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Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945)
French Architect and Designer Robert Mallet-Stevens helped found the Union des Artistes modernes, or UAM, which was a movement firmly opposed to Art Nouveau.
Robert Mallet-Stevens
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Robert Mallet-Stevens was born in Paris on March 24, 1886, to art dealer Maurice Mallet and Belgian portraitist Alfred Stevens neice, Juliette Stevens. His bourgeois position influenced his affinities and interests to the keen and the precise, which molded his mind in rationality and criterion. From 1904 to 1909, he began studying architecture at the École Spéciale d'Architecture academy. Later, during World War I, he undertook aviation, working as a pilot until the 1920s when he became an architect. Further, his style was a "purified" procession of construction techniques and materials, such as cement and reinforced concrete, freed volumes and opened possibilities of self-supporting structures. With buildings, factory, shops, villas, public structures, he felt an evident need to harmonize the content and the container.
R. Mallet-Stevens painting by J.-E. Blanche
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Influenced by the architecture of Josef Hoffman and the Viennese Secession, his work played a key role in the development of Art Deco, which was the sleek and geometric current of the early 20th century. In 1929, together with Le Corbusier, Francis Jourdain, René Herbst and others, Mallet-Stevens strongly supported industrialization, modernism and the democratization of art. Despite his importance in creating what became modern architecture, his work gradually fell into oblivion after his death in 1945. Additionally, this was in large part due to his request to destroy all his archives after his passing.
His Major Works
Villa Cavrois (1929-1932), located near Lille and credited as one of Stevens' best creations, the piece was designed for Paul Cavrois, who was a French textile industrialist who ownes modern weaving and dyeing factories, both for cotton and wool. Further, the elegant building completed in 1932 and was bought by the state within the same year. In addition, Mallet-Stevens freely managed the entire work, down to the smallest details. As such, he designed the adjacent park and the furniture for the interiors. Also, the villa held the wedding of Geneviève Cavrois, Paul Cavrois' daughter on July 5, 1932. Moreover, the design of the building had to follow the guideline, "air, light, work, sports, hygiene, comfort and efficiency."
The interior, designed specifically to suit the house, employed only sustainable yet luxurious materials such as marble, exotic woods and polished aluminum. Additionally, the latest manufacturing techniques were applied, as evident in the details, such as the light switches realized with polished metal plates and recycling bins, which was a novelty at the time.
Villa Cavrois (1929-1932) in Croix
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Villa Noailles (1923–1928) was an early modernist house built for art patrons Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, as per their request of a summer villa on the hills atop the city of Hyères, on the Côte d'Azur. The residence promoted a new art de vivre, which was a celebration of body and nature. It quickly become an icon of modern architecture and represented the blossoming love for the arts of the Noailles couple. Further, the Mallet-Stevens designed the project in December 1923, and it ended up as one of the first modern buildings built in France.
Also, the villa is composed of overlapping cubes covered with a thick gray plaster, notably deprived of any decorative elements of sorts. Thanks to this strict, bare approach to spacial and material management, the building imposes its unity on the landscape. Additionally, Mallet-Stevens either bought or designed the furniture specially for the villa to fill its fifty rooms and surrounding large garden. With its homogeneous distribution of light and functionality, the villa acts as an emblematic demonstration of the rationalist movement's precepts.
Villa Noailles (1923–1928) located in Hyères
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Villa Paul Poiret
Villa Paul Poiret (1921–1923) is located in Mézy-sur-Seine (Yvelines), which is about forty kilometers from Paris. The revolutionary Parisian fashion designer Paul Poiret commissioned the piece between 1921 and 1923. In addition, the Cubism-inspired house, finished in 1925, sold and changed to a contemporary Art Deco style through the windows converted to portholes and the terrace corners. Then, in 1984, it became a historical monument and Mallet-Stevens defined it as "joint surfaces, sharp edges, sharp curves, polished materials, right angles, clarity and order. It is my logical and geometric house."
From the terrace, with a clear sky, you can see the loops of the Seine, the column of Place Vendôme, and the rooftop of Notre Dame.
Villa des frères Martel construite (1927) by Robert Mallet-Stevens
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Stylistic Hallmarks
Chair (1929-1931) by Mallet-Stevens
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In the 1950s, Mallet-Stevens designed stackable dining chairs, produced in France and made of metal. His work has a purity of lines, functional forms and strong tones that merge into the modern international movement. With this, Mallet-Stevens, his name and his work are still examples of bourgeois domestic architecture.
Villa Cavrois (Le boudoir)
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Agree mate. He looks bloody lost when he gets played in the Clayton role especially last night . Either play him where he thrives or don't bother. Agreed - not to mention when he has played further forward or as the 10 they have been his best games of the season. The talent is still clearly there, just think we're using him pretty poorly atm. Need him driving forward and being around for shots, not trying to ping 50 yard cross field balls from the centre spot.
Saville has been our best midfielder along with Tav in our recent upturn in performances.
Players I'd accept us selling this window without a replacement: Clayton and Gestede Players I'd accept us selling with a replacement: Assombalonga, Johnson and Shotton I'd keep everyone else because our squad is very thin as is and we're heavily reliant on academy players plugging the gaps now.
That's the Burnley way, apparently.
Could SG just give him a really generous christmas / birthday present that coincidentally covers that exact amount? 😛
Boro v Birmingham 1-1 (Fletcher)
What stands out as the most annoying frustrating thing, a catalyst for everything else to go bananas... We all knew, that Paddy McNair would place the ball exactly where he did.. Not in the area of .. but exactly where he did! I expect goalkeepers do some research of the opponents penalty takers so it was an easy save for Lee Camp... Britt for sure isn't the answer and we thought Paddy maybe was... But Boro really need to find a good penalty taker.. One who doesn't blast the ball sky high because it has to look fancy ... one who can place the ball in both sides of the goal, both high and low... I wonder who has the best tecnique for this... I would seriously work on this with one of the coaches if I had to find out...
Well yeah, missing a penalty wasn't ideal. I'm not sure if we'd have controlled things that much had we scored, just because we did look so flat regardless. I think the truth is that we aren't a good side yet, and other than a few good performances out of nowhere, most of what we've done this season has been lacking in something, whether it's been energy, quality, direction or whatever else. We looked empty on Friday night for a decent chunk of the game, we looked no different today really but we were playing an inferior side. The break should help us out, hopefully get one or two back from injury, hopefully get one or two new players in and maybe get rid of one or two as well. Unless we collapse for the rest of the season then we shouldn't be in any relegation danger so we can start to build towards next season in games.
I've just watched the Tav incident on replay, I'm absolutely baffled that the ref didn't deem that a foul. Even if he hadn't been knocked out by the second Birmingham player's elbow, he was completely wiped out by the first. Pathetic.
Thanks @Brunners. Just listened to it and just to add to your points. - asked about Gibson and said lets wait and see. It seems clear we want him. - asked if the 2 signings he expects are both defenders he said lets wait and see. - said fry not for sale unless someone offering £30m - britt back for blackburn. Shots and Friends to play in 2 reserves game. I elieve there are 2 games on Sun 2nd Feb and Fr 7th Feb. - was confident about fry and roberts. These 11 days should do both them world of good in terms of rexovery.
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I must be watching different matches if Saville has been our best midfielder. He was good against West Brom, as the whole team was and hes ranged from average to invisible the rest of the time. I'd love to know what his qualities are that make him a good midfielder because from what I can see he can't run (don't think I've seen him do a sprint), has absolutely zero dribbling skills, can't pass, isn't exactly a threat going forward and isn't exactly a defensive linchpin either. Basically he's crap.
noticeable that Saville's poorer games are often when Johnson is in team...spends more time trying to bail him out than winning the ball and pushing forward...then gets hammered for the mistake he is trying to put right....did well in the aggro at the end though..looked like he was trying to keep the Birmingham guy from losing it altogether
I love bourbon but can't stand any of the Scottish/Irish stuff. Bulleit Frontier is my drink of choice at the moment
McNair is somewhat older than Fry and probably the one player in the squad I'd think could be outright classed as a utility player by anyone, he's been that for most his career so far. This absolutely sounds like McNair.
not going to get lad who passes stuff along into bother, so best answer i can give is "no comment" or "I cannot confirm or deny that statement".....(not windowcleaner, someone much more connected)
As we need to sell players in order to strengthen other positions, I hope that we think long term about building a squad around our young/academy lads who we should not entertain selling unless we get offered crazy money. The likes of Pears, Spence, Wood, Fry, Coulson, Wing and Tavernier should fall into that category. They'll be on more manageable wages, will only improve with the game time that we're in a position to give them and are far more likely to stay here for the longterm, so we need to prioritise keeping them and building around them. I'd hope that we'd be more open to selling the players who are on the far bigger wages, would raise significant transfer fees and whose contracts are expiring in the next 18 months like Assombalonga and McNair - as opposed to the young/academy lads. If one of Assombalonga or McNair leave we're going to need replacements, especially in defence to replace McNair's versatility there. I know football isn't this simple, but I'd happily take selling them two if it meant we could afford to sign Gibson and Roberts on permanent deals. It might even help us afford getting Ayala to agree to a contract extension also. Sheffield United are looking like they have avoided relegation this season and have a longterm interest in McNair, so they may well come in with a bid for him. He looks the perfect fit for their team with their energetic and physical box-to-box midfielders. £10 million wouldn't be too much to ask considering how well he has done this season in defence and midfield. They're having contract issues with Lundstram who still has not signed a new contract so Wilder might see signing McNair as a bit of kick up the backside to show him that he is replaceable. Besic started ahead of Lundstram last night, which was likely a message to him.
A lot of mentions about how tired some of our players are and rightly so but that can not be labled at Rudy Gestede. Apart from one swallow in a summer he simply has not re-invented himself by showing that he can be a footballer. If this form is whilst he is fit what on earth would a tired Rudy be like? Sorry but for me he has not taken the chances given to him to allow him to get back on side
We got lucky last night let's face it! The break will do us the power of good
The upside to SDS post is that it sounds like someone is willing to pay over the odds for one of our players, which could be reinvested to improve the team further. Fry at £30m for example In my opinion, anyone in our squad is replaceable if teams are willing to over pay like that
