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O the Valley, landfill of braking lights. Bowl of parked dreams. Shall I take off my shoes, Mrs. Kim? Dewey walked up to the new, infill, Mediterranean on Shoup — an overlarge, underengineered house with wide Spanish arches and hollow, wrought-iron balconies. He rang the doorbell and heard a tone amplified by a sound box of bare walls and vast marble floors. After the second ring, a small Korean woman answered. “You balloon guy?” Dewey nodded. “Where balloons?” “In van,” he said, unintentionally dropping the direct article. “Party start in one hour,” said Mrs. Kim. Dewey looked inside. The mansion was unfurnished except for a rosewood dining set — chairs protected with plastic seat covers. On the table was a birthday cake in a white box. Ten-year-old Bertram had eaten a swirled rose and concealed his crime by smoothing the icing with a plastic knife. “Where balloons?” Bertram demanded. “Close your eyes—keep them closed. Okay, open them.” “How did you do that? That not real magic.” “Would you like to let them go?” * * * You moved into the house next door. We always played after school. Remember the day we dug the hole? When Dewey and Gar were in sixth grade, they were equally fearless. Gar was the handsome one, with curly blonde hair and wide-set eyes. Dewey had frizzy hair, with mismatched eyes and skin susceptible to acne scarring. Both boys were exactly the same height and had been called “naturals” by their gym teacher, who was amazed by how easily the boys could do standing front-flips. “Let’s do it!” Dewey cried. “You crazy idiot,” Gar teased. “We can do it!” They chased each other up the slippery garage roof. Dewey lost his footing on the shingles, and when Gar laughed, Dewey tackled him. They wrestled to the edge. It was a serious fight. If they were going to be stuntmen, it couldn’t look fake. Gar punched Dewey in the stomach, and Dewey grabbed Gar by the throat. They flew off the roof headfirst, flipping at the last possible moment and landing on their backs in a hole filled with cardboard and mattresses. * * * Had Gar not been so handsome, he might not have become one of Hollywood’s leading stuntmen. He had all the luck and worked as a double for Robert Redford and Mel Gibson. Dewey, on the other hand, worked out of his apartment on Victory Avenue as a birthday party magician, where he was the first magician in the San Fernando Valley Yellow Pages to offer balloon bouquets. Magic Act, Balloon Bouquets. Same-Day Delivery. Call Amazing Dewey. Joan, Dewey’s pretty wife, filled the balloons with helium and curled the ribbons by pressing the flat side with scissors. She also held a full-time job working as a waitress at Bob’s Big Boy. * * * Why can’t I sleep with the TV on anymore? I’ll open the window and let in some air. When I was ten, I was the boy with dreams. “Dewey, come to bed,” Joan said. The bedroom was overrun with props. There was a fiberglass sphinx, rabbit cage, production tubes of various sizes, a straightjacket, handcuffs, floatation device, top hat, cape, and knotted scarves. “What were you watching?” Dewey asked. “Nothing,” Joan replied. “You sounded excited a few minutes ago.” “I just saw Gar on TV. He’s on all the time.” “Pretty good, huh?” “You guys were best friends. Why don’t you get together anymore?” “He’s got meetings all the time. I like the way you are doing the ribbons, Joan.” “I keep cutting my hand.” “I didn’t know you cut yourself.” “Almost every time. I think the scissors are too sharp.” Dewey was a little oxygen-deprived from too many shots of helium. He had been practicing his Donald Duck routine because Joan liked it, but the helium gave him headaches and strange dreams. What was the dream last night? It was so important he leapt out of bed to write it down — but too late. He couldn’t remember anything except the airplane. Was he going to learn to fly? He would keep a pen and notebook beside his bed to be ready if he dreamt it again. * * * “We’re out of instant coffee, Dewey. Do you mind running down to the 7-Eleven?” “Just a minute, I almost have it.” “What are you drawing?” Joan asked. “I had the dream again.” “What dream?” “The big dream I told you about a week ago.” “I don’t remember what you said.” “I gotta go to the hardware store.” Dewey drew something on ruled paper. “Can you stop and get coffee on the way?” “Joan, I want to show you —” “When you get back.” “These are the air-holes…” * * * Dewey left a message for Gar. “Hey, Gar. You’re going to love this.” Three days later, Gar called back. Dewey was nervous. He cleared his throat self-consciously three times. “You’re going to love this, Gar.” “That’s what you said.” “Okay. Here’s the gag — I’m tied up in a straightjacket with my feet handcuffed. Two men lift me into a safe and lock the door. The safe is chained and padlocked. After it’s inspected, I’m pushed out of an airplane at twenty thousand feet.” “You wanna die?” Gar laughed. “You’re funny. I escape and parachute down.” Gar was silent. “What do you think?” “I don’t think it’s possible, Dewey. You won’t be able to open the door. That safe is going to spin like crazy.” “I already thought about that. We stabilize the safe with a drogue chute.” “Too dangerous. Anyway, where would you do the stunt?” “On TV. On your show.” “No, Dewey. Too crazy. My producers would never go for it.” * * * A week later, they met at Norm’s. “It’s risky, Dewey. I assume you don’t have a problem with the straightjacket. So let’s say you’re out and the safe is open by the time we push it out the door. What happens if the chute gets tangled and the safe tumbles? The centrifugal force is going to lock you in.” *** “You have a death wish, Dewey,” Joan said. “Does that mean Gar has a death wish too?” “No, Gar is making money.” “We’re going to do the stunt in Palmdale. We’ve got two safes. I can open the cuffs in two seconds.” “But this isn’t a birthday party, Dewey. They’re pushing you out of a frickin’ airplane.” “Gar wouldn’t let me do it if he thought I was going to kill myself.” * * * “Let’s look at the video again,” Gar said. There was seven seconds of the safe in full frame. “It spins, but doesn’t tumble,” Gar said. “Run it again. Right there. That’s where the canopy rips off!” * * * “This is it, Joan. It’s this or I’ll be a birthday party magician the rest of my life.” “Don’t be hard on yourself. Kids love you.” “That’s because I make them laugh. But I’m the joke.” * * * There are no trees at the Palmdale Airport. From the air the runway looked like the Hummingbird etched on the Nasca Plains. At 5 p.m. it was 110 degrees. The Coke machine had run out of paper cups, and there was a puddle of brown liquid on the floor. As Dewey paced, his rubber soles made a sucking sound. “Stop pacing, Dewey,” Joan said. “He needs to move around,” Gar said. “Where’s the goddamn plane?” The producer walked to the door of the hanger and looked out. “I thought it was supposed to be here an hour ago.” “It already landed,” one of the stagehands said. “What’s everybody doing in here?” * * * Dewey rehearsed the routine in his head. He would tap twice when he was free from his cuffs — three times when he was out of the straightjacket. “Are you ready?” Dewey asked. “You’re the one who’s supposed to be ready.” Dewey laughed. “We have a better drogue,” Gar said. “My guys tested it yesterday. It will control the spin, but you gotta get out fast. Focus on kicking the door. Get away from the safe. Be a torpedo. Harden your body and hold your arms at your sides.” Dewey got into his straightjacket and his feet were shackled. As he was lifted into the safe, the chain made a hollow sound against the fuselage. Keep rolling, Gar motioned to the cameramen. It was critical that the sequence be unbroken—everything in real time with no cutaways. Gar listened for the taps. There! Dewey was ready. The stagehands pushed the safe through the door. Too fast! Gravity pressed him hard and he banged his head. He kicked the door, which had been ajar but was now slammed shut. He kicked again. How many seconds had passed? Why didn’t the door open? It was too dark in the safe to see the crack. He felt for the edge. He was kicking the wrong side of the safe. He curled into a ball and flipped around and kicked again. “Why doesn’t he open the door?” the producer yelled. Joan squeezed Gar’s hand. “Oh God,” the producer said, “I knew this was a bad idea.” Then the door burst open and they could see a black object break off in one direction and a smaller one in the other. “Dewey is out!” Gar shouted. He floated down, pulling the harness to direct his fall. He hit the ground skidding. “Get it, get it!” the producer yelled. “Did you get it? Don’t look at the camera, Dewey. Get the close-up.” Dewey looked into the sky. He could be dead. The sky was strange, with spiking geometric patterns that looked like the Indian symbol for water. Maybe he was between life and death. He checked himself by touching the acne scars on his face. Gar is the sun and I am the cratered moon. If I didn’t have these holes in my face I wouldn’t be me. * * * There was a traffic jam on the Ventura Freeway. Dewey was thinking about that day. After the stunt, Gar whispered: “You are the bravest man in the world.” The words were true. That moment Dewey was as brave as Gar, as brave as the Montgolfier brothers, and as brave as Charles Lindberg. When Dewey stepped on the brakes, balloons gathered around his head. He saw himself in the rearview mirror and laughed. He stepped on them again, and the balloons rubbed together, squealing like mice. Gar told him to sit tight. The producers would call. “There’ll be lots of offers,” he said. * * * When the segment airs, I’ll be famous. I just have to wait. You’ll see, Joan. I’m going to be big like Gar. “I’m going out with the girls after work,” Joan said. “Have fun. I’m expecting a call.” “Don’t wait up, I might be late.” “Don’t be too late,” Dewey said, spreading a deck of cards on the kitchen table. * * * What if you break before you get your break? He was braking behind a line of cars. What if you’re locked in the safe and nobody remembers the combination? Dewey waited. Two guys from high school called. A girl from junior high he never liked called and asked a lot of questions about Gar. But no reporters from the LA Times or the big magazines. No one from the networks, no invitation from the Tonight Show—no man-in-the-street looked at him twice. “Don’t be too late, Joan.” * * * A year later, Dewey was sitting at the bar at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. A man entered through the revolving bookcase wearing a faded tuxedo. Dewey recognized him as a guest on the Tonight Show. He had been an escape artist as a young man. Dewey told him the story. “No, I never heard that one. What a great escape. Maybe the best of all time.” Dewey bought him a drink. “But, nothing. No press. No Johnny Carson. It was like it never happened.” “Carson’s a magician,” said a magician in a red velvet coat. “They’re not interested in magic. Not for fifty years,” said the first. “Not even if it beats Houdini?” Dewey asked. “That’s right, nobody cares. Look at me, I was the one who exposed Uri Geller.” “You’re not the only one who exposed Geller,” said a man from the far end of the bar. “Look at you,” laughed the first. “That’s your problem, nobody looks at you anymore.” * * * It was a hot day in September. Gar was the stunt double for a film shot for TV. After setting up all morning, he jumped into the crash car. “We want to get this with one take,” the director said. Gar drove a red Corvette through the guardrail one hundred feet into Malibu Canyon and at the last possible second was pulled up by a piano-wire rig. “Did you get it?” Gar asked the director. “Got everything.” “What a pro,” said one of the cameramen. Gar got on his Triumph and headed back to the Valley. It was one of the hottest days of the year, but he was a cool rider, air running up his leather sleeves — no potholes, clear view ahead. He leaned instinctively, deep into the turns. He leaned to clear a yucca tree and brushed its leaves, which were as sharp as daggers. The plant hurt him but another, a twin growing directly behind, stabbed him harder and Gar over-corrected — spinning out. * * * Dewey had been distracted lately. He missed Joan. He jumped when a balloon popped two blocks from Mrs. Kim’s house. The balloon was red with an uncurled, green ribbon. It was the first time one popped while he was driving. Just a balloon, so why did he feel so sad? * * * Gar separated from his motorcycle. Maybe he could glide. He pointed himself like a torpedo and opened his leather jacket to make an airfoil. He flew like this, a man on squirrel-wings, scooping air, banking to the left, where the canyon rim was closer. There was a ledge, and next to it, a smooth, gray-granite face. But he wasn’t going to make it across. * * * Ding-dong-ding. Hear the vaulting echo. Bertram is standing at the front door. His arms are crossed like a tomb soldier. “You answer door,” Mrs. Kim said. Bertram looked out the window and saw Dewey’s van. “It’s the balloon guy?” Bertram grumbled. “You like balloon guy!” Mrs. Kim said, raising her voice. * * * To make a high-fall pit, you dig a hole six feet deep. You fill the first four feet with cardboard, newspaper, and rags. On top of that you lay two single mattresses side-by-side. Next comes the foam rubber, and over that you lay down the king. A high-fall pit has the same dimensions as a double grave. So if you land on your neck and die, “You don’t need to dig the hole.” That was the one that always made the boys laugh.
It sounded like an interesting project, but I never got around to it, and have felt guilty about it ever since. Now there's a paper (found via GNXP.com) on a study of 1066 trainee truckers in the U.S.: Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment, by Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, and Aldo Rustichini In large firms of the type we study, the American Trucking Associations consistently report that annual turnover rates exceed 100% (21). Most driver trainees, including our subjects, borrow the cost of training from their new employer, a debt which is forgiven after twelve months of post‐training service, but which becomes payable in full upon earlier exit. Yet over half our subjects exit before twelve months, which makes predicting survival of considerable interest. The social scientists gave the trainee truckers the Ravens non-verbal IQ test, an ETS test of numeracy, and had them play a quantitative game called Hit 15. They also had them engage in the kind of Vernon Smith behavioral economics experiments that help measure future orientation and the like. Figure 4 displays the survival curves for distinct values of a typical socio‐economic variable (marital status), as well as for each quintile for the Hit 15 Index. The difference between married and un‐married is small, while the difference among the quintiles in any of the cognitive skills scores is large. Marital status is typical of other socio‐economic variables, such as credit score, number of dependents, prior job, and so on: these explain little of the variation in survival. The survival curves are similar for the IQ Index and the Numeracy. The difference between survival levels at different scores is particularly large for the Hit 15 Index: the survival for the top scorers is twice as large as for the bottom ones. IQ, numeracy, and the Hit 15 game were all correlated with graduation rates from the one-year training program. The Hit 15 game was a particularly good predictor of who would graduate from the training program. Interestingly, the top quintile in numeracy had a worse graduation rate than the next highest quintile. Perhaps the most numerate tended to get alternative employment as bookkeepers, or whatever, jobs where you get to go home every evening. Their abstract: cognitive skills. My published articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer 35 comments: In Africa trucking also seems to be reserved for the lesser skilled. But this attitude does not make economic sense. For instance in Europe it’s mostly a skilled profession with requisite training and qualifications. It makes sense too, since economical trucking is also about having knowledge about your equipment (truck), the goods you are delivering and the area in which you move. In addition traffic in Europe is heavy and roads tight. So numbskulls as drivers are likely to not only hike trucking costs but also cost the taxpayer cleaning up after accidents. Reminds me of my time in basic training in the Army. The guys who had the hardest time with the rules and the routine were the college grads. You want them smart enough to do the job, but not so smart that they're constantly questionning what they're doing. Reads like an abstract of the Bell Curve. It may well be that the smarter truckers are owner-operators rather than employees of trucking companies. Peter Based on this study, If I owned a trucking firm I would try to give my job applicants an IQ test and generally hire the ones with IQ from 100 to 105 and carefully avoid the ones with IQ above or below that range. I know that some employers have been sued for using IQ tests in employment. Would this academic study give me enough ammunition to defend such a lawsuit? "Interestingly, the top quintile in numeracy had a worse graduation rate than the next highest quintile. Perhaps the most numerate tended to get alternative employment as bookkeepers, or whatever, jobs where you get to go home every evening." Again Steve, you can fit a square peg into a round hole provided it is made of soft enough material, and you use a large enough hammer. The fact that these findings contradict the very findings of everything else you have professed should be cause for jubilation, not sophistry. Have you ever heard the difference between a bad scientist and a good scientist? The bad scientist creates a hypothesis and goes to the greatest possible length to prove it right...the good scientist creates a hypothesis and goes to the greatest possible length to prove it wrong. I drove trucks for a moving company when I was in college in Boston. The only parts that required intelligence were route-finding, which is no longer an issue thanks to GPS, packing the truck and dealing with the customers. Some people are much better than others at using technological physical extensions of their body, such as surgeons, race car drivers, and guys who are great at first-person shooter games. Such spatial deftness is probably a specific inborn talent. I am a major klutz when it comes to spatial relations. Maneuvering the streets demanded careful attention. I did well at the job, but I was like a powerful processor powering through a complex calculation despite a badly written algorithm. I am sure that there are lots of guys with 90 IQs and a sweet touch who could have done the driving part of the job better than me with a lot less stress. These results suggest that cognitive skills affect the economic lives of individuals, by systematically changing preferences and choices in a way that favors the economic success of individuals with higher cognitive skills.OMG! Who knew?! --Senor Doug Arthur Hu, in his Wonderlic-to-IQ conversion formula, calculates that the Wonderlic folks recommend an IQ of 100-108 in truck drivers. PS: If the Pentagon is dumping two-digit soldiers in the truck-driving corps, then I'd hate to see their insurance stats. Which begs the question: To what extent does the Pentagon even purchase private sector insurance? Are they suable, or do they have some sort of statutory indemnity? Also, a little off-topic, but if it is correct [as the available evidence leads me to believe] that American Blacks & Aboriginal Hispanics now have an average IQ of about 80 [and falling, owing to dysgenic fertility], then an IQ of 108 is getting out about two standard deviations from their mean[s]. In other words, by American Black or Aboriginal Hispanic standards, you'd have to be something of a "genius" to pass the Wonderlic standards for a truck driver. [Sorry to rain on everyone's Monday Morning Parade...] A good trucker needs at least decent spatial skills. Ever seen guys back tractor-trailers up to loading docks? Not an easy job. But truck driving in general is pretty mindless. Just stay awake and alert enough to keep the truck on the road and make the few requisite turns. Taxi driving probably requires more memory and spatial skills applied more frequently. One must remember thousands of streets, intersections and variables that affect traffic speed and ridership. There's no doubt that smarter truckers and cabbies will be better than dumb ones, but smarter people can (usually) find something else to do that pays better. Trucking pays jack these days. I drove an M1 Abrams in the Army, and I'm pretty sure driving a semi-trailer is tougher. The M1 has a motorcycle-style handlebar for steering and acceleration, one gigantic pedal for the brake, and an automatic transmission. Ignoring the pivot maneuver specific to tracked vehicles, it's less complex than driving a car with a manual transmission. a study of 1066 trainee truckers...1066 and all that? ...the lowest scorers allowed to enlist from 1992 thru 2004 were 92 IQs, who aren't stupid by any means.This reminds me of Arthur Jensen's remark in an interview with Jared Taylor, that there's probably an IQ floor of about 85 needed for professional basketball. Shrinks the window a bit. I don't know how "mindless" truck driving is in practice. But that wouldn't stop the very smart from taking the job. I've met many intelligent and/or creative types on blue-collar jobs over the years, and know several blue-collar Mensans. The great advantage of these jobs-- assuming they pay well-- is that one's mind is freed for one's own purposes. Eric Hoffer is the classic example. Beats being a bookkeeper. Truth: The fact that these findings contradict the very findings of everything else you have professed What findings contradict what findings? The study's conclusion is in line with everything else we know about cognitive skills: These results suggest that cognitive skills affect the economic lives of individuals, by systematically changing preferences and choices in a way that favors the economic success of individuals with higher cognitive skills. Now, this study is not about proving or disproving that high cognitive skill is best for everything, nor is Steve trying to do that here. If you run a truck company and want to recruit drivers in the fourth quintile in numeracy, that's certainly valid based on this study. Steve was just speculating about why the top quintile doesn't come out on top. And his explanation is plausible. If you want to suggest, by contrast, that one can be too smart (read, nerdy) to drive a truck well, that's plausible, too. It would certainly fit the stereotype -- and we love stereotypes on this blog -- as in Ben Stiller's character in Flirting with Disaster. (Note, though, that although the top quintile loses to the fourth in graduation rate, it still beats the rest.) I am a former truck driver-former being a key word. Many very intelligent people were unable to physically drive the truck, in training-they never learned to back very well, and to be honest it never was my strong point. Some fairly low cognitives (by my estimate) in the classes I attended backed beautifully, though. It's worth noting another breakdown by industry: LTL trucking companies have no serious driver retention or recruitment issues. They are union, they pay quite well, and drivers are home every other or,at worst, third day. Some every night. Specialized carriers-guys who haul dangerous chemicals, weapons, outsize loads, etc, also have no serious retention problems. Those guys, like other truck load carriers, are out forever too, but those jobs pay very well. IMO the "driver retention crisis" comes down to pay vs. lifestyle. A job that demands hard work, long hours, long absences from home, and living in a truck cab that doesn't pay munificently is not one many people will stay at if any alternatives exist. Hmmm, sort of proves your archnemesis Gladwell's point that work ethic is at least as important than IQ in determining professional success. I'm wondering what the pay scale was. There's a reason that Costco's worker turnover is a fraction of Walmart's. Costco overpays its employees and Walmart underpays. I used to drive to work through the wholesale food district just east of Chicago's loop, where 18 wheelers arrive early in the morning to drop off their loads for restaurants to turn into lunch. Truckdrivers have to be good at some complex backing up maneuvers. And they can't get flustered over the fact that they are blocking traffic when they back up into a loading dock. They have to feel they deserve to take their time to do it right and all the other motorists will just have wait for them. "They have to feel they deserve to take their time...and all the other motorists will just have wait for them. Hey, then black women would be the ultimate truck drivers! For instance in Europe it’s mostly a skilled profession with requisite training and qualifications. It makes sense too, since economical trucking is also about having knowledge about your equipment (truck), the goods you are delivering and the area in which you move.In other words, truckers' unions in Euroland impose unnecessary requirements in order to restrict the quantity of truck drivers. :0~ A guy who I play cards with was a trucker. One of those who didnt make the one year cut off. He had 3 accidents while backing to the loading docks and was let go. Smart guy, heck of a cardplayer (poker is a mathy game to play it well you need to be fairly bright) but apparently spatial skills not quite up to par. Interesting. I wonder if IQ has any predicitve value when it comes to the ability to be head of Homeland Security? In other words, truckers' unions in Euroland impose unnecessary requirements in order to restrict the quantity of truck drivers. :0~ Just like every profession. Does every doctor need a four year undergraduate degree and then the full four year medical school curriculum when, unless he is a GP, he will use only a fraction of what he has learned in any individual specialty? Look at aviation. Colorblindness is a big disqualifier...but what is it intrinsically about aviation that male-pattern colorblindness causes an issue? Nothing. It's only that in the old days, red and green light signals were used and red and green markings are used in gauges. It would have been sensible at any time in the last 80 years to use a different marking on gauges, and if light signals are really needed (they're never used in paractice anymore) using dots and dashes-or even, any two different colrs besides red and green=would easily solve the issue. All prosperity comes from restriction, whether by the nature of the job or arbitrary action. "...American Blacks & Aboriginal Hispanics now have an average IQ of about 80...."80? Where did you get that information? Murray? Rushton? Du Lion? Flynn? "Does every doctor need a four year undergraduate degree and then the full four year medical school curriculum when, unless he is a GP, he will use only a fraction of what he has learned in any individual specialty?" Good doctors see medicine with a holistic approach, thus making the total curriculum necessary. Additionally, I don't think most doctors know what their specialties will be until they have a well rounded education. Each specialty requires a different amount of internship/residency, for instance I believe a psychiatrist needs 3 years total after medical school, whereas a brain surgeon needs 8. Bill said... But truck driving in general is pretty mindless. Just stay awake and alert enough to keep the truck on the road and make the few requisite turns. A driver I know used to have to drive from west Phoenix to Las Vegas every night. He said that he would leave Phoenix, and suddenly arrive in Vegas without remembering the trip in between. My late grandfather, the man who raised my mother, was a truck driver. He was not very smart and clearly had an I.Q. that put him at least in the low '90s. He was, however, a fantastic driver. He posed next to rig at 16 in a rare picture of him, went off to Korea as a Marine and killed many men, came back and worked as a roughneck for a little bit and then pursued his dream of driving trucks. He was very proud of his record and was recognized as a driver without incident for years. My grandmother (IQ high 140s, long story) would ride with him in their old age and would deeply analyze all the different kinds of drivers. In other words, she would form stereotypes like crazy. The absolute worst drivers (on interstates) in her opinion of being all over America were young professional women around college towns. DAJ: "...American Blacks & Aboriginal Hispanics now have an average IQ of about 80...." 80? Where did you get that information? Murray? Rushton? Du Lion? Flynn? 1) BLACKS: In 2001, Roth et al estimated that American Blacks had an average IQ of 83.5. But 58 percent to 60 percent of all black children are born to black women with IQs below the black mean. And the women studied in 1979 by the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, who themselves had an average IQ of 83.7, had produced, by 1997, a successor generation of children with an average IQ of only 80.2. 2) ABORIGINAL HISPANICS: Legal immigrants to the USA from Mexico have an average IQ of 82 - God only knows what the illegal immigrants have. Guatemala has an average IQ of 79. 3) BOTTOM LINE: I'd guess that American blacks of age 45+ might have an average IQ up around 83 or 84, but that in 2009, American black children in the age range of 0-15 probably have an average IQ in the high seventies. And my guess would be pretty much the same for aboriginal Hispanics - if the legal immigrants have an average IQ of only 82, then I'd be shocked if the illegals didn't pull the entire average down into the seventies. "The absolute worst drivers (on interstates) in her opinion of being all over America were young professional women around college towns." Ha ha! I concur. And that weird segment of the population seems to be increasing. Truckdrivers have to be good at some complex backing up maneuvers. Performing a backing maneuver isn't so much IQ as it is experience and understanding the pivot point of the truck. And they can't get flustered over the fact that they are blocking traffic when they back up into a loading dock. They have to feel they deserve to take their time to do it right and all the other motorists will just have wait for them. Damn straight. It's chutzpah. This ain't an interstate, pal, so deal with it. Same goes with blocking a lane on a crowded street where there's nowehere to park. I paid my way through college as a (usually) part-time delivery driver for the express end of a parcel company. This is not long haul trucking, obviously, and there was a clear advantage to IQ in this case. A fill-in driver would be handed 80-100 stops in what may be an unfamiliar area and have to determine for himself how to run the route, making sure to make all his commitment times, etc. It's not an easy task, even with a map. GPS systems were not used. It is probably relevant that the two major psychological predictors of job perfomance are (in order) IQ and the personality trait of Conscientiousness (C). But that IQ and C are not closely correlated. This implies that at any given stratum of selection, although both higher IQ and C are predictive of better performance, there will tend to be a reciprocal relationship between IQ and Conscientiousness. Major IQ researcher Adrian Furman of University College, London has shown this for undergraduate students: the higher IQ students tend to be less conscientious (clever but lazier) while the and the highly Conscientious students tend to be lower in IQ (harder working but dumber). Probably this arises because UCL undergraduates are excellent but on average second tier, and the (rare) students who are very high in both IQ and C would tend to go to first tier colleges. Among truck drivers, I would therefore expect the smartest (in IQ terms) to be less Conscientious on average (and more likely to drop-out) - because if a higher IQ person was also highly Conscientious they would probably take a better-paying job. (In other words, the reason why the smartest truck driving recruits are doing the job of truck driving is on average likely to be that their personality is too low in Conscientiousness for them to stay in the educational system and get higher qualifications, or that they are too 'feckless' in their work habits to get a white collar job - or to keep such a job if they get it.) Incidentally, this phenomenon of reciprocal IQ and C is seen even at the very highest levels of IQ. Terman's early 20th century follow up study of very high IQ Californians found that the lower-achieving group had higher levels of anti-social personality traits. Those with very high IQ and sufficient C are often doing relatively high status, well paid jobs but those who have less conscientious or more abrasive/ difficult personalities may take less-skilled jobs - such as the ultra-high IQ author of this excellent essay on this phenomenon - who worked as a security guard (and who was murdered in the course of his job). SO, although IQ predicts perfomance across a wide range the correlation between IQ and perfomance is considerably less than 1, and the difference is usually attributable to personality. "truck drivers who wouldn't get lost" This is no longer a problem considering GPS units are now ubiquitous and cost less than $200-150 dollars nowadays. Actually even with GPS people get lost all the time. Especially low IQ people who assume "GPS knows best". Google +GPS +railroad crossing or +GPS and +road under construction and you'll get plenty of stories of stupidity to entertain you. Not to change the subject but the commenter on black IQ recently is right. Black IQ has become lower in the last 40 uears, I suspect mostly because of AFDC and other programs subsidizing welfare motherhood. I run into old blacks who are fairly smart more often than young ones. Lucius V., Thanks for the citations. The data surely do not bode well. I did, however, notice this quote from Murray:. I run into old blacks who are fairly smart more often than young ones.Do you really suppose the old blacks are a representative sample of their birth cohort?
Short Summary : Give New Wings to Your B2B eCommerce Business Due to a high craze of online shopping in the world, there is a need to follow good strategies for the growth of B2B eCommerce business. There are many options available for this but the best one is availing the service from an eCommerce solution company. The integration of technology in the same gives new heights and ultimately, it helps in gaining good revenue in the profession. - 1. Introduction - 2. Importance of Creating Valuable Relationships with B2B buyers - 2.1 Add Detailed Product Information on Your Site - 2.2 Make Onsite Search Easier - 2.3 Simplify Payments and Ordering Process - 2.4 Utilize Social Media Marketing - 2.5 Advertise Positive Product Reviews and Ratings - 2.6 Offer Incentives for Referrals - 2.7 Improve Customer Service - 2.8 Invest in a Responsive Website - 3. Create Valuable Content For all The Platforms - 4. Leveraging The Power of SEO - 5. How AIS Technolabs can Help You Grow Your B2B Ecommerce Sales? - 6. Conclusion Introduction Nowadays, the eCommerce industry is growing at a fast rate. In this regard, the B2B eCommerce is also flourishing with the craze for online shopping . So, most of the companies are focusing on understanding the customer journey in a much better way. This will again help to increase customer engagement. With the rapid evolution of this industry, it becomes very important for businesses to develop completely new strategies to keep pace with the ever-changing trends. For this, companies should take the help of an ecommerce solution provider as they will help to plan for long-term growth and effectively compete with online retailers like Amazon. Again, this thing essentially requires making use of the B2C relationship building tactics and tapping into the B2B buyer mindset. Importance of Creating Valuable Relationships with B2B Buyers Opting for the best ecommerce solution company will help to build strong relationships with the partners and customers which is an important aspect for B2B businesses. As a result, successful B2B eCommerce strategies should reflect that. Nowadays, the B2B eCommerce models specifically go beyond automated ordering systems. So, there is much more emphasis on building relationships with customers whereas less on transactions. Relationship centered B2B eCommerce is considered to reduce the effort that is spent on low-value tasks and effectively addresses extended interactions, multi-party deals, more complex transactions with long term business clients. Therefore, it becomes very important to follow the key strategies that contribute to the growth of your B2B ecommerce business. In this regard, you can opt for the best ecommerce solutions for small business to address your unique needs. Add Detailed Product Information on Your Site It is very important to provide detailed and clear product information on your website. A good ecommerce solution company will suggest the same. This thing effectively facilitates the decision-making process of a buyer. Also, the buyers contribute to finding product information and demos as the most useful and important types of web content on a business’s site. For example, if your business focuses on selling cloud-based phone systems, you should always focus on sharing information that is related to the integration process along with the integral benefits of going wireless. All that you need is to be transparent that can eventually result in more sales and thereby, increasing trust between you and your buyers. Make Onsite Search Easier Most of the buyers lack time to scroll through several product numbers and names for finding their preferred option. So, you should always focus on a fast onsite search option and a clean interface that can help to increase the shopping experience of the buyers. If you do not have an idea about how to do this, then you can take the help of an ecommerce solution company to perform the work for you. They will help to build a page that allows visitors to specifically search by SKU number, product name, or product type. Depending on your business, you could again include search options that allow buyers to select or filter items based on their price or popularity. Simplify Payments and Ordering Process You should always focus on providing a more personalized purchasing experience to the buyers. This will again help to secure sales. Also, to ensure buyers feel accommodated, you should provide them with multiple options. For this, you should consider hiring the best ecommerce development provider who will review your sales forecast and finances to see if you can adjust your pricing or packages model to offer more scalable solutions. So, it is always a very good idea to offer multiple payment options that include digital wallets and credit cards to payment terms and purchase orders. As a result, the buyers can easily pay following their preferences. Utilize Social Media Marketing Another important thing is to take advantage of social media to effectively bond with potential buyers. Social media is considered to be the 3rd most important marketing tactic to follow when it comes to B2B businesses. Posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are a great way to drive traffic to your website. Not only that, but it helps to understand the unique needs of the B2B businesses. But, it is very important to keep all your posts varied and information. You can again consider sharing customer reviews, product demos, infographics, announcements about discounts or deals, and industry news. Another best approach is to host a Twitter chat for answering specific questions and to make use of Facebook live for demonstrating your products. Advertise Positive Product Reviews and Ratings Usually, the best ecommerce solutions for small business will suggest you advertise positive product ratings and reviews. This is specifically because the buyers who shop for business essentials such as web hosting, software, or wholesale products, it is considered to be an ongoing relationship. So, the buyers seek social proof to be confident in committing to your services or products for the long term. It is evident from many of the studies that a lot of the B2B buyers rely on peer reviews whenever they make a purchase decision. So, it becomes very important to publish the ratings and reviews of buyers on your website. It is always a very good idea to include photos and names of your reviewers which helps to establish a sense of authenticity and trust. Offer Incentives for Referrals Referral marketing is considered to be an integral aspect of your B2B business. In this regard, you should focus on offering incentives for referrals. A study suggests that about 84% of the B2B decision-makers start the purchasing process because of a referral. Also, it is seen that referrals contribute to close the sales 70% faster. So, in case your company is not involved in offering incentives for referrals, then you should think about this aspect. You can again take the help of an ecommerce solution company who will guide you throughout the process. Improve Customer Service Customer service is proved to be very effective in building brand loyalty. So, you should focus on providing buyers a more enjoyable and easier shopping experience. For example, you can install a live chat function on your website or extend your customer service hours. As a result, the buyers can easily type all their questions in the pop-up chat window at the bottom of your website. So, they get answers in real-time while browsing various web pages. Not only that, but the live chat feature can effectively address any confusion and cut down on customer service phone calls and emails. The key to growing your ecommerce business is to effectively cater to the specific buyer’s needs. Invest in a Responsive Website You should always focus on investing in a responsive website. Doing so will eventually result in more sales. Like more consumers, B2B buyers enjoy the convenience of conducting research and shopping on their phones. So, if you are still not having a responsive website, you should take the help of ecommerce solutions for small businesses who will help you in this aspect. Again, migrating to mobile does not only mean improving the user interface of your website. But, you need to ensure that the buyers specifically have access to the same features on mobile that they have on a desktop such as making purchases, filling out order forms, and conducting searches. Create Valuable Content for All The Platforms When it comes to content marketing, it is very important to create valuable content for all platforms. In this regard, you should start by creating detailed product descriptions. Along with adding product descriptions on the product page, you should focus on creating brochures, product sheets, and downloadable content. You need to add those on your product page which will provide detailed insight to your buyers about your products. Not only that, but as a part of your content marketing strategy, you should also focus on other content pieces such as videos, white papers, webinars, and blog posts. Leveraging The Power of SEO SEO is considered to be an integral aspect of the growth of your B2B ecommerce business. So, you should take the help of a good ecommerce solution company that will develop a strong eCommerce SEO strategy specifically for your B2B eCommerce brand. This is regardless of what you sell and what the average price tag is. Most of the B2B buyers conduct web searches before making a purchase. These buyers will also complete an average of 12 searchers before they engage actively on the website of a particular brand. This is considered to be the main reason why you should always invest in SEO which will make your website visible in search results. How AIS Technolabs can help you grow your B2B eCommerce sales? If you are finding any of the difficult to grow your B2B ecommerce business, then we, at AIS Technolabs are fully dedicated to addressing your unique needs. Our expert professionals always focus to deliver the best ecommerce solutions for small business. In this regard, we make use of the best B2B ecommerce strategies for the growth of your business and increasing sales. Conclusion So, B2B buying and selling online is growing at a rapid rate. Most of the buyers, in the current days, are focusing on buy online. Therefore, you should develop a reputation for being approachable and accommodating can help to win referrals along with increasing customer satisfaction. Also, most of the ecommerce solution providers suggest that the key to the growth of your eCommerce business is to effectively cater to the unique needs of the buyers. This is the reason why you should improve customer service, offer more flexible solutions, and revamp your website. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
“The only way to preserve your hardwood floor is to keep it clean and free of nasty germs and pet hairs. Apart from a wood floor cleaner solution, you also need the power of a sturdy hardwood floor vacuum to get the shining results you expect. We found many leading vacuum cleaner brands for hardwood floors, and the products with the greatest performance results are evaluated below“ Review of the Finest Hardwood Floor Vacuum Cleaners I remember my first try at finding the most efficient hardwood floor vacuum for my new home. The blog posting I discovered was filled with unwanted details about the different types of vacuum cleaners when all I wanted was a product that can be used to remove germs, pet hairs, and other nasty environmental elements. Initially, I ended up investing in the wrong product, simply because it was on sale during the holiday shopping season. This review of the top hardwood floor vacuum cleaners will not be about the brands on sale, but the products with the right features to give you the ability to get your wood flooring spotlessly clean. The ultimate wood floor vacuum should not be difficult to operate, neither should it be cumbersome or too heavy to carry around while vacuuming your floors. While I cannot guarantee you that the hardwood vacuums listed below are the cheapest you can buy online, I have no doubt they’re among the most efficient brands you can use to keep your wood floor superbly clean. Do not be like me, for I wasted money on a product that was not only difficult to operate, the design was not as advertised, and it gave me headaches instead of a cleaner wood floor. My personal experience will not only save you money but time as well. So, grab your favorite beverage, sit down, and let’s discover some of the foremost hardwood floor vacuum cleaners you can find on Amazon.com. Vacuum for Hardwood Floors While trying to decide what vacuum for wood floors to include in this article, I had to eliminate many comparable brands to come up with a short list of the premier hardwood floor vacuums one can buy online. If you want to explore other brands with merit, clicking the images or the links underneath will take you to the page to do your own comparison shopping. I have not considered if any of the vacuums reviewed will be on sale this black Friday, Cyber Monday, or Christmas shopping season, as the aim was to bring you a reliable vacuum cleaner you can use to maintain your wood floor without any performance issues. You can find your own elite vacuum cleaner for wood floors with incredible performance metrics from the units reviewed below: 1 – Bissell PowerEdge Pet Hard Floor Vacuum The model number for the Bissell PowerEdge hard floor vacuum cleaner is either 81L2A or 81L2T. You cannot question the durability of this brand, for they’ve been around for decades with different types of vacuum products, including this one specifically designed for use on hard floors. I found the V-shape design to be quite intriguing as it allows the user to reach unusual corners with ease. It is also a clever way to push all the dirt to the center of the vacuum where the suction power is concentrated, which leads to the faster elimination of debris from your hardwood floor. Pros: This is probably one of the cheapest hardwood floor vacuum cleaners you’re going to find from a high-end brand with such impressive features. The V-shape design means it will be easier to reach dirt in tight places and along the edges. The dirt cup can be removed easily and emptied to resume vacuuming of your hardwood floors. The power cord is about 20-feet long, which means you can use it to reach wider areas of your living space before switching AC outlets. The suction technology deployed in this unit is quite powerful and makes it easier for the vacuum to pick up the shedding from your pet’s fur. The swivel head of the Bissell PowerEdge wood floor vacuum is matched by a lightweight design. It weighs less than eight pounds, which means it can be handled quite easily by almost everyone including middle age kids. Cons: Despite the thousands of positive opinions from current users, there were few gripes from unhappy buyers of the Bissell wood vacuum cleaner. The lack of any attachments might lead to limitations in the reach of the vacuum despite the V-shape design. Some users complained the cord is too short at 20-feet, but you can always get a cheap extension cord to solve that problem. The cup that holds the debris might be too small for those with larger dwellings or multiple pets that shed hairs on a daily basis. Bottom Line: The above video gives a perfect demonstration of what you can do with the Bissell hardwood floor vacuum in your home. With this vacuum, you’ll not have to use any dustpan and broom to pick up little debris on your wood floor. The design of this vacuum is just right, and it has all the right features for you to keep your hard floors clean. Most important of all, the pricing of this wood floor vacuum makes it affordable for most households in America. This wood floor vacuum is protected by a one-year limited warranty from the manufacturer. 2 – Dirt Devil SD20505 Reviews Almost all Americans are familiar with the Dirt Devil brand name. The Dirt Devil SD20505 is even lighter than the Bissell PowerEdge since it weighs less than seven pounds, which means better handling capabilities. The Dirt Devil brand name can trace its roots back to 1905 from the creation of a vacuum cleaner by a man named Phillip A. Geier. Some have called it the premier standard by which other stick bagless hardwood floor vacuum cleaners are judged. Pros: The powerful suction of the Dirt Devil wood floor vacuum is made possible by the use of a 10 Amp Motor, which means most of your floor dirt will be quickly sucked into the holding canister of the vacuum. The low profile nozzle design means that it can reach tight corners to remove food droppings and pet hairs. This product uses the latest Cyclonic filtration method to keep the dust and dirt out of your living space. The lightweight design of the corded stick vacuum is enhanced by the bagless convenience. Apart from the Dirt Devil sd20505 manual that is detailed and comprehensive, you also get a two-year limited warranty to cover any factory defects. Cons: While the suction for this wood floor vacuum is strong and powerful, the lack of attachments limits what it can do for any hard flooring. Few users complained the vacuum is quite loud while in operation. Few of the current users wished the twenty-foot cord was longer. Bottom Line: This vacuum for wood floors is blessed with a very powerful suction mechanism that is able to remove dirt quickly from your hardwood floors. Once your delivery package arrives, this device for cleaning hardwood floors can be assembled quickly in just a few minutes. Despite few complaints, most of the users said the motor is quiet while it is in operation. The wheels for pushing it around your home are sturdy, and the 20-feet cord allows you to clean your entire living space unless you reside in a mansion. Why Wood Floors for Your Home? When I was searching for a home to invest in, the ones with wood flooring appealed more to me than the ones with regular carpeting. Maybe it was because I grew up in a home with wood flooring or my horrible experience in a dorm room with plush carpeting? Unless you have lived in a home with both types of flooring materials you might not appreciate the advantages a wood floor might come with. Below, are some of the benefits you can expect if your residence is blessed to have wood floors? A – Not only are real wood floors aesthetically pleasing, they’re also much easier to keep clean as compared to regular carpeting. That is why some of the top vacuums for hardwood floors will be lighter and easier to use around your home. B – Real Hardwood floors are not as friendly to bacteria like carpeting. Even if you vacuum your plush carpeting on a regular basis, it will still remain dirty simply because it is made of chemical fibers that germs and other environmental element love. C – Carpets are notorious for housing dust mites, allergens, and other bacteria that will impact the health of the occupants negatively. Not to talk about the odors that accumulate on your carpet over time if you have indoor pets at your home. D – Wood floors might cost more initially, but your investment would be recouped due to their longevity. A properly installed wood flooring has the potential to last forever if maintained and cleaned the right way. It is not uncommon to find older homes with wood flooring installed over 100 hundred years ago. E – If you want your home to fetch a higher price from buyers, change the flooring from carpet to wood. If you have any doubt about the allure of hardwood floors to get you a higher price just ask a competent real estate agent in your area. It is one of the smartest investments you can make in your home. F – Most people are not even aware that a vacuum for wood floors will cost your less money as compared to vacuums designed to be used on regular carpeting. 3 – Shark Rotator NV752 Powered Lift-Away TruePet Vacuum If you’re looking for a vacuum that could handle both carpets and hardwood floors, the Shark Rotator powered lift-away truepet NV752 might just be the right brand for you. The accessories from this multi-floor cleaning tool cannot be compared with the other brands reviewed above. This total floor care vacuum cleaner from Shark Rotator can do so much, from handling the needs of plush carpeting to taking care of the most expensive wood floors. The shark NV752 is comparable to what you’ll get from a Dyson vacuum cleaner. Pros: The Shark Rotator Powered Lift-Away NV752 is available for purchase in four different versions from just the vacuum with the normal accessories to those with expanded features and accessories. From feedbacks found online, the NV752 stands out for being able to reach dirt in every nook and corners of your home, since it comes with all the right attachments and accessories. You can use it in an upright mode or a power lift mode, depending on the type of floor you’re cleaning. This multi-floor total vacuum cleaner comes with the right accessories and attachments to make cleaning your upholstery, pillows, blinds, and other hanging household stuff easy. Not only will this cleaning tool extract dust and dirt, it is also capable of removing allergens that might be present on your floors. Apart from the dynamic swivel steering, there are LED lights to make navigating dark corners not as dreadful as it used to be. Cons: This vacuum weighs about 27.7 pounds, which might be too much to carry when cleaning the stairs or other hard to reach places in your home. The biggest con might be the pricing, which is on the expensive side of things, but you can use this vacuum to do so much. Shark Rotator NV752 Review Video This is one of the most detailed videos I have ever seen for a vacuum cleaner that can handle all types of floors. After watching the video, you just might click the image or the link to get your own shark rotator powered lift away NV752 vacuum cleaner. Bottom Line: Despite all the impressive features, this product might not be appropriate for everyone. If you have pets and have a combination of carpeting and hardwood flooring in your home, this might be the floor care machine you want to invest your dollars in. Not only will the suction power remove all the dirt quickly and efficiently, the embedded HEPA filter is capable of trapping the vacuumed dust and allergens. Not only does it have an on/off switch, there is also a unique cleaning mode for the hardwood floor and carpet. Most Important Features When Searching for the Leading Wood Floor Vacuum The wood floor vacuum you choose to buy should be the one that delivers better permanence metrics. Please, do not base your buying decision on price alone, for some of the cheaply made brands are not worth the asking price, even if it is heavily discounted during the holiday shopping season. Being aware of the following features will allow you to navigate wisely the promotional noise from the manufacturer. Pay particular attention to these factors if you want to end up with the greatest vacuum for hardwood floors. Awareness of the Brand It takes many years to establish a reputation for outputting reliable hardwood floor vacuum cleaners, and you should not take that lightly, as you shift through the product offering from different manufacturers. The vacuum cleaner you select for your wood flooring should at least be from a manufacturer that has stood the test of time. This is not the type of product you want to invest in a newly created brand unless you have money to waste. The Noise from the Wood Floor Vacuum A well-made hardwood floor vacuum will be lighter than the one for carpet, which means it should be less noisy when in use. Some of the manufacturers will list the noise level of the wood vacuum, while others would not. Reading a few of the feedbacks from current users is one of the ways to determine if the wood floor vacuum will be quiet during use. Filtration Methods The efficiency of a wood floor vacuum can be measured in how well it collects dirt and stores it before disposal. Most of the top brands will come with a canister to hold the dirt, which means not costly vacuum bags to purchase on a regular basis. In selecting the vacuums found in this evaluation, I actually went to local stores to try them out. Do not just rely on the words of the manufacturer that the wood vacuum will suction off dirt efficiently, read some of the feedbacks from regular users before making your buying decision. Do You Want Corded or Cordless Wood Floor Vacuum? While both will have pros and cons, a better alternative will be to get a vacuum that can be used both ways. Yes, it might cost you more, but the mobility features will allow you to reach and clean every nook and corner of your wood flooring. My personal preference for any cleaning utility tool is corded power connection. You can always invest in an extension cord to allow the hardwood vacuum to reach every inch of your living space. If you opt for one that uses battery technology, be mindful of how long a full charge would last, and check if it has power depletion when not in use. Warranty Terms Do keep in mind that the warranty for your hardwood floor vacuum is only valid if the manufacturer remains in business, which is why it is essential to pick brands to invest in, carefully. One year is the minimum warranty period for most hardwood vacuum cleaners, but there are many brands with longer periods. A worthy brand will have a website that is filled with consumer-friendly resources. When a company takes the time to create online owner’s manual, how to videos, and other usage tips, you can bet they plan to stick around for many years to come. Current User Feedbacks Even after reading this post, it will be wise on your part to invest a few minutes and peruse the opinions of users before pushing the buy now button. I am aware that no product is without a few disgruntled users, but the majority of the users of the brand you have in mind should at least love the performance of the hardwood vacuum. Most consumers ignore this part because they’re in a rush, but it might save you from investing in a potential bad product. 4 – Dyson Ball Multi Floor Upright Vacuum If you ever have the opportunity, I urge you to try a Dyson vacuum cleaner on your rugs to see the difference in the cleaning power. Based on the opinions of critics and consumers I can assure the hype assigned to this product is justified. The multi-floor upright vacuum from Dyson is worth its weight in gold because it is that good. In my opinion, it is better performance wise than the Shark Rotator NV752, which is also an excellent multi-floor cleaning tool. You can tell the worth of a vacuum cleaner by seeing what the used ones sell for on eBay or Craigslist. You won’t find too many used ones for sale online simply because people hold on to them or pass them on to their kids as family heirlooms. I have friends with Dyson vacuum cleaners going back eight years or more, and most are still performing admirably. You might misjudge the vacuum from Dyson by just looking at it, but it packs awesome suction power and can be used to get your floors clean in a short period of time. Pros: Apart from the cleaner head that is designed to be self-adjusting, the suction power is sealed onto the floor surface during function so that all the dirt and debris are removed. This Dyson vacuum is designed for use on different types of flooring and comes protected by a five-year limited warranty. At first, you might be wondering where all the attachments are, but the hose and wand that you need to reach higher surfaces are part of the design and can be released in one smooth motion. With these tools, you’ll find it easier to clean your blinds, drapes, and under the furniture. Unlike other vacuum cleaners that only focuses the filtration system on the bags, this one is designed to protect the entire machine from the vacuumed dust. The included HEPA filtration system is able to trap the vacuumed bacteria and allergens right inside the machine. This upright vacuum from Dyson will steer easily with just a little push, and the bin containing all the dirt can be emptied with just a push of a quick release button. The Dyson ball multi-floor manual for the vacuuming action is as detailed as can be. Cons: This biggest issues with the Dyson 206900-01 vacuum cleaner might be the pricing, which some might call very high, but do remember that you get what you pay for in life. It is highly unlikely to pay very little for a high-end product that can clean different type of floors. Bottom Line: Again, despite the detailed Dyson ball multi-floor instructions on how to get the most use out of the device, it would only make sense to you if you can afford it. The sheer brilliance of the design and functionality cannot be adequately explained with words, for you have to see it in action to understand why most owners of the Dyson vacuum cleaner are happy with the product. 5 – Shark Navigator NV356E Lift-Away Professional Vacuum Cleaner The Shark Navigator professional vacuum cleaner is another great floor cleaning product from this company. It is an upright vacuum cleaner with a canister that is detachable to extend the reach of this tool. It is lightweight, and you get two microfiber pads that can help remove more dirt from hard floors. Pros: The unit is completely sealed from the trapped dust so it does not blow back into your living space, while the HEPA filter will keep all the allergens and dust trapped inside. It comes with a special attachment for cleaning hardwood floors, which means any remaining dust will be swept away by the microfiber pad. This is a complete vacuum system for handling all type of floors, and you can reach deeper into your living quarters due to the 30-feet cord. This vacuum unit has swivel steering and special attachments to get to the nooks and corners so that you can remove the pet hairs that might be hiding in those hard to reach areas of your dwelling. Cons: A user called it top heavy and said it could easily be knocked over by kids within the vicinity. Bottom Line: If you can afford it, get yourself the Dyson Ball Multi Floor Upright Vacuum for it will last you many years. This unit is a worthy alternative and can be used to keep your wood floor and carpet clean.
My interview with Ty Drago, author of “The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses” If you haven’t had a chance to read my review of “The Undertakers: Rise of The Corpses”, you can find it here. It’s a great new addition to the young adult genre – both because it’s an incredibly entertaining story, and because it’s about zombies. I had a chance to chat with the Ty Drago, the author of “The Undertakers” recently. We talked about everything from his inspiration for the novel, to the role his son played in helping him get the characters’ voices to ring true, to – of course – the (real) pending zombie apocalypse. The Word Zombie: In my review, I said you took “a dash of “They Live ”, stirred in a handful of zombie mythology from Brian Keene’s “The Rising ”, and finished it off with the young adult appeal of “Percy Jackson ” with “The Undertakers”. Where did you get your inspiration for the story? Ty Drago: It’s a long story! You asked for it! When I was a kid, I drew comic books – a LOT of comic books – that I shared with my friends in the neighborhood. These mostly centered on a group of child superheroes that I dubbed “The Kid Kidets”. I wish I could say the spelling was an early attempt at alliteration, but the sad truth is that, at ten years old, I didn’t know how to spell “cadets”. The Kid Kidets had superpowers ranging from telekinesis to super strength to magic pocket knives, and they made their headquarters in a secret installation deep below the Antarctic ice. Whenever trouble brewed, the Kid Kidets’ HQ would rise up through the ice and the heroes within would burst forth to save the day, some using spaceships or Wonder Woman-esque invisible planes, others flying on their own power. And the leader of the Undertakers was a brother and sister team named Tom and Sharyn Jefferson. Well, despite all their victories, there was one enemy the Kid Kidets couldn’t defeat. I grew up. And, when I did, Tom, Sharyn and all the rest were relegated to a corner of my memory, where they stayed for a long time. Decades later, as I was trying to revive a flagging writing career, my family recommended that write a story for a younger audience, something I’d never really done. And, as I was fishing around in my head for an idea that might appeal to middle grade/young adult readers, lo and behold the Kid Kidets came to mind. I loved the notion of an army of children fighting a war that the adults knew nothing about. But what war? My first thought was vampires, but do we really need another vampire novel? I don’t think so. Then I considered werewolves, but I like werewolves more as heroes than villains. Then I considered zombies. And it began … The Word Zombie: There’s a fine line between talking down to young readers and really connecting with them. How did you balance your adult worldview while telling a story mainly through the eyes of children and young adults? Ty Drago: I’ve always been in touch with my “inner child”. Just ask my wife! But to make the Undertakers work required a bit more than me just pretending to be twelve. After all, when I was twelve Richard Nixon was president! So I turned to my son Andy. As I wrote the book I let him read it, almost chapter by chapter, and he became my guide through Will Ritter and the rest of the Undertakers’ modern teen and pre-teen world. He showed me what worked and what didn’t and what rang true and what fell flat. I honestly couldn’t have done it without him. The Word Zombie: The Corpses in the story are not your traditional zombies. As I said before, they harken, in many ways, to the evil aliens in “They Live”. Why was it important to give them personality, emotion, and motivation, instead of them being the mindless force of nature you find in so many zombie tales? Ty Drago: When I first settled on the idea of making zombies the bad guys that my kid army was fighting, I immediately ran into a problem: zombies are stupid. Sorry, but they are. They’re moaning, shuffling morons that more closely resemble a force of nature than a force of evil. If zombies get you, it isn’t personal. Like a hurricane or a flood, you were just in the way. Besides – an invasion of zombies that the adult don’t know about? I doubt it! But what if I made my zombies smart? And organized? And able to somehow disguise themselves so that most folks couldn’t see them for the rotting worm bags that they are? And what if they had an agenda, a plan for conquest and destruction? Now I had something scary. Anyway, that’s how the Corpses came about. And, once I had the Corpses, it just seemed logical to name my kid’s army the Undertakers! The Word Zombie: I found a powerful subtext in the book, looking at the Undertakers fight with the Corpses as a metaphor for the uncertainty and loneliness that many teens experience as they are maturing in to young adults. Was that intentional on your part? Ty Drago: The Undertakers, as stories do over the course of their writing, evolved. I’ve already talked about my son’s contribution. My wife Helene (after whom the Helene Boettcher in the book in named) is my first-read, and we talked a lot about each of the kids and the various places that the story would take them. From the beginning, I didn’t want the Undertakers to be a “club”. None of these boys and girls is in Haven because they want to be. None of them is having “fun”. They’re doing what they have to do for themselves, their families and the world. But they’re still kids. Adolescent lives are often difficult, and these teens have it worse than most. They struggle with insecurities, bullying, crushes and the complexities of relationships – all above and beyond fighting the walking dead. But we’ll see more of that in coming books! The Word Zombie: It was clear to me that “The Undertakers” was merely the set-up for a much larger story – it has distinct franchise potential. What’s next for Will and his fellow Undertakers? Ty Drago: I’m writing Book Two right now. It’s tentatively dubbed “Queen of the Dead”. It introduces a new “head” Corpse – Lilith Cavanaugh, and she’s a nasty piece of work! I’m not going to give away the plot, but I’ll tell you this much. We’re going to find out a lot more about the Corpses, what they are and how they get here. And the Undertakers are going to make a surprising new ally! Basically, this is a war that’s only just begun. The Word Zombie: Like so many writers, you hold down a full-time day job to pay the bills. What advice do you have for those, like you, who write as a passion and work for a living? Ty Drago: I’m a business analyst. I know – sounds boring. Basically, I help corporations identify and fix broken processes. It’s much more complicated than that, but I don’t want to put you to sleep. However, with a kid heading for college in the fall, a steady job is pretty important. My advice to other writers? Chase your dreams, but keep your day job. Getting published these days isn’t easy. It takes patience, determination and, above all, persistence. Whenever I hear people say: “I wish I wasn’t too busy to get back to that novel,” I inwardly sigh. To make it as a modern writer, you really have to want it! And if you do have that kind of drive, they you find the time to write. Period. But that doesn’t mean you should starve! The Word Zombie: In addition to writing novels, you also publish an online e-zine called “Allegory”(you can find it here). Can you tell us a little about it? Ty Drago: Allegory has been around for twelve years. We’ve just released our 42nd volume. Three times a year we publish SF, fantasy and horror short fiction from around the world and have, to date, launched more than few careers – including my own! I started the e-zine as a self-promotion tool and, for a long time, each issue featured one of my own stories. I don’t do that anymore, but I keep up with the publication because (a) it’s fun, (b) in 2010 we reached almost a half-million hits, and (c) because every so often I get an email from a writer I’ve just accepted, telling me I’ve had his or her dreams come true. I keep doing it because, once upon a time, somebody did it for me.? Ty Drago: I enjoy all kinds of books. On the adult side, I appreciate Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels. On the kid side, I’m a huge fan of Heather Brewer , Jackie Kessler and A.S. King . Right now, I’m about halfway through Mockingjay , the last book in Suzanne Collins’ fantastic Hunger Games series. I’m also reading The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson. The Word Zombie: What’s the one terribly insightful and hard hitting question I should have asked you, but didn’t? Ty Drago: I think you covered it. This was a solid interview!? Ty Drago: I collect swords. I have a nice katana all picked out – long and sharp as a razor – so that I’ll be ready when the walking dead come a’callin’. My son has selected a Kwang fighting knife. That’s a type of pole arm. Together, he and I are gonna kick some serious zombie butt! My wife? She just kind of rolls her eyes! My thanks for Ty for taking time to chat with us. If you want to learn more about him, you can find him online at –, and on Facebook at –. If you would like to follow him on Twitter, he can be found at –.
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Autumn can be so unkind to the garden. Pelting rains and strong winds have been aplenty of late and it shows. Big time. One of my daughters and I were driving home the other day and we talked about what they call, "the monsoon season" in some parts of the world. Here, in the Pacific Northwest it's just called "the rainy season." But I like "monsoon" over "rain." It's more dramatic. And others, like this birdbath, are filled with fall foliage. But luckily some still remain green. We haven't had a frost yet so many marginally hardy plants are hanging on! Hooray! I predict a very mild winter for us Pacific Northwesters this year. Yes I do. Even the cool-leaved Begonia Darla sent me is still green. I won't need to bring it in because we're going to have a mild winter. But I'll keep an eye out just in case. Can't be too careful. It always amazes me that these succulents can handle the cold. But sure enough. Now, lest you forgot the title of this post, I'll repeat it. My garden looks like shit. There I said it. I feel better now. This is a tiny bit better. The pretties require closeup shots. But despite my garden's less than stellar appearance, I'm enjoying the finality of fall. Just look at those trees! I took the above photo from the parking lot at the library. I took the above photo a block from where I work. It's a tiny slice of the enormous Oregon State University campus. Check out those colors! Ooh la, la! This tree almost burned my eyes! And finally, (almost) back at my garden. Look at this sweet 'Cinco de Mayo' rose trying its darndest to make me happy. (Yes it's all about me.) And finally, (for real this time) I had to show a photo of my daughter's kitten. Please excuse the blurriness. I bought some toy "mouses" at the grocery store and we were busy chasing them. Ain't she a cutie? So much to be thankful for! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! PS Please pardon my groveling, but if you haven't visited my writing blog, I cordially invite you. I'm curious as to your reaction to my current essay. Just click on the link on the sidebar. Thanks. 27 comments: Mine looks very similar! I have this nagging guilt, stress that keeps whispering to me, "When are you going to put the garden (at the garden plot) and this yard to bed for the winter?" I like the way you keep saying we are going to have a mild winter- like you can will it so. ; ) Because I don't think the so called "experts" are saying that. Ha- but they also said I could wake up to a dusting of snow. Like that happened. By the way, I have a rusty piece of junk (said in the nicest way, really) that I think has your name on it. I will email a pic to you. Yeah you keep telling yourself that it is going to be a mild winter. LOL!Those trees in the neighborhood are beautiful Grace. It seems funny to see such pretty leaves when ours here have been gone for over three weeks.Your garden doesn't look as sh--y as mine believe me. LOL! The bird bath full of leaves looks like a work of art, Grace! I don't think we are in for a mild winter. We'll never have the winter you have, anyways. I. Hate. Winter... Grace, I think we need to be selective in what we see in the garden. Close your right eye if there is something ugly to the right from you, and close your left eye if you don't want to see something on the left. I spotted some very lovely things in your place. That birdbath with leaves -ooh la la! And, if I am right, that Japanese forest grass with the tall evergreen - lovely! Separate Thanks for "the monsoon season" tern, I also like it more than just "rainy season"! Stay warm! Oh, Grace, you're too hard on your garden! Autumn has a beauty all it's own. There's no use comparing it to other seasons. A mild winter would be fine with me. Like another commentor: I. Too. Hate. Winter. Hey! At least you have some color! And plants too; I'm losing some of mine to deer. Are you sure you'll have a mild winter, or could you just be hoping? I'm hoping!! I love the hens and chicks!! Well, there were some solid bits in the "monsoon" that blew through here this morning. Fortunately, it didn't last long, and was completely melted within about an hour or so. My garden looks like sh** too. Your foliage shots are very pretty though, I've heard from other Portland bloggers that autumn there has been stunning. We have lots of yellow here, and nowhere near enough red. oh. I love those trees. We don't get fall color around here. I miss it. Your garden always makes me smile no matter what your eyes are seeing. Love the butterfly chair, the birdbath with the leaves looks almost staged it's so pretty. That yellow grass, that yellow grass, that yellow grass! So happy to see the Rex Begonia thriving...Please show more of your town, it looks like scenes from a Hallmark movie. This is the prettiest shit filled garden I've ever seen, :) Grace, it looks fine to me, there is beauty in the details. And I love that shot of the bird bath, how stunning. My garden, well it's no more, all bare, the pots taken to a friends garden to overwinter. Rather shocking when I first look out the window in the morning, "where are all of my babies." They were taken in the middle of the night.... We have had below 0 temps, and yesterday the frost stayed all day. Rather worn out it's welcome, I sure hope that you are correct about a mild winter. Because here, it's already started early. Keeping my fingers crossed. Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams Oh Grace...you're not alone! While I do love fall, and mostly see the beauty in the garden...at times, when I step back I have to cringe in spite of everything...eek! I'm just enjoying every possible bit of beauty before everything crumples to the ground. I console myself with the fact that at least we in the PNW don't have the bitter cold...and SNOW to contend with...I had rather enough of that early in my life, thank you! Those trees are magnificent!!! I think your garden looks great! It's fall - the garden is supposed to look a little like a woman whose hair is wind blown. That's what spring is for - to smooth everything back into place. I think sh*& is in the eye of the beholder...leaves all gone...everything brown and dead...I almost want snow to cover it all up....almost I said!! Yours looks stunning compared to mine... Look at you! Declaring that your garden looks like "shit" and actually sharing a photo too...I remember once when you said you couldn't possibly post a photo of something I asked about because your garden didn't look great. I would love to believe your predictions for winter. They are much more comforting than what I'm hearing from the guys who get paid to talk about such things. No, No, No, your garden does not look like....it looks like IT! beautiful! ha ~ no way your garden looks bad Grace. I see so much beauty still ~ like that begonia! Just gorgeous. and like others, I love the birdbath photo. Plus you said you haven't even had frost yet ~ that is to be envied for sure! I wish I could say the same. I hope you can "will" your winter forecast to turn out as you predicted. I wish that every winter too ~ sometimes we get lucky! ps your daughters kitten IS adorable. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family too. You are so funny Grace! Your garden still looks great, just ready for fall. I tried to take some pictures of my front garden, but it looks so horrible out there all I could do were a few closeups. I also hope your prediction is what we end up with. It's been really cold here, some ice never melted. Grace, your garden looks a lot better than mine does. Mine is quickly losing its color and turning to brown and shades of green. The most colorful part of mine now is the colored lights on the magnolia. Eileen This really made me laugh Gracie. My bird baths look like that too except there's some water in with the leaves so I have this nice slime thing going. I hope nothing dangerous evolves in there. Lovely trees at OSU campus, but the kitty shot wrapped it up-- inside cozy time! Love the firey red trees. And that begonia is a keeper. Grace, I don't think your garden looks bad at all; but, I so understand! There's a real absence of pink! My garden is a collection of seed heads and closeups are necessary! xogail I have put my garden to bed...it deserves the rest after the fantastic show it put on "all for me!" lol At least yours still has color. Mine is 12 shades of....brown. Happy Thanksgiving, Grace! glimpsesofglory-karen.blogspot.com For most of us, our gardens look the same. Here in Southern Ontario we are waiting for our first snow....the gardens better have been put to bed by now, because they will be frozen solid in a few days. By the way, your garden doesn't look bad at all. I particularly love the leaves in the birdbath. Gracie girl I am red faced for not being here in so long (and I owe you an e-mail too!) Your garden is so not looking like shit !!! You should see mine .. I haven't finished cleaning up and it is looking awful .. so much so I won't take pictures of it!! LOL I LOVE those succulents .. I have a weak spot for them .. all of what you have photographed is beautiful and I can't get over those red red trees ! BTW .. those leaves in the birdbath ?? AWESOME looking !! Great garden and beautiful trees: ) Joy even here we are having wind and rain and the result can be seen in the garden. But I guess always there's good and bad stuff to be seen in the garden, depending on what we feel like focussing at any given minute! I see all sorts of amazing plants tucking in for a relatively short, PNW-style nap. Happy holidays, Grace. For shit your garden looks way better than mine! The snow and rains haven't been kind, it's super soggy and actually rather gross. I refuse to look at it. I'll look at yours instead!
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The Han Dynasty Liu Bang (about 250 BC to 195 BC) defeated the Qin Dynasty (221–206 BC) and declared himself to be the emperor. The people were greatly impoverished by the Qin rule and the civil war. He tried to build up his large empire. The region and its people were destroyed. More than half of the population of the region of Qin Empire were killed in a short period of time by the Qin conquests, policies, and subsequent rebellions. It is thought that the population of the region fell to about 18 million people by the time of Liu Bang's ascension. Liu Bang established policies that were less harsh. He allowed more freedom and lowered taxation, and he didn’t strive for total power. His successors expanded the territory. The Han emperors' policies were more successful. In a census taken in 2 AD, the population of the empire was 57 million people or three times higher than when the empire began. The land area was more than twice the size of the original territory. There was a coup against the dynastic line in 9 AD. An official set up his own dynasty. This divided the Han Dynasty era into three periods called the Western Han Dynasty (206–9 BC), the Xia Dynasty (9–23 AD), and the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 AD). Western Han Dynasty Era (206 – 9 BC) The Western Han Empire was the first large and long-surviving empire in the region. It lasted from 206 BC until 9 AD. The Reign of Liu Bang (250 – 195 BC) Liu Bang was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty. At first, Liu Bang emulated the rule of the Qin court, but he allowed more freedoms and drafted fewer peasants for conscript labor. Then he did start acting more tyrannical later. Liu Bang's Early Years It is said that Liu Bang was from a peasant family, and there are strange tales regarding dragons and visions and the supernatural about his conception, birth, and personal life. He was a low-level official in the Qin army, but then he became an outlaw. When the people and leaders in many parts of the Qin Empire revolted, Liu Bang became the leader of an army, and he defeated his main rivals in war to become emperor. His first policies as an emperor was to lower taxes and try to win the support of common people by treating them less harshly than did the Qin rulers before him. Unlike the first Qin emperor, he didn't strive for total power. He allowed other leaders to have kingdoms in the eastern part of the empire, and they were over most of the territory of the empire. The imperial court had direct power over the western third of the empire. The Foundations of the Empire An empire requires land, subjects, a hierarchical system of rule, and a method of communication. Liu Bang inherited a large empire and the foundation of imperial rule laid by the Qin court. He utilized a standardized written language for the whole empire that had been promulgated by Li Si. There was also a common philosophical framework for the empire since many religions and philosophies were diminished or eradicated in favor of the Legalism philosophy and the useful sciences favored by the Qin rulers. Perhaps this made maintaining hegemony easier. Mohism, native beliefs such as Daoism, and an early form of Buddhism were severely attacked by the Qin court. Confucian ideas and Confucian scholars were attacked by the Qin court as well. However, later into his rule, Liu Bang had a favorite Confucian teacher who convinced him of the need for that philosophy, and he and his successors promoted this political theory. Along with this imperial framework, Liu Bang inherited the military technology and tactics that had enabled the Qin Dynasty to form their empire. Conflict and War at the End of Liu Bang's Reign Liu Bang was hard pressed by external threats and internal strife. Both the Qin Dynasty and the Liu Bang faced invading Xiongnu tribesmen. The Xiongnu were a group of nomadic herders who had succeeded in defeating the Yuezhi and many other peoples to the north and west of the Han Empire. They defeated the Han army in 200 BC, and Liu Bang made a treaty with them and agreed to send silk and other goods. Though Liu Bang had accepted the administration of kings in the eastern part of the empire, during his long illness before his death, he grew suspicious of some of his top leaders. He regarded them as rivals, and they were killed or demoted. He died in 195 after reigning 11 years. Emperor Wudi (156–87) Emperor Wudi (Han Wudi 汉武帝, 156–87) came to power at the age of 15 just at the same time that his clan had gained greater imperial power by having demoted or killed the eastern territorial rulers in the period 157 to 155. He ruled from 141 to 87 BC, and the time of his long rule is thought of as the zenith of the Western Han Dynasty. Wudi was the seventh Han emperor. He reigned for 54 years. This is one of the longest reigns in two thousand years of dynastic history. His reign was a time of prosperity, but he became despotic at the end of this life. Then he repented before he died. He was thought to be an effective governor. He concentrated on conquest, trade with the West, instituting administrative policies and concentrating power to himself. - Tour Xi'an and include Mao Mausoleum (Emperor Wudi's tomb, not Chairman Mao's), a highlight of the Han Dynasty sites. Trade (today’s Xi'an) that was the capital of the empire and the western countries. It must have been exciting in Xi'an when caravans of foreigners brought wealth and new technologies and ideas.. Political Policies . Wars He initiated a lot of wars. His campaigns usually succeeded, and he expanded the empire so that it stretched to Central Asia, Korea and Vietnam. Against the Xiongnu In the year 119, he established the northern boundaries and made some. The End of His Reign. In order to stop any rebellion, he executed people who order to suppress the rebellions, he decreed that officials presiding over areas in which there were rebellions would be killed. The officials responded by trying to hide the news of the revolts from him. Repenting Act Before He Died. He was buried in the Mao Mausoleum outside of Xi'an. Crown Prince Fuling ruled under the title Emperor Zhao for the next 13 years. The End of the Western Han Dynasty (86 BC – 9 AD) The Western Han dynastic reign ended under the rule of an empress named Wang Zhengjun (71 BC – 13 AD) and successive short-reigning emperors named Yuan (49–33), Cheng (33–7), and Ai (7 BC – 1 AD). Then Emperor Ping became emperor for a few years (1 BC – 6 AD). During this time, relatives were regents. The last regent was Yang Mang. He claimed that he had the Mandate of Heaven to rule, which means that Heaven picked him to be the next emperor. The Accomplishments of the Western Han The Western Han Dynasty lasted about 215 years. This was quite long for such a large empire. The Han Empire was successful politically and economically. The Western Han Dynasty succeeded in stabilizing the empire, expanding its territory, increasing trade, and beginning a tradition of dynastic government staffed by Confucian scholars. The population is thought to have grown from about 18 million people to the census record of about 57 million people. By the end of the dynasty, some of the cities had grown to be among the largest in the world at that time. Xin Dynasty (9–23 AD) Wang Mang (45 BC – 23 AD), the official who claimed he had the Mandate of Heaven, ruled the Xin Dynasty, and then he was killed. He tried to implement far-reaching policies. Wang Mang tried to change the society by abolishing slavery, redistributing the land, and issuing new currency. His reforms seem strikingly modern. But there were natural disasters, and peasants revolted against him. After he was killed in 23 AD the city of Luoyang in the east became the new capital. In this way, the Eastern Han era began. Emperor Gengshi of Han (24–25 AD) For two years after Wang Mang died, he tried to be the emperor, but he was killed by the Red Eyebrows Rebellion. Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220) . Emperor Guangwu (5 BC – 57 AD) The Eastern Han Dynasty began when a member of the Han Dynastic clan came to power. His dynastic name was Emperor Guangwu (5 BC to 57 AD). He reigned from AD 25 to 57. When he reached maturity, various regions in the empire were in rebellion, and other peoples were attacking and rebelling too. defeated the Xiongnu in 50 AD. He was known as a clever general who didn’t rule harshly. Events at the Beginning of the Eastern Han Empire Two major events had to do with the Silk Road. From 88 AD onwards, the Han armies battled Xiongnu and other peoples who lived in Central Asia. They wanted to capture the area from the Xiongnu who had invaded during the crisis of the rule of the Xia Dynastic court. The other event had to do with the coming of Buddhist philosophy and religion. The Introduction of Buddhism (about 68 AD) The Silk Road trade caused cultural changes. The Silk Road trade route went through territories where Buddhism was a main religion. A type of Buddhism was already believed by a portion of the population centuries earlier at the end of the Warring States Period of the Zhou Dynasty centuries earlier. But the Yuezhi people introduced a new version called Mahayana Buddhism to the northern part of the empire when they went to Chang'an and taught about Buddhism around the year 1 BC. After being defeated by the Xiongnu, the Yuezhi from the Tarim Basin region and the land bordering the northern Han Empire had conquered Hellenized regions of the former Greek Empire. There in northern India and Central Asia, the Yuezhi religion, the Hellenized peoples' Greek religion, and Buddhism were mixed together. It is said that about 68 AD a Han Emperor had a dream of a golden figure, and Cai Yin was sent to Central Asia to learn about the Buddha. He brought back Buddhist scriptures and two Buddhist monks. By this time in 68 AD, the Yuezhi had a religion in which Buddha was one of a pantheon of many deities, and Mahayana Buddhism became popular in the Han Empire in this way. The Demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty (166–220). The demise of the empire somewhat resembled the end of the Western Han Empire and the Qin Empire. In the last 54 years of the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were confrontations between revival factions in the imperial court, natural disasters, and loss of life. The Rule of Eunuchs In the last decades, eunuchs took power, and the emperors were weaker. Eunuchs were men who were castrated, and their rivals for power were the Confucian officials, regional rulers, and the imperial clan. Assassinations and fighting became common.During these last decades, two emperors named Emperor Huan (132–168) and Emperor Ling (156–189) relied on eunuchs to rule. They were said to live decadent lives, and they let eunuchs take control. These emperors were said to be particularly bad emperors who spent their time with hundreds of concubines and wasted the empire’s treasury during the time of economic crisis. Emperor Huan reigned from 146 to 168. During this time, he relied on eunuchs to remove a powerful official. The eunuchs increased their power in the court, and then in 166, Confucian students protested about the rule of eunuchs and the corruption of the court. Emperor Ling (156–189) ruled for about twenty years until 189. It is said that the eunuchs auctioned off government offices and ruled in his place. He called one eunuch his “foster father.” The common people rebelled at the end of the Han era. Fighting between the regional rulers, the imperial court and the peasant armies and bands killed a lot of people. Many people migrated to search for safety. The Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion around Sichuan started in 184. They were both Daoist-led rebellions. Famine in the north and flooding along the Yellow River forced large numbers of farmers and military settlers to move to the south. The peasants were oppressed by high taxes that were imposed partly to fund the construction of fortresses. The court was widely regarded as corrupt and incapable, and the famines and floods were seen as an indication that Emperor Ling was corrupt and had lost the Mandate of Heaven. The rebellion was widespread, and except for in Sichuan, they were defeated in most of the empire. However, generals and rulers in various areas retained their armies and started to rule independently of the imperial court. Attack on the Imperial Court In 189, two generals attacked and killed the eunuchs in the royal court. It is said that 2,000 court eunuchs were killed. Then, Luoyang was destroyed by their army. The capital was moved to Chang'an. After this, there were a lot of assassinations in the imperial court. In the year 194, there was a great famine due to a plague of locusts. In 195, Emperor Xian sought refuge with a regional ruler named Cao Cao. Emperor Xian lived in Xuchang that was one of the cities that were in Cao Cao’s territory. Cao Cao reigned in the emperor’s name and had the title of Chief Commander. Cao Cao gathered an army together that included tens of thousands of Yellow Turbans. There were many battles in many places in this decade. The Civil War. . The Battle of Red Cliffs (Year 208) The Battle of Red Cliffs between Cao Cao, Dong Wu and Shu Han is famous for determining the division of the empire. Cao Cao was successful in expanding his territory and defeating rivals until the Battle of Red Cliffs. In the year 208, he marched south with a big army. His main rivals were Sun Quan in Dong Wu and Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang in Shu Han. His rivals made an alliance. Cao Cao’s army was said to number about 200,000 troops. But he was defeated by about 50,000 troops of his rivals. Cao Cao’s fleet was set on fire. End of the Han Empire (Year 220) Cao Cao died at the age of 64 or 65. Then his son named Cao Pi forced Emperor Xian who lived in their territory Eastern Han Empire (AD 25–220) ended when the empire was divided between three regions ruled by Cao Cao (155–220 CE) who controlled the area north of the Yangtze River, Liu Bei (161–223) who controlled an inland area including Sichuan in the southwest, and Sun Quan (182–252) who. Read more about these kingdoms of the Three Kingdoms Period. Han Dynasty Achievements in Science and Culture Scientific Achievements The Han era, both Western Han and Eastern Han, is known as one of the two greatest eras of scientific and technological advances in the region. In 1983, an ancient mathematical book was found that gives an idea of the state of mathematical knowledge of the Western Han Dynastic era. This text was written on bamboo and was found in a tomb. The text dates to about 200 BC. It is called the Suan Shu Shu (筭數書, Computation and Numbers Book). It shows how to solve arithmetic problems that officials or people doing business face. A more advanced book called the Jiuzhang Suanshu (Nine Chapter Computation Book) is thought to have been written later. The book features basic algebra such as finding cube roots and square roots. Negative numbers are also used. Another mathematical text compiled during the Han era was The Arithmetical Classic of the Gnomon and the Circular Paths of Heaven (Zhoubi Suan Jing) about astronomical problems. It is said text has a mathematical proof for the "Gougu Theorem" (勾股定理; a2 + b2 = c2) that is known as the Pythagorean Theorem in the West. A method of determining the distance of the sun from the earth by using a right angled triangle is described. Legacy of Religion and Philosophy. The main texts were the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi. Along with these texts, the people practiced a mixture of native regional beliefs in various gods, rites, geomancy and immortals. The two books were believed to predate the Qin book burning era. Confucianism revived and was mixed with Legalism ideas to form a long enduring political philosophy and religion. Tours of Han Sites - Xi'an tours: Xi'an was the site of the capital of the Western Han. As such, the main Western Han imperial sites are located there. Among them, two mausoleums stand out for a visit: Hanyang Mausoleum and Mao Mausoleum could be included in our 4-day tour of imperial sites in Xi'an. - Luoyang tours: We can also personalize a tour of the sites of the Eastern Han Dynasty's capital city of Luoyang. - A Silk Road tour will let you see how cultures mixed along the trade route. You can think about the rise and fall of empires as you enjoy your China trip. - Tailor-making a tour is another option. Just let us know what you want to see and we'll quote for a unique personalized tour. I updated this article on August 18, 2013 See all my travel articles Nationality: China Language: Chinese - Ancient China Maps
Wave goodbye belly fatPDF : Wave Goodbye to belly fat and Stand sideways with PRIDE! Introduction: Frustrated by your belly fat? Having no choice but to wear that X-large shirt to hide that tummy? Can’t sit or stand without covering your belly with your hands? Tired of hearing all these “Are you pregnant comments?” Now it’s time to wave goodbye to belly fat! Accumulation of excess fat around the abdomen is more dangerous than the accumulation of excess fat around the hips and thighs. Several studies have associated abdominal fat with severe health problems such as cardiovascular problems, dylipidemia, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes. Overall, men tend to deposit extra fat in the abdominal area more than women do, this credit goes to sex hormone differences. Before menopause, women tend to deposit most of their fat in the hips and thighs. Around menopause, as estrogen levels drop, body fat is redistributed to the abdomen. Although our genes play a role in determining where we carry our extra fat, we shall never neglect the importance of our eating behavior and lifestyle choices in contributing to this issue. The best way to fight belly fat is to adopt sound eating habits and to stay active. How much is too much of a belly fat? Waist circumference is a practical indicator to assess abdominal fat. A high waist circumference indicates a high amount of fat in the abdominal area. In order to measure your waist circumference, or belly fat, use a non stretchable measuring tape and place it around your waist while relaxing your tummy and not sucking it in. Do it while you're standing up, and make sure the measuring tape is horizontal. For optimal health, waist circumference should be: · Less than 80 cm for women · Less than 94 cm for men What is the dietary cause of belly fat? Is belly fat due to eating too much high fat foods? Or just eating excess calories of any food? The cause of belly fat has been associated with eating excess calories of any kind. However, that doesn’t mean that eating high fat foods is ok. Eating high fat foods is not helpful at all, but excess calories from any food has been shown to increase abdominal fat. Be sure to read food labels for caloric and fat content, include fruits and veggies, reduce consumption of saturated fats and trans fat and control your portion size in order to make sure that you are not exceeding your daily caloric intake. Never skip breakfast! The first and most crucial means of losing belly fat is to never skip breakfast. Most individuals believe that skipping breakfast will help them cut down on calories during the day. However, studies have shown that those who skip breakfast tend to eat more during the rest of the day and thus gain weight because they are more likely to get hungry and nibble on calorie-dense snacks. A healthy breakfast should always include lean protein and high-fiber foods since this combination yields the maximum sense of satiety. Try eggs, low fat dairy products, and whole grain bread with plenty of vegetables. Limit your consumption of sugary cereals, waffles, pancakes, and croissants. Eat plenty of fiber All kinds of vegetables, fruits and whole grains can help you increase your fiber in your diet. Leave the skin on your fruits and vegetables, since fiber is found in skin of fruits. Make sure to incorporate five servings of fruits and vegetables into your diet. One serving of a fruit or vegetable is equivalent to any fruit or vegetable that is equal to the size of the palm of your hand, or equivalent to ½ cup of cooked vegetables. In addition, switch to whole grain bread, pasta, and rice instead of white. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that a calorie-controlled diet rich in whole grains can remove extra fat from the abdomen of obese subjects. Stick to lean protein As mentioned earlier, including lean proteins at each meal helps you feel fuller throughout the day. Poultry, lean meat, fish, low fat dairy, eggs, and nuts are all examples of healthy lean proteins. Avoid trans fats and saturated fats Trans fats, found in margarines, crackers, chips, cookies, fried items, and hydrogenated oils, cause fat to be accumulated in the abdomen, so avoid these foods items as much as you can. Saturated fats aren’t any better. Opt for the healthier fat that can avoid the accumulation of belly fat. This includes the monounsaturated fats found in oils such as canola oil, olive oil, avocados, nuts, and seeds. Keep in mind that unsaturated fats are still considered fats that are high in calories and that need to be restricted in your diet. Control portion size If you do not restrict your caloric intake, you're not going to lose belly fat. It takes a 3500-calorie deficit a week to lose half a kilo of fat. That is, a 500 calorie deficit every day of the week to lose half a kilo of fat. That doesn’t mean you have to stop eating the food you enjoy, but at least take a smaller portion of it. One way to control your portion size is to eat smaller dinners. Large dinners are a disaster for people trying to lose weight since most people aren't very active after dinner and our hormones that are responsible for digestion have minimal activity at night. So try to have a small dinner at least 3 hours before you sleep. Alcohol in moderation Your body needs carbohydrates, protein, and a limited amount of fat to function properly. As for alcohol, it is not a vital source of calories, nor a significant source of vitamins and minerals. Alcohol could have a negative impact on your ability to lose weight depending on the frequency and level of consumption. Fat has 9kcal per 1 gram. Alcohol has 7kcal per 1 gram, almost the same amount of calories as fat and twice the amount of calories of carbohydrates and protein. 12 oz of regular beer has 150 calories, 12 oz of light beer has 90 calories, and 12 oz of nonalcoholic beer has 50 calories. As for wine, 4 oz of rose or red wine has 85 calories and 4 oz of white wine has 80 calories. 4 oz of champagne has 73 calories. When you further add juice, soda, energy drink or grenadine to your alcohol drink, you are adding more and more calories that could sum up to a total of calories equivalent to a meal-sized dish. A beer belly is not only due to alcohol intake, but there are several direct associations between alcohol and fat metabolism. Research shows that our metabolism slows down when we drink alcohol. When you drink alcohol, your liver shuts down the metabolism of food you have eaten throughout the day and switches to metabolizing alcohol. Thus, this leaves your body to store all the food you have eaten as fat because your liver is too busy getting rid of alcohol. This inhibition of fat metabolism in the liver results in fat being built up around your waist. Furthermore, studies have shown that drinking alcohol before a meal may increase your caloric intake by 20%. To keep yourself from overeating, eat before you drink. Having a balanced meal before drinking will keep you satisfied and will help you control your alcohol intake. Consume alcohol in moderation; this translates to two drinks per week for women and three for men. Nooo to soft drinks! According to the American Heart Association, “soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages are the no. 1 source of added sugars in the American diet.” Added sugar translates to added calories, which is what you need to avoid on a weight loss regimen and what you need to avoid in order to cut down on belly fat because these added sugars tend to be stored right there in your belly. Does switching to diet sodas reduce the harm? Although some research has suggested that people who consume diet sodas instead of regular sodas as part of a calorie-restricted diet do lose weight, other studies have suggested that diet soft drinks could even lead to weight gain. For now, there’s no convincing proof either way. However, one diet soda per day is more than enough. If you can avoid it that would be perfect taking into consideration all the artificial sweetener, caffeine, phosphoric acids, artificial colorants and flavors there are in it and the side effects they could impose. Green tea? According to the Journal of Nutrition, green tea, in combination with a calorie restricted diet and exercise, can help you lose weight. Catechin, a substance found in green tea, stimulates the body to burn calories and enhance loss of belly fat. And Relax! Research indicates that when you are stressed, your body secretes a hormone called “cortisol” that is associated with an increase in belly fat. Make time for fun and relaxation, go for a walk, talk with your good friend, listen to music, etc... Try whatever works with you to manage your stress. A piece of advice, exercise is the best counter attack to your stress. Is it true that fat around the abdomen is the hardest to lose than fat elsewhere in your body? When you lose weight, you’re much more likely to lose it in your midsection. That means, when you lose weight, you lose it first from your abdomen. Remember, there is no magic diet to reduce only belly fat. Losing weight on a well-balanced plan will reduce total body fat, including fat in your abdomen. Do spot reduction exercises that target belly fat work? There is no such thing as spot reduction exercises that target solely belly fat. Doing only sit-ups or any other type of abdominal exercise strengthens your abdominal muscles, however, spot exercises alone won’t specifically decrease belly fat. The best way to lose belly fat is to combine both healthy diet and regular exercise. What type of exercise are we talking about? Resistance training is great for strengthening muscle mass. But if you want to lose your belly fat, aerobic exercise is a better choice because it increases your heart rate, causing you to sweat and burn more calories. Aim to exercise vigorously for at least half an hour, most days of the week as a Duke University study shows. Exercise in small bursts. Studies show that alternating small bursts of energy with short resting periods, referred to as “interval training”, can improve muscles, build endurance and burn more calories than regular exercise. For example, while jogging, start walking at a regular pace for 10 minutes, then increase your speed and run as fast as you can for another 10 minutes, then slow to a walk until you catch your breath. Tips on how to include physical activity to your busy daily schedule Sometimes it’s just not feasible for you to get all that 30 minutes of exercise all at once. It might be more suitable to divide up your workouts into shorter sessions to guarantee that you actually get your workout done. Try splitting your 30 minutes to at least three 10 minute bouts. This strategy can be easily implemented into your busy schedule and you will be able to complete your workout with much more energy knowing that the finish is near. Here is an example of a mini workout that you can include to your daily schedule. Mini Workout 1. 2 minutes sprint, run/jog 2. 1 minute of any squat movement 3. 2 minutes Jump Rope 4. 1 minute of any push-up movement 5. 2 minutes of Front Kick Lunges (Repeat three times) If exercise is simply not an option for you, making small, subtle changes create a big difference. For example, take the stairs instead of the elevator, walk instead of driving, stand up and walk for 30 steps every 30 minutes. Our low.cal take home message In order to lose belly fat, evidence recommends combining a healthy diet with exercise. Following a personal tailored diet rich in vegetables, complex carbohydrates, low-fat dairy, fruits and lean protein is the basis for a diet that supplies all the essential nutrients you require while helping you to cut down your belly fat. Don’t forget to set realistic, individualized goals. Your goals should be focused on your own body, not on some picture perfect image.
Wednesday, March 31st Recap Hanwha Life Esports vs Nongshim RedForce (Net: +2.64 units) In yesterday’s post I addressed a few concerns I had regarding Hanwha’s ability to adjust to unfamiliar looks and a few other causes for concern in regards to “how clean” a series this would be from them. Frankly, that wasn’t the case here at all. Nongshim didn’t show anything crazy or new or creative in this series at all unless you want to count Bay’s Renekton which has hasn’t played professionally until now. No this was much simpler than that. Hanwha showed some MASSIVE gaps in both their preparation and versatility in this series. Deft or the team, perhaps it doesn’t matter, had absolutely zero willingness to play Tristana which completely hamstrung their bottom lane leverage in all five games here forcing bans and having to opt into poor matchups repeatedly. Multiple times (games two and three) they opted to play Udyr into Hecarim, a matchup that hasn’t been having a lot of success in any league since the Udyr nerfs a couple of patches ago. I’m not going to go full game-by-game here. In short, Nongshim played way above their level in this series and given the fumbles by Hanwha probably should have won this series but they just didn’t because of Chovy who just went completely ballistic in a few of these games like only the greatest of the greats can. I don’t really need to extol the ability of the best player in the world yet again but this series really did feel like a 1v9 throughout the majority of it. Hanwha has had a few players step up this season and elevate (both junglers, Vsta) but this team would be absolutely awful without Chovy in the mix. I haven’t seen this level of hard carrying a full team since early Uzi. It’s McDavid on the Oilers or early Lebron on the Cavs level of “One Man Show” status. Even if I take issue with Hanwha’s style there’s nothing quite like watching just how long Atlus can hold the Earth. Appreciate it as these situations come up very rarely. With that in mind, this series did nothing to bolster a case for backing Hanwha next round against an elite team. In fact it had the opposite effect. LCK Net Total: +2.64 units Daily Net Total: +2.64 units (+20.85% ROI) Last Week (March 22nd-28th): +5.3355 units(+2.4% ROI) LOL Champions Korea (LCK) Spring Playoffs Round 1 – Day 2 T1 -833 (-1.5 maps @ -323, -2.5 @ +126, +1.5 @ -2000) vs DRX +504 (+1.5 maps @ +228, +2.5 @ -161, -1.5 @ +865, -2.5 @ +1900) Map ML Price: T1 -323 / DRX +237 Total Maps Played: 3.5 maps (over -143 / under +112), 4.5 maps (over +302 / under -435) Kill Total: 23.5 (over -109 / under -119) Kill Spread: -7.5 @ -120 / +7.5 @ -108 Team Kill Totals: 14.5 / 7.5 Time Total: 33:00 (over -104 / under -125) (Individual player model positional ranking is a “living” number comparing individual performance against other players at their position) (These numbers use a composite blend of trending and season long performance) Suggested Model Plays (in order of strength of edge): none Quantitative Analysis: This is a really sharp number. I found nothing in any of the sides markets including the exact map score props and map totals which were all right on or strictly negative EV. There really isn’t a whole lot you can point to from a quantitative angle that is going in favor of DRX so it’s perhaps more important to look at this from the perspective of just how much better and whether the price is justified. Statistically, DRX do nothing well. They’re below the league average in every economy measure I have, have the second worst dragon control and third worst overall objective control in the LCK, and are in the bottom four in early game economy, pace rating, and quality wins. They rank 8th in win-adjusted gold differential per minute and win-adjusted gold per minute even behind teams like KT Rolster and Afreeca. There really isn’t much ground to stand on here. The only thing they’re remotely close to T1 in is gold per minute and gold differential per minute in losses. You can now see why I’ve been so eager to fade this team all season. Conclusion: HUGE edge for T1 (T1 projected series win % via model) Qualitative Analysis: As I mentioned above there really isn’t a whole lot of ground to stand on for DRX other than their ability to find good team fights from deficits later in games. That’s an important skill that’s been exercised quite a bit from being down all the time this season. I’ll give DRX’s coaching staff credit for giving them easy to execute team compositions as well. That doesn’t go unappreciated for a young team like this. So really what this is about is whether or not you can justify a position on either side here based on the film. T1 haven’t been immaculate, even with the veteran lineup a finally getting the full time workload, but they’ve been significantly cleaner than the more eager, younger counterpart. I just have such a hard time seeing DRX winning more than a game in this series. T1 have had a solid grasp on what is good in the metagame and I don’t see them having the draft follies that we saw with Hanwha this morning or any kind of arrogance or disrepsect happening either. Outside of a substitution I’m having a really difficult time here folks. Another added bonus for T1 is that this team has a history, in every iteration, of being excellent with extended time to prepare for a match. I’ll be going against my model’s suggestion to pass and just taking the T1 -1.5 maps even at the lofty current price. Just for disclosure, I backed T1 earlier in the week at -556 on the moneyline, -1.5 and -2.5 maps. Getting a good price is important but I would still take them even at the current number from this article which is what I will be using, as always, for my record keeping. Conclusion: HUGE T1 advantage Other Markets: Kill Total Model Projections: Odds-Weighted: 25.798 Time-Implied: 25.898 Underdog Win: 23.399 “Gelati” Total Projection: 25.742 kills Combined % of Games OVER Kill Total: 51.74% (T1 54.545% / DRX 48.94%) Volatility Rating: T1 0.28981 / DRX 0.34265 (League Avg: 0.3125) Suggested Model Plays (in order of strength of edge): none —- Team Totals: DRX team total OVER 7.5 @ -127 (strong) T1 team total UNDER 14.5 @ -105 (very light) My projections really like an over in this match because of the anticipated game script and time but the frequency with which these two teams hit that number is right around the 50% mark. If you can find a cheap 22.5 I like that option but at this price I’ll be passing. I think there’s just too much of a chance that T1 have an exceptional game plan for this and completely run over this series which is going to scare me off of time totals as well. With the low kill total you could maybe make a case for a kill spread for DRX but I’m not messing with it. I think this is going to be a shellacking. Time Total Projection: Combined AVG Game Time: 33.204 minutes Odds Weighted / Rating Weighted: 33.06 / 33.04 Combined % of Games OVER Time Total: 50.53% (T1 50.98% / DRX 55.55%) Volatility Rating: T1 0.14816 / DRX 0.16724 (League Avg: 0.15875) Suggested Model Plays (in order of strength of edge): none (see above explanation in kill section) Other Derivatives: Suggested Model Plays (in order of strength of edge): OVER 1.5 barons @ +169 (strong) T1 first tower @ -208 (moderate-strong) OVER 4.5 dragons @ -106 (moderate-light) denotes advantage in a category that the opponent is also strong in, must be considered This is a very VERY strong value on the over 1.5 barons but as I’ve mentioned I think there’s a very strong chance we just see a complete bulldozing by T1 in this series. I like T1 first tower quite a bit regardless of script. My Picks: Map Spread: T1 -1.5 maps @ -323 (3.23 units) Prop: Map 1 T1 first tower @ -208 (2.08 units) Prop: Map 2 T1 first tower @ -208 (2.08 units) Prop: Map 3 T1 first tower @ -208 (2.08 units) Prop: Map 4 T1 first tower @ -217 (2.17 units) Prop: Map 5 T1 first tower @ -217 (2.17 units) LOL Pro League (China) Spring Playoffs Round 1 – Day 1 #8 RareAtom +101 (+1.5 maps @ -213, +2.5 @ -769, -1.5 @ +211, -2.5 @ +652) vs #9 Invictus Gaming -130 (-1.5 map @ +168, -2.5 @ +489, +1.5 @ -278, +2.5 @ -1250) Map ML Price: RA -105 / IG -120 Total Maps Played: 3.5 maps (over -357 / under +256), 4.5 maps (over +164 / under -213) Kill Total: 25.5 (over -123 / under -105) Kill Spread: +3.5 @ -111 / -3.5 @ -116 Team Kill Totals: 13.5 / 12.5 Time Total: 31:00 (over +125 / under -167) (Individual player model positional ranking is a “living” number comparing individual performance against other players at their position) (These numbers use a composite blend of trending and season long performance) Suggested Model Plays (in order of strength of edge): Invictus series moneyline @ -130 (VERY strong) Invictus -1.5 maps @ +168 (strong) Invictus map moneyline @ -120 (moderate-strong) Invictus -2.5 maps @ +489 (moderate) UNDER 3.5 maps @ +256 (moderate) Quantitative Analysis: Invictus have edges more or less across the board with the main exception being kill-agnostic economy measures where RA have a decent advantage in kill-agnostic gold per minute but only a small advantage in the differential. In other words, IG are still denying a lot of gold to their opponents at the expense of their own economy. Only four teams allow less kill-agnostic gold per minute to their opponents than IG (TOP, WE, FPX, and RNG). Perhaps the most glaring difference here is the win-adjusted economy numbers for RareAtom which are in stark contrast to the other playoff teams (besides Suning and JDG who also struggle in this). Win-adjusted numbers compare what the average win for the team in question looks like against the average win across the league. This type of normalization helps provide a lot more context and offers insight into just how much better an average win or loss looks in comparison to the rest of the league. It’s a very strong indicator for overall quality when combined. RareAtom actually score below average in their wins and have significantly fewer “quality wins.” This is partially a symptom of their longer, more methodical play style but the point still stands that they aren’t exactly the most convincing winners for the most part. Working in RareAtom’s favor however is that they’re one of the toughest losers. They rank 6th in gold differential per minute in losses and 4th in gold per minute in losses. They’re a surprisingly difficult team to gain significant advantages over which matches up surprisingly well against Invictus who rely heavily on amassing huge gold leads for their more decisive victories. Perhaps the biggest advantage working in favor of Invictus is their overall objective control which is quite a bit better than RareAtom’s despite the two teams being ideologically similar in terms of how they prefer to play out their opening ten. RareAtom actually hold an advantage in the individual player model which might come a surprise to a lot of people but their players have been quietly putting in stellar seasons. Ultimately I think the numbers paint a rather strange picture for RareAtom and suggest that they’re just a tad overrated based on their win total for the season. I think this team is good and the players are excellent but they sometimes struggle to tie everything together and that’s concerning. Conclusion: Advantage Invictus (Invictus projected series win % via model) Qualitative Analysis: I somewhat touched on it at the end there but RareAtom are a bit of an anomaly. There are cases that they should be better than their results this season and cases that they should be worse than their final results depending on what you’re looking at. The film tells a similar story with a lot of inconsistency on a game-to-game basis. RareAtom have excellent players, particularly at laning and they accrue some huge advantages in this phase of the game in much the same way that a team like Griffin used to do in the past (or even Invictus strangely enough). Unlike Griffin, however, they sometimes struggle to really close the door and deliver the killing blow when they’ve got an opponent on the ropes. They’re also a little shaky setting up around objectives in general and when they don’t have significant laning advatnages they often look lost. Invictus are similar in many ways but they’re much more explosive at ballooning advantages. That comes at a price sometimes in that they’re slightly higher risk. RareAtom are very VERY good at minimizing losses which is the most interesting part of this whole series. They’re designed to NOT get run over even when they’re losing. They make a lot of conscious decisions to cut losses and keep teams from blowing them out. Invictus sometimes struggle when they aren’t able to amass a gigantic gold lead. For this reason I think this series is likely to be more competitive than the model thinks. The first time these two played it was a RareAtom rout. I don’t think we’ll see that again either. I think this is going to be a back-and-forth series. So much of Invictus’ game revolves around getting TheShy into advantageous matchups and Cube has quietly been one of the best all-around top laners in the world this season playing a lot of both weak and strong side, blind and counter picks with a lot of variety. He had an easy time last time out but I also think TheShy picked himself into some bad matchups so it’s important to keep that in mind. Ultimately I’m still backing Invictus in this series but I’m not nearly as bullish as the model is. Conclusion: edges for both in different aspects Other Markets: Kill Total Model Projections: Odds-Weighted: 29.095 Time-Implied: 28.799 Underdog Win: 23.126 “Gelati” Total Projection: 28.982 kills Combined % of Games OVER Kill Total: 51.39% (IG 52.78% / RA 50%) Volatility Rating: IG 0.33408 / RA 0.32653 (League Avg: 0.3062) Suggested Model Plays (in order of strength of edge): none —- Team Totals: IG team total OVER 13.5 @ -123 (moderate-light) RA team total OVER 12.5 @ -112 (moderate-light) Each of these teams has a lot of outlier performances boosting their averages up but you can tell just looking at the frequencies and the fact that both teams are among the LPL’s most volatile in terms of combined kills per game, it makes sense to just stay away from this unless you have a specific game script in mind. If you think these end up turning into longer, grindier, slugfests then the over seems like a nice play here but I kind of think these are going to be quicker, mid to high kill games but with potentially very short game times it’s entirely possible we get a kill per minute and not hit the total. Pass. Time Total Projection: Combined AVG Game Time: 31.004 minutes Odds Weighted / Rating Weighted: 31.07 / 31.14 Combined % of Games OVER Time Total: 37.5% (IG 22.22% / RA 52.78%) Volatility Rating: IG 0.14709 / RA 0.16696 (League Avg: 0.16133) Suggested Model Plays (in order of strength of edge): none This is just a contrast of closing speed. Both of these teams play similarly in their opening to the game but RareAtom are more methodical with how they close out games while Invictus are actually one of the fastest ending teams in the world. The over at plus money doesn’t look like a bad play here if you think this match is competitive but IG tend to both win AND lose games quickly so it’s a tough position to justify. I’ll pass. Other Derivatives: Suggested Model Plays (in order of strength of edge): UNDER 12.5 towers @ -208 (VERY strong) Invictus first dragon @ -119 (VERY strong) Invictus first blood @ -116 (very light) UNDER 4.5 dragons @ -118 (very light) denotes advantage in a category that the opponent is also strong in, must be considered I played the Invictus first dragon despite RareAtom being a decent dragon team this season. IG are hitting it at over a 72.2% clip. The under tower total is something else that I hit. Obviously these teams have been part of some lopsided matches over the season but between the two of them only 13.9% of matches go over this total showing some huge value on this. My Picks: Moneyline: Invictus -130 (1.3 units) Map Spread: Invictus -1.5 maps @ +168 (0.5 units) Map Spread: Invictus -2.5 maps @ +489 (0.25 units) Prop: Map 1 IG first dragon @ -119 (1.19 units) Prop: Map 2 IG first dragon @ -119 (1.19 units) Prop: Map 3 IG first dragon @ -119 (1.19 units) Prop: Map 4 IG first dragon @ -119 (1.19 units) Prop: Map 5 IG first dragon @ -119 (1.19 units) Prop: Map 1 UNDER 12.5 towers @ -208 (2.08 units) Prop: Map 2 UNDER 12.5 towers @ -208 (2.08 units) Prop: Map 3 UNDER 12.5 towers @ -208 (2.08 units) Prop: Map 4 UNDER 12.5 towers @ -208 (2.08 units) Prop: Map 5 UNDER 12.5 towers @ -208 (2.08 units) I believe in accountability. For years I’ve tracked all of my picks publicly. 2021’s selections will be via this spreadsheet but it isn’t updated until AFTER the games have started. The Esports Department subscribers get the first look. Check out The Gold Card Podcast and can find me on Twitter @GelatiLOL (all lines from Nitrogen unless noted otherwise)
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Garage Organization and Storage ProjectBy: Danny Lipford Completed garage organization project with new shelving and storage. Watch this video to find out how to organize a cluttered garage, including: - Deciding what to get rid of and what to keep. - How to build DIY garage shelving. - Installing hangers for bikes and lawn and garden equipment. - Applying a concrete stain to the garage floor. - Gluing down indoor/outdoor carpet in a garage. Read episode article to find out more. Further Information - Garage Organization (article/video) - Simple Garage Storage Solutions (video) - Garage Shelving (video) - How to Seal a Garage taking on the chore you love to hate: cleaning out the garage. Steve Williamson: I’ve lost control. Danny Lipford: But we’re not just cleaning, we’re helping this family customize their garage for their active lifestyle. So, don’t miss a minute. Today, I’m working on a project with homeowners Steve and Tami Williamson, who’ve been in this house for eight years. Their two-year-old daughter, Cadence, and nine-month-old son, Classic, keep Steve and Tami on their toes. But, so do their hobbies. The Williamsons are both triathletes. Plus, Steve also serves as the chief mechanic for Team Williamson, so he has plenty of wrench time with their bikes. And that brings us to their problem: the garage. Tami Williamson: This is what we have. Danny Lipford: That’s not too bad. I’ve seen a lot worse. Most of these are just big things. Steve Williamson: Yeah. This is our nightmare. This is our problem. So… Danny Lipford: That’s not really bad. Now, there’s got to be a story behind that van. What’s up with that? Steve Williamson: Um, it’s my retirement project, right there. Just don’t have the time to mess with it right now. Danny Lipford: Well, does it run okay? Steve Williamson: Yeah, it runs fine. Danny Lipford: And ultimately, you want to have the other car in here. I know you’ve got a cool, little car. Tami Williamson: I’d like to have my Mini in here, with the two babies, to get them in and out. Danny Lipford: The main thing is to figure out what you’re going to throw away. I’m going to go get my notepad. And a tape measure. Steve Williamson: Okay. Danny Lipford: Y’all talk about that a little bit. Steve Williamson: Okay. Tami Williamson: All right. Steve Williamson: What do you think needs to stay? Tami Williamson: The bikes, the tools, the bus. That’s about it. Steve Williamson: That’s it? I mean, there’s… Some of this stuff we got to keep. Tami Williamson: Really? Steve Williamson: Yeah. Tami Williamson: We have three lawn mowers. Steve Williamson: That’s a problem. Tami Williamson: We got to get rid of… It’s either got to be fixed or got to go. And I say it’s got to go. What do you want to do with the wind surfer? Steve Williamson: That’s part of my past. Can’t get rid of the wind surfer. Tami Williamson: The volleyball net’s got to go. Steve Williamson: What if we want to play volleyball, though? What about the boat? I hate to get rid of it. That box is full of your dishes. Tami Williamson: Okay, they can go. Steve Williamson: Really? Tami Williamson: Yeah. Steve Williamson: I don’t know. I’ve lost control. Danny Lipford: All right, well, how did that little discussion go? Tami Williamson: Well…. Steve Williamson: It was okay. Tami Williamson: It was okay. Danny Lipford: A lot of times, we have three different piles when we’re doing a garage like this. You know, you’ll have one that you’re going to keep, one that you’re going to definitely throw away, and one maybe some recycling or donating. Do we need a fourth pile for undecided? Tami Williamson: Yes. Danny Lipford: We do. Tami Williamson: Definitely. Danny Lipford: More discussion pending, huh? Well, you know, when I look around here, a lot of the stuff is Steve’s. Tami Williamson: He’s the hoarder. Danny Lipford: He’s the hoarder. That’s what I like. I was going to give you a chance to say that word, not me, so… Okay, we’ll get it all fixed up, we’ll get all the stuff out of here. Steve Williamson: Good. Tami Williamson: All right. Danny Lipford: So, the moving begins. Now that we know what we’re up against, we can lay out a plan to relocate some stuff within the garage, like the bikes hanging overhead. Build some shelves for some small stuff, and relocate some big items like the boat, elsewhere. And I’m not touching any bikes, they look too expensive. Here, this is more of my speed, right here. Tami Williamson: That’s a definite keep. Danny Lipford: In order for us to get to work, it all has to go. It’s already looking good. But some stuff goes a little more begrudgingly. Steve Williamson: Come on, baby. Watch it. That’s it. Acts like it’s out of gas. All right, let’s try this again. Tami Williamson: It’s a good thing it’s getting chunked. Danny Lipford: Finally, the garage is getting empty. Steve Williamson: Purrs like a kitten. Danny Lipford: So, I found what you’re doing this, this weekend. That’ll look good on you there. I like that. But the driveway is getting full. Looks like a lot of stuff, when you have it all piled up like this. Steve Williamson: Yeah. Danny Lipford: I got that, uh, leaf blower, I’ll blow that out real carefully, and get it clean, sweep a little bit. And then, we can kind of scratch our head on how we’re going to organize this menagerie. All right, what do you guys think? Tami Williamson: Wow, I’ve not seen it this clean in eight years. Danny Lipford: When you first moved in? Tami Williamson: When we first moved in. Danny Lipford: Of course, when you put two cars in, that fills it up a lot. But what I was amazed at is, look how much space is right here, I didn’t expect that. And I think that upper shelf in here would work pretty well. But I was wondering about the positioning of the two bikes that you use the most, as to whether or not it would really work right here. What do you think? Steve Williamson: I think that would be perfect, I think it would work well. Danny Lipford: Okay. Well, seems like a good way of tucking it out of the way, keeping it real accessible. Well, I’m going to call Allen, and try to get some materials that we know we’re going to use. Some of the 16-inch board, the shelf board works well, a one by four, one by two. And then we know we’re going to put that up there, that shelf. Put it up and then just kind of look at it and see what we can attach to that, what we can adapt around it, so… Steve Williamson: Yeah. Good. Danny Lipford: While we work out the details for our reorganization plan, and get Allen up to speed on the materials we need, why don’t you check out Joe’s Simple Solution for this week. Joe Truini: One of the most common storage questions we get here at Today’s Homeowner is, “How do I keep my garage and my shed from getting so cluttered?” Well, first, stop collecting so much junk! But in the real world of course, that’s not possible. So, the first rule is try not to let the floor get too cluttered. And you can do that by utilizing the wall space for storage. Now, what happens when your wall space is all filled up? Well, if you’ve got a swinging door, a pair of swinging doors like we have in this shed, is you have a nice, large, flat surface, perfect for hanging things like collapsible sawhorses, ladders, wheelbarrows. Things that you need to get at, but if you store ‘em in the space, of course they’re always in the way. So, in this case, I’m just going to use a couple of utility hooks, metal hooks, you can get at any hardware store or home center. I’m going to attach them to the door frame with a couple of drywall screws. These are one-and-quarter-inch drywall screws. They’re going to go into the two by four, that’s on the other side of this door. There’s a frame on the other side. There you go. And now, you can very easily… I positioned those hooks to be the perfect place to hang this ladder. There. Now there’s plenty of room to still close the door but the ladder’s right there, ready when I need it. Danny Lipford: This week, we’re helping homeowners Steve and Tami Williamson corral the chaos in the garage. These guys have lots of hobbies and projects, so they have lots of stuff. But, we finally emptied it out and we’re ready to start organizing. Danny Lipford: Were you able to gather everything up? Allen Lyle: Yeah, got everything, got all the material you needed, some paint, and we’re ready to roll. Danny Lipford: Yeah. Well, I got a feeling that Tami’s a pretty good painter, if you want to…. Allen Lyle: This is for you, then. Steve Williamson: Oh, perfect, perfect, perfect. Danny Lipford: With this great weather, the primer and paint dry quickly. And in no time Allen is cutting material to size so that we can begin installing it. This one by two we’re nailing along the back wall will be the support cleat for our shelving. Allen is also cutting some large triangles from the shelf material that will attach to one by twos to form our braces. What’s the sandpaper for? Allen Lyle: Well, I know it’s just garage shelves, but you know, I’ll just go ahead and smooth them out a bit. Danny Lipford: He’s trying to impress you. Go, wow. Allen Lyle: Thank you, I was waiting for that. Danny Lipford: Offsetting the one by fours and triangles one and three-quarter inches will allow the triangle to come up flush with the top of the cleat that’s already on the wall. Danny Lipford: Here’s your test. I’m closing my eyes. Allen Lyle: Let me run away. Oh, wow. Beautiful. All we have to do is line them up over the studs and nail them in place. So, in just a few minutes we’re ready to start attaching the shelf boards. When you’re attaching the shelf boards, it’s important that you plan for seams between boards to land right on a support. Allen Lyle: But I got 12-footers out there, so I got… Danny Lipford: Oh, I thought you said you had 10-footers? Danny Lipford: No, no, the lumber was 10 but the shelves are 12. Danny Lipford: Wow! I was laying it out… Man, I got a bad stream of information. Apparently, seeing all of the shelving go up is inspiring Tami, because she’s adding her own spin to the design. Tami Williamson: We can have, like, different layers of shelves here, just not so deep. We can put, like, the WD-40, the weed killer… Danny Lipford: Oh, this is good. Go ahead. Tami Williamson: Just have, like, different layers of shelves so we’re not so piled up. Danny Lipford: I think it’ll be perfect. After a little discussion and drawing to iron out some of the details on the shelf unit, Allen gets to work building it. He’s using the same materials, but he’s cut it down from the 16-inch depth to 12 inches. Meanwhile, Tami is busy touching up the paint on the cut ends of the shelves we’ve already completed. The new shelf unit hangs between two of the existing supports for a nice, clean installation. All right, we got our end. We’ll get yours later. That works pretty good. I’ll tell you what, help me get the tools together. We’ll wash this floor real quick, so it’s ready to stain tomorrow. Yeah. Allen Lyle: I like it. Danny Lipford: Perfect. Scrubbing the floor with the TSP solution will make the floor stain we’re about to apply work a lot better. And once that’s done, we can let it dry overnight. At the beginning of day two, we start by showing Steve some of the accessories we’ve picked up to continue customizing their garage. Check this out. You know the coated type of hooks, they’re just about endless, the different types you can get. But I can see the ladders can be taken care of with that and maybe the stroller or something like that. And I even found this for your bicycle. Steve Williamson: Okay. Cool! Danny Lipford: I think that’ll work. So we can hang the extension ladder off the new shelf, Steve and I add some blocking to the underside so that we can screw in some of those big coated hooks. Meanwhile, Allen and Tami are relocating those pulley-operated hoists for the bikes they use a lot less frequently. The two bikes they use every day will go on the opposite wall. Steve Williamson: I’m thinking… And then that way we can have some floor space up underneath. Danny Lipford: Okay. So, we’ll shoot for 55. Steve Williamson: Yep. Danny Lipford: We’re attaching a piece of one by four on the wall at that height so we can mount the bike hangers exactly where we want them without having to worry about where the studs are. But there’s a debate about whether to hang the jogging stroller or not. So, we consult the boss. Tami Williamson: I like the idea of parking it, but what if we leave it together ’cause it gets used. And hang the jogging, I mean the bike, trailer? And that way all the strollers will be together. Danny Lipford: All right. Tami Williamson: I like that idea. Steve Williamson: Parking this one. Tami Williamson: Park this. Steve Williamson: Okay. Tami Williamson: Bike trailer up. Steve Williamson: Okay. Danny Lipford: She sounds pretty definite on that, Steve. I’m parking it. You’d better. Tami Williamson: I know what I like. Danny Lipford: So, we create a plan for the bike trailer and its wheels. We’ve still got a lot to do here, but first, let’s check in with Jodi for this week’s Best New Product. Jodi Marks: You know, I love hanging out in the paint department, and I love seeing all the new products, and I love putting paint on my walls. But when people talk to me about doing their painting projects, I always say take that extra step and put high gloss on your trim, because that’s really going to make the colors on your wall stand out. But a lot of people go, “Oh, oil-based trim paint, that’s so messy, it’s hard to clean up, it drips, it leaves brush marks.” Until now. Take a look at this. Glidden has come out with a trim and door paint exclusively for that area. It’s got the Gel-Flow technology, and this is perfect because it eliminates drips and runs. And it eliminates the brushstrokes that you would typically get in an oil-based high-gloss trim paint. You can see it comes in a wide variety of colors, so you’re bound to find something that you like. It’s very easy to go on. And, again, the thing that I like best about it is you don’t have to keep going back over and over that surface to try to eliminate those brushstrokes, because you won’t get them in the first place. This is a good product. Danny Lipford: Our project this week is helping homeowners Steve and Tami not only organize the chaos in their garage, but customize it for their shared passion of competing in triathlons. We are making progress. Now that we have everything off the floor, we’re ready to make the floor look a lot better. Allen and Steve are about to apply some semi-transparent concrete stain. That’ll make it look a lot better. And Tami and I are going to put down some carpet and see if we can make the entry way look a little better. The stain that Allen and Steve are putting down will not only improve the looks of the garage floor, but because it seals the porous surface of the concrete, it’ll keep down the dust and make it a lot easier to keep clean. Using indoor/outdoor carpet as a transition from the garage to the house is a good idea anytime to keep dirt and mud from being tracked in. After we have some of our adhesive in place for the carpet, we carefully roll the first edge in place. So, let’s see. We might have to move it, huh? Tami Williamson: Yeah, it seems to slide forward. Danny Lipford: Yeah. Let me show you a fancy carpet trick on that. Tami Williamson: Get to dance. Danny Lipford: There you go. How do you like that? Tami Williamson: I knew there would be dancing. Danny Lipford: With one side locked down in glue, we can mark the other end to be cut. Tami’s an aerospace engineer. But really, our jobs aren’t so different. This is the way you build airplanes, right? Tami Williamson: Sure. Danny Lipford: This radius will smooth the transition from the concrete to the carpet. Plus, a radius is less likely to peel up than just a square a corner. Speaking of corners, Steve and Allen are about to paint us into one, so we have to finish getting this carpet glued down and get out of the way so that they can finish with the stain, which turns out to be almost a perfect match with the color of our carpet. Now, while the stain and carpet adhesive are drying, it’s time for Steve and Tami to figure out what goes back in and where. Tami Williamson: Chainsaw, and… Steve Williamson: Yeah. That’s going to go on the shelf. Tami Williamson: On the shelf? Steve Williamson: Yep. Tami Williamson: Okay. Steve Williamson: What’re we going to do with this guy? Tami Williamson: Well, we can put him in the attic. Steve Williamson: This would be kind of cool in the plastic container, because it’s, we know it’s in there. What about our college game day sign from Home Depot? Where’s our other ice chest with all this? Tami Williamson: The big blue one’s right behind you. You’re sitting on it. Steve Williamson: Oh! There it is. All right, tool stuff. Tools! Danny Lipford: I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I don’t want to get into all of the decision making here. I’m staying out on the perimeter. But anything that you know is going back in, I’ll stage it right here and as soon as the floor is dry, we’ll all move it in. That way you guys can keep sorting. So, let me know. This I guess we’re saving. Steve Williamson: Right. Okay. Yeah. I guess so. Oh, it’s going to… Tami Williamson: Oh, hold on, wait. You would not know how long he begged for that. Steve Williamson: Umbrella. Tami Williamson: Okay, random screws. Junk them? Steve Williamson: Ah! You never throw away screws. Danny Lipford: Never throw away screws. And I always tell everybody the cereal bowl, whether it takes the form of a cup or whatever, whatever you got. You’ll go back to your cereal bowl many, many, many times. Finally, the floor is dry and we’re ready to start moving everything back in. The big stuff goes first, which should be easy enough. Steve Williamson: Looks good. Tami Williamson: You’re crooked. Steve Williamson: Crooked? We’re crooked. Which way? Which way are we crooked? Allen Lyle: Just a little that way. Steve Williamson: Going to get the square? Level? Tami Williamson: We’re good. Danny Lipford: It’s obvious, Tami has some specific ideas about how this goes back together. Which door? Tami Williamson: To that door. Danny Lipford: OK. Tami Williamson: They have to match the same way. It’s like art. Danny Lipford: It’s like art. Bike hanging. Once we start filling the shelves, the pile outside starts to get smaller, and soon we’re fine tuning it. Do you use this in your bicycling? Tami Williamson: Yeah, you know. Yeah. Danny Lipford: You do? Okay. Tami Williamson: I used to tag him along. Danny Lipford: You know, we’re talking about this back here. Would this work if we… Steve Williamson: Perfect. Danny Lipford: Put those right there? Tami Williamson: His and hers. Danny Lipford: Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Steve Williamson: The shoes definitely need to stay outside. Tami Williamson: His smell horrible. Danny Lipford: I actually wonder what if they were simply hung like that? Steve Williamson: Oh, yeah. Tami Williamson: Oh, I like that. Danny Lipford: While I’m doing that, Allen is organizing the lawn and garden tools in the opposite corner. And in very little time at all this garage is finally coming together. Loraine asks, “What’s the best way to paint over dark paneling?” When I was kid, the old, dark paneling like this was so popular. Nowadays, people want to brighten things up a little bit. And whether you have real wood paneling, like this, or sheet paneling, the process to brighten it up is pretty much the same. You need to start out with 100-grit sandpaper, and just sand all of the gloss off the wood surface, wipe it down, follow that with a good quality primer. And after the primer’s dried sufficiently, then would be the time, if you had the sheet paneling, to eliminate all those little grooves by using drywall joint compound. Six-inch drywall knife, probably take a couple of coats with a little sanding in between to create that nice, smooth surface. Then, two more coats of a very good quality wall paint, and you’ve brought your paneling and your home right into this century. Steve and Tami Williamson’s garage had become a victim of their active lifestyle, rather than an asset. But with a lot of hard work, a little bit of planning, and a few inexpensive materials, we made a very positive change. We’ve removed the clutter by raising all of the small items up onto the new shelves we’ve created, and the smaller shelf unit gives Steve a handy place to work on their bikes. Speaking of bikes, they’re now all conveniently stored up, off the floor, either from the ceiling or the wall. And, since the floor is clear, why shouldn’t it look better? Besides, now there’s actually enough room for Tami’s car in addition to Steve’s prized bus. So, Steve, with the new garage will it inspire you to maybe get this thing ready for that cross-country trip? Steve Williamson: I think I’m going to do that. Danny Lipford: At least you have a little more room here to work with. But I’ll tell you, I did see something that just seemed to be missing here. With all these tires all over the place, and no real way to blow ‘em up. So, I thought that this would come in handy. Steve Williamson: Get out! Get out. Danny Lipford: So we want to give this to you. And we got your gauge, you’ve got hoses, you got everything you need. Steve Williamson: That’s awesome. Danny Lipford: So, that’ll make it a little easier to keep everything running straight. But, you guys have been great the last couple of days, and hope we have satisfied everything you wanted here. Tami Williamson: Most definitely. Danny Lipford: And it’s been awesome working with you. Hope we can do it again. Steve Williamson: Yeah. Tami Williamson: Thank you. 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. Vernice Powell-Porter looks like Jessica couldn't handle the truth bahahaha! She must have blocked us or this page lol! More prove that we are right and she is stupid! Jessica McClendon, you make yourself look stupid. It's called common sense and morals. You lack both. Oh ya we are the stupid ones...real mature. Your words make you the stupid one. Try putting yourself in Their shoes for a minute. No need to call names we dont expect you to not support your friend but not at the expense of the victims family. Dont expect us to to have sympathy for the man that took our friend from us and just gets a slap on the wrist. The fact that he gets no sun and crappy food should be the least of his punishment. Jeff will never have the opportunity to have any of the luxuries that the man who took his life will. Haha I'm far from a thug. But that's cool. I never said I didn't feel for then other family. Omg u guys are beyond stupid How enlightening Jessica McClendon. "He's been in County for 2 1/2 years. Now he gets to go to prison and eat better food and get more sunlight". Too bad Jeff has a family that can't say the same. If anyone is a waste of time, space or oxygen it's you and your little group of thug supporters. Yeah and your definition of an amazing man is disgusting. Blah blah blah....thats all I hear from all this. U all have ur opinions and that's great. But telling us "Charlie supporters" that we are bad and all that is dumb. None of us said what he did was the right thing. We are saying he is an amazing guy. U don't agree well good for u. Ur nothing but a waste of time. Cory Herron I'm sorry that happened to you and your son, that is terrible! I don't think anyone is saying the guy was am Angel at all. It's the situation in which he died and the sentence placed on his murder. It's all terrible and I'm sorry for your family. Had he killed your son....or anyone I would be the first one to say that he deserved to serve time for that. And not try to diminish what he did by talking about what a great guy he is and how he doesn't deserve to serve what little time he dose have to serve Does a great man drink and drive and crash into someone's house and almost kill their kids? Does a great man not learn from that experience and continue to do the same stupid crap?... I have mixed emotions... I don't think Jeff deserved to die... If anything I only wished for him to live a better life and learn from his mistake... However from what I know he didn't learn... He was NOT a great man... He was a boy who never grew up...He very nearly killed my son!!! Yeah, um poor Charlie! He gets to sit in jail. Jeff however is dead. No contest here folks. You wanna talk about idiots? All these Charles supporters need a mirror. Jeff was a great man he would give you the shirt off his back.he also was a great father,uncle,friend,son and brother.all charlie was a pot smoking drunk that was probably high and drunk.was happened to an eye for an eye,a life for a life...rot in hell Charles teal...... Really? Your gonna talk about how hard it is on charles and his family to have to be in prison? Really? Why dont you think about how hard it is on Jeffs family and his kids how they cry knowing they will NEVER see there dad again. Walking away from a prison for 7 years is nothing in comparison to walking away from a grave for eternity. So many heartless ppl I tell u. U think prison is a walk in the park? U all think they have it made. Have u ever thought being away from family isn't a punishment. Have any of u had a loved one in prison. Have u ever went and visit a loved one in prison and had to leave and cry so bad u couldn't breath and watch others including children do the same. I have. My children have also. That is the worse punishment there is. Yeah they get TV. If they buy one. Yeah they get fed but its barely enough to fill a 10 ur old child. My heart goes out to Charles family. But knowing he will be out in 7 1/2 years is awesome news. I write Charles all the time and talk to him on the phone almost daily. He is far from a cold blooded murderer. I think the sentence he got was good. Can't wait for him to be free and he can start living his life again. My heart goes out the family I no what there going thru my daughters father was shot too. The guy needs more time the famliy will never get to say they love you again. You can't play god. How good of a person can you be if you have no qualms about shooting a friend in the head? I don't care if they ask. I sure in the hell am not going to become a murderer at the request of a friend. This guy is sick in the head and deserves to spend every bit of 10 years. I honestly think his sentence is not harsh enough. You forgot the part where he shot someone in the head. Im not charlies actual family but iv known that family my whole life an yes he made a mistake but that don't make him a piece of garbage an he does not deserve to rot in jail up to the day he did what he did he worked hard everyday to provide for him self an family he is a good hearted man in all reality an was always fun to hang out with an hunt with An jus be around personally i can't wait for him to be out the famy loves you man I knew both of them and Jeff was a very good friend of mine. Know matter if he was on his knees began me to do that to him. I would of got him help and not shot him...... Friends don't take another friends life. As far as I'm concerned Charlie can rot in jail for life for what he did. How dare he play god and take another man's life!!!! I find it so strange that there are people that commit crimes that don't end a life and they get sentences almost as long...sad Bension was the drunk driver who crashed into my house and nearly killed my son... If he had been in his bedroom for an extra two minutes Jeff's F 150 would have been on top of my son... This life altering event is absolutely unfortunate on both sides. Obviously there is more to the story than cut and dry murder. If the prosecution allowed this to be plead down to manslaughter has anyone thought there must be more than is being released to the public? Its not anyone's place to judge jeff or charlie honestly, both are human and nobody is perfect. There has to be a reason the charges were lessened. Everyone makes mistakes, some are worse than others but until you're faced with the choice directly and in the situation u cannot say how it would turn out. We all can say 100% i wouldn't have pulled the trigger, but emotions...fears...impulses...adrenalin... Feelings...ect get in the way and we've all made a very bad choice in the heat of the moment...a fatal error in this case. Many many lives have been changed by a split second decision....I believe the only one who knows all the facts is God and he is the only one who should be doing any judging here...of Jeff and of Charlie. I guess all this guy wanted was a place to stay ,3meals a day but we can ask him that . BUT on Jeff's side of the story that isn't so.( Just Saying) I'm curious if Jeff even actually said he had cancer. What were they doing up in the mountains? We're they even real friends in the first place? Was Jeff suffering from any kind of depression or anything? Were they hunting or just up in the mountains with a gun? If Charles friends wanna defend him than speak up! No matter what, he still had no business doing what he did. the statement,there 2 sides to every story . Is pretty one sided since Jeff is no longer here!! (Just Saying) if the guy was so innocent why did he dump Jeff's body in a remote area??? (Just Saying) If my best friend, wife, child, or parent were to ask me to shoot them, I wouldn't do it. I think you have to be morally retarded to kill someone you love. It isn't your place to pull the trigger. I think 10 years isn't enough. I think murder is murder no matter what. Must be nice to know that some day you can hug and kiss him. We where robbed of that by someone that had no right to make that decision. There is no reason or excuse that will ever justify what charles did. No one has that right. He was not by any means his best friend he barely knew jeff he knew nothing about him & no one was there so no one has the right to say he wanted him to On the same page you wouldnt want what happened to jeff to happen to your brother, dad, sister or any close relative either. You would want the person responsible to pay for his actions. 10 years is not enough! And what about jeff? We will never have the opportunity to tell him that we are here for him and love him stll because of Charles decision. A good hearted person would never do anything like this he is nothing but a piece of crap that needs to rot in jail for the rest of his life not just 10 years he did something that can never be taken back he hurt so many people besides the simple fact that he MURDERED someone in cold blood & that it was planned he should have gotten pre meditated murder charged instead & die in prison I dont disagree. I believe that it is very sad and unfortunate that it happened. And I didnt know jeff or his family but I do feel for them as well. But I do know and love Charlie and his family. There are 2 sides to every story and im not saying either one is right or wrong. But I dont love Charlie any less. People make mistakes!!!! Bad things happen to good people. I dont think any of you would want your brother, dad, sister or any close relative to rot in hell. Everyone has their own emotions on the situation. CHARLIE still needs to know that people are there for him and love him still. Not enough ^^^^this is not fair. Jeff has loving loyal family and friends that will never get this opportunity because of your idea of a great man. Charlie, I know you will hear about all this negativity in due time. Just know that those people dont know the charlie we know and love so much. I cant wait to see you and give you the biggest hug and kiss on the cheek. You are an amazing human being. You have been so strong through all this (as strong as one can be for what it is.) You have an amazing family that I am proud to be apart of and good loyal friends who will be here waiting for you till the end with open arms. I love you soooooo much!!! When you commit a crime you have to pay for the consequences. Three hots and a cot should be sufficient. No matter what the crime tho we have to give everyone their civil rights in spite of what crime they committed. I believe in fair punishment. I have to pay to use my phone, my satellite, my medical and schooling. Why should a thug have those specific liberties for free? No. Put them to work, make them accountable. I still haven't heard one 'great thing' about this murderer. I wonder how the victims families feel about the people talking about how amazing and great this murderer is. Should we not feed them? Im not defending inmates believe me but what else should we do with them? I totally agree with the computer and tv but those "3 hots and a cot" are not that that luxurious im sure of that. its like she said ive never been but they get computer play time tv three hots and a cot yard time i think they need to do hard time like the old days pounding on the chain gang sun up -sundown i agree with you More in the lawsuit comment Vernice.... Their attorneys actually try to file claims against the jails where they are housed because they "aren't getting outside enough". And taxpayers foot the bill. It's awesome Patricia Clark he did not have cancer. We love you and miss you Jeff! Ahh I see. So he's a great person for killing a man? Explain how this makes him a 'great person'. I'm intrigued. Yeah but then you get inmates racking up lame lawsuits because their pancakes are square instead of round, or they claim they are in humanely treated because they aren't give a TV or whatever Crap they want. This is part of why our courts are so back logged. Millions of tax payer dollars are being used for these stupid lawsuits. name calling is so childish...we all have different opinions. And that "human piece of garbage" is a great person. Who are you to judge others? Shame... whatever the sentence. there is too much comfort in jail. Isn't it suppose to be punishment for crime not a better lifestyle than hard working people can afford? All i have to say is that anyone who knew jeff knows how he was, a great person, friend & dad. It doesn't matter what someone tells or asks you to do, if you are any sort of human being you know right from wrong & murder is wrong. Teal gets to live & see his family & friends he is responsible for jeff never being able to do that. Murder is murder & his poor me excuse is bull, no one has a perfect life everyone has problems we live in a society where that can't be avoided that doesn't give anyone the right to take someones life. He took away any chance of his family seeing him again & anychance of ever being able to say a goodbye. Ten years is not enough time to serve, jeff gets no life because of this person. Jeff will never have the opportunity to blow a kiss to his family members, never be able to smile at them, never be able to walk his daughters down the isle or do any of the things that he deserved to do. There is no remorse or apology that can ever change that. This should have been a pre mediated murder charge & he should have gotten life not a measly 10 years. There is no bringing jeff back & there never will be the least that could have been done was to make sure teal wasn't alowed to come back home either. I think your being a little dramatic. Ive never been to prison but im sure its not the resort your painting it out to be.
