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+Open During COVID for: Takeout
+Address: 1722 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94109
+Phone: (415) 567-5432
+Most Popular Items:
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+13. Michael Mina
+Price Range: $$$ | Hours: 10:30 AM - 3:00 PM for lunch; 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM for dinner
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+Address: 252 California St, San Francisco, CA 94111
+Phone: (415) 722-2138
+Most Popular Items:
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+14. Nopa
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+Address: 560 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA 94117
+Phone:(415) 864-8643
+Most Popular Items:
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+Open During COVID for: Delivery, Takeout
+Address: 1335 Fulton St, Ste 101, San Francisco, CA 94117
+Phone: (415) 655-9924
+Most Popular Items:
+Ju-Ni means 12 in Japanese, and this restaurant combines technique, tradition, and evolution to transform their 12 seats into a memorable experience for their guests. As they say, they are devoted to crafting moments that transcend. They aim to honor the past with every ingredient they use and technique they employ. More importantly, they want to contribute to the evolution of a sacred tradition.
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+16. Deli Board of San Francisco
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+Open During COVID for: Takeout
+Address: 1058 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States
+Phone: (415) 552-7687
+Most Popular Items:
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+17. Pabu
+Price Range: $$$ | Hours: 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM; 10:30 AM - 9:00PM for Takeout and Delivery Tuesday to Saturday
+Open During COVID for: Dine-in, Takeout, Delivery
+Address: 101 California St, San Francisco, CA 94111, United States
+Phone: (415) 535-0184
+Most Popular Items:
+PABU Izakaya was created by Chef Ken Tominaga, of the famed Hana Japanese restaurant, and Chef Michael Mina. Their unique and top-rated culinary delight sits at the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District. It features only the best and finest seafood. Its signature selection of A5 Japanese Wagyu is even flown in daily from Japan’s Toyosu Market.
+Their menu covers the most famous and beloved Japanese food like sushi, sashimi, nigiri, grilled meats from robata, karaage, and even a seasonal cocktail menu. And if you're worrying for freshly made food, you don’t have to. Pabu knows exactly how to make these foods pristine until it reaches your table.
+18. Square Pie Guys
+
+- Research article
+- Open Access
+- Open Peer Review
+Associations of short sleep duration with prehypertension and hypertension among Lithuanian children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study
+- Renata Kuciene1Email author and
+- Virginija Dulskiene1
+© Kuciene and Dulskiene; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
+- Received: 4 November 2013
+- Accepted: 12 March 2014
+- Published: 15 March 2014
+Abstract.
+Keywords
+- Sleep duration
+- Prehypertension
+- Hypertension
+- Children
+- Adolescents
+Background
+Epidemiological studies have reported an increased prevalence of high blood pressure (BP) among children and adolescents in various countries of the world during the recent years [1–9]. It has been demonstrated that BP tracks significantly from childhood and adolescence into adulthood [10]. It is well known that high BP, or hypertension, in adults increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases [11–13]. According to the World Health Organization, high BP is the leading risk factor affecting mortality (7.5 million (13%) of all deaths globally per year) and disability-adjusted life years worldwide [14].
+Sleep plays an essential role in growth, maturation, and health during childhood and adolescence [15]. Reduced sleep duration and poor quality of sleep are common problems among children and adolescents [16–19]. The National Sleep Foundation Survey has reported that the average sleep duration on school nights among US adolescents (age 11–17) was 7.6 hours; furthermore, 45% of adolescents got an insufficient amount of sleep (less than 8 hours) [19]. The HELENA (Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence) study has indicated that about 33% of adolescents aged 12.5-17.5 years from ten European cities reported sleeping <8 hours per day (h/day) [20]. Insufficient sleep can be caused by interaction between extrinsic factors (e.g. social, environmental, behavioral, and other) and intrinsic factors (e.g. puberty) [17].
+Growing scientific evidence supporting the associations between short sleep duration and hypertension, or high BP among adults has been described and summarized in recent reviews [21, 22]. Few studies have investigated the association between sleep duration and high BP among children and adolescents [3, 5, 23–27]; however, the results of these studies have been inconsistent. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly important to identify potential risk factors associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and other chronic non-communicable diseases with a particular focus on modifiable risk factors among children and adolescents, and then to plan, develop, and implement clinical and public health strategies for the prevention of these diseases.
+The association between short sleep duration and high BP among children and adolescents has not been studied in Lithuania before. Moreover, the prevalence of high BP (hypertension) in Lithuanian children [28] and adult populations [29, 30] is very high. Cardiovascular diseases in our country are the most common cause in the structure of causes of death, and mortality from these diseases remains one of the highest in Europe [31].
+Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the associations between short sleep duration and prehypertension and hypertension among children and adolescents living in Kaunas city and in Kaunas district (Lithuania).
+Methods
+Study population
+A cross-sectional study was performed, continuing from November 2010 to April 2012. This study included subjects aged 12 to 15 years who at the time of the examination attended gymnasiums or secondary schools in Kaunas city and Kaunas district - the second largest city and district by population size in Lithuania. All the invited schools (n = 81) accepted the invitation to participate in the research project.
+Of 7,638 subjects who participated and were examined in the study, 152 subjects were excluded from the statistical analyses because they had any of the following diseases: endocrine diseases, diabetes mellitus, kidney diseases, cardiovascular diseases, or congenital heart defects (information was collected from the subjects’ medical records (Form No.027-1/a)). In addition, 29 subjects were excluded due to missing data on weight and height. In addition, data on 517 participants were excluded from the analysis because of incomplete information about sleep duration, physical activity, and smoking. Thus, data on 6,940 participants were approved for statistical analysis.
+Both BP and anthropometric measurements were performed at the participants’ schools by the same team of trained study personnel (physicians and research assistants). After measurements, all subjects were asked to fill out the questionnaires. The standard questionnaires included information on selected risk factors, such as sleep duration, physical activity, smoking status, etc.
+A written informed consent was obtained from each participant’s parent or guardian. The study was approved by the Kaunas Regional Ethics Committee for Biomedical Research at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (protocol No. BE-2-69).
+Measurements
+Blood pressure measurement
+Blood pressure was measured by the physician who did not wear a white coat in the morning hours (8:30 am to 11:30 am). The participants were advised to avoid energy drinks, coffee, tea, and physical exercises on the morning of the study day until the measurement. Before the BP measurement, the subjects were asked to sit still for ten minutes. BP was measured three times with a 5-minute rest interval between the measurements, with the participant in a sitting position, and using an automatic BP monitor (OMRON M6; OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD, Kyoto, Japan). The mean of three BP measurements was calculated and used for the analysis. All subjects with high BP (BP ≥90th percentile) at the first screening underwent the second screening of BP measurements within the period of 2–3 weeks.
+Classifications and definitions of BP levels were defined according to the guidelines of “The Fourth Report on the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents” (National High Blood Pressure Education Program (NHBPEP) Working Group on High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents) [32]. According to BP charts for age, sex, and height, normal BP was defined as systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) below the 90th percentile; prehypertension was defined as average SBP or DBP levels equal to or above the 90th percentile, but below the 95th percentile; and hypertension was defined as mean SBP or DBP equal to or above the 95th percentile.
+Anthropometric measurement
+Height and weight of the subjects were measured with the accuracy of 0.1 cm and 0.1 kg, respectively, by using a portable stadiometer and a balance beam scale. The participants were barefoot and wearing light clothes. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters (kg/m2). According to the cut-off points of BMI proposed by Cole et al. [33], the participants were grouped into three categories of BMI: normal weight, overweight, and obese.
+Data determined using the questionnaire
+The questionnaires recorded information on selected risk factors, such as sleep duration, physical activity, smoking status, etc.
+Sleep was determined using the question “How many hours do you usually sleep per day on the average (including sleep at night and during the day)?” Sleep duration was categorized into three groups: <7 h/day; ≥7 and <8 h/day; and ≥8 h/day (reference category). Short sleep duration was defined as sleeping less than 8 h/day.
+The participants were asked how many hours they were physically active (including walking or cycling to and from school and during leisure time; and sports activities during physical education lessons and during leisure time). The participants were categorized into three groups according to their physical activity: <0.5 h/day, 0.5– < 1 h/day, and ≥1 h/day.
+Current smoking status was categorized into “no” or “yes”. The participants who smoked at least one cigarette per day were classified as current smokers.
+Statistical analysis
+Comparisons between the groups were performed by applying the chi-squared (χ 2) test (for categorical variables), Mann–Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test (for non-normally distributed continuous variables), and t-test and ANOVA (for normally distributed continuous variables). Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation (SD)) were calculated for the quantitative variables (age, weight, height, BMI, SBP, and DBP). Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted separately for boys and girls and for both sexes combined to evaluate the associations of short sleep durations with prehypertension and hypertension. Crude odds ratios (ORs) and adjusted odds ratios (aORs) along with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated. In multivariate analysis for boys and girls separately, ORs were adjusted for age, BMI, physical activity, and smoking. In the multivariate analysis for both sexes combined, two models were performed: in the first model, ORs were adjusted for age and sex; in the second – the final model, ORs were adjusted for age, sex, BMI, physical activity, and smoking.
+Statistical analyses were performed using the statistical software package SPSS version 20 for Windows. P values <0.05 were considered statistically significant.
+Results
+Demographic, anthropometric, and BP characteristics of the study participants by sex; values are mean ± SD
+Overall, the prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension was 12.6% (n = 875) and 22.5% (n = 1561), respectively. The prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension was significantly higher in boys (14.9% and 29.6%, respectively) than in girls (10.7% and 16.4%, respectively). A higher prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension was identified in the participants aged 14–15 years than aged 12–13 years (43.3% versus 27.4%). Overall, 21.0% of the participants (18.1% of boys and 23.4% of girls) reported sleep duration of 7– < 8 h/day, and 8.7% of the subjects (8.2% of boys and 9.1% of girls) reported sleep duration of <7 h/day. Among subjects with short sleep durations of 7– < 8 h/day and <7 h/day, 16.1% and 18.5% had prehypertension, respectively, and 29.2% and 31.5% had hypertension, respectively. In total, the prevalence of overweight and obesity was 12.0% (14.1% for boys and 10.3% for girls) and 2.4% (2.6% for boys and 2.2% for girls), respectively. Only 8.5% of all participants (12.5% of boys and 5.2% of girls) reported physical activity of ≥0.5–1 h/day, and 2.4% of the participants (3.0% of boys and 1.9% of girls) reported physical activity of <0.5 h/day. Overall, 7.8% of the participants (8.7% of boys and 7.1% of girls) were current smokers.
+Characteristics of the study participants according to blood pressure levels
+Characteristics of the study participants according to sleep duration categories; values are mean ± SD
+Associations between sleep durations and prehypertension and hypertension by sex (univariate and multivariate analyses)
+Associations between sleep durations and prehypertension and hypertension for both sexes combined (univariate and multivariate analyses)
+Univariate analysis revealed that short sleep durations (7– < 8 h/day and <7 h/day) were significantly associated with higher odds of prehypertension and hypertension for both sexes separately (Table 4) as well as for the combined group consisting of both boys and girls (Table 5), compared to the participants who reported sleeping ≥8 h/day.
+As shown in Table 4, after adjusting for age, BMI, physical activity, and smoking, boys and girls with shorter sleep duration were at higher odds of elevated BP as compared to those sleeping ≥8 h/day. Sleep durations 7– < 8 h/day and <7 h/day were associated with higher odds of both prehypertension (among boys: aOR = 1.86 and aOR = 1.49, respectively, and among girls: aOR = 1.81 and aOR = 3.01, respectively) and hypertension (among boys: aOR = 2.13 and aOR = 1.70, respectively, and among girls: aOR = 2.00 and aOR = 3.07, respectively).
+For both sexes combined, adjustments for potential confounding factors in the first and the second models did not affect the significance of the associations between short sleep duration and high BP, although the aORs changed a little (Table 5). According to the final models, sleep duration of <7 h/day was associated with higher odds of prehypertension (aOR = 2.18) and hypertension (aOR = 2.28) (both P < 0.001), if compared with sleep duration of ≥8 h/day. Sleep duration of 7– < 8 h/day was also significantly associated with prehypertension (aOR = 1.77) and hypertension (aOR = 1.99) (both P < 0.001).
+Discussion
+To our knowledge, this is the first report that investigated the association between short sleep duration and high BP among 12–15 year-old children and adolescents in Lithuania. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses (for both sexes separately and combined) of our data showed significant associations between short sleep durations (7– < 8 h/day and <7 h/day) and prehypertension and hypertension among children and adolescents.
+The results of the current study indicated a high prevalence of elevated BP (prehypertension: 12.6% and hypertension: 22.5%) among children and adolescents, and these findings are partially consistent with the findings of other previously published studies [3, 5, 34, 35].
+With regard to sleep duration, there is no accurate consensus on the cut-off values of short, optimal, and long sleep durations among children and adolescents. Nevertheless, according to the guidelines of the National Sleep Foundation, the amount of sleep per night for adolescents is insufficient if <8 hours, borderline if 8 to <9 hours, and optimal if ≥9 hours [19]. It has also been suggested that adolescents aged 10–17 years need 8.5-9.25 hours of sleep per night [36]. Based on the above-mentioned definition of insufficient sleep [19], about one-third of the participants (29.7%) in the present study reported insufficient or short sleep duration (<8 h/day). Our finding regarding the high prevalence of insufficient sleep are consistent with the findings of other studies done on almost similar age groups of adolescents [19, 20]. The comparison of the results of the associations from the present study with the results from other previous studies is complicated because there are differences in the sample size, the age of the included children and adolescents, the number of BP measurements, the measurement of sleep duration, cut-off values for defining short sleep duration, and adjustments for different confounders. Furthermore, previous studies have reported different results. For example, a cross-sectional study in China found that parent-reported short sleep duration (<9 hours) was significantly associated with hypertension (aOR = 1.5, after adjustment for age, BMI, waist circumference, and physical activity) among boys aged 11–14 years compared to the referent group sleeping 9 to 10 hours, but no such association was observed among girls of similar age [3]. Meanwhile, in the current study, after adjustment for age, BMI, physical activity, and smoking, statistically significant associations were found between short sleep durations (7– < 8 h/day and <7 h/day) and high BP (both prehypertension and hypertension) in both sexes separately. Another study in the United Stated investigated associations of the duration and quality of sleep with an elevated BP using wrist actigraphy in the sample of 238 adolescents aged 13–16 years [23]. The results of the above-mentioned study revealed that short sleep duration (≤6.5 hours) was significantly associated with a 2.8-fold increased odds of prehypertension in the unadjusted analysis, but this association was not significant in the adjusted analysis (after adjustment for sex, BMI percentile, and socioeconomic status) [23]. However, several studies have found no significant associations between short sleep duration (parent- or self-reported) and high BP in children and adolescents of various age groups: 3–10 years [24], 5–10 years [3], 10–12 years [26], 10–18 years [27], and 16–19 years [25]. Also, contrary to our findings, in a study of Portuguese adolescents aged 13 years, a significant association was found between high BP and long sleep duration in girls (>8.5 and <9.5 hours: aOR = 1.56; ≥9.5 hours: aOR = 1.83) compared with those sleeping ≤8.5 hours, but no significant association was found in boys [5].
+The possible mechanisms underlying the association between insufficient sleep and the risk of high BP are uncertain. However, several studies have suggested that insufficient sleep increases the activity of the sympathetic nervous system (it is one of the mechanisms explaining the association) [37–39]. Other mechanisms may include an activation of the renin-angiotensin system and an enhanced production of the vasoconstrictor endothelin [40]. It has been also reported that sleep deprivation may cause changes in the immune, the metabolic, and the endocrine systems, which can be associated with an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases [41].
+Our study has several limitations. In this research, sleep duration was self-reported, and was not analyzed separately by weekdays and weekends. Further studies are required to investigate the associations of the duration and quality of sleep using objective measurements of sleep (such as actigraphy) with an increased BP among children and adolescents. However, in larger epidemiological studies, information on sleep duration in children and adolescents is typically obtained by subjective measures (self-report and parent-report measures), which are simple and cost-effective methods. Current smoking and physical activity were self-reported in the present study as well. Not all study subjects answered questions about the analyzed risk factors in sufficient detail, and thus these subjects were excluded from the analysis; however, there were no significant differences in the characteristics including age, sex, BMI, weight, height, and BP levels between the subjects who were excluded from the analysis and the included subjects. The current study examined only a sample of 12–15 year-old children and adolescents of Kaunas city and Kaunas district (Lithuania). Further research is also needed to examine samples of younger children and older adolescents in Lithuania. Furthermore, in the present study, all BP readings were obtained by an automatic oscillometric BP monitor, although, according to the Fourth Report, an elevated BP reading obtained with an oscillometric device should be repeated by using auscultation [32].
+Despite the above-mentioned limitations, the results of the current study emphasized a high prevalence of elevated BP and a high prevalence of short sleep duration among Lithuanian schoolchildren, and indicated that short sleep duration was associated with high BP. Sufficient sleep duration in children and adolescents aged 12–15 years is an essential factor in the prevention of high BP. Therefore, public health strategies need to focus more on the prevention and control of modifiable risk factors associated with the development of cardiovascular diseases.
+Conclusions
+Our results showed a high prevalence of prehypertension (12.6%) and hypertension (22.5%), and also a high prevalence of short sleep duration (<8 h/day: 29.7%) among 12–15 year-old children and adolescents living in Kaunas city and Kaunas district. Short sleep durations (7��� < 8 h/day and <7 h/day) were significantly associated with increased odds of prehypertension and hypertension among Lithuanian schoolchildren. The data of our study may indicate possible interventions in families, including advice for parents to control children’s and adolescents’ sleep duration. Moreover, further prospective studies are needed to confirm these findings. If confirmed in future prospective studies, the findings of the present study may have implications for assessing sleep in children and adolescents to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.
+Abbreviations
+- aOR:
+adjusted odds ratio
+- BMI:
+Body mass index
+- BP:
+Blood pressure
+- CI:
+Confidence interval
+- DBP:
+Diastolic blood pressure
+- OR:
+Odds ratio
+- SBP:
+Systolic blood pressure
+- SD:
+Standard deviation.
+Declarations
+Acknowledgments
+This research was funded by a grant (No. LIG-02/2011) from the Research Council of Lithuania.
+The authors would like to thank Jurate Medzioniene for carrying out the statistical analysis. The authors also would like to thank scientists, physicians, other staff, and the participants of the current study.
+Authors’ Affiliations
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+I completed my Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) certification earlier this week and lot of people have since requested me to do a write-up of my experience. Now there are already tons of helpful reviews containing details about how to prepare, what to read, exam experiences etc. So, while I will briefly cover these aspects I will also include my thoughts on below couple of questions which I believe would be of interest to people who may be contemplating taking up OSCP.
+- Is this certification for me as I’m not much into technical aspects?
+- Is this certification for me at the current stage of my career given my personal / professional situation?
+Both these questions are difficult to answer and there are no right or wrong responses. All of us are unique and what may work for someone may not necessarily work for others. I will however highlight my thought process and how I was able to come up with a solution which worked for me.
+Stage 1 – The background
+I have been in the Cyber / InfoSec industry for 12+ years and started my career as a pen-tester. Few years later I moved away from pen-testing and got involved with other aspects of information security like audits, compliance, reviews etc. While I enjoyed everything I did, at some point without me even realizing the learning stopped and I was basically repeatedly doing things which I knew well. Make no mistake I am really good at what I do, probably even too good (shameless self-promotion 😀 ) but I still felt that there was a void.
+So to counter it, I decided to pursue some certification / educational course which would increase my knowledge and get me going again. A good friend recommended OSCP. I had heard of it before but never quite looked it up. As soon as I did, I was sold on it!!!!
+Stage 2 – All or nothing
+I signed up for the certification and started around mid Feb 2017. I initially signed up for 2 months (should have done 3) thinking that this is neither too aggressive nor easy going. Due to my professional commitments, I ended up not utilizing around 1 month (bad planning) and was quite dissatisfied with my overall progress. I hadn’t even been able to complete the video tutorials and barely even touched any of the lab machines. The only positive was that I was documenting the course exercises along with the tutorials (good decision). So, I took my family into confidence, worked out my financial situation and quit my job to focus completely on this!!!
+Stage 3 – This is it
+Now that I had free time, I could dedicate myself completely towards studying for OSCP. I extended by a month, completed the video tutorials and got into the labs. The initial progress was slow but I was determined. At the end of my 3rd month, I had completed around 30 lab machines. I knew I still wasn’t ready for the exam and needed another extension but ended up taking the exam just to get the experience. I used all 24 hours, with some breaks and missed passing according to my calculations by a small margin. A day later I was all energized and back in the labs with a 15 days extension. Over the next 2 weeks, I accessed all the networks and had root access on all the 50+ machines. I felt I was ready this time and took my 2nd attempt.
+Stage 4 – One step forward two steps back
+The 2nd attempt was nothing short of a disaster. I didn’t sleep well the previous night, panicked at the start, all my planning went out of the window, had tunnel vision and wasted too much time. It was so bad that I did not even bother to submit a report. I anyways knew that I had failed. To say that I was disappointed was an under-statement. It took me 3 days to get over the feeling and re-focus on what needed to be done. I knew what my weaknesses were; privilege escalation, time management and speed. My challenge was not that I didn’t know how to solve but the time I was taking to do it. That’s what got me on my 2nd attempt. I decided not to extend my lab time but focus on VM’s from Vulnhub. I put together a formal plan, did 20+ VM’s targeting at least 3 everyday (within a 10-hour window) with documentation. I reorganized my scripts, folder structures, pre-compiled few common exploits and decided to spend maximum 2.5 hours per machine at a stretch during the exam. Basically, I did everything that would help me save time and not get side tracked.
+Stage 5 – The final frontier
+My last attempt started smooth. I started at 2:30 pm in the afternoon and within the first 7 hours, I had rooted 3 machines. I then decided to take a break and went off to sleep for few hours. I started on the 4th machine but did not make much progress. I had another 9 hours left and decided to shift to the final machine. Some progress but no shell. I kept going back and forth between the 2 machines. The hours ticked by and I wasn’t getting anywhere and the familiar panic feeling was beginning to appear again. 4 hours to go and I had a breakthrough. Basically, the answer had been staring at me since many hours, just that I couldn’t see it. In 10 mins, I had a non-administrative shell. Again, privilege escalation was being elusive and I was losing time. So, I decided to focus back on the machine on which I had got nothing. If I could get at least a shell, I would probably pass. But that wasn’t enough and I wanted it to be certain. And then the big breakthrough. Basically, the answer was the very first thing I had tried on the machine but I had overlooked a minor detail. 5 mins later I had limited shell. Another 20 mins later I had root shell. Hell yeah!!!!!
+I quickly checked all my documentation and exam requirements and logged off from the VPN although there were another 30 mins to go. I was simply too exhausted to continue. 4 hours later I started putting together my report which took around 5 hours to complete. I already had the template ready, just needed to enter the details. A little over 24 hours later, I received the email which I had been working towards for 5 months. The feeling…can’t describe it!!!!
+Now that it was done, I believe I can answer the 2 questions which I mentioned earlier.
+- I am a security professional but not so much into technical aspects, is it for me?
+Absolutely resoundingly yes. Even if you haven’t done pen-tests ever before, maybe even never even touched a Linux system, there is nothing which can stop you assuming you are willing to put the effort. The effort of course will vary vastly and those who do this as part of their day jobs will have a much shorter learning curve but it doesn’t rule out anyone. So, what is the effort? Well the effort means that while you go through the provided material and exercises you will also be doing a lot of reading up on your own. You will spend endless hours in the labs and generally studying topics that are currently not your strengths. There will be moments of desperation, despair and frustration but you just need to believe in yourself and follow the “Try Harder” mantra.
+- Is this certification for me at the current stage of my career given my personal / professional situation?
+It could very well be but you need to consider the following factors: family support, job commitments, financial situation (if you leave job)
+First and foremost, get your family onboard with your plan. Explain to them what you intend to do and what it will take to do it. Remember it’s not just you but they as well who need to sacrifice (basically you won’t be spending much time with them). If you can’t convince them chances are you won’t succeed. If you have any holidays planned, then don’t signup right away and wait till you get back. The decision to quit job is not easy and needs to be very carefully thought through. If you are confident about your ability to get back a job when you need it either because of your skills or your network, only then think about leaving. The ideal situation would be to complete the certification along with the job. This I believe is very much feasible at entry level or if you are lucky to be doing pen-testing as part of the job. However, for lot of professionals especially mid and senior level, time is a luxury. The work environment today requires long working hours, late night / early morning meetings, constant deadlines, daily pressure situations and at times working over weekends all of which translates into less personal time. So, if you must take out time by pushing out meetings, delaying deliverables, then you are doing a disservice to your employer which I would strongly advise against. Also, if you have loans and EMI’s as a lot of professionals do, then ensure you have enough to last at least 6 months, maybe a year. The last thing you need is a financial crunch to derail your plan.
+To summarize, if you genuinely can’t complete the certification along with your job, can get a job when you need and have enough financial strength then quitting your current job could be an option for you. Measure all the above factors against how badly you want to do OSCP and you will have your true answer!!
+At the end, I would say that this has been a journey for me which I never thought I would end up going on but once started not once did I ever believe that I can’t do it and kept TRYING HARDER. Remember its not the end certification but the knowledge gained during the journey to achieve that certification which is most valuable!!!!
+Few good resources that I would recommend
+URL’s
+Vulnhub VM’s
+Metasploitable 2, Kioptrix: Level 1, Kioptrix: Level 1.1, Kioptrix: Level 1.2, Kioptrix: Level 1.3, Holynix v1, Tr0ll 1, Tr0ll 2, SickOS 1, SickOS 2, VulnOS 1, VulnOS 2, Kioptrix: 2014, pWnOS:1, pWnOS:2, Mr-Robot: 1 , FristiLeaks: 1.3, Vulnix, SkyTower: 1, Droopy, Minotaur, Stapler: 1, Lord of the root
+Kathy was the daughter of a lawer. She was an hournor student. Due to financial trouble due to her fathers’s gambling,kathy was sold into slavery.
+Kathy ended up a slave to a mage.magic was ilegal. She helped expose him . she and all her felow slaves owned by the mage were ordered free. They got to stay at the esate.
+Kathy was basically put in charge of the administrative end of the esate. She headed up the financial end. Brad ran the operations aspect. He liked farming and hands on. They kept everything runing. They had the titles. They did not want a hierarchical sysitom. Her philosophy we work together, we get thibg done,then we all enjoy the fruits of our labor.
+She was kind and fair. She was a servent leader. She was only harsh on one person,herself. She pushed herself to the limits and beyond. She was a workaholic. She held herself to a higher standard then she would ever hold anyone else.
+She felt like she has a lot to prove. She had to prove that this could work. There was a lot riding on this. A lot of people on the outside wanted them to fail. A lot of people wanted the land. If. They failed the perspective business people. Could swoop in.
+Kathy felt the pressure. More then every one else. She had to make it work.the others just did the work.she had to nake ends meet.
+Brad went to her office. “Kath! Its quiting time.”brad said.”five more minutes b!”she said. “Noel made supper tonight. Hamburgers in the shapes of ships form knight in space !”brad said. “I am coming.five more minutes! “She said. “I think i have seen you more when we were slaves then now. ” he said. “I promise. Five more minutes. “She said. “Ok. Five minutes. Then you leave. We go have dinner. Work day is done!”he said. “Deal.”she said.
+Five minutes later.
+He came back in. “Kathy time to make like a duck and quack off. “He said. “I am not getting out of this one am i?”she remarked. “No not at all. “He said. “Five more minutes. “Kathy said. “Nope. No nore extensions. Time to go. “He said. “Five more minutes. “She said.
+He picked up her tedy bear.”i am taking foster hostege. I wont return him until you agree to come to the maine house.” he said.
+“No foster. You can’t! “She said.”no foster until you agree to leave!”she said. “This is so not fair. “She said.” brad vrs kathy found that if brad gets bear he can use it as laverge.”brad said “that decision is going to have to be apealed. Lets go.”she said. He smiled. She folowrd him. They left the office.
+“When do i get foster bear back?”she asked. “Not till we get to the maine house.”he answered. “What do you think i am going to do?grab the bear and race back to my office?”she asked. “Yes. !” he said.
+The maine house was by invitation only. It was usually off limits to slabes unless it was part of there work assignments. Now they owned it so they use it.
+Reverend lutter and brothers form the order of saint Sebastian had moved into to insure that every thing went on was done in decentcy and in order.
+“I was wondering if you were coming. The fss. Nova is for you kathy!” noel said. “Awsome ! It was my dream to command the nova one day!” kath declared. “You do know that knights in space is ficticious. It is a work of fiction. “Brad said. Kathy and noel gave him a dirty look. “Never mind! Forget i said anything!”brad said.
+After dinner. “Kath. Sence tomorow is valentine’s day. I was wondering if we could go out for dinner.” brad said. “Yea i dont see why not. Can we go after five a clock?”she asked. “Sounds good! We agree, no bussiness? Just you and me? No cell phones or any other electronic device. Not even a calculator! Ok?” brad asked.
+“Not even a calculator? What if i wanted to figure out the tip?” she asked. “You have a 4.0 g.p.a? I think you can figure it out! Agreed?no technology? ” he asked. “Ok! Agreed. ” she respinded. “Sounds good!” he said.
+Kathy tried to get as much work done as possible before she had to go with brad. She had a Very productive day. There was stil things she wished to get done before the dinner date. He arived at the office promptly at 5:00.
+“Hey its time. “He said. She got up. He gave her flowers and a bear. “I dis not want foster to be lonley!” he said.”very thoughtful! Thank you. ” she told him. He hugged her “happy valentines day!” he told her. She said it back to him.
+They walked hand in hand to the car. He opened the car door for her. She went inside. He got into his car. They drove off.
+They were escorted to a table. Sense her emancipation, she mostlt wore the simple blue sleve less dress ans usually went barefoot. Hear she wore a red dress and flip flops. Amy who was her asistent wore skirt and a tank top. She wore flip flop but they rarely stayed on.
+“I hope this was a good pick?”he asked. “Absolutely. I have never been hear. I would rather to go any where connected to my old life. “She said. “You cant avoid it foever. ” brad said. ” i know. I would rather avoid it as long as i can.” she said.
+“Ok. I do under stand that. “He said.”i want to create new traditions. Right now with you and me. Later on you me and our children. ” she told him. “Sounds good. I like that idea. ” brad said.
+The food arived, they started to eat. They had very plesent conversation then they were interupted. Her cell phone rang. She answered it. She kept on it for a few minutes.
+“Sorry! ” she said. “Kath we agreed. No cell phones or any electronic device. ” she said. ” your right? I will turn it off. ” she said. As she was about to turn it off,the phone rang again. She picked up the phone and took the call. Much to brads chagrin.
+“Ok now i’m done! “She said. He tried not to be angry with her. He was madly in love with her. He got really qiet. He tried to sort all this out. “Ok my phone is off!”she said.
+“Ok! I was really looking froward to this! Just you and me. ” he said. “I know i was too. Im sory. ” she said.Then her other phone went off. She did not answer it. She turned it off. “You had a second phone?” he asked.
+“Yes. “She said. “Kath! Dont you want to spend time with me?” she asked. “Of course i do. There is a lot of pressure on me. I am basicaly the c.e.o of a compony. I am also c.f.o and i have to keep it running. ” she said. “One night is not going to make a difference!” he said. “I know. ” she said.
+They walked to the car. She started to take his hand.he took it. “I am sorry i runed the night. ” she said “its ok. ” he said.
+When they got home, they hung out outside.she removed her flip flop. “You know your going to have to stop eventually! ” he said. “I Dont want to stop! If i stop i have to think about everything. I Dont want to do that. I dont want to have to think about everything. I dont want to confront the pain. “Kathy said.
+He hugged her. “You cant run from it. Its there. It only will be! You have to deal with it.it is not going away. “He said. “Everyone i trusted, everyone who was suposed to care for me has betrayed me. ” she said.
+“Not everyone! I am hear for you. “He said. He held her closely. “I know that. I dont know my role in the larger scheme of things. Where do i fit in? I want this esate to be sucesfull. ” she said.
+“You have so much potential. Your going to make this work. I will be at your side? Sorting out the pratical stuff. Lets have some time together ok?” he asked. “Ok! ” she said.
+She started to break down. She tried to fight it. He told her not to. “Dont ! Dont fight it? ” he said. She let her tears flood. He held her. “Kathy you not in this alone. We are in this together. I am not like the others. I wish i could say i would never let you down. I probability will. I am human but i care about you. ” he said. ” i know that. I love you ” she said. “I love you. ” he said.
+“We have time just for us ok? ” brad asked. “Agreed. ” she said. They kissed.
+The end.
+Kathy and brad will return.
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+Two years ago, the Tennessee General Assembly set up funding for Go Build Tennessee Inc., a nonprofit that would spread the word to high-school and postsecondary students about careers in construction.
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+NASHVILLE (AP) — Long security lines and big crowds are expected at Nashville's airport as visitors fly out from their eclipse-viewing trips..
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+The following is a day by day account of my back to back Marathon Des Sables run, the first ever person to do it.
+Just to give you a little context, let me tell you about the 24 hours leading up to race day first.
+24 hours to go - Disaster strikes
+Whilst being filmed by British Forces TV at my place and at the last filming outdoor sequence, I slip without warning off a tall and muddy step that leads off the canal opposite and hear it crack. I scream out in agony and hobble and collapse onto the floor. My entire world collapses and implodes. The poor camera crew are dumbfounded and watch me crying and swearing to the gods. You simply could not write this. “The game is over” ” ITS F**KING OVER!!”
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+I somehow hobble back into the house followed by a very silent film crew. Hayley greets me with smiles. She was not privy to this drama outside. The colour in her face instantly drains. My foot swells as we watch to twice its size. As though by magic it rapidly blossoms into a angry red and black bloated form. Ice is applied and the pain grows cancerous like into the back of my throat. The camera crew leave. I cry. I swear. I cry more. I employ all measures to fight this situation.
+I go to bed and allow the darkness of the pain swallow me up. The 90mg of codeine and 600 mg of Ibuprofen allows a brief window of opportunity to sleep. This lasts 2 hours. I wake up in excruciating agony and decide to go to A&E. I suspect it will be a long night and take my laptop to work with. I have my laptop with me as I am so used to always working and being on it. I also realise that this could well be my portal to tell the world of this news. A prospect that fills me with dread. I actually run through scenarios on how to get far badly injured than I was. Then I would be not in this situation where people might disbelieve it and me. As I said earlier, "You could hardly write this!" The entire night is spent in A&E and I get seen in the early hours. I am told it is not broken and given crutches and advised to completly rest it for 7 days and not bare weight on it for 2-4 weeks. I arrive home at 0900. Three hours before the taxi was due to pick us up for the airport. I hear from Nick at 10.00 and I mumble to him “there’s a bit of bad news old Bean!” and relay the details. I ask for industrial pain killers to be brought and pleanty there of. My optimism battling through. Jack arrives. His reaction says it all. A jittery silence falls. Tasks are undertaken. I fight the pain with all I have and try to walk as normal as possible. An ice splint is applied. A “I CAN AND I WILL” mantra is hailed!” and off we go. This challenge is going ahead regardless.
+A True Desert Adventure begins!
+We arrive in the early hours with 48 hours to go before I set off on Day 1.
+Could my dream of being the first person in the World to successfully complete a ‘Double back to back’ Marathons Des Sables actually happen. This injury was going to have play ball. The two days went in a flash. The team and I managed to relax whilst also gearing up for the set-off.
+Gear was checked and meetings were had. I pushed my foot hard. I made up my mind to go for it and accepted that it could create long standing issues. I can and I will!!
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+Sunday April 3rd: Day 1. My life is saved! How? Let me tell you!
+I set off running, proudly brandishing my Charity flag and being filmed by Jack. No ceremony at all. Just how I like it. I swiftly disappear. I am feeling great and ignore not the pain and don’t notice the weight of my 8kg pack. I am running like a mad whooping and hollering fool, screaming out to the gods!!! “You see you b***ards, I'm here and I made it!"
+Our plan was to supplement salt loss in the race using Himalayan salt, however, it turns out we got the dose rate dramatically incorrect. Two-thirds through day one I was literally frothing at the mouth like a rabid dog...but felt strong. As if this wasn't enough, I shot off to finish the final leg of the day but unbeknown to us, the MDS route bearing that was provided was completely incorrect. This led me to go way off-course, run out of water and get into a spiralling ‘Up creek without a paddle situation’. An SOS call out via my satellite phone succeeded in alerting the Team except we had a problem being found. The G.P.R.S coordinates did not match the teams device and led them to think I was in Algeria 16 miles away...great. The satellite phone then stopped working, as if my day couldn't get any better! So all I could do was lay on a black volcanic rock literally cooking to death waiting for help. What felt like an eternity went by, when in reality, it was only an hour but long enough to deteriorate very quickly. Panic rapidly started seeping in. By pure luck, on the furthest horizon I glimpsed the vehicle flying along, but totally in the wrong direction! “STOP! STOP! STOP!” I screamed desperately into the walkie talkie. Every fibre in my soul was praying and screaming to them, I knew if they didn’t stop then they would be out of line, sight and uncontactable within seconds. But then the vehicle stopped!!! I cried out in utter relief. The tears instantly evaporating on my cheek. “TURN RIGHT, TURN RIGHT!” I pleaded. An answer came to me, as though from the Gods themselves. It’s was Nick, "Ok Gav we hear you!” I excitedly talked and guided him to me. A fast return to Basecamp was needed.
+Once there Nick took bloods and processed the results whilst I rested. The results then came through and were dramatic. My sodium (salt) was off the charts and my haemoglobbin from 14.3 that morning had gone to 4.0. My body was in full shut down and collapse and I was lucky to be alive. To put this into perspective, when a patient has lost a lot of blood at a level of 7.00 you give x2 plus units of blood. This was day 1. Little could I know of the trials and tribulations that lay ahead.
+Monday 2nd: Day 2: ‘Grinning like a Cheshire cat’
+I set off marvelling at its beauty and grinning like a Cheshire cat. Thankfully there were not too many hitches today. There was a navigation error that leads me off course but that is adjusted and only adds a few kilometers to the day. I get into a routine and focus. It is hard to see the team drive away after every check point and each time this gets harder, although I dont tell them this. The silence is only broken by my breathing and occasional ramblings to any beast or unusual object. My focus has to be on the ground two foot in front of me. This ankle protests with each impact, I must not stumble on it. My focus remains strong and sadly it is rare that I look up to enjoy the scenery. When I do it is to assess my navigation and plough on. The silence bit by bit starts to bare down on me and with the heat, it feels like im in some Stanley Kubrick movie. My ramblings increase. This solitude wears on my mental abilities. I focus on objects in the distance and try to run to them and when met I allow myself a pat on the back and a strict amount of walking steps to rest. Whilst I walk I navigate, drink and nibble at my daily ration of delicious billtong and jelly babies. This tactic works and the day and distance passes well. Camp routine is simple and pure. The team have their own tent and supplies and so do I. I sleep and eat seperate from the team. It is hard to see them in their routines. When they eat I try to avoid looking at what delights they have. They seem to be feasting like kings. I feel more and more withdrawn and out of the group. I am jealous of their bonding. I am so focused on my mission to battle through this and survive that I am sure that I am self-perpetuating my isolation and feelings. I know I will get more and more tired, dehydrated and hungry as the week goes by and weigh up the likely effects on my physical and mental well being. I am sure this race is designed by a mad man!
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+Tuesday 5th: Day 3: “We can and we will bloody do this!”
+This was simply an awful day. I stumble hard 2km in and my ankle is in agony. I do not take pain killers in fear of the potential stomach upsetting and other side effects. I need to be able to think as clearly as possible as the consequences in making further errors are serious. I am caught in a catch 22. I opt not to tell the team that I have re-hurt my ankle. The pain effects me and I make errors in navigation that lead me to running about 4 km more and an extra Jebel. This increases my torment and also that of my team who try to help and intervene. It is a stressful time for all. I feel more and more isolated as the day goes on. My time is terrible and I throw away my usual positive tactics and relent to the pain and walk. This failure drives me into a spiraling depression and my pace falters further. Eventually, I finish a defeated man. How on earth will my ankle survive the long haul tomorrow? I get very upset and wander away and cry. Later that night Nick calls me in for a “chat”. Being a friend but also the medic I know is tough. I sat and listened to Nick trying to say that he was on the verge of a preemptively pulling me out of the race tomorrow due to the poor performance of that day. He knew the potential scenes of drama that would play out if this occurred and so did I. It was an awful discussion for both of us to have. (I am glad he had the balls to be a great medic and an even better friend, even though at the time it didn't feel like it.) I reassured him that I was okay and that I was up to the job. I ended the conversation with a ” We can and we will bloody do this!” and stomped away.
+This is just the first three days on the MDS and whilst it may sound brutal already, trust me, it gets a whole lot harder!
+If you want to continue reading the story about the rest of my challenge, go on over to my website I Can and I Will and read the whole post here.
+6:16 am
+September 24, 2010
+I have an 18 year old daughter who has been the focus of my tears for the past several months. She has been associating with new friends, skipping school, and lying to me and my husband. I also found out that she became involved with a 24 year old man. I have known this idiot for a few years as he worked with my oldest daughter and I know that he is bad news. When her relationship with him began to have an impact on the rest of my family I told my daughter that she had to decide between him or her family. Then a few weeks ago I found out that he has been physically abusive to her. He was also arrested for assault on a friend of hers while she was in his car. I thougt that my daughter was finally finished with this guy, as she reported the incident to the police and also informed them about the abuse. However, I found out a few days after the arrest that she had returned to his home and was staying there. Since this man has made threats against other members of my family, including two of my other children I felt that I had no other choice but to tell my daughter to leave the house. She moved in with this jerk. I am so worried about her, but since she is at a legal age I don't know what I can do about it. Every night I pray that she will realize how bad this guy is and that she will come home. I am so worried that one day I will get a phone call that he has seriously hurt her or worse. What can I do to get my daughter away from this jerk? Someone please help me.
+7:26 am
+September 30, 2010
+you did what you could for your daughter...unfort. the rest is up to her, she is an adult and can make her own choices.
+I know the feeling, i "was" your daughter when i was younger, learned the hard way, did not listen to my parents, was kicked out of the house.........BUT eventually, i did learn and came back home.
+Keep letting her know how you feel, maybe ask her why she is with this man, maybe she can open up to you more.
+(((hugs your way)))) camer
+9:20 am
+September 24, 2010
+broncoangel,
+It sounds like you did do all you could have for your daughter and your entire family. You set a boundary to protect the rest of your family and that is very healthy. Sounds like your daughter was pretty much already living with this guy and coming home once in a while long before you even set your boundary. She has made a choice, not a very healthy one and certainly not one you or most people would agree with but it’s her choice to own, not yours – no guilt you did nothing wrong and did everything you could for the health and well being of your other children.
+At 18 they are legal but so immature and naïve about life, relationships and reality. If you have the opportunity to talk with her you may want to keep the focus on her and not the abuser. Validate her feelings about her relationship but help her recognize that the abuse is not “normal” and not her fault and that she deserve a healthy non-violent relationship. Try and just listen to her patiently, that shows you support HER it doesn’t mean you support her decision. As much as you don’t like it you should be respectful of her decision, the more she feels you are against HER and HER choices the farther away from you she will run. I’m not saying welcome her decision with open arms but acknowledge that her decision is hers to make and that is what you are respecting, that the DECISION is hers to make.
+I learned the hard way with my niece who was living with me and make a horrible un-healthy decision for her self. In all my talks with her I never once validated her feelings or her decision instead I nagged, pleaded and made every attempt to get her to see my view. After she was gone and I realized what I had done I contacted her and corrected my wrongs, it didn’t change her decision but it did open up communication again between us. Several months later she did recognize her mistakes and reached out to me to talk about some things. Although she wasn’t asking me to rescue her or solve or fix HER problems she was looking for a healthy voice of reason to help her sort out her confused emotions and chaotic life she created for herself.
+You have your point of view about this and she has her own, as hard as it is you need to accept her decision and mentally plan your response when it all goes south which you know it’s going to.
+Atalose
+~~Hope has a place, but not above reality~~
+9:35 am
+September 27, 2010
+Broncoangel,
+I agree with Atalose. However having two daughters and three son's I will suggest you picking up the phone and calling your daughter to let her know your thinking of her, and to just say you love her. This is not saying that you feel she made the correct decission but it opens the doors for her to feel she can call you to talk if need be.
+An 18 year old girl is still sooo young. I would have been heart broken if either of my daughters made the decission your daughter has made because her age is so young. However, I feel that is what you must remember. Being 18 years old is considered an adult by age, but emotionally there is so much growing ahead of them. This is just another time in their growing process that you have to be there for her in the way of offering suggestions, and giving her your shoulder to lean on, without enabling her in any way. Our kids need us just as much emotionally at 18 as they did when they were 18 months because they are just learing how to walk on their own, they will fall and get a scrap here and there but you can always be there to let her know it will get better.
+Just my thoughts, hope your heart heals but remember this is all part of growing up in a way. Abuse should never be tolerated, but as long as she is tolerating it there isn't a lot that you can do other then letting her know that there is a such thing as love without all the abuse.
+Healing and Peace to you
+10:50 am
+September 24, 2010
+Make a list of the things you can control and the things you can't control in this situation. You can't make your daughter leave this guy. That's a big one, but you've got to face this fact before you can move forward in a way that makes sense.
+On the side of what you can control is how you treat your daughter. You have disowned her at this point, so why would she come home? You kicked her out, but you really wanted her to stay.
+Why do you not acknowledge that she is a separate person from him? Especially considering that you want her out of the relationship! Why do you punish her for his behavior? When he threatened your family, why didn't you kick him out, ban him from your house? Why did you ban your daughter from your house?
+You are teaching your daughter that she is responsible for this man's behavior, which is the quintessential characteristic of an abused woman. Moreover, you have cut her ties to her own family which is the main way she would get out of the relationship.
+Turn it around. Reach out before it's too late. Welcome her and ban him. Tell her you love her no matter what. That you are family, and you are here for her.
+12:42 pm
+September 24, 2010
+Atalose,
+Where is "healthy boundary" here?
+A healthy boundary is when you draw a line as far as what you will do for another person, or accept from another person. A healthy boundary is not a way to control another person's life. It's a way to control your life. When you're trying to control another person's life it's an ultimatum. "You must choose between this man or us" is an ultimatum. It is not by an any stretch a healthy boundary.
+A "healthy boundary" does not hold one adult responsible for another adult's behavior. If your daughter's boyfriend has been cruel to your children, then banning him from the home is a reasonable boundary. But banning your daughter for the same reason is NOT.
+1:14 pm
+September 24, 2010
+Soofoo,
+Thank you, yes you are correct. The healthy boundary should have been to ban the BF from her home not the daughter.
+And yes I do see the ultimatum here which is not healthy.
+Broncoangel……soofoo is very correct and I am glad she pointed that out to me. Ultimatums are used to control and get our way where boundaries are in place to control our own lives.
+(((soofoo)))
+Atalose
+~~Hope has a place, but not above reality~~
+3:32 pm
+September 24, 2010
+6:06 pm
+September 27, 2010
+I so much agree with Soofoo on this, please reach out to your daughter, pick up the phone call her, and let her know she is welcome back and reason's why you felt so frustrated. She will respect your honesty that you really did't want her to leave but you wanted her to leave the abuse of her boyfriend so you thought this was the way to wake her up.. Which I think you kind of know wasn't the best of choice... I understand out of you feeling frustrated and wanting to protect her that you may have thought this was the best way to handle it but honestly I think she needs you now more then ever. This young man is getting what he wants by isolating your daughter even if it was your doing's by giving her the ultimative, he is most likely happy about all of it. Again I strongly suggest you calling her and let her know you truly love her, and want what is best for her and that is why you got angry, but that anger is against her boyfriend not her because of the abuse.
+Healing and Peace
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+This article aims to present how it'll be possible to implement a SIP trunking as described in title.
+Warning!
+What here follows is intended to be more specific than the standard Messagenet VoIP service and is not required unless explicitly requested..
+Premise
+We commonly assign to a customer VoIP Account (SIP URI of authentication username) a single geographical number (as a FreeNumber or SmartNumber product), but this is not really a requirement for every services (e.g. to call outbound to PSTN): we can assign many phone numbers to the same VoIP Account, or none.
+These numbers would have then two distinct roles:
+- target in order to get calls from the PSTN;
+- caller ID to be shown to PSTN destination in outbound calls (as CLI);
+In case of a VoIP Account without any phone number association, it'll be impossible to get calls from the PSTN (it'll be called only by other Messagenet VoIP Account, calling directly this username) and also CLI presentation will be always screened (as the customer doesn't own a number).
+Regardless this, it should be observed that:
+- Messagenet does not currently offer a proper SIP Trunking service and inbound calls could be received by SIP client only via SIP Registration: the client will periodically present itself to our Registrar/Proxy using a custom SIP Contact Header field and revealing its IP source address and port; if the client registers successfully, every call to this client will be sent using this contact field value as the Request URI to the client (via a SIP INVITE to the port and IP address of registration request source);
+- related to the step before, for inbound calls the actual called number from the PSTN (obviously related to this VoIP Account) could be completely different from this contact field value and is deeply wrong to simply consider the received request URI as a DID number; in any case, the actual called number will be always specified if the "To:" header user-part (unless anonymous);
+Inbound called number Identification (as in DID Service)
+As said before, in this scenario where a VoIP Account has many geographical number, the possibility to identify which number was actually called from the PSTN matters.
+In this case, your client must be able to read this SIP "To:" userpart and consequently act as you want in your inbound dialplan rules.
+Asterisk PBX configuration example
+As an example, we'll consider two different fixed-line numbers related to the same VoIP Account 5xxxxxx with password as password. We should be able to receive call made to:
+- first geographical number: 0612345678 (Rome number in Italian national format);
+- second geographical number: 0212345678 (Milan number in Italian national format);
+- the VoIP Account username itself: 5xxxxxx;
+First of all, we'll have a "register" string in sip.conf file:
+register => 5xxxxxx:password@sip.messagenet.it:5061/200
+Pay attention to the last part of this string, the register extension (we set it as "200"): this will be the local dialplan extension to which every inbound call from this peer will be used in our registration context.
+In order to identify the called number then, we need to configure as extension 200 a function to directly read SIP Headers and use retrieved values to make choice (e.g.: use the value as new extension); here follows an example:
+[sipin]
+exten => 200,1,Set(CALLED=${CUT(CUT(SIP_HEADER(TO),@,1),:,2)})
+exten => 200,n,Verbose(Call from Messagenet to ${CALLED})
+exten => 200,n,GotoIf($["${CALLED}" == "0612345678"]?to-rome,s,1)
+exten => 200,n,GotoIf($["${CALLED}" == "0212345678"]?to-milan,s,1)
+exten => 200,n,GotoIf($["${CALLED}" == "5312345"]?to-internal,s,1)
+exten => 200,n,Goto(to-other,s,1)
+[to-rome]
+exten => s,1,Verbose(Call to Rome)
+exten => s,n,Dial(SIP/201)
+exten => s,n,Hangup()
+[to-milan]
+exten => s,1,Verbose(Call to Milan)
+exten => s,n,Dial(SIP/202) exten => s,n,Hangup()
+[to-internal]
+exten => s,1,Verbose(Call to Messagenet VoIP Account)
+exten => s,n,Dial(SIP/203) exten => s,n,Hangup()
+[to-other]
+exten => s,1,Verbose(Call to invalid number)
+exten => s,n,Playback(pbx-invalid) exten => s,n,Hangup()
+Now an explanation follows:
+- inbound calls are placed to extension 200 in sipin context;
+- the CALLED channel variable is filled with the correct portion of "To:" SIP Header: it should now contain our DID number;
+- in the same context, some checks are performed in order to filter the correct DID numbers and bring the call to the right context (and call another peer in out case);
+The result is to bring different calls to different DID numbers (all related to the same account) to different local SIP Peers.
+N.B.: from all those contexts and extensions, to the whole retrieving mode, are intended to be just an example: the focus should be brought only on the DID number identification;;
+Dynamic CLI Selection
+As in the previous paragraph, we're now focusing on the possibility to choose which phone number to use in call to PSTN destinations.
+In every cases:
+- the customer cannot freely specify the CLI to use in calls to PSTN destination: the network operator should perform screening to this CLI in order to ensure that every outbound call to the PSTN are placed using a valid and allowed CLI related to the calling customer. A CLI that differs from the VoIP Account default will then be actually used only:
+- from Messagenet VoIP network to the PSTN; within Messagenet VoIP network calls are placed only between Messagenet VoIP Account in SIP and every called party will present the calling party using Display Name (the "From:" SIP Header display part) unless differently chosen in receiving client configurations;
+- if previously agreed with Messagenet Support, as described above;
+- if correctly configured, related to the previous step, in your SIP PBX or client configurations;
+- every Messagenet VoIP Account should have a default CLI (the same geographical number for inbound calls) that will be used in outbound calls to PSTN unless restricted in presentation (by the customer) or in case of screening error (see the previous step);
+If you choose to relate more geographical number to the same VoIP Account, you can configure your client to specify which one to use as CLI using one of these two alternative methods:
+1- Using P-Preferred-Identity (or Remote-Party-ID) SIP Header
+If you choose this way, you should have a SIP Client or PBX able to add a custom SIP Header to the INVITE Request. This field is the "P-Preferred Identity" and should be evaluate using the chosen CLI in e164 format (with leading plus) as user part.
+Here follows an example using an Italian fake CLI +3912345678900:
+P-Preferred-Identity: <sip:+3912345678900@sip.messagenet.it>
+The whole INVITE payload should be similar to this example:
+U 2012/12/06 11:15:40.188965 212.97.35.XX:5003 -> 212.97.59.76:5061
+INVITE sip:3XXXXXXXXX@sip.messagenet.it SIP/2.0.
+Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 192.168.130.10:5060;branch=z9hG4bK2400e757.
+Max-Forwards: 70.
+From: "Pinco Pallino" <sip:5XXXXXX@192.168.130.10>;tag=as5ac44caf.
+To: <sip:3XXXXXXXXX@sip.messagenet.it>.
+Contact: <sip:5XXXXXX@192.168.130.10:5060>.
+Call-ID: 5717ebf5402014bc4e96bebe6d361b64@192.168.130.10:5060.
+CSeq: 103 INVITE.
+User-Agent: AsteriskPBX.
+Proxy-Authorization: Digest username="5XXXXXX", realm="sip.messagenet.it", algorithm=MD5, uri="sip:3XXXXXXXXX@sip.messagenet.it", nonce="UMBxdlDAcEqmHgHBDkXEs9Mh9I4cpRQ1gIlnlIH6fznfgXG0r
+Sz7yUk1LA+C", response="13e09ead6b93cf47efa9a23a76c5ee54", qop=auth, cnonce="311d4651", nc=00000001.
+Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:15:40 GMT.
+Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, OPTIONS, BYE, REFER, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, INFO, PUBLISH.
+Supported: replaces, timer.
+Privacy: none.
+P-Preferred-Identity: <sip:+3912345678900@sip.messagenet.it>.
+Content-Type: application/sdp.
+Content-Length: 355.
+...
+N.B.: you can use a "Remote-Party-ID" header instead of the "P-Preferred-Identity" in the same way; if both the headers have been specified, the "P-Preferred-Identity" will then take precedence;
+Asterisk PBX configuration example
+Imagine to relate both the Italian numbers 021234567 and 061234567 to the same VoIP Account: in order to dynamically select between them a SIP Header is to be added to the outbound INVITE Request to Messagenet: in our dialplan, we'll find an extension "ext" with "n" priority, where a Dial() application will be called in order to use our VoIP Account 5xxxxxx to call, for example, 3212345678 as PSTN destination:
+...
+exten => ext,n,Dial(SIP/5xxxxxx/3212345678)
+...
+exten => h,1,HangUp()
+In order to reach our target, we need to add a directive using a lower priority in order to execute this before the Dial() application (we here use "n-1" or "n-2" in order to let this dialplan to be understand, but priorities are numeric in Asterisk):
+...
+exten => ext,n-1,SipAddHeader(P-Preferred-Identity: <sip:+39021234567@sip.messagenet.it>)
+exten => ext,n,Dial(SIP/5xxxxxx/3212345678)
+...
+exten => h,1,HangUp()
+Using this setup, we'll call outbound the destination using 021234567 as CLI.;
+2- Using "From:" header display part
+This mode let you specify an allowed CLI evaluating the Display Name (again, the SIP "From:" Header display part) with the CLI itself expressed in e164 (with leading plus) format:
+From: "+3912345678900" <sip:5XXXXXX@192.168.130.10>;tag=as5ac44caf.
+Pay Attention to this: we're talking about the display part (the Display Name) and not the SIP "From:" Header user part: this part should always been specified using the VoIP Account Username (5xxxxxx in this case); outbound calls to PSTN will be refused with SIP causecode 403 by our proxy if different!
+Asterisk PBX configuration example
+Looking at the same example and at the same scenario related to the previous example, here our dialplan could look like this:
+...
+exten => ext,n-1,Set(CALLERID(name)="+39061234567")
+exten => ext,n,Dial(SIP/5xxxxxx/3212345678)
+...
+exten => h,1,HangUp();
+CLI presentation using "Privacy" SIP Header
+CLI presentation follows the same default configuration statically imposed on our systems (and freely manageable from our website).
+A part from the CLI choice, you can also act in order to dynamically (per call) change this presentation behaviour and let your CLI been presented or not (if allowed) regardless the static configuration.
+You can perform this using the "Privacy" SIP Header, adding it in your SIP INVITE to our proxy; value can be:
+- none
+let the CLI been presented to destination, presentation allowed;
+- id
+hide the CLI to the destination, presentation restricted;
+Asterisk PBX configuration example
+You can configure this regardless the dynamic CLI choice and the way you selected this CLI. In this example, we'll continue the first diaplan example in this paragraph, but could be used in any case and with any allowed CLI:
+...
+exten => ext,n-2,SipAddHeader(P-Preferred-Identity: <sip:+39021234567@sip.messagenet.it>)
+exten => ext,n-1,SipAddHeader(Privacy: none)
+exten => ext,n,Dial(SIP/5xxxxxx/3212345678)
+...
+exten => h,1,HangUp()
+Using this, we'll outbound calls to the PSTN destination showing 021234567 as CLI, explicitly allowing presentation regardless the default configuration for this VoIP Account CLI presentation;
+Further request for information and service provisioning.
+ Tried and Failed in Action Movies
+Written by George Pacheco Some actors were born to be action heroes, but some tried and completely failed in their attempts to be the next big action star! WatchMojo presents the Top 10 Actors Who Failed At Being Action Stars! But who will take the top spot on our list? Will it be Shaquille O’Neal in Steel, Seth Rogen from the Green Hornet, or Jay Leno from Collision Course? Watch to find out! Big thanks to Victor Gustavson and ninou78 for suggesting this idea, and to see how WatchMojo users voted, check out the suggest page here:
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+They came, they saw, they fell flat on their face. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 Actors Who Tried and Failed in Action Movies.
+For this list, we’re ranking the actors - or celebrities with acting aspirations - whose attempts at action movie gold fell short of bronze. For the record, we’re not saying all of these movies are bad, but rather taking a lighthearted look at actors whose translation into the action movie world was generally seen by the public as... “debatable”.
+#10: Alicia Silverstone
+“Batman & Robin” (1997)
+This legendary superohero bust stalled many careers when it was released back in 1997, with “Batman and Robin” effectively halting any hopes co-star Alicia Silverstone might have had about a career in action movies. The film’s ultra-campy tone and overtly jokey execution effectively killed the “Batman” franchise for years as well, with Silverstone’s performance as “Batgirl” adding little, if anything to the proceedings. It’d be unfair to lay the blame for “Batman and Robin”’s failure solely on Silverstone – there’s plenty of blame to go around, after all – but this doesn’t change the fact that the actress just didn’t seem cut out for the action movie game.
+#9: Pamela Anderson
+“Barb Wire” (1996)
+“Barb Wire” knew exactly what it was when it was released back in 1996: male teenage fantasy fodder featuring Pamela Anderson, lots of guns and some very big explosions. The film was based upon a Dark Horse comic book series, with Anderson playing the role of the ...titular... heroine. The film didn’t please audiences or critics, however, with many pointing to Anderson’s one-note performance and dry delivery as sticking points in this box office bomb. Still, “Barb Wire” is fun enough when you’re in the right mood, but Anderson would fail to achieve any sort of action movie success in the wake of its release.
+#8: Brian Bosworth
+“Stone Cold” (1991)
+Those searching for some action movie lunacy need look no further than 1991’s “Stone Cold,” an enjoyably ridiculous collection of tough guy clichés starring the one and only Brian Bosworth. Bosworth had previously made his name in the NFL, but “Stone Cold” was supposed to be his breakout role in the action movie mainstream. Fans and critics didn’t flock to “The Boz,” however, and “Stone Cold” flopped at the box office. B movie fans did later latch onto the film on home video, but Bosworth’s star never truly ignited, although the former Seattle Seahawk still acts on the indie scene to this day.
+#7: Taylor Lautner
+“Abduction” (2011) & “Tracers” (2015)
+Oh, Taylor Lautner, we know you’re trying hard to escape from your “Twilight” past. But the actor’s performances in the 2011 film “Abduction” and 2015’s “Tracers” are just that: attempts. “Abduction” was Lautner’s first proper crack at action movie stardom as an adult, and received scathing reviews concerning the actor’s wooden performance and lack of charisma. “Tracers” unfortunately didn’t fare much better, with Lautner implausibly starring as a bike messenger who ends up running with a parkour gang in New York City. The time may come when Jacob...er, “Taylor,” finally becomes an actual action movie heavyweight, but it’ll definitely take better movies than these to get the job done.
+#6: Ice Cube
+“xXx: State of the Union” (2005)
+Not even Ice Cube could save the “xXx” franchise in 2005, when the rapper-turned-actor decided fill the shoes vacated by Vin Diesel. To be fair, “xXx: State of the Union” did bring back a small return against its sixty million dollar budget, but critics were split on Cube’s performance as an action hero, while fans mourned the loss of Diesel from the franchise. They would get their wish over a decade later, however, with “xXx: Return of Xander Cage” reigniting the film series, bringing both Cube and Diesel back for another round.
+#5: Tyler Perry
+“Alex Cross” (2012)
+You can respect writer, actor and director Tyler Perry for attempting to try something new by taking part in the 2012 film “Alex Cross.” It couldn’t have been easy for Perry to step into a role that was not only based on a beloved book series by James Patterson, but had also been previously portrayed on screen by Morgan Freeman. Fans of Perry’s “Medea” franchise, however, stayed away from “Alex Cross,” and the film ended up as both a critical and commercial failure, despite Perry’s best intentions.
+#4: Chris Klein
+“Rollerball” (2002)
+Remaking a cult classic usually isn’t the best idea, especially when the film was as niche as the 1975 sci-fi oddity “Rollerball.” That movie starred Hollywood heavyweight James Caan, however, while viewers of the 2002 version were forced to settle for “American Pie” actor Chris Klein. The “Rollerball” remake was panned by fans and critics alike, mainly because it lacked the kitsch ‘70s cool and socio-political themes of the original. Klein’s performance in the film was considered “bland,” and not up to snuff when compared to the charisma Caan brought to the role over 25 years earlier.
+#3: Seth Rogen
+“The Green Hornet” (2011)
+This masked crime fighter possesses a proud pedigree dating all the way back to his debut in radio in the 1930s. The Green Hornet was set for a big budget reboot back in 2011, with the very unlikely Seth Rogen in the lead. Critics immediately picked up on Rogen’s performance in the film, calling the actor out for being miscast. The film did big money with fans at first, but sharply dropped off after a boffo opening weekend, as negative word of mouth soon spread about “The Green Hornet” and its less-than-convincing hero. In 2013, Rogen himself referred to working on the film as a “nightmare.”
+#2: Shaquille O’Neal
+“Steel” (1997)
+The late nineties were a rough time for the superhero movie genre, and a long way away from the early 21st century’s big budget action spectaculars. Enter basketball star Shaquille O’Neal and his disastrous turn as the DC comic book hero known as “Steel.” There’s a thick layer of cheese here, a fact that isn’t helped much by O’Neal’s less-than-commanding performance in the lead role of John Henry Irons. This is a shame, because it would’ve been great to see DC’s Steel up there on the big screen, especially if the filmmakers had explored his place in the Superman universe. One thing’s for sure: any sort of “Steel” reboot should stay very far, far away from the Shaq man.
+#1: Jay Leno
+“Collision Course” (1989)
+The question that’s you’re probably asking yourself is: “Wait, what? Jay Leno was in an action movie?” Well, incredibly, the answer to that is “yes,” and his co-star was “The Karate Kid’s” own Pat Morita! The film in question was “Collision Course,” and it featured an “East meets West” duo of cops trying to track down a stolen Japanese turbocharger in Detroit. Director Lewis Teague and crew had attempted to finish the film in 1989, but budgetary issues caused “Collision Course” to sit on the shelf until 1992, when it was quietly released on VHS.
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+Introduction
+Recently I was asked to write a tutorial explaining ISO. This is it. I try not to get too technical, but this is one digital photographic concept that is immersed 100% in techo geekdom, so bear with me.
+What does ISO stand for?
+We have the ISO to thank for ISO. The ISO is the acronym of the International Organisation of Standards. (Yes, I know it should be IOS, but it isn’t, ok?) The ISO settled on “ISO” for the photography world as an abbreviated word as it stems from the Greek word isos, which means, in English, “equal” (eg isometric). Cute, huh?
+Some say ISO is pronounced eye so and some, including me, say it as eye ess oh. Whatever. The term ISO replaced the term ASA, which stood for the American Standards Association, or maybe the Australian Scripture Assembly. Who really knows?
+What is ISO?
+ISO refers to the sensitivity of film to light according to speed of exposure. The higher the ISO rating, the more sensitive the film is.
+The equivalent concept applies to digital cameras, where it is all about the sensitivity of the camera’s sensor to light.
+Just stop now and think about this. It is a big difference between film and digital….
+Choice of film is very important to a film photographer. The choice is 99% about ISO and 1% about colour or B&W. This is because using a film with an ISO 100 rating means putting into the camera a roll which will produce noiseless (non-grainy) photographs able to be shot in nice clear light conditions at high speed, whereas using a film with an ISO 1600 rating is preferable for low light conditions as the film is way more sensitive to light.
+Once you’ve made that choice of ISO rating when shooting with a roll of film, you are stuck with it for the whole roll, with 2 exceptions. First, now you know why some cameras have interchangeable “film backs”, whereby an unfinished film roll at, say ISO 100, can be swapped for another unfinished film roll at a different ISO rating. Second, and this is something I do all the time when shooting with film, you can “trick” the camera into thinking it is shooting with, say, ISO 400 instead of ISO 100 by manually changing the ISO setting. (I did try upping ISO from 100 to 1600 on a rafting trip once, but the camera was on to me and produced crap. More recently I upped an ISO 25 roll to ISO 100 as I was shooting inside.)
+Digital photography, however, affords us the luxury of calibrating the sensitivity of the sensor with each shot with equivalent ISO settings to film ISO ratings. Thus, sRGB image files created by a digital camera will have a similar lightness to what is achieved with a film camera using the same ISO rating, aperture, and speed. Setting the ISO on a digital camera is actually adjusting the sensitivity of the sensor. It is a pro-active process, as distinct from film, which is a re-active process.
+What ISO setting should I use?
+As a general proposition, the lower the ISO setting, the better. For example, and ignoring aperture for the moment, consider these two options for taking the same evenly exposed hand-held shot (approximately) of a non-moving object:
+- Speed of 1/1000th of a second, ISO of 1000
+- Speed of 1/100th of a second, ISO of 100
+Which is preferable? ISO 100. There are several reasons. First, a speed of 1/100th of a second hand-held will rarely give you blurred images. It is fast enough to capture the object with a well-focused and sharp image. Second, the higher the ISO, the greater the noise from stuck pixels and grain.
+Why is this? It’s because as you increase the ISO setting and make the sensor more sensitive to light signal, you are also making the sensor more sensitive to noise coming from everything in the frame, not just your light source or subject.
+The higher the light signal to noise ratio (the S/N ratio), the better the image quality. Digital cameras are calibrated to achieve the greatest S/N ratio using the lowest available ISO setting. The smaller the sensor, the greater the problem with noise at high ISO. (Attention all geekheads – this is a general proposition, ok!)
+Noise in the form of stuck pixels and grain can be dealt with by noise reduction applications, either in-camera or in post-production. However, it’s a bit like hitting a nail with a sledgehammer as the apps also remove detail from your image. And, in the case of noise-reduction in-camera, the application takes just as long as your shutter speed. Therefore, if you take a 120 second exposure with Noise Reduction “On”, the camera will then take another 120 seconds to do the noise reduction before you get to see the image on the camera’s rear LCD. As I said somewhere else, I’m a patient man but not that patient! (Technology is getting better, however, with in-camera noise reduction.)
+So….. the idea is to use as low an ISO as possible. A suggestion would be to not let your camera choose an ISO for any shot (Auto ISO) but set it to ISO 100 (or your camera’s minimum ISO) as your default, and only increasing it when there is a need to compensate for poor light and you don’t want to stop down your aperture any more or shutter speed.
+For example, my camera (EOS 5D Mark II) allows me to set the ISO to 50 as a Custom Function. This is my default setting. There are times however, when I want to take a shot without stopping down further than f8 (because I want a wide DOF) and without slowing down more than 1/30th second (particularly if I am shooting hand-held), but the light won’t let me get a good exposure. Changing the ISO is always my third and last option. Upping the ISO to 100 instantly means I can shoot faster, and thus avoid a blurred image, and I will routinely go up to 640 without hesitation. And to tell you the truth, there is bugger all difference that I can see between ISO 50 and 100. (Except for long exposures, where ISO 100 is probably preferable. But that’s another story.)
+As a general proposition, the smaller the sensor, the bigger your problem with ISO noise and grain is going to be, sometimes even kicking in at ISO 400 (and rendering images unusable at 800 or 1000). This can be important when choosing a digital camera to buy.
+Buying a camera and ISO
+If you are in that position, check the ISO range of the potential purchase. The standard for a lot of digital cameras, even now, seems to be Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, which, for example is the range applying to the Sony Alpha DSLR-A390. That’s not exactly a great range for a brand new model, to be honest. Apart from severely limiting your shooting options, I would want to make sure the camera can actually produce usable images at ISO 1600 and especially ISO 3200. The Sony Alpha DSLR-A390 has only one more ISO setting than the much older Olympus E-520 (3200) so you have to wonder where Sony’s ISO heads are at. I mean, look at the Olympus E-620, which was released a year ago. It’s ISO range is 100, 125, 160, 200, 250, 320, 400, 500, 640, 800, 1000, 1250, 1600, 2000, 2500, 3200. Now you’re talkin’!
+So, if you are looking at which camera to buy, take the time to check out its ISO range as they can vary grealty. Also check out the camera yourself shooting at high ISO or take the time to research on-line for an in-depth review which covers ISO performance.
+Still on the Nikon D700, it’s default ISO settings are in the range 200 to 6400, with a low boost to 100 and a high boost to 25600 – the same as the Nikon D3. The Nikon D300 has a default range of 200 – 3200, with a low boost to 100 and a high boost to 6400. Canon is much the same. The EOS 5D Mark II has a default range of 100 to 6400, expandable to 50 and 25600.
+The reason why the “extreme” ISO settings are available separately, on any digital camera, is to do with calibration. The default range is the calibrated to international standard range, whereas the expandable settings are not.
+I could go on and on about ISO, but I reckon I’ve said enough to get you started.
+Cheers,
+Peter
+History
+- Tutorial first published 30 June 2010 on Redbubble.com.
+- Republished 11 December 2010 on Peter Hill’s Weblog.
+Terrific to see your tutorials here! I wish you ALL the best in this endeavor!
+Thanks very much Kevin
+Hi Peter!!!!! Best of luck with your new endeavor!! Rest assured your new address will be added to my bookmarks!!!!
+Hi Lois, thanks for coming over!
+Good tutorial Peter. If I can ask…. I was hoping to get a 5d2 next year and the info I look at in regards to this model , shows ISO at 100. I always thought it went to 50! You’ve mentioned it here also. Are you able to shed light on this for me?
+Hi Lorraine. ISO 50 on the 5D Mark II is a Custom Setting (accessible from the back LCD menu). When you select it, it shows on the top LCD menu as L when you scroll down past 100. The other 2 expandable ISO options are 12500 (H1) and 25000 (H2).
+Thanks so much Peter. Appreciated :-)
+I’m going to be learning lots from you! I am all about learning new things and you like teaching. I am and will be your #1 student.
+Thank you,
+Gail Bridger from Red Bubble!
+Well hi Gail, nice to see you hear! Thanks for your support!
+Excellent. Thank you, Peter.
+Hi Jan, good to see you! thanks!
+An Excellent Tutorial Peter.
+Keep them coming mate.
+I’ve put you in my Blog Watch List.
+All the best,
+Don.
+Thanks very much Don for your support!
+Very professional look to this Peter. This is going to be a really popular blog and I just wanted to wish you every success.
+All my best
+Jim
+I am with you all the way Peter,, I am confident you will have great success with this blog!! Great job!!
+Great presentation. I bookmark your site in my fav. Good luck Peter, and all my wishes for a great success.
+And a merry Christmas, and very happy new year, full of joy, for you and your beloved ones.
+Patrick
+I bookmarked this page too and hope to see your wonderful work and tutorials for a long time to come.
+Oh Peter. You are a saviour!
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+The Winch (Alicante, Spain 2010)
+I really miss casting off and raising the mainsail for a beautiful day out on the water.13336540DAguaAlex Stoen PhotographyBarcoBoatCanonCanon EOS 40DCollectionEFS 1785 f45.6 IS USMFlickrMain SailMarMarineMediterraneanMediterranean SeaMerNauticalNauticoNavegarPicasaPicassaProject365SailSailingSailing BoatSeaSpainVelaVeleroWaterWinchwebh worshiped84Alex Stoen PhotographyCanon EOS 1DXEF 2470mm f2.8L II USMFushimi Inari ShrineGeotaggedMount InariNGExpeditionsNatGeoNational Geographic ExpeditionsTravelVacationvermilion torii gates.
+Alex Stoen PhotographyCubaHolguinLeica MP Typ 240SummiluxM 35mm
+Playa Pesquero (Guardalavaca, Cuba 2018)
+The Caribbean never ceases to take my breath away, with its pristine sandy beaches, turquoise water and tropical weather, allowing us to escape our realities if only for a few days. I captured this blissful scene on the iPhone, which came in extremely handy on the beach, allowing me to walk around without carrying my Leica M or my heavy Canon DSLR.
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+El Guajiro de Santiago (Santiago de Cuba, Cuba 2018)
+I shot this portrait of a Cuban farmer on my way back from Santiago, as he was struggling to keep his cows2018Smugmug1009150Alex Stoen PhotographyCubaLeica MP Typ 240SummiluxM 35mmTravel
+Different times (Gibara, Cuba 2018)
+Founded in January 1817, Gibara is also known as "La Villa Blanca" from the color of its colonial architecture and well-planned layout of its streets, houses and parks. I composed this typical scene in a local government office inside an old colonial building. What really caught my eye was the contrast between the plain wooden wall, decorated only with the Cuban flag, the empty chairs around the single table with its flowers facing towards the light, and then the rich floor tiles, reminiscent of a different time...
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+Alex Stoen PhotographyCubaHolguinLeica MP Typ 240SummiluxM 35mm
+The Unstoppable Maquinas (Holguin, Cuba 2018)
+On the road to Gibara, a local fishing town on the northeastern side of Cuba, we passed many "maquinas", or "Yank tanks". There are still an estimated 60,000 of them still driving the Cuban roads today, taxiing locals and tourists from town to town.
+ASTOEN2018Smugmug7030Alex Stoen PhotographyCanon EOS 1DXCarCubaHolguinMomentsRoadStorytellingStreet PhotographyTravelblurclassic carsmotionmouvement
+Piña Stop (Holguin, Cuba 2018)
+Today we hired a classic car to drive us from Pesquero to Holguin, and stopped on the way to pickup some fresh fruits. I made this composition of my wife choosing a ripe pineapple. I am so happy to see these private businesses flourish around the country.
+ASTOEN2018Smugmug1008368Alex Stoen PhotographyCubaDestinationHolguinLeica MP Typ 240MomentsStorytellingSummiluxM 35mmTravel
+Transatlantic (Holguin, Cuba 2018)
+Just arrived in Cuba last night, and looking forward to relaxing a few days on the pristine beaches of Playa Pesquero. I made this iPhone snap as we crossed the Atlantic.
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+The Colors of Notting Hill (London, United Kingdom 2018)
+We felt like we got a taste summer this weekend, with the perfect weather to get out!2018Smugmug1008220
+The Bull Ring (Birmingham, United Kingdom 2016)
+The Bull Ring is a major commercial area of central Birmingham. It’s been an important feature of the city since the Middle Ages, when its market was first held. Masterplanned and designed by Benoy, the new Bullring Shopping Centre opened its doors in 2003, to huge crowds. Even today, the architecture is an eye catcher, with its 15,000 shiny aluminium discs, inspired by a Paco Rabanne sequinned dress.
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+Seven Million Wonders (Les Olmes, France 2010)
+While looking back through my photo archive, and I came across this portrait of my niece Marilou, taken 8 years ago. It's really kind of scary how fast children seem to be growing up! Peering over this image, I am reminded of a famous quote by Walt Streightiff, who said:
+"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."
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+Boulangerie des Tilleuls (Faucon, France 2018)
+The best bread I've ever had came from the local breadmaker in the small village of Provence where I grew up in. Last month I was fortunate to escape the big city stress and flew to southern France for a weekend. It was a short break but it brought back so many memories of my childhood as well as priceless moments with my family.
+Alex Stoen PhotographyFauconFranceLeica MP Typ 240ProvenceSummiluxM 35mmTravelVaisonlaRomaineVaucluseVillage
+Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain 2015)
+Built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the Basque city of Bilbao to the Cantabrian Sea, the Guggenheim Museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Frank Gehry, has often been hailed as the most important structure of its time when it opened in 1997. Because of their mathematical complexity, the sinuous curves were designed using a three-dimensional design software called Catia, which allowed designs and calculations that, years earlier, had not been possible. The 33,000 extremely thin titanium sheets provide a rough and organic effect, adding to the material’s color changes depending on the weather and light conditions making the entire structure an amazing work of art!
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+The Thien Mu Pagoda
+Day 6, 07:25. Early arrival at this magnificent 7 story tower. How fitting is it to see it with a very young monk cycling by?
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+Novices at the Shwedagon Pagoda (Yangon, Myanmar 2013)
+I came across this group of novice monks while attending the festival of lights,
+Moorgate & Telegraph (City of London, United Kingdom 2018)
+I made this iPhone capture on my commute to the office, as the City quickly awakes and everyone hustles to work. The early morning hours are usually my favorite time to get these snaps, as the light seems magical, cutting through the retreating shadows.
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+Sampdoria v Inter, Matchday 1By: Johonna | August 29th, 2008
+When: Saturday, August 30, 8:30 pm (local time), 11:30 am pst, 2:30 pm est
+Where: Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa
+Referee: Roberto Rosetti (of recent Euro Final fame)
+How to Watch: Shown live in US on Fox Soccer Channel, or streaming here
+Here it is, what every calcio fan has been waiting for since May 18th, Matchday 1 of the 2008/09 season. For the Nerazzurri, this means Sampdoria v Inter at Genoa and our first rung on the Scudetto ladder (number 17!). Not that this will be easy. Last season Samp had an amazing home record: out of the 19 league games they won 10 and drew 7. For those of you that dont want to do the math, that means they only lost 2 home games last season. Still, they could not beat us: we trounced them at the San Siro (3-0) and drew (1-1) in Genoa. Can we beat them this season? You bet. All we need is determination, thoughtful playing, and some work on our freaking set pieces!
+.
+THE SQUAD
+Mourinho has called up 20 players:
+Goalkeepers: Toldo, Julio Cesar, Orlandoni.
+Defenders: Cordoba (!), Zanetti, Maxwell, Maicon, Materazzi (!).
+Midfielders: Stankovic, Figo, Jimenez, Dacourt, Cambiasso, Muntari, Mancini, Bolzoni (!).
+Forwards: Ibrahimovic, Cruz (!), Crespo, Balotelli.
+As you can see, there are some welcome surprises on the list: Cordoba and Materazzi are back from injury, as is Cruz. Dacourt is also a surprise as I thought he was being shopped around, and Bolzoni is clearly being groomed for the Champions League. Cruz is exciting as he almost always scores a goal or two (or 19 last season). So, given the call-up, what can we expect to see on the pitch?
+Assuming a 4-3-3, it may go something like this:
+JC
+Maxwell Materazzi Cambiasso Maicon
+Muntari Stankovic Zanetti
+Mancini Ibrahimovic Balotelli
+Or at least that is what La Gazzetta thinks and it seems to jive with what Mourniho said in the press conference today:
+“…Julio Cesar, Maicon, Cambiasso, Materazzi, Maxwell, Stankovic, Muntari, Zanetti, Ibrahimovic, più due… Va bene così.”
+SAMPDORIA
+Mazzarri has called up 19 for Saturday:
+Keepers: Fiorillo, Mirante.
+Defense: Accardi, Bottinelli, Campagnaro, Gastaldello, Lucchini.
+Midfielders: Delvecchio, Dessena, Franceschini, Padalino, Palombo, Pieri, Sammarco, Stankevicius, Ziegler.
+Forwards: Bonazzoli, Cassano, Fornaroli.
+La Gazzetta thinks they will will play 3-5-3:
+Ok, so these guys are without a doubt a team to be reckoned with, especially at home. For a great rundown for the team, see Francesco’s preview and Alberico’s preview of the game ahead.
+Samp’s main asset is their troubled wonderkid, Antonio Cassano (although I think I read somewhere that he is in love and feeling much better). He is dangerous upfront, especially with our slightly cobbled back line. In addition, Mazzarri is no slouch, and after the Super Cup, he will have had time to analyze Mou’s new tactics and come up with a little something of his own.
+PAST MEETINGS
+Here is what happened last year at the San Siro:
+And when we played them in Genoa, Cassano scored early in the second half (a real beauty, as I recall):
+but Crespo answered 10 minutes later to equalize and continue our unbeaten record:
+What we learn here is that Cassano is dangerous and that we need to play to the whistle.
+MY PREDICTION
+I think it will end Inter 2-1 Sampdoria. They are a good team, but we are a team bent on world domination (or at least European domination). True, we may have some defensive issues (Marco, I am looking at you) but between Cordoba and Zanetti, we have cover should problems arise. So far Mourinho has not put a foot wrong - if he says that Marco is ready and able, I have to believe him. Also, the squad is confident. Mou said today that although a draw would not be problematic, we are going to Genoa to win.
+“Non andremo a Genova per ritornare a Milano con un punto, se poi succederà non sarà un dramma. Come ho detto prima, questa è una maratona, ma dobbiamo pensare di andare a giocare sempre per vincere.”
+So, I say lets go Inter! It will take work, but we can most definitely come away with 3 points. The team showed they can successfully implement Mourinho’s tactics - all we need to do now is keep it up for a full 90.
+IN OTHER NEWS:
+Suazo has gone to Benfica on loan. This is good news for us as it frees up vital capital for a certain Portuguese winger we have had our eye on this summer.
+Also, Balotelli has been called up for the Azzurrini. Good Job, Mario!
+Domani, Ragazzi, noi prenderemo 3 punti. FORZA INTER
+And remember, with Jose we are always one step ahead!
+LATE BREAKING NEWS
+(or early, depending how you look at it)
+La Gazzetta is now saying that we have signed Quaresma for 18 million and Pele - not as loan but trade.
+I think I am beginning to get my hopes up!
+Yeah, saw that too, and the one on Tuttomercatoweb.
+I am not trying to be a wet blanket. If you guys want to celebrate, i can totally understand, but for three months we have been given the old, “he’s in, he’s out, he’s never coming, he might be coming, he’s in, he’s out…”
+So, I’ll just wait.
+BTW what the hell is up with the “friendly” in Switzerland next week? Shouldn’t we be, oh I don’t know, trying to clear out the triage ward?
+Posted from
+United States
+I think it is for the people coming off injury to get some “free” game time.
+Posted from
+United States
+Looks like Quaresma is just about yours. Great signing for you guys, hope he takes a while to settle in. That boy has talent.
+Posted from
+United States
+Now give us crespo
+Posted from
+United States
+Done Deal!! Medicals have been passed. Papers have been signed.
+RQ is Interista!!
+OOOOleee Ole Ole Oleeeeee Inter!! Inter!!
+Posted from
+United States
+He has tremendous ability. I think he will be an important piece to Inter’s puzzle. A two year wish/dream has been realized. He is exactly the type of player that we needed. Hopefully he can do what he does best wearing Inter’s shirt. A very welcomed addition!!
+Forza Inter Dai!!!!!!!
+Posted from
+United States
+It’s on the website!
+YEAH!
+Crespo looks to leave to either Palermo or Samp!
+If Crespo goes then two out of the four I thought HAD to go are thisclose to being gone.
+The roster gets trimmed of the “too old” guys and we make room for Obinna and Aqucafrasca next year!
+Too bad Pele had to go the other way, but he wasn’t ready this year, I don’t think.
+Posted from
+United States
+I really liked Pele. I don’t think he was ready this year either. We lost him to gain RQ, who is already very good, and we will have Auqafresca and Obinna next season.
+I don’t think we lose at all in this situation!
+I have always liked Crespo. I would have hated it very much if he went to Roma but I don’t hink that is happening. Samp would be a better fit for him over Palermo.
+Posted from
+United States
+ok now i believe that we signed RQ. the picture of him holding up an inter shirt kinda gave it away lol.
+now we are full to the brim with talent. jesus! good luck to jose with managing all those egos.
+the mancini, zlatan, quaresma partnership sounds so terrifying! look out world!!!
+Posted from
+United States
+Holy spit, what the hell is happening in Palermo?
+They just signed all these players and now they are loaning/selling them out again.
+But their players are going to the teams that they are in competition with, like Genoa for mid table.
+I mean, I know that owner is crazy but, jeez.
+Oh and Mancini/Quaresma/Ibra/Adriano/Balotelli/Cruz/Figo
+looks like a Champions league/Championship forward line to me…
+Posted from
+United States
+Oh and I believe that RQ already comes with a nickname like Bronco or Mustang or Charger or Explorer (okay not that last one, but as long as I was naming cars…heh) something horse related.
+I think I will stick with RQ.
+Posted from
+United States
+Yes, I have seen the horse one (it is Mustang). Also, the Portuguese press sometimes calls him Harry Potter (because he is magical?). Hopefully Inter fans will come up with something better.
+See, all you doubters and naysayers! I had faith that papa Moratti would come through at the end.
+I am sorry to see Crespo go (if he indeed does go), but there is just not room. It is nothing personal; its me, not him… I hope we can still be friends, though.
+(and I still cant believe that Ancelotti was smoking on the sidelines at yesterday’s game - nothing says athleticism like a Marlboro).
+Posted from
+United States
+my season just got that much more exciting
+Posted from
+United States
+Ancelotti was smoking?? i missed that. Wish i could have seen it.
+Posted from
+United States
+I am sure La Curva Nord will come up with an adequate Nickname and a kick ass chant for him!
+Coaches do smoke on the sideline, I don’t think its that uncommon. You can smoke right in your seat at the stadium if you’d like to.
+Posted from
+United States
+Wow, realy Paolo? Thats the first time ive heard of that. Well i think it sends the wrong message. How does ancelotti keep up with all that tar in his lungs. I know coaches dont run for 90 minutes in practice but man im sure his fat ass already has trouble breathing. “Ancelotti, did u eat my sandwiches”
+Posted from
+United States
+here’s my attempt at creating a chant for RQ:
+“RQ, WE LOVE YOU! SCORE US A GOAL OR MAYBE TWO!!!”
+Posted from
+United States
+Inter’s Champions league roster is out. Some INTEResting names on it.
+Only four forwards on it: Ibra Cruz, Balotelli, Adriano. No Crespo.
+With 25 names on the list- not counting the “B” squad- you can see where all the personnel is focused. Right in the defense– sans Samual who is NOT listed. 9 defenders and 9 “midfielders” which also give up numbers to include our forward wings.
+Youngsters Mei, Santon and Bolzoni are included… and in a Machiavellian sense, this is the reason they were included from the beginning. to fill out the 4+ rule or whatever it is.
+By the way, love that picture of RQ in front of all those trophies!
+Posted from
+United States
+Results for the first week of fantasy football:
+1. Prade’s Fantasy Calcio XI Prade’s Illegitimate Son- 37
+2 Grande Stronzo- Lorenzo -37
+3 Flawless Calciotores- SamsonASR -33
+4 Tballs- Tballs -32
+5 AS Perkele- Danny 31
+6 Romanistas Are GAY -KJ VENTIMIGLIA- 31
+7 DeRossi’s Raiders -forzaitalia -30
+8 MADmen MAD- 29
+9 De Rossi for President Riccardo- 29
+10 I Puponi -mkm -26
+11 SPQR Daniele -Omelio- 26
+12 Miccoli’s eyebrows -rickitris- 25
+13 Us.Palermo -Pasquale -25
+14 Bona -Bona- 24
+15 Ctrl Alt Elite- Jakob Slot- 24
+16 The Fabsters -Fabio Ciarlelli -23
+17 ZOMGSNAKESONAPLANEBBQ! -Paoluccio- 23
+18 The Bobby Goblins- LorenzoRosanero -22
+19 awesome blossom -frankiiieg- 22
+20 Oel til mig -Henrik Lippi -22
+21 matchfixers -Ranjeet -22
+22 elmirosso -elmi -21
+23 DhawXI -Romanista81- 21
+24 a hoboz dikcheeze- evaldo- 21
+25 Beebo- Bashar- 21
+26 AS FlackAttack- FlackAttack -21
+27 CMP Tree Huggers- CMP (ASR) -20
+28 MARADONUTS- ZolaTotti -19
+29 FC Kimbo- canibus -19
+30 michael arruzzas team- michael arruzza- 18
+31 Gladiators- SmurfDaddyT- 18
+32 Stasio –STASIO 17
+33 Serie A All Stars -Scilacci -16
+34 Goodfellas United FC -sopranosmainman- 15
+35 M.B Studios- M.B -15
+36 I.P. Freely -PalermoSteve -15
+37 iDrughi -MikeDGnyc -14
+38 AS New York -Doug- 13
+39 Reckless Baby Eaters –Gollum 12
+40 Roma this -ordeal_rules- 11
+41 Cmare- Giro- 10
+42 Forza Roma -Mostafa El Beheiry- 10
+43 CatMeat- JulianItalyWCB11- 10
+44 Il Romanista Ali -El Beheiry- 9
+45 AlessioBianconero -AlessioBianconero- 8
+46 Cattolica Eraclea F.C -Alberto- 7
+47 squadra south bend- Colin Ryan -7
+Posted from
+United States
+Lippi used to smoke a cigar on the sidelines a lot. Probably best known other smoker is Chivu, he apparently smokes a lot, never understood how clubs or professional players could allow that.
+What # did Ricky get?
+Posted from
+United States
+does Samuel’s exclusion form the CL Squad indicate he is nowhere near being ready to play yet?
+Posted from
+United States
+Most likely. That or Mourinho doesn’t favor him. I’d be inclined to say the former. Kind of like Nesta being left out.
+Posted from
+United States
+RQ chose 77 because 7 was taken… for this year
+Posted from
+United States
+Alessio- I think Quaresma got 77.
+Posted from
+United States
+Samuel’s exclusion is definitely due to the ongoing effects of the injury; he would have been one of the first names on the list if he was healthy.
+I can’t wait for the Catania match; the intrusion of an international weekend after only one league game has always struck me as bizarre. It’s almost like a false start.
+Posted from
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+Read the rest of the comments
+
+The world we live in is full of wonders. Whatever random thing we lay our eyes on has some interesting story behind it. From the simple white clouds up above that we ignore every day to the most exotic-looking jellyfish from the northern oceans, there is always something wondrous to learn about. All we have to do is open our minds and stay curious. Here are some random, fun facts that we are sure you would enjoy reading about.
+1. The average cumulus cloud weighs around 1.1 million pounds.
+Cumulus clouds are the fluffy, cotton-like clouds with flat bases generally appearing at low altitudes of less than 2,000 meters (6,600 feet). They can be composed of ice crystals, water droplets, supercooled water droplets, or a mixture of all of them. The weight of a cloud is measured by first calculating their density. Clouds that aren’t yet precipitating into raindrops contain droplets of around five micrometers present in concentrations of 23 to 1,300 droplets per cubic centimeter (380 to 21,300 droplets per cubic inch). On a typical, nice day, a cubic meter of the cloud weights half a gram.
+The next measurement is the size of the cloud. One way of doing that is measuring its shadow when the sun is directly above it. A typical cumulus cloud would be roughly cubical, one kilometer across, one kilometer long, and one kilometer tall making its volume one billion cubic meters. That would mean it contains 500 million grams of water or 1.1 million pounds.(1, 2)
+2. On an average, there’s one supernova explosion every 50 years in the Milky Way alone. Within the observable universe, it’s close to 30 every single second.
+Led by Roland Diehl of Max Plank Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany, an international team was able to calculate the average number of Milky Way stars exploding using the European Space Agency’s Integral Satellite. They did this by conducting a long-duration survey of gamma rays produced by the aluminum-26 isotope as it decays. Aluminum-26 is a rare isotope created by supernovas with a half-life of 740,000 years. Each massive-star explosion creates a quantity of the isotope equal to 0.0001 times the mass of our sun. Our galaxy currently has about 2.8 solar masses of the isotope meaning that there have been over 20,000 supernovae during the past million years.
+In the observable universe, there are over a 100 billion galaxies, and on an average, each galaxy has at least one supernova in a century. According to Dr. Richard Mushotzky of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, there have been one billion supernovae per year in the last 10 billion years. The universe us 13.7 billion years old not taking into account the first 3.7 billion years during which the stars were still forming. That means there are 30 supernovae per second in the observable universe.(1, 2)
+3. Redheads experience more pain and require 20% more anesthesia during a surgery.
+Until a few years ago, there was only an impression among anesthesiologists that redheads require more anesthesia than others. In 2002, researchers at University of Louisville, Kentucky performed a study in which 20 women in which half of whom were redheads and the other half dark-haired. They were put under desflurane, a common gaseous anesthesia, and given an electric shock. The result was it was found that the redheads did need significantly more anesthesia than the others. Natural redheads have a distinct mutation of the melanocortin-1 receptor gene which was present in nine out of 10 of the redheaded test subjects. The researchers now associate the presence of this mutated gene with increased anesthesia requirement.(1, 2)
+4. Next to the US Army, Disney is the largest buyer and importer of explosives in the USA.
+One of the chief attractions at Disneyland is the elaborate fireworks almost every night. Since 1958, it conducted regularly themed fireworks shows such as Fantasy in the Sky, Believe… There’s Magic in the Stars, Halloween Screams, and many Disney fairytale-themed or movie-themed ones such as Star Wars. Not counting in the special shows during holiday seasons, Disneyland spends anywhere between $14,000 and $55,000 per night on just the fireworks which totals at least $18.25 million every year. Adding in IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth and Fantasmic, the total rises to $54.75 million a year. In 2004, Disneyland introduced a new air launch pyrotechnics system to cut down on the smoke, noise at ground level, and the negative impact on environment.(1, 2, 3)
+5. The stuffing between the wafers in Kit Kats is made from crushed-up, imperfect Kit Kats.
+Kit Kat is produced in over 200 flavors worldwide, many of them including ginger ale, soy sauce, sake, and melon flavored ones produced in Japan. Unlike the hard chocolate in which the Kit Kats are coated on the outside, the stuffing between the wafers has a soft and crumbly texture. This is because the quality assurance technicians reject all the imperfect wafers which have too many bubbles, those that aren’t of right shape, or even those that aren’t shiny enough. Instead of throwing these all away, these wafers are recycled back into the production process. The fine paste made from them become the filling between the wafers that do pass the quality tests.(source)
+6. The first electric car was invented during the late 19th century, and it went 65 mph.
+With the invention of practically viable, rechargeable, lead-acid batteries by French physicist Gaston Plante in 1859, the building of electric cars became a reality. At the 1867 World Exposition in Paris, an Austrian inventor, Franz Kravogl, exhibited an early, electric-powered two-wheeler, though it could not be driven reliably. Another French scientist, Camille Alphonse Faure, made significant improvements to the design of batteries by 1881.
+In 1884, English inventor Thomas Parker who was well-known for electrifying London Underground built the first electric car using special, high-capacity, rechargeable batteries of his own design. France, United Kingdom, and Germany were the first nations to design more electric-powered vehicles. Electric trains also became popular at coal mines as they would not further deplete the already spare oxygen. On April 29, 1899, race car driver Camille Jenatzy broke the previous record speed of 62 mph (100 kmph) by reaching 65.79 mph (105.88 kmph) on the Belgian, rocket-shaped La Jamais Contente.(source)
+7. It takes two years to grow a pineapple.
+Pineapple plants are propagated from the plantlets called suckers that grow between leaves, or from slips or plantlets that grow at the base of the fruit, or from the top part of a mature fruit. Each method takes slightly different amounts of time and yields different results. Commercial growers often use the suckers that grow after the first fruit is produced. It takes about 12 to 20 months for the plant to start flowering and another six months more for the fruit to mature. Tops take around 24 months to produce fruit and are often used by domestic gardeners who cut them from store-bought fruit.(1, 2)
+8. Plants can “hear” flowing water. Their roots seek buried pipes and even grow towards artificially produced water sounds.
+One of the discoveries during the 20th century was that plants have life too and react to external stimuli such as light, heat, temperature, and touch. Researchers have recently discovered that plants also react to another stimulus: sound. Experiments conducted at the lab of Italian plant physiologist professor Stefano Mancuso who is also the co-founder of Society for Plant Signaling and Behavior found that plant roots sought buried pipes through which water was flowing even though the exterior of the pipes was dry. This suggested that plants could somehow “hear” the water flowing.
+The theory was further tested by playing the sound of running water and the result was the roots grew towards the source of the sound. The reaction was not limited to the sounds of water. When chemical ecologist at University of Missouri Heidi Appel played a recording of caterpillar eating a leaf to a plant, it started producing defensive chemicals proving that plants can indeed hear sounds.(1, 2)
+9. When humans first started farming, blue eye color hadn’t yet evolved.
+Agriculture developed independently in at least 11 different regions of the world. Collecting and consuming wild grains began 105,000 years ago. Between 8,200 and 13,500 years ago, China started domesticating rice, soy, mung and azuki beans. Around 11,500 years ago, the cultivation of eight crops known as the Neolithic founder crops which consist of emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, barley, peas, chick peas, lentils, bitter vetch, and flax seeds started. On the other hand, though the DNA for light skin, hair, and eyes was found in human remains dating back to tens of thousands of years ago, the earliest remains of blue-eyed Homo Sapiens only date back to 7,700 years ago.(1, 2)
+10. There is a species of jellyfish known as lion’s mane jellyfish which can reach over 30 meters in length. The longest specimen to date was 37 meters, longer than a blue whale.
+The lion’s mane jellyfish is found mostly in the cold waters of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific Oceans in the English Channel, Irish Sea, North Sea, and western Scandinavian waters. They are the largest known species of jellyfish. Their hood or bell grows anywhere between 50 centimeters (20 inches) to over two meters (6 feet 7 inches) in diameter. The bell has eight lobes and each lobe has between 70 to 150 tentacles. In the center near its mouth are over 1,200 tentacles equipped with stinging cells. The tentacles of larger specimens trail out as long as 30 meters (100 feet) or more. The longest known specimen had tentacles that were 37 meters (120 feet) long with a bell diameter of 2.3 meters (7 feet 6 inches) and was found washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870.(source)
+Patent application title: Laser build up method using vibration and apparatus
+Inventors:
+Jonas Eriksson (Finspong, SE)
+Ulf Simmons (Norrkoping, SE)-09-06
+Patent application number: 20120223462
+Abstract:
+A laser built up method on an object with different surfaces is provided.
+The object can be coated locally, which is not possible by the
+conventional rapid prototyping processes. The object is put into a powder
+bed, powder is provided on or near the object and the powder is only
+locally provided on the upper outer surface of the object and then
+densified.
+Claims:
+1. A laser build up method on a surface of an object, comprising:
+providing powder on or near the object; providing the powder only locally
+on the upper outer surface of the object; and densifying the powder.
+2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the powder is only locally densified.
+3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising putting the object into a powder bed.
+4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the object is put directly or indirectly into vibration.
+5. The method according to claim 1, wherein a powder supply is used to provide powder on the object.
+6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the object includes several surfaces with different heights on one side of the object, wherein the object comprises non-planar upper surfaces, and wherein only the lower surface of the object is built up.
+7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the object is only locally densified.
+8. The method according to claim 1, wherein a laser is used to densify the powder.
+9. The method according to claim 9, wherein the laser is used to melt the powder.
+10. The method according to claim 1, wherein a tool is moved over a powder layer to machine the powder layer.
+11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the tool is moved over the powder layer to get a uniform thickness of the powder layer.
+12. A laser build up method on a surface of an object, comprising: providing powder on or near the object; putting the object directly or indirectly into vibration, so that powder is filled on the surface of the object; and densifying the powder.
+13. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising putting the object into a powder bed.
+14. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the powder is only locally densified.
+15. The method according to claim 12, wherein a powder supply is used to provide powder on the object.
+16. The method according to claim 12, wherein the object includes several surfaces with different heights on one side of the object, wherein the object comprises non-planar upper surfaces, and wherein only the lower surface of the object is built up.
+17. The method according to claim 12, wherein the object is only locally densified.
+18. The method according to claim 17, wherein a laser is used to melt the powder.
+19. The method according to claim 12, wherein a tool is moved over a powder layer to machine the powder layer in order to get a uniform thickness of the powder layer.
+20. An apparatus used for a laser build up method on an object, comprising: a powder supplier or a container for a powder bed; a laser; and means for vibrating the object.
+Description:
+CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
+[0001] This application claims priority of European Patent Office application No. 11156368.0 EP filed Mar. 1, 2011. All of the applications are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
+FIELD OF INVENTION
+[0002] The invention relates to a laser build-up method using vibration for powder filling and an apparatus.
+BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
+[0003] Selective Laser Melting is a relatively well known and modem method of creating parts and components from powder material. A machine used together with this method comprises a table or building platform on which the part is built. Layer by layer after the leading of a layer of powder which is molten by a laser beam. The layer thickness is created by a scraper that moves over the powder bed. One major requirement for the functionality of the machine is that the object does not contain any obstacle sticking out upwards from the powder bed. This implies that only part with a flat upper surface can be used. This is generally no problem when parts are built from "scratch" but any application including repairing of existing objects will need a preceding operation where the object is machined in such a way that the top surface is flat.
+[0004] The selective laser melting in its current known form is limited to planar horizontal surfaces and where the component can be retracted downward for each sintered layer.
+[0005] There are a number of processes available for depositing material to components by sintering metallic powder by laser. These methods varies slightly and can be divided into laser cladding, where powder is fed to the melting area and melted by a laser beam that can move in multiple axis and Laser Sintering where the powder is resident in a powder bed and the laser beam is oriented top down.
+[0006] Laser cladding has a low yield in terms of supplied powder and the deposit rate on the substrate is limited.
+SUMMARY OF INVENTION
+[0007] Therefore it is the aim of the invention to overcome the above described problems.
+[0008] The problem is solved by a method according to the claims.
+[0009] The invention describes methods for how powder distribution and layer thickness control can be applied to objects by locally applying powder or by vibration.
+[0010] In the dependent claims further advantageous features are listed, which can be combined arbitrarily with each other to yield further advantages.
+BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
+[0011] FIGS. 1 to 9 show steps of the inventive method.
+[0012] The figures and the description are only examples of the invention.
+DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION
+[0013] FIG. 1 shows an exemplary apparatus 1 to perform this method.
+[0014] The apparatus 1 comprises especially a container 10 wherein powder 7 (as arrow) or a powder bed 8 and an object 4 to be coated is present.
+[0015] There is no need for having a container or powder bed (see FIG. 3, 9).
+[0016] The object 4 has especially several upper surfaces 13, 16 on one side, wherein only the lower upper surface 16 shall preferably be coated. But the invention is not limited to non planar surfaces.
+[0017] The object 4 is retracted so that height of the powder bed 8 is higher than the surface 16 (FIG. 2).
+[0018] By using vibration means 22 powder 7 is filled and distributed on the surface 16 for getting a powder layer 14 (FIG. 4).
+[0019] The powder 7, 8 is supplied to the apparatus 1 and by vibration the powder flows easily over one surface 16 of the object 4.
+[0020] The vibration means 22 can be attached directly to the object 4 and/or the container 10. Even several vibration means 22 can be used at different locations (object 4, container 10).
+[0021] An alternative is to use a powder supply 34 with supplies powder 35 on the surface 16 (FIG. 3). The powder supply 34 is preferably moved over the surface 16. The powder 35 is preferably only locally applied. In this case no powder bed or container is necessary.
+[0022] Also vibration means 22 can be used to densify or to homogenize the powder.
+[0023] Especially there is a level control that makes sure that there is enough powder in the apparatus 1. If the powder level is too low, additional powder is fed in and the apparatus 1 is re-vibrated to let the powder flow freely and being distributed over the wanted surface 16.
+[0024] There can be a tool 31 (FIG. 5) which applied to FIG. 3 or FIG. 4 to remove or push aside excess powder from the areas where the laser beam 28 is supposed not to melt. The thickness of the powder layer 14 may reach the desired value by vibration only (FIG. 4). The tool (31 in FIG. 5 or 34 in FIG. 3) is preferably taking care of this as it moves over the surface 16 to be coated and pushes aside all excess powder. This function resembles the scraper as it forms a layer with a predefined and controlled thickness but unlike the scraper which usually travels in one direction only the whole width of the apparatus along the X-axis this tool (34 or 31) travels along any desired path over the surface 16 in both X and Y directions and this path avoids the obstacle surface 13.
+[0025] After having completed the supply of powder for one layer, in the next step (FIG. 6) a laser beam 8 of a laser 25 or electron beams are used to densify especially to sinter or to melt the powder layer 14 of FIG. 3, 4 or 5.
+[0026] The densification can also preferably be locally (FIG. 4, 5, 6, 8, 9).
+[0027] In the next step the object 4 can be again retracted, so that the level of powder bed 8 is higher than the desified layer 31 (FIG. 7) and no powder or empty space 32 is present above the layer 31.
+[0028] The object 4 or the container 10 is put into vibration and a second powder layer 14' is filled on the object 4 or as described in FIG. 3 (by powder supplier), 4 or 5.
+[0029] This can be repeated to build up several layers.
+[0030] This method can be used to repair components and can especially be performed locally.
+[0031] The method requires an apparatus 1 for laser sintering or melting powder and comprises especially a horizontal powder bed 8 that especially gradually retracts especially downward as each layer is built up. Each powder layer is densified by a laser beam sweeping over the powder layer 14 and densifying the powder and attaching powder to a previous layer. The downward movement of the powder bed 8 can be programmed to increments of a millimeter and can especially correspond to the size of the powder particles.
+[0032] Conventional Selective Laser Sintering Machines has a scraper which for each layer must be swept over the whole upper surface (here 13, 16) pushing powder material in front of the scraper and creating a layer of powder.
+[0033] The invention does not use the scraper but a cylindrical tool on X and Y guides with the movement similar to a milling machine
+[0034] FIG. 9 shows another example of the method.
+[0035] The lower upper surface 16 is totally surrounded by the upper surface 13.
+[0036] In this groove a powder 7 is supplied which is in most cases nonuniformly distributed. A powder supply does not have to move over the surface 16. By vibration means 22 the powder 7 is distributed uniformly inside the groove forming a powder layer 14.
+[0037] After that a laser 25 with laser beams 28 is used to densify the powder layer 14 to get a dense layer 31, wherein the powder layer 14 can preferably only locally be densified.
+[0038] In FIG. 9 the container and the powder bed is not shown or not necessary and even the vibration means are not shown all over the several steps of FIG. 4.
+[0039] A CNC program is preferably used for moving and controlling the object 4, the laser 25 or other tools (in all figures).
+[0040] The invention uses a robust tool with that may get in contact with the object if the object for same reason has been deflected by heat or strain. This feature can in some cases readjust the object and remove burrs and spatters.
+[0041] The invention expands Selective Laser Melting to cover also non planar object found typically in all repair businesses.
+[0042] The advantage of the invention are that it is now possible to limit the Selective Laser Melting to an area that does not have to be plane and to selective areas of an object that does not have a planar upper surface and lead to a reduction of operating time of the apparatus 1.
+Patent applications by Ulf Simmons, Norrkoping SE:
+Farmer Crushed Between Lift Arms and Frame of Skid-steer Loader
+Investigation: # 01MI029
+SUMMARY
+The witness ran for assistance, called 911 and returned to the site to wait for emergency personnel. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
+RECOMMENDATIONS
+- Skid steer loader owners should ensure that safety devices and physical safeguards on equipment are in place and operating.
+- Equipment owners should implement inspection programs to ensure that equipment is maintained free of defects that affect safe operation prior to use and during routine operation.
+- Equipment owners should ensure that all relevant manuals, such as an owner's and/or operator's manual are available on the loader in a weather-proof container or a secured plastic bag for the operator to consult for safe operating procedures, and service/maintenance of the loader.
+INTRODUCTION
+On May 27, 2001, a 67-year old male farmer died from injuries sustained when his head was crushed between the lift arm and the window frame of a skid-steer loader. On June 1, 2001, MIFACE investigators received notification of this fatality from an individual who had read a newspaper clipping of the incident. The victim's family was contacted and agreed to a MIFACE site visit. On August 16, 2001 MIFACE investigators visited the farm, talked with family members and viewed the skid-steer loader. The death certificate, autopsy results, and municipal police report were obtained during the course of the investigation. A copy of the skid-steer loader Operator's Manual, Service Manual and an instructional video were also obtained from the equipment manufacturer.
+INVESTIGATION
+The skid-steer loader was a New Holland model 785 front-end bucket loader and was used by the farmer for multiple purposes on the farm. The victim had purchased this skid-steer loader second-hand. The skid-steer loader had been in a barn that had been in a fire. The victim used the skid-steer loader as a backup piece of equipment. The victim had refurbished the skid-steer to "working" order. A relative of the victim who helped to refurbish the unit indicated not all safety features were reinstalled. The loader did not have cab side screens or a functional seat switch hydraulic lockout for the boom activation. The seat belt was present. The right rear tire was a skid-steer tire; the other tires were conventional truck tires.
+The skid-steer loader houses a single operator in a small cab. Foot pedals control the raising and lowering of the hydraulically powered lift arms (left pedal) and bucket tilt (right pedal).
+Some of the manufacturer's safety and warning decals were in place and readable in the operator's compartment and on the outside of the loader. The family stated that the victim did not have an owner's or operator manual available.
+The witness to this incident worked inside the building scraping manure from stalls to a bay door. The victim was clearing the piles of manure away from the bay door and loading the manure into a stake truck located on a concrete pad for eventual removal. The pad was wet and manure covered. It is unknown if the victim was wearing his seat belt. While the victim was loading the manure, the left rear truck tire blew out. The victim leaned his head outside of the operator's compartment through the unguarded window opening to look at the flat tire. While he was leaning outside of the cab, he apparently activated the left foot pedal, causing the bucket to lower quickly, crushing his head between the frame and the lift arm. See Figure 2.
+CAUSE OF DEATH
+The cause of death as stated on the death certificate was massive head trauma secondary to a farm equipment accident. No alcohol or drugs of abuse were detected in the victim's blood and urine.
+RECOMMENDATIONS/DISCUSSION
+• Skid-steer loader owners should ensure that all safety devices and physical safeguards, such as side screens on equipment are in place and operating.
+A literature search produced many examples of work-related fatalities occurring when an individual was working with disabled safety features on a skid-steer loader. For example, in 1995, an independent contractor performing demolition work died of crushing head injuries when he leaned outside of a cab where the protective wire mesh had been removed. In 1997, a laborer died of a crushed cranium while clearing brush and tree stumps from a residential site using a skid-steer loader from which the side screens had been removed. To assist skid-steer loader operators in increasing their awareness of the hazards of operating or working near skid-steer loaders, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) published NIOSH Alert #98-117, "Preventing Injuries and Deaths from Skid-steer Loaders". Six fatalities involving skid-steer loaders are described. The Alert makes recommendations to prevent similar incidents. The Skid-steer Loader Alert can be downloaded from the NIOSH website:.
+The skid-steer loader did not have side shields or a properly working seat hydraulic safety switch. The farm owner recognized the operating hazards of using the skid-steer loader without the side shields, as he had informed family members to keep their bodies within the cab. Skid-steer loader operators are seated in close proximity to the moving lift arms. The farm owner must have believed that he could safely operate the machine without the side screens in place, because he had used the skid-steer in the past without the side screens. The side screens on a skid-steer loader cab are mounted within the frame of the rollover protective structure (ROPS) by a force fit rubber gasket. The side screens and related hardware were damaged in a fire on at the previous owner's property. The gasket material and side screens were not replaced by the previous or current skid- steer owner.
+When the left rear tire blew, the victim must have instinctively leaned outside the confines of the cab to look at the blown rear tire. This movement caused him to be inside the lifting arms plane of motion while the arms were in a raised position. Upon leaning to his left, he must have inadvertently stepped on the lift control pedal, lowering the lift arm. Had the side screens been in place, they would have protected the operator from being caught in a pinch point created by the moving lift arms by providing a physical barrier from the plane of motion of the lift arms. The victim would have been prevented from placing any part of his body in the lift arm plane of motion.
+Before using the skid-steer loader for another work operation, the family members installed side screens on the outside of the cab frame to provide operator protection from the moving lift arms. See Figure 3 for a picture of the retrofitted skid-steer.
+• Equipment owners should implement an equipment inspection program to ensure that equipment is maintained free of defects that affect safe operation prior to use and during routine operation.
+The skid-steer loader was second-hand. It had been damaged in a fire at the time of purchase. The loader sale did not include a copy of the owner and/or operator safety manual, or functional safety features. The current owner repaired the skid-steer loader to "working" order, but not in "safe" working order. It did not have all of the safety guards installed and in proper working order. Some safety decals were missing and an operator's handbook was not available. The farm owner did not have written farm safety plan. He did not have a skid-steer loader inspection procedure to help determine if his equipment was safe or unsafe for use.
+• Equipment owners should ensure that all relevant manuals, such as an owner's and operator's manual are available to consult for safe operating procedures and service/maintenance of the loader.
+When the victim purchased the second- hand loader, the seller did not provide an owner's and/or operator's manual, and the victim did not obtain them from a local dealership. These manuals contain useful safety, operating, servicing and maintenance information.
+The operator's manual for this New Holland skid-steer loader identified tire size, description, and inflation specifications, and suggested tire/wheel replacement options. The victim had replaced worn and damaged skid-steer tires with conventional truck tires. When skid-steer loaders are used on the farm, a variety of environments are encountered such as cement, soft dirt, rocks, and other objects. Issues such as floatability and soil compaction will impact tire wear. Due to the nature of the variable work environment, skid-steer tires have high rates of tire wear. On the skid-steer loader used by the victim, 3 of the 4 tires were truck tires, the remaining tire a skid-steer tire.
+The risk of serious injury or death to equipment operators can be reduced if equipment is maintained in proper operating condition. The skid-steer loader associated with this incident had been used extensively and although maintained in basic operating condition, some aspects of its maintenance, specifically the lack of side screens and the disabling of the seat activated boom lockout were not present or operational. Various reasons for the loader being maintained in its condition at the time of the incident may have included uncertain and fluctuating financial conditions in the agriculture industry. The victim may have had to prioritize expenditures due to uncontrollable and often low commodity prices. These factors may have contributed to the lack of proper maintenance or delay in having the skid-steer loader properly repaired after the fire.
+Although readily available and often used as a skid-steer tire replacement, conventional truck tires are not designed to withstand the wear and extra pressure on the sidewalls that occur when a skid-steer loader turns. There are many tire manufacturers that produce durable, cut-resistant tires with extended tread life and reinforced sidewalls specifically for skid-steer loaders. Costs for skid-steer tires range between $100-$250 per tire. In consultation with the owner's or operator's manual, a skid-steer tire, not a truck tire, should be used when replacing damaged skid-steer tires.
+RESOURCES
+- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
+- New Holland, Consumer Services Department, Mail Station 500, New Holland, PA 17757. Telephone: 717-354-15
+The way Bloomberg is going, he’d be better off setting a billion dollars on fire than running for President. But please do anyway, Mike.By Contributor Archive
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 29
+I still say there is no way Bloomy wins and that he hurts Dems if he does, but since he’s thinking of running for President (according to news reports), I thought I’d write about this stupid story.
+New York is moving closer to becoming the east coast San Francisco. Mayor Bloomberg’s office is thinking about requiring anyone taking pictures, moving or still, to get a permit from the city AND carry a million dollar liability insurance policy, if they stand in one “area” for more than 30 minutes.
+We couldn’t make this up. Well, we could, but we’re not.
+It’s so absurd, but it’s true.
+A city official said, “While the permitting scheme does not distinguish between commercial and other types of filming, we anticipate that these rules will have minimal, if any, impact on tourists and recreational photographers, including those that use tripods.â€
+Code word: anticipate. They could write this so it only impacts Hollywood film crews and fashion magazine shoots, but they decided not to.
+Why? So they can fine the hell out of tourists if they want! Geez, this is New York, Bloomberg’s New York. That’s what they do!
+Ban Smoking, ban trans-fats, ban head phones in cross-walks, ban taking pictures without paying. They want to run your life and they love your money!
+We do to, we just don’t use the power of government to steal if from you.
+Cross posted to Check out our weekly podcast on the homepage for more smart-a$$edness. (Not a word, we know.)
+Fundraising numbers could spell doom for McCain, EdwardsBy David Kaiser, Editor
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 29
+With the deadline for second quarter fund raising looming, the campaigns of two Johns could face serious questions to their viability, while Clinton, Obama, Giuliani and Romney are all expected to post totals similar to, if not greater than, their first quarter numbers.
+A story on Bloomberg.com points out that fund raising is a test of a “candidates ability to meet expectations.” Here’s more:
+“If you’re not showing the ability to raise substantial amounts and start to pile up cash by this point, it’s increasingly difficult to see how a candidate is going to be able to win the nomination,” said Anthony Corrado, a professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
+Although the death of the Immigration bill is probably a good thing for John McCain, his machine is still leaking oil worse than an Exxon tanker in Alaska:
+McCain, more than any other candidate, can’t afford a fundraising dip, said Rogan Kersh, associate dean of New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service. After the first quarter, McCain overhauled his fundraising operation, though he continues to struggle with donors and has dropped steadily in national polls.
+John Edwards may be on the verge of dropping out of the first tier, and can hear the second tier horses coming up on him fast:
+The key among three other Democrats — New Mexico Governor Richardson and Senators Dodd of Connecticut and Biden of Delaware — will be who raises more than the others and who comes close to or eclipses Edwards.
+It cannot possibly be a good sign for Edwards that Bill Richardson has tied him in a recent New Hampshire poll and that Richardson may actually come close to or even overtake Edwards in second quarter fund raising. If you’ve watched any of the Democratic debates you should know that Richardson is the same horse that could be outperformed by Mr. Ed in a debate if given the chance.
+Obama releases first bit of information on Q2 fundraisingBy David Kaiser, Editor
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 28
+The Barack Obama campaign told the Associated Press that they expect to total 250,000 contributions before the second quarter fundraising reporting deadline. That would give him more than the impressive number achieved in Q1.
+The freshman Illinois senator impressed rivals in the first quarter when he reported 104,000 donors, but he surpassed the mark in the second quarter with 138,000 more opening their wallets, the campaign told The Associated Press.
+The speculation is that his dollar total should be somewhere in the same neighborhood as the $25 million he raised last quarter, which put him neck-and-neck with Hillary.
+Another nice bit of news for Obama is detailed in a Real Clear Politics story stating the John Edwards campaign is “crumbling” and that Senator from Illinios stands to benefit the most from this: more than six months before the first polls open in Iowa (a very merry Christmas Caucus anyone?), and with the level that Clinton and Obama are fundraising, this race could very quickly degenerate into a two-horse match race and not the Derby that some expect.
+Fred Thompson’s lobbying for Aristide not likely to help his imageBy Contributor Archive
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 27
+For a wrinkled guy, Fred Thompson has that rosy, fresh scent, if for no other reason than he is not yet actually running for president. Once the reality of his entering the race hits, all those people that want Thompson in the race are likely to suddenly become disillusioned. Good press (as reporters search for ever more candidates in the already overflowing field) will often follow an unofficial candidate right up until he/she officially declares, at which point the attacks begin. Clearly then, the smart thing for Thompson to do would be to hold off declaring until late October of next year, at which point he might stand a chance of winning.
+Unfortunately for Fred, that can’t happen, so when he announces his presidential run in a couple weeks, he’ll have to answer hard questions about his years of work as a lobbyist. Right now none of Thompson’s past lobbying efforts are in the forefront of the minds of voters, but once his past becomes common knowledge, Fred is going to have some serious problems. Lobbying for a billion-dollar failed nuclear project and for a saving-and-loan bill that helped collapse the industry are, granted, not something most voters cast ballots based on, but on top of those misguided efforts, Thompson was a lobbyist for the horrific Haitian President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
+To refresh unpleasant memories, Aristide, ousted among protests of corruption (among other things), was globally despised for endorsing a sick form of execution where tires, soaked with gasoline, were thrown around a victim’s neck and set on fire. This practice, called “necklacing” was, quite disturbingly, praised by Aristide, who stated, “The burning tire, what a beautiful tool! … It smells good. And wherever you go, you want to smell it.” Even more disturbing, perhaps, is one presidential candidate to-be’s lobbying the White House on Aristide’s behalf.
+If Rudy and Romney are having a tough time answering questions of social liberalism and flip-flopping, respectively, the cross-examination of Fred Thompson should be the stuff of movies, and without a script, Thompson is going to be faced with the nearly impossible task of maintaining his likable facade.
+Hillary, eh? Take off, you hoser!By Contributor Archive
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 26
+Thankfully they can’t vote, but if they could Canadians would cast their votes for Hillary Clinton for President.
+By a margin of 36 to 12, Hillary beats Rudy, with Obama at 11 and the also-rans coming in around the low single-digits range.
+—————————–
+Hillary Clinton 36%
+—————————–
+Rudy Giuliani 12%
+—————————–
+Barack Obama 11%
+—————————–
+John Edwards 4%
+—————————–
+John McCain 4%
+—————————–
+Mitt Romney 1%
+—————————–
+None of them (vol.) 9%
+—————————–
+Wouldn’t vote (vol.) 3%
+—————————–
+DK/NA/Ref 21%
+—————————–
+Why anyone would conduct a poll of a foreign nation on the election of this country, or the other way around, is beyond me. But since dual citizenship is so easy for Canadians to get here, don’t be surprised when Hillary comes out and says she’s always been a Maple Leafs and Blackhawks fan.
+Still waiting to see the poll on how the dead in Chicago will vote.
+Fred Thompson charms the ladies – even his exesBy Contributor Archive
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 25
+Fred Thompson, who is keeping the worst kept secret about his intentions to seek the Republican nomination, apparently won’t need to remain hush-hush about his numerous past romances. Thompson, who has a reputation as quite the charmer, has had a string of exes come out to say how wonderful he is, and that they respect him and support his run at the presidency.
+Country singer Lorrie Morgan “couldn’t think of a bad word to say” about Fred, claiming he is a “perfect example of chivalry”. Another ex, GOP fundraiser Georgette Mosbacher, claims Thompson’s abilities to charm both traditional and professional women will allow him to beat Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head matchup. Even Thompson’s ex-wife, Sarah Kresnick, is intending to campaign for him.
+Ex-girlfriends, wives and significant others falling over themselves to sing Fred Thompson’s praises? If nothing else, it is quite the turn around from all the hidden and politically spun stories of the Bill Clinton affairs.
+Defending Iowa and New HampshireBy Contributor Archive
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 24.
+However, Jay has a preemptive strike for those who might buy into these ideas: naïve.
+So what’s the solution? Perhaps we’ve found it. Shifting the system in order to replicate retail politicking in other small states might not work, or as Jay puts it, might not account for the “political economy” in each state. The front loaded system we’ve created may not be pretty, but it still protects the role played by Iowa and New Hampshire (or at the very least can’t be blamed entirely for diminishing it).
+Cross posted here and here.
+2008 Power Rankings: June 22nd, 2007By politicalderby
+Filed Under Power Rankings Only 2008, Race for White House 2008 on Jun 22.
+Obama RepublicansBy Contributor Archive
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 22
+Two interesting stories developed yesterday on the popular appeal of Senator Barack Obama. The first of interest was Obama’s base-coddling victory at the “Take Back America” conference in Washington, DC this week. Although the 720 votes cast in this Politico sponsored straw poll fail to serve as a genuine reflection of the senator’s broad electability, it still managed to nicely contrast another brewing Obama story.
+The Chicago-Sun Times ran a piece on Tuesday highlighting Obama’s appeal within the Republican Party, and the general themes that seem to attract these voters have a very familiar ring to them (h/t mvdg):’s message about ridding politics of partisanship that is appealing to these Republicans.
+He doesn’t carry the baggage of a Hillary Clinton. He is new; he seems authentic — although his connection to indicted fund-raiser Tony Rezko has made some previous supporters wonder —€” a harmonic nonpartisanship in Washington — is an Obama goal they endorse.
+A couple of weeks ago, Andrew Sullivan eloquently observed the difference between Senator Obama and Senator Clinton. Whereas the Clinton machine has all of the traditional Democratic interest groups lined up for her endorsement, Barack Obama appears to be creating a “new” base. While questions linger over the specifics of his policy positions, Americans from all walks of life are coalescing around his message, his attitude and his vitality.
+In 1980, there were discussions about the development of a “new majority” in America. The Democratic Party that had died with the 1968 convention and the McGovern-Fraser Commission left a vacuum of dealignment for the center of American politics. Many believed Ronald Reagan had the ability to forge that majority. There is a similar energy to the Obama campaign, one that appears ready and willing to grab the torch of a generation and take a new Democratic majority further into the 21st Century.
+Unfortunately for Obama, it might not take a Reagan-like figure to dethrone the marred leadership we have today. In 1980, The Economist referred to Reagan’s victory as “the election that Watergate postponed.” We might be singing a similar tune in later presidential races, because as of right now, the American public isn’t necessarily looking for a third way. They want another way, one that will bring us resolution on the issue of Iraq.
+A Democrat will very likely take the White House in 2008. But whether or not that Democrat is the duopoly alternative to what we have now (presumably Clinton), or a fresh face intended to forge a new way (presumably Obama), is yet to be seen. It will be interesting to see if these merging cross-sections of Obama supporters have any real life to them, or if this was simply another example of more media fluff.
+But if they have any life to them at all, might we one day be referring to an Obama presidency (2012? 2016?) as the election that Iraq postponed?
+Bloomberg wants a seat at the tableBy David Kaiser, Editor
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 21
+Embrace him or dismiss him, there is one thing that the last few days have proven – New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has something to say. Exactly how he says it could have a major impact on the race for the Oval Office.
+Pundits on all sides have an opinion on Bloomberg, from if he will actually run to what kind of impact he could have on the election.
+Time has a story showing why Bloomberg would not gallop into the race. Here is a snippet: —.
+And then there is a piece on Real Clear Politics from Cal Thomas that had this interesting tidbit:.
+And then weighing in on what kind of impact Bloomberg may have on the race is pollster John Zogby:
+On the electoral map, a Bloomberg candidacy puts almost every state into play. Suddenly, the required winning percentage in each is reduced from 50% plus one to just 34%.
+Will he run, won’t he run? But more importantly will he run on banning transfat and cigarettes? The fast food and tobacco lobbies may be quivering, but a Bloomberg run up the middle if Hillary Clinton and Fred Thompson are the nominees could make for the wildest presidential election since Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose effort in 1912.
+George Allen: Thompson won’t monkey aroundBy Stephen Fountain, Editor
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 20
+Although former Sen. George Allen specifically states he is not yet endorsing Fred Thompson, it doesn’t take a monkey’s uncle to read between the lines.
+“I think [a Thompson candidacy] is good,†Allen said. “I would encourage him to do so.â€
+Though Allen said he is not yet endorsing a Thompson bid, he did say that to grassroots Republicans “who care about the party,†Thompson’s popularity indicates “there has been a bit of a void for someone with a proven conservative record.â€
+While Allen had words of praise for Thompson in this interview with The Hill, he didn’t throw the other candidates any bananas:
+Allen said that while current front-runner and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani still is “America’s Mayor†and acted admirably following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, his positions on gun control and abortion issues “concern some folks.â€
+McCain’s position on the immigration debate, or as Allen calls it, “the amnesty bill,†disqualifies him for many conservative voters.
+The former senator added that while ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney “will have plenty of money,†the belief, real or perceived, that he is a Johnny-come-lately to his current positions on social issues hurts him with many GOPers. “In fact, they are not the same as positions he took a year or so ago,†Allen said.
+Ouch! That last comment has got to sting. Read the rest.
+Where do I send the check? And do you accept checks not printed on hemp paper?By Contributor Archive
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 20
+Ralph Nader, the only person to ever get Michael Moore to apologize (to Al Gore for his support of Nader in 2000), is thinking of running again, according the Yeas and Nays column in the Washington Examiner.
+Ralph, please run. You’ll be such a nut that attracts so many left-wing votes in polls that whomever the Dems nominate will have to run as a split personality, courting moderates and wing-nutroots that is will be like watching Me, Myself and Irene on fast forward.
+Ralph hinted at a run while speaking at the “Take America Back” conference.
+It always strikes me as odd the way the Democrats scream that they need to “take our country back!” I’m an American, so are all other conservatives. So what exactly are they taking it back from? Apparently we were invaded at some point by some people who took over a while back and most of us missed it.
+They’ve let our differences of opinion get personal and turn them into angry, hate-filled balls of human flesh. You see this pointed out on a daily basis by the major networks…wait, never mind.
+Ron Paul catches attention across the pondBy Contributor Archive
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 20
+For some time, Ron Paul has been making stateside news for his online prowess, but now his internet popularity has even raised eyebrows overseas. The UK’s Telegraph states that Dr. Paul’s popularity has grown after each Republican debate. Considering the price of his online fame is practically nil relative to the costs of traditional media, it is no wonder that Paul’s staff is confident that he will remain in the race long after the other dark horse candidates.
+Paul plays well with young (and internet savvy) voters, and unlike some other presidential challengers, most notably John McCain, Ron Paul was met with huge applause during his appearances on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Comedy Central‘s pseudo-news programs.
+The Telegraph likens the Texas Congressman’s run to that of Pat Buchanan in 1996, when Buchanan polled poorly in the early stages, but nearly ended up topping Bob Dole for the Republican nomination. Interesting comparison, though Ron Paul’s vision of small government, especially in social matters, is in many ways diametrically opposed to that of Buchanan’s. In fact, Dr. Paul’s vote against each and every bill he deems unconstitutional has earned him the moniker of “Dr. No” among his fellow members of Congress. Perhaps with his increasingly popular message that less is more, Ron Paul could surprise the establishment and rise into the forefront. Look out, James Bond.
+Never let it be said they don’t know how to leech off of something popularBy Contributor Archive
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 19
+Hillary Clinton’s campaign has come up with a clever way to promote the “people’s choice” for her campaign song. Her ripping off the Sopranos is a nice change from her ripping us all off for our tax dollars. That is, however, what she’s running to do.
+When you watch the video you’ll see Hillary delivers a line just about as convincingly as she does a speech (like she’s addressing a group of 3rd graders).
+That is probably the main reason she's tanking in South Carolina. Bill, on the other hand, is looking pretty good and relaxed.
+Props to Johnny Sack for the cameo.
+Thompson favored over RudyBy Stephen Fountain, Editor
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 19
+Fred Thompson has a statistically insignificant one point advantage over Rudy Giuliani in the latest Rasmussen poll.
+The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson earning support from 28% of Likely Republican Primary Voters. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani attracts support from 27%. While Thompson’s one-point edge is statistically insignificant, it is the first time all year that anybody but Giuliani has been on top in Rasmussen Reports polling.
+A one point lead is meaningless. But it could be a sign of things to come. Read the rest.
+Colonel Sanders’ grandson to shake up the democratic race?By politicalderby
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 18
+An email is circulating promoting the candidacy of Mark Green as an alternative to Hillary and the Gang. The web site says:
+Rare is the candidate whose integrity and track record set him or her above the political pack. Rare is the candidate who is able to survive scrutiny by cynics and media alike. Rarer yet is the non-candidate who is shuttled into the arena of presidential contenders, driven by grassroots support.
+Do not acquiesce to the anointed candidates, bought and paid for, served up by political machines tainted by PAC money and insider agendas. Do not feel obligated to pick between untrustworthy and unbelievable candidates. Do not perpetuate the mere illusion of fairness and legitimacy.
+For your consideration- Mark J. Green. Become familiar with him. Test his qualifications. Back him as presidential candidate.
+Sounds intriguing, but what the web site doesn’t tell us is that Mark Green is the grandson if KFC’s Colonel Sanders.
+Kudos to Mark. We admire him for not riding on his gramp’s coattails.
+Mitt Romney’s big stick, and low ratings aspirationsBy Contributor Archive
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 17
+Campaigning in Iowa, Republican money leader Mitt Romney, apparently seeking to attract Bull Moose party voters, emphasized that he would increase the size of the military. Referencing Teddy Roosevelt, the increased military would be the “big stick” with which a President Romney would allegedly speak softly. Considering Romney’s recently released (and far from isolationist) foreign policy plan, Romney may have missed the speaking softly part of TR’s famous message.
+More surprising than aligning himself to the ideals of the universally respected Roosevelt, Romney went on to speak glowingly of the current (and significantly less popular) president, praising George Bush’s economic policies, Supreme Court appointees, renewable energy policies and even his statesmanship. “Everything he does, he does from the standpoint of what is best for the American people,” Romney said. Praising TR is one thing, but doing the same for a president with a 30% approval rating is aiming very low indeed. Then again, if Mitt could come near come close to 30% in a Republican primary poll, he’d be quite pleased.
+Can Fred Thompson save the Grand Ol’ Party?By Stephen Fountain, Editor
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 16
+A schism has been slowly building over the last few years between the Republican party and its base. It began, or at least found its footing in the attempted appointment of Harriet Myers to the Supreme Court. It found steam in the Dubai Ports Deal. The schism reared its head before the 2006 elections, prompting Republicans to pass a last minute border fence bill. A fence, ironically, which still hasn’t been erected.
+This schism may grow to full fledged revolt if George W. Bush and his accomplices in the US Congress succeed in passing the immigration reform currently being debated. Is there a candidate who can restore the faith of the Republican base? In a story documenting the courtship of GOP candidates and the Southern Baptist Convention a name emerges:
+The name generating perhaps the most excitement among Southern Baptists is someone who hasn’t even entered the race yet: Fred Thompson of Tennessee, the actor and former senator.