After reading back through reports it's numbing knowing the amount of points we have coincided by referees and our own stupidity. I said in a early post we should be 10 to 15 points better off and I think that's conservative. I also stated the team is better than Woody and I'll stick with that thought too. The issue I have with Woody being he does not seem to learn lessons very well or quickly, but he comes across as a determined individual which may prove an advantage next season as the rookie learns his trade. Woody will be with us quite sometime and we will remain in the Championship possibly indefinitely, but that worry's me little because I believe it the division we can develop and see some reasonable games. What concerns me is money, because the Championship is not going to be enough to finance the club, players and academy at a level we have known, and I can see further cut backs which is really worrying given the current squad size and the amount of injuries. Possibly the squad size could be managed with less injuries and players returning, but why do we have so many, why.
Watching the non-goal back, Jutkiewicz isn't offside I don't think so Woody got that bit wrong, pretty sure he's behind the ball as Maghoma touches it. Maghoma, however, is a tight one. He's definitely ahead of the Boro defence as the ball is played in. Question is whether the ball is played from in line with Maghoma to begin with as the lad on the left is beyond Spence and seems to be ahead of the entire Boro defensive line. It looks tight, if you take it from anything he can play the ball with, he's probably marginally offside at least.
Bit cryptic this morning so I apologise.... message I have recieved overnight when I asked about ins and out was the the following.. everyone has a price... in and out... cant say much more... YET
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In a team full of 6s, I'd give man of the match to Pears. He couldn't do sod all about the goal from what I saw, he made one save in the first half which made me think oh dear (came out to collect low down under pressure, got to it but it spooned out of his grasp) but made one very good save in the second half to his left and got a tremendous punch on the ball in the final moments. Not to mention that Brum really pressed high onto him tonight, particularly in the first half, and he dealt with it superbly every time, good to have a young keeper who is confident with the ball at his feet. Spence is a close second, he did look a bit tired tonight, apart from when he was sprinting across the line to make some incredible tackles. There was one in the second half when Brum lofted the ball through on the left, Spence didn't just catch up with the play, he made sure the lad knew he was there, went for the ball a couple of times before eventually getting his foot onto it to put it out for a throw. Recoveries like that are seen in some top, experienced full backs.
Eventful game to say the least....Tav looked out of it at the final whistle ..and if Brum fans thought he was milking it, wonder what their opinion was of their two players collapsing in their penalty area two minutes later while we were pressing them, then miraculously recovering when manager signalled them to get up......I have seen us lose too many games like that to not be happy to get point in the end. Johnson looked as though he was limping for long spells and thought Pears had a pretty decent game. Couldn't do much about goal, but did well on a couple of occasions with his blocks and punches..feel more confident about him with each game and the longer game went on, the better Wood looked, so all in all as many plusses as minuses
The referee wasn't giving us anything all night. Some of the ones the crowd were asking for were a bit soft, like I think the penalty we asked for before the actual penalty looked a bit soft, but a lot were just over the line of what you'd consider a foul and he just didn't give a toss. Tav got bundled over 2 or 3 times after being harassed by about 3 Brum players and he was having none of it. You like to give some refs the benefit of the doubt as it must be an awful job sometimes but tonight was truly dreadful, him and his assistants truly lost control of the game. Still remember one ball clearly going out for a throw-in which the assistant on the East side was convinced was still in, visually indicating that it was fine. Then the crowd shouted at him and he changed his mind.
I'm sure not every Birmingham fan is that thick just like every Boro isn't completely stupid either.
If Gibson is available in the wage structure and for the right price he is definitely a long term investment given hes a 27 year old defender and will still have the best part of a decade left in him. I also think we will resign Ayala and Howson on better contracts for us. If we take those opinions into account we have: 3 keepers already to fight it out for #1 in Pears, Stojanovic and Meijas. We will have 4 wing/full backs available at the start of next season - Bola, Coulson, Dijksteel, Spence - without counting youngsters like Reading who may be able to step in worst case next term, so I can't see us getting another in. Even if we get Gibbo in, we would probably need another CB, which would leave us with a 4 of Fry Ayala Gibbo and A.N. Other. You also have Wood, McNair and Howson as cover if need be, alongside people like Stubbs who could be used in a pinch if he doesnt go out on loan again. In centre midfield I think Clayton is going to be gone while we can make some money on him, which leaves Wing, Saville, Howson, McNair who can all play there, plus Liddle as cover and Tav could be asked to play a deeper role if need be. In the forward three you will have Tav, Fletch, Roberts, if the rumour of us wanting to extend his loan are true, Browne and Britt if he stays (though I think he goes). Walker with another year under his belt, plus again players from the U23s if we need cover. This seems like the area we are gonna have to cover most. ‐-----------‐--------‐--- We will need to rebuild in the summer due to contracts coming to an end with high earners and things but I dont see 9 players needing to be bought, that number seems very "worst case scenario" to me. As things currently stand: 2xCBs (3 if Ayala goes) 1xCM (if Howson goes) 3 or 4x Attackers - depending if we can find a buyer for Britt since we are shopping him about (1/2 out and out striker(s), 2 wingers/inside forwards) That's a maximum of 8 but I don't see Ayala and Howson leaving, which takes you down to 6. If we get another 2 signings in during this window, as Woody has suggested, and if they are both permanent, we may only be looking at 3/4 players in during the summer, which is much more manageable.
The Birmingham fans see our players and bench going hysterical because we wanted the game stopped. The goal gets disallowed then they see Tav running round a few minutes later. In their biased opinion they probably think he's feigning injury and we've robbed them off 2 points. To be honest if the roles were reversed I think our fans would be reacting the same.
I'm glad we don't have a game this weekend as we are absolutely desperate for a break. Not a great game but we looked knackered and the injuries just added to it.
Again, not disagreeing. More pointing out that you seem to be countering the point of Brum fans complaining about the head injury with our physios shouldn't be sending him back on. He was out, completely out, 3 or 4 Boro players and Lee Camp were all screaming for the game to stop and for physios to come on and the ref and his assistants completely ignored it, so much so that the physios ran on anyway.
I wasn't at the game so I can only go by what I heard on Tees, they said Tav was 'out' after a head collision. If that's the case then the heat of the moment shouldn't have anything to do with the physios decision, neither should our lack of available subs. A physio has to make a decision based on the players health and after a head injury the situation of the game shouldn't be a factor.
Absolutely they should, and the sheer size of our injury list should call their effectiveness in to question too.
Also Woody confirms that the subs were more precautionary, both Roberts and Fry felt their hammy's getting tighter and tighter and tehy couldn't be risked being lost for lengthy times.
Happy with a draw in the end. On an evening where it seems everything was goung against us, we dug in and took a point. After the pen miss, we then go lose our most creative plsyer followed by our only recognised defender. All in space of 35mins. 11pts clear of 3rd bottom. Really glad we got 11 days off. Hopefully players are now off for next 5days until Monday just to rest, switch off and recharge. Been going at full throttle since Nov 24th when we drew v Hull.
Sums up the medical staff if anything, something tells me all these injuries aren't just unlucky 🤔🤔🤔
No it doesn't, I totally agree that wasn't great player management by us.
Not sure why birmingham fans are fuming about the decision. It is a clear foul when you watch the replays...
Aye, probs thought it best to just get the game over and done with so he could get himself out the firing line.
We played meh, had a bunch of injuries, threw Wood in and Nmecha looks classy there's some sort of positives there. I just hope Roberts and Fry are OK watching these dead end games will be easier with those 2 on the pitch for the next 3 months.
Stop it now Dan. You've already ruined the match day thread. Not this one as well 🙄 😂😂😂
He's the best striker we've had in the Championship in the entire decade we've been here, in my opinion. We've had a bunch of relatively high scoring strikers during the past decade, Emnes, McDonald, Bamford and Britt. I think Bamford sits at the top of that list.
I'm surprised people on here still don't realise he's far better than what we have now. And the best championship striker we've had for years. But hey.
All deals to sell to Leeds need to be agreed then have a 30% DLT added to the deal ( dirty Leeds tax) So a £10m deal becomes £13 etc same thing should be done to all sales to divisional rivals when deals involve key players.
Wing can go for me but not cheaply. He's not the player he was last season but I'd still want upwards of 10m for him.
Quite versatile, plays on both wings but the bill might be too much to pay.
Interestingly enough; the Birmingham board are claiming it was a knee injury for Tav, rather than that *** elbow he took to the cranium.
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I don't know much about him either other than he's a central defender and he's on £7,435.75 per week.
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Stoke and derby want him aswell don't know anything about him like
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It's difficult to tell because Bellingham is also ahead of the defence as he plays the ball in and if you look at the line where the grass changes colour, they look about level. I think if it was a VAR call, it might be one of those absolutely miniscule offside calls based on where his shoulder is or some *** like that.
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The Visitor's Center at Colonial Williamsburg now offers a second film, "The Rockefeller Family and Colonial Williamsburg" (1992, 29 min), directed by Richard McCluney, Jr.
It follows some showings of "Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot" (discussed here May 8, 2008).
The film (often in just 1:33.1 aspect) starts with images of Williamsburg as a quaint town (with deteriorating colonial buildings) in the early 1900s, and then describes the gradual involvement of John D. Rockefeller and especially his wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller by the rector W.A.R. Goodwin. Economically, Williamsburg had actually boomed during WWI. Abby enjoyed staying in Williamsburg as much as she enjoyed the Rockefeller's other two homes.
Later scenes show the dedication of the restored city (the effort had started in 1926) by FDR in 1937. This year, 2012, marks the 75th Anniversary for Colonial Williamsburg.
Nelson, the son of John and Abby, would become a famous governor of New York State and cement the concept of a "liberal wing" to the Republican party; but I don't remember hearing much about the connection of his family to Williamsburg when I lived in New York, despite my own experience with William and Mary, discussed elsewhere in these blogs (Oct. 23, 2011).
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The Board of Public Works unanimously approved a Maryland Department of Natural Resources item that grants $380,000 in general obligation bond proceeds to Baltimore City for the installation of stormwater management facilities.
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Roxy & Elsewhere è un album live di Frank Zappa (complessivamente il suo diciottesimo) e del suo gruppo, The Mothers of Invention, pubblicato nel 1974.