Subscription Lists Refreshment in Refuge by Gina Burgess We all know what Faith is. It is the certain knowledge of the things hoped for, evidence of the things not seen... -------------------- The light gradually grew brighter. I tossed the light covering aside and slipped on my robe. The cold stone felt refreshing to my feet only for a short while then the cold crept up my legs into my bones. Oh, it wasn’t the cold stones. It was despair. I had passed depression long ago. Despair gathered the corners of darkness and wrapped it around my whole being. Defeat tied the knots. One day had melted into another without any relief from my hopeless situation. I stopped myself from calling out for Tabitha. I had no money to pay her anymore so I had urged her to take another position. Why should she suffer because of me? I looked forward to morning only because I hated the loneliness of night so deeply. No warm, loving embrace during the night. No husband whispered sweet love words in my ear, his breath warm against my neck. I had lost it all. Everything. My father had no son, only me, so I received the fortune he’d spent his whole life building. It was quite vast. He taught me well in business. I was no ninny, I assure you. It was quite exhilarating to land a deal and see those camels lumbering into town laden with spices and silks and to know that they were all sold to the highest bidder. The bag used to hang so heavy along my leg, the slight clinking of gold sounding musical to my ears. The scarlet thread ruined everything. I came home one day with a cramp or two. Nothing serious but Ishti, my beloved husband would be with me that night for the red river would flow the next day for sure. I laid on his breast through the night. He was tired. It had been hot and the camels had been cranky the handlers were worse. What was seven days in a lifetime of love? We had the rest of our lives to lavish love on each other. It would only be seven days. I was in niddah (separation) because, tohorah or family sacredness decrees that when the secular world-things tum'ah such as menses begins it takes the mind off the Holy Things and makes a person Unclean. My beloved could not touch me. There was some disagreement among the Sanhedrin about this. Torah said not for seven days. Did one count from the first flow or begin counting after the flow ceased? But regardless, we could not express our love for each other that night because that would mean we would be cut off. No going to the Holy Temple. My beloved could not minister there. No sacrifice, however expensive, would cover the sin. So we abstained; I in my chamber and he in his. It was a lonely state, but it was only for seven days. So many women of my acquaintance cherished these days of separation. I could never understand that until I realized they must not love their husbands as much as I loved mine. I was young. I was in love. I had so much passion for him and not just his body. His smile lit up the room. His soft voice sent velvet peace through me as he read the Torah or the prophets or the songs. He was the mountain rock that protected me from the storms of life. It would only be for seven days. But the red river did not stop flowing. I tried the remedies handed down from mother to daughter for centuries. I thought it would stop. It went on for months. The day my husband came in with a bit of paper with writing all over it, my heart drained of all joy. What little hope I had cherished was ripped from me as I read that paper. It wasn’t my fault. I was released from my vows. He required an heir. I could not give him a most hoped for son. I was divorced. That day, I hated the sun more than anything. It kept shining. My world had suddenly gone dark, but the sun kept shining and it kept rising day after day, cheerily glowing, warming, setting the evening sky on fire all while darkness filled my being to the marrow of my bones. My beloved walked out the door, his broad shoulders and his rich brown hair reflected the cheery sunshine whilst inside blackness ascended the throne of my heart. I resolved to find a doctor that would make me well. I sent out servants to the four corners of the earth in search of learned physicians to heal me. The servants came back one by one with physician after physician who tried recipe after recipe of the most vile concoctions and still the red river flowed. Each smiling man held out his hands. One clutched a new medicine and would only let go of it when the empty hand was filled with gold. The bag that used to merrily hit my leg as I confidently strode the streets of town grew lighter and lighter. Year after year passed by and loneliness crept closer, sidling up, craving a cold friendship. At first the days were filled with hope. The next physician would have the cure. The next caravan would bring the medicine that would heal. At first, I didn’t notice as one acquaintance after another quit inviting me to social engagements. I had to turn them down so often. I was unclean. Of course I didn’t spread the news. That sort of thing is just not done. But women talk. We gather at the well. We share recipes, cures, hope, gossip. That last one… oy vey ! The gossip wasn’t noticeable at first. But then the hands quit dropping to the task at hand but stayed over the mouths as eyes followed me down the street. The sound of whispers touched my ears as I passed groups of twos and threes, either pity or scorn on their faces. I despised both. That served to push them further away. I was shunned. I was cut off. This morning I awoke to a sky pale in the east, the sun not ready to break the day. I leaned on the window, a cramp dropped me to my knees. In that moment I decided I could not carry the load another second. “God,” I cried out. “God, remember me this day,” I begged, forgetting pride and self. I had nothing left to bargain with. I had nothing to offer Him except a shriveled and tattered heart. “Remember me like you remembered Rachel and she became pregnant. Remember me like you did the countless times you remembered Israel in the travails before the kings. Remember me, oh Adonai, as you remembered Hannah.” The golden sun stretched over the horizon and warmed my cold face. A tiny spark of hope lit a single corner of my heart, and I was able to face that day. A peace settled in my being. I knew I would be healed. Where, or how, or when wasn’t important in that moment. The hope of healing took my breath. I knew. It was as if a giant hand picked me up from the floor, rushed me into my dress and hurried me out the door. Where I was going I had no clue. Then I heard the whispers. He is here today. He is coming today. He will pass along this way for He is teaching. He has healed hundreds. That demon-possessed man out by the cemetery was cured! He heals the lame and the feverish. My heart leaped. I dare not let them see my face for then they would hush and cross to the other side of the street. I would never hear more of this Man. I must hear more...hear it all. “Who?” I wanted to scream. I wanted to grab an arm and shake it until I heard the whole of the story. Jesus of Nazareth. Finally. I heard the name. It melted over me, sinking into me, peace washing over me like the waters of the mikveh which I had not felt in twelve long years. Hope gave spring to my step. I followed the crowd and when it became too close, I used elbows and heels to break through. Closer to healingI pushed. I heard one of the synagogue rulers, Jairus, as I recall, had approached a man falling at His feet. I watched and then I knew in my heart that it must be He… the Jesus that would save me… the Man that would heal me… God’s remembrance. I crouched down and crawled forward. I knew that if I just touched his talit, just one tassel on the corner of His talit, the prayer shawl every Jewish man wore, I would be healed. He had healed hundreds; the tassel was all I needed. He was Holy. I was unclean. He was of God. I was filthy. He was kind, for I saw Him start to follow Jairus to go heal his daughter. I was shunned and cut off. How dare I touch Him and make Him unclean? I could not. I dare not. But His prayer shawl I could dare to touch. I reached out. The tassel brushed through my hand… the barest of touches. In the space of a second, darkness fled. Despair became a wisp, blown away by a puff of breeze. The red river ceased and I was well. The filth of twelve years disappeared just as if it had never been. “Who touched Me?” His voice was full of compassion, love, and the waters of His words washed through me, a cleansing flood it seemed. The first time in twelve years I was clean. I could do nothing but fall at His feet. I poured out twelve years of grief and He replaced it all with such joy I could not contain it all. “Daughter,” He said, daughter a term of endearment such as I had not heard in years, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be whole from your plague.” I rejoiced, Ah, Lord God, thou hast saved me this day. I could not help but sing the Psalm of David Jehovah is gracious and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. Jehovah watches over the simple; I was low, but He saved me. Return to your rest, O soul; for Jehovah has blessed you. For You have delivered my soul from death, my eye from tears, my feet from stumbling. I will walk before the face of Jehovah in the lands of the living. I believed; so I speak… .
This article is an introduction to special education in Irish secondary schools. The past then years have witnessed a sea change in special education provision in Ireland. The Department of Education and Science has issued numerous directives and guidelines in relation to policy, provision, structure and supports. Since 1998 there have been ten pieces of legislation passed through the Dail that relate, one way or another to children and special education needs The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has been established along with the Special Education Support Service (SESS). Both these organisations oversee and coordinate all special education initiatives nationwide. Ireland’s primary schools have pioneered these new directives. Special education provision at primary level is developing at a rapid pace and great strides are being made. The next horizon for improvement is secondary school. Ireland’s secondary schools are driven by an exam-oriented curriculum. Subject area specialists teach all of the curricular content. The supports available to children with special needs are not extensive or as tested as those at primary level. In what follows we will look at the needs and entitlements of children entering secondary school who have identified special education needs and those who are entering and later discovered to have a special education need. My child has been receiving extra help in primary school. What should I look for in a secondary school? You should look for a school with a special education teacher in place on a full-time basis to support all children with special needs in the school. It is important to also be sure the school has a commitment to supporting and educating children with special needs. The school should have on its staff teachers who have had some training in how to differentiate their methodology and curriculum for children with special needs. There should be an accepting attitude on the part of all staff. Remember, your child is entitled to enter fully into the life of the school and avail of all it has to offer. How do you find out these things? Talk to the school principal and ask questions about the topics listed above. Remember, your child may be eligible for special consideration at the time of Junior Cert and Leaving Cert but this will have to be determined about a year before these exams will be taken. What is s/he entitled to? A child who has been receiving special education resources or support in primary school is eligible for continued support at secondary level so long as they continue to have a special education need. It is possible that a primary school child, after receiving several years of support, could no longer be deemed to have a special education need but this is the exception not the rule. Your child will be entitled to the same general provision he or she received in primary school. Typically this takes the form of specialist teaching from a Learning Support or Special Education Resource teacher (both are now often being referred to simply as Special Education teachers. This support is to be determined based on need with the number of hours of support being determined by the Individual Education Plan (IEP) drawn up in the last year of primary school. In addition to the IEP there should have been a Transition Plan completed during the last year of primary school The Transition Plan will devise the structure of transition to secondary school and may alter the IEP for a short period of time. If this happens there should be a team meeting in about six months or less to write the secondary school IEP. In general students in secondary school are eligible for the same supports as in primary school. This may include a Special Needs Assistant (SNA). How do I go about making sure they get that? Generally speaking your child’s Individual Education Plan is the map which documents exactly what services your child will receive, when he or she will receive them and from whom. The IEP is your best protection against a child not receiving the services they need. IEP’s will eventually become legally binding documents on all parties and a school must provide the services outlined in the IEP. An IEP cannot be changed or implemented without your consent. Remember that upon entering secondary school a Transition Plan may be in place that slightly alters the previous IEP. This will have to be reviewed within a short span of time to be sure the child receives appropriate support services. Don’t be afraid to talk to the school principal because he or she is ultimately responsible to see to it that children receive the services they are entitled to receive. What are my options if we run into difficulties? Should problems arise you should first speak to the Year Head and address your concerns. The Special Needs Organiser (SENO) assigned to the school should be alerted as well as the appropriate special education teacher(s). A team meeting, of which you are entitled to be a member, can be convened within a reasonable time frame and your concerns will be discussed. If this meeting does not satisfy you or not result in the child receiving the services you may contact the National Council for Special Education for further information and support. It is important to take things one step at a time. Speak to your child’s special education teacher first and be clear about your concerns. Be assertive and not aggressive. Remember, generally speaking everyone is doing the best they can. Do have your child’s IEP in front of you when you are speaking to the teacher or other staff member. Be aware of your rights to appeal as outlined in the NCSE and SESS websites. Don’t rush to judgement, try and work things out amicably before you make threats to appeal. The next most important port of call will be the Special Needs Organiser assigned to the school. Hidden Disabilities Not all children who have special education needs come to the attention of parents or educators in primary school. The human brain is an organ that tries to meet the demands placed upon it at any given time. As anyone who has gone to school knows, the demands of the curriculum get greater and greater each year of schooling. In secondary school the curriculum subjects become incredibly complex each year. The fact that a student is being educated by many different teachers each year further complicates matters. There are students who have had no difficulty suggestive of a special education need at primary school who suddenly seem to have a lot of difficulties in secondary school. Unfortunately they are often perceived as “lazy” or “unmotivated” and sometimes as “difficult” students. If these labels stick and no thought or concern raised about a possible learning difficulty being present the student can become trapped in a cycle of failure and rejection by teachers. The result could be early school leaving, behaviour difficulties to hide the learning problem, lowered self-esteem, loss of self-confidence and trouble at home. It is important to recognise that some students, no matter how well they performed in primary school, may have a special education need that doesn’t appear until secondary school. What are the warning signs? It is not possible to list the many warning signs of a hidden disability but generally speaking one should be considered any time a student with a previously successfully record in primary school begins to exhibit difficulties in secondary school. There are a variety of causes to school failure at second level but a hidden disability can often be reasonably suspected when one or more of the following difficulties become noticeable: oMemory problems oOrganisational difficulties oRefusal to go to school oProblems with written language expression oDifficulty organising thoughts into speech oInability to recall facts from yesterday’s lesson even if they seemed retained the night before oUnusual spelling problems oUnusual difficulty with more advanced mathematical problems oPronounced difficulty in foreign language class oBehavioural difficulties not present in primary school oMood swings or sudden mood changes that last several hours oReluctance to engage with parents about school difficulties Although a partial list it is a good guide for parents and teachers to thoughtfully consider the presence of a hidden learning disability. I think my child may have a problem. Where do I go from here? First speak with your child’s teachers. Ask for the facts: what does teacher think the problem might be? How often is this occurring? When? Is it serious? Present your own perception to the teacher(s) clearly and succinctly. If you have done some Internet homework on your own be clear about it and raise it as a query needing to be resolved. Try and get some samples from homework you have seen and ask for some samples of the child’s work in class if it is appropriate to do so. Speak to the Year Head and ask him or her to get some information about your concerns from all teachers. See if you can spot a pattern that validates your concern. If you become more concerned then you have a right to ask for an assessment. Sometimes the special education teacher, with your permission, can perform some individually administered tests to discover if the child is seriously behind in reading or math achievement age. It is possible to discover if there are significant written language deficits in some cases. If this assessment leads to more significant concerns then you should request a psychological assessment. These can be provided free by the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) but be mindful that a lengthy waiting list may be in place. The most important thing is to be persistent and to talk to the right people. Begin with teachers, speak to Year Head, go to Principal if necessary and don’t forget the Special Education Needs Organiser (SENO). If an assessment is carried out there will be a team meeting to discuss the results and to begin the process of writing an IEP. In the case of a diagnosis, where do we go from here? If your child is found to have a special education need an IEP should be written. This is, as stated previously, a road map to your child’s education plan. It should be reviewed annually but can be reviewed more frequently if it is decided to do so. The special education team, often referred to as a multidisciplinary team, will be responsible for writing the IEP. You are a member of that team. Your child is also entitled to be a member of the team and it is particularly important for secondary school students to participate in this stage of planning. This gives them a sense of ownership and control over their educational life. Be sure that the plan covers all the areas of concern that have been discovered in the assessment process. Plans for children with social and behavioural difficulties that address only academic issues are useless and doomed to fail. Special education planning is a thoughtful and time-consuming process when it is done correctly. Don’t feel rushed into accepting a plan you don’t think will work. Take it away and ask if you can return in a week to revise it with the team. This may not make you the most popular parent in the school but it is responsible parenting. Possible Panels: Autism/Asperger’s in Secondary School There are large numbers of children with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder that are having considerable difficulty finding a secondary school to enrol them. The problem revolves around the lack of supports at second level and the lack of teacher training in this speciality area. Unfortunately there is little that can be done if a school refuses to enrol a child on the autistic spectrum. What is needed is the development of resource support. By that I mean resource rooms where these children can get services by a specialist teacher. Availability to the teachers of advanced training. Availability of print and video resources teachers can access to learn more about the spectrum. Along with this there should be a whole-school commitment to inclusion for children on the spectrum so they are not isolated from same-age peers. The education of children on the spectrum is not that difficult once educators get the knowledge about how to do it and have the proper attitude towards these children and their families. Of course they present us with challenges but the good news is that once we get it reasonably right for them we begin to improve the education of all children. There are considerable challenges in the future to our secondary schools in education these children and it is time to get it right. Those schools which stubbornly refuse to enrol children on the spectrum are in the stone age of education. There is a clear choice for secondary schools in relation to these children: be in the forefront of change and development or be left behind forever. Parents will not forgive or forget. It’s time to get it right once and for all. ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder affects about 5% of all children and adults. Unlike other special education conditions, children and adolescents with ADHD are frequently blamed for having the condition, perceived as hostile or unmotivated, lazy or cheeky. When ADHD goes untreated it becomes a serious condition affecting self-esteem, motivation, behaviour, self-confidence and relationships with adults and peers. ADHD is a high-stakes condition and it needs to be recognised that students who have it didn’t choose to be the way they are. ADHD is a condition that is caused by brain chemistry and activity. It is a neurobiological condition. People with ADHD often have difficulty paying attention and concentrating, especially on things that require sustained attention and concentration. The can have problems controlling their emotions and impulses, can rush to finish things or have considerable difficulty waiting their turn. They often ask questions without thinking them through and sometimes make unfortunate comments in front of others. 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Using web-based classrooms and a hands-on approach, the presenters demonstrate how reusable learning objects are developed and used. Katherine Cobb, President; Elspeth McCulloch, Online Program Coordinator; Ligia Probus, Technician, Brevard Community College, FL Implementing Activity-Based Learning Into Your Courses Course participants learn specific ways to implement activity-based learning and authentic assessment using a proven curriculum development architecture. Discussion of activity-based, competency-based, and industry-verified curriculum modules clarifies the advantage of this innovative approach to teaching and learning. Also provided are hands-on exercises that can help educators recognize firsthand some of the frustrations associated with traditional lectures and evaluations. This session should particularly benefit educators who are interested in implementing activity-based learning in their courses. 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Carla Levesque, Librarian; Melisandre Hilliker, Miami Dade College, FL Online Accessibility for All! This Learning Center Course, designed especially for educators who deliver instruction at a distance, focuses on helping faculty develop accessible online learning materials for students with disabilities. The presenters discuss what it means to make online learning materials accessible, what disability laws online practitioners need to know, and how online instructors can make their websites accessible to everyone, including students with disabilities; presenters also demonstrate what an accessible website looks like. Hands-on experiences with six new assistive technologies and integration of these technologies into curriculum are provided. 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The presenters outline the process for integrating IT core applications and tools with authentic workplace scenarios, review sample lessons developed by community college faculty, and provide participants with the opportunity to practice using the lesson template and online resources to build scenario-based lessons. Joyce Malyn-Smith, Director Strategic Initiatives, Workforce and Human Development; Linda Scott, Project Coordinator, Education, Employment, and Community, Education Development Center, MA Knowledge Management in Practice: A Roadmap for Action Knowledge management (KM) provides a framework for developing strategies to collect and share what people know and then to apply this knowledge to action. This course focuses on using KM within higher education institutions as a way to improve the use of data and information for better decision making. As such, the intended audience includes higher education information technology executives, senior-level administrators, and faculty involved in campus-based decision making. Course participants learn how to better assess their organization’s KM capabilities, as well as develop an understanding of what KM is and how it can be used to then address their own processes and policies that support knowledge sharing within their own organizations. Following this course, participants will be able to apply practices and techniques that will allow them to identify challenges and opportunities at the institutional level and to develop action plans to move these ideas forward. Lisa Petrides, President; Lilly Nguyen, Research Assistant, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, CA Defining and Measuring Quality in Online Learning How do you know if your online courses, your learning modules, or even your discussion questions are effective? How do you define and measure quality so that you can demonstrate that your instruction produces high-quality learning? During large group discussions and small group breakouts, participants compare and apply quality measures from diverse perspectives to several online learning experiences. This course will benefit instructors as well as researchers who design online learning assessment. John Kruper, Chief Learning Officer; Stephen Gilbert, Principal Course Architect, Ellis College of New York Institute of Technology,
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“The 263 comments:1 – 200 of 263 Newer› Newest» Total rubbish...so that should be Nigeria's problem...I beg who need bb charger Total rubbish...so that should be Nigeria's problem...I beg who need bb charger Bring it on! I said this before that I want them to play it dirty and prove either of their veraciousness about their claims. The perfidiousness of either FFK or Bianca can only be ascertained through such a move. Stupid man,i hope they drag your ass to court conceited man,make you pay damages,abi u like media tins?a man who can't control his tongue Lin lin, i have not seen vector's propal to chidinma pictures yet.....i'm waiting (post my comment) All these Agbalagbas! There's actually more to this than we think. #MyOpinion OMG! 8-yr Old Bride Dies After Wedding Sex With 40-yr Old Husband yawns There is nothing as annoying as pandering words with an obvious idiot,FFK in this case.That man has gotta b d most annoying and senseless adult of all times. Pretty sure Bianca if she actually dated him,would be calling herself a fool several times over for stooping so low 2 date an immature fool like FFK.She wld give her eyeteeth 2 b able 2 buy a time machine and erase d retard from her life history.Ladies have gotta b careful d kind of fellas they hang out with.There might have been no sexual relations btw them but hez giving the impression that he hit it from d back,front,sideways and all dat just like Ray J. Fashola wey start ds whole brouhaha with his deportation has even forgotten d whole episode. They should forget this matter. FKK act like kid with his thoughtless statement. discover secrets to losing some weight and eating healthy Ds ffk man fine o!sweet dude IMO, Bianca Ojukwu should have accepted his apology and move on. This will get very messy. Femi Fani Kayode is so full of sh!t.......!!! Such a disgrace.....! That man has a small boy's brain. nonsense...why is he forcing himself on someone that doesn't want to associate with him?? Those two femi and bianca should spare us their stupidity and public show of shame. Bianca should mind her work and femi his business. Ffk is just being proud. Oga apologise and save ur self sm embarassment. U have a proof abi? Better don't go and do sm photoshoppped picture o. I don talk my own! What a mess!!! Bianca should forget about it haba!!!! Talk is cheap, she ought to know this. I tire for the drama. Dis woman shld go and rest jor.he don fuck u he don fuck u be dat.oga ffk,u sef too dey misyarn jor How does this one use concern us? Going to court is probably the best idea GOBE ... let d showdown begin . Linda im 1st n if u like post it last na u sabi This Kayode is an idiot,uncivilized fool,attention seeker hmmmmmmm... This FFK. well, OMA says there is more to this than what meets the eye. well, politics sha! Smh bbm not interested face Oma Deig Gengen!!! Season film to bad Kia Kilode naa! FFK made a mistake and has apologized; its just a lesson that we all should think before we speak. Pls they should settle out of court jare... I can also smell politics esp cos of FFK's too much talking on social media. They ll be alright in few months! Sebi Linda....wink Wetin dey worry her,we all no dem wey dey go dey fuck dem slf.mumu he get fact which sch she go wey dey carry postion giv u. Linda ffk is a bloody liar. Believe me he has no evidence. For Bianca to really come out and say she didn't have anything to do with him then she didn't.FFk bloody wants attention.Believe me,women hardly deny men they go out with. Thought so. ~D great anonymous! Bianca wots ur own I tot dis young man did apologised 2 u nawa o abi u wan tell us say na Ojukwu blood don dey ur body! Clash of the titans,,,, hhmmmmm..lets know what would come out of this whole drama Yes let go to court and finish this,the story is getting too long Funny story. Ds man is just acting like an over grown baby if u had a tin wit d beautiful lady(who wouldn't yeah) haven't u heard don't kiss & tell Rule fr d players card 4sure a real lady wouldn't agree. Smh Man u a snitch nigga. Snitching This Mr Tosin sounds as foolish as his employer. "Mrs Ojukwu is trying to cover the truth about their past" Go and lift your trophy u once had a fling with Mrs Ojukwu when Dangote is thinking about the next state to invest and GEJ is planning for 2015. Stupid lots. ~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA3310 i i really tink yorubas re loud mouths.....it might be dt dis fani kayode didnt even knw dis woman....but jst de find familiarity Gv me. My 5munits back yawn Well to the best of my Knowledge . I think its Obvious FF K knew Bianca very well. If not that they have had something Intimate together then they must have been friends before and of course met before.. Bianca is either been used or her ego of been an ambassador is not letting her rest . Well ., Also it is not wrong for FFK to have used the word INTIMATE . but Bianca found this wrong and he has Apologized. that Gentlemanly enough i think . and in his Apology statement. he said he was sorry .he has edited the Said Article but he also wanted us to know that he did not lie about his statement but he should not have published it online. meanwhile he stood on the fact that he was friends with her before. but the INTIMATE WAS completely removed.. Do you expect him to say he never knew Bianca when he actually knew her so well. I think Bianca should just step down at this POINT. cos FF K will win the case . their is evidence for his apology which Bianca found disrespectful. . more secret would only be released in court so Bianca should just accept it and let it go. the basis of this court is that she doesn't or haven't met FF K. thats baseless. ANYWAYS . FFK I DEY YOUR BACK. BIANCA DONT BE USED OR PUSHED.. E don happen! FFK will now expose Bianca's Yansh to d whole world for d second time,after exposition btw d bed-sheets.I can't wait to hear/see graphic details.BONA,BONA,BONA,I beg I go need ur NAFDAC approved,New Improved Extra Smooth VASELINE soon ooo(book me). O! So he knows his relationship with her is a private affair, then why mention it in the 1st place. I hate this dude with a passion. Bloody tribalist. OK The dude just got himself in trouble... Next time dont just publish anything that comes to head The both of them should please go get a life........ Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeew Linda dick-less fani kayode makes it a point of correction for any one addressing him to add the title chief well his p.a should also address lady ojukwu as Ambassador Bianca onu ojukwu to whom much is required much is expected he is a sucker for protocols so let him follow protocol now to the issue at ground i would have preferred lady Bianca just ignore this clown and continue her duties as an ambassador she should not allow this clown to distract her but you know the truth i wont be surprised if this two became an item seriously they would make a perfect couple only fani is lousy den let both meet in court what d big deal. Na my own concern This is just too petty and sorry o this Fani Kayode is a Morbid Fool! He's obviously fixated to his teen days! Jobless irritant! Whatever happened behind closed doors if ever should remain there. This his attention seeking deficiency will soon give him enough grains to pick all his life! Malu!!! I dn,t like the way dis issue is going at all, but I reserve my comment 4now This is for you Bianca Ojukwu, SHAME ON YOU. Why drag issues with a man who has nothing to lose? Or do you think he will actually mention your name if he had nothing to do with you in the past??? SHAME on you for not letting sleeping dogs lie. You want him to lick your toes while he apologies? Go to court and embarrass yourself the more. Shameless ambassador. PLS MR FFK ALL THIS UR LONG grammar is not needed. What is Bianca fighting for now ? that she doesn't know FFK or what IS THAT AN EGO THING ??????????? he has edited the article and tendered an apology. EVEN AT THE WORSE SCENERIO ? will they jail him or ask him to pay a fine ????????/ SMH. she is just wasting her time. am sure none of them will appear in court tho. they would only be sending their lawyers to speak for them. chio... Mr fani, I no no you na by force? Femi fani kayode again?? Wonder why pple waste their time on this mongo park? I heard he went wacko one time so pple shouldn't take a man like him seriously. Its only a fool like ffk that would date a woman and put it on the internet and media that is if atall he dated the 3 women he mention. Ffk is a disgrace to himself,his race and his family. Linda knuckle head if you like don't post this msg. Dts betr .let dem go to court FFK is just a silly old goat! why does he keep disturbing Nigerians with this trivial issue? What integrity is he talking about? These grownups should bring up ideas on how to move Nigeria forward jare, enough of this nonsense arguments. Na wa for dis pple. Na only God n linda knw the truth, next Let the battle begins That man should go and sit down jor. He talks too much and too many irrelevant things as well. Someone really need to shut him up. Ety BIANCA NA FOOL. linda please please keep track of this issue lets see how it will go. i really dont understand why she keeps denying him. Bianca for rest for the matter oh, she will end up opening her yansh, this guy definately had something wiv her, even if it wasn't a relationship properbly they had sex. Chai this their game makes me remember university days, I shaged her, I didn't shag her ish. Old pple should chill plz Typical case of never fight with a pig or else it would drag you in the mud and enjoy every minute of it. She is very lucky the husband is dead world war 2 would had started again. She should go and hide her face after having an affair with a married she get mouth say she wan go court I hope she isn't fighting a loose battle? Cus if they dated in the past then she should rest, moreover who cares? Her husband is dead! linda Hehehehe lobatan!!!!...oya leggoo,bianca don c wetin she dey find,seriously hope her hands are clean tho...c gobe smh Moral of d lesson?gehs bcareful who yu make ur ex's.... run frm d ffk's(kiss nd tell) of relationships.lol I have never understood the pleasure men derive from debasing women! Can genuine well brought up members of the male specie please ask that gutter man- Fani Kayode to shut up and eat humble pie? He stuck his feet in his mouth! Women are meant to be cherished and honored not pulled down just for wimps. SJD(abj) Shame on FFK. Its so unfortunately dat a fomer minister of a whole country will be going to curt becos of a woman he claimed to have dated in d past. I won't be suprised if at d end of d day, it happens dat FFK has never met mrs ojukwu before becos he's a joker who has no good reputation. In d other hand, I think mrs Ojukwu shld forget abt dis issue because of her reputation. She is also a wife and a mother aside being an ambassador. Yes, is the right move for a correction to those who talk anyhow. If she wins or not this man must be in court for being so foolish they both need to get a life,shebi dem don chop belleful na y dey get time for this nonsense I think you two are SICK "wait linda,I so much respect you and your blog is great pls don't bring this two GOAT problem up here again pls" I am luvin dis thriller abeg linda lolo kip us abreast of d court proceding I really can't wait to see evidence if its really true....I'm stuck in btw!!!!!! Who the hell is lying here????? Na wa oooooooo. This man is just making a fool of himself. Abeg what's so special about bianca? After all everyone has a past but anyway the guy no try by exposing it publicly what they did secretly.kpele BB This Binca lady is too fine,even Kayode himself..they should get together abeg, they need sex, Abi ki lo le toyi??? post my comment linda ejor Oh dear! This man is a big mugu. My goodness FFK might be saying the truth! First page things! BASHorun Dani is so proud that he dated Bianca as if she no be chick like any other before she got married. Pls Bianca leave this lose cannon alone. May be he get pictures. Stupid man, who does that? In his said apology, he spoke more about Bianca. Men who kiss and tell are Stupid. Shut up mr Kayode. Did u marry your wife a virgin? Pissed Watin we no go hear Add up prime online hype man and digital music distributor Qidas XIII on BBM 25faf7BB A Yoruba man will always be this way reason I can never date them...shame on FFK Linda,pls I won't mind if u could link me up wit femi Kayode cos I ave a strong evidence to show him... This Binca lady is too fine,even Kayode himself..they should get together abeg, they need sex, Abi ki lo le toyi??? FFK is a big liar, if Bianca was guilty she won't go to this extent to proof her innocence. FFK is a devil and must be taught a lesson, he wants to tarnish and destroy the image of an innocent lady who doesn't know him but have only heard he exist. I know he'll cook up lies but his lies will boomerang upon him and all of you supporting him, because you want an innocent woman to be shamed, you are no different from the people who murdered Alu 4, you'll all get what you deserve. Omalisha Dani is so proud that he dated Bianca as if she no be chick like any other before she got married. Pls Bianca leave this lose cannon alone. May be he get pictures. Wahala you dey find...#inFela'svoice! Hmmm!!! Issokay na. Let d drama unfold. FFK always running his mouth nos he is in big trouble!. BUSINESS CAFÉ IN LEKKI? LABONITA COPY CENTRE INSIDE MAINSTREET BANK BUILDING LEKKI 1 GATE WHAT! Don't believe I just read this! I qoute "he was well brought up and he is a gentleman".... Pray tell what "well brought up gentleman" kisses and tells? Haha this is all halirious. This press brief only confirms what we have always known- THUG THUG THUG with no intergrity. For genuine ladies out there: keep away from "well brought up gentleman. Fani Kayode"!!!! Please SJD hahahaha this is unseriously serious, this fani is fast turning into political aardvark. his aberant eloquence since he left office never ceases to amaze me!I must confess that that that its GEJ that is to blame for all these damnable,deameaning utrances against his person and his office from these street urchins,he shld start taking more lakadiskal actions if he wants to tame this ugly trend. Oga adikwa egwu! This FFK of an arse is turning into a nuisance. That wanker should like go and boil Atlantic ocean if he is that jobless! SLAI says so... It's obvious some igbo leaders are pushing her to path of shame... that is what they are good at, torturing widow! we all know how they wanted to eat her alive when the great ojukwu died. Mrs. Bianca accept the apology and move on. Mr. FFK... you are a disgrace to manhood. This man is just a complete idiot.someone like him sudnt be sayin retarded stuff In public.ds only shows his stupidity is of a higher level.He wil loose if he goes to court,I hope he knws dt.how can u b calling names of married women n sayin u had intimate relationships with them.nonsense. Fani Kayode is such a controversial fellow, that part of his article (he had an intimate relattionship with Bianca)is just to belittle d igbos, metamorphorically he was insinuuating dat he fucked d wife of ur (igbo) super hero (ojukwu). It is possible dat he has never met Bianca,he is probably mocking d igbos. Joblessness Why is bianca lying??? They must have met before..am sure of that. Let's get ready to rumble!!!!!!!!!!!! Joblessness Useless man, u will end up making a fool of yourself. FFK is not any different frm a yoruba man. Long hiss FFK and his big mouth. On a serious note, Mrs Ojukwu u r blowing this incident out of proportion. Take d partial apology, b4 FFK will show d public that u 2 actually knew each other, t4 making u a liar. MAKZ A well brought up man and a gentleman as FFK claims to be will never "kiss and tell". In my view, this shows a typical area boy behaviour IGBO LADIES PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM YORUBA MEN.THEY ARE NOT EVEN GOOD TO THEIR WOMEN TALKLESS OF WOMEN FROM ANOTHER TRIBE. Ghen ghen grab popcorn and fayrouz She dey do runs for ojukwu home eeh? Nothing person no go see. Na wa oooo. Seriously, these two shd act lik adults n let this talk pass. Am beginning 2 fink Bianca might hve stuffs she is hiding, ds her method is jst a charade. If FFK is sowi for wat he did, she shd jst let it go. Is it until we see pics dat they wil rest? abegggg Its at times like this you really do begin to wonder how people like FFk ever held public office.this guy is totally tactless and bereft of any kind of class.all this drama would have been avoided if only he had kept his mouth shut.well it only goes a long way to show that age does not bestow wisdom on all of us. Bianca Adadioranma of ndi igbo, nwanyi oma I advise you let sleeping dogs lie. We all have a past and at youth you were quite adventurous and it is well understood for a paragon of beauty. Leave the past to the past and don't let that erode your present dignity and intergrity. Take my advise and leave our lawyers and their itchy pockets. Silence is golden than let the public get entertained with this. Be wise After His Parents Death, A Cambodian Boy lives on suckling a Neighbor's Cow (SEE SHOCKING PHOTOS)" Just passing DISGUSTING, THIS MAN IS A DISGRACE TO MEN. HOPE HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTERS ARE ENJOYING HIS MADNESS THAT IS IF HE HAS A FAMILY. Femi Fani Kayode is on drugs again. What a shame. For those of us who know how Ikemba Ojukwu married Bianca when she was barely out of UNN Enugu campus, one orders when Femi Fani Kayode had his imaginary intimate relationship. It is now very clear that Femi Fani Kayode was stalking the former beauty queen and had all sorts of drug induced imaginary encounters with her. Femi Fani Kayode has gone mad again! Gehn gehn..wat'l be d end?#grabpopcorn...hehehehe FFK watch well O! Becareful wen dealing wif a woman. If deep down within u dt dis story is all made up, pls quietly go off media n settle dis. But if its true n u ve real evidience 2 dis abeg make we watch d drama begin! When has it become a must to know someone,dis pple na wah, I know u u don't know me oya court room is open dig it out This guy is just an idiot Women can lie!!! ...She's a fucking bitch..... D earlier she accept 'd beta 4 d both of dem.. # willykampmankenjoe # I love this. Finally let it be clearly understood that at no point did Chief Fani-Kayode lie about the matter. .and to those who dont read to understand, spewing froth at me on ffk's 'discretional' apology letter..hope u get dis as well.. Dis is going to be very expository..wat will charles novia term dis? FFK thinks he can intimidate Bianca with this write up, it's no longer mutual friendship again abi. He goat like you, the best form of defense is attack, sorry but a clear conscience fears no accusation. You'er saying all this but inside you, you know you'er telling lies. God will surely expose you mumu like you rich people with rich wala all this kind thing sef just dey make me laff linda this thing na normal parole na bobo say hin don date baby b4 na normal thing but if baby don dey take am personal ehn efit be say bobo dey yarn truth oh and morever both of them fine make dem marry born fine pikin..dis one wey cici bianca dey para its nothing jare bobo dey famz fine geh i wonder if person lyk me go talk say i don date her b4 na for egypt i go go spend jail time.. I totally and unequivocally support FFK on this. If he knows he was right, he should prove it at the court. An ambassador is not expected to tell lies no matter the circumstance. First to comment..yaaay Ii believe this would end up as an interesting drama for observers. I still dey laugh Linda post my comment oo. Ghenghen, ds is going to be a show down? But is d show of shame really necessary? Abeg Femi n Bianca shld settle ds amicably, instead of washing der dirty linens outside. Dis oga Femi sef enu ti poju, u too talk. This Bianca,i want to believe she's not a shameless woman?she should not let Fani disgrace her publicly cos his mouth is too wide,and btw he seem to be so sure of what he's saying! Well it might just be her lawyers pushing her to disgrace becos they want to make money from the case (some lawyers can be selfish dou)i hope she sees the handwriting on the wall before it's too late! This stupid man should keep quiet joor always lieing and talking This fani kayode is a shameless fool, his immaturity nature will land him into trouble, looking for cheap publicity, looking for whom to drag into the mud with him, he has no intergrity, even if he once had an affair with mrs ojukwu which i doubt must he open his dirty mouth to vomit such? bianca i knew is a woman of intergrity so whatever he fani says can never bring bianca down. i support the libel against him. I jst wonder for this two. When two mature adults behave like kids. I wonder y Bianca is pushing this too far. all ya Mr. femi's team including him are bunch of luns #eyesrolling# how can u'all call dat an apology when he is still insinuatin dat dere s an affair jus that he shuldnt ve made public..Lady Bianca pls go ahead if u er sure you didnt date him in any way, and bring his black ass down once and for all! Bianca free this matter plus Fani na fine boy Lady B u be fine babe make una work this thing out all this money wey una wan pack go court give motherless pikin like me i beg FFK IS A BASTARD Lady Bianca will be ur doom Mr. Femi!! Better. Let them go to court. Ffk is an idiot Ghen Ghen! we are watching and waiting... now buying my popcorn and soda... Yea she finally shoot herself in the leg ! Fani-Kayode obviously has bipolar disorders! It's time for him to see his psychiatrists in the UK! What is his motive in all dis? SHM! Ha! Wahala! I believe Femi some how sha. Why will he lie? Especially about someone of her caliber. As distasteful as what he did sha, I believe him. lobatan!!!!!!! I be your boyfriend, No you are not.... Okay you are not..... shout it loud..... I AM YOUR Boyfriend...... abeg I tire Now this is becoming really bigger than FFK projected. He ought not to have mentioned her in the first instance,it was quiet immature of him but then since there is no remedy to that, Let the lady take the apology because FFK sound more sincere than her otherwise the issue will become bigger and dirtier than it is already. bastard ffk Ojukwu is desperate to go to war...... That is all I could see in the article. 1967 tins.lol. FFK was well-brought up. FFK is a gentleman. FFK does not like to join issues with ladies. FFK does not smoke indian hemp. FFK is not a looter. FFK is ACHILLES...hahahahaha!!! Hmmnn...u stil drag him 2 court afta he has apologised? As much as i am nt in support of wat ffk said,since dey say d past is in d past.seems dere's more than meet d eye on Bianca's side#jst sayin#..u guys shd bring it on den and let's c wu wins This fani is an idiot!!!! Even if I were Bianca I will deny. Why publicly say something even if it happened? After all he wasn't fighting with any of those women for him to say such about them. Abeg make he park well joor. This is a lesson for all those in business with him to take note that what ever they do he will say it out one day. Yeye fowl. Bombowhole!!!! See wot dem chat about inna d eye of da world. So what if you fucked yourself in the past? Haba! Bianca should allow this case to rest.it will get uglier than she expected.I could smell vengeance in the part of Bianca maybe the way the two parted ways in the past does not go well with Bianca and Femi out of careless open the wound which she has long forgotton.please Bianca forgive and move on with your life. Ghen ghen... This is nonsense acrimony from bianca point of view did you igbo usually think the yoruba's are fool to be accommodating in nature it doesn't mean we don't know our stance if you want to wage war on this very issue we the yoruba's are readily prepare for anything you are bringing up foolish igbo's who think they have anything against us I'm a bonafied yoruba man to the core and am proud of that Fuck you linda if don't post this Blessing B LOL....Is good the call this retard bastard call FFK to order cos soon he will be telling us the colour of bianca ojukwus pant and bra even yonder....lols, he is never a gentleman i knw. This ffk guy is rily a shameless name caller. Gentleman ke? A gentleman in d 1st place, wldnt even mention initials of dose he kissed not to talk about those he had intimate relationships with. He's shameless!!!! His daughters n wive should cover der heads in shame. This is going to be one of the best Nollywood movie! Can't wait to grab my copy the moment it begins to turn out. But that being said, I think Mrs Ojukwu should bury the case 'cos I still believe FFK has some evidences to throw to the public I will not want to see a situation where she will be embarrassed before the public. Don't be pushed and avoid any public confrontation between you and FFK 'cos he has bad mouth, he is ruthless and not refined in anyway. Mrs ojukwu I won't want to see your nude pictures being circulated all over the internet...be wise don't let anyone use you. My word. Na here iraq and hong kong come together to form ijebu-ode. WHICH KIN LONG STORY DIS GUY DEY TALK???? ABEG APOLOGIZE AND GET OUT OF MA FACE YOU TWO I'M TIRED OF UNA. OLD CARGOS. PREFER RIRI VS TRAN OVER CB They do look cute as a couple..:D Am tired of d whole issue dis man started dis tin ad his putin on dis gentleman attitude now how else do u wnt her 2 react bein a public figure go on expose ha,say it plsss speack out kiss ad tel basteredy didn't u say it wen her husband ws alive?never sed anytn abt dis issue bt d man is beginning 2 irritate mi when rich people become jobless dis is what happens. go do something with your time and use the court fees to help the flood victims. Fire on the mountain run run run. I believe Fani Kayode is not lying about the nature of there relationship, I also believe Fani is just too loud mouthed. Bros call this lady so u both can settle your beef privately. Living it to the lawyers will only result in more expenses afterall they gat to earn some money. learn to pick your battles and learn to let go. whoever is pushing bianca dont like her at all. if FFK fights dirty, she may loose all measure of respect. i hope for her own sake, se can win this, cause FFK has nothing to loose already. its officially an igbo matter and igbo people i know well dont know when to quit. Stop wasting your precious time on facebook reading other people's write up, you could earn $1000USD while browsing, just follow this link; Please allow fresh air blow open the yansh of the fowl. This is good for our already damned country. na wa o! see how these big people are wasting scarce resources over a meagre issue while Some people are out there who do not know where their next meal will come from. Na wa oooooo....Dis one na world war 2. enuf of all dis cock@bull freeking news Okay naa, let the fight begin. Yawa go soon gas oooo! This people! Hmmmm. This time, lips sealed. This man is so lowly n immature. Why bring this kind of dirt up, after so many years? Mr big-mouth, lowlife "fanny" kayode or whatever you call yourself, there is no point going about saying that you're a gentleman or that you're welk brought up etc. Such things are not said but are shown through behaviour and demeanor. First you claimed she was your lover, then you withdrew that and said you are friends but haven't seen each for over 25 years and now you're threatening to sue her for defamation. Wonders shall never end! This woman Bianca who has been respecting herself and living a quiet life out of public glare and scandal is the person you went to disturb her peace. Now you want to act as the victim. You seem not to understand that you have pulled the lion by its tail. You don't know who is standing behind Bianca. Just start waving goodbye to whatever shreds of dignity & political ambitions you're still holding on to because you just signed your own end. I'm not Bianca's relation and she doesn't know me, but there are just some games that you don't play. It's over for you loud-mouth Kayode. So sad! Judging from the context FFK has tried nawwww even if he had lied initially bawt their intimacy,he has succeded in retrieving nd revisig his erroneous statement. Make bianca go sleep jor if she no get work buh i believed they had history thou Dat one na dia biznxxxxxx First to coment Bianca might have 4gottn his face. How many men will she remember during her period of "1 night stand". Bianca should ignore FFK. I`m tired of reading about theses two hoes. they can go to court for all I care FFK, you see what your basket mouth has caused. Mr. kiss and tell. mtcheeeew you or met you in person b4,and you still dey insists say you know her..no respect for ur wife and children...sign of end time..lol This ffk of a guy na real kolo mental ooooo! grab my popcorn and pepsi waiting to watch this intersting movie i have tagged"i did it" no you didn't" In my own honest opinion,the underlying issue here is a tribal war and not what is on the surface. Bianca shouldn't have allowed some people to use her for whatever issue they may have against FFk. Bianca is treading the path of ignomity. It has been established beyond reasonable doubt that Femi Fani-Kayode is devoid of mental capability to be sane at all times and is morally bankrupt. Reading inbetween the texts anyone with half-brain can deduce that there is a ring of truth on the assertion that an initimate relationship indeed exist between the duo. Common sense is not being applied here. Bianca should just have kept mute neither accepting or denying the acceptability of Fani's apology. With time this things fizzle out. This is Nigeria. Average nigerian forget things that dont impact directly to his/her pocket. Now Fani will have to prove himself, not forgetting he has already called her 'shameless' in this lastest response. What will be Bianca's response if Fani's start releasing her unclad pictures? Even if they are photoshopped how many individuals would you convince otherwise? Bianca just endorsed mediocrity, hollow thinking and free nollywood show. In this case, silence more than golden. Pekele pekele arugbo jegbsese tani o san....best advice,if bianca ojukwu,as a skeleton,she shuld just,sheat,before she embarasses herself and her husband's memory i believe ffk 100 percent.women are smart in covering their track.if you dont catch them red handed they can swear with their greatgrand father who is dead. Biko these two shld go n hug transformer I hav headache mumu ppl In French: fck FFK! Bianca should sue his ass. In other to prove that you're a tribalist (which he so obviously is) he rubs it in by claiming to have had sex with Igbo women and goes ahead to name them, even though one is married. Whether it is true or not the name is a conceited bastard, who thinks cos he has money and a mouth, he can use em anyhow. Maybe wanking off to a person can construe knowing them intimately. i believe ffk 100 percent.women are smart in covering their track.if you dont catch them red handed they can swear with their greatgrand father who is dead. i believe ffk 100 percent.women are smart in covering their track.if you dont catch them red handed they can swear with their greatgrand father who is dead. or met you b4 yet you still dey insits say you know her..no respect for ur wife and children...sign of end time..lol Chief femi kayode or what ever your ηαмє ιƨ, you are an idiot! Stop being a child Ά̲̣̣̣̥и̲̮̣̥̅̊d grow up! It seems your manhood ιƨ тιηу, Ά̲̣̣̣̥и̲̮̣̥̅̊đ you want to use this medium of ĤΛ√iИƓ an affair wit a pretty woman like bianca to win some other pretty chicks. Ode like you. I know your types monkey! Bia linda, post М̣̣̇Ɣ comment ooo if you are not one of his delegate. Cck sucker! I know something about u... You take it in the a*s What is Bianca up to? She should let the sleeping dog lie instead of dancing naked with femi, a man with a loud mouth. Femi has no shame and he can go through any length to prove his point.So bianca, if you love yourself and your family,leave Femi alone and move on with your life. But seriously dude, do you have a job? Say ur unemployed cos many libers could have businesses that need more workers and you can finally get a life! As a concerned human being, I just want to ask, do you have family? A job? A girlfriend? A life? What if lib ends tommorow(God forbid) will you kill youself? This man's attitude stinks, I pity his wife. Am i crazy or is the word "Man" a gross overstatement for this gay. These two people shld get a room and solve dier whala... FFK should have said this when ojukwu was alive,even on sick,FFK for no see the next day. A man that talks before he thinks. Yeah,go to court,its gonna favour we lawyers Yeah,go to court,its gonna favour we lawyers Am a Yoruba to the core but this Fani fucking bulshit is a bastard, Bianca should have kept quiet for like a year and sent some bad boys to shoot his leg or castrate him, agbaya, alainironu, oloshi. Ghen Ghen nnn! The Battle-line has bn drawn; two elephants...oya na aa legooooooooooooooooooooooooo... Ghen Ghen nnn! The Battle-line has bn drawn; two elephants...oya na aa legooooooooooooooooooooooooo... Puleeeesseeee... Bianca shld go and sit down abegi...the man has apologised wat more does she want...haba wetin happen na....wen she wrote initially i tot ffk was goin to get mad and really say stuff dat will hurt her but he didn't,he chose d path of peace...Bianca wld have let it be cos he openly apologised as she requested so wat does she want again...if she is not careful everythn will backfire on her cos wen dey get 2 court fowl yansh go open....be wise bianca pple r using u now to attack him... be wise...i really like FFK's reply to her...he shldnt apologise again if na court she want ,make dem go...
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? Eddie: There were many faith communities all with the one core figure of Jesus. You have the gentile communities, the Jewish communities, adding their own myths. I’ve never heard a convincing explanation how this could happen. It had to spread from somewhere. There had to be a small group of believers at the start. If Jesus never existed, where are the faith communities who worshiped an ethereal spirit and never believed in his actual body. We find them 200 years later. A conspiracy theory? We burnt all their texts? You’ve got to have some explanations for this. … Comment: Woah, Eddie. The epistles of John in the New Testament are very clear evidence for other Christians as early as the first century (not 200 years later!) who believed Jesus did not come “in the flesh”. The author calls them antichrists. Clearly these groups existed prior to the letters of John that warned against them. Many scholars also believe Paul was quoting a hymn in one of his letters, a hymn which said that Jesus came “in appearance or form of flesh”. That was a pre-Paul belief. There is other evidence for a very early belief in a Jesus who was more spirit and heavenly than flesh on earth, or at least the evidence is ambiguous at best. One big problem I have with the conventional explanation that Christianity essentially started as a movement around one man is that I cannot see how it can explain why some very early Christians rejected the idea that Jesus was ever a flesh and blood human. –o– PZ: I can imagine stories spreading rapidly based on their psychological appeal. e.g. Robin Hood. Was he real? Eddie: Robin Hood goes in and out of being historical with every generation. Early 90’s he was real. About 40 – 50 years (?) Socrates stops being a real figure. These things happen in historical community, because somebody finds a new narrative for the same facts. … Comment: I don’t know about Robin Hood but only days/weeks ago I was collecting scholarly publications on the historical Socrates debates. All of them said that there was a historical figure behind all the stories but one side said virtually nothing could be known about that person. All our accounts of Socrates present him as a literary figure and nothing more. I did hear as an undergraduate studying ancient history that some scholars doubted the existence of Socrates but I have not seen those arguments in print. If anyone knows of any do let me know. –o– Eddie: Readers expect historians to believe what they write about. Historian won’t just say in the preface to a book “these are the things that best explain the archival records” while not believing it. King Arthur a generation ago wasn’t real. He’s real again now. We have the amount of evidence we would expect for a royal figure, an outlaw figure, etc. We have exact amount of evidence we’d expect for a troublemaker preacher in Galilee who was crucified and never heard of again until around 70 when people are setting down mythical accounts. — These gospel stories are difficult to unpick but there are accounts that can be made that can argue for a historical figure behind them. The historic Jesus is the best narrative account to explain the origins of the evidence we have. Historian can say philosophically it’s just a construct but “deep down knows/believes it’s true”. PZ: Yes, we wouldn’t expect evidence for a rabble rouser preacher in Galilee. And we have no evidence for that. Eddie: No, we have the gospels. They are difficult to use. Four in one gospels is evidence that lots of stories were circulating. We know they were written for faith communities. We know they were engaged in eucharist and reciting Lord’s prayer. We can tell this from the gospels and tiny amounts of other evidence. So it’s not the case that the stories suddenly spring into existence, they are first written down about this time (70 CE). Therefore gospels really are evidence. I’m not interested in minutiae like did Jesus really feed 5000 people. Jesus’ big mission is so much more interesting. I’m interested in the core thing his disciples picked up on, which was: God is everywhere, this centralized Temple is complicit with Roman occupation, we need to get rid of this temple system and return to more localized worship of Yahweh, which his disciples probably got muddled up with a mission to overthrow Rome, decided he was the messiah, but he dies, they are then traumatized, and some reinterpreted his death to mean something much more important than just kicking Rome or the Temple out. So when Temple was destroyed in 70, then disciples would have been impressed as they remembered Jesus prophesied it would be destroyed. An account like that makes sense of a lot of the evidence (the gospels). You have to be careful how you treat the evidence. PZ: Yes, and also need to be careful about what they are evidence of. We have this window pre 70 where a faith community began. We can assume a slow dissemination of oral stories. Eddie: Bart Ehrman shows spread of Christianity was really rapid. There was something in the cultural psyches of the time that really wanted this message. PZ: Before it was written down we can assume decades of faith communities telling stories. Eddie: And we know some of them. Four gospels tell us of the debates. And we can go back to a single starting point, the historical Jesus. PZ: But that’s an inference. We have the gospels that tell us about different faith communities, but all the stuff below that is reasonable inference that gets progressively murkier the father back you go. Eddie: Yes. That’s just how ancient history works. If you want “The Truth” about Jesus you need Jesus to speak to you personally. I can’t convince you. To convince you I’d need to sit down with you and look at all the sources. We’d be in to minutiae. I can’t do that because not fluent in koine Greek. But it is very uncontroversial in historical circles that Jesus existed. But the mythicist view doesn’t have explanatory power comparable to the historical Jesus explanation. That disciples had to find a meaning in J’s death fits explanation much better. … Comment: Firstly, we have no evidence that communities were “telling stories” about Jesus before the gospels wrote them down. The idea that there were oral traditions preceding the gospels derives from belief that the gospels contain at least a historical kernel that derived from the historical Jesus and his followers. The model is circular. Eddie on the one hand says the gospels are evidence for the historical Jesus. But on the other hand he seems to be saying that it is his reinterpretation of the gospels, his “rationalizing” them to arrive at a story of a political or religious leader that is the evidence for the historical Jesus. His interpretation or model of a historical rebel of sorts makes the best sense of the gospels, and is therefore evidence for the historical Jesus. I disagree. His re-interpretation of the gospel mythical tales is not evidence for the historical Jesus at all. Nor would a mythicist interpreting the gospels as originating as entirely allegorical tales be itself proof or evidence for mythicism. But Eddie has said and will say again that he thinks the story that historians tell to explain the evidence is the evidence for the historical Jesus. There must be a name for that bit of illogic. It’s not coming to me now. –o– PZ: A consensus doesn’t necessarily mean anything. 200 years ago there was a consensus phlogiston existed. The key thing is: show me the chain of evidence and the logic that you use to derive this. … Comment: Yes, and that’s how Earl Doherty, G.A. Wells, Thomas Brodie, ….. right up to R.G. Price most recently ….. that’s how they go about the argument. –o– Eddie: I can’t, not on this particular chat. The best way to do it would be to pick up one of Bart Ehrman’s excellent books. He gives the summary and assures the details are checked by the experts. The specialist books are too complex, comparing verb constructions, etc. I just want the headline summary of the evidence. I have to trust the experts. You have to rely upon the majority opinion of quantum physicists, for example. I have to rely on people who are experts in certain fields. — like that Greek verb construction stuff which is “utterly necessary” in this field. You have to do koine Greek, Coptic, Syriac, Aramaic. We have Bart Ehrman, he’ll do fine as my god. … Comment: I would have liked Eddie to try to explain why one needs to understand ancient Syriac and Coptic in order to understand the historical evidence for the historical Jesus. Is history really that difficult. Is a historian unable to “show PZ the chain of evidence and the logic that you use to derive this” without resorting to a complex discussion of Greek grammar? Is there any other person or event in history that is too complex to prove to the lay person that it really happened? –o– PZ: Compare bioinformatics to infer there was a common ancestor for these two species. But if you talk to the experts they will tell you that’s an inference. Eddie: Nothing historians love doing more than attacking other historians’ theories. No-one abides by the professional code of conduct. Compare Reza Aslan. It doesn’t convince. In history the message is the medium. If I can convince you through my narrative that it meets all of the evidence. Narratives will always change but deep down it means we believe there was a Jesus worth writing about who gave rise to this account. PZ: Historians are writing about Jesus as a construct that gave rise to Christianity, but that does not demonstrate to me that there had to have been one man rather than a dozen obscure Jewish rabbis who were combined into a Jesus figure, say. Eddie: I can’t convince you over this brief chat here. (I am fascinated by history of Christianity because of my dad.) When someone has a new insight that explains something a bit better, etc — lights go on and we believe it is true because it feels true. … Comment: PZ is thinking like a scientist. He understands the difference between fact and inference. Eddie said at the beginning that history is like science, or something to that effect. Other historians I have read also know the difference between inference and fact. Something seems to trigger a derailment when it comes to Jesus. –o– PZ: Does the message of Jesus contradict what was emerging out of that area at that time? That would tell me that there was some unique message. Eddie: Historians find that unconvincing. It has to FIT with the evidence. PZ: But that idea, that Jesus was compatible with what was simmering out of Palestine at that time, that’s also compatible with idea he was a construct of many different preachers. … Comment: Aha! PZ has hit on one of the key “criteria of authenticity” that many historical Jesus scholars have used for some time now, despite some challenges to those criteria more recently. Historical Jesus scholars call his idea the “criterion of dissimilarity”. The scientific approach is indeed to set up a test, to ask what we would expect to find to support or contradict a hypothesis. What is unique coming out of this time and place? That is, what is dissimilar from the prevailing context? That would tell us that there was someone doing something strikingly different. There is in fact a conflict between the criterion of coherence, that X has to “fit the context” and the criterion of dissimilarity, that X must be different from the context, or “sitz im leben”. Scholars write about such problematic contradictions in their tool-kit. Some have abandoned the criteria completely. Normally the criteria have been used to work out what Jesus was like, not whether he existed. Existence is the a priori assumption. –o– Eddie: How many things can I guarantee Jesus said? Only two things: some version of Lord’s prayer, and something close to “take, eat, this is my body”. How do we know? Because these are among the earliest core record at centre of faith. Paul tells us this. Prayer is important because it’s not traditionally Jewish. So we don’t need other teachers to make a composite. The Jesus Project (sic) through much detailed study concluded the various things that Jesus said and didn’t and maybe said. … Comment: Unless I am mistaken, Eddie means to refer to the Jesus Seminar. The Jesus Seminar published volumes explicating their reasons for suggesting what we can be confident Jesus said, maybe said and didn’t say. It determined, contrary to Eddie’s assertions here, that Jesus most unlikely said, on eve of his death or at any other time, “take, eat, this is my body, …. drink, this is my blood”. Those words in the Gospel of Mark were coloured black indicating a definite rejection of the idea that Jesus said them, according to the Seminar Fellows. –o– PZ: I’m looking for the unique features. Like Lord’s Prayer as you said. Eddie: Passover is comparable to the eucharist, but among Christians the eucharist made you part of the community. Jewish passover just made you part of the family. Christians obsessed over the eucharist. The reason we think it MUST have been Jesus was their obsession over it. ALL faith communities have this in common (and only this?) — this bread and wine ritual obsession. Something triggered that. Easiest explanation for that ritual is that one person did it. It’s odd, but not radically different from what was happening in that era. … Comment: Eddie seems to me to be conceding that the eucharist is not unique in its originating context. The Passover did indeed mean that the Jews were part of their own community or family. There were fierce debates in Church history over when and how often the eucharist should be taken, but these were in the later second century (Polycrates of Ephesus versus Rome). As for a ritual being most simply explained by someone “starting it”, Eddie appears to be unaware of the range of theories on myths and rituals, and whether myths are actually created to explain them or give them meaning. As I said in an earlier post, among our very earliest data (the Didache, according to a good number of scholars) the eucharist had no association with the flesh and blood of Jesus at all. And Justin Martyr (mid second century) indicates that he believed Jesus gave the eucharist to the disciples after his resurrection. I wonder if Eddie here is following one scholar, Bart Ehrman, unaware, if so, that such views are not generally accepted by most of the critical scholars (as opposed to apologists). –o– PZ: So it seems reasonable there was a common person behind the diverse communities, but that’s still a stretch, an inference, from the data and subject to revision given further data. Eddie: Further back you go the less evidence, so more work you have to do to extract blood from the stone. Ancient history is about getting blood out of a stone. That’s what makes history so exciting, that we can get so much blood out of a stone by using our brains. … Comment: Eddie is clearly not an ancient historian. No, if he reads the works about how ancient history is done by leading lights in the field such as M. I. Finley (as discussed regularly on Vridar) he would know that ancient historians tailor their questions and limit their enquiries to what the nature of the evidence will allow. If it were possible to “get blood from stones”, and valid to do so, then it follows that the same techniques would be valid in the interpretation of documents for more recent events. I cannot imagine most historians agreeing. –o– PZ: I can concede that it is a reasonable argument that there was a common starting point for all the later sects. But the evidence is weak. As a scientist, as a historian, we all emphasize the importance of data to support our conclusions, but there isn’t any text contemporary with Jesus. Eddie: In ancient terms gospels are contemporary with Jesus. In ancient historical terms we “don’t have hardly anything to compare with that.”with other historical figures of ancient times. PZ: We have to admit that the quality of evidence for Jesus is very poor. Eddie: Would you want to defund research into an area where there is little evidence? Teachers show students how to work hard to get blood out of a stone. … Comment: PZ is spot on. That’s how historians do work, too, even those of ancient times. If the texts they use are much later than the events they address the historian checks first how and why the text came to be written, by whom, and whether the person had access to various types of sources or not; and the historian examines the text itself to look for indications of what sources were used by that ancient writer, and indications whether and to what extent they should be trusted. It always goes back to contemporary witness. Eddie is simply wrong to say that the gospels are “by ancient standards contemporary with Jesus”. They are not, and they identify no sources that we can think were contemporary with Jesus. (Luke’s prologue notwithstanding, as we have seen from various scholarly discussions that I have posted about on this blog.) Further, to imply that the alternative is not to try to do history of ancient times at all is not a worthy rebuttal. –o– PZ: I agree history shouldn’t be recitations of facts. It’s all about learning how to critically evaluate the evidence. Eddie: In 20 years we will have a slightly different Jesus. You as a scientist find that disconcerting. PZ: I don’t find that disconcerting at all. That’s what I expect in biology as well. It’s not: Here’s my conclusion and I think it is true: it is, here’s what I think is the answer and here is the evidence to back it up. That means there is a lot of room for interpretation and change as new evidence emerges. I see huge bias towards Jesus being historical. Let’s concede it (historical Jesus) as “a best explanation” , but to present that as a fact bothers me. Eddie: No facts, we tell stories. PZ: With HJ I can say I lean in this direction but it is an extremely tentative position to take. Eddie: A story that moves and convinces you — you come to believe it. You know intellectually it’s an explanation but deep down you believe it. … Comment: PZ is following the approach of the historians I regularly read. Eddie’s approach may be acceptable among certain postmodernists but there are many historians today who reject what they might call an extreme position. (e.g. Evans, In Defence of History) –o– PZ: But this is conflating the story with the historical evidence. Eddie: No, the story is the explanation for the evidence. It is the narrative that best accounts for the evidence — and if I write it well enough that should persuade you PZ: History is also the body of evidence, not just the story. You can’t conflate the story with the evidence. Eddie: I would say the Kevin Costner movie is evidence about the Robin Hood. It becomes evidence about Robin Hood because it draws on streams of folklore. … Comment: As per comment(s) above. Actually, I am not sure that even many postmodernist historians would deny the difference between the story as “evidence” and the data as the evidence on which the story is based. I wonder if we are getting into philosophical questions of “what is history” again. –o– PZ: The Robin Hood story appeals to humans — Jesus story also appeals, sacrifices self to save world. Eddie: Really? Jesus is concerned about the Temple and its collusion with Rome. You say the myth is compelling. PZ: Feel we are talking past each other now. The myth is evidence for what we wish was true. … Comment: No comment. –o– Eddie: The same evidence can be looked at in light of new concerns. E.g. feminism. PZ: There is a deep cultural predisposition to believe Jesus is historical. Eddie: You write a paper to prove that assertion (that historians are influenced by such bias) and I’ll get the historians to revise their view of Jesus. PZ: I don’t think it is surprising that there would be bias. Eddie: I’d like to get message to atheists that gospels are good evidence. Manuscript differences are very minor. I will leave thinking I am right. … Comment: That the manuscripts essentially support the canonical text we have today is not evidence that our gospels or Paul’s letters are today in their original draft forms. Critical scholars address evidence for our texts, and even Paul’s letters, being heavily redacted, modified, expanded, over time before reaching their canonical forms. Hence we have ur-Mark, ur-Luke, and arguments for a “pastoral stratum” of passages running through Paul’s letters, etc. My biggest frustration with the discussion is the professional historian’s failure to acknowledge the potential for cultural bias among his peers. This failure strikes me as naive in the extreme given the history of history and historians in all ages. One does not have to be a believer to have such a bias. The historical Jesus is in the warp and woof of our cultural heritage. Jesus is as much an icon for secular ideals and causes as for religious ones. But even apart from that, when a belief or assumption has been entrenched among scholars for millennia, or even just a few generations, I suspect it’s not easy for everyone to admit that assumption has been founded on sand all that time. See also posts and comments on PZ’s blog: 20 Comments These discussion are difficult because everyone is so off base, they aren’t even discussing the right things. BTW, I just sent PZ a copy of my book, no idea if he’ll read it or not. Sadly, this is how most discussions of Jesus’s existence go. It’s mostly ill-informed people just talking about popular notions they’ve gleaned from going to church or watching programs about Jesus on TV. Have either one of these people actually sat down and read any full works from the New Testament even? I honestly don’t like talking about this topic with people at all, it’s very frustrating, because any time this discussion comes up virtually 95% of what people say is just wrong and trying to get to a point of educated discussion is virtually impossible. And many people don’t even understand framework within which to have a discussion. From my perspective, this isn’t a topic you can “debate” or talk about logically, even like you may may talk about evolution. The entire case depends on solid evidence, and that evidence isn’t something you can just “discuss” if the other person hasn’t seen it. I also get very frustrated when people approach topics like this (not even just this one specifically) based on the idea that they can be solved based on “general principles” or “common patterns”. I blame this in part on people like Joseph Campbell who tried to popularize concepts like common themes and patterns in myths. I mean there may be some themes and patterns, but really everything has to be handled on a case by case basis. Some myths develop in very different ways than others, you can’t just generalize. I think in the case of Jesus it was kind of a perfect storm where there were multiple copies of a single story that were different enough that they appeared to be independent accounts, yet they were similar enough that they appeared to corroborate each other. This gave people confidence that the account was true. The story came out after a war and long enough after the setting of the story that it was understandable that they weren’t able to verify it otherwise. The story affirmed the treatment of the Jews by the Romans, as the clearly got the message that their sacking of Jerusalem was blessed divine punishment, so they were in the right. The “tricks” of the text, the literary allusions, made it appear (in a culture in which textual prophecy was regarded as a true art) that the events of the account were (perhaps even unknown to the writers of the accounts) fulfilling prophecies, which to this audience gave them even more credibility. But this is a very specific understanding of what happened, a forensic reconstruction of the exact circumstances of how this particular story came to be believed as true. This doesn’t apply to other myths. This isn’t the path that every myth takes; it’s the specific that that this particular myth took, and the reality is that very few people have an understanding of these details. I think the reality is that, as of today, 99.9% of people are still stuck on the “oral traditions” view, even most mythicists. Almost everyone starts from the assumption that the narrative of the Gospels was relayed via oral tradition. The disagreement is on the degree to which those oral traditions reflect truth. But there was no oral tradition, or at the very least, the Gospels are not based on any oral traditions about a human Jesus. Having this conversation with people who still think that the narrative comes form oral tradition is a challenge to say the least. The only way to get past it is to expose them directly to the evidence, which of course is why I wrote my book. Some myths develop in very different ways than others, you can’t just generalize. Look at the myth’s of John Frum, Ned Ludd, Mormonism, and Sathya Sai Baba, as examples. John Frum is believed to be an amalgamation of characters based on American GI’s. Ned Ludd seems to be wholly made up by the Luddite movement. Josephs Smith Existed, but I don’t think most historians think the Angel moroni existed, and I don’t think most folks are trying to deify Smith. Sathya Sai Baba is said to have been a reincarnation of a previous deity, and it is said he’ll reincarnate again. He is worshiped by millions. There is incense to Sathya Sai Baba at a local convenience store here in my little town in the midwest. So, yeah, the way that myth’s develop would seem to be diverse. And then there’s Xenu and the whole Scientology mess as well as the Raelians, Urantia and other modern myths that are accepted as religions. Thanks for taking the time to transcribe this and comment! Just to be clear, it’s not really a transcription. More a series of paraphrases. Still, it took a lot of work. I take a little bit of issue with this: “Eddie is simply wrong to say that the gospels are “by ancient standards contemporary with Jesus”. They are not” Only in that its irrelevant. If the story is fictitious then the timing is irrelevant. What if the Gospel of Mark said that Jesus were killed by Marcus Antonius Julianus (governor of 70 CE)? Would that all the sudden make the story more credible? I mean, in this case it would just be a matter of swapping out Pilate for Julianus. But the setting of the story is determined solely by the writer of the story in question to begin with, so the whole discussion about how long after the events the narrative was recorded is totally moot IMO. IMO, it doesn’t matter if the events being described were said to have taken place in 70 CE or 70 BCE or any time in between. The timing has nothing to do with it. You can’t conclude that Jesus didn’t exist because the account was written some years after the events described in the account. And even if the events described in the account were more recent, i.e. the story were set in 70 CE as opposed to 30s CE, that wouldn’t make the account more credible. All that is true. I suppose my focus is on historical method per se. From that perspective I am very conscious of Eddie Marcus being very much at odds with an ancient historian with a reputation such as held by Moses I. Finley. Neil, I listened to this interview the other day while I was out running errands. I think the people at the hardware store assumed I have Tourette Syndrome. Each time Eddie said something wrong or illogical, I would blurt out: “Bullsh*t!” Maybe I’ve finally reached my fill of this nonsense. I suppose I could write a post on everything he said that was out and out wrong, but what would be the point? Debunking doesn’t work. Instead, I’ll just mention three things that were driving me up the wall — and they’re related to one another. 1.) History is not about inventing the best-sounding narrative that “fits all the evidence.” It’s about evaluating evidence and making judgments. At Vridar, we may be sick to death of criteriology, but ultimately that’s because NT scholars have been using literary criteria to make the leap to historical truth. If our job is to evaluate the evidence then, yes, we need some sort of historical criteria to guide us. While we’re still on the subject of “best-sounding narrative” or a “convincing narrative,” I’m tired of scholars saying this or that idea or narrative convinced them without explaining why. Simply saying “I’m a professional historian, and by cracky this sure did convince me” is not an argument. Tell us why it convinced you! 2.) PZ seemed very close to asking the right question. That’s the one I was yelling once I had left the hardware store and entered the grocery store. “What’s your methodology?!” And stop hiding behind ancient languages, insisting we couldn’t possibly understand the underlying arguments. PZ knows that when you construct an experiment to test your theory, you need to be express your intentions briefly, in clearly written English. Saying something “sounds right” is not a methodology. Your methods need to be rooted in logic that anyone can apply and understand. If we can have popular television programs that describe string theory, quantum mechanics, and relativity, all without getting bogged down in esoteric mathematics, surely a good historian can do better than wave his hands and say we have to trust the experts who know — gasp! — ancient languages. 3.) What we’re missing is corroborating evidence. Despite Eddie’s weird little joke about telling archaeologists to go away and stop bothering us, historians love it when the archaeological record tests the written record. If it corroborates our analysis of the written record — jackpot! If not, back to the drawing board. This pervasive and intractable problem in NT studies is precisely why we have the invention of sources. Scholars desperately need to believe there are multiple independent sources within the canonical New Testament. Notice that Eddie says he doubts the existence of Q, but you can bet your last dollar he thinks the gospel of John is independent. (Of course, it’s the opposite for most American scholars, who will freely admit that John knew Mark, but swear Q “must have” existed.) So, in brief: 1. Evidence needs to be evaluated. 2. Your methodology needs to be open and transparent. 3. Corroborating evidence is required. NT scholarship fails to understand, let alone address, these points, which is why I remain a Jesus agnostic. I was concerned that PZ Myers was giving Marcus a platform for his notion that Biblical scholars’ theories are themselves evidence indicating that there was, in fact, a real person behind the stories. I was relieved as I listened to the discussion play out to find that Myers maintained his balance throughout and did not appear to be brow beaten into agreeing that ‘academic consensus is evidence’. I was to some extent impressed by PZ Myers questioning and persistence. He took a scientist’s questions to the topic and Eddie, though beginning by declaring a commonality between historical and scientific methods, almost immediately departed for the wide, vacuous road to extreme postmodernism — or to a smug c-grade graduate’s flippant know-it-all-ism. It seems that Eddie has a problem here, in that he also has to accept an historical Mithra. Historical Dionysus? How about an historical Isis and Osiris? The ancient Hebrews were in an area that was flooded with anthropomorphized gods. Why wouldn’t they make up one of their own? Just once I’d like to see someone lay out the method by which they came to accept that the Gospels and Epistles weren’t simply fiction. Without this, it’s no different than analyzing “The Sackets” as history, and you would expect the same results. One more nit to pick. Eddies says that Ehrman says that Christianity spread at a very rapid rate. In “Not the impossible faith” Carrier goes through the spread of Christianity, with copious footnotes, and it seems as if Christianity spread at about the rate of modern day Mormonism. It’s also interesting that Christianity spread fastest outside of Palestine, not within it. So, Christianity having some “truth” claim, was immaterial, as most of those folks couldn’t check it anyway. Which would be just like today. @Pofarmer What I show in my book is that the reason Christianity was adopted by the Roman elite and became endorsed by Roman society is because it was believed that the parallels between the Gospel narratives and the Jewish scriptures proved that Jesus was divine. They thought that the proved the most concrete evidence for actual prophecy fulfillment ever seen before, and this was at a time in that culture when prophecy was regarded as a science. “this was at a time in that culture when prophecy was regarded as a science.” As the only person qualified by the gods to interpret the intestines of sacrificed goats, I can tell you that its amazing how consistantly correct their prophesies are. Who are you, unqualified unbeliever to tell me that I’m wrong? Its SCIENCE. By definition wouldn’t the elite know the gospel narratives were created out of the Jewish scriptures and not really fulfillment of prophecy? It was just a bunch of guys reinterpreting scripture and being creative writers. What do you mean by “the Roman elite” and when? The educated upper classes of the Principate seemed to have viewed Judaism as ignorant barbarian bollocks. Constantine favoured Christianity for reasons of pragmatic politics; by the time of it’s actual adoption as the state religion it was a plurality, if not a majority, of the religious opinion of the day. Any belief in its truth claims are probably secondary here. My thesis is that Christianity was adopted for two main reasons, what you cite, but also the idea that the religion was “proven to be true” via the “fulfilled prophecies”. Prophecy was taken very seriously at this time in Rome, and emperors and most wealthy Romans spend considerable resources on prophets and oracles. I think there was a bottom up adoption of the religion, largely among the military, as well as a top down adoption, based on the “prophetic evidence”. There is actually a lot of evidence that Constantine in particular believed heavily in prophecy. He did a lot of his own research into prophecies and translated old works, etc. The particular type of prophecy that Constantine was into was actually the reading of old writings and looking for passages in those writing that corresponded to current events, with the belief that this was evidence that the writing was prophetic and that it was possible to then glean other information about the future from those writings. This is exactly how the Gospels and Jewish scriptures were interpreted. So my thesis is that this is what drove adoption of the religion by Roman elites, while the message in favor of the poor and oppressed, etc drove adoption among the masses. And the Gospel stories, also drove adoption among the masses. I think there was a significant view among people that the Gospels were literally true in ways that didn’t apply to other mythology and I think a lot of this was reinforced by the Jewish-Roman War, because everyone saw the war as giving credence to the Gospel narrative. I loved the Sackett books! Too bad there was no such time and place as the Old West. Pingback: Religion Explained – Why Rituals. (How best to account for the origin of the Lord’s Supper?) \| Pingback: A Bedrock Assumption in Historical Jesus Studies \|
Being a stay at home mom comes with many challenges, like how to explain that even though you don’t have a job anymore you still cannot find a way to clean the bathtub. Another major challenge is how to maintain a social life on your diminished finances. I cannot help you with an answer to the first challenge, as I myself just continue to bathe in a filthy tub. But I can help you overcome the second and more pressing hurdle. I recognized immediately that I would need to find a way to still go out with my friends regularly, lest I run the risk of becoming overly mom-ish. In this most perilous scenario you find yourself just a little too often at Michaels or JoAnn’s Fabrics, or even worse Bed, Bath and Beyond with so many 20% off coupons that your purse implodes. No, this could not be my fate. I needed to be able to go out to places that don’t sell yarn. The problem is that going out requires money, and I now have less of it than I had when I worked someplace that isn’t my house. Before settling on my own strategy I did some research, and found that The Humbled Homemaker recommends skipping both Girls Nights Out AND Direct Sales Parties if you are on a tighter budget due to staying home with your kids. This may be sage advice, but The Humbled Homemaker also offers up ideas on “How to Make Your Own Celery Powder” and “7 Ideas for a Resurrection-Focused Easter Basket,” so I suspect that she and I may differ in style. Also I have no idea what “Direct Sales Parties” are, so I shouldn’t have trouble cutting those out of my life. So anyway, here’s the basic game plan, Liz style: Your task is to accompany your friends to dinner, but not actually order dinner. You are still going to need to eat, which is an entirely separate matter, and this is where I can help. Also if you are me you are going to need a drink or two, and this is where you will need to allocate your precious funds. Very critical to the success of this plan is that you have zero pride. This was not an issue for me, but it may be for you. I want to pause here to highlight a story from my past, for the sake of historical context relevant to this plan: When I was young, maybe 25 or so, and single, I was out on a date one night at a BBQ restaurant in Somerville called Redbones. My date and I were talking about getting some fries, and I was headed up to the bar and said I would grab some. As I was waiting for my beer I began chatting with two random guys, who were themselves eating a plate of the fries. I asked how they were. The guys said they sucked. I said let me try one. They said sure. I thought they were totally acceptable fries, not amazing but nothing to reject either. These guys had eaten maybe a third of the fries, over which they had doused ketchup. They kindly offered for me to take their shitty fries, since they hated them, and instead of declining on account of that being gross and weird, I was all, “Jackpot!” and I took the partially eaten fries back to my date, who seemed slightly repulsed. That was our only date, but I sure enjoyed those fries. Now, with that in mind, back to the main lesson of how to get mama a feed! The key is ordering a LOT of bread whenever you go to a restaurant, so that you can “get dinner” with your friends without actually ordering food from the menu. Actually, the key is having one of your friends, who is presumably a paying customer, order a lot of bread for you. You look like a real beggar asking for additional bread baskets and, in the next breath, telling the waiter that you’re “all set” when it comes to ordering a meal. Of course you are a beggar, but that’s not the point. Your friend is not a beggar and therefore the more socially acceptable person to be asking for the rolls. This strategy is highly effective, but it’s only part of the story. There is more to it than just bread; if it were this easy, all the moms would be doing it. It is also essential that you eat all the butter on the table. You must eat a shit ton of butter, because the bread alone is just unsatisfying. If you can find the restaurants that give you the fancy butters, tasting of sweet almonds or the like, you have hit pay dirt. Do not be shy to eat 6 or more packets of butter at a go. In the above photo, taken at the Cheesecake Factory the other night, I ate so much butter my hands were slippery. Also, it is really smart to order beers with fruit on the glass, and encourage your friends to do the same. If they don’t mind passing on their fruit to you, it’s like you ordered a fruit salad as an appetizer! In fact, you can see my orange rind mixed right into the butter graveyard in the photo. Delicious and healthy! It’s also very important to look around – know your environs, lest there be some scraps about to be discarded that you can grab. Quick hands are key, here. You need eyes in the back of your head and hands ready to make a rapid lunge at a stray dollop of mashed potato. These are skills moms pride themselves on anyway, they just haven’t been employing them in this most useful setting. It sounds kind of like I’m kidding, I think, but I’m not. This works great! You might be thinking, yeah, I guess it works, but it makes you look like a loser. And you would be right! But at least I’m not a hungry loser! At least the highlight of my day isn’t buying stencils for an overzealous Pinterest project! You should be aware that your friends may feel bad for you and offer to split their meals. I say “no thanks” to this at the onset, because I hate when I have to split my own meals with others and do not want to inflict that burden on someone else. That being said, I loosen my standards when my dining companion states at least three times (not twice!) that they are not going to finish their meal and that it will be tossed. Then I will “help out” and have a small bit. Now, one key detail here is that if it’s a good friend of yours you may be ok taking a few bites here and there throughout the course of the actual meal. If it’s an acquaintance I like to wait until the waiter has actually come to bus the dish at the end (that way I know that they really were not planning to take home the leftovers). At this point, if I see a perfectly good slice of pizza on its way out, I will grab for it. This does not work as well with soup, but is perfectly effective with half sandwiches, potato skins, and buffalo wings, etc. Spaghetti is questionable. Here is an example of my friend’s leftover Thai Chicken wraps. I was able to salvage this last bit for a satisfying and economical mouthful. We are almost done, but mama still hasn’t had dessert! Tell them it’s your birthday, especially if you’re at the kind of fake-fancy chain that celebrates birthdays via a singing wait staff. This works even better if you hear elated birthday singing more than twice while you have been eating; it indicates a certain lax standard of vigilance that will benefit you when you make your play for sweets. I learned this tip from my friend Pammy, who was kind enough to let our Cheesecake Factory waiter know, when I was in the bathroom, that I had fallen on hard times and that no, it was not technically my birthday, but that I could really use a pick me up. I think you will be pleased, as I was, at what resulted: It’s kind of hard to tell from the photo, but what is really awesome here is that they didn’t give me the legit cake slice that they give to people on their actual birthdays. Instead they gave me some pity-scoop of either ice cream or whipped cream (I couldn’t tell and didn’t care!) and threw some imitation sprinkle shit on top and bam! Dessert! We have come to the end of the meal. If you have performed correctly, you will have enjoyed a nice evening out with your friends for the cost of a few drinks. You should be gracious when the check comes and throw in a few extra dollars for tip, on account of your pathetic display over the course of the last few hours. You will know you have succeeded if you are pleasantly full (you do not need to undo the top button of your jeans, as I often do at Indian buffets, to show success here. You will have to settle for comfortably full rather than overly stuffed. Be reasonable.) I hope these tips help to enhance your social life, as they have mine. Now, off to JoAnn’s, I have a little knitting I’ve fallen behind on. {Note: the plan will not work if the entire group is comprised of broke stay at home moms (Or dads! Where is my sense of gender equality!) You need to mix and match here. Be smart, people.} Take it from me, your overly-domestic-yet-not-a-mother-yet friend: the only way to clean your bathtub is with a magic eraser. I’m going to keep this comment short since I have a pinterest project with mason jars that I must attend to, but one quick thing- if you aren’t going to use your 20% off BB&B coupons, I’ll take them off your hands for you (but only if you offer them to me three times) Magic eraser? I don’t even know what that is! I have so much to learn, I should have started this learning as a stay-at-home person, rather than a stay-at-home mom. Awesome tips. I would like to add that Tyra Banks (yes, I have watched the Tyra Banks show) asserts that you can ‘make” fried chicken with just free bread, butter, and copious amounts of salt and pepper. Very helpful for those of us who find KFC too rich for our SAHM blood. And I have to say, your blog is the highlight of Renny’s naptime 🙂 Ha! Tyra is a one-woman hotbed of culinary information. It’s good to see our budget conversations are paying off! Butter is only one condiment you leave in your food wake…also included in there is salsa, parmesan cheese, dips and sour cream…my god can you take down some sour cream… Brian is referring to the time that we were out with some friends at a Mexican restaurant, and he glanced sideways only to find me taking down a spoonful of straight sour cream. He seemed to feel that the sour cream was more meant to be spread over the nachos than just shoved direct into my pie hole. When my friends and I go out, I always suggest Soma, because they give you bread and HUMMUS…for free! I ask for a minimum of two baskets. This is a good tip! I was unaware of this but will immediately head to Soma. Even thought it’s 6:45 a.m. Howdy I am so delighted I found your web site, I really found you by mistake, while I was looking.
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] American Folk Art Museum45 West 53rd St., between 5th and 6th Avenues, 212-265-1040 Families can enjoy live music performances in the atrium, or take part in the complimentary lectures and regularly scheduled programs. Adults visit for free on Fridays after 5:30 p.m., though admission is always free for children under the age of 12. [Manhattan] Arsenal Gallery64th St. at 5th Ave., inside Central Park, 212-360-8163 Take a break from the park and catch a glimpse of this continuously changing collection of art and cultural installations. The gallery is free to the public and it's open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. [Manhattan] Benjamin Soto Skate ParkMidland Beach Playground, off of Father Capodanno Boulevard Give your kids their daily dose of extreme sports. Children under 18 need a guardian's signature on an onsite waiver, which you should download and fill out ahead of time. Helmets, knee pads, and elbow pads are also required for those utilizing the facility. [Staten Island] Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 GRAND CONCOURSE at 165TH STREET (718-681-6000) The art of the Bronx gets is on display at this gem of a museum. Open Thursday to Sunday, from 11-6. [Bronx]] Bruckner Skate ParkBrinsmade Avenue and the Cross Bronx Expressway Give your kids their daily dose of extreme sports at one of these Bronx locations. Children under 18 need a guardian's signature on an onsite waiver, which you should download and fill out ahead of time. Helmets, knee pads, and elbow pads are also required for those utilizing the facility. [Bronx] BRIC Rotunda Gallery 33 Clinton Street (718-683-5604) Get a load of visual art, media and performances at this home to the arts in Brooklyn. Open Tuesday-Saturday 12PM - 6PM [Brooklyn] (2 to 4; 5 to 8; 9+)]Charles A. Dana Discovery CenterCentral Park, at 110th St. and Lenox Ave., 212-860-1370 You and your little one can be "gone fishing" at the pond in the newly stocked Harlem Meer at the north end of Central Park. Fishing poles are provided for free from April through October. The only catch: If something bites, you've got to throw it back. ] El Museo del Barrio1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th St., 212-831-7272 Hailed as New York's leading Latino cultural institution, this is the only museum in the city that specializes in representing the diversity of art and culture in all of Latin America and the Caribbean. There's no admission fee for children under 12, and the suggested donation for adults is $6. [Manhattan] Forest Park Skate ParkWoodhaven Boulevard, just past Myrtle Avenue Rockaway Skate ParkShore Front Parkway at 91st Street Give your kids get their daily dose of extreme sports at one of these Queens locations. Children under 18 need a guardian's signature on an onsite waiver, which you should download and fill out ahead of time. Helmets, knee pads, and elbow pads are also required for those utilizing the facility. [Queens] Flushing Town Hall: Gallery 137-35 Northern Boulevard at the corner of Linden Place; (718- 463-7700 x 222) Enjoy jazz, dance, and a diversity of performances and visual arts that reflect communities of Queens. Entry fee is a suggested donation. [Queens] Gracie Mansion180 East End Ave., at 88th St., dial 311 for reservations Take a tour of the home of the Mayor, which is open to the public on Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 2 p.m. Kids are free; adults are $7. After your guided tour, take a family walk, have a picnic, or explore the parks surrounding the historic mansion. [Manhattan] Guggenheim Museum1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, 212-423-3500 You can view this eclectic collection of internationally acclaimed art for a pay-what-you-wish donation each Friday, from 5:45 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. [Manhattan]] Hispanic Society of AmericaAudubon Terrace, Broadway, between 155th St. and 156th St., 212-926-2234 Learn all about the arts and cultures of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America at this free museum and reference library. [Manhattan] Historic House Trust of New York City Explore one of the Trust's 22 historic sites across the five boroughs and you'll be taking a virtual walk through time. Step foot inside everything from a modest farmer's cottage to a luxurious, grand mansion, all while getting a taste for what life was like in the city a hundred or so years ago. Among the Trust's highlights in Manhattan are the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater, the home of a traveling puppet theater, and the Little Red Lighthouse, the only remaining lighthouse on the island. Brooklyn highlights include the Old Stone House, where the lawns once served as the summer home for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the Pieter Claesen Wycoff House, which was built circa 1652, making it the oldest structure in all of New York. Queens boasts the Lewis H. Latimer House, the home of the African-American inventor and electrical pioneer, and the Kingsland Homestead, a two-and-a-half story 18th Century farmhouse. Must-see sites in the Bronx include the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, where the famous author spent the last years of his life, and the Van Cortlandt House Museum, a plantation home where George Washington is known to have stayed at least twice around the time of the Revolutionary War. And in Staten Island, don't miss the Conference House, famous for the September 11, 1776 peace conference held there in an effort to bring an end to the Revolutionary War, and the Alice Austen House Museum, home to one of America's first female photographers, known for her turn-of-the-century photos of immigrants fresh off the boats at Ellis Island. Most sites are free to tour; some ask for a suggested donation. Historic Richmond Town441 Clarke Avenue, 718-351-1611 See what life was like on the island during colonial times at this living history village and museum complex. Among the exhibits are a centuries-old schoolhouse and a look at toys and how they've changed from the 1840s through today. Admission is $5 per adult, and $3.50 for kids 5-17 years old. [Staten Island]] International Center of Photography [] 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street (212-857-0000) This world class photography museum is host to great exhibitions that will entertain any fan of the still image. Voluntary contribution every Friday, 5-8PM. Open Tuesday–Wednesday & Saturday–Sunday: 10:00 am–6:00 pm, Thursday–Friday: 10:00 am–8:00 pm; closed on Mondays [Manhattan] Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning 161-04 Jamaica Ave (718-658-7400) The Center has visual, performing and literary arts galore, along with a gallery that is free at all times. [Queens] (2 to 4; 5 to 8; 9+) Jewish Museum1109 Fifth Ave., at 92nd St., 212-423-3200 As you're immersing yourself in 4,000 years of Jewish art and culture, make sure you leave time to watch the Sesame Street and Rugrats videos in the museum's broadcasting archives. Admission to the exhibits is free for everyone on Saturdays, although there's never a charge for kids under 12. [Manhattan] Juilliard SchoolBroadway and West 65th St., 212-799-5000 Want to enjoy some live jazz or maybe even hear a full symphony performance for no cost at all? Then try to catch one of the many free performances given by the students of this famed training ground for the next generation of dancers, singers, and musicians. [Manhattan]Kentler International Drawing Space 353 Van Brunt Street (718-875-2098) Drawings, paintings and more works on paper are on display at this visual arts space which is tailored for adults. [Brooklyn] Lincoln Center David Rubenstein Atrium West 62nd and 65th Streets and Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. Every Thursday at 8:30 pm, Target and Lincoln Center feature national and international touring artists as well as local artists from around the New York metropolitan area. The series features artists from Lincoln Center’s resident organizations including The Juilliard School, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and The Chamber Music Society. Free performances every Thursday at 8:30PM [Manhattan] Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College Hostos Community College; 450 Grand Concourse (718-518-6728) Longwood is a contemporary art center of the Bronx Council on the Arts with the mission to support artists and their work, especially emerging artists and those from under-represented groups such as people of color and women. Open Monday to Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm [Bronx] Millennium Skate ParkColonial Road, between 68th Street and Wakeman Place, in Owl's Head Park Give your kids their daily dose of extreme sports. Children under 18 need a guardian's signature on an onsite waiver, which you should download and fill out ahead of time. Helmets, knee pads, and elbow pads are also required for those utilizing the facility. [Brooklyn] Museum of Arts and Design 2 Columbus Circle (212-299-7777) Art, design, and funky chairs; how could you go wrong? This museum in the funny building on Columbus Circle is worth a visit. Open Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm; Thursday and Friday from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm; closed Mondays and major holidays. Pay what you wish Thursdays 6-9PM. [Manhattan] Museum of Biblical Art 1865 Broadway at 61st Street (212-408-1500) This museum celebrates and honors art related to the Bible and its cultural legacy in Jewish and Christian traditions. Open 10-6 except Thursdays (open until 8pm); closed on Mondays (Manhattan) Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street (212-619-47850) Exhibitions and collections at this museum celebrate the vibrant heritage of China’s descendents in America. Free every Thursday. Open 11AM – 9PM. Museum of the City of New York1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street (212-534-1672)This museum is a real treasure. The long halls and curving staircase are grand, but it’s the city’s history that really sparkles in the many exciting exhibitions on display. You and your kids will have fun while you get to see the city in a whole new light. Open every day 10am–6:00 pm. Entry fee is a suggested donation. [Manhattan] Museum of Jewish Heritage Edmond J. Safra Plaza 36 Battery Place A trip to this memorial to the holocaust might not be all fun and games, but it is a stirring experience where the Jewish heritage is honored. Sunday-Tuesday, Thursday 10 A.M. - 5:45 P.M. Wednesday 10 A.M. - 8 P.M. Friday 10 A.M. - 5 P.M. Friday & eve of Jewish holidays 10 A.M. - 3 P.M. Closed for Jewish holidays Free every Wednesday 4-8PM. [Manhattan] The Museum of Modern Art11 West 53rd St., between 5th and 6th Avenues, 212-708-9400 MOMA houses the foremost collection of modern art in the world, and admission is free on Fridays from 4 to 8 p.m. Its collections include a wide range of paintings, sculptures, films, photos, and illustrated books, all of which are sure to get young minds thinking. [Manhattan] National Museum of the American IndianOne Bowling Green, 212-514-3700 Learn all about Native American history and culture at the home of the world's most extensive collection on the topic. In addition to some spectacular art, there are regular storybook readings for the kids, plus exciting native dance performances. Admission is always free to all. [Manhattan] New Museum 235 Bowery (212-219-1222) The new art and new ideas featured in this downtown museum mean that the art can get pretty out there, so make sure to look ahead before bringing the young ones to this vibrant and exciting museum. Open Wed / Fri / Sat / Sun 11 AM - 6 PM; Thurs 11 AM - 9 PM. Free Thursday Evenings, 7-9PM. [Manhattan] 29 City Downtown BoathousePier 40, at Houston St. and the Hudson River, 646-613-0375 Pier 96, at Clinton Cove at 56th St. and the Hudson River, 646-613-0375 Walkway at 72nd St. and Riverside Park, 646-613-0375 As long as you and your kid both know how to swim, sign up for a free 20-minute kayak rental at one of these locations and head out for some fun on the water. The walk-up program is available on weekends and holidays from mid May to mid October, and also on many weekday evenings. [Manhattan] New York City Fire Museum278 Spring St., between Varick and Hudson, 212-691-1303, ext. 11 The museum is housed in a renovated 1904 firehouse and boasts one of the nation's finest collections of fire-related art and artifacts, dating from the 18th Century to the present. Be sure to check out the pre Civil War hand-pumped fire engines and the permanent September 11th memorial and exhibit. Suggested donations for admission are $5 for adults, and $1 for children under 12. [Manhattan]] New York Hall of Science 47 Transit MuseumCorner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street, 718-694-1600 Catch a train to this historic 1936 IND subway station and museum in Brooklyn Heights, which features many interactive exhibits. It's a fascinating look at one of the world's most intricate underground public transportation systems. [Brooklyn] Noguchi Museum [] 9-01 33rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard) (718-204-7088) This museum dedicated to preserving the work of the great architect, designer and artist, Isamu Noguchi, will satisfy the interests of any budding, young visual artist. With gardens, sculptures and sketches galore, it’s worth the trip. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 10:00am-5:00pm; Saturday & Sunday: 11:00am-6:00pm. Pay what you wish the first Friday of every month. [Brooklyn]] NBA Store666 Fifth Avenue, at 52nd Street, 212-515-6221 Live out some hoop dreams at midtown's mecca of the hardwood. You can play a variety of interactive video games in the high-energy facility, as well as shoot some baskets on the authentic half-court shooting area. And you never know which NBA or WNBA star might be dropping in for a visit while you're there! [Manhattan] P.S.1: Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave. (718-784-2084) PS 1 is an arts exhibition space that pushes the envelope in young, vibrant creativity. That means it might not always be appropriate for children, but if you check to see what’s currently on display, you could be in store for a dazzling display. Open 12pm–6 PM, Thursday through Monday, closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. [Queens] Museum of Art New York City Building Flushing Meadows Corona Park (718-592-9700) There are always plenty of good exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art, but the biggest draw is the grand Panorama of New York City, an exact replica model of the city including every building built before 1992. Open Wednesday – Sunday: 12 – 6pm ]Riverside Skate Park108th Street and Riverside Drive, lower level Give your kids their daily dose of extreme sports. Children under 18 need a guardian's signature on an onsite waiver, which you should download and fill out ahead of time. Helmets, knee pads, and elbow pads are also required for those utilizing the facility. [Manhattan] Roosevelt Island Tram59th St. at 2nd Ave., 212-832-4543, ext. 1 Show your kid a part of movie history and take the scenic trip to Roosevelt Island via the tram, which plays a key role in the climactic ending of Spider-Man. All the trip costs is a swipe of your MTA Metrocard. Enjoy the aerial views of the city and the feeling of flying through midtown's skyscrapers. Once there, pop into the visitor center and then cruise around the island to see its interesting old buildings, former prisons, and hospitals. [Manhattan [] 1000] Socrates Sculpture Park32-01 Vernon Boulevard, at Broadway, 718-956-1819 This free artist studio and museum is located on the East River in Long Island City and features impressive sculpture and multimedia installations, all displayed in a unique outdoor setting. The site also hosts many community events and an outdoor summer film series, presented with the Manhattan skyline as its dramatic backdrop. The Park is open 365 days a year and is free to all from 10 a.m. to sunset. [Queens] Sony Wonder Technology Lab56th St., between 5th Ave. and Madison Ave., 212-833-8100 Located in the heart of midtown, this free, hands-on technology and entertainment museum is sure to stimulate all of your child's senses. The high-energy exhibits feature lights, art, music, electronics, games, and movement. Be sure to get there early, as tickets are given out on a first-come, first-served basis, and they go fast! Since the Lab is under partial renovations through July 2008, be sure to call for current hours. [Manhattan [] 614]Studio Museum of Harlem144 West 125th St., 212-864-4500 Your kids can watch art materialize right in front of their eyes, as this museum showcases contemporary artists hard at work on their latest masterpieces. Children under 12 are admitted for free, while the suggested donation for adults is $7. Everyone is admitted for free, though, on the first Saturday of every month. [Manhattan]]
timeline A TIMELINE OF POLITICAL EVASION We started our campaign by making a simple request from the Government: “You organised Exercise Cygnus so that we could learn about our national pandemic capabilities. Can you please now allow us to learn from the Cygnus Reports?” The Department of Health used section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act (and later section 35) to evade transparency. We then applied for Judicial Review, arguing that the Government had a duty to disclose the Reports under the Civil Contingencies Act. Eventually, the Department of Health was forced to disclose Public Health England’s overview report of Cygnus, but affirmed it did not have the other reports mentioned in our witness evidence, in particular a population triage report. Relying on this affirmation, we withdrew from Judicial Review. On 18 December 2020, the Telegraph published a document which showed the Department of Health had received a population triage report from NHS England in December 2017. On 21 December 2020, we responded to the Health Secretary’s politics of evasion by launching Phase 2 – a new campaign involving nine public authorities. Five of those public authorities continue to withhold pandemic preparation data of public interest. Phase 1 – Department of Health & Social Care "full copy of any report and/or conclusions of Exercise Cygnus including any documents showing conclusions relating to challenges to the supply of PPE and ventilators" The Department of Health (and Social Care) uses section 12 to close down our request as "too wide" "The reports that were prepared as part of the Cygnus Exercise...a report produced on each aspect of the exercise, such as NHS, social care and each Local Resilience Forum" "The Department is currently assessing the public interest in release under section 35, but requires further time... We anticipate this process will take no longer than a further 20 working days to complete. We therefore aim to respond fully to your request by 17 July." The Information Commissioner's Office orders the Department of Health to respond to our Freedom of Information request within 20 working days "Today, I am publishing the report into Exercise Cygnus... I will deposit copies of the reports in the Libraries of both Houses and it will be available on gov.uk" The Department of Health refers us to the report disclosed by the Health Secretary, and apologises for the delayed response to our FOI request We submit 996 pages of evidence, arguing the Department of Health must disclose the reports which followed Exercise Cygnus, including a "pandemic surge" document and others Judge refuses to allow our case to be heard in court, saying that a response to our FOI request should have been received by now We renew our application for permission to take the Department of Health to court The Government Legal Department suggests we should withdraw our legal action after the Health Secretary discloses PHE's Cygnus Report We write to the GLD, saying that we do not believe the Health Secretary has disclosed all relevant documents The Government Legal Department asserts that the Department of Health has no further documents related to our application for Judicial Review On the basis of categorical denial by the GLD that the Department of Health holds the Cygnus Reports we seek, we withdraw our application for Judicial Review and decide to expand our campaign beyond the Department of Health Documented evidence that the Department of Health received - as "Lesson Identified 5" from Exercise Cygnus - a report on pandemic surge and population triage from NHSE in December 2017 Phase 2 – Department of Health & Social Care “Two reports submitted by NHSE to the former CMO Dame Sally Davies following Exercise Cygnus: Pandemic Influenza Briefing paper – NHS Surge and Triage... Pandemic Influenza Briefing paper – Adult social care and community healthcare” “The Department is currently assessing the public interest in release under Section 36... We anticipate this process will take no longer than a further 20 working days to complete. We therefore aim to respond fully to your request by 18 February 2021.” "The fact that the DHSC has repeatedly delayed even making a decision while it has 'assessed the public interest' over several months represents a fundamental subversion of the Freedom of Information process because my legal team cannot challenge the DHSC’s decision at Tribunal until after it has made a decision." "DHSC holds the information you requested. However, we consider that this information is exempt from release... in the opinion of a ‘qualified person’, in this case a Minister of the Crown, its disclosure would prejudice the free and frank provision of advice or exchange of views for the purposes of deliberation, or would... prejudice, the effective conduct of public affairs." "I have concluded that the response provided was compliant with the requirements of the FOIA and I uphold DHSC’s decision to withhold the requested information under section 36(2)(b)(i)(ii) and (c). The qualified person was the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care), Jo Churchill." Leigh Day provide legal arguments to ICO in favour of disclosure of pandemic population triage documents. ICO orders DHSC to disclose secret pandemic surge briefing papers Phase 2 – NHS England “Pandemic Influenza Briefing paper – NHS Surge and Triage... Pandemic Influenza Briefing paper – Adult social care and community healthcare” “Whilst we take our statutory duties in respect of Freedom of Information seriously... we have been unable to respond to your request within the statutory timescale... as a result of our need to prioritise our resources in dealing with the pandemic... ” "I am making this request as an NHS doctor working in a hospital which is dealing with an enormous surge in seriously sick patients with COVID-19. It is very difficult for doctors to make complex ethical decisions on allocation of scarce resources without national guidance." ICO imposes deadline of 10 working days for NHS England to provide initial response to our FOI request. ICO finds that NHSE have breached section 10(1) of the Freedom of Information Act, and issues Decision Notice requiring it to respond within 35 calendar days. "Section 38(1)(a) of the FOI Act exempts information which would or would be likely to endanger the physical or mental health of any individual... The risk being that patients would be likely, to the detriment of their health, to fail to attend hospital as a result of being cognisant of the information." NHSE fails to response to request for internal review within 20 working days ICO orders NHSE to provide internal review within 7 working days "My original request to NHS England was made on 21st December 2020, and I am awaiting internal review 6 months later. I would be grateful for robust action by the ICO in response to repeated and unacceptable breaches of legislative duties by this public authority." Phase 2 – The Cabinet Office / Civil Contingencies Secretariat “Copies of overall summary reports on the four simulated COBR meetings run by the Civil Contingences Secretariat (CCS) during the Command Post Exercise (CPX) for the second phase of Exercise Cygnus from 18 to 20 October 2016.” “It is important that... Ministers and officials have space to objectively explore lessons identified with complete candour, and then develop policies and/or response plans to address these points... I have concluded that the balance of the public interest favours withholding this information.” "I have carefully reviewed the handling of your request and I consider that the exemptions at section 35(1)(a) and (b) of the Freedom of Information Act were properly applied. I believe that the balance of the public interest was fully considered for the reasons set out it our letter of 02 February 2021. I have therefore concluded that I should uphold the decision given in our letter." Leigh Day provide legal arguments to ICO in favour of disclosure of records of secret COBR meetings held during Exercise Cygnus. ICO finds Cabinet Office breached FOIA section 17, but that section 35 exemption protects ministerial communications during mock COBR meetings, and some policy decisions made by other officials in the 'heat of battle'. Phase 2 – Essex County Fire & Rescue Service (Essex Local Resilience Forum) “Specifically, I request copies of hot debrief notes, cold debrief notes, and the evaluator questionnaire... as part of Exercise Cygnus. The time period I am seeking information for is the 3 months following 18 October 2016.” “The exemptions applicable to the information you have requested are: Section 24 of the Act - National Security.” "A disclosure of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is a disclosure to the world at large, we will not be only supplying data to the requestor, but also placing it in the public domain and making it available to those who would pose a risk to identified individuals and our national security." I provide legal arguments to ICO in favour of disclosure of LRF data on Exercise Cygnus. Meanwhile, ECFRS now says it does not hold the data on behalf of Essex LRF, having previously argued that it held the data but was exempt from disclosure on grounds of national security. ICO holds that ECFRS does hold information on behalf of Essex LRF, and must make a decision on disclosure. ECFRS discloses Exercise Cygnus documents: EPB summary, Evaluator's feedback form, the LRF report for Essex, and list of SCG participants. "You also appear to have failed to disclose certain documents, for instance where Essex LRF - as part of Exercise Cygnus - warned about 100s of vulnerable people in social care. This is a serious omission..." Phase 2 – Public Health England “... how many UK pandemic / epidemic simulation exercises were carried out with PHE’s participation between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2019... For each exercise... (a) the operational name of the exercise, (b) the infectious disease being modelled, (c) the month and year of the exercise, and (d) whether PHE holds a copy of the main report summarising the findings of the exercise.” No acknowledgement No acknowledgement Public Health England fails to acknowledge or respond to FOI request within statutory limit of 20 working days. ICO informs us that PHE apparently responded to our FOI request on 9 March 2021, and refused to disclose information on grounds of national security. We do not believe it is reasonable to argue that disclosure of the number of pandemic exercises threatens national security. PHE discloses existence of 11 pandemic exercises, but cites national security exemption to refuse disclosure of Typhon Report. Complaint regarding PHE's refusal to disclose Typhon Report on grounds of national security. Leigh Day provide legal arguments to ICO in favour of disclosure of Exercise Typhon. PHE publishes most of Typhon Report, but says it “removed references to PHE emergency response processes and plans containing sensitive operational details, the release of which may have implications on PHE’s ability to respond to security incidents.” ICO orders PHE to publish Exercise Typhon report full Phase 2 – Public Health England (now UK Health Security Agency) Ebola Surge Capacity Exercise and Exercises Alice, Northern Light, Broad Street, Cerberus and Pica. "PHE is therefore extending the deadline for response to your request by another 20 working days to allow time for further consideration of the public interest test. We will endeavour to provide you with a response by 12 August 2021." PHE publishes reports for Ebola and Exercises Northern Light, Broad Street, Cerberus and Pica, but copies are redacted under sections 24 and 27. PHE cites section 36(2)(b) to refuse publication of Exercise Alice. Request for internal review of both refusal to publish Exercise Alice and redaction of other reports. "PHE's refusal to disclose Exercise Alice fits into a pattern of repeated and deliberate obstruction of transparency by multiple public bodies during COVID-19. I am a NHS hospital consultant, and I believe strongly that this obstructiveness has affected NHS frontline workers' ability to prepare for pandemics in general and COVID-19 in particular, and has contributed to the tragic loss of life we have sustained during the last 18 months..." UK Health Security Agency takes responsibility from PHE for this FOI request, publishes Exercise Alice, but says, "we are continuing to work on providing a response to the remainder of your request for an internal review".
