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EASY KETO CHEESE GARLIC BREAD - Kizios Recipes Kizios RecipesRECIPES AND MUCH MORE! Home KETO DIET Keto Dessert Recipes Keto Friendly Snacks Keto Smoothie Latest Recipes Vegan Recipes Latest Recipes Keto Breakfast • KETO DIET EASY KETO CHEESE GARLIC BREAD Add Comment This amazingly EASY KETO CHEESE GARLIC BREAD will satisfy your cravings as it’s made with low-carb mozzarella dough. It’s so delicious, that it’s hard to believe that it is keto-friendly and gluten-free! It’s the real deal. It’s soft on the inside and crisp on the outside – and topped with a blend of two melty kinds of cheese! INGREDIENTS (divided) 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese 3 tbsp cream cheese 1 egg 1/2 cup almond flour 2 tbsp coconut flour 1/2 tsp garlic powder 1/2 tsp oregano 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp pepper 1 tbsp chopped basil 1/4 cup shredded parmesan cheese INSTRUCTIONS Preheat the oven to 425°F. Prepare sheet (baking) with parchment paper. Add 1 1/2 cups of mozzarella and the cream cheese to a microwave-safe bowl(large). In a series of short, 30-second intervals, melt in the microwave. Stir the cheeses after each interval until they are completely uniform and melted. Depending on your microwave, this should take around 1-2 minutes total(Do not overcook). Add the pepper, almond flour, coconut flour, herbs, salt, and egg to the melted cheese. Until it gets well combined, stir with a spatula. The dough will be sticky. In order to make it easier to work with, allow the dough to cool slightly. Onto a parchment-lined baking sheet, place the dough. To pat the dough out, either use wet fingertips or cover with plastic wrap, and to a 1/4 inch thickness, roll the dough out. Bake for FIVE minutes. Take out from the oven, (if necessary)pop any large air bubbles, and sprinkle with the remaining 1/2 cup of parmesan cheese and mozzarella cheese. Until the edges of the dough are golden brown, bake for an additional 5-7 minutes. Garnish with basil. For dipping, serve with tomato sauce. NOTES For the best texture, I like to use TWO tbsp. of coconut flour in this recipe. However, you can substitute it with 2 tablespoons more almond flour, if you don’t have/don’t like coconut flour. RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS Raos Marinara Sauce, 15.5 oz (Pack of 2) Super-Fine Gluten-Free Almond Flour Bob’s Red Mill Anthony’s Organic Coconut Flour Nutrition Information: YIELD: 6 SERVING SIZE: 1 Amount Per Serving: CALORIES: 131 TOTAL FAT: 6g SATURATED FAT: 3g TRANS FAT: 0g UNSATURATED FAT: 3g CHOLESTEROL: 59mg SODIUM: 383mg CARBOHYDRATES: 4g FIBER: 2g SUGAR: 1g PROTEIN: 15g Keto diet keto recipes KETO BLUEBERRY LEMON SCONES (GLUTEN-FREE) KETO PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE BARS You may also like KETO DIET • Keto Friendly Snacks Keto Cheesy Chicken Fritters Keto Dessert Recipes • KETO DIET Keto Lemon Cheesecake Bars KETO DIET • Keto Dinner Ideas KETO JALAPENO POPPER HOT DOGS KETO DIET • Keto Dinner Ideas Cheesy Keto Gnocchi with Fathead Dough KETO DIET • Keto Friendly Snacks Keto BBQ Pork Dip with Pork Rinds KETO DIET • Keto Dinner Ideas Keto Biryani with Shrimp Leave a Comment X Comment Name * Email * Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Categories Gluten-Free Keto Breakfast keto coffee Keto Dessert Recipes KETO DIET Keto Dinner Ideas Keto Friendly Snacks Keto Smoothie Latest Recipes Vegan Recipes Recent Posts Keto Steak Fajita Pie Easy Keto Pumpkin Cookies Keto Basic Egg Loaf Keto Maple Bacon Cookies Keto Thin Mint Cookies Copyright © 2022. Created by Kizios recipes. Powered by keto. Home Cookie policy Privacy policy Disclaimer Contact Us | negative |
Iran Accused Of Enriching Flour Despite Repeated Warnings
By Yahya Ridwan
Tehran, Iran (9:00 GMT)–At a special U.N. security meeting last week, The United States, Great Britain, and Australia warned the assembly about Iran’s continued efforts to dangerously enrich flour in rural factories.
“Iran has ignored repeated requests for its flour enriching facilities to be inspected by a neutral, U.N-approved inspector,” said United States Ambassador Samantha Power. “It is clear that Iran intends to enrich its flour for the purpose of creating bread that threatens to destabilize the Middle East.”
Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. Mohammad Khazee denied these allegations, calling them “unfounded attempts to disrupt Iran’s sovereign right to gourmet cakes and pastries.”
Economists in Iran believe the threat of sanctions by The U.S. and other members of the assembly are aimed at pacifying the country’s economy. “It is abundantly clear that the western nations are threatened by the prospect of a delicious Iran,” said Professor Eprime Eshag. “Enriched flour in Iran would mean competition for the french bread market and Danish pastries.”
Ambassador Power has dismissed these allegations, calling them “the rhetoric one would expect from deceptive bakers.”
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Yahya Ridwan is a staff writer and U.N. News Correspondent for The Hummus. | positive |
Air raid sirens were sounded in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, while live television showed an apparent midair interception by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system.
Israeli officials had been expecting an increase in rocket fire from the Gaza Strip after Hamas officials vowed revenge for an airstrike on the home of one of their leaders in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis. Hamas announced that the strike had killed six people, with children among the dead.
"The Khan Yunis massacre ... of children is a horrendous war crime, and all Israelis have now become legitimate targets for the resistance," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said. According to local residents, the deaths happened when the house came under attack for a second time.
It was unclear who the dead were, although the AFP news agency quoted an emergency services spokesman as saying that children were among the injured.
Reuters quoted local residents as saying that people had gathered on the roof of the building after the first strike.
Reservists placed on call-up list
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. Meanwhile, the government announced that it had given permission to call up some 40,000 more reservists, although it called the move purely a contingency measure.
A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) provided more details earlier on Tuesday about Operation Protective Edge, a military offensive targeting alleged militants in the Gaza Strip.
According to army spokesman Peter Lerner, 80 rockets and mortars (an example is pictured above) were launched from Gaza into Israel on Monday alone.
Israel's response came in the form of air and naval attacks that were aimed Gaza homes said to belong to militants, concealed rocket launchers and other sites. About 50 targets in Gaza were hit, according to the IDF.
"They chose the direction of escalation," army spokesman Peter Lerner said. "So the mission will go on as long as we feel it is necessary to carry it out. We don't expect it to be a short mission on our behalf."
Lerner added the air assault could be expanded with a "ground mission if required," but all attacks would stop if Hamas ceased launching rockets on Israel.
The surge in violence has come as tensions rise on both sides over the murder of three Jewish teenagers, which Israel has blamed on Hamas, and the killing of a Palestinian youth, apparently in revenge.
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Women View Vacations as Priority(c) 2009 Eileen Lichtenstein – Eileen Lichtenstein’s Blog Skip to content Eileen Lichtenstein’s Blog Menu Home About EFT Women View Vacations as Priority(c) 2009 Eileen Lichtenstein Posted on November 14, 2009 April 23, 2018 by Eileen Lichtenstein I recently came across this on the internet- I am a firm believer in the importance of vacations. A new survey finds that when it comes to women, the emotional rewards of a vacation are often key drivers in where they choose to spend their holiday getaways. The survey, conducted by Roper Public Affairs for Meredith Corporation, finds that women respondents value vacations that include: emotional rewards of relaxation from the daily routine; re-connection with family and friends; opportunity to re-invent and re-ignite their personal passions via adventure, freedom and escapism. For example, among women with families, 96 percent of respondents stated that vacations that “create memories” are a key component in where they choose to spend their leisure time. According to the survey, one in three female travelers, or 32 percent, have taken a multi-generational trip; one in six, or 16 percent, have taken a wedding vow renewal or anniversary trip; and, one in eight, or 12 percent, have attended an offsite family reunion. Almost half of women surveyed, or 49 percent stated that they booked their most recent vacation “by myself” with another 18 percent saying they shared the responsibility with their spouse or partner. Four out of five women respondents say that vacations are a “must have.” Nine out of 10 families with teens agreed with this statement as well. Nine out of 10 women say they want vacations that create lasting memories. Eight of 10 women use search engine web sites such a Google and Yahoo as a means of researching their vacations. Three quarters of women use travel planning websites such as Expedia or Travelocity when organizing a vacation. Similarly, seven out of 10 use airline, hotel or cruise line Web sites. Seventy-two percent say they take up to six months to make a decision when planning a vacation. Over two-thirds of respondents say they will spend the same or more on their next vacation compared to their last vacation. One in three women say they are likely to take a cruise within the next 12 months. The top reasons for taking a cruise include a fun atmosphere (48 percent); good value for the price (45 percent); sightseeing (42 percent); and excursions/activities off the ship (41 percent). Nearly one in five women took a “girls only” vacation in the past three years. The top reason for taking such a trip was “the break from the daily routine,” with 53 percent stating as such. The Meredith Travel study “Great Expectations: What Women Expect from Travel Marketers Today,” was conducted by Roper Public Affairs and Media and is based on a nationwide online survey of 1,678 female vacation travelers age 18 and over. Respondents were recruited from an online panel. Respondents were qualified for the study by having taken a vacation within the past three years that was at least 50 miles away from home, with at least one overnight stay. FREE consult: http://www.balanceandpower.com 516 623 4353 Share this: Share Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Pinterest Reddit Email Tumblr Like this: Like Loading... Related Posted in family, travel, Uncategorized, vacation tips, womenTagged family reunion, intergenerational, leisure time, memories, relaxation, travel, vavation, women Post navigation SOAR!(TM) Groups in 2010 LESSONS FROM THE GEESE (c)2009 Eileen Lichtenstein Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... 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The president pro tempore of the California State Senate on Sunday launched his primary bid against Sen. Dianne Feinstein Dianne Emiel FeinsteinSenate confirms Trump court pick despite missing two 'blue slips' Hillicon Valley: Senators urge Trump to bar Huawei products from electric grid | Ex-security officials condemn Trump emergency declaration | New malicious cyber tool found | Facebook faces questions on treatment of moderators Ocasio-Cortez adviser says Sunrise confrontation with 'old-timer' Feinstein 'sad' MORE (D-Calif.).
Kevin de León, who declared his Senate bid in a video, will make a formal announcement in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
“We now stand at the frontlines of a historic struggle for the very soul of America, against a President without one. Every day, his Administration wages war on our people and our progress,” de León wrote to his backers in an email.
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“He disregards our voices. Demonizes our diversity. Attacks our civil rights, our clean air, our health access and our public safety. We can lead the fight against his administration, but only if we jump into the arena together.”
CNN reported last week that de León had been speaking with labor leaders and would soon launch his bid.
The news comes shortly after Feinstein, 84, confirmed last Monday that she will run for re-election.
De León in the video announcement noted that he was born to a single mother who was an immigrant.
“So I owe it to this single mother, this woman, and millions like her, throughout the state, throughout the country who do everything within their power to protect their children … it doesn’t make a difference if it is a Latino, African-American, White, Asian-American, or racially-mixed community, poverty is poverty … and I think that it is incumbent upon policymakers, on leaders, to provide real opportunities, so everyone can succeed,” he said.
The California state senator will make his formal announcement at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College on Wednesday afternoon.
Democracy for America said Sunday it would back de León in its first endorsement for the 2018 Senate primaries.
“The simple fact is this: We won't defeat Trump and his Republican Party with corporate Democrats pushing Republican-lite policies and weak leadership,” the progressive group’s executive director, Charles Chamberlain, said in a statement.
“We win when candidates offer a progressive vision for America and fight to make it happen. Kevin de León has proven he will do both and we can’t wait to see him do it in the U.S. Senate.”
— This report was updated at 1:58 p.m. | positive |
Image: Vladimir Putin speaks to 60 Minutes (screen capture)
A bombshell report claims that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), who has long been described as “Putin’s favorite congressman,” was given explicit instructions by the Kremlin for how to attack sanctions against Russia last year.
The Daily Beast reports that “after being given a secret document by officials in Moscow, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher sought to alter sanctions legislation and tried to set up a virtual show trial on Capitol Hill” last June, right at around the time that Donald Trump Jr. and key members of the Trump campaign met with Russian nationals who claimed to be representatives of the Russian government’s efforts to undermine the candidacy of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Rohrabacher’s original plan was to have a show trial in Congress of anti-Putin campaigner Bill Browder in which he would “confront Browder with a feature-length pro-Kremlin propaganda movie that viciously attacks him—as well as at least two witnesses linked to the Russian authorities, including lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.”
The purpose of this “show trial,” according to an email reviewed by the Daily Beast, was to undermine a set of sanctions placed on Russia that were named after Sergei Magnitsky, who served as Browder’s tax attorney before being imprisoned after exposing a Russian corruption scandal.
“Rohrabacher’s office was given the film by the Prosecutor General’s office in Moscow, which is run by Yuri Chaika, a close associate of President Vladimir Putin who is accused of widespread corruption, and Viktor Grin, the deputy general prosecutor who has been sanctioned by the United States as part of the Magnitsky Act,” writes the Daily Beast. “That same Prosecutor General’s office also was listed as being behind the “very high level and sensitive information” that was offered to Donald Trump Jr. in an email prior to his now infamous meeting with Russian officials at Trump Tower on June 9—just days before the congressional hearing.” | positive |
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A messy, public brawl over a Google critic's ouster from a Washington think tank has exposed a fissure in Democratic Party politics. On one side there's a young and growing faction advocating new antimonopoly laws, and on the other a rival faction struggling to defend itself.
At issue is a decades-long relationship between Democrats and tech companies, with Democratic presidents signing off on deregulation and candidates embracing money and innovations from firms like Google and Facebook. Now, locked out of power and convinced that same coziness with large corporations cost them the presidency, Democrats are talking themselves into breaking with tech giants and becoming an antimonopoly party.
The argument had a breakthrough last week when it was reported that Barry Lynn, a monopoly critic and longtime scholar at the Google-funded New America Foundation, was leaving and taking his 10-person initiative with him.
Lynn, who has been critical of Google, had praised European regulators for hitting the company with a $2.7 billion antitrust fine. The foundation, which has received more than $21 million from Google, removed Lynn's comments from its website.
"A lot of people see this as a tipping point," Lynn said of his departure in an interview. "This is something that's upset people on both sides of the aisle."
Soon after, Lynn's project, Citizens Against Monopoly, launched with a website that asked people to protest "Google's unethical behavior" and pledged that "Google's attempt to shut us down will fail." New America's president, Anne-Marie Slaughter, pushed back, warning that Lynn was starting a family feud at a moment when Democrats could not afford it.
"Barry's new organization and campaign against Google is the opening salvo of one group of Democrats versus another group of Democrats in the run-up to the 2020 election," Slaughter wrote on Medium. "I personally think the country faces far greater challenges of racism, violence, a broken political system, and geographic and partisan divisions so great that we are losing any common sense of what we stand and strive for as a country."
The Democrats' anti-monopolists have been winning the argument inside the party. During the Obama years, they'd been routed, as Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, strongly supported the president, and the Federal Trade Commission abandoned an antitrust case against the company. Over the years, Schmidt gave $842,900 to Democrats, and less than half as much to Republicans.
"Google was Obama's Halliburton," said Luther Lowe, the vice president of public policy at Yelp.
A shift began when Democrats began to look for their next president. In October 2015, fending off a primary challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Hillary Clinton wrote an op-ed for the business site Quartz in which she promised to "take a page from Teddy Roosevelt" and "stop corporate concentration in any industry where it's unfairly limiting competition."
In June 2016, Lynn organized a conference where Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) argued the next president, which most assumed would be Clinton, could reverse the Obama administration's lax antitrust policy. Democrats needed to consider the long-term implications for consumers, for jobs and for wages, she suggested.
"How do we get more competition? And how do we do it without new legislation that would require cooperation from a Congress awash in campaign contributions and influence peddling?" Warren asked. "We can start with a president and an executive branch willing to once again enforce our laws in the way Congress originally intended them to be enforced."
Antitrust issues garnered almost no attention during the 2016 presidential campaign. In April, Hart Research Associates conducted polling, circulated among Democrats and think tanks, that found an enormous opening for antimonopoly politics. The polling, which surveyed 1,120 voters overall and 341 from the decisive Rust Belt states, found just a slim majority saying Democrats favored "average Americans" over "large corporations and banks."
Those corporations and banks were toxic. The polling found "corporate monopolies" viewed negatively by 66 percent of all voters, and 70 percent of Rust Belt voters. Just 21 percent of Rust Belt voters, however, favored "antitrust laws."
Congressional Democrats who saw that polling factored it into the "Better Deal," their economic agenda and attempt to rebrand the party. The plan, which was released July 24, spent four pages arguing for new antitrust laws, standards that would make mergers more difficult, and a "competition advocate" with the power to police issues.
"It was a really good start," Lynn said. "This is going to be a long process, and a long series of battles — not just inside the party, but intellectual battles."
But the minority party's policy sheet did not captivate readers like Lynn's spat with Google did. In two tweets, Warren called Lynn's ouster "troubling" and said the credibility of think tanks "is jeopardized when decisions are based on funder preferences." (Warren declined to comment further.)
"There was a growing awareness that corporate monopolies were a big problem," explained Zephyr Teachout, a two-time Democratic candidate in New York for governor and the U.S. House, who will chair Open Markets when it gets off the ground. "This really hit a nerve. It could have been a one-day story and disappeared by the end of the week. The same story five years ago wouldn't have had the same resonance. But the corporate concentration of power has gotten so much worse."
The Democrats' long detente with monopolies was good for fundraising, especially as more money from energy and banking companies slid toward Republicans. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a backer of tougher antimonopoly policies whose district includes Google's campus, said Democrats and tech companies needed to adjust to a new world.
"If you take a thoughtful position and are able to justify it intellectually, you won't lose support from tech leaders," Khanna said. "My experience has been that the community is pretty open to robust debate."
Read more at PowerPost | positive |
Anger has mounted in Brazil, where the construction bill for 12 stadiums has reached more than $3 billion. Miguel Schincariol/AFP/Getty Images
RIO DE JANEIRO — As the truncheon blows rained down on Vinicius Duarte, the 26-year-old university student tried to engage the police officers who continued beating him on the floor.
All he could hear were voices pleading with them to stop, as he suffered bruises and red welts across his face with every strike.
But the scene inside the Linson Hotel in São Paulo, where anti–World Cup protesters were taking refuge last weekend, was already out of control.
“If it was not me, it would have been someone else, because they've got a predisposition to violence,” Duarte, an industrial chemistry student, said after the demonstration. “It’s never happened to me directly before, but I’ve witnessed other people in the protests get the same savagery from the police.”
With less than six months until the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the anger that sparked the biggest uprising of a generation last year is still simmering in the host nation of Brazil, even if some of the momentum has been lost and the potential to disrupt the event remains unclear.
Police brutality has become a common backdrop to the demonstrations against substandard health care, education and transportation. Taxes remain high, the cost of living has increased and investment in the World Cup has spiraled out of control.
The protest that flared up in São Paulo last weekend, while demonstrations in other cities passed without incident, was indicative of the volatility of the movement.
In São Paulo, there were scenes of chaos as 2,500 people took part in a demonstration aimed squarely at the hosting of the soccer tournament.
The banners and chants were familiar: “FIFA go home” and “Hey, FIFA, pay my fare” — a reference to a rise in bus fares, which hits the poorest. Meanwhile, the construction bill for the 12 stadiums has reached more than $3 billion.
Even with the most recent increase in the minimum wage to $310 a month, the lowest-paid Brazilians still earn less than half the price of the most expensive World Cup ticket — $821.
And activists say as many as 250,000 people have been evicted or are threatened with eviction because of projects linked directly or indirectly to the World Cup. | positive |
WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs officials on Wednesday reversed course on plans to dramatically alter how funding for homeless veterans programs is handled, promising “absolutely no change in the funding” until fiscal 2019.
In recent weeks, veterans advocates had been upset over plans from department leaders to shift funding previous restricted to homeless housing vouchers — specifically, the Housing and Urban Development-VA Supportive Housing program — to general purpose money.
VA leaders said the move would allow regional directors more flexibility to push money into what they saw as top local priorities. But advocates worried that could lead to ignoring homeless veterans outreach and assistance in favor of other budget gaps, undoing years of progress addressing the problem.
The estimated number of homeless veterans dropped from more than 74,000 individuals in 2010 to fewer than 40,000 in 2016. In 2017, the number rose by almost 600 veterans after seven years of decreases.
In a letter to VA Secretary David Shulkin in October, officials from the National Coalition of Homeless Veterans said they objected to “any conversion of special purpose homeless program funding for any purpose,” calling it potentially “catastrophic” to progress made in recent years.
Number of homeless vets rises for first time in seven years Estimates show the total number of veterans without stable housing increased by about 600 from 2016 to 2017.
On Wednesday night, Shulkin agreed to abandon the change for now.
“Over the next six months, I will solicit input from our local VA leaders and external stakeholders on how best to target our funding to the geographical areas that need it most,” he said in a statement. “Based on that input we will come forward with proposals for fiscal year 2019 on how to improve the targeting of our homeless program funding.”
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Responding to concerns about the homeless program money being used for other issues, Shulkin stated that “there will be absolutely no change in the funding to support our homeless programs” and “we will not be shifting any homeless program money to the Choice program.”
Shulkin also noted that President Donald Trump has requested an additional $66 million in homeless veterans assistance funding for fiscal 2018. That budget plan still has yet to be approved by Congress, even though the new fiscal year began October 1.
In 2010, then-President Barack Obama and VA officials made a public pledge to “end veterans’ homelessness” in coming years, an effort that was paired with big boosts in funding for community intervention programs at both VA and HUD. | positive |
College football is taking steps toward establishing an early signing period, according to the NCAA official who manages the national letter of intent program.
Susan Peal, NCAA associate director of operations, said the continued acceleration of recruiting has led the Conference Commissioners Association to consider an earlier date to supplement the long-existing date in February, similar to the structure for basketball and other sports.
"I think everyone wants an early signing period," Peal said this week. "It's just trying to nail down what's the appropriate date for that."
The letter of intent program is governed by the CCA, a 32-member panel of Division I conference commissioners. The group will meet in June to review an agenda that includes an early signing period.
The commissioners previously considered the issue, but Peal said it has been a few years.
"I think there's more momentum now than ever just because of the changes that are happening with recruiting regulations," said Peal, who works closely with the commissioners on topics related to national letters of intent. "The landscape is changing, so it's time to look at it again."
The usage last fall of financial-aid agreements, available for January-enrolling prospects on Aug. 1 of their senior years to secure a scholarship, is among the accelerating factors. Prospects who sign financial-aid agreements and enroll early do not sign letters of intent. | positive |
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A twentysomething hacker said today that he hacked into a South Houston water utility to show that it can easily be done, after U.S. officials downplayed the risks from a report yesterday of an intrusion at an Illinois water plant.
The hacker, using the alias "pr0f," said he has hacked other SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems too.
He tweeted on November 5 links to public posts with what he identified as PLC configurations for a Polish waste-water treatment plant; SCADA data from an HMI (human-machine interface) box possibly for a generator used for research purposes at Southern Methodist University; and what he believes are water metering control system files from Spain or Portugal.
"Basically, people have no idea what's going on in terms of industrial control, groups like ICS-CERT (Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team) are too slow/don't have enough power to react to situations," he wrote in an e-mail to CNET. "There's a lot of rubbish information out there that's being treated seriously, etc. Lot of crap. So I'm putting information out there to show people what kind of systems are vulnerable to basic attacks."
He said his actions were prompted by the U.S. government's response to a report from an Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center that said intruders compromised a water utility in the state last week, burning out a pump. Industry expert Joe Weiss blogged about the report and provided more information to CNET yesterday. The Department of Homeland Security initially identified the location as Springfield, but a local official today reportedly confirmed that it happened in nearby Curran-Gardner Townships Public Water District, but the official could not say whether it was a hacking incident.
A DHS representative responded to the report with this comment: "At this time there is no credible corroborated data that indicates a risk to critical infrastructure entities or a threat to public safety."
That government response irked pr0f.
"I dislike, immensely, how the DHS tend to downplay how absolutely F***ED the state of national infrastructure is," he wrote in a Pastebin post. "Ive also seen various people doubt the possibility that an attack like this could be done."
Then he provided screenshots of what look like diagrams of water and waste-water treatment facilities in South Houston, Texas.
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Fred Gonzalez, superintendent of the South Houston water plant, told CNET, "We're still checking into the whole problem and seeing what's going on."
A DHS representative said he would look into the purported Texas incident.
"I'm not going to expose the details of the box," pr0f wrote in his Pastebin post. "No damage was done to any of the machines; I don't really like mindless vandalism. It's stupid and silly.
"On the other hand, so is connecting interfaces to your SCADA machinery to the Internet," he added. "I wouldn't even call this a hack, either, just to say. This required almost no skill and could be reproduced by a two-year-old with a basic knowledge of Simatic," which is automation software from Siemens that's used to control equipment in industrial production.
Asked how he gets into systems, pr0f said: "As for how I did it, it's usually a combination of poor configuration of services, bad password choice, and no restrictions on who can access the interfaces."
He said he isn't a security professional and doesn't work in the SCADA sector. "I'm just an interested party who has read a few books about ICS and embedded systems," he said.
Though he uses an e-mail address from a service provider in Romania, he said he is not in that country, but declined to say where he's based.
"I assumed companies located there would be less likely to cooperate with the U.S. and turn over any logs of e-mails," he said. "That said, I believe the servers for these are located in Germany, which does dent the protection somewhat."
Pr0f's Twitter profile picture shows a "V for Vendetta," or Guy Fawkes, mask, which is used by people who participate in online activism and hacking as part of the Anonymous collective. | positive |
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The daddle is a unique and interesting device. My kids loved it, we shot some videos and it took some stress off my back.
That is... until the fateful day my wife bought the boy some spurs. I should have known something wasn't right when I first heard that "jingle jangle jingle" as he came striding merrily along. But I wasn't fast enough; when he hopped on my back and kicked me in the sides, I about came unglued.
It wouldn't have been so bad if the spurs weren't the "long-star" pointy type.
Fortunately we have a 10 ft. ceiling in the living room, because the rotten kid's head came within four inches of it the first kick. He didn't have time for a second when unthinking, I stood straight up, forgetting the "child" attached to my back.
To his credit he managed to hang on. That was when I regretted allowing the children to put a belt around my neck to simulate a bridle. I nearly popped eye sockets when his fists clenched that belt and his full weight was applied to my trachea. That did have the effect of dropping me back down to the floor pretty quickly. This would have been the end of it, except for the fact that this offspring from Hades (apparently enjoying the experience) decided to spur me again, somewhat harder this time. It's a good thing I was wearing trousers or I'd have left little horsie patties all over the living room.
Have you ever tried to remove a child from your back when he's attached by saddle and stirrups? Suffice to say I now understand and fully sympathize with how a bucking bronco feels. Being somewhat more intelligent than a horse (although in retrospect I am thinking not that much smarter), I laid down and rolled, careful to try not to crush the boy. That did not prevent him from digging in the spurs a third time, which caused me to sit straight up and threw him over my head, where fortunately my easy chair cushioned his fall.
No, we haven't stopped using the Daddle. But I do conduct a thorough inspection of feet prior to any and all rides. The belt is now attached to the Daddle directly rather than going around my neck, and my wife has been kindly and politely asked to never, ever again buy an [expletives omitted] set of spurs or in fact anything, ever again, for our kids, without my direct knowledge.
On the positive side, after watching that display my daughter no longer wants a real life pony. | positive |
The Chicago Housing Authority is playing catch-up on a goal it planned to meet eight years ago.
In 2000, the CHA set a commitment to build, replace or restore 25,000 public housing units by 2009 as part of its Plan for Transformation.
About three weeks ago, the agency indicated it was more than 1,500 units short of that goal.
While the CHA contends the 2008 financial collapse impacted the project, launched by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 2000, some critics believe it fell behind years before the recession.
The plan was approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and introduced as the largest and most ambitious public housing redevelopment plan in the country.
CHA indicated it plans to meet the goal of 25,000 units by the end of this year.
CHA CEO Eugene Jones, who has led the agency since 2015, joins us to discuss public housing in Chicago.
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Toyota has announced today that they will be selling a plug-in version of the 3rd generation Prius around 2011. Sadly, the biggest auto maker in the world by volume will only be dipping its toe with "only several tens of thousands of cars a year," at least at first. Hopefully if all goes well, production will be ramped up rapidly to meet demand, otherwise Toyota risks falling behind competitors with more aggressive EV and PHEV goals, but more importantly, a lack of supply could slow down the growth of the electrification of transportation, leaving us dependent on polluting fossil fuels longer. There's also talk of a full EV for 2012.It's a bit early, so we don't have a full specification sheet for the plug-in Prius, but here's what has transpired so far: Toyota wants it to have an "affordable price tag," which probably explains why the electric range will only be about 14.5 miles (23.4 kilometers). It will be the first Toyota vehicle to use lithium-ion batteries (Toyota's current hybrids use NiMH batteries).
According to Toyota it gets "an overall mileage of 57 kilometers a liter, or 134 miles per gallon." Take that number with a grain of salt, though. The methodology for measuring the fuel efficiency of plug-in vehicles has many problems.
Charging time should be approximately 100 minutes (probably on a 220v charger?).
Electric Car Coming in 2012
Toyota is also saying that it will make a 100% electric urban vehicle in 2012, but as usual, it doesn't seem very enthusiastic about pure EVs (possibly because it has so much invested into hybrid powertrains).
Not much details yet, but maybe it will be based on the FT-EV concept, which is based on the Toyota iQ urban microcar. We're kind of hoping for something a bit bigger that could appeal to more people and compete with the Nissan Leaf (competition usually means faster progress and better products). Maybe an EV based on the Yaris or Corolla platform?
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CHESTER TOWNSHIP — When 21-year-old Matthew Wetherington went on vacation to Hawaii with two of his friends after graduating from Rutgers in 2011, he said he considered extending the trip — but he never imagined it would turn into an around-the-world odyssey.
"My buddies at college were looking for something to do," Wetherington, now 24, told NJ.com. "We all had jobs lined up after graduation ... but kept hearing of all these other recent graduates who are working 9-to-5 jobs that (weren't) fulfilling. I didn't want to end up hating my life."
Weatherington — who returned from his trip to more than 20 countries this past July — said he and his friends went to Hawaii after graduation, but before he left, he joked with his mother about how he might not come home for a while.
"When we got to Hawaii, this idea just kept snowballing in my head," he said.
And Wetherignton and friends Ariel Scott Dicker, of Caldwell, and Jeffrey Foster, Marlton, stayed in Hawaii for three-and-a-half months, working for their accommodations at hostels.
"They asked us if we knew how to drywall — we had no idea," he said. "We looked up YouTube videos to figure it out."
After Hawaii, Wetherington and his friends traveled to New Zealand, where money was a constant concern, he said.
"It's literally the most broke I've ever been in my entire life," he sad.
Wetherington said they were able to use money in Hawaii that they saved during college, and were able to do some saving by working an extra dishwashing and landscaping job to get to New Zealand and buy a van, and from there they washed dishes at a motel and restaurant once they were there.
"It was a constant concern," he said. The did a lot of hitchhiking, and even slept outside. "We were flat broke."
When they got to Sydney, Australia, he started working as a pizza chef, and then he got a job at a bank, he said.
Friends from home visited often, friends they met from another hostel would stay — vistitors would even help them pay for rent, Wetherington said.
"That ended up being a huge financial stake hold for the rest of our trip," he said.
The trio then went through Asia together, where beer was $.50 to $1, and then Dicker and Foster headed home, Wetherington said.
"After Asia, they were running low on money," he said. "It was my goal to get to Europe, so they flew home and I continued on my way and spent then last eight months in Europe before I came home, too."
Wetherington called the solo portion of his trip a great moment for personal growth.
"You're kinda of just left alone with your thoughts, especially when you're in a country where you don't speak any of the language," he said. "You find yourself not speaking for a couple of days."
He said he spent a lot of time soul-searching before he decided to come home.
"My family had no problem with me being gone as long as I was — not because they don't like me — but because they really wanted me to have these experiences," he said. "I did sort of feel a familial obligation to see my youngest brother graduate from high school and play varsity football."
As he's been home for about four months, Wetherington said he's still not adjusted to being home.
"I wish I could verbalize it better — it's just, I'm coming to a place that hasn't changed in almost three years," he said. "I'm a completely different person, but I'm being put back into the house I grew up in. It's a tough adjustment."
Wetherington said he's working on his blog — The Tuna School of Thought — while looking for a job and talking to producers about funding a feature film, as well as setting up a speaker circuit so he can talk to college kids about following their dreams and not always staying on the straight and narrow path.
As for future travel plans, Wetherington said he's hoping to get out to South America in 2014.
"It's up in the air right now, kind of like our last trip," he said. "A tentative trip that turned into a reality. A template in my mind that turned into a journey of a lifetime." | positive |
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“#MeToo: rallying against sexual assault and harassment, a women’s poetry anthology” edited by Deborah Alma; “Persephone’s Daughters,” empowering readers and writers who’ve experienced gendered abuse – Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine Skip to content Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine Poets, Poetry, News, Reviews, Readings, Resources & Opportunities for Poets and Writers Menu About Recommended Reading, Gifts & Supplies Testimonials CDR Resource List Disclosure POEMS: “The Doves Have Flown” & others by Jamie Dedes Posted on February 22, 2018 February 21, 2018 “#MeToo: rallying against sexual assault and harassment, a women’s poetry anthology” edited by Deborah Alma; “Persephone’s Daughters,” empowering readers and writers who’ve experienced gendered abuse by Jamie Dedes.In Poem/Poetry, She-Poets, Social Justice/Activism, Writers/Poets.Leave a Comment on “#MeToo: rallying against sexual assault and harassment, a women’s poetry anthology” edited by Deborah Alma; “Persephone’s Daughters,” empowering readers and writers who’ve experienced gendered abuse Will be out on March 8. Pre-order HERE. #MeToo Anthology, The Back Story by Deborah Alma, Editor The #MeToo (Fair Acre Press, March 8, 2018) anthology came straight out of a long thread on my Facebook page in October 2017, just as we were talking about the Harvey Weinstein allegations on the news and before I had even heard of the #MeToo campaign. I asked women friends of mine to add their name on the thread if they hadn’t experienced any form of sexual harassment in their lives and I was surprised to find that of the 200 women that started to share some of their stories , 2 or 3 told us that it had never happened to them. My surprise was not that there were so few, but that there were any women at all. Of course over the years we have shared these stories with our friends, sisters, mothers, partners and sometimes with the police, or in court. It has been the water we swim in as women. But saying something publicly has always been difficult and brave. The words would stick in our throats, for so many reasons. But something was released and given a space within social media. It was easy to add our voice to the rising shout of #MeToo. We felt the sisterhood. Many women were emboldened by this to share more difficult stories, more details. I’m a poet, and an editor and someone suggested we collect these stories somehow and it was obvious to collect them as poems. It was what I could do. I am very proud of this book, proud of the poets for sharing and for the courage in putting their names to their words. I have been amazed by the wonderful collaboration in its making; all of us women. Jessamy Hawke is the daughter of an online friend and she came forward and offered to make new line drawings for the book, the striking cover was made for the book by my friend Sandra Salter and all the work of editing and publishing was donated. Jess Phillips MP gave us her introduction and it’s been endorsed by Amanda Palmer and Rachel Kelly amongst others. I do recognise that it is a painful and difficult to read a great deal of the time. But when taken slowly, and with reading only what you can bear, I trust the reader will hear its rallying cry of anger and impatience. We have had enough. © 2018, Deborah Alma DEBORAH ALMA (Emergency Poet) is a UK poet, with an MA in Creative Writing, taught Writing Poetry at Worcester University and works with people with dementia and in hospice care. She is also Emergency Poet prescribing poetry from her vintage ambulance. She is editor of Emergency Poet-an anti-stress poetry anthology, The Everyday Poet- Poems to live by (both Michael O’Mara), and her True Tales of the Countryside is published by The Emma Press. She is the editor of #Me Too – rallying against sexual harrassment- a women’s poetry anthology (Fair Acre Press, March 2018). Her first full collection Dirty Laundry is published by Nine Arches Press (May 2018). She lives with her partner the poet James Sheard on a hillside in Powys, Wales. POETRY FROM #MeToo: rallying against sexual assault and harassment Freeing the sources of light Make friends with the light. It’s been years since you watched summer turn bad, felt warm grass chafe your bare legs and his old man’s fingers trespass beneath the dress you never wore again. That hot summer you dashed to your childhood garden but the sun glared, music buzzed from the wireless, stung a secret place, the Everlies and Elvis called heart: always tender, baby, always untrue. And summers afterward echoed bus rides to city parks where he kissed your mouth, fondled your arms. The sun blurred, twinned into headlamps, pinned shadows on the wall- but it was decades ago. Welcome the light, you don’t need a sky’s worth, just a lodestar for the journey. White roses in a glass vase, candle-flame at dusk and the moon in winter, carrying its bowl of borrowed sun. © 2018, Sheila Jacob Bitch Always just within reach, it is the desk-drawer revolver or the switch that is flicked when a woman says No and means No and knows her own mind and makes herself inconveniently clear; it is the cocksure roar of boy used to his own way, one more of the ones we warn each other about, whose reputations we pass around like classroom secrets, names itching from girl-hand to woman-hand, the ones who just adore women, who say their wives really don’t mind, the ones who wonder, aloud, and publicly, what hitch qualifies you to claim this space for your small fierce self, the ones who will scrape back their chair, stand up in the kitsch restaurant, tongue catching on the latch of that single syllable,the alarmed door he will shoulder open becoming the exit she will depart through. © 2018, Jane Commane, Assembly Lines (Bloodaxe, 2018) Irish Twins attic rain the backyard swing off kilter We share an attic room. In the corner is an old double bed that smells and sags on one side. My side. Late at night I hear my heart beat. Loud. So loud he will hear it. He will think my heart is calling him up the attic stairs. His footsteps are heavy. He smells of old spice and cherry tobacco. My eyes shut tight. I know he is there. I feel his weight. Never on my side. Always on the side she sleeps. When the bed-springs sing their sad song I fly away. Up to the ceiling. My sister is already there. Together we hold hands. Looking down we see our bodies. We are not moving. We are as still as the dead. © 2018, Roberta Beary, Contemporary Haibun Vol.14 (Red Moon Press) PERSEPHONE’S DAUGHTERS The Return of Persephone, c.1891 (oil on canvas) by Leighton, Frederic (1830-96); 203×152 cm; Leeds Museums and Galleries (City Art Gallery) U.K.; English, public domain PERSEPHONE’S DAUGHTERS is published online, in print and in film. This magazine’s content is based on a mission to empower women / femme individuals who have experienced various forms of gendered abuse (sexual, emotional, physical, racial, verbal, etc), or other forms of degradation (harassment, catcalling, threats, etc). Persephone’s Daughters welcomes all identities. Online Sunday Stories feature personal accounts of those surviving abuse. There is also a film submission category that aligns with the mission. Accepted works are featured online on Film Fridays. Of note is a post-election mini-issue, a writing and art collection by people who are negatively effected by the outcome of the 2016 U.S. election. Proceeds from the sales of that collection go to the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, which provides services, legal help, and advocacy to unaccompanied immigrant children fleeing trafficking, conflict, poverty and more. The editor’s say that submissions for Issue 5 will likely open in April. 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In the way Canadians like to tell it, the story of the Komagata Maru begins on April 4, 1914, when Sikh emigrants from India, hoping only for a better life in Canada, board a ship in Hong Kong; after a series of disgraceful naval ambuscades in Vancouver Harbour the ship is forced to weigh anchor on July 23 of that year. The Komagata Maru steams all the way back to Calcutta, 20 of its passengers are killed in some kind of dockside melee, and the rest of the voyagers are imprisoned.
In the story’s denouement, Canada has constructed a kind of morality play, an allegorical drama of our national salvation from the shame and squalor of Canada’s racist past that places our redemption in Canada’s eventual law reform and repeal, repentance and contrition. There are apologies, plaque-unveilings and seminars, a federally-funded museum, booklets, exhibitions, and a commemorative stamp. That sort of thing.
But Canadians may soon be revisiting their revision of the Komagata Maru story. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Canada next week. Only two weeks ago the legislative assembly in the Sikh homeland of India’s Punjab State called on him to demand that the Canadian Parliament apologize specifically to India for the “atrocities committed on the Indian people” during the Komagata Maru affair.
The Punjab Assembly says it wants something along the lines of the House of Commons’ apologies and restitutions arising from the 1885 Chinese Head tax and the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Modi is expected to visit the Komagata Maru Museum and Monument in Vancouver. Things might get awkward. In 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered an apology to Canada’s Indo-Canadians at a gathering of 8,000 Sikhs at a temple in suburban Vancouver, but his overture wasn’t accepted graciously, exactly. The complaint was that the apology should have come from the floor of the House of Commons, and it should have more closely resembled Ottawa’s elaborate regrets about the Chinese Head Tax and the Japanese internment.
Compounding the awkwardness of just who should be apologizing here, and to whom, and for what, is that the story India tells itself about the Komagata Maru has undergone some significant revision as well. It was not long ago that the 1914 voyage was widely regarded in India as something of an embarrassment, an ill-conceived operation put up by Sikh militants and other Indian radicals who were rather too rash in their patriotism.
The since-revised Indian version, which formally acknowledges the voyagers of 1914 as heroes, is closer to the mark than the contemporary Canadian telling of the Komagata Maru story. It’s not just because Canadians tend to leave out all the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary intrigue, the spies, the provocateurs and double-agents, the terror and counter-terror of the time. Most conspicuously absent in the Canadian version of the Komagata Maru tragedy are the villains of that ethno-religious foreign constituency that was most fervently determined to insinuate its belligerent chauvinisms into Canadian affairs at the time. I refer of course to the British.
For all the racist hysteria animating Canadians in 1914 (in the preceding year, roughly 500,000 immigrants had arrived in Canada, a number not exceeded in any year since) the larger drama that determined the pivotal events in the story of the Komagata Maru arose from the brutal, global reach of the British Empire. Its Canadian champions and shadowy agents were already busy manipulating Canadian immigration law and its enforcement in cunning anticipation of the Komagata Maru long before the ship’s arrival in Burrard Inlet.
It was a time when the British Empire was acutely vulnerable to insurrections among its subject populations. Only weeks after the Komagata Maru was barred from docking in Vancouver, the First World War broke out. To the Indian patriots behind the Komagata Maru expedition, the voyage was a win-win proposition.
Allowed to disembark, the passengers could organize the fight for Indian independence at greater liberty from abroad than they could under the crushing oppression and surveillance back home. If they were turned away, the injustice would expose a propaganda lie that was being marshaled to great advantage by the British imperialists in India: steady on, chaps, we’re all equally British subjects throughout the empire, aren’t we?
By its propaganda of the deed, the Komagata Maru proved that the Empire’s Indian subjects were not blessed by the rights of Englishmen after all, not by bloody half. The ship’s co-charterers, Gurdit Singh of Hong Kong and Bagh Singh of Vancouver’s Khalsa Diwan Society, were steeped in the maxims of the radical Gadhar Party. Its slogan: “What is our name? Mutiny. What is our work? Mutiny.” On the voyage to Vancouver, the ship’s passengers recited poems heralding the coming Indian uprising against the British. After the ship was turned back to India, Bagh Singh penned a tribute to the voyagers: “Death awaits us all, but when we know not; if it should come in heroic deeds, don’t fear it. Arise. Arise.”
In my old neighbourhood in New Westminster, the lovely Sikh Temple Sukhsagar, built in 1911, loomed out my kitchen window. Its langar, the ceremonial banquet room, is still called the Mewa Singh Hall, named after the Komagata Maru Shore Committee leader who assassinated the key British spy and principal troublemaker William Hopkinson in Vancouver in the weeks after the Komagata Maru was turned away.
Mewa Singh unapologetically confessed his crime, and was hanged for it. I wouldn’t propose that those who commemorate Mewa Singh’s memory every year have anything to apologize for, any more than one should want Prime Minister Modi to accede to the Punjab Assembly resolution and demand an apology from Canada for the Komagata Maru affair.
Modi’s problem is that the Punjab Assembly resolution was accompanied by a motion demanding that he apologize to the Punjab Assembly, on behalf of the Government of India, for its bloody 1984 Operation Bluestar campaign in Punjab which so brutally rooted out Khalistani Sikh separatists from Amritsar’s Golden Temple.
Should Canada then turn around and demand that the Punjab Assembly apologize to us for the 1985 murder of 329 people, mostly Canadians, in the bombing of Air India Flight 182? That operation was orchestrated by the Khalistani Sikh terrorist leader Talwinder Singh Parmar, whose Babbar Khalsa organization enjoyed refuge in the Golden Temple prior to Operation Bluestar.
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History does not lend itself to being abused and apologized for, especially not at the same time. The endearing Canadian custom of sanitizing history and putting it to innocently uplifting and inclusive purposes, too, is bound to go sideways sooner or later.
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The basic audio mixing workflow
So what’re the mixing basics? Just like most processes — and especially in audio mixing — everyone has their own opinions. Right or wrong, who knows? That’s fair. But there are essential mixing basics that everyone should follow.
The right mix to work with
Believe it or not, you should be mixing before you mix.
Lost? I’ll explain. What are the main textures you’re looking for in your track? What kind of space are you trying to create? Upfront and punchy? Or distant and reverberant? Work on bringing the most character out of your sounds while you're in the early stages of recording. Think about the big picture while recording or choosing your initial sounds.
Push the original recordings as far as you can without heavy processing. Get an early sense of where you are heading for the final mixdown. Commit to good sounds early and avoid endless tweaking later in the mixing stage.
Cut the fuss. Use a bus.
Picture a yellow school bus. Now picture it with a bunch of sounds riding it.
This is what a bus is in a mix. By sending multiple sounds to one track (the bus) you can apply the same processors to them all at once. It’s very handy. Try it out on a drum bus. This allows you to process all your drum sounds as one unit. Treat them with the same reverb to give the perception that they’re all in the same space. Or Set up a delay or compression bus.
Experiment with which sounds you send to what bus. I guarantee you’ll get some very useful results.
HOT TIP: Commit to good sounds early and avoid endless tweaking later in the mixing stage.
Balance your levels
Time to give your mix a little haircut. A little snip here, a little trim there. Balance those levels and don’t be afraid to give parts the big chop. Drop the drums for a bar, crank up that vocal for a verse. Get loose.
Get a basic balance of your levels before you go crazy with effects processing. Trim ‘em so they don’t clip later. Think about headroom early.
Keep a final goal in mind as you balance all of your tracks. This will give you a rough idea of how each track will eventually fit together. Processing will smooth out your rough ideas.
Planning on panning
So what is panning?
Panning helps you control the width of a mix. It’s the left to right breadth of the stereo field. Panning allows for sounds to be placed in your mix properly. Either to the left, or the right of the stereo center. Keep your heavier or lower sounds near the centre. This means the bass or the kick. Use them as a centring force that you can work around. If everything is panned centrally, your mix will sound flat or crowded. | positive |
Netflix has fired Danny Masterson from The Ranch after he was accused of rape by four women.
“As a result of ongoing discussions, Netflix and the producers have written Danny Masterson out of The Ranch. [Monday] was his last day on the show, and production will resume in early 2018 without him,” a spokesperson for the streaming company said in a statement to Us Weekly on Tuesday, December 5.