+The separation that exists between party elites and its loyal base is being played out in the Southern Baptist Convention..
+But is Fred Thompson the answer?
+“Another Southern Baptist called Fred Thompson the Ronald Reagan of the South, and I think he has some of that appeal,” said SBC executive committee president Morris Chapman, adding he hasn’t settled on a candidate yet. “He is a magnetic personality. He seems to articulate his opinions clearly. He seems to be unflappable.”
+The nomination may land with one of the other contenders. The GOP may choose to follow the leadership of Rudy Giuliani or the promises of Mitt Romney. Whoever the nominee, party reunification will be part of the agenda.
+Romney’s “I didn’t inhale”By David Kaiser, Editor
+Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jun 15
+I’m sorry, but I just do not buy Mitt Romney.
+He looks presidential, he has some good experience and he has performed well in the debates. But something in my gut just does not sit right about him.
+Part of the issue with Romney is detailed nicely in an article on ABCnews.com, in which they examine some of the origins of the McCain campaign’s assault on Romney recently.
+Romney’s explanation of his change of position on abortion begins with a meeting in 2004:
+Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has long cited a November 2004 meeting with a Harvard stem cell researcher as the moment that changed his long-held stance of supporting abortion rights to his current “pro-life” position opposing legal abortion.
+Well, months after this momentous meeting, Romney apparently had not let it sink in quite yet:.
+Now of course the Romney campaign has spun this information until it has gotten so dizzy that it puked on its own shoes, but I am having a hard time buying it. This still sits as a guy who is running a campaign to win, and not based on his true beliefs, which smacks of the guy currently residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. How is that working out for us?
+Many moons ago, a presidential candidate was asked if he smoked marijuana, and he responded by saying:
+“When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale and never tried it again.”
+It was a ridiculous statement. He won.
+Romney’s case on his change of heart is no where near as ludicrous, but it is every bit as fuzzy and shady. I wonder if it will matter.
+Judy Hegarty Lovett on Interpreting Samuel Beckett
+Written by Victoria Myers
+Photography by Jessica Nash
+November 2nd, 2017
+Although.
+This work is an adaptation of Beckett’s novels. What was your adaptation process like?
+The company, Gare St. Lazare Ireland, have been adapting Beckett’s prose for more than twenty years, and at this stage we have seventeen Beckett titles. So the adaptation process in fact began with Molloy by Samuel Beckett, which is the first part of the trilogy, and we put that piece together twenty years ago. We began with perhaps 20-25 minutes of the work, and we went on to develop it into an hour and 15 minutes. So the process is one, in this instance, where much of the prose work that we’ve done has been the text in its entirety.
+For the trilogy, we’ve obviously had to make selections from the novels, otherwise we’d be here all day. I suppose the process began by making selections from the text. The text lends itself very well to that because the plot is quite thin and the story is circular. So it doesn’t really matter where you pick up or let down some of the text. You’re not following a linear narrative, so it’s quite easy to make selections from the text because most of it is just the ramblings or random thoughts of Molloy, the character within the piece.
+That’s how we began the process. Then, we would very swiftly put those on the floor and stand them up, say them aloud. The bigger part of the process is essentially avoiding character, not wanting to place the character in any specific time or place, and I suppose not wanting to attach very particular, specific characteristics to the character. What we like to do is keep the language, the words, and the delivery very close to the actors’ natural delivery. We work with direct address to the audience, so what we like to do is make it look like those are the actor’s words and he is speaking to you directly. It’s an interesting process because we like that the character never fully settles, and we like that the audience are, as with the book, always questioning, “Who is this guy, and is he real? And is this happening?” Because in the book, the writer’s voice appears through the character as well, so we like to mirror that in the staging process. At any given moment you, as the audience, are perhaps asking, “Is this the actor speaking, or is it the character speaking?” And it oscillates between both at all times. A lot of the process is trying to arrive at that—it’s trying to arrive at the clearest, simplest delivery of that.
+When you first started doing these adaptations—following what you’re saying about avoiding character as a way of dealing with the different modes of narration that happen in the novel—was that something that took a little experimentation to come to or did you always know that that is what it needed?
+I don’t think we always knew that that’s what it needed. I think we did arrive at that, and I think that happened quite organically. Of course, we were aware of that while reading the text, but we weren’t aware and we didn’t set out with a plan to do that in the staging. That really did evolve through the process.
+Beckett is probably, in America, most known for his theatre work. When you’re doing the adaptation do you think about why he did this as a novel versus why he wrote something else as a play?
+I don’t think about that while I’m making it, but outside of the making of it, that question is an obvious question: why am I approaching the prose and wanting to stage the prose? And I think it’s important to point out that I certainty am not the first to do that, and Beckett himself permitted stagings of his prose with various actors, particularly Jack MacGowran and Patrick Magee. So those actors would have set a precedent for the prose of Samuel Beckett being staged. It’s not like I’m breaking new ground or doing something that hasn’t been done before. It has already been done, and so as long as you have permissions from the estate to do that, which we do, then I suppose that gives you a certain amount of freedom and acceptance that the process that you’re approaching is a good one.
+But having staged the plays as well, I do see a significant difference between staging the work that he intended to be for the stage because he’s very, very prescriptive and specific about his stage directions. Whereas in the prose works, none of the information is there, so there is a certain amount of access to our own interpretation and ideas in terms of how the prose can be staged.
+Was that part of the reason for why it was interesting for you to do?
+To be honest with you, from the beginning, I had a bigger response to the prose than I did to the plays. I felt that the language there was perhaps more accessible, and I found the characters really interesting. And I suppose, because the characters are speaking in first-person as well, I knew that they would lend themselves very easily to staging. Not across the works, but most of the works are in first-person. All of that felt very attractive to me, and I suppose because they’re the lesser-known works as well, I felt very keen that people should hear that part of Beckett’s canon.
+Beckett originally wrote all this in French. Do you find that dealing with something in translation affects work as well?
+No, I think it complements the work. Beckett is definitely a bilingual writer. I think what’s interesting is that I have approached and read the works in French as well and happen to live in France and have lived there for the past 20 years. Beckett, who lived in France for the best part of his life—I believe he went there in his mid-twenties, and he remained in France all of his life—didn’t write all of his works in French first. There was a point of departure where he decided to write in French. I think the going between the two languages and the fact that he translated all the work himself is significant in that all of Beckett’s writing, in French and in English, is a language event and he, for me, plays so brilliantly and poetically with both languages.
+Could you talk a little bit more about the performance style that you mentioned? Using direct address?
+I suppose what we felt early on is that the direct address approach really helped us to communicate the language in a very human and simple and direct way. And we, just from trial and error and starting out that way, discovered that it worked very well and that the audiences were very responsive to hearing the language in that way and feeling that they were in Molloy[‘s head], or any of the other characters, included in their journey and in their thought processes and in their thinking. The audiences were, in some way, complicit, or in some way involved, or in some way connected with the journey and the discoveries that the character was making and as he was going along. It feels in the performance that those questions and those discoveries and those insights are being discovered instantly with the audience together.
+Do you find that that takes even more precision? When people are reading they can go back and reread a sentence, but if they’re listening to someone say it and somebody moves in a way that’s distracting, you could lose the message.
+Sure, I think you can lose it, but I think you can also gain a huge amount from a live event, because it positions the text and the actor and the audience in very direct communication with each other. That can make it feel very real and very human. Naturally, theatre has a time constraint that the reading process doesn’t have—you can put down the book and walk away and come back to the book. So, you’re dealing with a very kind of different time element when watching the performance. But again, that has its value in the same way as the reading has its value. And we have spoken to our audiences and had feedback, which is that we’ve managed to explode the myth that Beckett is difficult or highbrow or inaccessible or just for academics.
+Many think something about hearing the voice of the character and having some aspect of the character in front of you is helpful. But like I said, it’s very important for me to find out that we have been very particular and very intent on making sure, in the actual staging and the delivery, not to land solidly or heavily on the character. So we will not do a direct character representation. It won’t be that we’re dressing as Molloy or looking like Molloy or any of that kind of representation. We like to keep it a step behind that and allow a certain amount of freedom there.
+Do you find that audiences do come with certain ideas or expectations about Beckett?
+Yes, I do. We work with students and we work quite a bit at the O’Neill Center in Connecticut, which is a theatre education center, and we work with actors there. Particularly the younger generation will have very particular ideas about Beckett being serious or difficult or gloomy or hard to understand, etc. And so we see how that reputation has arrived. It’s a pity, because the work is very enjoyable, very rich, very beautiful, and in fact, I think, very accessible.
+Do you also find a difference in terms of how Americans view it?
+Not especially. Across the Anglo community, I have found that it’s quite a general response to Beckett. It’s the one that I mentioned earlier. And also, it’s curious and it is interesting, but a lot of people have had access to the plays and very few have had access to the prose works. I think that’s perhaps some of the value of our presentations and offering another door and another way into the writing of Samuel Beckett.
+How did you get interested in Beckett to begin with?
+The first play that I ever saw was Waiting For Godot. I saw that in my teens in Cork, in a very small theatre called the Ivernia Theater. It was a brilliant production, and I really enjoyed it. I found it very, very inspiring. Prior to that, any of the theatre I would’ve gone to or had access to would have been kids’ stuff or pantomimes, and so it was an explosive experience to see a play of that depth, richness, and extraordinarily different to anything that I’d ever seen before. So that, I suppose, is where it began.
+How did you go from that to being so invested?
+I didn’t set out with a plan to spend 20 years of my life working mostly singularly on Beckett’s writing. That happened. It wasn’t the plan. Conor Lovett, the performer who I work with and have worked with on most of the prose works over the 20-year period, and I, put together Molloy as an audition piece for him. When we stood that up, it was kind of like an experiment, and he chose that text to deliver as an audition piece, and he went, “Hey, this is really good.” We both loved it. We just kept stretching that and brought it from an audition piece into a performance piece and first delivered it in the Battersea Arts Center in London. It worked very well. We brought it to the Edinburgh Festival where we got a fantastic review. We then brought it to Dublin and it was seen in Dublin, and there were, again, fantastic reviews and a brilliant response to the work. And from there, it went on to New York, and we played at the Irish Arts Center. And again, it got fantastic reviews and great response. So it kind of took off and grew by itself, and we just followed what it was telling us. It kind of told us what to do.
+What do you hope audiences will take away from this production?
+Hopefully another way of meeting or reaching Beckett’s writing and the joy that is his world and fantastic words and brilliant writing.
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+We’ve compiled some info for you to learn about Borneo. The info below is for those of you who are considering a holiday in Borneo. If you want to do further reading, we have provided some links as well. Finally, there is a lot of general info in our FAQ’s, so check that out as well. Let’s get started!
+Borneo is best known for two things: orangutans and beautiful, pristine rainforests. Indeed, we have lots of orangutans and some super beautiful untouched jungle. If you are planning to visit, both of those should be on your list. But there is so much more in Borneo that makes it a place worth visiting that we can’t possibly fit it all in here.
+You might already know that Borneo is the third island in the world, behind Greenland and Papua New Guinea. Did you know that the island of Borneo is split between three countries? Indeed it is. Those three countries are Indonesia, Malaysia, and the tiny country of Brunei. The population of Borneo is now over 20 million people, so as you can imagine, there is a bit more than just jungle here.
+Indonesia has the largest piece of Borneo. Indonesian Borneo is also known as Kalimantan. Next largest is Malaysian Borneo. The two states of Malaysian Borneo are known as Sabah and Sarawak. When you book a Borneo tour with us, we usually send you to the Malaysian part of Borneo; however, we can also arrange tours in Brunei, if you desire.
+Speaking of Brunei, it is a tiny country. Strangely, it is also split into two parts by the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
+Cultures of Borneo
+Borneo is an incredibly diverse place that is full of cultural heritage. In fact, evidence of humans in Borneo goes back as far as 40,000 years, but for now, lets focus on the modern. It is estimated there are more than 200 indigenous ethnic groups in all of Borneo. To put it plainly that is a lot and that’s not counting the others who have also called Borneo home for generations including Malays, Filipinos, Chinese, and more.
+All of this makes Borneo incredibly robust when it comes to culture. With that in mind, experiencing the culture of Borneo is something you should definitely add to your list. There are opportunities to experience everything from the cuisine to intriguing customs to festivals.
+Here are some links about Borneo Culture in case you want to learn more:
+- Learn about the Mari Mari Cultural Village in Sabah. Where you can experience traditional houses, try traditional foods, and see traditional performances of the people of the Kadazan, Dusun, Murut, and Rungus tribes, among others.
+- Kadazan Superstition in Sabah – An article about some of the local superstitions in Malaysian Borneo. Those superstitions still run strong today.
+- Hari Raya – Celebrating the end of Ramadan by going from house to house and eating all the delicious food. Hari Raya is a great time of the year to visit.
+- Traditional Embroidery
+- Learn the Indigenous Kadazan Language. There are many indigenous languages that are still spoken today, in Borneo. The Kadazan language is still spoken among many indigenous Kadazan in the City of Kota Kinabalu. There is even a Kadazan language radio station and the Kadazan language music scene is still going strong.
+- Get to know the Kadazan People of Borneo
+Food
+Food is a huge part of Asian culture and Borneo is no different. Because Borneo is a melting pot of cultures, there is a wide array of delicious food you can try here. Some of the mainstays include traditional Malay food, Chinese cuisine, indigenous cuisine, and fast food like Kentucky Fried Chicken (they are literally everywhere). The menu options span from the normal to the downright strange.
+If you are a foodie, it’s definitely worth adding some unique food stops into your tour of Borneo and maybe even a cooking class or two.
+Here are some links if you want to read more about the food in Borneo
+- Traditional foods in Borneo include a ceviche like dish known as hinava and the downright bizarre butod worm.
+- Here is a list of some food and drink to try in Kuching, Sarawak.
+- Some must eat foods to try when you visit Sabah.
+- Here is a list of 6 local snacks that you should try if you visit Sabah.
+- Hinompuka is a sweet mixture of sticky rice, palm sugar, and coconut that’s wrapped in banana leaves and steamed. It’s a favorite at Kadazan and Dusun gatherings.
+- Ambuyat is made from the starch of the sago palm tree. Locals cook it up into a gelatinous glob and eat it with soup. Although it’s tasteless, many people can’t get past the slimy consistency.
+- Tuhau is a species of wild ginger that grows in Borneo and a popular side dish. Did you know there are 300 species of ginger in Borneo?
+- The tropics are known for sweet and delicious fruits. Here are some of the more bizarre fruits you might come across when you visit Borneo.
+Borneo’s Nature
+We feel pretty strongly that all Borneo tours should have a nature element. With that being said, it’s pretty hard to take a holiday in Borneo without experiencing nature one way or another.
+Borneo is home to pristine jungles that are easily accessible. Places like Danum Valley, Maliau Basin, and Mulu National Park are stunning examples of Borneo’s rainforest in its natural state. Additionally, there are places like Long Pasia, that are way off the beaten path, but contain untouched jungle, wildlife, waterfalls, and more. Speaking of which, Borneo is home to incredibly stunning waterfalls. Additionally, there is a crazy amount of jungle trekking that can be done that span from day hikes like Kawang Forest Reserve to epic multi-day treks like the Salt Trail in the Crocker Range National Park or the hike to Julan Waterfall in Usun Apau National Park. The most popular of all treks in Borneo is the climb to the peak of the tallest mountain in Borneo: Mount Kinabalu.
+The jungle is not the only awe-inspiring part of Borneo. The multitude of beautiful beaches and lush islands that lay just off the coast are just as noteworthy. Borneo is home to incredibly rich and diverse coral reefs. In some places like Tanjung Datu National Park, the rainforest runs down right into beautiful beaches. Other places like Turtle Island give you a beautiful tropical island feel and a responsible travel experience at the same time. You don’t have to travel far or go way out in the ocean to experience these islands. Just off of Kota Kinabalu, you can experience island hopping or if you want something really cool, you can visit Pulau Tiga, better known as Survivor Island, where they shot the first season of Survivor.
+Wildlife in Borneo
+Of all the things that make Borneo amazing, the wildlife is surely at the top. In addition to the iconic species like the orangutan and the Borneo pygmy elephant, there jungles and the seas of Borneo are home to an incredible amount of wildlife. This incredible amount of wildlife ranges from the mundane to the downright strange with animals such as the flying lemur (colugo), frog fish, and flying lizards and snakes.
+Wildlife spotting in Borneo is 24 hour affair both on land and in the sea. Daytime gives the opportunity to see monkeys, orangutans, hornbills, elephants, big nosed proboscis monkeys, Irrawaddy dolphins, and more. When the sun sets, it becomes a perfect time to see reptiles, flying squirrels, the strange yet cute slow loris, vivid nudibranchs, sleeping sea turtles, and so much more that you can write a book on it. Borneo’s wildlife is truly something of wonder and we haven’t even mentioned the insects yet.
+The great thing about all this wildlife is that it is that there are a multitude of locations you can visit to spot wildlife. To add, Sabah is far and away the best place in Borneo to see the wildlife. At the top of the list is the Kinabatangan River, which is teeming with wildlife. It’s easy to get to and family friendly, with plenty of lodging options from roughing it to really comfortable. Another prime wildlife area is the Tabin Wildlife Reserve
+Now we move to the sea and the renowned Sipidan Reef. This reef of the coast of Sabah is absolutely incredible and there is diving and snorkeling all around in this tropical paradise. For a unique experience, you can go stay on the Seaventures Dive Rig which is built from a converted oil rig platform.
+If you don’t have much time but still want to see wildlife, there are day tours like the Proboscis Monkey River Cruise that leaves from Kota Kinabalu. Or, if you are in Kuching, you can choose from either the Kuching Wetlands National Park or Bako National Park.
+We’ve listed a lot of single serving tours there, but honestly, why settle for only one? A far better idea is to take advantage of a tour package that sends you to a bunch of these places. We’ve put together a few tours of various lengths that you might want to check out:
+- If you’re going to go, you might as well go all in with the Borneo Land and Sea Wildlife Adventure Tour.
+- 6 Day Borneo Wildlife Adventure: This tour takes you to Sepilok Orangutan Conservation Center, the Kinabatangan River, and Danum Valley.
+- Visit Tabin Wildlife Reserve, the Kinabatangan River, and Sepilok with the 7 Day Sabah Wildlife Adventure.
+- If you’ve got specific interests or locations when it comes to wildlife, contact us and we’ll help you put together a tour that suits your needs.
+Coming to Borneo.
+How to get to Borneo
+We’re going to focus on Sabah and Sarawak for this section. Your best option to get to Borneo is to fly. Kota Kinabalu is your best option for international flights, but if you are arriving domestically, Kuching and Sandakan are also good options. There are also many international flights arriving in Brunei’s capital city, Bandar Seri Begawan.
+Once you are in Malaysia, or Asia for that matter, regional flights are quite cheap and an easy way to get around.
+How to get around in Borneo
+Firstly, we’re going to focus on how Top Peak Travel gets you around when you book a tour with us.
+Generally speaking, most of the transport for Borneo tours is done by air-conditioned minivan. For large groups, we will use large charter buses, however, typically, we serve smaller groups and an air-conditioned mini-van is usually the way to go. Depending on your itinerary, we may use domestic flights to get you from one place to another.
+Finally, boats are a common form of transport here, especially for river based tours and coastal area tours. Usually this will be a small boat to transfer you and perhaps others to your destination. On some of our tours, there are ferry rides. Those ferry rides are typically a couple of hours long.
+If you are looking to get around yourself, you have a host of options. Short trips, within town, are most effectively done using a local taxi or Grab (think Uber for Asia). For regional journeys, you typically have the option of a large bus or flying. Additionally, you can use a “share taxi” for regional journeys. These are taxis that have a fixed start and end point and they only go when the taxi is full.
+Accommodation in Borneo
+The types of accommodation in Borneo span from the most basic hostels to full on 5 star resorts. When you choose one of our Borneo tours, the choice of accommodation is really up to you. Most of the popular areas span the range of accommodation. Of course if you are going somewhere off the beaten path or remote, you could find yourself camping or staying in the most basic of huts, but if that’s not your thing, we’ll make sure your itinerary fits your style.
+Why Choose Top Peak Travel?
+We are experts on Borneo, simple as that. We’ve been doing this a long time, plus we live here. This means we know Borneo inside and out and we are more than happy to share our knowledge. Finally, we believe that the type of personalized service you receive from a local company is hard to beat.
+Enough tooting our own horn. You can check out our reviews on Tripadvisor
+CALL FOR PROPOSALS – AFRICA INTERNET SUMMIT (AIS)
+Hosting of Africa Internet Summit (Formerly AfNOG & AFRINIC WORKSHOP & MEETINGS)
+AfNOG and AFRINIC’s Workshop & Meetings was re-branded as the Africa Internet Summit (AIS) in Serekunda, The GAMBIA on 15 May 2012. Subsequently, the first AIS was held in Lusaka –ZAMBIA from 9 – 21 June 2013 and the third one was held in Tunis, Tunisia from 24 May – 5 June 2015. The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) is an annual showcase for development and changes in the African IP technical community. The idea was to move from the annual AfNOG/AFRINIC Event to an African Internet Annual Summit by keeping the original format but making it more business and development oriented to better meet the needs of Operators and Stakeholders in Africa.
+Several documents relating to the requirements for hosting the event are available below.
+Call for Hosting The Africa Internet Summit is now open.
+Organisations interested in hosting Africa Internet Summit - (AIS 2021 to 2023 are invited to submit proposals no later than 30th January, 2020. Proposals should be sent via email to host-apply@afnog.org, secretariat@afnog.org, and meetings@afrinic.net.
+Information about AfNOG is available at and information about AFRINIC is available at.
+1. Background Information
+The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) is the pinnacle event combining training, conference, and networking for the Internet industry. The annual Summit attracts internationally renowned speakers to share the latest innovations in Internet protocol. (IP) technology, experiences and emerging issues from the Industry. The AIS is also a prime international arena for advertising Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services and products.Some events to be held under AIS are Unix Boot Camp, A week-long set of AfNOG Workshop & Meetings, AROC Workshop, AfriNIC Public Policy Meetings, Internet Society Standards Africa Day, AfREN Forum, Web Day etc.
+AfNOG - The African Network Operators Grouprica Internet Summit (AIS) event includes a one day Boot-camp, a week-long set of workshops, three days of technical tutorials, one day AfNOG meeting, one day for Internet Society Standards Day (ISOC Day) a one day for the AfTLD Meeging, a one day AfREN meeting and three days AfriNIC Public Policy meetings.. Usually we run Six tracks – (5 English Tracks and 1 French Track. However for a French speaking country we recommend an 8 Track Workshop with 3 in French provided the Local Host is willing to provide funding support for this. We also require one classroom for AROC training making a total of 7 or 9 Classrooms depending on how many Tracks to be run) These rooms will be required from the Thursday of the setup week and during the workshop. The Set-up should be in classroom style and be able to accommodate 30 to 35 people.
+Some classrooms may be re-used for tutorials and side events after the end of the workshop. Most of the classrooms will however 5:
+- desk space for 6 to 10 people;
+- Space for visitors, office equipment, and storage (preferably lockable) for items handed out to students (such as books, T-shirts, timetables, tourist maps of the city).
+- at least one telephone with the ability to make outgoing international calls and the ability to receive calls;
+- Would be good to have Local Sim and Top Cards available for those who so require.
+- A colour PostScript printer and a Black & White Printer;
+- Copying facilities: Access to a high-capacity copying machine.
+- A registration desk near the conference room with access to a room /storage space nearby is required.
+- it would be nice if the office could also be reasonably close to the hotel reception and the main conference room.
+3.2 A Registration Booth/Area
+There should be an open area for participants' registration. The registration must have the following characteristics:
+- It has to be in area where registrants queue
+- It has to be organised either on a set of table or as booth
+- Allow display of the event banner and the banner of partners/sponsors organisations
+- To be close enough to the meeting rooms.
+- May have a computer for onsite registration
+3.3 Network Operations Centre (NOC)
+The NOC is a small room that will be the hub of the workshop and conference network. It should have the following characteristics:
+- Must be close to the classrooms and the conference room;
+- No smaller than 2m by 2m;
+- Multiple electrical outlets;
+- Stable power supply, with provision for backup generator/UPS;
+- Space for several computers and specialised items of electronic equipment to be installed;
+- A PostScript printer;
+- A flat working surface for 2 people;
+- Air conditioning is essential in view of the amount of equipment that will be used in the NOC;
+- There must be provision for network cables to connect the NOC to other rooms (see section on network cabling);
+- The Internet connection should preferably be terminated in the NOC.
+3.4 Internet Connectivity
+- 2Mbps of bandwidth to the Internet. More bandwidth would be nice.
+- The Internet connection must not be subjected to any kind of firewalling or address translation (NAT or private address space);
+- The workshop will require an IP address allocation of at least a "/22" in size. Workshop instructors can work with the host organisation to fill in the necessary application forms.
+- The connectivity and address space should be available from the beginning of setup week.
+- It may be useful to have more than one link to the Internet, and to use BGP routing. If anything like this is done, it will need careful planning with the assistance of workshop instructors..
+- floor space of approximately 8 x 12 (100 square meters - this is a minimum, larger rooms will do just as well);
+- multiple electrical outlets distributed throughout the room, preferably on separate circuits;
+- overhead lighting, preferably fluorescent tubes;
+- stable power supply, with provision for backup generator/UPS;
+- air conditioning is highly essential in view of the amount of equipment and the number of people in each classroom;
+- Tables: Each classroom requires 14 or 15 tables for equipment, students, and instructors. 10 of the tables will be used for students (with two students per table), and and the remaining tables will be used for instructors and additional equipment. Each table should be about 2 metres long and 0.8 metres wide, so that it can provide space for two people, one or two PCs (depending on the track), and several other items of equipment. The tables should be stable enough to hold this expensive equipment safely.
+- Enough chairs for all the students, instructors, and a few visitors.
+4.2 Equipment
+High end routing and switching equipment will normally be provided by AfNOG. The host will be required to make provision for:
+- A sufficient number of desktop PCs. Guidelines for the number of PC required are as follows:
+- Track-E0 (23): one PC per student (max of 20 students);
+two PCs for instructors;
+one PC for presentations/demos.
+- Track-E1 (23): one PC per student (max of 20 students);
+two PCs for instructors;
+one PC for presentations/demos.
+- Track-E2 (13): one PC for two students (max of 20 students);
+two PCs for instructors;
+one PC for presentations/demos.
+- Track-F2 (13): one PC for two students (max of 20 students);
+two PCs for instructors;
+one PC for presentations/demos.
+- Workshop Infrastructure (NOC etc): (3) Three PCs.
+- Secretariat (2): Two PCs.
+- Each PC should have the following minimum specifications:
+- CPU: Pentium 300 MHz;
+- Memory: 64 MB;
+- Hard disk: 4 GB;
+- Network interface card: 10baseT or 100baseT ethernet or fast ethernet;
+- Serial port: at least one working serial port.
+- At least 10 additional network interface cards should be available, so that we can configure a few of the PCs to have two or three network interfaces.
+- It's highly desirable for all the PCs to have identical hardware (main board, disk drive, video adapter, network adapter). If this cannot be achieved, then having identical hardware on a track by track basis is acceptable.
+- The PCs do not need to have any operating system or other software pre-installed. Instructors will re-format the disks and install whatever operating system and software they require for the workshop. The PC supplier should be prepared to re-format and re-install their own preferred operating system after the end of the event.
+- The PC hardware works well with the operating systems chosen by the instructors. In recent years, instructors have chosen to use FreeBSD, and they are likely to choose FreeBSD or some other unix-like operating system in the future.
+- PCs should have been tested well in advance;
+- Power extension adapters (power strips) with correct local power plugs. We need about one power strip (with 4 to 5 outlets) per one or two PCs; we probably also need 3 to 5 longer power extension cords per track; the exact number depends on many details.
+- Sufficient power cords for all the PCs and monitors.
+- Power cords for additional equipment provided by AfNOG. This equipment is used all over the world, and is often shipped without any power cords, or with power cords that are inappropriate for the destination country. A little more than one additional power cord per student will be needed.
+- Category-5 UTP Ethernet Cable: 1 to 3 boxes (where each box contains approximately 300 metres or 1000 feet of cable). The exact amount depends on the distances between rooms, the availability of pre-installed cables between the rooms, and the availability of ready-made cables in shorter lengths.
+- RJ-45 male plugs, for making network cables: Quantity 100 to 300, depending on the availability of ready-made cables.
+- Tie wraps (also known as cable ties): Large size (30 cm) quantity 100; Medium size (15 cm) quantity 200; Small size (10 cm) quantity 200.
+- Gaffer tape: Approximately one large roll of 5cm-wide gaffer tape per track, for neatly securing cables to the floor. At least one additional roll of gaffer tape if we will have to install temporary network cables to link the various rooms to each other. (In other words, a total of 3 to 5 rolls.) Note that genuine gaffer tape does not leave any sticky residue when it is removed after a temporary installation. Duct tape must not be substituted under any circumstances.
+- It is desirable for all the equipment to be available from the start of setup week. If that is not possible, then at least the following must be available no later than 09:00 on the Monday of setup week:
+- 8 PCs;
+- 5 additional network interface cards;
+- 1 printer;
+- 10 power strips (with 4 or 5 outlets per strip);
+- 1 box of category-5 UTP cable (300 metres);
+- 50 RJ-45 male plugs;
+- 1 roll of gaffer tape;
+- all the cable ties.
+IMPORTANT NOTE: Provision should also be made for a few spares, because equipment failure is almost inevitable.
+4.3 Audio/Visual
+Each of the four tracks will require the following audio/visual equipment.
+- SVGA Projector, for projecting computer output onto a screen;
+- Small public address system with support for at least 2 audio inputs and 4-6 speakers (depends on size/shape of room);
+- Lapel or cordless microphone;
+- 6' x 6' projection screen with stand;
+- Medium size to large white board with stand and white board markers;
+- Flip chart with stand and markers.
+- Must comfortably seat 200 to 250 people;
+- Public Address system;
+- Lectern with space to fit a laptop and cabling to the SVGA projector as well as microphone;
+- Translation booth;
+- Entry, exits and access pathways;
+- Ideally air-conditioned, especially in hotter climates;
+- It would be nice if the conference room had plenty of electrical outlets, because many of the conference attendees will want to connect their laptop computers;
+- We will be providing wireless Internet coverage in the conference room. For this to be possible, the conference room will also have to be included in the network cabling that connects the NOC, office and classrooms.
+7.2 Translation Facilities
+- Translation booth;
+- Translators capable of simultaneous translation of technical discussions in the English and French languages;
+- Headsets to cater for 200 to 250 participants.
+7.3 Audio/Visual
+- SVGA Projector, for projecting computer output onto a screen;
+- Public address system of sufficient power to cover entire hall;
+- Lapel or cordless microphone (one for speaker);
+- Cordless microphone (2-3 for audience);
+- Desk microphones for panel and main table (8);
+- 6' x 6' projection screen with stand (2 of them may be required).:
+- 10 to 20 PCs with Internet connectivity;
+- 1 or 2 PostScript printers;
+- several tables at which laptop users can obtain electrical power connections and ethernet network connections;
+- at least one person on duty at all times the room is open, to assist users and to keep an eye on the equipment..
+- Instructors and AfNOG staff will have single rooms;
+- Workshop participants will share rooms (2 per room); the shared rooms must have separate beds.:
+- Providing information regarding travel regulations to the host country, such as health restrictions, recommended vaccines, tips on pre-travel medication;
+- Providing information regarding local visa requirements, this may include the facilitation of group visas etc.;
+- Coordinating the reservation, booking and issuance of air tickets to AfNOG organisers, instructors and students.
+- Arranging the meeting of delegates at airport
+12. Local Logistics
+The local hosting organisation should also be prepared to:
+- Visit hotels or conference centres in the selected city well in advance of the conference and recommend a meeting location to AfNOG & AfriNIC. The names of the locations should be included in the proposal sent as well as the costs.
+- Assist AfNOG organisers and AfriNIC staff to consult or visit the hotel and make the final site selection.
+- Provide logistical support during the meeting, including staffing for the registration desk, meeting room setup, interaction with hotel staff, etc.
+- Handle Internet connectivity to the hotel or conference centre.
+- Handle all terminal room operations (if there is a terminal room); obtain equipment, set up and tear down the room, and have staff available to answer attendees questions. Local hosts sometimes rent the needed workstations and routers, or borrow them from a local university or other organisation. Vendors may also help defray terminal room costs installation of Ethernet cabling, power strips, ensuring that the room has adequate power.
+- Seek local sponsors for the event; i.e. sending of letters and making follow-ups with the required organisations. The local host should not request for sponsorship without informing the meeting organisers beforehand.
+- AfNOG organises Opening Dinner on the Sunday before the Workshop for Workshop Participants, Instructors, Staff, Local Host and local sponsors. We will seek the assistance of the Local Host to identity suitable venue for the event for 100 to 130 people.
+- AfriNIC organise a social event the first day of it meeting. The local host will help identify the venue and arrange for the social event for all delegates (100-150). The social event can be sponsored in part or in total by one of the sponsors.
+The social event shall include but not be limited to the following:
+- Welcome Drink
+- Cultural Display
+- Dinner
+- Music and entertainment
+13. Financial
+The local host is encouraged to provide financial support towards the costs of running the AfNOG workshop. This can be provided in cash or in kind. Besides direct financial assistance, the local host may be expected to provide budgetary figures for:
+- Accommodation and facilities;
+- Travel and visas;
+- Rental of Computer, Audio and Video equipment;
+- Local transportation; shuttle hire, vehicle rentals, fuel expenses, etc.
+14. Publicity / Public Relations
+The local host is also encouraged to provide local publicity for the event and to coordinate among others:
+- Invitation of VIPs, such as Government officers and other Dignitaries;
+- Press conferences;
+- Press Releases;
+- Media Kits;
+- Advertising in local newspapers and magazines;
+- Preparation of banners and posters;
+- Printing of T-shirts, caps, pens and other "take away" items. Excel Worksheet are available.
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+- Hart Crane's 'The Bridge' : An Annotated Edition
+- Hearing the measures : Shakespearean and other inflections
+- Hearts and minds : bodies, poetry, and resistance in the Vietnam era
+- Heroism in the new Black poetry : introductions & interviews
+- Hewing to experience : essays and reviews on recent American poetry and poetics, nature and culture
+- Hints and disguises : Marianne Moore and her contemporaries
+- His "incalculable" influence on others : essays on Robert Frost in our time
+- History matters : contemporary poetry on the margins of American culture
+- History, memory, and the literary left : modern American poetry, 1935-1968
+- Hog butchers, beggars, and busboys : poverty, labor, and the making of modern American poetry
+- Holding patterns : temporary poetics in contemporary poetry
+- How did poetry survive? : the making of modern American verse
+- How poets see the world : the art of description in contemporary poetry
+- How poets see the world : the art of description in contemporary poetry
+- How poets see the world : the art of description in contemporary poetry
+- Hunting men : reflections on a life in American poetry
+- I am otherwise : the romance between poetry and theory after the death of the subject
+- I made you to find me : the coming of age of the woman poet and the politics of poetic address
+- Identifying poets : self and territory in twentieth-century poetry
+- Ideogram, history of a poetic method
+- Imagining incest : Sexton, Plath, Rich, and Olds on life with daddy
+- Imagining the earth : poetry and the vision of nature
+- Imagining the earth : poetry and the vision of nature
+- Improvisation and the making of American literary modernism
+- In Visible Movement : Nuyorican poetry from the Sixties to slam
+-
+- Inspiring women : reimagining the muse
+- Institutions of modernism : literary elites and public culture
+- Interpreting the Indian : twentieth-century poets and the Native American
+- Interpreting the Indian : twentieth-century poets and the Native American
+- Interventions into modernist cultures : poetry from beyond the empty screen
+- Intricate thicket : reading late modernist poetries
+- Introspection and contemporary poetry
+- Inviolable voice : history and twentieth-century poetry
+- Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co. : middle-generation poets in context
+- Killing poetry : blackness and the making of slam and spoken word communities
+- Language and the poet : verbal artistry in Frost, Stevens, and Moore
+- Languages of liberation : the social text in contemporary American poetry
+- Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
+-
+- Lives of the modern poets
+- Local assays : on contemporary American poetry
+- Locations of literary modernism : region and nation in British and American modernist poetry
+- Looking for native ground : contemporary Appalachian poetry
+- Lost bearings in English poetry
+- Louis Zukofsky and the transformation of a modern American poetics
+- Made in America : science, technology, and American modernist poets
+- Making something happen : American political poetry between the world wars
+- Making something happen : American political poetry between the world wars
+- Male poets and the agon of the mother : contexts in confessional and postconfessional poetry
+- Manic power : Robert Lowell and his circle
+- Many gods and many voices : the role of the prophet in English and American modernism
+- Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson : the feminist poetics of self-restraint
+- Mary Barnard, American Imagist
+- Masks outrageous and austere : culture, psyche, and persona in modern women poets
+- Mastery's end : travel and postwar American poetry
+- Mediating criticism : literary education humanized
+- Memories of a lost war : American poetic responses to the Vietnam War
+- Merrill, Cavafy, poems, and dreams
+- Metaphor and the poetry of Williams, Pound, and Stevens
+- Midcentury quartet : Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the making of a postmodern aesthetic
+- Modern American lyric : Lowell, Berryman, Creeley, and Plath
+- Modern American poetry
+- Modern American poetry, 1865-1950
+- Modern American poetry: essays in criticism
+- Modern American women poets
+- Modern Black poets; : a collection of critical essays.
+- Modern poetry and ethnography : Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the poet as anthropologist
+- Modern poetry: essays in criticism.
+- Modernism and the ideology of history : literature, politics, and the past
+- the morning after
+- Modernism's mythic pose : gender, genre, solo performance
+- Modernism's mythic pose : gender, genre, solo performance
+- Modernism's mythic pose : gender, genre, solo performance
+- Modernist alchemy : poetry and the occult
+- Modernist poetics of history : Pound, Eliot, and the sense of the past
+- Modernist quartet
+- Money and modernity : Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson
+- Money and modernity : Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson
+- Movement and modernism : Yeats, Eliot, Lawrence, Williams, and early twentieth-century dance
+- Museum mediations : reframing ekphrasis in contemporary American poetry
+- Mysticism in postmodernist long poems : contemplation of the divine
+- Mythologies of nothing : mystical death in American poetry, 1940-70
+- Naked and fiery forms : modern American poetry by women : a new tradition
+- Naked and fiery forms : modern American poetry by women, a new tradition
+- Narrowcast : poetry and audio research
+- Nations of nothing but poetry : modernism, transnationalism, and synthetic vernacular writing
+- Nations of nothing but poetry : modernism, transnationalism, and synthetic vernacular writing
+- Negative capability : contemporary American poetry
+- New voices; : an introduction to contemporary poetry,
+- Not one of them in place : modern poetry and Jewish American identity
+-
+- Olson's push : Origin, Black Mountain, and recent American poetry
+- On Mount Vision : forms of the sacred in contemporary American poetry
+- On form : poetry, aestheticism, and the legacy of a word
+- On modern poetry : essays presented to Donald Davie
+- On poets & poetry
+- On the modernist long poem
+- One kind of everything : poem and person in contemporary America
+- One of the dangerous trades : essays on the work and workings of poetry
+- One voice and many : modern poets in dialogue
+- Orientalism and modernism : the legacy of China in Pound and Williams
+- Other traditions
+- Our last first poets : vision and history in contemporary American poetry
+- Our life in poetry : selected essays and reviews
+- Our savage art : poetry and the civil tongue
+- Our savage art : poetry and the civil tongue
+- Out of the Vietnam vortex; : a study of poets and poetry against the war,
+- Overheard voices : address and subjectivity in postmodern American lyric
+-
+- Places in the making : a cultural geography of American poetry
+- Planets on tables : poetry, still life, and the turning world
+- Pleasure dome; : on reading modern poetry
+- Poems are hard to read
+- Poems of the American empire : the lyric form in the long twentieth century
+- Poet's prose : the crisis in American verse
+- Poet's prose : the crisis in American verse
+- Poetic animals and animal souls
+- Poetic argument : studies in modern poetry
+- Poetic culture : contemporary American poetry between community and institution
+- Poetic epistemologies : gender and knowing in women's language-oriented writing
+- Poetic investigations : singing the holes in history
+- Poetic license : essays on modernist and postmodernist lyric
+- Poetic modernism in the culture of mass print
+- Poetic obligation : ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945
+- Auschwitz : remembering what one never knew
+- Poetry among friends
+- Poetry and language writing : objective and surreal
+- Poetry and metamorphosis
+- Poetry and poets; : essays
+- Poetry and pragmatism
+- Poetry and prayer
+- Poetry and the public : the social form of modern U.S. poetics
+- Poetry and what is real
+- Poetry as re-reading : American avant-garde poetry and the poetics of counter-method
+- Poetry in our time
+- Poetry in our time, : a critical survey of poetry in the English-speaking world, 1900 to 1960
+- Poetry in the museums of modernism : Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein
+- Poetry of mourning : the modern elegy from Hardy to Heaney
+- Poetry of the possible : spontaneity, modernism, and the multitude
+- Poetry on & off the page : essays for emergent occasions
+- Poetry's afterlife : verse in the digital age
+- Poetry's afterlife : verse in the digital age
+- Poetry's afterlife : verse in the digital age
+- Poetry's old air
+- Poetry's playground : the culture of contemporary American children's poetry
+- Poets & their art
+- Poets & their art,
+- Poets Beyond the Barricade : Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960
+- Poets at work; : essays based on the modern poetry collection at the Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Buffalo,
+- Poets beyond the barricade : rhetoric, citizenship, and dissent after 1960
+- Poets in progress : critical prefaces to ten contemporary Americans
+- Poets of our time,
+- Poets of reality; : six twentieth-century writers
+- Poets on poetry
+- Poets, poems, movements
+- Politics and form in postmodern poetry : O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill
+- Postliterary America : from bagel shop jazz to micropoetries
+- Postmodern American poetry
+- Pound, Yeats, Eliot, and the modernist movement
+- Power and possibility : essays, reviews, and interviews
+- Precipitations : contemporary American poetry as occult practice
+- Preferences: 51 American poets choose poems from their own work and from the past. : Commentary on the choices and an introd. by Richard Howard.
+- Primitivism and decadence : a study of American experimental poetry
+- Procedural form in postmodern American poetry : Berrigan, Antin, Silliman, and Hejinian
+- Professing sincerity : modern lyric poetry, commercial culture, and the crisis in reading
+- Purple Passages : Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry
+- Purple passages : Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the ends of patriarchal poetry
+- and the avant-garde : experimental and Asian American poetry since 1965
+- Race, American literature and transnational modernisms
+- Race, American literature and transnational modernisms
+- Radical coherency : selected essays on art and literature, 1966 to 2005
+- Radical coherency : selected essays on art and literature, 1966 to 2005
+- Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture
+- Radical visions : poetry by Vietnam veterans
+- Re-making it new : contemporary American poetry and the modernist tradition
+-
+- Reason's double agents
+- Recent American poetry
+- Recent American poetry
+- Recorded poetry and poetic reception from Edna Millay to the circle of Robert Lowell
+- Recovery and transgression : memory in American poetry
+- Red modernism : American poetry and the spirit of communism
+- Red modernism : American poetry and the spirit of communism
+- Regions of unlikeness : explaining contemporary poetry
+- Remainders : American poetry at nature's end
+- Repression and recovery : modern American poetry and the politics of cultural memory, 1910-1945
+- Reputations of the tongue : on poets
+- Robinson Jeffers and the American sublime
+- Robinson Jeffers and the American sublime
+- Sailing into the unknown : Yeats, Pound, and Eliot
+- Scepticisms, : notes on contemporary poetry
+- Schoolroom poets : childhood, performance, and the place of American poetry, 1865-1917
+- Seas and inland journeys : landscape and consciousness from Wordsworth to Roethke
+- Self and sensibility in contemporary American poetry
+- Sense and sensibility in modern poetry
+- Seven American poets from MacLeish to Nemerov : an introduction
+- Seven modern American poets : an introduction
+- Shifting ground : reinventing landscape in modern American poetry
+- Show me your environment : essays on poetry, poets, and poems
+- Simulcast : four experiments in criticism
+- Sincerity's shadow : self-consciousness in British Romantic and mid-twentieth-century American poetry
+- Sincerity's shadow : self-consciousness in British romantic and mid-twentieth-century American poetry
+- Singing the chaos : madness and wisdom in modern poetry
+- Six American poets from Emily Dickinson to the present : an introduction
+- Skeptical music : essays on modern poetry
+- Some poems/poets,
+- Something to say : William Carlos Williams on younger poets
+- Something we have that they don't : British & American poetic relations since 1925
+- Something we have that they don't : British & American poetic relations since 1925
+- Something wonderful may happen : New York School of Poets and beyond
+- Soul says : on recent poetry
+- Sound and form in modern poetry; : a study of prosody from Thomas Hardy to Robert Lowell
+- Space against time in modern poetry,
+- Spatial poetics : second generation New York School poetry
+-
+- Strange likeness : the use of Old English in twentieth-century poetry
+- Style and authenticity in postmodern poetry
+-
+- Telling it slant : avant-garde poetics of the 1990s
+- Tendencies in modern American poetry,
+- Textual politics and the language poets
+- The American moment : American poetry in the mid-century
+- The American poet at the movies : a critical history
+-ist poetry
+- The Cambridge companion to modernist poetry
+- The Fire That Breaks : Critical Essays on G. M. Hopkins's Legacy in 20th-C Poetry
+- The First Book : Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America
+- The Great War and the language of modernism
+- The Great War and the language of modernism
+- The Line in postmodern poetry
+- The Monkey and the Wrench : Essays into Contemporary Poetics
+- The Motive for metaphor : essays on modern poetry in honor of Samuel French Morse
+- The New York School poets and the neo-avant-garde : between radical art and radical chic
+- The Oxford handbook of modern and contemporary American poetry
+- The Post-confessionals : conversations with American poets of the eighties
+- The Writer in our world : highlights of TriQuarterly magazine's 1984 symposium
+- The Zukofsky Era : Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde
+- all-sustaining air : romantic legacies and renewals in British, American, and Irish poetry since 1900
+- The architecture of address : the monument and public speech in American poetry
+- The art of the real : poetry in England and America since 1939
+- The art of twentieth-century American poetry : modernism and after
+- The beginnings of modern American poetry
+- The castle of indolence : on poetry, poets, and poetasters
+- The celebration of flesh; : poetry in Christian life,
+- The classics and our twentieth-century poets; : address as president of the American philological association at Harvard university, December 29, 1926,
+- The colonial moment : discoveries and settlements in modern American poetry
+- The concept of private meaning in modern criticism
+- The confessional poets
+- The contemporary poet as artist and critic : eight symposia
+- The creative crone : aging and the poetry of May Sarton and Adrienne Rich
+- The creative encounter
+- The cultural politics of slam poetry : race, identity, and the performance of popular verse in America
+- The dance of the intellect : studies in the poetry of the Pound tradition
+- The dark end of the street : margins in American Vanguard poetry
+- The dark end of the street : margins in American Vanguard poetry
+- The degenerate muse : American nature, modernist poetry, and the problem of cultural hygiene
+- The degenerate muse : American nature, modernist poetry, and the problem of cultural hygiene
+- The didactic muse : scenes of instruction in contemporary American poetry
+- The dismantling of time in contemporary poetry
+- The echoing green : romanticism, modernism, and the phenomena of transference in poetry
+- The edge of modernism : American poetry and the traumatic past
+- The fading smile : poets in Boston, 1955-1960 from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath
+- The failure of modernism : symptoms of American poetry
+- The fate of American poetry
+- The feminist avant-garde in American poetry
+- The feminist poetry movement
+- The fierce embrace : a study of contemporary American poetry
+- The final sculpture : public monuments and modern poets
+- The first wave : women poets in America, 1915-1945
+- The folk roots of contemporary Afro-American poetry,
+- The forms of youth : twentieth-century poetry and adolescence
+- The forms of youth : twentieth-century poetry and adolescence
+- The ghost of tradition : expansive poetry and postmodernism
+- The government of the tongue : selected prose, 1978-1987
+- The great American poetry bake-off
+- The great American poetry bake-off, fourth series
+- The great American poetry bake-off, second series
+- The great American poetry bake-off, third series
+- The heel of Elohim : science and values in modern American poetry
+- The influence of French symbolism on modern American poetry
+- The inner war; : forms and themes in recent American poetry
+- The language letters : selected 1970s correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron Silliman
+- The last avant-garde : the making of the New York School of Poets
+- The life of metrical and free verse in twentieth-century poetry
+- matrix of modernism : Pound, Eliot, and early twentieth-century thought
+- The matter of capital : poetry and crisis in the American century
+- The matter of capital : poetry and crisis in the American century
+- / by Sister M. Bernetta Quinn
+- The metaphysical passion; : seven modern American poets and the seventeenth-century tradition
+- The middle generation : the lives and poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell
+- The modern elegiac temper
+- The modern element : essays on contemporary poetry
+- The modern poet: : essays from the Review;
+- The modern poets ; : a critical introduction
+- The modern voice in American poetry
+- The modernist response to Chinese art : Pound, Moore, Stevens
+- The monstrous debt : modalities of romantic influence in twentieth-century literature
+- The muse and the librarian
+- The muse in the machine : essays on poetry and the anatomy of the body politic
+- The muse is music : jazz poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to spoken word
+- The muse of abandonment : origin, identity, mastery, in five American poets
+- The music of thought in the poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk
+- The music of what happens : poems, poets, critics
+- The nature of Native American poetry
+- The new era in American poetry
+- The new era in American poetry.
+- The new poetries and some old
+- The new poets : American and British poetry since World War II
+- The new red Negro : the literary left and African American poetry, 1930-1946
+- The objectivist nexus : essays in cultural poetics
+- The obligation toward the difficult whole : postmodernist long poems
+- The old formalism : character in contemporary American poetry
+- The old poetries and the new
+- The other Orpheus : a poetics of modern homosexuality
+- The patriot poets : American odes, progress poems, and the state of the union
+- The personal principle; : studies in modern poetry
+- The poem electric : technology and the American lyric
+- The poem in its skin
+- The poet in the imaginary museum : essays of two decades
+- The poet in the poem; : the personae of Eliot, Yeats, and Pound
+- The poet in the poem; : the personae of Eliot, Yeats, and Pound
+- The poetics of attention as an emerging religious stance in recent American poetry
+- The poetics of disappointment : Wordsworth to Ashbery
+- The poetics of impersonality : T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound
+- The poetics of impersonality : T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound
+- The poetics of information overload : from Gertrude Stein to conceptual writing
+- The poetics of the everyday : creative repetition in modern American verse
+- The poetics of the limit : ethics and politics in modern and contemporary American poetry
+- The poetry beat : reviewing the eighties
+-
+Baseball and boys’ lacrosse advanced to the postseason this week, joining both tennis teams and girls’ lacrosse in the state tournament. Softball remains in the hunt for a tournament spot with two games yet to play.
+Baseball
+The team secured its first postseason berth in 10 years with a 9-1 win over Nantucket on Saturday. After a win over Chatham on Wednesday, they moved to an 11-7 (4-4 in the EAC) season record with one remaining game still scheduled for today.
+“It’s pretty exciting,” Head Coach Gary Simmons said. “This is brand new for these guys.”
+The postseason is also new for Simmons — the Vineyarders’ tourney berth is his first as coach of the team.
+Expectations were high coming into this season. Despite last year’s 7-14 record, seven of those losses were by just one run. Additionally, only two players graduated in 2011, leaving the team with a strong core of rising seniors.
+The Vineyarders’ doubleheader victories over Plymouth South in April proved the “turning point” of the season, Coach Simmons said.
+The team has won three of its last four games, with matchups against Falmouth and Bourne scheduled for this weekend. Last Thursday, they took a 9-1 win over EAC opponent Bishop Feehan, with junior Jack Roberts stepping to the mound as a starter for the first time. Normally a relief pitcher, Roberts turned in seven innings, allowing one run and five hits while striking out six and walking two.
+Although the Vineyarders fell 10-5 to visiting Somerset on Friday, they rebounded the next day for the win over Nantucket. Senior Will Stewart earned the win against the Whalers, going six innings and striking out eight while allowing no runs. Senior Noah Stobie came in for the final inning to preserve the game; Stobie also had three hits for the Vineyard.
+On Wednesday, senior Andrew Williamson pitched five innings to pick up the win and was relieved by junior Alec Tattersall. Stobie went 2-for-3, adding two stolen bases. Roberts was 2-for-3 as well, while catcher Ramon Espino drew two walks and stole two bases. They played at Falmouth Thursday, but scores were not available at press time.
+The Vineyarders play their final game of the regular season today at home against Bourne at 3:15 p.m.
+Boys’ Lacrosse
+The boys finished their season with a 9-9 record after three away wins in a row over Nantucket, Bishop Stang and Dennis-Yarmouth. On Saturday, the Vineyarders took down the Whalers 13-6, closing out the regular schedule with 9-8 and 10-9 wins over Stang and D-Y, respectively. Tournament seedings will be announced early next week.
+Girls’ Tennis
+Freshman Samantha Potter advanced to the quarterfinal round of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association Individuals Tournament this week, falling to number two seed Alana Prinos of Foxboro. Potter was the only freshman in the South Section to play in the quarterfinals.
+Last week, the girls took a 4-1 win over Somerset to remain undefeated in the EAC and secure their second league championship in a row. Though forced to default the number three singles spot as a result of players being absent for AP tests, the Vineyarders swept every other contest. Potter took a 6-0, 6-2 win, as did junior Annie Burton at second singles. In doubles, junior Alyssa Adler and senior Wendy Wen defeated their opponents, while freshman Diamond Araujo and senior Celia Mercier went 6-4, 6-2.
+Boys’ Tennis
+After two sweeps of Somerset and Dover-Sherborn last week, the tennis team has just three matches standing in the way of an undefeated season. Two of the matches, however, come against perpetual rival Cape Cod Academy and more recent challenger Dover-Sherborn.
+Although the Vineyard took home the sweep against D-S on Saturday, three of the matches went to three sets, keeping the overall outcome on the line throughout the morning. At first singles, junior co-captain Kent Leonard took a 6-3, 6-0 win, while junior Patrick McCarthy went 6-1, 6-1 against his opponent. Junior co-captain Justice Yennie took his first set against Russ Daly, 6-3, before dropping a close second set in the tie-breaker, 6-7 (4). Yennie rebounded in the third to take a 6-2 set and the win.
+At first doubles, juniors Jackson McBride and Natty Schneider also won their first set 6-3 only to see the score reverse in the second set. The duo took the deciding set 6-4. On the second doubles court, juniors Justin Smith and Ryan Sawyer won two sets in a row, 6-3, 6-1, after dropping the opening set 1-6.
+The previous day’s match against Somerset brought considerable lineup shuffling, with McCarthy moving into the number one singles spot and Schneider playing at number two singles, while Smith and McBride partnered on the doubles courts. Austin Stevenson and Mike Piland turned in a 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 win to preserve the sweep.
+Scores from Thursday’s Dover-Sherborn rematch were unavailable at press time. The team travels to Chatham today and Cape Cod Academy Saturday for its final two regular season matches.
+Softball
+The softball teams finds itself in a familiar spot as it enters the last weekend of the regular season — for the second year in a row, they are seeking the 1Oth win that will put them in the postseason.
+The season “seems to be feast or famine this year,” head coach Donald Herman said. Fifteen of the team’s 18 games have been decided by the slaughter rule — with the Vineyarders falling on both sides of the win-loss spectrum.
+After two league losses last week to Bishop Feehan and Somerset, the Vineyarders recovered by winning a home doubleheader against Advanced Math & Sciences Charter School.
+“It’s nice to see the girls bounce back that way,” coach Herman said.
+On Monday, the team picked up a 17-0 win over Randolph, and recovered from a three run deficit against Chatham Wednesday for a 17-5 victory. The Vineyard offense, led by senior Sarah Williston, juniors Emily Cimeno and Kendall Robinson, sophomore Miranda Tokarz and freshman Mariah Duarte, scored 10 runs in the fourth inning. Cimeno went 3-for-4 while earning the win on the mound; Williston was 2-for-3 and Tokarz 2-for-2 with two walks.
+Girls’ Lacrosse
+The girls split last week’s games against Scituate and Nantucket, falling 16-12 to the former while taking a 22-13 win over the Whalers.
+On Sunday, the Vineyarders dropped their first league game of the season in a two-hour barnburner against Bishop Feehan, with Feehan taking the eventual 25-21 win. Junior Hannah Moore had her best game of the season, scoring 6 goals; junior Jennie Lindland also scored six while landing three assists (two on Moore goals). Junior Taylor Poggi scored five goals, while senior Madison Hughes and junior Alayna Hutchinson each had three goals and three assists. Senior April Hargy made 16 saves.
+In Tuesday’s Senior Day rematch against Falmouth, the team went in hungry for a win over the Clippers, who had beaten them earlier in the season. The Vineyarders took a narrow two-goal lead at the half, finishing the game with a close 19-16 win. Seven different players contributed to scoring.
+With the regular season now complete, the girls await their seedings in the MIAA tournament.
+Track and Field
+The team traveled to the EAC Championship meet last Saturday, with the boys placing second to league champion Bishop Feehan with 117 points (Feehan scored 81 points in three events alone) and the girls taking fourth place overall.
+Five Vineyarders were named league champions in their respective events. Senior co-captain Rafael Maciel won the triple jump with a leap of 40’8.5”—taking the victory by “about two feet...which is unheard of [in that event],” head coach Joe Schroeder said. Sophomore Joe Turney picked up first place in the javelin with a throw of 158’2”, while sophomore Jeremy Alley-Tarter took a comfortable lead in the 800 metres to win his race. Junior Maggie Riseborough was a dual winner, taking victories in the shot put and discus, throwing a personal best of 93’11” in the latter.
+Junior Jacob Lawrence placed among the top five in three events, the only Vineyarder to do so, taking second place in the 200 metres, fourth in the 100 metres, and fifth in the long jump.
+Several athletes secured personal bests during the meet, with Maciel taking second in the 400-metre hurdles with a time of 58.8 seconds, freshman Julia Neville taking second in the 800 metres with a 2:29.3, and Maggie Lindland jumping 32’2” in the triple jump for another second-place finish. Other second-place finishers were senior Je’Vaughn Crooks in the high jump and the boys’ 4x400 relay team.
+Third place finishers for the Vineyarder were junior Michael Schroeder in the mile (finishing with a personal best time of 4:36.3), senior Peter Keaney in the 400 metres (personal best time of 52.7 seconds), sophomore Marc Piland in the 200 (personal best of 24.7 seconds), Will Trapp in the javelin (144’3”) and the girls’ 4x100 relay team.
+Sophomore Katherine Dorr placed seventh in the 400-metre run, but earned a qualifying time for the upcoming state meet in the process.
+With the regular season now complete for track and field, the Vineyarders will next compete in the MIAA Division Four Championships this weekend, with the boys having qualified in every event except for the 2-mile run and the 100-metre hurdles, and the girls sending competitors in the shot put, discus, 400 metres, 800 metres, triple jump and the 4x400 relay.
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+Ritco Logistics Ltd Directors Report.
+FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 2020-21 To,
+The Members,
+Your directors have pleasure in presenting their 20th Annual Report on the business and operations of the Company and the accounts for the Financial Year ended March 31, 2021.
+1. Financial highlights
+The financial performance of your Company:
+2. State of Companys affairs and future outlook
+The Financial Year 2021 has been an unprecedented year with COVID-19 pandemic impacting worldwide. With Industry and economy affected across India with Continuous Lockdowns across the states the transportation of goods hampered due to the pandemic led conditions. However, your company has been able to minimise the impact of the disruption and has closed the year with Net Revenue of Rs. 47,201.21 (in Lacs) as against Rs. 49,052.49 (in Lacs) in corresponding previous year with just a minor bump of 3.6% in the topline.
+After accounting for all expenses including depreciation, exceptional items and Tax, the company earned a Profit of Rs. 622.84 (in Lacs).
+Your Company is committed to its tradition of being cost effective, by responding faster to the changing requirements of the market, by expanding its customers and by further strengthening its already strong presence in the industry.
+3. Change(s) in the nature of business, if any
+There is no change in nature of business of the Company during the Financial Year 2020-21. Your Company continues to be one of the leading Logistics service providers in the country.
+4. Dividend
+The Directors are not recommending any dividend looking at the current scenario of the economy and future growth prospects of the company and industry in the coming years the Directors feel the need to reinvest in the company.
+5. Transfer of unclaimed dividend to Investor Education and Protection Fund
+Since there was no unpaid/ unclaimed Dividend in the Company, the provisions of Section 125 of the Companies Act, 2013 do not apply.
+6. Transfer to Reserves
+The Company is not proposing to transfer any amount to the General Reserve for the financial year 2020-21. All the profit of the Company shall be carry forward to credit balance of Profit and Loss account of the Company.
+7. Changes in Share Capital
+During the period under review, no change took place in the Authorized and Paid-up Share Capital of the Company.
+Authorized Capital
+The Authorized Capital of the Company is Rs. 25,00,00,000/- divided into 2,50,00,000 Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- each.
+Issued, Subscribed & Paid-Up Capital
+The Present Paid-Up Capital of the Company is Rs. 24,47,66,180/- divided into 2,44,76,618 Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- each.
+8. Details pertaining to shares in suspense account
+No shares of the Company are in DEMAT Suspense Account/ Unclaimed suspense Accounts.
+9. Details under Section 67 (3) of Act, 2013 in respect of any scheme of provision of money for purchase of own shares by employees or by trustees for the benefit of employees
+The Company has not approved any scheme under Section 67(3) of The Companies Act, 2013 for purchase of own shares by employees or by trustees fort the benefit of employees.
+10. Details relating to material variations
+The purpose of the issue was to utilize the proceeds of issue for the Warehouse development, Technology upgradation, Fleet Centre upgradation, the Working Capital requirements and general corporate purposes.
+The Directors declare that the proceeds have been utilised as per the said purposes in the prospectus of the Company and no material variations has been done with the issue proceeds.
+11. Directors and Key Managerial Personnel
+Details of Directors or key managerial Personnel as on 31/03/2021.
+During the period under review, no change took place in the Directorship of the Company. However, Ms. Gitika Arora was appointed as Company Secretary as on 15th January 2021 and Mr. Rakesh Kumar Jha has resigned from the post of Company Secretary as on 4th December 2020.
+12. Declaration by Independent Director
+All Independent Directors have given due declarations that they meet the criteria of independence as laid down under section 149(7) of the Companies Act, 2013 and under extant provisions of the SEBI Listing Regulations. There has been no change in the circumstances affecting their status as Independent Directors.
+13. Number of meetings of Board of Directors
+The Board of Directors met Five (5) times during the financial year 2020-21. The provisions of Section 173 of the Companies Act, 2013 and Secretarial Standard - 1 issued by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) were adhered to while considering the periodicity and time gap between two meetings.
+The details of the meetings of the Board are furnished below:
+14. Statement indicating the manner in which formal annual evaluation has been made by the Board of its own performance and that of its committees and individual directors
+Pursuant to Sections (3)(p) and 178(2) of the Act and Regulations 17 and 19 of the Listing Regulations and Nomination and Remuneration Policy of the Company, Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Board of Directors have carried out annual performance evaluation of Board, the Directors individually as well as the evaluation of the working of its Committees.
+As the ultimate responsibility for sound governance and prudential management of a Company lies with its Board, it is imperative that the Board remains continually energized, proactive and effective. The Companies Act, 2013 not only mandates Board, its Committees and Directors evaluation, but also atthesame time requires the evaluation to be formal, regularand transparent. The Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Board evaluated the performance of individual Director(s) on the Board excluding the Director being evaluated, the Board as a whole. Chairperson of the Board and ail of its Committees based on the evaluation criteria of the Company defined under Nomination and Remuneration Policy.
+It was further acknowledged that every individual Member and Committee of the Board contribute their best in the overall growth of the organization.
+15. Managerial Remuneration
+The information required under Section 197 of the Act read with rule 5(1} of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 are given below:
+Please note that median is calculated for the employee who stayed with Company for the whole current financial year 2020-21 and the whole previous financial year 2020-21.
+a. the ratio of the remuneration of each director to the median remuneration of the employees of the company for the financial year;
+b. the percentage increase in remuneration of each director, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Company Secretary or Manager, if any, in the financial year:
+c. the percentage increase/(decrease) in the median remuneration of employees in the financial year: 1.01%
+Note: Due to lockdown and the current situation, less operations took place. So, the Ratio has been decreased. However, the operations would be normalized in the coming year
+d. the number of permanent employees on the rolls of company: 374: NA
+f. remuneration is as per the remuneration policy of the Company.
+g. The Boards report shall include a statement showing the names of the top ten employees in terms of remuneration drawn and the name of every employee who
+(i) if employed throughout the financial year, was in receipt of remuneration for that year which, in the aggregate, was not less than one crore and two lakh rupees; NA
+(ii) if employed for a part of the financial year, was in receipt of remuneration for 10 any part of that year, at a rate which, in the aggregate, was not less than eight lakh and fifty thousand rupees per month; NA
+. NA
+h. Number of shares and convertible instruments held by non-executive directors. {Clause 2(f) to Para C of Schedule V of Listing Regulations.): 500 Shares held by Mr. Shyam Sunder Elwadhi and 500 Shares held by Ms. Roma Wadhwa
+i. Detailed reasons for the resignation of an independent director who resigns before the expiry of his tenure along with a confirmation by such director that there are no other material reasons other than those provided. (Clause 2(f) to Para C of Schedule V of Listing Regulations.): During the period under review, no independent director resigned.
+16. Details of Subsidiary
+The Company has no subsidiary.
+17. Statutory Auditors
+Pursuant to Section 139 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, M/s. Mittal & Associates Chartered Accountants, Mumbai, were appointed as statutory auditors of the Company to hold office for the term of 5 (Five Years) from financial year 2019-20 till 2023-24.
+The Notes to the financial statement refereed in the Audit Report are self-explanatory and therefore do not call for any comments under Section 134 of the Companies Act, 2013. The Auditors Report does not contain any qualification, reservation or adverse remark. The Auditors Report is enclosed with the financial statement in this Annual Report.
+18. Cost Auditors
+Our Company was not liable for the appointment of Cost auditor pursuant to Section 148 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Companies (Cost Records and Audit) Amendment Rules, 2014.
+19. Secretarial Audit Report
+Pursuant to provisions of section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 the Company has appointed M/s Mukun Vivek & Company, Company Secretaries in practice to undertake the Secretarial Audit of the Company for FY 2020-21. The Secretarial Audit report is annexed herewith as Annexure II.
+There are no qualifications made by the Secretarial Auditor in his report for the financial year ended March 31,2021.
+Pursuant to the recommendation of the Audit Committee, the Board of Directors have reappointed M/s Mukun Vivek & Company, Company Secretaries in practice to conduct the Secretarial Audit for FY 2021-22.
+19. Committee constitution and Meetings
+Audit Committee:
+Nomination and Remuneration Committee:
+Stakeholder Relationship Committee:
+Corporate Social Responsibility Committee:
+Management and Operations Committee:
+Internal Complaints Committee:
+20. Vigil mechanism and.
+21. Risk Management Policy
+Your Board of Directors has not formulated & adopted Risk Management Policy required under the Regulation 21 of the SEBI Listing Regulations, 2015 as such said provisions not applicable to the Company.
+22. Extract of the annual return
+The Extract of annual return in form MGT-9 as required under Section 92 of the Companies Act, 2013 for the financial year ending March 31, 2021 is annexed hereto as Annexure III and form part of the Report.
+23. between the end of the financial year and the date of this Report.
+24. Details of significant and material orders passed by the regulators / courts / tribunals impacting the going concern status and the Companys operations in future
+There are no significant/material orders passed by the Regulators or Courts or Tribunals impacting the going concern status of your Company and its operations in future.
+25. Statement in respect of adequacy of internal financial controls with reference to the Financial Statements
+The Board has adopted.
+26. Deposits
+During the year under review, the Company has not accepted any Public Deposits.
+27. Particulars of loans, guarantees or investments under section 186
+During the year under review, no Loans, guarantees or investments made under section 186.
+28. Particulars of contracts or arrangements with related parties
+During the year under review, the company has not entered into transactions with Related Parties u/s 188 of the Companies Act 2013. Though there were some transactions between the Related parties and attached as Annexure IV.
+29. Corporate Governance
+As per regulation 15 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 provisions as specified in regulation 27 shall not apply to yourCompany. As there is no requirement to attach the corporate governance report.
+30. Fraud Reporting
+During the year under review, the Statutory Auditors have not reported any instances of fraud committed in the Company by its Officers or Employees to the Audit Committee or to the Board under section 143(12) of the Companies Act, 2013 and rules made thereunder.
+During the year under review, the Secretarial Auditor have not reported any instance of fraud committed in the Company by its Officers or Employees to the Audit Committee or to the Board under Section 143(12) read with Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 and rules made thereunder.
+31. Disclosures under Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition& Redressal) Act 2013
+As perthe requirement of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and rules made thereunder, the Company has constituted an Internal Complaints Committee to monitor the anti-sexual harassment mechanism and complied all the provisions under the said Act. The primary objective of the said Policy is to protect the women employees from sexual harassment at the place of work and also provides for punishment in case of false and malicious representations.
+The Internal Complaints Committee as on March 31, 2021 comprise:
+1. Mr. Man Mohan Pal Chadha Singh - Chairperson
+2. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Elwadhi-Member
+3. Ms. Roma Wadhwa - Member
+During the year under review, there were no cases received/filed pursuant to the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.
+32. Details of Downstream Investment
+No such downstream investment made during the Financial Year 2020-21.
+33. Details of Voluntary Delisting
+Company was not delisted its equity shares as per Regulation 6(1) (a) of SEBI (Delisting Of Equity Shares) Regulations, 2009, during the Financial Year 2020-21.
+34. Conservation of energy, technology absorption, foreign exchange earnings and outgo
+Statement giving the details of conservation of energy, technology absorption and foreign exchange earning & outgo in accordance with requirements of Section 134 (3)(m) of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, is as follows: -
+A) Conservation of Energy
+Not Applicable
+B) Technology Absorption. Adoption And Innovation
+Not Applicable
+C). Foreign Exchange Earnings and Outgo
+The foreign exchange earnings and outgo during the year as follows:-
+35. Corporate Social Responsibility and its terms of reference
+The brief outline of the Corporate Social Responsibility ("CSR") Policy of your Company and the initiatives undertaken by your Company on CSR activities during the year, composition of the CSR Committee, average net profit for last three financial year and details of CSR spent during the financial year are set out in the format prescribed under the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 and attached as Annexure V.
+36. Directors Responsibility Statement
+In terms of provisions of Section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013, your Directors confirm; and the directors had devised proper systems to ensure compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws and that such systems were adequate and operating effectively.
+Systems have been laid to ensure that all transactions are executed in accordance with managements general and specific authorization. There well-laid manuals for such general or specific authorisation.
+Systems and procedures exist to ensure that all transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles or any other criteria applicable to such statements, and to maintain accountability for aspects.
+Access to assets is permitted only in accordance with managements general and specific authorization. No assets of the Company are allowed to be used for personal purposes, except in accordance with terms of employment or except as specifically permitted.
+The existing assets of the Company are verified/checked at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
+Based on the framework of internal financial controls and compliance systems established and maintained by the Company, the work performed by the internal, statutory and secretarial auditors and external consultants, including the audit of internal financial controls over financial reporting by the statutory auditors and the reviews performed by management and the relevant board committees, including the audit committee, the Board is of the opinion that the Companys internal financial controls were adequate and effective during Financial Year 2020-21.
+37. Secretarial Standards
+The company has complied with the applicable secretarial standards as issued by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India on Board Meetings and General Meetings.
+38. Acknowledgements
+The Board desires to place on record its sincere appreciation for the support and co-operation received from the Companys Bankers and Officials of the concerned Government Departments, employees and the members for the confidence reposed by them in the management.
+By the order of the Board of Directors
+Ritco Logistics Limited
+Sd/-
+Man Mohan Pal Chadha Singh
+(Chairman & Whole Time Director)
+DIN:01763805
+A-28 Rose Wood City, Sector-49 Gurgaon 122001
+Place: New Delhi
+Date: 10/08/2021
+How to design a butterfly garden
+While strolling through a friend’s garden recently, I noticed scores of beautiful butterflies fluttering gracefully about. Dancing in the gentle breeze, wings stretching up to the sun, they floated from flower to flower, creating a place of peace and breathtaking Beauty.
+It turns out that having so many butterflies in residence was not just a happy coincidence. By planting the right plants, creating an environment that nurtures butterfly caterpillars and providing food for the adult butterfly, you too can create a gorgeous garden filled with butterflies.
+Bring life to a garden
+Butterflies bring colour, spirit and movement into a garden, creating biodiversity and fertilising plants. This is because these beautiful insects, while daintily sipping nectar from a flower are also pollinating it. Densey Clyne, author of Attracting Butterflies to Your Garden, says butterflies are drawn to a garden that “romps and riots, a garden that’s a little wild, where self-sewn seeds mix happily with inoffensive weeds and wildings, and just once in a while lawn lapses into meadow”.
+That’s good news for laidback gardeners who don’t mind a sprawling garden with a few weeds peeking out among their blooms. However, you need not limit yourself to a rambling cottage-style garden to attract butterflies.
+According to Chris Gill from Room Landscape Design, to design a butterfly garden you just need to incorporate certain elements. “These include protection from winds, as well as sun, rocks, water and plants that will provide food for caterpillars and nectar for butterflies,” he says.
+Get up close & personal
+Australia is home to over 400 species of butterfly and New Zealand has around 2000. These butterflies can live in different climate zones and some are native, while others have accidentally found their way to our shores. Take the popular Monarch butterfly, for example. Jo Hammond, horticulturist from Butterfly Host Plants, says it hails from North America and is believed to have hitched a ride on a gulfstream to Australia.
+Butterflies are known as lepidopterans, meaning having scaly or rough wings. Apparently, the tiny overlapping scales on their wings, which give them their name, reflect light and give butterflies their beautiful colours.
+The butterfly’s not-so-popular cousin, the moth, is also part of the same family. However, Hammond says the humble moth also has an important role to play in the insect world. “Moths pollinate things that flower at night — for example, cactus and dragonfruit — and the Hawke moth is one of the few things that pollinate pawpaw,” she says.
+Dancing in the gentle breeze, wings stretching up to the sun, they floated from flower to flower, creating a place of peace and breathtaking beauty.
+The complete lifecycle of the butterfly involves four distinct stages: egg, caterpillar, pupa and adult butterfly. A female butterfly lays eggs on the host plant and, after a few days, the caterpillar inside eats its way out of the egg. It feeds on the leaves of the host plant and grows at an incredible rate, shedding the outer skin as it grows; then it becomes a pupa and eventually emerges as an adult butterfly.
+Butterflies are welcome additions to a garden, but leaf-munching caterpillars are usually not. Of course, therein lies the dilemma: you can’t have one without the other. Every time you kill a caterpillar, you’re killing a butterfly, says Hammond. “For me it’s the equivalent of a bell ringing and a fairy dying,” she says. “Kill all the caterpillars and where will the butterflies come from?”
+And, with butterfly numbers declining the world over, we can ill afford to lose more. For example, populations of the migrating Monarch butterfly have declined over the past two decades and the luminous green-and-yellow Richmond Birdwing butterfly — the largest butterfly to live in the Australian subtropics — is now classed as vulnerable to extinction.
+As for Hammond, given her passion for butterflies, it’s probably no surprise that her interest in the plight of the butterfly began when she became one. Well, for a short time at least. Working at the Woodford Festival for Helen Schwencke, co-author of Create More Butterflies, Hammond donned a giant set of butterfly wings and flitted among the crowds.
+Hammond blames the demise of butterfly populations on mass land clearances. “They strip native bushland and build estates with ticky-tacky little houses, calling them Banksia Avenue and Blackbutt Lane, but there’s not a bloody tree in sight,” she says. “Then they plant exotic bushes that no wildlife — and certainly no butterflies — are interested in.”
+Bugs & stuff
+The other thing that is killing off hordes of butterflies is chemical sprays. “Butterflies taste with their feet,” says Hammond. “If they land on a plant with chemicals, it will kill them whether they eat from the plant or not.” Instead of chemicals to keep the bad bugs at bay, try natural alternatives such as companion planting, handpicking bugs or garlic, chilli or molasses sprays.
+There are also a couple of butterflies that might make your bad bug hit-list, too. White Cabbage Tree butterfly caterpillars will happily destroy the crops of home gardeners who grow brassicas such as broccoli, cauliflower, kale and Asian greens.
+According to Chris Gill, the Cycad Blue butterfly is also a pest. “They will decimate your cycads,” he says.
+Design a butterfly garden
+To design your very own butterfly garden, think about what type of garden you’d like to create. You can have a butterfly-attracting garden that’s a pretty play space for children, a leafy edible kitchen garden, a quiet Japanese Zen-like space to relax in or a contemporary minimalist garden, or you can even bring butterflies into a potted balcony garden.
+Steve Webb, landscape architect and permaculture designer with Edible Kids Gardens, says that to create a vibrant natural child’s butterfly garden you should plant a broad range of blooms of all shapes and sizes. “Kids and butterflies love colour and a variety of flowers,” he says. “Try planting flowers such as Butterfly Bush, or Fairy Fishing Rods, which are great for a pre-schoolers’ garden.”
+Webb adds that butterfly gardens offer a natural and unique learning experience for children. “They can keep a log of the different species they see and have a lot of fun learning and seeing butterfly lifecycles first-hand.”
+Perhaps you’d prefer a more exotic or Oriental-themed butterfly garden? Plant some red pentas and Oriental poppies, which butterflies love. Add a curved water bowl, fill it with a small amount of water and elevate it so toads can’t get to it. For a Zen-like feel, Gill suggests adding a raised platform with comfy cushions and an open-weave arbour above to let dappled sunlight through. “When you aren’t there enjoying it, your butterflies will be there sunning themselves,” he says.
+For a potted butterfly garden, choose a mix of pots and plant with perennials that flower at different heights, to attract different butterflies. And if space is an issue, you can always go vertical. Use wall spaces and plant climbers to offer butterflies protection from predators, or hang pots from wall structures.
+Gill says that how you prune your plants also plays a part in the overall look of the garden. “Native mulberries are butterfly-attracting; you can allow the mulberry to become rambling for the kids to climb or espalier it for a formal look,” he suggests.
+Colour me happy
+Vibrantly coloured flowers bring butterflies to a garden. Bright purples, flaming oranges, ruby reds and sunny yellows will have butterflies lining up on your nectar plants in droves, their little antennae quivering in anticipation. Butterflies also prefer shallow flowers they can sip nectar from: they have a long tubular tongue, called a proboscis, which allows them to feed on the nectar.
+Go with the flow
+Butterflies need access to water, as they extract minerals from it, and a little bit of mud is good, too. According to Webb, creating naturalistic boggy areas will bring in the butterflies. “It depends how you sculpt the soil in the landscape,” he says. Build a shallow, meandering creek with spots where water can pool and line it with stones or broken bits of sandstone so, if it becomes a little muddy, you can walk across it. “Along either side, plant native sedges, plants that normally grow along rivers and can cope with the extremes of drought or being waterlogged,” Webb says.
+Rocks & pebbles
+Butterflies are cold-blooded; they need to bask in the sun and warm up before they take flight each day. So add rocks to your garden, as they absorb the sun’s heat and offer a place for the butterflies to soak up some rays. Webb suggests using natural stone for terracing in the garden, or watermelon-sized boulders that kids and butterflies will gravitate to. “Stones have interesting fissures, textures and colours, and can also provide seating or stepping stones for kids to climb.”
+Sweet sunshine
+Butterflies feed in sunny areas, so where you position your plants is important in relation to the amount of sun they’ll receive at certain times of the day. According to Backyards 4 Wildlife, South Australia’s urban biodiversity program, a butterfly’s peak feeding time is mid-morning to mid-afternoon and ideally your butterfly food plants should receive sun then.
+You also need to provide shelter from predators as well as from strong winds, which can damage butterflies’ wings.
+Take a seat
+Another reason we don’t see as many butterflies these days, reckons Hammond, is because we don’t look. “As a kid we’d sit in the long grass and make daisy chains. We’d just be in the moment; we weren’t rushing around,” she says.
+So make sure when planning your garden that you provide seating so you can stop and stay a while. Try a romantic setting, a table and chairs for two, or a cosy daybed where you can watch the butterflies sail by. Alternatively, add a bench seat, or a hammock strung up under a leafy tree, for the perfect vantage point to enjoy watching the butterflies and kids at play.
+Host plants: planting for butterfly caterpillars
+Most gardeners will shudder at the thought of providing tucker for caterpillars but, as we’ve said, to attract the butterfly species you fancy, you have to provide the right host plants. It turns out they are fussy little critters, too. You might have what you think is a smorgasbord of caterpillar culinary delights in your garden, but they’ll only usually eat the host plant their eggs were laid on.
+These beautiful insects, while daintily sipping nectar from a flower are also pollinating it
+For example, the Dainty Swallowtail and Orchid Swallowtail eat citrus leaves, while the Australian Painted Lady likes the daisy family, in particular paper daisy and billy buttons. The Monarch enjoys milkweed and swan plant, and the Blue Triangle eats native laurels. Butterflies also vary in the number of host plant types they’ll eat. The vulnerable Richmond Birdwing only eats the birdwing vine, but the Common Australian Crow will eat oleander, star jasmine, milkweed, weeping fig and more.
+Talk to your local native nursery to find out which butterfly-attracting host plants will grow well in your region, and which types of flowering plants will encourage the fully grown butterflies to call your place home. If you need further guidance, Chris Gill suggests bringing in the design experts. “Source a landscape designer who can bring all the elements together for you,” he says.
+If you don’t want your host plants to be ravaged by caterpillars, plant lots of them so that a few missing leaves won’t be a big deal. However, the best thing to do is accept that you’ll have a few sacrificial plants, or grow robust plants so they can withstand a little caterpillar nibbling.
+Flowers that butterflies prefer
+Butterflies generally feed off nectar plants, particularly those with a yellow centre. They also prefer flowers with bright colours and like some flowers with open, flat petals so they can stand on them and feed.
+Adult butterflies generally love grevilleas, butterfly bush, milkweed, daisy family, impatiens, clover, bottlebrush, veronica, verbena and valerian, cherry pie and lavender.
+Butterflies like a mix of natives and a few exotics and, if you choose long-flowering plants, perennials or groups of flowers that bloom at different times of the year, you’ll have colour and butterflies most of the year.
+How to grow caterpillar plants
+Here are Jo Hammond’s tips for feeding and growing host plants.
+1. Buy quality native compost (with a lower pH than regular potting compost, 5.5–6 so it’s a bit acidic).
+2. Add vermiculite, a porous native rock that holds seven times its weight in water.
+3. Sprinkle on slow-release native fertiliser.
+4. Water in liquid seaweed and water leaves as well.
+5. Mulch around the plant and water in the mulch with liquid seaweed.
+Resources
+butterflyhostplants.com.au
+lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au
+australianbutterflies.com
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+there's always room for improvement. Part of driving up grades is finding
+the new, inspirational headteachers of the future, as Emma Baugh
+reports. 20 years in industry and army
+service. Now on the education front line. Matthew Van Lier is being
+fast`tracked to leadership, a new kind of teacher. I think really
+coming from industry, it helps you understand the expectations of
+employers, so I am able to say the difference between a great C and a
+great D is not just a grade but it can mean the difference between
+employment or not. ?? WHITE The two teachers at the St John Fisher
+Catholic High are part`funded by the Future Leaders programme, a charity
+which aims to raise students' achievements by developing teaching
+staff. They have a culture of no excuses in terms of what we do every
+day. We have to plan our lessons appropriately for the classes and we
+really have to give 100% all of the time for everything we do, not just
+in class but also leading across the school. The scheme is to help in
+areas seen as deprived but the school says all students benefit. I
+think he is much more than just a teacher. He gives us revision
+sessions and assemblies. You are not afraid to ask for help because he
+understands and can connect with you and can help you on a one`to`one
+level. The latest figures show last Year 7 out of ten students left with
+five good GCSEs grades compared to four out of ten the previous year.
+Making it the most improved school for GCSE results in Peterborough.
+Five years ago, the school was in special measures but has now been
+turnaround `` turned around. We do employ good teachers but this extra
+focus on leadership, especially with those identified with skills to
+change schools and make a difference, is something additional
+and something we are really benefiting from. You find it sad you
+are having to look to a charity like this to bring up standards? It is
+not we are having to look to them, it is just something being offered
+to schools and it is of huge benefit. More than 500 schools
+across the region could sign up for the leadership scheme. The charity
+says it could help all students whatever their background.
+Council workers in Bedford are to receive a new living wage instead of
+the official minimum wage set by the Government. It means low`paid
+workers will earn an extra ?40 a week, boosting wages to ?14,000 a
+year. It's hoped this will reduce the number of people supplementing
+their wages with benefits. have been helped to take up
+alternative work or are in training." There will be more on
+that story on the Sunday Politics programme BBC One at 11am.
+`` still to come, paramedics will be trained from scratch. And
+Commonwealth countdown after a disappointing 2013, can Olympic
+medallist Robbie Grabarz bounce back in the high jump?
+The former leader of the English Defence League has been jailed for
+mortgage fraud. Stephen Yaxley`Lennon from Luton was a
+co`founder of the far`right organisation in 2009. So what impact
+has the EDL had in Luton and beyond? This report is from Debbie Tubby.
+Tommy Robredo sin, former leader of the EDL, is again behind bars in
+solitary confinement after the court heard his life is in danger. He has
+been justly punished by the courts. We think partnerships with our
+community are much longer than they were before the EDL and will
+continue to be. I am now convinced of that so that really was not the
+legacy they had hoped but it is the legacy we are pleased has happened.
+Tommy Rowe Benson was the face of the English Defence League, his
+protests against Muslim extremists attracted thousands of people. It
+began in Luton in 2009 after Muslim protesters shouted insults as the
+Royal Anglian Regiment march through the town. But in October last year,
+he genetically quit, saying the far right extremism within its ranks. ``
+he dramatically quit. When I am saying something, it is me, it is
+nobody else within my organisation saying something like something
+stupid, throwing bricks. He has now been jailed for mortgage fraud. One
+of the properties was here in Luton. This person represents the
+contingency group set up in light of the EDL. We macro it will be a good
+time for him to sit and reflect on the damage he has caused around
+Britain and not only Luton. Him going into prison and all of the
+limelight that the EDL has received in the last few days as a result of
+this, I think it reinforces the fact that the EDL are long gone and this
+is probably the end of them. Many believe the demise of the EDL will
+be good for the town full top Luton is very nice to live in still.
+Gluten is diverse with many people so it is looking like an EDL Muslim
+clash is not good, real or what happens here every day. `` Luton is
+diverse. I don't think anybody you speak to seize the EDL as a negative
+force. Him being in prison has no affect on the EDL group, he says,
+and it will continue the fight he started.
+Just to clear up the name, Stephen Yaxley`Lennon actually called
+himself Tommy Rowe Benson while he was with the EDL. `` Tommy
+Robinson. Ambulance bosses have launched an
+ambitious plan to hire 400 staff and train them as paramedics from
+scratch. The East of England Ambulance Service has been beset by
+difficulties With poor response times and missed targets. But
+arguably the biggest problem is recruitment. Last year, the
+managers' aim was to take on 149 extra staff. The reality: 40
+paramedics left the organisation, 44 joined. A net gain of just four. So
+now, new tactics. You will not be a state riveted
+paramedic until full completion of the 2.5 year programme so you only
+undertake the training `` a state approved paramedic. You will take
+time out in the classroom to undertake further development before
+you reach the final paramedic stage. So it will be 2.5 years before these
+people fill the gaps that you need filling? They can operate as
+clinicians during that period as they develop throughout. Soap for
+people concerned about the arrival of an amulet is or a paramedic,
+nothing has changed? It will clearly increase the numbers quite quickly,
+working alongside already qualified staff and developing over those
+periods so it will have a significant impact initially in the
+numbers of staff we have available to response to our patients. But not
+fully qualified staff? They will be working alongside fully qualified
+staff while developing and as I said before, they will undertake a period
+of initial training so they will have clinical qualifications very
+early on in their career to work alongside clinicians. If I am taken
+ill, I might not get someone fully qualified to treat me? You might not
+get someone who is a qualified paramedic, they will have a student
+and a paramedic but they will be working with an already qualified
+clinician. Family people have you got to a fully qualified
+paramedics? `` how many people? We have got around 1000 staff that we
+employ and 900 are qualified paramedics. And when this training
+starts, you. Have 900 fully qualified paramedics and 40.5 years
+after that you will probably still have 900 fully qualified paramedics
+`` and four 2.5 years. That is right but we will be increasing numbers,
+they may not be at the paramedic level to reach state registration
+but they can still deliver a clinically qualified service working
+alongside colleagues. Thank you. Primary schools in Suffolk are
+languishing at the bottom of the league tables with nearly one in
+three pupils failing standard English and maths tests. And as
+we've reported, officials have promised to turn things around.
+Today, we were invited to see an example of how they are trying to do
+that. It's all about new teaching techniques which have already been
+successful in parts of London. We have started to learn this new
+method, haven't we ? This teaser seems simple, all we need to work
+out... And many children are there in the class? There are doubtless
+many ways of working but at this primary School, these nine and
+ten`year`olds are using a new technique which has proved a huge
+success in schools in London. It is called the primary advantage maths
+programme which comes from the schools in Hackney. The children are
+using a pictorial and concrete method to increase their conceptual
+understanding of maths. These boxes, bars and blocks to break things down
+and visualise the relationship between numbers. Emma has 25 toy
+cars... Even younger pupils on this table are grasping the concept.
+Small blocks are won and big blocks are ten. I experienced this method
+and I thought it makes sense. To see that replicated is stunning and it
+makes you think however hard it is, it is worthwhile because it will
+have an impact. Forging closer partnerships with inner London
+schools is the key to driving up levels of attainment. Staff are
+being trained at the capital and are now pioneering the plan on this site
+and eventually 12 others as well, backed by ?70,000 from a special
+challenge fund. Are used to be quite scared about fractions. This makes
+it clearer for me. I taught my parents have to do it. They are not
+as good as me yet! I suppose the danger is if you are under pressure
+and on the spotlight to get better results, you can end up clutching at
+straws. The team here believe this new method of teaching maths has so
+much to offer in the words of one of them, " we are not reinventing the
+wheel, we are simply using the best spokes".
+In the football this weekend it's the fourth round of the FA Cup. Our
+only survivors are two of our smaller clubs. Stevenage are rock
+bottom of League One. They're at home to Everton. But this report
+from Tom Williams starts with Southend. Their manager Phil Brown
+comes up against his old team Hull City ` for the first time.
+For Phil Brown, the Premier League highlights must seem 1 million miles
+away. This is what he calls real football, back to basics and a
+chance to get his hands and feet dirty. He made his name at Hull, he
+is said to rebuild his reputation at Southend. My overriding emotion is
+to win the game, progress to the next round, put out our best
+performance of the season because we need two and I will shake Stephen's
+hand whatever the result and waved to the fans and we will move on. He
+remains Hull's most successful ever manager, guiding them to the top
+flight for the first time in 104 years. Despite his achievements, he
+is often remembered for this, add 4`0 down, he conducted a team time
+hitch talk in full view of the people and the crowd. It is what off
+a duck 's back. It stays with you. They didn't talk about the win at
+Wembley, or the Emirates, or the history, so it is different now and
+we are taking Premier League opposition and we will hopefully do
+our best foot forward. Do you give your side a chance? Yes, I will be
+keeping them out at half`time, regardless at half`time. This is a
+chance for a major scalp. Debate has been raging for the importance of
+the FA Cup and Middlesbrough have a chance for a serious giant`killing
+and so far the competition has been highly lucrative. This year's cup
+run has banked them well over a quarter of ?1 million. Stevenage may
+be close to the bottom of a league but they have become known in the
+cup upset. We must make sure that the FA Cup retains its status, that
+the magic does not die, and the money still means everything. When I
+left here in round four, when I went up to Preston, the money that was
+made that season in the FA Cup literally built the training ground
+so there is a massive legacy from what the FA Cup has helped to
+create. It is everything it gives you a chance to be, a competitive
+league one club. The stadium is a sell`out as is Southend with the
+focus firmly on the manager. The country, the world is eyeing an
+upset and can either man deliver? It'll great if they could.
+The high jumper Robbie Grabarz was one of the surprise success stories
+of London 2012 securing a bronze medal with a jump of 2.29 metres.
+But 2013 wasn't so good. He could only finish eighth in the World
+Championships. So with the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow just
+six months away does he still have what it takes? With the indoor
+season starting this weekend a chance for us to find out.
+If 2012 was a personal highlight for Robbie Grabarz, 2013 was a
+shattering experience. The European champion was humbled on the world's
+stage, high jumping had just got higher and Robbie could only a ``
+matches Olympic height. You often do not feel confident and we have
+managed the knee injury well, I just could not jump as high as I could.
+He honed his technique at the high performance Centre in Birmingham in
+summer. This first hurdle to overcome is in Glasgow this weekend,
+the opening indoor meeting of the season.
+Do you think you have to prove to people that you are still capable of
+winning medals on the big stage? The most important thing is proving that
+to myself. I put more pressure on myself than anyone else and I know
+what I am capable of time proving that and hoping to do it again.
+Historically, he has responded well when the chips are down, losing his
+funding before the Olympics only to storm back with bronze and that was
+at a height of two per 29 metres but a medal at the World Championships
+last year, the bar had risen a further nine centimetres. The depth
+is incredible admen's high jump at the moment so I am looking at
+jumping personal bests to be in with a medal shout let alone winning
+championships. So it is tough but it is great, you need to get into great
+shape, you will never get away with a bad day. You need to bring your
+best. With a point to prove, Robbie is a dangerous proposition will stop
+in the year of the common wealth games, he knows he has to jump
+higher than ever before. That is to stand a chance of landing on the
+podium once again. He is very engaging, isn't he?
+Throwing yourself over a bar that high, it is amazing.
+Look how well we did for some chat today even though it was chilly.
+Across the east we saw plenty of sunshine especially in the morning
+`` look how we did for sunshine today. We look at the detail of the
+last few hours, you can see the rain is starting to arrive in western
+parts of the region and it will move east through this evening and
+overnight. It looks for the most part as if it will be light and
+patchy. Some heavy bursts possible that the range of mostly be cleared
+away by tomorrow morning. It brings us cloud said temperatures not as
+low as last night, a low of four Celsius seems to be what we can
+expect and we should be frost free. We starts tomorrow with the best of
+the weekend weather. It should stay dry with blustery showers arriving
+later that an area of low pressure spinning in across the British Isles
+on Sunday, it will turn our weather wet and windy through Sunday. First
+thing tomorrow, some rain or drizzle to clear and there will be some
+misty conditions particularly across the eastern half first thing but it
+should lift into low`level cloud and there should be some brighter
+spells. Also we have got some milder air said temperatures climbing to 10
+Celsius. It could also be quite windy. This is where the showers, in
+the afternoon, and into the evening. Some of them heavy, they may have
+hail mixed in and significant amounts of this through the evening
+as the temperatures dropped tomorrow night and it will mean some icy
+conditions out there. Here is our pressure pattern, low pressure
+across the British Isles turning our weather wet and windy but the low
+does not get anywhere, it sticks around and the significance of that
+means it a bring in colder air for the start of the week and
+temperatures will go down. We may be in for a cold snap but before that,
+you can see how unsettled it is. Rain showers for Monday and some
+cold nights with the risk of frost and some icy conditions.
+I think I will stay inside on Sunday. That is all for now, have a
+good weekend, goodbye.
+How Chains Break in Sante Fe
+Resist speaks with Tomás Rivera of Chainbreaker Collective
+Saif: Chainbreaker Collective has been a Resist grantee since 2011, but a lot has changed since then, hasn’t it? Let’s start off by giving a little bit of background information on Chainbreaker. – a “who-what-when-where” of the organization if you will.
+Tomás: Sure. Chainbreaker is a membership based economic and environmental justice organization. This is our eleventh year. We are as grassroots as you get. We had a group of people who rode bicycles and needed them to get around and had no other mode of transportation and couldn’t afford to fix them up, so we basically sat around teaching each other how to do so. That evolved into a bicycle recycling project modeled after many that you see around the country.
+We really like the idea of skill sharing and letting people understand how to do their own work instead of us doing it for them. We felt that really sat well with our politics, our beliefs, and our ability to do the work, because we had no resources at the time; we literally built our first space out of wood pallets and lumber that we found.
+Then in 2008 the market collapsed and the economy hit people really hard, gas prices rose to $4 a gallon, and we looked around and people coming to us – we weren’t a membership-based organization quite yet – but a lot of people were coming to us and saying, “Hey, we like what you’re doing, but there’s a lot more that needs to happen here. What you do with bikes is great, it’s a great start, but it’s not the whole picture.”
+I think our politics and our analysis had evolved a little bit, too; we started to begin to get an understanding of what it means to do organizing instead of just being an activist. And we wanted to incorporate that into the organization.
+Saif: So what happened next?
+Tomás: So the next big jump was towards becoming a membership-based organization. We started talking to the folks that were already there, and then we began jumping on buses, which was the next logical step for us as an organization; a lot of the people that we were working with were bus riders as well, and so it was a natural fit. Lo and behold, we were trying to figure out, “What does transportation justice mean? How do we address this from a civil rights lens, a social justice lens?”
+We know that those things are real, but there are not as many examples of organizations doing that as we’d like to see, although there are and we’ve learned about more since, but at the time we really felt like we were shooting in the dark. Becoming a membership- based organization was about our own personal politics and our own neighborhoods. all neighborhoods. At the same time, we want to stop seeing cuts to our bus service as well. So that’s where we are right now, we’re in the midst of doing that, we’re proud of passing that ordi- nance and we will continue organizing in that way.
+Saif: The Residents Bill of Rights. How did that idea first come up? It seems like a big shift in some ways, but not so big of a shift in other ways. It seems like that was a natural progression of the organization and the needs of the membership, and where some energy was naturally organically flowing. But can you describe a little bit of when the idea sparked?
+Tomás: It’s hard to talk about transportation without talking about urban planning and housing. The rea- son that people need better bus service is because people are getting pushed further and further into the outskirts of the city. And that predominantly affects low-income people and people of color.
+We’ve known that for a long time, we know also that bus ridership tends to be those folks. There are people that sort of ride the bus because they choose to, it’s good for the environment and they get out of their cars – lots of reasons to do that. But we find that the bulk of people do it out of necessity. So we’ve always known that that was part of the problem that we wanted to deal with. We just hadn’t had the capacity as an organization up until recently to be able to address some of the larger issues. All of these things are interrelated, and we have a large analysis, and we’ve always tried to figure out, well how can we use this larger goal of really trying to resist oppression, trying to help low- income people actually have a voice in how their city is built, how can we end ongoing segregation in Santa Fe? Those are very big things, and our ability to effect that change has been limited to bus ridership, bus policy, and helping folks with bicycles up until a couple of years ago. I think that we had enough – we’d done enough organizing that we had a strong enough base out there that it really allowed us to do things like to mend our bus system at the same time as going out and starting another campaign. So really it was about organizing, that’s what allowed us to do that.
+Why the Residents Bill of Rights specifically? Again, when we were moving into this we were saying, “Wow, housing is such a big deal, we can focus just on Santa Fe’s increasing segregation. We can focus just on homeless issues. We could just focus on code enforcement issues.”
+There are organizations that dedicate years and years and years of hard work to just enforcing civil rights violations out there. So we know that all of that is a piece of it, but we don’t know what that means – how to go about it. So we reached out to friends and allies around the country, we reached out to and became a member of the Right to the City alliance. So as we got more and more into the conversation we realized, “Well, hey, this is something we can actually do in Santa Fe!” It not only is helpful here in Santa Fe, it can be a model that is replicable in cities around the country. I think that that is work- ing, it’s starting to show. I think Right to the City gave us a lot of support; we used a template that was crafted not just by Chainbreaker members but also other organizations around the country working on those issues. It was very collaborative – there was a lot of solidarity out there. I think we took that template, that national model, and made it our own here locally, in Santa Fe, and that helped us kind of get out there, give us a reason to knock on doors, help us understand the issues locally as well, and kind of give us a footing into a new, or what seems like a new, issue.
+Saif: That’s so cool. Yeah, that’s really inspirational.
+Tomás: Well we couldn’t have done it without Resist.
+Saif: No, no – that’s nowhere near true.
+Tomás: No, that’s not sucking up or anything, that’s absolutely true.
+Saif: Well, thanks, we’ll see if I can work that into the interview somewhere.
+Tomás: I think when we got our first Resist grant, it was probably like 80% of our income or something like that, so it is significant. I can tell you that that money, now that our budget’s increasing – it’s still a lot. And I think out of all of our funders, you know, I think Resist really understands and feels part of the movement, you know in a way that we really appreciate.
+Saif: Aw, thanks. But really, it is you who we should be thanking for all that you do. Ok, back to the questions! What are some of your current – what are some of the big- gest obstacles or challenges to your work, or what do you foresee being some of the biggest obstacles or challenges to your work.
+Tomás: Well, I think essentially what we’re trying to fight is some really deep-rooted, ingrained, institutional racism and sexism and classism. Undo- ing colonialism doesn’t happen easily or without a lot of hard work. We always say it isn’t rocket science, but it’s a lot of hard work. And the folks that we’re trying to organize are affected by that every day, so we have members that will come to meetings after working two jobs, and it takes them literally two hours to come to our office, and they bring their kids. That’s a very humbling experience, to know that that work is so important that people would do that. But a lot of people don’t have the ability to do that, and it’s a challenge. And I think that is one of the reasons people don’t rise up in the way that we should be against all of the injustices that we see, is because the system really punishes people for doing it in everyday ways. And I’m not even talking about throwing people in prison, I’m talking about making it so that people don’t have time spend with their families, or making it so they have to work. So that is a big challenge. But I do think that it is something that’s overcome-able, and I do think that is why organizing, to me, is important; because it changes those dynamics, and it allows people to have real say, and real agency in how the decisions that affect their lives are made.
+Saif: Thank you, that was beautifully put. So, the last wrap up question is, if you can briefly give us a hint of what is coming up in the future for Chainbreaker.
+Tomás: Definitely. So we just had a membership meeting last night and we have huge news, but this is something
+we’re launching publicly in December, at our annual, end-of-year party. So I can give you a little sneak peak. It’s called “Operation Elephant.” Check back with us at the end of the year to find out more!
+Saif: Can’t even imagine what is in store for Santa Fe, but I bet it’s going to be amazing. And when you all do your first action, please send us a photo!
+Tomás Rivera is the executive director of the Chainbreaker Collective, a Resist Grantee. Saif Rahman is the director of communications at Resist and is the editor of the Newsletter. Thank you to Andrea Martinez who is an undergraduate student interning at Resist. Her hobbies include learning, running, and black coffee. When her nose is not deep in a book, it can be found behind the lens of her Petri film camera.
+Or, The Immaturity of the West: Will millions of Catholic deaths and the utter destruction of Catholic civilization at Protestant, Liberal, and Communist hands never suffice?
+Some days ago I was able to catch parts of the BBC debate on the Catholic Church; and I must say Ann Widdecombe and the Archbishop were caught napping. Technically speaking, I think these factors led to their loss:
+(1) They were too soft. Every debater knows that the defending side is always harder: the attacker need only find weaknesses, so he can afford to be narrow and one-sided, whereas the defender must defend on a broad front; and compared to an attack (“You did evil!”), a defense is always weaker (“No, I didn’t!”). Therefore a hedged and nuanced defense, however reasonable, is unsatisfactory; one needs to go hardline. That is, instead of saying “we didn’t really do it wrong”, the defender should say “this, and this alone, was the right thing, and I dare you to prove otherwise!” Perhaps they could have used the Church’s history as a redoubt for an attack:
+“The Catholic Church alone stood against the forces of barbarism when empires themselves had fallen… Today we gripe over her mistakes, but we gripe in halls of thought she built behind walls of arms she defended. You can criticize her two thousand years of sinners and failures solely because you benefit from her two thousand years of sanctity and success. She made mistakes because she built the edifice of our civilization, and so vast a work cannot be made without mistakes. It is too easy to criticize the structure at leisure, to you tear down cathedrals now in peace; but the Church alone, in her holiness and humanity, could build them in time of war.”
+This, we believe, the defenders in the BBC debate failed to adequately do.
+(2) They were outclassed. Debating, frankly, is less about right and wrong than about matter, manner, and method. You go in prepared and practiced, armed with convincing arguments, an appropriate strategy, and crisp responses, or better yet, clever put-downs to probable objections; and you do not stop attacking with blunt bludgeon or elegant rapier–whatever works–until your opponent is broken beyond hope, but without going too far lest you be thought a cad. Widdecombe’s side did these wrong, I submit; for they set up a passive Maginot Line instead of an aggressive Kursk against the opposition’s perfect, unrelenting blitzkrieg. Hitchens I thought was okay, but Stephen Fry was simply fascinating. He is a brilliant writer and actor–better by far than his peers, including his fellow Footlights–and though I bemoaned his victory, across the gulf of ideology we must salute a great controversialist.
+That said, I must and I do take exception to the Modern obsession with finding fault with the Church, as so ably, but so wrongly, demonstrated by Fry & Co. I don’t mean only the onesidedness, though that too is significant–for how indeed could an objective historiography ignore the contribution of Fathers Mendel, Kirchner, Buridan, etc., of the papacy, the Franciscans, and the Jesuits to science and focuses on the single case of Galileo; or blame Africa on alleged Catholic obscurantism on sex and ignore the sheer scale and scope of Catholic charities and social justice-and-peace efforts in Africa and everywhere? How could it forget the ecclesiastical origins of the Western university system, international law, monetary and human rights theory, or entirely ignore the humanitarianism of De Las Casas, Sant’Egidio and the reducciones, or, when discussing the Crusades, omit noting that Islam’s conquering juggernaut attacked first and swallowed up half of Christendom before the West finally fought back?
+By the Modern obesession I mean, rather, the temperamental–one might say neurotic–desire to not only prove the Church wrong but also to destroy her, force her to kneel and apologize for her beliefs, her precepts, her history, a demand never made on religions with similar or more “restrictive” beliefs. Evangelicalism and Islam, for instance, have never attempted to harmonize rational inquiry with faith as the Church did in Aquinas and Vatican I, but have never been subjected to the same onus from rationalism; and America, that cult of itself, which ethnic-cleansed the Indians, robbed Mexico of half its land, genocided Filipinos, and caused the greenhouse effect, is not asked to justify her existence. The vile treatment of Catholicism in particular is understandable, perhaps, given the parent-child dynamic of the Church and the West with all its Freudian implications, and the diametrical opposition between Catholic virtue-morality and Modern freedom-ethics; but it’s becoming a trifle old.
+For I wonder, isn’t the West satisfied that Catholics already form minorities in many formerly Catholic countries, that whole religious orders have been erased since the 19th century, that the Church is almost everywhere disestablished and where established is ignored (i.e., Monaco)? Isn’t enough that the Church has utterly lost the great 19th century struggle with bourgeois liberalism, which is everywhere triumphant in its New Left and Neoliberal forms, while her own social teachings against capital concentration and social antinomianism gather dust? Isn’t it enough that Christendom’s children have been taught to forget where they got their culture, educational system, sciences and whatnot–with histories of philosophy skipping Suarez, Abelard and the whole of Latin thought–, and have been brainwashed to think of the Church as a non-relation beneath contempt, or at best as a deservedly neglected mother, nasty, brutish, and stupid? Will the Seculars never be satisfied until the Church surrenders and agrees with them, or vows silence, or dies, with the last Pope strangled with the intestines of the last priest?
+And they call us bigots?
+The notion of collective guilt, it seems, has survived Nuremberg–“you Catholics are damned for what other Catholics did 1,000 years ago”–; but whatever the sin involved, haven’t Torquemada, Pius XII, and Franco been expiated, or at least revenged by the massacre of priests, dissolution of congregations, seizure of universities–oh, how we weep for Sorbonne and Sapienza!–and other savaging of Catholics in Mexico, England, France, Northern and Eastern Europe; the crushing subjection of the Catholic Swiss in the Sonderbund; the massacres at the Vendee and the betrayal of Castelfidardo in the name of liberte and fraternite; the kulturkampf; the loss of Northern Europe to Protestantism and of North Africa and the Middle East to Islam?
+And what about Protestant England’s rape of Catholic Ireland, from Cromwell’s genocide to the Potato Famine, which England refused to stop lest she upset market forces(!); the ongoing persecutions in China and Vietnam, the self-emasculation of Vatican II and the self-humiliation of John Paul II? Even if the Church and its leaders did wrong, will the millions of Catholic deaths, the millions of defections (and therefore damnations), and the utter destruction of Catholic civilization at Protestant, Liberal-Capitalist, Socialist hands never suffice? Must it be billions, must it be annihilation?
+In short, though I admire Western culture, even the modern West for the brilliance of Kant and the fire of Nietzsche, there is no abiding its myopic immaturity, its frenetic desire to cut its parent down to size lest it never become “his own man”, its eagerness to forget its roots lest it remember its debt and maybe have to listen to mommy. It boggles the mind that the Secular West, already grown to a nuclear-armed leviathan, could still sport the rank injustice, nay, the insecure totalitarianism of an ungrateful brat. For how is holy mommy Church a threat to the Liberal Capitalist Total-State, when only a tenth of her flock even listen to her shepherds? Is it because statesmen who still respect her sometimes contest elections on equal terms with anti-Catholic/anti-Human politicians, and sometimes win? Is it her equality with them that they hate? Or is it rather that in their souls (whose existence they deny) they somehow know (an act they question) that the Church has, alas! a point?
+I also cannot help remarking–one ad hominem deserves another–at the cowardice a la “2012” of brutally attacking a long-browbeaten opponent whose only threat is that she still talks, while prudently appeasing the far more illiberal, more irrational opponent who carries bombs and issues fatwas. Though maybe that’s for the best. For Islam doesn’t command to “turn the other cheek”; and when it triumphs in the West–as it surely will, for the rootless youth of the West will yearn for the mysterium tremendum et fascinans, and why shouldn’t they turn to the religion their craven elders placate?–, Islam will not suffer the Moderns the freedom they enjoyed in Christendom. Little Secular will cry for the milder disciplines and easy indulgences of holy Church, and the imam will say, sorry, mommy’s gone, and by the way, the door to ijtihad is closed. It wouldn’t quite expiate matricide, but it’d be a start.
+Therefore, though I regret that Ann Widdecombe’s side resoundingly lost the debate, I regret much more the fact that they had to debate at all. With 2,000 years of history and historical baggage the Church is an easy target–therefore shame on the Moderns, shame on Hitchens, shame even on bright, wonderful, funny, made-me-weep-for-Noel-Coward Fry for picking on the unmissable dartboard–; but with everything she gave the West and the world the balance of the scales should be a non-issue.
+For shame, I say again, shame. Let’s see. Faithful Catholics in the millions abandoned worldly success for unpaid service to the poor and sick and abandoned in shelters, orphanages, and hospitals; the Church’s leaders and orders sustained civilization though invasion after invasion, recolonizing depopulated regions and hostile terrain, teaching letters, protecting books and feeding paupers; her patronage of reason (and which other religion anathematizes, as did Vatican I, those people who question reason?) kept philosophy alive in Christendom even as the Mutakallimun and the Mutazila died in Dar al-Islam; her prelates patronized some of the greatest music and architecture and art in history–for good or ill she created Western civilization itself, with even the Roman curia proving a model for emerging governments.
+And how do the ultimate beneficiaries of Bede’s and Alcuin’s and Anselm’s renaissances reciprocate? After their confreres genocided priests, religious, and laity by the millions, wiped out monasteries and guilds because (for Cavour, for instance) they’re insufficiently capitalist, stole her schools and stole her children, destroyed all her works and her memories–in other words, after Protestantism, bourgeois Liberalism, and Socialism raped their mother Church, damned her faithful and smashed their civilization–, they have the cheek, the gall to sit in judgment over her, demanding that she justify herself because she dares to criticize their sex life, their penchant for killing the weak and inconvenient with abortions and DNRs! Plautus and Petronius combined could never make such a farce.
+To be fair, I must say that I have little doubt that if the Church stopped fighting the new utilitarianian and sexualist orthodoxy the Moderns would slow their anti-Catholic inquisitions; if her clergy actually blessed free market and free love–unlimited greed and unremitting lust–they wouldn’t launch attacks against her. But I had thought before that disagreement, even on policy, did not demand ad hominem, well-poisoning exchanges that center on the person and not the issues on which the parties disagree. Today I think otherwise in exasperation. Even amid the criticisms and ideological battles a little civility, a little evenhandedness, a little gratitude would be nice; but if that is not forthcoming, if we will be attacked with one-sidedness and logical fallacies, then I say we take a more polemical approach. We’ve been pushovers too long.
+May God forgive our anger if and when it turned unjust; may He re-mould it into zeal for justice; and may He bless us all.
+oh, a rant! hahaha.
+The bigotry is tiresome I agree. If they had embraced some sort of postmodern view, then Catholics should rank no different then say, Muslims right? So why should it matter to them so much? Ideology apparently, still can mean so much.
+Would they dare do the same to the Muslims I wonder.
+Well, bullies always target those who don’t or won’t fight back. It’s both good and bad in certain ways, but a line has to be drawn somewhere…
+There’s a Filipino saying: Yung namumunga, siyang binabato, and you have elaborated on that in a most incisive manner. Great read!
+My link to this post here.
+God bless!
+I’m sorry but what did Pius XII do that was so awful? He tried to save as many Jews as he coul without schisming the Church and giving Mussolini the excuse to invade the Papal states and replace him with a puppet
+And what reward did he get?
+It really annoys me when people try to pin things on the Catholic Church that it cant possibly be blamed for. The World Jewish Congress praised Pius for his relief efforts and public denunciation of racial persecution why cant Stephen Fry? It wouldn’t hurt. Also Pius XI spoke out against Nazi racism and Musssolini – what thanks does he get? A series of snide remarks about the Vatican State he more or less single handedly forced into political being by the fact Mussolini couldn’t control him written off as “an accident of history that doesn’t have an Olympic Team”?!
+If people want to ridicule the church for the theological absurdity of it’s views or it’s institional failure I have no problem with that but why should the Church have to put up with this kind of historical misrepresentation.
+There is a nasty sectarian undercurrent in Fry calling Catholicism a sect.
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+I have the worry that all new Moms and Moms-to-be have. How am I going to balance a career and a baby?
+There are no pictures today*. Just my words – my inner, personal thoughts, so if you’re here for the pics, please do come back tomorrow 😉
+Since this is going to be a personal, vulnerable post, I’d also appreciate that if you do continue reading this, that you do it with kindness and no judgement. It’s tough enough being this open and honest.
+Since the age of 18, I’ve had a career in broadcasting. I haven’t missed a single year of radio presenting and you could say that my career has been my baby. I am the type of person who is all or nothing. I don’t know how to do half measures. I have worked my butt off and I love it.
+As a little girl, when I thought about future Bailey, I was a successful business woman and a wife and Mom. I also thought I’d be married and have 2 kids (twins) by 30, because 30 was “so old!”
+It was never a case of one or the other, but my focus was always on my career, (something I could do something about) and the wife and mother part was always just a “given” – something that I wasn’t focused on (even though I wanted it), because I knew it would happen naturally and in the right time (even if there were times when I felt impatient or wondered if I’d ever find my person.)
+At 34 years old, wiser than my 12 year old self (thank goodness) and very sure of what I want, I’m now expecting my first baby. In fact, I’m only 2 months away! Pinch me.
+I now face something, that every Mom with a career faces. The Mom Guilt. I’m not even technically a Mom yet and I’m feeling it. Oh boy!
+I had a good sob the other day with Sox – it was cathartic, because I’d been bottling my fears and feelings in. It all came tumbling out of me in panicked sobs:
+I want to be the best Mom, who is there for my little boy all the time and I don’t want to miss all the special moments, but at the same time, I still want my career that I love so much. I then feel guilty for wanting my career, when I should now want to be focused solely on being a Mom. Then I feel panicked about: what if I don’t want my career anymore, the minute he comes along? I panic that I’ll be “throwing away” my 16 year career.
+Sox was pretty amazing and supportive in calming me down and telling me to take some deep breaths first and foremost. Then he said: “You won’t know any of this until he comes along and there is no point in working yourself up over something you can’t know right now or even control.” He also said that it wouldn’t be throwing my career away, if that’s how I felt – and perhaps just putting it on hold. He also reminded me that so many women are amazing Moms and successful career women. This I know, but sometimes when these thoughts become all consuming, you forget about the rationality.
+He’s right.
+Yes Sox, enjoy that being in black and white on this blog! Ha!
+I won’t know until Baby is here and I can’t control it either. I’m having to surrender my control. I didn’t realize I was such a control freak, haha… perhaps – this is part of the journey and lesson.
+I still feel stressed about trying to balance everything though. I also realize that I am not the first or last Mom to experience this, but right now, it’s brand new to me and it’s overwhelming.
+Not for one second do I want to be insensitive to anyones work or career, but I can only speak for myself.
+I think, by law, Maternity leave is 4 months. Some companies pay, some don’t. I had a meeting with our finance lady and our company doesn’t have a Maternity package and since I’m an independent contractor, I wouldn’t qualify anyway. I also apparently don’t qualify for UIF. So, while I am allowed the 4 months off, the time I take will all be unpaid.
+Here’s the other problem. My industry is an incredibly tough one and taking 4 months maternity leave actually isn’t possible.
+It’s not like I can hand over my role and responsibilities to someone else. I can’t hand over “files” or “clients” to be looked after by someone else, until I come back. I am my company/brand.
+My Afternoon Drive Radio show is a 2 person show. Maurice and I co-host the show. We share the show prep, which can take a few hours alone, and the show itself is a high energy, fun show that requires full focus and energy for 3 hours. We literally take pee breaks based on how long a song is (most songs are 3 minutes 42 seconds! Yup, my pees are timed. Try tell Baby G that, who seems to like using my bladder as his personal trampoline.)
+I’ve elected to take 8 weeks of Maternity Leave instead of the 4 months. Maurice can handle the show for 8 weeks, but asking him to handle a 2 man show by himself for 4 months is tough. My concern is that I would then be replaced by someone filling in for me.
+Audiences can be fickle (don’t kill me) and 4 months or even 2 months is a long time to be off air. People can either forget about you, or they can start to enjoy the new duo. I don’t want to sound insecure about my career or my talent/reputation…I’m confident in that, but I’ve been in this industry long enough to know how it really works – the nitty gritty and all.
+I feel guilty for still wanting a career and not being there whole heartedly for my little boy. I feel guilty for not wanting a career and wanting to be a full time Mom.
+BUT, if I don’t try I won’t know, especially since I still absolutely love my career. I also look at the many Mom’s in my industry who seem to have balanced it really well. I’m so impressed. They inspire me.
+I’m also very lucky that it’s not 9-5pm and it’s just the afternoon that I’ll be gone. Although when I add up prep and time away, it pretty much works out to be a 9-5, but you know what I mean.
+When I’ve told other Mom’s my short maternity plans, some have laughed at me like I’m completely crazy with a knowing-grin of: “Yeah right! Good luck with that!” and others have smiled gently and said: “You can only try!”
+Yikes.
+This is how I see it working… our plan, if you will (I hope God isn’t laughing):
+8-10 weeks maternity leave from my radio show after baby is born. I’ve said 10 weeks just to be safe, but perhaps I’ll be able to go back sooner?
+After 8-10 weeks, I’ll return to my radio show, which is 3-6pm. I need to be in studio an hour before, so that’s 2-6pm. I always do my show prep in the mornings. I live 15 mins from work, which means I’ll be home for bath time. I’m super lucky that Sox is flexible, so he will most likely look after him in the afternoon. When he can’t, we will need to get help OR I’ll have to bring him into work with me (if it’s allowed.)
+I do plan to breastfeed, so I’ll express milk for the afternoons.
+That’s the idea – how plausible it is, time will tell.
+I started off by saying: I am the type of person who doesn’t know how to do half measures…. Well, I think I’m going to need to learn how to be all in my career and all in motherhood and find a way to balance.
+Even as I type that, I think about how I’m all-in to my marriage, my friendships, my family and so on. I’ve managed to balance all of those, so it’s going to take some adjustments, but adding Motherood to the mix should be doable too, right?
+I’d really love to know how you’ve made your career and having a new born work. How much maternity leave did you take and if it was shorter than 4 months, how did you find it/manage? If you’re in my industry, your advice would be golden too.
+*Ok, I couldn’t resist a picture!
+28 Comments
+You will always feel guilty, regardless of if you quit your job completely or work even harder. And you will work harder, faster and try to re-prove yourself to everyone. Your friendships will change and it wont necessarily be your fault. You will miss milestones and big things and berate yourself for it, You will need to get out there again soon and gym and drink wine and do things with Sox without the baby. You will need to become a superhuman but it can be done. I know what I’m saying isn’t what you want to hear but it will be tough. You are very fortunate that Sox and your jobs are flexible – take full advantage of that. The more you can incorporate baby into your lifestyle the better. Make sure you stick to a routine, it will create ‘definite moments’ where you can squeeze in work, expressing milk, washing dishes, washing yourself, show prep etc while he naps. I studied a diploma on maternity leave and since having a kid have 2 full time jobs which means I work 7 days a week. It’s fucking hard, so hard, but you can do it. And then wine, lots. You will be great.April 20, 2017 at 9:52 am
+Kate, you are one of those woman I look to for inspiration! Thank you this comment – for the honesty and for the encouragement! I appreciate it, more than you know! xApril 20, 2017 at 9:57 am
+Oh wow, what a vulnerable post. You can work and have a new baby, but it’s not easy. And just factor in “what if” you suffer post-natal depression like I did? But remember this: we ALL navigated our way, somehow, through new-motherhood and our work. I worked doing illustration work and for my husband both. I stopped work too for a time. When you have a new baby, every day might be different, so you might need to take each day as it comes. But thinking about it now won’t really help that much. Have a plan, as you do, but prepare to change it as well. And I wouldn’t stress about missing moments – you will miss some, sure, but you will also be there for others. The beauty of children is that there are moments EVERY DAY with them that are precious. Don’t stress, if I can come out the other side of motherhood in tact (sort of) then you can too. But one thing I would do: if you can hire a dedicated nanny/childcare person to help, DO IT. Interview NOW. Make sure you really like and trust that person. You will need the help, especially if you and Sox want to go out (vital) or you both have commitments. That is just my five cents worth. xxxxApril 20, 2017 at 10:29 am
+Thanks Louise – I appreciate your message! That’s what Sox keeps saying: We can’t know until he is here. You can’t really prepare for something that is unknown. We don’t know if we will have a text book, angel baby or a tough, colic baby (please no) or what’s going to happen! One step at a time! xApril 20, 2017 at 10:35 am
+Hi Bailey my son turns 15 next weekend so babyhood is a way back for me but here’s my input. I was a career girl loved my life in the NGO industry and being able to give back. I met you once through this medium I too struggled with loving my job and wanting to be a full time Mom. My life was further complicated in that my son was a third time successful IVF after years and years of infertility treatment. In the end I made a heartbreaking decision to walk away from my job and get similar fulfilment from continuing my volunteering in the sector. At the end of it I had a few years off which I haven’t regretted because subsequent IVF attempts were unsuccessful and I have just my one miracle boy whom I love more than life itself. I went back to work when he was a toddler and he went to play group three 3/4 days a week which he needed for stimulation and which he loved. You cannot be there for all the moments even if you’re home full time life happens. You cannot know what you will feel and want until he arrives and you settle into motherhood. Sox is right if you choose to not go back and work in a different format it’s not giving up there are seasons for everything in life. Go with your gut and trust your journey. Many different wonderful opportunities came my way. Don’t try and control what may or may not happen if you step away – having children will definitely teach you how little you control in life!! I will end by saying this so many people told me how quickly the time would pass I found it hard to believe with people saying does he crawl, walk, talk and so on. Enjoy every moment because I cannot believe my son is 15 next weekend! If you don’t feel like going back or it’s too hard to work it out when he’s a baby it will be because a better opportunity is out there for you be open to that. Much love for the weeks and months ahead xxxApril 20, 2017 at 10:57 am
+Hi Tricia, thank you for sharing this with me. I really appreciate it! I don’t want to give up my career and I think that’s where the guilt lies… but we literally do have to take it one step at a time!April 20, 2017 at 11:03 am
+It’s hard for me to imagine having a 15 year old boy now… but everyone tells me it flies. My pregnancy has flown. This year has flown… so soon I won’t be imagining and Baby G will be a teen. Crazy! Hahaha!
+Have the best day! x
+You’re just going to be juggling with another ball, except this ball is a precious egg who you cannot let fall. You’ll do great, Bailz….we all adjust and Sox is right. You cannot worry over something that you have no control over…enjoy the last trimester. I will be time to meet your wee man before you know itApril 20, 2017 at 10:58 am
+Thanks Gil 🙂 Really appreciate the encouragement! xApril 20, 2017 at 11:03 am
+No need for guilt I’ve always believed and seen for myself that the happiest version of yourself will be the best Mom to your son whatever that entails. If you wish to go back it will work out just be prepared to feel differently or want a different version of your career should that happen. So much happiness lies ahead xxxApril 20, 2017 at 11:10 am
+Thank you for putting into words what soooo many mothers with careers feel and don’t always know how to articulate. The most important job a women could have is being a mother. Yet, it’s so important for us moms to have our own things that help balance our busy lives.
+Even as I write this I know how it went in one ear and put the other when I was in your position. However…it won’t last forever. The seasons change. The balancing act shifts to new challenges. And all the while you have days when you scream and days when you begin to think you’ve got it figured out. What’s truly happening is that you begin to be kinder to yourself. You begin to let yourself off the hook a little more. You get tougher and stronger, while getting more gentle with your soul.
+Time really does fly with your kids. It just seems never-ending while it’s happening. Self-employed persons have a particularly difficult road (even though it seems glamorous on the outside.) Learn the phrase ‘It’s ok.’ Repeat it like a mantra. I promise that someday…you’ll begin to believe it. 🙂 xxApril 20, 2017 at 11:09 am
+Megan, you have put this down so beautifully!! This really resonated with me… “What’s truly happening is that you begin to be kinder to yourself. You begin to let yourself off the hook a little more. You get tougher and stronger, while getting more gentle with your soul.” Thank you! xApril 20, 2017 at 12:49 pm
+Such an honest post Bails but often good to share and say it loud for more clarity and for others to share their stories too. This is something so many women struggle with but we all find a way that works for us and our families…
+I have been lucky enough to not be working full time with any of my girls but I had serious guilt with Sophie because I had just finished my Post Grad in Teaching and was desperate to get into the classroom. I had no desire to work after Ellie but then last year, I launched my own business LuluPop and had these great ideas to work through my pregnancy and juggle having three kids and a business – but my sick pregnancy made me close down and put work on hold until now… And juggling three is no easy task so I will be waiting a bit longer.
+It’s been scary for me because I’ve lost so many clients through referring them all while I was sick and the industry has boomed since I started last year so it’s going to be a tough thing to be up and running again… But time will tell what my plan and path are meant to be.
+Thinking of you lovely xApril 20, 2017 at 12:49 pm
+Hey Bailey.April 20, 2017 at 12:50 pm
+People are extremely judgemental and it is so unfair. Not everyone has the luxury of 4 months maternity leave and if you go back to work after one month or one year you will always feel the same. I think you will be an amazing mom. My daughter is 3, I am a control freak too and she has taught me that I can’t control everything! xx
+Bailey, thank you for actually posting something no one really talks about. I always thought all working moms are super woman. With my first daughter I had 4 months maternity leave. She was an angel, she slept well, never cried hours on end, she was just perfect and because of this the 4 months at home I longed for the busy days again. I was lucky enough to have a wonderful mother in law that looked after my daughter when I went back to work. At first it was strange not having my daughter with me but then it was my normal. With my second daughter, my wild child, she was more of a challenge. She slept well while I was on maternity leave but once I started working again she didn’t sleep anymore!! There were nights me or my husband were watching barney, teletubies, mickey mouse you name it just so that the other one can sleep a bit. She started sleeping through the nights now, at 3 years old. I can proudly look back and say: YES I HAVE SURVIVED those nights and days I thought I wouldn’t!!!! Now that my oldest daughter started grade 1 I do wish I was there for her more. The bakers day at school, the netball games, the singing. It’s not a problem making arrangements at work to be there but I do feel guilty now that I am not there to help with homework and the little things. It is now only after 7 years I am considering to stay at home for them. Now I can have conversations, pic nics, play hide and seek -and really not know where they are hiding- with them, it is now that I miss them more and that I long to be with them. I must also admit that although I love my girls sooo much, I do look forward to that moment after I dropped them off at school and I can finally change the Barbie songs in my car back to my music. Just remember don’t do what other moms do, and don’t feel pressured to do things a certain way that is not working for you! Yes you are a mom and you have to take care of you husband and baby now but you can’t take care of them if you are not taking care of yourself. You got this, you will seeApril 20, 2017 at 2:15 pm
+You will be just fine Having my own business I was literally back on my laptop after a week or 2, had the girls over at my house for meetings and continued to handle the finances of the business, payments and salaries etc. I did put plans on place for staff to help but at the end of the day when it’s your name / brand / reputation it is impossible to completely hand over to someone else.
+But as you said you’ve worked hard in your career and clearly you have that good work ethic in you. I look back at the first 3 months of the twins in a bit of a blur. I had a terrible heamatoma on my Caesar cut. Ty was in NICU for 22 days. Trav literally took a month off to help us all. We roped in grannies and hired fill time nanny and a night nurse 3 nights a week. So my advice is don’t be scared to ask for help or to hire extra help.
+I, like you, love my work and feel passionate about it, so I never begrudged my work and I feel I am a better mom being a working mom and spending quality time with the boys. As a family we have made decisions to make it all work and you will find your groove.
+I promise you will be fine!!!
+Ps. I also took Eglynol for 3 months and it really helped me with milk production and a put me in a good mood 😉
+XxxApril 20, 2017 at 7:03 pm
+What a beautiful and honest article Bailey. One of the things I found going into motherhood is, for some reason, fellow moms are so hard on ourselves and each other! We need to say how it really is more often, so people don’t enter this experience with unrealistic expectations. We all have had these fears.April 20, 2017 at 7:36 pm
+Trust me, you are going to be % ok. First few weeks will be hell, but then you find your routine and way of doing things, and you start to realize that you can do it.
+Working for myself, I also never had the luxury of proper maternity leave. I had two months with Emma and only about 7 weeks with Meg.
+It was hard, but I still managed to breast feed (with a few top ups here and there that you can’t beat yourself up over, please!). I feel like I have a lot of balls in the air all the time, and I’m only juuuust keeping it together, but it is possible to be a good mom and still be awesome at what you do. I think your little boy will be so proud of you one day, and respect you for it.
+My advice (for what it’s worth);
+Get a nanny (live in if possible). This was the best decision we ever made! Irene is part of our family, and helps me so much, with the girls, with dinner and everything in between. Nanny will allow you to still have date nights every now and again, and for you to let baby sleep in his own bed when you need to work
+Ask for help when you need it! And in those few precious weeks at home with baby, sleep when baby does! And limit visitors to hours you know baby will be up
+Don’t expect it to be easy or anything to be perfect, trust your gut, and don’t over analyze everything.
+And, lastly, gripe water will be your best friend (the real one we were given, not the alchole free crap), have formula to top up if you need it, a hungry baby isn’t a happy baby (which makes for a unhappy mommy), and it’s ok to have a good old cry every so often – you can blame the hormones for months after baby is born. Trust me!
+You guys are going to be amazing parents! Enjoy the last few weeks as just the two of you, soak up the TV time, have long baths and watch as many movies as possible!
+I just loved this post!! And I’m not even pregnant!! (Although these exact thoughts do cross my mind in a daily basis!) to add another perspective – I would say, don’t limit yourself to any one way of thinking! Don’t limit yourself to 8-10 weeks maternity leave or limit yourself to being solely a mom! I think deep down you will know what the right thing to do is when the time comes <3 true, audiences can be fickle, but people who are truly connected to you will always be connected to you and who knows maybe this baby will bring a whole new career path your way?!? (Podcasting/motherhood radio/alternative broadcasting?!) you DEFINITELY have enough energy, drive, charisma and support to have it All!!! XxxApril 20, 2017 at 8:50 pm
+I’m a mom who works. That’s how I like to look at it. My babies come first, always but I need to work so I find the good in it. Something for me. I was lucky enough to have 6 months off with both babies but you’ll find a balance. You’ll miss things but they won’t be any less important when YOU see them for the first time. I have guilt, obviously but this is the best thing for me. I’m a better mom for working. Good luck! You’ll be great. And get a nanny. They are a life saver!April 21, 2017 at 5:51 am
+What’s amazing is that you will find a way to make it work 🙂April 21, 2017 at 6:16 am
+I am a control freak and probably, slightly OCD ;). I went back to work after maternity leave with a full time, live-in nanny looking after our daughter. It was initially tough with minimal sleep (she wasn’t a good sleeper) and her evening breast feeds were replaced by formula, as I ran around all day and didn’t produce enough nutritious milk for her. A few hours in the evening and weekends were filled with “baby time” and we didn’t miss out on any of her developments. Woman can do it all if we want to, but your body or something else will take strain, if you don’t try to find the “balance” as so many others mentioned. When baby G arrives NOTHING, NOTHING on earth will be more important, including your career :). Children are a blessing and a lesson! You can do this Bailey!!!! xx (PS my young adult children are my reward for being the best mom I could be).April 21, 2017 at 9:06 am
+I agree with Clea, you will find a way to make it work. The amazing thing is how adaptable we are, we adjust and just get on with what needs to be done – be it being a mom, wife, career woman or any of the other hats we wear. You don’t have to give up your career, you just realise that you can’t do it all on your own (even though we all believe we are superwomen) and need to rope in some help when needed including husbands, partners, mothers, sisters, colleagues, friends, nannys etc. – the old adage it takes a community to raise a child is very true, so don’t be afraid to ask for help. xxxApril 24, 2017 at 8:16 am
+You are so amazing for sharing this with us. I am not a mom but I have watched my friends struggle with the daily juggle and all I can say is “be kind to yourself”. Every day will bring about its own challenges and the only way to move the mountain is one rock at a time. My mom was a full time mom with me and you know how I repaid her….I took my first steps when she was in another room. I crawled past her and went looking for my dad and walked into the bedroom where he was working. She missed my first steps and she was in the house.April 24, 2017 at 10:40 am
+This is a new phase in your life and maybe it will take you away from radio but bring about a time for you to finish that book of yours!!!!