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Rie Marvin farewell picnic Marvin Foyer Marvin Inauguration Mary Josephine Booth Mascot Mathematice, 1964- Mathematics Mathematics Dean VP Academic Affairs 1931-68 Mathematics Dean Arts And Science Mathematics Dean Arts And Sciences Mathematics Dean Arts And Sciences 1947-80 Mathematics, 1906-13 Mathematics, 1913-1913 Mathematics, 1935-36 Mathematics, 1947-80 Mathematics, 1961- Mathematics, 1961-77 Mathematics, 1964- Mathematics, 1965-90 Mathematics, 1968- Mathematics, 1968-69 Mathematics, 1969-76 Mathematics, 1970- Mathematics, 1970-71 Mathematics/Coach 1904-11 Mathematics/Coach, 1904-11 Mathematics/Grammar Critic, 1906-13 McAffee McKenna Secondary Education, 1953-77 (Right) Media Media Services, 1968-69 Mens Union Meritorious Service Awards Mid-Continent Athletic Association Military Model School Moving in Day Music Music Chair, 1940-64 Music Dean, 1965-74 Music Listening Room Music, John N. 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An expanding choice of younger individuals are figuring out as activists, however to name this a brand new development would no longer best be naive, it might even be a overlooked alternative. Older generations be offering an necessary point of view on what it method to be politically and socially lively. In an effort to absorb their wisdom, we’re talking to activists who’ve been doing this paintings for many years. We’ve in the past discovered from 74-year-old Sally Roesch Wagner, 66-year-old Jackie Warren-Moore, 71-year-old Felicia Elizondo and 68-year-old Faith Spotted Eagle. Today, we discuss with 67-year-old Nancy Cole. Though she considers herself extra of a “behind-the-scenes type of activist,” there’s indubitably Nancy Cole merits to face within the limelight. Cole has spent over 25 years running in outreach and activism with the Union of Concerned Scientists, the place she focuses on local weather and effort problems. She oversees the crowd’s campaigns, which cling companies liable for local weather have an effect on and unite scientists to incite coverage trade. She’s no longer afraid to publicly name out corporations which can be unfavorable to the earth and insist higher, and whilst she’s no longer a scientist herself, she helps them through translating their wisdom to the general public. Cole admits that her process can also be irritating in our present political panorama, with other folks in energy looking to undermine the credibility of local weather science regardless of the analysis being transparent. Her primary piece of recommendation — necessarily, “power through the hard times” — comes as no wonder then. If her a long time of campaigning tirelessly for the way forward for the planet have taught her anything else, it’s that none people has the posh to hand over. What first sparked your passion in activism? One factor that was once necessary to my mother and is now necessary to me is that all of us go away the sector a greater position. I’ve all the time had numerous passion in science, however within the ’60s, girls weren’t inspired in [science, technology, engineering and math]. I grew up on a farm in Illinois, and my small-town highschool’s steering counselor advised me women simply didn’t do science. So I wound up being a trainer for my first process. After I noticed I wasn’t going to be an excellent trainer, I went to paintings on the Legal Aid Society, the place I used to be more or less like a paralegal. I actually loved that paintings, and I believed that social trade took place during the regulation, so I determined to visit regulation college. But 3 years of regulation college taught me that that’s no longer the way it works; I noticed that social trade actually comes from activism, citizen engagement and those who care passionately about making issues trade. That’s the place I sought after to be. Law college gave me necessary abilities, actually precious friendships and the self-awareness that I sought after to paintings in grassroots organizing. Cole protesting Nestlé in Boston in 1983. What was once your first activist undertaking after regulation college? Around 1980, I began at an group referred to as INFACT [now named Corporate Accountability], which stood for Infant Formula Action Coalition. INFACT ran the Nestlé boycott, which was once a marketing campaign to prevent toddler components corporations from peddling a product in growing nations that they knew may no longer most likely be used safely there. It was once killing loads of hundreds of young children yearly. I believed that transnational companies actually were given away with homicide, and so they weren’t being held answerable for what they have been doing. We had a a hit conclusion to that marketing campaign — it resulted within the first International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes during the United Nations’ World Health Organization. I changed into the chief director of INFACT, and our subsequent marketing campaign centered on corporations that have been making nuclear guns. That was once within the early to mid-’80s, after we have been actually nervous about nuclear battle. We concept shall we attempt to cut back the affect of the massive nuclear weapon makers, focusing on General Electric. I labored on that marketing campaign for a number of years. How did you transition from company responsibility activism to local weather activism? I determined I sought after to be a mother or father and wanted a special taste of organizing, so I were given a task on the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) in 1992. It was once best for me to paintings on problems on the intersection of science and coverage as a result of I may paintings with scientists and produce my abilities as an organizer and activist to this area. UCS is helping [scientists] take this difficult stuff and keep in touch it to the general public. One of the contributions we’ve made on this planet helps scientists to find their voice and discuss it powerfully. Cole in ’92 organizing reinforce for a renewable power marketing campaign with UCS. What is the most important problem you face in local weather activism? I’ve been running on the local weather factor for what turns out like eternally, and it is only past irritating to peer the place we’re nowadays. If we, as a rustic, had taken steps only some a long time in the past to cut back our carbon emissions, we will not be seeing storms like Hurricane Harvey. We would no longer be seeing sea stage upward push ravaging our towns. We would no longer be seeing local weather migrants all over the world. That’s some of the difficult portions — working out stay going and stay being inventive sufficient to seek out new methods. We need to faucet into what we predict would possibly transfer the general public to care about local weather and effort problems. In the face of the horrible political local weather we’re in nowadays, it’s actually a problem. When you face the ones consistent frustrations, what motivates you to stay going? I take a look at the wonderful thing about the planet that we are living on, and I take a look at the children. All alongside, this has been mainly a struggle for our kids. Around the sector, there are kids and grandchildren who’re going to be profoundly suffering from the adjustments which can be coming if we don’t do one thing rapid. Every time I am getting discouraged, I take a look at an image of my daughter, or I take into accounts kids all over the world and what they face. I don’t have the posh of giving up — I don’t assume any people do. That doesn’t imply I don’t get disillusioned and really feel horrible concerning the mess we’re leaving our youngsters, however I’ve my cry or I am going stroll through the sea or sit down below a tree or paintings on my lawn. I do the issues that maintain me, after which I stand up day after today and elevate on. What has been considered one of your proudest achievements at UCS? In 1995, together with a pair people right here, I envisioned and made actual this idea of what we now name the Science Network. The concept at the moment — you’re going to snigger at this — was once to make use of this state of the art generation referred to as electronic mail. We could be involved with scientists across the nation who advised us they have been interested by running on the problems we have been running on. Today, it comprises about 25,000 scientists across the nation, and we’ve long gone method past electronic mail, in fact. The strategic significance has been demonstrated time and again all through the previous couple of a long time of running with the clinical neighborhood to carry clinical wisdom to necessary coverage selections. What have you ever been running on in recent years at UCS? We now have a marketing campaign to carry the massive fossil gasoline corporations answerable for the super harm their product has carried out, so I’ve come complete circle again to company responsibility. To have a a hit marketing campaign, one of the vital first issues we do is ready a listing of calls for — what conduct we wish to see modified. Things like: We need you to prevent deceiving the general public about local weather science; we would like you to prevent influencing and looking to forestall regulation that would cut back emissions; we would like you to pay your fair proportion of the damages brought about through a converting local weather; we would like you to reveal your local weather possibility for your buyers; and we would like you to regulate your online business style to align with a carbon-constrained international. These corporations had been advised through their very own scientists for the reason that ’70s, if no longer previous, that local weather trade was once actual, that the affects have been going to be critical and that the wear comes from burning their merchandise. They have identified that for 5 a long time. Instead of doing one thing other, like turning to renewable power assets or working out advance carbon seize and garage, they set out on an lively marketing campaign to mislead the general public and policymakers about local weather science. It is the direct explanation why we’re the place we’re nowadays. There are reams of proof which were exposed that display they knew how unhealthy their product was once and that they endured to put it up for sale. We created a document referred to as The Climate Deception Dossiers in 2015, the place we took about 10 other examples of company deceptions and packaged all of them in combination to color an image of what the firms knew and once they knew it. We then started campaigning on that — producing media protection, asking supporters to place force on the firms and conserving briefings for shareholders and policymakers. We additionally put out a suite of standards during which shall we measure the highest fossil gasoline corporations in opposition to the adjustments we needed them to make in order that shall we review development being made. The Climate Accountability Scorecard of 2016 is a meticulous piece of labor the place we ranked the firms. We then started to interact at once with the firms, collaborating in investor conferences via allies within the trade neighborhood. The scorecard changed into a precious instrument for the divestment motion. Cole, her partner Catherine (a long way left) and two buddies on the March for Science within the Boston Common, March 2017. How do you reply to those that nonetheless refuse to acknowledge local weather trade as a crucial factor? At UCS, we’ve a local weather science marketing campaign that works laborious to offer protection to local weather scientists and local weather science data within the federal executive. At this level, a vital majority of the American public is aware of that local weather trade is actual and that we’re inflicting it. I’m actually extra interested by motivating the ones other folks to be lively and to have a voice and to be engaged in significant methods than I’m in looking to persuade the few final individuals who don’t assume this can be a drawback. That’s a strategic choice to make the most efficient use of sources. Do you imagine your paintings political? UCS is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(three) group, so we don’t reinforce applicants for place of business. Sadly, what has took place within the age of the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil’s deception is that the problem has change into deeply politicized. You may argue that anybody who works on the problem of local weather trade is political. But it shouldn’t be that method. Sea ranges are emerging, it doesn’t matter what your birthday celebration or trust machine is or what crew you associate with. It’s going to have an effect on trillions of greenbacks in assets belongings, and it’s going to have an effect on other folks’s lives and livelihoods. We’ve observed the fires in California, which can also be traced no less than partially to converting climate precipitation patterns from local weather trade. We’ve observed the intense rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, which scientists have already attributed partly to local weather trade. We’re now even seeing some climate occasions that scientists are ready to mention wouldn’t have took place in any respect if no longer for the entire CO2 we’ve pumped into the ambience. It’s puzzling to me that this factor has change into a political soccer as a result of finally, we’re all going to be impacted. The People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C., April 2017: (L to R) Cole, partner Catherine, daughter Amelia, Amelia’s buddy Eliot. What do you’re keen on maximum about your paintings? I really like that my daughter is pleased with my paintings, and I really like mentoring colleagues more youthful than me. I’ve been doing this for a very long time, so there are actually numerous them out on this planet doing wonderful issues, partly as a result of I supplied some mentorship or an alternative or an perception that was once helpful to them. It’s necessary to verify there are other folks in the back of you who elevate the torch. I really like the devoted other folks at UCS who’re sensible, humorous and extremely dedicated. I actually love running with scientists. They’re crotchety and crazy-making numerous instances, however I’ve such a lot recognize for the paintings they do. In the present political state of affairs, the place all people are referred to as to withstand, to make a distinction and to mission a special imaginative and prescient than what’s being put in the market through the present management, I’m so thankful that I’ve UCS to return to on a daily basis. I think like I’m doing my section right here and that I make a distinction. What recommendation do you might have for the following era of younger activists? Despair is a luxurious, no longer an possibility. Every day that emissions cross up, the placement will get worse. Even regardless that there are actually some affects that we will’t steer clear of, we will nonetheless forestall the worst affects from taking place, and we want to struggle with each and every fiber of our being to do this. A 2nd piece of recommendation is to be sort. Take care of one another as it’s going to be a gorgeous tough slog. I believe we owe it to ourselves to take time to like, play within the ocean, stroll within the woods, climb the mountains, admire what we’re preventing for and be pleased about what we’ve and what we’re conserving onto. Photos by the use of Nancy Cole.
Four Charts To Panic The "Money On The Sidelines" Hopers If yesterday's indications of the near-record overweight net long positioning in Russell 2000 Futures & incredible net short VIX futures positioning, along with the extreme flows contrarian indication was not enough to concern investors that the 'money' is in, then the following four charts should cross the tipping point. Citi's Panic/Euphoria guage for US stocks has only been more euphoric on two occasions - Q4 2000 & 2008; Goldman's S&P 500 positioning has only been this extremely long-biased on two occasions - Q4 2008 & Q2 2011; and Barclays' credit-equity divergence has only been this over-bought stocks on two occasions - Q4 2008 & Q2 2012. It doesn't take a PhD to comprehend the extent of excess priced into stocks currently - no matter what Maria B tries to tell us. Citi's Panic/Euphoria Model indicates extreme 'euphoria' - which has led to significant equity market losses in the past... Goldman's S&P 500 Positioning has only been this extreme long twice before - and both were followed by dramatic sell-offs.... and Barclays points out what we have discussed, that stocks (and implied vols) are dramatically over-priced relative to Investment grade credit... and high-yield credit... via Barclays, At the index level, the drop in equity volatility over the course of the last month has resulted in credit spreads in the US appearing too wide relative to SPX weighted average implied volatility. While we have been highlighting this for the HY index over the last couple of months, the cheapness of credit relative to equity implied volatility is now a feature even in the case of the IG index. Whether the smart money is all-in ready to unwind to the dumb money is unclear but one thing is clear - the US equity market is as levered long and over its skis as it has ever been - trade accordingly... Source: Goldman Sachs, Citi, and Barclays - advertisements - The coming collapse will send us back to the stone age Hopefully not that far back. There's no way I would bet on anything falling faster than the dollar. Not saying that markets won't sell off here, but I wouldn't bet on it. If it does sell of it will be short lived as the Fed will rush in to increase QE. It's much more likely that there's a massive rally in real terms and a devastating crash in nominal terms. Hey Tyler, can you please write more about the french "disastrous" campaign in Mali? (from your previous article: "Last week we reported that in the aftermath of the so far disastrous French campaign to eradicate "rebels" in the north of Mali"...) Folks, this is what disastrous look like: "Timbuktu Gives France’s President an Ecstatic Welcome"-... lol... All That Pivots is Gold By Pepe Escobar You are a total fool though. Do you remember russkis marching truimphantly into afganistan? More recently americans swooping in to there and baghdad? Remember happy iraqis shitting on hussein statue? That ended fast did it? It hillarious how hollande is doing his version of "mission accomplished" and how stupid trolls like you fall for it. So folks, lets judge in another year or two.. If french have any brains they will dump it on african alliance and run! I'm kinda hoping to stop at least at the dark ages. Stone age would suck. Stone age would be better ay least you do not have to put up with the crazy religious demigods. At least that won't be as bad as living in Detroit. +1 Yep, you'll always have Miami... A whopping 364,000 properties in the Miami area have entered the foreclosure process since 2008, according to RealtyTrac. The number of foreclosure filings slowed in Miami and across the country last year, but the housing market is far from a comeback. That is because the banks stopped forclosures. Millions of people are still living in their uh bank owned homes rent free. Re'fied my house in Jan 2007. I didn't make payments to Countrywide/BofA for three years, and Chase on the 2d for the same period. I sued to stop foreclosure b/c the sigs on the substitution of trustee and notice of default were obviously forged and faulty. (Coincidence...the lawyer for BofA...his wife was raised in my house.) Settled with bank two years ago. Waited for bank to come take possession...but it didn't. Then, nine months ago, BofA threatened to foreclose again. Then sent a aletter saying, help us shortsell it, and we'll pay you $5k to $3k at closing. Ok Just closed two days ago. BofA ate $400k+. No deficiency. Chase ate $175k+. No deficiency. Buyer paid $40k in junior liens. And I walked from closing with $5k. Dumped $600k in unsecured debt and walked away with money in pocket. A reverse bankruptcy. This was a ridiculous outcome. Amoral. But, I took it happily. Not bad considering the national Shadow Inventory is somewhere about 13,000,000. ZH is dope for bears. It's designed to sucker in the shorts. Good luck. Except most ZH'ers stopped trading years ago when they realized that retail investors were the fool in the market. $ ISN'T ON THE SIDELINES. Tyler, money is running scared for the next .1% of return on ZIRP. Ass wipe fiat is in vogue/ We were talking about it about 1 hr ago and baaaaam, ZH obliges. We were. Gotta love Z/H! The IDIOCRACY is to believe that there's MONEY ON THE SIDELINES... Run [as fast as you can] AWAY from anyone that ever tries 2 sell you that line... The Fallacy, [is that money is on the sidelines,] While corporate buybacks, and consolidation > equal higher earnings. Top line revenue is shrinking, and 60% OF "TOP LINE" Revenue is from [ over seas] earnings, with most large Cap " US Names". That $85 b the Fed. is injecting every Month, is going straight to the emerging markets. Look at the Shanghai exchange/ Hong Kong and Singapore are so flush with "funny money" they are exploring "negative interest" policies. The Fed. is pumping money into TBTF, and killing the economy ! Bernanke should be SKULL FUCKED! Do you know why that 85b is going to shanghai etc? What is the route of the flow of money? That flow of "ponzi capital" will flow directly into the United States treasury, as intrest paid on medium term notes, there -by lowering rates on the long end of the curve. Yen i am not sure that is right.. Fed been printing for 4 years now but shanghai comp been sinking like a rock up until nov 2012. So thing is i cant figure out if the charts in this post have real relevance when money gets printed out of thin air and distributed to banks on an almost daily basis. The absurdity is the notion that money somehow flows into and out of stocks. haha isnt margining and notional loan backed "assets" money as well.....? You mean Bill Gross? He says money going into stocks is coming from cash and Money Markets-not bonds. Then Maria asks him when he's boning up on bonds LOL at 5:00: Those four charts may or may not "panic the hopers", but they sure confused this bear. No confusion to short like FCK or to pair trade the 2 sigma HY/IG rack But the shorts have been getting toasted by the Fed money printing QE infinity. Any ideas when this will break? The charts on things like the S&P500 and RUT are absurd. try this fcast No, no ! Dow to 14000 and beyond... Great the sheep have payed off their credit cards, now what ? Are they suppose to go out and charge them up again ? Those charts look "Good enough for government work". - Goldman Perhaps the tell-tale sign of an impending top is when the talking heads talk the loudest as if stocks will never go down again (e.g. some loudmouth claiming the Fed should buy another $30 Trillion in assets to help eradicate the national debt...). FUBAR to the max. Agreed. Iv never heard so much "to infinity and beyond" speak as what I'm getting force fed at present. I am just astonished that people don't see the wood from the trees. I really do feel at times that I am actually the nutty one. That the people that I talk to, who back away from me when I talk of the real state of the economy and the outright theft that is happening right under their noses, think that I'm some kind of doom freak. They honestly look at me like I'm a lunatic fringe. I have given up trying to join any discussion about it. I really do feel the odd one out. ZH is the only place that seems to make any kind of sense right now. A report from a Spicers 'financial expert' today advising people to pour all their money into the US stock market as its about to boom!? Seriously WTF. It just seems lately that things are beginning to esculate. in light of the economic shit hole we are in right now, this europhic talk is evidence we are in for one hell of reality check sooner rather than later. Chubby....Only try to realize the truth....There is no spoon.... There is a national desperation...everybody wants to win the lottery and get rich without the trouble of "working for it"...so folks talking bout DOW riches and the like are welcomed as messiahs. And markets will nominally continue to lift so long as QE4EVER continues...but casualties will be heavy. Common sense and stay up on your reading. Bottom line is, it is going down but not sure about timing but I think sooner than later. When big brother starts planning how they are going to take your 401K and your guns at the same time along with telling you it's 14000 and to the moon, it smells really bad. I have but 1 friend that understands what is going on and when you do bring it up to others, your crazy Tv and Hollywood make people brainwashed retards. You watch it - you empower the scum. The public lives in TV alternative reality. It is ***ing mind control of idiots. Plenty of idiots here watch TV like tards especailly the old baby boomers. In case you haven't heard this in the last 24 hours or so... you're a moran. Buy at the top and sell at the bottom ... makes sense. Just listen to MSM financial commentaries. The same jokers who, like all the economisseds during Sept 2008 were suddenly revealed to have zero clue whatsoever about how markets or economies actually work. The naughty economy went off-script on them. I can see why many people turn into misanthropes. It's not because they actually hate or distrust people, its more a function of realizing the vast majority of people are insane retards that are beyond any possibility of redemption, but see fit to wallow in extreme dumbness, so why try to get people to snap out of it? The truth is they can only snap out of it themselves, usually in flailing desperation at some grave inevitable system-induced personal crisis-point. Thus humanity has no basis to shine genuinely in the way it can. Instead we have this nonsense of shit-eating suckers and fools ignorantly behaving like the state-politico-economic-market-system is worth a damn or worthy of support, commitment and affinity, until it becomes undeniable that it is a monstrously corrupt abomination and all those serving it's process are corrupted to the same common extent, and if that were not so, then they simply wouldn't "fit-in", any more, and would then have to de-program from this hive-mind MSM driven cult-of-belief-in-lies, and thus necessarily re-think, reprocess and relearn what real is. Which would be a very good and healthy thing. But unfortunately this also appears utterly and completely barking-madness, as well as extremely scarey and not for the faint-of-heart, usually inducing a psychological fight-or-flight response. Hence they almost always swerve away from facing the actual situation they're in. And so it is; the dog returns to its vomit. Anybody here remember 1998-1999? You would go out to lunch and CNBC would be on everywhere. Sub shops, lower cost casual places, McDonalds. You could not hold a conversation with anyone because they were watching the market. This was not on Wall Street or a big city either and these were avg people. CNBC hying .dot bomb stocks including investment banks trading back and forth with each other on the IPO day to make dogshit.com a $150 stock. Corzine and Goldman were doing it as well as all the other investment banks, I loathe CNBC and ALL of TV. Lying propagandists. I've got your money on the sidelines. I've got it hanging between my legs. Give up your hopes and dreams. We're fucked. I just got out ....... so it should double soon. FRED data shows massive "flow" of "new money" is underway (no suprise now that Op Twist is over and full QE is back)...and with no end in sight (no clear "new money" finish line to be front run ala QE1, 2, op twist)...piggies are lined up at the teat. FUCKING A...yes it's different this time. Sociopaths are all in now...There is no backing off now from $85b a month and it will need to go higher as $85b is the "new norm"..."progress" will require more "new money" Fucking A Tylers - They don't need money from the sidelines anymore, PD's buys a T on 9x leverage, Fed buys it back and credits acct in full, loan is paid and now there's more money...they make the shit up, banks leverage it up and voila...more money to chase prices up every fucking day without retail or any other quaint group moving in...only places we've seen this before are Germany, Zimbabwe, etc. Once pensions, insurance, retail, et al do come in to go along for the ride w/ all the leveraged big boys...that is when we go Dow 25000 or some such awe inspiring #...We are they but this time we are taking everybody to the moon and back with us. So long as QE4EVER continues then stock market goes up. Tell me when/if Fed stops or slows down and I'll tell you where the top is. This market is going to go more parabolic than 1998-2000 NASDAQ did...it is the Zimbabwe-rally and I predict that within one year, the U.S.S Nimitz will be gassing up in Gibraltar and trying to buy potatoes and the credit card will be refused. The Republic will be called "Wiemar" replacing "United States" and JP Morgan will be in charge of the new global currency that will replace the USD as the New World Reserve Currency which will contain zero gold or silver. This clip reveals how the elites have brainwashed everyone.... I actually think we have a correction first, 10 - 20%. Then retail money be convinced that this is now a good time to buy. You are not participating and it's killing you. They've got you second guessing yourself. What if it really IS different this time, and I'm left eating their dust? What if I wake up Monday morning and the dollar has crashed, the Dow is 25,000 and gold is $20,000?? What if? What it? This is when you know it is mania. Let the lemmings run without you. AAPL to $1000. It's a sure thing, you can't lose! The government are going to madate iPads in schools! Yeah right, the market is always wrong. Buy low, buy what nobody wants. That's a bit of a challenge at the moment, everything is high, maybe it's cash that nobody wants any more. EUR? USD? USD, the EUR looks like it's going to 1.4 before turning round.
we still think they’re right about the social issues?) hawkdriver on July 30, 2011 at 4:10 PM fire all of these people. well, most of them. ted c on July 30, 2011 at 4:12 PM it looks like the “balanced” approach was to kill harry reid’s bill. ah well—whatever happens, happens. ted c on July 30, 2011 at 4:13 PM The transparency is stunning. Hening on July 30, 2011 at 4:14 PM It is incomprehensible to actually consider raising the debt ceiling an unprecedented $2.4 trillion, from the current $14.3 trillion, without massive spending cuts, before the nation is bankrupt. The current interest payment is a staggering $300 billion a year; and this money has to be borrowed each month; borrowing to pay interest on the debt; and the Dems want to borrow another $2.4 trillion and cut virtually nothing. The Reps are not much better, as Boehner’s bill was only going to cut, at most, $100 billion a year for 10 years. Massive cuts need to start immediately. They need to cut at least $2.4 trillion as a part of any deal to increase the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion; and cut at least $1 trillion a year for the next 10 years as a part of a solution to this financial crisis before it is too late, and the nation cannot recover, and is reduced to bankruptcy. SheetAnchor on July 30, 2011 at 4:14 PM The dealing has been going on for a week while the Kabuki went on. According to WaPo, Reid and McConnell staffers wrote the latest Boehner 2.0 bill (minus the BBA amendment). When Senate staffers write a bill for the Speaker of the House, you know the Ruling Party had the fix in all along. It was just persuading the sheeple, I mean, Hobbits. Wethal on July 30, 2011 at 4:15 PM Funny, but I have zero confidence in whatever agreement is cobbled together. changer1701 on July 30, 2011 at 4:18 PM Rand Paul is up calling on Zero to quit talking about default. Brat4life on July 30, 2011 at 4:18 PM McConnell says he’s now “fully engaged” with POTUS. Well we knew that already. Why doesn’t he just change parties and save us all the trouble of primarying him? flytier on July 30, 2011 at 4:19 PM Hey, why does it look like this road end off that cliff right up yonder? SouthernGent on July 30, 2011 at 4:20 PM That’s how I see it. Erick Erickson passed along these words from someone he called a “very wise conservative sage” (emphasis added): INC on July 30, 2011 at 4:20 PM McConnell so has to go…. sandee on July 30, 2011 at 4:20 PM I’m really beginning to think you are right. I’m watching this play out and looking at his poll numbers. He is a desperate man right now and he needs this behind him in the worst way. JohnInCA on July 30, 2011 at 4:22 PM Rand offeringa amendment to the Reid Bill. Says Zero is to busy with his birthday and campaigning. Asking to put the Balanced Budget amendment it was rejected by the dems. Brat4life on July 30, 2011 at 4:22 PM I hate to tell you, but those men are all pro-life. Just where are those Rs who are libs on social issues? INC on July 30, 2011 at 4:22 PM Liberals? MrX on July 30, 2011 at 4:23 PM I read that this morning and almost cried, since DeMint said that he won’t run again. While I believe in term limits, DeMint is that rarest of exceptions who I would be more than happy for him to be there for as long as he wanted. DeMint and Sessions, they don’t get any better than that in the Senate, although Rand Paul is right behind them. TxAnn56 on July 30, 2011 at 4:25 PM So, McConnell and Boehner have been talking with Obama. Now Reid and Pelosi are in with Obama. McConnell and Boehner just had a press conference in which Boehner said he was confident that the right people were in the room and a deal would get done, AND asked where was the President’s plan. So here’s my guess: Boehner and McConnell have a deal with Obama. It’s strong for the GOP (relative to any form of compromise) with the only concession removal of the BBA vote requirement. Barry is allowed to present it as his plan. He’s now begging and pleading with Nancy to accept it. Reid is in there simply to keep Nancy from bludgeoning Barry to a pulp. BKeyser on July 30, 2011 at 4:25 PM I’d rather have control of the senate. stvnscott on July 30, 2011 at 4:26 PM I like when there is a time reference to an individual update. It’s especially helpful with these very fluid situations. Any chance we could get a time stamp on future updates, Allah? DrStock on July 30, 2011 at 4:29 PM Link? Vince on July 30, 2011 at 4:29 PM I agree with you on everything but the removal of the BBA. I think the change will be the “deal” will extend through the election. BBA stays in. gophergirl on July 30, 2011 at 4:32 PM Thank you, hawkdriver! Libertarians have a logic gap about less government. They want government for their protection and to be free to do whatever they want to do (defense and economics), but they forget and deny any role of government in promoting the health and future of society (pro-life and the preservation of marriage). Jonah Goldberg has an interesting column right after the 2008 election: INC on July 30, 2011 at 4:33 PM 2012. Counting down and looking forward. rrpjr on July 30, 2011 at 4:33 PM I’m pro-life, too. Government’s job is to protect our right to life and liberty. It’s things like the drug war where I think some conservatives are terribly wrong. But that’s a topic for another thread. AUH2O on July 30, 2011 at 4:35 PM There isn’t a link Vince. He pulled that out of his ass ArmyAunt on July 30, 2011 at 4:35 PM That’s still a lot of time for Obama to do lots more damage. I honestly don’t know if we’ll make it that long… Yakko77 on July 30, 2011 at 4:36 PM Oh, no, I didn’t know that. He was re-elected in 2010. I guess he figures four more years to fight after the 2012 elections–either to help right the ship or to keep scuttling Obama & the Dems. INC on July 30, 2011 at 4:37 PM Link? Vince on July 30, 2011 at 4:29 PM WaPo via RedState Wethal on July 30, 2011 at 4:37 PM If you bring it up here, then you have to be ready for a response. INC on July 30, 2011 at 4:38 PM She just provided a link. Wethal on July 30, 2011 at 4:38 PM So they’re going to ask everyone at last minute to pass a deal to find out whats in it? Again? I hate these mofos. El_Terrible on July 30, 2011 at 4:38 PM Like I said, I’m pro-life. Gov’t should have limited but important goals. Protecting life, insuring contracts and property rights are upheld. Providing a basic police force and military. Etc. As for dictating what people put in their body or what they do in the bedroom – that’s none of the government’s business. But let’s not side track this thread. I was just responding to a comment that caught my eye. AUH2O on July 30, 2011 at 4:40 PM Yep! That’s why I asked. Vince on July 30, 2011 at 4:40 PM I just posted the link. See above. Wethal on July 30, 2011 at 4:41 PM Good point. Could be. BKeyser on July 30, 2011 at 4:43 PM I just saw the vote is at 1am – WTF. Do the Democrats think we aren’t paying attention by doing this. They did this with ObamaCare too. Hate them – HATE THEM! gophergirl on July 30, 2011 at 4:45 PM That’s not WaPo, That’s Red State and Erik Erickson’s ass you pulled that out of. Vince on July 30, 2011 at 4:45 PM Why would they allow Barry to take credit? To hand him the next election? neuquenguy on July 30, 2011 at 4:47 PM She did post it. Here it is unvarnished! Go read it! INC on July 30, 2011 at 4:48 There isn’t a link Vince. He pulled that out of his ass ArmyAunt on July 30, 2011 at 4:35 PM Yep! That’s why I asked. Vince on July 30, 2011 at 4:40 PM I just posted the link. See above. Wethal on July 30, 2011 at 4:41 PM That’s not WaPo, That’s Red State and Erik Erickson’s ass you pulled that out of. Vince on July 30, 2011 at 4:45 PM And here is Erick Erickson’s link to WaPo. Wethal on July 30, 2011 at 4:48 PM Go Wethal!!!!!!!!! INC on July 30, 2011 at 4:49 So read WaPo Wethal on July 30, 2011 at 4:50 PM You can always tell those who don’t bother to read links. INC on July 30, 2011 at 4:53 PM So read WaPo Wethal on July 30, 2011 at 4:50 PM I’m not a fan of the WaPo either… sandee on July 30, 2011 at 4:54 PM Me, neither, but it does have a lot of info on inside goings on in DC. Wethal on July 30, 2011 at 4:57 PM Because that would then be his contribution. It’s the only way to make it seem like compromise since he’s had no real roll in the process. Again, just a guess. BKeyser on July 30, 2011 at 4:57 PM Well, neither am I of their opinions and bias. But on this they’re reporting it as fact–so they’re either lying through their teeth or it happened. INC on July 30, 2011 at 4:57 PM My apologies. I did read it but in reading the whole thing, increased my doubts about the veracity of the story. The article was slanted. However, my apologies for not checking your link more closely and a thank you to INC for the link as well. Vince on July 30, 2011 at 4:58 PM WaPo is so slanted it’s a wonder the building just hasn’t tipped over to the left. But it generally has reliable gossip, scuttlebutt, whatever. Wethal on July 30, 2011 at 5:01 PM You’re welcome. His post was almost entirely the WaPo quote. An introductory sentence of 4 words and two sentences of this commentary following the quote: INC on July 30, 2011 at 5:01 PM Keep hearing all this BS about “compromise” from Dems. What have they compromised on? By all accounts they look to get debt ceiling hike and deferral of issue past 2012, in exchange for toothless baloney. Where’s the damn compromise? Why is GOP allowing this talking point to go unchallenged? Purple Fury on July 30, 2011 at 5:02 PM If you’re talking about WaPo’s bias, then I agree–that’s a given. INC on July 30, 2011 at 5:03 PM Wow all the dems are doing are talking about how the republicans are not compromsing. Wow these dems are nuts. They are all saying the same thing the Republicans don’t want compromise and they all want the US to go into default. Then call the Republicans names and offer no solutions. The Dems are taking no resposibility for anything. It’s all the Republicans fault since Bush. They are nuts. Brat4life on July 30, 2011 at 5:03 PM Looking at the way to polls are going this week, I think the Dems are losing the PR game. If we watch it and aren’t fooled, then I expect many others who are tuning in aren’t fooled as well. They’re just not here commenting. Whatever they pass, the wool is so think now it’s not doing much good when they try to pull it over people’s eyes. INC on July 30, 2011 at 5:06 PM Whatever they pass–the Dems–not others who are watching this. I wasn’t clear. INC on July 30, 2011 at 5:06 PM Will they have it on CSPAN? He!!, I’ll get up to watch it if so….anyone know? sicoit on July 30, 2011 at 5:06 PM Doesn’t have to be? If not it should be on Fox one would think. Brat4life on July 30, 2011 at 5:08 PM One would HOPE it’s on some channel so we, the people, can watch. LOL sicoit on July 30, 2011 at 5:09 PM Transparency at it’s finest. I think it will. Zerocare was on c-span at midnight so I am assuming this will be. Brat4life on July 30, 2011 at 5:13 PM All, spread this around, like lightening. Schadenfreude on July 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM Anyone know how the nutroots are reacting to the real prospect of a deal that Obama agrees to that does not raise taxes? txmomof6 on July 30, 2011 at 5:17 PM Thats what you call a bi-partisan ass-kicking. BobMbx on July 30, 2011 at 5:18 PM Soooooo, the defeat of Reid’s piece of shlegislation was “bi-partisan”… Ha Gohawgs on July 30, 2011 at 5:19 PM Boy, aren’t you the optimist, eh? My guess is they’re working on something like: $4T raise to the debt ceiling, and a $4T tax increase to pay for it. BobMbx on July 30, 2011 at 5:21 PM 1) Never was going to be a “default” regardless of the dem talking points… 2) There was always going to be a “deal”… 3) Our “thought leaders” were always going to find a way to what’s best for us whether we liked it or not 4) Our Gov’t will continue to hurt us, beat us down and make us write bad checks… Gohawgs on July 30, 2011 at 5:24 PM BobMbx on July 30, 2011 at 5:21 PM I didn’t say I was going to like the deal, but there will be a deal, and I don’t think it will include tax hikes, which is primarily what the nutroots wanted. txmomof6 on July 30, 2011 at 5:30 PM Everyone should listen to this monologue from Rush yesterday if you have not heard it. It is worth the listen. The link to the page is below. SheetAnchor on July 30, 2011 at 5:31 PM If this is in reference to Hawkdrivers comment, know this. Hawk doesn’t do that. If he mentions it, he read it. If he read it, he understood it fully, and it’s from a credible source. massrighty on July 30, 2011 at 5:34 PM And this is exactly why the Reps are always on the defensive. The Dems are always on the offensive in the public debate with their rhetoric, and the Reps act like they do not know what the word “offense” or “attack” means. Hence, the Dems win even when they should be losing. SheetAnchor on July 30, 2011 at 5:38 PM The Demacrats start a large fire and the Republicans attempt to put it out but—wait!!!-The Democrats (and their MSM enablers) scream “If you try to put the fire out, we’ll blame you guys for starting it in the first place”. So the Republicans say “OK let it continue to burn but, please, not quite so intensely.” This is called “compromise”. MaiDee on July 30, 2011 at 6:35 PM I don’t trust this President and I don’t trust the Democrats. Why is he calling up the Democrats, for a little tea and crumpets, before he calls in the Republicans? The President has been doing nothing, nothing, but trying to pin this on the Republicans for over a month so, are they getting their plan together, not for the good of the country, but to pin this on the Republicans? He should have all the leaders in the room and be saying nothing behind anyone’s back. When you have the level of trust they have now, you really need to be careful, if you want a positive result. That’s the clue, they’re not looking for a positive result, they’re looking for a result that makes them look like the good guys and hangs anything bad to come out of it, on the Republicans. Vote Republican and only be called a racist one more time. bflat879 on July 31, 2011 at 7:39 AM What a Mexican (am not a racist yet) stand-off. The House can vote down Senate proposals; the Senate the votes to turn down any legislation offered up by the House. Now it is not obvious, the President does not have leadership required to break the loggerhead. MSGTAS on August 1, 2011 at 9:40 AM Comment pages: « Previous 1 2 3
An afternoon with Annie Hinkes, Portland artist and jeweler, discussing her product line, Ana Eugenia. We talk about her evolution as a craftswoman and the great influences of family and the arts. Annie Hinkes’ jewelry designs bring to mind the metallic surfaces of northwest rivers. And the spectrum of blue and gray textures on the Oregon coast. Others evoke sand and the hot sun of arid desert regions that I’ve never been to. She posts images of her latest productions on Instagram and they’ve all got this earthy candor to them. They are not showy as much as they are refined and versatile in style. Some necklaces link pieces of metal, with gems inset or without, varying in shape and size. A necklace that resembles paperclips linked together is made of sterling silver wire, bent into oblong, straight-sided loops. Rings and earrings bare natural shapes like imperfect circles in fractions and half-moons, in bronze and silver finish. In some photos, women model the necklaces, and there is an understated elegance that recalls what Audrey Hepburn gave to every accessory she wore, from pearls to sunglasses. It was a cloudless fall day back in October when I first visited Annie’s house in Southeast Portland, where she makes jewelry in the garage. Her house is shaded from the street by trees and overgrown bushes obscure the nearly windowless front of the house; upon walking in, it feels like you’ve opened a door to the outside. You’re immediately looking across her sun-suffused living room at long, wide windows showcasing a verdant backyard and much cultivated garden. Annie makes coffee and we sit at her kitchen table. She is wearing a long sleeved white T-shirt and blue jeans, no make-up with hair tied up in a high bun. This makes her look younger than her early 30s. Her slender, tall physique, and the rhythmic way she moves around the kitchen makes her look how I imagine a ballerina does on a day off. It’s compelling, the mindset of people who work from home, lacking the massively-held distinctions and borders of “work” and “personal” life, and conceptions of these things as separate. I imagine how she shifts to and from with focus and diligence everyday as I follow her after coffee on her 10 second commute to the garage studio where she works. Her work desk reminds me of my Dad’s tool bench, only less cluttered and there aren’t grease-stained towels lying around. There are tools and staged materials that look like dental equipment, pliers, a hammer and squares of silver. Annie is a metalsmith, a silversmith she later specifies. She is an art jeweler and I learn the distinction soon into our conversation. Unlike the jeweler producing on a larger scale, reproducing the same pieces for standard retail shops, she makes one-of-a-kind pieces for sale in art galleries. Silver is her medium of choice, but sometimes she employs other materials such as rubber, and other metals like brass and copper. On another work bench there is a collection of necklaces, rings and earrings that she’s getting ready to ship to the the Heidi Lowe Gallery gallery in Delaware. She also sells at the The Rising States in New York City, and in Portland at the Beam and Anchor. She sometimes hosts a studio sale at home where other craftsmen are invited to join in and sell their own work. While talking about the Delaware-bound line, Annie points out a picture on a shelf above the bench. It’s of a woman smoking a pipe in a blazer not unlike the one I wear to Annie’s, except mine is from the Gap and has electric pink lining. It’s an old photo, there is no Instagram filter work done here. It looks like it’s from the 1940s because it is, and the woman is her grandmother, Carmen. She is young in the photo and even while striking a playful pose, there is intelligence and tenacity about her. The photo and Annie’s emphatic tone in recalling the role of her grandmother in her life steers the conversation away from what she’s making and doing now toward her past. And to the history of her family which encloses the garage for the next few hours from the outside and time, and it feels like Carmen and other members of her family are there, in spirit or something, that exceeds the presence of a photo. We go from standing to sitting Indian-style on the floor like a couple of teenage girls in an attic who’ve discovered hip dresses their moms used to wear or incriminating photos. Annie starts to drag out boxes she wasn’t expecting to look through, and in stories and things, pieces of Annie’s life and work are unpacked before us. “I haven’t looked at this stuff in years…”, she says. Nearly ten years ago, when Annie was a senior at the University of Oregon, where she earned her BFA in metalsmithing, she decided to do her thesis project about the fragility of relationships. Her parents divorced when she was a young girl and as a young woman she was exploring the impact of this and her own first impressions of love. Her thesis was a necklace. “This is obnoxious and when you put it on, you can’t hug anyone.” I try it on for the full effect. It is obnoxious and though it has no weight to it really, it feels cumbersome around my neck. I feel like someone has bent a few wire hangers in the shape of soda cans, linked them and dropped the construction over my head. You do feel cut off, like the beginnings of a cage are being built around you. Another piece from school is an engagement ring– two rings actually. “This piece represents my philosophy on marriage, and that philosophy is that you have to be your own person.” She puts it on; it’s a simple ring with smooth edges, no engravings or stones. Its sterling silver band curves up around her finger and at the top, where a stone would typically mount, the band cuts off. It stays firmly on her finger but there is a gap, like it’s unfinished. She takes it off and assembles it with the other ring, its better half, and the two rings fit inside each other and spoon to create one closed S shape, meant to be worn separately but complete together. After graduating, Annie took a few years off from making jewelry. “We were critiqued all the time in school. Without that, I was unable to work.” She lived in Albuquerque for a bit working on a movie set there, and interned at the Heidi Lowe gallery in Delaware. When she returned to Portland, she attempted making work for a production line, not the pursuit of an art jeweler, but a production jeweler. She laughs and blushes searching for the collection. “Let me show you how failed it was. It was just terrible. I’m embarrassed to show it to you”, but she shows no hesitation to open the box and is even eager to, and I sense this might be therapeutic for her, if not amusing. The pieces are necklaces with flowers and birds. They’re nothing like what she makes now, lacking originality and depth, and would look at home in a Claire’s jewelry store. It’s not the ultimate look that annoys her about them, but the way she approached it. “It went against everything I learned in school. I should be making pieces that are conceptually-based and craft-based. For me it just didn’t work.” But she adds, “it was invaluable. I wouldn’t take it back. It taught me what not to do.” She has hundreds of them and she tosses them around in the box in a what am I going to do with all these way. She says through a smirk, “this was before put a bird on it was popular. When that happened, I was fucked.” “It’s just boring,” she says looking up at me, “You want one?” I laugh, saying that I was wondering what the perks of the interview would be. “My little brother,” she says, “who is 21, every new girlfriend, she gets the same necklace. Shit, I gave him three last time he was in town. He was stoked.” Of the production line, she admits, “I realized that’s not my strong suit. I am a processed based designer. I don’t know what I am making. I don’t know what it’s going to look like. I just pick materials and work until I figure it out. Constant construction and deconstruction. The production line was designed beforehand.” Manipulating the pieces of the failed production line led Annie, as she puts it, “to make lemons from lemonade”, and design her first one-of-a-kind work since college and it propelled her back into making jewelry on her own. She recalls with pride and enthusiasm a show she did in 2010 in New York City called Costume Costume! For the show, she joined The Opulent Project, a concept-based design group founded by two friends and jewelry designers from U of O. The show was based on costume jewelry and The Opulent Project invited 20 art jewelers from around the world to design their takes on costume jewelry for sale under $500. A very high price point for this author, and Annie, but she gives me some context. The show was held at the Armory in New York as part of a SOFA exhibition (Sculptural Objects and Functional Art), a fine art show where galleries from around the world bring their finest art and the clientele has a lot more than $500 to spend. The Opulent Project was invited by Sienna Art Gallery in Massachusetts. Annie models an ornate, bronze costume ring she designed for it, and it takes up most of her finger. “It’s just ridiculous. But it’s awesome.” She sticks out her hand, “Darling…” she says in her best high-society inflection. The Opulent Project set up a photo booth at the New York event. People could try on the ostentatious jewelry and take photos, leaving with those as souvenirs even if they didn’t buy anything. From her description I envision the booth off in the corner, a tiny installment not getting much attention at first. Then as people were made aware, heard others laughing and bouncing around in the photo booth, they become the most fun attraction at the show, people happy to be a little silly. Of course, I can’t know for sure, this is just how I imagine it. “Jewelry are heirlooms and we give them so much meaning.” Annie’s jewelry line is named after her great-grandmother, AnaEugenia. Most of the things in Annie’s home have been passed down from her great-grandmother. She shows me Japanese prints over a century old she has in her garage. A hair brush sitting in front of Carmen’s photo was her great-grandmother’s. I’m kind of awe-struck frankly, as I don’t have anything of family value extending back more than one generation. Most of what I own is from thrift stores or Goodwill picked up over time, surely with some stories of their own, just of other people’s grandmothers that will always be a mystery to me. I ask some more about her grandparents. “I come from a long line of entrepreneurs.” Her great-grandfather co-founded Lewis &Valentine Company in 1918, a mature tree moving company. “You can look him up at the Smithsonian,” she tells me. They moved full-grown trees on the East coast to the estates of their wealthy clients. We look at a book with photographs of Long Island mcmansions, the before and after pics of their newly landscaped lawns. Her great-grandmother wrote horticulture stories for The New York Times. Annie describes her as strong and competent, she came over from Norway pregnant to live on Long Island where “she cooked, killed chickens. Gardened.” She would go to estates and buy stuff at auctions—this is the stuff Annie inherited and has in her home. She points out two lime green vases that were passed down on a shelf, over a century old. Her father is a pilot, a builder of spec homes and high-end condos, and a realtor. He started flying planes at the age of 17. She smiles and says, “he was the kid that went to the airport and stared at the planes.” He met Annie’s Mom this way—he was her flight instructor. Her mother is self-employed too and Annie reflects on this, revealing more insight as to where her own entrepreneurial leanings come from. “They were working all the time. But they made their own schedules, and because of that you can go to lunch with your kids or whatever. But you might be working until ten pm…” Annie’s recollection of her heritage is replete with many more details and I see her 31-year-long life being traced in diagonal lines across a map of the United States in my mind, following her family’s course, and ultimately stretching out in one singular line landing on Portland. She has her own relationship to the East coast as she attended Northfield Mount Hermon boarding school in Massachusetts after being raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico until she was 15. “Growing up in New Mexico, there was a huge art influence. Navajo, Native American, Mexican. Architecture, tile, rugs, food, religion– you were surrounded by art and history all the time.” When her great-grandmother died, her grandmother, Carmen, loaded pallets with all the valuables from Long Island and they were driven to New Mexico; the treasured east coast auction findings joined the native New Mexican artifacts of Annie’s childhood. “My design sense has always been influenced not only by where I grew up but also the objects I grew up with”. Her mom, too, was a huge art lover and informed Annie and her siblings about it. “We went to museums as kids. Theater. We didn’t want to do any of those things at the time. But we grew up with an appreciation for it.” Annie remembers how she got into metal-smithing in college, originally favoring other art disciplines, entering school armed with a portfolio of paintings. She recalls the control she felt over the medium in her first metalsmith class. “Metal moves slowly, you can mess up.” I can’t help but think it’s the tactile nature of the materials and the production of an object, as opposed to a representation, that may have drawn her to the craft. Annie isn’t sure how the influences of her upbringing manifest themselves in her jewelry though she doesn’t dismiss that it does. Maybe the effects are more evident in why she does it than how, like many artists who concentrate passion and apply discipline to the process and let the ideas and vision come as they will, sourced from a core shaped by experience and knowledge, and complete mystery. It’s not lucrative for her but she makes it work, taking part time jobs including one teaching a Fundamentals of Metalsmithing course this past Fall at Oregon College of Arts and Crafts. “I’m happy to be a starving artist. Took 7 years to realize where I am happiest now….and making one of a kind stuff. I haven’t spent a year on a piece since college. Being an artistic person, I want to do that. Spend time on something.” She points to the Delaware collection. “There’s a necklace up there I’ve made five times. I think I’m finally getting around to it.” Looking at the Instagram photos, I notice the smooth surfaces, the clean character of her design. I like the matte quality of the onyx finish, dark and reserved. They don’t look heavily worked over, chiseled or polished. But I’ve seen the tools, learned what it meant to solder something. The deceptively simple lines belie the effort and focus Annie puts into her work. Her style achieves this untouched look somehow, like the natural elements are preserved, as if she found the beautiful piece in the sand, fastened and linked it on a chain, especially for you. Great feature, Kate! I felt like I was hanging out in the apartment with you while I read along. I got a good laugh at picturing a 10 second commute and relating to having someone else’s grandmother’s stuff. Great story! I love reading about the paths artists take to become artists.
61 - 80 of 319 Saint Peregrine Laziosi please pray and intercede for my sister Lorrie who was diagnosed with a brain lesion today. Pray that she may be comforted by Gods grace in this trying time. Pray that whatever anxieties fill her mind may turn in to prayer and trust in our Lord. Pray also for my brother-in-laws father who has been diagnosed with a malignant skin cancer; that he too will be comforted in his anxieties by Gods grace. Comfort our families and pray that we may have faith and strength during this time. In Jesus name I pray. Dear Saint Peregrine please help my mother-in-law who is going in for breast cancer surgery tomorrow. please intercede for auntie Beck who has lung and brain cancer. Let them both be cured of cancer and live blessed lives. I pray to Saint Peregrine that my sister Jeannie's cat scan results tomorrow show a good outcome and that this treatment for pancreatic cancer is effective. I pray to you Saint Peregrine every day for this. So does my sister, she is wearing a St. Peregrine medal I gave her when she was diagnosed with cancer this January of 2012. Thank you St. Peregrine for my sister Jean is a loving Grandmother, Mother, Wife, and Sister. She is a devout Catholic who believes in a miracle through prayer as I do. Also St. Peregrine, I would like to thank you for my friend Jeffrey's clean cat scan results he received yesterday. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 esophageal cancer February 2008 and his can scans now show that he is cancer free. Prayers are a healing. Again in my family, my dear niece, Olivia, had a Stage 2 Brain Tumor last year. It was operated on and removed. She is fine. She is having her first cat scan soon to see how things are. I pray to you every day that my sister Jeanie and Olivia's cat scans are good. And give thanks that I have a recourse to pray to you for help and healing in these times. Thanks to your tender mercy and the kindness of our Lord I pray that my prayers will be answered. Thank You, Frank St. Peregrine please help my son teache who is suferinf from cancer bless her and keep he safe in your arms that she may be able to fight this terrible disease. Let my friend know that you are with her through this difficulty. Give her strength, nourish her soul and spirit in his time of suffering and comfort her with your presence. Amen. St. Peregrine. I am praying to you for help for my sister who has pancreatic cancer. She started chemotherapy in Florida two months ago. Next week she will have a cat scan to see if the chemotherapy is working or else she will have to find another clinical trial. The week she goes for her cat scan, she is having her son and three grandchildren visit. I pray to you Saint Peregrine that the cat scan shows a reduction in the tumors. Her son and grandchildren will be with her when she finds out the cat scan results. I know Saint Peregrine that she will give a prayer of thanks to you for a healing while her son and grandchildren are with her. She wears a Saint Peregrine medal everyday. I love my sister so much and it means so much to her that she has good cat scan results while her son and grandchildren are with her. I pray everyday for this miracle from you Saint Peregrine. Let my sister look into her son and grandchildrens eyes with hope filled in her heart that a cure is there for this disease. She needs a blessing of a healing with her son and grandchildren with her. I thank you Saint Peregrine for your miraculous blessing and hearing my prayers for my sister. Frank St. Peregrine, I ask that you help me get the strength to deal with recurrence of my esophageal cancer. I want to be around for my two boys (ages 2 and 6) as they grow up and teach them about God and Jesus. I also ask that God watch over my wife and children as I continue on with my struggle. I do believe in miracles and I know that God has a plan. I only ask that God give me the strength to fulfill his will. My will is that I stick around for my family. In the end God's will takes precedence, and with God all things are possible. Dear Saint Peregrine, Please help my husband of 30 years to conquer his as of now inoperable pancreatic cancer. Bless him as he goes thru his second round of chemo, He's a good man and I pray to you daily. Also, another good friend was diagnosed with double lung inoperable cancer, pray for him and we do believe in miracles. Thank you in Jesus's name Amen Saint Peregrine, please intercede for my wife Inca who is 34 and having her fourth cycle of chemo to treat two types of acute leukemia. Our 3 small children miss her badly and need her to come home. Please help her treatment to get her into remission or at least work enough to enable her to have the transplant she needs. Dear St. Peregrine, please intercede for me as I am trying to make a decision about my treatment for breast cancer. I have had surgery and no more cancer was found in that area. I ask Jesus and His Holy Mother to cure me of this cancer and ask that no more treatment will be necessary. In Jesus' Name. Amen Dear Saint Peregrine please pray for my wife Alison who was diagnosed with rectal cancer in late 2008. She has been in remission for almost two years but still suffers with bathroom issues and other complications from the surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Please intervene for her and keep her in remission. Dear Saint Peregrine, Please help my wonderful Mother who has been told she has lung cancer. She will be having more tests done to see what type of cancer it is. My Mother is such a beautiful person that has helped so many people. She has always put others before herself but she now needs to be first as we have a big jouney ahead. Please our dear Saint, pray for my Mother and heal her. Please also pray for all the other people that need your support fighting cancer. Amen Dear Saint Peregrine, please hear my prayers as I open my heart and mind to our Lord Jesus Christ. I ask for intercession for my dear mother who suffers today. We ask that we hear the doctors but only receive you into our hearts. We ask for some time together with my wonderful mother and that she receive the best care with the least amount of pain as possible. We ask for a cure, if it is your will. We ask humbly and with aching hearts. We ask for hope and lightness and beauty to surround my mother and my family during this journey. In Jesus name, I pray. St. Peregrine I humbly beg you to please perform a joyus miracle in healing my father, Bobby from his cancer. He has smoldering myeloma and there is not a cure. I am hoping that you will look into his heart and see that he is a kind, decent, giving, loving and holy man. He does not deserve to be sick like this, so please St. Peregrine heal him and I will shout it to the entire world what a true miracle has happened. I am at yours and Gods mercy now, do what you can please to heal my daddy. And also the others who are also suffering in this world from this terrible disease. Thank you in advance for the miracle I know you can and hope you will perform. St Peregrine: I humbly beg you to hear my prayers and take then to our Father, my sister has been diagnosed with Pancreatic CA and she is a very devoted and faithful follower of Christ and very devoted to our Blessed Mother, please pray for her recovery so I may have more quality time with her and that she is spared from any pain. She has great faith in God and completely trusts in Him, I ask for your help as well as for my mother that will not be able to handle this. Please ask our Lord to spare both of them the pain and agony. We just lost our Dad and we all need your prayers. Thank you I was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer a year ago on st valentines day. My doctors determined it was stage 4, terminal and non operable. Only one lymph node was affected but it had also traveled tp my left eye. My family immediately gathered around for support and a constant barrage of individual and group prayers. Around this time My wife told me about St Pregrine. She gave me prayer card to keep with me and a medal for my neck. I prayed to him on occasion and still have the card in my wallet. I have also told others about him and I keep him in my thoughts. The fact is that I should either be dead or well on the way. I believe that something other than medicine is the reason for my good fortune. The great changes in my life is that I know God is with me and St Pregrine has reached out to me. God has a plan for me, I only hope that I answer his call in my time remaining on earth. Dearest Saint Peregrine, we pray for my mother Mary Kamala, who has been diagnosed with cancer. Doctor saying after 4 weeks, they are planned to start chemo. But we believe in Jesus, Mary. They will do miracle before start the treatment. Hope no need for chemo, She will recover from that disease. Please watch over my mother and pray for her healing. we have faith in you. She will get a miracle. Glory be to the Father and the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Amen. For Veronica who has lung cancer and it has spread to the bones & now the brains. St. Peregrine, we ask for your incessions for her healing. Dear St. Peregrine. I pray to you yet again for your miracles. My sister Jean has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that has spread to her lungs and stomach. She lives in another state and started her second week of chemo. I truly believe in your cancer curing miracles. I prayed to you four years ago when my friend was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer and now he is in cancer remission. My niece just had a brain tumor removed and i am praying for her that she stays in remission. But this letter is specifically for my dear sister Jean. She is a loving grandmother, mother, wife, sister and friend to animals. She started chemo two weeks ago in Florida. I live in New Jersey. I say the rosary twice daily for her cure. The doctors say this chemo is very effective for this type of cancer. But this cancer is so dangerous. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and Saint Peregrine and pray to them both to have compassion for my sister Jean. To place their healing hands upon her and direct the chemo to remove the tumors that affect her. May she be in the healing embrace of our Lord and St. Peregrine so she will become cancer free. I have no other recourse to go to but to thee dear Lord and St. Peregrine. May the Lord be with my sister for every moment of every day, give her happiness instead of doubt and despair. I ask for this every day by saying the rosary. Thank you for your compassion and tender mercy to my sister Jean who I love very much. I belief in faith and miracles. Thanks be to God. . Thank you Saint Peregrine and the Lord Jesus Christ for hearing my prayers. Frank Dear St Peregrine, Please pray with me to Our Lord to bless and heal my cousin Shirley who has just been diagnosed with bowel cancer. Please ask Our Father to watch over the medical team as they treat and operate on her. Thank you and Amen Dear St. Peregine, please watch over my dad as he battles pancreatic cancer. Give strength and courage to my entire family, especailly my parents. Help my family use this experience as a way to build our faith and grow closer to Christ. And if it be God's will, heal my dad of this awful disease. Amen
Revenue Inbox Initial Search and Applied Record Filters¶ In Revenue Inbox, automatic search for relevant Salesforce records (initial search) follows a specific algorithm of interactions between the Add-In/Gmail Extension, MS Exchange / Office 365 (or Gmail), and Salesforce. The below diagram illustrates the general relevant records retrieval principle applied by the Add-In / Chrome Extension. Note The Initial Search also determines what object category tabs will be present on the Add-In’s home screen, based on Salesforce configuration data. Note that while some added object types with set Salesforce views will be handled in “out-of-the-box” RI configuration, other custom ones must be specifically configured to be handled by RI After an email message/calendar item is selected or opened in your email client and the Add-In / Chrome Extension is open: - The Add-In / Chrome Extension obtains the full list (initial list) of senders/recipients from this item in MS Exchange - Revenue Inbox filters the initial list by removing the addresses which contain your corporate domain(s) (“internal emails”) and the addresses/domains specifically blocklisted from sharing in Salesforce by Revenue Inbox synchronization, this way creating an aggregated list of addresses - Next, Revenue Inbox passes the resulting list to Salesforce to match these email addresses with objects stored in Salesforce - Salesforce matches the addresses from the aggregated list against the record fields - The results are displayed in the Revenue Inbox Sidebar as Related records The resulting Related records list will include¶ - Associated Lead retrieved based on the email addresses and any records that match email addresses mentioned in email body or Associated Contact retrieved based on the email addresses, their associated Account and other business records (Opportunities, Cases), as well as other objects linked to this Account If no associated Leads or Contacts are found, the list will include Accounts retrieved based on their Website address field value matching the email address’s domain Other related records found, based on data retrieved from message Subject, Body (e.g. mentioned email addresses), and Signature. This includes your Org-specific custom objects, provided you have added them to RI handling scope Note If the aggregated list contains no addresses (that is, all addresses were filtered out as internal/blocklisted), the message is categorized as Internal and no related records are displayed for it. Note If Revenue Inbox reads a support Case’s code contained in the message’s subject line, it also retrieves and adds the corresponding Case to the related records list. Additionally, If there are direct links to Salesforce records (e.g.,) or email addresses mentioned in message body, these items are also added to the list. Note that searching for records related to internal emails can also be performed, if the Add-In / Chrome Extension is configured to do so by enabling the Include internal emails into search results option on Revenue Inbox Customization page – this option excludes internal email addresses filtering by Initial Search. How Revenue Inbox Filters Records Displayed in Search Results¶ In addition to the customizable viewed items filters applied to make Revenue Inbox Sidebar‘s displaying of Salesforce records convenient and focused, it includes specific filters applied for items being synced which are required for sync optimization and focusing, so the items actually displayed in Revenue Inbox search results are what remains after application of all these filters, besides the search criteria you have entered. The applied filters are: - The “internal emails” filter and the Do not load related objects lists filter to learn how to disable or enable these filters), as well as secondary “items focusing” Salesforce views which can be set in customization settings (Global search filter and Contextual search filter) - The blocklisted addresses / domains filter and other filters applied on records synchronization This way, if the searched for item is not displayed, it may have been hidden by one of the above listed filters. To determine the reason why the record was not shown in search results: - Check the list of the addresses which have been filtered out as internal or blocklisted under Smart Actions bar > More… > Observations, “Some not important emails were filtered:“ in Revenue Inbox Sidebar. * Check the settings of the relevant filters on Revenue Inbox Customization page and Synchronization dashboard. Important In addition, to bring up only actual records, Revenue Inbox initial search applies specific filters for certain objects listed in Related records. To be included, an Opportunity object must be either be closed within 1 year (365 days) in the past or expected to be closed within 6 months (180 days) from the present date; a Support Case object must be open and created within 3 months (90 days) in the past from the current date. Please also refer to this article to learn how to include closed Cases and Opportunities into RI handling scope. Internal Emails, Corporate Domains, and the Blocklist¶ By default, Revenue Inbox recognizes your corporate email domains on the Org level in the RI Admin panel and does not auto-share emails to/from such addresses in Salesforce if the corresponding setting is enabled. Note You can always make use of user-initiated search if you want to save an email categorized as internal or blocklisted to Salesforce, linked to an existing object. The list of internal (in-org) email addresses/domains is defined via the corresponding field in RI Admin panel. Revenue Inbox also appends different variations of your corporate email domain(s) (based on the list of aliases retrieved from MS Exchange/Office 365) to this list, as comma-separated values. In case you need to enable retrieval of related records for internal (in-org) email messages and calendar items, follow the steps below: 1. Go to Customization page - In the Application Settings area, select the Include internal emails into search results checkbox 3. Click Save in the upper right corner This will enable Revenue Inbox to work with internal emails on the Organization’s level, thus the Add-In / Chrome Extension will also disregard the corporate email addresses list on all synchronization sessions. The users who have access to their Customization settings can add specific domains to their blocklisted Domains list (the individual not-to-be-shared by RI synchronization blocklist) in the Email Sync Options Customization section of Customization settings. This individual blocklist is complemented by the all-Org blocklist. Refer to this article for more information on how these two blocklists intersect. For example, if you want to blocklist from syncing emails received from/sent to addresses belonging to free email services like gmail.com or outlook.com, you can add them to the Blocklisted Domains box as comma-separated values. Note that the list does not support using wildcards. Messages or events received from users with the specified domains in their email addresses will not be auto-saved in Salesforce. All domains added to the Blocklisted Domains box will also be automatically added to the ServiceAutoTrackBlackList setting on the User level as comma-separated values. Revenue Inbox applies both ServiceOrganizationDomains and ServiceAutoTrackBlackList settings during each synchronization attempt to filter out internal emails and blocklisted domains. Some users may have their corporate domains blocklisted, in addition to it being specified in the ServiceOrganizationDomains setting of the Organization they belong to. To save internal emails, if you select the Include internal emails into search results checkbox (as described above), make sure that your corporate domain is not listed in the blocklisted Domains box as well. Important If an email is sent to multiple receivers and only some of the addresses are on the blocklist, the email will still be saved and linked to the records associated with the recipients who are not blocklisted. Prefilled Field Values Priority¶ In the latest Revenue Inbox updates, when a single field is prefilled by either two or all of the three existing prefilling mechanisms, there is an established priority defining which prefilled value prevails [listed from higher priority to lower priority]: Explicit field prefilling performed by the Add-In based on item scanning or initial search results Prefilling of default values set by RI Sync Default values defined by Salesforce (e.g. default picklist items) In addition, any prefilled field value can be modified through Revenue Inbox by the users. Strict Initial Search¶ Revenue Inbox initial search is based on Salesforce search; by default its results include all records linked to an object one of whose fields specified in the Search by list contains a matching identifying value (e.g. email address or name) extracted from the incoming email message or calendar item. This broad search approach is useful in most cases, as it is highly inclusive. However, when applied to searching among internal emails (that is, Allow creating duplicated emails in Salesforce is enabled), the default broad search might retrieve too many undesired associated records from Salesforce, including owned records and ones retrieved via WhoId / WhatId fields. To prevent that, Revenue Inbox always applies strict initial search for internal emails, making the results more focused. Note If broad initial search matches are too many, only a selection of them is displayed in Related records. If you notice that occurring, i.e. you see some distantly related records instead of expected ones, it might be necessary to enable strict initial search permanently to get focused results. Send a corresponding request to our Support team to enable permanent application of strict initial search in your configuration. Opportunity Contact Roles Associations¶ Please note that in the latest Revenue Inbox updates contact roles set for Opportunity objects are also considered on initial search and associated records found through the roles are also listed in Related records in the Sidebar. Related Records Retrieval Pattern¶ If an incoming/outgoing Email or Event has an associated Contact linked to an Account, both will be displayed in related record list retrieved by Initial Search Initial Search displays among Related records only those additional Contact associations (e.g. Opportunities or Cases) which object-specific user defined Contextual search filter allows to handle If there are duplicate records found which are based on the same email address, e.g. a Lead and a Contact, all of them will be listed among Related records If an incoming/outgoing Email or Event has an associated Contact but no Account linked to it, there will be no direct suggestion to create an Account for it, since some business contacts might represent no companies and thus require no Account linking Note If an Account’s Website field corresponds to an email domain used in correspondence, Revenue Inbox Initial Search will list it among Related records only if no other associated records were found. In addition, on Contact creation, when suggesting an Account to be associated with the Contact, Initial Search first checks for related Contacts and Accounts by domain of the email address specified for the created Contact; then, if no records are found this way, it searches for Accounts which contain website link corresponding to the email domain. Additional notes on the Global Search View Setting¶ - Besides the Related record list, the Global search filter is also applied when objects are internally searched for by their identifier. This may cause certain confusions: Additional related objects (Accounts, Opportunities, Cases, or custom objects) will be essentially filtered out of display according to set Global view. For example, if you select Accounts to be filtered out by this setting, Initial Search will retrieve and display all Contacts associated with a relevant Account along with the primary related Contact, but not the Account itself. Similarly, clicking on a reference to an object filtered out by the actual Global view will not open the object in the Sidebar. On Revenue Inbox user-initiated search, records not belonging to the actual Global view may appear in Revenue Inbox search suggestions, but selecting them will not bring up any search results. - Sometimes, if certain records were not retrieved by Initial Search because of the Global view applied, the Add-In / Chrome Extension will suggest creating them. And if the user creates them via the Add-In / Chrome Extension, Salesforce may respond with a duplicate records notification We would love to hear from you
I want to share my story and experience with mold exposure in hopes that you can avoid the same difficulties I went through. Or at the very least, it may help you put the puzzle pieces together and see the importance of avoiding exposure to mold in your home and workplace. The back-story that led to my realization of mold being a problem, other than it is stinky. By age 29, I had been diagnosed with four autoimmune diseases. In order of diagnosis; Arthritis, Sarcoidosis, Mild-Tricuspid Pulmonary Regurgitation, and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. After realizing one day that I didn’t know what these diseases truly were, and I owed it to myself to know, I went to my local public library for answers. Though I had been told that the disease symptoms were irreversible, part of me hoped to somehow find that there was a way to stop their progression. Maybe the information was tucked away in a collection of obscure health books and it wasn’t spoken of often because it was too difficult to achieve, or the research was too new. Reading and research pays off in rewarding you with good health. I began to research about Hashimoto’s Disease first; I wanted to relieve my daily dependency on synthetic hormone replacement. I began with reading Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? When My Lab Tests Are Normal: a Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Hashimoto’s Disease and Hypothyroidism which pointed to food choice and a condition called Candida albicans overgrowth or Dysbiosis as a possible underlying trigger to the autoimmune disease symptoms that I was experiencing. Long title for a book, but it is very valuable to finding answers to a reason for the illness. The dietary suggestions given by the author are similar to the diet styles of the The Paleo Diet and Candida Diet suggestions by the book The Yeast Connection . I followed a blend of these diet principles, and after a couple of months, test results showed that my need for hormone replacement was completely gone. Talk about feeling empowered! Wholesome, low-sugar, and anti-fungal foods helped my body regain control and start to function better. This changed my mindset, my spirit, and I began to trust myself and my own abilities much more. It also sparked an unquenchable desire to learn more about health and wellness, my true calling. Next I began to discover how mold and imbalanced gut bacteria, not just candida overgrowth, had led to unwanted autoimmune disease symptoms. I had always lived in homes with mold growing in some area of the house. I grew up in middle Tennessee, it is humid and the perfect breeding ground for endless varieties of fungus and mold. My attitude toward mold was this, “It stinks, and it’s ugly, but that’s all there is to it.” I didn’t understand the possible health hazards and danger associated with breathing in mold spores. I didn’t have a typical respiratory reaction to mold exposure (coughing or sneezing) so I believed that my body was not sensitive to mold spores. Along this same time, I began learning the connection between the gut microbiome and the immune system. (1) For many years, I used antibiotics liberally for colds, acne, just-in-case, and a reoccurring bout of strep-throat that antibiotics couldn’t rid leading to a complete tonsillectomy. I used a variety of NSAID pain relievers almost daily for arthritis pain in my knees. As an adult I was treated with several broad spectrum antibiotics for an infection over a two-month period. I spent five years on birth control, and two years on synthetic hormone replacement. What I didn’t know at the time of using these treatments for infection, pain, and hormone regulation; each one was quietly destroying my gut microbiome. (2) What I thought was an unfortunate coincidence of ageing connected to weight gain (even though I was in my early twenties, maybe I just age faster than others), really was connected to the destruction of my microbiome. (3) It’s hard to say which caused the problems first: mold exposure or the treatments that risk damaging gut microbiota. However, it is safe to say they were both contributing to dysbiosis, my continual degradation of health and balance, and I wanted to learn how to correct the choices I had made. When the mold exposure had become too much. The home I was currently living in, while researching about diet and it’s link to autoimmune disease, also had extensive mold growth – to say the least. The roof would occasionally leak during heavy rains. The basement had a crack in the foundation and would leak excessive rainwater in. It was annoying, but I didn’t understand just how dangerous it was to live in an environment like that, yet. For this particular year, 2013, it was Spring and the spring-time rains came in force. This house had been my home for two years previous and it had never leaked as aggressively as it did this time. Water came in from the roof and basement in buckets. I am certain God had His hand behind this because the mold in my house started rapidly blooming and it became undeniable to me that I needed to move. Every bit of progress that I had made dietary-wise was quickly gone! Three months of progress from eating healthy meals, it was all washed away with the rain. Rashes that I had cleared away started forming again. I hadn’t been wearing glasses for weeks, they had to go back on. My mind was abruptly opened to mold exposure as an underlying cause to everything that was wrong. The extensive and rapid mold bloom also initiated new symptoms. I couldn’t focus and developed a muscle twitch when I had to spend three hours or more in the home. I uncontrollably clinched my teeth, my hands shook, and I felt a level of irritation to my nervous system that kept my whole body tense. Pain would radiate in my bottom front teeth, and along my left temple to my jaw. Pain pulsed along my back under my shoulder blade. Unexpected bursts of various emotions would surface. My hair began falling out in clumps. At this point, I didn’t care if I had to sleep in a tent, I was out of there! Looking back on this experience, each symptom surfaced over a few weeks time and by the end, I finally accepted that it was crucial I leave that environment. Now I go back to the library for help on how to remove the mold from my body. So far, I have found the diet connection to autoimmune disease, learned that mold is dangerous, yet I didn’t know how I was going to remove the mold that was residing in my body from the exposure. While waiting for a new place to live, I was able to move into a hotel, and luckily this hotel was free from mold damage. During my waiting time, I searched for books to teach myself how to remove the mold from my body. This is when I found the Alkaline Diet, and how foods and herbs can be used to help your body naturally cleanse itself. I also discovered a scientific research jackpot giving me confidence that my observance of the mold and it’s effect on my health was completely correct. Researchers at the University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia found correlation between patients with sarcoidosis and fungal exposure in their homes and workplaces. (5) Sarcoidosis is one of the autoimmune diseases that I had been diagnosed with. Again, more validation that diet, mold exposure, and inadequate gut bacteria were at the root of why I had developed so many unwanted health symptoms. Today… The gut microbiome shield. Here on the other side, having learned more detail about the importance of gut health and the bacteria that live within. Reading the book The Microbiome Solution was life changing for me, and opened my mind to the importance of a healthy gut microbiome. I am now making life choices to intentionally strengthen my immune system and support a better balanced gut microbiome. I use essential oils that have scientific evidence supporting their assistance in keeping gut bacteria balanced. (4) I have learned how to protect myself from the effects of mold exposure. Since my time of living in the mold house, I have been exposed to mold by visiting other buildings that I needed to go in. Before I enter these buildings, I always apply a diluted amount of essential oils near my nostrils, mouth, ears, cheeks, and temples. I smell lovely, but it is intentionally placed at these points that are open to help stop the mold from having any affect on my body. Frankincense has been the best at helping me to avoid the symptoms of mold exposure. If it’s possible to avoid a moldy building, that is best, but sometimes that may not be an option. I still react to mold, and will know almost immediately that it is there (which can be a blessing in disguise). Now the reaction is not as harsh or long lasting, so long as I am not staying for an extended period of time. There may be a bacterial reason for why some of us have stronger reactions to mold exposure. I believe, had my gut microbiome been stronger I wouldn’t have felt the effects of being exposed to mold as strongly. This doesn’t mean that living in a home with mold is safe, even when your gut health is strong. But this may explain why some of us can go in a building with mold growth and feel fine, while others may feel tired and spacey for the rest of the day – the difference in each person’s gut microbiome would dictate the response. If you do react quickly to mold, consider yourself lucky, a canary in the coal mine for the rest of the group. At the same time, consider the health of your gut and how you may strengthen it with the addition of raw vegetables, fruit, probiotic foods, essential oils, and herbs. Mold exposure is one of the first aspects of a person’s lifestyle that should be examined for possible causes to poor health. My research findings and dietary experimentation since the moldy house have led me to the belief that disease and poor health sit on a foundation of mold and fungus exposure, inadequate gut bacteria levels, dehydration, and improper diet choices. Mold and fungus will suppress a person’s immune system. (6) Add on top of this, a poor diet and nutritional deficiencies caused by selecting acid forming foods as the majority of the persons diet. You now have the perfect recipe for unwanted symptoms that may be observed and classified as a disease. (7) Exposure to mold and it’s danger’s is garnering more attention. Many people are becoming more aware that the underlying cause to their poor health is the mold growing in their home or workplace. I have compiled a Pinterest folder with research and articles that link poor health to mold exposure, along with websites that offer information about mold and how to avoid it. Seek support. If you think that mold exposure is your problem too, there are support groups on Facebook for help with avoiding exposure to mold and environmental poisons. If you would like one-on-one guidance for how to reverse the mold exposure, look for a doctor of functional medicine that has experience with treating mold exposure patients. Of course you’re always welcome to join the Alkaline Diet Support group for suggestions on the dietary aspects of supporting your body’s ability to remove mold from it. The movie “Moldy” can help with motivating you to take action if it seems too challenging to make the necessary changes in your life to avoid mold exposure. Please be safe and take care of your body. It is interesting to observe how we can live in an environment that may be aggravating unwanted health symptoms, especially if these symptoms come on slowly, and never notice how obvious it is until you have been removed from that environment – a bit of the boiling a frog analogy. I know that not everyone can pick up and move from their home immediately, but keep this in mind, no material belongings in this world are worth more than your happiness and health. You can’t take any of it with you when you leave this Earth. If my only option was to live in my car, I would have done it. Do anything and everything you can to follow God and protect the body that He has given to you, you only get one. This post contains affiliate links. Please consider purchasing the books listed in this post via the links provided. You pay nothing extra by doing this, and a small thank you commission is given to Curing Vision. By using the link here, it helps to support the mission of Curing Vision and encourage the sharing of wellness knowledge. Sources: - Round, June L., Mazmanian, Sarkis K., “The gut microbiome shapes intestinal immune responses during health and disease”, Nature Reviews Immunology 9, 313-323 (May 2009) \|doi:10.1038/nri2515. - Syer SD, et. al., “NSAID enteropathy and bacteria: a complicated relationship.” J. Gastroenterol 2015 Apr;50(4):387-93. doi: 10.1007/s00535-014-1032-1. Epub 2015 Jan 10. 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!> check against delivery Thank you very much for the invitation to deliver the annual lecture at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS. It is a great honour and a pleasure for me to be here with you today and to be able to share a few of my thoughts on the challenges today to international humanitarian law, or the law of war as it is also known. I will first give you our reading of the changing face of war and conflict in recent times and try to identify the specific characteristics of the conflict environment today. Afterwards, I will focus on five current challenges to international humanitarian law that keep us busy and – sometimes - awake at night. I shall be considering them under the following headings: Our reading of contemporary conflict Over the years, a number of thinkers have been predicting that wars and conflicts will become things of the past. It was argued at the end of the 19th century that the destructive potential of modern armaments, the economic interdependence of countries and the nature of modern societies had made the prosecution of war among the powers of the day an economic impossibility. This was quickly shown to have been wishful thinking: during the First World War the full might and ingenuity of the industrialized world was used to destroy millions of lives. In Germany in 1918, the hopeful slogan "Nie wieder Krieg!” echoed throughout the land. But, shortly afterwards, it was succeeded by Adolf Hitler’s fateful call for "Total War." Laudable efforts to outlaw wars, through the United Nations, were even more short-lived: the Korean War inaugurated the period of the Cold War – a 40-year war that was not cold at all for millions of people. During all that time not one day passed without the incidence of armed conflict somewhere in the world, as global disputes - strategic, and ideological – continuously kindled local and regional conflicts. The end of the Cold War, as manifested by the fall of the Berlin Wall, created euphoric hopes that a "New World Order" would bring peace to the world. There were those who dreamt of the "end of history." But the Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait in August 1990 and the Gulf War that followed quickly shattered this illusion. In fact, the 1990s turned out to be a disorderly and bloody decade: The disintegration of the Soviet Union and of the former Yugoslavia gave birth to a series of complex and sometimes brutal conflicts over national identity, territory and ethnicity. Almost 20 years later, some of these conflicts still linger on. In the developing world, meanwhile, many States that had received massive amounts of support from the two superpowers and their allies during the Cold War were left to fend for themselves after 1989. While such shock therapy might have contributed to the growth of self-reliance in Asian and Latin American countries, it had disastrous consequences elsewhere: not only in Africa, but also in other parts of the world such as Afghanistan. Deprived of external economic aid, these failed and impoverished States became increasingly chaotic. Moreover, the dynamics of a deregulated, globalised market economy transformed some of these States into political constructs ruled by warlords who controlled the market and the extraction of natural resources, for no purpose other than to fortify their personal power base. The modern warlord, waging war with his privately owned and privately financed militia, does not bother to make any ideological claims of serving the people. Most areas of conflict have been flooded with small arms, which are cheap and easy to use. As a result, the cost of waging war has fallen sharply over the last 15 years. The proceeds from the sale of such commodities as diamonds or drugs were often sufficient to sustain a warlord and his "privatized war." In the early 90s, Somalia was the first country to disintegrate in this way. Millions of Somalis have had to pay for it with the loss of their livelihood and, very often, their lives. In Somalia, as in many other countries drawn into conflict during this past decade, the chaotic fragmentation of the State and its monopoly in the use of force has greatly undermined universally recognized standards of international humanitarian law. By far the most dreadful violations of IHL committed during the 1990s were caused by ethnic hatred and climaxed in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the Srebrenica massacre of 1995 in Bosnia. Thus, as the end of the 20th century drew near, all remaining hopes for a conflict-free world had been definitely extinguished. In the new millennium, the horrifying attacks of 11 September 2001 triggered a fight against terrorism at a global scale. This struggle, in which the world's single most powerful State and its allies confront a transnational network of almost invisible non-State armed groups, is still in progress, almost seven years after 9/11. It is an asymmetric confrontation – not only because of the differing characteristics of the parties involved, but also because their objectives and their ways of operating are so fundamentally different. While this fight is being acted out as armed conflicts in Afghanistan and in Iraq, many other parts of the world have been affected by it in different ways. A number of local conflicts, from the Maghreb through the Horn of Africa to the Middle East and Asia, have become entangled in it. Taking a look at today's conflicts around the world, we see that inter-State wars, though greatly reduced in number, are being replaced by a wide range of highly complex and drawn-out internal conflicts of low intensity. In many cases, overlapping dissensions - local, regional, and global – are at work. The motives and grievances driving these conflicts are manifold and socio-economic factors continue to be vitally important. The sudden upsurge of violence in many countries following the recent explosion of food prices has provided renewed emphasis of the fact. Competition for access to critical natural resources, various forms of predatory economic behaviour, and social imbalances are all potent causes for conflict, particularly in weak States where public-sector services such as health, water supply, and social welfare have collapsed. Most current conflicts tend to be long, drawn-out, and chronic in nature, their intensity ebbing and flowing. But as they drag on, even low-intensity conflicts have a far-reaching impact on civilians. There are direct consequences: numbers of people are uprooted and displaced, killed, injured, detained, separated from their families, or go missing. And there are indirect consequences as well: for example, people in need of medical care die because the health services have collapsed. One of the most distinctive features of contemporary conflict is the interconnectedness of many of these factors. Indeed, globalization, particularly the globalized media environment, creates links between sources of conflict. Let us consider for a moment the recent food riots that erupted in a number of countries: these were by no means events that occurred independently of each other. They are a product of the compounded effects of rising oil prices, increasing demand, the world-wide financial crisis, and of the global media coverage that allows people everywhere to be informed of what is happening elsewhere in the world. The result is that social unrest sometimes spirals out of control. If, in addition, transnational groups take advantage of a people’s feelings of injury, conditions are primed for violence to erupt or for the breaking out of conflict. The food riots are also an early warning to look at the potential humanitarian consequences of climate change. So, what should we expect in the future? Well, the good news, I believe, is that we have reason to hope that large-scale inter-State wars will be avoided, thanks to improved political cooperation at the global level. At the same time, we need to prepare for more uncertainty and more turbulence in large parts of the world. Volatile local and regional conflicts, involving highly fragmented actors, will continue to affect millions of people. And that will feed into the fight against terrorism. Governments will also make ever more use of private military and security companies to supplement their own security forces. The role of the ICRC in contemporary conflict The ICRC will do its best to remain operational in all the conflict spots around the world, trying to ensure that the millions of people caught up in the fighting and turmoil will not be deprived of their dignity, their means of sustenance, and the services essential to their well-being. We will continue to work hard to ensure that the standards of the law of war are respected by all, especially with regard to the conduct of hostilities and the treatment of detainees held in connection with a conflict. This is the raison d'être of the ICRC, which is active today in over 80 countries and has a staff in excess of 12,000 persons. Currently, our largest field operation is Darfur in Sudan, followed closely by Iraq, Afghanistan, and the occupied Palestinian territories. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am sure you know that the uniqueness of the ICRC lies in the visionary idea of its founder, Henry Dunant, to combine direct humanitarian action for victims of armed conflict with a sustained effort to develop and promote a universal and binding legal framework regulating the conduct of hostilities and the protection of persons in order to limit human suffering in war. Our role is therefore to remind the parties to an armed conflict – both States and organized armed groups - of their obligations under humanitarian law and to urge them to fulfil those obligations. The promotion and strengthening of respect for international humanitarian law have been among the core activities of the ICRC since its establishment in 1863 and the adoption of the original Geneva Convention in 1864. Over time, an impressive body of humanitarian law has been developed, the key elements of which have been ratified by virtually every State. After World War I, a Protocol outlawing chemical weapons was signed and a proper Convention on the Protection of Prisoners of War negotiated; after World War II, a comprehensive Convention on the Protection of Civilians, including during occupation by belligerents, was adopted. Still, traditionally, international humanitarian law was considered a specialist’s field; the practical importance of its application has received public attention only over the past decade or so. In our view, this is a welcome development. It may be fairly said that contemporary public interest in humanitarian law began with the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the genocide in Rwanda. Complex legal and humanitarian issues related to the fight against terrorism have spurred further public interest. We have had to conclude that the world will unfortunately experience more armed conflict in the future; this only confirms the relevance of ius in bello, as we also call humanitarian law, in today's world, and fortifies our resolve to work to further strengthen its relevance to belligerents and affected populations. Five current challenges to implement international humanitarian law What then, you may ask, are the major challenges to humanitarian law in contemporary conflict? I shall briefly outline four of them and then explore a fifth in somewhat greater detail: 1. Mobilizing the political will to prevent violations of international humanitarian law The most important current challenge is the lack of political will of belligerent parties to respect IHL. The serious violations of humanitarian law that occurred during the wars in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and elsewhere mobilized public opinion to find new ways for the international community to put an end to such violations. Non-governmental advocacy groups lobbied for more decisive action at the international level, while the ICRC, along with them, supported the creation of an International Criminal Court that would put an end to impunity and make humanitarian law more effective. The ICRC also reminded governments that through the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocol I they had contracted a collective responsibility "to ensure respect for these Conventions under all circumstances" (Article 1 common to the four Geneva Conventions) and "in situations of serious violations…to act, jointly or individually, in co-operation with the United Nations and in conformity with the United Nations Charter" (Article 89, Additional Protocol I). Over the past 10 years considerable progress has been achieved in this respect, but much more needs to be done. Although more UN peace-keeping missions are deployed in trouble spots, and although some of them are robust enough to have a direct protective impact on the civilian population, the ambitions of many missions are not adequately supported by the necessary resources, material and human. Politically, the development of the "Responsibility to Protect" concept and its adoption at a UN summit of world leaders in 2005 was a significant step forward. The Secretary-General now keeps the UN Security Council abreast of the latest developments regarding the situation of the civilian population in armed conflicts throughout the world. However, being informed and having a principled concept in place have not yet resulted in the political action necessary to effectively stop all serious violations of humanitarian law. 2. The fragmentation of non-State armed groups When the ICRC started its operations in Darfur four years ago, our delegates had to deal with two rebel groups fighting against the government of Sudan. Today there are some 20 distinct factions of militarized non-State actors with whom we have to establish contact in order to operate – with a minimum of security guarantees – and on whom we have to impress the fact of their responsibility for the civilian population. The same phenomenon of proliferation and fragmentation of armed non-State groups is apparent elsewhere. We therefore need to devise innovative strategies to reach out to all of them in order to convince them that it is in their interests to uphold the basic tenets of humanitarian law. 3. The rapid development of private military and security companies. The growing significance of private military and security companies, as demonstrated by the extraordinary number of such companies operating in Iraq, is, equally, a challenge to the application of international humanitarian law. While Iraq is probably an exceptional situation and may not recur in the same manner elsewhere, it is clear that States – but also multinational coalitions, peace-keeping troops, or organizations like NATO - will resort to private actors for support for their operations. Whilst the personnel of private military and security companies are bound by international humanitarian law, like any other actor in an armed conflict, few States have regulated their activities, by setting out, for instance, clear standards of conduct in contracts. There also exists a gap in criminal accountability. All this has created a general concern that some companies may employ personnel who have previously committed violations of humanitarian law or are untrained for their task. Within the framework of an initiative sponsored by the Swiss government, the ICRC is now working with government experts from 18 countries to develop good practices for contracting States, i.e. those that contract such companies, for territorial States, i.e. those on whose territories these companies will operate, as well as for home States where such companies are registered. Through this initiative we want to reaffirm that the law applies to these actors and to increase the practical relevance of humanitarian law in this extremely critical sector. 4. The legality of specific weapons or of their use under certain circumstances Shocked by the devastating impact that the use of poisonous gas had during World War I, the ICRC actively lobbied for the creation of an international treaty that would outlaw such weapons. Indeed, looking back from a distance of almost a century, we feel that the 1925 Protocol on chemical weapons has been a key element in preventing the spread of such weapons and their use in more recent armed conflict. Yes, there were exceptions. I was myself on an ICRC mission in Iraq when, in the border town of Halabja, thousands of people perished in a chemical attack. Still, we are convinced that the universal consensus on the need to outlaw the use of such weapons, as confirmed in the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, was instrumental in potentially saving millions of lives. The ICRC is no less concerned today about the potential use of all weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, radiological, biological or chemical. We are equally concerned about the humanitarian impact of certain conventional weapons. As a result of its familiarity with the devastating and indiscriminate effects of land-mines long after the end of hostilities, the ICRC has been a vigorous advocate of the Ottawa treaty on anti-personnel mines. Now, we urge States to conclude a new treaty that will ban inaccurate and unreliable cluster munitions. Each of these weapons can contain up to 644 individual sub-munitions or "bomblets" that are generally designed to explode on impact. In reality, a high percentage fail to explode as intended. Credible estimates of the failure rate of cluster munitions put it at anywhere from ten to forty percent. Some countries – Laos, for instance - are still contaminated by an enormous amount of unexploded cluster sub-munitions several decades after the end of war. 5. International humanitarian law and the struggle against terrorism The increase in the attention being paid to humanitarian law in recent times is the result mainly of the struggle against terrorism. The horrifying attacks of 11 September 2001 and the response to them have raised questions about the efficacy of international humanitarian law in dealing with contemporary forms of violence, and in particular terrorism. It has been asked whether humanitarian law was actually capable of addressing "terrorism." To answer this question we must first clarify how different bodies of law relate to the term "terrorism": although a comprehensive definition at the international level does not exist, terrorist acts are well-defined under domestic law and under existing international and regional conventions on terrorism and may, provided the requisite criteria are met, qualify as war crimes or as crimes against humanity. It is a basic principle of international humanitarian law that persons engaged in armed conflict must at all times distinguish between civilians and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives. International humanitarian law also includes specific rules such as the prohibition against deliberate or direct attacks against civilians and civilian objects, against indiscriminate attacks and the use of “human shields”. The taking of hostages is also prohibited. Let me also remind you that international humanitarian law specifically prohibits “measures of terrorism” and “acts of terrorism” against persons in the power of a party to the conflict. This important point should be understood: unlike some other areas of international law, "terrorism" is well regulated under international humanitarian law, which explicitly prohibits acts committed against civilians and civilian objects in armed conflict that would commonly be considered "terrorist" if committed in peacetime. In this context I would like to mention the growing and, to us, worrying tendency of States to label as “terrorists” all organized armed groups that oppose State authorities in non-international armed conflicts. This trend to criminalize the enemy himself and not just the specific acts he may carry out goes against the need to differentiate between lawful acts of war in non-international armed conflicts and acts of terrorism. While acts of violence against military objectives in internal armed conflicts remain subject to domestic criminal law, the tendency to also designate them as “terrorist” under international law, risks undermining whatever little incentive armed groups have to respect international humanitarian law. This leads me to my next observation, on the legal definition of what some have called the "war against terrorism." The term has become very much a part of daily parlance, and makes the raising of this question necessary: is this "war" an armed conflict in the legal sense, as set out under humanitarian law? The answer is: no. In the struggle against terrorism the governments involved use various political, legal and security measures such as gathering and sharing intelligence, freezing financial assets, establishing new security requirements, or cooperating more closely with one another in the field of criminal prosecution. These means do not generally involve armed violence and certainly do not justify any reference to the law of war. However, the struggle against terrorism can sometimes be conducted by means of armed conflict. A case in point is the war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001. In such a case the legal framework is as clear as in any other armed conflict: humanitarian law is applicable. However, the fact that the struggle against terrorism does sometimes take the form of armed conflict does not imply that the law regards all acts of terrorism carried out in various parts of the world – the bombings in London, Glasgow, Madrid, Bali, Istanbul, or Casablanca – as belonging to the same armed conflict. It seems dubious to attribute these several acts to one identifiable party to armed conflict (as understood under international humanitarian law) or to claim that the level of violence reached in each instance is such as to qualify it to be regarded as armed conflict. The case-by-case approach that we follow in determining whether a given situation is to be defined as armed conflict has some bearing on the issue of the legal status of persons detained in connection with the struggle against terrorism. In situations of international armed conflict, enemy combatants, who are members of government armed forces, may be held as prisoners of war until the end of hostilities. Moreover, in all situations of armed conflict, international or not, civilians directly participating in hostilities - some would like to call them "unlawful combatants" - or involved in other activities that "represent an imperative threat to the security" of the government concerned, may be interned with, of course, the application of the relevant procedural guarantees. In conclusion, we hold that each situation of organized armed violence must be examined in the specific context in which it takes place in order to establish on the basis of facts whether it qualifies legally as war. The laws of war were evolved to tackle situations of armed conflict, both legally and practically. One should always remember that the provisions of humanitarian law, on what constitutes lawful taking of life and on detention in armed conflict, allow for more flexibility than the rules applicable in non-conflict situations governed by other bodies of law, such as human rights law. In other words, it is both unnecessary and dangerous to apply international humanitarian law to situations that do not amount to war. This is not always fully appreciated. This being said, I am not suggesting that there is no need for further clarification or development of international humanitarian law. I am aware that I have barely touched on the subject, but I hope that we can explore some of these crucial issues during our discussion. I thank you for your kind attention.
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Recently, ARG has posted numerous articles on the site from all sorts of players with their ideas of what the September 2012 banlist should look like, and although there are a few similarities between them (Since there's always a general consensus on problem cards), each list has been quite different from one another. The reason for this is because there are so many cards in the game right now that have banlist potential. This, in addition to the fact that the F/L list is always (at least partially) pushed towards sales for Konami, means it seems entirely arbitrary to bother coming up with a realistic banlist. (And in light of all the negative comments left to those who come up with their own lists, it's best to avoid it anyway) I think it's more ideal to discuss a larger majority of cards that have the potential to end up on the banlist, without sticking to a list of 10 or so cards and placing them where people think they should end up. Moreover, when there are a large number of cards that could legitimately fall into a certain category on the F/L list, there's never really a right answer when it comes to which cards you should pick. I'm sure we'd all love to ban 15 cards we hate, and unrestrict our favorite cards, but that's never going to happen. Remember, in addition to damaging the best decks of the current format, you have to consider decks that might become too much of a problem next format. Instead of writing a ban list prediction, I've compiled a list of cards that COULD face the list, and why. Monsters Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning I find there's mixed opinions on this card, many people say it's way too good to be legal, others argue that it's not as lethal as it was during older formats and so it isn't a problem with so much destruction power in the meta. But personally I think this card causes more problems than it is worth, and could see a hit in september. The idea of a boss monster is nothing new, and having a deck with a big powerful monster isn't a bad thing. The problem with BLS, is that almost every single deck can play it. A generic, splash-able card isn't necessarily bad for the game, but when it's as powerful as BLS is, it turns into a card that wins games entirely on its own. How often have you heard someone say 'He had BLS and won'? Wind-Up Hunter I've seen so many people claim that to fix windups you just need to ban this card, but at the same time I've heard the same amount of people say it isn't the main problem. I'd agree with both sides. On the one hand, losing your entire hand in one turn is incredibly frustrating, boring to play against, and defeats the entire point of the game being a two player game. And being forced to main deck cards like Effect Veiler and Maxx c just on the off chance you'll manage to protect yourself severely limits creativity and makes the game very stale. In one of konami's articles explaining the march 2012 banlist, one of the points made when it came to banning the plant engine was that it reduced the number of cards people automatically added to their decks before even thinking about it, and this card does nothing to help that situation. On the other hand, wind-up hunter was around before Order of Chaos, and literally nobody complained up until then. It's the other wind-up cards that make this card so good. At its heart, wind-up hunter doesn't give you any advantage, since you're trading off one of your monsters with a card in your opponent's hand. It's only when you combine it with other cards to get so much free advantage that hunter becomes a problem. Wind-Up Carrier Zenmaity This is the other wind-up card people want to see hit. Without this card, the 'windup loop' cannot possibly exist, so hitting hunter would not be necessary, but even with hunter gone it's still possible for windups to put 3-4 XYZs on the field simply by having Magician and Shark in hand, and I think that's just too much free advantage for any deck. With this card restricted, less cards get taken from your hand for free, and doesn't mean you can spam wind-up hunter's effect quite so thoughtlessly. Wind-Up rat I've honestly not seen anyone put this card on their banlist predictions, but I think limiting wind-up rat would allow wind-ups to still have access to zenmaity, and makes hunter a balanced card in the process. Hitting any one of these three wind-ups would stop the loop, but rat gives free access to the other two wind-up cards listed above, and just like Tour Guide, become a one card XYZ. As well as this, leaving rat at with a restricted zenmaity would still mean your opponent could take 2 cards from your hand if they had magician and shark in hand, and end with an XYZ or two on the field. It's nowhere near as powerful as the full loop, but it still puts the opponent at a severe disadvantage and still isn't fair. Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon This is another card that simply generates too much free advantage at no cost to the user. And with 2800 ATK, if you can't kill it on your next turn (Which is pretty difficult unless you're playing dark worlds), your opponent can simply crank out more dragons without a care in the world next turn. The other big issue with REDMD is it's the quickest way to make gustaph max for the heiratic OTK. While I think OTK decks are terribly boring, unskillful and generally terrible for the game, it's worth noting that while Konami doesn't make money directly from gustaph, more people are going to buy packs of Galactic Overlord for the heiratic pieces for this deck, so from a business perspective there's reason to keep this guy at no less than 2. On the other hand, the F/L List is heavily based upon the OGC meta, and heiratics are a very problematic deck for the OGC. It's difficult to gauge exactly where this card will end up, but I think in terms of restricting the swarming capabilities of chaos dragons, it's the best card of the bunch. Leviair The Sea Dragon The fact that you can open with rabbit and tour guide and pretty much have a guaranteed win without playing any other cards isn't fair at all, and puts the opponent in an almost unwinnable condition. And it's all down to this XYZ. How often have you had your opponent sit behind a Laggia and a Dolkka after 2 turns, and you've actually been able to come back? How many tournament reports have you seen where the writer has simply put 'He opened rabbit and tour guide'? The simple fact is, if leviair did not exist, not only would you be able to turn one TGU into two XYZ monsters with dino rabbit, but it would also mean it wasn't so easy to abuse the banished zone. With Leviair gone, dino rabbit loses power, and means that rescue rabbit isn't quite as problematic, and could mean TGU can stay at 3 and still allow you to utilize your extra deck without it creating so much advantage like it does with leviair. A further point, is that it would mean decks focusing around the banished zone like macro cosmos decks become slightly more playable, since your opponent can't steal all your monsters, and would make cards like Cyber Valley safe to play again. Inzektor Dragonfly There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that something from the inzektor horde will make an appearance on the September list. Not because of their impact in the TGC, since they've not done quite as well as many expected, but because of how powerful they are in the OGC. This deck is by far THE deck to play over there, and while there are plenty of other decks making the top tables, nothing has done quite as well as inzektors have. Whilst it's true the entire strategy this deck is flawed, since it punishes you for playing a card (Not to mention the ability to +4 with the loop), it's also true that the deck is relatively combo heavy, and suffers from consistency issues, as well as there being a lot of side deck hate available to keep this deck at bay. Personally I think to make the deck balanced over here, centipede to 1 would do just fine, however it's doing so well in the OGC it's only right that Konami damage the deck severely, and I think inzektor dragonfly is the card to most likely to be hit. Rescue Rabbit As I mentioned earlier, I think the entire concept of the rescue rabbit deck would be a lot easier to manage if leviair wasn't in the game. However, even assuming that card was banned, there's still a 45% chance of opening with rescue rabbit if you play 3. Meaning the biggest problem with the deck, 'Summon laggia, set 3, end' still exists. It's still a play that can pretty much decide the entire outcome of the duel before the opposing player has even played a card, and what game is fun when one player can almost guarantee he will win in the first minute of the game? Restricting rabbit reduces the odds of opening with laggia, and in turn prolongs the game and gives the opponent chance to counter it. Evolzar Laggia Without it being so easy to summon in dino rabbit, this card isn't too much of a threat. Evols have been around for quite some time now and can get this guy out pretty easy, but I don't see anyone moaning that evols should be punished in september. However, if dino rabbit isn't competitive from September, I can see a few people switching to evols for their dinosaur fix, and so 3 laggias could become a pain next format. I can see this going to 1 as a preemptive strike against it being over used again. Genex Undine This format this card has done absolutely nothing, however it's going to become a force to be reckoned with once the new water support is released, and we could very well see a wave of atlantean decks at the top tables next format. However, at the same time if we limit the support cards too much, it will impact the ability for Konami to sell product, so I certainly don't think this card, or any other support, will get hit too badly on the list. SPELLS Future Fusion, Limiter Removal, Card Destruction, Gateway of the six I've piled these three cards together because they all cause the exact same problem with the game. In the right deck, playing any of these cards can seriously increase the odds of that player winning that round. Limiter removal is an OTK in a can, and although it's not had much of an impact recently as the others, with the new machine support this card could very well become the most despised card next format since machines will see a lot more play. Also with the release of Evilswarm Ouroboros, six samurai get access to a combo that can banish your opponent's hand, field, and graveyard, and draw the entire deck in one turn. It’s not consistent, but still very much possible, and there’s potential for someone to come up with a samurai turbo build to spam the loop. Any one card that basically can turn the entire game round simply because one player opened with it isn’t fair at all. It’s a sad truth however, that if any of these were to get banned, there’d still be plenty of other ‘win more’ cards in the game. Future fusion is only problematic because chaos dragons are popular. It did little before t was used in chaos dragons, and if Konami don’t ban Limiter Removal, when the machines rise up in September, that will replace future fusion in winning games just because someone drew it. Monster reborn In a game where every deck is filled with boss monsters, and cards that pump out advantage, monster reborn is just too powerful. There are too many power cards in the game right now, and I think monster reborn is the worst. In a deck that relies heavily on the graveyard it's even worse, and like BLS topdecking this card can change the course of the entire duel all by itself. Mystical Space Typhoon 3 MST makes playing trap cards incredibly risky, and means that decks can just swarm the field constantly with no fear of their opponent’s backrow. There are plenty of other cards like Dust Tornado and Night Beam that people can use, so this card could find itself on the list with no problems whatsoever. The problem with MST, is that it can be used at almost any time. Night beam can’t be chained, and dust tornado has to be set first. Both have restrictions on their use, but MST is just too haphazard to be at 3. Heavy Storm This card has probably caused more debate in the YGO community than any other card in the game. Whether or not this card should be allowed is a hotly contested topic. I think that whether it's 'broken' or not will be irrelevant as to whether or not it finds its way back to the banned category. It's cycled in and out of the game plenty of times, and there are plenty of arguments either side. It stops your opponent from over extending with 3-4 backrow cards (Or punishes those who do it anyway), but with heavy storm banned, it means the format features more traps and is therefore slower, and (In general) more skillful, seen as you can’t just throw all your monsters on the field. TRAPS Ultimate Offering This card will make the machine decks of next format stupidly powerful compared to what they will be already with the geargia support cards. If you have this card all 9 gadgets in your deck, it's possible to put 3 shock masters on your side of the field, and completely lock down your opponent. However, offering is only available at 2 right now, and as it's a trap card it takes time to set it up, so it's susceptible to MST, Dust tornado etc and since you can't search your deck for it, it's not going to happen too often. That being said, the fact that it can cause so much advantage in machine decks could cause Konami to limit it to 1 in September, but at the same time unlimiting it would help push sales. Royal Oppression Oppression would have been really good this format since there's way too much unhindered special summoning going on. But at the same time, many will be familiar with how frustrating the card can be in stun decks, and it could become one of those 'Open with this card and you win' cards, much like Trap Dustshoot was in September 2011. I think if next format is another fast paced one, oppression deserves to come back. Get Connected
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More Evidence Uncovered of Devious Japanese Plan to Claim Dokdo Evidence continues to mount of, “a carefully coordinated action plan among Japanese officials and ministries to claim territorial rights over the islets” of Dokdo. Last week’s breathtaking revelation that new middle school teaching guidelines in Japan will include the phrase, “It is necessary to deepen understanding about our country’s territory in a way identical with the Kuril Islands by mentioning that there exist differing assertions between our country and Korea over Takeshima,” amounts to a provocation which provides the Republic of Korea with a clear casus belli. However, this is only the beginning. In addition to a stealth campaign which is surely behind such outrages as the Library of Congress proposal to adopt the so-called “neutral” term “Liancourt Rocks” there have been a full range of suspicious activities which provide plentiful proof of a perfidious plot by the Japanese. Revenge of a Japanese Villain According to a recently declassified US military report found in the National Archives a Japanese youth of around twenty years of age, Tsuji Shintaro, was fishing near the Korean islands of Dokdo in early spring of 1948 when his boat was sunk during a US bombing run in the area during training. He was saved by a nearby Korean who collected seaweed along the coastline. However, the two fought when Tsuji claimed the islands were Japanese territory and, badly beaten by the naturally physically stronger Korean, the Japanese fisherman swore that he would someday get revenge. Tsuji, who went on to found the Sanrio corporation, is ready to seek vengeance. The popular Hello Kitty character, which is famous for its mysterious lack of a mouth may soon undergo a startling change. As Sanrio spokesman put it in a special press conference last Wednesday, “Sanrio Chairman Tsuji feels that it is time for Hello Kitty’s long silence to come to an end. She must speak the truth about Takeshima, and we are confident that the world will listen.” The addition of a mouth to the Hello Kitty character is to happen sometime before Christmas sales for 2008 set in and many Hello Kitty products will play Takeshima related quotes by the character at random times, according to a Sanrio employee who asked not to be identified. Hearing this news, one excited Japanese fan reported, “The people of Japan, and of the world, have never heard the true voice of Hello Kitty, so we are all looking forward to this.” There are some reports that the first sound of Hello Kitty’s voice can be heard all over Japan through a special radio broadcast at noon on August 15th. A Bamboo Plot Oil prices and food grains are not the only products rising in price these days. Market observers and bamboo nursery owners have recently reported an unprecedented 670% rise in the price of bamboo seeds as well as full-grown stock of bamboo over the last 6 months. Jeffrey Haskins, associate editor of the San Francisco based Bamboo Quarterly was alarmed enough to explore what he called, “This clear distortion of the market.” Haskins had no idea that he would stumble upon a Japanese nationalist plot, “Those I approached either refused to speak to me or else warned me that, for my own safety, I ought best drop this entirely.” After meeting considerable resistance at every step Haskins was finally able to tie up with Kaneyama Chiyo (金山ちよ), a student reporter for the Hitotsubashi Youth Red Flag Journal (一橋赤旗青年ジャーナル). Together they were finally able to identify the true source of the huge purchases of bamboo: an until now largely unknown organization going by the name of, “The New Bamboo Shoot Tribe” (新竹の子族). This insidious group of right-wing nationalist thugs is said to have close ties to Japanese organized crime syndicates and operates out of unmarked headquarters found somewhere in or near an apartment complex called the Harajuku Verdant Heights. In interviews with local residents Kaneyama reported that members of this organization have been seen to hold secret night time rallies in Yoyogi Park dressed in strange attire. They apparently open with a bizarre oath to the memory of former Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi and have been heard chanting various anti-Korean slogans. Very little is known about the leader of the New Bamboo Shoot Tribe and her life is largely shrouded in mystery. What is known about Mitarai Aya (御手洗彩) is that she has a long history of violence and gang involvement. First detained by police in 1980 for destruction of public school property, she is said to have led many mass battles between groups of high school students in central Tokyo. She was eventually expelled from high school when she stabbed her math teacher 14 times with a geometry compass in 1982. One year later she was arrested for the death of two Yakuza men found with brutally cracked skulls near Meiji shrine. The charges were dropped after she argued that she had been molested by the older men, who were found still armed with knives, and in response she had to “bust some heads,” in “self-defense.” A single rare picture remains of a young Mitarai taken some time in the early 1980s. We can already see in her eyes the early indications of someone who would become a cool and cruel Japanese right-wing nationalist fanatic: The research of Kaneyama and Haskins definitely established the New Bamboo Shoot Tribe as the source of the massive purchases. This has affected prices not only of the popular Phyllostachys bambusoides and other varieties of bamboo common in Japan but a wide range of East Asian species such as Fargesia dracocephala. However, a follow up article slated to be published in Asahi newspaper which was to analyze the organization and its plans for the bamboo was never submitted. Soon after the initial joint publication of the research by these two courageous reporters Haskins left suddenly and mysteriously for Patagonia in southern Argentina to reportedly “find God,” leaving all his belongings and his wife and two children behind in California. Efforts to locate him have been unsuccessful. More shockingly, Kaneyama died soon after in a mysterious fire in a restaurant in the Ōkubo district of Tokyo. The impact of this price rise should not be underestimated, as it even threatens the Beijing Olympics held in China this summer. The cost of feeding pandas, who depend on the plant, has skyrocketed and rationing of bamboo shoots has been implemented in China and elsewhere. According to panda specialist, Dr. Zhang Zhongxu at the Chengdu Panda Breeding and Feeding Center, “The Japanese have long been jealous of the prestige China will gain this summer with the hosting of the Olympic games. This manipulation of the bamboo market is a direct provocation aimed at sabotaging the games. We can now only afford to feed each of our pandas 4kg of bamboo shoots per day, and our beloved pandas are in dire condition.” One of those threatened and at the point of starvation is none other than Jingjing, one of the five mascots of the Olympics beloved all over the world. A national campaign has been announced to raise money to feed Jingjing and other starving pandas in the wake of the crisis. However, in the event Jingjing does not pull through, there is discussion about the possibility of substituting the cartoon mascot for the Shenzhen based Internet Friendly Monitoring Division of the Public Caring Bureau, which coincidently is also named Jingjing. While not as cute as the panda figure, the alternate Jingjing has gained much respect for his considerable mastery of a wide range of Chinese martial arts. He easily won the underground 2007 Worldwide Battle of the Mascots held in the Cambodian border town of Pailin, unseating the 3-year consecutive Japanese champion Custom-kun (カスタム君) whose Sumo skills were thought to be unbeatable. The sentiment stirred in the Middle Kingdom surrounding the bamboo price increase, however, may have distracted the media away from the real purpose behind the massive purchases of bamboo by dummy corporations set up by the New Bamboo Shoot Tribe. While it hasn’t received much international attention, a short “Research Note” in the forthcoming issue of the International Irredentist Review ties the Kaneyama and Haskins research directly to the Dokdo issue. Professor Kjell Skadberg, head of the Institute of Irredentist Studies at the University of Flekkefjord and author of highly controversial and much criticized work Dokdo/Takeshima and Eastern Greenland: What We Can Learn from the 1931 Norwegian Invasion and Occupation of Eirik Raudes Land has suggested that this massive purchase of bamboo may be part of a new and more frightening stage of Japanese imperialist attempts to boost their international claim to the Dokdo islands through direct action. “The New Bamboo Shoot Tribe, which must surely have government support to be engaging in such massive purchases, may be planning to somehow cover the contested islands in bamboo. If they could get this normally tropical plant to grow on the rocky surface and cover it with the verdant green of the bamboo (or take) which is part of the Japanese name for the islands, then it would serve as excellent ammunition for the Japanese claims. The equivalent would be if Koreans were to ship all the lonely people of their nation to the islands of that designation.”1 Could this be the ultimate bamboo conspiracy? Activists have already mobilized to pursue this hypothesis. The first support for Skadberg’s claim has already been found. After Kaneyama’s suspicious death in March, a close review of her possessions turned up three single sheets from a longer roster of the paying members of the New Bamboo Shoot Tribe from 2006. This list included 2 pilots of major Japanese airlines as well as a retired Japanese self-defense air force pilot of high rank. Among them was also an assistant professor of the Department of Agriculture at Mie University, Saito Jun, whose past publications include an essay entitled, “From Tropical Soils to Rocky Wastelands: Increasing the Range and Promoting the Growth of Plants in Adverse Conditions.” Activists have already begun surveillance of these individuals but they have all refused requests for interview or comment. Fishy Relations As seen above Skadberg suggests that there is secret Japanese government financial backing behind the conspiratorial designs of the New Bamboo Shoot Tribe. This is undoubtedly the case, but there are other possibilities for funding that go beyond government support and the deep blood chests of Japanese nationalist networks. In an amazing scoop, one more name found on “The Kaneyama Roster,” as the membership roster found in deceased Kaneyama’s possessions has come to be known, suggests a connection between Japan’s neo-imperialists and Korea’s huge network of Dokdo seafood restaurants, which goes by the name Dokdo Marine Products Industry Federation (독도해산물산업연맹, hereafter DMPIF). The list contained the Korean name Choe Sangho (崔尙浩) which is the same name as the DMPIF’s long-serving former chairman (1985-1997) well known for leading the expansion of DMPIF membership by encouraging all failing seafood restaurants in Korea to paint images of Dokdo on their interior walls, add Dokdo to the restaurant name and put pictures of the islands on menus or on the outer walls and signs. Before becoming chairman, Choe was merely the humble owner of his own restaurant in Shinchon, “Dokdo Tuna” and was only inspired to become active in the DMPIF when his wife one day reportedly remarked, “Wouldn’t it be nice if every station on the new line number two had a Dokdo restaurant?” This would become the campaign theme for the DMPIF barely a year after the completion of subway line number two in 1984, ten years after violent protests against the “pro-Japanese subway” (친일지하철 반대운동, 1973-1975) line number one opened: “A Dokdo seafood restaurant at every station of line number two! Celebrate the completion of our first pure Korean subway line!” With the patronage of patriotic customers and new support of restaurant owners Dokdo-themed restaurants spread like wildfire across South Korea during Choe’s tenure as chairman, with membership in the federation growing from a mere 24 restaurants in 1985 to 432 in 1996. On the eve of the current scandal, member restaurants were said to be over seven hundred. However, now Choe’s legendary status among students of Korea’s seafood history was being seriously questioned. Was he a selfless patriot who fought for Dokdo through his career as a seafood restaurant owner and chairman of the DMPIF? Or was he perhaps secretly an opportunistic pro-Japanese traitor who actually conspired together with Japanese extremists to deprive Korea of these sacred islands? Choe naturally dismissed all suggestions that he had anything to do with the New Bamboo Shoots Tribe or other Japanese nationalist organizations. In a short comment given to the press through a spokesman he said, “I have dedicated my life to educating the people about Dokdo and make sure that with every delicious bite of our food they are reminded of the beauty and sanctity of the islands. Dokdo is our land! I am horribly saddened to hear that someone going by the same name as me was found on the roster of this despicable organization.” However, shortly after the statement was delivered he was committed to a “health spa” on Cheju island due to “illness and stress” and has since refused to see anyone. The DMPIF immediately began damage control, quickly distancing themselves from Choe in a press release and emphasizing that, “Choe has not served on any executive body of the DMPIF since 2001 and we are currently conducting an internal audit to investigate possible charges of corruption against him from his time as chairman.” However, Choe’s potentially treasonous activities sparked the interest of the Korean Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities ) who decided to take a look at the leadership of the DMPIF. Fresh from their hard work on the newest release of names of leading colonial period collaborators, they conducted a detailed study of all leading executives of the DMPIF from its founding in 1965 until now. The disturbing conclusions reached by their researchers can be found in the concluding paragraph of their damning 622 page report: “Of the 78 members holding executive positions in the history of the DMPIF no less than 59, including Choe Sangho are direct descendants of colonial period pro-Japanese traitors. An additional 6 executive leaders of the DMPIF in the 1960s were themselves already in our most recent list of 4,776 traitors. We must therefore conclude that the DMPIF is a pro-Japanese collaborationist organization and will be including the organization in the upcoming release of the post-liberation edition of our dictionary of pro-Japanese collaborationist organizations (일제협력단체사전: 국내 해방후 일제잔재편). The reaction was swift and severe. Last week a statue of Choe Sangho that had been erected at the opening of the fish market in Noryangjin in 1999 to commemorate his lifetime dedication to the preservation of Dokdo was torn down by angry protesters. More peaceful candlelight vigils were held outside the DMPIF demanding the dissolution of the organization. Many Koreans were left shocked and confused. Scenes of crying children whose parents denied them the pleasure of visiting their favorite local Dokdo restaurant became commonplace. The very restaurants that helped promote the Korean claim to Dokdo long before children sang the Dokdo song in school were somehow also connected to Japanese terrorists who were trying to steal the islands from them? How could this happen? The scholarly investigations of the Korean Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities were followed up upon on by another powerful non-profit organization dedicated to the global fight against Japanese neo-imperialism: VANK. The Very Annoyed Network of Koreans, or VANK, set out to identify the motives and the exact trail of money and meetings that linked the DMPIF with Japanese organizations. First their volunteers infiltrated the mid-tier cells of the DMPIF and recorded a number of revealing conversations that showed the base opportunism at the heart of the DMPIF’s treasonous crimes. The following example gives the clearest voice to this treachery: DMPIF Traitor: Business was at its peak during the furor surrounding the establishment of ‘Takeshima Day’ in Shimane [Prefecture, Japan] and the issue of the Takeshima stamps a few years ago. However, since then people have gradually forgotten about Dokdo and business has been in steep decline. All people care about now is eating Korean beef! We have to get Dokdo back into the news and for that we need to work together with the Japanese, who have that ability. VANK Infiltrator: But what if Japan succeeds in its campaign to steal Dokdo from us? DMPIF Traitor: [Laughing] That would be perfect! Recovering the islands from Japan would become a permanent obsession of all Koreans! Our restaurants would flourish! There is a sick and twisted logic to the traitor’s comment. Who now remembers the once insanely popular restaurants of pre-WWII France that served Alsatian cuisine and incorporated the word “revanche” in their names or on their menus? If Dokdo were lost, the spirit of revanche would surely lead to a new renaissance for the DMPIF, had their plot not been uncovered. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of VANK members, fired with passionate zeal and love for their nation, massive financial contributions by the DMPIF to a “bamboo fund” and other Japanese plots have been uncovered. Yesterday, the farcical attempt of DMPIF to prevent the scandal from coming out came to an end when the entire executive board of the federation fled to Tsushima island and sought political asylum from the Japanese authorities, who still forcefully occupy the Korean island, properly known as Daemado. “When Korea rightfully reclaims Daemado,” said a spokesman from VANK, “these traitors will receive their just punishment.” One major battle to thwart the current Japanese attempt to steal Dokdo from Korea has been won but Koreans must remain vigilant. The fight continues, with ever increasing efficacy. Seoul Metro has pulled Japanese condom ads found on subway doors and special crack troops have successfully apprehended and liquidated a flock of pro-Japanese Korean pheasants. Let no Korean man, woman, or child ever forget that Dokdo is and has always been their land! - Skadberg, Kjell. “Research Note” The International Irredentist Review 14:3 September, 2008 (forthcoming), 248. [↩] This is hilarious. Cannot count how many parties you mocked in this article. Oh my goodness! I bet somebody takes this seriously! Adam You had me up until the bamboo shots :D That is beautiful Mitch, absolutely beautiful. The ridiculousness of the Takeshima/Dokdo conflict seems to me like two 10-year olds fighting on the playground over whose turn it is to play on the swing next. Can’t say I agree. To me it looks like an excess of moronic drivel. I suggest you try to do more useful things with your time.