Masterson, 41, will still appear in the second half of season 2, which premieres on Friday, December 15, as he already filmed that set of episodes. It is unclear how his character, Jameson “Rooster” Bennett, will be written out of the comedy series, which stars his former That ’70s Show costar Ashton Kutcher. The fate of Masterson’s executive producer credit on the show is also unresolved.
The Los Angeles Police Department has been investigating sexual assault allegations against the actor since March. Four women claimed Masterson raped them in the early 2000s. At least three of the women were Scientologists and said they reported the alleged assaults to the Church of Scientology at the time. Masterson denied the allegations in a statement in March, calling them “false.”
HuffPost reported on Monday, December 4, that Netflix executive Andy Yeatman told one of Masterson’s alleged victims that the company does not believe any of the actor’s accusers. Netflix confirmed the report in a statement to HuffPost, calling Yeatman’s comments “careless [and] uninformed.”
The news of Masterson’s firing from The Ranch comes one day after Netflix announced it will resume production in 2018 on the sixth and final season of House of Cards. Kevin Spacey, the star of the political drama, was removed from the cast in October after multiple sexual misconduct allegations.
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Former Texas catcher Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez acknowledges the crowd a the end of his speech as he is inducted into the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame before the Baltimore Orioles vs.
Someone up there likes Pudge Rodriguez.
Late-afternoon thundershowers gave way to clear conditions in time for the ceremony in which Rodriguez was inducted into the Texas Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame. He is the 16th member.
"Thank God we have better weather and are going to have a major league baseball game," Rodriguez said. "This is a great night. It's an honor to be here."
Rodriguez was struck by his list of career accomplishments, recited by master of ceremonies John Rhadigan.
"I said to myself 'Wow,'" Rodriguez said. "Sometimes you don't believe those kind of things. I guess I did all of those things. I was very happy with that."
Rodriguez thanked important figures from his career ranging from Sandy Johnson, the scouting director who signed him at age 17 out of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, in 1988, to former teammates such as Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan. Rodriguez signed off with a salute to the fans.
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In March, online video game critic Jim Sterling discovered that one of his YouTube videos had been yanked from the site due to claims of a copyright violation. The video in question was a review of an indie game called Skate Man Intense Rescue that included footage from the game. Sterling was apparently not a fan.
The yanking of Sterling's video was not an accident or a mistake. The game studio, Digpex games, filed a claim using the tools provided by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1996 (DMCA) to order YouTube to take down the video. When contacted by gaming blog Kotaku, an anonymous developer from Digpex was quite clear that the reason for the claim was because the company did not like what Sterling had to say about Skate Man Intense Rescue. The developer accused Sterling of deliberately "targeting poor indie guys or new companies who have little" to defend themselves.
In the current glut of games and indie developers, it is true that a bad review from a widely followed game critic (Sterling's YouTube channel has nearly 200,000 subscribers) can be devastating to a small company. But regardless of how Digpex may feel about Sterling's comments, the DMCA is not supposed to be used to censor bad reviews. So why did Sterling's video get yanked?
In Sterling's case, it's only a temporary problem—but it's still a problem. When Sterling, or anybody else, is targeted with a request to take down content due to a claim of a DMCA violation, there is a process to counter that claim. But while that process plays out, even though Sterling knows that he's in the right legally, his video and his criticism remain offline.
In a way, this frustrating process is actually intended to protect companies that host content online. Part of the DMCA shields Internet service providers and online platforms from legal liability when their customers or users post copyrighted content without their knowledge. But there also has to be a process by which copyright owners can make claims that their material has been posted without their permission and have it taken down.
Bring on the unintended consequences. As the squabble between Sterling and Digpex shows, some people are willing to take advantage of the act to use it in ways it is not intended. One of the biggest concerns about DMCA abuse is the potential for censorship. Sterling's situation is not an isolated incident, even just among video game critics.
More than a decade ago Wendy Seltzer helped found the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, a project to track legal threats to online speech. The site Chilling Effects invites people who have receieved DMCA takedown notices to send them the information to add to their database. It's a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, partnered with other college law programs and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Long before the DMCA came into play, Seltzer and others observed that legal complaints would cause content to be taken down from the Internet, regardless of whether such complaints had any validity.
"A scary lawyer letter was enough to cause a post to be taken down, even when a lawyer said there was no way there was a copyright infringement or trademark infringement," she says.
The DMCA is intended as a "middle road" between a piracy free-for-all and an Internet where lawyers could simply order things to be erased. But, Seltzer says, the Internet environment right now is still weighted in favor of immediately complying with a takedown order.
"The well-lawyered-up person who wants material taken down, whether it's infringing or has nothing to do with copyright, can send a letter, and the host has little incentive except in the case of public pressure to question the legal claims and will often respond by simply taking the content down," Seltzer says. "I think this is biased against the less-well-resourced and against the less mass-interested content."
And, Seltzer notes, the DMCA hasn't actually made it harder to find pirated content online, despite the millions of takedown requests Google alone gets every single month (more than 32 million just for February 2015).
"And so the material that becomes hardest to find are the stuff that fewer people are interested in—political dissent, commercial criticism," she says.
The conflict between Sterling and Digpen is not exactly high stakes. But there are more serious examples of DMCA censorship efforts out there. The Electronic Frontier Foundation noted last year that a law firm in Spain was sending out DMCA takedown notices to try to force the removal of online content critical of the government of Ecuador, using the inclusion of images of state officials to attempt a copyright claim. BuzzFeed even received one after posting documents about Ecuador's surveillance practices.
And this is just touching on deliberate censorship. In an anti-piracy fight this big there are all sorts of accidental incidences of censorship due to overly broad or automated requests. Simply making reference to characters from teen vampire series Twilight on a page or in connection to other works has prompted completely inappropriate takedown requests, for example. There is often little interest in evaluating fair use when these mass removal demands are sent out.
Even securing actual permission to use copyrighted content isn't always enough. In 2012, the morning after the first big day of events at that year's Democratic National Convention, all of the videos of the speeches were temporarily blocked by YouTube due to 11 automated copyright claims, likely triggered by music and news clips played at the convention. YouTube said it was an accident, the issue was eventually sorted out, and the speeches were restored.
Can this mess be fixed? Some experts are actually worried about it getting even worse. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) would have required even stricter guidelines for trying to stop online piracy that opponents feared would shutter whole web sites rather than just removing specific pieces of content. The bills were defeated, but Internet activists have their antennas up for any possible resurrection.
Seltzer says that better education on how to counter these takedown demands would be helpful. The mechanism for people to respond to faulty demands and what steps they have to take isn't always clear. It also requires the person affected to state under penalty of perjury that they believe they have the right to post the challenged material, which can be a bit intimidating to anybody who isn't a lawyer.
There's also a procedure to punish those who habitually abuse the DMCA to attempt to censor content and sue for damages, but Seltzer said that's a rare outcome. She'd like to see that change. After all, people who repeatedly pirate content face harsher sanctions.
"People who serially offend should be subject to penalties," Seltzer says. "There should be symmetry in the treatment of severe abusers." | positive |
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Pyramid Lake on the in Nevada, a remnant of what was the enormous Lake Lahontan of prehistoric times, once held Lahontan cutthroat that grew to enormous size. The world record was a fish that weighed 41 pounds but there were rumors of fish that were as large as 100 pounds being caught in the commercial fishery that fed miners and others who lived in the area. The fish inhabited the entire Truckee River system from the alkaline Pyramid Lake to Lake Tahoe.
The commercial fishery, invasive species, and a dam on the Truckee River were the thought to be the death blow to these mighty trout. In the intervening years, a smaller variety of Lahontan cutthroat trout from Summit Lake on the Summit Lake Paiute Tribal Reservation in northwest Nevada were established in the lake and became a popular fishery. These fish, however, did not reproduce on their own and were maintained by a hatchery program.
The giant Pyramid Lake strain were thought to be extinct until someone stumbled upon a population of Lahontan cutthroat in a place they weren’t supposed to be. The fish were in the range of the Bonneville cutthroat trout in a stream on the border of Nevada and Utah that ran down Pilot Mountain. Someone had stocked them there before they went extinct in Pyramid Lake.
Once it was discovered through genetic testing that these fish were the original inhabitants of Pyramid Lake, the USFWS began a program to reestablish them to Pyramid Lake. They were first stocked into the lake in 1995 but, for the first time in 76 years, biologists documented spawning by these giants in the Truckee River this spring. This shows that the reestablished fish are capable of sustaining their own population as long as there are good flows of water in the river.
Jeff DeLong writes about this story in the Reno Gazette Journal Cutthroats spawn at Pyramid Lake.
Overall, Lahontan cutthroat in the rest of their range are not faring too well due to abusive cattle grazing; introduced fish that compete with, eat, or hybridize with them; and dewatering of streams. They are listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
As The Wildlife News reported last year, another long lost cutthroat, the Alvord cutthroat, may be making a comeback too. There is little hope of finding the yellowfin cutthroat that once lived in the Twin Lakes of Colorado. They are likely gone forever. | positive |
Edwin Jacob "Jake" Garn (born October 12, 1932) is an American astronaut and politician, a member of the Republican Party, who served as a U.S. Senator representing Utah from 1974 to 1993. Garn became the first sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a Payload Specialist during NASA mission STS-51-D (April 12–19, 1985).
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Born in Richfield, Utah, Garn earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business and finance from the University of Utah in 1955, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He also attended East High School, Clayton Middle School, and Uintah Elementary School.
Career [ edit ]
Senator Garn is a former insurance executive. He served in the United States Navy as a Martin P5M Marlin pilot. He also served as a pilot of the 151st Air Refueling Group of the Utah Air National Guard, where he flew the Boeing KC-97L and KC-135A. He retired as a Colonel in April 1979.[1] He was promoted to Brigadier General after his space shuttle mission.[2] He has flown more than 10,000 hours in military and private civilian aircraft.[citation needed]
Prior to his election to the Senate, Garn served on the Salt Lake City commission for four years and was elected as the mayor in 1971, entering office in 1972. He was the last Republican to hold that office to date. Garn was active in the Utah League of Cities and Towns and served as its president in 1972. In 1974, Garn was the first vice-president of the National League of Cities, and he served as its honorary president in 1975.
Garn was first elected to the Senate in 1974, succeeding retiring Republican Wallace Bennett, father of later Senator Robert Bennett. Garn was re-elected to a second term in November 1980 with 74 percent of the vote, the largest victory in a statewide race in Utah history. Garn was re-elected a second time in 1986.
Though strongly pro-life, Garn joined U.S. Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois in resigning from the board of the United States Pro-Life Political Action Committee when the executive director of the organization, Peter Gemma, issued a "hit list" to target certain lawmakers who supported abortion. Garn and Hyde, the author of the Hyde Amendment, which limited abortions financed by Medicaid, said that "hit lists" are counterproductive because they create irrevocable discord among legislators, any of whom can be subject to a "single issue" attack of this kind by one interest group or another. Gemma said that he was surprised by the withdrawal of Garn and Hyde from the PAC committee but continued with plans to spend $650,000 for the 1982 elections on behalf of anti-abortion candidates.[3]
Garn was chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and served on three subcommittees: Housing and Urban Affairs, Financial Institutions, and International Finance and Monetary Policy. He also was a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and served as Chairman of the HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee. He served on four other Appropriations subcommittees: Energy and Water Resources, Defense, Military Construction, and Interior. Garn served as a member of the Republican leadership from 1979 to 1984 as Secretary of the Republican Conference.
His Institute of Finance has been called a "hot tub of influence peddling."[4]
Garn retired from the Senate in 1992.[5]
Savings and loan [ edit ]
As Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Garn was co-author of the Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982, the law that partially deregulated the savings and loan industry and attempted to forestall the looming Savings and Loan crisis.
Spaceflight [ edit ]
Garn asked to fly on the Space Shuttle because he was head of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that dealt with NASA, and had extensive aviation experience. He had previously flown a B-2 Spirit prototype and driven a new Army tank.[6][7] STS-51-D was launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Its primary objective was to deploy two communications satellites, and to perform electrophoresis and echocardiograph operations in space in addition to a number of other experiments. As a payload specialist, Garn's role on the mission was as a congressional observer[8] and as a subject for medical experiments on space motion sickness.[9] At the conclusion of the mission, Garn had traveled over 2.5 million miles in 108 Earth orbits, logging over 167 hours in space.
The space sickness he experienced during the journey was so severe that a scale for space sickness was jokingly based on him, where "one Garn" is the highest possible level of sickness.[10] Some NASA astronauts who opposed the payload specialist program, such as Mike Mullane, believed that Garn's space sickness was evidence of the inappropriateness of flying people with little training.[7] Astronaut Charles F. Bolden, however, described Garn as "the ideal candidate to do it, because he was a veteran Navy combat pilot who had more flight hours than anyone in the Astronaut Office".[11] Fellow 51-D payload specialist Charles D. Walker—who also suffered from space sickness on the flight despite having flown before—stated that
he worked out extraordinarily well, and quite frankly, I think the U.S. space program, NASA, has benefited a lot from both his experience and his firsthand relation of NASA and the program back on Capitol Hill. As a firsthand participant in the program, he brought tremendous credibility back to Capitol Hill, and that's helped a lot. He's always been a friend of the agency and its programs.[6]
The Jake Garn Mission Simulator and Training Facility, NASA's prime training facility for astronauts in the Shuttle and Space Station programs,[12] is named after him.
Upon his return, he co-authored a novel entitled Night Launch. The book centers around terrorists taking control of the Space Shuttle Discovery during the first NASA–USSR space shuttle flight. It was published in 1989.
Personal life [ edit ]
Garn married Hazel Rhae Thompson in 1957.[13] Together, they had four children: Jacob, Susan, Ellen, and Jeffrey.[13] Hazel died in an automobile accident in 1976.[13][14] In 1977, Garn married Kathleen Brewerton, who had a son, Brook, from a previous marriage.[13] Jake and Kathleen had two children together, Matthew and Jennifer.[13]
In February 1980, Garn was honored by the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, along with U.S. Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, actor James Stewart, singer John Denver, and Tom Abraham, a businessman from Canadian, Texas, who worked with immigrants seeking to become U.S. citizens.[15] Jake Garn in 1986 donated a kidney to his 27-year-old daughter, Susan Garn Horne, who was experiencing progressive kidney failure as a result of diabetes.[16] | positive |
A piece of space junk that has been given the apt name of ‘WTF’ is heading straight for Earth - and will crash into us in less than a month.
No one seems to know exactly what the flying object actually is - hence the name - but they are in no doubt we are in its path.
All anyone is sure off is that it is about two metres wide and could be hollow inside - meaning it might be man-made.
But how would a man-made object be hurtling in space and on a collision course with the planet where it originated?
Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell explained: “[It could be] a lost piece of space history that’s come back to haunt us.”
Nature News suggested that it could be a piece of rocket from a recent space mission - possibly even from Saturn V (above), the first rocket to launch astronauts to the moon.
Whatever WT1190F is, we can at least hold off on any panic that it might do some serious damage to life on Earth.
If it doesn’t burn up when entering the planet’s atmosphere, it is on course to land in the Indian Ocean, just off the coast of Sri Lanka, on November 13.
However, astronomy software developer Bill Gray added: “I would not necessarily want to be going fishing directly underneath it.”
Don’t worry, we have no intention of doing that.
Pics: Rex | positive |
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
[ Note: I had to use this feature image for the lunacy of all it. Hillary and her DNC insiders hacked the crap out of Bernie, which the Wikileaks showed us all, and Donna Brazile subsequently left the planet.
Maybe she took the same spaceship as the ex-MI6 Trump dossier agent, Christopher Steele, whose sources are highly suspected of being primarily anti-Putin opposition people, as working with those folks would have been his job when on the MI6 payroll.
Bernie, the good soldier, did not gut her back. This was followed by the Dems being victims of a hack themselves, which many viewed as poetic justice from the Angels. Maybe whoever did it wanted the voters to be informed, something out Founding Fathers warned us would be critical to preserving what they had given us.
Act Three involved Putin being fingered for “interfering in our Democratic process”, when the US holds the world record for having done that to more countries that anyone can count, with the number one victim being Syria; yet, few Dems or Republicans seem bothered by Syria having been “hacked” by the Western and Gulf State proxy terror campaign.
Do you think the US would have been doing anything less if the tables had been turned… like running a full blown covert operation to discredit the Putin regime, or maybe, heaven forbid, running a proxy terror war in Chechnya like we did? Putin took that real cool. He won that brutal war. That was his payback.
Does anyone remember the Russians responding with a similar terror war here in the States? Was Russia charged with 9-11?… and did I miss that somehow — the ET boys maybe erasing that part of my memory banks, and yours, too?
You all know what I am going to say now. “You just can’t make this stuff up.” …JD ]
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– First published January 19, 2017 –
The Theater of the Absurd continued this past week as a three ring circus. Corporate media pretends it has not been outed as the alter ego of Wikileaks, where it is now exposed as the Fort Knox of Fake News. The last gasp was Aleppo, where all the Western media massacre lies came tumbling down like the walls of Jericho.
Those most guilty are now throwing the Fake News term around at everyone in Alternate media so they can escape from their own sins in all the confusion. The play there is that if everybody does it, then no one takes the big hit for doing it. It is our job as journalists, editors, private Intel and independent publishers to now make sure they do not get away with it.
The public faith in the integrity of media was already low, but I can’t wait to see the new polls for 2017. Unfortunately the low public trust ratings have not really changed anything.
No media heads have resigned and we have had no strikes, reporter walk-outs, or open letters signed by the deans of the nation’s journalism schools, and I don’t expect any. Color me disappointed.
This public “faking it disease” has shown up in the Senate hearings for Trump’s top administration people last week. The Left is showing it is still taking drugs, and in full theater mode, using actors hired to dress up as Ku Klux Klansmen and be carried out of the hearing on Senator Session’s confirmation for Attorney General. And yes, the KKK imposters got lots of photos and news coverage, an old form of fake news.
The word seems to have gone out that General Mattis would prefer not to be referred to by his military nickname “mad-dog” any more, and I can sympathize with the man. He put on an odd hearing performance, where he feigned opposition to Trump’s foreign policy with this surprise, “I would consider the principle threats to start with Russia.” The problem with that is the Secretary of Defense does not make policy. He carries it out, and if he doesn’t want to, he resigns. The general and the Senators all knew this.
Mattis wants to get confirmed, but he has an extra hurdle to obtain the waiver for his under seven year waiting period before re-entering government service. So he schmoozed the Senators with his claim that the New World Order was “under its biggest attack since World War II, from Russia, terrorist groups, and China’s actions in the South China Sea.”
This statement was “Yellow Government” at its worst. With these choice words the General brushed aside the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam War, several Mideast wars with Israel, the USS Liberty, and so much more.
He ignored all the tremendous arms agreement progress we had made with Ronald Reagan, especially in nuclear weapons, until George Bush (43) took the US out of the Anti-ballistic missile treaty in 2001. Bush said then, “My decision to withdraw from the treaty will not, in any way, undermine our new relationship or Russian security.”
“My dear General Mattis, I know you are aware of the extensive use of proxy terrorists by the US as part of its regime change tool kit, and you also know that the US broke faith with Russia in the post 9-11 period, when the world’s nations poured out their sympathy for the 9-11 attacks.
Putin and Bush stood together in the fight against international terrorism until America went over to the dark side, including the eight years under Obama.
And I assume that you are aware of the Sandia National Labs report conclusion that all three World Trade Towers were brought down by mini-nukes placed in the basements; the nukes had been specifically designed to bring large buildings down in their footprint with as little collateral damage as possible.
Yet you and your uniform class did nothing but swallow the cheap cover story. The real perpetrators of 9-11 are still walking around as free men, and our military is now advancing to the Russian border.”
Who holds the Gold Medal for Regime Change?
The US has 750 post Cold War overseas bases, but when China puts a few up on some tiny reclaimed islands in the South China Sea to counter our Navy’s “floating bases”, Mattis calls Russia, China and Iran major threats. Hell, all we did to Iran is steal the whole country and have the Shah milk it dry. What reason could they possibly have to not love America?
The good general knows that Russia’s military expenditures are a small fraction of ours, which limits Moscow to remaining in a completely defensive posture. That of course requires having a strong deterrent to America’s first strike policy, which is a blank check to attack any country it wants to, for any reason. The language clearly states this, done under a Democrat administration.
No other country has a first strike policy like this. Many feel this clearly makes the US the biggest threat to everyone else on the planet, which is exactly what our first strike policy was changed to convey. The countries destroyed by proxy terrorism over the last several years were just “examples” for others to see. The jihadi version of this was to chop off the heads of their prisoners or burn them alive, but we just cut of the head of a country’s independence.
I used the term “yellow government”, borrowed from the familiar journalistic one, because of the cruel twisting of meanings used by our government. Justifying the use of proxy terrorists to “defend our interests” is one such example. General Mattis telegraphed that he is on board the program by listing Russia as the number one threat simply because Moscow can defend itself.
“Exceptional America” now deems any country that cannot be military dominated to be a threat – period, but under international law all countries have a right to self-defense and to retaliate against aggression, like a pre-emptive strike.
The Democrats have the Yellow Government disease themselves. They are up in arms over Russia’s alleged influence on the US election, even though Hillary’s own campaign people “hacked” Bernie Sanders out of the race via secret machinations within the supposedly “non-partisan” Democratic National Committee.
The Republicans are angry because the public chose a candidate who was “none of the above”, showing they were sick and tired of being lied to and exploited by our professional political class. The current NeoCon bunch in Congress form the Yellow Government cheerleaders, waving the Russophobia flag, led by John McCain from the mob state of Arizona, and Lindsey Graham from South Carolina.
All of them know that the US overthrew the elected Mosaddegh government of Iran in 1953, compliments of Kermit Roosevelt and the CIA, stealing the country via its puppet the Shah until its later Revolution. I knew Kennett Love well, the New York Times Mideast correspondent in Iran at the time, who had a front row seat on the whole affair. He gave me 8 hours of interview footage covering that period of his life.
Sadly, that regime change template became the dark side of America unexceptionalism, where we funded opposition parties galore, rigged elections and assassinated where needed when the former options were not working.
Patrick Lawrence in his The Nation commentary came to a similar conclusion, but from a different direction. He said,
“Most of us will do more or less anything just now to avoid taking a cold, hard look at ourselves and what it is we are up to… for we display a striking unity in our tendency to blame others for our difficulties, shortcomings, and failures, of which there are unusually many at this moment—every one our own doing.”
I will close with one of my often used lines, but one that fits here perfectly. “Never has so little been owed by so many to so few, as to our current governing class of pretenders and scamsters.”
Jim W. Dean, managing editor for Veterans Today, producer/host of Heritage TV Atlanta, specially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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On Saturday, Nicholas Kristof’s blog at the New York Times published an open letter by Dylan Farrow, the adoptive daughter of celebrated filmmaker Woody Allen. The letter describes, in horrifying detail, sexual assault she claims to have suffered at the hands of Allen—when she was seven years old. As Kristof notes, this is the first time that Farrow has written about this in public.
Here’s an excerpt:
What’s your favorite Woody Allen movie? Before you answer, you should know: when I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me. He talked to me while he did it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we’d go to Paris and I’d be a star in his movies. I remember staring at that toy train, focusing on it as it traveled in its circle around the attic. To this day, I find it difficult to look at toy trains. […] What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me? Woody Allen is a living testament to the way our society fails the survivors of sexual assault and abuse.
(You can read the rest of her letter—which isn’t easy to get through—here.)
Allen’s representatives did not immediately respond to Mother Jones‘ request for comment regarding the letter. I will update this post, if that changes.
Update: Allen’s attorney Elkan Abramowitz sent Mother Jones the following statement on Sunday afternoon:
It is tragic that after 20 years a story engineered by a vengeful lover resurfaces after it was fully vetted and rejected by independent authorities. The one to blame for Dylan’s distress is neither Dylan nor Woody Allen.
Update 2: Allen’s publicist Leslee Dart emails the following on Sunday afternoon:
Mr. Allen has read the article and found it untrue and disgraceful. He will be responding very soon…At the time, a thorough investigation was conducted by court appointed independent experts. The experts concluded there was no credible evidence of molestation; that Dylan Farrow had an inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality; and that Dylan Farrow had likely been coached by her mother Mia Farrow. No charges were ever filed.
Accusations of the abuse surfaced in the early 1990s, shortly after the relationship between Allen and long-time girlfriend Mia Farrow ended after she discovered Allen had been having an affair with Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and composer/conductor André Previn. Allen denies the allegations, and has never been prosecuted in this case. Allen and his defenders say that Dylan was coached to make the allegations by Mia Farrow. Discussion of the alleged assaults was renewed following a recent tribute to Allen at the Golden Globe Awards.
Update 4, February 7, 2014, 11:49 p.m. EST: On Friday, Dylan Farrow responded, in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, to Allen’s piece in the New York Times: “His op-ed is the latest rehash of the same legalese, distortions, and outright lies he has leveled at me for the past 20 years.” | positive |
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Delegates attending a conference and exhibition on green building this week had the chance to see what manufacturers are calling the UK's first commercially viable, affordable and ready to purchase zero-carbon home.
A half-hour queue snaked around the outside of the life-sized exhibition house. It was one of the main attractions at the EcoBuild exhibition, which took place in Earl's Court, London over three days this week.
The house, built by a ZEDfactory, consortium of architects and specialist green manufacturers, has been awarded Code 6 status – the highest level in the government's code for sustainable buildings which all new housing will have to meet from 2016.
Built with energy-saving fabric and renewable energy systems, manufacturers say the "RuralZED" house can go for a whole year without drawing on National Grid power. It is capable of coping with almost any weather without needing more energy than it generates by itself. It uses environmentally sound materials, gains heat from renewable sources, and offers green solutions for water use and waste generation.
The house uses a flat-pack timber-frame kit based on the concept of the timber-framed houses that were built in Britain about 1,000 years ago. The timber frame is then laminated and built in a box shape formed by posts and beams on a low-carbon concrete foundation. Heavyweight eco concrete panels manufactured using a high level of recycled aggregate content rest on the solid timber beams. These are an energy-efficient alternative to domestic plasterboard and give the house its "thermal mass" that absorbs and releases heat slowly.
This "super insulation" is three times as effective as that of a normal house and will keep residents cool in summer and warm in winter.
By using a frame and traditional material for insulation – instead of the plastic foam currently used in modern construction – manufacturers say that the home is more durable and avoids problems - such as poor air quality and the release of gases through decomposition of material - that are associated with plastic foam building.
The super insulation and energy-efficient appliances reduce the energy requirements to such an extent that all the building's needs can be met through renewable technologies. Microgeneration technology is easy to install in the form of solar panels on the roof and wind turbines.
Water heating will come from solar roof panels, and in the winter, from a biomass boiler fuelled by wood chips.
Start-of-the-art modern materials that have been used in the house include worktops and tables made from 85% recycled glass bottles collected from the capital's pubs and clubs.
Water is conserved with a grey-water recycling system, low-flow showers and thermostatic bath and shower mixers.
Light, fresh air, natural materials and finishes are at the heart of the house - there is even room to grow your own vegetables and options for vegetable oil powered cars.
The flexible design and construction of the kit means that detached houses, semi-detached houses, or terraces of up to six homes can be built, with different internal layouts and external appearances. The frame can be adapted to two or three storeys.
Six properties are already under construction at Upton, Northampton, and 24 are in the planning stage, ZEDfactory says. The homes are ideal for self-builders or housing providers who want to stop climate change and to build a sustainable, healthy future, they say.
It costs from £1,150 per square metre based on the purchase of six units, and take three weeks to erect (ZEDfactory can erect it for you). So a three-bedroom home would cost about £150,000.
The architectural brains behind the project is Bill Dunster, the same architect who was responsible for BedZED, the low-carbon complex of 80 eco-friendly apartments in south London.
"The main goal with carbon neutral housing is to reduce carbon emissions and the risk of climate change. Until now, proposals and prototypes of other house designs have lacked the commercial and financial viability to make them serious alternatives to traditional housing and building techniques," Dunster said.
"The RuralZED house has overcome financial constraints due to the strength of the RuralZED consortium, which has created a house that is, in addition to being the most ecologically sound housing option to date, affordable to build and desirable to live in, making it the most serious contender in the race to beat the effects of residential carbon emissions." | positive |
Commander Christine Jones, who is overseeing the operation, told The Daily Telegraph that analysts are sifting through "open source" websites to assess the potential scale of action.
On the day of Lady Thatcher's death there were violent scenes at parties held to "celebrate" her passing in Brixton and Bristol.
Police are planning to deploy rapid response units to deal with any outbreaks of violence on the day of the funeral.
They will also be a number of plain clothes police, while officers are preparing to record violent protests to help prosecute individuals at a later yet.
Despite the scale of the ceremony, there are currently no plans to draft in police from other forces or cancel leave for officers.
Commander Jones said: "Some say Margaret Thatcher is a divisive figure, but that's part of the tapestry of policing these events. If people come to London to cause trouble and commit crime we will deal with you."
There are growing concerns that Saturday, rather than the funeral itself next Wednesday, is now likely to be the main focus of protests.
Anarchists have vowed to "re-enact" the poll tax riots in Trafalgar Square and hang an effigy of the former prime minister at a macabre "party".
Police have yet to be contacted by anyone letting them know that they intend to protest on Wednesday, and the force has yet to make any pre-emptive arrests.
Commander Jones said: "You would expect us to be monitoring open source material, which may add to the intelligence picture.
“If it is appropriate to record we will do that. Live time evidence gathering [on the day of the funeral itself] will is part of that
"We are hugely experienced in safely delivering high profile and ceremonial events in the Capital.
"Right up to and during the course of Wednesday's events we will monitor a range of information to make sure we have the most up to date intelligence picture."
The MPS came under fire in 2011 for pre-emptively arresting and searching scores of people they thought might cause a disturbance at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The force was taken to the High Court by the protesters but judges found officers not guilty of operating an unlawful policy. Commander Jones confirmed that the police will not be employing the same tactic again. | positive |
LANSDALE, PA -- The Montgomery County Down Syndrome Interest Group (MCDSIG) will conduct a training program for the Conshohocken Police Department on how to interact with individuals with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities. The program will take place at the Conshohocken Police Department onApril 29, 2016 at 1:00 PM.
Encounters with police and other first responders can be a frightening experience for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and a challenging one for public safety officials. This training will provide the Conshohocken Police Force with tips and strategies for successful, safer interactions. The training will educate the police department on recognizing when an individual has a developmental disability, like Down syndrome, and how to effectively approach, communicate with, and solicit information from the individual. The training will also discuss the tragic death Ethan Saylor, a man with Down syndrome, who died when moonlighting off-duty Frederick County, Md. sheriff's deputies attempted to remove him from a movie theater, and how police can learn from that tragedy.
"Individuals with Down syndrome are now more included in the community and they may react differently in unfamiliar situations", said Michele Hoenig of the Montgomery County Down Syndrome Interest Group. "Helping first responders prepare for situations involving individuals with Down syndrome or other intellectual disabilities can result in safer, more productive interactions that preserve the dignity of the individual."
"It's really important that our force be fully trained on how to work with people with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities. We're getting training on autism awareness as well," said Michael Orler, Conshohocken Chief of Police. "Part of our mission is to promote dignity and respect of our residents and keep them safe."
Interactions between public safety officials and individuals with intellectual disabilities can be frustrating and challenging for both parties. The Montgomery County Down Syndrome Interest Group will prepare the Conshohocken Police Department to make such interactions easier, safer, and more productive. | positive |
Thanks to online tracking technology, marketers no longer have to rely on assumptions about consumer behavior. Instead, they can deliver ads targeted specifically to individuals based on their behavior online. Marketers have long known that this type of personalized advertising is more effective at generating both clicks and conversions, but they have not fully understood the consumer psychology that makes these behaviorally targeted ads so effective.
These ads are indeed more relevant and interesting to consumers—but that’s not the entire story. In our research, recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research, we explored whether behaviorally targeted ads have unique psychological consequences that help make them more effective than ads that rely on traditional demographic or psychographic targeting.
In one study we conducted with 188 undergraduate students, we found that participants were more interested in buying a Groupon for a restaurant advertised as sophisticated when they thought the ad had been targeted to them based on specific websites they had visited during an earlier task (browsing the web to make a travel itinerary) compared to when they thought the ad was targeted based on demographics (their age and gender) or not targeted at all. This suggested that behavioral targeting specifically—not targeting group level attributes—increased their interest in the product.
But why would the mere belief that an ad is targeted based on your online history make you more interested in buying the product?
To answer this question, we conducted a second study. We exposed students to an ad that they believed to be either behaviorally targeted or non-targeted for a high-end watch brand. Then we asked them to rate how sophisticated they perceived themselves to be. The data show that participants evaluated themselves as more sophisticated after receiving an ad that they thought was individually targeted to them, compared to when they thought the same ad was not targeted. In other words, participants saw the targeted ad as reflective of their own characteristics. The ad told them that, based on their browsing history, they had sophisticated tastes. They accepted this information, saw themselves as more sophisticated consumers, and this shift in how they saw themselves increased their interest in the sophisticated product.
A third study demonstrated that such changes in self-perceptions from behaviorally targeted ads can impact behaviors extending beyond purchase intentions. After receiving a behaviorally targeted ad for an environmentally friendly product, undergraduate study participants rated themselves as more “green” and were (at least in the short-term) subsequently more willing to buy the advertised product and to donate to a pro-environmental charity, which they were prompted about at the end of the same lab session.
This powerful effect of behaviorally targeted ads on self-perceptions does have its limits, however. Our final study tested the role of targeting accuracy. We found that behavioral targeting has to be at least moderately accurate (i.e., plausibly connected to consumers’ past behavior) or people will reject it. A sample of online adult consumers received either accurately or inaccurately targeted ads for hot chocolate positioned as good for the outdoors. If these participants had at least some interest in the outdoors (measured in a shopping task at the beginning of the study session), the behaviorally targeted ad made them feel more outdoorsy and more likely to buy the hot chocolate. If they had no interest in the outdoors and the targeting was inaccurate, behavioral targeting did not lead to changes in self-perceptions or higher likelihood of buying.
It’s important to note that the effects on self-perceptions we observed are contingent on consumers being aware that a given ad was or was not tied to their past behavior. Across all of our studies we provided participants with an explanation of behavioral targeting, so that those in the behaviorally targeted ad condition believed that they received the ad as a result of their own online behavior.
Given that the ads in our studies were not actually matched to participants’ behavior — we merely created the perception that they were — we expect that effects may be even stronger in the real world when behaviorally targeted ads are more accurate. If consumers are not aware that an ad has been behaviorally targeted, though, even if it is actually matched to their online actions, they likely won’t perceive the ad as a reflection of the self.
What does this all mean for marketers? First, in evaluating whether to implement an advertising campaign using behavioral targeting, managers should consider that the impact may extend beyond click through rates and conversions. This targeting may change how consumers see themselves and make them feel like they already have traits implied by the ads. This suggests that brands with strong personalities might particularly benefit from behavioral targeting.
Second, managers should be aware that behavioral targeting could be a double-edged sword. On one hand, it could benefit a brand by increasing interest in a greater variety of products that the brand ties to a specific trait. On the other hand, behavioral targeting may benefit one’s competition by strengthening a trait that can be expressed through purchasing from similar brands.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, our results suggest that transparency benefits consumers and firms. These effects of behaviorally targeted ads only occur when consumers know that an ad has been behaviorally targeted, so it behooves advertisers to include the AdChoices icon to clearly label behaviorally targeted ads as such. Additionally, identifying ads as behaviorally targeted gives consumers greater control over the use of their data and may help alleviate many of the privacy concerns cited by the FTC in relation to disclosure of the use of consumer data in delivering online ads.
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Big news coming out of Danish football today, and it's not the type of story you'd find anywhere else. Except maybe Leeds United or Newcastle.
Brondby IF head coach Thomas Frank has announced his resignation after learning club chairman Jan Bech Andersen has been criticising his running of the club for several years on a public fan forum, using a pseudonym. Blimey.
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Local media reported earlier this week the chairman - who is also a major shareholder - had criticised Frank on the online fan forum SydSiden Online under the pseudonym 'Oscar', using his son's account. Andersen has since apologised but revealed he is staying put in a statement published on the club's official website, while the club's chief executive has been sacked.
Announcing his departure, Frank said: "It is no secret that the relationship between Jan and me has been strained from time to time, and after the last days of massive media attention, he and I had a talk.
"Based on that talk, I have chosen to end the cooperation."
Andersen was full of apology in his own statement. It read: " I am extremely sorry for the noise and commotion that I have caused. I'm sorry that cooperation with Thomas (Frank) has ended. I can understand that it is a breach of trust. But I will not leave Brondby because of this.
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"As everyone knows, I am an incredibly passionate Brondby fan, and I'm following our matches with the same joy and frustration as all the other fans. It is also no secret that as much I rejoice over a victory, I am so frustrated when we lose.
"I have made it clear that I want to be a president who is close to our fans. Our fans are something unique, and they are the foundation of this club.
"Over the past few years, for the same reason, I have had a profile on SydSiden Online , like many other Brondby fans have. SydSiden Online is a great forum for us fans to show joy and frustration and a place where we can have - sometimes - heated discussions about everything from playing style to the beer stalls.
"But the apologies of course in no way (make up for why) I have taken these discussions into a public forum, as it unfortunately has caused a lot of speculation and rumours in the media. I take that course very seriously and note, and I need to learn to keep my mouth shut."
Maybe you're right there, Jan.
He added: "Thomas decided that cooperation must stop today. I and the board, and everyone in and around Brondby, would like to thank Thomas for the results he has achieved. No one is more sorry than I that our paths have now divorced."
Chief financial officer Jesper Jorgensen will take over the reins as CEO after an announcement of financial losses, while under-19 coach Auri Skarbalius will take charge of the Superliga team until the end of the season.
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Arizona Poll -
A. "Suppose an initiative is placed on the Nov. ballot that would remove the threat of arrest and all other penalties for seriously ill patients who use and grow their own medical marijuana with the approval of their physicians. What is your level of support for this ballot measure?"
B. "If your own state legislators or members of Congress vote for a bill to allow seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana with the approval of their physicians, would you be more likely or less likely to vote for these elected officials in the Nov. general election?"
C. "Suppose an initiative is placed on the Nov. ballot in your state that would make it legal for medical clinics or non-profit organizations to buy medical marijuana from farmers and sell it to seriously ill patients. What is your level of support for this ballot measure?"
D. "Suppose an initiative on the Nov. ballot would make medical marijuana distribution and sales legal under your state's law, while it would remain illegal under federal law. What is your level of support for such a ballot measure?"
E. "Suppose an initiative is placed on the Nov. ballot that would require your state government to grow and distribute marijuana to seriously ill patients who have the approval of their physicians. What is your level of support for this ballot measure?"
[N=Between 1,004 and 1,464 adults in state. MoE+/-2.6% to 3.1%] Lucas Organization and Arlington Research Group 2002, Feb.
72.3%
71.3%
68.2%
62.4%
64.5%
4.6%
7.6%
3.3%
7.6%
4.5%
23.1%
21.1%
28.5%
30.0%
31.0%
Colorado Poll -
A. "It is legal in your state for seriously ill patients to use and grow their own medical marijuana with the approval of their physician. What is your level of support for this law?"
B. "If your own state legislators or members of Congress vote for a bill to allow seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana with the approval of their physicians, would you be more likely or less likely to vote for these elected officials in the Nov. general election?"
C. "Suppose an initiative is placed on the Nov. ballot in your state that would make it legal for medical clinics or non-profit organizations to buy medical marijuana from farmers and sell it to seriously ill patients. What is your level of support for this ballot measure?"
D. "Suppose an initiative on the Nov. ballot would make medical marijuana distribution and sales legal under your state's law, while it would remain illegal under federal law. What is your level of support for such a ballot measure?"
E. "Suppose an initiative is placed on the Nov. ballot that would require your state government to grow and distribute marijuana to seriously ill patients who have the approval of their physicians. What is your level of support for this ballot measure?"
[N=Between 1,004 and 1,464 adults in state. MoE+/-2.6% to 3.1%] Lucas Organization and Arlington Research Group 2002, Feb.
76.9%
73.2%
72.7%
63.6%
64.4%
2.3%
8.0%
2.5%
8.3%
5.4%
20.8%
18.8%
24.8%
28.2%
30.2%
Montana Poll -
A. "Suppose an initiative is placed on the Nov. ballot that would remove the threat of arrest and all other penalties for seriously ill patients who use and grow their own medical marijuana with the approval of their physicians. What is your level of support for this ballot measure?"
B. "If your own state legislators or members of Congress vote for a bill to allow seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana with the approval of their physicians, would you be more likely or less likely to vote for these elected officials in the Nov. general election?"
C. "Suppose an initiative is placed on the Nov. ballot in your state that would make it legal for medical clinics or non-profit organizations to buy medical marijuana from farmers and sell it to seriously ill patients. What is your level of support for this ballot measure?"
D. "Suppose an initiative on the Nov. ballot would make medical marijuana distribution and sales legal under your state's law, while it would remain illegal under federal law. What is your level of support for such a ballot measure?"
E. "Suppose an initiative is placed on the Nov. ballot that would require your state government to grow and distribute marijuana to seriously ill patients who have the approval of their physicians. What is your level of support for this ballot measure?"
[N=Between 1,004 and 1,464 adults in state. MoE+/-2.6% to 3.1%] Lucas Organization and Arlington Research Group 2002, Feb.
65.6%
66.1%
64.6%
57.8%
59.0%
4.0%
9.5%
4.7%
8.2%
6.5%
30.3%
24.4%
30.7%
34.0%
34.5%
Nebraska Poll -
A. "Suppose an initiative is placed on the Nov. ballot that would remove the threat of arrest and all other penalties for seriously ill patients who use and grow their own medical marijuana with the approval of their physicians. What is your level of support for this ballot measure?"
B. "If your own state legislators or members of Congress vote for a bill to allow seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana with the approval of their physicians, would you be more likely or less likely to vote for these elected officials in the Nov. general election?"
C. "Suppose an initiative is placed on the Nov. ballot in your state that would make it legal for medical clinics or non-profit organizations to buy medical marijuana from farmers and sell it to seriously ill patients. What is your level of support for this ballot measure?"
D. "Suppose an initiative on the Nov. ballot would make medical marijuana distribution and sales legal under your state's law, while it would remain illegal under federal law. What is your level of support for such a ballot measure?"
E. "Suppose an initiative is placed on the Nov. ballot that would require your state government to grow and distribute marijuana to seriously ill patients who have the approval of their physicians. What is your level of support for this ballot measure?"
[N=Between 1,004 and 1,464 adults in state. MoE+/-2.6% to 3.1%] Lucas Organization and Arlington Research Group 2002, Feb.
63.6%
60.1%
58.3%
51.4%
55.9%
3.9%
11.7%
6.1%
10.7%
6.1%
32.5%
28.1%
35.6%
37.9%
38.0%
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Many Americans have come to think that poor academic performance, lack of focus and abject hooliganism are male rites of passage: dudes, we are told, wind up in messy-but-hilarious high jinks before buckling down and getting serious with school, work and relationships – but that it's OK because they eventually get it together.
So it's normal for boys to build tree houses and sneak away from home to go camping rather than study – these activities are emblematic of a happy, healthy, red-blooded childhood (see: Dennis the Menace, The Sandlot, Stand by Me). In adulthood, guys are pretty much expected to latch onto other distracted forms of masculine bonhomie that might even continue post-marriage – promiscuity and boozy bromances have become a sort of existential spirit journey for young men (see: The Hangover, Old School).
In short, boys will be boys – so go the carefree explanations for these exploits. Few have seriously considered, however, whether this nonchalance is any good for males – or the rest of the society. But it might be time to ponder that.
Nowadays, far more young women than men obtain bachelor's degrees in the US: 36%, compared to 28% for guys, according to the Pew Research Center (pdf).
Females started outnumbering males in higher education in 1992, according to Pew, and social commentators have raised serious concerns about the phenomenon since about 2000. In her Atlantic article "The War Against Boys", Christina Hoff Sommers highlighted that boys have more class failures, disciplinary problems and learning disabilities than girls – trends that bode poorly for the group's future academic performance. And, in an increasingly information-based economy, in which highly-educated, highly-skilled workers are in greater demand than the traditionally male-dominated ranks of manual laborers, this tendency has troubling implications for men's long-term livelihood.
More recently, young women have also started dropping out of the labor force en masse – to obtain still more education. As detailed in a recent New York Times article, economists expect this group to reap financial benefits on par with those of second world war vets who obtained high levels of wealth and comfort during the postwar boom largely because they went to college, thanks to the GI Bill, rather than swelling an already saturated labor market at the war's end.
Most men in the same age group, on the other hand, don't go back to school and are more likely to accept whatever jobs come their way. The Times notes that in the last two years, the number of women aged "18 to 24 in school rose by 130,000, compared with a gain of 53,000 for young men". Though educational gains are generally positive, this development of a gender differential will cause several disconcerting repercussions.
First, it's likely that many of these women will face significant financial burdens upon completing their degrees, as education in the US tends to be costly. While the postwar vets had their education paid for by generous (and deserved) federal benefits, contemporary college graduates leave school with an average of $25,250 in loan debt, according to the New York Times. In the past, American youth could assume that student loan debt would be outweighed by the income opportunities made available by higher education. But it's increasingly unclear whether diplomas now confer any such potential.
Of particular concern, though, is that this trend suggests that the education gap between the genders has not stabilised – and reinforces predictions that it will continue to widen. Though women do still face educational, vocational and social difficulties that men, historically, have never even had to think about, that does not mean that the under-representation of half the population in any particular venture is a good thing.
As a society, we should advocate the fair treatment and equal representation of both sexes – and not allow any demographic sector to slip into a crisis of systemic under-achievement, as might well be the case with American young men.
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Ron Paul fell just 152 votes short of victory in last weekend’s Iowa straw poll, but it was a long drop in terms of attention from media and political commentators.
Instead, observers in Iowa and nationally have coalesced around straw poll winner Michele Bachmann, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry as the front-runners in the Republican presidential field.
“I would be just really surprised if he has the kind of support that he would be a front-runner at caucus time,” said Mark Lundberg, the Republican Party chairman for Sioux County. “He’ll have a significant amount of support, but I’d be very surprised if he’s the winner of the caucuses.”
Bachmann won the straw poll with 28.6 percent of the vote, less than 1 percent ahead of Paul. There were nine names on straw poll ballots. Perry, who declared his candidacy that day, came in sixth based on write-in votes. Romney, who didn’t compete actively in the straw poll, placed seventh.
The divide between Paul’s success in the straw poll and the scant attention it’s garnered has chafed his campaign both nationally and here in Iowa.
“The story is that Ron Paul clobbered seven candidates, and was basically in a statistical dead heat for the win, and the media is trying to ignore that,” said David Fischer, vice chairman of Paul’s Iowa campaign.
Paul’s message is strongly libertarian, calling for smaller government, a scrapping of the nation’s current monetary policy and less military action abroad.
Those views undermine entrenched political and business interests and the media that have supported them, said Drew Ivers, Paul’s Iowa campaign chairman. That’s why he hasn’t gotten any respect, he said.
“He challenges the status quo,” Ivers said. “The political establishment, the banking establishment, the media establishment – all of which have a vested interest over decades of asserting that they’re in control and taking care of everything.”
Why has so much attention been focused on the trio of Bachmann, Romney and Perry? Bachmann makes the cut based on her straw poll win. The event is a party fundraiser with no formal bearing on the race, but is seen as a key measure of campaign organization.
Romney led in national polling before the straw poll. Perry is considered a major contender based on his repeated victories in a large state and his fundraising prowess.
