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Game Freak: 'We're trying to create something more than Pokémon'
Masayuki Onoue discusses the developer's original games initiative
8th Jul 2019 / 10:03 am
Pokémon developer Game Freak is increasingly prioritising original game creation as part of its Gear Project initiative.
So far Gear Project has resulted in four original games from the Japanese studio; HarmoKnight, Pocket Card Jockey, Tembo the Badass Elephant and GIGA WRECKER, all of which released after 2012. The developer is also working on Town, a Nintendo Switch RPG due out in 2019.
Programmer and director Masayuki Onoue told VGC earlier this year that by taking breaks from its flagship Pokémon series, Game Freak's creators can return to the franchise "refreshed" and transfer their new experience to the famous series.
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Onoue has worked as a programmer on mainline Pokémon games since Black and White, but recently directed his first game, GIGA WRECKER for PC. You can see the full transcript of our interview with Onoue below.
What is it like to work for such an influential developer?
I joined Game Freak straight from college in 2010. One of my goals was to work on a game that would get played by as many users as possible, so in that sense I feel very lucky to be at the creator of Pokémon.
Before I joined Game Freak I was already aware of the company's Gear Project and it was a hope of mine that I would someday be able to create something new through that. My goal was eventually achieved with Giga Wrecker. All of what's happened up until this point, with me able to sit in this interview with you, is thanks to Game Freak and I'm very lucky.
Do you agree that 2019 looks like it could be one of the biggest in Game Freak's history with all the titles its planning to release?
2019 will be very exciting, especially following the Pikachu Let's Go titles which allowed us to start looking seriously at Nintendo Switch as a platform. That was a very important milestone for us before moving on to the next step.
However, with the Gear Project we were always targeting PS4, Xbox One and PC as well, but our project relied on game engines such as Unity. Looking at that, I feel as a programmer that we need to really grow as a production team in order to target future platforms.
"2019 will be very exciting, especially following the Pikachu Let's Go titles which allowed us to start looking seriously at Nintendo Switch as a platform."
Game Freak is best known for Pokémon of course, but is your hope that it can one day be known for more than that with the Gear Project?
Exactly. There are two different production teams here, simply named Production Team 1 and Production Team 2. Team 1 is fully dedicated to Gear Project, while Team 2 is for the Pokémon operation. What that means is that Game Freak is a company is prioritising Gear Project, which is production team number one, more than Pokémon in general.
We are always trying to create something that is equally exciting, or more exciting than Pokémon.
Can the experience Team 1 gains working on different genres and platforms benefit Team 2?
There is a lot of back-and-forth between Team 1 and Team 2. One of the interesting things is that Team 2, which is dedicated to Pokémon, only knows about specific platforms. So with Team 2, engineers can learn about other platforms that he might not have touched before. So by mixing up the teams we are able to create this interesting synergy.
Town is an RPG due for Nintendo Switch in 2019
So it seems the experience gained via Gear Project is able to benefit the company as a whole?
Yes, I totally agree. Gear Project is supporting the technical strength of Game Freak. Separately, we have an R&D group that directly supports the technical aspects of Game Freak, which also helps.
You've personally worked on both Pokémon and new IPs at Game Freak. As a creator, do you feel like it helps you to be able to take a break from Pokémon and perhaps return reinvigorated?
Yes, it was a totally refreshing experience when I moved from Pokémon to Giga Wrecker. It's like a paradigm shift.
On Pokémon, of course I contribute to the project, but it's not like I'm looking at the whole picture of the project. However with Giga Wrecker, as a director I'm constantly supervising the whole picture and need to be aware of what's going on. So yes, it was a very interesting and refreshing experience for me.
"With Giga Wrecker, as a director I'm constantly supervising the whole picture and need to be aware of what's going on. So yes, it was a very interesting and refreshing experience for me."
When you're a programmer working on Pokémon, you're one of many programmers. However, as a director on Giga Wrecker the experience opened my eyes to the other aspects of game creation, all the way up to users playing the game. It's really difficult to expect a programmer to have that kind of perspective, but as director I learned how to make a game more appealing and accessible to players, plus aspects of marketing as well.
