Will Woody Allen's Next Film Be Shot in Coney Island?
The return of the nervous kid who grew up in a house under a roller coaster? Woody Allen says his next movie will be set in an amusement park and could possibly be shot in Coney Island this summer. "If I can work out the logistics of it," he told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival.
Scenes from Allen's 1977 Annie Hall were filmed in Coney at the since demolished Thunderbolt roller coaster and the Cavalcade Bumper Cars on Surf Avenue. Where would he film today? Well, there's Luna Park's new Thunderbolt roller coaster, which does not have a house under it but does have a hair-raising 90 degree drop, and the roller coaster like thrill of the Wonder Wheel's swinging cars, and the mighty Cyclone.
The house under the roller coaster in Annie Hall was the real life home for 40 years of Mae Timpano, who shares vivid memories of good times and sad in a 2005 documentary by Lila Place. "If the wind was blowing towards the house, I heard everything going on in Coney Island," says Timpano in the film.
On Sunday we happened to be on the Boardwalk in Coney Island at the very moment the lights on the Parachute Jump were switched on. Known as Brooklyn's Eiffel Tower, the Jump is being lit in France's tricolor to show solidarity after the Paris attacks.
Although Coney's rides are now closed for the season, the Parachute Jump's 8000 LEDs are lit year round with lighting schemes varying by the day. occasion and season. One of our favorite shots of the Jump is through the loop of Luna Park's Thunderbolt roller coaster, which is on West 15th Street off the Boardwalk.
This 16-minute documentary by Mike Edwards and newly posted on YouTube was made in 1977 to celebrate the Cyclone's 50th anniversary. It's fantastic to see the roller coaster in action in the '70s. The opening sequence features Silvio Pinto, whose family bought and began operating the roller coaster in 1959 before selling it to the City a decade later. The film also stars famed riders Mike Boodley, who rode the Cyclone for 1001 consecutive rides, and Richard Rodriguez, who holds the Guinness World Record for riding the coaster continuously for four days. At the time the film was made, Edwards was a college student in Staten Island. His film was nominated for his school's "Oscars" and toured NYC Parks with the Parks Foundation's Filmobile.
As a boy born and raised on three of the 5 boroughs of NYC from 1951 to 1979, a summertime trip to Coney Island was always in the mix. I remember the day while confined to Steeplechase Park, (the grandest kiddie amusement park ever!), when my gaze became transfixed on the world class wooden roller coasters that thundered and squealed off in the distance. I couldn't wait for the day when I was old enough and big enough to ride these coasters. I measured myself by first getting comfortable riding the Thunderbolt and then the Tornado roller coasters before I felt ready for the Cyclone.
Fast forward to 1977 when I chose the Cyclone to be the subject of a documentary film exercise while attending the very fine Richmond College, an experimental humanities school in the CUNY system, where I was to receive a BA in Cinema Studies. With either a wind-up Bolex 16 or a Bell & Howell Filmo 16mm camera and a 100' spool of reversal film, I went to visit my subject while under a blanket of snow. Like coming upon a hibernating beast, I kept my distance shooting wide shots without a footprint. Aided by the calm of this early Sunday morning, I could feel a life-force at rest, knowing what was expected of it and what was to unfold in the early spring months. Right there on Surf Avenue, I knew my documentary project would be to explore and maybe expose that this mechanical, inanimate object is actually a being with a distinct personality.
In this striking photo of Saturday morning's snowfall by Coney Island resident Bruce Handy, the Cyclone is transformed into veritable "Russian Mountains," as the world's first roller coasters were called. The Beach and Boardwalk are a Winter Wonderland. It was a perfect day for Brooklyn's Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts, who brought their homemade sleds to Coney Island for the annual Klondike Derby. More snow is predicted for Monday and Tuesday.
Summer officially begins on Saturday, June 21st, with the solstice and Coney Island's Mermaid Parade. This past Saturday offered a taste of summer: the long-awaited debut of Luna Park's Thunderbolt roller coaster, Wonder Wheel Park's Pet Costume Contest on the Boardwalk, and the Brooklyn Cyclones season opener followed by the first fireworks of the season. The Cyclones stadium is spectacularly situated with the landmark Parachute Jump on one side and the new Thunderbolt on the other.
Last evening at 6:55pm, Zamperla's Thunderbolt roller coaster went for its first test run, evoking cheers from fans gathered on the Boardwalk. Coney Island photographer Bruce Handy had been standing by for the historic moment and captured "The Thunderbolt's Maiden Voyage" in this short video.
As previously noted ("High Hopes for Coney Island's New Thunderbolt Coaster," ATZ, March 10, 2014), Coney Island has been home to dozens of roller coasters since the Switchback Railway debuted in 1884 but it's been a long 87 years since one was custom built for Coney — the Cyclone in 1927. Luna Park's newest ride is named in honor of the 1925 Thunderbolt and is expected to open as soon as the test runs and permitting process are complete.
To anyone who watched this video of the Thunderbolt's first test run and jumped to the conclusion it would open over the weekend, hang in there! There'll be multiple test runs, some of which were conducted today, before the new coaster opens. On Saturday, Luna Park employees variously said the coaster would open next Saturday or in two weeks, but there's been no officially announced date.
Weekend visitors to Coney Island were wowed by the sight of Zamperla's Thunderbolt roller coaster under construction on West 15th Street. Set to open on Memorial Day, which is just one week away, the new $10 million dollar ride's track rolls, loops, turns and dives from the Boardwalk to Surf Avenue and back again. Photographer Jim McDonnell, who has been documenting the work in progress since Day 1, has captured the sculptural elegance of the coaster. The Thunderbolt has already made its mark on Coney Island's skyline. Seen from a certain vantage point, the landmark Parachute Jump–Brooklyn's Eiffel Tower– is framed by the Loop in a shot that is destined to become a favorite of People's Playground photographers and a Coney classic.
On Thursday, the Thunderbolt's 100-foot Loop was completed. It was a stunning moment because it's the first coaster with a vertical loop in Coney Island since the 1901-1910 Loop the Loop, which stood on the corner of West 10th Street where the Cyclone is today. Edwin Prescott's ride was one of the first to charge admission just to watch. A sign warned "Beware of Pickpockets!" and another said "STRAP YOURSELVES." The ride's motto, printed on its tickets, was "Heels up, Heads down!" But the Loop the Loop's low capacity of four passengers per 10 cent ride was not enough to turn a profit. The Thunderbolt will cost $10 or 10 Luna Park credits to ride. If you're not brave enough to give it a go, it will of course be free to watch.
As previously noted ("High Hopes for Coney Island's New Thunderbolt Coaster," ATZ, March 10, 2014), Coney Island has been home to dozens of roller coasters since the Switchback Railway debuted in 1884 but it's been a long 87 years since one was custom built for Coney — the Cyclone in 1927. The new ride is named in honor of the 1925 Thunderbolt, which occupied an adjacent lot on the same block until it was controversially and illegally demolished in 2000 on the orders of Mayor Giuliani.