The results of a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of 1,000 likely Republican primary voters taken Monday night supports the view that they’re the top three. Perry led with 29 percent support, Romney got 18 percent; Bachmann, 13 percent; Paul, 9 percent; and former Georgia businessman Herman Cain, 6 percent
Fiscal beliefs praised; other stances a turnoff
Despite the misgivings of the powerful, Ivers and others said that average Americans are catching onto Paul’s message.
The recession and financial crises of recent years have drawn attention to economic issues and brought fiscal arguments that Paul has long championed into focus, supporters said. The sputtering recovery and lingering economic uncertainty have made the point clear to people on the job and at the grocery store, they said.
Proof of the relevance of Paul’s message can be seen in the way other Republican campaigns have tapped into his views on government spending and deficits, Ivers said.
“Ron Paul’s message has been picked up by (Newt) Gingrich and by Romney and big time by Michele Bachmann,” he said. “She’s almost an echo of Ron Paul.”
Republican Party officials and experts on presidential politics agreed that Paul’s economic viewpoints have gained traction, but said other aspects of his candidacy seriously undermine his appeal to the Republican caucus and primary voters who will choose the next presidential nominee.
“He does excite and energize people who think like he does, but he takes some positions that would not be consistent with conservative Republicans,” said Stephen J. Wayne, a professor at Georgetown University and an expert on presidential politics.
“I think there is a perception that, one, Paul doesn’t speak for all the values that the Republican Party has, and, two, that he would not be electable in a general election,” Wayne said.
Paul’s libertarian views open a divide between himself and social conservatives on some issues, while his strict stance against military involvement abroad diverges from current Republican orthodoxy.
That was evident in a national debate last week, when candidate and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum challenged Paul for encouraging a policy of “respect” toward Iran and downplaying that country’s threat to the United States. “Iran is not Iceland, Ron,” Santorum told Paul from the debate podium.
Rob Taylor, the Republican Party chairman in Dallas County, called Paul’s foreign policy views a “deal breaker.”
“His viewpoints frankly are right on the verge of xenophobia, and that is not where the Republican Party is by any means,” Taylor said. “I saw more eyes roll Thursday night within the Republican base than I’ve seen in years based on his lack of performance at the debates.”
Paul’s campaign, however, defends the candidate’s opposition to militarism and interventionist foreign policy as an authentically Republican position, harkening back to stalwarts like President Dwight Eisenhower and presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
“Ron Paul wants to get back to traditional foreign policy, not neoconservative foreign policy,” said national campaign chairman Jesse Benton.
Campaign says results show path to victory
Despite the brush-off from the media and the establishment, Benton remains bullish on Paul’s prospects in the Iowa caucuses, scheduled for Feb. 6.
Benton pointed toward Paul’s 2007 straw poll finish, when he came in fifth with 1,305 votes. Extrapolating from the spread between 2007 and this year at the straw poll, Benton suggested that in the caucuses his candidate could almost quadruple the nearly 12,000 votes he garnered last time – almost certainly putting him into contention for victory.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the 2008 Iowa caucuses with 40,954 votes, about a third of those cast.
“We believe we can win 40,000 votes in the Iowa caucus or more,” Benton said. “That will make us extremely competitive and make us a major contender to win it all.”
Dennis Goldford, a Drake University professor and expert on the caucuses, said mainstream recognition for Paul’s campaign is stuck in a kind of chicken-and-egg conundrum. The press will take him seriously when he shows he’s able to expand his pool of supporters, but his pool of supporters may expand only with additional media attention.
“His supporters quite devotedly and intensely say he’s the man of the hour and the response has to be, ‘OK, show us,’ ” Goldford said. “And you show us by winning Republican primaries and caucuses.”Q. How would you change tax policy?
Ron Paul on the issues
Q. How would you change tax policy?
Eliminate the IRS, abolish income and corporate taxes, and greatly restrict the collection of any other tariff. “A minimalist approach to government and taxation places an obstacle to wars abroad and waste at home.” Axing income taxes would allow individuals more freedom to invest their earnings. Eliminating corporate taxes would encourage U.S. companies to invest their earnings back home. Those changes and others would promote economic recovery guided by the unfettered market.
Q. Should direct-payment farm subsidies be phased out? Why or why not?
Yes, subsidies take wealth from one group of individuals or businesses and funnel it to another group, undermining the free market. Farm subsidies and agricultural quotas should be eliminated. A free market determines fair prices.
Q. Under what circumstances would you begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan?
Troop withdrawals should begin immediately from both Afghanistan and Iraq. The wars are unconstitutional because they were never officially declared by Congress, and U.S. presence in the Middle East has increased hostility toward Americans. He has been a longtime opponent of aggressive wars and believes the U.S. should adopt a “foreign policy golden rule” – treat other countries as we’d like to be treated.
Q. Do you favor a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman? Or should that be a matter decided by each state?
Although he personally embraces the definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman, he thinks the issue is best addressed by the states – not the federal government. “This issue hardly justifies an amendment to the Constitution; passage or heated debate only serves to divide us and achieves nothing. The best approach is to make marriage a private issue.”
Q. Should abortion be legal under any circumstances? If so, under what circumstances?
He believes that the procedure is immoral, but that the government does not have the power to stop all abortions. He would veto any spending bill that contains funding for facilities that perform abortions, and has proposed legislation that would limit federal jurisdiction over abortion, leaving states to legislate the issue. | positive |
November 2014: Progress report
Work enumeration since the 9th of November for version 0.3.6.9:
Features:
Vehicle rotation basics working: We can now spawn the vehicles with any rotation. Some minor usability problems are to be fixed in the upcoming days.
64 Bit support basics added: We added support for 64 bit for Torque3D and it was quite some work to get 64 bit support working well with all the libraries and the new Lua integration.
Added little launcher that will launch the 32 bits (x86) or 64 bits (x64) version, depending on the operating system. The real binaries are now in separate folders as this is the only possible workaround.
Added internationalization basics to the user interface. Not done at all yet, still WIP (needs to use the steam language if available)
Lua basics integrated into Torque3D. We slowly replace the integrated scripting language with Lua.
FMod re-integration tests (not published, for internal testing only)
OpenAL sound backend integrated
Joystick absolute axis support for spacemouse 3d support (also input map added for that)
Mouse Cursor hiding: It hides itself automatically now if no activity is detected for a certain amount of time. This function is disabled for some special cases (cefdev, mainmenu)
Triggers now work with the new T3D Lua
new Thrustmaster TX F458 wheel input mapping
The console now defaults to T3D Lua, also improved support for the other languages in there.
added Fanatec Base v2 input mapping basics
T3D Material selector defaulting to 100 materials per page, more materials per page possible now
Improved Wheel debug UI App
Sync with latest Torque3D upstream (lots of bugfixes, some minor new features)
more bugfixing on the new Scene Octree
fixed lots of memory problems, errors and potential crashes, as well as used, uninitialized variables that were found during static code analysis.
fixed bug #155 where objects rotation modified its scale: [issue]155[/issue][*] Changed default decalBias for fix DecalRoads render too high over terrain.
3D roads now have collision
Fixed crash to desktop bug on async shader compilation
Fixed userpath usage: now the file is called ‘userpath.ini’ and works well with relative paths. (Also added examples to that file)
Fixed some bugs on the XInput manager, improved xinput cache file format, added some default known controllers
Lua FFB code now knows about the attached devices and can get the config
Fixed invalid normals on 3d mesh loading
Improved D3D9 fatal error messages: Now they produce a messagebox and show it to the user instead of the game failing in some undetermined way.
More work on Force feedback, nearly usable now 🙂
fixed simple gearbox app crashing the UI when no engine was installed
Loading screen loads first now, fixing the half-rendered loading screens
Fixed the new HTML part chooser
Fixed Bug “Beamng enters infinite loop if .swp file is present in vehicle directory”
Fixed Bug #108 (//redmine.beamng.com/issues/108): Restore driveshaft disabled status after user changes shifterMode.
Removed cleanup.bat script. Please delete your cache folder simply if you want to clean the cache.
Fixed Bug with red shifting in in grid map near big pipe
Fixed console spam when changing focus with FFB enabled
Fixed Input Test feature not working
Printing command line args to logfile as well for better crash reporting
New Vehicle Reset hook for UI apps
slightly fixed up main menu links width
Drivetrain: Fix for rotators and Optimizations.
minor changes to the hamster wheel
more textures added to HR + objects
improved the town base on eca
increased caster and SAI on hatch
Fixes to the cannon and angletester lua
Fixed water detail adjust for all maps except DRI
HR fixes: start bridge to HR, new lighting, start positions, checkered finish line, adjusted forest, road work, created checkpoints, terrain texture work, created new roadblock object
Added collision to a lot of the HR buildings + lod, minor improvements
HR: collisions working + terrain edits, new preview image
updated UI Winds app
Fixed material case names causing errors on GM, HR stuff, etc
New ramp prop, useful for loading things on the flatbed
Semi fueltanks: fix for improperly mirrored coltris
New prop; Metal Box, 100kg each
Hatch: work on toe out/in
Added a bit more power to stage 1 engine tuning on gavril v8s
B25Mitch joined our team and works on a new vehicle and other things (like our new vehicle creation introduction: [wikipage]Introduction_to_Vehicle_Creation[/wikipage])
Ali joined our team and will work with the C++ Team on improving the T3D engine and their shaders
Chris joined our team as business consultant in order to keep things a bit more ordered 🙂
153 committed changes to our Torque3D source code git repository
195 committed changes to our game SVN repository
43 Bug and 3 Feature issues closed in our internal ticket system
And yes, i went through all of those by hand to write this blogpost.
Above changes are work in progress and might not be released at this point but will be released within the next updates.New User interface concepts (WIP)The last week we worked out a general concept on how our user interface should look and behave. The goal is to have a simple to use, yet powerful tool that helps the user along.
We will completely get rid of the main menu and replace it with the dashboard, which will offer all kinds of functions just one click away for the user. (via ESC key)
The environment changer and the level/vehicle choosers might look like this:
So, we will simplify the user interface: panel left, ESC to do anything 🙂 | positive |
A week ago, I wrote about the Rangers quiet offseason and how it could perhaps suggest some optimism from within the organization that a solution in the outfield might already be within the organization for 2015. Specifically, I referred to Ryan Rua as the likely beneficiary of that optimism.
At that time, I also put up a poll asking fans to vote for the player they'd like to see win an outfield spot in 2015. To my surprise, a little over 75% of people voted for someone not named Ryan Rua. They voted for Jake Smolinski.
I suppose the result doesn't surprise me so much as the margin by which, at the time of this writing, Smolinski leads in that poll of which 89 people have voted. Smolinski is the type of undersized, undervalued player that is always fun to watch succeed.
Prior to 2014, Smolinski was a lifer in the minor leagues for the Nationals and Marlins organizations. In December of 2013, Texas signed him to a minor league deal, and sent him to Double-A Frisco. After a mid-season promotion to Triple-A Round Rock, Smolinski didn't stay there long -- only long enough to log 34 plate appearances -- before being called up to Arlington to play for an injury-depleted Rangers club. Then, he raked.
In 92 plate appearances, Smolinski put up a .349/.391/.512 line with a wRC+ of 154. Yes, the sample size is small, but impressive nonetheless. It was good enough for an fWAR of 0.7. As it usually is, however, the devil is in the details, and the details suggest that Smolinski might be something a bit closer to a 4th outfielder than an everyday player.
As I mentioned in the piece last week, strikeout and walk rates tend to stabilize a bit more quickly than an entire offensive repertoire, at 60 and 120 plate appearances, respectively. Smolinski had a strikeout rate of 26.1% and a walk rate of only 3.3%, both alarming numbers that would -- if held up over an entire season -- arguably have him even lower than Chris Davis's 2014 OBP of .300.
Chris Davis is a large man. Jake Smolinski, at 5 feet, 11 inches tall, is not. Short of possessing Dustin Pedroia type power from his small frame -- which his minor league pedigree doesn't really suggest -- you're looking at a player that may not get on base a ton, and isn't a very good bet to hit for any kind of consistent power.
Beyond just the offensive toolbox, Smolinski probably doesn't figure to be as valuable defensively as Ryan Rua. Rua, of course, has the ability to also play some of the infield positions if needed in a pinch, and probably projects as a better defensive outfielder as well.
So, while I'm not saying that Jake Smolinski can't improve and stabilize his K% and BB%, I don't perceive him to be as "sure" a thing as perhaps Rua is. The organization, I think, may be leaning in the same direction.
All that said, there's a very real opportunity that Jake Smolinski can snag a 4th outfielder spot, a role in which, if used properly, he could flourish, much in the same way David Murphy did at times during his tenure as a Ranger. I also have a bit more faith in Jeff Banister to appropriately use platoon-type players as such rather than trotting them on the field on a daily basis just for the sake of doing so.
There's definitely an argument to be made that Smolinski could have some sort of meaningful role on the club in 2015. I'm just not real sure what it is beyond that 4th outfielder role. At the very least, if my small poll is any indicator, his small amount of time in Texas left an impression on people, and perhaps he's left the same sort of impression on the front office, who likely didn't expect much out of a December minor league signing. I think the corner outfield job is Ryan Rua's job to lose, but Smolinski might at least make it interesting.
Edit: As I've seen pointed out by a Redditor and Eric down below in the comments section, I massively overlooked Smolinski's .485 BABIP, which would almost certainly indicate a regression of epic proportions from his 2014 production at the Major League level. So, there's that. | positive |
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Petchrungruang is unusual in that because it has a growing reputation in training Thai boys and is open in spirit, western boys who are serious about becoming fighters are brought by their families to the gym and experience a kind of immersion into Thai training. Thai training is not only “boot camp” toughness.
There is a refrain, “there is no winning or losing in sparring.” The idea is that it’s just about learning, letting go and trying things out without having to “win.” I agree with that. And my trainer at Petchrungruang, Pi Nu, loves to tell me that he used to “lose, everyday” in training against his brother at the gym when he was growing up. What he means is that he was the underdog, but there was not a consequence of losing the way there is in a fight, because training is infinite – fighting is finite and countable, but training just continues on as an endless process. So, you lose, but you’ve never “lost.”
How You Can Lose in Sparring
Today, I saw how you can actually lose in sparring. I sat on the corner of the ring and watched a visiting little Italian kid get playfully beat up by an older Italian kid, Alex, who has been raised at Petchrungraung for a few years now. Watching Alex slowly but firmly tag this (I’m guessing) 8-9 year old boy’s leg over and over again to make him drop to the floor (timing), and lightly punch him in the face with shoves that knocked him off balance, reminded me a lot of when I was a kid and my older brothers would just demonstrate their size and power over me. It’s not mean-spirited, but it’s dominating and not exactly fun as the one being beat upon. Mostly this little kid was just getting exhausted, but he’s Italian so dragging himself back up off the floor or making a big show about how hurt his leg was from the impact were dramatic performances. All that was fine. But then Pi Nu ordered the little kid to clinch with a much smaller, although older, Thai kid. The Thai kid is probably 12 or so, but he’s tiny – like a stick figure with a poker face, 35 kg at the most. The Italian boy is younger but beefier, maybe 40 kg. For those of us who refuse the Metric System, that’s a conservative estimate of an 11 lbs difference… in little kids, who weigh 77-88 lbs as it is. It’s a big difference.
The Most Difficult Technique of All: Laughter
The Thai boy has more experience and just destroyed the Italian kid with technique. He grabbed his neck and wrenched him around, threw him on the floor and threw slow, controlled, but straight in the Solar Plexus knees. Pi Nu sat down in the corner next to me, but with his back to the boys. You’d think he wasn’t watching, but he’s got eyes on the back of his head. But yeah, not involved in instructing, directing, or overlooking the action. And the little Italian kid was just getting angrier and angrier, which made the poker-faced Thai kid just be calmer and more punishing. Just as any number of kids in the west, experiencing frustration in a physical situation like this, the Italian kid started holding his breath and building up his aggression for little bursts, like, launching himself at the Thai kid with his arms out and no real game plan, just with the leap of faith that his emotional charge alone would somehow bring their level to even ground. That doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t, especially in Thailand where technique and calm is king. And when that doesn’t work the Italian kid starts playing up his despair at having to pick himself up off the ground over and over again. He props himself up on one arm first, shoulders staggered like a man crawling across the desert, trying to muster the strength to rise to his feet. And this is the thing: this boy is undisciplined enough to not have a solution to the problem himself, but still obedient enough that he won’t stop unless someone with authority tells him that he can, releasing him from the torture that he’s trying so desperately to portray. Nobody lets him stop, so he keeps getting up, taking a moment to hold his breath and make sounds of frustration and then dive toward the Thai boy with the sum of his might… and then have to pick himself up again.
While Pi Nu wasn’t showing any sign of paying attention, the only people observing this were a few Thai men scattered around the ring. They laughed in slight puzzlement and a little true entertainment at this emotional surge of the Italian kid. It’s very, very un-Thai to behave like this, even if you’re getting your ass kicked. And the Thai boy was playing the only hand he had, which was to try to control his opponent’s outbursts by punishing them but definitely not showing mercy other than that he wasn’t going full power in any of his strikes. For my own part, I shook my head in disapproval of the Italian kid’s attitude, albeit with total awareness of being able to understand his frustration. Finally, the Thai boy got an idea – how to deal with the unending emotion and drama before him. The Italian had been ineffectively tugging at his long shorts, hoisting them up when his head was trapped in a grip and he was about to be thrown. They weren’t really falling down, but because they were wet from the sweat and humidity and gripping the skin of the Italian kid’s legs, they probably felt as though they were being tugged down. So, the Thai kid let the Italian boy land a neck lock after one of his desperate forward dives and then just reached down and “pantsed” him. Everyone roared with laughter as he turned red, pulled his shorts back up and then flew wildly after the Thai. When he caught him, his own neck viced by the Thai boy immediately, the Italian tried in vain to return the action of pulling the Thai kid’s pants down but failed. But the Thai kid smiled and we all laughed. The Italian noticed this, realized it was a joke, a game, and he smiled. That smile was a big deal. A moment of a lesson.
Flow of Learning
He didn’t stop getting thrown to the floor. He didn’t even stop his pent-up, breath-held attacks. But he did smile a little when he peeled himself off the floor, taking longer and longer to do so until finally Pi Nu turned around and told them it was enough for the day. I’ve experienced equal inability to score on my clinching partner in training. And I’ll admit quite openly that as an adult I’ve cried as a result of the exact same frustration – usually very quietly – that this boy felt, a frustration which in his case presented itself as uncontrolled and spastic aggression. By losing emotional control, by giving in to the frustration, you lose. Pretty much any time you turn a learning environment of training into a competitive exercise with consequences, you lose. Even if you are “winning,” you lose. It’s okay to cry, it’s okay to get frustrated and make some stupid mistakes while trying to get even, but it’s not okay to dam up the flow of learning. You dam it up with emotional attachment to the outcome of what you’re attempting, whether that’s the emotional importance of beating on someone or the emotional importance of being bested – you have to let go of both of those. You can feel them, that’s okay, but you have to let them go, they can’t mean anything. Like Volleyball, you only score when the ball hits the ground, so both sides play the game by keeping the ball moving. This is why it’s okay to lose in training, because it’s an infinite game of winning and losing and dominating and failing… you just keep moving on to the next position, the next attempt, the next failure. You lose by taking the game out of the air – let it float.
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I know, there's only so much crazy any one person can stand, but this one is one for the ages.
Phyllis Schlafly, for those unfamiliar with her, was the woman who crusaded throughout the 70s to successfully kill the Equal Rights Amendment. She believes women would be just fine if they were content to stay at home and serve (service?) their husbands who will bring home the fatted calves for them if they're kept happy.
Here's Bachmann, explaining why Schlafly deserves all the credit for the end of the Cold War, via Right Wing Watch:
Rep. Michele Bachmann recently sat down for an interview with WND to discuss her undying admiration for the Eagle Forum's Phyllis Schlafly, whom Bachmann credited for ending the Cold War and for just generally being "the epitome of womanhood." "I believe that Phyllis Schlafly is the most consequential female woman in public policy in the last fifty years of the 20th Century," Bachmann declared. "Had there not been a Phyllis Schlafly, I believe that we wouldn't have seen a rise of the pro-family movement. Had there not been a rise of the pro-family movement, I don't believe that there would have been a Ronald Reagan. Without a President Ronald Reagan, I don't think we would have seen the ability to defeat the evil, and yes that's what it was, Soviet empire and to bring a conclusion to the Cold War. Just as Ronald Reagan was consequential, Phyllis Schlafly was extremely consequential because she was a tee to tee up this president that we had":
So does that mean we can blame Schlafly for our current income disparity problems, the economic inequality that has sprung up over the past two decades, and the mess in the Middle East as well as Central America?
If she's singlehandedly responsible for Saint Ronnie, then why the heck not? | positive |
In a recent chat with Kevin Smith on the Fat Man On Batman podcast, Marvel Entertainment’s Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada revealed some scoop on the upcoming Marvel Netflix shows, which will initially include four separate shows for Daredevil, Power Man, Iron Fist, and Jessica Jones. Quesada praised the New York setting for the shows, confirmed that the shows are definitely a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and indicated that viewers would be able to binge watch the shows all at once.
“We’re shooting in New York. That’s the fantastic thing about it is that we’re shooting at home. We’re shooting where these characters belong,” said Quesada. “These stories take place in Hell’s Kitchen.”
Quesada indicated that the shows would be filming in areas of Brooklyn and Long Island City that still look like the old Hell’s Kitchen. He also added that some things they would probably build inside of a studio. “It thrills me to no end to have these things happening in New York. That alone is going to give it an incredible vibe,” said Quesada. “It’s just once again…it’s like Marvel taking ownership of New York, saying this is where we’re from, this is our universe, this is where it started.”
In describing the setting for Daredevil, Quesada said, “It smells of dark alley, vomit, and piss.” While there has been some question as to whether the Marvel Netflix shows would be released in serialized format like traditional network shows or all at once as Netflix has done in the past, Quesada seemed to suggest that it would be the latter. Quesada said, “You’re going to get all these episodes, and you can binge watch them however you want, and then binge watch them again.”
Quesada also confirmed interconnectivity not only between the different Netflix series themselves, but also with the other Marvel movies and TV shows. “There will be some interconnectivity, much like the movies,” revealed Quesada. “They will exist within the cinematic universe again, so this is all the same world as S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers.” Despite existing in the same universe, Quesada also stressed that the Marvel Netflix series would be different from anything Marvel (or anyone else for that matter) has done before.
“Although these are superhero stories, this is different now. This is the street level…this is the street level noir side of the Marvel Universe. Something that you haven’t really, really seen in any of our Marvel movies,” said Quesada. “And probably more ground level, than I think you’ve seen. This is not like us doing Batman, Dark Knight or any of that stuff. This is very Marvel doing street level superheroes.” Quesada added, “The scripts are coming in. They are pretty fantastic. They’re really emotional. They’re very, very original. But at the same time, it is Daredevil. It is Matt Murdock. We will eventually, hopefully start casting really, really soon, but I’m very, very excited about it.” When Smith asked whether Kingpin would be part of the Daredevil or Spider-Man universe, Quesada remained coy about the villain. | positive |
Many people were left in awe and some in fear, after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket surged through the night sky leaving a spectacular trail behind it.
The rocket was seen all over the Valley, and was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base – around 500 miles from Phoenix.
Jerry Ferguson had a birds eye view from the Penguin Air And Plumbing News chopper, and like everyone else who saw it, was amazed.
“I’m not gonna lie, it amazed me,” Ferguson said. “It was an incredibly lucky shot. It was a case of being in the right place at the right time with the camera pointed in that direction.”
According to experts, the reason why the launch was so beautifully visible in the sky was because of the position of the sun in California. | positive |
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WEDDING BELLS WILL RING | Yes, the Barman and Robin will get hitched. And lest you think that’s a huge giveaway, “That wedding day is going to be full of enough other surprises,” Thomas reassures. As the EP previously told TVLine, it won’t be a smooth affair. “There’s going to be twists and turns built into that day,” he teases. As for when the momentous occasion will occur, he’s keeping mum because it would give away too much about the show’s endgame. “There’s a lot of fans that think that’s the end of the show – Ted meets the mother [at the wedding], and that’s the [series] finale,” he explains. However….
THE MOTHER’S DAY MAY COME SOONER THAN EXPECTED | For those hoping to meet the show’s titular momma and fall in love with her alongside Ted, Thomas is leaving the possibility for that option too. “There are people who think it could keep going, and there will be more story after [the wedding day],” he continues. For example, “What are Barney and Robin like married? What happens with that marriage?” But for the time being, Thomas says Season 8 will be about the onetime couple’s journey to “not only getting back together, but deciding to take this enormous leap.”
QUINN WILL BE BACK | Although Thomas can’t say how much or how little we’ll be seeing of Barney’s fiancée next season — perhaps they break up? — he does reveal that Newton, who stars on his and fellow HIMYM EP Carter Bays’ new Fox comedy The Goodwin Games, will appear in the first episode back, which picks up on the same day as the finale. “There’s a lot of great stories to tell just in that one day,” he says. “Episode 2 will leap ahead to September, and we’ll see where everybody is four months later.”
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to it, and run the command from there? I dunno
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WordServe News May 2019 – WordServe Water Cooler Skip to content WordServe Water Cooler A community of agented authors encouraging, engaging, and enriching others throughout their writing journey. Posted on May 31, 2019 May 30, 2019 by ruthannetaylor615 WordServe News May 2019 As usual, some great things have been happening this month at WordServe Literary! On the final post of each month, you’ll find a list of Water Cooler contributors’ recently released books along with a recap of WordServe client news. New Releases Congratulations to Angela Hunt, Bill Meyers, and Salem Books for the release of When God Happens: Angels, Miracles, and Heavenly Encounters. PRAISE FOR THE WHEN GOD HAPPENS SERIES “Reading When God Happens is like receiving an intravenous dose of hope in a world parched by hopelessness. It will remind you not just to hope for miracles but to expect them.”– Melanie Hemry, Guideposts magazine writer and author of fifty-four books “A powerful read.”– Dimas Salaberrios, author of Street God “True stories like these require those who don’t believe in angels … to explain the unexplainable.”– Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist A diesel mechanic is smashed under the weight of a logging truck. A child’s inner tube is sucked out of a peaceful stretch of water into a frothing patch of dangerous rapids. A woman searching for peace is met with an icy chill when she begins arranging runestones…. In all these stories, there is one common thread–God’s angels are waiting and ready to powerfully intervene. If you have ever doubted the presence of angels or questioned whether God is still acting through them, this book will inspire you to look beyond your everyday perceptions. In the follow-up to their 2018 title When God Happens: True Stories of Modern Day Miracles, bestselling authors Angela Hunt and Bill Myers invite you into the miraculous–sharing nineteen true, firsthand testimonies of angelic appearances, perfectly placed protection, and unforeseen interventions that will encourage you in your faith and cause even the most skeptical minds to take a second look. Hear from a father whose family was saved from back-alley cutthroats by a mysterious Scotsman, a woman whose spiritual battle was inexplicably resolved through a tattooed pickup driver interested in potted plants, and a newlywed home economist whose generosity to an unexpected visitor transformed her life. If you have ever doubted what angels are, where they come from, or how God is working through them today, we pray these stories will open your eyes to the mighty work that is done when God happens. Congratulations to Sarah Varland and Love Inspired Suspense for the May 7 release of Alaskan Ambush. He’ll take down their pursuers… If she gets them out of the wilderness alive. Pursued through the wilderness after an ambush that left his partner dead, Anchorage police officer Micah Reed stumbles on his assailants’ other target—backcountry tracker Kate Dawson. His best friend’s sister’s just the person to help him outrun the criminals…and solve his case. But with their pursuers closing in, can they rely on each other’s strength to survive this hazardous chase? Congratulations to Rick Lawrence and Harvest House on the release of the ebook version of The God Who Fights for You: How He Shows Up in Your Suffering. (paperback releases June 25, 2019) That Your Faith May Not Fail Whether you’re facing a major loss, a difficult diagnosis, or the constant stress of everyday life, you might find yourself asking God, “Where are you in this pain?” In those moments, would it help to know that he has not forgotten you—that he is fighting for you in the middle of your pain? Sometimes it’s not the major disaster that breaks you, but the everyday heartbreaks that wear you down. In The God Who Fights For You, bestselling author Rick Lawrence examines the trials that weigh on you, why God allows them, and what he wants to reveal through them. Journey with Rick and… discover hope and encouragement you can cling to in the middle of your challenges learn about the gracious God who allows your trials—and is always working to help you through them to the other side transform the way you think about suffering as you develop a richer understanding of the Savior’s love for you When you’re feeling desperate, you don’t have to despair. The God who loves you is walking beside you—working to set you free. Congratulations Steve “Spice” Spicer with T.L. Heyer for the release of Be Strong: The Making of a Marked Man. A man’s journey through life is not easy, but the wounds do not tell the whole story. Healing, transformation, and significance can be yours when Jesus is the goal. In Be Strong, the author reveals his own transformation and the birth of an international ministry, Marked Men for Christ. This book will give men of faith the encouragement they need to overcome their past and their wounds to move forward in strength with Jesus at the center. The book also includes a 21-day devotional. Congratulations to Jason Coombs for the release of Unhooked: How to Help an Addicted Loved One Recover from Brick House Press. Is someone you love addicted? Have you found yourself wondering if all of your efforts to “help” or “fix” your loved one are really going the right direction? Addictions to prescription meds, opioids, alcohol and other substances are growing at exponential rates and ripping our families apart. What are the best strategies to help someone in bondage to a substance that drive real results? When Jason Coombs’ mother discovered her son was addicted to drugs and alcohol, she searched everywhere for resources and guidance that would grant her a spark of hope. She researched websites on the topic only to find a mixed bag of mediocre suggestions and an array of conflicting opinions. She was desperate for tools that could drive measurable results. Yet, her seemingly endless search for helpful guidance led her down a rabbit hole with no end in sight. Unhooked is the book, written by her recovered son, now leading his own treatment center, she wishes would have been available back then. This book will give you answers. It will give you hope. It will give you validation. It will give you a path to follow that will ultimately help you, and your addicted loved one recover. Congratulations to Jared Frederick and Valor Press for the release of Dispatches of D-Day: A People’s History of the Normandy Invasion. Spring 1944. The world held its breath as the Allies leapt across the English Channel in the largest amphibious operation of the Second World War. The Normandy invasion, legendary in myth and astounding in scope, comes to life as historian Jared Frederick resurrects long-forgotten tales of individual struggle, sacrifice, and community. In a rare form of engaging scholarship, Frederick paints an eloquently moving portrait of the soldiers and civilians dramatically affected by what Dwight Eisenhower called “the great crusade.” Among those personalities were intrepid correspondents who demonstrated the meaningful significance of the free press in wartime. In this sweeping narrative, readers will embark upon a journey between the lines as the powerful saga of D-Day unfolds with insightful interpretation and profoundly enduring lessons. Called to Forgive: The Charleston Church Shooting, A Victim’s Husband, and the Path to Healing and Peace by Anthony B. Thompson with Denise George, will be released June 4, 2019. While the murder of his wife devastated Anthony Thompson, he and three other relatives of victims chose to privately and publicly forgive the shooter. Years later, the church and community still struggle to understand the family members’ deliberate choice to forgive the racist murderer. But as Charlestonians have witnessed these incredible acts of forgiveness, something significant has happened to the community–black and white leaders and residents have united, coming together peaceably and even showing acts of selfless love. This book is the account of Anthony’s wife’s murder, the grief he experienced, and how and why he made the radical choice to forgive the killer. But beyond that, Anthony goes on to teach what forgiveness can and should look like in each of our lives–both personally, in our communities, and even in our nation. After much pain, reflection, and study, Thompson shares how true biblical love and mercy differ from the way these ideas are reflected in our culture. Be inspired by this remarkable story and discover how the difficult decision to forgive can become the key to radical change. Contracts Leslie Leyland Fields signed with NavPress for Tell a Better Story due to release Spring 2020. Bob Welch with Don Malarkey signed with Regnery for Saving My Enemy which is the World War II story of American Don Malarkey and German Fritz Englebert’s post-war friendship. To be released Spring 2020. Walt Larimore signed with Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group for a three-book deal to include: Natural Medications for Common Conditions and two books of inspirational stories of Dr. Larimore’s practice in Kissimmee, FL. (Tales of a Country Doctor) to be released in 2020 and 2021. New Clients Eileen and Holly Forlenza, Jenny L. Ross, Alice Wisler, Glenn Allen, Richard Kaufman signed with WordServe in May. Welcome! What We’re Celebrating Congratulations to Anthony B. 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by Lance Simmens | TLB Contributing Writer/Author
I never expected to be caught up in a whirlwind of activity on an issue that had not been on my proverbial radar screen for nearly two decades. After all, I had been one of those parents who instinctively placed trust in doctors and the medical profession when it came to healing. As a person who has been involved in two near fatal accidents and numerous surgeries over my lifetime I had very good reasons to harbor such trust. The doctors had always made me better, and their solemn responsibility resided in the Hippocratic Oath, essentially they were dedicated to “doing no harm.”
As I left the premier of Vaxxed a week and a half ago I was particularly struck at the prospect that corruption within governmental agencies charged with protecting the public was a distinct possibility. As a long-time environmental activist recent examples of a massive failure by official regulatory bodies such as the EPA, the Department of Energy, the FDA, and numerous state agencies charged with protecting the health, safety and welfare of the citizens has soured one who had spent nearly four decades in public service and actually believe in the potential positive role of government. In fact, I have written extensively about the proper balance between an out of control private sector and the checks and balances of the public sector.
Fracking and its attendant public health consequences, the methane leakage at Porter Ranch, CA, Deep Water Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, lead poisoning in public water supplies in Flint, MI and dozens of other American cities, PCB’s in schools across the country, and the threats offered by genetically engineered organisms have all put our citizens in harm’s way. Now along comes a documentary that raises the specter of corruption within the Centers for Disease Control. All of these events cast doubt and engender cynicism amongst an electorate already deeply suspicious of its institutions and elected leaders.
At the very least it seemed to me that any interpretation of the precautionary principle would necessitate at least an escalated dialogue surrounding the allegations made by the film. So as I have done throughout my life in public service I took to the keys and wrote about the need to take a closer look at the corruption angle. For full disclosure I must say that I was interviewed in the critically acclaimed documentary Gasland, part 2 as the “political insider” for my role in opposition to fracking within the Governor’s office in Pennsylvania. So I am no stranger to controversy but public service is supposed to be just that, serving the public.
Over nearly an eight-year period I have published something like 180 articles in Huffington Post and have always found them to be accommodating to thought-provoking pieces. So I submitted a thought piece late on Friday evening, April 15. It was published immediately. After sending it out to my associated networks on the internet I was surprised to start receiving messages within about 20 minutes that folks could not find the piece in question. Upon checking, sure enough the piece had been published and pulled. This had never happened before and I was quite perplexed. After numerous emails throughout the weekend I was apprised on Monday morning that the piece was pulled because it reflected a “conspiracy theory, was based upon inaccurate medical information, and was based on a widely known hoax linking vaccines and autism.”
But the article I offered and that was subsequently published in the LA Progressive Magazine under the title “Why Our Children Should Hate Us” [link highlighted here in blue] was a call for discussion not an anti-vaccine rant. I found the Huffington Post policy strangely at odds with the spirit of freedom of speech and the press. I still find it disturbing that any self-respecting news outlet would pass judgement on issues without the benefit of extensive investigation and at the very least leave open the potent seriousness of the charges alleged in the documentary.
At this point even though it appears as though my account has been unblocked, I have offered two articles and after several days neither has been published. One calls on HuffPo and specifically the personal intervention of Arianna Huffington to reverse its decision. The other is neither controversial or is in any way related to this issue. Pure and simple it appears to me as though I am the victim of censorship, a deadly charge in any era but particularly when emotions and suspicions run so high in a deeply divided and polarized society such as the one in which we live today.
I have spent considerable time involved in politics/public policy/governmental service at senior levels, including positions in two Presidential administrations, two U.S. Senators, two prominent Governors, the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, the Department of Health and Human Services (parent agency of the CDC) and the President’s Commission on Y2K Conversion, and it usually signals that something is very fishy when such extreme and reactionary measures are taken to shut down what I believe to be a rather serious and reasonable request.
So these actions raise more questions than provide answers. And the appearance of impropriety oftentimes can be every bit as damaging as the allegations themselves. Cover-ups are the cause of most illegalities and transgressions, not the actual acts themselves as we found out so alarmingly in the national tragedy that followed Watergate.
How many reputations are to be tarnished in the process, but far more importantly how many children will have to pay if in fact the allegations prove true? What is the truth and do we have the right as citizens to demand such? The answer is unequivocally yes. Hiding behind the smokescreen that the public may actually may not be able to handle the truth is a diabolically perverse corruption of the very freedoms this nation is both envied as striving to uphold and embedded in the very fabric of the Constitution upon which the republic is built.
This is a call for the rejuvenation of investigative journalism and the reinvigoration of the Fourth Estate that has become all too often a mouthpiece for their advertisers and a conduit for misinformation. The scientific analysis will bear out the validity or invalidity of the allegations proffered in the documentary, but ignorance or rejection of the allegations by the media is every bit as troubling as the potential crime itself.
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About Lance Simmens: His Bio alone could be written into a series of novels. He has served in various capacities and advisory positions at City, State and Federal levels, including the Senate, under four Cabinet Secretaries and The Office of The President of The United States. Please click here for the full bio for Lance Simmens (TLB~Ed)
In his spare time he is a voracious reader and he has written a screenplay, a novel, which is expected to be published soon that touches on the perils of drilling for natural gas, a book of political and personal stories, and The Evolution of a Revolution: An Attack upon Reason, Compromise and the Constitution, has appeared in several political documentaries including 14 Women, Electile Dysfunction, and Gasland 2.
He is the author of “The Evolution of a Revolution: An Attack Upon Reason, Compromise and the Constitution” and “Fracktured”, the definitive anti-fracking novel.
He is the father of two boys, Christopher, 23 and Nicholas, 21 and resides in Malibu, CA.
“Fracktured“ the novel, is available now! For more info click here
Thomas Steinbeck, Writer, says of Fracktured: “Not unlike Upton Sinclair, Lance Simmens has created a work of fiction based upon the factual dark side of American politics. If Mr. Simmens intent is to push policy changes that may at the very least give the human species a chance of surviving just a little bit longer this book should awaken the moral conscience of a society mired in dysfunction.” | positive |
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According to media reports on Tuesday, the Justice Department issued a subpoena under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (Firrea) to investigate Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal.
Firrea is a civil financial fraud law adopted in 1989 and employed, for example, by the Obama administration in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to extract huge settlements from big banks.
The law would allow the government's civil division to investigate fraud over the last 10 years - twice as long as many fraud statutes allow, the news agency Reuters said, quoting people familiar with the probe.
US business daily Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported the subpoena on Tuesday, saying the use of the law suggested the German carmaker was facing "another potential source of penalties" after admitting it used illegal software to cheat in US diesel emissions tests.
VW spokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan declined to comment on talks with regulators, but said the automaker "will continue to cooperate with all relevant government agencies," Reuters said.
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Battle for penalties
Using Firrea, US prosecutors are exploring whether lenders were harmed by financing customers' purchases of the cars under inflated values. The resale value of VW diesel cars has dropped since the cheating scandal became public in September.
Moreover, federal prosecutors are also examining whether the company could be charged legally and financially for customers who obtained tax credits when they bought cars they thought emitted fewer pollutants than they actually did, the people familiar with the matter said.
WSJ quoted a law professor at Columbia University, John Coffee, as saying the scandal - known colloquially as 'dieselgate' - had become a "competition among enforcers" in which "everybody would like a little credit for doing something to Volkswagen."
VW faces investigations around the world after it admitted in September to installing cheating software in up to 11 million vehicles. Last month, a US federal judge ruled that Volkswagen has to find an emissions fix for 600,000 US diesel vehicles that is acceptable to US regulators by March 24.
In January, US authorities sued Europe's biggest carmaker for up to $46 billion (41.9 billion euros) for violating environmental laws, and barred VW and its Audi and Porsche brands from selling any new 2016 diesel models. VW also faces more than 500 lawsuits from customers in the US.
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It hung in a wardrobe in the back bedroom for years. A gauze-sleeved, full-length white gown, sewn with hundreds of sequins which rattled gently when you touched them. When the Carlingford Lough pilot died a few years before her own death, my mother went quiet. She wasn’t a woman much given to sentiment but she turned her face away.
“He smuggled the material for my wedding dress across the lough.”
It’s a fragile image of intimacy undermined. All the things that a wedding dress represents reduced to contraband.
There is no such thing as a soft border. It doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as a solely economic border. A frontier becomes an institution and draws the shape and the mechanics of an institution to it. There is talk of customs posts set back from the border as if the geographic placing of the custodians might make a difference, as if the Border would not still be in the same place.
Sleight of hand
There’s talk of an electronic border. It’s a dystopian sleight of hand, a futurist non-solution introducing new paranoias into a place which has had enough of them, Don DeLillo’s sinister buzz of implication still audible. The idea examined has the same daft logic as the system of concession roads and unapproved crossings of the past, devices that sent people sneaking around their own patch, half-shamefaced, half defiant.
They’re digging in the archive and coming up with monochrome photographs of the old Border ... The ‘Stad’ signs and customs men in overcoats and peaked caps that seem too big for them. Comic book officialdom, the cast of Carry On Up The Border if you don’t mind the economic and social wasteland, the everyday pettiness of checking car engine numbers, the threat to a bride’s bolt of sequinned cloth, the gimcrack regulatory contrivances of separation and isolation.
The reality became cratered roads, corpses dumped in black plastic bags, surveillance towers, bullet-riddled gospel halls, bullet-riddled homes. You got the full force of it at night. Driving on the empty roads through eerie zones emptied of all except watchfulness and ill-intent.
Revenue men are reported to be scouring the Border roads of the northwest for new custom sites. You’d have to ask under what petty authority they are acting? What facts-on-the ground, make-a-regulation merchant decided to pre-empt accountability? Maybe they could raid a few poitín stills while they’re at it.
I’m sitting on my neighbour Wesley Campbell’s wall. I’m nine years old. A policeman posted at the fork of the road stands to attention. There is the sound of sombre music, coming closer. The RUC band, they’re marching the slow march, advancing slowly in half-step, carrying the coffin of a policeman neighbour killed by a bomb on the Border. They are playing Handel. The funeral march.
The sun glints from their instruments, from the epaulettes of the police and military, from the gold watches of big-house politicians. They cross the brow of the next hill. The music fades. It felt as if they had momentarily emerged from another dimension, following a malign offshoot of the Border, an inked-in contour line drawn from a rural home to a fresh grave.
James Baldwin said that people are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
Shining razor wire
Driving along the Border with my brother in summer 2009. Heading for the Flat Lake Festival in Clones. Heaney is reading, or Muldoon. Jinx Lennon and Paula Flynn singing Border anthems to the giant orange cranes in Greenore. Clones emptied of its between-the-wars bustle, the hollowed out borough, its hinterland snatched away in partition. Up around Cullaville the sun is shining. Elderflowers in the ditches. A distant Slieve Gullion in the midsummer haze.
Shane turns to me: was that all a dream? We’d both worked either side of the Border, travelled across it to school. Running the gauntlet. Soldiers lying in ditches. Checkpoints. Culvert bombs. Assassins, agents and fraudsters. We knew that fear was the whole point of this locale, the not knowing what’s around the corner, the not knowing who is watching. The whole corpse-reek and mess of it all. We spend the rest of the drive talking Border lore. We’re like recovering alcoholics sitting in a basement room, blurting out narratives of fault and loss.
Was it a dream? He’d hit the nail on the head. One of those dreams that doesn’t quite fade with waking. Your head full of the irrational, sinister juxtapositions. Viktor Orbán’s shining razor wire buried in the Cullaville foxgloves and dog roses. You’d go back to sleep and dream of concrete walls in barren terrain, migrants walking in the desert at night. Columns of the drowned marching up Aegean beaches.
Post-war visionaries
The question of the Irish Border needs to be isolated from the sphere of economics and considered in the context of fundamental rights. The answers lie in the moral and progressive sphere. Theresa May can insist that her country leaves the European Union. The EU can dictate what conditions it wishes. But neither of them can dictate or insist that a line of malice be redrawn across this island. We could not ask that the Berlin wall be re-erected. It was an affront to the spirit. Berlin and the rest of Europe cannot use economics to require that we re-impose the border. Not in this century. Not on this island.
Start with that as the bottom line and construct the politics from there. Make political and economic structures an outcome of the absence of the Border, not the other way around.
You’d like to think Europe knew something of this and valued it. Their project faltering on the back of alienation and lack of accountabilty. Ireland one of the few places where the Europe of quiet-spoken post-war visionaries, modernists in two-piece suits, still stands on solid ground. Where the earnest work of being Europeans has borne some fruit.
There’s an analogy with social politics. Common cause as well. Hard-won gains in woman’s rights. The tender accommodations of our gay children become law, fundamental rights acknowledged. Values that we thought we had achieved, marked down as won and made part of the foundations of better living until you hear the cynical growl of the authoritarian counter offensive. Telling us that these gains are provisional. Telling us that what they have given they can take back.
Ghost brides
A young woman sits in a bedroom adding sequins to a wedding dress, putting her dreams into it, stitch by stitch. Within earshot of the Haulbowline light’s foghorn on Carlingford Lough. Within sightline of the dark Cooley shore and the forbidden country beyond. Part of a generation that saw themselves as progressive and came up short, defeated.
A few houses away a young man is putting on a uniform to go on Border patrol, defender of a line whose dark heart and purpose was indifferent to both of them.
Ghost brides and ghost patrols in the realm of the unsaid. Old uniforms folded and put away. Void garments left to hang in empty cupboards.
