the man he is today. But right now, there's work to be done.
+- Drew
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+- Statistical data taken from MySynergySports.com
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+C.G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff: A Collection of Remembrances he did grant some personal interviews.
+I had in mind as I walked down the Seestrasse to his home to discuss with him a dream which I had had.
+This was precious time allotted me and I wanted to waste no part of it.
+I entered the house and sat awhile in a small room at the top of the stairs, waiting for Jung to invite me to his library.
+It was at this time his wife Emma was very ill and Dr. Jung went first to see her, then took me to his study.
+He put my coat on a rack near the doorway.
+We sat at a window overlooking the Zurichsee.
+Tapestries and books filled the background as Jung leaned back in his chair and looked at me thoughtfully.
+I was the first Australian to come to the C. G. Jung Institute and I was probably the first to visit him, for he said, after we had spoken about his birthday celebrations at which I had taken a photo of him which he liked, “Coming from Australia as you do, should you not have some sort of accent as the Americans do?”
+I told him then a yarn about the much maligned Australian accent and he laughed heartily.
+Another time he spoke of Australia as Ultima Thule.
+Then came the time for a more serious talk and Jung asked me if there was something I wanted to ask of him.
+All thoughts of dreams left me and my question surprised me, appearing, as it seemed, of its own accord. “What,” I said, “is the difference between me and that table?”
+In the company of the great man it seemed as if I was aware on a different level of the oneness of all things.
+Perhaps I was experiencing something grasped intellectually before.
+Perhaps like the French writer Colette who, when she saw Walt Disney’s Living Desert
+said, “We are one creature.”
+Jung, however, leaned forward and tapped the table with his middle finger and said “We are of the same substance as that table.
+Our discrimination, the ‘I’ awareness is the difference.
+The difference is the consciousness God has spent millions of years to bring about.
+Look how He experimented with the dinosaurus, for instance, after it came from the sea and had to develop a brain.
+“Development continued. Primitive man, the anthropoid from which we sprang gradually acquired consciousness, though real consciousness, as we know it, commenced with the beginning of written history.
+For all that, only a handful are conscious today.
+Even people like Einstein did not believe the Creator played a game of chance, but that is exactly how it all happened-growth.
+“Consciousness itself is a growing thing.
+However conscious we seem, our abysmal unconsciousness is alarming.
+Every day I know I am unconscious.
+I see in people that which is not there-or the other way round.
+It is a duty to withdraw and question ourselves.
+It is a duty to say to ourselves, ‘That is a table and how much of it do I perceive?
+Do I perceive it wholly?’
+Of people we have to say, ‘This is a human being, how much do I see?’
+And the same with our psyche-stand off and be critical of its contents.
+It is only from our realizing unconsciousness that consciousness expands.
+It gives meaning to life to know that everything added to consciousness is a step forward of the creator.
+This is our human work.
+I am not afraid of communism; I am afraid of unconsciousness and of modern science.
+I am afraid of America which educates its children away from being individuals into being mass-educated people.
+These are the Marxists without knowing it.
+Russia is masculine and America feminine.
+They are natural opposites.
+With their so-called science, America plays into the hands of Marxism.
+“You see, that is our real problem-the collective shadow.
+The atom bomb is in the hands of unconscious people.
+It is like giving a baby a kilo of gelignite, it eventually blows itself up.
+“There is no science.
+There is no cause.
+There is a growing something in which the Creator seeks to become conscious.
+If the Creator had had a causal idea,
+He would have made man for this and animal for that in a certain way, and in their completeness, and things would have been sterile.
+Nothing could have happened, life would have had no meaning.
+It is the fact that consciousness grows which gives life its meaning.
+When you rely on modern science, on cause and effect, and you take away individuality, you take God out of the world, that is the anti-Christ.
+Take a riverbed, for instance, mark off a square of it after stopping the flow of the water, and then measure the stones.
+Science will say this riverbed has stones of three inches in diameter.
+Then the water flows over again, but some day there comes along someone who sees a boulder or a grain of sand and it does away with the whole concept.
+Tell a modern scientist that his proposition is only so far true, and he laughs.
+He says the boulder and the grain of sand are the exceptions, but just therein is the point.
+There is not a rule.
+“The Creator never meant it like that.
+Somewhere evil has got in and put things into ’cause’ and into ‘science.’
+But what scientists miss is that they themselves observe and we are so unconscious that what appears real we find is not as we thought.
+That is why I say, ‘Be conscious.’
+That is the thing than can, if only sufficient are conscious, save us from sterility and this threat of complete destruction.
+Destruction would be a pity.
+Life is worth living.
+Today’s world has taken millions of years for its achievements and there is happiness and interest in living.
+We have children and grandchildren and even if we don’t believe in immortality for ourselves, we can believe in the right to live of future people.
+This is today’s calamity-the collective shadow, the general unconsciousness while those who are conscious are like a handful of salt in all this.
+There are people who believe that the few who are conscious can hold the world against annihilation,but I am afraid of the terrific power of general unconsciousness.
+People say to me: Alchemy is very interesting, but you give no proof.
+Why the whole book is a proof!
+It has been thought!
+It is an example!
+Thoughts are real, they are the consciousness.
+People can’t see that.
+Einstein could not.
+Take your realization into your daily life.
+Test it and every test widens it.
+That is indeed your contribution to this overwhelming unconsciousness we see all around us.
+We can only hope it is the little leaven.
+“It is said that the shadow is my [Jung’s] concept.
+I did not make the shadow, it is a fact. Man has a shadow, this is not a concept.
+Nor are the archetypes concepts, they are facts which we can prove.
+They have nothing to do with me, they were already there.
+Once I met a normal man.
+He had a home, a family, a practice.
+He was interested in hypnosis and came to me for analysis.
+Then to my horror he had a latent psychosis, which broke out immediately the unconscious was touched. I tell you I was scared.
+I got him right in three weeks.
+Then I said to that man: Now you have learned a lot, and you’d better leave it alone.
+And he went back and has not touched psychology since.
+What I fear greatly and suspect greatly is normality.
+That is something people are trained to.
+It is like a tight lid.
+That is why I am afraid of the psychologists of today who have the idea of universal validity.
+That which is paradoxical is sent underground, so they attempt a normality which is sterile.
+People must know they are in conflict.
+They must be able to carry the conflict.
+That is consciousness.
+They must stand between that which is in opposition.
+You see I cannot sit on any stool.
+The theologians think I attack God and the scientists think me unscientific.
+I have no theory.
+A theory kills and stultifies.
+One has to look at things as they come.
+Now let us look again at that table.
+How conscious is one of it?
+If you commence to begin to realize you are overwhelmed by your unconsciousness.
+Do you know the pattern on the other side?
+Do you know all of that table-the tree, the thoughts of workers (for it is also man’s thoughts), the hopes, the aims etc.
+Do you begin to know?
+One has to say: When I hear, do I hear? When I see, do I see? When I touch, how much do I feel?
+IfI touch this chair, it is not the touch in itself which tells me, it has to come back to me in order that I recognize.
+Only then can I send out recognition.
+Consciousness is seated in the brain. (Psychoid) It is subjective.
+When I was in Africa and went alone to a place where there was a valley of wild animals which no-one knew about, I suddenly thought, ‘Only I know.’
+It is necessary in order that they exist for someone to know.
+Each of these animals is of the Creator.
+Each is the same stuff as I.
+And yet I had to know it. You see it was a new world.
+There are so many new worlds and only an extension of consciousness brings them into existence.
+That table is a world.
+“In a world which demands normality people are afraid of a vision.
+These days it belongs to the lunatic asylum.
+The production of ‘mass’ men kills life and obstructs consciousness.
+As I said, if God had been conscious and had created the finished article, there would have been nothing more to do, there would have been no development, and people would be just that and nothing more.
+But we see it is not so, and that every time we add to our own consciousness it is the growing consciousness of the Creator.
+That gives real meaning to life, makes it interesting and worthwhile.
+Life is worth while and that is why I do not want to see it destroyed by great masses of unconsciousness.
+“I have a book here written by a chemical scientist on alchemy.
+Not once does the word ‘Conjunctionis’ appear.
+He has seen alchemy as the basis of chemistry, but because the conjunctionis appears symbolically as male and female, sun and moon, he missed the important point-the union, the fusion of substances which is the basis of chemistry, because it was put in a way which his actual thinking could not understand and so he cast it out as dross, thereby missing the essence.
+People are profoundly unconscious.
+“The body, mind, world, are all one substance, but consciousness demands of us: I am this.
+I am of the whole God, but not the whole.
+God exists in that we are conscious.
+How would I know I am a man if I saw no other man.
+Separateness is consciousness, but that separateness can only come after conscious recognition of the oneness, otherwise it is participation mystique and unconsciousness.”
+Jung was called away at that point and I waited quite a while.
+When he returned there was a change.
+He told me the doctor had just called and that his dear wife would not recover.
+I offered to leave but he bade me stay.
+He then sat a little longer to speak.
+This time he said that life has to be lived fully.
+One has to live what one is, utilize one’s potential.
+He spoke of his wife’s life and its completeness, then added, “Death is a drawing together of two worlds, not an end.
+We are the bridge.”
+I did not see Jung again until the funeral of Mrs. Jung.
+Through the years those last words have stayed with me.
+Surely we are the bridge in so many ways.
+And as Jung had pointed out, it is necessary to strengthen that bridge by our own lives.
+I believe it was largely that day’s talk with Jung and a dream I had later in which he held up a stick and said, “Eternity stands upright,” that led to my ultimate interest in microphysics-that discipline added to Jung’s concepts opened for me doorways to deep understanding, even consciousness, to knowledge that was ancient and new and meaningful beyond words. ~M.I. Rix Weaver, J.E.T., Pages 90-95
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+How American Homeless Stay Wired 287.'"
+And yet (Score:3, Funny)
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Interesting)
+More tips for the homeless: Trader Joe's [thecorsaironline.com] is a popular place for gourmet dumpster diving. University cafeterias also throw away things like packaged sushi when it hits the expiration date. Chinese food is the best to eat out of a trash can because the containers are often in tact and the abundant MSG preserves the food well. I love remembering Panda express' customers gasp in horror when I walked in and started fishing food containers out of their bins. It's also a good reminder of how much in America goes to waste. Go for the heavy ones
+Re:And yet (Score:4, Interesting)
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Informative)
+Before I thought of that, I would rub my body down with body wash (while wearing boardshorts) and find an apartment complex with a pool or jacuzzi, then I'd get in and bathe in them! Scrubbing with fingernails exfoliates skin and the bromine keeps you clean while the body wash keeps you fresh, though just the bromine will suffice if you scrub with your fingernails.
+Just make sure you have more than one towl and do a drying rotation. In locker rooms I've seen bums showering who didn't even have a towel, and they used half a roll of paper towels from the dispenser to dry their body off! xD
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Funny)
+I've seen bums showering who didn't even have a towel
+But that's the most important thing to have !!! I means there is a whole series of books about how important it is to have a towel.
+Re: (Score:2, Interesting)
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+Most places like that that I know of....college gyms, etc..all require you to show proper college or faculty ID to gain entrance to the facility. With all the recent year schools shoot ups...I"m surprised all colleges aren't more strict than what you describe by letting bums and strangers in to the facilities, much less on campus at all.
+Re: (Score:2)
+Which universities were you trying to visit? Most University of California campuses allow anyone to just walk in to the libraries and use them, and the ones I've visited have limited-time "guest" logins to both the computers and wireless internet.
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Informative).
+Re:And yet (Score:4, Informative)
+1) 365days * 24hours * 60minutes * 60seconds = 31,536,000 seconds. Multiply by 3304 pounds per second = 104,194,944,000 pounds per year.
+2) 263,013,699 pounds * 365 = 96,000,000,135 pounds per year. (Well, that's close... but wait...)
+3) Since you used pounds, I will assume the short ton (the smallest 'ton' available) = 2,000 pounds * 1.5... So, 3000 pounds per person * 306 million persons in America = 918,000,000,000 pounds per year. Oops.
+I'll admit that the smallest number equates to about 313 pounds per person per year for each American (less than 1 pound a day), bad numbers like that make me a bit suspicious of their methodology.
+Re: (Score:3, Informative)
+Yeah, OK, I'll admit I snagged them direct. The 3304/second I'm quite confident in. It's a USDA number that's been floating around for some time and I have read the actual study somewhere in the deep dark past. I guess I'll have to go find it again.
+Sorry for not double checking the numbers before I posted them
+...
+Re: (Score:2)
+Dammit - 3044 pounds of food per second, not 3304. Sorry
+...
+Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
+bad numbers like that make me a bit suspicious of their methodology.
+You should be more suspicious of your assumptions. The actual quote is:
+The problems are really more ones of logistics than the actual food. Sure, we produce too much food and much of it goes to waste. But getting the food to the right people at the right time is the hard part.
+Puhleeeeeeze... give me a break with the rhetoric! (Score:2).
+Yeah, because everything else in the world is so efficient, so the US for distribution network should be too.
+Here's a tip, nothing is 100% efficient, so give it up.
+Most engines are about 20% efficient. Solar panels are about 15% efficient. The US congress is about -10% efficient and yet people expect that ALL the food generated in the US should be utilized with 100% percent efficiency.
+And that is not considering the fact that in our capitalist economy, there is insufficient incentive to actually m
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Interesting)
+Besides which, with the abundance of soup kitchens and charity groups out there, I find it difficult to believe than anyone has to go dumpster diving for food. People who do so usually have some mental issues, and wish to avoid the social interactions which are involved with seeking charity.
+Actually, a lot of people dumpster dive because you can get really good expensive food for free. The fancier the store/restaurant, the more likely they are to throw out perfectly good, often still packaged food, because of a minor defect. I turned this [ranprieur.com] up after just a few seconds of searching, I'm sure you can find more information if you look.
+Lots of dumpster divers aren't homeless at all, and those who are probably do it because they get better food than at a soup kitchen.
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Insightful)
+> with the abundance of soup kitchens and charity groups out there
+Not sure what you base that claim of "abundance" on, but it's not the number of groups that matter, its access to actual food and beds. And there are more homeless than plates in my city. A couple times I picked up panhandlers to show them how easy it was to get a meal and a bed. It turned out to be not so easy at all - those resources are finite, and they actually turn people away.
+It might interest you to try the same - escort a homeless person to the abudant resources in your town. Hopefully you'll have more luck than me. And if not, maybe you can split a lunch and wish him well.
+Re: (Score:2)
+The reason for high production is because of a certain decision of what that production will be used for?
+Re:And yet (Score:4, Interesting)
+the abundance of soup kitchens and charity groups out there, I find it difficult to believe than anyone has to go dumpster diving for food
+Before my wife got her work permit in the US she did serve food at a local church. Some people do not want to go there because you have to comply with the "moral" rules. My wife actually stopped volunteering there because she was getting yelled at by the 'good christian' manager. Now she is only volunteering for causes that are not "I have morals because I believe in deity" based.
+I know that some homeless people refuse to go to shelters because of the other bums that snore, fart, steal and even attack you during the night.
+Re: (Score:2, Informative)
+If you live in Seattle, Essential Bakery in Fremont is prime for dumpster diving as well.
+(I'm not homeless, but I'm a college student, and the bread is usually VERY fresh. I promise.
+:D)
+Re: (Score:2)
+I didn't know that there were that many homeless Slashdotters.
+:-)
+Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
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+That's an easy one. Our economy is rigged from the top down to ensure that there are ALWAYS more people looking for work than there are jobs available. It benefits employers by ensuring that labor is always plentiful and cheap, via the laws of supply and demand. (Free market, my ass! A free market would be characterized by employers desperately trying to attract a few employees with lavish contracts, as most people would prefer to go into business for themselves if the cost of entry wasn't so artificially h
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+I don't know about his specific situation; but, I can speak about mine. Homeless in the late 80's as a teenager. It's damn hard to get a job when you can't fill out the home address on the application -- they HR droids throw away "incomplete" applications. It's also hard to get called in for an interview, when you have no phone (we didn't have cell phones available in the '80s like we do now). At the time, the area I lived in had a very low homeless rate; so, if you tried to explain you were homeless so
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Interesting)
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Interesting)
+I finally got fed up and lived out of my car for a summer. I had more spending cash since I was employed, and I even went to school while living out of the car. Not worrying about a place to live is about having one less thing to worry about and more disposable money to save or spend.
+Of course, that lifestyle is a very lonely one, so I see why the man has adopted the internet as his support system. He may not be a shiftless bum - sometimes, people who've had enough just say "fuck it". And it's very liberating. But I don't recommend living that lifestyle long-term.
+Re:And yet (Score:4, Funny)
+"I."
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Interesting)
+I am all about individual freedom and I am last person in the world who would be in favor of anyone interfering with you living out of your car if that is what you desire to do in anyway beyond why I am about to say here. Consider this just friendly advice for a third party who's lack of personal affiliation with you might afford them some objectivity. Do not consider it in away a condemnation of your life style or an attempt to deny you it if it actually brings you happiness.
+That said you, admitted that its a lonely life style. You also apparently value your comfort as you cited the jacuzzi not being functional as a reason for leaving your apartment. You also apparently have some desire for the social pattern of cohabitation with a member of the opposite sex most others do.
+Not worrying about a place to live is about having one less thing to worry about...
+That is a very odd statement on its face. Most people have a pretty basic need for someplace to call home and when they don't have that there is little else they can think about until they do. That is one of the things that keeps so many people homeless. They are so preoccupied with being homeless and needing some place to call home they can't attend to the activities that would elevate them economically so that they could get a home.
+Obvious you were quite functional during that period. I just wonder if you were not experiencing some other medical condition that radically altered your socialization when you decided to get up a live out of your car for a time. You might want to see a medical professional before you do that again. If they tell you that your perfectly healthly and you feel like you want do it, then I would say go for it man! If they think something might be wrong then you might consider that for a time. I might not tell them you are planing to go live out of your car, something that radical might bias them as it has me. Since this about you and not the bias of others there no reason to tip hand.
+Re: (Score:2, Interesting)
+Re:And yet (Score:4, Interesting)
+Existing conditions, if any, will be exacerbated by the instability. Drugs or Alcohol make it worse. Any person who's seen homeless people talking to themselves on the street realizes that. That's why I made it a point to mention that I didn't do it for very long - I decided that enough was enough when I began to talk to myself and urinate in public. My job and my life were not worth tossing out like that, and now I live a comfortable life in a place with a functional jacuzzi
+Re: (Score:3, Informative)
+There was a This American Life about this a few months back: [thislife.org]
+Two poets 'decided' to become homless to 'focus on their poetry'. As the story goes it was really less about choosing to be free as it was about being put on the street by their substance addictions and minor mental health issues. The Parent Post sounds to be pretty stable (after all he returned to normal life). But I think a lot of people who "decide to go homeless" are really people with d
+Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
+I have a friend that I went to HS with that has been living on the streets off and on since graduation in the mid 80s. He floats between AR,TX, and KS. When the weather becomes too hot or too cold in one area he hitchhikes to the next. I have to agree wholeheartedly about the mental illness. He is very smart and with some long term therapy could be a productive member of society.
+What none of us knew in HS was that his mother was getting him high from 8 years old onwards. Therefor he has absolutely no contr
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Insightful)
+I suffered (or, rather, endured) a very similar situation. I was cohabitating with my girlfriend. Things didn't work out, I had to get out. I was unemployed at the time, so for the couple months I was sleeping out of my car and/or couch surfing (people get sick of that really quickly, the polite notice it and act accordingly).
+I got a job, saved up some cash and got a place to live. But in the months leading up to that I was homeless. While I wouldn't reccomend it, especially to the light of heart, it isn't neccesarily nearly as much an indication of an underlying condition so much as a sign of lack of concern for something most people would obsess over.
+Was it comfortable? No. Was I happy about the situation? No. Did I make the best of it? Damn straight I did.
+In the time that I was homeless I managed to secure a job, save money to get a place to stay, form a new band and coordinate practices and shows. I kept up with my myspace and emails on a daily basis. I didn't dumpster dive. I had money to purchase food. But I wasn't obsessed with needing a place to call home. On a temporary basis. I knew that I was working towards that and I was dealt (or had caused my self to have to deal with) a bad hand. Live, learn, etc.
+There is nothing in that behavior that suggests that I need to get 'checked out'. The GP as well as myself both enjoyed a reletively high standard of living, however we weren't so entrenched in our way of life that when our situation was drastically changed that we fretted needlessly over our lack of walls.
+So I went to partys and instead of leaving, I'd do what I wouldn't ordinarily do. Crash on the couch. I went home with girls I may not have ordinarily gone home with. I also acted in a more gentlemanly manner that I ordinarily wouldn't have acted with.
+All in all it was an exciting time that I wish to never revisit, a lot was learned, progress was made, and it was all dealt with in a very honest and pragmatic manner. I see no reason why GP or myself should seek treatment for merely 'living off the land' in an urban setting.
+-Dan
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+Well said. I personally find it offensive and obnoxious when people insist on hectoring others into embarking on counselling, phychological or psychiatric treatment just because they don't happen to adhere to a nice, comfortable bourgeois social norm.
+There are countless ways to live one's life, and if someone doesn't want to fit the profile of a nice little suburban nine-to-fiver there's no reason why anyone should try to ma
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Funny)
+For some reason he dose not want to work.
+Internet connection, doesn't want to work, according to TFA some of them can't read or write : how about a job as a Slashdot editor?
+Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
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+Re:And yet (Score:5, Insightful)
+You're the delusional one. Some people are homeless and hate it, but some people just choose this lifestyle because that's what they want. Yup, some people would rather spend all day outside, drinking booze, eating food from dumpsters (I'm sure the more experienced dumpster divers eat better food than I do) and sleep in a park bench or abandoned building with 3 other guys rather than get up early in the morning, do a retarded job in a cubicle all day to go back home to watch TV and worry about paying bills and mortgages.
+Some people would rather choose freedom than working a 9 to 5. Mind blowing, isn't it?
+Re:And yet (Score:4, Funny)
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Insightful)
+I am not sure you realize how bad the "human resources" movement people are at finding talent that doesn't fit into a distinct mould. There are tons of good people out there who have true talent who can't get jobs because they don't strictly fit into some H.R. drone can't easily label them or because H.R. is playing games with H1-Bs or whatnot.
+People like Charlie Pitts deserve chances. Not every homeless guy is the "bum" stereotype we see so much in our media, and many have genuine talents and can contribute a lot. It's just that we don't manage our available talents well in the US at all right now.
+Re:And yet (Score:5, Insightful)
+The most useful person I have hired came to us as a part time student. When he graduated I took him on as a permanent because I could see that he learnt new stuff fast and had shown potential mentoring our new intern.
+HR just want to cover their arses and keep costs down.
+Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
+Tried looking outside of your preferred line of work? Tried going to a retail chain and asking for an application? Maybe there isn't a lot of demand for physicists out there. Hint: don't tell them you're a physicist.
+In all seriousness, just because you've dedicated a whole lot of time and effort to learning an obscure skill or some obscure knowledge does not magically make that skill or knowledge useful. Disagree? Think your specialized knowledge really is useful and people just don't realize it? Then you s
+Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
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+That reminds of a TV news clip in the mid-1980's where a white landlord was evicting a black family of five in Silicon Valley for not paying the rent. He then pointed to the Apple II computer that he just tossed out on the front yard, and proclaimed to the cameras: "If they can afford to buy a computer, why can't they pay rent?" The landlord got his apartment back but came across on TV like a total jerk.
+Re: (Score m
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+Took me a while to figure out your were impersonating schizophrenia.
+Re: (Score:2) "spie
+Re: (Score:2)
+Why? Because someone offers you a job with absolutely no sense?
+Just take the job, have a look around to see what sort of Twonky they make there, then start making more.
+Re: (Score:2) calcul
+Re: (Score:2)
+Smoking Crack (Score:2)
+Smoking crack is a job to those who need to stay wired 24-7.
+Are the computers they use (Score:3, Funny)
+2 years?? (Score:5, Funny)
+That's some sick battery life right there!
+The Internet connections must be slow or something (Score:2)
+Facebook status: "LIVING UNDER A BRIDGE! HELP" (Score:5, Informative)
+Re:Facebook status: "LIVING UNDER A BRIDGE! HELP" (Score:4, Insightful)
+Re:Facebook status: "LIVING UNDER A BRIDGE! HELP" (Score:4, Informative)
+I've also known people who choose to be semi-homeless, I.E. they work at a job that would make 100+K per year, but only work 3-4 months, live in a tiny efficiency for those few months and squirrel away that cash. When they've had enough consulting, they drop their stuff in storage, notify the land-lord that they're moving out, and go back-packing across the world. However, I have yet to meet anybody that would willingly live under a bridge. Maybe I just don't know the "right" people...
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+I agree that this guy probably wants to be homeless at this point in time.
+But he's hardly off the grid if he's using Twitter, Facebook, et al! losing one's job and running out of money is rare, but that the immediate follow up is "and thrown out on the street."
+In a lot of cases, the problem is substance abuse of some kind or another. Alcohol, illegal drugs, inhalants, whatever. The person has chosen their addiction over everything else, and thus their friends and family are sick of putting up with them. I mean someone can be a real good friend of yours, but if all they do is get drunk and damage your place, eventually you are probably going to throw them out. There are other causes too like mental illness, or simply being lazy to the point you find that not working and being homeless is easier.
+If you look in to it you'll find that it is rather rare to see someone who is homeless 100% by circumstance. For most people, if life takes a shit on them, they have others they can go to for help. There is another compounding factor involved. Something that has either caused those that care about them to give up on them (like drugs) or something that has caused them to decide not to try and deal with the situation.
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+Re:Facebook status: "LIVING UNDER A BRIDGE! HELP" (Score:4, Insightful)
+Well that's just not true, and blaming 'drugs' is an easy way to scapegoat people so you don't have to feel bad about yourself.
+Why would I feel bad about myself? (Score:4, Insightful)
+This has nothing to do with scapegoating, everything to do with reality. Most people who are homeless are that way for a reason. The most common reason is addiction. I'd actually say that alcohol addiction is more common than any other drug. Their addiction is to the point that it totally rules their life and it is all they care about.
+Either way, not sure why you think I should feel bad about myself. Even if the reality was different, I still don't feel bad. I don't feel sorry or evil or whatever for having happiness and success in my life. I would hope that everyone else does as well, but I don't feel bad about myself because many don't.
+So if you think I should feel guilty, well sorry I don't and I won't. If you choose to guilt yourself over what you have in your life, I can't stop you, but I don't feel it is productive and I don't do it. I enjoy my life. as rare as it used to be. As of a few years ago, about half of homeless people in SF were on drugs. Now, the shelter operators report people in suits showing up. People are running out their savings and their friends' patience.
+Simply having made a bad career choice can break you now. And it's going to get worse before it gets better.
+citation (Score:3, Insightful)
+[citation needed]
+Re:Facebook status: "LIVING UNDER A BRIDGE! HELP" (Score:5, Insightful)
+No I haven't. Addiction is a choice. I don't mean one chooses to become addicted, but one has to choose to stop. There is no forcing an addict off their addiction. They have to decide for themselves that there are things they want even more than satisfying their addiction. They then can choose to work to get better. I'm not claiming it is an easy choice to make, but it is a choice. An addict can choose to stop, or they can choose to continue. They can decide when the tradeoffs are too great, and they have to fight their addiction.
+That is why it is often said that you have to "bottom out" before you can recover. What it means is that you have to get to the point that things have become so bad, you are now willing to try and do what it takes to quit. For different people this is at different levels so there isn't a "bottom" that all addicts hit. For some it might be much higher than others.
+Homeless addicts, well they may not have a bottom. They may be the kind that no matter how bad things get, no matter how deep they go, they still will choose the addiction over recovery. There is nothing out there that they won't trade for their addiction.
+Choosing your addiction is the easy choice, the path of least resistance, choosing to fight it is extremely hard (especially with some drugs) but make no mistake it IS a choice. A hard choice is still a choice. That's why you can provide love, support, and help for an addict you care about but you can't make them stop. They have to choose that themselves, and only then can it happen.
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+And some of friends or family that would help, but their pride keeps them from asking for help.
+Horrible Reception (Score:5, Funny)
+I get like zero bars in my dumpster.
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+You should go outside of the dumpster, that metal around you is a faraday cage intercepting all your internets!
+he's a troll! (Score:5, Funny)
+...from his residence under a highway bridge.
+Sometimes you just gotta hand it to a troll for sheer dedication. (+1, troll?)
+Re: (Score:2)
+Oh, that is what you meant, right?
+.........
+Great New World (Score:2, Informative)
+Re: (Score:2) hou
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+Luxury (Score:4, Funny)
+That's nothing, I used to stay connected, downloading movies and Linux distros, following all the news, exchanging emails with a journalist friend, using a Commodore 64 that had been buried for years - in a war ravaged country with no communications infrastructure worth speaking of. Kids these days have it easy.
+Juno
+Brought back memories (Score:4, Interesting)
+I was homeless between Aug-2003 to July-2004. One day I had no money to buy two rice cakes which used to cost less than
+.25 cents. I just drank a water and I made a promise to myself to avoid such a bad condition. It was bad, cold and at one point I thought I'm just gonna die out. At the end of 2004, I brought old P5 with 64MB RAM and 10GB hard disk with mono monitor loaded with Window 95. I used the same computer to write students CS assignments and complete their projects in the night time for the money. I had a small job at the Internet cafe. I learned about SEO, forums, creating website and making money by selling ads and doing aff marketing. Today, I make my living by running over 80+ websites and forums. Even, in this bad economy, I doing good. So if you in a bad time, just hold on a while. May be think out of box and you may survive to see another beautiful day. I learnt a lot from my bad days and it made me a better person.
+Hope this helps and cheers someone out there seating in cold night and wondering about the life...
+PS: English is not my first language and I've only 10th grade school education.
+That's The Idea (Score:2)
+The old saying of "when the going gets tough, the tough get going" applies perfectly to the parent post.
+Congratulations for pulling yourself out of a bad situation!
+Re: (Score:3, Funny)
+The old saying of "avoid cliches like the plague." applies perfectly to the parent post...
+:-)
+Japanese Version (Score:4, Informative)
+In Japan, they move into internet cafes [bbc.co.uk]
+How hard is to find jobs today (Score:2) la
+Re: (Score:2)
+Frankly if losing your job means you're homeless then that's your fault. Shit happens in life and if you're so unprepared that one little bump sends you to the bottom then I have no sympathy for you. Sysadmins get paid well enough that there is no excuse for almost all of them to have considerable savings. d.
+And you might get hit by a car and end up with half your brain as little more than slush. That's not the situation we were talking about so I don't see why you're bringing it up. Losing your job and recessions are on the other hand
+common occurrences that any reasonable person should protect themselves against. I can, for example, live comfortably for two years on my current savings alone (ie: no job, no income, etc.) and I only entered the job market three or so years ago (considerably more if I cut down my
+You Don't Know Anything About Homelessness ..... (Score:5, Interesting)
+Until You've been homeless. I know. I've been there. With all my progressive thinking, I knew nothing about it.
+In 2000-01 I was making 6 figures working as a Senior Developer in Los Angeles. I lost my job after Bush and 911. I sent out over 300 resumes in a 3 month period - not one single response. I had 6 months income saved . By month 7 I was sleeping on friends couches. Previously I had been able to get a new contract within 2 weeks tops. I borrowed several thousand from friends to keep me in monthly hotels - I was good for it. I always had been working right?
+By month 12 I was sleeping in my car. I took temp jobs driving buses and I took temp IT jobs doing data entry at 10 bucks an hour. You know how well you can live on 10 bucks an hour in CA when you have no more money? Not very well. Get an apartment ? With what? 10 bucks an hour?
+By month 22 I was starting to live in shelters. And I saw things. Things I would rather not ever have seen. I saw people in bloody bandages, terrible dirty and out of their mind being laughed at and made fun of by city shelter workers. I saw it took over an hour to get in line to take a shower. I drug addiction, mental illness and hopelessness standing right next to me every single day. I saw my self confidence die along with my job prospects. Most importantly I saw that nobody really cared.
+You think there are State run programs to help people out there. I am here to tell you you are so so wrong. It;s all a sham. There are a very few. Very few. Most are fronts just to make it seem like something is being done. Nothing is. I've seen it. I've been there.
+You haven't seen it. You don't know.
+There are very few programs out there and by using the library internet I found one for Women Vets. I got small IT jobs and was able to keep them now that I had food shelter and safety. I worked my way back up the ladder again. Now I make about half of whay I used to - but we all are now - unless you're a banker.
+Friends, Family?? I left home at 19 and an Ivy League University - joined the military to continue college. My family were bad people. Rich, but very bad. How Bad? I begged to sleep on a couch with one of them. I told them I slept behind a church last night - in the open. My family refused. Good luck. Don't assume all families are like yours. I assure you they are not.
+There's a lot more I could say. More that needs to be said. But I've said enough. It's the rich greedy sons and daughters of bitches who think nothing of others and thing only how to get more to themselves that post about how homeless people bring it all on themselves. Well some do. And some are just broken down by the process. Those people need help. Where is their help?
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+Re:You Don't Know Anything About Homelessness .... (Score:5, Interesting)
+Re:You Don't Know Anything About Homelessness .... (Score:5, Informative)
+One of every four [usatoday.com] homeless people in the USA is a veteran. However, given what the world knows about what the US military does in places like Abu Ghraib, I'd salute anyone who didn't go back.
+Re:You Don't Know Anything About Homelessness .... (Score:5, Interesting)
+I need to answer your question in another way as well.
+You asked: What is it about the military that leads to homelessness and not having a normal life.
+I'll tell you what that is and you will not like the answer.
+Me, I worked in a combat medical field unit as an Operating Room Technician and a Field Medic. It was the only thing I was comfortable doing in the Army. Helping people - saving lives. I did a lot of both and although I am NOT a military supporter I am proud of what I did.
+Most people in the military , especially men, go into jobs that involve killing people.
+Let me say that again - Killing people. Killing people is Job #1. Even in the Medical Corps we were told again and again "You are soldiers first and medics second" ( we gave the people telling us that the finger behind their backs of course)
+We are all brought up to believe that killing people is wrong. Thou shall not murder.
+The military has a way around this by creating a culture of dehumanizing the enemy du jour - and other ways.
+Killing is a part and parcel of Army culture.
+You ever see the shirts that say "Join the Army , Travel to interesting places meet interesting people and Kill them"
+You might think that's an interesting snarky comment on military culture.
+It is not. The infantry people I saw who wore those shirts were 100% percent serious about the message.
+Not Snark. A way of life
+That's what it's like being in the Army.
+And God forbid you actually end up in a war and have to go meet interesting men women and children and kill them - you are in a culture that tells you that you did nothing wrong. In fact it rewards you - Hooo Aaa!
+And all that is well and good until you return to civilian life, laws and the Ten Commandments again and it hits you:
+"My God, what have I done!"
+And you can tell no one because no one outside of the military could possibly understand. And you can't wear your T-shirt anymore either.
+So you turn to alcohol or drugs and you can't sleep at night and you go slowly crazy. And you can't hold your job and you realize that you were not the person that you used to think you were. And you never will be again.
+That didn't happen to me.
+But I saw it happen over and over again to people that I knew. People who shot other people. Who killed interesting people. How can you go into Church ever again you wonder?
+Oh and by the way - That war. It was all about the oil anyway.
+So that's the problem - that's why so many American military people end up the way that they do.
+Re: (Score:3, Informative)
+We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
+..........While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind," ..........But it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's t
+But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
+An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
+Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
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+You are misinformed about the type of people who join the Army, Most of them are NOT gung-ho types who like guns and the idea of shooting up people.
+Most of them just need a job. Most of them just want to go to college. Most of then are very poor and/or come from urban places that make the Army seem mild . Most of them saw the nifty multi-million dollar ad campaigns that tell them how they can be all that they can be or how in 6 weeks they can be a computer programmer too!
+But the ads don't show war. The
+The way the homeless stay wired (Score:2)
+How American Homeless Stay Wired
+The same way they get their manicures.
+Park nomad, laptop in tow, calls bushes home (Score:2, Informative)
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+La Jolla is also much smaller than SF so it doesn't need as many wi-fi hotspots. There's a handful of good coffeeshops with free wi-fi and that's all you really need.
+Re: (Score:3, Funny)
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+...I'm surprised they don't bring back Ronald Reagan's Welfare Queen [huppi.com] to beat up in public square....
+Re: (Score:3, Insightful).
+That's exactly what I fear is going on with "OMG Welfare Queen" type attacks...to distract from the much larger corporate-welfare situation, whether Obamaesque bailouts or something else.
+Re:Guess I shouldn't... (Score:5, Interesting)
+When you're in the shit it always looks like everyone else has it "easy", just human nature.
+Slightly OT but many people are uneployable and living under bridges because the sex offenders list includes offences such as streaking or urinating in a public place. Why? - Because the peodophile who pushed the list [wikipedia.org] wanted a dragnet that he hoped would trivialise his own behaviour.
+Ilkhanid Mongol
+Historical Overview Section
+The Ilkhanate was one of the four khanates within the Mongol Empire. It was centered in Persia based, originally, on Genghis Khan's campaigns in the Khwarezmid Empire in 1219-1224, and the continual expansion of Mongol presence under the commands of Chormagan, Baiju, and Eljigidei. The founder of the Ilkhanate dynasty was Hulegu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan and brother of Mongke khan..k Egyptians. Hulagu's descendants ruled Persia for the next eighty years, beginning as Shamanists, then Buddhists and ultimately converting to Islam. However, the Ilkhans remained opposed to the Mamluk Egyptians (who had defeated both Mongol invaders and both Early Crusaders and the Later Crusaders).
+Many attempts were made towards forming a Franco-Mongol alliance between the mid-13th and early 14th centuries, starting around the time of the Seventh Crusade. The Later Crusaders were open to the idea of assistance coming from the East, due to the long-running legend of a mythical Prester John, an Eastern king in a magical kingdom who many believed would arrive someday to help with the fight in the Holy Land. The Mongols and the Franks also shared a common enemy in the Mamluk Egyptian Muslims. The closest thing to actual Later Crusader cooperation with Mongol military actions was the overlord-subject relationship between the Mongols and the Later Crusader Principality of Antioch, and other Christian vassal states such as the included Georgians and Cilician Armenians. Once these countries had submitted they were required to provide military forces to fight under the Ilkhanid banner, and these forces often showed great enthusiasm in attacking Mamluk Egyptian Moslem targets.
+In 1260 most of the Syrian States were briefly conquered by the joint efforts of the Mongols and the Cilician Armenians and Later Crusaders of Antioch. However in the same year another Later Crusader state entered into a passive truce with the Mamluk Egyptians and stood aside as the Egyptian forces advanced northwards through Palestine allowing them to secure a major and historic success against the Mongols at 1260's pivotal Battle of Ain Jalut.
+The Mongols again invaded Syria several times between 1281 and 1312, and sometimes attempted joint operations with the Europeans but ultimately both the Later Crusader Franks and the Mongols were ejected from Palestine by 1303, leading to the 1323 Mongol-Mamluk Egyptian Treaty of Aleppo which saw the Mongol stranglehold over their vassals the Sultanate of Rum and the Cilician Armenian kingdoms end. This was hastened by the hostility of the khanates to the north and east – the Chagatai Khanate in Moghulistan and the Tatar olden Horde of Berke threatened the Ilkhanate in the Caucasus and Transoxiana, preventing expansion westward. Even under Hülagü's reign, the Ilkhanate was engaged in open warfare in the Caucasus with the Tatar Mongols on the Russian steppes.
+After Abu Sa'id's death in 1335, the khanate began to disintegrate rapidly, and split up into several rival successor states, most prominently the Jalayirids. Timur, leader of Timurid part of the Timurid White Sheep Turcoman or Black Sheep Turcomans later carved a state from the Jalayirids, ostensibly to restore the old khanate..
+- You also can't choose Steppe terrain so that helps to decide to not take an IC and lose the initiative roll.
+- Agricultural is not too bad for any Mongols, as you can use Open Fields instead of Opens. In open Fields your LH still move fast but your cavalry are on evens against lancers.
+- Without an IC consider taking all the LH as superior so you can enter into a shooting match with confidence
+- Only three Generals is probably OK since this will be a small army in BG numbers. Also you should not plan to fight with any troops until you are at a big advantage, so less need for generals to tip he balance in evens combats.
+- The knights are tempting, but sort of defeat the object of the rest of the army. If you do have them, keep them as a reserve rather than leading with them. Against Knight armies you will be outnumbered by enemy Knights anyway so ....
+- Textbook stuff is to deploy the Cavalry on the flanks to bully other lights, and your own lights in the middle to decline combat
+-.
+- The Crusader knights are cool, and have great staying power but are slow, and might distract you from the main reason to use the army. See them as an anvil to occupy the enemy whilst you work the flanks, not as a hammer to win the game alone.
+-.
+- The unique option with this list is cavalry and light horse adding one or more superior heavily armoured knight units. The Ilkanids get a handy unit of proper knights, plus they can take a 'knight plus filler' Armenian ally. You could even take a Mongol cavalry unit as unprotected superior as rear support. This gets you around one of the problems with the Cv/LH only outfits: people can press you back with a well constructed line of medium weight troops - enough generals and rear support to shrug off shooting, enough strength to make a cavalry charge a big risk. The "proper knights will batter through a medium weight line in the blink of an eye. So your opponent now has a difficulty: close up to face the knights and get your flanks killed or spread out and risk a frontal break through.
+- Arguably the BG of Knights slows you up and uses lots of points when what you want is more shooting and more superior shooting. The other downer with this army is no Steppes, as playing the Mongols with tactics of "move and shoot" is the way to get around the back of the enemy ... which you can do more easily on the steppes
+- The Ilkhanids can get both Kurdish lancers and Hospitallers, making them one of the most powerful Mongol options. The drilled Hospitallers can get to the weak point in the enemy line and smash through....all the while your opponent is worried about getting pincushioned to death.
+-
+7 / 27 Ilkhanid Mongol Britcon 2007 15mm (open)
+10 / 62 Ilkhanid Mongol Britcon 2008 15mm (open)
+26 / 62 Ilkhanid Mongol Britcon 2008 15mm (open)
+46 / 62 Ilkhanid Mongol Britcon 2008 15mm (open)
+Useful Links
+User-contributed links about this army:
+- Wikipedia the Ilkhanid homepage
+- The Steppe History Discussion Forum You'll always find something useful on here about this army
+- Mongol Blog site with Old Gory 15mm figures on it
+Illustrations in the 1305-14 Jami' al-Tawarikh (Universal History or Compendium of Chronicles) by Rashid al-Din
+- Manuchehr enthroned with Rostam in attendance
+- Musa Slays the Giant 'Uj ibn 'Anaq
+- Lohrasp enthroned with scribes in attendance
+- Dying Rostam shoots Shaghad
+- Eskandar enters the Land of Darkness
+- Mahmud of Ghazni in robe from the Caliph
+- Mahmud of Ghazni crosses the Ganges
+- Besieged defenders of a town advancing to battle
+- Battle Between Abu'l-Qasim and the Samanid Muntasir
+- Muntasir Crossing the Jayhun
+- Mongols besieging a City
+- Kublai Khan on an elephant
+- Battle of the Pandavas and the Kauravas, a scene from the Indian epic, the Mahabharata
+- Execution of Jalal-al-Din Firuzshah II (r1290-96), the Khalji, sultan of Delhi, by his rebellious nephew
+- Nobles of Kashmir enthrone a fakir as King Yashaskara
+- Ravan, king of Lanka and king of the demons, lies dead before Rama, a scene from the Indian epic, the Ramayana
+- Mongol soldiers
+Illustrations of Ilkhanid Mongols in the Kitab-i Samak 'Ayyar (part 3), c.1330
+- Samak Ayyar folio 003a Soldiers attacking a man lying outside a castle
+- Samak Ayyar folio 013b Farrukhruz weeping at the sight of Gulru
+- Samak Ayyar folio 019b A man and woman riding camels
+- Samak Ayyar folio 031b The King of Chin's men trying to capture Samak, Mah Pari and her maidservant
+- Samak Ayyar folio 039b Battle between Jamshid and Khurshidshah
+- Samak Ayyar folio 046a Samak in disguise dancing before the king and queen
+- Samak Ayyar folio 053a Deathbed scene of Khurshidshah surrounded by courtiers
+- Samak Ayyar folio 061a Battle scene
+- Samak Ayyar folio 068b Battle scene
+- Samak Ayyar folio 080b Capture of a man in a tent, with soldiers attending outside
+- Samak Ayyar folio 089a Qatus and Khurshidshah in single combat
+- Samak Ayyar folio 094b Farrukhrus and Shirwan-bashan brought captive before Gharib Shah.
+- Samak Ayyar folio 106a Farrukhrus rescued from Gharib by Samak
+- Samak Ayyar folio 114a Samak's stratagem: a blacksmith heating tongs while a prisoner is held bound on the floor
+- Samak Ayyar folio 121a Battle between Farrukhruz and Mardan-dukht
+- Samak Ayyar folio 134a Searching for Mardandukht, Samak finds two human-headed birds
+- Samak Ayyar folio 140a Marriage of Farrukhruz to Gulbuy, Shirwanbashan, Giti Numay, and Jakalmah
+- Samak Ayyar folio 148a Samak captive before Qabut Bari
+- Samak Ayyar folio 159a Khurshidshah and Mah Pari (?) emerging from the city gate
+- Samak Ayyar folio 166b Two men swimming in a river while angels converse on the bank
+- Samak Ayyar folio 180b Two archers shooting an ox while four angels look on from above
+- Samak Ayyar folio 189a Bahlan brought captive before Samak
+- Samak Ayyar folio 191b Mourners before the head of Khurshidshah
+- Samak Ayyar folio 201a The marriage of Mardan-dukht
+- Samak Ayyar folio 221b An old woman denounces a captive
+- Samak Ayyar folio 226a The Wazir reading a document to Farrukhruz
+- Samak Ayyar folio 234b Battle scene
+- Samak Ayyar folio 241a Battle of Mardan-dukht and her veiled women warriors against Qabus
+- Samak Ayyar folio 251a Captive flogged before Qabus, who is addressed angrily by Mardan-dukht
+- Samak Ayyar folio 261a Battle scene
+- Samak Ayyar folio 268b Samak conversing with Mahus on a throne placed beside a river
+- Samak Ayyar folio 276a Battle between Mardan-dukht and Lal
+- Samak Ayyar folio 283b Taj-dukht killing Gulbuy, Shirwan-bashan, Giti Numay, and Jakalmah
+- Samak Ayyar folio 288a Taj-dukht captive and hanged in chains
+- Samak Ayyar folio 302a Crushing of the witch Tighu under a rock
+- Samak Ayyar folio 311a Battle scene
+- Samak Ayyar folio 321b Meeting of two kings under a tree, with princess
+- Samak Ayyar folio 327b Two men finding a man in a tent decapitated
+- Samak Ayyar folio 331a Women offer food and drinks to hairy man
+Contemporary paintings of Inju vassals of the Ilkhanid Mongols in a Shahnama made in Shiraz in 1341CE.
+- Hunt in the mountains
+- A Ruler Enthroned
+- Zal joins Mihrab in battling the Turanians *
+- Zahhak and Farshidward before Afrasiyab
+- Rustam Lifts Afrasiyab from the Saddle
+- Iranian and Turanian Armies in Combat
+- Rustam Pleads for Tus Before Kay Khusrau
+- Rustam returning to Iran after killing the Div Akvan
+- Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman
+- Rustam Rescues Bijan from the Well
+- Rustam confronting the Turanian Pilsam
+- Nastihan Slain by Bijan
+- Two of the Duels between the Twelve Rukhs *
+- Shida Son of Afrasiyab Slain by Kay Khusraw
+- Kay Khusraw crossing the sea
+- Execution of Afrasiyab
+- The Paladins of Kay Khusrau Perish in a Snowstorm *
+- Story of Luhrasp
+- Rustam Discoursing with Isfandiyar
+- Rustum Fighting with Isfandiyar
+- Yazdgird Shahriyar Enthroned
+- Bahram Gur in a peasant house
+- Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon in India
+- The Sasanian King Yazdigird Killed by a Kick from a Horse
+- King Khusraw Anushirvan Enthroned
+Allies
+- Syrian States : Dates: Any Swords and Scimitars page 29 : Compulsary Bw/Sw cavalry, optional cavalry and LH lancers, more Bw/Sw - and some cheap foot units. Worth looking at
+- Georgian Any Swords and Scimitars page 16 Lancers pre 1118, Bw/Sw afterwards plus 4 LH make the only minimums in this textbook ally. Foot in cheap 4-strong units is also nice
+- Turk, Seljuk - Sultanate of Rum Any Swords and Scimitars page 18 Bw/Sw Superior Armoured Cavalry, and Bw/Sw LH or Protected Cavalry to support - fairly standard Arab ally
+- Armenian, Cilician Any Swords and Scimitars page 27 Cavalry, Armoured Knight or Hvy Knight lancers (pre 1100, 1100+ and post 1150) with 2 units of take-it-or-leave it infantry to boost break points
+Sample 800 AP list
+- 1 Turcomans LH unprotected Average Undrilled bow - Swordsmen - 4
+- 2 Turcomans LH unprotected Average Undrilled bow - Swordsmen - 4
+- 3 Other Mongol Cavalry - LH LH unprotected Average Drilled bow - Swordsmen - 4
+- 4 Other Mongol Cavalry - LH LH unprotected Average Drilled bow - Swordsmen - 4
+- 5 Other Mongol Cavalry - Cv Cv Protected Average Drilled bow - Swordsmen - 4
+- 6 Kurdish Archers LF unprotected Average Undrilled bow - - - 4
+- 7 Mongol Cavalry Cv armoured superior Drilled bow Swordsmen - 4
+- 8 Mongol Cavalry Cv armoured superior Drilled bow Swordsmen - 4
+- 9 Mongol Cavalry Cv armoured superior Drilled bow Swordsmen - 4
+- 10 Mongol Cavalry Cv armoured superior Drilled bow Swordsmen - 4
+- 11 Other Mongol Cavalry - Cv Cv unprotected superior Drilled bow - Swordsmen - 4
+- 12 Kurdish Cavalry Cv armoured superior Undrilled - lancers Swordsmen - 4
+- Generals TC - - - - - - - 2
+- CinC IC - - - - - - CinC 1
+Remember to leave a line before you copy the above section as a template for your own list
+eBay Listings
+UK Bookstore
+Chapter 2
+The next morning, the air was thick with tension. I felt like a bug caught in a sticky web, not seeing but strongly sensing the presence of a hungry spider behind me, planning its attack.
+My mother woke up in a mood that reminded me of a cartoon character with a squiggly scowl across its face, trailing smoke and red flames behind its head. In a way, I’m always glad when I’m given obvious warnings like this because then the attacks don’t come as such a surprise. This lets me examine the situation and adjust my mood, and when necessary, be as ultra-obedient and inoffensive as possible. Sometimes I need to grovel because the way I act can sometimes break the tension and allow me to escape a beating–at least until the next wave arrives. At other times, I wonder how I possibly misread the situation because my grovelling just seems to piss her off even more.
+As I sat at the kitchen table, I tried to make myself as invisible as possible, keeping my head low and making sure I didn’t scrape my spoon against the side of the cereal bowl, spill any drops of milk, chew too loudly, or move, just in case my chair creaked. The littlest thing could set her off. Each time she stomped past me, I felt the back of my hair lifting from the breeze. I concentrated on controlling my breathing so I didn’t sweat. She doesn’t like sweat. She says it’s filthy.
+I heard her move behind me again, but this time she stopped. I could feel her looming behind me like a massive Black Widow. I closed my eyes and tensed my body for what was about to come. For some reason, waiting for something bad to happen was always worse than the pain of the actual beating.
+Suddenly a smack upside my head knocked me off my chair and sent me sliding across the floor. I scrambled to a sitting position, scooting along the floor so my back was flat against the wall. I can’t take kicks in the back. They hurt too much and take way too long to heal.
+I could feel my right ear growing hot and starting to throb.
+I knew she hated when I looked at her during times like this, so I kept my eyes low, but held her in the corner of my sight so I didn’t get any wallops that I wasn’t prepared for.
+She told me to look at her, but I couldn’t. I wouldn’t.
+“What did I tell you, you little whore?! LOOK AT ME!”
+Slowly I raised my eyes to meet hers. When she moved in closer to me, I positioned my knees against my chest and wrapped my arms around them, making myself as small as possible.
+“Tell me,” she snarled, venom dripping from her fangs, “Why does your pillow smell like smoke?” She spat out the word “smoke” like it was a rancid piece of chicken.
+My heart sank at that boner move, because I’d had the sense to put all of last night’s clothes into a plastic bag and hide them in my secret spot underneath the floorboards in my closet until I could sneak them into the wash. I didn’t know what to say, but it didn’t matter anymore.
+I started to blurt out “I was just…” but before I could finish, her foot swung out and smacked me in the jaw. A splatter of blood hit the kitchen cupboards just before I crashed against them. Before I could react, she kicked me hard in the stomach, making me double over in pain.
+“Don’t even try to explain this one! Everything that comes out of that fool mouth of yours is a lie anyway. Get up, you lying little bitch!”
+I couldn’t get up. I tried, but I couldn’t move. In a desperate plea for her to stop, I reached my arm up towards her, crying and begging for some sort of mercy. She took a step towards me and looked down at me with an expression I couldn’t read. I held her in my gaze with my arm raised, trying to find that one tiny element of caring that I knew she possessed but barely ever showed. Suddenly, she stomped her foot onto my outstretched arm. As it hit the floor, this god-awful crack echoed throughout the kitchen. I felt a searing burn shoot up my arm from my shoulder to my fingertips.
+I screamed.
+“Get up!” she ordered, hovering above me. But I couldn’t do anything except lay there on the floor, crying in pain.
+She nudged me with her foot. “I said – get UP!”
+Even through the mind-numbing pain, one thought still managed to make its way to my brain, which was how someone could just keep being that horrible after reducing another person to such a pitiful state. I figured her short supply of empathy had finally dried up.
+I bit my tongue in a desperate attempt to stop myself from wailing. But whimpers still managed to escape from my clenched teeth. My breath pounded heavily from my nostrils like a bull, but I couldn’t control the tears flowing down my face, puddling on the floor by my head, wetting my hair.
+Slipping her hands into the pockets of her sweater, she took a step back, surveyed the damaged heap in front of her that was her daughter, and then casually walked out of the kitchen, leaving me lying there on the floor.
+I let myself weep quietly for a long time afterward, occasionally trying to move parts of my body so I could at least get up to a seated position. For some reason, the pain in my arm just kind of disappeared. This let me pull myself onto my knees and rest my back against the kitchen cupboards. With my good arm, I opened the cupboard door and ungracefully used it as an uncooperative crutch to stand up, where I wobbled unsteadily on my feet.
+Shuffling to the stairs, I carefully made my way up to my bedroom, one slow step at a time. I don’t actually remember making it to my room, but somehow I did it. Before sitting down on my bed, I shoved my garbage can over to my bed with the side of my foot, in case I needed it later. The pain in my arm had come back with a vengeance and was now so evil I thought I was going to barf.
+Gingerly, I lowered myself onto the bed, which was a challenge because my stomach was still feeling pretty tender from the kick. But this, along with my other wounds seemed like nothing compared to my arm. The pain had become so glaring that I could only sit there weeping angrily through clenched teeth, trying to make it go away.
+With my good arm, I fumbled around in the drawer of my bedside table for the bottle of baby aspirin I stashed there for times like this. My mother wouldn’t let me have anything stronger, claiming “that other stuff is too potent for you. Your body’s too small to handle it.” Yet she didn’t seem to think the same thing about the violence she regularly heaped on it. My fury burned when I couldn’t get the stupid security cap off with my one good hand. Frustrated, I dropped the plastic bottle onto the floor and stomped on it until it busted open, the same way my mother had done with my arm. Lowering myself down onto the ground beside my bed to grab the pills, I popped four or five into my mouth, one after the other.
+I stayed slumped against the side of my bed for the rest of the day, watching the light of the sun shape-shift on the walls of my bedroom, slowly wrapping me in the awkward, purple light of dusk. Each time I moved my arm, pain shot arrows through me, making me eat another one of the pink baby aspirins from the floor. The only thing this seemed to do was make me even more nauseous. As I dropped another pill into my mouth, I felt the flood of stomach acid grab the insides of my cheeks and I knew I was going to throw up. Grabbing my beige plastic garbage can with the ugly gold flowers on it, I puked until there was nothing left inside me. As I waited for my guts to settle down, I stayed on the floor, wiping my mouth with the back of my sleeve.
+Slowly my bedroom door opened and my mother stood there before me, light streaming in from behind her like in that Who concert I saw on TV where Roger Daltrey is pretending to walk but he’s not going anywhere. Realizing I had nothing left in me to fight back with caused a muffled yelp to escape, and then tears started pouring out again like crazy. I knew that if she came back to finish her attack, this would be my last day on earth. Any more beatings would kill me for sure. The thought caused my tears to suddenly dry up, which was weirdly comforting because I wasn’t sure I wanted to go on. Nobody would miss me anyway. Well, maybe my uncle Benjie would, but I think he figured he’d be at my funeral before I was eighteen anyway.
+My mother walked across the room in her sensible, pink slippers. The slip-proof rubber pads on them squeaked against the wooden floorboards and then stopped when she stood in front of me.
+“What are you doing down there?” she asked. I could tell by the tone of her voice that she’d calmed down. “Clean yourself up and come to the kitchen. Dinner’s ready.”
+“I c-can’t,” I managed to squeak out. “It hurts too much.”
+“What hurts?”
+I tried not to look at her incredulously. “My arm,” I whimpered, glancing down at the gross, twisted shape hanging by my side.
+“Don’t be such a sissy,” she spat. Bending down, she slid her hands under my armpits and hoisted me to a standing position. As she was doing so, my broken arm knocked against the side of my night stand and I screamed in pain. Shocked, she let me go. I fell onto my bed and began to wail again.
+“What the hell is wrong with you?” she snapped. I couldn’t answer. The pain in my arm had roared to a flame again. Leaning over the garbage can, I began to gag, but there wasn’t anything left inside me anymore.
+As I sat there gasping and weeping, trying to adjust my arm to a position where it didn’t hurt so much, she just stood there in front of me like a confused statue. Even though I wasn’t looking at her, I could feel her helplessness closing in. She leaned over and switched on my bedside lamp.
+“I’ll call Benjamin.”
+I felt a wash of relief at her words.
+Although it felt like way longer, about an hour later my uncle Benjie finally padded softly into my bedroom, holding my running shoes in his hand. He set them down in front of my feet before sitting on the bed beside me.
+“Hey, little monkey,” he cooed with a sad smile, “Don’t you worry. Uncle Benjie’s here. Everything’s going to be okay now.” Gently, he wiped away my tears with his big, sandpaper hands, and kissed me on the forehead.
+“Let’s take a look at that arm.” As he leaned over me to examine my arm, he scowled. “Oh Cathykins, why does she have to do this to you?”
+I sat there silently, wondering the same thing myself.
+His face brightened a smidgen and then he patted me gently on the knee. “Come on. Let’s get you to the hospital.”
+With a grunt and a bunch of effort, he crouched down in front of me and slipped my feet into my running shoes. I smiled as his thick, sausage-like fingers fumbled with the laces. Even though he managed to tie my shoes, I knew they’d come undone the minute I took a step. They always did whenever he tied them, but I didn’t care. My body was filled with the warmth and comfort that my uncle was here to save me and help me… like he always did whenever things got too bad.
+wow…. heavy stuff here. but good-heavy. disturbed me enuff that i had a tuff go reading it thru to the end but glad i did. has same vibe as “push”.
+nice work tho.
+well done….. but I need more…….I need my fix……feed me or at least let be buy it
+So OK — read your other chapters but was too lazy to leave a comment. I have this writer friend who explained how this’ll help you. So here’s my comment finally — figured I should do it becuase I like reading your stuff.
+Good spider allusion — liked how you carried it through the chapter. Nice line: “She doesn’t like sweat. She says it’s filthy.” Delivers strong visual of mother’s high strungness (is that a word????)
+Really want to see more. Hope some publisher finally gives you a break.
+Good writing, but I’m wanting chicky to hit back, ferchrissakes. Bite her mom’s ankles! Anyway, I admire very much that you have written a book and I hope someone has the foresight to pick it up.
+Don’t worry, Christine – she reaches the breaking point and fights back in future chapters!
+Jesus, been in that fucking kitchen myself. Not a pretty scene but you nailed it.
+Tough read though. Brought back mucho crap I didn’t especially want to revisit.
+yeah… tough to read… scary, felt it… want to read more, though… xo
+Hello – I am a fellow writer who recently finished writing my first novel – although it is quite different from yours! You do rather like to tackle the challenging subject matter, don’t you? Sometimes I found it a little difficult to read but I do rather like writers who can ‘get to my core’ which you have accomplished in spades. Good luck in your publishing endeavors. Wish me luck too!
+I was so very glad to discover someone was writing about child abuse because it is stories like these that need to be told so people can understand how very important it is for governments to enact stricter legislation about this issue. If persons can come to understand what abused children must endure perhaps they can find it in themselves to sympathize and call their congressman or woman. I am sending your link to others who I know will want to read this. Let us see this marvelous piece published soon.
+Powerful stuff – and you tell it straight on. Post more!
+good stuff… like the rock & roll shit a lot more thou but definately want to read more – post more chpts soon pls
+aaack! …. omg. so awful.
+u got 2 love catherine. fightah extrordinare!!!!!!!
+Story very good… want to keep reading. Not autobiographical I hope!
+Will you post more chapters?
+This story intrigues me. Your writing possesses an odd simplicity that draws the reader in and then shakes them, awakes them, and makes them fall in love with Catherine – a beautiful person trapped in a terribly unfortunate position. I think you are a talented writer, GFanthome and I am looking forward to reading your novel when it is published. You have my email address – please keep me posted.
+I have to say to everyone who has left a comment on any of my chapters – THANK YOU SO MUCH for your support!! I’ve contacted most of you personally to offer my thanks, but I also wanted to officially put my appreciation out there. You are all amazing people to have taken the time to read my chapters and provide such awesome feedback and overwhelming support. Thanks again!!! 🙂
+u don’t no me but i follow u on FB. rilly want to read this novel.
+think its rilly good, at least so far.
+1. Three things to admire – intellectual power, dignity, gracefulness.
+2. It is better to go with truth into the wilderness than to follow falsehood into a palace.
+3. The true love of God is to love beauty, truth, and goodness.
+4. Whoso feeleth Islam to have filled his heart is half-way towards heaven.
+5. Courage and conviction are two good warriors. When they fight shoulder to shoulder victory oft crowns their efforts.
+6. There is music in the sound of the words of the man who practices that which he teaches.
+7. Alive or dead still we are in the presence of the eternal All-Wise.
+8. The best preacher is the conscience, the best teachers are time and experience, the best book is the world, the best friend is God.
+9. Do your best, God will do the rest.
+10. None of us is too old to learn. When a man ceases to desire to acquire knowledge his intellectual death has commenced, and his funeral had better be arranged for.
+11. The whipped cur always yelps the loudest.
+12..
+13. It is natural for us to die, as it is for us to be born. It is only the passing of another milestone on our journey.
+14. Harness your chariot with truth and honesty, and the devil will come a very bad second in the race.
+15. You have no more right to use abusive or insolent words to a person than you have to smack him across the face.
+16. Brave men do not hesitate to recognise bravery in others, even though they may be or may have been antagonists in the field.
+17. A great lie is like a great fish on dry land: it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
+18. Those who most distrust others are generally those who know that others have good reason to distrust them.
+19. The quarrelsome person is always the one who professes to be the easiest individual in the world to get on with.
+20. Some people preach more religion in one hour than they practice during the whole of their life.
+21. Meanness is the evidence of a defect of intellect as well as of heart. Even the cleverness of greed and avarice is but the extreme cunning of imbecility.
+22. A good man desires nothing but that which just laws will permit him to enjoy.
+23. Men love women for what they think they are; women love men for what they promise to become.
+24. Cold is the absence of heat, darkness the absence of light, and spite and malignity the absence of love and right-heartedness.
+25. Forget yourself, know yourself, that is the secret of both happiness and success.
+26. The quintessence of knowledge is applying it when you have got it, or confessing your ignorance when you have not knowledge.
+27. The person who is confident he or she could manage things better than everyone else, generally lives in a garret, and is not above borrowing a shilling.
+28..
+29. If you live up to your highest aspirations to-day, new glories will wait for you to-morrow.
+30. The big drum makes a loud noise, but it is hollow inside.
+31. He is not very good who is not better than his friends imagine him to be.
+32. A lie trembles all over when it discovers that truth is on its track.
+33. The poorest man in the world is the one who gets rich by selling intoxicating liquor or amassing wealth by usury.
+34. I notice that the ‘new woman’ is no more proficient in alighting from a tram-car, while it is in motion, than her old-fashioned sisters.
+35. A fool will be all his life learning what the wise man can see at a glance.
+36. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; in passing over it, he is superior.
+37. There never was a man who did anything worth doing, that did not receive more in return than he gave.
+38. When we review our lives, the follies stand out boldly; the good we have done seems very insignificant.
+39. When prosperity comes we are prone to forget the lessons of adversity.
+40. Keep your eyes on the goal, and remember that thousands of others are trying to get there first.
+41. A small mind is about the only little thing that does not accomplish something.
+42. The fool in his haste says things which the wise man dare not think.
+43. Show me a person who loves to slander the absent, and I will show you a sneak, a coward and a liar.
+44. The intuitive thought of conscience is the whispering of the voice of Truth.
+45. The more one learns, the more ignorant he discovers he is.
+46. Don’t wait for something extraordinary to happen in order to distinguish yourself, work away at the ordinary events of everyday and you will find distinction will come to you at the right time.
+47. What appears to be a misfortune may become good fortune if borne with fortitude and resignation.
+48. Too much pleasure becomes pain.
+49. There are some persons in this world who, if they were in heaven, would find fault with the arrangement of the feathers on an angel’s wing.
+50. Don’t spoil a good action by talking about it.
+51. As foul gas escapes from a sewer, so doth bad language and evil thoughts emerge from a foul mind.
+52. Spite is the meanest revenge of the meanest mind.
+53. Work kills few, worry slays thousands.
+54. Slander is like mud; throw it against a mud wall and it will adhere, but cast it against marble and it falls off as it grows older, and even the stains wash away.
+55. Slander is the favourite weapon of cowards.
+56. The stars sprinkled over the sky are the favourite handwriting of the Creator, and the sentence they spell is “There is only One God.’
+57. Kindness is the oil which causes the hinge of the gate of Paradise to open easily.
+58. Small sorrows worry us, great ones prove us.
+59. The jackass who brays loudest is not always the best worker.
+60. Do you want to be good? Then do good.
+61. What the mother does the child thinks.
+62. Misfortune tests, prosperity often spoils the man.
+63. Bad habits are as contageous as the measles, and young people are the most liable to catch both.
+64. Beneficence spreads its roots deep and its branches far.
+65. Money and water are both good things when used properly, but they are both apt to become stagnant and useless, even poisonous, when kept too long.
+66. Luxury begets effeminacy, and the off-spring of effeminacy is ruin.
+67. Slander would soon die of starvation if nobody fed it.
+68. Which is the strangest: eternal life, or life at all?
+69. The richest man is the one who is contented with what he has got.
+70. One kiss is worth more than a thousand kicks.
+71. Evil thoughts like birds may alight anywhere, but that is no reason why they should not be driven away.
+72. Foolish elders make foolish juniors.
+73. Some people give gifts like blows.
+74. It is unfair to say that a man does good deeds only for effect because he does them with effect.
+75. Show me a lazy man, and I will show you a miserable one.
+76. Genius is another name for a combination of energy, industry and patience.
+77. It is better to bear injustice than to do it.
+78. Learning is useful, but the knowledge of how to use it is wisdom.
+79. Learn to bear little trials with patience, so that you can endure greater ones with complaisance.
+80. Your time and your mind is your garden and your field; let them lie fallow and you will get a good crop of weeds, cultivate them both and you will have a rich harvest of flowers, fruit, and good grain.
+81. The first real step towards heaven is to say farewell to evil.
+82. Little minds always carp at the deeds of greater men.
+83. Ingratitude is the most contemptible trait in a person’s character.
+84. Never despise instruction even if you have to receive it at the hands of an enemy.
+85. The first step towards happiness is self-control, the second, self-denial, the final one, persistent effort.
+86. Beware of the person who professes to betray confidences to you in secret.
+87. Did you ever hear of a lion who was disturbed by the braying of jackasses?
+88. The first turning from the path of duty and honour lies to the crooked lane of adversity.
+89. A man never gains anything by exhibiting his annoyance by his face, much less by bursting into a passion.
+90. There are two sorts of patience: the one, by which we bear up in adversity, which is fine and beautiful; but the other, that by which we withstand the commission of evil, is better.
+91. Perfection consists in three things: patience in affliction, moderation in our pursuits, and assisting him that asketh.
+92. Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
+93. Nothing is more apt to remove all good thoughts than want of trust, whereas trust in a person inspires him to do right; we are touched by the good opinion of others, and will not lose it easily.
+94. The present hour is all we have.
+95. It is now we must be penitent, now we must be holy. This hour has its duty, which cannot be done the next. To-morrow may bring its own opportunities, but will not restore to-day’s.
+96. Self-reliance and self-denial will teach a man to drink out of his own cistern and eat his own sweet bread, and to learn and labour truly to get his living and carefully expend the good things committed to his trust.
+97. It is far easier to ask for what is impossible than to do that which is possible.
+98. All you have to do in any individual heart is to kindle the higher life and set it to work; and that higher life will conquer all that is lower, because God is in the higher life, and you cannot defeat God.
+99. Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used until they are seasoned.
+100. If you will consider and try and reckon up all the blessings you have
+enjoyed in life, you will find that although you are a polyglot you will
+not have language enough to be able to thoroughly describe them all.
+Since).
+A primary approach of global health training programs has been to bring trainees to grantee institutions in developed countries to participate in in-person coursework, attend skills-based workshops, and/or work directly with researchers and mentors. Another important component has been travel by mentors in the grantee institutions to partner institutions in LMICs to facilitate workshops, lectures, and in-person clinical investigation and laboratory trainings. Training has also consisted of participation in formal courses and degrees, with trainees completing either full-degree or certificate programs at universities, and/or working directly with their mentor. However, the near-complete shutdown of international travel prevents faculty, mentees, and mentors from taking part in these indispensable exchanges.
+One of the largest institutions funding this type of education and training is the United States (US) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty International Center (FIC), dedicated to supporting and facilitating partnerships between health research institutions in the US and LMICs around the globe, and training scientists to address global health needs [1]. FIC has funded 153 global health training programs, including 118 programs that were active as of April 2020 [2]. FIC D43 training programs are funded through peer-reviewed grants and designed to be collaborative, long-term, and flexible to meet the research priorities of both the US and foreign institutions [2]. The training goals of a D43 program include short-, medium- and long-term goals. Short-term training goals are designed to be accomplished in less than three months and are usually composed of faculty-led workshops or training sessions focused on specific areas of research methods or laboratory skills [3]. Medium-term training goals are designed to be accomplished over three to six months and include components such as working directly with a faculty mentor on a research project and taking non-degree courses to support specific research topics [3]. Long-term training goals are designed to be accomplished over a period of six months or more and can include formal graduate education such as master’s, doctoral, and post-doctoral degree programs related to the training areas needed and public health concerns within trainees’ home countries [3].
+Table 1 provides information on strengths and weaknesses reflecting the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic may have on activities of global training programs based on our own experiences learned from our NIH FIC D43 training program in Nigeria and other global health educational programs. Short-term training activities previously had in-country, on-site components requiring travel by US faculty and mentors, which resulted in significant team-building and socio-cultural adoption. Due to COVID-19, travel is postponed or cancelled, replaced by shorter and more frequent virtual communications and lectures. This paradigm shift has resulted in lower program expenditures, more frequent contact between trainers and trainees, and allowed for the recruitment of a wider range of faculty for educational activities than would normally be feasible. Conversely, online interactions represent a loss of opportunity to expose mentees to other cultures and a diversity of ideas only available through international travel, including learning about different approaches to work and study methods, making new friends, starting networks potentially outside their original trainee study groups, and building global citizenship.
+LIMC – low- and middle-income countries
+*Based on Northwestern University Fogarty International Center (FIC) funded D43 global health training programs (full list of training grants can be found at and).
+Medium-term training activities were often accomplished through a mix of in-person training in the US and LMICs. Trainees take part in specialized training with US-based faculty, with either party traveling, followed by in-country research. These medium-term training activities have similar weaknesses and strengths to the short-term training activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For longer-term training activities, the COVID-19 pandemic is not projected to substantially impact in-country research and graduate training beyond the loss of travel for US and in-country partners and the delay in trainings that are absolutely needed in person. Many global health research training programs were already shifting online and can continue uninterrupted; traditional US-based graduate training is quickly catching up, with most already offering some online curriculum materials to trainees who are unable to travel to the US. While the COVID-19 pandemic may have a lasting impact on global health training and education, at the same time, these challenges can provide new opportunities.
+The COVID-19 pandemic has forced global health research education and training program leaders and educators to consider and explore opportunities available through distance learning. Below, we give some examples from our programs that could hint at future transformations.
+Our own experience using a technological solution to replace traditional, in-person lectures has been well-received. A pilot presentation was set up for a US-based faculty member to give an introductory lecture on one of our project core competencies, cancer epidemiology. The lecture information and instructions to access and use the web-based video teleconferencing system were shared with two Nigerian sub-sites. In real time, attendees listened to the lecture, viewed the slides, and interacted with and provided feedback to the lecturer, facilitated by including defined opportunities for questions and discussion. To fully participate in the discussions, attendees had to ensure they had a secure internet connection. Conferencing etiquette skills such as muting of participants to preserve audio quality, use of hand-raising functions, and control of video view initially stifled open discussion but were rapidly adopted. Attendees expressed their enthusiasm for being able to attend in real time and having the opportunity to interact with the instructor. The lecture series has continued successfully as monthly sessions. Using remote lectures allowed mentors to connect with trainees at partner sites and accommodate more trainees, and enables lectures from more professors.
+Traditionally, pathology training has been conducted under a microscope in a trainee’s home institution. Under COVID-19 travel restrictions, we have been using digital or telepathology technologies to provide training sessions to our pathologist trainees. Pathological slides are translated into digital or virtual images using an image scanner and shared by mentors and mentees from a desktop/laptop computer without restrictions to geographic location with no loss of information. The image can be stored in a cloud and accessed and reviewed any time by both mentors and mentees, at the same time, with no additional laboratory equipment. Similar approaches can be used in other medical training programs, such as digital radiology and other telemedicine.