The Thunderbolt is the third Zamperla coaster in Luna Park to be named after Coney Island attractions of the past. In 2010, their Wild Mouse-style spinning coaster was rechristened "The Tickler" in honor of an innovative 1906 thrill ride in the original Luna Park, after which the park is named. The next year, a Pony Express-themed Motocoaster in Scream Zone was dubbed the Steeplechase Coaster, after Steeplechase Park's signature horse race ride.
Watch this video from last evening, when the Thunderbolt went for its 1st first test run.


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Partying Like Its 1929
By Paul Krugman
If Ben Bernanke manages to save the financial system from collapse, he will — rightly — be praised for his heroic efforts.
But what we should be asking is: How did we get here? Why does the financial system need salvation? Why do mild-mannered economists have to become superheroes? The answer, at a fundamental level, is that we're paying the price for willful amnesia. We chose to forget what happened in the 1930s — and having refused to learn from history, we're repeating it.
Contrary to popular belief, the stock market crash of 1929 wasn't the defining moment of the Great Depression. What turned an ordinary recession into a civilization-threatening slump was the wave of bank runs that swept across America in 1930 and 1931.
This banking crisis of the 1930s showed that unregulated, unsupervised financial markets can all too easily suffer catastrophic failure. As the decades passed, however, that lesson was forgotten — and now we're relearning it, the hard way.
To grasp the problem, you need to understand what banks do. Banks exist because they help reconcile the conflicting desires of savers and borrowers. Savers want freedom — access to their money on short notice. Borrowers want commitment: they don't want to risk facing sudden demands for repayment.
Normally, banks satisfy both desires: depositors have access to their funds whenever they want, yet most of the money placed in a bank's care is used to make long-term loans. The reason this works is that withdrawals are usually more or less matched by new deposits, so that a bank only needs a modest cash reserve to make good on its promises.
But sometimes — often based on nothing more than a rumor — banks face runs, in which many people try to withdraw their money at the same time. And a bank that faces a run by depositors, lacking the cash to meet their demands, may go bust even if the rumor was false. Worse yet, bank runs can be contagious.
If depositors at one bank lose their money, depositors at other banks are likely to get nervous, too, setting off a chain reaction. And there can be wider economic effects: as the surviving banks try to raise cash by calling in loans, there can be a vicious circle in which bank runs cause a credit crunch, which leads to more business failures, which leads to more financial troubles at banks, and so on.
That, in brief, is what happened in 1930-1931, making the Great Depression the disaster it was. So Congress tried to make sure it would never happen again by creating a system of regulations and guarantees that provided a safety net for the financial system. And we all lived happily for a while — but not for ever after.
Wall Street chafed at regulations that limited risk, but also limited potential profits. And little by little it wriggled free — partly by persuading politicians to relax the rules, but mainly by creating a "shadow banking system" that relied on complex financial arrangements to bypass regulations designed to ensure that banking was safe.
For example, in the old system, savers had federally insured deposits in tightly regulated savings banks, and banks used that money to make home loans. Over time, however, this was partly replaced by a system in which savers put their money in funds that bought asset-backed commercial paper from special investment vehicles that bought collateralized debt obligations created from securitized mortgages — with nary a regulator in sight.
As the years went by, the shadow banking system took over more and more of the banking business, because the unregulated players in this system seemed to offer better deals than conventional banks. Meanwhile, those who worried about the fact that this brave new world of finance lacked a safety net were dismissed as hopelessly old-fashioned.
In fact, however, we were partying like it was 1929 — and now it's 1930. The financial crisis currently under way is basically an updated version of the wave of bank runs that swept the nation three generations ago. People aren't pulling cash out of banks to put it in their mattresses — but they're doing the modern equivalent, pulling their money out of the shadow banking system and putting it into Treasury bills.
And the result, now as then, is a vicious circle of financial contraction. Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues at the Fed are doing all they can to end that vicious circle. We can only hope that they succeed. Otherwise, the next few years will be very unpleasant — not another Great Depression, hopefully, but surely the worst slump we've seen in decades.
Even if Mr. Bernanke pulls it off, however, this is no way to run an economy. It's time to relearn the lessons of the 1930s, and get the financial system back under control.
This op-ed piece was published in The New York Times, published on March 21, 2008.
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The Multiracial Category Movement originated in the 1980s when parents of biracial children began to challenge identification criteria on school data forms. By the 1990s, multiracial category advocates had shifted most of their energy to a campaign to secure the addition of a multiracial category on decennial census forms for the year 2000. Their efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. The debate concerning racial categories, however, extends well beyond census classifications.
Although it is difficult to reduce such a controversial and complex topic to a few words, multiracial category proponents appear to believe that the category will: (1) challenge the use of racial categorization by forcing society to acknowledge that race is too fluid to monitor in an increasingly diverse society; (2) promote racial harmony by identifying a group that is capable of bridging the gap between Blacks and Whites; and (3) allow mixed-race persons to self-identify and to acknowledge all aspects of their racial heritages. Although one can understand the appeal of and the potential merit to these claims, proponents fail to engage sufficiently the complex history and present reality of colorism.
The first argument-that a multiracial category will eliminate racial classification altogether and move society beyond racial divisions-is debatable. The adoption of a multiracial category is equally likely to contribute to the proliferation of racial categories rather than to their elimination. Even assuming, arguendo, that a multiracial category will cause society to recognize that race is too fluid to monitor, this claim assumes that along with racial classifications, discrimination will also disappear. But, one event need not follow the other. The fact that racial labels may no longer be handy does not mean that discrimination will disappear. Rather, the virus of discrimination may simply mutate or find another host. Because skin color has been used historically as a basis for subordination in this country, skin color may provide an alternative site. That is, in the future, skin color differences may increasingly perform the role played by racial categories today. In this new social context, multiracial individuals and other persons of color will still be subject to discrimination on the basis of skin color to the extent that their skin is too dark or too light.
The second argument-that a multiracial category will produce an identifiable class of people who will facilitate interracial communications between Blacks and Whites-sounds like a modern-day appeal for a buffer class (a class distinguishable by its lighter skin tone). In the United States, however, buffer classes have not historically acted as catalysts for interracial harmony. Rather, they have served to increase the status of those in the middle (the buffer class) without fundamentally challenging the status quo for those on the top and bottom.1 In Brazil and Latin American countries where buffer classes have existed historically, the same dynamic has occurred. Thus, while tending to improve the lot of some, buffer categories fail to challenge existing racial and color hierarchies. In future discussions, proponents of a multiracial category must come forth with evidence that history will not repeat itself in the current context. In short, they must explain how a multiracial category will avoid simply reinforcing the existing racial and color hierarchy.
The third argument-that a multiracial category will allow mixed-race persons to self-identify and to acknowledge the totality of their racial heritages-is intuitively appealing. It seems that a goal of multiracial category proponents is to challenge the continued application of the one-drop rule (e.g., the notion that a person is Black if she has a trace of blackness in her physical appearance or in her ancestry). Again, this goal seems fair, neutral, and perhaps even laudable. However, as I explain below, an unintended consequence or negative externality of this objective must be considered: mixed-racial heritage and skin color may operate to elevate the status of lighter-skinned multiracial individuals, while doing nothing to alleviate the subordination of those who are darker or to change the idea that Black is undesirable.