Il disco
L'album fu ricavato dalle registrazioni di alcune esibizioni live effettuate da Zappa e la sua band tra la fine del 1973 e l'inizio del 1974, soprattutto dalle performance fatte al locale "Roxy" di Los Angeles (come chiarisce il titolo dell'opera) nei giorni 10, 11 e 12 dicembre 1973. Il materiale derivante dall'esibizione al Roxy venne in seguito fatto oggetto di sovraincisioni varie in studio, mentre le tracce registrate "Elsewhere" ("altrove"), Son of Orange County e More Trouble Every Day, furono registrate l'8 maggio 1974 all'Edinboro State College di Edinboro, Pennsylvania (e parti di Son of Orange County l'11 maggio 1974 all'Auditorium Theatre di Chicago, Illinois) e non contengono manipolazioni postume di sorta.

Nella sua versione originale l'album era un doppio vinile poi condensato in un unico disco al momento della sua pubblicazione in versione CD.

Descrizione dei brani
L'album viene considerato una delle registrazioni dal vivo che meglio rappresentano l'incarnazione più celebre delle Mothers. Contiene svariati brani strumentali come Echidna's Arf (Of You), Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?, e il tema Be-Bop Tango (of the Old Jazzmen's Church). Inoltre il disco vede la presenza di Cheepnis, l'omaggio di Zappa ai "monster movie" a basso budget, e rifacimenti di vecchie canzoni come More Trouble Every Day e Son of Orange County. Village of the Sun parla del Sun Village, in California, una zona periferica situata vicino a Palmdale, e inoltre fa riferimento a Lancaster, città gemella di Palmdale e dove Zappa abitò in gioventù con la famiglia.

La traccia iniziale, Penguin in Bondage mette in ridicolo varie pratiche di sesso bizzarro ed è il risultato dell'unione di due esecuzioni avvenute durante le date al Roxy e a Chicago. L'assolo di chitarra presente in Son of Orange County è uno dei pochi di Zappa creato in postproduzione giuntando insieme spezzoni tratti da più di un concerto.

Alcuni dei brani non utilizzati provenienti dai concerti al Roxy sono circolati in registrazioni bootleg di vario genere, come anche lo show di Edinboro nella sua interezza. Altre tracce furono pubblicate nei volumi 1 & 3 della serie You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore. Nei nastri è possibile udire Zappa mentre accenna all'idea di realizzare un film dalle esibizioni da trasmettersi "potenzialmente" in televisione, invitando anche il pubblico a non sentirsi intimidito dalle telecamere. Il concerto venne infatti filmato quasi per intero, ma non uscì mai in tv né altrove.

DVD inedito
Alla fine degli anni novanta, circolò un trailer ufficiale della durata di tre minuti che preannunciava l'uscita nel nuovo millennio del DVD relativo ai concerti al Roxy, con materiale tratto da tutti e tre i concerti. Il trailer venne successivamente incluso come bonus extra nella versione DVD del film Baby Snakes.

Joe Travers ha dichiarato che il materiale video "giace negli archivi, in attesa di un budget adeguato per la pubblicazione". Aggiungendo: «I negativi del film furono trasferiti dallo stesso Frank Zappa negli anni ottanta utilizzando la tecnologia all'epoca disponibile. Quello che vogliamo fare adesso è tornare indietro ai negativi originali e ritrasferirli in alta definizione per poi creare un missaggio audio 5.1 dai nastri master. Una volta fatto ciò, bisognerà poi passare al montaggio. Mettere insieme il programma, le varie inquadrature, cosa mostrare e da quale angolazione, e se includere materiale video da uno solo o da tutti e tre gli show. Non ho idea di cosa Dweezil e Gail vogliano fare. Si tratta di roba grandiosa, ma il processo di produzione costerà un sacco di soldi e prenderà parecchio tempo». Esecuzioni di due canzoni tratte dal filmato inedito (Montana e Dupree's Paradise) sono state messe in onda sul canale tematico Zappa Plays Zappa nel 2006.

Il video di Montana è stato incluso come extra nel DVD Classic Albums: Apostrophe(')/Over-Nite Sensation, pubblicato il 1º maggio 2007.

Tracce

Formazione
 Frank Zappa - chitarra, voce
 George Duke - tastiere, sintetizzatore, voce
 Tom Fowler - basso
 Ruth Underwood - percussioni
 Jeff Simmons - chitarra, voce
 Don Preston - sintetizzatore
 Bruce Fowler - trombone
 Walt Fowler - tromba
 Napoleon Murphy Brock - sax tenore, flauto, voce
 Ralph Humphrey - batteria
 Chester Thompson - batteria