+Oh Bailey, this world we live in can be so hard. I can totally see you with Baby G in the studio next door while you do your show. In fact I wish you will do it. Our lives have been created to exclude our children from our every day lives. Crèches for when they’re babies, school for when they’re bigger, all so that we can fit into a cog in the machine of “industry”. My career as an Engineer is very male dominated and unfortunately there was and is no flexibility. 9 – 10 hour days are standard because “the wife” is at home looking after the kids and cooking supper. However I was “the wife”. After 3 months unpaid maternity leave I went back to work and after only 2 weeks of 8 – 5 I resigned. I’ve since had another baby and love (almost) every minute with them. I suppose I could juggle another job but it’s not my career and thanks to my hubby I don’t really need to…April 25, 2017 at 6:26 pm
+Hi Bailey! Thank you for making yourself vulnerable in this post, I relate to it so much! I am a writer and work as a contractor for several clients – this means that if I don’t work, I don’t earn! To further complicate things, I’m having a book published overseas and all of that literally kicks into gear in September, the month my little boy is born! I’ve been feeling so overwhelmed that two massive dreams of mine are coming true at the same time…I feel like my career will demand me to be one person and my baby will need me to be another! But whenever I feel overwhelmed I try ground myself in a feeling of gratitude for all the wonderful things happening at once!
+I have spoken to many women who freelance/work as contractors and they have made this flexibility work for them – I think everyone just finds their own personal rhythm in time. And that’s the best part I guess, we get to figure it out one moment at a time xApril 27, 2017 at 4:39 pm
+If I had described myself before having my son last year, I would have used the exact words you do: all or nothing. I was fortunate enough to get 4 months of paid leave – which is below the norm of 6 months most women in “cushy” corporate jobs take. But because I KNEW I only had 4 months by the time I went back to the office, I was ready. And honestly, returning to work has been one of the easiest decisions – I say this because I have an amazing nanny at home (who I am eternally grateful for!) and because my career has always been such a massive part of my life, it completes me! And for that – I am a better Mom. Every moment with my boy is special (even his 2am feed!). And as each month passes, I find I am able to balance and juggle a little bit more than the last; gym, social life, work, baby…. and for the first time in my working life, I am able to say “it’s okay” when I’m not at 100% my best.
+Be kind to yourself Bailey – as women we have this expectation of doing it all. It’s HARD work being a working mom – and still trying to look fabulous doing it – but it’s worth it all! XxxApril 27, 2017 at 6:14 pm
+I know you probably getting advice from every corner and everyone is declaring themselves an expert on your life right now, but there are a few things I learned from my own pregnancy and work situation:
+1. Support is the most important thing right now. If you know your amazing hubby is backing you up, if you know you have an incredible nanny at home, or even if your mom agrees to fly out for a month or two – this will decrease your amount of stress tenfold. If you can sway 2 out of these three – then anything is possible.
+2. I know a lot of mommies take over night feeding all on their own because husbands work etc. This is not what I would recommend. I would recommend building up a stockpile of milk in the fridge/freezer or even use formulae for support, and allow your man to take over at least one of the night feeds. This allows him to bond with his child and you will get some much-needed rest.
+3. Unfortunately, there is no such things as a home/life balance. If you think you have achieved it, then you are a very lucky woman. I have come to realize that woman hold themselves to such a high standard that it has become unobtainable. This god-like creature does not exist. You will miss milestones, you won’t be able to hold up every ball, you will feel guilt for a little bit of every day. But that’s okay, there will be more time to juggle, and get it right. That’s why point 1 is so important.
+4. I went back to work after 3 months, I had no choice. And you know what… my son is fine. He loved his nanny and I had my hubby and mom to call for emergencies. You know who suffered the most… ME! It’s so funny now but I was the wreck. I missed him so much and I didn’t think anyone could be as good for my baby as me. I didn’t have to be this way but I guess it’s what comes with being a working mom. So I guess, my last point is this… it will all be okay.
+Good luck! I think every one who reads your blog is rooting you o and sending lots of positive energy your way!May 19, 2017 at 11:40 am
+Wow Tracy, thank you for taking the time to write this comment. You’ve actually made me feel so much better and put things into perspective!May 19, 2017 at 1:02 pm
+I think we want to take on these Superwoman tendencies, which is ridiculous! It’s one day at a time and trying the best you can!
+I’ll be going back to work 2 months after, so I’m sure it will be tough, but as soon as I get us into a routine, the better!
+I think the reality is right now, I’m imagining what it will be like, which is overwhelming and pointless. I need to figure it out as and when it happens! Thanks again for such a lovely, encouraging comment – it really means the world to me
+x
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+The quiet whistling of the wind died down, and a familiar voice came from the distance. Alice didn't have a split second to think when two huge arms tackled her in a bone-crushing hug. " Alice! I didn't think I would see you here!"
+Pulling out of the monster hug, Alice turned around to face a curly haired, brown eared, scarf wearing man." Elliot? What are you doing here?"
+It must have been the territory negotiations. The mafia had been out for hours venturing through the Amusement Park. While Blood had left early, Elliot volunteered to stay behind, though why he did was a mystery to everyone. " Alice! I thought you wouldn't come back!"
+" I'm marrying you. Tomorrow. Why would I go anywhere?"
+He shrugged, but kept that silly smile anyway." Here, I thought you might want this," he said, pulling a light blue scarf that resembled his out of his coat. He looped it around her neck, making sure it wouldn't fall off, the whole time Alice was left to do nothing but blush.
+She was happy to have the worn out scarf. The air was starting to grow cold, to nip at her arms and face. Slowly, Elliot wrapped his arm around one of hers, his palm sliding into hers while their fingers twisted together. " We should get back. Everybody'll start wondering where we are," he said looking up at the sky. Alice nodded. She could see her breath in the air. It made her feel like some fire breathing dragon. She couldn't wait to get indoors, away from the cold.
+They strolled through the forest, connected hands swaying." Are you excited about tomorrow?" he asked. Alice didn't say anything, just gave a small chuckle. That was enough for Elliot, and with one quick motion, he scooped Alice up in his arms bridal style. " I can hardly wait! We'll get to walk like this tomorrow! It's gonna be great!" he yelled, not caring who heard. He started spinning her around, dizzying the poor girl.
+" Elliot!" She felt the throw-up stirring in her stomach. He quickly placed her back on her feet, an apologetic smile on his face." Sorry, couldn't control myself."
+" I can tell."
+...
+Warm air greeted them as the couple walked inside the doors of the mansion, bringing life back to their cold bones. They waved at the maids and butlers, who made time to wave even though their schedules were hectic because of the upcoming wedding. Entering Elliot's room, Alice pulled away the pale blue scarf and put it on the hat hanger next to the door. From the corner of her eye she could see Elliot flopping down on his orange sheeted bed, beckoning for her to sit next to him.
+She stiffly inched towards him, finding her place next to him on the bed.
+" Are you excited about tomorrow?" he asked. This wasn't the first time, he'd been asking ever since the day had started. All Alice could do was smile. Am I excited? Or am I just nervous?
+" Alice? What's wrong! ? Do you not want to marry me anymore? Have I done something wrong? !" he cried, nipping at her apron with his hands. She nudged him off, still smiling." No, no. It's not that, it's just.."
+Elliot knew it would be best to leave her alone for the time being. So after leaving Alice to her thoughts, the two eventually found themselves in their pajamas, curling under soft wool sheets.
+Alice snuggled close to Elliot's broad chest, and his arms immediately circled over her in a warm hug. Life was sure to be good if this was how she would spend the rest of her nights.
+...
+As sunlight fluttered in streaks through the window, Alice noticed something missing as her hands parted the sheets. Where was Elliot? He had been there the night before, hadn't he?
+Stiffly leaning up, Alice glared out the window. But her staring war with the sun ended when a banging came from the other side of the door. Suddenly, the door swung open only to let in a swarm of scurring maids and servants, who seemed to grab and tug at her, pulling her out of the bed and into a dressing room.
+Everything had hit so fast, she had totally forgotten that her wedding was scheduled for the early morning hours.
+" Oh, Miss Alice, you're going to look simply gorgeous in this gown!" a young maid shrieked. She tossed the gown over the side of the dresser, and Alice gingerly tugged on it, unzipping the back to step inside. It was smooth on the inside, and it fit perfectly against her frame until it passed her waist, where it spread out like a ball gown.
+The sleeves were like satin, and cut off at her shoulder-blades. A trail of pearl shaped beads lined her shoulders.
+Stepping out for the crowd to see her in her wedding dress, Alice gave a happy smile. They applauded her, clapping and whistling loudly, cheering ringing in the room. " Hurry, Miss Alice. We still need to do makeup and hair. Follow me," a maid said, reaching through the crowd and taking her hand.
+She led Alice into a brown and tan patterned room, sitting her in a chair and throwing a blanket over her lap, hooking it around Alice's neck. Immediately, Alice felt the maid's fingers fumbling through her hair, a cylindrical object rolling through it. She pulled two lengths of hair back and clipped them together, and then brushed Alice's bangs carefully. The maid sat something light and feathery on Alice's head- she guessed in was the veil.
+Now the maid was in front of her, playing with some brushes and a set of paint pots." Okay, dear, I need you to close your eyes for a moment," she said, stirring the brush around in the paint pot.
+She smeared the spread over Alice's closed eyes, then used her finger to smooth it out. After repeating this, she put a soft shimmer around Alice's eyes, glossed her lips with a blush pink, and put a warm bronzer that traced her cheekbones. Standing back, the maid admired her work.
+Alice was more than beautiful. She was astoundingly gorgeous. The maid had never been jealous of anyone until now. Glancing at the clock, the maid spun on her heels.
+" Hurry dear, we'll be late to the alter if we stand around any longer!" She grabbed Alice's hands and ran to the front of the mansion. They hadn't bothered to find some fancy church or chapel, the mansion itself was enough to fall in love with. The maids all scurried around her, hiding her from anyone who might try to sneak a peek at the lovely bride.
+The aisle was a long carpet of soft lavender, lined by white metal benches with soft pink tulips draped over them. She never thought Blood would lavish anyone more than himself- especially like this!
+The maids all moved together as a coordinated group, leading Alice to the start of the long lavender carpet. When all the maids moved away, one stayed next to her. She was dressed to fit wedding attire, a slender frame-fitting gown in sleek white with a pearly necklace and bracelet. Her shiny black hair was held up messily with a glossy clip, but it only made her prettier.
+She grabbed Alice's hand and whispered to her." I'll be taking you down the aisle. I've been here longer then any other maid, so if I may, it is a pleasure to lead you, Mrs. Alice Liddell- March."
+An organ played a slow waltzy tune as the two slowly suantered down the aisle. Alice's knees shook with excitement and fear. All the maids were waving at her, giggling at her, while all the butlers smiled kindly. The elderly maid slopped herself, and stood by Alice's side. Two steps were in front of her, and as her eyes followed the steps, they met a hand.
+Elliot held out his hand to her, his warm off-yellow suit reflecting the bright sun. She slipped her fingers into his and stepped next to him. An old faceless man stood before them, his long white robe and blue vest telling everyone of his line of work. He cleared his throat and began.
+" Do you, Elliot March, take this young woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold through thick and thin, to love and care for until the end of time, and to be together until death do you part?"
+" I do, now and forever," Elliot smiled. All the maids in the crowd were sighing, fainting over his cuteness.
+" And do you, Alice Liddell, take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold through good and bad, to love and care for until the end of time, and to be together until death do you part?"
+" Of course I do," she giggled.
+Suddenly, two little boys appeared behind her, smiling like the children they were. Both held a pillow in his hands, each with a single ring on the pillows." We brought the rings, Onee-san!" The old man slipped around them, taking the two rings and letting the couple slide them on each others' finger. " I now pronounce you man and wife. Please, kiss your bride," he sighed, closing his book. Elliot leaned in and parted the veil, and planted a soft kiss on her lips.
+The crowd went wild with excitment as roses flew up in the air, along with hats, coats, and anything else they could get their hands on.
+Now that all the formal things were over, the real fun was about to start; the reception party!
+Alice had changed into a plain white dress that went to her knees, to be more comfortable at the reception. Wine and spirits were all around as sweet fruits from the autumn harvest were served on silver trays. Servants danced to upbeat drums and flutes, while Elliot and Alice danced in the middle of the spinning circle.
+" You don't regret this do you?" he asked." Regret what?" she questioned, dipping under his arm to spin in a circle.
+" Marrying me. I don't want to do anything that'll make you unhappy, you know."
+Spinning around him, Alice glanced around at the amazing party before them." I wouldn't marry someone who I didn't like, you know."
+" I know, but I can't think of anything to give you anymore. I mean, this mansion has everything you could ever want. What am I supposed to give you now?"
+Twirling around one last time as the fluttery song ended, Alice's soft teal orbs met his rich purple ones." There is one thing you could give me," she said, a content smile on her face.
+" What's that?," he asked, curtsying to end the song.
+" A little girl," she smiled.
+He smiled back." Alice gets what Alice wants," he laughed.
+Such a sweet wedding! Originally, Nightmare's was first, but Elliot's was able to go much faster, and I'll have little presents for you between the chapters, like little side stories. so keep looking for those too!
+Read & Review, lovies!
+. (14C) dating; hence, there were no previous attempts to assess quantitatively its spread in Asia. We combine the available 14..
+At any rate, it shows among many other finds that there was intense contact between the southern Balkans and Anatolia and the Levant even before the Neolithic - which has been known for a long time but is unfortunately largely ignored. Since the Gravettian, the Balkans where more closely related to Anatolia and the Levant, both culturally and genetically, than to other areas of Europe.
+.
+In the earliest Neolithic, suitable highlands stretched pretty much from the Mediterranean to Afghanistan. There are no obvious constraints (climate or topography) that would have prevented the eastward expansion of wheat based agriculture from Anatolia all the way to Afghanistan. So logically one would expect the Neolithic to have reached this region relatively quickly..
+Thus we have to regard the "agricultural haplotypes" (R1a/R1b, U-K/H) in a different ligth. Considering the arctic origin of the y-dna R and mt-dna U-K/H we have to consdier that the spread of the various agricultural economies (from pastoral reindeer-, goat- and sheep-herding to the more more stable cow-, chicken- and pig-herding) as various forms of animal domestication - wich have originated in somewhat different regions. Weighing in the domesticated plants and animals from America - up to 9.000 yrs old maize and cayenne - it seems clear that the "anatolian package" is a misconcept of terms.
+Consequently we acyually have to adress various haplotypes to various forms of agriculture. One such variation is the difredence of spread of the y-dna R1a and R1b respectively.
+When the doemsticated form of the urox (from NV Europe) showed up around the Med, as well as in Sumeria and India we may have to deal with a piccture where some of the domesticated plants and animals - along with y-dna R1a/R1b - came out of NW Eurasia."
+what is urox? european cattle have an anatolian imprint. wild european aurochs introgressed in europe but not in the middle east. Cattle in south asia were domesticated independently and genetically unrelated to aurochs.
+rice domestication spread from the east into the indus valley probably later than wheat from the west.
+"The Iranian sites seem to be close to the Elamite civilisation. Does anyone else think this is evidence of an IVC-Elamite relationship?"
+The Iranian sites which are initial Neolithic pre-date both Harappan or Elamite civilizations which are copper and bronze age, by thousands of years. But, they would have shared ancestry at a time depth within the Neolithic to the extent that indigenous South Asian hunter-gatherer populations didn't influence the early Indus River Valley Civilization..
+"In the earliest Neolithic, suitable highlands stretched pretty much from the Mediterranean to Afghanistan."
+That's pretty much what I was wondering. That the "ecozone" suitable for early agriculture - or multiple early agricultures - was originally very widely distibuted and it was only later that the regions most people think of as the "best" in this context e.g. Egypt and Fertile Crescent, became dominant.
+It's an interesting thought.
+From Andrew
+. "
+What language do you think it was then?
+For much of the time since IVC was discovered Dravidian was accepted to be the language of IVC because it obviously preceded Indo-Aryan and is the only linguistic group other than Indo-Aryan that has a sizeable population in the SubContinent..
+This paper is interesting but, it does not explain the South Asia neolithic. In the Abstract the authors imply that this paper can explain the neolithic culture expressed in the Indus Valley, but this is false. Whereas the Mehrgarh culture bearers cultivated wheat and Barley, this civilization and the Indus Valley are separated by thousands of years.
+In addition, while the people at Mehrgarh cultivated wheat, the people in the Indus Valley and South India, cultivated African millets. Thusly, the terms used by the Dravidians for millet, and their domesticated animals are all of African origin. This makes any discussion of the Indus Valley civilization as a product of the Near-East unlikely.
+The people of the IVC sprobably spoke a Dravidian language. This is supported by four facts. 1) The Dravidians and IVC population cultivated the same millets.2) Dravidian languages continue to be spoken in the Indus Valley, in a sea of Indo-Aryan languages.3) There is spread of writing from the IVC down into South India, and 4) along with black-and-red pottery. The IVC rwiting is analogous to the writing used by C-Group people in Nubia, the ancestral home of the Proto-Dravidians.
+"What language do you think it was then?"
+It is probably lost entirely - much as the Vasconic language family would have been had the Basques fallen to the Celts or Romans..
+Witzel's case for a lack of a Dravidian substrate in the early Rig Veda is convincing, although his para-Munda claim is not. The point that the IVC was probably a politically and linguistically united state or confederation, however, is also sound. The fact that no one has ever found a solid correspondence between IVC seals and proto-linguistic script and the Dravidian language is notable. I think that there is plausible evidence that Dravidian does have distant Niger-Congo linguistic roots with substantial creolization type influences a bit like other languages on the Niger-Congo linguistic fringe like Swahili, or at least substantial lexical borrowings from a language in that family, but the timing and context make this unlikely in the case of the IVC languages.
+What little we know of the Harappan language we know from Sumerian accounts which tell us little beyond a handful of words, except that their language wasn't Sumerian, although that would have been a plausible shared language family. Languages in the same family may have been spoken in the BMAC region with which the Harappan's had vigorous trade relations. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a remote relative at great time depth of either Proto-Indo-European, or of a Caucuasian language. I suspect that Harappan had the elaborate features and complexities of a language that is old, and the product of a large civilization that had few language learners - it would have been a bitch to learn. The best hints are probably the shared substrate influences (e.g. retroflex phonemes) in the earliest Sanskrit and Avestian dialects relative to PIE.
+@Andrew who said
+.”
+This is false..
+Most of the placenames in the Indus Valley are of Dravidian origin. R. Balakrsihnan, in the High-West: Low-East Dichotomy of Indus Cities: A Dravidian Paradigm, Bulletin of the Indus Research Centre, no.3, December, points out that the names associated with Indus Valley sites are related to the Dravidian term for fortified town. Dravidian placenames, Dravidian speaking population, red-and-black pottery all point to a Dravidian origin for the Harappan civilization.
+.
+The only non SubContient language hypothised to be related to Dravidian is McAlpin's Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis . This (the McAlpin hypothesis) has not been accepted as settled by the linguistic community. So it remains an unproven hypothesis. At minimum McAlpin shows contact between Elam and Dravidian speakers.
+I am not aware of a peer reviewed journal , like JIES (Journal of Indo-European Studies) , claim there is a relation between Proto-Indo European languages and IVC. The consensus on an Indo-European homeland is the SW Russian Steppes, quite a long ways from the Indus Plains.. "
+Many researchers have written on the relationship between the Dravidian and Niger-Congo including : Dr. Balakrishnan, Dr. Upadhyaya and Dr. Upadhyaya; Dr. Aravaanan who are Dravidian speaking linguist, the French linguist L. Homburger and Sergent .
+Articles on this linguistic relationship has appeared in BioEssay, International Journal of Dravidian linguistics, PILC Journal of Dravidian Studies, Bull. De L’IFAN, Journal de la Societe des Africanists, Journal Afrique and Kemi. These researchers maintain that Dravidian languages are genetically related to Niger-Congo languages. Below is a partial list of articles denoting this fact:..
+The best example is east asia. Had Japanese society collapsed in 900, with no survival, we might be inclined to say they were Chinese. After all, Heian and other cities are almost exact copies of Tang dynasty urban centres. The material culture looked identical, because the Japanese were keen on a wholesale importation of Chinese culture. They even used the same writing system, which might incline us to believe they shared the same language.
+This also brings up a second point. The substrate language in old Indo-Aryan may not actually be para-munda or Dravidian at all. Again, using the example of East Asia, it is possibly for a very advanced society to culturally dominate its neighbours. Sino-Japanese and Sino-Korean vocabulary easily form between one half and two-thirds of their respective vocabularies, while Sino-Vietnames is between one third and one half. The substrate in old Indo-Aryan was picked up fairly early on in its penetration into the subcontinent, which means it could be a Harappan adstratum in Dravidian and Munda. The collapse of the IVC and migration of more-advanced peoples to the east and south could have provided the best opportunity for this to happen.
+Foreclosure Response
+Land Banking as a Foreclosure Mitigation Strategy Transcript
+September 2009
+Moderator: Welcome to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Foreclosure Response podcast series. I'm Karen Leone de Nie from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and today we're talking with Frank Alexander, professor of law at Emory Law School in Atlanta, Ga. Frank is an expert in property, real estate sales and finance, and state and local government law as well as federal housing policies. He has also written extensively on land banking in the United States.
+During the current economic and mortgage crisis, the number of foreclosures has surged, leaving neighborhoods scattered with vacant and sometimes abandoned homes. While many older industrial cities have confronted these challenges for years, formerly growing cities are now facing increasing vacancy rates. Through the Housing and Economic Recovery Act and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the federal government has dedicated nearly $6 billion toward neighborhood stabilization, including the use of a strategy called land banking. Today, we're going to talk with Frank about some of the issues and opportunities of land banking to help stabilize communities throughout the country. So thanks for joining us.
+Frank Alexander: Thank you.
+Moderator: Our first question: Can you describe how the mortgage foreclosure crisis has impacted neighborhoods?
+Alexander: A mortgage foreclosure impacts neighborhoods in a number of different ways. A single foreclosure isn't necessarily harmful to a neighborhood, but foreclosures, particularly when the property becomes vacant and abandoned, begin to have dramatic impact on a neighborhood. It can impact the neighborhood property values, it can result in an increase in crime, and it can begin to unravel the very fabric of the neighborhood's culture.
+Moderator: Well, you've written about the need for policies that support land banks as a tool for stabilizing these neighborhoods. Can you try to begin by explaining what a land bank is?
+Alexander: A land bank in its simplest form is a governmental entity that specializes in the conversion of vacant and abandoned properties back into productive use. They're designed to go after the properties that are causing harm in our neighborhoods, the properties that no one else wants. The properties that, for some reason, the market is no longer taking care of. A land bank is designed to get these properties, to take control of them, to put them back into productive use as soon as possible.
+Moderator: So, based on your response, I'm wondering: Do all foreclosures result in vacancies?
+Alexander: Oh, certainly not, Karen; not all foreclosures result in vacancies. Many foreclosures will go directly into a new purchaser, and the property will be reoccupied and continue in a productive use. The major problems occur when the foreclosures result in vacancies for 90 days, 180 days, or longer. And the vacancies result in abandonment. It's that cycle, that path of foreclosure, vacancy, and abandonment that begins to have the disastrous impacts on the streets, the neighborhood, and the local government.
+Moderator: In going into more depth on this foreclosure issue, I know that land banks have been around for a long time, but how has the foreclosure crisis changed how land banks operate and how they're used?
+Alexander: Land banks have been around for about 25 to 30 years. They were created first in the primarily industrial cities, the older industrial cities, that were experiencing general economic decline. So, the economy was resulting in abandoned properties; the population would disappear, the employment base would disappear. Land banks in those cities were used in those cities were used to go after the properties that were indeed abandoned; there's no longer any demand for those properties. They were largely tax-delinquent properties. What is different is that in the past five years the mortgage foreclosure crisis has caused a different kind of surplus inventory. We've got more properties than our market can absorb right now, and land banks can now be used to step into to this inequality, or disequilibrium, between supply and demand in properties. The large volume of properties that are resulting from our foreclosures are simply dragging down our neighborhoods.
+Moderator: For our next question, can you talk a little bit about the functions of a land bank? What does a land bank actually do?
+Alexander: A land bank can do several different things. The first thing is that it can address legal barriers to the marketability of the property. I see that most commonly where there are properties that are abandoned as a result of tax foreclosures, and they're simply not marketable. Or, if the local government acquires the property, it cannot dispose of it for affordable housing. But land banks can do far more than that. They can take control of property where the owner has given up and walked away, whether it was a former occupant in a home or a bank that seized it in a foreclosure and has decided it really doesn't want it. The land bank can become a responsible property manager. It can board it up if appropriate, demolish it if appropriate, rehab it if appropriate, and put it back into affordable housing. So, what we're looking for in land banks are parties that can take control and become responsible property owners and put it back into productive use as soon as possible.
+Moderator: Land banking is a pretty complicated process, and I'm wondering: Who are the players who actually operate the land banks, and who in the local governments are involved in the land banking process?
+Alexander: Most land banks are a part of local government; a city or a county, or a combination of a city and a county. In some jurisdictions it is really affiliated with the tax commissioner's office. I see that when the inventory is primarily tax-delinquent property. In other jurisdictions where the inventory—the surplus inventory—is foreclosed homes, then it more commonly is in a housing and neighborhood development department of a local government or is affiliated with that.
+Moderator: I'm wondering if you need to establish a land bank to do land banking.
+Alexander: No. Land banks as independent governmental entities are one way to do it. But the key concept today is land banking, which can be done through multiple different kinds of public agencies. If a jurisdiction for a variety of reasons doesn't want to create a land bank it may well have another public authority that can engage in the land banking activities. Land banking is the process of taking abandoned properties, controlling them, and then returning them to public use. A land bank is an entity that does that. But in some jurisdictions there'll be a redevelopment authority or a downtown development authority that can serve as the banking entity, and you don't need to create a new entity, just a new program for land banking.
+Moderator: Well, getting back to the land bank itself, though, can you give an example of an established land bank that has had some success?
+Alexander: The model land bank today is one that was created seven years ago in Flint, Mich., called the Genesee County Land Bank. It is the most recent land bank created in the last 30 years. It is tied very closely into the strongest land bank statute in the country, which is in Michigan. The Genesee County Land Bank takes advantage of the tax foreclosure process in Michigan. It acquires roughly 2,000 pieces of property a year, cleans those properties up, and as quickly as possible puts them back into affordable housing, mixed income housing, or economic development. Some of the properties for which there is no demand, it simply cleans and converts into park space.
+Moderator: I know we've talking about foreclosures driving an increase in land banks and land banking. Can you talk some of the more recent players or actors in this field?
+Alexander: The federal statue from last summer, the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, was the first time there was a federal reference to land banking. As a result of that federal statute and the $4 billion it made available, some of which can be used for land banking, there's a tremendous increase in the interest across the country in land banking and in land banks. Both local governments, at the city and county level, and the state legislatures are now actively considering land banking. Several of the examples of legislative interest in land banking are occurring in the state of Illinois, in Ohio, in Pennsylvania, and in New York, all of which have a number of bills pending that will create land banks or authorize local governments to create land banks. One of the features that is unusual and very exciting about these new legislative efforts is that they are encouraging cross jurisdictional land banking activities, or regional land banking. Where a number of cities within a county, or several counties will come together and engage in land banking activites.
+Moderator: Well, that's a very interesting progression in land banks and land banking. I'm also wondering, though, as states and local governments are exploring these options are there any specific risks or opportunities that they should be considering as they move forward with these strategies?
+Alexander: Yes, there are significant risks. Any time you're doing property acquisition, you're incurring risk. The first risk is that you just don't know what you're getting, and particularly when you're dealing with vacant abandoned properties, you don't want to do it simply because you can. You need to know what it is you're acquiring. The second risk is that you don't know what you're going to do with it when you get, and so you need to have capacity to manage this property. It's been abandoned for some real clear reasons: The marketplace doesn't want it anymore. So, you've got to have the capacity to manage this asset, this property that no one else wants. And then third, you have to have a plan for what you're going to do with it when you exit, or dispose, of the property. Is this property to be used for long-term strategic plan such as a park or a public school facility? Is the property to be put back into affordable housing as quickly as possible? The failure of land banks, or land banking, to be integrated with comprehensive land use plans is a huge risk.
+Moderator: You talked about some of the risks associated with land banking, and so I'm wondering, are there other strategies that could be used in place of land banking that may be dealing with some of these vacant and abandoned properties?
+Alexander: Oh, yes. Land banking, Karen, should not be viewed as a cure, or silver bullet solution, to the problems created by the foreclosure crisis and the excess inventory. Land banking, really, is best used when the market itself cannot reabsorb the properties. Whenever the market, the private market, can reabsorb the inventory, I think it's best to let the market do that. The land bank should be used either in a very neighborhood-specific, strategic fashion, when there are a large number of properties on a given street, or in a given neighborhood that the market won't simply intervene. Then, yes, use the land bank there to start the stabilization process, to shrink the supply of excess properties: Simply by shrinking the supply you begin to facilitate the likelihood that the private market will return.
+In other cases, the land bank is best used when the property is otherwise untouchable by the market. I see that most commonly in brownfield examples. And the ability of a land bank to coordinate with brownfield redevelopment authorities is an excellent opportunity for cross-subsidy of public functions in order to return the property to productive use. Again, in Flint, Mich., you have a very strong example of that. All of the land bank properties in Genesee County, Mich., are also classified as brownfields as a matter of law, which provides a number of incentives for tax-exempt financing and redevelopment and clean-up activities. As land banks look at cooperating with brownfield properties, or being involved in the redevelopment of brownfield properties, it's important to understand that brownfield properties are properties that have some degree of environmental contamination, and that's why the marketplace doesn't want them. So when a land bank can work with a brownfield authority, or redevelopment authority, it's in a position to do what the private market can't do.
+Moderator: We've been talking a lot about state and local governments and their activity in land banking. Now I'd like to turn our attention to, what is the role of the federal government in land banking?
+Alexander: That's a great question, Karen. The federal role has been, in the last 12 months, providing funds that can be used to facilitate the creation of land banks at the state and local level. I think that's the appropriate role for the federal government: simply to facilitate state and local initiatives. I think more can be done, but the critical step has been taken by the federal government, which is to provide significant capital funding that can be used to establish and operate land banks in those jurisdictions that see a need for them. Again, not all jurisdictions should have land banks, or have a need for land banks. But those that have large inventories of vacant and abandoned properties should look at land banking as a tool, and the federal government has taken the important step of providing funding that can be used if the state and local governments wish to do that.
+The only other role I would advocate for the federal government is to facilitate cross-regional planning, to encourage states and localities to deal not just with the property in a given neighborhood, but to realize that foreclosures and abandonment are regional problems and not just neighborhood-specific problems. Land banking strategies ultimately become a part of land use, and land use planning needs to be regional. And to the extent that the federal government can encourage states to look at regional planning, I think that would be quite helpful.
+Moderator: Well, this has been a very interesting discussion of land banking, and I want to thank you for joining us today.
+Alexander: It's my pleasure, Karen.
+Moderator: For more information on land banking, read "Land Banking as Metropolitan Policy" by Frank Alexander on the Brookings Web site at. We've been speaking with Frank Alexander of Emory Law School. This concludes our Foreclosure Response podcast on land banking. For more information on this topic and others, visit the Foreclosure Resource Center on the Atlanta Fed's Web site at. Thanks for listening. If you have comments or questions, please e-mail podcast@frbatlanta.org.
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+2) For second
+night in row all three networks ran full fundraising stories, but NBC
+didn't bother reporting how the Clinton team delayed admitting that
+Mr. Wu visited the White House ten times.
+3) The CBS
+Evening News reported that Paula Jones' lawyers have subpoenaed
+another woman whom Bill Clinton supposedly harassed.
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+mentioned a syllable about fundraising. July 30 marked the 15th
+morning that CBS failed to utter a word about the fundraising scandal:
+This Morning's last story aired way back on July 9.
+--
+Only NBC's Today featured a fundraising story, its first since last
+Friday. During the 7am news update NBC ran a story from Joe Johns
+re-capping the FBI agent's revelations from Tuesday.
+--
+GMA couldn't find time for fundraising, but made room in the 7am news
+update not only for the Jerusalem bombing and Michigan car crash that
+killed nine children, but also for items on JonBenet Ramsey and Andrew
+Cunanan. GMA devoted the first interview segment to Autumn Jackson's
+mother and her attorney followed by a talk with Bill Cosby's attorney.
+NBC raced all three across Manhattan to Rockefeller Center so they
+could appear in the same order and combination on Today during the
+7:30am half hour. An interview with the Mayor of Fort Collins,
+Colorado about deadly flooding in her city finished off GMA's first
+half hour. The next half hour featured live coverage from Spencer
+Christian in Chincoteague, Virginia of the annual pony swim.
+--
+Cosby also dominated This Morning. With This Morning's mixed
+local/national format in the first hour, the show's top interviews of
+the day run in the 8am half hour. Wednesday featured three segments:
+Dr. Howard Torman on how paternity tests work, a Jane Robelot
+interview, with the head of the ABA paternity committee, on the legal
+implications of Cosby taking a paternity test, and third, a Window on
+America piece by Hattie Kauffman on how the Earth Conservation Corps
+is trying to bring the Bald Eagle back to Washington, DC.
+CNN
+viewers got a taste of the hearings as CNN went live at 10:09am ET to
+the opening statement of Michael Cardozo, head of the Clinton Legal
+Defense Fund. At 10:26am CNN switched to Richard Jewell's statement to
+the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime, jumping back to
+the Senate hearing at 10:42. Less than ten minutes later CNN ceased
+its live coverage, running hourly updates from Candy Crowley or Brooks
+Jackson the rest of he day.
+MSNBC did not offer any live coverage, just updates from the Hart
+Building from Joe Johns, but MSNBC did go live to Jewell for about 15
+minutes.
+2) Mounting
+evidence of illegal donations and obstructionist tactics by the White
+House may have hit critical mass on Wednesday for the networks: For
+the first time since the hearings began July 8, with July 30 stories
+the three broadcast networks had all aired full stories for two days
+in a row. Two themes emerged Wednesday: Senator Fred Thompson lashed
+out in anger at the White House for waiting until after Tuesday's
+hearing on Trie and Mr. Wu to release documents detailing Wu's White
+House visits; and Wednesday's hearings explored how Trie funneled
+funny money to Clinton's Legal Defense Fund.
+ABC (as well as CNN) reported only on the Wu
+angle and NBC only on the defense fund. CBS hit both. Here's a network
+by network rundown made possible by some nighttime transcribing work
+by MRC intern Jessica Anderson:
+--
+On ABC's World News Tonight Diane Sawyer introduced the story:
+"In Washington today, tempers flashed at
+the campaign finance hearings after the White House finally released
+documents about the Asian businessman known as Mr. Wu."
+Linda Douglass elaborated: "One
+Administration official called it 'an amazing coincidence.' Just hours
+after the Senate committee investigating campaign finance held
+hearings focusing on a mysterious Chinese tycoon named Mr. Wu, the
+White House discovered records showing Mr. Wu visited the White House
+ten times. One time, he even had dinner with the President. The
+documents were turned over too late to help Senate investigators, who
+spent all day yesterday trying to figure out why Mr. Wu funneled tens
+of thousands of dollars in illegal foreign contributions into the
+Democratic Party. Today, the committee chairman charged the White
+House is playing games."
+Senator Fred Thompson: "They have no
+credibility, as far as I'm concerned. They have not operated in good
+faith, and this is just the last, most classic, most public example of
+it."
+Douglass then summarized Wu's access:
+"Mr. Wu is a citizen of Macau, the Portugese colony at the tip of
+China. He is an advisor to the Chinese government and speaks no
+English. Yet on February 16, 1995, he got to dine in the First
+Family's residence in the White House, along with 80 big donors. And
+last year Mr. Wu got two private tours of the White House. On one of
+them, he was accompanied by another powerful Chinese businessman, Wang
+Jun, head of one of China's biggest arms-trading companies.
+Douglass concluded."
+--
+Dan Rather announced on the July 30 CBS Evening News:
+"The investigation into dirty money and
+foreign cash in U.S. political campaigns moved both deeper and higher
+up today, into this country's political power circle. Still at the
+center of today's testimony, the wheeling and dealing by two men from
+Asia." Bob Schieffer noted the White House delay in document
+release and ran a soundbite from a "furious" Thompson. Then
+he picked up on what the Senators heard on Wednesday, a topic skipped
+by ABC:
+"And today the committee heard how Trie,
+who brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable
+campaign contributions, brought in thousands more to the President's
+legal defense fund."
+Following a q&a exchange with the Clinton Legal Defense Fund's
+Michael Cardozo, Schieffer explained the concern:
+"Defense fund trustees were never sure
+just where the money came from, so they returned it. Advisor,
+Anthony Lake, drafted a reply, which the President signed."
+ABC concluded with the White House view that
+they did nothing wrong, but Schieffer ended by highlighting Thompson's
+perspective that the Clinton team had obstructed: "So the
+committee wants more details, and quickly. Chairman Thompson says he
+is so fed up with White House foot-dragging, that he'll soon issue the
+committee's first subpoenas for White House documents."
+--
+The ABC and CBS stories ran just after the first ad break, but NBC
+Nightly News didn't squeeze in the piece prepared by Lisa Myers until
+more than 20 minutes into the show and didn't allocate enough time to
+tell NBC viewers about the Wu visits that the White House just
+admitted. The Myers story appeared after stories on the Jerusalem
+bombing, Medicare fraud, a big Michigan car crash, an "In
+Depth" on mysterious deaths at an Indianapolis hospital, and
+Richard Jewell's request for an independent investigation of how the
+FBI treated him.
+Tom
+Brokaw intoned: "On The Money Trail tonight, imagine someone
+walking into your office and dumping almost a half million dollars, in
+cash, on your desk. Well, one man told Senate investigators today
+that's what happened to him. NBC's Lisa Myers has more on this mound
+of money story."
+Lisa Myers began: "In March of last
+year, this man, Charlie Trie, a friend of the President, arrived at
+this Washington law firm and dumped $460,000 in checks and money
+orders on a table. It was the biggest contribution ever to the
+President's legal defense fund, and the man in charge knew it was
+trouble."
+Myers explained how Cardozo realized there
+was trouble when the defense fund people saw the money orders were
+sequentially numbered and all featured similar handwriting. Myers
+added a detail Schieffer did not mention, that the money came from the
+Ching Hai Buddhist sect in Taiwan.
+--
+CNN's Prime News (8pm ET) Wednesday night featured a piece by Candy
+Crowley on Thompson's anger over the White House waiting until after
+the hearing to release relevant information and how Wu made ten White
+House visits.
+Earlier, on CNN's Inside Politics, Brooks Jackson highlighted a bit of
+information that contradicted White House claims from last year that
+they didn't know about the foreign money and when they learned of it
+they took action to correct the problem. Reviewing Wu's ten White
+House visits, Jackson observed:
+"Mr. Wu's most recent visit was October
+21st of last year just days before the election and long after the
+Asian money scandal was front page news."
+None of the evening shows relayed that nugget.
+3)
+Wednesday's CBS Evening News surprisingly allocated time for a brief
+story on a charge from lawyers for Paula Jones that Bill Clinton
+harassed a White House employee. Bill Plante reported the CBS
+exclusive:
+"CBS News has learned that Paula Corbin
+Jones's lawyer has subpoenaed, issued this subpoena, to a woman who
+once worked here in the White House, asking her to testify in just two
+weeks. Sources say that Jones's lawyers believe that the woman was
+approached in a sexual way by President Clinton, who made overtures to
+her, here in the White House, back in 1993. Paula Jones's attorney
+Joseph Cammarata would not discuss this subpoena with CBS News, but he
+has said in the past that he would try to establish a pattern of
+behavior upon the part of the President. Robert Bennett, the
+President's attorney, called the subpoena an effort to embarrass the
+President behind the scenes, and he notes that the woman in question
+knows nothing about the Paula Corbin Jones case. Other lawyers see
+this as an attempt to pressure Mr. Clinton to settle. But unless and
+until this case is settled, this is only the beginning of attempts by
+attorneys on both sides to damage the reputations and credibility of
+everyone involved. Dan."
+CNN
+picked up on the charge and brought James Carville and Susan
+Carpenter-McMillan onto Larry King Live to argue about the charge and
+the Paula Jones case.
+It
+sounds like the woman Cammarata has identified is the same one whose
+charge Newsweek was looking into, but had yet to report, according to
+the Drudge.
+I’m having a great time at DrupalConSF!
+A question for the NodeOne folks passing out Drupal: The Card Game…
+Which one of these people is the “non-geek”?
+I’m having a great time at DrupalConSF!
+A question for the NodeOne folks passing out Drupal: The Card Game…
+Which one of these people is the “non-geek”?
+Obviously the guy’s the non-geek, because he’s flexing his bicep.
+Agreed. Also, most of the geeks I know have this…thing…about different types of weapons, including whips. Maybe especially whips.
+Update on the card game, with a modification from Donna Benjamin at the Drupalchix lunch:
+Thanks for writing this post and for the good quick fix tip. I’ve been internally grumbling about this since I got the box on Saturday. I will apply the recommended patch posthaste!
+Thanks for posting this, Liz! I like the patch idea. . . but I wonder how many of these problematic decks of cards were distributed. S-I-G-H. Luckily, you’ve at least shed light on the situation. It was nice meeting you at the #drupalchix lunch tweetup. Thanks for the post, and keep up the good work! -@catrinachaos
+A few words about the back side of the package. At a glance, one might think that the guy in the t-shirt, glasses and spiky hair is a geek. To some extent I suppose he really is a Drupal geek. On the other hand he is a very popular Drupal Rockstar. The woman to the left does not really look like a classic geek, but, actually, she is. I personally know her, she is a performer in a Swedish retro Burlesque troupe and in this context, she is a real Burlesque geek. Maybe it sounds strange, but in Sweden you can combine Burlesqusque dancing, a regular job, being a good mother and feminism. I can’t say if it’s because Swedes in general are open-minded, tolerant, liberated or a combination of all three. This troupe, Knicker Kittens Burlesque Revue, really is a politically conscious organization. They even performed at the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm 2008. Of course, we at NodeOne would never make anyone play this game against their own will.
+Hi Matts, thanks for your reply! Actually, it made me laugh really hard at how far you miss the point.
+You have made some points that set up a “straw feminist” arguments that I would never make. I would not challenge the woman in the photo’s potential geekiness or political agency in terms of her decision to do burlesque dancing plus do all the other things she undoubtedly do with her life. I think there is also a fair bit of awareness that there is room in society for playing with performative aspects of sexuality, gender, and so on, as it sounds like the Knicker Kittens (great name!) do. You dwell on that point — but it is not the point. Don’t be acting all superiorly Swedish and utopian and like you’re talking to some humorless sex-negative feminists here. No it does not sound “strange” that a woman can be a stripper and a good mother and have other jobs. Why would you assume that I, or we at geek feminism, would find that strange? It is misdirection on your part.
+With this image and text, you are playing with misogynist stereotypes. No matter how politically conscious and “liberated” (aka “privileged”) an individual is, the base of the joke here is that geeks are men and that women are a commodity. Commoditization of the category of person I’m in, in my professional environment, is very unwelcome.
+You may have, in your utopian enclave over there on your side of the pond, somehow missed the past gajillion years of women in computing being royally pissed off over things like strippers at a hack day, guys showing slides of pornified women during talks about code, and so on. Here is a little list we have been compiling: Timeline of incidents . It is about context.
+At our linuxchix lunch yesterday, a lot of women expressed outrage and disappointment – I would say almost despair — at the sexist imagery and thinking represented by that imagery.
+It was so completely unnecessary.
+You then end up your condescending non-apology by falling back on the defense that “no one is forcing us to play it”. If we don’t like the packaging of the card game, we can just not play it or not pick one up. Also not the point. You made it and distributed it through a lot of different Drupal shops who had booths at the conference who didn’t notice the sexist packaging and who are probably embarrassed by it now. I can’t un-see it or ignore it, and I don’t have the luxury of ignoring *the mindset behind it* which damages every aspect of my life personally and professionally, because misogyny is *harmful*.
+What I can do is point it out — calling it out lets you and people like you know that it’s unacceptable and unwelcome in our community. I can also suggest and apply a patch. In this case, the patch is providing a graphic that does not use “humor” to exclude women from the category of people who are naturally expected to be geeks at a Drupal conference.
+Unfortunately, I can’t be in SF and meet you due to the ash cloud. I am sorry if I offended you in any way. Please send my apologies to anyone you meet that feels offended, excluded or outraged etc. If I made you or anyone else laugh, that’s OK with me. The game is actually about building awesome Drupal websites. The idea of a fun (maybe not everyone think playing cards is fun, sure) card game was to explain to people who are not familiar with the wonderful world of Drupal a little about how Drupal, modules and community cooperation works. Or at least give them a hint. In the end, it’s just a free giveaway card game. People from all over are mailing us to get more copies, for themselves and as gifts. I am almost sure they are not sexists, and I doubt that they would become sexists from a deck of cards. I can guarantee you that there is no hidden “sexist agenda” behind this game. But, on the other hand, maybe you’re right! Please, feel free to suggest a graphic that does not offend you, we just might replace the “humorous”graphic with your artwork on the package to the next batch that we print!
+BINGO!
+I like the idea of inviting people to suggest some alternate art for the card game’s box! More later, I am in the middle of a talk! Cheers, Liz
+Dude.. there doesn’t HAVE to be a “hidden sexist agenda” behind the image on the card. I doubt very much that there are a bunch of Drupal folk huddled in a dark room, rubbing their hands together with wicked sexist glee. It’s the fact that something like this was put on the card and it was thought of as all in good fun, ha ha, that is irritating. Ignorance of how an action could be interpreted doesn’t make the action itself harmless.
+Traditionally, women in burlesque gear aren’t considered geeky. The card indicated “non-geeks”. The underlying joke may have been “Hey these are both geeks, har har” but that’s more of a secret easter egg thing. The prevailing message is both “women aren’t geeks” and “this product will help me get with women”, both messages which assume that the person holding the card deck are male.
+These cards won’t suddenly “Make someone sexist”, as though they emit terrible Sexism-Causing Gamma Rays. But they illustrate a sexist attitude, and prop up a subtle belief that a lot of people hold. Sexism isn’t just stomping around going “women suck”, it’s the subtle things that folk in priviledged places don’t always get to see.
+I don’t even know if I have the capacity to explain this any better, but I’ve gotta give it a stab. The point is being missed.
++ 1 trillion to this response, completely spot on.
+You totally missed the point and made a hen of a feather! It’s a two-headed arrow – they’re both non-geeks!
+The geek is the person holding the game in her or his hand!
+Who else would be interested in a card game about something as geeky as Drupal but an actual geek? By playing this game, you as a geek, have a chance to share the goodness of Drupal with your non-geek friends, be they Burlesque dancers or just guys who like flexing their biceps!
+Now stop judging Matts or what was done with only good intent. I have no doubts Matts is a wonderful open and caring person, and enjoy the game, and take up on his excellent invitation to contribute and send him some patches!
+utopianism? i did some googling and it’s not a totally inaccurate noun to use about sweden when it comes to these issues:
+matt’s reasoning may not match yours but he lives in a country that’s come way longer than the US when it comes to gender inequalities and it’s likely much due a culture and attitude that is different from yours, so you’d do right to consider that before you judge his actions
+Actually, we (the Swedes) are still very far from gender equality. Maybe we are ahead of many other countries, but we still have a long way to go. In a 5-star ranking we could possibly get 3.5 while most other countries range from 1 to 3. And I think we still have a lot to learn from other countries, including the US.
+Actually, I think we may have missed that. I’ve (only, I guess, compared with some folk) been in the IT industry a little over 10 years now, and always worked “across the pond” in Europe. I can honestly say I have *NEVER* worked in a place where that sort of behaviour would be even remotely acceptable. Seriously. Hiring strippers at a work-related event? Showing a pornographic image in the slides for a talk? Sackable offences, no question. I can’t imagine pulling a stunt like that and keeping my job, even if I wanted to, which I wouldn’t (he hastens to add).
+As a result I genuinely do struggle to imagine an organisation where such behaviour actually occurs. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t doubt you, I’m just saying that’s not how it is here in Europe. It might have been once, I wouldn’t know, but waaaay before my time if it was.
+Ps – I totally agree with the sentiment, just thought I’d make the point that maybe things are far worse in the US than they are in Europe, as far as sexism is concerned. Perhaps that makes the reaction stronger too? Or perhaps sexism in Europe is just as prevalent but more subtle. Is that maybe even worse? Who knows? I certainly don’t. Just thinking out loud. I need to shut up now… ;-)
+Some examples from the Timeline of Incidents already linked up-thread:
+pole-dancing robots (London, 2010)
+IT security girl of the year (France, 2009)
+“sexy” DrupalCon advertising (France, 2009)
+Linux user posts up-skirt photo on planet (Romania, 2008)
+Debconf ftp-masters talk (Oslo, 2003)
+Perl is my bitch tshirts (UK, 2001)
+Ok, sure, there are going to be *some* incidents. But, totally unacceptable as they are, I was specifically referring to sexist behaviour in the workplace being totally unacceptable in Europe, in my experience at least. That was my point and none of those examples are relevant to my point (Japanese corporation selecting questionable “art”, some stupid advertisements by some people who think sex is the only way to sell things to boys, a couple of individual sickos and a childish T-shirt design).
+Greg, it’s good to hear that your experience has been that sexist behavior is unacceptable in the workplace! That’s really heartening!
+Speaking as someone who *has* worked on both sides of the pond (albeit only in the UK + US), there’s plenty of sexism on both sides, but I think it’s true that people are more capable of seeing it outside of their own context. For instance, as a Brit in the UK I’d be quick to recognise the discrepancy of pole-dancers, but would be nonplussed if someone reacted strongly to a continuous stream of “amusing” jokes about someone’s gender in the workplace, despite this being actually pretty oppressive for anyone having to deal with it.
+On the other hand, people from other cultures spot that pretty quickly, as well as the fact that anyone complaining about it will be dismissed as being “humourless” in the UK context. A lot of executive women will tell you (privately) that they perceive the UK as being particularly sexist (sorry that’s just anecdata, but I note it because I was surprised myself until I started looking a bit more as an outsider).
+The truth is that it took me a while to realise that a lot of fairly serious misbehaviour in British cultural contexts is concealed behind making it “a bit of fun”. Also note that because being a sexist is described as an identity, rather than a behaviour, and an othered one at that, it’s really easy to just think it’s something that other people do, and leave it at that. You’ve basically completed one of the classic bingo-card behaviours by going, “oh yeah, sexism, that’s what those $OTHERPEOPLE do” and then when presented with examples closer to home, gone “oh that, that’s not important/a few extreme cases/a one-off”. If you came into this conversation assuming that there’s no sexism in your local industry, and then have examples given, what does that mean? Does it mean that the more examples people give, the more you will have to find reasons to exclude them as special cases? Or does it mean that there’s actually some filter going on that stopped you from seeing the sexism beforehand, and now that you’re paying attention, maybe you’ll see more?
+@Lampdevil — Word!!! Exactly!
+The package of Drupal the Card Game features an image that commoditizes women. This was wrong; and I, as managing director of NodeOne, apologize for that.
+Read the full statement on NodeOne’s website:
+Hi Thomas, nice to hear from you, and thanks for your very nice response. Also, I thought the idea of a card game was cool! Cheers!
+Yes, this is obviously a case of “ignorance of how an action could be interpreted”.
+The question is: why isn’t the image interpreted as “non-geeks are women and men are a commodity”? (actually, I don’t understand why people would use the word “commodity” in an interpretation of this image, but that’s just my ignorance i guess).
+I watched this image together with my female geek flat mate and we both came to the conclusion that the base of the joke is not about male/female. The base of the joke is that geeks are ugly and that non-geeks are sexy. Well, that’s not funny, but the idea that a Drupal card game could connect ugly people with sexy people… that’s quite hilarious.
+If the image would show an image of an ugly woman and a sexy man, would that make a difference? Would men express outrage, disappointment and despair? How would women interpret it?
+Still, the fact that these cards were distributed at DrupalCon is ignorant and I do appreciate the apology from NodeOne.
+However, I’m more upset by Liz Henry putting this card game in the same category as the “Custer’s Revenge (rape simulation game)”. That’s just insulting… both to NodeOne and to Cluster’s Revenge. Actually, i guess that’s one more case of “ignorance of how an action could be interpreted”.
+(Note, I’m not saying that Dries is ugly nor that the woman is sexy. It’s just my subjective relative comparison of the ugliness and sexiness of the two pictures in the image)
+I apologise if anyone find this comment offensive, ignorant or just plain stupid.
+It took me a while to figure out how the heck Custer’s Revenge factored into this, and then i realized it was linked from the “Incidents” page. I don’t think anyone would seriously compare a slightly ponderous “women aren’t *real* geeks” subtext with that game. They’re just listed in a page that’s a list of “stuff a bunch of us remember as being sexist and annoying”.
+I think you might be trying to make a point in there about geeks in general being damaged by the idea that they’re not sexy. I wrote a post somewhere about that, definitely an idea worth exploring.
+Thanks for the explanation Liz. However, it still hurts me to see NodeOne in that list and I hope you can change the page to make it more obvious that the card game is not in the same category as Custer’s Revenge.
+“I think you might be trying to make a point in there about geeks in general being damaged by the idea that they’re not sexy.”
+No, I did not try to make such a point. I don’t think that geeks are being damaged by that idea. Geeks are smart enough to use such ideas to their own advantage.
+I agree that regarding women as a commodity can be a troubling issue and is part of the larger problem of viewing any person or people as a commodity.
+However despite the bikini adorning the female character, it is not immediately apparent who or what is the commodity here; in fact, the riding crop the female character is wielding hints at an underlying symbolism which subverts our received notions of geeks, sexual dominance & commodification.
+Furthermore I am troubled by the knee-jerk liberalist reactions of both Liz’s arguably antiquated notion of feminism and nodeone’s rush to mea culpa. I’d suggest Liz re-read some of Camile Paglia’s explanations of how this sort of faux outrage undermines the position of women, while living in denial of the role of sexuality in power, and power in sexuality.
+Liz completely misses the joke here, which is that sexuality is the missing dimension in a geek, which is suprising given the copious references on the Internet to this, eg. programmers depicted as remaining virgins, etc.
+Instead of rushing to apologise, presumably so as not to alienate the consider gender-queer following Drupal has attracted, Nodeone should have encouraged discussion, and realise there is another side to the story here.
+Hi R. Aclef, I don’t actually miss the point about geeks being non-sexy or about the riding crop as a symbol of women’s sexual power, but would like to counter-suggest some reading for you – the book What Are We Fighting For and the booklet “Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts” by Joanna Russ for a more complicated view of the Lesbian Sex Wars, of which I am, frankly, a riding-crop-wielding, Knicker-Kitten-esque, veteran.
+p.s. Gender queer Drupalistas 4 evah!!!!
+p.p.s. LOL WHUT?!
+re: p.s. Yep. 4 evah & evah!!!!
+The considerable trans community supporting Drupal and being supported in return is such a great aspect it fills me with great joy and hope :))))))))
+Will check out Russ’ booklet, thanks, you rock.
+Sorry for cross posting, but I really need help here.
+I understand that some people find this image disturbing. However, I don’t understand the “commodity” part. How can anyone look at that image and come to the conclusion that the woman is a commodity while the man is not a commodity?
+I think – and this could be an entirely wrong interpretation – that the reason the woman is viewed as a commodity is that the holder of the cards is assumed to be a heterosexual male. The advertising implies that by buying the cards the holder (who is identified with the male ‘geek’ illustration) is buying potential contact with the female ‘non-geek’.
+This has caused outrage for at least two reasons:
+a) The actual user of the cards – the ‘geek’ – is assumed to be male, excluding female geeks who might use the product.
+b) By buying the cards the illustration implies that the male user is buying contact with attractive females, which creates an imbalance of power by turning these females into passive, marketable commodities.
+Hope that made sense and wasn’t too dense or longwinded. :)
+Thanks Zoe. That makes a lot of sense.
+I’m sure that NodeOne didn’t assume that the holders would be only heterosexual males, but I fully understand that it can be interpreted that way.
+My own interpretation would be that they first picked the “geeky” looking picture of Dries and then tried to find a picture representing “not Dries”. The picture of Dries looks like a nerdy male, so one possible opposite would be a sexy female. That’s where the problem starts…
+Looks like you wrote the comment on April 22, but it wasn’t published until today, April 30. Strange.
+Not all that strange. Stuff gets stuck in the mod queue all the time :)
+For those following along at home, Thomas addressed this over here in the comments.
+Not really. However, I would be more interested in a response from Liz. She seems to know a lot about these issues and I’m sure she can explain it in a way that even I can understand.
+Adam,
+Liz doesn’t owe you an explanation. Put in a bit of effort and read the topical links Thomas posted :)
+Ok, I give up. I have read the links and no one owes me an explanation. I just said it would be interesting. Let me instead explain what I see in the image. If you’re not interested you can stop reading now.
+There are two persons in the image. One looks like a man and one looks like a woman. One looks more similar to some of the geeks I have met and one looks more similar to some of the non-geeks I have met. One is sexier than the other. I don’t know any of them but I assume that they both have great personalities.
+They are not commodities. They don’t deserve to be called commodities. That would just be insulting.
+That said, I still think the image is inappropriate and I’m not trying to defend it in any way. I’ve tried to come up with alternative pictures to be placed to the left and right of the text, but the only solution I find is to just remove the pictures (possibly the text too). Any attempt to visualize geeks and non-geeks will fail, since the definition of the word geek does not include any visual attributes (at least not in my definition). There are also many definitions of “geek” which makes it even more complicated.
+Maybe that’s enough for now. Please let me know if you want me to further explain why I don’t think the image is a case of commoditization of women. By the way, I do think that commoditization of women (and men) is a bad thing. I’m not trying to defend such behavior.
+Just coming onto this thread now. I was actually at DrupalCon, and somehow managed to miss this entirely.
+After reading through these comments, I have a lot of thoughts, but really, more than anything else, I want to commend Liz for the way she brought this up, and shepherded the conversation. I’m both amazed and annoyed at the sexist attitudes that are espoused, both by the original card game, and by some of the comments here.
+Liz – you did a great job keeping the thread focused. I have bookmarked this thread; it shows an example of one facet of what sexism looks like, and of one effective method of addressing it.
+Thanks,
+Bill
+Retail logistics: the omni-challenge
+Retail is going omni-channel and meeting the supply chain needs of this new environment is a major challenge. The issues will be put under the microscope at the Omni-Channel Conference in September.
+What will an Omni-Channel future look like and what do organisations need to do to adjust to it? That is the question that will be addressed by Gino Goossens, director, omni-channel strategy & innovations, UK & International at Maplin Electronics when he delivers the opening address at the Omni-Channel Conference in September.
+Omni-channel is about delivering a digital transformation of the business with the aim of customer experience across all channels and Goosens will look at why business should aim to create a single P&L and a single view of stock by removing existing departmental barriers and encouraging all departments to work towards a single goal.
+He will consider the importance of innovation, flexibility and continuous integration, as well as identifying key stakeholders and making the architecture ready.
+For many retailers, the challenge.
+Argos is undergoing a change to become a best in class digital retailer – this has a huge and complex impact on imports and distribution.
+Las Perera, head of imports, will give an overview of the challenges and success of a large scale transformation.
+Drop shipping sounds like the perfect online retail strategy, it should be good for cash flow and there is no inventory to hold. So how does it fit into the omni-channel mix?
+Edward Osborne, head of drop-ship operations at Tesco Direct, will provide an overview of Tesco’s drop-ship operations development – what prompted the growth in drop-ship delivery and where does this fit into Tesco’s omni-channel logistics strategy?
+He will examine the benefits of increased drop-ship deliveries over traditional methods of fulfilment and ask: does this represent a step-change?
+The.
+A speaker from Halfords, will look at delivering a totally consistent offering to the customer. Key questions include: with customers now able to access price comparisons and product reviews and information on the move what are retailers doing to ensure they keep up?
+And will creating a single version of product data across all channels lead to increased sales and customer retention in the omni-channel space?
+Returns
+Can you imagine a utopia when returns are not just a black hole for inventory and resources, but a bona fide revenue stream, adding value for customers and even cost reductions? Ian Towell, head of general merchandise returns at Tesco can.
+He will be presenting a refreshing view of the returns channel, and how to get to that utopia.
+He will consider what the priorities should be in dealing with returns: a better customer experience or cost reduction – or is it possible to achieve both?
+And he will look at the complexities of operating across multiple channels and customer touch points and how these present specific reverse logistics challenges.
+Click and collect has grown significantly in a short space of time to become an integral part of a retailers’ customer proposition.
+How Asda is integrating non-grocery click and collect into its operations will be the subject of a presentation at the Omni-Channel conference by Michael Kosciukiewicz, senior manager online business development at Asda.
+Kosciukiewicz will look at the logistical challenges to integrating click and collect deliveries, as well as the opportunities and potential savings.
+And he will analyse how Asda has progressed with parcel click and collect integration and the challenges and benefits to the business.
+James Harper, head of returns at Shop Direct, will provide an overview of the specific challenges facing online fashion retail.
+He will look at the role returns play in maintaining high levels of customer service in the online space. And he will consider how to re-integrate returns of over 20 per cent in an effective and efficient way.
+Are third party providers better placed to manage the returns process? That’s the question that will be addressed by speaker from Clipper Logistics.
+He will consider if better process management offsets the costs of bringing in outside services? And who should take ownership of damaged or un-saleable product?
+Speakers
+» Dino Rocos, operations director, John Lewis
+Dino Rocos joined the John Lewis Partnership thirty eight years ago spending his first ten years in the selling environment and two years in production before moving into the supply chain. As operations director and member of the John Lewis Management Board, Dino Rocos has overall responsibility for the John Lewis primary and secondary supply chain including in house and third party national distribution centres, national and international e-fulfilment, in house and third party home delivery and the John Lewis merchandising function. Additionally he holds responsibility for defining the strategic direction of supply chain development in response to the continuing development of the broader retail proposition and changing expectations of the new omni channel retail customer.
+» Edward Osborne, head of drop ship operations, Tesco Direct
+Edward Osborne has worked as the head of dropship operations within general merchandise online of Tesco Direct for the last two years. Over this time, dropship fulfilment has significantly evolved and is positioned as a mainstream part of Tesco online. Prior to joining Tesco, Edward was an army officer, retiring as a Major in 2012. Positions have included; squadron commander in the Queen’s Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment, leading the global MoD Surface Freight movement contracts within the Defence Supply Chain, Operations and Movements (DSCOM) at the heart of Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), a mix of other roles covering military communications, intelligence and operations both at home, in Northern Ireland and Afghanistan.
+» Alan Penhale, head of warehousing, Boots
+Alan Penhale is head of warehousing for Boots UK, this role is responsible for all retail ‘front of shop’ supply to over 2,500 Boots stores in the UK and Ireland along with the Boot.com fulfilment warehouse. Prior to this role he was design and build lead in the supply chain reengineering project which centralised and automated the Boots UK supply chain.
+» John Munnelly, head of operations, Magna Park, John Lewis
+John Munnelly’s career in logistics spans over 25 years during which time he has experienced the industry from all angles both third party and in house operations with previous roles with TDG, Ryder, Littlewoods and Sainsbury’s. John has built up a wealth of experience and knowledge relating to all aspects of retail distribution, particularly specialising in operational start-ups for large scale automated solutions, transport operations, direct to customer home delivery and omni-channel fulfilment. Munnelly has managed a number of high profile and technologically advanced projects. For the past five years Munnelly has been the senior project manager responsible for the design, build and implementation of John Lewis’ new semi-automated national distribution centre at Magna Park, Milton Keynes.
+» Professor Michael Bourlakis
+Professor Michael Bourlakis holds the chair in Logistics & Supply Chain Management at Cranfield School of Management. He is also the director of the Supply Chain Research Centre. He has been a member of the Academic Committee of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (Logistics Research Network) and he is also the joint editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications. He is a member of the European Technology Platform (Food for Life, European Commission). During 2013, he became a member of an Expert Panel for the European Commission (DG Research and Innovation) working with retailers and other academics on “Retail Innovation”. His recent research interests lie in food and retail logistics, e-business and supply chain management, sustainability and supply chain management. In 2014, Bourlakis became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.
+» Richard Horton, head of transport development, Travis Perkins
+Richard Horton has been in the logistics industry for 14 years working for the first ten in 3PLs including Ceva Logistics, Lex Transfleet and The Lloyd Fraser Group. Since 2009 he has been employed by the Travis Perkins Group where he has established from scratch and heads up the Transport Development department. With 16 individual businesses operating over 3,000 commercial vehicles in the fleet across an estate of 2000+ O’ Licence centres, Horton and his team have worked to implement transport efficiencies and customer service initiatives into the various operations. Some of the key milestones have been the implementation of satellite vehicle tracking, vehicle route scheduling and hand held terminals delivering OTIF and ePOD. In the last four years the business has realised cost savings of over £14m due to improved fleet utilisation.
+» Ian Towell, head of general merchandise returns, Tesco
+Ian Towell serves as business head of general merchandise returns for Tesco, a role which has evolved over the past 6 years as Tesco has expanded its GM business online, into broader and more complex product categories, and into international markets. Towell was a founding member of Tesco Direct, and has been instrumental in developing strategies which have driven improvements in the customer aftersales experience, while reducing the impact to the bottom line through more effective back end process management. Prior to Tesco, Towell worked at Argos for 4 years in business change, and before that 10 years at Sainsbury’s Supermarkets.
+» Lasith Perera, head of imports, Argos
+Lasith Perera has been head of imports at Argos since September 2011. His accountabilities include all aspects of Argos imports business, operations, development, strategy and Duty compliance. Prior to this, Perera served as commercial manager for Home Retail Group from January 2008 to September 2011. Accountabilities included procurement and tenders, commercial negotiations and contracts, value chain and continuous improvement. Between January 2003 and December 2007, Perera served as network planning manager for Homebase, where responsibilities included supply chain and network planning, development and strategy. From January 2000 to January 2003, Perera was Head of supply chain channel management for Woolworths.
+» Guy Meisl, head of warehousing and logistics EMEA, Deckers Outdoors
+Guy Meisl is responsible for the operational distribution for the UGG, TEVA, Hoka and Sanuk brands across EMEA, as well as strategic development of the European Logistics Wholesale, Retail and E-commerce solutions. Before joining Deckers he was Director European 3PL Operations at Technicolor. Between 2004 and 2009 he was Head of Logistics at zavvi entertainment (formerly Virgin Megastores). And from 2000 to 2004 he was head of European logistics at Habitat.
+» Gino Goossens, director, omni-channel strategy & innovations, UK & International, Maplin Electronics
+» Maureen Hinton, group research director, global retail, Conlumino
+» James Harper, head of returns, Shop Direct
+Where and When
+The Omni-Channel Conference takes place at the NEC Hilton Birmingham Metropole on Wednesday 17th September and Thursday 18th September.
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+Bike Passion on the Silver Screen: Taking in the NEMBA Mountain Bike Film Festival
+The dim heart of the Regency Theater swirls with energy as over one hundred mountain bikers greet each other in anticipation. The food and beer lines stretch along the back wall. Mountain bikers oogle raffle prizes including day-passes from Highland Mountain Bike Park, bike care-kits from Pedros, Two Fox suspension forks, CrossMax wheel-sets from Mavic and Back Bay Bicycles, and the Grand Prize, a Kona Tanuki mountain bike.
+This is the New England Mountain Bike Association (NEMBA) Mountain Bike Film Festival and the anticipation isn’t just for the Red Bones BBQ or the beer donated by Harpoon Brewery–or even the prizes–it’s for the films. While screenings of big name films happen all over the country, this is one of the few that celebrate the making of mountain bike films at the amateur level. These are videos made by mountain bikers about their own rides and adventures.
+Soon, the lights go dark and the films begin to tick off one by one. They are all short (rules require under 5 minutes, but most are under 3.) They all have limited production quality. They each shake, wobble and tilt in vertiginous ways. But what these films lack in production, they more than make up for in passion. As I watch beginner XC riders skitter through singletrack turns and freeriders send-it off dirt kickers, I realize that picking one to be the “People’s Choice” was going to be a contentious event.
+Mike Feeney produced a couple of hard-charging freeride videos that not only included hucking decent-sized jumps and ripping scary ladder bridges at Highland MBP, but also rednecks jumping ATVs and starting a snowmobile on fire. “Badassalon 2008″ and “I Didn’t Pump My Tire” head up the humorous entries with pellet rifles and a remake of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” Marsha MacEachern’s “A Biker’s Playground” is a surprisingly emotional romp through the woods (and a lake.)
+I am surprised to see an animated feature, but Bryan McFarland put one together with some chill music. There is also an iPhone entry that has some of the best composed visuals in the festival. Two high school kids put together a strong contender for the People’s Choice award filming their mountain biking class riding homemade stunts. It is “One Speed Jasper” that barely edges out the other films for People’s Choice, however. This film used the GoPro HD camera famous for helmet-cam shots in so many adventure movies. Of course, the camera ended up attached to the usual places on the bike: helmet, rider’s chest and seatpost. What really made this film shine was that the subject wasn’t just the ride, but also the faithful mountain bike companion: the “trail dog.” In the true GoPro fashion of showing things from “your point of view,” the camera was attached to Jasper the Dog for a trail-dog’s-eye-view of a run through the woods chasing a bike.
+THIS is what makes amateur film shine. The footage shook like “Blair Witch Project” but it focused on a valuable part of mountain biking that often gets overlooked by the large production films.
+After watching Highland Mountain Bike Park’s GnarEast film winner, a good film that centered around the central “story” of the park and ride bus that shuttles riders in to Highland from surrounding towns, they announced the raffle winners.
+Not everyone left with a Kona mountain bike or set of Mavics, but, I think it’s fair to say, we all left with a greater appreciation for mountain biking, whether it’s the camaraderie of riders gathering in the dead of winter, the glimpse into where video will be taking us in the future or the passion for riding that made these films happen.
+Winnick Woods Trail Day Video
+Here is the film from the footage I shot during the Winnick Woods trail day.
+If you look at the dates of the trail day, you’ll see that it’s been a while since the work got done. I got the final shots of the completed work being ridden just a couple of days ago. Enjoy!
+Trail Day pt 2: IMBA Trail Care Crew
+It’s not every day that you get to work with the preeminent experts in your field. Greater Portland NEMBAgot that opportunity when they won a grant to bring the IMBA Trail Care Crew to Falmouth to teach a trail building clinic. Thirty people showed up for the workshop that included both in-class instruction and field work at the new Falmouth open land project. Chris and Leslie Kehmeier of the IMBA Trail Care Crew (East) spent the morning teaching us about “flow” of both water off the trail and of mountain bikers gliding along singletrack. After spraying a heavy coat of bug spray on ourselves, we picked up our Pulaskis, McLeods and rakes and and began the outdoor clinic. With their help and instruction, we turned 1800 ft of nothing but little pink flags into fresh, sustainable trail. There is still plenty of work to keep us busy out there, but with their technical, hands-on teaching, we have a good start on a great trail. Thank you, Chris and Leslie, and IMBA.
+Apply for a visit by the IMBA TCC here.
+Trail Work Day Pt 1: Winnick Woods
+There.
+Raging in Portland
+Mountain biking, for me, is a solo event. So I feel some apprehension when I ride into the parking lot to see a dozen cars parked with bikes on top. Normally I blame my work schedule for my lack of riding partners, but that’s only partly true. My thirst for alone-time derails any real attempt at finding people to ride with.
+Tonight, however, I’m heading out with the Rage on Portland group, a loose organization of riders who consistently meet up to ride. I do these rides once or twice a year. As I begin talking to the Ragers getting their bikes ready for the trail, I remember why. There is a subdued energy surrounding these people. They love trails. They love riding them. And they love riding them together.
+We set out and I drop in mid pack. I represent the center-point in this group of twenty-five–somewhere between the hammers and the cruisers, somewhere between the twenty-ish woman on her ninth ride ever and a sixty-five-year-old man who’d been riding since before I was born.
+There is a lot of chatting on the road. Then, we drop into the dense Maine woods. Sound disappears. Our tires roll over dry dirt and pine needles. The occasional rustle of dry leaves breaks the silence. The line of riders weaves like a multi-colored serpent through the forest. It’s like a dance where my personal experience gets swallowed up in the greater experience of the group. The line bunches up as we slow to say hi to a hiker with a border collie and thank her for letting us pass. once past, the line stretches until I can’t see either end.
+The banter picks up when we stop at trail junctions to wait for the rest of the group. While I’ve met most of these guys before, I don’t know any of them well enough to engage in the ribbing that goes on. Instead, I take it all in, learning about the people I’m with. Brian spends a lot of time crashing. Mike is riding strong after fracturing his hip in a crash the summer before and Katrina could kick all of our asses on a bike or climbing a rock face. There are riders who just got back from Moab and riders dreaming of making the trip to Kingdom Trails a couple of hours away. Even though I know nothing of their off-the-bike lives, I feel like I know them all. And they seem to know me–the important parts, at least.
+Maybe the bike is the only thing that unites us. I doubt it, but it doesn’t seem to matter. We set off again, pedaling into the woods. The only real competition amongst us is with the sun racing toward sunset. I follow the leaders, trying to memorize where the new trails are so when I come out here again, by myself, I can find them. The task is impossible in the labyrinth of trees. It doesn’t matter, I tell myself. I promise myself this is the year I put away my loner tendencies and begin riding with the group.
+Mourning Trail Closures in Montana
+A precedent-setting decision by made by U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy condemns 150 miles of trail in the heart of Montana to closure and threatens over 700 more miles of singletrack throughout the state. The trail closures stem from a lawsuit filed by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Montana Wilderness Association and The Wilderness Society alleging that, by allowing mountain bikers to use the trails, the Gallatin National Forest Service failed to preserve the wilderness character of the Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn wilderness study area (WSA). This ruling sets the stage for possible closures of trails in other WSAs around the state (and the greater US).
+This loss is personal for me. The Hyalite trail system was the solas I fled to during one of the lowest points of my life. I often headed out after work. Since I was on a mountain bike, I covered the distance to overlooks in the short hours before sunset that would have taken far too long on foot. I have many fond memories of watching the slanting rays of the sun light up raw peaks and tree-carpeted valleys in crisp alpenglow. Being in the center of all that beauty gave me the strength to wake up and go through it all again the next day.
+The Gallatin Forest Service office’s mountain bike-friendly policies make the trails surrounding Bozeman easily the best trails I have ever ridden. They built sustainable trails long before “sustainable trail-building” became a buzzword. Their trails consistently show less wear and less erosion than other trail systems around the US and should be a model for trail-building. Instead, it makes them an easy target for lawsuits.
+The IMBA and Montana Mountain Bike Alliance have vowed to continue the fight through appeals. Here are a few things you can do to help:
+- Become an IMBA member.
+- Make a donation to IMBA’s Legal Advocacy Fund.
+- Donate to the Montana Mountain Bike Alliance.
+- Be cool, and politely share the trail with other users.
+Remember, this fight will soon extend into your own neighborhood trail system. Joining your local trail advocacy group is essential. The opposition is organized, we must be, too.
+Here are some links to articles on the trail closures:
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+Travis Gumbs: With back to school season in full swing, it is the perfect occasion to unveil our latest project, The Black Ivy. For this feat, we teamed up with F.E. Castleberry of Unabashedly Prep, a great guy and even better photographer whose talent and work ethic was more than enough to fulfill the high expectations of this monumental juncture.
+When Josh and I first started thinking about this concept,.
+This is a video that we shot the day of the shoot. The quality of work that flourishes whenever creative minds bind together never ceases to amaze me. CJ of Culture of Creativity was wizardly able to catch the intense fervor and passion of that immaculate day. I am so grateful that we are able to have some sort of video representation of that day; describing it in words is very much next to impossible. Some of you guys probably remember Joekenneth’s epic spoken word performance in Sewn From The Soul. His stage presence, wordplay and delivery is unmatched. When he speaks you not only hear him, you feel his words pierce deep within. What we strive to do with clothes, Kenny does with words.
+The Black Ivy from Street Etiquette on Vimeo.
+-
+The Black Ivy from Street Etiquette on Vimeo.
+A special thanks also goes out to each and everyone who participated in this project, whether it was behind the scenes or in front of the camera. We are grateful to call each and every one of you our friend, acquaintance, colleague and brother. This will surely not be the last time we make art together. Much love and respect also goes out to the hardworking students who currently attend the historically black colleges of today.
+The Bkc also helped a great deal in the building of this project. Ouigi, the man behind the line, is the true backbone behind the whole style and character philosophy. Make sure you keep an eye out for there fall items on their blog and in-store.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+1st.
+let me say absolutely splendid job on the shoot, i recognize the bearded man and joekennth, but who are the other guys involved in the project?
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Monumental. I enjoyed the spoken word once again from the gentleman i had an encounter with in your “Sewn Through the Soul” editorial. Stunning images and use of film to portray something like this. Always keeping me interested, keep it up guys.
+“UJ”
+Expressions Realia
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+wow wow wow This is something that I really believe to not only be amazing but it is beyond humbling to see something like this. I cant wait to get the opportunity to work with both you and Fred….3 talented individuals….. I really am proud of you Josh I remember us talking about stuff like this and you are truly making it happen from not even a year ago…..Keep pushing and breaking down barriers!!! Speak to you soon but congrats again!!!
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+GREAT CONCEPT!
+GREAT SCENERY!
+THE SPOKEN WORD ARTIST…BRILLIANT!
+I LOVE THE GROUP PHOTO!
+CLASS IS IN SESSION!
+I LOVE IT!!!
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+I am in love with the entirety of this post. I’ve started following your blog after discovering it a about a month ago, and I really hope to shoot you guys one day for my blog. Inspiring.
+Michelle
+whoisbobbparris.blogspot.com
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+beautiful concept, beautiful execution, The Black Ivy is beautiful…
+Class is definitely in session
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+This is truly a great post from guys who run a great site. You guys have inspired me to become more sartorially conscious and this photoshoot speaks directly to me as young Black male currently enrolled in college. I always was inspired by the look of HBCU students during the founding days and I feel this post gave me an idea of how to get the same preppy aesthetic within a modern look. I can’t truly thank you guys enough as discovering your site last year has opened up my mind to wearing things like the Bean Boot and putting the Jordans away until I get on the court (or the occasional bum day).
+Once again,
+Thanks Josh and Travis!
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+This is awesome! I love the feeling and the vibe of this. I attended Clark Atlanta, and HBCU across the street from Spelman and Morehouse, and I love how this invokes that same spirt of what we call the AUC (Atlanta University Center) – Young Gifted and Black.
+This is classic.
+Honor Thy Tailor,
+Shidi
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+JUST WOW!
+I knew you boys had style but this is beyond what a good fashion blog is about.
+I love that you’ve mixed style with culture and with meaning! You all have really inspired me & thankyou for sharing this! You are all amazingly talented
+Love your blog! Keep it up! (I know you will) ha ha
+xoxo from Australia
+- Baz
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+As much as I take pride in being a skillful curator of words, none of them will amount to the actual emotion of happiness and pride I felt when I woke up to this. The poetry set the tone and the slideshow was beyond captivating. I am somehow transported into the setting and my nice college apartment in PA suddenly feels like a small college dorm at Howard University, the inclusion of the black and white photos really brings a chilling sensation to my bones. Great job fellas, SE UP!
+side note: Joshua’s kente ftw!
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+more than just a blog post. much more like a movement.. Black Ivy .. I commend you guys on your vision. glad to be apart.
+-jb3
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+HAHAHA. This is funny Thanks for a good laugh guys.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+[...] “Street Etiquette tributes its scholastic forefathers who helped pave the way for a level of higher education. The Black Ivy video brings together style, character, education and art to help further develop an inspirational platform for those around them.” [...]
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Jesse said everything I would have said, so ditto to his comments.
+To expound further on the movement, highlighting the Black Ivy league in conjunction with young men of color, with character and style is paramount and meaningful to me coming from one of the 7 school’s in the Black Ivy League.
+Kudos to Josh and Trav, for making this happen and bringing all of us together for this!
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Beautiful JOB! I noticed that Spelman is spelled incorrectly on the slideshow. As an alumnae, I couldn’t help but bring that to your attention.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Some people are inspiring but a lot simply look like you copied Ralph models or mannequins well in which I’m completely unimpressed. People have turned prep into a uniform in which you must wear a slipper, boat or some sort of wing tip shoe along with cuffed up pants and a blazer. We are in an era where we have visual access to many others and to see the “Prep” style being reduced to just this is very sad.
+Although fashion wise not inspired I must say the scenery, videography, soundtrack and speech by Kenny are simply wonderful.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Sorry sir. you missed the whole point of this editorial , where do you think Ralph Lauren took his inspiration from? Think he predicted all of this on a story board. It’s “PERSONAL” style my friend , it’s sad to see people nitpick negative things when this project is really uplifting and I’m not even of African descent.
+Think before you type.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Street Etiquette never ceases to amaze me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+This is awesome…. ACL we represent our culture well being that we attend an HBCU and show the students here our style and character everyday in reference to the Black Ivy. This will touch the fashion world , but its main audience is the people of tomorrow and the students that are paving the way with us right now. We appreciate great craftsmanship such as this and we are right behind you guys.
+Hanif Castle Castle of ACL
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+First off Emil it’s called my opinion, your opinion is that you like it and I can’t fault you. In my opinion, which some of these guys have heard from me personally, is that people have turned prep into a uniform. I’m not saying that Ralph originated prep but he is one of the first names that comes to mind when asked what designers embody this style. It’s truly sad and disgusting when you go to an event and almost everyone is dressed alike, personal style is no longer present but rather uniformity.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+That’s such an amazing concept!! I love it.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+I’m dying over here!! There’s NOTHING sexier to me than a preppy Black man!!
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+This is phenomenal. Inspiring and beautifully done. Great work/collaboration!
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+The soil is fertile & the seed has been planted. Thank you for nourishing the minds eye with such bespoke, poetry, hymnals and debonair gentry.
+Amin
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Its good to see a positive message behind the project one you dont see nowadays outside maybe a Spike lee movie. and I could care less who invented prep or how they’re “all dressing the same”. Its just fashion and that’s the style now I guess.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+This made my day.
+- Janine
+Howard University ’11
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Amazing Job! KUDOS. Such a positive message! We don’t have to sag our pants. We can be well dressed gentlemen. I look forward to seeing more. This is OUR version of “Take Ivy”.
+Phaon Spurlock
+The Southern Gentleman
+LuxuriousPROTOTYPE.com
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+This is wonderful….shot out to James Jean…being different is totally better then being part of this so call norm society that we live in …I hope this goes well for all of you …
+Sincerely
+Meekey Meeks …moohahah
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+It was one thing to be apart of this project but an entirely different feeling to see it come to fruition. BRILLIANCE! To read the comments and see the response testifies that young men of color can do something positive, stylish and genuine. Everyone who contributed to the Black Ivy has their own unique character which surpasses their style. Black Ivy is now a movement encouraging all to make use of their intellect and talents to provide something meaningful, not simply for themselves, but to humanity as a whole. “A league of extraordinary gents…” Shouts to the geniuses we know as Josh and Trav, CJ Something, F.E. Castleberry (Unabashedly Prep), the Entire BKC, an the entire Black Ivy crew. Yeah, this only the beginning. Peace
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+checkin in from the A… just wanted to comment and say THIS IS POWERFUL YALL. KUDOS!!!!
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Hi,
+I just love this!! A positive image of men of color!! Thank you!!
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+excellent job, loved this. just gets better
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Great job and wonderful execution! It’s nice to witness artistry that’s so creative that it manages to temporarily transform the mind beyond the current reality.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Great job, you guys look amazing. Though I’m not a young man of color, I am very inspired by what you two are doing. This project came out beautifully, I would love to see it take a physical form, because I would love to display this book on my coffee table. Great work fellas, thanks for sharing.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+[...] haven’t already, you should probably go check out Street Etiquette’s latest project, Black Ivy. Great work all around [...]
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+This is just breathtaking, the scenery and clothing, everything I hoped it would be
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+The presentation of this project was beautiful. By far my favorite work i’ve seen from Street Etiquette. This was really next level.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Great video. Love the spoken word too. Would love to see more posts like this.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Love Love Love It! I’ve been following your blog for a year or so and I love all of it. I do love to see black men professing a fashion preference that is neat and classy. As a woman who has grown up in an old-fashioned household- my father wears suits and ties/bowties (sometimes even hats!) to work, going out, and church- it’s refreshing to see other black males retain a style that is dignified and handsome. I encourage my brothers to maintain a classier appearance and I hope a lot more men of color with begin to leave behind the sagging jeans (I’m so sick of seeing boxers everywhere I look) and go back to the days of old when boys and men kept themselves groomed.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+One of my favorite things…well-dressed men.
+Wonderfully shot and magnificently edited.
+You guys creativity will always inspire me.
+Continue to Be Inspired. Continue to Be You.
+It’s the K.Mack way.
+Love.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Huzzah! Amazing job you guys did. I’ve always been a fan of SE (my fourteen yr. old son turned me on to it), but you TORE it up with this. And what a genius location, that has meant so much to so many. It has inspired me in my own work, and I can’t thank you enough.
+The photography was brilliant.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+That blew me away. I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face! This shows a pride that African Americans haven’t seen much of since the civil rights days. Love it love it. This deserves to go viral.
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+one word…. WOW
+posted on September 23 , 2010 :
+Kente cloth was worn as a scarf, how does ralph lauren come to mind?
+Beautiful, as an HBCU alum, Im trul touched and miss the days of walking the halls with males comfortable in their style.
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+Just an absolute great piece. The people, clothing, and the message. All around well done
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+They buzzin over at hypebeast over this also….. check the comments
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+LOVE LOVE LOVE I can’t say it enough… Yall are doing your thang!
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+This was so amazing! I am so happy to have been apart of it and to have linked up with some great people. The video is dope and the photos are incredible. I said this to The Black Ivy fam before, but let me say it on the SE website, rarely are people as cool and as interesting as they look, and i’m happy to report that ALL of these brothers are as cool as cool can get. Seriously some great, intelligent, ambitious, free thinking, and strong people. I wish that the viewers could know the details of all the people in involved! Black Ivy consist of store owners, clothing designers, singers, photographers, teachers, bloggers, rappers, students, and more. All of these men are young, gifted, and black. Every time i see them i smile and i want to see all my bros reach their goals!
+Shoutout to CJ Something for the hot video, Fred for the pics, Trav and Josh for putting it together (the pic of you two walking is dope) and everyone else. View Black Ivy through a positive, enlightened lens, cause we meant no harm or ignorance. This is something to smile about and to be happy for, forreal… Oh yeah, and Clark Atlanta University, don’t worry, i repped for you! BLACK IVY!
+-Kofi
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+I enjoyed the video man. Great job to all of you. Good stuff.
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+I cant even conjure up the words to describe how unique this video was. I wish this Street Etiquette was something that was taught to the younger minds of the future. Men of color can learn from our past of how we should conduct ourselves in the future. All around THE BEST VIDEO I HAVE SEEN in a while. Keep it up!!!
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+you took em back to school with this one ahehehehehe…
+lol besides that great joke, i have to say great job, i wish people in college understood the importance in representation of self.
+peace!
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+So I’m currently laying here reading all of these comments. It wasn’t until now I’ve realized this was an AMAZING experience. Josh and Trav you guys have done something that has probably changed the mindset of so many of us young black men. It feels GREAT to be apart of this movement brothas. Good good stuff right here!!! Black Ivy wad up!!
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+That is one hell of a venture. Keep inspiring men of all ethnicities to step out of the comfort zone that has been set forth by society and strive to express themselves through style. This post is ground breaking.
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+White, Black , Brown, Purple. This is classy in all the right ways. I got that feeling watching the video that this is going to be much bigger than anyone is seeing right now. A movement, a revolution back to style.
+David (Ohio)
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+Lol got me proud to be black, damn we need more of this shit out on the estreets
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+great work all around fellas.
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+Joshua,
+Video is really well done…soundtrack, stellar. The guy waxing poetic over top of it all, amazing.
+I just wonder why Skip Brooks isn’t taking part in Black Ivy. Dude went to 2 Ivy league schools if my recollection is correct…
+That’s not a criticism…just an observation.
+All Good.
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+best post yet! Amazing stuff guys!
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+Very, Very dapper! I love to see well-dressed black men!
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+This is the definition of style, class + swagger
+You’re growth + creativity continues to inspire me. CONTINUE to set an amazing example for the young black men that are coming up behind you.
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+This is cool. I’m not really a big fan of prep style but I like the fact that you guys stepped up and made a visual representation of what inspires both of you.
+Not only did you make a visual representation of what inspires you but you also noted that this is a tribute to all the scholars that opened up alot of doors for us youth.
+Thanks Street Etiquette.
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+Fantastic. I love it. One of my favourite photoshoots all year. Great sense of style and beautiful photography. A great inspiration to me for my fall shopping here in Sweden. I’m posting a link to the Black Ivy page left and right, hoping all my friends take inspiration from it too. We get too few people dressing this good at my university, and I’m hoping to change that, with your help.
+Keep up the good work. I will be checking your page out everyday for more of the same quality!
+/Bjorn
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+Splendid job fellas. I love the concept and performance.
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+Shout out to my son Kofi, you look outstanding along with the other brothers! Ever consider modeling on the side
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+I wish people would stop the race debates going on, and look beyond it. I wonder if people know the photographer to Sewn From The Soul was of Mexican nationality The photog for this was caucasian . Art has NO boundaries
+The work you see before you here….In my honest opinion is an brilliant interpretation and the content shows it. Location, style, photography, & subjects all work perfectly.
+Proud to call most of you featured in the Black Ivy friends. I tip my hat to you guys, brilliant work everyone.
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+Amazing photo spread and short film. Inspiring as always, great follow up to the “Sewn through the soul” theme.
+I love it!
+posted on September 24 , 2010 :
+love it. the style, the scenery (SN: CCNY was a great backdrop for this, even though its not particularly a black college, but its alum and faculty include great blacks such as Colin Powell, Assata Shakur, Bell Hooks, and several others), just the overall aesthetic of it was just amazing, and it kinda reminded me of being back in college, where we weren’t afraid to step out of the box with our style.
+i’m a proud HBCU Alum as well (Norfolk State c/o ’08)
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+Fellas. Once again you found a way to amaze with vision. This time it hit the soul. The style, the sounds and the sheer sophistication shines through. I watched and saw how it must have been for our elders to arrive in style. Keep it going brothers, yall are light years ahead by taking us back to old time values.
+Respect,
+Datwon
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+You guys never cease to amaze me! Really, really neat. I just love the whole concept! I really wish I was doing my degree in the States!! Keep It Up!
+Best,
+Laura
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+Overwhelming, magnificent, elegant, blackness through and through. Love everything about this!
+Kwajelyn
+Black Ivy Sister
+Spelman 2002
+twitter.com/superkwa
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+this was way too cool like i love the outfits the culture behind it great video
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+I don’t know if this is a movement, but it certainly isn’t “prep”. “Prep” is a rehash of the past and when I see these photos, I see young men who are looking at the past to influence navigate their future- and not just style wise. This is as forward thinking as it gets.
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+Another dope concept produced and executed. Very inspiring piece of cinematography. Josh & Travis you guys are tastemakers of a new generation. Your blog speaks to what happens when you create something out of passion and not the necessity of money. As a proud HBCU Alum…KUDOS!
+FAMU ’03
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+loved the video, concept, etc, only thing is, spellmen is spelled Spelman, and it is an all women’s institution. but other than that the video is perfect.
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+We had to rep for Spelman because we are raised by educated women of color. I take the blame for the incorrect spelling of the school. I’ll work on my editing. Thank you all for the comments. Keep them coming.
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+Were there any HBCU alumni involved in the shoot? It would’ve been nice to see some Howard nalia in the mix since the shoot was inspired by a LIFE magazine shoot on HU’s campus and the Howard insignia has become such an integral part of the campus style. In any case, I liked the shoot very much but since there is such a strong emphasis on black pride conceptually, I was hoping for more infusion of the black aesthetic than just the kente stole as a way to “own” the look. The video of course was also well produced but that came as no surprise.
+Though by no clear fault of SE, from reading the comments here and elsewhere, it appears that most were unaware that the concept of “The Black Ivy League” predates that of this shoot and doesn’t mean blacks who went to the traditional Ivy league schools as one commenter alluded here or that it only includes Howard, Spelman and Morehouse–Fisk, Dillard, Hampton and Tuskegee historically have been named among them too. Howard, Spelman and Morehouse have just become the most popular because well, we’re just that good
+It’s a shame that we often spend more time defending the value of HBCU’s instead of celebrating them. The only time we really see them in popular culture is when black 90′s sitcoms are in syndication on TV One–or was I the only one who noticed Regine was wearing a Clark Atlanta top in Living Single last week haha. If only wardrobe stylists were still just as bold. And in the HBCU fashion, I have to throw in “illustrious” somewhere in this comment for good measure
+KD
+Hillman Howard ’10
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+@Kendra D: looks like comments aren’t html enabled. So much for the strikethrough mark up of Hillman haha. Ah well.
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+@Joekenneth: Word, but your aim would’ve been accomplished either way. At Howard, men are the minority.
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+Oh my goodness. How amazing is this?! This is a great idea. Beautiful video. I don’t know all the details of the issue around shooting this like some of your commenters do. I do know that I would like to see more and know more and this video looks great. And even without knowing all the details that this work does affect me very emotionally.
+posted on September 25 , 2010 :
+Powerful Project.. Street Etiquette always delivers very interesting topics, not just in fashion but in culture as well.. keep up the great work guys.
+posted on September 26 , 2010 :
+This is so lovely
+posted on September 26 , 2010 :
+This is BEYOND amazing & SURPASSES inspiring! You all look nothing short of amazing, these photos are truly a feast for the eyes! I some of them up on my blog, I just had to share this with all my followers
+posted on September 26 , 2010 :
+@Kendra D: Actually a few of the dudes in the shoot attended HBCU’s… I personally however don’t see alot of current HBCU nalia that would fit the aesthetic we were going for… and i challenge the thought of this lacking a “infusion of black aesthetic” lol what is that? Thats like me saying all pictures in the LIFE magazine shoot are lacking black aesthetic. I feel like we are wearing this clothes in a style that is very much US… Whether its from the shades or the wrist wear or the style… When Josh hit me up about the shoot, i thought maybe for one millisecond about showing up in red, black, and grey like a CAU billboard… and then immediately realized that it wasn’t necessary.. the soul of the project speaks volumes, IMO it speaks so loud that we didn’t need to put on HBCU costumes, we all just came through in what we liked…I know most people hear the message of the project loud and clear… Ehh i don’t know, i get it…
+-Kofi
+posted on September 26 , 2010 :
+[...] a few days ago, these celebrated bloggers unveiled their latest project, called ‘Black Ivy’. It features a photoshoot of guys dressed in American prep to celebrate the history of the first [...]
+posted on September 26 , 2010 :
+I just found your blog and really like what you’re doing. This is a great post. I’m looking forward to exploring your site a bit more. Keep up the good work!
+posted on September 26 , 2010 :
+[...] ITW. [...]
+posted on September 27 , 2010 :
+This was such a treat for me. Your website, style and this photoshoot are all completely amazing. I feel so fortunate to have found you all online. Continue the wonderful work!
+-Mitch, Howard Univ. class of 2010
+posted on September 27 , 2010 :
+Content, style, feeling. All of it is put together beautifully. Love the blurry vs sharp shots. And dont get me started on the textures, fabrics, colours…. Good work, hope to see much more!
+posted on September 27 , 2010 :
+LOVESSS IT….awesome photoshoot! best of luck with the site gentleman will be added as one of favs.
+posted on September 27 , 2010 :
+this was very brilliant and inspiring. the spoken word did it for me. keep doing what you do.
+posted on September 27 , 2010 :
+Perfection…there’s no more to say, keep on!
+posted on September 27 , 2010 :
+Great piece… both reminiscent and progressive. Not that you have to dress a certain way to look like a true scholar, but you nailed what you were going for. Really great post!
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+posted on September 27 , 2010 :
+As always, the style is classic and full of swagger. I like the title “The Black Ivy” because it brough to mind schools like Howard U and Spelman. Joekenneth’s poetry is epic. I can see the BKc influence with the High School Football Jackets and Ouigi the Beareded Man is fresh as usual. I like Kadeem’s hat and shades combo. The vid is artistic and deep as usual. Great work.
+posted on September 27 , 2010 :
+You guys should have came to howard! i would of loved to be involved.
+posted on September 27 , 2010 :
+This is a beautiful thing. You both have such great style and taste. Style is a message to everyone about who you are and what you are about. To see black men showcasing themselves in this manner is simply a beautiful thing. I am a young woman and would wear this. Keep up the good work!!
+posted on September 28 , 2010 :
+[...] guys over at Street Etiquette are back it again with another creative [...]
+posted on September 28 , 2010 :
+[...] Click Here to Read More of This Magnificent Posting. Class is in Session. [...]
+posted on September 28 , 2010 :
+This is a lovely project! I love every single aspect of this piece!
+posted on September 29 , 2010 :
+This is amazing, love everything about it. Nothing much else to say.
+posted on September 29 , 2010 :
+Reading the comments on this site and other various sites I realized “The Black Ivy”, a tribute to the first black colleges moved many readers. Trav and Josh, I’m so glad to have been apart of this historic moment. To show love and appreciation in THIS sort of way towards men and women who paved way for many others. Keep it up!!!
+posted on September 29 , 2010 :
+Comment 100! Keep up the good work.
+posted on September 29 , 2010 :
+Great video! I like it very much!!!!
+posted on September 29 , 2010 :
+I’d love to see the Divine 9 fraternity version. That could be so klean. Yes, my Kappa spirit is always on.
+Great job my brothers.
+posted on September 29 , 2010 :
+Men dressing like gentleMEN. You guys look great. Inspiring work! Great to see this. (tightening up bowtie)
+posted on September 30 , 2010 :
+Love the shoot. Spelman is spelled with 1 L not 2, common mistake.
+posted on September 30 , 2010 :
+Steve Urkel Fresh!!!!????? Not cool!!!
+theysayno.com/wordpress
+posted on September 30 , 2010 :
+Brilliant concept, executed with such an acute sense of style. This project is ground breaking, keep doing what you do and you will continue to inspire people, just like you have inspired me today. THANK YOU!
+posted on September 30 , 2010 :
+I loved all of it!
+I just have one question not related to anything. But do you guys iron your clothes?
+posted on September 30 , 2010 :
+Great concept and execution guys! You really did a great job. I was just thinking about doing an article about the black ivy league look and lo and behold, I go to check out your site and you have something there already! Being a Morehouse graduate (Class of 90′), We always joked about how “Harvard is the white Morehouse”… Good to see you brothers showcasing our rich traditions on your site.
+By the way, you mis-spelled Spelman (one L, not two). If you can make the change in your flash presentation, I’m sure the Spelman sistas’ would greatly appreciate it.
+Best regards!
+posted on September 30 , 2010 :
+[...] Sep Street Etiquette tributes its scholastic forefathers who helped pave the way for a level of higher education. The [...]
+posted on October 1 , 2010 :
+Great Slideshow, enjoyed the good style and pictures
+Regards from The Netherlands!
+posted on October 1 , 2010 :
+Amazing project. So much style!
+posted on October 1 , 2010 :
+SE is quite possibly my favorite blog ever. You guys continue to out do yourselves!
+posted on October 1 , 2010 :
+you know when i first saw this on some other blog i thought, oh, ok, kinda cool. But after watching this video, i am truly impressed and inspired. What a beautiful thing this is. Congrats on your expressions of individuality and style. I would like to know what city, you guys are from? This was beautifully done by the way. I really liked this and for some reason ( i know that i am a women and i have no part in this, yet) I fell pride.
+Check out my blog, I’ve just posted images from my SS/11 collection, for the fall i plan on doing Mens wear.
+Azede Jean-Pierre
+posted on October 2 , 2010 :
+What else can I say that hasn’t been said? The video was amazing, classy, and extremely well done….I’m impressed. You guys are awesome, keep doing what you do best.
+posted on October 2 , 2010 :
+WOW ! That was effing hot!!!
+posted on October 3 , 2010 :
+Doing big things! Very well done fellas. -Dan
+posted on October 4 , 2010 :
+Hello , I came to your blog from the “IFB discussion Show us your blog”
+and here I am Loving your blog , lets become fashionable blogger friends , lets follow each other.
+posted on October 4 , 2010 :
+I discovered this blog my chance, im bloody glad i found it. Its refreshing, i call this fashion a revial of old skool styles with an updated twist, (or the urban gentlemans corner) Thanx for this
+keep it up
+posted on October 4 , 2010 :
+Love the videos guys. You two are inspirations. Just wish people here in the UK had the desire to create and collaborate like yourselves. I’m finding it hard to gather like minded people to work on similar style projects here. Got any advice?
+posted on October 4 , 2010 :
+[...] You guys recently posted a video project entitled “The Black Ivy” and it was received with mixed reviews. It seems as though people were either overwhelmingly [...]
+posted on October 5 , 2010 :
+I love this site!! Your work is always amazing. keep doing these great projects, I love ‘em!
+Anyone reads this post, please check out my tumblr. If you follow, Ill follow back:
+gritsxcheese.tumblr.com
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+if you like it, tell a friend. share it with someone. If you don’t like it, tell an enemy or a friend (thye might like it). Still share it with someone.
+posted on October 5 , 2010 :
+this is the video to Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s Gentleman…… I like that my people did all this work to turn out a quality inspired product…. for me….I still think trying to look like europeans is weak. You want to be fashion forward, own yours, don’t borrow from j crew, banana republic et al.
+posted on October 5 , 2010 :
+[...] You guys recently posted a video project entitled “The Black Ivy” and it was received with mixed reviews. It seems as though people were either overwhelmingly [...]
+posted on October 5 , 2010 :
+Darlings you all are S H I N I N G and R I S I N G ! *
+and you deserve that and I am happy for you
+posted on October 6 , 2010 :
+Amazing photos! Love the backdrop too.
+posted on October 8 , 2010 :
+wow wow! beautiful concept=)
+posted on October 8 , 2010 :
+Fantastic! Love the photography.
+posted on October 10 , 2010 :
+This is pretty amazing, it was such an inspiring photobook. I was blown away by the creativity in the outfits and how proud everyone looked in their attire, it is something I wish to see more of…proud, intelligent, ambitious blacks instead of what we are so stereotyped to be. This post is definitely one of the best I’ve seen in a while, just allowed me to feel so much better about what I’m doing as a gentleman. Thanks so much for this guys, such an inspiration you both are.
+posted on October 11 , 2010 :
+I am not sure if there is anything I could add that is different from the other 129 comments.
+Simply breath taking. The music, the clothes, the spoken word piece.
+I stumbled across this blog 15 minutes ago and haven’t blinked once. I’m amazed by what you guys have up here. Very inspiring!
+:c)
+posted on October 11 , 2010 :
+[...] by the resurgent preppy trend, Street Etiquette took it upon itself to film The Black Ivy, a modern spin on a classic. Enlisting the help of Unabashedly Prep’s F.E. Castleberry, the [...]
+posted on October 12 , 2010 :
+alright guys, time for a new post…. =)
+posted on October 14 , 2010 :
+This is the most gorgeous blog and/post I have ever seen.
+I would be remise to have enjoyed the video and not post regarding its beauty and execution. So gorgeous and beautofully executed!! I have watched it several times already and know I will be venturing back to watch many more times!!
+Thank you so very much for showcasing that which we all know is beautiful! Amazing work…
+posted on October 16 , 2010 :
+This is one of the most stunning posts l’ve ever come across. l love everything about it. I keep coming back.. l have no idea what else to say. It’s just amazing!
+posted on October 18 , 2010 :
+how refreshing to see brothas looking good and staying classy. those are the kind of friends, men and black people i want to be apart of.
+posted on October 18 , 2010 :
+Ive seen the slideshow and the video about three times and i just cant get enough.
+great job!
+posted on October 18 , 2010 :
+Stumbled across this blog on accident and i must say…impressed and inspired.great work gentlemen.
+posted on October 20 , 2010 :
+YESS!!!! when i saw this i had to leave a comment. im from NY but i attend Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh, NC this made me feel more proud to be going to a HBCU School. I’ve been at a fork in the road latley and this made me realize that i cant leave school i gotta do it for more than just me…theres many of us young brothers out there struggling in life, and they forget that there Young, Gifted and BLACK. Kudos to yall man i look forward to more.
+ST.AUG ’13
+-GQ JOE
+posted on October 21 , 2010 :
+You fellas did a wonderful job with this! Real powerful stuff!!! I really felt the passion behind this and I stand behind your vision! Keep it up guys, great work!
+posted on October 21 , 2010 :
+Brilliant. The clothing was genius, the scenery is great, all around very professional.
+posted on October 22 , 2010 :
+Wow, I had seen the pics on Unabashedly Prep, but hadn’t been here in a while. The video was great and the slide show was phenomenal. I was especially touched by the inclusion of the historical photos at the end of the slide show.
+posted on October 22 , 2010 :
+Hey, I know I’m about 100 comments late, but I made a Black Ivy related post on my blog not long ago. You should check it out:
+posted on October 23 , 2010 :
+les mecs, votre projet sent la merde. arrêtez de vous branler sur un héritage que vous ne détenez pas. putain.
+posted on October 25 , 2010 :
+[...] I originally saw The Black Ivy photos on Unabashedly Prep a month ago, I recently visited Street Etiquette and saw the slideshow and accompanying [...]
+posted on October 29 , 2010 :
+the editorials, excellent!!! the photography excellent!! I will be checking in regularly.
+-Bless
+CelesteCristine
+posted on October 30 , 2010 :
+Your concepts are 100%, and this I must say is a breath of fresh air- This is just to show support for you very creative and inspirational young black brothas…
+100% Certified
+posted on November 7 , 2010 :
+passion for fashion but the bearded guy is just waaaaaaay too sexy… the diversity is interesting makes me think of a revamped vintage {on steroids} xXx…
+keepsmiling:)
+posted on November 16 , 2010 :
+[...] . THE BLACK IVY HOME [...]
+posted on November 24 , 2010 :
+top drawer! will you ever publish the black ivy in book form? sure would make a nice book.. p.
+posted on December 17 , 2010 :
+I was so impressed with The Black Ivy concept that I felt the need to feature it in Issue 01 of the forFATHERS photo journal.
+Thank you S.E.
+posted on December 24 , 2010 :
+WoW….is all I can say….everything works so well together!
+posted on January 13 , 2011 :
+Very Smart, gentlemen. Let us give our youth a standard to model after. Peace.
+posted on January 19 , 2011 :
+[...] featured article and photo shoot from the guys at Street Etiquette and F.E Castleberry of Unbashedly Prep. Worth making the jump. What a refreshing tribute to the [...]
+posted on January 19 , 2011 :
+I just watched this slideshow and almost passed out. Sweet concept, execution, and overall look. The creativity of what you guys are doing with your blog and lifestyle projects is completely refreshing and makes my coffee and blog reading the best part of the morning.
+posted on February 1 , 2011 :
+Just great!!!!! I loved all the guys !!! THe looks are wondeful !!!!!
+May I put this photo in my blog?
+Wainting for an answer soon .
+Thanks.
+Luciano Rocha
+posted on February 24 , 2011 :
+wow, such a meaninful message and inspirational tribute executed in a creative way, keep doing what your doing, this reminds me of this book The Ivy Look: Classic American Clothing – An Illustrated Pocket Guide.
+posted on March 6 , 2011 :
+[...] to their site and you’ll know exactly what I am talking about. Make sure you take a look at Black Ivy a project they put together with like-minded cats; it will really blow your minds. I truly [...]
+posted on March 16 , 2011 :
+[...] Kissi: Our Sewn From the Soul and Black Ivy editorials let us utilize the potent expression possible through image and video. Art has an [...]
+posted on March 18 , 2011 :
+I admire y’alls style
+posted on March 20 , 2011 :
+Late to the party but just found your blog.
+LOVE IT!
+posted on March 22 , 2011 :
+Style elegante. C’est Touche ca
+posted on April 19 , 2011 :
+This should be a movement across the globe
+posted on April 19 , 2011 :
+I love it….stuff like this is always the start of something huge…I agree, make it National.
+posted on April 27 , 2011 :
+These folks are doing there thang. Shout outs to all of ya’ll. The community is proud of you. Im on my way to a nice school my self. Lets get it, black people.
+posted on June 5 , 2011 :
+I Cut my locs after seeing this, So on point Atlanta loves this. Torregano Creative Company.
+posted on June 15 , 2011 :
+too much swag!!!!!!!!!!! all young men should dress like this, be different, stylish, and unique
+posted on June 15 , 2011 :
+too much swag!!!!!!!!!!! all young men should dress like this, be different, stylish, and unique
+posted on July 24 , 2011 :
+this has got 2 b by far the most attractiv blog eva creatd on site,so refreshin,stylish n unique.im stunnd by ur creativity n lov 4 fashion n humanity in general SE u reali rock my world,kip up da gud work.
+posted on July 25 , 2011 :
+I will always love an educated, well dress, well-mannered Black man. And the fact that this combines all three- marvelous!
+posted on August 1 , 2011 :
+Fantastic work.
+Elegant and earthy.
+Laurie
+posted on August 4 , 2011 :
+I know this is loooong over due. I saw this photo shoot a while ago. You guys did a wonderful job on this photo shoot. My only request that you hurry and make a female version. I would love to see how Spelman, Bennett College, and other all black women colleges would look like preppy and elegant women strolling on campus.
+posted on August 7 , 2011 :
+I will love for everyone to check out my BLACK IVY Shoot. Its on my Blog, Bhindtheflash.blogspot.com <<<<Please check it out
+I admire these dudes
+posted on August 17 , 2011 :
+Interesting…i’m black and I will be attending an ivy league school this September. Who knows, I might borrow one of these looks
+posted on August 18 , 2011 :
+AHHH!!! CITY COLLEGE!! That’s my school. Cool.
+Beautiful clothes, great idea, fantastic execution.
+posted on August 19 , 2011 :
+I love this site
+posted on August 23 , 2011 :
+[...] was Street Etiquette’s “most involved shoot and narrative to date” (again, see here and here). The spread depicts an ivy league campus of all black men that the Times describes as [...]
+posted on August 27 , 2011 :
+This is the first time I have visited your site. I saw the photo for the Black Ivy, and it seemed interesting. I clicked on the photo and immediately recognized my Alma Mater, City College. City has some of the most beautiful and immediately recognizable architecture around.
+I’d also like to point out that I was a total dork in college and never looked as cool as the guys in the photos.
+posted on August 30 , 2011 :
+I live in Brazil, and I am happy whenever I see the arts can be accessible to everyone and goes beyond being able to be used in our daily lives without being exposed to ridicule, created, adjusted and shown to the world for people like us. Congratulations! remain so forever and sirvão inspiration to us all.
+Toni (Brazil)_bemkis@hotmail.com
+posted on September 11 , 2011 :
+@Mo.Kiera, This is an inspiration for all, not just ‘young black men’! We found about this post from a newspaper article in Dubai and have been absolutely blown away. Yes, it’s class, and yes it’s style! That’s what creates the swagger, naturally.
+posted on September 12 , 2011 :
+Thanks alot : ) for your post. I’d prefer to say that the expense of car insurance varies greatly from one scheme to another, simply because there are so many different issues which bring about the overall cost. By way of example, the brand name of the automobile will have a tremendous bearing on the price tag. A reliable old family vehicle will have a lower priced premium compared to a flashy expensive car.
+posted on September 12 , 2011 :
+Just love this, the Black Ivy is really interesting to come across.
+posted on October 27 , 2011 :
+This site is always checked.
+Please do your best from now on
+posted on November 30 , 2011 :
+Holy crap. It’s like 50 @_jackfreeman s. There’s a whole counterculture of tiny, well-dressed black men. Who knew.
+posted on December 27 , 2011 :
+Love the bike – the shot looks like it belongs in a movie
+posted on December 30 , 2011 :
+love this!! …but where are the ladies, gentlemen??
+posted on January 11 , 2012 :
+That’s what i call the SWAGG !
+Hurting Fashion – The First Fashion Ad-Review The Hurting Fashion
+posted on February 4 , 2012 :
+Slide numbr 33, the fellow with the orange pants on the left. What is the brand of the amazing waistcoat he’s wearing?
+posted on February 7 , 2012 :
+[...] The Black Ivy editorial [...]
+posted on March 15 , 2012 :
+beautiful concept, beautiful execution, The Black Ivy is beautiful…
+Class is definitely in session
+posted on March 21 , 2012 :
+You guys look amazing.
+posted on March 28 , 2012 :
+There’s a certain suave in the composition of the outfits. The looks are simple but not simplistic. Simple is good. I particularly like the cardigans. heeltheworld.tumblr.com….God bless
+posted on April 9 , 2012 :
+i NEED to know the name of the music being played throughout the slide show, it is beautiful
+posted on April 18 , 2012 :
+This piece is amazing. I love it. I was wondering if you thought about putting this together in book format?I think it would make a great coffee table book.
+posted on May 20 , 2012 :
+Here is the problem, especially since you are claiming to be a style blog: the absence of clean, clear, radiant skin on many of the models. Good skin that normally goes with ivy league students whether they are at Harvard or Morehouse should have been key to a fashion blog that is displaying wonderful clothes! That is one thing I was struck by when I first went to Morehouse: the upper crust skin tones on all colors and also found at the Ivy Leagues too! Contrast your contemporary models with the models at the end of your spread, with marvelous clear skin. This is a part of fashion. One thing my fashionable mother use to say as well as father: that it is a shame to wear beautiful, stylish clothes [not necessarily expensive] on problem skin! I saw too many brothers with bad skin! Come on: at least find brothers with good skin to display your look or do photo shop on them. I and my friends were rightfully distracted by this problem and again as a black American, I was slightly insulted that our rainbow of colors were not on display. Other than that, and that is a bit other, the spread was hot.
+posted on June 25 , 2012 :
+I realized from the description of the video and the look of the school. It looks familiar, is that CUNY- City College?
+posted on June 28 , 2012 :
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+posted on July 30 , 2012 :
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+posted on August 6 , 2012 :
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+posted on August 13 , 2012 :
+Found street etiquette off an app that showed me the “ABC’s of Men’s fashion.” you guys are VERY talented, great eye, I love every outfit, different from many blogs I’ve seen
+posted on August 13 , 2012 :
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+posted on August 14 , 2012 :
+posted on August 28 , 2012 :
+This is fashion at its best
+posted on September 14 , 2012 :
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+posted on October 30 , 2012 :
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+posted on November 21 , 2012 :
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+posted on November 21 , 2012 :
+Have you guys heard of Berea College? It is my alma mater and the first historically inter-racial school in the south established in 1855.
+posted on November 23 , 2012 :
+Nice concept. I love it. Wow!!
+posted on January 2 , 2013 :
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+Definitions of frequently used key words when working with crystals.
+Aging
+Quartz crystal aging applies to the cumulative change in frequency over time, which results in a permanent change in the operating frequency of the crystal unit. The rate of change of frequency is fastest during the first 45 days of operation. Many interrelated factors are involved in aging, some of the most common being: Internal contamination, excessive drive level, surface change of the crystal, various thermal effects, wire fatigue and frictional wear. Proper circuit design incorporating low operating ambients, minimum drive level and static pre – aging will greatly reduce all but the most severe aging problems.
+A major factor in the aging rate of a quartz crystal is in the method of encapsulation since the sealing of the crystal case leaves contamination and oxygen within the crystal environment. Where crystals are concerned, the 2 most common methods of encapsulation for through hole crystals are resistance weld and cold weld. Typical aging rates are as follows:
+Typical aging rates for SMD crystals are as follows:
+Baud rate
+The speed of data transmission (how much data can be transmitted in one second)
+Crystal became known as “crystal oscillators”.
+Quartz crystals are manufactured for frequencies from a few tens of kilohertz to tens of megahertz. More than two billion crystals are manufactured annually. Most are small devices for consumer devices such as wristwatches, clocks, radios, computers, and cellphones. Quartz crystals are also found inside test and measurement equipment, such as counters, signal generators, and oscilloscopes.
+Division Frequency
+The output frequency that is divided by the internal IC.
+Drive Level
+Drive level is the level of power dissipated in the crystal as a result of the operating circuit. Rated or test drive level is the power at which the crystal is specified and any deviation from the rated level will affect the crystal performance: therefore, the actual drive level should reasonably duplicate that specified. AT-Cut crystals can withstand a considerable overdrive without physical damage: however, the electrical parameters are degraded at excessive drive. Low frequency crystals (especially flexural mode crystals) may fracture if overdriven. Drive level ratings range from 5µW below 100kHz to about 10mW in the 1 – 30 MHz region for Fundamental Mode crystals. Overtone crystals which are generally used above 30 MHz are often rated at 1 – 2 mW
+Equivalent series capacitance (C1)
+Energy distortion to the (equivalent) internal charge capacitance component of the crystal resonator, at the series resonant frequency.
+Equivalent series resistance (ESR)
+As can be seen from the equivalent circuit of a crystal, there is the parameter R, which is defined as the motional resistance.
+This value has a direct relationship to the Q-Factor and Activity of the crystal. Activity can also be termed ESR or Equivalent Series Resistance. The lower the ESR values, the higher will be the amplitude of oscillation in the oscillator circuit. The actual value of ESR is somewhat dependent on the load capacity presented to the crystal in use, and can be calculated by the following formula:
+ESR = R1 ( 1 + Co / CL )²W
+It is extremely important to take into account the ESR value when designing a crystal oscillator, as crystals with a high ESR value will be less inclined to begin oscillation than one with a low ESR.
+Frequency (fo)
+Number of waves (cycles) per second. The relationship between frequency and cycle is:
+fo (Hertz Hz) = 1 / T (Sec.)
+1 kHz = 1ms, 1 MHz = 1µS, 1 GHz = 1nS
+Frequency tolerance precision (f / f)
+Under specified conditions at an ambient temperature of 25 °C, the difference in actual (measured) frequency from the nominal frequency.
+Frequency stability (f / fo)
+Within standard temperature and operational voltage ranges, the drift in the output frequency. The output frequency drift including frequency temperature characteristics and frequency voltage characteristics response to ambient temperature.
+Taking the frequency at 25°C as the reference, the change in frequency in response to ambient temperature.
+Frequency voltage characteristics
+Taking the output frequency at the central voltage in the operating voltage range as the reference, the change in output frequency to voltage. Causes of this change are changes in crystal deformation, and changes in IC internal constants for IC’s mounted in the oscillator and RTC. The effects of the ICs are larger.
+Fundamental mode
+First harmonic crystal vibration state. The AT resonator frequency is determined by the AT resonator thickness of the crystal, but even with the same thickness the third overtone will be approx. 3 times the frequency of the fundamental. With tuning fork type resonators, the second overtone is about six times the fundamental.
+Hertz
+The hertz is equivalent to cycles per second, named after Heinrich Hertz.
+The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of sinusoidal waves, particularly those used in radio and audio applications..
+Insulation resistance (IR)
+Resistance between leads, or between lead and case package (conductive package).
+Jitter
+Jitter is the deviation in or displacement of some aspect of the pulses in a high-frequency digital signal..
+Jitter is the time variation of a.
+Load capacitance (CL)
+Effective capacitance (series equivalent charge capacitance) of the oscillation circuit as seen from the pins of the crystal oscillator. This capacitance is determined as a condition when the crystal oscillator is connected to the oscillation circuit, and will determine the output frequency. Load capacitance approximation :
+Maximum drive level (GL)
+Rating for the drive level. Current or power input over this level may result in characteristic degradation or destruction.
+Maximum supply voltage (VDD – GND)
+Maximum rated value for power input to the power supply pin. Input over this value may result in characteristic degradation or destruction.
+Nominal frequency (f)
+Nominal value of frequency of crystal resonator.
+OCXO
+Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator. Oscillator with additional circuitry and packaging to keep the environment, and thus the temperature range over which the oscillator has to operate, constant.
+Operating temperature range (Tsol)
+Temperature range where specification characteristics are fulfilled.
+Operating voltage (VDD)
+Voltage input to VDD pin which will support continuous operation with specification characteristics.
+Origin frequency (fo)
+Oscillation source frequency of oscillator inside oscillation system.
+Oscillation circuit
+Circuit needed to oscillate crystal resonator. Circuit will differ with type of resonator and frequency.
+Oscillation start time (Tosc)
+The time from power on until the waveform stabilises. However, voltage rise times depend on the power supply, therefore the time is measured from a specific set of initial conditions.
+Oscillator
+Crystal with additional circuitry that forms the crystal output into a square wave.
+Output enable (OE)
+Output is switched to high impedance, and wired OR connection can be used to select multiple outputs (frequency). OE pin – low. Output is high impedance = disabled. Oscillation is not stopped, so the clock after disabled is cleared is not synchronised with OE (clock is continuous).
+Output fall time (tTHL)
+The time it takes for the output waveform to change from the high voltage (high level) to the low voltage (low level). Also called waveform fall time.
+Output frequency (fo)
+The output frequency from the oscillator circuit or the crystal oscillator system.
+Output load conditions
+The types and quantities (power) of the loads that can be connected to the oscillator.
+Calculated for TTL-1 as:
+For LS TTL-1 as:
+For CMOS-1 = 5pF
+but peak current is 0.3mA in transition
+Output rise time (tTHL)
+The time it takes for the output waveform to change from the low voltage (low level) to the high voltage (high level). Also called waveform rise time. Often specified between 0.4V and 2.4V for TTL or 10% to 90% for CMOS.
+Overtone crystals
+Because of the physical properties and geometry of an AT Cut quartz blank, a crystal can vibrate at many frequencies. The lowest frequency is called the fundamental frequency and can be supplied up to about 45 Mhz. Higher frequencies (to over 300 MHz) are achieved by operating the crystal at odd overtones, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th etc. and tuning the circuit so that the crystal oscillates at its designed overtone frequency.
+Overtone crystals are specially processed for plane parallelism and surface finish in order to enhance their performance at the required overtone frequency. The overtone frequency is higher than the equivalent harmonic multiple of the fundamental by approximately 25 kHz per overtone.
+Pullability
+The pullability.
+Synthetic and artificial treatments:- Not all varieties of quartz are naturally occurring. Due to natural quartz being so often twinned, much of the quartz used in industry is synthesized. Large, flawless and untwinned crystals are produced in an autoclave via the hydrothermal process. While these are still commonly referred to as quartz, the correct term for this material is silicon dioxide.
+Q factor
+In physics and engineering the quality factor or Q factor is a dimensionless parameter that describes how under-damped an oscillator or resonator is, or equivalently, characterizes a resonator’s bandwidth relative to its centre frequency..
+The quality factor of oscillators varies substantially from system to system. Systems for which damping is important (such as dampers keeping a door from slamming shut) have Q = 1⁄2. Clocks, lasers, and other resonating systems that need either strong resonance or high frequency stability need high quality factors. Tuning forks have quality factors around Q = 1000. The quality factor of atomic clocks and some high-Q lasers can reach as high as 1011 and higher.
+Recommended drive level
+Excitation level for optimum oscillation characteristics.
+Shunt capacitance (Co)
+Charge capacitance between the 2 electrodes in the crystal oscillator.
+Soldering conditions
+Soldering conditions that can be assured at mounting. Temperatures or times over these limits may result in characteristic degradation or destruction.
+Standby (ST)
+Function that halts crystal resonator oscillation and frequency division. Cuts the current consumed by the oscillators circuit and the frequency division stage.
+ST pin – High or open: specified frequency output.
+ST pin – Low: output is high level, clock stops.
+Because oscillation is halted, there is a delay of maximum 10mS, (0.3mS TEP), before clock output stabilises. If ST is also dropped to low, output is high impedance but output is also unstable after function is restarted for the same reason.
+Storage temperature (Tstg)
+Maximum absolute rating for the discharged state (no input of voltage, current or power). Exposure to temperature over this level may result in characteristic degradation or destruction. To assure precision, store at room temperature whenever possible.
+TCXO
+Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator. Oscillator with additional circuitry that incorporates a feedback loop, where changes in temperature are reflected by changes in voltage, which in turn change the frequency to compensate for the temperature change.
+VCXO
+Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator. Oscillator with additional circuitry that allows the frequency to be changed by varying an external voltage. (See Pullability)
+BONUS, emotional self-flagellation and Courtney Love.
+Get all up in her business on Twitter: @allisonscag
+Where the hell were Matt and Jonah?? This episode was just an hour of Chris awkwardly flirting with a moody 19 year old. No thanks.
+Chris, don’t listen to any of these nay Sayers! You’re awesome, Allison is awesome, and Warehouse 13 is awesome. Keep up the good work. Thanks for the new favorite quote “Not all balls are heavy!”
+Oh my GOD this chick is amazing!!! I have never heard of her before, but what an accomplished and erudite gal, and hilarious! I was dying to jump in on the accents conversation. Had me getting funny looks cracking up in the grocery store. Great episode, “y’all”!!
+Was this the introduction of creepy uncle Chris?
+Allison Scagliotti офигительная чика. А каре ей ваще идет отлично. Я влюблен…
+This is the only podcast of Chris’s that I couldn’t finish listening to. I don’t know if it was just Chris flirting and being complementary but exactly what makes this Allison chick so smart? She sounded like an obnoxious teenager to me.
+This is my very first comment on anything like this… and of course, it’s negative! I don’t mean to be, but I have to say this. I admit that I have not seen “Warehouse 13”, so maybe that would change my opinion, but this was a rough one for me to get through (I actually still have about 10 minutes left of it).
+In general, teenagers annoy me. And the more “grown up” they seem, the more they annoy me. I’m glad Chris called her on it a few times when she made comments like “I saw it years ago”, but I wish he would have stopped her on the “Small Wonder” lunch box. He has a great bit about people who didn’t earn the right to wear an Atari T-shirt…well she did not earn the right to own a “Small Wonder” lunch box! And she remembers seeing it in a Blockbuster? Argh!
+I loved the reference to “Small Wonder” though because people never seem to know what I’m talking about when I mention it.
+Anyway, I’m not really an angry nerd. I just felt like commenting.
+Allison Scagliotti is like a Bizarro version of Frankenstein.**
+Whereas Frankenstein is a dude that is of questionable intelligence and not very easy on the eyes, Ms. Scagliotti is all lady (pronounced LAY-die) who is of impressive intelligence and quite easy on the ol’ eye-kebobs.
+They are both “unnatural” in a sense, though, with Allsion only being unnatural to the degree that she is ridiculously smart and accomplished for someone that is only 19 years old. Aaaannd she’s gorgeous on top of all of that.
+A lot of people would be jealous of that (and I see there are indeed some haters up in this beyotch here), but I found Allison (and the podcast as a whole) to be simply delightful. I shan’t chase after her with a burning torch; I believe I shall, however, check out the next episode of “Warehouse 13.”
+**I know at least a couple of literary purists will cringe here, as they will point out that it was actually “Frankenstein’s monster,” since the monster itself had no given name; but please allow me this intentional faux pas for the sake of brevity/simplicity. I thank thee!
+Just listened to the podcast. I’m 26 and now feel fucking old. And a little awkward. Recorded in a hotel room? Sounds like 2 people trying hard to make some conversation before they get to the sexin.
+I thought Ms. Scagliotti was a bit harsh on NOLA and the South in general, but I did get a laugh out of the “making groceries” reference. South Louisiana is the only part of the country I know of that uses that phrase. Don’t know how it started and will have to ask some of my fellow Louisianaians who live south of Alexandria to clarify that for me. In any case, still love the podcast and can’t wait for the Fred Willard epicness that is sure to come.
+First of all, before my nerd rage sets in, I would like to say I am huge fan of you, Mr Hardwick, but this episode was anger inducing. I know that at 19 it may be hard to appreicate things like culture and regional dialects, but New Orleans is a wonderful city with things that are native to only that area. Sayings like “making groceries” or “Would you like that sandwich dressed ?” are part of what makes that region special and diffrent. My wife is from NOLA and she somehow escaped living there for 25 years without coming out sounding “uneducated”. And to say the food is horrible is probably the most uneducated thing you can say. Allison Scagliotti I am sure is incredibally smart and talented but at the end of the day she did sound like she was only 19.
+I had to skip to the end of this one. Please take this as constructive, Allison. I understand not wanting to sound “southern uneducated” but is constantly annoyed sounding any better? I wanted to like this podcast and her in it, but I had to stop listening.
+Also, Chris; I got your back on the Courtney Love thing.
+um.. wow…supa weird vibe on this one. I’m in australia so I have no idea who this young lass is, but that doesn’t normally stop me enjoying your shows.
+I gotta say there was a serious “Uncle Creepy” undertone in this one. tip* Please don’t interview 19yr old girls alone in your hotel room again … really.
+ahaha…sushi. You have much more self control then I, dear Hardwick.
+I don’t know what some other people are talking about (apparently the concept of opinions escapes me), but I found this episode rather enjoyable indeed. Comic-Con, crack, Courtney Love, slight hints to perverted jokes. Really can’t go wrong when these topics are involved in anyway.
+I’ll concede that in the context of the Unplugged albums, it’s amazing, but in the context of Nirvana albums, it is not the top of the pack. And frankly, If I really wanted to seem cool or ‘school’ you, I would’ve said Bleach, and not Nevermind, clearly the most commercial, produced album. We’ll have to agree to disagree.
+Thank being said, I still think you are great, despite your wicked harsh grading of me.
+Maddy, totally cool if you’re not into this ep, but the reason I was shitty to Courtney Love is because she was shitty to me PERSONALLY on a couple of occasions. If you have had personal experiences with her to the contrary then I accept your criticism there. Otherwise, not really sure what to tell ya…
+Thanks for listening, though!
+To your first point, you’re wrong. Just plain wrong. I was present at MTV for the Unplugged revolution and Nirvana’s helped define that movement. That’s not to say that Nevermind isn’t a great album, because it is. But so is Bleach.
+I get that you wanted to seem smart and “school” me but you get a C-.
+That said, I appreciate your enthusiasm and musical taste.
+Either your nerdy love of hot girls has beaten you, or your lack of actual nerdishness has beaten you, because: Nirvana: unplugged is a great album? for shame. If a 19 year old expresses interest in Nirvana, you must point them to either Nevermind or Incesticide. I can’t believe I even have to say this.
+Solid CH fan, but I was only able to enjoy this episode at a meta level.
+With each uncomfortable flirtation and ‘you’re so smart’ prostration, CH added depth to his nerd-deer-in-pretty-girl-headlights characterization. Classic.
+Keep it up CH – on to #28!
+Wow, the nerves of steel it took for some commentators to half ass bash a 19 yr. old girl. I liked it and I will check out her show just because she is in it. I have to admit I loved how Hardwick quickly went from awkwardly flirting to self loathing after he found out her real age. Wah Wah. Keep up the amazing show Chris.
+So what’s with alienating your Southern audience? Or cain’t yoo unnerstan’ mah sloppy speech? Oh, who am I kidding CH? I can’t stay mad. Keep up the good work…
+the awkward almost flirting episode haha
+really had a hard time getting through this one.
+This is the surprise most awesome podcast of the month for sure! Scagg is phenomenally well spoken and is well on the way to becoming a nerd force to reckon with! Now if only Hardwick can get his Education List ready to go…!
+I was unfamiliar with both Allison and Warehouse 13 before listening to this episode. I now plan on correcting both of those errors ASAP, because the show sounds fun and she’s just awesome.
+Even if I resent how much more together she is at 19 than I am at 34.
+Wow Maddy that was bitchy.
+Yeah, I had trouble getting through this one, too — enough that now I’m commenting here for the first time EVER hiiiii. (Yeah, I’m commenting to complain, what can I say, angry nerd on the internet, you know the drill.)
+Ditto to what Bailey said about the name-dropping. I was a bratty idiot at 19, too, though, so I’ll give her a pass for that stuff — she’ll probably grow into a lovely young nerdlady. Even so, that doesn’t mean I had fun listening to her talk for an hour.
+Maybe if I watched the show she was on, I would’ve loved this one, though? But you’ve had guests I’ve never heard of before and I’ve enjoyed it, so I don’t think that was it. Maybe 19 is just a little young to be coherent and amusing on a podcast. I mean, once again, I wouldn’t want to socialize with myself at 19. So.
+Oh, and I don’t like Courtney Love either, but you guys were being pretty obnoxious calling her a whore every five seconds. Why did that keep coming up? Lame. Unfunny. Boring. And therefore out of character for this podcast.
+Is it just me or does Allison Scagliotti seem like a character that Lizzy Caplan might play? Am I off-base?
+Chris, and partially Allison,
+I was thrilled to hear you guys mention the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is, indeed, one of the most rad places I’ve ever been. I’ve been volunteering there for about 5 years now (that feels so long!), and I wanted to extend a welcome to you, Christopher, if you are ever in the area. There is so much to that place, and I’ve had the chance to show friends around a couple times, they always walk away, mind completely blown. If you’ve got time to kill, let me know, and I’ll see what I can hook up. Perhaps even some kind of behind the scenes awesomeness. BTW, I’m a dude, so no odd rape-y thing to worry about, because obviously, this group of people has some issues with that.
+And, like everyone else here, love the show, appreciate your humor being poured into my earholes every so often. Keep it up!
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+Japan Air Self Defense Force – Nihon Koku Jieitai
+Report and photos by Peter van den Berg
+July 24, 2017
+After the lost war in the 1940s, Japan was only allowed to establish a Self-Defense Force (SDF) in 1947 to defend its mainland. On July 1, 1954, the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) was founded, also called the Nihon Koku Jieitai. The JASDF currently consist of about 47,000 officials and around 3,300 administrative forces. Its fleet consists of 780 aircraft of which 380 are fighter aircraft.
+Ops
+The Japan Air Self Defense Force is the aviation division of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Its main task is to defend the Japanese air space, where it carries out combat air patrols around the country. The JASDF is also tasked with maintaining an extensive network of air- and ground early-warning radar systems. Away from mainland, the JASDF has also been carrying out air transport operations during several United Nations peacekeeping missions.
+Cooperation
+The JASDF works in close collaboration with the United States Air Force, Marine Core and Navy. Its operational and tactical doctrine, albeit adapted to suit the Japanese air defense scenario, is also derived from this cooperation.
+Organization
+Major command units of the JASDF are the:
+- Air Defense Command
+- Air Support Command
+- Air Training Command
+- Air Material Command
+- Air Development & Test Command
+All five commands play a vital role in the daily operations of the JASDF.
+The Air Defense Command has four regional headquarters stationed in the northern, central, western & southwestern regions of the country. These are located at Misawa, Iruma, Kasuga and Okinawa Island respectively. The regional headquarters are tasked with controlling the surface-to-air missile units located in their respective areas. The Air Support Command is responsible for the direct support of operational forces in aspects such as rescue, transportation, weather monitoring and maintenance. The Air Training Command is tasked with flight- and technical training curriculum operations, while the Air Development and Test Command oversees equipment research and development in areas such as aerospace medicine.
+Equipment
+Japan flew with the F-86F Sabre in the fifties. These were replaced in the sixties by F-104J Starfighters. When F-4 Phantoms were added to the fleet, these Starfighters were eventually replaced in the seventies. Later the F1 and the F2 followed in the nineties.
+Nowadays, the Japan Air Self Defense Forces operate a variety of aircraft. Its fleet consists of nearly two hundred F-15s and almost one hundred F-2s, the latter of which is an indigenous longer-range variant of the F-16C. Next to this its fleet also consists of McDonnel Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs.
+To improve air-to-air combat capability, Japan has been upgrading its fleet of F-2s. The F-2 is widely ridiculed within the JASDF however and is set to retire in the 2020s. The F-15 fleet has also been undergoing upgrades but it is also set to retire in the 2020s. Additional upgrades to the F-15 might extend its life with the JASDF for some years.