Trina Jones, "Shades of Brown: The Law of Skin Color," Duke Law Journal, Volume 49, Number 6 (April 2000): 1521-1525.
How Not To Talk About Race And Genetics
Posted in Articles, Health/Medicine/Genetics, Letters, Media Archive on 2018-03-31 02:37Z by Steven
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Race has long been a potent way of defining differences between human beings. But science and the categories it constructs do not operate in a political vacuum.
This open letter was produced by a group of 68 scientists and researchers. The full list of signatories can be found below.
In his newly published book Who We Are and How We Got Here, geneticist David Reich engages with the complex and often fraught intersections of genetics with our understandings of human differences — most prominently, race.
He admirably challenges misrepresentations about race and genetics made by the likes of former New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade and Nobel Laureate James Watson. As an eminent scientist, Reich clearly has experience with the genetics side of this relationship. But his skillfulness with ancient and contemporary DNA should not be confused with a mastery of the cultural, political, and biological meanings of human groups.
As a group of 68 scholars from disciplines ranging across the natural sciences, medical and population health sciences, social sciences, law, and humanities, we would like to make it clear that Reich's understanding of "race" — most recently in a Times column warning that "it is simply no longer possible to ignore average genetic differences among 'races'" — is seriously flawed…
Read the entire letter here.
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Just weeks after allowing GIFs to be uploaded directly on its platform, Facebook is now testing its own GIF maker on iOS.
The new feature was first spotted by Matt Navarra and shared on The Next Web, and later confirmed by Facebook.
The new GIF maker is accessible via the Facebook Camera, and appears as an option at the top of the screen. Once you finish shooting, you can then save in GIF format and post to your profile, add to your Facebook Story, or even save it to your phone's camera roll.
Everybody agrees that GIFs are a fast-growing trend on all social media platforms. And now, Facebook is working hard to catch up on platforms like Twitter or Tumblr, where GIFs have been hugely popular and freely available to use. For many years, Facebook had stopped users from sharing GIFs, and it was not until 2015 that the platform began supporting them via third-party services like GIPHY. And it was only recently that direct uploads were finally permitted – after also allowing GIFs in comments.
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Readers may recall a thorough examination of the history of English wine here a few months ago – chiefly because the subject tends to come up as a contrarian climate talking point every now and again. The bottom line from that post was that the English wine industry is currently thriving and has a geographical extent and quality levels that are unprecedented in recorded history. So whether vineyards are a good proxy for climate or not, you certainly can't use the supposed lack of present day English vineyards in any serious discussion about climate….
Hmmm…. so where did that bottle of Chapel Down in my fridge come from? (thanks Dad!) Or the winners of the 'Best Sparkling Wine' for the last two years at the International Wine and Spirit Competition? This is of course a trivial point, but it demonstrates (once again) that our contrarian friends don't even have a semblence of a desire to get it right. The lure of a talking point clearly trumps the desire for accuracy.
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You are quite right! There are at least two thriving vinyards within twenty miles of me in Dorset, southern England. Outside my previous home, in an adjacent street, the vine we planted 30 years ago, from the seedling we recieved from my father in law's greenhous, is thriving!
This year we have enjoyed the warmest spring and summer ever. The CET record will prove I am right.
But this does not fit with the climate models, which predict a much cooler climate. Why?
The earlier vineyard post notes that the expense of transporting wine and other such obstacles created an "artificial" demand for vineyards in England. I.e., holding people's desire for wine constant, increasing the barriers to importing wine will encourage the production of domestic wines.
This same argument works in reverse today. England has no problem getting cheap/good wine from France or South Africa, it doesn't matter. They don't *have* to produce to hold church on Sunday. If England is producing it today, it must be because they can and because people want it.
That's a roundabout way of saying that England growing grapes centuries ago may or may not be a strong signal about the suitability of the climate at that time. But relatively speaking, growing grapes today is a much stronger signal of the suitability of the climate today.
Sometimes I wonder about these deniers. Some of their mistakes are so jarringly obvious that it's amazing these PR companies can't find a better lobbyist. Heh, I guess they don't need to though. The current misinformation campaign seems to be effective enough.
Perhaps the key phrase is ceteris paribus – all other things equal.
A big change in recent times would be changes in the technology of viticulture and agriculture in general. Many crops can now be grown in areas that would previously have been uneconomic. Thus, the presence or absence of wine growing in England today is pretty much immaterial if enough things have changed from Roman, Mediaeval or later times. However, provided viticultural techniques (et al) were broadly similar between Roman, Mediaeval and LIA times it could still be valid for comparisons between those periods.
This is the most strange post that I have ever made, but the reason that currently there is such a large increase in the mass of world-ocean jellyfish is that such a large mass of world-ocean phytoplankton have so recently died.
This is off-topic for the particular topic, but quite relevant to the site overall.
Much discussion has focused on whether the current trend in rising global temperatures is unprecedented or within the range expected from natural variations. This is commonly referred to as the "Hockey Stick" debate as it discusses the validity of figures that show sustained temperatures for around 1000 years and then a sharp increase since around 1800 (for example, Mann et al. 1999, shown as a purple line in the figure below).
Some have interpreted the "Hockey Stick" as definitive proof of the human influence on climate. However, others have suggested that the data and methodologies used to produce this type of figure are questionable (e.g. von Storch et al. 2004), because widespread, accurate temperature records are only available for the past 150 years. Much of the temperature record is recreated from a range of "proxy" sources such as tree rings, historical records, ice cores, lake sediments and corals.
Recent research, for example from the Ad hoc detection and attribution group (IDAG), uses a wider range of proxy data to support the broad conclusion that the rate and scale of 20th century warming is greater than in the past 1000 years (at least for the Northern Hemisphere). Based on this kind of 11 analysis, the US National Research Council (2006) concluded that there is a high level of confidence that the global mean surface temperature during the past few decades is higher than at any time over the preceding four centuries. But there is less confidence beyond this. However, they state that in some regions the warming is unambiguously shown to be unprecedented over the past millennium.
Over the past 20yrs there have been a number of vineyards along the South Downs, in Sussex & Hampshire, who have come on no end. And they are making damn good wines, & even here in Somerset, you can find a good Engilsh wine, some people even say better than the French. Certainly some very good organic wines, which I prefer. Drink on!
Comparing like with like is not so straightforward as it might appear. There's a vineyard just down the road which is actually on the site of a Roman predecessor, and it produces extremely good white and even an astonishing red. However, the Romans would have been unable to match these if their climate was identical to ours, as the white wines are from hybrids of old and new world varieties and the red is from a hybrid of a vine from the Amur River and one from Europe. Plant breeding has changed things — you might as well infer climate change from my childhood memories of the wheat harvest being in early September.
I like measured, not inferred, data.
The truth is that the present Urban Heat Island Effect is what allows some minuscule vineyards in Britain.