Note

Collegamenti esterni

 Musicisti e testi dell'album sul sito  Donlope.net

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The walk starts at Warbstow Bury car park and crosses the ramparts through the central area of the Iron Age hill fort. The route then circles along paths through fields and small lanes through some of the nearby hamlets, passing Warbstow church on the return route.
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An easy walk encompassing fields and lanes. Iron age hill fort very impressive with several banks and ditches. Wear waterproof trousers and boots as long grasses. Foxgloves everywhere. Parish church worth going inside. The flower festival was on so I was rewarded with refreshments.
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Distance: 2.6 miles/4.2 km
Grade: Easy-moderate
Start from: Warbstow Bury car park
Parking: Warbstow Bury car park PL158RH. The car park is about 100 metres out of Warbstow Cross towards Hallworthy on the Hallworthy-Canworthy Water road
Recommended footwear: waterproof boots (crosses a marsh)
Warbstow Bury - remains of a huge Iron Age hillfort
Panoramic views of the surrounding countryside from the Bury
Historic church at Warbstow
Winding country lanes and tracks, lined with wildflowers in spring and summer
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From the car park go through the gate to reach the hill fort and continue ahead through the gaps in the ramparts to reach a level area at the top. Cross this to the opening opposite.
Warbstow Bury is the second largest and best-preserved Iron Age fort in Cornwall with massive ramparts. It was built approximately 2500 years ago as a tribal stronghold and residence of the local aristocracy, and was probably abandoned in the first century AD after the Roman conquest. There are panoramic views over the surrounding countryside on a clear day. It was once the venue for an annual gathering of Methodists from the circuits of Camelford, Holsworthy and Launceston who assembled here on Whit Tuesday for an open air service.
As you come through the opening out of the central area, bear right through a larger opening in the outer circle (rather than straight ahead to a small one) to a gate.
The purpose of enclosures within ramparts varied quite considerably. Some were built as forts to defend from marauding invaders such as the seafaring Scandanavians. Others were defences built around small villages either as a status symbol/deterrent or for the more practical purpose of preventing domestic crimes such as theft of property by occupants of neighbouring villages. There were even some which were probably just a confined space used to stop livestock escaping!
Go through the gate and continue ahead across the field to a gate in the fence opposite.
If there are sheep in the field and you have a dog, make sure it's securely on its lead (sheep are prone to panic and injuring themselves even if a dog is just being inquisitive). If the sheep start bleating, this means they are scared and they are liable to panic.
If there are pregnant sheep in the field, be particularly sensitive as a scare can cause a miscarriage. If there are sheep in the field with lambs, avoid approaching them closely, making loud noises or walking between a lamb and its mother, as you may provoke the mother to defend her young.
Sheep may look cute but if provoked they can cause serious injury (hence the verb "to ram"). Generally, the best plan is to walk quietly along the hedges and they will move away or ignore you.
Go through the gate and continue ahead to the gate next to the barn in the corner of the field.
Go through the gate and turn right onto the lane. Follow the lane a short distance to a junction.
The parish of Warbstow is one of the few left in England to still have an exclave (an "island" of the parish contained within another). The main body of the parish includes the villages of Warbstow, Warbstow Cross and Trelash and a number of hamlets. The exclave, separated from the main part by about 150m, includes the hamlet of Canworthy Water.
Turn right onto the lane signposted Week St Mary. Follow the lane for about a quarter of a mile, to Hendra Cottage.
Hendra Cottage was recorded on the first OS map of 1888.
Hendra is a common Cornish place name meaning "home farm" (from the Cornish word hendre which itself is based on the words hen meaning old, and dre is equivalent to tre). Hendra was also used as a boy's first name with the meaning literally "from the family farm".
Turn right onto the track in front of the cottage, and follow this to the farmyard.
The settlement of Hendra dates from early mediaeval times and was first recorded in 1284.
At the end of the track, bear right past the metal gates to join a concrete track. Follow this downhill over a cattle grid to a gate leading onto a grassy track.
Whilst it's fairly obvious why cows are reluctant to cross a cattlegrid, you might be surprised to learn that cows will also not cross a "virtual" cattlegrid composed of dark and light lines painted on a completely solid surface. This even works with wild cattle who have never encountered a "real" cattlegrid before and so is unlikely to be learned behaviour. It is thought that the reason is due to the limitations of cows' vision, specifically their limited depth perception means that they cannot discriminate between bars over a pit and a series of light and dark lines.
Go through the gate, and follow the grassy track ahead. Follow the track along the left hedge and continue ahead over a stream to a metal gate.
The name for the parish of Warbstow is taken from the nun, St Waerburgha, who was daughter of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon king. Her relics, at Chester, were an object of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. The church has been dedicated to St Waerburgha for at least 1000 years, presumably by the Saxon settlers.
Go through the gate then bear left to the gate into the field. Go through the pedestrian gate beside it and follow the right hedge to the top of the field, to a gate ahead.
The Saxons had a stronghold in northeastern Cornwall, which is reflected in many of the place names (-stow, -bury, -ton, -worthy, -cott, -ham, -ford etc). As you move further west, the Celtic place names (Tre-, Pen-, Lan-) become more common.
Go through the gate and the one ahead then keep left at the barn. Follow the track between the buildings and onwards until it eventually emerges onto a road at Warbstow Cross.
The farm, known as Tredown, sounds like it might be Cornish but is actually an English name meaning "at the downs". The first mention of the settlement was in the 16th Century.
Bear right, across the road to a lane opposite, signposted "Parish Church". Follow this past the school, to a junction by the Community Centre.
In the past, Warbstow parish had no principal village: it essentially consisted of scattered farms and smallholdings, plus a number of small hamlets such as that near the Church and at Warbstow Cross, Downinney, Trelash and Canworthy Water. Treswen, near Warbstow Cross, was one of the most important farms in the parish, farmed since the early 1800s by the Gynn family.
At the junction, bear left to stay on the lane and follow it to a junction with a narrow lane on the right.
Warbstow is a parish in north-east Cornwall alongside the River Ottery. Warburghstow was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086. The original manor house of Downinney stood at one end of the village green, but only the Norman door, porch, and an upstairs window have survived.
Turn right at the junction and follow the lane to the church.
Beech trees are planted along the hedge and drop beechnuts onto the road.
The fruit of the beech tree is known as "mast" or, less crypically, "beechnuts". The small triangular nuts are encased in spiky husks which split and drop from the trees from late August to early October. The kernels of these are edible and are similar to hazelnuts. They were once used as a source of flour, which was ground after the tannins had been leached out by soaking them in water. If you find them too bitter, you might want to try this trick, although toasting them in a hot pan is also a good option.
From the church, follow the lane downhill to a bend where a lane departs ahead.
The parish churchin Warbstow was originally Norman, but largely rebuilt in the 15th century. However its site on a small hill, surrounded by a circular bank, strongly suggests that the churchyard is celtic in origin.
At the bend, bear left onto the narrow lane leading uphill. Continue, as this turns into a track, to a gate opposite the Warbstow Bury car park, and carefully cross the road to complete the circular route.
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Calif. Appeals Court: GEICO use of 'cherry-picked' claims data supports $1M punitive damages
By John Huetter on June 10, 2019
Business Practices | Insurance | Legal
A GEICO manager who ignored information backing a policyholder's claim and approved bad-faith settlement offers served as grounds for a punitive damages award against the carrier, a California appeals court ruled last month.
The case decided May 17 by the California Second District Court of Appeals involves an injury claim under an GEICO underinsured motorist policy held by Michael Mazik, but it would seem to have lessons for collision insurers, repairers and consumers as well.
"An insurer is not permitted to rely selectively on facts that support its position and ignore those facts that support a claim," the appellate court opinion by Administrative Presiding Justice Elwood Lui states. "Doing so may constitute bad faith. When sufficiently egregious, an insurer's intentional disregard of facts supporting a claim also meets the standard for punitive damages."
Lui was joined in the unanimous opinion on Mazik v. GEICO by Associate Justices Victoria Chavez and Brian Hoffstadt.
Case background
Mazik in 2008 received a potentially permanent injury in a head-on crash with a driver who'd crossed into his lane while both vehicles were doing around 45-50 mph, according to the court. Mazik's medical expert testified to evidence that the plaintiff's heel bone had "literally exploded" in the collision and Mazik was likely to "have a lifetime of chronic pain and issues."
The other driver died in the collision, and their insurer Mercury paid out the full amount of the deceased's policy: $50,000. Mazik then requested $50,000 from his GEICO underinsured motorist policy, which had a limit of $100,000 (Mazik subtracted the $50,000 he'd already got from Mercury), and he provided documentation including medical records.
A GEICO adjuster summarized and provided "a 'negotiation range' for the full value of the claim (including the $50,000 that Mercury had already paid) from $47,047.86 to $52,597.86," according to the court. "As discussed further below, Richard Burton, a GEICO claims adjuster who later worked on Mazik's file, testified at trial that the summary of the medical reports in the Evaluation omitted important information from the medical records that Mazik had provided."
The adjuster received approval from regional liability administrator Lou Grothen to reject the claim; instead, GEICO offered $1,000 to settle. A new claims adjuster took over the case in September 2010, and GEICO — whom the court said had no new information about the case — then offered $13,800. In January 2011, GEICO offered $18,000, with Grothen approving the bid with a note this was "To Increase The Possibility of Settlement."
In May 2011, an independent doctor requested by GEICO determined Mazik was "doing well," his job wasn't affected, and no more medical care was needed. GEICO in February 2012 offered $18,887, a "statutory offer" and GEICO's last proposal, according to the court.
"Grothen explained that GEICO declined to (keep negotiating), even though he had authorized payment of more money, because 'there was no negotiation from the other side,'" according to the court. "'So they never came off their policy limit. We call that throwing good money after bad. If we can't get them to negotiate, he would have been—it's bidding against yourself.'"