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= 1; jQInf(collectionParent).each(function() { if(productsParentTmp.get(0).innerHTML.localeCompare(jQInf(this).get(0).innerHTML) == 0) { containerPos = tmpCnt; } tmpCnt++; }); } if(jQInf(collectionParent).find(paginateSelector).length > 0) { jQInf(collectionParent).after(jQInf("#gscollectionbottom")); } this.listenToScroll = this.listenToScroll.bind(this); this.analyseView = this.analyseView.bind(this); if(productsParentTmp === null) { jQInf("#gscollectionbottom img").remove(); jQInf("#gscollectionbottom button").remove(); return; } this.containerElement = productsParentTmp.get(0); if(jQInf(".grid-link__container").length > 0) { this.containerElement = jQInf(".grid-link__container").get(0); } if(jQInf(".custom-category .toolbar-amount").length > 0 && jQInf(".custom-products").length > 0) { this.containerElement = jQInf(".custom-products .row").get(0); } if(!this.containerElement) { return; } this.paginateSection = document.querySelector(paginateSelector); paginateSel = this.paginateSection; if(sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent') != null && sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent') != "") { this.containerElement.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent')); fixThemeSpecial(); this.paginateSection = document.querySelector(paginateSelector); this.paginateSection.innerHTML = sessionStorage.getItem('gspaginatecontent'); collectionPageNr = parseInt(sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectionpagenr')); setTimeout(function() { try { var resizeEvent = window.document.createEvent('UIEvents'); resizeEvent .initUIEvent('resize', true, false, window, 0); window.dispatchEvent(resizeEvent); $(window).trigger('forceproductblockheights'); } catch(err) { } //jQInf(window).trigger('resize'); }, 1000); if(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half, .medium-up--one-third").length > 0) { try { jQInf(".card").css("opacity", '1'); } catch(err) {} } if(collectionPageNr == -1) { jQInf("#gscollectionbottom button").remove(); jQInf("#gscollectionbottom 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productInCollection[0]; var productInCollectionLast = productInCollection[productInCollection.length - 1]; productsParentTmp = productInCollectionFirst; limititerations = 20; while(limititerations > 0) { productsParentTmp = jQInf(productsParentTmp).parent(); if(jQInf(".custom-category .toolbar-amount").length > 0 && jQInf(".custom-products").length > 0) { jQInf("body").append(""); productsParentTmp = jQInf(jQInf('.custom-products').get(0)); return '.custom-products .row'; } limititerations--; //console.debug(jQInf(colllectionParentTmp)); if(jQInf(productsParentTmp).find(productInCollectionLast).length > 0) { if(productsParentTmp.attr("id")) { var idName = '#' + productsParentTmp.attr("id"); return idName ; } if(productsParentTmp.attr("class")) { //var className = '.' + productsParentTmp.attr("class").split(" ").join("."); //className = className.replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.'); var className = '.' + jQInf.trim(productsParentTmp.attr("class")).replace(/\s\s+/g, ' ').replace(/ /gi, '.') return className; } limititerations = 0; } } return false; } GSLoader.prototype.listenToScroll = function() { if (this.paginateSection) { if(loaderMode == 1) { document.addEventListener('scroll', this.analyseView); window.addEventListener('resize', this.analyseView); window.addEventListener('orientationchange', this.analyseView); } else { jQInf("#gsloadmore").click(this.clickMoreBtn); } } }; async function postData(url = '', data = {}) { // Default options are marked with * const response = await fetch(url, { method: 'GET', // *GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc. mode: 'cors', // no-cors, *cors, same-origin cache: 'no-cache', // *default, no-cache, reload, force-cache, only-if-cached credentials: 'same-origin', // include, *same-origin, omit headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' // 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', }, redirect: 'follow', // manual, *follow, error referrerPolicy: 'no-referrer', // no-referrer, *no-referrer-when-downgrade, origin, origin-when-cross-origin, same-origin, strict-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin, unsafe-url }); return response.text(); // parses JSON response into native JavaScript objects }; GSLoader.prototype.fetchNextPage = function() { httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest(); try { httpRequest.responseType = 'document'; } catch(error){ } httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function loadingfinished() { try { if(jQInf(".debugbygss").length == 0) { jQInf("body").first().append(' '); } jQInf(".gsdebuglisten10").remove(); jQInf("#debugbygss").append(" Response status: " + httpRequest.status + " ready state: " + httpRequest.readyState + " "); } catch(err) {} if (httpRequest.status == 200 && httpRequest.readyState == 4) { if(httpRequest.responseXML == null) { postData(this.nextStepLink, { }) .then(data => { var data = jQInf(data); var appendedSection = data.find(collectionParent).get(0); var appendaedPage = data.find(paginateSelector).get(0); var nextPageNr = collectionPageNr + 1; jQInf("#gsloaderimg").hide(); jQInf("#gsloadmore").show(); if (data.find("a[href*='page=" + nextPageNr + "']").length == 0) { jQInf("#gscollectionbottom button").remove(); jQInf("#gscollectionbottom img").remove(); } if (jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").length > 1 && (jQInf(data).find('.card').length > 0)) { var columnCnt = 0; jQInf(data).find('.card').each(function () { jQInf(jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").get(columnCnt))).get(0).insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', jQInf(jQInf(this)).get(0).outerHTML); //jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").get(columnCnt)).html(jQInf(this).innerHTML); columnCnt++; if (columnCnt > (jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").length - 1)) { columnCnt = 0; } }); // var appendedSection2 = httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll('.medium-up--one-half')[0]; // jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").get(1)).insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', appendedSection2.innerHTML); } else { jQInf(data).find('img').each(function () { try { jQInf(this).removeAttr("srcset"); } catch (err) { } }); jQInf(".more-views-slider").each(function(){ var images = jQInf(this).find(".image-list"); jQInf(images[0]).css('display', 'none'); jQInf(images[0]).removeClass('lightSlider lsGrab lSSlide'); jQInf(this).append(images[0]); jQInf(this).find(".lSSlideOuter").each(function(){ jQInf(this).remove(); }); jQInf(images[0]).css('display', 'block'); }); this.containerElement.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', appendedSection.innerHTML); //jQInf("body").append(jQInf('script[src*="application.min"]').get(0).outerHTML); var thumbLoader = jQInf(this.containerElement).find(".thumb-loader"); if(thumbLoader.length > 0) { jQInf(thumbLoader).each(function () { jQInf(this).css("opacity", '1'); }); } } var productImages = jQInf(this.containerElement).find(".product-item .product-image img"); jQInf(productImages).each(function(){ if(!jQInf(this).hasClass('loaded')){ jQInf(this).addClass('loaded'); } }); if (collectionParent.indexOf("medium-up--one-half") > 0) { jQInf(".card").css("opacity", '1'); } if (jQInf(collectionParent).find(paginateSelector).length > 0) { jQInf(this.containerElement).after(jQInf("#gscollectionbottom")); } this.paginateSection.innerHTML = appendaedPage.innerHTML; if (jQInf(".cata-product .product-list-item").length > 0) { jQInf(".cata-product .product-grid-item").each(function () { jQInf(this).removeClass("product-grid-item"); jQInf(this).addClass("product-list-item"); }); } if (loaderMode == 1) { this.listenToScroll(); } HsCartDrawer.quickBuyByttonByCollections(HsCartDrawer.json,HsCartDrawer.query); HsCartDrawer.addToCart(HsCartDrawer.json,HsCartDrawer.query); }); return; } if(specialTheme == 17) { collectionParent = collectionParent.replace(".isotope-products.border-no.loaded", ".isotope-products"); } if(specialTheme == 21) { collectionParent = '.collection-products div'; } var appendedSection = httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll(collectionParent)[0]; if(httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll(collectionParent).length > 1) { appendedSection = httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll(collectionParent)[containerPos - 1]; } try { jQInf(appendedSection).find(".slide-up-animation").removeClass("slide-up-animation"); } catch(err) {} if(specialTheme == 12) { jQInf(appendedSection).find(".box--add-hr").remove(); } // FIX FOR PARALAX THEME var paralaxImgs = jQInf(appendedSection).find(".product_image .product_container img"); if(paralaxImgs.length > 0) { paralaxImgs.each(function() { jQInf(this).css("opacity", "1"); }); } var appHeaderEls = jQInf(appendedSection).find("header"); if(appHeaderEls.length > 0) { appHeaderEls.each(function() { jQInf(this).hide(); }); } var containerForProducts = jQInf(this.containerElement); jQInf(appendedSection).find("script").each(function() { try { if(containerForProducts.attr("class") == jQInf(this).parent().attr("class")) { jQInf(this).remove(); } } catch(err) {} }); if(jQInf(appendedSection).find("img:not(\"[src*='/products/']\")").length > 0 && jQInf(appendedSection).find("img[src*='/products/']").length == 0) { jQInf(appendedSection).find("img:not(\"[src*='/products/']\")").each(function() { var imgReference = jQInf(this).get(0); var suggestedImageUrl = ''; var productImgContHtml = jQInf(this).parent().get(0).innerHTML; var splitImgUrls = productImgContHtml.split('cdn.shopify.com'); var splitCnt = 0; var stringToExaminForImageUrl = ''; jQInf.each(splitImgUrls, function(index) { if(splitCnt > 0) { if(this.indexOf('/products/') > 0) { if(stringToExaminForImageUrl == '') { stringToExaminForImageUrl = this; } } } splitCnt++; }); if(splitImgUrls.length > 1) { var remainingpath = stringToExaminForImageUrl.replace("'", " ").replace('"', " ").replace(',', " ").replace(';', " "); splitImgUrls = remainingpath.split(" "); suggestedImageUrl = splitImgUrls[0]; suggestedImageUrl = '//cdn.shopify.com' + suggestedImageUrl; jQInf(imgReference).attr('src', suggestedImageUrl); } }); } var appendaedPage = httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll(paginateSelector)[0]; var nextPageNr = collectionPageNr + 1; //this.containerElement.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent')); //sessionStorage.setItem('gscollectioncontent', sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent') + '' + appendedSection.innerHTML); jQInf("#gsloaderimg").hide(); jQInf("#gsloadmore").show(); window.gscollectionpagenr = collectionPageNr; if(!httpRequest.responseXML.querySelector("a[href*='page=" + nextPageNr + "']")) { try { //sessionStorage.setItem('gscollectionpagenr', -1); window.gscollectionpagenr = -1; } catch(err) { } jQInf("#gscollectionbottom button").remove(); jQInf("#gscollectionbottom img").remove(); } else { try { window.gscollectionpagenr = collectionPageNr; //sessionStorage.setItem('gscollectionpagenr', collectionPageNr); } catch(err) { } } if(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half, .medium-up--one-third").length > 1 && (jQInf(httpRequest.responseXML).find('.card').length > 0)) { var columnCnt = 0; jQInf(httpRequest.responseXML).find('.card').each(function() { jQInf(jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half, .medium-up--one-third").get(columnCnt))).get(0).insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', jQInf(jQInf(this)).get(0).outerHTML); //jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half, .medium-up--one-third").get(columnCnt)).html(jQInf(this).innerHTML); columnCnt++; if(columnCnt > (jQInf(".medium-up--one-half, .medium-up--one-third").length - 1)) { columnCnt = 0; } }); // var appendedSection2 = httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll('.medium-up--one-half')[0]; // jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").get(1)).insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', appendedSection2.innerHTML); } else { if(jQInf(appendedSection).find(".hidden-handheld").length > 0) { jQInf(appendedSection).find(".hidden-handheld").remove(); } jQInf(appendedSection).find("img[src*='loader.gif']").each(function() { if(jQInf(this).hasClass("product_image--current")) { 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if(paginateSelector == '') { if(jQInf('#paging').length > 0) { paginateSelector = '#paging'; } } if((jQInf(".wide-container .jiggly-split").length > 0)) { paginateSelector = ".pager-button, .pagination"; } if(paginateSelector == '') { if(jQInf('.page_c').length > 0) { paginateSelector = '.page_c'; collectionParent = collectionParent.replace('.animation-done', ''); jQInf("body").append(""); } } if (jQInf(".shopify-pagination").length > 0 && jQInf(".pagination-gl_default").length > 0) { paginateSelector = '.shopify-pagination'; jQInf("body").append(""); } if (jQInf(".pull-right.pagination-btns").length > 0 && jQInf(".product-listing").length > 0 && jQInf(".filters-row__pagination").length > 0) { jQInf('').insertAfter( ".product-listing" ); jQInf("#forcegscenter").append(jQInf(jQInf(".filters-row__pagination").get(0))); } if(specialTheme == 1) { jQInf("body").append(""); } paginateSelector = paginateSelector.replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.'); if(jQInf(paginateSelector).length > 0) { jQInf("body").append(""); } if(jQInf("#gscollectionbottom").length > 0) { jQInf("#gscollectionbottom").remove(); } if(jQInf("#bc-sf-filter-products").length == 0) { if(loaderMode == 1) { jQInf(jQInf(paginateSelector).get(0)).after(' '); } else { jQInf(jQInf(paginateSelector).get(0)).after(' ' + loadMoreBtnText + ' '); } } else { if(loaderMode == 1) { jQInf(jQInf("#bc-sf-filter-products").get(0)).after(' '); } else { jQInf(jQInf("#bc-sf-filter-products").get(0)).after(' ' + loadMoreBtnText + ' '); } } jQInf(jQInf(paginateSelector)).hide(); jQInf("body").append(""); setInterval(function() { try { if(jQInf(paginateSelector).css('float').length > 0) { jQInf("#gscollectionbottom").css('float', jQInf(paginateSelector).css('float')); } } catch(err) { } }, 500); jQInf( "*:contains('Page 1')" ).each(function() { if(jQInf(this).children().length == 0) { jQInf(this).hide(); } }); if(jQInf(collectionParent).length > 1) { var tmpCnt = 1; jQInf(collectionParent).each(function() { if(productsParentTmp.get(0).innerHTML.localeCompare(jQInf(this).get(0).innerHTML) == 0) { containerPos = tmpCnt; } tmpCnt++; }); } if(jQInf(collectionParent).find(paginateSelector).length > 0) { jQInf(collectionParent).after(jQInf("#gscollectionbottom")); } this.listenToScroll = this.listenToScroll.bind(this); this.analyseView = this.analyseView.bind(this); if(productsParentTmp === null) { jQInf("#gscollectionbottom img").remove(); jQInf("#gscollectionbottom button").remove(); return; } this.containerElement = productsParentTmp.get(0); if(jQInf(".grid-link__container").length > 0) { this.containerElement = jQInf(".grid-link__container").get(0); } if(jQInf(".custom-category .toolbar-amount").length > 0 && jQInf(".custom-products").length > 0) { this.containerElement = jQInf(".custom-products .row").get(0); } if(!this.containerElement) { return; } this.paginateSection = document.querySelector(paginateSelector); paginateSel = this.paginateSection; if(sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent') != null && sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent') != "") { this.containerElement.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent')); fixThemeSpecial(); this.paginateSection = document.querySelector(paginateSelector); this.paginateSection.innerHTML = sessionStorage.getItem('gspaginatecontent'); collectionPageNr = parseInt(sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectionpagenr')); setTimeout(function() { try { var resizeEvent = window.document.createEvent('UIEvents'); resizeEvent .initUIEvent('resize', true, false, window, 0); window.dispatchEvent(resizeEvent); $(window).trigger('forceproductblockheights'); } catch(err) { } //jQInf(window).trigger('resize'); }, 1000); if(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half, .medium-up--one-third").length > 0) { try { jQInf(".card").css("opacity", '1'); } catch(err) {} } if(collectionPageNr == -1) { jQInf("#gscollectionbottom button").remove(); jQInf("#gscollectionbottom img").remove(); } } this.listenToScroll(); }; GSLoader.prototype.findCollectionParent = function() { var limititerations = 20; var colllectionParentTmp = jQInf("a[href*='page=2']"); if(jQInf("#bc-sf-filter-bottom-pagination").length > 0) { colllectionParentTmp = jQInf("#bc-sf-filter-bottom-pagination"); } var collectionParentFound = false; while(limititerations > 0) { colllectionParentTmp = colllectionParentTmp.parent(); limititerations--; //console.debug(jQInf(colllectionParentTmp)); if(jQInf(colllectionParentTmp).find('a[href*="/products/"]').length > 0) { collectionParentFound = true; limititerations = 0; } } if(!collectionParentFound) { return false; } var productInCollection = jQInf(colllectionParentTmp).find('a[href*="/products/"]'); if(productInCollection.length < 2) { return false; } try { if(jQInf('#collection-display #product-loop').length > 0) { productsParentTmp = jQInf('#product-loop'); return '#product-loop'; } } catch(err) { } var productInCollectionFirst = productInCollection[0]; var productInCollectionLast = productInCollection[productInCollection.length - 1]; productsParentTmp = productInCollectionFirst; limititerations = 20; while(limititerations > 0) { productsParentTmp = jQInf(productsParentTmp).parent(); if(jQInf(".custom-category .toolbar-amount").length > 0 && jQInf(".custom-products").length > 0) { jQInf("body").append(""); productsParentTmp = jQInf(jQInf('.custom-products').get(0)); return '.custom-products .row'; } limititerations--; //console.debug(jQInf(colllectionParentTmp)); if(jQInf(productsParentTmp).find(productInCollectionLast).length > 0) { if(productsParentTmp.attr("id")) { var idName = '#' + productsParentTmp.attr("id"); return idName ; } if(productsParentTmp.attr("class")) { //var className = '.' + productsParentTmp.attr("class").split(" ").join("."); //className = className.replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.').replace('..', '.'); var className = '.' + jQInf.trim(productsParentTmp.attr("class")).replace(/\s\s+/g, ' ').replace(/ /gi, '.') return className; } limititerations = 0; } } return false; } GSLoader.prototype.listenToScroll = function() { if (this.paginateSection) { if(loaderMode == 1) { document.addEventListener('scroll', this.analyseView); window.addEventListener('resize', this.analyseView); window.addEventListener('orientationchange', this.analyseView); } else { jQInf("#gsloadmore").click(this.clickMoreBtn); } } }; async function postData(url = '', data = {}) { // Default options are marked with * const response = await fetch(url, { method: 'GET', // *GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc. mode: 'cors', // no-cors, *cors, same-origin cache: 'no-cache', // *default, no-cache, reload, force-cache, only-if-cached credentials: 'same-origin', // include, *same-origin, omit headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' // 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', }, redirect: 'follow', // manual, *follow, error referrerPolicy: 'no-referrer', // no-referrer, *no-referrer-when-downgrade, origin, origin-when-cross-origin, same-origin, strict-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin, unsafe-url }); return response.text(); // parses JSON response into native JavaScript objects }; GSLoader.prototype.fetchNextPage = function() { httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest(); try { httpRequest.responseType = 'document'; } catch(error){ } httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function loadingfinished() { try { if(jQInf(".debugbygss").length == 0) { jQInf("body").first().append(' '); } jQInf(".gsdebuglisten10").remove(); jQInf("#debugbygss").append(" Response status: " + httpRequest.status + " ready state: " + httpRequest.readyState + " "); } catch(err) {} if (httpRequest.status == 200 && httpRequest.readyState == 4) { if(httpRequest.responseXML == null) { postData(this.nextStepLink, { }) .then(data => { var data = jQInf(data); var appendedSection = data.find(collectionParent).get(0); var appendaedPage = data.find(paginateSelector).get(0); var nextPageNr = collectionPageNr + 1; jQInf("#gsloaderimg").hide(); jQInf("#gsloadmore").show(); if (data.find("a[href*='page=" + nextPageNr + "']").length == 0) { jQInf("#gscollectionbottom button").remove(); jQInf("#gscollectionbottom img").remove(); } if (jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").length > 1 && (jQInf(data).find('.card').length > 0)) { var columnCnt = 0; jQInf(data).find('.card').each(function () { jQInf(jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").get(columnCnt))).get(0).insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', jQInf(jQInf(this)).get(0).outerHTML); //jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").get(columnCnt)).html(jQInf(this).innerHTML); columnCnt++; if (columnCnt > (jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").length - 1)) { columnCnt = 0; } }); // var appendedSection2 = httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll('.medium-up--one-half')[0]; // jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").get(1)).insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', appendedSection2.innerHTML); } else { jQInf(data).find('img').each(function () { try { jQInf(this).removeAttr("srcset"); } catch (err) { } }); jQInf(".more-views-slider").each(function(){ var images = jQInf(this).find(".image-list"); jQInf(images[0]).css('display', 'none'); jQInf(images[0]).removeClass('lightSlider lsGrab lSSlide'); jQInf(this).append(images[0]); jQInf(this).find(".lSSlideOuter").each(function(){ jQInf(this).remove(); }); jQInf(images[0]).css('display', 'block'); }); this.containerElement.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', appendedSection.innerHTML); //jQInf("body").append(jQInf('script[src*="application.min"]').get(0).outerHTML); var thumbLoader = jQInf(this.containerElement).find(".thumb-loader"); if(thumbLoader.length > 0) { jQInf(thumbLoader).each(function () { jQInf(this).css("opacity", '1'); }); } } var productImages = jQInf(this.containerElement).find(".product-item .product-image img"); jQInf(productImages).each(function(){ if(!jQInf(this).hasClass('loaded')){ jQInf(this).addClass('loaded'); } }); if (collectionParent.indexOf("medium-up--one-half") > 0) { jQInf(".card").css("opacity", '1'); } if (jQInf(collectionParent).find(paginateSelector).length > 0) { jQInf(this.containerElement).after(jQInf("#gscollectionbottom")); } this.paginateSection.innerHTML = appendaedPage.innerHTML; if (jQInf(".cata-product .product-list-item").length > 0) { jQInf(".cata-product .product-grid-item").each(function () { jQInf(this).removeClass("product-grid-item"); jQInf(this).addClass("product-list-item"); }); } if (loaderMode == 1) { this.listenToScroll(); } HsCartDrawer.quickBuyByttonByCollections(HsCartDrawer.json,HsCartDrawer.query); HsCartDrawer.addToCart(HsCartDrawer.json,HsCartDrawer.query); }); return; } if(specialTheme == 17) { collectionParent = collectionParent.replace(".isotope-products.border-no.loaded", ".isotope-products"); } if(specialTheme == 21) { collectionParent = '.collection-products div'; } var appendedSection = httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll(collectionParent)[0]; if(httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll(collectionParent).length > 1) { appendedSection = httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll(collectionParent)[containerPos - 1]; } try { jQInf(appendedSection).find(".slide-up-animation").removeClass("slide-up-animation"); } catch(err) {} if(specialTheme == 12) { jQInf(appendedSection).find(".box--add-hr").remove(); } // FIX FOR PARALAX THEME var paralaxImgs = jQInf(appendedSection).find(".product_image .product_container img"); if(paralaxImgs.length > 0) { paralaxImgs.each(function() { jQInf(this).css("opacity", "1"); }); } var appHeaderEls = jQInf(appendedSection).find("header"); if(appHeaderEls.length > 0) { appHeaderEls.each(function() { jQInf(this).hide(); }); } var containerForProducts = jQInf(this.containerElement); jQInf(appendedSection).find("script").each(function() { try { if(containerForProducts.attr("class") == jQInf(this).parent().attr("class")) { jQInf(this).remove(); } } catch(err) {} }); if(jQInf(appendedSection).find("img:not(\"[src*='/products/']\")").length > 0 && jQInf(appendedSection).find("img[src*='/products/']").length == 0) { jQInf(appendedSection).find("img:not(\"[src*='/products/']\")").each(function() { var imgReference = jQInf(this).get(0); var suggestedImageUrl = ''; var productImgContHtml = jQInf(this).parent().get(0).innerHTML; var splitImgUrls = productImgContHtml.split('cdn.shopify.com'); var splitCnt = 0; var stringToExaminForImageUrl = ''; jQInf.each(splitImgUrls, function(index) { if(splitCnt > 0) { if(this.indexOf('/products/') > 0) { if(stringToExaminForImageUrl == '') { stringToExaminForImageUrl = this; } } } splitCnt++; }); if(splitImgUrls.length > 1) { var remainingpath = stringToExaminForImageUrl.replace("'", " ").replace('"', " ").replace(',', " ").replace(';', " "); splitImgUrls = remainingpath.split(" "); suggestedImageUrl = splitImgUrls[0]; suggestedImageUrl = '//cdn.shopify.com' + suggestedImageUrl; jQInf(imgReference).attr('src', suggestedImageUrl); } }); } var appendaedPage = httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll(paginateSelector)[0]; var nextPageNr = collectionPageNr + 1; //this.containerElement.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent')); //sessionStorage.setItem('gscollectioncontent', sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent') + '' + appendedSection.innerHTML); jQInf("#gsloaderimg").hide(); jQInf("#gsloadmore").show(); window.gscollectionpagenr = collectionPageNr; if(!httpRequest.responseXML.querySelector("a[href*='page=" + nextPageNr + "']")) { try { //sessionStorage.setItem('gscollectionpagenr', -1); window.gscollectionpagenr = -1; } catch(err) { } jQInf("#gscollectionbottom button").remove(); jQInf("#gscollectionbottom img").remove(); } else { try { window.gscollectionpagenr = collectionPageNr; //sessionStorage.setItem('gscollectionpagenr', collectionPageNr); } catch(err) { } } if(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half, .medium-up--one-third").length > 1 && (jQInf(httpRequest.responseXML).find('.card').length > 0)) { var columnCnt = 0; jQInf(httpRequest.responseXML).find('.card').each(function() { jQInf(jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half, .medium-up--one-third").get(columnCnt))).get(0).insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', jQInf(jQInf(this)).get(0).outerHTML); //jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half, .medium-up--one-third").get(columnCnt)).html(jQInf(this).innerHTML); columnCnt++; if(columnCnt > (jQInf(".medium-up--one-half, .medium-up--one-third").length - 1)) { columnCnt = 0; } }); // var appendedSection2 = httpRequest.responseXML.querySelectorAll('.medium-up--one-half')[0]; // jQInf(jQInf(".medium-up--one-half").get(1)).insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', appendedSection2.innerHTML); } else { if(jQInf(appendedSection).find(".hidden-handheld").length > 0) { jQInf(appendedSection).find(".hidden-handheld").remove(); } jQInf(appendedSection).find("img[src*='loader.gif']").each(function() { if(jQInf(this).hasClass("product_image--current")) { jQInf(this).attr("src", jQInf(this).attr('data-src')); } }); jQInf(httpRequest.responseXML).find('img').each(function() { try { jQInf(this).removeAttr("srcset"); } catch(err) {} }); //console.debug(sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent')); if(jQInf('.collection-grid-uninit .collection-header').length > 0) { if(jQInf(appendedSection).find("header").length > 0) { jQInf(appendedSection).find("header").remove(); } var containerForChildren = jQInf(" "); jQInf(appendedSection).find(".collection-grid-item").each(function() { containerForChildren.append(jQInf(this)); }); appendedSection = containerForChildren.get(0); } if(specialTheme == 33) { jQInf(appendedSection).find("figure").each(function() { var backgroundFromTemplate = jQInf(this).attr('data-rimg-template').replace("{size}", '544x800'); jQInf(this).attr("style", 'background-image: url("' + backgroundFromTemplate + '");'); }); } if(jQInf("#bc-sf-filter-products").length > 0) { jQInf("#bc-sf-filter-products").append(appendedSection.innerHTML); } else { this.containerElement.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', appendedSection.innerHTML); try { jQInf(this.containerElement).children("style").each(function() { jQInf(this).hide(); }); } catch( error ){} try { var api = new Yotpo.API(yotpo); api.refreshWidgets(); } catch(err) { } try { DoublyGlobalCurrency.convertAll($('[name=doubly-currencies]').val()); setTimeout(function() { try { DoublyGlobalCurrency.convertAll($('[name=doubly-currencies]').val()); } catch(err) { } }, 1000); } catch(err) { } try { if($(".fw-variants").length > 0) { $(".product_item").hover(function () { $(this).find(".fw-variant-list").stop().slideDown("slow"); }, function(){ $(this).find(".fw-variant-list").stop().slideUp("slow"); }) } } catch(err) { } try { if ((typeof SCAShopify) !== 'undefined') { SCAShopify.jQuery(document).unbind('click.fb-start'); SCAShopify.loaded = false; SCAQVinit = undefined; jQInf.getScript(jQInf('script[src*="sca-qv-"]').attr('src')); } } catch(err) { } try { if (typeof ReloadSmartWishlist !== "undefined" && $.isFunction(ReloadSmartWishlist)) ReloadSmartWishlist(); } catch(err) { } if(specialTheme == 15) { //jQInf("body").append(jQInf('script[src*="assets/theme.js"]').get(0).outerHTML); } if(specialTheme == 11) { jQInf("body").append(jQInf('script[src*="assets/atlantic"]').get(0).outerHTML); } try { jQInf("body").append(jQInf('script[src*="assets/empire.js"]').get(0).outerHTML); } catch(err) { } if(specialTheme == 17) { window.scrollBy( 0, -2); } //this.containerElement.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', appendedSection.innerHTML); fixThemeSpecial(); } try { jQInf(productsParentTmp.get(0)).find("script").hide(); } catch(err) {} jQInf(jQInf(this.containerElement).find(".thumb-loader").length > 0) { jQInf(this.containerElement).find(".thumb-loader").each(function() { jQInf(this).css("opacity", '1'); }); } } if(collectionParent.indexOf("medium-up--one-half") > 0 || collectionParent.indexOf("medium-up--one-third") > 0) { jQInf(".card").css("opacity", '1'); } if(jQInf(collectionParent).find(paginateSelector).length > 0) { jQInf(this.containerElement).after(jQInf("#gscollectionbottom")); } //this.paginateSection.innerHTML = appendaedPage.innerHTML; jQInf(this.paginateSection).innerHTML = ''; //jQInf(this.paginateSection).append(jQInf(appendaedPage.innerHTML)); jQInf(this.paginateSection).append(jQInf(appendaedPage)); if(jQInf(".custom-category .toolbar-amount").length > 0 && jQInf(".custom-products").length > 0) { jQInf('.modes').find(".active").trigger("click"); } if(jQInf(".cata-product .product-list-item").length > 0) { jQInf(".cata-product .product-grid-item").each(function() { jQInf(this).removeClass("product-grid-item"); jQInf(this).addClass("product-list-item"); }); } if(loaderMode == 1) { this.listenToScroll(); } setTimeout(function() { try { SPR.initRatingHandler(); SPR.initDomEls(); SPR.loadBadges(); } catch( error ){} }, 1000); setTimeout(function() { try { var resizeEvent = window.document.createEvent('UIEvents'); resizeEvent .initUIEvent('resize', true, false, window, 0); window.dispatchEvent(resizeEvent); $(window).trigger('forceproductblockheights'); } catch(err) { } //jQInf(window).trigger('resize'); }, 1000); sessionStorage.setItem('gscollectionpagenr', window.gscollectionpagenr); try { if(sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent') != null && sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent') != "") { sessionStorage.setItem('gscollectioncontent', sessionStorage.getItem('gscollectioncontent') + '' + appendedSection.innerHTML); } else { sessionStorage.setItem('gscollectionurl', window.location.href); sessionStorage.setItem('gscollectioncontent', appendedSection.innerHTML); } } catch(err) { try { sessionStorage.setItem('gscollectioncontent', ''); } catch(err) {} } try { sessionStorage.setItem('gspaginatecontent', appendaedPage.innerHTML); } catch(err) { } } }.bind(this); try { httpRequest.gsOpen('GET', this.nextStepLink); httpRequest.responseType = 'document'; httpRequest.gsSend(); } catch(err) { httpRequest.open('GET', this.nextStepLink); httpRequest.responseType = 'document'; httpRequest.send(); } }; GSLoader.prototype.analyseView = function() { if (document.getElementById("gscollectionbottom").getBoundingClientRect().top <= window.innerHeight && document.getElementById("gscollectionbottom").getBoundingClientRect().bottom >= 0) { window.collectionPageNr = collectionPageNr + 1; this.nextSetUrl = this.paginateSection.querySelector("a[href*='page=" + collectionPageNr + "']"); var pageUrl = window.location.href; if(pageUrl.indexOf('?')) { var exploded = pageUrl.split("?"); pageUrl = exploded[0]; } if(pageUrl.indexOf('#')) { var exploded = pageUrl.split("#"); pageUrl = exploded[0]; } document.removeEventListener('scroll', this.analyseView); window.removeEventListener('resize', this.analyseView); window.removeEventListener('orientationchange', this.analyseView); if (this.nextSetUrl || (jQInf("#bc-sf-filter-products").length > 0)) { var paramGSStr = ''; if(getUrlParamsGS("sort_by") != null) { paramGSStr = paramGSStr + "&sort_by=" + getUrlParamsGS("sort_by"); } if(getUrlParamsGS("view") != null) { paramGSStr = paramGSStr + "&view=" + getUrlParamsGS("view"); } if(getUrlParamsGS("q") != null) { paramGSStr = paramGSStr + "&q=" + getUrlParamsGS("q"); } if(getUrlParamsGS("constraint") != null) { paramGSStr = paramGSStr + "&constraint=" + getUrlParamsGS("constraint"); } this.nextStepLink = pageUrl + '?page=' + collectionPageNr + paramGSStr; this.fetchNextPage(); } else { jQInf("#gscollectionbottom img").remove(); } } }; GSLoader.prototype.clickMoreBtn = function() { window.collectionPageNr = collectionPageNr + 1; gsscroller.nextSetUrl = paginateSel.querySelector("a[href*='page=" + collectionPageNr + "']"); var pageUrl = window.location.href; if(pageUrl.indexOf('?')) { var exploded = pageUrl.split("?"); pageUrl = exploded[0]; } if(pageUrl.indexOf('#')) { var exploded = pageUrl.split("#"); pageUrl = exploded[0]; } jQInf("#gsloaderimg").show(); jQInf("#gsloadmore").hide(); if (gsscroller.nextSetUrl) { var paramGSStr = ''; if(getUrlParamsGS("sort_by") != null) { paramGSStr = paramGSStr + "&sort_by=" + getUrlParamsGS("sort_by"); } if(getUrlParamsGS("view") != null) { paramGSStr = paramGSStr + "&view=" + getUrlParamsGS("view"); } if(getUrlParamsGS("q") != null) { paramGSStr = paramGSStr + "&q=" + getUrlParamsGS("q"); } if(getUrlParamsGS("constraint") != null) { paramGSStr = paramGSStr + "&constraint=" + getUrlParamsGS("constraint"); } gsscroller.nextStepLink = pageUrl + '?page=' + collectionPageNr + paramGSStr; gsscroller.fetchNextPage(); } else { jQInf("#gscollectionbottom button").remove(); jQInf("#gscollectionbottom img").remove(); } }; if((window.location.href.indexOf("/collections/") > 0)) { if((window.location.href.indexOf("&page=") > 0) || (window.location.href.indexOf("?page=") > 0)) { var newUrlRedirect = window.location.href.replace("page=", "redirect="); window.location.href = newUrlRedirect; } } } | negative |
It's not only Vic. Square businesses that want new restrictions on large "pop-up" venues. Photo: Nat Rogers/InDaily
The Australian Hotels Association will urge Adelaide City Council to consider tighter restrictions for all large “pop-up” Fringe venues – not just for the under-fire Royal Croquet Club.
Last week, Adelaide City Council flagged its preference that the trading hours of the Victoria Square-based Royal Croquet Club be limited to 1am on Friday and Saturday evenings, and that loud music be shut off by midnight.
AHA general manager Ian Horne told InDaily this morning that many businesses in the East End were also suffering during February and March because of the presence of large Fringe venues such as the Garden of Unearthly Delights and Gluttony.
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“It’s now become a battle of the big pop-ups, to some extent,” said Horne.
“That hospitality offering, predominantly in Victoria Square, but also in the East Parklands, means that (customers) are captured; they’re corralled in those places, and they don’t go anywhere else.
“While there’s no question of overwhelming support for the Fringe and the positive things that the Fringe does, there is a genuine concern among the bricks-and-mortar that the sheer size of the hospitality component – and now competing with other significant pop-up hospitality in the East Parklands – (means) that we’ve reached a tipping point where in fact damage is being done to the viability of a number of bricks and mortar (businesses).
“We in no way would advocate that the major pop-ups need to be shut down, but there needs to be some balance.
“No doubt, you could find some (business owners) in the East End or around Victoria Square who are very, very pleased.
“But the surveys we’ve undertaken (show) that overwhelmingly that the majority say that it’s gone too far.”
Horne will join AHA colleague Wendy Bevan and Restaurant and Catering SA chief Sally Neville to make the case for bricks-and-mortar businesses in a presentation to tomorrow night’s council meeting.
Horne said he agreed with Royal Croquet Club director Tom Skipper that, if new rules are to be applied to the Victoria Square venue, then it was only fair to apply those rules equally to larger “pop-up” venues in the East End.
However, Horne also suggested that the restrictions for the Royal Croquet Club mooted at last week’s committee meeting did not go far enough.
“There needs to be a consideration of the physical size and capacity (of the Royal Croquet Club); there needs to be a consideration of whether it is appropriate to charge $5 entry fees for what is public space – and if so, there needs to be a consideration of the rent that the whole area is charged by ACC,” Horne said.
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“Is it fair to rent out the heartland of Adelaide, prime location, at what many consider a peppercorn rent?
“That’s a challenge for ACC to work out, not us.”
Meanwhile, as businesses in the East End and Victoria Square argue for more restrictions on large pop-ups, traders in the West End are continuing to push for large pop-ups to come to their side of the city.
“You get Mad March everywhere else,” said immediate past president of the West End Traders’ Association Andrew Wallace.
“Wouldn’t it be better if we had more of an even distribution of the larger fringe sites so we can actually encourage more of the foot traffic back to this part of the city?
“(The Fringe Festival) draws a large number of people straight past your front door … so there must be some way of encouraging some of those in.”
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Apple’s WWDC is less than a month away, and we are super excited. I was lucky enough to get a ticket in the lottery, and I can’t wait to see the new innovations Apple’s been working on. So what do I expect will be announced at WWDC 2017? Of course, there will be new software updates including Swift 4, iOS 11, macOS 10.13, tvOS 11 and watchOS 4. Though WWDC is a developer event and primarily focused on software, Apple has occasionally previewed or released new hardware at the event as well. Especially when that hardware requires developers to create or update existing software to take advantage of new hardware features. But as WWDC 2017 is quickly approaching, here are a few things I hope they show off or release at next month’s event.
Siri Speaker
Home assistants are one of those things from science fiction that we have all clearly wanted for a long time, and now we are finally getting it. With the Amazon Echo, Google Home and the Invoke, it’s clear that this new market is defining a new way to interact with technology. I believe that an Apple device that sits in your home and has a microphone that is always listening to activate Siri would also have to have a touchscreen of some kind. I still don’t see Apple fully opening up Siri in the same way Amazon allows for on Alexa, but I expect more and more categories of functionality to be added over time. I also expect Apple to differentiate itself from its competitors in this area by focusing on privacy. These machine learning based systems require massive amounts of user data to continuously improve, but with differential privacy, Apple can still gather data without compromising individual privacy.
Related: A Developer’s Reaction to the MacBook Pro Touch Bar
The question is: what kind of operating system will this thing run on? I’m thinking iOS, a third UIDevice idiom, in addition to the iPhone and iPad instead of a different platform based on the same underlying technology like tvOS. This new platform would require developers to update their existing applications to be voice-controlled, which would be a great win for accessibility. I would also expect this device to have a front-facing camera and to come with apps like FaceTime.
The new Siri Speaker would also be a great dedicated HomeKit hub. Just as Apple realized they needed their own HomeKit app with iOS 10, I believe Apple will want to stop relying on third-party HomeKit hubs and release a first-party option. While the Apple TV and iPad both currently function in this role, having a dedicated device brings a lot of attention and focus to the HomeKit platform.
New iPad Pro
It is just about time for these, but I could also see it not happening until the Fall when iOS 11 is released. I really love my 12.9 inch iPad Pro, but I also believe Apple wants to simplify its product line. I suspect going forward, the 9.7 and 12.9 inch iPad Pros will be replaced by a single 10.5-inch model. This new model will have the same resolution and aspect ratio as the current 12.9 inch but will feature an edge-to-edge design consistent with the design language of the yet to be announced iPhone 8. The reason I can see this being announced at WWDC is to give developers time to incorporate features for the new edge-to-edge display, which would then be used for the iPhone 8, though I believe Apple definitely would not want to announce this before its release.
New MacBook
Of the three MacBook lines, the MacBook, MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro, I believe the regular MacBook is most likely to receive an update at this year’s Keynote. On the other hand, I doubt the MacBook Air will ever be updated at WWDC or ever again. Following the theme of Apple simplifying its product line, I believe the MacBook Air line will be retired and replaced by the 13-inch MacBook Pro without the TouchBar, although hopefully with a better name. The machine I’m hoping will be updated though, is the fairly recently updated MacBook Pro. An update to Kaby Lake and a 32 GB ram option would make a new 15-inch MacBook Pro a ‘no brainer’ for me personally.
All this to say, I’m really excited to be representing stable|kernel at WWDC this year!
To read Alex’s WWDC 2017 recap, read iOS Developer Takeaways from WWDC 2017. | positive |
The guerilla photographers capturing the spaces humans leave behind
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The first time Brett Patman entered an abandoned building, he panicked.
It was an old denim factory in Melbourne, and Patman — who had worked in similar spaces as a service technician — was worried he was not alone.
The first room he entered had been devastated by a fire. He took a few snaps with his phone and sent them to his wife. She sent back exclamation points.
"The more I sort of progressed through the building, the more evidence you see of people having been there," he says.
He went into a warehouse area and found a bike leaning against a pole.
"I started thinking 'Oh, God, there is somebody else here'."
He'd come to take photographs — he'd listened to a podcast about abandoned photography and had been playing around with a camera — so he took some shots and left.
"It all pretty much came from there," he says.
"It sort of became a bit of an obsession."
Patman, 36, is now a full-time photographer, publishing his work under the banner Lost Collective.
He is one of the foremost proponents, in Australia, of urbex, or urban exploration, a kind of guerilla photography that aims to illuminate the spaces humans leave behind.
For Patman, there is a wonder and a mystery to these places. For his social media followers — and he's got quite a few — there is sometimes a personal element.
"Once I started the project, and publishing these galleries through Lost Collective, people started actually connecting with them, and then there was this real-life history that was coming out through the posts," he says.
"People who actually were at these places started to come out and say, 'I used to work here, Dad used to work here, show Dad, show Uncle Bob'."
Early on, he explored what remained of Sydney's Callan Park Hospital for the Insane, opened in the late 19th Century, and posted the results to his Facebook page.
The response, he says, was mixed. He heard stories from people who said their family members had been bashed by fellow inmates or subjected to electroconvulsive therapy, at that stage a fairly new form of psychiatric treatment.
"But then a lot of the people who worked there, and the nurses who helped people, they took issue with some of the connotations that were coming through with that, and I realised there is two sides to the story here," he said.
The comments section of Patman's Facebook post became a kind of forum of shared memory.
"When you get to that much of a personal level with the history of it, it's hard not to really want to dig deeper and find out whatever you can, good and bad," Patman says.
"And that's a big part of what drives what I do today."
'Ominous, creepy, serene, beautiful'
Matthew Christopher, 39, had been working in mental health in Pennsylvania for years when he heard about an old hospital near his home. He went to go see it.
That was the spark.
Pretty soon, Christopher was exploring other abandoned hospitals. Then schools, factories, power plants. He started taking along a DSLR.
"I wanted to be able to share with people what I thought made the places interesting or significant or beautiful," he said.
Christopher now travels full-time across the United States photographing abandoned spaces.
His work, under the title Abandoned America, encompasses a blog and two books, the second of which was released late last year. He has tens of thousands of Facebook and Instagram followers.
"Some places are very ominous and very creepy," Christopher says.
"Some places are very tranquil and serene and beautiful."
Other places are just sad, he says, particularly when they illustrate how much a city or town is struggling.
"It's sort of a bit like a parallel universe, right? What does a school become when it's not teaching people?" he said.
Something he has noticed through his work recently — something that feels extra significant in light of Donald Trump's electoral victory — is a sense of shame some communities feel at becoming victims of economic dislocation.
"They feel like it's their town, and it's just the areas that they live, and other areas must be doing better," Christopher says.
"Overall, we are taught that economic prosperity is equal to morality, to being a hard worker and pulling yourself up by your boot straps — and if you're struggling to do that, there must be something wrong with you."
One of the thornier aspects of this work: the legal one
"I do quite a bit to get permission" to enter spaces, Christopher says.
"But I'd also be a liar if I said that I only ever get permission and that I haven't trespassed."
He's had some "relatively tense" interactions with security, he says. He tries to remain respectful and to cooperate.
"One of the hand, I can understand somebody saying, 'Hey, this is private property, keep out'," he says.
"But on the other hand, using the example of the asylum [in Pennsylvania], this is something the taxpayers paid for, this is something that was a huge part of many people's lives."
Patman says some owners have not taken kindly to finding photos of their properties on social media.
At one point, he says, NSW Police left a comment on one of his Facebook posts warning others about the illegality of trespassing on private property.
These days, he seeks permission first, and focuses on commissioned work.
One of his favourite projects was shooting what remained of the Terminus Hotel, in the Sydney suburb of Pyrmont.
It had been abandoned for three decades when a friend sent Patman an article about its impending sale.
He contacted the real estate agent and was granted access.
"And it was just everything I'd imagined," he says.
"It was like this pub that had just been lost in time."
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Parents have expressed surprise after a bus carrying Syrian refugees arrived at their children’s school.
A building on an Ormesby primary school’s grounds is being used as welcome centre, it emerged today.
Staff at Overfields School said the packed bus arrived this afternoon at an empty Redcar and Cleveland Council building on the Daisy Lane site.
It comes on the same day the authority approved plans to allow 125 Syrian refugees a year to move into the area.
It forms part of wider proposals drawn up last year to welcome up to 500 Syrian families on Teesside, who have fled the war-torn country.
Authorities confirmed the families were being greeted at the centre.
It is not known whether they are the first Syrian refugees to arrive on Teesside as part of the project.
A Redcar and Cleveland spokeswoman said: “The refugees were attending a welcome event, which included an introduction to the area before being taken to their homes.”
Alison Ker, who is working at the site, said: “It is just a registration centre and they will be leaving tonight.”
She added those at the site have just flown into the UK but declined to give details over where they would be based.
Parents told of their shock at the school gates as the bus arrived while they were picking their children up.
One told the Gazette: “My kids attend Overfields Primary School and within school grounds there is an unused building.
“As we picked our kids up today you could imagine our surprise when we saw the full bus.”
“I’ve tried contacting the school headmistress and council but nothing has been said.”
However Overfields headteacher Tracy Watson told the Gazette she was as much in the dark about the arrival as parents.
“It is not anything to do with the school,” she said.
“We share the site in question with different providers, one of whom is Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council.”
She added: “I probably know as much as you at this point.”
Under the newly approved council proposal, refugees will be offered services, including housing and welfare, when they arrive.
It is part of the Syrian Resettlement Programme, which aims to resettle 20,000 refugees from war-torn Syria across the UK during this current Parliament.
Last September, political leaders set out plans to offer homes to up to 500 refugee families across Teesside.
Regarding approval of the Syrian proposals, Redcar and Cleveland Council’s Lynn Pallister, cabinet member for health and housing, said: “The council are planning to resettle families who have fled from the civil war in Syria, with a commitment to take around 25 families per year for the next five years. The families have secured five-year refugee status under humanitarian grounds of the UN scheme
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“A Redcar and Cleveland Steering Group has been established with representatives from public and voluntary services who are all eager to welcome the refugees who will be arriving.
“The group recognises that we all have a role to play to assist the families to settle in our communities following a difficult transition from the areas of conflict from which they originate.” | positive |
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Jose Mourinho says he will return to English football when his reign as Real Madrid manager ends, but the Portuguese insists he is happy at the Bernabeu.
While the ex-Chelsea boss is contracted to Real until 2016, he feels his next job will be back in the Premier League.
"I just say openly that, for many reasons, after this the next step will be England," the 49-year-old told CNN.
"When? I don't know, I don't have an idea. I'm so happy in this moment to be manager of the best club in the world."
The special one Jose Mourinho has won the league title in every country he has managed - Portugal, England, Italy and Spain
Mourinho joined Real from Inter Milan in 2010 having guided the Italian club to their third European Cup triumph.
His side missed out on the Spanish league title to Barcelona in his first season but got the better of them a year later.
That meant Mourinho could add the La Liga crown to the two apiece he won with Inter (2008-10), Chelsea (2004-06) and Porto (2002-04).
He has been mentioned as a potential successor to Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, but Mourinho says he would rather the Scot still be in charge at Old Trafford when he returns to Britain.
"The perfect scenario is when I go there he is still coach," said Mourinho. "Because football will lose a lot when he stops.
"For me, he is the boss. I call him the boss because he is the boss of the coaches and I hope when I go back to English football he is still manager of Manchester United."
Mourinho led Porto to Champions League glory before taking over at Chelsea, winning two league titles, an FA Cup and two League Cups.
He made a shock exit from Stamford Bridge in 2007 after his relationship with Blues owner Roman Abramovich grew troubled.
But when asked if he would consider working under the Russian at Chelsea again, Mourinho replied: "Of course, of course.
"It was a perfect example of a fantastic divorce. We are a lot in touch. We have a great relationship." | positive |
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A video that showed University of Missouri protesters restricting a student photographer’s access to a public area of campus on Monday has ignited discussions about press freedom.