Of course, with a 0.6º C increase in 150 years some vineyards might grow from one acre to perhaps 4 acres -if well inside the warmed area near London. I really would like to see vineyards covering 500 hectares as we normally have in Argentina -on the dry west side of the country. Same latitude, on the east side -no vineyards (commercial ones, I mean).
Climate change is accelerating, let's face it. Hopefully the new Democratic Congress will propose solutions such as eliminating tax breaks for Big Oil & promoting wind, solar & plug-in hybrid vehicles. A toast to the new congress & to the human brain, which is capable of enlightenment as well as delusion.
Or the Norse name for North America, "Vinland", and yet nobody in their right mind would try to grow grapes in that barren land today. What Singer is probably trying to say, and I would agree to this extent, that mankind's perspective on climate in the scientific record-keeping sense ie with accuracy, from generation to generation, is grossly lacking. We do NOT have the data to be very adamant. We have the data only to suggest a worrisome trend which, if true, may mean that people at my latitude, 54 degrees north, may be "blessed" with a longer growing season which is not at all worrying for me personally. In fact, we Canadians cannot wait to get those vines and palm trees in the ground. We could really use some of that global warming. Bring it on.
I have three vines in my small garden in Bracknell, Berkshire (just west of London). I got enough grapes off them to keep me in eating grapes for a couple of months (about 40 bunches or rather small grapes). My garden is not ideal for growing grapes, it is shaded for part of the day.
This doesn't prove anything, except that modern varieties may now be grown in southern England in less than ideal conditions. A walled garden or south facing downland (chalk hills) slope will be much warmer and provide much better growing conditions.
None of the vineyards I know off in England are within the London heat island, most are a fair distance away from any habitation.
re: 12. As a Canadian, you owe it to yourself to read the following from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, composed of scientists, on climate change in Canada. And yes, you certainly can "wait" to get those vines and palm trees in view of the very serious consequences to a large portion of Canada.
People grow crops these days that are well outside of their range. I don't find growing grapes in England to be nearly as odd as growing cotton in a desert. Still, why would a degree this way or that matter? All going outside of a crop's range means is that it's harder to grow (with the final limit being that artificial biospheres are needed for either really wild temperatures/pressures or really odd atmospheres). I'm sure that with modern agriculture, we can grow grapes in England whether or not it's a tiny bit outside of the natural range of grapes, or their range with Medieval technology.
What matters is economics. If England is granted a monopoly on grapes, they'll be produced there even if they have be grown in greenhouses. If Macedonia is selling grapes for $0.01/pound (free shipping), then grapes won't be grown in England, no matter how suitable the climate.
I was interested to learn (from comment No. 10) that Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Gloucestershire are part of "Urban Heat Island[s]". Astonishing! A two-minute Google search might have avoided some embarrassment, however: http://www.englishwineproducers.com/swvineyard.htm. However, some folks apparently do not believe anything they find using Google.
This whole line of discussion does have me wondering if Leif Ericson really did find grapes growing in Newfoundland.
Re #12: Vern Johnson & #17: Gene Hawkridge — "Viinland" (long i) means meadowland, which is correct for the Newfoundland site. See Wikipedia under "Vinland".
I suspect that the development of wine production in England in recent years has more to do with culture than climate!
Here is an excerpt ..
The couple moved to England from Chicago in the late Eighties with an idyllic retirement in mind, but instead they have found themselves working up to 12 hours a day.
They hit upon the idea of cultivating a vinery after spotting a vineyard in Suffolk. Following a career as a leading manufacturer of medical, dental and X-ray equipment, Stuart, now 62, was not one to do things by halves.
Together with his wife, whose career as one of America's top antique dealers was equally prestigious, Stuart went gung-ho into the new business of viniculture.
In a stroke of luck the couple found Nyetimber Manor, a spectacular oak-timbered mansion dating back to the Domesday Book.
In the 16th Century the manor was given to Anne of Cleves, his fourth wife, by Henry VIII, when it was embellished with a bell tower, secret passages and cavernous fireplaces.
But what interested the Mosses most was the soil – 100 per cent pure greensand. And although grapes had not been grown there for 700 years, brethren of the Priory of Lewes had cultivated vines there in the 12th Century. They snapped it up.
Cheering on global warming in the hope of growing palm trees in Canada is a bit like cheering a riot in the hope it will bring you free beer. If the science and plain common-sense on this site does not convince you that there is a serious problem then nothing short of having your house sink into the mud will.
Politically and culturally Canada is often compared to where I live (Australia). An unusual frost has killed off alot of our grapes on the vine, also apples and pears. The frost came a couple of days after record high tempratures (Melbourne: 37C in October). The headlines here say we are in the worst drought for 1000yrs, the murray-darling basin has dried up, our grain harvest will be halved. Livestock are being sent to the slaughter house half starved in springtime, the national dairy herd has been culled by 20%, regional dairies don't have enough water to process the milk and country towns are being abandoned due to lack of water. To top it all off a cyclone flattened our bannana crop earlier this year.
Granted, our problems are not all due to climate change, bad land management has also played it's part.
But first we must find some English cabernet to serve Dr. Singer following the thirsty work of answering questions at his November 22 appearance at Harvard.
Ha ha – nice one RC. I have a map of the vinyards of England and Wales of which there are 400 ot so at the present time. Sure most of them are in the south of the UK (I have visited quite a few) of which the most popular are Ridgeview, Nyetimber and Chapel Down. These Wines win awards and taste pretty good to. Another factor is that they are expanding to double production capacity due to their good quality.
As per the Daily Telegraph article last week bemoanng the climate consensus and using the medieval warm period as some kind of reason why it cannot be happenning (again no mention of it being a local European phenomenon) with its stange interpretation of CO2 and temperature graphs etc (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/11/05/warm-refs.pdf) I can see that the only truth in this whole debate now is RC.
In the UK we have the stop climate chaos lobby (leftwingers) and the daily telegraph (right wingers) telling us doom or just plain wrong when the truth is somewhere in between. The left talk of abrupt climate change and the catastrophic consequences of it whilst the right deny it all. As we know from RC we are going to get warming and have some already but that does not mean the end of civilisation as we know it, just a toning down of it a bit more than likely.
Great artciles RC, I have read everyone even if I do not pretend to understand it all I now understand your arguments quite well. Warming, yes but not the end of the world.
1. We do have the data. We have direct measurements of temperature going back 120-150 years. We have ice cores going back 650,000 years. In between we have tree rings, lake and ocean sediments, coral reefs, and the O16/O18 ratio in seashells. Yes, we do have the data.
2. Your rosy picture of global warming makes it look like it's a nice, uniform rise in temperature everywhere. It isn't. Local climates will change UNPREDICTABLY, including yours.
Hey Vern, the latitude you mention means you're probably near Edmonton. Haven't you heard about how the glaciers that provide water to your city & mine have been retreating rather fast? The longer growing season won't do Alberta farmers much good if there isn't enough water.