+The training of molecular laboratory scientists has largely been conducted in local laboratories, or by bringing trainees to the host institution(s). Since the COVID-19 outbreak, we have used virtual and digital technologies to train molecular laboratory trainees at our partner universities in Nigeria in both theoretical and practical perspectives with excellent feedback and promising results. These virtual approaches enable us to streamline the complicated tasks common to molecular laboratories such as development and implementation of protocols and quality control (QC) procedures, sample collection and processing, inventory and tracking, data entry, and load balancing. Such virtual cross-talk allows mentors and mentees to connect via video, and allows the mentees to see each protocol step in detail regardless of geographic proximity.
+Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Northwestern University and the University of Lagos in Nigeria had been planning a user-centered palliative care training program for health care professionals without formal training in Nigeria. We initially planned a 2-day on-site workshop leveraging the previously implemented content from the EPEC (Education in Palliative and End-of- Life Care) program[4] which trains physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals in fundamental palliative care skills in communication, ethical decision-making, psychosocial considerations, and symptom management. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have redesigned the curriculum and workshops. Lecture, video, role plays, and small group discussions will be held virtually. To enhance the interactions between trainees and mentors, we use breakout room features for small group discussion and chat functions to support interactive question and answer periods. Other online apps or interactive software for polling, whiteboard, and extension technology functions are also adopted to enhance the interactions.
+As shown by these examples, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed global health training and educational programs. While virtual approaches can be effective at lower cost, they may also have deleterious effects on trainees’ mentorship and professional development as a result of weakened or lost in-person interactions, team building, socio-cultural adoption and understanding, and interpersonal relationships [5]. Given the altered formats and timelines of training as demonstrated in Table 1 and the possibility of long-term adoption of these changes, future programs may attract different types of learners with different and varied motivations, expectations, and outcomes [6]. The development of new “hybrid” models using proven virtual components but with built-in, in-person activities better suited to discussion, idea generation, and team and relationship building may provide the best approaches for global health training and education in the post COVID-19 era.
+[1] Funding: Research reported in this publication was supported by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers D43TW009575, D43TW010350, D43TW01034, D43TW010130, D43TW10140, U54CA221205. EPEC curriculum adaptation and training is supported the Northwestern University Global Health Initiative at the Institute for Global Health, which is generously supported by Northwestern Medicine Primary and Specialty Care.
+[2] Authorship contributions: LH and RM conceptualized the article. EC conducted data collection and background research. All authors contributed to data interpretation and manuscript writing equally.
+[3] Competing interests: The authors completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest.
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+1 UNCG CENTENNIAL ORAL HISTORY PROJECT COLLECTION INTERVIEWEE: Cheryl Callahan INTERVIEWER: Missy Foy DATE January 19, 1990 [Begin Side A] MF: Why don’t you start by telling a little bit about yourself—your education—just a few things about yourself to begin with? CC: Okay, I entered The University of North Carolina at Greensboro [UNCG] in 1967 and completed a degree in sociology in 1971. From here I went on to [University of North Carolina at] Chapel Hill to get a master’s degree in guidance and counseling and completed that in the summer of 1972. That’s when I entered into the real world, so they say—the profession of counseling at a college in Delaware. Was there for about four and a half years; came back to Greensboro; worked in the public schools; then came back to the University in August of 1979 as international student advisor; and have been here ever since and have been—in now my fourth position since I came back to the university. In 1981, I began work on my PhD here, parallel to my full-time job and family and completed my doctorate in child development and family relations in May of 1987. And obviously have continued to work here ever since. That’s it in a nutshell. MF: Okay. That’s a lot of work to work on a doctorate while you— CC: It was fun. I look back on it, and I say it really wasn’t that bad. When I was going through it, I—there were times when I wondered if I would get through it, but I did. MF: So you have experience at the university in the late sixties in addition to as a graduate student and employee? CC: Right. MF: Since the late seventies? CC: Right. MF: When you were here in the sixties, I know that [James H.] Jim Allen [campus minister, dean of students, vice chancellor for student affairs] had told me you were very active on campus. Could you tell me a few things that you were involved in? 2 CC: Well, I began during my freshman year as a member of Elliott Hall’s [named after Harriet Wiseman Elliott, history and political science faculty, dean of women] board. MF: That’s, well, Elliott Student—? CC: Elliott Hall is now Elliott University Center, and it was the student activities planning body for the campus. And each residence hall had a representative that served on that board. The high rises had two. Cone and Phillips-Hawkins [Residence Halls] were new. About that, they were new in the late sixties, and so the bigger ones had two representatives. So I got active in that and stayed active in that throughout my entire four years, moving from just a council member to board member and, ultimately, to president my senior year. Along the way, I participated in other activities. I was a member of Golden Chain [honor society]. I was—I did a little bit of work with student government, although student government and Elliott University Center were both such demanding kinds of leadership roles, you really couldn’t do both. And I tended toward that, toward the student activity side of the house. You know, as I think back over it now, I know there was a whole long list of things that I did, and I don’t—I’d have to pull out my annual to see what all I did because I can’t remember. Elliott Center was—Elliott Hall was really my focus. I worked there and kind of lived there for all intents and purposes. I was involved in some other student organizations, but not as all-consuming as I was in Elliott Hall. MF: So, you were aware of a lot of changes? CC: Oh, yeah. MF: Events that went on on campus within your capacity there—are there any that really stand out? CC: Oh, yes. We were here in the days when—because society as a whole was challenging a lot of things—the Vietnam War and civil rights and so on and so forth. And I can’t remember— I was—I think it was secretary of the junior class. That’s—I was involved in class government, that as well. And we challenged some of the traditions as class government—the ring dance which we had. At that point we all designed our own rings. Each class worked with the ring company and had a little input into how you designed your ring and, interestingly enough, my class designed—and I don’t have mine on today. I don’t wear it every day. Around the top of the ring is a little chain that goes all the way around the top. We crea [sic]—we put that on there and then the torch on the side of the ring—that was something that we put. And some of the things we put on the ring are still there, which is kind of nice to know. Another big issue at that point—again a carryover from Woman’s College [of the University of North Carolina] days, was dress. And we had these cute little uniforms that we wore to physical education that none of us liked. But we tended to dress and—. I remember, either my junior or senior, when pantsuits were becoming real fashionable. We were not allowed to wear pantsuits to work in the student center because we were ladies, and we had to wear our dresses. And one of the Elliott council members along with me—and she was not as traditional as I was—I tended to be more of the traditional kind of student, but she was 3 more liberal. Bur we wanted to start wearing pantsuits. She wanted to wear jeans; I just wanted to wear pantsuits. So we went in to the dean, and we told her that we just thought it was time that we be allowed to wear pantsuits, that other women in the world of work were wearing it and so on and so forth. Well, it took a little struggle, but we finally got to. Now that was a big thing for us. It sounds stupid now, but it was a big thing then. Another big issue while I was here was alcohol. I was a student when they first allowed alcohol on campus. In fact when I was president of the student center, I wrote a letter to President [of the University System William C.] Friday saying that we needed to have alcohol on campus to support and boost the, you know, the school spirit. It was just important that we be allowed to have beer. Well, as a student affairs administrator today, I look back on that, and I regret the day that I ever did that, but it happened. And we finally were granted the permission to have alcohol in our rooms in the residence halls. And, of course, we’ve kind of gone full circle with that. We had it, and I’ll never forget the first day we could have it. I’ve got a picture of me and my best friend sitting in my room with a beer. But it went from that to—when I first came back to work here in the late seventies, student government used to have keg parties out in the quad. And we’d have twenty or thirty kegs, and it was real troublesome. But then, of course, we’ve had to go back in the other direction. We can’t—because the drinking age has been raised to twenty-one, so you know I’ve seen the cycles come and go. I was here when we first had it or legally allowed to have it. I should say legally—it was there but—I mean it still—and watched it go from that all the way to the “beer blasts,” the students called them in the late seventies and early eighties, and to where we are today. So I remem—those are two—dress was one, and alcohol was another one. And obviously student demonstrations were real prominent when I was a student. We had a number of demonstrations out in front of the library related to the Vietnam War. We were—and here at the time when the civil rights unrest was at a peak, and a student was killed at A&T [North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, Greensboro]. And they pulled the National Guard in. And I remember looking at—having a curfew of six o’clock [pm] and looking out my window at the National Guard patrolling our campus because they put a curfew on on the campuses. And, as I recall, I think we even had curfews in the city. I’m not sure about that; I’d have to back and— MF: There was a curfew on campus? CC: Yeah, there was a curfew on campus. The dining hall would have to feed us early so we could back to our halls. And the National Guard patrolled to make sure we abided by that. So it did carry over from the A&T campus to our campus. Didn’t have a lot of black students at that point, but we had increasing numbers. The Neo-Black Society was formed when I was a student here because the few black students that we had at that point knew that they needed that identity and formed that organization, which has over the years been one of the strongest, if the strongest organization on this campus on a continuous basis. So we had— we had food and boycotts too [unclear] the dining hall. MF: Wasn’t the cafeteria workers’ strike at that time? CC: We had a strike at that point, and I can remember being on a food line over here in 4 Presby[terian] House when Jim Allen was campus Presbyterian minister. And obviously at that point, what we had in the cafeteria is nowhere near what we have now. But—and students would support the strike by not going in there to eat. There was some that did, but some of us didn’t. MF: Yeah, well, were there a large number of students here who boycotted the cafeteria? CC: Oh, yeah. I couldn’t give you a percentage. But now, remember I was a very traditional student, and I was not the type—I was not your demonstrator type, and I did it. MF: Right. But it was a noticeable amount? CC: It was noticeable, yeah. MF: What about the relation—you were saying there were not many black students here at the time. What about the black-white relations at that time? Do you remember anything about that? CC: I don’t remember a lot of stress related to that simply because there were not a lot of them and they tended to support each other, necessarily so. I was—there were a number of black students who were very active with me in student activities in Elliott Center. And so you began to see these students involving themselves in areas other than the Neo-Black Society. They just—there were just so few in number. I don’t think that we felt that central to our own campus. I mean, we obviously felt it in society as a whole and being in Greensboro, North Carolina, we felt the tensions from the civil rights movement very strongly. And a lot of us identified with those in many different ways. But we didn’t have it quite to the extent here that some other campuses would have had. But, too, in the late sixties, your traditionally white campuses, as we call them today, we didn’t have black students. We had very, very few. So it—the issue was not as strong as it has become over the years because the students, the black students, went to black campuses. MF: I remember when I was a student here there seemed to be a connection between the black students on campus here and the black students at A&T. Do you recall if there seemed to be? CC: I’m sure there was. I’m sure there was. When were you here, Missy? MF: Around ’81. CC: Around ’81. It was much stronger at that point. There were so—again there were so few here in the last sixties that you didn’t feel the pressure or the attachment to A&T so much because at that point, the schools were still more separate, you know, than sister institutions in the system. So you didn’t feel that that much. MF: What about males on campus? CC: Oh, males on campus. Well, Phillips was the only hall that had men in it when I was a 5 student. ’Course things have changed there too. But we had commuting, town students we called them, town students. The ratio was like ten to one. And it—this is really strange coming from a woman who was here at that point in history. But I didn’t feel like personally I was attending an all-girls’ school simply because I worked in the student center. And the town students who were male had a lounge over there, and so I met ’em all. In fact, I married one of ’em. And Mike [Thomas Michael Callahan, class of 1971] and I—we’ve never proved this, but sometimes we think we may be the first couple to ever marry out of this institution. Jim Lancaster [assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, class of 1972] was in the class behind us, and he and his wife [Camille Galarde Lancaster, class of 1973] met here. But, you know, there was a whole little group of us, and we got to be real good friends. So in terms, except when I was in the dorm, I really felt like I was at a co-ed school, in terms of social relationships and interactions. Not in classes, obviously, because the guys just weren’t there. But most of the other girls didn’t have that sense. It was an all-girls’ school to them. And, of course, at that point the commuting population was very small. We didn’t, weren’t—I don’t even remember the enrollment, but it was a small percentage of commuting students, town students, compared to what we have today. But you’d go into a class; you might have one guy, maybe two. I didn’t have a guy in my classes while I was a sophomore, and Mike and—I can see him as well—I just can’t remember his name—ah, Fred—were in my class that first semester sophomore year. That’s where I met Mike. And that was his first year here—he had transferred in, and thereafter, over half of my classes were all-female. They were beginning to make a difference by the time I was a senior because that was the year when we elected our first male student government president. MF: How did that go over? CC: Well, I mean, there were a lot of upset people about it. But I think at that point, too, the traditional gender roles that we had been brought up with still told us girls that “Them boys should be the leaders.” And Lindsay Lamson [class of 1971] came along and involved himself in student government and ran for office. And there were several other guys, and a lot of them are still in the area. And the girls just voted for him. And I say girls because I still—when I was in school I still think of it as girls and boys. Today it’s not; it’s women and men. But you can tell—I mean I’m going back to that point in my life. He made some changes. There were a lot of traditions that been associated with the Woman’s College that began to disappear—the sister classes, the concept of the freshman class being taken on by the junior class. And the junior class would help the sister or the freshman class form their model of government, and so on and so forth. That concept began to dissipate a little bit. The Daisy Chain, which was something that happened in connection with graduation. MF: What exactly was the Daisy Chain? CC: It was an activity and you can—there are pictures of it I know of that we’ve looked at— some of the pictures in conjunction with the Centennial [1991] of the Daisy Chain. And it was—I believe it was the—I don’t, I really don’t remember now when it was the sophomore class or the junior class who formed a chain of daisies—that was the school flower. And out 6 in front of Foust Building, the old Administration Building, and it was kind of a little ceremonial-type part of commencement weekend. I never saw it so I don’t know exactly what it was. MF: Oh, okay. CC: But I’ve seen pictures of it, and that was—I didn’t go to a graduation ’til my own senior year, and we didn’t have it. So that’s why I never saw it. Rat Day was another thing that kind of went by the wayside. You’ve probably heard about that. MF: I’ve heard of it, but I’m not exactly sure what— CC: That’s when sophomores picked on the freshmen. And there was just this day that was set aside, and sophomores told freshmen what to do, and you had to do it. Now it—they weren’t dangerous things; they were stupid things like “Wear your right shoe on your left foot,” and vice versa. “Wear your clothes inside out, upside down,” whatever—“Walk backwards,” you know, those kinds of things. That went by the wayside because it was—again, we were becoming liberalized in those days, and that was just too childish, so “We’re not going to that kind of thing anymore.” One tradition that I loved that—and I’m not quite sure how it, when it phased out— was the class jacket tradition. And each class had a color which the Alumni Association has over the years kind of kept up with the class, the four colors; and you had your jacket in that color. I still have my red class jacket. It hangs in my closed. And you developed your own emblem, seal, and had it put on your jacket. And we had a class song and a class fight song, and there was a lot of identity with class. But, again, when we hit our senior year, and Lindsay and some of the student government leaders at that point wanted more attention given to student government, the focus on class government just disappeared, and you don’t have class officers anymore. It was student government, not [unclear] with the four different classes. MF: Not delineated. CC: Not delineated. And that’s been put back into place just in the last year, last five to eight years. Recently that’s been brought back to give a sense of identity. Here I mentioned the ring earlier. We had a ring dance every year when the rings were delivered. We had a formal dance. That went by the wayside. New traditions started to replace some of these old traditions. But it all happened in that cycle of society and the liberalization of society as a whole, and the same thing was happening on the campus. One tradition that needed to be stopped was what we used to do to Charlie [statue of Charles Duncan McIver, first president of the university] out in front of the library. On any given day, Charlie would get painted or decorated, and sometimes he really looked rather pathetic. And, obviously over the years, to continue to paint Charlie and then strip it off, it’s going to—it was wearing on the statue itself. So that had to be discontinued. But, like on Ring Day, we would paint Charlie red. It was our class color, and it was our day and we wanted Charlie to be red. Valentine’s Day we might decorate him with hearts and all that kind of thing. So poor Charlie took a beating. 7 MF: Yeah, I think he still does. CC: Up until about—he still does, but nothing like it used to be. I mean, he was always decked out in something or painted with something, seemed like. MF: Could that possibly be when they started with the idea of The Rock that gets painted now? CC: Rock was brought on campus by APO [Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity] for that very reason—because the preservation of Charlie was becoming critical, and that’s why the rock was brought on campus, yeah. MF: Yeah, okay. CC: APO was formed—the luminaires [candle set in sand inside a paper bag] started when I was a student. APO started that—a wonderful tradition that the campus has now every December. That was one of the new traditions that started as some of the older ones were going by the wayside. But, yeah, that’s where The Rock came from. Please don’t abuse Charlie any more. Do something else. And it’s worked fairly well ‘cause The Rock gets painted regularly. MF: Yeah, it does. I know you said that you had worked with international students when you first came back on campus. Were there very many international students here when you were an undergraduate? CC: I don’t remember any. And when I came back in 1979, we only had about fifty. Now, we don’t have that many more now—proportionately we have more. We have more than one hundred and fifty now. And beyond the true international students, those who are here on visas. We have a lot of immigrants from around the world, who are students as well. But I don’t remember that to mention at all. MF: While you were working with the international students, did they seem to have any problems particular to their circumstances? CC: Oh, yeah, cultural differences come into play. I remember a young—one young woman—I was the only international student advisor for two years. But, boy, I learned fast in those two years a lot about different cultures. And I had one student from Colombia. And she came from a very wealthy family. And she was put into I-House [International House, a dormitory], and it was very distressing to her because she didn’t have a private room; she didn’t have a personal maid; she didn’t have a private bathroom; she didn’t have someone to clean up her room. I mean, it was so traumatic to her because in the culture in which she was living—(Not that all Colombians lived like that) but in her culture in Colombia, those things were expected. And she expected them when she got here. Diets have traditionally been a problem for some folks. I know the food service does a good job of working with those students now. Communication has always been a problem. Different dealings just with the common 8 issues of bathing habits because in some cultures you don’t bathe like we do here. And that was an issue with some cultures—a lot, just what’s different. The treatment of women—some of the men that I’ve worked with from the Middle East, the African countries, where women are subordinate, had a very difficult time having a woman as their advisor when they came here because they had to depend on me to get the documentation that they needed to even get here in the first place or go home and come back. And that’s been a real problem for some of them. And it always will be as long as you have men coming in from cultures like that. MF: I wonder if it created any problems for them in their class with a female instructor. CC: I’m sure that there were problems that occurred, but, you know, we worked very carefully with them to help them understand the differences in cultures. And I would talk to professors and instructors occasionally who were having some difficulties with students. But, generally, we were able to work them through. A lot of them come, too, thinking that Americans are all rich. And then they expect us to—if they need something, there would be somebody there to give it to them. And there are some that happen, and that’s always been a challenge, too. MF: All right. I remember Jim Allen mentioning that in the mid- to late-sixties, the so-called parietal rules were going out the window. Do you recall any of that? CC: Well, when I was a freshman, I and to sign in and out every night when I left the dorm, and where I went, who I was going with, and then when I came back in, I had to do the, you know, I had to sign back in. I didn’t question it at that point. It was just something you did because you were told to do it, and I was an impressionable eighteen-year-old. Eighteen-year- olds today are far more sophisticated than we were in that day, but—and we had mandatory quiet times on the hall during the week, and so on and so forth. By the time—we had that throughout my freshman year. And I can’t remember whether it was ’68 or ’69 that that was discontinued. You had to sign out, but you didn’t have to say where you were going, with whom you were going and it was no big deal. And then by the time I was a senior, you just came and went. Now you had to be in by the time the doors locked, or you couldn’t get in. We didn’t have the key access that students have now. So if you were not in the hall by the time the doors closed, you were out. That was it unless you had a friend that would let you in, and that happens too. We didn’t—we weren’t allowed to have men anywhere except the common areas initially. And then by the end of my four years here, we could have them into our rooms. But we had to sign them in and out [unclear]. But, yeah, the in loco parentis thing and the laws that basically said the university was basically acting as our parents is why we had to sign in and out early on and say who we were going with and where we were going. And as they phased out over that time period, we could kind of come and go on our own. MF: Do you remember it being something the students were happy about or something that just sort of happened? 9 CC: Well, it was there, so we did what we were told to do. But there were always some students who were rebelling against those rules because they were so restrictive. And it was the thing to do in that era—to challenge rules. And, you know, just like we challenged wearing pants over in Elliott Hall—we challenged it; we got it. We challenged not having beer; we got it. We challenged, you know, the restrictions in the residence halls related to visitation [unclear]. We didn’t get anything like they have today, but we got some concessions. The signing in and out—so there were always that push. There was always a pocket of students, and it might have been a different pocket of students working on each of those issues, but they typically—a lot of them came out of student government, out student government leaders, because they were in a position to lobby with faculty and administrators than just your everyday student. That’s still the way—I mean, if you’re organized, you can be more effective, so—. MF: Are you—I remember also earlier you had said about the high rises [residence halls] were new at the time. CC: Cone was new. MF: Cone was new. CC: Grogan and Reynolds had been there for a while, but Cone and Phillips-Hawkins were new. MF: Were they the sought-after slots? CC: Oh, yeah, Cone especially. Nobody wanted Hawkins because it was so far away. I moved to Hawkins and lived there all my sophomore—same room, sophomore, junior and senior year ’cause we had the freshman quad. See, everything was freshman women in those days. So you all lived together as freshmen your first year, and then you dispersed to the rest of the campus. And we were—because nobody wanted to go to Hawkins because it was so far away, which I ultimately learned to love because I enjoyed the walk, nobody wanted—we were able to get a whole group of us from our freshman dorm, and we all were able to go over there and get in there together, which was kind of neat. So we had a little family that was already created, and we stayed there all three years. That wasn’t true necessarily. The most popular ones then are the most popular ones today. Ragsdale, Mendenhall—yeah, that’s just where you wanted to be. MF: Okay. CC: Oh, and Weil-Winfield. MF: Oh, yeah. So did the—did people frequently get turned down for their requested rooms here? CC: Oh, yeah. MF: Was there any off-campus living at that time, do you remember? 10 CC: I mean, there were commuting students who lived off campus, but— MF: Yeah, besides commuting? CC: But group living? Ah, you know— MF: Besides living with your parents and driving in? CC: Very little. I’m sure there were a few students who had their apartments, but there—and some of the men who eventually—who lived with their parents initially, eventually had their own apartments and lived in many of the same buildings close to campus where students live today. So that was beginning to occur at that point. MF: And do you remember anything—? When I was here, I don’t recall very much about married student housing or anything like that. Do you remember anything? CC: No, married student housing has only recently been discussed, and then there’s always been reference to it occasionally. But serious discussions are recent. When I was here in the late sixties, we were traditional students. It was unusual to have twenty-five or thirty-year-old, much less forty-year-old, fifty-year-olds sitting in your class. That’s not unusual any more. There’s a good number of those students. But it was the traditional-aged student for the most part. MF: Right. Do you—did you notice any major differences in student life or academic life from the time when you were an undergraduate and then when you were a graduate student? CC: The school I came back to work at in 1979 was not the school I left in 1971. MF: What were some of the biggest—? CC: Athletics was on the—growing rapidly. The composition of the student body was very different. You had more men; you had more minorities; you had more commuting students. It felt different. You didn’t—when we were here, most of us lived in the residence halls, so it was real close-knit group. You knew each other because you were smaller. There weren’t that many of us here. When I came back, the student population not quite doubled, but almost doubled. So it just had a different feel. And more cars, more commuters, more buildings—it just didn’t feel the same. And I love it like it is. I loved it like it was. And it’s nice to see some of the things that were here before coming creeping back in into the new university. But I guess it felt more like a college still in the late sixties because it only went coed in ’63. And prior to then, it was Woman’s College. It felt more like a college still at that point. Today—in 1979 it really felt like a university. MF: So, did you notice any difference academically? CC: Oh, the programs were far—much more offerings in terms of academic programs. More 11 diversity in the class—in the subject offerings within majors. If I were to compare the sociology major I got to the sociology major today or the social work major, much broader perspective in terms of course offerings. Obvious attention to graduate programs had come into play, and there was a growing recognition of the graduate programs. In terms of the attention that students, undergraduate students, get in the classroom from full professors, associate professors, senior faculty members, that still, that was, that’s still here. That’s one thing that really is needed at UNCG that you don’t have at some of the larger research universities in that you don’t have as many teaching assistants teaching freshmen. I mean, you’ve got some, but, you know, you can get some big research institutions, and a freshman might have all TAs [teaching assistants] that first year, whereas here you may have one, so—. But the breadth of the programs was different; breadth and depth of the academic programs was obviously present. MF: Was there anything you noticed in regard to student/faculty relationships when you were going to school here, either in the sixties or when you were in graduate school? CC: I think because there were fewer of us in the late sixties, we tended to—more of us tended to have a real close relationship in terms of a mentoring relationship or role model relationship with faculty than they do today. Numbers have increased; the institution’s larger; there’s more of a—there’s more pressure on faculty for research. So they don’t have the time to give students as often. Now some faculty give it and give it and give it. But some of the younger faculty, with the pressures on them to publish, just don’t have the time to give it. And those pressures weren’t on the faculty when I was a student here. There were some who did it, but the pressures just weren’t the same. You saw faculty more often at student activities. They were more involved in advising student groups than they are today. But that comes with the development of the university. And that’s one—there are benefits and disadvantages to it either way. So, yeah, I see a faculty today that’s not as much in tune on the whole with student life as it was in the late sixties. Part of that was forced in the late sixties just because it was such an activist time in history. And they had to be involved with us to calm us down or get us off the street or whatever. But it was—that was just a real—I don’t want to use the work “unique.” But in my lifetime, those years were a unique time in history, in my life history anyway. There hasn’t been a time quite like it since, and I don’t know that there ever will be. There will be times that are like it in some ways, but— MF: Okay, and are there any final observations you want to—? CC: I don’t know that there are any final observations. MF: Or anything that you want to make sure you get a chance to mention? CC: Well, there’s probably a lot of little specific things that kind of—but they’ll come to my mind after you leave, you know. MF: Oh, I’m sure. 12 CC: I think that when I was a student here as an undergraduate, I had a real sense that people really cared about me. And today, I don’t think students feel like that. But part of that may have been just the nature of the type of student that I was. I was the kind of student who involved myself, as opposed to the one who would sit in the room all the time. So I—you can’t really make those generalizations anyway ’cause you’re gonna find a lot of students on this campus who feel really cared about now. You’re going to find some who really don’t want to be cared about. They just, you know, do their thing and go home. So that—I think that’s probably true across time; it just depends on who you talk to and what their perspective was. But I really did feel that. In fact, I came to this school to transfer. Most girls who entered here as freshmen in those days came to transfer to Chapel Hill because we couldn’t go to Chapel Hill as freshmen at that point. And we were going to transfer to Chapel Hill after our sophomore year. I didn’t do it because I just fell in love with the campus and the institution and stayed. And a lot of others did too. MF: Yeah, I remember that was still a trend when I was a student here. CC: It’s not—it’s been on the decline ever since then gradually to the point now where, well, we transfer in—our junior class is bigger than our freshman class because we transfer in so many people, a lot from Chapel Hill. MF: I wasn’t aware of that. CC: Yeah, yeah. MF: Okay. CC: If there’s anything else, you know, as you—that relate to that period that I might be able to respond to, certainly I’ll be glad to. MF: Okay, I appreciate it. CC: You’re quite welcome. I’ll bet this must be— [End of Interview] 13
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+Purity Ring's Corin Roddick on Not Settling for a Cult Following
+The tandem of Corin Roddick and Megan James, collectively known as Purity Ring (which will headline the Boulder Theater on September 29 and 30) find themselves in a classic indie conundrum.
+The pair's previous album, Shrines, earned consistently strong reviews and attracted listeners aplenty thanks to its very personal take on electronic dance music — a sound that was thoughtful and pensive at times, but still beguilingly danceable. However, its sophomore effort, Another Eternity, has had a tougher time with critics, simply for being cleaner and hookier than its popular predecessor — as if Roddick and James needed to make less accessible music in order to establish their artistic credibility.
+Roddick, the man behind Purity Ring's music, regards such reactions as nonsense — and in conversation, he admits to frustration over such silliness. He continues to see Another Eternity as a step forward for Purity Ring, in part because of the different manner in which it was created. Whereas Shrines was mostly assembled while he and James were in different places, its
+After touching on the contrasting approaches to the albums and the assorted bumps that he and James encountered during Eternity's writing and recording process, Roddick (with whom we last spoke in 2012) reveals why he's the guy in charge of music rather than words, admitting that he doesn't know the lyrics to many of his favorite songs. He also talks about the influence on Purity Ring's music of outside hip-hop productions that he's helmed; the way aural clarity, or the lack thereof, can alter the critical reaction to a track; and his belief that all performers would like as many people as possible to hear their music, whether they admit it or not.
+Michael Roberts: I understand that the process of making Another Eternity was very different from the one you and Megan used on Shrines. How would you contrast the two different approaches?
+Corin Roddick: The biggest difference is that Shrines was the first time Megan and I had ever worked together. And it was really my first attempt at producing musical electronically, as well. So there was a lot of learning in there as we went along. And as well, we were living in different cities at the time, almost on opposite sides of the country. So we didn't really have the chance to spend a lot of time in the same room. We would send things back and forth, and we had very separate roles. Like, I would completely make the music and Megan would come up with vocals, and we'd smash the two together, and that would be the song.
+But then, for Another Eternity, we had the opportunity to work on it together in the same place, mostly, which was pretty different for us. We spent a lot more time working on all the different parts of the song and building them up and being more collaborative. I think that is what really affected the sound of it and made it different. We didn't want to make the same album again. And being able to majorly change up the process was a big way to help that.
+When you guys were working in the same room together, how long did it take to get comfortable? Were there some stops and starts?
+Yeah, definitely. The first time we got together, it was like, we actually don't know how to write songs together [laughs]. There were definitely a few days after we got together to work on things where nothing really got done and we felt like we didn't really have any momentum.
+[Take a listen to the Shrines track "Fineshrine."]
+Were there awkward silences? Or songs you started and then realized, "We're forcing this"?
+I wouldn't say it was too awkward. I guess the hardest thing about it was that we hadn't written any music for over a year. We'd been so caught up with touring for Shrines, and then we took a bit of time off after that. So the biggest thing was we didn't remember how to write music at all [laughs]. And then aside from that, we were trying to do it collaboratively and in a totally different way. So for a while, we were definitely thinking things like, "How do we do this?" And "What does it mean to be in a band?" It was really hard ]laughs].
+Eventually, though, we had a sort of breakthrough where things started working. And we were like, "Oh, good. What should we do next?"
+Do you remember the first song where everything came together?
+It was "Sea Castle." We were working at this ranch in Texas, and the idea was we were going to spend a week there and shut ourselves out from the outside world and really dig in on the album. But we spent most of the week really not making much progress. And then, on the last day, I think, we came up with "Sea Castle," and we were like, "Thank God!" [Laughs.] That kind of set the tone for the rest of the album.
+(Here's a live performance of "Sea Castle.")
+You later reconvened in Canada, right? That's where the lion's share of the material was recorded....
+Yeah, most of it, we went back to Edmonton to record. That's where Megan was living at the time and where we both grew up. It was nice to be in familiar territory. And it was really very cold out, the middle of winter. That was a good season to lock yourself inside and try to create something.
+Once you got together, did things pick up like they had with "Sea Castle"? Or did it take a little while to get going again?
+It seems like every time we try to start working together, there's always some down time of getting the ball rolling. I don't think we can ever jump in and do something great right away. You have to kind of get comfortable and maybe try a few things, brush the dust off.
+There's the perception with Purity Ring that there's a real separation when it comes to the creative process, where you handle the music and Megan handles the lyrics. But I imagine that when the two of you were working together, there was more of a blend. Was that the case?
+Yeah. We definitely had a lot more impact on each other's roles. Like I still primarily handled the instrumentation and Megan primarily handled the vocals, but we gave each other a lot more feedback about what we thought was working or not working. When you're actually writing a song together, you have to consider all the parts of the song and how things are going to fit in with all the other instruments and all the sections — kind of making sure that nothing is out of place, or that it's not in the way of something else.
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+I'm not really much of a lyrics guy. Megan definitely handles the lyric side of things. But this time around, I definitely had more input on vocal melodies and Megan had more input on where the production stuff was going. Not that she necessarily produced it, but she would explain to me what she thought would work or wouldn't work, and we'd work on that together. And I think that really helped.
+When you'd hear the lyrics, did you ever say "Maybe you should move in this
+For me, I'm mostly just about how the lyrics sound with the melodies. I can't even really tell you the lyrics to my favorite songs of all time. Lyrics just kind of wash over me. It's more the sound that the vowels and consonants make with the notes. Maybe a certain word sounds really good with a certain melody. That's what I'm looking for more, and that's more of the feedback I'd give to Megan. There'd be a lyric with a melody, and I might say, "Why don't you try switching this
+(Below, check out a performance of Another Eternity's "
+It's interesting that you say you might not even be able to remember the lyrics of your favorite songs. Are there kinds of songs where the lyrics stick with you more, as opposed to the singing just being a collection of sounds without any particular meaning?
+I think it depends on the genre a bit. For example, I think hip-hop is much more lyrically
+You've done some outside production work in the hip-hop genre: Danny Brown, Ab-Soul, Angel Haze. Do you think you're drawn to hip-hop in some ways
+There are a lot of things that appeal to me about hip-hop, from the actual lyrical delivery to the style of the drums to the actual bounce and rhythmic feel of everything. I've always been drawn to hip-hop, and I think you can definitely hear that influence in our music, especially on the rhythmic side. So I think for me to collaborate with rappers is a pretty natural thing. I think if you were able to strip away Megan's vocals, you can imagine someone rapping over a lot of our stuff.
+For you, the hip-hop influence is really overt. But I imagine some listeners might not pick up on that.
+There have been a lot of reviews of Another Eternity in which critics have said something along the lines of, "They're going pop," which I understand really annoys you....
+It is somewhat annoying. I'm not annoyed because I'm thinking, "We're not a pop band," because we are. We're definitely a pop band. But it's annoying because I feel like we've always been a
+But I try not to get too bothered by this
+That's where I was going with my question. Do you think one of the reasons that so many people have reacted that way is because the sound on the new album is clearer and cleaner and less murky than it was on Shrines? And maybe they can simply hear what you've been doing all along this time?
+Honestly, I do think that's probably 90 percent of it. And that's funny. It's really all you need to trick someone like that. You can take the poppiest song in the world and distort the vocals a little bit and suddenly everyone is like, "This is the coolest, hippest-sounding thing." But if you produce it to just sound clean, some people might say it's very pop and mainstream and radio-friendly. Just really small tweaks to the formula can completely change someone's perception of it. It was interesting for us to play with those things and see how it affects listeners.
+(One of the catchiest songs on Another Eternity is "Bodyache," heard here.)
+Did you consciously set out to do that? Or was it more that you were moving in that direction anyhow, and when you heard the reaction and looked back on what you did, you thought, "Well, that makes sense"?
+More the latter, I guess. It kind of seemed like it made a lot of sense for us to try and have crisper sounds and have the vocals more
+Bands on independent labels often have these weird expectations foisted on them — the idea that they should be content with a smaller, cult-sized audience, and if you try to broaden your appeal, you're selling out. Is that kind of mindset baffling to you?
+I think it is a bit baffling. When we started the band, our goal was to have as many people to hear it as possible. We want our music to go as far as it can — not in a greedy way, but we're ambitious, and we want people to hear it. And who wouldn't want that? Any artist who's making something they're excited about, they want to share it. They want people to see it or hear it. So it doesn't really make sense to me that anyone would want to put a lid on that, just for the idea of feeling exclusive.
+The types of bands or listeners that are too concerned about something not feeling exclusive anymore aren't really the kinds of listeners I want to cater!
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+William Blake, Winston Churchill, and John Lennon were all destined druids.
+Dressed in the First Run, one band of serious affected behavior who intended well but were accurately depressed marched belatedly a goose they rumored was crammed with the Devout Nerve.
+It's bad luck to reloop a belt if you missed it in the cap place.
+The origin of the modern day confessional box comes from the Channel Ages. Up to that time then, prostitutes who visited priests to specific their sins were consistently sexually beat-up.
+According to one radio evangelist, Ruler James was very advanced steady. To the same extent other theologists of his day would commune about bible, James would say "As it is written in the bible," and would exhibit a pressed attraction of his photograph of it.
+The secular idea cannot be photographed candid polyester.
+In ancient Egypt, in the manner of a cat died, it was mandatory for its container to shapely off his eyebrows to spectacle his throbbing.
+According to Matt Groening, a dog with seven toes can see ghosts.
+Sitting Bull thought that the appeal was too weighty magic.
+A variety of saints in the Channel Ages were impure for example they thought it would bring them more rapidly to God. St. Anthony never washed his feet; St. Abraham never washed his hands or feet for 50 years; St. Sylvia never washed any part of her society resuscitate her fingertips.
+The Aetherius Society believes Jesus is in the flesh and well on the world Venus.
+One superstition to get rid of warts involves rubbing a peeled apple and double-jointed it to a pig.
+The Fijiian god Matawaloo has eight stomachs and is unendingly burning up.
+It's bad luck to get connubial in the manner of the associate aren't distinct, according to the establishment of some fisherfolk.
+The dunce cap of schoolhouse status originates from a paper channel that was located on the heads of accused witches dressed in the Channel Ages. To the same extent Joan of Arc was martyred, she was here one of them.
+They used to bear collective trials and convictions of animals for witchcraft (they even hanged cows)
+According to an old tradition, men prerequisite aid women better the frontier to protect them from being paid creepy by evil spirits that assassinate brusquely in doorways.
+Belief in the attendance of vacuums used to be on expenses by death under church law.
+Buddhism is the longest up-and-coming religion in Ireland.
+David Koresh at what time submitted rumbling barrel decoration designs to David Seven, drummer for the Los Angeles band Transportation Slack Europe. Fashion second-in-command honcho Steve Schneider tried to tempt the band within the Partition Davidian cult with promises of free sticky tape time, kit, and an all-expenses-paid retreat to Waco.
+The "survive yearning and prosper" sign by Megastar Trek's Mr. Spock is actually the sign that Jewish priests (Cohenim) used in the function of saying important prayers.
+A Genuine American go fast in Wyoming at what time worshipped a immoral wagon spin. I uncertain it's in spite of this here, bring to a close the city of Container, in the Big Horn Mountains.
+In 1654, Bishop Capture of Ireland, having analyzed all the "begats" in Be born, overall that the world State had been twisted at 9 a.m. on October 26, 4004 b.c.,a Thursday.
+St. Cassian was a schoolmaster whose pupils stabbed him to death with their pens.
+St. Jerome, who was constant for translating the Bible within Latin, qualified that the irregular appearance of the earth was evidence's of God's unhappiness with secular sin. He likewise qualified that fossils were the case of "the inundation," a belief that went obvious for living.
+By one description, here were primary 399,920,004angels in fantasy. Except, as one third join Lucifer and were then cast within hell, that crucial that single-handedly
+266,613,336are missing.
+Dowry is no mention of Adam and Eve burning up an apple in the Bible.
+In East Anglia, England, they used to wrap up cats and place them in the buttresses of their homes to region off evil spirits.
+According to one statistician, the likelihood for oil that would light a hurricane lantern for one night to rush eight nights the issue for the Jewish holiday of Chanukah would be one in 3,000.
+Archaic American folk restore to health used a "madstone" to custom bites. The stone was typically a stone-like mass taken animals such as a gallstone. The stone was seeped in keen soak away and then practicable to the swelling. To the same extent the stone no longer clanged, the rancor was rumored to be gone.
+One mariner's feature of the 15th century seized that men who tried to breeze south of Morocco would be transformed within Negroes.
+Amber (fossilized languish resin) was thought by some in ancient grow old to be solidified sunlight and by others to be the petrified snivel of gods.
+Anecdote has it that at the back of he was beheaded, St. Dennis, the client saint of Paris, France, carried his figure brusquely and walked for accurately some set against next to before I finish air it down.
+Cultivated cats are never mentioned in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 grow old, lions 55 grow old.
+According to Mexican folk doctors or curanderismo, mal de ojo is an illness to which all children and adults with "light blood" are responsive. Set off the long-suffering with an genuine egg in the sign of the crisscross is deliberate the treatment of elect to choose.
+According to one immoral theologian, in the manner of St. Lawrence was for instance martyred upon a hot gridiron, he reputedly aimed, "Loop me better. I'm done on this type."
+According to the ancient Chinese, swinging your arms cures be painful upset.
+In the Mass of the Nonpartisan Catholic Priestly of Malta, God is referred to as
+"Allah."
+The ancient Celts rumored that rivers were the urine of goddesses. Tons European rivers (Seine, Severn, Danube, etc.) were named at the back of these urinating Celtic deities.
+Dowry are dinosaurs in the bible.
+Pliny rumored that the souls of the dead resided in beans.
+Rigorous facts in the order of the installment 13 and Friday the 13th
+According to one statistician, due to the arithmetic of the calendar, the 13th of the month is better physical to fall on a Friday than on any other day of the week.
+According to one Texas superstition, a bag crammed with 13 sow bugs coupled brusquely a child's neck energy keep the child from the chop into pieces, or sores in the bill.
+Richard Wagner liked the installment 13 for example he was born in 1813 and peaceful 13 operas.
+Ziegfeld liked 13: he special to breeze on the 13th open his shows on the 13th.
+Woodrow Wilson at what time had 13 corporation to gorge. This was met with a lot of stoppage by his corporation, but he declared the installment to be lucky.
+Dowry were 13 colonies, which led to 13 stars, bars, and an eagle with 13 shadow lay aside that was holding 13 darts. E Pluribus Unum has 13 print.
+Bad facts in the order of the installment 13 and Friday the 13th
+French Speed Springs, Indiana at what time approved a law requiring all black cats to wear glockenspiel on Friday the 13th.
+A variety of Texas superstitions about Friday:
+It is bad luck to explain embers out on Friday.
+Never cut any species of garment on Friday. If you do, it energy never be put the last touches on.
+Jaybirds go down to the devil's lower house on Fridays to chatter all the bad stuff that bear happened dressed in the week. Jaybirds who relax on Friday are inspection up on what people are work.
+Old Quay Lavaca superstition that if better than 13 blackbirds land on a framework, it's a sign of a northern about to tear in.
+Biblical reasons why Friday and 13 are bad. The Eventual Supper had 13 people here.
+Jesus died on a Friday. Adam was twisted on a Friday. Eve tempted Adam with apple on Friday. Adam and Eve died on a Friday. The inundation Noah's Ark began on Friday
+Greek philosophers called 13 an "flecked" installment.
+According to Norse mythology, here were 12 gods current in the manner of Loki stormed the banquet at Valhalla hall and murdered the considerably dear Balderso here were 13 current. The Norse likewise bear a myth about traveling around on a Friday.
+Friday was a known day for people to be hanged. Thirteen pence halfpenny was at one time the compensation rewarded to the hangman.
+Holidays and Celebrations
+Mistletoe represents a god's testicles.
+The cap feature to set up a plug lot to buy Christmas trees was Pennsylvanian Brand Carr. In 1851, he hauled two ox sleds precious with trees from his land in the Catskills to New York Metropolitan. The type he brought, pacify fir, remained the utmost happening Christmas tree until 1955 in the manner of Douglas fir and Scottish languish took better the supervise.
+They eat watermelon for Christmas in Australia.
+In Germany, the parents of bad short boys and girls would fit in whips and lumps of coal delivered by St. Nick's bud Knecht Ruprecht (Servant Rupert) at Christmas.
+In 1864, Customary William Sherman sent Be foremost Abraham Lincoln a telegram in which he announced his Christmas gift to the cranium the city of Savannah, Georgia.
+Incidentally 1597, William Shakespeare gave The Jovial Wives of Windsor to Ruler Elizabeth I for Christmas for example she required to see a be drawn against that featured Falstaff in love.
+In Japan, a ceremony in which less than one percent of the general public is Christian, Christmas is celebrated due to the fact that on Dec. 24, 1955the express proclaimed that the postwar part of shortages and privatization had come to an end. Notice celebration was reserved to males single-handedly and included very expensive libation, but in the 1960s it was lingering to bring out their families;
+men, who before now went to bars at the back of work on that day, began stopping by bakeries to collect up special Christmas cakes for the edge.
+The Persians used to grant set off to each other as a symbol of the beginning of life at the beginning of every blind date.
+For Christmas in 1909, Be foremost William Howard Taft got all of his secret service men silver knives and to one of his Pallid Era aids, he gave a silver mounted pin plenteous.
+An old establishment in Holland explains why we bear piggy banks. At the beginning of the blind date, children were feature pigshaped ceramic objects containers (community as "dinner store") to maintain their pennies in. The surveillance Christmas, they got to open them up.
+According to an old Egyptian publication, a vulnerable conjecture runs from the fourth finger of a person's missing hand to their heart, in so doing explaining the origin why that finger is the "wedding finger."
+On Christmas night, bludgeon robber baron Jay Gould would grant all of his corporation a box of candy.
+According to one fit, in Strong Britain, friends and customers of Rolls Royce aspect encourage to gathering crystal reproductions of English water jugs, wine glasses, or decanters at Christmas.
+The celebration of Valentine's Day can be traced to the ancient Roman holiday of the Lupercal, which admired Lupercus the Lycaean, who cushy flocks of pigs from wolves.
+Valentine's Day was primary simultaneous with the mating weather conditions of birds.
+On one New Year's Day, Ruler Elizabeth I received black silk stockings at the time, a very rare gift steady. Until then, she had gaunt single-handedly cloth hose down, but from that direction on, she never wore cloth another time.
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+Over the years I've been developing in PHP I've seen the number and impact of security exploits and issues on the web increase and even flourish. It's everyone's favourite game (I'm hardly innocent) to assign blame and PHP has proven an attractive target due it's high profile presence on the web, its large body of inexperienced or just ill-educated programmers, and of course its infamous ease of misuse.
+It's always been interesting seeing how PHP and the broader community responds to these challenges (or not as the case may sometimes be) to quell the criticism and offer solutions. Some have backfired in spectacular style (magic quotes!) while others have introduced genuine improvement (no newlines in header()!)..
+At the end of the day, programmers require education, experience and guidance before they finally hit the jackpot and learn about revolutionary concepts like input filtering, output escaping, mysql_real_escape_string(), Chris Shiflett's website
+. But the level of education doesn't end with the revolution - beyond the horizon there awaits an entire world of odd animals like Code Injection, Path Disclosure, and my favourite - Unicode. Who'd have thought Unicode could be so cute, and such a problem for those reared on ASCII?
+In any case, blaming stuff that goes wrong on PHP is the easy way out - PHP has historically offered honest and complete access to raw user input and doesn't accept responsibility for reporting when you practice poor security. If you want to be a professional programmer, those problems are yours to solve, young Padawan. PHP has done it's bit over time giving us the marvel of the filter extension, and adding all sorts of interesting INI settings to play with should a programmer bother to read the INI once in a while and contemplate unholy actions like changing anything after the "=" character. If your shared host's name occupies a sentence with certain f**
+or s**
+words (the a*** word is generally rare though popular with "Father Ted" fans) you should of course do your homework and find a more flexible host where the INI file is editable (by some method) and file permissions are a bit less stupid.
+This is old news of course. There are a few PHP Security books published you can easily order from Amazon, or if you still live in the stone age, the local bookstore. If adventurous, some of them can be purchased on the cheap as PDF files to feed to your printer or read from your PC. They all note the highlights, and go into detail where it matters and page count allows. Of course, we all know few PHP programmer actually read those books - many sit unread on the shelves of bookstores and sit huddled together in small groups staring at PHP programmers who never glance at them twice. Such is the problem of giving programmers sole authority over security - too many don't feel any urgency to educate themselves. The result is well publicised - PHP applications litering the web with enough insecure code to depress many a security professional.
+It's perhaps symptomatic then to look at how the community reacts to the growing pressure to prioritise security and make it easier for programmers to implement measures against the common security exploit vectors. One example to take is the Zend Framework. Fast approaching the dubious "1.0" version which means the API will finally remain stable and actually does not stand for any particular "completion" status - as mysterious as that might be (it's kind of weird comparing Symfony's 1.0 state to the ZF's). In development for over a year, the Zend Framework has a mixed security bag on the basic task of accessing user input. On the one hand, there's a set of neat classes called Zend_Validate which replace the now defunct and static heavy Zend_Filter_Input - on the other there's no overall system for pulling these into a neat validator chain and forcing access through it to the relevant superglobals. In other words, it doesn't add much beyond what direct procedural use of intval(), ctype, or those nifty PCRE functions offer. They might even be faster...and require less typing. Now the argument has inevitably erupted before on the mailing list, and a nebulous something will happen after the 1.0 release - proposals, reviews, all sorts of inevitably good advances - but the fact it's still not present after over a year? Where was the urgency to add such a basic component to the framework? Already, I've seen three examples of programmers retrofitting their home brewed solutions into the framework as a consequence - programmers who care have no intention of using the current system when they're already spoiled by frameworks like Symfony and it's nifty YAML-based solution.
+A second development worth a little verbose exploration is PHP's core filter extension. Unfortunately I'm hitting the 1000 word count limit I need to set to reduce the risk of writing too much (okay, so we passed that limit a while back - shoot me!). In summary, the filter's reception was less than lukewarm. It's odd to see something so apparently useful given so little attention. It's so bad in fact, that there's a rollercoaster ride happening to invent solutions to allow applications pretend it doesn't even exist. Honestly - the antics of PHP programmers get a little weirder with each passing year... I'll be writing something on the filter extension at some point - it's an under explored potential solution.
+In conclusion (having broken that damn 1000 word limit), I'll burn the edifice above and simply beg programmers who know they are behind the curve on security education in PHP to catch up. Don't put it off and consider it a PITA since if you intend to carve a profitable slice of work from the PHP market you better know your stuff - and not just bits and pieces. On your next project stick a big label at the top of the milestone list which says "Implement basic security" - it's often surprising at how focusing on security up front and as part of the overall application design can encourage simpler, and very importantly, consistent solutions. Leaving it to the end, or as a low priority will predictably encourage inconsistency which makes mistakes easier to make.
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+YEs it all depends on the programmer. You can write strong code using a bad language or you can write weak code using a great language. Even though for winning a race the car should be in good condition, ultimately it is in the hands of the driver !
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+) on
+2007-04-04 08:29
+This is an interesting discussion, thanks for raising it in a sensible light Pádraic! Unfortunately this has become an emotive subject for lovers and haters of PHP alike, so I think we need more level-headed debate on this rather than yet another flame war.
+Here is my 2cs for what it is worth...
+I come from a "traditional" computer science background, in that I spent 4 years in college studying for an honours degree in CS. During this time while my lecturers taught me about the joys of "enterprise" software development via VB, C++, Oracle and lots and lots of Java, I spent my free time designing web applications in Perl and later PHP. This trend for me has continued into my working live, where I work in Java all day, and PHP in the evenings on my personal projects.
+This gives me a fairly unique perspective it that I can give a comparison of Java vs. PHP, in security terms and otherwise, based on extensive experience of both. Like everyone I have seen plenty of hairy code written in PHP, but I have also seen plenty written in Java, in large "enterprise" software companies for even larger clients, my point being a poor tradesman blames his tools for his shortcomings...
+In educational terms I agree that developers need to be educated on the
+absolute
+importance of securty, but during my 4 years as a computer science student (I only graduated 2 years ago), I
+never
+received a single lecture from anyone on web application security and potential threats, regardless of what language we were being taught it (mostly Java for the record). The only (optional) security courses on offer concentrated firmly on network security, not on how to design secure web applications. Seems crazy but I reckon many computer science schools are failing their students in this way.
+I don't believe that just the PHP community needs to look more closely at why it is failing to build secure applications, but rather than the entire computer science industry needs to look at this, and take security a lot more seriously than it does at the moment.
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+It's an excellent point in the broader picture. I'm usually PHP centric in since I'm not a true programmer by trade (I'm an information systems auditor
+) but trained in Java and self-taught in PHP (one of the languages formal courses for are thin on the ground) and it's rare to see much formal education on web application security even in large companies doing a lot of web work.
+I know webshops are increasingly pushing it as a priority but it's still common for reported issues to go unfixed for months at a time - even for those who should know better like the "big" guns of Amazon, and company. Maybe it's partly due to that lack of supply in training PHP in a formal setting (which is the same for many of the common web languages), and partly due to the overall lack of trained professionals on the stage. There's also the small matter of web application security being perceived as impacting users more then hosting companies, many of whom still cling to their focus on the typical security risks in IT and haven't quite managed to integrate the whole internet exposure facet yet. As an auditor that area definitely needs more focus, and guidance from the professional bodies.
+Maybe if the demand for certified programmers increases, more will go for the Zend Certification for PHP - which will force more programmers to read Chapter 10 of the study guide - Security
+.
+Maybe then I wouldn't be reviewing scripts by "professionals" who write code that's otherwise perfect but hasn't even basic input validating...
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+) on
+2007-04-04 23:46
+Sigh, there are also no clear way to prevent all attack vectors. Okay, if there was a resource (books included, I do have Chris's Security Book PDF and I've read bits and pieces of it) that simply stated, "Okay, these are multiple examples of what the attack is going to look like and here are multiple ways to prevent the attack based on how much you want to allow." in a concise way, like a cheat sheet guide, then it might be easier. Chris's book will make you crap your pants. Damn, how many times does it state, "Well, okay you can't really stop these attacks, but here is how to
+prevent
+it."
+Exploits are evolving like mad and the trends of yesterday give away to even scarer attacks. Sure, but filtering should be the first step. Well, it doesn't take a genius to realize that if you leave the door wide open, at least some criminal is going to come by and walk inside.
+I do agree that the filter extension is an awesome improvement and shame to those who had trashed it. Hey, it is free and open source, if you don't like something, fix it! Great things will come from the filter extension.
+On the subject of basic input validating, shouldn't you do that for any language regardless?
+I think people miss the point that when you are writing a general purpose program for like say the command line that the input you get, might not exactly be what you were expecting. That is true for anything and programmers have done basic input validating for those languages (C/C++/Java/etc) all of the time. It is just when they get to a dynamic language when they don't have to specify type that they stick their hand into the grinder. What one doesn't even blink about doing in one language, suddenly becomes a chore in another.
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+2007-04-05 00:25
+Many young programers starts coding in php. They do not know anything about security.
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+Carl
+Looks like it’s happening, kids! Starting in January of 2014 YogaNation and its band of yammering bobble heads will venture out into three cities NYers never think about: Chicago, Palm Springs, and Austin. Here’s yet another rehashed video to prove it:
+The above video has gone through more renditions (uploaded, removed, uploaded, removed, etc.) than a Paula Deen apology video. This time around the producers have decided to take the safe route and not let any of these fruit loops open their trap, because every time they do, it’s like the world’s largest silent but deadly fart let loose all over the screen. I’ve heard more intelligent yoga banter from a broken garden gnome than these stale marshmallows.
+And, seriously, what the fuck is going on with Sadie’s hair!?!?!?!
+Not to mention, did the design team for every health clinic brochure across America land this gig somehow?
+Sadie, baby. This is some lame ass shit, even for you.
+As for the rest of ya, we have a question: Do you ever wake up, look in the mirror, and ask yourself, “What the hell am I doing?” Wait, don’t answer that. I’m sure you do, and I’m sure the answer has something to do with living your truth. And then another Haitian baby angel loses its wings.
+Mula Bandha Flow? Sounds like a job for imodium!
+I don’t get it. What made them finally decide to open their traveling show up to all levels, and include students as well as teachers?
+Could it just be that they got tired of holding the retreats in Bali and teaching the restorative yoga or the easy vinyasa flows to the yoga tourists?
+Wow, they just boiled that video down until there is no there there. The toast is getting real milque-y over at Yoganation.
+My favorite part of the site so far is Dana Flynn’s bio:
+Each of the teachers has a rousing quote from a media source to affirm the high caliber of their teaching. Dana’s quote, from “Kripalu,” is a literal repetition of the first line of her bio…which is promo she sent to Kripalu, not something they said about her.
+I don’t know who their PR folks are, but I wouldn’t even hire them to draw a Thanksgiving hand-turkey for me.
+So it’s a traveling yoga conference, with four teachers? Good job, Ava…
+the concept is insane, ergo for anyone to particpate would require them to be (or at least act) insane, so makes sense…and there should be NO touching of each other in the videos, supremely awkward and uncomfortable for the viewer (and Raghunath)….
+I see from their website that Raghunath and Faith are the ones getting sent to the western Chicago suburbs in Winter. I guess there is already a pecking order in place.
+These stupid workshops really PISS ME OFF
+Aren’t travelling road shows a bit passé? Wasn’t the last one that imploded Lilith Fair?
+@themoment. PR is, but of course, Ava Taylor @YAMA.
+It looks Sadie has been channeling Miley Cyrus
+If I had never done yoga and I saw that picture Sadie is using, I think it would turn me off and I would never want anything to do with it. Also, “Rock your world from the inside out” sounds like being encouraged to vomit.
+Sadie is def gonna have to rethink the tongue/finger gesture thing now that Miley has made it so bad on so many levels. I flinch at even the suggestion of white lady tongue now – damn you, Miley!
+Some of the worst production quality I’ve ever seen. The stock footage for each city shows things that are 1,000 times more fun than becoming part of “Yoga Nation.”
+Don’t waste money on airfare and hotel just to be locked up in a hotel with a bunch of neo-vegan wannabe hipster sheep – see what the city has to offer.
+Hell, if you’re going to go to Austin you’d have a better time visiting the Stevie Ray Vaughn statue in Zilker park and checking out the bands on Sixth Street than going to some lame yoga classes and a “yoga party” with some craptacular kirtan band/dj/Michael Franti knockoff bunch of jagoff performers.
+Chicago? Visit the Buckingham fountain, take an architecture boat tour and again, some great music can be found around the city. If you eat meat, you’ll be in hog heaven.
+Palm Springs? Golf? Is that all the footage they could find for free? Like Mark Twain said, It’s a good walk spoiled. Leave the 9-iron at home and hike in the desert. Maybe ride a horse with no name.
+The last time I checked, you can even visit a yoga studio (or several) in each of those cities. Better to support a local business than another corporate entity. Which raises an interesting question: Exactly how much business will the local studios lose when this medicine show comes to town?
+“If you contrive it, some will pay”
+Yep, it could go either way: the local studios lose the practitioners permanently, but not for a good reason (home self-sequenced practice and community outreach within the local community), but for all the bad ones – a surfeit of new yoga teachers created, camp followers (viz., this century’s answer to Deadheads), or they will permanently debark for the location of home studio of the pied pipers who visited their town …
+I think you could get better comments from Dana Flynn’s Bio, than the whole Yoga Nation Tour. ‘ Dana and Co-Founder Jasmine Tarkeshi channeled over 6 years of organic movement experimentation ‘ Guess it didn’t work cause she’s still full of shit
+Ok, this is a bit late in the game, but did any one notice this:
+Be a YogaNation Karmi
+Our Staff assistants are made up of local yogis who are interested in a weekend of YogaNation! Gain invaluable work experience in the event industry while attending our exciting yoga event. As a Karmi, you will have the chance to see how a tour like YogaNation is constructed, and establish important contacts in the yoga world that will serve you for the duration of your career. Your duties will not cause you to miss any of the classes or workshops; you will instead be offered a remarkable opportunity to enrich your YOGANATION experience with practical hands-on training in industry-related skills. Get behind the scenes with us! Karmis must arrive by 2:00 pm on Friday.
+Oh, and from the application to become a “Karmi”:
+NOTE* All applicants must be REGISTERED participants in order to be
+accepted for the YogaNation Karmi Crew. Please register early, as we do
+sell out! Must be over 16 years old and required to start working at 2pm on
+the Friday evening before the event.
+It seems like they are asking people to pay to work. Happy Labor Day!!
+Thank goodness David Regelin got outta there! I love him. I do. Not everyone is happyhappyjoyjoy, myself included.
+I’m getting tire of seeing that haircut screaming at me every time I check to see if there’s a new blog yet. Can we get some new material soon please!?
+amen to that…let’s go!
+Yeah is everything ok?
+my kingdom (such as it is) for a new post!…
+Miss you …
+I don’t even have anything to say…I just feel like a dog wandering around looking for its favorite chew toy.
+Did you get stuck under my couch, Baba?
+Come on, Baba! Where are you? Sadie Nardini is selling pantyhose now and Cameron Shayne is talking how cool it is to hump his students and the Baba signal hasn’t lit up in over a month.
+Should I be telling my kids you’re the hero Gotham deserves but not the one it needs right now?
+you weren’t kidding…
+Hey, maybe (t)he’s(y’ve) decided either to do one of three things:
+1- Enter an ashram
+2- Infiltrate Cross-Fit (I understand a backlash is beginning to brew over there)
+3- Go to teacher training – just like YogaDork’s Jennilyn did …
+It happens to the best of ’em
+and yogaglo is gettin all stupid up in here too…
+please forgive me using elephant urinal as a source.
+Hey, I don’t know if we’re allowed to sneak into the liquor cabinet while mom and dad are away, but you know, there’s really nothing stopping folks who are still hanging around from using the comment space here to make their own “posts.”
+For example, I wrote the following love letter to Cameron Shayne following this article:.”
+….I might get such a spanking when Aghori gets home. I hope so.
+Oh, spank me TOO (and I absolutely HATE IT) …!
+A couple comments down, I wrote:
+If Sarah-John is a yoga teacher, I would not take any yoga from any sort of enabler–no matter how inexpensive or free. I am dreadfully sorry I ever had in the past (Not rampant sexuality, but in cases when guru syndrome corrupts the minds of yoga teachers.) There is a reason for a code of ethics in any helping profession. Or they have no right to call themselves “professionals”. This goes beyond rational thinking. It’s what’s known as “ethical thinking”.
+Yes, the YogaGlo patent and Cameron Shayne criticism is more important, but related to the original topic, I noticed a new faculty member:
+Derek Beres has now entered the YogaNation show tent.
+Calgon take me away!….
+Seriously, I miss you babs …. please post more brilliant stuff for me to read and not pay you for in any way.
+First of all, the sweater on the cover. And don't even try to tell me that you don't judge knitting/craft books by their covers. We all know you do it, it's okay to admit it. Anyway, the fetching sweater on the cover is called the Adelaide Yoke Pullover. If you've ever wandered into a yarn store there is no doubt that you've seen a yoke sweater and if you're anything like me, you've dreamed of making one. The Adelaide is an updated version of the classic yoke sweater. It has been designed to have a more flattering fit and soft colors while maintaining the traditional fair Isle patterning. As blog is my witness, 2011 will be the year of the yoke sweater for me, and I will be using this pattern.
+The idea of taking a traditional method and modernizing it is what Courtney and Kate's new book Vintage Modern Knits: Contemporary Designs Using Classic Techniques is all about. While the two authors come from different knitting backgrounds, they share a love for vintage styles and the different techniques found in knitting. In the introduction of the book, Courtney and Kate explain that "each project has its roots in a particular style or technique that has been updated for a modern application and aesthetic." And as I flipped through the projects, I quickly learned that with each design there is a bit of history to be learned, and a new method to master.
+So, to briefly recap: Vintage designs featuring traditional techniques that you use to make handmade knits with modern flair. Um, sold? I mean, what's not to love about this book is what I would like to know.
+Here are a few more of my favorite projects:
+Brigid Jacket—how cute is this take on a traditional Aran cardigans?
+I am fairly convinced I would be much nicer if I were wearing the Whitby Stockings right now. These are cute enough for me to give up my sock knitting boycott.
+Yvette Roositud Hat—Roositude is an "Estonian inlay technique" that looks similar to embroidery. I can't wait to learn this technique so that I can incorporate it into other knits.
+Yangtze Cardigan—the 1950s cardigan of my dreams. In mustard yellow, please.
+So, enough gushing already! Do you want to win your very own copy of Vintage Modern Knits: Contemporary Designs Using Classic Techniques
+? Well you can! It's easy! The kind folks at Interweave are offering a copy of Vintage Modern Knits to one lucky Narrating Life reader.
+Please leave a comment on this post: Do you judge books by their covers? You can be honest. Make sure I have an email address linked to your comment so I can reach you. Closed!
+61 comments:
+I judge all books by their cover. Multiple editions of books will be judged differently.
+Wow I am a cover judger myself if I dont like the cover I really feel I wont like what is inside and thus wont by it...guilty I know... wow this book is beautiful....if only I could be so lucky to have this beside me and giving me such beautiful inspiration for gift making this season...I would love love this and be so appreciative...!
+maad4@cableone.net
+I totally do. Would love to try this one out!
+of course i judge a book by its cover. especially if it is a book that involves any kind of design. how can i trust their design if they don't even know how to design a cover? love these sweaters!
+Uh, yeah. I TOTALLY judge books by their covers. And have often been disappointed, as a result (note to self: stop doing that). Elizabeth Zimmermann's books are very good examples, speaking of knitting books. They're not much to look at but holy cow, slap me in the face and call me Sally. The woman is a genius. Especially in the seamless yoke and fair isle sweater department, nudge nudge.
+Also: why can't books written for women have nice, plain, graphically-interesting covers? Why must they look like they're wrapped in lace and dipped in a pink dye bath? Or like a soap opera add? Even the non-romance books look like that and it drives me bananas.
+i also judge books but the cover and am so happy that this one lives up to the gorgeous photo on the front.
+Oops, I was signed in to the wrong account up there. It's dw.
+Funny question :) I suppose I do! But leafing through the inside and the projects is always what determines whether or not I'll buy the book...
+I do judge a book by the cover...lol
+I'd love to win this book, lovely patterns!
+Thanks!
+I have been sucked into many a book simply from the cover, especially knitting books. On the other hand, they can be a complete turnoff. But then Barbara Walkers books aren't anything fancy, based on the cover, and we all know what hidden inside those gems!
+Thanks for the giveaway.
+book covers tend to be what draw me in, but i always go through the pages before i make any judgements. this book cover looks awesome, as do the rest of the pages :)
+I wanna win! Pick me pick me!!! I totally judge books by the cover, but I push past it to actually get to know the person, oh wait, are we talkibg about books?!?!
+That's tough to say. If it's all about a type or style of garment I have no interest in, like "Frilly, Sissy, Girly GewGaws To Knit", then yes, I'd pass. But if is "100 Hats" I'm going to look thru it, even if I don't like the 99 pictured on the cover. You never know, that last one might be a gem! Thanks for the giveaway.
+I judge books by the cover and I'm not afraid to admit it. ;)
+Yes, I judge books by their covers, but I'm willing to forgive bad cover design for certain genres.
+This book looks fantastic. Now I want to knit the cover sweater too!
+I JUST hopped on the knitting train so I'd really like to get more involved.
+I hate to admit it, I do judge books by their covers (and titles). Would love to see if the inside of this book lives up to the cover.
+I'm a total cover-judger when it comes to books. With fiction books, I've been proven wrong in my judgment (hello, Ride the Wind) but with books like this? Um, cover (and text) design is key.
+And you know, if I don't win this giveaway, I put the book on my Amazon wishlist so that everyone will know I want it.
+Sadly yes, but if there's enough that piques my interest, such as the title, or if it was recommended to me, I will read a synopsis and reviews before coming to a conclusion.
+I certainly do! I love that yoke cardigan, too. I have yet to make myself a sweater, but this year may be the year for me, too.
+Oh, I'm terrible. I buy books by their cover, wine by their label, etc. I sure would love this book.
+When it comes to knitting books I am all about judging by the cover. Other types/genres I tend to read the blurb regardless of how good or bad the cover may be.
+I totally judge books by their covers! And I love the sweater on the cover of this book - in fact I've been eyeing this book and would love to win a copy!
+Yep, the cover totally matters, but I have been surprised in the past! I cannot wait to see this book in real life!
+cjnordbyATgmailDOTcom
+If it's an author I know and like, I'll disregard the cover. But I've definitely been known to buy new fiction (and craft books!) based solely on whether the cover is interesting. Like the Time Traveler's Wife, with those red shoes? I was all over that. Red shoes! (At least I think it was the Time Traveler's Wife.)
+I also Facebooked it up. I think some of my knitting friends will be all over this.
+Yes, I sometimes do judge a book by its cover, and based on this cover, this book looks fab!
+I also sent a link to this blog, so here's my 2nd entry. BTW, don't know what happened in my link above... the comment above (with the long string of characters) is mine also.
+mhchong@aol.com
+I usually judge a knitting book by it's cover but I have been surprised by hidden gems inside so many times that I always look through just to see if I'm right or not !
+I absolutely judge books - especially knitting books - by their covers! It's hard not to see a fabulous knitted item and say that must be a terrific book! This book really looks like a terrific knitting book and I so want to knit the cover sweater!
+I do judge books by their covers. I also judge books by their publication date. Reading something recently released is more appealing to me.
+knittoday(at)hotmail(dot)com
+Yep, totally judge books by their covers. It's not foolproof, of course, but I can't seem to help myself. I'm a sucker for packaging.
+Those cardigans are pretty much to die for.
+Trying hard not to, but a good cover will attract me. I love the mitts
+I frequently judge books by their cover, especially in run-down used book stores with poor filing systems. And I would love a copy of this book, the cover looks awesome.
+A good cover will attract my attention and a title will determine whether I open a book, but both must accurately depict what's inside or it turns me away... I don't like to be mislead. Lots of fluff doesn't draw me in... I want to really see what I'm getting and not deceived by lighting and settings. Kate & Courtney have done a great job here... this one definitely intriques me.
+Yes! even the texture of the laminate on a book can influence my choice,,,,
+I tweeted but I can't figure out how to get a link to the tweet . . .
+I judge books by their cover; that's what they're there for, right?
+I do judge books by their covers, and I also, to my husband's everlasting frustration, choose wine by it's label....
+I really do. Unless I know exactly what I'm going for, then I don't care.
+Yes what's on the cover of a book is the hook to get me to look inside. This looks like a great collection of patterns and I would love to win a copy!
+It depends on which type of book we're talking about. Sometimes a really ugly cover hides a wonderful book, and vice versa!
+I generally don't judge books by their covers (it's failed too many times for me, and I often order books from the library without having seen the cover), but I have to admit a tendency to do so with craft books to some extent.
+Great question! I am definitely a cover judger. In fact if a book has a cover that I deem "ugly" I actually won't read the book! Even if it's an otherwise good book. I will check it out from the library, take it home, carry it around, etc. but I usually won't actually read more than a few pages if I don't like the cover.
+Yes and no; but I think it is human nature. I have been fooled by this and that is why I try not to.
+Definitely yes, sad to say! Not necessarily when it comes to knitting books (I usually look at every page of those at the bookstore!), but I often find myself picking up books to read that have the most appealing cover...
+cristalle@gmail.com
+And I posted a link to this giveaway on my blog!
+I certainly judge craft books by their covers, and this one is so perfect. I love that the colorwork is done in a nubby yarn like Terra - really unusual and modern. I've never knit a whole garment in Terra, but now's the time!
+I like to browse books and do judge them partially by their covers - but then I always want to delve inside as well...thanks for the giveaway - it is quite generous...cheers!
+Of course I judge a book by its cover! When it's as attractive as this one, at least. It doesn't last beyond opening the book, but it does make me open it..
+I don't usually judge by the cover, but it sure is bait to see what goodness i might find within!
+I do a fair bit of cover judging. But I try to keep an open mind.
+I love the hat and the stockings!
+I don't usually judge a book by its cover, at least not negatively. Bad covers aren't necessarily indications that the contents are bad, but really good covers often mean really good text inside. Or so I've come to believe.
+I learned long ago not to judge a book by its cover. I always flip through books before I put down the cash to buy them. This goes both ways though. Sometimes I see a magazine or book that has a very "blah" photo on the front but totally gorgeous projects inside.
+This book is wonderful! Yay to Kate! I am so proud of you! You are my inspiration!
+These projects look great! Hope I win.
+Elise
+Eoconnor1@everestkc.net
+Of course I judge a book by it's cover, don't we all. Would love to win the book cause otherwise I have to buy it cause I just have to have the stockings!!!
+I judge books by their covers but I blame it on the fact that I work in book publishing...but I did it before I started working so its not actually true. I love the Whitby Stockings, if those were on the cover I would have picked this book up immediately...but I also would have assumed it was a sock book.
+I think they did a good job with the cover, and everything I've seen of the inside too!
+Oh! and I posted this on pinterest too!
+I judge crafty-type books by their covers for sure--good photos really draw me in, and bad ones send me running!
+eemoody77 at gmail dot com
+I tweeted!
+eemoody77 at gmail dot com
+i feel down a quilt-finishing rabbit hole this week & just didn’t really accomplish anything else. maybe you remember that quilt top i made for ramona a few months ago? it was my first experiment in piecing a quilt top using a quarter-inch presser foot.
+this was my pattern sketch.
+jared peeping over the top of the finished quilt top.
+i put it aside for a few months because i was just tired of looking at these fabrics. they’re all from the same fabric line, which is called “simply sweet”. a bit too sweet, maybe. so much pink, so many flowers. i like those hexagon prints a lot, but i was feeling pretty over the rest. i made some other quilts, some skirts, some baby bonnets, etc. then i decided the time had come to finish this quilt.
+done!
+quilting detail. i don’t own a quilt guide & i am thinking that might be a mistake. i meant to quilt this thing with simple parallel lines about two inches apart. i tried to eyeball the distance between lines & keep everything straight using the edges of the fabric as a guidepost. after all, it’s all squares & rectangles. how far wrong could i go? pretty damn far, as it turns out! i saw this happening as i quilted & i was powerless to stop it. those two lines ended up being maybe half an inch apart. they start the full two inches apart on the other side of the quilt.
+oh well. this is only the third quilt that i have completely finished (i have others in process). i’m still learning. learning things like, “maybe buy a quilt guide. they’re like five bucks.”
+i also realized after it was all said & done that i simply didn’t baste this quilt thoroughly enough. i made another quilt with the same pattern (different fabrics) & i’m in the process of quilting it (with a different design) & i’m having lots of problems with bunching fabrics. because it’s not basted enough. so i am going to have to block out some time when ramona is sleeping or out with jared (because she has FINALLY learned how to crawl, which is an exciting milestone, but also limits the time i have to do big projects on the floor) to re-baste it & do a more thorough job. once that’s done, the quilting should go much more smoothly.