Lease Finance Group is a SCAM!! Facebook page - Jul 22, 2010 - 1172 views - 31 Comments - 31 Comments - review #190755 LFGhunter - $15 Losses - Temple, Texas - Finances - Credit Card Machine - More Less - Hey everyone, I just launched a facebook page "Lease Finance Group is a Scam!!." Look it up and join!It's time to put up solid defenses against this incredibly Horible Company. There are an estimated 300,000 victims that have been ripped-off by this company, and that's only the ones who actually reported it. It's very clear that there are some "behind the scenes" actions taking place, otherwise they would've been shut down a long time ago. One must pay close attention to the lack of justice taking place, and assume there is a bigger, darker picture to this sad story.Join this page and fight back!a9026db Leavemealone Dec 30, 2013 My boss received letter from Pushpin Holdings today about equipment lease agreement, with a balance of 2,233.40. They claim he may be experiencing financial difficulties and may be eligible to receive up to 60% discount on this balance. This is a one time offer to pay at a substantially reduced amount via credit/debit card,check by phone,wire transfer,western union or overnight delivery service. He was totally shocked because of the fact that he returned this equipment several months ago;actually one month after he tried it for the business and was charged over 1,300 and only used the machine for 3-4 transactions, also had to pay early termination fee. He was furious after receiving this letter,called the number and recording came on sorry number not currently in service. Really Mr. Louis Reina and your Hardship Settlement Agreement, shame on you taking advantage of folks. Not a Pushpin Pushover !!! Feb 13, 2013 My husband got a FINAL DEMAND letter for a credit card machine lease from 2004. He was a volunteer officer for a non-profit organization that has since closed. Reina fraudulently tried to tell me that they consider my husband as a guarantor for the lease because they "now" have his social security. I let him know they fraudulently obtained his SSN if they had it. I cut hold off and refused to pay them a penny that we don't owe. Reina told me to "not take that tone with him because he would automatically seize MY bank account and personal property today". I didn't sign anything and they don't have my SSN or signature. I told him good luck illegally stealing MY social Security Disability Benefits and my husband doesn't work. Reina said he make me prove every penny in MY bank account is from Social Security/Disability. He can't get what he's not legally entitled to!!! If he did get a penny without my knowledge or permission, I'll have him and his scam "company" charged with fraud and more!!! DON'T BELIEVE THEIR THREATS! THEY'RE IDIOTS!!!0 0 Reply yup got one too Jan 29, 2013 just received one of these letters for a business i had over ten years ago in another state. same thing...i have failed to respond for demand for previous payment and they will commence a civil action against me and it said to please govern yourself accordingly. funny... all address` are p.o.boxes iswearem Jan 08, 2013 I had a credit card terminal with this outfit many, MANY years ago. I signed a 2 yr contract for the equipment. When the equip failed at about 24 months and they wanted us to pay for the repairs, we told them we would return the stuff and they could keep it. We were informed that our contract was for 4 years and not 2!! I demanded to see their copy of the paperwork and was able to prove that the saleswoman had forged my name and re-written the terms of the agreement. The company agreed to void the contract and we parted company well over 10 years ago. I recently received notice that a Civil Action has been filed against me by Pushpin. I am considering how to proceed. dont pay them › iswearem Jan 18, 2013 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma check the statute of limitations(SOL) for your state. This company is what we call a scavenger debt collector. They can file a suit but if its over SOL period then you have a defense and any action should be dismissed. You dont have to pay a penny. If you pay even a penny, the SOL will restart and then they will have a claim which wont be dismissed so easily. Robert Rollins Nov 20, 2012 Pushpin has been sending me threatening letters for years. They claim it is a debt for 3 machines in 2001! They must have sent me 75 letters. Just recently they have shown up as an inquiry on my credit report. What kind of damage will this do to my credit? I don't know them nor do I owe them any money. Imscrewed Jul 05, 2012 I wish I had read this sooner. Funny how I go to search for pushpin holdings and find all this stuff. I was a buisness owner over 7 years ago. I had leased a CC machine. I thought I had all of it taken care of when I ended up going out of business. I recieved a letter saying, I owed a substantial amount of money for this CC machine and If I didn't pay it now they were going to sue me. The letter also said "Final Notice". I never saw a letter before that. I called them and talked with a woman. I explained my financial situation, I also discussed that It had been well over 7 years since the business closed. I made arrangements to pay 100.00 a month. which I have been paying. I wish I hadn't started to make the payments now That I have read all this. What can I do now?0 0 Reply settler › Imscrewed Jan 30, 2013 Propose a settlement, offer 10% or something along those lines. always get everything in writing prior to any payment. also you may be able to do a settlement over several pays (3 pays is the norm but may be more depending on the creditor). do this yourself and don't hire a debt settlement company.. there are lots of forums that can help. Say you're borrowing the funds from a friend to get this taken care of and don't give out too much info.0 0 Reply A common name Jun 26, 2012 Since 2005, I have been getting a letter from them for an outstanding balance of $2578.13. I've called each time, told them they have the wrong john doe, they ask if my ss number ends in xxxx. I say "no" and they say they will take my name out of their files and hang up. The problem is that they don't ask for an address so how do they take you out of the system if there are so many John Doe's with your name. Gennalee Joseph is the account manager. She is a bit rude. If you read the letter, it is very unprofessional. It ends with Please govern yourselves accordingly. Where does one file a complaint. Maybe this is two females trying to make a buck with a scam business. SVB - New York Jun 25, 2012 Yep, Me too !! Just received the second notice from Pushpin holdings LLC demanding that I pay $2,800 in the next 10 days. This is for a CC machine that I leased 7 or 8 years ago for my private corp which has been disolved for years now. Add me to the list! I plan to send them a certified letter RRR for disclosure of their information to see what it is all based on. lulu Apr 30, 2012 Just received a letter today from them dated April 23 giving me 10 days to pay... Pay what? Yes I did indeed have a cc terminal many years ago, but I fullfilled the lease, returned terminal, end of story, Until I opened the mail today. Called them to try and figure this out. They are telling me that I had payment arangements made for $50 a month and that I quit paying. I told them I never had payment arrangements, told by the rep that she would have to get her manager to review the case, I asked to speak to the manager 3 times then she told me she was the account manager and the person who makes the decisions is the Director. I asked to speak to the director 2 more times, then the rep said, she was hanging up now,, and did! I am in disbelief, I was very very calm through out this entire phone call, just trying to figure out what the * was going on. Here is my big question,, by law are they not required to give at least thirty days in order to "cure" situations,, not ten, which infact is now 3! I guess I'm going to have to overnight a demand letter for "discovery". I am frustrated and peeved! Ktag Apr 13, 2012 They fraud me on a machine in 2004 I never recieved the machine but w all my info they had scammed 1000 dollars from my account police were involved found it was a russian ring running credit cards on these machines and now they are back at it. Don't fall for it pushpin is a hoax0 0 Reply mad lady Mar 26, 2012 i rented a credit card machine, and they keep taking fees out of my bank account with out telling me. the guy that i rented the machine told me i could try it for 2 months if i didnt like it i could cancel it that was a lie!!!!! now iam stuck with this machine and the payments for the next 4 years...dont like being lied to!!!!! i was to get a 100.00 check for get them another customer, will that was a lie to!!!! shut them down.0 0 Reply Strong Businessman Feb 22, 2012 Do not respond to their threats. If you had been in a dispute and you feel that "it went away" a long time ago, then leave it there. That's the decision they made back then. If you reply to threats years on they have got you right back to the top of their list of suckers and will harass you for more money. They will not spend time and money going after people that they can't communicate with (intimidate), they will direct their attentions towards easy targets. Do not fight them with "go to * letters". They then know that they are getting to you and they now know where to get to you. IGNORE THEM. NO INCOME FOR THEM MEANS THEY'LL GO BUST. 1-20 of 31 comments Great comment! Would you like to convert it into review? You will be able to edit the text before publishing.
An accelerated online Master’s in Sports Medicine is the ideal advanced degree for individuals who wish to work in this specialized field of healthcare. The sports medicine industry requires in-depth knowledge of how medicine, sports, and exercise interact with each other, meaning that all professionals should consider earning a minimum of a graduate degree before pursuing a career in the sector. While some people believe that a bachelor’s degree is sufficient education to practice sports medicine, a master’s degree in sports medicine is necessary. It ensures that all pre-service professionals have a comprehensive understanding of the field and are therefore more likely to achieve success as compassionate, ethical sports medicine leaders. However, a traditional graduate program may not be an option for many who are already employed in the field of sports medicine. These individuals require affordable, flexible programs that they may complete on their own schedule. Fortunately, there are a number of inexpensive, accelerated online Master’s in Sports Medicine degrees that cater to these students. This ranking lists the top 20 most affordable accelerated master’s degrees in sports medicine. Methodology This ranking was developed using information found using the College Navigator database on the National Center for Education Statistics website. We conducted a search for the terms “Master’s in Sports Medicine degree online,” “Master’s in Kinesiology degree online,” and “Master’s in Exercise Science degree online.” Out of an initial pool of 25 schools, the final 20 were chosen based on their in-state graduate tuition rates based on the total program tuition. We have listed them below in order from most expensive to least expensive to help you choose a program that best meets your goals, needs, and budget. Ranking Low-Cost Accelerated Master’s in Sports Medicine 20. University of Western States Portland, Oregon Online Master of Science in Sports Medicine Tuition: $24,503 Formerly known as Western States Chiropractic College, the University of Western States is an integrated health sciences university that offers a number of wellness and health degrees. Founded in 1904, UWS is the second-oldest chiropractic university in the world, enrolling 1,000 students in both on-campus and online programs in Portland, Oregon. The school offers a hybrid Master of Science in Sports Medicine that is best-suited for those who reside in Oregon and who wish to advance in the field. Although most classes are offered online, students must meet certain residency requirements in order to graduate. All graduates must complete practicums in their own area of residency. Other requirements include a comprehensive oral and written exam, a capstone project, and 60 quarter-credit hours of coursework. Sample courses include Advanced Sports Medicine, Sports Performance Enhancement, and Extremity Muscle Testing. 19. Ashland University Ashland, Ohio Online M.S. in Applied Exercise Science Tuition: $23,898 Established in 1878 as Ashland College, Ashland University consists of a 135-acre main campus in Ashland, Ohio. The school is affiliated with the Brethren Church and offers nine pre-professional programs and 70 undergraduate majors throughout its four colleges. The online Master of Science in Applied Exercise Science focuses on conditioning and strength. To earn this degree, students take courses in scientific foundations of nutrition in sport and sports medicine principles. The curriculum is designed to prepare students for certifications such as the American College of Sports Medicine Health/Fitness Instructor and the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. Online learners utilize the Ohio eTutoring Collaborative, which provides asynchronous and synchronous assistance in fields such as accounting, writing, physiology, and anatomy. Students may complete the program in as few as 15 months. 18. A.T. Still University Kirksville, Missouri Online Master of Science in Kinesiology Tuition: $23,226 A.T. Still University was founded in 1892 as the original school for osteopathic healthcare and holds a Gold Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. A.T. Still is known for providing one of the best sports medicine online degree programs in the country. The Master of Science in Kinesiology requires 42 credits to complete, 12 of which are taken in specialization tracks in subfields such as corrective exercise and orthopedic rehabilitation, geriatric exercise science, exercise and sports psychology, and sports conditioning. Students are limited to no more than two specializations. All tracks are required to take courses in functional anatomy, advanced fitness nutrition, and motor control. The curriculum helps professionals understand the behavioral and physical concepts of exercise so that they may develop high-quality exercise plans. 17. Texas A&M University-Kingsville Kingsville, Texas Online M.S. in Kinesiology Tuition: $21,175 Texas A&M University at Kingsville, chartered in 1917, is the oldest continuously operating public institution of higher learning in South Texas. The school operates five academic colleges and enrolls more than 9,200 students per year in on-campus and online programs. The Master of Science in Kinesiology aims to prepare students for doctoral study, to pursue other career goals, or to become leaders or administrators in sports medicine. Students may earn the entire degree only, but they must pay special attention and follow the coursework-only track to ensure they complete the requirements. The program is asynchronous and structured so that students may finish in four semesters of full-time study. Students are required to complete a comprehensive written and oral exam and 36 credits in courses such as Statistical Analysis of Research Data, Physiology of Exercise, and Research in Kinesiology. 16. University of the Southwest Hobbs, New Mexico Online MSE Exercise Science Tuition: $19,767 Founded in 1956 as Hobbs Baptist College, the University of the Southwest grants degrees in 15 graduate programs and more than 50 undergraduate programs throughout its three academic schools: the School of Business & Professional Studies, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Education. Students pursuing the online Master of Science in Education with an emphasis in exercise science must complete 33 credits of coursework. The curriculum includes labs, internships, and lectures on topics that include health and human behavior, group dynamics, diagnostic tests and measurements, issues in sports law, research methods, and the physiological basis of human performance. Students gain real-world experience working with people of diverse weights, ages, and health issues such as diabetes and cardiac problems. 15. University of Louisiana-Monroe Monroe, Louisiana Online Master of Science in Exercise Science With a Concentration in Sport Management Tuition: $18,000 Founded as Ouachita Parish Junior College in 1931, the University of Louisiana at Monroe reports an enrollment of 8,800 students per year. U.S. News & World Report ranks UL Monroe among the best Tier 2 schools in the region. ULM’s 33-credit online Master of Science in Exercise Science features a sports management concentration. Core requirements include courses in statistical methods and research methods in exercise science, governance and ethics in sport, and sports sociology. Students can further customize their degree via built-in elective coursework in wellness and nutrition, leadership and nutrition, sports medicine, advanced strength and conditioning, or safety and risk management in sport. 13. Concordia University-St. Paul (Tie) Saint Paul, Minnesota Online Master of Science in Exercise Science Tuition: $17,000 The St. Paul branch of Concordia University is one of 10 schools affiliated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and has a history that dates back to 1893. Concordia St. Paul provides students with 25 graduate degree options, including an online Master of Science in Exercise Science. Students must complete a thesis or capstone project, an exam, and earn 33 to 36 credits in courses such as nutrition and metabolism, biomechanics in exercise, and clinical exercise testing in order to obtain this research-heavy degree. Projects and courses build students’ understanding of rehabilitation, safety, and exercise as a means of staying healthy. Graduates are prepared to become leaders in the exercise field, equipped with the knowledge and skills required for positions as trainers, therapists, nutritionists, and coaches. 13. Logan University (Tie) Chesterfield, Missouri Online Master of Science in Sports Science and Rehabilitation Tuition: $17,000 A private university that focuses specifically on chiropractic education and the health sciences, Logan University is located in Chesterfield, Missouri. The school offers three degrees at the master’s level, two of which are available entirely online. The online Master of Science in Sports Science and Rehabilitation is designed for chiropractic students who are pursuing careers that involve working with athletes. The program is also suitable for students looking to work in teaching or research. Some courses offered in this degree include Active and Passive Extremity Rehabilitation, Exercise Testing and Prescription, Sports Emergency Care, and Exercise Science Principles. Students are required to complete 38 to 40 hours of coursework, including a clinical internship, and there are a number of certification options available after graduation. 12. Indiana Wesleyan University Marion, Indiana Online Master in Athletic Training Tuition: $16,995 Indiana Wesleyan University is aligned with the evangelical Christian Church. A liberal arts school in Marion, Indiana, IWU is the largest private university in the state. IWU offers a well-established online Master in Athletic Training, complete with online resources and personal academic advisors. It is designed for students who have earned a bachelor’s degree in athletic training from a school accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE). Aside from two required on-campus courses in Marion, the entire 33-credit-hour degree can be completed online. Students can expect to take coursework in areas such as health information technology and informatics in athletic training, leadership and management in athletic training, nutritional and pharmacological aspects of sports performance, and clinical anatomy. 11. Fresno Pacific University Fresno, California Online Master of Athletic Training Tuition: $16,800 Founded in 1944, Fresno Pacific University enrolls more than 3,700 students per year, including students from 31 religious denominations, 31 countries, and a diverse range of ethnic backgrounds. The school is ranked among the top 45 colleges and universities in the West, according to U.S. News & World Report, and each program emphasizes a strong ethical foundation and solid academic preparation. Students can complete the 30-credit online Master of Athletic Training program in as few as 13 months or five semesters. Core requirements include several evidence-based courses as well as areas such as professional standards, athletic training administration, legal aspects of kinesiology and sport, and advanced therapeutic exercise. All students must pass a comprehensive exam to demonstrate mastery of the material they have covered. 10. University of Texas-El Paso El Paso, Texas Online M.S. in Kinesiology Tuition: $16,346 The University of Texas at El Paso opened in 1914 and was one of the first schools in the University of Texas System. The school has earned a Carnegie Classification of “Doctoral/Research University” and educates more than 20,000 learners in on-campus and online degree programs each year. The Master of Science in Kinesiology program requires 36 credit hours of coursework, a comprehensive oral and written exam, and a capstone project. Two concentrations are available: Pedagogy of Physical Activities and Exercise Science. Students can expect courses such as Effective Instruction in Physical Education, Measurement Technology in Biomechanical Analysis, and Educational Research and Statistics. Courses are delivered either as synchronous or asynchronous, and they are taught by the same on-campus instructors and professors that lead the traditional degree programs. 9. University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley Edinburg, Texas Online Kinesiology (MS) Tuition: $15,833 The Rio Grande Valley campus is a branch campus of the University of Texas System. The school is known for its research initiatives and contributions, particularly in the fields of the hard sciences, medicine, and health. Approximately 30,000 students attend UTRGV each year. The Master of Science in Kinesiology degree is a fully online program that can be completed in two years of full-time study. The majority of the credit requirements depends on the student’s choice of electives, making it a highly customizable degree. Program requirements include 33 to 36 hours of coursework, a comprehensive exam, and a capstone project or thesis. Students will be exposed to areas of the industry such as the advanced scientific principles of strength training and conditioning, motor learning and control, and the determinants and perspectives of health and illnesses. 8. Concordia University-Chicago River Forest, Illinois Online MS Applied Exercise Science: Human Movement Science Tuition: $15,050 Founded in 1864, Concordia University at Chicago enrolls 5,300 students per year, many of whom are graduate students. The school is affiliated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and boasts a 15:1 student-to-faculty ratio. The Master of Science in Human Movement Science is an accelerated, 30-credit program that prepares students for work in workplace safety, research, coaching, and more. Students learn how to help patients correct faulty movement patterns and improve functional capacity, and they gain the skills necessary to develop injury prevention programs. The 33 to 36 credit hours of required coursework are provided in 10 eight-week sessions, and the program is organized into a cohort model. Students must also pass an exam and complete a thesis or capstone project in order to graduate. Students can earn their degree in as few as 18 months. 7. Sam Houston State University Huntsville, Texas Online Master of Science in Kinesiology With an Emphasis in Sport and Human Performance Tuition: $15,015 Sam Houston State University is one of the oldest purpose-built institutions for the instruction of teachers west of the Mississippi River and the first of this type of institution in Texas. Founded in 1879, it is the oldest public school of higher learning in the state, and it is located approximately 72 miles north of downtown Houston in Huntsville, Texas. The school enrolls more than 20,000 students in on-campus and online undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The Master of Science in Kinesiology with an emphasis in sport and human performance consists of 30 to 36 credit hours and is designed to advance students’ understanding of the relationships among skills exercise, and movement that occurs in the contexts of training, rehabilitation, learning, and development. Although the program is available online, students are required to attend one or two on-campus lab days during each semester they are taking Sport and Human Performance courses. 6. University of Texas-Tyler Tyler, Texas Online Master of Science Degree in Kinesiology Tuition: $14,756 Founded in 1971, the University of Texas at Tyler is ranked among the top 35 public schools in the region and the top 90 universities and colleges in the West by U.S. News & World Report. Total enrollment hovers just under 9,000 students, and the 18:1 student-to-faculty ratio supports a collaborative, vibrant learning community. The 36-credit-hour online Master of Science in Kinesiology degree includes core courses in biomechanics, exercise physiology, motor learning, biometric methods, and research design. Students complete 12 elective hours to further focus the program as well as six credits of an internship or thesis. 5. Southern Utah University Cedar City, Utah Online Master of Science in Sports Conditioning and Performance Tuition: $13,853 Known as “The Coaching Factory” due to its success producing championship-winning coaches, Southern Utah University is located in Cedar City, Utah and provides nearly 100 degree programs. SUU is organized into two schools and four colleges and reports a total enrollment of 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The online sports medicine master’s degree focuses on sports conditioning, coaching, and more. Although most courses are available online, students must complete a summer residency each year they are in the program. Degree requirements include a comprehensive exam, a thesis, and 30 credit hours of coursework in areas such as athletic training and sports medicine, sports science and research statistics, and foundations of sports conditioning. 4. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, Texas Online Kinesiology, MS Tuition: $13,321 Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi was established in 1947. Today, the school enrolls more than 12,000 students and boasts accolades from the White House for its College of Nursing and Health Sciences. The online Master of Science in Kinesiology with an emphasis in sport and exercise science focuses on disciplines such as exercise physiology, sport performance assessments, and biomechanics. It is available either as a hybrid program or entirely online, and students have the opportunity to choose from a research project, capstone project, applied electives, or a thesis for their final project. Students must complete 36 credit hours of coursework in areas such as program design for resistance training, principles of strength and conditioning, and assessments and evaluations of athletic performance. 3. McNeese State University Lake Charles, Louisiana Online Master of Science in Health and Human Performance – Exercise Physiology Concentration Tuition: $11,250 Located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, McNeese State University is a member institution of the University of Louisiana System. The school is organized into a graduate school and six colleges as well as its online global network. More than 7,500 combined graduate and undergraduate students attend McNeese each year. The online Master of Science in Health and Human Performance with a concentration in exercise physiology requires 33 credit hours of coursework as well as an internship that students must complete in their own communities. Students may choose from three concentrations: Health Promotion, Nutrition and Wellness, and Physiology. All concentrations require courses in areas such as research methods, physiology, problems in health and human performance, and measurements in health and physical education. 2. Texas A&M University-Commerce Commerce, Texas Online MS in Health, Kinesiology & Sport Studies Tuition: $10,607 Texas A&M University at Commerce is a public university and the third-largest campus in the Texas A&M System. The school enrolls more than 12,000 students each year and offers fully online graduate programs in engineering, education, the arts and sciences, business, and health. Students pursuing the online Master of Science in Health, Kinesiology and Sports Studies can choose from four concentrations in exercise science, physical education pedagogy, health promotion, and athletic administration. Online students can finish the 30-credit program in as few as 12 months and have the opportunity to complete an internship as part of their coursework to gain additional hands-on, real-world experience. 1. Sul Ross State University Alpine, Texas Online Master of Science in Health and Human Performance Tuition: $9,943 Founded in 1917, Sul Ross State University is located in Alpine, Texas and enrolls more than 3,000 students per year. The school’s 16:1 student-to-faculty ratio allows it to operate on two levels: as a small liberal arts school with one-on-one learning and personalized instruction and as a larger research university with collaborative, vibrant classrooms. SRSU offers both on-campus and online degrees, including an online Master of Science in Health and Human Performance. This degree follows an applied practice education model and is available entirely online. Students complete coursework in group dynamics, diagnostic tests, research methods, health and human performance, neurological basis for motor learning and control, and the physiological basis of human behavior prior to completing an internship or practicum. Students may opt for the accelerated one-year master’s in sports medicine track via eight-week course blocks or finish within two years with part-time study. Frequently Asked Questions What are the Career Options for an Online Master’s in Sports Medicine Degree? Any online degree in sports medicine offers choices for graduates. Although the term “sports medicine” may seem specific, in reality, there are a number of career options available. Some of these include: - Wellness Director - Occupational Therapy Assistant - Coach - Athletic Trainer - Massage Therapist - Sports Psychologist - Occupational Therapist - Sports Nutritionist - Exercise Physiologist What Are the Various Disciplines of Sports Medicine? In the past, only a doctor could work in the field of sports medicine, mainly due to the fact that sports medicine is a sub-discipline of medicine. However, as technology has advanced to the point where career paths are available that do not require a medical license and the view of sports medicine has evolved over the years, so too have the disciplines associated with this industry. First and foremost, sports medicine is the domain of medicine. However, there are a number of other disciplines because this sub-field focuses directly on sports performance. Some of these disciplines include leadership, teamwork, performance psychology, exercise physiology, kinesiology, nutrition, and biomechanics. Since there are so many specializations within the field of sports medicine, it is common to find professionals who have focused their careers on just one area. This is evidenced by the increase of biomechanists, sports nutritionists, and exercise psychologists. Many students find that they will be able to select one concentration field once they enter into a master’s program, which will be their primary discipline. How Much Can You Earn in This Field? The sports medicine industry is a broad field that encompasses therapists, trainers, surgeons, psychiatrists, doctors, and more. Therefore, it can be tricky to pinpoint an average salary for this particular sector. However, a good rule of thumb is to assume a salary range between $28,000 and $125,000, depending on the professional’s specific career path. It is also important to point out that when it comes to sports medicine, proximity to competition areas, Olympic training centers, and major sports cities is key. The closer one is to these critical spaces, the higher a salary he or she can expect. It also means that competition for jobs will be high since many professionals with similar qualifications will be vying for the same positions. Also, keep in mind that credentialed or licensed professionals in sports medicine command higher salaries than those who have not attained a license or endorsement. Reputation and work experience also factor into how much a professional earns; if they have worked with athletes or teams in the past, they may be able to earn more money than those who have not. What Are the Admission Requirements for an Online Master’s Degree in Sports Medicine? As is the case with nearly any program, sports management graduate degrees do have requirements. These conditions tend to be the same for both on-campus, traditional programs and online degrees because most schools use the same curriculum and the same faculty members for both learning formats. Let’s look at some of the most common application and admission requirements that students should consider when narrowing down prospective online sports medicine programs. First, students must generally hold a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology or a health-related major from a regionally accredited institution. Students will be asked to submit official college transcripts as well as proof of graduation. An undergraduate degree is a requirement because graduate degrees build on coursework and skills learned in the bachelor’s program. Earning a degree in an unrelated field makes it difficult for students to find their footing and keep up at the graduate level. Second, students can expect to submit their Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or Graduate Record Examination (GRE) test scores. Most schools will accept either score, while some are specific in their requirements. Graduate examinations are critical for online students since they provide evidence that the students are committed to earning a master’s degree. Some schools may allow students to waive this requirement, but that is up to each individual institution to implement. Finally, online graduate students are usually asked to submit a current resume or curriculum vitae. Although this may shock some pre-service professionals, it is a requirement for these programs. A resume gives the school a solid look into the applicant’s previous volunteer, education, and work experience, and it can help the admissions office to determine whether a particular student would thrive in a sports medicine graduate program. Are Internships Necessary for Sports Medicine Graduate Programs? Since an online master’s degree in sports medicine is an advanced professional degree, it is designed for students already working in the field and looking to attain higher positions. It also means that students looking to increase their employment opportunities will need to have real-world experience before they graduate from any given program. Most graduate programs require, or at the very least, strongly encourage, all students to participate in an internship or practicum. These courses benefit the students as they will learn what exactly they can expect in their new career as they move into the workforce. This, in turn, provides an actual understanding of what their responsibilities and workload will look like once they graduate so that they may plan accordingly. Since sports medicine positions typically require an advanced professional degree in sports management, most employers prefer to see some type of work experience on a candidate’s resume. By pursuing an internship and using it as a form of work experience, students can at least indicate on their resumes that they have hands-on training in the field. Some students may also gain a position with the company for whom they interned at the end of the program. Although many online programs do not require internships, including some on this list, they are typically listed as options. Even though a professional has chosen to pursue the degree online, he or she may not be ready to head into the workforce without any real-world experience. Consider internships as opportunities to experience the world of sports medicine before leaving graduate school. The field of sports medicine often goes unnoticed in the media until a major issue happens at the professional level of any sport. However, it is an indispensable part of the sports world as it is the first line of defense to protect athletes from injury and aid in recovery. For any student considering a sports career, an online Master’s in Sports Medicine is one way to get started in this growing, dynamic field.
08 Nov Thursday Morning – A Lot More Earnings Market Sentiment Watch: Busy, busy, busy day today. WLL up story STO making $65 bid. Not a lot of rational thinking yesterday with knee jerk selling in energy and in commodities on the U.S. election outcome and European data. In energy land we have earnings overload today. In the post please find comments on eight names of interest reporting today which will cause us to go to a more bulletized format than usual for commentary (shorter, more to the point, and so if anything is unclear please feel free to ask about it in the comments section). We've included as many helpful graphs as time allowed. Ecodata Watch: - Jobless claims are expected to come in at 365,000 vs 363,000 last week, - Tomorrow we get consumer sentiment and wholesale inventories In Today’s Post: - Holdings Watch - Commodity Watch - Natural Gas Inventory Review - Stuff We Care About Today – OAS, ROSE, CLR, MPO, FTK, CXPO, NOG, HK, - Odds & Ends Please click the link right below this to Holdings Watch: ZMT (Zman Medium Term portfolio): - Yesterday’s Trades: None ZLT (Zman Long Term portfolio) - Yesterday’s Trades: - OAS – Added a trading position at $30.11, on group/market/commodity related weakness. The name in my view remains one of the better values in the Wiliston Basin and is doing more with less as well costs fall. Infrastructure buildout has led to improved margins and we should continue to see lower per unit costs as the quarter roll by. They are looking to expand outside of the Basin and we don't know where or what they will go after but they have proven themselves to be under promise, over deliver types and good operators. Earnings call tomorrow. - The Blotter is updated. Commodity Watch: Crude oil dropped on the post election market plummet ending the day off $4.27 at $84.44 yesterday, more than offsetting Tuesday's $3+ gain. Prices were unaided by a bearish looking across the board headlined by a big build in gasoline stocks that were likely caused by demand depressed by Hurricane Sandy. This morning crude is trading up a buck. Natural gas eased $0.04 to close the day at $3.58 yesterday. We are in the tail end of the shoulder season and traders have taken a few profits due to uncertain demand for electrical power in the wake of Sandy and due to renewed fears on the economic growth front. This is natural and part of the 2 steps forward, 1 step back price recovery process. A little more sloppiness ahead and then weather should start firming up price via above average withdrawals (probably 2 to 6 weeks out). This morning gas is trading off slightly. Natural Gas Inventory Preview Street is at +26 BCF for today's report. Again, tougher week to gauge due to Sandy impacts. - Last Week: +65 Bcf - Last Year: +37 Bcf - 5 Year Average: +28 Bcf - 10 year Hi: +54 Bcf - 10 year Low: -82 Bcf Oil Inventory Review: . . Stuff We Care About Today Call plans for today (all times EST) - FTK 8:30 am - MPO 9 am - HK 10 am (will circle back to NOG) - OAS (11 am) (will circle back to ROSE) - Circle back to replay for remaining ones that overlap. OAS Reports Big 3Q12 Beat, Upped 2012 Guidance; Strong EBITDA Margins The 3Q12 Number: Production above the top end of the range and unit costs fell on the strong volumes. EBITDA per BOE almost tied 1Q12 levels despite oil prices as measured by WTI being $11 lower this quarter as compared to 1Q12. See graphs below. Guidance: - 4Q12 initiated at 26 to 28 MBOEpd (up 11% sequentially on the mid) - 2012 increased: - Was: 20.5 to 22.5 MBOEpd - Is: 22.1 to 22.6 MBOEpd (up 108% on the mid) Highlights: - Well costs down to $8.8mm now vs $10.5 mm in 1H12. Nice. - As usual, nothing in the way of "well news". - Balance Sheet: - Cash and short term of $407 mm - Net debt to cap of 51% - Debt to last 12 months EBITDA is at 2.8x which is fine, net debt to LTM EBITDA is under 2x. Nutshell: Nice beat and raise. Street estimates will be rising for the beat and the 4Q guide. Expect them to get lots of questions about 2013 budget and production guidance. Expect them to give little ground on the issue. Also expect them to get asked about the outside Williston Basin concept and for them to defer speaking about it. This name still remains to my eye one of the better performing management teams in the Bakken doing a good job of promising big and delivering bigger. And they remain cheap for an operator on all metrics relative to some play leading peers. I continue to own the name as a Core position in the ZLT. HK Reports 3Q12 Results; Ups Guidance Guidance: - 4Q12 - 2013 Volumes: - was 32 to 38,000 BOEpd, - is now at 40 to 45,000 BOEpd with a much higher liquids mix than the old forecast at 80% oil, 5% NGL and 15% natural gas - 2013 budget: $1.2 B drilling budget and includes $100 mm for assets in the EFS being held for sale. This is lower than I thought and I suspect it rises to accommodate the recent Bakken adds but don't know. Had thought they'd be closer to $1.4 to $1.5 B. Highlights: - Core Plays - Woodbine - 200,000 net acres - 5 to 6 rigs running - 15 wells completed, 6 more by year end - Reducing CWC costs by $1 mm (15%) due variety of items - Don't have production total here but maybe on call - Williston Basin (Bakken/Three Forks) - > 135,000 net acres assuming recent deal with Petro-Hunt closes - Spud 3 wells in Williams County and 3 in Roosevelt County, Montana during the quarter - Saying results are better than type curve in early days - Will move 1 rig to FBIR area (KOG / XOM country) in 1Q13 to drill higher interest, and what should be higher rate wells - Utica /Point Pleasant - 130,000 net acres - 2 wells spud in late October - look for results late in 1Q13 so probably after the 4Q call. - Non Core Plays - Midway / Navarro - 1st well completed up hole in the Midway for 595 BOEpd (16% oil) - given heat and depth its gassier than what they wanted I suspect. Second well being evaluated. - Tuscaloosa - 1st well drilled, encouraged by cores from the vertical, drilling lateral now. Planning 3 more - Eagle Ford - Since August (and this date is used to show HK taking over completion method) their 8 wells have averaged 545 BOEpd first 30 day rates with 93% oil, - Have to sell this and data room is open... I'd expect a deal in the not too distant future, would thing $250 mm plus but want to hear area current production. Nutshell: This quarter is not about the numbers as those continue to be for a company that no longer exists relative the balance sheet, acreage, production mix (should be 26,500 BOEpd pro forma), reserves, and opportunity set they have built. Guidance going up was expected although this is a bit more than I was looking for. The story boils down to Woodbine, Bakken, Utica oil plays driving growth with the rest of the plays to either success and become core or get punted (most of the current non core crop will get punted). I continue to own the name in the ZLT. NOG Reports In Line (slight beat) 3Q12 Results ... Consistent, high margin, growth The 3Q12 Number: Volumes were guided to 11.2 MBOEpd and came in slightly higher. Guidance: - Assuming no change to the prior thinking of ~ 4 mm BOE on the year. Highlights: - EBITDA per BOE of $60.80, which is in line with names like KOG and OAS for the quarter, - Picked another 3,815 net acres in the quarter for an average of $2,060 per acre, bringing them to 184,000 net acres. - Favorite quote watch (and this sums it up well) ." Nutshell: Simple story and they continue to execute as expected. Name remains highly discounted to the group on a variety of metrics due to its non operated status (nothing new here) despite a strong balance sheet, no external funding needs this year or next, a largely HBP'd acreage position across a broad swath of the Williston which will be likely completely held by year end 2013, and operating metrics that stack up nicely relative to its operated peers in the play. MPO Reports 3Q Miss; But a nice horizontal wilcox well and I just want to listen to them talk at this point Guidance: - 2012 was 9.8 to 10.5 MBOEpd was not mentioned in the press release. - 2013 guidance was 20 to 23 MBOEpd and also was not mentioned Highlights: - Wilcox - North Cowards Gully horizontal (the Musser-Davis 8H-1) the highlight of the quarter. This well was previously announced as a 1,649 BOEpd well but has produced at an average rate of 1,411 BOEpd since September 25th which is better than anyone was probably expecting. It also speaks to the variability of the play as I don't expect and would think others should not expect to see them punch a bunch of wells just like this one. - Miss Lime - Plan to hit the ground running in 4Q12 spudding 12 horizontal wells. Nutshell: Some bit of confidence returning at this lower price but one good well does not make me want to stay without a lot more color. I continue to own the name in the ZLT but that could change today during or after they present. ROSE Reports Solid 3Q12 Results; Liquids Continue Move Higher Guidance: - October production average 41 MBOEpd - They are saying they now expect to exit at the high end of their prior range of 39 to 44 MBOEpd - 2013 - they didn't give guidance but they did say that given the same level of activity in 2013 as they have had in 2012 they would look for 30% growth. On average, the Street is looking for 35% growth but I don't think that's a disappointment as again, its not guidance, and they may choose to move more swiftly. Also, they like to beat, so starting at 30% is probably going to be the lowest end of their expectations on a similar well count. Also, if they were to stay at five rigs chances are high they would complete more wells next year as drilling times continue to slowly decline. Highlights: - Eagle Ford - 5 rigs running (same as before) - 36.5 MBOEpd in the quarter (so almost all of their production - Gate Ranch (core of the four area) seeing continued good results at 55 acre spacing - Briscoe ranch - 3 pad drilled wells performing on type curve - New area to test, in central Dimmit - the Lasseter & Eppright acreage (8,100 acre tract), first well had a 7 day rate of 1,228 BOEpd (54% oil, 21% NGLs). This is higher than you see at - Location count stands at roughly 800 on not too tightly spaced thinking. Nutshell: Solid Eagle Ford player continues to hit on all cylinders. Good quarter, improving margins as costs remain in check and there are indications they are going to continue to remain in check even as liquids as a percent of the mix inch up. I continue to own the name in the ZLT. CLR Reported In Line 3Q12 Results; Reiterates Guidance; Announces Williston Buy Guidance: Reiterated - 2012 still at 57 to 59% (and that's with a small divestiture - 2013: 30 to 35% Highlights: - Williston Basin - Montana - noted that 2 of 5 wells completed in Montana had IP's over 1,000 BOEpd. Would think those are close to SSN acreage but that's a guess and they have been busy in Montana of late. - Ecopad test - 4 wells on one pad with an aggregate IP of 6,240 BOEpd - looking forward to color on the conference call - 19 rigs running in their Bakken program at the moment. - NW Cana and SCOOP play - results similar to at the analyst day - running 6 rigs in SCOOP - Deal Watch 1: - added 120,000 net acres primarily in Divide and Williams Counties for $650 mm, - with 6,500 BOEpd of current production - backing out the production value they are adding to their already ginormous position at about $1,100 per acre. Would like to see a map of where most of the acreage lies before calling it a cheap buy but it probably is. - brings total acreage to 1.1 mm net acres in the Williston Basin. - Deal Watch 2: - Selling 1,100 BOEpd of non core production east of the MS river for $125 mm. - Favorite quotes watch: - "We now have excess transportation capacity in both pipe and rail, and, with additional infrastructure projects in the planning and construction stages, capacity should remain ahead of Bakken production growth," - "We've recently seen a significant improvement in Bakken oil price differentials, reflecting higher volumes being shipped by rail to the coasts and the anticipation of increased pipeline capacity," Nutshell: Good quarter with "as expected guidance". Little new aside form the preceding comments since the investor day in October. We continue to own the name in the ZLT. CXPO Reported In Line 3Q12 Results; Not a lot of real color in the release Guidance: - 4Q of 34 to 37 MMcfepd, probably needs a little more explaining than they are giving the press release. Highlights: - Reached 50.4% liquids for first time (up from 29% of production a year ago and 46% last quarter) - Woodbine - no well by well or program update today since they did that last week in an update. Those results were OK gassy - Capital Constrained. Nutshell: I no longer see an edge to owning this name. I continue to own a smallish position in the ZLT and will do an update piece here soon but am likely to be looking for opportunities to sell. FTK Reports Slight 3Q12 Miss; Points To Stronger 4Q Guidance: - October revenue looks like 2nd strongest month for them on record at > $29 mm with all 3 segments posting gains. Highlights: - Lots of flowery language as usual. Ends by saying the challenging market is better for them. - No need for external capital - Chemical division - Revenue up slightly - Better margins due to raw materials cost reductions - EOR product applied in a successful test to stop premature CO2 breakthrough (could be a big deal if they can get it to work, and especially so if they can get it to work for heavier oil flood projects) - Mentioned again the CnF 2.0 that can save on water, proppant and horsepower by as much as 20% ... I'd love to get some real world math on that if any one has used this stuff yet. Nutshell: Miss but optimistic outlook. Name probably drifts with the OIH. I continue to own the name in the ZLT. Odds & Ends Analyst Watch: - GDP - Canaccord cuts target by $2 to $25, rating Buy. Well that's pretty bold of them and I don't mean that sarcastically. - GDP - Baird trims target by $2 to $15, rating Neutral - EOG - SocGen cuts to Sell - OAS - BMO ups target by $5 to $35, rating Market Perform - ROSE - Citi ups from Neutral to Buy, targetted upped from $50 to $60 Call plans for today (all times EST) WLL up 13% on the story at $47.60, benzinga saying its a $65 offer from STO and that WLL has asked a banker to evaluate it.November 8th, 2012 at 8:31 am Jobless claims 355,000, better than the 363,000 expectedNovember 8th, 2012 at 8:32 am Story on the possible WLL deal 8th, 2012 at 8:34 am SD gets love note from shareholder TPG-Axon 8th, 2012 at 8:39 am so holding WLL wasn't a bad deal after all. that is if in fact Statoil makes the bid. $65 is not a high price to pay for the land involved and probably bodes well for someone like NFX which is in the same position, meaning cheap stock valuable land.November 8th, 2012 at 8:46 am re 6 – Don't know if it happens or not but agree that $65 for the whole co would be a good price to get them for from a longer term standpoint. Makes sense for STO to further bulk up after the Brigham buy.November 8th, 2012 at 8:48 am FTK 3Q12 Notes – nothing new relative to what's in the post and press release other than on the CO2 breakthrough prevention project they are simulating results in the lab for other operators in the US and Canada.November 8th, 2012 at 8:54 am Re 7 I want to send Terry Barr at SSN a love note to, but I believe they'll be OK in the long run.November 8th, 2012 at 8:55 am RMD or Eli, please post any comment of anything interesting from the FTK Q&A, getting on the MPO call.November 8th, 2012 at 8:58 am Re 9 – heh, me too re the letter. Jury still out on whether or not they will be OK in the long run.November 8th, 2012 at 9:02 am Good Morning:November 8th, 2012 at 9:02 am BDI unchanged at 916 Brent/WTI remains at the high side: 22.2 TED remains at .22 re 12 – Good morning and apologies for not getting a preview version of the post out late last night.November 8th, 2012 at 9:04 am S&P 500 Futs….Market hanging within the wide long term acceptance area (green volume profile on right edge of chart) and above key support at 1386. Expect congestion/chop until the major CHVN is rejected with a move below 1386 or above 1407.Relative low volume areas both above and below the 1396 CHVN leave room for rapid moves when this area is rejected one way or another. Market indicators are not supportive but the market is oversold at key support with very negative sentiment. I expect a bounce attempt. Whether it can clear the now increased supply overhead is less than clear to me.November 8th, 2012 at 9:06 am Chart shows yesterdays range, overnight session and likely opening levels as well as the current congestion area. Good luck…I'll be playing with my kids.. #13…I was just thinking how right on your thinking has been on today's reporting stocks…good work ..thanks so muchNovember 8th, 2012 at 9:06 am Zorg.November 8th, 2012 at 9:13 am looks like these levels are still intact. would be terrible to see the 1386 level violated as it may cause some additional panic selling. wait and see is probably the best plan at this juncture. OT..looks as though my email was hacked….anyone receiving links from me from a hotmail address should send them to trash…November 8th, 2012 at 9:14 am #16 Most of the lagging indicators make 1386 look vulnerable. All of the mean reversion ones make it look to be a pretty high odds bounce play….tough spot. I'm leaning with the latter until proven wrong….that's just me.November 8th, 2012 at 9:19 am no need to apologize. Thanks for all the work. Did you sleep at all last night?November 8th, 2012 at 9:20 am Zorg.November 8th, 2012 at 9:33 am that prediction on a 10% drop in indexes back over the late summer by a major brokerage house is coming to fruition. it was however mentioned in the same note that once this correction takes place, the next 12 months should reflect a more positive outlook MPO 3Q12 Notes Follow up well to North Cowards Gully area well spuds next week, could be 20 more well locations there 4Q12 – will be first to include Miss Lime assets 4th rig added to Miss Lime Still expect to make 4Q volumes guidance 33.3 mm BOE as of June 30 from Netherland, saying the delta to original is due to timing of wells included in original report (was 37 mmboe) Pine Prairie 2 more strong wells to add later this week in LA in the Pine Prairie area (9 Willcox wells and 10 shallow wells (all vertica and all in line with expectations) Avg costs $3 mm Wilcox vertical Avg cost $1.3 mm shallow vertical North Cowards Gully area – noting 1,260 BOEpd last 7 days at the Musser Davis well (cost $10 mm) – > 73,000 bo in 2 months – think go forward cost will be $7 to $8 mm – 3700' lateral spuds next week ($8 mm) West Gordon Area – short lateral well had mech issue, going to sidetrack, drilled in thickest pay part of the field, had good shows in the original lateral – 2nd shorter lateral Shallow Miocene – different Musser Davis well – 6 months in the Miocene with > 97,000 bo produced and no need for a frac Oklahoma – Woods and Alfalfa Counties 3D scheduled for late 2013 – 4 rigs going forward Louisiana $70 to $75 mm spend in 4Q12 5 rigs now going to 3 rigs I think Their presentation is awful, jumps all over the place. Analysts have a lot of calls today, linear makes much more sense than this call. Q3 guidance – all within guidance, volumes and costs, Q4 guidance – 15,100 and 15,600 BOEpd 8000 to 8500 LA 6800 to 7100 OK Putting out a lot of guidance here, will have to go read transcript as he talks faster than I type which is rare and not smart on his part. Put it in a table in the press release. Maybe its on their site somewhere but I don't see it yet. I'm going to go back and dissect this one post call. Q&A about to start.November 8th, 2012 at 9:33 am Somewhat odd looking opening in the group. OAS trying to break on out on those very strong beat and raise numbers, added another trading position there yesterday.November 8th, 2012 at 9:35 am when I was in Little Rock last year, by far my favorite was OAS…didn't think it would be trading under $35 now…but it is what it is….damn hard to time building an oil company with when the market will reward its share price….November 8th, 2012 at 9:37 am MPO Q&A No EUR to share yet on N Cowards Gully well but > 300 MBOE – stock moving on this comment Moving to horizontal approach on the west side of LA, vertical first but then HZ ….November 8th, 2012 at 9:42 am I'm not smart enough to figure out what they don't like about HK, can anybody help?November 8th, 2012 at 9:44 am Does the current price for WLL reflect a low to no probability for a take over?November 8th, 2012 at 9:45 am re 25 – probably the earnings miss which I don't really think matters at this point as per post comment and the lack of big well results in the operations update , as a guess. re 26 – I'd say it says people are dubious, seems to be the rumor of the month every other month or so that someone is going to nab them.November 8th, 2012 at 9:48 am MPO notes – sounds like no more Miss Lime acquisitions near term, they're digesting what they have which is what I like to hear. – they will break out volumes and prices by region going forward – Miss LIme – they are however buying acreage in the core of their current position – Question about First Reserve holdings in MPO – CEO saying investors should feel comfortable that First Reserve will sell shares, especially down here. – analyst tone positive , jumping to the HK call but will circle back here in the not too distant future, not adding to our position for the momentNovember 8th, 2012 at 9:57 am HK call 8th, 2012 at 10:00 am HK 3Q12 Notes – The 3 core plays will get at least 90% of the budget of $1.2 B – Looking for ways to shave budget – Saying they are in a good position to forecast 2013 Woodbine: – Most active operator in the Woodbine, – noting cost savings as per post – 15 hz wells all in Leon County – 6 drilling, 6 completing Bakken – 40% of 2013 budget, most of it goes to FBIR area – rest in post Utica – positioned for continuous drilling program – 2 rigs now, 3 rigs by early '13, 4 rigs by mid '13 – rest in post ….November 8th, 2012 at 10:08 am HK Notes – 3Q had two months of GEOI in it – 4Q will have about a half month of the recent Williston buy in it – volume guidance boost and increase in oiliness as per post – continuing to hedge (9,000 bopd in 2013 just under $90/bbl) Q&A startingNovember 8th, 2012 at 10:12 am Re 26,27 If, as Reuters reports, B of A has been retained to evaluate the proposalNovember 8th, 2012 at 10:18 am I suspect there s a higher probability to the liklihood of a deal in the offing than is usually attached to the "periodic" chatter. HK Q&A Q) Oil realizations, where in 2013 A) Adding in Bakken, would be a little lower Q) Will you buy a 4th core area? A) no, we have enough to do with our 3 areas and hope that one of our wildcats turn into a new core in time Q) Utica – offset operator question A) Everything in our data base verifies our research and our mapping and we are highly comfortable with what we are doing Q) Tuscaloosa – why encouraged? a) oil in the samples, oil in the pits, cores look good with the naked eye, logging looks good, good porosity. Also think they will eventually get the costs down to < $10 mm, saying it loos just like a Black Hawk well (this is a more positive bent on the TMS than he has taken in the past). Q) When will the stealth plays be disclosed A) Will continue to evaluate and buy land …. don't think they will talk about those too much this year, will maybe talk about them early next year. Noting that they see the 3 core plays as driving the company forward. Q) Joe A question – production for 2013 – where do you expect declines? A) Saying non core plays not really counted in the guidance? hmm. Saying the mature non core declines at 20 to 25% , saying the 3 cores will provide all of the growth Production from assets they plan to sell is in the production Q) Eagle Ford sale a) process ongoing, quite a few people have looked at it. Q) EFS – what's current production? A) we haven't given production by region ….November 8th, 2012 at 10:24 am GDP eventually should get some help from Floyd's comments.November 8th, 2012 at 10:38 am Ng +21, east 5, west 8 producing 8November 8th, 2012 at 10:41 am HK Q&A – pro forma the deal – $135 mm in cash at time of Willistoin close on December 13, and > $900 mm of liquidity at that point Q) Saying they probably won't reallocate the $100 mm in the budget or the EFS when they sell it. Q) what's completion schedule for the year look like A) using pad drilling in all 3 plays. So pretty steady … this can make for lumpy production, over time it should level out, after early stair step due to batch completions. Q) Utica infrastructure A) working it out before first production, won't have any delays for the first wells … might expect some improvements in price due to infrastuctue adds over the next year. Q) Divestiture strategy a) Punt no upside properties, even if they are money makes Will likely have another batch of prospects on the table by mid 2013 … then said they don't want to sell the mature production until they can replace it with the new core growth Q) Midway/Navarro – Liked first one, completing second, shooting some seismic, won't drill 3rd well until they have that in house, said zones are a blanket but you need features. Anything they get out of this will be upside to the volume guidance. Q) Budget ?s A) Any leasehold will be in addition to the $1.2 B. Don't expect leasing to be a big number next year. TMS may get more of the remaining 10%, otherwise no lease pressures so not a rush to drill the non cores. Bakken 40%, Woodbine probably 40%, 10% Utica. If you have success in the TMS would you add to the budget or reallocate …. sounds like reallocate. Idea right now is to shave the 2013 budget. However, really good success in these plays coudl see the budget upped. Woodbine – look for a pre 4Q operations update. Call over. Subdued tone by analysts. re 35 – thanks for that. Better than Street by a touch as expected.November 8th, 2012 at 10:45 am STO/WLL: picked this up off IB news/rumor board-do not have anything more on it:November 8th, 2012 at 10:45 am EU Ministers saying they will delay payments to Greece due next week. Market drops.November 8th, 2012 at 10:45 am OAS call in 15 minutes, it and ROSE holding up OK into their calls. Taking oppy to reboot here as we are grinding to a halt, back by time of OAS.November 8th, 2012 at 10:48 am re 39 – what, just now figuring the math their is corrupt and bad? OAS call starting now, notes in a bit.November 8th, 2012 at 11:01 am HK-Z, its 2013 budget of $1.2 mil-is this sufficiently funded from cash/cash flow or will they need to raise cash? noted that $100 mil avail if/when EFS assets sold.November 8th, 2012 at 11:09 am Thanks. #17-thanks, zorg, for heads up-got one hack msg.November 8th, 2012 at 11:10 am re 42 – funded by the liquidity of $900 mm+ cash flow.November 8th, 2012 at 11:11 am OAS 3Q12 – beat target for well costs to $8.8 mm (not including the savings of having their own in house frac spread0 – think can go to $8.5 mm or less CWC (which would be saving $2 mm per well from early this year) – oil marketing – making sure getting highest price possible Operations update – HBPing acreage – 260,000 now held (out of 333,000) – they added about 30K to my last count -good Cottonwood area wells – saying 4 Bakken and 3 TFS wells per unit in Cotton Wood and Indian Hills – saved $13 mm in capex with in house frac spread (high end of original plan) – operating costs coming down as more water and oil go through their pipe system Q&A about to start…. Analyst Watch: REXX – Opco raises target from $14 to $16. and GHS cuts to Hold … reaction in this market is to take it down 10%. Pretty nutty.November 8th, 2012 at 11:22 am HK falling on a weak chart and lack of group confidence and lack of something "new" in the quarterly release.November 8th, 2012 at 11:23 am Any thoughts on why CLR is -5.66% after good Qtr results?November 8th, 2012 at 11:42 am re 48 – started falling early, could be a call comment but I have not heard the call yet. It moves with oil quite often in a pretty volatile fashion. The numbers were fine, the guidance for next year was as expected. So I'd just be guessing at this point.November 8th, 2012 at 11:47 am HCLP-Hi-Crush Partners LP is a domestic producer of monocrystalline sand, a specialized mineral that is used as a proppant to enhance the recovery rates of hydrocarbons from oil and natural gas wells.November 8th, 2012 at 11:48 am IPO in Aug 2012, 9% yield Z, do you have any views on this one?-depending upon the business model, might have a bright future. Thanks and would add that breaks of support are getting treated harshly in this market, so when it broke the little range of the last couple of weeks it acceleratedNovember 8th, 2012 at 11:49 am re 50 – Nothing specific on them other than I took a pass on them when it came out and have a sort of mixed view on the proppant guys like CLR at this point. They have been beat up but there is big margin pressure on names like CLR. Still taking notes on the OAS callNovember 8th, 2012 at 11:52 am Crude back to even on the day, CLR acting like its falling off a cliff, very near term knee jerky market. OAS Q&A – Hoping to get to completed well costs $8.5 mm for an average next year – LOE guidance – expect to see costs come down in 2013, sounds like some areas of easy improvement. Completion method questions ? Sounds like the recipe is not changing more for now, varies a bit by area but no big changes. Q) Where is new acreage located? A) We've looked at all of the recent Bakken deals, and we didnt participate based on our ability to execute relative to service availability. Much of acreage added in the middle of their Cottonwood area . Will you get more aggressive on these deals? A) Bakken / TFS remains our focus, working acreage buys all the time Other odds and ends: – Plan on giving 2013 guidance early January. Too really to talk about it, 60/40 of spending west vs east in the play – 23 days spud to rig release – expect 4Q differentials to tighten again. – budget will gear around the number of wells, so as they get more efficient they could again drop rigs. – Pad drilling in 2013? A little more focused on pads in west Williston, a little mature over there, still drilling some delineation wells on the east side. Very good tone to this call – stock barely up now due to group action but pleased with how they continue to mature the story. OAS Q&A No change to type curve Three Forks – in Cottonwood area seeing wells that look a lot like middle Bakken wells Differential – 10% differential to the basin is how they see things going forward. expect a tightening 4Q/1Q13 but sounds like not expecting tightening long term beyond 10% to WTI Increasingly intrigued by the lower TFS benches, have some core work but not a horizontal lateral placed into the lower benches, could be in the 2013 budget but have not decided yet. Call over – one of the most positive calls (them and the sellside) of the quarter in terms of tone. Hitting on all cylinders gets over used but it definitely applies Will be circling back to CLR, NOG, ROSE next as they become available.November 8th, 2012 at 12:02 pm REXX ?? was 14 into earnings; and report was good ?November 8th, 2012 at 12:03 pm Re: 50 If sand is a "specialized mineral" I have lots of it in my backyard. Maybe I should spend my time digging it up and selling it rather than investing in the stock marketNovember 8th, 2012 at 12:06 pm re 56 – yes, in my view. GHS didn't agree with me as they cut the name today to Hold as per 46 above My comments from yesterday The 3Q12 Numbers: Inline volumes helped by more liquids and higher natural gas prices along with very solid costs controls as LOE fell despite higher absolute liquids volumes. Highlights Guidance: Nutshell: Strong quarter with management continuing to deliver on guidance. And with liquids now expanding as part of the profile and with natural gas prices in modest recovery mode we expect swifter strong EBITDA per unit and absolute expansion. I continue to own the name in the ZLT and ZLT C.November 8th, 2012 at 12:07 pm re 57 – which is what guys like EOG and SWN are doing in a bit more sophisticated way.November 8th, 2012 at 12:08 pm Listening to CLR replay now, notes in a bit.November 8th, 2012 at 12:09 pm Apologies, make the REXX change at GHS a downgrade to Accumulate – cites limited upside, lack of near term catalysts.November 8th, 2012 at 12:10 pm re HK – what price did the Ontario Pension Plan agree to pay HK? I am thinking 7.25, You would think at some point they would come back into the open market.November 8th, 2012 at 12:10 pm CLR 3Q12 notes SCOOP – now 197,000 acres Bakken – soon to be 1.1 mm acres Ecopads – started with 4 wells per pad and are now designing 14 wells per pad At start 10% of wells were on pad, now at 45% of wells on pad, growing going forward Saves on access and site construction, saves on rig moves, cuts cycle times by 10%, (said when they do move a rig they have cut the cost this year by 17%), so, like everyone else they are doing more with less iron. Average days in the lateral down 18% this year. Drill 5 mile long well (record for the Williston) in 28 days. This must be a diagonal well they talked about at the analyst day on a 2 X 3 section unit. Proppant costs down as much as 40% (both ceramic and sand) $120K per stage in 4Q11 to $98 K per stage now Lots of other little things cutting costs … looking at every aspect to cut well drilling costs So this means: $9.2 mm CWC now going to $8.2 mm by YE 13. ….November 8th, 2012 at 12:15 pm re 62 – agreed, $7.16 per share for $300 mm.November 8th, 2012 at 12:17 pm EOG-anyone see the cmts from SocGen behind their cut to sell?November 8th, 2012 at 12:19 pm thanks. #57-descriptive sentence from company business description-maybe the term "monocrystalline sand" makes it specialized or you really may be on to something-hehNovember 8th, 2012 at 12:24 pm I know this is a political post… and i dont want to turn this into a pissing match distracting from the value of this website… but you would be wise to reason this into your thesis: I think the news/data cycle is finally going to be "allowed" to get bad….. And I am not even talking about economic revisions. Have you noticed that some bad news is suddenly getting reported… layoff bombs just starting those are some union layoffs if i am correctNovember 8th, 2012 at 12:27 pm CLR Q&A – We have seen an improvement in pricing and have been shipping more by rail – See ample infranstructure to get oil out – Rig count ? Bakken- will go back to 21 to 22 rigs by mid year (so up 2 to 3) by mid year SCOOP – goes from 6 now to 9 early next year to 12 by ye13 Latest Bakken deal – They have been working on this deal for some time. It was going to be an IPO that someone pulled due to commodity pricing – 2 different areas – 70% HBP and 70% operated – calling it a great fit into their existing acreage, right in the heart of their areas. – they have rigs already in the area, furthers their eco pad work, increases their interest – bumps capex for 2013 – calling it cash flow neutral given the strong production already there in (so adds $200 mm ish to capex but also to EBITDAX in 2013 and will be CF positive afterwards. …. I'm watching the clock vs the minute chart on CLR … so far looks like all market action, have a pop in the stock at the 30 minute mark too but that looks like market.November 8th, 2012 at 12:35 pm Nothing so far on this CLR call to warrant the dip.November 8th, 2012 at 12:37 pm TPLM any news from them before mid-Dec 3Q PR? thanksNovember 8th, 2012 at 12:51 pm re 70 – I'm not expecting anything prior to that. Should be a good TFS result on that call. And the production growth hockeysticking into their year end (Jan 31).November 8th, 2012 at 12:57 pm CLR 3Q12 notes Scoop – 5,185 BOEpd in 3Q, expect strong growth there in 4Q Exploration activity – deeper benches of the Three Forks – will kick of this project early next year with first sales expected in 2H13 – We are seeing more capacity in terms of frac crews than we are used to and everyone is getting more efficient. Really sounding confident in getting well costs down to $8.2 mm. – do you have the people you need? We don't see a need to add a great amount of people, stat on this, they have had over 27,000 applications for open positions they have advertised over the last year, move to OKC has really helped getting quality people. – SCOOP results – very encouraged by what they see as repeatable results and as they move from west to east they get increasingly oily. – since the investor day, they had scaled back fraccing to let the pipeline catch up, now back to work and will add results from another 12 to 15 wells by say the 4Q, concentrated in oil fairway. – oil ratio for 2013 – saying oil will be staying in the 70% oil + plus maybe 8% in NGLs – they will start showing 3 streams next year. – NGL pricing thoughts – expect ethane prices to remain weak for several years – seeing some improvement in the non-ethane portion over the next 2 years, in 3 to 4 years expect to be back on a good BTU basis with oil. – seeing rail buildout now that can handle over 1 mm bopd + new pipeline capacity – Expansion of Seaway – late Jan / early Feb) – Followed by Keystone segment from Cushing to the Coast. – Therefore they expect to see WTI vs Gulf Coast differential to start to disappear early next year …November 8th, 2012 at 1:02 pm CLR 3Q12 Notes (last one, I promise) – TFS – Montana potential – core work encouraging, expect TFS activity to move from state line with ND west over time. NOG and ROSE notes up next.November 8th, 2012 at 1:10 pm CLR and the last 2or 3 acq.s were both ~ $100,000/boed.November 8th, 2012 at 1:17 pm re 74 – not sure I follow.November 8th, 2012 at 1:19 pm CLR – one last note – the 120 tests of the lower TFS benches start early 2013, span 100 miles north to south and 60 miles east to west in the Williston.November 8th, 2012 at 1:28 pm SPX fell all the way to the 200 day SMA and then paused.November 8th, 2012 at 1:38 pm ROSE 3Q12 Notes Eagle Ford: – Gates Ranch (3 rigs running) – downspaced wells performing as expected – 80% of locations yet to be drilled (on 55 acre spacing) – 3 areas in GR drilled at 55 acres or less and so far no well interference – the 55 acre spaced wells look just like 100 acre spaced wells on a cumulative production time plot Central Dimmit Area – first well on their western most tract in the play had 7 day average production of 1,228 BOEpd (that's big) – 122 locations remain here Briscoe Range – First 3 well pad – could not be more pleased with results – 1 rig running Karnes Trough Area – 1 rig running – first production Comment on increased capital needs may be some part of weakness today (although doubtful as that was in the press release) – October at 41 MMBOEpd, liquids in the month were 64%, which is a big jump over the 60% in 3Q12 …. HK: Z and others. I have not been posting since I have been tending to a family health issue in Europe. Can I have comments on what most of you are doing with HK. I have been quite decimated between NOG, NFX and HK. I am overweighted these stocks and do not know if they are going to be dead for a while or if it is deep oversold territory, therefore in your opinion worth holding or adding or disposing? Thanks.November 8th, 2012 at 1:47 pm re 79 – I'm holding HK and NOG with no thoughts as to selling at this time. NFX is more on the bubble. It's cheap but it can stay that way for quite some time. NOG and HK have growth going for them along with higher margins.November 8th, 2012 at 1:50 pm Fyi…TPLM annual meeting 11/16 in Denver.November 8th, 2012 at 1:50 pm Re 80: ThanksNovember 8th, 2012 at 1:55 pm Stopping playback of ROSE for a minute Adding to 80 There are easier and harder names to own in E&P at the moment. The easier names tend to be growthy and bigger. There are exceptions but for the most part, the names with solid balance sheets and growth with good margins are holding up better. With oil teetering and scaring people away from the group (not me but some people) you have a "coring up" effect, so new stories are shed in favor of older ones (that have growth). Strong balance sheets are also seen as more attractive (with some exceptions on the gas side). Right now the natural gas weighted names are getting their first days in the sun in 4 years so you have some rotation that way as well. And if your chart breaks then look out below for a time, as is the case of HK.November 8th, 2012 at 1:58 pm adding to 83 NFX – good management operationally, not growing in aggregate to not further stretch the balance sheet, EBITDA issue out o the blue from Malaysia, but growing oil and some day an acquisition candidate. I may sell, I have not decided. NOG – noting to add to today's comments, steady eddy high margin growth. Overly discounted on the non-operated thing. But they continue to grow an I see another 40% ish out of them next year and by then a largely HBP position. Expect them to either MLP the tail of their production or get swalllowed by someone like LINE who can book an accretive deal by taking them in, up the distribution, and not worry about being the non-operated partner of the likes of EOG, OAS, Slawson, Hess, etc. So that one I'm very patient on. I always DCA. Always. In what feels like a happy, green every day market I go in in 25% and 33% chunks but always over many weeks or months. See blotter. In this kind of market I might be taking 10 or 20% type chunks (so if I want 10K shares off something I take 1 or 2 K with each bite). I am not smart enough or have enough of a voice in the market place to think that from the time I buy the market will wake up to my wisdom. Also, not all my homework is done day 1 . I keep learning and then add or don't as time progresses. I do my homework and over time that works for me. I don't give advice as you know but I try to convey just about all that I am thinking.November 8th, 2012 at 2:07 pm Really don't like the daily price action in the Energy Kids… but XACS thinks we have now seen the low in the SPX for the day. FWIW.November 8th, 2012 at 2:19 pm Thanks BOPNovember 8th, 2012 at 2:20 pm Here's what he just saidNovember 8th, 2012 at 2:22 pm ================== Now that the S&P500 has traded lower than 1385…and is banging on the door once again….Next question….will it trade lower or rally towards 1390… Despite disappointing increase in credit spread volatility, credit market spread action indicates that a move to 1390 is more likely than a sustained dip below 1385. FTK even GHS said 'very dry call'. Normal lack of specifics on CnF productivity enhancements, no mention of foreign. CnF/chemical rev ~60% or $26.5mm which would be up 13% or $3.5mm from 2Q, so CnF was OK given the industry backdrop.November 8th, 2012 at 2:24 pm re 88 – thanks much for the color on the lack of color.November 8th, 2012 at 2:25 pm HK = lots of uncertainty + still fairly small-cap-ish = bane of the market right now. But E&Ps (more than any other sector) are a reflection of the strength of their management teams. Usually (NFX = exception. Good management, but have always preferred the bonds to the stock there.) Floyd has done it once and has the talent to do it again. That said, it was never a smooth ride… so don't expect it to be so this time around either.November 8th, 2012 at 2:30 pm But Analysts with Big Brains have price targets ranging from a low of 8 (Joe Allman) to 11 or 12. I'm content to wait this one out. Let's see what HK gets for its EFS acreage. That will check off one of the uncertainty boxes. Good bit of volume bottom fishing in HK right now, but I don't see analysts upping numbers a bunch as the results of the guidance, maybe next week, but today its really lost in the maelstrom.November 8th, 2012 at 2:31 pm NGL's and the Western Market……interesting read:November 8th, 2012 at 2:35 pm Storage Now 244 Bcf above year ago levels. Recall in March we were 927 Bcf over We are now 109 Bcf above year ago levels 2.9% … continuing to make progress and expecting an acceleration of the progress when the shoulder season is done.November 8th, 2012 at 2:39 pm Thank you all for the comments. It has been a tough 5 months for me. I do not like to sell on weakness, so I will hold.November 8th, 2012 at 2:43 pm ROSE Q&A – 2 exploratory wells in the near term budget … no comment – 2013 guidance … mix ? Probably 60 to 62% If we were just drilling at Gates Ranch it would be 55%, other areas in EFS dragging the oil mix a bit higher – 2013 activity levels will likely be about the same as this year (with 5 to 10% of capital going to new ventures, testing 2 new plays outside of the EFS now) – There is a lot for sale out there now in the EFS of varying quality. They see their assets as higher quality than what's out there right now, and don't see going after a larger packages due to the capex required to get them held. – Seeing pressure on rig rates, number of rigs declining in the play – Saying 60 completions per year is a prudent run rate, don't see a reason or need to accelerate beyond that rate, and don't want to get ahead of themselves on the production marketing side. (50% Gates Ranch, 50% elsewhere EFS) Call over, tone positive. Some of the analysts clearly want them to run faster in the play but they are not biting on that temptation at this time. Just no need and as they said, at 30% annual growth with a slightly higher liquids mix next year than what it was in 3Q they would think they wouldn't get more credit for it in the stock market (since they'd have to expand the balance sheet more rapidly too).November 8th, 2012 at 2:44 pm re 94 – I am sorry to hear about the health issue. And I am not saying you should hold or sell. They can go lower and they could stay there for some time. No doubt about that. Right now the group has what I'd call narrowing leadership. And that leadership is not making new high for the most part (some exceptions like a COG in the gassy area) but is largely just treading in bases while the market sorts itself out. Headwinds against the group mainly come from the economic back drop and there is some political fear of the second term to consider as well. I tried to address some of that as overdone in the top of the Wednesday post but the market I think did not listen.November 8th, 2012 at 2:48 pm WLL probably runs into close on the "just in case its true trade", I'm not playing.November 8th, 2012 at 2:49 pm lol. Thanks for the answer. I appreciate your support.November 8th, 2012 at 2:50 pm WPRT halted trading. News pending. Anyone have any thoughts on the halt?November 8th, 2012 at 2:53 pm ROSE-Z, did you get any color (good or bad) on pricing issues for their NGL production?November 8th, 2012 at 2:55 pm Thanks. re 100 – their hedges are helping and from the CLR guys, the non ethane portion of liquids has stabilized (propane and butane and that's not really news). CLR looking for ethane prices to improve in a couple of years, ECA would see it up sooner but they are different markets for the two. I see the ROSE falling further now, and my thought is that NGL pricing is not the issue but some analyst pulling back on the 2013 production because management was steadfast at 30% and stated in the post the Bloomberg average production number for next year equates to 35%. I don't think its a lot of analysts that are dragging that higher but I guess they could be, anyway, could someone on the SS wanted more and is taking his numbers for next year in a bit.November 8th, 2012 at 3:01 pm RE 99: Q3 report due tonight. Perhaps related?November 8th, 2012 at 3:02 pm …or it could be just something I missed the stock moved lower after the call so I'm guessing someone got on their squawk box and poopooed the outlook.November 8th, 2012 at 3:02 pm #99-another chatroom says goldman issued sell on WPRT yesterday-did not see it-PT $21, about 10% below current priceNovember 8th, 2012 at 3:03 pm Its a strange day when most things on the screen are red and GMXR is up 44% on a refi deal. I'm staying away. We sold a lot higher and they are going to reverse split and try and rise from the ashes but I'm staying away.November 8th, 2012 at 3:05 pm Z – HK. Was it 65mm shares of HK that Encap sold? tyNovember 8th, 2012 at 3:06 pm Briefing reporting that Iran has fired on a US drone…that's a subtle way to move the price of crude up I'd sayNovember 8th, 2012 at 3:07 pm Re 99, 102, 104: From a message board post: (not verified by me)November 8th, 2012 at 3:08 pm. re 99 , , 104 , Very strange, Goldman did issue a sell , looked for unusual option activity, do not see any, , iiroc just issue a temporary suspension of tradingNovember 8th, 2012 at 3:08 pm #106 — bloomberg shows Encap Energy Cap selling 40.25mm HK shares on 9/18.November 8th, 2012 at 3:09 pm WPRT-no official release but I got this. There hasn't been an official release out yet, but shares are halted for news.November 8th, 2012 at 3:13 pm re 92 – will take a look, thanks. Stepping out for a bit, back before close.November 8th, 2012 at 3:16 pm 106 – BOP — thank youNovember 8th, 2012 at 3:18 pm choices- Is this from a bloomberg terminal or Bloomberg tv or what?November 8th, 2012 at 3:24 pm #114-from Benzinga chat-sorry, should have made that clear.November 8th, 2012 at 3:25 pm #115-jeez, make that Benzinga Squawk.November 8th, 2012 at 3:26 pm Z- what is your current thinking on WHZ? Tks.November 8th, 2012 at 3:27 pm I added a token amount of HK at 5.53November 8th, 2012 at 3:29 pm 108 and 116 – Wprt thanks , should be an interesting cc call.November 8th, 2012 at 3:37 pm WPRT: Q3 results issued from Vancouver, 15:35 EDT.November 8th, 2012 at 3:44 pm Trading still halted.®ion=U re 117 – looking for 3Q number of about $0.78, maybe a dime more, but its a squishy number as there were some catch up numbers in 2Q that I was pulling out of 3Q to get back on a better decline rate, numbers should settle down after this quarter. Aside from that my long term think is I will continue to hold the name and cash checks.November 8th, 2012 at 3:47 pm Market heading back to LOD.November 8th, 2012 at 3:48 pm Feels like a Buyers Strike…November 8th, 2012 at 3:51 pm BCEI after the close, should be a good quarter, should be a good shot at guidance moving up.November 8th, 2012 at 3:54 pm NG largely ignoring markets today: 8th, 2012 at 3:57 pm Oil bouncing as well: 8th, 2012 at 3:57 pm ineedabeerthirty Will be back with BCEI comments after they reportNovember 8th, 2012 at 4:02 pm EGY on the tape with a discovery, don't have a link yet and not one of my names but know it's one of interestNovember 8th, 2012 at 4:15 pm re 104 – chatroom eh? wow, I'm at a new low. Wake me when BCEI reports.November 8th, 2012 at 4:49 pm Analyst Watch MCEP – Didn't see this earlier, Raymond James raises rating to OutperformNovember 8th, 2012 at 4:54 pm Got asked about Pearsall , wrote this last week: Since then PVA has said they will test it late this year EOG has cast doubt on it yet again (although that could be because the oil in it will likely be highly localized, and not blanket which is what they would need to move the needle. And an analyst has said that ROSE has spud a Pearsall well and that its one of the 2 plays they are test. I'd rather not focus on stealth plays with small and mid cap names but there you have it.November 8th, 2012 at 4:59 pm BCEI on the tape with an inline top line and a modest miss at the EBITDA line and a penny off EPS. Both regions (Wattenberg and Mid Con) had some outages during the quarter that knock about 7% off production HZ Wattenberg 30 day rates continue to improve on the 30 day rates of the most recent wells First Codell well results look as expected but no numbers given The Niobrara C bench test and the Niobrara long lateral are yet completed. Revolver upped Guidance reiterated, not upped as I had expected, due to plant outage in mid-con (I had thought it would be resolved sooner but was wrong) and high line pressures in Wattenberg (impacts the vertical wells more). Should not be a problem getting to guidance. Stock may offer an opportunity on the miss in the morning.November 8th, 2012 at 5:20 pm #129-Z,heh-As I mentioned previously, it actually was Benzinga Squawk, available via ThinkorSwim trading platform. I was doing some research on reasons for Wprt's halt-You definitely are still the main man-heh.November 8th, 2012 at 7:02 pm re 133 – I was totally kidding, just forget the smiley face.November 8th, 2012 at 7:03 pm strange day when oil is pretty flat on the day yet oil equities took for the most took a beating. getting ready for the wash out in next week or two and then maybe a Thanksgiving day rally??? some prices are getting to oversold territory TPLM under 6 is probably a good risk reward play. HK at 5 when the deal just got done at 7 is complete lunacy. i'm sure there are a handful of others too.November 8th, 2012 at 10:40 pm #134-roger, got the humor in the jab-just wanted to be a little more clear after I garbled the initial msg's above-as you have said, caution (and clarity) is required on information sources.November 8th, 2012 at 10:44 pm
The Impending Nutrition Famine India is home to one-third of stunted children in the world. Anaemia and micronutrient deficiency is all pervasive. Along with undernutrition, 20.7 per cent women, and 18.6 per cent men are obese and overweight, shows the National Family Health Survey IV, 2016 (NFHS-IV). hunger and the double burden on malnutrition indicates a broken food system, leading to consumption of unsafe diets, which needs urgent attention. The vulnerability to life and livelihoods are further compounded by increasing use of tobacco, and rise of sugar level in blood among men and women. Around 6.8 per cent women and 44.5 per cent men in the 15-49 age group use tobacco (NFHS-IV). Given the double burden on malnutrition, unhealthy diets, exponential jump in cardio vascular diseases, India has become the diabetes capital of the world. An emergent action is needed to fix it. Fighting Malnutrition In An Indian Way India has gone past the days, when food security alone was the single most worrying factor. Hunger reduction was the first priority through maximising food production, and establishing public distribution system for making it easily accessible and available to the masses. However, food security, especially through excessive focus on higher production of cereals, was unable to provide guarantee to health and cognitive wellbeing. For better health and cognitive skills, the country needed to put equal focus on dousing invisible hunger. Consumption of food having adequate micronutrient and minerals and timely initiation and continuation of certain foods among children are some of the basic elements of addressing the nutritional requirements of the body. Eating adequate is not enough. Eating right is essential. The successive rounds of the NFHS have demonstrated the slow growth in reversing the malnutrition trajectory of the country. The problem is huge and now it is not just undernutrition, it is also the excess of it in the form overweight and obesity, that has affected the lives of millions in this country. It requires a revolution to reverse the nutrition famine using India’s gold mines of models, in-country wisdom and knowledge, in which the deficiency of micronutrients has assumed epic proportion in the country. However, for a nutrition revolution to succeed, we need to address India’s double burden on malnutrition: the abnormally high degree of undernutrition in one hand and increasing proportion of overweight and obesity on the other. As India gives a major push to its fight against malnutrition through the Poshan Abhiyaan, it is imperative that the programmes that are already in place for addressing nutrition and food-related issues are integrated, and the existing infrastructure and processes are scaled up. Poshan Abhiyaan in its current form addresses undernutrition and anaemia. Poshan Abhiyaan after a very successful rollout in the country need to prioritise actions to address obesity and overweight and micronutrient malnutrition in a comprehensive manner. India has numerous states that have shown the way in using home grown and homemade safe and nutritious foods for substantial reduction in anaemia, stunting and wasting. Also, each Anganwadi Centre can become a centre of rich practices and learnings—for scaling up and replication. It is all about fighting malnutrition together in an Indian way, to convene and converge to trigger transformative action. In the nutrition sector, the greatest challenge is message and stakeholder alignment. This needs to be resolved. The sector needs better inter and intra departmental convergence and more and more people’s networks, strategic alliances and coalitions for better programme outcomes. The village level platforms, like Village Health Nutrition Sanitation Day (VHNSD) needs to function excellently with support from the community, local government, health and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) department. The Anganwadi centre can be a Centre of Excellence with convergence of all other services. The media can play a galvanising role in the fight against malnutrition. Key drivers for a nutrition revolution Some of the enablers listed below will be the key drivers for the nutrition revolution, enabling convergence among all the players. 1. Data driven management and evidence-based programming: India undertakes a national nutrition and micronutrient status survey that provides reliable estimates on key parameters on nutrition and micronutrients for children, women and men at least at the district level every three years in the country. The comprehensive national micronutrient status survey would be helpful to formulate appropriate policy on food enrichment programmes such as supplementation, fortification including bio-fortification to address micronutrient malnutrition and morbidity through proper quality assurance and quality control measures and regulatory enforcements. The periodic survey and assessment is necessary, along with scaling up of the current CAS- Computer Application Software - to improve transparency and public accountability - a key factor in data driven management. Social Audit and Micro Level Planning with the involvement of local government bodies and Self Help Group platforms can be backed by high quality data and rigorous evidences. The data integrity is a key driver of success for nutrition planning and program delivery effectiveness. 2. Social Behaviour change communication with Inter-personal counselling at its core: The fight against malnutrition is majorly about bringing in more awareness - a revolution in human behaviour towards nutrition. The behaviour change strategies need to target making nutrition an ideology by every individual and households, changing narratives, and raise awareness about healthy diet and dispel myths and misconceptions. In this, intimate inter-personal counselling, with home contacts as the priority interventions will be the key to success. Maternal Infant and Young Child Feeding is a major challenge during the first one thousand days’ window. The inter-personal counselling must prioritise actions on feeding behaviour. Women empowerment without the involvement of men is a myth and an impossible task to achieve. Therefore, social Behaviour Change Communications should also cater to and involve men and focus on changing their thinking patterns to allow females to take charge of resources and eat right in order to provide adequate nutrition to the present and future generations. 3. Knowledge assimilation and transfer across clientele including communities: The knowledge gaps need to be filled up - in order to build the nutrition narrative. India needs to bring out a National Nutrition report. In a similar manner, each state and district should bring out its own nutrition status report in regional languages for wider dissemination. India’s rich and best practices, impact models and islands of excellences need to be documented and mainstreamed through regular publication of snippets and articles in popular media for the general population. 4. Action Research projects in malnutrition and hunger hot spots: Impact oriented action research projects in aspirational districts having a target to reduce anaemia, stunting and wasting should be undertaken and any islands of excellence should be highlighted for scaling up. These research projects can provide knowledge on programme design and implementation in the country. 5. Technology, innovation and breakthrough research: New technological breakthroughs, innovations, and research happening in India and other countries in the field of Nutrition should be highlighted and adapted after validation and considering legal and cultural setting. India’s premier research bodies like AIIMS, ICMR, ICAR, CFTRI, NIN, IIPS etc. need to monitor the research, protocols, guidelines and standards so that only research and innovations with public interest orientation pass the test, and later passed on to the people after proper regulatory enforcement and monitoring. 6. Nutrition during emergency and disasters: Disasters have a significant impact on nutrition. It compounds vulnerability and every disaster has differential impact and differential recovery pattern. Many states in India are prone to disasters and emergencies. Increased climate change, soil degradation and carbon emissions from the agricultural fields, makes people more exposed and vulnerable to food and nutrition insecurity. Food and nutrition crisis is an immediate outcome of disaster, that traps the community in a cycle of poverty and hunger. Initiatives to make agriculture more adaptive and resilient to climate variability and in the process to reducing carbon emission, addressing community mental health, and breakthrough research on climate-smart nutrition-sensitive agriculture will be key to address nutrition during disasters and emergencies. A new National Policy on Mainstreaming Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programmes - with focus on the first 1,000 days of life will be a key requirement. 7. A New Climate Smart and Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Policy that decentralises agriculture geographically, focusing on dry land agriculture, integrating animal husbandry and fishery, with emphasis on coarse nutritious cereals and millets backed by technology and pricing and decentralised procurement policies is needed for a Nutrition Revolution. It is necessary to address post-harvest losses and waste, as well as non-food factors like clean drinking water and sanitation. A food-based approach, sustainable climate-smart agriculture, bio fortification of crops to increase their nutritional value through natural ways, preserving the natural ecosystem, forest and common property for a sustainable solution to climate change and malnutrition are also necessary. Converging campaigns, movements and food entitlement programs: Optimising outcomes It is a feel-good factor that India is running a number of flagship programmes, campaigns and movements at the national and state level, that have a direct and indirect bearing on nutrition outcomes. The proposed Nutrition Revolution needs to build on these programmes, campaigns, and movements, and leverage the resources already invested. A cementing together of these programmes and movements can help scale up the efforts. In addition to existing campaigns and movements, there has to be specific campaigns and movements that will have bearing on revolution outcomes. Similarly, the pregnant and lactating mothers and children under six years of age are entitled to avail services from Targeted Public Distribution System(TPDS), and Integrated Child Development Service program as mandated under National Food Security Act-2013. Apart from this, there is also mid-day meal program, which can benefit children above six years of age and adolescent girls. A systematic convergence and food and nutrition planning, and improved access can meet the food and nutrition requirement of pregnant and lactating mothers by 70 per cent and for the children under six years by almost 100per cent. India needs to take advantage of these entitlements program where food is regarded as rights. A revolution within: Nutrition, part of an ideology; a National Pride A Nutrition Revolution would mean sustainable and responsible nutrition, with good nutrition as part of ideology and matter of national pride. A number of ethical and environmental considerations are necessary not only for sustainable nutrition, but also for a sustainable planet. The nutrition revolution needs to consider those aspects for safe food practices, sustainable use of resources, and prevent exposure of children to heavy metals which leads to behaviour disorders. Nutrition needs to become every individual’s and household’s priority, go beyond the life cycle approach (from cradle to grave), and stretch across sectors and themes, and become the agenda of the nation as a key driver of the development engine. Good Nutrition becomes everyone’s agenda—the norm; a rule of behaviour such that individuals prefer to conform to it on condition that they believe that most people in their relevant network conform to it, and most people in their relevant network believe they ought to conform to it and may sanction deviations. There has to be improved state accountability, so that each and every individual, specifically pregnant and lactating mothers and children under two years of age, to access and consume safe and nutritious foods. We should work towards a public interest policy and legislations, where India’s poorest citizens need not struggle for protein and vitamins and minerals to mitigate hidden hunger and even wrinkles on their skin. The movement and drive should be such that, the country witnesses an end to nutrition disruptions and that malnutrition is no longer an intra-generation cycle or a puzzle. All the skilled human resources should join hands, building on stories of good nutrition to end malnutrition. We need a responsible revolution with women at the forefront. (This is the sixth in a series of articles on the need for a Nutrition Revolution in)
It's 10pm on the Turd of July. "There's an elephant sitting on my chest," she said. Her blood pressure had spiked to over 160; she was pale and clammy; her demeanor was noticeably languorous. My EMT "load and go" brain kicked in. We loaded. We went. But we probably went to the wrong place. "Shouldn't we call Cruz Roja (the Red Cross ambulance)? You're in no condition to drive." she said. The girl has obviously never seen me totally in The Zone. One might be "impaired" by too much scotch but when it's time to fight and the explosion of adrenaline kicks in, you fight like a maniac -- a very cold, calculating, sober maniac. (On top of being aware of my above "skills," I was determined to take matters into my own hands because I had visions of the Cruz Roja responding at about the same speed and enthusiasm as the Fuerza Publica, i.e., "whenever".) I decided that we were going to the Caja Hospital de Alajuela. Patricia had received excellent treatment there one night for a bout of pneumonia and my treatment at the Atenas branch for 2nd degree burns had been exemplary. How bad could it be? He said. During the drive, there were a couple of times she touched my leg as a signal to be careful when I achieved the terrifying speed of 100 kph out on the autopista (63 mph ... pfttt!). Other than that, for your reference, it is exactly a 30 minute drive with the new Coyol connector road between Hwy 27 and Hwy 1. Other than the patient's angst, the trip was uneventful. So, I wheel up to the ambulance dock at the back emergency entrance of the sparkling new Alajuela hospital and ... nobody there but a sleepy old guard. Oh well. I help her out of the car and we walk the few steps to the ER reception desk. "Corazon!" I exclaim, thumping my chest and pointing to her (wishing I had paid closer attention in my Spanish For First Responders class in California.) The dude says something that doesn't process in my brain but he's pointing to the line standing in front of a door marked "Triage." Noooooo! But, as part of my extensive Pura Vida training and two years of practice to NOT grabbing clowns by the shirt front and jerking them up over their desk for "attitude training" I simply nodded and we went to the line. Wow! The Triage office is a very tiny room with one guy in it. It has two doors. One faces the general ER area (a HUGE waiting room) and one faces the ambulance back entrance area, where we were. The line at the general door was long. Our line only had two parties in front of us. Luckily, it seems that the policy is to clear the line on our side while the "walk ins" on the other side have to wait. And, the Triage guy was attentive, if not a little non-chalant about a cardiac emergency. He sauntered out of his office, sat her down and took her blood pressure while asking a couple of questions. He then executed a computer printed form (the ONLY computer or computer form we were to see during this odyssey) and he put a red tag onto the form. Oh boy! A red tag. Now shit's going to start happinin'. He pointed us to a semi-open doorway, indicating we should "cross over". I say "semi-open" because it was hung with opaque 4" wide, vertical plastic strips, such that you could move them apart and enter but that the people outside couldn't see in. For good reason. I said "cross over" because on the other side of the plastic strips we entered a 25 meter hallway that would be a perfect setting for a Stephen King horror movie. Both sides of the hall were lined with gurneys holding the sick and dying off casts. Almost all of them looked terminal to me and all of them were just "parked." Several of them had IV pouches hung above them but all of the pouches were empty. Great way to enter The System. Undeterred, we pushed through the stygian gauntlet and made it up to the real nurses station. "Now that red tag is going to get me somewhere." Not. With a big yawn (10:30 PM) the clerk/nurse/whatever (everyone is wearing scrubs and "corporate" namebadges too small to read) looks at the paperwork, tosses it into a basket on the top of the counter and points us to a line of 8 metal chairs. I think about doing the chest thump and "corazon" pantomime thing again but figure that this is just the Pura Vida system. Let it go. If my darling collapses or suddenly arrests, there's still plenty of time to grab some shirt fronts and drag them out to where she's lying on the floor, I figure. The line of 8 metal chairs once had 1" thick plastic-covered pads on them. The pads had been upholstered onto a plywood base. But all that's left now are raggedy bits of plastic with a sporadic showing of loose fiber to tease one into imagining how comfortable these chairs must have been ... 30 years ago. There were already 6 folks on the 8 chairs with one end of the line empty -- almost. At the far end of the chairs was a woman in a wheelchair, all bundled up, asleep, with a heavily bandaged foot resting on the edge of the last chair. We made ourselves as small as possible and sat, taking care not to push that blood-seeping foot off the edge. Presently, a 12 year old kid walked up to the counter and took our file out of the basket. Well, he looked 12 to us. He read and read. It was a single page. And he read some more. Then he called Pat's name kind of "out there" into the general time-space continuum, as if he didn't know where the line of chairs was. We waved our hands and he turned to look at us, then motioned toward a nearby door. Holy reflex hammer, Batman, this guy's wearing a stethiscope around his kneck and he has a ballpoint pen in his pocket. This must be a real doctor! Since Pat and I are joined at the hip, we both stood and headed for the door together, whereupon the kid (we promptly began referring to him as Doogie Howser) waved me away and mumbled something. "He says you can't come in," Pat said. Ahhh. Yet another test to see if my self control system against choking little shits is sufficiently strong to overcome my emotions. So, they go alone into the sanctum sanctorum room and I'm left outside trying to decipher doubly unintelligible mumbles issuing through the door. Nada. Pat comes out and states that she's headed (on foot ... no wheelchairs if you're only suspect of being about to die) to the EKG room and I cannot come with. I am shooed back to the little chairs. Like a dog. I obey like a little dog. Oh, woe unto them if I were still a Real Man. Sigh. But, hey! An EKG! This should change their attitudes and get some action around here! In no time at all, Pat was back. "The EKG is negative. He says they have to do a blood test and a chest x-ray" Well, O.K. Some high blood pressure congestive episodes won't show up on an EKG, I guess. Goodie, let's wait over on the swell chairs. I wonder where you get to the point of getting one of the ER beds and a little medication, etc. Crazy thought. 'Bout an hour later, amidst the chaos of employees stampeding past us to get to the employee break room across the hall from our chairs, an unidentified scrub-clad woman walks up to us with a handful of pills, still in their individual Costa Rican foil wrappers, and dumps the mess into Pat's hand and hands me a plastic shot glass, generously filled with water. "Take these," she says to Pat in Spanish. I'm starting to think about bolting from Hades and heading to the private CIMA Hospital over in Gringolandia, even if it does cost your life savings to barge through their ER doors. Pat doesn't think this is a good idea (yet) and I hunker down. Actually, I stand up because my nether regions have gone fast asleep sitting on the hard plywood-seated wonder chairs. First thing I do is walk back towards the nurses station to get a peek around the wall beyond which a lot of moaning and stuff is issuing. Holy Crapola! This is a Wednesday night. What happens here on Friday or Saturday nights? There are 8 open-fronted examination chambers, each with three gurneys, all full; and, there are 3 rows of better looking chairs and wheel chairs, all full. And it seems every single patient has an IV packet -- almost all collapsed and empty -- with a tube running to their arm or hand. Must be the standard treatment around here. "Dehydrated? Plug 'em into a half liter on fast drip." "Broken foot? Plug 'em into a half liter on fast drip." "Influenza? Plug 'em into a half liter on fast drip." "Heart attack? Nah. They don't need no stinking IV. Stick 'em over in dem freakin ol' chairs we moved over from the old hospital. Maybe they'll croak and that'll rid us of one so we can free up a chair." With everything full, I count like 50 souls needing attention in the ol' ER on this "quiet" hump night. Maybe a word about the staff is in order at this point. There's Doogie, of course, and maybe (we're never sure of this) one other guy who might have been a doctor because he periodically pulled patient files from the counter-top basket and read them and read them and read them. Then there were 6 ladies, all in scrubs, messing with papers, going to the employee break room and occasionally delivering pills with dem little bitty cups of water. There was Working Man, who must have been a boss nurse or something because as often as he messed with paper, he would also get up and go do something with a patient. He's the only one that I saw change anybody's IV bag. One other of the women inserted an IV needle, that I saw. Speaking of needles, there was Blood Girl. She came with her little cart full of vials of blood and alcohol wipes and needles. I loved her modern asceptic technique. She walked up to the girl next to us on the chairs, (who spent almost the entire night passed out on her mother's shoulder,) and slipped the surgical tubing "tourniquet" around her arm to pop out a vein. Then, with an alcohol swab, she wipe and wiped a spot on the girl's arm. Then she switched to a clean wipe -- just to be sure -- and wiped some more. Then she dropped both wipes into a bio-haz bag ... and wiped her own nose with the back of her index finger ... then picked up the blood-draw needle between that index finger and thumb and shoved it home. Do you think my eyes betrayed me when my eyelids flopped back over the top of my head upon observing this textbook example of medical safety and sterility? I tried to be good. Minded my own damn Pura Vida business. Then there was the "escort boy." His job seemed to be going to and from the break room more than anybody else; and, then he was the one who motioned us to follow him (again, on foot -- no wheelchair) across the hospital to the x-ray department. He was a little put out though, that us damn old people couldn't walk as fast as he, because, hey, he had to get back for, um, break time. The radiology dude was a really funny guy, I guess, because he kept escort boy in stitches the whole time we were down there, regaling him with ... I don't know ... stories or something. Anyhow, it must have been mighty funny material. Last, but certainly not least, is the cleaning lady. We were there from 10:30pm on the 3rd until 7:30am on the 4th, and she never stopped moving. She'd sweep and then mop. She'd empty waste baskets then clean the employee break room. Never. Stopped. Working. And she was probably getting paid $10 per day. So, back to the story. We're both pretty sore from the chairs and Pat is freezing. I guess they keep it cold in there to hold down the germs or something because no normal organism could live in there for long without a lot of protective clothing. We noticed that many of the patients were obviously experienced with The System because they had brought their own blankets and extra clothing. Not us. We're stupid gringos. At some point Pat's blood work came back from the lab and they were mystified. Nothing. Time for another EKG. Pat came back from that little trip and said that they had decided to run a different type of blood test on her. Ya know, they didn't want to waste a whole extra blood test strip on her the first time around because, well, not every cardiac patient presenting with an elephant on her chest develops the proteins or antibodies or hooper-gloopers or whatever they were not going to test for the first time around. Much better and more efficient to run Blood Girl down for yet another draw, send it back upstairs for processing, checking off another box on another form, running it back to the ER and .... oh, hell. Then they told us it would be at least another 3 hours to get those results. It's 3am. My butt is killing me and I've got a plan. "Hey, since it's going to be "forever" to get the results back on this test, why don't I run back to Atenas and get you some warm clothes?" "But it's so far." "Oh ... but I want to," I'm saying, thinking of the rather plush-ish drivers seat in our Subaru and the hour away from hell that such a trip would entail. So she assented; and, I went. Now, I need to do a quick little back story here to put the following into perspective. We had just paid to have two little gated fences built on either side of our main house so that we could confine our dogs to the back yard/side yard areas, keeping them away from visiting guests of our casita and away from any gates to the outdoors. You see, they love to jump up on strangers and they love to get out of our compound and run around the neighborhood. When we left for the initial hospital run, we had put the dogs out behind the new fences. (Plenty of dry shelter areas, water and doggie beds but no way to run off and no way to irritate anybody. So I pull off our neighborhood street and into our long driveway (3:30am) and waaaaay of up the drive way I see two glowing eyes. Then the eyes are bounding down the lane in big gazelle-like leaps of joy. In the fog of my brain and darkness something is circling the car like a ... well ... crazy dog. It's our mini-pin, Goose. Happy as a pig in poop and you can just about see the laughing smile on his face saying, "Haha. You can't keep me penned up." We still haven't figured this one out. He has never figured out how to get out of the back yard before. He had to either climb the 2 meter back yard fence or he had to climb the new 1 meter gate and then the front 2 meter fence. Baffling. Anyhow, I grabbed clothes, snacks & drink and ran back to Alajuela. Back with Pat it's back to sitting. And sitting. Then, 6am. It's obviously shift change as new faces roll in and old faces start to gather up their personal stuff to go home. Damn. This is certain to add an hour or more to the stay because the newbies won't be up to speed and won't know Pat's history and .... CLUNK! The pneumatic tube drops into the nurses station a package full of test results. Oh, could we be so lucky? Working Man retrieves the tube and starts leafing through the reports. He looks over and gives us "the look" meaning that our results are in. He staples them to our now-considerably-thick pile of papers and STICKS THEM INTO THE "TO DO" BASKET!!! Hot damn! We're either out of here or Pat gets a bed and some action. Shift change here entails lot's of laughing; chatter; hugs; leering male something-or-others-in-scrubs checking out the butts of the newbie female something-or-others-in-scrubs; and ... one 20-something is braiding the hair of one 50-something as several others observe. This just ain't the time for reading charts, yo. But then Doogie comes back. We thought he'd gone home. He grabbed the pile from the To Do basket and he read and read and made notes and read and read and made notes and read and read. Then he called out the name ... of someone else. That patient and he left the area together. Pat had heard the intake of that patient during my 3am absence as someone also having chest pain issues. "But he was way behind us in line!" I say, beginning to think that maybe we're in the gringo line and that guy was in the tico line. Plus, that guy looked to be about 30. Where's the fabled "taking care of seniors first" treatment? They come back. Doogie disappears. Now it's pushing 7am. Doogie reappears and picks up the files and reads and reads ... well, you get it. Then HE CALLS PATRICIA'S NAME!" Then he takes her away because he wants to do another EKG. (Somebody's cousin must own the EKG-paper vending company that supplies this hospital. Is this the 3rd or 4th one?) I'm shaking my head, muttering and generally looking like a genuine curmudgeon when a really tico-looking man about my age squeezes into the chair beside me. Just then, a guy and girl, in scrubs, come walking up with the apparent intention of moving down the line of chairs taking everyone's blood pressure. As they get to me, they ask indecipherable stuff and I can only say, "Mi esposa," and point toward the EKG door. Then the guy next to me says something to them in Spanish and they move along. I'm a little confused by this until he leans over and whispers conspiratorially into my ear, in perfect unaccented English, "If you think this is bad, you should see the Caja hospitals in Guanacaste and Limon. They really are nightmares compared to this." My head could have exploded. Worse than this? And who is this "masked man" who came at just the right time to save me with his perfect Spanish and perfect English? Turns out he is a dual national with 18 years of residency in the U.S. and the rest of his 60-something years in Costa Rica. Then he gave me a little taste of how "good" things could have been for us during out fun vacation to the hospital. "I've been peeing blood for 3 days. Yesterday I started sitting here at 6am, having nothing to eat or drink since midnight the day before yesterday because they needed my system totally empty to do a kidney ultrasound. Then, they delayed the ultrasound until late yesterday afternoon. It was so late that the only doctor who could read the results had already gone home. So they told me to go home and come back today for the results. I figure that I'll be here all day today before I learn anything." Oh, good, now I'm ready for all kinds of good things to happen. Pat returns. "Well, Doggie did 3 EKG runs and then 3 blood pressure tests. My blood pressure is back up a little but the EKG is negative." she says, mournfully. "Oh ... and the new blood test is negative so he's just going to prescribe a different type of blood pressure medicine and aspirin." And here I'm thinking of that ancient old joke punchline of a doctor saying, "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning." Maybe I should give him a "punchline" of my own. Ah, no. Pura Vida. So Doogie writes and writes and writes into Pat's chart. Then he chats with some of the newbies for awhile. Then he writes some more. Now it really is 7am. Finally he fans out a handful of prescription scrip and waves Pat over to his throne desk. We're free! We can leave. Or not. It seems that the scrip written at this caja location is no good in any other pharmacy other than theirs, which is over on the other side of the hospital and generally good for another hour of "waiting to be served". But finally, the gods are smiling on us and there are fewer than a handful of peeps ahead of us at the Ye Olde Dope Spot and we're out o' there in less than 20 minutes. Record time for once. Drove home wide awake. Rustled around with Pat and made breakfast of some sort. Sat down and jotted a little stuff on the computer ... and then ... the big crash. Not the computer ... my brain and body. Pat's too. With only a few minor interruptions of phones and people at the door, we both slept the 4th of July away. Hope we didn't miss much. Hope we don't EVER need an ER again. If we ever do, I'm thinking of heading straight to CIMA. What the heck. A little bankruptcy never hurt anybody. 05 July 2013 What's an "emergency" in an Emergency Room? It's 10pm on the Turd of July. Wow, I am so sorry for you guys. And your experience is so disturbing because of the lack of attention. We all know of the long times spent waiting for non-emergency medical care, but as you mentioned (as well as others) emergency care is supposedly better. Very disturbing. Glad all is well. Funny tale of woe and a wonderful outcome. Both of you rest up and be well!!!! Sounds like par for the course at the Caja, most of them anyway. You really did well practicing pura vida, I'll say that. I don't know what CIMA charges, but a good private clinic down in our area is about 20-25% of retail in the States, not bad and no waiting. Casey, if we ever need ER services again, we may go that route. We've used CAJA before, both the local EBAIS and the Alajuela hospital with excellent results. This was absurd. What bothered me most was a total apathetic approach to basic medicine and human kindness. Glad you are okay! AND! I forgot this little bit of wonderfulness. Although we were "mobile" and had money in my pocket, not once did anybody offer any food or drink to us or any of the 50 or so others in the ER at any time during this long period. Some of those people clearly couldn't have purchased anything from the cafeteria. I hadn't thought about it but while I was making my run to Atenas at 3am, Pat says one poor old man wet himself and they cleaned him up, very publically out in the waiting area. When I got back there was quite a bit of bed pan action going on around the room and in the various alcoves. I guess food and drink is a negative to these caregivers because, hey ... what goes in must come out and they might have to clean it up. A little more to be shocked by.