Also, even if natural sinks had been taking CO2 out of the air as fast as we put it in, it would still be wise to substitute uranium for coal for electricity generation & save the fossil fuels for running small mobile machinery like cars bulldozers & farm tractors, where we don't have a good substitute.
When the Norse called northern Newfoundland "Vinland" or "Wineland," they may not have been refering to "wild grapes." They may have been refering to the astonishing variety of delicious wild berries found in that part of the world (bake-apples, etc., etc.), out of which, I suppose, you could make good wine. I am a historian who always wondered about the grapes story, until I visited and ate the berries.
Pete, RC have covered last week's Sunday Telegraph feature, see Cuckoo Science.
I'd say also that Stop Climate Chaos is neither left-wing nor alarmist. The main differences in their description of the dangers compared with RealClimate are in communication style, and scope (e.g. predicting famine falls outside pure science).
If anything, Stop Climate Chaos and many of its higher profile members are pulling their punches, for example calling for "at least 3%" annual CO2 cuts by the UK without mentioning that more like 9% annual cuts are needed, and lacking forthrightness over brown-coal electricity.
Re #27 Jim, I have read the Cuckoo Science article and very good it is too, however in yesterdays Sunday Telegraph the guy resposted RC (mentioning then by name) and I just thought that it would be a good idea if RC wrote to the Daily Telegraph and put them right on the matter maybe.
The Stop Climate Chaos lot are alarmist as they keep on postulating the idea of abrupt/sudden climate change and the idea of tipping points or the world suddenly coming unstuck. This smacks of being alarmist as RC have been at pains to point out that as nothing has really changed in terms of climate science then tipping points are unlikely.
I know that they need to get out attention but it just makes the right push harder back when they are perceived as being alarmist which I believe that they are being myself. We can all speculate on droughts and famine and the like but what are the real projections of climate change and how trust worthy are they. We all agree (reasonable people anyway) that the world is slowly warming and that we have committed ourselves to some warming but that does not mean that the monsoons are going to stop, that all glaciers are going to disappear, that the permafrost is doomed to thaw and the rain forests are going to go up in flames. I personally reckon that all of this might happen but it is not a certainty as the STOP CLIMATE CHAOS people are very assure about.
There was a recent phone in on national radio station in the UK to which I pointed out that it was dangerous to talk of tipping points and abrupt climate change because the science does not speak of it with any certainty as per the RC articles, the Stop climate Chaos bloke being interviewed refuted this claiming stating that GISS was being gagged by the white house and could not be trusted. I was aghast at his propoganda. Someone should tell the Stop Climate Chaos people about RC and what it is really saying about AGW.
I tend to agree. Until we know with much greater certainty, it is wrong to talk too much about the risk of extremely dangerous unforseen consequences. That is not to say that they should be wholly dismissed. For various reasons I don't think they can. A climate sensitvity of 3degC for 2xCO2 is irrelevant if unforseen novel feedbacks kick in, but I think that to 'lead with that story' would be poorly considered.
If the projections of a reduction in solar activity around the end of the first quarter of this century prove to be correct. This could reduce not only the impacts but the risk of such unforseen climate responses. And if the public have been lead to expect a cataclyism they may conclude that AGW was like the 1970s media hyped 'ice age'. For those seeking action to reduce CO2 emissions that could be very damaging. Had the recent findings of Bryden et al (re the MOC) been given the same prominence in the press as their original findings of a decrease (which arguably they should have been). Then we would have seen another very good reason for the partially-informed to be cynical.
The more people concentrate on low-probability high-impact scenarios the more what they argue is open to question. I'm not sure if there really is a scientific 'consensus on impacts' in the way that there is on human involvement in the observed warming. And I really think we need to try to stick to the IPCC's findings, keeping the extreme end of possible impacts where it should be. As a footnote, to be noted, but not concentrated on.
I remain concerned not only about 'tipping points' and rapid non-linear responses. I also remain concerned about the implications of regional underprojections of change at such an early stage in 'the game'. But that's not the first issue I raise when discussing climate change with people. It remains an 'NB', an important caveat.
Just reading through comments etc. Solar and wind – do they not present their own problems? The bottom line is consumption. We consume.
It seems to me that unforseen tipping points are a matter of grave concern, because even if they're of low probability, they're of great consequence. It also seems to me that indeed, there's no real scientific concensus on impacts (Gavin? Stefan?).
It's not unlike a woman finding a lump in a breast self-exam. The vast majority of such lumps turn out to be benign. But the fact that a lump has a very low probability of being cancerous doesn't justify ignoring it or minimizing its significance. It's not likely to be cancer, but *if it is* then it's life-threatening. I'm reminded of a Royal Society webcast in which a climate scientist (from HadCRU, I think) pondered that if you're boarding an aircraft, and the flight crew informed you that there's a 10% chance the plane will crash, would you still get on the plane?
This leaves us in something of a quandary. If we emphasize the danger then we risk being labelled "alarmist" and "unrealistic," to the detriment of our cause. If we ignore the danger then we risk failing to alert the public to a genuine (albeit low-probability) extreme danger.
I was interested in the comment about English wine being about at the time of the romans (What have they ever done for us? Well there's the wine!).
Translations of tablets at vindolanda up near hadrian's wall (admittedly nearly in scotland and therefore practically arctic) make it clear that the local commander got his wine imported from gaul, so that may be a comment on the quality of the local produce.
Tipping points are a bone of contention and whilst the right wing skeptics are droning on about climate change not even being real it is best not to go on about possible cataclasmic climate events of any probability. We need to win the political argument in the USA first (the EU is convinced I think) and get some action on AGW, not go on about the end of the world.
Ruseell Seitz- do you have a cite for this new crop of Barley in Greenland? I have a doubter that needs to be shown that things are at least like they were 1,00 years ago.
And I really think we need to try to stick to the IPCC's findings, keeping the extreme end of possible impacts where it should be. As a footnote, to be noted, but not concentrated on.
Unfortunately, while that may appear be good tactics at the current stage of the debate, it's not good public policy. Consider designing a building in an earthquake zone. You don't design it to withstand the "most likely" quake, you design it to withstand the strongest quake that could occur over a given – long – period. In other words, you design for a low probability, high impact event.
That's exactly how we have to prepare to face the warming that's inevitable (the "committed" warming), as well as the "expected" warming based on the emissions trajectory of your choice. Coastal communities shouldn't assume sea level rise will be at the low end, or centre, of IPCC projections. They should reduce their vulnerability by planning for the worst case.
Finally, a return to the topic of English wine. When I first drank the stuff in the '70s, it was always white, made from grapes with unpronounceable German names (varieties selected for really cool climates), and often not very good. Now it looks as though the classic wine varieties of northern France (pinot noir, chardonnay etc) are being grown, and producing good wines. It's not simply a matter of "new" varieties being better suited to the English climate. but that the English climate is becoming better suited to the good wine grapes from further south.