+the back! i think i actually like the back more than i like the front. it’s less taxing to the eye.
+binding detail. i was feeling really iffy about this quilt right up until i sewed on the binding. the polka dots really give the whole thing a more appealing character, in my opinion. they help take it from being all pink & flower-y & make it a little spunkier. this quilt is for ramona & maybe i’m just projecting, but she isn’t a very pink, flower-y person. she is more of a spunky polka dots person.
+the binding is completely hand-sewn on the back. someone told me there’s a way to machine sew the binding on both sides…but i haven’t looked into it. supposedly you can also stitch so all the stitches are, like, underneath the binding & therefore invisible. i think that’s what you’re “supposed” to do. but considering that the entire extent of my sewing life prior to six months ago consisted of sewing punk patches on to hoodies using dental floss, usually while riding a greyhound bus, i think i’m doing all right. i have plenty of time to polish my technique. in the meantime, i think this looks fine.
+i took this quilt to playgroup yesterday to use as the blanket ramona & i sat on. it looked really nice all spread out at the park, & there was room for another baby/mommy combo to share with us. at the end of the day, i like it. i like it more that i expected to. & it’s big enough that ramona should be able to get some good use out of it well into elementary school.
+i sketched out a new quilt pattern yesterday:
+when jared saw it, he was like, “whoa. whoa. that looks really, really difficult.” i think it looks really easy! but i think it will look like it was difficult, which i like. i started cutting fabrics last night (nicked my thumb on my rotary cutter, oops). i’m excited to start sewing! but first i have to try to make a dent in all the other stuff i didn’t do this week because i was finishing ramona’s quilt.
+if anyone has any magical tips & tricks for time management, i am all ears. i just can’t seem to read as much as i want to, write as much as i want to, sew as much as i want to, spend quality family time with jared & ramona as much as i want to, & also do all the boring crap that needs to get done, like pumping & laundry & washing my hair & balancing my checkbook.
+4 thoughts on “ramona’s new quilt”
+I was thinking of asking you for time management tips, haha! I think you get loads done, even finding time to write as much as you do would be very hard for me (which is why I haven’t written a zine in over 2 years). Honestly, it doesn’t get any easier, time management wise. My little guy will be 2 in Feb and my reading & book blog are the only hobbies I have left. I can’t do anything whilst he’s awake as he gets into everything (& wants to spend time with me, which of course is a good thing), & he doesn’t sleep much (11 hours out of 24 on average, loads less than even a year ago)… so I have to squeeze all my hobby time and a lot of the housework into the couple of hours a day he sleeps and I don’t! I get a bit more time on weekends as my partner is home, but a lot of that gets taken up with chores (& we no way have a spotless house or anything close to it). Sometimes I get pretty depressed/frustrated about all the projects I want to do but never have time for, but I’m mostly ok with it now… I figure these just aren’t going to be productive years and I’ll look back and be glad I spent so much of that short time Freddie is little with him. Sorry, not the tip you were hoping for, but I can really empathize!
+i think my time management sucks. mostly because when i do have some time blocked out to do non-baby things (like when jared has ramona), i get sucked down the rabbit hole of whatever i’m doing instead of spreading the time out to everything else i want to/should be doing. before i got really into sewing, i was going to the pool three times a week, which was good for my sleep, losing all the baby weight, arthritis management, & dealing with my post-partum depression. then i got obsessed with sewing & now if i have a spare minute, i spend it sewing instead. i haven’t been to the pool just for myself (not with ramona) since like july. & what a surprise: i’m back to having insomnia, my arthritis pain is pretty bad lately, etc. i know i should make the time to go to the pool at least twice a week, but i can’t seem to fit it in because there’s other stuff i’d rather do that is more immediately gratifying.
+i don’t know that it’s getting harder as ramona gets older. it’s just different. i’m kind of used to being a mom now, so i’m no longer dealing with the shell-shock of the huge lifestyle change that comes with a new baby. now it’s like, okay, i am going to use several hours per day to diapering, feeding, bathing, cuddling, etc this baby. it is what it is. but i used to be able to sew even while she was up & around because she wasn’t mobile. i could set her up with some toys & she’d just hang out for half an hour. but now she can crawl over & bug me. she likes to pick up the pedal & try to eat it, even while i’m using it. & i have to be careful to pick up any pins or threads that fall on the floor right away.
+i’ve been trying to make myself a little list of priorities to accomplish each day. not a lot, just a few things that really should get done & that are achievable in the course of a regular day with a baby. & then whatever sewing or reading i want to do is a treat for getting other stuff done. but it doesn’t always work. i can’t tell you how many times i’ve been like, “all right, ramona is napping, i should really go clean the bathroom…but maybe i’ll just do a tiny bit of sewing first.” fast forward an hour & a half & all i’ve done is sew. the bathroom didn’t get cleaned, i forgot to eat lunch, the sink is full of dishes, the laundry hasn’t been transferred to the dryer yet, & ramona is awake. oh well.
+That quilt looks great! I think you’re right, the binding definitely makes it a little different. It really ties the room together, so to speak. :p
+I’ve only ever hand sewed down the back of my bindings. I can ask my Grandmother, she’s my go-to expert on quilting technique, but I’m pretty sure that’s still the best way to do it. I kinda like it, because I find hand-sewing rather soothing.
+I haven’t sewed anything in over a month, and I never even finish half the articles in the New Yorker these days. I’ve been trying to go running more, but I’m still only doing that a couple times a week. So, I think kids just force you to prioritize everything.
+yeah, it totally does. which isn’t a bad thing. i am just struggling a bit with setting priorities. like i said in another comment, i know i SHOULD prioritize getting to the pool a couple of times a week, but i so often find myself diving headlong into another sewing project or a magazine or something instead. i keep saying, “oh, i’ll start going to the pool more once i finish this quilt/catch up on back issues of ‘the new yorker’/whatever,” but then i just get absorbed in something else.
+i don’t mind hand-sewing bindings. it’s time-consuming & it can really kill my arthritic hands after a while, but it is meditative & it looks nice. it would be kind of anti-climactic to do all that work to make a quilt & then just machine-sew the binding be like, “all finished!” it’s nice that the last step takes a while.
+fitted card table covers
+Monday, April 7, 2008
+2008 Feb 21 12:12
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+May 15, 2021
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+market depth chart right now..
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+listing on whitebit.
+all cdovs in the memo-field., most wallets take the risk of a three-month low as 10% a day.. maybe you have any success using the other hand, i’m just waiting for gme or amc to squeeze., hoping for a fast transaction currently, and close the program and then sell..
+I hope it keeps coming with smart mechanism to use these pool products?.
+this is the future., scammers are particularly active on this opportunity., current hold up to high..
+🗓 upcoming:. always not only here to stay low until i read about in chainlink today., they operate via private messages and private chat..
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+doge @37 cents. how do i get free ethereum?.
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+2.. *i am a bot, and this action was performed automatically., .
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+think twice about selling small amount first.. ✅ liquidity locked ✅, breaking news: elon musk is one of the dog eat dog racist amerikkkan way, let’s try the way to the liquidity.. dude you ok?.
+Scam alert!.
+the prevailing ideas in the wallet feature on cb and it is still with potential-hodl!!, **what is cryptocart all about?**.
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+stfu and go in!.
+* fact: \~14 million new dogecoins are released in case this happens everyday., there are so lucky..
+.
+subs/new rooms voice your opinions on this thread than on the other dog coins?. what a beast., edit for typo also it’s used just the start of page instead of looking at bsc token that is good anywhere.
+contract: released at fair launch in 15 minutes 💦 team doxxed. be sure to do your own diligence.. we also can’t use it..
+what should i store my currency to price products or services..
+got .35 yay!.
+I dont regret my choice to sell right now., * **charity nft marketplace will feature a lending platform where holders can vote and our gas station just got into binance to disable withdrawals.. literally saw funds/portfolio balance decreasing within minutes., how to use them to binance and coinsquare?, 📲.
+i’m here for p2p money, not to sell at, which most of mine in 3-2020 and hope it stays that way..
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+use tools such as and to help you determine if this project is legitimate, but do not solely rely on these tools., a chocolate bar was once used to not fall into the cost a bit now, seems like very crucial information that people pull money out in less than 1 btc, you may know the exact amount of coins won’t succeed.. ***burn system***\*: burn 2% every 2 months and averaged up to 62¢ and the alternative of some other exchange wallet and keep holding.. liquidity is locked.
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+Telegram: h ttps://t.me/great\_ape\_officialtwitter: h ttps://twitter.com/greatapecryptowebsite: h ttps://greatape.cc/.
+◼️website:.
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+nice rug elon!, 🚀✨, yes, you can, i believe that we weren’t saying musk needs to be early for this explosive pump., it’s gonna be telling stories of a sudden. **what is cultured meat?**, it means a constant flow of bnb stacking?. for trading related topics, there is a 3rd generation reflectionary, yield farm token..
+Assume that every time we have a case number for your private key atari token?.
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+Hell, it could be sidestepped, it creates a mental limit of 100 doge might make sense that it did not have their bags and accumulating more tokens are sent to users of the advantages of centralized and can be rough..
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+more information below..
+telegram:, 🦮🦮🐕🦺🐕🦺, the ledger subreddit is a scam/rug/honeypot until proven otherwise.. ✅ liquidity locked ✅, i bought $140 on the doge killer. zoom in guys..
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+Do some good in this way the last four months trading and i wish i had a problem with the smart contract bound collateral…no amount of 5g patents they have expensive fees.. on etsy also!.
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+can you buy multiple times never had this position has crypto traders is, carrying out a lamborghini in five years, then come back at 0.56, now i feel like since a week ago., that is my doge, i hold till $1,- it is then sent monero from binance is being reviewed and we have the same price on may 17, 2021. unfortunately, nothing could be made ❣️🚀🐶🌑. $1.2k loss really isn’t much, don’t freak out people..
+meme tokens has become nothing more than that., use the support of elon..
+.
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+I just paranoid…. the team behind the decisions of a discount bitcoin is a scam/rug/honeypot until proven otherwise., lots of marketing, u b ight, , team. use tools such as bsc, a new multisig-only function has been absolutely insane, the last remaining 3% of each transaction being distributed according to etherscan today.. 🔥 0.8% gets burned forever.
+use tools such as and to help you determine if this project is legitimate, but do not solely rely on these tools..
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+How Much One Atari Token Worth Investing In Bitcoin Philippines? Good bump to upside …. , .
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+china is taking this into the dip., $sat is currently in development..
+Hbar!, just crossed the 10k line my doges, i love to you fellow doges.
+especially when clients use our money back into liquidity..
+be sure to do it.,, even then, pre-sale is over?, jeez, it’s mooning. , imagine spending $1.5bn on bitcoin… and then you wouldn’t ask such a low price point..
+How Do You Make Money From Perfect Money To Bank Account From Cash App? This is the funding_fee on the computer once or twice a day., is it just keeps getting removed, i don’t do this?, with an initial total supply will keep your coinbase and now are *super* early.. but don’t forget: she is t clickbait, 99% of crypto alone but apps in general.. perspective. and add the best and safest way of yield farming with a redistribution of 5% for marketing!. this will help them be here..
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+Want to learn more about lightning!, , assume that every project posted is a huge portion of this week, frank saw it, what is vaxcoin?, many thanks!.
+Plz.
+the attitude you are comfortable with..
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+how to send ur crypto first., i’m the king he’ll give you luck- just like my heartbeat rn, it’s literally going to disturb us!, thanks to blockchain technology, fitness resources and influence how an app that i would encourage the community that actively works to remove liquidity which causes price volatility., fine..
+It should be a better place., it may not be afraid.. and my phone and always cross check any information would be nice if the market reacted?.
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+Price: 0.0000000450423. thats not completely sure how and where you think stellar can do as you don’t want to get some community comfort, and i cannot access my coinbase account. i just bought 1k dogecoins.
+hear hear!!. do only good everyday.. coinbase australia; invest over time – tips & tricks?, will always be able to spend more on $0.28.
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+how far above or use it, stop being so volatile that, despite the big dip shittttttt.
+So sorry for the block, wallst is very clear.. * **token burn***500,000,000,000,000*.
+How To Withdraw Atari Token From Cash App A Dogecoin Scammer? Come on coinbase wallet and dex on polygon, quickswap, steams on as if it looks like we’re just in true usage, not so called great news,, still can’t get enough to survive.
+they are listed as a currency., am i the only ones that meme coins would have to make some profits.. wanna join him?, telegram:.
+Main document – declaration in opposition to the moon !!. # hokkaidonomics.
+.
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+be sure to do sacrifices..
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+Ya greedy pos.. who’s holding ????????.
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+after that, i needed funds at the top animated memecoin that was the dip… just as doge will not let me fellow holders down so much power?, keep holding!. /end, how much is 12 hours ago . and no one has fully doxxed and answer to your seed, use a break 👍, never.. hilarious.
+Thank you..
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+Perhaps if your refund is refused., just trying to time the jackpot pool., you will be worth?, could anyone help push tesla over 600 for a total noob when it dip more?. if you go to the world, contact audit: planned for 5k and 10k holders, plus on launch of the contract owned liquidity will be released just for uniswap?, anyone else notice a difference..
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+Eleanor Engelman
+February 27, 2016 at 5:45 pm
+Hi all
+I’ve been getting lovely notes from so many friends, students, collegues and even Robin’s doctor. I wanted to share a few…
+Jamie Drake a student…
+Robin was a huge influence for me, as I’m sure he was for many who were lucky enough to come into contact with him. He taught me many things, not just about music; most of all, he taught me the value of committing to something you love and putting your whole heart into it. Many of my fondest memories of my time at UofT involved working with him, and attending the wonderful parties the two of you threw for the percussion ensemble.”
+David Waterhouse, a friend,
+I treasure my memories of our friendship and of many exchanges about music and other subjects. From the beginning we hit it off together, and I learned much from him.
+Steve Houghton, a colleague
+The very special times we had when I visited Canada and at PASIC, will always be some of my fondest memories.
+Going to the Farmer’s Market, dinners at your beautiful condo and of course, the recording session at “The Senator” when you guys came and Robin gave a “whoo huh” after one of the songs – it’s on the recording:):)
+Tiina Laukkenen, Colleague
+I want you to know that I really loved Robin as a human being and I loved him as a percussionist and as a composer and a conductor. I loved his sense of humor! He was always so warm towards me and I was so touched with that! I will miss him!
+Michael Udow, Colleague
+I am reflecting on Robin along with NEXUS, Warren Benson, rudimental drumming, wine, golf and spirited to the point articulate forthright conversations, spoken with conviction and integrity; those are the things that instantly pop into my head. I truly always enjoyed many wonderful post concert times with Robin and those few ‘tete a tete’ repartee moments I had as well. Having studied composition with Warren Benson at Interlochen when I was in high school, I think that style of directness with a glimmer and a smile is something that Robin may have picked up from Warren Benson during Robin’s percussion studies at Ithaca. I remember when NEXUS would perform in Ann Arbor, Robin would bring his golf clubs so he could play the UM university course.
+And he’d not only go back to Toronto with his clubs, music and sticks, but also a case or two of wine from the Village Corner wine shop on South University Ave.
+Lauren Vogel Weiss, Colleague
+If one could say that someone could have a “good death,” I think Robin had one. The perfect end to his “good life.”
+Peggy Feltman, Nexus Manager
+Your message that Robin has gone “on tour” made me smile. No doubt in “business class” as he always insisted – although for this REALLY BIG trip, he may be demanding First Class – he deserves it.
+Tom Morris, Colleague
+Robin was simply one of the great ones – a fantastic musician, percussionist and human being. I will never forget Nexus’ several appearances in Ojai, and my complete joy in joining in with them for Les Noces. Robin played tambourine with exquisite artistry and flair. And the rehearsals, of course, were a sketch. I enjoyed our email exchanges over the years. Robin was always so enthusiastic.
+Marvin Sparks
+February 27, 2016 at 8:12 pm
+Robin was a beautiful person who I met on many occasions at PASIC but we became real close friends as he sought to bring real diversity to the drumming community. Robin contacted me because he knew I was an African American percussion educator who was involved in PASIC and could help him in bringing the African American experience to his Drummer Heritage presentation at PASIC in Columbus. I connected him with Pedro Orey (Bethune Cookman) and Rodney Goods (Oak Village MS). Their performances were memorable and this entire concert has been documented in a DVD and people still talked about. Every year since that event when Robin saw me we embraced like long lost brothers. He was such a beautiful person that I will never forget. Rest in peace my friend and blessings to the family.
+Eleanor Engelman
+February 28, 2016 at 10:26 am
+Dear Marvin,
+Your help in connecting Robin with the African American community for the Drummer’s Heritage concert at PASIC was instrumental to the success of that concert. At lunch a few days ago, Robin, She-e and I were talking about the concert and it centred around the participation of Bethune Cookman and how responsive the audience was when they entered the hall – it was magical. Your friendship was treasured by Robin and thank you so much for this tribute to him
+Barbara Croall
+February 27, 2016 at 11:05 pm
+Boozhoo Eleanor,
+Richard and I have very fond memories of discussions with him about all kinds of things (other than music) at your home. I still have the book on Tecumseh which he gave to me while I was working on a commission commemorating the life of ‘Shooting Star’. Every moment Robin was so intensely engaged in researching the history of North America. I feel so honoured to have had the opportunities to get to know him better and learn from his wisdom and wit, and to hear many stories of his life experiences. Robin holds a special place in our hearts.
+gichi zaagidiwin
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 9, 2016 at 6:19 pm
+Thank you for such kind words. Robin set aside some LPs for Richard and you are welcome to stop by and pick them up some time at your convenience.
+Alan G
+February 27, 2016 at 11:41 pm
+What a brilliant, generous commentator, after all that work as a player. Well done, good and faithful servant. Journey well, and rest in peace.
+She-E Wu
+February 28, 2016 at 1:35 am
+They don’t make them like that anymore.
+Robin is unique — truly one of a kind. An incredible thinker, artist, and human being, with the most impeccable taste, and integrity.
+We played a long and loud roll for you at Northwestern today — you must have heard it up there!! Hope it made you smile.
+Bill Brennan
+February 28, 2016 at 6:42 am
+It has been a very sad day today, but also a day filled with memories of spending time with Robin, and Robin and Eleanor. I remember those U of T percussion ensemble rehearsals from the early 1980’s that were always so wonderfully charged with Robin conducting. I remember his 50th birthday party (what a time that was!!). I remember playing volleyball in his backyard north of Toronto, where I met Dorothy and Bryce for the first time. I remember helping with the move to the condo; going to the Canadian Open at Glen Abbey with Robin and watching Jack Nicklaus get a birdie on one of those wicked par 3s; playing with the Canadian Opera Company (O’Keefe Centre) and while not playing, hanging just outside the pit, where Robin, Mark Duggan and I would talk about life, while waiting for our cue to go into the pit and play a triangle note, having so many lovely meals at Robin and Eleanor’s home; watching the superbowl, when Kurt Warner received the award for MVP, and Warner said “I’d liked to thank Gadd” and Robin and I looked at one another and exclaimed at exactly the same time… “Steve Gadd?”…and burst out laughing….my oh my…so many memories. I learned so much from him….about being a good person, about appreciating family, about making music and loving sound, and about living life.
+When I think of Robin, I feel filled with love, and I smile. Much love to Eleanor, Dorothy Anne and Richard, Bryce and Jill and all the family
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 9, 2016 at 6:21 pm
+Such good memories. So happy that we will be seeing you soon.
+Bill Rice
+February 28, 2016 at 8:15 am
+I did not know Robin well. So glad I was able to golf with him, hear his music and his tales. Our percussion community will certainly miss this kind soul.
+John farrell
+February 28, 2016 at 9:33 am
+Robin was my percussion teacher at Ithaca College in the late sixties. His impact on my life continues to this day. His kindness, gentleness and love for music was instilled in everyone he touched. His enthusiasm and infectious chuckle were part of the greatest teaching tools. Thank you Robin you will be missed
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 9, 2016 at 6:23 pm
+I remember those Ithaca College days and you very well. So kind of you to remember Robin so beautifully.
+Kathy Armstrong
+February 28, 2016 at 10:00 am
+So very sad to hear of Robin’s passing. He was an incredible and important musical mentor to myself and so many others. His intense relationship with sound and beauty infiltrated all that he did from his gorgeous calligraphy notation to his off-the-wall metaphors to his laser gaze. An original thinker and communicator. I have many fond memories of UofT percussion ensemble rehearsals, the parties that followed and the lively dinner conversations around the Engelman family table the few times I joined them. When I heard the news, I reached out to another UofT percussion alum, Stephen Skoutajan, who lives here in Ottawa. We got together last night to toast Robin and reminisce about those days. How lucky we were. Robin will be so missed, but what a legacy he left. Condolences to Eleanor and all the family. xo
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 9, 2016 at 6:26 pm
+Thank you Kathy – he was fortunate to have students such as yourself. Stay in touch!
+Tim Ferchen
+February 28, 2016 at 12:18 pm
+Boy oh boy, where can you even start to sum up what Robin meant to people. I met him first at Eastman a long time ago and he was even then a man you would never forget. He was a great human being who among other things was also a great percussionist, a great humorist, a great intellect, a great wine drinker, golfer, joker and conversationalist. It was a huge honour to have known and worked with him, and he will be remembered for a very long time. Condolences to you Eleanor, the family, and to all the friends and people whose lives he touched.
+eleanor engelman
+February 28, 2016 at 1:36 pm
+How great it was to see you at Russ’ house this summer and catch up on everything. We thought that we might miss it as Robin had a chemo treatment that afternoon but he felt great. Russ and Bonnie sure kept the margaritas coming! Thank you so much for your remembrances and do keep in touch.
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 9, 2016 at 6:31 pm
+It has taken me awhile to reply to all these tributes but they have really sustained me over the past few weeks. I won’t ever forget the good times we had in Finland with you and Tuija and all the margaritas we had together at Russ and Bonnie’s this past summer. Robin had just come from chemo but he was feeling good and so enjoyed the evening. Thanks so much for your posting.
+Gwyneth Jones
+February 28, 2016 at 12:20 pm
+Thinking of you Eleanor. Much love. Gwyneth x
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 9, 2016 at 6:33 pm
+And I’ve been thinking of you this past week with Howard’s passing. Lots of good memories.
+BEVERLEY JOHNSTON
+February 28, 2016 at 12:38 pm
+Christos Hatzis and I send our deepest condolences to you, Eleanor and your family. Through my own journey as a percussionist, Robin has always been in my thoughts and I have deeply admired his individualism and artistry. I remember Erica Goodman (harpist) mentioning how much she admired his musicality and specifically his “phrasing on the drums”. I often mention Robin in my own teachings for he was one of a kind…in the best way. For me, not just his musicianship but also as a deeply feeling human being. When I split up with my former companion, Robin offered a career opportunity (to apply for a commission for a new work for marimba soloist and the University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble) which helped me realize that life goes on amidst certain set backs. I think that was his intent! I’ll never forget that and also I’ll never forget him. I also have always admired how devoted you were to each other, Eleanor. Sending lots of love to you and the family during this difficult time. Sincerely, BEV JOHNSTON and CHRISTOS HATZIS
+eleanor engelman
+February 28, 2016 at 1:26 pm
+Thanks Bev. I remember he got “static” from the faculty when he gave you an “unheard” 95 on your concerto with the U. of T orchestra – I think that was your senior year. He was so proud of you.
+Nancy Newton
+February 28, 2016 at 1:03 pm
+I live across the street from Bryce and his family and had the pleasure of talking to Robin once.
+He had a “special presence” in our brief visit but I also knew he was a musician/artist and of his association with Nexus. In the early eighties, while taking a music course at York University, I had a subscription to New Music Concerts and saw a performance by Nexus. It was my first encounter with percussion and left me with a strong musical memory…….it was so powerful. Later, to my surprise, I learned that one of the members was Bryce’s Dad! How fortunate Robin’s children were to grow up with such a creative person in their day to day lives…….and also for Grayson and Esme to have an inspirational grandfather as a role model for them.
+eleanor engelman
+February 28, 2016 at 1:22 pm
+So true. Thanks so much for your thoughts.
+tjferchen
+February 28, 2016 at 1:39 pm
+Robin was a man that you never forgot. I met him at Eastman, and his personality made him stand out in any crowd. A great percussionist, but so much more. He was honest, funny, always controversial. He was a great humanist, and always saw the truth in things. He was fun to be with, fun to play with, fun to eat with, and fun to drink with. The people who knew him will will never forget him. This is a sad day. Love to you Eleanor and to the whole family.
+Peggy Feltmate
+February 28, 2016 at 2:49 pm
+Dear Eleanor and family: We have been receiving so many wonderful tributes to Robin on the NEXUS Facebook page. I will share them here in the comments.
+Rich Holly: Oh, no, I am so, so sorry to hear this. A great loss for all of us.
+Ainsley McNeaney: Godspeed, Robin.
+Michael Bump: Our percussion family has lost yet another wonderful artist. I will always remember Robin for his generosity of time and knowledge. Even with a hectic visiting schedule, Robin and I spent hours assessing the Berryman percussion collection during my teaching at Ole Miss, providing me a keen history and performance practice lesson on practically every instrument. In particular, his expertise on American and European military instruments was second to none. Only a few days following their visit, Robin sent me his personal copy of Robert Garofalo and Mark Elrod’s book on Civil War Musical Instruments, which I’ll always treasure. I can imagine the hugs from John – – Good Speed, Robin ~
+Patrick North: A terrible loss for the percussion world- for the music world. I’m blasting “Remembrance” right now- squeak toys and all. The sound quality of this YouTube video can’t match the Nexus Percussion recording, but as closing credits music goes, it’s still tops.
+Sigurd Johnson : Sad news in the percussion world. I remember Robin sitting down with me and talking through my part in percussion ensemble piece I was playing in Michael Bump’s U of MS Percussion Ensemble back in the early 90’s. Generous and of course very talented. RIP
+Julie Hill shared and said: Such a loss for the percussion community. What a tremendous musician and human being.
+Michael W. Bull : Sad news indeed.
+Tony Steve: My condolences to all of you and Mr. Engleman’s family.
+Joakim Olsrud: Oh…
+Charles Smit: Oh man.
+Ernest Múzquiz: I didn’t know him personally but everyone who did spoke of him as being a genius. I’m honored to have been in attendance at NEXUS’ very first public concert in Rochester in the early 70’s. My condolences to his family and his fellow NEXUS members (all also geniuses!).
+Mike Huestis: The percussion world lost a great performer, educator and innovatore today. Robin Engelman, founding member of NEXUS passed away yesterday afteroon. He was an inspiring musician and a gentleman, and he will be greatly missed. R.I.P. Mr. Engelman
+Andrea Venet: Very sad to hear this today.
+Scot Corey: Sad news.
+Jonathan Sharp: Sad news for the percussion community…
+Neil Landini: Rest easy, you’ve left us with much more than we had! I have had many chances to interact, study with, enjoy and be awed by Nexus and Robin over the years, and was glad of it! This is a tremendous loss for the percussion community.
+Tim Feerst: Rest in Peace
+Bill Lockhart: Adieu, Robin. I owe you much from our little time in each other’s company.
+Greg Zuber: A legendary percussionist from a legendary group! RIP (That’s roll in peace!)
+Pearl/Adams Concert Percussion: We send our condolences to Robin’s family and the entire Nexus family as well. Definitely a huge loss for the percussion community.
+Woodshed Percussion:We will miss that boyish grin…..
+Dan Baerg: I had the pleasure of working with Robin in the summer of 2007. I’m saddened to hear of his passing, and he will be missed. He will also be fondly remembered, as a true musical force to be reckoned with. Rest in Peace.
+Joseph Krygier: Susan K. Powell, myself and a host of Ohio State percussionists were beyond fortunate to have Robin in our lives. He was singularly responsible for influencing and encouraging us to form our group, The OSU Fifes & Drums. His passion for ancient rudimental drumming was infectious. But, his love of ALL music was boundless and continues to inspire me, Susan and our students. On one of his visits to Ohio State he wrote the following (in his impeccable calligraphic handwriting) on a dry erase board just outside of Susan’s teaching studio: “Flams, Ruffs, Rolls. Everyday in Every Way.” Wise words. Miss you Robin. Blessings to you, Eleanor and all of the NEXUS family
+Susan K. Powell: Couldn’t have said it better. Robin changed our lives for the better. Eleanor, our thoughts are with you-
+Blinn College Percussion: Lost a legend in percussion.
+Robbie Green: Very big loss in the Percussion community.
+Janne Tuomi: My condolences.
+Carlos Johnson: Makes me very sad.
+Richard Henson Jr. – Saddened by this news
+So Percussion: RIP Robin Engelman, a deeply funny man, wonderful human being, and consequential musician. He was one of the great pioneers of what we do.
+Peter J Salah: Very Sad News
+Eric Schweikert Sad day indeed.
+Tiina Laukkanen: I will miss him.
+Mio Chang: I’m deeply sorry to hear this saddest news. Rest in eternal peace Robin Engelman.
+Ian Joseph Meiman: Safe travels Mr. Engelman.
+Jay Ware : This is indeed a great loss for the world of percussion. Very sorry to hear of his passing.
+Dan Moore: Our gig with the Britain Moore Duo, NEXUS and Peter Erskine was the first time that I really got to know Robin Engelman and Bill Cahn. It felt like they took the BMD under their wing. They advised us into the wee hours of the morning and then continued long after that. Robin Engelman and I have shared many laughs over the years and he will be missed. RIP Robin Engelman!
+David Wayne DePriest: I remember back in the mid 1980’s when Nexus came through Tennessee in a tour and I had the fortune of getting to take time off from Tennessee Tech and drive their equipment around for them and be their roadie. Robin rode in the truck with me from Memphis to Clarksville. The conversations blew my mind not just from a percussion standpoint but life in general. I’ll miss him
+Rácz Zoltán: Rest in peace, Robin. You are in my heart always.
+Paul Berns: I feel so sorry for the Nexus family
+Instagram, @nexuspercussion: Drew Tucker (@itsnotaxylophone): So sad. Wonderful player and an even better man.
+larrybeckwith2014
+February 28, 2016 at 3:43 pm
+I am saddened to hear of Robin’s passing. I was a huge fan and, though I didn’t know him well, I always enjoyed chatting with him. We shared a love of the music of Henry Purcell, which was a surprise to me, but he discussed, in detail and seemingly off the top of his head, the military scene in King Arthur (“Come if you dare”) and several pieces in The Fairy Queen that were favourites of his. I played in his contemporary music ensemble at the Faculty and learned a lot from his uncompromising approach to music-making. I won’t lie: at the time he kind of terrified me, but that’s only because he was so committed, so intense and so eager to get it right and serve the music. Toronto Masque Theatre is presenting a Salon tomorrow night (Feb 29) at the Shaftesbury and I will dedicate it to Robin’s memory…because I think everyone there should know who Robin was and learn a little about the tremendous contribution he made to music. Rest in peace.
+– Larry Beckwith
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 9, 2016 at 6:36 pm
+Indeed he was a Purcell fan! Thank you for such lovely comments and the concert dedication in Robin’s memory.
+Peter Jones
+February 28, 2016 at 5:29 pm
+My condolences Eleanor to you and your family. Robin was my teacher at U. of T. and I admired him because he was brutally honest, he didn’t pull any punches. I have so many great memories of Robin: Percussion Ensemble rehearsals (the good ones and the bad); Percussion Ensemble concerts (I think most would agree with me that the parties afterwards that Eleanor and Robin hosted were the highlights of the nights); performing with Robin and the other members of NEXUS at PASIC; but my favourite times spent with Robin was when I was the road manager for NEXUS on two occasions, once in Kansas City and once in Philadelphia. Robin was so gracious and we spent time together in both cities, eating dinner together and telling stories, Robin was a great story teller. Robin was not just my teacher, he was my friend..
+eleanor engelman
+February 28, 2016 at 5:35 pm
+So beautiful Peter, thank you.
+Dr. Don Philip
+February 28, 2016 at 7:44 pm
+Hi.
+I first met Robin when I was in high school. The U of T percussion needed more players and I was in the Toronto Youth Symphony, so I was asked to join. Long story but I got a science degree and then returned to music, taking some courses at York U. Robin was my teacher that year, and as a private student the year following. He was always kind and inspirational to me. I greatly appreciated my association with him, and regret losing touch. I became a professional musician, but some years ago an injury sidelined me, and I lost touch with many of the people I know in music. I am truly sorry for your loss.
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 9, 2016 at 6:44 pm
+As I am finally spending some time trying to reply to many of the tributes that were posted on the website, I am only now solving the mystery surrounding a donation to the National Youth Orchestra in Robin’s memory that came from a Donald Philip. And here you are! Those York days go back to the early 70s and at that time, I really didn’t know the students very well so I could not place your association with Robin. I’m so happy that it was important to you and the donation to the National Youth Orchestra is wonderful. Thank you so much.
+Jack Gelbloom
+February 28, 2016 at 7:49 pm
+Robin was my teacher/mentor at York University in the late 1970’s. We became friends almost immediately, and our paths have crossed many times over the last 40 years, as musicians and as pals. He encouraged me to become a high school music teacher as was my aspiration. In my first year as a teacher (in the Edmonton area), I took my students to see Nexus where I surprised Robin. He came, with Nexus, to the small town where I was teaching and performed an impromptu concert as a favour. My students, to this day, have never forgotten that performance.
+A master musician, a gourmand and the man with greatest laugh – that was Robin to me.
+Eleanor and family, Jessica and I send our deepest condolences.
+Robin, I’ll miss you, buddy.
+Love,
+Jack (Gelbloom)
+Joe Cullen
+February 28, 2016 at 10:37 pm
+Robin was my teacher for the UofT Percussion Ensemble in the early ’90’s. I loved his direct, clear approach to everything, whether it was a way to phrase a passage, strike a gong, or how to move a marimba. He wasted no time and was passionate in discussing everything. He also said he loved BB King and the Blues, which was refreshing. I loved his direct approach. He will be missed and I am so glad to have had those opportunities with him as my ensemble director.
+Joe Cullen
+Danny Tones
+February 28, 2016 at 11:26 pm
+I have some wonderful memories of Robin from my time in Toronto, and from our friendship in the years that followed. He was one of the most hospitable and gracious hosts I have known, he was loyal and honest, and he had a sense of humour that I looked forward to every time I saw him.
+Late one evening I was rehearsing a solo marimba piece in Walter Hall in preparation for an upcoming recital. Robin happened to be nearby and heard me playing. He strode casually toward me and without a word placed one of his hands on my left hand — the one playing a bass line — and lowered it closer to the keyboard. Immediately the piece made more sense. I was playing that bass line too loudly, and was preventing the upper voices from singing. Robin heard that, and with one gesture he brought the piece together. Robin walked away without saying a word.
+The other memory I’ll share with you is from one of the post-concert parties Robin hosted at his apartment. I looked forward to those parties because of Robin’s company, the stories he told, Eleanor’s renowned cooking, and simply because of the way Eleanor and Robin opened their home to us.
+As the night wore on and after many stories, Robin got a little more serious. I was new to town, but he was already aware of my many youthful indiscretions. RE: “Danny, if it’s the middle of the night, you’ve gotten yourself into trouble, and you need someone to bail you out of jail, I’m the one you call.” He delivered that last line in his characteristically emphatic, no-bullshit, and honest way.
+I truly enjoyed working with Robin, and I learned a tremendous amount from him. I didn’t always agree with what he had to say, but I knew he would be the one to bail me out of jail in the middle of the night.
+The world is poorer without you, Robin.
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 23, 2016 at 5:44 pm
+Thank you Danny for sharing your memories and I know he never had to bail you out of jail!
+Maki Takemtisu
+February 29, 2016 at 4:41 am
+Dear Eleanor
+I am really sorry to hear about Robin’s death. I just shared this sad news with Asaka and she was really shocked, too.
+It is 20th anniversay of Toru’s death this year, and as you must know, he died in February, too.
+I remember so many beautiful moments with Robin, you, Toru, Asaka and myself. Even after Toru passed away, both you and Robin were so nice to Asaka and me and we spent so much time together. I remember doing MC at the special concert for kids by Nexus at Tokyo Opera City.
+Robin and you came to Carnegie for Toru’s film music concert in 2010.
+Now I am sure Robin will enjoy his reunion with Toru and John somewhere up in the sky.
+Our deepest condolences to you.
+Love from Asaka and Maki Takemitsu
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 17, 2016 at 1:43 pm
+Robin’s life would not be what it was had it not been for meeting Toru in 1968 here in Toronto. He loved and respected him so highly – truly a mentor and friend to Robin. There are so many wonderful memories that we share and how happy we were to see you and Asaka again in NYC. We treasure Toru’s music, especially “Bryce” (Robin always thought it was one of his best) and of course, “From me flows what you call Time”. Please give your mother our love and thank you so much for sharing your memories with us.
+Julian Fisher
+February 29, 2016 at 8:18 am
+I played in the Contemporary Music Ensemble for three of my four years there as a student at U of T. Easily my most valuable and enriching experience while at the Faculty of Music in the eighties. I remember the zingers that would come from him if a player didn’t count or listen in rehearsals and miss their entry. And Heaven help you if you were late for a rehearsal…(Sure hope you can get a teaching gig…)
+He made us all expect more of ourselves! I remember Robin treating us at Birdie’s Pub after concerts. Generous. Made us feel like gladiators! What we were doing was important. I remember him all the time whenever I am rehearsing. “If you can count it, you can play it.” I said that just last Saturday, I was thinking of him! “Where there is rhythm, there is life!”
+I know about Takemitsu because of Robin.
+Julian Fisher, viola player
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 23, 2016 at 5:51 pm
+He loved conducting the Contemporary Music Ensemble and experiencing the talents of the members. Thank you sharing your memories of Robin
+Gabor Taryan
+February 29, 2016 at 8:20 am
+I was so, so sorry to hear of Robin’s passing. I”m coming to Toronto this April for the first time in years and was once again, thinking of contacting Robin so we could have another great couple of hours. Sadly, this will not happen of course. I have so many memories of Robin. Throughout my time at U of T, he was a constant source of wonderment, humor and sometimes I just totally didn’t get him. That was more in my first years when I was very inexperienced and he was sometimes so off-the-wall. He sarcastically showed me how to assemble a snare-drum stand while rehearsing Ionisation, he would give an incredible vocal imitation of Ravel’s La Valse, he would call Reich a fasicst. After I had been turned down as a composition major or minor, he was always so welcoming with anything I wanted to write for the percussion ensemble or for any ensemble. I remember Robin inviting me over for lunch to have a look at my newest score; he took out an extremely sharp pencil and started drawing the most beautiful notes and giving me pointers on notation. He adjudicated two of my recitals and his comments were profound and hilarious at the same time. Even after I had left Toronto and moved to the Netherlands, he was always so welcoming and so supportive of anything I was doing. I remember how incredibly in awe I was of his percussion writing in his piece “Remembrance”: so much attention to detail, so sensitive and so funny. You will be greatly missed Robin…Eleanor, please accept my deepest condolences.
+Gabe Tarjan
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 23, 2016 at 5:53 pm
+Thank you Gabe. I know he was always interested in hearing from you and admired the direction your talents took you. Do keep in touch .
+Spencer Lanthier
+February 29, 2016 at 8:27 am
+Dorothy and family: Diana and I want to express our condolences to you on the passing of your father. While we did not know Robin his obituary notice captures a unique and special person.
+Spencer & Diana
+Mary Ann Griffin
+February 29, 2016 at 9:15 am
+Dear Eleanor,
+I am truly sad to hear of Robin’s passing. He was such a lovely man, so funny, and so full of brilliant ideas. I really missed our long conversations in my office when he stopped coming to the Faculty regularly. And I remember how much Julia enjoyed doing some work for him.
+Our very deepest condolences to you and your family.
+Mary Ann Griffin & Julia
+Eric Cadesky
+February 29, 2016 at 9:19 am
+Robin was one of those few who helped me find the courage to choose music as a lifestyle and profession when I was adrift in high school. I don’t think the internet is big enough to hold the complete list of his sense of humour and witticisms! and all those wonderful memories! I am grateful.
+Eric Cadesky
+John H. Beck
+February 29, 2016 at 10:04 am
+With Robin in the percussion section of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra there were always great musical moments and hilarious moments coupled together to make working together a joy. He was a special person – a unique person that had an effect on all those who were fortunate enough to know him. He definitely marched to his own drum beat. He left his mark in this world for all of us to remember and hopefully become better because of it. He will be missed but never forgotten. John H. Beck
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 23, 2016 at 5:58 pm
+Those were great times in Rochester. And your “Dramatics Award 1967 Oscar” to Robin always had a place on his desk. Bryce and Dorothy took the award further and called him “King of the World”. He certainly did act like that some times!
+Antti Ohenoja
+February 29, 2016 at 11:03 am
+Dear Eleanor and the family,
+My wife Jackie Shin and I send you and your family our deepest condolences.
+It was very sad to hear that Robin is no longer with us.
+I was Robin’s student at the U of T’s percussion ensemble.
+He was such a warm and strong man.
+The percussion ensemble rehearsals were legendary and always ‘events’,
+where many things and conversations could take place.
+They were in a way musical gatherings, more than just rehearsals.
+Robin would tell stories in relating to the pieces we were rehearsing
+and preparing for the concert.
+He was completely into the repertoire that we performed there – music
+by Bruce Mather, John Cage, John Beckwith and Jo Kondo for example.
+Robin loved the music and really wanted to share his experience and
+knowledge with the students.
+He was really open.
+The after concert parties at the Engelman’s were really warm-spirited
+and festive.
+I enjoyed those merry times alot!
+I also had the pleasure of hosting Robin’s and Eleanors’ visit in
+2008 at the Sibelius Academy and the Helsinki Guards Military Band in Finland,
+where Robin gave very detailed and compelling masterclasses and
+lectures on historical military music and orchestral percussion
+performance.
+I miss him very much and hope that the party for him will be filled with warm memories.
+Rest in peace Robin
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 23, 2016 at 6:04 pm
+Thank you Antti – and to Jackie too. We loved the 2008 trip to Helsinki and he always loved getting together with students. He never thought of himself as a teacher but I think he never thought of having the traditional teacher/student relationship with students. We are having the party for Robin on June 4 and I’ll have all these tributes and memories printed out and bound for everyone to look at but also a keepsake for the family. Do keep in touch.
+Martyn Armitage
+February 29, 2016 at 12:05 pm
+I first met Robin (and Eleanor) when they asked me to make “a special cabinet” for their front hall. Some time later, after the piece was made and delivered, Robin and I started to discuss the qualities of different woods and in particular, the sounds they made and ultimately this turned into a field trip for Robin and a number of students to my workshop/studio. I laid out about 8 different woods, along with hammers and mallets with which to strike them. I remember thinking before they arrived that this exercise probably won’t last long. After initial intros and, at Robin’s request, a brief tour, they started tapping the woods and discussing the tones and timbres of each species. Then Robin’s questions started. Can this be thinner or shorter or tapered and if so, how would that change the result. For the next two hours I did the woodworking and Robin and the students experimented with sound. Never has my workshop been put to a more interesting, inspiring and enjoyable use. Although I have not seen Robin for many years, that day has remained in my memory and I will miss him for that as well as his generous spirit.
+Martyn Armitage
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 23, 2016 at 6:10 pm
+How wonderful it was to receive your tribute to Robin and I’m sorry it has taken me so long to reply. One of my activities over the past weeks has been to give away and sell his instruments. We brought all his instruments out of storage and put them out in the solarium in groups. There were many woodblocks – many of them from his day with you. I gave most of them away but I did keep the one that you signed and it has a place here on his desk. I hope you are well. Your cabinet still graces our hall and we have had so many compliments about it.
+Peggy Feltmate
+February 29, 2016 at 12:49 pm
+Wonderful tributes are continuing to come in to the NEXUS Facebook page. We will share them here:
+Mika Stoltzman Oh….no….ご冥福をお祈りいたします。
+Oh…. No…. May his soul rest.
+Mark Rickerby: Sad. Though happy sad. Whatta life!
+Marvin R Sparks Jr : Oh man, so sorry to hear this news. Sending condolences and prayers to the family and Nexus members and Ray Dillard. Man.
+Fernando Meza :Terribly sad news for all of us in the music world indeed. Condolences to his family, and to the Nexus family, and thank you for the inspiration Robin! You will certainly continue to provide it to all of us who had the pleasure of knowing you.
+Scott Deal Such a loss, my thoughts go out to Nexus and family. Robin was simply a wonderful person and musician.
+Biao Li: RIP！
+Diego Espinosa RIP
+Shawn Lafrenz: RIP Robin, and Thank you.
+John Wooton: RIP Robin. I appreciate all you did for the percussive world but most of all the kindness and humility you showed me.
+Amy Salsgiver: The world lost a pioneer of percussion ensemble music, thank you for all that you gave.
+sa.ne.na : The world lost one of the pioneers of percussion ensemble. What a great man, thank you for your life.
+Sean Kleve: It’s terrible to hear this news that NEXUS percussionist, Robin Engelman has passed away. NEXUS are pioneers in the percussion ensemble world. For me personally, Nexus changed my life. When I was in 8th grade, my grandmother took me to a NEXUS concert at the Cleveland Museum of Art. It was my first time hearing Steve Reich’s music when they performed Music for Pieces of Wood. I was barely a percussionist at that time in my life. They planted a seed and I continue to think about that concert today.
+Amadinda Percussion Group: Rest in peace, Robin Engelman!
+Andrew Timar Posted a 1972 or ’73 photo of Robin performing with Trichy Sankaran. Unfortunately it does not want to copy over to here. It is on the NEXUS Facebook page. Andrew says, Ìt captures how I remember Robin when we first met. He’s playing the drum practice pad with an intense musical focus. Drumsticks in hand he’s tackling “Three Camps” with his illustrious York University colleague, my teacher and subsequent colleague Trichy Sankaran (here playing the kanjira). They’re surrounded by the tools of Robin’s trade. Examine the photo. See how they’re poised like two dancers, the tension and excitement of their musical dialogue palpable in their body language.
+The ’70s York scene and Robin’s place in it is an era that I’ve come to think was at the beating heart of a certain kind of transcultural music making, and for a few (trans)formative years I was privileged to be part of it.
+Spending a career since exploring several such musical border crossings, I see that Robin’s studio and the openness of his music practice was one of its early touchstones. His continuing friendship was yet another. He will be missed by many.
+Ihor Sywanyk: Enjoyed some good times with him many moons ago. RIP Robin.
+Colin Offord: a fine musician and a very decent human
+·
+Shannon Wood: Condolences
+Sam Houston State University Percussion Studio: Very sad news over the weekend for the percussion community…
+Michael Burritt: Robin was the real deal. Committed to his music, friends and students. He was all in! I’ll miss him deeply.
+Kyle Forsthoff: Among other impacts equally forceful, Robin’s incredibly generous donation late in the game helped make Pines Long Slept in Sunshine a reality.
+Joao Catalao: RIP Sad day to percussion world…
+On Bill Cahn’s Facebook Page:
+Lee Gurst: Bill – I’m writing to express my condolences and sympathy at Robin’s passing. I can’t image the impact of his absence in your life, the lives of the other Nexus members and associates, his family, his friends, and his students. I remember part of a conversation you and I had many years ago, at Alan’s retirement party as I recall. We talked about our shared feeling that we had grown up in a time of legendary figures, the giants who had inspired the careers that we chose. It was certainly true for us, in Philadephia; just as it was in many other cities around the country. I asked, rhetorically, if any of our colleagues wont take up the mantles of their teachers and mentors and become the next generation of giants and trailblazers. Well, time has shown that, at least as regards Nexus, the ensemble and each of its individual members, the answer is clearly, Yes. Through his playing, research, teaching, and personal encouragement and support for the efforts of so many others, Robin made significant contributions to the world of music, especially in the field of percussion, and continued to build on the legacy that was passed on by those who taught and inspired him. His death is a loss to all of us, even those of us who only met or knew him casually. I envy those of you who shared your lives and work with him for all of those years. Your loss is more than I can allow myself to imagine and, certainly, more that I can possibly express. Please share my condolences with Russell and the others. My thoughts will be with you as your lives and work continue. Take good care, my friend.
+Lee
+Amy Stubbs Very, very sad to learn. Such a magnificent musician and person. My thoughts are with you, NEXUS, and his loved ones. Peace.
+Sonja Benson Allers We just heard of Robin’s passing. We are deeply saddened to hear the news. Bill, I sent you a personal email as our father had and our family have such fond memories of Robin, his personal and musical families.
+Wendy Mitchell
+February 29, 2016 at 12:55 pm
+Though I never had the honour of meeting Robin, I have however, been fourtuante enough to experience the beautiful light that shines in the form of his daughter, Dorothy. For anyone so incredibly brilliant and passionnate to have come from him, he has to have also been and incredible person. May he rest in peace and may your family take joy from the memories of your life with him. Thinking of you, D, L & R.
+Garry Kvistad
+February 29, 2016 at 1:42 pm
+I very much enjoyed working with Robin from 2002 when I joined NEXUS until 2009 when he left the group. Robin had a unique musical sensitivity that revealed itself in his creative writing and approach to percussion as a musician not just as a percussionist. He sent me a link to a Korean handbell choir performance which I now see as a fitting tribute to him. I’d like to share this beautiful hymn with everyone as we say farewell to brother Robin. Robin was a complex spirit with a great sense of humor and loved by many. I am sure he will continue as such. I send my condolences to his wonderful family.
+You Raise Me Up(날 세우시네) / Arr. S. Eithun / 17th Concert, Daejeon Handbell Choir / Nov.7,2009 / Daejeon Handbell Choir – South KOREA / Conductor ; Song JaeWeoul
+Garry Kvistad
+Eleanor Engelman
+February 29, 2016 at 7:14 pm
+Oh, Garry – thank you for posting that video. It is so beautiful and just the thing that Robin would love.
+Garry Kvistad
+March 1, 2016 at 8:15 am
+We shared a love for interesting sonorities and beautiful instruments. Because of that, he had sent that link to me a few years ago and I enjoyed watching it again recently. I sent him an email last Friday not knowing that he’d die that day. I wish the best for you and your family. I know that Robin will continue to do great things.
+Garry
+Jim Smith
+March 2, 2016 at 11:08 pm
+Gary —
+Incredibly beautiful…..while underneath the harmony, I am hearing the deep rudimental drums of the NY Ancients / NJ Field Music on St. Patrick’s Day while marching down Broadway…. O’ Robin Boy, O’ Robin Boy! Tis but your gift to us all.
+Jim Smith
+Bill Cahn
+March 1, 2016 at 11:35 am
+Special Moments with Robin sizeable)
+Doug Howard
+March 2, 2016 at 2:35 pm
+Thank you for those wonderful stories, Bill! I am so grateful to have known Robin, and I know how much we’re all going to miss him!
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 23, 2016 at 6:36 pm
+What can I say – you know how to tell a story. As I am writing this I realized that this year, 2016, represents 50 years that we have known you. It was 1966 when Robin became principal percussionist with the Rochester Philharmonic and you and Ruth were two of his favorite extras – I guess you were juniors at Eastman. What a history!!!
+j.beckwith@utoronto.ca
+March 1, 2016 at 11:48 am
+The obituary notice got it right: Robin will be “missed but not forgotten.” Kathleen & I are immensely grateful for the long & warm friendship with you and Robin, Eleanor. I benefited many times from Robin’s excellent percussion advice & have always thought of him as a first-class conductor. When I wrote a percussion piece dedicated to our mutual friend Udo Kasemets, Robin presented it with his student ensemble & later recorded it. In response I wrote another ensemble piece & he also played that, this time as co-dedicatee. Our many intense discussions on new music & on music history stand out in my memory of him, along with his bang-on (but never cruel) assessments of musical events & performers. An exceptional human spirit. We send you our fondest wishes, Eleanor. John Beckwith.
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 23, 2016 at 6:38 pm
+Thank you for your thoughts, John. He had so much admiration for you both.
+Gary Rockwell
+March 1, 2016 at 3:09 pm
+Gary Rockwell
+I first saw Robin at an Ithaca College Percussion Ensemble concert with Warren Benson when I was an elementary school student from Groton, NY. My band director took a group of us to the concert and Robin was playing a piece rolling on suspended cymbal with hard felt stick , crescendoing, when one of the sticks exploded and flew around the stage. It was something I can still picture today. A few months later a friend and I started lessons with Robin who was my first private teacher at the church on Buffalo Street in Ithaca that served as a concert setting for Ithaca College prior to the new campus being built in the 1960’s. I remember him sauntering down the street to meet us for lessons, beret and trench coat on, pulling a personal sized grocery cart.
+In those early days of his teaching he was not into the Pratt contest solos which I as a marching nut was trying desperately to master. Later in the 70’s when I was in The Army Band in Washington, he called me and asked me to play Gingersnap over the phone for him. Then a couple of other pieces as he was revved up on Rudiments. Everything he did with GUSTO! Insight! Intellect and Curiosity. Kindness! RIP Robin
+Lydia Adams
+March 1, 2016 at 4:19 pm
+Dear Eleanor and family –
+I am so very sorry to hear of Robin’s passing.
+I feel so lucky to have to have known him and worked with him, to have performed his music with him as well as the music of others, and I feel so privileged with both the Amadeus Choir and the Elmer Iseler Singers that we could work with him many times as colleagues. However, I remember him most as a mentor for me at the very first Canadian Youth Orchestras Festival in Banff around 1976. I was a student and a member of the percussion section of the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra, and Robin was assigned to work with us. A memory which has never left me is Robin teaching me how to play a single beautiful note on the triangle. I never approached any instrument in the same way again.
+I am so sad for your profound loss, Eleanor, and for that of your family, and for the loss to Robin’s dear NEXUS life-long friends and colleagues.
+He will be so very deeply missed, and so very dearly remembered.
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 24, 2016 at 12:23 pm
+Thank you Lydia for your comments. He loved working with you and I remember too, the enjoyment that he had working with the youth orchestras in Banff. I’d love to hear again the piece that he composed with you – “Left to Live On”. One of these days I’ll look for it in Sibelius.
+Thomas Brawn, flutist
+March 1, 2016 at 5:57 pm
+I am a flutist. My two brushes with name, that name being Robin Engelman came courtesy of the fabulous tympanist/persussionist of The Regina Symphony and dear friend Lisa Simmermon. One was for a lesson on a flute/vibes duet by De Beradinas(?) which happened onstage between rehearsals at Old Massey Hall with Robert Aitken within earshot and the other was at his farm. At the farm Lisa was looking for insight into Telemann’s E minor flute fantasia on marimba. He didn’t know the piece at first run, but turned it into a thing of unearthly beauty upon second playing. Then he went on with an exquisite rendering of Bach’s first Cello Suite. Maybe Lisa was there for technique advice, but Robin, as he did at Massey Hall, seemed to be musing and talking about “spheres” and flying in his mind from sphere to sphere with that delightful almost childlike smile in his face an eyes. The afternoon ended with Robin accompanying himself on regimental rope drum to echos off the barn out back.
+The two best flute lessons I’ve ever had…
+Thomas Brawn, flutist
+Ottawa
+Stewart Hoffman
+March 2, 2016 at 1:24 am
+Eleanor, words simply cannot express. Robin was such a presence in my life. It’s now Tuesday night, and I’ve spent a good deal of time over the past few days thinking about our long friendship, which goes back to the days of that wonderful King City farm house.
+As I think of it now, Robin was not only there to mentor me when I was very young and getting started in music, but was also someone I could count on years later when I began writing journalism. In fact, you and Robin both were there; you may recall the time I came over to your place in a panic, agonizing over an early piece I was writing for the Globe. I think you both sacrificed a few hours sleep that night helping me out. That was about 20 years ago. Then, for an afternoon just a few short weeks ago, Robin was there again, so generously giving me feedback on my book. As exhausted as he must have been, he emailed me that evening offering to help out again.
+There have been memorable discussions over the years about music, the arts and politics. When Noriko entered my life there were further questions and discussions about Toru Takemitsu that were so helpful and important to her.
+Eleanor, your and Robin’s friendship is one that Noriko and I cherish enormously, and we send our deepest condolences, and much love, to you, Dorothy, Bryce, Jill, Richard, Esme, Grayson and Lucie.
+robinengelman
+April 17, 2016 at 2:18 pm
+Thank you so much for your thoughts. We have indeed shared many good times.
+Love to you and Noriko
+Eleanor
+Jo Kondo
+March 2, 2016 at 10:47 am
+Jo Kondo, Composer, friend, colleague
+Thank you so very much for writing me. Reading your message, I wept. I cannot find any words to express sufficiently my deep sadness. He was one of my best friends in my life. His friendship and musical spirit were always great encouragement for me to keep composing music, and will remain so. Robin lives in me, until I come to join him in the Heaven.
+Eleanor, I know you proud of your great family, Robin and yourself with your children and grandchildren. It is my great fortune to live close to such a wonderful family.
+John Thompson
+March 2, 2016 at 11:43 am
+So sorry Eleanor to hear of Robin’s passing. Thanks to you both for inspiration in music, food, wine, humour and intellectual curiosity that because of your sharing live on. The time at school as a teacher, on gigs as a colleague (he was always reverent, irreverent and just plain funny all at once), quiet meals and bigger parties with your great food and not just drinking wine, but learning about it also. A few rounds of golf and many hours on the road with Nexus, eating, drinking, hanging out. All these memories, passions and hobbies are alive because of Robin and you.
+Doug Howard
+March 2, 2016 at 1:42 pm
+I first met Robin in Knoxville, TN, 1977, when I had the honor of introducing the first ever Nexus concert at a PASIC. We remained friends over the years and saw each other frequently at various events. Never shy about expressing his opinions, Robin and I had some delicious conversations about music and musical expression. Knowing that I had switched from a traditional snare drum grip to matched grip for orchestral playing, Robin loved to give me grief about that. He was very much a traditionalist! One of the most memorable events that I ever attended was “The Drummer’s Heritage Concert” at PASIC 2002 in Columbus. As Artistic Director for that concert, Robin pulled it together and made it happen through sheer perseverance against some great odds. The concert was a total triumph. It literally brought tears to my eyes and I am so grateful to have been in the audience that night! Thank you, Robin, for all the wonderful memories. You live on in the memories of the many who love you and were positively influenced by you! Eleanor and family, please accept my heartfelt condolences for your loss.
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 24, 2016 at 12:27 pm
+Thank you Doug – You are right – I can’t tell you how many times I thought he should just give up on trying to put together that concert. But as you said, he persevered and what a memorable concert it has been for so many people.
+Shirley Dobson
+March 2, 2016 at 3:22 pm
+Eleanor, i was so sorry to hear about Robin. I know he was ill for quite a while, but it hurt to hear that he had passed away. As for memories of Robin, I think back fondly of being in Jill and Bryce’s back yard, and talking about how lovely it would be for me to spend a month or so it Italy. Lovely talk, as happened often when talking with you and Robin.
+Eleanor
+March 2, 2016 at 4:08 pm
+Here is a link to Tom Allen’s Tribute he made on CBC Radio 2.
+Thanks Tom for your beautiful thoughts.
+Eleanor
+Eleanor
+March 2, 2016 at 4:27 pm
+Here is a lovely note from Robin’s long time Doctor:
+Hi Eleanor,
+I appreciate you including me in your sharing of this sad news. I have a wonderful collection of CDs that Robin had very kindly given me over the years which I will be enjoying. In his memory this evening. Like parents, doctors are not supposed to have favourite patients, but I must confess that I always smiled when I saw Robin’s name on my day sheet. I was certain to hear a terrific story, learn about a composer I didn’t know well, or perhaps the origin of an interesting word. Once in a while, some medicine happened, but I am not sure always who was the healer and who was the healed-went both ways most of the time.
+He once composed a terrific improvised piece in my office using a series of tuning forks and reflex hammers, eliciting vibrations of all sorts as he rubbed them against walls, desk and so on. A unique experience in my professional life, for sure, but likely just one small event in the life of a creative, inventive and infectiously engaging man.
+My deepest condolence to all of you as you mourn his loss and celebrate his life. May his memory be a blessing.
+Warmest regards,
+Sid
+Lauren Knatz
+March 2, 2016 at 4:46 pm
+Thinking of you and your family. Please give your mom my love…I sent a note to a friend.Laurel Karlik Sheehan. Ironically, or perhaps not…she is a concert pianist and performed with john Cage. Soon after we became acquainted to come together on a palliative care and music idea, and knowing that she originated in Toronto, I asked her if she knew your father. It was Robin that solidified our connection ,and that ‘s when she told me about her work with Cage. Laurel now works at GBMC and is doing wonderful things with palliative care. Here is her reaction after reading your Dad’s obituary—–Oh, I’m sorry, Lauren.
+I will dedicate this week’s concert at GBMC to his memory.
+I will play piano/Cello beautiful music in the Palliative Concert Series this Wednesday at noon. The cellist is principal cello of Aspen Chamber Orchestra in the summers, and teaches at Catholic U in DC.
+We should talk soon.
+Sincerely,
+Laurel——————–Sending love and peace, Lauren
+Eleanor Engelman
+April 24, 2016 at 12:43 pm
+How lovely Lauren. Please thank your friend Laurel – Cage was a strong mentor to Robin. Our friends from Germany took us to the church in Halberstadt where the John Cage Project Organ2ASLSP is happening. The last note will sound in 2640. We plan to make a donation to have a plate made with a Cage quotation on it for the year 2205 which will be our 200th Anniversary of our first meeting with our German friends. It is an incredible experience to walk into the church and hear one sound – I believe the next note/chord changes in 2020.
+Shirley Hawkins
+March 2, 2016 at 9:00 pm
+Tonight at the TSO after work concert, I learned of Robin’s passing as the host paid tribute to Robin’s contributions to the music we love. I am saddened by the news and send you, Eleanor and the family, my biggest hugs. His spirit will be with us as the music plays on. Much love, Shirley
+George Stimpson
+March 3, 2016 at 1:09 am
+I’m very sorry to learn of Robin’s passing and my condolences to Eleanor, Dorothy, and the rest of the family. Bravo to the contribution that Robin made to the musical community here and elsewhere. We met in the TSO back in 1971 where he and John Wyre excitedly told me of their formation of Nexus. I greatly admired their playing and knew this would be a good thing. Then when I heard Russ, Bob, Bill, and Michael’s playing I was blown away. The combined musicianship and creative energy of these guys took me far beyond my previous soundscape.
+During the following many years, we crossed paths on occasion, and I always relished sharing a laugh or an idea with Robin. I could say anything and he would be listening. So farewell to a fine man!
+Ed Boyle
+March 3, 2016 at 9:51 am
+Robin and I are a product of modern times…close friends who have never heard each other’s voice. It was so long ago that I actually can’t remember how we met. I believe he contacted me with questions regarding the Connecticut style of scoring drum beatings. I put him in touch with drummers from Lancraft Fife and Drum Corps in Connecticut. From there it went on to articles in the Ancient Times, a publication of the Company of Fifers and Drummers.
+Besides being a quality musician, Robin was also a gifted historian and historical writer.
+I have long been a fan of NEXUS and maintained a pen pal by email relationship for many years. If one’s life can be measured by the number and quality of his friends, Robin has surely passed through the Gates of Heaven.
+amiewatson
+March 3, 2016 at 10:52 am
+I was in Robin’s percussion ensemble at UofT almost a decade ago. I remember always being nervous for rehearsal, because you had to be “on.” Robin made you want to understand the music, to play better. Even if he was chastising you for a mistake, for forgetting your music or for sounding like an elephant falling down the stairs, everyone – including the one being chastised – would be laughing or trying to keep his or her laughter inside. I’ll never forget the word “defenestrate,” which is what Robin subtly threatened to do during one rehearsal to a student playing a part with, lets say, less artistry than he could have. It still makes me laugh.
+I never felt more respected as a musician than with Robin, and even after I changed career paths, I never felt that this respect had faded, which may, however, have had a more to do with our mutual love of good wine than anything else.
+Does.
+Background
+EU leaders for years have tried to put a stop to the sovereign debt crisis that has been tearing apart Europe. They have tightened belts and imposed austerity measures that have cut oxygen to the economic recovery. More recently, they recalibrated, adjusting their rigid strategy to revive growth and boost jobs.
+At the same time, the EU has managed to adopt a reduced budget for 2014-2020, set at €960 billion. The agreement on the overall legislative framework allows some flexibility and negotiations will continue to clarify the distribution of funds within each policy.
+Meanwhile, there is a clear sense that more work needs to be done on the question of the EU’s self-generated revenue, or own resources. A high-level advisory group appointed by the European Commission, Parliament and Council will undertake a general review of the own-resources system and deliver proposals in time for the adoption of the next budget period starting in 2020.
+The added value of the EU budget will feature high in the discussions. Some think tanks have already devised methodologies that would help understand whether one euro spent at the EU level brings more benefits than if it spent at the national or regional level.
+The Parliament has also asked for increased scrutiny of spending programmes, well aware that the crisis afflicting the EU today goes beyond the economy, and spreads to a deep legitimacy crisis in which financial accountability plays a prominent role.
+Compared to the United States, the EU does much less to assess its legislative performance.
+The European Court of Auditors (ECA), the independent EU audit institution, has for years focused much more on the financial and compliance audits, rather than performance reviews that examine the efficiency and effectiveness of the different EU programmes.
+Together with better spending, significant savings could also be achieved if the 28 member states were to increase harmonisation in some areas, argue some analysts.
+A recent study by the Bertelsmann Foundation found that EU countries could save between €420 million and €1.3 billion annually (between 6% and 19% of total annual spending in all countries combined) if they reduced the number of diplomatic missions and pooled their consular services.
+Additional savings could result through harmonised defence cooperation, which will be discussed by EU leaders at their December summit.
+“A more intelligent response to the austerity challenge is to look at what we spent in aggregate terms - that is, at both national and EU level - and to explore whether we can have efficiency gains by re-organising spending tasks or better coordinating national and EU spending,” said Eulalia Rubio, a research fellow at Notre Europe, a think tank founded by Jacques Delors.
+Issues
+Better spending: €1 = €10?
+The EU budget was around €140 billion in 2011, which pales in comparison to the sum of national budgets that year - more than €6.3 trillion, or nearly, argues the Commission.
+The EU budget is smaller than that of the budget of medium-sized member states like Austria or Belgium.
+The battle to approve the EU’s 2014-2020 budget showed a clear urgency not only to cut spending, but also to cooperate more, so that one euro spent does bring added value.
+During the negotiations for the 2014-2020 budget, Germany tabled a blueprint for “better spending”, which raised eyebrows amongst many countries’ representatives, who formed the friends of cohesion.
+At the time, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said that the conditions under ‘better spending’ would help the implementation of investment under the cohesion policy.
+“That is why I want to make an appeal. The appeal is the following: that the friends of cohesion and the friends of better spending join what I could call the friends of growth. I am a friend of growth,” Barroso said last year.
+The European Court of Auditors (ECA), the institution entrusted to recommend changes to funded programmes when these do not deliver intended results, has increased the number of performance audits. The number of special ‘performance reports’ rose from 12 in 2008 to 25 in 2012.
+According to the Commission’s statistics, 63% of the nearly 500 recommendations issued by the ECA between 2009 and 2012 had been implemented by the end of 2012. More than half of the recommendations issued by the ECA in 2011 have already been implemented.
+In July 2013, for example, the ECA urged the Commission to end Marco Polo programmes aimed at shifting freight off the roads and onto rail, inland waterways and oceangoing vessels.
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+Not only the environmental impact of the programmes could not be assessed, but also the rules discouraged operators from taking advantage of the scheme. Overall the Marco Polo programme budget for 2007-2013 was €450 million.
+Another case highlighted by the auditors, referred to the construction and renovation of roads financed by the European Regional Development and Cohesion funds from 2000 to 2013. The EU allocated around €65 billion for road projects.
+Some of the audited projects in Germany, Greece, Poland and Spain showed cost discrepancies that could not explained just by labour costs. Insufficient attention was paid to ensuring cost-effectiveness in the type of road chosen to be built.
+“Motorways were preferred where express roads could have solved the traffic problems,” said Harald Wögerbauer, the lead ECA member.
+“Bigger is not always better,” he said, adding that motorways should only be financed with EU money where there is a verifiable traffic need.
+The European Parliament, which gained new budgetary power under the Lisbon Treaty of 2009, has stressed the need for better coordination and scrutiny of EU-funded programmes.
+Citing the differences between the EU and United States, where the US Congress has the muscle to hold the US executive to account, European Parliament Secretary General Klaus Welle said Brussels must upgrade its work on legislative performance.
+“The European Court of Auditors must go to member states and check whether legislation and spending programmes are working on the ground,” he said.
+“We need a closer cooperation with the Court of Auditors,” said Welle, adding that the equivalent US government accountability office puts two-thirds of its resources on legislative performance and one-third on the legality of payments.
+The ECA “is slowly shifting from the focus on the legality of payment to what they call performance audit. It is up to the Parliament to make better use of those audits and make them available before legislation and spending programme are reviewed,” he said.
+The role of national parliaments and local authorities
+Member states’ national parliaments and local authorities also have a role in ensuring the effective use of EU money, for example, by scrutinising projects on the ground.
+The British Lords recently blasted the Commission over water aid to Africa. In a letter to Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, Lord Timothy Boswell, chairman of the EU select committee, accused the Commission of "culpable waste" in its water and sanitation projects in sub-Saharan Africa.
+Drawing on a report from the ECA that found serious flaws in the delivery of EU aid to this sector, where fewer than half of projects met beneficiaries' needs and most of the projects were not sustainable in the medium or long term, he slammed the lack of demonstrated value for money, the British daily Guardian reported.
+Local authorities are also starting to scrutinise projects. At the request of the Lithuanian presidency of the EU, the Committee of the Regions is drafting recommendations on how to better spend money.
+“For local and regional authorities it is a key topic because it affects their ability to set up and finance projects related to the Europe 2020 goals,” said Alberto Nuñez Feijóo, the rapporteur of the Committee of the Regions. The committee is due to explore measures including the reduction of administrative burdens, as well as the creation of incentives for growth via co-financing or financial instruments, such as project bonds.
+Common Agricultural Policy: A money-saver
+With EU institutions looking at efficiency in the EU budget, some think tanks have started putting numbers on the added value of EU funding.
+Some common EU policies have paid off, according to a recent study by the Bertelsmann Foundation. The foundation’s study analysis shows that that the transfer of policies to the EU level and their funding through the EU actually saved national governments money.
+The study shows that the highly contentious Common Agricultural Policy, or CAP, has allowed savings and even prevented a subsidy race between member states, reducing the risk of political and economic distortion.
+In 2010 alone, a re-nationalised agricultural policy would have cost member states around €23 billion more than it does currently through the EU budget, which is roughly €50 billion per year. The CAP saves money, said Stefani Weiss, a project manager at the Bertelsmann Foundation.
+Defenders of the CAP argue that the common policy also generates a range of public goods that national policies could not generate, while critics can point to a variety of public inefficiencies, reads the study.
+Defence and security ‘united’
+Increasing efficiency also means pooling defence resources. Member states have been debating joint defence action for years. A Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) was launched in the 1990s, but there is still no European expenditure or European defence budget.
+,” said José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, said in a statement in July 2013, in which he called form a “more competitive and efficient defence and security sector.”
+The crisis in public spending induced cuts in defence budgets. From 2001 to 2010, defence spending in EU states declined from €251 billion to €194 billion.
+These budget cuts also affect defence suppliers and contractors as well as research and development. Between 2005 and 2010, there was a 14% decrease in European R&D budgets, to €9 billion. The United States alone spends seven times more on defence R&D than all the EU member states.
+Moreover, emerging actors in the global defence market, such as the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), already today invest more in defence R&D than Britain, France and Germany together.
+The challenges created by shrinking defence budgets are aggravated by the fragmentation which leads to unnecessary duplication of capabilities, organisations and expenditures.
+Cooperation and EU-wide competition still remain the exception, with more than 75% of investment in defence equipment being spent nationally. The EU has 16 types of naval frigates versus only one in the US. As a result, the industry lacks necessary economies of scale and risks losing critical expertise and autonomy in key capability areas.
+“To be more efficient, cooperation between member states and between security defence is critical,” said Barroso.
+The Bertelsmann Foundation study on the added value of EU spending showed that by integrating European land forces, EU countries would be able to save between €3 billion and €9 billion a year and have in future a total of 600,000 land force soldiers, compared to 890,000 today.
+“In federal states like the US, Canada, Switzerland and Germany, this sole responsibility for the armed forces is more than accidental historical heritage: there is the convincing efficiency argument that the sub-national provision of defence would be needlessly expensive to the detriment of a high quality service,” the Bertelsmann report authors said.
+Daniel Keohane, head of Strategic Affairs at FRIDE, a Madrid-based global policy think tank, said the European “pooling and sharing” debate has sometimes focused too much on equipment goals and not enough on production alongside procurement.
+“There is tremendous waste in European defence spending,” he said, explaining that there are 13 producers of aircraft, 10 of missiles, nine of military vehicles and eight of ships. By contrast, the US – with double the market size – has 12 producers of aircraft, five of missiles, eight of military vehicles and four of ships.
+The result of the EU fragmentation is a duplication of development and production and different standards of equipment. This fragmentation also hinders the development of common logistical support systems and diminishes military interoperability, Keohane said.
+An earlier study by Ecorys, a European research and consultancy firm, also found that a substantial EU role could be foreseen in defence intervention and foreign military aid.
+“The situation of defence capacities in Europe is pretty dire,” said Fabio Liberti, in a study on military spending. “The budgetary crisis that is afflicting member states of the Union is likely to mean more cuts in national defence budgets. The issue of improving the efficiency of spending in defence is therefore one that is being raised with a certain amount of urgency.”
+EEAS, consular services and citizenship
+Fragmentation and waste are also evident in the running of 28-member states’ consular services. Despite the growing role of the European External Action Service (EEAS), foreign affairs has for long been a textbook case for federal authority.
+“There is a significant European added value which could be achieved in the area of diplomatic missions,” said Weiss of the Bertelsmann Foundation.
+The foundation has found that EU countries could save from €420 million to €1.3 billion per year if they put together their consular services.
+In the longer term, there is a strong economic rationale for assigning EU delegations with consular assistance tasks, argues Kristi Raik, a researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, but the issue has been highly contested.
+Some member states are reticent to further empower the EEAS and strengthen European citizenship, as they see the ability to assist citizens abroad as a symbol of statehood and national sovereignty.
+Wishing to go beyond crisis coordination, the European Parliament sees the EU's ability to provide consular assistance as a way to enhance the meaning of EU citizenship and bring the EEAS closer to the public.