+To proof in-house production of stealth capable aircraft, Japan produced the Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin. The program could produce up to 100 aircraft but is considered to be more of a proof-of-concept.
+F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter
+Japan has taken delivery of its 1st of 42 F-35s in December of 2016. The decision to acquire these F35s was an interim solution, bridging the gap between its active fleet and aforementioned retirement plans. Although the aircraft is license-produced by Mitsubishi in Japan, it does not feature some of the aircraft’s most sensitive and advanced technologies available. The already delivered F35s are part of the 944 Fighter Wing and are stationed at Luke AFB, Arizona.
+F-4 Phantom
+Six squadrons (named Hikotai) used to fly the F-4, namely Hikotai 301 through 306. The aircraft received updates throughout the nineties and at this moment all Phantom units are stationed at Hyakuri air base. 301 & 302 Hikotai fly the F-4EJ and the 501 Hikotai flies the recce variant, the RF-4E-Kai and the RF-4EJ-Kai. The JASDF took delivery of fourteen RF-4Es in 1975 and 1976. Some of which were lost in accidents over the years. Surplus RF-4Es have been converted for the reconnaissance role, adding to the fleet of RF-4Es. These aircraft are not equipped with the typical reconnaissance nose that distinguishes the recce aircraft but can carry three different pods for a variety of tasks such as:
+- Long Range Oblique Photography (LOROP) POD.
+- Airborne Electronic Reconnaissance System (ASTAC) POD.
+- Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) POD.
+Lately, the air force has started to phase out its RF-4s.
+F-15 Eagle
+Throughout the eighties, 223 F-15Js were acquired by the air force. This makes Japan the biggest buyer and user of the F-15 outside of the United States of America. Only fourteen of these aircraft were produced by McDonnell-Douglas. The remaining aircraft on order were built, under license, by Mitsubishi.
+The F-15J is a modified version of the F-15, lacking the ECM radar warning system and nuclear equipment. Next to that the AN/ALQ-135 Internal Countermeasures System is replaced by the indigenous J/ALQ-8. Also, the AN/ALR-56 Radar Warning Receiver is replaced by the J/APR-4.
+The following Hikotai fly this American aircraft:
+- Chitose Hikotai 201 & 203
+- Komatsu Hikotai 303 & 306, including Hiko Kyodogun (Aggressor Group)
+- Naha Hikotai 204 & 304
+- Nyutabaru Hikotai 305 & Hikotai 23 (training)
+The Gifu test base, where the Air Development and Test Command is stationed, flies with almost all types of aircraft within the fleet. This includes the F-15J. At present, JASDF plans to upgrade the F-15J in order to double the amount of aircraft capable of carrying air-to-air missiles. This would make a total of sixteen aircraft capable of carrying aforementioned missiles.
+F-2
+The fleet also consists of 90 F-2 multi-role fighters. The initial plan was to build 140 of the type. This was later brought down to 94. Its design is based on the General Dynamics F-16 and its first flight took place on October 7, 1995.
+Some of the differences between the F-2 and the F-16.
+- A 25% larger wing area.
+- Composite materials in order to reduce overall weight and radar signature.
+- A longer and wider nose in order to accommodate a J/APG-1/J/APG-2 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar.
+- Larger tailplane.
+- Larger air intake.
+- Three-piece cockpit canopy.
+- Capabilities for four ASM-1 or ASM-2 anti-ship missiles, four AAMs, and additional fuel tanks.
+The air force bases where the F-2s are stationed are:
+- Matsushima 21 Hikotai Training unit.
+- Misawa 3 Hikotai.
+- Tsuiki 6 & 8 Hikotai.
+The area where Matsushima is located was heavily hit by a tsunami in 2011. This lead to eighteen F-2s being severely damaged, five of which being a complete write-off. The other thirteen were repaired and returned to service. For the time being, training unit 21 Hikotai was relocated to Misawa between 2011 & 2016.
+Transportation, search and rescue & airborne early warning platform
+Between 1971 and 1981, thirty-one locally developed Kawasaki C-1s were delivered to the JASDF. The aircraft once served three squadrons. Currently, it is only in use with the 402 Hikotai at Iruma and the 403 Hikotai at Miho. 401 Hikotai, located at Komaki, used to fly the C-1 but converted to the C-130H of which sixteen are currently in use. This aircraft was purchased in order to make long-range flights to the islands possible. In addition to the C-1 and C-130, Japan has smaller aircraft such as the U-125, Gulfstreams for VIP transportation and the YS-11 for ECM- and calibration tasks. The CH-47J ‘Chinook’ also plays an important role in carrying out transportation tasks. These medium-lift helicopters replaced the KV-107s, which were phased out in the nineties.
+Due to Japan being a large island, many missions are flown over the sea. For this reason, each base has its own search-and-rescue unit (Air Rescue Wing). The so-called Koku Kyunantai’s fleet consists of U-125s and helicopters such as the UH-60J.
+Between 1983 and 1998, the E-2C Hawkeye was the sole airborne early warning aircraft platform for the JASDFs Airborne Early Warning Wing. This changed when four Boeing E-767s were added to the fleet. These AWACS aircraft are based at Hamamatsu and entered service between 1998 and 1999. The units that fly the E-2C Hawkeye are the 601 Hikotai at Misawa and the 603 Hikotai at Naha.
+T-4
+The Kawasaki T-4 is a subsonic jet trainer aircraft used by the JASDF. Normally, a Hikotai has three T-4s available for liaison duties. Exceptions are the 301 and 302 Hikotai, equipped with up to eight T-4s. The aircraft is also used by the JASDFs Blue Impulse aerobatic team.
+Training
+All combat-ready training is carried out in Japan itself. Almost 50 T-7s are used to carry out the initial jet-training. These training missions are carried out at air base Hofu-Kita with the 12 Hiko Kyoikudan and at Shizuhama, with the 11 Hiko Kuyoikudan.
+After the training on the T-7 has finished, future pilots start on the T-4 with the Air Training Command (Koku Kyoiku Shudan) at the air base of Hamamatsu, with the 1 Kokudan, or at Ashiya, at the 13 Kyoikudan. For future F-15 pilots, the 23 Hikotai at Nyutabaru plays an important role. This air base is equipped with F-15DJs for training purpose.
+The Hiko Kyodogun (Aggressor Group) is a special squadron, located at the air base of Komatsu. This unit is part of the Tactical Air Training Command and is responsible for further training on the F-15J. The unit is characterized by the F-15s all carrying its own unique aggressor paint scheme. The unit was transferred to Komatsu in 2016 but had been stationed on the southern base Nyatabaru for years.
+Future of the JASDF
+The F-4 will be phased out in the upcoming years. Thanks to recent updates, the F-15 will continue to fly for a couple more years. Japan’s future plans are to acquire 100 fifth-generation fighter aircraft before 2030. The first step has already been made, having ordered 42 F-35s of which the first are already flying. Next to that, Japan is currently focusing on further developing the F-3 within the future-fighter-program. This program is aimed at producing a fighter aircraft carrying sixth-generation technology.
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+34 Comments on “An Epic Western Classic: Lonesome Dove”
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+I couldn’t tell you how many times I have watched these movies! I love western movies and books! If you have seen them you are definitely missing out ! I wish I lived back in those days. I believe in another life I did! Thanks for the giveaway!
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 6:19 am.
+I think western books are my favorite. Thanks for the giveaway.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 7:14 am.
+I love to watch Lonesome Dove. I too have seen it a dozen or more times and also have the dvd. Everytime its on TV that’s what were watching. Thanks for the chance to win an Amazon card.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 8:00 am.
+Loved the book and the movie, Cheryl. Robert Duval’s Gus is such a classic character.
+I’ve seen both the other movies you mentioned. Sorry, they don’t even come close to the original.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 8:27 am.
+The book was wonderful and I was enthralled with the movie. An experience that was memorable.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 8:55 am.
+I love Lonesome Dove. I have watched it many times. I don’t think any of the other movies are as good as Lonesome Dove.
+Thank you for the giveaway.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:01 am.
+This is an epic series and I could watch it again and again…
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:05 am.
+I LOVED this movie!! Thanks for the great post about it!
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:06 am.
+I think I need to add these movies to my collection. Thanks for the post and for the giveaway.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:10 am.
+Western Books and Movies always are my favorite. They are meaningful and beautiful. Lonesome Dove is in a class of its own.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:11 am.
+Lonesome Dove is the best. thanks for this great post today.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:20 am.
+I LOVED this movie! I watch it every time it comes on and I always see something I missed a previous time. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones were and still are superb. Especially in these rolls. I can’t imagine anyone else playing their parts. I think Larry McMurtry really outdid himself when he wrote this book. It’s truly special.
+Good luck to everyone on winning the gift card.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:24 am.
+Lonesome Dove is one of the best westerns ever made!
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:27 am.
+AN epic for sure. Lonesome Dove has it all. great actors, wonderful story and is my ultimate favorite. Western movies such as Tombstone is the only other one I would consider watching.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:35 am.
+I’ll have to watch it sometime.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:40 am.
+I’m ashamed to say I’ve only seen bits and pieces of Lonesome Dove. And I really enjoy westerns. Hmmm. Where has my head been? :(
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:42 am.
+Love these movies! Also Loved the book Lonesome Dove!
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:51 am.
+Lonesome Dove is my all time favorite movie!
+LOVE LOVE LOVE it!
+I’ve only watched it a couple times b/c of the length–but I also read the book.
+The second movie was not nearly as good…nothing could measure up to the first.
+I really loved Gus and Call equally–I felt bad for Call.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 10:12 am.
+Robert Duvall is something else. Not only is he amazing as Gus, he rocks at whatever role he takes. Good one, Cher. xoxox
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 10:19 am.
+I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched that movie! I also loved the book Centennial by Mitchner.. and I liked the movied also. And I was a huge fan of Robert Duvall!
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 10:37 am.
+I’ve not read the book and saw the mini-series only when first aired. Thanks for the reminder to remedy that and for the giveaway.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 10:59 am.
+I remember having to read the book and watch the mini series for a college class… that was my first taste of Larry McMurtry’s work… loved it so much I got my hands on a few more of his books… have seen the mini series a few times through the years… still enjoy it.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 11:25 am.
+I have never seen the movie, but after reading this post im on my way to Netflix! I love western movies and even more western books!most times I feel like i was born in the wrong era hahahha.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 11:38 am.
+I love Robert Duvall, so Lonesome Dove is a favorite of mine. They’re one of the many book series’ I keep meaning to start, and regret that I haven’t yet.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 12:15 pm.
+I am heartened at how many have seen Lonesome Dove more than once. My cowboy husband says that this movie is one of the best realistic westerns made. They did make an effort for this to be, too. Rick Schroeder actually learned to ride a horse (and well), for this. And it showed. There is nothing more horrible than to see a western actor that can’t ride a horse. The two main characters were practically born horseback, so they were great.
+I saw a documentary on the History channel last weekend about Mr. Goodnight and Mr Loving and their story is very similar to this movie story. Even down to taking one of the men 600 miles back to Texas after he died. That really struck me as quite similar to Lonesome Dove. You wouldn’t think that part would make a good story. Great movie in my house.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 12:41 pm.
+Loved the movie and have seen it several times but it has been several years since I have seen it. Would love to see it again. I am big into westerns. When it comes to a western book of movie I am there. We have Open Range recorded on our DVR right now but haven’t had the time to set down and watch it yet.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 1:02 pm.
+What a wonderful cast of characters! This was one of the few movies that I thought did justice to the book which I had read first and normally I have a lot of complaints but although of course there was more to the story, I think they did a fantastic job! I’ve seen it many times but not for a while and I think it’s time to see it again now!
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 1:13 pm.
+Lonesome Dove—definitely one of the best westerns ever. We have it on DVD and have watched it several times.
+Streets of Laredo—well done but not as good as LD; James Garner, Sissy Spacek, and Sam Shepard are such good actors you see the characters and almost forget they were played by other fine actors in the original. This story is actually a sequel to LD.
+Return to Lonesome Dove— We recently saw this for the first time on DVD; definitely not as good as LD or SL; I was surprised to see a young Reese Witherspoon as one of the main characters. The scenery is beautiful.
+Deadman’s Walk—have only seen this one when it was on TV and didn’t really like it.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 1:14 pm.
+Cheryl,
+I couldn’t even guess at how many times I’ve seen Lonesome Dove. I never cared for Return to Lonesome Dove, but I think that’s because Tommy Lee Jones didn’t return as Captain Call, and Gus was gone.
+–Kirsten
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 4:34 pm.
+I agreed with what everyone said, and I too had a hard time with the Return movie and seeing John Voight (who I like otherwise) as Call.
+How awesome to have this shared love of a fabulous movie experience. It IS an experience!
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 6:49 pm.
+Oh my, I’ve seen this movie so many times, I couldn’t even tell you an accurate number.
+I loved the book. Which is a testament to the characters McMurtry created because NOTHING good happens to those characters and I couldn’t put it down!
+I’d be hard-pressed to choose a favorite in the series. Dead Man’s Walk was terrific (as was the movie) and Streets of Laredo is so tragic and fascinating!
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 7:00 pm.
+It’s a sad thing for me as a fa of western movie, especially cowboy and ranch. I’d like to watch it after reading the description. How can i miss this movie?
+Thanks for the information.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 7:47 pm.
+It’s a sad thing for me as a fan of western movie, especially cowboy and ranch. I’d like to watch it after reading the description. How can i miss this movie?
+Thanks for the information.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 7:47 pm.
+I watched Lonesome Dove when it first showed on TV and have seen parts of it since. I have never had the time to get it and have a “marathon” Lonesome Dove night. If I remember correctly, it was well worth watching. I don’t think I cared for the Return as much.
+Now I am going to look for it and make time to see it again.
+Posted on March 26, 2013 at 9:59 pm.
+Reviving Ophelia with Sherie Rene Scott and Sheila Vand
+Written by Victoria Myers
+Photography by Jacqueline Harriet
+May 29th, 2017
+If I told you there was a woman in New York City who had real magical powers, would you believe me? So, here’s the story: We’re standing outside the locked gates of Elizabeth Street Garden with Sherie Rene Scott and Sheila Vand. They’re currently starring in Waterwell’s production of Hamlet at the Sheen Center as Gertrude and Ophelia, respectively. The Waterwell production, directed by Tom Ridgely, sets Hamlet around World War I Persia (now Iran), and has been notable not only for its timely political resonance, but the way in which its reinterpretation of the classic has created a new vibrancy within the text as it explores the interplay of ideological organizations of cultures, families, and individuals—and that is especially true for the women. For the women in Hamlet live in a world of men where they are often used as symbols, ciphers along the journey of revelation for the male characters. Yet in this production, the women absorb all of that and create something new: How do you deal with other people’s expectations and assumptions about you and still remain true to yourself? How do you have integrity and power in a world that wants you to take up as little space as possible? How do you work within the social and physical world that has been constructed for you, without your consent, and still manage to escape it and be a full person?
+So we took Sheila, who starred in A Girl Walks Home Alone and has created and appeared in her own performance art, and Sherie, who will have a Pulitzer Prize sooner or later, to the garden—only the gate was locked. And as we stood outside trying to think of what to do, if we should go someplace else, Sherie looks off into the garden and goes, “I think I see a man. There’s a guy over there.” No one else sees what she sees—we’ve been standing there for 15 minutes, and there is no one in that garden. “No, there’s a guy over there.” Still no one sees anything. But then, suddenly, there is a person in the garden where there was no one before, and the gates are being opened, and Sheila turns to Sherie and jokes, “You manifested him,” only I didn’t think it was that much of a joke. Anyway, you can believe me or not about there being women right here in New York City with magical powers, but we got inside in the garden and that’s where this conversation took place.
+When you actually started to look at the female characters in Hamlet for Ophelia and Gertrude, how did you first start to conceive of what you wanted the characters to be?
+Sheila: I think I had some stronger impulses because I was playing a Middle Eastern female in this world. So I know a big part of my approach was to make sure that she was very strong-willed and smart and more powerful than I actually feel like she is on the page. Because I was looking at the context of how Middle Eastern women are represented in general, and finding my place in that. We both were, I think. There’s an extra layer when you’re playing a brown girl; she can’t be submissive.
+Sherie: And [Sheila] speaks Farsi and knows this culture very well. We talked about this idea that when women are these archetypal figures—which they usually are because there’s not that many roles in a play—we represent so much, and we always hear that we have to represent for all women. It’s not just us we’re representing. So I think she had the extra burden of that; representing the Iranian women that she knows with this Elizabethan writing, to make it in that world. I think it’s just incredibly amazing, and it makes sense to me for the first time—her portrayal of it is honestly the best. And I think we both, without meeting each other, had the same feeling. I’d always seen Gertrude as being played where it ended up on the bed with her going, “Oh, Hamlet. No, what will thou do?” But it’s like, she’s a fucking queen. So I really wanted to try to go at it from that perspective while also wanting to honor the outside, the colonization of the thing—that I’m the foreigner in this world. I’m the outsider coming in, and my job is to help. Hamlet is from two worlds—he’s from this Danish war bride world and his dad was this Persian warrior. I wanted to articulate that, another version of what Hamlet’s going through, and how can I do that and still not have her weeping on a bed being like, “Woe is me.”
+Sheila: Speaking of woe is me, that’s one of Ophelia’s most iconic lines, and on the surface, it feels like victimization. The way I’ve always experienced it before was coming from a weaker standpoint. In general, she’s often reacting to what’s going on rather than a more active agent. The way Tom [Ridgely] was directing us was to activate things and always make things happen for a purpose, even if on the page it doesn’t necessarily seem like she’s as active as she is. In the process of it, I just gained more and more respect for her, because I feel like, in a lot of ways, she’s all the things Hamlet can’t be. He asks, “To be or not to be,” but she is to be or not to be. She answers that question with her actions, without having to ponder it from a completely intuitive visceral place, which I also think is maybe the difference between men and women in this world. I kind of stumbled across this idea in the process, that while Hamlet’s busy putting on his antic disposition, it’s Ophelia who’s actually losing her mind throughout the course of the play, not just when her father dies. So how does that look in an overarching way? How can “Woe is me”—not just that line but that entire concept—come from a place of strength? Come from a place of active deliberate feeling and decision and not from a place of victimization?
+Sherie: But also the idea too, that sadly—and we know what this is like in this time too—women don’t have a lot of choice in this play. Ophelia doesn’t have a choice of who sits next to her. If Hamlet wants to sit next to her, Hamlet sits next to her. If her dad wants her to go be a part of this thing, she has to go do what her dad says. There’s a lot of trying to find strength when you’re not given any, I think. I’m hoping to articulate for Gertrude that she’s trying to save her son from being killed as the next heir, and she doesn’t have a lot of choices. They can either run away when her husband dies—because without a man around in this play, and certainly in 1918 Iran, and even nowadays—women are more vulnerable, and she had to attach herself to power right away to save her son.
+Sheila: We talked about family. Family came up a lot in our process. You’re a mother.
+Sherie: Yeah. My mom was raised without any choices and stuff like that. Also, the difference of warmth with this cast because of their culture—there’s kissing, there’s hugging, there’s touching, there’s affection on stage. I’ve never seen that on stage in any production of Shakespeare. Our first act is kind of hopeful, and Tom says it could be the end. It ends with a celebration. It could be the ending of a play when everybody gets together and it looks like it’s going to go great. Those real bonds of love and affection are genuinely there between people. Sheila was a big part of saying, “We’re a family. We touch, and in our culture we do this.” Why, when we are doing Shakespeare, are we suddenly not doing it? I think that added a huge focus of this idea of colonization of a country and of somebody coming in and taking over. There’s a similar thing with a stepparent coming into a family and you’re trying to retain some of what your family was, while this person who’s very powerful is taking over your family. That’s what Hamlet’s going through. These are families without moms or without [fathers]. Making the humanity of it come out and the family come out was interesting to us, and felt like a way to connect into the piece.
+Going back to what you two were saying before about making the women more fully dimensional and how that ties into the idea of how women relate to family and all of that, could you talk more about how you worked on the process of making sure that the women actually weren’t just ciphers or there to serve the male characters?
+Sheila: Well, a lot of that is done within the line, or under and between them, because the fact of the matter is, with the play within the play, it’s not really up to Ophelia whether Hamlet’s going to sit next to her and if she wants that or not. In the nunnery scene, she barely speaks until he leaves. It’s only when she’s alone that she’s able to kind of explode with her own thoughts on what’s happening. So I tried my best to have an opinion on those silences. To have an opinion on that repression and restriction even if there wasn’t necessarily a line there, but coming at it from a different angle.
+I’m not a Shakespeare scholar and I’m not going to pretend like this is my area of expertise, and I’m sure that there are a lot of die hard people who are like, “You have to say the text exactly as it was intended to be said.” I don’t really have an interest in just replicating the same thing over and over again. I’m fine with my approach, which is, where do my heart and soul fit into this? Right now, in 2017, there does seem to be this resurgence of this feminist energy, and Sherie, as a mentor in my life now, also brings a lot feminist energy into my consciousness. So then, thinking about all the times in my life where I was silenced or where I didn’t have a choice or where I had to be who I thought I was supposed to be rather than who I wanted to be. Those are not just Middle Eastern girl problems, those are not just problems that happened when Shakespeare wrote these plays, or in 1917; these are problems today. So I tried to fill it with that energy—that you can follow the rules with defiance, with a lot of integrity, with your head held high. You can say, “I shall obey you, my lord.” And still just have a sense of independence inside of that.
+Sherie: Right, and there’s an awareness of that. The character knows this too. Her “woe is me” is the perfect example of what’s so beautiful and connects what Sheila’s doing. That’s her private moment, but it’s not, “Oh, woe is me, feeling sorry for myself,” it’s like, “Oh my God, I have to go through this, this is so unfair, this is so painful and so wrong and so unfair. Oh, woe is me, this is clearly so wrong.” It’s strength of like, “Oh, poor women everywhere that we have to go through this.” It comes from a really deep place of frustration and intelligence and awareness. These are smart women, they’re aware of what they’re in. I think that setting it in Iran in 1918 helps that come more alive in the text. These women are aware of what the traps are and how they can work in this context, and try to make the best of it and still find love and still keep their hearts open until the very, very end.
+It’s no coincidence that Ophelia and water [are connected]—we are the feeling, we are the emotion, we are the womb. Our strength is in not imitating men. You kind of want to take on the power of your oppressors because that’s what you see as power. I think women have done that. We think that’s strength, where instead our vulnerabilities are our strengths: our female-ness, our earth mother-ness, our goddess-ness, these are the ways to our strengths.
+Sheila: I’m still rehearsing it even though we’re open. I’m still trying it in new ways and I’m still trying to get deeper into it. I don’t know when you’re done with the work. I know there was one performance where I tried it particularly defiant and angry. It was an Ophelia that was almost mean because she was so frustrated with the fact she was constantly being told what to do and no one was really believing her opinion on the matter. A few audience members brought up that they weren’t sure how the breakdown was going to work, if they were even going to feel bad for her, because she was such a defiant Ophelia. They ended up saying that it worked even more for them because it felt like they saw someone who had so much integrity and nobility completely crumble.
+I just thought that was such an interesting and relevant initial reaction, that you see a defiant woman and you think “shrew.” We still think that. When Hillary Clinton was called a nasty woman and all of a sudden that becomes the iconic slogan, it’s because it is resounding so vastly in our society. And it’s fucking 2017. I was listening to these audience members and I was glad their point ended up landing somewhere positive and complimentary, but at the same time my face was a bit twisted up. I was like, “What’s the problem with her being mad about this?”
+Sherie: I distinctly remember being in a big Broadway show, and the whole show is the woman following her boyfriend around and seeing him with other people. The director came backstage and was like, “Yeah, people don’t like angry women, and men especially don’t like angry women, so you can’t play her angry.” I’m like, “The entire show is about us watching her go from finding this lover who’s been lying to her, and about rage and anger and unfairness. But I can’t play angry?” “No, you can’t play angry.” So I learned a lesson there: there are little compartments that we can fit in that people are comfortable with. Certainly, Hillary Clinton is a perfect example of that; nobody could really explain why they didn’t like her, and what we had against her that was just so abhorrent in every way. Unfortunately, women need to take responsibility for that too, and how we don’t support our strong vocal [women]. I don’t know anybody on this planet that shouldn’t be angry right now. If you’re not angry, then you’re not living actually in this world at this time. Because there’s a lot to be angry about. And how women have to learn how to express that in a way that is palpable to men—and now women—is really disheartening.
+Sheila: The fact that anger from women is considered abrasive, and then it’s considered strength amongst men, is just something that I no longer believe.
+How have other people’s perceptions affected you as artists? Especially being in an industry where you have a lot of people telling you who you are and, “This is what I see when I look at you,” and people having preconceived ideas of how things should be, who you should be. How does that affect you as creative people?
+Sheila: Something I’ve struggled with a lot—and now, thank god, feel like I’m kind of coming out the other side of—is it has taken a lot of work to undo and shed myself of the garbage that people have piled on top of me throughout my career. Thankfully, I do think that with the right influences around me and with a lot of work, I’m now able to be just exactly who I am rather than who I think I’m supposed to be. But it is really difficult as a woman, in general, and then pile on the actress thing on top of that. But working with someone like Sherie is 100% part of this and has been a big encouraging push for me in this direction that I’ve just started going into in the last year or two. Realizing how much sexism and misogyny is woven into the fabric of things. Sometimes it’s very subtle and sometimes it’s not so obvious when you’re being put into a box that way. Having strong women around you is one of the best ways to see the other side, to see what’s outside of the box, and to think, “I don’t have to act like this. I don’t have to be this way.” It is very stifling creatively because everything that creativity is about is being an open vessel, being able to channel the divinity of the creative energy. You can’t do that when society and life partners and work situations are just pushing your boundaries closer and closer in.
+Sherie: Making your space smaller and smaller.
+Sheila: “I don’t want to impose on the world.” Like, no, fuck you.
+You’re allowed to take up space.
+Sherie: Right. And because there have been times, just like with that director, for instance, when I was really feeling really good about being a full person in that experience, and that was completely shut down. You learn really quickly to go, “Okay…” And not that we stop, but we try to find better ways of doing it because you get shut down.
+It’s been a real quandary, because you want to be your best self on the outside and the inside, but then you, of course, get treated differently because of how you look on the outside. I think it’s difficult for women to balance that and try to keep managing that. It’s like, “I’ve got to be fucking sexy at 50? Are you kidding me?” When did that start and how fucking long does that go on? But I do feel sexier than I’ve ever felt in my entire life. But it’s all of these weird things with where the power is right now with women. There seemed like there was a time when it was going to be intelligence, or artistry, or…
+Sheila: Then social media came around.
+Sherie: Thank god I never read anything. The last thing I’ll say is that I’ve been through a lot personally, and career-wise, with men—and with women. The most heartbreaking thing is when women aren’t there for you. When we went to see A Doll’s House, Part 2, some of those speeches that Laurie Metcalf gave felt like it was channeled. It was like, how could a dude write or know what it’s like for somebody like me, or I look at Huma Abedin or Hillary, a very, very smart woman who has married this person who’s really, really damaged and unwell. There are a lot of smart women out there where part of us is held back with this kind of romantic ideal or this idea of a life partner, and we’ll do anything to keep it. So I loved in the show when she said that she literally had to go away for two years so she could start getting her own thoughts back, because they were so inundated with men’s thoughts and what they think and what they would think and what they would want me to do, and, “I should do this,” and, “he wants me to do this.” We don’t even realize how much it happens, and I kind of have taken those two years and I’m now, at 50, just coming back into my own thoughts, and like, “Wait, who was this person who came to this city to do this? What excites me? What thrills me? Where does this co-creation with the creator come from?” And doing this play and being down here, I call it getting back to the garden. I say I’m getting back to the garden. We’ve got to get back to the garden. It takes time to think your own thoughts as a woman. I hope that happens for us now, I hope that happens for us.
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+Hydridable material for the negative electrode of a nickel-hydride storage cell, and a method of preparing the materialDownload PDF
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+(Ti.sub.[1-(x+y)] Zr.sub.x M.sub.y)Ni.sub.z
+(Ti.sub.0.7 Zr.sub.0.2 V.sub.0.1)Ni
+(Ti.sub.0.5 Zr.sub.0.4 Si.sub.0.1)Ni
+Description
+This invention relates to a hydridable material for the negative electrode of a nickel-hydride storage cell, and to a method of preparing the material.
+In certain applications, nickel-cadmium storage cells are being replaced by nickel-hydride storage cells. Sealed nickel-hydride storage cells are alkaline storage cells having an aqueous electrolyte. The reagent, which is constituted by hydrogen, is stored in the mass of the hydridable alloy which is capable of absorbing large quantities thereof. Depending on whether the storage cell is being charged or discharged, such an alloy must be capable of taking up hydrogen and of restoring it at sufficient speed under normal operating conditions. Its electrochemical capacity must also be higher than that of cadmium, it must withstand corrosion in potassium hydroxide, and it must not be toxic.
+Currently, the main alloys used are hydridable alloys of the AB5 type, derived from LaNi5, because of their good chemical stability. Such materials are already produced industrially, and in practice they have a capacity per unit mass of about 300 mAh/g (and of about 350 mAh/g in theory), thereby making it possible to achieve energy per unit mass of 55 Wh/kg, and energy per unit volume of 175 Wh/l in a sealed spiral component. They have now reached a stage of maturity that makes it difficult to increase their electrochemical performance levels any further.
+Other classes of hydridable materials do exist, such as alloys of the AB2 type.
+U.S. Pat. No. 4,551,400 describes alloys of the AB2 type derived from the TiV system, which alloys are preferably multiphase and rich in vanadium, and satisfy the following formulae: ##EQU2##
+Patent application EP-A-0 293 660 describes alloys of the ABa type, where a lies in the range 1 to 2.5, which alloys include at least one phase of the "Laves phase" type whose crystal structure is C14-type hexagonal (MgZn2), or C15-type cubic (MgCu2), with a lattice parameter lying in the range 6.92 Å to 7.7 Å.
+Producing such materials industrially suffers from problems arising from their high oxidizability in air, their vulnerability to being corroded by electrolyte, and their passivation when they are used in electrodes.
+Much research has also been done into intermetallic compounds of the AB type, derived from the TiFe, TiCr, TiCo, and TiNi systems.
+Patent application JP-A-87 184 765 refers to alloys of the ABa type, where a lies in the range 0.85 to 1.15, which alloys are derived from TiFe, where the metal M replaces some of the iron, and have the following generic formula:
+Ti.sub.1-x Zn.sub.x Fe.sub.a-y-z Ni.sub.y M.sub.z
+where 0.01<x<0.4; 0.85≦a<1.15; a-y-z≧0.4; z≦0.5; and where M=Mg, Ca, V, Nb, Cr, Mo, Mn, Cu, Zn, B, Al, C, Si, Sn, and in particular Co.
+Patent application JP-A-86 176 065 relates to alloys also derived from TiFe in which some of the Ti is replaced in particular by Ta or Zr, and some of the Fe is replaced by Al or Mn, for example.
+Alloys derived from TiCr by replacing Ti with La or Zr, for example, and by replacing Cr in particular with Al or Mn, are referred to in patent application JP-A-86 176 067.
+Patent application JP-A-86 288 373 relates to alloys derived from the TiCo system by replacing Co with Al.
+Currently, none of those alloys are used because of their poor resistance to corrosion.
+Alloys derived from the TiNi system are described in patent application JP-A-86 288 372, which alloys are obtained by partially replacing Ni with Si, V, Mn, Zn, Nb, Mo, and in particular with Al.
+The TiNi system undergoes austenitic-to-martensitic transformation at about ambient temperature. Therefore, there is a danger that its hydrogen absorption might be modified randomly by the coexistence of a plurality of crystal phases. It is essential to stabilize the structure of the system in order to be able to use it in a nickel-hydride storage cell.
+In U.S. Pat. No. 3,824,131, the alloys derived from the TiNi system are constituted by a mixture of two phases: TiNi and Ti2 Ni. Although the electrochemical capacity of those materials is initially high, and although they withstand corrosion well in potassium hydroxide, the way the crystal structure changes during the charge/discharge cycles, in particular with the formation of a phase that is rich in titanium, makes hydrogen desorption progressively more difficult.
+In order to avoid performance levels deteriorating during cycling, it is necessary to find a family of alloys whose crystal structure remains very stable during a hydrogen absorption/desorption cycle.
+The ever-increasing needs of the market require an increase in the energy per unit volume of storage cells. For certain applications, e.g. in portable tools, an increase in energy per unit mass is also necessary.
+An object of the present invention is to increase both the capacity per unit volume and the capacity per unit mass of nickel-hydride storage cells, by providing a class of hydridable alloys for making negative electrodes, which alloys offer capacities and physical and chemical properties that are improved over prior materials.
+The present invention provides a hydridable material for the negative electrode of a nickel-hydride storage cell, the material being derived from the compound TiNi, and being characterized in that it is a single-phase material and has the following general formula:
+(Ti.sub.[1-(x+y)] Zr.sub.x M.sub.y)Ni.sub.z
+where: ##EQU3## where M is chosen from vanadium V, silicon Si, and a combination of vanadium and of silicon.
+Said hydridable material is a single-phase material, and has a body-centered cubic lattice, with a lattice parameter of about 3 Å. The alloy obtained has a cubic austenitic structure of the CsCl type. The purpose of the replacement vanadium and/or silicon is to stabilize the austenitic structure of the alloy, in order to prevent it from changing into a martensitic structure as it does with TiNi. The zirconium makes it possible to increase the solid-gas and electrochemical capacities of the alloy.
+Preferably, x lies in the range 0.15 to 0.25, y lies in the range 0.05 to 0.15, the atomic ratio (Ti.sub.[1-(x+y)] Zrx My) over Niz lies in the range 0.95 to 1.05, and M is vanadium V. In one embodiment, the material is of the following type:
+(Ti.sub.0.7 Zr.sub.0.2 V.sub.0.1)Ni
+Also preferably, x lies in the range 0.35 to 0.45, y lies in the range 0.05 to 0.15, the atomic ratio (Ti.sub.[1-(x+y)] Zrx My) over Niz lies in the range 0.95 to 1.05, and M is silicon Si. In another embodiment, the material is of the type:
+(Ti.sub.0.5 Zr.sub.0.4 Si.sub.0.1)Ni
+The observed variation in volume after the material of the invention has been hydrided is less than 15%.
+The present invention also provides a method of making a hydridable material, characterized in that it comprises melting together the constituent metals of the alloy, then in cooling the alloy to 1,150° C., then in keeping the alloy at that temperature for 5 minutes, and then quenching it.
+The present invention also provides a method of implementing the hydridable material in powder form, in which the material is reduced to powder form by being hydrided, by performing successive absorption/desorption cycles. The powder can then be used for making a negative electrode for a nickel-hydride storage cell.
+Finally, the present invention provides a negative electrode for a nickel-hydride storage cell, the electrode including a single-phase hydridable material having the following general formula:
+(Ti.sub.[1-(x+y)] Zr.sub.x M.sub.y)Ni.sub.z
+where: ##EQU4## where M is chosen from vanadium V, silicon Si, and a combination of vanadium and of silicon.
+Such an electrode comprises a conductive support (a nickel sponge or a perforated and nickel-plated steel strip) on which a mixture is deposited, the mixture comprising the hydride powder, a conductive powder, such as carbon, optionally containing platinum or palladium, and an organic binder, such as a polymer such as PTFE.
+Other characteristics and advantages of the present invention appear on reading the following description of an embodiment given by way of non-limiting example and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
+FIG. 1 shows the constant-polarization electrochemical discharge curve of the alloy (Ti0.70 Zr0.22 V0.08)Ni;
+FIG. 2 shows the X-ray diffraction pattern of the same alloy;
+FIG. 3 shows the curve of first hydrogenation of the same alloy under 30 bars and at 25° C.; and
+FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a negative electrode for a nickel-hydride storage cell, which electrode is made from the hydridable material of the invention.
+By way of example, in order to make the alloy (Ti0.70 Zr0.22 V0.08)Ni, the method included the following steps:
+a mixture was made of the constituent metals at high purity (3N to 5N) in a vacuum (10-6 mbars);
+the ingot was homogenized by being melted on five successive occasions in a secondary vacuum in an induction furnace, the ingot being placed in a water-cooled copper crucible; the sample being turned over before each new melt; and
+after being melted for the last time, the alloy was cooled to 1,150° C., was then kept at that temperature for 5 minutes, and was then quenched.
+The resulting alloy was thereafter reduced to a powder by being hydrogenated on successive occasions. Prior to the first absorption, the sample was degassed at 130° C. for 12 hours. During the first absorption, the initial hydrogen pressure was 70 bars at 25° C. The capacity absorbed was 1.9 hydrogen atoms/mole at a pressure of 48 bars at 25° C. Hydrogen desorption was performed by degassing the sample at 350° C. for 3 hours in a primary vacuum. In all, three absorption/desorption cycles were performed.
+The powder was then transferred to a glove box, and was ground therein in argon so that a grain-size of less than 36 μm was obtained. The powder was then compressed under a pressure of 10 metric tons/cm2. The resulting pellet was cylindrical in shape, 9 mm in diameter, 1.2 mm thick, and its porosity was 31%. The pellet was then sintered at 900° C. for 4 hours in the induction furnace and in a secondary vacuum.
+The pellet was used for performing a discharge at constant polarization. The potential was fixed at -800 mV relative to a mercury Hg/HgO mercuric oxide electrode and the electrolyte was 8.7N potassium hydroxide KOH. FIG. 1 shows the curve 1 obtained, where C represents capacity in mAh/g and I represents current in mA/g. The maximum discharged capacity was 350 mAh/g, i.e. 50% greater than TiNi.
+The same powder was also used to obtain the X-ray diffraction pattern of the alloy (Ti0.70 Zr0.22 V0.08)Ni. The pattern was obtained at 20° C. by using the Kα line of copper (λ=1.54178 Å), and a graphite monochromator. FIG. 2 compares the theoretical spectrum 21, obtained after fining down the lines by using the Rietveld method, with the experimental spectrum 22, by showing the difference between the two spectrums 23. i is line intensity, and 2Θ is the angle of diffraction. The spectrum was indexed in the CsCl-type body-centered cubic system (space group Pm3m) with a lattice parameter of 3.043 Å.
+A first solid-to-gas hydrogenation was performed on the alloys reduced to powder form, under the following conditions: after being degassed for 12 hours at 130° C., the sample was subjected to a pressure of 30 bars of hydrogen at 25° C. FIG. 3 shows the hydrogenation curve 31 that was obtained. t is time in minutes and Q is absorption capacity in hydrogen atoms/metal atom.
+In addition, after being degassed for 12 hours at 130° C., the sample was subjected to a pressure of 60 bars of hydrogen at 25° C. After three absorption-desorption cycles, the absorption reaction speed was relatively high, with 90% of the total capacity being obtained after 4 minutes at 25° C.
+The maximum capacity that could be obtained was 0.95 hydrogen atoms/metal atom at 10 bars and at 25° C., i.e. 35% greater than the compound TiNi. The structure of the hydride was still CsCl-type cubic, with a lattice parameter of 3.15 Å. The increase in volume was about 11%.
+The hydridable material was intended for use in making the negative electrode of a nickel-hydride storage cell. The electrode is shown in FIG. 4, and it includes a support 41 made of perforated and nickel-plated steel strip. The support may be embossed prior to use, thereby making it easier for it to be coated with a substance during electrode preparation. The support 41 was coated with a paste 42 containing an organic binder, namely PTFE, a conductive powder, namely carbon, and the hydridable alloy 43 in powder form. The resulting assembly was then dried and compressed so as to obtain final porosity of 20% to 40%. After drying, the composition per unit mass of the paste 42 was as follows: 93% hydridable alloy 43, 2% PTFE, and 5% carbon.
+The electrode may be used in all types of nickel-hydride storage cell, in particular in sealed rectangular-block shaped storage cells. Advantageously, the electrode may be used in applications in which it must be possible to recharge the storage cell in less than 1 hour.
+Naturally, the present invention is not limited to the embodiment described, and any other method resulting in the same material being obtained may be considered. In particular, the methods of formulating or of implementing the material containing vanadium are also applicable to the material containing silicon, or a combination of vanadium and silicon. Variants on the method of formulating or of implementing the material are also possible. In particular, the material may be reduced to powder form by using any other conventional grinding technique.
+Claims (7)
+(Ti.sub.[1-(x+y)] Zr.sub.x M.sub.y)Ni.sub.z
+(Ti.sub.[1-(x+y)] Zr.sub.x M.sub.y)Ni.sub.z
+(Ti.sub.[1-(x+y)] Zr.sub.x M.sub.y)Ni.sub.z
+The Texas Legislature recently closed their 2011 session, including the passage of a new law aimed at regulating Homeowners’ Associations (HOA) with respect to association fees, liens, and foreclosures. The new legislation was signed into law by Governor Rick Perry on June 17, 2011 and will take effect on January 1, 2012.
+SUMMARY OF THE NEW LAW
+• Homeowners who are deliquent in the payment of their association dues must be offered an alternative payment plan prior to foreclosure proceedings (see Part 1: Alternative Payment Schedules).
+• Payments received must follow a specific priority when being applied to amounts owed (see Part 2: Applying Payments)
+• Collection agency fees can only be demanded after proper notice and the opportunity within 30 days to cure any outstanding debt (see Part 3: Collections)
+• New guidelines for foreclosure limit proceedings to debts owed for more than 60 days, with proper notice from the HOA. There is also now a mechanism for each HOA to remove the right to conduct foreclosure actions from their association rules (see Part 4: Foreclosures).
+The new restrictions are primarily aimed at assisting homeowners who are delinquent in their association dues. The requirement to offer an alternative payment plan will allow delinquent HOA members the chance to cure their debt before more drastic measures are taken. The new law also provides some relief from the payment of third party collection agency fees. It also provides HOA members an opportunity to modify their guidelines with respect to foreclosures. The new policy also could be beneficial to lenders who would no longer require HOAs to commit in writing and would have an opportunity to cure delinquent association liens before going to foreclosure.
+PART 1: Alternative Payment Schedules
+The new law requires HOAs to provide an alternative payment plan for members who are delinquent in their association dues. The plan must offer the opportunity to clear the debt within a timetable no shorter than three months. Debts cleared under the alternative payment plan would incur no additional fees or penalties. Guidelines established by each HOA with respect to their alternative payment plans must be filed in the county records. The law only applies to HOAs with more than 14 lots.
+PART 2: Applying Payments
+HOAs are now required to apply payments from association members in a prescribed manner. Any payments received must be applied to the amounts owed by the member in the following order:
+- Delinquent assessments
+- Current assessments
+- Attorney’s fees
+- Fines
+- Any other amounts owed
+However, if a member enters into an alternative payment plan and then goes into default of that agreement, the association may apply the payment in any order they choose.
+Part 3: Collections
+HOAs will now have specific guidelines when utilizing collections agencies to collect amounts owed by members. Before assessing fees from a third party collection agency, the association must:
+• Give written notice by certified mail to the member who is delinquent;
+• Specify the amount delinquent and the total payment required to bring the account current;
+• Provide the options available to the owner to avoid being turned over to collections;
+• Provide at least 30 days for the owner to pay off the outstanding debt.
+The owner will not be liable for fees from a third party collection agency if the fees are contingent on amounts recovered. The owner will likewise not be responsible for collection fees if the collection contract does not require the association to pay all of the collections fees. The law also prevents assocations from selling or transferring its accounts receivable, except as collateral for a loan.
+Part 4: Foreclosures
+HOAs will now be required to obtain a court order for foreclosure in order to foreclose on a property under an assessment lien. The Texas Supreme Court will outline the specific requirements between now and January 1, 2012 when the new law takes effect. In addition, foreclosures may not commence until 60 days have elapsed after the association provided written notice, including the total amount owed and the opportunity to cure the debt under an alternative plan. A secondary effect of this portion of the new law is the elimination of the requirement that lenders ask associations to commit in writing to providing 60 days’ notice before foreclosure proceedings are to begin under the assessment lien. In simpler terms, this means that lenders will be able to cure delinquent association assessment liens prior to going to foreclosure and it makes it easier by eliminating the step of having to request the 60-day letter from the HOA.
+The right of the HOA to foreclose on a property may now be removed from the association’s dedication of rights by a vote of at least 67% of all property ownership interests. In other words, HOA members may elect to remove foreclosure opportunities completely in the case of delinquent HOA dues with a two-thirds majority vote. The new law also states that a vote for this purpose may be petitioned by at least 10% of the voting ownership interests. This prescribes the procedure to get the measure before the entire membership so that associations cannot deny the opportunity to vote on such a measure.
+Thank you for a very cogent, informative summary of the new law. As an HOA board member, I found this information very useful and plan to direct our homeowners to your site.
+Thank you so much. Coming from an HOA board member, your compliments are much appreciated.
+We aim to provide a wide-variety of information about Austin on our blog and we hope you’ll also spend some time reviewing our other posts.
+Thanks for sharing our post with your association homeowners!
+I have a question. How does the home owners put in a request for a new homeowners association?
+Looking for a sample HOA delinquent dues payment plan. Suggestions? Thanks
+According to the information we were provided, the plans must be filed with the county in order to be enforceable. So, I would start with the county you live in (presuming you are in Texas, of course). I checked the Travis County website and couldn’t find any postings of these documents, so it might require a phone call or visit to the county offices. Another option would be to contact law firms who specialize in housing/real estate/HOA law and see if they can help (they may charge for this service). A third option would be a bit more tedious, but some HOA’s have their own websites and may post their new policies. Some will require that you are a member and have a login, so it may take some hunting to get to the info you need. Good luck and keep us posted if you find out anything.
+Thanks,
+Michael Ikeya, Marketing Coordinator for Mission Mortgage of Texas, Inc.
+Please can you tell me : Are the monthly HOA meetings with the board members open to the residents for the entire meeting?? I was told I had to leave after a very brief 5 minute time for question&answer.And that the meeting wasn’t open to the residents of that neighborhood.I feel we’re entitled to know everything that’s going on in our neighborhood.They can certainly make the info about who’s not paying their fees private.I don’t think that’s everybodies business.But as far as repairs,renovations,clean up committtees,trash pick up, police patrol,etc. the residents should be included and notified of these things. Our money is paying for this.
+From the information we know, every HOA has the ability to set their own meeting rules and processes. Those rules are subject to change, and the mechanism for making changes should be outlined in the charter. It is possible for the residents to be kept out of proceedings if the bylaws of the organization stipulate that this may occur and when. How much the residents are told is also subject to the rules of the HOA. If your HOA is controlled by a board, then it would require action by the board to change things.
+I think you will find differing opinions on whether the full activities of the HOA board should be made available to the residents. Some will believe that this would entail a violation of privacy rights while others would stress that the HOA belongs to the residents and they should decide. The truth is, the HOA is controlled by the documents that created it and the rules must be followed for things to change. Your money does, in fact, pay for the actions of the board, but that does not automatically entitle you to full disclosure. Think of your federal income taxes. They pay for many things that you don’t get to read about, research, report or follow. For example, your taxes pay for CIA agents, but that doesn’t mean you are entitled to know who they are. Really, your money is paying for a membership to the organization, with all of its benefits and all of its limitations. If you do not like how your HOA behaves, then follow the guidelines in your charter to request changes. That is the best (and possibly the only) way you are going to overcome this obstacle.
+Thanks for commenting and I hope this helps.
+Michael Ikeya for Mission Mortgage of Texas, Inc.
+I am the office manager and the only employee of a very small owners association. The assessments established back in 1974 are still the same. $2.50 a month for ownership of one lot. With the paying of my work, utilities, office supplies, and the opening and maintenance of the much needed pool in the Texas summer heat I do not see us surviving another two or three years. How can I change the By-Laws to get an increase of these assessments? It is also set up to where I can only charge any owner who has more than four properties for only four properfties. Some owners own fourteen properties or more. Any help would be wonderful. Thank you.
+Thanks so much for your comment.
+You have indicated a couple of important issues. One is the raising of the monthly HOA assessment or dues. The other is how to charge those with more than 4 properties. While I cannot provide any specific advice, I can offer the following guidance:
+1. To change the assessment/dues, you will need to look through the original charter documents to determine what process was outlined for making changes. Essentially, you need to change the bylaws and how that is done varies from association to association. Some have set up a board to make those decisions. Some require all voting members weigh in. Others may have something entirely different. What it comes down to is this: you can only change the assessment by following the procedures outlined in your charter documents.
+2. The concern about owners who own more than 4 should be looked at in two ways. You have already mentioned one…that they are only paying dues on 4 properties, regardless of how many they own. But also, this may have been done to limit the voting powers they have with the HOA. In other words, if you manage to change the bylaws to count all properties in the assessment, as a result you may be granting those owners a larger say in the decisions, which could backfire when you try to increase the assessment in #1 above. You would increase your collections of the $2.50 per month, but it might make it harder to vote in any increase.
+Now, the most important advice I can give you is this: Consult a real estate attorney. The legal documents that set up your association are likely written by attorneys and filled with “attorney-speak”. To make sure you do everything correctly, it might be in your best interest to consult with an attorney. Of course, attorneys cost money, so how they get paid will be up to you and your association. If you feel confident you can understand the charter documents such that you can enact changes without the use of an attorney, that’s up to you. But I feel strongly that to make sure you don’t do anything to violate the provisions you should ask a lawyer for help.
+Thank you for answering my questions. I will consult with a lawyer, I had the pleasure of meeting one of our owners just yesterday who is a lawyer. I will ask her if she can recommend a real estate attorney. I do want to deal with this matter correctly and do not want to violate any provisions as you have advised. Again my thanks and my appreciation for this website.
+What are the requirements of a POA for notifying a home owner of a Final Notice of a violation of a resrtrictive covenant. Can this be done by email or is a certified return reciept letter required? What are the required number of days that the POA must give a homeowner if an appeal is requested
+Hello Vince. Thanks for your question. Unfortunately, there’s no way for me to answer as every POA sets up their own bylaws and policies. If the bylaws state that email will be considered a viable communication method, then email is fine. It might say that they notice must be posted to the owner, mailed, certified mail, or other. The laws of the state are structured to be as little an influence on POA/HOA groups as possible…with the exception of these rules that were put into place recently. If it’s not covered in the new law, then the old rules still apply. Thus, the bylaws will hold the answers you seek.
+Good luck to you.
+I heard that an HOA can get their local county tax assessor to collect dues as part of the annual tax bill. I’m a board member for a very tiny HOA here in Texas. We have a devil of a time getting some of our members to pay their dues. And they are the ones who fuss the most abt how messed up the streets are, too!
+How does that work?
+Thanks!
+Hi Helen and thanks for your question.
+To our knowledge, the county tax assessors will not involve themselves in the collection of HOA dues. Besides the legal liability of having to understand and defend the HOA covenants that they didn’t write or enforce, there are other issues that would make this relationship all but impossible. HOA dues are determined by each board. If the county were to use their tax collectors, that would mean that tax bills couldn’t be sent out unless all participating HOAs submitted their dues and the data was input into systems not currently poised to handle such micro-level billing. Generally speaking, property taxes are also tax deductible from your Federal Income tax burdens, but HOA dues are not. The confusion of including those amounts in a tax bill, but having to exclude them from the tax deductions taken later would create problems for taxing agencies all the way up the IRS. Failure to pay would lead to another layer of complication as a tax lien can be placed, but HOA dues cannot, without the judgement of a court of law. So, if someone were to fail to pay, the county would have the burden of separating the HOA dues out of the tax lien filing…something I doubt they would be willing to do.
+Think about it from the County’s perspective. What upside do they have for performing this service? Would they get anything for handling billing for your HOA? What risks would they add by taking on this responsibility? How would non-HOA members feel about their County tax collectors spending their time and efforts on behalf of a private HOA? I think you can see how this would likely lead to numerous legal and legislative issues that I don’t think would be popular at this time.
+The covenant of your HOA should spell out precisely how delinquent dues will be handled, up to and including legal action. If the HOA is mandatory and you have residents who are not paying, then the proper procedures should already be outlined for you. I would highly suggest that your board invest in the services of a good real estate attorney to determine what avenues you have available based on the covenant.
+What part of the new HOA rules apply to pre 1994 HOA’s? Specifically concerning delinquent fees and non-juducial forclosures.
+Hi Lorri,
+Thanks for your question. It is our impression that the age of the HOA has no bearing on the whether or not the new laws apply. As we read the statutes, it seems as though the rules put in place at the end of 2011 refer to all HOAs in the state of Texas.
+As always, we recommend that you retain an attorney experienced in real estate law before taking any action. As every HOA is different, you really need expert legal advice specific to your situation and a licensed attorney is your best bet.
+Hello. How do I find out if membership to my HOA is mandatory? The bylaws state that a property owner “shall become a member upon payment of dues”. Another article states that to be eligible for the board of Trustees, you “must be a member of the association”. They seem to be loosely written with some ambiguity which leads me to believe that membership may be optional. I quit paying dues a few years back because I was sick of them giving gifts to local charities with funds from the dues. I am not against charities but I believe I should be able to choose the ones my monies flow to. Would the bylaws specifically state membership is mandatory by all property owners? THANK YOU!
+Hello Lisa,
+If your HOA is mandatory, you would have been notified at the time of purchase. Your closing package should include information about the HOA and list whether it is mandatory or not. If you’ve quit paying dues and heard nothing from the association, it is most likely that yours is voluntary. Review your closing package and if you have questions call the title company who prepared the documents. They can help you to determine for sure if your HOA is mandatory or voluntary.
+Every HOA is different, so there is no way for us to know for sure. Please consult with an expert before making any decisions.
+I would like to comment on the Mission Mortgage reply to a question by Carla D. Evans on February 20, 2012 regarding homeowners attending board meetings. Chapter 209 of the Texas Property Code requires HOA boards to make all meetings open to homeowners, with the exception of Executive Sessions. The HOA must give advance meeting notice including the date, time, place and agenda. Items for Executive Session topics are specifically limited by law; e.g., to matters involving attorney client privileged information, personnel issues, or private or confidential homeowner information.
+Do HOA’s have to send owners a statement to collect the mandatory yearly HOA fee?? If they do not send it out to the homeowners…who is responsible for non-payment??
+The rules for providing invoices or statements would be within the HOA documents. In other words, each HOA can set their own procedures for notifying residents. There are unified rules regarding collecting past due HOA fees and telling residents that they are past due. But there is nothing that I know of that sets expectations uniformly for how HOA’s ask for payments that are not late already.
+For specific assistance, you may want to consider hiring a real estate attorney to review the HOA documents.
+Our HOA documents state that fireworks are not allowed. We also have a sign posted at appropriate times of the year stating that a $500 fine will be assessed. We send reminder notices. If an owner shoots off fireworks on one day only, do we still need to send a warning letter first asking for remedy and compliance. And then if it happens again (within a [period of time), then we can fine them? (state law) It seems that owners can set off fireworks with no consequence, because there will not be anything to remedy.
+Hello Marilyn and thanks for commenting. Unfortunately every HOA is structured differently so the remedies you seek must be outlined in your HOA documents. For individually determined preferences within a neighborhood, there are no overarching state laws. The laws enacted by the state are specifically geared towards how dues are collected, particularly when they are past due. The laws do not compel or limit the actions of each HOA with respect to setting forth fines. As we normally do, we highly recommend that you review the HOA documents with an experienced real estate attorney to determine what is allowed within your specific community.
+Do French Bulldogs Need A Companion? Pros and Cons of a Second Dog
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+Do French Bulldogs Need A Companion? That is the question on many people’s minds, especially those considering adding one of these adorable dogs to their family.
+So, do French Bulldogs need a companion? French Bulldogs do not need a companion; they are just happy to be on their own with their human. However, they can still enjoy the company of another dog, especially if their owner is away most of the time and tends to leave them alone. In this case, they are better in pairs.
+In this article, we will take a look at the pros and cons of getting another dog, as well as some tips for ensuring that your Frenchie gets along well with the other pets in your home, so keep reading to learn more.
+Do French Bulldogs Need A Companion?
+French Bulldogs can use a companion to keep each other company as they are a social breed that likes to be around people all of the time and can be a bit clingy.
+So, if you are not up for it, then maybe it’s time to consider getting another to keep them company.
+Bringing a second pup can be great for them because they will have a friend they can play with all the time, and they can entertain each other when they are alone.
+French bulldogs love it when there is another dog to play with them, or they can just lay around together all day long.
+So, if you already have a dog in your home, there is a good chance that they will get along just fine.
+If you do not already have another dog, be sure to socialize with your Frenchie and keep an eye on them when they first meet to make sure that there are no problems.
+They can adapt to any lifestyle as long as you give them enough exercise and attention. They are also good at entertaining themselves with toys or other activities if need be.
+Do Frenchies Do Better in Pairs?
+Most dogs are better in pairs since no owner has lots of free time and can’t always provide them with the attention they need.
+So being in pairs comes in handy because they will need less attention from you. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t free some time to play and spend one-on-one time with them.
+Plus, Frenchies are known for getting along with other Frenchies. I guess they like each other’s vibe.
+They also tend to do better with their breed siblings. So if you are still making a decision about getting your first French Bulldog and thinking of getting two instead of one, then it’s better to get them from the same puppy litter so they can grow old together.
+French Bulldogs do not necessarily need to be paired with another dog, but it can help them stay happy and healthy when there’s someone else around for them to play with.
+Meanwhile, some owners might prefer having two dogs because it means less work for them. Others may find that having just one puppy is enough!
+It’s up to you to decide what works best in your household.
+Do Frenchies Get Along With Each Other?
+French Bulldogs tend to get along with each other, but just like any other breed, they can fight or not get along at first.
+There are some dogs that just naturally don’t get along and will never be friends. However, most of the time, if you socialize with your French Bulldogs when they’re puppies, they should be able to get along well with other pets in your home.
+If you do have a Frenchie that doesn’t get along with another dog in the house, it’s important to separate them when you’re not home or keep them in different parts of the house.
+However, Frenchies are a kind-hearted breed that loves everyone and tend to get along well with every family member or other pets. So, you have no reason to be worried.
+You will always have a happy Frenchie if you provide them with enough love and attention; that is all they need!
+They get along well with other animals as long as there is no food involved because, when it comes down to eating time, their instincts kick in just like any other breed.
+Overall, French Bulldogs make great pets and do well in pairs or with other animals as long as they are properly socialized when they’re young.
+Can You Have Two Male Frenchies?
+Just Like any other breed, two male dogs are going to be competitive at first and can fight every once in a while to prove who is the alpha.
+Especially if there is a female in the same house or in the park, as they are likely to fight over her, in that fight, one of them can get seriously injured, so you have to separate them.
+However, with enough attention, exercise, and proper training, two male French Bulldogs can get along and be best friends. It’s also better if you neuter them at some point unless you want them as studs in the future, which can be quite lucrative since Frenchie’s sperm prices are quite shocking.
+You can learn more about the stud fees and sperm prices of French Bulldogs here.
+It’s always important to keep an eye on them when they are first introduced and make sure that there is no fighting.
+Having two male dogs can be a lot of work, but it’s definitely doable as long as you’re willing to put in the time and effort.
+They will also need more exercise than if you just had one dog, so it’s important that they get plenty of mental stimulation too!
+You may want to consider getting two females instead of one male and female so that there is no tension between them when they are in the same area together for too long periods of time.
+Two female dogs can still be difficult but not more difficult than two male dogs. However, you still have to keep an eye on them.
+Whether they are two females, two males, one female and one male, you have to involve them in as many activities with you as possible. However, try to avoid competitive activities and stick with activities where they can do one team so they can learn to harmonize.
+Dogs tend to form special bonds when they are playing; that is why they usually pick their favorite person based on who spends more time with them and plays with them the most. You can learn more about when French Bulldogs pick a favorite person here.
+Can A Male And Female French Bulldog Live Together?
+Male and female Frenchies can live together as long as they are puppies or if they are neutered/spayed.
+However, it is recommended to get dogs that are the same gender because there can be some tension between opposite genders when they reach sexual maturity.
+If you do have a male and female Frenchie living together, it is important to keep a close eye on them and make sure that they are getting along and that there’s no tension between them.
+There might be some fighting which will lead to a dominance battle over who gets what toy or treats first! Do not forget about food aggression as well since Frenchies love their food.
+Do French Bulldogs Do Well With Other Dogs?
+French Bulldogs do well with other dogs if they are socialized at a young age, but it is important to keep an eye on them when introducing any new dog into the home or around your existing dog because this can cause some tension between the two animals.
+If your Frenchie does not get along with other pets, then it may be best to keep them separated from each other so that there aren’t any fighting or dominance issues when around strangers’ dogs or when you’re not home.
+If your French Bulldogs are getting along well, it can be helpful to take them for walks together and allow them to play in a fenced-in backyard so that they can run around and get some exercise. This will help keep them calm and content when they are inside the house.
+There is, however, the issue of mating. Thankfully, this is not such a large issue with Frenchies like it is with other Breeds, and you can learn why in this article on can Frenchies get other dogs pregnant.
+How To Introduce A French Bulldog To Another?
+When introducing any new pet to the home, it is important that you take things slow. Do not rush or force them together before they are ready.
+It may seem like a good idea at first, but it can result in aggression from both of your dogs if it’s done too quickly and without proper training techniques in place beforehand.
+So, here is a step by step guide on how to introduce a French Bulldog to another:
+- They need time to get used to each other’s scent, so it can be helpful if you have one dog wear an old shirt or blanket for a few days before introducing them face-to-face.
+- It’s better if you don’t introduce them on the first day the new puppy gets home because they may feel unwelcomed, and they need time to get used to the house.
+- You either have a close friend or family member take your dog for a day, or keep both dogs in the house, but in separate places. (I prefer the second one because they can sense each other’s presence, and it wouldn’t be a surprise when you finally introduce them).
+- The best way is to take the dogs on walks in close proximity to each other outside their home territory. Once they are familiar with each other, you can introduce them to each other inside the house.
+- Take them to a middle ground. For example, if your first pet isn’t allowed in your bed, then you should introduce them there. However, if you introduce them to the area where your first dogs spend most of their time, they will feel like they are in control and can make the new pup feel threatened.
+- Finally, have your first pup on a leash and let someone familiar hold the leash while you get the new pup in the room. Keep them away from each other till both of them feel comfortable with just being in the same room.
+- Allow them to approach each other without pressuring them or pushing them closer, then let them smell each other. If you notice any sign of aggression from any dog, separate them immediately.
+- Repeat till they finally feel comfortable around each other and never leave them alone with each other at first.
+- Do not forget to provide treats for good behavior and keep a close eye on their body language! You should supervise any interaction to prevent any aggression.
+The Pros And Cons Of Getting A Second Dog
+There are many pros and cons to getting a second dog.
+Let’s start with the pros.
+- They provide companionship for each other.
+- They can help reduce loneliness.
+- They can give each other exercise.
+- They will be able to play whenever they want, without waiting for you.
+- They are going to save you so much time and energy
+- Can Make Training Your Pup easier.
+- They can keep each other warm in the winter
+- Double the Frenchies = double the fun
+Now, For the cons.
+- It will be more expensive to care for them.
+- They may fight over toys or food.
+- If one dog is not spayed/neutered, there is a higher risk of accidental pregnancy.
+- Extra visits to the vet
+- More shedding
+- You have to provide more love for both of them so they won’t feel jealous.
+- Two dogs mean a bigger mess.
+It is important to weigh all the pros and cons before making this decision so that you can make sure it will be something beneficial for both dogs and not just one or neither.
+The best way to get around these cons is by having a second dog of the same gender as your existing Frenchie. This means if you have a male, then choose another male, and vice versa for females.
+It also helps if both dogs are spayed/neutered because then there will be no chance of puppies being born (unless they somehow manage to get out of their cage and into another room).
+The other option would be choosing a second dog that is of a different breed than your Frenchie. This can be helpful because it will help reduce any chances of the dogs fighting over toys, territory, or food.
+Just make sure to socialize them together at a young age and keep an eye on them when they are around each other so that there aren’t any problems!
+Related Question
+What Is A Good Companion For A French Bulldog?
+A good companion for a French Bulldog can be another Frenchie, but here is a list of dogs that can make the perfect companions for a French Bulldog:
+- Labradors
+- Boxer Dogs
+- Greyhounds
+- Boston Terrier
+- English Springer Spaniel
+- Saluki
+- Boston Terrier
+- Dachshund
+- Beagles
+- Cockapoo
+Do French Bulldogs Like To Be Alone?
+French Bulldogs do not like to be alone; they can tolerate being by themselves as long as they have a toy to chew on. If you are going to be away from home for an extended period of time, it’s important to find someone who can come and take care of your dog so that they don’t get too lonely.
+Are French Bulldogs Aggressive With Other Dogs?
+French Bulldogs are not aggressive with other dogs, but they can be territorial. They are not aggressive towards others if they’ve been well socialized; instead, they will be affectionate and gentle. They will also get along with almost everyone and form a special bond with other pets.
+Helpful Resources
+How to Train a French Bulldog
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+Yvette Ramos has a cookie obsession. She has a 9-5 job and then comes home and makes stunningly decorated confections in her kitchen, usually giving them to friends and family at various events. To help The Bushwick News get back on its feet, she's giving us 50 four packs of cookies in the image of the four subway lines that serve Bushwick - J, M, Z, and L.
+A bit more about Yvette in her own words: "My parents came over from Ecuador in the 70s and raised four of us right here in Bushwick. I am now living in the same building I grew up in with my husband and my own two kids!"
+Save the life of a vivero chicken! If you don't have a backyard, Bushwick City Farm will pick up your chicken and give it a home at its new Stockton Street farm. City Farm runs several mini urban farms in the area, engaging the neighbors and giving away their produce. The Stockton Street location is their largest and most ambitious and will need plenty of egg-laying chickens.
+John Dereszewski, having steeped himself in the minutest details of Bushwick's history, will give a tour of the shifting borders between Bushwick and Ridgewood over the centuries. John was on the community board in the 70s and has been active in the neighborhood ever since. He has given many tours and is donating yet more of his valuable time to the cause of community news. The tour is scheduled for May 5 and again on May 12.
+This 1978 Peugeot bike has been locked to the fence at The Bushwick News HQ for over 8 months, callously orphaned far from its mother factory in France. We rescued it and -- after a thorough check for its owner -- had the Bushwick Bike Shop soup it up for its next owner. All the original details and seals remain, but all the accessories have been upgraded -- it rides like air.
+Manufactured in Shanghai since 1958, Phoenix (凤凰) is the most luxurious of the three famous bicycle brands of China, and the bike traditionally gifted to visiting heads of state. This one was hand-carried back from the vast market city of Yiwu, which we visited for the story Around the World for 99 Cents. It's brand new and tuned up by the Bushwick Bike Shop.
+Not feeling quite ready to throw yourself out into New York's merciless streets? How about this 70s vintage exercise bike donated by Second Stroke Mopeds on Broadway? It's been collecting dust in a Bushwick basement for decades -- won't you give it a new home?
+Bushwick art legend Austin Thomas ran Pocket Utopia gallery on Flushing Avenue for two years back in the aughts, showcasing the work of dozens of local artists. She herself has been in many exhibitions around the country and locally at Norte Maar and Storefront Bushwick.
+She's donating her collage, "Under Constructed Collage, 2011" to the Bushwick News cause. The piece is currently on view at Heiner Contemporary in Washington, D.C.
+11"x 8 1/2", Pen, pencil and collage on paper
+Deborah Brown is a busy lady. She's the owner of Storefront gallery on Wilson, has a studio on Bogart, and is on the community board -- her husband even runs an orthodontic practice on Stockholm. In 2008 she collaborated with Austin Thomas of now-defunct Pocket Utopia, an early light in Bushwick's art scene, on a print titled "Bird in Bushwick," depicting a cardinal launching itself off a cluster of powerlines. One of the prints hangs now in The Bushwick News HQ on Central Avenue. Debbie has donated 15 of the prints to get us back up and running.
+Meryl Meisler was an art teacher in early-80s Bushwick. In her time here, she photographed the blocks around her school in the heart of the neighborhood as they lay in ruins after years of fires. Fresh from the exhibit Here I Am: Bushwick in the 1980s at Soho Photo Gallery in December, this 13x19" archival print of a soon-to-be-demolished 226 Linden, between Wilson and Knickerbocker, shows a time remembered by many, but recorded by few.
+Local artist and interior designer Lauren Lombardo is offering her amazing 4x4-foot abstract painting "July Anthology."
+Get some Bushwick wood bling from local streetwear accessories designers GoodWoodNYC. This pendant necklace of the map of Bushwick (using official community board boundaries) includes the street grid -- look at Myrtle swoop across that tropical yellowheart wood! It's 2.5" wide with a black ball chain necklace.
+Ausra Bankauskaite and Mante Maskoliunaite studied jewelry design in their native Lithuania and began their "aka Jewellery" line there. They're now based in Bushwick and are offering their completely hand-forged silver jewelry as rewards! The women's work skirts the "fine line between art and jewelry," using unconventional materials like rubber, medical glass, and even colored pencils.
+"We design them, make our own silver alloy, we forge it, solder and finish, all by our own hands. So in a way every piece that we make is unique and not like any other," Ausra says. Click here see closer views of the available pieces.
+Jennifer Lilya is a local fashion illustrator who dabbles in collage -- she did the collage work at Pine Box Rock Shop. She is offering two more one-of-a-kind 5 1/2" x 7" x 2 1/2" collage boxes, with UV-resistant protective gloss to prevent yellowing. The last one went instantly, so snap them up! (Preference for one or the other? When you pledge, send a note on which one you'd prefer).
+Get a professional portrait shoot with our star photographer Devvon Simpson. Band shots, headshots, your own pin-up calendar, killer new Facebook profile pics, whatever you want!
+Get a piece of vintage junk from DiMola Bros. Rubbish Removal, selected by Nick DiMola from his Museum of Garbage. DiMola has collected all the great stuff he's been hired to remove from homes and businesses over the years -- check out the photos in this writeup of his shop.
+Nick is also offering a pew he salvaged from an old church in the Bronx, which comes with a small mystery. A plaque marks it as the Deacon's bench, but a cruciform rosette fell off of one side, revealing a Star of David carved underneath, and suggesting an older history. Ask us for more photos. 37.5" high, 17.5" wide, 100" long. Delivery included within the city!
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+Comment to Post: Today's Editorial in the SBNP
+John San Roque didn't know where to put this but I think it would be useful for discussion -- especially in relationship to Craig's post today.
+==============.
+Labels: Editorial Bias, NLRB, Owner's Rights
+32 Comments:
+Like OJ is finally "behaving" but he's still the same guy. Team Cappello calls the shots. TA is more ghostwriter. I doubt they'd give up the position that they’re right and everybody else is wrong for that walk down memory lane. It was ludicrous. The Graham, Pentagon Papers are fantasy & emotional play. The hearings are having an effect.
+I've read both and strongly believe that they were not written by Armstrong at all. Yes, the tone is different but so is the syntax, word choice, and sentence structure. Maybe the lawyers are writing the editorials now too?
+Wishful thinking on JSR’s part. The “last gasp” is JSR’s pitiful and desperate prediction that the News-Press is ready to fold.
+The real disconnect here is JSR’s inability to understand that Wendy McCaw owns the News-Press. She gets to write what she wants. The customers (readers) have a choice to buy the paper or not. It’s really that simple.
+I continue to subscribe, and read, for the simple reason that I agree with the News-Press perspective. The News-Press took a brave step in exposing City Hall. They now write the truth about our so-called city leaders. No more winks and nods. No more status quo.
+To the News-Press I say “thank you”. To JSR I say “dream on”.
+You are wrong on most all counts. There was bias in the old NewsPress so the poll, whether you participated or not, was accurate. The NP broke no new ground today. They reiterate the same position they have always taken: the owner retains final control over content.
+This is hardly a last ditch stance. It is an eminent argument. I wish them well in their law suit. It will be good to have these issues settled once and for all.
+The NP has a new and growing constituency and you are missing out on this most newsworthy trend.
+The NP is appealing to readers you never bothered to consider existed here in this town. I don't know why this is so hard to understand.
+Please spare us another round of wounded defense of the booted employees who thought they knew better than the management that hired them.
+To 10:04 and 10:38 ...
+You are right, and you are also so wrong.
+I work at the News-Press and see what is happening close-up. And yes, you are right to say that Wendy is asserting control over her newspaper. Legally, that is her right as owner. I agree with that.
+I didn't go along with the union crowd in the newsroom because I thought they couldn't win this argument. They thought they could — they mistakenly thought that Wendy would care about the quality of the paper, and would give in to their demands for "The Wall" between opinion and news before she lost her talent, her paper's institutional memory and it's reputation. But the fact of the matter is that she DOESN'T care about losing any of that. It doesn't bother her that the News-Press no longer resembles a normal daily newspaper.
+But you are wrong to believe that the newspaper is now appealing to a growing audience. I can't believe that you'd write that with a straight face. I work at the newspaper and I can tell you officially that we are now the joke of journalism. I hear it from every corner of the business -- from conservative journalists to liberal journalists.
+I have real problems with City Hall, too. But instead of going after City Hall with some fact-finding, investigative reporting, they just throw out insults from a bully pulpit with the teaser of "... in future editorials, we will look into blah blah blah." But there is never any meaningful followup.
+And why? Because there are no reporters left at the paper with any experience beyond journalism school except for the Lompoc reporter and a few sports writers. Wendy is spending her money on attorneys and hiring her new pimply faced reporters through a temp agency. That is a fact. Those reporters don't even know where City Hall is located (and it's right next door).
+Does this News-Press really, seriously appeal to you? A News-Press that doesn't even cover government meetings anymore? we are missing SO many stories now. I talked to an official out at UCSB who said the university is relieved that this is happening because they've had several embarrassing incidents that have gone undetected and unreported in this journalistic vaccum. I'm talking about taxpayer money going down the drain. And Travis likens Wendy McCaw to Katherine Graham? Please. Nixon would have adored this News-Press.
+Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there is this "growing constituency" that you cite which is only interested in the rantings of Dr. Laura, and yachting news, and gossip about the royal family, and who attended what party in Montecito, and the comings and goings of every freaking turtle and puppy dog in Santa Barbara AND Ventura Counties. I can't find anything else in the news pages, and I work there.
+Well, at least for now.
+10:38
+Are you serious?
+The News-Press has cited their internal study again and again, but won't release it. Hmmmmmmm.
+The comparison with the Nixon era is apt. Cameras, lawyers, paranoia, enemies, hiding from the public in a white building, and citing secret "internal studies."
+The News-Press crisis is a more serious situation than simply a matter of the owner controlling what appears in her newspaper.
+Look at the facts showing the negative results of her type of "control" thus far:
+In the name of "banning the bias," owner Wendy McCaw has:
+-- banned any letters to the editor, or op-ed opinions differing with her editorial stance on any matter.
+-- banned reporters from including in their stories quotes from politicians, community, business or religious leaders the owner doesn't like, even when their quotes are relevant to the stories.
+-- not banning a reporter from including a quote from Rob Lowe about a recent fire, in which he remarked, "Wow, I saw a fire! Heh, heh. There was smoke too!" because the owner's social circle is composed of Beavises and Buttheads.
+-- banning reporters from covering the meltdown of the News-Press from July 2006 to the present, with the exception of printing only news favorable to the News-Press such as when the NLRB drops a few of the many complaints.
+-- banning reporters from covering 80 percent of the beats in Santa Barbara County, because, yawn, real news bores the owner: it's all just so trivial, darling. And then saying, "Reporters want to write what they want, when they want!" How dare they! The owner is angered that reporters actually want to go out and cover all the news, not just her pet projects.
+And there's actually a reader such as Bill Carson who thinks he's getting a real newspaper by subscribing to the News-Press? Hey Bill, you'd learn more about the world around you by reading "Mad" magazine, and it's a lot more entertaining!
+McCaw’s editorials are depressingly the same: animals are good and the city council is bad, especially Marty.
+The news pages are full of fish and plovers. Local government is rarely covered.
+Columnists prattle on about yatching and the royal family.
+The paper reflects an intellect that seems paranoid, extremely limited in range and full of bile. Money evidently doesn’t buy smarts or happiness. It may buy love from one's co-publisher.
+The editorials Sunday and Monday were probably written by someone else, possibly by one of Cappello’s minions, as part of his trial tactics. Little that was sacred journalistically remains at the News-Press anyway.
+Sunday’s bit cites unnamed “poll results”: “As anyone who has been paying attention to the subject knows, the credibility of traditional journalists is at an all-time low (with national poll results ranking them slightly below politicians), while newspaper circulation is in decline.”
+A quick internet search (where my news comes from) turns up the respected Pew Research Center saying that daily newspapers carried a favorable rating in 2005 of 80%, compared to ratings in the 50’s for the Democratic party, Congress, Bush and the Republican party.
+Where’s the link to your poll results, Wendy? Come clean, honey.
+Maybe you will publish a letter to the editor about it, instead of having readers resort to blogs.
+Does anyone want to guess what the local credibility rating of the News-Press these days? Probably below Marty, if anyone has been paying attention to the subject.
+Monday’s editorial cites the same old News-Press “internal study,” without letting anyone see it. Top secret. Classified.
+Katherine Graham, indeed. Richard Nixon would have been proud.
+Gee, 10:38 has been repeating the same statement about "new and growing constituency" for well over a year now. Keep repeating it and maybe it'll come true. Maybe Peter Pan will show up at your window one of these nights too. Ridiculous & idiotic.
+Sara, block his IP address already....
+As a reader, I feel good about the changes Wendy is making. Any responsible CEO must take steps to correct problems in his or her business, otherwise the quality of the consumer product suffers and the market seeks alternatives.
+Here's what Wendy saw:
+1. Readers were complaining about a biased news product, one that kowtowed to local politicians. Reporters ran wild with stories that pushed their personal agendas.
+2. Changes in journalism were diminishing the relevance of a print-only product and forcing visionary owners to take a more active role in their news operations.
+Here's what she did:
+1. She professionalized the news operation, declaring that the pages of her newspaper would no longer serve as forums for reporters' personal biases. Some biased reporters were fired, while others quit after realizing that they could not meet the higher standards.
+2. She enhanced platforms for Ampersand to deliver the news, including 1290 News-Press radio and News-Press TV. She has taken a more active role in the management of the newsroom, ensuring high ethical standards and reasserting the News-Press as the most comprehensive, authoritative news source in the region.
+These improvements have been accompanied by some strife as politicians complain about the new watchdog approach of the newspaper, and biased ex-journalists fall out of favor. The new direction of the paper may not please self-appointed pundits like Lou Cannon, but Wendy manages the News-Press not for awards or recognition from the broken journalism establishment, but for the readers of Santa Barbara County. She will continue to do so. Any talk of "folding" is ridiculous.
+The N-P need never fold, given Wendy's huge wealth.
+You'd think for his $1,000/hour Cappello could at least vet his experts. That the judge can find fault in their credentials in 10 minutes after Cappello has had 1 year to do so shows Cappello's limited intelligence and industry.
+I never see a News-Press on the doorsteps in my neighborhood; also at the Library it has become harder to read their copy, because so many people are now reading the want-ads in the copy at the Library. I take this as an indication that no-one subcribes any more, so it is hard to bum a paper to read the want-ads, and so people go to the library.
+There are millions of things going on in all public agencies on the South Coast... the school board had a $2 million deficit that turned into ta surplus, the Goleta Water District doubled and tripled rates, etc... the News-Press hasn't been an effective `fourth estate' at all. Wanking on about Barnwell and Blum is just vanity.
+Did the News-Press write a story about Monday's NLRB hearings? They had some stories in the past. Maybe I missed it.
+At least there's daily coverage of the trial of the News-Press in the Independent, Daily Sound and Craig Smith.
+While it is true the paper is in a state of ruin, it may also be true that the news staffers overplayed their hand. One thing is for sure, if even recent hires straight out of college are bailing for weeklies, it must really suck there. Well, 1:49, does it suck?
+1:49 - comments about what is missing in the NP are well stated. Indeed, I too look forward to more investigative articles as well. I hope once all the dust settles and the NP can concentrate on its core mission being a responsible 4th estate in our democratic experiment.
+The old NP was merely a cheerleader for a liberal, bleeding heart status quo that was dragging this entire town down with a well-meaning but terribly misguided social agenda.
+Let's hope we can get back to an institution like the NP spending its time and money actually doing the independent civic reporting and stewardship investigations this community needs, since our elected leaders failed to make themselves accountable to anything more than narrow and noisy special interests.
+Some one has to keep the fires going and it needs to be done with far more than petty name calling and personal attack scoldings. it has to be done with solid journalism and articles the owner is proud to put her name on.
+To 9/25/2007 1:49 AM:
+Great post. Hit it right on the head. Perfect summary on all accounts.
+It’s unfortunate when discussion degenerates into entrenched positions and straw man arguments. The reason I wrote my earlier post is that I saw a change in the substance and style of the editorials. Despite what some bloggers above said, it is very significant to say that the owner controls the content of a newspaper. Whether you agree with that idea or not, it puts the News-Press way, way over to the extreme end of the spectrum. It’s not the “same position they have always taken” (anon 10:38). A couple years ago, in fact, Jerry Roberts wrote an impassioned column about how the wall of separation was not to be breached. Does being a News-Press supporter automatically include you in the group that must destroy Roberts’ national reputation and credibility as an editor by sliming him with child porn accusations? Or do you claim newspaper expertise that makes you qualified to challenge his credibility as a newspaperman recognized and honored nationally by his peers? You say there’s no change—there’s a chasm between the paper of two years ago and management policies in place today.
+Trivializing the accomplishments of Katherine Graham and bringing in Watergate and the Pentagon Papers to justify the current policies of the New-Press is beyond comprehension. As the current News-Press worker wrote above, you CAN fight City Hall, but you don’t do it with name calling and with refusals to allow your opponents to defend themselves in your paper or on your radio station.
+If you like the News-Press and want to buy it, no one is stopping you. What you can’t do is stick you fingers in your ears and make up your own version of reality. Maybe I am wrong about the News-Press folding. But that’s not because it’s now serving this community better. The reason is what the NP worker stated: McCaw has the ability to keep it going even though it’s lost credibility, substance, readers, and any sense of fairly representing this community.
+The Daily Sound is packing a heck of a lot of substance lately. Dang, I wish they could deliver. One does not know what is happening in Santa Barbara these days if they don't read the Daily Sound.
+And the best news today is the feds busted all the marijuana clinics thanks to the excessively abusive behavior of Glen Mower III's ACME clinic that brought the whole thing down. Well discussed here and maybe even helped the feds to do their work. Good riddence.
+One more well-meaning, misguided bleeding heart activity gone very, very wrong while the city council just stood there wringing their hands and crying their progressive tears.
+Wonder how all the fairly well-run clinics feel about ACME taking them all down with him and his arrogant hate the neighbors attitude?
+The Daily Sound is the local daily newspaper of record. It just posted its story about Wendy McCaw's odd court appearance today.
+McCaw testified she fired her humans for being, in her unusual mind, anti-pig and anti-coyote (legal).
+She claimed she did not fire them for banding together to protect themselves from being fired at her whim for perceived anti-coyote and anti-pigism (illegal).
+Some biased reporters were fired, while others quit after realizing that they could not meet the higher standards.
+Some and others? Tell me who is left in the newsroom? No one at the N-P could meet the "higher standards" besides people hired from a temp agency who aren't let out of the building? Indeed, that's fine journalism.
+The N-P is a joke.
+Thanks for setting the record straight about life inside the NP 1:49 am. Sure isn't like the old days.
+On that subject, I had to laugh at the comment on the old NP being drenched with liberal bias. Actually the newsroom was a nice mix of liberals and conservatives who tried to present both sides of issues. I always though it was rather too conservative, silly me.
+As to the issue of reporter bias and reporters writing whatever they want. WRONG! The editors are responsible for content and for editing stories so that they are not biased. The reporters just gather the information on the assignments and write the story. It is the editor's responsibility to edit out bias. Stop blaming the reporters!
+That being said as Wendy now has control of the news and has biased everything to her perspective, or lack there of as the case may be, it will probably be a cold day in hell before anybody sees any good investigative reports or any decent stories coming from the NP. Besides, how can you write good stories without good reporters and editors. DUH!
+It may be Wendy's paper but there is a code of ethics that goes along with quality journalism. Wendy has seriously breached that code. Legally as owner she can do that, but it shows an extreme lack of respect for her business and the community she supposedly loves.
+My writing may have been off the cuff but my intent is very serious.
+Wendy has been after "bias" since 2000... bias against coyotes and pigs? Are there a few Eucalyptus trees she's protecting? I don't envy Judge Kocol, putting this in perspective. Both sides seem to approach her as if she's a child. Crazy people can own a business and destroy it. If there was a shadow group manipulating things for their purposes, we'll not know. I can't believe the N-P has lasted this long, even with all her money.
+If the reports so far are all there is to her side of her story, didn't she just sink her yacht? It will be interesting to hear from others who listened to her. Her focus and passion seems to be exclusive for the animal kingdom and some vegetation. What about journalism and workers, that are human beings? Will Wendy have much sway in Judge Kocol's decisions? Does her belief in what bias is matter? Does it matter that she doesn't have a grip on reality? I'm perplexed.
+I can only think of someone I know who is diagnosed and on medications. They are wonderful in many ways but not ready for prime time. Reading about Wendy tonight I feel like balling myself to sleep.
+1.) Too bad McCaw did not simply add reporters to balance the "bias" she preceived. I can entertain the thought that reporting was slanted by entrenched and mundane popular notions but not by "bias."
+2.) The only person who should have been fired was Armstrong. Aside from his arrest for the company ethics code violation with an overwhelming DUI blood alcohol reading was his incessant attacks on specific elected officials. For the most part the attacks were on women 1st and Democrats 2d, 3rd south county officials. Armstrong's editorials appeared to me to be descrimiatory because it seemed he left the few men, republicans, and north county officials alone .
+It would be interesting to see "unbiased" statistical data to verify or refute the perception that Armstrong's editorials narrowly focused on specific demographics in an authoritarian effort to change our political structure.
+From 1:49, in response to 9:37 ...
+Does it suck to work there?
+Let me put it this way ... I was typing fitfully on my computer at 1:49 in the morning instead of sleeping peacefully in my bed.
+I would think that for all the big bucks the flacks and hacks for The Wendy are getting paid to turn up the spin machine to 11, they at least could make up a fake blogger name for these comments here.
+The real significance with The Red Queen testimony in open court today is that she admits herself that journalistic standards do not matter. We pundits, bloggers, commentators, etc. no longer have to interpret anything.
+She admits, under oath, that it is indeed a Vanity Press. Readers and advertisers will respond accordingly.
+Ultimtely, it is the reader, not the newsroom or the editors or the owner who determines if a newspaper is biased. I am a long time NP subscriber. The local stories always took a liberal slant. I liked the addition of more conservative columnists. But Wendy was right, the local stories far too often were not accurate reporting of the full spectrum of the event.
+Sorry, but this is true because I often was at the very same events and came away shaking my head when I saw the old NP write ups. I get to determine the NP was far too liberal and I also get to say I like the direction it is tyring to go and wish it well.
+And I look forward to all this court nonsense to be over so Wendy can get back to creating the newspaper she wants for this community. Agree,the pages are way too thin now. But I expect better in the future.
+I've got a bad feeling that Cappello proved his case, which is based on this premise:
+Wendy didn't fire all those writers because they were forming a union, she fired them because she's a frothing-at-the-mouth animal rights lunatic.
+I mean, the judge can rule that Wendy is a crazy, people-hating (especially women) idiot -- and still rule in her favor.
+The union lawyer and NLRB attorneys, I fear, were totally outclassed. Not that I think Barry is anything close to being a classy guy ...
+"But you are wrong to believe that the newspaper is now appealing to a growing audience. "
+No, I think it's true ... more and more of the most stupid and vile people in SB are finding that the N-P is their sort of paper.
+"Will Wendy have much sway in Judge Kocol's decisions? Does her belief in what bias is matter?"
+Yes and yes. If Ampersand can convince the judge that they fired reporters (correctly or incorrectly) for bias rather than for their union activity, then Ampersand prevails. And unfortunately the NLRB lawyers have done a very poor job of showing that bias is just an after-the-fact justification -- Wendy didn't fire these reporters earlier, despite all this perceived bias, she only did so when she had other reasons to get rid of them.
+Bill Carson: Just take a Journalism 101 class. Please.
+The "Red Queen" as you like to denigrate, is making a good show in court. Time to stop trivializing these important issues.
+What is the bright line between responsibly running your own organization on your own term and retaliatory hirings? Which side of the argument carries the most weight?
+I do favor protecting private property rights over complained union demands when all things are equal.. My bias.
+All it takes is 50.1% more likely Wendy was trying to make changes she wanted rather than vindictive firings for union activity? That the way I sees it.
+Wendy didn't fire these reporters earlier, despite all this perceived bias, she only did so when she had other reasons to get rid of them.
+This phrase above really caught my attention. I'm just curious how all this will play out.
+It seems that one can recognize that a publication owner can have the right to fire writers over pereceived bias... BUT, if firings "just coincidentally" occurs within two months of a vote to unionize (as in Burns's and Davison's cases), it seems to be a reasonable assumption that the firing was related to the unionization effort.
+In regard to the "Overpass Six" (or however many there were), I would say any justification for firing -- as argued by Capello & Co. -- is on extremely shaky ground.
+The first week of a major typically concerns the undercard matchups and the floaters in the draw, the players who unexpectedly reach the second week. However, whenever a big name in the sport is knocked out of the bracket, that’s a headline development, and at the women’s Roland Garros tournament, we saw a number of highly-seeded casualties. The past week of results has paved the way for tennis’s most glamorous female athlete. Maria Sharapova shows all signs of being ready to conquer red clay for a second time in Paris.
+*
+10 – SPAIN MAKING GAINS
+They’re not Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario and Conchita Martinez (both major champions), but Carla Suarez Navarro and Garbine Muguruza have both managed to reach the quarterfinals at the same major. Suarez Navarro needs to win her Tuesday quarterfinal against Eugenie Bouchard in order to have a fully successful Roland Garros, but when the performances of Suarez Navarro and Muguruza are put together, it can already be said that Spain’s performance in the women’s tournament has exceeded expectations.
+9 – SAFAROVA’S SATISFACTION
+The Czech has a big game, but not a consistent one. The longstanding knock on Safarova is that while she has been able to threaten high seeds at majors, she hasn’t been able to finish the job on most occasions. (It’s an understatement of her problem, but there’s no need to embellish the truth of an “almost” kind of career.) Safarova’s struggles in tennis were most powerfully revealed by the fact that when she entered Paris, she hadn’t made the second week of a major since 2007.
+That’s all changed after her third-round win over Ana Ivanovic on Saturday.
+Can this result enable Safarova to breathe more freely and become more of a contender on the WTA Tour? Only time will tell, but this showing in France at least gives her the hope of a more successful career. At 27, she still has a window of a few years in which she can realistically do some damage.
+8 – SLOANE’S SUCCESSFUL SIX
+Who’s the only WTA singles player with an active streak of six straight fourth round-or-better results at the majors? It’s the same player whose non-major results leave so much to be desired. Is it a tired subject to some? Surely. Yet, it’s the kind of reality that simply can’t be avoided, for better or worse. Stephens is making a good bit of money by maxing out at the majors. Yet, tennis fans and analysts are waiting to see week-in, week-out consistency from an athlete with a lot of potential.
+7 – KVITOVA. KUZNETSOVA. COMPELLING.
+It owned its moments of madness. It was predictable in its volatility and its lack of a straightforward, easy-to-contain narrative. However, two of the best natural ballstrikers in women’s tennis — players with immense instinctual talent (albeit not accompanied by supreme mental fortitude, the main shortcoming for each competitor) — put on a really good show for the Parisians who either ate lunch early or (more likely) delayed their lunch for this midday match on Saturday.
+Petra Kvitova revealed a deft touch at net and showed more intensity than usual, trying to will herself through an injury to the finish line. She almost got there. However, this was a rare day in which her opponent, Svetlana Kuznetsova, did not relent at the first sign of adversity.
+The two-time major champion — on the court, a player with a career eerily similar to a fellow Russian, two-time major men’s champion Marat Safin — came perilously close to defeat in a riveting third set, but whenever match pressure intensified to the extent that Kuznetsova had no real margin for error, she persevered. This hasn’t marked most of her career, but when Kuznetsova maintains an appetite for battle, her ownership of a full arsenal of shots can carry her through any situation. The Russian fended off Kvitova, 9-7 in the third. It was the best women’s match of week one at Roland Garros.
+6 – TAYLOR TOWNSEND’S TOUGHNESS
+The Taylor Townsend story rippled through the American tennis world this past week, as a player with a highly attractive game began to show what is possible in her career, which is only just beginning.
+Ranked 205th entering this tournament, Townsend was not handed a wild card into this tournament — it’s important to make that distinction for this 128-player event. Townsend earned her wild card by winning a U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) qualifying event. Having created this opportunity for herself, Townsend — only 18 years old — did not figure to be ready to handle what was, in essence, a second-round “road match” in France against native daughter and No. 20 seed Alize Cornet.
+Townsend blasted and volleyed her way to the first set and a 4-1 lead in the second, but when the pressure of the moment and the crowd both became more intense, Townsend wobbled, and as a result, Cornet was able to win five straight games to take the second set, 6-4. It was logical at that point to think that Townsend was in trouble, but she instead pulled off the highly impressive feat — at age 18, remember — of mentally regrouping. A large dose of tunnel vision gave Townsend the clarity with which to take a big lead and then serve out the match at 5-4 in the third. The 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 win shows what’s possible at the outset of what could be (not will be; could be — let’s show a bit of restraint at the moment) a highly productive career.
+5 – CANADIAN CLIMBER
+The Milos Raonic story in men’s tennis has been matched, if not exceeded, by what Eugenie Bouchard has been able to do for Canada in women’s tennis. A surprising semifinalist at the Australian Open, Bouchard is one match win away from a second straight major semifinal after rolling through eighth-seeded Angelique Kerber in the fourth round on Sunday.
+In six years, when Serena Williams likely won’t have much left in the tank, and Maria Sharapova will find it harder to play her defense-first game, Bouchard might very well be able to become a top player in women’s tennis. That remains to be seen, but her window of WTA opportunity appears to be larger than what Raonic can expect on the ATP Tour. At any rate, the rapid progress Bouchard has made in 2014 suggests that her career is not just on schedule, but ahead of schedule… at least if she can continue to be this consistent at the majors.
+*
+4 – TYPICAL-LI EXASPERATING
+Remember when Li Na conquered Paris to become the first Asian player by nationality (though not ethnic origin, courtesy of Michael Chang in 1989) to win a major? It’s still hard to believe Li crashed out of the 2014 Roland Garros tournament in round one a week ago.
+The Li Na experience is a rollercoaster, but in the early months of 2014, there had been signs that the world No. 2 had begun to steady herself a little bit. A steady stream of quarterfinal-or-better appearances bolstered the notion that Li was ready to become a regular force on tour, not just an occasional one. However, her first-round loss to Kristina Mladenovic swiftly and abruptly undercut that very notion.
+Li is an historically and culturally important figure in modern tennis, given that she’s lent a presence to the sport in China in the early 21st century. She will always be seen as a courageous individual and a champion. Yet, a first-round loss such as this one will remind tennis fans that as delightful a person as she is — a point amplified in this piece by the terrific Lindsay Gibbs of Bleacher Report — the world No. 2′s career could actual-Li be even better. Setbacks such as this one have to be weeded out for good.
+3 – IVANOVIC EVAPORATES
+The non-Serena, non-Sharapova competitor with the most to gain — and lose — at this tournament clearly ended up on the losing side of the equation. Ivanovic’s third-round loss to Lucie Safarova, documented here at Attacking The Net, represents a substantial disappointment for her career and for the legacy she still hopes to attain.
+2 – SERENA STUMBLES
+As is the case for Roger Federer on the men’s tour, Serena Williams doesn’t have to prove anything more to the tennis world. She only has to prove whatever she wants to prove to herself. Yet, with Maria Sharapova in her quarter of the draw, Serena’s performance in the first four rounds of this tournament held the key to the outcome of the whole event. Her loss to Garbine Muguruza is precisely what makes the next item on the list so important and central to this fortnight at Roland Garros:
+1 – SHARAPOVA SURVIVES STOSUR
+It is usually (though not always) the case that a run to a major title requires one escape over the course of seven matches. Maria Sharapova, freed from the prospect of having to play Serena Williams in the quarterfinals at this event, was in danger of failing to reach the quarters on Sunday evening. Down 6-3, 4-3, and love-15 on her own serve, Sharapova was caught out of position in the middle of the court, having tentatively shoveled a nothingburger forehand to Samantha Stosur’s backhand side. Stosur merely needed to hit a solid, no-fuss regulation backhand down the line, and Sharapova would have had to dig out of a love-30 hole, with Stosur on the verge of being able to serve for the upset.
+Stosur wildly missed that backhand, however, and two points later, at 30-all, Stosur sent a soft Sharapova second serve into the middle of the net. Sharapova escaped that dangerous game… and she didn’t lose a single game the rest of the way. Stosur, a hugely talented player — one good enough to have a major title to her credit — is known for implosions and an alarming lack of mental toughness. Even by her standards, though, this collapse rated as one of her worst. Sharapova won’t mind — she has endured the sobering, splash-of-cold-water experience that generally lifts a player of her caliber through the two-week gauntlet of a major… especially since that gauntlet doesn’t include Serena or Victoria Azarenka.
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+22 weeks today
+Storq Maternity pencil skirt (size 3) | gift from Storq
+Hatch Long sleeve shirt | gift from a reader!! Link goes to new, similar version
+Robert Clergerie Acajou oxfords
+Wearing/Buying
+UGH. Don’t listen to me, because clearly I’m buying ALL the stuff lately, but I know intellectually that the best thing I can do individually to make a difference with regard to fashion waste, waste in general, climate change, etc., is just to BUY LESS. Buy less, or nothing at all, and when I buy, buy the highest quality I can afford (something that can be worn, then passed on), or secondhand.
+I wrote about this several years ago – that living a more sustainable, eco-friendly life doesn’t require buying specific designers or only organic cotton, or buying ANYTHING AT ALL. What we really need to do is take care of what we have, and avoid buying what we don’t need. Way to practice what I preach, huh?
+I’m not trying to be hard on myself, just realistic – and hold myself accountable. I try very hard to avoid buying new, and I do buy a LOT less than I used to, with a greater proportion of my wardrobe secondhand, but sometimes I just can’t resist the shoes. *facepalm*
+Anyway, see below some reading material about why that reusable cotton tote may not be so much better than plastic grocery bags, and why organic cotton isn’t necessarily better than conventional. At the end of the day though, it seems like overconsumption in general, more than WHAT we’re consuming, has contributed more to the sad state of our environment/climate than we care to admit. We cannot consume our way out of it.
+But speaking of buying less, this whole maternity clothing adventure has been really tricky to navigate; I thought I could get away with wearing regular clothes for longer than I have been able to. This skirt from Storq, for example, is similar to a ruched James Perse skirt I have, but this one is much more comfortable because it’s actually meant to fit a growing belly while staying slim everywhere else. My JP skirt doesn’t stretch enough to be as comfortable, and all I want now is at least to be comfortable in my clothes.
+It’s different for everyone, and you really have to just go with what is comfortable and affordable for you, but I am REALLY REALLY appreciating the maternity pieces I have now. I don’t know how people use the “rubber band trick” for jeans for very long – I couldn’t even do it in the first trimester.
+As I round into my third trimester next month I’ll write more about maternity clothing and why I love it, but in the meantime, if you’re pregnant and debating whether or not to buy a pair of maternity jeans, DO IT.
+Reading/Watching
+That cotton tote is worse for the environment than that plastic bag. WUT. I read the article, saw the research, and I will still refuse a plastic bag anywhere I go. I think that’s beside the point. The greater takeaway is again, that banning plastic bags, buying more reusable cotton totes, etc., isn’t going to solve the plastic problem. All of us being more mindful will definitely help – aware of how we reuse the bags we do receive, and then discarding them appropriatly when we’re finished with them.
+Also, I didn’t take a deep dive into all the sources/statistics for the article, so take that for what it’s worth. Yes, if every person is buying a NEW cotton tote for every plastic bag they would have received, then absolutely the environmental impact of cotton totes seems high. If a person is using a cotton tote they got at a conference 15 years ago and have already used a thousand times to avoid taking a plastic sack, then the impact is less (they’d still have to use it 6,100 more times to have the same environmental impact according to the article – but again, is that for a newly purchased cotton tote or an old one?). It just doesn’t seem right to conclude that a plastic bag, reused once as a bin liner, has a lighter environmental footprint than a cotton tote, used many times.
+Organic cotton might be worse than conventional cotton. I need to see more on this, and I think there are a lot of assumptions here – about yield and impact – but yes, I know that cotton in general requires a lot of water to grow, and is ultimately not the most eco-friendly fiber (linen and/or hemp is much better – and even alpaca or non-mulesed wool might be superior in terms of environmental impact), organic or not. Is organic cotton just greenwashing? Like bamboo was/is ten years ago?
+There are so many conflicting articles about what’s better or what’s worse, what we should do, what’s not worth it, about individual action, etc., etc. it can get overwhelming to figure out what to do. I’m going to stick with doing what I’m doing, which is trying to make the best choices I can given the information I have at the moment. No one is perfect, and LESS is better.
+Doing
+I’m looking forward to a quiet weekend, I don’t have anything planned. I did start hand quilting the square quilt I made last summer, thinking it will be great for the baby when he arrives, so I’ll try and work on that some. Otherwise, I’m fine with doing nothing. Nothing at all.
+How was your week? What are you doing this weekend?
+Earlier this week my sis-in-law posted this interesting article about, basically, the worse things we’ve done for the Earth is try to take care of it: The belief that “environmentally friendly” behavior can compensate for an unsustainable one can lead people to harm environment although they try to do good, suggests a study published in Frontiers in Psychology.
+This weekend – sewing slipcovers & pillow covers for some patio cushions – the fabric came on Wednesday. Just baked some blueberry crumble bars for husband to take to his r/c flying field tomorrow. Starting to sort through seasonal clothing more seriously now, as we hit 80 twice last week….(I mean, it was still 32 when I woke up, so….)
+I ADORE this outfit on you. The striped shirt, knit tube skirt, even the funky oxfords that are way outside my comfort zone – looks so well put together, interesting – and very you. The you of right now 🙂
+thank you kelly 🙂
+i am so in love with the shoes. they make me so happy. i’m already happy, but you know what i mean…
+oh! i’m switching out my clothes now too – washing all my sweaters and putting them away, finally. it’s still cool in the mornings, but it gets HOT later in the day! yay!!!
+and can’t wait to read that article, thank you for sharing it!
+Sadly, I think most people over consume. We humans are very adept at justifying our wants! Couple that with a culture that views possessions as indicators of success and wealth, gift giving as a sign of affection and love, etc…and it’s made a perfect storm for environmental destruction. I’m not sure the “ethical/sustainable” blog community/instagram etc. has done us any favors either, as pushing the purchasing of something under the guise of ethical manufacturing just creates a loophole for consuming more without regard to the fact that it is still consumption. Who cares if an Everlane cashmere sweater was produced in an ethical factory? What about Mongolia and the environmental degradation that happens as a result? I think it will require a paradigm shift in how we live and think to really make any meaningful change…and I just don’t see that happening.
+As for the cotton article…what about the health of the farmers/crop workers? The list of cancers associated with pesticide use is extensive. There’s a human cost as well as the environmental cost.
+It’s all rather overwhelming. I try to do my small part, but I know, on a deeper level, that I have more than I really ‘need’…because the list of needs to survive is actually quite small compared to the abundance we all enjoy.
+Anyway…cleaning and reading this weekend and enjoying the spring weather!
+i agree about overconsumption – i am absolutely guilty of that, and at justifying my wants LOL. i think it’s mostly because it’s so EASY to do, for most of us.
+fashion/style blogs in general – mine included – are loopholes for the blogger to consume more i think. I wouldn’t go as far as to say “without regard” to the fact that it’s still consumption though – I am well aware haha, sadly, I just choose to ignore it sometimes, and other times, i justify it even further since I have a built-in resale outlet. I probably wouldn’t consume as much if I didn’t have this blog. storq wouldn’t have sent me pieces to review, and i wouldn’t have credit at shopbop to spend without their support. But this is my “job” and i’ve tried to balance it the best i know how.
+i stopped working with everlane when i realized i was doing exactly that – taking/buying items to review, and working with them because they are “more ethical”, adding more and more things i didn’t need to my wardrobe. it still adds up. consumption is consumption. and anyway, everlane seems to be to be quickly becoming the “fast” fashion brand of ethical fashion bloggers/influencers, which i find annoying and frustrating. also their clothes don’t fit very well IMO.
+with regard to organic cotton and farmers that is a good point, but i think the “study” took into account pesticide use, etc., when considering the total environmental impact of organic vs. conventional. but they would have had to stick with what can be specifically measured and considered a direct result i’m guessing. not that we don’t know that exposure to those chemicals can cause cancer, etc. (ROUNDUP!!!), but it’s only starting to be “proven” from what I understand.
+for me the answer is for all conventional crops to move towards organic…
+Oops, I must not have been very clear…I wasn’t actually saying that blogging created a loophole for you or any other blogger/instagrammed, etc… to consume more (though I guess it does allow for that if one chooses …), what I meant is that the platforms available (that reach a large audience) are marketing tools (intended or not) and the shiny, new thing gets people’s attention, and said thing is “ethical” and click, the person on the other end has made a purchase without really considering consumption (especially when there is some kind of discount code available). Obviously this doesn’t apply to everybody! But I guess it’s not lost on me the number of people who have turned over their old wardrobes for a ‘sustainable/ethical’ one. Which plays into your point about Everlane becoming the fast fashion of the ethical world….they sell stuff out…people are still consuming at the same high rate and Everlane plays into that with constant new releases and new color ways!
+i didn’t think you were being accusatory, i just think it’s true, in a way. yes, reviewing items, etc., is our “job” as bloggers, but if you’re not careful, it can get out of control. it was for me, which was why i cut ties with everlane, at least in terms of receiving items directly to review.
+Yes to everything you said, Debi. And I’m the first one that needs to sign up for “over-consumers anonymous.”
+Love the top so much! You look just great. Happy!
+Almost all of my cotton totes are in regular use. One holds the kids’ library books, another some knitting, and a third my choir music. The rest, together with some reusable plastic bags (the woven/Tyvek-y kind – likely PET bags according to the article) are in weekly use when I grocery shop, whether or not I use all of them in any one go. I love canvas bags. They are also great for sorting kid and/or pet stuff during long car trips for easy finding and access. I can’t imagine the big cotton bags I’ve had for more than a decade are worse than getting twenty plastic, disposable grocery bags. I reuse the ones I do get for cat litter (another issue/another discussion) and small trash pail liners (and don’t replace until needed). At least that way they are used at least two times.
+7,000+ times, though? really?
+yeah, 7000 times is SO MANY TIMES!!! seems almost made up, really. i dunno…
+i read somewhere, not sure where, that sales of plastic garbage bags go up by a lot whenever a city institutes a plastic bag ban. makes sense, because those plastic grocery bags are perfect for bathroom garbage cans…i used to use them for all sorts of things. but now i just find ways to do without them, generally. my husband will sometimes take a target bag or whatever but he uses those over and over again for traveling, etc.
+I was almost in a panic when our town banned plastic bags. Oh no! What do we do with all of the cat poo?
+Your comment made me laugh! I am thinking, too, about how the more we try to do good, the more harm we sometimes do, and Mary’s comment about YEAH BUT I’D RATHER LOOK AT THE CANVAS BAGS.
+We need a Michael-Pollan-meets-William-Morris mantra.
+Buy things you know to be useful,
+Or believe to be beautiful.
+But not too much.
+Love this whole outfit. The top reminds me of an EF top I got rid of and wish I still had. You look very glowy by the way!
+The cotton bag conundrum…this is exactly why the conversation around better for the earth needs to be about doing better and not about being perfect. I once attended a TedX conference where Graham Hill spoke (yes, the treehugger convertible small space experiment Hill – that one) and he spoke about meat consumption. Assuming one did not want to become a vegetarian or vegan for other reasons, he shared some info how merely reducing one’s consumption can have a huge environmental impact.
+Totally agree about the buying less which is why I don’t speak a lot about my preference for small batch, natural dyed and sewn in the US dresses and my disdain for fast fashion to family/friends/co-workers. If they inquire (which some do) because they like my wardrobe I’ll share with them some of the lines I enjoy and some of the reasons why. But I do shop quite a bit still and any co-worker can easily see that I do so it would seem a bit not self aware to be preachy about it. By the way I don’t think blogging about it is preachy…it is the purpose of many blogs to share with the readers reviews, finds etc and I appreciate that content very much.
+“I’m not trying to be hard on myself, just realistic – and hold myself accountable.”
+– said smart Grechen
+Remembering you said this is exactly how you go into life and motherhood….
+I was sitting with a 92 year old acquaintance today and we were talking about how life passes by in the blink of an eye. I told her my “babies” will be 21 and 18 and it seemed like it happened overnight. I couldn’t help but tearing up!!! Am I a perfect Mom? Absolutely not but imperfectness and impermanence are both what make us real and effective.
+I can’t believe you are at your last trimester; it happened in a blink of an eye!
+haha. i can be smart sometimes 😉
+i’ll be in my third trimester in may – due date is 8/9. so not quite there, just halfway LOL
+It’s my birthday this weekend and I am planning to sew myself a nursing dress. (Planning to. I am 34 weeks pregnant so I might just…stare at the fabric and imagine what it would look like in dress shape.) I’ve tried to slow my consumption by learning how to make my own clothes, but it’s hard to resist stockpiling fabric now. I agree that the STOP BUYING really is the main thing.
+(I get free cotton tote bags a lot, and use them all the time. Plastic bags may not have to get used 7000 times, but they are so *annoying* to have around the house. Isn’t avoiding that annoyance worth something?! please?)
+What a fantastic group of readers you have, if I do say so myself. Haha! ;-). The outfit is adorable, pregnant or not. I can see that skirt working with SO many of your other pieces. And that’s what it’s all about.
+I get so overwhelmed by all of the conflicting info out there that sometimes I just want to scream. I think you’re right: It’s about doing better and consuming less. When I think about it, I’ve never purchased any of our shopping bag totes – they’ve all been freebie “GWP’s.” I’ll bet that’s true for a lot of us.
+No plans this weekend. Just saw “The Mustang” with my husband and it was really good. With both of us having worked with inmate populations – him at a federal prison and me with juveniles – we came away with strong feelings about the failures of our prison system to rehabilitate before pushing ex-cons back out into society. But that’s not what the movie was really about. Maybe I’ll read. Any suggestions, smart fellow readers?
+You look great! Glad you have found maternity clothes than feel good.
+My thanks to Lawrence A. Hoffman, Elliot Cosgrove, and Christine Rosen for their thoughtful responses to my essay, “The New High Holy Days.” My comments here proceed in reverse order of the responses’ sequential appearance in Mosaic.
+Writing as an outsider, albeit one who has attended Jewish High Holy Day services and has written extensively on religious life in America, Christine Rosen offers a valuable comparative framework. As she notes at the outset, the phenomenon of once-a-year Jews has its counterparts among so-called “C&E Christians” or “Chreasters.”
+The similarities don’t end there. Churches of various types have introduced many of the same approaches to worship as have synagogues. Music, including instrumental music, has become a staple; the choreography of services is carefully thought out in advance; and much attention is paid to hospitality and to welcoming diverse populations. And, writes Rosen, there are also strong parallels in the language and “messaging” offered in these different houses of worship. A general American style of service has emerged—a style incidentally to be encountered in Western Europe as well.
+In addition, Rosen has pithily captured the “two discrepant conversations” at the heart of my essay. Rabbis understandably are asking, “How do we remain relevant and keep congregations coming to worship” both on the High Holy Days and on other days of the year? Indeed, the bulk of my essay is devoted to an overview of the creative ways that synagogues are addressing precisely that issue. But, as she goes on to observe, there is a second question to be asked: “Should the quest for relevance (and numbers) take priority over tradition, and how might that affect the very purpose of synagogues?” The latter part of my essay identifies the costs of that quest. At stake, I conclude, is not only tradition but the particularity of Judaism and the very purpose of the Days of Awe.
+Rosen resonates with my concern about the tendency of synagogues to cater to congregants’ self-absorption, “short attention spans, and snap judgments”: hallmarks of our age, as she says, and hardly confined to Jews. She questions, as do I, whether the transformation of houses of worship into therapeutic environments is good for attendees, or for religion. To be sure, one of the purposes of prayer and community is to offer respite from the day-to-day stresses of life and thereby enable worshippers to attend to higher matters. But the unique power of religion is diluted when a therapeutic mindset pervades houses of worship.
+After all, cheerful exhortations about the power of self-esteem are one thing; lessons about Shabbat m’nuḥah (restorative rest) are another. Playing up to Do-It-Yourself Judaism is not the same as communicating an appreciation for the liberating effects of religious structure and obligation. Preaching social awareness to the choir is one thing; building a religious community where congregants practice social awareness by celebrating Shabbat and holidays together and supporting each other at times of joy and sorrow is something very different.
+Ultimately, as Rosen wisely urges, “the way forward . . . is not by expecting less of [congregants] but by expecting more, setting a higher standard and helping them achieve it.” So much of what is done on the High Holy Days and other occasions is instead aimed at the lowest common denominator. The logic employed is to get people through the portals, with little emphasis placed on where they will be led once inside. Non-judgmentalism, it seems, militates against any form of challenge. But isn’t religion meant to prod us out of our so-called comfort zones? Expectations, tactfully expressed and implemented, are indeed the only way forward.
+Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove notes a number of items in my essay with which he concurs. The issue of Jewish cultural illiteracy, for example, hits home with him. In this respect, however, he invokes a misleading rabbinic catchphrase that I deliberately eschewed, namely, the likening of most American congregants today to “captive children” who have been deprived of a deep Jewish education by having been raised in a non-Jewish environment. In the Orthodox world, this image, itself a classical rabbinic trope, is often invoked by rabbis to justify practices not normally acceptable under Jewish law—for instance, inviting Jews to a Sabbath meal when knowing they will desecrate the holy day by driving home afterward, teaching Torah to a non-Jew who happens to be married to a Jew, or counting a non-observant Jew in the prayer quorum.
+But does this captive-child trope really speak to the condition of American Jews? Are large swaths of the American Jewish population religiously illiterate because they have been denied a Jewish education by non-Jews? Are they passive victims of outside actors?
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+It does no good to pretend this is the case. No external authority shuts down synagogues and Jewish educational institution as was the case in the USSR and elsewhere behind the Iron Curtain. Rather, most Jewish parents choose to deny their children a strong Jewish education, and most synagogue schools choose to offer a thin Jewish education. American Jewish culture devalues the importance of the Hebrew language, celebrates Jewish heroes who for all their renown are ignorant of Judaism, and willingly defines the educated Jew as one with expert knowledge about every conceivable topic but Jewish civilization.
+We suffer from a vicious cycle—parents want only the bare minimum for their children and certainly don’t wish them to become “too Jewish.” Congregational schools, in turn, have cut back their hours to accommodate parents who value soccer over Jewish learning. And during those shortened hours the emphasis is on involving children in happy experiences rather than in acquiring Jewish skills and knowledge.
+Rabbi Cosgrove is uncertain whether I fault synagogues or ordinary Jews for this state of affairs. There is no single culprit; the fault lies within our community and its choice of values. As a modest start, why not open a conversation about this dire challenge eroding Jewish life? Wouldn’t a High Holy Day sermon be a good time to spur some much-needed soul-searching about the shallow Jewish lives so many of those who sit in the pews willingly lead? Nor should such a conversation be limited to synagogues.
+Rabbi Cosgrove is exercised about my “biting tone.” His own critique of me is hardly presented with a light touch. In his view, I’m a surprisingly ahistorical historian because I allegedly “propose a static set of Jewish beliefs from Moses to Moses Maimonides to Moses Mendelsohn.” Leave aside that the names of these individuals appear nowhere in my essay. More importantly, I nowhere suggest that Jewish tradition or the synagogue liturgy has been or need be unchanging. The issue is neither innovation nor experimentation, but whether all of today’s creativity offers a way into serious Jewish engagement or merely endorses the existing wants and prejudices of attendees.
+Most puzzling, Rabbi Cosgrove charges me with “disapprov[ing] of rabbis who not only create space for Jews questioning their belief in God but who openly admit their own struggles.” I do no such thing. I merely report what rabbis are doing to invite congregants to speak honestly about their doubts. Perhaps he has a different recollection, but I am not aware of many 20th-century rabbis who openly and publicly assured non-believers that a synagogue is the place for them. That is a fairly recent development and represents a marked shift in approach, which is the only reason I included it in my survey of what synagogues are now doing to draw people in.
+For the rest, let me put Rabbi Cosgrove at ease: I am not the unfeeling scold of his imagining.
+I’m glad that Lawrence A. Hoffman read my essay as a defense of synagogues against those who castigate them as hopelessly out of touch while declining to offer them financial or other support to improve what they deliver. Hoffman is acutely aware of this neglect. Over the decades, he, in partnership with Ron Wolfson, has worked assiduously, with limited resources, to help synagogues as best he can.
+As Hoffman writes, both federations and individual philanthropists tend to eschew support for synagogue programming. True, in recent decades a few federations have come around to seeing synagogues as vital players rather than as competitors or non-entities. The old distinctions between “federation Jews” and “synagogue Jews” have also fallen away as communal leaders have come to understand that synagogue Jews tend to be among the most involved in every kind of Jewish activity. Still, the foolish talk dismissing synagogues as yesterday’s institutions, and the fantasy of replacing them with some other agency, prevent the philanthropic sector from engaging with an institution that still attracts the largest numbers of living Jews.
+When it comes to my own, very different critique of synagogue life and practice, Hoffman graciously notes the many areas of agreement between us, but also underscores his dissent on certain points. To my decrying of Jewish cultural illiteracy, for example, he rejoins that, historically, deep Jewish knowledge was the preserve of elites.
+That’s certainly true; still, most Jewish men (though not women) knew their way around the prayer book. Those days are now long gone. Hoffman accepts the situation, but I can conceive of no revival of Jewish religious life that does not include Hebrew skills and sufficient knowledge to run a Jewish home and understand prayer services in synagogues. Without those, American Jews are doomed to a thin culture with no future. The folk culture of yesteryear worked because Jews inhabited their own enclaves; a Jewish population like ours, integrated within the larger society, can flourish only if it works intentionally to educate all of its members.
+Where he differs most from me, Hoffman states, is in my criticism of the embrace by synagogues of the “‘vague and faddish nostrums’” of ‘“hospitality, diversity, spirituality, creativity, non-judgmentalism, tikkun olam, [and] personalized religion.’” Acknowledging that some of these are indeed “meaningless nods to fad and fashion,” he nevertheless insists they can also help “direct proper attention to the frayed edges and rotten core of our private and social selves: exactly what the High Holy Days demand.”
+There is much to unpack here. I have no doubt that rabbis love to speak about the rotten core of our social selves, if by that Hoffman is referring to the many High Holy Day sermons about what rabbis regard as wrong-headed policies of a particular American or Israeli administration. By contrast, actually challenging congregants to look inside themselves for misdeeds and errors may be a bridge too far. Speaking “truth to power” is a favorite mantra of many a modern rabbi, but how many challenge their own congregants, let alone their boards, to deepen their Jewish involvements and priorities?
+I return here to a proposition voiced by Christine Rosen—namely, that current practices are bad for faith. When will we have a serious conversation about whether it is good for synagogues to take positions on politics, whether American or Israeli? One would have to live in a cave not to know that during this year’s High Holy Days, rabbis across the spectrum devoted at least one sermon to the doleful state of American politics and/or to bemoaning Israeli government policies. What special expertise do rabbis possess in these subjects?
+Several decades ago, a prominent Conservative rabbi in the Washington DC area told me about the time a congregant implored him not to rehash from the pulpit the latest column by William Safire, then a noted conservative who wrote regularly for the op-ed page of the New York Times. The name of the complainant was William Safire. And lest readers think I am opposed only to political discourse aimed critically at the current American and Israeli governments, I register here my grave disappointment with an Orthodox rabbi who in 2014 chose to focus his Yom Kippur sermon on the evils of a treaty with Iran then being pursued by a very different American administration.
+In the end, isn’t all the political and tikkun-olam talk an evasion of the actual purpose of synagogues? At best, it is a feel-good exercise that ratifies what congregants already believe. But it also represents an extension of the endless, universalizing distortion of Judaism’s particularistic messages.
+In our time, just about every holiday is deliberately stripped of its Jewish origin and message—and then generalized. The High Holy Days are seen by many rabbis as a time to rally support for the social or political cause du jour. Passover is not about the formative experience of the Jewish people but about the liberation of all peoples around the world from white hegemony and/or misogyny. Purim is a holiday celebrating a victory over any form of discrimination. Tu b’Shvat is about sustaining the environment—and so, for some, is Tisha b’Av, no longer a commemoration of the destruction of the ancient Temples but a bewailing of capitalism’s destruction of the environment.
+I understand the impulse to help Jews connect with Jewish religious life by transforming the unfamiliar into something recognizable. In essence, the message is: you are interested in issues of public policy, or in spirituality, or in social justice, or in the environment; well, the good news is that Judaism is interested in exactly the same things, and over the millennia has had much to say about whatever may be your preferred cause.
+Leave aside the accuracy or inaccuracy of that last claim. What if greater emphasis were placed on acknowledging that much of the Jewish tradition is foreign to us, that Judaism approaches the human condition in a different way from that of our present-day culture or from the latest editorials of the New York Times, and that, precisely in so doing, it casts our individual and communal aspirations in a radically new and enlivening light? What if synagogues tried to help their members become more familiar with the unfamiliar? Wouldn’t that open new vistas for teaching, for serious discussion, for heightened levels of literacy, for widened and brightened horizons?
+I submit these are worthy goals on the High Holy Days and other days of the calendar.
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+Seeing Stars: Famous Hollywood Streets.
+Sunset Boulevard is
+famous, but the best known portion of the boulevard is the mile and a half
+stretch of Sunset between Hollywood and Beverly Hills that has been dubbed
+"The Sunset Strip."
+Running between Crescent Heights Boulevard (on
+the east) & Doheny Drive (on the west), the Sunset Strip embraces
+a premier collection of rock clubs, restaurants, boutiques, and Hollywood
+nightspots that are on the cutting edge of the entertainment business.
+In the evening, the Strip is a vibrant slash of gaudy
+neon, a virtual traffic jam of young cruisers on weekends, a stimulating
+mecca for people-watchers and celebrity wannabes.
+Like some fabled caravan route between holy cities,
+the."
+Occasionally, these billboards are clever: the one
+for Disney's "Aladdin," for instance, featured a magic
+lamp that actually emitted smoke. Another, advertising a luxury car company,
+actually put $30,000 in cash on their billboard (watched over by a security
+guard).
+So let's take a look at what there is to see on the
+Strip, starting at the Strip's east end, and heading west:
+Sunset Strip
+attractions:
+[Even-numbered
+addresses are on the south side of Sunset;
+Odd-numbered addresses are on the north side of Sunset.]
+(click
+here to see an interactive map of the Sunset Strip.)
+Near
+the east end of the Strip, you'll find one of L.A.'s premier comedy clubs:
+The Laugh Factory, at
+8001 Sunset Boulevard (the northwest corner of Sunset & Laurel Avenue)
+(323) 656-1336
+The
+property right across the street from the Laugh Factory (8000 Sunset
+Boulevard, at Laurel) has an interesting history. A short while ago, the
+center housed the flagship store for the Virgin
+Megastore chain, before it went out of business. During its
+heyday, it saw customers like Winona Ryder
+and Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben
+Affeck, Henry Winkler, and Sharon Lawrence
+("NYPD Blue").
+The center still houses Crunch
+Gym, with its own celebrity following, and a popular multiplex.
+An
+historical footnote:
+That Virgin Megastore sat on the same spot where the legendary Schwab's Pharmacy
+once stood. In the movie "Sunset Blvd," William Holden's
+character calls Schwab's Drug Store "headquarters; a combination office,
+coffee klatch, and waiting room" for Hollywood writers. And
+so it was. F. Scott Fitzgerald (author
+of "The Great Gatsby") had a heart attack here in
+1940, while buying a pack of cigarettes. Songwriter Harold
+Arlin wrote "Over the Rainbow" (from "The
+Wizard of Oz") by the light of the Schwab's neon sign.
+Charlie Chaplin and Harold
+Lloyd used to play pinball in the back room. And the rumor still
+persists that Lana Turner was discovered at
+Schwab's, but it isn't true (see the article on Hollywood High
+for the real story). Alas, Schwab's was closed in 1986, and replaced
+by the Virgin Megastore a decade later.
+Another
+historical footnote: At the southwest
+corner of Sunset and Crescent Heights is the former site of the
+"The Garden of Allah,"
+a legendary Sunset Strip apartment complex, a series of bungalows and cottages,
+and site of countless wild Hollywood parties. It was actually a collection
+of private bungalows, frequented by stars such as Errol
+Flynn, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo,
+W.C. Fields, Humphrey Bogart,
+F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Marx
+Brothers, and Orson Welles. According
+to author and Hollywood historian Laurie
+Jacobson, Tallulah Bankhead swam
+naked in the pool here, and Marilyn Monroe
+was discovered here sipping a Coke next to that same swimming pool. Alas,
+they "paved paradise, put up a parking lot" (as the Joni
+Mitchell song said) when they tore down the old Garden of Allah.
+Today, the site contains just another tacky, modern strip-mall containing,
+among other things, an El Pollo Loco fast food stop. (There's an interesting
+web page about it at)
+Just
+a little west of that same historic corner, at 8200
+Sunset Boulevard (at Marmont Drive) is a giant statue of Bullwinkle
+the Moose (and his friend, Rocky, the Flying Squirrel). It used to stand
+next to the headquarters of the cartoon studio that made those Bullwinkle
+epics. Now, it's next door to a pet care center. Such are the tides of
+stardom...
+Right
+next door, at 8210 Sunset, is Libertine, a trendy nightclub
+with a celebrity following. (A few years back, it housed Union,
+another hot club/restaurant.)
+Across
+the street, hovering above the Strip at 8221 Sunset, is Chateau Marmont,
+the castle-like hotel where John Belushi
+died of a heroin overdose in 1982. (323) 656-1010
+The
+sidewalk café featured in the final scene of Woody
+Allen's "Annie Hall" was "The Source"
+restaurant," a vegetarian bistro located at 8301 Sunset (at Sweetzer
+Avenue). The sidewalk dining area has been semi-enclosed since the movie
+was shot there, and recently the restaurant changed hands and got a new
+name. It's now called 'The Cajun Bistro'.
+(323) 656-6388.
+"Carney's,"
+a novel restaurant that bills itself as "the little train on the right
+side of the tracks," is housed in a large yellow train car on the
+north side of Sunset (8351 Sunset Blvd.), located just west of Sweetzer
+Avenue. Actor Andrew McCarthy ("Mannequin") likes
+the place. So does Cuba Gooding Jr. (323)
+654-8300. (They have a website at)
+Back
+on the south side of the Strip, at 8358 Sunset, stands the historic
+Sunset Tower Hotel. In the 1990's,
+it was known as The Argyle Hotel. Before that, it was known
+as the St. James's Club & Hotel, a grand old 13-story building,
+the Strip's first high-rise (built in 1929), and one of Hollywood best
+examples of Art Deco design. But at the start, as now, it was called
+the Sunset Tower hotel, and virtually every star in Hollywood
+stayed here at one time or another. It was a favorite of Howard Hughes,
+who kept a number of suites here for his various girlfriends; other guests
+included Clark Gable, Jean Harlow,
+Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra
+and John Wayne (who is said to
+have kept a cow on the balcony outside his penthouse suite for fresh milk).
+In the 70's, the building was seen on the popular detective show "Cannon",
+as Cannon's apartment building. As the St. James, it housed a private club,
+hotel and restaurant, with members that included Liza Minnelli,
+Elizabeth Taylor, and David Bowie.
+It was also the locale for memorable poolside scenes from the movie 1992
+"The Player," and has also appeared in the "The
+Italian Job", "Get Shorty" and "Strange
+Days". Leonardo DiCaprio and
+friends were spotted at the Fenix bar at the Argyle. (323) 654-7100
+At
+8371 Sunset (at King's Road) is the Saddle
+Ranch Chop House. It's kind of hard to
+miss, considering the stagecoach out front and the manequin/saloon girls
+hanging from the balconies of the rustic wood building. Inside, besides
+grub, you'll find a mechanical bull (seen on "Desperate Housewives","American
+Idol", "Six Feet Under", etc. In July
+of 2010, Tom Cruise
+& Will Smith
+closed down the place for most of the day, while they met here to discuss
+a possible joint project. (This location started out as the former Thunder Roadhouse
+Cafe, opened by "Easy Riders" Dennis Hopper
+& Peter Fonda.)
+Worth a look. (323) 656-2007.
+At
+8430 Sunset is the House of Blues,
+a restaurant/bar/concert-house whose owners include actor Dan
+Aykroyd (of "The Blues Brothers")
+and the rock group Aerosmith.
+(323) 650-0247
+Just
+across Olive street (to the west) is The
+Sky Bar (at the Mondrian Hotel) - one of the hottest nightspots
+in L.A. right now. 8440 Sunset. (323) 848-6025
+And
+on the north side of Sunset is another major comedy club on the Strip:
+The Comedy Store, at
+8433 Sunset , where stand-up comics such as Jay Leno got
+their big break. (323) 656-6225.
+Historical
+note: There have always been famous nightspots on Sunset.
+When the boundary lines were drawn, this stretch of Sunset fell outside
+of the borders of the city of Los Angeles, and it flourished as an independent
+region not subject to the city's laws. Back in the mid-1930's, before Las
+Vegas lured away many big name acts, Sunset Boulevard contained the world's
+hottest nightspots.
+There was the famous trio nightclubs:
+The Trocadero (8610 Sunset), Ciro's
+(8433 Sunset), and The Mocambo (8588 Sunset),
+that were very popular with the show-biz crowd in their time.
+Ciro's
+(where the Comedy Store
+is today) may have been the most famous nightclub in the nation back then,
+where stars were not only in the audience but on the stage as well - stars
+watching stars! Desi Arnaz and his band played
+there on occasion, and Desi & Lucy danced
+there to other bands. Frank Sinatra punched
+a photographer here. Mae West even took the
+stage at one time to judge a bodybuilder's contest.
+All three of these historic nightclubs
+are gone now, but the Sunset Strip itself has remained a popular night
+spot through the decades, with modern rock clubs replacing the posh nightclubs
+of yesteryear.). But the Tiffany occasionally boasts stars
+of its own, in its live stage productions: In 1999, David Arquette
+("Scream") starred in a new musical version of "The
+Rocky Horror Show"; and in 1994 George Wendt
+("Norm" on "Cheers") and Ed
+O'Neill ("Al Bundy" on "Married with
+Children") shared the bill here in the play "Lakeboat."
+Look closely at the sidewalk in front of the arching doorway at 8524 Sunset,
+and you'll discover a plaque declaring that this is indeed the site of
+"77 Sunset Strip"; the series was filmed here from 1958
+to 1964.
+Just
+a block south of Sunset, at 1200 N Alta Loma Road, is the Sunset Marquis
+Hotel and its well-known celebrity haunt, the Whisky
+Bar. (310) 657-1333
+At
+8605 Sunset is a shop called Billy Martin's,
+a favorite clothing stop for Bruce Springsteen
+and Arnold Schwarzenegger,
+who are fans of their Western-style duds. (310) 289-5000
+On
+the south side of the street, near Sunset Plaza, at 8720 Sunset, is Le Dome,
+a celebrity restaurant that can boast Elton
+John as one of its founders. (310) 659-6919.
+A
+number of Hollywood celebrities have left their bare footprints in the
+wet cement outside of Kenneth
+Cole Shoes, at 8752 Sunset.
+Just
+above 8795 Sunset (at Horn) was Wolfgang Puck's original, world-famous
+Spago restaurant, the original
+celebrity restaurant. (Spago long since moved to Beverly Hills. But you
+can still see the large eye mural on the side of the building.
+Just
+across Sunset from the former Spago, at 8788 Sunset, was actor Woody
+Harrelson's eccentric new club/restaurant/oxygen
+bar, named O2. It didn't last
+long... The spot now houses a more traditional restaurant/bar.
+Music
+has always played a big role on the Strip. Besides the former Virgin Megastore,
+there was the venerable Tower Records
+flagship store (at 8801 Sunset), a Hollywood landmark where stars autographed
+CD's & shopped, and rock concerts took place in the parking lot.
+The building now houses Live on Sunset,
+a trendy clothing store. . (310) 657-7300.
+The Strip has always been famous
+for music and night life, so it is fitting that the west end of the Strip
+is anchored by a number of famous nightclubs:
+One
+of the best known clubs on the Strip if The
+Viper Room, at 8852 Sunset. Owned by Johnny
+Depp, it's where actor River
+Phoenix died.
+"The
+Whisky" (8901 Sunset, at Clark/San
+Vicente): the world famous spot where Jim
+Morrison and The
+Doors started out (as the house band in 1966).
+So did the Who.
+the Kinks,
+the Byrds, Led
+Zeppelin, AC/DC
+and Jimi Hendrix
+also played there. It was the birthplace of go-go dancing back in the 1960's
+- and the club is still going strong (with mostly heavy metal bands). During
+their first visit to L.A., the Beatles
+were invited to the Whisky by actress Jayne
+Mansfield. When the press ambushed them there,
+a temperamental George Harrison
+threw his drink at a pesky photographer, and hit another actress (Mamie
+Van Doren) by mistake. (310) 652-4202.
+"The
+Roxy" (9009 Sunset, at Hammond St.):
+perhaps Hollywood's best rock club; and definitely the most popular club
+for celebs; where Rod Stewart
+met his future wife, supermodel Rachel Hunter.
+Over the years, it has seen performances by David
+Bowie, Bruce
+Springsteen, Neil
+Young and Prince.
+(310) 276-2222.
+The
+Rainbow Bar & Grill (9015 Sunset):
+former site of the Villa Nova restaurant, where Marilyn Monroe
+had her first date with future husband Joe DiMaggio
+in 1953, and where Judy Garland
+became engaged to Vincente Minnelli (Liza's
+father) in 1945. (The Villa Nova has since relocated to Newport
+Beach.) As the Rainbow, it has attracted the likes of John Lennon,
+Mick Jagger
+and Led Zeppelin.
+More recently, the Rainbow's customers have included Sly
+Stallone, Robin
+Williams, Nicolas
+Cage, Robert De Niro
+and Jack Nicholson.
+(310) 278-4232
+Across
+the street, at 9039 Sunset, is the Key
+Club. (310) 274-5800
+The
+Troubadour isn't actually on Sunset, but
+it's only about a half mile south of the Strip, at 9081 Santa Monica Blvd
+(just east of Doheny). The club opened back in 1957. It was here where
+Elton John performed
+his first show in the United States (on August 25, 1970); he was introduced
+by Neil Diamond).
+In that same year, a drunken John Lennon
+heckled the Smothers Brothers
+here and was thrown out of the club (along with his friend, Harry
+Nilsson).