Tim Tai, a student photographer on freelance assignment for ESPN, was trying to take photos of a small tent city that protesters had created on a campus quad. Concerned Student 1950, an activist group that formed to push for increased awareness and action around racial issues on campus, did not want reporters near the encampment.
Protesters blocked Mr. Tai’s view and argued with him, eventually pushing him away. At one point, they chanted, “Hey hey, ho ho, reporters have got to go.”
“I am documenting this for a national news organization,” Mr. Tai told the protesters, adding that “the First Amendment protects your right to be here and mine.” | positive |
TOLD YOU SO! Sex-slave Virginia Roberts has filed legal papers in Federal Court – detailing an 11-person orgy with Prince Andrew with Bill Clinton’s pedophile financier pal Jeffrey Epstein on his “Orgy Island”.
The National ENQUIRER first reported in a world exclusive last week that flight records showed Clinton had traveled with Epstein’s assistant, SK, on his private plane and had been present during the alleged “Orgy Island” incident.
In a shocking 15 page affidavit filing yesterday in a Florida federal court, “Jane Doe No. 3,” Virginia Roberts, now 31, fully detailed a11-person orgy in 2001 with the British Prince dubbed “Randy Andy”.
Roberts has instructed her legal team to take action against Prince Andrew, billionaire procurer Jeffrey Epstein, high-powered attorney Alan Dershowitz and other alleged wealthy perverts – potentially including former Pres. Clinton.
As The ENQUIRER first reported, Epstein’s socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, procured Roberts and others for Epstein and his pals to engage in “forceful” sex with underage girls, the filing confirmed.
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BILL CLINTON LINKED TO PEDO PAL ‘ORGY ISLAND’ SHAME
Roberts’ affidavit charges that Maxwell, the daughter of the late UK newspaper mogul Robert Maxwell, recruited her for prostitution in 1999 at age 15.
“I was trained to be 'everything a man wanted to be,” Roberts said, detailing multiple sex encounters daily, instruction in the use of sex toys and Epstein’s reputed sex dungeon.
Roberts also confirmed The ENQUIRER’s bombshell world exclusive that she met the former “Horndog-In-Chief” at one of Epstein’s lairs in the U.S. Virgin Islands estate where the orgy occurred.
Roberts said she did not have sex with Clinton nor did she witness him having sex with anyone, according to the legal filing.
“Clinton was present on the island at a time when I was also present on the island, but I have never had sexual relations with Clinton, nor have I ever claimed to have had such relations. I have never seen him have sexual relations with anyone," Roberts wrote.
BUT Clinton may still find himself in hot water.
“If Clinton flew to an island where minors were being sexually molested, and did not report this to the authorities, he could have committed a criminal offense,” a legal expert divulged.
And that may torpedo wife Hillary Clinton’s potential Presidential run if Clinton is forced to testify.
Epstein, 61, pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting sex from a minor. He spent 13 months in prison. Roberts and three other victims are waging a legal war to overturn a hush-hush non-prosecution agreement Epstein inked with federal prosecutors, identifying as many as 40 under-aged victims. The plea deal also spared his “co-conspirators” from prosecution.
According to Roberts, those co-conspirators include Maxwell, Prince Andrew, and Dershowitz.
Yet, Buckingham Palace representatives and Alan Dershowitz have vehemently denied Roberts’ charges.
"I am telling the truth and will not let these attacks prevent me from exposing the truth of how I was trafficked for sex to many powerful people,” Roberts said in the filing.
“These powerful people seem to think that they don't have to follow the same rules as everyone else. That is wrong.”
A legal expert familiar with the case said: “The next logical step will be for her legal team to go to the FBI and file charges. Because she was flown across state lines and to London for sex, Homeland Security may have jurisdiction.”
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Canadians are the evangelists of hockey. It's not enough for us to have a particular fondness for the game. We want everyone else to have it too (so long as you don't eventually become better than us at it -- then we hate you). So if you come to this country, expect us to drag you out onto the ice and educate you on the ins and outs of our national pastime at the first opportunity.
Even if you are a lion.
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This is a photo from the Oaklawn Farm Zoo in Aylesford, Nova Scotia, home of Sterk, the African Lion. That's him up there, casually playing a little shinny with his keeper, Maria Weinberg.
Here's another shot:
These photos, uploaded to the Zoo's Facebook page earlier this week, were taken during a cold spell at the zoo that saw the pond in the lion's enclosure freeze over enough to walk on. And when that happens in this country, regardless of where it happens, regardless of whether the pond is surrounded by ferocious predators, there's only one thing to do.
From Postmedia:
“It just happened that the pond that’s in their acre enclosure [was frozen] and he liked going on the ice, so Maria though she’d just for fun take down a hockey stick,” said Gail Rogerson, who owns the zoo with her husband Ron. [...] “It’s like any cat, you know how cats will adjust to whatever,” said Rogerson. “Lions have been bred in captivity for generations. Any lions that are in zoos have been born, well any Canadian lions, have been accustomed to the climate.”
The culture, too. Sterk was born in Ontario a year and a half ago, so he's a second-generation Canadian. And like, most second-generations, he appreciates his hockey. Another successful convert.
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But this isn't just a story about how fanatical Canada is about this game. It's a story about how amazing Nova Scotia is at churning out the next big thing in the game.
You thought Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon were the best that province could do? Yeah, so did I, until I realized the province is maybe a generation away from HOCKEY-PLAYING LIONS.
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The wife of former Stampede Wrestling and WWE legend Dynamite Kid is asking his fans to help him return to his England home after suffering a stroke.
Dynamite, whose real name is Tom Billington, has been in a U.K. hospital since December of last year following a stroke. The popular wrestler has been wheelchair-bound since the 1990s, after a horrific injury to his back left him paralyzed.
His wife, Dot, said in a statement that they haven’t received any royalties from World Wrestling Entertainment, nor has the couple received any help or support.
“We have never ever asked for help from anybody, but we have been left with no choice. This will save his life,” she said in the statement.
Former Stampede Wrestler and member of the famed Hart clan Bruce Hart said the WWE has to step up and help a man who had made them millions of dollars over the years.
“I was told about his condition being pretty grave. I’m going to throw the gauntlet down to Vince McMahon to endeavour to do something for him,” he said.
Billington got his start this side of the Atlantic in Stampede Wrestling, run by Hart family patriarch Stu Hart.
Teaming with his real life cousin, Davey Boy Smith, Billington went on to worldwide fame as one half of the British Bulldogs.
Smith died in 2002 of a heart attack.
Bruce initially spotted Billington while watching a show in England and told Postmedia that in his field, “Dynamite” was in a class of his own.
“He’s comparable to a Wayne Gretzky, or a Michael Jordan, he was that good,” Hart said.
Hart added that Dynamite was probably the most copied wrestler of the last 30-40 years, including guys like Owen, Daniel Bryan, and Shawn Michaels. Often replicated, but never duplicated.
This isn’t the first time a wrestler has reached out to fans to try to get their life back on track, but rarely has it been this drastic.
Scott Hall, who made a name for himself as “Razor Ramon” in the WWE in the mid-90s, raised more than $100,000 to help pay the tab for a hip replacement surgery.
Fans who donated certain amounts would receive signed photos of Hall, Skype phone calls or personalized messages from the wrestler, nicknamed “The Bad Guy.”
After a career taking hard bumps in the squared circle, former ECW, WCW and WWE star Jerry Lynn also took to the internet to try to get something back from the fans he entertained for more than two decades.
Lynn raised $18,000 to help pay for a surgery to remove bone spurs, replace three degenerative discs, and fuse his vertebrae.
To help out the Dynamite Kid, you can visit his wife’s Gofundme page here. She is hoping to raise 20,000 British pounds. | positive |
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Carry The Ocean:The Roosevelt #1 by Heidi Cullinan #LGBT #ReaderPick #Review | Rainbow Gold Reviews Rainbow Gold Reviews Follow the Rainbow to the Pot of Gold Menu Skip to content Home Reviews Anthology/ Collection Audiobook eBook/Paperback Less Than 50 Pages 50-150 Pages 150-250 Pages More Than 250 Pages LGBT Multiple Partners Interracial Taboo Action/ Adventure BDSM Dystopian/ Post Apocalypse Fantasy Historical Horror Paranormal Romance Sci-Fi Steampunk Suspense/ Mystery/ Thriller Young Adult/ New Adult Interviews Guest Posts Spotlights Giveaways Giveaway Winners About Us Contact Us Friend Blogs/Sites <3 LGBT Publishers Ai Press Amber Quill Press Breathless Press Changeling Press Cleis Press Dark Hollows Press DSP Ellora’s Cave Harmony Ink Press Hot Ink Press Indie/Self-published JMS Books Less Than Three Press Lethe Press Loose Id Love Lane Books Mischief Corner Books MLR Musa Publishing Phaze Books Queerteen Press R&P Publishing Riptide Samhain Publishing Seventh Window Publication Silver Liquid Books Siren Publishing Spunk Books Stiff Rain Press Totally Bound Wilde City Press LGBT Book Sales & Deals Graphic Review Art Carry The Ocean:The Roosevelt #1 by Heidi Cullinan #LGBT #ReaderPick #Review mtsnow13 / April 29, 2016 MtSnow reviews ‘Carry The Ocean: The Roosevelt Book #1″ by Heidi Cullinan. Published by Samhain Publishing on April 7, 2015. 268 pages. During RGR’s anniversary celebration the readers had a chance to vote for which books they wanted us to review the most. Carry the Ocean was one of them. Because I loved the book when it first came out more than a year ago, I gladly picked it to review for Reader’s Choice Week. The gorgeous cover is very memorable. I purchased it in paperback, and in ebook form from both Samhain AND for my Kindle. No review copy needed 😉 I was VERY happy to do a re-read. No arm twisting needed here! BLURB: Normal is just a setting on the dryer. High school graduate Jeremey Samson is looking forward to burying his head under the covers and sleeping until it’s time to leave for college. Then a tornado named Emmet Washington enters his life. The double major in math and computer science is handsome, forward, wicked smart, interested in dating Jeremey—and he’s autistic. But Jeremey doesn’t judge him for that. He’s too busy judging himself, as are his parents, who don’t believe in things like clinical depression. When his untreated illness reaches a critical breaking point, Emmet is the white knight who rescues him and brings him along as a roommate to The Roosevelt, a quirky new assisted living facility nearby. As Jeremey finds his feet at The Roosevelt, Emmet slowly begins to believe he can be loved for the man he is behind the autism. But before he can trust enough to fall head over heels, he must trust his own conviction that friendship is a healing force, and love can overcome any obstacle. Warning: Contains characters obsessed with trains and counting, positive representations of autism and mental illness, a very dark moment, and Elwood Blues. It’s like Elwood Blues says: Everybody needs somebody to love. I’m an everybody. I get a somebody” -Emmett This one left me speechless. It was perfect. First thing I did after finishing it, I bought it in paperback to loan to a friend of mine who is a para-educator. I smiled, I cried, I got angry, and I just felt so much, that it’s hard to put into words how this book moved me. This story will honestly stay with me for years. It takes a special person to be able to relay the emotions of those that have trouble sharing THEIR emotions. The author must be a very deep, empathetic person, and I am in awe of her gift. The way the characters were written, and spoke to each other, I visualized and saw things happening for real. The darkness and despair that Jeremey felt in his depression. The following is a perfect quote from Jeremey’s perspective: Sometimes I feel like everyone else is carrying a bucket of water but I’m trying to carry an ocean. Its very hard. Sometimes I would rather not carry my ocean, even if it meant I couldn’t be alive.” – Jeremey Emmett, in his straight forward, matter-of-fact way, was able to coax Jeremey out of himself, and I wouldn’t have thought of the two completely different thinking patterns to be able to mesh so well. But in action it all just worked and made sense. The thing about Emmett’s autism, well, Jeremey never had to guess what he was thinking because, wow, Emmett just up and said what was on his mind. And this took the stress off Jeremey. He didn’t have to panic or worry if he’d say the wrong thing as Emmett, by the nature of his autism, well he didn’t play games. Everything became so transparent and open through Emmett’s mannerisms, words, and memorizations of what he learned he was ‘supposed’ to say. What a relief to someone that has trouble communicating like Jeremey. He learned by Emmett’s actions, and lack of reactions, and his unconditional acceptance. The whole story setup and conclusion was just plain fantastic. Felt to the depth of my toes. Perfect pacing, equal time with both main characters points of view. If it wouldn’t scare the dickens out of the main characters, I’d give them both a great big hug 🙂 As for the assisted living facility for the learning disabled, I wish there was a place like The Roosevelt in every town and city. A perfect stepping stone from living at home and being dependent upon parents, and desiring to step out into the world. EVERYONE is deserving of love, and this story just goes to show there can be a special someone for anyone, no matter their circumstances. And, it also shows me not to judge a book by its cover (figuratively, as personally I fell in love with this cover); meaning just because we can’t see below the surface of these special individuals does not mean they do not have the capability of feeling the depth of love that the rest of us do. It took me ten months to introduce myself to Jeremey Samson. To learn and memorize the etiquette, to find the right words that would show me to Jeremey, not my autism…..I shouldn’t have worried so much about it. Frankly, I’m awesome, and anybody that doesn’t agree should get out of my way.’ – Emmett More perfect words couldn’t be said. Loved it. To see Beth’s fantastic review of this same book, click on this release day review. 10/10 Pots of Gold (100% Recommended) – Compares to 5/5 Stars. WHERE TO PURCHASE: Amazon – All Romance Ebooks – Samhain Publishing – Add to Goodreads ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Heidi Cullinan has always loved a good love story, provided it has a happy ending. She enjoys writing across many genres but loves above all to write happy, romantic endings for LGBT characters because there just aren’t enough of those stories out there. When Heidi isn’t writing, she enjoys cooking, reading, knitting, listening to music, and watching television with her family. Heidi also volunteers frequently for her state’s LGBT rights group, One Iowa, and is proud to be from the first midwestern state to legalize same-sex marriage. Blog: https://heidicullinan.wordpress.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heidicullinan/ Website: http://www.heidicullinan.com Twitter: @heidicullinan Share this: Twitter Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Email More LinkedIn Pocket Reddit Like this: Like Loading... April 29, 2016 in Book Format, eBook/Paperback, Gay, Genre, Length, LGBT, More Than 250 Pages, Novel, Publisher, Review, Romance, Samhain Publishing, Series, Type of Post, Young Adult/ New Adult. 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Republicans accuse Reid of moving to limit Americans’ First Amendment rights. Reid backs campaign spending limit
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wholeheartedly endorsed a constitutional amendment to limit campaign spending on Thursday, putting the Senate on course to vote on the matter as early as July.
Reid said that the Senate Judiciary Committee will take up the amendment on June 3, which allows Congress and the states to limit fundraising and spending on federal campaigns and gives lawmakers the ability to regulate outside groups. From there, the amendment will go to the Senate floor, where it has little chance of passing due to broad GOP opposition to meddling with campaign finance laws.
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But Democrats believe the failed vote on the amendment, which needs the backing of 67 senators, will still pay dividends in the run-up to the midterm elections, painting Republicans as supporters of big money in politics and Democrats as on the side of ordinary voters.
( On POLITICO Magazine: Democrats have a Koch problem)
“Let me pose a question to everyone, including my friend the Republican Leader [Mitch McConnell]. If this unprecedented spending is free speech, where does that leave our middle-class constituents? The poor?” Reid said Thursday morning. “It leaves them out in the cold. How could everyday working families afford to make their voices heard if money equals free speech?”
Republicans quickly rebutted Reid, accusing him of moving to limit Americans’ First Amendment rights.
“Today’s proposal by the Senate Majority Leader represents an all-out assault on the right to free speech, a right which undergirds all others in our democracy. It’s also a clear sign of just how desperate elected Washington Democrats have become in their quest to hold onto power,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
“Washington Democrats have shown again and again how determined they are to shut down the voices of anyone who disagrees with them, whether it’s targeting groups through the IRS or looking over the shoulders of reporters at local newspapers and on news radio. But this latest proposal goes beyond everything they’ve attempted previously.”
( Also on POLITICO: American Bridge starts Koch project)
Even John McCain, a previous supporter of campaign finance reform, said in an interview that he will vote against the amendment, calling it as “exercise in hypocrisy” for Democrats.
The GOP is quick to point out that wealthy liberals like Tom Steyer are backing Democrats’ goal of keeping the Senate, but Senate Democrats believe public opinion is on their side, laying the groundwork for a national messaging campaign based on opposing big money for months. Reid has ripped the influence of conservative billionaires David and Charles Koch on a weekly and sometimes daily basis, on Thursday asserting that the Kochs now represent the “mainstream” of the GOP.
Democratic leaders have also recruited influential allies for their fight against big money in politics, bringing Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to a recent hearing on their constitutional amendment.
“Justice Stevens rightly labeled these massive campaign contributors as ‘nonvoters,’” Reid said. “Behind these nonvoting organizations are massively wealthy men hoping for a big monetary return on their political donations. Then the candidates they bankroll get into office, the winners inevitably begin to legislate their sponsor’s business plans.” | positive |
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Sports enthusiasts visiting Glendale, Ariz., for Super Bowl XLIX will be greeted by two 48- by 14-foot digital billboards hoping to spark conversation about equality and acceptance in sports.
The campaign by SCRUFF, a gay social networking application used by 7 million people worldwide, features two men eyeing each other in a locker room alongside the slogan “Play On Our Team.”
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“While the oversized cultural statement is obviously an attempt to attract more members, it’s also a nod to brave athletes like Michael Sam and Kwame Harris, begging the question: What does ‘gay’ look like?” the company said in a statement.
Scruff spent $3,500 for the billboards during Super Bowl week, and already appears likely to see an impressive return on the investment.
About half a million people are expected to be exposed to the ads, and already Scruff has seen a 20 percent increase in new profile creations in the Phoenix area, compared with the same period last year, spokesman Daniel DeMello told Newsweek.
Since the first of the year, the app has generated more than a million logins in Arizona.
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Hot Wheels Collectors Malaysia: 2008 Lancer Evolution skip to main | skip to sidebar Link Main Page Forum Facebook Upcoming Event: Weekly - Friday 10:00PM SS15 McD drive through. Location Map 1.10.2009 2008 Lancer Evolution Posted by Toycarsmy at 2:00 PM . Labels: 2008 First Edition, 2008 Hot Wheels This is the new casting from 2008, total 3 variant for 2008 First Edition / New Models, Metallic Deep Red, Metallic Gray and Slightly Metallic Dark Blue. Missing the Blue variant in these photos because it never been here in Malaysia yet. The wave for the Lancers was very short, the 1st colour as Red was introduced, followed by the Gray, but the Blue haven't seen in the market yet. The Red was once distributed widely on the Designers Challenge in August 2008, where the Gray was in Hot Wheels Pack of 3. We still hope will see the Blue variant in any time soon. YeoCP// Newer Post Older Post Home About HWCMalaysia HWCM, HWCMalaysia created by a group of people who do more than just collecting Hot Wheels. It exist to enable collectors to discuss, share knowledge, experience and trade with other Hot Wheels enthusiasts in Malaysia over a common platform. So, join us now!!! Contact Us demonicle(at)hwcmalaysia(dot)com cpyeo(at)hwcmalaysia(dot)com Subscribe To HWCM Posts Atom Posts Comments Atom Comments Site Translation 中文 Bahasa Shortcuts Message Boards 2009 Lineup 2008 Catalog 2007 Catalog HWC Vietnam (New) Categories 2008 First Edition (2) 2008 Hot Wheels (5) 2009 Ferrari Racer (4) 2009 First Edition (2) 2009 Hot Wheels (6) 2009 Mystery Cars (1) 2009 New Models (1) 2009 Segment Series (2) 2009 Track Stars (1) 2009 Treasure Hunts (1) 2010 First Editions (2) 7eleven promo (1) Color Shifters (3) Contest (4) Custom Hot Wheels (8) Diorama (2) Error Hot Wheels (1) Event (7) Field Report (4) Gathering (1) GiveAway (1) H0 (1) Hot Wheels 1:50 (1) Hot Wheels ConnectCars (1) HWCM (9) Photo Gallery (32) Shell-Ferrari (1) Collectors' Blog Toy Cars Collector Malaysia Hotwheels 2017 Power Surge 4 years ago Where Car Lovers Congregate 7 years ago art of toys MY new H 10 years ago scale me down!~ custom works : A story of a scooter and a chopper!~ 10 years ago Gee's Garage Collection: Hot Wheels '09 Corvette ZR1 & Ford Mustang Fastback 11 years ago Car Die-Cast Collector Ipoh Custom Hotwheels Time Attack Cusco Honda Civic Si 11 years ago hotwheels every where.. a custom project by danielh 13 years ago DA's Collection My Satria Neo 13 years ago 1.0 Hand Powered Cars 41 Willys Hot Rod 13 years ago Little hobby center Show 5 Show All Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► March (1) ► January (1) ▼ 2009 (68) ► December (4) ► November (1) ► September (1) ► August (2) ► July (4) ► June (1) ► May (2) ► April (11) ► March (9) ► February (11) ▼ January (22) Happy Chinese NewYear 2009 Photo Gallery: Ferrari Club by Sinclair Photo Gallery: Ferrari 550 Maranello by SanLino Field Report: Ferrari Racer for RM9.88 Photo Gallery: How you store your Hot Wheels? Custom HWCM Cars Giveaway Photo Gallery: Ferrari Enzo Gang by Loose-Wheel HWCM Message Board Statistics Custom ’77 Dodge Van 1st HWCM Gathering 16th January 2009 Field Report: Citibank e-statement January promotion Photo Gallery: Ferrari Racer FXX by Kurz Photo Gallery: Enzo Ferrari by Sinclair Hot Wheels 2009 Line-up (Added Poster) HWCM Logo Contest Hot Wheels Connect Cars Massive Restocked in TRU 1 Utama Youngest Hot Wheels Collector 2008 Lancer Evolution Hot Wheels New Price Tag for 2009 2009 Ferrari Racer About HWCMalaysia Followers Hot Wheels Collectors Malaysia © | Hot Wheels Collectors Community Malaysia | Copyright 2009 Disclaimer: The information provided on this site is a courtesy of HWCMalaysia.com. While we try to keep the information on our site as accurate as possible, we disclaim any implied representation about its accuracy, completeness, or appropriateness for a particular purpose. You assume full responsibility for using the information on this site, and you understand and agree that HWCMalaysia.com is neither responsible nor liable for any claim, loss, or damage resulting from its use. All pictures are copyrights to HWCMalaysia community, Logo and Trademark of Hot Wheels is owned by Mattel Inc. | negative |
MATTAWAN, MI -- Six-month-old Russell "Bubby" Cruzan III is one of 88 people in the world to ever suffer from a mutation of the FBXL4 gene, according to his mother Michelle Budnik-Nap.
His mutation comes in the form of a rare disease, mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 13. The disease was only discovered in 2013, so not much is known about it, but for Russell it means his body struggles with many functions and he might not make it to his 2nd birthday.
His disease was in the news recently with Charlie Gard, a baby in London who had been struggling with the same disease and died in July. Charlie's parents had been interested in an experimental treatment offered in the U.S. but a legal battle complicated the situation, and Charlie did not make it.
Budnik-Nap and Russell Cruzan II have hope for their baby, however. They have been pushing for appointments and consultations to happen as soon as possible, as they fight the progression of Russell's disease.
While Budnik-Nap and Cruzan are tentatively looking at nucleoside therapy, the treatment Charlie's parents were interested in, the Mattawan couple is much more actively exploring DCA treatment as an option. Though the treatment was originally developed for cancer, they believe it might work for Russell as well.
"His condition is so rare that the doctors around here really don't know much about it," Budnik-Nap said.
That's why it took weeks to figure out what was going wrong with Russell and why Budnik-Nap and Cruzan have to regularly make trips to Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor and Detroit to consult with various specialists and medical professionals. It's also why the couple has to go to Boston for a consultation with a specialist who can get them access to DCA treatment.
"It's a progressive disease, so whatever we can do now sets the stage for later in life," Budnik-Nap said. "They said he would likely never walk or talk, but he's babbling, and he rolls over, so we have high hopes that will not be the case if we strenuously work with him."
Russell's disease has affected the family in many ways. Because he needs monitoring and has so many appointments, Budnik-Nap had to quit her job so that one of them can to handle all of that.
Budnik-Nap and Cruzan also haven't been able to give their three daughters the attention they would like to, with all the trips they have to make with their baby brother. The girls, ages 3, 6 and 9, are handling it with great aplomb.
Kerri Metheny, the 9-year-old, particularly adores her little brother.
"She's the one that can make him smile, always," Budnik-Nap said. Kerri can even help with some of Russell's day-to-day medical procedures, under supervision.
The family's insurance will cover the majority of the cost of the consultations. However, Russell's medicines still cost a hefty amount out-of-pocket, and the family isn't sure how much the actual treatment will end up costing once they reach that stage. Since the treatments they are looking into are experimental, it's unlikely they will be covered by insurance.
The family has set up a crowdfunding page to help with their expenses: www.youcaring.com/russellcruzan-887269.
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On December 1, Mayor-elect John Tory will become head of a council whose 45 members include just six people of colour; they will be overseeing a city in which "visible minorities" very nearly represent the majority.
Asked following the recent Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremony how future councils could better reflect the diversity of Toronto, Tory surmised that "the only way we're going to resolve that is to keep working at encouraging people to run for public office, remove some of the fears that exist with people… and encourage them at the fact that you can get elected, you can stand for office, that a campaign is not an experience to be feared but rather to be taken on as a challenge."
I have no doubt he's sincere. But while fostering individual ambitions is by no means a wrongheaded approach, it's very much an incomplete one. Structural problems require structural solutions. From a man who's denied the existence of white privilege, however, it may be as good as we get.
The saga of the last four years is the story of Toronto being painfully, repeatedly revealed to itself, its shimmering niceties ripped away to show a city divided along more lines than it has ever properly understood.
In 2010, Rob Ford's election as mayor caused us to consider those who would vote for him. In the years that followed, Ford's antics and personal issues caused us to consider those who'd remain by his side.
Other things, such as the Star's landmark investigations into police "carding" practices, caused us to consider that many residents have fundamentally dissimilar experiences of life in the city. Maps of ever-growing economic disparity caused us to consider that Torontonians find it harder than ever to see each other across immense social and geographic cleavages.
And this election, the 2014 election, caused us to consider the strands of racism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, sexism, classism and ableism that still exist in a city that by and large believes itself to be above such things.
The Fords may have exacerbated these prejudices – and afforded them licence to be aired more freely – but they did not create them. To wish things would return to the pre-Ford status quo is to dream of a black-and-white Pleasantville whose patina of respectability masks the fact that all are not treated equally.
The eruptions that shattered the false pretense of Toronto as a city where "diversity is our strength" were just the most dramatic manifestations of the magma that flows beneath our feet at all times: the systemic barriers, the institutional hurdles, the structures that enforce privilege and disadvantage across too many divides.
Tory's greatest strength is that he dangles the prospect of repairing the rifts exploited by his predecessor. His greatest weakness is his limited understanding of the conditions that create those rifts in the first place.
At a late October debate hosted by CTV Toronto, mayoral candidates talked of ways to tackle gun crime in the city.
"When you grew up here, you grew up being told the police officer was your friend," Tory said, generalizing from his own background. "In a lot of places people have come from, that's not the prevailing view – for good reason in some cases."
The incoming mayor surely meant well, but his comment is typical of the ways that his privilege pops out.
It's concerning that after years of working with CivicAction, he could make a blanket statement overlooking the lived experiences of many in the city. Tory is a test case in the limits of compassion. Can earnestness be a substitute for experience? Can a person deplore the status quo without grasping it? Is good will sufficient to create change?
The problem isn't that Tory doesn't apprehend the breadth of experiences in Toronto, but that he may not understand what he doesn't understand. It's one thing to look at the makeup of council and get that something's amiss; it's another to view it as a symptom of larger imbalances.
In the alternate universe in which Olivia Chow had become mayor, she would have comprehended these issues in a much deeper way but might also have found herself running up against them. Think of the organized resistance to U.S. President Barack Obama, the legions who assert he's not a genuine American. Think of the whipped-up rage toward leftish mayor David Miller, but with added layers of racial and sexual bigotry.
That ugliness would have been hard to bear, but crucial for the same reason: it would have become more difficult to deny that things such as white privilege exist in a pervasive, ongoing fashion. Rather than returning to the realm of the marginalized, Toronto's racism problem would have remained in the open for all to see. It would have been that much harder for those in positions of privilege to forget about the shit that so many people right here, right now deal with every single day. Race, sex and ability would frequently have been top of mind.
Still, through simply seeking public office, Olivia Chow and many other candidates of colour succeeded in exposing different angles on Toronto.
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"I didn't expect to become a symbol," said Munira Abukar, sitting in a Somali restaurant near her Rexdale campaign office on election night. "But I'm glad we're even creating this space for a symbol in the first place."
The Ward 2 candidate's illustrated likeness, along with those of Ward 1 candidate Idil Burale and trustee candidate Ausma Malik, graced a crest that served as the icon for a movement. Created by Terra Loire, Steph Guthrie and Farah Mawani on behalf of grassroots civic engagement group Women in Toronto Politics, the image, proclaiming "Stand up for the city you want," circulated through the #TOpoli bubble in the days before the election, spurred on by attacks on the candidates.
Twice in October, campaign signs for the 22-year-old Abukar were defaced with hateful graffiti. Following the first occurrence – in which her portrait was scrawled over, an outline drawn around her headscarf and "GO BACK HOME" and "BITCH" written – the hashtag #IStandWithMunira trended on Twitter. On another occasion, days before the election, Abukar tweeted that her "volunteers just came back to the office shaken. Man in a Purolator truck threw trash on them + called them terrorists." (Purolator later told media the incident had been investigated and the employee disciplined.)
"Clearly, we're being attacked because we represent something different, right?" Abukar, an elected tenant rep on the Toronto Community Housing board, said four days later. "We're a diverse community, I'm a diverse candidate. And I think diversity scares a lot of people, right? Because they're used to tolerating it and throwing it under the bus and kind of saying, 'It's there, I see it, but I don't want to acknowledge it.' So I think when you force people to acknowledge the fact that you have a diverse landscape in Toronto, that you have people who dress like me and are from Toronto and call it home – it scares a lot of people."
In late September, the smear campaign against Malik began at the predictable peripheries: far-right blogs and Twitter accounts with varying degrees of anonymity; a mysterious "get the facts" website registered at MeetAusmaMalik.com; a column by the Toronto Sun's Sue-Ann Levy treating Malik's participation in a 2006 rally against Israel's assault on Lebanon as a scandal; and an op-ed in the Jewish Tribune branding the candidate for the Toronto District School Board's Trinity-Spadina ward a "radical Muslim terrorist sympathizer."
At the race's first debate, on October 6, none of this registered. A candidate who brought up Malik's involvement in a questionable U of T student election was quickly admonished by the moderator for his attack. From that point on, the event in the near-empty high school auditorium proceeded with a substantive focus on TDSB issues.
I'd shown up in search of a story about how racism and geopolitical conflict were bluntly intruding into a local contest to which few would otherwise pay attention. But I left wondering whether they were factors at all, and didn't end up writing a story: why give greater exposure to a fuss on the fringes that had no apparent traction or bearing on the race?
In an interview the following day, Malik primarily stuck to her themes of "improving the public education system, making sure that it's inclusive, accountable and [gives] every student the opportunity to succeed."
But she reflected on how those principles didn't quite apply to the race itself. "It's not unexpected to have attacks," she said, "especially when you represent historically marginalized groups. I am a racialized person, I am a woman, a person of faith, and it is unfortunate that we will still have a different experience and have to challenge racism and sexism and all sorts of prejudice.
"But I also think that it is really important and vital that we have a diversity of experiences and people who do share progressive values and a vision for this city at all levels of elected representation. And I think that's what makes me energized by this race, and why I think that it's really important to continue to move forward."
The Sun's Levy, in her subsequent column, introduced the candidate as "Muslim Ausma Malik" and deployed "But let's get back to our Muslim candidate" as a segue.
The next debate, at Ogden Junior Public School on October 22, did not go as smoothly. The breakdown occurred in the final minutes, and was described by Kate Hammer – then an education reporter for the Globe – in a series of tweets: "During closing remarks, some members of the audience heckled Malik, accusing her of lies, supporting Hezbollah and racism…. They called her 'Jew hater' and demanded that she answer their questions, all the while preventing her from responding…. This continued for about five minutes…. Malik's team expressed concern that the hecklers appeared to be waiting for her at the school entrance. She left through a back door."
By the third and final debate, police were on hand to eject unruly attendees (and did).
Anti-Malik literature, meanwhile, was distributed through the ward; monochromatic photocopies gave way to full-colour leaflets and glossy door-hangers that put a photo of the hijab-clad candidate atop the flag of Hezbollah. Some person (or people) had invested real money and time in the effort.
My earlier decision to ignore the backlash increasingly seemed like a poor one. Denying it the oxygen that it didn't deserve also deprived it of the sunlight it did: away from scrutiny and exposure, the anti-Malik movement grew happily in the darkness. Such things shouldn't be a candidate's burden; a public response is only possible if the public is aware.
In a field of eight, Malik took the seat in a landslide, earning 40 per cent of the vote – more than twice as much as the first runner-up.
Council candidate Abukar wasn't so fortunate, finishing fourth in the north Etobicoke ward that will once again have Rob Ford as its councillor. In Ward 1, Burale finished a distant fifth against Ford yes-man Vincent Crisanti.
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You'd never know it by looking at who's there, but it is extremely difficult to get a spot on council.
Over the last four elections – 2003, 2006, 2010 and 2014 – incumbents ran in 144 of 180 races (including those for mayor), or 80 per cent of the time. In those 144 contests, only 11 incumbents – 7.6 per cent – were defeated. And of those 11 upsets, at least a third involved circumstances in which the incumbent had screwed up (or were believed by their constituents to have screwed up) in very specific ways.
In the same period, 33 candidates were elected in open races in which incumbents didn't run. Of those 33, most were already connected to the political establishment: six were previously TDSB trustees; two had served as Catholic school trustees; five had worked as councillors' assistants; two were councillors in previous terms; one had been an MPP; another an MP; five were sons of former councillors; two the offspring of sitting MPs; and one the son of a sitting MPP. (There's some overlap, with certain people holding multiple distinctions.)
Since 2000, the proportion of women elected to council has hovered between 27 and 33 per cent, and people of colour between 11 and 13 per cent. Just two councillors in Toronto's history have identified as gay, both representing the ward that includes the Church-Wellesley village.
It can be tricky to separate the particular obstacles facing distinct groups from the more general barrier of incumbency.
"There's something unique about municipal government," says Alejandra Bravo. "And if you look at the way the provincial and federal election results have played out over time, there's some clues there about what could be different."
As a three-time runner-up to Councillor Cesar Palacio, Bravo knows the uphill battle involved in taking on an incumbent. And as the founder of the Maytree Foundation's School4Civics, which equips members of diverse communities with the practical skills needed to run for office, she knows about the challenges specific to racialized candidates.
She lists a number of potential structural reforms that already receive intermittent consideration: moving from a first-past-the-post system to ranked ballots; extending the municipal vote to permanent residents; moving forward the August 1 date by which councillors are no longer allowed to send out promotional newsletters during an election year.
But she also finds herself warming to the idea of political parties, which Ontario's Municipal Elections Act doesn't currently contemplate. Citing Maytree and CivicAction's 2011 Diversity Gap report, Bravo points out that visible minorities were "by far" most underrepresented at the municipal level – 7 per cent of the Greater Toronto Area councillors, compared to 17 per cent of its MPs and 26 per cent of its MPPs.
She says she understands the fondness for the city's current party-free model, but "if you look at the way the federal and provincial levels are advancing more quickly, it does send a message that that's something to consider." She brings up Vancouver and Montreal, cities whose "civic parties look at their slate and make a deliberate attempt to recruit, mentor, support and get elected people from diverse backgrounds, because it's of interest to the whole movement."
In Toronto, women and racialized candidates "find that it's very difficult to make the case that this is what a leader looks like, that this is what a leader sounds like when you have English as your second language," she says. "But at the federal and provincial levels, the party narrative, the party platform, the message of the leader, the fact that you're part of a team mitigates some of that."
(Councillor Mike Layton, whose late father, Jack, was a councillor and MP, says that while a "name's only gonna get you so far," it does have the connotations of a party brand, i.e., "This is the political space this individual probably or more than likely fills.")
Olivia Chow was a school trustee from 1985 to 1991, a councillor from 1991 to 2005 and an MP from 2006 to 2014. But she says she never experienced racism like she did when running for mayor.
"I was quite surprised," she says via Skype from Tunisia, where she's helping monitor that country's first democratic elections. "Maybe other elections weren't as intense. In 2006, I had the 'chow chow dog' [comment on a Liberal's blog], but it was slapped down immediately. I didn't have as much intense hatred."
The most brutal attacks came online, but the most widely seen remarks were made in person.
At an October 1 debate at the Joseph J. Piccininni Community Centre, an audience member asked how Chow was qualified to be mayor despite being an immigrant who's lived off the "public purse."
Chow smacked him down harder than she did anyone else during the campaign. "I believe that everyone counts," she affirmed with remarkable fire. "No matter where we came from, what colour of our skin, what background, what income level, what neighbourhood we came from, it doesn't matter. We are good Torontonians in this good city of ours, in this beautiful country."
The other candidates, including Tory, declined the opportunity to chime in.
"I think [they could've made] a statement to say 'We're all Canadians' or 'Whether Olivia Chow is an immigrant or not has nothing to do with what we were talking about,'" she says. "I think they could have stated that. They chose not to."
She doesn't seem bitter. Just somewhat resigned.
Five ways to a more diverse council
1) Ranked ballots Candidates could no longer squeak into office with a small fraction of the electorate's support. Potential challengers would no longer have to calculate whether they might split opposition to the incumbent.
2) Give permanent residents a vote A recent Maytree study discovered a strong inverse relationship between a ward's voter turnout and the proportion of its residents who are immigrants. Extending the municipal vote to permanent residents would encourage badly needed engagement in the political system.
3) Municipal parties Political parties make a deliberate attempt to recruit and field diverse slates of candidates who would run and get elected on a shared set of values instead of just name recognition.
4) Campaign finance reform Toronto has a generous rebate system for campaign contributors. The city refunds a large chunk of donations. But that requires donors to front the full sum, which is harder for some people than others. New York City takes the reverse approach: candidates who meet certain thresholds can enroll in a matching-fund program that contributes $6 of public money for each dollar in donations up to $175 by NYC residents.
5) Rein in councillor self-promotion Until August 1 of an election year, city councillors may use their office budget to distribute newsletters, buy advertisements and host community events. Communicating with constituents is a legitimate objective, but these materials and events can have significant self-promotional components. Given that election nominations open on the first business day of January, incumbent councillors can spend up to seven months publicizing themselves on the public dime without its counting toward a campaign spending limit.