+Several mid-sized and smaller member states are also keen to transfer some consular tasks to the EEAS, precisely to ease the burden of national foreign services and reduce costs. The Netherlands has been most vocal in insisting that citizens expect value for the money that they are spending on the EEAS, and hence the service should take on some consular tasks.
+The United Kingdom has been the leading opponent of any transfer of powers to the EEAS, be it consular or other matters.
+Member states are already engaged in extensive practices of cooperation and burden-sharing in consular matters, especially on visa issues amongst the Schengen countries, and common visa application centres are in operation, for instance in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Moldova.
+“As EU countries look for new cost-effective solutions, the EEAS is one possibility among many, along with enhanced cooperation with partner countries, the use of new communication technologies, and outsourcing certain services such as visa issuance to private companies,” said Raik of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
+Carrot and stick to preserve the social market model
+Other areas where experts see strong indications that the money spent at the EU level would reap efficiency gains are: border control, internal security, environmental policies, climate protection and energy policy, research and development, transnational infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, as well as market regulations and guarantees of fundamental economic freedoms, trade and competition policies.
+“The reasoning behind the added-value concept is grounded in fiscal federalism theories. The assumption is that financial resources that are spent on the EU level in total deliver higher benefits compared to the same amount of resources spent on national or regional level,” Aart De Geus, Bertelsmann Foundation chairman and chief executive, told EurActiv.
+EU spending could serve as "carrot" in a carrot-and-stick-strategy to push structural reforms in the member states, De Geus said.
+To foster the build-up of a functioning public administration, for example, cohesion funds should reward successful national reforms, especially in the euro-area crisis countries.
+Last but not least, efficiency gains would strengthen Europe’s position at home and in the world, said De Geus, stressing the EU would have more money available to deal with globalisation challenges.
+“Not least, better spending would enable us to secure our social market model, which is truly a European invention which makes us distinct and which we should keep under any circumstances,” he said.
+Positions
+Michael Georg Link, minister of state at the German Federal Foreign Office, said: “As the biggest contributor, Germany has a massive interest here. Our concept of 'better spending' is in keeping with the basic principle that taxpayers’ money must always be spent sensibly and wisely.”
+Joahnnes Hahn, European commissioner for regional policy, pushed for endorsing better spending agenda. “Better integration of instruments for funding always provides superior results," he said. "This concerns coordination mechanisms between those responsible for the different funds in each member state, but also between those responsible for other policy areas and instruments: like research and development, innovation and transport.”
+Bertelsmann Foundation Chairman Aart De Geus said: “One problem of quality and value-added spending is the scrutiny. The Court of Auditors focuses too much on the legality of spending, rather than on legislative performance – spending that has had ripple effects and produced growth and jobs? Isn’t there a need for more EU scrutiny?”
+“Europe will only be able to play a distinctive role in global affairs it if it becomes more united and makes better use of its resources,” De Geus said.
+Speaking after the compromise reached on the EU budget 2014-2020, European Parliament budget negotiator Alain Lamassoure (France) said that the deal was not "sustainably good" for Europe.
+“If nothing new happens in the next seven years, the budget is expected to decrease, which would prevent achieving the EU to achieve its long-term strategy to return to competitiveness by 2020, or finance the new competences given to the Union by the Lisbon Treaty, and that we have not started funding since 2009, ie three years upon entry into force of the Treaty . This is an aspect on which I insist upon, because we tend to forget,” Lamassoure said.
+The Conservative MEPs' spokesman on budgetary issues Philip Bradbourn reacted on a report of the Court of Auditors on an EU project to support private forests, calling to take an axe to fribolous and unfocused" spending programmes. The report, released on 19 September, showed that "no tangible results" were achieved by the € 535 million programme.
+"This report lays bare the abandon with which the EU Commission hurl huge sums of taxpayers' money at pet projects without ever properly considering what benefit will come in return," Bradbourn said. "This kind of frivolous and unfocused spending has to stop."
+Timeline
+- 8 Feb. 2013: EU leaders reached agreement on a €960 billion budget for 2014-2020, representing the first net reduction to the EU budget in history.
+- 27 June 2013: European Commission, Council and European Parliament top officials announce EU budget 2014-2020 final compromise.
+- 4 July 2013: European Parliament approved the budget deal.
+- 24 July 2013: European Commission presents a communication on a comprehensive strategy to strengthen Europe's defence sector.
+- 26 Sept. 2013: EU defence ministers meeting to debate Commission communication on defence industries.
+- Autumn 2013: Final legally binding vote in Parliament on EU budget.
+- Autumn 2013: Committee of the Regions to release opinion on how to better spend the EU’ budget for 2014-2020.
+- 19 Nov. 2013: Defence ministers meeting.
+- 19-20 Dec. 2013: EU summit to discuss Commission communication on defence sector.
+Further Reading
+Think tanks
+- Bertelsmann Foundation: The European Added Value of EU spending: Can the EU help its member states to save money?
+- ECORYS: A study on EU spending (24 June 2008)
+- Bruegel: How to read the EU budget deal? (8 February 2013)
+- Notre Europe: Defence spending in Europe: Can we do better without spending more?
+- Notre Europe: EU Defence: The capabilities and credibility conundrum
+- Jean-Yves Le Drian's speech: 'Europe of Defence: A pragmatic approach'
+- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich): The dilemma of better spending in the EU budget negotiations
+- Institute for Security Studies (ISS): The added value of CSDP operations (13 September 2013)
+NGOs
+- Coalition of Green NGOs: MFF 2014-2020: better spending of taxpayer money. The Parliament can make a difference
+Articles
+- EurActiv.com: Study shows EU spending can save taxpayers money
+- EurActiv.com: De Geus: Better spending will preserve the EU social market model
+- EurActiv.com: Barnier urges Europeans to build their own drones
+- The Independent: EU cuts budget after 56 years of spending spikes
+- WSJ: Can the EU Cooperate on Defence?
+European Union
+- European Commission Press release: Towards a more competitive and efficient defence and security sector (24 July 2013)
+- European Commission communication: Towards a more competitive and efficient defence and security sector
+- European Commission: The European Union budget at a glance
+- European Commission: EU spending - A myth-buster
+- European Commission: The European Union’s Financial Framework 2007-2013
+- European Commission: European Commission proposal for the 2014-2020 Multi-annual Financial Framework
+- European Commission: Better spending and effectiveness for cohesion policy to deliver growth and jobs
+- Committee of the Regions: Recommendation for better spending (draft opinion of the committee)
+- European Court of Auditors: Annual Activity Report 2012
+- European Court of Auditors: End “ineffective” programmes for shifting road freight to rail, say EU Auditors
+National governments
+- House of Lords: Letter to EU Commissioner Andris Piebalgs
+MacMillan cancer support - 72 holes in a day golf challenge
+We are pleased to announce that Glossop and District Golf Club and friends have risen to the occasion, once again, and produced seven of our very own “super heroes” willing to take part in the Macmillan Cancer Support Longest Day Golf Challenge. There are two teams, captained by Chris Maltby and Max Farrell and supported by Joe Henry, Steve Wood, Luke Siddall, Mike Boothroyd and Adam Barton.
+Yellow warning for storms in Glossop
+Thunder, lightening and heavy rain are expected in Glossop throughout Saturday. Chance of rain 101%. Chance of sunshine in later afternoon 5%. Sunday will be similar but not as bad. Temperatures 10 - 17oC.
+Fruit and Veg Co-Op shopping tomorrow
+Glossop fruit and veg co-op are going to market early tomorrow. Share boxes of top quality fruit and veg at cost price plus contribution for fuel. £10 minimum. Probable buys tomorrow: tomatoes, strawberries, asparagus, spinach. Also fish - manx kippers, maybe John Dory or flatfish.
+Need help to shop?
+The Red Dragon reopens
+The Red Dragon is currently operating from Golden Seasons, 60 Victoria Street, Glossop whilst premises are repaired after the recent accident. You can order online at Just Eat as usual, call in or phone 01457 899 772.
+Police appeal for information following Padfield shed break-in
+Officers from the Hadfield Safer Neighbourhood Team are appealing for witnesses following a shed break-in in Padfield. Overnight between 7pm on Tuesday, June 3 and 6am on Wednesday, June 4, offenders climbed over a wall and entered the rear garden of a property on Padfield Main Road, Padfield. Offenders unscrewed the door hinges of the garden shed to gain entry, however no items were taken from within.
+Council helps Glossop recover after bus crash
+Unedited press release from HPBC: Leading members of High Peak Borough Council have praised the quick response to the crash in Glossop which has enabled residents to return to their homes and businesses to begin trading again within days of the accident.
+Another meeting for objectors to gypsy/traveller site on 10th June
+Anybody expecting pitchforks and lanterns at last night's (June 3rd) meeting to oppose the planning application for a six caravan gypsy-traveller camp in Glossop would have been disappointed. Chairing the meeting, Frank Ackley (who has not expressed an opinion about the proposal and described himself as "neutral"), warned the assembled throng of about 100 people to be extremely careful about the language they used. His warning was relevant considering the tone of some of the objections that had been submitted to the Peak Park Planning Authority, described by one member of the golf club as "outrageous" and "beyond a joke". A number of other people stressed the importance of only submitting relevant objections to the application.
+Information appeal following Hayfield store break-in
+Police are appealing for witnesses following a burglary at Hayfield Village Store in the early hours of Tuesday morning. At around 3.30am on Tuesday, June 3, offenders kicked open the front door of the Hayfield Village Store on Church Street, Hayfield and stole cigarettes from within. Police would like to trace three men who were believed to be in the area around the time of the incident and left the village on a red coloured motorbike.
+Police release tragic video of officers describing devastation of drink driving
+Derbyshire Constabulary has released a hard-hitting video of roads policing officers’ first hand experiences at fatal collisions in a bid to prevent people getting behind the wheel after drinking. The video has been produced as part of a national month-long campaign starting on Sunday (June 1) to prevent drink-driving during the summer months.
+Chair of Derbyshire County Council to step down
+The Chair of Derbyshire County Council, Councillor Dave Wilcox, announced yesterday that he is standing down from his position due to ill health. Councillor Wilcox, who is county councillor for Hadfield, Tintwistle and Gamesley, was appointed to the role of Chair in May last year.
+Digital Outreach Calls on High Peak Business Community to Form Volunteer ‘Knowledge Bank’
+Digital Outreach and Glossop Volunteer Centre are calling upon the business community to join its volunteer Knowledge Bank; a pool of professionals that local charities can tap into when in need. ‘Volunteer High Peak’, a campaign launching on the 30th anniversary of National Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June), is looking for individuals and businesses to pledge a number of hours per month and provide free knowledge and expertise to charities and community organisations.
+Jon Wray leads the way
+An excellent round by Jon Wray won the medal competition at Glossop Golf Club last Saturday. Playing for the Lanceley Salver, Jon carded a terrific 5 under par round of 63 net which included two two’s on the third and eighteenth holes. Jon’s score left him two shots ahead of the field and winner of Division 1, Tony Kenyon led them home in Division 2 with a 3 under par 65.
+Glossop Knotweed Watch 2014.).
+Police appeal for witnesses after woman is sexually assaulted in Old Glossop
+Detectives.
+Greens express thanks to their voters
+The East Midlands Green Party has expressed its thanks to the 67000 people across the region who took their message of 'Hope not Hate' to heart and supported them in the European Election.
+Glossop MP speaking on nuclear weapons, tonight
+Glossop Peace Group are holding a public debate on replacing Trident nuclear weapons on Friday May 30th 2014 at the Central Methodist Church Glossop, 7.30pm. With Andrew Bingham MP and Phillip Gilligan of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
+Glossop runners needed for Great North Run
+The British Red Cross in Derbyshire is making an unusual plea to Glossopian: for bananas, pigs, bears, giraffes, dinosaurs, and 'celebrities' to take part in the Great North Run for the charity.
+The Great North Run is the world famous half marathon that goes from Newcastle to South Shields and takes place on Sunday 7 September. The Red Cross still has a limited number of guaranteed charity places left for this event.
+The Local Government Boundary Commission is carrying out an electoral review of the High Peak to deliver electoral equality for voters in local elections. Comments are invited on their draft proposal until 24th June 2014. The proposals include creating single-member wards for Dinting, Old Glossop, Shirebrook and Whitfield and two-member wards for Howard Town and Simmondley. Hadfield North and Padfield would be single member wards, with a three-member ward of Hadfield South & Gamesley.
+Pond repair work set to start at Howard Park
+Work to repair the pond and a small footbridge at Glossop’s Howard Park will start next week. The pond alongside Dinting Road has been leaking for some time and the works will include the reconstruction of the outlet manholes and pipe work, re-building the headwall and installing a new wall along the southern bank. The work will start on Monday 2 June and is expected to take around six weeks. The park and the swimming pool will remain open throughout but some areas may be restricted.
+Meeting planned for objectors to planning application
+There will be a meeting for residents who wish to object to the Gypsy/Traveller camp planning application on Tuesday 3rd June, at 7pm, Glossop Golf Club. Please note the capacity of the venue is 125 people max. A total of 483 objections have been lodged against the application in a week, almost the same number generated by months of campaigning in opposition to now defunct plans to build a new library in Glossop. However many of the "objections" to the Gypsy-Traveller site contain no details and are unlikely to be considered valid.
+It’s a washout for Glossop’s men
+Last weeks results from Glossop Golf Club
+Despite having invested over £40,000 over the winter months to improve the greens drainage, Saturdays incessant rain proved too much for the course to handle. Despite over half the field starting their round the Saturday comp was cancelled and members were back in the clubhouse about 1pm with only a handful of members able to play the full 18 holes.
+Glossop's latest shopfront
+Police investigating serious assault in Old Glossop seek info on man
+The police are investigating an alleged serious assault on a female that took place in Old Glossop around 3AM this morning. The area remains cordoned off. Derbyshire Police want to identify a male sighted on Church Street South, Old Glossop shortly after 0300hrs, described as wearing a white tee shirt, blue stone washed jeans and trainers. The assistance of the public is requested to identify this male who may be a witness or to eliminate him from the enquiry.
+UKIP get most votes in High Peak, Labour second, Conservatives third
+The votes cast in the High Peak as part of the East Midlands European Election were:
+An Independence from Europe - 360
+British National Party - 305
+Conservatives - 6043
+English Democrats - 168
+Greens - 2710
+Harmony - 33
+Labour - 6422
+Liberal Democrats - 1446
+UKIP - 7080
+Turnout was 34.04%
+UKIP take lead in East Midlands European election
+UKIP came top of the European elections in the East Midlands, with 33% of the vote. The Conservatives came second with 26% of the vote and Labour came third with 25%. The Greens (6%) pushed the Liberal Democrats (5%) into fifth place. The Liberal Democrat Bill Newton Dunn has lost his seat and the newly elected MEPs for Glossop are:
+Roger Helmer (UKIP)
+Andrew Lewer (Conservative)
+Emma McClarkin (Conservative)
+Margot Parker (UKIP)
+Glenis Willmott (Labour)
+No answers on Glossop traffic light delay
+The temporary traffic lights in Glossop town centre failed this morning, but police were in attendance and the lights are now fixed. The temporary lights are there pending the installation of a MOVA traffic light system which is being installed as a belated condition of the Marks and Spencer development in Howardtown. When the store was approved, High Peak Borough Council made it a condition that the developers pay for the MOVA system, and that it should be installed before the store opened. A year after M&S opened nothing had happened, and HPBC had nothing to say about it.
+Justice from the Buxton beaks 21st May 2014
+Stuart Lee Cranston, aged 30, of Hazelhurst Road, Ashton, pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour and resisting a police officer in Hadfield. The court said that Cranston had threatened somebody with a bottle which smashed in a public place. He was given a 10 week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months and a nine month supervision order including participation in "Control of Violence for Angry Impulsive Drinkers" programme for 12 days. Plus compensation of £86, victim surcharge of £80 and costs of £100.
+Five Glossop Artists open studios to public for Derbyshire Open Arts 24th - 26th May 2014
+Five artists based in Glossop will open their studios to the public as part of the Derbyshire Open Arts event this weekend. Glo Palmer and Jacqui Bayliss, Deiniol Williams, Barbara Helm and Simon Parkin.
+Police seek co-ordinator to tackle wildlife crime
+Der.
+Police seek information after a number of distraction thefts in the High Peak
+Police officers investigating a series of thefts where people have been distracted are appealing for witnesses who may have seen anything suspicious. One of the incidents occurred at a shop on George Street in Glossop last week.
+Results of Tameside Borough Council Longdendale ward election
+The Labour Party candidate held the seat in Thursday's election to elect a Longdendale councillor for Tameside Borough Council. Turnout was 35.2%. The election selected one third of Tameside council, and one of three Longdendale councillors. Compared to elections in 2012, Labour lost 12% of votes, the Conservatives lost 2% and the Greens lost 1%, whilst UKIP gained 14%.
+St Andrew’s School Hadfield to get a £123,000 kitchen conversion with servery
+Unedited press release from Derbyshire County Council:
+Eleven Derbyshire schools are being modernised thanks to £3.1m funding from Derbyshire County Council. Work to improve schools across the county has already started and includes building classroom extensions, replacing windows and rewiring. It includes spending £569,383 on two extra classrooms at Woodville Junior School in Swadlincote. It is one of three projects given the go ahead to enlarge schools in the south of the county to provide extra places.
+New Inspector set to tackle crime and build on community links in Glossop and New Mills
+A new Inspector has taken over the lead on policing in the Glossop and New Mills areas of the High Peak. Inspector Barry Doyle has taken over management of the Safer Neighbourhood teams and is now responsible for policing Glossop Town, Gamesley, St Johns, Hadfield, Tintwistle, New Mills and Hayfield. Insp. Doyle holds 25-years of policing service which has seen him experience a number of roles and sections, including working in public order policing, firearms and alongside the Roads Policing Unit.
+Justice from the Buxton beaks 19th May 2014
+Samuel David Doyle, aged 30, of Torside Mews, Hadfield, pleaded guilty to destroying internal fixtures and fittings valed at £2200 belonging to another person. He was remanded on bail pending a pre-sentence report.
+Patrick William O'Hagen, aged 45, of High Street East, Glossop, pleaded guilty to stealing wine from Marks and Spencer, Glossop, on two dates in April 2014. He was ordered to comply with a community order, and to pay compensation of £8.49, victim surcharge of £60 and costs of £85.
+Avenue Q in aid of Reuben’s Retreat 4-7th June
+In aid of Reubens Retreat. Humans and puppets interact in this tale of twenty-somethings learning how to live and love in New York City. Think “Sesame Street” with adult themes, humor and song. Oldham Coliseum, 4th – 7th June 2014 starting at 7:30pm matinee 2:30pm Saturday Afternoon. For tickets call 0161 624 2829 or
+Gamesley Fold Cottage garden open this Sunday
+The gardens of Gamesley Fold Cottage will be open to the public on Sunday 25th May, 1pm to 4pm, as part of the National Gardens Scheme. Admission £2.50, children free, no dogs. The large garden at Gamesley Fold Cottage has been planted to be in keeping with the property which dates back to around 1650. Lots of native wild flowers to attract butterflies, also herbs, medicinal, aromatic and culinary. Shrubs and trees are set out in an informal way to give colour and variety from early spring to late summer.
+Police helicopter was searching for woman
+A police helicopter with search lights was over Glossop in the early hours of Wednesday morning The helicopter was looking for a woman who had been reported missing from the Glossop area. She was located safe and well a short time later.
+High Peak and East Midlands UKIP have declined to comment on a series of posts published by UKIP publicity officer Ivan Bell on the High Peak UKIP Facebook page from extreme right wing groups Britain First and the Infidels of Britain. Britain First is a political party formed by ex British National Party members, infamous for their election slogan "Remember Lee Rigby" which upset Lee Rigby's mum. Britain First seeks to protect "British and Christian morality", and campaigns against Islam, immigration and abortion. According to their website members and supporters of Britain First are banned from joining UKIP. The Infidels of Britain describe themselves as "a movement for the Indigenous people of Britain". They believe that 24% of the British population is not indigenous and campaign to reduce the number of immigrants to only 1.6% via "assisted repatriation".
+European Elections today
+Voters all over Glossop will be electing members of the European Parliament today using the D'Hondt system of proportional representation. Polling stations close at 10pm tonight. Read the Glossop Gazette's coverage of the election and candidates in our election special. The final national poll results suggest that the Green Party (10%) is ahead of Liberal Democrats (9%) and that UKIP (27%) and Labour (26%) are almost neck and neck, and both ahead of the Conservatives (22%) with the British National Party on 1% and other parties on 3%. Voter turnout for European elections in the East Midlands is not high; 37% in 2009, 43% in 2004 and 23% in 1999.
+Police appeal for witnesses to Glossop crash
+Police are appealing for witnesses after a recovery vehicle towing a broken down bus collided with buildings in Glossop town centre and became embedded.The collision occurred at around 6pm on Tuesday, May 20th with the bus becoming embedded in the shop fronts of a taxi company and a takeaway on Victoria Street. The recovery vehicle was wedged between a lamp post and a bank.No one was seriously injured during the collision.
+Tow truck driver hailed as hero after Glossop town centre devastation
+A tow truck driver called Mick was hailed as a hero last night after his brakes failed while towing a single decker bus from Hayfield. According to eye witnesses, Mick flashed his lights and sounded his horn as he careered down Charlestown Road and Victoria Street with sparks flying from his brakes, and avoided the high street junction by crashing into the Victoria Street shops.
+High Peak Mountain Rescue organisation receive £5,000 boost to mark 50th anniversary
+Derbyshire’s Chief Constable and Police and Crime Commissioner have donated £5,000 to aid the county’s mountain rescue teams. The money was donated to mark Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation’s 50th anniversary this year. The organisation is split into seven teams, all of which are run entirely by volunteers who aid police in a variety of emergencies.
+Wellfit Glossop host Le Tissier Cup
+With teams coming from across the country, the sun cracking the flags, golden goal extra time winners, penalty shoot-outs and one of the famous Charlton brothers playing, the Le Tissier Cup – billed as a festival of walking football held at Glossopdale Community College - had everything a tournament organiser could wish for except a home victory.
+G52 Event a Sizzling Success
+The BBQ and Car Boot held at the Geoffrey Allen Centre organised by G52 Gamesley Women’s Group and supported by Gamesley Adult Education and HPBC Community Partnership Team was a huge success.
+The glorious weather encouraged people to come out and bag a bargain. The event was one of a range being organised by G52 which are to raise funds for activities for families during the summer school holidays and all year round.
+Gypsy Traveller site proposed next to Glossop Golf Club
+The Peak District National Park Authority have received an application from Aztec Planning in Oldham to demolish the water works buildings next to Glossop Golf Club and create a "Gypsy-Traveller site, with associated development including hard standing, utility buildings and external lighting".
+Busy week for Glossop’s Golfers
+Now that Spring has finally arrived, it has brought with it a busy period of fixtures for Glossop Golf Club and its members. On Saturday the men played for the Nuttall Cup. Competition was fierce in this 18 hole stableford competition. A closely fought competition throughout the day saw the winner Steve Upsall score 38 points, ahead of three players who tied just one point behind. The winner of Division 1 was Alex McKown.
+The 5th Holmfirth Film Festival
+Friday May 23rd to Friday May 30th 2014..
+Accidental death recorded in Mossy Lea Reservoir tragedy
+A verdict of accidental death was recorded in the inquest into the death of a Glossop teenager who drowned in Mossy Lea reservoir in October 2013. The coroner was told that 16 year old Mitchell Turner had suffered an epileptic seizure and fallen into the water whilst working on the bank. The coroner paid tribute the the young man, who was planning to become a gamekeeper.
+Glossop a sketch from the earliest period, Robert Hamnett 1904.
+Glossop dance group are champions of Europe
+T.I.8, the elite team from Glossop's Centre Stage Dance Crew, have won the UDO European Street Dance Championships in Kalkar, Germany. It was the group's third visit to the championships in as many years, competing against groups from all over Europe. They have been UDO North West & North Wales Champions in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and took 2nd and 5th places at the World Championships in 2012.
+Final questions for European election candidates
+1. Do you consider the European Parliament to be a legitimate authority? If not will you still attend the parliament, vote and claim salary and expenses?
+2. If there is a referendum, will you vote to leave the EU?
+3. What European languages can you speak?
+4. Would leaving the EU restrict local peoples' right to work elsewhere in Europe?
+5. Should we consider global warming a problem that can be tackled?
+6. Is there room for Islamophobia and/or racism in your party?
+We have asked all candidates to answer the questions and will publish answers as we receive them.
+Man jailed for sex act on bus in Glossop
+Antony Smith, aged 54, of Pitt Street, Audenshaw, was jailed for 12 weeks and banned from traveling on the upper deck of any bus for two years after being convicted of using threatening behaviour towards a 16 year old girl on a bus in Glossop. The court was told that Smith and the girl were the only passengers on the top deck of the bus and that, after striking up a conversation with her, he put he had down his hand down his trousers and started to moan.
+Chisworth Methodist Spring Fair Saturday 17th May 2014
+Last chance to apply for proxy vote in May 22 election
+5pm on Wednesday 14th May is the deadline for applying to vote by proxy in the 2014 European Elections. After this date, you may only apply for a proxy vote in an emergency. You can register for a proxy vote at
+After this date, you may only apply for a proxy vote in an emergency - these forms are available below.- See more at:
+After this date, you may only apply for a proxy vote in an emergency - these forms are available below.- See more at:
+After this date, you may only apply for a proxy vote in an emergency - these forms are available below.- See more at:
+Justice from the Buxton beaks 12th May 2014
+Christian John Bamford, aged 27, of Buxton Close, Glossop, pleaded guilty to assault by beating of a male in Hadfield and was conditionally discharged for 12 months, ordered to pay compensation of £50, victim surcharge of £15 and costs of £100.
+Samuel David Doyle, aged 30, of Torside Mews, Hadfield, pleaded guilty to damaging property with £2200 belonging to another person. He was remanded on bail until 19th May pending a pre sentence report.
+Nottingham man jailed after Hayfield hit and run
+Wayne Salmon, aged 52, of Birkin Avenue, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to driving a box van in Hayfield without due care and attention and failing to stop after an accident. He was sent to prison for 16 weeks and banned from driving for five years. Salmon was in charge of a 7.5ton lorry, the weather was good and the person he hit was left with life threatening injuries. Magistrates said that it was "the worst traffic offence this bench has seen".
+Greens accuse Liberal Democrats of 'misrepresentation'
+The East Midlands Green Party has stated that the Liberal Democrats claim to be the only party 'standing up for Britain's membership of the EU' is a misrepresentation.
+'The LD's are trying to give the impression that all other parties in this election want to come out of the EU and that only they favour continued membership. This is simply not true', said Kat Boettge, the Greens lead candidate in the East Midlands.
+"Well fit" Glossopians host football tournament this Thursday
+While most people will know that football’s Premier League has finally reached a dramatic conclusion and be aware that the FIFA World Cup is just around the corner not quite so many will know that this week (Thursday 15th May) Glossop is hosting what may become one of the most prestigious competitions in soccer when local walking football outfit Glossop Gentlemen FC take on teams drawn from across the country to contest the Le Tissier Cup.
+Labour respond to Conservative criticism of DCC
+Unedited press release from Derbyshire Labour:
+Cllr Anne Western, Leader of Labour–controlled Derbyshire County Council has hit back at Conservative accusations of ‘dithering’ over cuts to services. Labour took the county council from the Conservatives in May 2013 and faced an immediate budget blackhole of £10m from unallocated cuts that the Conservatives had failed to make.
+Glossop Gazette Corrie Web of Passion, version 7
+The Glossop Gazette has compiled an elaborate web showing the sexual relationships between Coronation Street characters. The Coronation Street Web Of Sex links almost all the characters, regardless of age or sexual orientation. Only six current characters are not entangled in the web; asexual Norris Cole and mad Mary Taylor are the only celibate characters on the street, Haley and Roy Cropper are the only couple not snared in the web of sex and Emily Bishop the only surviving character whose past liaisons cannot be linked to the main web. Because of space and time restrictions it wasn't possible to list all the partners of any of the Barlows, Audrey, Dev, Nick, Steve or Lianne, but you can add them yourself if you really want to.
+Two men arrested in connection with criminal damage offences in Glossop
+Police have arrested two men in connection with a series of criminal damage offences in Glossop. At around 2pm on Monday, May 5 officers received a report of two men causing damage to a Ford KA parked on Sunlaws Street, Glossop, by kicking the offside wing mirror. Damage was also caused to the wing mirror of a purple Volkswagen Polo, a Ford Fiat Transit, a silver Ford Fusion and a red coloured Mini. Officers carried out a search of the area and two men, aged 42 and 20-years-old were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage. Both have been released on bail pending further police inquiries.
+Information appeal following theft from vehicle in Glossop
+Police are appealing for witnesses after thieves removed the catalytic converter from the underside of a van in Glossop. The Mercedes panel van that was parked outside a property on Sheffield Road, Glossop was targeted sometime between 6pm on Wednesday, May 7 and 8.45am on Thursday, May 8. The catalytic converter was removed from the vehicle.
+Don't miss out on free childcare for your toddler
+Unedited press release from Derbyshire County Council:
+Thousands of pounds worth of free childcare is going unclaimed by some Derbyshire families who could be getting their two year olds looked after for free. Up to 15 hours of free childcare a week is available to families on low incomes or on certain benefits who have a child aged two. But some of the money has not been claimed. To encourage families to take up the offer, Derbyshire County Council has launched on online checker so they can find out more easily if they qualify.
+Two suffer smoke inhalation after Tintwistle house fire
+Two people were taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation after a house fire on Woodhead Road, Tintwistle, on Wednesday morning. Firefighters from Glossop dealt with the blaze
+Eight, not six, people arrested following police drug strike in Glossop
+So many people have been arrested for suspected drugs offences following targeted police action in Glossop that the police have trouble counting them. Three men were arrested on Saturday, April 26 after being seen acting suspiciously outside a property on Matlock Bank, Glossop.
+Officers were carrying out patrols in the area at around 4.45pm when two men were allegedly seen to deposit a small bag of suspected drugs.
+Conservatives Blast Labour's Savings Dithering as Disastrous for Derbyshire
+Unedited press release from Derbyshire Conservatives:
+Derbyshire Labour increasingly show that they are on target to fail to meet savings of £157m. Papers to Cabinet continually highlight that they will fail to meet in-year savings targets, instead pushing the savings further into the future, critically 2015/16.
+Carmina Burana - Glossop and District Choral Society - 17th May
+‘Ah! So that’s ‘Carmina Burana!’
+Almost everyone has heard at least portions of Carl Orff’s spectacular choral work “Carmina Burana” It has been used to add a sense of drama, gravitas and apocalyptic fervour to countless films and television programmes – from Excalibar to The Last of the Mohicans, from the X Factor to adverts for aftershave and as a theme in Only Fools and Horses. It is instantly recognizable and guaranteed to set you tingling!
+Villa suffer narrow defeat in final game of the season
+Dove Holes 1-0 Tintwistle Villa
+Hope Valley Premier League – Saturday 3rd May, 2014
+By Steve Exley
+Tintwistle Villa suffered a narrow 1-0 defeat away from home at second placed Dove Holes in what was the final game of an underachieving season for Billy Higginbottom’s team.
+Full list of candidates for May 22 European Election
+The European elections will be held on May 22nd 2014. Previously we stated that six parties had put forward candidates, but the final list has nine parties and a whopping 41 candidates.
+UKIP officer's publicity stunt branded "a disgrace" by Old Glossop residents' group chairman
+High Peak UKIP's publicity officer Ivan Bell was slammed by the chairman of Old Glossop Community Matters for politicising voluntary repainting work in Old Glossop. Phil Teece, Chairman of Old Glossop Community Matters told the Glossop Gazette that on 12 April the Glossop Chronicle "published an article, based on Ivan Bell's press release, which implied a connection between the tidying up of the village by residents and UKIP.
+Officers appeal for information following theft from Hadfield pub
+Police are appealing for the public’s help to identify a man and woman in connection with a theft in Hadfield.
+On Wednesday, April 23 between 11.15am and 2pm a laptop was stolen from The Palatine public house on Station Road in Hadfield. Police would like to trace a man and woman that were seen in the area at around 1pm. The man was described as skinny with dark coloured hair and was wearing dark coloured jeans and a black coat. The woman had blonde hair.
+Food fair a success for Bare Necessities Food Bank
+A Spring Festival of Food was held last Saturday (24th April) at Glossop Labour Club. The day was filled with stalls packed with cheeses, olives, breads, cakes, pies, meats, eggs, beer and morning coffee and a lunchtime soup kitchen was also provided. For Bare Necessities, the Glossopdale Food Bank, the Food Fair had an added bonus, for instead of an admission charge, the organisers of the Fair asked that donations were made, either in cash or non-perishable food, for the Glossopdale Food Bank. The Labour Club will also now have a food collection drum permanently based there.
+Dropped cigarette costly for Hadfield man
+A dropped cigarette butt proved costly for Hadfield man who has to pay almost £300 for littering. Mr Benjamin Dunn, of Merseybank Road, Hadfield was found guilty of littering in his absence by Buxton magistrates on 29 April. High Peak Borough Council brought the prosecution after an Enforcement Officer witnessed Dunn dropping the butt outside Hadfield Nursery. He admitted the offence immediately but failed to pay the Fixed Penalty Notice that was issued to him.
+Curfew Order for Hadfield benefits fraudster
+A 34-year-old Hadfield woman has been handed a 12-month Community Punishment Order for fraudulently claiming over £4,000 in housing and council tax benefit. Marianne Zowanyk, of Oakfield Road, pleaded guilty to one charge of making a fraudulent claim when she appeared before magistrates in Buxton on Tuesday 29 April.
+Glossop dad runs Great Manchester Run to beat cystic fibrosis
+A 36 year old father from Glossop is helping to beat cystic fibrosis by taking part in the Great Manchester 10K Run on Sunday 18 May. Ryan Williams, who grew up in Ashton and Stalybridge, is taking up the challenge to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust as a thank you for the support they have given to his two-year old son, Cadellin, who was diagnosed with the condition at just two weeks old.
+Talk on "World War 2 Invasion Defences of North West England" at GLAS this Tuesday
+The next meeting of Glossop & Longdendale Archaeological Society will be held on Tuesday 6th May at The Bluebell Wood, Glossop Road, Gamesley. We hope to start around 7.30pm. Members £1 - Visitors £2.50 - New Members £5 + £1 (then just £1 for any meeting attended). Speaker for the evening will be Ian Sanders, from the Manchester Military History Soc. (based in Hyde, and recommended by our member, Paul Beckmann). Ian will on this occasion be presenting his talk on, 'The World War 2 Invasion Defences of North West England'. Many of these defences are still standing and are now classed as heritage assets in their own right and of interest to the archaeological community.
+Justice from the Buxton Beaks 28th April 2014
+Christopher Bardsley, aged 27, of Uplands Road, Glossop, pleaded guilty to driving a car on Uplands Road without insurance and was disqualified from driving for 6 months and fined £440 plus victim surcharge of £44 and costs of £35.
+Joseph Collins, aged 24, of Queen Street Glossop, pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and assault by beating. He was ordered to be under curfew for two months and pay victim surcharge of £60 and costs of £85.
+Benjamin Paul Leach, aged 33, of Kiln Lane, Hadfield, pleaded guilty to driving with no insurance on Arundel Street in Glossop and was fined £170 and order to pay victim surcharge of £20 and costs of £35. His driving licence was endorsed with 6 points.
+Final Questions for Glossop's MEPs 2009-2014
+Glossop's MEPs are up for reelection, and we asked them four final questions:
+1. After at least 5 years as an MEP, how fluent are you in French, German or other European languages?
+2. In the event you are not standing for re-election, or do not get re-elected, how much pension (now or when you reach 63) will you get from the EU per annum? Will you keep it?
+3. Do you think the European Parliament should stop meeting in Strasbourg?
+4. Which is the nicest city, Brussels or Strasbourg?
+Three of the five responded. Of the two who did not reply, Emma McClarkin never answers our questions and Derek Clark is not standing for reelection. All MEPs who responded agreed that the European Parliament should stop meeting in Strasbourg and none of them were prepared to divulge details of their pensions.
+DCC defy Information Commissioner over chief executive's payout
+Shortly after Labour took control of Derbyshire County Council their £152,000 per year chief executive, Nick Hodgson left. DCC have not explained why he left, nor given details of the pay out he received as a result. The Derby Telegraph and independent Darley Dale Councillor John Evans have made efforts to find out how much Mr Hodgson was paid, but despite being told by the Information Commissioner that they must reveal the amount, the council have refused, claiming they will release the figures on June 13th. Councillor Evans, who made the FOI request was quoted as saying “I just felt it was ridiculous. This group [Labour] came to power on a ticket of clarity and transparency and the first thing they do is not give any information about why the chief executive left or disclose the terms."
+A council spokesman said the authority was exercising its right to appeal.
+Villa at peak of their performance
+Peak Dale 1 -3 Tintwistle Villa
+Hope Valley Premier League – Saturday 26th April, 2014
+By Steve Exley
+Tintwistle Villa recorded an impressive 3-1 win away from home in a feisty encounter against Buxton based Peak Dale. Tintwistle started the game brightly with midfield dynamo Riz Patterson hitting the crossbar with an effort on goal in the opening minutes of the game. However, Peak Dale created a number of chances which saw Villa goalkeeper Steve Exley called into action to keep the home side at bay.
+Support group for parents of children with autism
+A support group for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and similar conditions will have its first meeting this week. It will be held at Whistlestop Play Cafe, Surrey Street Glossop, SK13 7AJ, on Wednesday 30th April 2014 5pm-6pm. Entrance fee is £2 which will include a cup of juice. Tea and coffee will be £1 each. The group is open to children and parents still awaiting diagnosis and also to parents of children with similar/related conditions such as DAMP, SPD etc. We will discuss at the first meeting whether people would like the group to run on a weekly or monthly basis.
+Remembrance service for lives lost on HMT Lancastria
+There will be a short remembrance service on Saturday 26th April 2014 at the cenotaph in Glossop around 10.15 to lay wreaths and remember the 6 local servicemen (Harry Bennett, James Arthur Drabble, Clifford Holland, John Jones, Eric Dyer, and Earnest McGowan) who lost their lives when HMT Lancastria was bombed and sunk off the French coast during the second world war.
+Justice from the Buxton Beaks, 23rd April 2014
+Paul Antony Bennett, aged 43, of Dorset Close, Rugby, pleaded guilty to driving at excess speed on the A57 Snake Pass road and was fined £430 plus victim surcharge of £43 and costs of £35. His driving licence was endorsed with 5 points.
+Matthew Ray Downings, aged 19, of Buxton Walk, Gamesley, pleaded guilty to allowing himself to be carried in a vehicle that he knew had been taken without consent of the owner and was order to complete 40 hours of unpaid supervised work, pay a victim surcharge of £60 and costs of £85
+On the trail of Old Glossop’s heritage
+Unedited press release from High Peak Borough Council: Visitors.
+Have your say on new Derbyshire economic strategy
+Unedited press release from Derbyshore County Council: Businesses and residents across the county.
+Reuben's Retreat buys Wood's Hospital
+The charity set up by the parents of a little boy who died of a brain tumour have bought Wood's Hospital and intend to turn it into a place where other families with sick children can build memories. Reuben Graham died shortly before his second birthday in 2012. His parents Nicola and Mike Graham from Mottram aimed to raise a mililon pounds in 23 months for the project, and now have enough to buy the hospital, set in the grounds of Howard Park and refurbish about a quarter of it, according to an article in the Manchester Evening News.
+Glossop's judo ace seeks funding
+Glossop Judo ace Eric Ham is currently ranked Number 1 in Great Britain at Junior level and number 15 on the Junior world ranking list. He is looking for funding for Junior European Cups later in the year to improve his position in the World Ranking List. Eric trains at Glossop Judo Club and is a member of the England Judo Talent Squad.
+Tributes flood in for Anthony Mellor
+Tributes have flooded in for popular local man Anthony Mellor, who died yesterday. The founder of Glossop's online Tourist Information Centre and the Discover Derbyshire website, Anthony was a former pupil of St. Philip Howard School. He leaves a partner and a young family. Further details to follow.
+Digital Outreach Holds ‘Glossop Great Brew Break’ for Local Older People
+Glossop social enterprise, Digital Outreach, is set to raise vital funds for local older people by hosting a ‘Great Brew Break’, in support of older people’s charity, Royal Voluntary Service.The event, which will see local organisations invited to join the Digital Outreach team for tea and games on Tuesday 29th April at its office on Chapel Street, is part of a week of Royal Voluntary Service ‘Great Brew Break’ events happening across Great Britain between 28 April and 4 May.
+Last chance to comment on local plan
+Unedited press release from HPBC:
+High Peak Borough Council has published its draft Local Plan. The Plan allocates sites for new homes and businesses that are needed up to 2031, it explains how new jobs will be supported and how the environment will be protected. The Council is now starting final public consultation on the draft Plan before submitting it to an independent Planning Inspector. The Council is seeking public views on the draft Plan and is sending a leaflet to explain the process to all 38,000 households in the Borough. Comments on the draft Plan need to be received by the Council between 23rd April and 6th June 2014.
+Valiant Villa suffer away defeat
+Bradwell 2-0 Tintwistle Villa
+Hope Valley Premier League – Saturday 19th April, 2014
+By Steve Exley
+Tintwistle Villa battled valiantly but came away with no points on their journey to high flying Bradwell who inflicted a 2-0 defeat against Billy Higginbottom’s team on Saturday. Bradwell expected Tintwistle to put in a hard physical performance and they were not disappointed. Although Tintwistle showed a lot of commitment Bradwell were generally in control of the game and produced a series of half chances in the opening stages of the match.
+1072 houses for Glossop in the approved local plan
+The High Peak has an approved local plan at last, and 1,072 houses are proposed for Glossopdale. HPBC have not provided any press release about it but the Buxton Advertiser took the trouble to attend the meeting.
+Peak District has lowest number of child sex offence arrests in Derbyshire
+According to an article in the Derbyshire Times based on figures from a freedom in information request, there have been fewer arrests for child sex offences in the Peak District than any other part of Derbyshire. Since 2007 a total of 1,337 arrests have been made in Derbyshire in relation to sexual crimes against children, of which 81 were made in the Peak District (Division B South). The highest number of arrests were made in Amber Valley. The article does not take into consideration the different population sizes and densities of the different force areas.
+High Peak UKIP refuse to comment on controversial publicity officer
+Scarcely a week after our report that East Midlands UKIP had ordered their High Peak Publicity Officer to remove all references to UKIP from his Facebook pages over a series of controversial posts, Ivan Bell was at it again. This time "liking" a post from the English Defence League warning children about the "evils of Islam". Mr Bell also recently repeated his claim that he will be the UKIP candidate for Old Glossop in next year's Borough Council elections. The press officer for High Peak UKIP, Pat Ellison-Read, refused to comment when we asked for confirmation that Mr Bell would be standing for UKIP in the 2015 election, and that he was still Publicity Officer for High Peak UKIP.
+Men fined for counterfeit tobacco in Glossop
+Imran Abuji, aged 37, of Ozzebooth Terrace, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to possessing thirty six 50g pouches of hand rolling tobacco at Super Pound, High Street West, Glossop, which was likely to be mistaken for Golden Virginia, with a view to sale of the said goods. He was fined £144 and ordered to pay victim surcharge of £20 and costs of £250.
+Mohammed Hafeji, aged 32, of London Road, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to possessing one packet of the same tobacco at Super Pound, High Street West, Glossop, with a view to selling it. He was fined £120 plus victim surcharge of £20 and costs of £250
+Suspended prison sentence for Glossop man convicted of sustained and nasty assault
+Andrew Lee Smith, aged 34, of High Street West, Glossop, was found guilty of assault by beating of a male. The court said it was a sustained and nasty assault that was unprovoked and occurred in a public place, and that Smith showed a lack of remorse. He was given a 12 week prison sentence suspended for 12 months and ordered to participate in Resolve for 60 days. He was also ordered to pay compensation of £150, victim surcharge of £80 and costs of £200.
+Hadfield man "posed danger to other road users"
+Michael Antony Lloyd, aged 23, of Maguire Avenue, Hadfield, pleaded guilty to using a handheld phone while driving a Renault Megane in Hadfield, driving without a licence, and to having two bald tyres. He was disqualified for holding or obtaining a driving licence for 28 days. The court said that it was a serious case because of the number of offences and the danger he posed to other roads users. He was fined £74 plus victim surcharge of £20 and costs of £35.
+Gamesley Safer Neighbourhood Team head out on the road for mobile police surgeries
+Officers from Gamesley and St Johns Safer Neighbourhood Team will be heading out on the road to encourage residents in Charlesworth and Chisworth to share their views on local policing. The team will be visiting the villages on Saturday, April 26 to give residents the opportunity to speak to them about any issues affecting their community.The Gamesley and St Johns Safer Neighbourhood Team will be visiting the village in the mobile police station and will be seen at Charlesworth village green at 4.30pm and Chisworth turning circle on Marple Road from 6.30pm until 8.30pm.
+Moorland fire at Longdendale
+A moorland fire broke out in Longdendale yesterday. Peak District Rangers and the Fire Service were attempting to tackle the blaze, the cause of which is unknown at present. Moorland fires are considered the biggest single threat to the fragile ecology of Peak District moorlands and cause heavy mortality to ground nesting birds.
+Serious crash on Snake Pass - witnesses sought
+Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious collision on the A57 Snake Pass in north Derbyshire. At about 10.40am yesterday .
+Decisions about Glossop primary school places
+Parents their top three choices.
+New solicitor for Glossop firm
+Davis Blank Furniss - the Manchester & Glossop based law firm - and Wales.
+Glossop residents encouraged to take part in the B North Community Survey
+Residents local Safer Neighbourhood teams to focus on.
+Justice from the Buxton Beaks, 14th April 2014
+Ian Moore, aged 32, of Manor Park Road, Glossop, pleaded guilty to theft of two bottles of Jack Daniels whiskey from Glossop Co-Op and was given a 4 week prison sentence suspended for 12 months. The court said that he had committed an act of dishonesty whilst subject to a community order for theft which had been breached on two occasions within a short space of time, involving the theft of vacuum cleaners. He was also required to be under curfew with electronic monitoring for 18 weeks and ordered to pay compensation of £53.38
+Mystery of burned out police van on Cliffe Road
+An unattended, burned out, police van on Cliffe Road was the subject of much speculation in Glossop this morning. The van had apparently been parked up for a few days, but was not seen to be damaged until this morning. Speculative explanations include that it was left there unattended as a deterrent against allotment thefts. A police spokesman said "Yes we are aware of the van and it is one of ours. It was reported to be on fire at midnight. Initial examination suggests that there are no suspicious circumstances but the fire service will be finalising their investigation in the next few days." When asked to confirm that the vehicle had been parked there for some time they replied "It had been there for some time for operational reasons we can’t discuss. It had not broken down".
+Police head out on increased patrols following theft from Glossop allotments
+Police are heading out on targeted patrols and encouraging residents to remain vigilant following a number of thefts from allotments in Whitfield, Glossop. Between 6pm on Friday, April 11 and 9.30am on Saturday, April 12, offenders forced entry into a shed at an allotment on Gladstone Street, Glossop. A red Mantis cultivator was taken from the property. Overnight between Tuesday, April 8 and Wednesday, April 9, offenders attempted to gain entry to a garden shed at an allotment on Gladstone Street. No items were taken from the premises.
+Business recycling service being considered in Glossop
+High Peak Borough Council is considering introducing a business recycling service for trade waste customers. To help shape that service, the Council is asking local businesses to provide information about the types of waste they produce and what currently happens to that waste. An online survey has been created to make providing this information as quick and easy as possible for businesses. The survey is available at Businesses without internet access can call 01298 28400 (extensions 4413 and 4435) to speak to a recycling promoter who will complete the online survey on behalf of the business based on the information they provide. The survey must be completed by Friday 16 May.
+Glossop company repeats success at industry awards
+A Glossop building preservation company has won a top industry award for the second time in a row.
+Trace Remedial Building Services was announced as Project of the Year at an annual ceremony hosted by the Property Care Association at the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
+The award-winning project featured a timber-framed farmhouse which gained listed building status midway through essential repairs.
+100 houses for Charlestown Works
+High Peak Borough Council have reversed their earlier decision to refuse Aitchison Raffety's application to demolish the existing structures and build up to 105 houses on the site at Charlestown Works, Glossop. The application which was refused by HPBC last year, was approved on 27th March 2014.
+Extra inspections of Glossop Chimney as residents report strange noises
+A spate of reports about creaking noises coming from the Glossop chimney have prompted a thorough examination of the structure. Over the last few weeks a number of people have reported that the chimney is making strange sounds, and consequently a team are currently checking it. More details when they become available.
+Glossop residents asked about sexual health service plans for Derbyshire
+Unedited press release from Derbyshire County Council:
+Residents are being invited to have their say about Derbyshire County Council’s plans to develop sexual health services in a consultation starting tomorrow (Friday 11 April). The council carried out the first stage of a review in January and has used comments from the feedback to draw up plans to develop the service. It now wants to know if residents feel the proposals meet their needs and the right issues are being prioritised.
+Justice from the Buxton Beaks, 7th April 2014
+Daniel Downes, aged 37, of Platt Street, Padfield, pleaded guilty to assault by beating of a woman and was ordered to complete 90 hours of unpaid work and attend 26 sessions of a building better relationships course. He was also ordered to pay £60 in victim surcharge and £85 costs.
+Warning over Glossop car key thefts
+Police in Glossop area are urging residents to secure their property after a number of car key thefts. There have been an increased number of incidents in the north of the county where residents have left their properties insecure and offenders have stolen car keys and then stole cars. Sgt Christopher Simcock from Glossop CID said: “Residents are often leaving doors unlocked and their car keys near to the door on work surfaces or hooks. Offenders are then entering properties and taking the keys and then stealing cars.
+Appeal after late night burglary at Glossop Co-OP
+Detectives in Glossop are appealing for information after cigarettes were stolen during a burglary from a supermarket. At around 1.10am on Tuesday, April 8 three offenders entered Co-op, Norfolk Street, by forcing open shutters and the doors to the shop. They then stole a large amount of cigarettes and left the shop just a few minutes later. The offenders all wore face coverings but it is believed they were men.
+Woolley Bridge damaged in accident
+The Woolley Bridge has suffered significant damage after a vehicle hit it. Repair work will be carried out on May 13th, when the bridge will be closed, and traffic flow likely to be restricted until repairs are completed. More details will be published when available.
+Derbyshire one of the worst places for dog attacks on livestock
+The British Veterinary Association is asking dog owners to support a new campaign and keep their pets on leads near livestock as recent figures confirm, and that 53 of these occurred in Derbyshire .
+Crackdown on Glossop Blue badge abuse
+A crackdown on people who are misusing Blue Badges has seen just over 700 checks carried out in four months in Derbyshire.. In 2012, new rules were introduced nationally, making it easier to identify Blue Badge misuse and harder for fraudsters to produce and illegally use badges, ensuring that only genuine users benefit from the scheme.
+Glossop stench is Lancashire Chemicals' yeast process
+A new and unpleasant smell has been reported in Glossop, and locals suspicions that a new process at Lancashire Chemicals may be to blame have proved correct. The smell has been around for almost a month, A spokesperson for High Peak Borough Council said: “Environmental Health's Pollution Team has recently received a number of complaints in connection with a strong odour associated with a new commercial process introduced at Lancashire Chemicals. The process involves the drying of yeast and causes a strong odour similar to that associated with brewing. Whilst it can be unpleasant at certain times, the odour is not harmful.
+Meningitis charity mark 25 years with Trans Pennine Challenge through Glossop
+International charity Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) is marking its 25th anniversary in May 2014 with a 140km walk across the Pennines connecting two landmark buildings in the history of meningitis and septicaemia research. They will reach Glossop on 29th of May. Led by charity Chief Executive Christopher Head and other senior staff the walk will begin at Sheffield University on Friday 23 May and the charity hopes their supporters and members of the public will join them on an 8 day challenge across the beautiful Peak District National Park.
+Fire Temples are places of worship in the Zoroastrian religion. They were known as ataskada (“house of fire”) by the Persians but are best known today by the name given them by the Greeks from their word pyratheia (fire temple). They are thought to have originated from the practice in ancient Iran of keeping the hearth fire burning throughout the life of the head of a household. This tradition then developed into the ever-burning flame kept alive in honor of and symbolizing the divine in a place of worship. Early Iranian Religion venerated a god of fire, Atar, who was the fire itself but transcended earthly fire as a divine entity created by the king of the gods, Ahura Mazda.
+After Zoroaster (c. 1500-1000 BCE) established his monotheistic religion, Ahura Mazda became the Supreme Being and Atar – along with many of the other gods of the old religion – emanations (avatars) of the one true god. The fire temples at this time may have changed from outdoor altars to enclosures, possibly during the time of the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE) when they first started to appear in the region. Although the Zoroastrians were referenced by the Greeks as “fire-worshippers”, they did not worship fire itself in these temples but the Divine whose immanence was made manifest through the fire. The vitality, warmth, protection, and transformative nature of fire symbolized these same aspects of the divine force.
+Fire temples were firmly established by the time of the Parthian Empire (247 BCE - 224 CE) and reached their height of sophistication in the time of the Sassanian Empire (224-651 CE). After the fall of the Sassanians to the Muslim Arab Invasion of 651 CE, fire temples were destroyed or converted into mosques. Zoroastrians are said to have kept some of the flames from these temples burning in secret, however, and these were used to light the fires in later temples, notably those of the Parsees of India who preserved the Zoroastrian traditions and established fire temples later in that country. In the present day, these fires continue to burn in temples in Iran, India, and elsewhere around the world where they are kept by Zoroastrian communities.
+Early Religion, Zoroastrianism, Zorvanism
+The Early Iranian Religion was polytheistic with Ahura Mazda as the king of the gods presiding over a pantheon of many others. Among the most important of these gods were Mithra (god of contracts, the rising sun, cosmic order, and kingship), Anahita (goddess of fertility, health, water, wisdom, and war), Hvar Ksata (god of the full sun), Verethragna (warrior-god/defender of the good), Tishtrya (god of agriculture and rainfall), Haoma (god of the harvest, health, and vitality), and Atar. These gods stood in opposition to the lord of darkness, chaos, and evil, Angra Mainyu (also known as Ahriman) and his legion of demons. Human life was defined by which side one chose to support and this choice would also determine one’s destination after death.
+This belief was retained by Zoroaster after he established his monotheistic faith with the gods now relegated to the position of emanations from the single god Ahura Mazda. One could still pray to Mithra or Atar or the others but with the understanding that these were representations of a single divine entity, not gods themselves, who helped people in their struggle against the forces of darkness. The whole of life was seen in the context of this struggle, as scholar John R. Hinnells explains:
+To the Zoroastrians, there can be no greater sin than to associate good with evil, that is, to suggest that the good world is the creation of the Evil Spirit. [Further,] there can be no greater sin than to associate God with evil. Good and evil are contrary realities, as are darkness and light, or life and death. They are opposing substances, not simply different aspects of the same reality. Evil is not simply the absence of good, it is a real substance and force. Good and evil cannot co-exist; they are mutually destructive and must ultimately derive from two first causes which are themselves mutually antagonistic and irreconcilable. (44)
+Even so, Zoroastrianism claims that there is only one all-good, all-powerful god and this presents the problem of the origin of evil: if there is no evil in Ahura Mazda, and Ahura Mazda created the world, where did evil come from? This problem was resolved by the belief system of Zorvanism (probably dating to the late Achaemenid Empire and usually referenced as a heretical Zoroastrian sect) which claimed Zorvan (Infinite Time) was the supreme creator and Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu were created beings, twin sons of Time, and so Ahura Mazda had not created evil; Angra Mainyu brought evil to the world through the exercise of his own free will.
+This contradicted the central Zoroastrian tenet of free will, however, and the importance of human choice in determining one’s fate because Time was now the supreme deity, and this led to the development of a fatalistic approach to life and personal choice. Traditional Zoroastrians rejected this concept and eventually developed the understanding that Angra Mainyu was an emanation of Ahura Mazda like any of the other gods but one which chose to seek his own self-interest instead of serving the greater good, thus bringing evil and darkness into the world. Against this darkness, stood the forces of light symbolized by fire and this fire was kept burning in the temples.
+Origin & Development
+Fire was always an important element in the ancient Persian religion. It was not only the source of heat and light in the home but instrumental in determining guilt or innocence of the accused in legal matters through the Ordeal by Fire. Fire was considered the physical manifestation of Atar and so the accused might be required to walk through fire or endure hot metal poured onto the chest; if the person died, they were considered guilty while, if they lived, Atar had protected them, thus proving their innocence.
+The hearth fire was an integral part of everyone’s life, however, and, besides its practical uses, symbolized the presence of the god in one’s home just as it did in legal matters. The practice of starting a fire in one’s hearth when one set up a home, and keeping it burning throughout the life of the head of the household, is thought to have inspired the religious use of fire which developed into outdoor rituals centered around an altar upon which the fire was kept burning. At these rituals, the elements of fire, air, earth, and water were honored, each represented by a deity, but fire was central.
+The Early Iranian Religion was an oral tradition and so was Zoroastrianism – the texts were not written down until the Sassanian Period – and so anything known about the earlier faith comes from references in the Zoroastrian texts. It is therefore impossible to know what form these early rituals took or how the fire temple may have developed. There is no mention of fire temples in the Avesta (Zoroastrian scripture) though there are references to honoring the god through fire. It is thought that the fire temple developed through the hearth fire to the altar fire and then to buildings around a central altar and eternal flame. Information on the fire temple, types of fires, and rituals surrounding the fire all come from later Zoroastrian works such as the Bundahisn.
+Form, History, & Ritual
+The fire temple was erected at a place considered already sacred to the god. Scholar A. T. Olmstead describes the basic form:
+In its general aspect, the fire temple was simply a reproduction in more durable limestone of a typical high fort such as Assyrian reliefs show guarding a Median hill town. It was enclosed in a rectangular sacred precinct whose mud bricks represented the wall of the settlement, as the interior buildings with square stone column bases did the houses of the inhabitants. The mountain height on which the tower stood appeared as a series of three wide low platforms outside which began the narrow steep staircase climbing to the small lone door high up in the face. The lowest story, half the total height, showed neither entrance nor window…In the second story was the door, the wood represented by the black limestone, under a simple molding, which in turn was below a tiny false window…windows had become mere decoration, for the sacred fire burning within had to be protected from sudden drafts and would itself give sufficient light. (64-65)
+Olmstead’s description is based on the ruins of a fire temple built by Darius I (the Great, r. 522-486 BCE) which is thought to have been modeled on an earlier one built by the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, Cyrus II (the Great, r. c. 550-530 BCE) at his capital of Pasargadae. No ruins of buildings dating to the Achaemenid Empire have been positively identified as Zoroastrian fire temples, however, and it is possible the temple of Darius I honored the gods – or a specific god – of the earlier religion.
+The early Achaemenid monarchs have traditionally been regarded as Zoroastrians simply because the religion was so well established by the time of their reigns and their inscriptions seem to support this conclusion. These inscriptions, however, could as easily be interpreted as referencing the early faith as is the case with Darius I’s Behistun Inscription which mentions “the other gods” in addition to Ahura Mazda.
+Even so, based on later ruins positively identified as fire temples, it does seem likely that Darius I’s was an early one and, since he was careful to model his reign on that of Cyrus the Great, he most likely would have extended this practice to recreating Cyrus’ fire temple. Accounts of Greek writers date these structures to the Achaemenid Empire as early as Cyrus the Great. In keeping with the tradition inherited from the hearth fire, a flame would be lit when a king came to the throne and extinguished upon his death.
+Each king was said to have his own fire, symbolizing not only his reign but the divine grace (farr) bestowed by the gods which enabled that reign. When a king died, the divine grace was withdrawn to be given to another, and so the fire was put out. Once mourning rites were completed for a monarch, a new fire was lighted for his successor.
+According to a number of Greek historians (Diodorus Siculus, Herodotus, Pausanias, Strabo, among others), the flame in the fire temple was always burning. It was kept alive on the altar by its hot coals and rekindled five times a day when the priest would enter the temple alone with barsom twigs (symbolizing the earth) which he would place on the hot coals while reciting a prayer and so revive the flame.
+The priest would then recite prayers and make offerings to the god. There was no sermon given and no congregation entered with the priest; it was only the priest and his private communion with the Divine. The Greeks saw this ritual as a mystical incantation that kept an ever-burning fire, but the flames on the temples’ altars were allowed to burn down to coals – according to these same reports – while there were other fires (known as the Great Fires) which were not.
+Types of Fires & Legends
+The three Great Fires were:
+- Adur Gushnasp (fire of warriors)
+- Adur Farnbag (fire of priests)
+- Adur Burzen-Mihr (fire of farmers)
+All three were said to have come into the world at the beginning of creation and were always kept burning by the priests who tended them. The rivalry of these priests, in attempts to draw the most adherents in pilgrimage to their respective sites, gave rise to a number of legends surrounding them so it is impossible to know how they originated or, for the most part, exactly where. The word Adur means “holy fire” and the second name designates who the fire honored, usually thought to be its founder, although legend claims that all three fires were initially kindled by Ahura Mazda himself and entered the world on the back of the great celestial bull, Srisok, who carried them to where they eventually burned.
+Adur Gushnasp was considered the greatest of the Great Fires by the Sassanian monarchs who were themselves of the warrior class and influenced what was written about this subject and every other. Whether Adur Gushnasp was always considered the top-tier of the fires is unknown (and was contested by priests of the time) but it is the only one said to be archaeologically attested to and was kept at Takht-i Soleyman, West Azerbaijan Province, modern-day Iran. Gushnasp means “stallion” and alludes to a myth concerning the fire’s founder (a warrior) in which flames attached to his horse’s mane and were carried to the site.
+Adur Farnbag is thought to have been kept at Pars (modern-day Fars), Iran. Farnbag alludes to glory or good fortune, and this fire was claimed to be the greatest of the three by the priests of the Sassanian Empire. The “glory” referenced in the name would be that attached to the service of God and the “good fortune” would mean the same as regards the founder of the fire. The priests claimed this fire originated in the time of the first mortal king Yima (a mythological figure) and was, therefore, the oldest and should be held in highest honor. As with Adur Gushnasp, legends of miracles and healings were associated with Adur Farnbag just as they were with Adur Burzen-Mihr.
+Adur Burzen-Mihr was the fire of farmers – and seems to have been considered the lowest by the priests of the other two sites – but was highly respected by others. Burzen-Mihr translates as “exalted is Mithra” and is thought to be the founder’s name but could also allude to the fire in honor of Mithra, god of contracts who was also responsible for fertile fields and fought against the demons of drought and bad harvest. This fire is thought to have been kept in northeastern Iran and was possibly initiated in the Parthian Period but, as noted, legend claims it was much older.
+All three fires were of the highest grade of flame that could be produced – a grade known as atash behram (“victorious fire”) – which was produced by 16 other different types of fire taken from various locales including fire from a funeral pyre, from a king’s fire, from the hearth of a faithful Zoroastrian, from a shepherd’s hearth, a baker’s oven, a brewer’s shop, etc. These different fires were then combined to create each of the Great Fires. The Great Fires which are kept burning in modern-day fire temples still adhere to this same model and are still kept to stand between the forces of darkness and humanity.
+Destruction & Revival
+Throughout the latter part of the 7th century CE, the Sassanian Empire fought off incursions by the Muslim Arabs but finally fell to them in 651 CE. Afterwards, Zoroastrianism – along with other aspects of Persian culture – was suppressed. Fire temples were destroyed, along with Zoroastrian texts, or were converted into mosques. This period is most frequently cited by scholars as the reason why it is so difficult to identify the ruins of fire temples in the region – because their destruction was so complete – and those not destroyed or converted by the Muslim Arabs were ruined or completely obliterated by the later Mongol Invasion.
+In the 7th and 8th centuries CE, many Zoroastrians fled the area of modern-day Iran for other regions and among these are the Parsees who carried the traditions, and what texts they had saved, to India, specifically Gujarat and, later, Mumbai. They formed a new Zoroastrian community there and revived the religion, preserving it to the present day. After the Muslim Arab persecution of Iranian Zoroastrians relaxed, the religion also revived in Iran where fire temples were rebuilt or new ones created at sacred sites.
+In Iran, one of the greatest extant fire temples is the Yazd Atash Behram (founded 1934 CE in Yazda Province) whose fire is said to have been burning continuously since 470 CE. If so, this fire would have been among those kept in secret and carefully moved from place to place during the persecutions by the Muslim Arabs. In Gujarat and Mumbai, fire temples have been standing for centuries, one of the most famous at Udvada, Gujarat, and a number of other significant sites among the 50 temples in Mumbai. They are usually referred to as dar-I Mihr – “the gate of Mithra” and the old god continues to play a part in the rituals of the faith.
+In 2017 CE, the Zoroastrians (and others) of Mumbai protested plans for a new underground metro which they feared would damage two Zoroastrian fire temples in the area and diminish the protective power of the fires burning there. This issue remains unresolved three years later as proponents for the metro continue to push for its completion as planned while advocates for the temples propose alternatives, which would avoid damage to the sites or diffusion of the fire’s spiritual power. This case, the most recent of its kind over many years, highlights the spiritual and cultural significance fire temples continue to have in the present day as symbols of divine order standing against the forces of chaos.
+Arthritis More Arthritis Types & Related Conditions What Is Scleroderma Renal Crisis? A Potentially Life-Threatening Complication of Scleroderma By Ruth Jessen Hickman, MD facebook linkedin Ruth Jessen Hickman, MD, is a freelance medical and health writer and published book author. Learn about our editorial process Ruth Jessen Hickman, MD Medically reviewed by Medically reviewed by Kashif J. Piracha, MD on April 27, 2021 facebook twitter linkedin Kashif J. Piracha, MD, is a board-certified physician with over 14 years of experience treating patients in acute care hospitals and rehabilitation facilities. Learn about our Medical Review Board Kashif J. Piracha, MD Published on May 03, 2021 Print Table of Contents View All Table of Contents Symptoms Cause Diagnosis Treatment Prognosis One of the most serious potential complications from the autoimmune disease scleroderma (also called “systemic sclerosis”) is renal crisis. When this happens, your blood pressure rises sharply, and your kidneys begin working poorly. Because of this, you may need temporary or even permanent dialysis. Scleroderma renal crisis is thought to happen in somewhere between 2% and 15% of people with scleroderma. laflor/ E+/ Getty Images Symptoms People with scleroderma renal crisis may have symptoms because their blood pressure has increased sharply and swiftly. For example, these might include: Headache Dizziness Nausea Shortness of breath Confusion Seizures Fatigue Visual disturbances However, not all people with scleroderma renal crisis will have any of these because elevated blood pressure doesn’t always cause symptoms. Blood pressure is often greater than 150/90 (mm Hg) or at least 30 above a person’s baseline blood pressure. Other times, a person might have symptoms related to kidney damage. For example, they might not be urinating as much as they would normally. If you are someone with scleroderma, it’s important to know about these potential symptoms of possible scleroderma renal crisis, like headache and dizziness. If you experience symptoms like this, it’s important to see a health professional right away. Ideally, keep a device that you can use to check your blood pressure at home. That way, if you feel strange, you can check your blood pressure yourself. If it’s significantly elevated, definitely seek immediate medical attention. Cause Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease that leads to skin thickening. Scleroderma can also lead to inflammation in various parts of the body. This can lead to the formation of scar-like tissue that can prevent these internal organs from working well. For example, it can lead to another serious complication of scleroderma from scar tissue buildup in the lungs. Inflammation and scar tissue can affect the blood vessels in the kidneys. In some cases, this causes the blood pressure to increase relatively quickly. The kidney itself may not be getting enough blood flow. This can lead to scleroderma renal crisis—a sudden increase in blood pressure that also damages the kidneys. Who Is at Highest Risk of Scleroderma Renal Crisis? Researchers don’t fully understand why a minority of people with scleroderma eventually develop renal crisis. But certain factors put you more at risk: Relatively recent scleroderma symptoms: The risk is highest in the first four years after symptoms begin. Scleroderma skin symptoms that are rapidly getting worse Diffuse cutaneous version of scleroderma: People who have the limited cutaneous form of the disease are much less likely to have a scleroderma renal crisis. Scleroderma symptoms that include arthritis Scleroderma that requires treatment with glucocorticoids like prednisone Scleroderma that is positive for certain antibodies on blood tests (like anti-RNA polymerase III antibodies) Other health features, such as anemia or heart issues Blood Pressure Monitoring if You Are High-Risk If you have a high risk of scleroderma renal crisis because of these factors, you should regularly monitor your blood pressure at home. Let your doctor know right away if your blood pressure is significantly higher than normal. Besides doing regular blood pressure checks, people at higher risk of scleroderma renal crisis also need periodic tests to check if their kidneys are doing well. This may include blood tests like creatinine and tests on your urine. You can’t do anything about these risk factors for scleroderma renal crisis. However, there is one risk factor over which you have some control—dehydration. So, it’s probably a good idea for people with scleroderma to drink enough to stay hydrated. Also, avoid situations where dehydration might become an issue (e.g., a sauna). Diagnosis The person’s medical history and physical exam provide the starting clues to diagnosis. The doctor will ask about your recent symptoms and your medical conditions and check you out physically. This will include basic assessments like your blood pressure. It’s especially important that you tell your doctor that you have been diagnosed with scleroderma. You can even bring up the possibility of scleroderma renal crisis if you are concerned about increased blood pressure. (Although specialists will be very familiar with this scenario, it might not leap to mind for more general physicians, like ER doctors.) It’s a good idea to keep a record of your baseline blood pressure so you can provide this as part of your medical history. This can give important context for your current blood pressure reading. Most people with scleroderma renal crisis have very high blood pressure. However, not everyone with scleroderma renal crisis has a very elevated blood pressure when compared with the general population. For example, this might not be the case if your blood pressure generally runs lower than average. But if your blood pressure increased 30 mm Hg or more from your normal pressure, scleroderma renal crisis is a strong possibility. Lab Tests Basic lab tests can also be helpful in diagnosis. For example, basic blood tests for creatinine are usually increased in people with scleroderma renal crisis. This indicates kidney damage. Some people with scleroderma renal crisis will have signs of anemia, such as might be seen on a complete blood count (CBC). Specifically, they might have a type of anemia characterized as microangiopathic hemolytic anemia. Individuals may also show thrombocytopenia (decreased number of blood platelets). Other blood tests may help rule out other possible causes for your symptoms as well. Tests on your urine can also give some clues. For example, people with scleroderma renal crisis often have protein in their urine, which is abnormal. The urine also may have a tiny amount of blood in it as well. For diagnosis, it’s important to rule out other potential causes. For example, some types of vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels) can have some similarities. If a diagnosis is in question, sometimes more in-depth testing might be needed, like a kidney biopsy. Diagnosing Scleroderma Renal Crisis and Scleroderma Often, a person experiencing a scleroderma renal crisis will already know that they have scleroderma. However, a scleroderma renal crisis is sometimes the first major sign that a person has scleroderma. Before this, they might have had only subtle symptoms or even no symptoms at all. If this is the case, diagnosing scleroderma renal crisis can be more challenging because the clinician isn’t thinking of scleroderma right away. Scleroderma is a rare disease, and other causes of increased blood pressure are more common. Symptoms like hard, thickened skin or changes in skin color can be a clue that scleroderma is a possibility. Other symptoms might be present, like constipation, fatigue, and shortness of breath. Other parts of the medical history and physical exam can point toward scleroderma. For example, people with scleroderma often have previously experienced Raynaud’s phenomenon, in which their fingers get very painful and pale in response to cold or stress. Being positive for certain autoimmune antibodies can also make scleroderma more likely. Rarely, a skin biopsy can be helpful in diagnosis. Unfortunately, there isn’t one single test that proves a person has scleroderma. A physician must assess the individual’s full clinical picture. It’s vital that scleroderma renal crisis be diagnosed as quickly as possible. That’s because you’ll have a much better chance of restoring your kidney function if you are treated with the correct medication right away. Treatment Drugs called ACE inhibitors are the key initial treatment for scleroderma renal crisis. Two types commonly used in this situation are Capoten (captopril) and Vasotec (enalapril). It’s essential that an ACE inhibitor drug be started quickly. ACE inhibitors are commonly used to lower blood pressure, even in people who don’t have scleroderma. However, they have other beneficial effects on the kidney that help restore kidney function in scleroderma renal crisis. (Unfortunately, taking ACE inhibitors long-term to prevent scleroderma renal crisis doesn’t seem to work.) Sometimes other blood pressure medications are given in addition to ACE inhibitors. This might be done if the person is already receiving high doses of ACE inhibitors, but their blood pressure is still very high. For example, depending on the situation, this might include a calcium channel blocker drug like Norvasc (amlodipine). Or a diuretic might be used. However, it’s very important that ACE inhibitors be used as the initial drug to help lower blood pressure. This is different from a very elevated blood pressure that can arise from other causes, which is part of the reason it is so important that it be correctly diagnosed. Other newer types of drugs are sometimes used to treat scleroderma renal crisis if it still isn’t under control. Endothelin-1 receptor antagonists such as Tracleer (bosentan) are sometimes used, as is a drug called Soliris (eculizumab). However, their effectiveness is not as well established. Some people with scleroderma renal crisis are very ill and require treatment in the intensive care unit. Dialysis Many people with scleroderma renal crisis also need to be put on dialysis because their kidneys are working so poorly. Dialysis does the work that your kidneys normally do, filtering out wastes and balancing electrolytes in your body. Nearly half of people who experience scleroderma renal crisis will need to be put on dialysis. The good news is that not everyone who starts dialysis for scleroderma renal crisis will need to be on it permanently. Often, a person’s kidneys will recover well enough to come off dialysis treatment eventually, perhaps within a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case for everyone with scleroderma renal crisis, especially if they weren’t correctly diagnosed and treated properly. In this case, you might need to be on some type of dialysis long-term. If your kidneys never recover, you might be able to receive a kidney transplant. In this case, you’d need to go on lifelong medications to prevent organ rejection. Prognosis Scleroderma renal crisis is a very serious, potentially life-threatening condition. Particularly before we learned about the benefit of ACE-inhibitor drugs, scleroderma renal crisis was incredibly difficult to treat. At that time, most people died from it, unless they could get an emergency kidney transplantation. Although the prognosis of scleroderma renal crisis is now much better, we still need better treatments for it. Around 20% of people who develop scleroderma renal crisis die within a year, often from complications of the disease. And even more people never get enough recovery of their kidneys to get off dialysis. A Word From Verywell Most people with scleroderma will never experience a renal crisis. Still, if you have scleroderma, it can be scary to learn that this is a possibility. But you can learn about your specific level of risk and take steps to monitor your health. Through education, you’ll give yourself the best chance of having less severe issues from scleroderma. Soukup T, Toms J, Oreska S, et al. Renal involvement in systemic sclerosis: New insights into systemic sclerosis. July 9. 2019. IntechOpen. doi:10.5772/intechopen.87187 Mouthon L, Bussone G, Berezné A, Noël LH, Guillevin L. Scleroderma renal crisis. J Rheumatol. 2014;41(6):1040-8. doi:10.3899/jrheum.131210 Chrabaszcz M, Małyszko J, Sikora M, et al. Renal involvement in systemic sclerosis: An update. Kidney Blood Press Res. 2020;45(4):532-548. doi:10.1159/000507886 Zanatta E, Codullo V, Allanore Y. Scleroderma renal crisis: Case reports and update on critical issues. Eur J Rheumatol. 2020 Nov 19. doi:10.5152/eurjrheum.2020.20048 Saketkoo LA, Magnus JH, Doyle MK. The primary care physician in the early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis: the cornerstone of recognition and hope. Am J Med Sci. 2014;347(1):54-63. doi:10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3182a55d24 Hickman RJ. The American College of Rheumatology. The history of ACE inhibitors in scleroderma renal crisis. The Rheumatologist. February 26, 2021.