+Randy Newman started out here. The Eagles (Don Henley & Glenn Frey)
+first met here in 1970 ("You know, the Troubadour Bar was the center of
+the universe at that point in time", said Don.) Comics
+Cheech & Chong
+were discovered here. Elton returned to do a series of special anniversary
+concerts in 1975. Later, the club became virtually synonymous with heavy
+metal bands such as Mötley Crüe.
+(310) 276-6168.
+...as
+you drive farther west on Sunset, past the end of the Sunset Strip and
+the Los Angeles city limits, Sunset Boulevard suddenly undergoes a startling
+transformation. The harsh city streets and eccentric storefronts of West
+Hollywood abruptly disappear, and are replaced by broad, emerald green
+lawns and elegant white mansions.
+Welcome to Beverly
+Hills...
+The Hollywood
+Chamber of Commerce: (323) 469-8311
+The West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce: (323) 650-2688
+The Beverly Hills Visitors Bureau: (310) 271-8174.
+[A
+Word of Warning: like all big cities, parts
+of Sunset Blvd can be dangerous at times. Exercise reasonable caution.]
+Getting
+there: The Sunset Strip is that part of
+Sunset Boulevard (in west Hollywood) which begins at Crescent Heights Boulevard
+(just west of Fairfax) and runs west to the Beverly Hills city limits (at
+Doheny Drive). / To reach the Strip from the Hollywood (101)
+Freeway, take the Sunset Boulevard exit, and go west on Sunset Boulevard,
+(about three miles) to beyond Crescent Heights Boulevard. / From Rodeo
+Drive, take Rodeo Drive north to Sunset Boulevard, then turn right
+(east) on Sunset.
+Looking
+for something in particular? Search the Seeing-Stars website!
+Advertise
+on seeing-stars.com
+(Click
+here to read disclaimers)
+Holocaust Museum Shooter Left a Note (Updated)
+[Guest post by DRJ]
+James von Brunn reportedly left a note in his car that included these statements:
+!”
+UPDATE: Strong words from von Brunn’s son:
+“I cannot express enough how deeply sorry I am it was Mr Johns, and not my father who lost their life,” the shooter’s Florida-based son said.
+Erik von Brunn said his father’s hatred for racial minorities and Jews destroyed his family, and resulted in the divorce between him and Erik’s mother.”
+— DRJ
+Good on Erik…
+harsh words, but true.
+What an awful, awful event.
+My heart goes out to him too.SteveG (c99c5c) — 6/12/2009 @ 6:51 pm
+I’m glad to hear that his family got the hell away from their nutbag father – many don’t ever get that opportunity.Dmac (f7884d) — 6/12/2009 @ 6:56 pm
+So many comments, so little time to read through them all.Larry Reilly (45e7a4) — 6/12/2009 @ 7:01 pm
+Well, Sean Hannity hasn’t touched it. So I understand.
+I expect maybe one or two of the munchkins in his room — feelin’ all put upon and shtuff — are thinking, “At least his heart was in the right place.”
+Larry
+what the hell are you talking about?SteveG (c99c5c) — 6/12/2009 @ 7:08 pm
+Speaking from my own experience as a world class stream of consciousness babbler, I can’t even begin to understand where you are coming from.
+“At least his heart was in the right place.”
+Larry Reilly, are you insinuating that there are people here who believed Von Brunn’s, the father who murdered, heart was in the right place? is that what you’re saying?Dana (aedf1d) — 6/12/2009 @ 7:11 pm
+Larry, incoherent or a liar. Which are you?SPQR (26be8b) — 6/12/2009 @ 7:21 pm
+Both. It’s probably a sock puppet of one of our resident trolls. A check of IP addresses might help.Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (0ea407) — 6/12/2009 @ 7:25 pm
+Not a sock puppet, just a moronic babbling imbecile.JD (674253) — 6/12/2009 @ 7:27 pm
+SPQR – Why pick? It is clearly both.JD (674253) — 6/12/2009 @ 7:39 pm
+Even with this, the concept of “hate crimes” is asinine. When someone fires a bullet into your face because he hates you for not giving up your wallet and watch, that should also be a “hate crime”.Wesson (03286d) — 6/12/2009 @ 8:12 pm
+wesson, that’s a pretty stupid assertion to makeJEA (cfa52b) — 6/12/2009 @ 8:14 pm
+I’ll bet he is, or had been, a registered Democrat. Where do you find racists and anti-Semites ? Which party was the choice of the Klan? This is all history and they are trying to rewrite it. What party is Robert Byrd a member of ?
+This is the left wing creeps trying to send the history of the Democratic Party down the memory hole.Mike K (2cf494) — 6/12/2009 @ 8:21 pm
+Nobody with half a brain gives a flying fuck about some psychopath’s party registration.
+People do shitty things (and/or good things) regardless of party affiliation. Neither the left nor the right has a monopoly on homicidal maniacs.Leviticus (20b7ac) — 6/12/2009 @ 8:30 pm
+Keep it up Mike. When the room is completely empty the echo sounds really great.David Ehrenstein (2550d9) — 6/12/2009 @ 8:36 pm
+Leviticus – After weeks of wall-to-wall coverage about how right wingers have blood on their hands over Tiller, do you not understand why we might like to point out that this clown’s ideology matches more closely to Barcky’s spiritual advisor than the Right? Can you not see when people try to pin Von Brunn on the Right, that it is more than a little bit ironic when he turns out to be a registered Dem? Don’t you understand that if this guy hated neocons, hated Jews, had Weekly standard address on him, hated Bush, and hated Reagan, he might not be of the Right?JD (584916) — 6/12/2009 @ 8:47 pm
+Um. DE has how many comments on his own blog? I mean, if he is going to criticize people for writing things that “drive off” others, I mean.Eric Blair (5a226d) — 6/12/2009 @ 8:52 pm
+The people that tried to pin Tiller’s murder on Republicans in general where behaving like morons, and shouldn’t be emulated. Do we want to raise the level of discourse in this place beyond the Pissing Contest setting, or don’t we? Because lately it seems that all we do is bitch about a bunch of petty BS, argue with trolls (instead of ignoring them), and generally waste our time by abstaining from substantive deliberation. And it’s really annoying.Leviticus (20b7ac) — 6/12/2009 @ 8:55 pm
+That’s true, Leviticus. But some of the recent hypocrisy is surely galling. Things like the NOW decision regarding Letterman give me hope that there might be some change from the Usual Approach.Eric Blair (5a226d) — 6/12/2009 @ 9:01 pm
+lately it seems that all we do is bitch about a bunch of petty BS, argue with trolls (instead of ignoring them), and generally waste our time by abstaining from substantive deliberation.
+Leviticus – complete agreement, although that is a triple redundant statement. As the trolling goes up, my interest in this site goes down.Apogee (e2dc9b) — 6/12/2009 @ 9:12 pm
+Even with this, the concept of “hate crimes” is asinine. When someone fires a bullet into your face because he hates you for not giving up your wallet and watch, that should also be a “hate crime”.
+Comment by Wesson — 6/12/2009 @ 8:12 pm
+wesson, that’s a pretty stupid assertion to make
+Comment by JEA — 6/12/2009 @ 8:14 pm
+I guess I’m closer to Wesson, although I wouldn’t use the same example.
+What will you do different to the perpetrator? Execute him twice? Give him two life sentences, back to back?MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 6/12/2009 @ 9:14 pm
+“When the room is completely empty the echo sounds really great.”
+It’s wonderful when someone who has actual real world experience with great sounding echoes in empty rooms shares the wisdom.
+This reminds me of a bumpersticker I saw on a VolvoSteveG (c99c5c) — 6/12/2009 @ 9:17 pm
+Yes, Leviticus, you are right. But I also sense you at least understand where the frustration stems from.JD (54b33c) — 6/12/2009 @ 9:38 pm
+Even with this, the concept of “hate crimes” is asinine.
+Moreover, the people in the judicial and legislative branches of government — not to mention the public in general — who are more likely to embrace the concept of hate crimes also are the same ones most likely to get teary eyed over felons being sentenced to death, or to rationalize away a criminal’s deeds with ideas like “well, his mother didn’t love him enough.” Or “if there were more jobs available, or if welfare were more generous, or if public schools were better funded, or if healthcare were free, or if discrimination still weren’t a problem, the person in question never would have turned to a life of crime in the first place!!”
+People do shitty things (and/or good things) regardless of party affiliation.
+But the judges and juries (not to mention the legislators, or trial lawyers, etc) that tend to rationalize or excuse away such behavior are more likely to come from the left.Mark (411533) — 6/12/2009 @ 9:47 pm
+The people that tried to pin Tiller’s murder on Republicans in general where[sic] behaving like morons
+Trying?
+I’d say they succeeded.
+I heard a clip of Rush bloviating today trying to connect this guy to the liberals.
+For a brief moment, I almost felt sorry for the “conservatives.”
+The stupid coming from him was so pathetic it must burn his acolytes.poon (093c46) — 6/12/2009 @ 9:51 pm
+Exhibit A, Leviticus. People like poon could not wait until the bodies were cold before they started dancing on their graves pointing fingers at the Right.JD (579091) — 6/12/2009 @ 10:29 pm
+So ignore it. I do.Leviticus (20b7ac) — 6/13/2009 @ 12:45 am
+“James von Brunn reportedly left a note in his car that included these statements:”
+The guy is a total loon, and apparently a cold-blooded murderer in the bargain.
+Basically, a waste of skin.
+What more need be said?Dave Surls (61d018) — 6/13/2009 @ 7:31 am
+Keep it up Mike. When the room is completely empty the echo sounds really great.
+Not that this will surprise anyone, but Davey’s own web site has a traffic count of approximately zero – unless you count himself, sitting in front of his screen with one hand clapping. As to the other hand? Well, let’s just say that his supply of Jergen’s is running low these days.Dmac (f7884d) — 6/13/2009 @ 7:41 am
+I feel really sorry for his family.
+Also, ignore the trolls.Techie (482700) — 6/13/2009 @ 7:55 am
+Changing the subject to other haters; how about those Iranian elections?
+Obama and his media were talking about hotly contested elections, robust debate, run offs….
+What a bunch of idiots, of course the dictator wins by a thumping margin.
+Chavez won his reelection, Raul Castro will win, Morales will take Bolivia and Ortega will win again in Nicaragua. North Korea will report what the people have chosen and the junta in Myanmar will continue doing whatever they want.
+These people use elections as a charade… a charade that brings out the dissidents which is cool because now the dictators police, paramilitaries and rabid supporters can identify and crush the opposition, ruin the businesses, families, lives. Jail them.
+I get the feeling the way far left and the way far right (who are really the same inside, it’s only the outside wrapper that is different) would be OK with destroying people who think differently than they.
+How close are we to this type of personal destruction?SteveG (c99c5c) — 6/13/2009 @ 8:24 am
+Totalitarian thought, and the underlying Fascism that supports it, is the staple of PC, and is almost exclusively found in the Academy, with the exception of some institutions such as Hillsdale and others.AD - RtR/OS! (42a55e) — 6/13/2009 @ 10:54 am
+The Progressive Movement is nothing but a relabled Totalitarian-Socialist Movement that is attacking the Liberty and Freedom of Western (Read: U.S.) Man, and will not rest until the last increment of Freedom has been subsumed to the Good of the Communtariat.
+…and, of course, there is always this….AD - RtR/OS! (42a55e) — 6/13/2009 @ 11:24 am.
+Comment by poon — 6/12/2009 @ 9:51 pm
+Have you libs resisted calling the security guard a “little Eichmann” so far?jcurtis (f2b233) — 6/14/2009 @ 8:43 am
+A friend sent me a link to a story about some unique market research taking place in the auto industry. The article was written by Kate McCloud and appeared in the East Bay Times. McCloud is also affiliated with GirlDriverUSA.
+“Think of it as the woman’s revenge, or a great learning experience: General Motors had its male engineers run around the Milford Proving Grounds in skirts, heels, pocketbooks and fake fingernails,” the article starts. “No, they weren’t getting ready for a drag competition. They were learning what some women go through when they deal with automobiles.”
+The story describes the event as the brainchild of Mary Sipes, one of several women who reached the upper levels of GM management. She came up with the idea a few years ago that transformed the way GM designs SUV.
+“When these current SUVs were in development, Sipes took the future, full-line SUV team out to the proving grounds to do vehicle testing. They expected the usual driving exercises, but she had another idea. On the way she stopped at a shoe store to buy several pairs of size 12 high heels.
+“The men were then required to go through what women do routinely every day..”
+It was a brilliant strategy because now the vehicles are much better designed for use by women. And it worked. According to an AP story published Sept. 6, 41 percent of luxury vehicles sold so far this year were bought by women, up from 37 percent five years ago.
+So, why doesn’t the RV industry do the same type of thing? It is a well-known joke that people who design RVs never use them.
+Some may object to that statement — strenuously — but how else can you explain the stupidity of putting the bathroom at the top of the stairs of a fifth wheel, behind a door that can’t be opened when the slideout is in?
+Or stapling instead of screwing the bottoms of pantry drawers so they can’t hold the weight of anything other than a bag of extra large marshmallows as the RV bounces down the road?
+Or installing outlets intended to power gadgets laid on counters or tables, but won’t allow power cords to reach those gadgets when the slides are extended?
+Or putting the water inlet connection an arm’s length inside a compartment that can only be reached by someone on his or her knees trying not to bump the opened compartment door overhead?
+Experienced RVers go through new RVs at shows just scratching their heads wondering what blend of cannabis the designers were smoking when they dreamed up a layout that looked nice on paper, but in reality was full of quirks.
+Over the years, I’ve heard of a few manufacturers brave enough to bring in an RVer to do a walk through on a new unit that just came off the assembly line in order to flag problems in usability. But, the RV makers discontinued the practice because the RVers were finding fault with too many things.
+It’s a great idea, but the testing was done too late in the process. Rather than having sales managers walk through prototype units making suggestions based on what they think an RV owner would want to see in a motorhome or towable, that’s when RV manufacturers should bring in experienced RV owners to seek their input.
+Another dirty little secret in the RV industry is that most marketing is targeted toward men, but it’s women who are the final decision makers as to where the family’s vacation dollars will be invested. So, yes, flashy bling works in attracting attention, but poor layout and features prevents families from raving about their RVs after they’ve used them.
+It might be a good idea for RV manufacturers to really get inside the minds of RV owners by actually using RVs to learn for themselves what is truly a useful and appreciated feature, and what is simply wasteful bling.
+Check out East Bay Times story “Today’s GM trucks are designed by men in skirts.”
+This goes for the suppliers too! Thermostats that require a magnifying glass to read the temperature! Switches with unreadable labels.
+You get the idea… RV’s are being bought by Baby Boomers who have bad eyes, bad knees, sore backs, etc.
+They make cell phones with big buttons… hint, hint. It’s in the industries’ best interests to address these things.
+This is so “right on the money” that I could not help but comment. I personally own what is considered to be
+a “high-end” fifth wheel and I constantly wonder 1. Why are the water routing valves located under the floor
+and behind a cargo shield when I need to access them at least twice a year? 2. Why is the plastic they are
+made of such cheap material that I am afraid they will break just by rotating them 90 degrees? 3. Even though
+there are marble counters, why are the water fixtures so cheap that they wear out and leak just from a couple
+years of light use? 4. Why don’t the automatic rear stabilizer jacks actually stabilize anything. I had to buy
+manual screw jacks to place under the rear carriage to stop the wiggles. These are just a few things that
+we have noticed. Glad to see that others are speaking up. The retail price of one of these units is about
+par to a residential purchase. Would like to believe it would last longer considering the investment. Good
+work, and keep up the spot light. Who knows? It might just make a difference.
+KJ your right , Greg is doing a great job , just wish there was something the end users can do. I have E Mailed CEO ‘s of three RV companies pleading with them to help some people I know regarding problems with their very high end motor homes only to never hear from them. They need to get out from the desk , go outside , pick out a unit in the color they like , drive it home , load it up with food ( if you can get to the fridge) , wife the kids and the dog and head out for a few days of Family Fun ! I’ll bet the first fifty miles the kids are bitch’n about the sofa being to narrow ,the wife’s unhappy because the floor slide out did not slide and her feet are hanging the dog is scared to death because it sounds like it’s going fall apart inside and the CEO is driving white knuckles because it’s wont go straight . Once there they find out the hot water does not work ,there’s no room to set down and take a crap , it’s now dark outside and the power shades don’t work ! And it’ only the first night. Maybe then the CEO will do something. I don’t think so . He just wont go out in one again .
+Tom, You know what? I might just start a blog that addresses these issues exclusively.
+I would invite any and all comments and experiences that specifically target the way
+RVs are put together. Perhaps a daily focus and constant input from consumers could add
+some impact to the work already being done. For instance, In speaking with a friend about this last night, he shared some of his insights. He and his wife were quite inspired by our purchase of a 5th wheel, so they went out and made an acquisition of their own. After several weeks of shopping, they bought a 35′ pull- behind. How proud they were when they broughtit home and displayed it in their driveway. They rolled out the slides only to discover that the largest living room slide stuck in the out position and they had to have the service guy out to unstick it. After a week waiting for the guy to come out and fix it, they were finally ready for their “maiden cruise”. They got to a beautiful spot and were having a great time until they went to bed and discovered that their feet stuck out over the end of the “queen size bed” by about 3 inches. They are 5’9″ and 5’7″ respectively. Hmmmm. They continued their trip the next day to find that when the dark water tank approached being full, it simply broke the straps that hold it to the undercarriage and the whole thing (gunk and all) went crashing to the ground. Nice. Somehow they got home and went to get it repaired AGAIN. Next trip they turned a water valve the wrong way and sewage went all over their bedroom and bath. Maybe that one was not the mfg. fault, but still. Anyway the point is that these stories are all to common and perhaps a dedicated spotlight would help consumers and manufactures get together. What does anybody else think? Send replies to Kellystanton1@hotmail.com if you would like to participate or share a story.
+KJ
+I have been involved in several meetings with RV executives through FMCA, Monaco International, HR 419 rallies, etc. They always want to know what they should be doing to make their products better. At EVERY meeting the suggestion is made that the designers (engineers) should be required to live in their design for 6 months. They should also pack up and move every week. Taking an RV for a quick weekend with the family doesn’t offer enough time to really experience the RV lifestyle.
+So far I’m not aware of any company that does this.
+Jean, that is EXACTLY what my wife and I think should happen. Any designer at an RV place should be given the keys to a RV of some sort (whatever they are supposed to design) and they must take the family, gear, dogs, and hit the road for 30 days. And yes, move every week to a new location a minimum of 300 miles away. I would wager you will find RVs with larger refrigerators, an actual pantry, linen cabinets, and much better floor plans than you see currently. We just purchased a fifth wheel to replace our 3 year old travel trailer; I developed a spread sheet with all of the “Must Haves” and then listed features which would be nice to have. It paid off when we found three that met our needs and made a deal for one last week. Also, RVs should come with a schematic showing where the water lines run, how the coach is wired for TV/Satellite (our Heartland had this one), and where the runs for the electrical are located. If you are in a state park and boon docking when a water starts dripping out of the bottom of the trailer, it would be nice to know where to start looking.
+RVDA founder
+Again Greg, you hit the nail on the head. It seems that you’ve been doing quite a bit of useful research for the executives of the RV industry lately, but the big question is, what are they doing about it? Having all managers spend at least a few days in their products seems to be a real no-brainer.
+Or possibly they simply take too much pride seeing all of those shiny boxes exiting the factory doors and are valuing quotas over customer satisfaction.
+One more suggestion…
+When a RV is being delivered from the factory to the dealership, each driver should have a checklist and report any irregularities to the receiving dealership so they can be repaired prior to delivering it to a customer. The RV should have water in the tanks and the valves need to be tested before and after the trip. Surely this would address issues such as a misaligned steering wheel or noticeable squeaks, creaks and leaks.
+Wow! Another great opinion piece, Greg. I couldn’t agree more.
+I own what is supposed to be a mid-range, reasonably well engineered, travel trailer yet I constantly find myself say, “What were they thinking!”. For example, the trailer came with a hair dryer installed in the bathroom yet the fan in the same bathroom was one of those cheap units. Had someone asked me, I’d tell them to keep the d@#* hair dryer and install a real fan. Or, installing the city water connection right next to the black water clean-out connection. Guess what happens after a long and tiring day on the road. Those are just a couple of examples. I have many more.
+In the overall scheme of things, none of my issues are mission critical serious but they do seem to illustrate the saying, “Those who design RV’s don’t actually use them”.
+Love the podcast and web site. Keep up the great work.
+ps; I think you are a great influencer 🙂
+Greg, again, I find little to argue with you about on this one. So much of what RV mfrs do just leaves me scratching my head and walking away from many, many RVs that simply don’t meet my needs and desires. There is just a total disconnect between owners and mfrs’ execs. I’m still of the opinion that the interior fabric designers are left-over hippies from the ’60’s having acid flashbacks, they are so ugly…
+Back in ’92 I was involved in two cross country “prototype drives” 5 cars (a prototype 94, current production model and 3 similar model competitor cars). We didn’t just try to get across the country on the Interstates but basically drove state highways with dozens of different surfaces. We would drive for 1/2 hour then ride for 1/2 hour making notes then rotate to next car. The trip took about 5 days as I recall. Living with the car you discovered it wasn’t possible to tune radio if in 5th gear, Discovered some cup holders would not securely hold various drinks along with numerous noise, ride and vibration issues. There were interior panel engineers, tire engineers, suspension engineers, engine and transmission people too.
+RV doesn’t have to get as involved but I bet just requiring the top folks to live and commute in their product for a week without re-stocking any clothes or food etc would result in dramatic improvement in the product line.
+eDonkey Pays the Recording Industry $30M 270?
+recording industry? (Score:4, Insightful)
+Go away. Please.
+Re: (Score:2, Funny)
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+Go away. Please."
+even if the current RIAA is gone, there will always be some type of recording industry around. It's just too lucrative.
+also, most artists have no experience marketing, selling, or dealing with the right people that will get them the high-paying gigs they need to continue performing and feed their family and or make the rent.: (Score:2, Interesting)
+Are you suggesting GoogleMusic?
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+I hope you know that the type of rap and hip-hop you talk about here is the kind which is foisted upon the airwaves by the recording industry, put on by the likes of 50 Cent, Chingy, etc. I used to dislike this genre myself for this reason.
+Then a friend turned me on to good hip-hop. Like Common, Hieroglyphics, and Mos Def to name a few, real hip-hip artists who you rarel
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+Re:recording industry? (Score:4, Insightful)
+Re: (Score:2)
+"I don't know if they should go away, but for crying out loud adapt to the Internet. This is the new format. They all need to work together and remarket their products. They still expect people to buy their CD's by the billions as if CD's are still new technology. They still think they can put out 1-2 songs and then throw in 8 other songs to fill up a disc. The market is changing, so they need to change with it."
+Check out the iTunes Music Store sometime. Most of the major record labels are on board,.
+Music magically appears, for free (Score:2)
+The problem is not that music is easy to pirate and therefore copyright is meaningless and music should be free. Please stop insisting on that, it
+Good thing (Score:4, Funny)
+Re:Good thing (Score:5, Interesting).
+Re: (Score:2)
+Not saying that it's right, just that it does seem to be the status quo.
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+I got called into jury duty a few months ago and when I showed up I was assigned to a case. But they had all of the potential jurors just stand out in the hallway for what seemed like an hour. The whole time there was this nervous looking group of people down the hallway from us.
+Eventually the judge called just the jurors into his chamber and gave us a very friendly talk about how we had just
+Re: (Score:2)
+You must not be very good at poker (Score:2)
+This is more like YOU were bluffing, and I just raised you big time, and you know that all you hold is a pair of deuces, so you fold to my bet. It's not that they can't afford to fight it--christ, they have at least $30,000,000--it's that they know that they don't have a case.
+Re: (Score:2)
+its called a settlement.... (Score:2)
+It happens all the time. Big company with mean lawyer informs small company that if they dont' pay up we will litigte you to all hell. Even if we lose you will still be paying $30mil in lawyers fee and lost revinue so save yourself the trouble and pay us now. It's called legal blackmail.
+Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
+Morte d' Robertson (Score:4, Interesting)
+The media congloms win lots of battles while losing the war.
+Re:Morte d' Robertson (Score:5, Insightful)
+But that's almost as impractical as SCO's lawsuit(s)
+Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
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+I don't see how. Right now the industry has to compete on price with FREE. If they successfully eliminate that competition, why would they lower the prices?
+Re: (Score:2)
+I've got a bridge to sell you...
+Here's my thoughts on stopping that.... (Score:3, Interesting)
+Tell em Leia (Score:2)
+Re: (Score:2)
+time to cash out (Score:3, Interesting)
+Sounds like they've made their fortune, and have made the decision to pay the piper and cash out. I have no doubt that MetaMachine's profits were far in excess of $30 million.
+Re: (Score:2)
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+It logs your IP address. (Score:5, Insightful)
+Get this... (Score:5, Funny)
+Re: (Score:2)
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+Assuming that this is correct, even a 486 or so on a single T1 could probably handle over 100 hits per second.
+Re: (Score:2)
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+innocent until proven guilty (Score:2)
+Re: (Score:3, Funny)
+I logged onto every one of our servers and lynx'ed to it. just so if someone is actually reading the logs can wonder why they get XX.XX.XX.130,131,132,133,....152.
+Vertical: (Score:3, Insightful)
+Re:Never ending gravy train (Score:4, Informative)."
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+To make good music, you don't need a multi-million dollar budget or massive amounts of bling. The RIAA could disappear from the face of the planet and music would, if anything, improve as we are exposed to a more diverse selection.
+Movies, on the other hand, often need a high budget. You can't make the Matrix or LotR or Star Wars or 90% of the other movies that slashdotters love without HUGE budgets. The MPAA needs movie tickets and DVD sales to survive. Granted, the
+Re: (Score:2)
+it's only natural everybody uses eMule (Score:5, Funny)
+Ducking Fisgusting. (Score:2, Insightful) bef
+Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
+Oh? How about all those years that people used Agent Pro, or Netscape News Reader, or
+...? software writers turned a decent profit from those items for quite awhile.
+And, umm, "NNTP", not "HTTP". You know, like "USENET". Will no one rid me of these troublesome newbs!?
+Or were you referring to proprietary vs. open standards for transferr
+Re: (Score:2)
+"Customer motivations have nothing to do with sales intent, otherwise gun and knife makers would be civilly liable for every murder committed with their products. Come to think of it, that's a pretty good parallel (and a reason why most lawsuits against gun makers have failed utterly on such premises...)"
+Napster tried that argument what, five years ago? They were laughed out of court.
+Make no mistake: Sam and Jed know damn well that their software is used primarily for piracy. Jed told me so himself,
+Re: (Score:2)
+Ah - I should've been more clear: a company's officially stated intent, so long as it is incontrovertable (that is, as long as someone can't prove otherwise w/ solid evidence), cannot b
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+"The Napster case - wasn't their defense destroyed because Fanning basically admitted to his intent in an interview?"
+My understanding is that it was due to some internal emails, but yeah, your understanding is correct. There was hard evidence that they knew what they were doing.
+The record labels are going after the P2P companies based not on the Napster ruling, but on a later case, known as the Morpheus ruling, or MGM vs. Grokster. You can read about it on the EFF site [eff.org]. It gave the record companies th
+I wonder... (Score:3, Insightful)
+Re: (Score:2)
+I have a question.... (Score:5, Interesting)
+Re: (Score:2)
+Has another company gone broke because the RIAA are a bunch of assholes?.
+Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
+"I hate to say it, but it could also be that your friend isn't very good at his job. It's not a flame or anything, it's just that I run my own business too and I've seen as many people go bust because they aren't any good as I've seen people become millionaires and not have a clue what they're doing."
+Could be... I don't know, either. But the point I'm making is that your average indie label is likely a lot smaller than the typical Slashdotter imagines. Five or ten-person labels are quite common, and p?
+Re: (Score:2)
+visiting the site after reading the news story is normal legal behaviour, not evidence that you have shared anything or grounds to investigate further.
+of course if your running ubuntu you wouldnt have any reason to visit the site even if you did wa
+Let's not forget aMule... (Score:4, Informative)
+Where does all this money come from? (Score:3, Interesting)
+Re: (Score:2)
+Re: (Score:2)
+The investors in eDonkey?
+Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
+"Where does all this money come from? Weren't they distributing a free program to allow the free swapping of digital files? Where does the $30M show up from?"
+Giving something away for free, which helps people get free music, does not necessarily mean that you are a philanthropist. Sam and Jed were very much in it for the money. And they did very well. They are millionaires. So are the principals of Sharman Networks, the folks behind Kazaa.
+It's ironic, because many people justify their piracy becau
+Re: (Score:2))
+Pay the RIAA? Are you kidding me? (Score:2)
+Gnapster vs. OpenNap all over again. (Score:3, Interesting)
+Let them keep attacking, because we will always have someone out there out-innovating the money-hungry RIAA and MPAA.
+Re: (Score:2)
+summary: (Score:2)
+Ohnoes! (Score:2)
+IP logging? (Score:2).
+thanks for the reminder, RIAA (Score:2, Funny)
+How much it matter? (Score:2)
+Just a teeny little bit?
+Viewing a webpage is not a copyright infrightment (Score:2, Informative)
+------ -removed- and has been lo
+What a shame (Score:2)
+Welcome your new Robber Overlords - the RIAA (Score:2)
+- Extorthion
+- Bridge trolling and tolling
+- Forcing every household's firstborn male into service
+- Claiming each and every newlywed bride for the first night
+quick, everyone go to edonkey.com! (Score.
+Re: (Score:2)
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+Daaammn, take a chill pill dude! Why do you have a problem with him using the word "aforementioned"? He used it and spelled it correctly and it is shorter to write "aforementioned" instead of "previously mentioned" so whats the big deal?
+Re:Slashdot is all for copyright protection, right (Score:2)
+That'll be because Copyright infringement is a Civil, not a Crimminal offence in most of the western world.
+Governments can't prosecute it.
+Funny, that, because they do prosecute people who sell pirated DVDs.. anyone care to explain the difference for me? Damned if I can spot it..
+Re: (Score:2)
+"That'll be because Copyright infringement is a Civil, not a Crimminal offence in most of the western world. Governments can't prosecute it."
+FYI, here in the USA, it falls under both civil and criminal law, depending on the volume. If you would like the specifics, see Title 17, Chapter 5, Section 506 [copyright.gov]. In a nutshell, you're allowed to pirate up to $1,000 worth of stuff in 180 days before you run afoul of the feds.
+"Funny, that, because they do prosecute people who sell pirated DVDs.. anyone care to exp
+Great Rational (Score:2)
+Oh, dont forget the internet backbone carriers for providing the bandwidth, dell for the computer, seagate for the drives that allow them to store the illegal content.
+Moron.
+Re: (Score:2)
+"Since they were busted for *indirectly* being responsible, lets also go after microsoft. If it wasnt for them being an enabler, then ed2k wouldnt exist. Oh, dont forget the internet backbone carriers for providing the bandwidth, dell for the computer, seagate for the drives that allow them to store the illegal content.
+"
+If you're confused about why P2P companies have been held liable, and backbone carriers, PC makers, OS makers, etc. aren't, you can read some of the court decisions (Napster tried an arg
+vast majority of P2P traffic (Score:2)
+I dont care if the Judge made a statement, its wrong to penalize a company beacuse their product CAN be used for illegal purposes.
+Please Read How You Can Help Keep the Encyclopedia Free
+Original Position the two principles of justice. The first principle guarantees the equal basic rights and liberties needed to secure the fundamental interests of free and equal citizens and to pursue a wide range of conceptions of the good. The second principle provides fair equality of educational and employment opportunities enabling all to fairly compete for powers and prerogatives of office; and it secures for all a guaranteed minimum of the all-purpose means (including income and wealth) that. The Original Position and the Law of Peoples
+- 8. Constructivism, Objectivity, Autonomy, and the Original Position
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+1. Historical Background: the Moral Point of View
+The idea of a moral point of view can be traced back to affected. Since we all can adopt this perspective in imagination, it accounts for our agreement (when we do) in moral judgments. (See Rawls, LHMP 84-93, LHPP 184-187.)
+Later, philosophers posited similar perspectives for moral reasoning designed to yield impartial judgments once individuals abstract from their particular aims and interests and assess situations from an impartial point of view. But rather than being mainly explanatory like Hume's, the role of these impartial perspectives is to serve as a basis from which to assess and justify moral rules or principles. Kant's categorical imperative procedure, Adam Smith's impartial spectator, and Rousseau's general will are primary examples of representations of a moral point of view.
+An important feature of the idea of a moral point of view is that it is designed to represent something essential to the activity of moral reasoning. The moral point of view is in this way regarded as a significant part of an account of practical reasoning. For example, Kant's categorical imperative is envisioned as a point of view any reasonable person can adopt in deliberating about what he/she ought morally to do (CP 498ff). When joined with the common assumption that the totality of moral reasons is final and. Contrariwise, Locke argued against absolute monarchy by contending that no existing political constitution is legitimate unless it could be contracted into without violating any natural rights or duties from a position of equal right and equal political jurisdiction within a (relatively peaceful) state of nature. For Rousseau and perhaps Kant too, the idea of a social contract played a more significant role: as part of their accounts of the General Will, it was a point of view legislators should adopt for deciding on laws that achieve justice and the common good of citizens. Rawls generalizes on these more specialized ideas of a social contract: the purpose of his original position is to yield principles that are to be used, §17,, limited animals.” This undermines the main point of the idea of a state of nature, which is to distinguish what we bring to society from what we owe and framework for the legal system; the system of trials for adjudicating disputes; the norms of property, its transfer, contractual relations, etc. which are necessary for economic production, exchange, and consumption; and finally norms that define and regulate permissible forms of the family. moreover have such profound influences on our situations, because they are not generally necessary to society and social cooperation (even if they may be ideologically necessary to sustain particular societies and to maintain their status quo). in that they have a moral capacity for a sense of justice—to understand, apply, and act upon principles of justice and their requirements. Because people have these capacities, we hold them responsible for their actions, and they are regarded as capable of pursuing their interests and engaging in social cooperation. Rawls's idea is that, being reasonable and rational, persons (like us) who regard ourselves as free and equal should be in a position to accept as morally justifiable the principles of justice regulating our basic social institutions and individual conduct. Otherwise our conduct is coerced for reasons we cannot (reasonably or rationally) accept and we are not fundamentally free persons. Rawls thus starts from the intuitive idea that reasonable and rational persons who regard themselves as free and as equals ought to be able to freely accept the norms and constraints on their conduct. He then construes the moral point of view from which to decide moral principles of justice as a social contract in which (representatives of) free and equal persons are given the task of coming to an agreement on principles of justice that regulate their social and political relations. How otherwise they can endorse and accept, the appropriate way to justify this conception is by (imagining) an agreement among free and equal persons themselves.
+How is this social contract to be conceived? It is not to be regarded as an event that must actually take place at some point in history (TJ, 120/104). It is rather a hypothetical situation to determine the nature of individuals' political obligations (id. p.116). Their presumption is that if a government could or would be agreed to by all in an appropriately described pre-political situation, then it is generally acceptable to rational persons now (you and me) and is hence legitimate and subjects us to political obligations. (Thus Hobbes argues that all rational persons in a state of nature would agree to promote the common good and realize the freedom and equality of citizens. Rawls employs the idea of a hypothetical social contract for more general purposes than his predecessors. He aims to provide principles of justice that can be applied to determine both the justice of political constitutions and their laws, as well as the justice of social and economic arrangements in the distribution of educational and work opportunities, powers and positions of office, and income and wealth.
+It has been objected that hypothetical agreements cannot bind people; only actual contracts or agreements can impose obligations and commitments (Dworkin, 1977, 150ff). In response, Rawls says that the OP is to be used “to help us work out what we now think” (CP, 402); “it incorporates conditions…we do in fact accept,” (TJ 587/514) and is a kind of “thought experiment.for the purpose of public- and self-clarification” (JF, 17). Hypothetical agreement in the original position does not then bind anyone to duties or commitments he/she does not already have. Its point rather is to explicate the requirements of moral concepts of justice and enable us to draw the consequences of considered certain moral convictions that we all presumably share. Whether we in turn consciously accept or agree to these consequences and the principles and duties they implicate once brought to our awareness is irrelevant to their justification. For surely it can matter little to the justification of moral principles whether or not existing people actually do accept or agree to them. The point rather of conjecturing the outcome of a hypothetical agreement is that, assuming that the premises underlying the original position correctly represent our most deeply held considered moral convictions, all relevant information is taken into account, then the principles that would be agreed to are also fair. The fairness of the original agreement situation transfers to the principles agreed to, so social class and careers, their level of wealth and income, their religious and moral beliefs, etc. only a small class of amply propertied males exercise political rights to vote, hold office, exercise political influence, etc. (See Rawls, LHPP, 138-139.)
+The problem with this, of course, is that gender and lack of wealth are, like absence of religious belief, not good reasons for depriving people of their equal political rights. These reasons are not morally relevant for deciding who qualifies to vote, hold office, and actively participate in governing. More powerful parties rely on knowledge of their “threat advantage” to extract favorable terms from those in less advantaged positions (JF 16). Consequently the parties' judgments are biased by their knowledge of their circumstances and are insufficiently impartial.
+The remedy for such biased judgments is to redefine the initial situation. Rather than a state of nature Rawls situates the parties to his social contract so that they do not have access to knowledge that can distort their judgments and result in unfair principles. Rawls's original position is an initial situation wherein the parties are without information that enables them to tailor principles of justice favorable to their personal circumstances. Rawls says, ” (TJ, 12/11). This veil of ignorance deprives the parties of all knowledge of particular facts about themselves, about one another, and even about their society and its history.
+The parties are not however completely ignorant of facts. They know all kinds of general facts about persons and societies, including knowledge of the relatively uncontroversial laws and generalizations derivable from economics, psychology, political science, and biology and other natural sciences. They know then about the general tendencies of human behavior and psychological development, about biological evolution, and about how economic markets work, including neo-classical price theory of supply and demand. As discussed below, they also know about the circumstances of justice—moderate scarcity and limited altruism—as well as the desirability of the “primary social goods” that are needed to live a good life and to develop their “moral powers.” What they lack however is knowledge of any particular facts about their own lives or other persons' lives, as well as knowledge of any historical facts about their society and its population, level of wealth and resources, for Rawls's “thick” veil of ignorance is that it is designed to be a  of themselves in their capacity as moral persons—their interests in developing the moral powers of justice and rationality, their need for the primary social goods, and so on. The moral powers represents the parties are deprived of so much information about themselves that they are incapable of making a rational choice. How can we make any rational choice without knowing our fundamental values? Though the parties do not know their particular values and final ends, they do know that they require an adequate share of primary social goods to effectively pursue these values; they also know they have a higher-order interest in developing their moral powers, which are conditions of responsible agency and social cooperation. Rawls contends that knowledge of these “basic needs” (he also calls them “essential goods”) is sufficient for a rational choice in the original position. Moreover, it is important not to get too caught up in the fiction of the original position, as if it were some historical event that has to transpire among real people who are being asked to do something psychologically impossible. For as a thought experiment, the original position is not supposed to be a realistic situation. Instead, the veil of ignorance is a vivid representation of the kinds of reasons and information that are relevant to a decision on principles of justice for the basic structure of a society in which persons regard themselves as free and equal (TJ, 17/16). Many different kinds of reasons and facts are not morally relevant to that kind of decision (e.g., people's race, gender, religious affiliation, wealth, and even, Rawls says, their conceptions of their good), just as many different kinds of reasons and facts are irrelevant to mathematicians' ability to work out the formal proof of a theorem. Whether or not it is psychologically possible for a person to enter into the original position and come to a decision there in ignorance of all particular facts is inconsequential to the validity of Rawls's argument. We can simulate the reasoning of the parties now (knowing all kinds of facts about ourselves) by observing the constraints on their reasoning and taking into account general information about persons, their needs, and societies provided to the parties (TJ, 120/104, 587/514).
+A related criticism of Rawls's “thick” veil of ignorance, voiced by many consequentialists, is that even if the parties can come to a decision without knowledge of their final ends, still the decision does not have any bearing on justice. For justice is said by consequentialists to consist of the measures that most effectively promote ultimately good consequences. Without knowledge of the ultimate good, however it is to be defined, the parties cannot discover the principles of justice that best promote it. This criticism is mirrored in utilitarian versions of the moral point of view, which incorporate a “thin” veil of ignorance that represents a different idea of impartiality. The impartial observer/chooser found in David Hume, Adam Smith, John Harsanyi, et al. has complete knowledge of everyone's desires, interests and purposes as well as knowledge of particular facts about people and their historical situations. Impartiality is achieved by depriving the impartial observer/chooser of any knowledge of its own identity, leading it to give equal consideration to everyone's desires and interests from that point of view. It impartially takes everyone's desires and interests into account, and chooses to maximize utility (aggregate or average) across all persons.
+Rawls's original position with its “thick” veil of ignorance represents a different conception of impartiality than utilitarian accounts. Unlike utilitarians, Rawls seeks to abstract from current conditions and the status quo. Utilitarians take peoples' desires and interests as given and seek to maximize their satisfaction; in so doing utilitarians suspend judgment regarding the moral permissibility of peoples' preferences and of the social circumstances and institutions within which preferences were formed. For Rawls, a primary reason for a thick veil of ignorance is to enable an unbiased assessment of the justice of existing social and political institutions and of existing by existing circumstances, any principles, laws or institutions chosen behind their thin veil of ignorance will reflect and be biased towards maintaining the status quo. To take an obvious counterexample, there is little that seems just about laws approved from a utilitarian impartial perspective when these laws are determined on the basis of racially prejudiced preferences grounded in grossly unequal, racially discriminatory and segregated social conditions. To impartially give equal consideration to everyone's interests formed under those conditions is hardly sufficient to meet requirements of justice. This illustrates why Rawls prefers a “thick” to a “thin” veil of ignorance.
+4. Description of the Parties: Rationality and the Primary Social Goods
+Rawls says that in the original position, “The Reasonable frames the Rational,” (CP, 19) by which he means it is a situation where rational choice or the parties is made subject to reasonable (or moral) constraints. In what sense are the parties and their choice rational? Philosophers have different understandings of what is involved in being rational. economics and the theory of rational choice. They do not try to do the impossible (TJ, sect. 25; JF, 87).
+More generally, for Rawls rational persons upon reflection can formulate a conception of their good, or of their primary values and purposes and the best way of life for themselves to live. This conception incorporates their primary aims, ambitions, and commitments to others, and is informed by the conscientious moral, religious, and philosophical convictions that give meaning, §45).
+These primary aims, convictions, ambitions, and commitments are among the primary motivations of the parties in the original position. They to that of trustees acting to promote the interests of the beneficiaries they represent. A trustee is not concerned with the welfare of other trustees or their beneficiaries to do so would be a dereliction of duty. (It is perhaps to address the common criticism that the parties to the original position are self-interested that Rawls in his later writings the parties have for each other? Surely not impartial benevolence towards everyone, for then we might as well dispense with the social contract and rely on an impartial spectator point of view. But if not equal concern, then how much should they be concerned with the welfare of other parties?)
+Mutual disinterest of the parties also means they are not moved by envy or rancor towards each other. achievement of the many purposes that make up a conception of the good, without regard to how much or how little others may have., including knowledge of all relevant facts bearing one one's interests. (TJ, §64). “The Reasonable” on the other hand has to do with the concept of right—including individual moral duties and moral requirements of right and justice applying to institutions and society. Both rationality and reasonableness are independent aspects of practical reason for Rawls. He.
+Essential to being reasonable is having a sense of justice. The sense of justice is a willingness and normally effective desire to comply with duties and obligations required by justice. Rawls sees a sense of justice as an attribute people normally have; it “would appear to be a condition for human sociability” (TJ, 495/433 rev.). He rejects the idea, popular in extensions of economic theory, for its own sake.. Here it is important to see that Rawls is still not attributing specifically moral motives—a desire to be reasonable and do what is right and just for its own sake—to the parties in the original position. Rather, the idea behind the parties' rationality in cultivating their sense of justice is that, since reasonableness is a condition of human sociability, motivations of the representatives in the original position from the motivations of those they represent—viz. free and equal persons in a well-ordered society (WOS)—who may well be motivated by their sense of justice and desire to do what is right and just for its own sake. In TJ Part III Rawls argues that a WOS is stable just for this reason.) control others' behavior. Rawls rather uses the term to refer to the legal and institutional abilities and prerogatives that attend offices and social positions. Hence, he sometimes refers to the primary goods of “powers and prerogatives of offices and positions of responsibility” (PL 308). Members of various professions and trades have institutional powers that are characteristic of their position and which are necessary if they are to carry out their respective roles. “The social bases of self-respect” are features of institutions that are needed to enable people to have the confidence that their position in society is respected and their conception of the good is worth pursuing. These features depend upon history and culture. Primary among these social bases in a democratic society are the conditions needed for equal citizenship, including equality of political rights and fair equal opportunity, as well as personal independence and adequate material means for achieving it.
+The parties to the original position are motivated to achieve an the Aristotelian principle. This “deep psychological fact” says that, other things being equal, people normally find activities that call upon their developed capacities to be more interesting and preferable to simpler tasks, and their enjoyment increases the more the capacity is realized or the greater its complexity. (TJ, 326/374) Moreover, development of our “higher capacities” (J.S. Mill's term) is important to our sense of self respect. These general facts imply that rational people should incorporate into their plans activities that call upon the exercise and development of their talents and skills and their distinctly human capacities.(TJ, 432,379) This motivation is especially relevant to Rawls's argument for the stability of justice as fairness and the good of justice. (See Sections 5.3 and 6.3 below.) that are also important.
+5.1 The Circumstances of Justice
+Among the general facts the parties know are “the circumstances of justice.” Rawls says these are “conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary” (TJ, 126/109 rev.). Rawls distinguishes two general kinds: the objective and subjective circumstances of justice. The former include physical facts about human beings, such as their rough similarity in mental and physical faculties, and vulnerability to attack. It also includes the parties' “limited altruism” has been discussed above under the Rationality of the parties. Hume says that if humans were impartially benevolent, equally concerned with everyone's welfare, then justice would be “superfluous.” People then would almost always willingly sacrifice their interests for the greater advantage of others and thus would rarely fight over whose interests should prevail. They would not be concerned about their personal rights or possessions. But we are naturally more concerned with our own aims and interests—which include our interests in the interests of those nearer and dearer to us—than we are with the interests of strangers with whom we have few if any interactions. This implies a potential conflict of human interests. The subjective circumstances of justice also include limited human knowledge, thought, and judgment, as well as diversity of experiences. These lead to inevitable disagreements in factual and other judgments, as well as to people having different plans of life and religious, philosophical, and moral views. In Political Liberalism, Rawls highlights these subjective circumstances, calling them “the burdens of judgment.” They imply, significantly, that regardless how impartial and altruistic people are, they still will disagree in their religious, philosophical and moral judgments. Disagreements in these matters are inevitable even among rational and reasonable people. This is “the fact of reasonable pluralism,” which is another general fact known to the parties in the original position.
+5.2 Publicity and other Formal Constraints of Right
+There are five “formal constraints” required by the concept of right, Rawls says, and the parties must take them into account in making their decision. The more a conception of justice satisfies these formal constraints of right, the more reason the parties have to choose that conception. The formal constraints of right are: generality, universality in application, ordering of conflicting claims, publicity, and finality (TJ, §23). The ordering condition says that a conception of justice should aspire to completeness: it should be able to resolve conflicting claims and order their priority.. regulate. This implies that people will not be uninformed or have false beliefs about the bases of their social and political relations. There are to be no “noble lies” deliberations. Universality in application then imposes a limit on how complex principles of justice can be —they must be understandable to common moral sense, and not so complicated that only experts can use men nature, relative degree to which a conception (in comparison with other conceptions) describes an achievable and sustainable system of social cooperation, and hence whether the norms of such a society will attract people's willing compliance and generally engage their sense of justice.
+For example, suppose principles of justice were to impose a duty to practice impartial benevolence among all people, and thus a duty to show no greater concern for the welfare of ourselves and loved ones than we do towards “stability for the right reasons” (PL, xliii; CP, 589). Recall here the higher-order interests of the parties in the exercise and development give up their pursuit of the particular interests that constitute their conception of the good (as Rawls argues against utilitarianism), this conception could not gain their support and would not be stable over long periods of time. Moreover, assuming that the exercise and development of the moral powers are fundamental interests of citizens, a conception of justice should enable citizens to adequately exercise and fully develop these capacities. It must then engage their sense of justice, and (ideally for Rawls) they should be able to find that acting on and from principles of justice is worth doing for its own sake.. For Rawls, it speaks strongly in favor of a conception of justice if acting for the sake of its principles is experienced by citizens free ranging discussion where the parties design their own conception of justice. the list see TJ, 124/107.) (Rawls later says libertarianism might also be added to the list as well as any other conception of justice the reader prefers.) conceived, §50) and intuitionism. Here I'll focus discussion on Rawls's arguments against utilitarianism.
+6.1 The Argument from the Maximin Criterion (TJ Sections then sui generis, a choice of the conditions for).
+Rawls contends all three conditions for the maximin strategy are satisfied in the original position when choice is made between the principles of justice and the principle of utility (average and aggregate). Because all one's fundamental purposes, commitments, and future prospects are at stake in the original position and there is no hope of renegotiating the outcome, a rational person would agree to the principles of justice instead of the principle of utility (average or aggregate). and subject to loss if required by the greater sum of utilities. Conditions (2) and (3) for applying maximin are then satisfied in the comparison of justice as fairness with the principle of utility.
+It is often claimed that Rawls's parties are “risk-averse;” otherwise they would never follow the maximin rule but would take a chance on riskier but potentially (see rather it is rational to purchase auto liability, health, home, and life insurance against accident or calamity. The original position is such a situation writ large. Even if one knew in the original position that the citizen one represents enjoys risk-taking, this would still not be a reason to gamble with his or her rights, opportunities, and starting position in society; for if she were born into a traditional, repressive, or fundamentalist society, she might well have little opportunity for risk-taking, gambling, entrepreneurship, and the like. It is rational then even for the risk-taker to choose conservatively in the original position and guarantee her future opportunities to take risks. (And assuming that the parties are trustees, then it would be not simply irrational but a dereliction of duty to choose otherwise.) Harsanyi and other orthodox Bayesians contend that maximin is an irrational decision rule, and provide ample examples. But simply because maximin is under many circumstances irrational does not mean that it is never rational. No doubt maximin is an irrational strategy under most circumstances of choice uncertainty, particularly under circumstances where we have future opportunities to recoup be unwilling to gamble with the basic liberties, opportunities and resources needed to pursue one's most cherished ends and commitments for the sake of gaining the marginally greater income and wealth that may be available in a society governed entirely by the principle of utility.
+Rawls exhibits the force of the maximin argument in discussing liberty of conscience. He says (TJ, §33) those convictions and the freedom to act on them. After all what could be the basis for negotiation, for what could matter more to a person? Some people (perhaps nihilists) may not have any conscientious convictions, and are simply willing to act on impulse or on whatever desires they happen to have at the moment. But behind the veil of ignorance no one knows the maximin rule is a rational choice strategy in general, for it is not. Indeed, as we shall see below in section D, it is not even a rational strategy in the original position when the alternatives for choice, unlike the principle of utility, all guarantee the basic liberties, equal opportunities, and a social minimum. Rawls relies upon the maximin rule mainly to argue for the first principle, equal opportunities, and a social minimum. Other arguments are needed to justify the difference principle.
+6.2 The Strains of Commitment
+There are three other arguments Rawls makes to support justice as fairness (all in TJ, §29). Each of these depends on the concept of a “well-ordered society.” The parties in the original position are assigned the task of agreeing to principles that they can all accept, not just under the circumstances of the original position, but even more importantly in real-life conditions of a well-ordered society. The idea of a well-ordered society is Rawls's development of social contract doctrine. It is a society in which (1) everyone agrees to and accepts the same principles of justice; (2) these principles are generally realized in basic social institutions and are successfully enforced; and (3) all want to comply with their requirements out of their sense of justice (TJ, 4-5, §69).
+The first of Rawls's three arguments highlights the idea that choice in the original position is an agreement, and involves certain “strains of commitment” (TJ, 176f/153f; CP 250ff). Knowing that they are required to choose principles for a well-ordered society, the parties must choose principles that they sincerely believe they will be able to accept, endorse and comply with under conditions where these principles are generally enforced. For reasons to be discussed shortly, Rawls says this condition favors agreement on the principles of justice over utilitarianism and other alternatives in the original position.
+But first, consider the frequent objection that there is no genuine agreement in the original position, for the thick veil of ignorance deprives the parties of all bases for bargaining (cf. TJ, 139-40/120-21). really the rational choice of one person. (See Hampton, 1980)
+In response, the parties in fact commitment...
+Rawls gives special poignancy to this mutual commitment of the parties by making it a condition that the parties cannot choose and agree to principles in bad faith; they have to be able, not just to live with and grudgingly accept, but to sincerely endorse the principles of justice once they can not only accept and live with, but which are responsive to their sense of justice. Given these conditions on choice, a party cannot take risks with principles he knows he will have difficulty voluntarily complying with.. The person is rare can willingly support laws that are so detrimental to oneself and the people one cares about most that they require sacrifice of one's fundamental aims and interests for the sake of others that sizable number of good of those who are already more fortunate and have a greater share of primary social goods. It is unreasonable to expect or rev.). It is a feature of our moral psychology that we normally come to form attachments to people and institutions that are concerned with our good; moreover we tend to resent those persons and institutions that act contrary to our good. Rawls argues at length in chapter 8 of Theory that justice as fairness accords with the reciprocity principles of moral psychology that are characteristic of human beings' moral development.
+(2) The argument their sense of self-respect. Now justice as fairness, by protecting the priority of equal basic liberties and fair equal opportunities, secures the status of each as free and equal citizens: Because of equal political liberties, there are no “passive citizens” who must depend on others to politically protect their rights and interests; and with fair equal opportunities no one has grounds to experience the resentment that inevitably arises in societies where social positions are effectively closed to the less advantaged. Moreover, the second principle secures adequate see others as masters or subordinates. Equal basic liberties, fair equal opportunities, and political and economic independence are primary among the). In Theory he puts great weight on publicity ultimately because he thinks that giving people knowledge of the moral bases of coercive laws is a condition of fully acknowledging and respecting them as responsible moral and rational agents. With full publicity of first principles, people have knowledge of the real reasons for their social and political relations and the formative influences of the basic structure of society on their characters, plans and prospects. In a well-ordered society with a public conception of justice, there is no need for an “esoteric morality” that must be confined “to an enlightened few” (as Sidgwick says of utilitarianism). full prerogatives of office and positions the class of those persons with the least share of the primary goods of income and wealth, and powers and prerogatives of office. He assumes the least advantaged are engaged in productive activity of some kind. Rawls then regards distributive justice as the benefits that accrue to persons for doing their part in socially productive cooperation. The class of unskilled workers receiving minimum income satisfies his definition of 'least advantaged.' Disability payments for citizens who are handicapped and permanently unable to work are not then a matter of distributive justice, as Rawls construes it, but are instead covered by principles of assistance, which he leaves unspecified. differs from the capitalist welfare state mainly in that it is not marked by such broad discrepancies in income and wealth, and also provides for widespread ownership and control of the means of production, including opportunities for worker-managed firms. Thus, akin to market socialism, it bases for citizens' self-respect (the remaining primary social good covered by the difference principle) than does welfare-state capitalism.
+Rawls relies on the maximin rule of choice to argue against the principle of utility. Since the maximin rule and the difference principle both require maximizing the position of the least advantaged, it is easy to assume that the maximin choice rule leads directly to choice of the difference principle in the original position. But in fact the maximin rule alone cannot be used to justify the difference principle (JF, 43n). For when the difference principle is compared with those “mixed conceptions” of economic justice that provide a social minimum and some degree of equal opportunities, then the third condition for applying maximin is not satisfied. (See above, section 6.1) The third basic liberties and future prospects.
+“Mixed conceptions” of justice protect the basic liberties, and in most cases provide equal opportunities and a guaranteed social minimum of income and wealth. But mixed conceptions determine the social minimum in some way other than the difference principle. For example, the social minimum may be determined by balancing citizens' moral intuitions regarding a decent minimum; or according to the rule that the adequate social minimum is one-half of the median market income in society; or that it is whatever amount that is needed to maintain social stability among the less advantaged. Once the social minimum is satisfied mixed conceptions might then rely upon the principle of average utility (or some alternative) to decide economic policies and distributions. Rawls calls this the “principle of restricted utility,” since the pursuit of social utility is restricted by the basic liberties, fair opportunities, and a fixed social minimum. This is one of several possible mixed conceptions that combine the first principle of justice and a principle of distributive justice with a social minimum other than the difference principle (TJ, 124/107). Rawls apparently regards the capitalist welfare state as based in a mixed conception that incorporates the principle of restricted utility.
+Rawls concedes that “mixed conceptions are much more difficult to argue against than the principle of utility,” since “the strong arguments from liberty cannot be used as before” (TJ, 316/278). He discusses mixed conceptions in Theory, §49, and devotes more attention to them later in Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (§36ff). Rawls makes one main argument in favor of the difference principle and several more specific arguments against the principle of restricted utility. The main argument in favor of the difference principle depends on a strong idea of reciprocity among free and equal citizens: in a democratic society structured by the difference principle further gains to those more advantaged are not made at the expense of those less advantaged; instead, further gains to the more advantaged always benefit the least advantaged, and do so more than any other alternative distribution. All increments to society's wealth are then marked by strict reciprocity in its distribution; this accords with free and equal persons sense of justice, that cooperation is to be grounded in terms of reciprocity and mutual respect. gain the expense of the least advantaged so long as their social minimum is maintained.
+The kind of reciprocity The Theory of Justice (13) and Figure 1 in Justice as Fairness  strict strict reciprocity achieved by the difference principle? Why wouldn't it be rational for them to agree to a more relaxed form of reciprocity, as allowed by restricted utility, thereby taking a chance that they might be among the most affluent in the capitalist welfare state? After all, if they end up among the least advantaged, they will only be somewhat society. It may be that welfare-state capitalism is stable, but it is the stability of indifference or hopelessness among the less advantaged, not stability for the right reasons grounded in equal citizens' affirmation of social institutions out of their sense of justice. Due to their lack of self-respect, and the excessive demands the capitalist welfare-state places on their moral sensibilities and capacities for justice, the least advantaged are unable to willingly affirm the organizing principles of society out their moral capacities, their sense of self-respect, and their concern for stability, the parties in the original position cannot in good faith rationally affirm restricted utility and the capitalist welfare state when they have the alternative of the difference principle (cf. JF, 128-129). This seems to be Rawls's main argument for the difference principle from the original position.
+Rawls's assumption that the principle of restricted utility supports the capitalist welfare state seems to be based in arguments from welfare economics (from which the term 'welfare state' derives) in the last century. Restricted utilitarians on the left might object that the enormous inequalities allowed by capitalism and the capitalist welfare state would not be allowed in a well-ordered society structured by the principle of restricted utility. For, other things being equal, the decreasing marginal utility to individuals of money and goods of all kinds favors an equal distribution of income and wealth. Hence (the left-utilitarian concludes) Rawls's assumption that restricted utility favors a capitalist welfare state that sanctions gross inequalities is mistaken. The ceteris paribus clause in the preceding statement is all important. Even if we grant the controversial assumption that individuals similarly positioned gain roughly equal utility from marginal increments of income and wealth, the deterrent effects of equal distributions on (among other things) incentives to work and take risks have long been emphasized by economists and utilitarians in the classical liberal tradition (Hume, Adam Smith, Bentham, J.S. Mill, Sidgwick, Edgeworth, etc.) These and other questions regarding the kinds of economic systems supported by variants of the principle of utility are largely empirical questions that cannot be resolved by philosophy.
+7. The Original Position and the Law of Peoples
+In his essay on international justice, The Law of Peoples, of justice “the Law of Peoples.” Since he conceives of the Law of Peoples as regulating relationships between political societies, he imagines an agreement, not among all the individuals in the world's population, but among the representatives of liberal democratic well-ordered societies. In this agreement among (liberal) peoples, each political society is to be regarded as an equal with equal rights of participation in this agreement; thus they each have one representative, and time-honored within international political theory:.
+Rawls's Law of Peoples has been widely criticized since it does not allow for an original position agreement among all the world's members; 2006, Chapters 8, 9 and Freeman 2007, Chapter.
+8. Constructivism, Objectivity, Autonomy, and the Original Position
+In A Theory of Justice Rawls provides a “Kantian Interpretation” of the original position and the principles of justice (TJ, §§40,). It is objective in that it requires that the parties all adopt a common standpoint and make a considered rational choice under impartial conditions that require them to abstract from their particular interests and circumstances; moreover they are all persons in all societies. For not just to particular judgments but to claims regarding the truth of most fundamental moral principles consists in their corresponding to a moral order (of moral facts or objects) that is antecedent to reason and to principles of practical reasoning. Objectivity of. Constructivism inverts the relationship realists see holding between objectivity and truth; rather than objective judgment mysterious metaphysical or epistemological terms (such as a capacity for rational intuitions or our moral judgments' correspondence to a domain of non-natural moral facts that exist prior to practical reasoning). There is then no need for an “error theory” of moral judgments; error theory is itself erroneous. Constructivism also enables Rawls to provide an account of the objectivity of moral judgment and correctness of moral principles that is consistent with a Kantian idea of autonomy. In showing in detail how the principles of justice can. It serves, in effect, as the practical rules of inference that connect principles of justice together with the relevant principles and ideas of practical reasoning. Rawls says the original position is a “procedure of construction” that specifies an objective point of view from which to derive principles of justice. Principles of justice are said to be “constructed” on the basis of ideal conceptions of the person and of society (“Ideas of Reason,” in Kant's sense). In Kantian constructivism, Rawls changes aspects of the role of the original position in establishing reflective equilibrium.)
+In Political Liberalism, Rawls “brackets” (in the sense that he neither affirms nor denies) claims about the nature and possibility of moral truth and universal objectivity of moral judgments. Still, Rawls affirms “for political purposes” the objectivity of the original position and therewith of the principles of justice. Once again, the OP is set up to represent and model an ideal of persons and society. But he detaches the ideal of free and equal moral persons from the Kantian Interpretation, and now regards it as a purely “political ideal” of citizens. The political ideals of citizens and of a well-ordered society provide the basis for “political constructivism” wherein the original position plays its role as a procedure of construction. Rawls contends that the original position bestows “political objectivity” on principles of justice. Political objectivity is a kind of objectivity that presumably even a moral relativist or skeptic can accept, so long as he/she is “reasonable” with an effective sense of justice, and wants to cooperate with others on terms they can accept in their capacity as democratic citizens. Political objectivity then does not imply that the principles of justice apply universally across all social and temporal conditions. Instead, political objectivity implies that principles of justice apply to the judgments and actions of reasonable and rational persons who are members of a democratic society and conceive of themselves as free and equal citizens, and have an effective sense of justice.
+If we see the original position as a procedure of construction, then perhaps we can gain a clearer idea of the role of. Thus Hume argued that Locke's contractarian argument is an unnecessary shuffle, and that political obligations and the authority of governments, since all have their justification in public utility. (See LHPP, Hume I, and reciprocity, a well-ordered society, and so on) are fundamental to the justification of the principles of justice agreed to. But this does not mean that the agreement from the original position is redundant and plays no essential role in the justification of these principles. For the original position itself is designed to be a representation and summary of all the moral reasons and rational interests relevant to justifying principles of justice. Even if be conceded that rational choice and agreement among the parties in the original position does not provide independent reasons for the principles of justice, still they do serve the necessary function of organizing the reasons it incorporates and authorizing the rules of inference; therefore rules of inference are redundant.” For rules of inference are indispensable for proof of any deductive conclusion. Rational choice and agreement in the original position stands in much the same himself conjectured that the argument in the OP “aims eventually to be deductive” (TJ, 121/104). Assume there is a very complicated deductive proof of the principles of justice that does not rely on a social contract in the original position; his attitude then seems to have been that either argument would be sufficient to justify them. Later he says that in fact the argument from the original position cannot achieve an ideal of rigorous deductive reasoning, since there are indefinitely many considerations to be appealed to in the original position, and deciding the balance of reasons in favor of the principles of justice depends, not on deduction, but “on judgment informed and guided by reasoning” (cf. JF, 133-4).
+Finally, what is the relationship between the original position and Rawls's more general nonfoundationalist method of justification, “reflective equilibrium”? Reflective equilibrium begins with our shared “considered convictions” of justice and rationality at all levels of generality, from particular to our most general judgments. It then seeks to discover the principles of justice that best “fit” with these considered convictions in a “wide reflective equilibrium,” upon considering all the reasonable alternative principles of justice (TJ, §9; JF §10). What can Rawls mean by “fit” other than simply the logical consistency of considered convictions with principles of justice, or the trivial claim that sound moral principles are those supported by the best reasons? He cannot mean, we've just seen, rigorous deductive proof of principles of justice from our considered convictions, for that is not to be achieved.
+Rawls said at one point that “reflective equilibrium works through the original position.” The implication is that original position itself supplies, in large part, the relevant sense of . As). Until opponents of Rawls's contractarianism present an alternative argument for the principles of justice that is more persuasive and inclusive of all the relevant reasons bearing on justice, Rawls's original position should be regarded, not as redundant, but as essential to justification of the principles of justice (in so far as they are justifiable).
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+The "Mad Men" creator engaged in a lively discussion with the acclaimed photographer at the inaugural Paris Photo Los Angeles fair at Paramount.
+At the Paris Photo Los Angeles opening Thursday night on the Paramount Pictures lot, fair director Julien Frydman introduced Los Angeles County commissioner Tom LaBonge, who proceeded to lock his French companion in an overhand man shake and proclaim that the greatest gift the French ever gave to America was the Statue of Liberty. Not Jean Girard from Talladega Nights? After all, Sasha Baron Cohen was there Thursday as part of the VIP preview. Also attending were art world luminaries like collector Rosette Delug, Hollywood notables Rob Reiner, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick and those who bridge both worlds including Bob Gersh, David Lynch and Dean Valentine.
+Artifice abounded at this first American edition of the famed art fair Paris Photo, which ran through Sunday, including a re-creation of French artist Veronique Bourgoin's studio at a Dutch booksellers booth on the New York back lot in sunny L.A. Standouts among the exhibitors included Filip Dujardin at Highlight, San Francisco; Man Ray prints at 1900-2000, Paris; Tierney Gearon at Atlanta’s Jackson Fine Art; William Eggleston at Gagosian Gallery; and outstanding group shows at Patricia Conde, Mexico City and at Perry Rubenstein, Los Angeles.
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+In addition to the standard art fair booths taking place on three soundstages and the inventive solo presentations set on the New York Street back lot, Paris Photo introduced a series of conversations between artists to this Los Angeles edition. Independent curator Douglas Fogle moderated a conversation between Matthew Weiner, series creator and executive producer of the award-winning drama Mad Men and critically acclaimed contemporary photographer Gregory Crewdson. Other conversations arranged by Fogle included multimedia Doug Aitken talking with German sculpture-photographer Thomas Demand on Friday and photographer Catherine Opie with filmmaker-photographer An-My Le on Saturday.
+Weiner and Crewdson had a wide-ranging conversation about the similarities and differences in their respective practices. Their interaction was an embodiment of the spirit of the fair, highlighting the ways in which traditional still photography and motion pictures have always been in dialogue with one another and will continue to be that way. As a still photographer, Crewdson stages elaborate suburban American situations, utilizing many of the mechanics of the movie industry. Weiner, as a writer and director of television and film, acknowledged the influence of Crewdson and other photographers in his work.
+The Hollywood Reporter had a chance to talk with both Weiner and Crewdson after their conversation. Based on his smooth handling and smart control of the conversation, THR asked Weiner if he ever considered hosting his own talk show. Weiner responded: “I have not given any thought to that. There are people who are really, really good at that. I don’t think I could stand the scrutiny. At least now I can hide behind my work -- when it’s just you, it’s pretty bad." About the fair in general, Weiner said: “I think this is an amazing idea -- incredibly well organized, well publicized. And I have to say that Los Angeles was missing something like this. It’s intellectual, it’s very contemporary, and I hate to say this because once you say something is hip it’s not hip anymore, but it feels a little bit hip. I feel a little out of place here. It feels a little cooler than me, which I like.”
+Crewdson was equally excited about the fair. When asked if there were any L.A. artists -- either working in photography or film -- that he was looking at or excited about, he replied: "Yeah, there’s a group of artists, some of them were students of mine at Yale, like Walead Beshty and others who are working primarily in abstraction I would say, but thinking about photography in very conceptual terms. And I think it’s a trend that is very much connected to Los Angeles, and I think that it is interesting. There seems to be this kind of movement here of younger artists that has taken effect."
+The conversation between Crewdson and Weiner began with both expressing admiration and affection for the work of the other. Following are excerpts from their discussion, including Crewdson's surprise admission that he doesn't actually snap any of his photos himself:
+Crewdson: For me, Mad Men is one of the great works of art of the last decade. It’s such a perfect and beautiful and mysterious thing.
+Weiner: That’s really cool. Thanks. We were just talking about the similarity in our works earlier -- obviously there is an attention to detail. I definitely saw your work when I was still on The Sopranos. I had this incredible experience with your work, not just the scale, the detail. There is a confidence in the subconscious, in the dream life -- that which can’t be put into words.
+Crewdson: As an artist, what I am searching for in my work is an uncanny situation. In other words, looking at the familiar, the known and finding an unexpected sense of mystery or anxiety or fear. Both our works come out of an American tradition of trying to find a intersection between ordinary life and theatricality. And in my case, my story is confined to a single image, so there is never a before and after in my pictures. I attempt to find that sensation in the singular image. So I’m in awe of you doing that through time. It’s beyond my capacity.
+Weiner: Do you have a script? Do you have a setting in mind when you start?
+Crewdson: I think in terms of images, first and foremost. And I think partially that’s because I’m dyslexic. When I was young and going through school, academia was very hard for me. Even writing was a painful activity. And I think I came to photography because I understood the still image. I understood it because it didn’t move forward in time. So all of my pictures come out of an image in my head. And then we do write a description that becomes the basis for the picture. But I’m not interested ever in what happens before or after. So I don’t think in terms of motivation, all the things that you have to think about like plot. I’m confined to vision. I want to make it -- because I privilege the single moment -- as beautiful and as complicated and as wondrous as possible.
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+Weiner: In my work I am using hundreds of people to help me -- all of whom may be as good at what they do as what I’m doing, and there is a point at which communication is pointless and you have to depend on people’s self-expression in whatever arena you’ve created. I am not a cinematographer and I don’t know that I’m even much of a photographer. I have a good eye -- I didn’t realize there was such a thing. Obviously if you go to art museums and then you see some people get a camera … that person has no idea what they are doing … There is such a thing as a bad snapshot. That’s not a critical thing, it’s just the truth. For me, obviously I have a story and I have these incredible artists that I am working with … and you use a lot of people. These are productions, your photographs. Do you have a production designer?
+Crewdson: I think I have as many people on set as you do.
+Weiner: Everyone has to treat it as though it’s their art form. It can be pretentious -- I encourage that. I encourage people to take it seriously. I don’t want any light respect.
+Crewdson: The contradiction there, I find, because I do work with large production crews and I am very reliant and dedicated to the people that I work, and a lot of the crew I have worked with very closely for many years now, is that in the end, almost despite the fact that there are so many people working on it, the final outcome has to reflect one particular vision of the world. It has to feel that it was made by a subjective voice.
+Weiner: It’s true. It has taken a long time for me to figure that out. I remember hearing some early criticism -- sometimes it’s criticism, sometimes it is affection -- about the pace of the show. If you watch an old movie or show -- I don’t care if it’s Frankenstein or Abbot and Costello -- you will be shocked by the difference in the pace. It’s not even like there is so much more information going on now or sound or anything. I was always just very interested in the physical experience of watching a movie. I remember talking to someone one time who was kind of pretentious about my work and them saying "I love your work and why did you do that?" I just remember saying, "I am doing this until it feels normal to me." That actually feels normal -- that’s not an affectation. It’s not a stylistic choice. That feels normal to me. I want to see her finish that speech. I am looking for a kind of naturalism. I am trying to make it feel realistic. … I imagine you standing on your set adjusting everything, and then you have the human factor of your subject -- there are human beings in these things and sometimes you have gifted actors and sometimes they are models, right? That has to be a real challenge.
+Crewdson: I never know what to call the people in my pictures -- subjects?
+Weiner: Occupants?
+Crewdson: Objects? Subjects? There’s a certain kind of detachment in my work, and I think that I always want there to be a sense of disconnection in some way or another between me and my subject. I want a certain kind of distance. That’s why I never want to get to know them. Because I think my pictures are about a kind of voyeuristic detachment and something very intimate, very private. But for me it has to have both of those things.
+Weiner: So once you know someone it’s hard to take their picture?
+Crewdson: Yeah, I can’t really do it. I don’t photograph my children. Or I have to, like, think to do it. It doesn’t come naturally to me. I’m not a photographer in that sense. I’m not comfortable holding the camera. And, in fact, I have a cameraman who actually makes the picture.
+Weiner: That’s amazing. Come on, that’s incredible. There are some master painters who did this right? In history … who had tons of assistants? But they could paint, Jesus!
+Crewdson: I’m not good at taking pictures, or drawing or writing. The only thing that I really, truly know how to do is to come up with these images and then work to get them made.
+Weiner: You must be good at talking -- at explaining stuff to people. You must be good at conveying abstract ideas in words.
+Crewdson: Persuasive, I think. I say very little. I always say … "less."
+Weiner: And there’s pleasure in that control, right?
+Crewdson: Oh, yeah.
+Weiner also spoke a little about his process with regards to the feature film he is currently completing, You Are Here, which he wrote and directed. The film stars Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler.
+“To me, in the movie, there is a moment where there is a woman across the way who Owen Wilson is looking at and she gets undressed,” he said. “Every time I would say cut, I would go in and give her direction and she would hide behind the thing and go and get dressed and at a certain point I was like, ‘I just saw you naked, and you need to understand that for me the exciting part is not seeing you naked, it’s coming in here and telling you when to take off your clothes.'"
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+Mission Photograph Album - China #20
+Dublin Core
+Title
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20
+Description
+Images related to Methodist mission work in China taken under the direction of the Board of Missions between the 1890s and late 1920s. And a view volumes from the early 1950s.
+Date
+1950s
+Creator
+Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church
+Subject
+China
+Missions
+Rights
+Permission for use must be obtained from the General Commission on Archives and History. Contact e-mail is research@gcah.org
+Publisher
+The General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. The United Methodist Archives and History Center. Madison, New Jersey
+Identifier
+Mission Photograph Albums - China #20
+Scriptus
+Status
+Completed
+Percent Completed
+100
+Items in the Mission Photograph Album - China #20 Collection
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0001
+C12432 This young lad stops his play long enough to listen to the Bible
+story as read by this old church "uncle."
+C12433 "At Home" in the Missionary home with students in for an evening of
+games and fun and fellowship.
+C12434 The West China Union University Hospital's wash hangs on the line.
+C12435 Public Health under the able leadership of Alma Eriksen, holds a
+demonstration in the church courtyard.
+C12436 Lepers at worship service at West China Union University leperarisum
+12436A Sunday school at the Changtu Missionary Church
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0002
+C12468 Children in line for milk, provided by the Chinese National Relief
+and Rehabilitation Administration at the YWCA nutritional center in
+Nanking, China
+C1246 Marisa Pozan is taking up her studies once again after their
+interpretation by the Japanese
+C12473 Nurse Sato Bik trading the "amoks" (women) servants in Tung
+Huarking Hospital in Hong Kong how to read
+C12476 Kitchen has had no repairs or equipment since Pearl Harbor, but to
+many girls it means the difference between life or slow situations
+C12477 Nurses at the Tung Hira Tung Hospital in Hong Kong China attend a
+meeting of their YWCA club in the dining room of their own hospital.
+C12478 Five cent lunch, the difference between eating and not eating.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0003
+C12480 Chinese children line up at the YWCA food station at Changshau for
+their daily supply of soup bean milk.
+C12481 Basic health is basic wealth.
+C12494 Miss Cushman and Dr. Chen Nai Ping enjoying the music.
+C12495 (From left to right) Mrs. Fe Jim-Shawhaikwan, (her husband was
+presiding Elder at Sharohai Kwan), Mrs. Chou I-Se-Tich Changli - Bible
+woman. Mrs. Wary Ching Yeing-Lauchow, wife of presiding elder.
+C12496 No caption
+C12497 No caption
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0004
+C12498 Three Theological college lads who are cionsulting with Ohin
+Stockwell on Visual Education matters. This tram of three became a Visual
+Education Evangalism tram, spending two weeks at church visiting five or
+six churches during the summer, and showing pictures of Christ, a life to
+sen? thousand people. The resuet - a deepening of Christian understanding,
+the winning of more than a hundred now counts.
+C12499 Sheet music hurbished by Christian friends in America.
+C12500 The West China Theological College Choir.
+C12501 Graduation day procession at the Theological College in West China.
+C12502 Pastors, Bible women, teachers and laymen for two weeks at special
+training conference.
+C12503 Methodist Relief is helping to supplement in slim diet of Chinese
+children.
+C12504 A little country school-church the students facing one way for the
+school days and turning their seats toward the pulpit at the other end of
+the back on Sundays.
+C12505 At Home - is a marked event in the missionary home.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0005
+C12506 Photo - graphers a May Day.
+C12507 May Day festivities include drills by the educational group
+C12508 May Day festivities - West China Union University Women, a College.
+C12509 Wallace Wang and Dr. George Sparking - West China Theological
+College.
+C12510 Rev. and Mrs. J. Olin Stockwell and their jeep.
+C12511 The congregation singing.
+C12512 Children in the church at showing of religous picture.
+C12513 Dr. S.H.Lilpis trand "Capping" a nurse at Tzichung Hospital.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0006
+C12633 Chinese Boy
+C12641 Soochow Christian Fellowship Bible Class
+C12642 Law School Associate: Dean, Principal, Professor of procedurative,
+Dean of administration watching the Moot Court
+C12643 Soochow Girls basket ball game
+C12644 Soochow Classroom
+C12645 Main building - Soochow
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0007
+C12646 Soochow Law School Student Judge with procurator and recorder
+C12671 10:10-10:30 Morning Milk
+C12675 12:00-12:30 Grace
+C12670 9:30-10:00 Outdoor Play
+C12672 10:30-11:00
+C12676 10:00-10:10 Quiet Time
+C12674 2:40-3:00 Free Play
+C12673 12:30-2:00 Nap time
+C12677 11:30-12:00
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0008
+C12678 2:00-2:20 Getting Up
+C12681 8:30-9:00
+C12684 2:20-2:40
+C12679 9:00-9:30 Morning Inspection
+C12682 11:00-11:30
+C12841 Nanping Methodist Hospital Mobile Health Unit
+c12680 3:00-3:30 Going Home
+C12683 9:00-9:30
+C12861 Chapel and gardens of Leper Colony, Tungkun
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0009
+C12867 Farm House, West China
+C12868 a street in a market town in West China
+C12869 Planting rice West china
+C12870 A Szechwan farm house surrounded by stack of drying sugar cane
+stocks.
+C12862 Women peasants carry clay for pottery, Tungkua
+C12891 The messenger of Budahism from India is supposed to have ridden to
+China on a white elephant.
+C12892 One of the most loved idols is the "Kwang Yin" a female goddess,
+who is the protector of all mothers and children
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0010
+C12873 One temple hhouse a multitude of small idol each one different.
+C12874 Buddhist pilgrims returning from the sacred mt. where they
+worshipped at each shrine.
+C12875 The 32 ft. God. At his side are the emblems of power.
+C12876 Sunday morning service in a market village
+C12877 Each morning church finds a group gathered for morning prayers
+together.
+C12878 On parents day the old people of the church are given special honor
+all over 60 are invited to come forward and stand together on platform.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0011
+C12879 A small school and church out in open country.
+C12880 One country mother teaches her children their A. B. C.s
+C12881 May Day and the physical education girls at the Women's College
+Chengtu China West China union University are putting on a demonstration.
+C12882 May pole dance Women's college West China Union University
+C12883 Reading the bulleting board at the Blind school.
+C12884 A small organ a blind organist and a quartetto of blind singers
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0012
+C12885 The harvest is in - in West China these schocks are rice staws.
+C12887 plowing the fields after harvest.
+C12888 Rice harvest.
+C12898 A Chinese temple god West China
+C12897 A Jade Buddha in temple in Chengtu
+C12899 Chinese gate West China
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0013
+C12900 Bus travel in China
+C12901 Interior of country home West China.
+C 12902 Preparing the family meal West China.
+C 12903 Man carrying his child on way to market.
+C 12904 Spinning cotton West China.
+C12905 Spinning cotton West China.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0014
+C12906 Salt Well West China.
+C 12907 Large rice mill West China.
+C 12908 Rice mills on boats mills river by current.
+C 12909 Sugar refining in West China.
+C 12910 Sugar refining coaling in earthern wares pots.
+C12911 Basket makers West China.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0015
+C12912 Basket seller West China.
+C12915 Kindergarten children on way to school.
+C12913 Cloth peddler West China.
+C12914 Children Chengtu.
+C12916 Motor scooter in West China.
+C12917 Mrs. Philips and Mrs. Kigihough inspecting motor scooter.
+C12918 Bishop Chen of Olion Stockwell on way to the conference on motor
+scooter.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0016
+C12919 Mrs. E.L. Philips and Ohio Wesleyan graduation in West China.
+C12920 Bishop and Mrs. on visit to China Bishop Carliton Locky on the
+stone house.
+C12921 Dr. Glen Frye preaching through interpreter in Grace Methodist
+Church. Chengtu China.
+C12922 Hospital ward Methodist Hospital. Tzechung China.
+C12923 Mrs. Alma Erickson of Nurse giving oil and klim to udner nourished
+baby. West China.
+C12924 Weighing baby in better Baby Clinic. West China.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0017
+C12925 Recreation Methodist youth group West China.
+C12927 Girl student at West China Union Theo-Seminary. Chengtu.
+C12929 Student of West China Union Theological College.
+C12926 X-ray of student at West China.
+C12928 Students of West China Union Theo Seminary. Chingtu.
+C12930 Woman Evangelist preaching to prisoners. Chingtu.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0018
+C12931 Dr. Irmis Highbrough visiting family in the country. West China.
+C12933 Personal evangelism. West China.
+C12934 Communion service small Village Church near Chengtu.
+C12932 Country women learningto read the Bible. West China.
+C12935 English Bible class Methodist Church. Chengtu.
+C12936 Pastor of Chentu Methodist Church with 3 of his oldest members and
+granddaughter of the oldest member.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0019
+C12937 An ex-Buddhist priest applying to Miss Shearer and pastor Yang-Sao-
+Chung for Chistian Instruction.
+C12950 Clearing eye in the lie home.
+C12940 Choir school West China Union Theological College led by Mrs.
+Stockwell.
+C129385 5 Mennonite missionaries conferring with Bishop Chen before going
+to their field. West China.
+C12939 Bishop Chen and 4 men ordained by him gam. 1948 at West China
+Annual Conference.
+C12941 Dan Lee and Young Christian Leader of West China.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0020
+C12942 Dr. Daniel Lee Wifo, Director of Rel. Education. West China
+Conference.
+C12944 Daniel Lee family singing hymns in the home.
+C12946 Children of Daniel Lee playing in the home.
+C12943 Daniel Lee family making sugar ball for Chinese new year.
+C12945 One of Daniel Lee boys reciting to the family.
+C12947 Lee boys carrying Chinese new year lanterns.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0021
+C12948 Helping bathe the baby in the Lee home.
+C12951 Daniel Lee and wife working in the garden.
+C12953 The Church kindergarten attended by the Lee children.
+C23949 The Lee baby nap hour.
+C12952 The Lee family on the way to Church.
+C12954 Professor Wm .Overholt of Fukien Christian in Foochow working with
+agriculture student.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0022
+C12958 Worship in oldest Church in East Asia Foochow at 100th celebration
+of Mission. December 1947.
+C12969 Three Methodist students of Medicine at West Union University, West
+China.
+C13847 Chiense nurse feeding baby.
+C12958 Isabella Fishen Hospital training school for nurses. Tunsin, China.
+C13863 In a Chinese school room.
+C13892 Acherman Dormitory, West China Union University.
+C13893 Reading the newspapers.
+C13894 An old country woman.
+C13895 Teaching deaf and dumb to talk.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0023
+C13896 Teaching deaf and dumb to talk.
+C13897 Woman and child in poor surroundings.
+C13899 Easter morning sunrise service, West China.
+C13900 Field Day for bright selwoes in Chengtu.
+C13902 Bullock grinding flour.
+C13904 Bishop and Mrs. W.Y. chen of West China.
+C13901 Dr. C. Stanley Jones (with Bishop C.T. Jung translating) addresses
+Christian leaders.
+C13903 North China workers who have come to West China to help out during
+these days of crisis.
+C13905 Girls competing in relay race. Field Day at West China Union
+University.
+C13906 Six orphan babies awaiting adoption.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0024
+C13836 Chinese writing.
+C13943 Chinese signatures.
+C14136 Two Chinese boys with free milk cups. Canton, China.
+C14137 Children waiting in line for the morning feeding at the Free Milk
+Clinic in Canton, China.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0025
+C15168 Pres. Wallace Wang of the West China Theological College talks with
+one of his new Methodist students. China.
+C15169 Mrs. E.L. Philleps, member of the Board of Missions, visits West
+China and have her first ride in a sedan chair. China.
+C15170 A boy and his dog - the same whether in China or Amer. China.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0026
+C15171 The opening of a wide paved street did not move the well, as it is
+a neighborhood necessity.
+C15172 Crusade funds are building new buildings in Chingtu. Total cost
+less than two thousand US dollars.
+C15231 Soochow University China Hall. (Science).
+C15232 Soochow University Nance Memorial Pavillion.
+C15233 Soochow University Marshall Hall, Dormitory for boys in the Middle
+School.
+C15234 Soochow University Girl's Dormitory.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0027
+C15235 Soochow University Li Vi Keh Dormitory for college boys. (Anderson
+Hall at back).
+C15236 Soochow University Anderson Hall, housing the library and Middle
+School.
+C15237 Soochow University Gymnasium.
+C15340 Hinghwa City Church.
+F3221 Hostel and pagoda newly erected by Buddhists near Hong Kong. 1953.
+F3222 General view - construction of stadium in foreground. Hong Kong.
+1953.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0028
+F3223 View of hillside site for MCOR housing project. Hong Kong. 1953.
+F3224 Playing field and city building. Hong Kong. 1953.
+F3225 Making adobe bricks. Hong Kong. 1953.
+F3226 Street scene. Hong Kong. 1953.
+F3227 Street scene. Hong Kong. 1953.
+F3228 A boy in the "New Territory" back of Kiwloun, Hong Kong. 1953.
+F3229 Center of a town in "New Territory". Hong Kong. 1953.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0029
+F3230 Movie theatre used on Sunday mornings for evangelistic services Hong
+Kong, 1953
+F3231 Catholic school and church at a refugee housing center Hong Kong -
+1953
+F3232 Catholic Church in housing project - Hong Kong - 1953
+F3233 Protestant Church in background near a Catholic housing project -
+Hong Kong 1953
+F3234 British Methodist church loaned to Chinese Methodist for worship
+Hong Kong - 1953
+F3235 New Cantonese Methodist Church Hong Kong - 1953
+F3236 Garage being remodelled for temporary use as church and S. S. by
+refugee Methodists, Hong Kong - 1953
+F3237 The way refugees fix up the cheap homes now being provided as low
+rentals - Hong Kong - 1953
+F3238 New housing units for Chinese refugees from Red China, Hong Kong,
+1953
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0030
+F3239 New housing for refugees- Hong Kong - 1953
+F3240 Refugee squatter area. (S. R. Anderson in area) Hong Kong - 1953
+F3241 outskirts of Tainan Formosa - 1953
+F3242 Newly constructed Southern Baptist church Tainan - Formosa 1953
+F3243 Typical farm house set in field of rice Formosa - 1953
+F3244 South Formosan women in distinctive dress - 1953
+F3245 South Formosa woman at work in field - 1953
+F3246 Crude church erected by new converts among formosan aborigines - 1953
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0031
+F 3247 Aboriginies in modernized mountain home. Formosa - 1953.
+F 3248 E.K. Knetther trying to talk with family of mountain aborigines.
+Formosa - 1953.
+F 3249 Street scene. Taichung, Formosa - 1953.
+F 3250 Rev. Paul Shen's parsonage at Taiching. He is an independent
+evangelist-pastor. Formosa - 1953.
+F 3251 Gov't school building. Taichung, Formosa. 1953.
+F 3252 Children at roadside. Formosa - 1953.
+F 3253 Group at gate of kindergarten for soldier's orphans - sponsored by
+Min. Chiang. Formosa - 1953.
+F 3255 Morshippers gathering at Shih Ling, the Church where Pres. and Mrs.
+Chiang Kai Shek worship. Formosa - 1953.
+F 3256 Parade honoring draftees leaving for military training. Formosa -
+1935.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0032
+F 3257 Review on National holiday. Formosa - 1953.
+F 3258 Chinese operated-tanks in review on national holiday. Formosa -
+1953.
+F 3259 Taipei building used by the Taiwan school of Soochow University.
+Formosa - 1953.
+F 3260 Street in Taipei. Formosa - 1953.
+F 3261 126 ft. street leading to capital building. Taipei. Formosa - 1953.
+F 3262 One of the ancient gates at Taipei. Formosa - 1953.
+F 3263 Church at leprosarium at Taipei. Formosa - 1953.
+F 3264 Residence at Wesley Grave, near Taipei, Formosa (Mrs. Don Mac
+Jnaiss). 1953.
+F 3265 Mountain rice fields seen from Wesley Grove. Taipei, Formosa.1953.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0033
+F 3266 Part of garden, Wesley Grove. Taipei, Formosa - 1953.
+F 3267 This row of garages was converted into what is now the North Point
+Methodist Church. Hong Kong.
+F 3268 Dr. Timothy Y.H. Chow preaching in North Point Methodist Church.
+Hong Kong.
+F 3269 The choir of North Point Methodist Church. Hong Kong.
+F 3271 The Congregation of North Point Methodist Church. Hong Kong.
+Mission Photograph Album - China #20 page 0034
+F 4048 Wesley Village, Hong Kong.
+C 22467 FreeChina President C.Y. Stone of Methodist-affiliated Soochow
+University. Taipei, Taiwan.
+Wireless is the latest trend in the technology world. Everything from telephone to an earphone which once came with long and tangled wires has now turned wireless. Even the common smartphone chargers have started using inductive transmission technology.
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+These chargers come with a transmission coil that turns the input current to signals for the smartphone to receive. The smartphone then converts them back to electrical form and use them to pump up the battery.
+However, there are several numbers of designs and models of these chargers, each with its own specification and output. You can’t just gamble with your expensive Galaxy S10 or your hard earned money. So how, do you find the best product for your smartphone?
+This article will walk you through various things about these gadgets, and present 5 top models of wireless charger which you can consider for your Galaxy devices.
+Choose The Right Standard
+Until recent years, there were two wireless standards, Power Matters Alliance (PMA) and the Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi standard. But presently, most companies adopt the Qi standard as the PMA joined WPC.
+Qi pronounced as CHEE is an open interface standard for induction based wireless charging. The technology ensures that the user gets wireless charging for up to 1.6-inch, using a charging pad and a compatible device.
+In short, Wireless Power Consortium is taking care of all the factors to develop better and reliable technology. So all you have to look now is the charging speed and compatibility of your device.
+Choose The Right Wattage
+Different smartphones have different wattage requirements. Most of them are fine with a charge of 5 to 10 watts, but some recently announced and advanced models have individual needs. Like the iPhone X and iPhone 8 series supports 7.5 w whereas note 8 and note 9 supports fast charging.
+A low wattage charger can charge high power device, but that will mean a slow charging and an extra long charging duration. So, you have to find your smartphones requirement before you get a charger. The wattage is generally 7.5W, 9W or 15 W.
+The software and cables that you use with the charger also play a role in the performance and current dispensing. For example, the phones with iOS 11.2 and above supports 7.5w while the once with older OS works with 5W.
+Choose The Right Design
+Like all the other gadgets, the wireless chargers also come in various sizes and shapes. There are the pad types with circular body and the stand types with a holder like structure. As far as the performance is concerned, size and design don’t have any direct effect on it. However, grip, the angle of sight and LED indicator does have a considerable impact.
+For instance, if you get a pad charger, your smartphone will always lie parallel to the surface, which is not practical for video playbacks. While the stand type chargers give you a straight and portrait alignment for comfortable and convenient movies and streaming experience.
+Best Wireless Charging Dock Stand For Galaxy S10
+1) Anker Fast Wireless Charger
+Anker presents the most powerful and efficient wireless charger that is ideal for all your Samsung and Apple devices. The charger is at the top of this list for its unusual features and reliable build.
+This device is a high power charger with an output of 10W. It ensures fast charging for all the compatible Android devices as well as 10% faster charging for iPhone with 5W support. The brand claims that their product has an optimized technology which can fully charge a Samsung device in 30 minutes less than other chargers. Moreover, it’s not available for Samsung and iPhone only. You can use it with any smartphone which has support for fast wireless charging.
+As for the performance factor, this charger has Qi certification for flawless working and safety. It has two coils for producing charging waves. It generates strong induction field which can penetrate all kinds of smartphones covers with a thickness less than 5mm. Provided this protective casing is not metal or magnet based, as these two interfere with induction current.
+The best thing about this wireless charger is that you can use it with both portrait and landscape mode. This property comes in handy for conferences and facial recognition technology. Further, the data cable you get with this device is 3 feet in length, which mean an extended range for charger connection.
+Pros
+- Led indicators
+- Universal compatibility
+- Use micro-USB power cable
+- Dual output compatibility
+Cons
+- Does not comes with a charging adaptor
+2) Belkin Boost Up Wireless Charger
+Belkin is a third party dealer of wireless accessories that is known for its extraordinary product quality. Their new model by the name is Boost Up is one of the most advanced wireless chargers that you will find out there.
+This gadget has a maximum power output of 10 watts, which is enough for fast charging of most devices. You can use it with less power rated devices too. It has a power regulating circuit which adjusts output for 7.5W and 9 W according to the user requirements. Moreover, you can use this device for LG, Apple, Galaxy, and many other devices. However, it does have some limitation like in the case of Google Pixel. It doesn’t support fast charging and provide standard 5W speed fo Pixel.
+Belkin is in technology and innovation for over 35 years and no wonder their charger has Qi certification for safety and performance. You can trust their charging dock for Galaxy S10 for temperature control, voltage adjustment, and really, long life. This charger also has a premium shielding which when accompanied by precise resistors eliminate interference and protect smartphone functionality while charging. They also help in foreign object detection.
+Additionally, Boost Up has an attractive design. It has an anti-slip surface and a holding clip which help to maintain the position of smartphone and the charger. The grip also enhances your smartphone using experience while charging it, that too in both landscape and portrait mode.
+Pros
+- Compatible with covers of up to 3mm
+- Overheating protection
+- LED indicators
+- Comes with AC adaptor
+- Adaptor with 5-foot wire
+Cons
+- Produce high-pitch sound sometimes
+3) Seneo Wireless Charger
+Seneo Wireless charger is a perfect blend of technology, quality, and affordability. It is ideal for all kinds of smartphone users in terms of design, compatibility, and performance.
+The charger has a sleek and straightforward stand type design with dimensions of 2.8X5.8X23.4 inches only. As for the portability part, it is just 4 ounces, so that won’t be an issue. The super study device is capable of producing many different outputs according to the smartphone requirements. The type of charging adaptor used to power this wireless stand also affects its output wattage. These wattage factors make this device compatible with Apple Samsung and a lot of other smartphones. Moreover, it has two coiled systems so you can use it for both portrait and landscape mode.
+Seneo has used the exclusive ATB technology for this charger and also has a Qi certification for it. The new technology enables it to charge devices with 15% more speed than standard chargers. It also ensures that the temperature of the devices doesn’t exceed 4-degrees Celsius. Further, it has CE/FCC, ID/UL certifications. So, you can rest ashore with the safety of your smartphone. The charger will regulate voltage, temperature, and all other factors to ensure it.
+The unique thing about this charger is its angular holder design. It holds the smartphone at an angle of 60 degree which is ideal for movies and e-book reading. The charger also has LED indicators that show the status of your phone’s battery.
+Pros
+- Multiple safety protection
+- Cooling fins for temperature control
+- Anti-slip rubber base
+Cons
+- No fast charging for Apple devices
+- Does not comes with power adaptor
+- No LED for interference warning
+4) Samsung Wireless Charger
+When it comes to buying a charger for your Galaxy S10, it’s home-company is the best choice, especially if when they have something like this convertible charger.
+This unique model has a dual compatible structure which enables the user to use it as a stand as well as a pad charger. This model has a premium and an exquisite design that is way ahead of the common wireless charger. The round structure with a sturdy base and leather-like finish is something you don’t see every day. Moreover, Samsung has removed the glossy finishing layer which makes this product a lot more resistant to fingerprint and smudge.
+Further, this device comes with a high-power wall socket adaptor of type C which enables fast charging of smartphones. It also has a set of fans that help to regulate the temperature of the charging dock as well as your smartphone. The inbuilt chipset is also responsible for controlling the voltage and current according to the user requirements and the safety factor of the device. It generally dispenses 9W for Samsung phones which ensure 1.4X faster charging than conventional chargers.
+Samsung has also placed some LED indicator on this charger. These indicators tell the user about the alignment of the smartphone and the battery level. As for the support, this charger works with most Galaxy as well as Apple devices.
+Pros
+- Indicator for misalignment of the smartphone
+- USB type C compatibility
+- Support devices with nonmetallic covers
+Cons
+- Charging time is more than a wired charger
+- Not that good with covered phones
+5) iOttie’s iON Wireless Stand
+iOttie’s iON is one of the most stylish and attractive wireless charger available in the market to date. It is also one of the most speedy devices that you will find.
+iON comes with a maximum output of 10W for Android devices and 7.5W for iPhone. It is compatible with almost every galaxy and Apple product with Qi certification. It further has a two coil based design which makes it suitable for both landscape and portrait alignment of your smartphone. The stand’s 65-degree tilt also adds to the arrangement convince. You can comfortably use it for all kind of navigation and video playbacks.
+Further, the base of this charger features a premium anti-slip finish. The extra grip along with perfectly balanced weight, eliminate every chance of slipping or flipping. There is also an anti-slip pad which acts as the footpad of your smartphone during the charger. This pad is very beneficial for eliminating the changes of misalignment due to slipping.
+Additionally, this Charging Dock For Galaxy S10 has a tweed-style fabric coating on the upper structure. This fabric presents an exquisite and classy look that blends with your home and office furniture, very beautifully. The power port at the back side of this charger is very discrete and almost invisible from the front side.
+The distinct feature of this charger is its range. Unlike most devices, this product has a range of approximately 7mm, which means it is ideal for most thick type phone covers. It also has LED indicators for showing charging status and power supply. These indicators on the side panel are very moderate in lighting. So, you can charge your phone at night without worrying about the distracting lights.
+Pros
+- Comes with a wall socket
+- Compatible with 5W devices
+- Rubber bottom
+- 18 watts USB input
+- Fast charging for both Android and iOS devices
+Cons
+- Non-convertible design
+- Non-adjustable viewing angle
+- A little pricey
+Summary of the best Charging Dock For Galaxy S10
+The wireless chargers are a piece of technical masterpiece. The chargers are not only easy to use and, but they are also a great product in terms of safety and reliability. Every decent quality wireless charger comes with overvoltage and overcharges protection which ensure the safety of your devices. They also have a circuit to regulate the temperature of your smartphone. So, just make sure you find a fully certified and quality charging dock for Galaxy S10 for your Samsung Galaxy S10 or any other device and enjoy another wonder of the technology world. An invention meant to make your life, relaxed and hassle-free.
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+Awesome customer service! Even had Manager come by table. Good food fries and finger food hot!!!
+Nicaragua Restaurant
+No Frills Grill & Sports Bar
+4914 Little Rd, Arlington, TX 76017
+- (817) 618-6005
+Juan Burrito Express
+6901 McCart Ave Suite #75, Fort Worth, TX 76133
+- (817) 292-3048
+1. Reata Restaurant
+310 Houston StFort Worth, TX 76102
+Haven't been in a while but I do love this restaurant. I especially like the grilled veggies. I have never had an issue worth mentioning except one …
+2. Joe T Garcia's Mexican Restaurant
+2201 N Commerce StFort Worth, TX 76164
+I've been to Joe T's on several occasions, and it's no wonder it is a Fort Worth icon. The gardens/decor are worth the price. Joe and his staff are …
+3. La Playa Maya Restaurant
+3205 Hemphill StFort Worth, TX 76110
+You can't go wrong here. This is the best and has the best service you can find in Ft. Worth. If you want "good", just go to LaPlaya May…
+4. Cancun Mexican Restaurant
+7419 Camp Bowie West BlvdFort Worth, TX 76116
+What a surprise. I have been looking for an "honest" Mexican restaurant in Fort Worth since I began coming here regularly a bit over a year ago. I…
+5. Mi Charrito Restaurant
+5693 Westcreek DrFort Worth, TX 76133
+6. La Familia Mexican Restaurant
+841 Foch StFort Worth, TX 76107
+New owner bought the restaurant about 2 years ago and they've changed things for the better!! They installed a bar in the back, more tvs, but left t…
+7. Olive Garden Italian Restaurant
+925 Alta Mere DrFort Worth, TX 76116
+We've been going to this Olive Garden for several years now. The service is always fantastic and the food is always delicious.
+8. Edelweiss German Restaurant
+3801 Southwest BlvdFort Worth, TX 76116
+Great experience. The food was delicious. Our party of five chose Wiener schnitzel, the sausage plate or jaeger schnitzel and everyone was pleased …
+9. Mandarin Restaurant
+3020 W 7th St Ste 210Fort Worth, TX 76107
+I have been eatng here since I was about 15 or sooooo......LOVE IT!All employees are kindless. The Homemade Egg Rolls and Sushi Rolls are the Best i…
+10. Dos Molinas Mexican Restaurant
+404 NW 25th StFort Worth, TX 76164
+Fabulous breakfast! Great atmosphere and service. Will return when in the area. Plan on a wait because they are very popular and always busy.
+11. Daddy Jack's Restaurant
+353 Throckmorton StFort Worth, TX 76102
+Great Food. I had the shrimp and the baked potato. I never have baked potatoes, but this was one of the best baked potatoes I've ever had.
+12. Old Rip's Tex Mex Restaurant
+3105 Cockrell AveFort Worth, TX 76109
+Did not know what to think about new place in town. I went and had a wonderful meal with a group of friends. We all loved the chip and salsa, and …
+13. Bangkok House Thai Restaurant
+438 S Cherry LnFort Worth, TX 76108
+The food is exceptionally good and the service is friendly. This is is a fun place to eat good food. We like it for family gatherings where the ma…
+14. El Paseo Mexican Restaurant
+5436 Jacksboro HwyFort Worth, TX 76114
+I have been eating at El Paseo since I was little and nothing compares to them for me. This is my all time favorite mexican restraunt. The hot sauce…
+15. Buttons Restaurant
+4701 West Fwy Ste 100Fort Worth, TX 76107
+IF YOU LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO COME AND ENJOY GREAT FOOD AND LIVE MUSIC, BUTTONS IS THE PLACE TO BE. FUN PLACE FOR GIRLS OR GUYS NIGHT OUT!!!! JAZZ …
+16. Olive Garden Italian Restaurant
+4700 SW Loop 820Fort Worth, TX 76109
+yum yum this food is delicious
+17. Esperanzas Restaurant & Bakery
+1601 Park Place AveFort Worth, TX 76110
+I love this place! I'm Mexican so I'm usually pretty critical of Mexican restaurants. Esperanzas has great service, great food and according to my h…
+18. The Gardens Restaurant & Catering
+3220 Rock Springs RdFort Worth, TX 76107
+As a disabled senior, I want to give ""Kudos"" to the owner and employees of Garden Restaurant at Fort Worth's Botanical Gardens, not just because t…
+19. Sikhay Restaurant
+3301 NE 28th StFort Worth, TX 76111
+Nothing but great things to say about this place. Great food and best service. They remember you, and you will remember the food.. trust! Lol
+20. Golden Corral Restaurants
+3517 Alta Mere DrFort Worth, TX 76116
+Loved it I drive all the way from mineral wells
+21. King Tut Restaurant
+1512 W Magnolia AveFort Worth, TX 76104
+This is the best place ever! The chicken shawarma is amazing and ALL of their dips are great. The staff, service, food and most of all the shawarma …
+22. Greek House Restaurant
+2426 Forest Park BlvdFort Worth, TX 76110
+gyros sandwich- outstanding greek salad- perfect philly cheese steak sandwich- mouth watering good appetizers (hummus, dolmas, and ff) nice enviro…
+23. Sun Sun Chinese Restaurant
+5301 E Lancaster AveFort Worth, TX 76112
+I have been eatng here since I was about 5 or so......LOVE IT!May the owner is the sweetest person ever! The egg rolls are the BEST in the world and…
+24. Rig Restaurant
+6308 South FwyFort Worth, TX 76134
+25. Jalisco Restaurant
+3308 N Main StFort Worth, TX 76106
+The food here is great. Not overly seasoned but just perfect. I love eating here. The atmosphere and everything about the place makes the meal very …
+26. Alba's Italian Restaurant
+4601 Boat Club Rd Ste 101Fort Worth, TX 76135
+This restaurant reminds me of the cute neighborhood ones in Chicago. Wonderful food
+27. Our Cafe Restaurant
+7420 N Beach St Ste 230Fort Worth, TX 76137
+Finally a great place to eat breakfast and home cooking in our area. Had a works omelet, it was out of this world. fluffy eggs and topped with home…
+28. Szechuan Chinese Restaurant
+5712 Locke AveFort Worth, TX 76107
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+29.…
+30. Los Vaqueros Restaurant
+2629 N Main StFort Worth, TX 76164
+I understand this location is good but the one out here where I live in Willow Park, is aweful.....and the Prices are as bad. I go to Toritos in We…
+If you are looking for a social place to gather, then this is your spot. The food is nothing to rave about and the drinks are water downed and look nothing like the menu photo. My friends and I also felt rushed to go because of how busy it was. Will not be back.
+It's a fun place to meet friends or take the family. The food's terrific if you love Cajun cooking. Oysters, crab, crawfish, gumbo, shrimp, fried fish and wonderful key lime pie or the best tasting bread pudding in town. It's casual dining, so it's not trying to compete with Eddie V except in taste and quality of the food... you'll get home made fresh daily cooking, with crawfish and shrimp gumbo that will compete with any place in New Orleans, I guarantee. Ice cold beer on tap, and also margaritas and other frozen adult beverages... you'll be impressed with the quality of the grilled shrimp. Easy parking, easy to find at Ridglea Avenue and Camp Bowie, on the North side of the street near Walgreen's.
+The Fort Worth Texas location, is run badly the management was rude, the shell fish we ate had bits of shell still on them when served, we called the main office to advise them of our background in the food industry and our visit, and we still have not recieved a call or email of apology, We do not recommend this place to anyone who wants to have a nice nightout or good food.Reminder if the top managers are reckless with customer service, the people below them will be the same, The only way to get good service is to really give your honest review, not a review from the managers who put fake reviews on this site.
+Reservations don't seem to matter and hostesses are clueless and rude. Thirty minutes past our reservation time with our complete party waiting including a person in a wheelchair and they continued to seat people at the tables that should have been reserved for our group.
+This is the 3rd time we've tried this place again in the last 6 mths. The 1 st 2 times we went the service was very very slow. The waitress seemed put off and irritated we were there. By the time our food came it was cold. Then when paying the bill it took over 30 min to even get our check after we said we had another engagement after 20 min of waiting. Then. We decided to go again today at 2 pm. We went and there were only about 4 tables there on a Monday. The waitress in fact same one we've had everytime we've gone came and gave us menus. She went off to make drinks, serve other tables take trash out, clean up tables. Go to the restroom. All this while we waited for her to come back and take our order. After staring at her for 25 min while she did this I went up to her and told her we were ready to order. I said poor thing. You must be the only one here. She said yes! Well me and the owner but he's saying he's busy and won't help me. We ordered all you can eat shrimp. We ate and when my husband that is a pretty big guy was ready for his seconds well, that took 20 more minutes to get and she brought back 6 more popcorn shrimps. Needless to say. Another disappointing experience here .. Maybe they need more wait staff. Like I said the last 3 times we went it was the same poor girl there by herself I guess. I guess I would have a stressed out attitude too. Won't be going back there again.
+Nice place and good service. Fries are nice and crispy. Have been there twice, and like both times.
+Meh! If my experience is typical, you'd better walk away now if you are reading this: many Vietnamese run 'cajun' restaurants are just OK, some are great, some are terrible, most are just OK. This one does not warrant an OK rating.Place seems popular, lots of couples and families come here. For some reason cocktails take forever to show up, and these were the specials. Service in general was just slow too. My fish combo platter was luke warm, fish and veggies, not sure if it was cooked for me or someone before me and I got the returned dish. The side of grits was soupy, and they give you a giant bowl of the stuff. My dining companions also picked and poked at their food, everyone was nice but since we all like to eat and most of us left food on the plates I'm guessing I wasn't alone in my assessment.This place blows..
+This has been the New Orleans experience in Fort Worth !!! Portions are just like New Orleans!!!
+Warning: This blog contains nudity that is quite sexy and empowering to women, nevertheless, some may find it offensive.
+A few weeks ago I promised that I was going to introduce my readers to some “good for the soul” feminist music, so here I am, with someone awesome for you all to meet – her name is Amanda Palmer. And believe me, you want to know her.
+I have to start out by saying, I don’t really know jack about “feminist music” – my Pandora has been on my Counting Crows station for about two months now, and I am fine with that. But after my fellow blogger posted The Beyonce Bowl 2013 I started thinking about the importance of female powered music – while I loved seeing the all-girl band and reunion of Destiny’s Child at the Superbowl, these aspects were ruined for me by the intense sexualized content of the entire show. What Beyonce was wearing, the way she was dancing, the fact that she (literally) stripped on stage, were all direct reflections of what I am SO sick of seeing in the media, and that’s a sexualization of women that has been created by a male gaze.
+Today I was reading Patricia Hill Collins and she made the point that although we don’t think about musicians as “intellectuals,” they are part of our culture’s knowledge production and dissemination. I would venture to guess that everyone reading this post has heard of Beyonce and can sing a lyric to at least one of her songs, while only a small percentage have ever heard of Collins, let alone read her feminist theories. What we listen to and see on TV effects the way we think about the world, and how we see ourselves. Girls all over America saw a strong, beautiful, talented woman during the Superbowl half-time show, but a woman who, like most mainstream performers, was representative of the pornographic quality that the media demands from participating women.
+I refuse to believe that’s as good as it gets. I refuse to believe that in order to be a successful musician that you must be sexualized. And that’s where Amanda comes in.
+When I first found Amanda she was still in the band The Dresden Dolls, a two-part group consisting of her (piano and vocals) and her ex-lover Brian Viglione (drums). They sounded like a darker, more intense version of The White Stripes, but when I listened closer, I realized they were touching on subjects that I had never heard in the music of Jack and Meg. The realities of street harassment, rape, gender socialization, partner violence, alternative sexualities, and even vibrators were all woven into the duo’s obvious musical talent.
+Today Amanda is married to writer Neil Gaiman (he’s written many fantastic books and graphic novels, but you might know him best as the author of Coraline), and has been producing music on her own since 2008. Although I love the songs she made with Brian, I think her solo work is even more beautiful, and her fight against the music industry has helped made her work SUPER accessible.
+In fact, you can listen to all of it on her website, any time you want and in its entirety. She understands the reality that most people download music illegally or share it with their friends, and she skips all frustration by making her entire discography readily available. Also on her website is her blog, which she uses to stay in daily contact with her fans. Amanda is a VERY prolific blogger – I know because both her music and blog are available as an app, so she’s in my pocket every day, talking about the oppressions women face and finding solutions with how to deal with them. The blog was also where Amanda recently informed fans that her upcoming tour was cancelled – a close friend of hers has been diagnosed with cancer and she wants to be with them as they go through chemotherapy. While her career is important, her friend is more so, and the blog allowed her to communicate this – not only did she not lose any followers, she gained a huge community of support for what she and her friend are facing.
+Not all of Amanda’s songs are overtly feminist – some are about love found or love lost, female friendships, and motherhood – but EVERY one of her songs talks about the realities of life from a woman’s perspective. Although there’s a lot to love about Amanda, I think that the relatability of her music is the best thing about her. I can identify with her down-to-earth portrayal of women WAY more than I can with a Lady Gaga song talking about going to a club and getting drunk! As far as good role models go, she’s someone I would want my daughter or sister to listen to, because she has great insight and solutions they could use in their life.
+It was suggested that my disdain for Beyonce’s performance could be a result of “slut shaming,” that is, hatred directed towards behavior that goes outside of the “norm” that females are supposed to be pure and chaste. As far as that goes, I actually think that the “norm” of female sexuality as it appears in the media is quite the opposite of this, and that Beyonce fit right into viewer expectations of a sexualized female. As you can see from the photos below, Amanda is no prude, and no stranger to not only being revealing on stage, but naked. So what’s the difference between her performance and Beyonce’s?
+For me, the difference is that I always feel that Amanda is 100% in control – of her life, her music, and her body. I never feel that there is a man behind the scene pulling the strings OR that she is out to impress anyone but herself (and maybe Neil Gaiman). Furthermore, there is a message in her music, a strong, empowering, and feminist message, that is interested not only in equality for women, but for anyone who has ever been oppressed because of their sexuality – namely the queer community. I see Amanda there with her tits out and I can almost hear her thinking, “Yup, this is me. And I look great. But I am a commodity for NO ONE – this is MY body and I am doing exactly what I want with it.” It’s quite a different feeling then when I heard two days after the Superbowl that Beyonce’s rep was trying pull “unflattering” photos of the performance from the web. Because women don’t sweat when they dance – apparently.
+Amanda Palmer is an inspiration to me every day, but she is only one of many great female artists. Until we learn to value these types of performers in our culture, we are stuck with Beyonce at the Superbowl and Call Me Maybe on the radio, and that’s not a world I want to live in. So who are your favorite female artists? Share them so I can finally get my Pandora away from the Counting Crows!!
+Videos to watch immediately:
+The Killing Type – my all-time favorite right now!
+The Oasis Song – Upbeat tones, but talking about date rape and abortion – you won’t be able to forget this one.
+Coin-Operated Boy – The Dresden Dolls song about the delights of a vibrator 🙂
+Double Rainbow – NYC Halloween 2010, the Dresden Dolls delighted their audience with a musical redention of the popular YouTube video “Double Rainbow.”
+Creep – A ukelalee version of the Radiohead classic!
+6 thoughts on “Meet Amanda Palmer”
+I’ve never heard of Amanda Palmer but she sounds like an amazing and empowering female artist! I would just like to clarify, that my praise of Beyonce’s performance at the Super Bowl was in the broad spectrum of her all female ensemble and her talent, although I realize now that most Americans were primarily focused on her beauty and body that are highly sexualized through the male gaze. I wanted to highlight the positive aspects of the performance and focus on how Beyonce as person, rather than performer, is empowering outside of her music but I understand that her music defines her and it’s almost impossible consider them separately. I whole heartedly agree that there are so many other female artists that represent everything a woman can and should be that should have been up on that stage instead of her, but those women go unrecognized in our patriarchal society. It really is a shame that artists like Beyonce allow men to stand over them and pull the puppet strings. I listened to a few of Amanda Palmer’s songs and I really liked them and everything she stands for. I wish all female artists had her confidence and knowledge to take control of their art and make it their own. This is a great post and I can’t wait to learn more about other feminist musicians!
+I think that everything you chose to draw attention to in your blog was awesome – especially the all-female band which I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere else! However, I thought it would be valuable to explore the other side too. I’m really glad that you wrote The Beyonce Bowl, because it opened up a lot of dialogue, as well as chance for me to personally explore how I feel about various female artists. I think and hope that the path Amanda Palmer has chosen to take in music will be followed by future female performers – she’s going to be a great resource to new and upcoming artists. I also think that it’s important to draw attention to performers like Palmer, because like you said, they often go unrecognized in our patriarchal culture. During my early teen years I thought all Q101 was the height of the music industry…imagine by sheer joy when I realized this wasn’t so!!
+I’ve been following the Beyonce debate on the blog for a bit, and I figured now was a good time to chime in. While I think it is good to have a variety of female role models in the media, I think it’s important to consider that Beyonce actually is COMPLETELY in control of herself, her image, and her business. To assert that she isn’t in control because she plays into the sexualization of women in the music industry seems like a stretch. Consider that because Beyonce is a pop artist who is internationally known, she can get her messages of female empowerment to a lot more people than Amanda Palmer. Beyonce made the decision to continue her a career as a pop artist, that wasn’t a decision that was made for her or really even forced upon her. And she has completely owned herself and her image for quite some time now. She fired her own father so she could have control over her business decisions. For years she kept her relationship with Jay-Z incredibly private, and very much established herself outside of his shadow. She has been quoted time and time again emphasizing how important it is to be a financially independent woman. If that isn’t empowering then I don’t know what is.
+I think it’s very problematic to put such a negative light on Beyonce’s sexuality. I grew up listening to Destiny’s Child and her early solo work, and it made me feel awesome about being a woman and also showed me that it was okay to embrace my body and sexuality. I don’t think there is anything wrong with her making these decisions to be a sexy woman and put that image out. The fact of the matter is, she is the one making these decisions. If feminists are going to nit-pick and focus on her sexuality instead of her talent, is that any better than what the sexist media industry does? We’re focusing so much on her body that in a way it’s objectifying in it’s own right. On that note, I’m just going to present this Beyonce quote for consideration:
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+Hannah–while I like your post, I was a little saddened by by your admissions that you don’t know much about feminist music. Start by googling “riot grrl.” Search out Kathleen Hanna. And dig out some Patti Smith. And keep rockin!
+I am saddened by it too, and I was hoping that this blog would encourage readers to share some of their favorites! I read Just Kids last year and I LOVE Patti Smith, but I had never heard of Kathleen Hanna! Thanks for the suggestion!
+While I agree that there are aspects to Beyonce’s music (and her earlier work with Destiny’s Child) that can be empowering for women, I think a lot of what you are saying shows evidence that you are a woman who has has A LOT of experience with feminism. Your education has enabled you to think about Beyonce in a way that many without your background would not consider. The problem for me is that Beyonce is one of at least 20 pop stars that I can think of who has the same (or at least VERY similar) image and message – you say these perfomers reach more of society than Amanda Palmer, and obviously there is no debating that! What I am doing is asking WHY? If this type of image is what is accepted (and expected ) from the music industry as you say, it’s a question worth pursuing. For me the answers lies in the American media’s sexualization of women – while there are positive aspects to Beyonce, this still exists as a major part of her image. Futhermore, her peformance was obviously catering to the male gaze – and isn’t it sick that this is the image consistently fed to teenagers? While you say you gained empowerment from her as a teenager, I think there are many others (myself included) who looked at her and thought, “Borring. Gross. Where are the women like myself?” I write about Palmer and hope that others share their favorite feminist performers in the hope that we can give these girls a choice of what to listen to – for those who feel empowered to Beyonce, keep rocking out! For the others who are tired of the same old thing, try out Amanda!!
+And PS LOVE the quote from Beyonce – how could not she not feel that way after all the experience she’s had in the music industry? However, I haven’t seen anything or heard anything to seperate her in my mind from women who defintiely aren’t in control of their own music or image. It’s about SO much more than her body or what she wears – it’s the whole act and it’s place in our culture.
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+MEDICC rev. vol.14 n.4 Oakland Oct. 2012
+INTERVIEW
+PAHO's presence in Cuban health: José Luis Di Fabio PhD PAHO/WHO representative in Cuba
+Gail Reed MS
+He sips mate, the bitter brew of his native Uruguay as he converses at PAHO's offices in Havana. Yet, he already feels at home here, says Dr Di Fabio, who took up his post in July of 2011. This is not surprising, since his connection to Cuban health care and research predates his arrival by two decades. In 1992-93, he worked on the Americas' vaccine system (SIRE-VA) for PAHO and became involved in monitoring cooperation in vaccine regulatory issues, quality and production. From that period emerged one of Latin America's great achievements: Vicente Vérez Bencomo's development at the University of Havana of the world's first Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) synthetic-antigen vaccine. Dr Di Fabio came to Cuba often to follow up on the vaccine's regulatory process, production, and quality control for PAHO.
+Later, he continued working on access to vaccine technology at PAHO headquarters in Washington, DC. It's a journey that has taken him not only far from home, but also from his professional beginnings in Vancouver, Canada, as a PhD in organic chemistry. But it's Dr Di Fabio's "chemistry" with Cuba that is the subject of our conversation, his openness incongruent with the stiff antique furniture in his upstairs PAHO quarters-which nevertheless offer one of the best tree-top views of the Cuban capital.
+MEDICC Review: Many say the Cuban health system is at a crossroads today. How do you perceive its achievements, the challenges ahead?
+José Luis Di Fabio: When it comes to health, Cuba is privileged in many ways. First, for five decades the country has had a universal public health system backed by political decisions that have made its development a priority. Other countries are still trying to achieve this. Cuba's challenge is different: it's how to maintain and sustain that system by adopting new financing mechanisms, optimizing resources, and managing technologies efficiently. This means structural redesign of some parts of the system.
+Second, Cuba is also privileged with its high doctor-patient ratio and its guarantee of access to care built on a strong primary health care network, in which family doctor-and-nurse offices and polyclinics serve all residents in a local geographic area.
+The challenge now is to maintain quality of care while reducing dependency on technology at some levels. To accomplish this, the Cubans are proposing more reliance on physicians' clinical skills and more rational use of technology, especially in primary care.
+For example, equipping the country's some 450 community polyclinics with the same technology is costly, and doesn't take into account that each facility serves a different size population with different epidemiological characteristics. So "cookie-cutter" technology distribution is inefficient and, recognizing this, health authorities are moving to optimize use of equipment, relocating it to where it makes the most sense.
+Of course, the problem is that once people get used to having the technology at their community clinic, it's difficult to convince them that their quality of care won't suffer when it's moved. So this becomes a concern.
+Third, human resources: the fact that training of health professionals is under the aegis of the Ministry of Public Health is another advantage. This means you can better align training with the country's needs, including locating schools in each province to ensure more equitable distribution of health professionals. This isn't so in other countries, where such questions take up considerable negotiating time among ministries and other actors.
+And finally, this health system is not about medicine as a business. Unfortunately, in many other nations, people think of medicine as a career to make money. Here, we still see the altruism of medicine as service. That isn't to say Cuban health professionals are adequately paid-increasing salaries is recognized as one of the big challenges, even at the highest levels of government. They have to find the resources.
+Looking ahead, I think Cuba faces other important challenges- including an aging population and the services it will require, and the greater capacity needed to plan for this demographic shift. This also means taking full advantage of preventive strategies at hand today.
+MEDICC Review: Can you exemplify how Cuba is "plugged in" to the PAHO system regionally?
+José Luis Di Fabio: One way is the designation of ten PAHO/WHO Collaboration Centers in Cuba-contributing expertise and experience to advance our regional and global agendas for health and health equity. [See box.]
+The Latin American Center for Disaster Medicine (CLAMED), for example, draws from decades of Cuba's own experience in disaster mitigation and management, as well as that of Cuban medical teams' cooperation abroad. CLAMED trains the Henry Reeve Contingent, 10,000 specialized professionals prepared and equipped as rapid responders to epidemics, hurricanes, earthquakes, toxic spills and the like. The Contingent's record, with its accumulated capacity and knowledge in places such as Pakistan and Haiti, is impressive; it's also the result of having a single public health system that can quickly deploy human as well as material resources.
+On another front, CLAMED has been involved from the beginning in PAHO's Safe Hospital initiative, designed to keep hospitals and other health facilities operational during and after disaster strikes. The effort involves architects, engineers and others besides health professionals; the norms for evaluating the safety of these health facilities came originally from CLAMED. After several big hurricanes hit Cuba in 2008, we held regional workshops, and from these, a guide to mental health in disaster situations also emerged, with important Cuban participation.
+One major problem remains: Cubans' aren't publishing enough, so their experiences are not accessible to the rest of the world. And they have a lot to offer: the article in MEDICC Review presenting results from 15 years monitoring vaccine-related adverse events in Cuban children provides information we can't find anywhere else in Latin America or the Caribbean [see MEDICC Review, January 2012].
+Yet, it took a long time coming. Part of the problem is that much of the international literature is published in English, which is an obstacle encountered by researchers in many other countries of the Americas as well.
+MEDICC Review: How does PAHO work in Cuba itself?
+José Luis Di Fabio: We have a country cooperation strategy through 2015, based on a set of ten priorities worked out with the Ministry of Public Health. These are consistent with the principles and priorities of the national health system, and also with the WHO's medium-term strategic program and the Millennium Development Goals-our aim is to align all these to make more impact where we can. Much of what we do concerns efforts to strengthen the efficiency, quality and sustainability of Cuba's health system, particularly in primary health care.
+In 2010-2011, nearly US$3.4 million was assigned from the central PAHO budget to technical cooperation with Cuba, and another US$3.3 million was raised through PAHO from other sources.
+One example of PAHO's work here is our decentralized technical cooperation with local governments, related to issues ranging from maternal-child health to cancer and other chronic diseases, domestic violence, community mental health, protection of children in disasters, and healthy aging.
+MEDICC Review: You mention the Millennium Development Goals, a strategy emphasizing intersectoral approaches. How do these come into play in PAHO's cooperation with Cuba?
+José Luis Di Fabio: Intersectoral approaches are vital to health, and thus to all our PAHO projects, which aim to complement other efforts at local development, including those of the rest of the UN system.
+Safe drinking water, social and economic integration, education, exercise, food security, traffic safety-none of these can be addressed by the health sector alone.
+We have a project just getting off the ground in Cienfuegos looking at mortality from cancer- now the number one cause of death in that province. Through the comprehensive health services network (headed by the provincial hospital, another WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center), new ways to approach this problem are being designed, relying on data from primary health care providers and other levels of the health system.
+The different kinds of cancers will be mapped, and improvements devised-especially in prevention and early detection strategies-to address these where they are most prevalent. Some domestically-developed tools are also available, such as the national Immunoassay Center's test for human fecal blood for early detection of colon cancer.
+But no matter which cancer you are confronting, prevention is complicated and needs intersectoral cooperation. Just look at lung cancer in Cuba: smoking is banned in public buildings, but if this is not enforced, the health sector can't do its job. If diet, alcohol consumption and smoking are not addressed urgently, we will see cancer rates rise; if stress is not reduced through regular exercise, more risk is added to the picture.
+MEDICC Review: You mentioned the Immunoassay Center, part of Cuba's "scientific pole," working in biotech and other R&D. How do you view the country's approach to biotech?
+José Luis Di Fabio: The US embargo and other economic constraints have forced innovation to meet the demands and fulfill the commitment of Cuba's universal health care system. One way is through products developed by biotech R&D. Although export revenues are derived, the main purpose is not to strike it rich, but rather to make these new vaccines and other medications available to resolve pressing health problems in Cuba and elsewhere.
+The closed loop approach has worked here, in which biotech institutions cooperate from initial research, through development, trials, national use and marketing. This contribution has also benefited South-South cooperation, with Brazil and Cuba offering a case in point. Their cooperation on production of millions of doses of meningococcal vaccine A+C for Africa's "meningitis belt" is a model of joint venture and technology transfer: Cuba manufactured the polysaccharide components and Brazil did the formulation and completed the final product, resulting in a vaccine prequalified by the WHO.
+More recently, an important agreement was signed between Brazil and Cuba for technology transfer of many biotech medical products developed in Cuba. And of course, Cuba has also transferred technology to countries such as India, China and South Africa.
+MEDICC Review: Is PAHO involved in Cuba's global health cooperation?
+José Luis Di Fabio: Some 40,000 Cuban health professionals are posted abroad in places where public health services were few or non-existent. These teams encounter realities, not just diseases, which are very different from what they see in Cuba. These include different cultures and traditions. In Bolivia, for example, women are accustomed to vertical birthing and many indigenous people don't want to be hospitalized for fear they will be blamed for dirtying the sheets, so maligned have they been for centuries.
+So, we've begun working with the Cuban Public Health Ministry's Medical Collaboration Unit and others to provide more background on the history and cultures of the countries where Cuban health professionals serve, to ensure they have the best preparation possible before they go.
+MEDICC Review: The Latin American Medical School (ELAM) is probably the world's largest medical school with an explicit social mission. What is PAHO's relationship to the school?
+José Luis Di Fabio: ELAM enrolls 20,000 students from over 100 countries, and their graduates are doubtless having an impact. This program is also facing challenges in terms of inserting these new MDs into medical practice in their home countries: there is disinformation that foments ignorance. And there is resistance from some in the medical profession itself, particularly among specialists who were trained so differently. They don't understand these ELAM doctors who were trained mainly in community settings and health facilities-something you don't see in many countries.
+So, they criticize ELAM graduates for many things, among them not receiving training relevant to local needs. In several places, Cuban medical educators have introduced an interesting innovation that addresses such concerns, in which students spend their last one or two years under the tutelage of Cuban professors serving in the students' own countries. This is one measure that should have a positive effect and on recognition of the ELAM degree by more countries' accreditation bodies.
+Interestingly, such obstacles aren't faced by the over 190 US ELAM students and graduates, who have to pass the same boards as those who went to school in the United States itself; or in European countries such as Spain, where the ELAM degree is recognized.
+PAHO signs every graduate's MD degree, attesting to its validity. And we would like to do more to support ELAM in its graduate outcome and impact studies through its human resources observatory program and to assist in debunking some of the myths about its curriculum. Our reasoning is clear: the world needs doctors for primary health care, doctors who come from, and are willing to practice in, distressed communities and rural areas, and who are well acquainted with their own culture and respect others.
+MEDICC Review: What would you like to accomplish during your tenure here as PAHO/WHO representative?
+José Luis Di Fabio: Most of all, to help share the lessons from a 50-year old universal health care system that is unique in the world.
+I would also like to enhance the impact of Cuban biotech and South-South cooperation through regional vaccine and antiretroviral production networks and through strengthening of the region's regulatory framework. This includes involving the work done by Cuba's National Drugs Quality Control Center and its National Clinical Trials Coordinating Center-the latter responsible for the first accredited clinical trials registry in the region.
+Finally, I would like to build greater confidence in Cuba itself in PAHO's willingness and capacity to cooperate effectively with the Cuban health system's efforts to enhance sustainability, quality of services, and its global contribution to health equity. Such confidence must underpin everything we do: we are here to support, to help, to accompany.
+The apparatus of colonial government in the Spanish Empire consisted of multiple levels, starting with the monarchy and Council of the Indies at the top and moving down to the viceroy, audiencias, mayors, and local councils. The system was designed to extract wealth from the colonies and to spread the Christian faith, but these two aims were often in conflict, as were the various branches of colonial government throughout the imperial period.
+The Pyramid of Government
+Spain colonised vast parts of the Americas starting from the landing by Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) in 1492. Working through the Caribbean islands and then moving on to the mainland in the first decades of the 16th century, by 1570, some 100,000 Europeans were governing over 10 million indigenous peoples who inhabited lands from what is today the southern United States to the southern tip of Argentina. Included, too, were the Philippines. The tentacles of power of the Spanish monarchs were many and long as they attempted to keep control of people, officials, and resources from afar. The various levels of government in the colonies of the Spanish Empire included:
+- Royal decrees from the Spanish monarchy
+- Directives from the Council of the Indies
+- Decisions made by the viceroy
+- Legislation passed by the audiencia
+- The regulations controlled by the corregidor
+- The collection of taxes and revenues by the Official Real
+- The decisions of the alcaldes mayores (mayor) and town council
+Council of the Indies
+The Council of the Indies (El Real y Supremo Consejo de las Indias) was based in Spain, and it was created by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1519-1556) in 1524 to oversee all colonial matters in the Americas and the Spanish East Indies. The name of this institution comes from the term then used to describe the Americas, the 'Spanish Indies'. The only authority above the council was the monarchy itself. Its members were few, between six and ten, all appointed by the monarch. Operating until 1834, it tried to balance the twin aims of colonization: wealth acquisition and the conversion of new peoples to Christianity. One of the major directives of the Council of the Indies was that local peoples should be protected or, at least, not over-exploited to the point of starvation and death.
+In the late 15th and early 16th century, the Spanish Crown had first used a sort of franchise system of awarding individuals the right to conquer new territories and extract wealth. The office of adelantado was awarded to conquistadors ("conquerors"), like Christopher Columbus, Franciso Pizarro (1478-1541), and Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521), who agreed to fund expeditions to subdue local peoples and establish colonies. The reward was the right to govern and keep 80% of the wealth they came across; the Crown received the other 20%. The adelantado also agreed to ship a certain number of settlers and clergymen to the colony. A year or so later, the state then stepped in and appointed officials of its own to govern the new colony and establish a more formal system of government with its head, the viceroy, and various other officials reporting directly to the Council of the Indies.
+The Council of the Indies drew up legislation for the colonies, scrutinised and approved the expenditures of colonial officials, gave permission to conduct wars and generally supervised military matters, inspected expedition ships, collected import and export duties, interviewed potential expedition leaders and heard their reports in person on their return, set down the geographical scope of expeditions, and heard appeal cases from the colonial audiencias (see below). The Council made colonial and ecclesiastical appointments and could impose fines, confiscations of property, and prison sentences on those who did not follow regulations.
+Incorporated into the Council of the Indies was the Casa de Contratación de las Indias, which was responsible for all matters of trade in the colonies, acting as the sole clearing house and supervising the treasure fleets that sailed back and forth across the Atlantic. The Casa de Contratación appointed an official for every ship bound for the Americas who had the responsibility to inspect crews, cargoes, and passengers and to record everything that went on aboard and at port. Another duty of the Casa de Contratación was to organise all the invaluable knowledge that colonial administrators sent back to Spain, such as maps, notes on local resources, and descriptions of local peoples. Finally, the Casa acted as an advisory board to the Council of the Indies regarding civil and ecclesiastical colonial appointments. The Council of the Indies was all-powerful until the 18th century when some of its responsibilities began to be redistributed to other ministries such as the Ministry of the Navy and the Indies.
+Viceroys
+The viceroy directly represented the Spanish Crown in their particular colonial territory, a viceroyalty being the largest administrative area within the empire. There were eventually four viceroyalties:
+- The Viceroyalty of New Spain (today's Mexico, Central America, parts of the southern United States, the Caribbean Antilles, and the Philippines). Established in 1535.
+- The Viceroyalty of Peru (from Panama to Tierra del Fuego). Established in 1542 and first known as New Castille.
+- The Viceroyalty of New Granada (northern South America). Established in 1717 when it split from the Viceroyalty of Peru.
+- The Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata (Paraguay, northern Argentina, and eastern Bolivia). Established in 1776 when it split from the Viceroyalty of Peru.