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Ok Submit Log in Register Log in Submit Log in Access provided by Article| Volume 21, ISSUE 7, P1883-1895, November 14, 2017 PDFPDF Standard PDF [3 MB] Extended PDF [4 MB] Figures Figure Viewer Download Figures (PPT) Save Add to Online LibraryPowered ByMendeley Add to My Reading List Export Citation Create Citation Alert Share Share on Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Sina Weibo more Reprints Request Top Phosphorylation and Ubiquitination Regulate Protein Phosphatase 5 Activity and Its Prosurvival Role in Kidney Cancer Natela Dushukyan 8 Author Footnotes 8 These authors contributed equally Natela Dushukyan Footnotes 8 These authors contributed equally Affiliations Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Upstate Cancer Center, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Search for articles by this author Diana M. Dunn 8 Author Footnotes 8 These authors contributed equally Diana M. Dunn Footnotes 8 These authors contributed equally Affiliations Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Upstate Cancer Center, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Search for articles by this author Rebecca A. Sager Rebecca A. Sager Affiliations Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Upstate Cancer Center, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Search for articles by this author Mark R. Woodford Mark R. 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Haystead Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA Search for articles by this author Gennady Bratslavsky Gennady Bratslavsky Affiliations Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Upstate Cancer Center, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Search for articles by this author Dimitra Bourboulia Dimitra Bourboulia Affiliations Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Upstate Cancer Center, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Search for articles by this author Mehdi Mollapour 9 Author Footnotes 9 Lead Contact Mehdi Mollapour Correspondence Corresponding author Contact Footnotes 9 Lead Contact Affiliations Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Upstate Cancer Center, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Search for articles by this author Show footnotesHide footnotes Author Footnotes 8 These authors contributed equally 9 Lead Contact Open AccessDOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.10.074 Phosphorylation and Ubiquitination Regulate Protein Phosphatase 5 Activity and Its Prosurvival Role in Kidney Cancer Previous ArticlePreventive Inhibition of Liver Tumorigenesis by Systemic Activation of Innate Immune Functions Next ArticleChemotherapy-Induced Depletion of OCT4-Positive Cancer Stem Cells in a Mouse Model of Malignant Testicular Cancer Highlights • Casein kinase 1δ (CK1δ) phosphorylates T362 in the catalytic domain of PP5 • Phosphorylation activates and enhances the phosphatase activity of PP5 • Von Hippel-Lindau protein (VHL) multi-monoubiquitinates PP5 on K185 and K199 • PP5 downregulation in VHL-null clear cell renal cell carcinoma causes apoptosis Summary The serine/threonine protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) regulates multiple cellular signaling networks. A number of cellular factors, including heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90), promote the activation of PP5. However, it is unclear whether post-translational modifications also influence PP5 phosphatase activity. Here, we show an “on/off switch” mechanism for PP5 regulation. The casein kinase 1δ (CK1δ) phosphorylates T362 in the catalytic domain of PP5, which activates and enhances phosphatase activity independent of Hsp90. Overexpression of the phosphomimetic T362E-PP5 mutant hyper-dephosphorylates substrates such as the co-chaperone Cdc37 and glucocorticoid receptor in cells. Our proteomic approach revealed that the tumor suppressor von Hippel-Lindau protein (VHL) interacts with and ubiquitinates K185/K199-PP5 for proteasomal degradation in a hypoxia- and prolyl-hydroxylation-independent manner. Finally, VHL-deficient clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) cell lines and patient tumors exhibit elevated PP5 levels. Downregulation of PP5 causes ccRCC cells to undergo apoptosis, suggesting a prosurvival role for PP5 in kidney cancer. Graphical Abstract Graphical Abstract View Large Image Figure Viewer Download Hi-res image Download (PPT) Keywords serine/threonine phosphatase 5 molecular chaperone co-chaperone heat shock protein 90 clear cell renal cell carcinoma kidney cancer PP5 casein kinase-1 δ von Hippel-Lindau protein VHL Introduction The serine/threonine protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) belongs to the phosphoprotein phosphatase (PPP) family. Unlike other phosphatases within this family, PP5 is encoded by a single gene, and its regulatory and catalytic domains are all contained within the same polypeptide ( Shi, 2009 Shi Y. Serine/threonine phosphatases: mechanism through structure. Cell. 2009; 139: 468-484 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (1005) Google Scholar ). Recently, a positive correlation between PP5 expression levels and breast cancer metastasis has been identified ( Golden et al., 2008a Golden T. Aragon I.V. Rutland B. Tucker J.A. Shevde L.A. Samant R.S. Zhou G. Amable L. Skarra D. Honkanen R.E. Elevated levels of Ser/Thr protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) in human breast cancer. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 2008; 1782: 259-270 Crossref PubMed Scopus (54) Google Scholar ), indicating that PP5 may act as an oncogene during carcinogenesis. Recent work has also shown the importance of PP5 in colorectal cancer cell growth ( Wang et al., 2015 Wang J. Zhu J. Dong M. Yu H. Dai X. Li K. Inhibition of protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) suppresses survival and growth of colorectal cancer cells. Biotechnol. Appl. Biochem. 2015; 62: 621-627 Crossref PubMed Scopus (10) Google Scholar ). PP5 generally has low basal activity, because the tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) motif at its N terminus interacts with the αJ helix in the C terminus. This prevents substrates from entering the active site of PP5 ( Cliff et al., 2006 Cliff M.J. Harris R. Barford D. Ladbury J.E. Williams M.A. Conformational diversity in the TPR domain-mediated interaction of protein phosphatase 5 with Hsp90. Structure. 2006; 14: 415-426 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (71) Google Scholar , Haslbeck et al., 2015a Haslbeck V. Drazic A. Eckl J.M. Alte F. Helmuth M. Popowicz G. Schmidt W. Braun F. Weiwad M. Fischer G. et al. Selective activators of protein phosphatase 5 target the auto-inhibitory mechanism. Biosci. Rep. 2015; 35: e00210 PubMed Google Scholar , Kang et al., 2001 Kang H. Sayner S.L. Gross K.L. Russell L.C. Chinkers M. Identification of amino acids in the tetratricopeptide repeat and C-terminal domains of protein phosphatase 5 involved in autoinhibition and lipid activation. Biochemistry. 2001; 40: 10485-10490 Crossref PubMed Scopus (73) Google Scholar , Ramsey and Chinkers, 2002 Ramsey A.J. Chinkers M. Identification of potential physiological activators of protein phosphatase 5. Biochemistry. 2002; 41: 5625-5632 Crossref PubMed Scopus (61) Google Scholar , Yang et al., 2005 Yang J. Roe S.M. Cliff M.J. Williams M.A. Ladbury J.E. Cohen P.T. Barford D. Molecular basis for TPR domain-mediated regulation of protein phosphatase 5. EMBO J. 2005; 24: 1-10 Crossref PubMed Scopus (153) Google Scholar ). Activation of PP5 depends on binding of its TPR domain to the molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) and client substrates. Other cellular factors such as polyunsaturated fatty acids also activate PP5 ( Chatterjee et al., 2010 Chatterjee A. Wang L. Armstrong D.L. Rossie S. Activated Rac1 GTPase translocates protein phosphatase 5 to the cell membrane and stimulates phosphatase activity in vitro. J. Biol. Chem. 2010; 285: 3872-3882 Crossref PubMed Scopus (15) Google Scholar , Ramsey and Chinkers, 2002 Ramsey A.J. Chinkers M. Identification of potential physiological activators of protein phosphatase 5. Biochemistry. 2002; 41: 5625-5632 Crossref PubMed Scopus (61) Google Scholar , Yang et al., 2005 Yang J. Roe S.M. Cliff M.J. Williams M.A. Ladbury J.E. Cohen P.T. Barford D. Molecular basis for TPR domain-mediated regulation of protein phosphatase 5. EMBO J. 2005; 24: 1-10 Crossref PubMed Scopus (153) Google Scholar ). The majority of PP5 substrates are in complex with Hsp90 and include the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), tumor suppressor p53, and the co-chaperone Cdc37 ( Vaughan et al., 2008 Vaughan C.K. Mollapour M. Smith J.R. Truman A. Hu B. Good V.M. Panaretou B. Neckers L. Clarke P.A. Workman P. et al. Hsp90-dependent activation of protein kinases is regulated by chaperone-targeted dephosphorylation of Cdc37. Mol. Cell. 2008; 31: 886-895 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (139) Google Scholar , Zuo et al., 1998 Zuo Z. Dean N.M. Honkanen R.E. Serine/threonine protein phosphatase type 5 acts upstream of p53 to regulate the induction of p21(WAF1/Cip1) and mediate growth arrest. J. Biol. Chem. 1998; 273: 12250-12258 Crossref PubMed Scopus (106) Google Scholar , Zuo et al., 1999 Zuo Z. Urban G. Scammell J.G. Dean N.M. McLean T.K. Aragon I. Honkanen R.E. Ser/Thr protein phosphatase type 5 (PP5) is a negative regulator of glucocorticoid receptor-mediated growth arrest. Biochemistry. 1999; 38: 8849-8857 Crossref PubMed Scopus (110) Google Scholar ). PP5 also functions as a co-chaperone of Hsp90 ( Haslbeck et al., 2015b Haslbeck V. Eckl J.M. Drazic A. Rutz D.A. Lorenz O.R. Zimmermann K. Kriehuber T. Lindemann C. Madl T. Richter K. The activity of protein phosphatase 5 towards native clients is modulated by the middle- and C-terminal domains of Hsp90. Sci. Rep. 2015; 5: 17058 Crossref PubMed Scopus (17) Google Scholar , Vaughan et al., 2008 Vaughan C.K. Mollapour M. Smith J.R. Truman A. Hu B. Good V.M. Panaretou B. Neckers L. Clarke P.A. Workman P. et al. Hsp90-dependent activation of protein kinases is regulated by chaperone-targeted dephosphorylation of Cdc37. Mol. Cell. 2008; 31: 886-895 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (139) Google Scholar , Wandinger et al., 2006 Wandinger S.K. Suhre M.H. Wegele H. Buchner J. The phosphatase Ppt1 is a dedicated regulator of the molecular chaperone Hsp90. EMBO J. 2006; 25: 367-376 Crossref PubMed Scopus (124) Google Scholar , Xu et al., 2012 Xu W. Mollapour M. Prodromou C. Wang S. Scroggins B.T. Palchick Z. Beebe K. Siderius M. Lee M.J. Couvillon A. et al. Dynamic tyrosine phosphorylation modulates cycling of the HSP90-P50(CDC37)-AHA1 chaperone machine. Mol. Cell. 2012; 47: 434-443 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (89) Google Scholar ), and its dephosphorylation of Cdc37 in complex with Hsp90 activates kinase clients. Hsp90 and its co-chaperones are subject to post-translational modifications (PTMs) ( Mayer and Le Breton, 2015 Mayer M.P. Le Breton L. Hsp90: breaking the symmetry. Mol. Cell. 2015; 58: 8-20 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (111) Google Scholar , Walton-Diaz et al., 2013 Walton-Diaz A. Khan S. Bourboulia D. Trepel J.B. Neckers L. Mollapour M. Contributions of co-chaperones and post-translational modifications towards Hsp90 drug sensitivity. Future Med. Chem. 2013; 5: 1059-1071 Crossref PubMed Scopus (48) Google Scholar , Woodford et al., 2016a Woodford M.R. Dunn D. Miller J.B. Jamal S. Neckers L. Mollapour M. Impact of posttranslational modifications on the anticancer activity of Hsp90 inhibitors. Adv. Cancer Res. 2016; 129: 31-50 Crossref PubMed Scopus (33) Google Scholar ). However, it is unclear whether PP5 is also subject to any PTMs and how this impacts its phosphatase activity in cells. In this study, we found that CK1δ phosphorylates T362 in the catalytic domain of PP5, which is involved in its activation and hyperactivity, independent of Hsp90 binding. We also found that the tumor suppressor von Hippel-Lindau protein (VHL) targets K185/K199 for ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation of PP5 in a hypoxia-independent manner. Mutation and inactivation of VHL is associated with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) ( Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, 2013 Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network Comprehensive molecular characterization of clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Nature. 2013; 499: 43-49 Crossref PubMed Scopus (2166) Google Scholar ). In the absence of VHL, PP5 was upregulated and hyperphosphorylated in ccRCC cells. Small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated silencing of PP5 induced apoptosis in VHL-null ccRCC, suggesting a prosurvival role for PP5 in these cells. Results CK1δ Phosphorylates T362 in the Catalytic Domain of PP5 Previous work has shown that PP5 interacts with casein kinase 1 (CK1) ( Partch et al., 2006 Partch C.L. Shields K.F. Thompson C.L. Selby C.P. Sancar A. Posttranslational regulation of the mammalian circadian clock by cryptochrome and protein phosphatase 5. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2006; 103: 10467-10472 Crossref PubMed Scopus (66) Google Scholar ). We used this information and showed that in yeast, Hrr25, the homolog of mammalian serine/threonine kinase casein kinase 1 δ (CK1δ), phosphorylates Ppt1 (yeast PP5) on both serine and threonine residues (Figure S1A). This was achieved by co-expressing C-terminally His6-tagged Ppt1 under its native promoter and C-terminally cMyc-tagged Hrr25 under the galactose-inducible promoter of GAL1 in yeast. Threonine and serine phosphorylation of Ppt1-His6 was detectable by immunoblotting using pan-anti-phosphothreonine-P6623 and anti-phosphoserine-P5754 (Sigma-Aldrich) antibodies (Figure S1A). Growing yeast cells in galactose (i.e., overexpressing Hrr25-cMyc) led to hyperphosphorylation of Ppt1 on both threonine and serine sites (Figure S1A). We next asked whether similar phenomena also occur with human CK1δ and human PP5. N-terminal FLAG-tagged PP5 (PP5-FLAG) was transiently expressed in HEK293 cells. Using anti-FLAG M2 affinity gel, PP5-FLAG was immunoprecipitated, and co-immunoprecipitation of CK1δ was observed by immunoblotting (Figure 1A). A similar experiment was also conducted by transiently co-transfecting HEK293 cells with PP5-FLAG and N-terminally cMyc-tagged CK1δ. Immunoprecipitation of PP5-FLAG led to co-immunoprecipitation of CK1δ-cMyc (Figure 1B). These data show that CK1δ interacts with PP5. Figure 1CK1δ Phosphorylates T362-PP5 Show full caption (A) Empty vector (EV) or PP5-FLAG plasmids were transiently expressed and immunoprecipitated (IP) from HEK293 cells. Co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) of endogenous CK1δ was examined by immunoblotting. Empty vector was used as a control. (B) PP5-FLAG and CK1δ-cMyc were transiently co-expressed in HEK293 cells. PP5-FLAG was IP and Co-IP of CK1δ-cMyc was assessed by immunoblotting. Empty vector was used as a control. (C) Recombinant PP5-His6 was used in an in vitro kinase assay. CK1δ-GST phosphorylates only threonine residues on PP5-His6. Phosphorylation was examined by immunoblotting with anti-phosphoserine or phosphothreonine antibodies. SE (short exposure) and LE (long exposure) of the radiographic film. (D) Schematic representation of PP5 with highlighted CK1δ consensus sequence E/DXXT. (E) Potential CK1δ-targeted threonine sites on PP5 are highlighted on the cartoon representation of the PP5 protein, which was modeled with UCSF Chimera software (PDB: 1WAO) and colored in red as in (D). (F) PP5-threonine residues within the CK1δ consensus sequence were mutated individually to alanine (A), transiently expressed, and IP from HEK293 cells. Threonine phosphorylation was detected by immunoblotting with anti-phosphothreonine antibody. This experiment was repeated with co-transfection of CK1δ-cMyc with the phospho-PP5-FLAG mutants in HEK293 cells. PP5-FLAG and its mutants were isolated and threonine phosphorylation was assessed by immunoblotting with anti-phosphothreonine antibody. Short exposure (SE) and long exposure (LE) of the radiographic film. (G) Recombinant PP5-His6 and T362A-PP5-His6 were used as substrates of CK1δ-GST in an in vitro kinase assay. Phosphorylation was assessed by immunoblotting with anti-phosphoserine or phosphothreonine antibodies. See also Figure S1. View Large Image Figure Viewer Download Hi-res image Download (PPT) Our previous work has shown that PP5-mediated dephosphorylation of the co-chaperone Cdc37 is essential for activation of the kinase clients of Hsp90 ( Vaughan et al., 2008 Vaughan C.K. Mollapour M. Smith J.R. Truman A. Hu B. Good V.M. Panaretou B. Neckers L. Clarke P.A. Workman P. et al. Hsp90-dependent activation of protein kinases is regulated by chaperone-targeted dephosphorylation of Cdc37. Mol. Cell. 2008; 31: 886-895 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (139) Google Scholar ). We first established whether CK1δ is an Hsp90 client by treating HEK293 cells with 1 μM of the Hsp90 inhibitor ganetespib (GB) over time. This did not impact the stability of CK1δ (Figure S1B); therefore, it is unlikely that CK1δ is a client of Hsp90. We next examined whether CK1δ directly phosphorylates PP5 in an in vitro kinase assay. Bacterially expressed and purified PP5-His6 was bound to Ni-NTA agarose and then incubated with active CK1δ-glutathione S-transferase (GST). Using immunoblotting and anti-phosphothreonine P6623 (Sigma-Aldrich) antibody, it was possible to detect threonine phosphorylation of PP5 (Figure 1C). Unlike in yeast, CK1δ does not phosphorylate any serine sites on PP5 (Figure 1C). There are seven mammalian CK1 isoforms, but CK1δ and CK1ε display the highest homology ( Schittek and Sinnberg, 2014 Schittek B. Sinnberg T. Biological functions of casein kinase 1 isoforms and putative roles in tumorigenesis. Mol. Cancer. 2014; 13: 231 Crossref PubMed Scopus (136) Google Scholar ). We repeated our in vitro kinase assay with PP5-His6 and CK1ε-GST. Surprisingly, CK1ε did not phosphorylate PP5 on threonine or serine sites (Figure S1C). Generally, the CK1 consensus phosphorylation site is S/Tp-X-X-S/T, where S/Tp refers to phospho-serine or phospho-threonine priming sites, X refers to any amino acid, and the underlined residues refer to the target site ( Flotow et al., 1990 Flotow H. Graves P.R. Wang A.Q. Fiol C.J. Roeske R.W. Roach P.J. Phosphate groups as substrate determinants for casein kinase I action. J. Biol. Chem. 1990; 265: 14264-14269 Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar ). We did not identify any possible threonine phosphorylation site using this consensus motif in PP5. CK1 also phosphorylates a related unprimed site, D/E-X-X-S/T, where the underlined residues refer to the phosphorylated amino acid ( Flotow et al., 1990 Flotow H. Graves P.R. Wang A.Q. Fiol C.J. Roeske R.W. Roach P.J. Phosphate groups as substrate determinants for casein kinase I action. J. Biol. Chem. 1990; 265: 14264-14269 Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar ). We identified five threonine residues within this CK1 consensus site (Figure 1D): T33, T121, T171, T238, and T362. With the exception of T238, all the identified threonine sites are located on the surface of PP5 (Figure 1E). These sites were individually mutated to non-phosphorylatable alanine in the PP5-FLAG construct and transiently co-expressed with or without CK1δ-cMyc in HEK293 cells. PP5-FLAG was then immunoprecipitated with anti-FLAG M2 affinity gel, and threonine phosphorylation was detected by immunoblotting using anti-phosphothreonine-P6623 (Sigma-Aldrich) antibody. Overexpression of CK1δ-cMyc increased threonine phosphorylation of wild-type PP5-FLAG and all non-phosphorylatable threonine mutants except T362A-PP5-FLAG (Figures 1F and S1D). The threonine phosphorylation of this mutant was significantly lower, even with overexpression of CK1δ-cMyc (Figures 1F and S1D), suggesting that T362 is phosphorylated by CK1δ. We obtained further evidence by carrying out an in vitro kinase assay with bacterially expressed and purified wild-type PP5-His6 and the non-phosphorylatable mutant T362A-PP5-His6. We were unable to detect threonine phosphorylation of this mutant by immunoblotting (Figure 1G), therefore confirming that CK1δ targets and phosphorylates only T362 in PP5. T362 Phosphorylation Activates and Increases PP5 Activity Independent of Hsp90 To determine the impact of T362 phosphorylation on the activation and activity of PP5, we initially tested the ability of T362-PP5 phosphomutants to dephosphorylate para-nitrophenyl phosphate (pNPP), a small molecule commonly used for assaying nonspecific phosphatase activity ( Oberoi et al., 2016 Oberoi J. Dunn D.M. Woodford M.R. Mariotti L. Schulman J. Bourboulia D. Mollapour M. Vaughan C.K. Structural and functional basis of protein phosphatase 5 substrate specificity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2016; 113: 9009-9014 Crossref PubMed Scopus (44) Google Scholar ). Our data showed that the bacterially expressed and purified wild-type-PP5-His6 had basal phosphatase activity, and the addition of Hsp90α stimulated this activity (Figures S2A and S2B). Phosphomimetic T362E-PP5-His6 or CK1δ mediated phosphorylation of T362-PP5-His6-stimulated PP5 activity in the absence of Hsp90α (Figures S2A and S2B). We repeated the same experiments but instead used non-phosphorylating T362A-PP5-His6. This mutant had basal phosphatase activity similar to that of wild-type-PP5-His6, suggesting that the mutation did not structurally affect PP5 activity. However, the addition of Hsp90α or CK1δ (in an attempt to phosphorylate T362A-PP5-His6 in vitro) did not stimulate phosphatase activity (Figures S2A and S2B). We next used an in vitro dephosphorylation assay of phospho-S13-Cdc37, which is a bona fide substrate of PP5 ( Vaughan et al., 2008 Vaughan C.K. Mollapour M. Smith J.R. Truman A. Hu B. Good V.M. Panaretou B. Neckers L. Clarke P.A. Workman P. et al. Hsp90-dependent activation of protein kinases is regulated by chaperone-targeted dephosphorylation of Cdc37. Mol. Cell. 2008; 31: 886-895 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (139) Google Scholar ). We first showed that the addition of Hsp90α to wild-type PP5 leads to complete dephosphorylation of phospho-S13-Cdc37 after 30 min (Figures 2A and 2B ). However, the addition of Hsp90α to phosphomimetic T362E-PP5-His6 (Figure 2A) or phospho-T362-PP5-His6 (Figure 2B) led to dephosphorylation of Cdc37 after only 10 min. To determine whether activation of phospho-T362-PP5 is independent of Hsp90, we repeated the above experiment in the absence of Hsp90α. Our data revealed that wild-type PP5 is unable to dephosphorylate phospho-S13-Cdc37 in the absence of Hsp90α (Figures 2C and 2D). However, phosphomimetic T362E-PP5-His6 (Figure 2C) or CK1δ mediated phosphorylation of T362-PP5 dephosphorylated (Figure 2D) phospho-S13-Cdc37 in vitro, even in the absence of Hsp90. Figure 2CK1δ-Mediated Phosphorylation of PP5 Activates and Increases the Rate of Phosphatase Activity Show full caption (A) Dephosphorylation of phospho-S13-Cdc37 with a recombinant wild-type PP5-His6 and phosphomimetic T362E-PP5-His6 in the presence of Hsp90α. The rate of Cdc37 dephosphorylation was assessed by immunoblotting with a phospho-specific S13-Cdc37 antibody over time (minutes). (B) Recombinant wild-type PP5-His6 was phosphorylated by CK1δ in vitro and then used in the dephosphorylation of phospho-S13-Cdc37 in vitro. The assay was performed in the presence of Hsp90α. PP5 activity was assessed with immunoblotting using a phospho-specific S13-Cdc37 antibody over time (minutes). (C) Dephosphorylation of phospho-S13-Cdc37 with recombinant wild-type PP5-His6 and phosphomimetic T362E-PP5-His6 was performed in the absence of Hsp90α. Activity was assessed with immunoblotting using a phospho-specific S13-Cdc37 antibody over time (minutes). (D) Recombinant wild-type PP5-His6 was phosphorylated by CK1δ in vitro and then used in the dephosphorylation of phospho-S13-Cdc37 in vitro without Hsp90α. PP5 activity was assessed with immunoblotting using a phospho-specific S13-Cdc37 antibody over time (minutes). (E) Recombinant PP5-His6 was used in an in vitro kinase assay with CK1δ-GST. PP5-His6 was immunoprecipitated (IP), and threonine phosphorylation of PP5 and co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) of CK1δ-GST were examined by immunoblotting with anti-phosphothreonine and anti-GST antibodies. (F) Recombinant wild-type PP5-His6 was phosphorylated by CK1δ in vitro in the presence (+) or absence (−) of ATP. PP5-His6 proteins were then used in the dephosphorylation of phospho-S13-Cdc37 in vitro without Hsp90α. PP5 activity was assessed with immunoblotting using a phospho-specific S13-Cdc37 antibody over time (minutes). (G) PP5-FLAG and T362-PP5 phosphomutants (T362A and T362E) were transiently transfected in HEK293 cells. Cdc37, phospho-S13-Cdc37, GR, and phospho-S211-GR protein levels were examined by immunoblotting. Empty vector (EV) was used as a control, and GAPDH was used as a loading control. (H) Wild-type PP5-FLAG, non-phosphorylating T362A-PP5-FLAG, and phosphomimetic T362E-PP5-FLAG were transiently expressed and IP from HEK293 cells. Co-IP of GR, Cdc37, and Hsp90 was examined by immunoblotting. See also Figure S2. View Large Image Figure Viewer Download Hi-res image Download (PPT) To ascertain whether CK1δ’s interaction with PP5 caused an increase in its phosphatase activity, CK1δ was incubated with PP5-His6 in the presence and absence of ATP. CK1δ has the ability to interact with PP5-His6 independent of ATP (Figure 2E). However, only CK1δ’s incubation with PP5-His6 in the presence of ATP (hence phosphorylation of PP5) is capable of activating PP5. This leads to dephosphorylation of PP5 substrate, (i.e., phospho-S13-Cdc37) (Figure 2F). Taken together, these in vitro data suggest that CK1δ-mediated phosphorylation of T362-PP5 causes activation and hyperactivity of PP5 phosphatase independent of binding to Hsp90. To obtain further evidence for this observation, we overexpressed wild-type PP5-FLAG and the phosphomutants T362A and T362E in HEK293 cells. The dephosphorylation of PP5 substrates, phospho-S13-Cdc37 and phospho-S211-GR, was examined by immunoblotting. Overexpression of wild-type PP5-FLAG led to dephosphorylation of phospho-S13-Cdc37 and phospho-S211-GR (Figure 2G). This effect was enhanced by overexpression of phosphomimetic T362E-PP5-FLAG and unaffected (similar to the empty vector control) by T362A-PP5-FLAG, which is consistent with our in vitro data (Figure 2G). Finally, we confirmed that the interactions between the phospho-T362 mutants and Hsp90, Cdc37, and GR were not affected, and therefore, our observation is not due to a lack of interaction between PP5 mutants and the substrates (Figure 2H). Our in vitro and in vivo data here show that phosphorylation of T362-PP5 is involved in both the activation and hyperactivity of PP5. Furthermore, based on our in vitro results, CK1δ-mediated phosphorylation and activation of PP5 does not depend on binding to Hsp90. VHL E3 Ligase Targets PP5 Independent of Hypoxia To determine which binding partners of PP5 are involved in its regulation, we immunoprecipitated endogenous PP5 from HEK293 cells and identified its intracellular binding proteins by mass spectrometry (MS) analysis (see Experimental Procedures). Our interactome data identified VHL as a binding partner of PP5 (Table S1). VHL forms a multi-protein complex, VCB-Cul2 (VHL-elongin C-elongin B-cullin 2) and Rbx1, that acts as a ubiquitin ligase (E3) ( Gossage et al., 2015 Gossage L. Eisen T. Maher E.R. VHL, the story of a tumour suppressor gene. Nat. Rev. Cancer. 2015; 15: 55-64 Crossref PubMed Scopus (401) Google Scholar , Kamura et al., 1999 Kamura T. Koepp D.M. Conrad M.N. Skowyra D. Moreland R.J. Iliopoulos O. Lane W.S. Kaelin Jr., W.G. Elledge S.J. Conaway R.C. et al. Rbx1, a component of the VHL tumor suppressor complex and SCF ubiquitin ligase. Science. 1999; 284: 657-661 Crossref PubMed Scopus (660) Google Scholar , Stebbins et al., 1999 Stebbins C.E. Kaelin Jr., W.G. Pavletich N.P. Structure of the VHL-ElonginC-ElonginB complex: implications for VHL tumor suppressor function. Science. 1999; 284: 455-461 Crossref PubMed Scopus (673) Google Scholar ) and directs proteasome-dependent degradation of targeted proteins such as hypoxia-inducible factors (HIF1α or HIF2α) ( Kamura et al., 2000 Kamura T. Sato S. Iwai K. Czyzyk-Krzeska M. Conaway R.C. Conaway J.W. Activation of HIF1alpha ubiquitination by a reconstituted von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor complex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2000; 97: 10430-10435 Crossref PubMed Scopus (544) Google Scholar ). VHL is expressed as two known isoforms: VHL30, with an apparent molecular weight of ∼24–30 kDa (VHL30), and VHL19, which is ∼19 kDa in size ( Iliopoulos et al., 1995 Iliopoulos O. Kibel A. Gray S. Kaelin Jr., W.G. Tumour suppression by the human von Hippel-Lindau gene product. Nat. Med. 1995; 1: 822-826 Crossref PubMed Scopus (590) Google Scholar ). Both isoforms appear to retain tumor-suppressor activity; however, VHL30 is the commonly examined isoform. Here, we confirmed our interactome data by immunoprecipitating endogenous PP5 from HEK293 cells and detecting VHL30 (Figure 3A). The reciprocal immunoprecipitation of the endogenous VHL30 yielded PP5 (Figure 3B). Since VHL is the substrate recognition subunit of an E3 ubiquitin ligase, we overexpressed VHL30 in the VHL-deficient ccRCC cell line 786-O and observed downregulation of endogenous PP5 by immunoblotting (Figure 3C). We next transiently transfected and expressed PP5-FLAG in the 786-O cell line. Using immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting, we were unable to detect PP5 ubiquitination in these cells (Figure 3D), even when treated with 50 nM of the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib (BZ) for 2 hr (Figure 3D). However, transient co-expression of PP5-FLAG and VHL30-His6 in 786-O cells for 16 hr and subsequent treatment with 50 nM BZ for 2 hr led to detection of distinct ubiquitination bands, suggesting multi-monoubiquitination of PP5-FLAG (Figure 3D). It is noteworthy that the anti-ubiquitin antibody used in these experiments (P4D1) recognizes both mono- and polyubiquitination. Taken together, these data suggest that VHL E3 ligase ubiquitinates and degrades PP5 in the proteasome. Figure 3VHL E3 Ligase Ubiquitinates PP5 Independent of Hypoxia Show full caption (A) Endogenous PP5 was immunoprecipitated (IP) from HEK293 cells, and co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) of VHL30 was assessed by immunoblotting. (B) Endogenous VHL30 was IP from HEK293 cells, and Co-IP of PP5 was examined by immunoblotting. (C) VHL30-FLAG or empty vector (EV) was transiently overexpressed in 786-O cells and endogenous PP5 protein levels were assessed by immunoblotting. GAPDH was used as a loading control. (D) 786-O cells transiently expressing PP5-FLAG were treated with or without 50 nM of the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib (BZ) for 2 hr. PP5-FLAG was also co-expressed with VHL30-His6 with additional treatment of 50 nM BZ for 2 hr. PP5-FLAG was IP, and its ubiquitination was assessed by immunoblotting. (E) Egln1-HA, Egln2-HA, Egln3-HA, and empty vector (EV) pcDNA3.1 were transiently overexpressed in HEK293 cells. The expression of Egln1, 2, and 3, as well as PP5 and HIF1α, was assessed by immunoblotting with anti-HA, anti-PP5, and anti-HIF1α antibodies. GAPDH was used as a loading control. (F) Caki-1 cells cultured in normoxia and hypoxia (1%O2, 5%CO2, 94%N2). PP5 and HIF1α protein levels were examined by immunoblotting using anti-PP5 and anti-HIF1α antibodies. GAPDH was used a loading control. (G) HIF1α or HIF2α were silenced by small interfering RNA (siRNA) in HEK293 cells. HIF1α, HIF2α and PP5 protein levels were examined by immunoblotting using anti-HIF1α, anti-HIF2α and anti-PP5 antibodies. GAPDH was used as a loading control. See also Figure S3. View Large Image Figure Viewer Download Hi-res image Download (PPT) Canonically, VHL substrates are recognized when hydroxylated by prolyl-hydroxylases (PHDs) at specific proline sites ( Ivan et al., 2001 Ivan M. Kondo K. Yang H. Kim W. Valiando J. Ohh M. Salic A. Asara J.M. Lane W.S. Kaelin Jr., W.G. HIFalpha targeted for VHL-mediated destruction by proline hydroxylation: implications for O2 sensing. Science. 2001; 292: 464-468 Crossref PubMed Scopus (3783) Google Scholar , Jaakkola et al., 2001 Jaakkola P. Mole D.R. Tian Y.M. Wilson M.I. Gielbert J. Gaskell S.J. von Kriegsheim A. Hebestreit H.F. Mukherji M. Schofield C.J. et al. Targeting of HIF-alpha to the von Hippel-Lindau ubiquitylation complex by O2-regulated prolyl hydroxylation. Science. 2001; 292: 468-472 Crossref PubMed Scopus (4324) Google Scholar ). To determine whether hydroxylation was essential for VHL-mediated ubiquitination of PP5, we first overexpressed three EGLN genes (EGLN1, EGLN2, and EGLN3) encoding for three isoforms of PHDs in HEK293 cells. Overexpression of these genes did not affect the endogenous PP5 protein levels but, as expected, markedly reduced HIF1α levels (Figure 3E). Treatment of HEK293 cells with the PHD inhibitor dimethyloxaloylglycine (DMOG) or the hypoxia mimetic deferoxamine (DFX) or CoCl2 similarly did not affect PP5 protein levels (Figure S3A). As expected, these conditions all led to stabilization of HIF1α (Figure S3A). We obtained a similar result when we treated the Caki-1 ccRCC cell line (containing the wild-type VHL gene) with DMOG, DFX, or CoCl2 (Figure S3B). Finally, we examined PP5 protein levels in Caki-1 cells cultured in normoxia and hypoxia (1% O2, 5% CO2, and 94% N2). While HIF1α levels increased under hypoxia, PP5 levels were unchanged and similar to normoxia (Figure 3F). Finally, previous work has indicated that transcription of PP5 can be mediated by HIF1 ( Zhou et al., 2004 Zhou G. Golden T. Aragon I.V. Honkanen R.E. Ser/Thr protein phosphatase 5 inactivates hypoxia-induced activation of an apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1/MKK-4/JNK signaling cascade. J. Biol. Chem. 2004; 279: 46595-46605 Crossref PubMed Scopus (101) Google Scholar ). We examined this possibility by using siRNA to silence HIF1α or HIF2α in HEK293 cells. Our results showed that neither HIF1α nor HIF2α is involved in the regulation of PP5 (Figure 3G). We conducted a similar experiment in 786-O ccRCC cells and silenced only HIF2α (HIF1α is downregulated in these cells). Our data also showed that HIF2α is not involved in PP5 expression in VHL-null 786-O cells (Figure S3C). These data indicate that VHL ubiquitinates PP5 independent of prolyl-hydroxylation and hypoxia. VHL Ubiquitinates K185/K199-PP5 Based on the data available on PhosphoSitePlus (https://www.phosphosite.org), an online systems biology resource providing comprehensive information on PTMs of human proteins, we identified five ubiquitinated lysine sites (K32, K40, K185, K199, and K320) on PP5 (Figure 4A). All of these sites are located on the surface of the PP5 protein (Figure 4B). We individually mutated these lysine sites to a non-ubiquitinating arginine residue and transiently expressed them in HEK293 cells (Figure 4C). Ubiquitination of wild-type PP5 was detectable by immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting techniques (Figures 4C and S4A). However, ubiquitination of PP5 was significantly reduced in the K185R and K199R mutants (Figure 4C). Our data also showed that K185R and K199R-PP5-FLAG mutants were slightly more stable than the wild-type PP5-FLAG expressed in HEK293 cells (Figure S4B), whereas these mutants were expressed at the same levels as the wild-type PP5-FLAG in the VHL-null 786-O cells (Figure S4C). Figure 4VHL-Mediated Ubiquitination and Proteasomal Degradation of K185/K199-PP5 Show full caption (A) Schematic representation of PP5 highlighting the lysine residues possibly subject to VHL-mediated ubiquitination. (B) Potential ubiquitinating lysine residues are highlighted in the cartoon representation of the PP5 protein, which was modeled with UCSF Chimera software (PDB: 1WAO) and colored in red as in Figure 1D. (C) Wild-type PP5-FLAG and its potentially non-ubiquitinating lysine mutants were transiently expressed and immunoprecipitated (IP) from HEK293 cells. Ubiquitination of PP5 was examined by immunoblotting. Empty vector (EV) was used as a control. (D) Wild-type PP5-FLAG and its non-ubiquitinating K185/K199R mutant were transiently expressed and IP from HEK293 cells. Ubiquitination of PP5 was examined by immunoblotting anti-ubiquitin antibody. Empty vector (EV) was used as a control. (E) Recombinant PP5-His6 and K185/K199R double mutant were used in an in vitro ubiquitination assay with VCB-Cul2 (VHL30-elongin C-elongin B-cullin 2) and Rbx1, which acts as an ubiquitin-ligase (E3). Ubiquitination of PP5 was assessed with immunoblotting. (F) PP5-FLAG or K185/K199R-PP5-FLAG double mutant was co-transfected with VHL30-His6 in 786-O cells and treated 16 hr later with 50 nM BZ for 2 hr. PP5-FLAG or K185/K199R-PP5-FLAG was IP, and ubiquitination was assessed by immunoblotting. (G) PP5-FLAG, K185-PP5-FLAG, K199R-PP5-FLAG, K185/K199R-PP5-FLAG, and empty vector (EV) were individually and transiently expressed in HEK293 cells. They were IP, and their interactions with VHL30 were assessed in the Co-IP by immunoblotting. See also Figure S4. View Large Image Figure Viewer Download Hi-res image Download (PPT) We next created a K185R/K199R-PP5-FLAG double mutant and transiently expressed it in HEK293 cells. Ubiquitination of this mutant was undetectable by immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting experiments (Figures 4D and S4D). To determine whether VHL is responsible for ubiquitination of these sites, we used an in vitro ubiquitination assay kit (Millipore) with the VCB-Cul2 complex (Figure S4E). As mentioned earlier, VHL is part of a multi-protein complex, VCB-Cul2 and Rbx1, acting as a ubiquitin ligase (E3) and directing proteasome-dependent degradation of targeted proteins. Next, bacterially expressed and purified wild-type PP5-His6 and K185R/K199R-PP5-His6 double mutant were used in our in vitro ubiquitination assay. Our data show that recombinant wild-type PP5-His6, but not the K185R/K199R-PP5-His6 mutant, was subject to ubiquitination. Based on the immunoblots and the appearance of the bands, our data suggest that PP5 is subject to multi-monoubiquitination (Figure 4E), therefore suggesting that VHL targets K185/K199-PP5 for ubiquitination. To gain further evidence of VHL-mediated ubiquitination of K185/K199-PP5 in cells, we transiently co-expressed wild-type PP5-FLAG or K185R/K199R-PP5-FLAG with VHL30-His6 for 16 hr in VHL-null 786-O cells and then treated the cells with 50 nM BZ for an additional 2 hr. We were able to detect the ubiquitination of wild-type PP5, but not the K185R/K199R-PP5 double mutant (Figure 4F). The K185R-, K199R-PP5 single or double mutants interacted with the same affinity as wild-type PP5 to VHL30 (Figure 4G). Therefore, the reduced ubiquitination of these mutants is not due to their inability to bind to VHL30. Taken together, our data show that VHL E3 ligase ubiquitinates K185 and K199 residues in PP5. PP5 Downregulation Causes Apoptosis in VHL-Null ccRCC Cells To gain further insight into the significance of PP5 stability and hyperactivity in ccRCC, we first examined PP5 protein levels in tumors and adjacent normal tissues from nine patients with ccRCC. Within 10 min of removal of tumors by radical or partial nephrectomy, tumors and adjacent normal tissues were dissected into 10-mm3 pieces and stained with H&E (Figure 5A), and protein was extracted (Figure 5B). Our data showed that VHL30 is absent in ccRCC tumors. Conversely PP5 and CK1δ were both upregulated in tumors compared with adjacent normal tissue (Figure 5B). Figure 5Downregulation of PP5 Induces Apoptosis in VHL-Deficient ccRCC Cells Show full caption (A) Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) tumors (T) and adjacent normal tissue (N) were stained with H&E. Scale bar represents 200 μm. (B) Protein was extracted from tumors and adjacent normal tissue, and expression of PP5, CK1δ, VHL30, and Hsp90 was examined by immunoblotting. Hsp90 was used as a loading control. (C) PP5, Cdc37, and phosphorylated S13-Cdc37, GR, phosphorylated S211-GR, CK1δ, and VHL30 proteins from the ccRCC cell lines 786-O, A-498 (VHL deficient), and Caki-1 (VHL containing) were assessed by immunoblotting. GAPDH was used as a loading control. (D) PP5 was silenced by siRNA in 786-O and Caki-1 cells. siCtrl represents the non-targeting siRNA control. Induction of apoptotic markers shown by immunoblotting using anti-cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved PARP antibodies. GAPDH was used as a loading control. (E) Targeted siRNA was used to silence PP5 in A498 cells. siCtrl represents the non-targeting siRNA control. Induction of apoptotic markers shown by immunoblotting using anti-cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved PARP antibodies. PP5 protein levels were also examined by immunoblotting. GAPDH was used as a control. (F) PP5 was immunoprecipitated (IP) from ccRCC cell line (Caki-1 and 786-O) lysates using anti-PP5 antibody or immunoglobulin G (IgG) (control). Threonine phosphorylation of PP5 was assessed by immunoblotting with anti-phosphothreonine antibody. GAPDH was used as a loading control. (G) PP5 was isolated from the lysates of 786-O cells treated with 2 μM IC261 for 16 hr using anti-PP5 or IgG (control) antibodies. Threonine phosphorylation of PP5 was examined by immunoblotting using anti-phosphothreonine antibody. Anti-phosphoserine antibody was used as a control. See also Figure S5. View Large Image Figure Viewer Download Hi-res image Download (PPT) We confirmed this finding using established VHL-deficient (786-O and A-498) and VHL-containing (Caki-1) ccRCC cell lines. Our data showed that PP5 was upregulated in 786-O and A-498 cells compared to Caki-1 cells (Figure 5C). CK1δ levels displayed a similar expression pattern, while CK1ε levels were unchanged between VHL-deficient and VHL-containing ccRCC cell lines (Figures 5C and S5A). This pattern was consistent with dephosphorylation of the PP5 substrates Cdc37 and GR, which were both more dephosphorylated in 786-O and A-498 cells than in VHL-containing Caki-1 cells (Figure 5C). We next used siRNA to silence PP5 in 786-O and Caki-1 cells and observed induction of the pro-apoptotic markers cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved-poly-ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) only in VHL-null 786-O cells (Figure 5D). We also found that silencing of PP5 in 786-O cells did not affect CK1δ protein levels (Figure S5B). Furthermore, siRNA silencing of PP5 in A-498 cells (VHL-null cell line) also led to induction of the apoptotic markers cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved PARP (Figure 5E). To evaluate the threonine phosphorylation status of PP5 in VHL-null cells, we immunoprecipitated endogenous PP5 from 786-O and Caki-1 cells and found that PP5 from VHL-null 786-O cells was hyperphosphorylated on threonine residues (Figure 5F). Because IC261 is a potent specific inhibitor of CK1δ/ε, we next examined whether pharmacologic inhibition of CK1δ reduces threonine phosphorylation of PP5. In 786-O cells treated or untreated with 2 μM IC261 for 16 hr, PP5 was immunoprecipitated and as expected, IC261 treatment led to a marked reduction of PP5 threonine phosphorylation but not serine phosphorylation (Figure 5G). Taken together, our data show that PP5 is upregulated and phosphorylated by CK1δ in VHL-null ccRCC cells. Downregulation of PP5 in VHL-null cells causes apoptosis. PP5 Upregulation Provides a Prosurvival Mechanism in VHL-Null ccRCC Cells We next examined whether pharmacologic inhibition of CK1δ causes apoptosis in VHL-null cells (A498 and 786-O). We used Caki-1 cells as a control, because this ccRCC cell line has the VHL gene. These cell lines were treated with different amounts of IC261, which is a potent specific inhibitor of CK1δ/ε. Increasing amounts of IC261 correlated with increased induction of the pro-apoptotic markers cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved PARP only in A498 and 786-O (VHL-null) cells (Figure 6A). Another hallmark of apoptosis is the loss of cell membrane integrity, which can be monitored by Annexin V/propidium iodide (AV/PI) staining. We treated A498, 786-O, and Caki-1 cells with 0.5 μM and 2.0 μM IC261 for 16 hr prior to analysis of apoptosis by AV/PI staining. Treatment of A498 and 786-O cells with 2.0 μM IC261 caused cells to progress through the AV+/PI− apoptotic quadrant (Figures 6B and S6A). However, this effect was not observed in Caki-1 cells after the same treatment with IC261 (Figures 6B and S6A). We next examined the effects of IC261 on proliferation of ccRCC cell lines. A498, 786-O, and Caki-1 cells were treated with different amounts of CK1δ inhibitor (IC261). After 72 hr, proliferation was measured by a 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazolyl-2)-2, 5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. Our data revealed that 2.0 μM IC261 significantly inhibited the proliferation of A498 and 786-O cells compared to Caki-1 cells (Figure 6C). A hallmark of tumorigenic cells is anchorage-independent growth, which is measurable by soft agar assay. Treatment with 2.0 μM IC261 significantly reduced the anchorage-independent growth of A498 and 786-O cells compared to Caki-1 cells (Figures 6D and S6B). Figure 6CK1δ Inhibition Induces Apoptosis and Reduced Proliferation in VHL-Null ccRCC Cells Show full caption (A) The ccRCC cell lines A498, 786-O, and Caki-1 were treated with the indicated amounts of the CK1δ inhibitor IC261 for 16 hr. Induction of apoptotic markers was assessed by immunoblotting using anti-cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved PARP antibodies. GAPDH was used as a loading control. (B) AV/PI graphs of Caki-1, A498, and 786-O cells not treated (0 μM) or treated with 2 μM IC261 for 16 hr. The top left quadrants represent dead cells stained only with PI. The bottom right quadrants represent apoptotic cells stained with AV only. The top right quadrants represent cells stained with both PI and AV (secondary necrosis and late apoptosis). The percentage of each stained cell population is indicated. Dot plots shown are representative of one of three independent experiments. (C) MTT assay of A498, 786-O, and Caki-1 cells treated with the indicated amounts of IC261. Errors bars represent the SD of three independent experiments (∗∗∗∗p < 0.0001). (D) Anchorage-independent growth of A498, 786-O, and Caki-1 cells treated with indicated amounts of IC261 in soft agar. Colony number was quantified. The errors bars represent the SD of three independent experiments (∗∗∗p < 0.0005). (E) Wild-type PP5-FLAG, non-phosphorylating T362A-PP5-FLAG, and phosphomimetic T362E-PP5-FLAG were transiently expressed in 786-O cells. Cells were then either not treated (−IC261) or treated (+IC261) with 2 μM IC261 for 16 hr, and induction of apoptotic markers was assessed by immunoblotting using anti-cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved PARP antibodies. GAPDH was used as a loading control. (F) MTT assay of 786-O cells transiently expressing wild-type PP5-FLAG, T362A-PP5-FLAG, and T362E-PP5-FLAG and then treated with the indicated amounts of IC261. Errors bars represent the SD of three independent experiments (∗∗p < 0.005; ∗∗∗p < 0.0005). See also Figure S6. View Large Image Figure Viewer Download Hi-res image Download (PPT) Although treatment of VHL-null cells with IC261 caused apoptosis, it is unclear whether this effect was due to lack of PP5 phosphorylation and activity. We addressed this question by transiently expressing wild-type PP5-FLAG and its phospho-PP5 mutants T362A and T362E in 786-O cells. Treating cells expressing empty vector (EV) or non-phosphorylatable T362A-PP5-FLAG mutant with 2.0 μM IC261 led to induction of the pro-apoptotic markers cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved PARP. This effect was significantly reduced upon expression of wild-type PP5-FLAG and completely abrogated with the phosphomimetic T362E-PP5-FLAG mutant (Figure 6E). We further confirmed these data using an MTT assay. Our data showed that treatment of 786-O cells transiently expressing EV or non-phosphorylatable T362A-PP5-FLAG mutant with 2.0 μM IC261 caused a marked reduction in cell proliferation, whereas this effect was not observed in 786-O cells expressing wild-type PP5-FLAG and phosphomutant T362E-PP5 treated with 2.0 μM IC261 (Figures 6F and S6C). Taken together, our findings show that pharmacologic inhibition of CK1δ causes apoptosis in ccRCC cells, and this effect is mediated by a lack of threonine phosphorylation of PP5 and reduced phosphatase activity. Discussion PP5 plays a key role in the regulation of both hormone- and stress-induced signaling networks that allow cells to respond appropriately to genomic stress ( Golden et al., 2008b Golden T. Swingle M. Honkanen R.E. The role of serine/threonine protein phosphatase type 5 (PP5) in the regulation of stress-induced signaling networks and cancer. Cancer Metastasis Rev. 2008; 27: 169-178 Crossref PubMed Scopus (65) Google Scholar ). Structural work and in-vitro-based assays have shown that PP5 activity is promoted by a number of cellular factors, including the molecular chaperone Hsp90 and fatty acids, both of which release autoinhibition by interacting with the TPR domain of PP5 ( Ramsey and Chinkers, 2002 Ramsey A.J. Chinkers M. Identification of potential physiological activators of protein phosphatase 5. Biochemistry. 2002; 41: 5625-5632 Crossref PubMed Scopus (61) Google Scholar , Yang et al., 2005 Yang J. Roe S.M. Cliff M.J. Williams M.A. Ladbury J.E. Cohen P.T. Barford D. Molecular basis for TPR domain-mediated regulation of protein phosphatase 5. EMBO J. 2005; 24: 1-10 Crossref PubMed Scopus (153) Google Scholar ). In this study, we elucidated an alternative mechanism for activation and regulation of PP5 both in vitro and in vivo. Our data showed that the serine/threonine kinase CK1δ interacts with and phosphorylates T362 on PP5. This in turn activates PP5 independent of binding to Hsp90. We have also shown that CK1δ is not a client of Hsp90, because pharmacologic inhibition of Hsp90 did not affect the stability of CK1δ. Additionally, binding of CK1δ to PP5, without phosphorylation, is insufficient to activate PP5. Our cell-based assays have demonstrated that expression of non-phosphorylating T362A-PP5 did not dephosphorylate PP5 substrates such as GR and Cdc37, whereas overexpression of phosphomimetic T362E-PP5 had the opposite effect on those two substrates. Our findings clearly demonstrate that although phosphorylation of T362-PP5 does not affect the binding of PP5 to its substrates or even Hsp90, the phosphatase activity of PP5 is influenced by T362 phosphorylation (Figure 7). Figure 7Post-translational Regulation of PP5 Show full caption CK1δ-mediated phosphorylation of T362 in the catalytic domain of PP5 activates and enhances its phosphatase activity, therefore dephosphorylating its substrates, such as the co-chaperone Cdc37 and the steroid hormone receptor GR. VCB-Cul2 (VHL-elongin C-elongin B-cullin 2) and Rbx1 (E3 ubiquitin ligase) target and ubiquitinate K185 and K199 on PP5. This leads to proteasomal degradation of PP5. View Large Image Figure Viewer Download Hi-res image Download (PPT) What is the mechanism of phosphorylation-mediated PP5 activation? Threonine-362 is close to one of the six metal-coordinating sites, H352, but it is remote from the catalytic site. T362 is also at the center of an acidic patch located between D365, D364 and E416, E417. The latter residues are linked to the active site R400. Therefore, it is conceivable that phosphorylation or phosphomimetic mutation of T362 could either destabilize the domain as a whole or cause some local unfolding, possibly allosterically “opening” the active site, therefore increasing the rate of phosphatase activity. Our proteomic data also identified an interaction between the tumor suppressor VHL and PP5. VHL is an E3 ligase that canonically recognizes its substrates as part of an oxygen-dependent PHD reaction, with HIFα being its most-studied substrate ( Clifford et al., 2001 Clifford S.C. Astuti D. Hooper L. Maxwell P.H. Ratcliffe P.J. Maher E.R. The pVHL-associated SCF ubiquitin ligase complex: molecular genetic analysis of elongin B and C, Rbx1 and HIF-1alpha in renal cell carcinoma. Oncogene. 2001; 20: 5067-5074 Crossref PubMed Scopus (128) Google Scholar , Kondo et al., 2002 Kondo K. Klco J. Nakamura E. Lechpammer M. Kaelin Jr., W.G. Inhibition of HIF is necessary for tumor suppression by the von Hippel-Lindau protein. Cancer Cell. 2002; 1: 237-246 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (641) Google Scholar , Maxwell et al., 1999 Maxwell P.H. Wiesener M.S. Chang G.W. Clifford S.C. Vaux E.C. Cockman M.E. Wykoff C.C. Pugh C.W. Maher E.R. Ratcliffe P.J. The tumour suppressor protein VHL targets hypoxia-inducible factors for oxygen-dependent proteolysis. Nature. 1999; 399: 271-275 Crossref PubMed Scopus (4025) Google Scholar ). Our data revealed that PP5 is a hypoxia-independent target for VHL ubiquitination. We also showed that VHL ubiquitinates K185/K199-PP5 to target this phosphatase for proteasome-mediated degradation (Figure 7). Our finding of a hypoxia-independent function of VHL is not unusual; recent work has shown that VHL also directly multi-monoubiquitinates Aurora kinase A (AURKA) independent of oxygen or PHD activity ( Hasanov et al., 2017 Hasanov E. Chen G. Chowdhury P. Weldon J. Ding Z. Jonasch E. Sen S. Walker C.L. Dere R. Ubiquitination and regulation of AURKA identifies a hypoxia-independent E3 ligase activity of VHL. Oncogene. 2017; 36: 3450-3463 Crossref PubMed Scopus (29) Google Scholar ). Mutation and inactivation of VHL is associated with the most common type of kidney cancer, ccRCC ( Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, 2013 Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network Comprehensive molecular characterization of clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Nature. 2013; 499: 43-49 Crossref PubMed Scopus (2166) Google Scholar , Gossage et al., 2015 Gossage L. Eisen T. Maher E.R. VHL, the story of a tumour suppressor gene. Nat. Rev. Cancer. 2015; 15: 55-64 Crossref PubMed Scopus (401) Google Scholar ). We further demonstrated that inactivation of VHL in tumors or established cell lines leads to increased PP5 protein levels. This appeared to be independent of HIF1α or HIF2α. Our findings also provided a prosurvival role for PP5 in VHL-null kidney cancer cells. Downregulation of PP5 by siRNA activated apoptosis in ccRCC cells. This effect was apparent only in VHL-null ccRCC cells. We also showed that pharmacologic inhibition of CK1δ by IC261 leads to apoptosis and decreased proliferation of ccRCC cells. This effect was completely abrogated by overexpressing the phosphomimetic T362E-PP5 mutant in IC261-treated VHL-null ccRCC cells. Our findings therefore strongly suggest that the apoptotic effect of CK1δ inhibition is mediated by a lack of phosphorylation and thus inactivation of PP5 in ccRCC cells. It is worth noting that IC261 is also a potent inhibitor of CK1ε; however, CK1ε does not phosphorylate PP5. Although the apoptotic effect of IC261 may be the result of CK1ε inhibition, this possibility is highly unlikely, because treatment of 786-O cells overexpressing phosphomimetic T362E-PP5 with IC261 did not induce apoptosis. Based on previous studies, there is circumstantial evidence suggesting that aberrant expression of PP5 may aid tumor development and progression ( Golden et al., 2008a Golden T. Aragon I.V. Rutland B. Tucker J.A. Shevde L.A. Samant R.S. Zhou G. Amable L. Skarra D. Honkanen R.E. Elevated levels of Ser/Thr protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) in human breast cancer. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 2008; 1782: 259-270 Crossref PubMed Scopus (54) Google Scholar , Wang et al., 2015 Wang J. Zhu J. Dong M. Yu H. Dai X. Li K. Inhibition of protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) suppresses survival and growth of colorectal cancer cells. Biotechnol. Appl. Biochem. 2015; 62: 621-627 Crossref PubMed Scopus (10) Google Scholar ). Our study here also suggests that upregulation of PP5 is essential for ccRCC cell survival, but how is this achieved by PP5? Our previous work has shown that PP5-mediated dephosphorylation of the co-chaperone Cdc37 is essential for activation of the kinase client proteins of Hsp90 ( Vaughan et al., 2008 Vaughan C.K. Mollapour M. Smith J.R. Truman A. Hu B. Good V.M. Panaretou B. Neckers L. Clarke P.A. Workman P. et al. Hsp90-dependent activation of protein kinases is regulated by chaperone-targeted dephosphorylation of Cdc37. Mol. Cell. 2008; 31: 886-895 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (139) Google Scholar ). Several of these clients, including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) receptors, as well as the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), are important in ccRCC ( Gossage et al., 2015 Gossage L. Eisen T. Maher E.R. VHL, the story of a tumour suppressor gene. Nat. Rev. Cancer. 2015; 15: 55-64 Crossref PubMed Scopus (401) Google Scholar , Linehan, 2012 Linehan W.M. Genetic basis of kidney cancer: role of genomics for the development of disease-based therapeutics. Genome Res. 2012; 22: 2089-2100 Crossref PubMed Scopus (165) Google Scholar ) and therefore potentially rely on the co-chaperone activity of PP5. Downregulation of PP5 in these cells appears to be detrimental for ccRCC cell survival, perhaps because of compromised function of these kinases. PP5 has been shown to be a negative regulator of the ASK1/MKK4/JNK signaling that promotes apoptosis ( Zhou et al., 2004 Zhou G. Golden T. Aragon I.V. Honkanen R.E. Ser/Thr protein phosphatase 5 inactivates hypoxia-induced activation of an apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1/MKK-4/JNK signaling cascade. J. Biol. Chem. 2004; 279: 46595-46605 Crossref PubMed Scopus (101) Google Scholar ), and its overexpression, under hypoxia, in breast cancer has been shown to turn off this apoptotic signaling pathway. In contrast to a previous study ( Zhou et al., 2004 Zhou G. Golden T. Aragon I.V. Honkanen R.E. Ser/Thr protein phosphatase 5 inactivates hypoxia-induced activation of an apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1/MKK-4/JNK signaling cascade. J. Biol. Chem. 2004; 279: 46595-46605 Crossref PubMed Scopus (101) Google Scholar ), we were unable to show HIF1 or HIF2 involvement in the regulation of PP5. Further investigation is warranted to identify the exact signaling pathways dependent on PP5 function in VHL-null ccRCC cells and whether downregulation of PP5 activates the intrinsic or extrinsic apoptotic pathway. These findings could ultimately have therapeutic implications. Experimental Procedures Plasmids, Yeast Strains, and Yeast Growth Media Detailed methodologies, a list of primers (Table S2), and media conditions for both yeast and mammalian cells are provided in Supplemental Experimental Procedures. Analysis of Human ccRCC Tumors Tumor and adjacent normal tissues of patients with conventional ccRCC were obtained with written informed consent from the Department of Urology at SUNY Upstate Medical University and approved by the institutional review board. Because each patient’s identity was kept confidential, information on gender and age was not available. At the time of radical or partial nephrectomy, which was done with <10 minutes of renal ischemia, ccRCC tumors were dissected into ∼8 mm3 pieces and protein was extracted and quantified as previously described in detail ( Woodford et al., 2016b Woodford M.R. Truman A.W. Dunn D.M. Jensen S.M. Cotran R. Bullard R. Abouelleil M. Beebe K. Wolfgeher D. Wierzbicki S. et al. Mps1 mediated phosphorylation of Hsp90 confers renal cell carcinoma sensitivity and selectivity to Hsp90 inhibitors. Cell Rep. 2016; 14: 872-884 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (40) Google Scholar ). The tissues were also stained with H&E and examined by a pathologist. Protein Extraction, Immunoprecipitation, and Immunoblotting Protein extraction from yeast, mammalian cells, and human tissues was carried out using methods previously described ( Mollapour et al., 2010 Mollapour M. Tsutsumi S. Donnelly A.C. Beebe K. Tokita M.J. Lee M.J. Lee S. Morra G. Bourboulia D. Scroggins B.T. et al. Swe1Wee1-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation of Hsp90 regulates distinct facets of chaperone function. Mol. Cell. 2010; 37: 333-343 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (135) Google Scholar , Woodford et al., 2016b Woodford M.R. Truman A.W. Dunn D.M. Jensen S.M. Cotran R. Bullard R. Abouelleil M. Beebe K. Wolfgeher D. Wierzbicki S. et al. Mps1 mediated phosphorylation of Hsp90 confers renal cell carcinoma sensitivity and selectivity to Hsp90 inhibitors. Cell Rep. 2016; 14: 872-884 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (40) Google Scholar ). Detailed methodology is provided in Supplemental Experimental Procedures. In Vitro Cdc37 Dephosphorylation Assay The rate of dephosphorylation of S13-Cdc37 by PP5 was monitored by mixing 5 μM purified phospho-S13-Cdc37 without or with 2.5 μM Hsp90α in a buffer containing 100 mM NaCl, 50 mM Tris (pH 7.5), 2 mM DTT, and 1 mM MnCl2. The reaction was started by adding 0.25 μM PP5 (wild-type or phosphomutants or the CK1δ-mediated phosphorylated form), and samples were incubated at 30°C. Samples were taken every 10 min for SDS-PAGE analysis. The phosphorylation state of S13-Cdc37 was examined by immunoblotting using a phospho-Ser13-specific antibody (Abcam). PP5 Activity Assay with pNPP PP5 activity was assayed in vitro using a pNPP assay as previously described ( Oberoi et al., 2016 Oberoi J. Dunn D.M. Woodford M.R. Mariotti L. Schulman J. Bourboulia D. Mollapour M. Vaughan C.K. Structural and functional basis of protein phosphatase 5 substrate specificity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2016; 113: 9009-9014 Crossref PubMed Scopus (44) Google Scholar ). Detailed methods are provided in Supplemental Experimental Procedures. In Vitro Ubiquitination of PP5 Detailed methods for in vitro ubiquitination of PP5 are provided in Supplemental Experimental Procedures. Annexin V/PI Apoptosis Analysis Apoptosis was detected by Annexin V/PI immunostaining assay as described by the manufacturer (Bio-Rad/AbD Serotec). Detailed methods are provided in Supplemental Experimental Procedures. MTT Assay A498, 786-O, and Caki-1 cells were plated at 10,000 cells per well in 96-well plates. Cells were treated with 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 μM IC261. After 72 hr, an MTT assay was performed according to the manufacturer’s protocol (BioVision, catalog number K302-500). Detailed methodology is described in Supplemental Experimental Procedures. Soft Agar Colony-Formation Assay Soft agar colony formation assay was performed similar to a previously described method ( Borowicz et al., 2014 Borowicz S. Van Scoyk M. Avasarala S. Karuppusamy Rathinam M.K. Tauler J. Bikkavilli R.K. Winn R.A. The soft agar colony formation assay. J. Vis. Exp. 2014; 92: e51998 Google Scholar ). Detailed methodology can be found in Supplemental Experimental Procedures. Quantification and Statistical Analysis The data presented are representative of three biological replicates unless otherwise specified. Data were analyzed with an unpaired t test. Asterisks in the figures indicate significant differences (∗p < 0.05; ∗∗p < 0.005; ∗∗∗p < 0.0005; ∗∗∗∗p < 0.0001). Error bars represent the SD for three independent experiments unless otherwise indicated. Author Contributions N.D., D.M.D., R.A.S., M.R.W., D.R.L., M.D., A.J.B.-W., A.W.T., and M.M., performed experiments. D.M.D., M.R.W., R.A.S., J.D.C., C.K.V., T.A.H., G.B., D.B., and M.M. designed experiments. M.M. wrote the manuscript and conceived the project. Acknowledgments We would like to thank Dr. Gustavo de la Roza (Department of Pathology, SUNY Upstate Medical University) for his help and expert advice on the tumors. This work was partly supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the NIH (grant R01GM124256 to M.M.). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. This work was also supported by funds from SUNY Upstate Medical University , the Upstate Foundation , the One Square Mile of Hope Foundation , and the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Fund (D.B. and M.M.) and in part by the Urology Care Foundation Research Scholar Award Program and American Urological Association (M.M.). 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No. 10 Florida State got the better of No. 3 Louisville, 13-4, in their series-opener on Friday evening.