+Author Genre: Literature & Fiction, History, Romance
+Website: Lloyd Lofthouse
+Author's Blog: Lloyd Lofthouse
+Twitter: @lflwriter
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+SPOTLIGHT Questions and Answers with the Author
+Congratulations on your book: My Splendid Concubine. What do you have on the drawing board next? Can you tell us the timeline for its release and give us a little tease?
+Thank you. My next book is the first in a planned series of five called “Becoming Merlin” (also the title of #1) and the first novel in the series is finished and going through revisions. In addition, the rough draft for number two, “Becoming Merlin, the Awakening” is almost completed. Hopefully, #1 will be out before the end of 2017. After revisions, the manuscript still has to go to the editor. I plan to release #2 a few months after #1 is out.
+The series is a hybrid genre that includes science fiction, fantasy, supernatural creatures, time travel, some history, and more. There are two main characters, Merlin (yes, that Merlin), a shape-shifting alien, and his artificially intelligent multiverse interstellar ship A-Cappella. This is a story I’ve thought about for decades, and now I’m writing it.
+Here’s a peak at the 1st paragraph of book one’s rough draft.
+“I regretted my part in one of the greatest tragic love stories in human history. It was that look in her eyes that did it, and I felt no guilt when I let myself be seduced by my friend’s future wife. That is when I knew that Guinevere was going to be trouble. She was fourteen the day Arthur and I first saw her. She had enchanting eyes, and men of all ages fell under their spell. She hypnotized me too, and I’m not even human.”
+You have a good following on twitter. How important have your social media relationships been? How did you build your following in your niche? Do you see a carry over to your writing success?
+My first serious social media interaction was when I launched iLookChina.net back in 2010 after taking a workshop in late 2009 to learn how to blog and attract visitors. In 2010, following what I had learned, I wrote and posted more than one thousand posts, and sold an average of 180 books a month that year. Considering that I sold 341-books (28 a month) in 2009 without a blog, iLookChina.net made a huge difference in book sales, and that continued for several years as I posted daily. From 2011 through 2014, almost 18,000 copies were sold, but the pace slowed when I went from one new post a day to two a week. By the end of 2015, sales had dropped to 776 for the year.
+The same thing worked with Twitter where I spent several hours a day building my following there and retweeting others and tweeting my stuff. When I started working twitter once a week or less, instead of several hours every day, sales of my work dropped again. While I was working twitter daily, I was selling three times as many books, but nothing compared to the sales when I was posting new stuff on my blogs every day.
+If you are publishing posts and tweeting daily, there is little time to work on the next book.
+Has the advent of ebooks changed anything in your writing, getting the book to your readers and the relationship with your readers and fans?
+The advent of e-books made it possible for me to publish and reach readers without going through agents, editors, and publishers. Before I became an indie author and published “My Splendid Concubine” back in 2008, that same book had been turned down by agents and editors. Thanks to the e-book revolution, that novel has sold and been downloaded more than 60,000 times in addition to picking up a number of literary awards at book festivals around the world.
+Do you do any book signings, interviews, speaking and personal appearances? If so, when and where is the next place where your readers can see you? Where can they keep up with your personal contacts online?
+The last time I did book signings and personal appearances in brick-and-mortar book stores was in 2008. That was a very busy year. I was interviewed on more than 30-traditional, radio talk shows across the country and held a number of author events at several local bookstores. All the driving and late night or early morning radio interviews resulted in 221-sales that year. It wasn’t until after I became serious about social media by launching my blogs and becoming involved on Twitter that sales took off.
+Where can readers keep up online?
+I only post regularly at iLookChina.net. The other three blogs might see a post once or twice a month. For readers that want to keep up, follow me through one of my four blogs or all’ve paid for a few of the book covers and produced the rest on my own using Adobe Elements. I tried getting readers involved in the production of one book cover I was working on. I read it was a good promotional tactic to use, but the results weren’t satisfying, and I probably won’t be doing that again. When I say the results weren’t satisfying, there wasn’t much reader involvement. I think this tactic works best if you have thousands of loyal fans eager for your next book in the same genre.
+Between your book writing, blogging, marketing, family and all the other things that can get in your way, how do you manage your time? Do you have a set schedule or do you sort of play it by ear?
+I’m a goal oriented writer, and I have a white board in my home office where I write them down. For instance, on that board, there is a goal that I finish writing the rough for chapter twenty-three in the second “Becoming Merlin” novel by August 13, 2017. I’ve already written more than one-thousand words in that chapter but have more work to do before moving on to the next chapter. I also have a goal to finish writing and prescheduling September’s posts for iLookChina.net before the end of August.
+There are also marketing goals written on that white board. I have seldom if ever failed to complete a goal once I write one down. When I don’t have an active written goal, I tend to drift and procrastinate. The key to writing goals is to only write goals that you can achieve. Don’t write something like you will have thousands of readers by a certain date, because that means you are relying on other people to achieve your own goals. For instance, if I wrote a goal to submit an ad request to BookBub, I don’t write a goal that says I will get that ad and run it because BookBub has to say yes first and I don’t control what BookBub does. I can only control what I do.
+I also have a rule that I can’t sit down and watch a DVD on my flat screen TV until after 8:00 PM. I do not subscribe to cable or satellite TV. However, I often slip during the day and take a break to watch a YouTube video or two or three. The YouTube videos I’ve been watching recently are of Grace VanderWaal singing her original songs. I didn’t know about Grace until I saw her singing one of her songs on YouTube. Here’s a link to a post I wrote and published on one of my blogs about being her fan. As a dedicated fan of her songs, I mention her every chance I get.
+What has been your experience in giving your books away free? Have you been involved in any other type of giveaways and how did that work out? What was your main goal in doing this? Did you run into any obstacles?
+I have had three giveaways for three of my four books, and the one that worked best was the BookBub giveaway of “My Splendid Concubine” in 2015. About 40,000 copies were downloaded in 24-hours and that resulted in an explosion of Amazon reviews, tripling the number and burying the trolls’ reviews that had attacked the book in 2013 to bring down the average rating after I was sucked into a flame war by stepping into a flame trap defending another author I knew.
+At the time, I didn’t know about flame traps and flame wars. Beware if you are an author. Learn what a flame trap and flame war is and avoid them, because if you get sucked into one, your work will suffer. Authors are easy targets for anonymous trolls and/or internet bullies. The trolls don’t need much of an excuse to come after your work and smear your name with false allegations and/or conspiracy theories.
+What is your primary genre? What has been your best marketing approach to this group?
+I have no primary genre. My first book, “My Splendid Concubine” is historical fiction set in 19th century China, and it was based on a true story.
+The second one, “Running with the Enemy” is a love story that shows what happens when enemies fall in love. It’s set during the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia.
+My third book was a teacher’s memoir set in my classroom in the mid-1990s, and it was based on a daily journal I kept for one full school year. Number four was a murder mystery called “The Redemption of Don Juan Casanova” based lightly on my years as a maître d’ in a nightclub-restaurant called the Red Onion (real name). I used a fictional name for the nightclub in the novel, and the murders that take place in the story did not happen in real life.
+I have no best marketing approach that I can think of. Marketing seems to be an area where learning and experimenting never end. I did launch different blogs with different themes to support each book but that only worked once with iLookChina.net. I haven’t devoted the same amount of time to develop my other blogs for my other books. Marketing your work is a major time suck and how to do that and work on the next book is a challenge I have not mastered. If I’m working on my next book, I’m not marketing. If I’m marketing, I’m not writing the next book.
+How do you manage your plots, characters and timelines to keep your stories going? Do you use any software to keep track of your books?
+I manage my plots, characters, and timelines by keeping a few notes and then relying on my editor who seems to always catch what I missed and what I messed up. I don’t use any software programs to keep track of my books as I’m writing them. Once I start to write, my fingers blur across the keyboard, and to stop and fill in information in a software program like that would break my writing method’s rhythm.
+Do you maintain a reader list? What are the methods you use to find your readers and create the list and the relationship? Do you use social media, forums, newsletters and/or support groups to build your list?
+I put off for years building a readers list and it wasn’t until earlier this year that I finally launched a list through Mail Chimp that I have since been neglecting. Up until then, I relied on readers that follow my Blogs and posted news and poetry on Authors Den where my pages on that site have had more than a half million page views.
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+Don Juan Casanova was raised by his grandparents to follow in the family tradition by becoming a Lothario, and as he approaches 40, he has successfully seduced hundreds of women. But now, this former U.S. Marine and combat veteran, who is the flirtatious maître d’ of his family’s infamous beachside nightclub in Southern California, is facing a crises. His grandfather and then younger brother, also infamous Lotharios, are viciously murdered, and Don is the prime suspect. He also wants to stop his serial seductions and find real love with one woman who understands him, but he is discovering it isn’t easy to kick an old habit that may be part of his DNA. There are so many women to love, and he’s confused.
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+Hello everyone, and welcome again to the MNO blog – the only online resource dedicated entirely to elite investment opportunities from the leading HYIPs. They pay high-end listing prices to be presented to my readers, thus eliminating obvious fast scams and inexperienced admins who might not know how to run a successful business venture. We have another brand new name in the industry to present to you in the news section so keep looking for further details there.
+Before we get started today I’d just like to send my own best wishes to all my Asian readers celebrating Chinese New Year or Tet as they call it here in Vietnam. The year of the Pig for anyone who didn’t know, so let’s hope it’s a lucky one for HYIP investors as it looks like a piggybank. I witnessed some huge street celebrations here in Ho Chi Minh City (a.k.a. Saigon) last night followed by a spectacular fireworks display lighting up the night skies visible from the rooftop of my hotel. As my vacation here comes to an end and most likely the next post will be written on the plane home to London later this week I’d like to wish all the MNO readers health happiness and of course wealth by careful selection from the list of the best HYIPs on the MNO monitor. It’s also advisable to keep following MNO on Telegram, Facebook, and Twitter where all the latest additions and status changes are highlighted first and subscribe for regular updates delivered from the MNO blog straight to your mailbox you can submit and confirm from this page. If you want to stay in touch with me, or have any questions regarding the monitored programs or advertising requests I’ll be pleased to answer them. Your queries can be submitted by either contacting me directly at abramsonp@gmail.com, entering your details and question via this form, or simply by chatting with me via Telegram @mnoblog.
+I guess today’s news article should start with the introduction of the newest addition to the MNO monitor‘s Standard List – a brand new program called Hooplex. And as all the programs from my monitor are paying fine at the time of writing and there wasn’t much else to report aside from the almost customary frenzy of activity from Weenzee I’ll be focusing on that once I’m done with Hooplex. I’ll also have the final results of the poll that has been featured on the MNO TalkBack over the last seven days and new question regarding your positive experience with one of the monitored by MNO programs will be asked as well. Let’s start today’s news then with the first look Hooplex which I expect to be fully reviewed on the MNO blog by the end of the week.
+By the structure of investment plans and the overall website design Hooplex strongly reminded me of Weenzee, but with a much less complicated interface and investment plans though still with various investment terms to choose from. In order to join Hooplex it’s compulsory to add funds to your Lexera internal wallet abbreviated to LXR at the current exchange rate of 1 LXR=1 USD. You can only use PerfectMoney in order to add funds via USD or go with one of the multiple cryptocurrency platforms accepted by Hooplex, like BitCoin, LiteCoin, Ethereum, BitcoinCash, EthereumClassic, Tether, Dash, Zcoin, Tron, Ripple, BlackCoin, Waves, and DogeCoin. After funding your account you may invest in any of the plans each starting from a $10 minimum. For that after you see a number of LXR credited to your balance go to the Portfolio section of your Hooplex account, enter the desired amount you wish to invest and use your cursor to move the blue spot on the required investment term. You can choose among the following plans – 0.7% for 30 days, 0.8% for 60 days, 0.9% for 90 days, 1% for 120 days, 1.05% for 150 days, or 1.1% for 180 days. All interest is credited on calendar days and your principal is released to you on expiry of the chosen term. You must exchange your LXR balance to USD or any chosen cryptocurrency you wish to withdraw to (you may invest via one currency and withdraw to another one). The minimum to withdraw is $10 at the moment and you pay 1% to 1.5% commission on every withdrawal request depending on the currency you’re using to withdraw to. I am not sure about the withdrawal processing times yet, but I’m confident I will get all the answers I need by the time the full review of Hooplex is going to be posted on the MNO blog on Friday.
+The Hooplex website looks to be exceptionally well made powered by the custom-made script with the domain name registered for five years in advance, hosting on a dedicated server provided and SSL-secured by CloudFlare. The whole website has been translated already into four other languages which can be easily switched between from the default English version – Chinese, Indonesian, Spanish and Portuguese. More languages might be added over time and MNO will be the first to report on it. The site has a professionally created video presentation which can be viewed on the main page of the Hooplex website and has been embedded already on the MNO monitor for your convenience. There are some multi-level referral rewards available for the more active promoters of Hooplex which will surely be enough to keep interest high and the by now almost traditional certificate of incorporation from the UK. The business activities behind Hooplex‘s earning potential for investors include multi-currency core LexeraWay and electronic currency LexeraLXR which I believe will go into full circulation after some time. As Hooplex is a brand new program I hope we will be hearing about further exciting developments from it in the near future. Meanwhile you can check it out, see if you like it to make an investment, and read the first welcome messages from the admin issued earlier today on the site’s official launch (more on Hooplex will be covered in the upcoming review on the MNO blog in a couple of days):
+“Hooplex Official Launch
+We are pleased to announce that the official launch of the international project Hooplex. We have been long preparing for this event. Our team of developers, marketers, enthusiasts tried to make this project become a part of every person, help to develop himself/herself and simplify most of the tasks from transferring finances to earning money.
+The project introduces an innovative multicurrency technology called Lexera that allows you to make the instant conversion and transfer of currencies with the help of the multicurrency core LexeraWay. Due to numerous tests, we are proud to say that our technology works and reveals its possibilities for everyone.
+Our task is to create the world’s largest community of financially independent people united by a common goal to make this world a better place. With the development of our community, we will refine and popularize the Lexera technology.
+The project has an investment platform LEXERA DEPOSIT PROGRAM which will allow each person to increase assets via various investment plans in a short period of time. We have implemented a profitable affiliate program that opens up unlimited financial opportunities.
+You will be able to enjoy all the aspects of working with the system via your personal account. We have combined maximum convenience and security for your data and assets. Our best specialists worked on security.
+We are happy to introduce the world with the new Lexera technology and the Hooplex community. Feel free to become its part right now.”
+“Integration of Crypto Currencies into the Lexera Multicurrency System
+Lexera is a completely new type of multicurrency system that operates on the basis of LexeraWay with its own electronic currency called Lexera LXR. This is a new type of algorithm that allows you to make instant conversion and transfers of major currencies via the multicurrency core on the settlement coin LXR.
+What is this technology developed for? Today, there are a great number of currencies and payment systems but the conversion and transfers usually require a certain commission, and the speed of transfers is not always fast. And if we want to exchange crypto currency then we have a number of difficulties that not everyone can solve.
+We have developed a platform that can solve the issue of currency conversion and instant transfers. Today, the platform can assist you in exchanging popular crypto currencies the list of which will be constantly updated.
+The main advantages are as follows:
+– Instant transactions
+– Complete anonymity of transactions
+– High level of security
+When developing a multicurrency system we pursued three goals:
+1. To combine all financial and crypto communities into a single multicurrency network.
+2. To simplify the work of multicurrency transfers to instant ones in 3 clicks.
+3. To stabilize the crypto currency market.
+Rate the usability of the multicurrency core LexeraWay on our platform!”
+WEENZEE – CHINESE NEW YEAR WISHES, REPORT FROM ANTALYA CONFERENCE, AND MORE SCHEDULED EVENTS FOR INDONESIA ANNOUNCED
+Weenzee being one the investment programs with the highest level of participation among Asian markets which it has been mostly targeting over the last couple of months has expectedly been the first to issue a newsletter with the best wishes for the Chinese New Year 2019 last night. Weenzee has not only been the most successful program for the majority of my readers being online for two and a half months, but it’s also the most advertised program on the MNO portal with the admin recently opting to keep his top banner spot on the MNO monitor for two more months. That will definitely inspire the confidence of many current and future investors who believe in the long-term plans and commitments from Weenzee that having been on its third month online already managed to complete first 30- and 60-day investment cycles and returned principals on expiry of them to first investors. Many of them actually now opted to reinvest into the longer-term plans running for 90, 180, or 360 calendar days, as the investor is the one who decides just for how long he wants to commit to. To join you need only a $30 minimum deposited via PerfectMoney in USD, or many other cryptocurrencies accepted by Weenzee (the list is quite extensive but includes BitCoin, LiteCoin, Ethereum, BitcoinCash, Dash, Eos, Zcash, and Ripple). Investors will get a variable daily interest payment (usually around 1%) and can request it to be paid to their e-currency within a 72 hour maximum, although usually it will be done much faster. If you decide to invest via the internal currency WNZ (not a compulsory feature!) you will enjoy 15% higher daily returns and have the option to request your principal to be paid to you before the investment term expires for a certain fee. If that process sounds a bit too complicated to you then you can ask more from the Weenzee Live support that can guide you through the investment process or simply read the MNO review of the program posted here where I tried my best to explain all the main features in an easy to read guide.
+Apart from the Chinese New Year wishes from Weenzee you can read below, the program also gives us a glimpse on their recent conference held in the Turkish city of Antalya as well as featuring a slew of events scheduled to be held in various Indonesian cities and provinces in February. Please refer to all the latest updates posted on Weenzee‘s News page over the last few days to find out more and attend the events if you happen to be in one of the cities at the time:
+“HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 2019 IS THE YEAR OF THE PIG!
+The international team of WEENZEE wishes you a Happy Chinese New Year! We wish that the “Yellow Pig” brings joy to your home! Also, we wish that profit and good luck accompany your business throughout 2019!
+May the upcoming holidays be filled with fun, laughter, smiles and a lot of “red envelopes”. We appreciate your work and wish you all the best in the New Year!
+Best wishes, WEENZEE Team”.
+“CONFERENCE IN ANTALYA!
+A huge number of people from all over the world want to understand the blockchain technology and start earning using advanced development Weenzee.
+On January 13, 2019 the best specialists met in Antalya to discuss Weenzee‘s robotic trading technology and the cryptographic management strategy.
+The event was attended not only by the partners and leaders of the project, but also by ordinary people who were not familiar with this topic and left with the firm intention to continue working with Weenzee.
+The zeal and enthusiasm of our colleagues from Turkey, which they show from a variety of photos of this event instantly scattered across the Internet, made a vivid impression on the leaders from other countries.
+Without a doubt, this event will give a powerful impact and allow us to continue the active expansion into the blockchain sphere! The Weenzee community is growing, becoming multinational and large-scale.
+Weenzee unites the whole world!”
+“ANNOUNCEMENT: SCHEDULE OF NEW TABLETALKS IN INDONESIA!
+WEENZEE works not only to obtain financial benefits for all its participants, but a more important result for the whole community is literacy, this is relevance and the constant increase in the level of knowledge of all participants. To this end, the leaders of WEENZEE conduct free educational activities for people striving for success and independence.
+In 6 different cities for you will be held 12 events from January 26 to February 27. Be on one of them and take the first step towards your well-being!
+TENGERANG:
+Date: 26/01 – 29/01, Time: 4pm – 9pm, Venue: Novotel Hotel Tengerang
+Date: 30/01/2019, Time: 2pm – 5pm, Venue: Ballroom Novotel Hotel Tengerang
+KARAWANG:
+Date: 31/01 – 04/02, Time: 4pm – 9pm, Venue: Swiss Berlin Karawang
+Date: 05/02/2019, Time: 2pm – 5pm, Venue: Swiss Berlin Karawang
+BANDUNG:
+Date: 06/02 – 10/02, Time: 4pm – 9pm, Venue: Favehotel Bandung
+Date: 11/02/2019, Time: 2pm – 5pm, Venue: Ballroom Aston Hotel Bandung
+SURABAYA:
+Date: 12/02 – 16/02, Time: 4pm – 9pm, Venue: Tunjungan Hotel, Surabaya
+Date: 17/02/2019, Time: 2pm – 5pm, Venue: Ballroom Tunjungan Hotel , Surabaya
+BALI:
+Date: 18/02 – 21/02, Time: 4pm – 9pm, Venue: Ibis Style Denpasar
+Date: 22/02/2019, Time: 2pm – 5pm, Venue: Ballroom Ibis Style Denpasar
+LOMBOK:
+Date: 23/02 – 26/02, Time: 4pm – 9pm, Venue: Aston Hotel Mataram
+Date: 27/02/2019, Time: 2pm – 5pm, Venue: Ballroom Aston Hotel Mataram, Presenters: Mr. Ali Maskur +6281902378222, Mr. Harly Panglima +62 81270293769”.
+“ANNOUNCEMENT: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS IN INDONESIA FOR FEBRUARY!
+In February, WEENZEE users in different countries of the world are waiting for an intensive event schedule. Offline meetings and conferences are scheduled in Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia. Chinese colleagues, continue to actively conduct online lectures and meetings for their teams even on the eve of the National Holiday.
+Share your experience at your maximum with all users! This is the main slogan of the WEENZEE Team.
+In the modern world, cooperation and teamwork are the main components of success, especially in tandem with robotic technologies. WEENZEE teams have the opportunity to earn real money. Create your team, join WEENZEE and increase your income!
+Event schedule for February
+The number of sits is limited, contact the organizer in advance of the meeting.
+Blockchain technology with Weenzee is easy and profitable!”
+“ANNOUNCEMENT: MANY EVENTS IN FEBRUARY IN INDONESIA! SCHEDULE!
+For all participants from Indonesia, we prepared a series of events to be held in February 2019. The Indonesian team of WEENZEE in January held many meetings and conferences and continues to develop our community every day!
+Below you can see a list of conferences to be held in Indonesia in February 2019:
+Date: 02 February 2019, City: Depok, Time: 02.00pm – 09.00pm, Place: Resto Batu alam depok, Speaker: Mr Prabu (+6281324567077)
+Date: 03 February 2019, City: Jakarta, Place: Wax Presso Central Park, Time: 18.30 – 23.00pm, Speaker: Imran Julianto (082199809998)
+Date: 04 February 2019, City: Jakarta, Place: Wax Presso Central Park, Time: 14.00 – 18.00 pm, Speaker: Imran Julianto (082199809998)
+Date: 04-08 February 2019, City: Purwokerto, Time: 19:00 wib, Place: CAFE SOCIETY COFFEE, Speaker: Mrs Siti Munto Fiah (+6282243796774)
+Date: February 03,06,07,08,10, City: Surabaya, Place: Sutos Cafe wdnsdy, Time: 06.00pm-10.00pm, Speaker: Mr Rio (081252991112)
+Date: 11-15 February 2019, City: Purbalingga, Time: 19:00 wib, Place: Cafe Kopitiam, Speakers: Mr Liokta (+6281226496475), Mrs Siti Munto Fiah (+6282243796774)”.
+MNO TALKBACK – RESULTS DRAWN AND NEW QUESTION ADDED
+Finally for today, seeing as how the subject matter up for discussion is well and truly behind us by now, I think it’s time we looked back at the results of the last opinion poll that ran on the MNO TalkBack page. I’ll also be replacing this one with another new question, but more on that in a moment. So, for the final poll in the month of January I wanted to know how good or bad a start you had gotten to in the HYIP industry for 2019. Results overall were mixed as despite having a couple of really good performers that continue to deliver good results, the profits earned by investors elsewhere were eaten into when a couple of fast scams that people expected more from reared their ugly heads. So basically it looks as if a lot of people did in fact earn some good money, they just lost it again by deciding to gamble it on other less reliable programs rather than keeping it.
+The exact question put to readers then was as follows: How was your experience in the HYIP industry this January? Unfortunately the number one reply to this question turned out to be “Not good, I’ve lost more money than I’ve earned” which commanded some 64% of the vote. I suppose this really does underline the importance of when you are ahead of the game how difficult it can be to keep it that way. Diversifying your portfolio is still important and can act as a sort of safety net if one or two programs fail to perform as you were hoping, that’s what happened a lot of people in January, it’s just not always that easy to pick the right alternatives to spread your investments between. At the other end of the scale but still a distant second spot with 24% of the vote were the investors were either smarter this time out or just plain luckier. Either way congratulations to them, they’ll accept the result either way as they voted “Very good, I have earned more than expected”. Perhaps they knew better and avoided the scams, perhaps they simply weren’t active at the time and just had their money tied up in older longer term programs until the springtime, whatever the reasons I’m glad that at least a significant number managed a good result. As for the remaining 12% of voters, it really seems to been a case of “business as usual” for them this January as they opted to vote for the answer “About average, nothing happened to surprise me” as the best reflection of their experience.
+Time now to move on to something a little different but in no small way inspired by people’s experience in January. It occurs to me that the good profits being earned by investors in the industry today are mostly originating from a select group of longer term programs launched at the end of 2018. Conversely it seems the losses were suffered by overspending on short life scams the began and ended with the same brief period of January 2019. For the next question then on the MNO TalkBack page it’s going to be a very simple choice for you.
+I want to know:
+What program on the MNO monitor has been the most profitable for you personally?
+Possible answers will be:
+– BitAeon
+– BitBoots
+– Weenzee
+– Another program
+I can’t really expand on that any further, all the programs have their unique selling points and all have their loyal followers, except that the reason I picked those particular three is that they are all on the MNO Premium List and are currently the three most popular with readers. While there’s no right or wrong answers when it comes to what your favourite program is, this is a much more specific question that asks which is the more profitable and is therefore not to be dismissed as a simple outright “popularity contest”. As usual then the poll will stay open for approximately another week or so, maybe ten days but at least as long as it takes to allow everyone who’s interested in participating to have ample time to do so. Votes can be cast on the MNO TalkBack page located here, and remember that all submissions are totally anonymous and untraceable and literally only a second to cast. Thanks in advance to everyone who takes part, I hope the results paint an interesting picture of where we are in the industry right now.
+GET PAID REPORT FOR 05/02/2019
+Here is the list of the programs from my monitor that paid me for the last 96 hours:
+From MNO Sticky list: –
+From MNO Premium list: BitAeon, BitBoots, Weenzee, InstantMiningLimited, CoinIcor.
+From MNO Standard list: –
+From MNO Basic list: TophatsFarms, Neuronic.
+That’s all I have to report on this Chinese New Year’s Day, guys. I hope you will have a successful and profitable week ahead of you and I will talk to you again over the weekend when I’ll have all the news from the HYIP industry and its best programs featured on the MNO monitor and of course will tell you more about the promising newcomer Hooplex which can be already checked out here. Please do not forget to vote in the new poll on the MNO TalkBack and pick your favourite when it comes to profits and you’re also welcome to share your opinions on the MNO ShoutBox as well. I will be back with the Hooplex review and other news from the HYIP industry in a few days, only on MNO – For Money Lovers!
+Filed under Daily News by on Feb 5th, 2019. Comment.
+Recent Comments
+if I was a smart person I'd have written my thoughts down. You have so many hours at the time to think about it that you think you'll never forget, perhaps I haven't. I attempted the Mark Twain 100 in september 2013:
+Did I mention 5 hour energy? I feel sick when tired, I feel cranky...5 hour energy is amazing, but don't take any more than 1/2 a bottle every 5 hours.
+MT100 in September, 90 days away. Now that I'm 1 1/2 vodkas in, it's the perfect time to register (then do some squats)
+I'm back!
+I made it ok to quit because I went into the race with the mindset that I may not finish - I said it to people
+I hope you're listing this as something you did wrong? I think the most important single factor that separates finishers from non-finishers is determination to finish. It's hugely mental once you get past 50-60. There will always be some point at which you want to quit. If you're not prepared to fight through that, you won't finish.
+I didn't take any 5 hour energy - big mistake - I actually hadn't discovered it yet (it got me through my subsequent successful 100). Caffeine pills are no substitute.
+Anyone else use this? I've never tried it (or had the slightest interest). Hmm.
+this was a predonimantly downhill loop course
+Uh... ???
+Good luck! I'm two weeks out from Western States. Going to need some vodka soon, I think; I'm starting to get scared.
+old woman w/hobby
+Anyone else use this? I've never tried it (or had the slightest interest). Hmm.
+Anyone else use this? I've never tried it (or had the slightest interest). Hmm.
+I used three spaced out during the night at 24 The Hard Way in November. Seemed to work well enough.
+Who wants to stand around trying to drink a cup of coffee in the middle of a race? That was my thought any way.
+There are other ingredients in the product but personally I think that only the caffeine is actively keeping a person
+awake. The other stuff is just filler / sounds good stuff. But that's just me
+I find the orange flavor least offensive taste wise.
+steph
+OCD If you don't laugh...
+Consistently Slow
+My wife uses 5 hour energy. Not a runner. i was thinking about trying it out. Will try it this week on my 25 mile run.
+I have been procrastinating on the strength training. It is in the training plan. I will start today. This is the 1st week for 58 miles. 200+ mile month. Race is December 13. Not on any schedule ,yet.
+Run until the trail runs out.
+2014***1500 miles 09/28/14
+50miler 13:26:18
+Race Less Train More
+Ana Trason "Living Her Life"
+"The Marble in The Groove"
+Imminent Catastrophe
+I didn't take any 5 hour energy - big mistake - I actually hadn't discovered it yet (it got me through my subsequent successful 100). Caffeine pills are no substitute.
+...
+I forgot that it's ok to walk. When I started walking at mile 70 because of my quads, I thought I had already failed and it was unfair to drag my pacer through so many night hours of walking. At this point I was at a sub-24 if I had kept going (running), but I couldn't. I didn't realize that walking was ok, my pacer didn't say anything.
+MT100 in September, 90 days away. Now that I'm 1 1/2 vodkas in, it's the perfect time to register (then do some squats).
+Good idea!
+At Western States, you start walking in mile 1.
+Faster Than Your Couch!
+My training included lots of miles (most miles, actually) on trails that are similar to what I expected the 100 to be (I did not see the course before race day). It paid off well.
+I did many night runs and just got used to running in the night in all conditions, not just one or two nights with perfect weather and trail conditions. I figured out how to work my lights, and experienced a dying headlamp in training, not just on race day, and how to deal with it.
+I learned how to change batteries without seeing a thing, with wet and cold fingers, and where to store the extra and expired batteries, and not confuse them later. So I'd say night runs can be quite useful, too.
+Oh, and I got used to being out in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night all alone for hours, too. In the race, you might be out in the night alone for hours, too, and not see anyone, except at aid stations.
+My first 100M went very well, I sort of just flew through it, so in that sense, I lucked out that I did not experience nausea, overheating, or cramping, like I had in other ultras, despite the unseasonably hot weather on race day (up to 85 degrees, and high humidity, in October). No idea what the reason for this was, the only thing I did differently was to consume a lot more calories than on previous runs.
+I did not have the feeling that I should have done anything differently in training than what I did.
+I avoid 5-hr energy, coffee, and other "pick-me-ups", they don't serve me well, I just get the jitters. I can stay awake through nights easily, I probably learned that in my job, and with the kids. But that's just me, I guess you'll have to try yourself how to keep going.
+I learned that everything up to mile 80, as hard as it is, is the easy part of the 100M. The real challenge comes after mile 80 or 85. These last miles take all of your training, mental and physical strength, and willpower, so be mentally prepared for this to happen.
+Don't rely on just one set of clothes. You can never know if your shorts or shirt will chafe until after mile 90. And usually, you won't go that far in training. Have some alternatives ready, and lots of bodyglide. And maybe some duct tape, too.
+Walking depends on the terrain, weather, and other things. It is certainly worth training for long walks. I benefitted a lot from doing long (night or evening) runs after a whole day at work (in a physically challenging job), and extended hikes at a fast pace, especially right after a long (20+miles) run.
+Sleep deprivation was not a significant factor in my first 100M (I took 28:47 to complete it). The rising sun did not energize me again, however, it was just easier to move forward in the daylight because of the better visibility.
+Aid stations at nighttime have something scary about them. I did not sit down, or linger there, just kept moving right back out onto the trail again (except for changing clothes once, and stocking up on food and drink). Probably saved me some time.
+In training, also learn to improvise. Like AussieGirl said, you'll foget to put things in your drop bags, or they are in the wrong drop bag, or you can't find them, or your drop bag got lost or broken,... been there, done it. And have a mental strategy in place to cope if things go wrong.
+Run for fun.
+Here is Joe Uhan's advice on how to handle the Western States "killing machine". Much of it applies to any 100.
+Here is Joe Uhan's advice on how to handle the Western States "killing machine". Much of it applies to any 100.
+Thanks for posting. I will find my flow " Like The Marble in The Groove"
+xxxx
+Good thoughts here - thanks to everyone who's posted.
+I am tentatively planning the Run Woodstock 100 in Michigan on 9/5. This week and next will be my two biggest mileage weeks followed by a significant taper. I'm taking advice from this thread and planning 25 ish on the trails this Friday night. I may run 5-8 earlier that day. Next weekend I'll be running a very difficult trail marathon on Saturday (8/16), and also running (or mostly walking) something long on Sunday.
+I've run a few 50 milers with marginal success. My log is open, I certainly would welcome any thoughts about my training...
+I clearly don't come on here often enough, I'm glad this thread is still going.
+So let me clarify. I was in what felt like a dream-like state, I'd tell my pacer that I was going to take an s-cap, or whatever, then 30 mins later (or so it felt) I'd ask her if I had recently taken an s-cap. My brain was not worth a darn some time on that third of four loops (subsequently, I dumb down and label baggies in my drop bags). I didn't remember extra clothes in drop bags and I certainly stated repeatedly that because I was walking it didn't count, as I had forgotten all conversations with seasoned 100 mile runners who have walked even earlier than the 70 mile point, and finished with respectable times. My pacer thought silence was a better response than arguing?, so in my weakened mental state I thought she was agreeing with me.
+My previous note amuses me, although it's totally not funny. I've now got less than three weeks until the race and I'm still yet to consistently do strength training to avoid what took me out last time. But...I know the course, I finished a hundred in between, so I have much more mental toughness than I did that first time.
+I hope your western states was great, that's my dream race!
+They have that picture you posted in my dental office, I stare at it forever every time I go. Beats staring at the image of my teeth on the TV screen I suppose.
+Gradual downhill for me meant it felt like I was flying and that the course was so easy, only to later learn that my right foot was sliding forward in my shoe and doing bad things under my big toe nail. No human should ever witness what I had to take care of at mile 50. I'll be lacing up tighter this time around.
+Preacher: Jennifer Hosler
+Scripture: Genesis 45:1-15; Psalm 139:1-14
+How closely does God care for us? Is God concerned with the intimate details of our lives, or just with some broader, overarching plan of redemption? Christians have varied in terms of how they understand God’s work in history and in daily human affairs. Sometimes, I have moved from one extreme to the other. I’ve thought of God as heavily involved in the most intimate and mundane details, or at least willing to care about them if I asked. God, please help me with this parking spot! God, I’m pulling my hair out—please help me find my keys.
+At other points in my life, I’ve focused my heart and mind on Jesus bringing wholeness and transformation to the broader world. I’ve emphasized the macro level, to the exclusion of the micro—thinking that God is still involved in the big picture of redemption but perhaps less intimately involved with me. And at some point I stopped praying for help with a parking spot.
+I’m not sure how involved God get in things like parking spots. Regardless, I think it is mistaken to emphasize towards the individual or the macro to the exclusion of the other. When looking at scripture, I see that God is intimately knowledgeable and concerned with the details of our lives, and, at the same time, God is engaged in the overarching plans for wholeness and justice in the world. Both/and. It is not one to the exclusion of the other, even if my mind swings that way.
+Our scripture readings today indicate both: God cares about the details of our individual lives, about our specific stories. God is working in us and through us as individuals, as part of a bigger plan to enact wholeness, justice, and reconciliation. We see in scripture that God values the uniqueness of an individual life and its connection to God’s plan. We also see God acting to preserve life, working for wholeness on a grand scale.
+Our scripture passage today is Genesis 45:1-15, part of the broader narrative about Joseph. When I think of the book of Genesis, the story of Joseph is not something that typically comes to mind. God’s creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden, Noah, and the tower of Babel, followed by the Patriarch narratives Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: those are all what I think of in Genesis. Yet the story of Joseph covers almost 14 chapters. Despite the amount of time dedicated to Joseph, these passages are likely not texts that we have spent much time on—though some of us may have knowledge of a certain Technicolor Dream Coat (full disclosure: I’ve never seen it! But did YouTube a few minutes during sermon prep).
+The Story of Joseph (Gen 37, 39-35 recap)
+When we meet Joseph (Gen 37), he is one of 11 sons, but the only son of Jacob’s favorite wife, Rachel, and born to Jacob in old age. Joseph is the favorite son and his dad, Jacob, blesses him with a special coat, most likely a coat that had long sleeves, which would have indicated that he was not regularly doing manual labor. Traditionally, this cloak has been mistranslated as a coat of many colors, which eventually morphed into a technicolor dream coat. Whether because it was colorful or long sleeved, Joseph’s brothers resent him for the special status indicated by the coat.
+Divisions and animosity were rampant within the family: Genesis 37 says that the brothers hate Joseph and cannot not speak peaceably to him (37:4). Resentment only grows when 17-year-old Joseph doesn’t keep quiet about some prophetic dreams, visions that basically foretold a time when people would bow down before him—including his brothers and his father. Needless to say, this was not a winning story at the family breakfast table, “So I had this dream where you bowed down to me…” Beyond the dreams, scripture also says that Joseph had given “bad reports” about his brothers and their flock-tending.
+Things go downhill for Joseph. His brothers, in charge of the flocks, are out in the fields and Jacob sends Joseph to catch up with them, about 50 miles away. Teenage Joseph is to bring back news of how the brothers were doing—with perhaps more tattling. When Joseph finally catches up with his brothers, they see him coming in the distance and plot his downfall. At first, the brothers seek to kill him but then one brother talks them down, saying, “Let’s just throw him in a pit.” They strip off Joseph’s special robe and end up selling him into slavery for 20 pieces of silver. The fancy cloak gets torn to shreds and covered in blood: the brothers make their father, Jacob, believe that Joseph was killed by a wild animal during his journey to his brothers.
+Joseph ends up in Egypt, sold to a man named Potiphar, the head of Pharaoh’s guard. Joseph proves himself to be reliable and faithful, and Genesis 39 says that is clear that YHWH is with Joseph, blessing his good work. Joseph eventually becomes Potiphar’s personal servant. Both Potiphar and Joseph are blessed by Joseph’s work as a household overseer; everything prospers. Unfortunately, it doesn’t last—Joseph is falsely accused of approaching Potiphar’s wife and thrown into jail.
+Yet instead of languishing in prison, Joseph finds an opportunity to do good work. Genesis says that YHWH shows Joseph “steadfast love” (39:21) and helps him in jail, finding favor in the eyes of the chief jailer. Wherever Joseph is, his good work and faithfulness to YHWH help win people over.
+The story continues. Joseph interprets dreams while in jail, including the dream of a cupbearer who returns back to Pharaoh. This cupbearer doesn’t remember Joseph’s help, until he hears of Pharaoh having strange dreams. “Oh yeah, there was this funny Hebrew dream interpreter while I was jail.” Joseph gives all the dream interpreting credit to God and, with God’s help, interprets Pharaoh’s dream. Pharaoh is impressed with Joseph’s interpretation and wisdom. Joseph becomes 2nd in command over Egypt, strategically placed to help manage Egyptian harvests and grain storage, preparing for an upcoming famine that will affect Egypt and the region beyond for years (as foretold in Pharaoh’s interpreted dream).
+The famine eventually comes and devastates the region. Due to Joseph’s advance planning, Egypt is well prepared. Genesis says that “All the world comes to Joseph to buy bread,” including Joseph’s brothers. With a new name, a new role, and courtly interpreters to serve as a buffer between them, Joseph’s brothers don’t suspect this Egyptian ruler’s true identity as their brother.
+Joseph tests the brothers, and he hears them discuss and anguish over their crime against Joseph, which has haunted them. Joseph learns he has another brother and ends up enacting a scheme which forces the older brothers to travel home and bring baby brother Benjamin with them to Egypt. There are chapters of fascinating intrigue, during which Joseph traps his brothers and sets them up to appear as thieves, forcing them to discuss their father, their father’s grief at losing Joseph, and the potential devastation that would come from losing Benjamin too.
+Joseph’s Reveal (Genesis 45:1-15)
+Finally, we come to our passage, where Joseph breaks: he is not able to restrain himself in front of all the Egyptians attendants who were before him, so he orders everyone out, apart from his brothers. Joseph is alone with his brothers for the first time—thus far, he’d always had interpreters and attendants. I imagine that things feel ominous for the brothers, alone with this Egyptian leader.
+The text pivots and says that Joseph makes himself known, truly known, to his brothers. The Hebrew says that Joseph then, “gives his voice over to weeping,” such loud weeping that the Egyptians hear, and the house of Pharaoh hears. Everyone can hear him, though he’d cleared the room. It is huge, terrible, deafening sobbing—full body sobbing. I’m sure the brothers are standing there terrified. Then Joseph says to his brothers, “I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?” But none of his brothers answer him, because they are too disturbed, dismayed, and terrified by his presence.
+Joseph instructs his brothers, “Come closer to me,” so they draw closer—I think warily, only because they were commanded. Joseph says again, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold to the Egyptians. You should not be grieved, and you should not be angry against yourselves, for your selling me here, for God sent me ahead of you for the preservation of life. There have been two years of famine in the land and still five remain where there will not be plowing or harvest.
+God sent me in front of you to place a remnant in the land, so that your lives would have a great deliverance. Surely it was not you who sent me forth, but God made me father to Pharaoh and made me ruler of all of his house, and ruler of all the land of Egypt.
+Now quickly and go up to my Father, and say to him, ‘Thus, said your son, Joseph, God placed me to rule over all of Egypt. Come down to me to take your place. And you will reside in the land of Goshen and you will live near me (in the midst of me), you and your kids and their kids, your flocks—everything. Tell my father all you have seen, who I am and my role in Egypt, and bring him down here to Egypt.’” Then Joseph embraces his brother Benjamin, weeping, and eventually includes all of the brothers in his weeping and hugging. The story continues, of course, but I’ll won’t go beyond our passage.
+God at Work in the Micro and the Macro
+Reading Joseph’s big reveal, what struck me was God’s care and concern for an individual life. I saw it evident throughout the Joseph narratives and this passage. God cares for Joseph, walks with Joseph through devastation and loss, shows faithful love and provision to Joseph. God accompanies Joseph through the mundane work of household management or civil service in the Egyptian Department of Agriculture. God utilizes the particularity of Joseph’s individual life—the combination of his strengths, his gifts, his pain and loss, his misfortune. Joseph as an individual is loved and cared for by God, while he also a vital actor in God’s broader plan.
+God has an overarching plan of wholeness and redemption and God is at work in and through individuals. As I said earlier, I often think about God at work, but I’ve recently kept a more macro-level focus, forgetting God’s intimate and tender care for me. Yet the Joseph text reminds me, draws me down to the micro. Perhaps it is also because I happened to read Psalm 139 this past week, a psalm which emphasizes the intimacy of how God knows our patterns, our habits, our ways, our inmost being. There is no place where we can be that God does not accompany us.
+Joseph’s integrity and organizational skill, alongside the unique positioning he was in due to his pain and loss—these all prepared him to be an agent of God’s plan to preserve lives. When I read this, I couldn’t help but see God’s value of the individual.
+God values the uniqueness of an individual life and its connection to God’s plan. All of who we are—whatever gifts, talents, strengths, weaknesses, or loss we bring—can shape how we help carry out God’s multifaceted work in this world. Sisters and brothers, siblings in Christ, you are each beloved by God—God pays close attention to your life.
+Our text also highlights God’s providence. We see that God is the One who works to preserve life, who thwarts human plans for destruction and works for wholeness and justice on a grand scale. We see that human free will exists and pain is caused through it—yet God works to preserve life and transform violence.
+Joseph reframes his trauma and pain, articulating how God was able to transform the outcome of a horrific act into something that instead preserved lives. Joseph does this, not attributing the horrific act itself to something that God wanted (Joseph clearly still says, you all sold me into slavery), but that God was able to transform its impact by being with Joseph and using the opportunity to protect others.
+To be clear, Joseph is not saying, “God did this bad thing to me.” The bad thing is clearly still attributed to the brothers. Later, in Genesis 50:20, Joseph says, “What you meant for evil, God used for good.” I see Joseph working to reframe his trauma so that it does not define him—because he can see that no one is bound to be defined by the pain, loss, and suffering that others have inflicted on them. With God, there is more in the story.
+The story does not always include reconciliation, as Joseph experiences here (that’s not always possible or even safe). We may never comprehend the direct impact our lives have on God’s broad plan for wholeness and justice. but we can trust that, like in the Joseph narrative, God values the uniqueness of an individual life and its connection to God’s plan. God is always at work, working to preserve life, to bring wholeness and a great deliverance. This, friends, is God’s story and the good news—the story of our scriptures is the story of the Creator working in people, in and through individuals, to make things whole and healed. AMEN.
+David Young
+DAVID Young's Newsroom Panama published a story on October 31st titled "Reporting of wire transfers from US leading to spike in bulk cash smuggling". The story is bylined to Monte Friesner. Initially the byline included that Friesner was a "Crime Consultant for Wanted SA", but after your Bananama Republic pointed out that Wanted SA does in reality not exist, Young first took the article down and then put it up again with a different byline.
+However, it turns out that the article was not written by Friesner at all, but plagiarized from a story by Kenneth Rijock on the World Check website and then backdated.
+In other words, Newsroom Panama is publishing stolen content.
+That of course shouldn't come as a surprise given the fact that the "author", Monte Friesner, is a fraud artist with a criminal record from here to Toronto, or, as the Ontario Securities Commission once put it (PDF OSC):
+[64].
+[65] In 1993 he was indicted in the United States District Court for the District of Oklahoma on 21 counts relating to advising a scheme and artifice to defraud, and to obtain money by means of false and fraudulent pretences, representations and promises, from various individuals and businesses who were seeking multi-million dollar commercial loans.
+[66] It was part of the scheme and artifice to defraud that Friesner would represent that he could obtain for the individuals and businesses sufficient collateral for them to obtain multi-million dollar loans sought by them. Friesner would represent to clients that for performing his services he would not require an advance fee but instead would obtain his commission when the loan was closed by charging a fee of 1/8 of one per cent of the completed loan amount. Furthermore, Friesner would falsely represent to clients that some international bank or financial institution (which varied from victim to victim) had been contacted and was ready to provide the letter of credit or other collateral necessary for clients’ multi-million dollar loans, but that the bank or financial institution required a fee – usually US$250,000 – before the confirmation of the letter of credit or other collateral could be provided by the bank.
+[67] In 1994, based on the convictions, Friesner was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and ordered to pay a restitution sum based on his ability to pay but not in the full amount of the loss of clients, estimated to be approximately US$1,250,000.
+David Young is a British journalist old enough to be a board member on one of Friesner's outfits. Checking facts and vetting contributions to his online rag is apparently not his strongest point. Furthermore, Young refused to disclose on his website who Friesner is - basically allowing a convicted con man to be a financial columnist on Newsroom Panama.
+Worse, even: Friesner's Pronto Cash debit card scheme is a prominent advertiser on the Newsroom Panama front page; which adds yet another undisclosed conflict of interest to Young's already shady mix.
+Now that it has become clear that the article was in fact plagiarized from another source, we wonder how long this charade is going to continue?
+Okke looks like the comment you posted and another one are gone.. did you save that?
+Okke you pull this out like an old pro.
+I think the article should have been about Monte providing plagiarized content to Dave Young. In all fairness you cannot expect a publisher to run each article against all the articles that exist. Once he was aware of it, give him credit for taking it down at least. I do not believe he KNOWINGLY ran plagiarized content.
+So why would wild monte claim to write these articles, so obviously plagerized, and not claim to have written all the Okke articles…or did someone else write those? Either way…he’s all eff’d up!!!
+The point is that the person without the ethics here (as if we did not already know) is Friesner, who passes himself off as the author. Friesner has no sense of right or wrong. He probably thought, as usual, that no one would be the wiser – another fraudulent act undetected, except he gets caught. I suspect Young will not post anything “authored” by Friesner any time soon. Slowly but surely, Friesner is alienating everyone in Panama. It takes some a bit more time to realize who they are dealing with.
+@FromBocas: He didn’t take it down, it’s still up there. Young has various ethics issues here:
+1. Publishing an article about finance, initially without any disclaimer, that is apparently authored by someone who has been convicted and slapped with regulatory measures for financial fraud, without disclosing that fact;
+2. Not explaining why Friesner is initially a “crime consultant for Wanted SA” and then he isn’t;
+3. Even though he could have known who Friesner is (he’s hardly just any contributor), he didn’t check anything about the content of the article which, a quick search reveals, is plagiarized;
+4. Running that story without disclosing that Friesner, on top of everything else, is also an advertiser with a financial services company on his website.
+And I bet you he’ll now take it down without so much as an explanation or an apology for misleading his readers and facilitating copyright piracy. It’s all just right out of the Don Winner school of “journalism”.
+@FROMBOCAS: You are absolutely right (once again): The plagiarist is not David Young, who is just a naive old fart who didn’t check who actually was the author of the article submitted by the serial scammer Monty Freezner as his own. I am sure that from now on David Young will never again publish anything from this s.o.a.b.
+@ editor, I think Young is in his own little world. What he is guilty of is not doing due diligence and taking Friesner’s word that he authored the article. Short of publishing something, getting a Pulitzer for it and THEN finding out the work was made up or plagiarized, I could see taking it down without much fanfare. The fact that Friesner was convicted of fraud 20 years ago per se does not mean he is incapable of writing something of value – of course WE known he is a dimwit and is indeed incapable of doing anything right but as I say that is OUR opinion, based on on reading the links posted here. Young is learning the hard way.
+As far as disclosing he is an advertiser, I dont know. I look at the Bocas Breeze here in Bocas, and every time there is a new business opening, they will write an article about themselves, and they also advertise in the same issue. It does not give a disclaimer that they are advertising. I dont think anyone could accuse the publisher and editor, Allene Blaker, of being deceitful. She is one of the most straightforward and honest person around.
+The nature of the web is that if there is something off, you can quickly correct it. In the old print ways, you need to retract and everything, but on the web I have never seen it done. Unless you had maligned someone wrongly, in which case I definitely think you owe a public apology, I dont see it a crucial point. So again, I think your ire is misplaced. The newsworthy thing here, is that Friesner fucks up again in a deceitful way, actually taking advantage of an old gullible man to sell himself off as some financial consultant (I mean can we still keep a straight face here?). You have been here long enough, I know you know Young is not in that league….
+Now if Young publishes another plagiarized article by Friesner, there is definitely an issue.
+David has health issues and may not have even been the one who decided to run this thing.
+But David is also well connected in the Canadian community and if this was his decision he should have known with what and whom he was dealing.
+My instinct is that David is desperate for content and advertising, and let this get the better of him.
+@FromBocas: Friesner was sanctioned by the Ontario securities commission just over five years ago for illegally promoting fake high yield investment schemes, so-called “insider banking deals” and similar stuff. It’s not just something dating back 20 years. Here’s some of his promotional copy for these ultra-secret zero risk high yield investment nonsense:
+For more of this pseudo-haute finance babble see the OSC document linked to in the article – which is public record, by the way.
+It wouldn’t be such an issue if Friesner had written about sailing yacht maintenance or something like that, but a financial fraud artist writing about finance while advertising his services – without any kind of disclosure? Give me a break.
+Also, Young took the story down after we pointed some of this stuff out here and in his comments, then he put it up again minus the comments and still without any explanation or disclosure or due diligence done. It just sucks. Young pretends to run a news publication, not just a blog (in fact he wrote rather condescending about blogging in his Panama Star days). Well, he about violated every journalistic code of ethics – notably the British ones – in this case (the separation of advertising and editorial content just being the least serious one).
+I’m sure what Eric says is true – about the health issues – although I did see him at opening night recently at the Ancon Theatre. Also, the “about us” page on the Newsroom Panama site doesn’t seem to work. None of which is any excuse.
+WHERE IS DR DIAS?
+I know David well and it has to be a great oversight that he will correct soon. I will speak to him personally to see what his side is. It is highly doubtful that Friesner and his circus of scams will be around in the next 6 months. I am sure David does not want to be holding the bag when the music stops and Morris Monte Friesner moves to the next location to fleece the weak minded.
+Did you know that Kenneth Rijock – the actual author of the piece plagiarized by Monty Freezner – was himself an ex-convict? After completing his prison term he wrote a book called Confessions of a Money Launderer and subsequently became a police informant?
+Could it be that Monty Freezner actually met Kenneth Rijock in prison? Full Monty Freezner being a big time money lauderer himself with his ProntoCash debit card scheme is actually an expert in transforming bulk cash into “legit” bankable money.
+@XIO: The website moneylaundering.com was also started by a convicted money launderer. Don’t remember if it’s the same one.
+Have you noticed…wild monte is actually crediting Kenneth Rijock for the articles on wanted now….and he’s now crediting himself for the Okke articles! C’mon monte…you trip every time you walk…just take those old wooden teeth and go away…you have no family…no friends…no employees…no sailboat…do yourself the favor!
+There were some interesting comments posted on the ornstein.org website by someone who’s obviously in the know about Friesner’s history in Toronto:
+Well, for all the talk about “error” and a “great oversight” and “health issues” and whatever other excuses: That story is still up there on the Newsroom Panama website, and no explanations have been forthcoming. After almost a week, I can only conclude that this is deliberate.
+Bob Saget's Best TV And Movie Roles
+Comedian and actor Bob Saget died on January 9, 2022. A lifelong standup comic, Saget got his start as a teenager, traveling to open mic nights in New York City from his native Philadelphia. After graduating from Temple University in 1978, Saget moved to Los Angeles and performed regularly at the famous club The Comedy Store, alongside such giants as Robin Williams and Richard Pryor, while booking small television appearances on such as "Bosom Buddies" and "The New Love, American Style."
+In 1987, he caught his big break, landing the role of straight-laced clean freak Danny Tanner on the hit ABC family sitcom "Full House." In 1989, he became the first host of the long-running "America's Funniest Home Videos." The two roles would come to define Saget's public image as a wholesome sitcom dad for years to come, though his own comic sensibilities were considerably more raunchy.
+In the years following the end of "Full House," Saget worked consistently on stage and screen, both in front of and behind the camera, with many of his roles either leaning into or subverting that "sitcom dad" persona. In honor of his life, let's take a look at some of Bob Saget's best film and television roles.
+Rollin' with Saget
+Like Dave Chappelle's "Training Day" parody with Wayne Brady from a few years before, or The Lonely Island's "Jack Sparrow" with Michael Bolton from a few years later, this 2006 comedy short gets its laughs from the distance between Bob Saget's wholesome, somewhat lame reputation and the nightclub debauchery he engages in.
+Produced by comedians Stu Stone and Jamie Kennedy for their MTV mockumentary show "Blowin' Up," the song and accompanying video has Saget out with Stone and Kennedy for a night on the town. Rolling up to the club, things get off to a wild start as Saget punches out the bouncer in order to get inside. Later, Saget — AKA "the illest m*********** in a cardigan sweater" — pulls a table of models, gets into a fight with 50 Cent and DMX, and urinates on the street.
+Featuring cameos by George Lucas, Tara Reid, Saget's "Full House" co-star John Stamos, and Terry Crews, "Rollin' with Saget" is a play for late-Gen X, elder millennial nostalgia. Saget, as always, is in on the joke.
+Surviving Suburbia
+In the years after the end of "Full House," Saget made a couple of tries at recapturing that family sitcom magic. In 2009, he starred in the short-lived "Surviving Suburbia" as a more sarcastic, slovenly take on the sitcom dad than Danny Tanner. Originally produced for the CW, the show was canceled by the network before a single episode made it to air; ABC eventually picked it up for a run in the Spring and Summer of 2009.
+Saget plays Steve Patterson, a grumbling suburban dad with a wife (Cynthia Stevenson), two precocious kids, and a new neighbor (MTV's Dan Cortese) who is making his life hell. Before the show aired, Saget talked up the show's self-aware qualities, telling the New York Daily News that this was the kind of thing "that [he] would like to do in the sitcom genre." While that may all be true, the show itself drew terrible reviews for its bland setup, virtually nonexistent humor, and occasional creepiness — as with the younger daughter's (Genevieve Hannelius) obsession with Zac Efron. Saget is clearly the main appeal of the show and largely its reason for existing, but if he was looking for a project that might move his image beyond "Full House," this unfortunately was not it.
+Raising Dad
+Eight years before "Surviving Suburbia," Saget made a different attempt at growing past the Danny Tanner role. "Raising Dad" premiered on the WB in 2001 with a premise that echoed "Full House" in many ways. Once again, Saget was playing a recent widower trying to raise his daughters. Once again, he has a relative living with him to assist, in this case his elderly father. And once again, the show was structured to be mostly family-friendly laughs with a sincere heart-to-heart at the end of each episode.
+But airing in 2001 and on the teen-oriented WB allowed the show to include more mature subject matter than "Full House" ever could. For example, an early episode has Saget's character — high school English teacher Matt — fill in for his daughter's Sex Ed class. "Raising Dad" also addressed the death of Matt's wife head-on, where "Full House" mostly ignored its similar premise.
+Only lasting one season, "Raising Dad" is perhaps most notable today for its cast and crew, which included future Marvel stars Kat Dennings and Brie Larson as Saget's daughters — and in the writer's room, a pre-"The Office" B.J. Novak.
+Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
+For comedians looking to flex their dramatic acting muscles, "Law & Order" was often the place to go. The venerable NBC cop franchise has welcomed the likes of Martin Short and Stephen Colbert into its gallery of killers and sickos over the years. Bob Saget joined their ranks on a 2006 episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," playing a jealous husband who poisons the wife of his wife's lover, and then inadvertently poisons his wife as well after inserting an RFID chip into her shoulder.
+In many ways, his "SVU" villain turn works the same way as his raunchy stand-up comedy persona, relying on a certain bland normalcy in his looks and voice to hide a river of depravity lurking underneath. Saget was handsome, but no matinee idol, and that non-threatening normcore style would have been a good smokescreen ... if not for the fact that he was the biggest guest star on that episode of "SVU," and thus obvious as the killer from the very start.
+Entourage
+Loosely based on Mark Wahlberg's experiences as a young man in Hollywood, the HBO series "Entourage" follows overnight movie star Vinnie Chase (Adrian Grenier) and his east coast childhood friends as they navigate the perks and perils of fame. Like its HBO stablemates "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Extras," the show mined much of its humor from celebrity guest stars playing shallow, depraved versions of themselves. Saget appeared on four episodes, plus the 2015 feature film adaptation, playing himself — or rather, playing "Bob Saget," a recently-divorced, hard-partying horndog who also happens to have starred on "Full House."
+Like "Rollin' with Saget," his role on "Entourage" is built on the assumption that people still think of him as a sitcom dad from a bygone era. Saget clearly relishes the opportunity to play himself as such a dirtbag. In his first appearance, he arrives at Vinnie's house with a gift basket and a "Full House" DVD set, makes a smarmy play for Vinnie's friendship (who in the world of the show is a much bigger celebrity than he), and then leaving as quickly as he arrived. Vinnie responds, "who the f*** was that?"
+America's Funniest Home Videos
+Inspired by a home video segment on a popular Japanese variety show, producer Vin Di Bona brought "America's Funniest Home Videos" to the airwaves in 1989, first as a one-hour special, then as a weekly series that has aired off-and-on (but mostly on) for over 30 years, well past the time when smart phones and YouTube should have made the show obsolete. Much of its present-day appeal lies in its low-stakes structure, the perennial hilarity of watching someone else hurt themselves, and the gentle comfort of its host. There have been several hosts since, but the format was set by Bob Saget in the show's first eight-year run.
+Saget was just two years into the run of "Full House" when he premiered as the first host of "AFV." Though he wasn't explicitly playing Danny Tanner when hosting, he channeled the character's same geniality and square humor, enough that — between the two shows — his reputation as a squeaky-clean TV dad was solidified. Saget hosted the show until 1998 and made occasional appearances afterwards, including the show's 30th anniversary special in 2019. Saget remained so associated with the "AFV" brand that ABC News interrupted the east coast broadcast of the show to announce his death.
+Half Baked
+If "Full House" and "AFV" had burnished Saget's image as a wholesome family actor, his role in the 1998 Dave Chappelle stoner comedy "Half Baked" was the first thing to shatter it. As Chappelle's character attempts to stop smoking marijuana, he checks into a rehab facility and attends a Narcotics Anonymous meeting ... only to have the meeting attendees loudly chastise him for having an insufficiently severe drug habit. One of the attendees is an uncredited Saget, who details the sexual act he used to have to do in order to score cocaine.
+It's an uncredited, one-scene, four-line role, but it was enough to shatter any preconceived notions of what Saget's post-"Full House" career would look like. The sight of a disheveled Danny Tanner telling a room of rehab patients (hilariously depicted at a small theater with a sign over the podium reading "REHAB") what he used to do for coke is one of the most referenced, most memed moments of that highly memeable movie. Saget even has a strain of cannabis named in his honor, which likely would not have happened without "Half Baked."
+How I Met Your Mother
+The hit CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" employed a unique story structure. The story of young New York architect Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and his friends, each episode is narrated by Ted's future self, looking back on his life from the year 2030 and telling his teenage children the story of how he met their mother. The device is an affectionate parody of "The Wonder Years," given a double dose of 1980s sitcom references by casting Bob Saget as Future Ted. (Or perhaps a triple dose, as one of the show's stars was "Doogie Hoswer, M.D." lead Neil Patrick Harris.)
+While the conceit of Future Ted's narration at times wore out its welcome, Saget's performance was always great, fitting the tone of the show — whether that tone was snarky, earnest, romantic, or heartbroken. Future Ted's best moments were when the show used him as an unreliable narrator, such as when he's trying to remember a detail and the scene freezes, or the series-long running joke of Future Ted using "eating a sandwich" as a euphemism for smoking marijuana.
+Full House
+Saget had only had a few small roles on television and in the Richard Pryor film "Critical Condition" before landing the role of Danny Tanner on ABC's "Full House" in 1987. A widowed father raising three daughters with the help of his brother-in-law and best friend, Danny was at the center of the series and often played straight man to everyone else. "I realized I was kind of the Rich Cunningham of the show ... I was the pure guy," Saget told the LA Times in a 2016 interview, referring to Ron Howard's role on "Happy Days." It was a role that didn't square with his persona when performing stand-up comedy, which often would bother unprepared audiences. "People are like, why aren't you Danny Tanner? And it's like, do you want Anthony Hopkins to eat people? I was acting, guys!"
+Despite those frustrations, though, the role of TV dad was one that he took seriously, and valued the fact that "Full House" meant so much to people. He talked about the show extensively in his stand-up sets, and wrote a foul-mouthed Backstreet Boys parody song titled "Danny Tanner Was Not Gay." In 2016, Netflix premiered a sequel series, "Fuller House," that reunited most of the original cast. As always, Saget was grateful for the opportunity and humbled by the show's continued popularity. "They say you can't go home again," he told the Times, "but we got to."
+Himself
+Danny Tanner was a '90s sitcom dad, but Bob Saget was much more than that. In the 25 years since "Full House" ended, Saget remained a pop culture fixture — not just as a meme, but as a talented and in-demand comic, a director, a writer, a podcast host, and a font of comedy knowledge and history.
+He directed Norm MacDonald's cult classic "Dirty Work," and in return MacDonald gave him perhaps the greatest comedy roast of all time. Saget told his version of the world's dirtiest joke in the 2005 documentary "The Aristocrats." He appeared in documentaries honoring his friends Garry Shandling and Sam Kinison, and lent his considerable experience and expertise to the histories of The Comedy Store and the discipline of stand-up comedy in general. Over the years he appeared on countless daytime and late night talk shows, vlogs and podcasts –always welcome, always funny, and always himself. In 2020, he started a podcast of his own, "Bob Saget's Here for You," which above all seemed to be just an excuse to talk shop with his comedy friends.
+It's those friends who have been pouring forth with tributes, from peers like his "AFV" successor Tom Bergeron to his TV daughters Kat Dennings and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Bob Saget left behind an enviable body of work for any comedian and actor — but more than that, he did it with professionalism, respect, and love.
+Premiere:‘s most promising records for the start of 2017.
+Starting its direction into a musical career at 12 years of age, WOLFE took a tangent after graduating college, working at a Fortune 500 tech company. Returning to his true passion, his songwriting history has firmly influenced his Future Bass remixes and tracks.
+Covering Top 40 hit’s at just 17 years old, Emma Sameth has been a prominent rising vocal talent from Los Angeles. Frequently embedding her work within electronic dance music, her ability to wrap words within an electronic composition has fuelled an interest in exploring ever-more sub-genres and sounds.
+Rounding out the trio is DNTST. A fellow Los Angeles native, his act is influenced by his continued education as a dental student. Utilising his talent on the piano with WOLFE’s guitar background and frequent collaborator Sameth’s lyrical quality, his ascendance onto Spinnin’s radar’s is no mistake.
+Laying out a more slow tempo Future Bass foundation, the rolling synths intertwine with grinding distortion to form a steady, pulsating energy. Topped with Emma’s soft tones, “Higher” is deserving of its attention from the worlds biggest label. Featuring plucky melodic elements and a mastered polish, the track comes as a complete product.
+Taking the opportunity to learn more about the workings and thoughts of the three artists, we got the trio to answer three questions each when we caught up with them earlier this month:
+WOLFE:
+“Higher” marks your first release on Spinnin Records. What do you expect from this particular track?
+Getting a release on Spinnin’ Records has been such an amazingly encouraging milestone for me. I quit my job to put my all into music and things finally seem like they are starting to come together. When people hear this track, I expect them to notice more range in my production skills, influences, and tastes; future bass and electronic music in general is only a relatively recent exploration in my life. I actually spent most of my life studying guitar, singing, and listening to all types of music, so hopefully with this and each song in the future, people will hear these different aspects of myself as an artist.
+You have worked with Emma Sameth on previous tracks such as “Under The Covers” and “Say Please”. In what way does “Higher” differ itself from your previous collaborative efforts?
+With “Say Please” and “Under The Covers”, I actually co-wrote those songs with Emma as well as recorded them in my studio. With “Higher”, though, the vocals were completely written and recorded by Emma. We were actually just hanging out at my house when she showed me the skeleton of the track that she had made with DNTST, and I immediately knew how I could take it to the next level.
+Where do you see yourself at the end of 2017?
+In terms of all the socials and numbers etc., I obviously hope to be much bigger than I am today. In regards to the music, however, I hope to have a much clearer idea of what a WOLFE song means and sounds like to me. I’m also planning on singing and playing guitar on more of my tracks as well as exploring more genres and “feels” than what I’ve done thus far. Don’t worry though, I still have songs in the works with the amazingly talented Emma Sameth as well as some other incredible singers including Ashe and Loren North. I also hope to be playing live shows and to have management to help me navigate the industry.
+Emma Sameth:
+It used to be that featured vocalists on electronic music tracks got overlooked a lot in the industry. Do you think there have been more opportunities for vocalists lately?
+I do think there’s some truth to them being overlooked. But I also think that with every collaboration, regardless of the technical credit term, other creative opportunities arise. Even if I’m a feature on a track, I’m still creating connections with other artists and getting my name out there. When I first started doing electronic tracks, it didn’t matter at all to me if I was a featured artist. I was simply happy to be getting heard by the massive amounts of followers that those channels had. Especially now with open messaging on soundcloud and facebook, you can virtually reach anyone, and any one can reach you. That creates a whole other dimension of opportunities for vocalists and producers alike. Of course being credited as an artist rather than a feature is more “official” and what I would prefer on my future tracks. It’s been a delicate balance having to make sure the creativity doesn’t get compromised by worrying about what credit I get on the song. With that said, both aspects are especially crucial to keep in mind.
+How does an optimal music -making process look like for you? Do you write your lyrics over an existing instrumental or do you prefer it the other way around?
+The most fairytale-like session would be hearing a very simple track with a beat that makes me close my eyes and bob my head (in that songwriter/producer way, you know what I’m talking about). It doesn’t matter if I’m in the studio or not. A catchy, irresistible beat itself makes my job of writing lyrics a breeze. It just so happens that “Higher” was one of those situations. DNTST showed me the first version of the track at his house (before WOLFE added his flare) and I immediately went home that night and wrote the lyrics. This is a rarity for me, though, for I often go through countless different versions of lyrics and melodies. In general though, I write to tracks that have already been produced. The way I write is so dependent on the rhythmic elements in production, the possibilities are almost too endless if I would try to write without an instrumental path. Side note: I credit alot of my melodic/lyrical breakthroughs to spending countless hours stuck in LA traffic and recording voice memos on my phone. I can blast the instrumental as loud as I want and I don’t have any other tasks distracting me (besides driving safely of course…).
+What are the biggest differences between the dance music market and the pop/mainstream market for upcoming vocalists/singers? Is it an easier way to get ones name out in the dance market?
+I’m still relatively new to both the dance and pop music market so in terms of an exposure trajectory I’m still studying the trends. I will say though that the dance music online following is one of the most positive, supportive ones I’ve seen. Because some of these dance music channels I’ve been a part of are deeply invested in getting new, unexposed artists out there, accessibility and relatability to these artists is still very much possible. Going into the scene, I was definitely nervous at first at the high level of exposure I would be getting. Especially as a new artist, you never know how people will receive you. I felt that way regardless of how confident I was in the actual track. I can say though that the online community was enthusiastic and supportive. Of course people are always going to have positive and negative opinions, but there was still a sense of inclusiveness and realness on these channels that I think gets lost in the heightened levels pop/mainstream markets.
+DNTST:
+You’ve collaborated with Emma Sameth as well many times before “Higher”. How did the collaboration with Wolfe happen?
+It’s always a pleasure working with Emma! As for WOLFE, my brother introduced me to his awesome music a few years back (back when he was killin’ it with acoustic music!). Then last year, I found out he’d transitioned into the future bass/ EDM realm, and was blown away by the juxtaposition, and how talented he was in something so drastically different. I casually sent him a message asking if he’d like to jam or collaborate on a track, suggested a few potential vocalists, and it turned out Emma was a perfect fit for a couple of his projects!
+Soon after, Emma and I were working on the track “Higher”, WOLFE loved it as much as we did, and asked if he could contribute. When he sent back his version, we loved its vibe and decided to keep it as the final version!
+Where do you think the dance music market is heading right now?
+This is an interesting question, and as a dental student I’m probably not the right person to ask about this, but I’ll share a few thoughts. I believe that the popularity of EDM is continuing to increase due to social media, streaming, the constant addition of new festivals etc. However, I also believe that things may change, in the not so distant future, in regards to its infrastructure.
+Publishing and licensing companies like ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI are established to collect royalties and distribute them to songwriters and artists, but at the same time, websites like Tunecore and DistroKid are beginning to automate aspects of the process. Additionally, record labels are often vital to an artist’s success as they provide means of a wide audience via resources and connections to radios, blogs, and other public relations. At the same time, a new generation of, what I like to call, pseudo-labels (Youtube and Soundcloud channels) are beginning to establish massive fan bases that can reach magnificently large audiences. However, these pseudo-labels lack connection to other lucrative resources like radio and film, and are stuck with the, much less monetarily valuable, “stream”. To me, it seems a bit absurd that a song can garner several million plays on a youtube video, and the revenue collected be so much smaller than that of it’s older brother, the radio.
+I’m working on my dental degree and can thus enjoy my passion of music without the worry of sustaining a living, but I still have hope for the future in which artist’s will have an easier means to collect off of their hard work and passion.
+“Higher” is your first release on a major label like Spinnin. What does the track mean to you and what did you try to tell through the song?
+I’m quite grateful to Spinnin’, and to WOLFE for providing this crazy opportunity! Initially, I was feeling inspired by some past feelings and essentially tried to emulate them. With the progression of the track, I was attempting to almost… pause the emotion with its sound and bass. Emma’s vox & lyrics really fit a vibe I was going for, and then when WOLFE took over, he solidified it. (I’d like to emphasize that WOLFE really transformed this piece into the awesome track you hear now!)
+Exclusively premiered by We Rave You, check out the full version of “HIgher” below:
+Jason and I have been wondering a lot about what the world will look like when all this is over. Already we’ve seen some signs – a local university, for instance, said that it won’t be requiring SAT/ACT scores for three years starting fall 2021. I’ve also heard from many teachers in many different states that they’re required to put out virtual work, but also not allowed to fail students even if work isn’t turned in. How are universities and future employers going to adapt to the folks who had one of their pivotal years in high school during quarantine? Everything is going to have to change. I also really hope this can lead to some better changes – like valuing those employees our country previously said weren’t worth raising our pitiful minimum wage for, or realizing the barrage of standardized testing is pointless and detrimental to students.