+Viceroys, who were usually noblemen, were chosen by the monarch in consultation with the Council of the Indies. Their term of office ranged from three to five years, and they resided in the capital of their viceroyalty (Mexico City, Lima, Sante Fe de Bogotá or Buenos Aires). The viceroy had overall responsibility for the colony; he headed the bureaucracy bristling with colonial secretaries (escribanos de gobernación), commanded the army, and supervised the collection of royal revenues. The viceroy also headed the activities of the Church under the system of Patronato Real whereby the popes in Rome had, in 1501 and 1508, given the Spanish monarchy absolute powers over church matters in the colonies. The bishops of the Spanish Catholic Church were not entirely happy with this arrangement, and there was much jostling for supremacy between church and crown officials throughout the colonial period.
+The viceroy's practical powers were limited by several other institutions and appointed officials, and, in charge of such a vast geographical area with many distinct population groups, he was dependent on a huge apparatus of administration that was poorly interconnected due to inadequate road systems. Another curb on a viceroy's powers was the semi-autonomy of subordinates like the captain-generals who governed in more remote and less populated areas of the viceroyalty. As a consequence of these difficulties, the two new viceroyalties of New Granada and Rio de la Plata were formed in the 18th century by splitting off territory from the viceroyalty of Peru. Another consequence was that most viceroys simply perpetuated the status quo, ensuring that existing forms of government, laws, and conventions continued as they had under their predecessors. Indeed, viceroys could not usually pass local legislation as this was the responsibility of the individual audiencias (see below). However, a viceroy could be the president of the audiencia in his city of official residence.
+Corregidores
+The corregidor was a judicial and political officer who directly represented the Spanish Crown. He was, in effect, the governor of a specific area. The corregidor in New Spain served for five years if selected from Spain, but only three years if recruited locally. In Peru, he served for just one year. The corregidor appointed administrators (tenientes) for each of the cities in his jurisdiction or corregimiento. He was responsible for regulating the prices of foodstuffs and maintaining public buildings, urban streets, squares, and sanitation in his district. As the salary was relatively low for those in smaller towns, a corregidor often made himself rich by acting as a middleman between European merchants and the indigenous population both in terms of goods and forced labour, a situation ripe for corruption.
+Audiencias
+All the major cities of the Spanish Empire had an audiencia, which was responsible for certain legal, political and commercial matters which concerned both European settlers and indigenous peoples. The audiencia had jurisdiction over a particular city and its surrounding area. It met in regular sessions (acuerdos) and passed legislation (autos acordados) relevant to local affairs. Audiencias also acted as an important advisory body for the viceroy.
+An audiencia was composed of a president and a panel of judges or oidores (from 3 to 15 depending on a city's importance). Judges were appointed for life but had restrictions on their commercial activities and public life to ensure they could not be easily corrupted. The audiencia is thus the prime example of Spain's general approach to colonial governance: local affairs were to be put in the hands of legally trained individuals and great faith was put in legal codes. The president of the audiencia had no voting rights, and at least in theory, he was forbidden from influencing the audiencia's judges and officers in legal matters. The lower part of the audiencia was staffed by a large number of attorneys (fiscales), notaries, reporters, and minor officials such as clerks of the court (escribanos de cámara).
+The audiencia was responsible for hearing the appeals against decisions made by the city's lower courts. The rulings of the audiencia regarding criminal matters could not be overturned, but in civil cases, a final appeal could be made to the Council of the Indies. Cases involved European settlers' relations with each other, relations between European and indigenous peoples, and relations between indigenous peoples themselves.
+The audiencia granted settlers the right to use forced labour (repartimiento in New Spain and mita in the Viceroy of Peru). Under this system, local communities were obliged to provide regular quotas of men to work on colonial projects like the construction of roads and public buildings. Other duties of the audiencia included assessing the size and type of tributes indigenous communities were required to pay the Spanish Crown.
+Alcaldes Mayores & Town Councils
+Local town councils (cabildos) were led by a mayor (alcaldes mayores) who typically served for three years. Beneath the mayor were the councillors (regidores), between four and six in a small town and at least eight in larger towns. The councillors were initially appointed by the Crown but then elected by the local citizens (vecinos), that is property owners. Then there were the magistrates and minor administrators known as alcaldes ordinarios, the town clerk (escribano de cabildo), and officials such as the local chief constable (alguacil mayor) and the receptor de penas who collected fines imposed by the courts.
+The cabildo governed not only a specific town but also the surrounding rural areas and smaller communities. The council could give out land grants and licenses to erect buildings, raised a militia force when necessary, raised local taxes, controlled the prices of certain goods, and was responsible for maintaining roads and the town prison. Alongside the main cabildo, there was a second council which governed indigenous peoples in the area and which had similar positions and responsibilities as its European twin but without certain judicial functions.
+Interrelations & Limitations
+All of the above institutions and individuals were so organised that they kept each other in check and resulted in no single person or body ever becoming so powerful that they might threaten the interests of the Spanish monarchy. Another specific policy to ensure this objective was to limit the terms of office of officials in any single location. The Crown was always very keen to avoid an official becoming too entrenched and, therefore, too powerful in one particular place. It was very difficult for even a viceroy to establish any lasting colonial roots (radicados), and such officials as the corregidor could not govern the area in which he normally lived. A consequence of this policy was that sometimes officials had little empathy for long-standing local issues, a situation which occasionally led to revolts against the centralisation of government.
+The viceroys, captain generals, and audiencias all represented the interests of the Spanish Crown in the colonies. On the other side, the mayors and local councils represented the interests of the local community. Thus another balance of power was created. Dividing responsibilities ran right through the colonial infrastructure. For example, the four Official Real in each colony were responsible for collecting taxes and revenues, and all four were required to sign every single invoice.
+In order to improve efficiency, the convention of residencia established a control on all senior colonial officials. At the end of an official's term of office, a lengthy inquiry was conducted to determine how they had conducted themselves. For a corregidor, the residencia lasted 30 days. At a public hearing, claimants could come forward against the conduct of the official, and, if found guilty of misgovernment, the official, although rarely directly punished, would be unlikely to receive a new position or promotion.
+Within the institutions themselves, there was another interface of rivalries, this time between Spanish-born Europeans (peninsulares) and colonial-born Spaniards (criollos). An additional check on the institutions of government was a less tangible one but, nevertheless, an important one. This was the attitude of the Catholic Church, represented by certain ecclesiastical bodies and local leaders. A priest could denounce a corrupt official in a sermon in church and so do his reputation serious damage in the community. Church leaders were particularly keen to speak out against the overexploitation of indigenous peoples as this impeded one of the main aims of colonization: to convert locals to Christianity.
+The efficiency of colonial government very often depended on the calibre and integrity of the individuals in office at any one time and place. Relative to the period, the highly centralised Spanish colonial government was a sophisticated apparatus which achieved its purpose, even if local interests might be trodden on and the decision-making process unbearably slow. Corruption was certainly a problem, although perhaps less prevalent in the higher steps of the pyramid of power. However, even the higher echelons suffered when the Crown decided to raise cash revenues by selling the offices of audiencia judge or local councillor, for example. Further, some offices became hereditary, and so people could hold positions without possessing the necessary skills. There was also much incompetence and neglect, particularly by those peninsulares officials only present in a colony for the short-term and out to further their careers back in Spain. Indeed, the mutual hatred of condescending outsider officials was one of the single most important factors in unifying the grass-root dissent that eventually led to revolution and freedom for the new independent states in the Americas.
+tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7447440752608255352009-07-15T19:03:40.375-04:00South Florida Daily BlogRick Ecard Of The Day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 219px;" src="" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358648761617068402" /></a><br /><br /><br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>Rick's "Miami Social" Moment Of The DayBecause it is just so terribly bad...<br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="" id="W4657041ec2a2cf534a5da8aa7a5389dd" width="400" height="400"><param name="movie" value="" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></object><br />><a href="">Bing</a> has made an impressive entry into the search engine market, but I continue to stick with Google.<br /><br /><blockquote style="font-weight: bold;">What's your search engine of choice?</blockquote><br /><br /> />Only felt like highlighting a few things from the mainstream media this morning...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A</span>- <a href="">Herald</a>: Video, Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal discusses the Herald commenting system and a couple other things.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">B</span>- <a href="">Herald</a>: Putney compares Crist to Rubio.<blockquote.<br /><br />Rubio's a big thinker. ''I have to hope and believe that ideas still matter in American politics,'' Rubio says.<br /><br /.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">C</span>- <a href="">Palm Beach Post</a>: Bruuuuuuuuce returns to SoFla!<blockquote.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">D</span>- <a href="">CBS4</a>: Video, huge deficits in Miami-Dade mean big changes.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">E</span>- <a href="">WPLG</a>: Bloodsuckers.<blockquote."<br /><br />With all the rain, and standing water where mosquitoes can breed, both Miami-Dade and Broward Counties have collectively sprayed more than 250,000 acres.< />Just wondering how many of you caught the first episode of "Miami Social" last night. Here's your Hump Day morning Sift...<br /><br /><font size="5">A</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">The Burger Beast</a> does a kind of "Frita Crawl" and hits 3 Little Havana frita joints in search of the best one.<blockquote>We agree, El Mago was the best with El Rey De Las Fritas second and La Palma third.</blockquote><font size="5">B</font>- Miami Busway Sprints are going to held on Friday the 24th, according to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miami Bike Scene</a>.<br /><br /><font size="5">C</font>- In case you weren't around for it, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miami Beach 411</a> tells us what the Beatles first visit to Miami Beach was like way back in 1964.<blockquote.</blockquote><font size="5">D</font>- The sales of waterfront homes on Miami Beach have dropped 50%, according to data collected by <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">South Beach Condos Blog</a>. />I have nothing for an intro tonight so enjoy your evening Sift...<br /><br /><font size="5">A</font>- The new "Miami Social" series starts tonight which has the blogosphere buzzing. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miami Metblog</a> has some thoughts while <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Random Pixels</a> links to a scathing <strike>Riptide</strike> Herald review of the show. From the former...<blockquote.</blockquote><font size="5">B</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Jeff Eats</a> dines at Casola's and suggests sticking to the pizza.<blockquote.</blockquote><font size="5">C</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">South Florida Lawyers</a> has a list of ways the CIA can tell someone is lying. This might come in handy.<br /><br /><font size="5">D</font>-<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">MAeX Artblog</a> reports from a casting call held in Wynwood for yet another reality show being done by Bravo TV.<blockquote.</blockquote><font size="5">E</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Local Motion Miami</a> lists the 5 worst things about last night's Cat Power concert in Fort Lauderdale.<blockquote.</blockquote><font size="5">F</font>- The Keirin OpenSprints were held at PS14 last Thursday and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miami Bike Scene</a> has a video that gives you an idea of what they are all about.<br /><font size="5"><br />G</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">South Beach USA</a> has the schedule for this week's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim.<br /><br /><font size="5">H</font>- There was a very well attended Pizza Tweetup at Spris in Coral Gables last night and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Worst Pizza</a> tells us about the evening as well as a great deal being offered by the restaurant.<blockquote.</blockquote><font size="5">I</font>- Some loon up in Georgia is refusing to report to duty in Afghanistan because he doesn't think his Commander-in-Chief was born in the US. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Bark Bark Woof Woof</a> has the story while I'm betting he's a big fan of Rush Limbaugh.<br /><br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>Rick Blogging<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234562907319101074" border="0" /></a>There's <a href="">an interesting article</a> that appeared yesterday in the New York Times about the sometimes lucrative business of "pay per post" blogging.<blockquote.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br /.<br /><br /.</blockquote><br />But it isn't without controversy.<blockquote>Still, the encroachment of commercialism into new-media formats worries some consumer advocates. Many forms of online word-of-mouth marketing depend on the perception of unsolicited or personal opinions, said Robert Weissman, managing director of the advocacy group Commercial Alert.<br /><br />“It’s a contrast to the Tupperware model, where everyone knows what’s going on, and no one’s trying to be deceiving,” said Mr. Weissman, whose group favors stricter oversight of marketing practices.</blockquote><br />Although I've read some posts in the SoFla blogosphere that smack of sponsored blogging, it's not a common occurrence and I've never been able to verify that it's actually happening.<br /><br />However, if it is done, it's my opinion that the blogger owes it to their readers to be upfront with them about the compensation they're receiving for the post.>Although it's sometimes hard for me to get going in the morning, once I do I consider it my most productive time of the day. Which leads in to the question...<br /><br /><blockquote style="font-weight: bold;">What is the most productive time of the day for you?<br /><br /></blockquote> />Presenting the stories I found interesting in this morning's mainstream media...<br /><br /><font size="5">A</font>- <a href="">Herald</a>: One more reason to own a Lexus.<blockquote>At the new Lexus of North Miami, customers can get their teeth brightened while their tires are rotated.<br /><br />Haircuts, manicures, workout sessions -- even boutique shopping -- are available at the country's largest Lexus store under a single roof.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />The dealership, which celebrates its formal opening Tuesday, measures about one million square feet. At a cost of nearly $70 million, it also likely rates as the most expensive ever built in South Florida.</blockquote><font size="5">B</font>- <a href="">Herald</a>: The Rickenbacker biking problem.<blockquote>A plan put forward by Miami-Dade Commissioner Carlos Gimenez is roiling South Florida's biking community. Members worry the proposal -- still in its early stages -- could make it more dangerous to ride on the causeway.<br /><br />Gimenez's plan would replace the toll plaza with electronic tolling, meaning vehicles would no longer slow down or stop to pay tolls. Drivers would speed through as devices atop an overhang deduct tolls from debit or credit card accounts.<br /><br />Gimenez said his idea would ease chronic vehicle congestion and bring in more money to cash-starved county coffers.<br /><br /.</blockquote><font size="5">C</font>- <a href="">Herald</a>: Ft. Lauderdale police chief's wife goes to jail.<blockquote>The wife of Fort Lauderdale's police chief agreed to a plea deal Monday that will make her a convicted felon, but spare her the mandatory 20 years in prison she would have had to serve as originally charged.<br /><br /.<br /><br />When Broward Circuit Judge Jeffrey Levenson imposes sentence Aug. 21, Adderley, 46, will receive from nine months in the county jail to 30 months in prison.</blockquote> <font size="5">D</font>- <a href="">Sun-Sentinel</a>: One more reason not to let kids out of your sight.<blockquote>According to police, Latasha Bailey, 30, was in another room of her apartment in the 250 block of Northeast 10th Street when she heard her baby boy crying.<br /><br />When she entered the room, she found her 4-year-old son standing next to her infant son, who had a screwdriver jammed in his ear.</blockquote><font size="5">E</font>- <a href="">Sun-Sentinel</a>: The Most Obvious Bank Robber In The World.<blockquote>POMPANO BEACH - An armed bank robber who wore a wig, surgical mask and sunglasses when he hit an HSBC Bank last week is still on the run, police said today.</blockquote><font size="5">F</font>- <a href="">South Florida Business Journal</a>: Or is it just less traffic?<blockquote>After a strong start, Interstate 95’s northbound express lanes in Miami-Dade County are not getting as much traffic as planners expected.<br /><br />According the most recent statistics from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 6 office, about 23,500 vehicles used the toll lanes in May.<br /><br />“We’re about 10 percent less than we had projected at this point,” said Rory Santana, the FDOT engineer in charge of the project. Still, he said, “I’m not unhappy with the results we’re having at all.”<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />The express lanes may be getting slightly less usage than anticipated due to the fact that more people are out of work or using public transit, Santana said.</blockquote><font size="5">G</font>- <a href="">South Florida Business Journal</a>: A little Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Dolphin/Landshark stadium naming background.<blockquote>In 1996, before Pro Player signed on as the naming-rights partner, American Airlines came close to putting its nameplate on the Dolphins’ home – before it did a naming-rights deal for the home of the Miami Heat.<br /><br /.</blockquote>. />So I logged into Blogger this morning and everything was back to normal. No word verification. No <a href="">lockdown</a>. No word that the restrictions had been lifted. You gotta love Blogger. One day they're threatening to delete your blog in 20 days, the next day all is good. Oh well, it keeps life exciting.<br /><br />Here's your Tuesday morning Sift.<br /><br /><font size="5">A</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Swampstyle</a> tells us why today is a big day in Surfside.<br /><br /><font size="5">B</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">The Burger Beast</a> shares their personal slider recipe with readers.<blockquote>80/20 is the magic ratio for sliders (and regular burgers too). 80% meat to 20% fat.</blockquote><font size="5">C</font>- Check out the great pictures of this weekend's Mango Brunch that <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Mango&Lime</a> has posted.<blockquote.<br /><br /.</blockquote><font size="5">D</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Obalesque</a> reviews his life as a bachelor these last 12 days.<blockquote />Lots of blog posts to sift through today and from them emerges your very special Monday evening Sift.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">26th Parallel</a> compares and contrasts two Jackie Bueno Sousa columns [Miami Herald] that he maintains contradict each other.<blockquote.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">B</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Foodtastic!</a> eats a birthday meal at Fleming's Prime Steak House and seems to enjoy the experience until...<blockquote>All in all I'm glad I went but, despite the sublime spinach and the decadent lava cake, I don't need to go again.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">C</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Blind Mind</a> definitely recommends Por Fin in Coral Gables.<blockquote.</blockquote> <span style="font-size:180%;">D</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Random Pixels</a> notes some good media coverage for a former Miami news anchor and UM graduate.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">E</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miami, bro</a> finds a newborn kitten with serious problems and is unable to find anyone who can help before it dies.<blockquote>The Cat Network did call back - they have little resources, but they actually care. Animal Services said they don't offer medical care, but I could bring it to the shelter. I was sure the kitten was a goner.<br /><br />I brought it to my parents' house and my father saw that it was bleeding from near its tail and its mouth. My mom's animal friendly friend held the poor thing until it died.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">F</span>- Nice Rolls in Merrick Park from <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miamism Pix</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">G</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Lola</a> tells us about the Miami FC soccer games that was held at FIU (?) and drew a crowd that would rival any Marlin game.<blockquote.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">H</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Mango&Lime</a> updates us on the latest developments over at the old MenuPages South Florida Blog.<blockquote>There will be an editorial component to MenuPages South Florida but it’ll be less of a blog, more features. Launch date is still to be determined.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">I</span>- Think you can mix a mean drink? You might want to check out today's post from <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">The South Florida Traveler</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">J</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miami Beach 411</a> takes a quick look at some of the more "stunning" South Beach hotels, restaurants and nightspots.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">K</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Incertus</a> opines on "our Florida Marlins."<blockquote.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">L</span>- See "Food" for free in Fort Lauderdale this Thursday, according to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">All Purpose Dark</a>.<br /><br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>Rick Gets Locked Down InconveniencedIt has been a while since Blogger reminded me why they're free so I figured they were right on time when I got this email today.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358080903772665682" border="0" /></a><center>[Click on image to make larger]</center><br /><br />Yes, the good people at Blogger have decided to rely on their <a href="">craptastic robots once again</a> to lock down SFDB while they figure out whether or not it should really be locked down and deleted. It's sorta like a "shoot and ask questions later" policy applied to the blogging world.<br />.<br /><br />We'll see. Here goes nuthin'.<br /><br />******<br /><br />It works!<br /><br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>Rick June Post Of The Month<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219647478090230610" border="0" /></a><br /><center><span style="font-size:130%;">Food For Thought: In The Test Kitchen At Paradigm</span><br /></center><br />By a margin of only a <a href="">single vote</a>, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Food For Thought's</span> most excellent series of posts was able to bring home the bacon and garner him June's Post of the Month. The 3-parter [<a href="">Part 1</a>, <a href="">Part 2</a> and <a href="">Part 3</a>].<br /><br />Congratulations to <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Food For Thought</span> for sharing this experience in such fine fashion and for bringing the SoFla blogosphere such consistently good foodie experiences week after week. His posts join the other PotM's that sit at the bottom of the right sidebar.<br /><br />And congratulations once again to all of <a href="">June's nominees</a> and for those of you who took the time to vote and support this SFDB feature.<br /><br />We're already well into July and collecting our nominees for this month's PotM. Happy blogging to all!<br /><br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>Rick Pass The Friggin' Speed Stick<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 200px;" src="" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357929498429526610" border="0" /></a>As I tool about the South Florida blogosphere, I am mystified by those who describe 92 degrees with 60% humidity and dewpoints in the mid-70's as "beautiful weather."<br /><br />"Beautiful" in the sense, I guess, that 5 above zero in January is considered "beautiful" by Alaskans. "Beautiful" in the way that vultures look at 2-day old roadkill, maybe.<br /><br /.<br /><br />I'm sure there will be the profound solution tendered by some that "If you don't like it, then leave." Yeah, well, that's coming, believe you me.<br /><br /.<br /><br />And its inhabitants. />Here's what I found interesting in this morning's mainstream media.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A</span>- <a href="">Herald</a>: Not worth the drive anymore.<blockquote>TALLAHASSEE -- Smokers, beware: If you have relied on the Seminole and Miccosukee tribes' smoke shops as a tax-free haven for cigarettes, think again.<br /><br />The tribes have begun charging the state tax on cigarettes for the first time since Florida imposed it 66 years ago, coinciding with the $1-a-pack state tax hike that took effect July 1. The new tax is $1.34 a pack.<br /><br />Tribal members still can get untaxed cigarettes for their personal use, but non-Indian visitors to the reservations must now pay the levy.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br /.<br /><br />.''</blockquote> <span style="font-size:180%;">B</span>- <a href="">Herald</a>: Video, tattoo convention in Miami Beach.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">C</span>- <a href="">Herald</a>: How BankUnited failed.<blockquote>Alfred R. Camner, the founder and biggest shareholder as well the chairman and chief executive until October 2008, led the bank in an ambitious foray into option ARMs -- a product many consider the riskiest mortgage ever created.<br /><br />''The big question is why would Camner bet the bank on one product that turned out to be the most toxic,'' says Ken Thomas, an independent Miami banking analyst.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">D</span>- <a href="">Herald</a>: They write letters.<blockquote>Catch of the day<br /><br /.<br /><br />How do we get rid of them? We don't. What we have is probably the cleanest protein food right in our backyards. It tastes like chicken, but unlike much of our chicken, is not pumped up with any growth hormones.<br /><br />So the next time you are thinking chicken, stop and with a bit of dexterity catch a nice organic iguana for dinner.<br /><br />JACK WATTLEY, Fort Lauderdale</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">E</span>- <a href="">Herald</a>: They write more letters.<blockquote>Brave officers<br /><br /.<br /><br />To date, this story remains untold by the media. I have to wonder why that is.<br /><br /.<br /><br />It is time to hear the other side of the story. Ask Marco Popescu, Vasile Modovan and Carlos Escobar -- the three men rescued on May 14 -- how they feel about the job the police are doing.<br /><br />JEFF MARANO, senior vice president, Broward County Police Benevolent Association, Fort Lauderdale</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">F</span>- <a href="">Sun-Sentinel</a>: Three hots and a cot.<blockquote>Ten days after leaving prison, Raphael Marquez made an unusual request to a Broward County judge: Put me back behind bars.<br /><br />Marquez, 38, is a sex offender who was released June 20 after serving seven years of his eight-year sentence for sexual battery on a minor, records show. Two years of house arrest were to follow.<br /><br />But for Marquez, the hardest part was finding that house, said his attorney, Cheryl Koewing.<br /><br />"Every place he looked he couldn't afford or had a restriction," she said.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Marquez hopped from one cheap Hollywood motel to another until he ran out of money. At one point, officials found him a rehabilitation home for sex offenders in Pahokee, but Koewing said her client couldn't afford to travel and move there.<br /><br />Marquez came to believe the only place he had left was under a rat-infested overpass next to Broadview Park.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">G</span>- <a href="">WPLG</a>: I-95 Lexus lanes head north?<blockquote>Officials who have declared the pay-if-you-drive lanes a success, are now asking if they'd be a good idea to alleviate traffic to the north.<br /><br />As a result, Broward County officials have given the green light to a federally-funded traffic study to see if express lanes should be expanded into the Broward-Palm Beach County line.<br /><br />The timing of any project is yet to be announced.< />Shhhh, it's Miserable Monday. Don't talk too loud. Just read your morning Sift...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Superbee</a> has decided on a strategy to cope with South Florida's intense heat.<blockquote.<br /><br /.<br /><br />I will venture out into the Sahara-like sunshine, and go about my business reflecting the sun's heat, and sweating confidently, instead of whimpering on my sofa in the fetal position, and pining for January.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">B</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miami Dish</a> has a bunch of photos from this weekend's Mango Festival at Fairchild.<blockquote>Saturday, I spent the morning and early afternoon at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden for the 17th Annual International Mango Festival. The heat was insidious and the crowds made me feel slightly misanthropic, but I enjoyed my day. Fortunately, several events took place indoors.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">C</span>- Okeechobee Lake has reached a milestone early this year, according to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">The South Florida Watershed Journal</a>. But does it really mean anything?<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">D</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Justice Building Blog</a> has what sounds like the making of a good investigative story going. Where are you Miami Herald?<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">E</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Bark Bark Woof Woof</a> takes a look at the latest Bill Kristol inanity but also points out how ridiculous it is for Republicans to be complaining about the Obama Administration.<blockquote.)</blockquote> <span style="font-size:180%;">F</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Eye on Miami</a> suggests an innovative idea on how to fill the new Marlins stadium.<blockquote.</blockquote> />Not a whole lot going on tonight in the SoFla blogosphere. Enjoy a very lightweight Sunday evening Sift.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Some Cranky Guy</a> takes a rare trip to South Beach with the wife and cranks out a few pictures.<blockquote>We enjoyed a very nice breakfast under the sea grapes of the outdoor patio of the News Cafe. They were playing classical music, I think Mozart. From there we strolled down Ocean Drive with cameras in hand, snapping away. </blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">B</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Sex and the Beach</a> visits the Icon at Brickell and gives us her straightforward assessment of the property.<br /><blockquote>The entrance to the building, a portico with columns inspired by the statues at Easter Island, is the weirdest thing you'll see in a rash of gimmicky architectural details. I'm sorry, folks, but the columns look like giant sh*t [Ed.] turds and don't flow with the symmetrical and angular lines of the buildings. Also, the statues aren't exactly part of art in a public park, but seem like someone's personal fetish imposed upon the public view. (By the way, Brickell Park is situated right to the south of Icon and is not integrated into the design.)<br /><br />Every time I drive by there, I think and laugh: this luxury property is held up by some very serious looking Mr. Hankey's from South Park!</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">C</span>- There's a nice Miami sunset captured and posted at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miamism Pix</a>.<br /><br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>Rick Post Of The Week<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165357880960040994" style="cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />SFDB selects its Post of the Week by going back and reviewing all the Sifts that we've done over the past 7 days. We find the best post of the week and note the runners ups as we judge them to be.<br /><br />It was a week of a lot of good posts but trying to determine the one that out shined them all was difficult. After a lot of soul searching, this is what I came up with.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Winner</span>: Using a very simply styled Blogger template, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Spokes 'n' Folks</span> goes about the business of advocating for South Florida's bicyclists very simply and without out a lot of flash. Recently, they've been giving the Rickenbacker Causeway a lot of their attention as changes are on the horizon for the roadway. <a href="">In their latest post</a> on the subject, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Spokes 'n' Folks</span> covered how bicyclist's concerns are being weighed as the design for the improvements is examined and debated by the county bureaucrats. It's a significant issue for Rickenbacker bicyclists and one that you won't find covered as closely or with as much attention as <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Spokes 'n' Folks</span> offers. It's for these reasons that I'm happy to recognize <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Spokes 'n' Folks</span> with this week's SFDB's Post of the Week.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Runners-Up</span></span>: <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mango&Lime </span></span>put together a series of pizza photos and provided plenty of interesting narrative in <a href="">their post</a> that documented the third part of the Miami Pizza Crawl. <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Nikon Miami</span> had, by far, the best <a href="">collection of July 4th fireworks photos</a> that I saw in the SoFla blogosphere. And <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Miami Beach 411</span> did a good job showing us the Argentine influence in South Florida in a post they called <a href="">Miami: A Hotbed of Argentine Culture</a>.<br /><br />The June Post of the Month has been selected by SFDB readers and the results we be posted tomorrow.<br /><br />'Til next time, people, keep on blogging!<br /><br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>Rick Fever Leaves MiamiI've been following <a href="">Miami Fever</a> and his photographs for years. I think I speak for many a local photographer when I say that his images have provided inspiration and enjoyment to those of us who enjoy photography and the subjects that South Florida provides.<br /><br />But <a href="">Carlos has moved to Santo Domingo</a>. And South Beach will never be seen through the lens of a camera the same way again.<br /><br />This photo from 2006 remains one of my all-time Fever favorites. Good luck, Carlos.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357658718980958578" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />-thanks to <a href="">Ipanemic</a> for the heads up on this lousy news.<br /><br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>Rick Mid-Afternoon Sift<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 137px;" src="" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303127626632076194" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Sundays are for sleeping in and being lazy and that's exactly what I've been doing today so excuse the lateness of this first post. Grab a cool drink [because, damn, is it hot outside] and join me for your mid-afternoon Sift.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">A</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Carlos Miller</a> continues his confusing coverage of two Miami Beach shootings that are still under investigation.<blockquote>They also said the second man they shot had shot at them first, but it later turned out, he was unarmed when they killed him. Police say they found a gun in the waters below the bridge, which may or may not be his.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">B</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Man or Maniac's</a> grandmother turns 91 and she looks like quite a lady.<blockquote!"</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">C</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miami Condo Investments</a> shows us what $1 million gets you in Turnberry Ocean Colony.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">D</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Ipanemic</a> appears to be starting his own "wandering eyes" scandal in his latest post.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">E</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Coconut Grove Grapevine</a> shares some shots from last night's Summer Rendezvous Party.<br /><blockquote>The crowds danced to two bands on either end of Commodore. There was a lot of foot traffic and lots of music, food and drink.</blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">F</span>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miami on the Cheap</a> has a couple ways to satisfy your coffee and ice cream yearnings on Mondays...for free!!!<br /><br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>Rick Saturday Night Turndown Service />Curtis Mayfield, <span style="font-style:italic;">Freddie's Dead</span><br /> />Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. Here's a right on time Saturday night Sift for you...<br /><br /><font size="5">A</font>- It isn't perfect but <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Miamism</a> says Lario's mojito is very, very good.<br /><br /><font size="5">B</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Soul of Miami</a> tells us about their Life is Art Creative Connections event that is coming up.<blockquoteaba’s on Miam Beach!</blockquote><font size="5">C</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Flablog</a> says that Marco Rubio shares some things in common with Steve Forbes.<br /><br /><font size="5">D</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">The Chowfather</a> is forming an underground food group.<blockquote>...I would like to start a small underground group of food lovers who will essentially become guinea pigs for local chefs looking to try out new dishes and creations on food lovers during their off hours.<br /><br />Reality- this would need to be a very small group of hard core diners willing to meet and eat after hours and sample whatever the chef of the day wants to serve. The group would be limited and closed. I foresee us meeting after dinner service ends on week nights and on off days.</blockquote><br /><br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>Rick The Picture [UPDATED]By now you've seen and heard all about the picture that has been circulating amongst the Little Limbaughs that supposedly shows the President taking a glance at a female teenager's rear end. If you haven't, here it is.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 340px;" src="" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357248124810600834" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Media Matters for America</span> does a <a href="">great</a> <a href="">job</a> tracing the origin of the photo and how the right-wing noise machine gave it credibility as being real when it was nothing but a cheap misrepresentation. After pushing the photo for hours, Fox News decided to come clean.<br /><br /><center><object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value=""><param name="flashvars" value="config="><embed src="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="config=" width="320" height="260"></embed></object></center><br />And here's Good Morning America's take on things...<br /><br /><center><object width="400" height="315"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="315"></embed></object></center><br /><br />Locally, I could only find two blogs that went with the picture. Surprisingly, <a href="">Southern District of Florida Blog</a> posted it with a link to a far right blog for commentary and then, of course, there was Miami's own <a href="">Axis of Idiots</a> who couldn't resist.<br /><br />In the comment thread of that latter post, the stereotype of black women with large butts [backed up with a hyperlink to a picture of Beyonce taken from behind] is furthered and there's a racist reference to the First Lady as "The First Chimp." And, of course, there's the normal discourse you would expect more from 6th graders with Spiderman lunchboxes than you would from grown adults.<br /><br />There are a few lessons here.<br /><br />1. Never take things you see on the net at face value.<br /><br />2. People with an agenda like to distort the facts. Except when that "liberal media" <a href="">won't let you</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 304px;" src="" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357267171154200178" border="0" /></a><br /><br />3. And the third one....hmmmm....the third one is...oh, yeah...babalu still sucks.<br /> />SFDB's Saturday morning Sift is served for your enjoyment.<br /><br /><font size="5">A</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Nikon Miami</a> posts an electric image of an offshore light show.<br /><br /><font size="5">B</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">SFLTV</a> is looking for some [free] help.<blockquote>The great thing about blogging with SFLTV is there’s no minimum or maximum for posting. This will solely be a hobby for our new content writer, and therefore, no compensation will be paid. This is strictly for someone looking for something interesting and fun to do in their spare time.</blockquote><font size="5">C</font>- Remember that government report warning Americans about the rise of right-wing extremism and the role that a few of our own soldiers were playing in it? Yeah, well, so does <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Bark Bark Woof Woof</a>.<br /><br /><font size="5">D</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Superbee's</a> run of bad luck at Smith & Wollensky continues.<blockquote>Maybe I've ordered the wrong steak all three times - tonight I ordered what I thought was a New York Strip. I have no idea what I got, except it was fatty, and gristly, and was rife with confusing bones (including a section of short rib?), burned on the outside, and raw on the inside.<br /><br />I ate about 20% of a $44.00 steak (which, granted, isn't the MOST money ever... but c'mon) because I was so fed-up with figuring out where the fat was, where the gristle was, where the bones weren't - basically, I had to work wayyyyyy too hard to delve into the thing. And I don't like having to work to eat.< />TGIF, peoples! The weekend is here and the Weekend Widget is up near the top of the right sidebar, ready for your review. In the meantime, make the most of your very plentiful Friday evening Sift.<br /><br /><font size="5">A</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Southern District of Florida</a> continues with their breathless coverage of the Paris Hilton trial in Miami.<blockquote>Paris Hilton is on the stand. And Judge Moreno is getting in on the act. In one exchange, Moreno was puzzled by the title of Hilton's current reality show, "My New BFF." "What does that mean?" he said. After Hilton gave the full title "Paris Hilton's My New Best Friend Forever" the judge remarked "This will be my best case forever." Without missing a beat, Hilton replied "You're my best judge forever."</blockquote><font size="5">B</font>- The Mango Festival is this weekend at Fairchild Gardens and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Mango&Lime</a> has the event's schedule.<br /><br /><font size="5">C</font>- The McDonald's Express in Kendall is very special, according to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">The Burger Beast</a>.<blockquote>For some time I've known the secret of the McDonald's Express located in Kendall. What's the secret? The fact that they serve the old school apple pies, the deep fried ones. I hope you know what I'm talking about because if you don't you should. The deep fried apple pie was replaced by it's baked brother in 1992, a tragedy if you ask me.</blockquote><font size="5">D</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Vivir el Presente</a> seems to be looking for some answers in their latest post.<blockquote>So, when you live far away, far far away, from absolutely everyone who loves you and your unconditionally, you'd better appreciate the time with them. And appreciate where you are. After all, you've put place before familial ties, right?<br /><br />Right?</blockquote><font size="5">E</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Coconut Grove Grapevine</a> has a great 4th of July photo posted.<br /><br /><font size="5">F</font>- Both <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Wide Lawns and Narrow Minds</a> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">A Mom, A Blog and the Life In-Between</a> are pretty impressed by Ritz-Carlton's ladies rooms. From the former...<blockquote.</blockquote><font size="5">G</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Worst Pizza</a> gives Hollywood's Mauro Pizza a 5.5 slices out of 8 rating.<blockquote.<br /><br /.</blockquote><font size="5">H</font>- <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="">Incertus</a> explores the virtues of cats.<blockquote.</blockquote><br /><br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>Rick
+Tuesday, June 15, 2010
+Complete DHS Daily Report for June 15, 2010
+Daily Report
+Top Stories
+• As the government begins deploying whole-body imaging machines to replace metal detectors at airports nationwide, some security experts worry that the new technology could make it easier, not harder, to sneak weapons and explosives onto airplanes, according to the Los Angeles Times. (See item 31)
+31. June 12, Los Angeles Times – (National) Expert: I can overcome body scanners with enough explosives to bring down Boeing 747. As the government begins deploying whole-body imaging machines to replace metal detectors at airports nationwide, some security experts worry that the new technology could make it easier, not harder, to sneak weapons and explosives onto airplanes. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has not been able to ease concerns among some aviation security specialists about the body imagers. “I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747,” said a former chief security officer at the Israel Airport Authority, who is now a security consultant. The TSA won’t talk about specific capabilities but said the body imagers will better enable screeners to find nonmetallic weapons, including concealed powdered and liquid explosives that do not set off metal detectors. “No technology is going to be the silver bullet, but this is a significant enhancement,” said the assistant administrator for the TSA’s Office of Security Technology. The Goverment Accountability Office also noted that unlike metal detectors, body imagers rely on TSA employees to accurately read the image, as they must do with X-ray images of carry-on bags. Classified tests show that X-ray screeners routinely miss threats, said a former Department of Homeland Security inspector general. The rate of detection for baggage X-rays is “disastrously low, and it’s no better than it was on 9/11 — that’s the scary thing,” he said. The technology, although effective against certain threats, is too easily beatable, said several aviation security experts, some with ties to competing products. A chief executive of Transecure, a Leesburg, Virginia, airport security consulting firm, said the machines will not detect material concealed in the groin and in body cavities. “You can get metallic items by that screening technology that you can’t get by metal detectors,” said the former head of security for Northwest Airlines. Source:
+• Heavy rain and storm runoff that swelled creeks and rivers briefly threatened a small hospital and forced the evacuation of a small town in central Nebraska Saturday, The Associated Press reports. North Loup, a town of about 340 in central Nebraska’s Valley County, was evacuated because of street flooding that followed failure of a small dam, state officials said. (See item 65)
+65. June 12, Associated Press – (Nebraska) Dam failure forces evacuation of Nebraska town. Heavy rain and storm runoff that swelled creeks and rivers briefly threatened a small hospital and forced the evacuation of a small town in central Nebraska Saturday, officials said. North Loup, a town of about 340 in central Nebraska’s Valley County, was evacuated because of street flooding that followed failure of a small dam, state officials said. A sheriff’s dispatcher said no injuries had been reported. Radio station KNLV in Ord said a shelter for North Loup residents was being arranged in nearby Scotia. The sheriff said residents would be allowed to return to town Saturday night once electricity and gas lines were checked and repaired. He said the floodwater was deepest — up to 4 feet — on the north side of town. A few basements had fallen in, he said, and floodwaters caused sewer problems. He said an earthen dam holding back a private pond gave way and sent water down Mira Creek, which flows along the north side of town. Source:
+Details
+Banking and Finance Sector
+18. June 14, Washington Post – (National) Small banks are big problem in government bailout program.. Source:
+19. June 14, SC Magazine – (International) Development of call protection could lead to the end of the theft of customer payment data exchanged over the telephone. Ten major audio data thefts that have occurred in the last year have led to the development of a device that detects and blocks the “DTMF” (dual-tone multi-frequency signaling) tones and obscures card details. Set to be released in less than two months by British company Veritape, “CallGuard” solves a technical problem for call centers that has appeared to be near insurmountable until now. The company claimed that the theft of customer payment data exchanged over the telephone could be eliminated, particularly as a recent study by Veritape identified 93 percent non-compliance to payment data regulations amongst UK call centers due to the complexity and cost of compliance. The managing director of Veritape said that industry rules make protection and non-storage of credit card details a mandatory requirement for call centers, but despite this, most call centers are in breach of the guidelines. According to Veritape, CallGuard is fully compatible with any call-recording system and ensures that recorded telephone conversations are fully compliant with the PCI DSS regulations. It works by detecting and blocking “DTMF” tones, the sounds produced when keying in a number. By doing this it prevents any storage of the numbers communicated by the customer. At the same time it automatically enters card details into password style fields, which themselves are obscured with asterisks. The technology is built into a box the size of a large shoebox with an additional small USB device per workstation. It can also work internationally, protecting calls made to offshore call centers. Source:
+20. June 14, Active Filings – (Minnesota) Telephone credit card scam targets business owners. The Better Business Bureau said a new telephone-based scam abusing disability services is targeting many small businesses, including restaurants and other business types. In the scam, a business owner receives a call through the Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS). Source:
+21. June 13, Los Angeles Times – (International) At least 24 killed as gunmen storm Iraq’s Central Bank. Armed men wearing police-commando uniforms briefly overran Iraq’s Central Bank on Sunday, killing at least 24 people in a brazen daylight assault in the heart of Baghdad’s busiest commercial district. The corpses of seven more men wearing uniforms and suspected of being among the assailants were found inside the bank after police finally entered, four hours after the assault began. At least 46 people were injured. Some of the casualties were civilians caught in explosions or gunfire outside the bank, and others were employees trapped inside, police said. It was the latest in a string of heists targeting banks and jewelers in Iraq, but at least one of the assailants killed himself using an explosives vest, suggesting the motive may have been sabotage rather than robbery. The assault exposed the vulnerabilities of the Central Bank, one of Iraq’s most vital institutions. Once storming two separate entrances, the gunmen apparently roamed through the building, though what exactly happened inside was still murky late in the evening. Security forces fearing a hostage scenario ringed the bank, and when they finally entered shortly after 7 p.m., they found only dead and injured bank employees and the seven bodies of suspected assailants. According to a Major General who is the spokesman for security forces in Baghdad, no apparent attempt was made to steal money, but several floors of the building were set ablaze after the gunmen entered. “They didn’t steal anything,” he told the state broadcaster Al Iraqiya. “Their purpose was to sabotage, and though we can’t accuse anyone now, the fingerprints of Al Qaeda are very obvious.” Source:
+22. June 13, Battle Creek Inquirer – (Michigan) Police warn of new credit card scam in area. The Michigan State Police Department is warning retailers of a new credit card scheme happening in Battle Creek. The culprits scramble a store’s satellite system, used to send credit card information with aluminum foil, police said, knocking out the card verification systems and allowing the thiefs to use stolen credit cards unnoticed. Police warn stores against accepting business from customers using a variety of credit cards for purchases, and said businesses with satellite dishes attached to low roofs are especially vulnerable. Businesses are asked to call 911 if they suspect they have been scammed. Source:
+23. June 12, Bank Info Security – (Texas; Washington) Bank, credit union closed on June 11. Federal and state banking regulators closed a bank and a credit union Friday, June 11, raising the number of failed institutions to 91 so far in 2010.. Orange County Employees had $1.7 million in assets. Washington First International Bank, Seattle, was closed FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund will be $158.4 million. Source:
+24. June 12, WWSB 7 Sarasota – (Florida) Bomb threat at Palmetto bank ends safely. A scary situation at a Palmetto, Florida bank June 11 ended safely after a bomb squad deactivated a bomb on a woman’s body. At approximately 5:40 p.m., the Palmetto Police Department received a call from the Bank of America, located at 700 8th Ave. W. The call was in reference to a 47-year-old female, who was in the bank with what she said was a bomb strapped to her back. Numerous police officers responded to the scene. Due to the nature of the incident, the police department requested the sheriff’s office, including the bomb squad, to respond to the bank. After the scene was secured and it was determined that the device was not a bomb, the woman was questioned about the incident. She told detectives that she was kidnapped, forced to put on the device, and told to rob the bank. At this time, the woman isn’t being charged, however the investigation continues. Source:
+Information Technology
+51. June 14, The New New Internet – (International) Taliban hacked, DoD starts cyber offensive. The Webmaster of a Taliban-endorsed Webs ite has claimed that the site was hacked. An administrator for a jihadi forum endorsed by the Taliban wrote in a post that the “group’s main site and the site of its online journal Al-Sumud, have been the subject of an ‘infiltration operation,’ “ according to Wired.com. The post goes on to warn online jihadists “to not enter any of the links that concern these websites, and not even to surf [the content] until you receive the confirmed news by your brothers, Allah-willing.” Outages of jihadist Web sites are relatively common, though this may be the first example on a site being hacked, a spokesman of Flashpoint Partners told Wired. While no one has claimed credit for the hack, the Department of Defense has previously announced its intentions to take-down terrorist affiliated Web sites. Source:
+52. June 14, Help Net Security – (International) Keyloggers posting on webpages. Numerous keystroke logger entries have piled up on Pastebin.com giving rise to suspicions of massive keylogger infestations. As if the number of keystroke logger entries that recently made it to Pastebin wasn’t suspicious enough, their content raises eyebrows as well: instead of the expected open-source code, there are Facebook or IM passwords, along with detailed information on unwary users’ surfing history. The amount of personal data publicly exposed is large enough to eliminate the supposition that an attacker might have manually posted it. A deeper look into the issue reveals that this is the result of a massive keylogger infestation. Conventional keyloggers use classic log transfer approaches and send the data packets via e-mail or FTP; this dramatically increases the possibility for the law enforcers to find out who the remote attacker is and to ultimately get him. Furthermore, the e-mail approach is extremely “noisy”: it is easy for a system administrator to spot the traffic, not to mention that anti-malware utilities usually let users know when an e-mail leaves the system. Other times, the e-mail ports (usually set to 25, 465 or 578) may be either secured or blocked, which would make the keylogger “cargo” fail on dry shore. That is why this particular keylogger uses “customized” tactics as in depositing the output into a common world-wide-web location. Shortly put, Pastebin equals no firewall to block the traffic, no tracking path, no originating IP address, no identity exposed on the attacker’s side. Source:
+53. June 13, PC World – (International) Linux trojan raises malware concerns. There is good news and bad news for those of the misguided perception that Linux is somehow impervious to attack or compromise. The bad news is that it turns out a vast collection of Linux systems may, in fact, be hacked already. The good news, at least for IT administrators and organizations that rely on Linux as a server or desktop operating system, is that the Trojan is in a download that should have no bearing on Linux in a business setting. Despite the perception that Linux is inherently secure, it is not impervious and IT admins. need to remain vigilant IRC is an Internet relay chat platform. Source:
+54. June 11, The Register – (National) FCC: iPad breach and Google Wi-Fi debacle ‘worrisome’. AT&T’s failure to safeguard information for more than 100,000 iPad users and Google’s collection of user data over Wi-Fi networks are “each worrisome in its own way,” a Federal Communications Commission official said June 11 in the agency’s first comment on the privacy breaches. “Our Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau is now addressing cyber security as a high priority,”.” His comments come a day after the FBI said it would investigate a hack of AT&T servers that exposed the e-mail addresses and cellular ID numbers of more than 114,000 early adopters of Apple’s iPad. The gray-hat hacker group known as Goatse Security has taken credit for the stunt, which exploited a Web application on AT&T’s Web site.,” the chief wrote. Source:
+55. June 11, SCMagazine – (International) New wave of website hacks seek to spread malware. Those behind the SQL injection attack that compromised pages belonging to the Wall Street Journal and a number of other sites are at it again, according to researches at malware detection solutions provider Sucuri Security. The latest wave of attacks began June 11 and, at that time, 1,000 pages, including the Web sites for Chicago Public Radio and IndustryWeek, were infected, the lead security researcher at Sucuri Security, told SCMagazineUS.com June 11. The sites were injected with JavaScript code that attempted to load malware from a new malicious Web server onto visitors’ PCs, researchers said. As of June 11, the server was still active. “They [attackers] just started using a different site to host the malware, which is still live, so these sites are currently actively serving malware to their users,” the lead security researcher. Ironically, one of the infected sites was Idera.com, a provider of SQL Server and SharePoint administration tools. Just like the last wave of attacks, all affected sites are hosted on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers, and using Active Server Pages software from ASP.net. Source:
+56. June 10, Bank Info Security – (National) Senators unveil long-awaited cybersecurity bill. The long-awaited cybersecurity and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) reform bill introduced June 10 by the leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee would create two cybersecurity directors - one in the White House and the other in the Department of Homeland Security - to lead the federal government’s information security efforts. The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 also would provide a framework for the president to authorize emergency measures to protect the mostly privately owned critical IT infrastructure - such as financial networks and utility grids - if a cyber attack is imminent. Owners of these critical IT systems could face civil penalties if they do not follow regulations to secure them properly. The bill provides for the government and industry to collaborate on defining regulations and situations when a cyber emergency could be declared. The bill also would reform FISMA, the 8-year-old law that governs how federal agencies secure their IT systems by jettisoning the paper-based compliance process with one that emphasizes continuous monitoring of computer systems and red-team assaults by “friendly hackers” to test vulnerabilities. Source:
+Communications Sector
+57. June 11, IDG News Service – (National) VCs: Net neutrality rules needed to push Web investment. The a partner with Union Square Ventures, a New York City venture capital (VC) the managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado, venture capital firm that focuses on technology investments. Also speaking in favor of net neutrality rules was the founder and general partner of Spark Capital, a Boston VC firm. Source:
+58. June 11, UPI – (National) Solar flare activity might threaten GPS. A Cornell University expert on global positioning and satellite systems is warning they will be challenged as solar flare activity rises. A professor of electrical and computer engineering said,” the professor, the professor.” Source:
+Who Do You Think You Are? How the Biblical Worldview Transforms Self-Understanding
+Description
+The Apostle Peter urged "prepare your minds for action" (1 Peter 1:12). As Christians we are called to "renew" our minds (Rom. 12:2), to think critically about the world, resist its pressures to conform, and live in ways that please God. A truly biblical worldview isn't just about the way we think about the world, however. It transforms the way we think about ourselves, too. But how should we think about ourselves? Developing a sense of personal identity –“'who I am” - has never been easy. As we move between different social roles - dad, pastor, daughter, company executive - it can be hard to see how they hang together and discern what story they tell. And in modern life this task has been vastly complicated by the fast-multiplying interfaces of technology and social media. Add to this the modern deconstruction of gender, sexuality, and the family, and we have a perfect storm in which the self is "under siege". The Bible speaks into this modern confusion with profound and far-reaching implications. It calls us into a transformed understanding of self. Christian believers are made in the Image of God and, "in Christ", adopted as God's own children. This is the only secure foundation on which to build and shape our self-understanding.
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+2 1 CRADLE AND ALL, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown, $25.95.) A former nun turned private eye works on a case involving two virgins who become pregnant.
+3 1 3 EASY PREY, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $25.95.) The homicide detective Lucas Davenport investigates the strangulation of a famous model.
+4 3 52 HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $17.95.) A British boy finds trouble when he returns to a witchcraft school.
+5 4 38 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $19.95.) A British boy's life at a school for witchcraft is threatened.Continue reading the main story
+6 2 6 BEFORE I SAY GOOD-BYE, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) A woman with ESP searches for the truth behind the death of her husband, who was killed when his boat exploded in New York Harbor.
+7 6 5 THE BLUEST EYE, by Toni Morrison. (Knopf, $15.) The story of an 11-year-old black girl -- pregnant by her father -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue.
+8 5 17 THE BRETHREN, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Three former judges, doing time at a federal prison in Florida, concoct a mail scam that goes awry.
+9 7 4 STANDOFF, by Sandra Brown. (Warner, $19.95.) A
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+10 12 174 OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! by Dr. Seuss. (Random House, $17.) The problems of finding your way through life; in verse and pictures.
+11 9 3 THE EMPTY CHAIR, by Jeffery Deaver. (Simon & Schuster, $25.) Forensic specialists pursue a disturbed teenage boy who abducted two young women.
+12 10 77 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $16.95.) A British boy finds his fortune attending a school for witchcraft.
+13 11 4 STAR WARS: Rogue Planet, by Greg Bear. (Lucas/ Del Rey/Ballantine, $26.) Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are swept up in a world of deadly intrigue.
+14 16 2 FIERCE INVALIDS HOME FROM HOT CLIMATES, by Tom Robbins. (Bantam, $27.50.) A C.I.A. operative named Switters goes on an erotic-spiritual quest.
+15 14 3 ANIL'S GHOST, by Michael Ondaatje. (Knopf, $25.) A Sri Lankan woman who studied medicine abroad returns to examine the victims of her country's terror.
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+1 2 4 FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, by James Bradley with Ron Powers. (Bantam, $24.95.) The story of the men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima, by the son of one of them.
+2 1 138 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, by Mitch Albom. (Doubleday, $19.95.) The author tells of his weekly visits to his old college mentor, who was near death's door.
+3 8 2 FROM DAWN TO DECADENCE, by Jacques Barzun. (HarperCollins, $36.) A survey of 500 years of Western cultural life, from 1500 to the present.
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+6 14 2 IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE, by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins. (Putnam, $24.95.) A memoir by the Tour de France champion and cancer survivor.
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+10 9 78 THE GREATEST GENERATION, by Tom Brokaw. (Random House, $24.95.) The lives of men and women who came of age during the Depression and World War II.
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+14 10 71 THE ART OF HAPPINESS, by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. (Riverhead, $22.95.) What Buddhism and common sense tell us about everyday problems.
+15 11 2 PARENTHOOD BY PROXY, by Laura Schlessinger. (Cliff Street/HarperCollins, $24.) The radio talk show host offers a guide to getting families back on track.
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+April 25th, 2014
+Meet the Newsmakers with Sweetwater Social’s Mixologists Tim Cooper and Justin Noel
+Veteran Mixologists Tim Cooper (Goldbar) and Justin Noel (1534) have teamed up with Goldbar partners Shaun Rose and Udi Vaknin to open new subterranean lounge, Sweetwater Social on the corner of Bleecker and Broadway (643 Broadway).
+Located beneath the recently opened Bleecker Kitchen & Co., Sweetwater Social will be an ode to New York with classic neighborhood themed cocktails in an entertaining yet classy rec room inspired space. Fun, festive and flavorful are some words to describe the concept behind the recreational bar/lounge. While mixologists will serve up a seasonal selection of cocktails from over 300 spirits, good times will be had by activities such as foosball and shuffleboard. We recently sat down with the Sweetwater Duo in this month’s Meet the Newsmakers.
+Give our readers a little background on both of your careers prior to joining Sweetwater Social. Why did you both want to become mixologists?
+(TC): I would start by saying that before there was the term ‘mixologist’ there was the word bartender. I wanted to be a bartender. As a kid, I spent a good amount of time in bars with my dad & uncles playing video games, pool, and darts, whatever. And was always treated well by the bartender. I always appreciated how personable they were with me and how they seemed to dictate the energy in the room. As I grew up and became of age it was still always something I was fascinated by. I was working, as server in a hotel at the age of 20 and it happened to have one of the busiest bars in New York at the time.
+And had some amazing bartenders. However, they often liked to call out from their mandatory day shift, which would allow me to beg the manager if I could cover it. I had no idea what I was doing but I figured if I could get behind the bar and be annoying, eventually they would teach me a few things, which was what happened. Although I rarely made drinks, I took great pride in setting up the bar and getting it ready for the busy night ahead. The other bartenders appreciated that and started to take me under their wing. Once that happened, there was no way I was ever leaving that bar again. Everything after that was just meeting the right people and applying some passion into what I did. Always keeping an open mind and taking different styles from others and tying them into my own. That’s the short version and I skipped over the ‘mixology’ part but to me the most important aspect to tell.
+(JN) I have to be honest and say that I never really wanted to be a mixologist. I started off in this business to be a bartender and never really knew where this road would lead. Once I made it to New Zealand and saw all the fresh ingredients, the passion those bartenders had, and the cocktail culture I had not seen in Miami or Georgia at the time, I knew that I had to match my cocktail making skill sets with my passion and those guys passion and skill level. I still think mixology is just one aspect of being a great bartender.
+Tim, you’re well versed in every aspect of mixology, from classic to molecular and you’ve coordinated numerous beverage programs for many well-known events. How have these skills and experiences helped you push the envelope when developing signature cocktails?
+(TC) More than anything they’ve forced me to stay well rounded and think outside my own persona. Anytime I develop a cocktail I try to focus on how it fits for the guest who will be walking through that particular door. Not for me. The phrase I would use is ‘get in where you fit in’. Meaning, make sure what you’re doing is not over the head of the bartender executing the cocktail or most importantly the guest. What may work and sound appealing at one bar, might not work so well at another.
+Justin, you’ve worked with several liquor brands as a mixologist and events coordinator and have been overseeing and developed the beverage program at the NoLiTa cocktail hotspot, 1534. How has your past experiences and knowledge reflect and transcend into the Sweetwater Social beverage program?
+Working on beverage programs like Pranna, the Royalton, Breslin, and 1534 has really allowed me to creative and utilize different bartending techniques. Having set all those venues up with a focus in mind was great. When Sweetwater was being developed Tim and I wanted to utilize all those different styles of bartending and different techniques into one venue to showcase that we are well versed. Working with different brands which all have different cocktail strategies also meant that drinks need to cultivated for a specific demographic or brand image. This also allowed me to think about all the different types of people we really want to entertain and host at Sweetwater and thus create a vibe and menu that would appeal to all those different types.
+You’ve both collaborated and developed Sweetwater Social’s distinctive cocktail program, a NYC Subway map offering a cocktail reminiscent of a particular NYC neighborhood. Explain this unique approach.
+We simply wanted to create a fun template that represents New York City. Essentially we took ingredients and/or names that are unique to a particular neighborhood and placed them at specific subway stops throughout the city. As an example, our ‘Ivan Drago’ cocktail is placed at the Brighton Beach subway stop. Historically this is a pre-dominantly Russian neighborhood out in Brooklyn. The Ivan Drago is a Moscow Mule variation with the added element of having a ‘Russian Syrup’ (cloves, cardamom & cinnamon) incorporated into it. And then for all of the ‘Rocky’ fans out there, the name Ivan Drago comes from the boxing villain in the 4th movie installment.
+How often will Sweetwater Social change their cocktail menu? And how do you choose what cocktail to lose or to add?
+We’ll be changing the menu seasonally. We haven’t decided on what will stay and what will go. Demand & seasonality of ingredients will determine that decision. We may even completely change the subway template as well. Ideally we plan to have a rotating template that exists as an ode to New York.
+Is there an “in season” for certain cocktails? If cocktail trends change, is it possible that there’s also a change in what the different generations are thirsting for?
+(TC) There’s absolutely an in season, especially for certain fruits & herbs. Quite simply for both taste reasons and price. Trying to put a cocktail with berries on the menu in the dead of winter just doesn’t make sense. The berries won’t taste all that good and they’ll be incredibly expensive at that. As for generations and what they’re thirsting for, Whiskey & Agave based spirits are on fire right now. We’re flying through American Whiskey in particular. There is just so much more out there in the way of spirits, ingredients and education. You’ll still get the die-hard vodka drinkers but there is a definite shift within what people are drinking from when I first started bartending.
+(JN) Some cocktails such as flips or toddies are far more suited for the colder weather. Also the drinking trends of generations change as well. We have seen this with each decade. The 80’s had their drinks, 90’s had its popular drinks as well. This current decade might come to be the decade of the old-fashioned or barrel aged cocktail. Stirred and boozy seems to be what this current generation is thirsting for.
+What type of ice cube does Sweetwater use in their cocktails?
+We are using 3-4 different types of ice including, 2 x 2 inch ice cubes and crushed ice from Koldraft with Hoshizaki cubes & pellet ice.
+Since the start of both your careers, what are some the changes you noticed in bartending and mixology?
+(TC) This could get really long winded (insert laughter here). There are so many things. Number one is the use of fresh ingredients. It was a rarity to find places that used fresh juices when I was bartending 15 years ago. Now the majority of places in New York do. Now a days, a Restaurant would be considered a dinosaur if they tried to open without some type of culinary cocktail program. It’s become a demand. Overall, there is just so much more information and spirits out now. When I was first bartending it was typical to see 2 or 3 gins behind the bar. Now you’ll see 10 at the minimum. There has been an explosion of craft brands from both the beer and spirit world, which has really changed the game. We’re in the golden age of the cocktail at the moment and there is just so much information out now, where as 10 years ago it was minimal.
+(JN) From then to now there have been massive changes in bartending. The culture has changed, bartenders are far more knowledgeable, the cocktails are always evolving and becoming more and more advanced compared to when I first started. Yes, the classics still prevail and are usually the backbone for all of us, but the game has changed and the craft has been taken far more seriously than it was 20 years ago.
+What’s one bit of advise you can give to younger mixologists who are trying to make a name for themselves in this industry?
+(TC) Stay humble, work hard and don’t get ahead of yourself. Too many young bartenders are trying to run before they walk. Be observant and pick up techniques from other bartenders who’ve been doing this longer than you have. Stop trying to pick up things from so called celebrity mixologists only. The most useful tools I’ve picked up over the years are from bartenders that nobody knows of. Just because you’ve memorized 500 different classic cocktail specs doesn’t mean you’re a good bartender. It means you have a good memory. With that said, the one aspect I really find to be missing from many of the young bartenders that I’m meeting today is a lack of speed. There is no sense of urgency all too often. If an appetizer from the kitchen is coming out quicker than your cocktail, then we’ve got problems. Moral of this story: sense of urgency and hustle is a must!
+(JN) Personality and work ethnic, that's all I have to say. People look at a bunch of these guys who have been able to make success for themselves and see some even become celebrities in our community. They think it’s easy to get to that point. What they forget is that when we all started, if you had a career in bartending before 2003, we had to make our own sour mix, cut our own fruit, and bring in our own special ingredients if we wanted. I didn’t have barback for the first 3 years of my bartending career. I had to do everything. I also realized when I moved back to NYC that if you want people to take notice you have to be good at the little things and that means having a great work ethic that you try to instill in the staff you work with. Being personable is what will bring people’s attention to what you do. Once you get noticed and people bring opportunities you need to continue showing that same work ethic to the table.
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+- Social Cognitive Theory and Self-Regulated Learning
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+- Self-Regulated Learning and Academic Achievement
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+I ate here years ago and really enjoyed it. It is one of the few truly siamese old fashioned type restaurants around Bangkok. I am finding it really difficult to find this kind of food in Bangkok. Far more prevalent is Chinese-Thai food. If I recall, I think I had penang curry prepared the proper way with peanuts. It was perfectly balanced... sweet, salty, hot... enough kati - coconut milk, but not too much... the oil separating from the curry... delicious. The roasted eggplant salad was executed well and perfectly balanced. I seem to remember that there was nothing "special" about the meal, but just that nothing was wrong. It was good food, REAL Thai food... cooked the way I like to cook Thai food at home This should not be such a rarity, but it has become rare in Bangkok.
+Yeah, I remember the staff being crabby. For me it's better than artificial and insincere "niceness" coupled with poor service. That being said, they were initially REALLY crabby, but warmed up once I asserted myself.
+I am disappointed to hear that food quality has declined. I will make another visit, as my visits were so long ago, and report back.
+- re: chrisdds
+I was there around 1 year ago, and went there twice. I really think it depends upon what you order. I had one meal that was just so-so, and one meal that was truly spectacular. I ordered the fresh prawns---they were truly fresh and cooked to perfection, in a delicate
+Thai basil sauce, that was unlike anything I've ever had in the States. I chatted, and the owner did warm up to me. She can be moody, but this doesn't have to take away from the fact that there is still some excellent food to be had there (in my opinion). Though, like so many places, there is also some mediocre food.
+- re: EZM
+Yes, as with most "full menu" eateries, there will be hits and misses. But, IMHO, there are so many other better options around. Besides its inconsistency, the filthiness and ridiculous prices turn me off Chote Chitr.
+Not surprisingly, Bangkok is awash in down-and-dirty, traditional Thai eateries. It's just that most visitors don't stray far enough off the shiny path.
+Many do hunt down Chote Chitr, simply because of its popularity in the western press. This makes it about as "local" as most will ever experience.
+- re: Curt the Soi Hound
+I wondered if it being feted by the Western press, and having many foreign visitors, resulted in rude, crabby service by the owner(s).
+I'd never encountered rude service in Thailand before - back home here in Singapore, lots of time.
+Bangkok has so many good, clean, family restaurants, even chains like See Fah, S&P, etc. - why would any visitor trudge all the way to a grimy spot like Chote Chir?!
+- re: klyeoh
+My neighbors are constantly dragging us to grimy spots. Some of them produce the best food I have ever eaten, at prices a small fraction of the cost of the more modern, accessible franchises.
+I would have liked to have experienced Chote Chitr before the New York Times "discovered" it. Something tells me that, at one time, the food was great. But now, with no local customers, only farang, the food has had to have changed.
+I post a pic of one of my all time favorite shops. For the price of a featured dish at Chote Chitr, I could eat for a week at Khun Mai's Shop.
+- re: klyeoh
+I have followed a lot of your posts on Singapore and Hong Kong which have been invaluable to me in the past (along with Peech and FourSeasons). I am a long time voyeur of this site but posted only recently.
+In Singapore and Hong Kong, you can go to clean and comfortable restaurants with exceptional food. In Bangkok, it is rare, in my opinion (for Thai food, that is... Western food is a different story). Some of the 'clean' places are OKAY, but simply can't compare to the hole-in-the wall type places as far as food. This echoes what Curt mentioned. For ME, I love the traditional places in spite of their grungy-ness... not because of it.
+Still, I would be interested in hearing some of your good Bangkok experiences.
+- re: Curt the Soi Hound
+I had never heard of this place until I came onto the boards here looking for eats in Bangkok. I went for a late lunch in the middle of the afternoon on the last day of my last trip to Thailand, back in 2008. I was by myself and ordered 2 dishes - prawn mee krob and eggplant salad. I thought the food was pretty decent. Not mind-blowingly good, but I was pleasantly surprised.
+- re: chrisdds
+Whenever someone says "real" or "authentic" in relation to a cuisine, it starts me asking questions (the beer does not help either). What is your definition of "real" Thai food. What do you consider it's boundaries. You use curry as penang curry as an example, which based on it's origins would make it a relatively modern creation (18th century at the earliest - most likely 19th century). It is also most likely an adaptation of curry originating out of India (though definitely NOT Indian in taste). Basically, take the concept of the curry - then flavour it based on Thai flavours (paste made with lemongrass, galangal etc.), add in the chilies that the Portuguese brought to Thailand - also around the 18th century).... Often made using wok based cooking, which came to Thailand from China... also around 18th century.... so I am guessing your cutoff for influence might be around the 18th century. Then of course the definition of Thai food differs depending on the regions that this cuisine encompasses (4 regional cuisines + royal thai) so real thai could be limited to central plains + royal thai, or all of the regional Thai cuisines - including Laos/Isan.
+- re: cacruden
+- re: Curt the Soi Hound
+Cacruden, your knowledge of the history of this cuisine is impressive.
+I most certainly enjoy the regional variations in cuisine throughout Thailand. Lanna style in the north (for example Chiang Rai), the Malay inspired dishes of the deep south (for example Narathiwat), the the "Southern Thai" food you find past Chumpon... in Ranong down through Hat Yai for example, Issan Food, and central Thai food (which I have termed Siamese, perhaps inaccurately, but really just referencing old fashioned central Thai cooking). There is Chinese influence as well... Yunan in the north, and the Thai citizens that have some ethnic Chinese background (Predominantly Chaozhou in Southern China? But other areas of China as well). It is interesting how the nature of the food changes gradually as you move geographically.
+Of course there is a lot of crossover. Of course there is evolution and changes in the cuisines. The more modern society becomes, the more crossover there is. It is easier for people to move and travel, and for ideas to be exchanged physically and through other media and forms of communication. Ingredients become more accessible as well.
+My point was not to say that certain regional variations of food in Thailand lack credibility. I do, however, feel that there are some restaurants in all areas and in all types of food in Thailand that do not respect proper cooking technique. Now I'm opening up a whole new can of worms with my terminology of what is "proper". I think there are variations and preferences in different geographical areas, or among different families, or among different cooks, and this is all well and good. However, sometimes variations are introduced that do nothing to enhance the dish or provide an alternate viewpoint... they only detract from the spirit of the dish. In many cases, it's not even a change in ingredients, but just poor (in my estimation) cooking technique.
+Thai food generally has a lot of overlapping flavors, often intense flavors, and many of us do not like when the flavors are shifted to the bland end of the spectrum. There is something to be said for delicacy of spicing and balance of flavors (in a certain context). However, my (opinionated) view is that a lot of food is made to cater to a less sophisticated palate. However condescending it may sound, I don't know how else to put it. And I'm not talking only about chilis and "heat". I'm talking about all four classically described Thai tastes of sweet, sour, salty, hot (and I personally like to throw in bitter for certain dishes).
+My comment about penang curry was only a mention of one of the dishes I ate at that restaurant that I happened to enjoy.
+I was saying that there are many many Chinese-Thai restaurants around (which I very much enjoy). I was not suggesting they are not real Thai food, but that the central Thai cooking found at Chote Chitr has not been easy for me to find in Bangkok outside of people's homes. It seems to be somewhat easier in the central plains outside of Bangkok.
+This is becoming long winded. My point is, my definition of "real" Thai food does not exclude regions of Thailand. It excludes what I feel is watered down food. I suppose that's the same as "dumbed down"... so Curt, I hope I have not lost all credibility :)
+I do not mean to sound overly negative. Discussion on this board is helpful for me in finding the 'gems' in Bangkok. I just feel that Bangkok has a lot of poor restaurants and street food with a small percentage of exceptional ones sprinkled about. Choosing a place at random outside of Bangkok has yielded much more positive results for me. I am not sure why this is and if anybody else has had the same experience.
+So Caruden, you've opened up some interesting questions about the boundaries of "real" Thai food... geographically and time-frame. Could be some fun discussions that border on the philosophical. But my original post is far more simplistic. I say that that the food at Chote Chitr (however imperfect) and the food I cook at home will be more "real" than what I am likely to get at a backpacker guesthouse in central Chiang Mai (to use an extreme example).
+- re: chrisdds
+Although I have never eaten at a Chiangmai guesthouse, most backpackers are going to eat far more "real" than most foodies. Often, what one will eat at a guesthouse will be whatever the cook whips up, kinda like what we eat at home, whipped up by the little misses, a "real" Thai person. It's also, for the most part, far more "real" than one will get from any of the celebrity chefs.
+Chote Chitr's food, whether "dumbed down",or not, definitely seems, to me, catered to the foreigner. When one's entire clientele is foreigners, it's impossible not to cater.
+But, for me, the biggest turn off is the total lack of any hygienic standards. Now, I eat in many place that would never be considered by tourists. But, when the owner's dogs use the sidewalk, the same sidewalk with a table and chairs, as a dog run, then the "waitress" cleans up after then, then continues waitressing, it's a bit over the top.
+Then there is her "kitchen"!
+- re: Curt the Soi Hound
+Biggest problem when a Thai is catering to a foreigner.... is that they are not cooking the food they love. When you love something, you are more careful and respectful of what you are cooking. You taste it, make adjustments and you work towards getting it to 100% of the taste that you expect and want. If you cook food that you do not love, it is harder to appreciate if it is tasting "correctly" and thus is more likely to taste like crap (it would be like me cooking mashed potatoes - It would likely end up killing people who liked mashed potatoes). There are lots of foreigners in Bangkok (airport receives almost 20 million a year) and a majority of those (in Bangkok) are going to be close to the skytrain, and to a lesser extent the near the MRT. They will open their guidebooks and go to "cultural" must do things while here. Odds are higher that if you pick a place to eat around there -- at a place "comfortable" to eat at (English Menu's, AC) the food is going to be less enjoyable.... Foreigners are less comfortable (especially the Japanese) eating at street level vendors, so the odds are they are less likely going to "cater" to foreigners tastes. Find an older lady cooking food at street level -- who is busy serving food to locals -- and the odds are greater the food is going to be better tasting (not a guarantee, just playing the odds). Of course you might have to learn the Thai names for foods and adjectives if they cook to order. The "restaurant culture" (western) is rather new. If you leave the confines of Bangkok (which has grown rapidly over the last 40 years), and go into the countryside - the Thai Kitchens are outdoors, they eat outdoors (sheltered) - there don't tend to be fancy restaurants (except in hotels or other places frequented by foreigners), so it is not surprising you would not find the best Thai food in fancy restaurants (which would be cooked by people cooking food they really don't like - to serve a foreign pallet) :p I'll defer to Thais on what is or what is not Thai food (I'm a foreigner :o).
+- re: cacruden
+Great summation!
+I have found some of the best eateries are places that started out as a cart, then added some sidewalk tables, then pushed the cart in front of some indoor dining seating facilities, then pushed the cart inside.
+As I have often said, these carts, and small shops, are great because they cook what they like/cook best and don't try to cater to anyone.
+- re: chrisdds
+My knowledge of Thai cuisine/history is a fraction of 1%..... still lots to learn and not enough time. Still afraid to cook for Thais :o. Find someone that loves to cook, and cooks what they love (which for Thais is most likely Thai food) and the food is going to likely be more enjoyable. My suspicion is that the "crabby" person -- either is cooking what they don't love (food for foreigners), or doesn't love to cook anymore (could also be related to the food or people she is cooking for).
+-.
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+Tan-men (タンメン) is ramen soup noodle with stir-fried pork and vegetables, and it’s one of the quickest ramen recipes you can make easily at home! Inspired by the Japanese drama, Midnight Diner.
+When I am too busy, tan-men is one of our quick ramen menus I serve at home. You have hearty yet light soup and chewy noodles with some vegetables and meat. Compared to heavy ramen broth, tan-men is light and easy on your tummy. Tan-men or sometimes known as Tan Tan Ramen was featured on the popular Japanese TV program called “Shinya Shokudo (深夜食堂)” or “Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories” which is now available on Netflix.
+Watch How To Make Tan-Men
+Episode of Tan-Men from Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
+Midnight Diner features Japanese dishes that are more representative of home cooked recipes than Japanese restaurant menus in the US. If you’re interested in Japanese home cooked meals, you will enjoy this show as much as I do!
+Tan-Men episode is Season 1, Episode 1 on Netflix.
+Introducing Chuka-Dashi Powder
+Fun Fact: It’s actually not common to make chicken stock from scratch in Japan because it’s not easy to find chicken bones or whole chicken at local Japanese grocery stores. Therefore the Japanese use the Chuka Dashi Powder (中華だし) to make Asian (especially Chinese) cooking. Do you know what this is?
+While Japanese dashi is typically made of kombu, bonito flakes, and/or anchovies (read this detailed post about dashi), Chuka (meaning “Chinese” in Japanese) Dashi is basically the soup (湯) that is made with chicken, pork, and/or oyster or clams, for making the soups or the sauces in Chinese cooking.
+Just like Japanese dashi powder, you need to dissolve chuka dashi powder in hot water to make the soup stock. This seasoning is sometimes sprinkled over stir fry dishes to give some additional flavor.
+In case you’re wondering, dashi powder in Japan are mostly MSG-free.
+Asian vs. Western Chicken Stock
+Recommendation: When you make Asian food with chicken stock, I highly recommend using chicken stock made with simple chicken, ginger, and green onion (and garlic), and not western chicken stock made with carrots, onions, or other vegetables in it. As you can imagine, the chicken stocks taste very different.
+You can purchase a can of chicken stock like these in Asian grocery stores.
+However, I know many of you prefer making stock from scratch, so here’s a quick tutorial on how to make Homemade Chicken Stock.
+Ingredients for Tan-Men
+Meat: Usually sliced pork belly is used in Tan-Men. You can find these sliced pork belly in Japanese, Korean or Chinese grocery stores. They look like bacon but they are raw and not cured. You can substitute with other kinds of meat.
+Vegetables/Mushrooms: Typically these five ingredients are used. Cabbage, carrot, bean sprout, green onion, and dried wood ear mushrooms. Dried wood ear mushrooms are often found in Chinese dishes, and it is mainly added for the texture. It comes in a big package so you could omit if you don’t plan to use it for other recipes. But it’s a fun ingredient to experiement with and makes the dish more authentic.
+Noodles: I used noodles from Tan-Men package I purchased at my local Japanese grocery store. You can use the ramen noodles or Chinese style noodles.
+In the Tan-Men episode of Midnight Diner series, some customers ask the master (the chef at the diner) to make Tan-Men without noodles because they are eating at late night . Tan-Men has lots of vegetables in the soup and it’s quite fulfilling. But I have no will powder to eat Tan-Men without noodles. How about you? 🙂
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+- 6 pieces dried wood ear mushrooms (4 g)
+- 3 green onions/scallions
+- 4-5 leaves cabbage
+- 2 inches carrot (5 cm)
+- 4 oz bean sprouts (114 g)
+- 1 Tbsp neutral-flavored oil (vegetable, canola, etc) (for stir frying)
+- 4 oz sliced pork belly (114 g)
+- 1 Tbsp sake
+- freshly ground black pepper
+- kosher/sea salt (I use Diamond Crystal; Use half for table salt)
+- 1 tsp sesame oil (roasted)
+- water (for boiling noodles)
+- 2 servings fresh ramen noodles (10-12 oz or 283-340 g fresh noodles)
+- 4 tsp Chuka Dashi (Chinese seasoning)
+- 3 ⅓ cups water (800 ml)
+- Gather all the ingredients.
+Make the soup. In a medium saucepan, dissolve 4 tsp of Chuka Dashi in 3⅓ cups (800 ml) of hot water. Mix well and bring to boil then set aside. Alternatively, you can use my homemade Chicken Stock recipe.
+In a small bowl, add dried wood ear mushrooms and add just enough water to cover them. Re-hydrate until soft and squeeze to remove the water. Cut green onion into 2 inches (5 cm).
+Cut the cabbage leaves into bite size pieces. Cut the carrot into thin slabs and then cut them in half. Rinse the bean sprouts under running water.
+Start preparing a big pot of water to cook noodles. While waiting, heat the wok or large frying pan on high heat (if non-stick frying pan, medium to medium high heat). Once it’s hot, add oil and swirl the oil around to coat the wok. Then add the pork belly and cook until no longer pink.
+Add 1 Tbsp sake. Then add wood ear mushrooms, green onion, and carrot.
+Add the cabbage and bean sprouts.
+Season with freshly ground black pepper and pinch of kosher salt.
+Once the cabbage is tender, add the chicken stock and sesame oil and bring to simmer.
+When the water is boiling, add the noodles by loosening them up with hands. Cook the noodles according to the package instructions. Drain well and divide the noodles into two bowls.
+Pour the toppings and soup over the noodles and serve immediately.
+Dash of white pepper is great for enhancing the noodles' flavor.
+Chicken Stock: For homemade recipe, please click here. Please read the blog post about Asian chicken stock vs. western chicken stock. We need to use Asian chicken stock
+Hello! I really want to give this a try, I loved Midnight Diner and this episode in particular. What could I use instead of the mushrooms? It’s almost impossible to find Japanese ingredients in my city beyond some very basic stuff,
+Thanks!
+Hi Tatiana! The mushroom texture is so different from “regular” mushroom texture. It’s hard, not soft and tender. It’s like eating wakame seaweed but harder crunchy texture. So there is no good substitute if you look for mushrooms…. I checked online and it suggested Cloud Ear Mushrooms… but they can be hard to find too. As I mentioned in the blog post, we add this for texture. If we can’t achieve the same texture… no point in substituting. Though you can add regular mushroom as ingredients. 🙂 . Sorry I’m not helpful….
+Love Midnight Diner. The endings are so clever. Love your one pot dishes. They are filling & good for us. I’ll admit to using Midwest veggies at times to save a trip to Asian supermarket. They change Brands frequently & having no knowledge ofAsian languages it is long shopping trip. We do enjoy it.
+Hi Tom! I’m glad you can use whatever you have to make Japanese food. I used to live far from a Japanese grocery store, so I totally understand. I’m so happy to hear you enjoy Hot Pot for One! It’s fun, super easy, yet very comforting, light, and healthy! 🙂 Thank you for reading my blog Tom!
+Thank’s for this post, my brother is going through a ramen faze and is is going crazy. I made your spicy ramen and he completely ruined it by adding extra ingredients, more and more, and when one ingredient didn’t work out (he added store bought ramen broth mix) he added more spices. He even tried to add curry. I told him these flavors don’t blend well, but he doesn’t listen. I’ll try this one out and make it when he isn’t looking or is out so he can’t ruin it before it’s finished.
+Hi Erin! Haha your brother enjoys experimenting! As long as he enjoys at the end…. 😉 Hope you and your brother like this recipe!
+Yay for posting another “Midnight Diner” recipe! Love the series, love all the dishes and now I love all your recipes! Thanks, Nami!
+Hi Donna! Thank you! I’m going to post a new Midnight Diner recipe tonight. 🙂
+Hey Nami,
+Please tell me that you are planning to post all dishes from all 3 seasons, that would be fantastic. 🙂
+Hi Arano! Yes, I’ve finished shooting recipes for all the season 1 (except one). I have to wait and see if Netflix release season 2 and 3. Meanwhile I may move onto Samurai Gourmet. 🙂
+Nami! It made me sooo excited to see that you were making the food featured on Shinya Shokudo!! I plan on making this and eat it while I watch Midnight Diner for the umpteenth time. Thank you, thank you, thank you for liking this show as much as I did. Awesomeness!!!
+Hi Kamaile! Haha thank you! I’m so happy to hear your excitement! I still have several recipes to share from the show. Stay tuned! 🙂
+Hi Nami!
+I want to try this recipe but what other flavor stock would you recommend for someone who doesn’t eat chicken?
+Hi Kessia! Hmm, do you mean vegetarian (skipping pork too?) or just chicken (turkey too?)? Hmm… you can use Japanese dashi but it kind of lacks the bold flavor. Western vegetable broth might make it like western soup instead of noodle soup. Tough question! I may suggest just use Japanese dashi, and use that pork to get more flavors. I haven’t tried it, so I’m not sure if it tastes as good… but sometimes no choice. Use good ingredients to get good soup. 🙂
+I mean just chicken. I will try with dashi. Or maybe beef or pork brothwill be better?
+Hi Kessia! I didn’t mention beef or pork earlier because usually this kind of noodle soup (with this type of noodles) is made with chicken stock and a bit strange to have beef stock.
+However, anything can be possible. I just shared Oxtail Udon recipe – you can use oxtail broth or pork broth to make this recipe if you like. It will still taste great. 🙂
+Dear Nami! Thank you for this wonderful recipe! I cooked this soup in huge amount and whole family loves it. However, I totally failed finding chuka dashi. We live in Portland, OR, and we have enormous Asian stores. They have everything, even fresh durian, canned jellyfish (!!!) and silk worms, literally, only thing nobody sells is chuka dashi. And I have too little freezer to cook homemade.
+So, I substitute it with regular granulated chicken broth + regular dashi (1:1) and it tastes just great.
+I highly advice everyone not to be discouraged with absence of proper chicken broth and use this option, if you are in similar situation:)
+Hi Asa! Thank you so much for trying this recipe despite the difficulty in finding chuka dashi. I’m glad you figured it out without it and everyone enjoyed this dish. 🙂 Thanks for your kind feedback and encouragement for everyone!
+I saw the 1st episode last night and made me crave this soup!
+HI Koti! Cool! I hope you enjoy this show as much as I do! Lots of delicious dishes on the show!
+I was just wondering what I should cook for dinner and your mail came in with the recipe to cook Tan Men. Truly wonderful!!! ???? ????.
+Thank you do much for always sharing your recipes unreservedly so that we can enjoy delicious Japanese cuisine.
+Hi Karen! I’m so happy to hear you’re reading my newsletter (the bottom of the newsletter). 😀 I always wonder if anyone would scroll down the newsletter to read other parts… 🙂 Thank you for your feedback and I’m happy to hear you enjoy my recipes!
+I LOVE Midnight Diner and am really looking forward to cooking the dishes at home. Hope they make a season 2. Thank you Nami.
+Hi Melinds! Me too, I love that show… and I hope they will make season 2 (Netflix Season 1 was Japanese Season 3 – making me feel like they won’t share other seasons… 🙁 ). Have fun cooking Midnight Diner recipes! 🙂
+We used to eat tanmen miso ramen. How would the recipe change to include miso?
+Hi Scott! Was it Tan Men or Tan Tan Men (Dan Dan Noodles)? I have seen miso flavored Tan Tan Men, but never had miso flavored Tan Men. Maybe you can add 1-2 tbsp miso in the chicken stock? 🙂
+Are the noodles you used for this Tan-Men recipe dry noodles or refrigerated semi-soft? Asking so that I know where in the store to look for them.
+Hi Kim! It’s refrigerated raw noodles. It can be in the refrigerated section or freezer section. 🙂
+Thanks! This was very informative; especially about the differences in stock bases.
+I’ve been struggling to recreate many of the flavors I experienced when I briefly lived in Japan, and your site is proving to be a great resource.
+Hi Patrick! Thank you for your kind words! Glad to hear my site is helpful. 🙂
+AMAZZZZZING recipe. we all loved it!
+Hi Natalia! Thank you!!! 🙂
+Thanks for posting this!
+Sadly, I’m a terrible cook.
+I also really love Tokyo Midnight as well!. It’s just a shame that Netflix only aired one season of it. There’s a second season and a Movie as well. I’ve always wanted to try out many of the dishes that are shown in the series, they all look delicious!
+Hi Charles! Happy to hear you enjoy Midnight Diner series too and it’s disappointing that they didn’t continue to share the rest of stories. 🙁 Thank you for your kind feedback. Hope I inspire you to cook at home. 😉 xo
+Hi Nami!
+I’ve recently started watching Midnight Dinner, and I really wanted to make タンメン at home. I was looking at the ingredients and I read about Chuka Dashi. The problem is I can only find Chuka Aji… Will it be the same? It’s from Ajinomoto, so I suppose is the commercial name for it, but I wanted to make sure before I bought it…
+Tanks a lot! 🙂
+Hi Miriam! Chuka Aji is Ajinomoto’s version of MSG for Chinese dishes and not really chicken soup/stock. Can you get chicken stock or chicken bone broth? You can use it instead. 🙂 If you want to make it more similar to Japanese way, you can buy chicken stock by Japanese brand like this one: (It’s powdered). 🙂
+Hope you enjoy the recipe!
+ありがとうございます！I bought the chicken stock you suggested. Can’t wait for it to get here so I can try the recipe! Thanks for your quick reply and for your amazing site! Will cook your spinach salad while I wait for the stock to arrive 😊
+よかった！ Hope you enjoy the spinach salad meanwhile. 🙂 Enjoy Tanmen! xo
+Hi, I also live in San Francisco. Wondering where you get your ingredients here. Do you get them in Nijiya market or where do you recommend to go for Japanese specific ingredients.
+Hi Melson! I go to Nijiya in San Mateo (I live in Peninsula) to get almost every Japanese ingredients I use for my recipes. 🙂
+Hi! I wanted to know what kind of sake brand you used to add to this dish.
+Thank you
+Hi Abi! I use one of these 3 sake brands that go on sale (). 🙂
+Hi! Thank you for this recipe! I really loved this episode of Midnight Diner too! I was wondering if I could pack this for my son’s lunch in a thermos or would it be better served immediately after cooking?
+Hi Rose! It’s really up to your son, but in general, Japanese don’t like noodles getting soggy (kind of similar concept as overcooked pasta). So we wouldn’t pack noodle soup for lunch box, even in a thermos. I would save it for home lunch. 🙂
+Hi Nami, we love your website, its our go to for all Japanese dishes – I haven’t found one yet that wasn’t the best! And we just discovered Midnight Diner, so so good. In the opening scene while he is making the broth for the pork miso soup, he tears off pieces of something gray with black spots, looks squishy, I cannot figure out what that is. Do you know?? We are just starting Season 3 & it’s driving us crazy!
+Hi Janine! Thank you so much for using my recipes! SO happy to hear you enjoy them. It’s called Konnyaku.
+So happy to hear you enjoy the MD series! 🙂
+Are you Edokko? Your soup looks a little dark for tanmen, at least in my experiences eating it many times in Central Tokyo. 🙂 Since I left Tokyo in 2010 and have been back only one time I’m going to have to try your recipe.
+Hi Robert! I’m Hamakko (浜っ子) who was born in Osaka (because my mother is from there) so I know both west and east food and preference. 🙂 Well, if you look at the recipe, the chuka dashi is the only color for the soup. 😉
+I’m not Japanese, but I do enjoy watching the show and reading your recipes. Comfort food international!
+I was inspired by the opening scene of the soup stock being made, would you happen to have a recipe for it? I’m intrigued…..😋
+Hi Shu!
+Here is a recipe for Nami’s Homemade stock.
+Enjoy!😊
+I have enjoyed your recipes for a while since I because obsessed with Japanese food and was led to the show Midnight Diner because of this page. I just wanted to say thank you! I admire your hard work to bring Japanese home cooking recipes online.
+Hi Valerie!
+Aww… We are so glad to hear you enjoyed it!
+Thank you very much for your sweet feedback!
+Photo by Khalid Almasoud 2009.
+Here are the 2009 Vision Questions as a free PDF to download and print.
+Mull over these questions this weekend, and see what sparks. Perhaps your answers will point to one specific area in your life that you want to focus on, to change or strengthen. Or perhaps your answers will reveal an overall theme, a burden within you that you’d like to see come to fruition holistically.
+I look forward to hearing some of your answers! And on Monday, we’ll talk about how to craft a blueprint for making these lofty ideas a reality.
+Interesting questions! For me at least, I’m just going to pick and choose a few to answer, as not all of them are relevant to my life or current situation. The choice of the question is nearly as important as the answer I think!
+I believe in New Year’s Resolutions too. I think they are important motivators to helping me move forward in my life. My resolution last year was to do something about my finances, and the end result, my blog, has been a huge success.
+Here are some answers:
+Question 1: I want to learn to really use Excel this year. Geeky, I know.
+Question 4: I want to encourage him in his music, without resenting the time he spends doing it.
+Question 9: I want to be less judgmental.
+Question 19: I want to have a job as an internet marketing consultant by November next year.
+I love this list! I’ll have to think about these questions & work them in with my other goals for the New Year.
+Thanks!
+Christi´s last blog post…the new year
+Hello!
+I like to set goals instead of resolutions for the the new year too. It’s great to start the new year off with plans and hopes for postive things. I like to learn and grow as a person each year and look forward to learning some new skills, building better relationships and finding enjoyment in life.
+thanks for the great ideas,
+Trixie
+Trixie´s last blog post…Owl at Home
+Like you, I enjoy resolutions but I prefer to see them as goals. I just don’t like the word resolution, perhaps from studying it in the legal context for almost 3 years!
+I am excited to work through these questions. I used some of your reflection questions as well, and that turned out to be a lot of fun. On New Years eve I wrote them out for everyone in our family (I only used five questions so the kids wouldn’t lose interest). We all wrote out our answers and then read them out loud to each other (we record all of our new years at home with the kids so we have them on tape). I could tell the boys thought it was dumb at first, but by the time we were done and had reminisced about some of the biggest moments of the year, the were having a blast. And I know when they are older they will appreciate having a recording of that.
+Great ideas post as always!
+Lucie @ Unconventional Origins´s last blog post…Ringing in the New Year Part II – an Alternative to Resolutions
+Love the list. I find that I’m always busy doing “things”–but not necessarily always the most important things. It will be good to sit down and hopefully focus some goals on the things that are the most important in my life so I’m accomplishing things that really matter.
+Dara´s last blog post…A Fresh Start
+Wow, what a great list! I like it even better than the reflection questions for 2008. I love the idea of working to help other people strengthen their strengths and make their weaknesses into strengths, too. Thanks for posting all this great stuff this week. Your blog has become one of my favorites because it’s relevant, accessible and it makes me think.
+I’ve been thinking about making most of my goals for 2009 habit-related, but I think I’m going to throw in a few fun activities, too.
+Kelley´s last blog post…A mess! and a very cute little girl
+I love these questions. 2009 is going to be a year of new beginnings for me, and the chance for me to start a new career or at least new employment, as I am going to retire from my current company for whom I have worked 29 years. I have so many things in my head that I would like to do, it is just a matter of what the economy and finances will allow me to do. I am going to ponder these questions! I answered the reflections questions and posted (with a link back to your blog) on my blog!
+Thanks for posting! I am still working on my new years “goals” and the questions are a big help!
+mandy´s last blog post…Christmas Breakfast!
+I loved your posts – the reflections of 2008 and the visions for 2009. I have completed both sets of questions. The questions truly allowed me to think about where I was and where I am going. I had my husband completed the questions for 2008. I hope I can also convince him to do the ones for 2009. Either way, I truly loved your posts – I will be posting my answers on my blog. Thank you for keeping a truly wonderful and rewarding blog! Keep up the great work!
+I’ve never made New Years resolutions before. I’m going to mull over these questions, though, and consider setting a few goals. I particularly like the positive bent to your goal questions, like honing a skill, or taking a small step towards a life goal. I plan to share this list with family. Thanks! And happy new year to everyone.
+Lauren fromNorthwest Cheapsleeps´s last blog post…Finding Vacation Rentals
+I haven’t made NYR for a few years and instead I’ve chosen to think about goals. I love reading others ideas as they are inspiring. This year however I have tried to think of important goals that are tangible. I can check back in a few months and see how I’m doing.
+I neglected area for the clear and transparent resolution is play. This NYR include a play audit . Also, later this month there’s a chance to address deficits in a practical way.
+Happy New Year and thanks for the list.
+Melitsa´s last blog post…Have you completed yours?
+I’m an action oriented goal freak. I almost didn’t read the questions thinking “yeah, yeah I could write the book.”
+But I struggle with relationship goals – to me, a relationship is something that is pretty hard to stick on a to-do list. I have to tell me, your list is amaazing! It takes your goals so much deeper than attaining a new income level or acquiring the lake house. I’m going to print out the PDF and spend some real time with these questions.
+Thanks!
+Mary´s last blog post…Just for today …
+I wish we could edit our comments! I’m sure everyone can see the big typo in my comment above – sorry! Maybe it’s a Freudian slip! Maybe I should tell me instead of you!
+Mary´s last blog post…Just for today …
+Glad you all enjoy the questions!
+@Mary – I’ll be happy to go in and edit your comment, if you like.
+I understand how frustrating that is.
+Tsh, I know I say this at least once a week, but you are SO AWESOME. Thank you for serving this community of women the way you do with dynamic and meaningful resources like this. I am sure you pour untold amounts of time and thought into what you provide here at Simple Mom. Thank you, thank you for taking up this ministry. You are just so very, very awesome.
+Megan@SortaCrunchy´s last blog post…resolved: surrender
+I have never made a NYR before. I love these questions. I think going over them with my husband will be fun! Thanks.
+Andrea´s last blog post…Perspective
+It’s okay Tsh – I just need to slow down! Thanks – your time is better spent writing great stuff here!
+Mary´s last blog post…Just for today …
+fantastic post and excellent questions! printing them out to take to the gals at work as well!!
+Turtle´s last blog post…Wow!
+I LOVE New Years resolutions. I think of them more as a chance to plan my year than as a way to beat myself up for what I didn’t get done last year and I never put “Lose 10 pounds” on my list anymore. I sit down with everyone I work with –my kids, my husband, my blog partners, business partner — and come up with a dream for what we want next year to look like. No “can’t do that” allowed. That’s for later.
+Thanks for this post!
+Christina from GeekGirlfriends.com´s last blog post…Am I Smarter Because I Play Games?
+I love your website! I have posted a respones to ? #1 in my blog. Take a look.
+I’m just getting started with blogging, and i’m not much of a writer, but i’m trying.
+Liz from Housekeeping in Progress´s last blog post…Selfish, selfish, selfish…yep, that was me!
+Thanks, those are great questions.
+For a simple approach to setting goals and being more productive for the new year, you may want to check out, a very nicely built web app designed for tracking goals and todo lists, and supports time tracking too. It’s clear, focused, easy to navigate, worth a try.
+.-= Harry´s last blog ..Tutorial: How to Use GoalsOnTrack Habit Tracker =-.
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+- Very berry: served on our homemade vegan and gluten-free waffle, double stacked, blueberries in and on each layer, fresh strawberries and raspberry compote at Iron Roost on Friday, March 30, 2018 in Ballston Spa, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union) lessVery berry: served on our homemade vegan and gluten-free waffle, double stacked, blueberries in and on each layer, fresh strawberries and raspberry compote at Iron Roost on Friday, March 30, 2018 in Ballston ... morePhoto: Lori Van Buren
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+These days you don't have to walk far in any metropolitan city to find sprouted-grain avocado toast in a Nordic-inspired coffee shop or a natural wine in a bar doubling as art space. But upstate has been quietly percolating its own quirky oases for caffeine and cozy Danish hygge. I've told you of the perfect bitter mocha and the dukkah-dressed avocado toast at 3Fish, a cafe popular with cyclists and the yoga-inclined near Albany's Washington Park, and sampled every morsel of walkable Troy from its psychedelic bagels baked by a naval radiation-protection scientist to the superior-in-every-way pour-over coffee from Superior Merch.
+I know, I've heard: Commuters don't have time for coffee and pastries that involve a 20-minute hunt for parking or hipster cafes a cool 45 minutes away. For upstate is the land of drive-throughs, solidly foamed Starbucks pre-ordered by app, and nuked spongiform egg-products on long-life Dunkin' Donuts baked goods. But back-to-back sunny Sundays and verdant signs of spring are all it takes to kick-start the greatest of upstate gifts: The weekend drive.
+Point your car north or south on a 37-mile trip from downtown Albany on your quest for sustainable coffee and scratch-made eats. What you rack up in a reprehensible carbon footprint is offset by the guarantee your food will be hyper local and the warm, fuzzy feeling of exposing kith or kin to greater American values than IHOP and Friendly's ice cream.
+Head north to Iron Roost on the singularly sweet Front Street in Ballston Spa. It's no wonder owner Linnaea DiNallo received the town's 2013 beautification award for her restoration of some unassuming Asian takeout. The designer-turned-waffle-house-owner has created something worthy of its own word unifying hygge (Danish coziness), lykke (Norwegian happiness) and lagom (Swedish balance) all in one go. Perhaps upsta-renity — serenity derived from restoring old upstate buildings — will do.
+More Information
+Iron Roost
+36 Front St.
+Ballston Spa
+Phone: 518-309-3535
+Web: ironroost.com
+Cuisine: Waffles and a savory and sweet brunch menu with eggs, and salads fueled by local partner farms. Gluten-free options across the board.
+Ambiance: Beautifully restored shabby chic. Cozy upstate hygge.
+Price: $-$$
+Hours: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday, closed Monday.
+Credit cards: All major.
+Parking: Street parking.
+Handicapped accessible: Yes
+HiLo
+365 Main St.
+Catskill
+Phone: No phone. Message via Facebook or website email.
+Web: hilocatskill.com
+Cuisine: Shareable small plates from pate to hummus and local empanadas. Vegan-friendly lunch and light dinner menus; espresso drinks and cocktails.
+Ambiance: Welcoming, artsy coffee shop and performance space.
+Price: $-$$
+Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to midnight Friday, 8:30 a.m. to midnight Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. Live music schedule on Facebook. First birthday part on April 22.
+Credit cards: All major.
+Parking: Street parking.
+Handicapped accessible: Yes.
+Price ratings for inexpensive eateries based on average of entrée costs:
+$: $9.95 and less
+$$: $9.95-$15.95
+$$$: $15.95 and higher
+In the clean black and white lines of chalkboard paint on whitewashed brick, the repurposed wood and pipe, the honor-system book loan and the specials inscribed on rolls of wall-mounted brown paper, the space is so beautifully designed you will remain completely Zen as you order at the counter and your children bicker and pinch flesh in the queue. This is a waffle shop of showroom quality, a reverie where the clack of coffee cups, glug of poured coffee and hiss of waffles in irons (available on their website as auditory coffee shop porn) fill the air more peacefully than possible at home, without the interruption of the cat vomiting grass and the dog lapping it up.
+The menu is an overflowing cornucopia of waffles, eggs and French toast, toast sticks and yogurt parfaits in six degrees of related breakfasts, and the entire lot is available gluten-free. This is where you can indulge your youngest's determination to mainline sugar with make-your-own waffles topped in fresh fruit, chocolate sauce, maple syrup, homemade whipped cream and ice cream. ("Go ahead, honey, pile it on.") This is your weekend reverie, so milk it. Let those kids cap it all off with an artisanal Boylan orange soda or Willow Farm drinkable yogurt. Closing time is 2 p.m., the brunch crowd's daylight equivalent of solidly overdoing it and stumbling out at 2 a.m.Read Full Article
+We marvel at a savory, thin waffle-print wrap holding lean steak and eggs, and waffle wedges top-n-bottoming an egg and cheese sandwich with a remarkably tasty chicken sausage ground and seasoned by chef Frank Daluisio. We pull apart a traditional liege, a powdered-sugar Belgian waffle pastry that wicks all moisture from our mouths. There's granola, hot sauce, waffle mix (regular and gluten-free) and veg-centric dressings — think tahini or green goddess — all homemade, and a rainbow-colored Buddha bowl arranged on a color wheel from kale to yellow curried cauliflower. I'm so impressed by the neat presentations I'm almost blind to the neutral tastes that would lean close to bland if you didn't know you're in clean-eating territory, a place to recalibrate your tongue. Their mantra is "Simple food, fresh attitude." But you can always jack up the sugar and salt to taste.
+Next time, head south to Catskill's Main Street, the playground of fleeing Manhattanites seeking healing upstate. I was last in Catskill for dinner at Maybelle's, which I have trouble finding until I realize it is now a dress shop. Meanwhile, my real reason for going — a wine bar curated by the ex-sommelier/wine director of Saratoga's Salt & Char — was closed; a helpful handwritten note mentioned its planned re-emergence as something Mediterranean. We stumbled across the street to HiLo, a cafe, bar, experimental art gallery and musical performance space of unadulterated joy. It's something like the love child of Cyndi Lauper and Willie Nelson or Frida Kahlo and Ravi Shankar.
+Squarely hinged on art, walls are currently hung with a furry installation, the storefront windows filled with inflatable furniture as part of this artist's participatory invitation to sit. Don't worry if you miss the furry show. Coinciding with HiLo's first-birthday party on April 22, the artist Carla Perez-Gallardo, (one-half of the esoteric pink eatery Lil Deb's Oasis in Hudson), will be next. One not to miss.
+HiLo's owners, Laura Davidson and Liam Singer, city expats and hospitality veterans, have crafted a long, slim, multisensory space somewhat impervious to time. Open early to late, they serve superb coffee — enhanced by Singer's long-term role as head roaster at Brooklyn's Cafe Grumpy — and on-point cocktails, including a smoky Negroni like a Tulum beach bonfire backlit with mezcal and bitter Campari, and Yoga Mom, a gut- and aura-cleansing merger of Aqua Vitae kombucha and Prosecco. On the Dadaist collage menu you'll find eight perky wines and local draft beer from Chatham to Suarez. You could step foot in the door in the morning and never leave.
+This is a place to lounge on Indian canopy daybeds, or park yourself around an array of small plates that honor their neighbors' skills. There's Atina Foods' nose-prickling avyurvedic pickles, eggs from East Durham Farm, hand-crimped empanadas by Empaninas, Catskill Bread Co. bread, daily Bonfiglio croissants and Happy Belly vegan brownies. For such a small menu, it takes a bloody large village. Whatever we were expecting, it was not this delightfully full-flavored mushroom pate made in-house with Bulich's Creekside Farm fungi and paired with knobbly sweet-sour cornichons, a fierce mustard and microgreens by Sprouted (cress, I think), nor the winsome seedy crackers around a hummus plate with labneh, fat olives and pickled carrots.
+Though its name is more suggestive of colonic irrigation than something delicious, the "quinoa health pile" is a light bite worth the drive: Quinoa — tumbled with goat cheese, crushed toasted cashews, lemony vinaigrette and arugula — is the most beautifully flavored goosefoot seed I've ever bothered to try, the sort of pile you need to refuel your drive.
+Brunch for a family of four at the Iron Roost cost $64 with tax and tip. At HiLo, four shared plates, two cocktails and two vegan brownies came to $72 with tax and tip.
+Susie Davidson Powell is a British freelance food writer in upstate New York. Follow her on Twitter, @SusieDP. To comment on this review, visit the Table Hopping blog, blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping.
+Correction: An earlier story mentioned Iron Roost serves pancakes. They do not.
+SFCA recently took a few moments to catch up with composer Kirke Mechem, whose memoir Believe Your Ears: Life of a Lyric Composer was published in July 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield. Mechem, whose work has been performed by SFCA many times over the years, will be appearing at San Francisco’s BookShop West Portal for a talk and signing on Tuesday, September 22, at 7 PM.
+Musical Background
+SFCA: As an undergraduate at Stanford, you started as a creative-writing student and then dove deeply into music. Was there a connection between music and literature there from the beginning?
+Kirke Mechem: Yes, it really was. My mother was a pianist, and my father was a writer who published many poems, short stories, a couple of novels and a number of plays. Later, when I was a composer, I set a number of his poems to music. Maybe it’s because he was married to a musician, but his poems just seem made for music.
+SFCA: Did you have exposure to art songs or other classical vocal forms?
+KM: Not so much — as adolescents we all listened to the Hit Parade, the pop songs, the big bands.
+SFCA: What were your favorites of the day, do you remember?
+KM: That’s like asking my favorite composer, there are so many. Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey — those arrangements were fantastic. Pop music in those days was much closer to classical music.
+SFCA: I’m interested in that. When we talk about the evolution of classical music in the 20th century we also have to consider the way that pop music has changed. When I hear the overarching message of your book, that people should follow their ears and not get too hung up in academic approaches to music, some might say that approach would lead them towards pop music or jazz, and away from the atonal music of midcentury. Is that a fair interpretation?
+KM: I’d rather not generalize, because everybody has a different background. My background was classical music; I loved it and heard it every day of my life. I went to sleep listening to it. So that’s part of who I am, but a lot of people didn’t have that; they come to music in a different way. What’s natural to me is not natural to them. But what I believe is that every person should start with what they love; you can’t go wrong with that.
+Harvard Vienna London San Francisco
+SFCA: How do you feel you changed as a composer as you moved from place to place, and experienced different music scenes over the course of your life? Did those experiences have an influence on your music?
+KM: They probably did, more on my earliest music. When I was a graduate student at Harvard working with Randall Thompson for choral music and with Walter Piston, certainly I was writing in a different style for each mentor. There’s always quite a difference between choral music and instrumental music — instruments can do a lot of things that voices can’t, and on the other hand, voices can do certain things beautifully and more characteristically of song than instruments.
+But when I lived in Vienna, I was just trying to find out whether I could be a composer. I went to two, sometimes even three concerts a day. This was right after the war, and everything was so cheap there. A quarter would get you a ticket to the biggest concert you can think of — symphonic concerts with chorus and orchestra, even the opera you could go to very cheaply. That was part of my education. It was a more conservative place, so I was studying the basic classic music that I hadn’t ever experienced live, though I did hear a good deal of 20th-Century music as well.
+SFCA: Was there, at that time, a contemporary composer who was the most prominent?
+KM: Well of course there was the second Viennese school [Schoenberg, Webern, Berg] ….
+SFCA: Did that interest you?
+KM: No, because I didn’t like it. I wrote about this in my book. Remember, even when you’re 22 at the time you start studying music, you’ve already heard a lot. Although my mother played a quite a bit of contemporary music, she didn’t play any twelve-tone pieces. Leonard Ratner, my principal theory teacher at Stanford, gave us some Schoenberg, but he did not make value judgments; I never had a teacher tell me I should like something.
+SFCA: What was it like studying with Walter Piston at Harvard?
+KM: Well, Piston and Copland gave a concert of their own music once. And the moderator asked each one of them the question, what is American music? Copland said it was jazzy, lots of syncopation, it’s the hustle and the bustle of the big city, it’s the quiet of the plains, the peace of the great pastures, it’s the black influence of spirituals, and music from the Shakers and other sects. Then it was Piston’s turn and he replied “Well, I think you can say that American music is music written by Americans.”
+SFCA: End of story!
+KM: Yes! That was very typical of him, a man of few words from Maine. The fact is, though, that Copland did incorporate all of those influences very naturally. He was much wilder when he started out, but you have to admit that Copland’s music is still popular, whereas who plays Piston anymore? We all looked up to Piston very much because he was such a craftsman and a good teacher.
+SFCA: How did you find your time in London?
+KM: London was — you’ll have to read the book — but that chapter is called “Deceptive Cadence.” I had hoped for more than I got. I found out right away that English music performances were for British composers. The four orchestras in London were all subsidized by the government, but part of the deal was that 20 percent of the music they played had to be written by living British composers. I remember that I went to the head of the Royal Festival Hall, where all of these groups played at that time, and he explained this to me: “Frankly,” he said, “that’s already more contemporary music than audiences want to hear.” So there wasn’t too much hope there.
+One thing that struck me was that in London, if someone asked you what you did, and you told them you were a composer, they’d look astonished and reply, “Really? Really? Can you make a living from that?” Pretty much the way it is here. But in Vienna, if you said you were a composer, they’d say, “Wonderful! What kind of things do you write? Glad to meet you! Very interesting!”
+SFCA: What brought you back to the Bay Area?
+KM: This is where I felt at home, having gone to Stanford and taught and conducted at Stanford for a few years. It’s where a lot of my friends were, so it was congenial for me. I’d met my wife at Harvard — she graduated from Smith — but she’d come to San Francisco; she loved it out here. We lived in Oakland for about four years, then moved to San Francisco in 1963. We’ve lived in the same house ever since.
+San Francisco Debut at the Museum of Modern Art
+SFCA: What was it like in San Francisco throughout most of the second half of the 20th century?
+KM: The only outlet for new music here at that time was something called Composers Forum, an arm of the Music Department of UC Berkeley. I don’t think it’s the same organization as today’s American Composers Forum. It was run by faculty and graduate students, and the teacher in charge was Roger Sessions. It seemed all of these people had to write atonal music. It may be hard to believe, but most conservatories and schools of music felt that this was the music of the future, and that if you didn’t write atonal music, you just didn’t get it. You were like a Holocaust denier, a flat-earth freak; there was no hope for you.
+I didn’t know that yet, and I didn’t know any other way to get my music performed, because I was no longer attached to Stanford. So at various times I sent the Composer’s Forum my new choral music (which had already been published), my violin duets, a piano trio that I wrote in Vienna, a piano suite, and a set of songs. I think I’d also already written a trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon.
+SFCA: You were in your 30s at this point?
+KM: Yes, I was probably about 33 at that time. Remember, I started late for a composer. But I sent the Forum these pieces, and never heard back from them. Even when I tried to get the scores back, it was like pulling teeth. I didn’t know what to do.
+I happened to be reading a biography of Handel at the time, and I noticed that when Handel came to London, the first thing he did was to give two concerts of his music. He produced them himself, and audiences came out of curiosity. I thought, why don’t I do that in San Francisco?
+SFMOMA in its original location in the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue
+SFCA: So you had to become an independent producer to become part of the system that was ignoring you.
+KM: Yes, but I think that would be a lot harder to do now. I mistakenly thought the Art Museum had produced a lot of one-man shows, but they told me they’d never given a single one. This was their first! That helped a lot in getting an audience because it was a novelty. But now, with so much modern music going on in so many different venues, it would hardly be noticed.
+Selecting Texts and Opera Subjects
+SFCA: Let’s talk about working on vocal music and texts. Since literature was such a big part of your background, do you have your own method for selecting text, or is that done as a collaboration, as part of the commissioning process?
+KM: I always ask if the commissioner has a text in mind, and suggest they ask the chorus members. It’s surprising how few have chosen something already. They may have certain parameters, often that the text has to be sacred, or something that fits into a certain theme, like an anniversary. But even there, they often leave it up to me. Not only that, but most of the time, with perhaps just one exception, when they have had suggestions, it’s amazing how wrong these are for music!
+SFCA: Why are they wrong, typically?
+KM: Often they’re great poems, but they’re philosophical. They’re so dense, rhetorically, that it’s hard to understand the poem. A lot of great poems require a lot of thought to understand. Well, if it’s hard to get when you’re just reading, think how much harder it is when sung in choral counterpoint. I’m not saying there’s a hard and fast rule against philospophical poems, but they don’t invite me to compose music.
+Music comes from inside yourself. The most basic form of music is vocal music. And everybody who sings probably started singing when they were a kid. It is so natural, that I prefer texts that are natural. Something like Sara Teasdale or Robert Frost, who use language that is not learned. If you use the word house, that’s fine to sing, we’ve all said that word many times. But dwelling? Domicile? Residence? No, they don’t sing like natural words, they are learned words, imported from other languages, not basic anglo-saxon words.
+SFCA: What’s next for you? What are you looking forward to?
+KM: Oh, well at my age, I don’t know what’s coming next, and I don’t think I want to know! (laughter) In fact, I recently finished my opera on Pride and Prejudice and I’m trying to get that produced. The book, of course, just came out in July, so there’s going to be the book signing and other activities around that.
+Since I finished Pride and Prejudice, I’ve been writing choral pieces on commission. I had turned down many of these in order to write my operas — I’ve only taken choral commissions between operas or between acts. I didn’t like to stop to do something else until I had a natural resting place; I’m not very good at working on two pieces at once. I just finished one two weeks ago, and I don’t mind having a little break for a while.
+I don’t have any ideas for a new opera right now, but who knows, if something really strikes me? With each of the four operas I’ve written, I’ve been so excited about the subjects, I just didn’t see how they could fail to become good operas. My father gave me Tartuffe to read when I was 16, he thought it was such a great comedy. I saw the A.C.T. production in the early 70s, it was marvelous. They used the Richard Wilbur translation and the production was wonderful! You could almost say it was choreographed. I thought, now there’s a comic opera just waiting for the music. It is still topical, and was when I wrote it. There were “televangelists” making millions off their faithful victims. This was also the time of Richard Nixon.
+Then John Brown, that was a tremendous subject. Fighting against slavery, what could be more powerful than that? Brown was a most controversial and charismatic character, just made for opera. So was Frederick Douglass, and there was a touching love story in it, too.
+Then I wanted a little comic relief, and I stumbled upon The Rivals of (Richard Brinsley) Sheridan; that is a very funny play. The dramaturgy is pretty creaky now, but you’d have to change that for opera anyway, so I went ahead. I had a lot of fun giving Mrs. Malaprop new lines: “Young man, flatulence will get you nowhere.”
+And Pride and Prejudice is just the most wonderful love story ever; it’s filled with humor and great characters, three of them caricatures, perfect for opera.
+SFCA: It’s very ambitious, though, because it comes with such a reputation already.
+KM: I know it does, but that should be an advantage to somebody producing it, wouldn’t you think? I thought with this story, one of the big companies would jump at the chance. Doesn’t work that way, though. American opera impresarios nowadays are gung ho on Americanism — what one critic called CNN operas, about such personalities as Marilyn Monroe or Harvey Milk. The trouble is, most weren’t good operas. The thing that makes a good opera is the universality of the characters and their emotions. It doesn’t matter what period, what country it is if these are people that you can believe in.
+AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
+Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal
+Untold Arsenal on Facebook here
+The story of John Dick, by Tony Attwood
+John Dick, born in Eaglesham in Renfewshire in 1876 played 284 games for Woolwich Arsenal, and scored 13 goals (262 in league with 12 goals). He joined in 1898 and left in 1912. In every possible way he was our first “stalwart”, “regular”, “one club man” (almost!), and everything else you want to say about a man who is a solid, long term servant of the club. His record of 284 appearances is extraordinary in an era when players moved year on year collecting clubs like little boys collect stamps.
+Just consider it this way: Woolwich Arsenal started in 1893. In that season an ever-present player could have played 33 games. By 1910 this number was up to 40. So allowing for injury and illness and the occasional loss of form, a solid regular player might be playing 25 games a season. That would mean the first time anyone could have reached 100 games was 1897.
+Yet by 1903 (ten years into the club’s history) we had only four players getting up to the 100. 78 players had played at least one league game for the club in the five years before Dick joined in 1898, only three had got to 100 games. (I must work out how this compares with the current day – maybe it is similar, but if it is there is certainly no comparison with the number of men who played just a handful of games).
+John Dick played for Airdrieonians first: Woolwich Arsenal was his second and last club. Airdrie were formed in 1878 as Excelsior before changing their name. The club had very modest success and ultimately folded in 2002 due to financial problems. When a local accountant failed to get a renamed club into the league as a replacement (Gretna were admitted instead, and they have subsequently folded) the accountant bought Clydebank FC instead and changed the name to Airdrie United, and moved the club to Airdrie, and took on their old colours. Clydebank effectively morphed into Airdrie: a strange episode even by Scottish football standards.
+John Dick initially played in central midfield (a role often employing a large stopper more akin to 21st century central defenders) and immediately fitting into the side, playing 30 games that year. Later in his career he moved to number 4 (right half).
+The various reports of his style say that he was strong and athletic (he was also a cross country runner of some note) and played in every game in the promotion winning 1903/4 season by which time he was the club captain.
+He dropped back down the pecking order in 1905/06 and although in 1906/07 he only played one game he came back and recorded 17, 5 and 7 league games in his last three seasons. As such however he missed out on the two biggest matches in Woolwich Arsenal’s history – the two FA Cup semi-finals.
+So here we have a fit player who had played for two clubs, and as his stamina went, he found himself surplus to requirements. What then?
+The typical answer would be “go back to Airdrie and open a pub”, with “stay in south London and take on a pub” being a second choice. But not a bit of it.
+In the summer of 1912 he left Arsenal to coach AC Sparta Prague and became known for being one of the early pioneers of football in the Czech part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (not Czechoslovakia as Wikipedia amusingly says – that country didn’t exist at the time).
+I have not found any reports of how and why this happened, but Wiki, in a separate (and perhaps more accurate article than the one that has Dick going to Czechoslovakia), says that in 1906, the AC Sparta Prague. Shortly after World War I, a team was put together that triggered off the famous period of the twenties and thirties referred to as ‘Iron Sparta’.”
+The problem is that the Wiki article contains no references to explain the source of his information, so we are reliant on a single unknown source for this story. But, on the other hand, that has never stopped us before.
+And there is the use of the word “famous”. That might just be the writer, mistakenly thinking that by this time Woolwich Arsenal were a trophy winning club, but it might reflect something else that we have seen before: by bringing pro football to London Woolwich Arsenal FC had a reputation way beyond their achievements.
+It would be wonderful to know if this connection in 1906 (when John Dick was starting on the last few years of his playing career) led to the move to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And even more wonderful to know what happened after. Did he leave on the outbreak of war in 1914? Was he interned? Or did he carry on perhaps as a trainer? He would have been 38 at the outbreak of war.
+I recognise that the chances of their being a reader here who knows about Sparta Prague and its history are slim, but, well, we have just had contact from Brazil, so you never know.
+Untold Indexes largely incomprehensible, but interesting none the less
+Arsenal history takes the official version, tears it up and starts again.
+Making the Arsenal is, well, just so different from everything else in the history of history that really words fail most people who have ever read it.
+Although Dick finished his first team career in 1910, he continued to play in the reserves until the end of the 1911-12 season. He was reserve team manager for 1910-11 and 1911-12. He also ran a tobacco and confectionery business in Plumstead during his latter years with Arsenal. He was a stonemason by trade.
+During May 1907, he played a number of games on Arsenal’s first ever overseas tour. Arsenal played two games against SK Slavia IPS in Czechoslovakia on the tour.
+In May 1912, the club played its second overseas tour. One game was played in Prague against Deutscher FC. This was the team that he became coach of in June 1912.
+He spent the duration of World War 1 in Czechoslovakia.
+During the summer of 1922 he became coach of Sparta Prague.
+According to Tony Matthews’ Who’s Who he died in Plumstead around 1948. I’ve not been able to verify this so I would take it with a pinch of salt.
+Thanks Andy – although I’ll still say Czecho didn’t exist until after the dividing up of the map after 1918. Which meant he spent time in the homeland of the enemy (the A-H Empire). I wonder what his status was during those years.
+Did you see we have a little extra on Frank Heppinstall – another “meet the ancestors” comment.
+tony
+Hi Tony, to be honest my history of Europe, especially pre-WW1, isn’t that great. I had a feeling that Czechoslovakia probably didn’t exist but couldn’t be bothered to czech (sorry, couldn’t resist it!).
+The boom in genealogy has resulted in the likes of Sue Bennett making herself known. I’ve also contacted people on ancestry.co.uk and asked them if they realised that their ancestors had played for Arsenal in its early days. Most have been pleasantly surprised.
+The funniest one was a few years back who had Ted Drake as a bit of a cricketer – and didn’t have a clue that he also played football!
+Andy – you must be one of those people who used to call Robert Maxwell a bouncing czech.
+John Dick is related to my scottish cousin (he is her 2nd cousin). John died in 1961 in Surrey. I am currently awaiting a copy of his death certificate.
+John Dick was considered by my father, Albert Edward GEE, as his uncle. My father was always proud of this connection with the Arsenal and as a lifetime “Gooner”, so am I. My grandfather GEE was one of ten siblings of whom two were girls. My understanding is that John Dick married one of these girls. There was always a very strong GEE presence in and around Woolwich at this time due to the fact that there was a tradition of GEE’s in The Royal Artillery and the RHA school in Woolwich. My father was sent to Woolwich as an artificer in the Royal Artillery at the age of 13 and I recall him speaking of his many invitations to Sunday tea at the homes of his Aunties and Uncles who lived in or near Woolwich. My understanding is that Czechoslovakia as an independent country didn’t exist until after WW1 when it was created by the Versaille Treaty.
+Further to the debate as to Woolwich Arsenal being world famous,I remember as a kid watching a programme which I believe was based on a true story,starring Dennis Waterman about the first ever world cup(unofficial).In the film, I seem to remember that there was a large group of dignitaries awaiting the arrival of the famous Woolwich Arsenal team,only to be dissappointed when West Auckland turned up! There had been an assumption that WAFC were Woolwich Arsenal!
+It is here on youtube:A Captains tale…
+John Dick was the grandfather I never knew as he died in 1923 or 1924 at the age of 55 and some years before my birth in 1942. He had four sons and two daughters my mother Marjorie being the eldest daughter. The family has some details of his life post Woolwich Arsenal and we would be happy to furnish these if wanted.
+Michael – most certainly any details that you have would be welcome. Please either send them in as another comment or if you prefer email Tony.Attwood@aisa.org and I’ll integrate them into the article.
+Tony
+Hi there, have officially established when John Dick died and/or where as I see there are two conflicting posts here?
+Thanks for all the hard work.
+@ Michael REDDISH
+John Dick couldnt die in 1923 or 1924, as he coached Sparta Praha yet in 1931, even winning inaugural Mitropa Cup in 1927. If your grandfather passed away before your birth 1942, it had to be between 1931-1942
+Cheers
+I’ve written about the life of John Dick, and discovered he died in 1932. You can read the article here:
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+Day Four CIN 2010: Homemade Paneer, Pakura, Fresh Mango Chutney and Bal’s Mom’s Chickpeas
+I confess. I was right beside her in the above photo, but cut myself out of it, as I too often do…. and, this is not about me. It is about Bal. Just look at the Paneer Pakora below. Is your mouth watering. It tastes even better than it looks.
+Bal is a valiant woman. I, too, was a single woman raising my children for many years on my own. I know how hard it is. But her story is so much more than that. And it is a story well worth listening to. It is a story that seems unbelievable when you meet Bal, but then you look into her eyes, and you know it is true.
+Bal Arneson is the author of Everyday Indian and apparently very famous in India and the US, she told us with a twinkle in her eye! Honestly, I had never heard of her before, and I am a Food Network Fan! She is the host of the Food Network’s recently launched “Spice Goddess” where she demystifies cooking with Indian spices and shares some of the special dishes prepared in her village. She believes that meals can be healthy and nutritious without compromising flavour!
+Originally from a small village in Punjab, India, Bal Arneson learned how to cook from her elders when she was just seven years old, over coals in a small clay pit. She was up in the middle of the night to milk the cows and the bison, do the laundry, prepare the meals for the day and do what women do in her village for their honourable (and sleeping) men. She was cooking by seven, and making the full family meals by nine years old. This entailed forming coals for the cooking pit from cow and bison patties every morning. “Oh, yes! I would make the best patties!”
+Bal had a tenacious and independent spirit that thirsted for knowledge and believed in equality. When her brothers would climb the trees, she would climb the trees. When they would laugh and romp and play, she would laugh and romp and play. However, every time she did anything her brothers did, she was beaten. Every time. It didn’t stop her. But, itwas difficult to understand. Why? Why? Why? She would ask and none of the answers made any sense to her.
+When she was twelve, she was pulled out of school. “That is it.�� her father said. “You have done all you are to do.” her mother said. Why? Why? Why? She would ask and none of the answers made any sense to her. She has so many chores as she was growing older and more able and they needed her to do this work. Finally, after so much begging on her part, she was allowed to continue her schooling – but, only after all of her chores were done. There was no compromise for her.
+And her fate? To be married to a young (well, not so young) man living in Vancouver who went back to India to get her. When she was 20, Bal immigrated to Canada and soon after, had a little girl. “A little girl? What is the matter with our ugly daughter in law?” Girls were shunned and she was to produce a boy! It was not until a few years later that she learned about genetics and chromosomes and understood it was he who orchestrated this daughter, not she! Truly! It is hard to believe she was so naive.
+She ran away. She did not want her daughter to go through the life she had. “They are all crazy.” was the comment she repeated many times about her family.
+She returned to school, cleaning houses during the day and going to school by night. She now has her Masters in Education and was working with autistic children very successfully in Vancouver until one day she was flipping channels and came upon a Michael Smith show. “What is he doing there? I can do that? That looks so easy!” So, she wrote to him, and told him her story.
+By now, she was remarried to “a white guy” and had a wonderful and satisfying life. Suddenly, she is on a whirlwind back and forth from Vancouver to New York where her office and studio is. She has just launced a line of spices, though she only every uses one or two.
+She was glowing, and funny, and bitter, and bright. Her food was light and lovely and as bright with flavour as she was with humour. She has really turned me on to Indian cooking, and hopefully, as you read about my time with her, she will do the same for you!
+I snuck in early, as usual, after my incredible Kitchen Tour (to be posted) of JPL Kitchens and the wonderful “small” breakfast and found this set up. I chuckled as I saw her trying to nourish herself in between planning!
+I had no idea what this was, but I certainly should have: paneer!
+Drawing on the culinary knowledge she gained in India, as well as her own natural talents gained from her time in Canada, shares her recipes and her fresh approach to food and cooking which fit so well with today’s busy, health-conscious lifestyle. With a successful career in cooking and food, and support from many well-established companies like Denby and Cuisinart, Bal feels like she’s come a long way from her childhood in India. Though she rants (and rightfully so) about her crazy family and the discrimination and shunning she has suffered just by being herself, and a woman, it is clear that the food from her home gives her much pleasure. She speaks of her mother’s food with such warmth it is really difficult to understand that warmth is not also attached to feelings for her mother. But, it is not. It is for the food. And, there is the dancing. The music and the dancing clearly gave her joy as a child and she carries that with her, and shared it with us this day.
+What are all these spices and herbs and aromatics: ginger, garlic, fenugreek leaves, onion, cayenne pepper, cumin, coriander…. I am not sure what all of them are!
+Sitting silently, I looked up, and there she was chatting with her Chef for this session (below). Absolutely gorgeous. The night before was the Grand Ball and she had danced up a storm there. She already had my admiration.
+And, then she began.
+Words of Bal Arenson during this session:
+- This is all about healthy Indian food without butter or cream and without a long list of spices (without butter and cream was her reoccurring mantra)
+- We have been cooking like this for centuries, since ancient years, in the Punjab
+- And I want to say something special about women here: we don’t survive, we thrive
+- However, modern day women in this society…you’ve screwed yourself double! We do it all and our other job begins when we come home!
+- Have any of you had corporal punishment: hello yes, every day! That was my life as a child.
+- Grade 8: that was it for my education, or so they said.
+- At home, I was so surpressed
+- I would work with the cow dung to make make patties and the patties were used for bbq pit
+- We got up every day at 4:30 to milk the cows and bison
+- We were all done around 10-11; then too hot and it was siesta time (I miss that here!)
+- I had to get up and do all the work and iron my brother’s turbans
+- However, I was the first girl in my mom’s side who went to school and did grade 10; then I got to 12… then did first year of college”¦ I knew I would be handed off to a husband and then I would be handed off to slavery for the rest of my life
+- I was born into slavery
+- When I left my first husband the first thing I did was shave my pits! Indian women are hairy!
+- I came here by an arranged marriage by the age of 18 and as soon as I gave birth to my daughter they said, “This ugly daughter in law can give brith to only daughters”¦.” Later on, I took biology and discovered it was the sperm that decided gender!
+- My culture suppressed me and I didn’t want my daughter to experience what I was going through, so I ran away with my daughter and went to a shelter for one night only. I called my mom at the village and she said, “You have brought us so much shame!” She is crazy. Why should I serve my brother first just because he has a penis? I was always questioning and always beaten. So, I was rejected and said, “OK, fine. You guys are all crazy and that’s it.”
+- I wanted my daughter to see me as a strong independent woman and rejected welfare as I had been dependent all of my life upon someone. Thus, I would clean homes and at night I would learn English”¦ and now I have my masters in education and work with children in autism and am on the Food Network! There was only one chef picked from all over north America to for food tv network in the US and they picked me!
+- I am the first Indian show and it is called The Spice Goddess and it is doing above average (more than Rachel Ray)! I am the Spice Goddess, people!
+- I launched my 100% certified organic spice line and a percentage will be going back to my village to support woman and children there
+- I was just interviewed by Canadian Home Journal and the woman asked me, “What was your biggest indulgence after moving here?” My answer: maxi pads! Truly!
+- I will be on the NBC today show next month with Matt Lauer and they want me to be a CBS monthly guest with Katie Couric! I just met her a couple of weeks ago!
+- I don’t tell you these things to brag; I tell you because if you dream a dream and work to make it happen, it will.
+- So, here I am cooking and sharing what I learned from my great grandma in the village
+- You will peer through a window into my culture
+- I like to begin with yoga and meditation, and if we had more time, that is exactly what we would do
+- Then some cooking with a break into a Ballywood dance followed by more cooking; that would be my perfect class
+- Back home, woman weren’t allowed to exercise; only through yoga
+- My great aunt would take us (the girls and women) to a room and take us through guided meditation and yoga every day; other woman in the village would come, too
+- I have learned to let mother earth or mother nature take care of you; let go of your control and let it take care of you: the energy will take care of you
+- Everyone: stand up on one foot then the other, breath in, and out, and in, and out…. ah! there. Now, sit back down and let’s begin.
+Let’s Make Paneer:
+- Cheese was a privileged food to have in my village (Valerie: how come? Bal: how come you only have turkey at Christmas?)
+- It is a food associated with celebration to me though we had plenty of milk at home all of the time, we only made paneer for celebrations
+- Or the birth of the boy; then paneer was made
+- Then it was made into paneer
+- When I interviewed with Canadian Living and was telling them that we dug up a pit to cook in with cow dung patties I made myself, they asked me, “What is your favourite appliance?”
+- How am I supposed to answer that? At home, we had one clay pot that was used for everything!
+- We also had one knife, well….not a knife, more like a machete!
+- So I just answered, “I cooked in a pit for 20 years of my life and made amazing food so don’t worry about what my favourite appliance is. I just need a pit and a pot.”
+- I just got back from New York as a judge for Iron Chef America and they told me I was the new “Paula Abdule”!
+- For paneer, I use regular milk: whole milk or 2% (not skim)
+- The milk is boiling and I am now adding vinegar
+- See? It has only been 5 seconds and the cheese has already separated
+- You now need cheese cloth or regular tea towel and a strainer (Valerie: just like making yogurt cheese)
+- Press it with something really heavy to get all of the whey out and leave it for 20 minutes
+- Boil milk for paneer on low to medium heat, not high or it might burn
+Above she is pouring the milk onto the strainer lined with cheese cloth. Below, she moves it into a block shape and wraps it up.
+Below, it is wrapped tightly in a rectangular shape.
+Bal places a heavy can on top of her paneer to squeeze all of the whey out of it.
+She is the most entertaining and expressive story teller! She mesmerizes you with her beauty and her tenacity.
+Let’s Make Pakura
+- I still have the philosophy of a village woman; I still believe that anything that is in a jar with a lid on is made like that to add shelf life and I stay away from anything in a jar, or canned or bottled
+- Health benefits of Indian food are amazing if cooked authentically
+- Chick pea flour, marsala, salt, Spanish paprika (sweet), Fenugreek leaves (take the dried leaves in your hand and crush them)
+- Batter needs to be nice and fluffy and crispy ( so there is no BP and no soda)
+- Add yogurt (to add fluffiness) and water
+- In my village we made many trips to hand pump to get water all day long; we would start the barbeque pit with cow patties to heat the water You would never waste water after all that work
+- This was your bucket for your hair and your body and that is all you got and you respected that bucket and used it wisely
+- Look at the consistency of this pakura batter; it should be similar to pancake batter
+- Think about it: you could dip shrimp in it, or vegetables, or chicken fingers, or fish and chips! All would be so delicious in this batter!
+- Dip paneer in, cover it, and place it to the side
+- Regardless of your number and your religious beliefs, or how you grew up: hold on to what you believe in
+- If you are a woman, no matter what culture you belong to, you are screwed!
+- “Why do we have to go through all of this hardship? Because we can!”
+- See? Look at this beautiful pakura! It is not even spicy, just very aromatic
+Let’s Make Chutney to go with our Paneer!
+- I love mango; I use it for every thing
+- We use this for ketchup; I make individual chutneys with all kinds of berries instead of ketchups
+- I will make Mandarin orange ones when I go home; I use whatever is in season
+- Today, we add mangoes, onions, pineapple juice: I like the acidity of pineapple, but we need liquid and salt and masala (masala is a mixture of spices)
+- Each household has their own different recipe for masala according to the palate of that house; that is what each of you have to create for your house; it is good for 5 ““ 7 days
+- Indian Food is natureopathic and so good for you
+- Himalayan food is part of the culture is re aso spiritual
+- Food should be accessible; it is precious, it is spiritual, it should be honoured and revered
+- Garam marsala is one thing that my mother made: she was crazy, but she made the most amazing food ever – not because of her long list of spices, or that we had cream or butter, but because she had a good masala: tumeric powder ( don’t get it on your clothes) and garam marsala is all you need
+- Don’t follow my recipe, follow your own palate and make another one for your palate
+- Coriander, cumin, cardamom, cinnamon ““ that is the base
+- Chat marsala is the same with the cumins and corianders, but also has dried mango powder and dried pomegranite powder
+- The recipe on food tv network and in my new cookbook (Valerie: that we all got the day before as a free gift at lunch)
+- I use chat marsala for vegetable dip or fruit dip
+- (Valerie: Bal blended all of the Chutney ingredients for a few seconds and it was done )
+- Woman weren’t allowed to eat meat in my village; it was only for men (but, I tried goat curry and man it was good)
+- I was a vegetarian, so lentils and beans and seasonal vegetables was what I ate
+- By the time I was 7 I was cooking and by the time I was 9 I was cooking full meals
+- Yes, master master master because with every mistake, I got slapped
+I was not expecting this to be as light and lovely and bright and gentle as it was. I did not expect to want to jump up and make this food as soon as I got home, but that is exactly what I felt after tasting this. The paneer is heavy. I do find paneer dense and heavy. What do I have to compare it to? Bocconcini. But, it is nothing like Bocconcini, either, to me. It is paneer: a dense curd. And, with this delicate batter, so flavourful! Someone asked, “Can you add herbs to paneer?” Bal, “Yes, of course, and many things as you can imagine and they will all be delicious.” I am making paneer!