Atherosclerosis Notes Epidemiology - Cardiovascular disorders are the leading cause of death in western society - In England and Wales, they account for 40% of all deaths: o Ischaemic heart disease is 27% o Cerebral vascular disorders 13% - Atherosclerosis is by far the most important cause - In the developed world the incidence has increased mssively - In the US and some European countries, incidence has actually peaked and in declining - In the rest of Europe, and in the middle and far east, incidence is rising rapidly Pathology Atherosclerosis can have 3 main types of manifestation: - Coronary heart disease – angina, MI, sudden death - Cerebrovascular disease – stroke, TIA - Peripheral vascular disease – claudication, critical limb disorder These situations often co-exist, and the pathology is very similar. For example, patients presenting with stroke or claudication will very likely have coronary artery disease – and this co-existing disease is an important cause of mortality. Normal artery structure: There are 3 layers of arterial tissue: - Tunica Intima – this is the innermost layer, and has a single layer of endothelium, with a sparse supportive tissue. This layer is very very thin! - Tunica Media – this is separated from the intima by the internal elastic lamina. The media is made up of smooth muscle and elastic tissue. In the heart, the elastic tissue is most predominant, but in most arteries, this layer is mostly made up of smooth muscle. - Tunica Adventitia – this is a fibrous connective tissue. The external elastic lamina separates this from the media. Very small blood vessels can be found in this layer called vasa vasorum and these filter down to supply the media. o The intima and innermost media receive their nutrients from the arterial lumen via diffusion. Normal age-related changes These will usually be inconsequential by age 40, and very common by age 70. They are often termed arteriosclerosis. the changes affect all blood vessels, right down to the arterioles. They include: - Progressive fibrous thickening of the intima - Fibrosis and scarring of the muscular and elastic media - Accumulation of mucopolyysaccharide ground substance - Fragmentation of the elastic laminae Ultimately these changes reduce the strength and elasticity of the vascular wall. Clinically, this will mean there is dilation of the aorta and coronary arteries – and this finding is common. - In the aorta this can lead to stretching of the aortic ring – resulting in valve incompetence - Dilation of the aortic arch and thoracic aorta can also lead to ‘unfolding’ of the aorta – which can be seen in chest x-rays as a loss of the aortic notch, and a widened appearance of the central vascular column in the x-ray. To compensate for these changes, there is often smooth muscle hypertrophy and production of extra layers of collagen in the internal elastic laminae. Atherosclerosis This is a disease of the medium and large sized arteries only. It is very uncommon in arteries of less than 2mm diameter. It is caused by 3 types of lesion: - Fatty streaks - Fibrolipid plaques - Complicated lesions The major risk factors are: - Age - Male gender – pre-menopausal women in particular seem to be a very low risk – being pre-menopausal is a preventative factor. After the menopause, gender differences disappear rapidly. HRT also has no role in reducing the risk – infact oestrogen therapy appears to increase the risk. - Hypertension – anti-hypertensive therapy reduces coronary mortality, stroke and heart failure. - Smoking – this link is also dose related - Diabetes - High levels of LDL - Low levels of HDL - Obesity - Sedentary lifestyle - Increased levels of blood coagulation factor VII - Low birth weight – this is thought to be particularly important. Those with a low birth / infant weight are at higher risk of adult obesity. Those with a low birth weight and a subsequent level of obesity in adulthood are 2-3x more likely to die from heart disease than those with a high infant weight. A low infant weight is often (in the past at least) associated with low socio-economic status. - Low socio-economic status - Genetic factors – often things like hypertension, hyperlipiedaemia and diabetes run in families, and are multi-genetic. HOWEVER – it is also important to remember than families often share the same environment – and environmental factors may be involved in the apparent family history link. o Clinically – we say a significant family history is present when first degree relatives have had acute events at <50 years for men and <55 years for women. However – it is important to note that there are wide variations in the severity of the disease, even within similar populations. These variations are possibly due to genetic factors. For example; - There is an inherited genetic abnormality whereby an individual has a lack of LDL receptors – familial hyperlipidaemia? - about 1 in 500 caucasians are heterozygous for this abnormality to cope with their reduced number of receptors, they produce increased amount of LDL’s. These people develop coronary heart disease in their 40’s or 50’s. o Some patients may even be homozygous for this gene – in this case these patients will often die from coronary heart disease in their infancy or teens. The effect of risk factors is multiplicative, rather than additive. Also remember the difference between relative and absolute risk. For example a man in his 30’s with high cholesterol who smokes, is far more likely to have an acute event in the next 10 years than someone of his age who doesn’t smoke with a normal cholesterol – BUT his absolute risk is still very low. Pathology In atherosclerosis, there is inflammation of the arterial wall, characterised by lipid-rich deposits of atheroma. These deposits do not cause a problem until they become large enough to occlude the artery, or until they ulcerate, or until they become disrupted and a thrombosis forms on their surface. Signs of atherosclerosis appear early in life, for instance “fatty streaks” in the arteries of children have been noted as young as the age of 7. However, these are asymptomatic. The disease is basically characterised by: - Fibrosis - Lipid deposition - Chronic inflammation In the early stages of the disease, there may be many separate streaks and deposits, but in late disease, these all may be confluent. Progression Early atherosclerosis Fatty streaks: - These will occur at areas of turbulent flow, such as bifurcations, and they are associated with abnormal endothelial function. - They themselves are of no clinical significance, and occur in all populations - They are basically a yellow linear elevation of the intimal lining. Pathogenesis 1) Endothelial cells will begin to show unusual adhesion molecules (e.g. ICAM-1 and E-selectin). These may be similar to those seen in acute inflammation. 2) This attracts monocytes (macrophages) to the site – and these can be seen both entering and leaving the endothelium. 3) At the same time, high levels of LDL in the blood will begin to accumulate in the arterial wall. It may be that these lipid deposition sets off an inflammatory reaction, and the macrophages are attracted like they would be to any type of inflammation. 4) The macrophages entering the arterial wall will come into contact with these lipid cores, and will take up the oxidized LDL, becoming foam cells. The macrophages will also be activated by the inflammatory products released by the arterial wall. 5) The foam cells can die, and they release their products, causing the formation of a pool of lipid. This pool is called a lipid core. 6) The activated macrophages will release lots of their own products. These include cytokines and growth factors, particularly PDGF. These growth factors lead to proliferation of the smooth muscle layer. It will proliferate towards the lipid pool, and in an attempt to repair and stablise the lesion, it may form a layer around the pool. The smooth muscle cells change their phenotype from contractile, to repair – they now permanently become repair type cells. a. If this process of repair is successful, the plaque will be a stable atherosclerotic plaque and will remain asymptomatic, unless it grows big enough to occlude an artery. At some point, T lymphocytes will also invade the plaque. Advanced atherosclerosis If inflammation dominates over the repair mechanisms of the smooth muscle, then the plaque may become ‘active’ or ‘unstable’, and this could lead to ulceration and thrombosis. - Many more products are released by the macrophages, including, IL-1, TNF-α, interferon gamma, PDGF and matrix metalloproteinases. - These can cause the smooth muscle cells overlying the plaque to thin, and thus the protective ‘fibrous cap’ covering the plaque can become weak. - The macrophages themselves can also digest collagen struts that are holding the cap in place. - These changes in themselves don’t completely destroy the cap, but make it more vulnerable to external shearing forces - When the contents of the plaque become exposed to the lumen, this can trigger thrombus formation. This may cause complete occlusion at the site of the plaque, but the thrombus may also break off, and cause a blockage somewhere else. As the disease progresses, there are: - More plaques - A greater number of macrophages and t-lymphocytes within the plaques - Release of more cytokines and growth factors (including IL-1 and IL-6 that are chemotactic for macrophages - Elevated levels of antibodies to pathogens, such as Chlamydia pneumoniae. Some people aregue that such organisms (also including cytomegalo virus, herpes and helicobacter) have a causatory role (to initially start the inflammation) although the evidence for this is limited. - In coronary artery disease – eleveated levels of inflammatory markers; such as CRP – this is an indicator of future acute events. - In transplanted hearts – patients with transplanted hearts may have a particularly quickly progressing form of the disease in the transplanted heart. The pathology of this disease is also slightly different from that of normal atheroma. This further supports the theory that the disease is a result of an immune problem. To minimize the risk all heart transplant patients are given lipid lowering drugs. Monoclonal cells – some people have likened the plaques to small benign tumours – because the smooth muscle proliferation that is part of plaque formation occurs from the proliferation of one cell; the cell clones itself many times. In this way, the growth factors can be thought of as ‘mutagens’, although efforts to localise and identify a single mutagen have been unsuccessful. Disease progression Individual plaques even within the same patient will progress at different rates. This rate is strongly linked to mechanical stress – the greater the stress, the greater the proliferation. Vulnerable plaques are those in a place of high mechanical stress, with a lipid-rich core and a thin fibrous cap. Stable plaques have a thick fibrous cap, possibly with calcification, and they have a small lipid pool, and many collagenous cross-struts. - It is thought that lipid lowering therapy helps to stabilise vulnerable plaques. Thrombus formation on plaques There are two different mechanisms. Either. The platelets then release serotonin and thromboxane A2 and this causes vasoconstriction in the area resulting in reduced bloodflow to the myocardium, and ischaemic injury. A bit about lipids; Lipoproteins These are the form in which most lipids are transported in the blood. They contain large insoluble glycerides as well as cholesterol. They have a superficial coating of phospholipids and protein, which make the lipoproteins soluble. The proteins coating these molecules will often bind to specific cell membrane receptors, signalling the uptake of that particular phospholipid. There are four main types of lipoprotein: - Chylomicrons – these consist of 95% triglyceride. These carry absorbed lipids from the gut to the liver. - VLDL’s – very low density lipoproteins – these carry triglycerides manufactured by the liver, as well as small amounts of phospholipid and cholesterol. The primary function of these is to transport triglycerides to peripheral tissues. These are the largest of the ‘-DLs’. - LDL’s – low density lipoproteins – these contain very few triglycerides, a few more lipoproteins, and lots and lots of cholesterol! These are the ‘bad cholesterol’. Their primary role is to deliver cholesterol to peripheral tissue. - HDL’s – high density lipoproteins – these are the smallest of the ‘-DLs’. They have roughly equal amounts of lipid and protein. The lipids are mainly phospholipid and cholesterol. These will transport excess cholesterol back from peripheral tissue to the liver to excretion in the bile! They are ‘good cholesterol’. Lifecycle The liver will synthesise VLDL’s. These will then be released into the blood to deliver triglycerides to the peripheral tissues. Lipoprotein Lipase will remove lots of triglycerides from these lipoproteins, creating intermediate density lipoproteins. These will then go back to the liver, where they will have more of their triglycerides removed, and lots of cholesterol added to them. They will then be released as LDL’s to deliver cholesterol to peripheral tissue. LDL’s are absorbed by receptor mediated exocytosis into peripheral cells. The amino acids and cholesterol will be released into the cytoplasm. Cholesterol not used by the cell will diffuse back out of it. It will diffuse back into the blood, where it will be taken up by HDL’s and then taken back to the liver. They will have their cholesterol removed for excretion, and the HDL’s will then continue in the blood stream to pick up more cholesterol. Prevention of atherosclerosis Primary prevention aims to prevent the disease in the first place, and involves: - Cessation of smoking - Control of BP - Weight reduction - Regular exercise - Dietary modifications o Diets that are low in saturated fat are particularly associated with a reduced risk of disease o Fatty acids found in fish also have cardioprotective effects – thus it is recommended you eat at least 2 portions of oily fish per week. Secondary prevention aims to reduce the risk of acute events in the presence of atheroma. It basically involves the use of drugs, but you should remember these drugs are intended for long term use after an MI and are not involved in the acute treatment of a recent MI. Generally patients should be offered a combination of the following 4 drugs: - ACE inhibitor - Aspirin - Β-blocker - Statin COBRA-A mnemonic for Secondary Prevention in ACS - C – Clopidogrel – antiplatelets - O – Omacar – Omega 3 - B – Bisoprosol – β-blocker - R – Ramipril – ACE-i - A – Aspirin - A – Atorvastatin – very potent statin! Notes by Tom Leach EmoticonEmoticon
[Spoiler Warning: MAJOR Sons of Anarchy Season 5 Spoilers Below!!!] -- - - - By the end of last night’s episode of Sons of Anarchy, fans were left in shock as SAMCRO was forced to sacrifice one of their own to Damon Pope (Harold Perrineau), leaving Jax’s (Charlie Hunnam) longtime ally, Opie (Ryan Hurst), to be brutally murdered in prison. To help answer some of the viewer’s questions surrounding Opie’s death, series creator Kurt Sutter revealed why he decided to kill of the fan-favorite character, and how this major death will impact the rest of season 5. Speaking with the press this morning, Sutter spoke about when he decided Opie’s fate; why Opie had to die; how Opie’s death will impact the series forever; and what’s going to happen in the rest of season 5, as a result. Even though the death of Opie’s father, Piney, came as a shock in season 4, Sutter had already plotted out the death of Jax’s best friend by the end of season 3. Needing a way to set Jax’s character on a different path, Sutter decided to use Opie’s life as the lynchpin. I started thinking about it towards the end of season three, and then I think it all came together with the death of Piney last year. I got to the end of the season and realized that there was this circular dynamic that was happening with Jax and Opie that was very difficult to get out of. As we came into this season, knowing where I want to take my hero…Jax needed that emotional upheaval, that one event that happens in a man’s life that can change the course of his destiny, and I think the death of his best friend is such an event. Every death on Sons of Anarchy is memorable, and Opie’s is no different: taking on a gang of men, besting many, and then falling from a deathly blow to the head. While graphic deaths are always memory, Sutter’s intent was more earnest: I wanted Opie to go out a warrior, with nobility and a sense of protecting the people [he still loves]. I don’t do things arbitrarily or just for shock value. I think there’s a sense of how deeply committed I am to the show and to the fans as well…I do think that there is a sense of [the fans] understanding why it happened and where it will go. Continuing, Sutter had a message to fans who might be upset about Opie’s death: What I would say to them is that yes, it’s incredibly sad, but the death of Opie will color the rest of the episodes for the rest of the series. It’s not a death that will happen in vain. Jax will be greatly influenced by the death of Opie, and perhaps that loss, that emptiness, will color him throughout the rest of the season. Since the beginning of the series, Opie has always been a positive support for Jax – even if he was only recently made aware of everything that was going on. Now that this element has been removed from Jax’s world so painfully, it’s reassuring to hear that the repercussions of this event are great. Even so, the death of Opie also impacts any direct comparison that the series has with Hamlet. Even though Sutter has always mentioned that Sons of Anarchy is only loosely based on the famous William Shakespeare play, the comparisons up until now have been pretty direct. The only problem is that Opie’s counterpart in Hamlet doesn’t die in the play. Without giving away any Hamlet spoilers (something that hasn’t been said since the 1700s), Opie’s counterpart in the play serves to be the chronicler of everything that occurs in Hamlet’s familia struggles. Now that Sutter has made this turn, who knows what other tweaks he’s made to the iconic plot, and who may now be saved (or doomed) because of it. Right now it looks like Sons of Anarchy might be bowing out of the major death game for a bit, focusing more on the emotional struggle that Jax is facing, and the decision’s he’ll have to make to secure the future of SAMCRO. Still, it is Sons of Anarchy, so there’s always a chance for more blood. [poll id="391"] - Sons of Anarchy airs at 10pm on FX I heard that Ryan Hurst (Opie) has had a lot of offers for different roles. I guess he can pursue them now. thats great news..I hope he gets alot of work.. Opie NOOOOOOOOOOOO! G.oD Da.mmit!! Why kill Opie?!?!?! I wanted him to at least get kill Clay first! I was sad.Opie was a soldier I understand the need to “harden” Jax, however, the fight scene was weak and Opie should have killed one or two of his opponents prior to being killed. He hit the first one with a lead pipe to the temple with a full swing, realistically that opponent would have been killed or at least rendered unconscious by that blow, but he was back in the fray almost immediately. Obviously the writers have never seen what happens when that kind of blow is delivered/received. Well there was that other little problem of Opie being on the room first, given a pretty good weapon, and the just waited in the middle of the room for them to come in and surround him. Anyone wanting to survive would have gone into the corner where he couldn’t be flanked. I hope Jax kills the prison guards that took Opie from us, along with POPE! I am totally with you on that one….Pope should get away from this….Opie will be missed… He plays brotherhood to the TTTTT!!!!! After loving 56 straight episodes, I never thought something would turn me off of SOA. I was wrong. Kurt, I think you were wrong. I’m not alone in saying that I “was” a dedicated fan, until last night. Last nights episode was amazing; the writing, & direction of the show leaves me wanting more. All I can ask for is 2 hrs shows every tuesday. It was heart breaking but it will change Jax Clay should have been the one to die. Opie lost his wife, and dad, he should have been able to beat Clay to death. Clay still has his patch, where is the balls in the club. Clay beat the s* out of Jimma and Jax does nothing. Juice shot a full patch member he should die. CIA. Cartel. RICO. Clay isn’t going anywhere for a while annoying too, the entire jemma/clay s* is so played out, it’s been 5 seasons of the same s* over and over. Enough with the Oedipus Rex. Get rid of tigg I hate him he is the reason all this happen. Sutter, hopefully you read this, no one gives a s* about Jax, Jemma, Clay, Tig or most of who’s left. You basically killed off your audience with Opie. I’m gone, thanks for the memories man. Speak for yourself. While Opie was also my favorite character, I still care about the others as well. So yeah, people DO give a s*** about Jax, Jemma (are you freaking serious right now?!) and all of the rest of them. I’d like to beat Tig’s face in right now though. Let me start by saying that Sons of Anarchy is hands down the greatest television show I have ever seen. Behind SOA is The Wire…and it is a distant second at this point. They are obviously similar in a few ways. First off, each show never holds back from removing big and fan favorite characters. These two shows although fictional are trying to portray what is like in a hardcore biker gang and portraying what it’s like dealing with the days and lives of a major drug crew. Each writer is trying to come close to the reality of things, while at the same time giving each show it’s own “Hollywood” twists. I compare getting rid of Opie is almost the same as getting rid of Stringer Bell. The statement coming across in both of these onscreen killings is that the streets aren’t safe for anyone when it comes to the two games of SOA and THe Wire. This is one of many aspects of each of these shows that makes them great…..a touch of reality. When I say reality I mean that in real life anyone can die when playing the drug, gun, or turf game. Does it suck to lose Opie….YES….but I fully understand why and we will see if it ends up being the best thing for the show in weeks to come Have u ever watched the Shield? Its like the SOA meets the wire, except better than both, in my opinion. Damn, I hope you really do find a way to make Opie’s death mean something. Because you just killed the heart, soul and backbone of your show. Wonderful. Share a website with you , ( ) Believe you will love it. We accept any form of payment. Hope you can keep the passion of Opies acting alive in future episodes… will be interesting. However, Opie was a key portion of the heart, soul and brotherly allegiance of that show. Man this show is better that Shield!! Opie is a HOMIE and I know he has a excellent future.. Opie was a soldier to the T, Clay is someone you have to love to hate and can’t wait to see him get his. Jax is on fire, watch out for trager he’s mad. Ope was the only character I cared about personally and had a good deal invested in. I have no one to root for now, the people left are either downright nasty(clay, gamma, tig), or have nothing going on storywise(Jiice, chibs). Jax has made too many stupid choices and was a horrible friend to Opie so I don’t care about him either now. Did someone really compare this to the Wire? Hah, as much as I’ve enjoyed SOA it’s not up there with the best tv has to offer. Deadwood, breaking bad, sopranos, mad men off the top of my head are all vastly superior shows. SOA had the potential but there’s been too many unbelievable storylines and plot contrivances and poorly drawn characters to put it up there with the with the best of the best. Wow really, Sopranos. Not even in the same leauge as SOA and Sopranos was on HBO had alot more room to work.It wasn’t nearly as intense, it was slow paced and drug out then all the sudden they had to wrap it up real quick. Not sons. Full throttle all the way. I hate that u killed off opie why don’t u kill off his mom and kids too just get rid of all that faimly why even put them in it in the first place im tired of u killing of all the good ones like one sack and i agreeclay should have died by opie beforeyou killed opie So, who is doing the home invasions ? Not the Niners. They have the contents of the safe in Gemma’s house. I like Nero. I hope he stays cool! pope is pissing me off, he burned Tigs daughter alive n he wanted Tig to rott in prison for the rest of his life. wasnt that enough? i hope jax didnt mean it when he made that deal with him about killing Tig. R.I.P Ope…………..btw I am in love with Maggie Siff……LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!!!! Forgive me, but – as Tig is walking up to Jax – MY DVR STOPPED RECORDING THE EPISODE. What did their conversation constitute of? Can’t believe that happened and TERRIBLY distressed that I only just now saw the almost end of this episode but, wow the creative powers have BALLS, the kind that sadly another robust, once-great story-filled show (TRUE BLOOD) could use a ton of. KUDOS, SOA powers… Mike Wilkerson – Fangbanger Podcast Our power went out so I didn’t see any of last weeks SOA. But if you look on FX this weeks SOA is on at 10;00 p.m Eastern and last weeks SOA is coming on again 2 hours after at 12:00 A.M. So you might want to DVR them both so you can watch last weeks 1st just a thought I understand that he needed to be killed off and you could tell the last few episodes he’d been somewhat depressive and stopped caring about the club but it was still painful to watch him take that final blow to the head. Cant wait to see Jax rip into that prison guard and Pope. Wonder if Tigg will survive the rest of the season. It was shocking but I think, necessary. Opie really had nothing to live for. his wife and dad were gone. he didn’t seem to really care for his kids much. his warrior mentality really meant he’d do anything to save the club despite all the bad things that it had done to him. But it’s good, because this should lite a fire under Jax’s *ss and get him to get the ball rolling. my thought is that he’s going to try and take it back to what JT was trying to make the club. Get rid of the guns and drugs and bring it back to the MC it used to be. they keep brushing past JT’s wishes and I think that’s what Sutter is trying bring it back to in full circle. It may mean the death of Clay and Jemma to do so, but i’m sure the other members would rather it just be a brotherhood and not what it’s become. And i can’t believe how much Maggie’s character has changed. it’s an amazing transformation. I personally do not agree with Opie’s death. He was a soldier to the end. If you had to have him die, I feel he should have taken out at least 2, or more of those attackers, and had the guard come in and shoot him in the end. Would have made the guard more of a player in the game instead of the puss he really is. Good show, i’m not going to stop watching, but you did kill off one of my fav characters. I hope you make it worth while. Opie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . Y Opie. It’s hard to invision what will go on from here. But I will stay tuned to see that guard suffer!!!!!. Opie I miss You!!!!!! As soon as he learned the real truth about his father!!!!!! The good guys never get ahead when it comes to guns and drugs… I wish i could bite TIGG’s Head OFF!!! GRAMMY FOR OPIE, he was my favorite character he was the realistic human element to SOA. I am not unhappy that I was unable to follow this show as closely as I wanted to. Other shows by Josh Whedon, often kill of a favorite main character, so I might not have minded, but had I watched more faithfully, who knows. I was truly shocked by Opie’s death just like everyone else. However, this all goes back to Tig trying to retaliate for what happened in season four and Clay is at fault for lying to him about how Piney died. If Tig had never gotten in that car and accidentally killed Pope’s daughter then Opie would still be alive. This is truly one of the best shows on TV and that’s why I make sure my Hopper is set to catch every episode. It was really emotional watching the SAMCRO guys witness Opie being beat to death: Tig couldn’t watch and Chibs just lost it when it was all said and done. My DISH co-workers agreed that this was one of the most intense episodes ever on the show. I can see how it had to be done and Jax is already promising revenge. The deal he struck with Pope was a front for what he really wants to do. I can’t wait until next week’s episode. In the end though, it all goes back to Clay. Clay wanted to take out Opie because he thought Opie had ratted. He got Tig to hit Opie and make it look like a black hit. It all went bad, and it’s been going downhill since. Clay’s history of absolute ruthlessness, of being willing to kill anyone, even his fellow club members, to get his way is what this show is all about. I just want to say how much I love the show. But jaxon and opie are my favorite why kill him. But I guess it had to happen. I am a big fan I been watching since the first episode.
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Ti-84 Plus Ce Python Charger If you’re a fan of the Ti-84 Plus CE graphing calculator, you’ll be happy to know that there’s now a Python charger available. This new charger is designed to quickly and easily charge your Ti-84 Plus CE, making it convenient for those who are always on the go. The Python charger is a great option for those who want to keep their Ti-84 Plus CE in top condition. It’s also a good choice for those who want to extend the life of their batteries. The Python charger is able to fully charge your Ti-84 Plus CE in just under two hours, so you can be sure that you won’t have to worry about your calculator dying in the middle of use. If you’re interested in purchasing the Python charger, it’s available online and in stores now. Be sure to check it out and see how it can help keep your Ti-84 Plus CE running at its best. How to Charge Ti-84 Plus Ce With Computer If you want to charge your TI-84 Plus calculator with your computer, you’ll need to purchase a USB cable that is compatible with your calculator. Once you have the cable, follow these steps: 1. Connect one end of the USB cable to the TI-84 Plus and the other end to an available USB port on your computer. 2. On your computer, open the TI Connect™ software. 3. Select Device Explorer from the left panel. 4. In the list of devices, right-click on your TI-84 Plus and select Properties… 5. In the Calculator Properties dialog box that appears, click on the Change button next to Device Battery Level: 6. In the Select New Device Battery Level window that appears, choose Fully Charged from the drop-down menu and click OK: Ti-84 Plus Ce Charger in Store There are a few things to consider when purchasing a Ti-84 Plus CE charger. The first is compatibility; make sure that the charger you select is compatible with your device. The second is amperage; the higher the amperage, the faster your device will charge. Finally, consider price and convenience; some chargers are more expensive than others, but may offer features like built-in USB ports or extended cord length. The best place to purchase a Ti-84 Plus CE charger is likely going to be an electronics store like Best Buy or Fry’s Electronics. These stores typically have a wide selection of chargers to choose from, and the staff should be able to help you find one that’s compatible with your device and meets your needs. You can also find Ti-84 Plus CE chargers online from retailers like Amazon or eBay. Credit: How Do You Charge a Ti-84 Plus Ce Without the Charger? There are a few ways to charge a TI-84 Plus CE without the charger. One way is to use a USB cable. Another way is to use batteries. And one more way is to use an AC adapter. USB Cable: If you have a USB cable, you can connect it to your computer and then to your TI-84 Plus CE. Once it’s connected, your calculator will start charging. The downside of this method is that it will take longer to charge than if you were using the official charger. However, it’s still a good option if you don’t have the charger with you or if your calculator is running low on power and you need to charge it quickly. Batteries: You can also charge your TI-84 Plus CE with batteries. This method is similar to charging with a USB cable, but instead of connecting it to your computer, you’ll need to connect it to an external battery pack. You can find battery packs online or at some stores that sell electronic accessories. Once it’s connected, your calculator will start charging from the batteries. Again, this method will take longer than using the official charger, but it’s still a viable option if you don’t have the charger with you or if your calculator is running low on power and you need him quickly recharge. What Can I Use to Charge My Ti 84? There are a few different ways that you can charge your TI 84 calculator. One way is to use the USB port on your computer. You will need to have a USB cable that is compatible with your calculator in order to do this. Another way is to use an AC adapter. This can be plugged into an outlet and will provide power to your calculator. Finally, you can also use batteries to power your calculator. If you are using batteries, you will need to make sure that they are charged and installed correctly in order for your calculator to work properly. Can You Charge Ti 84 With Batteries? Yes, you can charge your TI-84 calculator with batteries. You will need to purchase a special charging cable that is compatible with your calculator. Once you have the cable, simply connect the positive and negative ends of the cable to the corresponding terminals on your calculator. Make sure that the polarity is correct before connecting the cables. How Do I Charge My Ti-84 Plus Ce? If your TI-84 Plus CE is running low on battery power, you can recharge it using the mini USB port on the side of the calculator. You will need to use a mini USB cable (not included) to connect the calculator to a power source, such as a computer or laptop. Once connected, the calculator will begin charging automatically. It usually takes around 4 hours to fully charge a TI-84 Plus CE. If you want to use your calculator while it’s charging, you can do so without affecting the charging process. However, if you want to preserve battery life, it’s best to turn off the calculator while it’s plugged in. Conclusion It’s easy to forget to bring your calculator charger with you when you need it the most. Luckily, there are a few ways to charge your TI-84 without a charger. You can use a USB cable, batteries, or a solar panel. If you have a USB cable handy, you can connect your TI-84 to a computer or laptop and transfer power that way. If you’re in a pinch and don’t have access to a computer, you can try using batteries instead. AA or AAA batteries will work just fine. Finally, if you’re outdoors and need to conserve power, consider using a small solar panel to charge your calculator.
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Below are links to information about the NFIP and flood resources before, during, and after a storm. Before You Flood--Preparation Activities and Resources - Am I In the Floodplain? - Getting Flood Insurance - Flood Protection Information Directory - Flood Preparation for Your Family - Before You Build - Protect Natural Floodplain Functions The source of flooding concern in the City of Kinston is the Neuse River. Areas in the floodplain can flood with water during severe thunderstorms, hurricanes, nor’easters, or other large rain events. Find out if you are in the flood plain by: - Searching your address on the published Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) - Calling the Planning Department at 252-939-3269 or 252-939-3271 Standard property insurance does not cover flood damage. If your home is located in a federally-designated floodplain, your mortgage company will require that you have flood insurance. If there is a mapped floodplain on your property, it should be shown on your property survey. The City of Kinston participates in the National Floodplain Mapping Program, thus flood insurance and federal assistance, such as mortgage loans and grants, are available. The National Flood Insurance Program allows property owners to buy federally-backed flood insurance within participating communities. In return for this protection, communities enact measures to reduce flood risks to new development. Federally-backed flood insurance is available for all buildings in participating communities, whether the buildings are in a regulated floodplain or not. Flood insurance covers direct losses caused by surface flooding. There is a thirty-day waiting period for a flood insurance policy to become effective, so the time to act is now. The agent who helps you with your homeowners or renters insurance may be able to help you with purchasing flood insurance too. You can only purchase flood insurance through an insurance agent; you cannot buy it directly from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). If your insurance agent does not sell flood insurance, contact the National Flood Insurance Program’s Help Center at 1-800-427-4661 to request an agent referral. Flood Preparation Resources - FloodSmart.gov(resources for flood insurance, how to file claims, and protective steps to take before and after a flood) - Elevate your home if possible-- Above the Flood: Elevating Your Floodprone House - Reducing Damage From Localized Flooding@(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")> - Protecting Manufactured Homes - Elevated Residential Structures - Elevate HVAC and other mechanical uses out of the floodplain--Protecting Building Utilities from Flood Damage@(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")> - TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN - Heed all flood warnings and notices - Download the NC Ready App - Download the FEMA mobile app (real time alerts, emergency safety tops, locate emergency shelter) - Use the Are You Ready? website to make your own Disaster Preparedness kit with food, water, supplies, and copies of crucial documents - Store valuables in dry containers or storage - Make an evacuation plan and designate a safe place to meet with loved ones in the case of an emergency@(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")> Build Responsibly ALWAYS acquire building permits and floodplain permits for all development. Use licensed contractors at all times. If you are considering building in Kinston, check to see if your property is in the floodplain. If so, get a Floodplain Development permit from the Planning Department page and submit it to the Planning Director, Adam Short. Article 9 Part IX of Kinston's Unified Development Ordinance describes the rules and regulations of the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinances. Read and follow the instructions if you intend to build or substantially improve your building. Each situation is different, but there are several methods for you to consider in order to reduce losses at your location including: flood-proofing non-residential buildings, elevating your building so that the lowest floor is two feet or more above the Base Flood Elevation (BFE), demolishing and rebuilding your structure, or purchasing property outside of the floodplain. The more we learn about flooding and floodplain management, the more we understand how important it is to protect natural floodplain functions. Preserving natural areas in and around the Neuse River can protect residents, prevent damage to property, and support local wildlife. The following are informational resources and strategies about how we can reduce flood damage by preserving the natural floodplain - Protecting Floodplain Resources is a FEMA resource written to introduce officials and citizens at the local level to a basic understanding of natural resources in floodplains and to offer suggestions for creating strategies for wisely managing these important areas. - Neuse River Basin Hazard Mitigation Plan (2017) is a collaboration between Lenoir, Greene, Jones, Pitt, and Wayne Counties to create a plan for reducing the impact of disasters that happen to all residents living near the Neuse River basin. - Neuse River Basin Flood Analysis and Mitigation Strategies Study (2018) is an updated study of the Neuse River Basin hazards and strategies to reduce the impact of disasters. - The City of Kinston has an ordinance that prevents dumping any fluid, gas, trash, or other substance into our stormwater structures or streams. Keep our streams clear of debris and trash, to allow water to flow more easily during heavy rain events. During the Flood - Declaring a State of Emergency - Who's in Charge? - Resources During Flooding - Neuse River Level Real Time Federal, state, and local governments can all declare states of emergency in times of crisis Local: The city council or mayor, or county commissioners or their board chair, can declare a state of emergency. This triggers emergency powers and the local emergency operations plans. It also legally imposes measures like evacuations and curfews. Finally, it can be a requirement for receiving state and federal reimbursement for emergency-related expenses. State: A state of emergency can be declared by the Governor or the General Assembly. This declaration speeds up the use of state resources to help local areas. Federal: A state or tribal government can ask for a state of emergency declaration when they determine that the damage of a disaster is beyond their capacity to handle. Only then can the President declare a state of emergency. Once the state of emergency is declared, the federal government can provide Public Assistance, Individual Assistance, and Hazard Mitigation Assistance programs. The Lenoir County Emergency Management Division runs the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) during emergencies to coordinate agencies to best support all Lenoir County citizens. The Emergency Operations Plan describes the chain of command and procedures the EOC goes through during an emergency. During an emergency you can go to the Lenoir County Emegency Services Facebook page or @LenoirCountyES on Twitter for updates. The designated Emergency Coordinator, Planning Director Adam Short, and City Manager Tony Sears are responsible for coordinating city emergency response efforts. During an emergency, you can go to the City of Kinston Facebook page or @KinstonEOC on Twitter. - Call 911 - Go to a shelter location, listed on multiple news sources, listed below - City of Kinston Facebook page or @KinstonEOC on Twitter - Neuse News, Kinston Free Press, WITN - When traveling, remember: Turn Around, Don't Drown@(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")> See the level of the Neuse River in real time here at . Moderate flood stage of the Neuse River is at 13.5ft, and a major flood stage begins at 19.5ft. After the Flood-Immediate Resources Monitor local news sources and emergency communications (see the above tab "Resources During Flooding") for general information about when a flood hazard or storm hazard has ended. If you have specific questions regarding your address, call the Planning Department at 252-939-3269 and they will answer according to the information available. - Reentering Your Flooded Home CDC Safety Tips - Safety Steps for Returning Home After a Flood Red Cross - Documentation and Start Clean Up - Homeowners and Renter's Guide to Mold Clean-up@(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")> - American Red Cross Eastern NC locations - FEMA Financial Assistance After Disasters (Disaster Food Stamps, Emergency Assistance with Utility Bills, Disaster Unemployment Assistance) - Register for assistance at and apply for assistance with shelter and immediate needs@(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")> Even if you were not affected by the storm, you may be interested in supporting your neighbors in other ways.The NC Commission on Volunteerism and Public Service provides opportunities (some disaster specific) to volunteer in local communities. Where Do We Go From Here?- Long Term Recovery and Resilience - FEMA Resources for Kinston and Lenoir County - The City of Kinston Planning Department can provide information about your flood risk, obtaining flood insurance, building regulations, property protection advice, protection advice after visiting your property, and financial assistance advice for protecting your home against future flood damage. See contact information at the bottom of the page.@(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")> - NC Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) Disaster Recovery website(includes information about individual assistance, public assistance [nonprofits], buyout programs, and other hazard mitigation grants) - NC Emergency Management Helpline: 919-825-3278 - ReBuild NC website - Call NC 211 for information on a variety of resources@(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")> - DisasterAssistance.gov - National Flood Insurance Program - Disaster Recovery Center Locator (only active for a period after disasters)@(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")>
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I have had less than two days in Scotland and can come to at least three very clear conclusions. The first is that Scotland is very different to England. So too, I would add, based on experience, are Wales and Northern Ireland. But at present the Scottish difference is more obvious in a political sense. It's impossible to provide precise evidence of how and why this is the case, but it's tangible and real. My suspicion is it is based on a strong sense of identity that has been reinforced by recent experience, right across political divides. What cannot be doubted is the reality of it, and it's also stronger than it used to be, by some way. The second conclusion is that Scotland is willing to create its own solutions. From the obvious vibrancy of the people from civil society I met on Wednesday to the council and civil society organisation leaders I met yesterday to the politicians I have had discussion with there is no sense that they need wait for anyone's permission to find a Scottish solution to problems, and are willing to do so. Some of the thinking, especially around health, seemed a little too stereotyped to give much chance of unique solutions arising. In other areas, e.g. in youth services, what I heard about was radically different from what I think is happening elsewhere. And simply better too in terms of what services are delivered, and how, and how integration is being aimed at, even if there is a long way to go. And third? I have to say that this is that Scotland believes it can make its own future and ultimately no one can stop it doing so. And that belief is very, very powerful. I am used to England, Westminster and the sense of frustrating disempowerment that pervades almost everyone in politics that focuses there. There is just no such sense in Scotland. The belief in Scotland is that, despite all the obstacles they will achieve, come what may. And don't shout about oil - it's just something they say they would have taken in their stride, and got on with, and to a large extent I believe them. So Scotland remains very different. It's also changed since my last visit. There's a feeling that it was not oil that has derailed them, or the referendum. It was the currency debate that diid that. And I have a feeling that another time there would be no discussion of the euro and no discussion of the pound. A Scottish currency would be on the agenda. And in the meantime there is a growing awareness that they really might have influence at Westminster, which is, despite the long history of powerful Scottish politicians in the Labour party, something they have not felt they have had for a long time. It is this feeling that they want a distinctly Scottish voice heard that is, I think, motivating the SNP vote. And what of the SNP? My feeling is it realises that it will have to use power responsibly. They know all about power after all. They have been in government for some time now. They can handle responsibility, and they know all about the compromises needed. It is a shame I will not hear Nicola Sturgeon speak today, but I have to be going south for the weekend. But I think the sense that working out positions that make compromise that will support Labour in power, now exists. And I believe that the compromises that will let the SNP say it is preventing austerity in Scotland and yet permit Labour to continue a deficit narrative are being made. Which is where Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing comes in. The currency issue was a big problem for many, as you rightly point out. However, the entire “financial” package appeared weak and not well thought out – despite the 2 year run up and opportunity to offer something “different”. No suggestion of own Central Bank, citizens bank, Citizens Wage, Tax system overhaul let alone a Green Infrastructure QE. I suspect, had the SNP (who appeared to dominate for the independence side) offered alternative “systems” – demonstrate their notion of a fairer society, the outcome would likely have been very different. So, you have seen the Central Belt and main cities in Scotland – try traveling further north and see a little more. I spoke to people from Shetland to Ayrshire I still have trouble with some of the Aberdeen and Orcadian accents. I do heartily suggest a visit to Shetland though. In fact – please visit a little more often – perhaps organise a meet with Ms Sturgeon and offer up some proposals… for next time. I have offered to come back as soon as anyone wants to discuss the issues I raised yesterday “So Scotland remains very different. It’s also changed since my last visit. There’s a feeling that it was not oil that has derailed them, or the referendum. It was the currency debate that did that.” Richard, you seem to be making the same mistake the SNP makes in confusing the party with the country. Scotland is not the SNP and the SNP is not Scotland, although they would like to give that impression. Scots rejected their “independence” in 2014 and, with no party loyalty to split the vote, would reject them again tomorrow. The currency issue, the EU issue and the economy issue are all negative for the SNP. And, crucially, the isolation issue. Scots are not Nationalist, nor are they nationalist. The SNP has a strong anti-establishment wind in their favour (like UKIP and the Greens in England). But the anti-politics fever is not the same as endorsing “independence”. The recent Government Expenditure & Revenue Scotland (GERS) figures for 2013/14 show a continuing weakness in the current account which is balanced by the Barnett allocation. But the SNP wants Full Fiscal Autonomy (FFA) which by its nature abolishes Barnett, leaving Scotland with an immediate and persistent revenue funding gap averaging around £607bn annually (£12bn in 2012/13 and £12,4bn in 2013/14). And that’s before the oil price fall of late 2014 is taken into account. So the 2014/15 numbers will be even more dire. They are economically incompetent and would make Scotland independent even though the revenue funding gap means immediate and crushing tax rises and service cuts that the poor would feel the brunt of worst. The SNP talks left but acts right: they are UKIP in tartan trews. Don’t be taken in. I make no such mistake I will talk to any non-racist party “So Scotland remains very different. It’s also changed since my last visit. There’s a feeling that it was not oil that has derailed them, or the referendum. It was the currency debate that did that.” – That reads as if the currency debate “derailed” “Scotland”. But it didn’t derail Scotland or the Scottish people. It derailed the SNP. Perhaps that’s not what you meant but that’s how it reads to me The debate was derailed by it being on independence If it had been on devo-max the outcome would have been different In that sense currency as metaphor for the wrong debate did derail Scotland And is why Labou still has problems there, which it obviously has I’m sorry Alex but you are wrong on almost everything. Your characterisation of the SNP as UKIP etc. etc. is laughable. It vitiates all of your analysis because it is so out there that your understanding of Scottish politics cannot be taken seriously. If you were trying to be fair you would have made allowances for the fact that Salmond was happy to put DevoMax to the people and that option was the most popular (Cameron vetoed it so it didn’t happen). Just because the independence vote was either/or, it doesn’t follow that people see the issue in that way. You say Richard is confusing Scotland with the SNP but you also confuse matters by saying Scotland is absolutely this or that but many Scots are very stongly for the SNP and the percentage for independence never drops below 25-30%. It is clear many Scots are somewhat nationalist, though that term is a very slippery one. I think you should look at some of the work of one of the economists who has looked at how funding is allocated to Scotland. According to Andrew Hughes-Hallet it appears defence spending for example is often allocated to Scotland but is not spent there. I know of no-one who has disputed/refuted this claim of his. Lastly, you cannot compare a geographical area funded by a block grant with a normally functioning country. As a rich country with a lot of natural resources, there is no reason Scotland can’t function as a normal country. It is also the most stupid nonsense imaginable that a party that purports to value Scotland’s independence wants also to place it in the penury you envisage. There’s a lot of work going on beyond the policy caricatures the media serves up, so I think you need to look further than the anti-SNP talking points you reproduce from your other unnamed but obvious sources. The suggestion I only heard the SNP is absurd. I spoke at a meting chaired by the co-convenor of the Scottish Greens for a start And I also had informal disucssion woth several Labour politicians Richard, The debate was about “independence” because that’s what the SNP had campaigned for 80 years to get, and what they had a mandate for. They had no mandate for “devo max” and they still have no mandate for devo max. Devo max has no agreed definition and was and is Salmond’s tactic to get a consolation prize for losing the referendum. I didn’t say you only heard the SNP. I know you spoke at COSLA and other events. Phil, to address the points you make; I didn’t say Scotland is absolutely anything, don’t know where you got that idea. I know how funding is allocated through the Barnett Formula. And this week it showed a £12.4bn gap in Scotland out of a £66bn spend. That’s 18% of our annual spend lost, OVER AND ABOVE ANY OSBORNE AUSTERITY, if the SNP has its way. Is that what you want? Really? Hughes Hallett is a pro-SNP economist. About the only one willing to go public. I haven’t seen anything from him on the GERS figures. Do you have a link? It would be interesting to see how any reputable case could be made for cutting your budget by 18% when there’s no need to. You don’t have to be a Professor of Economics to see it’s a pretty silly idea. Of course SCOTLAND could function as an independent country. The more important question for me is: what’s best for THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE? And I don’t see how making the country poorer in the short, medium and maybe even long term is best for anyone. I happen to agree with the majority of Scots that staying with the union is best for us. You are entitled to a different opinion if you can make a case for it. The SNP’s case was rejected by the Scottish people last year. What’s your different case? we certainly wont be taken in by the red tories. Should read gap of £6-7BN annually, Ask yourself why the labour vote has collapsed since the referendum. There has been a massive increase in SNP membership. Part of the reason surely has to be that people feel betrayed by the UK establishment because of their actions since the referendum. Labour is naturally the loser because the Tories don’t seriously pretend to represent Scotland. They only have one MP and a handful of list MSPs. Both unionist parties seem to be implying that the SNP have no entitlement to have a say in the government of the country. The Labour mantra that a vote for the SNP lets the Tories in is not borne out by parliamentary arithmetic. In 2010, the number of Labour MPs increased in Scotland. Margaret Curran won Glasgow East from the SNP. What was the result in the UK election? There have only been 2 elections since WWII where the Scottish vote would have made a difference. Labour also attempted to form a government in 2010. As the incumbent they were entitled to do that because no other party had a majority. Why is the mantra of “The largest party forms the government” trotted out so recently after Labour themselves disproved that. The Tory charge that Votes for the SNP let Labour in are equally risible. There is also an implication that the SNP are somehow not entitled to take part in the Westminster parliament because one of their goals is independence. If enough people vote for them, surely they are entitled to seats in Parliament. Does a Scottish seat have a lesser value than an English seat? In the eyes of the electorate, Labour are tainted by their association with the Tories at the referendum. Both parties seem to think that the electorate should comply with their wishes than the other way round. I am very troubled by the idea that coalition with the SNP is unacceptable because they ultimately oppose the Union (as Vince Cable has now said) whilst coalition with UKIP or the Tories who oppose the EU is quite OK If the choice of the Scottish people is to be ignored after 7 May I think there will be quick and profound consequences I was very pleased that you came to Scotland to contribute your perspective and ideas to the events. It’s a potentially pivotal time, and rational alternatives to the single economic script peddled by the tv and print media and all the main UK parties are essential. I’m sure many others who follow your blog feel similarly. It’s of the utmost importance to have build discussion around these ideas, and since they are given no oxygen in the standard media, the currently vibrant grassroots of Scotland’s politics is as fertile a place as any. The grass roots in Scotland are amazing Very impressed by Common Weal And others too You are comparing a party whos leader thinks you should be ‘concerned if a Romanian moves in nexdoor’ to a party that vocally speaks up for more immigration despite this being an unpopular opinion to voice. Not only are the SNP nothing like UKIP they are about as far apart from them as any two parties in the UK on that issue. In fact it is shamefull that the Tories and Labour cow-tow to UKIP to try and win votes rather than raise the tone of the national conversation as they should do as staresmen. As for FFA it is simply unfair to be supplementing the Scottish budget at the expense of increased austerity in England and Wales. Our political centres are too different now to expect. Redistribution accross the UK. Nicola is right with this one. Implemented slowly and thoughtfully, Scotland will be able to make up the shortfall using the new fiscal levers. We voted NO in September but the time of the UK as a single homogenous state is over. We are moving towards a new UK which is a family of nations. Economically autonomous. Confident and learning from each other. That is how we will stay strong. It is not just Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Regions of England feel equally disconnected from central Westminster control. Greater Manchester has a similar population to Wales, is larger than Northern Ireland and has a larger economy than both Wales and Northern Ireland and equally feels that as a city region it should have some of the autonomy to decide how to invest and grow the local economy further that is afforded to cities like Munich. If you dissect the Barnett formula the funding per capita for England is lower than the rest of the UK but when the London spend is removed the difference between England and the rest of the UK is stark. “Scotland is willing to create its own solutions” Civic Scotland dissatisfied with the likes of Councillor Alex Gallagher’s Labour party have had to first identify like minded souls via online forums, which lead to blogs, which in turn has grown into organisations like the Common Weal, National Collective and RIC’s who are determined to create positive change for Scotland. This notion of disempowerment that you speak of was the default setting prior to 2007, when the SNP, in minority government realised that the key to electoral loyalty lay not only in promising and talking about, but in the actual doing. Salmond’s first government set the pace with Cabinet members and MSPs basically canceling holidays, family and social life and throwing everything they had into engaging with a wary electorate. The level of access for the people became the priority rather than the view of the paid for lobbyists. This policy of full frontal engagement has paid massive dividends as can be seen with the SNP results rising ever since even the Referendum say a massive increase from an easily dismissed 20% to a whisker away 47% in less than seven years. The rout that faces Labour in May is no overnight shock. The SNP have been ahead in Westminster voting intention Polls since March 13 2014 (one year ago yesterday). The result we will see on May 7th will forever change the political landscape in Scotland and no amount of negativity, fearmongering and name calling will alter that. Scotland is ready to embrace itself. I often think Independence might be good for the Scots- it might show them how not to rely on or blame anyone else fore their own shortcomings . Like teenagers say (!). But what is a Scot after some many years of interaction with the rest of the UK? Going back further the Scots are an Irish race, even now some Scots like to refer to themselves as Picts. Did you notice how many traditional areas of Scotland voted NO to Independence? Whilst say Glasgow with a cosmopolitan population and left wing urban intelligentsia voted YES. And I know e.g. that in SW Scotland for instance there is a large population of English retirees who did not intend to settle in a foreign country. I have loads of Scottish relatives, they are great, but there is no need for them to be regarded as more special than say my Derbyshire ones. So Scotland is just as, but no more, special than any other UK region. I leave this to others It us so ridiculously stupid I can’t be bothered to comment Said as someone with an Irish passport I quite agree. I just felt that difference when I first crossed the Border in the sixties! I`m a great admirer of the Scottish nation for many reasons,not least for it`s huge contributions to the worlds of science,medicine,engineering,law and culture,and for mostly good,the development of the British nation and Empire/Commonwealth.These were made and exceeded by,pro rata,a nation far smaller than the rest of the UK countries put together,and says volumes for their spirit,determination and enterprise. Indeed,contributions slightly more than the gentlemans antecedants in Derbyshire I`d guess! So,if they seek independence,we must respect their decision.They will no doubt have problems if they do,as did Ireland,but will come through I`m sure.But as a nation within the UK,if they choose to remain so,should require much more consideration as to their future governance than any English region – and that is written only slightly grudgingly,by someone of Cornish origins! What has happened is that the Scottish people are wakening up to the fact that the Labour party and sad cases like Alex Gallacher believe the rest of us are as stupid and lacking in confidence as they are. Fotunately they are they are held in general low esteem and are being replaced by those they have been insulting for years. Whatever is the current condition of the Scottish economy it is an economy trapped in a virtually bankrupted UK economy which is sucking most of the UK dry as it contracts back to support the affluence of London and the South East of England. The point is we wouldn’t be paying for Trident. We wouldn’t be paying for illegal invasions and vainglorious campaigns in parts of the world where have no business and are not welcome. We wouldn’t be squandering the proceeds of our huge natural resources or sharing them with 60 million people. We wouldn’t have abandoned our industrial base. We wouldn’t be paying billions to “national” programmes like renewing London’s underground system or high speed rail links to the north (Leeds?) or enriching already rich bankers. I could go on. Like Denmark or New Zealand or Finland or Norway we would be using our craft, our resources our abilities and our intelligence to run our economy and our nation to our own ambitions – and they would be very high indeed. The fact is the condition of the shackled Scottish economy at this moment is meaningless in the constitutional debate and entirely irrelevant to the future economic prospects of an independent nation. The most compelling feature in the relentless move towards independence is the belief in our ability to do things very differently and very much better. A significant proportion of the electorate in the south believe we are too stupid to manage it and so, sadly, so still does a diminishing band of our own. The Tories allege voting SNP will let Labour in. Labour repeat the vote SNP get Tory mantra ad nauseam. Both claims are devoid of substance. A lot of the Scottish electorate have woken up to the fact that “The Vow was not worth the paper it was written on. The Smith Commission promise limited extra responsibilities rather than more powers. The Daily Record, who look lie the originator of the vow, everyone else is busy denying responsibility for it. The record has totally misrepresented the vow as bringing increasing Scotland’s budget by billions of pounds. IPSO has forced the record into a grovelling apology. This has only been half heartedly complied with. The Linking of the referendum result to EVEL, by the Tories must be partly responsible for the stream of anti-Scots bile which appears in mainstream media articles and cartoons. Steve Bell’s effort in the Guardian last week dredged a new low. It wasn’t even funny. I came close to this earlier in this discussion but hadn’t joined up the dots. If either unionist party gets 326 votes in England, they have an absolute majority and form the government. That makes the Scottish vote irrelevant Scotland only sends 59 mps to Westminster. The current monstering of the SNP is the Unionist parties projecting their failure to command a majority in England onto the SNP. I wonder if this is another manifestation of their agency of the Cowardly State? The UK parliament got what they wanted in the Referendum. They can hardly blame the SNP for taking advantage of this. The reality is that I think that, once again, the UK will get the parliament it deserves after 7/5 I may write more on this later Totally. I’m sure it won’t be the one Scotland votes for. There’s the rub.
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My starting point was to create a base fabric which would have several layers of decoration added on. I chose a mid-weight Calico and cut a piece approximately 20in x 10in (slightly larger than the final piece will be ). I made the lettering ‘Jolie Brise’ using a hot glue gun – see image 11.1 and used it to rub the lettering onto the calico with a blue oil pastel (image 11.2). I chose a shade of blue which is similar to the ink in a biro pen to continue the media theme. Image 11.1 Image 11.2 I did several layers of rubbing in different directions in order to create shapes and the suggestion of words rather than legible text (Image 11.3). Next I used free machine embroidery to trace over the lines of the rubbings with a dark blue thread (image 11.4) Image 11.4 In one of the earlier chapters I had created different examples of text, and then doodled around them to create new designs. I decided to use this technique with hand stitching. I added hand stitch using a navy perle thread. I ‘doodled’ around all of the dots on the ‘i’s in the words Jolie Brise with a running stitch (image 11.5) Image 11.5 Once this was completed I added some pale gold stitched doodles around some of the loops in the writing (image 11.6) Image 11.6 And then I added some lines of straight stitches to fill in some of the shapes inside the ‘B’s and ‘J’s (image 11.7). Image 11.7 To finish this base layer I then added some monoprinting of the words Jolie Brise using white and blue fabric paints on a gelli plate (image 11.8). Image 11.8 Next I started working on some decorative elements. I wanted to use the drawn thread technique learnt in this module and decided to use it in two ways. Firstly, to create a net to represent the rigging on the ship (images 11.9 and 11.10 below) Image 11.9 (rigging with dolphins visible through it!) Image 11.10 – net made from drawn thread-work, with zig-zag stitching over the remaining threads to add strength. From this net I cut sections to stitch on to the base layer; one to resemble the rope ladder up the mast (image 11.11) , and one to represent the rigging. I stitched these on to bse layer as shown ion image 11.12 Image 11.12 Next I created some sail shapes. The Jolie Brise has five distinctive red sails (see image 11.13) Image 11.13 My second use of drawn thread work was to create a base for some handmade paper sails. Firstly I stitched the sail shapes on to a piece of course linen (image 11.14) I then used a mix of Procion cold water dyes to create the red colour of the sails (image 11.15) Image 11.15 I then withdrew some of the threads to create nets (image 11.16) I created some paper pulp which I dyed with the same Procion mix and added it to the nets (image 11.17) Image 11.17 Finally I machine stitched lines into the sail shapes and hand stitched ‘DS2’ which is on the Jolie Brise main sail (images 11.18 and 11.19) Image 11.18 Image 11.19 The final extra to be added to the base layer was some numbers representing the journey from the race starting point (42°N) to the end point (46°N). I created these in Word and then printed them onto photocopy fabric (image 11.20) I tried a few different layouts as seen in the images below: Image 11.21 – discarded as it reminded me of a fish skeleton! Image 11.22 – random positioning of the sails – discarded as it didn’t really look like anything in particular Image 11.23 – I chose this layout with the sails in the correct Jolie Brise position, and stitched the sails and numbers in place. I then used a rotary cutter to trim the piece to 7in x14in (image 11.24). Image 11.24 Next I started to create a second fabric for the reverse of the album cover. I started with a lighter weight calico and wrote on it using a white oil pastel. I intended this to act as a resist and painted over it with a blue Procion dye solution (image 11.25) I then machine stitched all over the fabric with white thread, writing ‘Jolie Brise’ in different directions as shown above. On top of this I added mono-printed lettering in blue and white fabric paint (image 11.27) The final decoration on this fabric was hand stitched doodling in a cream perle thread (image 11.28) I then trimmed this piece to the same size as the front cover piece (image 11.29) To create a fairly stiff cover, I used a piece of pelmet stiffener which had iron-on adhesive on both sides and sandwiched it between the two covers. To hide the raw edges I made a long twisted cord using navy and cream perle threads and stitched this around the edge (image 11.30) Next, I decided to add a boat themed fastener, like the rope and cleat used to moor a boat (image 11.31) I used an off-cut of embroidered fabric and created a tight roll which I then stitched in place to make a cleat (image 11.32) I used another length of twisted cord as the rope attached to the edge of the front cover and twisted around the cleat to close the album (image 11.33) The images below show the finished cover. Image 11.34 Image 11.35 My next task was to create the pages of the book. I decided to have a concertina style book made from pieces of Khadi paper connected together by fabric hinges. I chose Khadi paper as it is made from rag fibres and so would be less likely to tear when stitched. Firstly, I made some fabric strips to connect the pages together. I cut 1-inch strips of some Shibori fabric (ready made) and ironed them to make binding strips (image 11.36) I used some fabric stiffener to help the fabric hold its shape when ironed (image 11.37). Image 11.37 Image 11.38 – verification photo of me making binding strips. I then carefully tore the Khadi paper into the required size, and made 8 pages. I decided to decorate the top page with a map showing the race route which I hand-stitched (image 11.39). Image 11.39 I used the binding and a large running stitch on the sewing machine to attach the pages together in one long strip as shown in image 11.40. Image 11.40 I stitched two of the fabric hinges of the middle page to the cover. This completed my album, as seen below. Image 11.41 Image 11.42 Image 11.43 Image 11.44 I am really pleased with this piece. I have used techniques from every chapter of this module, and cord and toggle making from a previous module. When filled with mementos of my trip I think it will become a well-treasured keepsake. I spent a long time thinking about how to make this piece. Initially I had planned to make a rectangular cover for an album with a simple construction. I’m glad that I changed the design to this folded version with the cord and cleat closure as it feels like one is unveiling something precious when undoing the fastener to reveal the pages within. Module 4 – Chapters 9 and 10 Book Module 4 – Chapter 8 Stitching. Module 4 – Chapter 7 Applying paper to a woven fabric grid Using the techniques learnt in earlier chapters, I made a few different fabric grids and some paper pulp. The images below show my various attempts at adding paper pulp to the grids. Image 7.1 – the grid was made from linen with groups of threads removed and stitched over with zigzag stitch. The grid was immersed in the pulp and lifted out to dry. I was pleased with the amount of pulp that covered the grid, creating a beautiful holey piece which reminded me of a wasps nest. Image 7.2 – the grid was made from linen with groups of threads removed and stitched over with zigzag stitch. The pulp was scooped out of the water bath and placed on to the edges of the grid to make a frame. As the paper pulp dried it became brittle and didn’t adhere to the grid in places. Image 7.3 – the grid was made from a piece of cotton muslin with holes cut in it. As can be seen, this didn’t provide a very‘holey’ grid and the pulp covered it completely making a less interesting looking piece of paper. Image 7.4 – the grid was made from linen with groups of threads removed and stitched over with zigzag stitch. It was dipped into the bath of water containing a smaller amount of pulp to make patches. Image 7.5 shows the same grid as 7.4 after a second immersion with some blue coloured pulp. Images 7.5 and 7.6 show grids made by wrapping threads around wire frames and then dipping in the pulp. These created interesting shapes which could interestingly be layered and stitched into when removed from the frames. Image 7.7 shows a fruit net used as a grid. The holes were quite small and the pulp was quite thick and so this created a sheet of paper with few holes in it. Image 7.8 shows an attempt to use a grid made of strips of muslin. The muslin disintegrated leaving a very irregular piece of paper. Image 7.9 shows a piece of silk netting used as a grid. The paper pulp filled some of the holes to create an interestingly textured sample which reminded me of a map with grid-lines. Image 7.10 shows a grid made from loosely woven fabric with drawn threads and some of the remaining threads overstitched with zigzag. I particularly liked the samples which were only partially covered in pulp, revealing parts of the grid, as the combination of textures were more interesting than a solid sheet of paper. I look forward to exploring the possibilities for some of these samples with stitch in the next chapter. Module 4 – Chapter 6 Drawn.
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In my opinion, they are much more beneficial, and inexpensive, and that's why I'm trying so hard to figure out what it takes to get them... without asking a ton of questions at my doctor's office and/or pharmacy, possibly getting "flagged", because the generic version can be more easily abused, and doctors and pharmacists know this. I just got them as a generic. The pharmacist asked that I get a prescription of Oxymorphone tab ER 20mg (or whatever your dosage is). I didn't realize there had been a change back when they changed to the anti tamper coating, but I immediately began complaining to my Dr that I was in an immense amount of pain. After realizing recently that a generic formula was available, I asked my pharmacist about the availability (which he had to order it) and then asked my Dr and both of them were unaware of any type of generic availability. I happily picked them up today and can already tell a difference after taking two doses. I am so pleasantly surprised that they work so well. I had forgotten how well Opana worked until they jacked with it. I only hope and pray they don't make the same ridiculous mistake with the generic. Since I know how ineffective the medicine is with that coating, I will switch to something different than to be in that much pain again. The ERs do come in generic. It's up to the pharmacist though if they want to fill a script written for Opana er as generic. My pharmacist does fill it as generic oxymorphone. I know another person who takes 40mg 2x per dayy and her pharmacy will not fill it generically. I take 10mg 3x daily. Its not up to the pharmacist. If the patient asks for generic and the dr has written the script that generic can be used, the pharmacist can't refuse to give you generic, if he has it. I'm not showing it as available in er version yet. The persciption does not have to say oxymorphone. It can read Opana. The problem is many places do not carry the generic version and a lot of them don't know that they can get it because 1 out of 20 places carry the generic version in all strengths. You have to go a pharm that is byhospital (this phone keyboard is acting up) The best thing to do is ask if they carry them in thastrength and keep looking till you find the right spotI'm lucky because my pharmacy carries jjst about everything and I rarely ever have to wait for them. The generic for opana ER is made in a generic form which is oxymorphone ER. They even make oxymorphone in and instant release pill also. Both generic. I was in a horrible car accident and shattered both ankles, both knees, and one femur. My doctor tried the name brand opana and once by accident he wrote the script for oxymorphone ER. I noticed those work so much better. They are available and in my opinion they work great. Life savior. I have him write the script for oxymorphone ER and I've never had a problem. It's the same drug just generic. The extended release does come in the generic. Just to stress that. As a patient who uses this drug and had it filled every month for almost a year now I know first hand it it's available. To avoid confusion I'd just have your doctor write for oxymorphone ER. Then you will have no problems!! Hope this helps. I know this has been up here awhile but maybe I can still help you. The problem with getting the generic is related to the patent that Opana has. The generic is what they call non-AB rated. You either need your doctor to switch the script to say oxymorphone ER ** mg (cannot say opana at all) or in my case the pharmacy just simply called my doctors office and they approved it over the phone. I've been on the generic Oxymorpone er now for over 2 years with a script that says Opana on it. I too had the same issue you had before I just asked my pharmacist to help. I have even switched to another pharmacy (same pharmacy chain different location) and have had zero issues. Good luck my friend. You are correct the generic G73's work way better than that plastic garbage. I have heard they are available, and see people here have actually had them in their very own hands. However, I always end up with the name brand. The script always says "Opana (oxymorphone)" so I don't know why I cant get generic. HOWEVER, my insurance says they cover the name brand but not generic (go figure). So it's actually cheaper for me to get the name brand, which without insurance is in the $1000 range. But my part is only around $40. I have no problem getting them where I live. But one of the answers is correct. You must use a pharmacy that is either in a hospital, clinic or connected to a hospital. That was my experience in Mississippi anyway. This medication has already been changed 3 times, so I'm afraid it won't be too much longer before they change the generics so we can't crush them too. Hope this helps. Hi Cat Daddy, I was in the same situation. The oxymorphone was working so much better for me that the name brand was/is. I was able to get the oxymorphone up until about three months ago. What happened was that some guy in New York decided to sue the company that was making the oxymorphone because he said that that he had side affects from it. The company that makes the name brand "opana" caught wind of the lawsuit in New York by a patient then decided to sue the company themselves because the patent had not expired on the name brand yet. This is why the doctors are not writing scripts for oxymorphone because it is no longer being made and can't be under the 20-patent expires. Ellen It has been a while since you posted but I figured I would say anyways that global pharmaceuticals makes the generic for opana er now. Activis brand was sued by Endo so they had to stop production, but global is still allowed to make theirs. I get it each month here in Tennessee. The doctor needs to write oxymorphone er and not opana er because they are not exactly the same. The tamper resistant plastic is not present in the global generic so it is not considered a "true" generic. But the active oxymorphone is the same. Hope this helps. Hello, i have also to admit i can't stand the wax brand version of Opana ER i also prefer the generic Oxymorphone (40mg i believe G77 Orange ) in my experience with obtaining the "Generc" my Physician has had to actually write OXYMORPHONE 40 MG INSTEAD OF OPANA ER 40MG. Has worked great for past 5 years BUT now strangely as it may sound my insurance has began Denying the Generic only agreeing to pay for the brand , if you hear of a way around this please let me know i can't seem to grasp the fact that my insurance is happy to shell out over $1000.00 more monthly rather than the MUCH cheaper (& in my case BETTER) Generic brand .. Hi Cat Daddy, I know you wrote this three years ago but... as of 2016, the generic to opana, oxymorphone, is no longer available. Some guy in New York sued the company that made the oxymorphone stating that it caused him complications. When the company that makes the opana, name brand, caught wind of the law suit against the company making the oxymorphone, they decided to sue as well because the 20-year patent had not expired at the time. So the company making the oxymorphone is getting it from both directions. This kind of situation is why medications in the U. S. is sooo damned expensive. What I don't understand is why the hell are these companies given 20-year patents and generics cannot be manufactured until that patent runs out! Ellen There is still a generic available by global pharmaceuticals. I get it every month. The activis brand was removed because they are being sued of course by Endo. I don't know if you already knew this because you posted in may but I figured I would let you know anyways. And it needs to be written oxymorphone er because it is not a true generic of the brand opana. The tamper resistant plastic of the brand name is not found in the generic so they aren't exactly a brand/generic match. The doc must write Oxymorphone ER which available in tablet form to be taken every 12 hours. If the rx is written for Opana, the Pharmacist cant sub because the Oxymorphone is not A/B rated as a generic equivalent of Opana even though it is the same chemical compound. I am a Pharmacist, so I know for sure. Hope that helps. Since you are a pharmacist I have a question, the FDA just asked endo to pull opana er off the market yesterday, if they do, does that mean the genetic will be off the market as well? Thank you. MacFromSD if you read the FDA bulletin carefully they are only requesting the reformulated version of Opana ER be taken off shelves. So this will actually now make it easier for many people to get the tablet form. Basically Endo wanted to make sure they had no generic competition so when their patent was about to expire they conveniently came out with the capsule form that they touted would make it harder for people to abuse. Since this reformulated version was different from any generics coming out in the tablet form, it would essentially not be exactly the same and therefore not be interchangeable and tada you get rid of the competition! Hence when people received scripts for Opana ER they could not be dispensed the generic because the formulations were slightly different, even though the generic existed and whatnot. After many legal battles for Endo to keep their domain over the drug, the FDA looked back and determined that the reformulated capsule form actually made things worse and caused more IV drug use than the original version. So now Endo will have to pull it "reformulated" version and will have to resort to the original version for which the patent has expired and for which generics are available. I anticipate once the reformulated version is out of the market the generic tablets available will now be rated A/B generics of the ORIGINAL version and they'll be interchangeable even when the doctor writes for brand name. This is of course Endo exhausts all its legal avenues to prevent this. Either way Opana ER will still be available in one form or another. There is so much misinformation on this subject and I wonder if it isn't being spread by Endo to protect their market share. When Endo changed their medication they created what I call a tiny plastic frisbee that my stomach does not digest. After the change from their original formulation my pain relief was non-existent. Fortunately Global Pharmaceutical was able to introduce a generic version that worked like the original Endo Opana. Endo tried to stop Global from selling their generic version by claiming the medication was too easy to tamper with and abuse. Luckily for chronic pain sufferers the judge called Endo on their claim and said Endo didn't change the way their Opana was made to prevent tampering. The judge said they changed it to try to prevent a generic version from being sold. Bottom line there is a generic version available, it is manufactured by Global Pharmaceutical and any major drugstore chain such as CVS, Walgreens, Riteaid, Duane Read, etc can obtain this if they don't already carry it in stock. If your insurance company covers the brand name but not the generic then you need to request an exception so they will also pay for the generic version. The prescription does not have to be made out for oxymorphone. It can be made out for Opana. You just have to request the generic version. If you need to request an exception to your insurers formulary so they will cover the generic brand then your doctor will have to indicate that it is medically necessary for you to use the generic brand. The Endo brand of Opana does not work well for all patients so there is data that confirms this fact. Some patients have reported finding intact tablets in their stools and therefore none of the medication is being processed by the patient. Bottom line Global Pharmaceutical manufactures a generic version of Opana ER. It is Oxymorphone ER. The prescription does NOT have to be written for Oxymorphone ER. But it will make it easier if your doctor does write it for Oxymorphone ER. If your insurance company only includes Opana in it's drug formulary you can request that they make an exception and add Oxymorphone ER to their drug formulary. Your doctor will have to fill out a form indicating that the generic version is medically necessary for your condition. If your pharmacy does not carry the generic brand, and they are a large national pharmacy chain, you can ask them to order the generic brand from Global Pharmaceutical. If they refuse to order the generic, or if they tell you the generic are not available, then find another pharmacy because the one you are using is lying to you. Anyone who claims this information is not true is uninformed or intentionally passing on false information to prevent patients from using the generic version. I use a national chain, have a monthly prescription for Opana ER, my insurer added the generic version to their formulary after they removed it from their 2017 formulary and my doctor verified that the generic brand was medically necessary for my condition. All the information I have written here is based on first hand experiences. Regardless of what others have written here, some who claim to be pharmacists, I know all the information I have offered here, is 100% true and accurate. Further Information - Opana ER Information for Consumers - Opana ER Information for Healthcare Professionals (includes dosage details) - Side Effects of Opana ER (detailed) Still looking for answers? Try searching for what you seek or ask your own question. Similar Questions Since the new version (op) of Oxycontin HCL 80mg doesn't work at all for me, the only medication? Posted 5 Sep 2010 • 4 answers Hi all, I really hope someone can help me! My Dr prescribed me Opana. Due to the shortage/recall my? Posted 28 Jun 2012 • 2 answers Does anyone know when Opana ER will be available in generic form? Thanks? Posted 19 Jul 2012 • 4 answers Opana ER vs. generic oxymorphone SR... my insurer wants to switch me to fentanyl? Posted 9 Apr 2013 • 2 answers Why is the Opana version of oxymorphone less effective than the original generic formulation? Posted 15 Oct 2013 • 3 answers Thank you for addressing my question. I just added details, so any more input would be greatly appreciated! I'm specifically curious if the script must read "oxymorphone"... if someone out there has run into this or just flat out knows for a fact. Opana ER will off patent on September 9, 2013. Until then the oxymorphone can not be manufactured as generic in the US. If curious search engine "Opana ER patent date" I just spent ALLLLL morning trying to get the generic version of opana er. I was told by several pharmacists that the script must be written as oxymorphone to get the generic version. In addition, they are phasing out the g47s so the plastic ones Will be the only available option... UGH! I am going to ask my Dr to prescribe the generics since they work sooooo much better and I suggest you do the same! Really what's the risk? All they can do is say no. Opana and oxymorphone er and not A-B rated that's person correct although a lot of dr no not realize it the pharmacists will notice it won't link in the pharmacy system it's not enough allure to be filled as the generic ... CPHt I can tell you for a fact that Opana er has no generic. Oxymorphone er exists but it is not a generic of Opana er. The prescription must be written for Oxymorphone Er to get the generic. Opana is not out of patent yet. Patents run for 20 years. I was taking the generic Opana for about three month and it worked so much better than the name brand did. The name brand opana made me feel like I was smoking three joints all at one time. What happened was about a year ago, someone from New York City sued the manufacturer of the oxymorphone over something claiming he was injuried over it. The manufacturer of the opana caught wind of the lawsuit the patient was filing and also filed a lawsuit because the patent had not ran out. I don't know how long the patent is good for, so there won't be any generic Opana until it does run out.
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The first tip for brand new paid to click on customers is to initially join at least ten high paying paid to click on sites. undefined For me it takes greater than an hour to type a thousand images. Good factor is that they’re still working and paying. 2captcha.com sends money within 5 minutes after applying for payment. You have to have $5 in your account in order to withdraw via PayPal otherwise $1 is the minimum payout for most different withdrawal choices. Although, this statement is true to some extent but not totally. Working online requires a set of sentimental expertise like self-discipline, time administration, problem-solving, and adaptability etcetera and without them, you might not succeed. Creating a pleasant and productive work setting and managing your day based on your work will assist you numerous on this regard. But when you do some smart work, it will be greater than simple for you to earn money online. Earning money online by working from house is everyone’s dream and choosing considered one of eleven strategies described on this article, you can simply accomplish and start dwelling your dreamed life. ClickBank is also not niche-specific and could be very numerous; that is a plus level. If you need to turn into an affiliate marketer, then it is possible that you would want to build an viewers. Having a large or medium-sized engaged audience on any social media website is a prerequisite for becoming an affiliate marketer. Just like non-public advertisements, in sponsored posts, you would wish to find the sponsors yourself. There are tons of examples of bloggers who’ve earned millions of dollars by just selling their own products on their websites from home. This could sound like a troublesome factor to do however if you handle all of the issues perfectly, you can anticipate to make more money as compared to different sources of earnings. 2 Recaptcha Job is an internet earning platform primarily based on california USA. At 2 Recaptcha Job, a member can earn money through varied sorts of tasks. Right now we are providing captcha work to our present members. Though there’s not much services on our platform for the time being, But we’re motivated to introduce new features and services on monthly bases. We advertise no encouragement to our potential and existing members in any means due to the nature of this line of work. Once you get some reviews, you’ll find a way to addContent them to your account and because you will be a reputable individual, clients will pay more. If you teach five individuals for an hour daily, then you can expect to earn round 950 pesos. 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Invites, promo codes and different ways to earn Buzzmatch rewards and discounts. “Asirra is a human interactive proof that asks users to determine photos of cats and canine”. Just follow the above-mentioned tips, and you’ll be good to go. A main benefit of the online food business is that the production cost could be brought to very low ranges if you play sensible. Anyone can discover a appropriate product to advertise within a minute and with none hustle. Even eBay doesn’t pay as a lot as Amazon however individuals engaged on eBay are earning more as in comparison with Amazon. This company gives you round $1.5 per audio minute. However, the selection procedure is challenging, and you have to have a superb typing velocity to get the joining approval. If you already have these, you’re prepared to begin out working. But wait, you also have to know concerning the legit web sites that give you alternatives. Besides, many corporations require you to have previous expertise to turn out to be eligible. I even have made a publish on PlanProMatrix which I imagine is a scam. These are the only few online companies in existence offering legit online typing jobs from home. The online typing duties had been the identical even though the company name has modified. Captchatypers is also the most effective online typing job portal in which you may be able to work at any time anywhere. As ordinary, there 2captcha log in is no need to pay any registration charge or any investment. All the services from Captchatypers are free of price and can be downloaded and put in on any model of pc. As there are many sorts of typing jobs available online, I would like to work with online captcha typing jobs. A content author will assure the success of your weblog. This is simple and easy-to-understand strategy of beginning a blog. Join a quantity of sites listed above and view advertisements on those sites to earn cash. Check out the Payment strategies in the desk to understand how the PTC site pay. Need a colossal downline to make a decent income on paid to click on sites. Even in the identical kind of work, the ultimate payout can range. So you should check out the website first to know in regards to the explicit pay rate for a particular job. You could find any offline typing job on any of those web sites. But, what precisely happens is for some jobs you have to pay some amount of cash for registration instantly. Let me explain my bad expertise with one sort of offline typing job. I got here throughout a platform where there too many offline typing jobs out there for each newbie. Being a member of more number of ad clicking sites ensures that you will get more advertisements to click on and get a chance to discover and be taught about the PTC trade. Here are a number of the tricks and suggestions for PTC sites you’ll be able to follow to earn more doing online ad clicking jobs. You can fetch as a lot as $10 to $20 per hour simply by doing simple typing jobs in case you have swift arms. You can both post your personal project requirements or can directly apply for open tasks. Microsoft had a beta version of this for web sites to make use of. However, this project was closed in October 2014 and is no longer out there. It is sometimes recommended that one of many versions, the anomaly CAPTCHA, is finest with 100 percent of human customers being ready to move an anomaly CAPTCHA with at least 90% chance in 42 seconds. Podec, a trojan found by the security firm Kaspersky, forwards CAPTCHA requests to an internet human translation service that converts the image to text, fooling the system. Unlike computer systems, people excel at this type of task. While segmentation and recognition are two separate processes needed for understanding an image for a computer, they are a half of the identical course of for an individual. Solvid provides one other great online marketing platform. Solvid offers 20% commission but the reason why it’s on this listing is that they not solely give fee on that sale however they offer 20% on every product purchased by that customer sooner or later. This signifies that engaged on Solvid will provide you with short-term as nicely as a long term opportunity to generate income. Solvid additionally claims that they are the best paying associates program available in the market. So if you want to get your money in an Indian bank account, I would counsel you to create an account on Payza. 2Captcha will ship your money to your payza account then Payza will send that cash to your checking account. VirtualBee is offering totally different type of jobs since 2001 and now a part of the Lionbridge virtual options platform. Although there isn’t a special abilities or experience you need however good typing speed with accuracy will allow you to pass the evaluation take a look at which is mandatory to be the part of VirtualBee team. On a mean you can make someplace between $0.10 to $0.35 per 1000 keystrokes. ProTypers might be your second job if you have some free time. undefined Smart Crowd has a variety of tasks in data research, free online typing jobs, language, testing, and more. We can both work on their official Megatypers website or of their software which is offered free of charge of price. All the services provided from Megatypers online typing job are freed from value and there’s no must pay any registration fee also. I personally recommend you do this job with none doubt. You should first get an expertise on a smaller platform and then think about Rev and in case you are skilled on this work, then Rev is waiting for you. As the name suggests that this web site is specifically for graphic designers. 99designs is rather more profitable for designers than Fiverr. You can cost double rates on 99designs as compared to Fiverr however the prospects additionally require quality work as 99designs is an expert freelancing platform. Anyways, I am not a authorized professional and therefore won’t be the best particular person to advise you regarding this matter. You’ll never know when you will get banned by their system. Also, you have to have seen for yourself how a lot effort you must put in to make a couple of cents. You can turn out to be a vlogger by following the guidelines described beneath. So, thinking intentionally before purchasing the subscription will make more sense and can also captcha typing job philippines save you from a loss. Mostly, professional typists with a really fast speed work on Rev as it is a rather more skilled web site as in comparison with Transcribe me. undefined The high transcribers make round 70,000 pesos from Rev. There are various sorts of jobs on which you will have the ability to work like YouTube scripts, audio information, and much more. Upwork supplies a whole company work environment and there’s a high-demand of freelancers on Upwork and because of that, the rates are also very high. Most sellers on Upwork are skilled and cost a lot for example plenty of sellers on Upwork charge around $100 per hour which interprets to $800 per day should you get constant work. In this fashion, you might be able to focus on expanding the business rather than simply trying the handle the disputes with customers and dealing with the deliveries of the merchandise. Amazon sells round four hundred products per minute and this proves that how simple it’s promote products on Amazon. It is evident that some product present more income as compared to others and choosing a perfect product to sell could be very crucial point as the whole business is dependent upon your products. They mainly convert scanned paperwork from pictures to text. The Captcha you’ll solve might fulfill different sort of requirement . You can payout whenever you reached to minimum degree of earnings ($3 to $100). Unfortunately, as a outcome of an unstable enterprise construction and high-risk elements, PayPal ceased assist to PTC sites. So, the paid to click sites don’t pay through PayPal. However, you can find some PTC sites still pay via PayPal. When the user upgrades the account, he’ll obtain double ppc, each for his clicks and referral clicks. Here are 10 methods to make more PTC referrals, additionally if you’re a consumer of Q&A sites, you presumably can refer people through yahoo solutions or Quora. As there are numerous corporations providing online captcha typing jobs, I would type out them by my trust in them. Hi, guys, are you really looking for free online typing jobs and get paid on weekly basis without paying any registration fee or any investment? Yes, you’re in a great place, on this article I am going to explain all of the stipulations to get into these jobs in detail. You don’t need any school degree or any experience, all you should have an excellent typing velocity and minimum knowledge of the English language. But if you are in captcha typing or data entry, you’ll earn rather less. undefined A sponsored blog post is a blog post in which you specifically speak about a product that’s produced by your sponsor. Many bloggers favor non-public advertisements as a substitute of Adsense because personal advertisements are a straightforward and dependable source of income. Usually, the genuine PTC sites may have paid to click advertisements in numerous slabs primarily based on watch time. The ads’ pay rate might be somewhere from $0.001 to $0.04 on legit PTC sites. Feel free to create a payment account to begin receiving the payments from the ad clicking sites. I trusted the platform with their finest web design and their pre-made testimonials displayed on the website. I gathered and defined all the net typing jobs which look respectable until now, then let’s speak about offline typing jobs which might be available online and my experience with these typing jobs. There are many sites that supply offline typing jobs that sound may be fascinating with their glamorous web site design and their customer service. organisations and shred photographs into snippets with meaning full data. And If use AirTm then you’ll be able to directly cash all earnings with bKash. I wish to know the way i can withdraw my money from payza/ AirTm/webmoney etc. At the target site (server-side), this token is checked. The site’s script sends a request to google to check the CAPTCHA-response token’s validity. Businesses contact Instagram influencers to market their product via stories, posts, and videos. It has an excellent pay rate; an influencer with a following of about one thousand can anticipate to make $10 for every post they share on their account. Social media influencers are individuals who have certain affect and authority over their fan following such that they’ll influence the utilization of one product or different with their phrases or actions. Companies acknowledge this expertise of social media influencers and use it for advertising their product and services on social media platforms. If you’ll have the ability to achieve an enormous fan following on any social media platform, you can even earn money on this method. So, referrals are like the workers who work and earn money for you whilst you sit like a boss making hundreds from getting paid to click on sites. Referrals are the one who earns free money for you when they click ads. So, when a referral makes $0.50 per day, you’ll receive a $0.05 referral fee. Say if you’ve 100 referrals who make $0.50 per day, you’ll receive $5 per day without doing anything. - And remember that you’ll get paid to read adverts whether or not or not you make any actions(sale & Opt-in). - If impressed, the representatives of this firm will communicate and can observe further steps to take you on board. - We want to complete all these a hundred jpg images into an editable document in less than per week. - So please be certain to learn all of our legal documents, so you may make wise choice. - The rate of captchas are very high as different typing jobs, we can make a good amount of money by simply working 2 to three hours online. The most typical type of CAPTCHA (displayed as Version 1.0) was first invented in 1997 by two groups working in parallel. This form of CAPTCHA requires somebody to accurately evaluate and enter a sequence of letters or numbers perceptible in a distorted image displayed on their display screen. Because the take a look at is administered by a computer, in distinction to the standard Turing test that’s administered by a human, a CAPTCHA is usually described as a reverse Turing check. You can simply withdraw your earning with PayPal in your local bank account from Mobrog. On average, the tutors on Preply cost $15-$20 per hour which means you probably can earn equal money by teaching one scholar on Preply and by teaching five college students on any social media platform. You can set up your tutor account on Preply simply and start earning right now with none obstacles. Affiliate advertising is another guaranteed approach to earn money and your earnings will rely upon the viewers of your weblog in affiliate internet marketing. Becoming YouTuber is a profession which you can begin at present. Now, we’re going to compare some in style legit websites the place you can find typing jobs and begin earning money from home. eBay is a well-known e-Commerce platform to resell merchandise loads of people are utilizing this enterprise model to earn money on eBay. eBay is an ideal possibility so that you just can resell merchandise if you perceive and need to work on bidding-style promoting as there might be high-demand of quality products. The bidding type is often very useful and different people make more cash in it as compared to the traditional pricing system. eBay is a really large platform so you can simply settle your store and begin selling inside a matter of minutes. undefined Yes Kishor, there are many different methods to Make Money Online. You can verify the article about 15 ways to earn cash online mentioned at the backside of the article. First, with Bitcoin mining, you should invest money to earn money. If you don’t have it, let just signup it’s as simple as making a Gmail account. I received their acceptance e mail and I wanna make sure that I will get paid at the end of the month. Thanks for the helpful data, I am going to make money by doing this jobs, maintain doing this great work. hello sir, thanks for giving a solution.i’ve register in digital india platform.however am not in a place to get snippets.snippets have exhausted,this message is shown when i click on load workspace. You can even withdraw your money by way of Bitcoin, PerfectMoney, Webmoney and Advcash. Advice for Withdrawal –Some individuals are very impatient. And once you like several project, you’ll be able to instantly apply for that open position while quoting your own rate. Currently working as VITAC, Caption Colorado is considered one of the oldest players within the business. Since 1991, this firm has been known for offering legit jobs for fast typists. Kolotibablo is one other various to 2CAPTCHA and the worst of all the above web sites in relation to banning individuals. I’ve been banned even though I was sure I entered the proper CAPCTHA. However, at Megatypers you usually tend to be banned for getting into few mistaken CAPTCHAs and even for not having the power to type the CAPTCHA in given time. 2CAPTCHA is among the most well-known websites that present CAPTCHA Typing work. Of all of the websites I’ve tried, solely 2CAPTCHA was the one who was lenient when it comes to banning individuals for getting into incorrect CAPTCHA. So, I thought of sharing my experience about working with completely different CAPTCHA Typing web sites. That would require way more superior CAPTCHA solving solutions. Therefore, the logical and future-proof choice can be to make use of the second technique which has greater precision and bypasses complex solutions as nicely. Check out any one online job and play around, as I personally recommend you to hitch in these online typing jobs. Most folks be a part of the Smart Crowd for the chance to supplement their revenue. There is no long-term commitment, simply complete the tasks that we had signed up for. However, you’ll need to pay a small payment of $10 to start your software process. Your remuneration will range depending on your ability set and former experience within the data entry sector. The selection procedure is tough, and it can be a little consuming. Based in Massachusetts, Cambridge Transcriptions is known for providing legit transcription tasks. Online typing jobs are rather more flexible to work somewhat than offline typing jobs furthermore the payments are very properly get acquired by working with these online typing jobs. Instagram is arguably the most powerful platform for social media advertising. Instagram specializes in high-resolution pictures and movies and is a extremely popular social media platform amongst celebrities all over the world. Instagram hosts numerous social media influencers who’ve a huge fan following. From my expertise, I can say that a majority of the web sites which offer CAPTCHA typing jobs are a scam. Meanwhile, at 2Captcha online typing job, we will both work in their 2captcha software or in the 2captcha app. All the apps and software of 2captcha are offered free of price. We can immediately work of their provided software so lengthy as attainable. Likewise, here at Kolotibablo online typing job, we can work both on their official web site or in the app which supports in cell phone. Your payment will range relying on several factors, including the issue degree and size of the project. You can also manually bid for open projects on this platform. Although it offers $0.four per audio minute, Babbletype has a higher variety of obtainable projects than another web site. You have to take a transcription take a look at followed by a telephonic interview spherical to get the approval. That is the explanation I updated this text to tell people to stay away from it. Please share this article in order that increasingly more individuals get aware of this scam. But if it’s about CAPTCHA typing and guarantees something more than $1 -$2 per one thousand CAPTCHAs entered, it’s more prone to be a scam. The business mannequin of CAPTCHA typing can’t survive by paying something more than this. And based on me, it’s completely a waste of time to work for that pay rates. Out of curiosity I went with this Captcha works through emymoney.site. As I earned $305.00 I asked for money withdrawal however as a substitute can’t be payed except I make 40 referrals first. At 2CAPTCHA testing ground this token is checked earlier than the shape submission. It is completed by passing a token via ajax request to proxy.php which, in turn, inquires of google if the location is verified and returns google’s response. Register yourself on the 2CAPTCHA, you will be provided an API service key that allows you to automate and integrate your software with 2 CAPTCHA services.
How to Fix Mac Frozen Error?14 min read “My Mac Is Frozen and I Can’t Click Anything & it is not responding at all, what to do?” – This query comes from most of the Mac users, who are unable to unfreeze their Mac. Macs are usually reliable, but occasionally some unexpected events occur that cause Mac to freeze. Here’s what to do about a frozen Mac, and How to Fix Mac Frozen Error that’s not responding. A frozen Mac is a rare incidence, but Macs (like all computers) run in cycles, and sometimes the software gets stuck in a loop. Whenever this happens you may find the Mac Screen or an app like Word, or the whole of macOS, becomes unresponsive.. Contents - 1 Reasons for Mac Frozen Error - 2 Common Solutions for How to Fix Mac Frozen Error - 3 The Most Common Mac Slow and Freeze Reasons and Fixes - 3.1 Freeze Because Of A Cluttered Desktop - 3.2 Unresponsive Because Of A Specific App - 3.3 Freeze Because Of Crushing Background Apps - 3.4 Freeze Because Too Many Apps Are Running at Once - 3.5 Mac is Frozen on The Startup Screen - 3.6 Mac Frozen on Login Screen - 3.7 Mac Frozen Cursor Won’t Move - 3.8 Mac Screen Frozen but Mouse Moves - 4 How to Recover Lost Data Due to Frozen Mac - 5 Tips to Prevent A Frozen Mac - 6 Conclusion Reasons for Mac Frozen Error Even though MacOS is highly competent, it might malfunction at times out of the blue. So, before we start to discuss How to Fix Mac Frozen Error, let’s quickly have a look at what could have caused this error in the first place. 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If it’s when you turn on or work in a specific app, maybe you need to either reset it or remove it entirely. How to Fix this Freeze Because of a Specific App: In order to fix this, remove the apps, or set them to back default. For this, you can use a Mac optimizer app called MacCleaner Pro, a Complete set of clean-up tools for Mac. It’s has a specific Uninstaller module that can safely perform the task. Freeze Because Of Crushing Background Apps This usually happens when an app has been running at the back without your realization. So, if your Mac freezes on startup then it’s probably one of the startup items or apps that launch when your Mac turns on. So, to fix this, you’ll need to check on them and remove the extras. How to Fix Mac Frozen Error because of Crushing Background Apps: To fix this issue, stop programs from running at startup on Mac: go to Settings > Users and Groups > Login items and then Uncheck Any App that you don’t want to launch when switching your Mac on, or restarting it. This way you’ll escape weird freeze or crashes that render your Mac frozen. Freeze Because Too Many Apps Are Running at Once Mac seems to struggle in running simple tasks or slows down when you’ve got multiple tabs or apps open, which is an indication that it is struggling to cope. How to Fix Freeze when too Many Apps are Running at Once Open Activity Monitor and take a look at the list of apps. Next, see how much RAM and CPU power they eat up. You can switch between CPU and memory tabs to view each. Those that are the heaviest could cause the problem, so if you’re sure you know what that app is, you can quit or close it. 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773 F.2d 31 CITY OF ENGLEWOOD v. SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA, Appellant. No. 84-5746. United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Argued June 19, 1985. Decided Sept. 20, 1985. Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied Nov. 19, 1985. McCarter & English, Newark, N.J., for appellant; William T. Reilly, Newark, N.J., of counsel; Keith E. Lynott, Newark, N.J., on brief; Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, Joseph D. Pizzurro (argued), Robert W. Thabit, New York City, of counsel. Rupp & Ten Hoeve, Hackensack, N.J., for appellee; John E. Ten Hoeve, Jr., William F. Rupp (argued), Hackensack, N.J., on brief. Before ALDISERT, Chief Judge, GIBBONS, Circuit Judge and BECHTLE, District Judge. OPINION OF THE COURT GIBBONS, Circuit Judge: This case, removed from the New Jersey Tax Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1441(d) (1982), is before us on an appeal authorized by 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1292(b) (1982) from the order of the district court denying the motion of Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Libya) to dismiss for want of subject matter or personal jurisdiction.1 The dispute giving rise to the New Jersey Tax Court litigation arises out of efforts of the City of Englewood, New Jersey, to tax a parcel of improved real estate purchased by Libya as a residence for its Head of Mission to the United Nations. Libya's application for exemption, based on its status as a foreign sovereign, was denied by Englewood. Proceedings in the tax court followed. After removal, Libya, relying inter alia on the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, Pub.L. No. 94-583, 90 Stat. 2892, codified at 28 U.S.C. Secs. 1330, 1332, 1341, 1441, 1602 et seq., moved to dismiss. The district court denied that motion, but authorized a Sec. 1292(b) appeal. We reverse. I. On November 29, 1982, Libya purchased a large residence on 4.76 acres of land in Englewood, New Jersey. The following day it applied to Englewood for recognition of its tax exempt status. While that application was pending, Libya notified the United States' Mission to the United Nations that it had acquired the Englewood property as "a country residence for occasional use" by the Head of its United Nations Mission. On January 19, 1983, the United States Mission notified all other United Nations missions that, pursuant to a determination by the Secretary of State, the Foreign Missions Act, 22 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (1982 & Supp. I 1983) was applicable to acquisitions of real property by all foreign missions. That Act authorizes the Secretary of State to require all missions to notify the Director of the State Department's Office of Foreign Missions before any acquisition or sale of real property by the mission. 22 U.S.C. Sec. 4305 (1982). The January 19, 1983 letter was followed by an exchange of correspondence between Libya and the Office of Foreign Missions which, on June 10, 1983, culminated in the Secretary of State's imposing rather severe limitations on Libya's use of the premises. Further use limitations were imposed by the Secretary on December 22, 1983. Libya contests the validity of these limitations, but the parties before us agree that they prevent use of the property as anything but a "weekend retreat" by Libya's Head of Mission, his immediate family, and his guests. Meanwhile, on January 4, 1983, Englewood denied Libya's application for recognition of tax exempt status. After several unsuccessful attempts to have the Englewood tax assessor reconsider his position, Libya sought to have the Bergen County Board of Taxation administratively overrule the Englewood assessor. The County agency sought guidance from the New Jersey Attorney General, who expressed the opinion that the property did not qualify for tax exemption under governing treaties because the residence was acquired only for "occasional use." In response to a letter to the Attorney General requesting "reconsideration," that office informed Libya that its opinion was only advisory, and that the matter should be pursued with the County Board of Taxation. In August, Englewood petitioned the County Board to increase the assessment on the residence, and on August 15, 1983, Libya filed an appeal to that Board contesting any assessment. On November 9, 1983, the County Board of Taxation affirmed the original assessment, denying Libya's appeal of the denial of tax-exempt status, and Englewood's petition to increase the assessment. Englewood then filed a complaint in the New Jersey Tax Court contesting the County Board of Taxation's refusal to increase the assessment. This complaint was mailed to Robert W. Thabit, Esq., an attorney who had been representing Libya in its efforts to have its tax-exempt status recognized. On January 13, 1984 Libya filed a removal petition.2 Libya moved to dismiss for lack of personal and subject matter jurisdiction, insufficiency of process and service, and failure to state a claim. While that motion was pending, counsel for Englewood obtained a letter from the Office of Foreign Missions setting forth the use restrictions which that office had placed on the property, and opining that there were no considerations of foreign policy suggesting the need for recognition of tax-exempt status. This letter was brought to the court's attention. The district court denied Libya's motion to dismiss, rejecting Libya's contention that Englewood's failure to serve the tax court complaint in the manner specified in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1608 (1982), deprived the tax court of personal jurisdiction. It also rejected Libya's contention that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and Optional Protocols deprived the tax court and the district court of subject matter jurisdiction. The court reasoned that the New Jersey Tax Court could exercise jurisdiction over Libya under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act because 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1605(a)(4) (1982) provides that a foreign state shall not be immune from suit in a case "in which rights in property in the United States acquired by succession or gift or rights in immovable property situated in the United States are in issue...." The Vienna Convention was held to be inapplicable because the Englewood premises were not "premises of the mission" within the meaning of the treaty article which shields such premises from taxation. 23 U.S.T. 3227, T.I.A.S. No. 7502, Art. 23, Sec. 1. Recognizing, however, that New Jersey law makes no provision for in personam enforcement of liability for real estate taxation, the court turned to the more practical consideration of whether Englewood could execute against the property in an in rem foreclosure of the claimed lien of its tax assessment. Generally, property in the United States owned by a foreign state is immune from attachment and execution. 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1609 (1982). The court interpreted 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1610(a)(4)(B) (1982) to provide an exception from this immunity because the Englewood property was used for a "commercial activity" and was not used as "the residence of the Chief of such Mission...." II. Historically, foreign nations enjoyed absolute immunity from both suit and execution. The Schooner Exchange v. McFaddon, 11 U.S. (7 Cranch) 116, 3 L.Ed. 287 (1812). In 1952, in the "Tate Letter," 26 Dept.Stat.Bull. 984 (1952), the State Department adopted a restrictive theory of foreign sovereign immunity under which "the immunity of the sovereign is recognized with regard to sovereign or public acts (jure imperii) of a state, but not with respect to private acts (juri gestionis )." Id. Both before and after the adoption by the State Department of the restrictive theory of sovereign immunity, the State Department played a critical role in the determination of immune status. Acting in a quasi-judicial capacity, the State Department would, if it decided that a claim of sovereign immunity should be recognized, request the Attorney General to file a suggestion of immunity in the court in which the action was pending. These suggestions were binding on the courts. Republic of Mexico v. Hoffman, 324 U.S. 30, 34-35, 65 S.Ct. 530, 532-33, 89 L.Ed. 729 (1945). In 1976, Congress codified the law of foreign sovereign immunity with the enactment of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. The statute adopted the restrictive theory of sovereign immunity embodied in the Tate Letter. It also transferred the responsibility for making the determination of immunity from the State Department to the courts. As the House Report on the law explains: A principal purpose of this bill is to transfer the determination of sovereign immunity from the executive branch to the judicial branch, thereby reducing the foreign policy implications of immunity determinations and assuring litigants that these often crucial decisions are made on purely legal grounds and under procedures that insure due process. The Department of State would be freed from pressures from foreign governments to recognize their immunity from suit and from any adverse consequences resulting from an unwillingness of the Department to support that immunity. H.R.Rep. 1487, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 7 (1976), reprinted in 1976 U.S.Code Cong. & Ad.News 6604, 6606. The Act also was intended to "provide a statutory procedure for making service upon, and obtaining in personam jurisdiction over, a foreign state." H.R.Rep. No. 1487, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 8 (1976), reprinted in 1976 U.S.Code Cong. & Ad.News 6604, 6606. The service provisions are directed at eliminating the former practice of attempting to seize the property of foreign states in an effort to compel their appearance. Moreover the Act brings the law of execution more closely in line with the restrictive theory of sovereign immunity, by permitting execution upon commercial assets. The House Report notes: Under existing law, a foreign state in our courts enjoys absolute immunity from execution, even in ordinary commercial litigation where commercial assets are available for the satisfaction of a judgment. [The Act] seeks to restrict this broad immunity from execution. It would conform the execution immunity rules more closely to the jurisdiction immunity rules. It would provide the judgment creditor some remedy if, after a reasonable period, a foreign state or its enterprise failed to satisfy a final judgment. Id. Finally, the Act is totally preemptive. 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1602 (1982). As the House Report states, the Act sets forth the sole and exclusive standards to be used in resolving questions of sovereign immunity raised by foreign states before Federal and State courts in the United States. It is intended to preempt any other State or Federal law (excluding applicable international agreements) for according immunity to foreign sovereigns, their political subdivisions, their agencies, and their instrumentalities. H.R.Rep. No. 1487, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 12 (1976), reprinted in 1976 U.S.Code Cong. & Ad.News 6604, 6610. The Supreme Court and this court have so held. Verlinden B.V. v. Central Bank of Nigeria, 461 U.S. 480, 103 S.Ct. 1962, 76 L.Ed.2d 81 (1983); Rex v. Compania Pervana de Vapores, S.A., 660 F.2d 61 (3d Cir.1981), cert. denied, 456 U.S. 926, 102 S.Ct. 1971, 72 L.Ed.2d 441 (1982). The basic rule in the Act is that. Sec. 1604 (1982). Thus, unless a statutory exception applies, no court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign state. Moreover with respect to execution on the property of foreign states the Act contains a parallel provision:. Sec. 1609 (1982). The Act contains substantially parallel exceptions to the general rule of immunity from personal jurisdiction and immunity from execution. Among the exceptions to immunity from personal jurisdiction, the only ones even arguably relevant are: A foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction of courts of the United States or of the States in any case-- * * (2) in which the action is based upon a commercial activity carried on in the United States ... * * * (4) in which rights in property in the United States acquired by succession or gift or rights in immovable property situated in the United States are in issue.... 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1605(a)(2) and (4) (1981). The arguably relevant exemptions to the section 1609 immunity from execution provide:.... 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1610(a)(2) and (4) (1982). The exceptions to the immunity from execution are not precisely equivalent to the exceptions to immunity from adjudication. The latter permits adjudication of actions based upon commercial activity in the United States and of disputes over title to property without regard to commercial activity. Section 1610(a), however, permits execution on property of a foreign state only if it is used for commercial activity in the United States, and then only in the instances listed in that subsection. The term commercial activity, common to both the jurisdictional and the execution exceptions, is defined) (1982). Under this statutory scheme, the New Jersey Tax Court is barred by section 1604 from exercising jurisdiction over Libya, and the City of Englewood is prohibited by section 1609 from foreclosing any claimed tax lien by execution. The exceptions to sections 1604 and 1609 relied upon by the district court are inapplicable. Turning first to the title dispute exception in section 1605(a)(4), we note that the House Report states: Actions short of attachment or execution seem to be permitted under the [Vienna] Convention, and a foreign state cannot deny to the local state the right to adjudicate questions of ownership, rent, servitudes, and similar matters, as long as the foreign state's possession of the premises is not disturbed. H.R.Rep. No. 1487, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 20, reprinted in 1976 U.S.Code Cong. & Ad.News 6604, 6619. The House Report and the plain language of section 1605(a)(4) suggest that this exception deals with the recognized principle of international law that a sovereign may resolve disputes over title to real estate within its geographic limits. Thus this section, "like the traditional real property exception it was intended to codify, is limited to disputes directly implicating property interests or rights to possession...." Asociacion de Reclamantes v. United Mexican States, 735 F.2d 1517, 1522 (D.C.Cir.1984), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 105 S.Ct. 1751, 84 L.Ed.2d 815 (1985). No one disputes Libya's title to the Englewood premises or its right to exclude others from possession thereof. Thus section 1605(a)(4) does not apply. The case for an exception, either to section 1604 or to section 1609 turns, therefore, on whether, by acquiring and holding title to the Englewood premises, Libya was engaging in a "commercial activity." The district court reasoned that the commercial activity exception applied because the property was acquired by Libya in a commercial transaction between a seller and a buyer. That reasoning is directly in conflict with the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in United States v. County of Arlington, 669 F.2d 925 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 801, 103 S.Ct. 23, 74 L.Ed.2d 39 (1982). In the Arlington case the court held that acquisition of property was commercial activity for purposes of section 1604 only if the dispute centered around the acquisition of the property. Id. at 934. A separate inquiry into whether the property is used in "a regular course of commercial conduct" is required when, as here, the dispute does not arise from the acquisition of the property. The interpretation of the Arlington court is consistent with the disjunctive definition of commercial activity as "either a regular course of commercial conduct or a particular commercial transaction or act." 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1603(d) (1982). If acquisition of property in a particular commercial transaction or act indelibly stamped the property as used for commercial activity, even foreign embassies and chancelleries would be subject to execution. Plainly Congress did not intend a result so inconsistent with recognized principles of international law. Thus we reject the district court's reasoning that the commercial nature of the acquisition of the Englewood premises determines its liability to execution for unpaid real estate taxes. The determinative issue is whether it is currently being used in a "regular course of commercial conduct." The only purpose Libya has in holding the property, so far as this record discloses, is for use by the Chief of its Mission to the United Nations. That is activity directly related to the purposes of the mission, and as a matter of law such use is not commercial activity. The record discloses no activity conducted for profit at the Englewood residence; there is no evidence to suggest that it is used in "a regular course of commercial conduct...." Because the Englewood residence is not used for a commercial activity, and because the dispute does not center on the acquisition of the property, neither the section 1605 exception to immunity from personal jurisdiction, nor the section 1610 exception to immunity from execution apply. Hence, we need not determine the applicability of the proviso to section 1610(a)(4)(B) protecting from execution "the residence of the Chief of [a] mission." The district court held that this proviso protected only the "principal" residence of the Chief, and emphasized that the restrictions imposed by the Office of Foreign Missions forbade such use by the Chief. The proviso at issue limits the exception in section 1610(a)(4) which allows execution on property "used for a commercial activity" when "the execution relates to a judgment establishing rights in property ... which is immovable and situated in the United States...." 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1610(a)(4)(B) (1982). This exception pertains to disputes over "a particular commercial transaction," 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1603(d) (1982), involving immovable property. As noted above, this is not a dispute over title to the premises, so section 1610(a)(4)(B) does not apply. Thus we need not determine whether the district court correctly held that the proviso is limited to the "principal" residence of the Chief of Mission. III. Since none of the exceptions to sections 1604 and 1609 apply, the district court erred in denying Libya's motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. This conclusion means that the lawsuit must terminate. Libya also contends that it was not served in the manner specified in section 1608. Defects in the method of service could, of course, be cured, and thus a resolution of the dispute over method of service might be useful if the case could otherwise go forward. Since, however, it is barred by the general prohibitions in sections 1604 and 1609, no useful purpose would be served by deciding whether, as the district court held, the receipt of actual notice of the suit cures any defect in method of service. The order appealed from will be reversed and the case remanded with a direction to grant Libya's motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Hon. Louis C. Bechtle, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation The district court also ordered that the case be remanded to the tax court. That order was stayed pending appeal
It has been a while since GstValidate has been available. GstValidate has made it easier to write integration tests that check that playback and transcoding executing actions (like seeking, changing subtitle tracks, etc…) work as expected; testing at a high level rather than fine exact/fine grained data flow. As GStreamer is applied to an ever wider variety of cases, testing often becomes cumbersome for those cases that resemble less typical playback. On one hand there is the C testing framework intended for unit tests, which is admittedly low level. Even when using something like GstHarness, checking an element outputs the correct buffers and events requires a lot of manual coding. On the other hand gst-validate so far has focused mostly on assets that can be played with a typical playbin, requiring extra effort and coding for the less straightforward cases. This has historically left many specific test cases within that middle ground without an effective way to be tested. validateflow attempts to fill this gap by allowing gst-validate to test that custom pipelines acted in a certain way produce the expected result. validateflow itself is a GstValidate plugin that records buffers and events flowing through a given pad and records them in a log file. The first time a test is run, this log becomes the expectation log. Further executions of the test still create a new log file, but this time it’s compared against the expectation log. Any difference is reported as an error. The user can rebaseline the tests by removing the expectation log file and running it again. This is very similar to how many web browser tests work (e.g. Web Platform Tests). How to get it validateflow has been landed recently on the development versions of GStreamer. Before 1.16 is released you’ll be able to use it by checking out the latest master branches of GStreamer subprojects, preferably with something like gst-build. Make sure to update both gst-devtools. Then update gst-integration-testsuites by running the following command, that will update the repo and fetch media files. Otherwise you will get errors. gst-validate-launcher --sync -L Writing tests The usual way to use validateflow is through pipelines.json, a file parsed by the validate test suite (the one run by default by gst-validate-launcher) where all the necessary elements of a validateflow tests can be placed together. For instance: "qtdemux_change_edit_list": { "pipeline": "appsrc ! qtdemux ! fakesink async=false", "config": [ "%(validateflow)s, pad=fakesink0:sink, record-buffers=false" ], "scenarios": [ { "name": "default", "actions": [ "description, seek=false, handles-states=false", "appsrc-push, target-element-name=appsrc0, file-name=\"%(medias)s/fragments/car-20120827-85.mp4/init.mp4\"", "appsrc-push, target-element-name=appsrc0, file-name=\"%(medias)s/fragments/car-20120827-85.mp4/media1.mp4\"", "checkpoint, text=\"A moov with a different edit list is now pushed\"", "appsrc-push, target-element-name=appsrc0, file-name=\"%(medias)s/fragments/car-20120827-86.mp4/init.mp4\"", "appsrc-push, target-element-name=appsrc0, file-name=\"%(medias)s/fragments/car-20120827-86.mp4/media2.mp4\"", "stop" ] } ] }, These are: pipeline: A string with the same syntax of gst-launch describing the pipeline to use. Python string interpolation can be used to get the path to the mediasdirectory where audio and video assets are placed in the gst-integration-testsuitesrepo by writing %(media)s. It can also be used to get a video or audio sink that can be muted, with %(videosink)sor %(audiosink)s config: A validate configuration file. Among other things that can be set, here validateflow overrides are defined, one per line, with %(validateflow)s, which expands to validateflow,plus some options defining where the logs will be written (which depends on the test name). Each override monitors one pad. The settings here define which pad, and what will be recorded. scenarios: Usually a single scenario is provided. A series of actions performed in order on the pipeline. These are normal GstValidate scenarios, but new actions have been added, e.g. for controlling appsrc elements (so that you can push chunks of data in several steps instead of relying on a filesrc pushing a whole file and be done with it). Running tests The tests defined in pipelines.json are automatically run by default when running gst-validate-launcher, since they are part of the default test suite. You can get the list of all the pipelines.json tests like this: gst-validate-launcher -L \|grep launch_pipeline You can use these test names to run specific tests. The -v flag is useful to see the actions as they are executed. --gdb runs the test inside the GNU debugger. gst-validate-launcher -v validate.launch_pipeline.qtdemux_change_edit_list.default In the command line argument above validate. defines the name of the test suite Python file, testsuites/validate.py. The rest, launch_pipeline.qtdemux_change_edit_list.default is actually a regex: actually . just happens to match a period but it would match any character (it would be more correct, albeit also more inconvenient, to use \. instead). You can use this feature to run several related tests, for instance: $ gst-validate-launcher -m 'validate.launch_pipeline\.appsrc_.*' Setting up GstValidate default tests [3 / 3] validate.launch_pipeline.appsrc_preroll_test.single_push: Passed Statistics: ----------- Total time spent: 0:00:00.369149 seconds Passed: 3 Failed: 0 --------- Total: 3 Expectation files are stored in a directory named flow-expectations, e.g.: ~/gst-validate/gst-integration-testsuites/flow-expectations/qtdemux_change_edit_list/log-fakesink0:sink-expected The actual output log (which is compared to the expectations) is stored as a log file, e.g.: ~/gst-validate/logs/qtdemux_change_edit_list/log-fakesink0:sink-actual Here is how a validateflow log looks. event stream-start: GstEventStreamStart, flags=(GstStreamFlags)GST_STREAM_FLAG_NONE, group-id=(uint)1;; event segment: format=TIME, start=0:00:00.000000000, offset=0:00:00.000000000, stop=none, time=0:00:00.000000000, base=0:00:00.000000000, position=0:00:00.000000000 event tag: GstTagList-stream, taglist=(taglist)"taglist\,\ video-codec\=$string$\"H.264\\\ /\\\ AVC\"\;"; event tag: GstTagList-global, taglist=(taglist)"taglist\,\ datetime\=$datetime$2012-08-27T01:00:50Z\,\ container-format\=$string$\"ISO\\\ fMP4\"\;"; event tag: GstTagList-stream, taglist=(taglist)"taglist\,\ video-codec\=$string$\"H.264\\\ /\\\ AVC\"\;";, framerate=(fraction)24000/1001; CHECKPOINT: A moov with a different edit list is now pushed; event segment: format=TIME, start=0:00:00.041711111, offset=0:00:00.000000000, stop=none, time=0:00:00.000000000, base=0:00:00.000000000, position=0:00:00.041711111 event tag: GstTagList-stream, taglist=(taglist)"taglist\,\ video-codec\=$string$\"H.264\\\ /\\\ AVC\"\;"; event tag: GstTagList-stream, taglist=(taglist)"taglist\,\ video-codec\=$string$\"H.264\\\ /\\\ AVC\"\;";, framerate=(fraction)24000/1001; Prerolling and appsrc By default scenarios don’t start executing actions until the pipeline is playing. Also by default sinks require a preroll for that to occur (that is, a buffer must reach the sink before the state transition to playing is completed). This poses a problem for scenarios using appsrc, as no action will be executed until a buffer reaches the sink, but a buffer can only be pushed as the result of an appsrc-push action, creating a chicken and egg problem. For many cases that don’t require playback we can solve this simply by disabling prerolling altogether, setting async=false in the sinks. For cases where prerolling is desired (like playback), handles_states=true should be set in the scenario description. This makes the scenario actions run without having to wait for a state change. appsrc-push will notice the pipeline is in a state where buffers can’t flow and enqueue the buffer without waiting for it so that the next action can run immediately. Then the set-state can be used to set the state of the pipeline to playing, which will let the appsrc emit the buffer. description, seek=false, handles-states=true appsrc-push, target-element-name=appsrc0, file-name="raw_h264.0.mp4" set-state, state=playing appsrc-eos, target-element-name=appsrc0 Documentation The documentation of validateflow, explaining its usage in more detail can be found here:
Applying Discourse Semantics and Pragmatics to Narrative Images: A Study of Stone Reliefs, Miniatures, Cave Paintings, and Temple Sculpture Dorit Abusch, Linguistics Women, Sustainable Development and Food Sovereignty/Security in a Changing World Cynthia Bowman, Law Disentangling the Building from Behavior in Residential Energy Efficiency Howard Chong, Hotel Administration Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism Mark Constas, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Nutritional Sciences Implicit Nationalism and Prejudice: Testing Effects on Behavior Melissa Ferguson, Psychology Funded with generous support by the President’s Council of Cornell Women Strengthening the State: Understanding Citizens’ Willingness to Pay Taxes for Public Safety Gustavo Flores-Macias, Government Comedy and Society in Antiquity Michael Fontaine, Classics News Evidence and Political Behavior Adam Seth Levine, Government The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation Shanjun Li, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference Francesca Molinari, Economics Jörg Stoye, Economics Support for Organizing a Conference: “Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7” Sarah Murray, Linguistics Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell David Pelletier, Nutritional Sciences Explaining Price Dispersion in Online Auctions with Simple Frictions Henry Schneider, Economics Intervening in American Families’ Busyness: Marrying Anthropological Understanding with IT Design Phoebe Sengers, Information Science and Science & Technology Studies Ethical Technologies of Corporate Rule: A Mining Company in Postauthoritarian Indonesia Marina Welker, Anthropology Rethinking Development: Debating New Directions in a Time of Crisis Wendy Wolford, Development Sociology Applying Discourse Semantics and Pragmatics to Narrative Images: A Study of Stone Reliefs, Miniatures, Cave Paintings, and Temple Sculpture Dorit Abusch, Linguistics Natural language and pictorial narratives both convey information about a sequence of events. Recently, there has been an interest in applying technical frameworks from natural language semantics and pragmatics to pictorial narratives. In the proposed research, this methodology is applied to Indian pictorial narratives including temple reliefs and cave paintings, focusing on temporal relations and issues of co-reference. In support of this research project, funding is requested for a datagathering trip to India. Update: Data-gathering trips in India were made in winter 2011-2012 and winter 2012-2013, with visits to archeological sites, temples, and museums. Research focused on the semantics of co-reference, including co-reference in continuous and conflated narratives, where multiple temporally separate events are depicted in a single picture. Results have been presented at the Visual Narrative: an Interdisciplinary Workshop (UCLA, 2012), the conference Sinn and Bedeutung (Paris, 2012), and at linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy colloquia at Frankfurt, Gottingen, IIT Delhi, Rutgers, Stanford, and USC. A paper on the work is published in the Proceedings of SuB 17. Material collected will be used in a course Language and Image in Spring 2014. Women, Sustainable Development and Food Sovereignty/Security in a Changing World Cynthia Bowman, Law The purpose of this international and interdisciplinary conference is to bring together activists and scholars from different areas of the world – Africa, Asia, Latin American, the Mediterranean region, and the U.S., including Native Americans – to present and discuss grassroots projects that have involved women in meaningful change to promote sustainable development and to publish a report on the conference. Update: The funds from the ISS small grant were used in partial support of a conference on Women, Sustainable Development, and Food Sovereignty/Security in a Changing World, held at Cornell Law School on March 30-31, 2012. The conference brought together scholars and activists who had been involved in or had studied local, grass-roots projects of women working on sustainable development, including representatives from Nepal, Tunisia, India, Bangladesh, Latin America, the Mediterranean region, sub-Saharan Africa, and Native American cultures. After discussing their ideas and visions for women and sustainable development and sharing their own experiences with women-led sustainable development projects, participants agreed that we had only begun to explore these important issues and committed to continue our discussions in the future. Disentangling the Building from Behavior in Residential Energy Efficiency Howard Chong, Hotel Administration This research looks to conduct energy audits, initially for approximately 20 homes, in California to disentangle the impacts of behavior and buildings in residential energy efficiency. In my previous research titled “Building Vintage and Electricity Use”, I made the startling discovery using utility billing data that, controlling for building size and income, new buildings used more electricity for summer air conditioning than older buildings in an area of southern California. This runs counter to what is expected; newer buildings should have lower air conditioning costs because they have newer technologies and meet higher standards for energy efficiency. Unfortunately, detailed characteristics of the buildings and occupant behavior were not available, so the mechanism of this phenomenon could not be detected. I hypothesize three main possible mechanisms are that (H1) technology has increased, but behavior changes have overwhelmed them, (H2) technology has increased, but other building attributes have overwhelmed them, or (H3) the technology was not properly installed and hence is not performing as expected. By conducting energy audits of approximately 20 homes, this research will uncover the mechanism by disentangling occupant behavior (e.g., intensity of air conditioning use) from building characteristics (e.g., such as insulation and window/wall ratio). Update: Initial work was leveraged to apply for a $1M grant. The project’s goal has been to disentangle occupant behavior from building characteristics. In California, a government program was initiated to provide free audits. This program collected detailed information about building characteristics through blower door tests, thermal pictures, and facade pictures. I am working on securing this rich set of building information. On behavior, I have developed a tool using internet-enabled thermostats to track at a 10-minute interval the temperature and HVAC usage of a building. This directly monitors occupant behavior and has potential to characterize building thermal performance. Using preliminary results, I have engaged stakeholders, construction companies, and policymakers; their collective opinion is that Hypothesis 3 is correct: the technology was not properly installed and hence not performing as expected. A conclusive result requires more research. Leveraging these early findings, the ISS grant has helped me team up with 3 engineering faculty to submit a $1M NSF grant and a smaller seed grant to Cornell’s Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future. Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism Mark Constas, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Nutritional Sciences Over the past decade, the demand for evidence-based policy has grown significantly across a number of sectors (e.g., health, education, social welfare). More recently, evidence-based policy has received attention in the field of international development. Policy innovations are often motivated by an interest in improving outcomes, thus the demand for causally oriented evidence for development has increased. In the body of work on evidence-based policy, one area that is not well addressed concerns the linkages between the realities of policy contexts and the analytics of causal inference. In recognition of this knowledge gap, the purpose of the present project is to the explore aspects of policy contexts that should be taken into account as researchers model and test causal inferences that inform development initiatives. The goals of the project will be pursued by conducting a focused literature review on contextualized causal inference for development and by holding a small conference designed to foster a critical dialogue between policy makers and researchers whose work is centered on problems of development. These two activities will support the overall aim of the project to offer a new theoretical perspective on causal inference, a perspective that is designed to strengthen the way in which researchers concerned with development policy generate and test their evidentiary claims. Update: The desire to draw conclusions from research that satisfy the standards of rigorous inference and meet the contextually based needs of practitioners is a longstanding challenge of applied research. In response to this challenge, the ISS project on evidence-based policy will hold a focused one day conference in September of 2013. Participants at the conference will include individuals from federal agencies, international non-governmental agencies, and academic researchers. Using food security and poverty alleviation as the topics of interest, participants at the conference will discuss the challenges associated with building causal models that are empirically testable and programmatically relevant. Implicit Nationalism and Prejudice: Testing Effects on Behavior Melissa Ferguson, Psychology How do the ideals and values associated with a nation influence its citizens? On a daily basis, the ethos of a nation is invoked in public discourse concerning current events, policies, scandals, and crises. People commonly express allegiance to national values and ideas, even citing them as reasons to die for their country (e.g., Gellner, 2006). And yet, despite a voluminous literature in the social sciences on how national values might influence the citizenry in both subtle and obvious ways (e.g., Billig, 1995), there is scarce empirical work revealing exactly how and when that happens. In collaboration with my colleagues around the world (in the United States, Israel, Italy, Russia), I have been examining the extent to which information associated in memory with a nation can automatically influence citizens’ attitudes, beliefs, and behavior (e.g., Carter, Ferguson, & Hassin, in press; Carter, Ferguson, & Hassin, 2011; Ferguson & Hassin, 2007; Hassin, Ferguson, Kardosh, Porter, & Carter, 2009). Our current project tests the effects of automatic (i.e., non-conscious, unintentional) American nationalism for intergroup relations. Our preliminary findings show that incidental, everyday exposure to American cues significantly increases prejudice and bias toward ethnic outgroups, even though people do not know about or condone such effects. The current proposal contains studies that will test whether this prejudicial effect extends to important decisions and behavior, for example in the upcoming United States Presidential Election in November 2012. With support from ISS, I will be able to significantly advance this work, with the end objective being a multi-disciplinary, collaborative research grant submission to a federal grant agency, as well as a submission of an ISS theme project in collaboration with faculty here at Cornell. This project was in part funded by the PCCW. Update: These funds have allowed the PI and her collaborators to conduct extensive testing of their ideas concerning implicit effects of nationalist symbols on inter-group relations and bias. In multiple experiments conducted in Fall 2012, they replicated and extended their previous finding that subtle exposure to American cues (e.g., the national flag) increases subsequent prejudice toward racial and ethnic outgroups. This included a massive online study involving people’s voting behavior in the 2012 Presidential election. The PI identified circumstances in which these effects of American cues on prejudice do not emerge (e.g., when people are first reminded of widely admired and respected racial outgroup members). The findings from this funded research were the basis for a recent federal grant application at NSF, which has been awarded (2012). ISS’ Small Grant PI, Melissa Ferguson, Finds Secret Keeping Exhausting (2013), CIE faculty fellow Melissa Ferguson shows that first impressions can be reversed (2015) Strengthening the State: Understanding Citizens’ Willingness to Pay Taxes for Public Safety Gustavo Flores-Macias, Government Mounting crime and violence in the last 20 years have steadily undermined the quality of democracy in Latin America. Governments of all political stripes have struggled to find the resources necessary to improve the provision of public safety, one of states’ most fundamental tasks. A crucial challenge to achieving this goal is governments’ inability to extract adequate levels of resources from society. In other words, why are states often unable to levy taxes in the pursuit of public safety? This study seeks to answer that question by addressing: 1) the factors behind people’s willingness to pay taxes towards the improvement of security conditions, and 2) their preferred type of tax. This research will make both theoretical and empirical contributions. Drawing on the literature linking individuals’ willingness to pay taxes with the quality and promimity of such public goods as roads and clinics, this study will theorize about its applications to the sphere of public safety. It will then test resulting hypotheses using original survey research conducted in two countries with high levels but different types of violence: Colombia and Mexico. Lying at the intersection of the fields of public finance, behavioral economics, and political science, the findings of this study will serve as a foundation for a larger grant application to fund region-wide research on state capacity in Latin America. Update: The first part of this research resulted in the publication of “Financing Security through Elite Taxation,” in June 2012, as part of the International Center for Taxation and Development Working Paper Series. This component of the research develops the theoretical expectations regarding the nexus between public safety, elites, and taxation, and evaluates them empirically in the context of Colombia’s experience. Its findings point to the importance of economic crises, government-business linkages, and perceptions of the quality of public goods as key factors behind elites’ willingness to pay taxes. The second component, which seeks to draw on evidence from the Mexican case based on individual level survey data, is scheduled to take place this summer. Other media updates: Flores-Macias studies Colombian security tax on country’s elite (2015) Comedy and Society in Antiquity Michael Fontaine, Classics Classics—the study of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome—is one of those strange disciplines that manage to get all kinds of people in the room, including sociologists, and sometimes we come up with neat new ideas. This is why I am applying for funds to travel to an important interdisciplinary conference at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I have been invited to debate and defend views about the social stratification of theater audiences in ancient Rome that I published in a 2010 book. My invitation to the conference follows directly on my book, which has sparked an unexpected but exciting and contentious conversation in my field. The opportunity to present at the conference will offer a high-level venue to refine my views and spend several days discussing my research with an entirely new group of interdisciplinary experts while I complete work on a comprehensive new scholarly article on the question. The ultimate goal, which will require continuing research, is to integrate the multiple approaches to determine more accurately whether, and to what extent, elite social classes associated in public state festivals with lower status individuals, and thus whether the political content of the theater scripts exercised some influence on Rome’s foreign relations during its military expansions in the late Republic (2nd c. BC). Update: The paper was a tremendous success. The controversial topic attracted the organizers’ interset and was promoted to a keynote position at the conference, ensuring a wide audience. the discussion that followed was both extensive and productive, with scholars from various fields of expertise offering challenges, clarifications, and amplifications of the argument. Particular points of debate were assumptions inherentin the notions of urban elitism and how these can be demonstrated through such evidence as exists in literature. Research now moves closer to a final published form. News Evidence and Political Behavior Adam Seth Levine, Government When covering news stories, news outlets rely on a variety of types of evidence to support their points. Past work in political communication focuses on three major types: statistical indicators, elite strategy, and human-interest stories. Although several authors have identified and compared these three types, there has been no systematic analysis identifying who is exposed to which types and what effect such exposure has on their political opinions and behaviors. As part of a broad research agenda covering this topic, we hypothesize that certain forms of evidence will affect certain people and not others, thereby altering the basis on which people evaluate politics and hold their elected officials responsible. These differences are particularly consequential given that certain forms of evidence tend to be more negative than other types. In this proposal we are requesting funds from the ISS to conduct one initial study to examine these effects. This study, along with two other initial studies we’ve already completed, will provide the basis for external funding applications described in this proposal. Updates: Designed to examine the political consequences of how economic information is conveyed in the news, a nationally-representative survey experiment was conducted in 2012. We found that people’s political evaluations (including their perceptions of the state of the economy and the President) depend upon an interaction of the evidence used to describe economic trends and the recipient’s degree of political information. Those with high levels of information are more likely to trust and be persuaded by news articles that use statistics and statistical trends, whereas those with less information trust and are more persuaded by articles that use human interest stories to document economic news (2013). Press coverage includes: ISS’ Fall 2011 Small Grant Awardee, Adam Seth Levine, is Part of Study Highlighting the Joy of Voting Early (2014). The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation Shanjun Li, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management Policies that generate investment in green technologies—wind power, solar photovoltaic (PV), and the like—are often advocated for the twin benefits of job creation and pollution reduction. Although reports have proliferated on either side, direct empirical evidence of these effects is scarce. Most studies have estimated the employment effects of hypothetical policies using an“input-output” approach, which estimates the gross, rather than net, employment gains to the economy. Our project aims to estimate net employment effects based on actual labor market outcomes. Using employment data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) from 1990-2009 and investment information on wind, solar PV, and natural gas from 2000-2009, we examine national and regional employment effects at two stages: employment associated with the installation and operation of wind, solar and natural gas generators; and employment associated with the manufacturing of key components in these generators. Update: During 2013, the major activities conducted include: 1) examining the policy and non-policy drivers of wind power investment acress states during 1990-2009; 2) comparing employment outcomes between the states with wind investment and those without. For the first activity, data on various policy (such as Renewable Portfolio Standards and tax incentives) and non policy (such as wind resource and demographics) variables were collected at the county or state levels. The analysis shows that Renewable Portfolio Standards have a positive effect on wind investment and the effect is stronger among states with rich wind resources. The second analysis was based on county-level and establishment-level Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages data from Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1990-2009 together with wind power investment data, county and state-level demographics. The analysis has yet to yield robust results that could be reported or published publicly. The results obtained so far are noisy and not robust across different model specifications. Additional diagnostics and analysis are still under way. Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference Francesca Molinari, Economics and Jörg Stoye, Economics We propose to conduct a one-and-a-half-day conference on Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions that will bring roughly 7 rising junior and 3 senior researchers to Cornell. The Department of Economics already enjoys substantial strength in this area, in which the co-PIs have published successfully. The proposed conference will further strengthen this position. It should place Cornell at the forefront of a rapidly developing literature which may have substantial impact on econometric practice in the near- to mid-term future. Update: This conference was held on April 27-28, 2012, in the ILR Conference Center. Participants included, Cornell faculty members and graduate students, as well as national and international speakers; the conference was based on 45 minutes presentations of papers, followed by a 15 minutes discussion of each paper lead by a pre-assigned discussant. Research-in-progress on partial identification and statistical decisions was presented and discussed by Debopam Bhattacharya (Oxford, UK), Keisuke Hirano (Arizona), Hiroaki Kaido (BU), Max Kasy (Harvard), Toru Kitagawa (University College London, UK), Chuck Manski (Northwestern), Konrad Menzel (NYU), Denis Nekipelov (Berkeley), Jack Porter (Wisconsin), Kevin Song (UBC, Canada), Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy). Substantial progress was made on the common understanding of the problems studied, and several of the presented papers have been submitted or accepted for journal publication. Support for Organizing a Conference: “Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7″ Sarah Murray, Linguistics We propose to organize a conference, “Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7” (SULA 7), to take place at Cornell in Spring 2012, May 4th through 6th. The goal of this international, interdisciplinary conference is to bring together researchers who work on languages or dialects spoken in the Americas which do not have an established tradition of work in formal semantics. Drawing on several disciplines, including Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, Cognitive Science, American Indian Studies, Latin American Studies, among others, SULA includes presentations on variety of phenomena from a variety of theoretical perspectives. However, researchers presenting at SULA are united by an interest in meaning in natural language, with a focus on understudied languages. One of the primary strengths of this conference is that the presented research typically involves primary fieldwork or experimentation as well as high-level theoretical analysis. Update: This conference was held on May 4-6, 2012. It was extremely successful, with three days of top quality research presentations and comments. This interdisciplinary conference, co-sponsored by Cornell Linguistics, Philosophy, and the American Indian Program, brought together researchers from across the Americas united by an interest in how meaning in expressed crosslinguistically. Papers from the conference will be published in the series University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics, as were previous conferences in this series. For more information, see the conference website. Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell David Pelletier, Nutritional Sciences While the study of policy implementation has a long history in the social sciences, the robust understandings and lessons from such studies have not been widely embraced by recent proponents of evidence‐based policy making and “implementation science” in biomedically‐influenced fields of study and practice. This proposal seeks to bridge this gap in one field: nutrition. This field presently is dominated by an evidence‐centric view of implementation, could benefit from a broader perspective and offers many opportunities for collaboration between social scientists and implementers. The proposal aims to position Cornell as a center of excellence for implementation science in nutrition and attract external funding for such research. Update: Project funds supported domestic travel during my sabbatical leave to attend scientific meetings and meet with researchers, international donor organizations and non-governmental organizations in relation to implementation science. These meetings confirmed the increasing salience of implementation or delivery science and the emergence of greater opportunities for engaged research in that area. As a direct result of this work I became a member of two international committees focusing on this area (one at the NY Academy of Sciences and another at the World Health Organization), was invited to speak at several donor/NGO meetings in Washington, secured a $1M grant from UNICEF in West Africa and published a forward-looking paper in a leading journal in my field (Pelletier, DL, Porter, CM, Aarons, GA, Wuehler, SE and Neufeld, LM. Expanding the Frontiers of Population Nutrition Research: New Questions, New Methods and New Approaches. (Advances in Nutrition 4:92-114, 2013). Explaining Price Dispersion in Online Auctions with Simple Frictions Henry Schneider, Economics This proposal is for a study of the determinants of price dispersion on the online auction platform eBay. During the 1990s, the Internet was expected to reduce a consumer’s time and effort costs associated with shopping, perhaps even to the extent that the Law of One Price (the same items from different sellers sell for the same price) might approximately hold. An empirical literature has since established that the Law of One Price fails for Internet commerce. This study seeks to extend this literature to online auctions, where many very similar items are sold from many sellers through the same website. With the rich data that are available for eBay auctions, I aim to identify the specific frictions that are generating price dispersion, and the magnitude of the price dispersion resulting from each, for this important Internet auction. For example, the titles of the auction listing often contain different words (e.g., “new”) that make the auction less or more likely to appear in a bidder’s eBay search results, and this makes some auctions easier to find by bidders than others. Update: Professor Schneider’s research on this project has led to the successful completion of the working paper titled “Search Costs and Equilibrium Price Dispersion in Auction Markets.” The paper provides a theoretical model that shows how traditional explanations for price dispersion in fixed-price markets (that is, non-auction markets) also applies to auction markets, but through a distinct mechanism, and provides empirical support for the theory using eBay data. ISS funding was instrumental in hiring research support to help with both the theoretical and empirical components of this paper. Professor Schneider recently presented this work at the Northwestern University Conference on Internet Search and Innovation, and visited eBay Research Labs in San Jose, CA to present and discuss his auction research, including this work. Intervening in American Families’ Busyness: Marrying Anthropological Understanding with IT Design Phoebe Sengers, Information Science and Science & Technology Studies The goal of this work is to develop the groundwork for an NSF funding proposal integrating anthropological understandings of families’ busyness as an American cultural phenomenon with the design of new interventions based in information technology (IT). The planned proposal will build on our research group’s experience in coupling social-scientific understanding with IT design, integrating it with the expertise of Prof. Charles Darrah, an anthropologist who has published a landmark study on American busyness. We request limited support for a pilot study and travel funding to meet with Prof. Darrah to plan our NSF grant proposal. Update: Together with Prof. Charles Darrah, we designed a new method for integrating anthropological understanding with design research, which interleaves and cross-communicates early research findings from each approach. We designed a field study to test this approach with families of varying income levels in the Bay area which would lead to a better understanding of how the ubiquitous use of computing technologies alters families’ construction and experience of busyness, and which would develop new design interventions. We have developed a full grant proposal to support this work for which we are currently seeking funding. We also ran a pilot study looking at how “simple living” families in the Ithaca region enacted the values of personal and environmental sustainability in their lives and how this might inform IT design. A paper on the results of this study will be published at CHI ’13, a highly competitive conference on human-computer interaction. Ethical Technologies of Corporate Rule: A Mining Company in Postauthoritarian Indonesia Marina Welker, Anthropology This book project is a study of the ethical technologies through which corporations seek to govern dispersed and disparate people, institutions, objects, and environments. It is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork extending from Newmont Mining Corporation’s Batu Hijau copper and gold mine site on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa to the corporation’s headquarters in Denver. The corporation, and corporate power more broadly, is disaggregated in chapters that explore how ethical technologies promoting human rights, participation, empowerment, sustainability, environmentalism, transparency, accountability, and good governance are developed, implemented, and contested in corporate offices and Sumbawan villages. Update: The book manuscript is under review at two university presses, and a related article has been submitted to a journal for review. More information on the book can be found here, ISS Small Grant Awardee, Marina Welker, Pens Book Exploring Corporate Effects at an Indonesian Mine. Rethinking Development: Debating New Directions in a Time of Crisis Wendy Wolford, Development Sociology We are requesting funds from the ISS to help support an interdisciplinary conference organized by the Department of Development Sociology on the theme of “Rethinking Development.” We argue that new ideas are desperately needed in the face of seemingly insurmountable contemporary challenges. Global climate change, historic levels of international and intra-national inequality, rising levels of absolute poverty, global food vulnerabilities, traditional energy shortages and associated ecological degradations, global economic stagnation, and political instability, social injustice and mal-distributions of various sorts – all of these demand re-thinking Development and imagining bold new articulations of state, society, market and nature in the future. We hope that this conference will build on and help to generate creative new ideas for such re-thinking. Update: The Rethinking Development conference was extremely successful, with three full days of high quality presentations and four distinguished keynote speakers. The conference was attended by nearly 200 people, with 84 presentations by an interdisciplinary group of scholars from around the world.