Here in North America, our Marine West Coast climate zone is found from far Northern California up to the Southeastern panhandle of Alaska. From a general climate standpoint, Oregon is roughly equivalent to the southern half of France, Washington roughly equivalent to Northern France and the southern UK, British Columbia is on par with the Northern UK and those parts of Scandanavia having a Marine West Coast climate. Vinyards have been in place from southern BC southward since European settlement began. I recently read an article regarding how the PDO's cold phase might be lengthening the period affected by frosts in the areas of BC where colder weather vines are grown for making dry white wines, which is actually considered a good thing by those growers, especially if they are striving to recreate German and Austrian style wines.
I am surprised that so many of you are suprised and disturbed by a recovery from an Ice Age…!
Steve Sadlov and I agree on one thing BC Rieslings (esp late harvest) are great. Too bad there are not more of them (and that you can't get any on the US East Coast.
To add a little topical information to the "is wine a good proxy?" debate: A recent visit to a local vineyard (I'm from the Netherlands, which is currently cut in halves by the Northern wine border) learned me that experts in that field are working on mildew resistant types of grapes. An unforeseen side effect of these new breeds is that they flower and ripen faster, so that these new varieties can be cultivated at higher latitudes, with a shorter season of acceptable temperature and rainfall. This local farmer informed me that these new breeds were a far more important reason for the shift north of wine cultivation than (in his words) "that climate stuff" we're discussing here.
"Surprised." In fact, by the Milankovic cycles which govern ice ages, the Earth should now be cooling, not warming. It's not "recovering" from anything, nor does a climate "recover" from an extreme without a physical cause.
Back to wine – surely part of the explanation for Roman viticulture in Britain was the lack of viable imports, climate notwithstanding. They liked wine, and made do with what they could grow here, since it doesnt travel well in badly sealed amphoras (wine hasn't always been prized for it's ageing potential). That British wines can now compete with readily available imports from Champagne, the Loire, Marlborough etc may well be testament to a warmer climate, but we have better evidence in support of global warming than wine production. It beggars belief that Singer has to propose it as an argument.
Re 35, no we do not build the strongest building to withstand the strongest earthquake. That is uneconomic, foolish and simply incorrect. There is always the most economical way of doing things, this is why GW alarmists are wrong, they ask too much and will never be satisfied as their demands are simply too much based on too little. The advice to meet in some middle ground is far wiser and more economically viable in the short term at least. No one goes around preparing for the worst of anything, hospitals for example might run a screen test on cancer 2 times, if they run it 3 times then they might save 1 in a thousand cancer patients, do they run the test, no, that third test on the one patient effectively costs a thousand times more and is uneconomic, same for buildings, same for public policy.
What about california, how is there grape harvest changing (if it all)? Are there seasons getting longer or are the grapes ripening earlier. Surely changes in the growing season are potential indicators of climate change?
The south of the UK has growing season thatis 1 month longer than at the start of the 20th century I have been told and the UK has had the longest 6 month period of warmth since records began.
THanks Hank- my own search did not find the same websites.
The point of this is that in Roman times wine seems to been a generic way of turning fruit (which would otherwise spoil) into a storable beverage, in an era when drinking water was not a healthy thing to do. Thus without more evidence as to how and from what the Romans in Britain were making their wine, it's not really an accurate proxy for climate at all.
RE: #45 – Each season is unique. For example, the most recent crush was a result of a very late low elevation snow event (March!), and a dreary, winter like Spring where the rains continued into June. Early July was cool, followed by the now well noted heat wave of late July. August was normal to cool, September cool. As a result, especially of the early season cold, there were fewer viable blossoms and hence, fewer overall grapes. The grapes were stunted by the rain and cold, then they had their sugar spiked by the sudden heat wave. Should be an interesting year in terms of vintages.
In Oregon, just north of California, our wineries are starting to look into the planting of warmer-weather grapes (after having put the state on the map with our fine pinot noir and pinot gris vintages).
Observed warming has been cited as the reason why.


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HomeConcertsAlessia Cara Fans Hit The Jackpot At Sold Out Mystic Lake
Alessia Cara Fans Hit The Jackpot At Sold Out Mystic Lake
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As the center of my music universe currently revolves around active rock stalwarts such as Metallica, Volbeat, Shinedown, and The Glorious Sons, you would probably not expect to find me at an Alessia Cara concert. But I actually do enjoy a pretty wide range of music (except for country). I told another Mike seated behind me at the show, I am not very musical myself so I am always blown away by musical talent of any style. I learned this retired Mike was also a talented musician, from his days as a lead in two barbershop quartets and years of singing at weddings. Mike, I am impressed hearing about your talents. And Craig and Alessia, I am really impressed with what I saw and heard tonight.
I really first became aware of Alessia Cara from seeing her on the Tonight Show. Her latest appearance, when she played the Wheel of Musical Impressions with Jimmie Fallon, told me I had to go see her in person now that she has grown from a supporting act on Shawn Mendes' tour, to now headlining her own The Pains of Growing Tour. She also appears to be an admirable role model for our daughters, so like many, it was the show to bring your daughter to. Plus, you can't beat the sound and comforts of the plush Mystic Lake Showroom.
CRAIG STICKLAND
Craig Stickland opened the show and was really a pleasant surprise as a fill-in for Ryland James, Alessia Cara's current tour opener. The tall, long-haired Canadian musician previously toured with Cara as her supporting guitarist and is now known by many for his "Van Sessions" that he records in his solar-powered, converted Sprinter van. In a black leather jacket, he strolled across the stage under the large CRAIG STICKLAND letters, trailing the drummer who would be his only accompaniment. Selecting one of the many guitars awaiting him, he launched into a blues song, quickly earning the attention of the Alessia Cara fans who had never heard of him. He used his falsetto voice in the next pop song that seemed to be more to the liking of the youngsters in the crowd, eliciting several "wows" and "yeahs" from the gallery. Stickland grabbed an acoustic guitar and made many of the mothers and daughters blush when he said, "It's tough to write a song about making love without being cheesy. This is about finding someone and making a "Golden Child"."
"I want to thank Alessia Cara. She is one of the most amazing persons in the world. Tonight I'm playing songs from my new upcoming album. Some songs have been released and some not. This one I did release a few weeks ago. It's about falling in love with someone who had her heart broken. It's called "Stop At Nothing". Stickland's powerful and emotional vocals now got some hoots and hollers from the increasingly impressed audience. Stickland also told us, "I feel like in relationships I make the wrong call early on. I feel like I see a warning signal far in advance but I'm blinded by it. "Warning" was a slower song with a Welshly Arms sound to it.
"The next tune is the title track for my upcoming album. It's about the that time when the sun is setting and the moon and stars are rising. I call it a "Starlit Afternoon". The catchy guitar-picking tune and had fans clapping to the quicker beat singing along to the "Woo hoo hoo" part. I have one song left, the last single from my new EP, "Break Every Rule"." This final song also got fans clapping along with and then clapping for the impressive opener. "I'll be by the merch table after the show and would truly like to meet each of you." He meant it. There he was, taking selfies with a long line of fans as they left the Mystic Lake Showroom.