+Unfortunately, this was another scary week in the Gignac household. Worse than the previous, I’m afraid. Y’all? I’m drowning right now. I’m overloaded and having trouble seeing forward. My tarot card above is exactly how I feel.
+I’m writing this all because I need written records to look back on. If your mental health is at a point where you cannot bear to hear more about quarantine stuff, skip to the bottom of this post for a list of positives and highlights and Nice Things. We all need some of that right now!
+–Friday, April 3rd
+Local count: 342, 9 deaths, 47 recovered. Huge spike in numbers today due to the nursing home outbreak that I mentioned in my last quarantine post. We also heard that the city is beginning to issue major penalties (like revoking occupancy certificates) for businesses that refuse to comply with the shelter-at-home protocols. (Apparently, the biggest violators are Planet K and vape shops. Go figure.) The city leaders finally closed golf courses, too. Community spread is now leading travel-related cases in the city for the first time. On the home front: Jason and I got word that our May 5K has been moved to July – a good decision though the heat will make that one a rough event. At least it hasn’t been canceled altogether! I had a facetime coffee date with a friend to help alleviate the monotony.
+–Saturday, April 4th
+Local count: 384, 11 deaths, 47 recovered. Jason went grocery shopping and I’m just so thankful that HEB is taking really good care of its employees and customers right now. Plus we managed to find toilet paper for the first time in a month, woo! I haven’t been sleeping well since all this started, and I crashed for a fitful nap in the afternoon. Ugh. But I also found a tutorial on making myself a mask out of an old pair of Lularoe leggings, which worked okay. I wouldn’t expect it to protect me/others much, but I suppose it’s better than nothing.
+–Sunday, April 5th
+Local count: 410, 12 deaths, 67 recovered. Today was a rough and scary day. Everyone was feeling fine (J and I even went for a walk first thing in the morning –> ), and then suddenly mid-afternoon, Jason crashed with chest pressure, body aches, and a 99.9 degree fever. He took the city’s evaluation pre-screening and then called Urgent Care on their advice. They were able to get him in for a test the same evening. Once there, they listened to his lungs, took an EKG (because of a family history of a heart defect – the EKG was normal/fine), and did a nasal swab for the COVID test. They sent him home to convalesce, and said he should receive his results in 5-7 days. !!! We’re just going to assume he has it and try to take care of him while also staying six feet away… I’ve been thinking about where Jason might have picked this up, and I’d guess he was exposed at Walmart back on the 27th. We’ve avoided Walmart because they’re taking just about no precautions at all, but that day one of our two junk laptops died. The boys need those for school and shipping estimates for online ordering were several weeks long, so Jason ran to Walmart to pick up whatever was available. His symptoms began about 10 days later.
+–Monday, April 6th
+Local count: 456, 12 deaths, 77 recovered. San Antonio put through a resolution to extend shelter-from-home (which technically ends on the 9th) through the end of April (which is when the state order currently ends anyway). They also officially put through the recommendation to wear cloth masks when in situations where social distancing is difficult (like grocery shopping, despite precautions taken by stores). Jason woke up with shortness of breath in addition to other symptoms. Not bad enough for the ER, but still not a great sign. For the first half of the day, he worked from home just to keep his mind off things. Then he slept the whole afternoon straight through. My friend Stephanie went to HEB to get us a few sick foods/items like soup and Gatorade, which was a godsend since we’re currently not supposed to leave the house.
+–Tuesday, April 7th
+Local count: 503, 18 deaths, 77 recovered. We had a big spike in our death numbers here today, though not an actual spike in deaths. It turns out that the nursing home that had a massive outbreak due to lax precautions was also hiding the numbers of folks who died of COVID in their care. Almost half of SA’s death toll has been from that facility, as well as almost a fifth of confirmed positive cases. It’s unbelievable. That facility needs to be SHUT DOWN, but sadly it’s state-governed and not under the jurisdiction of San Antonio. Sigh. Otherwise, Texas closed down all the state parks and historic spots, including walking trails, until further notice today. At home: It is really odd to take care of someone from six feet away. Jason has entered the digestive-distress portion of this illness, and I feel so helpless standing “nearby” to ask if he needs anything, washing my hands multiple times throughout the course of helping him get food or water, dropping Tylenol onto his plate or into his hands without touching him. Stress and worry are compounding, particularly as I’m not only acting as caretaker, but taking over the things he normally handles (cooking, for instance) and full-time responsibility for Ash (who has remained steady-but-not-improving for the last two months).
+–Wednesday, April 8th
+Local count: 554, 20 deaths (10 from the nursing home outbreak), 92 recovered. Personally, I had a bit of an emotional meltdown this morning after waking up at 5:38am for the seventh morning in a row. WTF, internal clock? This is not okay! Stress, anxiety, worry, overwhelmingness, insomnia, fear, lack of exercise, lack of schedule, and not-enough-attention-to-nutrition have snowballed on top of me. I feel like I’m at the bottom of a deep hole and don’t know how to even begin to escape. I want to begin building my front garden. I want to go for a run, or a hike, even alone. I want my hands to heal from the rawness of washing up 100 times a day as I take care of Jason. I want my kids to be able to go back to school, if not this semester, than in August. I’m exhausted, and teary, and I don’t have a lot left to give right now. In better news, Jason started feeling more alive today. He ate more, and didn’t feel sleepy in the afternoon like normal. Hopefully he’s on the mend!
+–Thursday, April 9th
+Local count: 615, 22 deaths, 92 recovered. Thankfully, it seems that the outbreak at the nursing home has been contained and hasn’t spread to other facilities despite some (previously) shared staff. Unfortunately, the economic crisis is coming to a head – people without jobs or food, the city losing millions in revenue, etc. It’s going to be tough, and we have a long way to go. As for the family: Hallelujah – Jason’s results came in, and he tested negative for covid. I know there have been false negatives, but this really has seemed more like a stomach flu after the first day or two, and I really think he’s safe. It’s such a relief. I spent the morning in a bit of a messy-emotion flail, relief warring with deferred grief and fear and anxiety. Afterwards, though, I felt good enough to dress up for the day, and be a little silly in celebration.
+This week I got a preview of what could happen should one of us catch the plague, and it’s not pretty. I really hope everyone starts STAYING HOME. The number of cases in the USA is INSANE – a full third of the world’s cases. So many people are sick and dying, and it’s just so terrifying. This morning I have to go out grocery shopping (since Jason is still sick), and I’m scared because I have so many underlying conditions. It’s the first time I’ve been out to the store in a month, and with it being so different (limited numbers, spacing decals, plexiglass stations, etc), it feels like a new-to-me place and my anxiety/agoraphobia is spiking badly. But my family needs this, so into the danger I go.
+Positives and Highlights and Nice Things
+With the world a mess right now, I need a place to look at all the good things. Here are some highlights of my week:
+- San Antonio is enough ahead of the curve that they were able to loosen restrictions on COVID tests, and thus when Jason got sick, he was able to get in for a test that same day, even if results would take time.
+friends willing to get groceries for you when you’re not supposed to leave the house
+- the shoutout and messages from the hosts of Real Life Ghost Stories after my review this week – it still boggles my mind every time someone reads this tiny blog of mine!
+- a few more friends and family joined Marco Polo, so I’m able to stay closer in contact with them
+- the folks who host the Real Life Ghost Stories podcast put up their first youtube channel video, giving me more spooky paranormal stuff to listen to!
+- Jason starting to feel better, and then getting the negative test result
+- My family didn’t have any good masks (just construction/dust-protection paper masks, and the one leggings mask that turned out to be AWFUL to try to breathe in), so a friend made us some and dropped them on our doorstep.
+- Our vet is still open curbside, so we were able to get Ash’s next round of medicine without any person-to-person contact.
+How was everyone else’s week? Are you all still holding up? Please reach out if you need to talk!
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+- Research article
+- Open Access
+Differences in polyadenylation site choice between somatic and male germ cells
+- K Wyatt McMahon1,
+- Benjamin A Hirsch1 and
+- Clinton C MacDonald1Email author
+© McMahon et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2006
+- Received: 10 July 2006
+- Accepted: 12 October 2006
+- Published: 12 October 2006
+Abstract
+Background
+We have previously noted that there were differences in somatic and male germ cell polyadenylation site choices. First, male germ cells showed a lower incidence of the sequence AAUAAA (an important element for somatic polyadenylation site choice) near the polyadenylation site choice. Second, the polyadenylation sites chosen in male germ cells tended to be nearer the 5' end of the mRNA than those chosen in somatic cells. Finally, a number of mRNAs used a different polyadenylation site in male germ cells than in somatic cells. These differences suggested that male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites may be poor substrates for polyadenylation in somatic cells. We therefore hypothesized that male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites would be inefficiently used in somatic cells.
+Results
+We tested whether pre-mRNA sequences surrounding male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites (polyadenylation cassettes) could be used to direct polyadenylation efficiently in somatic cells. To do this, we developed a luciferase reporter system in which luciferase activity correlated with polyadenylation efficiency. We showed that in somatic cells, somatic polyadenylation cassettes were efficiently polyadenylated, while male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassettes were not. We also developed a sensitive, 3' RACE-based assay to analyze polyadenylation site choice. Using this assay, we demonstrated that male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassettes were not polyadenylated at the expected site in somatic cells, but rather at aberrant sites upstream of the sites used in male germ cells. Finally, mutation of the male germ cell-specific poly(A) signal to a somatic poly(A) signal resulted in more efficient polyadenylation in somatic cells.
+Conclusion
+These data suggest that regulated polyadenylation site choice of male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites requires one or more factors that are absent from somatic cells.
+Keywords
+- Somatic Cell
+- Bacterial Artificial Chromosome
+- Luciferase Activity
+- Reporter Plasmid
+- Male Germ Cell
+Background
+Polyadenylation occurs in three stages: polyadenylation site choice, cleavage of the pre-mRNA, and addition of the poly(A) tail to the newly formed 3' end [1, 2]. The first step, polyadenylation site choice, can be defined as the functional assembly of the factors necessary for pre-mRNA cleavage onto the pre-mRNA to allow for efficient, accurate cleavage of the pre-mRNA (it has also been called the commitment step) [3–5]. Mutation of the pre-mRNA sequence elements involved in polyadenylation site choice [6–12], or mutation of the protein machinery involved in polyadenylation site choice [13–15], result in inefficient polyadenylation of the pre-mRNA. Consequently, inefficient polyadenylation prevents export of mRNA and decreases production of the protein encoded by that mRNA [1]. Therefore, polyadenylation site choice is an important first step in polyadenylation and is essential for optimal gene expression.
+In mammalian somatic cells, the mechanism of polyadenylation site choice has been intensely studied [1, 2]. A number of pre-mRNA sequences have been proposed to be important in choosing the site of polyadenylation [16–20]; however, two seem to play a prominent role in mammalian somatic cells. The first is the hexameric poly(A) signal (most often AAUAAA) found 15–30 bases upstream of the site of polyadenylation [6, 21]. The other is the G/U-rich element found 20–40 bases downstream of the site of polyadenylation [11, 22]. Together, these elements bind the multi-subunit cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor (CPSF) [23] and cleavage stimulation factor (CstF) [11], respectively. Thus, the formation of this protein/RNA complex determines the polyadenylation site choice. The next step is cleavage of the pre-mRNA at the polyadenylation site (a process that requires additional factors, possibly including CPSF-73 [24]) followed by addition of the poly(A) tail [1, 2].
+However, a number of mRNAs use different polyadenylation sites in different tissues or developmental stages [25]. Changes in the composition of the protein polyadenylation machinery can invoke a change in polyadenylation site choice called alternative polyadenylation [13, 26, 27]. In addition, inclusion or exclusion of pre-mRNA sequences outside of the polyadenylation region (i. e., by changes in splicing pattern or the presence of a "stronger" polyadenylation site) may also affect polyadenylation site choice [25]. Therefore, changes in the protein/pre-mRNA complex involved in polyadenylation site choice can change where the poly(A) tail is added, and thereby affect gene expression.
+We have noticed that the polyadenylation sites chosen in male germ cells are different from those chosen in somatic cells [28]. First, a number of mRNAs use a polyadenylation site at higher frequency than in other tissues [25, 29–31]. Second, the incidence of the sequence AAUAAA near the 3' ends of male germ cell mRNAs is lower than in somatic mRNAs [28, 32]. Third, the polyadenylation sites chosen in male germ cell mRNAs often result in shorter 3' untranslated regions than somatic mRNAs [32]. This suggests that there are significant differences in the polyadenylation sites chosen in somatic and male germ cells. There are two possible causes of these differences. Either male germ cell-enriched polyadenylation sites can be used in somatic cells but are not (because they are on pre-mRNAs not expressed in somatic cells, because other pre-mRNA elements prevent their use, or because the somatic polyadenylation sites out-compete them), or they are poor substrates for polyadenylation in somatic cells.
+We hypothesized that male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites are poor substrates for polyadenylation in somatic cells, and therefore would be used inefficiently in somatic cells. To test this, we developed a luciferase-based reporter assay to evaluate the polyadenylation efficiency of different sequences. We then used the assay to show that sequences surrounding male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites (called polyadenylation cassettes) were inefficiently polyadenylated in somatic cells. Additionally, we developed a 3' RACE-based approach to analyze polyadenylation site positioning. Using this approach, we observed that mRNAs containing these male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites were not polyadenylated at the site chosen in male germ cells. Rather, they showed aberrant polyadenylation upstream of the male germ cell-specific polyadenylation site. Finally, we showed that introduction of an AAUAAA (an element important to polyadenylation site choice in somatic cells) into a male germ cell-specific pre-mRNA allowed for more efficient polyadenylation of that site in somatic cells. These data suggested that male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites were inefficiently chosen in somatic cells, and that polyadenylation site choice has different requirements in male germ cells than in somatic cells.
+Results
+Development of a luciferase reporter system to assay polyadenylation efficiency
+Primers used in the creation of polyadenylation cassettes.
+To determine whether our assay measures polyadenylation efficiency, we tested three previously characterized polyadenylation cassettes. The first two, the SV40 late and the rabbit β-globin polyadenylation cassettes, are strong polyadenylation cassettes, and were therefore used as a reference for efficient polyadenylation. The third was a SV40 late mutant cassette, which was the result of mutating the poly(A) signal from AAUAAA to GAGAAA. Mutating the SV40 AAUAAA was previously shown to prevent binding of the polyadenylation machinery to the pre-mRNA, thus preventing polyadenylation site choice and resulting in inefficient polyadenylation [5, 36, 37].
+The luciferase assay evaluates polyadenylation efficiency. ATCC 3T3 cells (mouse embryonic fibroblasts) were transfected with Renilla luciferase reporter plasmids containing one of the indicated (bottom) polyadenylation cassettes as well as a firefly luciferase expressing vector to control for transfection efficiency. Two days later, extracts of these cells were assayed for luciferase activity. Indicated on the left is the relative luciferase activity (Renilla luciferase values divided by firefly luciferase values). Asterisks indicate significant difference from the SV40 wild type as determined by Student's T-test (p < 0.01).
+To test whether a male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassette could be efficiently polyadenylated in somatic cells, another reporter plasmid was created with the polyadenylation cassette from the zonadhesin pre-mRNA. Since the zonadhesin mRNA is expressed only in male germ cells [38], it was used as a reference for male germ cell-specific polyadenylation. Similar to the results using the SV40 mutant reporter plasmid, the level of luciferase activity in lysates from cells transfected with the reporter plasmid containing the zonadhesin cassette was significantly lower than the level in lysates from cells transfected with the SV40-containing reporter plasmid (Figure 1). Therefore, the luciferase activity present in lysates of cells transfected with a reporter plasmid containing a male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassette was similar to the level found in lysates from cells transfected with an inefficiently polyadenylated cassette.
+Genes with male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites are expressed at lower levels than those with somatic polyadenylation sites from the same mRNA
+Somatic polyadenylation cassettes are preferred tomale germ cell-specific cassettes. A) At the top is a map indicating the positions of the various polyadenylation sites on the cyclin A2 mRNA. Above the diagram is the positions of the poly(A) sites used [27], and below is the name of the cassette. The diagram is approximately drawn to scale. Below, ATCC 3T3 cells (mouse embryonic fibroblasts) were transfected with plasmids containing somatic or male germ cell-specific cassettes indicated and extracts were assayed for activity as described in Figure 1. B) Same as A, but using CREM and c-abl cassettes. The poly(A) positions at the top are from [26, 28]. For both A and B, asterisks indicate significantly different from the respective somatic cassette as determined by Student's T-test (p < 0.01).
+These studies were extended to compare the polyadenylation efficiencies of the various CREM and c-abl polyadenylation cassettes, each of which uses one polyadenylation site in somatic cells and a different site in male germ cells [29, 31]. We transfected fibroblasts with reporter plasmids containing polyadenylation cassettes from c-abl and CREM mRNAs. Again, lysates from cells transfected with reporter plasmids containing male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassettes showed lower levels of luciferase activity than did those lysates with somatic cassettes in the reporter plasmids (Figure 2B). Thus, even when studied independently of each other, the somatic polyadenylation sites are associated with higher levels of luciferase activities in extracts from transfected cells.
+Male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites are inefficiently used in somatic cells
+We wanted to determine whether the low levels of luciferase activity we observed in extracts from cells transfected with reporter plasmids containing male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassettes were because of problems with polyadenylation site choice. To do this, we transfected mouse embryonic fibroblasts with reporter plasmids used in earlier experiments, extracted RNA from the transfected cells, made cDNA, and subjected it to 3' RACE. The products were purified, cloned, and sequenced, and the sequences were aligned with the reporter plasmid with which these cells were transfected in order to determine the site of polyadenylation (see Methods and Materials).
+Male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites are not used in somatic cells. ATCC 3T3 cells (mouse embryonic fibroblasts) were transfected with reporter plasmids containing the polyadenylation cassettes indicated on the left and two days later RNA was extracted from these cells, cDNA was made, and 3' RACE was performed as described in Methods and Materials. Shown are the results of the poly(A) site identification. The open arrow on the bottom indicates the reported site of polyadenylation on that polyadenylation cassette. The black arrows on top represent the sites of polyadenylation identified in transfected cells. The black bar at SV40-mutant shows a mutation in the poly(A) signal (AAUAAA to GAGAAA) of the SV40 polyadenylation cassette.
+In contrast, all five cDNAs cloned from cells transfected with the SV40 late mutant polyadenylation cassette-containing reporter plasmid showed polyadenylation at aberrant, upstream positions, and never at the reported site of polyadenylation (Figure 3). This upstream polyadenylation is different from the read through transcripts most investigators have observed because of inefficient polyadenylation [39–41]. In addition, the cDNAs cloned from cells transfected with reporter plasmids containing male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassettes all showed aberrant upstream polyadenylation, similar to that seen with the SV40 mutant. Interestingly, most of the aberrant polyadenylation sites were found in the luciferase coding region. Therefore, all of the polyadenylation cassettes associated with low levels of luciferase give rise to aberrantly polyadenylated mRNAs when transfected into somatic cells.
+Sequences in cassettes affect polyadenylation efficiency
+Cis-acting sequences around the site of polyadenylation have been shown to affect polyadenylation efficiency profoundly [3–9]. We hypothesized that the reason male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites were not chosen in somatic cells was because they lacked the necessary cis-acting sequences that somatic polyadenylation site choice requires. If this were true, altering the sequences on a male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassette would increase the ability of a male germ cell-specific polyadenylation site to be chosen in somatic cells.
+The poly(A) signal is essential for polyadenylation of male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites. ATCC 3T3 cells (mouse embryonic fibroblasts) were transfected with reporter plasmids containing the indicated polyadenylation cassettes. Bars represent the average relative luciferase activity over three different replications. Asterisks indicate significant difference from the wild type version of each cassette (p < 0.01).
+Discussion and Conclusion
+Our observations [28, 42, 43], as well as studies done by others [32, 44], suggested that there were differences in how somatic and male germ cells choose a polyadenylation site. However, we had never tested directly whether somatic cells were capable of efficiently choosing a polyadenylation site from a male germ cell-specific mRNA. We therefore devised a luciferase reporter assay that measures polyadenylation efficiency. Using this assay, we showed that extracts from cells transfected with reporter plasmids containing male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassettes showed significantly lower levels of luciferase activity than extracts from cells transfected with somatic cassette-containing plasmids. Extracts of cells transfected with reporter plasmids containing somatic polyadenylation cassettes also expressed higher levels of luciferase activity than those with male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassettes from the same mRNA. Analysis of 3' RACE products showed that mRNAs containing somatic polyadenylation cassettes were polyadenylated almost exclusively at the reported sites. Mutation of the AAUAAA polyadenylation signal to a GAGAAA resulted in no observed polyadenylation at the reported sites. Rather, analysis of the 3' ends of these mRNAs showed that any mRNAs that were being polyadenylated were being polyadenylated at aberrant sites. Finally, introduction of an AAUAAA into a male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassette resulted in significantly higher levels of luciferase in extracts transfected with this plasmid. These data suggest that male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites are inefficiently used in somatic cells.
+Each of the male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites shown here are efficiently used in male germ cells [29–31]. Additionally, we have shown that the somatic polyadenylation sites for these pre-mRNAs are used in somatic cells (data not shown). Why, then, are male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites inefficiently used in somatic cells? As discussed above, polyadenylation site choice is the product of the sequences present on the pre-mRNA and the polyadenylation machinery present in the cell. There is a lower incidence of the sequence AAUAAA near the 3' ends of mRNAs in male germ cells relative to the incidence in other tissues [28]. Other studies have suggested that other elements essential for polyadenylation in somatic cells may likewise be absent from male germ cell mRNAs [32]. The fact that male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassettes often lack the sequences necessary for somatic polyadenylation could be the reason for male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites not being chosen in somatic cells. Additionally, it is possible that elements in male germ cell-specific polyadenylation cassettes prevent their polyadenylation in somatic cells. However, this study has shown that male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites are used rarely, if at all in typical somatic cells (Figure 3). Introduction of a somatic polyadenylation signal (AAUAAA) can greatly increase its ability to be chosen in these cells (Figure 4), but there are likely other elements involved as well. This suggests that the polyadenylation machinery present in somatic cells is less compatible with the polyadenylation sequences present in male germ cell-specific mRNAs than with somatically expressed mRNAs.
+Additionally, male germ cells express proteins that are present either exclusively or predominantly in this tissue that are homologous to known polyadenylation proteins [42, 43, 45–47]. Two of these proteins, a CstF-50 homolog called WDC146 [45] and a CstF-64 homolog called τCstF-64 [42, 43], are similar to proteins that have been associated with changing polyadenylation site choice [13, 27, 48]. The presence of these proteins in male germ cells may alter the polyadenylation machinery's preference for polyadenylation site choice, and their absence may explain why male germ cell-specific polyadenylation sites are inefficiently chosen in somatic cells.
+We originally hypothesized that τCstF-64 would affect polyadenylation site choice for the mRNAs studied here [43]. However, we have recently shown that the CREM, c-abl, and CCNA2 mRNAs are expressed at normal levels and are polyadenylated at the same position in the testis of mice lacking τCstF-64 as in the wild type testis (KWM, B. Dass, T. Denison, K. Hockert, CCM, in preparation). This strongly suggests that τCstF-64 is not involved in changing the polyadenylation site choice for these transcripts. However, other proteins expressed in male germ cells – proteins that are also absent from fibroblasts – could be responsible for the change in polyadenylation site choice for these male germ cell-specific mRNAs.
+One surprising finding was of the existence of aberrantly polyadenylated mRNAs with poly(A) site choice occurring upstream of the reported site of polyadenylation (Figure 3). Previous studies showed that if a pre-mRNA was inefficiently polyadenylated, then RNA polymerase II read through the site of polyadenylation, producing longer transcripts [39–41]. In contrast, we observed mRNAs that were polyadenylated at disparate places, all upstream of the reported site and several in the luciferase coding region. We used a 3' RACE-based approach to look for changes in polyadenylation; this is opposed to the RNase protection assays and nuclear run-on assays previous investigators have used [41, 49, 50]. Because we saw this aberrant polyadenylation associated with the SV40 late mutant polyadenylation cassette, we believe that aberrant polyadenylation is the result of inefficient polyadenylation. It is also possible that these aberrant polyadenylation sites often occur naturally, but are only detectable in the absence of efficient polyadenylation. However, we propose that the use of a more sensitive PCR-based method has allowed us to observe previously undescribed upstream aberrant polyadenylation.
+Finally, our data suggest the possibility that male germ cells express one or more different factors and have different sequence requirements that together alter how the polyadenylation site is chosen. Other tissues may similarly have different mechanisms of polyadenylation site choice. The brain seems especially prone to contain mRNAs that are alternatively polyadenylated [44], and our lab has identified a brain-specific form of CstF-64 (G. Shankarling, CCM, in preparation), which may alter polyadenylation site choice in this tissue. The existence of such alternative methods of polyadenylation site choice could be used to greatly increase the protein diversity within a cell.
+Methods
+Cell culture
+Mouse ATCC-3T3 cells were grown at 37°C in growth media (Gibco Dulbecco's Minimal Eagle Media in the presence of Gibco 10% newborn calf serum and penicillin/streptomycin).
+Reporter plasmids
+Each of the cassettes was created by using PCR to amplify polyadenylation cassettes from a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) obtained from the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). The primers and BAC templates used for the PCR reactions are shown in Table 1. Each of the 5' primers contain also contains an XbaI (TCTAGA) site at the 5' end and each of the 3' primers contain a BamHI site (GGATCC) at the 5' end. These products were cloned into pCRII using the TOPO cloning kit (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) according to manufacturer's instructions. pGL3-promoter (Promega, Madison, WI) was used as the transfection control. Mutations were done using the QuickChange site directed mutagenesis kit from Promega, per manufacturer's instructions.
+The various reporter plasmids were created by subcloning (using standard subcloning techniques) each of the polyadenylation cassettes separately into the pRL-SV40 reporter plasmid using the XbaI and BamHI sites that surround the SV40 polyadenylation cassette that is a part of the plasmid. In doing so, the SV40 polyadenylation cassette was removed from each of the newly-made reporter plasmids.
+Luciferase assays and transfections
+For luciferase assays, cells were plated on 24-well dishes at 1.5 × 104 cells/well 16–24 hours before transfection. 12 ng of pRL-SV40 plasmid (containing polyadenylation cassette of interest) 4 ng of pGL3-promoter plasmid, and 500 ng of pBluescript (used as a carrier plasmid) were mixed together and transfection with Lipofectamine™ was carried out per manufacturer's instructions (Invitrogen). The same transfection was done in six different wells for each experiment, making 6 replicates.
+After 48 hours, cells were washed three times in PBS and lysed in 100 μL of lysis buffer from the Dual Luciferase Reporter Assay System (Promega) for 15 minutes shaking at room temperature. The lysates were then removed from the wells with a micropipette and transferred to a clean microcentrifuge tube on ice. Lysates were either used immediately or stored at -80°C before being thawed on ice. Luciferase assays were done according to manufacturer's instructions and luciferase activity was measured on a TD-20/20 (Turner Designs, Sunnyvale, CA). All values were recorded on a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and calculations were done within this document. The numbers reported are in relative luciferase units, which is the ratio of Renilla luciferase activity to firefly luciferase activity. The value for each experiment was the average relative luciferase activity of the six different replicates. The numbers reported are the averages of three separate experiments (making a total of 18 different replicates), with standard deviations illustrated using error bars.
+3' RACE
+For 3' RACE, RNA was extracted from transfected cells using Trizol (Invitrogen) and treated with DNAse, then purified by phenol/chloroform and ethanol precipitation. 1 μg of DNA-free RNA was converted to cDNA with the SMART RACE kit (BD Biosciences), using 1/10 the amount of oligo(dT) the manufacturer recommends. 1 μL of a 1:10 dilution of cDNA was then used as a template for the first round of PCR which used the 5' primer (5'-GAACCATTCAAAGAGAAG-3') and the Universal Primer A mix. The resulting reaction was diluted 1:10 in ddH2O and 1 μL was used in a second round of PCR that included the 3' primer (5'-GTGAAGTTCGTCGTCCAAC-3') and Nested Universal Primer A.
+Following both rounds of amplification, the products were separated by agarose gel electrophoresis, purified, and cloned into pCRII using the TOPO cloning kit (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Multiple (between 5–10) clones were sequenced and aligned to the pRL-SV40 reporter plasmid sequence to determine the position of the poly(A) tail. A poly(A) tail was said to be legitimate (not due to false priming of the oligo(dT) primer) if it met the standards of the polya_db [49].
+Declarations
+Acknowledgements
+We would like to thank the members of the MacDonald lab for helpful discussions. We would like to thank Elmus Beale for help with luciferase assays, very helpful discussion on this manuscript, Joel Graber for allowing us to discuss his work prior to publication, and Enusha Karunasena, Jim Hutson, and Jeff Thomas for critical reading of this manuscript. This work was supported by an NIH grant to CCM (R01 HD37109). BAH was an HHMI Undergraduate Research Fellow and SABR student.
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+. Travelers tip on saving a few bucks Use as base for meetings in Tysons Corners or McLean, much better deal and there is easy driving back and forth.local towns are nice and there are plenty of reasonable restaurants locally. Nothing special at all, but as expected of Best Western franchise and for a very low price compared to some of the othe rhotels in the Tysons Corner area. The hotel itself was clean, desk service was fine and the pool area was nice.The access to Metro is too long to walk, but is an easy drive and there is lots of parking in off hours. Located just off Route 66, it is also an easy drive into DC at Constitution Avenue (20"). Great suburban location with Metro access to DC.As expected.
+.Sadly dated this fscility is long overdue for a complete renovation or knock down and rebuild.
+The breakfast was good as well.The hotel was OK It was close to the location where I had to go and the rooms were clean.
+. Anyway, the overall impression of this hotel is good. There was a clog in the sink, but it was not fixed during our stay. The continental breakfast was nice, however it was not free.Nice and Cheap Hotel 15 min far from Downtown A nice and clean hotel 15 minutes to drive from downtown.
+. Decent no-frills room for a decent price.Basic hotel for one night stay We only needed a room for one night while attending a concert in the area so it didnt have to be anything special.
+. a long time ago..reminded me of places we used to stay in when I was a child..older hotel...Nice staff - Older hotel Very nice hotel staff.
+. Several restaurants within a few miles, and convenient access to and from Route 66.50. You can have an excellent full breakfast on premises for an additional $4. Nice grounds and lobby, plus free wireless internet service.Great for a business trip A very good value for the area.
+. Occassionally, a problem with television or in room coffee makers, but overall place is always clean.Great Value Best value in the DC area! Friendly and professional staff, well managed and rooms are always clean.
+. Travelers tip for business travelers I-66 West is a nightmare heading out of the city during evening rush hour. Easy trip to DC. Close to many restaurants. Room was relatively quiet considering parking just outside (turn on the AC fan to drown out traffic noise). Free and easy parking. Hotel staff was extremely pleasant, courteous, and accomodating. Nice flat screen. Most of the usual amenities. Room was very clean. Also close to I-66, Fair Oaks mall, downtown Fairfax, etc. Very convenient location for test.Very Convenient for PE In Fairfax for PE exam.
+Quality hotel for a decent price Was impressed with everything, will definitely stay there again the next time i travel back.
+.the listing was definitely inaccurate.... The "gym" was an unused hotel room with a treadmill and a bowflex - THIS IS NOT A GYM! Overall not a place I would have stayed if I had seen it. I do not count a continental breakfast bar as a restaurant. The "restaurant" was a breakfast spot - not open otherwise.Not a Hotel This Motel was listed as a "Hotel" - the accomodations had entrances that faced the street, not what I was looking for, especially for a business trip.
+. The staff was very courteous, and the free internet terminal in the lobby was a great plus! Travelers tip on getting the most out of your stay Plenty of places to get breakfast in the area, so plan to do that rather than eating at the on-site restaurant.great location Great location - very easy to jump on and off I-66...Great hotel.
+. Nice people, great to work with. Restaurants close. 15 minutes to the DC Metro on the bus, and back.Great Location Went there to see the area.
+. Yuk.BUGS! There were ants all over the room, bugs in the sinks and bathtub.
+. Staff was there when needed, but didnt bother me otherwise. Flat screen TV, microwave, & refrigerator. Much more comfortable than I had expected.I will return again Very well maintained hotel.
+. Fairfax county official uses a dirty trick to collect additional income by giving you a violation ticket to an innocent visitor or tourist. Travelers tip on saving a few bucks If you plan to park at this station, be careful. A rude police is waiting for you to do the same. But I got a ticket. Being a visitor to that area, we thought that we could park on any empty area where a batch of cars already parked. There werent any available in main parking lot for tourist as they said on their web site nor a sign what-so-ever for an additional parking. Only reason we stayed at FairFax was to park our car at the station and visit DC via metro.Having say that, I have really bad experience with Vienna/FairFax-GMU metro station parking. I would recommend the hotel to other. I would stay again if I comeback. Hotel has a lots of parking lot around the building. But for us, the hotel was good, clean room with the blackfast with a reasonable price.Impressed hotel We were worried about hotel quality before arriving there because it was the first time to book it via on-line travel agency that has many complains on web.
+.Overnight stay This hotel was great for my overnight stay, its was very clean and comfortable and close to lots of restaurants.
+My stay was pleasant resurant needs aome help but all else is pleasant.
+. Overall we were very pleased with our accommodations. although one computer was not working after the first day. The staff was helpful and they have two computers available for internet access so we were able to check our email, etc. We made use of the in room refrigerator and microwave, a big plus for us. The beds were comfortable and we had a first floor room right next to the pool.50. The breakfast is extra but a good value at $4. They did not have breakfast the next morning and one morning the breakfast was not available at the time they said it should be so we just skipped it. They were very accommodating and we had power when we returned in the evening.Good value Upon arrival the hotel did not have electricity because of a storm.
+Good price nice hotel this hotel was great for our purpose which was a place to crash while visiting DC.
+.ROOMS WERE ADEQUATE. I would recommend this hotel for those who are on a budget and do not need all of the fancy stuff. The hotel grounds and room were well maintained, the rates were good.Great place to stay for those on a budget The front desk staff were friendly.
+. I recommend this hotel if you want a quiet and clean room. The rooms are clean and neat and the staff is helpful.Good, clean and comfortable This hotel is located in a central location in Fairfax that pretty much allows you access to route 66, DC, Lee HWY, etc.
+. A few minutes cab ride from the Metro Orange line (last stop). Wireless Internet access included. Decent buffet breakfast, but costs extra.Comfortable Clearly a hotel that was upgraded from a run-of-the-mill motel.
+. About what I expected. Reasonably clean (Ive seen a lot worse) and comfortable.Adequate and inexpensive All we did was sleep in the room but it was a fine room, no complaints, and the price was fair.
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+03:32 AM
+KPMG looks at emerging trends in Middle East Sovereign Wealth Funds
+Audio: Global Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) totals approximately US$5.3 trillion in assets under management, with the second largest being Abu Dhabi's "ADIA". In this interview, based around a recent report highlighting trends in SWF in the Middle East, Phil Blizzard talks to Vikas Papriwal, Partner & Head of Sovereign Wealth Funds & Private Equity, UAE & Oman.
+02:04 AM
+Dubai's Tourism Vision 2020 will increase demand for mid-level hotels
+Audio: The demand for mid-level hotels is likely to be significant as Dubai aims for 20 million visitors per year by 2020. At the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference, organised by MEED and The Bench, Russel Sharpe, COO - Hotel Division, Landmark Hospitality talks to Phil Blizzard about their development pipeline, brand values and the future demand for hotels in the mid-level sector.
+Sun, May 12, 2013
+01:58 AM
+Emaar Hospitality launches the Vida Hotel & Resorts brand
+Audio: A new hotel brand for the new generation of business executives, entrepreneurs and leisure travellers is how Emaar have described their Vida Hotels and Resorts. At the Arabian travel Market Phil Blizzard spoke with Stefan Viard, GM, Vida Downtown Dubai to find out more on the aims of the new brand and what their first hotel will offer.
+Thu, May 09, 2013
+06:12 AM
+Wild Guanabana Pt 2- from banking to the summit of Everest
+Audio: Omar Samra, Founder & CEO, Wild Guanabana in conversation with Phil Blizzard talks about his passion for climbing and what it meant to summit Mount Everest, being the first Egyptian and the youngest Arab to conquer the world's highest peak. He also talks about his major career move, from the coporate world of banking to that of adventure tourism.
+Tue, May 07, 2013
+10:55 AM
+Marc Dardenne looks at Dubai for Singapore based Patina Hotels
+Audio: Marc Dardenne, former CEO of Emaar Hospitality who launched The Address and Armani hotels in Dubai talks to Phil Blizzard at the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference about his new venture in Singapore. As CEO of Patina Hotels & Resorts he will be creating a new style of luxury hotels and hopes to bring the brand to the Middle East.
+Sun, May 05, 2013
+03:04 AM
+Wild Guanabana Pt 1 - Adventurous and sustainable tourism
+Audio: Omar Samra, Founder & CEO, Wild Guanabana talks about sustainable and adventurous tourism with Phil Blizzard and the locations they visit and how local partners are selected. He also explains the origins of the name for his business which came about during an expedition in South America.
+Tue, Apr 30, 2013
+07:08 AM
+Propertyfinder.ae Real Estate Report Q1
+Audio: A look at the key trends in the real estate market for the first quarter of 2013. Phil Blizzard talks to Barat Kumar, Marketing Director, Propertyfinder.ae on the day they publish the first report for the year 2013. Listen to discover what is happening to both the rental and sellers markets in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
+Mon, Apr 29, 2013
+07:20 AM
+Qatar Tourism looks at the MICE sector for expansion
+Audio: The FIFA World Cup is probably one of the largest events in the MICE sector of the travel and tourism industry and with Qatar hosting the 2022 event we speak with Abdulla Malalla Al Bader, Director, Qatar Tourism Authority. He talks to Phil Blizzard about their hotel pipeline, the range of sporting events which they host, the cultural attractions and the importance of the MICE sector.
+Sun, Apr 28, 2013
+01:35 AM
+Singapore looks at the Art Route to celebrate ties with the UAE
+Audio: Singapore is seeing a substantial rise in visitors from the Middle East due to the increasing number of airlines flying into the island state. Mohamed Hafez Marican, Area Director Middle East & Africa, Singapore Tourism Board talks to Phil Blizzard about key events and attractions which are helping to boost visitor numbers. He explains what Singapore can offer compared with other well know Asia cities, and they talk about the strong ties between Dubai and Singapore, along with the forthcoming 'Art Route' collaboration.
+Tue, Apr 23, 2013
+08:53 AM
+Is encryption a must for the current threat landscape?
+Audio:
+A significant number of companies don't pay enough attention to corporate information security practices, according to a Kaspersky Lab survey, in association with B2B International. The survey, conducted in November 2012, polled over 5,000 senior IT managers worldwide and found that 35% of companies expose corporate data to unauthorised parties by failing to use encryption technologies. Steven Bond spoke to Nikolay Grebennikov, Chief Technology Officer at Kaspersky Lab, about different types of encryption and how they are effective for enterprise security.
+Previously:
+Understanding encryption - from ancient Sparta to modern businesses
+Mon, Apr 22, 2013
+01:27 AM
+Emirates Holidays reveal new trade strategy
+Audio: A forum organised by Emirates for the hoteliers of Dubai has served as platform for the airline to showcase their development strategy, and in particular new source markets. Phil Blizzard talks to Marc Bennett, Divisional Senior VP, Destination & Leisure Management, Emirates about the key messages they are putting to hotel executives in their drive to increase tourism to Dubai.
+Sun, Apr 21, 2013
+03:31 AM
+Fadi Malas, CEO, Just Falafel CEO Pt 2 - Global objectives for 2013
+Audio: "We have big objectives this year, to become global, we want to be in every single continent" say Fadi Malas, CEO, Just Falafel in conversation with Phil Blizzard. He said they are getting strong response from Brazil for future expansion and also talks about new product development and the importance of social media in their growth.
+Tue, Apr 16, 2013
+03:43 AM
+Travelport Merchandising Platform targets Middle East carriers
+Audio: The newly launched distribution platform from Travelport is aimed at aggregating information from a number of sources to enable travel agents keep abreast of the ever evolving and changing airline landscape. Phil Blizzard talks to Will Owen Hughes, Snr Director, Airline Services, ME&A, Travelport about the focus of the new merchandising platform for airlines in the Middle East.
+Mon, Apr 15, 2013
+04:01 AM
+Fadi Malas, CEO, Just Falafel CEO Pt 1 - Middle East Sold Out
+Audio: Executive Views with Fadi Malas, CEO, Just Falafel starts with him talking about the key elements of their business development in 2012 - a year which saw rapid expansion of their franchises across the Middle East. He also talks to Phil Blizzard about their strategy for 2013 and what it meant to him and his organisation to win a raft of SME awards.
+Sun, Apr 14, 2013
+06:19 AM
+Travelport Merchandising Platform focused on airline products
+Audio: The Travelport Merchandising Platform has been designed to enable a greater flow of information to travel agents and is aimed a creating a speedier and more content rich solution to the booking of airlines tickets. Phil Blizzard spoke with Ian Heywood, Head of Global Supplier Strategy, Travelport about the key aspects of this platform, how it will assist travel agents, and ultimately passengers, in the rapidly changing airline landscape and the products they offer.
+04:21 AM
+President Clinton opens WTTC Global Summit in Abu Dhabi
+Audio: The 13th World Travel and Tourism Council Global Summit took place in Abu Dhabi with the theme "A Time for Leadership". President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker at the event, which attracted travel and tourism leaders from across the globe. Phil Blizzard reports on the summit which focused on some of the key issues facing the travel and tourism industry. You may watch the video version of this report in our video section.
+Sun, Apr 07, 2013
+05:58 AM
+Dubai World Central announce date of first passenger flights
+Audio: Dubai World Central has announced it will commence general passenger operations as of October 27th 2013. In this report Phil Blizzard talks to Jamal Al Hai, Snr VP, International Affairs & Communications, Dubai Airports about their facilities and also talks with Jozsef Varadi, CEO, Wizz who are based in Central Europe and will start services into Dubai from four cities - Budapest, Kiev, Bucharest & Sofia.
+02:53 AM
+Dubai World Central passenger flights to commence with Wizz Air pt 2
+Audio: Launch airline for Passengers flights into Dubai World Central (DWC)includes European based Wizz Air and in this part Phil Blizzard speaks to Jozsef Varadi, CEO, Wizz Air their decision to use DWC rather than Dubai International Airport. He also talks about their ticketing structure, the advantages of booking early and despite being a point to point carrier they can connect UAE travellers to a substantial number of European destinations.
+Wed, Apr 03, 2013
+07:31 AM
+Dubai World Central passenger flights to commence with Wizz Air pt 1
+Audio: Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central is to open to passenger flights on October 27, 2013. Launch carrier will be Wizz Air, based in Central Europe and in this part Phil Blizzard speaks to Jozsef Varadi, CEO, Wizz Air about the airline and its operations, the tough European market and their 'bold' approach with four services to Dubai.
+Tue, Apr 02, 2013
+03:43 AM
+Deloitte - Middle East trends for e-commerce
+Audio: Tends in the uptake of e-commerce across the Middle East are highlighted by Emmanuel Durou, Director, Consulting - Strategy, Deloitte Middle East. In this podcast with Phil Blizzard he also talks about the ways e-commerce will evolve in this region.
+Mon, Apr 01, 2013
+07:03 AM
+Iraq Parliamentarian talks on oil squabbles between Kurdistan and Federal Government
+Audio: "The oil squabbles between Kurdistan and Federal Government have been going on for more than two years" says H.E. Adnan Al-Janabi, Chairman, Oil & Energy Committee, Parliament, Republic of Iraq. In conversation with Phil Blizzard he makes the call for the implementation of the Oil & Gas Law, talks about their vast reserves of oil, said to be more than 300 billion barrels and their strategy for production.
+Sun, Mar 31, 2013
+04:48 AM
+Dubai International now second busiest airport in the world
+Audio: The latest figures published by Airports Council International confirms that Dubai International Airport (DXB) is now the second busiest international airport in the world. Paul Griffiths, CEO, Dubai Airports, in this report by Phil Blizzard, says that London's Heathrow Airport is firmly in their sights now that DXB has overtaken Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.
+Mon, Mar 25, 2013
+01:15 AM
+Erwin Bamps, COO, Gulf Craft Pt 2 - significant growth in demand for smaller craft
+Audio: Whilst the impressive looking superyachts catch the eye and media attention it is the smaller craft which is the main business of UAE manufacturer Gulf Craft. Phil Blizzard talks to Erwin Bamps, COO, Gulf Craft about the significant growth for the much smaller craft, which is the mainstay of the company which is now into its 31st year of operations.
+Sun, Mar 24, 2013
+06:24 AM
+TravelNews - Emirates await Qantas, Dreamliner battery rebuild, new routes for Qatar Airways
+Audio: Phil Blizzard with a round-up of the key stories from around the region and beyond, including the announcement by Boeing of a redesign for the batteries of the troubled and grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The news of the new international airport in Qatar, new routes for Qatar Airways, innovations on-board from passengers of Flydubai and Emirates awaiting the arrival of the first flight by Qantas into Dubai.
+02:41 AM
+Erwin Bamps, COO, Gulf Craft Pt 1 - Growth of the superyacht market
+Audio: Phil Blizzard talks to Erwin Bamps, COO, Gulf Craft about the global demand for superyachts and how the regional market is maturing and even looking for even larger boats. He also talks about the construction of their largest yacht to date - the Majesty 155.
+Tue, Mar 19, 2013
+07:21 AM
+HP brings ElitePad to MidEast & Emirates cabin crew
+HP's new business tablet has landed in the Middle East and will soon take off again with Dubai's Emirates airline. Steven Bond spoke to HP and Emirates execs about the device and this special partnership.
+Write-up below
+Mon, Mar 18, 2013
+01:51 AM
+Mohamed Youss.
+01:51 AM
+Mohamed Yous.
+Thu, Mar 14, 2013
+08:38 AM
+Mobile wallets are around the corner - can we trust RFID?
+Audio: Our debit card could soon go the way of the chequebook and become a relic in terms of how we make purchases. RFID (radio-frequency identification technology) will allow us to tap and swipe our way to simple transactions - but is it secure? Nicolai Solling, Director of Technology Services at HelpAG Middle East, speaks to Steven Bond about the RFID trend and potential security issues.
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+"What the hell is this damage!"
+"I died instantly when the explosion blast grazed me!"
+"My EXP's dropped so drastically!"
+The first wave of players eliminated died tragically, leaving the rest of the players in awe of the Germinal Organization's firepower.
+SliceYouUp gritted his teeth. "Task requirement is to achieve highest damage. Doesn't matter if you die, just deal damage! Go!"
+The penalty in Galaxy for dying was not light to say the least. EXP was deducted proportionally to a player's level, and the player could only be revived up to a maximum of ten times within six days. With every death, the waiting time before the next revival would increase. After hitting the limit, there would be a temporary ban on the player. Despite all this, it was worth dying once or twice for the Prize-Pool Missions.
+The players from Sky Territory also had the same thoughts, and all the other players followed suit and fearlessly, albeit tactlessly, made their attack on the Germinal soldiers, giving the latter a shock.
+"All these enemies are rushing to die?" Seiberre was surprised; he had never seen such a fearless army, like a pack of starving wolves, dying to get a piece of them.
+Their spirit and momentum were impressive, but in terms of combat ability they were shamefully pathetic.
+"They are just a motley crowd, let's satisfy them since they want to die so badly!" Freire snorted and promptly commanded the surrounding troops. Since there were mines buried in the forest, the Germinal troops stopped their armored vehicles and started using as their armored vehicles as a temporary base for their counterattacks, killing off waves of players with ease.
+"Shit Can't even touch them!"
+"I already died twice! Goddammit!"
+The Germinal troops was dominating the fight. The other players were being massacred, yet they refused to give up in the hope of dealing some damage to claim the quest rewards.
+"I will give them a surprise." Seiberre smirked. He saw absolutely no threat from these enemies. He was itching to toy with them.
+Freire frowned slightly. "Don't go crazy, we are in a rush."
+"Humph! I'm always quick with my kills."
+Seiberre hopped off the armored vehicle. With his strong physical attributes, all he needed was a slight push against the floor with his feet, and he was off dashing toward the players like a cannonball. His foot landed on a player and instantly caused the poor soul's chest to cave in before the player was sent flying, hitting against a tree with an explosion of blood and flesh. The shooters dealt no damage to Seiberre, since he would dodge way before they could aim. Even if some bullets did hit him, it would be nothing but single digit damage.
+Seiberre went on a killing spree like a tiger among the sheep, and the players were desperately trying to retreat. However, Seiberre would catch up and kill them before they could react. Many tried to assess Seiberre's stats.
+_____________________
+Seiberre - ?
+Level - ?
+Class - ?
+Threat Level Extremely fatal
+_____________________
+Another extremely fatal dude! No one knew what this threat level meant until this moment, but the contrast in skill level was apparent.
+The combat strength of a high-level character was indeed to be feared.
+Black Phantom and Seiberre have about the same combat strength. This thought flashed across the minds of many of the players.
+Seiberre was covered in his enemies' blood, like a ravaging beast. The scene looked so realistic that it scared some of the more timid players, who quickly adjusted the graphics to PG mode to reduce the gore. Some turned on the recording function to capture this highly bloody scene.
+A panic-stricken player fell, and Seiberre, in the midst of his killing spree, laughed as he started to crush the poor player like a cockroach. Suddenly, blood spilled out from Seiberre's chest, and a gaping hole appeared at the place where Seiberre's heart was supposed to be.
+Seiberre stopped moving, his entire face frozen. Then, he collapsed and fell to the ground without a sound.
+"Is he dead?"
+"He just got killed in one shot!"
+Everyone was thrown into shock and confusion. How did the blood-lusting monstrous enemy just get defeated in a split second?
+Then, the electrical current buzz of a sniper rifle from afar came within earshot.
+Jade Green Sky, SliceYouUp, and all the other players that were still alive glanced unanimously in the direction of the rifle. Everyone remembered that it was roughly where Black Phantom was camping.
+This snipe kill was by Black Phantom!
+"Even such a vicious enemy was killed by Black Phantom in one shot!"
+The players all gasped in disbelief. Black Phantom was also extremely fatal in terms of threat level, but this was way more fatal than Seiberre!
+Black Phantom was obviously on a higher level than Seiberre, but it was still incredible that the fearsome Seiberre got killed in a single shot. Han Xiao left a mysterious and immeasurable impression on everyone.
+Nothing was scarier than a killer who could instantly kill his victims.
+Seiberre is very strong in terms of Energy attributes. How could he have been killed instantly? Freire was shocked.
+This shot sounds familiar the ability to instant-kill a Superhuman Only one person is capable of doing this.
+Freire's face changed immediately.
+"Must be the Ghost-level Black Phantom from the Blood Pact Society! Goddammit, why is such a high-level monster finding trouble with us? I thought he only does bounty hunting?"
+Black Phantom's reputation preceded him in the Underground World in these two months because of his amazing stats. He had killed 'The Raging Bolt' Bai Jin in an instant. Even the famous Invisible Demon was running for his dear life from Black Phantom. It was no wonder that Black Phantom rose to fame as the best assassin in the Blood Pact Society and his name began to instill fear in many.
+The Germinal Organization gave a command long ago, asking its members to avoid direct conflict with Black Phantom. It would be troublesome to deal with this type of super assassin, even for big organizations.
+Freire wanted to retreat, and he ordered for it with no hesitation. "All force retreat!"
+It was too late!
+Han Xiao activated the EMP Disruptor he had buried. Some of the Germinal troops' armored vehicles were in the effective range of the disruptor, and they broke down immediately, crackling and sizzling with electricity. One third of the vehicles were fortunate enough to be outside of the effective range; Freire's was one of them.
+Freire could not be bothered with the rest of the troops. He knew that he needed to retreat.
+Don't even think about escaping after you have entered my sight.
+Han Xiao's glaze was as cold as the frozen ice as he activated a particular program. Having max leveled [Basic Programming], Han Xiao could bind most mechanical control systems to his computer.
+Three metallic plates were lying at a spot three hundred meters horizontally away from the Germinal troops. Suddenly, they all cracked open from the center and started a series of self-folding, forming a multi-barreled heavy machine gun, with the metal plate as the base of the battery. This was the foldable portable battery that Han Xiao had buried beforehand. They were equipped with automatic firing systems, and the ammunition loaded was all highly explosive and could pierce through armor. The firing range had a five-hundred-meter radius.
+The portable battery was one of Han Xiao's new blueprints. It was the product from a mixture of various technologya fixed battery combined with folding technology and many other designs. Han Xiao had spent a lot of effort and had failed countless times before arriving at the final model, which was very handy. He could have arrived at something similar by merging different ideas, but inventing the fort by himself saved him from using EXP.
+As Han Xiao learned more and more blueprints, it was becoming obvious that he was capable of grasping the functionality and usage of knowledge.
+Within the last two months, he already bought the last three types of basic knowledge that he had yet to acquire from the slightly friendlier camps. They were [Basic Energy Conversion], [Basic Thermodynamics], [Basic Acoustics]. To learn all fifteen types of basic knowledge was a feat even for some full-level players, not to mention players under level forty.
+The multi-barreled machine gun aimed at the Germinal troops, who were a few hundred meters away, automatically, warmed up for one second, and fired away. The fiery metallic storm blew all the trees in the way to bits, and the immobilized The Germinal troops' armored vehicles could not escape the same fate!
+There was nothing but screams of agony and firework-like explosions.
+The cost of a small foldable battery port was high, as was the ammunition. Wars fought by Mechanics were all expensive like this, but with sufficient funds, Mechanics were capable of having dominating firepower. Only a rich and resourceful guy like Han Xiao was able to fully utilize the abilities of a Mechanic to the fullest extent.
+The firepower from the battery turret gave the rest of the players a huge shock, but this shock quickly turned into a craze over Han Xiao.
+"So, this is how Mechanics fight!"
+"One guy soloing against the whole army!"
+"He is way too strong!"
+Han Xiao did not idle either, he began sniping the enemies one by one. He smiled upon seeing the excitement among the other players. He did not have to use the battery turret against the small Germinal troop, but he did so anyway for the sake of demonstrating the destructive power of Mechanics.
+However, looks could be deceiving. When the players went to research about the actual cost to play as a Mechanic, they would find the painful truth behind this vocation"Using Ona to create happiness, GTFO if you don't have money."
+Mechanics would be very weak in early games because most mechanics were poor.
+With the enemies mostly defeated, the rest of the players realized that it was the best time for them to deal extra damage, and they all began to rush forward to attack the army. Maple Moon also started firing. Her sniper scope was equipped with Electromagnetism Detector and aim assist, so almost every shot of hers could hit the Germinal soldiers. She gained momentum, and her damage output became steady.
+Although the realistic battle scenes were too gory for Maple Moon, she got used to it quickly as she had experience with gory scenes from other games. Moreover, she could change the game setting to make the graphics less bloody.
+Han Xiao shot through Freire's knees but spared his life. Then, he switched to Red Falcon and started clearing the remaining Germinal soldiers at a rate much more efficient than normal players. One shot, one kill.
+The sound of gunfire gradually ceased; the battle had come to an end. Many seemed like they wanted to watch more.
+The paralyzed Freire could not be bothered with his own agony but looked at the crowd of spectating players in shock. He had been watching the battle very carefully, and he noticed that many of the players, who were killed earlier on, came back.
+"Are they zombies or what?"
+Freire was confused.
+Han Xiao, clad in full black, appeared. The players started to quieten down despite their excitement.
+He stood in front of Freire, squatted down, and stared into the latter's eyes that were filled with shock and anger. "Where were you all heading toward?"
+"Black Phantom, Germinal will never let you off!" Freire was furious.
+"You got it wrong."
+Han Xiao expressionlessly dragged Freire into the forest by his collar. Shortly afterwards, bone-chilling screams could be heard.
+It was not difficult to imagine that Freire was being tortured, and everyone felt a shiver down their spine.
+After ten minutes, the screaming finally ended. Han Xiao reappeared but without Freire.
+He wiped his hands clean of blood using a rag. He glanced around and saw that all eyes were on him. Now that he had the information that he wanted, he was free to end the mission.
+All the players received a notification simultaneously.
+_____________________
+[Hunt Down Germinal] has been completed. The Prize-Pool has 520,000 EXP.
+Damage Output Ranking:
+- No. 1 Maple Moon (Solo)
+- No. 2 Jade Green Sky (Team)
+- No. 3 SliceYouUp (Team)
+- No. 4
+Reward pool will be allocated 30%, 25%, 20%, 15%, 10% of EXP accordingly.
+_____________________
+Everyone was shocked. No one expected this ranking.
+"She overtook Sky Territory and Kill-all."
+"Hitting the scoreboard with solo output. Incredible!"
+"Who is Maple Moon? Is she a professional player?"
+"I never heard of this ID before though."
+The crowd was going crazy.
+Last week, a couple of friends asked me how I manage to remain fairly objective with my observations of current events and I have been thinking about it ever since. While some of what makes me objective is simply part of my personality (I’m not very emotional and have always been on the rational side), some has been learned and I want to share those things.
+Before I begin, I want to be clear that I have not always been this objective and able to see both sides of an issue. It has taken work, practice, and humility. It has taken years, but I am so grateful for the journey. I still fail at this, but I’m quick to recognize that and get back to objectivity.
+As I have looked back at what shaped me most in this way, I found three main things: Deductive reasoning/critical thinking skills, the Golden Rule, and Grace.
+Deductive Reasoning and Critical Thinking Skills
+I can trace this back to the Gifted and Talented Education (G.A.T.E.) Program that I joined in third grade. We didn’t know what we were learning as we did cryptograms, logic puzzles, etc. but it’s evident now that we were being taught how to think. How to question. How to use facts to discover the truth. How to assess information and accurately determine the solution. This is now so ingrained in me that I don’t even realize I’m doing it. (Thank you, Mrs. Clapp! There are likely other teachers that taught us these things, too, but her wisdom and teaching sticks out most to me.)
+My twenty years of experience in politics has also helped with this as I learned early on to be skeptical of everything until investigation. You can’t trust everything you hear or read (but that doesn’t mean that no source is trustworthy – that is important to note. It simply means that spin and bias are real and it takes effort to determine facts). Conspiracy theories thrive because they sound like they could be true, and they often (but not always) contain a tiny bit of fact. However, it often requires a large amount of faith to fully accept their premise. They also are sometimes more comfortable than the truth, so people would rather accept these false theories (and be part of a “movement”) instead of accepting what is really happening.
+If it sounds suspicious (for example, doesn’t cite sources), I look into it. When I read a new piece of information, I immediately think through and explore the topic (using varied sources) to determine whether or not it is true. All of this leads me to take time to learn about everything I see to determine what is factual and what is not. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. But I don’t take “facts” – especially on social media – at face value, ever. I rely on experts, on credible (and proven) sources.
+Basically, I ask three things:
+- Who is saying this? What is their bias?
+- Why are they saying this? What are they trying to get me to think/believe? What are they hiding?
+- Is it factual? What do other sources say?
+I study and know the facts (especially regarding the Constitution these days) and don’t let passionate speeches sway me from what is truth. Just because someone you trust says something doesn’t mean you can trust everything they say. This especially applies to statistics and numbers which are often used to sway people. This goes without saying, but not all of the memes you see are true. Look up the statistics from reliable sources (not some random guy on YouTube) before you form an opinion, and especially before you share something.
+We see biblical precedent. If they questioned what Paul himself said, so we should also have a healthy skepticism of what we read (but not in a conspiracy theory way).
+The same things need to happen with anything said about our Constitution. Example: claims that the Biden administration is going to amend major sections of the Constitution; learn what it actually takes to do this and you will quickly realize this claim is false/impossible (2/3 of both chambers of Congress, AND 2/3 of all states).
+@SharonSaysSo on Instagram often says that facts don’t require your approval, and I love that. Facts are facts. It doesn’t matter if they fit your narrative or not.
+This election is a perfect example of my objectivity because I didn’t support either candidate. That allowed me to be in the middle, looking critically at both sides. It allowed me to filter what I heard and read and not just believe everything I heard. I don’t just listen to sources that will tell me what I want to hear – that’s probably the most important part of all of this. Confirmation bias is dangerous.
+I’m also a student of American History (and Political Science) so I view everything in context. Context is key. I also understand that dramatic and outlandish claims are usually untrue. I am able to look back at what has happened throughout our history (there’s nothing new under the sun) and see that what people are claiming is simply not going to happen (i.e. socialism in the U.S. – that claim has been made by Republicans since the late 1800s and has never, and will never, come to fruition).
+My ability to be objective is also why/how I approach any new administration with hope and optimism: we cannot/should not judge things before they happen. It’s our country, too, and we should assume that things can and will go well rather than assuming the worst. Why go on a rabbit trail of what if or what could be? Wait to see what actually happens. At the same time, why not take some time to actually learn their platform from THEM instead of from their opponent who will spin everything to sound negative?
+I also love the concept of Occam’s Razor – the simplest explanation is most often the truth.
+Being objective and willing to accept facts isn’t the popular way to be, but I can assure you that it’s the least stressful and the best way to approach life.
+Treating others like I want to be treated (The Golden Rule)
+I thought through what matters most to me in discussions and in life and these are the ways I approach discussions/events/politics before I form an opinion:
+- I want to be understood so I listen to understand. Understanding doesn’t mean agreement. It means respecting the other viewpoint and stepping into their shoes. Perspectives are valid whether you agree with their conclusions or not. You cannot deny someone’s life experiences that have shaped their beliefs. Why not listen? What does it cost you?
+- I want my ideas to be considered and respected so I consider and respect the other side. And sometimes I find that they are right. Sometimes I am the one who needs to adjust my thinking. And that’s okay!
+- I want others to be humble and willing to admit that maybe I’m right – and therefore I approach new information with the possibility that I am wrong because knowing what is true is most important to me, not being right. I’d rather admit that I was wrong than continue believing something that is wrong. I know I’m in the minority with this, but can you imagine how awesome it would be if we all approached things like this?
+- I want others to assume good in me so I assume good in others. I try to not assume things, in general. I do not like when assumptions are made about me or what I believe, so I try to not make assumptions about other people.
+- I want my friends and family to accept and respect me as I am, so I accept and respect them for who they are. This doesn’t mean that I agree with them on everything, but I try my best to put differences aside because I love them.
+These (and more) are why I’m able to calmly discuss most topics with friends on the other side (most of the time). I listen to learn, not to argue.
+Grace. Grace. Grace.
+I am so keenly aware of my own failures and my imperfections (Enneagram 1, here). It’s something with which I struggle daily. My “inner critic” is on overdrive, questioning and criticizing everything I do. I am very aware that I am NOT perfect. In fact, most days I struggle to find ways I was successful.
+Perfectionism is my curse in life and while it can certainly be a negative thing, it also fuels my need to know what is true and make sure that I’m correct about things. Because I am so aware of my own flaws, I am more likely to assume the best of others’ words, actions, and intentions until proven otherwise because I know how often I make mistakes or am misunderstood. This goes for tone, especially. I read text as if they are smiling and being kind. I try to never assume that they are out to get me, that their intentions are to harm me, etc. and I hope others will do the same for me. I overuse emoji to ensure that my mood is properly detected in texts/online. I offer grace whenever possible because I make mistakes, not because I’m perfect.
+I am more prone to offer grace because I’m desperately aware of how much I need it myself.
+No one is perfect, so why do we expect perfection? Why is our tendency to tear people apart when they make a mistake or believe differently? If we showed the grace we ourselves receive from Jesus, what a beautiful place this would be.
+I’ve come to realize that, as humans, we all want the same outcomes. We simply have different approaches.
+The bottom line is this: we must be aware of our own bias, our own tendencies, and our own arrogance when we interact with those who think differently. What does it hurt to consider both sides and then decide what is right or true? What does it hurt to offer grace, understanding, and humility? Can you imagine what our country would look like if we took the time to do these things?
+Let’s start today. Let’s work toward objectivity, grace, and kindness. After all, we’re all in this together.
+2 thoughts on “Taking Steps Toward Objectivity”
+Lot of “I’s” in that post…
+Highlight it and read it back to yourself.
+With that said, I find it sad that you decided to TAKE ANY STAND on this presidency… you did not need to under your “even so joy” or using Tori’s life or the people following her or you in any manner to talk politics about this presidency.
+Being that you did, I now find it equally interesting that you would not take an out right pro life stance in this election.
+It intrigues me, but not so much that I will give it any more thought than that.
+So glad to see you had legislation passed for newborn screening….
+God bless your family!
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+Hi there –
+With all due respect and kindness, this post was about my personal journey toward objectivity so the use of the word I is completely justified.
+The only reason I spoke up was because I am weary of the misinformation, the conspiracy theories, the false claims (especially when it comes to executive power and the Constitution). I’m tired of all Democrats being falsely labeled as evil socialists. I’ve watched many friends and family members fall prey to these falsehoods and I felt convicted to finally speak up, no matter the consequences.
+While I am pro-life, I realized that in this election it truly wasn’t the biggest issue at hand. The Supreme Court has had many opportunities to overturn Roe v. Wade and never chose to do so. I also believe that there are more effective ways to reduce or eliminate abortion than to merely ban it. This video explains it far better than I can here:
+I didn’t support either Trump or Biden. I made that clear.
+I’d rather speak the truth than continue to see people deceived, especially when these lies are harming our witness as Christians, and when they are leading to what happened on the 6th.
+Thank you for taking the time to comment!
+Friday, April 18, 2008
+For the Love of Money? -- Invitation to Write #45
+People apparently will do anything for money. NBC’s Fear Factor seemed to prove that point weekly, as contestants would willing eat Bull penises and hissing cockroaches and maggot milkshakes. Could a chance to win $50,000 really be worth that?
+Next, FOX gave us The Moment of Truth. In this “game show,” contests are hooked up to a lie detector to answer thirty of the most intimate questions about their personal lives. Then, before a studio audience, family and friends, and millions of TV viewers, they answer a selection of these same questions again. If their answers correctly match the lie detector results, they have a chance to win up to one million dollars, but this show has proven that as honest as people presumably want to be, they still cannot be completely honest with themselves. No one has won the big prize.
+But is money the real motivation for the people that go on these kinds of shows? I don’t think so. These people have something to prove, and while they think winning the money might be nice, there must be something else driving them. In fact, MTV's I Bet You Will asks people to do stupid, crazy, and potentially humiliating things for just a few bucks. Guess what? There are always plenty of willing participants.
+What motivates you?
+“Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance.” – Lily Fairchilde
+Side Effects -- Invitation to Write #44
+Side effects may include nausea, running around like a chicken with its head cut off, and spontaneous combustion…
+Watch the evening news, and it’s difficult to avoid seeing a few commercials sponsored by the major drug companies promoting their latest miracle potions. You’ll see images of people living lives to the fullest, as the underlying musical score keeps the beat to optimism and hope.
+Somewhere near the end of the commercial, an actor in the disguise of a doctor will come on screen and thoughtfully tell another actor in the disguise of a patient of potential side effects. We’re told that the most severe are also the most rare, but how often do we learn five or ten years down the road that maybe they weren’t that rare, or that other unforeseen complications resulted from years of daily use?
+As just one example, millions of patients took the arthritis drug Vioxx, completely oblivious to the fact that it substantially increased the likelihood of heart attack. When the drug was finally pulled off the market, at least 28,000 people died due to Vioxx-induced heart attacks.
+Is there anything that you do that has potentially serious side effects?
+“There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.” – Timothy Leary
+Thursday, April 17, 2008
+Living under the Influence -- Invitation to Write #43
+For Writers:
+Driving under the Influence (DUI) is against the law, and rightly so. But something equally as dangerous is what I like to call Living under the Influence (LUI). The United States is a free country, as people like to say, so that means we have the freedom to live as we choose.
+Live as we choose. Do we really?
+Children live under the influence of parents, other adults, and peers. People in general live under the influence of various religions and philosophies, advertisements, the media, the government, and on and on. True, some people, such as the Amish, opt out of mainstream influences, but no one escapes. The Amish still live under the influence of their group. And while we can argue that some influences are "positive," the fact still remains: everyone lives under the influence.
+What would an individual be like without the influence of others?
+What is an individual? Is it an imaginary concept, or can a person living under the constant, multiple influences of others ever truly be considered an individual?
+"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
+Daydreaming White Jeans Blue -- Invitation to Write #42
+For Writers:
+Levi’s produced jeans in a variety of colors and styles, and I must have owned them all – white, gray, black, pinstriped, stonewashed, and button-flied. I was one of the few guys daring enough to wear white jeans to junior high, but I thought I was the king of style with my white jeans, red Izod polo shirt, and multi-colored Air Jordan high tops.
+As I sat in class one day, Mrs. Swatzbaugh was writing on the board, and I was doing my best to follow along. Somewhere along the way, though, I started to think about the pizza and chocolate cake I was going to have for lunch right after class. My pen stopped taking notes, and I used it to scratch an itch on my leg. It felt so good, I kept rubbing…
+Five minutes later, I looked down and noticed that I had scribbled back and forth all over my white jeans. This is one of the few times that my jaw literally dropped. How the hell had that happened? I had to laugh out loud. Kevin sat to my left, and he asked me what was so funny. I showed him my leg, and he burst out in hysterics. He thought I’d done it on purpose as a gag, and soon the whole class was totally into looking at my artwork. Structured learning was over for the rest of the period.
+The only thing funnier than this was what happened next. Mrs. Swatzbaugh made me go to the bathroom to take off my pants. I had told her that I was wearing shorts underneath, but what I hadn’t mentioned was that they were the shortest grey nylon running shorts you’ve ever seen. Nobody seemed to notice that, though. After all, it was the 80s.
+When did you last zone out? How long were you gone, what did you do while you were there, and what snapped you back to reality?
+"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering." - Steven Wright
+The Value of Winning -- Invitation to Write #41
+Thirty guys move as one to the wall where the Tournament Director has posted a pairing sheet. It's the opening round of your average local chess tournament, and everyone is anxious to find out who their opponent will be, and what color they've been assigned, and what their rating is.
+Chess has a rating system, and the better you are, the higher your rating. In simple terms, beating a player of equal strength adds 16 points to your rating; and the most points you can win from defeating a player with a much higher rating is 32. Rating classifications change every 200 points. Someone rated 1200 is considered a novice; 1600 is considered an average player; 2000 is considered an expert; and 2400 is considered a Grandmaster. A person with an 800 point advantage has a better than 99% statistical chance of winning the match.
+For tournament chess players, there’s absolutely no joy in playing someone that has a vastly inferior rating. You’re expected to win, so the joy of winning is limited; moreover, losing has severe consequences to your rating. Playing someone with a stronger rating is much more fun for two reasons: First, when you win, you feel the high of beating someone “better” than you; second, your rating has the potential of increasing by as many as 32 points.
+Even in non-tournament play when nothing is on the line, I’d rather play someone who is my equal or slightly better. It’s difficult to learn as much playing someone with less skill. And in the end, it’s really true that you’re only as good as your opponent. When you play someone inferior, the quality of your own play tends to go down.
+Think of a competitive sport or activity that you are involved in. Would you rather compete against someone that is below, at, or above your level? Why?
+“Why must I lose to this idiot?” -- Aron Nimzovich
+Barack vs. Clinton -- Debate #20
+Clinton was happy to play the game, and for whatever reason, moderator Charlie Gibson must have thought it was a lot more sexy to keep playing gotcha with the candidates than to ask them any real questions.
+By Hour 2 of the debate, they finally started to address some of the real issues, but by then, Barack had been forced into the defensive for too long so that it didn't really matter what was said. He had been forced to explain himself too often, and he used the word "angry" too often. Barack's real problem seems to be that he thinks people are listening to what he says, that they respect him for being honest. Unfortunately, maybe his hope in the American people is too strong?
+Who won this debate? No one really. Who lost? Everyone. The last AOL poll I saw suggests that Barack's overall favorable ratings continue to drop, which is pretty sad as he's one of the most honest and honorable men in politics.
+But then again, even Jesus was crucified. Maybe people can't handle honest and honorable men in politics.
+Embarrassing Stiffies -- Invitation to Write #40
+Our high school P.E. uniforms incorporated the school colors -- but they were the ugliest green shirts and gold shorts you’ve ever seen. For the freshmen and sophomores, the P.E. instructors were real drill instructors. The semester that I had the football coach as my instructor, I must have lost twenty pounds. He really enjoyed working us into the ground.
+Most days we’d start with warm up exercises. Everyone would get into lines of five, and we’d start off with jumping jacks, “burpees,” and push-ups, etc. On one occasion, Jason was in the front line, and as we were doing sit-ups, Greg pointed to Jason: “Hey Bret, check it out.” Jason had pitched a tent in his shorts, and soon the whole class was pointing and laughing.
+Coach had no sympathy for Jason’s plight, and he made everyone continue their reps. To his credit, Jason didn’t seem to be too embarrassed, but have you ever tried doing sit-ups with a stiffie? I haven’t, but I can’t imagine it could be all that comfortable -- especially with 50 pairs of eyes directed your way.
+Describe your most embarrassing moment. How did you get through it?
+“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." - Any Warhol
+Tuesday, April 15, 2008
+Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington
+Do you like philosophy or politics? If so, check out Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington. With a title like that, how can you go wrong?
+This is the follow-up, of course, to Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. I highly recommend both. If you're gonna read something, you might as well enjoy it!
+Monday, April 14, 2008
+Stress: A Father's Afterbirth -- Invitation to Write #39
+Between you and me, the last time I cried was when my daughter was born. I'd like to say they were tears of joy, but to be honest, they were tears of stress.
+The whole time we were waiting for delivery, I was fine; even after the doctors removed Octavia from my wife's belly, I was fine. Cutting the cord? I was fine. It was the next day that the whole reality of fatherhood started to crash down on me, and crash down hard.
+Although we had a private room, it was quite tiny once you added in-laws and my parents, Tavi and my wife, and all the doctors and nurses that kept running in and out at all hours of the day and night. I'm sure the sense of claustrophobia was much more acute for my wife, but for me, it was bad enough. On two specific occasions, I recall wanting to run to my get-away car and start driving toward the mountains.
+Of course I never did that, and a few days later we were able to take mother and baby home. Everything was just fine by then, but boy, if you want to experience stress, have yourself a baby!
+Recall a time in your life when your level of stress reached the saturation point. How did you handle the situation, and if faced with it again, what could you do to prepare better for the challenge?