Obamacare Website's Upcoming Spike The Cross-posted at The Huffington Post Follow Chris on Twitter: @ChrisWeigant Hi Chris: I read this last night and found it persuasive and informative: I build websites for a living and can relate to everything discussed. "Civilians" have no idea how these systems work, or what's easy and what's hard to deal with. To your point re: the potential surge, I expect folks on the team are anticipating a traffic spike and that is probably one of the more straightforward problems that can be addressed. I've read a number of accounts of people signing up for policies around the country and one of the sub-themes that comes up fairly often is the inherent complexity of comparing the details buried in these policies. People have to wade through a lot of variations about what's covered to what extent. Insurance companies have been opaque and deliberately confusing for a long time and I expect there will be some shakeouts over time as people stumble across unexpected contingencies over the next year or two. If the repubs were willing to be constructive in all this we could be focusing on improving things rather than having to devote energy and effort to simply giving the program a fighting chance. I am looking forward to getting insured for the first time in years and can tell you that the repubs trying to sabotage the ACA are beneath contempt. The fact that the White House or Sebelius and/or other key figures underestimated the difficulties is 100% par for the course. Non-techies do that all the time. It's annoying as hell but utterly predictable. Fixing the website isn't the problem -- it will get done. Keeping Dems strong and defanging repub vampires is the problem. Paula - Thanks, that was an interesting read over on Kos. The author seems technically competent, but just a wee bit optimistic, I think. I used to be a "bug hunter," in an earlier lifetime in Silicon Valley. This rarely helps me out nowadays as I pontificate on politics, but in this case I know exactly what I'm talking about because I have been there too. -CW This is EXACTLY why I like it here, CW.. You usually have no problem laying out the reality of the situation.. And, in this case, the reality is that the first week or two of December for obamacare is likely going to make the initial rollout seem downright problem free by comparison.. It is my fervent hope that all Weigantians will accept the reality at that time and have the courtesy to admit, "Well, there is no use in denying it any longer. Michale is right. obamacare IS CrapCare".. Yea... And monkees will fly outta my butt as well.. :D Michale It is my fervent hope that all Weigantians will accept the reality at that time and have the courtesy to admit, "Well, there is no use in denying it any longer. Michale is right. obamacare IS CrapCare".. It would also be nice if the Weigantian masses could also admit that Obama blatantly and unequivocally lied to the American people. But that ALSO might just be a bridge too far... Michale I am looking forward to getting insured for the first time in years and can tell you that the repubs trying to sabotage the ACA are beneath contempt. You mean, like when the Democrats tried to sabotage Bush's CT program where the safety and security of this ENTIRE COUNTRY was at stake?? Is that not also "beneath contempt"?? It works both ways... It's actually even MORE contemptible because Democrats EMBRACED and EXPANDED those same policies when it was THEIR guy calling the shots.. Hell, Nancy Pelosi is the SAVIOR of the NSA!!!! You wanna talk about contemptible!?? :D Michale Hell, Nancy Pelosi is the SAVIOR of the NSA!!!! You wanna talk about contemptible!?? :D Contemptible, by ya'alls standards, I mean... Me?? I LOVED it!! Because we NEED the NSA out there and because it exposed policy for the blantly obvious political animal/hypocrite that she is.. :D Michale Me?? I LOVED it!! Because we NEED the NSA out there and because it exposed policy for the blantly obvious political animal/hypocrite that she is.. :D Er... That SHOULD read: Me?? I LOVED it!! Because we NEED the NSA out there and because it exposed PELOSI for the blantly obvious political animal/hypocrite that she is.. :D Pelosi = policy??? brrrrrrr... scary..... Michale While we're waiting for the guillotine to come crashing down on obamacare, let's take a gander at the OTHER problem with obamacare, besides the crappy train wreck of a website.. “If you like the insurance that you have, you'll be able to keep it.” -SEN. MARY LANDRIEU (D-LA) “We need to support the private insurance industry so that people who have insurance they're happy with can keep it while also providing a backstop option for people without access to affordable coverage.” -SEN. KAY HAGAN (D-NC) “If you got a doctor now, you got a medical professional you want, you get to keep that. If you have an insurance program or a health care policy you want of ideas, make sure you keep it. That you can keep who you want.” -SEN. MARK BEGICH (D-AK) “We should begin with a basic principle: if you have coverage and you like it, you can keep it. If you have your doctor, and you like him or her, you should be able to keep them as well. We will not take that choice away from you.” -SEN. MICHAEL BENNET (D-CO) “Again, if you like what you have, you will be able to keep it. Let me say this again: If you like what you have, when our legislation is passed and signed by the President, you will be able to keep it.” -SEN. PATTY MURRAY (D-WA) . TOM HARKIN (D-IA) “If you like your insurance, you keep it.” -SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY) “This bill before us on the Senate floor makes it clear that if you have an insurance policy that you like, you can keep it. If you like the doctor that you're currently doing business with, you can continue to use that doctor.” -SEN. DICK DURBIN (D-IL) “In fact, one of our core principles is that if you like the health care you have, you can keep it.” -SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV) “That is why one of the central promises of health care reform has been and is: If you like what you have, you can keep it. That is critically important. If a person has a plan, and he or she likes it, he or she can keep it.” -SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D-MT) Common theme.. All Democrats.. All lying thru their teeth... Or all grossly incompetent... Michale Michale: Nope. Repubs are still beneath contempt and no amount of huffing, puffing, obfuscation, deliberate or foolish conflations and misunderstandings change that. You wanna blame Dems for something legitimate, blame them for keeping this stupid system in the first place wherein we provide corporate welfare to medical insurance companies that do nothing but extract money while providing no necessary medical service. Someday I fervently hope, they will all be put out of business. But all the rest of your noise is just bull and nonsense in which you use up a lot of pixels to make very clear that you don't actually understand what's happening with the law or why. And no amount of cutting and pasting will change that. You might try actually acknowledging the systemic problems that have lead us to this place, and then try researching what the ACA is structured to do to solve or mitigate those problems. Firstly - obviously a huge congratulations to the 106,000+ people who can now go see a Doctor. Welcome to the 21st Century :) Secondly, you're absolutely spot on CW. This is a pretty good graph showing what's to come for the website: Michale [3] - Somehow I just knew you'd like this article. But you've got to admit, even when criticizing Dems, I like to think I bring a new perspective. This spike problem is staring everyone in the face, but I haven't heard a peep about it anywhere else. Oh, sure, it'll be big news (if it's a disaster) when it happens, but it always amazes me that people can't seem to see such obvious stuff happening. Well, I suppose I'm comforted by being able to say "you read it here first!" Sigh. And -- aha! I've remembered -- wasn't your term "DunselCare" before? Rather admired the esoteric, Star Trek-based nature of that one. Heh. As for Pelosi=policy, um, your Freudian slip is showing, there... Heh heh. michty6 - Yeah, I saw that chart all over the place when searching for the link in the article. But I don't like it as much because I really don't think it has enough data (too constricted an X-axis). The chart I linked to shows the spike much better in relation to the surrounding months. -CW Paula, Michale: Nope. Repubs are still beneath contempt and no amount of huffing, puffing, obfuscation, deliberate or foolish conflations and misunderstandings change that. I am not trying to change that. Because it's true.. Perhaps not for this particular action, as they are simply obeying the will of the majority of Americans who don't like obamacare.. But they are politicians. As such, BY DEFINITION, they are "beneath contempt".. My only point is that Democrats are equally beneath contempt. The Bush CT Policies issue is a prime example of that.. That's the point you always miss. Democrats and Republicans are simply two sides to the same twisted and corrupt coin.. You might try actually acknowledging the systemic problems that have lead us to this place, and then try researching what the ACA is structured to do to solve or mitigate those problems. And it's doing a bang-up job so far, ain't it.. Kinda like breaking your arm to "cure" your headache... Michty, Firstly - obviously a huge congratulations to the 106,000+ people who can now go see a Doctor. Welcome to the 21st Century :) Interesting (and typical) how you ignore the 5+ MILLIONS of Americans who WON'T be able to see a Doctor now.. Apparently, you are a "the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many" kinda guy... CW, And -- aha! I've remembered -- wasn't your term "DunselCare" before? Rather admired the esoteric, Star Trek-based nature of that one. The problem with DunselCare is that Dunsel is defined as a piece or part which serves no useful purpose.. By extension, I would assume that it ALSO means a part or device that does no harm.. Therefore Dunsel Care no longer applies as it is obvious to even the most rabid ideological partisan that obamacare is causing great harm... As I said, the problem with obamacare is that it completely ignores the VERY first precept of the Hippocratic Oath. First, do no harm... Michale "I've read a number of accounts of people signing up for policies around the country and one of the sub-themes that comes up fairly often is the inherent complexity of comparing the details buried in these policies." Spot on Paula! As one of the "chosen" 37,00 who somehow got signed up through the Federal web site, I can tell you that logging on and using the clumsy browser is the EZ part. Comparing the competing plans is where I started to pull my hair out. Even when you sort out the obviously unsuitable (too pricey, personal physician out of network), estimating the utility of the existing plans involves a lot guesswork. The basic problems are: What is the probability of me (enter age, sex, heredity, life style, locality etc) getting illness X in the next year? What is the cost of me dealing with with illness X in my area? Keep in mind this varies tremendously (for no apparent reason) from hospital to hospital, and there is no one answer, it depends on how well I respond to various treatment options, if the problem is basically acute, or has chronic (and expensive) fall outs. Are my local hospitals good enough, or am I going to need to travel to get adequate expertise and equipment. Repeat for illness, Y, Z ..... When free market types talk about the average citizen being able to make an well informed choice in the medical marketplace, I just have to sigh. I've encountered the same sorts of problems getting the best medicare plans for my parents. Hint: the devil is often in the medications. Now, the plan I chose is better than the plan I have now (none). I have no insurance now because the plans I could afford were basically expensive liar plans that were pricey and didn't protect me from "catastrophic" illness or accident. That's the game people like me play. Healthy enough, or bankruptcy. (Shout out to my grandma for loaning me some really good genes). So, assuming the coverage I got isn't a fraud, or that the whole system doesn't collapse, I'm much better off than I was before. But did I get the best value? Likely not. It's not like you can test drive your plan, like a car...and I've bought a few cars I've grown to dislike post test. Roll them bones. TS, Sounds like you made out OK.. But what of the millions of Americans who won't?? Reminds me of a little viginette from The Outer Limits remake a few years back.. OK, probably more than a few years.. Seems a strange old man knocked on this lady's door and handed her a box with a button. He told the lady that, if she pushed the button she would get $100,000. But that someone she didn't know would die.. He said he would be back in the morning to pick up the box... The lady agonized over it all night and, when morning came, she pushed the button.. The man showed up promptly and handed her a case with $100,000 in it. The lady asked, "What happens to the box?".. The man replied, "It will go to someone different. Someone you don't know." Pretty interesting episode... Kinda illustrates nicely what we find ourselves in with obamacare.. Yea, there might be a few people that make out.. A few people that are better off.. But what about the millions upon millions who are losing their plans, who are being forced to pay more for coverage they don't need, don't want and can't use?? What about those people?? I am sure you realize that SOME of those people did vote for Obama and Democrats... Michale Re 14 It remains to be seen just how well I've done. Back in the day when my employer subsidized my health care and provided a pretty comprehensive plan, I was still giving it 1.5 cheers. Not a lot of choices offered. It was a big monthly expense, and there was an ungodly amount of paper work from my insurance middleman. Oh, and a lifetime cap that was way too low. So, if all works out well, I'll just have a marginally better version of what I had a decade ago, when the economy was better, and I was a decade younger. With a hefty subsidy from the government rather than my employer. Obama Care was never intended to be universal health coverage. More people covered, lower cost pressures, fewer insurance rip offs. Pretty modest ambitions. I would much rather have seen an expansion of Medicare to all age brackets. Medicare is administratively cost efficient and holds some big trumps for holding medical costs down. The private medicine model delivers excellent health care to those who can get it, but based on other First World Nations, it is two or three times more pricey than it ought to be. Think of it as a medical Starbucks. (Now I'm in real trouble). I look at Obama Care as the Nose of the Camel Under the Tent. Mediocre start, good potential for improvement in the out years. Just like Medicare was. Which is of course the biggest fear of Republicans and the health care industry. God help 'em if Affordable Health Care actually works. Which is of course the biggest fear of Republicans and the health care industry. God help 'em if Affordable Health Care actually works. The converse of that is ALSO true.. God help the Democrats if obamacare goes down in flames.. Of the two scenarios, however, it's more likely that the latter will be the reality rather than the former.. Michale
‘Moneyball,’ Brad Pitt, and the romantic side of baseball nerddom It's hard not to be romantic about baseball. —Billy Beane, general manager, Oakland A's Billy Beane is speaking about himself in Moneyball when he says that, but he could also be talking about the fans. Baseball isn't just baseball, we've been told a million times. It's a connection to childhood memories, it's the pure joy of a night at the ballpark, it's the best of America (as James Earl Jones reminds us in his baseball monologue in Field of Dreams), and on and on and on. But the game itself: what about that? Moneyball, directed by Bennett Miller, may be one of the purest baseball movies of all time in that it is actually about ... baseball. Bull Durham is a baseball movie that's really also a love story. Field of Dreams is a baseball movie that's really also the story of a man haunted by the imperfect relationship he had with his father. There's also The Sandlot, The Rookie, Eight Men Out, The Pride of the Yankees, The Natural, Bang the Drum Slowly, Major League and (sorry) Fever Pitch. One thing these movies all have in common is that they are about baseball, yes, but they are also about more than baseball. They tap into our feelings about baseball, and use baseball as a vehicle to talk about all kinds of other life experiences. Moneyball is emphatically not that. It keeps its eye on the ball, and rarely lets us leave the bowels of the Oakland A's rat-trap of a stadium. Based on the bestselling book of the same name by Michael Lewis, Moneyball tells the story of Billy Beane, the eccentric general manager of the cash-poor Oakland A's. Despite their lowly financial status, "something strange [was] happening in Oakland", as one sportscaster put it, because although the team could not afford to pay top dollar for players, they consistently were making it to the playoffs, year after year after year. They were sometimes winning 100+ games a season. It was understood that rich teams like the New York Yankees had a leg up on everyone else, due to the fact that they could buy the most expensive players. But they didn't get all the best ones, it turned out. Michael Lewis' book examines what exactly it was that Billy Beane was doing in Oakland, and how he took the team to the American League playoffs four years in a row (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003). In 2004 and 2005, the A's placed 2nd in the AL West, and in 2006 they placed first, and went to the ALDS again, beating the Minnesota Twins and then losing against the Detroit Tigers. What the hell were they doing in Oakland? Turns out that Billy Beane had begun to incorporate the use of computer-generated statistical analysis in his evaluation of players, believing in numbers instead of the popular wisdom of baseball people and gut-based hunches of baseball scouts. If he couldn't buy back Jason Giambi, whom he lost to the New York Yankees in 2002, then he could at least replicate the effect of having Giambi with a bunch of different undervalued players who didn't get a shot "the show" because they looked weird, threw weird, or had something eccentric about their playing style. Old-school scouts valued home runs, powerful swings and a certain body type. But Billy Beane couldn't afford the whole package, and so he would piece it together, placing a special emphasis on the unglamorous statistic called On-Base Percentage, which measures the frequency with which a player manages, by any means, to avoid getting out. Moneyball starts by establishing the A's as losers, as they suffer a loss to the Yankees in the 2001 American League Division Series, followed by the defection of a couple of star players they can no longer afford, including Jason Giambi (who went to the Yankees) and Johnny Damon (who went to the Red Sox, but eventually wound up with the Yankees, too). Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), heartily sick of the limitations of running a small-payroll team, goes on a rampage of creative hiring, remaking his team, and blowing up a generations-old template used by major league teams for doing so. In one of his meetings with the Cleveland Indians, he notices a shlubby kid in a suit who seems to have some sway over the Indians' general manager. The kid turns out to be Peter Brand (Jonah Hill). "Who are you?" he quietly asks Brand, his eyes twinkling in a way that seems both menacing and exciting. Peter Brand has a degree in economics from Yale, and this is his first job. He's not really a big baseball fan, but he is a statistician, and has worked out vast amounts of computer code in order to evaluate players (without even seeing them in person). Brand tells Beane that "baseball thinking is medieval." Beane is intrigued enough to buy the young kid away from the Cleveland Indians and bring him to Oakland. The introduction of new ways of thinking into an tradition-bound organization is always going to be met by resistance. Moneyball is the story of innovation meeting tradition, of having belief in an idea even when you are surrounded by mocking incomprehension. The first glimpse we get of this is in a terrific scene between Billy Beane and all of the scouts for the Oakland A's, as they throw magnetic strips with players' names on them up onto a board and try to create a valid team. The scouts, all of whom stroll out of a perfect Central Casting office, talk about players by saying things like, "He has a great pop off the bat," and "powerful swing," and "He hits it far." The script, by Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, is superb in picking up the nuances of baseball speech, and also the vast stretches of silence between comments as we see Billy Beane thinking, thinking, thinking. The script allows for thought, for long stretches when it seems like nothing is happening. But something is happening. Billy Beane is thinking, and there is nothing more interesting in cinema than watching someone think. In a way, it is what the movie camera was invented for. Bennett Miller knows that. It gives Moneyball a quiet, almost anxious energy. Billy Beane lives on coffee and Twinkies. Moneyball feels like it does, too. Everything extraneous is stripped away. It is thrilling to watch. Pushback on statistical analysis comes from the scouts as well as from Art Howe (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the manager. Howe (who the A's eventually managed to unload on the Mets, of course) is already unhappy because he has only been given a year's contract, showing the team's lack of faith in him. And now Beane, in his damn sweatsuit, who never even watches the games, is telling him who to put on the field and where? The tension is immediate, the conflict intense. Beane, with Brand as backup, sticks to his guns. He doesn't make any new friends, that's for sure. The side stories in Moneyball, the acquisition of injured catcher Scott Hatteberg (whom Billy Beane hired to play first base) and David Justice (who was too old to be valued anymore by other teams) bring the sabermetrical-analysis storyline front and center, making it explicit to those in the audience who may have no idea what any of it means. Hatteburg (played by Chris Pratt) is troubled, injured, and fears his career may be over. When he gets the call from Billy Beane, he is thrilled, and then horrified, because Beane wants him to play first base. He is a catcher. You don't just switch positions in baseball. But Beane doesn't care about Hatteburg as an infielder, he cares about his on-base percentage as a hitter. That is why he wants him. The same is true for David Justice (Stephen Bishop). Then there is Chad Bradford (Casey Bond), a pitcher with a delivery so odd you have to see it to believe it. These people are misfits in the game. They don't look right, and they make people nervous. The payoff is not immediate. Billy Beane has nerves of steel. He encounters condescension and outright hostility when he starts to implement the changes from the front office. He spends the games in the weight room pumping iron. He can't watch. As a former baseball player himself, his feelings about the game are conflicted. He was overvalued. He did not do well. He disappointed a lot of people. With an echo of Miracle, the story of the hockey team that won the gold medal in the 1980 Olympics under the innovative coaching style of Herb Brooks (who had been cut from the 1960 Olympic team at the last minute), Beane is haunted by what might have been. He recognizes that baseball, at its heart, is a very unfair game. He accepts that. He has lived it. Sorkin and Zaillain's script thankfully does not turn Moneyball into a redemptive psychodrama, with Billy Beane putting to rest the ghosts of his own past through his vindication with the Oakland A's. But the hints are there. Beane is not a happy guy. He is troubled, thoughtful, obsessive, and impatient. He hates losing. Everyone hates losing, but Beane hates it so much that he was driven to look at how the game itself was analyzed, and to throw a wrench into The Way Things Are Done. He was so successful that he was courted by the big-payroll Red Sox as general manager. Beane turned them down, but the Red Sox went on to adopt Beane's management style, and in 2004 they won their first World Series championship since 1918. Brad Pitt is 47 years old now, a long way away from the smooth-bodied, smooth-talking hustler in Thelma and Louise that rocketed him to fame. Talk about an undervalued player. While he obviously is one of the biggest movie stars in the world, his talent as an actor has consistently been underestimated, often because he's written off as a pretty boy.
Bicycle accidents in Florida may result in severe injuries that can change your life either temporarily or permanently. For instance, you may have to take time off from work to nurse your injuries and schedule physical therapy sessions. The injuries will also bring a heavy burden of medical expenses on you. However, it is possible for you to recover compensation for all these burdens and for any inconvenience the accident caused. At Clay County Personal Injury Attorney, our experienced attorneys will fight to ensure you get your rightful compensation. We help clients receive different types of compensation for their injuries. This article focuses on the different types of compensation you can recover after a bicycle accident. Types of Compensation for a Bicycle Accident For a bicyclist involved in an accident, there are multiple types of compensation you can receive after you succeed in your bicycle injury compensation claim. The compensations are classified into two main groups. That is economic and non-economic damages. Economic damages cover all the monetary losses you suffered in the course of the accident. Non-economic damages account for damages that cannot be quantified that you suffered in the course of the accident and after the accident. Apart from the two, you can also claim punitive damages and compensation for wrongful death. You will be granted punitive damages as compensation for definite harm incurred after the accident. The purpose of punitive damages is to punish the at-fault party whose actions of misconduct led to the accident. Compensation for wrongful death, on the other hand, will be granted if the accident resulted in the death of the victim. In this case, the third party, for instance, the spouse, children or parents of the deceased, will receive the compensation. In order to receive these compensations, you must claim them by filing a personal injury claim/lawsuit. Moveover, in order to succeed in this, you have to seek a personal injury attorney to defend your rights. Attorneys from Clay County Personal Injury Attorney will ensure your rights are upheld and the process towards getting your compensation is flawless and quick. First, we will try to negotiate a payment deal with the insurance company of the at-fault party. If the company doesn’t offer you adequate compensation to end your case, we can petition your case in court and fight for you during the trial. Economic Damages These are also known as special damages. They are a form of restitution to the victims for all the costs they incurred in the accident. Special compensation is the main form of monetary compensation granted to bicycle accident victims because their value is calculated based on proof of tangible effect as compared to non-economic damages. Economic damages are as follows; Medical bills A bicycle accident can result in slight bruises, cuts or serious problems like permanent disability or paralysis. Regardless of the degree of the injury, you have to be examined by a doctor immediately after the accident so that if you have any non-physical injuries like internal bleeding, they can be treated. A victim of a bicycle accident can recover financial compensation for all the current and future expenses of physical or rehabilitative therapy, medical visits, hospital bills, prescription drug costs, and medical procedures that are connected to the accident and the sustained injuries. This will apply even if the victim’s health insurance company paid for part or entire medical treatment bills. Your attorney, doctor, and other healthcare specialists will help you calculate your medical expenses before you can claim for compensation. Additionally, they can project future medical costs in the event that you haven’t fully healed when you are filing the compensation claim. Property damages Under property compensation, it is within your rights to file a claim seeking reimbursements if your personal property was destroyed at the time of the accident. Among the items that you can claim compensation for include your clothing items, cycling helmet and any additional attachments that were on you or the bicycle during the accident. If your bicycle repair cost is lower than its value before it was involved in the accident, it is your right to seek compensation for repair costs. If the repair cost is higher than its value before the accident occurred or if your bicycle was destroyed beyond repair, you will only claim compensation that is equal to the value of your bike before the mishap occurred. In order to get this compensation, you need to present documented estimates and accurate paperwork from a legalized bicycle shop. You have to take it to an expert to assess the degree of the damage which will help you to determine its market value. You then will be capable of making estimates like; Costs of repair- you must have these estimates irrespective of whether or not your bicycle is beyond repair or it is possible to repair it. The bicycle value in the state it was before the accident- ensure that what’s in the evaluation matches the current condition of the bicycle in regard to year and its model. If you have a problem identifying the bicycle brand, inquire from the shops that sell used bicycles in Clay County. The bicycle value in the state it was after the mishap- in many cases, its value is usually lower than the value before the accident except if you had attached additional features on it. Lost wages In case you are incapable of returning to work due to the injuries you sustained in a bicycle accident, you can recover lost income compensation for all the period you miss to go to work. This includes the time you missed work to attend physical therapy and medical appointments. Apart from lost wages compensation, you may also be compensated for lost benefits like retirement and health benefits. Lost wage compensation is calculated by taking your wage per hour and multiplying it by the total number of hours or days you missed work. However, if you are an independent contractor and not an employee, calculating lost wages may be more complicated. In this case, an economist could develop a formula to calculate your lost wages. One of the things the economist would look at is your work history which will help him or her to predict what work you would have missed. Other factors include the hours you worked, the yearly salary, and job frequency in the past. Additionally, it is easier for victims who were employed to receive this compensation as compared to the self-employed or unemployed ones. In case you are self-employed, you may be needed to prove to the jury that you would have been making money for the entire lost period if it were not for the injuries. Lost income damages are calculated from the moment you sustain injuries until the time a settlement is reached. However, you might be eligible for receiving damages in the future in case you sustained very severe injuries that they threaten your future wages. Under these circumstances, there are multiple factors used to decide whether or not you are entitled to the damages of future wages. They include your experience, life expectancy, age, health condition, skills, occupation, training, and talent. Your past wages may also be considered while estimating the amount you could get in case the injuries affect your future earnings. The purpose of these compensations is to recover whatever you would have earned if the accident hadn’t occurred. Earning potential A bicycle accident may result in serious injuries that permanently impair your physical or cognitive abilities. Permanently limited cognitive abilities may be as a result of a traumatic brain injury including a severe concussion. On the other hand, permanently limited physical abilities may be due to broken bones, injuries of the spinal code, paralysis, etc. These permanent impairments often occur when a victim of a bicycle accident falls from his or her bicycle and strikes his or her head and body directly on a surface. Most of the time, a permanent injury will significantly affect your ability to carry out your daily duties or report to your place of work. For instance, you may be forced to resign your current job position and work at a place that requires less physical demands. In other cases, you may be forced to switch your job or career. Changing jobs can have negative financial consequences that can fully be compensated for under the laws of the state of Florida. Even though there is no precise formula to calculate lost earning potential, these compensations are usually determined by comparing the victim’s income before the accident to his/her income and position after the accident. These compensations are meant to recover the reduced future income of the victim which may result from the necessity to switch positions or jobs because of the injuries. Vocational rehabilitation experts and economists can often help with determining compensation for lost earning potential in these cases. Also note that if there’s any possibility of permanent disability which you might experience in the future after the compensation hearing, it is crucial to ensure all the lost wages and the benefits are accurately estimated into the future. The reason for this is that many bicycle accidents eventually affect the victim’s ability to earn when they are seriously injured. Non-Economic Damages Non-economic damages are also referred to as general damages. They are meant to compensate victims for intangible harm caused as a result of the accident. The harm can be emotional, psychosocial or mental. Non-economic damages are granted in order to help those victims who may never fully recover their original lives due to the accident. In order to be compensated by the party at fault, you have to provide proof beyond doubt that it was their negligence or deliberate action that directly caused the injuries. You can prove this successfully by using the following; Photographic evidence Video evidence Witness testimonies Expert accounts Medical and police reports Non-economic damages include; Pain and suffering Bicycle accident injuries can be severe and debilitating. Sometimes you have to undergo painful medical procedures, physical therapy, and treatments. You have to know that the traumatic pain and suffering that results from a physical injury can be compensated for in the form of financial damages. Unlike in the case of lost wages and medical bills, damages for pain and suffering can’t be determined using any particular formula. The compensations usually focus on the seriousness of the injuries, pain, and prediction of any imminent pain that you may experience as a result of the accident. Factors that can contribute to determining damages for pain and suffering are; Your recovery time period Whether you sustained permanent injuries Whether you can go back to and maintain the initial lifestyle you had prior to the accident If there is a need for any medical procedures in the future. For instance surgeries Whether the symptoms are long-lasting and if they are, the period they will last Your life expectancy Whether the medication you are receiving eliminates or relieves your symptoms Whether your symptoms and condition can be eased or not, and if they can, when and how Whether or not you are capable of participating in similar professional and personal activities like you were prior to the accident How do you prove pain and suffering in a bicycle accident? Since there’s no clear method to calculate compensations for pain and suffering, it can be hard to determine the amount in the case of bicycle accidents. Also, you cannot determine the exact intensity of pain and suffering one is going through. Therefore, it will depend on your attorney’s preparedness for you to succeed in this claim. He or she has to gather all the necessary documentation showing how much pain and suffering you are going through, the period of time you have suffered together with any other loss you incurred for him/her to build a strong case. In certain situations, your personal injury lawyer may find it necessary to bring in a medical specialist who may successfully testify about the length of time your symptoms are likely to last. The medical expert may also determine whether you will require any medical treatment for your injury. Lastly, the medical expert might be capable of casually relating your symptoms, damages, and injuries to the bicycle accident. Emotional distress Damages for emotional distress aim at compensating the bicycle accident victim for any psychological problem the injuries could have caused that in turn affect their everyday life. There signs to look for to prove that the victim is suffering from emotional distress. They include fear, lack of sleep, and anxiety. This form of compensation is very subjective, and it literally may change depending on the victim. Thus, it is significant that you note any psychological symptom right after the accident. Ensure you notify your doctor of any symptoms of psychological damage for documentation purposes. Having a medical record of emotional suffering is very important since you might need it to argue your personal injury claim. You may also need the same details when pursuing damages from your insurance provider. Another method you can use to gather proof is by observing how you feel from the time you sustained the injury and keeping a daily record. You can record this in a daily journal or a diary. Loss of enjoyment of life It is no doubt that severe injuries may hinder you from taking part in daily activities like sporting, your hobbies, and any other recreational activity. Similarly, a serious injury may stop you from having pleasure or the fulfillment you used to get from participating in various intellectual sessions. Lacking the capacity to take part in both mental and physical activities may severely affect how you live your life. It means that you will not be capable of experiencing the fun you once were experiencing before you got injured. All these new life experiences can lead to an overall loss of enjoyment in life. You can be compensated for this loss by being granted financial compensations after you file a compensation claim. However, it is difficult to determine the compensation amount you will receive since it largely depends on the judges’ discretion. To have a rough idea of what to expect, you can refer to the members of your family to know what they would demand were they in a similar situation. Alternatively, the best thing to do is to seek counsel from an experienced personal injury attorney who will advise on the average amount of compensation you should expect to receive. Wrongful Death Compensation If you have proof that the bicycle accident resulted in the demise of a member of your family, you can file a wrongful death claim seeking compensation for the loss. The court considers several factors when deciding the amount of compensation to be given to the family members of the deceased. They include what relationship the deceased had with the person filing the claim, the deceased’s net salary accessible by the family member, life expectancy of and the value of the deceased’s services. There are a number of benefits one can receive if their loved one is killed in the course of a bicycle accident. The major one is; Loss of companionship or affection Most people believe that compensation given to injured persons or members of the family of the deceased is entirely economic. While medical bills and loss of future income are the most common topics of compensation, loss of affection or companionship can also be compensated. Children, spouse, and immediate family members of the deceased can file a lawsuit to recover the loss they went through after the demise of their loved one. Damages granted in loss of affection aim at representing the benefits one would have experienced from the company and affection of the dead. To be granted this damages, a jury considers different aspects of the relationship you had with the deceased. For instance, the living arrangements, the relationship state at the time of death and the activities and interests in common may all be considered to determine damages. Other wrongful compensation you can be granted include Medical expenses you incurred from when the accident occurred to the time the victim died Burial expenses Funeral costs Psychological injuries Lost future income Loss of financial support Punitive Damages Unlike special and general damages which aim at making the victim of a bicycle accident whole financially, the aim of punitive damages is to penalize or punish the party at fault for their behavior that led to the injury. In certain cases, the victim is allowed to claim punitive compensation if he or she can prove that the at-fault party was intentional, malicious, grossly negligent, or reckless. For the defendant to be ruled grossly negligent, the plaintiff has to prove that he or she acted consciously indifferent with disregard for someone else’s rights, safety or life. There has to be a basis for you to claim punitive damages, if you have no evidence to support the claim of intentional behavior or gross negligence, then you and your attorney might be subject to sanctions by the jury. This helps to prevent the filing of non-serious lawsuits. In Clay County, there is a limitation on how much the victim of a bicycle accident can be granted for punitive compensation. The victim can only be compensated with 3 times the amount of the non-economic and economic damages or with $500,000 depending on which is greater. Find a Personal Injury Attorney Experienced in Bicycle Accident Cases Near Me If you or someone you love has sustained serious injuries due to a bicycle accident, reach out to the Clay County Personal Injury Attorney at 904-494-8242 as soon as possible. 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That New Zealand On Air's 22 year-old music funding system is showing its age is received wisdom. But I don't think any commentator has written such a serious, methodical assessment of the system as Duncan Greive does in the new issue of Real Groove magazine. Update! The PDF of the story is here. Many thanks to Duncan and Real Groove for permission to upload. Rather than laying blame on individuals, he has spoken to a range of stakeholders – including NZ On Air music chief Brendan Smyth – to try and work out what any necessary change might look like. He's also crunched some numbers: Since 2000, NZ On Air has spent a shade over $10,000,000 funding the recording of around 200 local albums. While their remit is to get New Zealand music played on radio and TV, it’s useful to take a look at the sales of a random sampling of New Zealand albums which received album and video funding, and see what the taxpayer contribution was to each album sold. This isn’t a metric the organisation uses to judge success or failure of a project, but it is useful in ascertaining the true popularity of a project, because it shows the number of times a consumer paid full price for an album. UPDATE: The information on Donald Reid's album in the paragraph below is wrong. Donald Reid received no NZ On Air funding for his album, In A Taxi Home, which has sold about 2000 copies. I don't think the graphic is very reliable. The subsequent infographic – based on leaked information -- is fairly alarming. Each of the 500 copies of Jonny Love's self-titled album bought at full price by consumers cost the taxpayer $140. Paul McLaney's Edin album sold a similar number at a cost of more than $120 (although Duncan makes the point that his count doesn't include the likes of direct sales at gigs, where McLaney probably sell more albums than anywhere else), and albums by Donald Reid, Chong Nee and Luke Thompson came in at more than $60 per unit sold. At the other end of the scale, Gin Wigmore sold 46,000 records, bringing the marginal cost of her recording grant down to only a few dollars. It's worth noting that this is not the metric NZ On Air applies to measure success -- or even the one it's allowed to employ. Duncan observes: Much of the criticism of NZ On Air boils down to radio’s role in the process. As C4 and MTV have become more youth-oriented lifestyle channels and shied away from playing music in prime time, so the centrality of radio to NZ On Air’s existence has risen. Ultimately, the organisation bases all its decisions on the remit woven into its fabric, which is to get New Zealand music played on TV and radio. There is no quality component, no critical judgment – it’s just a numbers game, and one run by radio stations whose programmers would rather die than lose listeners and the advertising dollars they represent. Which means that NZ On Air’s gaze is effectively trained by commercial radio to a very large extent. This isn't a new argument: people have been pointing out that what is acceptable to commercial radio isn't necessarily what will succeed in the market, and it's certainly not necessarily what is good. But I think Duncan is right in saying that the system is now in drift mode. … there have been no meaningful alterations to the way NZ On Air operates since the year 2000. This despite the myriad changes which have impacted upon the music industry over the past decade, predominantly driven by the internet and file sharing. NZ On Air remains largely the same organisation, behaving in the same manner as it did when it first started funding music nearly 20 years ago. But at the heart of the problem is that, even though it has edged in that direction over time, NZ On Air is not a music funding agency. It is there so that we can see (and hear) more of ourselves on air. The name with which it was officially created – the Broadcasting Commission – makes its role pretty plain. Brendan Smyth is acutely aware of the peril of entering what he has described to me as "the ultra vires void" – that is, his operation doing something it has no authority to do. This isn't trivial – the agency is monitored by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, and it could bring down a power of trouble on its management by heading off and spending taxpayers' money without permission. On the other hand: a change to NZ On Air's enabling legislation late in Labour's reign allowed the creation and funding of NZ On Screen, a website devoted to screen culture (disclosure: I'm on the trust board there), but it hasn't produced much of anything in the music sector. One problem with a move to take account of the times is that many of the most important means of music discovery now operate in a grey area. Hype Machine, the MP3 blog aggregator, is a wonderful marketing tool, but it pays no performance rights fees (by contrast: even the short song previews on the iTunes store attract such fees) and not everything is there with even the tacit permission of the copyright owners. It's a hard place for a government agency to go. Ruban Nielson of the Mint Chicks offers another way forward: break down the $50,000 recording grants – deemed necessary by the industry when the scheme was introduced – into $10,000 chunks, and spread it more widely. The sentiment is echoed by the rapper Tourette's – a lively creative presence who can't get a $5000 video grant to save himself. Last month, the highly-touted local hip hop crew Home Brew – denied a video grant in the most recent funding round – got together with award-winning video producer Chris Graham (working for free) drafted in a bunch of mates for a fund-raiser and produced this: Whether or not you agree with Duncan's characterisation of the agency's "strange, uncoordinated muddling through the mists that lie between art and commerce,". PS: The Real Groove website has full transcripts of interviews Duncan conducted for his story, with Ruban Nielson and Isaac Promotions' Mark Kneebone. --- As a side note, Real Groove music and film reviewer Aaron Yap is raising money to treat his father's oesophageal cancer. I think it's a remarkable thing for a son to do, and you can read more about it and perhaps give a little here. Russell Brown, In 2007 Andrew Dubber and I wrote a rather long assessment of change in the media around contemporary music for NZ On Air. It's here (PDF) and this is the blurb: I'd have to say that not a lot has happened since. Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 14787 posts Report Andre, Web Let's acknowledge the fact that the system to date has seen the market for NZ music expand exponentially. I'm more worried that National will just dump the whole thing so that they can give the uber-wealthy some more tax breaks. New Zealand • Since May 2009 • 228 posts Report BlairMacca, Web While I would acknowledge that there is more NZ music around, that doesn't meant that it a good thing. I know music is ridiculously subjective, but is it really a good thing artists like Midnight Youth, Dane Rumble etc to get funding. Sure they shift units, but they are often just pale imitations of overseas bands. Meanwhile, like you mention Russell, other musicians stuggle for funding. Or are we preaching to the Classic Hits brigade who need to fill their quota? Wellington • Since Apr 2007 • 160 posts Report JP Hansen, The Beatles started out as pale imitators of US bands, they did OK in the end. :-P Waitakere • Since Nov 2006 • 195 posts Report John Fouhy, Web Is this because people don't watch music videos any more, or because people prefer to get their music videos from youtube? Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 84 posts Report BlairMacca, Web Touche! Wellington • Since Apr 2007 • 160 posts Report Tim McKenzie, If publicly funded music and TV was required to be released under a Creative Commons licence (or similar), we might get to see and hear a lot more of ourselves, and the per-unit-sold(/downloaded) cost to the government mightn't be so alarming. Lower Hutt • Since Apr 2007 • 105 posts Report Geoff Lealand, As Steve Allen once famously declared Imitation is the sincerest form of television , is it also the case with the great majority of popular music? What is intrinsically 'New Zealand' about New Zealand music--other than te reo Maori and Pacific Island influences, of course? Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 1655 posts Report recordari, OMG! You're not Beliebers are you? AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2606 posts Report peter mclennan, Web Twitter The other big point Duncan makes its that NZ On Air's mandate is unchanged since 2000 - now think how much the broadcast environment has changed and evolved since then. Radio is way way down on people's methods for discovering new music. And the argument over NZ On Air funding artists for overseas development (esp when they fund commercially driven product at home, which has no export potential, lets face it) - Russell theres a fantastic article in the Feb/March NZ Musician magazine you should read, looking at the Caddick Report on NZOA's Phase 5 scheme. The article also highlights two labels that got $500k in funding each to establish an offshore beach head. Seen any results from that yet? AK Central • Since Nov 2006 • 116 posts Report peter mclennan, Web Twitter Mark Kneebone on Russell and Andrew's "Public broadcasting in the digital age" document... from Real Groove iv transcript... "NZ On Air know they have to do some changes. There was a report done by Russell Brown and Andrew Dubber that was done on the future of online promotion and it’s relevance to NZ On Air funding that also covered TV. It’s kicking around somewhere. "Personally, I didn’t actually agree with about half of what they wrote. I thought they missed the mark, and to be fair, it was written a few years ago, so shit’s changed again. It’s also very funny that when NZ On Air put it out, the first paragraph was 'This does not represent the viewpoint of NZ On Air'. They recommended some pretty drastic changes – That online was the future, and they were right. But they were talking about tools and mechanism that are now outdated. And fair enough, they wrote it in 2007..." AK Central • Since Nov 2006 • 116 posts Report Simon Grigg, I defy you to point out a band that sounds like The Phoenix Foundation from anywhere else. Or The Chills for that matter. Or early Enz. There is a thoroughly unique strand that goes through NZ pop which is almost continuous back to the mid sixties. On the extraordinary new PF album I can hear The Hi Revving Tongues and The Chills and Blam Blam Blam which I doubt is conscious but it's very much us. Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 2980 posts Report Peter Darlington, Word up! Nelson • Since Nov 2006 • 749 posts Report Robbie Siataga, Web shot...so feel like answering some of the questions i posed in the other thread ? in the meantime... at the heart of the problem is that, even though it has edged in that direction over time, NZ On Air is not a music funding agency.. if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and acts as the prime agency for funding music. It's a music funding agency duck.. so Russell you're gonna sit this one out and comment from the sidelines ?...pfffft Fuck the industry. What about the artists who have to compromise their art for the sake of commerce as dictated by the NZ on Air funding criteria ? As i noted earlier, Take Dawnraid as a perfect example and the complete sellout and turnaround Deceptikonz had to do to fit the radio format and funding criteria at the expense of the Homebrew crew ? Remember this and the ill fitting public sector response was to reward Dawnraid and incentivise them to produce more of this shit which to no one, even the artists themselves, in their right mind knows is even close to being commercially viable nor what anyone wants to see or hear on NZ air now or ever ? Whether or not you agree with Duncan's characterisation of the agency's "strange, uncoordinated muddling through the mists that lie between art and commerce," the strange un-coordintated muddling i liken to the GWBush jr presidency. Sure it's governed by legislative acts but within that the top dog has the power to direct policy and influence legislation. The blame for the fact that NZoA under Brendan Smyths stewardship is still muddled and un co ordinated can only lie at his feet. He's neither laid out his vision nor accepted input from others towards a newer mandate nor lobbied to change it. He's only protected his job and covered his arse while prolonging his feeding time at the public funded taxpayer trough and acted as feudal lord over the musical serfdom. He's got to go if new criteria and a new mandate are implemented. In short he's had his day and that day has been. Time to let someone else carry us forward now. We all know this. The only difference is, he's not my mate or someone i need to curry favour with so i can scream it from the hilltops but whats the point if no one else echoes it through the valleys of power. Since Feb 2010 • 259 posts Report Robbie Siataga, Web and to avoid cross threading so the good folk can wax lyrical about the auckland food and wine scene in peace i'll repost some questions here... so is Isaac a limited liability company or a paid consultant to NZoA ? The former. and you're cool with this guy and his company having a... really close working relationship with NZ ON Air, have done since 2003. We work closely with Brendan and David on the domestic side for videos, new recording and also album grants, but also work closely with Mike McClung on the international stuff as well it sits well with you that a profit driven 'music marketing company' representing artists which isn't exactly a management company nor a record label has a unique situation in that we apply and process stuff on their (artists) behalf because it makes it far more manageable. We’ll be working with five bands as opposed to a manager who has only got one. which essentially means...a special position in the supposedly unbiased ear of the funding body, to lobby on his own behalf as "Isaac", and his own record label, "Tardus", as distributed subsidiaries of Universal music. oh hang on...so what is Isaac again and who is this guy ? why does he have access to privileged information as witnessed by the meeting about the court case which prevents NZo A from doing an internal review ? Was IMNZ represented ? I would be astonished if IMNZ wasn't represented. of course you knew he is the chair of Independent Music NZ and sits on the Music Commission board as well. It would have been nice to also put his other hats up for show in that interview. Don't you think ? Sounds like not so much a conflict of interest but a rather fortuitous congruence of interests. Nice work if you can get it. Politics eh ? why bother with paid consultancy when you can 'clip the ticket'. Honestly Russell. Is this the place to be getting so deep into the rabbit hole and how far do you want to go ? And If not here then where ? It's obvious you believe the net is the future for NZoA, so does Mark Kneebone when he name checks you, even though he thinks you're initial 2007 report is past it's use by date and doesnt agree with half of it anyay...something personal there ? By the way, what happened to the report you did with Andrew Dubber ? Is it something to be updated and made more relevant given the on line changes since ? So should i be interviewing you independently on the side for my blog and asking questions like the above ?...and more such as, do you think blogs, twitter, facebook groups etc and the like are an effective means for influencing and forcing change in established institutions or is it just easily dismissable, self promotional pissing in the wind ? Since Feb 2010 • 259 posts Report Luke Williamson, To a hip hop beat . . . "He's got to go! We all know dis, We all know dis, Only difference is, He's not my mate, Or someone i need to curry favour with, So I scream it from the hilltops But whats the point, If no one else echoes it through the valleys of power. (Fading) He's got to go, We all know dis." Warkworth • Since Oct 2007 • 181 posts Report Russell Brown, But. It. Isn't. It operates under the Broadcasting Act, and it was created as the Broadcasting Commission. Maybe that should change, but you wanting it to be something else doesn't make it so. The Music Industry Commission, on the other hand, is dedicated to New Zealand music. I wouldn't be unhappy to see it given more funding to control. I think it's ludicrous to blame any of Dawn Raid's decisions on NZ On Air. They weren't delicate little artists -- they always saw themselves as businessmen. No one made them put out crappy pop records. Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 14787 posts Report Russell Brown, You really are determined to seek progress by starting feuds, aren't you? Good luck with that. FWIW, I like and respect Mark and I wouldn't expect him to agree with everything in the paper we wrote. Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 14787 posts Report Russell Brown, Yep -- that's the key point Dubber and I made in the 2007 paper. Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 14787 posts Report Robbie Siataga, Web REAL GROOVE: But if you’re the head of an organisation that is currently operating under a system of rules and governance which are no longer relevant, isn’t it your place to lobby the government to update that? Otherwise you’re risking forcing your own extinction. Your inability to fund genuinely relevant projects is going to see diminishing returns for you, which are then going to see the likelihood of cuts being more easily justified. MARK KNEEBONE: That’s exactly what they tried to do in the end of 2008, start of 2009. They commissioned a report on domestic music funding, what it was for and all the rest of it, and it got axed. The reason it got axed was nothing to do with NZ On Air. There was an ongoing court case, which is still going between PPNZ and the Radio Bureau, our radio broadcasters’ association. That was based on the value of radio airplay for radio. There were questions in the review that had to be asked such as 'How much value does your company place on radio play?' because they were looking at 'Should we be funding things for online' and all the rest of it, and of course no one from the record companies could answer those questions because they were currently in court fighting over those exact same things. There was a meeting that I can tell you about between myself, Adam Holt, Campbell Smith, Jane who runs NZ On Air, Brendan Smyth and Kristen Beauman who runs PPNZ, and we sat down and they said 'Can you do this review?' and we went through the sample questions and everyone said 'Not until this court case is over'. So what's the deal with the court case mentioned and why is it taking so long for the report to come out. Who's stalling and why ? I cna understand Chris Finlayson the Minister for Culture/heritage not having his head in the game cos he's too busy selling the Foreshore seabed "solution" but i hope someone's keeping score for him and he's capable of charging in to the ruck to free up the ball. Since Feb 2010 • 259 posts Report peter mclennan, Web Twitter "Yep -- that's the key point Dubber and I made in the 2007 paper." So, this change has been coming for nearly a decade that they still havent done zip to adjust? They can have the status quo, cos in a few years, it won't be worth squat. Leave the industry fighting over crumbs..... AK Central • Since Nov 2006 • 116 posts Report Russell Brown, It's more that no one's backing down. The broadcasters and PPNZ have very different ideas about the proper level of rights fees from radio -- which are taken as a percentage of the advertising income of a given station. Music stations pay more, mostly-talk stations pay less. And court cases just take a looooong time. Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 14787 posts Report Robbie Siataga, Web if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and acts as the prime agency for funding music. It's a music funding agency duck. But. It. Isn't. It operates under the Broadcasting Act, and it was created as the Broadcasting Commission. explain ?... semantics, in that it funds artists and labels not music ? oh right, like i dont download music. i download data. You really are determined to seek progress by starting feuds, aren't you? Good luck with that. FWIW, I like and respect Mark and I wouldn't expect him to agree with everything in the paper we wrote. out of conflict comes resolution out of chaos comes order. Maybe it'd be good for us all fif he were to pick the bits he didnt think you guys missed the mark on and expound on them...yeah ? Since Feb 2010 • 259 posts Report Russell Brown, Ah, but again: the responsible minister is Jonathan Coleman, the Minister of Broadcasting. Finlayson is responsible for Creative NZ, someone else is responsible for Trade NZ, etc. Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 14787 posts Report Robbie Siataga, Web I think it's ludicrous to blame any of Dawn Raid's decisions on NZ On Air. They weren't delicate little artists -- they always saw themselves as businessmen. No one made them put out crappy pop records. Dawnraid didn't fund the vid/tune and no one twisted NZ on Air's arm in deciding to fund it. The point is, NZoA have been more hit than miss in 10 years of funding what they think we should see and hear. It shows in the album stats you put up and when you apply that to singles and vids hardly any of it will stand the test of time. Yeah sure it got on air for about all of 2 weeks so it met the criteria but then...nada and so it should be. There's no natural selection process here, there's no evolution. Its backasswards looking de evolving NZ music to the lowest common denominator while pandering to commercial interests and foreign tastes and it sucks. Since Feb 2010 • 259 posts Report
How to Create Whiteboard Animation Videos using Videoscribe Hey! My name is Theodore and I run and own the Youtube channel PracticalPsychology. I’m here because I use Videoscribe whiteboard animations as a foundational tool for my business. In this article, you’re going to learn how to create a whiteboard animation video and how I’ve used this process to go from being broke in a dorm room to earning over $100,000 in 8 months. Also, at the end, you’ll be able to try out the premium whiteboard software I use free for 7 days, so keep reading! 1) Find your Video Idea First, you need a video idea. Creators have this common question where they ask “Do I create what I want to create, or what other people want to watch?”. The key is to find something that’s both. You can do this with a few methods: a) Check out viral videos This is how I usually find my viral videos ideas. First, you need to find Youtube channels that are similar to yours. Secondly, go to their channel, click on their videos, and then sort by most popular: After that, make note of all of their top videos. For example, mine all are about relationships and social skills, and the thumbnails are very similar. You’ll start to notice patterns of which videos are semi-viral and which ones seem to always go big. This can give you a great start on Youtube, just create videos around these topics! b) Ask your customers what they want If you’re creating an animated video for someone else, then instead of getting your video idea from other videos, you need to ask your customer what they want. I once created a sponsored video for Blinkist, a book summarization service. The video was an animated book summary and instead of trying to create a viral video… I needed to create a video that they wanted, one that delivered value and was super easy to watch. c) Think of a great video idea Other than following someone else’s formula for success or asking a customer what they want, you can create a video with a great idea that you thought up. As a great example, I was in the shower one day thinking about how I wanted to prioritize my life. Most people focus on one of the following things: Health, Wealth, Love, or Happiness. In the shower I realized that we shouldn’t focus on any of these, because it’ll take away from the other ones. In fact, what we should focus on... is wisdom and knowledge. Knowledge will make you wealthy, and with the right action it’ll make you healthy, attractive and eventually happy. So, I took this idea that I wanted to share with my audience, wrote a simple outline and turned it into a whiteboard video in less than 8 hours. 2) Writing the Script I’m going to give you a super simple formula to writing a great script. For me, to create a 5 minute video, I’ll need around 1000 words. You might speak a little faster, or a little slower, but the average person’s speaking rate is 200 words per minute (more when it’s something they’re passionate about). The key is to create an outline first. For example, I created an outline for this article that looked like this: - Introduction - How to get video ideas - How to write the script - How to narrate - How to edit your audio - Animation - How to make money from your videos Once you have a basic outline, it’s really easy to fill in the holes with your content. I suggest using stories for 2 major reasons. One, people absolutely LOVE stories. The engagement rate is higher, they watch for a longer period of time… and it’s very easy to animate a story using Videoscribe. Secondly, it’s much easier to write 1000 words if you’re telling a story. Remember in high school when you had to write those papers, but you weren’t writing what you wanted to write about? Well, for me - when I’m writing about a book I loved, or ways to get a girl to like you, or some new psychology trick - it’s super easy for me to sit down and just type for 30 minutes. Another trick, which seems to be correlated with getting more views is to include lists. Videos that include numbers in the title get more views, and videos that use lists in the videos also receive longer retention. My guess is that people are so curious to know what all the “10 greatest knockouts of all time” are, they watch until the end. I highly suggest reading your script out loud so you can get the flow and transitions of your script just how you want them. This is what I do, anyways. Also, something to think about is your Call-To-Action in the video. When you create your video, keep a CTA (Call to Action) in mind. What do you want the viewer to do after watching the video? Is it to buy a product? Is it to donate to a charity? Is it to go watch another video? Keeping your CTA clear will help you get the most results from your video, and it helps if you mention it throughout the video, instead of just at the end. 3) Narrating Instead of telling you the many ways to narrate (because there are hundreds of ways to do it), I’m going to show you the way I’ve been doing it for a few years. You’ll need a program called Audacity that will allow you to record and edit your audio. You’ll also need a microphone (and maybe an amp) to physically record your audio. I personally use the AudioTechinca 2020 and a FocusRite Scarlett Solo amp. I paid $200 for this professional setup and it’s lasted me at least 2 years. Once you hook up your recording devices and software, it’s time to record! I just read my script in front of the microphone, it’s as simple as that. It’s recommended to keep a bottle or water nearby because your voice may get hoarse or dry after speaking for a few minutes. Also note that for me… sometimes it takes saying a single line 5-6 times to say it the exact way I want to. Getting the tonality and pitch is a skill that you can improve through time and practice, so don’t be discouraged at first. In fact, you can watch my very first video to get an idea of how much I’ve improved! 4) Editing the Narration Everyone hates their voice the first time they hear it. Seriously, it’s a skill and you get used to it. It takes creating around 10 videos for that self-doubting voice of “What if everyone thinks my voice sounds weird” goes away. I’ve coached tons of online creators and the 10-video mark is where the pressure of that comes off, so expect to sound weird when you listen to your own recording. First, you’ll want to edit out all of the background noise and speaking errors. In my experience, a 10 minute narration recording will eventually end up being a 5 minute video after all the rough takes and spaces are taken out. After that, you can use a method I learned to turn your audio into something that’s beautifully played on any device anywhere. Download a program called Levelator. Export your audacity file as a .WAV file. Now open Levelator and drag-and-drop your .WAV file into Levelator. When it’s done, Levelator will create a second .WAV file that’s “fixed” and sounds much better. Now take your second .WAV file (it usually has .output added to it) and put it into a new Audacity recording and save it as a .MP3. This process takes some extra time, but it’ll greatly increase the quality of your audio when you create your whiteboard video. Also, if you want background music, now is the time to add it. It’s important you add your background music after the Levelator process, but before you start animating to reduce hassle and frustration. 5) Animating your Whiteboard Video Now that you’ve completed the recording part, it’s time to animate. Videoscribe is my favorite animation software for tons of reasons, including: - They’re cheap - They’re always updating stuff - They have a giant library of images - They include almost 200 free music tracks - Videos can be customized so you can have your own style I won’t go into the mechanics of animating, but here are some links to get you started, and a video I created a long time ago that still applies: (That video is quite old, I need to update it! I've definitely improved my animation and narrating skills) A trick I use to animate faster is to hook your desktop up with two monitors. This allows me to look at the script on one screen and Videoscribe on another screen, which greatly increases the speed at which I can finish the video. I’ll animate a paragraph or two, then edit the timings of the animation to sync them. Then I’ll animated the next paragraph and do the same thing until the video is completed. You can make very complex animated whiteboard videos with Videoscribe, or you can make super simple videos… it’s all up to how much time and effort you wish to put into your masterpiece. If you have a super strong storyline and a nice voice to listen to, the animations aren’t as important. However, having moving images on the screen definitely increases retention and engagement. 6) Monetizing your videos Since I’m a Youtuber, I am always looking for ways to increase my income and make more money from my channel. Last month, for example, I earned $2848 for around 1,500,000 views. Even though this is mostly passive income, it’s not enough to support my channel’s goals (I hire scriptwriters, animators, and other freelancers now… to help me scale) and work on other projects. Around this time last year I found a second, major way to monetize my channel more. I did this by creating an online course and then selling the course on my channel. Simply put, I looked at all of the videos on my channel and found that most of the viral ones were about relationships and dating. Using this as validation… I started outlining a 15-video course on how to be more attractive using psychology. After I finished creating all 15 videos, I made a few extra videos to put on my channel and see if anyone would buy. Within the first week, I had over 100 buyers paying $47 for the course! $4,700 for the first week was absolutely amazing compared to my Youtube adsense income. 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Previously we've used logic to represent facts and used planning algorithms to identify desirable actions. Now we reevaluate this approach by introducing uncertain information. Probability theory provides the basis for our treatment of systems that reason under uncertainty. Also, because actions are no longer certain to achieve goals, agents will need ways of weighing up the desirability of goals and the likelihood of achieving them. For this, we use utility theory. Probability theory and utility theory together constitute decision theory, which allows us to build rational agents for uncertain worlds. Uncertainty can also arise because of incompleteness and incorrectness in the agent's understanding of the properties of the environment. Uncertainty Example Let action A(t)= leave for airport t minutes before ﬂight Will A(t) get me there on time? Problems: - partial observability, noisy sensors - uncertainty in action outcomes (ﬂat tire, etc.) - immense complexity of modelling and predicting trafﬁc Hence a purely logical approach either - risks falsehood: “A(25) will get me there on time”, or - leads to conclusions that are too weak for decision making: “A(25) will get me there on time if there’s no accident on the bridge and it doesn’t rain and my tires remain intact etc etc.” (A(1440) might be safe but I’d have to stay overnight in the airport …) Other plans, such as A(50), might increase the agent's belief that it will get to the airport on time, but also increase the likelihood of a long wait. Methods for Handling Uncertainty Default/Non-monotonic Logic Make assumptions - e.g. A(i) works unless contradicted by evidence The issue is what assumptions are reasonable, and how do we handle contradictions. Probability Use the 1565 theory of Gambling to work out the probability of A(i) being correct, given the available evidence. Using first order logic fails to cope in uncertain situations because: - Laziness: failure to enumerate exceptions, qualiﬁcations, etc. (e.g. don't write down all symptoms of a disease) - Theoretical Ignorance: lack of knowledge about environment at all (e.g. know nothing about a disease) - Practical Ignorance: lack of relevant facts, initial conditions, etc. (e.g. don't know the patient's specific results for a test). Probability allows us to summarise the uncertainty that comes from laziness and ignorance. What is the 'right' thing to do? The right thing to do, the rational decision, depends on both the relative importance of various goals and the likelihood that they will be achieved (and to what degree). e.g. depends on preferences for missing flights vs long waits. Utility theory is used to represent and infer preferences Decision theory = utility theory + probability theory Subjective/Bayesian Probability These probabilities relate propositions to one’s own state of knowledge. These are not claims of a “probabilistic tendency” in the current situation (but might be learned from past experience of similar situations). Probabilities of propositions change with new evidence: e.g. - P(A(25)\|no reported accidents) = 0.06 - P(A25\|no reported accidents, 5 a.m.) = 0.15 Probability Basics Start with a set S - the sample space (e.g. [1,2,3,4,5,6] = the 6 possible rolls of a die). $s \in S$ is a sample point/possible world/atomic event. A probability space/model is a sample space where every s has an assignment (P(s)). Rules: - $0 \leq P(s) \leq 1$ - $\sum_s P(s) = 1$ - e.g. $P(1) = P(2) = P(3) = P(4) = P(5) = P(6) = \frac{1}{6}$ An event A is any subset of S.(1) e.g.(2) Random Variable Functions A random variable is a function from sample points to some range (e.g. the Reals or Booleans). Example Odd(3) = true. Odd() is the function, 3 is the sample point, true is the boolean value that is the range Probability Distribution P induces a probability distribution for any random variable X:(3) e.g.(4) Propositions A proposition is the event (the set of sample points) for which the proposition is true. Given boolean random variables A and B: - event a = set of sample points where A(s) = true - event ¬a = set of sample points where A(s)= false - event a^b = set of sample points where A(s) = true and B(s) = true With boolean variables, sample point = propositional logic model. (Where a proposition is a disjunction of atomic events in which it is true). Why use probability? The deﬁnitions imply that certain logically related events must have related probabilities, and we can show that an agent who bets according to probabilities that violate these axioms can be forced to bet so as to lose regardless of the outcome. I.e. we need to follow the axioms. Syntax for Propositions Functions have a capital letter if they're multivalued. e.g. Cavity = <true, false> vs cavity (implies it is true as only option) Propositional/Boolean Random Variables e.g. Cavity = <true, false> Discrete (finite/infinite) Random Variables e.g. Weather = <sunny, rain, cloudy, snow> Continuous (bounded/unbounded) Random Variables e.g. Temp = 21.6, or Temp < 22.0 Prior Probability Prior or unconditional probabilities of propositions are the initial probabilities that are most accurate based on a lack of new evidence. e.g. P(Cavity = true) = 0.1 and P(Weather = sunny) = 0.72 correspond to belief prior to arrival of any new evidence. A probability distribution gives values for all possible assignments: P(Weather) = <0.72,0.1,0.08,0.1> (normalised so as to sum to 1). Joint Probability A joint probability distribution for a set of Random Variables gives the probability of every atomic event (sample point) on those Random Variables. Every question about a domain can be answered by the join distribution because every event is just a sum of sample points. Probability for Continuous Variables With continuous variables we express distribution as a parameterised function. e.g. P(X=x) = U[18,26](x) = uniform density between 18 and 26. Here P's a density and hence integrates to 1. P(X = 20.5) = 0.125 really means Gaussian Density Gaussian functions describe normal distributions (commonly known as a bell curve). (6) Conditional Probability(7) Conditional or posterior probabilities (i.e. P(x\|y) (x given y). e.g. P(cavity\|toothache) = 0.8 More general observations remain valid in the face of evidence, but are not always useful. New evidence might be irrelevant and hence allow simplification. This kind of inference is crucial. e.g. P(cavity\|toothache, 49ersWin) = P(cavity\|toothache) = 0.8 Notation - Conditional Distribution: P(X,Y) = numX-elements vector of numY-elements vectors - When we know that one of the attributes is given (i.e. it = a) P(x,y, a) = 1 (e.g. P(x, y and a) Chain Rule Chain rule says that:(8) And this can be successively applied to get:(9) Inference by Enumeration We can also compute conditional probabilities, such as:(10) Normalisation General idea: compute distribution on query variable by ﬁxing evidence variables and summing over hidden variables Independence A and B are independent iff(11) Absolute independence is powerful but rare. Conditional Independence If P(X\|Y, z) = P(X\|z) and P(X\|Y, ¬z) = P(X\|¬z) then X is conditionally independent of Y given Z. (i.e. P(X\|Y, Z) = P(Z)). If we let P(Toothache,Cavity,Catch) have $2^3 −1 = 7$ independent entries, and we say that Catch (the probe pokey thingy catching) is conditionally independent of Toothache given Cavity, then we can work out the full joint distribution as: The use of conditional independence commonly reduces the size of the representation of the joint distribution from exponential to linear (over the number of things in the original P()). Bayes Rule is linked to conditional independence - our chain rule'd joint distribution is an example of a naive Bayes model. Wumpus World Pits are placed randomly, with a probability of 0.2 per square. We know the following: - $breeze = \neq breeze_{1,1} \wedge breeze_{1,2} \wedge breeze_{2,1}$ - $\text{Known }= \neq pit_{1,1} \wedge \neq pit_{1,2} \wedge \neq pit_{2,1}$ - Query is $P(Pit_{1,3}\|Known, breeze)$ - Unknown = all Pit[i,j]'s other than Pit[1,3] and Known. Hence by enumeration we have:(12) This grows exponentially with the number of squares. Using Conditional Independence The idea here is that observations (what's known and unknown) are conditionally independent of other hidden squares, given neighbouring hidden squares. We can hence define Unknown = Fringe ∪ Other $P(breeze\|Pit_{1,3},Known,Unknown) = P(breeze\|Pit_{1,3}, Known, Fringe)$ There's a bunch of maths in manipulating this, but it essentially comes down to:(13) Applying this we get the following: $P(Pit_{1,3}\|Known,breeze) = \alpha '(0.2(0.04+0.16+0.16), 0.8(0.04+0.16))$ Comes to about a Probability if 0.31 that there's a pit there, and Probability 0.69 that there isn't. With $P(Pit_{2,2}\|Known,breeze)$ we get a Probability of 0.86 that there's a pit there, and a probability of 0.14 that there isn't.
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On the back wall, just between the postcards and teacups with sacral motives, a fragment of an 8th-century mosaic is displayed in the wooden frame. Pope John VII commissioned the large mosaic (9×6 meters in full dimensions) for an Oratory of the Virgin inside the old St. Peter’s Basilica. Besides this one, its pieces are now scattered between Florence, Orte and Vatican Grottoes. Hadrian I, the pope who ruled in the late 8th century, took many relics from the early Christian catacombs in Rome and housed them in a crypt beneath the main altar of the basilica. This crypt is also available for visits, yet most of the tourists head towards the exit sign. Rome’s oldest monument with NO tourist on the horizon Some 100 meters away from Santa Maria in Cosmedin, beneath the Ponte Palatino, one of the oldest monuments in Rome awaits its visitors! But no one arrives. It seems that Rome does not pay adequate care to Cloaca Maxima’s historical significance, so it looks like a trash site mainly attracting the homeless people. It is apparently the place where they feel no one will disturb them! There is no pedestrian crossing leading to this place on the Tiber river bank. There is no signpost saying that Cloaca Maxima (“greatest sewer”) is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world. Built in the 6th century before Christ, it was carrying the stormwater from Forum Romanum. Later it was bringing toilet and public baths waste into the Tiber. And today, the trickle of water attracting local ducks shows that the system is still in use! What a masterpiece of engineering! When bizarre sites become the mainstream attraction, there is something very contradictory about it Bocca della Verita or something special? Bocca della Verita might be one of the most famous mouth stones in the world. The face supposedly represents a pagan god. It was placed on the porch of the church in 1632, which is already an unusual event. Especially if we know that they built Santa Maria in Cosmedin over the remains of the Temple of Hercules Pompeianus, Roman god hero. Church’s fight against paganism was obviously not efficient. Even today, more people push their hand into the Mouth of Truth, than into the holy water at the church entrance. I am not advocating for religious tourism at all. I understand that quirky histories are attractive. They attract me as well! But do we get to choose the ones we like, or do we just follow where the crowds go? When bizarre sites become the mainstream attraction, there is something very contradictory about it. Distracting attractions What are we actually looking for when we travel? Aren’t we in search of unique experiences that will improve the ways we see the world? The way we see ourselves? Looking at the hundreds waiting in the line to act out Gregory Peck’s famous movie scene, I started to think that maybe we are not looking for anything special. Perhaps traveling enables us to feel connected with others, to feel the same as others. Maybe the ultimate touristic goal is indeed to try to hold the Leaning Tower of Pisa from collapsing! Maybe faking a smile in front of the Colosseum or pushing our hand into Bocca della Verita is indeed what makes us feel we traveled the world. I prefer not to stand in the line for half an hour just to get a picture everyone else got. If that waiting will divert my gaze from St. Valentine’s bones, hidden mosaic, underground crypt and ancient Roman sewer, however dirty it might be, was the waiting worth it? If all of us would consider that attractions are sometimes distractions, wouldn’t discovering the world suddenly become a never-ending adventure? What are your favorite ways of exploring the new places? 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Updated v5.5 to v5.6 Alpha 19.4 B7 StableEdited MeleeHandItem (GiantHounds) Greater Dmg Re-Balanced War3zukHDWeaponParts Schematics Re-Balanced War3zukHDWeapons Schematics Re-Balanced War3zukHDBenches Schematics Re-Balanced War3zukHDBenchAddons Schematics Re-Balanced War3zukHDTools Schematics Re-Balanced War3zukHDAmmo Schematics Re-Balanced War3zukHDMilitary Schematics Re-Balanced Finable Packages Launcher Edits: Fixed Marauder Correctly Set To 4x4 Skills Balanced Demos Balanced Dogs Balanced Phantasms Updated Bdubs Vehicles OverhaulUpdated v5.4 to v5.5 19.3 B6 STABLE ONLYEdited AirCon Sound / Distance (Multiples Will Still Be Loud) Removed War3zukHDFoods (All Places Except Ovens / Microwave) Re-Balanced All Loot Tables (Slower Gameplay) Removed Reload Multiplier Bonus (HD Guns) Fixed Multiplier For HD Desert Eagle Fixed Multiplier For HD Desert Eagle Punisher Rebuilt HD Desert Eagle Rebuilt HD Desert Eagle Punisher Updated Localization Animals And Zombies Added Primate's Run N Gun JuiceLauncher Edits:Added NukaSafe To Prefab (Nuka Recipe) Edited QualTemplate For Nuka Recipe Updated 0-CreaturePackAnimals Buffs Updated CompoPack C47 Edited Balanced Snow Zombies Balanced Wasteland Zombies Balanced Forrest ZombiesUpdated v5.3 to v5.4 19.3 B6 STABLE ONLYEditedUpdated v5.2 to v5.3 19.3 B6 STABLE ONLYAdded TwistedAngels Peach Cobbler (Campfire + Pot) Edited HD Flame Thrower Ammo (HD AmmoBench) Fixed Recipes For Canned Beef,Chicken,Lamb Updated Vehicle Addons Icons Adjusted ChunkMargin In Desert (Fps) Edited HD Vending Coke Model Colider Removed PlantHP Due To Bug Launcher Edits: Edited Juggernaut Hp Edited Juggernaut Dmg Edited Juggernaut MissilesUpdated v5.1 to v5.2 19.2B4 STABLE ONLYEdited CntBoxJammed (Lootlist 51 Medical) Added Ability To Craft HD Schematics (HD PicsBench) Added Resource Catagory To HD PicsBench Added Resource Code To All Schematics (Shows In HD PicsBench) Fixed PlayerVendingMachine Bug (Doron) Edited HD Dart Trap (Unlocked PerkEngineering) Edited HD Blade Trap (Unlocked PerkEngineering) Edited HD Tesla Coil (Unlocked PerkEngineering) Launcher Edits: Adjusted Juggernaut HP Added Juggernaut To Wasteland Night Edited Khelldon Screamer Bears (HP) Updated Snuffkins Zombies (Removed HandMelee) Edited Snuffkins Zombies (SpawnGroups) Added War3zuk Alpha 19 AIO 160 BBM Addon 10 CQ (Zipped) Added War3zuk Alpha 19 AIO 160 BBM Addon 15 CQ (Zipped)Updated v5.0 to v5.1 19.2B4 STABLE ONLYEdited HD Mini Hatchet Organic Dmg Edited HD Tazas Hatchet Organic Dmg Added Tikkids Peppered Beef Strips (CampFire + Grill) Added Inxanitys Taco Surprise (CampFire + Grill) Added Coach's Chilli Donner Kebab (CampFire + Grill) Added RescourceBlood (BloodBags) Fixed 105 BackPack Recipe UI Overlap Fixed LockedRecipe UI Fixed BookPanel/Size Brass Scrapping Time Now Balanced Launcher Edits: 160 BackPack UI Complete Fixed Trader Spawning Bug Added Moddified 0-CreaturePackMechs Updated 0-CreaturePackAnimalsUpdated v4.9 to v5.0 19.2B4 STABLE ONLYAdded MagExtender To Correct Weapons Added DrumMag To Correct Weapons Added HD Advanced Shredder Ammo Removed x8 Scope From HD Winchester 1866 Unlocked Items ModSlots Unlocked Weapons ModSlots Edited GiantDemolisher Walk Speed/Agro Edited GiantDemolisherRad Walk Speed/Agro Edited GiantDemolisherFire Walk Speed/Agro Fixed HD Cement Mixer Addons Schematic (Ta factura/Cert) Rebuilt WanderingHordes Template Rebuilt Animal Groups Spawning Removed Duplicate Zombie Entries Added HD Union Roasted (High Grade Coffee Drink) Rebalanced Some Food Bonuses Added Rad Animals Back Added Radiated Glow To All Rad Zombies Edited Vanilla Animal Spawning Groups Edited Vanilla Zombie Spawning Groups Launcher Edits: Updated Creature Pack Zombies Updated Creature Pack Animals Added HD Mumpfy Skins Modlet Edited xcostum_Firestation Removed TestLootBox Important Work In Progress Added NEW Modlet 160 Backpack Intergrated Into AIO Important Delete The Following Folder To Remove War3zuk Alpha 19 AIO 160 BBM ADDONUpdated v4.8 to v4.9 (Switching From 19.1 To 19.2B4 WILL Require a FRESH Game !!)Added HD BR1NXlS Booper Schematic Added HD BR1NXlS Booper Schematic Icon Edited Added HD BR1NXlS Booper Recipe (Crafted HD WorkBench) Replaced ALL Ammo With HP Rounds (Classes) Replaced Farmer Magnum .44 With Pump ShotGun Replaced ShotGunSlugs With ShotGun Shells Replaced GunMan Military Parts With CnC Addons Added ModHelmetLight To Miner Class LootTemplate Rebalancing (WIP) TemplateT0 TemplateT1 TemplateT2 TemplateT3 Fixed HD High Torque Motor Code Trader VM Loot Re-Balanced Edited Wandering Hordes (Territorial Yes) Added HD M1 Garand (HD Gunman PreReq 5) Added HD Royal Enfield (HD Gunman PreReq 5) Fixed HD Colt M1911 Localization Added HD Colt M1911A Silencer Fixed HD MossBerg 500 Reflex Sight Added HD MossBerg 500 Reflex Recipe Adjusted HD MossBerg 500 Reticle Edited HD War3zuk Moto (Craft Area HD WorkBench) Edited HD War3zuk 4x4 (Craft Area HD WorkBench) Edited HD M4A1 Carbine Reticle Edited HD Spas 12 (All Variants) Reticle Edited HD Snub Shotty Reticle,Code,Dmg Edited HD Auger Recipe (Motortoolparts) Edited HD Chainsaw Recipe (Motortoolparts) Edited Warm Chunk Foods (Buy Price) Edited HD First Aid Kit Recipe (Vanilla ChemBench) Replaced HD Cement Mixer Addons As Follows HD Motor Upgrade HD Fittings Upgrade HD Drum Upgrade Adjusted Grand Spartans Blade Dmg Slightly Adjusted Mrs Spartans Blade Dmg Slightly Adjusted MajorZNations MeatFeast Pizza Recipe Adjusted FaxFoxs Furr Burger Recipe Adjusted Curmudgeons Beef Chili Pie Recipe Adjusted Warm Chunky Beef Recipe Adjusted BR1NXls HotPot Pizza Stew Recipe Adjusted Lovers Pizza Recipe Adjusted Warm Chunky Lamb Recipe Adjusted Warm Chunky Surprise Recipe Adjusted Warm Chunky Pasta Recipe Adjusted Warm Chunky Vegetable Stew Recipe Adjusted Warm Chunky Meat Stew Recipe Adjusted Warm Chunky Sham Chowder Recipe Adjusted Warm Chunky Hobo Stew Recipe Adjusted BUFFBloodDraw Penalty (30s Too 300s) Adjusted BUFFBloodDrawSideEffect Penalty (600s Too 300s) Edited HD Scrap Iron Tools (No Longer Sellable) Adjusted HD Ammo Care Package Adjusted HD Food Care Package Adjusted HD Medicine Care Package Adjusted HD Resource Care Package Added HDplantedMushroom1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedYucca1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedCotton1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedCoffee1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedGoldenrod1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedAloe1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedBlueberry1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedPotato1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedChrysanthemum1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedCorn1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedHop1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedSnowberry1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Added HDplantedPumpkin1 (No Light Or Water Needed) Fixed HD BlunderBuss Mag Size Added Main Radiation Quest Line Added Quest Line Icons Adjusted HD Hazmat Fiber Recipe Added HD Hazmat Mask Recipe Added HD Hazmat Gloves Recipe Added HD Hazmat Jacket Recipe Added HD Hazmat Pants Recipe Added HD Hazmat Boots Recipe Main Quest Changes Include The Following HD Engineer PreReq 5 Reward = HD Hazmat Mask Schematic HD Farmer PreReq 5 Reward = HD Hazmat Gloves Schematic HD Gunman PreReq 5 Reward = HD Hazmat Jacket Schematic HD Medic PreReq 5 Reward = HD Hazmat Pants Schematic HD Cook PreReq 5 Reward = HD Hazmat Boots Schematic Added HD Hazmat Fiber Schematic) Added HD Hazmat Gloves (Armor Addon) Added HD Hazmat Jacket (Armor Addon) Added HD Hazmat Pants (Armor Addon) Added HD Hazmat Boots (Armor Addon) Edited XPToLevel (11,000) OLD (7500) Vanilla (10,000) Launcher Edits: Converted Prefabs To Radiation (HazMat Suit Required) ResearchVessel_Pille_War3zukEdit Nuclear_plant_Rocky_War3zukEdit SecretBunker_Pille_War3zukEdit War3zuk_Military_Base Removed BlotFlies Removed 450 Files From Prefabs (Bad Fps POIs) Fixed Xcostum_Bank(ByGuppy) Texture Flickering Added The Following Custom Maps War3zukAIOMultiBiome8K War3zukAIOWasteLand8K War3zukAIOMultiBiome10K War3zukAIOWasteLand10KUpdated v4.7 to v4.8 (Switching From 19.0 To 19.1B8 WILL Require a FRESH Game !!)**************Added HD Hazmat Fiber Schematic (Found In Army Trucks Only)) Quest Reward Added HD Hazmat Gloves (Armor Addon) Quest Reward Added HD Hazmat Jacket (Armor Addon) Quest Reward Added HD Hazmat Pants (Armor Addon) Quest Reward Added HD Hazmat Boots (Armor Addon) Quest Reward Edited XPToLevel (10,500) OLD (7500) Vanilla (10,000) Added Converted Prefabs To Radiation (HazMat Suit Required)************Adjusted The Following Recipes Shaved Ice OrigamiGurus Pain Meds HD Impact Wrench Grand Spartans Blade Mrs Spartans Blade HD Tesla Fence HD wood Bars Centered HDGlock18Auto HDMotor125cc HDMotor250cc HDMotor500cc War3zuks Stoggy StormFall Monster Cola Fixed HD Blunderbuss Dmg Added ScyFangs Sweet Pumpkin Pie (CampFire + Grill) Added ScyFangs Sweet Pumpkin Pie Custom PBR Model Added MajorZNations MeatFeast Pizza (CampFire + Grill) Added MajorZNations MeatFeast Pizza Custom PBR Model Edited HD Working Dispenser (Inventory Removed) This Is So It Doesnt Show As Jammed When Spawned Rebuilt Spawning Code As Follows Rebuilt biome Spawning Code Rebuilt Entity Spawning Code Adjusted HD Colt M1911 Dmg (Base_Add) Adjusted HD Colt M1911A Dmg (Base_Add) Adjusted HDGlock18Auto Dmg (Base_Add) Launcher Edits: Updated SMXHud Updated SMXMenu Updated SMXLib Enabled TargetBar OverlayUpdated v4.6 to v4.7 (Switching From 19.0 To 19.1B8 WILL Require a FRESH Game !!)Edited Buried Supplies Quests (Non Sharable) Added HD Royal Enfield PBR Model (Paid) Added HD Royal Enfield Icons 256x256 Added HD Royal Enfield Schematic Added HD Royal Enfield MuzzleFlash Adjusted HD M1 Garand Muzzle Flash Reduced Gained XP From HD Schematics Reduced Chance For Spawned SniperRifle Type Schematics Added HD Deco Chimney Added GraceCornGlue To Campfire Adjusted War3zuk Stoggy (craftTime) Updated Camoes Biffana Icon Updated Buried Supplies Quests Code Added CntBuriedSupplies Tier 1 Added CntBuriedSupplies Tier 2 Added CntBuriedSupplies Tier 3 Added CntBuriedSupplies Tier 4 Added CntBuriedSupplies Tier 5 Added CntBuriedSupplies Tier 6 Added cntBuriedLootT1 Box + SubBox Added cntBuriedLootT2 Box + SubBox Added cntBuriedLootT3 Box + SubBox Added cntBuriedLootT4 Box + SubBox Added cntBuriedLootT5 Box + SubBox Added cntBuriedLootT6 Box + SubBox WasteLand And Sub Biomes Launcher Edits: Updated Sparrow MultiTrader (Better FPS) Added Underground Train PrefabUpdated v4.5 to v4.6Final Patch For Alpha 19.0 Stable Added M1 Garand PBR Model (Paid) Added M1 Garand LiveFire Sounds Added M1 Garand Iconic Ping On Eject Added M1 Garand Icons Added M1 Garand Schematic Added RabidAries Cute Chick Pie PBR Model (Paid) Updated RabidAries Cute Chick Pie Recipe Rebuilt HD Desert Eagle Model Adjusted HD Desert Eagle Reflex Sight Adjusted HD Desert Eagle Mag Size, Dmg Adjusted HD Desert Eagle Punisher Reflex Sight Removed PerkGunSlinger From The Following Guns These Guns Are Already Maxed Out (Fixes Animations) HD Glock18 Auto HD Colt M1911 HD Colt M1911A HD Desert Eagle HD Desert Eagle Punisher HD Mac10 Auto HD M3 Auto HD HK33 Hybrid HD AK Hybrid ACP Removed PerkBoomStick From The Following Guns These Guns Are Already Maxed Out (Fixes Animations) HD Blunderbuss (Dmg Comp Added) HD Double Barrel (Dmg Comp Added) HD Double Barrel Snub (Dmg Comp Added) Fixed HD Cement Mixer Ambient Sound Adjusted HD Karabiner 98k DmgUpdated v4.4 to v4.5Added GraceCornGlue To Campfire Updated HD Pump Jack Code Updated HD Pump Jack Material Updated HD First Aid Kit Recipe Updated resourceGlue Recipe Updated resourceGlue Recipe Updated HD High Torque Motor Recipe Updated HD Cell Recipe Added MagExtender Mod To HD Double Barrel Snub HD Spas 12 (All Versions) HD MossBerg 500 Added StackSize 25k To MedicalSplint MedicalBandage MedicalFirstAidBandage Adjusted All HD Spas 12 Aim Down Sight Launcher Edits: Removed 0-CreaturePackHumansUpdated v4.3 to v4.4Fixed HD Concrete Barrier Sell Price Fixed HD Modular Wall Sell Price Added HD War3zuk Moto (Motorbike) Added HD War3zuk 4x4 (4x4 Truck) Added HD War3zuk Buggy (Dune Buggy) Added Localization For HD Power Relay Added MuzzleBreak Mod To HD GlockG5 Auto Removed Vanilla Silencer HD Mac10 Auto Removed Vanilla Silencer HD Desert Eagle Removed Vanilla Silencer HD Desert Eagle Punisher Adjusted Texs Squirrel Bits Timer 30s Fixed HD Impact Wrench Recipe (HDToolAndDieSet) Animal LootTemplate Updated Fixed PumpJack Localization Code Updated HD Weapon Sounds (IceMachine.ogg) Final Loot Rebalance Stable 19.0 Added HD Ice Machine Vanilla Model Added HD Ice Machine Localization Code Added HD Ice Machine 256x256 Icons Removed Old Shaders From The Following Models HD Cement Mixer HD PicsBench HD JukeBoxs HD Mini Hatchet HD Taza Hatchet HD Paintings XXX HD Penthrox Injection HD Shuriken Katana HD Wakizashi Katana HD Dragon Katana Updated The Following Models To Unity 2019.2 HD Impact Wrench Launcher Edits: Updated Bdubs Vehicle Overhaul Updated Gamestage.xml Updated 0-CreaturePackAnimals Updated 0-CreaturePackZombies Edited 0-CreaturePackAnimals Edited 0-CreaturePackHumans (Removed Ambient Sounds) Removed 0-CreaturePackHumans Will do a stripped down version at some pointUpdated v4.2 to v4.3 (READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE APPLYING THIS PATCH)Fixed Hd Taza Hatchet (Repair Smallstone) Removed Old Shader From The Following Models HD BedRoll cntDumpster HD Colt M1911A Added RyuSen101's Ramen Noodles (Campfire + Cookingpot) Removed Excluded Biome (Wasteland) Vanilla xml Added All Vanilla Quests To Wasteland Biome Added Localization For All HD Bench Addons Launcher Edits: Fixed War3zuk Military Camp Prefab Updated 0-CreaturePackAnimals Updated 0-CreaturePackHumans Updated 0-CreaturePackZombies Added OilShale To Deco Ores Fixed 2 Prefabs Causing Restart Errors xcostum_PeerCafe(by_Stallionsden) xcostum_Stallionsdens_Ranch(by_Stallionsden)Updated v4.1 to v4.2Added medicalFirstAidBandageSchematic Removed MedicalFirstAidKit Added HD Silver Ingot (Sellable) Added HD Gold Ingot (Sellable) Added HD Diamond Ingot (Sellable) Launcher Edits: Experimental Branch Added OfficialWar3zukAIOMap Custom Map (Edited) Added War3zukWasteLandAIO (100% WasteLand) Added Code To Quest XML So Trader Quests Work Updated 0-CreaturePackAnimals Updated 0-CreaturePackHumans Updated 0-CreaturePackZombiesUpdated v4.0 to v4.1Fixed HD Scrap Wrench Recipe Added HD Scrap Wrench Localization Fixed HD Impact Wrench Schematic Scrap Recipe Balanced Schematics Drops (Down .1) Launcher Edits: Removed xcostum_SuperStore(by_Volar) Bad FPS Combined CompoPack 45 B180 Added Custom NitroMap (War3zukMPAIO) All Wasteland Added Oil_Shale To WasteLand Decoration Added Oil_Shale To WasteLand Viens Removed WasteLand Cinderpiles Removed Wasteland ScrapPilesUpdated v3.8 to v3.9 Alpha 19 Stable B180Fixed HD Juke Box ASevenfold Recipe Updated Recipes For Custom Foods Updated toolAnvil Code Updated toolBellows Code Added Tex's Squirrel Bits Removed SmallTopAttachments From HD Colt M1911 HD Colt M1911A HD Desert Eagle HD Desert Eagle Punisher HD Spas 12 (All 5) Launcher Edits: Adjusted KheldonScreamerBearsUpdated v3.7 to v3.8 Alpha 19 Stable B180Added RabidAries Cute Chick Pie (Campfire + Grill) Fixed LockedLootContainerBoxCode Fixed LockedVehicleLootCode Fixed HD BR1NXlS Booper Xml Fixed HD BR1NXlS Booper Recipe Launcher Edits: Removed Fluffy Bottoms pet Store (Bad FPS) Removed xcostum_Multi_Trader_by_Sparrow (Bad FPS) Updated Laotseu PaintJob (Big Update)Updated v3.6 to v3.7 Alpha 19 Stable B180Following Items Are Sellable To Traders HD Ruck Sack Upgrade HD Armor Reinforced Padding HD Armor Plastic Plating HD Armor Military Plating HD Armor Scrap Plating HD Armor Iron Plating HD Armor Steel Plating HD Aero Dynamics Upgrade HD Fuel Saver Upgrade HD Head lights Upgrade HD Turbo Upgrade HD Night Vision Helmet Light Added Grabbys Chilli Cheese Fries Balanced Ethans Bam Hammer (Secondary Attack) Balanced HD Xcalibur (Secondary Attack) Added DrFuzzies Avenged Jukebox Removed Vanilla Chainsaw Recipe (No Idea Why That Was There) Launcher Edits: Updated Apoc MultiTrader (Better FPS) Updated xcostum_VarietiesDepartmentStore(by_Stallionsden) Updated xcostum_PeerCafe(by_Stallionsden) Updated xcostum_FarmerJoesNursery(by_Stallionsden) Updated xcostum_LMART_Garage(byStallionsden) Removed A Few Larger Laggy Prefabs rwgmixer Edits, StallionsDen Prefabs Set To 2Updated v3.5 to v3.6 Alpha B180 Version PatchHD Noob Block Upgrade Rate Defaulted At 2Mins HD Night Vision Helmet Light Addon Idea For The Night Vision Helmet Addon (Nikolay Lopatyuk) Find The Trader Quest Paper (Crafted On Player) This WILL Reset Your Player But Old Saves Will Work Quests Buried Supplies Tier 1 To 6 B180 (This Will Reset Player Stats) Launcher Edits: Edited Clown Nauti-Baskin Animal Sanctuary FixedUpdated v3.4 to v3.5 Alpha B178 Version PatchReadded Spas 12 Sounds Readded MossBerg 500 Sounds Find The Trader Quest Paper (Crafted On Player) Commented Out On Purpose As It Will Reset Characters Will Enable On The Next Exp Update From The Fun Pimps Rebuild Trader Code Opening Times 5:59am Closing Times 11:59pm Reset Interval 1 Day All Traders 1 To 8 Rebalanced The Following Groups B178 War3zukHDWeaponParts War3zukHDWeapons War3zukHDBenches War3zukHDBenchAddons War3zukHDTools War3zukHDMilitary War3zukHDFlares War3zukHDCarePackages War3zukHDFoods Launcher Edits: Added Bdubs Vehicle OverHaul Kheldon Screamer Bears AdjustedUpdated v3.3 to v3.4 Alpha B178 Version PatchRebuilt HD Knife Code Fixed GlockG5 Modded Ammo Updated Recipes On The Following Congealed Metal Steel Polish Titanium Polish HD Knife Removed M60_Fire From HD Karabiner 98k Added Shaved Ice Added Pikalyns Patbingsu (Made On Character) Updated Recipe For The Following HD GunBench HD WorkBench HD PicsBench HD AmmoBench Launcher Edits: Removed <property name="LookAtAngle" value="0"/>Updated v3.2 to v3.3 Alpha B178 Version PatchMenu Button Alignment Complete B177 Changed Vanilla medicalBandage (Apply Anytime) Changed Vanilla medicalSplint (Apply Anytime) Changed Vanilla medicalPlasterCast (Apply Anytime) Updated Recipes As Follows HD Rocket Launcher HDRocketLauncherNukeRound Warm Chunky Meat Stew Warm Chunky Sham Chowder Warm Chunky Hobo Stew Warm Chunky Steak And Potato HDScrapIronAxe HDScrapIronPickAxe HDScrapIronShovel HDScrapIronClub HDScrapIronShiv HDCncHandGuns HDCncAutomatics HDCncRifles Launcher Edits: Removed ALL FireArms Bandits IE Guns Xyth Rebalanced 0-CreaturePackZombies Xyth Rebalanced 0-CreaturePackHumans Xyth Rebalanced 0-CreaturePackAnimalsUpdated v3.1 to v3.2 Alpha B177 Version PatchRebuilt Backpack XUI Code B177 Added BunnyNZs Bacon And Egg Pie (Campfire + Pot) Added Curmudgeons Beef Chili Pie (Campfire + Pot) Adjusted HD Desert Eagle Handling Adjusted HD Desert Eagle Punisher Handling Rebuilt Shock Ammo Code Rebuilt Inc Ammo Code Rebuilt HD Mac10 Auto Code Rebuilt HD M3 Auto Code + Aim Down Sight Rebuilt HD HK33 Hybrid Code Rebuilt HD AK Hybrid ACP Code Rebuilt Cook Quest Class B177 Edited Farmer Class (Magnum) Edited Medic Class (DesertVulture) Launcher Edits: Added WidowSpider 01 Added WidowSpider 02 Added WidowSpider 03Updated v3.0 to v3.1 Alpha B173 Version PatchRemoved War3zuk 4x4 (Now PaintJob Modlet)Rebalanced Loot Tables B173 Edited HD Truck Elevator x5 Act Distance Edited HD Truck Elevator x10 Act Distance Added HD Truck Elevator x5 Sound Added HD Truck Elevator x10 Sound Added radiatorHouse01 To Regrow (360) Rebuilt Building Supply Flare Code (Rebalanced Loot) Rebuilt Health Supply Flare Code (Rebalanced Loot) Rebuilt Ammo Supply Flare Code (Rebalanced Loot) Rebuilt Food Supply Flare Code (Rebalanced Loot) Adjuted HD Electrolyte Recipe (Craft On Player) Fixed Titanium Polish Localization Updated Texture HD Gas Generator Updated Texture HD Generator Launcher Edits: Sly Ship Spawns Balanced Animal Sanctuary Fixed Spawns Balanced Removed 15 Prefabs (Bad FPS) Rebalanced Supply Crate Loot 0-CreaturePackAnimals Updated 0-CreaturePackHumans Updated 0-CreaturePackZombies Updated Added PaintJob Modlet By EricUpdated v2.9 to v3.0 Alpha B173 Version PatchAdded War3zuk 4x4 (By Éric Beaudon) Updated HD Spas 12 Model (Paid) Updated HD MossBerg 500 (Paid) Updated HD Class Builder (Paid) Fixed HD Vulcan 9mm Updated HD Vulcan 7.62mm Updated HD Vulcan 50mm Launcher Edits: RWGmixer File Finished Removed Xvanilla For Less Duping Edited Sleepers On SlyShip Edited Sleepers On Animal Sanctuary Edited Flashing Lights From Rave Factory PrefabUpdated v2.8 to v2.9 Alpha B173 Version PatchRebuilt (itemInfoPanel UI) Re-Balanced Animal Spawns Re-Balanced Phantasm Spawns Re-Balanced Demo Spawns Re-Balanced Vulture Spawns Added HD BlunderBuss PBR Model (Paid) Added HD BlunderBuss Mag Extender Removed Old Addons Adjusted Light Mod Position Launcher Edits: Re-Balanced Spider Spawns Added Custom Alpha 18.4 To Alpha 19 Hybrid RWGMixer File Updated CompoPack 44 From MagoliUpdated v2.7 to v2.8 Alpha B173 Version PatchUpdated ToolAnvil Added Naoyans Yakitori (Campfire + Grill) Updated Buried Supplies Quests Balanced Rebuilt Cook Quest Tier 1 To 5 Tier 1 1x 5 Custom Food Tier 2 2x 5 Custom Food Tier 3 3x 5 Custom Food Tier 4 4x 5 Custom Food Tier 5 5x 5 Custom Food Rebuild Lovers Pizza (1 Recipe Now) Rebuilt Donnas Fubar Stew (1 Recipe Now) Fixed Localization For The Following Ipossoms Pavlova MsTeresas Burger Patty Fixed UI Window Issue From B163 Launcher Edits: Xyth Fixed GuppyInsect Added Murder Hornet Insect Added Mods Section To Bdubs Vehicles Creature Packs UpdatedUpdated v2.6 to v2.7 Alpha B169 Version PatchZombieLootDropBag PBR Model (Final) This Is What It Will Be From Now On Added 2m Tall Craftable Version Rebuilt HD Tactical AR PBR Model (Paid) Added HD Tactical AR Silencer PBR Model (Paid) Added HD Tactical AR Reflex PBR Model (Paid) Added HD Tactical AR Scope PBR Model (Paid) Added Icons 256x256 Re-Balanced Warm Chunky Foods Stam,Food,Health Fixed CntBedroll Placement Launcher Edits: CreaturePack Humans Edits Balanced NPC Bandits Balanced NPC Bandits Block Dmg Switched From GitHub To GitLab (Includes) Will Be Active At Next Patch Official World (War3zukAIOAlpha19) Full CompoPack Alpha 19 Build 44 EditedUpdated v2.5 to v2.6 Alpha B169 Version PatchHD War3zuk Dune Buggy XML Code Balanced Khaine's PreLoad Code HD WoodBars Upgrade DownGrade Path Fixed Rebuilt HD Auger Code Rebuilt HD Chainsaw Code Fixed HD Desert Eagle Not Seeing Its Scope Fixed HD Desert Eagle Punisher Not Seeing Its Scope Fixed HD Dragunov SVD Not Seeing Its Scope Fixed CntCoffin Code Added 2 Coffin Variants Added Modified Compo Pack Launcher Edits: NPC Bandits All Short Range NPC Humans Mid Ranged Added Modified Compo PackUpdated v2.4 to v2.5 Alpha B169 Version PatchAdded HD War3zuk Dune Buggy PBR Model (Paid) Added Icons 256x256 Added NavUI Icons 256x256 Unlocked Via GreaseMonkey L4 Fixed HD Shotguns Bad RNG Code Fixed HD Scrap Tools Code Fixed Engineering Class Crossbow Added 256x256 Icon For Crash Bandicoot Statue Edited Zombie AI (Improved Sight Threshold Hopefully) Edited CntHospitalBed (Sound) Rebuilt Spawn Groups Animals Rebuild Spawn Groups Zombies Launcher Edits: Added The Following Prefabs To Quests,Fetch,Clear L1 Nauti Burrows (Harry Potter Film) Nauti Lattez Club Nauti Pentagon Building Nauti Baskin Animal Sanctuary War3zuk Housing Block War3zuk JailHouse War3zuk Bike Repair Shop War3zuk Multi Storey Plazza Adjusted SlyShip Sleeper Spawning Added 0-CreaturePackAnimals (Xyth Community Project) Added 0-CreaturePackZombies (Xyth Community Project) Added 0-CreaturePackHumans (Xyth Community Project) Edited Zombie AI (Improved Sight Threshold Hopefully) NPC Bandits No Longer Attack ZombiesUpdated v2.3 to v2.4 Alpha B169 Version Patch NEW GAME IS ADVISEDRebuilt Spawning Code Rebuilt Giant Animals Rebuilt Demos Rebuilt Phantasm's Fixed Spawning Code Fixed Entity Code Adjusted Entity Group Spawns B169 Launcher Edits: Readded Full Patched SMX UI System Update 2 Prefabs (B169 Changes)Updated v2.2 to v2.3 Alpha B169 Version Patch NEW GAME IS ADVISEDAdded SuperCorn Glue Adjusted HD Forge Particle Adjusted HD Working Fire particle Added Vanilla Bonus To Bundle Crafting Added Entity ZombiePhantom Added Entity ZombiePhantomFire Added Entity ZombiePhantomRAD Removed Minion Lootbag Added Crash Bandicoot Custom PBR Model (Paid) Removed CandyTin From Recipes B169 Changes Rebuilt HD Breaching C4 Rebuild HD Land Mine ADDED CUT OFF LINE TO THE EntityClasses.XML Follow Its Instructions If You Wish To Remove The Custom RuckSacks For Player & LootUpdated v2.1 to v2.2 Alpha B163 Version PatchFixed Bench UI Interactions Rebuilt HD Gas Generator Code Rebuilt HD Generator Code Adjusted HD Desert Eagle Punisher Cross Hair Rebuilt Fubar Steak Code Rebuilt Donnas Fubar Stew Code Rebuilt Baby Chick Code Rebuilt Chicken Nuggets Code Rebuilt KillJoyJessicas HotWings Code CokaGamings Flaming Hot Cheetos (Campfire + Cookinpot) Rebuilt HD Colt M1911 Code Rebuilt HD Colt M1911A Code Removed x2 x4 Scopes From HD Arctic Warfare Fixed HD Arctic Warfare Scope Removed x2 x4 Scopes From HD Cheytac M300 Fixed HD Cheytac M300 Scope Rebuilt HD MossBerg 500 PBR Model (Paid) Rebuilt HD MossBerg Silencer PBR Model (Paid) Added HD MossBerg Reflex PBR Model (Paid) Adjusted All Sights Rebuilt HD Dragunov SVD AnimationUpdated v2.0 to v2.1 Alpha B163 Version PatchHD Spas 12 Addons Fixed Fixed Spas Aim Down Sights HD Mossberg 500 Addons Fixed Fixed HD Mossberg 500 Aim Down Sights Added QueenOfScreamz8s Chili Burrito (CampFire + Grill) Added Papas Bare Back Ribs (CampFire + Grill) Replaced Old free Xcalibur Model Added HD Xcalibur PBR Model (Paid) Added HD Xcalibur HD Icon Updated Ethans Bam Hammer Addon Position Updated Iron Axe Addon Position Update XUI Code Launcher Edits: Fixed UI Issue Removed No Longer Used Scrap Edited UI Patch Health BarUpdated v1.9 to v2.0 Alpha B163 Version PatchAdjusted HD RuckSack Upgrade Loot Chance Rebuilt HD Breaching C4 Code Following Items Can Now Upgrade To Titanium HD Mini Hatchet HD Tazas HatchetUpdated v1.8 to v1.9 Alpha B163 Version PatchFixed CntGasPump Model Rebalanced Loot (According To B163 Update) Fixed Loot Probability Template Fixed Buried Supplies LootGroup Added Custom Sound Desert Vulture Fixed Care Packages Not Stacking Fixed Military Tablets Not Stacking Added HD RuckSack Upgrades To Army Trucks Dumpsters Lockers Launcher Edits: Eddied Sparrow Multi Trader (30fps Extra)Updated v1.7 to v1.8 Alpha B163 Version PatchUpdated 4 War3zuk Custom Prefabs Added Diggitys Chilli Pork Chops (CampFire + Grill) Added klausgamer14s Beef steak And Fries (CampFire + Grill) Rebuilt HD Mini Hatchet Code Rebuilt Tazas Hatchet Code Added HD Double Barrel Snub PBR Model (Paid) Fixed LootGroup (B163 Changes) Fixed Trader LootGroups (B163 Changes) Added New Changes To All VM Venders (B163 Changes) Added New Loot Additions To All VM Venders (B163 Changes) Launcher Edits: Removed Snufkins Zombies (Needs More 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Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman need a vacation. I’m talking to the two screenwriters who penned both Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (as well as producing the big summer romantic comedy The Proposal), and our conversation goes immediately to where they should escape to in order to get some rest and relaxation. Unfortunately for them, they are plagued by the hell of being in high demand in Hollywood. At least in the world of huge franchises – where they’ll be expected to come directly off the opening of Revenge of the Fallen to settle into writing for Star Trek 2 and whatever next installment of the big fucking robot universe that’s to come. For now, it might be some time before the pair gets to hit up a beach with fruity drinks. Somehow, they find some time for me and for our FSR readers to talk a little bit about working with Michael Bay, the controversy surrounding two of the robots featured in the film, and about their upcoming projects. Before you ask: no, they will not be beaming anyone out of the womb in Star Trek 2. You guys have claimed that the method behind writing a sequel is to write it so that it stands on its own as a film. Are there any other rules you stuck to when writing Revenge of the Fallen? Kurtzman: Every franchise has it’s own set of weird rules that are kind of specific to the universe that was created, but I do think that usually the first of these kinds of movies is about setting the tone of the world, and in the second movie – as was the case with Transformers – I think audiences were expecting us to dig deeper into the mythology of the transformers. For us, the movies that we really loved that were sequels were movies where the character was really tested in some way. In some intense way. Their heroism was tested, and it threw them into a dark place before they could come out on the other side of it. That certainly tends to be the way that we approached this. Do you have anything to add, Bob? Orci: [silence] Kurtzman: You there, buddy? Orci: [silence] Kurtzman: I think we lost Bob. Oh God! Kurtzman: [laughs] We’ll try to soldier on without him for now. I’ve seen places where your films are described as “being written for twelve-year olds.” Do you take that as a compliment or an insult? Kurtzman: No, I think the movie is very much designed for that sweet spot that we felt as twelve-year old kids where you’re waiting for summer to arrive so you can go and have a giant roller coaster ride. That’s certainly the category that Transformers falls into. Michael [Bay] knows he’s not making a movie for critics, and he knows he’s not making a movie for people that want to watch My Dinner with Andre. So I don’t personally take offense to it. That’s just kind of the movie he wants to make. You go for the ride once you’re on board. But you’re a fan of My Dinner with Andre, right? Kurtzman: Actually I am. [laughs] And movies like that. In a big way. There’s always that collision of tone with Michael, but we try to push him. It’s really curious reading what films you guys are into. You said once that you saw yourselves making indie films. Do you ever regret not doing that? Kurtzman: I don’t think we see it as regret simply because it doesn’t seem like that’s outside the realm of possibility for us. It feels like we took a slightly divergent path from where we were going, but I don’t think a day goes by that we don’t think about how fun it would be to make a movie like that. Orci: Ask us again on our death bed. Kurtzman: [laughs] That’s right. Bob’s back! Excellent. A lot of people ask you guys about how you’re living a fanboy dream of writing for these franchises, but I’m more interested in the freedom you have. You two get to hang out on set and in the editing room where most writers just hand off a script and get called for the premiere. Kurtzman: We feel really fortunate, and we’ve worked hard to make our directors feel like it’s a collaboration. Certainly, when you go into making a movie with Michael you know that Michael is a very particular kind of guy that wants to make a very particular kind of movie. When you try to push him out of that, it tends not to work. So I think the best thing we can do is to color between the lines. Once you accept that, the freedom is that you can throw out any and all suggestions within those parameters. So once you accept that you have parameters – which so many people see as not freeing, we tend to see – now we know the rules. Let’s play by rules, learn to break them when necessary, stick to them when necessary. I think we just kind of enjoy it. It’s nice to know what your mission is, and it’s nice to that you have one, because sometimes too much freedom can be a block. Orci: Our TV training taught us how not to be precious with the script, how to problem solve and how to act like a producer. Because in TV, the writers are the producers. We’ll be the first ones to suggest cutting scenes or to suggest cutting our own precious dialog, and I think when a director or a studio sees that you’re just working to make what’s right for the show and not trying to protect some kind of a personal investment – it buys you that freedom. So you’re comfortable killing your babies. Orci: Absolutely. Do you feel like you had more freedom in television? Kurtzman: I think strangely we feel we have the same amount of freedom… Orci: Uh, it’s case by case. Sometimes less, sometimes more. But close. Kurtzman: We never tend to feel limited honestly. I can’t really look at any experience we’ve had in the last few years and say we felt limited. Are there any franchises that you dream of bringing to the big screen? Maybe something from your childhood? Kurtzman: No…I don’t think there’s anything off the top of my head. Bob what about you? I think most of the things we were influenced by were movies and television. Orci: Well the weird thing is we don’t think about it as, “I’d like to see that come back.” It’s more like – “Is there a way to do that in a new way?” Our approach isn’t to make a list of franchises and out of love figure out which ones we’d want to expand. It’s more of which ones are relevant now. So it’s a time issue. I mean, I’d love to see all the things from my childhood done right. That doesn’t mean that we’d want to be a part of them or that they should be made right now. But what about when you’re just daydreaming? I swear that if you say you dream of directing a feature version of “Thundercats” that my headline won’t be – Orci and Kurtzman to Write ‘Thundercats.’ Kurtzman: [laughs] No, totally for sure. If I could think of one, I’d throw it your way. Orci: I’d love to see some sci-fi books. I’d love to see [Asimov’s] “Foundation.” I’d love to see [Orson Scott Card’s] “Ender’s Game.” I’d love to see some of that really hard stuff that’s hard to crack. Kurtzman: The movie that I always wanted to see – sort of on the other end of the spectrum. And I know they’ve been developing it for a while – is [Chabon’s] “Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.” They’re moving forward with that? Kurtzman: It’s been on and off for a long time. I know that most bestsellers are optioned automatically, but I didn’t realize there was any forward momentum on it. Kurtzman: There was a time when I felt like it was almost cast, and they had a director but it never quite came together. I always thought that would make an amazing movie. Definitely. Switching back to Transformers, I heard that the gold tooth was Bay’s idea, but do you have anything to say to people. I think if anything it shows you that we don’t control every aspect of the movie. Were you offended by them? Kurtzman: I wasn’t thrilled. I certainly wasn’t thrilled. Orci: Same reaction. I’m not easily offended, but when I saw it, I thought, ‘Someone’s gonna write about that.'” I know that everyone hounds you guys about spoilers and scoops for your upcoming projects, and I hate to do this part of my job, but let’s just get it out of the way. What can you tell me about The Proposal 2? Kurtzman: [laughs] Orci: [laughs] Whaddaya got for me? Orci: We’re trying to rope [writer] Pete Chiarelli into doing another movie with us. You’ve claimed that after Transformers 2 comes out, that you’ll sit down and start working on Star Trek 2. Are you doing that this weekend? Kurtzman: No. Orci: No. It’s vacation time? Kurtzman: At this point, we literally just finished writing the robot dialog for Transformers two weeks ago, and can’t even think of another movie at this point. Do you view a third Transformers flick as a capstone film or as simply another entry into the universe. Kurtzman: I suspect it will be another entry into the universe. They’ve already green-lit the third one, and I don’t think anyone has any idea. Orci: To back up a bit…I don’t see Transformers 3 yet. I don’t know what that is yet. NIce. [laughs] Are you going to beam anyone out of the womb in Star Trek 2? Orci: [laughs] We tried hard the first time. Uh, no. I think we learned that beaming needs to be used judiciously or it can become a crutch. So you didn’t get to birth Kirk by beaming him out of the womb for the first, but is there anything you’re fighting for particularly for Star Trek 2? Kurtzman: Not yet. We have literally just sat down to start thinking about it. Orci: Sorry for boring answers. I love reading on the internet – “No Story Yet For Star Trek 2.” We wish we had a scoop for you. No worries. My scoop for this interview will be – “Orci and Kurtzman Give Up on Prenatal Beaming.” You’re working on Cowboys and Aliens right now, though, right? Kurtzman: That’s really where we’re focused right now. We’re nearing the finish line on the script and really hoping to get it off the ground. Orci: And we’re just beginning our second season of “Fringe” which is also very fun. [Leonard] Nimoy is on it which is amazing, and we get to find out if he’s good or bad. What excites you about doing Cowboys and Aliens? Kurtzman: It’s like everything we ever loved about Westerns and everything we ever loved about Sci-fi colliding. It’s just an extremely rare opportunity to take the best of both genres and smash them together. An idea like that just doesn’t come along that often – that feels so clear and elemental. There’s a weird corollary between a lot Sci-fi and Westerns. If you take a look at Star Wars – Star Wars is a Western template. Orci: And Gene Roddenberry pitched “Star Trek” as Wagon Train to the Stars. Kurtzman: Right. So I think it speaks to everything we ever loved about both genres. Orci: Also, it excites us to try to bring something to an audience – audiences are so savvy and they’ve seen so many things already – so one way to surprise them is to take two things they know and crash them into each other. That’s a cool idea. It’s original and yet familiar.