Depsite reports from Mazik's doctor of medical issues, Grothan Aug. 31, 2012, approved going to arbitration, writing, "Do Not See This As A Policy Limits Case," according to the court.
The arbitrator in April 2013 awarded all $50,000 to Mazik. Mazik sued for bad faith in May 2014, with a jury agreeing and awarding $300,000 for "[m]ental suffering, anxiety and emotional distress" and $13,508 in attorney costs to obtain the $50,000 he should have received from the start. The jurors also awarded $4 million in punitive damages, with a court knocking this down to $1 million.
Managing agent and claim information
Mazik argued evidence supported Grothen as a "managing agent" as GEICO given his authority on claims of more than $35,000.
"Mazik explains that Grothen's 'position rests solely on the fact that Grothen had broad regional powers over adjusters and managers in cases up to $100,000 and used that broad discretion to enforce his "negotiation" regime,'" according to the court. (Emphasis Lui's.) GEICO argued that the record didn't support that he had authority for more than $50,000, but the appeals court called the distinction immaterial because "Grothen had substantial regional authority over a large number of claims."
"There is ample evidence in the record that Grothen met the definition of managing agent that the jury was given," Lui wrote later in the opinion. "Grothen had wide regional authority over the settlement of claims. He testified that he was a regional liability administrator for Orange County, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Alaska. Over 100 claims adjusters are 'funneled up' to him for approval of settlements within the range of his authority, which included claims up to at least $50,000. This responsibility affects a large number of claims. Grothen testified that he typically has 18 to 20 meetings per day with claims adjusters seeking his approval or direction for handling particular claims.
"Grothen's own testimony established that an important part of his job was to establish settlement standards within his region. He testified that it is 'an extremely important part of [his] role' to 'maintain consistency in settlement valuations.' He further explained that 'consistency is also important so we can be profitable.' The jury reasonably could have concluded that this type of broad decisionmaking responsibility for establishing GEICO's settlement standards 'ultimately determine[d] corporate policy.'"
The appeals court also felt enough evidence existed during the trial to support the trial court's conclusion that GEICO "deliberately 'cherry-picked' medical information and disregarded unfavorable findings."
GEICO's Burton agreed the first claim evaluation omitted information within Mazik's medical record. As the appellate court wrote:
The omitted information included that (1) Mazik was still on crutches and had a cast several weeks after his accident; (2) Mazik had back pain despite no history of back problems; (3) the fracture to Mazik's calcaneus (i.e., heel bone) was "severe"; (4) as of January 20, 2009, over five months after the accident, Mazik's symptoms were worse with walking and he had significant discomfort in his cast and was medicating with Vicodin and ibuprofen; (5) Mazik had limited joint motion nearly three months after the accident; (6) Mazik's pain level had decreased by November only when he was not using his foot, not in general as the summary implied; and (7) as of the end of December 2008, Mazik still had current pain complaints and functional limitations and was continuing physical therapy. (Emphasis court's.)
The appellate court also found GEICO's adjusters misled and omitted details before the arbitration:
A summary prepared on February 14, 2012, incorrectly stated that Mazik had not submitted any documentation in support of his request for reimbursement of expenses that Mazik's mother and a friend had incurred in assisting him after the accident. In fact, Mazik had submitted such documentation with his initial demand.
Another prearbitration summary dated June 12, 2012, noted as "strengths of case" that there had been "no medical treatment since May 2009, then went back to a Dr. Yee for 5 visits between 1/10/12 and 3/23/12. This appears to be for fitting of shoes." This summary grossly trivialized Dr. Yee's diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Yee's records showed that special shoes were not simply a convenience, but were necessary because of ongoing "problems walking and working due to the pain." They noted that Mazik has "undergone significant trauma to the left heel and foot which has resulted in a rearfoot deformity." While a New Balance shoe helped to solve this problem to a "great degree," Mazik was "still having problems due to a sensation that he is inverted." Orthotics were necessary for a "persistent sensation of falling to the outside" that "appears to be overwhelming him." (Emphasis ours.)
GEICO agreed it was "possible" a jury would agree its adjusters "intentionally disregarded" facts, but it said punitive damages wouldn't apply because Grothen was "not personally involved in reviewing Mazik's medical records or otherwise personally involved in investigating his claim."
The appeals court ruled otherwise, citing evidence to the jury that "Grothen engaged in oppressive conduct by ignoring information concerning the serious and permanent nature of Mazik's injuries for the purpose of saving the company money." (Emphasis ours.)
For one thing, Grothen himself told the jury that while he relies on his claims examiners' summaries — "in reviewing proposed settlement offers, he has access to the entire claims file and spot checks the information the examiner provides. If he concludes that the examiner has not done a thorough job, he investigates further," according to the court.
Lui wrote for the court that a jury could feel Grothen's access was enough to realize his adjusters were dissembling. He interacted with the claim and issued direction seven times between January 2010 and February 2013, the opinion states.
"Second, the jury also could have reasonably concluded that Grothen himself was fully aware of the serious nature of Mazik's injuries," the appellate court wrote. "The summaries that Grothen reviewed, although misleading, did contain information that the jury could have concluded would have alerted an experienced reviewer like Grothen to the serious nature of Mazik's injuries. For example, the claims adjuster's initial Evaluation in January 2010 stated that Mazik had a 'grossly comminuted fracture.' Grothen understood that a comminuted fracture means that the bone is 'kind of split apart' and fragmented. He admitted that it was a serious injury. The Evaluation also mentioned that Mazik had osteoporosis, which Burton admitted was 'not' 'a good thing to have.'
"Mazik's original treating doctor, Dr. Grames, also stated in one of his reports that Mazik was likely to have chronic aching pain. Grothen admitted that this was important information, and testified that he could not say he 'didn't know it.'"
This idea of evaluating what adjusters are saying based on the supervisor's own knowledge is fascinating in the context of collision repair claims.
Assume a collision claims supervisor knows about the existence of OEM repair procedures — if they didn't, they'd be embarrassingly uneducated. Presented evidence of a shop-adjuster or consumer-adjuster dispute over a repair operation charge, it would seem to be just as egregious as what's alleged of Grothen for an auto claims supervisor not to look up what the OEM repair procedure manual states.
In fact, it'd arguably be even more egregious, for unlike a situation like Mazik's where Grothen would have to use critical thinking and draw on his own experience, the auto claims supervisor can just look up the definitive correct answer in the manual or even "Ask I-CAR."
"There is evidence that GEICO intentionally manipulated the facts to create a favorable record justifying its offers to Mazik below policy limits," Lui wrote for the appeals court regarding intent as a justification for punitive damages. "As mentioned, the trial court found that GEICO ' "cherry picked" medical information and disregarded unfavorable findings.' While we review the amount of punitive damages under the de novo standard, 'findings of historical fact made in the trial court are still entitled to the ordinary measure of appellate deference.'
"The trial court's assessment is supported by the evidence. Grothen acknowledged that Dr. Tauber's report prior to the arbitration suggested that Mazik was 'going to have ongoing problems.' For strategic reasons, GEICO did not provide that report to its own expert, Dr. Williams, on whom GEICO relied for its claim valuation. While this strategic manipulation is perhaps less egregious than outright fraud, it nevertheless indicates intentional conduct rather than 'mere accident.'"
Burton also said that GEICO claims adjusters typically provide even more experience than the claims summary when they meet with supervisors over a settlement offer, according to the appeals court.
Fiduciary responsibility and repeated behavior
The appeals court also felt a jury could have decided "Grothan adopted an improper adversary approach to resolving Mazik's claim."
According to the court, Grothan approved a settlement offer of $18,800 even though an adjuster estimated the claim could be up to $23,000.
"Grothen explained that offering the low end of the evaluated settlement range was part of a negotiation strategy," the court wrote. "While Grothen's explanation of this negotiating strategy concerned an offer that Grothen claimed was within the range of reasonableness, the jury reasonably could have rejected that explanation and concluded that Grothen was simply attempting to negotiate as low a payment as possible regardless of Mazik's injuries."
Ultimately, the court felt the jury certainly reasonably could have found "Grothen approved unreasonably low offers to Mazik that ignored medical records showing the serious and permanent nature of his injuries. … GEICO's own claims adjuster, Burton, admitted that he understood why Mazik considered GEICO's initial $1,000 offer 'insulting,' and said that he would have handled it differently than the adjuster who made that offer. Burton also agreed that Mazik has a deformity in his left foot and that such a permanent deformity is something that should be taken into consideration in determining compensation for pain and suffering."
The appeals court said the "degree of reprehensibility" was most important in determining if the amount of punitive damages was fair. Reprehensibility itself can be weighed by factors including the victim's financial situation, accidental or intentional malice or deceit and how often the actions occurred, according to the court.
The fact that the conduct occurred within a single claim didn't let GEICO off the hook, according to the court.
"In contrast, there is evidence here suggesting that GEICO's approach to Mazik's claim was not isolated," it wrote. "As mentioned, Grothen testified that an important part of his job was to establish consistent approaches to settlement valuations within his region. Thus, there is reason to believe from Grothen's own characterization of his responsibilities that he has adopted the same approach in other cases that he employed here of selective reliance on helpful facts and acting as an adversary rather than a fiduciary.
"Other courts have concluded that repeated bad faith actions with respect to a single insured over a long period of time enhances the reprehensibility of an insurer's conduct," the court ruled. "In light of the extent and duration of GEICO's bad faith conduct toward Mazik and Grothen's own description of his role in establishing settlement practices, we conclude that the same approach is appropriate here."
A GEICO van is seen Oct. 16, 2011, at the Houston Air Show at Ellington International Airport. (Lanie/iStock)
California Second District Court of Appeals Administrative Presiding Justice Elwood Lui. (Provided by California courts system)
The GEICO mascot appears in the Circle City Classic Parade in Indianapolis, Ind., on Sept. 22, 2018. (Roberto Galan/iStock)