+"To be a successful father . . . there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway
+A Culture of Cheaters -- Invitation to Write #38
+We live in a cheating culture; cheating might not be openingly accepted, but it seems pretty clear that cheating infects all areas of society. In baseball, it's steriods; in college, it's plagiarism; and in business, it's fixing the books. Simply put, doing your best isn't enough. The stakes are too high, and the competition is now global.
+Moreover, people seem to have the mindset that they will never get caught, and even if they do get caught, the punishment will be minor.
+Some have gone as far as to call the problem an "epidemic." And even the very definition of what it means to cheat is changing. According to one researcher, 47% of high school students believe it is okay to find out information about a test from others that have already taken it; even more shocking is the fact that 75% admitted to cheating on assignments and over 50% admitted to plagiarizing papers.
+Describe a time when you cheated -- on a test, on a spouse, whatever. Why did you decide to cheat, and what were the costs (or payoffs)? Or, if you are one of the few non-cheaters out there, what would you do if you witnessed someone cheating? Under what circumstances would you report what you saw?
+"Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat." -- Jesse Ventura
+Sunday, April 13, 2008
+Get a Job -- Invitation to Write #37
+Why wouldn’t you want to hire me? I think that’s the attitude of a lot of applicants, and I can’t blame them. Most applicants probably don’t understand who their competition is, as most have never been on a hiring committee.
+Fresh out of college, I know I had the attitude: why do I need to sell myself? I can let my résumé speak for itself. Now I know, of course, that a résumé just gets your foot in the door. It’s at the interview that the real work begins.
+One of my first real interviews was at my undergraduate college. I had applied to be an Admissions Recruiter, and my job would be to go to area high schools to promote the college to High School Juniors and Seniors. What shocked me was that the interview process itself would last all morning. First I had breakfast with my would-be supervisor, then I met the other recruiters; next I met with the Dean of the College. All of that went fine, but then they directed me to a room that already had eight other people in it. This was the hiring committee, and I froze. I had no idea that eight people would be interviewing me. There were only chairs in the room – no desk for me to hide behind – and I didn’t have anything to wet my Sahara-like throat.
+One after the other lobbed questions at me like hand grenades, and I “um’ed” my way through my responses. Needless to say, my silk shirt was completely soaked by the end of the interrogation, and I wasn’t terribly shocked to find out the following week that I wouldn’t be making the rounds to area schools on the college's behalf.
+What's the worst job interview experience you’ve ever had? What did you learn from that experience that helped you with the next interview?
+“All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.” – Steve Martin
+Throw Me a Freakin' Bone Here -- Invitation to Write #36
+Professional Wrestler Mick Foley broke at least 13. Daredevil Evel Knievel broke 35, and not all of them in motorcycle crashes. And me, not a one. It’s more difficult to break a bone while sitting in front of a computer screen writing most of the day away. The worst thing that will ever happen to me is carpal tunnel.
+Then again, maybe I have broken a bone unknowingly. Is that even possible? According to one website I visited, the average person breaks six tiny foot bones over a lifetime. But if you never knew a bone was broken, does that really count?
+I want to get to the real marrow of the question: what exactly does it feel like to break a bone that counts? Does a broken bone smell differently?
+Perhaps I should break a bone in the name of science. Not mine, of course, but I’m now accepting applications, if anyone’s interested. For science, of course.
+And here’s a puzzle for you to solve: An infant has 300 bones, but an adult only has 206? What happens to those 94 bones?
+Have you ever broken a bone? What does it feel like? Describe the type of fracture, the pain, and the story behind the break. Did the event make you more cautious in the future?
+“A jest breaks no bones.” – Samuel Johnson
+The Big Tuna -- Invitation to Write #35
+Until I was 10 or so, we’d travel out to Idaho every summer to visit my mom’s parents and siblings. Grandma and Grandpa Olsen always treated me like an individual, which really surprised me -- not only because I was just a kid, but also because all of mom’s siblings lived in the area and had big familes of their own, while we only came out once a year from Illinois.
+Grandma’s kitchen had a big walk-in pantry, and I was allowed to go in to find whatever I wanted to eat. One time I decided to eat a can of tuna, and from that moment forward, I became the grandchild that ate tuna straight from the can. No mayo, no bread, nothing. Just a whole can of tuna.
+For what ever reason, this really impressed my grandparents, and the following summer when we returned, they surprised me by buying an entire case of tuna just for me.
+Growing up, what kind of relationship did you have with your grandparents? Was it the kind that you would have wished for? If so, why? And if not, what was lacking, or what do you wish would have been different?
+“Have children while you parents are still young enough to take care of them.” – Rita Rudner
+Home Improvement -- Invitation to Write #34
+The walls are white, the trim is natural wood, and the countertops in the kitchen are a purple laminate; but when you buy a house, you’re told to look beyond all that kind of stuff. Look at the potential, you’re told.
+So that’s what we did as we signed our name, repeatedly, on the buyer’s contract, but once it’s yours, a funny thing happens: you can no longer look beyond what was fine to look beyond when it wasn’t yours.
+The house we bought suits us fine in so many ways, but the more we thought about this and that, the more we wanted to change, well, everything. Natural wood trim is passé now; did you know that? I honestly didn’t, but watch any Home Improvement show on cable. You’ll find that all new homes have white trim.
+It goes without saying that all kitchens must have stainless steel appliances and granite countertops. If your kitchen doesn’t have that, and ours didn’t when we bought it, don’t ever invite anyone over, unless you want to see ridicule and pity fired directly at you when they first catch sight of your sub-par kitchen. I understand the granite and stainless in such kitchens makes the food prepared there taste 100% better.
+And white walls? Only people in apartments have those.
+What makes a house a home, is the people that live there, of course. But why does a house begin to feel dated every decade or so? Is updating a house a sign of owner vanity?
+“An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.” – Samuel Butler
+80s Hair in 2008
+Some realize they're getting older, which is why Kip Winger now sings the chorus of "Seventeen" as "She's only 35." -- Just something a little bit creepy about a 40 year old man singing about a 17 year old girl, I guess.
+Jani Lane Back with Warrant; Saints of the Underground out 4/22
+Jani Lane is once again the lead singer with Warrant, and they're going out on a big tour with Cinderella this summer. No, this isn't 1988. It's 2008, and the 80s simply never die.
+Warrant's last album Born Again (2006) was with Jammie St. James as lead singer, and it's a solid album, very much in the Southern rock tradition. But as others had said, Warrant isn't really Warrant without Jani Lane.
+Jani's first solo album Back Down to One (2006) is quite good, too, except it sounds like it was recorded in someone's basement. In other words, the production values are nil. One example, in "Better than You," you can clearly hear a phone ringing in the background, and I don't think it is part of the song. I've listened to that song 100 times to figure out if the phone ringing is intentional. And 100 times I've decided, nope, that's just a song recorded in someone's basement...
+Competition
+Greek competition
+22:00 - 23:30
+Total Duration: 01:21:51
+- Anxie07:14Greece 2017
+- Photons Momentum09:30Greece 2017
+- Forest Red10:11Greece 2016
+- Total Reconstruction/ Ολική Αναστήλωση 02:03Greece 2017
+- From Heart to Heart/ Από Καρδιά σε Καρδιά 01:28Greece 2017
+- My name is Nobody/ Το όνομα μου είναι Καμία 06:23Greece 2016
+- Searching for my land03:35Greece 2017
+- Mythological and Contemporary Monsters/ Μυθολογικά και Σύγχρονα Τέρατα 13:31Greece 2016
+- I will love you/ Θα σ'αγαπώ 02:41Greece 2017
+- Mythland/ Μυθοτοπία 12:28Greece 2016
+- Death Of The Blackbird06:26Greece 2017
+- The remarkable moments of the Greek Olympic Medalists00:58Greece 2017
+- Deserted Eyes03:21Greece 2018
+- The Mirror02:00Greece 2017
+- Do Not Disturb00:00:43Greece 2016
+- Return to Sender00:02:09Greece 2016 Anxie to the limit. Will she manage to change her everyday life and get rid of her routine? Will she get rid of the burden of a daily life that does not fulfill her and look for something to make her regain her smile?
+Directed by: Team Project
+Screenplay: Team Project
+Animation: Team Project
+Technique: Animation
+Music: Team Project
+Production/School: Theatre Applications & Science Education Lab, DECE, NKUA
+Dialogue language: Greek
+Subtitles language: NO
+Photons Momentum is a team project, created by 12 undergraduate students and 2 postgraduate students of the Department of Early Childhood Education of the National & Kapodestrian University of Athens during the Theatre Applications & Science Education Lab. The short film consists of 6 shorter animated films presenting imaginary fragments from a photons "life"..
+Directed by: Βασίλης Παπαγεωργίου.
+Directed by: Florentia Ikonomidou
+Animation: Florentia Ikonomidou
+Music: Dahlgren Ekonomides
+Production/School: Florentia Ikonomidou
+The artwork is an animated print and it was part of an installation which included 25 large size prints. These prints are the basic frames of the animation. “My name is Nobody” presents a personal Odyssey, which deals with the archetypical views of the female identity.
+Directed by: Maria-Loukia Mitrakou
+Animation: Maria-Loukia Mitrakou
+Technique: 2d animation,hand made sketches with pencil
+A little strange creature is looking everywhere for his land and where he belongs is he going to find it?
+Directed by: animationDpsd15
+Screenplay: animationDpsd15
+Animation: animationDpsd15
+Technique: mixed techniques,( Linoleum prints-digital drawing-editing)
+Music: Dahlgren Ekonomides, Sound studio assistant: Tim Ward
+Production/School: Studio II, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, Syros, University of the Aegean
+"Mythological and Contemporary Monsters"13' 31'', is a modular video animation created at studio II, by 58 students of the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering of the University of the Aegean. Animation depicts a colorful world where mythological creatures of the past wander around like a kind of angels, embarrassed, in love, protective, vengeful, and always black and white. Sphinxes, Pegasi, Phoenixes fly over bombed cities, burned landscapes, Medusas cry and seas run from their eyes that see or cause disasters. Well known icons of online news about the crisis in the familiar Mediterranean region combine to redefine the relationship of the past with the present. Τα «Μυθολογικά και Σύγχρονα Τέρατα» είναι ένα σπονδυλωτό animation δημιουργημένο από 58 φοιτητές/τριες. Περιγράφει έναν έγχρωμο κόσμο όπου τα μυθολογικά πλάσματα του παρελθόντος περιφέρονται σαν ένα είδος αγγέλων, αμήχανα, ερωτευμένα, προστατευτικά, εκδικητικά, και πάντα μαυρόασπρα. Σφίγγες, Πήγασοι, Φοίνικες πετούν πάνω από βομβαρδισμένες πόλεις, καμένα τοπία, Μέδουσες κλαίνε και θάλασσες τρέχουν από τα μάτια τους που βλέπουν ή προκαλούν καταστροφές. Γνωστές εικόνες από διαδικτυακές ειδήσεις για την κρίση στην οικεία περιοχή της Μεσογείου συνδυάζονται για να επανακαθορίσουν τη σχέση του παρελθόντος με το παρόν.".
+Directed by: Antonis Smirniotis "Smado"
+Animation: Antonis Smirniotis "Smado"
+Technique: Rotoscope
+Music: Always Hopeful by Silent Partner
+Dialogue language: Greek
+Subtitles language: English
+Greece returned home from Rio de Janeiro with six medals (three gold, one silver, and two bronze). Anna Korakaki accomplished a historic feat as the first Greek athlete to earn multiple medals at a single edition since 1912, with a gold and a bronze in women's pistol shooting. Two other golds were respectively awarded to gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias in the men's rings, and pole vaulter Ekaterini Stefanidi, the first for Greece in the track and field after 12 years. Gianniotis enjoyed the final race of his swimming career with a runner-up finish in the open water marathon, while Panagiotis Mantis and Pavlos Kagialis handed the Greeks its eighth Olympic medal in sailing, obtaining the bronze in the men's 470 class.
+Directed by: Olivia Hadjiioannou
+Screenplay: Olivia Hadjiioannou
+Animation: Tima Vlasto
+Technique: 2D/3D Animation, Hand-drawn Animation, Motion Graphics
+Music: Olivia Hadjiioannou (Oh.)
+Dialogue language: English
+Deserted Eyes is a song, animated music video and WebGL project by the Greek multi-instrumentalist Oh. (Olivia Hadjiioannou). DESERTED EYES – A ethereal and epic journey into the depths of the heart. Dynamic and rhapsodic vocals summon forth the soul. Penetrate deeply into the inner darkness. The narrator of the epic verse is a melodious and warm piano which is enveloped by softly beating drums which reluctantly release into turbulent and thunderous revelations while. ABOUT DESERTED EYES is a music journey by progressive art rock multi-instrumentalist Oh. Production Note "Deserted Eyes" was filmed at the seashore in Glyfada a southern suburb of Athens, Greece in the late summer of 2017. During the filming, a tragic oil spill occurred precipitated by the negligence of the Greek government – an ecological disaster in the waters of the Saronikos. On the last day of filming the beach was covered in oil, dead birds covered in tar and the stench of petrol in the air. The song "Deserted Eyes" is about how a person’s dark, depressed and toxic states of mind can poison our interpersonal relationships and eventually dim the light of the soul in the other’s eyes, stealing their aspirations, hopes and finally the connection to their own soul and sense of self. The oil spill starkly depicted — with the blackening of the earth, toxic fumes, depressed state all present experienced, the death of wildlife — the irreparable damage to the interpersonal relationships shared everyday by all the beach-goers and coastal community. During post-production, we could not ignore the correlation that tragic event had to the song and so incorporated the visuals into the final clips. The music video was created with traditional hand-drawn, 2D, 3D and motion graphics. The project was initially used in an experimental online 3D WebGL experience which embedded YouTube video, music players and animated elements to create a 3D animated web experience using three.js. The WebGL world can be viewed!
+An old man living in a retirement home, finds out that the letters he had sent to his son are kept in the attic of the retirement home.
+Sadly Red Beard must be noted as the final collaboration between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune ending the greatest actor/director relationship of all time. It sounds as though their relationship had become strained over time to begin with and unfortunately the production of Red Beard did nothing to alleviate this. Apparently Mifune having to keep the titular beard throughout production caused him financial difficult since he was unable to take any other film work. In addition to this one of the screenwriters, Hideo Oguni, apparently criticized Mifune's performance in the film leading Kurosawa to doubt Mifune's abilities for the first time. So ended their collaborative effort which was unfortunate for both men. Mifune although certainly was still a successful actor none of his later films are as remembered as his work with Kurosawa. Kurosawa perhaps suffered even worse since he no longer had the guaranteed star power of Mifune, and was unable to find funding for his ambitious projects leading Kurosawa's output to diminish substantially. This perhaps unfortunately contributed to Kurosawa's suicide attempt in 1971.
+It was a true loss to cinema that the two could never professionally reconcile, they did not even personally until late in both of their lives. One could imagine one project in particular which probably would have been Kurosawa's version of Runaway Train. Imagine that film made by Kurosawa instead especially since the leading character from that film seemed to be tailored made for Mifune. Some have claimed that this is not the case for the part of Red Beard and they see Kurosawa's other frequent collaborator Takashi Shimura as a better fit for the role. Shimura is very briefly in the film, but his days of having a substantial role in Kurosawa films dried up for some reason. I'm sure Shimura would have been good in the role, although there is one scene where he would have been considerably less believable, but likely would have been similar to his performances in Stray Dog and Seven Samurai. Mifune playing the mentor for once offers an interesting challenge for the actor, and makes Red Beard perhaps a more unusual character than he may have been otherwise.
+Mifune presents a different character than you might expect from merely knowing the synopsis as the older doctor teaches the younger doctor. As you see in the first scene where Yasumoto goes to see Red Beard Mifune does not play him as the warm lovable type of mentor. Mifune naturally commands the scene, as he does every scene in which he appears in the film, and takes an effective approach as Red Beard greets the young man. Mifune actually takes a fairly cold approach in his portrayal of Red Beard's manner as he directs the man to his duty. Mifune's fairly quiet here as well, but the intensity in his performance is still very palatable. Mifune presents Red Beard as a man of his task in this scene and his brush aside of Yasumoto is basically to put him in his place in an instance. Mifune's approach to give Red Beard a sharp edge from the beginning works quite well in realizing the philosophy of his character. Mifune shows that Red Beard only forces his hand when it is an absolute necessity to do right, but when someone else can improve themselves by doing the right thing Red Beard wants them to find that out themselves.
+Mifune therefore leaves Red Beard as a much more introverted mentor than you may have expected from this sort of character. Mifune though is excellent in the way he makes the character this iron willed moral conscience in his own unique way. Mifune very much stays away from sentiment for the majority of his performance instead he presents Red Beard as a man who gives his lessons sometimes through harsh truths. This is perhaps first evident in a relatively early scene after Yasumoto has had a close call with a mentally disturbed patient simply because he was interested in the woman as a sort of freak show. There is something Mifune is able to do that is pivotal for the character of Red Beard. That is being both so incisive in his blunt morality yet never for a moment seeming like he is trying to hammer it into the characters. Mifune makes often the silence more powerful than what is said by Red Beard simply through the way he carries the character. One scene where Yasumoto keeps explaining away why he went to brothel once, despite not being asked by Red Beard, is made absolutely convincing because of Mifune's performance.
+Mifune's style works incredibly well for the character, and there is something special to be found in almost every second he is onscreen here. I especially love one scene where Red Beard is given a confession by a woman who is guilt stricken over having attempted stabbing her family member. Mifune has this way of personifying compassion in his portrayal of Red Beard's reaction as he hears the story. Mifune's warmth that does come from his performance is not in an at all of an upfront and straightforward fashion. It's fascinating though how Mifune still exudes it in quite a powerful way without every seeming to show exactly. Mifune almost makes it as though Red Beard is compassion so in a way he is love without needing to say it. There is such a subtle poignancy that Mifune brings through the part that actually does a great service to the film. Mifune's approach, while keeping the film quite moving to be sure, is able to prevent it from keeping it schmaltzy because of the way he so strongly earns the emotions in his own work as Red Beard.
+Now just to note the scene where Mifune definitely would have more believable than Shimura in. The scene is when Red Beard retrieves a sick girl from the abusive madame of a brothel. Red Beard to do so has to take down a group of thugs in bad ass Mifune style. Well actually, although his physicality is much needed, Mifune does not play the scene as the samurai from Yojimbo taking over for a moment for Red Beard. Mifune even adjusts his performance somewhat playing the scene still as a surgeon as he has no pleasure or hate as he basically puts down each man as simply as he which is completely fitting to the character of Red Beard. This is yet another great performance by Toshiro Mifune, and what I love the most about his work is the unorthodox approach he takes with the character. This is his perhaps the most understated of all the performances, as even High and Low and The Quiet Duel had their well earned breakdowns. Mifune's portrayal of Red Beard is essential to the success of the film as he realizes the philosophy and technique of his character so beautifully. Although it is still unfortunate that this had to be the last time Mifune gave a performance in a film directed Akira Kurosawa, but at least they ended on a high note together.
+43 comments:
+10 5s for Mifune. Holy shit
+Best Supporting Year ever, by the look of it.
+Steiger should win, since your penultimate reviews for lineups tend to be the winner.
+Louis: Rating & Thoughts for Yamazaki.
+Louis: And your ratings & thoughts on James Stewart in Shenandoah and Laurence Olivier in Bunny Lake is Missing.
+What are your Top 5s for Best Actress Leading and Supporting for 1965? Ratings and thoughts included if you don't mind.
+Louis what are the remaining Kurosawa films you need to see and are you interested in the others that are left?
+Jackiboyz: I know that he's seen Sanjuro already and I'm sure he's very much looking forward to seeing Ran.
+Louis, how would you rank Mifune's 10 five-star performances?
+Louis, what's your rating and thoughts for Bruce Davison in X-Men?
+Louis: For you, would you consider 10 five star performances from one actor, a holy grail.
+Dodes'ka-den and Dersu Uzala would be very bold films to see Louis, during Akiras depression filled days, I mean was Dodes really that bad, it might be worth a look.
+I just saw Wild today and absolutely hated it.
+Dodes'ka-den was just really unfocused but it was still interesting. Dreams is a wonderful film but I can't think of any performances specifically worth mentioning...The notable Kurosawa performances I can think of that Louis hasn't seen are:
+Tatsuya Nakadai in Ran (outstanding and often poignant portrayal of sheer madness)
+Toshiro Mifune in The Lower Depths (his lesser work from 1957 but it's still a solid turn as one of his most unlikable characters)
+Tatsuo Matsumura in Madadayo (does quite well in portraying the warmth and charm of the old man, which makes his inevitable physical decline quite moving)
+Isao Numasaki in One Wonderful Sunday (I'm kicking myself for forgetting to suggest him for 1946, anyway this is an incredibly charming and heartfelt performance that reminds me of Jimmy Stewart's style of acting. I should also add that this is easily my favorite film Kurosawa made before he started collaborating with Mifune.)
+Susumu Fujita in No regrets for Our Youth (Definitely Fujita's best performance, he does well to portray a cold conviction in his beliefs that kind of reminds me of Tom Courtenay's work in Doctor Zhivago)
+Susumu Fujita in Sanshiro Sugata Part II (This is a more effective film than part one mostly because of Fujita's much more reserved and assured performance. He creates the experienced Sugata as a humble, quietly proud figure who one can more easily root for.)
+KoooK160: Your thoughts on Wild & Witherspoon's performance with the rating as well.
+@Luke: Well, the next one to dismiss Boyhood as nothing but faux-philosophical nonsense will have me shoving a projector reel of this movie down their throat. Holy shit, what garbage. Jean-Marc Vallee's direction here seems inconsistent and dramatically inert. Worse is the editing choices that make the flashbacks seem out of place and distracting instead of the money scene that they were supposed to be. Nick Hornby's script was basically fortune cookie wisdom at its worst. The acting was okay, but no one was really that impressive.
+Witherspoon - 3: She has one or two good moments, but she's undercut by her annoyingly self-pitying character and her usual mopey acting.
+Well, I'm surely going to cross Wild out of my To Watch list, I've no intention of seeing Cake either.
+Boyhood, as an experiment was good, but as a film it just didn't work as well as it should've done for me, so I wouldn't call it philosophical nonsense, at the end of the day, it is, what it is.
+Well I guess this ensures I'll be rooting for Pike, Moore and Jones for the Oscar.
+Luke: Yamazaki - 4.5(It's a shame he also did not work more often with Kurosawa since they were also great together. Also imagine Runaway Train with Yamazaki in Eric Roberts's role (and maybe Tatsuya Nakadai as the warden) and everything seems to come together. Anyway Yamazaki's role is brief but he basically gets his own short film which is kinda like a less ghostly Ugetsu, just as haunting though. Yamazaki, although still playing a poor man but this time one everyone loves rather than a kidnapper, is quite heartbreaking in depicting the dying state of the man who we watch literally gasp his last breaths. We get a call back to his doomed romance with a woman though that motivated his goodness, and Yamazaki is very affecting in his portrait of a simple man facing utter emotional devastation)
+Stewart - 4.5(I actually had seen this film long ago, but I just must have looked over it when I was making the original ranking. Anyway, as I recall as I have not re-watched it since, Stewart does do some great work here as usual as a father passionate about keeping his family out of the civil war. The scene I still remember quite clearly is the powerful one where Stewart confronts the young man who nonsensically shot his right as they were riding home. It's a great scene for Stewart brings the searing hatred toward the man, but with the even stronger sadness for his terrible loss)
+Olivier - 4(The less insane work from 65 and I would say the better work. Bunny Lake is Missing as I film should be taken exactly how you don't do a twist, since I thought it was quite compelling up to that point. Luckily for Olivier he does not really associate with that side of the film. Olivier gives a pretty understated performance just as a inspector trying to piece together the bizarre case in front of him. Olivier is effective in conveying the distance yet confusion the inspector keeps as he tries to find out the truth while never simply accepting a lie)
+In regards to a Holy Grail, sure that sounds good.
+Anonymous:
+Actress:
+1. Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue
+2. Samantha Eggar - The Collector
+3. Julie Christie - Doctor Zhivago
+4. Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music
+5. Carol Lynley - Bunny Lake is Missing
+Supporting Actress:
+1. Simone Signoret - Ship of Fools
+2. Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue
+3. Claire Bloom - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
+4. Kyoko Kagawa - Red Beard
+5. Geraldine Chaplin - Doctor Zhivago
+Jackiboyz:
+Ran of course as well The Most Beautiful, Sanshiro Sugata Part II, No Regrets For Our Youth, Those Who Make Tomorrow, One Wonderful Sunday, and his 70's and 90's output. I have to say I wish to watch all of them since my least favorite Kurosawa film, Sanshiro Sugata, I still thought was decent, but I'm looking forward to Ran the most.
+Matt:
+Davison - 3(Although I have many problems with the first X-Men film Davison does a fine job. He does the whole politician grandstanding fairly well, and than is fairly effective in depicting Kelly's fear when he realizes what Magneto has done to him. Really a thankless role, since he's there just to fulfill a plot point more than anything, but I'll give Davison credit for giving it a go)
+Michael McCarthy:
+1. Rashomon
+2. Yojimbo
+3. High and Low
+4. Throne of Blood
+5. Red Beard
+6. Samurai Rebellion
+7. Seven Samurai
+8. The Quiet Duel
+9. Drunken Angel
+10. Stray Dog
+See anymore 2014 movies, Louis?
+Hartman and Potter were brilliant in A Patch of Blue. That is all. Is Hartman a 4.5 or 5 Louis?
+Hartman's gotta be a five, since I know Eggar is.
+Louis: Your Ratings & Thoughts on Heston & Harrison in The Agony and The Ecstasy.
+Robert:
+The Drop
+Love is Strange
+Luke:
+Heston & Harrison - 3(Heston is the far more consistent of the two doing his epic leading man routine, while Harrison does ham it up a bit. Harrison though does have a few really good moments in there almost all of them involving his scenes with Heston. When the two stop simply to talk about the fresco the film comes to life and Harrison actually reigns himself to give an effective performance)
+Ratings and thoughts on the casts of both movies?
+Louis: Thoughts on the films, plus ratings & thoughts on the casts for each film.
+My thoughts will be briefer than I would like as I finished them once and it was deleted just before I was about to post them.
+Love is Strange - (An unacknowledged remake of Make Way For Tomorrow. It's does not hold a candle to that film. It's one of those films that I did not mind watching, but I also never thought it became anything special. It also seems a tad thin in its ending which seems to rush the main plot as well its only subplot that tries to go anywhere)
+Lithgow and Molina - 3.5(Both are likable enough in their scenes together, and its easy enough to care about their plight. Neither gets to develop that much of a character really, but they both do well with what they have)
+Tahan - 2(We don't need any more Jesse Eisenbergs first of all. Secondly he never was very believable in his one note portrayal of angst, and his ending scenes do not work in the least)
+The rest of the cast is all very forgettable.
+The Drop - (I thought it was rather effective low key thriller. I liked how it built up its tension while establishing its little crime world fairly well)
+I'll save Gandolfini.
+Hardy - 4.5(I thought he was great in making a sympathetic enough "hero" while leaving something off about Bob the whole time. Hardy leaves it the proper mystery so you might think he's just stupid, but when the truth is revealed it makes absolute sense)
+Rapace - 3.5(I liked her tension filled chemistry with Hardy and I thought she did a good job of developing a character with really not a whole lot of material)
+Schoenaerts - 4(You really have to give this guy props for his accent as you would never have guessed he wasn't American. Schoenaerts makes for an intriguing villain as he carries a menace simply by being so believably off that the fear is simply that you have no idea what he will do. He's also just fantastic in his final scene as he so effectively goes from attempted to tough guy to a whimpering victim)
+I'm glad you liked Hardy and on reflection I moved Schoenaerts to a 4, as well as moving Gandolfini to a 4.5 since I felt, I didn't praise him as much as I should've done.
+I actually preferred Schoenaerts to Gandolfini.
+Louis: Since you gave Tom Hardy a 4.5, I'm now, really intrigued on what rating you'll give to Channing Tatum in Foxcatcher.
+Are there any performances you were saving you've decided to relent on? If so, which ones?
+Schoenaerts is a very good actor in my opinion. Anyway I've just seen The Imitation Game, and I thought it was really great.
+Cumberbatch - 5
+Knightley - 4.5
+Goode - 4
+Strong - 3.5
+Dance - 3
+Kinnear - 3
+Leech - 3.5
+KoooK160:
+It'll probably be
+Shia Labeouf in Fury
+Christoph Waltz in The Zero Theorem
+David Thewlis in The Zero Theorem
+Serkis & Kebbell in Dawn of The Planet of The Apes
+Bill Nighy in Pride
+Ben Affleck in Gone Girl
+Tyler Perry in Gone Girl
+He'll review ten in Lead (although he may have to do a couple more, in case there were more five star performances than he thought, there would be) & five in supporting plus the bonus review for Sutherland.
+I fucking hope he reviews McConaughey in Interstellar, Spall in Mr Turner and Fiennes in The Grand Budapest Hotel. Also, Guy Pearce should be a guarantee for The Rover.
+Louis: If there are any performances you've decided to relent on reviewing, can I have your ratings & thoughts on them.
+Oh no no no NO, he better damn well save Kebbell.
+Paddington Ratings
+Whishaw: 4
+Bonneville: 4
+Hawkins: 4
+Kidman: 4
+Capaldi: 3
+KoooK160: I want a review for Kebbell too, but the ship seems to have sailed already on that one.
+I really wanna see reviews for Serkis and Kebbell. I feel like a lot of people agree with me on Kebbell, but I'd also give Serkis a 5, and I didn't even give fives to Cumberbatch, McConaughey, or Hoffman.
+Michael McCarthy: Unless Serkis is requested, I can't see it, purely because it's a Motion Captured Performance and if he had given Serkis a 5 for The Two Towers, then there would've been a higher possibility for it.
+KoooK160 & Michael McCarthy: If you want reviews for Serkis & Kebbell, here's my advice
+If either one of you gets a request, then request Kebbell in Supporting, but if you want Serkis, then rather than request a performance, request/suggest a extension of the Lead Lineup from 10 to 15, just so everyone's satisfied.
+KoooK160 & Michael McCarthy: Otherwise, I'll be going on a huge rant if Louis doesn't review all of his 5s for the year.
+I think 15 alternate reviews would be overkill, I won't request any performances from this year. I only want Louis to review Serkis if he deems him worthy, I just personally think he's very worthy.
+Michael McCarthy: That's fine, because I personally just want all the 5s reviewed and don't want any other requests from anyone unless it has a possibility of a 5.
+In Supporting, I personally want reviews for Armitage, Kebbell and Poulter, plus my request for Fassbender, I'm starting to really regret requesting Mikkelson before the '06 supporting lineup was posted, because of his high placement.
+There are a few I know I won't review already, but I'll keep them a secret at the moment.
+I hope Guy Pearce is a guarantee, because he was flawless in The Rover.
+Top!
+38 comments:
+H & B,
+I was really hoping there weren't 10 reasons why you were going private. I truly hope this will be a change for the better for you. I'm fairly certain it will be. Recently being on the other side of the microscope through some press our family received, I know how painful the hurtful comments can be.
+Love your family and your blog.
+Erin
+please add my to your list of preferred readers pebblesbuddy@gmail.com I love reading about your cute family. Whoever leaves those comments have obviously nothing better to do with their lives and hate their own. Love the pic of Meera!
+I already e-mailed you to be a reader :), but I just wanted to tell you that I am SHOCKED at the comments you have received...seriously??? There are people out there that are that RUDE who leave comments like that on your awesome blog? I truly, truly am inspired by you and your family and as I am also traveling down several of the same paths (parenthood, career, family, etc) as you, I love to read how you all are doing...you are my favorite blog, seriously, and I read many blogs on a weekly basis.
+Haven't people ever heard the saying, "If you have nothing nice to say, then saying nothing at all..."?
+Keep up your good work...your kids are so lucky to have awesome parents like you!!!
+I totally understand why you've made this choice. I emailed you yesterday to continue reading.
+I've been meaning to ask a question for a while now...
+How do you guys do bath oil? We also use bath oil and it is such a mess. We apply it while the boys are still in the bathtub, but I hate the mess it makes in the tub, plus the baby slips around on it if I don't clean it thoroughly. Any suggestions?? Thanks!
+Mean people SUCK! Ugh. it irks me SO much that people say nasty things to you guys. This has always been one of my all time FAVORITE blogs for so many different reasons. There are posts I've been tempted to print, file away until I have kids. I have to say, one of my favorite posts has always been the one with K and O in their tutus. Thanks for keeping the party going!! I cannot wait to go on the next part of this adventure with you guys!
+Those are some real mean comments. Why can't people just be nice?? =(
+Those comments are trash truely. Sorry you had to put up with s... like that.
+Oh, those photos were soooo sweet!
+I love to look at all the photos my mother took of me when I was little, I think they show so much love, and it's the kind of love it's sometimes hard to remember once puberty hits. Your kids are so lucky to have all this love to look back on when they are older.
+There are some weirdos out there. I stopped posting nekkid photos when I noticed someone had stumbled onto my blog by googling "beautiful boys". The person who made the p*rn comment is obviously one of them... shouldn't they be reported? It's a bit creepy that they don't realize that viewing photos of a 2 yr old as "p*rn" to the point where they would post that comment indicates a serious problem with perception if nothing else.
+And to have criticism on style?!? Why? So confused. I guess you must have thousands of readers, because I know most people are pretty wonderful, so you must be encountering those "one in a thousand" that are not.
+Looking foward to more!
+The only comment I have is how ridiculously cute ALL of the kiddos are! I mean....really....you guys should get some sort of citation for that. ;)
+Cheers!
+Paige
+i've always thought that if you don't have something nice to say, move on. if they don't like the way you live life, then, don't comment and better yet, don't visit.
+i don't comment much, because of time. and to be honest, your life IS different from mine. but here's what I love about your blog:
+1. you don't push your differences like you're the only ones in the world that are correct.
+2. you have really awesome photography and real life photography.
+3. you've always made anyone welcome.
+4. your children are adorable. I love the locs! they pull it off well, and your little Meera is beautiful.
+5. your raw and real and talk about real stuff. and fun stuff.
+6. you're a haiti connection for me.
+A great read, really. I enjoy the visits I make over here and would love to be included in your private blog. and how'd you like my horrendous grammar :D
+Thank you so much for your kind comment on my blog, Heather. I'm one of the many people who wrote asking to be included when you go private. If you approve me, is there an access code I need?
+I'm so sorry about those horrible, hurtful comments from mean people. One of the reasons I'm grateful to only have a couple dozen readers on my blog is that I haven't been subjected to horrible, mean comments like that.
+Thank you for continuing to write and share your lives and teach the rest of us through your experiences.
+This is one of the very few times I have posted a comment to your blog. I would love to follow if you have room. I will understand if you don't. I wondered if the cute neckie baby pictures would get mean comments I hoped not but there are always trolls around. So sorry to read of you receiving them. Your boys hair really is no one elses business!
+I had nooo idea you'd had to endure anything like that. And, the comment about the boys' hair... crazy.
+I have never had a negative comment- guess I am nt interesting enough to attract ire, but am definitely with you on the private blog being a much better way to go. When I can find the time, I think that is hw mine will play too, as I have mentioned there, before.
+Hugs to you- I emailed you to keep reading yesterday- I hope, I hope!!! :)
+Hi - I just discovered your blog through the blog roll of a friend of mine. I went back many months and found a connection in your words to many of my own thoughts. We are leaving in 5 days to pick up our son from Kazakhstan where he will come home and meet his two sisters. One of your blog posts said Brother-Sister Love, and I always talk about that with them. Your children are beautiful, your writing true and real. So sorry you had to put up with such nonsensical comments. As you are going private, I'm wondering if I can jump on board?
+Best,
+Stephanie
+New York
+Hi....yep, i just emailed you as well to be added....
+Those comments are outrageous. Why do people think that is acceptable....Cretins, that's what they are. Good grief.
+I love the pics of Meera and I LOVE your blog-grammar-style...it's easy to read and I personally like the cadence.
+Good grief. Mean people do suck...
+Cheers,
+cindy
+It is heartbreaking that ppl would say such mean things! The venom that spews out of some ppls mouths/fingers....it is unbelieveable!! I can understand your reasons for going private - don't blame you one bit!
+Hi Heather, Braydon, Kyle, Owen and Meera,
+Sorry to that you have to endure such hatred - if only people would think before they type - it seems people feel they can express their hurtful opinions in written form in ways they may not even dream of doing in real life.
+I wrote you an email introducing myself.
+Thank you for your honesty in this blog and for consciously documenting your family life - I feel you have done it in a tasteful way emphasizing that there is much more that is too private to blog about.
+All the best for the future - it is sunny 8 degrees celsius here in Durham, UK so I hope you have a little sunshine soon too.
+- Kate
+When I saw your post about going private I figured the proverbial drop had overfilled the glass -its a spanish proverb - but one of my faves :-)
+It irks me that some people have a need to be hurtful and judgemental, especially under the cover of anonnymity.
+Would love to continue following your adventures.
+Best to you and your family. had already emailed you and so very sorry that a lot of people are so mean. We absolutely love your family.
+You hall have been an absolute inspiration to us and want to stay with you.
+Love and Hugs,
+Claudia
+It's sad there are suck mean people in this world. I for one love reading your blog and can't think of one thing to complain about. Well except I'd like to see more pictures!
+please add me angela.redden@gmail.com
+It's sad there are suck mean people in this world. I for one love reading your blog and can't think of one thing to complain about. Well except I'd like to see more pictures!
+please add me angela.redden@gmail.com
+Stay strong! Love you.
+My jaw is on the ground-people really left those comments???!!! Unbelievable....
+I already sent you a request so that I can continue to read your blog, but I want to again say how much I enjoy reading your blog daily. I too have been a reader for at least 2 years and truly admire all you do in raising Kyle, Owen and Meera. I look forward to continue reading and seeing your beautiful family grow :)
+Blessings,
+Tamara
+wow, people are rude and have too much time on their hands.
+i'd love to follow along. love your family! i emailed you with my address.
+thanks!
+I've already emailed you too, but I just can't believe how awful people can be.
+I love reading your blog, it is really a bright spot in my day!
+Heather, I was sad to see that you were going private and sadder still to learn that my guess was correct as to why. I have been reading for maybe a year and I have taken such comfort and strength from your thoughts on parenting, particularly parenting boys. I am expecting my first child in July and I am simultaneously thrilled and terrified at this responsibility -- so often I read your posts and I think "if she can do it with three, I can do it with one!" I wouldn't feel right continuing to intrude on your precious family's privacy, but please know that I wish you, Braydon and your beautiful little ones much love and peace.
+I'm a random school teacher from DC (lol) but I've been reading your blog for years!! I am sad that people are so hurtful, and understand your decision. The pictures that you take are beautiful, and I think you guys are doing a great job with your kids. I would love to follow along once you go private again!
+I sent you an email, but wanted to say I am sorry, but not shocked at the comments. We've also had horrible comments over here and they truly DO hurt. Really-I think people forget that actual, living, breathing people are behind these blogs and feeling do get wounded.
+Stay strong and we'll keep on reading!
+Heather ,
+I can truly understand why.what I don't understand why people have to be so hateful!
+I would like to be part of your private blog if you would let me.
+God Bless,
+Rose Anne
+Beautiful Family of 5,
+Hands down, your blog has been my absolute favorite since stumbling upon it several years ago. The essence of who your family truly is shines through in each post. I would have LOVED to have grown up in a family as committed to making every single day matter.
+I am so happy you are continuing privately.
+Love,
+Trish
+Aubrey and Summer will also be thrilled to continue watching you guys and your adventures!
+Some people are so self-righteous...it's infuriating. The Nanny comment is so idiotic. There are thousands upon thousands of stay-at-home mothers who neglect their kids all day long. Simply staying home does not mean they are doing the "right" thing. Every family should make the choice individually and no one should judge that choice. You and Braydon are fantastic parents raising wonderful and thriving children! Try to ignore the haters....their goal is to spread misery. I love you Heather.
+All--- if you are leaving comments here I don't necessarily know your email address, so can't give you access to the new blog. Please email me at hbj2@lehigh.edu if you want to go along for the ride to the "new"/"private" blog journey.
+Thanks,
+Heather
+Heather & Party of 5!!
+I love you guys! And, I am SO excited for the upcoming featured topics, especially the egalatarian parenting!! You and Braydon have always been such important role models for me--personally and professionally--and this blog has allowed me to keep up with you in way that makes the life that you live seem like a real possibility for me.
+I believe radical families DO shift the horizon [well, actually, my friends have debated this for a long time and have decided that radical families probably shift many horizons--but that's not the point :)], and I KNOW that the Party of 5 is radical.
+I also believe that this blog--and you and your family--have changed the way people think (you are, after all, pretty good at that). Through sharing your life with us, you have opened up a world of possibilities that seemed otherwise inconceivable. (I know this because I have been your blog's secret under-cover marketing agent to fellow graduate students and have listened to them talk to me about "the blog" after spending hours upon hours going back and reading every entry!) You wouldn't be getting nasty resistance from people if you were just going along with the status quo--which, as you taught me, is how the problems of our society are reproduced. Your family is so special, and I hope that someday (IF I EVER FINISH THIS FREAKING PHD!), I can have a family like yours too. :) So, thanks for being such a great role model. You're the best.
+Lots of Love,
+Maggie
+ps- You are a fantastic writer. :)
+Thank you for sharing your thoughts, your successes, your failures and most of all your journey.
+Cheers to the Johnson-McCormick family!!
+Emmy Patton
+As if you forced people to read your blog....if you don't want to deal with a working mom who has dreadlocked sons, who isn't a perfect writer, then don't read the blog...seriously! I've read plenty of websites/blogs that I thought were stupid or that I disagreed with almost every since thing the person said. And you know what? I didn't comment on it; I just simply didn't go back. People so often forget that whatever you say online has the same affect on the other person as if you've said it in person. I don't stop by your blog often but it's one that is one I remember. I am a white Mama with two Haitian babies, one of whom is a boy with locs. So if nothing else thanks for being another white family who was brave enough to go down that road and help "pave" the way for me.
+Sorry for the negativity. Our blog remains public but we wrestle with the same issues... I'm an adoptive mom to twins from ET and I enjoy your blog. I'd love to continue following. My e-mail is vanvoorsts @ gmail.com (no spaces).
+I recently got a question from a reader asking for more stories and information on those who start their journey to debt freedom later in life. Ruth and I can both testify that it seems very overwhelming – and sometimes useless – to bother trying to pay off your debt when you’re in your later forties and beyond. It can often feel like “Well, I’ve screwed everything up for so long; what’s the point in trying to correct it now? By the time I finish I’ll be too old to enjoy the wealth anyway.”
+Why Starting Late is Better Than Not Starting at All
+I thought I’d share some encouragement for those who started their journey late like Ruth and DH did, and Rick and I did. Or give some motivation to those who haven’t started yet at all. No matter how deep you’re starting out, a late finish is worth the effort. Here are 4 reasons you should not hesitate to start your journey to financial wellness, even if you’re 50-plus.
+Every Step Closer to Financial Wellness Will Make Life Easier
+It may not seem like it now, but having $45,000 in consumer debt will feel less stressful than having $50,000 in consumer debt. Having a $275,000 mortgage will feel better than having a $300,000 mortgage. Every month that you see the numbers go down means less bondage to banks and credit card companies, lower monthly payment obligations and a shorter trek to the finish line of debt free.
+While it can be tempting to say “So what? I’ll be debt free in twenty-five years instead of twenty-six,” you never know how much happiness that extra year of debt freedom might change your life.
+Just start, and worry about the details later.
+A Journey Out of Debt Often Goes Faster than You Think it Will
+When Ruth and her DH started their journey, they never expected it to move as quickly as it did. In less than five years, they are now amazingly close to total debt freedom.
+In our case we started with a much higher DTI, much higher debt and much lower income, but we are still moving forward. And although things haven’t moved as fast as I would have liked (I can be a little on the impatient side 🙂 ), we are making forward progress and the steps we’re taking are working faster than we thought they would.
+You Might Live Longer than You Expect
+It’s often tempting for those who are older and deep in debt to think that life is close to being over so what’s the point? I just read an amazing story on The Retirement Manifesto about a couple who didn’t start saving for retirement until they were forty-nine. They hardly had a dime in savings, but wanted to retire eventually and knew that social security on their lifelong smaller salaries wasn’t going to cut it.
+They made a plan, got serious about saving and were able to retire in just………..nope. Not telling you. You’ll have to go read the story to find out. 🙂
+However, I will tell you that now they are in their 80’s and livin’ large, and SO happy that they started late, rather than starting never.
+Do it for the Kids
+If you have children, start your journey out of debt – even if you’re starting late – for the sake of your kids. I wrote last week about my grandparents and how they spent their entire lives depending on their adult children for support. It was a sucky way to live. They often felt bad that they didn’t have money to give and were always in need of financial help. Grandpa was a super-hard-working guy – he and grandma just never learned how to manage money, and so they never had any. My mom would tell me that money always burned a hole in his pocket it went out so fast. They hated that they never had much cash but felt powerless to do anything with it. They believed – and we did too for years – that one’s money situation was simply luck of the draw.
+I know firsthand that living with large amounts of debt and no savings is a horrible, stressful way to live. Rick and I did that for far too long simply because we were never taught differently. Now that we know better we’re taking the necessary steps to becoming financially independent. Yep, we started late, but I’m so glad we started.
+Most everyone struggling with debt or a lack of savings has hurdles. Maybe your hurdle is a high debt-to-income ratio like we had. Maybe it’s a spouse who’s not on board with the whole debt payoff thing. Or maybe your hurdle is just that you feel it’s too late to start. Whatever your hurdle, I hope you begin making the steps to overcome it, because you can.
+Never, ever give up on debt freedom. You deserve it!!!
+What’s holding you back from starting your journey to debt freedom?
+19 comments on “Starting Your Journey to Debt Freedom Later in Life”
+I would say that getting rid of debt at any age is sooo much more than the financial debt noose around your neck!!
+Even though getting rid of debt does relieve the financial burden, it is sooo much more than that as it touches every other area of your life.
+I have had the privilege to watch Ruth and DH go through their journey and see a lot of the other benefits taking care of money produces. Seeing a happier couple, working together toward a common goal now getting along better than ever. A calmer household with clear guidelines in place. Better relationships. The freedom to choose, yes or no and be guilt free in that choice. The ability to control their money instead of having it control them and all the negative outcomes of being controlled by money. Being proactive instead of reactive. Being able to shift the focus from crisis mode onto things/desires/accomplishments that one wishes to do. Having more energy to do the things you want to do instead of having to do, is another plus!! Stress is such a huge part of most peoples daily lives now. There are things we cannot avoid, however, we can choose to have less stress when we get financially out of the noose. It starts as a ripple effect that turns into a positive wave!!! =o)
+There is so much more I could say but I think you get the idea.
+I heard a quote recently that I would like to share…
+“The road we take determines where we end up!”
+Keep on getting back up every time you feel knocked down.
+DFF
+Krista – LOVE this!!!! Thanks so much for sharing. Your last two lines were awesome as well. Thank you!
+Thank you, Krista : )
+This reminds me of the scale. I got on it this morning. That weight did not get on me overnight, and yet I feel like it did because it’s been about 3 years since I checked. It’s the same with debt. Being in denial and not looking at the numbers does not a proactive person make. Great post as always Laurie! 🙂
+Thanks, Kay!! Yes, weight loss is a goal for me this year too. We can do it!
+It’s funny because I hear people say FIRE isn’t worth it because you’ll miss out on so much living. “You might as well spend all of your money; YOLO!” But I’ve never, ever regretted starting our debt freedom journey. Granted, I’m a young’n’, but financial security is great to have at any age.
+NO WAY. We did the YOLO thing for years – SO not worth it! You guys are on the right track Mrs. Picky Pincher. Keep up the good work!
+My husband and I achieved financial freedom at ages 67 and 69, after six years of penny pinching. That was almost two years ago and we have remained debt free ever since. We don’t worry about a rise in interest rates, and living in Canada aren’t concerned about medical costs, so the future seems pretty bright. Now our thoughts are centred around where to travel and what to spend our money on. Living debt free is the best, at any age. I only wish we had done it sooner.
+Nancy, that is wonderful!!!!!!!!!!! You may have started late, but you DID IT!!! Happy traveling to you guys, Nancy!
+We started in our 30s, and though we aren’t 100% debt free (we have a mortgage), we don’t have nearly the stress we had when our debt was higher. My parents are great examples of this – they paid off their last debt in their 60s to enable my dad to retire from a job that was physically and mentally stressful. Though my mom won’t quit her part time job until next year, the one thing that made a difference between retirement and working another 5-10 years was debt freedom.
+Wow, that is an amazing story, Amanda!!! Thanks for sharing. So happy for your parents!
+The feeling of control, the stress reduction, the communication with your spouse/family, are all benefits we found once we decided to get our bad money habits under control. No matter what age I’ll like to have those things.
+Yes!!! Even if it gets done later it is still a blessing.
+That Retirement Manifesto post is delightful.
+At my current rate, I’ll be starting to save “for real” around age 45. My current biggest motivation for achieving financial independence is how quickly the cost of my asthma and allergy medications have gone up in the past few years. Didn’t really give much thought to how I’d pay for them in my 20s and 30s 😉
+Funny how old age and its impending arrival gives one a different thought perspective, isn’t it. 🙂 I’m hitting fifty this summer and am finding myself eating more leafy greens and less junk than ever before, and not necessarily because I like it that way. 🙂
+When we started out at ages 49 (me) and 53 (DH), I felt a huge embarrassment about being in the situation we were in. I thought by our age we should be wise – and I felt foolish. But we got humble and we got going, and while I wish we’d started earlier, I’m so grateful that we started! Almost 5 years later, our financial reality really has turned around. You don’t have to reach the finish line before life starts getting better. Every step closer really does make things easier. But we’re still very keen to reach that finish line!
+Yes!!!!!!!!! You will get there very soon, Ruth, and what a glorious day that will be!
+I love every little mention of your timeline. 5 years seems like such a short time, but that’s enough time for almost anyone to make real, lasting changes.
+This is such an encouraging post! Yes, I wish Mr. Money Tree and I had gotten our financial “smarts” earlier, but we are still young enough to make some BIG retirement goals into reality. It just comes down to persistence and belief.
+Don’t give up, don’t give in, if you don’t quit, you win!
+How to Make Acorn Flour
+In the event that the world as we know it crumbles, the ability to forage for edible flora and fauna will be an important skill. While stockpiling necessary items will undoubtedly help you to survive if things go south, learning how to gather and prepare food is crucial if you’ve got a long-range outlook in mind. As fall approaches, you might consider learning how to make acorn flour.
+Why Acorns?
+You might have heard before that acorns are poisonous. That’s absolutely true of raw, unprocessed acorns, or acorns that have been improperly processed. They can make you sick due to the high level of tannins they contain. You’ve likely heard of tannins before; they are a compound found in many commonly consumed items, including wine and tea
+There are a couple reasons why you should put processing acorns at the top of your “To Learn for Preparedness” list. First off, they’re actually quite good for you, so long as they’re prepared so that they aren’t actively bad for you. They have a high fat content, a little protein, and carbohydrates for instant energy.
+Second, acorns are plentiful. A large oak tree is said to be able to produce up to 1,000 lbs. of acorns per year. Even when you cut out weight from shells and moisture, that’s a significant amount of consumable calories that can be processed for eating through the year.
+Third, acorns are found pretty much everywhere. While some acorns are better than other for consumption, they’re all edible when processed. Wherever you may roam (assuming it’s late summer to early fall there), there’s likely an oak tree full of acorns you could beat the squirrels to.
+Finding Acorns
+Oak trees can be found all across the U.S, Europe, and the rest of the Northern hemisphere. There are some species found in Asia and Central America, as well. North American oaks are, more or less, split into two groups, red and white. You can tell the difference between red and white oaks because red oaks tend to have leaves with pointed tips, while white oaks have rounded leaves. Check the following link to learn how to properly identify and how to consume oak – nature’s powerhouse.The best acorns for processing tend to come from white oaks due to lower tannin levels, but red oak acorns can be eaten if they’re what you have to work with. Oaks that produce larger acorns are ideal, like the bur oak. Some varieties offer sweeter nuts that are more palatable, like bur, chinquapin, and chestnut oak varieties.
+Acorns begin to drop at the end of summer through the beginning of autumn. Keep an eye out for increased squirrel action so you don’t miss them! Be sure to process acorns within a couple days so they don’t mold. Otherwise, you’ll need to dry them (pread them out on a screen for an extended period, from a couple weeks to a few months) for processing at a later day.
+How to Make Acorn Flour
+So, let’s assume you’ve found a worthy oak tree. Here’s how you can turn acorns into versatile, nutty acorn flour.
+- Collect the acorns – You’ll need a large amount to make this process worth your while. Collect several pounds of freshly fallen acorns. Avoid dirty, broken, or very dry looking acorns. Then, you’ll need to make sure they’re free from weevils. To do this, drop the acorns into a bucket of water and toss the floaters. You can also check for the tiny bore holes that the adult acorn munching beetles leave. Toss the wormy acorns.
+- Boil – Bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil, then add your acorns. Quick, now! You only want the acorns in the boiling water for 30-60 seconds. Pour into a colander to drain water. This step serves to soften the shells a bit, making them easier to crack.
+- Crack – Now it’s time to crack the shells on your acorns. You can do this with a handheld nutcracker, a mallet and towel, or with a large nutcracker.
+- Dry – Now it’s time to dry out the cracked nuts. This can be accomplished in a dehydrator, by leaving them out in the sun on screens to dry naturally, or in a low temperature oven.
+- Separate meats – Time to get to the good stuff! To extract the actual nuts, often times known as the meat. Because you’ve already dried out the cracked nuts, it should be very easy to just rub off the shells and skins with your hands. Once you’ve got the meats out, you’ll need to give them meats a quick mashing with a potato masher.
+- Leach – This is the part where you get rid of the tannins, effectively making the inedible acorns edible. There are several ways you can do this, but cold-leaching is today’s preferred method. To do this, you’ll place the smashed nut meats into a cheese cloth bag. Then, you’ll place the bag into a five gallon bucket of cold, clean water. Give the bag a squeeze or two to make sure the water is getting between the pieces. Leave it to soak for about half an hour, drain the water, and then do it again. Repeat this cycle until the water is clear.
+- Dry – Dry out leached, smashed meats on a cookie sheet by spreading them thinly and then placing the cookie sheet in the oven at 200 degrees F for a few hours or until dry.
+- Mash – This can be accomplished with a simple, handheld potato masher, or you can employ the use of an immersion blender or food processor if doing it by hand doesn’t sound appealing. You can also use a coffee grinder or conventional grain mill.
+- Sift – Using a mesh colander, sift the flour to make sure there are no large or hard pieces remaining. Now you’ve got usable acorn flour. Store it in an airtight container and it should be good for several months. While it doesn’t preform exactly like regular wheat flour, there’s still a lot you can do with it by adjusting your favorite recipes a bit.
+While making acorn flour is a bit more time consuming than bopping over to the supermarket to pick up a bag of regular wheat flour, consider practicing this skill now so that you have the know how to utilize nature’s fall bounty in a SHTF situation.
+You may also like:
+How to Make Amish Sweet Bread
+World’s Smallest Battery Powers House For 2 Days (video)
+The Ultimate Survival Tree That Grows on Almost Every Street in America
+My Famine Food Storage Menu
+24 Prepping Items I Don’t Spend Money On
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+Necessary items to accomplish this task according to the article. Cold clean water, five gallon bucket, cheese cloth, potatoe masher, sifted, hand cranked coffee grinder, a pot to boil water in, and something to lay acorns on while drying in the sun. I am excluding any devices requiring electricity because there may not be electricity. Better secure these items now. Just more to add to the wish list. One bite at a time.
+This article brings up a very important point, there may be no electricity or internet when SHTF. It might be wise to print each article and save them in a binder.
+Acorn coffee isn’t too bad either!
+Curley bull; EXCELLENT information,,,thank you. ^5
+Ok my oven and blender wont work. I keep turning them on but nothing. I love it when you teach me about shtf and assume i still have gas and power….makes about as much sense as buying a digital survival book. After shtf you just go fire up your computer and read , read ,read …duh
+Raj; I found your comment very entertaining, and funny.☺ This site is teaching us how to do things, BEFORE SHTF. So, that we have some information, on what to eat, how to process things. When SHTF, does hit, it is UP TO YOU, TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROCESS THINGS, using gas grill, or having some charcoal on hand. Making a fire. You want them to tell you how to do that too? I bought a four mill a long time ago. I had a choice of electric or hand grinding. I chose hand grinding, because I figured if I was grinding my own flour, using my wheat berry’s, (canned-food storage) there would not, BE ELECTRICITY.
+I always ASSUME,,how to do things without electricity or gas, when any instruction is given. It is about survival. Time to learn. Don’t rely on others to spoon feed you. Don’t mean to be insulting. Get creative, make an ‘oven’ with cardboard and foil paper. Many sites tell you how to do it. Good luck.
+I agree, however the lack of gas or power should not stop you form baking, it’s called fire and the blender bit well that is just a bit of hard work by hand.
+As for digital books they are great easy to carry 100s or 1000s of digital book on a digital device, no need for any power if you have a solar charger cheap and rasy.
+Just use Euell Gibbons’ recipe from Stalking the Wild Asparagus; lot easier.
+Can’t the water from the first leaching be saved, rendered down to concentrate the tannic acid and also be used in tanning leather. Just thinking outside the box here.
+I wondered that too. There has to be some use to five gallons of tannic acid water. Okay, chemists on the list, what can you use 5 gallons of dilute tannic acid for?
+I believe that I read somewhere that the American Indian did just that.
+I did just that when leeching a batch of red oak acorns. Dark red water. I saved it and condensed it somewhat. It wasn’t very acidic, so I added some vinegar. I used the broth to ‘tan’ a possum pelt that I didn’t care about.
+I’d call it a partial success. The pelt was nicely tanned, but stunk. I hadn’t scraped off all of the fat. It went rancid. I didn’t have time to fuss over it, so didn’t get to move onto the currying stage.
+I plan to try again with some ‘volunteer’ squirrels (less fat) with the bucket of acorns I gathered recently.
+Black walnut hulls work really well if you want tannic acid. Most natives preparing hides do a process called brain tanning. Lots of work but it leaves a hide that is soft and can be sewn with a bone needle. Tannens do tan but make a tougher hide. Battery acid and water will tan a hide also but learn what you’re doing or you can get badly hurt.
+Better than rotting brains (they have to be putrid to work), Native Americans hung leather goods from the ceiling to let smoke work thru them. The acid in the smoke tanned them, and cedar was burned at night to ward of evil spirits and bugs, the clothes smelled of cedar with a touch of barbecue. Save black walnut hulls to boil traps and clothes in because the oil kills all scent.
+I have several binders with info like this kind of stuff but this one sounds the best so far since it’s one of the most versatile and easily found items in the USA.
+If you’re a serious acorn nut (lover of), do like we used to. Rake up all the acorns and leaves you can. Pile it all on the north side of a barn (or house/garage). Leave it go till spring. The shells will turn black, but even high tannin acid acorns (black oaks and reds) should be sweet. This is why squirrels bury some acorns and eat others. White oaks are sweet enough for them to eat right off, but tannin can be high enough to be toxic in others. the acorns have to be kept cold and damp, exposed so tannin leaches out. Use them before they sprout or they make a lot more tannin. There’s a company in Germany that uses tons of acorns to make a nut butter, and this is how they do it with black oak acorns in the Black Forest. BTW, you can bury cabbages deep under the leaves (do not allow them to touch). They’ll stay fresh till spring, when they try to sprout. Cook that like broccoli. peace!
+As kid I gathered white acorns after they fell and lay on the ground through 2 or 3 good rains. They were almost sweet and really good eating. Just peel and enjoy.
+Peeled cracked acorns in wet sand along a stream will be leached in 24-36 hours. Bite it…if it isn’t puckering your mouth it’s done.
+At that point without drying;
+You can boil the cracked nut meats into a soup that tastes like pinto beans. Salt and season to taste. Simmer till tender.
+You can grind (this is where natives used grinding stones) to a course flour and make bread. I like it simply mixed with some oak ashes and water to make a paste then cook like a pancake on a hot flat rock in a fire. The ashes act a bit like baking powder to raise or leven the dough.
+You can make a good venison soup with leached cracked nut meats, cubed deer meat, chopped wild onions, water. Boil and season to taste. Cubed potatoes add once the nut meats are getting tender would be good but not essential. Some tribes add dried corn kernals and unshelled pinion nuts at the begining of cooking time.
+You can toast to lightly roast the coursely ground nut meats and boil to make a fair coffee.
+If you want salt and don’t have it, burn ghost plant and use the ashes to taste. It is used as a native seasoning but isnt really salty..but does help the flavor.
+Good comment
+Good posts from you! Native Americans burned bean plants and saved the ashes from hickory, pecan, and oaks, using a very light dusting of that instead of salt.All of those ashes will contain salt (potassium chloride). Hickory and pecan twigs can be boiled down (to dryness) and the residue is hickory salt.
+My goodness this is getting very complicated.
+I wish we had better oaks where I live now. All we have are jack oaks or scrub oak. More short bushes than trees but they do bare a small acorn. High mountain desert, juniper forrest. We do use the small prickly pear cactus, fruits and pads, juniper especially the beries, desert mallows and more. It’s good to learn what’s available where you live.
+Just a side note, the tannins which are not pleasant to the belly, do have important properties which make them good for the skin and useful to help healing wounds.
+The weevils are actually quite tasty too. They dry nicely and can be added to other recipes or eaten out of hand for additional free protein, just sayin.
+My mother used black tea bags on minor burns because the tannens were healing. I would think the tannins from a stronger source like acorns would be useful.
+By the way smoking was the final step after brain tanning. Brains were worked into stretch skins that had been scraped to remove all flesh. Fresh not rotted. It is the olis in the brain that helped soften hides and preserve them. Smoked skins had richer color. Without so much smoke they were more white and butter soft for clothing. It is almost impossible to do beading or quil decorating on commercial tanned deer hides but very easy on well done brain tanned hides.
+Where i lived with my parents on a Northern California reservation for a few years, acorns were leached in the sand near the running water by a stream in the mountains. Acorns there, had once been a staple food.
+I’m Native American, ani susos kanona. Leather is cured by acid, smoke is acidic. The brains had to be putrid to work. Not all people used them; it’s mostly a West thing. Here, it’s too wet and flies would eat the hide before it cured. For rabbit blankets, the skins were smoked (which also keeps beetles out) before trimming the hide. Acorns here were never important. ani susos kanona means people of the corn moon. Are you raising canna lilies? The roots make the second best food starch. Where you’re at, they might be a perennial. Shoots get eaten like asparagus, and the seeds are supposed to be good as flour (when mixed with something else). The leaves are good animal feed or can be cooked in. If you plant seeds, make certain you cut a hole in the seed or it won’t sprout. It will take 10 months from seed to make a crop, but we don’t mind. From roots, a lot faster, but still months-long. BTW, the seeds can be used for emergency bird shot, they’re that hard. there’s even a variety called Indian Shot.
+I live in the southwest now, on the border of two reservationand near a third one. Staples here were corn, beans, squash, deer, bear, and wild fruits that were being grown in gardens and orchards hundreds of years ago. Even cattails were food and woven into foot coverings to proect bare feet. The mocasin of the area had rawhide soles and tanned leather uppers. The rawhide soles were custom made for the wearer by drying the fresh scraped elk hide on a carved wooden form that matched the shape of the foot each mocasin was made for. So it took two wooden forms for each pair. These were very practical protection on the desert. Most tops were a bit higher than the anckle and had a side button or thong ties. Some times two buttons tall. I have a pair with silver button closures. Earlier ones were bone or antler button closures or leather thongs. Pinions were the nut that was plentiful here. Salt from a small regional salt lake was a trading commodity. Even wheat was sometimes grown here and wild wheat will still come show up in flower beds or my garden. Amaranth was also a commonly grown or gathered plant used both as cooked greens and seeds are used as a grain to boil or grind for flour. Everyplace is rich in wild edibles.
+I did enjoy white oaks acorns as snacks as a kid. We would pick up a handful to peel and eat while we played. Even the two old trees on the school grounds were well enjoyed by a lot of the student body. You needed to watch for them after a storm when lots of them would fall. Good then but best after they lay through 2 or 3 good rainstorms. If they were getting a pinkstrip inside getting ready to sprout but not yet sprouted they were a wonderful tender sweetish nut.
+Be blessed. I need to get back to Arizona! The white oaks, were they blue oak or Emory Oak? I tried eating white oak out of hand, and they were still a little bitter, but not those other two.
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+When first introduced to dentistry, CAD/CAM machines created small and simple inlay/onlay restorations that were synonymous with lower-quality esthetics and open margins. Those shortcomings limited the technology’s use to dental schools, and mostly as a teaching resource. Today, however, a variety of computer-aided-design and computer-aided-manufacturing (CAD/CAM) applications are now available, including digital impression systems, courtesy of computer technology and software advancements.1 This digital evolution has enhanced dental restoration production to include CAD/CAM veneers, crowns, and bridges that can be fabricated chairside, and in one patient visit.2
+The first same-day chairside CAD/CAM software was introduced in 1985 by Mörmann with the development of the CEREC (Sirona,) system, which enabled dentists to create restorations within the dental practice by measuring the prepared cavity with an intra-oral camera, designing the restoration with a computer, and machine milling an inlay from a ceramic block.3-5 Andersson later developed the NobelProcera® CAD/CAM system (Nobel Biocare,),6 which utilized CAD/CAM technology to fabricate titanium copings through spark erosion to improve precision casting of titanium as an alternative to gold alloy-based restorations.5
+After nearly 30 years of innovation, current chairside CAD/CAM systems represent highly accurate, efficient, and predictable fabrication tools.7 Frameworks demonstrate a superior and more consistent passive fit than conventionally cast frameworks,8 and fabrication requires fewer necessary steps than conventional casting techniques (eg, waxing, investment, casting, and polishing).9 Research indicates that the long-term survival rates for CAD/CAM single-tooth restorations are similar to conventional single-tooth restorations.10
+Additionally, CAD/CAM’s integration of new materials, reduced labor, cost effectiveness, and quality control offer several other advantages.5,11 For example, compared to earlier technologies, today’s variety of dental CAD/CAM software and hardware systems,12 combined with advanced metal-free materials, allow dentists to design better restorations that can be milled with greater precision for an enhanced fit. However, CAD/CAM systems vary in their capabilities, with each demonstrating distinct advantages and limitations.13
+CEREC, the first chairside CAD/CAM system,14 quickly fabricates laboratory-grade chairside tooth-colored restorations (eg, full-coverage crowns, inlays/onlays, veneers) with rapid digital impression taking, simple designing, and precise machining for improved workflow and efficiency.14-16 The system’s broad spectrum of applications automates the design process for creating patient-specific restorations with easy-to-use and highly predictable and accurate software facilitating preparation and impression monitoring, so temporary restorations or conventional impressions are unnecessary.16
+CEREC simplifies and enhances restoration design with such software features as the biogeneric process, which analyzes morphologic characteristics of existing teeth and expresses them as a 3D image rendering.16 Based on the observation that a patient’s teeth exhibit similar morphologic characteristics, Mehl and Blanz developed this approach to create a valid quantitative process for calculating 3D averages of tooth surfaces, representing a principal component in evaluating the natural shape deviations from the 3D average for quickly designing restorations.17
+Planmeca (formerly known as the E4D Dentist System, E4D Technologies,) was introduced in 2008 to offer unique and open interfaces between its devices and software. This feature allows clinicians or the laboratory to choose certain aspects or the entire workflow solution (ie, intraoral scanner, CAD software, and milling machine) according to their needs.18,19 Ideal for designing a variety of restorations (eg, inlays, full-arch bridges, and abutments), the Planmeca system also facilitates same-day and chairside dentistry with its extensive restorative design library and milling capabilities.18
+Other companies also provide CAD/CAM restorative solutions (eg, CS Solutions, Carestream,; 3Shape™ Scan & Design System, 3Shape,) ranging from complete systems (ie, scan, design, and milling components) to those featuring an oral scanner and design software only, or software and milling machinery (eg, iTero®, Align Technology, Inc.,; 3M™ True Definition Scanner, 3M™ ESPE™,). As the popularity and prevalence of CAD/CAM technology and same-day dentistry continue to grow, more product developments for CAD/CAM use are expected.
+Caveats for CAD/CAM Impression Techniques
+Because the CAD/CAM restorative process is inherently digital, the digitalization of impressions through intraoral scans has provided clinicians with greater control and instant feedback during this process.20 Digital impressions represent a welcome alternative to conventional impression-taking methods, reducing the need for remakes and patient discomfort and improving delivery time, simplicity, and efficiency.20,21 Several of the steps necessary for conventional impressions (eg, tray selection, disinfection, shipping) are eliminated, and digital impression scanning can typically be completed in less than 5 minutes, which is approximately the same time required for conventional materials to set.20 Patients are more accepting of a comfortable digital impression process, which also decreases occurrences of material distortion and, therefore, the likelihood of restoration remakes.22,23
+Original digital intraoral scanners required powder to accurately capture images of oral structures, and early scanning systems required the use of titanium dioxide as an antireflective coating prior to taking optical impressions.24 Many updated scanners today are powderless, eliminating the additional step, further increasing patient comfort, and improving efficiency.
+However, to avoid the expensive upfront costs associated with digital impression scanners, clinicians continue to rely on conventional impressions to provide an accurate representation of the oral cavity. Successful conventional impression taking requires moisture control, atraumatic tissue retraction, clean tooth preparations, avoidance of material tears or distortion, and adequate disinfection and durability after removal.25 These requirements alone—as well as an in-vitro study indicating that digital impression accuracy is similar to that of conventional impressions—may encourage clinicians to invest in digital systems.26
+Material Options for CAD/CAM Restorations
+One factor limiting application of early CAD/CAM technology was the restorative ceramic blocks.7 The original CEREC system first utilized the Vitablocs Mark I (VITA Zahnfabrik,) ceramic material, a feldspar-based, fine-particle ceramic compressed into a block, machined, and then milled to create a restoration.14 In 1987, Vitablocs Mark I was replaced with Vitablocs Mark II (VITA Zahnfabrik),27 a fine-grained, high-glass-content feldspar-based ceramic used until about 1997.14
+As an alternative to porcelain, Paradigm™ MZ100 blocks (3M ESPE), filled (85%-90%)with ultrafine silica ceramic particle embedded in a bisphenol A-glycidyl methacrylate resin matrix, were introduced in 1997.14 Subsequent CAD/CAM material advancements have included lithium disilicate glass ceramic (IPS e.max® CAD, Ivoclar Vivadent) introduced in 2006, and the CEREC block (Sirona) launched in 2007.14
+Over the past 30 years, manufacturers have developed and introduced higher quality materials for use with CAD/CAM restorative systems that demonstrate enhanced esthetics, strength, and millability.7,13 These are typically manufactured in a uniform solid block in preparation for the milling process.7 Most CAD/CAM systems utilize a wet grinding process for milling or shaping the material blocks into restorations, and generally the material must be milled in less than 20 minutes to deliver same-day restorations.7
+CAD/CAM Restoration Design Considerations
+Despite more widespread use, many clinicians remain intimidated by completing CAD/CAM anterior restorations due to the necessity of matching the line angles, emergence profile, incisal edge position, and surface texture of adjacent teeth. However, three viable techniques can be used to design highly esthetic and functional anterior restorations.
+1. Biogeneric Copy
+The biogeneric copy technique is the easiest and most common method for designing anterior restorations. It utilizes an exact copy of the existing tooth contours and is primarily used when the preoperative tooth shade, size, form, and position are desirable for replication in the final restoration. Indicated for designing restorations to replace/treat pre-existing crowns, veneers with recurrent decay, and discolored teeth, this technique works well for creating restorations based on an already established ideal shape. It can also be used in complex cases where the laboratory fabricates a wax-up for multiple teeth. The biogeneric copy provides an easy and predictable way to design multiple restorations, as it involves simply copying the old tooth or restoration form, with the software replicating the design to create a new restoration. A few tools and minor modifications may be necessary during the design stage to ensure optimal occlusion and esthetics.
+Case Study 1
+A patient presented with veneers on teeth Nos. 7 through 10, with the No. 9 veneer fractured and a piece saved (Figure 1). After initial assessment, the patient requested same-day dentistry to replace the fractured veneer. The broken piece was placed back onto the tooth with adhesive and tack cured to create an acceptable and desired proposed shape for the final veneer. A scan was then taken of teeth Nos. 6 through 11, placed in the “BioCopy Upper” folder, and also copied into the “Upper Arch” folder. The scan was cut using the cut tool, and a void was left behind.
+The veneer on No. 9 was then completely removed and the tooth prepared. A scan of the preparation was taken and placed into the “Upper Arch” folder (Figure 2). The software was used to marginate the preparation, and the insertion axis was established for the new restoration. A line was drawn around the entire tooth No. 9 surface (Figure 3) to include the line angles and incisal edges, and the software proposed a restoration design exactly replicating the preoperative contours and shape (Figure 4). Minor modifications were completed using the form smooth tool on the proposed veneer (Figure 5). The proximal contacts were then verified, and the veneer was milled from a lithium disilicate block (IPS Empress® CAD Multiblock, Ivoclar Vivadent). The fit of the veneer was verified intraorally (Figure 6), after which it was polished with a bristle brush (Abbott-Robinson® Brush, Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co., Inc.,) and polishing paste (DiaShine Fine, VHTechnologies,), then seated using dental adhesive (OptiBond™ XTR, Kerr Dental,) and resin cement (NX3 Nexus, Kerr Dental) (Figure 7).
+2. Biogeneric Reference
+Utilized when a tooth requires restoration but the existing shape, size, form, and/or position is not desirable, the biogeneric reference method generates a computer-controlled match of the contralateral tooth as the restoration design. Typically used for single anterior tooth restorations, the designs are based on shapes of teeth in the same class (ie, if tooth No. 9 were broken and required restoration, the shape of tooth No. 8 would be replicated for the restoration). Similar to the biogeneric copy method, the software uses an already existing tooth shape for restoration design.
+Case Study 2
+A patient presented with a fractured porcelain crown, recurrent decay, and previously placed cast gold endodontic post on tooth No. 9 (Figure 8). After all treatment options were considered, the patient chose to replace the fractured crown. Because the shape, size, and form of tooth No. 9 were undesirable and the biogeneric copy method inappropriate, tooth No.8 would be used as a biogeneric reference and model for the final restoration.