Gear Project has helped me become more creative. I've now seen the whole process of creation all the way to marketing and selling the game to players. I can now bring that knowhow back to the Pokémon team and try to create something different for Pokémon. So it's a good synergy between Gear Project and Pokémon creation.
Game Freak seems to be putting out more titles than ever before, with three this year alone. How have you managed to become so efficient?
In terms of the number of titles we are releasing this year, it's happened coincidentally. It's not like we're trying to put everything together in 2019 – it just happened.
R&D is a newly founded division which is creating the basic library, which used to be created every single time we made a project. That helps the efficiency of our production for sure. Also we are looking at what's going on in the future, from a technical perspective, and that's something else that we've never had before. I think that R&D division will certainly contribute to the future of Game Freak.
Can you tell us what you're working on right now?
I'm taking care of multiple projects. I'm working on Giga Wrecker now and working on another project as well. It's stimulating, yet challenging as well.
Nintendo Switch is performing incredibly well, especially here in Japan. What do you think makes it so popular as a platform?
I think the unique nature of the hardware has inspired creators to come up with something different. That's why Switch has a very unique library of games that appeal to a wide range of users.
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The first year of the decade is always exciting and we look forward to what the new year will bring. This year there is a plethora of fresh electronic music from everywhere. The sound that is available has improved, as well as styles and formats. Here are some facts about what is on the menu for this coming decade's top EDM artists to look for.
2020 will be the first year that Kodeezy is not playing live. This is a real bummer because Kodeezy is one of the most reliable dance music DJs out there. He has been going on tour with many other great DJs. It would have been a shame to miss such an incredible run by one of the best.
This is my favorite kind of DJ, and his set is the perfect mix of modern electronic music. He knows how to mix it up and have fun. One of the things that stands out about him is that he really keeps his sets simple and straightforward. He keeps it down to some basic musical elements that drive the whole dance music experience.
This guy is another one of those "old school" Dance Music DJs. He knows how to get the crowd excited and keep it going. He is not afraid to go heavy or light. Most people think he is a boring old timer, but when he is spinning records and pushing the envelope on his sets, people are thankful for this man.
Above all the music I am going to mention this week, this man has made a huge name for himself with his label, Deep Medi. He has brought back some great labels like Health Records to prominence. Above all this, he has made a name for himself as one of the most versatile and talented producers in the electronic music scene. I have been listening to his music for years, and the productions are still phenomenal.
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This guy has made himself into a true star. People are constantly coming back to see him and shake his hand. He loves to entertain, and that passion for the music is clear in the way he performs and the crowd interaction. It's always a good time for him. His set at Ultra Music Festival in London was jaw dropping. People were buzzing him from head to toe, and I was right there with them.
It is time for you to start listening to some new music. You can do so by listening to some of the music above. These are some of my personal favorite artists and producers. What do you think?
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Megan Callahan Will Head up Lyft's Health Care Efforts
After a months-long search, Lyft has hired a leader for its growing health care business, which helps patients get rides to non-emergency medical appointments. The company is set to announce it's hired Megan Callahan, formerly the chief strategy officer for Change Healthcare, a company that merged with McKesson in 2017, as its health lead.
The hire comes as Lyft is looking to ramp up revenues ahead of a possible IPO 2019. The company's chief business officer David Baga told CNBC by phone that health represents a "sizable chunk" of Lyft Business, which is set to achieve a annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion by the end of the year. Lyft told CNBC that the number of health care rides tripled from the third quarter of 2017 to the same period a year later.
Lyft's primary competitor, Uber, also views health as a growth opportunity. Both companies have built out dedicated teams in health, and have formulated a strategy to work with stakeholders in the industry to help patients who need help to get to the doctor's office on time.
Non-emergency medical transportation is attractive for both ride-sharing companies because insurers, including some Medicaid and Medicare plans, will often cover the cost of the ride for patients. There's a huge incentive for health plans to make transportation easier, as studies have found that a lack of transportation is a key reason why patients avoid the doctor's office.
Lyft's focus is to forge partnerships in health care with traditional players, including health systems, medical transportation brokers and health IT companies. For instance, in March it signed an exclusive deal with medical record technology provider Allscripts to make it easier for doctors to book Lyft rides for their patients.