+And the chutney? Four words: EX-TRA-ORDIN-ARY!
+Let’s Make the Chickpea Dish!
+- I always use grape seed oil because you don’t taste anything, it doesn’t produce any chemicals and it cooks at high smoke point, no flavour
+- In go the Garlic and ginger
+- The key to Indian food is not a long list of spices: just no butter, no cream and only 20 minutes in the kitchen ““ then get out!
+- So what to do when you have your 20 minutes?
+- On medium heat, add a little oil and fry the ginger and garlic until it is almost brown
+- Toast the masala to release the essential oils; sprinkle in the cumin seed and toast it
+- Sprinkle in the Spanish paprika and the fenegeek leaves; then mix
+- Prawns and coconut milk with this would be great, wouldn’t they?
+- Or, add tuna right on top, remove from the heat and you have the amazing tuna
+- Now, add tomatoes and take another pan: add oil to it
+- Add tomatoes and add chick peas to first pan
+- Slice fresh paneer, with basil, tomato, and lemon and salt
+- Fry the paneer in the second pan so that the bottom is browned and then it can go on a cookie sheet and stay in a freezer for 3 to 6 months
+- Now the fried paneer went into the chick pea mixture
+- Always start with a half a teaspoon of a spice or herb, then you can add more, never butter or cream
+- Add a few spices and toast them first and you will have dinner in 20 minutes
+The recipe for the chick pea dish did not have paneer in it. Was it better with paneer? Absolutely!
+This is a bit of a wet toasting, but Bal actually had each spice in its own section of the pan tossing gently for about a minute before mixing them all together.
+Has she adjusted to her new environment, or what? Bal, you almost do not look comfortable with a frying pan in your hand. It is clear you know what you are doing, but you have climbed so far out of that pit in your village it is truly difficult to imagine you there…. except for your stories.
+…and your passion.
+I was wondering if we would get to eat the FRESH paneer, and yes we do! It will be the one in the chick pea dish!
+I was mesmerized. It was like magic before my very eyes that she was able to make this in 20 minutes. But, I saw it, and she did. Now I will. (You watch!)
+Bal is captivating. She blends her humour with her horrors to effectively I found myself actually laughing, often, about her childhood and young adult mis-adventures. But, really, they were not funny. That is the beauty of Bal. She weaves her story around you and through you and you don’t even realize how strong and valiant she is until the fabric of it rests upon you, and you feel it.
+Valiance is a character trait that is very hard to come by. I have come by it, though, in some of my women friends, and I value it. The picture below makes me smile.
+There is a poem by Duncan Campbell Scott that I recite when I think of these valiant women. And she dances.
+And we dance.
+And she feeds us…
+body and spirit…
+and we eat,
+together..
+The rest of the poem can be found here.
+The traditions of Bal’s homeland live within her and she shares all the goodness she has chosen to retain. The rest, she has left behind, and she is clearly facing a wonderful new beginning as the new “Celebrity Chef on Food Network Television”! “I am the Spice Goddess, you know!” she announces with a wink and a twinkle and that ever-so-charming graceful wiggle that only Bal owns.
+Paneer Recipe
+Ingredients:
+- 4 litres of 2% milk
+- 1/2 cup plain white vinegar
+- one 20 inch square piece of cheesecloth
+Instructions:
+- Bring milk to a boil over medium heat in a large pot
+- Add vinegar; stir until mixture separates into solids and liquids
+- Drain the mixture through a sieve and a cheesecloth
+- Wrap the curd with the cheesecloth; place in a sieve and place a heavy weight on it
+- Let the water drain from it completely for 20 to 30 minutes
+- Remove cheese cloth and cut into small cubes; use immediately or store in a covered container for up to 5 days
+Note: Pan frying with a skiff of oil helps to keep the paneer cubes from falling apart: cook with grapeseed oil over a medium hot pan until golden and do the same on the other side. This will freeze and thaw very well; wrap tightly for the freezer.
+Paneer Pakura Recipe
+Ingredients:
+- 1 cup chickpea flour
+- 1 tsp (or more) fenugreek leaves
+- 1 tsp Chana Masala
+- 1/2 tsp Spanish paprika
+- 1/2 tsp salt
+- 1/4 cup (approx) water
+- 1 pound paneer
+- 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
+Instructions:
+- Mix first five ingredients together in bowl; add enough water to give the mixture the consistency of a thin pancake batter (see photo, above)
+- Cut the paneer into rectangles and dip into the batter to thoroughly cover entire piece
+- Heat oil over medium-high heat in non-stick pan; fry paneer on both sides until golden brown
+- Serve immediately with chutney
+Fresh Mango Chutney Recipe
+Ingredients:
+- 1/2 cup pineapple juice
+- 1/4 cup red onion, chopped
+- 1 tablespoon fresh cilantro, chopped
+- 1 teaspoon Chat masala
+- 1/4 teaspoon salt
+- 1 cup (approx.) mango, cubed
+Instructions:
+- Place all ingredients, except the mango, into a food processor and blend until the consistency of a paste
+- Add mango; process until coarsely chopped
+- Chill well before serving
+Note: this will keep three to five days in an air-tight container in the fridge
+My Mother’s Chickpeas Recipe
+Ingredients:
+- 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil (high smoking point, and no flavour imparts from it)
+- 1 large onion, chopped
+- 2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic
+- 2 tablespoons finely chopped ginger
+- 1 tablespoon cumin seeds
+- 1/2 cup chopped fresh tomatoes
+- 1 green chili, finely chopped
+- 2 tablespoons Chana masala
+- 1 tablespoon Spanish paprika
+- 1 teaspoon salt
+- 2 cups cooked chickpeas (or one 14 ounce can, drained and rinsed with fresh water)
+- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
+- (Bal also threw in the fresh pan fried paneer, and tossed it with this recipe before serving)
+Instructions:
+- Place the oil, onion, garlic and ginger in the frying pan over medium high heat and cook for three minutes; move aside and add cumin seeds to toast for one minute
+- Move ingredients in the pan to toast all other spices for a minute in their own space inside of the pan
+- Stir in the tomatoes, chili and salt; reduce heat to medium low and cook for 5 minutes, stirring regularly
+- Add the chickpeas and cook for another minute; turn the heat off and cover the pan with the lid to sit a few minutes before serving
+- (Bal also threw in the fresh pan fried paneer, and tossed it with this recipe before serving)
+- Garnish with a sprinkle of cilantro
+- Serve with brown rice or Papaya Chicken
+Note: Chickpeas take a long time to cook, so I usually make a big pot, and freeze them. I soak them overnight in hot water and boil them the next day for an hour, or until they can be crushed easily with a fork, then package and freeze.
+Beavie didn’t meet Bal. He was mad at me when he saw her photos!
+Hey Valerie, reading about Bal’s life was quite interesting. I must say that I couldn’t stop reading, however, I am always hesitant to jump to any conclusion about cultures that have a bad rep for how they treat women. Part of my family is Algerian, an Arab country that amongst others has a raunchy reputation for the treatment of women, yet many of the Algerian men and families I know almost value women more than men! That being said, I am fully aware that there still are pockets in any country (including the U.S. & Canada) where women (or whoever) are victimized and treated in a way most couldn’t bring themselves to treat an animal. It’s quite unbelievable and heartbreaking thinking about the pain that so many endure under a culture like Bal’s in India-makes me hope that just her family was this way, but I know this is probably wishful thinking. Frankly, the whole story gives me a feeling of hopelessness and helplessness, but I know I should read things that make me sad sometimes.
+Anyway, I’m glad she got away and is able to do what she wants to do in her life. And, yes, there are a lot of crazy people out there-she’s right!
+Oh, and her paneeer with mango looks amazing. I’m sure I can’t imagine without tasting;)
+Dearest Stella,
+What I love about being Canadian is that Multiculturalism is actually a part of our constitution (1981) and I am one that loves living within a microcosm of the world. So, I would be the last person, also, to judge or colour a culture or a person within a culture with one swath of a paint brush. But, this is Bal’s story and it is what it is. It is a happy story, really. I am so sad to hear that it made you feel hopeless and helpless. Truly.
+Big hug,
+Valerie
+Wow I’m replying to a 6-year old comment, but I wanted to add…
+Yes, it is uniquely here experience! I grew up in India until I was 22 and then moved to the US and now I’m 45 – my father raised us girls to be just like boys! He gave us every tool to make ourselves self-sufficient! I went to engineering college in India! Thats not to say I had the most amazing childhood! But who does?!! I love Bal Arneson and what she has done with herself! I just wish she didn’t come across so bitter, but I think it is personality… I “suffered” more at the hands of my father (yep, physical abuse inclusive) compared to my 3 sisters, yet my sisters are more bitter.. and we all grew up in the same home! As another responder states, it is Bal’s story, *as told by her*..
+Yes! Thank you, Mollyho!
+What a great big world we live in. So many stories to tell, people to meet and lessons to learn. Thank you for sharing this wee picture into your world!
+Big hug,
+Valerie
+That sounds like such a wonderful experience Valerie! Wow… And the story of Bal is amazing too. it’s unfortunately that even in these times women are forced to marry, drop out of school and well, even worse then that… I am glad she managed to turn her life around and look at what that brought her. Amazing! Those dishes look absolutely delicious!
+What a great piece about Bal, her life story and her food. There are so many here with stories like hers, and I love that you are sharing their experiences. Indian food is what I cook for myself most often, and I am currently on a South Indian/Sri Lankan kick think coconut). I love paneer too, though, and have plans to make pizza with it this afternoon.
+🙂
+So, Mary, do you make paneer on your own all of the time?
+I am going to do that right now!
+🙂
+Valerie
+This is such an engaging post. I am impressed with this amazing women and you as well. Such an amazing story and what vibrant energy. Wonderful food of course and I can see you had an fantastic experience 🙂 I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and I see that there are a couple of other post I need to check out…see you soon, Alisha
+Ok, this version sounds more like Valerie…lol. The other version with just a lot of pictures just didn’t seem right.
+what an amazing story you and Mrs. Arnison shared with us. it is courageous women like her who make me proud to be a woman. to do all this with no family to help her and with her daughter to take care of is pure heroic in my book. her story makes me feel so spoiled. to be honest, i have never heard of her until now. i have just set my pvr to record her show. thank you for introducing us to such an amazing woman. her dishes are making me drool!
+Originally I wasn’t able to view this post, maybe it was some kind of blogger.com issue (i’m not a fan of theirs). So glad I came back. What a wonderful post. I love stories of self made women (Martha Stewart is my favourite). I am absolutely charmed by her now, after reading your post, and I hope her show comes to the UK. She is obviously very passionate, and so there’s no doubt that she is an inspiring teacher (kind of like Richard Bertinet, no?). Got to love a woman with all that spirit–shaved armpits or not LOL! I have been looking for a good Indian chickpea recipe. I’ve tried about 5 and have never made one as good as I’ve eaten in a certain restaurant. The name of the dish is normally referred to as channa masala. Have you tried it? I’ve been meaning to try this one:
+but have been putting it off. It would totally impress Mr P if I made a really good one. Even his mother hasn’t perfected it, and she’s the best indian cook I know. Most good indian food takes hours and hours of work, so i’m always slightly dubious about “30 minute meals”. I like to say that most great indian cooking involves crying a few tears of frustration–its the special ingredient LOL.
+*kisses* HH
+HH – I completely agree with you regarding the “special ingredient”, but do those families know how to cook healthy, delicious, nutritious and economical food! They impress me daily! I am sure you are aware, but I was so surprised to learn about the roti that is made with whole wheat flour and eaten with every meal. Every home makes their own yogurt and paneer and on and on and on. I shouldn’t generalize, but my experience in the neighbourhood within which I teach is this. And, furthermore, should I ever be so careless as to say “Oh, I love _______!” I will get several of them the next day made with love from mommie’s hand. Of course, as I have said, many cook far too spicy for me, or far too oily food… but, the learning has been tremendous and Bal’s food was neither. I absolutely loved it. Now, I will try to seek out that chick pea recipe for you from the “best” cooks in my school neighbourhood. I will see what I can do! I have had several and love some and don’t care for some… so am not too sure which you are seeking, but know my friends will! That recipe you have linked to looks very good to me and similar to Bal’s Mother’s recipe she made on this post….
+🙂
+Valerie
+I found myself mesmerized by this woman and her spirit that you describe so well! I would love to meet her one day. In Lebanon, to this day, women are by law, inferior: they cannot pass on their citizenship to their kids (only men can) they cannot press charges if abused at home by their husbands, etc etc. It is infuriating.
+Well, food is what she took with her and the good news she is making a great life for herself and her family with it.
+Joumana,
+I had no idea that STILL in Lebanon women do not have the right to press charges, cannot pass on their citizenship, and still, by law, are inferior. You must still feel safe there, to have moved back. And, if it is like that by law, does that mean that is the societal perception? Or, is the mentality more accepting and forward thinking with the laws having to catch up?
+Always curious,
+Valerie
+We knew Bal back in the days when she was still Married to her first husband… she was working and had very good english… we admit her cooking show is fabulous but her storey is
+not true! She moved into a coop in East Vancouver, was working and like we say had no problem with English… I feel sad she felt the need to make such a story up.. when in fact she did have to work hard and she has done so well!! But did she think that all of the people that new her in the 90’s wouldn’t remember what she was doing??? Here cookking show is great and her recipes are fabulous… just be more honest!!
+I need an authenic PUNJABI recipe for a spice mix to prepare raj masala. I already have a wonderful recipe for PUNJABI garam masala that is part of my raj masala recipe but have learned over the years that the store bought spice mix for making the raj masala is not as good as the homemade. Hopefully you can provide me a recipe.
+Many thanks,
+Burton Dale
+oceanwiser@aol.com
+Burton,
+I do not have one, but one of my readers may
+🙂
+Valerie
+Watched her on TV yesterday for the first time.Part cooking ,part camping with her children.She was a breath of fresh air.I enjoyed the show and felt her children to be very supportive .I would like to introduce more spice in my cooking and now I feel like she ( Bal Arneson) will inspire me along the way.Keep up the good job Bal .I’m a fan.
+Thanks for this article! I have watched Bal over the years but never knew her story! I’m just floored by it! What a spirit!
+JANUARY 2019 LAW REVIEW CITY RESTRICTED PARK FOOD SHARING WITH HOMELESS
+- Darren Banks
+- 15 days ago
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+1 CITY RESTRICTED PARK FOOD SHARING WITH HOMELESS James C. Kozlowski, J.D., Ph.D James C. Kozlowski In the case of Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs v. City of Fort Lauderdale, 901 F.3d 11235, 2018 U.S. App. Lexis (11th Cir. 8/22/2018), plaintiff Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs (FLFNB), a non-profit organization, alleged a City of Fort Lauderdale ordinance and a related park rule within the City of Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation Department violated the First Amendment. FACTS OF THE CASE FLFNB, which is affiliated with the international organization Food Not Bombs, engages in peaceful political direct action. It conducts weekly food sharing events at Stranahan Park, located in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Stranahan Park, an undisputed public forum, is known in the community as a location where the homeless tend to congregate and, according to FLFNB, "has traditionally been a battleground over the City's attempts to reduce the visibility of homelessness." At these events, FLFNB distributes vegetarian or vegan food, free of charge, to anyone who chooses to participate. FLFNB does not serve food as a charity, but rather to communicate its message: . FLFNB sets up a table underneath a gazebo in the park, distributes food, and its members (or, as the City describes them, volunteers) eat together with all of the participants, many of whom are homeless individuals residing in the downtown Fort Lauderdale area. FLFNB's set-up includes a banner with the name "Food Not Bombs" and the organization's logo a fist holding a carrot and individuals associated with the organization pass out literature during the event. CITY ORDINANCE On October 22, 2014, the City enacted Ordinance C-14-42, which amended the City's existing Uniform Land Development Regulations. Under the Ordinance, "social services" include: any services provided to the public to address public welfare and health such as, but not limited to, the provision of food; hygiene care; group rehabilitative or recovery assistance, or any combination thereof; rehabilitative or recovery programs utilizing counseling, self-help or other treatment of assistance; and day shelter or any combination of same. The Ordinance also regulates "social service facilities," which include an "outdoor food distribution center." An "outdoor food distribution center" is defined as: 1
+2 any location or site temporarily used to furnish meals to members of the public without cost or at a very low cost as a social service as defined herein. A food distribution center shall not be considered a restaurant. The Ordinance imposes restrictions on hours of operation and contains requirements regarding food handling and safety. Depending on the specific zoning district, a social service facility may be permitted, not permitted, or require a conditional use permit. Social service facilities operating in a permitted use zone are still subject to review by the City's development review committee. Stranahan Park is zoned as a "Regional Activity Center - City Center" and requires a conditional use permit. To receive a conditional use permit, applicants must demonstrate that their social service facilities will meet a list of requirements set out in the Ordinance. PARK RULE The City's "Parks and Recreation Rules and Regulations" also regulated social services. In particular, Park Rule 2.2 provided: Parks shall be used for recreation and relaxation, ornament, light and air for the general public. Parks shall not be used for business or social service purposes unless authorized pursuant to a written agreement with the City. As used herein, social services shall include, but not be limited to, the provision of food, clothing, shelter or medical care to persons in order to meet their physical needs. The City had voluntarily not enforced Ordinance C and Park Rule 2.2 since February of FLFNB LAWSUIT FLFNB filed a lawsuit in federal district court contending: "the Ordinance and Park Rule 2.2 violated its rights to free speech and free association guaranteed by the First Amendment." (The First Amendment applies to the federal government, but is made applicable to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.) In response, the City claimed the food sharing events at Stranahan Park were not expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment. Specifically, the City argued "the act of feeding is not inherently communicative of FLFNB's intended, unique, and particularized message." The federal district court agreed and granted summary judgment in favor of the City. In so doing, the district court agreed with the City that FLFNB's outdoor food sharing was not sufficiently expressive conduct to warrant First Amendment protection. FLFNB appealed. Accordingly, the issue before the federal appeals court was whether FLFNB's food sharing activities were indeed expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment. On appeal, the 2
+3 City claimed FLFNB's food sharing events were not inherently expressive conduct in the absence of "explanatory speech, such as the signs and banners." PROTECTED EXPRESSIVE CONDUCT As noted by the federal appeals court, constitutional protection for freedom of speech "does not end at the spoken or written word." On the contrary, the court acknowledged: "The First Amendment guarantees all people the right to engage not only in pure speech, but expressive conduct as well." As described by the federal appeals court, the U.S. Supreme Court had formulated the following "two-part inquiry to determine whether conduct is sufficiently expressive under the First Amendment": (1) whether an intent to convey a particularized message was present; and (2) whether in the surrounding circumstances the likelihood was great that the message would be understood by those who viewed it. The appeals court, however, acknowledged the "particularized message" would not necessarily require a "narrow, succinctly articulable message" to qualify for constitutional protection. According to the court, such constitutional protection is not "confined to expressions conveying a particularized message" because the First Amendment unquestionably applies to media and other modes of expression, including works without a clearly articulable message, e.g., abstract art, music and literature. Most significant, "in determining whether conduct is expressive" to qualify for First Amendment protection, the federal appeals court would determine "whether the reasonable person would interpret it as some sort of message, not whether an observer would necessarily infer a specific message." (Emphasis of Court) FOOD SHARING "MESSAGE" Based on the record in this particular case, the federal appeals court had "no doubt that FLFNB intended to convey a certain message": [T]he message is that society can end hunger and poverty if we redirect our collective resources from the military and war and that food is a human right, not a privilege, which society has a responsibility to provide for all. Further, according to FLFNB, food sharing in a visible public space was "meant to convey that all persons are equal, regardless of socio-economic status, and that everyone should have access to food as a human right." CONTEXT IS IMPORTANT According to the federal appeals court, the "critical question" in determining whether this particular food distribution or sharing event was expressive activity protected by the First 3
+4 Amendment was "whether the reasonable person would interpret FLFNB's conduct as some sort of message." In making this determination, the federal appeals court noted: "the context in which a symbol is used for purposes of expression is important, for the context may give meaning to the symbol." In particular, the appeals court noted: "the circumstances surrounding an event often help set the dividing line between activity that is sufficiently expressive and similar activity that is not." For example, the court found context and circumstances would separate "the physical activity of walking from the expressive conduct associated with a picket line or a parade." In the opinion of the appeals court, the district court had erred in finding FLFNB's outdoor food sharing did not convey a "particularized message unless it is combined with other speech, such as that involved in FLFNB's demonstrations." Specifically, the appeals court found the district court's focus on FLFNB's particularized message, or lack thereof, was mistaken because "the inquiry is whether the reasonable person would interpret FLFNB's food sharing events as some sort of message." Moreover, the appeals court found the district court had "failed to consider the context of FLFNB's food sharing events." In so doing, the appeals court concluded the district court had erroneously "relied on the notion that the conduct must be combined with other speech to provide meaning." EXPRESSIVE CIRCUMSTANCES In this particular instance, the appeals court found "the surrounding circumstances would lead the reasonable observer to view the conduct as conveying some sort of message." As cited by the appeals court, the following circumstances which would place "FLFNB's food sharing events on the expressive side of the ledger": First, FLFNB sets up tables and banners (including one with its logo) and distributes literature at its events. This distinguishes its sharing of food with the public from relatives or friends simply eating together in the park. Second, the food sharing events are open to everyone, and the organization's members or volunteers invite all who are present to participate and to share in their meal at the same time. That, in and of itself, has social implications. Third, FLFNB holds its food sharing in Stranahan Park, a public park near city government buildings. The parties agree that Stranahan Park is a traditional public forum. That agreement is not surprising, for, public parks have, "time out of mind, been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and discussing public questions." Fourth, the record demonstrates without dispute that the treatment of the City's homeless population is an issue of concern in the community. Fifth, it matters that FLFNB uses the sharing of food as the means for conveying its message, for the history of a particular symbol or type of conduct is instructive 4
+5 in determining whether the reasonable observer may infer some message when viewing it. HOMELESS ISSUE The City had admitted on the record that its elected officials held a public workshop "on the Homeless Issue" in January of That workshop included several "homeless issues, including public feedings in the City's parks and public areas." The City's homeless population attracted local news coverage beginning years before that 2014 workshop. In the opinion of the federal appeals court, "local discussion regarding the City's treatment of the homeless was significant" because it provided "background for FLFNB's events, particularly in light of the undisputed fact that many of the participants are homeless." As characterized by the court, this background information increased "the likelihood that the reasonable observer would understand that FLFNB's food sharing sought to convey some message." Based on the agreed upon facts in this case, the federal appeals court found "FLFNB's food sharing events are more than a picnic in the park." Under the circumstances, the court found FLFNB had clearly established an intent to "express an idea through activity." Moreover, the appeals court found "the reasonable observer would interpret its food sharing events as conveying some sort of message." EXPLANATORY SPEECH In granting summary judgment in favor of the City, the federal district court had determined "explanatory speech is necessary" for an event to warrant First Amendment protection. Accordingly, the "critical question" on appeal was "whether the explanatory speech is necessary for the reasonable observer to perceive a message from the conduct." Citing precedent from the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal appeals court found explanatory speech was not necessary for the reasonable observer to perceive a message from the conduct. Moreover, the court noted the context would determine whether or not explanatory speech, or the lack thereof, would create expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment. SOME SORT OF MESSAGE In this particular instance, the federal appeals court found "the presence of banners, a table, and a gathering of people sharing food with all those present in a public park is sufficiently expressive" to warrant First Amendment protection: The reasonable observer at FLFNB's events would infer some sort of message, e.g., one of community and care for all citizens. Any "explanatory speech" the text and logo contained on the banners is not needed to convey that message. Whether those banners said "Food Not Bombs" or "We Eat With the Homeless" adds nothing of legal significance to the First Amendment analysis. 5
+6 The words "Food Not Bombs" on those banners might be required for onlookers to infer FLFNB's specific message that public money should be spent on providing food for the poor rather than funding the military, but it is enough if the reasonable observer would interpret the food sharing events as conveying "some sort of message." The appeals court, therefore, rejected the City's argument on appeal that First Amendment protection would require evidence that "the reasonable observer would infer a particularized message." As cited by the appeals court, U.S. Supreme Court precedent had clearly rejected the notion that a "narrow, succinctly articulable message is not a condition of constitutional protection." CONCLUSION Based upon the "nature of FLFNB's activity, combined with the factual context and environment in which it was undertaken," the federal appeals court concluded FLFNB's outdoor food sharing was indeed expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment. As a result, the federal appeals court reversed the district court's earlier grant of summary judgment in favor of the City. On remand, the federal district court would conduct further trial proceedings to "determine whether the ordinance and park rule violate the First Amendment." In so doing, the federal district court would determine whether the ordinance and park rule permit requirements imposed an unreasonable burden on FLFNB's expressive conduct. To pass constitutional muster, the City would have to prove the permitting requirements under the ordinance and park rule were a reasonable time, place and manner restriction on FLFNB's expressive conduct necessary to achieve a significant governmental interest. Further, on remand, the federal district court would also consider FLFNB's claim that the challenged ordinance and park rule were unconstitutionally "vague." A law or regulation is unconstitutionally vague when it lacks sufficient clarity to put the reasonable person on notice of what is considered unlawful. **** James C. Kozlowski, J.D., Ph.D. is an attorney and associate professor in the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. E Mail: Webpage with link to law review articles archive (1982 to present): 6
+Shub-Niggurath
+Shub-Niggurath, often associated with the phrase "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young", is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The only other name by which H. P. Lovecraft referred to her was "Lord of the Wood" in his story The Whisperer in Darkness.
+Shub-Niggurath is first mentioned in Lovecraft's revision story "The Last Test" (1928); she is not described by Lovecraft, but is frequently mentioned or called upon in incantations..
+Development
+Shub-Niggurath's appearances in Lovecraft's main body of fiction do not provide much detail about his conception of the entity. Her first mention under Lovecraft's byline was in "The Dunwich Horror" (1928), where a quote from the Necronomicon discussing the Old Ones breaks into an exclamation of "Iä! Shub-Niggurath!"[1] The story provides no further information about this peculiar expression.
+The next Lovecraft story to mention Shub-Niggurath is scarcely more informative. In The Whisperer in Darkness (1930), a recording of a ceremony involving human and nonhuman worshipers includes the following exchange:
+Ever Their praises, and abundance to the Black Goat of the Woods. Iä! Shub-Niggurath!
+Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young![2]
+Similarly unexplained exclamations occur in "The Dreams in the Witch House" (1932) [3] and "The Thing on the Doorstep" (1933).[4]
+Revision tales
+Lovecraft only provided specific information about Shub-Niggurath in his "revision tales", stories published under the names of clients for whom he ghost-wrote. As Price points out, "For these clients he constructed a parallel myth-cycle to his own, a separate group of Great Old Ones", including Yig, Ghatanothoa, Rhan-Tegoth, "the evil twins Nug and Yeb"—and Shub-Niggurath.
+While some of these revision stories just repeat the familiar exclamations,[5] others provide new elements of lore. In "The Last Test" (1927), the first mention of Shub-Niggurath seems to connect her to Nug and Yeb: "I talked in Yemen with an old man who had come back from the Crimson Desert—he had seen Irem, the City of Pillars, and had worshipped at the underground shrines of Nug and Yeb—Iä! Shub-Niggurath!"[6]
+The revision story The Mound, which describes the discovery of an underground realm called K'n-yan by a Spanish conquistador, reports that a temple of Tsathoggua there "had been turned into a shrine of Shub-Niggurath, the All-Mother and wife of the Not-to-Be-Named-One. This deity was a kind of sophisticated Astarte, and her worship struck the pious Catholic as supremely obnoxious."]
+The Not-to-Be-Named-One, not being named, is difficult to identify; a similar phrase, translated into Latin as the Magnum Innominandum, appears in a list in The Whisperer in Darkness[9] and was included in a scrap of incantation that Lovecraft wrote for Robert Bloch's "The Shambler from the Stars".[10] August Derleth identifies this mysterious entity with Hastur [11] (though Hastur appears in the same Whisperer in Darkness list with the Magnum Innominandum), while Robert M. Price equates him with Yog-Sothoth—though he also suggests that Shub-Niggurath's mate is implicitly the snake god Yig.[12]
+Finally, in "Out of the Aeons", a revision tale set in part on the lost continent of Mu, Lovecraft describes the character T'yog as the "High Priest of Shub-Niggurath and guardian of the copper temple of the Goat with a Thousand Young". In the story, T'yog surprisingly maintains that "the gods friendly to man could be arrayed against the hostile gods, and ... that Shub-Niggurath, Nug, and Yeb, as well as Yig the Serpent-god, were ready to take sides with man" against the more malevolent Ghatanothoa. Shub-Niggurath is called "the Mother Goddess", and reference is made to "her sons", presumably Nug and Yeb.[13]
+Other references
+Other evidence of Lovecraft's conception of Shub-Niggurath can be found in his letters. For example, in a letter to Willis Conover, Lovecraft described her as an "evil cloud-like entity".[14] "Yog-Sothoth's wife."
+The Black Goat
+Although Shub-Niggurath is often associated with the epithet "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young", it is possible that. In apparent contrast to Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat is sometimes depicted as a male, most notably in the rite performed in The Whisperer in Darkness (1931) in which the Black Goat is called the "Lord of the Woods". However, Lovecraft clearly associates Shub-Niggurath with The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young in two of his stories—"The Dreams in the Witch House" and "The Thing on the Doorstep".
+The Black Goat may be the personification of Pan, since Lovecraft was influenced by Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan (1890), a story that inspired Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" (1929). In this incarnation, the Black Goat may represent Satan in the form of the satyr, a half-man, half-goat. In folklore, the satyr symbolized a man with excessive sexual appetites. The Black Goat may otherwise be a male, earthly form of Shub-Niggurath—an incarnation she assumes to copulate with her worshipers.[15]
+Robert M. Price's interpretation
+Robert M. Price points to a passage from "Idle Days on the Yann", by Lord Dunsany, one of Lovecraft's favorite writers, as the source for the name Shub-Niggurath:.[16]
+Notes Price: "The name already carried a whiff of sulfur: Sheol was the name for the Netherworld mentioned in the Bible and the Gilgamesh Epic."[17]
+As for Shub-Niggurath's association with the symbol of the goat, Price writes,
+we may believe that here Lovecraft was inspired by the traditional Christian depiction of the Baphomet Goat, an image of Satan harking back to the pre-Christian woodland deity Pan, he of the goatish horns and shanks. The Satanic goat is a device of much spectral fiction, as when in Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out the Archfiend's epiphany takes goat-headed form.[18]
+Other writers
+Ramsey Campbell
+In Ramsey Campbell's story "The Moon Lens", the English town of Goatswood is inhabited by once-human worshippers of Shub-Niggurath. When the deity deems a worshiper to be most worthy, a special ceremony is held in which the "Black Goat of the Woods" swallows the initiate, and then regurgitates the cultist as a transformed satyr-like being. A changed worshiper is also endowed with immortal life.[19]
+Stephen King
+In the short story "Crouch End", a woman loses her husband to, and then is chased by minions of "the Goat with a Thousand Young" and then by the Goat itself.[20] In the novel Revival a maddening entity known as "Great Mother" is introduced and shares many similarities with Shub-Niggurath, though the latter is never mentioned.[21]
+Paul Stewart
+In his Edge Chronicles novel The Curse of the Gloamglozer, one of the antagonists, the Rogue Glister, is obviously modelled after Shub-Niggurath, with long, stretching tentacles and its main body being a pulsating mass of muscle just like the Black Goat.
+Paul Morris
+The Scarifyers: The Devil of Denge Marsh, by Paul Morris, is a light-hearted radio play (on CD as a Cosmic Hobo publication, 2007) in The Scarifyers series whose heroes (played by Nicholas Courtney and Terry Molloy) are engaged in foiling the return of this watery timeless horror and thwarting the intentions of its mysterious (and sometimes bizarre) human acolytes.
+Gary Myers
+Gary Myers's story, "What Rough Beast", casts Shub-Niggurath as the mother of all the gods, and her children as the chapters of her ongoing revelation.
+Jim Butcher
+In Turn Coat, the eleventh book in The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, the narrator mentions that there are in his universe "terrors that the Black-Goat-with-a-Thousand-Young wouldn't dare use for its kids' bedtime stories".
+Edward M. Erdelac
+In The Outlaw Gods, a novella from The Mensch With No Name, second book in the Merkabah Rider weird western series, Shub-Niggurath dwells beneath the ruins of Red House, a K'n-yan citadel in the mountains of Arizona, surrounded by dark trees which tear apart trespassers.
+Joseph Nanni
+The Dark Young or Thousand Young appear in the short film Black Goat by writer/director Joseph Nanni. The Dark Young first appear as root/tentacles assessing their prey. Later in the film a young trapper surrounds one of the Young with fire only to find himself surrounded when the creature calls its siblings.
+However, the concept of the Dark Young was first introduced by game designer Sandy Petersen for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.
+Joe Hill
+Shub-Niggurath (under the variant "Shub-Niggarauth") is mentioned in the Joe Hill graphic novel series Locke & Key. Another dimension is barred from our own by a black door in a deep cave, and any who step through become possessed by a "Child of Leng" (implying that this other world behind the Black Door is, indeed, Lovecraft's Leng) - writhing creatures made of dark liquid-like material and golden eyes. In Clockworks, volume five of the series, three possessed characters (two humans and a goat) all exclaim "Iä! Iä Shub-Niggarauth!", implying that the Children of Leng are either the creature's "Thousand Young" or the creature itself. It is noteworthy to mention that the series itself is set on the fictional island of Lovecraft, Massachusetts.
+Christopher Brookmyre
+In his book A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away, Brookmyre includes various first-person shooter references (as the plot involves an ex-videogame-salesman fighting terrorists single-handed). Among these references, the terrorists' financier is named Shaloub "Shub" N'gurath, a reference to Shub-Niggurath as it appears as a boss in the first-person shooter Quake.
+Anders Fager
+In "The Furies From Borås" Anders Fager includes references to Shub-Niggurath. The "Young of the Goat" is a cult of teenage girls. They lure teenage boys into the woods and sacrifice them to a monstrous messenger.[22][23][24] The story has given rise to the "Borås Black Goats", a fictional sports club from the Furies' home town.
+Charles Stross
+Shub-Niggurath is the primary antagonist in the 2013 novelette "Equoid" by Charles Stross.[25]
+A. J. Smith
+Shub-Nillurath, or the "Black God of the Forest with a thousand Young", features in the "Long War" series of fantasy novels.[26]
+Charles Gilman (pen name of Jason Rekulak)
+Shub-Niggurath is mentioned in "Professor Gargoyle: Tales from Lovecraft Middle School #1".
+Iida Pochi
+Shub-Niggurath, calling herself "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young" and "Chiyo", is one of the main protagonists of the slice-of-life manga The Demon Who Became My Sister - The Sister of the Woods with a Thousand Young (Japanese: 姉なるもの Hepburn: Ane Naru Mono). The story involves her taking care of a young boy.
+Maruyama Kugane
+Episode 12 of Overlord III (Japanese: オーバーロードⅢ Hepburn: Ōbārōdo Ⅲ), the 3rd season of the popular Japanese anime series Overlord, gives a nod to the Cthulhu mythos, portraying the anti-hero and principal lead character of the series, Ains Ooal Gown, using "super-tier" magic to summon five of Shub-Niggurath's 1,000 young in order to destroy an army of 240,000 men.
+Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park)
+The crooked police of South Park falsely arrest black people so they can feed them to Shub-Niggurath in South Park: The Fractured But Whole, claiming that it only likes "dark meat" and that they have to do so in order to appease it. The heroes defeat Shub-Niggurath by feeding it the white cultists, making Shub-Niggurath violently ill.
+See also
+- Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture
+- Pan and Echidna, similar deities in Ancient Greece.
+- Akerbeltz
+- Shuma-Gorath, a cosmic antagonist mentioned in Conan the Barbarian and Marvel Comics stories
+- Night in the Woods, an adventure game where a "Black Goat" is said to torment the main character
+Notes
+- H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror", The Dunwich Horror and Others, p. 170.
+- H. P. Lovecraft, "The Whisperer in Darkness", The Dunwich Horror and Others, p. 226.
+- H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dreams in the Witch House", At the Mountains of Madness, p. 293.
+- H. P. Lovecraft, "The Thing on the Doorstep", The Dunwich Horror and Others, pp. 287, 296.
+- H. P. Lovecraft writing as Zealia Bisop, "Medusa's Coil", The Horror in the Museum, pp. 189–190; H. P. Lovecraft writing as Hazel Heald, "The Man of Stone", The Horror in the Museum, pp. 225, 232; H. P. Lovecraft writing as Hazel Heald, "The Horror in the Museum", The Horror in the Museum, pp. 225, 232; H. P. Lovecraft writing as William Lumley, "The Diary of Alonzo Typer", The Horror in the Museum, p. 321.
+- H. P. Lovecraft writing as Adolphe de Castro, "The Last Test", The Horror in the Museum, p. 47.
+- H. P. Lovecraft writing as Zealia Bishop, "The Mound", The Horror in the Museum, pp. 144–145.
+- Price, Shub-Niggurath Cycle, p. xiv.
+- Lovecraft, "The Whisperer in Darkness", p. 223.
+- Robert Bloch, "The Shambler from the Stars", Mysteries of the Worm, p. 31.
+- August Derleth, "The Return of Hastur", The Hastur Cycle, pp. 255–256.
+- Price, p. xiii.
+- H. P. Lovecraft writing as Hazel Heald, "Out of the Aeons", The Horror in the Museum, pp. 273–274; Price, p. xiii.
+- Cited in Price, p. xv.
+- Ferraresi, "The Question of Shub-Niggurath", Crypt of Cthulhu #35, pp. 17–8, 22.
+- Lord Dunsany, "Idle Days on the Yann" Archived August 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, A Dreamer's Tales.
+- Robert M. Price, Shub-Niggurath Cycle, p. xii.
+- Price, p. x.
+- Campbell, "The Moon-Lens", Shub-Niggurath Cycle.
+- Stephen King, "Crouch End", New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
+- Stephen King, "Revival" (2014).
+-
+-
+- Martinsson, "At One With Nature", An Ecocritical Study of the Nature Motif in Three Swedish Horror Writers
+- Charles Stross, "Equoid", The Laundry Files
+-
+References
+- Campbell, Ramsey (1987) [1964]. "The Moon-Lens". Cold Print (1st ed.). New York: Tom Doherty Associates. ISBN 0-8125-1660-5.
+- Harms, Daniel (1998). "Byatis". The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (2nd ed.). Oakland, CA: Chaosium. pp. 42–3. ISBN 1-56882-119-0. [Suggests Byatis is the son of Yig]
+- "Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath", pp. 75, ibid.
+- "gof'nn hupadgh Shub-Niggurath", pp. 124, ibid.
+- "Shub-Niggurath", pp. 275–7, ibid.
+- Ferraresi, Rodolfo A. (Hallowmas 1985). Robert M. Price (ed.). "The Question of Shub-Niggurath". Crypt of Cthulhu. 5 (1). Check date values in:
+|date=(help), Mount Olive, NC: Cryptic Publications.
+- Lovecraft, Howard P. (1985) [1933]. "The Dreams in the Witch House". In S. T. Joshi (ed.). At the Mountains of Madness, and Other Novels (7th corrected printing ed.). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. ISBN 0-87054-038-6. Definitive version.
+- Lovecraft, Howard P. (1984) [1931]. "The Whisperer in Darkness". In S. T. Joshi (ed.). The Dunwich Horror and Others (9th corrected printing ed.). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. ISBN 0-87054-037-8. Definitive version.
+- Lovecraft, Howard P.; Zealia Bishop (1989) [1940]. "The Mound". In S.T. Joshi (ed.). The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. ISBN 0-87054-040-8.
+- and Adolphe de Castro (1928). "The Last Test", ibid.
+- and Hazel Heald (1932). "The Man of Stone", ibid.
+- Myers, Gary (2007). Dark Wisdom. Poplar Bluff, MO: Mythos Books. ISBN 0-9789911-3-3.
+- Pratchett, Terry (2002) [1990]. Moving Pictures. New York, NY: HarperTorch. ISBN 0-06-102063-X.
+Health minister Vaughan Gething said all options are still open when asked about whether Wales might still lock down before Christmas.
+Mr Gething faced questions at the latest Welsh Government coronavirus briefing on Monday as cases in Wales continue to rise.
+The latest figures have shown that the infection ate has now hit 450 cases for every 100,000 people - by far the highest rate in the UK. In comparison the rate in Scotland is 104 cases for every 100k people. It is 167.8 in Northern Ireland and 166.3 in England, according to data from the UK government.
+Under current plans, Wales is bringing in a four-tier lockdown system and will move into the top level equivalent to a full lockdown after Christmas unless cases start falling. See more details of the four-tier traffic lights system here.
+The health minister was pushed at the coronavirus briefing on the pressure hospitals are facing and the rising case levels in Wales.
+Asked whether Wales was still considering a pre-Christmas lockdown, he said that the cabinet would meet later today and would be looking at all the evidence.
+He said: "Every option is still available to us. I have had a meeting with local stakeholders across Wales about a range of challenges in different regions. Ministers in Cabinet will also meet today in our new virtual form.
+"So we'll continue to have those discussions and gain evidence from the chief medical officer, from our scientific advisers, but also crucially from the chief executive of NHS Wales about the reality of service pressures.
+"We will then have to make balanced choices in terms of the real-world impact in terms of both lives and livelihoods. These are not straightforward choices."
+How many cases are there in your area? Find out with your post code:
+It has also been announced that rapid coronavirus testing will be rolled out widely in schools and colleges across Wales from January.
+The Welsh Government has announced the plans which would see pupils and staff identified as close contacts asked to either self-isolate as normal or take a lateral flow test at the start of the school day for the duration of the self-isolation period.
+You can follow our live updates below.
+Wales' new 'Coronavirus Control Plan'
+The Welsh Government has laid out the lockdown restrictions everyone in Wales could be living under after Christmas.
+First Minister Mark Drakeford has indicated that if the new restrictions on hospitality don't slow the spread of the virus Wales could be back in a so-called level four lockdown from December 28.
+The new Coronavirus Control Plan outlines exactly how Wales' new traffic light alert system is going to work.
+In a detailed document, the Welsh Government suggests that local lockdowns could return and it could be the summer before large-scale or "risky" events return.
+We have gone through the plan to bring out the key points that can affect the lives of you and your family.
+There are four lessons the Welsh Government say they have learnt:
+- Local lockdowns do not work as well as national ones
+- National lockdowns work well to start with, but then lose their effectiveness
+- High level restrictions (tier three in England and Scotland) do manage to repress the virus
+- Lower level restrictions do not have a clear impact
+Read the full story here.
+Czech Republic announces Christmas lockdown
+The Czech Republic is the latest country to announce it will introduce tighter lockdown measures over the festive period.
+Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš announced today that restaurants, hotels and indoor sports venues will close from Friday, December 18, and that gatherings will be limited to six people indoors and outdoors.
+It follows similar announcements from both Germany and the Netherlands, who will also introduce tighter measures over Christmas in an attempt to tackle the growth of the virus.
+Three Welsh hospitals operating at 'CritCon status 3B'
+Three Welsh hospitals are currently operating near maximum capacity while suffering staff shortages, The Guardian reported this evening.
+The three hospitals, which are not identified, are at "CritCon status 3B" - meaning that critical care has expanded into other areas of the hospital, routine procedures have been suspended, and there are staff shortages.
+Reaching CritCon 4 means that staff could be required to choose which critically ill patients to treat.
+Two health boards in Wales have announced they have decided to postpone some non-urgent care and appointments..
+Health board has 'highest number of Covid-19 patients since outbreak began'
+A Welsh health board has urged people to avoid gatherings and adhere to social distancing rules to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
+Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, which recently announced it would be cancelling all non-urgent surgery and appointments, said it now has its "highest number of Covid-19 patients since the outbreak began."
+It has asked people to "think carefully" about the services they choose, stating that their hospitals are under extreme pressure.
+Beginning from today, Monday, December 14, all non-urgent outpatient clinics will be postponed along with all non-urgent planned surgery in the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board area.
+Health Secretary does not answer question about whether Christmas relaxation of Covid rules could be re-assessed
+Sky News' Sam Coates asked the Health Secretary Matt Hancock if there were any circumstances in which the Christmas relaxation of Covid rules could be re-assessed.
+Mr Hancock did not directly answer the question, saying: "Our messages around Christmas are really clear. We understand why people want to see their loved ones, especially at this time of year. But it must be done in a way that is careful and responsible, and I think people understand that too.
+"If you are planning to meet up with loved ones at Christmas, then being careful now, two weeks ahead, making sure you minimise the chance of both catching the disease and passing it on is the right thing to do."
+'Christmas is a period of greater risk'
+Discussing Christmas, Professor Whitty said: "It's no secret... Christmas is a period of greater risk."
+At a COBRA meeting of all four UK nations in November, it was agreed that three households could bubble over Christmas from December 23 to December 27.
+The rules agreed by the four nations:
+-.
+People urged not to take advantage relaxation of rules over Christmas
+Chief medical officer for England, Professor Chris Witty, urge people to be sensible when meeting family and friends over Christmas.
+He said: "The fact that some relaxations have been made on people meeting does not mean they should go to the top of the licence for that.
+"People have to be very careful and incredibly careful around vulnerable people."
+UK coronavirus cases significantly increase
+England's Health Secretary Matt Hancock begins the press conference by discussing the rise in cases across the UK.
+In the last week, he said the UK has seen a 14% increase in the number of positive cases.
+Downing Street press conference due to begin shortly
+The UK Government's Downing Street press conference is due to begin imminently.
+Present at Monday's news conference will be Health Secretary Matt Hancock, England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Witty, and Public Health England's regional director for London Kevin Fenton.
+World Health Organization responds to new strain of Covid-19
+At the World Health Organization's press briefing, a Daily Telegraph journalist asked about the new strain of Covid-19 discussed by England's Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the House of Commons earlier on Monday.
+Dr Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO's emergencies programme, confirmed that they were aware of the new strain, but that key questions about what this means have not yet been addressed.
+First vaccine jabs in Canada
+Canada is the latest country to administer doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
+Anita Quidangen, a personal support worker at the Rekai Centre in Toronto, sat down for her first dose of the vaccine shortly after 5pm GMT.
+Today, @UHN gave the first @Pfizer @BioNTech_Group #CovidVaccine in Canada to Anita Quidangen, a personal support worker from the Rekai Centres, a LTC home partnered with UHN. We are proud to be part of this landmark day. pic.twitter.com/O2jdH9Z3OV— University Health Network (@UHN) December 14, 2020
+Matt Hancock to give Downing Street press conference at 6pm
+England's Health Secretary Matt Hancock will hold a press conference at Downing Street at 6pm.
+Mr Hancock will be joined by chief medical officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, and London's regional director for Public Health England, Professor Kevin Fenton.
+People told to 'minimise travel' in and out of London
+Jeremy Hunt, Conservative chairman of the Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee, also asked Matt Hancock about travelling into London from other areas.
+He asked: “From Wednesday if you live outside London will it be against the regulations to come into Oxford Street to do your Christmas shopping?"
+Mr Hancock replied: “The question he asks about Christmas shopping is important.
+“It is recommended that people should minimise travel unless it is necessary in a Tier 3 area and should minimise travel where it is necessary to a Tier 3 area."
+New strand of coronavirus being cultured at UK military's research base
+Jeremy Hunt, chairman of the Health and Social Care Committee and himself a former Health Secretary, questioned Mr Hancock in the Commons about his comments that the new variant of the virus would be "unlikely" not to respond to a vaccine.
+The Health Secretary responded to his predecessor by stating that the new variant is currently being assessed at the UK military's research base, Porton Down, but that the current medical advice he has is that it is unlikely that the new variant will "impinge" the new coronavirus vaccine.
+"We will know that in the coming days and weeks as the new strand is cultured at Porton Down," said Mr Hancock.
+Numbers of new variant of coronavirus “increasing rapidly”
+Matt Hancock said the numbers of the new variant of coronavirus .
+“And numbers are increasing rapidly.”
+However, the Health Secretary said that it is unlikely that this new variant of the virus is more likely to cause serious disease..”
+Confirmed: London to move to Tier 3
+Greater London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire will move to Tier 3 due to a “very sharp, exponential rises” in cases, Matt Hancock has confirmed to MPs.
+Experts have identified a new variant of coronavirus
+Experts have identified a new variant of coronavirus which may be responsible for the “faster spread” in south east England, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs.
+'Sharp rise in south Wales'
+UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock begins his statement to the House of Commons amid discussions of London entering tier 3 lockdown measures.
+Discussing the growth of the virus across the UK, Mr Hancock named areas of concern, including London and the south east of England, as well as the south of Wales.
+"We're seeing a sharp rise in south Wales," he said.
+Matt Hancock to make statement in Commons soon
+The Health Secretary is due to speak in front of the Commons imminently.
+London MP states areas going into lockdown
+A London MP appears to have confirmed the rumours that the English capital will likely be entering tier 3 restrictions, naming those areas affected.
+Rupa Huq, MP for Ealing Central and Acton, has said that London and some areas in surrounding counties will enter a tier 3 lockdown at 12.01am on Wednesday morning.
+Worst kept secret ever confirmed— Rupa Huq MP (@RupaHuq) December 14, 2020
+London and Essex (except Tendring) and Herts (Watford/ Hertsmere/ Broxbourne) from 1 min past midnight Weds
+London to move into Tier 3 lockdown
+It has been reported by The Mirror that MPs have been told that London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire will plunge into a Tier 3 coronavirus lockdown this week.
+Health Secretary Matt Hancock has reportedly given a briefing to MPs to confirm the move hours after they were warned cases are rising exponentially in the capital.
+Mr. Hancock is also due to make a statement in the House of Commons at 3.30pm today.
+Second full lockdown for Netherlands
+Netherlands will enter second full national lockdown tonight until January 19.
+- Non essential shops will close
+- As will Schools, museums, gyms and hairdressers
+- Bars and restaurants already closed down
+Nurse gets first vaccination in America
+An intensive care nurse has become one of the first Americans to receive a shot of the first Covid vaccine to be approved for use in the United States.
+Sandra Lindsay received the shot live on camera at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in queens, New York, on Monday morning.
+She is the first American to receive a dose of Pfizer’s new shot in public, with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo suggesting Lindsay may also be the first American to receive the highly-anticipated vaccine.
+Government demands schools in England stay open
+The Government has also demanded that schools stay open until the end of term as council leaders and headteachers have called for a move to online learning amid a rise in coronavirus cases.
+Downing Street has said it expects schools and colleges to remain fully open until the end of Thursday.
+It comes after council leaders in England have advised schools in Islington and Greenwich to close early this week and switch to remote learning amid rising Covid-19 rates. In Basildon in Essex, nearly all the secondary schools have moved to full remote education.
+London mayor Sadiq Khan has called on the Government to consider closing all secondary schools and colleges in London early and reopen later in January due to “outbreaks” among 10 to 19-year-olds.
+But.”
+In Wales, secondary schools and colleges are moving to online learning from Monday following advice from the Welsh chief medical officer that the public health situation in the country is “deteriorating”.
+Downing Street insists Christmas relaxation WILL go ahead
+Downing Street has insisted the Christmas relaxation of social distancing rules will go ahead despite increasing warnings that it will lead to a rise in coronavirus cases.
+Number 10 stressed on Monday that the public should remain “jolly careful” over the festive period but said there are no plans to review the guidance after a “very difficult year for many people”.
+Concerns were mounting, however, of a fresh spike in Covid-19 cases from the UK-wide relaxation to allow bubbles of up to three households between December 23 and 27.
+Chief medical officer for Wales Dr Frank Atherton issued a stark warning “to save lives now, don’t mix with other people”.
+“Don’t put yourself and your family at risk for the sake of tradition,” he said on Monday.
+But the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said No 10 was not reconsidering the relaxation.
+“There are no plans to review the Christmas guidance. What we’ve said alongside that is that the public should continue to be cautious,” he said. “We’ve been clear that it’s a limited easement to allow families to bubble over the Christmas period after what has been a very difficult year for many people. But it remains important for the public to follow the guidance.”
+Union unhappy about teachers testing in schools
+A Welsh union has raised concerns about teachers being trained to test pupils from January.
+Rapid coronavirus testing will be rolled out widely in schools and colleges across Wales from January, it was announced today.
+The Welsh Government has announced the plans which would see pupils and staff identified as close contacts asked to either self-isolate as normal or take a lateral flow test at the start of the school day for the duration of the self-isolation period.
+And health minister Vaughan Gething confirmed that it would be teachers who are carrying out the tests.
+But the National Association of Head Teachers’ Cymru described the “government’s lack of understanding” as “staggering”.
+The union’s director said: “The government’s lack of understanding of the reality on the ground has been staggering. Publicly ministers express their thanks to school leaders, whilst behind the scenes they are sending intimidating and unnecessary legal letters. We object to these double-standards in the strongest terms.
+“The implications for schools to mass test on a national scale is huge. For the health minister to say it can be rolled out at the start of next term when the teachers have to carry out the tests and they haven’t been trained is laughable.
+“Ministers have an awful lot of work to do to repair the damage that has been done to their relationship with the teaching profession.”
+Infection rate for Wales rises again
+The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Wales has risen by another 1,228 new cases, Public Health Wales (PHW) said in its latest update on Monday.
+The latest statistics released by Public Health Wales on Monday, December 14, also showed that another 32 people have died after testing positive for the virus in Wales. Cases for your area here.
+The infection rate across Wales now stands at 450 per 100,000 people based on the seven days up to December 9.
+Vaccine roll-out in care homes
+More details of the roll-out to care homes have been revealed.
+The pilot for the roll-out of the COVID-19 Pfizer / BioNtech vaccine to Welsh care homes is to begin on Wednesday (December 16).
+A designated care home in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board will be the first in Wales to receive the vaccine, with teams in additional Health Boards taking the vaccine to care homes later this week.
+The initial roll-out of the vaccine to care home staff, health and social care workers and those aged 80 and over began on Tuesday 8th across the UK, based on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). Wales and other UK administrations are guided by these recommendations.
+There had been concerns about maintaining the stability of the Pfizer / BioNtech vaccine outside hospital vaccination centres as it usually needs to be stored at minus 70 degrees centigrade.
+The Welsh Government says it has discussed at length with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the vaccine’s manufacturer how to repackage and transport the vaccine without compromising the standards of safety and efficacy patients rightly expect. This meant that until now it had not been efficient to take the vaccine to care home residents.
+A statement said: “This will mean Health Boards can take the vaccine to settings with at least five residents, rather than using it only in static vaccination centres. It will take a number of days to train staff and ensure standard procedures are drawn up and validated.
+“At first the vaccine will be issued to care homes in proximity to hospital pharmacies, but it is planned for the vaccine to be available in other settings in coming weeks, once learnings from the care home pilot has been captured.
+.”
+Control plan for Wales published
+The Welsh Government has published its updated Coronavirus Control Plan, which builds on the traffic-light framework of restrictions that were originally put in place in May.
+The revised plan puts in place four alert levels.
+It sets out how and when Wales will move between these alert levels.
+The Government says: “The all-Wales measures are designed to be as simple, fair and clear as possible and they will provide greater certainty for people and businesses about what legal restrictions will be put in place, depending on the level of risk, helping them to plan for the future.”
+The four alert levels are:
+Alert level one (low risk): This represents the level of restrictions closest to normality, which are possible while infection rates are low and other preventative measures, such as social distancing and working from home, remain in place.
+Alert level two (medium risk): This includes additional controls to limit the spread of coronavirus. These may be complemented by more targeted local actions to manage specific incidents or outbreaks.
+Alert level three (high risk): These represent the strictest restrictions short of a firebreak or lockdown. These respond to higher or rising level of infections where local actions are no longer effective in containing the growth of the virus.
+Alert level four (very high risk): Restrictions at this level would be equivalent to the firebreak regulations or lockdown. These could either be deployed as a preventative firebreak or as a lockdown measure.
+Challenge of getting patients home from hospital
+There are hundreds of people in hospital in Wales who have finished their active treatment for coronavirus and are recovering.
+But some have been in hospital for many, many weeks because they are still testing positive for the virus.
+Mr Gething said that the latest up-to-date scientific evidence is that they are infected and not infectious.
+He added: “We are continuing to learn more and more about coronavirus and how to look after people as the pandemic goes on.
+“A paper by our Technical Advisory Group has highlighted that tests can still detect traces of the virus in people more than 120 days after infection.
+“But international research suggests the majority of people are very unlikely to be infectious 14 days after symptoms started.
+“We are working with the NHS, with local authorities, care providers and with the Older People’s Commissioner to make sure we can safely get these people home again.”
+Here you will find some context, notes and discussion/reflection questions for the texts from which our sermons come throughout Lent. These tools are meant to connect small groups of people through the Gospel of Luke in the context of our sermon series, but can be used for personal devotion as well. You don’t need to have attended worship to follow along, but it will help you engage more deeply into the text. Our hope is that through this, you not only get connected to God’s word, but also to one another. You can hear sermons online by going to and clicking on the “sermons” tab.
+Note: Most notes come from “W. Hall Harris, ed., The NET Bible Notes (1st, Accordance electronic ed. Richardson: Biblical Studies Press, 2005), n.p.”. Scripture citations are from the NRSV. Greek definitions are from the lexicon BDAG. Many of the Discussion Questions come from the “Serendipity Bible” (Zondervan, 1998).
+Week I: February 14-20 | Scripture: Luke 10:25-37
+Context: This is among the more famous passages and stories in the Bible. What we often miss are two things: One, the Parable of the Good Samaritan is a parable. It is merely a story that Jesus told. Two, it is a parable told as an answer to the question, “who is my neighbor?” It does not stand alone. When we read and talk about the Good Samaritan, we must do so in the context of what we call “The Greatest Commandment” in verses 25-27. It also important to note that only Luke tells this parable. The “Greatest Commandment” is in Matthew, Mark and Luke, but Luke’s is different for two reasons: Luke has this important parable attached to it, and in Luke’s telling it isn’t Jesus who speaks the Greatest Commandment, but the lawyer.
+It is also important to know where “The Greatest Commandment” comes from. The words “love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul,mind and strength” come from a prayer which Jewish people still recite daily today, and which comes from Deuteronomy 6:4-9. This prayer is called “The Shema”. Shema means “hear” in Hebrew, so the prayer is called this so as to say, “hear this, above all else”. Just as the Shema was (and is) essentially the summation of the Jewish way of being, so too is “The Greatest Commandment” the summation of the Christian way of being.
+Notes:
+- the Greek word “love” here is in the future/imperative tense, which is to say “you will love…” This is why we call it “The Greatest Commandment”. It is a command.
+- You may notice that in Deuteronomy “mind” is not mentioned. This is because in Hebrew, heart and mind are so connected that they are essentially one word. But in Greek (and English) they are different, so in the New Testament, a fourth element is added to get to the meaning, which is loving God with one’s whole self.
+- “Love your neighbor as yourself” is not from the Shema, but from Leviticus 19:18.
+- The Greek word translated “strength” speaks to one’s power, influence or energy.
+- The road from “Jerusalem to Jericho” was notorious for robbers and bandits
+- “Priest” and “Levite” were fully included, respected people. “Samaritans” were considered unclean “half-breeds” and Jewish people in those days would go out of their way to avoid them. That the hero is a Samaritan here is key to understanding what a “neighbor” may be.
+Discussion Questions:
+- What captivated your imagination in your hearing of this story? What would you ask a Biblical Scholar about it?
+- Are there areas of town that you avoid going to? Where are they? Why do you avoid them? Would you ever consider not avoiding them?
+- Have you ever been helped by a stranger? What feelings and emotions came with that experience? Have you ever helped a stranger?
+- Who are the “Samaritans” in your world? In your community, workplace, school?
+- What is your reaction when you see someone on the street looking for money?
+- How do we act both in mercy and wisdom through the issues of helping strangers?
+- What does loving God with your heart mean/ look like? Mind? Soul? Strength?
+- What does it mean to “love your neighbor as yourself”?
+Weekly Activity: The “Greatest Commandment” that Jesus gives has also been referred to as “The Jesus Creed”. It is meant to be recited multiple times daily as a way of getting this command deep in our hearts. Just as Jewish people in Jesus’ day recited a prayer called “The Shema” from Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (from which the greatest commandment comes), we can recite this command wherever it is we go (when we wake up, when go to school or work, in the car, at flute practice, etc.). The hope is that the more we recite these words, the more we will live them out. Try reciting it multiple times daily this week, including perhaps trying it together as a family prayer before a meal.
+The Jesus Creed: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength; and love your neighbor as yourself.”
+Week II: February 21-27 | Scripture: Luke 13:18-21
+Context: This could be a tough passage because it is only three verses. But like its core metaphors, remember that big things can have small beginnings. Jesus spoke often in parables, and parables are not meant to be easily understood with nice neat, clean meanings and metaphors. They’re meant to confuse us to the degree that we wrestle with them. So don’t be afraid to let parables such as this leave you feeling unsettled, unsatisfied, and like there’s something missing. It’s meant to do that.
+Notes:
+- What is a “parable”? There’s a lot of debate about this, but here’s one way to look at them: The Greek word for “parable” is a compound word consisting of “para” and “ballo”. “Para” means “against” or “along side”. “Ballo” like these, let them be unsettled. The point is to piece them together by wrestling with them.
+- The Mustard Seed: The seed was known for its tiny size (smaller than a pea), but could grow as large as 25 feet. Mustard bushes were also very weed like. They grew uncontrollably.
+- The cliche is, “Faith like a mustard seed”, but nowhere in this parable does Jesus mention “faith”. He’s talking about the Kingdom of God. It is not that faith starts small, but that the Kingdom of God starts small, quietly, and buried beneath the earth.
+Discussion Questions:
+- What captivated your imagination in your hearing of this story? What would you ask a Biblical Scholar about it?
+- What is your favorite story about someone who started out with humble beginnings, but had great success?
+- When you hear the phrase “Kingdom of God” what comes to mind?
+- What does the seed say about how the Kingdom of God begins and how it grows? What about the yeast?
+- What does the seed’s growth say about what the Kingdom of God becomes?
+Weekly Activity: In worship this week we handed out cups of soil with grass seed buried in them. Lent is a season of things coming to life. As we lay our lives into God’s hands, we are like a seed laid into soil. You don’t see it right away, but something is growing. Care for this little cup of grass seed and watch it grow throughout the season of Lent. As you do, let it remind you that God is growing in you.
+Week III: February 28-March 5 | Scripture: Luke 15:11-32
+Discussion Questions:
+- What captivated your imagination in your hearing of this story? What would you ask a Biblical Scholar about it?
+- This is long story with a lot going on. What initially stood out to you in it? But also, look it over again and perhaps even chart out the plot moment by moment. That can be a helpful step in connecting to some of these longer stories. Make sure you know the sequence of events.
+- What’s the biggest, best family party you’ve ever been to?
+- Do you have siblings? Where in the birth order do you fall? What was your experience in that position?
+- Who do you most naturally connect with in this story? The Father, the younger son, or the elder son? Which of the two brothers reminds you most of your story?
+- Do you have a rock bottom experience? What was/is it? What led to it? What led you out of it, if anything?
+- What do you think caused the younger son to want leave?
+- How does this story end? Where is everybody at the end of it? How do you feel about how this parable ends?
+Note: For more about this amazing Parable, check out Timothy Keller’s The Prodigal God. It’s a quick and easy, but great read.
+Weekly Activity: Last week we took home small cups of soil with grass seed planted in them to watch them grow throughout Lent. This week, get a preview of the kind of abundance God can grow in you by taking a trip to the Como Conservatory (or another one if you like). In this winter of cold, dry, darkness, and frozen earth, enjoy the warm the warmth, humidity, color, and life around you.
+Week IV: March 6-12 | Scripture: Luke 16:19-31
+Scripture: Luke 16:19-31
+Context: This parable is a hard one. We’ve just heard the famous “Parable of the Prodigal Son”, then we had the “Parable of the Dishonest Manager”, and now this one. For the last few chapters Jesus has been telling parables challenging the religious, social, and economic establishments of his day and time. In this one, the message seems so clear, that we almost don’t get it, because it just can’t be saying what it seems to be saying. Again, a good parable leaves for us a mess to clean up. This one is particularly messy.
+Notes:
+- Verse 19: Purple is often associated with royalty, but it is so because purple was an expensive dye. Here purple is a sign of great wealth, not royalty.
+- Verse 20: Greek word for “lay” is “ballo” which means “to throw with force”. In this context it speaks to the idea that it was not this man’s choice be there, but that the circumstances of his life have thrown him there.
+- Verse 20: The name “Lazarus” here is not the same Lazarus that was resurrected in John 11. There may have been some loose connection, but we don’t really know. Because we don’t know, it’s better just to assume there’s not so as to avoid reading something into this text (or into John 11) that may not be there.
+- Verse 21: Dogs were not viewed then the way they are now. They were a nuisance, and considered unclean and crude. Their licking Lazarus’ wounds would make him even more unclean and of lower status than he already was.
+- Verse 22: Being “carried away to be with Abraham” is a 1st Century Jewish way of speaking of one going to heaven.
+- Verse 23: “Hades” is where the dead were gathered. It is the Greek equivalent of “Sheol” about which we often read in the Old Testament.
+- Verse 24: The rich man using Lazarus’ name speaks to him having known him, but yet never helped him.
+- Verse 25: This reversal is a callback to the “blesseds” and “woes” in 6:20-26
+Discussion Questions:
+- What captivated your imagination in your hearing of this story? What would you ask a Biblical Scholar about it?
+- Look back to the notes from week 2 regarding the definition of a parable. Keep this in mind as you read, wonder about, and discuss this parable.
+- When you were a kid, what did you imagine heaven was like?
+- What are the implications of this parable on our lifestyle in the USA?
+- What does this parable say about the afterlife? What does it say about life here and now?
+- For what reason did the rich man end up in Hades in this parable?
+- What kind of emotions first arose in you during the reading of this parable?
+Weekly Activity: The season of Lent is about life springing forth out of dead and dying things. It’s about beauty coming out of ashes. Every day this week, take at least one picture of life, growth or beauty and post it to Aldersgate’s Facebook page. If you are not on Facebook, just email it to Pastor Paul and he will post it for you. Let’s go find life and beauty this week!
+Rivalo is a sports betting and casino site. It is a licensed online gambling destination that accepts multiple currencies and supports several deposit and payment methods. If you are still looking for a good option for sports betting and online casino, you may want to include this site in your shortlist.
+It’s not difficult to consider Rivalo as one of the good options for online gambling. It offers a good collection of gambling options, from sports betting to casino games and live dealer casino. It guarantees secure transactions and a trustworthy game system. It also provides reliable gaming platform that does not suddenly get downtimes every so often.
+This gambling site is also mobile-friendly. If you want to enjoy betting on your favorite sports on the go, this is a good option. It offers many of the good features being offered by most leading online casinos. Its account dashboard even comes with a feature that supports responsible gambling. It’s just unfortunate that it’s not available to players in all parts of the world. It does not serve players in the US, Asia, and some parts of Europe.
+Learn more about this interesting gambling site through our in-depth Rivalo review.
+Account Registration
+Signing up for an account with Rivalo is a very quick and easy process. The online registration form is short. It does not ask for a lot of player information. You just have to enter your first and last name, username, email, and password.
+The online registration form detects your IP address and determines whether or not you can be allowed to register. You instantly get a notification if you can sign up for an account or not. The list of countries where players are allowed to register is presented in the Countries Served section below.
+You can complete the registration process in around 10 seconds. There is no email verification required but you will get an email notification telling you that your account was successfully created. You can immediately proceed to signing in as your account is created.
+The Rivalo Account Dashboard
+Rivalo has a feature-rich account dashboard. It allows you to set your timezone, update your address and contact details, change your password, and set up additional account protection through login approval, where you can add your mobile number. It also allows you to set up limits for your stakes, losses, login expiration, and deposits. Through this feature, you can control your online gambling habit and help prevent the possibility of gambling addiction.
+Additionally, the account dashboard has a messaging system. You can receive correspondence from Rivalo through this built-in inbox of the account dashboard. This messaging system, however, does not take the place of your email account as you can’t send messages with it. You may use the online email sending form on Rivalo to send emails but you can’t write a reply from within the inbox.
+The account dashboard is truly intuitive. You can find all of the available functions and features you can use as you hover your mouse pointer over the box that indicates your name on the upper right corner of the Rivalo website. These include the quick access to making your deposits and withdrawals. We just wish it has a section that shows all the available bonuses so you can just click on them and monitor them in one page, to make it easy finding, getting, and tracking your bonuses.
+The Rivalo Games
+The games on Rivalo are presented in four groups: Sports, Live Betting, Casino, and Live Casino.
+Sports betting allows you to bet on a wide range of sports events in different parts of the world. These include the World Cup, EURO group stage matches and outright markets, and events or matches in a host of other sports such as tennis, basketball, handball, volleyball, darts, motorsport, baseball, American football, cycling, rugby, boxing, e-sports, pesapallo, cricket, golf, and the Olympics. There You can also bet on entertainment events such as the Eurovision Song Contest. Just like in most other sports betting sites, you have the sports bet slip readily presented on the right side of the screen. You have the option to bet Single, Combi, and System.
+The Live Betting section is for live sports betting. The interface is essentially the same as what you will find in the Sports section.
+For the Casino section, on the other hand, you will be taken to a sub-site that presents a different look, which looks nice. There are 133 games available, grouped into the following categories: Video Slots, Classic Slots, Table Games, Video Poker, and Other Games.
+- There are 102 Video Slots on the site which include Alien Robots, Aliens, Lagoon, Bloodsuckers, Icy Wonders, and Jack Hammer.
+- For the Classic Slots category, there are only three games namely, Jackpot 6000, Lucky & Line, and Mega Joker.
+- The Table Games category has 16 games including American Roulette, Baccarat Pro, Blackjack Classic, Blackjack Pro, Caribbean Stud Pro, Casino Hold’em, various roulette games, pontoon, red dog, Double Exposure, Oasis Poker, and Texas Hold’em.
+- The Video Poker category features 8 games. These include Deuces Wild, All American 1 Hand, Jacks or Better, and Joker Wild.
+- The Other Games category has 4 games namely, 7 Gold Scratch, Ace, Bonus Keno, and Triple Wins.
+The games on Rivalo are not the fastest to load but they don’t take so much time to the point of becoming frustrating. As you click on a game to play, you will be automatically directed to the Play for Fun version of the games so you can try things out first without having to spend real money. Information on the betting minimums and maximums are presented on the games themselves.
+We have a little issue with the games, though. They don’t seem to have a fullscreen mode. There’s a Full Image option for them, but this only makes the game windows appear bigger. The games themselves don’t expand in size so you will have to make do with the smallish game interface.
+Lastly, for the live casino games, there are 4 available. These are Live Roulette, Live Blackjack, Live Baccarat, and LIve Texas Hold’em. There are multiple seats in each of these live games.
+Rivalo Game Software and Fairness
+The sports betting software used on Rivalo is proprietary while Net Entertainment (NetEnt) supplies the software for the casino games. For the live casino, software from Evolution Gaming is used.
+The games are not advertised as provably fair games and they also don’t have provability widgets. However, considering that Net Entertainment and Evolution Gaming are two of the most popular online game software providers around, we are not keen on questioning the reliability of the random number generator or the overall fairness of the games in this Rivalo software.
+Rivalo Is Mobile-Friendly
+Mobile gaming enthusiasts will be glad to know that Rivalo is mobile-friendly. The site does not have a responsive web design but it has a separate mobile version (m.rivalo.com). It provides a neat way to access and play the games through smartphones or tablets. Rivalo does not have mobile apps but the mobile version of the website should suffice in giving players a satisfactory mobile gaming experience.
+Currencies, Deposits, and Withdrawals
+Rivalo uses the following currencies: euro (EUR), Swiss franc (CHF), Turkish lira (TL), Polish zloty (PLN), Russian ruble (RUB), Brazilian real (BRL), and US dollar (USD). The amounts are presented only in fiat currencies on the website and in the games. However, Rivalo also accepts bitcoin deposits.
+Rivalo’s website has put up an excellent table of the different deposit and withdrawal methods so we will no longer be presenting them in detail here. The tables provide details on the fees, duration, and minimum and maximum deposit/withdrawal amounts. Please refer to the screenshots of these tables below:
+Bitcoin is arguably the best option for making deposits with its low minimum and high maximum deposit and withdrawal limits. It may take up to an hour for a transaction to be completed but the other advantages of using it more than compensate for this. All withdrawal requests are being manually checked.
+Bitcoin payout requests are free of charge for the first three payouts within a week. If you exceed this 3x/week free payout request, you will be charged a processing fee of 6 USD, which is automatically deducted from your payout.
+Bonuses and Promotions on Rivalo
+There are separate bonuses and promotions for Sports Betting and the Casino Games.
+For Sports Betting, the bonuses and promotions are as follows:
+- 100% Welcome Bonus of up to 100 EUR or 100 USD. Important: this bonus is only valid for players in Luxembourg, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey. Minimum deposit requirement is 15 USD or 10 EUR. Wagering requirement: 3x.
+- 25% Combination Bet Bonus. To get this no deposit bonus you need to place a combination bet made up of a minimum of 5 single bets. The bonus you get is automatically shown on your bet slip. No wagering requirement mentioned.
+For the Casino games, only a welcome bonus is offered.
+- 100% Welcome Bonus of up to 200 EUR or 200 CHF or 500 TL. This bonus is only available to players who have not played with real money on Rivalo yet. This bonus is not applicable to the live casino games. This bonus is only applicable to players in Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Montenegro, Poland, Luxembourg, Turkey, and Brazil. There are different wagering requirements for players in different countries. It’s 60x within 10 days for players in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland; and 40x within 30 days for players in Luxembourg, Brazil, Turkey, Switzerland, and Montenegro.
+In addition to these bonuses, Rivalo also offers an affiliate program that grants 20% commissions and a quarterly bonus of up to 10%. You need to register separately for this affiliate program. For inquiries, contact affiliate@rivalo.com.
+Rivalo Customer Support
+Rivalo provides player support through email and live chat. You can send inquiries or requests for assistance through the online form in the Contact page. You can reach the Contact page through the dark gray Contact Support button on the right side of the homepage. You may also directly send your emails to info@rivalo.com. The live chat button is located just below the Contact Support link in the homepage.
+The feedback button that appears on the lower left corner of the homepage is for sending suggestions to Rivalo. It’s not for addressing player concerns.
+Rivalo License, Regulation, Security, and Player Anonymity
+Rivalo is a brand owned by 247SportsInteractive B.V., a company that operates under the laws of the government of Curacao, registered in the Commercial Register of the Curacao Chamber of Commerce and Industry, with the following registration number: 128642. The company was granted Master License 5536/Jaz of C.I.L. Curacao Interactive Licensing N.V. The company has the following registered business address: Emancipate Boulevard 29, Willemstad, Curacao.
+Rivalo assures players that their accounts and transactions are well-protected. There are no specific details mentioned regarding the security measures employed but we have to mention in this Rivalo review that its News sub-site features a section dedicated to security. It ‘s a good indicator that Rivalo cares about player security.
+To some extent, anonymous playing can be possible on Rivalo, especially if you use bitcoins. The account registration process, as mentioned, only asks for your name, username, and password. After you log in, you are also not asked to update your profile to add personal details such as your address and contact number. There are no proofs of identity required. The site’s Terms and Conditions does not have a specific provision regarding the need to update your profile and the importance of making sure that your account information is accurate, unlike what other online casinos have as they clearly emphasize that incorrect or misleading registration or account information can be grounds for account termination and balance forfeiture.
+Countries Served and Site Languages
+Rivalo’s website does not present details regarding country restrictions. However, it has an IP filtering system that automatically prevents players from signing up for an account if they are accessing the site from a country that is restricted. We couldn’t find a comprehensive list of these restricted countries but we tried using proxies to find out.
+Some of the countries rejected are Luxembourg, Romania, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the United States.
+Players from from the following countries or territories are allowed to sign up for an account: Albania, Andorra, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guernsey, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Isle of Man, Jamaica, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mexico, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Pitcairn Islands, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Russia, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Africa, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Singapore, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Sao Tome and Principe, Tunisia, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, and Aland Islands.
+To better serve players from different countries, Rivalo can be viewed in different language versions. These languages are English, German, Italian, French, Surinamese Dutch, Turkish, Russian, Polish, and Portuguese. The language selector is on the right side of the site, under the Mobile box.
+More about Rivalo
+Be sure to go over Rivalo’s pages for Legal Notice and Terms & Conditions to avoid committing offenses or violations that can lead to the termination of your account. Rivalo also presents various news and information (Rivalo’s blog with different sections) relevant to online betting. The links are at the footer part of the website. Additionally, Rivalo has a Help (FAQ) page as well as a betting glossary. The links are on the upper right side of the homepage, under the Support header.
+The Rivalo website does not present social media links. We tried doing our own search for these social media accounts online but we failed to find official pages. We found a number of Rivalo accounts on Facebook but none of them appear to be official or at least sanctioned by Rivalo.
+Pros and Cons
+Pros
+- Good collection of games
+- Live chat support available
+- Live games available
+Cons
+- Does not accept players from the United States
+- No full screen mode for the casino games
+- Bonuses not available to all players
+.
+Hello admin..
+I am from TN..i have planned to setup a V-Guard 1400/1400 plus Inverter..i tink Exide tubular batteries will be best by reading the articles on your website..i kindly request you to recommend me the best tubular battery range or model for the high backup time..although i’ll be using 3 fans and 4 CLF bulb i want the model for battery for more backup time..reply as soon as possible..!!
+Dear Venkatesh,
+Thanks for writing us. At present, all over tamilnadu except chennai, people are suffering long and frequent power cuts for 9 to 12 hrs per day. If you are from chennai, then go for v-guard DU 1400/ 1400 plus pure sinewave inverter and two Exide inverter plus – 88 AH – (FEI0-IN880PLUS) batteries with 2 years warranty. This model is semi tubular. It’s safe to invest on semitubulars for long power cut areas. Before buying the inverter plz keep in mind that v-guard 1400 inverter is 24 volt inverter which needs Two 12v batteries to operate.
+If you are not from chennai, we strongly recommend to Install Two small inverters instead of one big inverter.
+One v-guard DU 600/600plus inverter + One v-guard DU 800/800plus inverter with Exide inverter plus – 88 AH – (FEI0-IN880PLUS) and Exide inverter plus – 100 AH – (FEI0-IN1000PLUS) batteries respectively. Installing bigger capacity inverters and tubulars won’t help you in long power cut areas, the battery won’t get sufficient charge in such areas.
+In simple words, if you are going to use 3 fans and 3 tubes for 6 hrs, then just install a inverter and battery with capacity to run 6 fans and 6 tubes for 6 hrs. Thats it.
+Dear Venkatesh,
+You said you were going to use 3 fans and 4 CLF bulbs with 1400 va inverter. v-guard 1400 inverter has the efficiency to take over 1250 watts load at a time. Total wattage of 3 fans and 4 cfl bulbs is just 320. I think v-guard DU 800 plus suits you, it’s a single battery inverter.
+If you were going to buy v-guard 800 va inverter, then Exide IT 500 inva tubular (150ah) would be a good choice. If your total load would exceed 600 watts then plz read my suggestion in previous comment.
+Thank you,
+Hi iam from calicut,this is a great forum for ups discussions.
+i would like to buy a exide it750 model battery,which inverter will be the best configuration..we have to use 3 fan 3 cfl and pc,led tv 39 inch 4 to 5 hrs /day backup needed in rainy season this may go up..so kindly advise and also let me know the apropriate price
+Thanks for your time.
+Dear Dr.shibin,
+For
+3 fans – 240 watts
+3 CFL’s – 50 watts
+Desktop PC – 200 watts
+39 inch LED – 75 watts
+—————————
+Total – 565 watts
+————————-
+We recommend
+Sukam shiny 850 va inverter – Rs.5500/-
+or
+Exide original 850 va inverter with LCD display – Rs.5500/-
++
+Exide Inva Tubular IT750 (200ah) battery – Rs.18000 to 18500/-
+This combination will serve you better and sufficient for 4 to 5 hours continuous backup for your load preference.
+———————————————————————————-
+Single 12v 200 ah battery with 12v 850va inverter won’t help you if the power cut hours exceed 10 hours per day (battery won’t get full charge). In such case , a 24v double battery inverter with two 100 ah batteries will help solve the battery charging problem
+Exide original 1500 va inverter with LCD display – Rs.7500/- (sukam shiny 1500 va is also a good choice)
++
+Two Exide Invertor plus 100 ah batteries – Rs.8300 x 2 = Rs.16600/-
+Thank u very much
+I have one more querry…i came to knw abt that exide it500 is c20 type , the inverter shop offering me c10 140ah battery with same warrenty as exide for ‘12000rs can go for that?? Pls advice
+Dear Dr.Shibin,
+Yes ……you can go for that ‘C10’ battery. But the warranty mentioned in C10 battery applies only if the battery is used for ‘online UPS’, So it’s better to ask your seller to mention the warranty in the bill.
+(usually they give 3 years full replacement warranty for C10 batteries for inverter application)
+Hi…
+I bought the 140 ah c10 battery and exide 850va inverter
+Costs Rs.18000/- in total
+how can i test, is it 140 ah they said 120 and 140 have similar outlook…pls reply.
+Dear Shibin,
+Post your battery model and make, so that we could confirm it.
+Just bought IT-500i at price Rs.15500 in ERODE.
+iNVERTER Luminous Rs.5500 …I spend wiring and service cost apx Rs.1800…the problem IS i wont not even pay this entire Rs.23000 to my ELECTRICITY BILL FOR NEXT 10 years..What to do…TN IS DARKINING ..
+Sir, I want to buy Su-kam 850 VA pure sine wave inverter and 150 AH Exide Inva Tubular battery. Can you please tell me how much it will cost in nanganallur, Chennai?
+Dear Sankar,
+Sukam 850 VA Pure Sine wave Inverter would Cost Rs.5500 to 6000/- and Exide 150 AH IT500 would cost Rs.14000 – 15000 in nanganallur, Chennai.
+Thanks so much!
+Hi,
+Great Website !!!
+Can you please tell me difference between Exide InvaRed 500
+And Exide Inva Tubular IT 500? Both are 150 Ah.
+Dear Sohil,
+Please read this post
+Spoke to one of the usha dealer, he said he sells the microtek inverter with excide tubular battery ( 12 hrs backup) , 4 years warrenty, asking price is 21500 Rs/- (14000 for excide battery and 6500rs/ for microtek inverter), please let me know which excide battery is best and is it worth spending 21500rs for 860 watts inverter or any best options
+Dear Babu,
+You didn’t mention the AH Rating or model no. of Exide Tubular battery that you were going to buy, So i can’t comment on it.
+As far as the Microtek Inverter is concerned, 860 VA (not watts) square wave inverter would cost around Rs.4500 to 5000/-.
+Dear Admin,
+I am planning to buy a Inverter. I have to select one battery from three of the following batteries:
+1) Exide Inva Tubular IT 500 (150 Amp)
+2) SF Sonic Power House (150 Amp)
+3) SF Stan Tubular Battery (150 Amp)
+Please let me know which battery will be best for my home inverter. If possible also please let me know the difference of these three batteries.
+For Inverter machine which will be best of following items:
+1) Luminous Inverter 800 VA pure sign wave
+2) Microtek Inverter 800 VA pure sign wave
+3) Su-kam Inverter 800 VA pure sign wave
+4) Zenus Inverter 800 VA pure sign wave
+Please let me know your choice.
+Dear Pallab Dhara,
+We recommend Microtek Pure sinewave inverter UPS SEBz-850VA and Exide Inva tubular IT500.
+UPS SEBz-850VA – 5000- 5500/-
+IT 500 Exide – 14000 – 14500/-
+Dear Admin,
+According to you if I buy Exide Inva Tubular IT 500 then you recommend me Microtek Pure Sign wave inverter. Is it best compatible with IT 500?
+Is there anything wrong with Luminous Pur sugn wave inverter?
+Dear Pallab dhara,
+Nothing wrong with Luminous Pure sine wave inverters. Compared to Microtek, Luminous is little bit coslty with same performance.
+Microtek Inverters are 100% compatible with IT 500 Exide Tubular batteries.
+Dear Admin,
+Today I have talked with Exide Dealer regarding my home inverter.
+I am buying Exide Inva Tubular IT 500 battery and Genus 800 VA Pure Sign Wave Inverter. Please let me know whether this combination is okay?
+Please let me know your suggestion.
+Dear Pallab Dhara,
+The combination is perfect, but be sure that your dealer is providing service for genus inverter.
+We recommend DSP Sine wave solar hybrid inverter from genus, in future hybrid solar inverters are going to capture the market. So, consider DSP Sine wave solar hybrid inverter before you go for normal pure sine wave inverter.
+DSP Sine wave solar hybrid inverter has an additional option to charge the battery from solar panels. You don’t need to buy solar panels now, you can install solar panels in future.
+Got the following Quote would Like to know if its overpriced
+Luminous Inverter 850 VA – Rs 6500 and Exide 150 AH battery Rs 13500.
+Dear Soundarya,
+Please ask your dealer for following details.
+1. Inverter waveform (Pure sinewave is the best choice. Please read our articles about pure sine wave inverters and square wave inverters)
+2. Lead acid battery type ( Tubular, semi tubular or flat plate)
+Tubular batteries lasts for 4+ years, Flat plate have only 2 years life expectancy.
+After receiving your reply We will confirm whether your dealers price quote is right or over priced.
+Hi, I had bought an APC 850 VA inverter with SF Stanred 500+ tubular battery last Feb’12. This doesn’t give the power back-up as promised by the dealer. Initially the dealer on installation just left those higher power consuming appliance and connected the inverter to all the appliance in my home. I just tried to use only 2 fans at any point of time during a power maintenance day and the back-up lasts only 4 hrs. Is there any problem with the battery. how much time the battery is expected to give power back-up
+Dear Rangarajan,
+Only 4hrs backup for just 2 fans with 150 ah battery ? seems something wrong with battery. Please call your battery dealer to check the battery, if they find any fault with battery, just claim your warranty.
+what would be the expected battery back-up for this SF500+ 150 ah battery so that I could claim the warranty. thanks for your reply. Moreover, I would like to know if the back-up time would have been impacted if I connect the inverter to all less power requiring appliance but using only 2 fans at a time
+Dear Rangarajan,
+An eighty AH exide battery could power 2 fans for 8 hrs at medium speed, For 150 AH 2 fans should run for atleast 10 hrs.
+Connecting the whole home wiring to inverter will definitely affect battery back up time and battery life.
+Dear Rohit,
+IT 500 Exide is good choice
+As far as inverter is concerned Microtek, sukam and luminous inverters perform well under frequent power cut situations, all these inverters use more or less same technology. Check out the service availability before you buy. Battery is the heart of the UPS system, Exide IT 500 is the best choice. Exide semitubular batteries ‘Invertor Plus’ with 2 years warranty also perform well with these inverters.
+I bought Microtek E2 1025VA Inverter + 150AH Tall Tubular Battery for Rs.19000/-
+The battery named Okaya ProPower Premium Tubular Battery in black color, is it genuine okaya battery?
+Dear Karthick,
+Okaya is a Microtek owned company. They have four models of tubular batteries, but none of them are black in colour. The only model in okaya with black colour is GE 150ah generator battery with 18 months warranty.
+May be they have changed their model without notice.
+what is difference between IT500 and ST500 Exide batteries ?
+Which is batteries giving the best performance
+Dear Durai,
+Please read the Previous comment.)
+Thanks for the response.
+Wanted to understand how the “+12” part of warranty work. are there any fixed percentage for this period ? Is that percentage discount on printed MRP or price at which dealer is selling the product.
+And do you have any technical info about CT500? wanted to understand how it is different from IT500.
+Dear Deep,
+For warranty details of Invatubular batteries please see this post
+You asked us about Exide CT 500, we did’nt post any information on CT500 because this one is new to market, it has yet to proven.
+CT500 uses ceil tubular technology which is different from InvaTubular series.
+Go for IT500 for trouble free performance.
+sir,
+I plan to buy a SUKAM inverter(model-SHINY rated 850va). Which battery would be best suited for me? Am confused; AMARON’s (AAM-CR-I1700D04R or CRTT – 150) or EXIDE’s (ST500 or ST650). I would like to have long backup. How much would it cost(the battery)? I live in Varanasi.
+Dear Harishankar,
+Sukam-shiny850 va iinverter is a pure sine wave inverter suitable for all type of loads.
+If you face 2hrs power cut per day, then we recommend Exide (semi-tubular)invertor plus 150 AH with 2 years full warranty. If you suffer more than 6 hrs power cut per day, we would recommend Exide IT 500 150AH tall tubular battery.
+ST 500 (SF StanTubular 150 AH battery) would cost atleast 1500 rupees less than Exide IT500.
+IT 500 (invatubular 150 AH battery) would cost Rs.13500 to 14500/- in varnasi.
+dear Admin:
+yesterday i buy 1 Exide invater plus IN2000/200AH and already purchased last year inverter is luminious pure sine wave 800va…. Now please tell me is this exide 200ah battery is good for long backup bcoz in our area has long power cuts near abt 5 to 7 hours….. exide dealer told me this battery is good for long backup it gives 1 to 2 hours more then exide 150ah plus if u sugest me for is this battery good or i rturn this battery and buy 150ah tubular….
+from kashmir
+Dear Sameer,
+200 AH battery for 800 VA inverter in long power cut areas is completely useless, you battery will not get fully charged since the charging current of 800 VA inverter is not suitable for fast charging the 200 AH battery.
+Maximum 165 AH battery will be suitable for your 800 VA inverter during long power cuts.
+Dear admin but in night time the was fully recharge there is no power cut in night time now its good for me or not….
+Dear Sameer,
+Do one thing, Use your battery power at day time fully until the inverter auto shutoff the battery power. Now allow the battery to get charge from grid power, carefully watch and find how many hours does it takes to fully recharged. If it keeps charging even after 12 hrs, then you can confirm that your inverter is not suitable for 200 ah battery.
+We are from Cochin, Kerala. Our requirement is to run 4-5 PCs with LCD monitors for 1-2 hours during power failures. Since we don’t have critical applications, we don’t want to purchase an online UPS. We just need power backup and avoid computer restarts.
+After obtaining some quotes, we have purchased Microtek 1550VA SWE2 Pure Sine wave UPS along with two Exide 115 AH IT400 batteries.
+We tested the UPS operation during grid Voltage was at 195 Volts. The UPS was not charging the battery and in UPS mode itself, it causes PC restarts. We tested only with one PC load. The supplier tried with another new UPS and it also shown the same problems.
+Microtek specifications shows that it can operate in inverter mode 100v to 300v and in UPS mode 180v to 260v. But at 195v it could not charge the battery.
+On the next day, during of-peek hours we tested with the UPS at 222volts. It successfully charged the battery at this voltage level in UPS mode. But during voltage level came down just below 220v, it again shown troubles- it can charge battery but the switching time causes PC restarts.
+Our main purpose is to operate PCs so we were not able to go forward with this UPS.
+So, after consulting the technicians, our supplier also confirmed that, the problem is with the product itself and it is better to chose other options since it will cause future troubles to them also. For home usage customers, this UPS had no problem, but for PCs, it may not be reliable.
+So we purchased the Exide IT400 batteries only from them and returned the Microtek UPS.
+Now we need to purchase another 1.5KW UPS system from other brands that will operate in normal voltage ranges without restarting the PC. It should be compatible with 115 AH IT400 Exide batteries. Is Su-Kam Shine 1500VA a better option?
+Thanks for your time.
+Dear Raj,
+After reading your comment, it’s clearly visible that your inverter has some fault in operating at lower voltages.
+Instead of Microtek 1550 SWe2 you can try Microtek’s classic trouble free model ‘UPS SEBz-1500VA’. If you still want to go for other leading brands, sukam shiny 1500VA would be a good choice.
+But i recommend you to keep the inverter at easily accessible place,
+* Switch your inverter to narrow voltage mode (UPS mode) manually before you switch on you PC’s.
+* After Completing and your work in PC, Shutdown your PC an then again manually switch your inverter to wide voltage mode(inverter mode)
+This is the possible solution for those who have voltage fluctuation from grid.
+Many thanks for the prompt reply.
+I have already ordered a SuKam 1500VA Shiny and it may reach here on Monday. I will test it in the low voltage ranges and if it is also having problem, i will chose Microtek SEBz-1500VA, as per you suggestion.
+Thanks for visiting, Raj!
+dear admin, i want to buy exide invatubular IT 500.. can u please guide me as to the cost of same in punjab.. also which luminous only inverter preferably pure sign wave with cost is best for it.. also other options of luminous other than pure sign wave with likely cost in punjab.. thanks.
+Dear Admin,
+How does Amaron batteries compare in performance with Exide and other make batteries?
+Dear Louis,
+Exide is a big company and has a very good service network compared to Amaron. For hassle free performance we recommend Exide Inverter Batteries. It doesn’t mean that Amaron batteries are inferior.
+Each and every company is offering long warranty, but warrannty claiming process is not so easy like buying a new battery. Even a Exide authorized dealer would ask for 40 days time to replace the faulty battery, Now imagine the warranty claiming process of other brands.
+Dear admin,
+I am buying exide 850 VA pure sinewave inverter.Please tell,is it good for exide IT500 battery? Or will I go for other inverter brand?
+Dear Shashi,
+Exide IT500 is a Perfect match for 850 VA pure sine wave inverter. NO worries, go for it. Thank you.
+Dear admin,
+I instal Exide inva tubular IT-500(150AH)last 2 days in my 850va pure sine wave inverter(Microtek),our power cut morning 9AM to 10AM and night 9PM to 10PM,other time battery always charged,i have not seen the battery fully charged yet.My load 2 fan and 3 tublight run only 45 minutes.After 45 minutes inverter automatic off.What is the fault.i think my Battery is not full charge in this inverter.Before i instal amron shield 140AH battery,he gives me 3 hours backup,always my battery has full charge.i want to know how many times the inverter full charge the battery.
+Dear Afroz,
+It looks like your battery has some issues which could be solved by trained service engineers.
+Battery is not reaching a particular voltage, so the inverter keeps on charging the battery. It would lead to abnormal heat and water loss, call your battery dealer immediately and get the battery checked by trained person.
+Thanks for the advise,but i want to know how many hours does it takes to fully recharged.
+Dear Afroz,
+The battery would take 8 hrs to get fully recharged.
+Dear admin,
+Is it any wrong to charge exide it500 at 14.2v with microtek inverter in high mode or should I charge it at 13.8v in standard mode? Is charging with high mode degrade the battery power?
+Dear Shashi,
+Fast charging mode is recommended for frequent and long power cut areas.
+Standard charge ensures long battery life.
+You can charge the battery in both mode, It500 has overcharge protection facility and fast charging mode does not affect IT500.
+If you Face only 2 hrs power cut per day and your usage is limited in power cut hrs, then you better change to standard charging mode.
+Dear admin,
+Please give some details about exide 850va pure sinewave inverter.And how it is different from microtek 850 va inverter in features and performance?
+Today i purchased Exide IT 500 in Bangalore for Rs. 15000/-. MRP is about 16500/-. IT500 is now IT500i. It comes with LED indicators to display charging and discharging status of the battery.
+Dear Maithilish,
+Thanks for sharing the price details.
+Dear Admin,
+Thanks for details in this site which is really helpful.
+Today i got Ciel 850VA inverter from Exide with IT500 battery.
+Ciel 850 has Two mode of charging current. Normal charging (NC) with charging current 8.0A and High charging (HC) with charging current 11.0A.
+On back panel there is a switch to select NC or HC.
+For IT500 which charging mode is appropriate.
+i want to purchase a IT500 model. please tell me its price at punjab(patiala)
+sir. i visited this site first time yesterday… it is so helpful. actually yesterday i purchased exide champion CP150(IN) battery and sukam 850 va shark inverter, please tell me how is this combination and how should i use this for better performance, there is frequent power cut about 8 hours per day. Beside this please tell me what should be the cost of both items according to you. thanks. Aman.
+Dear Aman,
+Exide champion is not made for inverter and life expectancy of exide champion battery with inverter would be 2 years. The Price of Exide champion 150 AH would be around Rs.8500/- at any dealers shop.
+Sukam shark 850 VA inverter is not a Pure sine wave inverter. It would cost Rs.4400 to 4800/-
+i need to purchase microtek UPS-E2 875VA with exide IT500i battery @ kovilpatti can you tell the rate of that.
+Dear Sathya,
+Microtek inverters are available in your town @
+Bharani Electronics, Market road, Kovilpatti.
+Exide batteries are available at
+KPS Battery center, Elayarasanendhal Road, Kovilpatti
+Sun Power Life Battery center, Kathiresan Kovil road, Kovilpatti.
+Above two shops are authorized Exide dealers in Kovilpatti.
+can u tell me difference between IT500 & IT500i
+Dear Sathya,
+Both models are nearly same, but IT500i has some LED indicators to show the battery charge level.
+IT500i is better than IT500.
+want to purchase a CT500 150AH model. please tell me its price and warranty
+Dear Asha,
+Exide CT500 would cost Rs.11500 to 12,000/- at dealers outlet.
+It has only 30 months warranty whereas Exide IT500 has 48 months warranty.
+o thanks sir, but what should i do now? I paid 9200/- for champion battery and 3800/- for invertor.. should i change the battery, and how will it affect that the battery is not an invertor battery, actually should i say so to the dealer also that he cheated me or something else…
+Dear Aman,
+Please read this post to know the difference between automobile batteries and inverter batteries.
+Normally, you can’t claim warranty for Exide champion battery fitted with inverter in case of battery failure.
+Some dealers sell this battery for inverters at their own risk. In-case of any battery failure with in very short period of time, they will claim warranty to Exide, stating that the battery is fitted for automobile use only.
+Sometimes Exide will reject this bogus claim from dealers.
+So, it’s always a risk to use a automobile battery for inverters.
+Exide Invertor Plus 150 AH (semi tubular) is available for Rs.10000 to 10,500/-. You can choose this battery which has 2 years warranty.
+Dear admin,
+My inverter melts the negative(red) terminal of exide it500 batterry.only the place where bolts are attached are melt.still I am able to use the battery through its remaining part.My battery is only two months old.Will the exide avail my it500 warranty or my warranty will be ended?
+sir,could u please tell me whether sukam 600va sine wave inverter is compatible for exide tubular 150ah it 500 battery?
+Dear Sheffe,
+Sukam 600 VA Pure Sine wave inverter is 100% compatible with Exide 150 AH Tubular battery IT500.
+Dear admin,
+My inverter melts the negative(red) terminal of exide it500 batterry due to loose connection.only the place where bolts are attached are melt.still I am able to use the battery through its remaining part.My battery is only two months old.Will the exide avail my it500 warranty or my warranty will be ended?
+Dear Shashi,
+Sorry to hear that your battery terminal got burned due to loose connection.
+You can claim warranty from Exide. But, if the battery terminal remaining is good enough to connect the wire from inverter, then exide will reject your claim.
+One correction in your comment, Red terminal of the battery is called “positive” not negative.
+Do not connect the battery terminals wrongly, it will cause serious damage to your battery.
+Dear admin,
+Thanks for your reply.In future,if my battery is giving low backup or any other problem, then will exide replace my battery?
+Dear Shashi,
+I hope so, Exide would replace your battery in-case of battery failure within warranty period.
+I just bought Exide IT500 (inva tubular 150 AH) @ Rs 13400 from Bhopal (M.P)
+Dear Hitesh,
+Please Share the dealer details with us, as it would help our other readers from Bhopal. Thank you once again.
+They are Authorized Dealer of Exide in Bhopal
+Signetic Power Systems, R-68 Zone II, M P Nagar,Bhopal
+Contact- 0755-4271521
+thanks a lot sir you are so helpful…thanks once again.
+sir i have purchased exide stan tabular st500 battery with 13200 is the dealer taken true cost or i been cheated. . . . plz tell me i am from agra . .up haud
+Dear Kamal,
+I think, Your dealer charged you extra 1000 rupees on your Purchase of ST500.
+sir r u telling me the prize of agra or where: . . . and sir he has said to me that it is industrial battery and sir can u tell me that st500 comes with2 model as he said 2 me and one more thing sir at the top of battery it is written sf industrial . is this the same for which u r talking g 2 I suggest to all the people that plz dont purchase any battery from pa*** battery house agra . . . . . . . . ql
+Sir,
+Exide tubler it 500 (150 ah) is enough or very big for using home. Suggest which tubler is best for home purpose. I want 4 tubes and 4 lights. How much price please inform to my mail.
+Dear Krishnaroa,
+Exide IT500 is better choice for home and office use, go for it.
+Hi, i need your valuable suggestion please.
+My requirement is 3 cfl, 3 fan, 2 tube, 1 lcd 26″.
+At my home town in AP, power cut is for 4 hours daily (2 hr in morning, 2 hrs in evening).
+Please suggest how many VA of home UPS and AH of Battery are required.
+Also please suggest best brand of two combinations.
+I am Planning for microtek 625 VA ups + exide semi tubular 135 AH or exide IT 500.
+but local dealer says 600 VA doesn’t go well with 150 AH i have to go for 800 VA.
+I NEED YOUR VALUABLE SUGGESTION.
+THANK YOU.
+Dear Karim,
+Exide IT500 is compatible with Microtek 600 va inverter. If you are budget conscious, go with your first choice.
+We strongly recommend 850 VA inverter for your load preference, 850 VA Pure sinewave + Exide Invertor plus 135AH would be a right choice for you.
+Hi ,
+i have to run a max of 4 fans /4 lights and 1TV/or laptop as I have to work from home .Also i plan to use Mixie ,only after turning off all the lights/fans , and that too would be in urgent situations.
+should i go for a 800VA inverter and 150AH battery .
+One of my friends suggested me to go for (HIGH LITE high frequency sine wave combo ups- 810 VA (2.5 kg)
+).And I plan to go for exide tubular IT500.
+Want your suggestions regarding the above invertor.
+Can I also consider Luminous/microtek .
+Dear Pradyush,
+800 VA can handle all your needs. You asked me about HILITE UPS, that inverter is from UTL, an experienced UPS manufacturing company.
+We have a post about that inverter, please see
+UTL HILITE 810 VA Pure sine wave inverter has some advanced features like
+No load shutdown
+Any Battery option etc.
+We recommend HILITE 810 VA inverter + IT500i
+Note: UTL has service center at Delhi only.
+Price range would be,
+UTL HILITE 810 VA – Rs.3500 to 4000/-
+Exide IT500i Tall Tubular – Rs.13,500 to 15,000/-
+Thanks for visiting
+Thanks for the above information .
+Among UTL High Lite ,Microtek ,Luminous and Sukam, which would would you recommend.
+Only issue for me is UTL’s service center is in Delhi , and I am based in Bangalore .
+One more concern is that price of UTL hi lite is about Rs3700 after discount and other invertors from Microtek ,Luminous and Sukam are priced at Rs 5000 onwards.
+What advantages the above inverters have over UTL high lite as they are priced higher that UTL high lite .
+Dear pradyush,
+Actually, UTL Hi-Lite inverter has some advanced features than microtek and sukam inverters of this class, but the problem is lack of service network, that’s why the inverter is available at low price.
+UTL has now distributors and service centres in many areas. it is wise to buy online and get local service.
+Dear Admin,
+I used Microtek 850 sebz inverter+Exide IT500 Tubular Battery.My battery would take 15hrs to get fully recharged.dear admin you tell me battery would take 8hrs to get fully reachared.what is the fault,my inverter or my battery?please tell me.
+Dear Afroz,
+You need to bench charge your battery to solve this problem. Call your battery service man.
+Dear admin,
+what is bench charge
+Hi,
+I am from New Delhi. Now-a-days the power situation is too bad.4 to 5 hours of power cuts(min.)
+We are planning to buy a Inverter cum battery for an Electricity load of 4 Fans +4 TubeLights.
+Can you suggest me the best combination(Inverter+Battery models) and Price?
+Dear Yash,
+For People from Delhi,
+We recommend UTL-HiLite Pure sine wave inverter + Exide Invertor Plus 150 Ah semi tubular battery. This combination suits Budget conscious People, gives trouble free performance at low cost.
+UTL-Hi-lite inverter Price in Delhi- Rs.3000/-
+Exide invertor Plus 150 AH semi-tubular- Rs. 9500/-
+Total- 12500/-
+The battery we suggested above would last long for 4 years, if you want to battery with more life expectancy, better you choose Exide Inva Tubular IT500i Tall battery.
+Dear Yash,
+Sorry for delayed reply. All the details you asked for is out there in the comments section itself.
+We recommend Microtek Pure sine wave Inverter UPSEBz 850 VA and Exide IT500 Tall tubular battery for your load preference.
+Dear admin,
+This is Raman from Moga city, Punjab.
+I Just Purchased Exide IT500 Battery for Rs.13000/-, now i have to search for a best inverter that suits my load preference of 2 Fans+2 CFL+ one 24 inch LCD TV, Please add, i need 4 hours back up with all gadgets turned on, throw some light on me, whether IT500 give 4 hrs back-up for all my load.
+Suggest me a Good inverter that satisfy all my requirements.
+Thank you
+Dear Raman,
+Thanks for sharing the Price of IT500 in Punjab.
+We recommend Microtek Pure sine wave inverter model UPS EBz 850 VA for your IT 500 battery.
+Please read this post to calculate your battery back up time with your load preference.
+Thanks Admin for the prompt reply.
+How much will the Exide Inva Tubular IT500i Tall battery cost me and what are it benefits and life span?
+What would be the maximum backup for the Combination you suggested(UTL-Hi-lite inverter+Exide invertor Plus 150 AH semi-tubular)?
+Hello!In response to your reply July 15, 2012 @ 4:30 pm. as per my req. the power consumption would be 500watts(approx)so 600or625 VA will do for me but you suggested 850VA any reason for that? pls respond.
+2.per my research I zeroed to Microtek 600/625va sinewave with 135AH Base tubular battery. is this ok? plsss suggest the Best..
+3.how is base battery performance (tubular)
+..Thanks and Regards, Karim
+Dear karim,
+600 VA = 360 watts
+If you want to use load up to 400 to 500 watts, you need 800 to 850 VA inverter.
+hi, i come across this formula xVA * 0.8 = 500 VA. where VA=P(in watts), power factor=0.8. => x= 500/0.8 = 625 VA thats what i require here. pls validate the above and suggest if you have any formula.
+how is base battery tubular 135 ah ?
+Thanks.
+Dear Karim,
+That formula won’t work, if you still want to go for 600 VA inverter, try your luck.
+A 600 VA inverter won’t able to handle load more than 360 watts. Try with your 500 watts kitchen mixer 🙂
+Any updates on my query dated 24th July 2012?
+Thanks Admin for your valuable suggestion. will keep posted in this forum once am done with all the stuff!
+Inverter Ciel 850VA with IT 500 was installed in my home last month. It is able to run 2 fans (70w x 2 totally 140 Watts) continuously for 7 hours during power outage. Whether this back time is fine or should i get more backup from 150AH.
+Your comment on this would be highly appreciated. Thank you
+(I am sure about the 70w of power consumption by the Fan as i have cross checked that through electronic meter)
+I’ve bought an APC 850VA inverter and Stan red SF500+ in Feb’12. Whenever the main power goes and inverter power starts, the fan speed goes down and the back-up time for 2 fans lasts around 6 hours. I contacted Exide to ask them to inspect the battery, however they have over phone itself told that there could be problem with inverter’s IC. When I intially checked with APC they put the blame on the battery. This doesn’t take me any where. Kindly suggest what could be the reason for this problem and how to fix this. Thanks.
+Hi,
+I have to run a max of 4 fans /4 lights and 1TV/or laptop as I have to work from home .Also i plan to use Mixie ,only after turning off all the lights/fans , and that too would be in urgent situations.
+Initially I was considering to go for HIGH LITE high frequency sine wave combo ups- 810 VA along with exide tubular IT500i.
+You too had advised me to go for the HiLite 810VA inverter along with IT500i
+But I am based in Bangalore and HiLite 810VA is not readily available here.
+So I am thinking of either microtek 870 VA or a luminous one alongwith the exide tubular IT500i.
+Want your suggestions regarding this combo .
+sir,
+we have installed exide invatubular 150Ah It500 battery&880va pure sine wave Amaron inverter.
+is exide battery and amaron inverter are good pair?
+what is the normal back up time?we are using four 15w CFL and 3fans
+what are the maintenance porcess?
+Thanks in advance..:)
+Dear Raghuram,
+You got a good combination of inverter and battery!
+If you use all the 3 fans and 4 CFL’s simultaneously, you could get 4 to 5 hours back up with your fully charged 150 ah battery.
+———————————————————-
+Maintaining a inverter battery is not a herculean task, you could do it yourself.
+Your battery should be filled with distilled water once in 3 months according to your usage.
+Buy distilled water bottles (2 or 4) from any battery shop (strictly from battery shop),
+Remove the vent caps at the top of the battery one by one, make sure you don’t touch the acid that drips from the vent caps.
+Use a cleaning cloth, avoid touching your eyes with your fingers while topping up your battery with distilled water.
+Put the 6 vent caps carefully on a old news paper or waste cloth.
+Now slowly fill the 6 vent holes with distilled water one by one.
+Probably it would take one full glass of water per vent hole.
+You may need 1.5 or 2 litres of distilled water to topup a 150 ah tall battery.
+After filling the water,carefully close the 6 vent holes with vent caps.
+Each vent cap should be placed carefully, don’t give too much pressure as it could break the level indicators.
+Make sure the vent caps are tightly fixed, so that the unhealthy gas generated during charging the battery won’t escape in to your living space.
+Bingo!
+Don’t forget to apply Vaseline (petroleum jelly) to your battery terminals to avoid corrosion and bad contact problem.
+sir,
+petroleum jelly should be applied for both terminal or only +ve terminal?
+It should be applied to both terminals.
+thanks alot.sir:)
+Hi Admin,
+Thanks for all wonderful ideas and contributions. I have already gone through all your comments but I did not notice any feedback on Exide IT400 inveretr battery. There is a new tubular tall battery IT400 (115Ah) from EXIDE.
+I am in process of choosing right battery and inverter. recently, I have visited one dealer and he proposed me three batteries: IT 400 (price: 11.7k), MEGA 100AH (price: 8.9k) and SF Battery 100AH (price: 7500). He proposed SF 850V AH invereter with all above batteries to run 1 LCD 32″, 3 Fans (90W), 3 Tubes, 2 CFL (11W), 1 Wifi Modem + 1 laptop. Not all these will run at one time. Mostly, I would be using 3 Fans (90W), 3 Tubes, 2 CFLs (11W). Please suggest whether I could go with his suggession or look for IT500i with 850VA inverter?
+1) I see that 600VA is recommended with IT400. Then why is he asking to buy 850VA inverter?
+The reason he gave was only 500 rupees difference and I can use many appliances as these invereters provide 80% of their capacity. He suggested that 80% of 850VA would provide equivallent to 500wattage power. I am not sure about compatibility though.
+2) IT 400 or IT 500/IT 500i (I want to stick to EXIDE only). I would keep this inverter inside my small 2 BHK flat so is this safe to use this tubular battery as I have 1 yr old kid roaming around the flat. Is there risk of fume and hazardous substance?
+3) I am in Bangalore so power cut happens maximum 3 hours in whole day but at different intervals and lasts for 1 hr. Is tubular is right for my usage?
+4) Is there thinner trolly available for tall tubular battery as this takes lesser space?
+Thanks for reading though this post. Your response is highly appreciated.
+Dear Saha,
+We recommend 850 va pure sine wave inverter with Exide Mega Inva 150 ah with 3 years full replacement warranty.
+This configuration will serve for prolonged period and value for money.
+Sir,
+I am about to buy an inverter , read all your comments which helped me in finalizing the best inverter ,battery combination, One doubt I have is what is the diff between pure sinewave and Trape Zoidal wave (microtek model UPS E2)and which is the best. Thanks in advance.
+Pure sine wave is the best suitable waveform for all your sensitive gadgets.
+Hi Admin,
+For the Sukam 7.5KVA with 10 batteries and for a area with frequent power cut, which type of batteries you will recommenend?
+a. Exide tubular IT 500 / 550 / 650 ?
+b. Suppose I have excellent 2 IT 500 batteries. Can i combine it with another IT 550/650 ? or all the batteries should be of same type???
+We recommend IT500,
+If you plan to connect old and new batteries in series, we recommend to use small device called sukam battery equalizer to enhance the performance and battery life of both old and new batteries.
+Hi Admin,
+Any specific reason for not using IT 550 / 650?
+My thinking is with IT 650, it will give me better performance & will run for longer hours. Please guide.
+No specific reason, you can go ahead with your own preference.
+But i cant connect IT 550/650 with IT 500 in series…it can affect the battery performance…right?
+With sukam battery equalizer, you can!
+Please sugest me Which battery I have to buy for my home? One distributor says to go for Exide lChampion Battery for
+Rs 11,000. Another says E#xide Champion
+Battery is for car and it wont last long.
+Dear AD kumar,
+You can use Exide champion for inverter application, even exide itself listed champion battery under inverter battery category in its online battery store. But it is a automobile battery too.
+We recommend exide invertor plus battery instead of exide champion for inverter aplcation.
+Exide champion is less expensive compared to all other inverter battery models in Exide.
+Hi Admin,
+I want to use 3 fans, 4 tube lights, a TV and a Computer, what package will be useful for my requirements ?
+Dear Ajay,
+If you prefer to run all your gadgets simultaneously , we would recommend sukam shiny 1500 va inverter or Exide 1450 va double battery inverter ( not exide ceil inverter )
+For battery
+We recommend Exide Mega Inva 100 ah battery with 3 years full warranty.
+(You need two batteries to operate a 1500 va inverter)
+Okay wat will be the total cost for that ?
+Dear Ajay,
+Exide original 1450 va inverter – ₹7500 /-
+Exide mega inva 100 ah – ₹8500/- (cost of one battery)
+You need 2 batteries for 1450 va inverter.
+( For Tamilnadu – 15% extra – summer price hike)
+Total of 23,500 and 15% Extra ?
+Sorry to say this, but this is the real situation in Tamilnadu for now. But there are some genuine dealers selling batteries and inverters at reasonable prices.
+Inquire more dealers and don’t forget to share the prices after purchase.
+Hi Admin,
+Whats the price of IT 500 battery in Gaziabad?
+Dear Anshul Agarwal,
+IT500 would cost Rs.13500 to 14500/- in Gaziabad.
+Hi Admin,
+Im planning to install a battery and inverter for my home. I live in chennai and there is 2hours of power cut daily and low voltages in the evenings and nights between 8pm & 1am. I did go through all you comments and still confused. Coul you suggest me a best combination of battery and inverter for long run with low maintenance. I would be using 3 CFL lights (15W) + 2 fans + 1 tv or 1 computer.
+Thanks,
+Vasu
+Dear Vasu,
+We recommend
+Exide 850 va original inverter with LCD display (not ceil inverter)
++
+Exide Mega Inva 150 ah battery with 3 years full replacement warranty.
+————————————————————————
+Sukam shiny 850 va, APC sinewave 850 va, Microtek UPS SEBz850va are other options for sine wave inverter.
+————————————————————–
+If you suffer low voltage problem, install a 4 kva double booster stabilizer before your inverter, it would boost low voltage (up to 135 volt ) to 200 to 250 v.
+‘V GUARD AC STABILIZER 4.00 KVA VGDE 400 DOUBLE BOOST’
+Thanks admin.
+I would check prices for the Exide 850va original Inverter and Exide mega Inva 150ah battery in the market.
+Also if you are aware, kindly let meknow the price details.
+Regards,
+Vasu
+i recently purchased APC 850VA sine wave inverter at price -7000,Exide INVA TUBULAR IT500 at price -14500. i in my area offently power went and resume.4 hours hours power cut then 2 hour power resume again 4 to 2 hour power cut same situation only. still now running without probs.I used two fan(5 star rated orient fan)1,,one tv some times 3 cfl bulb in night time. Any suggestion.
+Dear Kamala Kannan,
+You got a best combination of quality products.
+Dear Admin,
+Congrats on your great work.. I am from Kanyakumari (Tamilnadu) and we have close to 14 hours of intermittent power cut daily (3 hours cut and then 2 hours supply). In my office, i have 6 laptops and two fans running and i am planning to install an inverter for this setup. Could you please suggest me a suitable battery / inverter combo and its best market price? I dont wish to invest on double battery setup as it would cost more. Will a single battery setup will do?
+Dear Monikumar,
+We strongly recommend 1500 va inverter for your load preference.
+I understand your concern, but i want to tell you some tricks about installing double battery inverter @ low cost.
+Normal single battery (12 v system) inverter will fail to charge the battery of 150 ah to its full capacity during heavy powercuts like 14hrs/day. So, installing a bigger battery with 850 va or 900 va inverter is pointless during heavy power cuts.
+Instead of installing 150 ah battery + 850 va inverter, we recommend the following combination
+Microtek sine wave model ‘UPS SEBz 1500 VA’ Inverter- Rs.7000 to 7500/- (double battery inverter – 24v system)
+Two 80 ah Exide Invertor Plus model battery – Rs.6000 x 2 = Rs.12000/-
+Total – Rs.19000 + installation
+————————————————————-
+Advantages of the above configuration.
+24 v double battery inverter charges the two 80 ah batteries to its full capacity in few hours.
+Full charge to battery after every discharge results in Long battery life.
+It could handle 14 hours power cut flawlessly, will never let you down.
+Some battery dealers would object using 80 ah batteries for 1500 va inverter, but it is 100% compatible and 100% safe to use 80 ah batteries with 1500 va inverter.
+Use standard charging mode.
+If you could afford two 100 ah batteries, use it instead of 80 ah batteries and enjoy more back up.
+Thanks for that great calc. I have currently installed UTL pure sine wave inverter 810VA in my home and i am satisfied with its performance. Also UTL pure sine wave 1500VA is available for 5600 in an online store. Whats your advice on going for this brand as i would end up saving another 2K? also, another online store sells BASE 100AH C10 short tubular battery for 8200. These batteries comes with 3 years of replacement warranty. What is your suggestion on going for two qty of this batteries?
+Dear MoniKumar,
+UTL 1260 VA Pure Sine Wave Double Battery Inverter ‘Hi Lite’ is available @ ebay from a delhi seller for Rs.5950, you could get it for Rs.5600 using ebay 7 % icici coupon or other discount coupons. We know that seller and he is very genuine and actually a authorized dealer of UTL inverters.
+UTL 1260 VA double battery inverter and UTL 810 VA Pure sine wave single battery inverters are very high quality products from a well experienced and established company.
+We have tested that UTL ‘Hi Lite’ model hi frequency ultra light weight inverters in our lab and it out performs some leading brand inverters. It has some advanced automatic features and high load handling capacity, outperforms most 850 va inverters in market.
+But the problem is lack of advertisement in south India and non availability @ small dealer outlets. People buy products only if a company advertise it very well. 🙂
+We recommend it!
+————————————————————–
+You asked about Base 100 AH C10 short tubular battery,
+Yes, we know that Marvel batteries, a coimbatore based online store is selling it for Rs.8200/-,
+Price is fair, We have no idea about their online store, call them and confirm it before going for payment.
+Dear Admin,
+Sorry that i didn’t come back on your last post to me. I have just brought UTL 810VA model for now and will be going for another 810VA UTL after a month to cover up my complete need. Tight budget this time. Could not go for 1260VA model as it subsequently requires 2 batteries to run. Coming to battery, i was hovering for Exide 88AH Inverter plus model that you have suggested. Meanwhile, i came across a quote from another dealer on an Amaron 100AH battery for Rs.6200 (not sure about the model though). Is it worth to go? Shall i lean towards any of automotive battery considering it is VFM than inverter labelled models? As per my understanding, non tubular inverter batteries are nothing but re-badged auto batteries. Is that understanding correct? What would be usual life expectancy of auto batteries if maintained well?
+Dear Monikumar,
+We recommend Exide Invertor plus model battery for reliability and long lasting performance more than 3 years.
+Sir, I am using a Exide Pure Sine wave Inverter machine of 850VA and Exide Invatubular IT-750(200Ah)Battery for the Last 1.5 month. During Charging of the Battery Some time The Inverter machine gives a long beep and the Electric Points connected with the Inverter machine stops for a moment and again starts. What is the Problem ?
+There is no problem during running of these Electric points during Battery Power.
+Dear Subhendu,
+some short circuits or corrupted microchips inside the inverter may cause such a instability, the unit need to be inspected by a authorized technician.
+Very high voltage input from grid also trips the inverter, do check the voltage from grid.
+Dear Sir, The Exide Technician suggested us to make the charging mode to High Charging Mode & the Other switch to change to Normal Mode instead of UPS mode(Which was before). Is it a Proper Suggestion..?
+Dear Subhendu,
+Post your inverter VA and Battery AH rating, so that we can suggest you the correct mode for charging.
+How many hours do you face power cut per day?
+Do not use ‘UPS mode’ unless you use desktop PC without 15mins backup UPS, We recommend normal mode.
+Hi Sir,
+I have an 120mah AMCO Battery Flat plate which failed after 3 years of service with APC SINE850va. Now, I was about to replace this battery with either Amaron CRTT 150mah or Exide IT500 tubular. since this needs to be installed in rural, as the powercut is very frequent throughout the year in Kanakapura(Bangalore). That’s one of the reason the life cycle of the battery got ended. Please advice on which one to buy as I am confused on both these models and for what reasonable price I can buy.
+Thanks a lot. I read many of your replies on suggesting people with their queries/questions. Hat’s off to your patience and humbleness in replying promptly even though you are late in replying.
+Thanks
+Gopal
+Dear Nargopal,
+3 years life for flat plate inverter battery is a good thing, no need to regret for that.
+Amaron CRTT 150 AH battery would cost around Rs.12500 to 12800/- , it is a good choice for frequent power cut areas.
+————————————————————————————���——————
+Exide IT 500 , 150 ah Tall tubular which is a best seller of its class is undoubtedly a power packed battery that suits both rural and urban conditions. It would cost around Rs.14500 to 15000/-
+——————————————————————————————————
+We recommend ‘Exide Mega Inva 150ah’ another model from Exide, which is not a Tubular battery, but out performs most tubular models from other leading brands.
+It has three years full replacement warranty, Life expectancy is 4+ years.
+Exide Mega inva 150 ah battery – Rs.12800 to 13,000/-
+Hi admin,
+Yesterday I have purchased Luminuous Sine wave 875VA inveter and SF Sonic StanRed 500+ Tubular battery. Is this combination ok or I can have to change something.
+5 stars for inverter and 3 stars for battery.
+So what can I do, whether I have to change my battery or I can go ahead with this combination as I have got this battery for Rs.11500 and it is a tubular battery and for IT 500 I have to pay Rs.13500. Both batteries have 3 years full warranty. Kindly suggest me on urgent basis.
+Dear Prabhat KUmar,
+Though IT500 has only 3 years full warranty, it would last long for 5 years normally, So investing 2000 rupees extra would definitely give you many advantages and real low maintenance and long life battery.
+I guess that, you are from Maharashtra, Rs.13,500 for IT500 is really reasonable and affordable. In Most southern states, it would cost above 14.5k
+detail of inveter in dehradun market
+———————————————–
+Microtek inveter (900VA) = rs 4400 (2 years warranty)
+Exide Tubular battery (150 Ah) =rs 10800 (2 years warranty)
+I think it is not Exide Inva Tubular Battery (as warranty and price are different)
+1)what is difference between Exide Inva Tubular Battery and Exide normal Tubular Battery
+2)Is it capable of running computer 3-4 hours ??
+(as it is sine inverter)
+Dear rst,
+We recommend Pure sine wave inverters for flawless performance and safety for your expensive electronic gadgets.
+———————————
+Normal tubular battery and Inva Tubular both will perform well and the Life expectancy and maintenance are the main difference between both batteries.
+Normal Tubular cycle life – 600 to 700 cycles – 3 years +
+Inva Tubular models- cycle life – 1250 cycles – 5 years +
+900 va inverter + 150 ah battery is capable running a desktop pc with LCD monitor for 3 to 4 hours. (not applicable for gaming PC )
+Hi Admin,
+First of all I would like to thank you for your detailed reviews on Inverters. It is very informative and useful.
+I am looking for the best Inverter and battery for the following requirements.
+2 Fans, 3 Tubes, 1 LED TV. I have 2 hrs of daily powercut with occasional full night trip! ( Twice a month!!! )
+I have shortlisted Microtek 1KVa 1025 Sine Wave Inverter + Exide IT 500 battery. Lowest offer is 20,000/- with installation and other things.
+Am I right in selection for my reqmt? Is the quoted price OK.
+{My In laws have installed Microtek 1KVa 1000 SqWave Inverter + Microtek 150 Ah battery for 16,500/- [3yrs warranty]is that a right option for my reqmt? }
+Thanks in advance for your suggestion.
+Dear athmame,
+Instead of 1000 va, we recommend 850 va pure sine wave inverter,
+For long lasting trouble free performance, 850 Pure sine wave inverter would be the best choice. If you want something more than 850 va, better go for 1500 va double battery sinewave inverter.
+——————————————————————-
+As you are planning to use LED TV with inverter, we strongly recommend Pure sinewave inverter.
+Output voltage of sqaurewave inverter will range between 240 to 290 volts, which is always a danger to your LED TV and other sensitive gadgets.
+———————————————————————————————-
+We recommend
+sukam shiny 850 va inverter
+or
+Microtek 850 va sinewave inverter (UPS SEBz850)
++
+Exide IT500
+—————————————————————
+Hi Admin,
+Thank you very much for your suggestion. Can you pl provide a fair price for Microtek UPS SEBz850 + Exide IT 500.
+It would cost around 20k.
+5k + 15K
+Dear Admin
+I want to install IT 750(New model) 200 Ah ,
+I just want to use only
+2 fans, one LCD and 3 tube lights,
+if I were using full load, how many hours of backup could i expect ?
+Dear Sanjeev,
+If you were using 400 watts of continuous load with 200 ah battery, you could get barely 5 to 6 hours continuous backup.
+I purchase IT 500 Exide and Mt inverter 860 what is the back up of this on running 2 fans and 2 zero watt bulbs
+Dear Dilip, @disqus_6LntNkRiJx:disqus
+The so-called zero watt bulb would consume more than 10 watts/hr.
+your back up time for preferred load and battery type is approximately 10 hrs.
+dear Admin,
+i have to purchase 400 VA inverter and what size of battery could choose.
+Dear Ravi,
+For 400 va inverter, we would recommend Exide Invertor Plus model 80 ah or 88 ah battery.
+88 ah is way better than 80 ah – cost would be around Rs.6800/-
+Dear Admin,
+Brilliant research and best advice has been your trait althrough from the time i am visiting ur site.
+Well I need ur valuable advise on my choice of INV + Batt for my 4 Tube light + 4 fans+ 2LCD +1CRT+ 1 Wifi modem+1 mixer ginder + 1 washing machine 5*(Smtimes).
+I have finalized Luminous Ion 1500VA + Exide Inva tubular IT500 (150AHx2) .
+Pls advise 2 things:
+1. SuKam shiny as alternate to save few bucks?
+2. Can I go for 100AH or 115AH batteries instead to save few bucks?
+Can you also advise best price for above combination in Delhi along with authorized dealer details in Delhi.
+In hope of a prompt response as usual
+Dear Hritik,
+Luminous ion 1500 va is a good choice for your load requirement, Sukam shiny is equally good for your need, choose any one of two according to the availability.
+For battery
+we would recommend Exide Mega Inva 100 ah (FEI0-MEGA1000) (Rs-9500 to 10,000/-)
+If you face intermittent and long powercuts, go for Exide mega inva 150 ah.
+This model will perform well like IT500
+Hritik Dear plz buy, GENERATOR , for your Requirement okzz its my Suggestion
+i want to buy exide inva tubular IT 550 PLZ suggest the suitable inverter for it
+Dear Rajiv,
+We recommend Exide original 850 VA Pure sine wave inverter for IT500.
+# Best charging current
+# Rs.5000 to 5500/-
+Dear Biswajeet,
+Choose the battery according to your load preference and backup hours requirement.
+Normally we recommend 150 ah tubular battery for 1000 va inverter,
+200ah battery also do well with 1000va inverter.
+Note: Go for Exide Mega Inva 150 ah (or) Exide Inva Smart 150 ah
+Both models are semi tubular with 3 years full warranty, just equal to Tall Tubular.
+Hi admin,
+Yesterday I have purchased Microtek UPS 24×7 – SW900 pure Sine wave inverter and Exide IT750 – (200 AH)InvaTubular battery. Is this combination ok or I can have to change something.
+Dear Amit,
+You got good combination of inverter and battery.
+One suggestion
+If Possible, change your inverter to original Exide 850 va
+Exide 850 va original inverter is more compatible with Exide IT750
+Exide Inverter has high charging current which is very useful to enjoy the full potential of the battery.
+Dear Admin,
+I have purchased microtek inverter sebz 1500va with two exide inva smart 150ah last few days. but now a days very few hour back up time of battery.Instead inverter indicates battery charged. I want to know that in how many time battery is full charged for long backup.
+I use 5 CFL (23 watt) 5 FAN and one LED 32 Inch.
+Dear Amit Kumar,
+I think your inverter is in ‘Normal’ charging mode, switch it to High charge mode for good back up time.
+you could see two slide switches on the back panel of the inverter, another one is for ‘wide voltage’ – ‘Narrow voltage’ selection.
+Keep it in wide voltage mode – ‘100’v to 300v
+Try this and post the result here 🙂
+Dear Admin,
+As per your guideline on 24th september Tuesday,I have switched to my inverter in High Charge Mode. Backup of batteries are very good. But today Inverter Dealer has come at my home and he says that only when long time power cut then you switched to High charge mode otherwise it is always in Normal switched mode.
+Is It True ? If it is true what can I do ? Can I change my Inverter ? If I change my inverter Please suggest the best inverter for me for my Home. (I have purchased microtek inverter sebz 1500va with two exide inva smart 150ah Battery)
+I use 5 CFL (23 watt) 5 FAN and one LED 32 Inch.
+Dear Amit Kumar,
+The alternative for Microtek UPS Sebz 1500 va inverter is Exide original inverter 1450va
+Exide inverter has three modes for battery charge selection.
+High charge mode may be a hazard for three year old batteries not for brand new batteries.
+Try to reduce your load,
+# use ceiling fans in medium speed
+# Remove Bulgy old regulators of Ceiling fans and replace it with new slim regulator switches
+# Table fans consume less current than ceiling fans
+Dear Srikanth,
+We recommend Exide invertor plus 135 ah battery
+Price would be around Rs.10500 approx
+thanks for ur suggestions
+Dear Ranjith,
+YOu could use IT500 with 600 VA Inverter,
+But the charging time may be little longer compared to 850 va inverter.
+Normally a 600 va inverter would charge a battery with 6 to 9 amp current, but IT500 is capable of accepting 21 amp charge current.
+Instead of going IT500, try Exide Inva smart or Exide Mega Inva 150 ah battery, which gives you same performance with 600 va inverter at low cost.
+Exide mega inva or Inva smart 150 ah would cost around Rs.13000 to 13500/-
+IT500 would cost around Rs.15000 to 15500/-
+Dear Admin, Thanks for the suggestion.
+Dear admin,
+I am in Tamil nadu today i have purchased EXIDE IT500 150AH battery for RS.14500/- from dealer. whether it is ok ?
+Dear Srikanth,
+IT500 for Rs.14500/- in Tamilnadu is quite reasonable price.
+Do share the location and dealer details, that would be useful for other readers.
+Dear Pankaj,
+If you find a particular model battery is performing good with your inverter, we recommend to go for the same model and AH again.
+Dear Sandeep,
+IT500 is capable of accepting high charge current from solar panels.
+Good battery for both solar and normal deep cycle use.
+thank u
+Dear Jai Mukherjee,
+Microtek 850 va Pure sine wave SEBz + Exide Invertor Plus 100 ah battery is highly recommended for low cost and branded solution for power backup.
+Dear Sandeep,
+The charging Mode you are using has a direct impact on battery backup time.
+Exide Inverter has three modes for battery charging.
+Two hours is okay, but you could maximize it by choosing right charging mode.
+Dear Grashan,
+Sure , we will post it soon.
+Dear Admin,
+i have 55 inches LED TV, need power back up for this 55 inches LED TV and 1 fan and 1 light with 4 hrs backup, please suggust me what kind of capacity inverter i need to buy?
+Thanks,
+Vamsee
+Dear Vamsee,
+We recommend 900 to 1000 va pure sinewave inverter with 200 ah battery for your load preference and backup requirement.
+I am Stephen from TamilNadu. I have Mahindra Powerol inverter rated 600VA. And using Surya battery rated 88ah. It is working for the past 3+ years now battery failure. so i want change exide INVA TUBULAR IT 400 would be OK to use with 600VA inverter. my usage 2CFL lights (15W) + 1 fans (some time 2fan)+ 1 lcd tv
+Dear Stephan,
+IT400 is compatible with 600va inverter.
+Your load preference is also good to go with IT400 and 600 va inverter.
+Dear Admin,
+You site is a valuable source of inforamtion for people who want to buy new inverters.Iam planning to buy a new inverter and battery.I have zeroed in on Exide IT 750(New Model).Which inverter according to you would be best suited for fast charging and optimal use of Exide IT 750?
+Dear Raja,
+We would recommend Luminous zelio 900 and sukam falcon plus 1100
+for best charging and long lasting performance with IT750
+Dear Raja,
+Yes, Luminous Zelio 1100 will be better for Exide IT 750 in terms of faster charging and long lasting performance
+Dear Admin,
+I have a Exide Invatubular battery IT500 puchased in 2011, My load is 4 LED 9W Bulbs,2 nos 25W CFL, 2 nos 15W CFL….i maintained a regular water level in the battery, however now a days it back ups only for Half an hr. What will be the issue
+Sir….I have come to know that invatubular IT 500+ model of exide has been discontinued by the company. Is it correct? If yes…then what problems I have to face if I buy this model now?
+Appprove
+Yes, you need to replace the battery.
+Exide IT 500 150 ah tall tubular would perform better.
+Dear admin,
+I want to know about life expectancy and performance of exide invatall 1500 T-plate battery if compared with tubular one from exide.
+Exide claims for long life of invatall 1500…. but what if we compare it with tubular one of exide.
+I am also confused with its technology…. it is tubular, flate plate, or semi tubular..
+Thanks a lot
+– Yogesh
+Planning to buy the Inverter for One Fan and I tube light ,Please suggest me which one is the best option as per my usage and budget expecting 10000/-?
+I am interested to buy Exide IT500 Tubuler or Exide ET150 Tubular 150 AH battery. Which one will be best & why? Seller is inspiring for ET150 as it is heavy duty battery and life is more than IT500
+I am interested to buy Exide IT500 Tubuler or Exide ET150 Tubular 150 AH battery. Which one will be best & why? Seller is inspiring for ET150 as it is heavy duty battery and life is more than IT500
+I had purchased EXIDE IT 750 model 200AH battery with EXIDE 12V 1400VA Sine wave inverter in May 2014 and since that time this battery is still working super fine in 2020 just like a brand new battery.
+Hi Admin,
+I am Rajeev from Najafgarh New Delhi, I am using InvaRed Exide battery (150Ah) with Luminous 875VA inverter, since last 3 years. But now battery lasts for just 20-30min. with couple of fans operating.