As the room darkened for the main act, the crowd buzzed in anticipation. A very theatre-like city apartment set was revealed beneath misty green streaks of light. There sat Alessia Cara on a vintage couch in the left-side living area of the two-room suite that gave the show a real theatre show vibe. She sang the slow reprise of "Growing Pains" from The Pains of Growing album. With her hair tied tight, she wore a white t-shirt, green pants and white sneakers and would wear those out prancing and dancing around the stage tonight. As she rose to progress into the full version of "Growing Pains", fans quickly realized they were at a concert and stood with her as her supporting band appeared within that spiffy loft setting.
The young Canadian star asked, "Prior Lake, what's up?" "This is my awesome band and crew," she continued. I want to take things back to the very beginning." It was the first official single she released at age 18, "Here", about hating being at parties. It prompted an enthusiastic response by the crowd littered with young-teen girls and their mothers who heartily sang along to the as Cara bounced around the stage to the slow song's heavy bass.
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Sifting back to her recent work, she now asked, "Who here has heard of my new EP, This Summer?" A strong roar signaled most had. "I'm hoping you can help me out." She says she caught the writing bug while on tour supporting Shawn Mendes last summer and the EP tells stories of the feelings and experiences she had on the road. "Ready" was the first single released from this fresh EP and has a Jason Mraz vibe to the verses surrounding the "Until you're ready for, ready for, ready for, ready for me" chorus.
Cara moved over to the right-side bedroom to sing her song about knowing things will get better, but "Not Today". She laid on the bed, as teenage girls will tend to do when they are feeling sad, and progressed to the foot of the bed. Then she slowly walked through her necessary pity party she needed before moving on. Simulated rain drops were cleverly displayed in the windows of the set, complete with dramatic splashes, to emphasize the emotions in play.
The young singer was ready to move on as she sang and impressive cover of the Nina Simone standard, "Feeling Good". Of course she put her own flair on the song using her own unique, soulful voice with supporting blues guitar, and then asked the crowd, "Are you feeling good?" A glittery gold guitar was now brought out for Cara as she transitioned back to one of her own songs, "Comfortable". The song is about worrying about what a relationship will be like after getting past the initial exciting newness. She concludes the comfortable stage is better than she thought it would be. Her lead guitarist joined Cara at the front of the stage for an impressive solo during the song before the bass guitarist joined them to form an instrumental trio in front of their drummer.
The guitar-phase of the show would continue with a different electric guitar brought out for Cara to play on "Girl Next Door". During the song the house lights were turned on to display fans singing, dancing, and just enjoying themselves. After targeting a guitar pick for a young fan near the stage, Cara asked, "Did you get it? No?" "Sorry, I'm the worst pick thrower ever. But I dropped one earlier. Here it is." Progressing now to an acoustic guitar, Cara asked the crowd, "Who knows the deep cuts off The Pains of Growing?" With her three supporting musicians relaxing on the couch, Cara told the crowd, "It's just you and I." Singing that likeable deep track, "Wherever I Live", Cara then asked, "Who knows this part: "Ah, ah, ah, ah"?" With the crowd catching on, they were coaxed to sing the "ah ah's" one more time, even louder. Cara surmised, "Not bad." "That was your first test, but I know you can be louder. You said you know the album. This is another deep cut. I recorded it in my basement. It has a rawness that I don't think I could recreate if I re-recorded it in a studio. It is about being in a vulnerable stage fearing you would leave." As Cara came to the chorus, she asked her fans, "What's next?" They answered, "Hey you," as the chorus begins. The three musicians shifted over to the foot of the bed to take in the rest of Cara's acoustic solo portion of the set before returning to duty.
"This is one of my favorite songs from the new EP (This Summer), "October." It's a song about the sad feeling of summer ending, and specifically the tour ending with Shawn Mendes. The song's video was displayed upon the walls of the apartment set, showing behind the scenes footage from the tour as she sang, "I'm going to miss it when it's over." Next was the catchiest song from This Summer, "Rooting For You", which also featured the cheerleader-dressed Cara in the background video.
Cara sang her serious questioning "7 Days" to a starry backdrop before playing the light-hearted "Nintendo Game" to a backdrop of block-graphic Nintendo scenes. It compares relationships to a "Nintendo game that nobody wins."
"Today is a special show because it's someone special's birthday," Cara told us. "It's my road/tour manager who's been with me from the start. So before we sing anything else we need to sing "Happy Birthday" to this special man." He was brought on stage and presented a small lit cake and balloons as he was hugged by Cara and others, including Craig Stickland, as he left the stage.
"I have another question for you Prior Lake. Who is a fan of Disney?" "I was lucky enough to be asked to sing this song for the end of the movie Moana. I feel like wherever I go, everybody knows this song." Fans were asked to sing along to the movie ballad "How Far I'll Go" and then critiqued by Cara. "That was super-cool. You were quite loud. Usually I stop to rate you, but I have nothing to teach you. We are going to keep it slow. Who here has been heartbroken? Who here is heartbroken right now?" Sadly, the majority raised their hands to the first question and a significant number raised their hands to the second. "This is a reminder that there are plenty of people in the same boat even when it seems like you are the only sad one. Just remember it's temporary. Breathe out and let the negative energy go. This is called "Out of Love"." All of the emotions poured out of the young singer as her guitarist sat at the upright piano to accompany her. Wow! That was amazing.
The peppy "What's on Your Mind?" headed back upward in the show's rollercoaster of emotions and the fun "Okay Okay" reached the peak. It also marked five songs played tonight from that short-order collection of six summer songs.
Concluding the show with two of her most successful hits, Cara told us, "This is one of the first songs I put out and it changed my life. I've heard from so many people what this song means to them and it helps inspire me after hearing what you have overcome. That sounds cheesy, but I'm an emotional person. I made this when I was 17 in someone's basement. I never thought anyone else would hear it. It's about loving all parts of yourself. In this modern world it's difficult to do that. I'm 23 now. Still super-young, but older than I've ever been. As I get older, I realize how short life is and how fast it goes by…. I want to leave you with one thing. Be nicer to yourself." Of course this was "Scars to Your Beautiful", as Cara appeared to be at her confident best as she sang her powerful song.
There was one final hit to play tonight, "Stay", and the crowd continued to sing and jump along with Cara as she delighted fans by jumping on her bed before making a point to reach out and touch as many young fans hands as she walked the full edge of the stage. The show ended as it began, with Cara once again seated on the couch, singing the reprise of "Growing Pains". Tonight, Alessia Cara took us along on her ride of life. We experienced both the lows and the highs she encountered growing into the impressive young lady she is today. Great job Alessia! I was most impressed.
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La Estación Carlos Prates es una estación de la Línea 1 del Metro de Belo Horizonte. Se localiza entre los barrios Carlos Prates y Barro Preto

Véase también
 Metro de Belo Horizonte
 Línea 1 del Metro de Belo Horizonte
 Anexo:Lista de estaciones del Metro de Belo Horizonte

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Expertise - Controls Systems, Product Development, Career Management, Engineering Education, Artificial Intelligence, Project Management, 25+ yrs industry, 17 patents.
Aug 2017 - Kicking off CPE program!