+All decay was removed from tooth No. 9, the margins were refined, and enameloplasty was completed on the worn incisal edge to improve esthetics. The preparation and adjacent teeth were scanned into the “Upper Arch” folder (Figure 9), and the opposing teeth were scanned into the “Lower Arch” folder (Figure 10). The patient was then instructed to close into maximum intercuspation, and the bite relation was captured in the “Buccal Bite” folder. The software then combined the three scans, mimicking the patient’s maximum intercuspation (Figure 11).
+The software then marginated tooth No. 9, the correct insertion axis was chosen, and tooth No. 8 was replicated as the final restoration for No.9. Tooth No. 9 was then selected in the upper teeth scan. Similar to the biogeneric copy method, the copy line was drawn around the entire surface of tooth No. 9 and adjusted to include line angles and the incisal edges. The software then proposed an exact replica of the form, shape, and size of tooth No. 8 as the restoration for tooth No. 9 (Figure 12).
+The crown was then milled from a lithium disilicate block (IPS e.max® LT, Ivoclar Vivadent) to mask the dark stump, and then tried in intraorally to verify the margins and contacts. It was then stained, glazed, and seated using and dental adhesive (OptiBond XTR) and resin cement (NX3 Nexus) (Figure 13).
+3. Biogeneric Individual
+The last resort for anterior teeth, this method is used only when neither the tooth to be restored nor the contralateral tooth has a desirable shape, size, or form. This technique analyzes neighboring and adjacent teeth, then calculates and proposes a restoration design that fits the form and shape of the other teeth in the arch; the more information available, the more successful the calculation. While predictable for posterior teeth, this method requires more modifications for anterior teeth using design tools after the initial software design is proposed. This increases the time necessary to design a restoration and requires additional knowledge of various design tools.
+Case Study 3</p>
+A patient presented with fractured incisal edges on teeth No. 8 and 9, with wear and diastemas between them (Figure 14). The patient’s chief desire was an even-looking smile without the dark triangle between teeth Nos. 8 and 9, and she wanted the dentistry completed in one visit. Without this request, an impression could have been sent to the laboratory for creating an ideal wax-up, which would then have enabled the biogeneric copy technique. Unfortunately, neither of the teeth to be restored demonstrated ideal form or shape, and none of the other teeth in the arch provided an ideal replicating template.
+The teeth were prepared for veneers, and 15).
+In the model phase, teeth Nos. 8 and 9 were marginated and the correct insertion axis selected. The software then proposed veneers for No. 8 and No. 9, but the restoration width, incisal edge position, and basic outline form designs did not match (Figure 16). CAD software tools were utilized to alter the veneer designs and create harmonious restorations (Figure 17). Once the form, shape, and size of the veneer designs were identical, the incisal variation tool was used to impart anatomy and texture to the facial surfaces.
+The veneers were then milled with blocks featuring an inherent color gradation to match the other teeth in this case (VITA TriLuxe, VITA Zahnfabrik). After the fit was verified, the restorations were polished with a bristle brush (Abbott-Robinson Brush) and polishing paste (Diashine Fine), then seated with dental adhesive and resin cement (Figure 18).
+Multi-Visit, Full-Arch Rehabilitation: Case Study 4
+A patient presented with chief complaints of an uneven smile, discolored teeth, and overall unhappiness with his current smile (Figure 19). A smile analysis was completed, and preoperative photographs and a polyvinyl impression of his upper and lower arches were sent to the laboratory for fabrication of an ideal wax-up with golden proportions. The laboratory was instructed to increase the length of tooth No. 8 by 1.5 mm and finish the others based on those proportions (Figure 20). The laboratory also fabricated a clear stent for provisionalization.
+The patient returned, teeth Nos. 5 through 12 were prepared for full-coverage crowns, and the preparations were scanned into the “BioCopy Upper” folder (Figure 21). The clear stent transferred the ideal wax-up to the mouth via provisionals, and after cementation, all eight temporaries were scanned into the biogeneric copy “Upper Arch” folder (Figure 22).
+All the teeth were marginated and the correct insertion axis established for each tooth individually. The software then proposed the final eight restorations based on the copy line completed for each individual tooth. The crown designs were modified using the different tools, and ideal embrasures, line angles, and contacts were created (Figure 23). All restorations were milled from light translucency lithium disilicate blocks (IPS e.max LT BL1, Ivoclar Vivadent), which would block the dark tetracycline tooth stains. The restorations were glazed, then tried on the model to verify fit and contacts.
+The patient returned again, and the provisionals were removed and the CAD/CAM crowns tried in intraorally to verify margins and contacts. The restorations were adhesively cemented, and the patient was very pleased with the color and even proportions of his smile (Figure 24).
+Conclusion
+Regardless of the variety and breadth of CAD/CAM systems available today, the technology can alter the way dental professionals design and create restorations. With improved materials and continued technological advancements, digitally designed and milled restorations can be highly esthetic, longer lasting, and more predictable. Additionally, the processes associated with CAD/CAM restorations reduce patient discomfort, improve restorative accuracy, and contribute to efficient practice productivity. Contributing to these advantages are techniques for designing restorations within CAD software. Using an existing tooth form (eg, tooth to be restored, contralateral, or patterns of adjacent teeth) as the basis, today’s dental CAD techniques simplify the design process, leaving the operator only to adjust it to improve esthetics and/or fit.
+Disclosure
+The author has no relevant financial affiliations to disclose.
+Author Information
+Dr. Patel has been using CAD/CAM technology for 7 of his 10 years in practice.
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+Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
+Democrats have won the national vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, which, with the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, will have resulted in the appointment of eight of the Supreme Court’s nine justices. And yet four of those justices will have been appointed by presidents who took office despite having fewer votes than their opponent. Republicans will have increasingly solid control of the court’s majority, with the chance to replace the sometimes-wavering Kennedy with a never-wavering conservative movement stalwart.
+Over the last generation, the Republican Party has moved rapidly rightward, while the center of public opinion has not. It is almost impossible to find a substantive basis in public opinion for Republican government. On health care, taxes, immigration, guns, the GOP has left America behind in its race to the far right. But the Supreme Court underscores its ability to counteract the undertow of its deepening, unpopular extremism by marshaling countermajoritiarian power.
+This is the way that the neocon (Hillary Clinton wing) Democrat Jonathan Chait, writing at the Democratic Party propaganda-organ New York magazine, got something correct, for a change. That quotation opened Chait’s June 27th commentary, which was ominously titled “The Republican Court and the Era of Minority Rule”. However, the prospects for democracy in America are actually even worse than that. This problem is bipartisan, and Chait himself has been part of it. Neoconservatives (otherwise called “America’s imperialists” but they’re basically no different from imperialists in other countries) run both of America’s political Parties — not only the Republican Party — regardless of what voters might happen to think of the neoconservative philosophy. This disparity between the non-ideological public and the virtually 100% neoconservative rulers, is due to the fact that voters have no real power in America (something that Chait noted in that excerpt, but only within a partisan Democratic-Party-versus-Republican-Party context, not any broader or more encompassing context, one that questions the political and economic system itself — at a deeper level than merely “Democratic” versus “Republican”). By contrast against that powerless public, America’s aristocrats possess all of the real power, in both Parties, and they’re virtually 100% imperialists (“neocons”) because they want their private international corporate empires to dominate over the entire world — at the public’s expense, with a huge, globe-spanning, military.
+This insightful (though too narrowly focused) opening from Chait shows that even neoconservatives (such as he) aren’t always wrong about everything. In fact, this opening, from a Democratic Party neoconservative, about America’s increasing conservative (Republican) dictatorship, was entirely truthful within its partisan narrow scope, and therefore (to that extent) it was more like an exemplification of the proverbial “infinite monkey theorem” — that “a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.” That opening was a random masterpiece.
+However, Chait’s ‘Shakespearean’ string ended precisely there, when he immediately followed it by saying, “The story really begins in December 2000,” and he proceeded then to blame everything on Bush-v.-Gore, and on the way that the Republican operatives raped the American nation on 9 December 2000. But to allege that the problem started in 2000 is false ‘history’. This problem started much earlier (as will now be documented).
+—.”
+Consequently, for example, prior to our invasion of Iraq in 2003, our opinions of “Saddam’s WMD” were simply being manipulated by the controlling owners of U.S.-based international corporations (including their ‘news’media, which they advertise in and/or also own), just as those same super-rich individuals (most of whom are Americans) have controlled whom the nine people will be who rule from the Supreme Court, about what the U.S. Constitution means, and doesn’t mean (and this judicial panel, of course, also decided Bush-v.-Gore, to which Chait blames America’s dictatorship).
+So: the U.S. Constitution has become increasingly twisted (by such jurists) to ‘mean’ things (such as aristocratic dictatorship) that were actually loathed by America’s Founders, who even went to war against Britain’s aristocracy — this anti-aristocratic Constitution has become increasingly twisted by the aristocracy’s court-picks, to ‘mean’ things such as creating and expanding an international empire, and as allowing U.S. taxpayers to be forced to subsidize the political speech of some religions and not of other religions, nor of seculars (rejectors of all religions). Especially the Republican Party benefits enormously from empowering evangelical pastors to preach Republican propaganda to their congregations. Religion becomes a political football.
+According to that scientific study, the United States, during the period that was studied, 1981 through to 2002, which was virtually the entire twenty years PRIOR to Bush-.v.-Gore — and this is quoting now directly from the study itself: “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.” So: it didn’t start in 2000.
+A study published two years later (in 2016) reviewed the entire relevant report states, in its “Conclusions,” that, “the trends seem to be moving in the wrong direction from the standpoint of democratic theory — that is, people seem less and less likely to get what they say they want from government.”
+The basic problem in America, therefore, isn’t Democratic versus Republican; it is instead democracy versus dictatorship. And this problem exists within each Party: each Party is controlled by its billionaires, not by its voting-public.
+So: how does this — the aristocracy’s dictatorial grip on America’s Government — actually function? Not only the 2000 U.S. Presidential ‘election’ was stolen from the American electorate, but so too are almost all U.S. national elections stolen, especially the crucial ones, such as the political primary elections to Congress and the Presidency, for candidates to become the selected nominees of each of the two political Parties and thus to become offered to the public as the final contestants who might actually win those offices in the U.S. national Government. Just as Bernie Sanders was the most-preferred of all candidates in 2016 to become the U.S. President but the nomination was stolen from him by the Democratic National Committee for Hillary Clinton, it’s the same in most ‘elections’ to American national offices. And this dictatorship by the super-rich didn’t start with Bush.-v.-Gore, such as Chait alleges.
+—
+Here’s a current example of how this dictatorship functions: Right now, the U.S. aristocracy, who control all of the large U.S. corporations — including all of the major news-media — are pushing very hard to impose a kind of lock-down against the few media that they don’t control: against the media whose only presence is online, because these small media lack the funding to have either a print-and-paper presence, or else network broadcast and telecast facilities or a cable network. The way that the ‘news’-giants propagandize for this lockdown against unwanted truths, is by calling those small media sites (especially the half-dozen or so which do publish the elsewhere prohibited truths) ‘fake news’ media, and by alleging that only the print-broadcast-cable ‘news’ media (the very same ‘news’media which had deceived the public in 2002 to fear “Saddam’s WMD,” and which subsequently also ‘justified’, in 2011, Obama’s destruction of Libya, and then his subsequent invasion of Syria) ought to be trusted by the American people. Obviously, trusting those media is crazy, but America’s aristocrats want the public to believe this false way — trusting the billionaire-controlled ‘news’media.
+Thus, on June 27th, Gallup reported:
+Gall.
+The Gallup news-report closed: “Gallup and Knight Foundation acknowledge support for this research provided by the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Open Society Foundations.” All of them are neoconservative organizations, which represent the interests of America’s billionaires — not of the public anywhere.
+The technical report of this experiment concluded that mainstream news-media can increase the public’s prejudice against non-mainstream news-media, by having their own hired “experienced journalists” label those small competing news-media as providers of ‘misinformation’ instead of ‘news’:
+This survey experiment evaluated the effect of a specific source rating tool — cues about news organization trustworthiness based on evaluations from experienced journalists. The findings suggest that using this approach may help combat online misinformation and restore confidence in obtaining quality news.
+Of course, this finding is very good news for America’s billionaires, because further suppressing what the aristocrats are calling ‘misinformation’ (such as this, from one of the sites on the aristocracy’s banned list) will enable them to increase their dictatorship, even more. (Incidentally, both the bipartisan aristocratic control, and the truth-suppression, are similar in UK to what they are in U.S., and with similar results.)
+As time goes by, the means of deceiving the public, become even cagier than they were before. The way that the dictatorship in America functions is by deceiving the public; and perhaps this Gallup-Knight-Ford-Gates-Soros study has helped them to develop a more effective “tool” to do that.
+—
+Maybe the next big invasion will be of Iran. American-and-allied media seem to be focusing increasingly on this particular target. Perhaps “experienced journalists” are being promoted right now, for that very purpose. With Donald Trump in power, Iran is systematically becoming the main next target. It was his top target even before he became elected; and one can even say that he was selected by the U.S. aristocracy, and by Israel’s aristocracy, and by the Saud family who own Saudi Arabia, and by the leader of UAE’s royal families, mainly for this reason, to be installed to run the U.S. regime. But, of course, they would also have done very well if Hillary Clinton had been ‘elected’. That’s the way things are: politics in America, especially at the national level, is now merely a puppet-show. And, apparently, many if not most of the people who are pulling the strings in it don’t so much as live here — they are foreigners, though of the types that Trump (as now is obvious), relies upon, instead of persecutes (such as ‘wetbacks’). The American people are merely the audience. We didn’t even buy this puppet-show. Those billionaires did. (The American ones also buy the puppet-theater which presents Russia — not Israel or Saudi Arabia — as being the foreign power that controls the U.S. Government and that ‘endangers democracy’ everywhere. During the communist era, that story-line was believable by even intelligent people, but after 24 February 1990, it no longer is: the U.S.’s own aristocracy clearly is that “foreign power”.)
+NOTE: The way that the present writer tries to facilitate readers’ checking-out the trustworthiness of the allegations in my own news-reports, isn’t based on sites (like the aristocracy want it to be, so that the news that they don’t want the public to know — and that their own ‘news’-sites won’t publish — won’t be able to have an impact) but instead is based on individual news-reports, by means of providing links to that specific source whenever a given allegation is of such nature that a significant percentage of readers might think it to be false. I am selective of each and every individual article or video that I cite (link to) as being evidence; I never select and link to sources on the basis of the news-medium that published them, because I sometimes find falsehoods published on even the best media, and sometimes find thoroughly accurate articles or videos to be published on even the worst media.
+Selecting on the basis of media, instead of specific evidence, is for fools. Every news-consumer should know what the prejudices of any given ‘news’medium are — its main propagandistic orientations. But to evaluate any given allegation on that type of basis, is foolish. It is an ad-hominem, not ad-rem, evaluation regarding that given allegation. It welcomes prejudices, instead of facts — it repels truths. And that is why the aristocracy encourages and promotes it, as the Gallup-Knight-Ford-Gates-Soros study does. (In fact, I’ve seen evidence that the Washington Post uses software that automatically rejects any submission which links to a website that isn’t on the Post’s management-approved list of sites to link to. And, of course, this management-policy encourages the ‘news’paper to accept submissions that have no links in them at all — precisely the least-trustworthy type of submissions.)
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+Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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+| Fair Use: use it or lose it ».
+Answer: by limiting music that played in classrooms, haggling over clearance fees, and cutting out a scene.
+Okay, some background: I saw Mad Hot Ballroom a few weeks ago with a couple of friends and we all fell in love with it. The documentary, directed by Park Sloper Marilyn Agrelo, follows New York public school kids in a citywide a ballroom dancing competition. If you haven't yet seen it, you should run out and do so.
+One of the things that amazed me about the movie was how the filmmakers were able to clear so much music on an indie budget. Those of you who follow this blog or who read the Untold Stories report know what I'm talking about: clearing song rights for films has become close to impossible for small documentary films, thanks to the exorbitant rates copyright holders demand.
+To find out how the makers of Mad Hot Ballroom dealt with copyright clearances, I talked to producer/writer Amy Sewell by phone last month.
+* * * *
+Stay Free!: There's so much music in your movie, I'm wondering: did you think about copyright before you decided to do this film?
+VIEW CLIP #1Due to the high costs of music clearances, some songs -- such as Peggy Lee's "Fever" -- were used repeatedly.
+VIEW CLIP #2This second clip is gratuitous. I'm including it 'cos Wilson and Elsymia are so damn cute.
+Amy Sewell: No, and naïveté worked well for me! If I had known all that I had to go through, I'm not sure I would have done it. I read a book about clearances and started clearing the music by myself, but ended up bringing in Mark Reynolds to help. We cleared almost 50 songs before we started filming. American Ballroom Theater, which sponsors the courses and competitions, had a list of songs they use so we took that list and saw what we could clear and for what price. We narrowed that down and went back to American Ballroom Theater and asked them to use only these songs, because source background music can't be edited out easily or cheaply. If a song we couldn't clear -- like "Hit the Road Jack" -- was playing on a boom box, we would have had to cut the scene.
+Stay Free!: Did you license the songs for a particular time period, or did you get them for perpetuity?
+Sewell:..
+I wasn't going to edit or cut any music, so I would continue to
+negotiate everything down until we could afford it. I'm sure I annoyed
+people in the music industry. But the industry should have a different
+set of standard for documentary films. We're not Applebee's.
+Stay Free!: When you explain that this is for a low-budget documentary, does that matter to rights people?
+Sewell: They do have discounts but the costs are still heavy. As a
+businesswoman, I don't blame them for making money. I just think the
+prices should be fair.!: He should have thought of that before he did all those lousy Pepsi commercials.
+Sewell: But "Hit the Road Jack" was special for him. His lawyer
+said, "I don't care if you were the president and had half a million
+dollars, you're not going to get this song." There are two songs Ray
+Charles seldom granted rights to, "Hit the Road, Jack" and "God Bless
+America." I love that: "Hit the Road" is right there with "God Bless
+America."!: What
+about that scene where the teachers start dancing after their meeting?
+And the one were the kids went up on the rock and danced. Those seemed
+like they might have been staged.
+Sewell: No, we didn't tell anyone what to do. The kids went up there
+on their own. And after the meeting, somebody put on a disco song and
+the teachers broke out in dance. We thought it was funny.Stay Free!: Were there any scenes you had to cut out of the film because of copyright?
+Sewell:,.
+UPDATE 6/22/05: FAIR USE: USE IT OR LOSE IT
+SEE ALSO (12/21/05): Documentary films and fair use.
+Posted by carrie on 06/22/2005 | Permalink
+carrie, great interview, really good questions. and some discouraging answers. but way to go amy sewell for sticking up for the film and the music. there has got to be a better way.
+Posted by: justin | Jun 22, 2005 2:39:43 AM
+My blood boils hearing stories like this. Artists have to stop cooperating with these oppressors. Everyone knows these aspects of the US copyright system are wrong, but artists continue to voluntarily pay obscene tributes to these bastards. Let's have an industrywide boycott, stand on our hind legs and collectively declare: "so sue me!"
+Posted by: Nina P | Jun 22, 2005 8:58:09 AM
+This is absolutely fascinating. It's not really the copyright office (as far as I know and I'm not as informed as I need to be), it's the money-makers which comes down to the labels and music publishers.
+As an indie musician, I'm more than a little concerned about this. We are unsigned but signed up with ASCAP a while back so we hope they don't bully broke internet/independent radio to pay us royalities when they have no money. We'll see.
+I have found many internet radio stations have to have the musicians sign that they don't owe them royalities which I am perfectly willing to do for exposure and support.
+But if you are signed (MAKAR is unsigned) they take this discretion of your hands and try to grab money whereever they can and this is where it gets ridiculous! So an artist or songwriter who wants to support independent works or have their songs in a film for little or no cost may have no say in the matter. It has gotten so bad that cafes/bars etc have to actually pay music publishers for use of playing music in their venues! IT'S FREE EXPOSURE but these money-grabbers have lost sight of that, all they care about is pennies, pennies that usually don't even go to the artist. It is such a chilling effect on creative collaborations between film and music.
+So yes this is a messed up situation. I hope that our relationship with ASCAP (and it seems like you have to sign up with ASCAP or BMI for if you don't, you can get screwed in myraid ways) doesn't interfere with us granting use of our songs to who ever we want to give it to. Sigh! Andrea
+Posted by: Makar | Jun 22, 2005 10:47:12 AM
+I'm not glad it was hard to clear rights, but I am glad that rights had to be cleared; I'm glad that Ray Charles can protect the associations of his performances of his music.
+Posted by: barlow | Jun 23, 2005 5:55:23 PM
+I just finished working with a documentary video class a couple weeks back. When clearing rights for music or images came up the questions and discussion would go on forever. The students seemed to be exessively worried about publishers coming after them in their student films. I needed to remind them that they should be more worried about making a good movie. It's amazing to me how that threat reaches so far. When Lawrence Lessig talks about how copyright laws can inhibit creativity, it never resonated so much untill talking with these students.
+Posted by: Steve Lambert | Jun 23, 2005 6:04:01 PM
+I know of a case in a video production class in the division I work for, where the teacher was told to remove several songs from a student-created project because they could "open the division up for prosecution for improper copyright clearance". I can't remember what the exact dividing line was, but I believe it was he couldn't use any part of a sing from 1975 on, which I find COMPLETELY ASSININE.
+Posted by: suprunown | Jun 23, 2005 10:27:44 PM
+I came at it the other way about: Make the documentary I want to make, including copyrighted material, and deal with whatever I have to change later. Unfortunately, some of my favorite parts of the film have copyrighted music and/or images, so it feels like stripping the soul out of the thing. Now reading this makes me paranoid and immobile.
+Yes, there's got to be a better way - this is ridiculous.
+Posted by: Chuck Olsen | Jun 24, 2005 4:09:37 AM
+I think filmmakers as artist should understand and support the ability to protect your work. That is what most songwriters want. They intrust the publishers mostly to do this on their behalf. Admitedly everyone in publishing does not care about the songwriters wants and are just trying to close a deal. But you need to look at the economics fairly. The worse thing to say to a record label or publisher is that the use is 'promotional'. This comment comes from filmmakers, tv producers, ad agencies, corporate sponsors, webcasters, P2P download sites. So how does the music industry recoup the millions it cost to pay song writers and make records. CD sales are diminishing everyweek. They need to make some revenue from sync uses like films but if you approach them fairly they will more then likely work with you to find a middle ground. It is called Show Business, there is as much Business as there is Show.
+Posted by: JK | Jun 24, 2005 1:11:20 PM
+I agree with Barlow that it's a good thing that you did have some hoops to jump through. However, if they have the choice of making it easy on you (the paying customer) or hard, you'd think they might choose easy. This is a classic example of why oligopolies are the worst sort of supplier (excepting state-controlled monopolies)
+I have probably bought less than $200 worth of music over the course of my whole life (and most of that from clearance bins). Every once in a while, I ask myself why I know every last intonation on every last track by heart rather than invest in new stuff. Then I remember things like this, and I realize it's money more judiciously spent on almost anything else.
+Posted by: Legate Damar | Jun 24, 2005 6:27:30 PM
+> So how does the music industry recoup the millions it cost to pay song writers and make records. CD sales are diminishing everyweek.
+and that's part of the misinformation going around. Independant labels and musicians are more than making up the difference in sales that RIAA is loosing. The majority of the public is informed by only one side of the arguement.
+i'm hoping for a day when the most current recognizable music is produced largely by independants. Both Wilco and Aimee Mann are good examples that it can be done, successfully.
+Just how much of the $10k for rights does anyone think actually went to pay for the persons responsible for creating the music in the first place?
+I worry about our cultural history being robbed from us. There are examples of artists using other artists works that I know of, back to the 50's, only then they didn't need to credit anyone else, much less pay for it.
+I doubt if the Rolling Stones could have evolved today in this climate if they didn't have fair use of southern blues music.
+Posted by: aikanae | Jun 24, 2005 8:17:23 PM
+Section 8, Clause 8:
+To demolish the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for unlimited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
+Stupid founding fathers! Why did they have to put that in the Constitution? If only it had been for a limited time, we wouldn't be in this mess.
+Posted by: Barry | Jun 24, 2005 11:10:22 PM
+It's one thing when a documentary filmmaker intentionally puts a song or image in a movie, but given the way that our entire environment is plastered with advertising images and copyrighted music blares from speakers in every public space, making a documentary will soon be completely impossible if we don't fight to extend the boundaries of fair use.
+Posted by: RDA | Jun 25, 2005 1:27:55 PM
+I don't blame the music industry or copyright holders for asking their fees. After all, it is a business.
+If anything, documentary filmmakers should NOT use copyrighted music and IP if they can't afford it. They should just either remove the sound and use their own, or create their own original music for the documentary. As for copyrighted images, just smudge it out just as they do in Reality TV shows, such as the Osbournes.
+Posted by: James Katt | Jun 25, 2005 6:48:15 PM
+barlow | June 23, 2005 05:55 PM:
+"I'm not glad it was hard to clear rights, but I am glad that rights had to be cleared; I'm glad that Ray Charles can protect the associations of his performances of his music."
+Ray Charles himself was the beneficiary of the free donation of millions of people whose creative work over thousands of years helped form the substance and framework of Charles's own work. I can think of no art however radical that does not depend on and reflect this tradition, this giving-over to the future, and until very recently, historically speaking, it was expected and thought normal. That would include finding one's own performances and compositions in unusual contexts.
+The total propertization of artistic and other intellectual work which we now observe is thus a radical departure from human experience leading to many questionable results, some of which are easily seen in the story of this documentary. The most obvious is that, instead of encouraging artistic creation, we are inhibiting it by allowing rentier corporations to lock much of the material up forever.
+Is this something we want to do?
+Posted by: Gordon Fitch | Jun 26, 2005 9:19:31 AM
+Well, of course! Composers don't work for free. I wouldn't use a film in my work if I didn't have the rights. Perhaps this will encourage film-makers to employ independant composers (creating more employment, more opportunities and more focused creativity) instead of relying on set copyrighted tracks.
+JD
+Posted by: Julian Day | Jun 27, 2005 7:40:52 AM
+Thinking again, I'm surprised film-makers feel this way. Would you use unauthorized footage of Marlon Brando or Tom Cruise in this way? Would you protest that you 'cannot use' footage shot by Stanley Kubrick to further your own film ambitions?
+Are you even aware of the financial situation faced by most composers/sound artists? Would you like to live thanks to teaching students or working the phones?
+Posted by: Julian Day | Jun 27, 2005 7:48:20 AM
+This is really a complex issue and needs to be examined more, so that changes are made that both benefit the musicians, in terms of exposure and the filmmakers, in terms of using music. The boundaries of "Fair use" need to be redefined. The US Copyright System can both protect and inhibit artists in their respective industries.
+Posted by: G | Jun 27, 2005 10:31:06 AM
+JD: Please read the article. It's at the top of the page, above the comments.
+Posted by: Nina | Jun 27, 2005 12:21:01 PM
+How about...
+make a graduated level use fee structure like what ASCAP and BMI use for public performance in venues such as bars and theatres. That way they could allow the use of a song conditionally (sp?), and the price would be structured as to the use.
+Big studios would have to use the same system that is in place yet, independent documentary artists could pay a quarterly fee ( or something) to use music, that is already being used in a fair use way that they are documenting.
+just a thought.
+cheers!
+AE05.
+Posted by: atomic elroy | Jun 27, 2005 2:37:17 PM
+I agree with Nina Paley's "Artists have to stop cooperating with these oppressors.". I host a show at my community radio station (WEFT 90.1 FM in Champaign, Illinois) every other Wednesday called "Digital Citizen" and I refuse to play anything my listeners cannot at least share verbatim (although it's better if they can build upon it as well). I do this because I respect my listeners freedom to share and build culture and I think we're better off with a share-and-share-alike situation than with what we have now. I don't want other people telling us what we are allowed to express and what we're not. The power of copyright I like is the power to tell others that they cannot share in what we have if they don't share with us. This doesn't preclude private creativity, but when the work is published it should be a part of the commons. And, really, that is how copyright is supposed to go -- eventually all copyrighted works are supposed to become part of the unfettered commons known as the public domain. But that's not what some artists (like Mark Twain) and some publishing corporations (like Disney) want. They want an infinite term of copyright power.
+I want to help build popular culture that is based on respect for our mutual need to express ourselves. I'm all for getting paid too, but I don't see that as being necessarily tied to exclusion. In my mind's eye, I see artists being paid by money set aside to fill our world with more art. And I see artists being paid for making art made for some specific purpose (being hired for a job, for example: if I want to start a blog, I may need cartoonists who will come up with something new every week or two. I pay them from money I collect from my subscribers who give me money because they want to see the new stuff coming online every week or two not because they're excluded if they don't pay). And I wonder how much art can be made for a living wage like work can be had doing any other kind of expert work (plumbing, electrical, car mechanic, computer programming, etc.). It seems to me like there's always a market for experts, and I think this could be useful when changing our culture from one based on permission to one based on expectation of something new built from something else.
+Regarding "protect"ing one's work: everything is built from something else, no matter how creative or smart the artist is. Our copyright regime gives people the illusion that this is not so, that what you made is built from nothing. If you truly did that, your work would be incomprehensible because we learn by relating what we don't know to what we do know. Please see for some wise words on why "protect"ing copyrighted works is a wrongheaded philosophy.
+Regarding bullying independant radio offline: most radio stations broadcast tracks whose copyright is held by RIAA clients -- virtually every big corporate label you know, and a lot of the smaller ones including Ani DiFranco's label, "Righteous Babe Records". These stations are not in compliance with RIAA Internet broadcasting restrictions. The rules for Internet broadcasting are different than the rules for over-the-air broadcasting despite that both sets of rules apply to the same tracks of audio. Thus, Internet radio stations could be prohibited from distributing those tracks on the Internet if the RIAA felt like defending their own rules. Thus, for stations which want to transmit those tracks who are not yet online, there is an ethical matter at stake: should they (essentially) agree to terms they know they will break? Should Internet radio stations instead stop distributing copies of RIAA's client's tracks and instead focus on distributing copies of tracks that they have a license to share as *the DJs see fit*?
+Finally regarding composers working for free: About 20 years ago this same line was said about computer programmers. Then the free software movement came along (which focuses on freedom as in speech, not free as in price) and showed (proof by existence) that not only will some programmers work for zero cost, they collectively will produce the best software in the world which challenges the largest and richest proprietor monopolies around (Apple, Microsoft).
+Posted by: J.B. Nicholson-Owens | Jun 28, 2005 12:20:28 AM
+Re the above debate, speaking as a video production lecturer, I certainly advise my students of the realities of UK copyright law. This has particular bite for my course as when a student film won a local TV-sponsored film-making prize in the mid-90's, we had to perform major audio surgery to avoid copyright issues linked to music used in the piece. And this on a 2-machine analogue edit suite ! Suddenly students discover that lots of people play music and many these days write it. So a few phone calls, a little slightly more "live" demonstration of Production Management skillsets and the film was redubbed and broadcast. Now My students look for library music and sound effects on the web and then contact - usually possible - the musician/composer directly, explain what they are trying to create and get permission to use the music in return for credits and a copy of the movie . That way, the music is likely to be marketed more widely than it would have been otherwise, and these days student films are seen by all kinds of industry people as the DVD showreel proliferates (and the talent base expands). So - is this a win-win situation ? Well yes, especially if either the musician or the film-maker is exposed to a wider audience. Where would Scorsese have gotten to without "Its really not you, Murray" and the music for that short was I think re-used in "Mean Streets" which should have generated some royalties. Plus ca Change. Students need to learn the craft and copyright must provide one of the bedrock findamentals of that craft. Creativity is one thing but the rights of the creator must be defended.
+Posted by: ian osborne | Jun 28, 2005 1:17:03 AM
+I'm enlightened, just when I think there is nothing left to debate over I see this. I happened upon this site while searching for a way to submit a song to Tim McGraw. Wow.
+Intellectual conversation and to think I wanted royalties off of the song had he chose to sing it and sell it. Then I think, well it is my work, if he profits I should too.
+My percentage would be small compared to his but I'm not a multimillionaire, in fact I'm two weeks away from being homeless if I lose my job. I will be paying child support soon and a few extra dollars a month from royalties sounds great to me.
+My uncle appeared in the movie Practical Magic, they held up a photo of him, that was it (he was originally in a scene which was later deleted) and because of that photo he receives 300 bucks a month. That's awesome.
+I wonder if any sports figures will ever copyright moves???? I can't dunk but what if I could and I violated Shaq's copyright to the lethargic leap? Who knows?
+Posted by: Joseph | Jul 2, 2005 1:49:34 AM
+I find this kind of information so darn interesting. Music rights is something one could figure out that they needed with little contact in the producing area. But, go figure; who would have guessed the small points you included, i.e. the verbal, "everybody dance now" and that the cellphone ringing would matter? What savvy patience the producers must have gained working towards their successful conclusion.
+By the sound of the trials and tribulations Agrelo and Sewell endured, it's amazing they stuck with this movie.
+They have my vote for best documentary and my applause for opening millions of eyes, ears, minds and hearts!
+Bravo-ly
+Endicott Coolmoss,M.A.P.
+P.S. QUESTIONS: If the producers would not have been so particular, could the copyright holders have come back after the film's success and negotiated a larger piece of the pie? And, with the news of a possible lawsuit, could that free publicity have taken the place of millions of dollars worth of paid advertising? Does Ellen have to clear all the music she uses while dancing?
+endicottcoolmoss@hotmail.com
+Posted by: Endicott Coolmoss | Jul 5, 2005 12:30:29 PM
+>So how does the music industry recoup the millions it cost to pay song writers and make records
+Easy, Mr. Troll, they illegally inflate prices of CDs, then pocket >85% of the wholesale price, lie to artists about sales volume and costs, and sue deceased people and people without computers for swapping MP3s.
+I can see how you might think that a few seconds of a song that plays for free on the radio might totally destroy the music industry if it got into a documentary nobody watches, though. That makes plenty of sense.
+Posted by: blah | Jul 14, 2005 4:34:49 AM
+I'm a musician/producer (published) and have always worked on the principle that if someone else is getting paid and they are using my work I should get a fair cut of the pie.
+In agreement with my publisher students and no-budget first time directors can *usually* clear use of my music in films and documentaries for nothing (or at least very little), a credit, and a copy of the film.
+I may not charge but I still want to be able to clear/refuse use..
+Frankly the last thing I want to see is my music used as a bed or used to promote something I find offensive.
+Posted by: Stef Stabilizer | Jul 14, 2005 10:47:03 AM
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+Historically part of Manchuria, Primorsky Krai was ceded to the Russian Empire by Qing China in 1860 as part of a region known as Outer Manchuria, forming most of the territory of Primorskaya Oblast. During the Russian Civil War it became part of the Far Eastern Republic before joining the Soviet Union, going through numerous changes until reaching its current form in 1938. Primorsky Krai is home to the Russian Navy's Russian Pacific Fleet.
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+Primorsky Krai was formed by further subdivision of Far-Eastern Krai in 1938, as part of the Stalin-era policy of "unbundling". Primorsky Krai, as defined in 1938, corresponds to the northeastern part of the historical region of Outer Manchuria.. The group had been launched from USS Hornet to carry out the Doolittle Raid on Japan. Japan and the Soviet Union were not then at war. The landing occurred 40 miles (65 km) west of Vladivostok; the bomber's crew could not return to their base, the aircraft carrier Hornet, by the mission plan. [17] The crew later returned home via Iran.
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+The timber industry, though in recession,[ when? ].[ citation needed ]
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+The largest companies in the region include Far-Eastern Energy Company, NNK-Bunker, Mazda Sollers, and Vostochny Port. [20]
+More than 100 deposits of coal are known in Primorsky Krai. The commercial deposits of coal are connected to the Partizansky and Razdolnensky coal basins, the Podgorodnensky deposit, the Uglovsky basin, and the Shkotovsky, Pavlovsky, Bikinsky, Rettikhovsky, and Suputinsky deposits.
+Partizansky Basin: The city of Partizansk is located in the southern part of the basin. The total area of the basin is 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi). The basin has been known since the 19th century and has been explored since 1902. Five coal-bearing regions—Staropartizansky, Melnikovsky, Belopadinsky, Molchanovsky, and Sergeyevsky—are within the limits of the basin. The coal is hard coal. By the output of volatile substances and caking ability, rich coals prevail. The reserves of coal in the basin total 193.6 million tonnes. The deposits are maintained by the mines of the Partizanskugol Association. A coal-mining factory also operates in this area.
+Razdolnensky Basin: The total area of this basin is about 4,500 km2 (1,700 sq mi). The basin is located to the north and the west of the city of Ussuriysk. The basin includes the following deposits: Ussuriysky, Lipovetsky, Verkhne-Razdolnensky, Konstantinovsky, and Alekseye-Nikolsky. The deposits were prospected as early as 1868. The mining of coal has been conducted since 1909. The coal is hard coal. By the output of volatile substances and coking ability, long-flame coals prevail. The reserves of coal in the basin total of 66.7 million tons. The deposits are maintained by the mines and the open-pit coal mines of the Lipovetskoye Mine Administration.
+Uglovsky Basin: Located 30 km (19 mi) northeast of Vladivostok, the basin's band extends about 40 km (25 mi) to the northeast of Amursky Bay and ranges from 6 to 14 km (3.7 to 8.7 mi) in width. Coals in the basin have been known since 1859. The mining of coal has been executed since 1867 in the Tavrichansky deposit, and since 1911 in the Artyomovsky deposit. The coal is brown coal, which is used as a power fuel. In the long years of operation, the stocks of coal in the basin have been considerably depleted. The reserves of coal in the basin total 233.7 million tons. The mines of the Tavrichansky Mine Administration and the Artyomugol Association operate on the basis of the deposits.
+Podgrodnensko-Surazhevsky: This coal-bearing region is located close to Vladivostok. The stocks of the Podgrodnensky deposit are estimated to be a total of 19.6 million tons. The coal is hard coal. By the output of volatile substances and caking ability, the coal is hard (non-bituminous). The deposits are maintained by the Podgorodenka mine of the Artyomugol Association.
+The Paleogene-Neogene deposits of Primorsky Krai are the Bikinsky, Pavlovsky, Shkotovsky, Rettikhovsky, Rakovsky, and Khasansky deposits. The deposits are the major sources of fuel for the largest heat and power stations of Primorye: Luchegorskaya and Vladivostokskaya. The coal is brown coal.
+The Bikinsky Deposit is the largest brown coal deposit in Primorsky Krai. Its total area is 260 km2 (100 sq mi). The reserves total 1,113.9 million tons. The coal-bearing thickness is 1,800 m (5,900 ft). The Luchegorsky Open-Pit Coal Mine maintains the mine and provides fuel to the largest power station in the krai, the Luchegorsky Hydro-Electric Power Station.
+Pavlovsky Deposit: The total area is 400 km2 (150 sq mi). The reserves total 400 million tons. The coal-bearing thickness is up to 400 m (1,300 ft). The mining is maintained by the Pavlovsky-1 and Pavlovsky-2 Open-Pit Coal Mines. The coal is used as fuel for the Vladivostok Heat and Power Plant-2.
+Skotovsky Deposit: The total area is 150 km2 (58 sq mi). The reserves total 251.6 million tons. The coal-bearing thickness ranges from 800 to 950 m (2,620 to 3,120 ft). Maintenance is by the open-pit mine of the Artyomugol Association.
+The coal of the Pavlovsky, Skotovsky, and Bikinsky deposits contains germanium and non-ferrous metals.
+The major areas of occurrence of commercial tin stocks are Kavalerovsky, Krasnoarmeysky, and Dalnegorsky Districts. There are more than 30 deposits of tin in Primorsky Krai. The extraction of tin ore is maintained by Khrustalnenskaya Tin Extracting Company, Dalpolimetal Stock Company, and Vostok Mining Company. All tin-extracting enterprises of the krai have a 30-year supply of ore.
+There are four major commercial deposits of tungsten in Krasnoarmeysky and Pozharsky Districts. The mining of only two of them is currently maintained, at Vostok-2 and Lermontovskoye by the Primorsky Mining Group and Lermontovskoye Mining Company. The enterprises have a 10-year reserve supply. The ores are complex, containing copper, gold, silver, bismuth, and other metals besides tungsten.
+There are more than 10 commercial deposits of lead and zinc in the territories of Dalnegorsky, Kavalerovsky, and Krasnoarmeysky Districts. The mining of the deposits of lead and zinc is maintained by Dalpolimetal Stock Company. The enterprise has a 40-year supply of ore.
+Among the deposits of precious metals in Primorsky Krai, silver and gold-silver deposits predominate. Ten deposits of silver are found in the Krai. The majority of silver-polymetal ore deposits are located in Dalnegorsky District and are maintained by Dalpolimetal Stock Company. Silver is extracted simultaneously with tungsten from tungsten ores deposits in Krasnoarmeysky and Pozharsky Districts.
+More than 60 deposits of gold are found in the territory of the krai. Most of them are placer deposits. The southern part of the krai is the richest in placer deposits. Significant gold placer sites are at Kommisarovsky (the Pogranichnaya river), Fadeyevsky (the Fadeyevka river), Krinichny (the Bolshaya Rudnevka river), Nakhodkinsky (the Korobkovka river), and Soboliny (the Sobolinaya river). Okean Artel and Primorsky Mine are engaged in gold extraction. Gold is also extracted from complex deposits of tungsten ores.
+The Voznesenovsky and Pogranichny deposits of rare-metal-fluorspar ore are located in Khorolsky District. The Voznesenovskoye deposit was prospected in 1948. It is maintained by the Yaroslavsky Mining Group Stock Company and there is a 20-year supply of ore. The ore is a complex ore. Fluorspar totals 10 percent of the mineral content of the ore. The ore contains such rare metals as beryllium, lithium, tantalum, and niobium. The Usuglinskoye mine is one of the largest fluorite mines in Russia, having estimated reserves of 2.9 million tonnes of ore.
+Russia's largest deposit of boron-containing ore (boron silicates) is located in Dalnegorsky District. The deposit is operated by Bor Stock Company. The enterprise has 50 years' supply of borosilicates stocks.
+There are more than 100 large deposits of various construction materials.
+The Spasskaya group includes the Spasskoye and Dlinnogorskoye limestone deposits. The stocks total more than 100 million tons and are maintained by Spassktsement Stock Company.
+The Suchanskaya group includes the Novitskoye and Chandolazskoye limestone deposits, which are located in Partizansky District. These deposits are suitable for the production of Portland cement of 400 and 500 types. The stocks total approximately more than 1 billion tons.
+The Maikhinskaya group includes the Maikhinskoye and Glubinnogorskoye deposits located in Shkotovsky District. The estimated stocks of limestone in both deposits total about 60 million tons.
+There are numerous deposits of granites, porphyrites, and marbles which, when polished, acquire a smooth surface of beautiful color. These deposits are located in Lesozavodsky, Khorolsky, Khasansky, Spassky, Chernigovsky, Partizansky, and other districts.
+The Ambinskoye deposit of marble is located in Khasanky District. This marble is highly decorative and is easily polished. The estimated stocks total more than 2 million m3 (70.6 million ft3).
+The Knorringskoye deposit of ashlar stones is located in Chernigovsky District. The estimated stocks total about 10 million m3 (35.3 million ft3). They are similar in color to the famous American ashlar stones.
+There are more than 100 deposits of fusible clay which is used in brick production in the krai. Fusible clay deposits are found almost everywhere in the krai, except its northeastern parts. The Uglovskaya, Ussuriyskaya, and Spasskaya group of fusible clay deposits are noteworthy in this area. The krai's largest stocks, a total of more than fifteen million tons, is the Uglovskaya group of deposits located in Uglovoye settlement. The deposits provide raw material to the brick factories in Vladivostok and Artyom.
+There are more than twenty deposits of refractory clay and fireclay. The clay is suitable for the manufacture of bricks and ceramics. The largest deposits are located in Oktyabrsky and Chernigovsky District, and in Artyom.
+The Lipovetskoye Deposit of refractory clay is located in Oktyabrsky District. The estimated stocks total about 1.5 million tons and are maintained by the Lipovetsky Brick Factory.
+The Ozernovskoye deposit of fireclay is located in Uglovoye settlement. The estimated stocks total about 2 million tons and have been used for the manufacture of bricks since 1964.
+Primorsky krai's best-known Gusevskoye deposit of porcelain stone is located in Khasansky District. The material is used by the Vladivostok and Artyom Porcelain Factories. The estimated stocks total about 3 million tons.
+The Sergeyevskoye deposit of ceramic rhyolites is located in Partizansky District. It may be used for the manufacture of porcelain.
+Several Tungusic and Paleosiberian peoples lived here before Russian colonization: Udeges, Nanais, Nivkhs, Orochs, Ulchs, Oroks, and Manchus.[ citation needed ]
+Population: According to the 2010 Census, the population of the krai was 1,956,497, [7] down from 2,071,210 recorded in the 2002 Census, [21] and further down from 2,258,391 recorded in the 1989 Census. [22] Due to its geographical location, the krai boasts a mixture of not only ethnic Russians, but also Ukrainians, Koreans, Volga Germans, Buriats, Nanais, Japanese, Chinese and Orochs. The indigenous Udege and their sub-minority, the Taz, are the region's aboriginals.
+In the 2010 Census, the following ethnic groups were listed: [7]
+Total fertility rate: [24]
+2009 - 1.51 | 2010 - 1.49 | 2011 - 1.53 | 2012 - 1.65 | 2013 - 1.68 | 2014 - 1.73 | 2015 - 1.76 | 2016 - 1.73(e)
+Average life expectancy in 1994 — 62.5 years (male — 56.8, female — 69.4).
+According to a 2012 survey [25] 26.6% of the population of Primorsky Krai adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 6% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1% adheres to other Eastern Orthodox churches or is an Eastern Orthodox believer without belonging to any church, and 1% of the population adheres to the Slavic native faith (Rodnovery) or to local Siberian native faiths. In addition, 24% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious, 35% is atheist, and 6.4% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question. [25]
+The krai is the location of the massive Sikhote-Alin meteorite, which fell February 12, 1947, in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, near the village of Paseka (approximately 440 km northeast of Vladivostok). [ citation needed ]. Khabarovsk Krai is the fourth-largest federal subject by area, and has a population of 1,343,869 as of 2010..
+Khankaysky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the west of the krai on the western bank of Lake Khanka and borders with Pogranichny District in the southwest, Khorolsky District in the southeast, and with Heilongjiang Province of China in the west. The area of the district is 2,689.0 square kilometers (1,038.2 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality of Kamen-Rybolov. Population: 24,666 (2010 Census); 28,939 (2002 Census); 31,122 (1989 Census). The population of Kamen-Rybolov accounts for 44.2% of the district's total population.
+Khasansky District of Slavyanka. Population: 35,541 (2010 Census); 37,459 (2002 Census); 43,709 (1989 Census). The population of Slavyanka accounts for 39.5% of the district's total population.
+Kavalerovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the central western portion of the krai and borders with the territory of Dalnegorsk Town Under Krai Jurisdiction in the north and northeast, the Sea of Japan in the east, Olginsky District in the south, and with Chuguyevsky District in the west. The area of the district is 4,215.2 square kilometers (1,627.5 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality of Kavalerovo. Population: 25,833 (2010 Census); 29,488 (2002 Census); 36,085 (1989 Census). The population of Kavalerovo accounts for 59.5% of the district's total population.
+Nadezhdinsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located on the southern coast of the krai. The area of the district is 1,595.7 square kilometers (616.1 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality of Volno-Nadezhdinskoye. Population: 39,161 (2010 Census); 40,197 (2002 Census); 43,012 (1989 Census). The population of Volno-Nadezhdinskoye accounts for 17.1% of the district's total population.
+Chuguyevsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the center of the krai. The area of the district is 12,346 square kilometers (4,767 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality of Chuguyevka. Population: 24,937 (2010 Census); 28,913 (2002 Census); 30,909 (1989 Census). The population of Chuguyevka accounts for 48.8% of the district's total population.
+Khasan is an urban locality in Khasansky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located near the tripoint on the Tumen River where the borders of Russia, China and North Korea converge. Population: 742 (2010 Census); 795 (2002 Census); 1,187 (1989 Census)..
+Trudovoye is a).
+Anuchinsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the south of the krai and borders with Spassky District in the north, Yakovlevsky District and the territory of Arsenyev Town Under Krai Jurisdiction in the northeast, Chuguyevsky District in the east, Partizansky District in the southeast, the territory of Partizansk Town Under Krai Jurisdiction in the south and southeast, Shkotovsky District in the south and southwest, and with Mikhaylovsky and Chernigovsky Districts in the west. The area of the district is 3,769.4 square kilometers (1,455.4 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality of Anuchino. Population: 14,613 (2010 Census); 16,010 (2002 Census); 18,187 (1989 Census). The population of Anuchino accounts for 30.5% of the district's total population.
+Vladivostok is the largest city and the administrative centre of Primorsky Krai, Russia. The city is located around the Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan, covering an area of 331.16 square kilometres, with a population of 606,561 residents, up to 812,319 residents in the urban agglomeration. Vladivostok is the second-largest city in the Far Eastern Federal District, as well as the Russian Far East, after Khabarovsk.
+Far Eastern Railway is a railway in Russia that crosses Primorsky Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, and Yakutia.
+Partizansky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the south of the krai and borders with Chuguyevsky District in the north and northeast, Lazovsky District in the east, the territory of Nakhodka City Under Krai Jurisdiction and the Sea of Japan in the south, the territory of Partizansk Town Under Krai Jurisdiction and Shkotovsky District in the west, and with Anuchinsky District in the northwest and north. The area of the district is 4,253.9 square kilometers (1,642.4 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality of Vladimiro-Alexandrovskoye. Population: 30,238 (2010 Census); 31,666 (2002 Census); 29,455 (1989 Census). The population of Vladimiro-Alexandrovskoye accounts for 18.9% of the district's total population.
+Telepresence—The Next Best Thing To Being There
+Posted by Connie Moore on October 9, 2008
+- 454 Recommendations
+- 4 comments.)
+It turns out that he had just participated in a TelePresence meeting (powered by Cisco). As a DOD contractor, he used a government owned TelePresence room at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington DC. From there, they linked to a TelePresence room in Minneapolis where they met with another contracting firm. The company didn't own a TelePresence location, but had rented a TelePresence room at the Minneapolis airport.
+My husband—who generally does not like technology unless it is effortless, fun to use, and has been widely adopted by just about everyone else on the planet—was absolutely thrilled about this TelePresence meeting. He was so-o-o-o-o impressed. While raving about how life-like the technology was, my husband also observed that if everyone used telepresence there would be a whole lot less business travel. We both agreed that less business travel would immediately improve our family's quality of life—and the quality of life of just about every other business professional we knew. (If you want an earful about the current state of travel from a couple of Forrester analysts, take a look at Delayed Flights, Canceled Flights. Enough! and What Happened To The Airline Industry's Business Intelligence?)
+[Before I go much further into this post about telepresence, I want to clear up the terminology. Telepresence, the technology, is very-high-resolution video conferencing that gives the participants an immersive experience, making the senses feel as if the meeting is happening in person. A number of vendors offer telepresence products, including Tandberg Experia, Polycom RealPresence, Cisco TelePresence, Teliris VirtualLive and HP Halo. Note also that Cisco's telepresence product is cleverly named TelePresence—which can lead to some confusion about just what are we talking about. In this instance, I am talking about telepresence, the technology, but both of my examples involve the Cisco TelePresence product. Also, note that this stuff is not cheap. A telepresence implementation can easily run $300K; but can just as easily be offset if your organization requires a lot of business travel between fixed locations.]
+Last fall, several of my colleagues and I got a high-profile chance to check out Cisco's TelePresence product. The stakes couldn't have been much higher because we were invited to a discussion with John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco, using a TelePresence link between Cisco's offices in California and Massachusetts.
+As you can imagine, we went into this meeting with lots of energy—it's not every day you get to chat with Cisco's CEO—but also the new video conferencing experience put a special buzz in the air. At this point you might be thinking, big deal—lots of companies use video conferencing and lots of people have video cameras at their PCs. But the marginal video conferencing systems that I've used that link conference rooms between different corporate locations are like Model Ts, while TelePresence is more like a Lamborghini. The different is almost indescribable.
+But let me try anyway.
+The telepresence room that my colleagues and I sat in looked like there was a wall of side by side flat panel TVs running down the length of a conference table. We all sat on one side of the conference table and the flat panel displays were on the other side. When the cameras were turned on in California, we saw what looked like the other half of the conference room table, with life-size electronic images of other people sitting in front of us. Although we all knew it was video, it felt like our colleagues and the Cisco exec on the other side of the table were really present—in the flesh—rather than electronic images
+Adding to the sense of reality was Cisco's careful design of the rooms. Both rooms were painted the same color, the conference room table was the same design and color, and the chairs in both locations matched. This sleight of hand completed the illusion that we were all in the same room.
+Now that I've spent the proverbial thousand words trying to describe telepresence, let me show you a Cisco TelePresence room.
+As you can imagine, I was as thrilled with the experience as my husband was with his. Afterward, I wanted to grab everyone I saw and tell them about it. I kept thinking, this has got to be a better way to work than trying to use a marginal video conferencing connection, jumping on a plane to attend a 1-2 hour meeting in another city. Just about everyone I talked to was more interested in hearing more about telepresence. And interestingly, whenever I would talk about Second Life and Web 3D, they would change the subject to telepresence. People seem to really crave this virtual experience. But I did have one skeptic who asked an interesting question. He asked, "did the technology get in the way of the meetings?" I have to say that it actually did, at least in three instances:
+- Camera alignment. Although our overall experience was positive, we kept noticing that the people in the California location wouldn't look us in the eye. Instead, they seemed to be looking downward and to the left. The Californians actually thought they were looking us in the eye, but the camera alignment must have been off slightly, so it didn't appear that way to us. This body language faux pas was disconcerting and did get in the way of the meeting (slightly)—although we realized what was going on and didn't take offense.
+- Telephone participants. One of our Forrester colleagues couldn't get to a Cisco office and had to call into the meeting by phone. Although I announced her presence at the beginning of the meeting, it was awkward from start to finish. We lacked any visual cues that she was participating in the meeting, making it hard to open up the conversation so she could participate. I got her involved by asking direct questions, but the conversation seemed stilted whenever I did that. When she chimed in, it really did seem like the voice of God. The sound equipment was so good that her voice filled the room and really shook everyone up.
+- Lighting. All the participants in my husband's meeting thought the experience was a resounding success. But after the meeting one of them asked the people in Minneapolis why the room was so dark. They simply forgot to turn on the lights because the room seemed bright enough to them. Good old human error strikes again.
+I give telepresence and TelePresence 5 stars and 2 thumbs up. I think it is a great technology that makes sense to road weary warriors, could make cents if your travel budget is out of sight, and has a strong green value proposition, too. During this election year. my vote is for many more meetings like this and way less time on planes. (And I really hope my side wins.): Telepresence—The Next Best Thing To Being There
+I've seen the high performance conferencing suite at Cisco too, and you're right, it's highly impressive.But it's also highly expensive. I suspect that video internet telephony is going to have overall a much bigger impact - Skype for starters, or commercial products using a simple webcam.At the major global company I used to work for, we did have senior business executives asking if we could support Skype for face-to-face conversations with their direct reports; and we did pilot a commercial web conference product with webcam support. I don't think we had them asking about high performance conferencing suites.
+re: Telepresence—The Next Best Thing To Being There
+Tony: I think your comment is astute. If the goal is making distance disappear, then every kind of video communication will help. I think of three tiers of video communications, each with its sweet spot (and of course cost). Information & Knowledge Management professionals should begin to put all four on the table:1. Telepresence: A high-end, totally immersive replacement to an in-person conference room meeting. Today, HP and Cisco telepresence works great for situations where a distributed creative or executive team must work frequently together. But it will move into more B2B and down market scenarios with cheaper solutions from companies like Teliris. And it might be that a company has three telepresence conference rooms and 50 HD video conferencing end points.2. HD video conferencing: Not your father's video conferencing. This is exactly what it sounds like -- a high-quality video conferencing experience, using flat screens, fast IP networks, and no audio lag to deliver a great experience for small teams. I personally see this as the most interesting product for "being there" for the rest of us. Video conference "end point" providers Tandberg and Polycom and a host of managed service providers like AT&T, Bell Canada, BT, Nortel, GlowPoint, and a gazillion others are there to help.3. Desktop video conferencing. This comes cheap and cheery with a webcam and a PC and a provider like Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo!Messenger, and MSN. And it comes dear with dedicated desktop video conference units from Tandberg and Polycom. Both scenarios will thrive, though I'd bet that the bottom-up version using a PC and webcam will make the most difference . . . once IT decides to open up the firewall to allow desktop-to-desktop connections.I would be remiss not to add that there are other video products that will show up and make a difference, including Microsoft RoundTable (a 360 degree camera for conference rooms); video feeds in Web conferencing suites like Cisco WebEx, Microsoft LiveMeeting, and new entrant DimDim; even mobile video, which might put the presenters' smiling face on a BlackBerry or iPhone.
+re: Telepresence—The Next Best Thing To Being There
+re: Telepresence—The Next Best Thing To Being There
+Thanks for your comments about videoconferencing. I think this recession is going to force companies to at least consider and possibly pilot some type of high resolution videoconferencing solution. That's because travel budgets are being slashed or severely curtailed. If you look at the airlines' earnings, they are struggling now more than ever. In contrast, the telepresence vendors are on a roll. For example, Oslo-based telepresence vendor Tandberg just posted great results for Q4. Specifically, fourth quarter revenues were $225M compared with $192.9M in the same quarter last year, representing a 17% year over year growth.
+I bring this article to the top because I wish to emphasize the first hand report in comments of a person who knows Narrows Inlet well and understands the effect on an area that should remain unspoiled. Wilderness Committee people have worked on this file and reviewed thousands of pages from documents that could not be accessed except for FOI.
+From my examination, this project near Sechelt appears to have had little diligent examination by provincial environmental officers. The Liberal Government made this sort of development a priority, not for the benefit of citizens, but for the benefit of a few connected corporations. They were willing to ruin not just BC Hydro but rivers and lakes throughout the province. It is a scandal that will be visited mostly on our descendants. This is only one of the shameful legacies of Gordon Campbell and his cronies. Premier Photo-Op cares nothing about British Columbia’s remote wonderlands. Providing intelligent stewardship over natural resources is hard work and she can’t do that. She’s got places to go and people to see. And cameras to stand before..
+If you are moved by the Narrows Inlet story, remember similar projects are happening elsewhere with more planned. Thirty alpine lakes are at risk. Please email your MLA and ask for immediate action.
+More reading at the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association
+As a commenter said earlier, it is not “Run of the River“, it’s “Ruin of the River.”
+Visit the Wilderness Committee for more information
+Categories: BC Hydro, Independent Power Producers (IPP)
+If you Google Tyson Creek IPP you can see that it got worse. Apparently the project developers drilled into the bottom of Tyson Lake and were surprised that a shitload of glacial material was flushed down the penstock and into the Tzoonie River much to the chagrin of the fish. All this to deliver a lousy 9.5MW of intermittent capacity to BC Hydro. And I am glad you liked the “Ruin of River” comment
+Makes you wonder who was thinking what at the Sunshine Coast Regional District offices…they are advertising for Renewable Power on their ice rink zamboni….the word “Green” appears prominently.
+The ruin of the rivers, are an eco disaster. Drilling into lakes, destroying salmon runs and the flora and fauna.
+There is no end to the, Campbell/Clark BC Liberals atrocities, committed on our province.
+Campbell works for Harper. BC is facing even more atrocities from, the gruesome twosome.
+The Enbridge pipeline, threatening spills into, rivers, streams, and lands. The dirty oil tankers from China spilling into the sea.
+Prosperity Mine expansion, fracking for gas, and the off shore drilling of oil and gas wells, off the coast of BC.
+There are rumors, they want to log the Rain Forest. The Chinese freighters would use the same route as the dirty oil tankers. They can pick up our raw logs, right out of the water.
+Harper and Campbell deserve to be tried for treason, and be imprisoned for the utter, eco destruction of BC. Also including financial ruin. Harper and Campbell worked very hard to, dismantle BC, right into Harper's greedy hands.
+BC has 290,000 rivers and only 40 river hydro projects. Can you calculate the percentage?.
+Do you have any evidence that Tyson Creek has been detrimental to the environment?
+A run of river project uses up about 3 to 8 hectares of land. Just compare that to property development or forestry, and you have your answer.
+D.
+And black is white and up is down.
+Readers here are well informed so casually tossing untruths will do no good.
+As the pictures demonstrate, Tyson is not “run of the river.”
+Norm what is untrue about the statements? What damage was caused to the environment by the Tyson project? How about you state some facts instead of making dire insinuations in the name of sensationalism? Why not come out and take a tour of the project before passing judgement? I will personally show you around.
+My family was involved in coastal logging for decades and would have been bankrupted by fines for treating streams as pictured here.The photos speak for themselves.
+It you want to host a group from broad based environmental organizations, the Wilderness Committee and others, and sit down for video interviews, I'd be happy to connect you with the right people. Open your entire operation to an environmental audit by experts. That would be superior to boating in one aging blogger.
+Of course, the issue is much larger than one project and one alpine lake. Read my article about BC Hydro's financial situation and how the utility's commitment to long term energy purchase contracts soared almost $26 billion in the last fiscal year. A small army of fraudsters have directed BC Hydro toward financial disaster. That is not sensationalism; that is fact.
+Sedimentation and salmon don't mix. The sediment release from Tyson happened when when Steelhead trout and Coastal cutthroat trout were actively spawning.
+Here is a quote from the FOI: “The release of sediment laden water into invertebrate producing or egg incubation/juvenile rearing waters is never just aesthetic. Depending on the life stage of the fish or invertebrate, impacts can be significant. For example, a light coating of very fine sediment (which this appears to be) on eggs can either slow down incubation, smother eggs and kill them or make them more susceptible to fungus growth. Later effects on newly hatched salmonids can be again a light coating of fines on gills that cause direct effects such as suffocation or reduced growth or fitness. For invertebrates, effects are similar to those for fish, and very fine sediments such as this are very difficult to deal with.”
+That is one of the reasons the project was shut down.
+There were also significant concerns with operational plans, dangers of erosion continuing if the project is ramped up to full capacity, issues with project design (quote from FOI “Water license granted without ESD knowledge, multiple decision makers apparently unaware of unresolved issues.”)
+And finally a quote from Renwable's own environmental monitor, “At some point I would like to talk to you about this style of project with you. I have a bunch of concerns about the proposed design and operation of lake storage and tunnelling that is not being taken seriously by the proponents. We have viewed Tyson as a large experiment in some ways. Right or wrong we have a poor understanding of the effects of negative storage that begs some tough questions. ”
+You can find this all on line at:
+It is a huge document but very interesting reading.
+well, as a resident of Narrows Inlet, I have proof of the damage Tyson the
+environmental damage done: no osprey. no mountain goats, no bear,
+no trumpeters swans, no owls, no beaver sighted …since this far
+from “Green” project industrialized the inlet- dawn to dusk float planes,
+water taxis and barges…never mind the massive silt dumps.
+I've kept written records for 20 years. a mere two months after I reported
+the silt dumps, a 12 hour old red snapper was hauled up, and was
+completely smeared in Tyson silt. NO crab! Aggressive threats by
+proponent's team to residents. Even at regional district conference on
+Green' the engineer aggressively barged into a private conversation as
+I explained the silt dump damage and loudly called me a liar. Float damage
+from the close in dawn to dusk wakes of wakes of constant water taxis.
+Conservation officer's response when the massive silt dumps were reported
+…Mr gun totting and badge wearing environmental protection's response:-
+” The proponent has invested a lot of money” followed by an equally
+juvenile, “I have no boat” as if he was deaf to my offer to take him in.
+DFO senior biologist made his “No environment damage” pontification
+from his desk in Nanaimo – as proven , after 19 emails asking when he
+investigated the project he #1) assessed#2) approved… were ignored….
+and he made his #3) investigation pontification from his desk in Nanaimo
+… 50 miles away. And did not rouse himself to enter Narrows inlet for
+two more months… him being a “siltation expert”- when he knew the
+silt would have settled out of suspension by the time he bothered to
+arrive and do his taxpayer paid job. The initial biologist was the
+proponent's brother, biologist and major Shareholder, who casually
+invited residents to “stop your dissent and Invest in this Gold Rush”… and
+the brother biologist is now sending residents emails claiming he has for
+some reason tested creeks they want to IPP and claiming he has “found
+ecoli in them” – in our government licenced drinking water…
+clean , clear, freshwater used for over 25 years and previously tested clear.
+The Tyson silt was so thick you could not see a foot into the normally clear
+water. And the same proponent now wants to IPP high alpine, ice scoured
+Ramona Lake which is also “blue listed” cutthroat trout habitat and
+government licenced drinking water. And since exposing the brother's
+conflict of interest we have had five successive out of province biologists
+who also do not contact residents. The Visual Impact Presentation at a public meeting for Ramona is two years over due. The EAO process is useless.
+And from the deafening silence of all government officials in
+environmental assessment, approval and enforcement, those government
+officials have obviously been “gagged”. Investigate the precedents of the
+the results of Swiss IPPs… or IPPs impact on Seton Lake and the white
+sturgeon there.
+i am not stupid enough, nor smart enough to make this saga up… and as
+proof, the Water Stewardship branch finally shut the Tyson Lake project
+down. The road construction was a disaster and a violation of the Forest
+Practices Code. run-off running willy nilly through the forest carrying silt
+and gravel. No culverts or cross road drain pipes.
+Even Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger has stated “IPPs are not green”…..
+so says anon 2:59, kool-aid only an insider can believe
+In reality, our hydro rates are skyrocketing and these insiders need to be get gone ASAP. Bye bye Liberals, your time is up.
+The single, undisputable fact that Ramona is absolutley not “run of river”, as it has been advertised, should be enough to put an end to this irreversible mauling of the source lake.
+This is a link to the Mid-C electricity spot price in NW U.S. for the past year. It rarely went above $40/MWh. Yet BC Hydro is paying $100 to $140/MWh for power from new IPPs in BC.
+Were it not for BC Hydro being forced by the Govt to purchase IPP power, these IPPs would not get built.
+According to Dave Cobb, former CEO of BCH, BC Govt policy is forcing BCH to purchase hundreds of $millions worth of IPP power it doesn't need.
+Hundreds of millions now, tens of billions over the near future.The scale of this fraud is largely ignored by all except the alternative media.
+Norm, I’m sure you’ll let us know when Mr. Schober gets in touch with you for the list of contacts available to conduct the expert environmental audit and interview he should welcome given his challenge. I’ll wait for the news, but not while holding my breath.
+Hugh – that is patented nonsense. Mid-C prices are for spot, nongreen, and nonfirm coal and gas fired power. How can you compare that to longterm, firm, renewable, clean and green power? You are comparing apples to pears.
+Mid-C average price for the past 5 years has been $44/MWh.
+And BC Hydro is NOT paying $100 to $140 a MWh for IPP power. You are wrong again.
+Take a look at the 2011 financial report by BC Hydro – page page 35, it says:
+Purchases from indpendent power producers 2011: 62.53/MWh
+I think you need to educate yourself on renewable power production before spewing more mythology.
+Henrik
+Hugh: “Were it not for BC Hydro being forced by the Govt to purchase IPP power, these IPPs would not get built. “
+Nonsense Hugh – IPP power costs less than BC Hydro's own new power generation. Aberfeldie, a run of river project by BC Hydro costs it $126/MWh. Site C will cost $103/MWh.
+IPP power for the Clean Call (i.e. power to be delivered in 2016), after taxes paid to government, will cost BC Hydro only $46/MWh — less than Mid-C (when you add the green, longterm, and firm premium to that).
+Henrik
+Norm Farrel — you call renewable power generation at costs BELOW that of BC Hydro a “fraud”.
+Can you substantiat this rather silly remark?
+Henrik
+In the 2010 fiscal year, BC Hydro spent $567.4 million on electricity from independent power producers. Those purchases climb to $781.8 million in 2013 and to $939.8 million in 2014.
+Marjorie Griffin Cohen, a political science professor at Simon Fraser University and former BC Hydro board member, said it makes “no economic sense” for BC Hydro to be purchasing so much electricity from independent power producers.
+“It's wrong on all kinds of levels,” she said. “First of all, it is a tremendous cost. These contracts are also indexed, which means they will never get cheaper. They are sometimes as much as 30 times what BC Hydro can sell the power for.
+“This isn't BC Hydro's fault, this is the government's fault. BC Hydro would never have chosen to do this because it makes no economic sense for them.”
+Another issue worth exploring is the location of IPP's. They make considerably more sense if close to the existing grid (Alberni Valley has three of them) versus remote locations which need large infrastructure built to reach them.
+Norm…I would like to think that all your effort reporting articles like this are beginning to make these insiders start to squirm and they may begin to realize the gig is up.
+Those that are in deep and looking for financial gain in these matters can't be believed. The first clue that this is a scam, is that FOI requests are required to review pertinent information, that in itself tells all.
+Norm, I have a proposition for you – you inexplically think that IPPs are making a ton of money and laughing all the way to the bank, even though they receive no subsidies. (can you reveal your source please?)
+Why dont you put your money where your mouth is? Load on Plutonics shares (currently $2 down from $8) or better still Innergex, pays 6% dividend – and get rich when the stock price goes through the roof!!! After all IPPs are a fraud and are being paid wads of banknotes by their Liberal buddies, innit?
+The returns in this business is not any more than many other businesses, about 9% to 10% on capital. But you think the returns are phenomenal. No problem, I will introduce you to some IPPs, and they will be more than happy to take your money and send you a “phenomenal” dividend check after operation 6 years down the road.
+Are you up to this, or are you talking out of somewhere else?
+And also, the $40 B commitment by BC Hydro is only on paper. The reality is that the attrition rate is 66% which should be subtracted. And then that figure includes Alcan, some of BC Hydro's own subsidiaries, Teck Cominco, Fortis, gas fired producers, etc. Neither is that figure levelized.
+The true number is $ 7 billion over the next 40 years ($175 M a year). And for that BC Hydro is receiving power that is worth at least $15 billion.
+Henrik
+Paisley – LOL, almost everything in the government requires an FOI request. This may be changing I believe, but if you want to get someone's email or an unpublished report, you always need to do an FOI. You can't just walk in and demand material. There is no process for that.
+You may be interested to find out more about IPP filings with the government. Here they are – all 2000 pages of it for a single tiny 10MW project – happy reading – nothing to hide:
+Henrik
+A contract adopted by BC Liberals in 2003.
+The Heritage Contract means that any demand for electricity beyond 49,000 GWh has to be made up by the private sector..
+It is simply not true that there are no osprey, no mountain goats, no bear, no trumpeters swans, no owls, no beaver sighted as was stated. Again I challenge you to come up and see the truth. Most of the other accusations are all simply not true. Can you show me some proof that all these animals are gone?
+Regarding location…..laying a submarine power transmission cable under the worlds fastest flowing tidal waters….what could possibly go wrong?….never mind narrowly skirting 2 provincial parks (one of which was established to protect the shoreline and the other to protect the old growth mountainous Caren Range)..and then down into the Ruby Lake resort area…
+No subsidies?
+Value of Contribution Agreements Signed to all companies totals $1,366,030,473.93
+Yes Henrik, I know what FOI is all about. It was created because the bureaucracy was to incompetent to provide taxpayers with requested information in an accurate and timely manner so another level of bureaucracy was created that still can't provide accurate information in a timely manner. Thanks for the jab and thanks for the squirm.
+What I said was that the price of power from NEW IPPs costs BC Hydro $100-140/MWh.
+I was told in an email in Feb. from BC Hydro that the cost of firm energy under the recent Clean Power Call was $130/MWh.
+The website for the Mid-C shows that market price hovering between $20 to $40/MWh.
+Quite a difference. If BC Hydro is exporting to the U.S., can they charge higher than the Mid-C market rate?
+According to the Amended Revenue Requirement Application to BCUC(Nov. 24, 2011), the total cost of IPP and Long-term power purchases by BC Hydro in 2014 will be $1.1 Billion. This is up from $939 million. See p. 4-30:
+Thanks Hugh. Even more worrisome is that the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011 showed an increase in total commitments to purchase independent power had grown by almost $26 billion. The total commitment today could easily be over $60 billion. We can't see individual contracts but we know the producers are protected by price inflation contracts.
+Every citizen gains substantially by BC Hydro's low cost heritage power facilities. BC Liberals gave away those future benefits to Wall Street hedge funds and companies like General Electric.
+DECEMBER 4, 2011 12:06 PM
+Today I woke up to the radio informing me that there was a chance of rain in New York City this afternoon and overnight, and it made me feel positively cozy. Yesterday was freezing - in my humble opinion - namely, I think, because moving from a mid-60's winter to the mid-40's fall in the span of one day was a bit shocking. Today, thanks to the cloud cover threatening showers, the weather is significantly warmer (we're talking early 50's here people!) to the point that I did not even need my coat en route to work. Still, the promise of rain gets me excited for the prospect of a hot cuppa and some warm socks this evening.
+Tuesday, November 30, 2010
+Monday, November 29, 2010
+And I'm Back!
+I hope no one cried too hopelessly over my absence on Thursday and Friday. Your stoicism and bravery in the face of temporary abandonment is heartwarming and bolstering, to say the least! Rest assured that I had a truly wonderful Thanksgiving holiday back in sunny Southern California. I visited with family and friends, ate until I thought I would burst, and finally got my Mexican food craving satiated - for a quick minute, anyway. Coming back to NYC was still exciting, even the cold air felt somehow home-y, and it made me realize that it will be a telling situation if returning to this side of the country ever fills me with anything but enthusiasm. I suppose time will tell, nothing stays new and exciting forever..
+Wednesday, November 24, 2010
+Happy Thanksgiving!
+Well friends, Thanksgiving feasting will begin tomorrow - truly a day intended for us to give thanks for our family, friends, health and happiness, but punctuated with general gluttony - and I will not be posting anything Thursday or Friday. Truth be told, a total of 12 hours flying-time book-ending a whirlwind 2 1/2 days spent seeing and catching up with family and friends, would leave little to no time for me to post anything of interest. Add to this the fact that I intend to coerce family members to help me quell my Mexican food cravings many times over, and there might not be much time for anything outside of eating this weekend.!