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How Bad Data Practice Is Leading To Bad Research
Kalev Leetaru Contributor
I write about the broad intersection of data and society.
Two weeks ago, I spoke on a panel at the Association of American Publishers' (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) pre-conference on "Fake News -- Fake Scholarship: Improving Accuracy and Transparency in Professional and Scholarly Publishing" that explored how the world of academia is being impacted in some of the same ways that "fake news" has impacted the public information environment. In particular, the problem of bad data practice is increasing as "big data" approaches spread to non-traditional disciplines, leading to a growing issue of bad data-driven research. How is a lack of proper data practice damaging the scholarly landscape?
In my presentation, I broke the world of bad data practice into five key themes: Honest Statistical/Computing Error, Honest Misunderstanding of Data, Honest Misapplication of Methods, Honest Failure to Normalize and Malicious Manipulation, made worse through the poor citation practices of Copy-Paste Google Scholar-ship.
Perhaps the most basic and common kind of bad data practice is honest statistical or computing error. This can be as simple as an Excel spreadsheet formula error or as complex as a subtle buffer overflow error in a complex piece of simulation software that randomly changes a critical parameter or output value. Today's large data-driven projects are often ad-hoc affairs, involving multiple different software packages glued together into workflows never imagined or intended by their creators. A file format conversion package used to glue two tools together might silently truncate double precision floating point numbers to single precision, damaging the data enough to yield a false conclusion without the users ever understanding what is happening or even what exactly a double versus single precision floating point number is. Common off the shelf software may also implement a limited version of an algorithm that has special edge cases or restrictions on its input, and even widely used software can encounter strange issues when pressed into unusual analytic scenarios.
Some journals have begun adding a separate statistical review process that can catch these kinds of issues, especially those involving software limitations, but the only real way of ferreting out honest error is to encourage open data, open software and open workflows to the greatest extent possible. When others are able to replicate and thoroughly examine an entire analysis from start to finish, it makes it far more likely the community will catch these kinds of unintentional errors.
Even when the statistical and computational elements of a project are correctly implemented, misunderstandings of the underlying data can undermine or entire nullify a study's findings. Fields without a traditional focus on data-driven analysis are increasingly adopting data analytics, while traditional data fields are increasingly reaching for datasets outside their traditional domain expertise. Even with sound statistical approaches, the data being analyzed many bear no semblance of reality to what the authors think it does.
For example, Twitter's free 1% stream has become a defacto dataset for studying global human and natural activity. Yet, on a daily basis, I see studies cross my inbox that do things like map English language GPS-tagged tweets to report on domestic Syrian anti-regime views in rural Syria. Or offer conclusions on domestic image and video portrayals of social issues in areas of the world where there is no cellular service, no 20 megapixel-equipped smartphones with unlimited 4G data plans and precious few citizens live-streaming their daily lives.
Even when using traditional library resources intended for academic research, subtle issues can impact an analysis, such as wire stories not being included in the full text searchable archive of a major newspaper due to licensing issues. A lack of understanding of the differences between online, print and broadcast media frequently lead researchers to base claims off online searchable archives. Just because a dataset is easy to access and available in machine-friendly format does not in any way suggest it is amenable to a particular analytic question.
As research across all fields increasingly looks globally, English language Western sources are still a primary data source for understanding the rest of the world. Indeed, even within prominent social sciences fields, there are still large portions of the academic community that believe you can fully and completely understand the entire world using just a handful of English language American and European newspapers – no need to look at local sources or other languages. Yet, these same researchers are forever surprised that reading a few English language American newspapers didn't give them the same level of detail as a European study that consumed local papers across Europe in the local languages of each country. Unfortunately, such studies appear even in the top methodological and statistical journals, having passed both peer and statistical review – their statistics are accurate, but the reviewers lack the understanding of the data to ask whether it is relevant to the questions posed it.
It is critical that researchers spend the time to fully investigate a dataset's suitability to their analysis and not be afraid to ask the questions that aren't addressed in the documentation. For example, one widely used global social sciences dataset that is heavily relied upon, including in media and government reports, was assumed by the research community to rely on local language sources in all of the areas of the world it analyzed. The authors never claimed this, but users simply assumed that if you were positioning yourself as the authoritative catalog of the rural non-English speaking world, that you would be using local sources. Yet, for years no one asked just what sources the authors were using to build their dataset. It turns out that they rely nearly exclusively on major English language, primarily American, news outlets. The authors had never claimed otherwise, but had simply lacked the domain knowledge to recognize what they were missing by not using local sources. More to the point, the academic, governmental and media users had never stopped to ask what those sources were and had just assumed from their own domain knowledge that anyone cataloging the world would use local sources.
In addition, few human coded datasets outside certain disciplines publish inter and intra-coder reliability metrics and many rely on single coder workflows. More troubling, as I've documented extensively, American Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) now routinely permit the use of stolen data in research, arguing that as long as a dataset can be downloaded from somewhere on the web or dark web, it does not matter whether it stems from an illegal hacking incident or data breach. Stolen data presents particularly unique challenges in that the release of stolen datasets frequently comes with a particular motivation and thus may represent a hand curation of the original data to capture or portray a certain conclusion the attackers wish to publicize while excluding all of the other mitigating content.
The underlying problem is that the academic world prioritizes new discovery, rather than documentation and validation of the data that drives those discoveries. It is very hard to publish a dataset documentary that dives deeply into a dataset, documenting its sources, nuances, limitations and strengths. A study that misunderstands a dataset and accidentally misuses it to derive splashy new conclusions can become a seminal work that drives prestige, grant funding and grad students, whereas a critical work that documents the inability of a dataset to be used for entire classes of research where it is the dominant dataset, will struggle to find a journal or conference willing to publish it.
To address this, journals should consider adding dedicated data review, much as many of them have added statistical review processes. Traditional peer reviewers are frequently just as unfamiliar with the nuances and incompatibilities of a dataset as the authors are and may even be selected because of their frequent use of the dataset to examine similar kinds of questions, rather than those more familiar with its limitations. Adding a specialized review process that focuses on the question of how well a dataset aligns with the questions asked of it would certainly catch a lot of these studies. However, only adopting open data requirements will truly address honest accidental misuse of data, as the broader scholarly community most familiar with those datasets can help evaluate their use, but even this must be coupled with encouragement of data documentary and validation studies.
Journals must also be more stringent about enforcing and encouraging their open data requirements. When a Board of Reviewing Editors member of Science declined to provide a replication dataset or answer any questions about a paper published in a different venue, Science noted that while it encourages its BoRE members to adhere to its open data requirements in all their work, it declined to comment on whether it would take any action against board members who refuse to do so. If there are no consequences for refusing to provide open data, then it is unclear what incentives scholars have to do so.
Of course, even when the dataset is perfectly aligned with the questions being asked of it, the ever-increasing availability of powerful analytic techniques means results gleaned from those datasets may still be incorrect. Incredibly powerful statistical and analytic methods are now available in point-and-click interfaces that bring even the most advanced methodologies to the masses. Yet, few software packages warn about employing a method in an inappropriate way or help users avoid misinterpreting results.
I regularly see network analysis papers that perform clustering on networks using algorithms that rely on random seeds and claim that their results represent the one "true" clustering of the network. These authors typically aren't maliciously attempting to misrepresent their work, they simply don't have the familiarity with the tools they are using to understand that a random seed is involved (or even what a random seed is) and that if you click the "cluster" button 10 times you may get 10 very different results.