To that end, Baga, the chief business officer, told CNBC it needed to hire an operator from the industry to maintain and build on these relationships.
"We wanted someone for the job who lives and breathes health care," he explained. "But we also wanted someone who could understand the key challenges, and be willing to break from the status quo."
Callahan told CNBC she joined Lyft because of the opportunity to improve access to health care services, particularly for low-income or elderly users.
She also said that Lyft's deep knowledge about health stood out relative to other technology players.
"I was gobsmacked by the level of understanding on HIPAA and PHI," she said, referring to the complex web of federal privacy rules and regulations that govern how health data is stored and shared. "They (Lyft) had clearly taken the time to understand the industry."
Lyft is also moving into other areas, including working with pharmaceutical companies to people get to clinical trial sites and arranging rides for physical therapists to treat patients in their homes.
Experts say that's the tip of the iceberg for Lyft and other new transportation entrants.
"There's home care, there's delivery of goods and supplies — it becomes a market in the tens of billions of dollars if you're looking at logistics opportunities in health care," said John Brownstein, co-founder of a company in the space called Circulation Health that partners with Lyft. Circulation was recently acquired by one of the largest brokers in the space, Logisticare.
Callahan didn't rule out any of these sorts of opportunities, but said her near-term goal was to look for more ways to increase rides and reduce missed appointments.
Athenahealth sold to Veritas Capital for $5.7 billion
Athenahealth has agreed to be acquired by a Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital affiliate for $5.7 billion, the companies announced Monday morning.
Athenahealth will continue to be its own brand, but Veritas and Evergreen will merge it with Virence Health, the analytics and software firm formerly known as the Value-Based Care Solutions Group, which GE Healthcare acquired earlier in 2018.
Virence Chairman and CEO Bob Segert will lead the newly combined company.
"Combining with Virence will create new opportunities for collaboration and growth," Athenahealth Executive Chairman Jeff Immelt said in a statement.
Athenahealth has been facing takeover attempts since at least 2017, when Elliott Management first tried to buy the company. Elliott Management supports the Veritas-Evergreen acquisition. The transaction "represents an outstanding, value-maximizing outcome for Athenahealth shareholders," Elliott partner Jesse Cohn said in a statement.
Athenahealth will hold an earnings call later Monday. In a third-quarter earnings report released Friday, the company reported it booked less business compared to the same period of 2017. Revenue for the quarter was $329.5 million, according to the company's new accounting standards, and $331.4 million according to the old standards, up 9% over the year-before quarter.
Athenahealth's stock was up nearly 10%, to $131.97 a share at the end of trading Monday.
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Democrats secured the House majority Tuesday night for the first time in nearly a decade with a projected majority of as many as 35 seats. The victory promises a new era of checks on the Trump administration's healthcare regulatory agenda as well as a possible odd-couple alliance with the White House against Big Pharma.
The GOP held the Senate as expected, gaining on its slim margin with at least two pickups in Indiana and North Dakota. This tightly calibrated Congress likely won't push any major healthcare legislation. And Obamacare will remain in place—albeit tweaked at the state level and through administration policies so the law increasingly looks like a mix of competing Democratic and GOP visions.
Analysts don't expect any big-picture legislation as the sprint to the 2020 presidential election begins. In the especially polarized politics of healthcare, each party bends with their voters, said Robert Blendon, a Harvard University professor of health policy and political analysis. While healthcare polls as a top issue with the majority of voters, priorities shift fast depending on which party is surveyed.
"If I were (saying this) in the mid-1990s, I would say the issues top of mind for all voters would determine what the new House would actually do," Blendon said. Pundits called this midterm cycle a base election: healthcare in the 116th Congress will depend on finding the give in the gridlock over a divisive topic.
Democrats have framed drug pricing as a rare policy area where they can work with the president—the common enemy there is Big Pharma.
Still, following an election that swept them to power as a referendum on Trump, some Beltway insiders doubt Democrats will bend much. Pharma's panic level will depend on how well this relationship can work, and that's not only up to Democrats: it's up to the White House and Trump's top lieutenants as well.