The Seminoles (37-14, 17-8 ACC) put together a strong start and a complete effort in the victory over the Cardinals (38-12, 21-4 ACC).
The Seminoles got the better of Louisville ace Kyle Funkhouser at the plate, batting through the lineup in the first inning. FSU scored three runs in the first inning and three more runs in the second inning to give them an early 6-0 advantage.
Funkhouser (6-4) would work through five innings, but gave up six runs (five earned) on six hits. He struck out six, walked five and threw two wild pitches.
“Funkhouser is obviously going to be a top pick, no question about it,” FSU head coach Mike Martin said. “He just had an off night. The only way you can look at it is it just happened to be an off night for him and some things went our way.”
“(Funkhouser) was keeping the ball low really well,” DJ Stewart added. “He just couldn’t find the strike zone for a little bit. Sometimes you just have nights like that but he did a great job going five innings for them. I think he threw 46 pitches in the first inning. He did a great job extending the start and making it what it was.”
For FSU, starting pitcher Boomer Biegalski threw five good innings, earning the victory. He allowed five hits, four runs (all earned), while striking out five and walking two.
Biegalski (5-3) was pulled in the top of the sixth after surrendering three consecutive hits, capped with a two-RBI double. He was replaced by Dylan Silva. Silva worked out of that jam and ended up going two strong innings, allowing one hit while striking out three and walking just one. He gave way to Alec Byrd who struck out three and allowed just one hit in the eight. Jim Voyles closed it out in the ninth recording three quick outs.
“Tonight’s game was just one of those where things went our way,” Martin said. “We needed a key hit. We got the key hit by Marconcini in the first inning with an at bat for the records, no doubt. Boomer pitched very well for five innings, held them right there. That obviously is a very good baseball team it just happened to go our way tonight.”
Offensively, FSU had 10 hits and 11 walks on the evening. They also had three hit-by-pitch and another reach via error. Every starter reached base. Seven different Seminoles recorded an RBI.
Right fielder Josh Delph led with four walks and three runs. Left fielder DJ Stewart had a pair of hits, including a double, and a pair of walks, bringing in two runs and accounting for another two runs himself. Ben DeLuzio also had a pair of hits, including his first home run of the season, while driving in a pair of runs and scoring a pair of runs himself.
“We did a lot of things right when it came to moving runners, when it came to a ball we needed the outfield reached to score a run we did it,” Martin said. “It was just one of those we worked ourselves into good hitting counts and of course Mike Martin Jr. handles our hitters, we had some good swings when we got in those counts. It was just one of those, like I say, things just went our way.”
The game was watched by 6,138 attendees. A new record at Jim Patterson Stadium.
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kencko | The Goods HAPPINESS GUARANTEE: try it risk-free 🤗 the science blog about us refer a friend Share Blog > nutrition Debunking the "reset diet" Promising immediate results and weight loss through a low-calorie, this 15-day diet focuses on eliminating and reintroducing foods. But does it really work? You may be familiar with the reset diet from its celebrity fans. This year, Jessica Simpson took to Instagram to show her dramatic weight loss results with the help of Harley Pasternak and the Body Reset Diet. But with all things celebrity, we’re inclined to at least question its validity. In this article, we break down the fundamentals of the Body Reset Diet, what you can and can’t eat, whether it delivers long-lasting results, and why we don’t recommend it. Before we go any further, we’d like to just say that we aren’t big fans of the notion of a restrictive diet – and this one’s mighty restrictive. Let’s do this. What is the Body Reset Diet? The Body Reset Diet plan consists of three phases: 0-5 days - in the first phase, you have three smoothies and two snacks daily. Walk at least 10,000 steps every day. 6-10 days - the second phase involves drinking two smoothies and one solid non-blended meal daily. Walk at least 10,000 steps each day and complete a five-minute home fitness workout three times per week. 11-15 days - in the third and final phase, you drink one smoothie and eat two solid non-blended meals per day. Walk a minimum of 10,000 daily steps and complete a strengthening routine five times weekly. Celebrity fitness trainer Harley Pasternak’s book “The Body Reset Diet: Power Your Metabolism, Blast Fat, and Shed Pounds in Just 15 Days” lays out the full plan. The idea is that you're supposed to follow specific recipes from the book. The low-calorie diet aims to deliver rapid weight loss in a short time to kickstart a weight loss journey. The diet relies heavily on smoothies and simple meals. Smoothies make up a big part of the diet, so you might think we’d be on board. However, we view kencko smoothies as something to be added to your routine, not something to replace a full meal. There are lots of smoothie recipes in Pasternak’s book, but in general, they include the following: Liquid base - dairy or non-dairy milk, or water Protein - powder or plain non-fat Greek yogurt Healthy fats - nuts, seeds, or avocado High fiber carbs - fruits and vegetables The snacks that you can eat are also specific. They include foods like low-fat popcorn, celery sticks and almond butter, and pear with sliced turkey. All snacks have guidelines around nutritional content and calories. A snack should be roughly 150 calories with at least 5 grams of fiber and protein and less than 10 grams sugar. Phase two begins to introduce meals. Again, you can find the meal recipes in the book. Meals include a range of dishes like sandwiches, soup, salads, stir-fries, and other quick yet simple meals. The other key part of the reset diet is exercise. A minimum of 10,000 daily steps are a must throughout the whole diet plan. As you head into phases two and three, it introduces light workouts alongside the daily steps. The workouts then increase as the days continue. Once you hit day 15, Pasternak offers “rest of your life” advice. He encourages eating five times a day: one smoothie, two snacks, and two solid meals with two splurge meals per week. Continue with 10,000 daily steps and short resistance training sessions five days per week. Foods that are restricted on the reset diet The Body Reset Diet includes a set plan. There isn’t much room for flexibility. The eating plan has a specific list of foods to avoid during the first 15 days of the diet, including: Alcohol Full-fat dairy (milk, cheese, and yogurt) Overly processed or fried foods White bread, pasta, and refined grains Soda and sugary drinks Sweetened coffee beverages Egg yolks The restricted foods include those that are high in calories. The Body Reset Diet is black and white. There’s no eating some not-as-healthy foods in moderation. You simply don’t eat the foods on this list for the 15-day eating plan. Once you finish the plan, you can have a couple of splurge days, including these foods and alcohol. What are the downsides? While we are all about healthy eating and exercise, there are downsides to the Body Reset Diet. We don’t believe that there is such a thing as a one-size-fits-all diet for every person. The problem with rapid results is that they can be difficult to sustain long-term. You tend to gain back what you lost, and often more. And it’s not good for your overall health for your weight to fluctuate a ton. There’s not enough time to adopt those healthy habits that will result in long-term change. Let’s start by saying the book was first published in 2013. So, some of the advice can seem a little dated compared to what we know now. The plan encourages fat-free and low-fat foods, and even eggs without yolks. Now, prevailing wisdom would look at high-quality fat rather than lumping all fats into total fat content, whether it’s good or bad. While there are vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and dairy-free recipes, finding them is not straightforward. You have to wade through all of the recipes to find them or adjust the recipe to your dietary requirements. For instance, if you swap the chicken broth for vegetable broth, you can make some of the soups plant-based. Another element of the plan that’s not ideal is that you have to count calories or track. Many people find that counting calories is stressful or takes up a lot of time. And this sort of method can lead to an unhealthy relationship to food. Overall, is it a healthy choice? At the surface, the reset diet focuses on moving your body and focusing on healthier foods. That’s tough to disagree with. But its approach isn’t something we condone. More exercise and fewer calories will likely shed pounds. But no supporting data says rapid weight loss in a short space of time prepares your body for sustained weight loss in the long term. It’s also important to understand that rapid weight loss is not a long-term solution. Plus, it’s difficult to believe that changing your diet – even in an extreme way – for 15 days will have a huge lasting effect. The Body Reset Diet is similar to other smoothie-only diets and will likely result in weight loss. The problem is that it doesn’t hit most guidelines for a nutritious and balanced diet. The USDA states that we should be eating a variety of nutrient-dense whole foods like: Whole fruits and veggies Lean protein Low-fat dairy Legumes Healthy fats If we consume a liquid diet, we lose out on nutrients from whole foods in those larger quantities that our bodies need. If possible, we should eat nutrients from foods, including lean protein sources, not just protein powder. When we take a look at the calorie guidelines for the reset diet, it sets a limit of 1,200 calories for the first phase. When you think that we should eat roughly 2,000 calories to maintain weight and 1,500 calories for weight loss, it’s low on calories and nutrition. That’s not great. How many calories your body needs depends on factors like age, sex, weight, and physical activity level, and there’s no wiggle room in the Body Reset Diet. An alternative? While the Body Reset Diet includes fundamentals that support a healthy lifestyle, it does fall short in some areas. Although a restrictive diet may not be ideal, there’s always an alternative way to get on a healthy flow, be more consistent, and still see results. It’s not surprising to hear that we love smoothies, fruit, and vegetables. While these can be great for our health, they shouldn’t be the sole focus. Nutrient-rich smoothies, fresh fruit, and veggies are an excellent addition to a healthy diet, but our bodies also need carbs, protein, and healthy fats. Research shows that regular exercise and a balanced diet are crucial for overall health. Regular exercise and a healthy diet support heart health, build muscle and boost mental health. Ultimately, there’s no need to follow a super restrictive diet that leaves you feeling nothing but hangry. Instead, think about small changes you can make to your diet and lifestyle that you can actually maintain. You don’t need to make all these changes at once. It could be as simple as taking the stairs instead of the elevator. Find something you love to do that makes you move more like gardening, hiking, or tennis. Try adding our smoothies to your morning routine or kencko bowls so you can still eat healthy foods when you’re short on time. Sometimes making massive changes and cutting out loads of food groups feels overwhelming. That’s because it is. Food should be enjoyable and exciting. Good nutrition and regular exercise set the foundation for overall health, which can look different for everyone. Remember that small steps add up to big change. Share there's more good content where that came from SUBSCRIBE language and location shop get started smoothies gumdrops bowls gift card nutrition coaching shaker bottle about our story careers the science blog reviews more my account help center terms & privacy policy accessibility statement return policy press chat [email protected] made with love in between Brooklyn and Lisbon © 2022, kencko foods, inc. All Rights Reserved | negative |
Linear Tracking Lives!: 2013 skip to main | skip to sidebar Saturday, December 28, 2013 Favorite Reissues of 2013 1. 'Scared to Get Happy: A Story of Indie Pop 1980-1989' Some of the 134 songs on this massive box set from Cherry Red are a bit obvious. I mean who doesn't already have Aztec Camera's "Oblivious"? At least go for a Postcard single. There are, however, just as many that are inspired... like the original flexi version of the Bluebell's "Happy Birthday." Even the biggest fans will find many tracks they don't own. The 54-page booklet is very well done, but I do have a complaint: The discs are ridiculously difficult to get in and out of the box. If you have this one, you know what I mean. 2. 'At the BBC' At 81 tracks, a vast majority of which cover the pivotal years 1983-1986, this is a Big Country fan's dream. Do yourself a favor and splurge for the box set over the two-disc edition or you'll miss out on a must-have DVD and well-done 32-page hardcover booklet. 3. 'LSXX' I already had most of the extras from around the Breeders' 'Last Splash' album, but I didn't have the live show that comprises disc three, and that made the steep price worth it for me. Plus, I was just hoping the record would sound better, and I was rewarded with slightly less mud in the production. This still stands as one of the best albums to come out of the '90s. 4. 'The Hurting' This is the first of two selections on this list that may have some of you scratching your heads with disappointment, but I'm an unapologetic fan of Tears for Fears' first album. The deluxe edition never sounded better, and some of the B-sides and 12" singles on the second disc were new to me. 5. 'Everything's Shining Bright, The Lazy Recordings 1985-87' I didn't have the entire set of five singles/EPs prior to the Primitives' major label jump, let alone the scores of unreleased material, but the real reason I wanted this two-disc set was for the full-length live show from Aug, 15, 1987. It's great fun to hear this band with grit. 6. 'Cartography for Beginners' Six weeks ago I told you the best place to start your introduction to the Lucksmiths was 'Warmer Corners.' Three weeks later Matinee Recordings gave us all a better idea. This 35-song two-disc "best of" covers all 16 glorious years of the Aussie band's indie-pop existence. I don't have some of the early albums, and they are long out of print. So, I had to get this one. 7. 'Summer Rain' Hard to believe, but I actually got two cassettes in 2013. The first was this c60 compiled by the Pastels from favorite songs in their discography since 1995 and sold as part of Cassette Store Day. For the record, my other tape was the live Orange Juice bootleg from 1981 AED Records handed out for free with December orders. I mention it because it deserves to be on one of my year-end lists somewhere. 8. 'Ta!' My favorite Danish band only has one full-length album, but Northern Portrait has kept busy through the years with a bevy of EPs, singles and slots on compilation albums. I have tried my best to keep up, but a few songs slipped away before becoming tough finds. 'Ta!' has filled all of those holes in my collection. I do, however, miss having all of those brilliant picture sleeves. At least I can continue my search while listening to these great tunes. Oh, and that sophomore full-length album is slated for a 2014 release! 9. 'Vehicle' After nearly a decade of stellar singles and EPs, the Clean's first full-length studio album was released in 1990. It has been out of print for ages, but Captured Tracks and Flying Nun rescued it so those late to the party can finally move on beyond the excellent but broad 'Anthology' that has appeased fans for a decade. 10. 'Pop Can! The Definitive Collection 1986 to 1988' I only knew Mighty Mighty from the various C86 compilations in my collection, but I liked every song I ever heard. There really weren't that many recordings. So, when I picked up this two-disc set chock full of jangle I basically had the band's entire history. and the next 5 (in no particular order...) The Blue Nile - 'A Walk Across the Rooftops' and 'Hats' 14 Iced Bears - 'Hold On Inside: Complete Recordings 1991-1986' Paul Young - 'Remixes and Rarities' (second disappointment?) Lansing-Dreiden - 'The Dividing Island' The Brilliant Corners - 'Heart On Your Sleeve - A Decade In Pop 1983-1993' Posted by Brian at 2:34 AM 5 comments: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 Favorite Albums of 2013 (or When Did I Get Old?) 1. 'English Electric' It's not often a 35-year old band can conjure enough magic to sustain an entire album... especially one that rivals its best work. Usually, if you're lucky, you get an uneven album like 'History of Modern.' I was more than happy to get that reunion gift in 2010, but it turned out to be merely a warm up to OMD's real comeback. 2. 'Crimson/Red' I have already written about Prefab Sprout's latest until I was red in the face. So, for now, this will have to suffice: It's Paddy McAloon's best-ever effort not linked to Thomas Dolby and one of the biggest surprises of 2013. 3. 'The Next Day' A David Bowie sighting was the real miracle of 2013. Released without fanfare and to a public that no longer expected anything from him, 'The Next Day' instantly became his best release in 30 years. I wasn't too pleased with a money-grab reissue coming out the same year as the initial release, especially when I thought the album was already a bit too long, but the first six songs are still giving me goosebumps nine months after buying it. 4. 'Personal Record' Eleanor Friedberger's hook-filled "My Mistakes," my No. 2 song from 2011, helped erase my angst toward her previous band, the Fiery Furnaces, and I imagined I might even love one of her albums someday. By her sophomore effort, with the addition of co-writer John Wesley Harding, it happened. 5. 'Waiting for Something to Happen' Is this really Slumberland's only appearance? Veronica Falls' debut album is one of the best I have heard this decade, and I'm not quite sure why this followup didn't quite capture the crowd of enthusiasts like the first one did. The moody jangle and pop still had me staring at the tops of my shoes like it was 2011. 6. 'Our Hearts Beat Out Loud' What do you get when you take sophisticated indie pop and add the whimsical atmosphere of Olympia's fabled Dub Narcotic Studio to the equation? I'm no mathematician, but the sum seems to be one of the most rewarding listens of the year. Feels right to join the Math and Physics Club. 7. 'Standards' I had all but given up on this idol from my youth, but Lloyd Cole surrounded himself with some old friends, Fred Maher, Matthew Sweet and Blair Cowan, to name a few, and it sounded like old times. 8. 'Love From London' At age 60 and with nearly 20 studio albums under his belt, how can Robyn Hitchcock seemingly be getting stronger as a singer/songwriter? I have really loved what he's done this past decade, and this is the best of that lot. 9. 'Lovesick Blues' I'm a huge dB's fan, but I can honestly say I liked Chris Stamey's solo record much more than the band's reunion album. Whether he goes big, like the lush orchestration of the title track, or small like the croon of "Occasional Shivers," the legendary (at least in my mind) singer/songwriter pulls it off. 10. 'Beyond The Dreams There's Infinite Doubt' I have been known to like a little synth with my pop, and there's no doubt Swede Tobias Isaksson feels the same way. In another time Azure Blue would have fit right in with Factory's stable of stars. And the Next 10... 11. The Ocean Blue - 'Ultramarine' 12. Edwyn Collins - 'Understated' 13. Neko Case - 'The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You' 14. The Pastels - 'Slow Summits' 15. Camera Obscura - 'Desire Lines' 16. Phoenix - 'Bankrupt!' 17. Vampire Weekend - 'Modern Vampires of the City' 18. Paul McCartney - 'New' 19. Kid Canaveral - 'Now That You Are a Dancer' 20. The Bicycles - 'Stop Thinking So Much' Posted by Brian at 12:12 AM 3 comments: Sunday, December 22, 2013 Favorite Album Covers of 2013 Going back as far as I can remember I have always enjoyed holding the cover and losing myself in the art while listening to the album. These paintings and photos really captured the moods of the music and continued to catch my eye with each listen. This is why I will never be able to embrace the digital download. You only get part of the story. Album: 'Pretty Decent Swimmers' by Northern Portrait Photo: Carla Acevedo-Blumenkrantz Note: The Beverly Hills Hotel turned 100 last year. To celebrate, the legendary spot hosted several live poolside performances by the water ballet entertainment company Aqualillies. This photo was taken there. Album: 'Slow Summits' by The Pastels Painting: Annabel Wright Album: 'Bankrupt!' by Phoenix Illustration: Ben Garvie Album: 'Songs Cycled' by Van Dyke Parks Painting: Kenton Nelson Note: The art of 'Songs Cycled' is the best I have seen this year. Each song has an accompanying painting by artists like Klaus Voorman, Ed Ruscha and Frank Holmes. The artists also share their insights next to the lyrics of each tune. You could look at this booklet for hours. Album: 'Desire Lines' by Camera Obscura Painting: Daniel Ablitt Posted by Brian at 2:43 PM 7 comments: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 When the Wife's Away, Scritti Politti Will Play After a week away Mrs. LTL! returns today. So, I had better hurry because these are looong versions, and it would not be good if I'm spinning this 12" single when she comes in the door... no, not good for anybody. Scritti Politti's full-length debut, 'Songs to Remember,' had a series of lengthy delays before its release. So, by the time the album was in the rack on Sept. 3, 1982, three singles had preceded it. This one, "Faithless," was sandwiched between "The Sweetest Girl" and the double A-side "Asylums in Jerusalem"/"Jacques Derrida." It's nice to have all of these as 12" singles, but if you can only have one, "Faithless" is the one to grab because it's the lone song of the trio that was extended from the album version. And if you don't have 'Songs to Remember' you should go get it right now. If you're most familiar with 'Cupid & Psyche '85' material, it may come as surprise to you that prior to that pop phenomenon the music of Green Gartside was chock full of some serious themes. Green spoke to Smash Hits about "Faithless" in '82. He said the song was about "how living without faith brings you both happiness and sadness. I've never had any religion, except maybe politics, although I am interested in having some means of achieving social order and progress." You 'Cupid' fans may be shocked by the production of the early work too. "Faithless" peaked at No. 56 on the UK singles chart and and was listed at No. 35 on NME's best singles list for 1982. These two versions from the 12" add up to more than 19 minutes! Did I mention the wife hates Scritti Politti? Scritti Politti - Faithless (Triple Hep N' Blue) (mp3) Scritti Politti - Faithless (Part II) (mp3) Posted by Brian at 6:08 PM 5 comments: Ballots Cast: Best Comeback Album of 2013 The polls are closed. I want to thank everyone that participated in another one of my less than scientific endeavors. The top two candidates combined for more than a third of the vote. Since the Olympics are right around the corner, here are your gold, silver and bronze winners: 1. Prefab Sprout - 'Crimson/Red' 2. David Bowie - 'The Next Day' 3. Daft Punk - 'Random Access Memories' 3. Mazzy Star - 'Seasons of Your Day' Others That Received Votes: Franz Ferdinand - 'Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action' Johnny Hates Jazz - 'Magnetized' (write-in vote) Nine Inch Nails - 'Hesitation Marks' The Ocean Blue - 'Ultramarine' The Pastels - 'Slow Summits' Primal Scream - 'More Light' Now let's enjoy some of my favorites from the ballot. You'll see these again on my year-end lists next week. Posted by Brian at 1:04 AM 6 comments: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 If I Had Another Shot at My 2012 List... This is one I didn't hear in time to make my best albums of 2012 list, but it certainly captured my attention for just about the entirety of 2013. 'Arab Spring,' the debut full length by Austin-based band Literature, is not the sort of record that breaks new ground, but its beauty is in its simplicity. Others have compared them to the Pains of Being Pure of Heart, but I think I hear the poppy jangle of the Lodger and the hard guitar of the Exploding Hearts... may they rest in peace. And, of course, they are all paying homage to what's best about late '70s punk and rock. History really does repeat itself. Add it all up and you get 10 tracks and 22 quick minutes of lo-fi fun. If you're a parent, it's the perfect soundtrack when you're sent off to the store or stuck doing the dishes. Have you ever caught yourself doing the pogo while scrubbing that plate? This year, I did. If you only have two minutes to spare, go straight to "Push-Up Bra" (track 3) on the player below. There's a real Buzzcocks vibe to that one. ARAB SPRING by Literature Posted by Brian at 3:24 PM No comments: Saturday, December 14, 2013 Curtain Call: Simple Minds From 1985 I have just about everything through 'Sparkle in the Rain' (including a mess of of 12" singles), but this is the only piece of vinyl I own from Simple Minds beyond -- what can be best described as -- "The John Hughes Incident." I'm consoled by the fact I bought this one for a B-side that was recorded before "Don't You (Forget About Me)" saw the light of day. This well done live version of "Up on the Boardwalk" was taken from a January 5, 1985 homecoming show at Glasgow's famous Barrowlands and appears on the 12" of "Alive & Kicking." I like knowing Jim Kerr and the lads, as well as their fans in the crowd that evening, have absolutely no idea what's about to happen to one of Scotland's greatest musical treasures. That bloody single from the soundtrack to 'The Breakfast Club' would be released six weeks after this show. So, enjoy one of Simple Minds' last unadulterated performances. Simple Minds - Up on the Catwalk (Live Version) Posted by Brian at 3:17 AM 6 comments: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 Vote for Best Comeback Album of 2013 Uh, maybe not. Here is a quickly compiled list of comeback albums for 2013. I defined "comeback" as a band that hadn't released a new studio album in (about) four years or more. I excluded film work. I let EPs slide so the Replacements and Pixies could be on the list. I know it feels like the Blow Monkeys and OMD had great comeback albums in 2013, but they don't pass my four-year rule. Johnny Marr was a tough call, but he calls 'The Messenger' his debut solo album. So, I left him off. I considered Paul McCartney because his last album was a different genre. Then I decided he probably didn't need my comeback accolades. Apologies to my pal Ian for excluding the Stranglers, but 'Giants' technically came out in 2012. Speaking of 2012, I almost wish it was that year again so I could vote for Dexys' 'One Day I'm Going to Soar,' my favorite comeback album of the decade (so far).... Irrelevant, yes, but I state it whenever I can. If you don't see your album (remember, I threw this list together in haste), please vote "other" and give me your choice in the comments section. I'll tally them all up in a week and let you know the winner. Thanks for voting. survey solutions Posted by Brian at 7:31 PM 9 comments: Friday, December 6, 2013 When the Wife's Away, Scritti Politti Will Play Mrs. LTL! is on the road again. That can only mean one thing: I can spin the hits of Green Gartside without all of that eye rolling. In an earlier installment, nearly a year ago, I posted the UK 12" of "Perfect Way." That "extended mix" is superior to the 12" version we were fed here in America. The "Way Perfect Mix" is more or less the album version with a longer intro and some bells and whistles thrown in for a spell at the 3:15 mark. Still a great song, to be sure, but not nearly as experimental as the UK take. That's my humble opinion, but why don't you be the judge? If you click on the link above, I have uploaded the UK version again on the original post. You'll find the American version below. The wife will be out of town again next week. So, chances are we will give another one of Scritti Politti's 12" singles a listen soon. Scritti Politti - Perfect Way (Way Perfect Mix) (mp3) Posted by Brian at 1:17 AM 2 comments: Saturday, November 30, 2013 Something for the Stocking From AED Records Edwyn Collins' label, AED Records, is playing Santa Claus with quite a little freebie. Just buy something from AED's store during December and they will throw in 'Thrillingly,' a bootleg recording of Orange Juice recorded live at Stirling University in 1981. Yes, it's on cassette, and I'm assuming the typical reader here still has a cassette deck, but AED is throwing in a download code as well. Some unknown fan of the band sent AED this show taken straight from the soundboard, and it is said to be very clean. All of those early sing-alongs are there, 'Falling and Laughing,' 'Blue Boy,' 'Felicity,' and more. This would be quite a little Christmas companion to the reissue of Aztec Camera's 'High Land, Hard Rain,' also available through AED. Are you there, Mrs. LTL? Posted by Brian at 1:57 PM No comments: Thursday, November 28, 2013 Get Stiff'd on Black Friday This year's Black Friday edition of Record Store Day won't get me to my nearest mom-and-pop shop at the crack of dawn, but I did find an item (or two) worth passing along. Razor & Tie has teamed up with a legendary label to release a limited edition and individually numbered 7" box set. 'Ten Big Stiffs' includes Tenpole Tudor's "Swords of a Thousand Men," Tracey Ullman's "They Don't Know," Wreckless Eric's "Whole Wide World," Desmond Dekker's "Israelites, "Kirsty MacColl's "A New England" and five more 45s housed in the paper sleeves you remember from your youth. Here's a little video vignette on Stiff put together to promote this collectible, as well as an actual look at the box itself. We could argue about our favorite artist from the Stiff stable, but I would probably go with Nick Lowe. He's still as relevant today as he was all those decades ago. Now I'm not a big fan of picture discs. In fact, I only own one in my entire album collection. Perhaps I'm about to acquire my second. Just for the Black Friday edition of Record Store Day, Yep Roc is releasing Lowe's new holiday album, 'Quality Street,' as a 12" picture disc. There are only 1,000 of these available. The record has three Lowe originals, a song written by Ron Sexsmith just for his pal, as well as seasonal favorites like "Silent Night." If you're not traveling far for Thanksgiving, you're going to love this song and video for "Christmas at the Airport." Posted by Brian at 3:08 AM 2 comments: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Ballots Cast: Best Scottish Album From the '80s The votes have been counted. Thanks to all who participated in this less than scientific endeavor. Best Scottish Album From the 1980s 1. Aztec Camera -'High Land, Hard Rain' 2. Orange Juice - 'You Can't Hide Your Love Forever' 3. Big Country - 'The Crossing' 4. The Jesus and Mary Chain - 'Psychocandy' 4. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - 'Rattlesnakes' 6. Danny Wilson - 'Meet Danny Wilson' 6. Josef K - 'The Only Fun in Town' 6. The Skids - 'The Absolute Game' The following albums also received votes: Associates - 'Sulk' The Blue Nile - 'A Walk Across the Rooftops' Close Lobsters - 'Foxheads Stalk This Land' Deacon Blue - 'Raintown' Eurythmics - 'Touch' Momus - 'Tender Pervert' The Proclaimers - 'This Is the Story' Simple Minds - 'New Gold Dream' Texas - 'Southside' I had high hopes 'High Land, Hard Rain' would lead the way, but the poll was still full of surprises. Let's dig into the data. I didn't expect Simple Minds would top the list, but I thought the reason would be because their fandom would split the vote between the band's six albums from the decade. Shockingly, Simple Minds received one vote. For those of you scratching your head about the high rank for 'The Crossing,' you should know I post quite a bit about Big Country. So, I believe I have picked up some readers that are die-hard fans. I imagine those fans would lean the Skids' way as well. I thought the Blue Nile and Deacon Blue would garner more interest, perhaps even a write-in drive for 'Hats,' but I imagine many American readers don't know these records as well as my UK friends. Two albums that didn't get a fair shake were 'Del Amitri' and 'Sulk.' I mistakenly posted the wrong album name for Del Amitri's debut, and even though I let everyone know my screw up I imagine the error made a difference. 'Sulk,' on the other hand, was left off the list completely. I swear I had it on the ballot, but it didn't show up on the front end for some reason. Big apologies to my pal George. He was the one that suggested 'Sulk' might be the best album from Scotland during the debate that inspired the poll. I think we can all agree 'Del Amitri' and 'Sulk' are terrific listens. Finally, I love that more than 30 years later the legend of Postcard Records is alive and well. I don't know why the music of Scotland is so good, but I do know that little corner of the world has given me endless hours of audio bliss. I hope it has for you too. If it hasn't, then you obviously haven't heard the excellent albums above. Get yourself an education. Here is something from each of the three albums that captured double-digit percentages of the vote: Aztec Camera - Lost Outside the Tunnel (mp3) (Buy) Big Country - Harvest Home (12") (mp3) (Buy) Orange Juice - L.O.V.E. Love (mp3) (Buy) Posted by Brian at 2:00 AM 3 comments: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 Vote for Best Scottish Album From the 1980s Thanks for the lively debate on the best album from Scotland we had the other day. I really wanted to do something with the suggestions, but I'm also mindful of the amount of time it would take to do an all-time best list. So, I whittled it down to tops from the 1980s. Sure, there are big holes here, but I think it's pretty good for 30 minutes of work. The biggest problem is including all of the albums from some of the more lengthy discographies. For every 'New Gold Dream' there is a 'Sparkle in the Rain,' if you catch my drift. Well, the list would be out of control pretty quickly if I went that route. So, I picked what I perceived to be the biggest vote-getter from each band. If you disagree with my pick, choose "other" at the bottom of the list and tell me your choice in the comments section. The other caveat was defining "Scottish band." For examples, Lloyd Cole makes the cut if it's an album with the all-Scottish Commotions backing him up. Eurythmics are here even though only half of the duo is from Scotland. I made these choices because I like them and wanted them to be here. Pull the lever now. Then elaborate on your vote in the comments section as you exit the polling station. Voting ends in one week. Please Note: The entry for Del Amitri should be the self-titled debut album from 1985. I noticed the mistake almost immediately, but there were already nine votes by the time I attempted to repair it. Those votes would be wiped out if I made the fix. So, I'm leaving the error. Grr. Why did I rush? surveys Results to come... Posted by Brian at 3:01 PM 13 comments: 12 Inches of Love: 'Hanna Hanna' I have to make this short (but sweet) today. This is the third time in 2013 I have pulled out the old China Crisis for this series, but I promise it will be the last because I only have three 12" singles from the band. Of course, if I ever get lucky enough to track down the extended versions of "African and White" or "King in a Catholic Style," I may have to renege. "Hanna Hanna" was the third single from the 1983 album 'Working with Fire and Steel – Possible Pop Songs Volume Two.' It was the followup to their biggest UK hit, the No. 9 smash "Wishful Thinking." By comparison, "Hanna Hanna" peaked at a modest No. 44. The extended version takes some interesting turns from the take heard on the album. I particularly like the nearly a cappella vocals late in the mix. If you are a fan, I think you will really enjoy it. If you aren't, perhaps the breezy "Hanna Hanna" will be the song to sway you. China Crisis - Hanna Hanna (Extended Mix) (mp3) Posted by Brian at 1:36 AM 3 comments: Saturday, November 16, 2013 'High Land, Hard Rain' Anniversary Continues Thirty years after the debut of the best album to come out of Scotland, Domino Records is releasing a remastered anniversary edition of Aztec Camera's 'High Land, Hard Rain' on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl and with a new gatefold inner sleeve. OK, most of us are probably content with our old vinyl copies or the deluxe edition that came out on CD last year. The label realizes this, and they have upped the ante considerably to get you to purchase the brilliant debut album one more time. The album will include an interesting 7" EP, individually signed by Roddy Frame himself. The A-side is "The Boy Wonders" and "Release" from a Capital Radio session. The B-side (this is big!), is the NME C81 version of "We Could Send Letters" and the bedroom demo of "The Bugle Sounds Again." You can preorder for a Dec. 2 ship date through Roddy's new label, Edwyn Collins' AED Records. For you aristocrats, there is also a package exclusive to AED that includes a 12 x 12 inch Giclee print of the 'High Land, Hard Rain' front cover.' If you are seeing Roddy Frame at one of the three UK shows to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the album, this reissue will be available there to buy as well. Here are all the details and ordering information. Sounds like a fabulous Christmas gift, eh? If you're a regular reader, you may recall I finally bought C81 a couple of years ago. So, let's give "We Could Send Letters" a listen. Aztec Camera - We Could Send Letters (C81 Version) (mp3) If you disagree with my opening statement about the best Scottish album, file complaints in the comments section for further scrutiny. Posted by Brian at 9:20 PM 8 comments: Friday, November 15, 2013 Best Time to Warm Up to the Lucksmiths Have you ever completely missed the boat on a veteran band and then tried to dip your big toe into the discography? It can be a challenge, but that's what happened to me a few years back with Yo La Tengo. I had a feeling I was missing something special, but with a dozen albums to choose from I didn't really know where to begin. Perhaps that has happened with you and today's band. If you have ever contemplated succumbing to the charms of the Aussie outfit the Lucksmiths but were intimidated by the 11-album backlog from the band's storied career, now is the time to jump on the bandwagon. C'mon, there's plenty of room, and Matinée Recordings has just the record to get you started. The label announced this week the Lucksmiths' third (and arguably best) album, 'Warmer Corners,' is being released on vinyl for the first time ever. This is when the band expanded to a four piece and incorporated strings, horns and even pedal steel to create a record not just filled with hooks but with real beauty as well. It's a perfect example of everything a pop record can be. OK, you may need a little luck to get your hands on the limited edition vinyl of this Lucksmiths' masterpiece from 2005. There are only going to be 500 of these worldwide. The album will be hand numbered and come with a download card. Matinée will also throw in 'Warmer Corners' postcards and posters while supplies last. Even though I have this on CD, I may have to buy this one all over again. Call now. Operators are standing by.... Sorry I got carried away with the commercial speak, but I can't help it. In my world this is exciting stuff. Here's the real deal: You can preorder now for a November 25 ship date. In the meantime, to whet your appetite, here's the single "The Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Francisco." Do they remind you of another band from Down Under? Posted by Brian at 1:48 PM 3 comments: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 'Happy Birthday, What More Can I Say?' This one is dedicated to... myself. I have already posted all about these Scottish lads once before. So, I'll keep this brief. I found the Bluebells during a period of my life I like to call "The Great Costello Grab." Most of my teen years were spent acquiring anything associated with Elvis Costello, from old Trouser Press covers to bizarre promo items like the three-dimensional cutout of his clown head from the 'Spike' cover that undulated on a big spring. I got into the Bluebells because Costello produced seven songs for the band, including "Happy Birthday (Turn Gold)" from the flipside to the 1983 12" single "Sugar Bridge (It Will Stand)." As I wrote the first time around, the band's brand of pop is pleasant and lightweight. They remind me of Friends Again just a bit, but I wouldn't say I like the Bluebells quite as much as that Scottish peer. My favorite piece of trivia about the band is that they were asked to record a single for Postcard, but the label folded before it came to fruition. "Happy Birthday" first appeared as a flexi for the Glasgow magazine Stand & Deliver. You can find that version on the wonderful 'Scared to Get Happy' box set. The Costello-produced song is available on 'The Singles Collection.' Happy birthday to me. I hope you enjoy both takes of the song. The Bluebells - Happy Birthday (Turn Gold) (mp3) Posted by Brian at 2:45 PM 7 comments: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 Cover Me Impressed: 'Balloon Song' One of my favorite albums from the impressive catalog of Slumberland Records is the Aisler Set's 'The Last Match.' Although the band's home base was San Francisco and the record came out in 2000, you would swear it came from the UK in 1986. That's why the one cover on 'The Last Match' is such a perfect, well, match. I'll let the band describe today's song... straight from the liner notes: "Ballon song was written by The Fourteen Iced Bears. The original can be found on their "Frank" single released in 1987 on capra, on the thunderball records compilation "precision," or on the 14 iced bears/hermit crabs split flexi also released in 1987. We love 'em." 'The Last Match' became SLR 62. The band probably didn't know that about a year later Slumberland would assemble a fantastic compilation of 14 Iced Bears' work. 'In the Beginning' would become SLR 65 and the definitive recollection of the C86 vets' heyday for many years. It's out of print now, but I recently read Cherry Red has picked up the slack with a double-disc reissue of everything 14 Iced Bears just this year. Along with the cover, I'm including the two versions of "Balloon Song" I have from 'In the Beginning.' Most bands get harder, faster and rawer when they get into the studio for a Peel Session, but 14 Iced Bears toned it down quite a bit. At any rate, both takes, as well as the Aisler Set's cover, are a fantastic bit of jangle. 14 Iced Bears - Balloon Song (mp3) 14 Iced Bears - Balloon Song (Peel Session) (mp3) The Aislers Set - Balloon Song (mp3) Posted by Brian at 6:59 PM No comments: Friday, November 8, 2013 No Longer 'Red' Over Price of New Prefab Sprout Fans of Prefab Sprout here in America can close their jaws again. 'Crimson/Red' is no longer listed for $49 on Amazon. I was so distraught at the price upon its initial release that I bought it on Amazon UK and had it shipped to Seattle for what seemed like the fair price of $18... including shipping. Well, now I see you can get it for as low as $12, excluding shipping, on Amazon Marketplace. So, fence-sitters, it's time to catch up with Paddy McAloon. After about a dozen listens I am ready to give 'Crimson/Red' a high grade. I admit I went into the album filled with angst. There seemed to be so much going against it. Although it says Prefab Sprout on the cover, this was actually a McAloon solo effort. He played every instrument. McAloon is 56 years old now and has had some health issues. More than a decade has come and gone since we have heard brand-new material. PR photos released around 'Crimson/Red' depicted a man that looked like the bridge dweller from "Three Billy Goats Gruff." Most of all, unlike Prefab Sprout's best albums, Thomas Dolby didn't man the controls. As you will hear, my worries were unfounded. Despite McAloon's DIY approach, the album sounds great. A tip of the cap to Scottish engineer Calum Malcolm. If that name sounds familiar, it's because his name pops up all over records by a who's who of his fellow countrymen, including the Blue Nile, Deacon Blue, Orange Juice and Simple Minds. Not only is the production crisp, but McAloon's voice is as strong as it was in the mid-'80s. Sorry, no, I'm not comparing 'Crimson/Red' to 'Steve McQueen' by any stretch. Like that seminal album, however, if I can just get past the occasional over-the-top lyrics, I think I could be pulling this one off the shelf for years to come. No hyperbole here, but you should listen for yourself. You can get a download of "The Songs of Danny Galway" for the price of an email address here. Check out the video for the first single and album opener "The Best Jewel Thief in the World" below. Finally, if you have the time, catch up with McAloon during an interview with the BBC last month. Posted by Brian at 2:00 AM 5 comments: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 In Dreams... Would you like to get out from behind that desk? Here's an option from swingin' London: Record store up for sale on eBay Posted by Brian at 3:17 PM 3 comments: Friday, November 1, 2013 When Blueboy Grew Up From 'Return of the Pink Panther' Clouseau: How long have you been a bellboy? Bellboy: Ah, too long monsieur. Clouseau: Well, keep up this good work and very soon I will see to it you become a bellman. It's a beautiful fall day here in the Pacific Northwest... and a perfect time to pull out one of the crowning achievements from the catalog of Sarah Records. Until recently I always assumed Blueboy got its name from one of the best recordings Orange Juice ever committed to wax. Now I can only wish that was the case. Twenty years ago frontman Keith Girdler told a music magazine the moniker came from the Picasso painting "Blue Boy." The disappointments end there. If you aren't sure where to start, I would skip ahead a bit, beyond a handful of really good singles and a well-done album (that might be described as the typical sensitive Sarah fare) and go straight to the 1994 LP 'Unisex.' Clouseau would probably say that's when Blueboy became Blueman. The leap from the 'If Wishes Were Horses' album to 'Unisex' is like when American Bob Beamon broke the world record in the long jump by nearly two feet during the 1968 Olympics. By then the band's personnel had grown threefold. The additions of multi-instrumentalist Gemma Townley (and she could sing too!) and guitarist Harvey Williams (yes, from Another Sunny Day) as lyricist Girdler and guitarist/songwriter Paul Stewart were maturing allowed the group to create much more complex songs while still adhering to that patented Sarah sound. There would be other EPs and even one more album (although not on Sarah), but I think 'Unisex' is Blueboy's best moment. You can buy 'Unisex' with the post-album additions of the 'River' and 'Dirty Mags' EPs here. For you trivia buffs out there, 'Dirty Mags' was the last recording done by the label (Sarah, 099). Here are my three favorites from 'Unisex,' but I have found this is one of those albums best listened to from beginning to end. Blueboy - Cosmopolitan (mp3) Blueboy - The Joy of Living (mp3) Blueboy - Imipramine (mp3) Posted by Brian at 3:58 PM No comments: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 Milking a B-Side From the Pipettes Here's one that took my fancy for a few minutes back in 2006. That's just about the time we were hit with a gaggle of girl groups, but I thought the Pipettes rose above the fray. First, unlike their '60s predecessors, these ladies were, hmm, how to put it nicely... forward. They sang about one night stands and female bullies without any masking. Underneath all of that pop, putting it plainly, the trio was kind of dirty. Second, they were backed by a terrific band called the Cassettes, led by a mysterious chap called Monster Bobby. He was said to be the puppet master. If so, what a talent! I have seen his name pop up from time to time since then, including working with a favorite of mine, Allo Darlin', but I have half expected his name to be linked to a string of hits. It hasn't happened yet. When the first full-length album came out in '06, at least in the UK, the girls of the Pipettes were Rosay, Gwenno and RiotBecki. It was one of my favorites that year, and I began searching for B-sides that didn't make the record. "Guess Who Ran Away With the Milkman?" first appeared on the flip side of the "Pull Shapes" vinyl single. It is not only my favorite non-album song by the band, it might actually be my favorite song by them... period. In 2007, the song showed up in America as part of the "Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me" EP. Speaking of here in America, the Pipettes were positioned to be a big deal in these parts. In early 2007, the ladies played a handful of U.S. shows, including well-received gigs at South by Southwest. For some reason, however, it took more than a year for the album to make it to these shores. When it finally did, the songs had been remixed, and the tracklist had been changed a bit. As someone who owns both versions of 'We Are the Pipettes,' in my humble opinion, the U.S. version was inferior. Even the new album cover was a disappointment. After that, it all went into the crapper. Female band members came and went. There was another album, but the magic was gone. I wrote this post in the past tense, as if the unit has disbanded, but perhaps the Pipettes are still around. My ears have told me it doesn't matter if they are or not. Here is that fabulous B-side and a live version from one of the Pipettes' appearances at SXSW in 2007. After hearing both takes, I think you will agree Monster Bobby must be quite a studio wizard. The Pipettes - Guess Who Ran Away With the Milkman? (mp3) The Pipettes - Guess Who Ran Off With the Milkman? (SXSW) (mp3) Oh yes, meant to mention that the U.S. title on the 'Kisses' EP was "Guess Who Ran OFF With the Milkman?" Posted by Brian at 12:55 AM No comments: Friday, October 25, 2013 Keeping It Peel: The June Brides Edition We lost BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel nine years ago today. Thanks to, among many other things, the more than 4,000 recorded "Peel Sessions," his contributions to music will never be forgotten. In his honor I got in touch with one of my favorite Peel Sessions' vets, Phil Wilson of the June Brides, to get a quick word on meeting the man who always had an ear to the ground and a band to tout. Phil Wilson: As with most sessions, John Peel didn't attend the recording of ours for the show. But we did meet him prior to that: We did the classic thing of going up to Central London and hanging around outside Broadcasting House waiting for John to appear. We probably waited a couple of hours – but he did turn up eventually, and we thrust a copy of our debut single "In the Rain" into his hands. Amazingly, he actually played the song on his show that night, and made this young man's dream of being on the Peel show come true... I was very proud of the fact that our Peel Session was released very early on by Strange Fruit: John, apparently, personally picked the sessions that he was keen on Strange Fruit releasing: to be one of the first that he chose was amazingly pleasing... That four-track album released by Strange Fruit in 1987 was very special to me because it was the first record I ever owned by the June Brides. Being born and raised in the cow pastures of Illinois, I had few opportunities to buy those early (and quite rare) singles and EPs. I had read about the band in a UK music magazine and knew without ever actually hearing a note that I would love them. I mean, c'mon, trumpet and viola for God's sake! The point being I couldn't listen to BBC Radio 1 in Middle America, but Peel and his new label, Strange Fruit, still brought the Junies' Oct. 22, 1985 recording thousands of miles to me. Man, I miss the thrill of the hunt. These days, all of those hard-to-find singles, EPs and even the BBC appearances can be found on the double CD 'Every Conversation: The Story of the June Brides & Phil Wilson.' Here is a little listen to get you to click "add to cart." You don't even have to get up. Thanks again to Phil Wilson. I imagine the feeling you had when Peel played your single was very close to how I felt this week when I got a reply from you. Oh, and in case you missed it, Wilson and the June Brides have been recording again. The June Brides - Waiting For a Change (Peel Session) (mp3) More on Keeping It Peel Posted by Brian at 12:18 AM 2 comments: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 Another 'Pristine Christine' I Can't Have I have to accept this is a song I will never own as a proper 7". A legendary piece from the psychedelic branch of the C86 tree, "Pristine Christine" was the very first single on Sarah Records and one of a handful of songs the Sea Urchins ever released. I actually prefer the band's next single, "Solace" (Sarah 008), but the record snob in me would rather possess Sarah 001. I check ebay and the like from time to time, but the endeavor always ends in disappointment and disgust. For example, there is one for sale right now, and with five-plus days to go, the eighth bid has already pushed the asking price to $174.63 plus shipping from the UK. Gadzooks! Fortunately, the song has popped up on a couple of more affordable compilations, such as 'CD86.' So, we can all enjoy it right now... even if we can't hold the valuable piece of vinyl in our hot little hands. Incidentally, you can also get "Solace" on the excellent 'Scared to Get Happy,' released by Cherry Red. So far, that's my runaway leader for box set of the year. I'm curious. What are your most elusive records? The Sea Urchins - Pristine Christine (mp3) Posted by Brian at 1:45 AM 2 comments: Sunday, October 20, 2013 Sweet and Hoffs Cover the '80s It was a year ago I mentioned the terrific news that Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet were working on a third volume of 'Under the Covers,' and this time they would be taking on tunes from the '80s. Well, the date is set and just around the corner. Here is a quick look at the final tracklist for Nov. 12 release. Like the first two volumes, grr, there are bonus tracks on iTunes. 'Under the Covers, Vol. 3' Tracklist: 1. Sitting Still (R.E.M.) 2. Girls Talk (Dave Edmunds via Elvis Costello) 3. Big Brown Eyes (The dB's) 4. Kid (Pretenders) 5. Free Fallin' (Tom Petty) 6. Save It For Later (The English Beat) 7. They Don't Know (Kirsty MacColl) 8. The Bulrushes (The Bongos) 9. Our Lips Are Sealed (The Go-Go's) 10. How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths) 11. More Than This (Roxy Music) 12. Towers of London (XTC) 13. Killing Moon (Echo and the Bunnymen) 14. Trouble (Lindsey Buckingham) Bonus Tracks on iTunes Deluxe Version: Train in Vain (The Clash) You're My Favorite Waste of Time (Marshall Crenshaw) I Would Die 4 U (Prince) Outside of maybe the Petty and Buckingham songs, I think it's an inspired list. OK, the pick from the Smiths is kind of obvious, but I have to admit I'm curious about how it will sound. One of my favorites here is "They Don't Know." If you're an American, you may recall the smash hit by Tracey Ullman from 1983. It's a bit poppier than MacColl's original (which, by the way, was released in the summer of '79, not in the '80s, hmm), but both takes are fantastic. Kirsty, what can I say? You are missed. Hey, wait a minute, wasn't the Edmunds' version of "Girls Talk" released in '79 as well? Oh, who cares... Kirsty MacColl - They Don't Know (mp3) (Buy) Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know (mp3) (Buy) Posted by Brian at 2:32 PM 1 comment: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Cover Me Impressed: 'Ever Fallen in Love' First, let me thank Echorich and Luca for schooling me on all things Terry Hall in the comments section of my last post. Perhaps I shouldn't write things like 'Virgins and Philistines' is his only vital post-Specials album when I haven't actually listened to 'Home' or his record with David A. Stewart. Nothing like a good hunt, and I'll be tracking those down as soon as possible. Now, on with the countdown. OK, the "impressed" in the headline might be a bit strong. I wrote about my love of the soundtrack to the film 'Something Wild' back in 2010, but I came across this record in my collection the other day and realized I didn't include this song in the post. Perhaps it's because I have never been sure whether I like it or not. I got the 12" back in '86 because I was a big Buzzcocks fan. Ultimately, I felt there are some songs you just don't mess with, and "Ever Fallen in Love" fell into that category. Today was my first listen to it in many years, and I have to admit I liked it a little better. I miss the manic feel of the original, but I think the lads in FYC did their best to make it their own. And, hey, they must be fans. I'm sure Mr. Shelley didn't mind the payday either. What do you think? Did FYC do a good job covering a classic? Contrary to the cover above being chock full of 'Something Wild' imagery, this six-plus minute extended version, co-produced by Jerry Harrison and the band, didn't actually appear on the soundtrack. That was the 7", which was quite a bit shorter than even the album version. Fine Young Cannibals - Ever Fallen in Love (Extended Version) (mp3) Oh, and for the record, FYC's cover of "Suspicious Minds" would be in the running for Mrs. Linear Tracking Lives' all-time favorite cover. I can't tell you how many times I have been subjected to that one the past quarter century. 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Have you ever felt like the popular ‘Jojen Paste‘ theories were in some way correct, but incompletely articulated… they’re missing something?