In areas like content analysis that have long histories of computational approaches, it is not uncommon to see papers from other disciplines that take any available tool and apply it without understanding that language evolves over time. For example, users will take tools like 1961's General Inquirer, dating from the punch card era, to mine Twitter or popular dictionaries from the 1980's that come up at the top of quick Google searches and use them to mine Facebook posts without understanding that emojis, hashtags and the meaning of words has changed over time – "cool" may mean that something is "neat" rather than refer to temperature, while "throwing shade" may not refer to the amount of light reaching the surface of an object. Conversely, prominent papers will use modern circa 2010's sentiment dictionaries to analyze digitized historical materials from 200 years ago.
Identifying honest misapplication of methodology is particularly difficult given that few non-technical journals and conferences require precise reporting of the specific algorithms and parameters used to run an analysis. In many journals, papers will simply say "we applied sentiment mining" or "we used a network clustering algorithm." Even papers in prestigious methodology venues will frequently include phrases like "we performed human cleaning of the data prior to the analysis" without listing what precisely that entailed. Neural network analyses may list the package used and even some code snippets, but fail to provide the specific hyperparameters used.
Algorithmic review can help with such methodological error, but adding "open methodology" to "open data" requirements is the only real path forward. Requiring authors to precisely document the tools, algorithms and configurations/parameters used to perform an analysis would go a long way towards helping others evaluate and replicate research.
One of the least understood sources of error, at least in media studies, is the absolute need to normalize results. Media analyses that perform counts of articles, social media posts or other outputs must normalize those counts to account for continual changes in the underlying population. Simply creating a graph showing that the number of political tweets has increased dramatically from 2006 to 2013 is not particularly meaningful given that the total daily volume of tweets increased substantially over that period.
Graphing the total number of newspaper articles that mentioned a given topic over time is similarly rather meaningless without normalizing by the changing size of the underlying papers. The total annual number of articles published in the New York Times has shrunk linearly by nearly half over the last 60 years. Thus, if you plot the raw number of articles per year mentioning a US research university, you end up with a fairly stable unchanging horizontal trendline over 60 years. In contrast, if you adjust for the fact that while the raw number of articles has remained constant, the total output of the paper has declined by half, then 6,000 articles in 2005 represents a much greater fraction of the paper's total annual output than 6,000 articles in 1945. By normalizing, the true upwards linear trendline is seen, which shows that as a percent of the paper's output, mentions of research universities nearly tripled from 5% to 13% over the 1945-2005 period.
Unfortunately, normalizing is very difficult for typical academic researchers to perform. Geographic normalization of social media requires access to baselines that are rarely provided by the platforms, while few news search engines provide total volume curves or inventories to permit such normalization.
Of course, not all errors in data-driven scholarship are the result of honest mistakes. As noted earlier, historical practice in many fields has permitted the use of vague language like "we performed a field study" or "we compiled a list of 10,000 partisan Twitter accounts" or "we performed sentiment mining," creating an opening for bad actors to exploit this lack of detail to maliciously adjust their data. Traditional norms on closed datasets allow papers with questionable data pass through even the most rigorous peer review processes. While ethical and legal considerations mean that not all data can be made available for inspection, studies which are based entirely on data must find ways of making at least the secondary products from that data available for inspection.
The rise of easy to use image manipulation software has made it increasingly easy for scholars in image-intensive fields like biology to alter medical imagery, with a sharp rise in alleged manipulation after 2003, with the release of Adobe Creative Suite and its point-and-click ease. Manipulation can be difficult for even the most prestigious journals to catch. When PNAS was notified of concerns with the images in a paper it had published, a spokesperson said it "asked two scientific subject matter experts to look at the published version of the images … The experts had opposite opinions about whether duplication had occurred. Because the authors asserted that the images had not been duplicated, we did not take further action at the time." The New York Times hired its own experts who concluded that the images had indeed been manipulated, to which PNAS responded "the experts the NYTimes [sic] recently consulted appear to have more experience in image forensics and were able to provide more sophisticated analyses. After the Times contacted us, we secured two additional independent analyses that came to the same conclusion of probable duplication." When asked why the Times, a newspaper, had better image forensics experts available than PNAS, a spokesperson for the journal said it had no further comment.
That a newspaper could identify image manipulation where PNAS could not suggests that journals must be ever more vigilant for the possibility of manipulated data, whether in numeric or image form and that they may need to seek out more sophisticated data and image forensics experts to assist them. As deep learning-powered image and video manipulation becomes mainstream, it will become increasingly difficult for even the best experts to identify altered material. It also raises the role that blind trust plays in data evaluation – that papers with prestigious coauthors are often given the benefit of the doubt, with significant data concerns dismissed. In the end, however, science is about skepticism and all data should be treated as suspect until verified.
In this era of copy-paste Google Scholar-ship, not all error is the rest of data manipulation. Information in papers doesn't just enter via the findings of the authors – the myriad citations in academic papers are also a key source of wrong information. Much of this error is due to authors in a hurry copy-pasting citations from other papers via Google Scholar. These errors then propagate through the academic landscape as other authors then copy-paste that incorrect information from those papers and so on.
Yet, key changes in what constitutes acceptable citations has also shifted the scholarly landscape's understanding of what is "fact." The Editor in Chief of a major scientific journal informed me recently that his journal now accepts citations to personal blogs, social media posts and other non-academic content as the sole citation to uphold a claim in a paper, raising the question of just what distinguishes scientific literature from random tweets? Another major journal recently published an editorial that referenced as fact several rumors sourced from a newspaper article that cited a single anonymous source as having overhead the rumors and which have been forcefully denied on the record by the organization they are about. When asked if they had verified the claims in any way, the journal said it would have no comment. Scholarship builds on other scholarship and when the landscape of basic "facts" that build the scaffolding of future discoveries is built upon questionable foundations, this can have real ramifications for our understanding of knowledge and how we interpret the data at hand.
Of course, politics, personal relationships and a myriad other non-data factors can play significant roles in the kinds of datasets and methodologies prevalent in each discipline.
Putting this all together, poor data practice, from honest statistical error to misunderstanding of data and methods, failure to normalize to malicious manipulation, coupled with copy-paste Google Scholar-ship, threatens to call into question many of the findings of data-driven research and is creating a dangerous landscape where a single honest spreadsheet error can reshape government policy, where "data" is conflated with "truth" and where dubious results are accepted as "fact" through the gilded veneer of data.
Kalev Leetaru
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After many seasons of the Oklahoma-based "Street Outlaws", it was inevitable that the franchise expanded, spawning several highly successful spin-offs such as "No Prep Kings", "Fastest In America" and the popular "Street Outlaws: Memphis". The latter which hasn't only shown a different perspective of what the racing scene away from Oklahoma is, but also introduced us to many new faces who didn't take long to become unforgettable.
One of the iconic adrenaline-prone drivers is Doughboy, who has recently been the subject of many speculations regarding his whereabouts, due to his lack of recent appearances in the show added to the several worrying rumors about his well-being.
So what is Doughboy doing now? What was the reason he left the show, and what is going on with his health? Stay here and know it all!
1 What Happened To Doughboy?
2 What Happened To Doughboy's Car?
3 His Family
4 Who Is Doughboy's Wife?
5 Who Else Is In Memphis Team?
5.1 Precious Cooper
5.2 Tricia Day
5.3 Lee Roberts
5.4 JJ Da Boss
7 Has "Street Outlaws: Memphis" Ended?
What Happened To Doughboy?
Those who have been paying attention to "Street Outlaws: Memphis" know who Doughboy is and how much he's grown since the first time he sat behind the wheel. Despite being the son of Memphis race legend JJ Da Boss, Doughboy didn't start racing until 2018 during the show's second episode.
Ever since, Doughboy, whose real name is Joshua Day, has developed his career as a race driver, and slowly gained followers on his own merit as the series advanced. That's why his sudden disappearance from the show and social media altogether from early 2021 seems quite surprising.
Although Joshua himself hasn't come out to say what's happened to him, his father JJ Da Boss affirmed that a back disc injury had kept Joshua away from the race track, as The Sun reported in June 2021. Nonetheless, the fact that Joshua is absent from his family's and friends' social media has prompted several rumors about his well-being, the most popular started by a Reddit user, who affirmed that Joshua's problems with the law caused his exit from the show.