In her victory speech Tuesday night, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)—expected to stay on as speaker of the House given the party's success—said Democrats would pass legislation for direct Medicare negotiation with drug companies. This was a core part of Trump's own campaign platform. But HHS Secretary Alex Azar has pushed back on such a policy.
Key lawmakers poised to step into influential committee positions have criticized the Trump administration's drug pricing strategy for not going far enough. These include Cummings on oversight; Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas who may get the House Ways and Means health subcommittee gavel; and Vermont's Rep. Peter Welch, who sits on the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. As a counterpoint, however, Pharma ally Rep. Anna Eshoo, a Democrat who represents a biotech-dominated district in California, is next in line for the Energy and Commerce health subcommittee gavel.
Criticisms notwithstanding, Azar stunned industry and experts last month with a proposal to tie U.S. drug prices to their lower-cost counterparts abroad. Some industry analysts viewed that as leverage to get Big Pharma to the negotiating table despite that being the boldest move of any administration yet, even as House Democrats said it needed to be bolder.
"Instead of nibbling around the edges, (Trump) should demand in his State of the Union speech that Congress send to his desk within 30 days a broad price negotiation bill that applies to all drugs in the Medicare program," Welch said in a release after Trump unveiled the policy proposal.
Smaller measures targeted at cost could pass bipartisan muster.
This year the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has focused its hearings on cutting healthcare costs. A bipartisan group of senators has pushed variations of a bill to curb outsize balance bills from hospitals.
As health insurance co-pays and deductibles rise and provider networks narrow, price woes will stay top of mind even as the ACA becomes more entrenched in insurers' business models. Nearly 75% of individual market plans restrict their provider networks, according to the consulting group Avalere—a steep rise from 2014. Nearly 90% of people in exchange plans hold the IRS definition of a high-deductible plan of more than $1,300.
So as 2020 approaches, voters' focus may stray from the Obamacare coverage arguments while remaining keenly focused on their wallets—as Pelosi and Senate Republicans seem to be aware.
One longtime House Democrat said she for one wants to see more compromise on the many healthcare issues "that really aren't partisan."
"Everybody's up again in two years and that includes a number of key Republicans in the Senate," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). "In terms of bipartisanship I look rather fondly back to the Bush administration when we actually got things passed and done. And in part that's because the definition of the job included the word compromise—it wasn't a dirty word back then."
It remains to be seen what levels of compromise a base election can yield.


We welcomed spring here weeks ago and now summer and its sunny hot days have arrived. For the most, it was a wet spring with a lot of rain. Of course all those showers left the flower beds with a lot of weeds. We needed to replace a lot of shrubs in containers so we've had plenty of work outside to catch up with. The roses were plentiful but didn't last long with all the rain. Today I want to share photos of my flowers and a few spring vignettes. I changed up the mantle in the family room and I found a really special piece of Quimper for the hutch. Join me for a quick tour.
Hydrangeas in a French pail for the antique kitchen table.
Succulents in a quirky container.
Love the bark on the crepe myrtles.
I have baby rabbits with big white cotton tails living in the beds. They sure scratch and leave pine straw all over the walkways. This little stone rabbit sits among the flowers year round and never makes a mess.
While visiting my sister in Atlanta a few weeks ago I found this piece of Quimper marked with a low price. Upon closer inspection I found a crack running down the side. The front and back are flawless, missing a lid I think but I decided it would be a great addition to my collection for displaying on the hutch. I love the way it looks nestled between my collection of copper containers.
Back outside I need to repaint the iron bench and the pillow covers are faded. Love the pattern so I may try to dye some color back into them.
Spring and you will find ducks and rabbits in my kitchen. A few vignettes I enjoyed making.
I found these mini urns and just fell in love with them. I changed them out replacing the little cherub pots I've used here far to long.
Keeping the candleholders I add two pots found at Anthropologie. I added the fern balls and I have an easy look for summer.
I wanted to try a new recipe. Oven roasted brussels sprout and cauliflower. They are simply delicious. Simply wash and pat dry.
Bake on a baking sheet at 350 degrees for about twenty minutes or until tender. I love to drizzle a little freshly squeezed lemon juice over my veggies. Served with smoked chicken breast, an easy and healthy dinner.