Jan 2017 - Dr. Ho accepted position to be department chair of the newly created Computer Engineering deaprtment (CpE). He will be joined by Dr. Grosch, Dr. Fallon, Prof. Tippens, Prof. Frinzi, and admin Alberta Cook. Exciting times ahead!
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For example, with layby, you don't get your goods immediately. When paying cash upfront, you have to think twice about whether you really need something. With Afterpay, those drawbacks are not present. Hello, retro disco roller skates.
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Afterpay is a relatively new interest-free payment provider. It enables consumers to purchase goods, receive their goods instantly, and pay off their purchase in four fortnightly instalments. There are no sign-up fees, and there are no interest charges for using Afterpay.
As soon as a consumer makes a purchase using Afterpay, they have entered into a contract with Afterpay. This contract is separate to their relationship with the retailer from whom they bought their goods. The retailer receives full payment instantly from Afterpay. It is a win for the retailer, who doesn't have to worry about a consumer defaulting on a payment.
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A failed instalment incurs a $10 fee, and if that payment fails the next week, a further $7 fee is charged.
Further, while the payment terms with Afterpay are 56 days, there is a high chance that consumers are using their credit card with Afterpay. Credit cards usually only have a 51 or 55-day interest-free period. Therefore, consumers can still be charged interest if they use Afterpay.
Consumers have certain rights under the Australian Consumer Law if the goods they purchase do not meet the consumer guarantees. For example, that the goods are not of acceptable quality, or they do not match the description in the advertising. In these circumstances, consumers may ask for a refund.
If a consumer requests a refund within 120 days of purchase and they have used Afterpay to purchase their goods, they will need to return the goods to the retailer. The retailer must then notify Afterpay of the refund and return full payment to Afterpay. Afterpay will then issue a refund to the customer. If a consumer is returning a purchase 120 days or more after the purchase date, then they deal directly with the retailer.
Retailers should be mindful of this when considering maintaining the relationship they have with their customers. Given there is a third party involved, retailers should do everything they can to make their refund process quick and easy.
If a consumer accrues a debt to Afterpay, Afterpay reserves its right to refer the debt to debt collectors.
If a consumer has a dispute with Afterpay, their terms provide that they will aim to resolve the complaint within 45 business days. Given this is 'business days', that means it could take over two months to (maybe) resolve. The process could, of course, take even longer.
Although not a traditional form of credit, using Afterpay can still affect your credit rating. This is one of the more serious risks of Afterpay. Afterpay's terms specify that they reserve the right to conduct a credit history check. If a consumer fails to make repayments, they may be reported to a credit reporting agency such as Veda.
Afterpay is not a type of credit contract that is regulated by the National Credit Code (NCC). This is because there is no interest and it is short-term credit provided across less than 62 days. Instead, Afterpay charges retailers who wish to use their service a 'service fee'.
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This may not seem like a huge problem due to the fact that the Afterpay limit on linked debit cards is $500 and $1,000 for credit cards. However, a large portion of Afterpay's revenue is from collecting late payment fees (last reported at 17% of its revenue, around $1.2 million). Therefore, arguably, Afterpay should be subjected to the same regulations as other consumer credit providers. This is especially the case given they are targeting a young demographic that may not have the income to meet repayments. For these consumers, the risks of Afterpay are higher.
If a consumer experiences financial hardship and they owe money to Afterpay, they should contact Afterpay immediately and notify them of their circumstances. This will help ensure that the issue is addressed early, avoid mounting late fees, and the risk of being reported to a credit reporting agency.
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Paul McLoughlin
Saudi women break world record for breast cancer awareness
Tamtam's song was written about a family member's battle with breast cancer [Tamtam]
Date of publication: 13 December, 2015
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Ten thousand Saudi women packed a Riyadh stadium on Saturday to highlight the deadly impact of breast cancer, as well as celebrate the steady progress of women in the country.
Saudi Arabia, breast cancer, Guinness World Record, Tamtam, Tamtam music, gender, Saudi women, 10ksa, Saudi elections
While Saudi women went out to vote for the first time in local elections on Saturday, a stadium in the capital also hosted an event that marked another milestone for women in the kingdom.
Ten thousand women packed a football stadium in Riyadh - usually out-of-bounds on matchdays - and formed the world's largest 'human awareness ribbon'.
The Guinness world record event was organised and executed by women. It was another modest but significant achievement for women amid ongoing struggles between conservatives and progressives.
Symbolising the pink ribbon worn by women to spread awareness about the disease - and the leading form of cancer among women in Saudi Arabia - the 10KSA-organised event could help to save lives in the country.
Breast cancer, while not taboo, is also little discussed in Saudi Arabia. A lack of awareness of how to detect the disease and seek treatment has led to many uncecessary deaths.
Saudi Arabia has one of the highest mortality rates from preventitive diseases in the world. Breast cancer like many others can be more easily treated if detected early.
But the event organised by Princess Reema bint Bandar al-Saud was also a chance to shine a light on wider issues affecting women in Saudi Arabia.
"We have put a spotlight on other incredible women led businesses and groups in the region," the entrepreneur told online magazine, Elan.
"We need to promote and uplift one another. There is a lot of emerging talent in KSA."
— tamtam (@tamtam_sound) December 12, 2015" style="color:#fff;" class="twitter-post-link" target="_blank">Twitter Post
10,000 women forming a ribbon for breast cancer in Saudi! 💕 my song in the background 🙏🏼 @Join10KSA @HuffingtonPost pic.twitter.com/tvnuKJuqmy
— tamtam (@tamtam_sound) December 12, 2015
One person the organisers promoted through the event was the talented Saudi pop alternative artists Tamtam, who is now based in the US.
Her song We've Got Wings was chosen as the official anthem for the event and it was inspired by a personal experience with the disease.
"My aunt is a breast cancer survivor, and surviving this disease made her so strong and so positive about the world," Tamtam told al-Araby al-Jadeed.
"I thought about my aunt when I wrote We've got Wings, and I thought about women all over the world who might be affected by the disease."
Tamtam said that she was happy to back the 10KSA event because of its efforts to encourage women to gain more awareness about their health. She also wanted to give hope to those already suffering from the disease.
"I wanted the song to carry the struggle of someone battling breast cancer, but more importantly, I wanted it to have a message of hope that outweighs this struggle."
Organisers said a key aim was to encourage women to take the lead in promoting healthy living - at home and in their communities, where sedentary lifestyles are often the norm.
The event was sponsored by Prince al-Waleed bin-Talal's foundation - which received a $32 billion injection this year from the Saudi entrepreneur's personal fortune - and aims at empowering women, development and community-building in the region.
With help such as this, Saudi women make remarkable achievements in business and education in the face of conservative societal pressures and legal restrictions.
Saturday's voting and the breast cancer awareness event were small but symbolic markers of this.
"[The event] is a huge accomplishment along with women being able to vote in municipal elections. Saudi women are ready to show the world how independent they can be," said Tamtam.
"I feel happy and proud of all of the women who voted and all of the women who stood up together for breast cancer. These accomplishments are the first of many positive changes to come for Saudi Arabia."
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