+Can you please advice a suitable best performing & long life battery. Also please advice its best price in Najafgarh / Dwarka area of Delhi and any recommended authorized dealer.
+As per various above discussions, I think INVA TUBULAR (IT500) 150VA with warranty of 42 months (absolute) + 18 months (prorata) seems to be relevant.
+Your advice shall highly be appreciated.
+Thanks in advance.
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+2 Maltese Cross projection mechanism. Global shipping available. View source. The large rosettes and key tassels were combined for the lower pelmets, while the largest tassel tieback was used for the center.
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+Mendelssohn - Quartet in A minor, Op 13
+Subject:
+Overview
+One.
+Transcript of the lecture
+MENDELSSOHN QUARTET IN A MINOR OP 13
+Professor Roger Parker
+This series of six lecture-recitals has taken a somewhat circuitous route around the string quartet repertory. Its outer limits have spanned around 150 years, from Haydn's Opus 20 set, written in the 1770s, to Bartok's Second Quartet, which appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century. A huge journey, then: from Enlightenment poise and clarity, through the Romantic period and its aftermath, and into modernist angst and doubt; or, if you prefer something more musical-technical, from clear forms and tonal stability, to increasing freedom and chromaticism, and eventually to fragmentation and the edge of atonality. As I've mentioned more than once, one of the most surprising aspects of this extraordinary musical journey is that it can be charted so thoroughly through the medium of the string quartet: through music written for a collection of instruments that was certainly conventional and unexceptionable in the late eighteenth century, but which then survived as a genre despite unimaginable technological and aesthetic change elsewhere on the musical scene. If you compare Haydn's early symphonies with his early string quartets, there is in some cases hardly any difference: take away or add a few wind instruments and one turns into another. But the difference between the sonic possibilities of an orchestral work by Bartók or Debussy and their string quartets is vast. Why didn't this chamber-music group evolve in the same way as the orchestra did?
+The obvious answer (and again I've mentioned it more than once in past lectures) is that, after the quartets of Haydn, Mozart and, particularly, Beethoven, this particular combination of instruments became "canonic". Any composer of pretension growing up within the Austro-German tradition felt its pull, in particular the need to measure himself against past glories. And as, during the nineteenth century, Austro-German instrumental music increasingly became the benchmark against which other national traditions felt they must be compared, so the string quartet spread to other countries. What we might call this "emulative pull" did not, as the nineteenth century rolled on, always produce positive results, sometimes causing composers to go against their musical personalities in an attempt to contribute to the Great Tradition. Johannes Brahms's austerely integrated string quartets might for some be a good case in point. There may be people here who revere these quartets'you'll recognize them by their frown of concentration and carefully tented fingers while listening, and by the hint of hair shirt often visible beneath their grey suits. But most of us will prefer Brahmsian works in which the weight of tradition hangs less obtrusively. The same goes in spades for Schoenberg's über-austere string quartets, which have indeed become classics of music history, but which seem to be much more fun to write about and read about than to listen to. Indeed, it's probably no accident that most of the best-loved and often-played late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century quartets come from outside the Austro-German centre: from places such as Debussy's France or Bartók's Hungary in which the whole idea of the Great Tradition was less disabling.
+However, the period immediately following Beethoven had few of these fixations, or, rather, acquired them only gradually as the idea of what one author has called, tellingly, "Beethoven Hero" emerged. The generation who came to maturity in the 1820s and 1830s often managed to produce works that, although not entirely free from the Beethovenian shadow, could nevertheless find relatively unselfconscious ways of expressing themselves through string quartet writing. The most obvious and prolific of these composers is obviously Schubert, although it is perhaps significant that his most popular chamber musical works are mostly in other forms: in the string quintet, which was untouched by Beethoven, and (from the time of Mozart) was more open to influences from other genres such as opera and the symphony; or in chamber music with piano, in which the lighter, virtuosic vein that had invaded musical taste after Beethoven could be more freely expressed.
+At first glance, it might seem that today's composer, Felix Mendelssohn, who was born in 1809 and died tragically young in 1847, was to follow a similar path to Schubert. Mendelssohn was a child prodigy, both as a virtuoso pianist and organist, and as a composer. Part of his extraordinary compositional fluency as a teenager may have come from the rather old-fashioned training that he received in his early years: he was schooled in the then-antique skills of counterpoint and figured bass, and so learned how to manipulate notes in an abstract sense, without the need necessarily to "express himself"; and in the realm of free composition he seems to have been encouraged to imitate the language and forms of Mozart and Haydn rather than more "modern" composers. However, in 1821 (at the ripe old age of 12) Mendelssohn encountered the music of Weber, whose spirit can be seen in both of his most famous early works, the Octet Op. 20, written in 1825 when he was sixteen, and the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, which appeared a year later.
+The year after that, 1827, saw a change, and it is marked by the appearance of the work that will concern us today, the String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13. Mendelssohn was eighteen and about to embark on a hectic professional career that would take him to many European centres: mostly notably, of course, to London, where his skills in those "ancient" compositional techniques would eventually find him a comfortable niche as an oratorio composer to rival Handel and Haydn. But before all that, and precisely by means of this A minor string quartet, he decided that he had better deal with Beethoven, who had died in March of that very year. And he did so in the age-old manner of conscious emulation: through an overt attempt to model his new string quartet on the music of the great master. What is most surprising, though, is that Mendelssohn did not take the (for him) comparatively easy route of choosing to emulate Beethoven's earlier, Haydn- and Mozart-influenced string quartets (the Op. 18 set); nor did he follow the style of the times and choose as models the "heroic" Beethoven of the Op. 59 "Razumovsky" quartets. Instead, he emulated Beethoven's most recent and most idiosyncratic quartet style, the kind found in his late quartets. Quite why he took this radical route remains something of a mystery. As has been frequently pointed out, Beethoven's last style was by no means widely understood during these years; many thought it a tragic decline from the "heroic" period that produced Op. 59. But somehow Mendelssohn seems to have grasped that the strangely interior musical mode that suffuses Beethoven's late quartets, with its fragmentation of conventional form and its frequent allusions to alien genres such as fugue and solo song, would allow him to experiment most easily: to try on, as it were, the musical clothes of his most august predecessor.
+***
+The first thing to notice about the quartet is that it is overtly programmatic. In the slow introduction to the first movement there is an obvious quotation from a song called "Frage" (Question) that Mendelssohn had written earlier in 1827. In one sense this might remind us of Schubertian examples (the "Trout" Quintet and the "Death and the Maiden" Quartet are the most well-known) in which pre-existing songs are incorporated into chamber works. But Schubert's use of such material is very different: his song melodies are exported whole into an instrumental movement. Nearer to the spirit of this Mendelssohnian case is the example of Beethoven's last quartet, Op. 135, whose final movement famously opens with a musical motto under which Beethoven wrote the question ("Muß es sein"-"Must it be"). Nearly the same thing happens at the very start of Mendelssohn's Op. 13, in which the motive that articulates the recurring question of the song "Frage", "Ist es wahr?" (Is it true?), is prominently employed. But, as with the Beethoven example, note the ambiguity: what, precisely, is the "it" referring to? In both cases, the importation of the "texted" motive brings with it a sense of semantic uncertainty rather than an obvious poetic image.
+The full text of "Frage" may be useful in contemplating some aspects of the Quartet:
+Is it true? Is it true? That you are still there in the arbour, by the grape vines, waiting for me? And cry to the moonlight and the starlight for news of me? Is it true? Speak! What I feel none can know but she who feels thus and who, true to me forever, true to me forever, forever will remain.
+With those words in mind, let's listen immediately to the opening Adagio, which carries the "Is it true?" motto. As you'll hear, the musical atmosphere is obviously reminiscent of late Beethoven at his most lyrically enigmatic. It is made up of fragments of intense, hymn-like harmony, but with the range of the string quartet gradually expanding as the first violin rises ever higher; and finally the music comes to rest on the "question motive" [sing it] which is quietly repeated. Then follows a simple cadence, an ominous trill low in the viola, and the start of the first movement proper, an Allegro vivace. The excerpt here is played by the Quatuor Mosaïques, on original instruments, and I'll run it into the opening of the Allegro to give you a hint of what is to come.
+PLAY CD 1/TRACK ONE: FROM START TO 1:30, THEN FADE
+It would, I think, be dangerous to try to read a detailed "programme" into this use of music that had previously been attached to words. Clearly the motive that we heard at the end of the introduction does indeed pose a question. But that may be as far as it goes. Those looking earnestly for arbours and grapevines may be disappointed, although the use of the song obviously encourages such speculation. Mendelssohn's father, no less, asked his son to clarify what thoughts lay behind the music (whether music was or was not "programmatic" was becoming an anxious aesthetic question around this time); the son replied that "he probably had no thoughts at all". Or rather, one might guess, he mainly had musical thoughts, albeit ones initially stimulated by a poetic idea.
+This sense of abstraction is certainly there in the Allegro, which is conventionally classical in form and, as you heard already, is dominated at the outset by two ideas. The first is those rapid semiquavers that originated from the viola's ominous trill; the second is a more melodic idea, which is usually presented contrapuntally, and has an obvious connection to the "question" motive by way of its prominent dotted rhythm. Let's take up the movement where we left off, and continue until we reach a third prominent idea (what we in the trade call the 'second subject' of the movement): an insistent, passionate theme announced by the cello and then taken up by the first violin:
+PLAY CD 1/TRACK ONE: FROM 1:30 to 3:20, THEN FADE
+As you can hear, this is a movement not without its technical difficulties, particularly in the influence of that "school of virtuosity" that was so important in Mendelssohn's day. But-and this is important-the virtuosity is always controlled and carefully patterned; while the textures sometime refer to Beethoven, there is little sense of Beethovenian struggle; to put this another way, the music behaves itself formally.
+The slow movement, which is simple enough not to need musical illustration, explicitly models itself on late Beethoven: its openingcantabile, with the return of that "hymn-like" harmony and simple, singing melody we heard in the introduction, is in unmistakable homage to movements such as the Cavatina of Beethoven's quartet Op. 130. And what follows this opening "hymn" is also reminiscent of the great man's last works, in that an instrumental fugue solemnly unfolds, eventually culminating in an impressive, Baroque-sounding, organ pedal point for the cello. But then, to usher in the inevitable return of the "hymn", the first violin indulges in a wordless recitative: again Beethovenian, and again suggesting that there are words lurking on the border of this instrumental inspiration. (It's no accident that some of Mendelssohn's most famous later piano works are called Songs Without Words.)
+The third movement, called "Intermezzo", is in the same simple ternary form as the second, but is very different in character. In place of the second movement's solemn hymn, we have a clear imitation of folk music, with a simple melody in the first violin and pizzicato (guitar-like?) accompaniment in the lower strings. It is only when the folk-theme becomes contrapuntally developed that we realize it closely resembles the winding shape of the second movement's fugue subject. The "B" section of this ternary form, an "Allegro di molto", is as contrasting as can be imagined: it is one of those manically fast staccato inspirations that Mendelssohn had already experimented with to depict the fairies in theMidsummer Night's Dream overture, and that would become a feature of his mature style. Here's the start of the movement, running on into the opening of the staccato episode:
+PLAY CD 1/TRACK THREE: START TO, THEN FADE AT 2'15"
+And then, at the end, the folk-tune returns to close off the movement, albeit with repeated backward glimpses at the frenetic bustle of the middle section.
+The extreme contrasts of this third movement prompt me to suggest that one way of looking at the work so far is as a procession of experiments into the limits of the string quartet. How far can the medium embrace other musical modes? Can it intone a solemn hymn, sketch operatic recitative, or imitate Bach's organ, or a simple folk instrument, or an orchestral scherzo? Can it, as the slow introduction to the first movement suggests, reach the borders of song? Nowhere is this hybrid, experimental character more evident than at the start of the last movement, which begins with yet another gesture to recitative, although this time far more anguished, underpinned by tremolando lower strings, and with the solo first violin seemingly divided between its role as the recitative "voice" and its role as an instrumental virtuoso. This soon leads into the final movement proper, which is again alternates various themes: the first dominated by dotted rhythms; then a driving idea characterized by furious anapest rhythms [demonstrate]; and then yet another variant of the second movement's fugue subject, again developed in a fugal texture. The impassioned recitative intrudes more than once, but finally gives way to a remarkable coda, which overtly recalls the slow movement's fugue and then leads, by means of more violin recitative, to a reprise of the opening of the entire quartet, complete with its "Is it true?" song quotation. The "Frage" motive is now subtly reharmonized, not so much to make it a fitting close to the entire work, but to end with a question, a musical question. The impression of this strange close is certainly gentle, but it is remarkable unemphatic: Should we return to the start? Is the quartet really an endless loop? What, in the end, is the question asked of us?
+***
+Given the wild experimentation of Mendelssohn's Op. 13, the obvious gestures towards Beethoven and generally unorthodox exterior, it is small surprise that the quartet's reception has been remarkably mixed. The composer himself, with typical self-deprecation, recalled one episode during the work's Parisian premiere in 1832, which he attended. During the last movement, the person sitting next to him tugged on his coat and said: "It's like that in one of his symphonies". Mendelssohn was confused and asked for clarification. His companion explained: "Beethoven, the composer of this quartet". It was, as Mendelssohn said, a bitter-sweet compliment. A little later in the century, with the composer a secure feature of the Victorian establishment, the quartet's evident shows of learning and its surface complexity and air of experimentation were often found disturbing, especially in contrast to the less rebellious works of his maturity. And then there were long periods in which the composer's racial origins made his absorption into the German pantheon impossible: such attitudes were in place as early as 1850, when Richard Wagner launched a notorious attack, and of course they only intensified during the first half of the twentieth century.
+Those attitudes are mostly behind us, even though the rhetoric with which Mendelssohn is sometimes too easily dismissed can still have ghostly echoes of times past. In general, though, we are now ready to appreciate him anew; and surely one of the best places to start such a process is with this A minor string quartet, in which Mendelssohn's remarkable fluency as a composer comes into vibrant contact with his love of music of the past, and with the preoccupations of his own period, in which music seemed at its most characteristic when it hovered on the edge of meaning, at the borders of the poetic, where questioning words flow into sounding gestures.
+***
+Those final words of mine, about questioning words flowing into sounding gestures, might also be apt as a way of closing the last of these six lectures in which I have collaborated with the Badke Quartet. The words stop and the music begins. In spite of initial intentions to the contrary, the Quartet and I decided to keep the two mediums separate. Listening to lectures is, after all, very different from listening to music, just as writing words about music is a very different activity from playing music. (I could here take up a violin or cello and illustrate that statement with painful clarity; but I'll spare you any such melancholy demonstration of my inadequacies as a performer.) However, I remain convinced that experimenting with the near proximity of live music and live words that discuss that music's history and attempt to describe its effect is a worthy pursuit; and doing so six times during the past months, in this hall, been one of the great pleasures of my professional life. And so, alas for the final time, let me introduce the Badke Quartet. Please join me in welcoming them: Heather Badke (first violin), Emma Parker (second violin), Matthew Jones (viola) and Jonathan Byers (cello).
+Badke Quartet plays Mendelssohn, Quartet in A minor, Op. 13
+©Professor Roger Parker, Gresham College, 26 June 2008
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+WINNER: LESLIE B83!
+Book: Best Kept Secret
+Author: Amy Hatvany
+It’s time for June’s Blast-O-Books and I want to kick it off with one of the best and most thought-provoking books I’ve read in a really long time. Best Kept Secret by Amy Hatvany was heart-breaking and uplifting all at the same time. At the center of this novel is Cadence, a single-mom who is trying the best that she can to get through her days raising a whirlwind of a happy little boy and working in freelance writing. When life becomes more and more difficult, and she starts suffering from insomnia, and work is not coming for her, a glass of wine at night helps her to sleep. That glass of wine becomes two and three, which then turns into a couple of bottles a night. Within a year, she is a full-blown alcoholic on the verge of losing the most important thing in her life: her son Charlie.
+I was drawn to this book for so many reasons. As a mom to three children very close in age, I know what it’s like to need something to calm the nerves when you’re at your wit’s end, when you think you might blow a gasket over spilled milk. I also discovered that two of my absolute favorite authors, Emily Giffin and Sarah Pekkanen have already read, loved and blurbed Best Kept Secret. And of course, there have been times in my own life that I have blogged about being unable to care for my own children because I’ve been too hung over. So this book hit home for me, and I’m very confident that Best Kept Secret will unearth feelings in every single woman who’s ever had a sip of wine, or felt like she’s not doing the best job at motherhood, or maybe has been unsure about everything in life she thought she had a handle on.
+Here is a Q&A I did with Amy, which was very kind of her to take the time seeing as her book debuts on Tuesday! Thanks Amy!
+Me: I'm soaring through Best Kept Secret, and if I didn't have 3 kids and a busy schedule with them, I would have cleared my days and finished it by now. I am in love with little Charlie and my heart breaks for Cadence, who has what I can see, was a slow-growing yet serious drinking problem. What I love about this book is that I think all mothers of young children can see a part of themselves in Cadence, whether they find themselves craving a glass of wine, a Xanax, or even needing to satiate their nerves with a pile of carbohydrates. What do you think?
+Amy: You are very sweet! I’m happy you’ve been drawn into the story, and I think you’re absolutely right. My hope in writing the book was that women might see the similarities they share with Cadence, rather than the differences, you know? Because I think it’s pretty easy and automatic to look at a mother with a drinking problem and say, “oh, I’d never do that; I’d never be her.” But I don’t know a mother out there who doesn’t look for some kind of escape from the constant emotional, mental, and physical demands of caring for children - toddlers, especially! Whether it’s in a glass of wine, a carton of ice cream, or online shopping - the indulgence is motivated by the same need - to soothe inner turmoil. I hoped that in creating a character who readers can relate to on many different levels, I might also create a better understanding and sense of empathy for how Cadence ends up with a drinking problem, and how much vicious judgment and stigma she had to fight against in order to get well.
+Me: What inspired Best Kept Secret? How much of the book was drawn from real life experience?
+Amy: While the plot and characters are fiction, I was inspired to write the book based on my own experiences of being a mother and an alcoholic. The emotional experiences Cadence has are much like what I went through - the guilt, the shame, the denial and disbelief that I couldn’t just figure out a way to stop drinking on my own. I’d had a lot of success in my life before that point, and I didn’t understand how in the world I couldn’t just put an end to a behavior that was so obviously destroying me.
+I am very much like Cadence in that I maintained a very happy, confident exterior for the rest of the world to see, but subconsciously, I struggled with feelings of loneliness and fear. I was such a convincing actress, though, I couldn’t articulate or maybe wasn’t even aware of those feelings. I had gone through a terrible divorce, and like Cadence, developed a bad case of insomnia. I never really drank much before that point, so that first glass of wine relaxed me and seemed like an easy solution to my sleeping issues. Of course, I didn’t understand how easily I’d build a physical tolerance to alcohol, and how dependent I’d become on the mental and emotional “escape” my nightly big-ass goblet of wine gave me from the pressure of single motherhood. Eventually, I, too, came to a point where I had a stare down with a bottle of pills, unsure if I really wanted to continue living, but the thought of my children growing up without me was what led me to finally ask for help. I’ve been sober almost six years, and I know it sounds strange to say, I feel like my spiral into drinking was one of the best things that could have happened for me. It woke me up. And it gave me the inspiration to write the book and let other women know they are not alone in this kind of struggle.
+Me: What was the hardest part about writing Best Kept Secret? Easiest?
+Amy: The hardest part was definitely revisiting the shame and guilt of what it is like to drink in front of a child. The thought of alcohol really does make me ill, now, so having to go back to the time when I was drinking every day and remembering what it felt like - the physical sensations, and then the emotional backlash that always immediately followed - was extremely difficult.
+I think the easiest part was writing the scenes with Cadence and Charlie, showing how they were connected, how much she adores him, and he loves and needs her. I have an incredible relationship with my children, and all I had to do was pull that feeling up, and those scenes just kind of appeared on the page. (Plus, my son actually did call them “blueberry stones” instead of “blueberry scones”!) My life with my children is filled with so many tender, wonderful moments, and getting to infuse Cadence and Charlie’s relationship with those kinds of emotions was my favorite aspect of writing the story.
+Me: You've written two previous books (The Language of Sisters and The Kind of Love That Saves You) under another name, Amy Yurk, and I can’t wait to read those two books! I also noticed you focus on really hard topics in your novels - mental retardation, rape, death, alcoholism, divorce, single parenthood. Yet it seems that there are hopeful messages within. Why do you think you tackle the tough stuff?
+Amy: Ha! Perhaps I’m a masochist? (Kidding!!) That’s a great question, actually. And it may sound kind of cheesy to say, but I really do believe that all the growth I’ve ever experienced in my life has been rooted in the tough things I’ve gone through, so that’s what interests me. How characters develop as a result of a significant event - especially how we, as women in our culture, are faced with so many challenges and what we do to rise up and face them every day. Anne Lamott says, “There’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this," and I think that’s why I write the books I do. How we tackle what life throws our way is what defines who we are - and exploring those kinds of journeys is the work that brings me joy; finding a way to see hope in the darkest of circumstances is such a powerful quality for characters to discover within themselves.
+I also think that writing about the tough stuff helps readers (and me!) feel maybe a little less alone in whatever we struggle with. To read something and feel, “Oh, I’m not the only person to ever have those thoughts/feelings,” brings about a sense of connection that I cherish when I read other authors’ works. And that’s the fundamental reason I write - to connect.
+Me: When you have time to read, who are your favorite authors to read?
+Amy: Oh, there are too many to list! But I never miss anything by Jennifer Weiner, Emily Giffin, or Elizabeth Berg. I also love Joyce Maynard, Elizabeth Strout, T. Greenwood, Sarah Pekkanen…the list goes on and on! I read mostly commercial and literary women’s fiction, though Laura Hillenbrand’s UNBROKEN was the last non-fiction piece I dove into. She is a phenomenal woman, and I hugely admire her work.
+Me: You've got two more books coming -- what are they about?
+Amy: Yes! OUTSIDE THE LINES is due out in February, 2012, and tells the story of a woman searching for her homeless and mentally ill father, whom she has been estranged from for twenty years. It’s told in alternating viewpoints of both the daughter and father, past and present, which was a departure for me as a writer and I am very pleased with how it turned out.
+The one I’m currently working on is as yet unnamed. It explores what happens when a woman is suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into the role of full-time mother and is forced to confront the complicated reasons behind her previously hard-fast decision to remain childless.
+Me: Thanks Amy for sharing your amazing novel and your life with us! And I can’t wait to read your next novels!
+To enter to win Best Kept Secret, share one of your best kept secrets – it can be funny – you don’t have to make it serious in order for you to enter to win the book! One of my best kept secrets is that when my husband is out of town, I will keep the house a total mess until like an hour before he is supposed to be home, then we all rush around to whip the house into shape. I’m like the mom who is really the babysitter – let the kids stay up late, we eat junk food, watch bad TV, go out for ice cream and pizza all of the time! Then when Dad gets home from being out of town, it’s time to be the real mom again!
+What’s your best kept secret?!
+PeaCe uP!
+109 comments:
+O you are so sneaky, getting this posted while I was sleeping; I've been watching & waiting for your first Blast O-Book interview!!!
+Secret? Hmmmm.... Probably how badly my husband treated me. I cared for him while he was dying and that in itself isolated me from nearly everyone because I had no *time*, but because of medication and dementia he was often abusive and cruel, and I was embarrassed and ashamed to let my family know this. (Yeah, it will go into my book, and I totally understand what Amy said about personal growth being rooted in what one has gone through.)
+My best kept secret is that I want to move out of Chicago. The weather here is terrible. I don't tell anyone that I want to move somewhere else because this is where my entire family lives. We will never move away from everyone.
+-Donna W.
+My best kept secret is the hidden chocolate I have that my son or husband don't know about :)
+I absolutely love your best kept secret! What a fun mom you are! My best kept secret is I failed my last statistics class in graduate school and did not graduate on time. I found out less than 24 hours from graduation so I didn't tell many people that I didn't graduate. BUT last Friday I actually did finish it. So all's well that ends well :)
+I think it's just some of my frustrations as a mother. I stay at home, but don't always love it (or even want to). I love my kids, but some days the thought of being with them makes me insane.
+Ally N
+Well if I told you it wouldn't be my best kept secret, now would it? ;)
+How about I just tell you a secret? I secretly hate when other women tell me how they couldn't be a sahm 'cause they crave the social to much...drives me nuts. As if I don't. I crave it too, I'll talk to anyone...stranger who comes knocking on my door beware I will talk to you all day if you let me! lol. I'm so sick of barney, dora, elmo--I hate the songs in my head! My husband gets home and wants to talk about his day and I sit and think how wonderful it would be to talk to real grown-ups when ever you wanted. I almost never have Laura time and I miss her, oh how I miss Laura. So that is one of my secrets. I don't want to hear how people can't do it. I'm very interested in this book, because I'm not a drinker but I'm an eater. I have put my little kids in the car (I have 4 total ranging 20, 14, 4, 2) and cracked open a diet coke and a chocolate bar thinking take me away for just a few mins take the edge off the stress I'm feeling having just finished grocery shopping with screaming kids. And when mine are good and some other women is struggling with a screaming kid I want to hug her and say it's ok your not along.
+My best kept secret? Hm...
+Everyone in my family has been telling me for years I need to write a book or keep a blog. While I haven't written a book yet, I have been keeping a blog for two months and no one in my family knows about it.
+My best kept secret - when I get stressed out and overwehlmed, I CRY. I go into a room, lock the door and all out SOB. Maybe happens once a year or once every other year, but it's therapeutic for me and I feel a ton better afterwards. This book sounds like a great read - thanks so much for doing these contests, it's really fun to learn about all of the great books out there :)
+This book really speaks to me ~ I've been through those days and through the mercy of God and self-control can enjoy a drink in moderation; but I was probably teetering on the brink there for a while when I got divorced and was left with 3 young kids.
+My BKS would probably be that when my husband is out of town, like you MM, we have movie marathons, sleep overs, eat ice cream before dinner and in general PARTY!! Kids and I love it and we always right the ship just before he walks in the door. :)
+Thanks MM!!
+My best kept secret is that I really hate my best friend's fiance. He is a worthless drunk and she can do so much better. I didn't say anything when she got engaged because I thought for sure it wasn't going to last. But now she is having his baby and it is too late for me to say anything. I fear she is ruining her life :(
+My best kept secret? It would be that I'm not the super easy going, relaxed mom that everyone thinks I am-my kids know I'm a yeller, & I do it way more than I should.
+I HAVE had best kept secrets...until I tell someone. I guess my WORST kept secret is that I have a hard time keeping (my own) secrets.
+My best kept secret? I'd kind of like to move to Ireland.... but shh don't tell my mom.
+I don't wash my hair every day. But I do shave my legs!
+With this crappy economy we are on a VERY tight budget. We take our lunches to work...no eating out. But on occasion I will stop at a fast food chain for the dollar menu.
+Nicole
+My BKS would probably have to be that my husband is very anti letting our son sleep in our bed. However, anytime he works late at work, I'll bring our son to bed with me...my husband will move him back to his bed and in the morning say, "Did you know Avery came into our room last night?"! :)
+kndyer
+My best kept secret? That's just for me...another secret is that I sneak junk food (fast food, candy, etc.) when my boyfriend's not around and then I only make healthy food at home. :)
+My best kept secret is that I can't stand my sister in law! She was lingering on the fringe of my brother's friends forever- he dated and was in love with HER best friend. After a few serious and damaging heartbreaks, there she was again. I truly feel my brother settled thinking he wouldn't find anyone. Wow, that felt good to share- I could never say anything to my family.
+JenFee 9476
+My secret is that I have a blog.
+Brn2shop9 at gmail dot com
+Hope this isn't too late.... My best kept secret is that I pretty bad a spelling, however everyone I know thinks I'm great at it... Spell-check!
+It is till such a well kept secret I wo't say it here!
+my BKS is that i live with my boyfriend who is my company's biggest client and no one at work knows that we're together. we've been a couple for nearly 4 years, we bought our house two years ago this month and all of this has been done under the radar!
+I can't tell you... that's why it's a secret! haha! I really would have to think hard about this one. The best I can come up with is wanting out of my current job and into a job I love. I am thankful for my job, its not bad, its just not what I would LOVE to be doing. Great interview!!
+cozyreadertiff
+Well love the new mantra! It is words to live by really! ok my best kept secret is that I'd really love to go back to school to get my RN. Whenever any one asks I act like it isn't a big deal and not a real priority but deep down I'd really love to do it! And I plan to start when my daughter goes to kindergarten! :)
+My best kept secret...that I read books out of the kid section at the library. It's not the biggest secret, but it's pretty good.
+AND....
+Our county library is going to start charging annual fees, so our lame city library will have to do this summer.
+My best kept secret is a diary/journal that is well hidden from eyes and I write whatever I feel in it. Lyrics,random thoughts etc. It helps to get out those emotions once in a while.
+Margaret (singitm)
+singitm@hotmail.com
+My bid is that when my hubby is out of town I take my self on dates. Whether it's go out shopping or make my self a fabulous dinner, I do it for me.
+Oh yeah, and I want to open a bakery!
+My best kept secret is that every Saturday when my husband is spending the day with his friends in stead of doing something around the house or spending with me (which I used to let bother me) I now look forward to as a time to forget housework and all but basic needs for me and the kids. He thinks it is still an issue with me, but I figure if he is going to goof off for one whole day per week then I deserve the same time off. When you are a stay at home mom you can't leave the work and stress at the office it's always there. I realized that it's ok to let things go for a day and as long as the kids are fed and safe then the day is good. The rest of the day is mine to decompress.
+sounds like an amazing book! count me in!
+my bks...my husband and i keep a list of all the crazy things we find funny. we've been doing this ever since we started dating and haven't stopped. i give him a printout of the list on our wedding anniversary and we look back and laugh at all our inside jokes.
+Hmm, this one is hard. but I'm sure everybody does it...like sneak ice cream behind my daughter's back because I don't want to have any or even from my friends and co-workers because I'm suppose to be on a diet.
+This was actually the secret I kept for the longest time. I finally told my brother and parents a few years back...When we were younger, my brother had a BB gun and we would go outside to play with it. One day we were outside with one of my brother's friends and I thought I would see if I could hit the neighbor's van. I never heard the BB's hit so I kept shooting. Come to find out, I had been shooting the windshield. My brother in his friend got in trouble for it and had to work all summer to pay for a new windshield.
+Amy Nichole G
+My best kept secret...or at least I thought it was until people started calling me on it is that I have this inner 16 year old inside me that wants to still watch tween movies and tv shows even at 32! LOL!
+I have a deeeeeeep love for Reese pb cups. Each Sunday morning I get Up before my husband and kids and enjoy one with a cup of tea....in the quiet morning hours.
+My BKS... I hate the small town my husband and I live in. It's his dream to live here and I secretly fear he will never want to move!
+my best kept secret, which i guess only about 2 people know is that i am totally always afraid of losing my job. always.
+It would be that I'm not the super mom that my mother thinks I am. My little one knows, but she loves me too peices anyway! I expect way too much from a 3 year old... plus I am yeller when she won't listen, & I do it way more than I should.
+xx(fingers crossed)
+~Nattygirrl
+Don't tell anyone, but sometimes I cry on the way into work. My daughter has a heart condition & I'm afraid one day I'll get that horrifying phone call and not make it home in time.
+My best kept secret is similar to your example. First, I do that too, when my husband is gone I'm a slob until he gets home (except we don't have children so I don't have any accomplices like you). But my actual secret is that when my husband is out of town I let our dogs sleep in the bed with me. My husband absolutely refuses to let them sleep with us BUT when the cat's away, the mice will play...
+Thanks for doing another book giveaway, maybe I'll win one this time!
+Kristi Hooke
+I am afraid of finding a job. There, I said it. I am dying to teach my own classroom again but after being pink slipped so many times I am afraid that I am one of those horrible teachers that people talk about. I haven't told anyone that while I apply for everything I am terrified that I am just no good.
+Carly Haynes
+my best kept secret...I'm really a man! ;)
+My secret is that I have to sleep with a pillow on my side because I have a fear of having my back exposed when I sleep. Too scared of getting stabbed or something. If my husband is out of town then I have to sleep with two pillows to block both sides. It makes no sense in my logical mind, but I need those pillows! Melissa Rem
+My best kept secret is that I LOVE cheesey movies! I don't think anyone knows though...except you, now!
+My best kept secret is that I do the happy dance when there is no one home but me. I enjoy a night here and there where there is no commotion, just quiet and I probably look a lot like Elaine dancing on Seinfeld.
+mryward(at)yahoo(dot)com
+My secret is that I am lonely. I am very outgoing on the outside, but not so much on the inside. I am usually so busy with my kids that the neighbors/friends never invite me to the pool, girls night out, etc. and then my feelings get hurt. I am getting divorced and my boys will be gone before too many more years, and I fear I will be all alone. LeslieCG
+Best Kept Secret? hmmmm, it is so secret, I forgot. Guess I should have told someone so they could help me remember. =)
+Super excited for the June Blast-O-Books! Thanks!!
+I'd have to say how much time I waste on the internet durring the day.
+My best kept secret from people in real life is how much not having a baby kills me every day. I never told any of my family when I had either of my miscarriages. I feel that things like that need to be kept private, which then makes it worse for me to go it alone.
+qweska8402
+I'm still in love with my old boyfriend!
+My close friends know this but I pretend that I don't care about him anymore. Sigh.
+Dani Patarazzi
+My best kept secret is my irrational fear of the dark. And subsequently, the "boogie man" under my bed.
+my bks is that i will be 30 in november...and i have never had sex. so many of my good friends don't even know that about me.
+My best kept secret as of lately is that I am nervous that we are having a boy (due in 6 weeks and we don't know what we are having). Don't get me wrong, I'm over the moon to be pregnant with our second (since it took a long time to get to this point), but I don't know how to raise a boy (if we have a boy). Our oldest is a girl and is all girlie and I have 5 years worth of girl stuff. Having a boy scares me...but then again so does have a another girl that is full of drama. I'm hoping these are normal feelings. ha! :)
+My best kept secret is that I can drink most people under the table :)
+Hey - my best kept "secret" is the Green Tea flavored Kit Kats that one can buy at the Japanese Supermarket - which makes me think it is more "healthful" than the regular milk chocolate ones (but probably not, in reality)
+leonelescota AT gmail DOT com
+My best kept secret is how badly I've wanted to have another baby but know my husband really doesn't want another one.
+My bks is that I desperately want to have a child but i pretend to be okay with the fact that it will probably never happen because of my infertility.
+These comments are all so fabulous! I had the best time doing this interview for Stephanie!
+And let's see, it wouldn't be fair if I didn't leave a secret, too... Okay, are you ready? I am so nervous about this book release that even though I have been "off" sugar for over 9 months, I hit Dairy Queen on Friday for a Brownie Batter Blizzard and INHALED IT in about ten seconds flat. Totally worth it, and totally made me feel better. Perhaps I need a carbohydrate intervention, now? :)
+Thank you all for the interest, and please let me know your thoughts about the book!
+My best kept secret is Self-Tanner night. My husband plays basketball on Thursday nights, religiously. Afterward he goes out with the guys and doesn't come home until long after I'm in bed. This is the night I slather myself head-to-toe in stinky self tanner and then put on my grubby, black pajamas (that stuff gets EVERYWHERE). It is too streaky and freaky looking to use when he's around--we've been married a loooooong time but the guy doesn't deserve to have to look at THAT! He's never noticed or mentioned it (and since I only do it once a week it's not like I'm ridiculously George Hamilton-tan or anything). I realize this isn't exactly the axe-murder sort of skeleton in my closet, but I find it hilarious.
+My secret is the same as a few others. I'm a sahm and not really the best at it. I try but I too am a yeller and not proud.
+One of my best kept secrets is that I am HORRIBLE with doing laundry! When my husband does it he separates the lights, darks, delicates, etc. and makes sure not to cram too much in one load. He also carefully measures out the detergent, color safe bleach, etc. Me, I reach deep into the laundry baskets and shove whatever I grab into the washer...as much as will fit. Before the clothes go in I just pour some of this, some of that in to clean :). My husband caught me doing this not that long ago and acted horrified...I told him if he didn't like how I did it he could do it himself :).
+candc320@gmail.com
+my best kept secret is that I spilled a LOT of water on my laptop keyboard. My husband thought that it just started making this police-siren sound when it starts and deciding not to let me type "1" on the right side numbers. He blames Facebook, which he thinks causes viruses, but hasn't made the connection that the remote broke on the very same day...
+I guess my best kept secret is that i'm not okay with being single as i let everyone else think. While i'm enjoying my me time, i get lonely from time to time and am jealous as all my friends are married and having kids.
+my secret is that i really want to be a stay at home mom when i have kids someday..and i want it to be soon!
+My best kept secret is that I do not like one of my co-workers! I am cordial with her but that is about it. I do not engage her in casual conversation like I do the rest of my co-workers. This woman always has to involve herself in everything which is very annoying. She also always has to make a comment, regardless of the fact that she does not know what we are talking about or that she is wrong!
+My best kept secret is that I LOVE when my hubby goes out of town for business!! I don't have to worry with making dinner every night..the kids and I eat out the entire time!
+Best kept secret... I listen to books on tape while I'm working... and might not answer the phone because the book got to a good part.
+- Mavericks Fan <3 Dirk 41
+my best kept secret is I AM A NOSEY WOMAN!!!!!!
+kyfaithw at aol dot com
+This book sounds great! I'm definitely going to add it to my list. My best kept secret? Hmmm... I guess it would be just how antisocial I really am. I would much rather sit at home on the couch with my husband watching old Scrubs reruns than go out with a group of people. I really get overwhelmed around lots of people, even friends.
+Its a secret. And best kept.
+This looks like a great book. My best kept secret is that I always look at the homes for sale, even though we are not planning to move.MargieT
+My best kept secret is that I'm afraid that even though I know all the right things to do, I am really a horrible teacher. I'm afraid that the other teachers in my grade and subject are doing a much better job and my students aren't learning or retaining as much.
+I hide my favorite candy up on a shelf in the back of my closet. Sometimes I just don't like to share!
+Hi Manic...thanks so much for offering up this book. I have a very close friend dealing with this exact issue right now. She even tried rehab to no avail. I am so sad for her...she desperately wants to quit drinking! Anyway, I guess a secret about me would be how badly I want to go back to school and get a degree. At 41yo this is TERRIFYING! Not sure if I'll ever do it...I keep finding reasons not to. :) Take Care MM!! Nan
+My best kept secret is that even though I complain about being single and not being able to find Mr. Right - I secretly like being able to do whatever I want, whenever I want without checking in with anyone. I also love having the whole bed to myself! Not that I want to be single forever, but for now it's kind of nice! :)
+I think at least once every day about ditching my family and running away. I never would because I love them, but it's exhausting to be a full time employee, mother, wife, cook, maid, chauffer, personal shopper, etc. I never have me time or get to do or buy something for myself.
+Kristi Marie
+My best kept secret is that I spend way too much time on my computer. I use the excuse that I am "working", but half the time I am on facebook or reading tabloid gossip. It's one of the reasons I won't get an IPhone or Blackberry...I'm afraid I'll never get offline!
+Probably that I'm disappointed almost every day. Sad, but true. I really have to work to be happy. :( ktmixon315
+I work in a profession where you are expected to be pleasant, happy and helpful to the random people who come in every day, and I'm always told ow pleadant, happy, and helpful I am. My secret is that I am not a people person and that I feel like slapping most of the people I help because their problems are trivial.
+My best kept secret is that I sneak off and eat candy when my kids aren't paying attention. (I also do the bad babysitter thing when my husband is out of town - glad I'm not the only one!)
+My BSK is going to remain a secret from all but the other two people involved (keep your minds out of the gutters) but I am dying to share it with someone!
+Instead, I'll share that even though I'm a quiet person, I'm totally a yeller with my kids, although my neighbors probably know that. :)
+Terri M.
+My best kept secret??? Unfortunately, I don't have any because I have what my husband calls "no filter". He wishes I had secrets!!
+-tmd636
+My Best Kept Secret is I love to sneak away and grab a quick nap before the kids get home from school. Of course, I am up before they walk through the door. Now that school is out things will be different!! lol
+My best kept secret is that I love to read YA ... even though I am in my 30s!!
+My best kept secret... The reason I rarely drink alcohol is because I grew up as the child of an alcoholic parent.
+I would love to read this book!
+My best kept secret is that I have absolutely no desire to have kids. I like kids, I have nieces and nephews that I adore, and love my friends kids, but, under no circumstances do I want any of my own. My husband and I are totally selfish; we like our freedom and the ability to do what we want when we want to. I think some people we meet think we don't have any (we've been married for 10 years) because of reproductive issues. No, we don't have any because we don't want any. It's a great thing if that's what you want, but, we don't. My freedom and ability to sleep far outweighs any desire to have children.
+I had doubts right before my wedding but wasn't strong enough to call it off or delay it. We have been married almost 38 years so I guess it worked out okay.
+My best kept secret is that I call the girl who considers me her Best Friend Ever my shopping and eating friend. No where near my BFF.
+My best kept secret is that I have pawned some jewelry my husband has bought me over the years when we were low on cash. He just thinks I never wear it anymore, that I am more in to "costume jewelry" now.
+My best kept secret is my ever growing book collection. Lol. My hubby is clueless as to really how large my collection is. Lol...It is an addiction but a GOOD one. ;)
+My best kept secret is that I read books like you post here at work, haha. It's bad but I love chic lit books so much. I hide my book under my desk and look at it every so often.
+Thanks!
+-Jessica
+BKS? Well, I don't keep secrets very often. That way I don't have to remember what I said...everyone else does! Heh! Maybe what I haven't told a friend of mine is that I really don't like her husband. I don't think he likes me either so guess it makes us even? And the truth is that I don't even care to make nice with him. It means I don't spend much time with her anymore, which is kind of sad.
+My best kept secret is that I get lonely sometimes because I live far from my family but I play it off so most people think it doesn't bother me that much.
+my best kept secret will remain just that...a SECRET
+That I'm 38 and haven't figured out what I want to do with my life or what I'm good at. I seem to fake things pretty well.
+BKS: sometimes I wish I *had* changed my major and become a teacher. but the economy is so bad and teachers are being laid off...I guess things worked out for the best.
+Crystal717
+My best kept secret is that I can't wait until my oldest moves into her own apartment and starts her "adult" life in a few days. I love her, but I really need her to be independent.
+Hmmm.... I stress shop. It's bad! On the upside I have nice jewelry. On the downside I have some bills I wish would go away.
+I don't think I have a best kept secret...I'm an open book (aka I share TMI!) Not to copy your secret, but similarly, every time my husband travels (which is often), the kids and I always pick one night to forfeit our typically healthy dinners and have big plates of chipped beef gravy and biscuits instead.
+Colbey J
+My best kept secret is that I do not shave my legs from october til march. I have not very hairy legs and usualyl do not need to shave for that long but no one knows that.
+I talk about eating healthier, but I sneak off and buy junk food when I am having a bad day. Patticole
+I eat so much sugar when my husband is out of town.
+My best kept secret is......best kept secret!
+SPepper22
+Probably my journal that i've had for 5 years. I only write in it when I'm really stressed and at my breaking point. I should write in it more often to get frustration out but I can never find the time.
+holly wohl
+Your interview was GREAT MaNiC! I can't wait to read this book! Thank you so much!...
+I wish I had some secrets to share... thinking thinking thinking - BUT I got nothing!
+Sorry!
+Christine
+Katie M in N-ville
+My best kept secret is that I am a magazine hoarder. I get so many magazines every month that it sometimes will take me a year to read them. I bring them into work so that my husband cannot see how many I get and read them on my breaks.
+That I want another baby. :) But we made that decision permanent (husband had the Big V), so if I love my marriage, and I do, I will keep this secret, and be happy with my wonderful sons.
+My best kept secret is that I'm terrified of being alone and never finding someone to share my life with...
+NicoleMG from CT
+My biggest secret is that I kissed a girl when I was younger. I know this is more accepted now, but I was in my early teens and both of us were in a really strict religion. Oops! lol
+I want to read this book and have been racking my brain for days about my best kept secret. I can't think of a thing. Pitiful!
+Kayo
+THANK YOU FOR COMMENTING. A WINNER HAS BEEN CHOSEN! NO MORE COMMENTS WILL QUALIFY AFTER THIS COMMENT.
+1st Quarter ResultsSource: RNS
+29 April 2022
+A Strong start - continued confidence in the Full year
+1. Adjusted measures are defined on page 6
+2. Our VMS portfolio is now reported within the Health Business Unit, as previously indicated. The re-presentation of historical financial information reflecting this change is included in the Appendix to this release.
+Highlights:
+· Group like-for-like ('LFL') net revenue growth of 5.6%: Price/mix was +5.3% and volume +0.3%. Continued broad-based growth and market share momentum across all Business Units and geographies, with 76% of our Core CMUs gaining or holding market share.
+· 70% of the portfolio less sensitive to Covid dynamics grew high-single digits. Excluding the positive impact from US IFCN, growth was mid-single digits.
+· Hygiene LFL net revenue decline of 9.0% (3.9% growth ex-Lysol): Growth in Finish, Air Wick, Harpic and Vanish led by innovation and penetration building initiatives. Lysol performed in line with expectations.
+· Health LFL net revenue growth of 20.6%: Strong growth in OTC, VMS and our Intimate Wellness portfolio. Dettol performed in line with expectations and is on track for low single digit growth in the year.
+· Nutrition LFL net revenue growth of 20.4%: US IFCN grew over 30% with innovation and strong execution amidst temporary competitor supply issues.
+· Repositioning the portfolio towards higher growth: The sale of Dermicool and E45 completed on 25 March and 1 April, respectively.
+Outlook:
+· Following a strong start to the year, we now expect LFL net revenue growth towards the upper end of our guidance of +1-4%. Despite significant cost inflation, we expect adjusted operating margins in-line with prior year and current market expectations.
+Commenting on these results, Laxman Narasimhan, Chief Executive Officer, said:
+"We have made a strong start to the year across all our business units and geographies despite a challenging operating environment. Investments we have made in brand building, innovation, and execution, have resulted in broad-based market share gains. These, coupled with pricing and revenue management actions, stand us in good stead to maintain this positive momentum.
+As we look to the balance of the year, the operating environment remains highly unpredictable. We are well placed to address these market dynamics through the strength of our brands, our favourable product mix, our productivity program and the responsible pricing initiatives already undertaken, with scope to take further actions.
+Given our strong start, we expect to deliver LFL net revenue growth at the upper end of our guidance for the year. We expect adjusted operating margins to be in-line with both the prior year and current market expectations, whilst continuing to invest in the long-term growth of our brands."
+Conference Call Details
+We will be hosting a live audiocast followed by a Q&A session for analysts and investors at 08:30 (BST) on Friday 29 April 2022.
+Please click on the link below to join the live audiocast on the day.
+Alternatively, dial in details are as follows:
+Further Information and Contacts the Reckitt Benckiser Group plc group of companies ; increases or volatility in the cost of raw materials and commodities;
+Outlook
+Given the strong start to the year we now expect LFL net revenue growth towards the upper end of our guidance of +1-4%. This reflects good momentum in OTC and IFCN, disinfection products in line with expectations, and the remainder of the business growing mid-single digits as targeted.
+The input environment remains highly volatile and unpredictable. It has become more adverse since our last market update in February due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Inflation on our cost of goods sold has increased from low teens to high teens based on current commodity pricing.
+We entered the year as a stronger business. We have a strong portfolio of brands which has enabled us to take pricing responsibly, and we will take further pricing actions as required. We will benefit from favourable product mix this year, our productivity initiatives are delivering ahead of plan, and we will see a reduction in finite-life transformation costs.
+The benefits from favourable mix, productivity initiatives and pricing give us the confidence to expect adjusted operating margins in-line with both the prior year and current market expectations, whilst continuing to invest in the long-term growth of our brands.
+Guidance for interest and capital expenditure remains unchanged from that indicated on 17 February 2022. We now expect our effective tax rate to be slightly lower than 2021 due to the anticipated favourable settlements of certain historic tax matters.
+We are on track to meet our medium-term goals of mid-single digit revenue growth and adjusted operating profit margin of mid-20s by the mid-2020s.
+Group Review
+Group performance
+1. Adjusted measures are defined on page 6
+Group net revenue grew by 5.6% on a LFL basis in Q1 with volume growth of 0.3% and price / mix improvements of 5.3%. Volume was impacted by the decline in Lysol and the temporary benefit in US IFCN. Excluding these, volumes remained strong, growing by around 7%. On a reported basis, net revenue declined 2.3%.
+Growth has been broad-based across the business, with brands less sensitive to Covid dynamics, representing around 70% of the portfolio, growing high-single digits. Excluding US IFCN, growth was mid-single digits. The supply chain environment during the quarter continues to be challenging, both in terms of logistical availability and certain raw material constraints. While our supply team works to find mitigations, we continue to monitor the situation and look to continue to improve our customer service.
+The net effect of M&A was a 6.9% reduction in net revenue in the quarter, representing the disposal of IFCN China and Scholl, offset by the acquisition of Biofreeze.
+FX headwinds reduced net revenue by 1.0% due primarily to a general strengthening of Sterling against many currencies.
+eCommerce LFL net revenue grew 13% in the quarter, further building on the strong growth of Q1 2021, and represents 12% of Group net revenue.
+OPERATING SEGMENT REVIEW
+Hygiene 43% of net revenue in Q1 2022
+1. Adjusted measures are defined on page 6
+Hygiene net revenue declined 9.0% on a LFL basis to £1,465m. Volume declined 12.8%, primarily reflecting the reduction in Lysol volumes. Price / mix improved by 3.8%.
+78% of Core Hygiene CMUs held or gained market share with broad-based gains across our core categories.
+Lysol net revenue declined in line with expectations, at around 30% in the quarter, following around 70% growth in Q1 2021. Overall net revenue remains around 75% higher than 2019 levels driven by expansion into new markets and adjacent categories over the past two years, and as consumers continue to exhibit elevated hygiene behaviours as we learn to live with Covid. Lysol disinfecting spray shares continue to be strong and we see further penetration growth potential in adjacent categories of laundry sanitisers and "on the go" products. With the continued rebasing of consumption, our plans reflect an expectation that retailers will reduce their safety levels of inventory in both disinfection sprays and wipes.
+Finish net revenue grew mid-single-digits with particularly strong growth across Europe and Developing markets accelerated by our latest Finish Quantum innovation, leveraging thermoforming technology to deliver higher quality and more sustainable auto-dish solutions.
+Air Wick net revenue grew low-single-digits, further building on the strong growth of Q1 2021, with particularly strong growth in the US driven by the continued growth of the Essential Mist and Scented Oils natural range.
+Vanish net revenue grew mid-single digits with growth driven by reduced confinements of consumers versus the prior year.
+Harpic grew high-single-digits, with particularly strong growth in India, its largest market, driven by increased distribution and product upgrades. Latin America also saw strong growth as a result of penetration gains across Argentina and Mexico.
+Our pest business delivered low-single-digits growth despite a weak season in India and Latin America.
+Health 41% of net revenue in Q1 2022
+1. Adjusted measures are defined on page 6
+Health net revenue grew 20.6% on a LFL basis in the quarter to £1,402m. This reflected volume growth of 15.5% and price / mix improvements of 5.1%.
+73% of Core Health CMUs held or gained market share with gains across cold and flu, intimate wellness and most disinfection markets.
+OTC net revenue grew over 60% in the quarter due to the combination of Omicron, a cold and flu season against a weak comparator for Mucinex and Strepsils, plus significant market share gains across the portfolio. Recent launches including Mucinex Instasoothe, the brand's first entry into the sore throat relief segment, has gained significant market share since its launch at the end of 2021. Other launches, including the rollout of Nuromol, a unique and exclusive formulation of Nurofen and Paracetamol in Brazil continue to progress well.
+Our Intimate Wellness portfolio grew high-single-digits in the quarter resulting from a continued renewed focus on execution, innovation and investment behind omnichannel growth. We saw particularly strong growth in China from the continued success of the polyurethane Durex condom launch.
+Dettol net revenue declined in the quarter, as it laps tough comparators, but continues to stabilise well above 2019 levels. Dettol Tru Clean - our first plant-based disinfectant - successfully launched in 2021, has quickly established itself as one of the larger eco brands in the UK, with further planned rollouts during the course of this year. We have a strong pipeline of innovations launching this year, and we continue to expect our Dettol franchise to grow low single digits in 2022.
+Our Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements grew mid-teens, driven by strong growth in Move Free in China, and continued penetration growth in our cognitive health brand, Neuriva. The net effect of M&A was a 3.6% reduction in net revenue in the quarter, representing the disposal of Scholl offset by the acquisition of Biofreeze.
+Nutrition 16% of net revenue in Q1 2022
+1. Adjusted measures are defined on page 6
+Nutrition net revenue grew 20.4% on a LFL basis to £557m. This reflected volume growth of 8.9% and price / mix improvements of 11.5%. Included within the price / mix benefit is a short-term benefit in the US of additional 'WIC' sales for which Reckitt will not incur rebate claims from the Government. This is due to temporary competitor supply issues.
+79% of Core Nutrition CMUs held or gained market share with particularly strong share gains across the US.
+IFCN US net revenue grew over 30% on a LFL basis, with strong growth in both our core Enfa and specialty brands. Significant market share growth was driven by innovation and strong execution in response to increased demand.
+We saw improving trends across Latin America and ASEAN, driven by an increased investment in a more resilient supply chain, more focused in-market execution, and a mix of growth in our core infant, specialty and adult portfolios.
+The net effect of M&A was a 36.5% reduction in net revenue in the quarter, representing the disposal of IFCN China and EnfaBebé in Argentina.
+Performance by geography
+1. Adjusted measures are defined on page 6
+North America Q1 net revenue grew 3.0% on a LFL basis, with strong growth in IFCN and OTC brands, offset by the expected declines in Lysol.
+Europe / ANZ Q1 revenue grew 8.3% on a LFL basis, with broad-based growth across most markets. Lysol saw strong growth in the quarter, benefitting from launches in new markets over the last two years.
+Developing markets Q1 revenue grew 5.7% on a LFL basis, driven by Latin America, India and Greater China.
+portfolio management
+The sale of Dermicool and E45 completed on 25 March and 1 April, respectively, with combined net cash proceeds of around £240m. The combined 2021 net revenues and adjusted operating profits of these brands were £54m and £29m, respectively. Our latest outlook takes these disposals into account.
+Russia / ukraine
+Following a thorough internal review and our announcement on 13 April 2022, Reckitt has begun a process aimed at transferring ownership of its Russian business, which may include a transfer to a third party or to our local employees.
+We will work closely with our colleagues in Russia on the details of the various options available to ensure an orderly process. We will do our utmost to ensure those colleagues' ongoing employment in any new structure and we commit to paying their monthly salaries and benefits throughout the transition and until the end of 2022.
+This action builds on our previously announced decision to freeze capital investments, advertising, sponsorships and promotions in Russia. We will update on progress as soon as we have more information to share.
+In 2021 Ukraine and Russia combined represented around 3% net revenue and adjusted operating profit for the Group.
+Financial Position
+There has been no material change to the financial position of the Group since the publication of the 2021 Annual Report and Accounts on 14 April 2022.
+Other Matters
+The Humidifier Sanitiser ('HS') issue in South Korea is a tragic event, with many parties involved. We continue to make both public and personal apologies to victims. Details of existing provisions and contingent liabilities relating to the HS issue can be found on page 239 of the 2021 Annual Report and Accounts.
+Alternative Performance Measures).
+Constant exchange rate ('CER'): Net revenue growth or decline adjusting the actual consolidated results such that the foreign currency conversion uses the same exchange rates as were applied in the prior financial year.
+Adjusted Operating Profit and Adjusted Operating Profit margin: Adjusted operating profit reflects the IFRS operating profit excluding items in line with the Group's adjusted items policy, which can be found on page 81 of the 2021 Annual Report and Accounts. The adjusted operating profit margin is the adjusted operating profit expressed as a percentage of net revenue.
+Other definitions and terms
+eCommerce: eCommerce channel net revenue is defined as direct sales from Reckitt to online platforms or directly to consumers. Estimates of total eCommerce sales as a percentage of group revenues includes direct sales and an estimate of sales achieved by our brands corresponding to sales through our omnichannel distributors and retailer' websites..65% of Group net revenue and between c.60% to c.80% of each GBU's net revenue. As a measure of competitiveness, management tracks the percentage of Core CMUs holding or gaining market share, weighted by net revenue.
+Upcoming Events
+As part of our Investor Seminar Series, we will be holding an ESG deep-dive on Friday 6 May 2022.
+IFRS to LFL reconciliation
+1. Our VMS portfolio is now reported within the Health Business Unit, as previously indicated. The re-presentation of historical financial information reflecting this change is included in the Appendix to this release.
+APPENDIX A: PRESENTATION ON OLD BASIS
+To aid comparison between the new and old basis of reporting, the following table presents Q1 2022 as though presented on the old basis, with VMS under the Nutrition Business Unit.
+Numbers will not be provided on this basis in future periods.
+1. Adjusted measures are defined on page 6
+APPENDIX B: RE-PRESENTATION OF SEGMENTAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION
+Our VMS portfolio is now reported within the Health Business Unit, as previously indicated. Reckitt has published the additional information below to provide visibility of the historical GBU performance under the new basis.
+Quarterly LFL1 net revenue growth
+1. Adjusted measures are defined on page 6
+2. Excluding IFCN China
+Quarterly net revenue
+APPENDIX B: RE-PRESENTATION OF SEGMENTAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION
+Half yearly net revenue
+1. Adjusted measures are defined on page 6
+2. Excluding IFCN China
+Adjusted operating profit1
+1. Adjusted measures are defined on page 6
+2. Excluding IFCN China
+Adjusted operating profit margin1
+1. Adjusted measures are defined on page 6
+2. Excluding IFCN Ch.
+PHP Scaffold Generator
+UPDATE:
+—————
+I have done a little reworking of the scaffold generator, you can still download it here. I made a new built in search functionality and took out the status page, now there is just a notice on the main listing page after you take an action. I also cleaned the code up a bit. And since I was called a lazy bastard here is a simple demo. Play with that all you want and tear apart the code.
+—————-
+Here is a little tool I created for myself when building or working on MySQL databases. It is a scaffold generator similar in functionality to the Ruby on Rails generator and only needs to know how to connect to your database to get up and running. It creates a CRUD (Create, Read, Edit, Delete) admin system for your databases. There are no config files or any of that to mess with. I find it pretty handy and thought I would share it since it is a pain to manually code forms and functionality when you change a field name or add a few fields. It works in PHP 4.3 and up, so pretty much on any server..(although I have no idea about 6.0 when it comes out).
+Some basic database structure is assumed for the scaffold to run smoothly..
+- Table names are all plural and lowercase.
+- Primary keys are all named ‘id’.
+- Field names are lowercase and can be underscored .. ie-> ‘first_name’.
+- Timestamps named ‘created_at’ and ‘updated_at’ cannot be edited, they will be updated automatically.
+- Foreign keys are named as {table_name_singluar_id}, so.. ‘author_id’ references table ‘authors’, ‘book_id’ references table ‘books’, ‘category_id’ references table ‘categories’ and so on.
+- Foreign key tables also ARE ASSUMED TO have a field ‘name’.
+- Special case for odd plurals can be put in the configuration so ‘person_id’ can reference table ‘people’.
+All the details are in the file.
+Some nice features of the scaffold..
+- Automatically build drop down menus for foreign keys.
+- Automatically assign foreign key relationship between singular ‘_id’ and plural table name.. category_id relates to categories and so on.
+- Create custom plurals.. ie-> person_id for people
+- Limit what is displayed on the listing page.
+- Set record count for pagination.
+- Set listing table width to drop into a page layout.
+- Automatically create reader friendly names from the underscores
+All you have to do is include this file on your page
+<?php include("path_to/scaffold.php"); ?>
+and create the scaffold.
+<?php new Scaffold("TABLE_NAME"); ?>
+This will setup a fully functional admin system. Throw in a simple stylesheet like this and wrap the scaffold in a centered div and you can pass it off as a custom built system!
+body {
+margin:2em;
+font-family: arial, veranda, helvetica, san-serif;
+font-size:1em;
+color:#333;
+}
+You can also call the scaffold like this to set up a custom listing page.
+<?php new Scaffold("TABLE_NAME", 10, array('fields', 'that', 'will', 'show'), FALSE, 400); ?>
+This will generate listings for your table with 10 records per page, only show the fields you sent in the array, will turn off html safe display and make your table width 400.
+Download the PHP Scaffold Generator and feel free to use it how ever you wish. It is licensed under the Creative Commons License so just keep the original credit in tact. Let me know of any suggestions or problems.
+Related Articles:
+It’s nice, but I think there are too many database structure requirements. Any ways it was interesting to test your script and to read your code. As a suggestion, instead showing the message “Back To Listings” may be you can redirect automatically to the listing page and show the message “Record Modified” there.
+For instance add to the line 275:
+header(”Location: “.$_SERVER[’PHP_SELF’].”?message=record_added”);
+Then do something like if ($_REQUEST[’message’]==’record_added’) {….new record….}
+p.s. Get rip of spaces in order to avoid errors like Warning: Cannot modify header information
+@Master Employment
+I know most don’t like any restrictions on the database, but I feel it is a good trade off for ease of use.. really the only requirements are having the table names plural and the foreign keys named for the singular table name with and ‘_id’ on the end. It’s a pretty common construct anyway..
+I had it set to redirect in the code just by calling list_table(’your message here’), but i decided against it in case there was a field name conflict in the db.. I’ve got a workaround in my head right now actually.. just hit me.
+I use this to quickly set up a backend and it has worked well for me. I thought it might be of use to some others especially if they are developing the dbs as they go, then there is no need to modify admin code. And it works great for plain dbs.
+Once the dbs get too complicated of course you will probably want something else to handle things.
+Thanks Nick, for your script and feedback.
+Although I have some ideas to make it more interesting, I think your tool is good, I like it. Probably I am going to use it today
+Let me know if you want to know more of my thoughts
+Have a nice day, your blog is added to my bookmarks.
+How about making a demo you lazy bastard.
+[…] an observation from the past 2 days.. My last post, the PHP Scaffold Generator got ‘StumbledUpon’ and within an hour I had 500 site visits. Not too shabby at all. […]
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+Differences in symptom occurrence, severity, and distress ratings between patients with gastrointestinal cancers who received chemotherapy alone or chemotherapy with targeted therapy
+Introduction
+Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers include the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine (colon), gall bladder, liver, pancreas, rectum, and anus. While the mortality rates for colon and rectal cancers have decreased over the past two decades, other GI cancers (e.g., pancreas) that do not have reliable screening methods have not seen similar effects (1). The American Cancer Society estimates that 304,930 new cases of GI cancers will be diagnosed in 2016 and approximately half of these patients will die from their disease (1).
+Historically, chemotherapy (CTX) was one of the standard treatments for GI cancers (2-8). These agents are administered to reduce tumor burden, decrease tumor-related symptoms, improve patients’ well-being, and prolong survival (9-12). However, these agents are inherently toxic and destroy rapidly dividing cancer cells, which results in significant symptoms (3,13). Therefore, ongoing assessments of patients with GI cancers are critical because unrelieved symptoms may alter their CTX regimen, as well as have negative effects on their functional status and quality of life (QOL) (14).
+Today, patients with GI cancers are treated with surgery, radiation therapy, CTX, and/or targeted therapy (TT) depending on the stage of their disease at the time of diagnosis (15-18). Because TT was developed to act on well-defined targets or biological pathways, initial evidence suggested that patients tolerated targeted therapies better than traditional CTX (19). In addition, survival rates increased in patients with GI cancers who received TT (20). However, more recent evidence suggests that these targeted therapies result in unique toxicities (e.g., skin changes) (21).
+To date, the majority of symptom management research has evaluated patients who were heterogeneous with respect to their cancer diagnoses. Most studies that evaluated the symptom experience of patients with GI cancers were done within the context of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) for new CTX regimens. The evaluation of symptoms within the context of these RCTs is limited because most studies used the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) (22-26). Only four studies used valid and reliable symptom assessment instruments to evaluate various dimensions of the symptom experience (i.e., occurrence, severity, distress) in patients with GI cancers receiving CTX (27-30).
+In the first study (28), data from the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance (CanCORS) study (i.e., a demographically representative national database) were used to describe the prevalence and severity of symptoms in patients who were four to 6 months post diagnosis of lung cancer or colorectal cancer (CRC). Of the 5,422 patients who completed the symptom survey, 93.5% reported at least one symptom in the four weeks before the survey. In addition, 51% reported at least one symptom as moderate or severe. Patients with CRC reported significantly fewer symptoms than patient with lung cancer. In addition, patients who were most recently diagnosed with lung cancer and CRC were more likely to report a significantly higher number of symptoms regardless of the stage of their disease. While this study’s sample was large and representative, comparisons were not made between CRC patients who received CTX with or without TT.
+In the second study (29), multiple dimensions of the symptom experience (i.e., occurrence, severity, and distress) associated with the second or third cycle of CTX for CRC were evaluated. On average, these patients (n=104) reported 10.3 (±7.7) symptoms. The five most common symptoms were numbness/tingling in the hands/feet (64%), lack of energy (62%), feeling drowsy (49%), nausea (45%), and shortness of breath (43%). Using the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS), these patients reported higher scores for frequency than for either severity or distress. Again, this study did not evaluate for differences in the symptom experience of CRC patients who received CTX with or without TT.
+In a study that evaluated multiple symptoms using the MSAS, as well as psychological distress, social support, and QOL in newly diagnosed patients with GI cancers (n=146) (27), the most common symptoms were fatigue (63%), pain (42.1%), weight loss (41.1%), dry mouth (38.4%), and lack of appetite (35.6%). These patients’ mean anxiety score was 40.5 (±11.2) and 27.4% of the patients were categorized as clinically depressed. While, multiple dimensions of the symptom experience were evaluated, comparisons were not made between GI patients who received CTX with or without TT.
+Only one retrospective, cohort study evaluated the symptom experience of patients with GI cancers on targeted therapies (30). In this study, differences in the symptom burden of patients with CRC who received second-line treatments that contained bevacizumab or cetuximab with or without CTX were evaluated. Regardless of treatment group, fatigue was the most common symptom (67%) that occurred at moderate to severe levels. However, compared to bevacizumab, cetuximab produced a significantly higher rate of moderate to severe dry skin (P<0.0001), itching (P=0.0028), and rash (P<0.0001). Of note, compared to the bevacizumab group, patients who received only CTX had a higher rate of moderate to severe nausea (P=0.0485) and tended to report a higher rate of physical pain (P=0.0564). In this study, the Patient Care Monitor Instrument was used to evaluate the severity of 80 symptoms (86 for women), using a 0 to 10 scale. While 80 to 86 symptoms were evaluated, detailed information on the severity and distress of these symptoms were not reported.
+Current evidence suggests that approximately 28% of patients with GI cancers will receive TT because of the associated increases in survival (31). Given the paucity of research on the symptom experience of these patients, the purpose of this study was to evaluate for differences in symptom occurrence rates, as well as in severity and distress ratings, in the week following the administration of CTX, between patients with GI cancers who received CTX alone or CTX with TT. We hypothesized that patients who received CTX with TT would report lower symptom occurrence rates, as well as lower severity and distress ratings.
+Methods
+Patients and settings
+This study is part of a larger descriptive, longitudinal study of the symptom experience of oncology outpatients who received CTX (32,33). Eligible patients were ≥18 years of age; had a diagnosis of breast, GI, lung, or gynecological cancer; had received CTX within the preceding four weeks; were scheduled to receive at least two additional cycles of CTX; were able to read, write, and understand English; and provided informed consent. Patients were recruited from two Comprehensive Cancer Centers, one Veterans Affairs hospital, and four community based oncology programs.
+A total of 2,234 patients were approached and 1,343 consented to participate (60.1% response rate) in the larger study. The major reason for refusal was being overwhelmed with their cancer treatment. For this study, only patients with GI cancers were included (n=404).
+Study procedures
+The study was approved by the Committee on Human Research at the University of California at San Francisco and by the Institutional Review Board at each of the study sites. A research staff member in the infusion unit approached eligible patients and discussed participation in the study. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients. Based on the length of the CTX cycle, GI cancer patients completed questionnaires in their homes, a total of six times over two cycles of CTX, namely: before CTX administration (i.e., recovery from previous CTX cycle, Times 1 and 4), approximately one week after CTX administration (i.e., acute symptoms, Times 2 and 5), and approximately two weeks after CTX administration (i.e., potential nadir, Times 3 and 6). For this study, symptom data from the Time 2 assessment were analyzed.
+Instruments
+A demographic questionnaire obtained information on age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, living arrangements, education, employment status, and income. Functional status was assessed using the Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) scale, which is widely used in patients with cancer and has well established validity and reliability. Patients rated their functional status using the KPS scale that ranged from 30 (I feel severely disabled and need to be hospitalized) to 100 (I feel normal; I have no complaints or symptoms) (34).
+Self-Administered Comorbidity Questionnaire (SCQ) consists of 13 common medical conditions simplified into language that can be understood without prior medical knowledge (35). Patients indicated if they had the condition; if they received treatment for it (proxy for disease severity); and if it limited their activity (indication of functional limitations). For each condition, patients can receive a maximum of 3 points. The total SCQ score ranges from 0 to 39. The SCQ has well established validity and reliability (35).
+Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is a 10-item questionnaire that assesses alcohol consumption, alcohol dependence, and the consequences of alcohol abuse in the last 12 months. The AUDIT gives a total score that ranges between 0 and 40. Scores of ≥8 are defined as hazardous use and scores of ≥16 are defined as use of alcohol that is likely to be harmful to health (36,37). The AUDIT has well established validity and reliability (38-40). In this study, its Cronbach’s alpha was 0.63.
+A modified version of the MSAS was used to evaluate the occurrence, severity, and distress of 38 symptoms commonly associated with cancer and its treatment. In addition to the original 32 MSAS symptoms, the following six symptoms were assessed: hot flashes, chest tightness, difficulty breathing, abdominal cramps, increased appetite, and weight gain. The MSAS is a self-report questionnaire designed to measure the multidimensional experience of symptoms. Patients were asked to indicate whether they experienced each symptom within the past week (i.e., symptom occurrence). If they experienced the symptom, they were asked to rate its severity and distress. Severity was rated using a 4-point Likert scale (i.e., 1= slight, 2= moderate, 3= severe, 4= very severe). Distress was rated using a 5-point Likert scale (i.e., 0= not at all, 1= mild, 2= moderate, 3= severe, 4= very severe) (41). The validity and reliability of the MSAS are well established (41-43).
+Data analysis
+Data were analyzed using SPSS Version 22 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA) and Stata Version 14 (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX). Descriptive statistics as means and standard deviations (SD) for quantitative variables and frequencies and percentages for categorical variables were calculated for all study variables. Patients were dichotomized into individuals who received CTX alone or CTX with TT. Independent sample t-tests, Mann-Whitney U tests, and Chi-Square analyses were used to evaluate for differences in demographic and clinical characteristics between the two treatment groups.
+Binary logistic regression analyses were performed to test for differences in symptom occurrence rates between the two treatment groups. Ordinal logistic regression analyses were used to test for differences in severity and distress ratings between the two treatment groups (44). Because some of the symptoms had a low occurrence rate, regression analyses were performed only when ≥60 responses were available. Additionally, symptom severity and distress ratings were not analyzed if <15 responses were available in the upper two categories. Because the severity and distress ratings were ordinal and most were highly skewed, analyses for these items were carried out with ordinal logistic regression and estimation was carried out with a nonparametric bootstrap, with 1,000 repetitions for each analysis, to obtain bias-corrected confidence intervals (CI) for the predictors. For each bootstrapped regression, likelihood ratio deviance tests were used to determine whether a set of six covariates that differed between the treatment groups (i.e., age, time since cancer diagnosis, number of metastatic sites including lymph node involvement, number of prior cancer treatments, GI cancer diagnosis, CTX treatment regimen) improved the fit of the model over the single treatment predictor. Significance was evaluated using bias-corrected bootstrapped CIs. A P value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
+Results
+Differences in demographic characteristics between patients who received CTX with or without TT
+Of the 404 patients with GI cancers who consented to participate, 397 patients (94%) completed the MSAS. Of these 397 patients, 23.4% (n=93) received CTX with TT and 76.6% (n=304) received only CTX. As shown in Table 1, except for age, no differences were found in any demographic characteristics between patients who received CTX alone or CTX with TT. Patients who received CTX with TT were significantly younger (P=0.009).
+Full table
+Differences in clinical characteristics between patients who received CTX with or without TT
+As shown in Table 1, compared to patients who received CTX alone, patients who received CTX with TT were diagnosed with cancer longer (P=0.004) and had a higher number of prior treatments (P=0.024). In addition, a higher percentage of patients on CTX with TT had metastatic disease, specifically to the liver (P<0.001), had a diagnoses of anal, colon, rectum or CRC (P<0.001), and were positive for detection of B-Raf proto-oncogene, serine/threonine kinase (BRAF) and Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) mutations (both P<0.001).
+The percentages of patients who received the most common CTX regimens differed between the two groups (P=0.002). In patients who received CTX alone, the most common CTX regimens were: leucovorin/5-fluorouracil/irinotecan (FOLFIRI), leucovorin/5-fluorouracil/oxaliplatin (FOLFOX), capecitabine and oxaliplatin (CapeOX), gemcitabine and paclitaxel, and leucovorin/5-fluorouracil/irinotecan/oxaliplatin (FOLFIRINOX). In patients who received targeted therapies, the most common CTX regimens were: FOLFIRI, FOLFOX, FOLFIRINOX, and CapeOX. The most common targeted therapies were: bevacizumab (80.4%), cetuximab (12.4%), panitumumab (6.2%), and transtuzumab (1.0%).
+Differences in symptom occurrence rates and total number of symptoms between patients who received CTX with or without TT
+The occurrence rates for the top ten symptoms are listed in Table 2. No differences were found in the total number of symptoms reported between patients who received CTX with (
+=11.50±6.9) or without (
+=12.75±6.8; t=1.501, P=0.134) TT. The five symptoms with the highest occurrence rates in patients who received CTX with TT were: lack of energy (72.1%), numbness/tingling in hands or feet (65.1%), pain (57.0%), nausea (52.3%), and difficulty sleeping (50.0%). Except for pain, four of these symptoms were in the top five symptoms reported by the patients who received CTX alone.
+Full table
+In the bivariate analyses (Table 3), patients who received CTX with TT reported lower occurrence rates for lack of energy, cough, feeling drowsy, and difficulty sleeping (all, P<0.05). In the multivariable analyses that adjusted for age, time since cancer diagnosis, number of metastatic sites including lymph node involvement, number of prior cancer treatments, GI cancer diagnosis, and CTX treatment regimens, patients who received CTX with TT reported significantly lower occurrence rates for lack of energy (P<0.05), cough (P<0.01), feeling drowsy (P<0.05), and difficulty sleeping (P<0.05).
+Full table
+Differences in symptom severity scores between patients who received CTX with or without TT
+The ten symptoms with the highest mean severity scores are listed in Table 4. For patients who received CTX with TT, the five symptoms with the highest severity scores were: swelling of arms and legs, “I don’t look like myself”, problems with urination, changes in skin, and problems with sexual interest or activity. For patients who received CTX alone, the five symptoms with the highest severity scores were: problems with sexual interest or activity, change in the way food tastes, lack of energy, diarrhea, and lack of appetite.
+Full table
+In the bivariate analyses (Table 5), patients who received CTX with TT reported a lower severity score for change in the way food tastes (P=0.023). However, these patients reported significantly higher severity scores for “I don’t look like myself” (P=0.005), and changes in skin (P=0.019). In the multivariable analyses, the severity scores for dry mouth (P=0.034), and change in the way food tastes (P=0.035) were significantly lower in patients who received CTX with TT. In addition, these patients were more likely to report higher severity scores for “I don’t look like myself” (P=0.026).
+Full table
+Differences in symptom distress scores between patients who received CTX with or without TT
+The ten symptoms with the highest distress scores are listed in Table 6. For patients who received CTX with TT, the five symptoms with the highest distress scores were: problems with urination, “I don’t look like myself”, hair loss, constipation, and vomiting. For patients who received CTX alone, the five symptoms with the highest distress scores were: problems with sexual interest or activity, lack of energy, change in the way food tastes, pain, and diarrhea.
+Full table
+In the bivariate analyses (Table 7), patients who received CTX with TT reported significantly higher distress ratings for: worrying (P=0.044), feeling irritable (P=0.035), and “I don’t look like myself” (P=0.010). In the multivariable analyses, none of these between group differences remained significant.
+Full table
+Discussion
+This study is the first to report on differences in multiple dimensions of the symptom experience in patients with GI cancers who received CTX with or without TT. Like the current literature, which reports conflicting evidence on the side effects associated with TT (45), our a priori hypothesis was only partially supported. Depending on the dimension evaluated, some symptoms were better and some were worse in patients on TT. Of note, in all of the multivariate analyses, neither GI cancer diagnosis nor CTX treatment regimen was a significant predictor of any symptoms’ occurrence, severity or distress.
+Symptom occurrence
+While fatigue is the most common symptom reported by oncology patients receiving CTX (46), compared to previous reports of newly diagnosed patients with GI cancers (63%) (27), and CRC patients receiving CTX (62.0%) (29), the overall occurrence rate for fatigue (i.e., lack of energy) in our study regardless of treatment group was higher (80.7%). This difference may be related to differences in age, GI cancer diagnoses, and/or presence of metastatic disease. However, compared to patients who received CTX alone, patients on TT had a 55.7% decrease in the odds of reporting fatigue.
+In terms of the overall occurrence rates for feeling drowsy and difficulty sleeping, our findings are similar to those of Pettersson and colleagues who reported occurrence rates of 49.0% and 46.0%, respectively for these two symptoms (29). Again, when differences in the occurrence rates for both of these symptoms were evaluated, patients in our study on TT had a 46.1% and 47.8% decrease in the odds of reporting feeling drowsy and difficulty sleeping, respectively. These differences in rates for all three symptoms remained significant after controlling for age, time since cancer diagnosis, number of metastatic sites, number of prior cancer treatments, GI cancer diagnosis, and CTX regimen.
+While the exact reasons for the decreased occurrence rates for fatigue, feeling drowsy, and difficulty sleeping in patients on targeted therapies are not known, a number of potential explanations warrant consideration. First, while it is possible that specific CTX regimens and/or administration schedules could result in different occurrence rates for fatigue, no evidence was found to support this hypothesis, after we controlled for CTX regimen in the multivariate analyses. In addition, in a recent meta-analysis that evaluated the effects of doublet versus single cytotoxic agent treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (47), no between group differences in fatigue occurrence rates were found. Finally, fatigue, feeling drowsy, and sleep disturbance were reported in previous studies to be part of a symptom cluster (48,49). Given that all three symptoms had higher occurrence rates in the patients who received only CTX suggests that when these three symptoms do occur they may interact with each other and result in a higher symptom burden.
+The occurrence of cough in our study was similar to previous reports that ranged from 15.8% (27) to 28.0% (29). Of note, while the overall occurrence rate for cough was relatively low in our study (i.e., 23.5%), patients on TT had a 65.4% decrease in the odds of reporting cough. While the occurrence of comorbid lung disease or lung metastasis was similar in both treatment groups, the occurrence rate for esophageal cancer was higher in the CTX alone group (6.6%) compared to the TT group (3.5%). Given that esophageal cancer is associated with gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) and chronic cough is a common symptom in patients with GERD (50), the differential occurrence rates for cough may be partially explained by the different rates of esophageal cancer in the two treatment groups.
+Symptom severity
+None of the symptoms that had significant between group differences in occurrence rates had differences in severity scores. However, the severity scores for dry mouth and change in the way food tastes were significantly lower in the TT group. For the total sample, mean severity scores for dry mouth (i.e., 1.79) and change in the way food tastes (i.e., 2.12) were similar to those reported by Yan and colleagues (i.e., 1.66 and 2.29, respectively) (27). However, when treatment group differences in the severity rates for both of these symptoms were evaluated, patients on TT were 73.2% and 59.0% less likely to report a higher severity score for dry mouth and change in the way food tastes, respectively.
+Consistent with previous studies (51,52), patients receiving CTX experience significant changes in the way food tastes and dry mouth, that peak after the administration of CTX. In addition, in another study (53), the severity of these two symptoms were moderately correlated (r=0.425, P≤0.01). However, no studies were identified that evaluated the severity of these two symptoms in patients on TT. Most of the previous studies of TT used the CTCAE scoring criteria, which only evaluates “mucositis/stomatitis” (54,55). In both treatment groups, the severity scores for taste changes and dry mouth were in the moderate range. Because these two symptoms can interfere with food and fluid intake, both groups of patients warrant ongoing assessments to evaluate for and manage nutritional deficits (56).
+While patients on TT reported lower severity scores for change in the way food tastes and dry mouth, these patients reported a higher severity score for “I don’t look like myself”. Patients on targeted therapies were 5.6 times more likely to report a higher severity score for the symptom “I don’t look like myself”. While the hair loss associated with CTX can impact a patient’s body image (57), the between group differences in this symptom may be directly related to the skin toxicities associated with TT. In one study (58), 41% of patients with advanced CRC treated with TT reported psychological distress caused by a rash. When asked how the rash affected their willingness to go out into public, 25% of the patients answered “somewhat” and 22% answered “very much”. Additional research is warranted using a symptom assessment scale that evaluates specific skin toxicities to determine their impact on the body image of patients who receive targeted therapies.
+Symptom distress
+While in the bivariate analyses, patients on CTX with targeted therapies reported higher distress scores for worrying, feeling irritable, and “I don’t look like myself”, these differences did not remain significant in the multivariable analyses. Only one study was found that reported mean MSAS distress scores in a sample of Chinese patients receiving treatment for GI cancers (27). The five symptoms with the highest distress scores were sleep disturbance (2.06), change in the way food tastes (1.93), hair loss (1.92), lack of energy (1.82), and shortness of breath (1.79). In our study, except for shortness of breath, patients who received CTX alone reported that the same symptoms were the most distressing and the distress scores were comparable. However, in the patients in our study who received TT, only three of the five most distressing symptoms were similar to those reported by Yan and colleagues (27) (i.e., hair loss, lack of energy, shortness of breath). In fact, the two most distressing symptoms reported by patients on TT (i.e., problems with urination, “I don’t look like myself”) were not listed in the top ten most distressing symptoms by patients who received only CTX in the study by Yan and colleagues (27).
+Consistent with previous studies (27,29), in both treatment groups in our study, the symptoms with the highest distress scores did not have the highest occurrences rates or severity scores. An evaluation of symptom distress is important because unrelieved distress can interfere with patients’ willingness to obtain or continue treatment, which can impact overall survival. Our findings suggest that clinicians need to assess multiple dimensions of the symptom experience in patients with GI cancers and attempt to manage the most common, severe, and distressing symptoms.
+Conclusions
+While significant between groups differences in patients’ symptom experiences were identified, patients in both treatment groups reported an average of 12.5 symptoms during the week following CTX administration. This finding is consistent with previous reports that found that patients who received CTX for CRC (29) and patients with advanced cancer (59) reported between 10.3 and 11.7 symptoms. Therefore, both groups of patients warrant ongoing assessments to optimally manage their unrelieved symptoms.
+Several study limitations need to be acknowledged. Information on the cumulative doses of CTX and TT received by these patients prior to enrollment were not collected. Because the multidimensional symptom instrument utilized in the study was not developed to evaluate symptoms experienced by patients receiving TT, additional symptoms that are specific to TT (e.g., pruritis associated with rash, xerosis, pain associated with paronychia) (60) warrant evaluation in future studies. In addition, the varied distribution of GI cancer diagnoses and CTX regimens makes it difficult to distinguish specific symptoms associated with these characteristics. Finally, while the total sample was large, the number of patients on TT was relatively small. Therefore, differences in the symptom burden associated with specific targeted therapies could not be evaluated. Additional differences may emerge in future studies with a larger sample of patients on CTX with TT.
+Findings from this study provide new information regarding symptoms experienced by GI cancer patients receiving CTX with and without TT. Clinicians can use this information to better assess and manage symptoms in both treatment groups. Future studies need to evaluate for differences between these two treatment groups in changes over time in occurrence, severity, and distress of these symptoms. These findings will allow for the development and testing of more tailored symptom management interventions.
+Acknowledgements
+Funding: This study was supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI, CA134900). Dr. Christine Miaskowski is an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor and is funded by a K05 award from the NCI (CA168960). Mr. Tantoy is funded by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 grant (T32NR007088).
+Footnote
+Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
+Ethical Statement: The study was approved by the Committee on Human Research at the University of California at San Francisco and by the Institutional Review Board at each of the study sites (VCU) (No. 10-02882) and written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
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+The History of the Valley of the Boars
+Roman Origins
+Turkdean is a small village with an ancient history. The extent of this history was revealed by the archaeological work undertaken by ‘Time Team’ for their Bank Holiday weekend dig in August 1997. This represented the first time that an archaeological dig was broadcast live (on the UK’s ‘Channel 4’) and against the clock.
+Time Team’s work revealed the remains of a large Roman villa dating from the 3rd or 4th centuries (A.D.). At the time the programme was originally broadcast the location of the dig was only specified as ‘a village somewhere in the heart of England’ in order to prevent freelance digging. Since it has been scheduled as an Ancient Monument it has become a little better known, but you can easily walk through the village without noticing any sign of our Roman past.
+Time Team’s Turkdean Roman Villa episode is available online at Channel 4 – Time Team. They concluded that this villa, complete with an elaborate bath-house, had been built by a wealthy Romanised family of the local Dubonni tribe in about 300AD and occupied at least until the Roman withdrawal in 409AD.
+Saxon Life in the Valley of the Boars
+Signs of Turkdean’s existence and occupancy between the Roman withdrawal and the Norman arrival are now few and far between, but the current Norman-origin church might have been built on the site of a previous Saxon foundation, although evidence of this is scant.
+However, in the days of Edward the Confessor (ie 1042-1066), the village consisted of two manorial estates: ‘Upper Dean’ and ‘Lower Dean’. Saxon holders of the Turkdean manorial estates at around this time included Osgot, Siward and Goisfrid.
+The village’s name also seems to derive from the pre-Norman period, coming from the ancient British, (ie Welsh) word ‘Twrch’, meaning ‘boar’ and the Saxon word ‘dene’ meaning ‘valley’. So Turkdean is the Valley of the Boars it seems, although the Boars have also disappeared.
+Norman Cataloguing
+In 1086 the Doomsday Book listed Turkdean, then ‘Turchedene’, in the Hundred of Bradley.
+The same Robert holds Turchedene.
+There are 5 hides and 2œ virgates paying geld.
+Siward held it.
+In demesne are 4 ploughs and 12 villans with 6 ploughs.
+All together there are 8 slaves and female slaves.
+It was worth 6l.; now 100s.
+Hide = Saxon measure of land capable of being cultivated by a single ploughman, varying in size according to the terrain between 60-180acres. This was standardised by the Normans as 120acres.
+Virgate (also known as a yardland) = a quarter of a Hide, or 30acres.
+Geld = Tax levied from time to time at a number of pence per hide.
+Demesne = Land retained in control of feudal lord.
+Plough = A plough and the 8 oxen plough team.
+Villan = A tenant, usually holding a yardland.
+Slave = An individual owing service to another and therefore unable to move or sell their land or change employment.
+At the time of Doomsday the Hundred of Bradley included the manors of Northleach, Farmington (then ‘Thormarton’), Stowell, Upper Coberley, Compton (Abdale), Hampnett, Hazleton, Yanworth, Salperton, Winson, Coln Rogers and, of course, Turkdean. The entire Hundred was assessed at 94 hides.
+Thus, Turkdean was the Northerly outpost of the Hundred, while the adjoining villages of Notgrove and Aston (now Cold Aston) were assessed as part of the adjacent Hundred of Wacrescumbe. However, by 1220 the constituent parts of the smaller Wacrescumbe Hundred had been incorporated into an enlarged Bradley Hundred.
+Although Northleach would have been the largest component of the Hundred throughout this period the official meeting place at ‘Bradley’, the administrative seat for the Hundred, seems to have been at the Stowell crossroads where the Fosse Way met an ancient ‘Salt Way’ that ran from Lechlade north-west to Droitwich. However, all signs of ‘Bradley’ itself have now disappeared.
+After the Conquest one of the two Turkdean manors was enfeoffed to Robert d’Oilgi (alternatively Doilie, or Doyley) who had fought with William at Hastings and was appointed Constable of Oxford and given significant estates across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire by his grateful sovereign.
+The second of the competing village naming theories, as noted in the Church, is that the village’s name might derive from the family name of putative Norman residents, the ‘La Torque’ family. This sounds romantic, but sadly there is no remaining evidence of the La Torque family’s existence and so, reluctantly, we adhere to the Saxon “Valley of the Boars” name origin.
+Landscape and Cultivation
+The village of Turkdean sits at the centre of a parish of about 2,178acres defined by the deep valley (“of the Boars”) to the West and the Roman Fosse Way to the East. The siting of a Roman settlement and subsequent village buildings seems to have been determined by the natural springs in the North of the parish on the East side of the valley.
+Before parliamentary inclosure in 1793, Turkdean’s wolds consisted of large open fields, with water meadows in the valley bottoms and precious little woodland. Practically all this land was cultivated under the Saxon and subsequent Norman systems of tenantry until the Black Death of 1348-50. The latter half of the 14th century then witnessed a decline of about 30% in the local population which led to a widespread reduction in cultivation and economic activity.
+The whole area revived from the nadir of the Black Death through the introduction of more intensive sheep-raising, for which the region became famed and prosperous through the later Middle Ages. However, this sheep culture still utilised the open field system that had been gradually abandoned by the system of arable demesne farming. From the late 14th century until the early 16th century woolmen based in Northleach collected the wool from Turkdean for sale to London merchants and the agents of European wool buyers, whose appreciation of the quality of Cotswold wool percolated into significantly increased prosperity for the Northleach merchants and the sheep-based farmers of the surrounding parishes.
+This pattern of economic activity continued even as the wool trade declined in significance through the 16th and 17th centuries, leaving a sheep tradition which even continued after the inclosure of 1793 changed the landscape with the construction of the Cotswold stone walls that are now such an emblematic feature of the area. After inclosure, however, the significance of cash crops became an ever more important part of the agricultural economy with wheat, barley and oats being supplemented in the modern era with subsidy-dependent crops including oil seed rape and linseed.
+Population
+The population of Turkdean has ebbed and flowed across the centuries. Through Saxon and Norman times the population of about 25 was split between 20 tenants in Upper Turkdean and 5 at Lower Dean and this grew gradually through the 12th and 13th centuries so that by 1382 even in the midst of the impact of the Black Death the village’s population had swelled to 53.
+The subsistence level of the community remained in the 40-60 inhabitants range through the later Middle Ages as the local economy moved over to sheep. In 1551 the population still stood at 63, but had expanded to 84 in 1603 and to 120 by 1710. Numbers remained stable through the 18th century, recorded at 113 in 1775, but then, like so much of England, entered a period of accelerated growth in the early 19th century: the population of 143 recorded in the 1801 census had grown to 228 in the 1821 census and to an astonishing 447 in 1861.
+From this high watermark in 1861 however, a savage outflow set in as the effect of agricultural depression and the transfer to industry and urban living saw the population halved over the following 30 years – falling to just 145 in the 1901 census. The village also then lost 13 men during the years of the Great War 1914-1919, as the Roll of Honour in the church attests.
+This decline continued at a slower pace through the 20th century, hitting 100 in 1991 and hovering now at about 50 regularly resident inhabitants.
+The signs of this demographic history are writ large in the village’s architecture. Many of the dwellings now in occupation represent the amalgamation of a number of older, smaller buildings, or have been constructed, enlarged or repaired with the materials of many of the older cottages and buildings which fell into disrepair in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Yew Tree Cottage itself represents a combination of two cottage dwellings that were converted in to one larger house.
+Other clear signs of the village’s previous size exist in the Church and, most obviously, the School – which was opened in 1874 (with 34 pupils.) The school remained open until 1950, when it became impossible to find a cook to produce lunch, although there were still 13 pupils in the school even in 1949. The school building has now been converted in to a cottage although it’s previous usage is still obvious because of the small bell niche and the long side windows left over from its classroom use.
+All Saints Church, Turkdean: Church and Parish
+The Norman knight Robert d’Oilgi is usually credited with responsibility for the building of the village’s church, originally dedicated to St. Mary, much later dedicated to All Saints. However, the oldest standing fabric of the church is the West end of the nave which probably dates from the early 12th century and the time at which Ralph Basset, a ‘just. Significant refurbishment was carried out in the 19th century and again in the 1960s. It was during the work carried out in 1967 that the 14th century wall-paintings were “renovated” out of existence as described by John Edwards in his paper for the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society “Turkdean Church Wall-Paintings: A Cautionary Tale.” (A debate continues about the appropriateness and cost-effectiveness of restoration work that could partially restore some of the paintwork.)
+It was the clerical son Ralph Basset who gave Turkdean’s church to Oseney Abbey in or before 1151. The Abbey added to its holdings in Turkdean through the purchase of a part of the manorial estate from Paulinus of Theydon in 1232 and used a portion of this acquisition to establish a vicarage which was recorded as such by 1289. Oseney Abbey then farmed Turkdean’s church lands together with its manorial land in the parish and continued to hold the ‘advowson’ to appoint priests for the parish until the Dissolution.
+After the Dissolution the Crown granted the parish of Turkdean to the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford in 1542, re-confirming this and the college’s right to present to the living in 1546. This link remained intact through the next four centuries, with the rectory land let to successive tenants until the late 19th century. Christ Church finally sold the rectory estate in 1911 and the rectory (or vicarage) house itself in 1948, but retained the right of presentation after this sale until exchanging it (for the right of presentation to the parish of Upper Swell) with the Bishop in 1964, which therefore marks the endpoint of the Christ Church era.
+It was in 1947 that the lengthy tradition of a resident priest in the village came to an end. From 1947 Turkdean’s vicar simultaneously held the rectorship of the adjoining parish of Farmington, where he also lived between 1947 and 1967. In 1967 Turkdean’s link with Farmington was severed when the parish was united with Cold Aston and Notgrove, an arrangement that lasted until these three parishes were then merged with Northleach and four further parishes which were then served by one (consequently rather overworked) Priest-in-Charge for the whole Benefice based in Northleach.
+This organisation, under which Turkdean is served as part of the 8 parish Benefice of Northleach subsists today. The other parishes served as part of this Benefice in addition to Turkdean comprise: Northleach, Hampnett, Haselton, Farmington, Cold Aston, Compton Abdale and Notgrove. Thus, by chance, the local ecclesiastical administration has re-formed about half of the ancient lay administrative unit of the Bradley Hundred that existed almost 1,000 years ago.
+Some of the Norman architectural remnants now seemingly ‘marooned’ in the Church walls.
+Land and Buildings
+From its earliest occupation the Turkdean community has been divided into two parts, with the larger community at Turkdean and a smaller outpost in Lower Dean. This division mirrored the development of the two manorial estates.
+Turkdean
+Robert d’Oilgie’s Doomsday ownership linked Turkdean, alongside Little Rissington, with the ‘honour’ of Wallingford and through this attachment subsequently with Ewelme, but the manor lands had passed to the de Tormions by the end of the 12th century and thence to the Bassets before moving on to the Paulton family who retained it through the 14th century until it was acquired by the college of Westbury-on-Trymm sometime before 1509. Confiscated from the college at Dissolution, the manor was then granted to Sir Ralph Sadler, later Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in 1544. However, ownership passed to the Baynstree (‘Bannister’) family in 1586 when reconstruction of the Manor house was begun.
+The Bannisters remained owners of the Turkdean manor through the 17th century and were among the longer-lasting families to own the estate, but they sold their Turkdean and Hazleton lands to the Waller family (from Beaconsfield) in 1725 who also acquired land in Farmington which they retained when they sold their Turkdean land to the Willan family in 1799.
+The manor estate was basically reassembled under the ownership of engineer and artist W.A. Rixon (William Augustus), who bought much of Turkdean between 1902 and 1912. It was in 1905, under Rixon’s ownership, that the manor house was upgraded from the farmhouse it had remained through successive ownerships into a country house.
+A round copse to the East of the manor house was named The Bolton Ring in honour of Rixon’s wife, Lady Julia Bolton.
+After Rixon’s death in 1948 the manor house and its estate were separated, with the land then farmed by Geoffrey Milne until 1958 when a large portion of the land was taken on by the Mustoe family until Wilf Mustoe’s death, after which much of the land was sold to Steve Winwood who united it with the Lower Dean Manor estate in 2012.
+However, Turkdean Manor itself passed through successive owners in the late 20th century until, in 1999, Peter and Esther Smedvig acquired it and subsequently remodelled and upgraded the house.
+Lower Dean
+The Lower Dean manor was held by Osgot before the Conquest and had been enfeoffed to William Leuric by 1086. By 1165, however, this estate had passed to Llanthony Priory which added substantial lands in Aylworth to this holding in 1291 and continued in ownership of the estate until Dissolution. Subsequently, in 1543, the Lower Dean manor was granted to Richard Andrews and Nicholas Temple in two parts, but they quickly sold both parts to the Priory’s previous tenant, William Walter.
+However, the Walters did not remain in occupation long before selling it to the St Johns of Bletso, who owned the estate from 1575 to 1599. From the St Johns the estate passed to the Spencers, then to the Comptons by marriage and to the Duttons of nearby Sherborne by sale in 1613. After brief ownerships by Robert Brereton and John Rich the bulk of the estate came in to the ownership of John Coxwell in 1665, although the Duttons had retained some of the more southerly lands, known as ‘Leygore’, when they sold the manor. The Coxwells, subsequently by marriage the Nelthorpes, then held Lower Dean manor for over a century until selling it to the Wallers in about 1790, thus uniting the ownership of both Turkdean and Lower Dean manors. However, after passing to the Willans in 1799, following Thomas Willan’s death in 1828 the Lower Dean manor passed to the Taylers who remained in possession until 1903, adding a substantial rear wing to make the house something more than the farmhouse that they had acquired in 1828.
+The Lower Dean estate was acquired by W.A. Rixon in 1905 and he made further improvements to the house which was then sold with the bulk of the land by Rixon’s heirs to Geoffrey Milne in 1948. In 1968 the house and a portion of the former Lower Dean estate were purchased by the musician Steve Winwood who remains the owner to this day and who acquired the land of the Turkdean Manor estate when it was sold by the Mustoe family in 2012, thus reuniting lands that had been held in separate “manorial estates” for the last 1,000 years.
+Leygore
+When John Dutton sold the bulk of the Lower Dean estate to Robert Brereton in 1648 he retained around 350 acres of land in the South of the parish which was kept by the Duttons’ Sherborne estate and let to tenant farmers until 1813 when they sold this block to the Willan family which had bought the Turkdean lands from the Wallers in 1799. It was under the ownership of the Sherborne estate that the original Leygore farmhouse was built in 1797. So in 1813 the Leygore land, which historically had been part of the Lower Dean estate, became part of the more northerly Turkdean estate.
+However, the Leygore block was then sold separately in 1831 to the Hewer family and subsequently in 1900 to Arthur Edmund Moss, a brewer from Hampshire, who substantially extended and upgraded the farmhouse into his country retreat in 17th century style. Following Moss’s death in 1943 Leygore was sold to Richard and Charm Fleming (Richard was Ian Fleming’s younger brother.) The Flemings acquired further land for Leygore from the church estates of Rectory Farm in the 1960s and it is Richard and Charm’s youngest son, author Fergus Fleming who owns Leygore today (and is now Chairman of the Parish Meeting, poor chap!)
+Rectory Farm
+The Church and its lands in the parish were held by Oseney Abbey from the 12th century until the time of the Dissolution, when they were granted to the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church. The lease of the Rectory Farm estate was sold to the Wallers in 1790 who thus united the lands of the Turkdean and Lower Dean estates with Leygore and Rectory Farm and their Farmington estate. This lease passed with the other lands to the Willans in 1799, but on Thomas Willan’s death in 1828 the lease was unsellable and it remained in the hands of the Willans’ heirs until the lease was extinguished in 1880. After some years during which these lands were let from year to year, Christ Church sold the freehold of the Rectory Farm lands to W.A. Rixon in 1911, thus reuniting Rectory Farm with the Turkdean and Lower Dean estates once again. However, following Rixon’s death in 1948 the land and farmhouse were sold to Geoffrey Milne and subsequently passed to the Johnsons and then in to the ownership of Peter & Jo England from 1961 until 1968 when the present owners, Giles and Annie Daniels, purchased the farmhouse and some of the former Rectory lands.
+Mixing the Estates
+Thus from the two original manorial estates of Turkdean, four land blocks emerged. The houses that formed the centres of these two manorial estates no longer farm the traditional estate lands with which they were historically associated, but have been repeatedly transferred between the various estates.
+Having travelled separate routes for most of the last millennium, the lands of the two manors of Turkdean were briefly united by the Waller family along with their Farmington possessions and then with the Church lands in the parish by the Willan family for a brief period in the early nineteenth century. These lands were brought back together once again by W.A. Rixon in the first half of the twentieth century and then by the Milne family. However, since Steve Winwood’s purchase of the Manor Farm lands from the Mustoes in 2012 the lands of the Turkdean Manor estate have mostly been brought under the ownership of Lower Dean manor. Further confusions will no doubt occur in the future.
+The village otherwise consists of a number of mostly 17th century cottages and barns. Many of these were gradually consolidated and enlarged in the years after the mid-19th century, as the population of the village steadily declined – allowing the demolition of many of the older, smaller cottages and the improvement of the remaining buildings.
+Turkdean in Film
+Vying with Turkdean’s appearance in TimeTeam (and certainly with a larger audience) comes Turkdean’s mention in Spielberg’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
+Indiana Jones says to his students: “Let’s get back to Turkdean Barrow near Hazleton. It contains a central passage and three chambers, or cists…” Here’s the clip on YouTube. How on Earth this got in to Lawrence Kasdan’s script is a mystery, but the reference seems most likely to be an amalgamation of Notgrove Long Barrow, originally excavated in 1881, but more recently infilled to prevent vandalism, the now-lost long barrow near Leygore that seems to have been accidentally ploughed up and the two neolithic barrows at Hazleton that were excavated in 1979-82. Fame indeed.
+Further Reading
+Verey & Brooks (eds.): Pevsner – Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds
+This extract is taken from the most recent edition of Pevsner’s “Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds” revised by the late and lamented David Verey and Alan Brooks and published by Yale and Penguin on behalf of the Buildings Books Trust and details the architectural features of the Church as well as brief mentions of subsequent domestic buildings including Turkdean Manor and Rectory Farm.
+Kingsley: Country Houses of Gloucestershire
+Brief descriptions of Turkdean Manor, Lower Dean Manor and Leygore Manor are contained in Nicholas Kingsley’s masterful three-volume dictionary of the Country Houses of Gloucestershire, published in the English Country House series by Phillimore & Co. The Country Houses of Gloucestershire
+Vol. 1: 1500-1660 – Turkdean Manor and Lower Dean Manor
+Vol. 2: 1660-1830
+Vol.3: 1830-2000 – Leygore
+But we have a PDF of the extracts about the three Turkdean houses included in these volumes.
+Herbert (ed.): History of the County of Gloucester
+Volume IX: Bradley Hundred – The Northleach Area
+The grand-daddy of all local history surveys is, of course, the Victoria County History series, now published by Boydell & Brewer. The Northleach volume, edited by Nick Herbert, covers Turkdean and all the adjacent parishes within the Bradley Hundred and John Jurica, wrote a fine section on Turkdean the full text of which is now available through the British History Online website.
+Clarke: History of Turkdean
+Finally, an altogether chattier approach was taken by Turkdean resident John Clarke, in his 1981 history of the parish based on local reminiscence and reportage. We have a PDF of this nicely anecdotal and personal article that fills in a few of the gaps in the more scholarly efforts. It was, it seems, his only foray into historical research, but rather fun.
+Review
+Volume 9, Number 2, April 2018, pages 39-45
+Current Status of Organ Preservation in Carcinoma Larynx
+Tapesh Bhattacharyyaa, Cessal Thommachan Kainickalb, c
+aDivison of Radiation Oncology, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India
+bDivision of Radiation Oncology, Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, India
+cCorresponding Author: Cessal Thommachan Kainickal, Division of Radiation Oncology, Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, India
+Manuscript submitted April 10, 2018, accepted April 20, 2018
+Short title: Organ Preservation in Carcinoma Larynx
+doi:
+- Abstract
+- Introduction
+- Organ Preserving Approach in Early Glottis Cancer (T1, T2N0M0)
+- Radical RT Versus Conservation Laryngeal Surgery in Early Glottic Cancer
+- Organ Preserving Surgeries for Early Supraglottic Cancers (T1, T2N0M0)
+- Organ Preserving Approaches in Locally Advanced Laryngeal Cancer (Stage III and IV)
+- Outcome of Salvage Total Laryngectomy Following Organ Preservation Therapy
+- Induction Chemotherapy in Laryngeal Preservation
+- Induction Chemotherapy Followed by CTRT
+- Biological Therapy in Organ Preservation
+- Consensus Panel Recommendation
+- Emerging Approach
+- Conclusion
+- References
+Organ preservation in carcinoma larynx is a long debated topic. There are multiple organ preserving approaches in the management of carcinoma larynx depending on various factors. Radical radiotherapy (RT) and conservation laryngeal surgery have shown equivalent results in early laryngeal cancer. Concurrent chemoradiation (CTRT) is the standard treatment in stage III and IV laryngeal cancer with intact cartilage and functional larynx. Patients with cartilage destruction or dysfunctional larynx are not the candidates for organ preservation. This systematic review is aimed at discussing the evolution of different organ preserving approaches, their efficacy, impact on voice quality, their pitfalls and future directions.
+Keywords: Organ preservation; Larynx
+Laryngeal cancer consists of 1.1% of all new cancers worldwide. It is the seventh most common cause of cancer in males in India [1]. The incidence of laryngeal cancer has been reported to be 1.26 - 8.18 per 100,000 population in different regions in the country [2]. Early stage laryngeal cancers include T1 and most T2 squamous cell cancers of glottis and supraglottic regions. Subglottic cancers are relatively rare. Multiple treatment options exist for early stage squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx. Multidisciplinary approach is highly encouraged for the management.
+Treatment options include radical radiotherapy (RT), transoral laser surgery (TLS), and function preserving open partial laryngectomy [3]. Treatment selection depends on various factors including disease extent into supraglottis and subglottis, anterior commissure involvement, patient’s preference, occupational considerations, voice quality, performance status, patient’s compliance, comorbidities, physician’s expertise, treatment cost and physician’s bias. All the treatments are associated with excellent tumor control. Mendenhall et al discussed this particular issue in three angles: local control, voice quality and cost [3]. In University of Florida, patients with limited well-defined T1a N0M0 glottic cancers are treated with either RT or TLS. The remaining all patients with T1N0 and T2N0 lesions are treated with definitive RT. They concluded that the rates of local control, voice preservation and survival are comparable for patients treated with RT, TLS and open partial laryngectomy. Open partial laryngectomy is preferred in those who experience local disease recurrence.
+The goal of treatment in early glottic cancer is to achieve cure with best functional outcome. At present, radical RT and TLS are standard upfront treatments for early glottic cancer [4]. As both the modalities offer excellent and equivalent cure rates, there is long standing debate on the merit of each modality in the treatment of early glottic cancer with regard to its efficacy and functional outcome.
+In a study by Aaltonen et al [5], male patients with carcinoma limited to one mobile cord were randomized to receive either laser surgery or external beam radiotherapy (EBRT). EBRT dose was 66 Gy with 2 Gy/# over 6.5 weeks. Overall the voice qualities between the groups were rated similar but patients treated with RT reported less hoarseness-related inconvenience in daily living 2 years after treatment. They concluded that RT may be the treatment of choice for patients whose requirements for voice quality are demanding. Dinapoli et al [6] compared the oncological outcome and voice quality among a uniform and well-defined subset of patients with T1 glottic carcinoma. No statistically significant differences were found between the two groups in terms of overall survival and disease-free survival; even sub-classifying patients into stages T1a and T1b also made no difference. The median voice handicap index (VHI) score for patients undergoing RT was 4, while for surgical patients, it was 18 (P < 0.0001). Remmelts et al [7] showed comparable oncological outcome between the TLS and RT arm.VHI scores were 12.4 ± 8.9 for laser surgery and 8.3 ± 7.7 for RT (P < 0.05), with a higher score reflecting a worse outcome. VHI scores per tumor stage for laser surgery and RT were 12.0 ± 9.9 and 7.9 ± 7.5 in T1a (P = 0.06), 16.7 ± 9.0 and 4.9 ± 6.6 in T1b (P < 0.05), respectively. Depth of laser resection has impact on voice deficiency and patients with T1b lesion had higher voice deficiency if treated with laser surgery. Abdurehim et al [4] in their meta-analysis showed that no significant differences were observed between TLS and RT with respect to local control, survival and voice quality. Results of latest studies on RT vs. TLS are shown in Table 1 [5-9].
+RT is a time tested approach. RT planning for early glottic cancer is simple and it does not require sophisticated technology. RT has proven to be of high efficacy with better or equivalent voice outcome. TLS is quicker and repeatable and has many salvage options. Moreover, this kind of studies has some limitations because of their small sample size, retrospective nature and selection bias. It is still unclear which of these modalities is to be considered optimum and the differences in outcome between the groups are too subtle.
+The vertical partial laryngectomy comprises of vertical transection of thyroid cartilage and glottic resection extending into the paraglottic space. The goal of this surgery is resection of a portion of thyroid cartilage with the cancer at glottic level, while preserving the posterior paraglottic space. Hence, it is most suitable for early glottic cancer without anterior commissure involvement [10]. In 1994, Thomas et al [11] reported a series of 159 patients with T1 glottic cancer who underwent vertical partial laryngectomy at the Mayo Clinic between 1976 and 1986. The 5-year local control rate was 93% and in 94% of the patients, the larynx could be preserved. Spector et al [12] treated 404 patients with T1 glottic cancer with a 5-year local control rate of 92% and larynx preservation rate of 93%. In 71 patients with T2 glottic carcinoma, the 5-year disease-specific survival rate was 92%. The larynx preservation rate was 92%. The updated Cochrane review [13] identified only one randomized controlled trial, which compared open surgery and RT in 234 patients with early glottic laryngeal cancer. For T1 tumors, the 5-year survival was 91.7% following RT and 100% following surgery and for T2 tumors, 88.8% following RT and 97.4% following surgery. There were no significant differences in survival between the two groups. For T1 tumors, the 5-year disease-free survival rate was 71.1% following RT and 100.0% following surgery, and for the T2 tumors, 60.1% following RT and 78.7% following surgery. Only the latter comparison was statistically significant (P = 0.036), but statistical significance would not have been achieved with a two-sided test. Data on voice quality and quality of life are not available. To conclude RT and conservation laryngeal surgery provides equivalent local control and functional outcome. Narrow margin followed by postoperative RT is not considered as an acceptable treatment approach.
+The primary difference between supraglottic cancers and true glottis cancers is the likelihood of developing cervical lymph node metastasis. The rate of cervical lymph node metastasis from supraglottic larynx ranges from 10% to 50% with an average of 33%. Hence neck treatment is mandatory [14]. Surgical treatment options for supraglottic carcinomas comprise open supraglottic laryngectomy, transoral laser microsurgery, and supracricoid partial laryngectomy with cricohyoidopexy (SCPL-CHEP). The open supraglottic laryngectomy consists of a resection of the entire supraglottis such as the epiglottis, the preepiglottic fat, and the ventricular folds together with the supraglottic part of the thyroid cartilage. The oncologic results of open supraglottic laryngectomy in early supraglottic carcinomas are excellent. The local control rate is between 90% and 100% for T1 tumors and 80% and 97% for T2 tumors [10]. Prades et al [15] report on 110 patients with T1-T3 supraglottic carcinomas. The local control rate was 90.3% and the 5-year overall survival rate was 52%.
+The indication for this SCPL-CHEP comprises supraglottic tumors with limited infiltration of the preepiglottic fat, limited erosion of the thyroid cartilage and tumors with fixation of one vocal cord but without fixation of the arytenoid cartilage. This operation was used for surgical treatment of T1, T2 and selected T3 and T4 supraglottic tumors. Schwaab et al [16] report on 146 patients mostly with T2 and T3 carcinomas who underwent SCPL-CHP. The local control rate was very good, with only 4% developing local recurrence. The larynx could be preserved in 85% of patients. The 5-year overall survival rate was 88%. The local recurrence reported in other studies is also very low ranging from 0% to 7% [17, 18].
+Always those patients who are taken up for organ preservation should be treated with a single modality treatment. Every effort should be made to avoid combining surgery with radiation therapy because functional outcomes may be compromised by combined modality therapy; single modality treatment is effective for limited stage disease. Treatment options include radical RT or organ preserving surgery.
+Approximately 25 years ago, the standard treatment of locally advanced laryngeal cancer was total laryngectomy plus conventional postoperative RT. There was a paradigm shift with the emergence of induction chemotherapy as a part of larynx preserving treatment in 1991 when veteran affairs (VA) trial was published [19]. The landmark VA trial [19] enrolled 332 patients which were randomized to receive three cycles of chemotherapy (cisplatin + 5FU) and RT versus surgery and RT. The clinical tumor response was assessed after two cycles of chemotherapy and patients with partial response received third cycle of chemotherapy followed by definitive RT of 66 - 70 Gy. Patients who were not able to achieve partial response underwent surgery followed by postoperative RT. The combined rates of partial and complete response in the primary tumor and the regional nodes after two or three cycles of chemotherapy were 85% and 98%, respectively. After a median follow-up of 33 months, the estimated 2-year survival was 68% for both the arms. More local relapse and fewer distant relapse were seen in the chemotherapy group as compared to surgery group. The larynx was successfully preserved in 64% without jeopardizing the 2-year survival as compared to upfront surgery group. One-fourth of the patients had T4 disease and patients with cartilage erosion were also included in this study. Salvage laryngectomy was required in 44% patients with stage IV as compared with 29% of patients with stage III disease (P = 0.048). A total of 56% patients with T4 disease underwent salvage laryngectomy compared to 29% with smaller primary tumors (P = 0.001). Hence, patients with cartilage destruction are not the candidates for organ preservation approach. This landmark trial established induction chemotherapy followed by RT as an alternative to laryngectomy for locally advanced laryngeal cancer. To determine the contribution of chemotherapy and RT to larynx preservation and the optimum sequence of chemotherapy and RT, the RTOG and Head and Neck Intergroup conducted a randomized trial [20] to investigate three radiation-based schedules.
+Induction cisplatin plus 5FU followed by RT (good responders to chemotherapy) experimental group in VA trial, chemoradiation (CTRT) and RT alone. The rationale for the second group was based on enhancement of radiation effect on tumor cells with concurrent administration of injection cisplatin. The primary objective was to compare trials of laryngeal preservation in three arms. Patients with large volume T4 disease (defined as penetration through cartilage) or extending more than 1 cm base of tongue were excluded from this study. Most of the patients (72%) were of carcinoma supraglottis. Most of the patients presented with T3 with fixed cord involvement (44%). At a median follow-up of 3.8 years, patients receiving CTRT had a significantly higher rate of larynx preservation rate (84%) vs. induction chemotherapy followed by RT (72%; P = 0.005) or RT alone (67%; P ≤ 0.001). There was no difference between induction chemotherapy group versus RT alone group in terms of laryngeal preservation. There was no difference among the three treatment groups with regard to speech at either 12 or 24 months of follow-up.
+In the long term update of the landmark RTOG 91-11 study [21], 520 patients were analyzed. Median follow-up period was 10.8 years. Both the chemotherapy regimens significantly improved laryngectomy free survival compared with RT alone (induction chemotherapy versus RT alone; hazard ratio (HR), 0.75; 95% CI, 0.59 - 0.95; P = 0.02; concurrent CTRT versus RT alone: HR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.78 - 0.98; P = 0.03). Overall survival did not differ significantly in any of the treatment arm, with 5- and 10-year estimates of 58% and 39% for induction, 55% and 28% for CTRT and 54% and 32% for RT alone, respectively. After about 4.5 years, the curves begin to separate favoring induction, although the difference is not statistically significant. However, deaths in the CTRT arm was laryngeal cancer unrelated deaths. This occurred without increase in late toxicities.
+Weber et al [22] evaluated the incidence of morbidity, mortality and disease control for patients requiring salvage total laryngectomy following organ preservation in RTOG 91-11 trial. From 1992 - 2000, 517 evaluable patients were randomized to receive chemotherapy followed by RT (arm 1), CTRT (arm 2) or RT (arm 3). Overall total laryngectomy was required in 129 patients. The salvage laryngectomy rates were 28%, 16% and 31% in arms 1, 2 and 3, respectively (P = 0.002). Following total laryngectomy, the incidence of major and minor complications ranged from 52% to 59% and did not differ significantly among the three arms. Locoregional control following salvage total laryngectomy was 74% for arms 1 and 2 and 90% for arm 3. At 24 months, the overall survival was 69% (arm 1), 71% (arm 2) and 76% (arm 3) (P > 0.73). Laryngectomy following organ preservation treatment was associated with acceptable morbidity. Survival following salvage laryngectomy was not influenced by the initial organ preservation treatment.
+The Groupe Oncologie Radiotherapie Tete et Cou (GORTEC) trial [23] showed the effect of adding docetaxel to the PF (cisplatin, 5FU) induction chemotherapy regime on larynx preservation. Patients with laryngeal or hypopharyngeal cancers requiring total laryngectomy were randomized to receive induction therapy with three 21-day cycles of either PF or TPF (docetaxel, cisplatin, 5FU). Patients responding to induction chemotherapy received conventionally fractionated RT (total dose of 70 Gy). Non-responders underwent total laryngectomy followed by RT. In this trial, a total of 213 patients were randomized. After induction chemotherapy, 20% of patients in the TPF arm and 16% patients in the PF arm received CTRT. At a median follow-up of 36 months, the 3-year larynx preservation rate was significantly higher in the TPF arm (70%) as compared to PF arm (58%) (P = 0.03). The overall response rate after induction chemotherapy was also higher in the TPF arm as compared to PF arm (80% vs. 59%; P = 0.002). There was no significant difference in overall survival or disease-free survival in both the arms. This laryngeal preservation trial is somewhat unique in that it includes a mix of larynx and hypopharynx patients. It is somewhat problematic to compare this study with previous laryngeal preservation trials, as the patient inclusion and treatment criteria are different (hypopharynx patient inclusion and stipulation of functional larynx). The PF induction chemotherapy arm in the RTOG 91-11study showed better laryngeal preservation than the GORTEC trial (75% at 3.8 years vs. 58% at 3 years) because hypopharyngeal cancers were also included in the GORTEC trial.
+TAX 324 and EORTC 24971/TAX 323 showed that TPF induction chemotherapy significantly improves survival compared with PF [24, 25]. The subset analysis of patients with laryngohypopharyngeal cancer in TAX324 trial showed that TPF improves progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS), reduces the rates of locoregional surgery, and, in operable patients, results in a significant improvement in laryngectomy free survival (LFS) with an absolute improvement of 20% (52% vs. 32%; P = 0.030) at 3 years compared with PF [26].
+Those trials decided the optimum induction chemotherapy regime but did not answer the important question regarding the relative efficacy of adding induction chemotherapy followed by CTRT compared with CTRT alone, the current standard of care. Newer studies such as DeCIDE [27] (Docetaxel-Based Chemotherapy Plus or Minus IC to Decrease Events in Head and Neck Cancer) and PARADIGM [28] suggest no overall benefit from the addition of induction chemotherapy vs. concomitant RT alone. Budach et al [29] in their meta-analysis showed that induction treatment with TPF followed by CTRT does not result in significant improvement in OS or PFS.
+The comparison of landmark studies on laryngeal preservation in locally advanced laryngeal cancer is provided in Table 2 [19-21, 23].
+Bonner et al [30] in their randomized trial of cetuximab with RT (CRT) vs. RT alone in head neck cancers (nearly 40% were laryngopharynx) demonstrated significant improvement in locoregional control (24.4 months vs. 14.9 months in cetuximab with RT and RT alone, respectively) as well as OS (49 months vs. 29.3 months) in those patients who received targeted therapy with RT. Although, these results were best seen in the subset of oropharyngeal cancers, there was a positive trend even in laryngopharynx. In a recent subgroup analysis of patients with hypopharyngeal and laryngeal cancers, Bonner et al analyzed the impact of cetuximab and RT in laryngeal preservation. The rates of laryngeal preservation were 87.9% at 2 and 3 years in the CRT group compared with 85.7% at 2 years and 76.8% at 3 years in the RT alone group. The 2.2% and 11.1% absolute improvements in the rates of laryngeal preservation at 2 and 3 years respectively favored CRT compared with RT alone but this improvement was not statistically significant (HR, 0.57; 95% CI, 0.23 - 1.42; P = 0.22). In addition, there was a 4% and 8.9% absolute improvement in laryngectomy free survival at 2 and 3 years, respectively. However, this difference also could not reach statistical significance (HR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.54 - 1.11; P = 0.17) [31]. The targeted therapy plus radiotherapy approach has never been compared head on to concurrent CTRT, which still remains the standard of care.
+An international consensus panel was convened to develop guidelines for the conduct of phase III clinical trials of larynx preservation in patients with locally advanced laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer. According to their recommendations, future trial populations should include patients with T2 or T3 laryngeal or hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma not considered for partial laryngectomy and should exclude those with laryngeal dysfunction or aged > 70 years. Baseline and post-treatment functional assessments should include speech and swallowing evaluations. Furthermore, voice should be routinely assessed with a simple, validated instrument. Regarding endpoints, the primary endpoint should capture survival and function. As a result, the panel created a new endpoint of laryngesophageal dysfunction (LED)-free survival, which includes the events of death, local relapse, total or partial laryngectomy, tracheostomy at > 2 years, or feeding tube at > 2 years. Recommended secondary endpoints are freedom from LED, OS, PFS, locoregional control, time to tracheostomy, time to laryngectomy, time to discontinuation of feeding tube, and quality of life/patient-reported outcomes [32].
+All patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer may not benefit from concurrent CTRT. The data regarding the reliable molecular markers predicting the response to CTRT is scarce. The excision repair cross-complementation group 1 (ERCC1) enzyme is a key element of the nucleotide excision repair pathway that removes cisplatin-induced DNA adducts and has been associated with resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy. Jun et al showed that in SCCHN patients, those with ERCC1-negative tumors were more likely to derive a substantial benefit from cisplatin-based induction chemotherapy, translating to a lower risk for cancer-related death than in patients with ERCC1-positive tumors [33]. As a result, the evaluation of ERCC1 is recommended for future correlative biomarker studies.
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+- MVP Frontrunner : Alex or Manny/Ortiz?
+- Long Day/Night for Rockies and Marlins
+- The newest addition to the DFA list-Jose Cruz Jr. (edit-mod)
+- Karsay- the gift that keeps on giving
+- Gene Mauch Passes Away
+- NL MVP Frontrunner
+- Red Sox acquire Remlinger, sign Bottalico
+- Huge Week
+- ROY: Current Frontrunner
+- Cashman failed to Block Cubs Redsox trade.
+- Kenny Rogers suspension shortened
+- David Wright's catch
+- American League Reversals
+- Cubs may have put Corey Patterson on Waviers.
+- Hidden Ball Trick successful in Florida/DBacks game.
+- What opposing hitter scares you the most and why?
+- When's the last time someone stole home?
+- His Testicles shrunk
+- Who are the best bench players around?
+- Double Duty Radcliffe passes away
+- Cameron and Beltran hit head on DIVING for a ball
+- Hypothetical Question on steroids
+- Mark Grace says $@#&!!!
+- Red Sox 2006 schedule gets leaked
+- Will Greg Maddux win 15 games this season to extend his streak???
+- Roy Halladay Setback
+- Is anybody worried about Cleveland.
+- Cleveland Indians Forum
+- AL Wild Card tracker thread
+- White Sox Bend Over For The Red Sox
+- Hypothetical on the White Sox
+- Are the RED SOX for real?
+- Pedro no-hitter through 6
+- Kirk Rueter Designated for Assignment
+- Rain Out ?
+- Question about pitcher substituions
+- Scott Podsednik on DL
+- Schilling Blows Another Save Opportunity (8/15)
+- Winn hits for the cycle
+- Elias Sports Bureau sticks it to Ben Affleck
+- Justin Thompson called up; James Baldwin DFA'd
+- Putting in the closer for the sake of the save (statistic)
+- ...And you all thought torre was sleeping (francona)
+- Big Fat Boy gives up 5 in the first v Tigers
+- Time to start treating Ortiz like Bonds..walk him whenever possible.
+- Nomar hurt again (stiff back)
+- Hidden ball trick
+- Tampa Bay after the Yankees
+- Philadelphia Phillies [Making a Run at NL Wild Card -mod]
+- Wakefield leaves after comebacker to ankle
+- Boston @ Los Angeles of Anaheim, 8/18/05
+- A good read...
+- It's 8/19/05 1:30 pm EDT and no steroids announcement
+- Foulke hit on right elbow pitching BP
+- Mark Bellhorn DFA
+- The 25-Under Team - 1994 VS 2005
+- The Chicago White Sox are OVERRATED
+- First 2005 draft pick called up (Joey Devine)
+- Who has cleared waivers so far?
+- Royals win. Thaaaaa Royals win!!!!!!
+- Is Pedro being babied?
+- Trevor Hoffman, class act
+- The Red Sox Thread...
+- Michael Kay Reports/Backtracks on Rumor of 2 Major Players Testing Positive for Roids
+- Soriano a Twin?? (As in Minesota)
+- Rolen opts for shoulder surgery, out for season
+- Bradley vs Kent
+- Marlins -- What the Hell are they Thinking?
+- Whte Sox forfiet game
+- Twins Claim Soriano
+- Vote Now: Comeback PLayer of the Year
+- Analysis: MLB Team Payroll,and 2005 W-L
+- What's the record for 20-HR players on the same team?
+- Have you seen Doc Gooden?
+- Frank Robinson calls for Raffie Palmeiro's records to be erased
+- Fan voting: Latin players past & present being honored by MLB & Chevrolet
+- the probability of making the playoffs
+- What do these players have in common.
+- Garrett Anderson, LAA
+- Marlins Lactose Intolerant
+- Ponson arrested for DUI
+- Would you trade Manny for Arod?
+- How about those Mets?
+- The Kansas City Royals Thread
+- Nomar Playing 3B for Cubs Today
+- Halladay done for the season
+- David Wells Says MLB Players Still Juicing
+- Orestes Destrada is terrible on Baseball Tonight
+- Griffey to the White Sox?
+- Manny listening to tunes in the outfield?
+- The Life and Times of Jonny Gomes
+- Fare thee well, Mike Remlinger!
+- AL Batting Race
+- A huge part of Baltimore's problems -- Offense
+- Good article re. Don Newcombe and the Dodgers
+- NYT article on the stat/scout rift
+- If you were Kerry Wood then you are about to have shoulder surgery
+- Trachsel to Sox being discussed
+- Hollandsworth traded to Braves
+- Craig Hansen Shut Down For Year
+- Mark Buehrle accuses Rangers of cheating
+- Palmeiro uses...........EARPLUGS!!
+- Do old players decline late in the season?
+- Quantrill dfa again
+- Nationals Acquire Deivi Cruz (Guzman Benched)
+- Wells Apoplogzes to Selig
+- Bobby Crosby on DL With Fractured Ankle
+- Baseball history in Florida
+- Orioles place Ponson on release waivers
+- Yankee's fate in Chicago's hands?
+- Flash- latest Kommisar communique
+- Griffey pulled from game due to leg injury
+- Just who is the AL CY YOUNG favorite
+- Everything you wanted to know about tommy john surgery and rehab
+- Players who should quit
+- Dioneer Navarro on ESPN tonight.
+- ESPN: Bonds could be reactivated as early as Tue (9/6)
+- Nl Mvp 2005
+- Pirates fire manager Lloyd McClendon
+- Why don't more teams pitch around David Ortiz?
+- Umpires and Player Safety
+- Gimme a hell yea for John Smoltz
+- Mike Morse (Seattle) Suspended for Steroids
+- What should the red sox 2005 slogan be? (Im so proud of myself)
+- Dontrelle Willis - 20 Game Winner/Wonder
+- How shortly before activation can a guy play in a game?
+- Diamondbacks / Pirates...
+- Jim Caple is a tool (his latest anti-Yankee article)
+- MLB 'very interested' in heading to London during '07 season
+- The Burnett trade that didn't happen....
+- Marlins sign Paul Quantrill
+- Deja vu all over again (Piazza)
+- Would the mets trade Beltran?
+- Aah! It's rookie hazing time again!!!
+- Baseball Prospectus Crew: 2004 Yankees Stunk
+When I began, I was learning to run and training for my very first 5 Km race - and I did it! I'm still trying to live a healthy life...day by day :)
+Tuesday, December 29, 2009
+Long day... :)
+Monday, December 28, 2009
+Day 21: Note to self
+This morning after 3 days of scrumptious meals (there was coq au van, people!) I got up this Am and went to workout. I learned a valuable lesson though. I usually workout on an empty stomach...this Am I had a glass of cranberry juice first. BAD idea. In the ball DVD I do pushups to the point of exhaustion and then you hop on the ball on your stomach to do back exercises...and YUK. I made myself quite ill. So yeah...now I know. No food or drink until after I workout. Especially when I'm going to be ON my stomach...maybe it was the rich meal last night too on top of it all. Either way, not the best idea I've ever had.
+I feel a bit better now with some toast and coffee in me, but I am still a bit off. Part of it might be form all the feasting the past few days. I didn't overeat to the point of feeling bad, but it's been a lot of rich foods...on Christmas Eve it was stuffed chicken, on Christmas J and I had my famous tofu Parmesan, and boxing day was turkey supper and lots of wine at the inlaws...and then last night a friend and I made coq au van together (with a real capon). Yum. But all far more rich and such than I'm used to. I'm looking forward to normal foods again. I didn't do too badly as far as over indulging, but I know myself...I just can't eat what I used to (which is a good thing) and I've learned when to stop or I feel gross. I weighed myself and I am 132, so I've not really changed with all the crazy eating, so I'm pretty happy.
+My Dad called this Am and ny Mum is back in the hospital overnight, as they need to adjust her water medication...boo to that. Poor Dad sounded so worried. He's all by himself, and I wish I could be closer for him, just for him to not have to be worrying by himself. Hopefully she'll be out right away. They'll have to cut their New Years plans short, which is a shame, but they'll pack up and head home from the lake to be sure Mum's condition stays level before they come up here to visit in mid-January. I hope she'll be OK. I know it's very discouraging for her...
+Now that I'm coffeed and toasted, I plan on sewing for myself today - a nice choli for bellydance. I finished up all my sewn gifts just in time for giving and they were muchly appreciated. They all turned out really well...I was very pleased. Now some sewing for *me* :)
+Have a good day all...
+Thursday, December 24, 2009
+Day 20: Jingle Bells
+This AM I did my ball workout and it's my last day of work before 10 days off. I can't wait...home tonight to tofu parmesan, apple wine and chillaxing.
+Merry Christmas!
+Wednesday, December 23, 2009
+Day 19: I'm too sexy for my pants...
+(Damn, what rhymes with pants....?)
+Hiya.
+I feel fantasticulastical...ish. I went to bed early last night cuz I was tired and got up bright eyed and worked out this morning. I did 40 minutes on the elliptical, with the first 25 of 40 minutes on resistance 2, with 4 minutes of cooldown. 500 calories. Add in some oatmeal and bananas and I'm ready to go. It's going to be a long fun day today so I wanted to be awake. And, an unexpected christmas gift to myself was that last year I bough some tight "skinny pants" as a goal. And guess what? I'm wearing them right now. Yup. They fit great - not tight at all and I feel FINE...bwa ha hah!
+Tonight after work it's Kline Yule at my brothers - ebelskivers and mulled wine and little sausages for supper (his wife is danish), exchanging gifts and then J and I are off to see a play - Little Women. And THEN after that (bwahah) a great night of funky dance music at the local pub - Dekoze and Shakrakhan (some great DJs who've moved on to bigger and better cities) are home for the holidays and will be spinning music till late. It'll be a long great day to ring in the holidays good and fully... I just have to get through work today.
+Tomorrow I will limp through the day at work, happily exhausted, and I'll be done at 3PM and then I'm off work for 10 days. That's right 10 days.
+Aaahhh. I'm looking forward to the nice holiday break before the MSc working madness begins.
+So I gotta be good and finish up so I can get to it :)
+Have a great day K?
+Tuesday, December 22, 2009
+Day 18: You've come a long way baby. Now don't be a jerk about. I'd rather they just drift back into the ether from where they came. And I resent them for feeling guilty about this.
+Ah well...we'll see what happens. How do you deal with this?
+Monday, December 21, 2009
+Day 17: Back in the saddle...wagon...thing!
+Sunday, December 20, 2009
+Cabbage Rolls 1, Geo 0!
+Thursday, December 17, 2009
+On the first day of christmas my true love gave to me...a beer, in a tree
+It's so hard to watch. It was one thing to talk with Dad and get the honest level on how she's really doing...he warned me about the coughing spells...but then after supper she started coughing for a bit.
+Awful.
+The worst was when I saw her lip quiver in the middle of it when she thought I wasn't looking. She looked scared and sad all at the same time. I wanted to just hug her and say she'd be OK. But I can't. I don't know that.
+Apparently ACE inhibitors (heart failure meds) can cause coughing, so I'm hoping if maybe she takes them at different times in stead of after food she won't cough so much after meals...It would be hard to eat and keep your strength up when you cough and are nauseous together. Yuck. Parrt of me wants to call up her doctor and yell at him...but I know he's not a jerk. He's not ignoring Mom's symptoms. Maybe it's how it is now. I just want the gorey details. The real details. Not knowing all the nitty gritty is worse.
+Don't get me wrong...it's not so horrible. It's just hard to see. Mum did everything for us. She was a nurse who cared for everyone...but now she has to take it easy cause her body is not able to keep up anymore. I'm so very very glad to see her. I got to sew with her last night - she helped me make and sew on some bows to some christmas stockings and it was nice to see just my Mum for a bit... it was stuff we used to do together and stuff she could do no problem...she was like her old self for a bit. It was nice. I hope it cheered her up...
+I heart my Mum.
+I really do.
+I slept in a bit this morning and didn't work out. Yesterday was very long and I was tired...and I wanted to be as awake and level as I could today while they are here. We're going out for supper tonight with my brother and his wife...I hope it's OK. Sometimes I find his wife hard to take...and I hope Mum won't cough too much in the restaurant and feel bad. I know she wants us to act like it's not happening while it is, but how do you carry on a conversation and act normal when your tiny little Mum is coughing so hard she's nearly ill? It'll be weird.
+I'm glad I have tomorrow off to visit with them.
+Wednesday, December 16, 2009
+Day 16: crazy day
+Seeing as I was up until midnight working on my talk for my first MSc committee meeting last night, I slept in a bit but still got up to do my exercise ball DVD again. It was nice...it took the edge off a bit.