Consumers Taken for a Ride! Uber Got Nod from CCP to Acquire Careem The Competition Commission of Pakistan (“the Commission”) was established, in October 2007, with the objective to “maintain and enhance competition.” This simple and clear mandate is enshrined in the preamble of the Competition Act, 2010 (“the Act”). Every action of Commission must therefore be geared to achieve its sole objective of maintaining and enhancing competition. In January 2020, the Commission approved the acquisition of Careem by Uber, transforming the duopolistic market of application-based ridesharing services into a monopolistic market, which would result in lack of choices for drivers and riders alike, monopoly prices for riders, and higher service fees for drivers, poor customer complaint-handling, among other vices related with monopolistic markets. Section 11 of the Act authorizes the Commission to review mergers and acquisitions. This section seeks to prohibit any merger which “substantially lessens competition by creating or strengthening a dominant position in the relevant market” (“SLC by CSDPRM”) and provides a step by step procedure for merger analysis to be followed by the Commission. The first step is to determine whether the merger would result in the creation or strengthening of a dominant position (§ 11(5)), and if so, as second step, the Commission is required to initiate a second phase review (§ 11(6)) to assess whether or not the merger would SLC by CSDPRM (§ 11(8)). If, in fact, the Commission determines that the merger SLC by CSDPRM, it shall then assess, as a third step, merger-specific efficiencies if there are any (§ 11(10)). Effectively, this is grounded in the following three-pronged “efficiencies test”: - that the merger substantially contributes to the efficiency of the production or distribution of goods or to the provision of services; - such efficiency could not reasonably have been achieved by a less restrictive means of competition; and - the benefits clearly outweigh the adverse effect of the absence or lessening of competition. If after the third step, the Commission is not convinced that the efficiencies, which may arise from the merger, meet the test laid down in (§11(10)), it shall as a fourth and final step either prohibit the merger or allow the merger “subject to the conditions laid by the Commission.” (§11(11). The Commission followed the above-outlined four steps in analyzing the acquisition of Careem by Uber. Clearly, §11 has very little tolerance for the creation or strengthening of a dominant position in the “relevant market”. Relevant market is a term of art, which means a specific market comprising substitutable goods/services in a specific geographic area. A firm is presumed to be dominant if it has 40 per cent or more of the market share. In a duopoly, two firms subsist with more than 40 per cent each of market share as was the case in the of application-based ridesharing services in Pakistan where both Uber and Careem had more than 40 per cent of the market share. Once determined that the merging parties meet the dominance threshold, the Commission proceeded to the second step to assess whether the merger would SLC by CSDPRM. Part of the analysis included measuring market concentration pre and post acquisition. Market concentration is measured by an index known as Herfindahl-Hirchman Index (HHI), which ranges from 0 to 10,000 representing a spectrum from a large number of small firms to a single monopolistic seller in the market. A market with an HHI of 2000 or above is considered as a highly concentrated market. In the case of Uber/Careem, pre-acquisition HHI was 4790, more than double the threshold for a market being considered highly concentrated and the post-acquisition HHI was calculated to be 9387, which reflects a monopolistic market. As a third step, the Commission invited the merging parties to show if there were any efficiencies that may meet the criteria laid down in §11(10). In terms of the Merger Guidelines for the Assessment of Horizontal Mergers of 2008 issued by the Commission, the efficiencies must: (i) benefit consumers, (ii) be merger-specific and (iii) be verifiable. The merging parties mentioned seven different “efficiencies” to flow from the acquisition (Para 156 of the Order), none of which meet the criteria specified in the Commission’s Merger Guidelines; and Order does not contain any analysis to demonstrate that criteria is met with respect to any of these proclaimed efficiencies. The foremost efficiency mentioned by the parties --- which could possibly have some relevance --- was that “by merging their supply and demand via integration of their applications and cross-dispatching drivers in order to increase network density and lower wait times.” However, in our view, this is not an efficiency which “could not reasonably have been achieved by a less restrictive means of competition.” Drivers and riders do multi-homing, i.e., be part of substitutable platforms. The Commission noted that “Uber and Careem users, both riders and drivers, are able to multi-home.” (para 43). There are applications, like Ridester.com or Mystro, which allows drivers to receive demands from various applications, like Uber and Lyft in the USA, and collate those demands for drivers, without them having to switch between the platforms such as, Uber or Lyft. Expedia, Tripadvisor and many other apps provide integrated search on the platforms of airlines for domestic and international travelers. The integration of applications touted as a merger-specific efficiency is already being done without the need of the parties to merge. On the contrary, the integration of platforms poses serious threat to present and future competition in the market. As noted in the US, Federal Trade Commission’s Report: “[T]he two-sided network effects may enable a large platform to become dominant and insulated from competition from smaller platforms with fewer participants. Because they afford buyers and sellers fewer transacting options, smaller platforms may be far less attractive than a larger platform, limiting the extent to which they serve as viable competitive alternatives. Two-sided network effects could also create a barrier to entry, thereby protecting a dominant incumbent from new entry. A new platform would be unappealing to buyers unless it has attracted numerous participating sellers, and unappealing to sellers unless it has attracted numerous participating buyers. In other words, it must solve the chicken-and-egg problem.[1] [1] The Commission, however, without adverting to any cogent analysis, noted in the Order that the efficiencies proclaimed by the merging parties “could not be achieved through a less restrictive means of competition. Lastly, we are of the view that the benefits of the purported efficiencies that the transaction is expected to bring about are hardly likely to outweigh the “adverse effects of the absence or lessening of competition.” (Para 159). This aspect has not really been addressed in the Order. Nonetheless, for reasons best known to it, and however factually faulty the premises thereof, the Commission is convinced that the claimed efficiencies meet the three pronged test of §11(10). This being the case, it is actually estopped from invoking §11(11), and thus 11(11)(b) --- the last resort saving option for a merger transaction. The opening words of §11(11) are: “In case the Commission determines that the transaction under review does not qualify the criteria specified in sub-section (10).” The Commission went against the qualifier of §11(11) and imposed conditions to its approval under §11(11)(b), which allows the Commission to approve a merger even if it SLC by CSDPRM and the efficiencies if any have not met the criteria stipulated in §11(10) by imposing conditions for the approval. This action of the Commission speaks louder to negate and run counter to its words as recorded in Paragraph 159 of its Order, which unreservedly makes the efficiency case for the merger obviating the requirement to stipulate conditions. According to the Black’s Law Dictionary, a condition is “a qualification, restriction, or limitation modifying or destroying the original act with which it is connected. . . [Conditions] are lawful and unlawful: The former when their character is not in violation of any rule, principle or policy of law; the latter when they are such as the law will not allow to be made.” While there are no limits on the type of conditions the Commission may impose, the conditions must further the sole objective for the establishment of the Commission, i.e., maintaining or enhancing competition. Conditions (or sometimes called remedies) are categorized either as structural or behavioral. Structural remedies comprise change in the structure of the acquiring firm, such as divestiture of existing business. Behavioral conditions, on the other hand, control the post-acquisition behavior of the acquiring firm. Behavioral conditions are less effective and impose monitoring costs. In a market which is highly concentrated, competition agencies with longstanding experience of approving mergers have concluded that it is the structural conditions that clearly make sense and are often imposed. However, as opposed to what is reflected above, and notwithstanding the extremely high market concentration levels, the Commission approved the merger imposing eight behavioral conditions on Uber as noted below: - No Contractual Exclusivity: Uber was shall not enter into an exclusivity agreement with the drivers on its platform. - Service Fee Cap: Service fee or the amount of commission, which Uber charges from drivers per ride varies between 22.5% to 27.5%. The Commission directed Uber not to lower its Service fee if a new entrant enters the market. - Annual Fare Increase: The Commission allowed Uber to increase its fare by “12.5% per year above inflationary Cost Increases for the Applicable Products Pakistan-wide.” - Surge Price Cap: Commission allowed Uber to use upto 2.5 times multiplier as surge price cap. - Innovation and Quality: The Commission directed Uber to dedicate 10 engineers who will primarily work on R&D activities focused on bringing innovations to a wider region, including Pakistan. - Access to Map Data: “Uber shall grant access to a Ridesharing Services Provider upon the latter’s request to Careem’s points of interest map data.” The data shall be granted on a one-time basis against the payment of a license fee. Then there are a number of conditions to be imposed on the licensee, as to the use of data, its exploitation, resale, and prohibition on creating a stand-alone mapping solution on the basis of the data. - User Data: for riders to port their data to alternative ridesharing suppliers, Uber shall continue to grant riders access to their data.” - Personalized Pricing: The Commission banned Uber from giving any concession to frequent travelers based on the number of rides they took. In addition to the conditions, the Commission dedicated four pages of its Order on discussing the appointment, duties and obligation of the Monitoring Trustee, who will oversee that the conditions imposed by the Commission are complied with by Uber. A bare perusal of the so-called conditions shows that they useless, ineffective, unlawful and it is difficult to perceive how these will be able to maintain or enhance competition, rather these conditions are likely to stifle any future competition. Let’s briefly analyze them. a. No contractual Exclusivity – exclusive vertical agreements by a dominant player, which precludes supply for new entrants, are always condemned as abuse of dominant position under section 3 of the Act. Uber is at present not concluding exclusive agreements, and cannot do so in future in view of the prohibition of section 3. Thus, the condition will achieve nothing, and is, therefore, useless. b. Service Fee Cap: the Commission prohibited Uber from lowering its service fee cap, in case a new entrant enters the market, which it charges at the rate of 22.5 % to 27.5% from drivers for every ride. The current rate is already too high. The Commission presumptively imposed this condition to prevent future predatory pricing. Predatory pricing occurs when a seller sells his products at a price which is below its marginal cost. In markets based on digital platforms, the marginal cost is close to zero if not zero. This condition encourages the new entrants to charge service fee closer to that charged by Uber, and will therefore stifle future price competition, and condemns the drivers to ever pay a service fee of at least 22.5%. c. Annual Fare Increase: The Commission prohibited Uber not to raise its annual fare increase beyond 5% per year above inflationary cost increases. The cost of inflation hovers around 8% in Pakistan. The Commission in essence authorized Uber to raise its fare annually up to 12.5% plus 8%, which amount to 20.5%. Is this a condition or an allowance granted to Uber under the guise of a condition? How is this condition going to maintain or enhance competition? Price regulation is beyond the mandate of the Commission – the condition is ultra vires the power of the Commission. d. Surge Price Cap: Commission allowed Uber to use up to 2.5 times multiplier as surge price cap. Surge price is employed by Uber’s algorithm when there is high demand and low supply. Surge price of 2.5 times the normal fare would mean that if the normal fare is Rs. 100, Uber can now charge Rs. 250 for the same ride whenever there is high demand. By way of comparison, Egypt’s competition Authority has imposed a surge fee cap of 10 per cent so that the fare can only increase from Rs. 100 to Rs. 110 and not beyond. Again, is this a condition or an allowance granted to Uber? How is this condition going to maintain or enhance competition? Is the Commission working to safeguard the interest of Pakistani consumers or Uber? e. Innovation and Quality: The Commission directed Uber to dedicate 10 engineers who will primarily work on R&D activities focused on bringing innovations to wider region, including Pakistan. Again, is this a condition? Uber is engaged in R&D activities anyway. Why is the Commission so worried about the wider region and not just Pakistan? How is this condition going to maintain or enhance competition in Pakistan? f. Access to Map Data: “Uber shall grant access to a Ridesharing Services Provider upon the latter’s request to Careem’s points of interest map data.” Why did the Commission not require Uber to provide its own points of interest map data, and why just that of Careem? Why the Commission is so much concerned that the data be provided on “one-time basis”, and that too against a license fee and how the licensee will use the data? How will this condition enhance competition in the market? g. User Data: for riders to port their data to alternative ridesharing suppliers, Uber shall continue to grant riders access to their data. Uber is already providing access to riders of their data. What benefit will a rider get by porting his data to another service provider? And, what would that data be comprised of? The date, time and place the rider hailed the ride and where did he go, and how many times? Why would a rider share his travelling history with a new service provider, and how is this condition going to enhance competition in the relevant market? h. Personalized Pricing: The Commission banned Uber from giving any concession to frequent travellers based on the number of rides they took. Loyalty discounts are not anticompetitive, unless those discounts put “other parties at a competitive disadvantage.” (§3(3)(e) of the Act). This is usually not the case when loyalty discounts are given and the logic of this condition is not obvious. And insofar as riders are concerned, what possible disadvantage could occur to other riders by giving discount to one rider? On the other hand, the Commission has no objection to service fee being charged from 22.5% to 27.5% to different drivers/rides. Again, one wonders whether this a condition or an allowance to Uber? And how is this condition going to maintain or enhance competition? The conditions stipulated by the Commission run against the spirit of the law and in this sense, broadly speaking, can be regarded as unlawful. Some conditions are in fact allowances/licenses granted to Uber, such as the rate of surge price, service charge, and annual fare increase, and it is questionable whether the Commission is acting within its legal mandate by imposing these conditions. Price regulation is not a function of the Commission. It may be mentioned here that Uber in its home State of California is treated as a public utility and is regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUS), which regulates public utilities within its jurisdiction, including by setting rates for transportation services provided by Uber’s ‘partner drivers.’ The Commission also erred in technical analysis by clubbing all geographic markets as one, and by failing to consider the supply-side of the platform, the drivers, and the impact the acquisition would have on the drivers by elimination of choices. There were inconsistencies in the order, for example, it was effectively ordained that the efficiencies criteria specified in §11(10) was satisfied, yet it invoked §11(11) ; it is stated that the ridesharing market will “fetch a significant FDI” (paragraph 242) while in paragraph 151 it is noted “that Ridesharing Market is not capital intensive.” As a matter of fact, after the acquisition there will be at least 22% of revenues from the application-based ride-sharing industry that will be repatriated from Pakistan, causing a significant monetary drain in the economy of Pakistan. The Commission exhibited poor understanding of the concept of “competition.” It noted in paragraph 32 of its the Order that in the app-based ride-sharing, the rider gets an estimate of the fare before the ride which “saves consumers from the hassle of haggling as with a taxi, as they don’t get any estimates and which can vary with different cabbies offering different rates for the same route.” Indeed, price competition is a hallmark of a competitive market. Yet, the Commission views the variation in price for the same route as something problematic, and a fare estimate given by a monopolist service provider, who says “take it or leave it” as a useful thing! The comprehension of the Commission as to what constitutes a competitive market gives rise to concerns regarding its ability to properly comprehend and apply recognized competition norms as embodied in the law and protect the interest of Pakistani consumers. It is also worth noting that the Commission placed the Order on its website for a brief period and then removed it. The authors were able to get hold of a copy of the Order when it was still on the website. The fact that the Order was removed from its website, despite section 29(b) of the Act which stipulates that all orders be placed on the Commission’s website, suggests the possibility of mala fides. A judicial review of the Order seems warranted to protect competition and to safe guard the interest of Pakistani consumers, who were taken for ride by the Commission before Uber! [1] Prof. Khalid Mirza served as the Founder Chairman of the Competition Commission of Pakistan, and at present teaches at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. [1] Dr. Joseph Wilson served as a founder member, and later as Chairman, of the Competition Commission of Pakistan and at present teaches as adjunct Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law.
AEW Double or Nothing results, recap, grades: Debut show delivers big moments, surprises AEW made its debut on Saturday, and it certainly lived up to the hype If. As Double or Nothing went off the air with one of McMahon's biggest stars up -- until just a few weeks ago -- standing tall, it's a wonder as to whether Saturday night was a major turning point during a time that can already be considered the third boom period of the modern era in sports entertainment. CBS Sports was with you the entire way Saturday with results, analysis, grades and highlights from AEW Double or Nothing. Be sure to subscribe to the State of Combat with Brian Campbell podcast for a complete audio review of AEW's debut show on Wednesday. AEW Double or Nothing recap, grades "Hangman" Adam Page wins the Casino Battle Royale to earn future world title shot (The Buy In): With his originally scheduled match against PAC (f.k.a. Neville) called off due to creative differences, Page turned out to be the final entrant in the match after drawing the joker card. The booking of him winning seemed to be the right call, as well. The rising star earned a future shot at the inaugural AEW world championship against the winner of tonight's main event. The match was a wild mix of gimmicks, high spots and comedy that, at times, bordered on sloppiness. It was also nonstop fun from start to finish as five additional wrestlers entered the match every three minutes. Joey Janela used a lit cigarette as a weapon, Jimmy Havoc used a staple gun, and Tommy Dreamer introduced a trash can. Bilateral amputee Dustin Thomas popped the crowd by hitting a 619 and a 450 springboard splash on Janela. Michael Nakasawa did the same by applying baby oil to slip out of holds. Luchasauras later eliminated Janela by chokeslamming him through a table outside. The match also saw memorable appearances by WWE alumni Billy Gunn and Shawn Spears (f.k.a. Tye Dillenger), WCW veteran Glacier and upstarts Brian Pillman Jr. and Jungle Boy. Following a brief run-in from Orange Cassidy, the final four consisted of Luchasaurus, Havoc, Page and MJF. Page, who sold an injured left knee throughout, used a low bridge to eliminate Luchasaurus and appeared to have the match won until MJF, who was in the match from start to finish, ran in from hiding outside. MFJ, whose heel work was a highlight in the match, dumped Page onto the apron but not the floor. Page rallied with a Buckshot Lariat to eliminate him. Grade: B- Kip Sabian def. Sammy Guevara via pinfall (The Buy In): Sabian, a native of Great Britain, gained storyline revenge on Guevara for his attack at Friday's weigh-in. The match was a fun little spot-fest between high-flying cruiserweights. Guevara landed a dangerous shooting star press off the ring apron as Sabian was draped over the ringside barrier wall. But Guevara's follow-up attempt to land a 630 splash off the top rope hit Sabian's knees. He followed with his Deathly Hallows finisher for the 1-2-3. Grade: C+ SoCal Uncensored def. #StrongHearts via pinfall: Not a bad way to kick off the main card as SCU's pre-match shtick on the microphone paired well with a wild finish featuring dramatic near falls and all six men inside the ring. In between, the match was nothing more than standard fare. Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels teamed up for a Best Meltzer Ever on El Lindaman for the finish. Despite the much-hyped entrance of the Oriental Wrestling Entertainment trio to the promotion, it turned out to be SCU hitting the biggest spots. Grade: C+ Britt Baker def. Kylie Rae (via pinfall), Nyla Rose and Awesome Kong: Brandi Rhodes, AEW's chief brand officer and a singles competitor, came out before the match to pump fake a self-insertion to the match (giving off clear Stephanie McMahon vibes). Instead, she announced Kong (f.k.a. Kharma briefly in WWE) as a late addition. The size and power of Kong and Rose perfectly contrasted the aerial and technical skill of Baker and Rae. The match was also an incredibly strong introduction as to what the AEW women's division will look and feel like. Baker and Rae enjoyed a lengthy finish against each other which teased of a future feud as Baker landed an ushigoroshi for the pin. Grade: B+ Best Friends def. Angelico & Jack Evans via pinfall: Talk about a high-wire affair. It didn't take long for the first traditional tag match in AEW history to become a game of "can you top this?" No spot was too big as Evans and Angelico repeatedly thrilled the crowd with their aerial exploits. But Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta proved just as daring in a number of tandem moves which produced two counts. The finish proved just as wild as Taylor landed a Doomsday Sexy Chuckie Knee off the top rope on Evans before taking out Angelico via tope con hilo over. The Best Friends then combined on a Tag Team Cruncher to finish off Evans. After the match, the four participants shook hands and were about to hug as the lights went out. An unnamed tandem appeared and after the lights went out as second time, so did a group of masked minions.The heel faction took out all four wrestlers before forming a human throne to pose as the lights went out a final time. Grade: B+ Hikaru Shida, Riho & Ryo Mizunami def. Aja Kong, Yuka Sakazaki & Emi Sakura via pinfall: While there were certainly a handful of fun spots to pop the crowd and produce an adoring "this is wrestling" chant, it's difficult to look past how much this one wore out its welcome. The breakneck pace was fun but the near falls were far too many (and the action routinely sloppy). To make matters worse, a botch near the end saw the timekeeper ring the ball and music cued up despite the referee holding up two fingers on a near fall. Shida put away Sakura, her teacher and mentor, for the pin. Grade: D+ Cody def. Dustin Rhodes via pinfall: Consider this a love letter from two sons to their late father. You can also consider it an absolute masterpiece of grit and emotion, painted with the blood of the 50-year-old Dustin, which covered the ring, both performers and legendary referee Earl Hebner. Dusty Rhodes was undoubtedly smiling down from above on these half brothers who told such a compelling story in a short time once this match was announced. The one they told inside the ring was even better. There are a few different ways to put on a classic and the Rhodes brothers (despite a few memorable spots along the way) chose to tug on the heart strings of both fans and themselves in order to properly tell this one. The match was largely a war of attrition as an exposed turnbuckle by Cody opened the door for a Dustin blade job. While the blood was excessive at times, it set the perfect tone as a callback to the kind of amazing theatre that Dusty put on for decades. Cody's wife Brandi, who speared Dustin on the floor, was ejected early by Hebner and physically removed from the arena in a cameo by Diamond Dallas Page. The brothers took it from there as they traded one incredible near fall after another with both kicking out of Cross Rhodes. Dustin, who entered in great shape following double knee surgery shortly after his exit from a final run as Goldust in WWE, pulled out all stops and went as far as hitting a superplex to pop the crowd. Chants of "this is awesome" and "A-E-W" filled the arena throughout, as did " thank you, Dustin" after Cody landed a final Cross Rhodes to end the match. Cody grabbed the mic afterwards to tell Dustin "you can't retire here." He then asked for a favor that the two might team together at the next AEW show. As Cody broke down in tears, he exclaimed, "I need my older brother" before the two engaged in an emotional exchange. If the match wasn't already perfect enough, this was the icing on the cake. Grade: A+ Bret Hart introduces the AEW championship: During a presentation of the AEW title, Hart welcomed to the ring Page, who won the Casino Battle Royale to open the show and earn a future world title shot. MJF quickly interrupted to talk trash to Page and Hart, but as he began to walk to the back, Jungle Boy and Havoc stood in his way. The three took MJF out as Hart presented the title in the ring. AAA World Tag Team Championship -- The Young Bucks (c) def. Lucha Brothers via pinfall to retain the titles: The only title match on AEW's debut card lived up to its lofty expectations as a potential show stealer. The aerial brilliance of all four competitors was on full display in an absolute firecracker of a spot-fest. The big moves were almost too numerous to recount, as was the incredibly dramatic near falls. Matt Jackson's brainbuster onto the top rope on Rey Fenix arguably had the crowd buzzing the most. Pentagon Jr. snapped Matt's arm late and hit an insane package piledriver that nearly won the match. The Bucks would rally, however, teaming up for a Meltzer Driver on Fenix to score the 1-2-3. Grade: A- Chris Jericho def. Kenny Omega via pinfall to earn future world title shot: Jericho, a WWE and WCW legend, not only made history by headlining the first PPV in AEW history, the 48-year-old will now compete for the promotion's first world title after defeating Omega to set up a summer showdown with Page. Amazingly, even after a thrilling rematch between Jericho and Omega, that wasn't the biggest headline to come out of the match. Shortly after Jericho's win, which saw him cut a promo praising himself for AEW's launch, former WWE superstar Dean Ambrose -- billed as his former indie name of Jon Moxley -- ran in to hit Dirty Deeds on Jericho and the referee. Moxley, with a swagger reminiscent of Steve Austin, then brawled through the crowd with Omega before landing a final Dirty Deeds on top of the oversized poker chips; he followed by lifting Omega onto his shoulders and dropping him onto the stage below. The insane ending took an already great main event and escalated it to the stratosphere. The excitement of Moxley cleaning house means AEW's upcoming fall weekly show couldn't come fast enough for fans itching for more content after a debut card that closed on an insane high following three incredible matches. AEW now has the prime, crossover superstar in Moxley to work opposite Omega that it needs. And almost lost in the Jericho win and Moxley stealing the post festivities was the performance Omega put on throughout by selling one insane move after another. With his nose and mouth busted open throughout, Omega put his body on the line consistently with numerous bumps that did well to offset Jericho's limited mobility closing in on 50. That doesn't mean Jericho didn't hold up his end of the bargain, however, as continued to carve out an incredible twilight that only adds to his already legendary career. The match was physical from the start with both leaving the chest of each other a blotchy mess due to hard chops. The rematch of their 2018 New Japan Pro-Wrestling classic at Wrestle Kingdom 12 didn't have a no disqualification stipulation to lean on this time around yet it never hurt the entertainment factor. The recurring theme of the match was Jericho's ability to avoid Omega's One-Winged Angel finishing move as he was twice able to reverse into DDTs. Jericho also countered a top-rope splash by Omega by catching him in a dramatic Codebreaker in mid-air. The finish came when Jericho added one more Codebreaker before debuting a new finisher -- a spinning back elbow called the Judas Effect -- that produced the 1-2-3. Given his age and star power, the booking was brilliant as AEW can use Jericho to put over Page while Omega and Moxley likely head into their own program. Grade: A+ AEW Double or Nothing highlights If you are unable to view the highlights below, please click here. 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This beauty and function of the space while using what was special and meaningful to this family. Ok, let’s get started! This is the view of the living room from the entry of the house when I first arrived. To be fair, my client had pulled a couple of extra pieces of furniture into the room for me to consider, like that wood dresser in the front. Anyway, she was looking to freshen up the paint colors (currently sage green in the living room and light yellow in the dining room. She also really wanted to add an electric fireplace, but feared that it might look too fakey in the room. living room before I typically start my designs out with a good plan for furniture placement that invites conversation and highlights architecture. The plan was to install the fireplace directly across from and centered on the bank of windows. The new conversation area would cluster around the fireplace, leaving an easy path to walk through to the dining room (and on to the kitchen beyond). After Design Intervention by The Decorologist We traded the sage green walls for a more vibrant greeny-blue. This color really makes the dark wood look richer. antique desk The dining room walls went from a butter yellow to a light blue from Benjamin Moore’s Historic Collection, while the ceiling of the dining room was painted the same darker color as the living room to create flow. I didn’t like the paint treatment below the chair rail – I suggested it be painted all out in trim color to create the look of real painted wood wainscotting. Here’s the before of the small dining room: dining room before Doesn’t the wainscotting look so much better? There’s still some work to do on the back wall of this room, but I wanted to go ahead and show you the difference the paint made. I definitely think some vertical plate groupings would be great in here, bringing in a darker blue and the coral color. Dining Room After – Benjamin Moore’s Palladian Blue Here’s a before shot of the side of the room where the fireplace ultimately went in. Notice the fabric on the wingback – this was reupholstered to update it and tie into our new color scheme. before I hung about 20 pieces of art on these plaster walls in a couple of hours right before I took this photograph. Doesn’t it look as though the fireplace has always been a part of the room? Love the way this turned out! Cozy Living Room After Another “before” from the opposite angle: Before The “after” is a warm, inviting room to curl up in front of a fire and read a great book (historical fiction, anyone?). Living Room by The Decorologist Did you notice the new linen-look upholstery on the sofa? Here’s a secret – it’s actually painter’s dropcloth! An inexpensive, yet elegant way to recover tired furnishings. Dropcloth Sofa Upholstery and Eclectic Art Grouping Here is where the sofa with it’s dated upholstery was formerly positioned: Before Now, a cute pair of yellow bamboo chairs flank a small dresser in front of the beautiful windows. Fresh, New Space There are so many interesting things to see in this room – my client wanted to make sure she could still be “surrounded by my pretties.” I think that we achieved that goal! Art Grouping Last but not least, let me show you the fabulous wallpaper we found for her entry. It’s grasscloth with a light blue trellis pattern. Blue Trellis Wallpaper A rectangular mirror with a fat gold frame will be hung directly above the entry table. The table is actually a family heirloom – a baby crib flipped over and topped with glass! I have to give all the credit for that stroke of genius to my client – what a fabulous idea that turned out to be. Upcycled Antique Entry Table This was the view of the entry before. The walls were peach, as you can see. You can also see where I taped off the area to install the fireplace with painter’s tape on the first day I was there! Entry Before Now, this is what you see when you enter the front door. What a difference! Entry After This client and her lovely daughter were so amazing to work with – they were completely open to every recommendation I made for their space, and it really paid off in the end. If you’d like the gift of a room makeover for Christmas, now is the time to purchase a Decorologist Gift Certificate. My rates will be increasing at the first of the year, but gift certificates are available through December at my current rates. Wow! Stunning and beautiful makeover! You did an amazing job! It is so much brighter and looks larger, but yet cozy at the same time! Wow – Great job, Kristie!! Looks awesome. I love this room! Thank you for the decorator tips. I’m taking interior design courses right now so it’s helpful to see what great design looks like. I’m sure your client is really happy to be surrounded by her beautiful things. Thank you, Lisa! As I’m sure you know, reading design blogs is a great way to learn more about the practical side of decorating in the real world that you may not get in classroom courses. Good luck in your studies and thanks for following 🙂 I love the wall colors. Looks great! Love the gold framed artwork! Lots of interesting groupings! My client sent me this email after reading the post on her room today: “After I dried up my tears and picked up my jaw, I just could not believe we pulled this off. I cannot thank you enough for all the time spent and suggestions you made. It really is a happy space for all of us. All the things that matter to us from both sides of our family have been well done in the dÃ©cor. ” This kind of client makes my work so fulfilling!!! Great wall colors and furniture arrangement. I love the greeny blue color in the living room. What color is it. My hardwoods have a bit of an orange cast to them and it might be good with them. Ben Moore Stratton Blue – good color for floors with orangey undertones. I loved reading this post!! Such a great remake of a tired and dated space, but one that was loaded with potential. Your choice of colors and the way you created groupings was so fun to watch! You are now on my sidebar so I can keep watching you work your magic! Stunning! Did you have the couch professionally reupholstered in the painters dropcloth or did you do it yourself? If so, did you use a glue gun or tacks? Karyn, it was professionally reupholstered. Dropcloth also makes awesome custom slipcovers. My mom made fitted slipcovers for my sofa out of painters’ dropcloth, and then I upholstered a chair to match, and I love it! My house is very casual cottage, and it’s great to see how beautiful the dropcloth adapts itself to a more traditional room, as well! And . . . these rooms are absolutely GORGEOUS! You did an absolutely fabulous job, as always! Grins! Pamm Beautiful wall colors and great furniture arrangement. LOVE the grasscloth. Would you mind sharing the source? Have you ever done grasscloth on a ceiling? We took the popcorn off our ceilings and the sheetrock wasn’t damaged but it looks awful. I thought about papering with grasslcoth because dealing with the sheetrock while living here would be a huge wet and dustly mess. Yikes! Thanks. We ordered it locally, think the brand was Thibaut. Grasscloth is not the easiest thing to apply – unless you are an experienced paperhanger, I wouldn’t even attempt it on the ceiling! If I were you, I’d take the plunge and get that ceiling fixed right so you can enjoy it while you are living there. If you ever decide to move, you will HAVE to fix it and putting grasscloth on it would be a red flag to buyers that maybe there was water damage at some point! Kristie, I especially love the upholstery on the chair…remember it! I think that might be great when I do my living room. Love that color combination. Yes, I think that would be great for your living room! I’ll remember 🙂 so charmingly cozy! come visit anytime. warmly, michele I adore Palladian Blue, even more so than the Wyeth. It’s lighter, and clearer and so pretty. I would use it in a minute. You did a great job of refreshing and updating your clients home. The coral accents with blue on the wall is fabulous, your client has got to be totally happy, because that is exactly how it looks. Well, it’s easy to see why this is your favorite! Now it’s a happy, beautiful room, filled with charm! Well done! It’s amazing how you brought that room up-to-date! The colors are wonderful! I found your blog through a FB link and will definitely be following from now on. Thank you, Carol – happy to have a new reader! What an amazing job! I love your color choices and I love the way you arranged the furniture. Great job! Very Nice job in all the rooms! Palladium Blue is one of my personal favorite colors. It has a nice balance of blue & green additinally the balance between muted and bright is just right for many applications. I like it so much that I chose it for my own bedroom (with a pale blue costom mixed ceiling) as well as quite a few clients. It appears as though the ceiling is also painted with Palladium Blue…love it! Wishing you a brightly colored day, Mary Nolte Thanks, Mary. Palladian Blue is on the walls of the dining room, but Stratton Blue is on the ceiling of the dining room and the walls of the living room. one more thought – do you spec wall coverings often – at my new job they want me to promote it. The trellis design is really gorgeous. Kristie, it is absolutely beautiful! You and your clients must be so thrilled with the outcome. This post makes me want to get a business started even more and assist those people that just want a boost in their home. I love how you still stayed true to their style but just kicked it up 10 notches. And yes, the fireplace looks comfy and cozy as though it has always been there – that is amazing! It’s really stunning and certainly your hard work paid off. Thank you so much, Holly! For me, it’s so much more rewarding when I am able to work with things that have history and meaning to the homeowner, rather than starting from scratch. It’s important to me that the client feels like it is their room instead of mine, you know? This room is beautiful! My sister follows your blog and forwarded this to me because she said it reminded her of my style! She’s right–I love it! Could you please, please share the details of the fabric on the throw pillows on the bamboo chairs? It looks like exactly what I have been searching for! Thanks! I really love how these rooms turned out….love the colours and all the art work! I hate to swear,,,,but …I swear YOU are a decorating genius !!!! Just now looking at this so hope you still read from this post. I love the baby bed idea and have two of them. It looks really narrow. Did they make it smaller and hen added the glass? We want to do this to mine as it is just gathering dust in a closet. The entire makeover is fabulous. Thank you. The FIREPLACE MAKES that room! How beautiful!!! We are about to get an electric insert for our mantle. Could you tell me the brand you have and how realistic it looks when the flames are on? It looks like it has always been in that room, as you said! BRAVO FOR ALL YOU DID!!!!! WONDERFUL TRANSFORMATION!!! XOXO Betty, I did this room a few years ago, and I can’t remember the brand. It was purchased in Nashville at the Hearth and Grill Shop. The flames aren’t totally realistic, but not bad for an electric flame! Hi, I am in England and ordered a tester pot of Stratton Blue, inspired by this post. Benjamin Moore is not a well known brand over here and I was surprised to find it had quite a sheen, rather than the chalky matte look of most period paints. Did I order the wrong type of paint? It doesn’t look so glossy on your photographs. Thanks, C Clarey, All paint colors can come in a variety of sheens. The sheen should be on the label. For wall colors, I typically choose an eggshell finish (very slight sheen), but for a chalky finish you’d want a flat or matte finish. Trim and wood furniture typically gets semi-gloss or high gloss finish. Maybe you got a semi-gloss sheen on accident? Also, the level of sheen changes the color a bit. The higher the sheen or shine, the lighter the color becomes. Just happened onto your blog while looking for make-over ideas for my living room. Just googled “blue and coral living rooms” and found this gorgeous room. I can’t wait to try some of these wall colors – just what I need given my rug and fabric colors that I don’t want to change! Thank you so much! I will now be a regular reader!! Can see why your clients love you! Great, Lori! Thanks for the comment and I’m glad the blogpost helped you 🙂
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T. acquiesces and he accompanied his wife to a Spiritualist service. W. T. discovered Spiritualism did not make the emotional appeal to the unintelligent as he had erroneously thought. Suddenly his intellectual curiosity was ignited, and he furiously began reading all the mediumistic literature he could find. With this newly gained knowledge, W. T. prayed for guidance. Then, one night, he became aware of “unseen influence” at his bedside. Mr. and Mrs. Parishes decided to attend a séance for the first time. The medium conducting the séance was a trance medium, who they did not know. The medium entered the altered state of trance, which allowed Spirit to speak to each of the sitters. Spirit told W. T. he was a natural born healer, and that he could and would heal his wife, Peggy. W. T. became very excited, but told the Spirit he knew nothing about being a healer. Spirit then gave W. T. explicit instructions on how to heal Peggy, by laying on of hands. For the first time, W. T. was hopeful about his wife’s condition. He explicitly carried out Spirit’s instructions, by laying his hands on Peggy every day. However, there were times when W. T. was away from home for work, and on those days, he did absent healing on those days. In nine months Peggy was healed. Spirit told W. T. he should continue his healing work with other people suffering with health problems. Meanwhile, word of Peggy’s cure spread rapidly, because the doctors had given her so little hope of survival. Soon people approached W. T. asking him if he would heal them. People started to come to W. T.’s house to receive healing. It did not take long for people from all parts of London began to travel to the Parish house for healing. W. T. decided to convert the “best room” of his house into a healing sanctuary. Soon W. T. realized that the requests for healing far exceeded the time he had to perform the healings, and he made the important decision to take early retirement from his railroad job in order to dedicate his life to heal the sick. W. T. was a true spiritual healer. He never asked the patient for any medical history, because he realized it was Spirit who did the healing, and they did not need to be told where to direct the healing energy. W. T practiced healing the same way it was practiced during the early days of Christianity. W. T. also developed additional Spiritual gifts. He became clairvoyant and saw the Spirit doctors who worked through him. He had two main Spirit Doctors. There were times when these Spirit Doctors would overshadowed Parish and made their presence known to some patients. The first was known as “Brother William.” W. T. later learned that Brother William was a former president of the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital. W. T.’s second Spirit Doctor was Abdul Latif, who was a Persian Spirit healer. Eventually W. T. found a museum librarian, who found documentation that Abdul Latif was a physician, who lived 1750 years ago, in the same timeframe as King Richard I, circa 1189. It was interesting that Abdul Latin used all current medical knowledge & techniques, such as dietetics, medicine, osteopathy and homeopathy. The following is a sample of a few of the letters that W. T. received asking for absent healing. One man had lost his hearing. His doctor said the auditory nerve had died. Through absent healing, within two weeks, the man’s hearing had returned. Another woman had been bed-ridden for 14 years. She actually walked after one absent healing treatment. A Spanish family with 3 children wrote. They were in great need. Two of the children had typhoid fever, and their third child had meningitis. W. T. began sending absent healing. Two weeks later, they wrote Parish to report that two of the children were cured, and the third was getting better. One doctor of the Royal College of Physicians finally was relieved of abdominal pain, after seeing Parish. He had been “taking the very best remedies” to no avail. Another man had a stomach ulcer that was inoperable. After regular treatment by Parish, the ulcer had healed and was no longer visible on the x-ray. One boy was no longer diabetic after being treated by Parish. Often cures were accomplished without the patient knowing that Parish was sending absent healing. “I believe I am fulfilling the laws of God,” he replied. “I am fulfilling that which God has chosen for me-to be a blessing to His children of this earth. I work for the alleviation of suffering mankind, not only for their bodies but also for healing their souls, by bringing light, understanding, happiness and hope. “I don’t want people to come to me when a doctor can heal them. But when they say ‘I don’t want a doctor. I would rather come to you,’ I am delighted to be of service. “I have no animosity towards doctors and surgeons. All I try to do is to follow the one great healer, Jesus the Nazarene. I know there have been other spiritual masters and I commune with them. I am a follower of the Nazarene, because I know that I am allied with him. “There is nothing on earth that would deter me from going on with my healing, even if the whole world were against me.” “If you aspire to be a healer you have to learn to eliminate self. You have to become worthy in the eyes of God to be used as a fitting instrument for His power to pass through you.” “It is His power. If you are not a suitable instrument in the eyes of God, His divine power cannot pass through you. Mine is spiritual healing. It is not magnetic healing. There is a vast difference.." Spiritual healing is when the healing force and energies comes from “Spirit” or God via the healer, which effect healing in a patient. The healer is aware of a bountiful, endless supply of healing energy flowing from Spirit/God through his/her, body into the patient. The spirit guides or doctors may "overshadow" the healer, subtly directing the healer's hands to certain places on the patient's body where healing can best be effected. Parish said, “I take no personal credit. I am but the lowly servant always ready to give, to praise God and His ministering angels, because it is through them that I am permitted to heal.” “When I am healing I am fully conscious of spirit co-operators and I talk to them. Gradually the trance condition is passing away, giving place to an overshadowing that leaves me more and more aware of myself. All the time I strive to overcome all obstacles and limitations. “I am conscious of the influx of spirit power. It even produces a physical reaction in the region of the solar plexus. I get a sensation of great holiness and I feel that I am at one with the Great Spirit.” The list included: Africa, Argentine, Australia, Algeria, Austria, Arabia, Alsace Lorraine, Armenia, Alaska, Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Belgium, Bulgaria, British West Indies, Brazil, Balkan States, China, Canada, Canary Islands, Ceylon, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Corsica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Ecuador, France, Finland, French Guiana, Greenland, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Iraq, Italy, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Java, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Malay States, New Zealand, New Guinea, North Borneo, Norway, Newfoundland, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, Romania, Sierra Leone, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Sicily, Siam, Turkey, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia. Maurice Barbanell wrote, “It was inspiring to watch Parish at work when I visited his sanctuary to witness the public healing. For over three hours he gave individual treatment to a score of people.” “Two of his patients told him when he came out of trance that there was no need for them to attend any more. The psychic healing had brought them new health. One was a woman who had suffered for years with partial and glaucoma of the eyes. She expressed her joy at her cure and thanked Parish for all his help. With typical modesty he refused thanks. “I am only an instrument,” he answered. "Glorify God. Radiate happiness." He has cured patients suffering from such “incurable” diseases as cancer, diabetes, rheumatism, tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, infantile paralysis, deafness and blindness.” “Another remarkable case came from Kenton, Middlesex, and dealt with a boy who was paralyzed from the waist downwards and lay helpless in bed. Shortly after the absent healing began, he called to his mother and insisted that he felt well enough to walk. With trembling eagerness his mother helped him to dress and brought him a stick. With this as an aid he managed to get down the stairs and walk all round the garden. That was the immediate effect of the absent healing.” Maurice Barbanell wrote, “[Parish’s] life is a tribute to the great service that can be rendered by one man-when he is moved by the ‘power of the spirit’ and prepared to make sacrifices for his mission.” I have tried, to present a picture of a man who is undoubtedly the greatest healer in the world today, a saint who is living a blameless life and performing “miracles” every day. He has not been “ordained.” He has not passed any theological examination. He has no clerical status. He is not a “reverend,” minister, pastor, bishop or archbishop. But he has the largest church in the world, for it includes thousands of healed sufferers to whom he has brought health, relief, hope and comfort.” Peggy Parish, W. T.’s wife developed her own healing abilities. She continued her husband’s work after he passed into Spirit. Maurice Barbanell Editor of Psychic News
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Heat the parcels under a hot grill or in a hot oven until the cheese begins to soften. Whisk all the ingredients together for the pomegranate dressing with 1 tablespoon water until emulsified. Serve the parcels on a few rocket leaves, drizzled with the pomegranate dressing. Scatter a few pomegranate seeds and some fresh mint leaves over the top with a blob of labneh on the side. Labneh for the labneh (makes 500g/18oz) 1kg natural yogurt.
You need look no further than the human body to understand the makeup of eukaryotic cells, as all people have these cells within them. In biology, there are only two types of cells: eukaryotic and prokaryotic. In the taxonomical classification of all life, eukaryotic-celled life forms belong to the Eukarya domain, with Bacteria and Archaea being the other two domains. The living organisms that fall under these latter domains consist of single-celled organisms. The Eukarya domain in the Linnaean classification system contains the kingdoms of protists, fungi, plants and animals. While there are some singled-celled protozoa in the eukarya domain, the majority of living organisms classified in this domain are multicellular entities. TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) The striking difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, when comparing both cell types, is that eukaryotic cells have a distinctive nucleus with DNA bound together by proteins and contained within its own separate chamber inside the cell. Eukaryotic Cell Origins At this time, scientists posit that all life first began on the Earth about 3.5 or so billion years ago based on the fossil records of the first forms of life. It appears that prokaryotic cells evolved first as very small cells – about 1 or 2 micrometers in size (abbreviated as µm) – when compared with eukaryotic cells, which are generally about 10 µm or bigger. A µm represents one-millionth of a meter. Geological records show that eukaryotic cells first appeared about 2.1 billion years ago. Last Common Universal Ancestor Prolonged studies of cellular life forms led scientists to conclude that eukaryotic cells living today share a single common ancestor. 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Distinctive Eukaryotic Cell Characteristics While both cell types share some common characteristics, eukaryotic cells are more complex. Distinctive characteristics that define eukaryotic cells include: - All eukaryotic cells have a separately enclosed nucleus inside the cell's cytoplasm. - Mitochondria exists in one form or another inside the eukaryotic cell's nucleus. - All existing eukaryotic cells contain a cytoskeletal structure or elements. - Eukaryotic cells utilize flagella and cilia to move around; there are some eukaryotes that don't have them, though their ancestors did. - They have chromosomes within the nucleus, consisting of a single, linear DNA molecule spiraled around alkaline proteins named histones. - Cell reproduction in eukaryotic cells occurs via mitosis, a process whereby the chromosomes divide by using components within the cytoskeleton. - All eukaryotic cells have cell walls. The Plasma Membrane of Eukaryotic Cells All cells have a plasma membrane that separates the inside of the cell from its outside environment. The membrane contains embedded proteins and other components that allows the passage of ions, oxygen, water and organic molecules to move in and out of the cell. Waste byproducts such as carbon dioxide and ammonia – with help from protein "movers" – also pass through these cellular membranes. These membranes can take on unique shapes, like the microvilli found on the cells lining the small intestine, which increase the cell's surface area to absorb nutrients from food within the digestive tract. Cytoplasm: Jelly-like Substance Inside the Cell A view inside the cell shows a semi-liquid, jelly-like substance that reaches from the cellular membrane all the way to the enclosed nucleus. The organelles, various specialized structures within the cell, float in this gel consisting of cytosol, in the cytoskeleton and multiple chemicals. 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Prokaryotic cells do not have an enclosed nucleus inside the cell, as the genetic material, though in the cell's center, exists within the cytoplasm of the cell. The nucleus of the eukaryotic cell stores chromatin, consisting of DNA and proteins, in a gel-like substance called nucleoplasm. The nuclear envelope surrounding the nucleus consists of two layers; inner and outer permeable membranes that allow the passage of ions, molecules and RNA material between the nucleoplasm inside the nucleus, and the inside of the cell. The nucleus is also responsible for ribosome production. The nucleus of the eukaryotic cell's DNA material, chromosomes, provide a plan of sorts, for cell reproduction. Cell Division and Replication At a microscopic level, cells divide and replicate, a characteristic shared by both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells to create new cells from old. But prokaryotic cells divide using binary fission, while eukaryotic cells divide by a process called mitosis. This does not include sexual reproduction among species, which occurs via meiosis, where a single egg and sperm combine to make an entirely new living being. Only non-reproductive cells divide by mitosis in the Eukarya domain. Also known as somatic cells, non-reproductive cells make up most of the cells in the human body including its tissues and organs like the digestive tract, muscles, skin, lungs and hair cells. The reproductive cells – sperm and egg cells – within eukaryotic cells are not somatic cells. Mitosis involves multiple stages that define that cell's divisional status: prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase and cytokinesis. Prior to division, the cell rests in an interphase status. Through a series of stages, the chromosome replicates itself, and each strand moves to opposite poles within the nucleus to allow the nucleus' envelope to converge and surround each chromosome. 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He remains in custody pending extradition to Poland to face the charges against him. 6. Joseph Christian Fontana (N/FL & DRFFO) PDF Version Joseph Christian Fontana was taken into custody June 5 in Cabrera, Dominican Republic. The arrest was the result of coordinated efforts by the USMS International Investigations Branch, the Dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas Fugitive Unit, the USMS Sex Offender Investigations Branch-Florida, and Deputy U.S. Marshals from the Dominican Republic Foreign Field Office and the Northern District of Florida. Fontana was wanted in Santa Rosa County, Fla., for rape of a minor, 25 counts of sexual molestation, child pornography, and lewd and lascivious acts. He also was wanted by the FBI for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. A registered sex offender in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Fontana relocated to Santa Rosa County in 2001, assumed a new identity and allegedly continued to commit sex crimes against minors. In 2001, he fled and was believed to be in South America. Investigative efforts by USMS and DNCD personnel revealed Fontana was residing in Cabrera, Dominican Republic. Surveillance was initiated on several locations June 5. When Fontana was observed leaving his residence, he was taken into custody. Fontana is awaiting a deportation hearing and is expected to be transported to Florida for prosecution. 7. Alex Smart (M/FL) PDF Version Alex Smart was wanted in Orlando, Fla., for two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder in connection with a triple homicide July 30, 2008. At the time of the crime, local officials considered this the worst murder in Orlando’s history. The USMS Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Smart’s two accomplices in 2008; however, Smart remained on the run. On June 18, investigators developed information indicating Smart was in the Jacksonville area. Task Force officers from the Orlando and Jacksonville divisions established surveillance June 19 on several possible locations. They located Smart at a private residence in Orange Park, Fla. Investigators from the FRFTF and the Clay County Sheriff’s Office called Smart out of the residence in an effort to arrest him June 22. Instead of surrendering, Smart barricaded himself in the attic. Following a brief standoff, he was taken into custody without incident. A search warrant executed on the property following Smart’s arrest resulted in the discovery and seizure of a 9 mm pistol, a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun, a .22-caliber rifle, concealable body armor, plastic bags containing cocaine residue and 19 grams of marijuana packaged for sale. 8. Adam Clayton Roberts (N/OK & M/TN) PDF Version Adam Clayton Roberts was wanted in Creek County, Okla., on two counts of first-degree homicide, one count of arson and one count of burglary. The charges stem from a violent home invasion and burglary near Bristow, Okla., during which Roberts allegedly shot and killed a female victim and set fire to the house. As the four subjects fled the scene, a 57-year-old male neighbor whom they believed witnessed the crime also was shot as his wife watched from a window. Roberts’ three associates were arrested in April 2006, but he evaded capture. Information was developed May 29 indicating Roberts might be staying with relatives in Nashville, Tenn. Deputy U.S. Marshals from the Northern District of Oklahoma forwarded that information to the Middle District of Tennessee, which led to Roberts’ arrest June 10 in Nashville. 9. Jeremiah Jackson (N/OH) PDF Version Deputy U.S. Marshals from the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force and officers from the Cleveland Police Department SWAT team arrested Jeremiah Jackson June 20. He was wanted by the Cleveland Police Department for a homicide June 18. Jackson allegedly entered a laundromat on Cleveland’s west side and attempted to rob a female worker. When she resisted, Jackson shot and killed her. The case received significant media attention in the Cleveland area, and Jackson was immediately named as one of Cleveland’s Most Wanted Fugitives. With assistance from the USMS Technical Operations Group, members of NOVFTF identified a residence in Cleveland Heights where Jackson was thought to be residing. Surveillance was established and the SWAT team was called in for assistance. After Jackson realized the extent of the police presence, he surrendered without incident. A search of the residence following Jackson’s arrest revealed a Taurus .380 handgun, which is consistent with the make and caliber of the weapon used in the homicide two days prior. Jackson also was wanted for multiple shootings and armed robberies in the Cleveland area. 10. Gavin Murray (S/NY & N/GA) PDF Version The New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force received a request May 20 to assist in locating and arresting Gavin Murray, who was wanted by both the New York State Department of Corrections and the New York State Division of Parole. The Task Force was contacted after Murray was “inappropriately released” by the DOC after serving a three-year sentence for criminal possession of a weapon. Task Force members tracked Murray from the Bronx, N.Y., to Georgia and Mississippi. The investigation ended June 1, when FALCON team members arrested Murray at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Members of the USMS Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the USMS Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, and the USMS Technical Operations Group provided critical assistance in this investigation and apprehension. Murray is a documented member of the Bloods gang with a long and violent history. While serving his prison sentence on the weapons charge, Murray also was under indictment in Bronx County, N.Y., on two murder charges and is the prime suspect in two other homicides, one in the Bronx and one in Manhattan. 11. Hugo Gonzalez-Gonzalez (D/CO) PDF Version Deputy U.S. Marshals from the District of Colorado Fugitive Location and Apprehension Group Task Force, assisted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Fugitive Unit, arrested Hugo Gonzalez-Gonzalez June 3 in Aurora, Colo. He was wanted by authorities in the Republic of Mexico for murder. Gonzalez-Gonzalez reportedly shot a man with a .45-caliber handgun during an argument Jan. 1, 1999 in the community of San Cristóbal, in the State of Guanajuato, Mexico. The Adams County (Colorado) District Attorney’s received information indicating Gonzalez-Gonzalez was living in Denver and using his cousin’s identity for work. FLAG members contacted the U.S. Marshals Service Mexico City Foreign Field Office, which verified the warrant through the office of the Procuraduría General de la República. Investigators from FLAG and ICE conducted surveillance, obtained all the necessary documents and verified employment information over a period of two weeks. On the morning of June 3, investigators went to Gonzalez-Gonzalez’s workplace and advised management that one of their employees was working under false documents. Gonzalez-Gonzalez was taken into custody for being in the United States illegally. Following his arrest, Gonzalez-Gonzalez admitted to his true identity and agreed to a stipulated removal from the United States. 12. James Francis (S/TX) PDF Version Members of the USMS Southern District of Texas Gulf Coast Violent Offenders and Fugitive Task Force arrested James Francis June 30 in his motel room at the Best Classic Suites in Houston. Francis was wanted in Lafayette, La., for the brutal murder of a grocery store owner Aug. 31, 2008. The murder took place after Francis’ brother got into an altercation with the store owner over how the owner bagged his beer. As the store owner followed Francis’ brother into the parking lot, Francis allegedly shot and killed the store owner. Because of the brutal nature of this murder, the USMS Western District of Louisiana Fugitive Task Force requested assistance from America’s Most Wanted. On June 13, Francis’ fugitive case was featured on the “15 Seconds of Shame” segment of the broadcast. A tip received June 30 at the USMS Lafayette Office stated Francis had been seen at a Wal-Mart in Houston as well as in the parking lot of the Best Classic Suites. USMS investigators in the Lafayette office forwarded that information to FALCON team members in Houston, who immediately responded to the motel. Three separate interviews with personnel at the motel led investigators to believe Francis was at the motel. Members of the GCVOFTF confirmed Francis’ room and quickly arrested him. Francis had been named the Western District of Louisiana’s FALCON 2009 Most Wanted fugitive. 13. Anthony Velasquez (D/CO) PDF Version Anthony Velasquez, a documented member of the Sureños 13 gang, was arrested June 5 in Aurora, Colo., by members of the District of Colorado Fugitive Location and Apprehension Group Task Force and the Aurora Police Department. Velasquez was wanted in California for a parole violation on an original sex offense and by the Aurora Police Department for two counts of attempted homicide and first-degree assault. On May 17, Velasquez and an associate, both armed with shotguns, allegedly went to an apartment complex and opened fire on two victims. Both victims were hit with birdshot and sustained non-life threatening injuries. The Aurora Police Department received two calls June 4 on separate drive-by shootings involving a shotgun. One location was the home of an ex-girlfriend of Velasquez and the other was the home of her friend. During the afternoon of June 5, FLAG investigators received information indicating Velasquez was a passenger in a silver sedan that had temporary tags. Units set up on the highways spotted the vehicle heading toward Aurora. Additional marked units were requested and Velasquez was taken into custody following a traffic stop on a highway off-ramp. 14. Willie Conway (N/IL) PDF Version Members of the USMS Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force and deputies from the Cook County Sheriff’s Department arrested Willie Conway June 18 in Chicago. A documented member of the Vice Lords street gang and a convicted sexual predator, Conway was wanted in Kankakee County, Ill., for criminal sexual child fondling. The victim was a nine-year-old girl. During the morning of June 18, GLRFTF investigators established surveillance at a residence in Chicago where they believed Conway was residing. GLRFTF members approached the residence, made contact with Conway and took him into custody. Conway may face additional charges for failure to register as a sex offender. 15. Danielle Medina (N/IN) PDF Version Following a two-day search, Deputy U.S. Marshals from the Northern District of Indiana, assisted by the Allen County (Indiana) Sheriff’s Department, arrested 17-year-old Danielle Medina June 9 at a residence in Fort Wayne, Ind. Medina was charged with the aggravated kidnapping of five-month-old Cortez L. Rose, whom she was babysitting at the time of their disappearance. Medina had last been seen with the infant in Madison, Ill. Medina, who has a significant juvenile criminal history, also had outstanding warrants in New York City for robbery and grand larceny. The USMS Southern District of Illinois, the Madison Police Department and the FBI worked together to locate Medina, who was believed to be traveling with a male companion. After investigators located a possible address for Medina in Fort Wayne, collateral lead information was sent that led to Medina’s arrest. Medina will be tried as an adult on the kidnapping charges. Cortez L. Rose was in good health when he was found and was quickly reunited with his mother. Nation-Wide Fact Sheets on the Operation and U.S. Marshals Contacts: General Inquiries \| Information or Inquiries on Fugitives \| Freedom of Information inquiries For Information: Accessibility \| Freedom of Information \| Privacy Policy \| No Fear Act \| usa.gov \| eRulemaking \| usdoj.gov \| Linking Policy for this web site and legal disclaimers
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High-quality garments from some of the most celebrated brands are sold at ridiculously cheap prices here, which is why this place is touted to be the best among the readymade wholesale markets in Delhi. From jeans, shorts, and cargos to jeggings, leggings, and palazzos, you can take your pick at the street-sprawling shops and match them with designer tees, tops, camisoles, jackets, and shrugs. You could also accessorize with the amazing fashion merchandise that is being sold here. After long hours of spending and splurging, how about binging on some mouth-watering food at one of the many food stalls in the market? A plate of steaming momos, maybe? With a glass of piping hot tea? - Location: South West Delhi - Timings: 10:00 am to 09:00 pm; closed on Mondays - Must-Buy Items: Dress materials, shirts, readymade garments, shorts, tees, lingerie, denim, western wear 4. Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi Chandni Chowk \| #4 out of Top 10 Wholesale Cloth Market in Delhi The busy and bustling shopping streets of Chandni Chowk offer a treasure trove of amazing fabrics and clothes to shopaholics of all ages. This is Delhi’s wholesale bazaar that never fails to impress visitors with the variety that it has to offer. One of the oldest wholesale cloth markets in Delhi, the place has many alleys specializing in different types of fabric, from printed cotton, silk, and chanderi to materials for men’s outfits, upholsteries, and curtains. The Katra Neel is a great garment alley where the air is filled with noises of bargaining vendors and buyers. You can also check out Kinari Bazaar, especially if you are looking for laces, georgette or gorgeous zardosi cloths. While you are in the area, you can also indulge in some lip-smacking street food of Delhi. - Location: Old Delhi - Timings: 10:00 am to 09:00 pm; closed on Sundays - Must-Buy Items: Cotton and synthetic fabric, dress materials, salwar suits, shirts, readymade garments, jeans, scarves, kurtis, lehengas, sarees, western wear 5. Nehru Place, South Delhi Nehru Place \| #5 out of Top 10 Wholesale Cloth Market in Delhi If you are a handloom and cotton aficionado, then this place will leave you spoilt for choice. When you are in the capital city, this is the go-to destination for cotton, crepe, silk, synthetic, georgette, chiffon, and other hand-woven fabrics. You will find fabrics for all budgets and occasions here, especially for custom-made garments that you would want to stand out from your usual off-the-rack clothes. Buying fabric in bulk works out cheaper here and the quality is good, something that fashion lovers always wish for. Remember to visit HP Singh, the most prominent store in the market. This wholesale market is located close to some of the popular hangout places in Delhi. Those who may be interested in places to visit in Delhi where you can hang out with friends combined with some shopping, Nehru Place offers just that. - Location: South Delhi - Timings: 10:00 am to 09:00 pm; closed on Sundays - Must-Buy Items: Cotton, silk, georgette, and other fabrics, custom-make outfits, readymade garments 6. Meherchand Market, Lodhi Colony Meherchand Market \| #6 out of Top 10 Wholesale Cloth Market in Delhi Fabric customizations and rework are gracefully done at this wholesale market in delhi for clothes where fabrics of all kinds keep flowing from different corners of the nation. The eclectic and innovative designs and patterns found here make dressing up an indulgent affair. Many branded fabric stores and designer labels can be spotted here. However, the place is best known for unstitched suits with block prints being customized on the fabric of your choice. Silk, Ikat, satin, sheer, you name it and the place has it all. Meherchand Market is one of those budget-friendly shopping areas in Delhi that will definitely leave you and your wallet feeling happy. - Location: Lodhi Colony - Timings: 10:30 am to 08:00 pm; closed on Sundays - Must-Buy Items: Cotton and synthetic block-printed fabric, dress materials, salwar suit material, kurtis 7. Mohan Singh Place Mohan Singh Place \| #7 out of Top 10 Wholesale Cloth Market in Delhi This is where all the millennials and college students love to shop till they drop. The affordable prices, exquisite fabrics, and the buzzing atmosphere at Connaught place, where this fabric paradise is located, all make Mohan Singh Place a prominent name in Delhi’s wholesale market scene. Here is where you can add any designer label of your choice to the fabric of your liking and walk around like the Bawse. Sounds a little scandalous, right? - Location: Connaught Place - Timings: 11:00 am to 10:00 pm; closed on Sundays - Must-Buy Items: Cotton and synthetic printed fabric, dress materials, designer labels, denim 8. Karol Bagh Market, Karol Bagh Karol Bagh Market \| #8 out of Top 10 Wholesale Cloth Market in Delhi Karol Bagh is another fabric stop where the hues, colors, textures, designs, and quality pave way for fashionistas to explore their vogue quotient endlessly. The zari work at PS Zariwala, handwoven marvels at Handloom Fabrics, cotton prints at Khurana Store and Cotton Fabric Wholesalers make the Indian fabric fare outshine any other in the world. The summer prints you find here with the moisture-wicking property are to die for. The fabric collections get sold out like hot cakes as soon as they hit the racks, so hurry up if you happen to be shopping in Delhi! - Location: Karol Bagh - Timings: 11:00 am to 09:00 pm; every day - Must-Buy Items: Cotton and synthetic printed fabric, dress materials, zari fabric, salwar suit material, handloom fabric, bed sheets, linen, shawls Planning for a Delhi trip? checkout: Couple friendly hotels in Delhi \| Budget hotels in Delhi 9. Shanti Mohalla, Seelampur Shanti Mohalla \| #9 out of Top 10 Wholesale Cloth Market in Delhi This wholesale cloth market in Delhi, spread over the narrow lanes of Seelampur, houses hundreds of shops that sell export fabrics of all kinds and hues, from denim and corduroys to rayon, jute, georgette, and everything in between. This is also a great place to shop for designer borders, buttons, threads, add-ons, and other embellishments. Be warned that navigating through these lanes can be a little tiring, but the shopping experience and great deals will surely make up for it. K.K International Voli Prints, Nandi Fabrics, and Jain Sales are among the prominent names here. And the best part? You will find people selling fabrics not by meter but by weight, so don’t forget to bring that big bag to take your ‘happy load’ home. Read also – Things to do in Delhi - Location: Seelampur - Timings: 10:00 am to 07:30 pm; closed on Mondays - Must-Buy Items: Cotton and synthetic fabric, embroidered fabric, printed materials, designer borders, and embellishments 10. Gandhi Nagar Bazaar, Sagarpur Gandhi Nagar Bazaar \| #10 out of Top 10 Wholesale Cloth Market in Delhi An account of Delhi’s wholesale cloth markets can’t be deemed complete without a mention of Gandhi Nagar Market, where you’ll find clothes priced as low as INR 20. Don’t believe us? Visit this buzzing place that houses a good number of shops selling everything from designer blouses and shirt to kurtas, suits, and dupattas, among others. Gandhi Nagar Market is touted to be one of the largest markets in the country, probably in entire Asia, that sells readymade garments at wholesale prices. This also means it’s really hard to find stores that would sell you just one shirt or suit. Bulk is the buzzword here! - Location: Sagarpur - Timings: 10:00 am to 08:00 pm; closed on Mondays - Must-Buy Items: Shirts, suits, readymade garments, dupattas, kurtas Besides these wholesale markets, you can check out some of the popular shopping places in Delhi where retail therapy is at its best. Delhi is indubitably a shoppers’ paradise with its street stores and vibrant wholesale markets. The thrill of bargaining, the madness of making the best selection, the satiating slurp of chilled drinks after a day’s long toil of shopping, and above all, the heartfelt satisfaction of having owned the best fabrics – ah, heavenly, isn’t it? The sun may go down, but the shopping spirit never does in these wholesale clothing zones of Delhi. Nice stuff realy good
How to access the above link? 1. Child Support, Custody, and Visitation--support--child reached age of eighteen but still in school--subject matter jurisdiction & nbsp; The trial court did not lack subject matter jurisdiction in a child support case even though defendant mother contends her child with Down's Syndrome had reached the age of eighteen prior to the hearing and was not otherwise entitled to support under N.C.G.S. § 50-13.4, because: (1) the child was still enrolled in school and attended his specialized program on a regular basis; and (2) testimony revealed the child's attendance at school is in his best interests, that he would continue to benefit in the future from the curriculum, and that he is making satisfactory academic progress toward a nontraditional graduation. 2. Child Support, Custody, and Visitation--support--sufficiency of evidence--specific amount Although the trial court's order continuing child support obligation is supported by the findings of fact and conclusions of law, the trial court erred by failing to make the appropriate findings and conclusions on the issue of the specific amount of child support because: (1) no evidence was presented, nor were there findings made, concerning the reasonable needs of the child for support and the parents' ability to pay; (2) the trial court simply divided the original support obligation of $806.50 in half when one of the two children reached the age of eighteen and was not otherwise covered by N.C.G.S. § 50-13.4; (3) the remaining child has special needs and an amount higher than one-half of the original total may be appropriate; and (4) a lower amount may be mandated considering the income of the parties. Harrison & Poore, PA by Hal G. Harrison for plaintiff- appellee. Hall & Hall by Douglas L. Hall for defendant-appellant. THOMAS, Judge. There are two issues in this child support case. The first issue is whether child support is required from the noncustodial parent where the child is over 18 years old, regularly attends high school but because of suffering from Down syndrome isnot making progress toward a traditional diploma. The second question is whether, if child support is mandated, the trial court can set the amount by merely halving the sum due under a prior order where one of the two children earlier included has now moved beyond required support. The facts of this case are as follows: John R. Hendricks, Jr. plaintiff, and Deborah Gail Sanks, defendant, are parents of two children. Pursuant to a court order entered 31 January 1991, plaintiff was awarded custody with defendant directed to pay child support in the amount of $806.50 per month. Defendant filed a motion to modify her child support obligation in October 1997 alleging that their older child born 29 September 1979, Wesley Hendricks, was no longer subject to mandatory support from her. There was no issue as to her obligation to continue support for their second child, John Hendricks, III, born 18 May 1981. Then, in May 1999, defendant filed a motion to terminate support for the younger child since he, by that point, had reached his eighteenth birthday as well. The two motions were finally heard together on 22 September 1999 but, during the interim between that date and the filing date of the first motion, defendant had on her own volition reduced child support payments by more than half. The trial court granted defendant's motion as to Wesley, but denied the motion to terminate support as to John. John, while 18 years old and still attending high school, was not making progress toward a traditional, mainstream graduation. He had been born with Down syndrome and was in special classes within a traditional highschool setting. According to plaintiff's evidence, however, he was regularly participating in a non-standard curriculum and was making satisfactory progress toward his own special type of graduation. The trial court ordered defendant to continue making payments for the benefit of John and set the support at $403.25 per month. That amount is one-half of the total set for both children in the prior order. Support was to continue until John reached the age of 20 or graduated from Mitchell High School, whichever occurred first. From this order, defendant appeals. [1]By her first assignment of error, defendant argues the trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction in this case as the child had reached the age of 18 prior to the hearing and was not otherwise entitled to support pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50- 13.4. We disagree. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-13.4 provides that a parent has a legal obligation of support until the child reaches the age of 18 except as noted: If the child is still in primary or secondary school when the child reaches 18, support payments shall continue until the child graduates, otherwise ceases to attend school on a regular basis, fails to make satisfactory academic progress toward graduation, or reaches age 20, whichever comes first, unless the court in its discretion orders that payments cease at age 18 or prior to high school graduation. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-13.4(c)(2)(1999). See also Bridges v. Bridges, 85 N.C. App. 524, 355 S.E.2d 230 (1987) and Leak v. Leak, 129 N.C. App. 142, 497 S.E.2d 702 (1998). Defendant relies on Jackson v. Jackson, 102 N.C. App. 574, 402S.E.2d 869 (1991) to argue that support for a mentally disabled child ends at that child's 18th birthday. This reliance is misplaced. We agree with the Court's holding in Jackson that nothing else appearing our law does not now require parents to support their disabled children after they are of age. Id. at 575, 402 S.E.2d at 870 (emphasis added). However, in the instant case, there are other factors appearing which distinguish it from Jackson. We note that in Jackson, unlike the instant case, there was no evidence the child was still enrolled in school.. Here, John is enrolled in school and attending his specialized program on a regular basis. In Leak, this Court determined that if a child is eighteen and enrolled in school, the obligor has an affirmative duty to move the court for termination of any support obligations on the ground that the child was failing to make satisfactory progress or was no longer in school. In fact, to allow a parent to unilaterally determine whether a child is regularly attending school, or is making satisfactory progress towards graduation would undermine the purpose of this statute, which is to provide continuing child support for children in school. Leak, 129 N.C. App. at 143, 497 S.E.2d at 704. The defendant in the instant case properly filedher motion to terminate support rather than unilaterally ceasing payment. Therefore, the key question is whether John is making satisfactory academic progress toward graduation within the meaning of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-13.4(c)(2). John is mentally disabled and attending a special program at Mitchell High School which teaches vocabulary and activities of daily living such as how to count money. It is undisputed that he will not receive a traditional diploma. However, testimony at trial by his teacher and school counselor showed John's attendance at school is in his best interests, that he would continue to benefit in the future from the curriculum and that he is making satisfactory academic progress toward a nontraditional graduation. As we find this is sufficient to comply with the requirements of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-13.4(c)(2) and confer jurisdiction on the trial court, we reject this assignment of error. [2]By her second assignment of error, defendant argues the trial court's order continuing the child support obligation is not supported by findings of fact and conclusions of law. We disagree as to the sufficiency of the findings and conclusions to continue the child support obligation itself, but do hold the trial court erred as to its findings and conclusions or lack thereof on the issue of setting the specific amount of child support. The trial court found that John is enrolled in school, is regularly attending and is receiving appropriate and needed education and training. He is satisfactorily progressing toward graduation. However, the trial court failed to support its monetary directive in any way and instead merely halved the earliersupport obligation. Child support orders are accorded substantial deference by appellate courts and we must limit our review to a determination of whether there was a clear abuse of discretion. White v. White, 312 N.C. 770, 777, 324 S.E.2d 829, 833 (1985). Under this standard of review, a trial court's ruling will be upset only upon a showing that it was so arbitrary that it could not have been the result of a reasoned decision. Biggs v. Greer, 136 N.C. App. 294, 296-97, 524 S.E.2d 577, 581 (2000). The original child support order was issued to cover two children. Wesley reached the age of 18 and is not otherwise covered by the statute. Therefore, support is required only for John. The amount of child support due is to be determined using the North Carolina Child Support Guidelines (guidelines) unless the application of the guidelines would be inequitable. To compute the appropriate amount of child support the trial court must rely upon the Guidelines wherein presumptive amounts of child support are set forth. Biggs, 136 N.C. App. at 297, 524 S.E.2d at 581. Child support is to be set in such amount 'as to meet the reasonable needs of the child for health, education, and maintenance, having due regard to the estates, earnings, conditions, accustomed standard of living of the child and the parties.' Blair v. Jackson, 138 N.C. App. 284, 287, 531 S.E.2d 240, 243 (2000)(citing N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-13.4(c)). Child support set consistent with the Guidelines is conclusively presumed to be in such amount as to meet the reasonable needs of the child and commensurate with therelative abilities of each parent to pay support. Blair, 138 N .C. App. at 287, 531 S.E.2d at 243. If the trial court determines that the application of the guidelines would be inequitable or otherwise deviates from the guidelines, the court must hear evidence and find facts related to the reasonable needs of the child for support and the parents ability to pay. Biggs, 136 N.C. App. at 297, 524 S.E.2d at 581. No such evidence has been presented nor findings made. In this case, the trial court appears to have simply divided the original support obligation of $806.50 in half. There is no evidence in the record to show otherwise. Considering that John has special needs, it may well be that an amount higher than one- half of the original total is appropriate. Considering the income of the parties, which is also not included in the trial court's findings, a lower amount may be mandated. Accordingly, we remand to the trial court for further findings of fact and conclusions of law consistent with this opinion. It is left in the trial court's discretion whether the taking of additional evidence is necessary. AFFIRMED in part, REVERSED AND REMANDED in part. Judges WYNN and MCGEE concur. * Converted from WordPerfect *
It’s already late on Thursday evening. You wipe out your sweat and look at the computer’s clock at the top right of your desktop. Three more hours until the submission deadline. You gave your word to email the article on time, but you’re not even halfway there. You feel the chills down your bones thinking that you still have another three deadlines to catch up for the week. You secretly feel glad that one client canceled hiring you to write five 2000-word blog posts. Not because you don’t want the money – you desperately need that, or that you hate writing, but letting down your clients feels the worst. You can’t have another angry email from your clients. You’ve already got one too many. The last late submission has cost you a client. You need to write web content faster like your life depends on it. Actually, your life does depend on it. But no matter what you do, the words seem to crawl lazily out of the keyboard. How to write web content fast? The answer is actually simple. But it might not be the one that you expected. My Own Personal Lightning Bolt The story above might be the typical story of any slow writers out there. I was once one of them. I didn’t know how to write fast. I just didn’t. Notice the use of past tense here. Fast forward to today (pun intended), I’m still far from being the fastest writer alive. But I’m so much better. My personal record is finishing a 2000-word post in less than two hours. So, what’s the story? It started when I landed this 600-word blogpost gig. The client sent me a very detailed outline, with headers, main idea per paragraph, and supporting details for each paragraph. All that I have to do is follow the dots. Guess what? I speed through the points and finish writing the post in under one hour. That very post would normally take me at least twice or three times as much. To me, that writing assignment was similar to the lightning bolt that struck Barry Allen. The difference is, I don’t get the super speed right off the bat. It’s just a wake-up call that I actually can write faster given the right circumstances. Now the question is, what are the right circumstances? How do you tap into the writer’s speed force? How to write fast? How to write faster? I did my unofficial researches and experiments, and find out that the answer is in the thinking. Or to be exact, the lack of it. To write faster, you must NOT think while writing. How to Write Fast – What To Do? Let’s start with the root of the problem. Why do many writers write slowly? Because they think and write at the same time. Slow writers write a few sentences, think about it for a few seconds, delete the last sentence, write them again, think, re-write, and repeat the loops throughout the process. No wonder it takes forever. I’m not saying that you should not put any thinking into your writing. If you want to know how to write fast, you should move the thinking part before the writing. And after. Remove the Thinking Process The fastest writers are meticulous planners. They plan well and know exactly what to write before even start writing. In the simplest word: you sit and make time to craft a detailed outline beforehand. Most successful novelist outline every scene of their novels before they open the word processor – or whatever tool they use to write. Once they start the writing engine and put their fingers into the keyboards, they don’t waste time thinking about what will happen next. They just write. They don’t mind grammatical errors. You deal with that in the editing process after the writing. And if you want to put your editing process on steroids, use Grammarly. More on this later. I will repeat the concept because it’s that important. Don’t think while writing. Think before you write when you prepare the outline, and think after you write when you edit your piece. But It’s Counter-Intuitive. Or Is It? Some might think that this process is counter-intuitive. You usually do it all in one go. Won’t you actually waste more time going through your writing several times over? The key phrase is “all in one go”. It means you are actually switching back and forth between thinking, outlining, writing, rethinking, and editing tasks. As proven by multiple pieces of research, doing many things at once and juggling between the tasks will not make you work faster. The result is the opposite. On the side note, the so-called “multitasking” has some benefit to your creativity, but only if you are doing longer and bigger projects such as working on several books at once. Let’s go back to the topic. Doing everything all at once is actually slower than doing it in three separate processes. Do an experiment. Write two more or less similar articles (same word count, same difficulties), and use a different approach for each one. Don’t forget to track the time. How to write fast? Forget multitasking. Asking The Right Questions If having an outline and eliminate the thinking process really help you write faster, you have to make sure that the outline is a good one. And how do you prepare the best outline? By asking the right questions. And here are the questions that you need to ask while preparing your best outline. The Seven Questions 1. Who is the target reader? You need to be as specific as possible. Break it down to sub, sub-niche if you can. For example, you want to target writers. What kind of writers are we talking about? Freelance writers. And you can go down one more level. What kind of freelance writers? Maybe those who just started their writing career. 2. Why should they care about your topic? Find out the core problems that this audience face. Using the previous example, one of the problems of new freelance writers is they want to take more writing gigs but unable to do so because they write slowly. Why should these writers care about your topic? Because it will solve their problems. 3. What are their pre-reading thoughts about the topic? What separates amateur writers with the pro ones? The amateurs tell the reader what they should be thinking. And it’s wrong because most people don’t like when others dictate their thoughts. If you want to move to the pro world, you should always try to meet the readers where they are, find out what they are thinking, and address their concerns in the beginning paragraph. 4. How do you want them to feel when they finish the post? Before writing, start with a one-word target emotion. Put it on the top of your post as your guiding light. In this example, “relief” would be the perfect target emotion. I want my readers to feel that they finally find a cure for their slow writing problem. 5. What advice does the audience expect you to give them? But give them something unexpected instead. Writing without thinking? Not many would expect advice like that. Even the famous Stephen King once said that “Writing is refined thinking”. 6. What examples can you give to illustrate your points? Always give real-life examples whenever you can. For example, …umm… Well, you get the point. 7. How can you deliver the target emotion? List down all the clever quotes, wise words, bits of advice, or anything that will enhance the impact of your writing so that the readers feel what you want them to feel. Rearrange and Reconstruct the Outline Go through the questions while preparing your outline. Format it and connect the points to make it flow. The easiest way to rearrange and reconstruct points in your outline is to cut and paste. But you can also use a dedicated writing and outlining tools such as Scrivener. The visual thinkers usually mind-mapping their outline. But researches have shown that the mind mapping process can help everybody conceptualize their thoughts. If you want to master mind-mapping and learn about the benefits for your life, check out the Mind Mapping Mastery Course. Thinking through everything is the most time-consuming part. Once you know what to say, you’ll glide through your writing. And with experience, outlining will be your second nature. Some writers can even reconstruct the outline in their heads. Because at the end of the day, writing is not about words or language. It’s about having clear and fully formed thoughts. Bonus Tips on How to Write Fast Here are a few other pointers on how to write fast. 1. Spend time to really, and I mean REALLY, think about a good title. This topic is another whole discussion by itself, and I save it for another day. But for now, know that having a good title before you write is like winning half a battle. If preparing an outline is like drawing a map for your journey, creating the title is like deciding on the destination to go to. 2. Break down your writing time into chunks. Use the Pomodoro technique to help you focus while not getting burnout. Basically, you set your writing process into a 25-minute writing and a 5-minute break. You do a longer break after doing several sets of these chunks. Explaining everything about Pomodoro also deserves another full discussion. Take a rain check? 3. Consistency is the key. Another tip on “how to write fast” is to write consistently. Write every day without fail, at the same time, at the same place, and at (more or less) the same word count. Because, you know, practice makes perfect. First, you create your habit, then your habit creates you. 4. Keep a separate note to record quick thoughts More often than not, brilliant ideas will pop out in your head while you are in the middle of writing. Rather than keeping them in your head, it’s better to jot it down in separate notes so that you can go back to them later. Then continue the writing process. This will free your thoughts from distractions and keep you in the flow. 5. Remove all other distractions Your wandering thoughts are not the only demons you will face while writing. I mean, we are living in the age of distractions. Music, television, people all around you, games, your environment, your phone and everything that comes with it; how to write fast among all of these distractions? If you can’t remove those distractions from you, you should remove yourself from distractions. Find a dedicated place to write, set the “do not disturb” sign, and turn off your phone. Seriously, turn off your phone. 6. Use Grammarly. Period. There’s no question that you MUST edit your writing to meet a certain standard. Crappy writing means nobody wants to read your piece. Grammar is one element of your writing and it takes a lot of time to go through your writing to find and correct grammar mistakes. Grammarly will help you find these mistakes and correct them in one click. It will slash down your writing time significantly. Granted, no tool can replace a professional human editor, and Grammarly is no different. But even the free version is can elevate your writing several levels up from crappy to “so much better”. The simplicity and quality put Grammarly above other similar tools. It’s basically the industry standard. If you are not using it, install it now. 7. Create a clear deadline. Without a deadline, one can wonder forever and still not getting his/her writing done. This is especially true for personal writing projects. There’s this post from last year that I’m still working on. I keep revising it, trying to polish and perfect it. Nobody yells at me for taking too long. I don’t have the deadline to nudge me to stop working. Without a clear deadline, a project could go on forever. Set your own deadlines, yell at yourself for not finishing it on time. And it helps to have a solid project/task management app like Focuster to help you create and manage your deadlines. If you have no reason to finish a project, you won’t finish it. Don’t let the perfect kill the good. 8. How to write fast? Type fast. Duh. There are barely any modern writer who is still use handwriting to write. So let’s assume that you are already using the combination of the computer keyboard and some version of a word processor or text editor. It means that the top speed of your writing speed depends on how fast your fingers can dance on your computer’s keys. To improve your writing speed, you simply need to increase your typing speed. You will also need to invest in a good and comfortable keyboard. Don’t use the one that needs brute strength just to press a key. Other than that, the key’s traveling distance plays an important role. Older keyboards have big and tall keys that travel almost one centimeter from top to bottom while the newer ones only need to travel one or two millimeters (or less) to produce a character. A keyboard with several keys missing is also out of the question. 9. How to write faster? Speak Up! We can talk faster than we can write. So to write faster, we can say what we want to write and let the computer type it for us. No, Mr. Potter and friends have nothing to do with it. The speech to text technology does. There are a number of apps that can help you transcribe your talks to texts, such as Dictanote Pro. While some of us writers may feel awkward typing with your voice, I know a great writer who uses his voice to write. 10. Practice, practice, practice. Yes. The title means exactly that. Epilogue: The Need for Speed Writing Once upon a time, publishing your writing meant waiting months or even years from the moment you completed your manuscript to the time it’s actually published. And it took so much longer if you start from the idea pitching stage. This condition put writers in a position where they didn’t need to write faster unless they were on deadlines. Being a writer was generally a slow game. But the technology and the internet change that completely. You can publish your writing as fast as you can click the “Publish” button. This is not only applied to short articles, but also to full-fledged books. Amazon and the likes make it possible for anyone to publish their (digital) book to the world in literally one click. What does it mean? If your writing equals your income, it means the faster you can write the more money you can earn. It’s a simple equation. Of course, there are those who write to fulfill their emotional needs and not for monetary gain. They write only when their muse hits them with brilliant inspirations of unicorns and rainbows. If you belong to this tribe, by all means, take your time to write. As for everyone else, keep speeding up. Earn more. Have more spare time. And may the (speed) force be with you.
1. Field of the Invention The present invention generally relates to medical devices and more particularly to an improved bite block for an endotracheal tube and to an assembly incorporating the bite block and endotrachial tube. 2. Prior Art Various devices have been proposed to prevent a patient's teeth from clamping down on an endotracheal tube, thus pinching the tube and restricting or entirely cutting off the flow of oxygen or air to the patient's lungs through the endotracheal tube. Many trauma victims of motor vehicle accidents and the like suffer neurological impairment. One result is a tendency to clamp down and bite into an endotracheal tube inserted in the victim's mouth. Reduction of the flow of air or oxygen to such a patient in an emergency situation may critically impair chances for the patient's recovery. Moreover, the patient may bite hard enough to rupture the pilot balloon which is normally disposed in the endotracheal tube to seal the tube and thereby assure a closed system with air or oxygen being supplied to the patient's lungs in an adequate but controlled amount. When the balloon is ruptured, oxygen or air can leak around the tube causing inadequate ventilation and possible hypoxemia. If this occurs, it is then necessary to replace the endotracheal tube in order to reacquire the necessary closed ventilation system. One endotracheal tube bite block known in the art is that disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,896,667 to Magnussen. The Magneussen bite block comprises a hard inner tube and a softer outer tube secured to the upper end of the inner tube. Such bite block has several drawbacks, including inadequate means for securing the bite block to the exterior of an endotracheal tube. Moreover, the bite block is relatively expensive to manufacture, since it must be fabricated of materials of two separate flexibilities which must be assembled together. The lower end of the tube is squared off or slightly tapered and difficult to secure to an endotracheal tube by tape or the like. Various other bite blocks are known in the art but generally are complicated in design and difficult and costly to make and/or difficult to assemble and connect to an endotracheal tube. Accordingly, there is a need for an improved type of endotracheal tube bite block which is simple in design, easy to make and use, inexpensive and readily and securely attachable to an endotracheal tube in various ways, depending on the particular protocol required. There is also a need for an improved assembly of the bite block and endotrachial tube. The improved endotracheal tube bite block and assembly of the present invention satisfy all the foregoing needs. The bite block and assembly are substantially as described in the ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE. Thus, the bite block can be formed in a single step plastic forming operation from readily available inexpensive materials such as plastic, compression-resistant rubbber or the like. It comprises, in combination, an elongated rigid bite tube which can be single walled in a C-shaped cross-sectional configuration and which integrally incorporates an elongated post extending rearwardly from the rear end of the main body of the tube and in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tube. The rear end of the post terminates in a retaining wall extending laterally outwardly of the tube, preferably at a 90 degree angle and defines with the remainder of the outer surface of the post a tape-receiving space for securely anchoring the bite block to the outer surface of an endotracheal tube. The post adjacent its rear end defines a slot through which a flexible resilient strap is inserted for also anchoring the bite block to the exterior of the endotracheal tube. The strap has an elongated body adapted to slide through the slot and has a retainer at one end to releasably cinch up the strap. The strap has at least one rough side to facilitate the cinching up and releasable securing of the strap in place around an endotracheal tube. The strap may have two opposite roughened sides, the second side acting to engage and grip the exterior of the endotracheal tube to prevent slippage between the strap and endotracheal tube. In one embodiment of the invention, an anti-bite endotracheal tube assembly is provided which comprises the bite block fitted around an endotracheal tube and abutting a strip of adhesive tape wound around the endotracheal tube. The bite block is secured to the endotracheal tube by the bite block strap passing through the post slot and around the adhesive strip and cinched tight by the strap retainer. In another embodiment of the invention, an anti-bite endotracheal tube assembly is provided which differs from the just-described assembly in that a second strip of adhesive tape is wound around the bite block post and the first strip. The strap is not used in this assembly. Further aspects of the present invention are set forth in the following detailed description and accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic side elevation of a preferred embodiment of the improved endotracheal tube bite block of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a schematic front elevation, partly broken away, of the bite block of FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a schematic bottom plan view of the bite block of FIG. 1; FIG. 4 is a schematic top plan view of the strap utilizable in the bite block of FIG. 1; FIG. 5 is a schematic fragmentary side elevation of the strap of FIG. 4, showing the strap releasably secured by its retainer; FIG. 6 is a schematic fragmentary front elevation of the retainer portion of the strap of FIG. 4; FIG. 7 is a schematic enlarged fragmentary side elevation of the strap of FIG. 4, showing its corrugated surface; FIG. 8 is a schematic enlarged fragmentary side elevation of a modified form of the strap utilizable with the bite block of the present invention, the strap showing roughened opposite surfaces; FIG. 9 is a schematic fragmentary side elevation of a first preferred embodiment of the assembly of the present invention, showing the bite block abutting a strip of adhesive tape wound around the endotracheal tube and with the bite block strap cinched around the tape; and, FIG. 10 is a schematic fragmentary side elevation of a second preferred embodiment of the assembly of the present invention, showing the bite block abutting a first strip of adhesive tape wound around the endotracheal tube and with a second strip of the tape wound around the first strip of tape and the bite block post. FIGS. 1-7. Now referring more particularly to FIGS. 1-7 of the drawings, a preferred embodiment of the improved entdotrachial tube bite block of the present invention is schematically set forth therein. Thus, bite block 20 is shown, which comprises, in combination, a generally cylindrical, relatively inflexible, preferably C-shaped (in cross-section) elongated tube 22 having a front end 24 and an opposite rear end 26, and an elongated, preferably flat, flexible and resilient strap 28 having a pointed free end 30 and an opposite end 32 bearing a specially shaped strap retainer 34. Preferably, tube 22 and strap 28 are of plastic, rubber (hardened rubber in the case of tube 22) or the like. Tube 22 is preferably single-walled and defines a central cavity 36 extending therethrough and within which an endotrachial tube (not shown) can be slip fitted. Tube 22 is strong and resistant to pinching or crushing by a patient's teeth, but has some slight "give" to it, that is, is very slightly resilient, so as to resiliently forcefully grip the endotrachial tube. Tube 22 has an integral post 38 extending rearwardly from the rear end 26 of the main body of tube 22. Post 38 extends parallel to the longitudinal axis of tube 22 and has a rear end 40 which extends laterally outwardly therefrom, preferably at about a 90 degree angle to said longitudinal axis. Rear end 40 forms an abuttment against which a strip of adhesive tape (not shown) can be braced to help hold the strip of tape in place. Rear end 40 together with the outer surface of post 40 which is forwardly thereof form a tape strip-receiving area generally designated 42. Post 38 also defines a slot 44 extending transversely therethrough. Strap 28, except for retainer 34, can pass through slot 44. Strap 28 has a flat side 46 bearing spaced transversely extending parallel grooves 48 therein, which grooves 48 facilitate releasably locking strap 28 in place around an endotrachial tube by retainer 34. Retainer 34 has a slot 50 extending therethrough and in communication with an integral resilient retainer key 52. Key 52 has a pointed front end 54 which releasably engages grooves 48 and a rear end 56 which when depressed biases front end 54 out of grooves 48, thus providing the desired releasable cinching mechanism for strap 28. If desired, entire strap 28, including retainer 34 can be integral and formed in a single forming operation at low cost. Retainer 34 enables strap 28 to be looped around the exterior of an endotrachial tube and cinched releasably tightly to firmly hold bite block 20 in place around the endotrachial tube. Thus, bite block 20 has two separate useful means for anchoring it to an endotrachial tube, namely, strap 28 and post 38, which not only bears slot 44 for strap 28, but also tape-receiving area 42, for improved efficiency in joining bite block 20 to an endotrachial tube. Moreover, bite block 20 can be made inexpensively, is durable, positively prevents deformation of an endotrachial tube by a patient attempting to bite on block 20 and is easy to attach to an endotrachial tube and remove it therefrom. FIG. 8. A modification of the strap of the present invention is set forth schematically in FIG. 8. Thus, a portion of strap 28a is shown, which is identical to strap 28, except that it bears a roughened surface, as by sandblasting or the like, on flat side 46a and also on the opposite flat side 60. Roughened side 60 helps to better anchor strap 28a to the exterior of an endotrachial tube or to a strip of adhesive tape or the like wound around such endotrachial tube. Strap 28a can be fabricated of the same materials as strap 28. FIG. 9. A first preferred embodiment of an improved anti-bite endotrachial tube assembly of the present invention is set forth schematically in FIG. 9. Thus, assembly 68 is shown. It includes bite block 20 shown in place around an endotrachial tube 70, rear end 26 of tube 22 abutting a strip 72 of adhesive tape wound around the outer surface 74 of tube 70, and with strap 28 passing through slot 44 in post 38 and slot 50 in retainer 34 for cinching strap 28 tightly against surface 74 and/or strip 72, thus holding tube 70 and block 20 firmly together, for an improved result. Thus, bite block 20, tube 70 and strip 72 form assembly 68. FIG. 10. A second preferred embodiment of the improved anti-bite endotrachial tube assembly of the present invention is schematically depicted in FIG. 10. Thus, assembly 78 is shown. It includes block 20b which is identical to block 20 but minus strap 28. Block 20b is disposed around endotrachial tube 80 and abuts a first strip of adhesive tape 82 wound around tube 80. A second strip 84 of adhesive tape is wound around strip 82 and post 38b and abuts end 40b in tape-receiving area 42b to hold tube 80 and bite block 20b firmly together. Thus, assembly 78 includes bite block 20b, tube 80 and strips 82 and 84. Assembly 78 has improved utility over conventional bite block-endotrachial tube assemblies. Various other modifications, changes, alterations and additions can be made in the improved bite block and assembly of the present invention and in the components and parameters thereof. All such modifications, changes, alterations and additions as are within the scope of the appended claims form part of the present invention.