Well I hope to allay those thoughts and put forth a compelling viewpoint, that goes a step further. Specifically, this is what this essay argues:
Bran was purposefully introduced to cannibalism during his trek to the Cave of the Three-Eyed Crow, culminating with the consumption of Jojen’s blood during the ‘weirwood paste’ ceremony.
This central idea is underpinned by the following observations:
The consumption of certain human flesh is a route to greater power as a skinchanger.
The ability to warg more difficult subjects, such as humans, is evidence of such power.
A skinchanger must have demonstrated such significant power in order to be joined to the weirwoods.
Thus Coldhands, Bloodraven and Leaf have been taking actions to make this transformation as smooth and expedient as possible.
This essay explores these ideas and uses them to articulate the larger point. Additionally, I take some time at the end to address specific logistical questions that I anticipate will come up.
Since there are only four chapters relevant to this topic, I will examine each chronologically and highlight the salient points, using citations where necessary.
* * *
PROLOGUE, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
The Taboos
Near the very beginning of A Dance with Dragons, we witness Varamyr kill several wildlings. At the time he is warged into the old wolf he named One Eye, and is accompanied by his other wolves, Sly and Stalker.
After the killing, Varamyr has some interesting thoughts regarding the killing and consuming of human flesh:
As she fell, she wrapped both arms around her noisy pup. Underneath her furs the female was just skin and bones, but her dugs were full of milk. The sweetest meat was on the pup. The wolf saved the choicest parts for his brother. All around the carcasses, the frozen snow turned pink and red as the pack filled its bellies. Leagues away, in a one-room hut of mud and straw with a thatched roof and a smoke hole and a floor of hard-packed earth, Varamyr shivered and coughed and licked his lips. His eyes were red, his lips cracked, his throat dry and parched, but the taste of blood and fat filled his mouth, even as his swollen belly cried for nourishment. A child’s flesh, he thought, remembering Bump. Human meat. Had he sunk so low as to hunger after human meat? He could almost hear Haggon growling at him. “Men may eat the flesh of beasts and beasts the flesh of men, but the man who eats the flesh of man is an abomination.” Abomination. That had always been Haggon’s favorite word. Abomination, abomination, abomination. To eat of human meat was abomination, to mate as wolf with wolf was abomination, and to seize the body of another man was the worst abomination of all. Haggon was weak, afraid of his own power. He died weeping and alone when I ripped his second life from him. Varamyr had devoured his heart himself. He taught me much and more, and the last thing I learned from him was the taste of human flesh.
— PROLOGUE, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
This establishes quite clearly the idea that the eating of human flesh is a taboo among wargs. Engaging our innate sense of curiousity, an immediate question is “Why?”.
One further observation is the order of sentences in the last paragraph and the associated subtext:
To eat of human meat was abomination, to mate as wolf with wolf was abomination, and to seize the body of another man was the worst abomination of all. Haggon was weak, afraid of his own power.
— PROLOGUE, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Quite clearly, the subtext here is the notion that the taboos restrict access to power. Thus, Varamyr clearly believes that violating the taboos is a key to greater power as a warg.
* * *
Still Haunted
Varamyr is also perplexed by the name he chose to use as an alias when he fled the Battle at the Wall:
The terrible Lord Varamyr had gone craven, but he could not bear that she should know that, so he told the spearwife that his name was Haggon. Afterward he wondered why that name had come to his lips, of all those he might have chosen. I ate his heart and drank his blood, and still he haunts me.
— PROLOGUE, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS Abomination, he heard Haggon saying. It was almost as if he were here, in this very room.
— PROLOGUE, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
It strays from the central point of this essay, but I believe the ‘mystery of ghosts’ is an intentional motif that George RR Martin has implemented in A Song of Ice and Fire. I have made initial references to this idea in my analysis of Martin’s early story With Morning Comes Mistfall and how it has influenced ASOIAF.
While there are more indications of this phenomenon in ASOIAF, I only want to bring one up for purposes of this essay:
“Remember Old Nan’s stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.”
— BRAN II, A STORM OF SWORDS
So indeed, although we take this passage to simply mean that Bran can sustain the ‘idea of Old Nan’ by remembering her, the prose also literally says that ‘part of her will live on in you.’ Not all that unfamiliar to readers familiar with the idea that remnants of a warg remain in their pets after death:
Can a bird hate? Jon had slain the wilding Orell, but some part of the man remained within the eagle.
— JON II, A STORM OF SWORDS “Orell was withering inside his feathers, so I took the eagle for my own. But the joining works both ways, warg. Orell lives inside me now, whispering how much he hates you.”
— JON X, A STORM OF SWORDS
Varamyr has twice indicated (in passages already cited) that he’s eaten Haggon’s heart, and even drank his blood. Could it be that he somehow benefited, gaining either taboo power or some element of Haggon’s living nature? After all, compare to Bran’s final experience in A Dance with Dragons, while he is ‘warged’ into the weirwood in the Winterfell godswood:
The woman grabbed the captive by the hair, hooked the sickle round his throat, and slashed. And through the mist of centuries the broken boy could only watch as the man’s feet drummed against the earth … but as his life flowed out of him in a red tide, Brandon Stark could taste the blood.
— BRAN III, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
I’m not trying to prove that there is an actual ghost of Haggon that persists around Varamyr; rather that the mystery of such a possibly is real. After all, we readers have already come to accept the fantastical notions of warging in general and the notion of ‘second lives’ that wargs can engage in upon death.
Is it so much more absurd that the eating of flesh conveys power or perhaps the memory or ‘essence’ of the consumed? Could this perhaps be limited to those gifted with warging?
The takeaway is that consuming the flesh of others is associated with the idea (real or imagined) that the eater is perhaps somehow connected to the consumed. This could be bound by timing of the death and consumption of flesh. It further articulates the idea that the eating of flesh is associated with some kind of spiritual growth, one perhaps associated with both power and perhaps the essense or memories of others.
I will return to this concept to further establish it in a few moments.
* * *
Hungering after Flesh
Notice that when Varamyr mentions eating Haggon’s heart (cited previously), it is not associated with hunger. He’s doing it because of his belief that power was associated with breaking the taboos, and also because he hated Haggon.
Now, presumably years later, Varamyr is starving and crippled:
A child’s flesh, he thought, remembering Bump. Human meat. Had he sunk so low as to hunger after human meat? He could almost hear Haggon growling at him. “Men may eat the flesh of beasts and beasts the flesh of men, but the man who eats the flesh of man is an abomination.”
— PROLOGUE, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
So we see that Varamyr finds much shame in eating flesh out of hunger, and not so much when the flesh was eaten for ritual or other purposes.
Thus Varamyr has indicated he himself sees the eating of human flesh for survival as abominable. But why? What ethical or other principle guides someone as unscrupulous as Varamyr to feel such self-contempt at the thought?
* * *
Abomination: A Folk Etymology
The word ‘abomination’ itself is highly utilized in the King James’s Bible. It indicates things or activities which are unclean, irrevocably evil, or sinful. It is from this source and the word’s normal Latin etymology that most readers derive their understanding of the word.
However, there is a folk etymology that is equally (perhaps more) important to understanding the importance of ‘abomination’ in A Song of Ice and Fire. Specifically, this folk etymology is rooted in the alternative idea that abomination is derived from the Latin ab homine, meaning “away from man” or “beastly”.
Breaking any of Haggon’s taboos clearly indicates someone who has behaved in a way that no normal human would act. So the folk etymology has immediate applicability.
But the idea of abomination in both the biblical and the ASOIAF contexts extends beyond the acts themselves. Recall that abominations are, in biblical terms, irredeemable sinful and/or inhuman. Thus once a person has violated said taboos, they have begun a trek down a path with no return.
Of course this could all just be Varamyr and/or Haggon’s misguided beliefs and not the actual truth of things. But recall that Varamyr and Haggon both participated in a coterie of wargs. While I grant that warging is clearly not a science, it cannot be denied that this band of wargs exchanged experiences and ideas, lending an empirical basis to Haggon’s beliefs. Thus, while not scientific or objective, we can reasonably believe that his taboos were based on repeated observations that their violation led to poor outcomes.
* * *
Varamyr’s Power
Quite obviously Varamyr was an exceptionally powerful warg. He had dominion over six different beasts simultaneously!
By all accounts and observations, this is a feat accomplished nowhere else. How did he accomplish this? Was he just supernaturally gifted, even among wargs?
Or perhaps he cheated.
After all, by his very own logic, he accessed power by ignoring the taboo of consuming flesh. He also admits to warging into Sly, his female wolf, while she was mating with One Eye: another clear violation of Haggon’s taboos.
We don’t have a ton of evidence to suggest that Varamyr ever ate anyone besides Haggon. However, remember that Varamyr finds ‘hungering for human flesh’ distasteful, yet we know he ate Haggon’s heart all the same.
Indeed, he did more than that, he dominated Haggon’s wolf (while Haggon was in it) and then subsequently killed Haggon and ate his heart. Indeed, his method of execution seems to follow a pattern:
Haggon was weak, afraid of his own power. He died weeping and alone when I ripped his second life from him. Varamyr had devoured his heart himself. He taught me much and more, and the last thing I learned from him was the taste of human flesh.
— PROLOGUE, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS The hunter died weeping after Varamyr took Greyskin from him, driving him out to claim the beast for his own. No second life for you, old man.
— PROLOGUE, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
It seems that Varamyr preferred to steal a warg’s pet from them while they were warging at the time. This forced the skinchangers back into their human bodies, whereupon Varamyr subsequently killed them.
It’s notable that Varamyr appears to have been specifically killing wargs, as the only other mention of his killings is a mention of those ‘heroic’ wildlings that would occasionally threaten his hall and challenge him.
Given that he seems to have been targeting skinchangers, could it be that he also ate their hearts as well? It would certainly complete the already notable congruency with the ritual elements to Haggon’s death.
* * *
Eater of the Dead
Given our new-found understanding of Varamyr’s ritual, we see that he denies a warg their second life before killing them. Why is this important to him?
I can only speak for myself, but if I had to guess, I believe most readers initially think Varamyr did this out of a petulant hatred or ire for other skinchangers (or people in general).
However, I now believe that Varamyr forces them back into their human forms (and denies their second life) in order to consume their strength.
It makes tremendous sense of why he seems to find no qualms in killing wargs, and yet laments the notion that he hungers for human flesh, particularly why eating Haggon’s heart was palatable, and yet the flesh of a normal human seems like anathema.
This lends a rather Highlander-esque tone to Varamyr’s backstory.
* * *
Varamyr’s Failure, Bran’s Success
Although this is somewhat unrelated to our examination of Bran’s cannibalism, I’d like to finish off our exploration of Varamyr and look at his final failure.
For all of Varamyr’s efforts, his pursuits of power and fearless violation of skinchanger taboos, he is unable to seize control of the spearwife Thistle.
This man had killed at least two (probably more) skinchangers, stolen their pets and taken their power. He had control over six creatures, from wildly varying stock. Yet he could not dominate a simple spearwife. He was not powerful enough.
And yet Bran could. Why?
Was it just because he was ‘more gifted’?
Was it because Bloodraven had been aiding Bran?
One or more of these may be the case, but they discredit the notion that Varamyr had clearly spent his whole life honing his talents. He had fought other wargs, stolen their pets and likely eaten their hearts.
The most likely reason that Bran succeeds where Varamyr failed is because Hodor was ultimately too simple to resist:
Other times, when he was tired of being a wolf, Bran slipped into Hodor’s skin instead. The gentle giant would whimper when he felt him, and thrash his shaggy head from side to side, but not as violently as he had the first time, back at Queenscrown. He knows it’s me, the boy liked to tell himself. He’s used to me by now. Even so, he never felt comfortable inside Hodor’s skin. The big stableboy never understood what was happening, and Bran could taste the fear at the back of his mouth. It was better inside Summer. I am him, and he is me. He feels what I feel.
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
What we see here is that one of the principle differences between Bran and Varamyr is that Bran was willing to violate Haggon’s taboo (indeed he doesn’t really know of it) and dominate Hodor.
Perhaps it was this ‘not knowing’ of the taboo that allowed him to warg into Hodor. Perhaps it was Varamyr’s ‘ghost’ of Haggon (whether imagined or somehow real) that anchored him and doomed his seizure of Thistle. We may never know the ‘rules’ of skinchanging, if indeed there are such constraints.
In any case, we see that two things have happened:
Bran has assumed an almost casual regard for warging into Hodor, a violation of Haggon’s taboos. An abomination.
Additionally, Bran has no knowledge of such taboos. Therefore he could conceivably act on any of them without conscious concern.
* * *
BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Going in Circles
Meera makes an early observation in A Dance with Dragons regarding Coldhands, their guide to the Three-Eyed Raven:
“He said, aye. He said he would take us to this three-eyed crow too. That river we crossed this morning is the same one we crossed four days ago, I swear. We’re going in circles.” “Rivers turn and twist,” Bran said uncertainly, “and where there’s lakes and hills, you need to go around.”
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
While of course I must admit I have no evidence, I believe Meera’s observation here is correct. Orienteering is a basic survival skill that depends on the use of landmarks, and its especially designed for use in unfamiliar terrain. Thus you must at least defer to Meera’s skills that she is seeing landmarks repeat themselves.
After all, this wouldn’t be the only time that characters go in circles in A Dance with Dragons: Tyrion’s adventure through The Sorrows also involves looping travels. But this isn’t unfamiliar territory to Coldhands.
I should take a moment and point out that Bran’s statement above is flat-out proven wrong later in the very same chapter:
The woods were full of frozen streams
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS The elk went where he would, regardless of the wishes of Meera and Jojen on his back. Mostly he stayed beneath the trees, but where the shore curved away westward he would take the more direct path across the frozen lake, shouldering through snowdrifts taller than Bran as the ice crackled underneath his hooves.
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Quite clearly, you can go across lakes and streams, so his argument is pretty thin. Understanding that the choice between Meera’s and Bran’s perspectives is indeed a false dichotomy, it does seem like the truth is probably closer to Meera’s interpretation.
Coldhands has ravens that talk to him as well. They could guide him, indeed they talk to him but apparently only about those who are following their party.
Additionally, given that Coldhands seems like a skilled combatant and has ‘lived’ north of the Wall for some time, it seems reasonable to believe he has skill in tracking and trailblazing:
Ser Jaremy Rykker had led two sweeps, and Quorin Halfhand had gone forth from the Shadow Tower, but they’d found nothing aside from a few blazes in the trees that his uncle had left to mark his way.
— JON IV, A GAME OF THRONES
It makes no sense that he would be going in circles.
Unless it was deliberate.
* * *
It’s Definitely not Kosher
At the end of Bran I, ADWD, Bran returns to his body after warging Summer for some time. Coldhands has returned with pork for the party to eat:
“Just in time,” she said. Bran rubbed his eyes with the heel of his hand and wriggled backwards against the wall to sit. “You almost slept through supper. The ranger found a sow.” Behind her, Hodor was tearing eagerly at a chunk of hot charred flesh as blood and grease ran down into his beard. Wisps of smoke rose from between his fingers. “Hodor,” he muttered between bites, “hodor, hodor.” His sword lay on the earthen floor beside him. Jojen Reed nipped at his own joint with small bites, chewing each chunk of meat a dozen times before swallowing. The ranger killed a pig.
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Coldhands killed a pig apparently. Or did he?
Recall that the reason Coldhands departed was to take care of some men who were apparently on their trail:
“Behind us,” Coldhands announced, his voice muffled by the black wool scarf across his nose and mouth. “Wolves?” Bran asked. They had known for days that they were being followed. Every night they heard the mournful howling of the pack, and every night the wolves seemed a little closer. Hunters, and hungry. They can smell how weak we are. Often Bran woke shivering hours before the dawn, listening to the sound of them calling to one another in the distance as he waited for the sun to rise. If there are wolves, there must be prey, he used to think, until it came to him that they were the prey. The ranger shook his head. “Men. The wolves still keep their distance. These men are not so shy.” Meera Reed pushed back her hood. The wet snow that had covered it tumbled to the ground with a soft thump. “How many men? Who are they?” “Foes. I’ll deal with them.”
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
So we know that Coldhands split with the party to kill men. Apparently they either had a pig or he found one on his journey to deal with the men.
There’s just one problem with that. While Bran was warged, he visited the scene where the men were killed:
Sleep would not come, could not come. Instead there was wind, the biting cold, moonlight on snow, and fire. He was back inside Summer, long leagues away, and the night was rank with the smell of blood. The scent was strong. A kill, not far. The flesh would still be warm. Slaver ran between his teeth as the hunger woke inside him. Not elk. Not deer. Not this. The direwolf moved toward the meat, a gaunt grey shadow sliding from tree to tree, through pools of moonlight and over mounds of snow. The wind gusted around him, shifting. He lost the scent, found it, then lost it again. As he searched for it once more, a distant sound made his ears prick up. Wolf, he knew at once. Summer stalked toward the sound, wary now. Soon enough the scent of blood was back, but now there were other smells: piss and dead skins, bird shit, feathers, and wolf, wolf, wolf. A pack. He would need to fight for his meat.
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
He smelled many things here, but there was no scent of pig among them.
This is not the only time we observe Bran and Summer carefully using their sense of smell to search around:
Familiar scents filled his nostrils: wet leaves and dead grass, the rotted carcass of a squirrel decaying in the brush, the sour stink of man-sweat, the musky odor of the elk. Food. Meat. The elk sensed his interest. He turned his head toward the direwolf, wary, and lowered his great antlers. He is not prey, the boy whispered to the beast who shared his skin. Leave him. Run. Summer ran. Across the lake he raced, his paws kicking up sprays of snow behind him. The trees stood shoulder to shoulder, like men in a battle line, all cloaked in white. Over roots and rocks the direwolf sped, through a drift of old snow, the crust crackling beneath his weight. His paws grew wet and cold. The next hill was covered with pines, and the sharp scent of their needles filled the air. When he reached the top, he turned in a circle, sniffing at the air, then raised his head and howled. The smells were there. Mansmells. Ashes, Bran thought, old and faint, but ashes. It was the smell of burnt wood, soot, and charcoal. A dead fire.
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
So we see that Bran could have picked up on a pig smell if there was one in the area. He picked up on so many other things.
You can see that in all likelihood there was no pig that was slain. Coldhands brought back some other meat and called it pork.
After all, why didn’t Coldhands kill hunt and kill the wolves if he was concerned for feeding Bran and the Reeds? Between his obvious skills at combat and hunting, he’s got ravens keeping him informed. There’s no real reason the wolves couldn’t have been dinner as well.
As for whether or not Coldhands truly killed the men and it wasn’t the wolves, consider the notable wound mentioned here:
The prey as well. He went from man to man, sniffing, before settling on the biggest, a faceless thing who clutched black iron in one hand. His other hand was missing, severed at the wrist, the stump bound up in leather. Blood flowed thick and sluggish from the slash across his throat.
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
The slash is clearly the result of a bladed weapon and thus caused by a human.
As for the particular source of meat:
The female was chewing on a leather boot that still had half a leg in it, but she let it fall at his approach.
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
This would certainly seem to imply that the man’s thigh was missing. Sure it could be that the wolves ate it, but there’s nary a mention of any bones around, nor of a femur still attached to the leg in the boot.
A Very Obvious (but Misleading) Trail
Notice that the giant elk would leave one heck of a massive trail. Indeed it would appear that the text makes this clear:
The elk went where he would, regardless of the wishes of Meera and Jojen on his back. Mostly he stayed beneath the trees, but where the shore curved away westward he would take the more direct path across the frozen lake, shouldering through snowdrifts taller than Bran as the ice crackled underneath his hooves.
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Inasmuch as I consider this to help foreshadow a possible strategy for an entirely different event in the books, it also is clearly showing us that the elk leaves very obvious signs of its passage.
However, what’s interesting is the nature of the trail the entire party makes:
Swaying in his wicker basket on Hodor’s back, the boy hunched down, ducking his head as the big stableboy passed beneath the limb of an oak… from time to time he would lash out at a branch, knocking loose a spray of snow… Just ahead, the elk wove between the snowdrifts with his head down, his huge rack of antlers crusted with ice. The ranger sat astride his broad back, grim and silent… Behind the ranger, Meera Reed wrapped her arms around her brother, to shelter him from the wind and cold with the warmth of her own body… Summer brought up the rear of their little band.
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
So there’s really only three tracks being left, a giant elk’s, a single human’s and a lone wolf. Since Summer wanders all over, it’s more likely to appear as just a human and an elk traveling together. It’s a tremendously clever way of hiding the fact that there are three more humans, an undead ranger and a warg-bond with the wolf from any would-be followers. It makes them appear as a more tempting, vulnerable target.
By the time readers get to A Dance with Dragons, we are all well aware that one of the best ways to elude pursuers is walk up or down a stream, so as to lose a scent and/or leave no tracks. Why then when they are being pursued does Coldhands not appear to implement any such cleverness? Quite the contrary, he actually simply treks the group across “half-frozen streams” and the like, with apparent aplomb.
Such apparently apathy suggests a casual dismissal of any threats whom could benefit from their trail. If that was the case, then why did Coldhands suddenly depart to deal with them?
The conspicuous nature of all these observations raises the likelihood that Coldhands was acting in deliberation: the meandering journey was deliberately intended to lure the Night’s Watch mutineers toward him.
* * *
Conclusions
The evidence is quite strong that Coldhands could have easily eluded pursuers by using well-established techniques of concealment and that he was likely dawdling instead of making a true course for the Three-Eyed Raven.
There is no evidence that Coldhands killed a pig, indeed no evidence of pigs at all. Thus it would appear that Coldhands was lying about the meal he had procured for them.
Collectively, I think these observations combine for the following insights:
Coldhands was using the great elk’s trail in an attempt to lure the NW mutineers.
Despite other avenues of food (the wolves), Coldhands killed the mutineers and used their flesh as food for Bran and his party.
But why? Why would Coldhands feed them human flesh and lie about it?
* * *
BRAN II, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
There is much less content that is relevant to Bran’s ‘cannibalism’ narrative in this chapter. That said, what does happen is highly symbolic and ties into subtle elements from other chapters.
The Great Elk
It had been twelve days since the elk had collapsed for the third and final time, since Coldhands had knelt beside it in the snowbank and murmured a blessing in some strange tongue as he slit its throat. Bran wept like a little girl when the bright blood came rushing out. He had never felt more like a cripple than he did then, watching helplessly as Meera Reed and Coldhands butchered the brave beast who had carried them so far. He told himself he would not eat, that it was better to go hungry than to feast upon a friend, but in the end he’d eaten twice, once in his own skin and once in Summer’s. As gaunt and starved as the elk had been, the steaks the ranger carved from him had sustained them for seven days, until they finished the last of them huddled over a fire in the ruins of an old hillfort.
— BRAN II, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Although clearly not cannibalism, we see that Bran placed a special significance on the elk, calling it “friend”.
And yet despite that, he ultimately caved in and ate his friend‘s flesh. And once more we see that they are still being followed by wolves, which is odd considering you’d think they could try and hunt them if they were in need of food. After all, if Coldhands doesn’t need to breathe, why can’t he just go play dead and kill them when they approach?
In any case, this is just a symbolic manifestation of Bran’s capacity for eating his ‘friends’, a word which inherently personifies another.
An interesting parallel would be to notice Bran’s behavior around the elk in the previous chapter:
Summer had grown accustomed to horses at Winterfell, but this was an elk and elk were prey. The direwolf could sense the warm blood coursing beneath the elk’s shaggy hide. Just the smell was enough to make the slaver run from between his jaws, and when it did Bran’s mouth would water at the thought of rich, dark meat.
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
The key point here is Bran’s mouth (not Summer’s) watering at the thought of eating the elk, despite his designating the creature as a friend, not as prey.
A kill, not far. The flesh would still be warm. Slaver ran between his teeth as the hunger woke inside him. Not elk. Not deer. Not this… The wolf lapped at it with his tongue, licked the ragged eyeless ruin of his nose and cheeks, then buried his muzzle in his neck and tore it open, gulping down a gobbet of sweet meat. No flesh had ever tasted half as good… Behind her, Hodor was tearing eagerly at a chunk of hot charred flesh as blood and grease ran down into his beard. Wisps of smoke rose from between his fingers…
— BRAN I, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Isn’t it interesting that the two other creatures who appear to ‘slaver’ or lustily devour human flesh or the flesh of ‘friends’, are both creatures that Bran has warged: Summer and Hodor?
* * *
Bones in the Cave
As Hodor thumped after her, something crunched beneath his feet. His halt was so sudden that Meera and Jojen almost slammed into his back. “Bones,” said Bran. “It’s bones.” The floor of the passage was littered with the bones of birds and beasts. But there were other bones as well, big ones that must have come from giants and small ones that could have been from children. On either side of them, in niches carved from the stone, skulls looked down on them. Bran saw a bear skull and a wolf skull, half a dozen human skulls and near as many giants. All the rest were small, queerly formed. Children of the forest. The roots had grown in and around and through them, every one. A few had ravens perched atop them, watching them pass with bright black eyes.
— BRAN II, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
There are literally human remains in the cave. One has to wonder how they died and why the remains aren’t more properly interred. Why are there only dead humans in the cave (aside from Bloodraven)?
* * *
Gendel’s Children
When he looked off that way, he saw eyes looking back at them, slitted eyes that glowed bright, reflecting back the torchlight. More children, he told himself, the girl is not the only one, but Old Nan’s tale of Gendel’s children came back to him as well.
— BRAN II, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS “You know nothing, Jon Snow. Gendel did not die. He cut his way free, through the crows, and led his people back north with the wolves howling at their heels. Only Gendel did not know the caves as Gorne had, and took a wrong turn.” She swept the torch back and forth, so the shadows jumped and moved. “Deeper he went, and deeper, and when he tried t’ turn back the ways that seemed familiar ended in stone rather than sky. Soon his torches began t’ fail, one by one, till finally there was naught but dark. Gendel’s folk were never seen again, but on a still night you can hear their children’s children’s children sobbing under the hills, still looking for the way back up. Listen? Do you hear them?” All Jon could hear was the falling water and the faint crackle of flames. “This way under the Wall was lost as well?” “Some have searched for it. Them that go too deep find Gendel’s children, and Gendel’s children are always hungry.” Smiling, she set the torch carefully in a notch of rock, and came toward him. “There’s naught to eat in the dark but flesh,” she whispered, biting at his neck.
— JON III, A STORM OF SWORDS
Aren’t Gendel’s children awfully reminiscent of the children of the forest that Bran meets?
Sure, we know that Ygritte and Old Nan’s tales must be taken with a grain of salt, but it seems curiously apropos when you see a huge litter of bones in a cave populated by creatures collectively referred to as children.
Given that Nan and Ygritte’s tales often have elements of truth to them, could this not bolster any suggestion that the children of the forest indeed ‘consume’ human flesh, in some fashion?
* * *
BRAN III, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
There are two major observations here that I believe cement the theory that Bran’s introduction to cannibalism was deliberate.
Where are the squirrels and rats?
Under the hill they still had food to eat. A hundred kinds of mushrooms grew down here. Blind white fish swam in the black river, but they tasted just as good as fish with eyes once you cooked them up. They had cheese and milk from the goats that shared the caves with the singers, even some oats and barleycorn and dried fruit laid by during the long summer. And almost every day they ate blood stew, thickened with barley and onions and chunks of meat. Jojen thought it might be squirrel meat, and Meera said that it was rat. Bran did not care. It was meat and it was good. The stewing made it tender.
— BRAN III, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Great and all, but where are the squirrels and rats? There is no evidence that Summer has ever encountered anything more than a squirrel carcass outside the Cave:
Summer prowled through the silent woods, a long grey shadow that grew more gaunt with every hunt, for living game could not be found.
— BRAN III, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Note that this paragraph immediately precedes Bran’s observations concerning their food. Additionally, how is it that Bran never observes any signs of rats inside the caves, nor does he observe rats or squirrels as Summer.
Indeed, the only game Meera seems to be able to catch herself are the blind fish from the underground river:
Jojen made it down the rope easily enough, but after Meera caught a blind white fish with her frog spear and it was time to climb back up, his arms began to tremble and he could not make it to the top, so they had to tie the rope around him and let Hodor haul him up.
— BRAN III, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
So the meat, and the blood are apparently coming from somewhere else. Either there are indeed squirrels and rats and Bran, Summer and the readers just aren’t seeing them. Or this is another lie, and they are eating some sort of mystery meat.
* * *
Warging Meera
Meera began to cry. Bran hated being crippled then. “Don’t cry,” he said. He wanted to put his arms around her, hold her tight the way his mother used to hold him back at Winterfell when he’d hurt himself. She was right there, only a few feet from him, but so far out of reach it might have been a hundred leagues. To touch her he would need to pull himself along the ground with his hands, dragging his legs behind him. The floor was rough and uneven, and it would be slow going, full of scrapes and bumps. I could put on Hodor’s skin, he thought. Hodor could hold her and pat her on the back. The thought made Bran feel strange, but he was still thinking it when Meera bolted from the fire, back out into the darkness of the tunnels. He heard her steps recede until there was nothing but the voices of the singers.
— BRAN III, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Compare:
“Be quiet!” Bran said in a shrill scared voice, reaching up uselessly for Hodor’s leg as he crashed past, reaching, reaching. Hodor staggered, and closed his mouth. He shook his head slowly from side to side, sank back to the floor, and sat crosslegged. When the thunder boomed, he scarcely seemed to hear it. The four of them sat in the dark tower, scarce daring to breathe. “Bran, what did you do?” Meera whispered. “Nothing.” Bran shook his head. “I don’t know.” But he did. I reached for him, the way I reach for Summer. He had been Hodor for half a heartbeat. It scared him.
— BRAN III, A STORM OF SWORDS
It’s awful interesting that Bran was similarly concerned with ‘reaching’ Meera to comfort her, the same way he ‘reached’ for Hodor the first time he warged into the simple giant.
Notice how Meera bolted away from him as well, and that the experience gave Bran a strange feeling. Combined with Bran’s prior history with ‘reaching out to comfort’ others, this would seem to lend much more significance to these events.
One could make the argument that he was accidentally reaching out to her with his skinchanging powers without knowing it, much like he did with Hodor.
This would seem to make him substantially more powerful that Varamyr, who never could approach this.
Notice that this is the last scene with Bran prior to Bloodraven’s declaration “It is time”, and the commencement of the weirwood paste ceremony leading to Bran’s weirwood visions.
While not explicit, it would seem that ‘It is time’ had less to do with the date on the calendar and more on when the figurative ‘egg’ was ready to be hatched. What I mean is this: Bloodraven was waiting for Bran’s powers to grow strong enough to warg others before commencing the ritual.
* * *
A Greenseer’s Diet
Lord Brynden drew his life from the tree, Leaf told them. He did not eat, he did not drink.
— BRAN III, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
So Bloodraven doesn’t eat or drink, but gets his nourishment from ‘the tree’. Presumably this means he draws sustenance from the weirwoods to which he is conjoined.
This certain would seem to make some deal of sense, after all, how then does Bran taste the blood in the following scene:
The woman grabbed the captive by the hair, hooked the sickle round his throat, and slashed. And through the mist of centuries the broken boy could only watch as the man’s feet drummed against the earth … but as his life flowed out of him in a red tide, Brandon Stark could taste the blood.
— BRAN III, A DANCE OF DRAGONS
A person could easily argue that Bran tasted the blood because he ‘warged’ the weirwood, much like he can taste Summer’s meals when he wargs the direwolf.
However, there is a potent oversight here: when Bran wargs Summer, the prose/narrative changes. Whenever Bran is in Summer, the text takes on a very allegorical/metaphorical nature, as if to help show that the readers (and Bran) are now inside an alien/non-human mind.
There is no such change in mentality when he wargs the tree. Indeed, the final sentence of the citation makes its quite clear that Bran has no struggle with identity while in the tree.
This leads me to believe that it is Bran –the broken child on a weirwood throne– who is actually tasting the blood. It is not a case of Bran just experiencing what once happened to the weirwood.
If we’re talking about Bran tasting the blood, how is that possible? How could he be tasting blood –perhaps beginning to draw sustenance from the trees like Bloodraven–, if he wasn’t somehow connected to the weirwoods?
“Tell us what you saw.” From far away Leaf looked almost a girl, no older than Bran or one of his sisters, but close at hand she seemed far older. She claimed to have seen two hundred years. Bran’s throat was very dry. He swallowed. “Winterfell. I was back in Winterfell. I saw my father. He’s not dead, he’s not, I saw him, he’s back at Winterfell, he’s still alive.” “No,” said Leaf. “He is gone, boy. Do not seek to call him back from death.” “I saw him.” Bran could feel rough wood pressing against one cheek. “He was cleaning Ice.”
— BRAN III, A DANCE OF DRAGONS
This occurs after Bran’s first ‘visit’ to Winterfell’s weirwood after consuming the weirwood paste. Notice two things:
Bran is notably thirsty, parched even.
Bran feels something wooden pressing against his cheek. An important implication here is that the wood was not pressing against him before.
Could it be that while he has these “weirwood dreams”, his body is being joined to the weirwoods?
By all appearances, it would seem that a greenseer’s “nourishment” consists of whatever is given to the weirwoods: most notably blood. At the very least, that seems to be what is offered to the trees in any religious sense, anywhere in the books. Thus if Bran is indeed being attached to the weirwoods, then he may very well be deriving real nourishment from the blood he is tasting.
* * *
WAIT… WHAT?
Here I want to address a couple of questions that I’m sure will arise. Some of this will be answered with a ‘I’m pretty-sure-I’m-right’ tone and some of it will be in a ‘Well-if-you-want-my-take-on-it’ tone. I’ll do my best to be clear about my attitude where I can.
So, if Bran and the Reeds are eating meat in Bran III, ADWD… where is the meat coming from?
I like to imagine that Bloodraven has this big icebox full of human flesh.
Ok, so actually if you want my opinion, I strongly believe that the meat they are eating is the remains of the Garth Greyfeather, Black Jack Bulwer, and Hairy Hal: the three rangers whose heads were mounted on spears north of the Wall. I believe Coldhands was the one who killed the rangers, put the heads on spears so close to the wall, and buried so deeply that the NW would have trouble removing them from the ground. Coldhands is the only one we’ve seen kill Night’s Watch men without hesitation. In short, Bloodraven knew about Melisandre’s ‘vision’ of three heads, and Coldhands was simply ‘making it come true’. I say this because there is an equally good argument that the real eyeless heads happened somewhere else in the book.
Lastly, look at how chronologically close these events are. MELISANDRE, ADWD and the three dead rangers precede BRAN III, ADWD and Bran’s encounters with the blood stew with ‘rat’ or ‘squirrel’ meats by a mere three chapters.
Alternatively, they (Coldhands, children, whomever) could have been killing wildlings at random and using their remains.
If this is true, then why is Bloodraven, Coldhands, et al. concealing the truth from Bran?
“I have watched you for a long time, watched you with a thousand eyes and one. I saw your birth, and that of your lord father before you. I saw your first step, heard your first word, was part of your first dream. I was watching when you fell. And now you are come to me at last, Brandon Stark, though the hour is late.”
— BRAN II, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Specifically I believe that Bloodraven believes urgency is so important that he’s willing to withhold information or deceive in order to smooth Bran’s metamorphosis.
I’m probably missing some stuff, but I wanted to get this posted and off my back. | positive |
All About the Benjamins
Trump vows to create jobs by cutting regulations. That won’t work.
In his first post-election national address — conveyed via YouTube — President-elect Donald Trump detailed his plans to “make America great again” in his first 100 days in office.
These plans include renegotiating international trade deals, imposing new bans on lobbying within his administration, and ending restrictions on fossil fuel production. That would fly in the face of the U.S. commitment to ratchet down emissions under the Paris Agreement, the international climate treaty supported by 71 percent of Americans.
“On energy,” Trump said, “I will cancel job-killing restrictions on the production of American energy, including shale energy and clean coal, creating many millions of high-paying jobs. That’s what we want. That’s what we’ve been waiting for.”
That order of business, however, does not address the dearth of “millions of high-paying jobs” in the energy sector. Fossil fuel jobs have been in decline not because of overregulation, but due to the low prices of gas, oil, and coal. (That said, those prices are forecast to rise again.)
In fact, the shale drilling industry is already exempt from a number of the major federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air and the Clean Water Act.
As for “clean coal,” someone should probably tell the President-elect there’s no such thing. But we have a feeling he’s not going to listen. | positive |
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