However, it's important to point out that the latter is an internet rumor, and that to date the only official information about Joshua's well-being is still what JJ Da Boss affirmed about his health.
What Happened To Doughboy's Car?
Those who remember Doughboy's debut in "Street Outlaws" surely remember that he didn't own a race car. In fact, it was thanks to fellow racer Lee Roberts, who kindly lent his 1973 Nova to the inexperienced Doughboy back in the day as an act of gratitude towards JJ Da Boss, whom Lee considers 'his family'.
It wasn't long until Doughboy took matters into his own hands and found himself a good ride. As seen in his Instagram posts from 2018, Doughboy actually bought and fixed-up a 1962 Chevrolet Impala with the help of his father, as he wrote: 'thanks so much for helping me & always looking out for me! Truly is a blessing to be your son!'. From then on, Doughboy took his red Impala everywhere, and turned it into his preferred ride.
However, ever since Doughboy's disappearances from the show and social media, the fate of the 1962 Impala is unknown. The car hasn't been seen either on wife Chelsea's or his father's social media. It leaves us no other option than to wait for Doughboy's hopeful eventual return, to really know whatever happened to his car.
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His Family
For the Memphis-based drivers in "Street Outlaws", racing is more than just money and adrenaline, but a family matter as well. Besides being the son of JJ Da Boss, Doughboy is married to the fellow Memphis-based racer Chelsea Day, who is the sister of the iconic racer Precious Cooper.
Unfortunately, not much is known about Joshua's family on his mother's side, but his paternal family is quite big, to say the least. As it happens, he was born from a relationship JJ Da Boss had years prior to marrying his current wife Tricia Day, with whom he has so far welcomed four kids, who are Joshua's much younger step-siblings. Aside from them, Joshua has six other siblings on his father's side who sadly haven't been seen much in "Street Outlaws: Memphis" or other shows of the franchise.
That being said, Joshua and Chelsea have been married since September 2015 and have welcomed son Kamden and daughter Novaleigh. Aside from them, JJ Da Boss has another three grandkids whose names are unknown.
Who Is Doughboy's Wife?
As one of the main drivers of JJ Da Boss' team, Chelsea Day is certainly one of the most iconic drivers from "Street Outlaws: Memphis".
Despite being a native from Joiner, Arkansas, Chelsea has seemingly been living in Memphis, Tennessee for some time. As seen on her social media, she's been racing since 2013, and though it's unknown where her inspiration to enter such a male-dominated scene came from, it's for certain that Chelsea has been quite dedicated to it for the longest time. During those times, her preferred car for the street was her red 1973 Camaro, though as years passed she had other powerful drives, such as a 2001 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, a white 1973 Camaro, and the Tomkat, a 1966 Chevelle she currently races.
Besides her impressive facet as a race driver, Chelsea is a dedicated mother and wife, who also strongly supports the entirety of her racing family in their endeavors.
Who Else Is In Memphis Team?
While Doughboy is considered part of JJ Da Boss' Team, the truth is that he isn't an official member of it. However, other drivers from "Street Outlaws: Memphis" have been on the road with JJ for several years, and have brought many victories.
Precious Cooper
Considered one of the stars of the show and the Memphis street-racing scene, Precious Cooper is always a sight to behold when she's behind the wheel. Just as her younger sister Chelsea, Precious has been loving Memphis' racing scene since moving there from Arkansas as a teen. However, Precious' time to take her rightful spot behind the wheel didn't come until adulthood, when her talent and passion for speed quickly gained her the title of Queen Of The Streets.
Not only is Precious a great driver, but she's also provided some of the most iconic moments in the show, such as the driver from Nevada who crashed his car after bad-mouthing Precious' abilities behind the wheel. Just as she affirmed in the early 2022 episode of "Street Outlaws: Memphis", she was quite doubtful of whether her competitor Jeff Haggard's car was allowed on the streets. Although Haggard said his Blazer was 'street legal', he also boasted at being able to 'kick her ass', which in the end wasn't possible as he crashed before the finish line and Precious was the resulting in the winner.
That being said, Precious is undoubtedly one of the most skillful drivers in the "Street Outlaws" franchise, and has made sure to prove it several times.
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Tricia Day
Honoring her spot in her husband JJ Da Boss' team, Tricia Day makes sure to always go to the limits, and bring home the money when she's behind the wheel. Tricia, whose real name is Patricia Wayne but is also known as Trisha or as Midget for her small height, doesn't let anything stop her while on the track field, even challenging her husband, and some of the most reckless drivers from all around the country.
Despite her expertise, Tricia also has had her fair share of accidents. Before obtaining her favorite ride Heifer in 2019, she suffered a terrible accident behind the wheel of the 1966 Chevrolet Nova II called Ziptie, which is JJ's signature ride and the same model of Heifer. However, it seems that Ziptie and Tricia really don't have a good history together, as in early 2022, she suffered yet another accident while filming "Street Outlaws: America's List".
The latter accident occurred when JJ lost control of his Hummingbird while he and Tricia raced against each other, resulting in him crashing against the Ziptie and sending her rolling over in the air onto the sideroad. Despite sustaining terrible injuries as a result, in late 2022 Tricia and JJ finally drove the Ziptie again, to prove that nothing can really stop Memphis' drivers.
Despite not officially forming part of JJ Da Boss' team, Lee Roberts is quite close to the Day family, and has lent them his help when needed. Lee's preferred ride is the NightForce, a stunning electric blue 1983 Chevy Nova, which has gained him some of the most difficult races all around the country.
By far Lee's best year behind the wheel was 2019, when he won 11 races of a final $10,000 prize each, added to being placed as a semi-finalist in other highly competitive contests. Nonetheless, besides being an excellent driver, Lee is a dedicated member of his community, even joining forces with the local Memphis-based Carl Perkins Center to spread awareness about child abuse and family neglect.
Other than that, Lee is an avid hunter and dedicated family father and husband, often showing his followers some of his outdoors adventures with his kids.
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JJ Da Boss
Known as one of the staple drivers of Memphis, JJ Da Boss, whose real name is Jonathan Day, is definitely an unforgettable man when he's on the track. Jonathan's early stories with cars go back to when he was a small child in his native Joiner, Arkansas, and worked building roofs to sustain himself.
According to his website, JJ was 'always country, poor and happy' but apparently always willing to do what was needed to gain a couple of dollars. Taking on gambling and hustling was enough to earn as many dollars as he could, though at the early age of 10 years he was already racing on Mississippi's gravel roads.
Growing up, JJ already had sorted out how to sustain himself, but even that didn't stop him from allegedly committing several errors which landed him in jail. After over eight years behind the bars of a Federal prison, Jonathan was a new man, and did his best to build a life doing what he loved the most. Soon enough, his long-acquired skills at fixing and building cars resulted in him making enough money to invest in his passion for racing, eventually buying and flipping several cars which he has put on the streets through his team, or driving them himself.
In the end, Jonathan Day truly deserves his reputation as the most feared man of the streets for his resilience and resourceful ways.
Although no one denies that drama is usual in the street racing scene, most of the time the personal problems or discussions between drivers don't have any legal consequences. Nonetheless, in 2018 J,J Da Boss and Discovery were actually sued for an alleged event which occurred while on the tracks.
As it happened, back in late 2017 the couple formed by racer Chad Larkin and his wife Genny were apparently contacted by Discovery channel to appear in "Street Outlaws: Memphis". Nonetheless, what was assumed to be a friendly competition resulted in the several drivers being pushed to compete against JJ Da Boss' team, and the situation only worsened when in a sudden move, Larkin was physically attacked by Jonathan Day and race driver Kenneth Gulley and pushed to the grown: 'he felt immediate pain in his leg, as though his 'muscles and tendons were ripping.' At that point Larkin was on his back with his face exposed', as court documents stated.
As affirmed by Larkin, he 'feared for his life' as the assault continued, and Discovery producers allegedly did nothing to help him. During the incident, Genny was attacked by an unidentified female member of the show. Larkin's asked for a $5 million compensation for damages, but it's unclear what the case resulted in.
Has "Street Outlaws: Memphis" Ended?
As one of the most popular shows from the franchise, "Street Outlaws: Memphis" has surely kept a stable place in Discovery channel's programming. Nonetheless, while the latest and fifth season of the show wrapped up in late 2021, no further comments about its return have been announced either by the network or the cast members.
Although the show's prolonged absence from TV might worry fans, the truth is that the Memphis drivers have been quite busy appearing in some other series of the franchise. The whole cast have become regulars in "America's List", added to Precious Copper and Tricia Day forming part of the all-women show "Gone Girl".
While the future of "Street Outlaws: Memphis" is not clear these days, it's for sure that its beloved will surely keep appearing in other shows. This also means that Doughboy will most likely have a place in the franchise, in the hopeful case that he returns to TV.
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