Long back, there was a little girl who loved rain coats. She thought it made everyone who wore it out in the rain look super cool and chic (I have no clue why she thought chic….then I have little clue as to how little girls reason anyway). She had been told by her friends that rain coats were expensive and hard to come by, so that is why many didn’t have them yet. She didn’t have one either. She had pleaded to her parents to get her one, but they never did. She so wanted to have one. Such beautiful colors – blue, red, yellow, with large and small but always pretty flowers in them. One day, when she was about 12, her Dad came back from a tour, and he had brought her a gift – a raincoat! It was a beautiful blue thing, with long sleeves and large buttons, and it was long enough to cover her calves. Blue with large white flowers etched in it, it was the most gorgeous thing she had ever seen. It was made of rubber, smelled of rubber, felt smooth and looked shiny. It was encased in a pouch that matched its content. She would take it out its pouch ever so often, just to look at it. She would finger its large blue buttons, practicing to open and then re-button them quickly. After all once it started raining, one needed to be quick and deft to wear the raincoat and put all the buttons in their eye holes, and practice made everyone perfect. Now she eagerly waited for the rain. Blast it! Where is the rain when you needed it? One day, she was home from her Alma Mater. Her Mom was getting ready to fetch her younger daughter from school. So this little girl offered to walk her sister back from there. It wasn’t far, and it was an easy walk. It was raining too. Not hard, but it was. And everyone knows how a light drizzle can turn into a stormy torrent in a flash, right? So she carefully eased her precious raincoat from its pouch. Loading it on the crook of her elbow, she walked out and spread out her free arm to check the speed of droplets. As soon as a few drops touched her skin, her face lit up in a mega watt smile. She quickly donned the raincoat, and briskly started her walk towards the school. Her arms were now protected, and her head was covered with the smart raincoat hoodie. There were many people walking on the road, hurrying to complete whatever errands they were out for. Everyone turned and looked at her, she noted with glee. A few of them even did a double take. They must think this is the best raincoat they have seen, she thought to herself. She also felt a wee bit embarrassed to be a cynosure of all eyes. She also realized that it wasn’t raining, not really. It was a few sporadic droplets drifting in the air. It doesn’t matter, she told herself. She was enjoying her raincoat and that was all that mattered. After walking for a good 5-7 minutes, she felt warm. She nudged the hoodie open. A few drops of water greeted her face. She also noticed that most people around her had umbrellas, but no one had opened it. The temperature was somewhere in the high 90s (35 C) and a part of her mind registered three facts: a) It was very humid b) She was perspiring c) The faces around her were not admiring her, they were gawking and snickering. Her mind also quickly registered rest of the facts: Most people thought these few droplets were a respite from heat that had assailed them in the last few days, and they happy to be out without an umbrella, while she was ensconced in rubber from top to bottom, sweating like the proverbial pig. Elation quickly changed to embarrassment. People were openly laughing, some kindly, some in amusement and then others in open ridicule. Still, she refused to divest herself of her precious coat. It was her sister’s stare, her mouth falling apart in a huge “O” that she realized how stupid she must look. Finally she peeled the offending rubber off. Sigh! The girl still loves rain coats. Though now a days she is not as hasty anymore to wear one. But she still likes to cook things in haste and still wants them to taste fabulous. Like this truly mouth-watering Mutton Biryani that she cooks in a very short time in a pressure cooker. It’s her Mom’s recipe, and it never fails, ever. - 2 lbs Mutton/Lamb/ Chicken - 2 Cups Basmati Rice - 1 large or 2 Med onions sliced fine - 1 tbsp garlic paste - 1 tsp ginger paste - 1 tsp cumin powder - 2 tsp red chili powder - ½ tsp turmeric powder - 1 tbsp coriander seeds whole - 1 tsp coriander roasted and ground - 4 pods cardamom - 5-6 cloves plus 2 more - 1" cinnamon stick - 1 bay leaf - 1 black cardamom (optional) - 10-12 whole black pepper corns - 2 tomatoes (skip if cooking chicken) - salt - 2-3 tbsp olive oil - 1 tsp clarified butter (sub with olive oil) - 4 cups water - In a Pressure cooker, heat 2-3 tbsp olive oil (you can use less if cooking chicken) - Fry Onions till golden brown - Add garlic paste and meat - Mix well, and cook till the meat is nicely browned - Once the meat starts looking brown, add whole coriander seeds and the powder spices (except for the freshly roasted and ground coriander seeds) - Stir nicely, add salt. - Put in chopped tomatoes (ONLY if cooking mutton/lamb) - Add 4 cups of water - If cooking chicken, Proceed to Step 14 - If cooking mutton/lamb, close the pressure lid, and cook for 20 minutes (until the meat is tender) - Meanwhile, in another pan, 1 tsp ghee/oil - Season with 2 cloves - Add drained rice and gently stir it around for 2 minutes on low flame (make sure the rice does not turn burn but looks a bit crispy) - Now add this rice to the pressure cooker that has the meat. There should be 4 cups worth of water. Add more if required. - Put the lid back on, and pressure cook till you get one whistle. Leave it as is for next 15 minutes. - Serve with cucumber, tomato and onion salad. Linked to: Great looking biryani and in a pressure cooker! I like it. I think we call this tahari, like a meat pullao? I have a pack of mutton in my freezer and a biryani is what I have planned for it …a kacchi biryani, hopefully this weekend. Stop by and enter my giveaway! Nazneen xx Nazneen \| Coffee and Crumpets recently posted..Éclairs with White Chocolate Cream, 2nd Anniversary and a Giveaway! Thanks Nazneen! This is a short cut biriyani, not really tahari. Maybe something in between…. I will for sure!~~~ Hey Minnie, just wanted to tell you that the other day I was feeling under the weather but of course, still had to cook. I made this biryani because it’s one pot and quick, came out delicious!! Thanks! Nazneen xx Coffee and Crumpets recently posted..Pumpkin Mini Bundt Cakes with Cream Cheese Frosting How awesome!! Thanks so much!!! I am so glad it came out well. This continues to be my favorite one pot meal, though I prefer the mutton version over chicken. What a fast and delicious biryani my friend Cheers Choc Chip Uru CCU recently posted..Dear Popeye… Thanks Uru I LOVE these little stories you write. I really miss our late night adda sessions while everybody else slept. Need to skype! And this biriyani…looks heavenly. And perfect timing too. I am in a crazy biriyani phase suddenly. Me too!! I miss you guys crazy!!! This biriyani is absolutely awesome. Tell you what, have my Ma cook some for you guys when she visits you next. I am telling you, no one makes biriyani like her. Aww that poor little girl! This was such a cute, well told story Minnie! Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella recently posted..Uncle Ming’s, Sydney lol!! Embarrassing situations when retold don’t feel as embarrassing any more I guess, ha ha ha! Oh what a cute little girl. I would have smiled if I had seen her, happy with her raincoat Sawsan @chef in disguise recently posted..Vegan pancakes (Secret recipe club) Awww….you are too sweet! I think the blue raincoat with the white flowers sounds really gorgeous and cute. What a great rice dish too xx Hotly Spiced recently posted..The Stampede and…Quick Chicken Curry Thanks Charlie!!! Nice post, I love Mutton Biriyani. My wife trying to cook through your suggestion and this has helped her with one aspect. Thanks for sharing your views. Srimanta recently posted..A joyful trip on a sea-side town : Puri, Orissa Thank you Thanks for stopping by hey, that’s such a sweet story!! so what if it was not raining that hard? you can wear a rain coat whenever you wish. those same people, who were laughing at you, probably wore sweaters in mid summer. i love rain coats too even though i don’t wear them (because i love to get drenched in rain :D). and yes, rain coats do look cool!! will bookmark this page because i am planning to cook biriyani for everyone someday. lovely lovely story once again and apologies for being here late, i didn’t notice that e-mail notification. Thanks a ton Raincoats do look cool, and I never did really like getting drenched in the rain. Don’t know why….maybe because it made my hair sticky and frizzy? lol! Let me know how the biriyani turns out. I’m loving your authentic recipes and step by step guides Minnie. I’ve been wanting to make a biriyani for ages. Think I’ll follow this. David Crichton recently posted..Blogiversary Thank you so much David Hi – at the end of the recipe you mention cooking till ‘one whistle’. For a non whistling pressure cooker, what does that equate to? Once it reaches pressure, how many minutes would you leave it for? Many thanks
Dyslexia and Post-Secondary Aural Skills Instruction Laurel Parsons KEYWORDS: dyslexia, aural skills, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) ABSTRACT: Traditional post-secondary aural-skills curricula can create extreme difficulties for music majors with dyslexia. This article places the author’s experience teaching these students into the context of contemporary scientific and educational research on dyslexia, including a potential subtype of dyslexia that may impact the reading of musical notation while reading of text is unaffected. From the standpoint of a social model of disability, the existence of dyslexia is contested. However, new models of dyslexia frame it not as a disability but a byproduct of superior cognitive strengths in forms of reasoning hitherto undervalued in traditional education. Identifying and building on these strengths in students with dyslexia may aid instructors in designing effective pedagogical strategies that help these students improve in typical aural-skills tasks. Such strategies may be equally beneficial for all students. Working closely with dyslexic students and others who struggle with traditional aural-skills tasks leads to more fundamental questions about the assumptions and values implicit in standard aural-skills curricula. The principles of Universal Design for Learning may facilitate the design of courses that allow all students to grow in response to challenges by recognizing and recruiting their individual cognitive strengths. Fairness isn’t making sure everyone gets the same thing. Fairness is making sure everyone gets what they need. – Special educator Richard Lavoie (1989) 1. Introduction [1.1] In the fall of 2008, I was asked to tutor a university opera major with dyslexia, whom I will call KS.(1) She had failed the first of her required musicianship courses twice. Classes were a misery for her, and her instructor always kept a box of tissues handy when working with her, since the stresses of dictation and sight-singing often brought her to tears. Yet KS was clearly intelligent, motivated, and musically gifted. The administration therefore excused her from musicianship classes as long as she studied aural skills privately, and periodically came in for testing with her official faculty instructor. Over the next four years, she came to my house once or twice a week, for up to two hours per session. We focused on only one or two course components at a time, and when we felt she had made sufficient progress, KS contacted her faculty instructor and he tested her only on those components. Once she had passed these, we moved on to the next components until she had completed each course. Freed from the time constraints and classroom pressures of the regular semester, KS made slow but remarkable progress, eventually graduating from her program and going on to a busy career in opera management and performance. [1.2] My work with KS led to one-on-one aural skills tutoring of other music majors with dyslexia, and of students experiencing similar degrees of difficulty who had never been diagnosed with dyslexia or any other learning difference. The students who had been diagnosed with a learning difference (and possibly the undiagnosed students as well) were among those whom researchers refer to as “twice-exceptional,” “dually exceptional,” or “gifted learning disabled”: individuals who are extremely talented in one area, yet at the same time struggle with equally extreme learning difficulties in another.(2) Most music theory and aural skills instructors will be familiar with the phenomenon if not the label, as it is not unusual to have students in our classes who are gifted and musically sensitive performers but seem unable to perform well on academic tasks even when putting in a high degree of effort. [1.3] My understanding of the challenges faced by students with dyslexia was further heightened through collaboration with University of British Columbia special education research professor Marion Porath and opera ensemble director Nancy Hermiston on an interdisciplinary research project investigating the experiences of opera majors with learning disabilities, entitled Libretti of Learning: Portraits of Journeys to Operatic Accomplishment.(3) I am also indebted to an undergraduate music major, whom I shall call RA, and one of her instructors at an American college—both of whom have dyslexia—for sharing their perspectives with me. [1.4] Prior to 2008, my knowledge of dyslexia was shallow at best. My initial attempts to educate myself focused on learning how to design effective teaching strategies to improve my students’ success rates on traditional aural skills tasks such as sight-singing and melodic or harmonic transcription. But the years of tutoring and additional research that followed profoundly disturbed my long-held assumptions about the purposes of those tasks, and of traditional post-secondary aural skills instruction more generally. We think we are enabling students by teaching them skills that we consider essential for them as professional musicians and educators, particularly in the classical Western tradition. But too often, our pedagogical and personal responses to students with seemingly intractable difficulties translating between music and its written representation as rapidly as we would like them to—whether or not they have been diagnosed with dyslexia or any other learning difference—in fact disable them from making meaningful progress. [1.5] This view aligns with a social-construction model of disability, in which an individual with an “impairment” (or difference) of some kind only becomes “disabled” when obstacles set up by others cause that impairment to become problematic.(4) When we erect a staircase, we disable someone in a wheelchair; when we ask someone to sight-sing a melody notated on a five-line staff, we obviously disable those who are blind. But we also disable others whom we would never describe as having an impairment: a person riding a bicycle in the case of the stairs, or a brilliant musician trained in an oral tradition in the case of the notated staff. The social model of disability does not necessarily deny the existence or significance of an impairment; rather, it requires us to acknowledge the degree to which we disable each other, through the social and physical structures we create. Viewed from this perspective, students with dyslexia are not inherently “disabled” by some internal neurobiological “deficit.” They are only disabled by educational testing regimes and societal expectations dependent on rapid processing of written texts. [1.6] Some researchers have questioned the very existence of dyslexia, considering it a vaguely defined catch-all term whose only purpose is to entrench existing social hierarchies within and beyond the public educational system (Elliott and Gibbs 2008). Investigations by neuroscientists and special-education researchers into the etiology of dyslexia, they argue, supports the so-called medical model of disability and unnecessarily pathologizes a natural, if less common, manifestation of neurological variability among human individuals. While I agree that we must stop viewing students with learning differences as having some sort of defect or lack, I see no reason to reject out of hand the term “dyslexia” or the insights that neuroscience has so far been able to provide, particularly if they can help us design tasks and interventions that will enable rather than disable our students. Moreover, students who come to us having been assessed as dyslexic have had enough to cope with without our questioning whether the impairment they experience is real; indeed, this common reaction from instructors leads many students to keep their dyslexia private, even if it means sacrificing accommodations that would allow them to learn, and demonstrate their learning, more effectively. As Krista Ratcliffe has observed, individuals with impairments “do not need to choose between a medical or social model of disability; they need both, and both have material and social dimensions and consequences” (1999, 163). [1.7] In this article, I will provide a brief look at definitions and theories of dyslexia, including fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) findings about its neurobiological substrates and possible origins, and discuss research proposing a specifically musical subtype of dyslexia affecting the reading of staff notation (Hébert and Cuddy 2006). After discussing the implications of this research for the performance of typical aural skills tasks by music students with dyslexia, I turn to new models emphasizing the distinctive cognitive strengths of the “dyslexic mind,” and consider how we might recruit them in designing effective pedagogical strategies. I further suggest that these strategies can be effective not just for students with dyslexia but for all struggling students, and here the principles of Universal Design for Learning offer a way forward. Ultimately, though, the difficulties of otherwise “musical” students—dyslexic or not—with the aural skills testing regimes we design pose deeper questions about the ideological assumptions inherent in our pedagogy, particularly as they relate to our concepts of musicianship and musical intelligence. 2. Dyslexia—Definitions and Theories [2.1] According to the most widely accepted definition in current use, an individual with dyslexia has normal to superior intelligence, but experiences unusual difficulty reading and processing written text despite access to educational opportunities. Dyslexia is thought to affect between 5 and 17.5% of the general population (Lyon, Shaywitz, and Shaywitz 2011, 113). While figures indicating its prevalence among North American post-secondary music students are unavailable and it is difficult even to find figures for university students in general, a conservative estimate based on its incidence in the general population would be that in a class of 100 students, we could reasonably expect at least five to be dyslexic.(5) We cannot predict, however, whether these five hypothetical students are likely to be male or female. Earlier assumptions that dyslexia is a condition overwhelmingly seen in boys have been disproven by research; it is now believed that girls are less likely to be diagnosed because their behavior in the classroom is less likely to be disruptive (Shaywitz et al. 1990). [2.2] However, some students come to university after struggling academically through elementary and high school without ever being tested for a learning disability, and as a result may not yet be aware that they have dyslexia. The absence of prior testing may be due to the high cost—not infrequently $1000 or more—for families and school boards, the relative lack of attention given to students who behave well and do not cause disruptions at school, the reluctance of students and families to incur the stigma of a learning disability, or the masking of a disability by an obvious talent in another area (Brody and Mills 1997). Without a recorded diagnosis, these students are typically ineligible for school-funded learning support, so they may never have learned alternate strategies for coping with the academic challenges of traditional public education. In addition, given that many students prefer not to share their dyslexia with instructors, we cannot assume that the dyslexic students we know of represent all of the students with dyslexia (or other learning disabilities) in our classes. [2.3] As many universities increasingly recognize the potential abilities of learning-disabled individuals and welcome them as students, instructors are expected to adjust their teaching strategies to serve a more diverse range of learning styles and competencies.(6) Certainly, disability resource offices often arrange accommodations for dyslexic and other learning-disabled students, and standard accommodations are often sufficient for academic music courses such as history and theory. But because the rapid reading and accurate performance of a musical score requires the engagement of neurocognitive pathways that are often compromised in dyslexia, the unique nature of aural skills classes can create a perfect storm of challenges for these students. [2.4] Studies using fMRI have shown that in so-called normal readers, reading activates three areas of the left hemisphere—the left parietotemporal (LPT), left occipitoparietal (LOP), and Broca’s area (Shaywitz and Shaywitz 2008). Readers with dyslexia, however, show a different profile in the left hemisphere, with little or no activity in the posterior parts of the left hemisphere (LPT and LOP), but greater activity in Broca’s area, located in the frontal lobe. Moreover, two areas of the right hemisphere show enhanced activity only in readers with dyslexia: the right hemisphere homolog (mirror image) of Broca’s area, and the right occipitoparietal area (ROP), the homolog of the LOP.(7) While the significance of these right-hemispheric areas with respect to musicians’ processing of notation is not yet fully understood, the fact that these compensatory systems facilitate accurate—but not fast—decoding of text may have important pedagogical implications, as I will discuss later in this article. [2.5] One of the primary neurocognitive theories of dyslexia is that it arises from a fundamental deficit in phonological processing, i.e., difficulty distinguishing between the sounds that make up words and syllables. But some researchers argue that the phonological processing deficit is itself caused by an even more fundamental deficit in the sensorimotor areas of the brain that govern timing and metric perception (Goswami 2011). Forgeard et al. summarize dyslexia’s cluster of challenges as a “general deficit in the processing of dynamic, rapidly changing auditory information . . . regardless of whether this processing involves speech . . . or nonspeech sounds” (Forgeard et al. 2008, 383). Whether or not dyslexia is primarily caused by a phonological or a rhythmic processing deficit (or both), the challenges can be immense for a dyslexic music student in an aural skills class who is given 60 seconds or less to look at an unfamiliar written melody, map semantically meaningless solfège syllables onto its notated pitches, process its meter and rhythm, and then perform the melody with accurate pitch, solmization, meter and rhythm, all the while moving one arm through the prescribed spatial trajectory of a standard conducting pattern. [2.6] The implications for dyslexic students in aural skills classes would be clear enough from these challenges alone, but dyslexia also often co-presents with other learning differences, including visual-motor coordination problems, dyscalculia (difficulty with mathematical processing), dysgraphia (difficulty with writing), and/or attention deficit disorder. (This was indeed the case for the bright, articulate, and talented student whose story began this paper.) Typical deficits in auditory working memory could affect a dyslexic student’s ability to mentally recall sequences of tones during a melodic dictation task. Finally, given that individuals with dyslexia often experience difficulties integrating visual processing and fine motor skills, transcribing those pitches by hand into noteheads that are just the right size and precisely placed on or between the horizontal lines of the staff can be nearly impossible at the speeds we typically demand. [2.7] One of the mysteries of dyslexia, however, is that individuals who are dyslexic with respect to text may nevertheless have no unusual difficulty reading music. Supporting this suggestion that text-reading and music-reading may sometimes be dissociated are 16 case studies of brain-damaged musicians reviewed by Hébert and Cuddy in 2006. Although there are many differences between particular cases, these studies show that musicians may lose their ability to read text but not music, or vice versa; they may lose the ability to read pitch but not rhythm, or rhythm but not pitch. Notably, as Hébert and Cuddy observe, all cases of musicians who lost the ability to read music involved damage to the posterior regions of the left hemisphere—the same regions found to be inactive in fMRI studies of dyslexic readers. On the basis of these and other studies, Hébert and Cuddy propose the distinct category of developmental music dyslexia, defined as “difficulty with learning to read music despite normal intelligence and opportunities” (Hébert and Cuddy 2006, 203).(8) [2.8] In 2008, Hébert, Béland et al. published a follow-up study examining cognitive differences between musicians who read music fluently and a university music student (“IG”) suspected of having dyslexia for music as well as text. They designed a battery of tests asking subjects to respond to visual and auditory input separately. The results were intriguing, with IG’s responses poorer than those of the controls at reading pitch, but better than the controls at reading rhythm. Furthermore, when given an auditory rather than visual stimulus and asked to sing back what she had heard rather than seen, IG again performed better than the controls. Clearly, more controlled studies of this kind need to be done before we can come to general conclusions. Nevertheless, this study does suggest that dyslexic students may in fact have superior musical strengths that our testing regimes fail to reveal. 3. Challenges for Instructors [3.1] For aural skills instructors, the relevance of the potential dissociation between text and music dyslexia is that while dyslexic music students may or may not have severe difficulties reading music notation, other students who have not been identified as dyslexic may still have unusual difficulty reading music notation, due to Hébert and Cuddy’s proposed developmental music dyslexia, other learning disabilities, or other neurological differences beyond their control. These students may need—and deserve—equal or even greater levels of instructional support than those who are dyslexic in the traditional sense. How, then, as instructors, do we make our aural skills curriculum a gateway rather than a barrier to otherwise gifted students’ success, not just at university but outside the hermetically-sealed bubbles of our departments, as they forge professional careers in a highly competitive environment? [3.2] The instructor who wishes to create an aural skills classroom that enables these students faces two primary challenges. The first of these is the relative lack of musical expertise in campus disability service offices (DSOs) that are already under pressure due to massive increases in the numbers of students they are required to serve. DSO staff rarely possess sufficient musical expertise to fully grasp the unique complex of cognitive demands placed on students by our aural skills courses. To my knowledge, no quantitative research has yet been published on the levels of musical expertise among DSO personnel. However, research conducted by the SMT Music and Disability Study Group (Kochavi 2013), as well as personal experience, suggests that specialized knowledge of any particular discipline is beyond the purview of most DSOs. Recent years have also seen a shift in the way DSOs see their role within the university, resulting in a dispersal of some responsibility for assisting students with disabilities back to faculty members and their departments. That is, faculty members and departments are increasingly expected to create learning environments based on a broadened conception of the “normal,” environments structured to enable success for a much wider spectrum of student abilities. [3.3] Departments and DSOs have much to learn from British post-secondary music schools in this regard, thanks to the outstanding advocacy work of the British Dyslexia Association Music Committee.(9) The Royal Academy of Music in London, for example, keeps on staff a specialist whose role is specifically to provide one-on-one support to their dyslexic students.(10) Her government-funded role includes, but is not limited to, helping students develop their own strategies for music reading and processing in aural skills classes, and she is also on contract with the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. All three institutions publish online guides for music students with disabilities and learning differences.(11) Moreover, students with learning disabilities in Britain can apply for government funding to cover the costs of private tutoring and assistive technologies. The British model illustrates the positive changes that focused advocacy can achieve for twice-exceptional music students in higher education, a kind of advocacy that is much needed in North American institutions. [3.4] The redesign of aural skills curricula to enhance progress for students with learning differences (and by extension all students) can be a daunting task, since it asks busy instructors to expand their own knowledge bases beyond their particular areas of musical scholarship and performance into the realms of special education and neuroscience. This leads to the instructor’s second challenge, which is the paucity of peer-reviewed research studies on music reading in young adults with dyslexia. Almost all studies of music and dyslexia have focused on children, in particular the potential benefits of music as an intervention to enhance children’s success at reading text (Overy 2003; Overy et al. 2003), and temporal processing in children with dyslexia (Forgeard et al. 2008; Huss et al. 2011). Several resources are available for music teachers of children with dyslexia, such as Miles, Westcombe, and Ditchfield 2008, Oglethorpe 2002, and the British Dyslexia Association’s Teacher Guide to Music and Dyslexia, and some of the practical tips they suggest can be adapted for use with adult musicians. Still, in order to devise appropriate solutions for (and with) particular students, post-secondary instructors must first educate themselves on the general dyslexia literature as well as the music cognition literature related to aural skills development and score-reading. 4. The “Sea of Strengths” Model of Dyslexia [4.1] Yet if these challenges seem dauntingly complex, there are some game-changing bits of good news. First, new theories of dyslexia developed over the past 10–12 years by researchers such as pediatric neurologists Sally and Bennett Shaywitz argue that dyslexia should not be considered a disability so much as a by-product of superior cognitive strengths in specific kinds of reasoning not often measured by standard assessment tools; they have called this their “sea of strengths” model of dyslexia (Shaywitz, Mody, and Shaywitz 2006; Shaywitz and Shaywitz 2005). The relevance of this model is borne out by the outstanding career achievements of many creative individuals with dyslexia, among them American novelist John Irving, English business magnate Sir Richard Branson, and likely the Irish poet W. B. Yeats.(12) While the nature of these strengths is still the subject of much debate, one of the most convincing observations so far is that individuals with dyslexia often display superior visuospatial skills, especially their ability to manipulate three-dimensional objects in the mind and quickly spot “impossible figures” such as those in many of M. C. Escher’s drawings (Attree, Turner, and Cowell 2009; von Károlyi 2001). The dyslexic astrophysicist Matthew H. Schneps has proposed that dyslexic individuals may be superior at tasks that recruit peripheral rather than central vision, putting them at a disadvantage when it comes to a sequential, narrowly focused task such as reading, but giving them an edge at identifying similarities between simultaneously seen but widely separated objects in space (Schneps, Rose, and Fischer 2007). [4.2] In their 2011 book The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Mind, physicians Brock and Fernette Eide propose four particular reasoning strengths encapsulated in the acronym MIND: Material, Interconnected, Narrative, and Dynamic. While most of these proposed strengths are derived from clinical observation, reviews of peer-reviewed dyslexic literature, and interviews with dyslexic individuals rather than controlled studies, they are nevertheless worth consideration. [4.3] “Material reasoning” strengths relate to the often superior abilities of dyslexic individuals at tasks involving the manipulation of objects in three-dimensional space noted above. The “trade-off,” to use Eide and Eide’s term, is that dyslexic individuals are at a disadvantage in tasks involving only two dimensions. So when we ask a dyslexic music student to quickly read or write music notation, with its blend of horizontal and vertical orientations on a two-dimensional piece of staff paper, we need to be cognizant of the challenges such tasks may pose. Students have told me, for example, that while the staff remains stable when they look at it, the note heads often appear to float off or around it in unpredictable ways.(13) Perhaps under these circumstances students would perform much better if music (or aural/music-theoretical concepts) were presented in three dimensions rather than two. [4.4] “Interconnected reasoning” refers to a possible superiority among individuals with dyslexia in detecting similarities between apparently disparate objects or concepts (Eide and Eide 2011, 83), implicated for example in Schneps et al.’s observations regarding peripheral versus central visual processing. Such strength might be revealed in a student’s use of an unusual analogy that at first sounds odd to us, but on further consideration shows perception of a valid relationship we hadn’t noticed. Eide and Eide observe that many of their dyslexic clients are extraordinarily adept at recognizing the particular styles of artists or architects (2011, 86). Might that translate for a music student with dyslexia into an enhanced ability to recognize the stylistic markers of a particular composer’s music, or to aurally recognize the recurrence of melodic motives over long time spans? [4.5] Eide and Eide use the term “narrative reasoning” to indicate an enhanced ability to use the unusually vivid episodic, long-term memories often found in individuals with dyslexia to explain or help themselves understand concepts by creating stories (2011, 114). Students whose strengths lie in this area might be better able to express their understanding of large-scale musical structure through an oral narrative rather than in traditional written or graphic form. Upon reading Eide and Eide’s description of this strength, I recalled how on my first meeting with one student, she had taken up nearly all of our scheduled time talking, until I finally had to stop her so that we could start working before we ran out of time. Looking back, I wondered whether her talkativeness was telling me that creating stories—narrative reasoning—was how she made sense of things. So in our next session, as we worked on harmonic dictations, I encouraged her to think of harmonic progressions as stories with a dramatic purpose and flow. I shared with her an analogy that an old professor of mine always used to teach deceptive cadences. She said that the deceptive cadence was like people at a party saying, “We really must be going now,” but after putting on their hats and coats standing at the door talking for an hour before actually leaving. My student’s eyes widened, she grabbed my arm and shouted, “It’s a Jewish good-bye!” (14) She was herself Jewish and had grown up hearing this joke from her parents and grandparents, although never of course referring to the harmonic progression from dominant to submediant. We all likely use these sorts of analogies in our teaching. But finding the match between that student’s apparent tendency toward narrative reasoning and a simple strategy that was already in my pedagogical toolbox helped her recognize deceptive progressions in the context of musical passages from then on. Sometimes we need only to look at strategies we already use to find solutions. [4.6] Finally, “dynamic reasoning” involves the ability to spot patterns and fill in incomplete scenarios to predict future events or explain past ones (Eide and Eide 2011, 143). Might a dyslexic music major with particular strengths in dynamic reasoning be able to better predict where a harmonic progression is likely to go, or improvise a motivically coherent continuation of a given melody where they might have difficulty notating one in a written theory exam? [4.7] I have been careful to use the words “might” and “perhaps” in the preceding paragraphs because to my knowledge no empirical research has yet been conducted into the cognitive processes of post-secondary music students with dyslexia as a group. So we cannot at this point know to what degree, or even whether, these “sea of strengths” models apply to music cognition. With the exception of material (i.e. visuospatial) reasoning, the specialized cognitive strengths Eide and Eide propose await scientific confirmation, and even if eventually proven, they do not provide a magic solution to the very real difficulties students may face in completing typical aural skills tasks. Nevertheless, asking a student to tell us about what they love to do and do well outside of music may give us clues into previously unsuspected cognitive strengths that we can recruit in devising effective pedagogical strategies. Identifying, recruiting, and building on a students’ strengths will surely get us further than focusing relentlessly on their weaknesses, as we so often end up doing. [4.8] A second piece of good news surrounds recent advances in the understanding of neuroplasticity—the brain’s capacity to change and develop new pathways. Here again we must be cautious, since research on the effectiveness of interventions for dyslexic text readers suggests that some techniques can result in changes in both accuracy and fluency (speed), but only if they are administered by the time a child is in Grade 3 (Lyon, Shaywitz, and Shaywitz 2011). Through adolescence and young adulthood the potential to increase accuracy persists, but individuals with dyslexia who are old enough to be enrolled in a post-secondary institution may largely have lost the ability to make significant gains in reading speed and automaticity. [4.9] Still, while dyslexic individuals will struggle with their challenges throughout their lifespans, anecdotal evidence—including my own observations of improvement in the performance of dyslexic music students—suggests that it may be possible for existing pathways to be strengthened and/or better connected with each other, even in adulthood, given effective, one-on-one interventions and practice.(15) Recognizing and reminding our students of this capacity of the human brain can assure them that while improvement in their music-reading and aural skills may seem an insurmountable task at times, and in some areas they may never reach the same degree of music-reading fluency as students without dyslexia, improvement is possible. 5. Pedagogical Strategies [5.1] Most of the strategies I describe below were developed through one-on-one sessions with dyslexic students rather than in the classroom. These students have found traditional aural skills classes unhelpful, socially isolating, and often emotionally distressing, particularly when they are called on to sight-sing a melody in front of the class. I will return to the question of classroom pedagogy later in this paper, but for now will focus on techniques that have worked in private sessions. [5.2] In my early years of tutoring, I derived methods largely by intuition, close observation of the student’s behavior during aural skills tasks, and adaptation of techniques I had read about in publications on teaching music to dyslexic children (Miles, Westcombe, and Ditchfield 2008; Oglethorpe 2002). Many of these involved the use of color, so my first student KS and I developed our own practical strategies for marking and color-coding the score of a sight-singing passage before attempting to perform it. In the initial stage, she read through a passage silently, using highlighters to draw her attention to repeated notes (a frequent cause of error) or help her track changes from one line to the next. She used “V” or inverted “V” symbols to alert herself to points where the direction of motion changed, and developed another symbol to draw her attention to departures from stepwise motion. This type of preparation, which I’ve adapted for other students, takes substantially more time than the usual 30-60 seconds allowed in standard sight-singing tests, but it does result in more accuracy and allows students to develop a stronger sense of self-efficacy and control over their sight-singing performances. As students progress in skill and confidence, this kind of preparation becomes less necessary. [5.3] One use of color designed to help music students with dyslexia is the five-color staff pioneered by British pianist, composer, and educator Margaret Hubicki in 1970 (Hubicki 2001). While no longer commercially available, it was used by many British music educators until the 1990s. I have never used this in my teaching due to the difficulty of creating such a staff, and my reservations about accommodations that students will not have access to in their professional careers. However, RA reported that five-color staff paper created for her by a friend helped improve her ability to identify basic note names and clefs, and that it was not difficult for her to make the transition to the regular black-line staff. Some argue that colored translucent overlays, particularly light blue, can make reading easier for individuals with dyslexia and other reading difficulties.(16) However, the results of empirical research have been contradictory (Uccula, Enna, and Mulatti 2014). Despite my skepticism, I purchased blue overlays online for two students to borrow, and was surprised by their reports that it helped stabilize their perception of music notation and in one case allowed the student to suddenly perceive motivic patterns. RA, describing her experience of using a blue overlay (“my nonhuman best friend”) for the first time, wrote, “this was the day that things actually started to click and it was like magic to me. Because it was literally an instant and this thing started helping me I could see things clearly” (personal communication, May 14, 2015). While these are anecdotal reports, it certainly cannot hurt to try a blue overlay at least temporarily, and it may allow some students to experience enough early success to motivate them to keep on working.(17) [5.4] When designing handouts for students with dyslexia (or any students), it is helpful to avoid cramming too much information on one page. At the beginning of a course, I generally print my syllabi on light blue paper in case any students find it easier to read. The font Dyslexie, designed by Dutch graphic designer Christian Boer, can also make the perception of written text easier for readers with dyslexia to perceive.(18) For an illustration of this font, see the Appendix. [5.5] In terms of more traditional resources, because of KS’s high anxiety levels regarding sight-singing, I began by assigning her pages of elementary homework from Cole and Lewis’s 1909 text Melodia: A Comprehensive Course in Sight-Singing. While this text has its pedagogical idiosyncrasies, the first 424 of its 1000-plus melodies are completely stepwise, with incremental increases in difficulty provided by gradual additions of new keys (the first 109 are in C major!) and meters. Because this particular text—like many current ones—includes many exercises on a single page, I prepared for each session by enlarging and photocopying the pages I wanted her to practice, then cut and pasted a few at a time onto a single page with copious white space around them to eliminate as many visual distractions as possible. These exercises were so easy that she was able to experience a newfound sense of success that motivated her to keep practicing, and they allowed her to start incorporating motor skills such as keeping time with her hand while singing. I have since found these exercises useful for any students with extreme sight-singing anxieties or difficulties.(19) [5.6] My teaching strategies were also influenced by principles of neurorehabilitation learned in two graduate courses, one through the Rehabilitation Sciences program at the University of British Columbia, and the other in neurologic music therapy at Colorado State University. In one common motor-learning approach, the client is initially given frequent guidance and feedback on a particular target movement, followed by the gradual fading of feedback until the client can perform the task independently (Schmidt and Lee 2011; Winstein 1991). This methodology has its counterpart in the educational theories of the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, in particular his principle of scaffolding, which is now a commonplace in contemporary educational theory and practice (Vygotsky 1978; Gindis 1999). The concept is outlined by van de Pol et al. (2010) in terms of the three phases below, which I illustrate with an example from my efforts to help a student who could not conduct and sing at the same time. - Contingency – In the earliest stages, it is crucial that, in van de Pol’s words, “the teacher’s support must be adapted to the current level of the student’s performance and should either be at the same or a slightly higher level” (274–75). To some extent, this requires the instructor to determine the threshold between what students can and cannot do by asking the student to complete a series of tasks that begin at a level that the student finds easy, and gradually increasing the level of difficulty until the student can no longer complete the task accurately. Finding that threshold also requires one-on-one attention in an unhurried, supportive atmosphere. The instructor then designs a learning “scaffold” that takes students through a task that is slightly beyond their current capabilities, but also provides as much instructor support and positive feedback through the process as the student needs. In the case of the student who could not conduct and sing simultaneously, I took her arm myself while she sang and moved it in the appropriate pattern. This way, she could consciously focus on singing while beginning to develop the additional kinesthetic neural networks she needed in order to eventually coordinate control of arm musculature and vocal physiology with the complex cognitive tasks of processing metric, rhythmic, and pitch notation on her own. - Fading – This phase involves the gradual withdrawal of this scaffolding when the student seems ready. As my student became more comfortable with conducting, I kept on moving her arm but gradually reduced the pressure of my hand until it was little more than a feather-light touch of psychological assurance. Once I was certain that she was now controlling her arm on her own, I finally removed my hand without warning in the middle of an exercise. Without the slightest disruption, she continued singing in time as her arm kept moving smoothly along its course. - Transfer of responsibility – This occurs when the student takes complete control, as when my student repeated the exercise on her own, finally managing to conduct and sing at the same time. While we cannot know without functional imaging just what kind of neurological shift made this possible, her success has given her the confidence and motivation to keep on conducting while sight-singing. This still requires some conscious effort for her at times, but she knows she can do it, and more importantly has reached the point where conducting is now more help than hindrance. [5.7] Another strategy that has been effective for my students with dyslexia has been reminding them how their knowledge of music theory and the syntactical rules of Western common-practice music can help them predict the probability of certain events over others, thereby reducing the alternatives among which they must choose. This is a common pedagogical strategy for many aural skills instructors and unquestionably useful for all students. But, perhaps due to dyslexic individuals’ potentially superior strengths in the interconnected, narrative, or dynamic reasoning strategies proposed by Eide and Eide, my students with dyslexia seem to find it particularly helpful to talk through an analysis of a passage before transcribing or performing it. This does not necessarily increase the speed of their processing, but it can help them to complete the task more accurately and completely than they could before—surely a successful outcome and an important step towards skill improvement. One student, reporting back on how her sight-singing final went in front of two examiners, felt great pride in her progress when one of them observed, “We can hear you thinking”—in other words, analyzing and planning. [5.8] The kind of intensive, individualized instruction I have described above takes time and effort. But how do we redesign our classes to allow students with dyslexia the opportunity for true engagement and learning together with, rather than isolated from, their classmates? The principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), developed primarily at Harvard’s Center for Applied Special Technologies (CAST), offer a useful starting point for developing more effective and inclusive classroom strategies (Quaglia 2015). With reference to students with disabilities, Rose et al. (2006) of CAST relocate the site of their difficulties: There are two broad kinds of solutions for addressing the “problems” of individual students, including those with disabilities. On the one hand, the problems can be considered “individual” problems. . . . Such a view fosters solutions that address weaknesses in the individual. On the other hand, the issues can be considered “environmental” problems in the design of the learning environment. . . . Such an environmental view fosters solutions that address the limitations of the learning environment rather than the limitations of the student, while making the student less of a problem, and more a part of diversity within the course. The advantage of such universal solutions is that, as with such approaches in built environments, they are likely to be useful for many individuals; built once, applied many times (Rose et al. 2006, 150). Recognizing the disabling elements of our curricula, and then replacing them with “multiple means for learning, engagement, and demonstration” (Quaglia 2015, abstract) can enable all students to identify and capitalize on their individual strengths toward greater success. [5.9] One such disabling element for many students is the division of a typical 50-minute class period into multiple five-to-ten minute segments, each devoted to practicing a different task. This rapid cycling often fails to provide students with sufficient time to make any useful progress in class, particularly those with dyslexia or other learning differences. In my experience, many students do much better when allowed to study and be tested on desired learning outcomes one at a time, in order to allow for the overlearning of basic skills that they need before they can build up to the complex visual-auditory-temporal-motor integration demanded by typical aural skills curricula. For example, since one of the neurological traits associated with dyslexia seems to be a deficit in temporal processing, allowing a student to study only meter, rhythm, and motor co-ordination (e.g. in conducting) can strengthen those neurological networks before the networks associated with pitch are brought into the mix. A software rehearsal and assessment program such as Finale SmartMusic® can also help students practice tasks like sight-singing on their own and receive immediate, constructive feedback. SmartMusic® allows students to control the tempo of an exercise, making the program useful for a broad spectrum of abilities.(20) [5.10] In the fall of 2014, I divided my first-year aural skills course at the University of Victoria into three main categories: rhythm, melody, and harmony. Each category was further subdivided into very small modules, such as harmonic transcription in major keys only, rhythmic transcription of melodies in compound time, or sight-singing in minor keys. Each student was given a checklist of all 17 modules in the course, and at any time they could book a time with me to be tested on a module of their choice. As they passed each module, I would sign off on it and they could feel a growing sense of accomplishment as the signature blanks gradually filled in. This system allowed students who tested poorly on one module to work at that module on their own and then come in for re-testing at a later date, and it allowed students with learning differences to complete the course one module at a time on their own so they had an opportunity to overlearn one skill before adding the next. But it also allowed very strong students to move at a more challenging pace and complete the course requirements early. Students were not required to attend a class devoted to a module that they had already completed, and this meant smaller classes composed of students who really did need to be there, and who could therefore receive more individual attention from me during class time. The main disadvantage of this system was that grading was complicated. But on the whole, students enjoyed having more control over their progress, and a poor result on a single test question led less often to discouragement and more often to extra work on their skills outside of class. [5.11] aural skills classrooms are social spaces, and somehow we need to develop activities that provide opportunities for all students to learn together and collaborate on tasks in a positive, mutually supportive environment. Deborah Rifkin (2013) describes small group activities and peer assessments that she has designed for her aural skills classes, resulting in a reduction of the kind of stress that impedes student learning, in the first place, and demonstration of that learning in the second. In my own classes, since 2004 I have set aside one day near the end of term for what I call “karaoke solfège.” Students get into self-selected groups at the beginning of term, choose any song they enjoy (subject to my approval to ensure an appropriate difficulty level), work together throughout the term to aurally figure out the solfège syllables, and then perform it (with the recording or a cappella) for their classmates. I do not grade these performances, yet many students put an astounding amount of work into learning their song, sometimes adding harmony or choreography. All students are eager to hear what their classmates have prepared, and will often join in by singing along or adding “beats” without the self-consciousness and stress that can arise if they are required to perform in a regular class. In thinking about group activities, I am also reminded of the capacity of Balinese gamelan music to include and challenge musicians with a wide range of skills, owing to its sophisticated temporal coordination of multiple layers at various levels of technical difficulty, each equally vital to the orchestral texture. Devising collaborative aural skills exercises in this same spirit, where all levels of ability are not only allowed but considered necessary to the creation of a successful musical whole, can help make our classrooms more constructive and motivating places for all students. [5.12] A mutually supportive classroom environment can also be enhanced by encouraging peer-tutoring (or just mutual helpfulness) throughout a given course, as Rifkin (2013) suggests. This is not just for the benefit of those who struggle, since we often also have students who may be bored in class because their skills are more advanced. Given some prior training and ongoing supervision, peer tutors can begin to learn pedagogical skills that can serve them well in their professional music careers.(21) [5.13] For all the engaging classroom activities and innovative assessment procedures many instructors are increasingly designing, my experiences working with students one-on-one have led me to the conclusion that the classroom-only method of delivery serves very few students—if any—well. Perhaps replacing one group class with short, regular, mandatory individual coaching sessions could ensure that all students have an opportunity to receive useful feedback and suggestions for how to handle challenges appropriate to their level of ability. I also believe that engaging students’ instrumental or vocal instructors in at least the sight-performance component of the aural skills curriculum could help students to see how they can apply what they learn in class to the real-life challenges they are likely to encounter in their careers. [5.14] Instructors’ abilities to restructure aural skills courses are of course dependent on the staffing and technological resources of their institutions. But in my view, even the least endowed departments in these respects can set positive conditions for improvement by following four general principles: - As far as possible, try to get into students’ minds to get a sense of how they experience the aural skills tasks we give them. I was surprised when one student told me that she had more difficulty recognizing whole- or half-step intervals on the staff than she did with larger intervals. What I’d assumed were the easiest sight-singing exercises I could give her were in fact extremely difficult, so it proved more useful for her to begin with exercises containing skips or leaps and move towards the more difficult stepwise melodies. The Appendix to this article provides an exercise that readers can try in order to experience, however temporarily, a taste of the stress and confusion that sight-singing tasks can produce in students with dyslexia.(22) - Be flexible and imaginative in devising pedagogical techniques that recruit the student’s alternate strengths or modes of learning, particularly techniques that engage multisensory learning. Reading outside literature is important, but it is also crucial to ask the students themselves what they are good at, in or outside of music. Watch their faces and body language change when they talk about the activities that make them feel competent and “in the zone,” and try to give them exercises that tap into those competencies. (Interestingly, several of the students I have worked with have listed storytelling as one of their strengths, corresponding with Eide and Eide’s concept of narrative reasoning as an important cognitive strategy for these students.) One of my dyslexic students was having enormous difficulty grasping 6/8 time, even after I had shown her on paper—with what I thought was perfect clarity—how in 6/8, one measure was just two beats subdivided into three. Having failed on that score, I told her that 6/8 time is like skipping, and she said, “Oh, now I get it!” But when I asked her to actually get up and skip so we could physically link typical 6/8 patterns with her steps, her pattern of steps and hops was rhythmically awkward (in keeping with the timing difficulties experienced by many students with dyslexia), and most definitely not in compound time. So we spent the next few minutes with me on the floor, helping her move her feet until she figured out how to hop twice on one foot and then the other, finally getting the flow of it and successfully skipping around the room with a whoop of delight. Making use of her kinesthetic learning skills to master skipping enabled her to hear and perform compound meters much more easily. - We also need to give students with dyslexia time—time to work step-by-step through tasks as slowly as they need to in order to succeed, without sensing an authority figure ticking off the seconds behind them. They need to discover what it feels like to experience success. Success, no matter how small a step we consider it to be, gives them the solid evidence they need that they do have the ability to improve their skills, and every success gives them fuel to tackle the next challenge. This extends to all aural skills performance testing. I have gradually increased the amount of time I allot for testing all students, to allow them to receive at least some immediate verbal feedback from me and possibly even a little friendly coaching on what they can work on to improve their skills. As demonstrated empirically by the late psychologist Charles Snyder and colleagues (1991), hope—conceived as an individual’s sense of agency bolstered by clearly-defined pathways towards a goal—can work not just as a feel-good panacea, but a realistic and effective cognitive strategy for meeting challenges. - Finally, we must never assume that students with dyslexia will not be able to succeed as professional classical musicians. There are many dyslexic musicians, and they are intelligent, creative, determined and resourceful. There comes a time in their education when I think the best thing we can do is get out of their way, even if this means waiving advanced aural skills courses when it becomes evident that a student’s disability will prevent them from further progress in our particular curriculum. In all likelihood, once out in the world they will build on the training we have given them by devising their own unique solutions to the real-life musical challenges they encounter, solutions that we, with our limited, non-dyslexic minds, would probably never have thought of. 6. Rethinking (Musical) Intelligence [6.1] The successes in many fields of those who have been diagnosed with learning disabilities challenge us to reconsider our assumptions about the nature of individual intelligence. Cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman was diagnosed as learning-disabled in childhood and experienced all of the attendant academic difficulty and social stigma. But he was determined to understand the nature of what we call “intelligence,” and eventually earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University. In 2013, he published a book outlining the history of standard intelligence testing and proposing his own Theory of Personal Intelligence: Intelligence is the dynamic interplay of engagement and abilities in pursuit of personal goals. Note that the focus of analysis is the person. All that exists for that individual is a series of intelligent behaviors that unfold across his or her life. At no point is there a comparison between that person’s behaviors and the behaviors of others, because that person’s intelligence is not measured or judged relative to the behaviors of others. . . . Any behavior that narrows the distance between the starting state and the goal state of a person’s personal goal counts as an intelligent behavior. . . . Under this theory, the formulation of multiple strategies to overcome obstacles and reduce the discrepancy between the starting state and the goal state is an incredibly important manifestation of human intelligence (Kaufman 2013, 303). This, I believe, is what we should be focusing on when we assess a student’s learning, not the number of errors they make in a severely and arbitrarily restricted period of time. Can the student find a way, whether it is one we have taught them or one they have invented for themselves, to bridge the gulf between not knowing and knowing a new piece of music? Have they found some way of transcribing heard music into a written representation that is meaningful to themselves and to others, given enough time? Can they set a personal musical goal, organize a strategy to achieve it, and then carry it out? Adapting Kaufman’s theory to our teaching of aural skills would require us to rethink our pedagogical methods, but more radically our methods of assessment. [6.2] We often bemoan the fact that in most of our institutions, first-year music students enter with extreme variations in prior training and music reading/aural skills fluency, often making it challenging for us to find a teaching methodology that is appropriate and helpful for all or at least most of our students, let alone those with learning disabilities. But I have also tutored students, who despite obvious musical talent and hard work, encounter enormous difficulty completing the typical aural skills tasks of dictation and sight-singing, at least in the short intervals of time we usually give them. My guess is that these students, if tested, would prove to have neurological differences with respect to music notation-processing equal in significance to text dyslexia. But since there is currently no screening test for Hébert and Cuddy’s proposed developmental music dyslexia, they cannot be “diagnosed” and therefore do not qualify for accommodations or other forms of institutional support.(23) [6.3] But even if there were such a test, do we really want to create another stigmatizing label? Perhaps the wiser course—though unquestionably more challenging—would be to accept the wide-ranging abilities in our aural skills classes as a normal distribution of neurodiversity, to “plan for variability” (Quaglia 2015), rather than viewing those who struggle more than others with the often unrealistic tasks we give them in those classes as unintelligent or “unmusical.” And we need to make it clear to students that the acquisition of specific skills, however desirable from a practical perspective, is separate from their natural musical gifts. The replacement of course titles like “Ear Training” or “Aural Skills” with “Musicianship” in many schools may have been intended simply to represent practical skills for the professional musician, in the sense of “craftsmanship” for an artist or a builder. But the message students often receive is, “If I fail Musicianship, I must not be a musician,” a message that for many strikes painfully, and often unnecessarily, at the core of their identity. Why should this be, when not being able to do the sorts of tasks we assign in those classes has not impeded, or even been relevant to, the success of gifted musicians from different musical cultures and genres throughout history? As Joseph Straus has pointed out, the kind of “normal hearing” that academic music pedagogy assumes and teaches does not reflect the totality of human musical perception, and is far from natural: [Normal hearing] requires extensive, repetitive drill, hard and concentrated work, constant pushing and prodding. Normal listeners are not given, they are created, and it is the job of music teachers to create them. There is nothing natural about normal hearing; rather, it is a cultural artifact, the end result of a long and sometimes arduous process of acculturation. . . . The problem is not so much that music cognition and music pedagogy focus on normal hearing, but rather that they pretend to naturalness and universality. (Straus 2011, 157) Reminding ourselves of this from time to time may allow us to notice different but equally insightful ways of hearing and responding to music among our students, and to recruit these differences to enrich the learning environments we create. [6.4] At the University of British Columbia, my interdisciplinary research study with Marion Porath and Nancy Hermiston has explored the experiences of learning-disabled opera majors. Our subjects—students or graduates of Canadian or American university opera programs—are not all dyslexic, but all have been diagnosed with at least one learning disability. Through interviews, we gathered information including their experiences with learning disabilities throughout their education, their past and current experiences with singing and performing, and how they have coped with combined academic and performance programs that demand synthesis of vocal, aural, music-reading, text-reading, foreign-language, mathematical, kinesthetic, spatial, and acting abilities. Virtually all students describe their struggles from childhood not only with learning but with self-esteem. In opera singing they also share the common experience of liberation, even if only temporary, from their so-called disabilities, as while they are singing and moving onstage with their peers, they feel the joyful sense of accomplishment that has been absent from so much of their education. [6.5] But, asked to describe any external challenges he has faced in his program, one subject’s response encapsulates the experience shared by many university students with dyslexia: “The professors. . . . I don’t tell every single one of my professors that I have it. . . . When I have talked to the professors, it’s just been kind of that they don’t really know what to do with that kind of thing.”(24) Educating ourselves, assuring our classes from the outset of a course that our office is a safe, welcoming space for all including those who learn differently, and then following through on that promise, can make a tremendous difference in boosting the likelihood that a student will persist and succeed. The logistical challenges of radically transforming our aural skills programs according to the principles of UDL—or any other that will maximize the learning successes of our diversely-abled music students but still be sustainable for our departments—are undeniable. 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Return to text 3. This research is funded by an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (430-2011-0134). Return to text 4. In the words of Lennard Davis (2002, 42), “An impairment involves a loss or diminution of sight, hearing, mobility, mental ability, and so on. But an impairment only becomes a disability when the ambient society creates environments with barriers—affective, sensory, cognitive, or architectural.” Return to text 5. The incidence of dyslexia in my own classes has ranged from 0 to 5.8%, but since many students are reluctant to reveal a learning disability to instructors, these rates could be higher. According to the University of Reading website, at least 700 of their students are dyslexic, representing approximately 4% of the total population. See “Dyslexia” (University of Reading Disability Advisory Office),. Return to text 6. For example, over the five-year period 2008–2012, the University of Ottawa’s disability service office saw an increase of 56% in the number of students they served against an increase in the general student population of only 12%. Similarly disproportionate increases were seen in the other universities surveyed by the SMT Ad Hoc Disability Committee, as reported in Kochavi 2013. Return to text 7. Intriguingly, a neuroscientific study published in March 2014 found that the right hemisphere homolog of Broca’s area is activated when both jazz drummers and musically untrained listeners are exposed to “incorrect” rhythmic deviations, i.e. single, mathematically incongruent attacks against a previously established duple meter. See Herdener et al. 2014. Return to text 8. The concept of a specifically musical form of dyslexia was first suggested by Neil Gordon in a letter to Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, based on his anecdotal observations of two children; see Gordon 2000. Return to text 9. See “Music and Dyslexia,” and Gaunt 2012. Return to text 10. I am indebted to Paula Bishop-Liebler for providing the information in this paragraph and discussing her work with me. Personal communication, February 8, 2014. Return to text 11. See “Guide for Prospective and Current Academy Students with Disabilities and Specific Learning Difficulties” (Royal Academy of Music),; “Access, Disability, and Equal Opportunities” (Royal Academy of Music),, and “Disability Support,”. Return to text 12. John Irving discusses his dyslexia in an interview posted on the website of the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity,. Richard Branson writes about his experience with dyslexia in “Richard Branson on Turning a Disadvantage into Your Advantage,”, August 19, 2012. Psychologist Linda Siegel (2013) convincingly argues that W. B. Yeats, among other distinguished historical figures, may have had dyslexia. Return to text 13. RA writes, “I remember this time when I was in my piano lesson and my piano teacher asked me what a certain note was. I told him an F and he goes how about it's a G. I remember fighting with him for 5 minutes telling him that it was an F. It took him having the circle [it] 5 times for me to realize that it was a G. This is when I realize that stuff was jumping around” (personal communication, May 14, 2015). Return to text 14. Also known, as I have subsequently learned, as the Minnesota Goodbye. Return to text 15. Canadian psychologist Barbara Arrowsmith-Young, for example, has developed her own system of education based on exercises she invented for herself as a young woman with multiple learning disabilities that she claims radically reduced or eliminated her learning and processing problems. While the effectiveness of these exercises has yet to be proven scientifically and has been the subject of some controversy, anecdotal evidence is suggestive of success, and Arrowsmith Schools now operate in Canada, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Arrowsmith-Young (2012) describes her own experiences and the establishment of the schools. Return to text 16. The most well-known proponent of this method is the Irlen Institute (), based on their controversial theory of Irlen Syndrome (also known as Mearles-Irlen, Scotopic Sensitivity, or Visual Stress Syndrome). Return to text 17. Various apps are available online that simulate blue overlays for students reading a computer screen (for example, one can be downloaded from the Irlen Institute site cited in the previous note), or students may be able to make adjustments to the background color of documents through their word-processing program. Return to text 18. Dyslexie can be downloaded at. Return to text 19. Zoltán Kodály’s 333 Reading Exercises ([1941] 2004) also offers simple sight-singing materials of gradually increasing difficulty. The exercises in this collection that provide only rhythmic patterns and solfège syllables also allow students to solidify their internal hearing of diatonic pitch relationships without the added cognitive load involved in tracking noteheads on a staff. Return to text 20. While SmartMusic® does include a large number of exercises from different published sources, the range of difficulty is very limited and no information is provided about the key, mode, meter, or other features of an individual exercise in its file title. However, instructors can customize the program by uploading their own exercises. For more information, see and Callahan 2015. Return to text 21. For discussion and examples of how peer tutoring has worked at Northwestern University, see Light and Micari 2013. Although developed for science courses at NU, many principles would be adaptable to music theory and aural-skills courses. Return to text 22. This exercise was inspired by the 1989 PBS program How Difficult Can This Be? F.A.T. City—A Learning Disabilities Workshop, in which special educator Richard Lavoie challenges his audience of teachers and parents to experience directly some of the “Frustration-Anxiety-Tension” that is part of a learning-disabled child’s everyday life (Lavoie 1989). While by now dated in terms of educational theory, it is well worth watching and can be purchased through the PBS website and other online retailers. Return to text 23. The computer-based screening battery for music dyslexia described in Hébert et al. (2008) has unfortunately been lost (Sylvie Hébert, personal communication, October 2012). Return to text 24. Unpublished interview transcript, April 8, 2013.: 4464
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Mon March 26, 2007 - National Edition Heavy equipment dealers are not immune to the whimsy of customers, who quite suddenly can become distracted and wander away to competing outlets. A dealer’s name and reputation must be “branded” in a customer’s mind to avoid such rupturing of a commercial relationship. For this reason, the marketing strategy called “corporate branding” is becoming as important to heavy equipment distributors as it has been for a long time to retailers of other services and product lines. “We’re tractor guys,” said Chris Gaylor, president of Power Equipment Company, speaking of branding initiatives. “This is not the stuff we’re thinking about every day.” The executive of the Knoxville, Tenn., Komatsu and Ingersoll Rand distributor thus expresses the reluctance of some dealers to undertake branding, believing that it is enough to do a good job of selling and servicing iron and then simply to bank on the loyalty of satisfied customers. Any dealer — Gaylor is not one — who thinks along those lines had better think again. The fact is, effective corporate branding is a key to a company’s growth in the heavy equipment industry, which has grown increasingly competitive in its equipment offerings and services. Leading distributors of heavy equipment are fully aware of the need to brand — and periodically to re-brand — their dealerships in order to ensure that they stay connected to their customer base and can attract new customers. Branding as a marketing tool traditionally has been associated with an individual product, its image, its reputation, its instant recognition in a lineup of similar products. Companies have gone to great lengths to build a brand name for a product or a line of products and to protect that name against all comers. Corporate branding, however, is more encompassing: Its goal is to build or preserve the good name and market clout of a company itself, in conjunction with its products and services but also as an umbrella organization. While the two brands — product and company — often are wedded in the minds of consumers, a company brand that is trusted also can sell new and unknown products. New generations of excavators, automobiles or MP3 players sometimes become instant hits because the companies selling them have consumer confidence. What is a corporate brand? It is more than a logo, a jingle, a catch phrase or a color scheme. It is all of that and much more. Any company that wants to brand itself begins by examining itself so that it can project accurately its true corporate identity. “Obviously every company has a brand,” Gaylor noted, “whether it is something the company overtly worked to develop, or just tweaked, there is a perception that it has in its marketplace — whether it is intended or not. Every company has a brand, but is the perception of your company the one you want your customers to be getting?” It follows that some companies are branded haphazardly, some weakly, some unwittingly with a reputation of, “Don’t buy here!” Through thoughtful branding, smart heavy equipment dealer executives are positioning their companies to attract wayward customers looking for a company they can trust. When a dealer decides to undertake this self-examination process, which leads to new communication efforts, it is acting in response to a discovery that something has changed. In some cases, the market has changed and a company response is required. Perhaps a company’s focus and business plan have changed. Sometimes it just is time to change. “In our case,” said Gaylor, “it was triggered by the fact that there have been enough changes in our company and the kinds of markets that we serve, that it was time to retell our story to new customer bases.” Not coincidentally, the company in 2006 celebrated its 60th anniversary, having grown to serve customers in four states. It was a good time to start fresh. Working with a Knoxville-based firm, Ackerman PR, the leadership of Power Equipment Company acted to “re-energize,” rather than change, its brand and to “retell it to new customer bases we have expanded into over the last few years.” A piece of the new brand is a fresh logo, a stylized version of “Power” that ties into the company theme of “Power to perform.” The new visual identifier replaced a logo that featured a piece of equipment that effectively dated the company. “The old logo was a bulldozer in a hand, a visual image for many, many years,” Gaylor said. “The new logo downplays the dirt construction equipment aspect of our business. Fifteen years ago, 90 percent of what we did was earthmoving equipment. Today it is not.” The machines that Power Equipment Company sells today often are used in forestry, scrap-handling and demolition, Gaylor said, industries that are not “necessarily associated with the bulldozer. The old logo fit for a core group of customers, but for the others, it didn’t. It sent the wrong message.” In Dallas, Texas, Continental Equipment Co. almost literally is branded. The company has a registered trademark image that resembles an old-fashioned cattle brand, declaring, “Real Texas Power.” The slogan is part of a new logo and also is used as a stand-alone secondary image. The Komatsu dealership is just more than a decade old and has six locations across north and west Texas. Despite presiding over a relatively young company, Continental leadership determined last year that the dealership needed to re-brand itself and “clarify” its market position; it proceeded to do so in-house. Consequently, a world globe was removed from its logo. “The globe led people to believe that we were more of a global company,” said company spokesman Jean Mault. “We are a part of the Komatsu distribution and service network and certainly will not be servicing a piece of equipment in China. We have had some management changes and, as a result, have refined our business focus. Our primary drive is to inform our customers that we are here to support them in Texas.” Komatsu colors now grace the logo. The more prominent role of the “Real Texas Power” image has resulted in a jump in requests for decals for hardhats, Mault laughingly observed. “It’s a guy thing.” All of which might sound like a cosmetic redoing of the company’s image. But Mault said the transformation goes deeper than that and is a reflection of strategic marketing decisions. “We want to draw more attention to our company,” she said, “and the ’Real Texas Power’ slogan serves to reinforce our position in the market.” Virginia-based James River Equipment Co. is not so much re-branding as it is evolving its message to its customers. The firm began 80 years ago in Colorado — far from the James River — and then jumped to Virginia, where an East Coast division of the company took root. It has distributed John Deere construction equipment since 1972 and now operates 20 locations in North and South Carolina and Virginia. “James River is getting to be a pretty big company,” said Michael Board, director of marketing and advertising. “Our main focus is service for all product lines. We are really customer-service oriented. Our main mantra is we want to make sure that we give our customers something they can’t get just anywhere, and that they understand that we’re here for them.” Board credits company President Mark Romer with creating the customer-service ethic. “It really is one of his philosophies that the company is not just about moving iron, and selling iron, but about relationships. He wants us at the dealer level to have a relationship with a customer, to be an outlet for solutions for customers.” Consequently, Board said, the company has created “sort of a catch phrase. It is on our business card and letterheads and reads, ’It’s all about people…It’s all about relationships.’” He said the phrase has been used “in one form or another for several years, but we kind of tightened it up in the last year or so and got it down to that form. We’re looking to develop it more in the future. We added it to business cards this year and we’re kind of bringing it into the mix. It’s been something we’ve said for a long time, but we’re just now getting it down to this easy to-communicate form.” That the expression is rooted in company philosophy suggests it is an accurate representation of the company and, therefore, an appropriate corporate branding element. As it comes into more prominence in future marketing efforts, it may move from being an internal focal point to being an external identifier, a corporate brand, if you will, that is wholly separate from the John Deere products it sells. “We don’t have a campaign announcement planned, or anything else, per se,” Board said. “It just is going to be incorporated into print, radio and TV, and, internally, in newsletters. It will be something the customers see about every time they hear from us.” Board, who has a marketing and public relations degree from University of North Carolina-Charlotte, is handling the evolutionary change internally. He was managing a store and doing similar work for Piedmont Farm and Yard until it merged with James River Equipment. Board was asked how James River will know if its low-key “relationships” theme is successful in building confidence among existing and potential customers. “Of course, most companies would say that you can track it with your sales. If there is an increase in sales, the campaign has been successful,” he said. “But with us, it really, truly first is about building these relationships.” Papé Group is a Eugene, Ore.-based company with five divisions including construction and material-handling equipment. It has office locations in six states in the northwestern and western United States. Last year, company officials decided to more closely unite the diverse companies — which range from Ditch Witch franchises to a business flight service — under the Papé banner. “Some of our divisions did not have the Papé name associated with them directly, so we renamed some divisions, with Papé as a dominant part of the name, and then made sure all the Papé named-divisions fit under a consistent umbrella. We hoped to leverage the brand equity of both the divisions and the company group,” said Tim Clevenger, the firm’s director of development. The branding effort involved determining the public perception of the company and then working to ensure that the company was operating in alignment with its goal of serving customers. Service has been a core element of the company’s business plan since the company’s beginning in 1938; a more dominant use of the Papé name in a new logo now consistently communicates the “service” message across all divisions. The internal project to re-brand itself began in 2002 and, Clevenger said, “is a process that never ends.” Company executives still are executing the plan, with a new Web site coming online soon. The magnitude of any major re-branding project is such that many companies are reluctant to start it. “The research we did prior to embarking on the plan told us that there are some dealers that embrace it,” Clevenger said. “But it is such a long-term investment, that a lot of dealers just don’t.” How will Papé Group know if carrying out the plan was worth it? “This always is a difficult thing to measure,” Clevenger said, “but we’ve consistently seen our ’unaided awareness’ levels increase. Decision-makers were called and asked which dealership comes to mind first when they are considering an equipment purchase. We’ve seen our favorable response rate to that question increase over the last few years. That is the only quantifiable measurement we have. Anecdotally we’ll see and hear from customers that everything [the company divisions] seems to kind of fit together now, but that’s just anecdotal.” Clevenger believes in branding, especially when a corporation has a long-standing, positive message to tell. “The only thing that companies have to differentiate themselves is a brand that means something,” he said. “For us, that is a commitment to service.” CEG
Ok, so were finally getting down to it. On at least two fronts, Apple has now essentially thrown out its draconian rules on what developers can and cannot do on its platform, and replaced them with essentially, no rules. The new "rules" appear to be, "its OK to do what you want in your app if we say so. And we'll figure that out after you've fully invested in our platform." In other words, you serve at the pleasure of the queen. Now the truth is for the vast majority of app developers this is totally fine. People developing the uninspiring apps that mainly make up the App Store have nothing to fear. But those creative few that want to do something interesting with a UI, or want to use hardware in a new way, or who want to use a more advanced code execution technique are at grave risk. For now, I will leave it to others to debate the impact of this strategy. I want to explore something different. What is motivating Apple? Apple claims its goal with all these rules is to keep out bad applications. But if that is the case, they are failing miserably because a lot of apps in the App Store, perhaps the majority, are total crap. Their stated rationale is, I believe, baloney. In fact, not only do I think Apple couldn't care less about whether apps are crap, I think they love the crap, and that their goal is in fact to keep out the awesome. I know this sounds over the top. Let me explain. I think Apple is fearful of any truly ground breaking stuff coming from a third party. Apple does not really want even a handful of awe inspiring market moving 3rd party apps. They want hundreds of thousands of decent or even mediocre or crappy apps. The rationale for this thinking is actually pretty reasonable. Its great to be able to claim having more apps than any other platform. Numeric superiority is a huge marketing tool. No one cares if your tens of thousands of apps are mainly crap. And yet, in the history of computing, we know that its not the number of apps that make a platform, but the existence of "killer apps." Whether it was VisiCalc, or Lotus 123, or PageMaker, or Microsoft Office, the truth is users don't really want hundreds of apps, they want one or a small number that are really meaningful. The good news about killer apps for platform vendors is that they can drive the platform into the stratosphere. This is certainly great for early stage platforms like the Mac with PageMaker in the 80's, or even with Facebook and Farmville in the last several years. But as platforms mature, Killer apps from third party companies pose more risk.. The greatest support for my thesis is that there are not yet any third party companies that have made a huge amount of money on the iPhone. Has there been success? Yes. Has there been enough to support a major exit, or to even put someone on that trajectory? No. And I think Apple will work hard, through whatever rule changes and market behavior is necessary to guarantee that that never happens, at least with any non-vertical technology. So I guess the question here is what to make of all of this. And I think the answer is clear. If your goal is to build a major company, iOS is probably not the place to make that investment. Certainly it may be a great place for an entrepreneur who wants to build a lifestyle business, though even there risks abound. And for games I think the iPhone is fine platform since games are probably not strategic. But for anyone else, either entrepreneur or investor, who aspires to build a truly market moving mobile company, I strongly suggest you think different. Apple isn't the only game in town, and as I have written previously, I don't think it will even be the biggest game in town much longer. There has been at least one major exit, an app called Siri, which was bought for $200 million. They have powerful voice search technology, which had about $250 million in funding from government grants. I've tried it myself, it's very neat (and still available in the app store). The buyer? Apple. So they would rather Android succeeds than have that app on the iPhone? Wayne, you make a good point that I think actually supports my thesis. Apple must own anything they think is killer. Though I have to say in this case it is clearly more of a technology demo than a killer app. But if you are starting your company with the primary exit being selling to apple, those are very long odds based on apple's aquisition history. Anonymous, A good point, but I think apple believes it can prevent things from becoming killer elsewhere. The adobe position is interesting. Flash will run on android. So the question is whether apple is better off having it run on android and not on the iPhone. I dont think so but they do. This is why the "there's an app for that" ads are so funny. Most of the apps are no more than distractions for a couple of minutes, including the games. The most interesting ones are those that rely on social functionality or web services, which make sense given that everything is dominated by that functionality nowadays. For application developers, the question is whether it is worth it to yoke themselves to iOS when there's that whole "Web" thing out there, that runs on everything. For some, it may be worth it. In "the old days", Mac users would pay a premium for a well designed product that followed Mac semantics and guidelines. Nowadays, the market is not nearly as demanding -- given the mainstream acceptance of iPhone/iPod, users care much less about the platform, and much more about the brand -- if it runs, it's probably fine. Let's hope Apple doesn't remove functionality from their Mobile Safari to make it harder for web developers to integrate into iOS -- this may well come if Apple fears losing their dominance in the app count. I read an article about an app that was rejected that basically amounted to wireless-syncing. The kid sells in the cydia marketplace and was offered a job by apple...I don't understand why apple didn't buy it out and/or just add this feature themselves? Wow, what a stupid post, link baiter. Stick to ESPN, you have no nerd credentials. Anonymous, I think Hank's point is that "killer apps" don't make the platform, variety does -- and Microsoft does just fine owning the killer apps on the Windows platform (Office, basically). If Apple can prevent Android from getting more middling quality apps, and get a few "gems/killer apps" for themselves, they think they have the competitive advantage to remain a dominant player. I wouldn't be surprised if that weren't a smart move for them -- the platform is good for control, but it is always good to have revenue from those killer apps -- Office has always been a cash cow for Microsoft, even in years when there was no new version of Windows. Not a bad hypothesis, but the much more likely reasons for the high density of "crap" apps are: 1) 1-3% of developers are good enough to build great apps, which means only 1-3% of apps have the chance to be great to begin with. 2) It takes a few days to build a crappy app, but it takes weeks/months to build a great one. Also not true about success. It's attractive enough to have some major third parties like EA building a lot of stuff (and making a lot of money). Also, this isn't normal startup-land where you build something and then exit. For an iPhone app they're value is making $$ in the App Store. When you're #1 in the store we're talking about serious money - it can be $1MM in a week or two. I do agree that iTunes is not the place to build a major company, nor do I think that you should build your company being dependent on any third party (although building on top of Facebook seems 10x worse)... anyways, the dynamics of the iTunes store are definitely unique and pretty interesting - I'd suggest doing a bit more reading about it. The best part about it is that Apple get to inspect the goods before they reject that killer app. It's as if the US patent office was also in the invention business. They read everyone else's invention and decide whether or not to protect it. It's a dangerous and probably untenable position for Apple, in the long term. No matter how many smart people you have working for you, the majority of smart people are working somewhere else (in a contest between you and the world, bet on the world). Which means that, with almost certainty, the next killer app will not be developed at Apple (or Microsoft, or IBM, or...). The guy developing that app will then have two choices- put it on the iPhone, and let Apple kill it- or put in on some other phone (say, the Android) and let it thrive. So, by worrying that some killer app might decide to drop the iPhone, they are guaranteeing that the next killer app will never support the iPhone. Apple is exactly becoming Microsoft- they are destroying the platform in order to protect it (much like Microsoft killed the desktop app market in order to protect Windows). I think if anything was ever developed in Flash that was a "must have" on the iPhone, Apple could just make up a reason, approve Flash and it'd be an iPhone app too. If that fear were their core motivation, it seems like they wouldn't have rejected GV Mobile. Giving Android the de facto exclusive on good Google Voice integration skips the killer app and goes right to the potential downside of allowing it in the first place. That's a lot of crap. Hi Hank, Thanks for your thoughts. Well written as they are, I don't know that I can agree with you. There have been a number of successful apps on the store that have made well into the 6-7 figure range of sales. But that's clearly not enough to define the killer app. So, what in your mind IS the definition of the killer app on iPhone? How do we spot one on any platform? I do think Apple's draconian policies are killing off quality apps that want to participate, but I'd hardly agree that good apps aren't present and Apple is failing to support them completely. Fake sjbos thoughts on this post. I'm sorry, but you just don't make any sense. Apple took a constraint that they had applied and realized that there were instances (the lua in games example was good) where the use of interpreted code would not be an issue). All the other rules remain in place and the exception were limited interpreted code. Your other reference to the AdMob situation seems totally unrelated. If AdMob was an independent company, there would be no issue. As part of Apple's major competitor, why would they allow them to gather data on the iPhone that they could use? I suppose you think Android is going to allow iAds? I think it's probably true that Apple wants to be the best game in town when it comes to the iPhone and ownership of the apps available, but I don't know that your argument that they're just rejecting apps holds true for that. First of all, I don't think any app developers would be offended if Apple just contacted them and asked to buy their app from them during the review process, but we don't hear about that happening. Second, I think the days of the killer app are generally going away. We're all very different people, and the way to win our hearts now is to provide solutions that cater really well to who we specifically are. I've got tons of apps that I use a lot on my iPhone. Tweetie. Reeder. Rdio. Simplenote. Instapaper. iOctocat. ESV Bible. Kindle. Flickit. Boxcar. Meebo. NYTimes. All apps I use numerous times any given week. I don't need a killer app, I need apps that integrate into my life and solve my real problems. And, well, I live in the US, so I don't have big problems. I'm simply smoothing off the corners. Third, I think the facts behind your argument for major successes aren't so cut and dry. Has the iPhone helped Facebook in a huge way? I think so. Has it helped Twitter in a huge way? Certainly. What about Google, for sure. But those companies all have business models that are based on free. And beyond that, how many software companies out there even make hundreds of millions of dollars. That's a crap ton of money. How many Windows or Mac apps make that kind of bank? Great theory, but I wholeheartedly disagree with the idea that Apple is acting as neurotic as they are because they're afraid of other people making money on the iPhone. My personal opinion (which is fun to share but completely worthless since I'm not an Apple employee) is that they're going just a little too far on trying to make sure the experience is great on the phone and that they're putting too much power into the hands of app reviewers. Apple suck, I wouldn't consider buying an iPhone. I quite like my macbook, but that's as far Apple that I will go. Next computer is going to be a Lenovo Thinkpad, I'm not going to support a good company turned rotten. It should be "Couldn't care less". I instantly lost respect for the author and didn't read any more. What I see as a more serious problem is the splintering effect apps have on using your phone. Used to be a radio gave you access to every radio station within reach. You can connect to and listen to almost every station in the world, using your browser, whether IE, Safari, Opera, Firefox or something else. But if you want to listen to radio on your smart phone, there's an app for each broadcaster .. one for NPR, one for BBC, one for CBC. They only work on iPhone, you need another set for Android. Never mind convergence, this is divergence. The arguments you give for your thesis also support the far simpler and more sensible thesis: Apple allows developers into its store who will help Apple sell devices. You've heard of William of Occam, right? Meanwhile, there are some flaws with your argument. What is the “killer app” on Android that isn't on iPhone? The only third-party killer app I've heard that everybody gets (and isn't on iPhone) so far is the App Killer, designed for über-techies to prove their masculinity in muscling their devices around Android's "everybody's a bronco-buster" user experience. Everything else of any significance seems to either (a) have a decent iPhone equivalent app, or (b) parallel functionality that Apple offers somehow offers w/in system s/w. Yeah, there are nifty utilities that sync wirelessly and Google voice. Neither of these examples is a "killer app" on Android; the would-be iPhone versions are kluged versions of Android OS features and require very "we're not in Kansas" changes in mindset from what Apple wants. (Such as, having GV built into the phone s/w. You're not even in business very long if you need basic features from a competitor— ask Palm.) In case it hasn't been totally obvious, Apple is in charge of the basic OS functionality and isn't interested in an encampment of apps clustered around some nifty hack that will might attract end-users but require backward compatibility in the future iOS versions. (Compatibility is, of course, the REAL reason for keeping the Flash app-builder, and Mono and others out of the development cycle: while Mono and Flash both could claim 100% support for iOS 3, neither could provide developers iOS4 betas, and Apple is not in the business of providing support for dev tools that slow down the dev cycle but are aimed 90% at platforms other than Apple's (aka, "lose-lose"). A decade ago, this issue was an absolute KILLER for Apple with its extremely limited resources during the transition to OSX: they had to devote special backward-compatibility support to extremely important developers like Microsoft and Adobe. Apple no longer has nearly the problem with choosing where the resources go, but I, for one, am a fan of them putting their efforts to new features such as the iOS4 and iPhone4 instead of handholding important developers who locked into deprecated frameworks, the orphaned Code Warrior, etc.) (Of course, besides forward- and backward-compatibility issues, Apple has a long history of other apps besides Flash which crash users' machines. In my case, migrating my apps to my 2010 MBP caused a fatal freeze-on-startup crash and support incident due to an obsolete 3rd-party system tool that I'd long forgotten I still had loaded. Why allow third-party hacks onto iOS at all?) So I think you're off into the broccoli with your reasoning. Apple has both end-user perception and technical support reasons for not allowing in kluges that make apps harder to port to new hardware. Easy. Interesting thesis. It's true, Apple wants to provide all the truly vital mobile apps. They will reject--and have already rejected--third party apps that were designed to serve too broad a segment. Their vague premise for these decisions is often that the app was attempting to replace core OS functionality in some way. You're wrong, though, to characterize all apps as either killer or crap. Most good apps fill a valuable niche, but are not "killer". Apple wants a store full of these apps. To date, the niches have been a pretty big market--$1 billion. That's nothing to sneeze at. Right now, Apple has enviable control over their platform, yet has still managed to keep it relevant, with a large developer base. That's where they want to stay. The danger for Apple, I think, is for a major competitor (Google, for instance) to introduce a revolutionary mobile app or technology, which takes the market by storm, and which Apple can't duplicate themselves. If this happens, the other company will be in a strong negotiating position. Apple will have to either cede their control, or try to compete one-legged. "couldn't care less" ... You meant to say "I think Apple couldn't care less...". The "n't" is very important. Sorry -- a pet peeve of mine. Saying that someone "could care less" leads me to ask, "What things would make them care less?". Your point in using the phrase is to emphasize that they already don't care at all (and thus nothing could make them care less -- because the amount of "caring" they currently have is already zero). When you leave out the "n't" you are actually saying the opposite of what you intend. I'm not pointing this out because I like to nit pick. I honestly think that you might be interested in realizing that it is incorrect. I think most people just use this phrase incorrectly because they've heard it that way for so long. In writing (yes, in blog posts too) surely you want to eliminate word usage that states the opposite of what you mean to say. :-D Thank you. This was very compelling. I haven't read a blog post this interesting in a long while. I can't say your thesis is entirely spot on but I can say with confidence that these sorts of discussions are going on within the walls of 1 Infinite Loop. I don't agree with the thesis. First of all, although I agree Apple wants to have tons of apps to wave around in its marketing brochure, having killer apps and having lots of apps, even crappy ones, are not mutually exclusive positions. Additionally, the idea that a killer app for the iPhone might end up being ported to another platform and that would make Apple hurt is, at this point, counterintuitive. Apple needs the app makers, but, more importantly, the app makers need Apple. Currently, according to Nielsen, the iPhone is second (28%) to RIM's lead (35%) in the US smartphone market. Additionally iPhone is growing (from 11% - 2 years ago) and RIM is shrinking(from 42% - 2 years ago). What's more that does not include all the iPads and the iPod Touches that would also run an app that runs in that 28%. If you want to make the most sales possible for your app and you could only choose one platform, who are you going to pick for a target audience? At this point, Apple would be happy for there to be killer apps (and their are some great apps out there, especially considering the price point), but Apple will succeed in this market with or without them: - #1 Technology company (market cap) - #2 US company (market cap) - #1 US phone manufacturer - #1 app store - #1 music retailer - #1 online movie retailer - #1 MP3 player manufacturer These are not fanboy mutterings... these are simply cold hard facts. Apple will be fine with or without a killer app. Many of Walt French's points are very valid, especially the 3rd party development tools which did cause issues even before the Mac OS X launch. Your comments have that oh so elusive "ring of truth" to me. It's true that there are a very limited number of killer apps but that's doesn't me that Jobs doesn't worry about it. What confuses me is what you think that Apple thinks the consequences are, Hank? Why is Apple fearful of this? What motivation do you perceive behind these actions? I can't think of a rational (or even irrational and consistent) link of thinking that Apple would have that works with this logic. I haven't checked your blog in two years, but you finally came up with the killer headline, no pun intended. Can you tell me what an SDK is, are you that far along? (Y,N) There are two over-arching theories of human behavior, which I'll dub the Rational-Being Theory and the Fuckup Theory. Neither explains everything, because sometimes people are rational while at other times they fuck up. But for some reason, the Rational-Being Theory gets more air time. I don't understand this. People who explain every human decision by evoking rationality must, at the core, think of people as rational beings. I don't understand how they come by this view, because it's so clear to me that, much of the time, people are anything but rational (myself included.) When I was a kid, I would sometimes say to my dad, "Dad ... um ... I forgot what I was going to say." He'd reply, "Well, then it couldn't have been really important." As if I'm a person who carried around a checklist in his head, with the most important stuff at the top. This is so wrong. I continually forget important things -- things that are important to ME. Why? I don't know. I have all sorts of things going through my head, and sometimes I just fuck up. The writer here proposes a conspiracy theory to account for why Apple is so haphazard about what it allows into the App store. They CLAIM they are just trying to keep crap out of the store. But the author notes that the store is full of crap, so CLEARLY Apple is lying about its motivations. (If you're interested in what he thinks Apple's real motivations are, read the article, linked above.) What interests me is not whether he's right or wrong but the mindset that brought him to this conclusion. He notes... 1. Apple claims they are doing X to cause Y. 2. They ARE doing X. 3. Yet Y hasn't happened. And, with great confidence that he's right, he accounts for this by saying that it means Apple has a hidden agenda. If the say they want to cause Y and they don't cause it, it MUST be because they secretly don't want to cause Y at all. This theory works hard to maintain Apple's status as a rational entity. They MUST be working towards some clear, rational goal -- even if they are being dishonest about what that goal is. But there's another theory: they're fuckups. They really DO want to cause Y to happen, but they are going about it in a stupid way. Or -- in an even more fucked-up move -- they're not sure WHAT they want to happen. They're just bumbling along, living day to day, making plans, dropping those plans, making new plans, etc. I am not at all convinced that Apple is conforming to the Fuckup Theory. But they MIGHT be. People conform to it all the time. Pretty much every institution I've ever been a part of has bumbled way more often than they've systematically carried out plans. From what I understand, economists used to think of people as rational agents out to do whatever is in their best interests. They are only recently accepted that people are often irrational and stupid. WHY ISN'T THIS OBVIOUS? Isn't this the natural view anyone would come to, just by observing themselves and the people around them? Most people who write about Apple treat it as if it's a person -- as if it has clear motivations and agenda. It's not a person. But the funny thing to me about this is that even if it was -- especially if it was -- it would not have clear motivations and agendas. Apple is a public company buffeted by many forces, both internal and external. I would be amazed if its left hand knew what its right hand was doing. Thanks for the could/couldn't care less language note. For those who may wonder what they are talking about, I just fixed it so the error is no longer there. The no killer app thesis is supported by Apple's actions regarding the Mac which has no killer third party app (i.e. one which can significantly drive platform choice). This allows them to do what they did with Snow Leopard and not worry too much about breaking existing software and hardware. Having watched the effect on Vectorworks users, their reaction to the incompatibility of Vectorworks 2009 with Snow Leopard when released and the lack of Power PC support in Vectorworks 2010 was to blame Nemetschek NA rather than Apple. No killer apps makes sure customers are committed to the platform rather than what they can do with it. It's brilliant marketing. iPad is TV, all over again. It seems that a "killer app" has to be a pathway to more freebies somewhere else to succeed (warez,free phone calls, etc), otherwise a great app that's not in this category will just have a small-ish and loyal following. I am convinced that there is currently no market for serious tools on the iPad; they are not welcome, because toys always have lower learning curves than tools. Toys sell in much higher volume, and Apple gets a cut of that. I am learning this the hard way (in the small) in trying to make a professionally playable instrument for iPad. If you go from 5 to 3 octaves and bad ergonomics to make the non-functional eye candy fit, then you win. If you make the instrument unplayable by having the computer make all the decisions for you (4/4 beat-box, auto-tune, etc) then you win. Bloom,Electribe,MagicPiano. If you could download RandyRhoads's guitar off of the AppStore and have it in your hands for free, the ratings would be a bunch of 5's and 1's with nothing in between. This is because people will download it and give 1 star because it has a learning curve. Apple isn't trying to keep a Killer app out. If someone builds such an app, they would simply release it on the Android, and then Apple would be strongly motivated to get it, but would be playing catch-up. In other words, they can't stifle the creation of a Killer app, since there is an open platform to release it on. It is, in fact, in there own self-interest to be as welcoming as possible to the Killer app so they can have it first, since that's the only advantage they have when there are other open platforms that it can be ported to. If an app truly killed then I don't think Apple would want the civil and criminal liability. You are a great writer. Seriously. I hope you find time to tackle some meaty subjects because we will all benefit. Anybody who says that MonoTouch is "90% aimed at other platforms" is clearly parroting the party line and doesn't know the actual facts of the situation. The only platform MonoTouch supports or plans to support is the iPhone. (Yes, C# is a cross-platform language, but it is no more so than C, which Apple's whole toolchain is based around. The point is that MonoTouch was 100% built on native iPhone technologies and made them no more portable.) This analysis makes no sense whatsoever. If killer apps drive the growth of a platform, a bigger platform also motivates developers to develop for it, making it even bigger. Apple would want more killer apps, not less. Despite there being plenty of killer apps for Windows made by 3rd parties (games, first and foremost), not a single one of them has dropped Windows in favour of the Mac. So why would a killer iPhone app developer drop Apple in favour of Android, if the iPhone remains the big platform (the Windows of mobile, if you will)? In fact, by alienating killer app developers, Apple is driving them into the arms of Android, ensuring that Android has that app and thus, more people will prefer Android. One big company can't do as much as a thousand small developers. The killer app is openness and collaboration. I'll switch in a heartbeat when other folks hardware quality catches up. Can't blame em for milking their first-to-market bounty. Don't forget to jailbreak your iPad and run node.js on Good observation. If Apple were serious about facilitating great 3rd party developed apps they would facilitate a rich development ecosystem. Instead, it's warmed over NeXTstep or nothing. Nice article and all that. Sorry to ding on you, but please understand the difference between its and it's. It's really important. This makes sense if Eric Schmidt was the puppet master behind Jobs decision to do this. If Jobs is afraid of the 'killer app', it wouldn't do him or Apple much good to ostracize the most creative minds and force them onto another platform. Much better to invite them in with open arms and buy them out before anyone else has a chance. The killer app is the platform. That's part of the reason why Apple has blocked Flash. So you are right, but at the same time wrong. I would argue that the app store is the new killer app as I believe that a curated computing experience will become the dominant platform in the future. You're welcome (for the could/couldn't language note). Kudos to you for responding positively to what was intended to be constructive criticism. It's true, i like your way of thinking Jobs has already admitted this so I don't see why any of you are arguing. Apple doesn't want to be in a position where a must-have app gets any power over the platform. Jobs has said this. It's so obvious. Why does everything on this site suck? ;-) I'm sorry Hank, but I have to agree with Walt French and Occum's Razor. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one and your distorted logic just does not apply. If Apple were trying to only have their software be successful, why have they not written more apps for the iPhone themselves? Why do they so strongly promote great third party apps in their TV ads, in iTunes etc? Why do they not promote their own apps as strongly? Why do they give Apple Design Awards to the best of the best apps? Of course Apple want killer apps on their platform. 3rd party devs will only desert to other platforms if Apple's platform isn't as lucrative or large as the opposition and that is not happening anytime soon. With 100 million iOS devices leaving Android and WM far in the dust in terms of platform size as well as profit (Gameloft for example indicated they make 400x more from their iPhone apps vs their Android apps) iPhone devs are more than happy to stay and not have to worry about Android fragmentation etc. As far as 3rd party devs not being successful on the iPhone platform - are you serious? Have you really not heard about the many multi-millionaire iPhone devs out there? Have you not seen the success FireMint has had? or Smule? or any one of hundreds of other small and large shops who are raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars? Can you name one small dev that has become a millionaire on the Android platform? -Mart @ryan, Jobs did not say the words you are putting in his mouth. What he did say is he did not want a lowest common denominator third party cross-platform dev environment becoming pre-emininent. The reasons for this were that these environments are invariably behind the state-of-the art features of those individual platforms and do not implement features of one that are not in others, thus destroying the advantages of any one system by ignoring it's killer differentiating features. Flash is a prime example. Everything becomes luke warm sameness. -Mart It's weird, you look like a really smart guy, but nothing in this post makes any sense at all. stupidest idea I've read this month. Let me see, you guys sit around and try to find the most asinine conspiracy theory possible....it must of course have apple as the bad guy and you as oppressed geniuses...the rest of us unfairly kept from the sheer brilliance of your killer apps by the bad guy.....either that or you are just remarkably stupid and instead of creating anything worthwhile you dream up elaborate excuses to blame someone successful....like Apple. Get used to it. gosh! you're black - you have no clue about technology. go back to KFC! @anonymous (KFC), Nothing justifies descending to blatantly racist comments. We may disagree strongly with Hank's article but please keep this discussion civilised. -Mart A better way of saying what you said in your article is this. Apple is designing iOS to prevent such a killer app in the first place. By designing a well architected service based OS they are defining the walls of integration that is allowed to take place. So their apps will always be better if they decide to invest in something. Secondly, Apple is highly encouraging junk apps, and feigning the opposite with capricious app store review policy. In other words, "we have high standards", but free rules so we will approve your "fart" apps all day long we really dont care. Its all spam to us. iAds as stated by SJ himself the whole purpose is to enable developers to make money building free and low costs apps. In other words we will give you a penny more just keep building throw away garbage to keep out app count up. Apps are iPhone spam. As long as it continues this way, Apple will have a million such spam apps in another year. And once they have a million, they wont want them ,because it will look like what it really is. A platform for spam just as much as the web which Apple claims to be superior to. Even still, its a great phone and I will buy it. But not for the apps. And developing them is largely a waste of time by any measure I can think of. everything is not sucks if... Lots of "well Apple are just evil and/or purveyors of junk for the gullible" comments there - why do people bother? Anyway, you could be entirely correct, but it's hard to argue against something for which there's absolutely no evidence. You say the iPhone hasn't launched any third party companies - but none of the phone vendors have track record of doing that. You say they're preventing people from trying new UIs or advanced code execution - but those aren't applications, they're features. I'm not sure it even makes sense to try and build a big company based on a single handheld platform. The killer app of mobile phones has been mobile phone calls, and as long as people like to talk to each other that may remain the case for a long time. The major corollary to this is that the mobile phone's strength is on-the-go access to other things. Skype, Spotify, Pandora, FaceBook, Google Maps, blogging tools - all from businesses whose platform is the web, not the phone. Photo editing - handy to have on the go, but feeding back to Flickr, Snapfish and so on. Games - some businesses there, but the real money will always be the console and PC platforms in the home. I've got a bunch of other little tools - handy, but lifestyle businesses as you say. Finally, things like OmniFocus - on the go access to my productivity tools, again sync'd over the web to the full solution. If all you've got is tweaks to the UI or code engine, I'd have to question whether you're really talking about Apple preventing killer apps like VisiCalc - serious apps at a serious price for the business. To be blunt, do you mean Apple are preventing the "awesome" in terms of genuine applications, or "awesome" in terms of really cool for geeks? In a free market economy Apple will succeed for awhile, just as Google and others have. However, and this is key, they maintain their tenuous dominance primarily by offering to satisfy customers with quality/ease of use. lol you're like the first black dude I know that uses computers lol What company is making millions of dollars from Android apps????????? Why does this blog suck? Because the reasoning here just never makes sense. 1. Simply, why wouldn't it be better to have the killer app on your platform than on the competitor's platform? 2. Apple has so much cash now that it could buy up most any company that came up with a killer app (Microsoft and Google being the exceptions). So why would they fear it? Apple might be evil, but it's really strange that people have to concoct the most complex, twisted, illogical schemes in order to paint Apple as evil. Mark I hate the racist comments here. Back to the subject, I don't agree with the writer, although I see that "Apple cult leader" is trying to maintain dominance and quality at the same time by having Developers use native code. It's not trying to keep killer apps out. They want as many as they could get. I don't have an iPhone (I use RIM), but if I would buy phone, it would be because of the sheer number of apps available to do things. Many are crap I know, but there are many very usefull ones. By the author's admission quantity of apps do not a platform make so the android one must be successful since they have less apps than the iPhone. Sad to find such reasoning but then do you expect from a goog fanboi. web will win over native apps, matter of time. I mean you have to pay 30 percent of your revenue to Apple/Google or whatever. What sort of app company can survive on terms like that. Maybe the garage variety. Also admob is interesting, apple has a right to block admob ads, but why should others submit a written application to let their ads be allowed ? the world's greatest technology company(as per fanboi's anyway) also operates the world's greatest and best censor board. DOJ will come calling matter of time. Apple's policies are more draconian than Microsoft's ever was A little too much time on your hands? I think your a depressed, Microsoft blowboy in mourning. Why not just enjoy the greatest think to come along in a century? thanks for the information, it's so helpful for me!! thanks a lot () Apple recently launch iphone 4 and it will compete android i guess.. Heh, writing negatively about Apple really brings out the nasty these days. Anyway, I think you're giving Apple too much credit, Hank. I think they are blocking flash and others for exactly the reason Jobs stated (and repeated here in the comments), i.e. they don't fear third party apps but they do fear third party dev tools. Personally I think that's silly. I bet Google will take the other tack: they'll break stuff when they feel like it, keeping backwards compatibility where possible, of course (just as Apple will now). Their reasoning being that if Adobe can't keep up, that'll force them out of the market anyway. No need to start pouring resources into individually reviewing apps, not to mention possible bad PR caused by your refusal to carry them. The problems Android is facing is exactly what Apple wants to avoid though, i.e. different versions of the OS out there, many different UI's and compatibility levels, major hardware differences. Google understands there are whole market segments who don't really care (and those that do are well served with high end phones such as the N1 or the droid), Apple doesn't really want to serve that segment (not enough money in it). Apple's strategy seems to be working, for now. We'll see how it pans out. Wow, that's a good post on mobile phone. This is a great article... I'm only stumbling upon it now, because I've noticed that this lack of killer app coming from Apple, will eventually be their Achilles heel. I noticed this, because of all the Apple fanboy ranting about getting Nintendo games on their iPhone. I was just wondering, why do they care so much about getting Nintendo games on their iPhone? And why won't Nintendo do it? Nintendo won't do it because they have a ton of exclusive killer apps. They won't put them on the appstore because that would devalue their I.P. Apple, on the other hand, has few killer apps. Most of the apps that people want for their iPhone are 3rd party... so in a way... Nintendo, even with their losses recently, has what Apple wants and will eventually need. 1st Party Killer Apps. Funny world.
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Once we left the towns behind we found ourselves on quiet roads rolling through forest, bays and farmland. It was beautiful. It also took a while to get used to the novelty of riding on roads with no potholes. At one point we followed a dead-end road to a small fishing and holiday village called Vier. By a lake on the way back up from Vier. We returned to Stavanger by the bike path along the coast and past the aptly named Paradise Marina. Hammer Classic This sportive took in elements of the three day Hammer Stavanger pro race. The Hammer Series is an interesting concept with the first day being a c.100km race on a circuit that has a climb, followed by a similar distance on more sprinter orientated circuit. Teams can score points by being first over the line on the multiple laps of the circuits. The final day is a chase where teams race in a team time trail starting at staggered intervals with the teams with the highest points from the previous two days starting first. The sportive was not timed aside from three sections: the climb of the Hammer Climb (6-7 minutes), the ‘sprint’ of the Hammer Sprint (around 40 seconds) and a 1.4km section from the route of the Hammer Chase (just over 2 minutes). The facilities at the start and finish (the Stavanger Forum) were excellent. I particularly liked the grass roof. We were joined by Petter’s brother, Rune, at the start and for the first few kilometres of the sportive. Nicole smashed it up the Hammer Climb, perhaps helped by an attempt from Petter and I to provide some shelter from the wind (the post race assessment was that we needed some more training as domestiques). Lillian didn’t have the legs to keep up (I have to admit I was struggling for the first couple of minutes) but did get rewarded with a photo. We then entered the lakes and forests where we were cycling the previous day. As we weren’t being timed it was quite chilled and we enjoyed riding through the hills. We’d brought Petter some of the new London Dynamo kit so he was looking sharp in the blue and black. The ride became less relaxed when we turned towards the coast and the wind started to pick up. We jumped onto a train of about 30 riders powered by one of the local clubs, TOSK, and about an hour of frantic riding ensued. There was a strong cross wind and I was stuck on the windward side of the line, as was Lillian about 4 riders ahead of me. I knew she would be hurting and as we turned north and directly into the wind it was a struggle to move up the line to take a turn at the front. Also there were too many people of varying strength for it to be an efficient chain-gang. Lill was dropped and I stopped to ride with her about 5 minutes before the TOSK crew went on strike and said they didn’t want to ride with anyone else… which was fair enough as it was a shambles. This photo was taken later in the ride when things had calmed down, just after TOSK overtook us again. The last 25km (of the 130km sportive) was a hard work for Lillian as her legs were shredded… a bit like the bottom of this photo. This unusual effect was from trying to take a photo when my iPhone was on pano mode. We all regrouped at the finish for the best post-sportive food that I have had (apart from curry and beer in New Zealand). Crisps, fizzy drinks and unlimited pizza. The race jerseys were really nice too. Nicole also won the women’s race with the fastest time on all three sections. Later that afternoon we walked to the end of road where our AirBnB was and watched the Hammer Sprint. Unfortunately local hero Kristoff came third in the final sprint although Kristoffer Halvorsen, another Norwegian won, so it was a good day for Norway. Stavanger 10 We’d ridden through some beautiful countryside but had yet to see a fjord so Petter planned a ride for Lillian and I to the nearest one, about 50-60km from Stavanger. At 7.30am we were on a boat from Stavanger to Hommersåk. Although Norway seemed generally expensive compared to the UK, public transport (both bus and boat) was great value at 37 kroner (about £3.50) per journey. It was also very easy to buy tickets on the mobile with the Kolumbus app. It was a great way to start a bike ride. (A photo of our destination, Hommersåk, is the featured image for this post.) We started by following the coast road of Stavanger 3. And then descended the hill of Stavanger 3 and the Hammer Classic to Oldetal… again; we felt we were really getting to know the area. The road to the fjord(s) headed down the valley behind Lillian. The main climb of the day was a c.400m ascent out of the valley from Gilja over the hill to Frafjord. We returned through a 3.8km tunnel. This was fine to ride through but bring lights… and some warm clothes. As we approached the entrance on the way home it felt like being blasted with a troll’s icy breath! The top of main section of the climb took us to a high-mountain lake surrounded by beautifully situated cabins. As an aside, we found out from Petter how important trips to the ‘cabin’ are for Norwegians. In fact his wife’s family, Anna, had a cabin in the fjord where we were headed. Just after we crested this climb we came across this. An amazing view 450m down to Frafjord. We had our lunch of squashed sandwiches and peanuts here before descending. Another point to note is that there are not that many places to obtain food and water on the roads, so that is something to research before setting off on a ride. On this ride the only places for food were cafes attached to two yarn shops in and around Oldetal. We set off down the descent with some trepidation as the road was closed to cars. The though of having to climb back up was not appealing. However the reason why the road was shut was because of a landslide; no problem for cyclists. It was tempting to continue up the Frafjord valley to see where the road went but we decided to turn around… as planned… though left to myself I tend to ignore that… and ride back to the sea. Looking back down the fjord before heading for home through the 3.8km tunnel. As well as this tunnel there was another shorter but steeper one (above Dirdal) to negotiate on the return journey. Fortunately there was a narrow service road that we could follow to avoid the tunnel. Stavanger (0?) After so many memorable rides we spent our last morning sightseeing in Stavanger. The old town (Gamle Stavanger) just above the port. The cafes of Øvre Holmegate. Checking out a lifeboat in the Norsk Oljemuseum, a interesting museum about oil exploration in the North Sea and the impact on Stavanger and Norway. Well worth visiting. There was another enormous cruise ship in the harbour (Mein Schiff 4) as well as a more permanent resident, the Rogaland. The latter was used as the hospital ship moored by the pier in the movie Dunkirk. So ended our trip to Norway. We’ll have to go back, both to Stavanger and further north. 2 Responses Godwin Choy Looked like a good trip! Mark Patterson what fun! Great photos! Mark
ABSTRACT Viruses have a profound influence on the ecology and evolution of plankton, but our understanding of the composition of the aquatic viral communities is still rudimentary. This is especially true of those viruses having RNA genomes. The limited data that have been published suggest that the RNA virioplankton is dominated by viruses with positive-sense, single-stranded (+ss) genomes that have features in common with those of eukaryote-infecting viruses in the order Picornavirales (picornavirads). In this study, we investigated the diversity of the RNA virus assemblages in tropical coastal seawater samples using targeted PCR and metagenomics. Amplification of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) genes from fractions of a buoyant density gradient suggested that the distribution of two major subclades of the marine picornavirads was largely congruent with the distribution of total virus-like RNA, a finding consistent with their proposed dominance. Analyses of the RdRp sequences in the library revealed the presence of many diverse phylotypes, most of which were related only distantly to those of cultivated viruses. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that there were hundreds of unique picornavirad-like phylotypes in one 35-liter sample that differed from one another by at least as much as the differences among currently recognized species. Assembly of the sequences in the metagenome resulted in the reconstruction of six essentially complete viral genomes that had features similar to viruses in the families Bacillarna-, Dicistro-, and Marnaviridae. Comparison of the tropical seawater metagenomes with those from other habitats suggests that +ssRNA viruses are generally the most common types of RNA viruses in aquatic environments, but biases in library preparation remain a possible explanation for this observation. IMPORTANCE Marine plankton account for much of the photosynthesis and respiration on our planet, and they influence the cycling of carbon and the distribution of nutrients on a global scale. Despite the fundamental importance of viruses to plankton ecology and evolution, most of the viruses in the sea, and the identities of their hosts, are unknown. This report is one of very few that delves into the genetic diversity within RNA-containing viruses in the ocean. The data expand the known range of viral diversity and shed new light on the physical properties and genetic composition of RNA viruses in the ocean. INTRODUCTION Viruses are integral to life in the ocean, contributing to the disease and mortality of their hosts, catalyzing evolution by mediating gene exchange, and influencing the partitioning of nutrients among trophic levels (1). The genetic material of viruses may consist of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) or double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) or ssRNA or dsRNA, depending on the virus. Most studies of marine virioplankton over the past two decades have focused on DNA-containing viruses, which appear to be predominantly bacteriophages (2). Our knowledge about the RNA viruses in the marine virioplankton is much more limited, but the data available suggest that virtually all of them infect eukaryotic organisms, most likely protists (3). These RNA viruses were often assumed to be a minor component of the virioplankton, but recent data suggest that, at least at the one location sampled, they were as abundant in seawater as DNA viruses (4). At present, our knowledge of the RNA viruses that infect the marine protistan plankton is limited to what we have learned from 13 isolates and the results of a few molecular surveys (3). The RNA viruses that have been isolated so far infect some of the major taxa of marine protists, including diatoms (5–9), dinoflagellates (10), raphidophytes (11), prasinophytes (12), and thraustochytrids (13). Phylogenies of viruses in the order Picornavirales based on alignments of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) sequences are congruent with the established taxonomic assignments by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) (14–16), and thus the RdRp is a useful molecular marker for the investigation of the diversity of viruses in the order Picornavirales (picornavirads). Cultivation-independent surveys targeting the RdRp of picornavirads in samples from temperate waters (17) and subtropical waters (18) have revealed a level of genetic diversity that is poorly represented by the limited number of existing cultures (19). Metagenomic methods can provide a more comprehensive view of the genetic diversity of RNA viruses than single-gene surveys. This approach has been used to investigate RNA virus diversity in a variety of habitats, including reclaimed water (20), untreated wastewater (21, 22), hot springs (23), a freshwater lake (24), and various marine habitats (4, 25, 26). Application of this method to RNA viruses harvested from coastal waters of British Columbia suggested that most were predominantly positive-sense, single-stranded RNA (+ssRNA) viruses that are distantly related to established taxa (25). Very few dsRNA viral sequences were identified, and no sequences from RNA phage, negative-sense, single-stranded RNA (−ssRNA) viruses, or retroviruses were detected (25). These data offered a first glimpse into the genomic diversity of the natural RNA virioplankton in seawater but were limited to a single location in temperate coastal waters. To broaden our understanding of RNA viral ecology in the ocean, we estimated the abundance of RNA viruses relative to that of DNA viruses and the diversity of RNA viral communities harvested from coastal tropical waters. Because of their small genome sizes, RNA viruses cannot be accurately quantified in seawater even with RNA-specific stains (27, 28); therefore, we used an indirect approach in which the values corresponding to the relative masses of total viral RNA and DNA were divided by estimates of the mass of nucleic acid per RNA or DNA virion in the sample to determine relative abundances. Our data, from a tropical coastal site sampled on two occasions, indicated that the abundance of RNA viruses could at times exceed that of DNA viruses in seawater (4). An initial metagenomic analysis of RNA virus diversity in those samples suggested that, just as they did in one study in temperate waters (25), +ssRNA viruses in the order Picornavirales dominated in tropical coastal waters. The goal of our previous report was to estimate the relative abundances of RNA and DNA viruses. In this report, we expand our analysis of the two Kāne′ohe Bay viromes. Specifically, we present data on the buoyant density distributions of marine picornavirads, provide a more detailed analysis of the RNA virus metagenomes—including the reconstruction of six genomes—and provide estimates of the diversity of marine picornavirads using a number of different approaches. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION General description of the metagenomes.A general characterization of the two metagenomes analyzed in this study can be found elsewhere (4), but the salient features are summarized here to provide a context for the new analyses that are the focus of this paper. Pyrosequencing of the two libraries prepared from samples collected in 2009 and 2010 from coastal O′ahu resulted in a combined total of 249,941 high-quality reads and approximately 89 Mbp of sequence. The majority of sequences in each library assembled into contigs (69% and 78% in the 2009 and 2010 libraries, respectively). Approximately 54% of the total sequences were most similar to those of RNA viruses, 4% appeared to derive from cells, and 42% could not be assigned. Of the sequences that were identified as viral, >97% were most similar to those of +ssRNA viruses (95% specifically to members of the order Picornavirales). The remaining 3% were most similar to those of dsRNA viruses, with the majority having similarity to Micromonas pusilla reovirus (MpRV), the sole member of the genus Mimoreovirus. Buoyant densities of marine picornavirad-like viruses.Buoyant density gradients are frequently used to purify viruses from natural assemblages for analysis (29–31), but there are few reports describing the density distribution of uncultivated assemblages of DNA-containing viruses (32–34) and none for the RNA-containing viruses. This information is useful for optimizing purification strategies (29). Although picornavirads dominated our metagenomic libraries, the libraries were prepared from pooled fractions representing a specific density range (1.38 to 1.53 g ml−1), which was chosen conservatively based only on the distribution of total RNA. To better understand the density distribution of marine picornavirads, we analyzed each fraction separately for the entire gradient (≤1.2 to ≥1.6 g ml−1), amplifying by PCR first with degenerate primers targeting two subclades of marine picornavirads and then with primers designed to specifically target the RdRp genes of a putative high-buoyant density phylotype and a putative low-buoyant density phylotype. Amplification with the degenerate primers resulted in variable amplicon yields that depended on which fraction of a CsCl buoyant density gradient was assayed. The patterns were similar for the two subclades assayed, with both showing a peak in the 1.45 g ml−1 fraction (Fig. 1). The distribution was somewhat broader for subclade 1, the primers for which were also found to capture a broader range of phylogenetic diversity (Culley and Steward [18]). Clone libraries prepared from subclade 1 RdRp amplicons derived from one of the lower-density fractions (1.38 g ml−1) and one of the higher-density fractions (1.49 g ml−1) on either side of the main amplification peak revealed that some sequences were present in both libraries but that others were detected only in one library or the other (see Fig. S1 in the supplemental material). Reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) using primers designed to target one of the sequences found only in the lower-density library (phylotype A) or one of the sequences found only in the higher-density library (phylotype B) revealed target distributions consistent with the clone library results (Fig. 1). Specifically, the concentration of phylotype A was much higher than that of phylotype B in the 1.38 g ml−1 fraction and the concentration of phylotype B was higher than that of phylotype A in the 1.49 g ml−1 fraction. In both cases, however, the distribution of target was bimodal, with a local maximum in or near the density fraction from which the sequence derived but an overall maximum occurring in the 1.43 g ml−1 fraction (Fig. 1). KB viromes with those of coastal British Columbia waters (BC) and freshwater. Results of comparisons of the RNA viromes from this study with an RNA virome from the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia (17), and from a man-made freshwater lake (24) generated with MEGAN metagenomic analysis software (53) are shown. The comparison was normalized to accommodate the drastic differences in the numbers of sequences among the libraries. In this figure, the area of each pie is proportional to the number of sequences in it, and the area of each wedge in a pie is proportional to the representation of sequences from each sample in that pie. The percentages of total sequences classified as viral for each library are shown in parentheses in the key. Most of the +ssRNA in the marine samples, but not those in the freshwater sample, were assigned to the order Picornavirales. Among the picornavirad-like sequences, those with similarity to sequences of dicistrovirids and JP-B (a putative viral genome of unknown affiliation assembled from a marine sample) were identified in all four of the metagenomes. Sequences related to the diatom-infecting bacillarnaviruses were common in the Kāne′ohe Bay libraries but were not detected in the coastal British Columbia or freshwater libraries. The relative high representation of bacillarnavirus-like sequences in the libraries from Kāne′ohe Bay is consistent with the importance of diatoms in this system, blooms of which often dominate the eukaryotic phytoplankton community (38). Also notable was the detection, only in the freshwater library, of sequences most similar to those of viruses that infect land plants (e.g., tombusvirids, sobemovirids, and members of the Virgaviridae) or insects (iflavirids). The detection of sequences similar to those of plant and insect viruses in the lake, but not the sea, might be attributable in part to viruses entering this shallow retention basin in terrestrial runoff (24). However, many of the novel virus sequences recovered may derive from uncharacterized viruses that infect benthic or planktonic freshwater organisms. The predominance of +ssRNA virus-like sequences in all of the libraries analyzed may reflect a higher relative abundance of these types of RNA viruses in aquatic environments, but we cannot yet rule out biases from the steps involved in library preparation. The amplification method we used in this study was found to introduce little intragenomic bias when used to sequence individual viruses having a variety of genome configurations (39), but there is no data on the relative efficiencies with which ssRNA versus dsRNA genomes are recovered in a mixture of the two. A hypothesis that has yet to be tested is that the apparent low representation of dsRNA viruses in all of the libraries reflects interference from the reannealing of complementary strands during reverse transcription. Even if this were found to be true, it does not explain the dearth of sequences similar to those of other viruses having single-stranded RNA genomes (negative sense, ambisense, retroviral). Ultimately, quantitative assays of the major viral groups identified by metagenomic analyses will be needed to confirm the apparent dominance of picornavirads among marine RNA viruses. Conclusion.The six genomes assembled as part of this study represent a significant increase in the number of marine picornavirad genome sequences available and will be useful for designing future experiments to test the ecological contributions of these viruses. The apparent dominance of picornavirad-like sequences in our samples from coastal tropical waters is consistent with a previous metagenomic analysis of RNA viruses in coastal temperate waters (25), despite the use of very different methods in the two studies for each of three major steps: viral harvesting (ultrafiltration versus flocculation), amplification (sequence-independent single-primer amplification [SISPA] versus linker ligation), and sequencing (454 versus Sanger). This suggests that, as documented for metagenomes of DNA viruses (31, 40), the results are robust with respect to at least some methodological biases and that picornavirads may generally dominate the pool of RNA viruses in the ocean (but perhaps not in freshwater). However, quantitative analyses of additional marine habitats (e.g., polar, open ocean) and a thorough evaluation of potential biases during reverse transcription are needed to either bolster or banish this incipient paradigm. MATERIALS AND METHODS A description of the study site and methodological details concerning sample collection, processing, and construction of the metagenome was provided in a companion study (4). Summaries of those elements are provided here, as a convenience to the reader, along with more-detailed descriptions of the analyses specific to this paper. Sample collection and processing.Surface seawater (<0.5-m depth) was collected on 1 August 2009 (35 liters) and 3 June 2010 (40 liters) in polycarbonate carboys from a pier in Kāne′ohe Bay, Hawai’i (21°25′46.80″N, 157°47′31.51″W), a reef-protected, subtropical embayment located on the windward side of O′ahu. Samples were filtered (Sterivex; Millipore) (0.22 µm pore size) to remove cells and larger particles, and then viruses in the filtrate were concentrated by chemical flocculation and filtration (41) followed by centrifugal ultrafiltration (Amicon 15; Millipore) (30 kDa). Viruses from concentrated, virus-enriched samples were purified using sequential step and continuous CsCl buoyant density gradients (29). Fractions of approximately 0.5 ml were collected from the continuous gradient (22 to 23 fractions per gradient). After buffer exchange into TE (10 mM Tris, 1 mM EDTA, pH 8), nucleic acids were extracted from a portion of each density fraction (QIAamp MinElute Viral Spin kit; Qiagen). Each nucleic acid extract was treated with DNase to remove any copurified DNA, and the RNA concentration was determined by fluorometry (4). Amplification, cloning, and sequencing of RdRp genes.Reverse-transcription PCR (RT-PCR) with two sets of degenerate primers targeting marine picorna-like virus subclades 1 and 2 (Mplsc1 and Mplsc2; see Table S2 in the supplemental material) was performed with RNA template from each buoyant density fraction according to the protocol described by Culley and Steward (18). The resulting endpoint PCR products were separated on a 1% agarose gel and visualized on a digital gel documentation system. The intensity of PCR amplification in each fraction was measured using Molecular Imaging Software (Kodak). Amplified products from the 1.38 g ml−1 and the 1.49 g ml−1 buoyant density fractions were excised from the gel and purified separately (MinElute Gel Extraction kit; Qiagen). The ends of the purified products were repaired (PCRTerminator End Repair kit; Lucigen) and ligated into the pSMART-HCKan vector (Lucigen). Ligated vector was transformed into Ecloni 10G Supreme cells (Lucigen) via electroporation using the supplier’s recommended conditions. Clones were screened for insertions by PCR amplification, and products in the correct size range were purified and sequenced by Sanger sequencing with fluorescent dye terminators (Applied Biosystems). Table S2 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license, which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Quantification of RdRp phylotypes in the buoyant density gradient.Reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) was used to determine the abundances of two RNA virus phylotypes identified in the 2009 sample. Primers were designed to target regions of the RdRp unique to each phylotype (see Table S2 in the supplemental material). Reactions were performed with RNA template from each of the RNA viral buoyant density fractions from the 2009 sample. Reaction mixtures for cDNA synthesis (Superscript III; Invitrogen Corporation) consisted of 5 µl of the extracted, DNase-treated RNA template, a 0.2 mM concentration of each deoxynucleoside triphosphate, and a 0.5 µM concentration of reverse primer. Samples were denatured at 65°C for 5 min and cooled on ice and then supplemented with 1× First-Strand Buffer (Invitrogen Corporation), 5 mM dithiothreitol, 40 U RNase (RNaseOUT; Invitrogen Corporation), and 200 U reverse transcriptase (Superscript III; Invitrogen Corporation) to obtain a final reaction mixture volume of 20 µl. The reaction mixtures were brought to 55°C for 60 min and to 70°C for 15 min as a final termination step and were then supplemented with 1 µl RNase H (Invitrogen Corporation) and incubated for 20 min at 37°C. The qPCR amplification was performed on a 7300 real-time PCR system (Applied Biosystems) with Power SYBR green PCR Mastermix (Applied Biosystems). The reaction mixtures contained 12.5 µl SYBR green PCR master mix (Applied Biosystems), a 0.2 µM concentration of each primer, and 2 µl of sample cDNA template, with a final volume of 25 µl. For each primer set, reactions were replicated two times, and each set of reaction mixtures contained duplicate samples, standards, and negative controls. Standards consisted of 10-fold serial dilutions (3 × 101 to 3 × 109 molecules per reaction) of target molecule that had been cloned, amplified using appropriate primers, purified by agarose gel electrophoresis, and extracted with a MinElute Gel Purification kit (Qiagen). Quantities of DNA were determined fluorometrically with a Quant-iT DNA Assay kit (Invitrogen Corporation). The thermal cycling protocol consisted of a denaturation at 95°C for 10 min, followed by 40 cycles of denaturation at 95°C for 15 s, annealing at the primer-specific temperature (see Table S2) for 30 s, extension at 72°C for 35 s, and a final extension at 72°C for 14 min and 25 s. The specificity of each primer set was verified by an analysis of the DNA melting curve of the amplification products over the course of the reaction as well as independent experiments in which the amplification efficiency of the primers was determined in samples spiked with various amounts of nontarget template. Metagenome construction.For each sampling date, RNA purified from density fractions in the range from 1.38 to 1.49 g ml−1 was pooled and subjected to a random-priming-mediated sequence-independent single-primer amplification (RP-SISPA) reaction (39, 42). After size selection (500 to 1,000 bp) on an agarose gel, RP-SISPA products were sequenced with a GS FLX Titanium platform (Roche Diagnostics Corporation). Sequences were run through a quality-control pipeline (43) to remove short and low-quality reads and presumed artificial replicates, and the ends were trimmed to remove any remaining primer sequences. Rarefaction curves for each RNA viral metagenome were generated in METAVIR (44) using equal samplings of the unassembled, quality-controlled sequences and a clustering percentage of 75. Identification and analysis of RdRp genes in the metagenome.A hidden Markov model was built and used to identify RdRp-like sequences in each of the metagenomes using HMMER v 3.0 (45). Markov models were first produced based on amino acid alignments of conserved RdRp regions (46) of representative picornavirad-like viruses and conserved RdRp regions (47) of representative reovirids (see Table S1 in the supplemental material). Sequences fitting the criteria of the models were retrieved from the libraries translated into all six frames. RdRp sequences that matched a known RdRp gene by BLAST with an E value ≤ 10−3 were considered to be significant. We used this approach to identify (i) sequences that contained the smallest, still-identifiable region of the RdRp (conserved domains 6 to 7) (14), (ii) picornavirad-like sequences in the libraries that contained the RdRp regions targeted by Mpl primers, which includes conserved domains 4 to 7 (14), and (iii) sequences containing regions 1 to 4 conserved in the RdRp of reovirids (48). Translated picornavirad-like RdRP sequences were clustered at the putative species level based on a conservative phylogenetic distance criterion as previously described (18). In essence, the greatest distance between any two officially classified strains of picornavirads belonging to the same species (Human Rhinovirus 2 and Human Rhinovirus 89) was taken as the species threshold. Any sequences whose distance from one another was lesser than the distance represented by that threshold were considered members of the same species and those whose distance from one another was greater than the distance represented by that threshold were considered to be different species. The Chao 1 estimator (49) of total phylotype or species richness was calculated with EstimateS (50). In light of the large uncertainty in the estimator, values were rounded to the nearest hundred. Maximum-likelihood trees were constructed with PhyML (51) from protein sequences aligned with MAFFT (52) using the auto function. Sequence assembly and library comparison.Sequences were assembled using CLC Genomics Workbench version 5.0 and the following parameters: global alignment, a minimum contig length of 200, mismatch, insertion, and deletion costs set to 3, length fraction set to 0.5, similarity threshold set to 0.8, automatic word value set to 20, and bubble size set to 50. Assembly statistics were presented elsewhere (4). Contigs and singletons from the assembled libraries were classified with MEGAN (53) based on blastx (54) searches of the NCBI nonredundant nucleotide database where hits with an E value ≤ 10−5 were considered significant. We used this conservative, but frequently used, cutoff value to further reduce the likelihood of the misclassification of a sequence. All of the individual reads comprising a given contig inherited the taxonomic assignment given to the contig. We compared the KB libraries by BLAST analysis (blastx; E value, ≤10−5 cutoff) where the unassembled reads from one library were used to query the second library and vice versa. Analysis of assembled genomes.Open reading frames were identified with the heuristic approach for gene prediction described by Besemer and Borodovsky (55). Searches of the Conserved Domain Database (CDD) NCBI database (56) were conducted with the translated ORFs from each genome (Table 1). Searches of a database of experimentally verified internal ribosomal entry site (IRES) structures (57) were conducted with the untranslated regions (UTR) of the six genomes. Accession numbers.Metagenomic data referred to in this paper are available at the CAMERA website () under accession number CAM_PROJ_BROADPHAGE and sample names CAM_SMPL_000815 (1 August 2009) and CAM_SMPL_000824 (3 June 2010). The accession numbers of the MPL phylotypes described in this research are listed in Table S1 in the supplemental material. Gordon O. Walker for assistance with sampling and Shulei Sun and the Broad Institute for assistance with the processing and sequencing of the viromes. This research was funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through grant GBMF1799 to the Broad Institute. Samples G4008 (KB2009) and G8294 (KB2010) were sequenced). This work was supported by NSF grants to G.F.S. and A.I.C. (OCE 08-26650) and the Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education (EF 04-24599). FOOTNOTES - Received 16 April.
Saturday, August 20, 2011 Breakfast: Amie made a huge omelet of eggs, chicken breast, and spinach all cooked in left over bacon grease. We also had some leftover slices of bacon that I "snacked" on with the omelet. Lunch: We took my son to a local bar/grill on the edge of a small lake and had lunch on the patio. I had a cheese burger with lettuce and tomato and with no bun and fries. The fries unfortunately were kind of "iffy" since potato is technically allowed, but I'm sure they were fried in crap oil. But, this was mitigated a bit by the Activity (see below) Dinner: Rotisserie chicken, avocado, and some lettuce and then had a "snack" of raspberries and Amie's homemade Nutella -- which this time she made with Stevia. PM snack: Square dark chocolate Activity: The three of us took a walk around the lake after lunch. It was 2.6miles and took about and hour and got some good sun along the way, too! Also, after that we ended up going to about 4 different stores and did quite a bit of walking while we were in each. Supplements: none...I forgot... Cheats: The fries...the Nutella... Thoughts: Ok...so the past 36 hours or so has seen a pretty absolute dearth in veggie consumption. I'm going to try to bump that up going forward! Interestingly enough, I'm currently reading the part of GCBC that suggests that man could literally live (and thrive) on meat alone! Sunday, August 21, 2011 AM Drink: 24 oz coffee and half can of coconut milk Breakfast: Amie made a smoothie with coconut milk, whey protein, raspberries, almond butter, and cocoa powder. I had some. It was pretty good. But, frankly I wasn't terribly hungry. Lunch: I was a little concerned I might be shorting myself in the protein department, so I had some leftover T-Bone steak and then big stack of asparagus with butter to address my dearth of veggies concern. Dinner: Amie made Pork with Apple or Blueberry Topping: and naturally, I had to try BOTH! I also had another pork chop plain (3 pork chops total), 1/2 a sweet potato, lots of steamed broccoli, as well as a mix of chilled veggies: celery, romaine, spinach. PM snack: a couple of slices of Volpi salami and Kerrygold sharp aged cheddar. Activity: Quite a bit... SPRINTS: I got up pretty early this morning and tried Mark's WOW: WOW: Steep Climb \| Mark's Daily Apple which is supposed to be a LHT type workout, but also seems like it can work for a Sprint as well. I suppose at some point the line between LHT and Sprint can blur. I usually do my Sprints on Saturday, but got distracted with other things...Oh well, as Mark says -- Life is fractal. In any event, I found a section of my back yard with a good slope, then measured off 10 big "Grok steps" (to estimate the specified 10m) and got started -- sprint up, sprint down, crawl up, crawl down -- 10 times!. It was hard and got me panting the whole way, but strangely not as hard as I thought it would be. One issue that presented itself is that I tore the skin on my knees up pretty badly doing the crawls even though I was doing it on grass, which may have slowed me down a little. I finished the 10 cycles in 10 minutes, 30 seconds and felt pretty good afterward. MOVE SLOWLY: After breakfast, I went for a walk with my youngest who was cooling down after she had dome (regular) sprints of her own. After dinner, walked with the two younger up to the local elementary school and played around on the playground, swings, etc. PLAY - Before dinner, walked up to the neighborhood pool and swam for an hour. Also, got some "play" in stuff listed above. SUNLIGHT - I got lots today, which is good because I didn't get as much as I would have liked on the weekdays. Supplements: none...forgot... Cheats: none technically, although I'm probably pushing the envelope on the fruit consumption. Thoughts: 1) Continuing to have a fair amount of luck with "waking naturally" in the morning, that is before the alarm clock. I suppose if nothing else, if this benefit is on that's permanent, then "going Primal" would be worth it. 2) I either need to find a set of knee pads...or I need to "toughen up" the skin on my knees before trying that Sprint/Crawl workout again. Talk about rubbed raw! 3) So, this ends the 3rd week...or 21 days...of really "going Primal" and I suppose when I do the weekly update I need to muse about the journey a little. Last edited by tim_1522; 08-22-2011 at 11:53 AM. Your knees should never touch the ground on those crawls. i would slow down a bit if you find your legs beginning to fatigue enough to start making contact with the ground. For lots of tasty recipes, check out my blog - I didn't realize that. I tried to follow the description of the "Grok Crawl" in the WOW the best I could, but I did feel like I wasn't really sure about the right way to do it. There was not a good video link or similar in the WOW post. I finally decided to say "screw it" and try it the best I could, rather than waiting around to make sure I knew exactly the "right way" as that would probably lead me to just never doing it -- Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good and all. I thought that what I was doing was correct. So, next time I try it, I'll modify my approach. In other news, when I drove into work this morning it was hard to turn the steering wheel, so I think the workout had SOME effect! So, Monday, August 22 (3 weeks in) weigh-in results and thoughts: 8/22/2011 - 199.4lb total weight, 24.9% body fat, 54.8% H2O. This works out to a "calculated" mass of body fat 49.65 lbs. So, from last week, "officially" I am showing a slight gain in body fat lbs and a slight loss in body lean lbs. But, since it all hinges on the bf %-age reading, which is not terribly accurate, I don't think it's much to worry about. Most likely, last week's percentage read a little low and maybe this week's read a little high. I may have not been fully hydrated this morning -- usually I make an effort to really consume sufficient water before bed on Sunday night in preparation for the Monday reading, but this week I didn't do that. However, I can't ignore the drinking on Friday and the much higher carb consumption (even if they are the so-called "safe" carbs) over the weekend and possibilities of stalling out fat loss, especially fruit. And, I've heard that even if the dairy is low or no lactose, that too much of that can stall fat loss as well. Overall, I'm still showing a 1.79 lb loss in fat and a 2.59 gain in lean. So, two weeks positive, with one week a slight negative with an overall positive trend. And, you know what? Regardless of the numbers, there places where my body "feels" like it's trending in the right direction body composition wise. *ADDED when I finally remembered - Took my blood pressure and it was 125/79 with a pulse of 57. So, it's been 21 days since I "went Primal" although I had been flirting around with it earlier and the previous protocol I was on (Tim Ferriss's Slow Carb Diet) was "in the ballpark". I have to admit that I am a bit dissatisfied in the "body composition" department. Whether it was fat loss or muscle gain, I was kind of hoping for more than what I've seen so far. Still, I don't think it has "sucked", either and there have been benefits in other areas: better sleep, having more "fun", being active in a way that includes the kids (instead of me just off running by myself) are a few "intangibles". Additionally, I don't really have a desire to change the way I'm eating (walked by a container of pretzels/chips/snack grains cooked in whoknowswhatoil several times last week and didn't even miss not having donuts Sunday morning) or exercising (actually liking the LHT workouts and looking forward to sprints and trying "new" kinds of ways of working out, such as the sprint/crawl I did Sunday) or any of the other stuff -- just maybe hoping to see the light at the end of the tunnel toward being on the right side of 20% BF a little more. I am going to try to tweak a few things, though: 1) I say this every week, but never spell it out, so here goes: Going to track my macro nutrient numbers throughout the day/week. I'm not going to WAM everything I eat, but keep an "honest estimate" -- that is don't eat half a block of cheese and call it "1 oz" (hopefully, I won't eat half a block in the first place, though...) or similarly eat a small piece of chicken and call it "8 oz" Try to be fair/reasonable, but not overstress or spend a lot of time on it. From my "back of the envelope" calculations, I should be shooting for: 150g protein (or more), 150g carbs (or less), 144g fat(adjusted to round out total calories = 2491) I'm going to be more concerned with taking everything across, say, a whole week and "averaging" versus any single day, but I think it's advisable to keep carbs under 150g each day no matter what and to get at least 100 g of protein each day. 2) It's time to limit fruit consumption. One serving a day, maximum -- and preferably eaten in conjunction with some physical activity. 3) Dairy needs to go, which for me means the bedtime cheese snacks. 4) In the activity department, I think I'm doing well, so I just want to make sure I keep doing what I've been doing: 1 sprint, 2 LHT, lots of "low level" stuff in between with some "fun" mixed in and out in the sunlight whenever possible and then sleep well! Last edited by tim_1522; 08-31-2011 at 04:56 PM. Here ya go! Bear Crawl Test - 100 yards - YouTube For lots of tasty recipes, check out my blog - Monday, August 22, 2011 Breakfast: none AM drink: 24oz black coffee combined with 6.75oz (half the can from Whole Foods) coconut milk. Lunch: 3 chicken thighs cooked in coconut oil, broccoli (filled a 48oz container), spinach(1qt ziploc about 2/3 full), avocado, celery(3 large stalks) Dinner: 2 pork chops, 10 blueberries, ~1tsp almond butter, ~2tsp nutella PM snack: 3 bowls chicken broth that I made after having rotisserie chicken last week Activity: After Dinner, tried to Lift Heavy Things, but wasn't feeling really great about it. As I mentioned I noticed this morning that my upper body was really sore (in theory from Sunday's sprint workout) but we went up to do the 5 essential Primal movements. We made it through one round and then the pushups in the second round before deciding that it might be best to call it a night and come back stronger/rested on Thursday. Results: Knee Pushups - 27, 15 Two Legged Assist Pullups - 20 Full Squats - 50 Elevated Jack Knife Press - 25 Front Hand/Foot Plank - 48 seconds Side 1 Hand/Foot Plank - 17 seconds Side 2 Hand/Foot Plank - 21 seconds This one was really* wrong from the get-go. Probably should have just not even started, but I guess at least I eventually listened to my body and didn't do anymore. I only did 50 full squats since I had some knee soreness after the last time I did LHT. Also, I tried to move to Level 3 on the planks, but that was pretty disastrous -- especially the side ones. I seemed to have a hard time holding myself up, but it was my arm muscles that failed not my core. Perhaps I'm doing this one wrong -- need to check the video again -- perhaps I'm just not strong enough in the arm to do this level plank, or perhaps (as Amie pointed out) my core needs to get stronger to take some of the strain off the arm. I don't know for sure, but I think if I can't figure it out by re-watching the video, I need to back off to Level 2 until both my core and arms gets stronger. Not much else today other than a short mid-morning walk outside (about 5-10 minutes) meaning that I obviously didn't get enough sun today, either. Supplements: 3(1200mg each) fish oil capsules Cheats: none...well, maybe the Nutella... Thoughts: 1) Listen to your body...listen to your body...I didn't really take that to heed today. 2) I got the "Primal Blueprint Insider" in my email today and it was supposed to be a further explanation of a previously written article. The article in question I had not seen before: How Light Affects Our Sleep \| Mark's Daily Apple and it presented me with all sorts of new goodies for ideas on how I want to "tweak" my PB way of living. Unfortunately, I kind of already made some commitments for this week. But, the stuff in the article was very interesting (especially the F.lux program for computers) and I want to work on trying to get more blue light during the sun up times (especially morning hours) and less during the sun down times. (especially before bed) 3) Today things kind of got hard. The frustrations at the apparent "lack of progress", the aborted LHT workout, and for the first time in a long time feeling hungry and also feeling like I shouldn't eat anymore...it all kind of piled up. Ultimately, I had those bowls of broth because I figured they would be pretty nutrient dense, but not add too much to the carbs/fat/calories/etc. It turned out to be a very satisfying experience. 4) Macros for the day -- a rough estimate since I was not super exact on some portions and I didn't have nutrient content for stuff like the chicken broth so I had to kind of guess: 2208 calories, 157g protein, 92g carbs, 151g fat. Not a bad start as I hit protein target, stayed under carb target and all told stayed under calorie target. If anything, I could have possibly gotten a few more calories, but from a "long term" standpoint, that's not worth worrying about. Last edited by tim_1522; 08-23-2011 at 05:04 PM. Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Breakfast: 4 eggs scrambled, 4 strips bacon, ~1 cup spinach AM drink: 24oz black coffee combined with 6.75oz (half the can from Whole Foods) coconut milk. Lunch: 3 pork chops, broccoli (filled a 48oz container), spinach(1qt ziploc, full), avocado, celery(3 large stalks) Dinner: 1 large chicken breast PM snack: 1 square Lindt 85 Activity: Not much. A short walk with Amie after she got home from work. Mostly, just Rest today. Supplements: 3(1200mg each) fish oil capsules Cheats: none Thoughts: 1) Woke up extremely tired and sore. Hopefully next time I'll know better and listen to my body sooner. 2) Lunch at 4:30 pm -- wasn't hungry until then. 3) 4) I stopped to pick up four more dozen eggs at our local source on the way home from work. Since they are a cash only operation, I first stopped at the local Walgreens to buy something in order to get cash back. It turned out that something was the Lindt 85. But, while I was there, I noticed that roughly half of the store's business (based on product layout) stemmed from products/services related to Diabetes. Of course, there were 2 full aisles of candy (with the Lindt 85 being one of the few redeeming itesm) along with another full aisle devoted to chips and soda...coincidence? Anyways, the whole experience was somewhat uplifting and re-emphasized the importance of what we're trying to do here which was good considering I've been navigating a rough patch the past few days. 5) Macros for the day -- still a bit of a rough estimate. I'm getting better at sizing portions, although for stuff like spinach where the counts are pretty low regardless, I'm less precise. Anyway, here's what I came up with: 2394 calories, 192g protein, 66g carbs, 157g fat. Heavy, heavy protein day...too much?? Still, I stayed under my target average daily calorie count again, mostly by having a pretty carb limited day -- NO fruit at all -- so, I guess I'm still doing ok... Last edited by tim_1522; 08-24-2011 at 12:23 PM. Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Breakfast: 2 eggs scrambled, chicken breast, ~1 cup spinach AM drink: 24oz black coffee combined with 6.75oz (half the can from Whole Foods) coconut milk. Lunch: avocado, can of tuna, spinach (3oz by weight), chicken breast, chicken thigh, broccoli (1/2 lb by weight), 3 stalks celery -- at this about 3:30pm Dinner: 1 tilapia fillet with a squirt of lemon juice PM snack: none Activity: Mid-day walk of 1.5 miles in 27 minutes also got good sun. "Play" of swimming with the kids for about 45 minutes and a little more sun. Some more "Move Slowly" in the evening, walking about 45 minutes while my youngest was at volleyball practice. Supplements: 3(1200mg each) fish oil capsules Cheats: none Thoughts: 1) Still want to think about the whole blue light when the sun is up and no blue light when the sun is down thing, but haven't had much time to consider it. 2) Macros for the day: 2156 calories, 216g protein, 40g carbs, 123g fat. Again, high protein count (even more than yesterday) so I guess I need to maybe curb that a bit. OTOH, perhaps this may help with repair from pushing myself too hard Sunday/Monday. Even fewer carbs than the day before as well and once again I was under on calories. I suppose I should eat more, but honestly wasn't really hungry. Last edited by tim_1522; 08-25-2011 at 12:38 PM.

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