We have made a few weekend getaways and been so busy doing spring cleaning and yard work. I am clearing out and cleaning closets and now I'm beginning a new project. Come back later and see what I'm up to, I can't believe I'm doing this! So tell me please, what are you doing to get ready for summer?
Emily your yard and gardens look beautiful as well as all the pretty vignettes inside! Great post!!
Emily, your garden is full of color and beauty. I can visualize myself sitting out with you enjoying a cup of tea. Oh, how I wish we could actually do that.
Your new Q piece was a wonderful find. Love it when something like that finds a collector.
beautiful garden, very, very nice !!!
Your photos are always such a treat! Your gardens are just beautiful, and I love the roses crawling along the fence top. Our neighbor has those which we get share to some degree on the fence along one side of our house. We liked them so much we planted some on our pergola. They finally bloomed this year. Do they come back and bloom again this year - I can't remember. I think your bench is spectacular, too.
The Quimper piece is beautiful and looks so familiar. Your garden is lovely: I love brick patios.
So much here but I had to hurry to the end to sing the praises of your photo of the Lamb and the Cross. I simply adore that image (pun totally intended). Happy day to you.
I love your roses tumbling over the fence. So romantic and dreamy looking! It's hot summer-time here already for sure! Getting ready to hibernate inside for a few months.
hi Emily! So nice to see you back! Your rose arbor with the chandy and your table for deux is my favorite! Love your new Quimper piece too, it looks like it was made for your setting! Yes, we definitely had rain all spring, my back yard is a jungle! Sorry about your messy bunnies, we have squirrels that dig up absolutely everything! Love all your spring vignettes and your new "old" stone urns. Have a great holiday weekend and don't work too hard!
I don't know where to begin, the yard is awesome, your finds are amazing, and the roasted veggies, divine! Great post,welcome back!
Just beautiful - I love the chandelier over the chippy table set for 2 - so charming !!!
The garden photos are wonderful! What a gorgeous spot!
Oh, Emily -- every time I am here I feelas though I'm transported to a magic land where everythnig is beautiful. The flowers are colorful and fragrant, their vessels are perfect, the settings more glorious than I can imagine. All that plus a wonderful piece for your French Hutch -- it simply could not be better! Thanks for a happy visit today!
Wow - so many awesome pics - both interesting and inspirational.
Your roses are stunning. Love your bistro set, what a great spot for a cup of tea or glass of wine!
Your photos are gorgeous. Love all of your flowers!
Your climbing roses look like something out of a fairy tale, and the sweet table with the chandy is the icing on the cake! You've been busy it seems. There's always lots to do when one has a garden it seems.
I was so thrilled to see your post update in my inbox this morning. Woo-hoo! I'm always so inspired by you, friend.
Where do I begin here, so much beauty, and ALL THAT COLOR is melting my heart. The roses, those gorgeous blue shrubbery pots, and your latest Quimper find. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE. Can't wait to see your new project.
I love the Quimper, the copper pot, the planters, and the roses -- actually, everything!
I really like it all but I am especially taken with the bistro set and the chandelier suspended above. How romantic! I always enjoy visiting.
Emily, your garden is just gorgeous! Love the beautiful roses and flowering trees. The new piece of Quimper is perfect even with it's flaws. Been wanting to cook up some brussel sprouts. I'll have to give it a try. Love your spring vignettes! Thanks for sharing with SYC.


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The Square of Pegasus
The accuracy to which today's surveyors locate a point on the surface of the globe, and the speed with which precise measurements are obtained, would have been inconceivable to our antepasados as little as a generation or two ago. Moreover, global positioning can now be made by a technician skilled in the mechanics of operating the equipment, without much knowledge of the underlying geometry. Astronomers and mathematicians have at long last succeeded to impart the surveyor their knowledge in spheroidal geometry, even if only by locking some of it into a computer chip from which it can be retrieved by a push of a button. This is not to say that surveyors are ignorant, only that it took the better part of four millennia to reach that point; and therein lies a story.
If you look at the stars on a clear evening in late September you will notice a little south of the zenith a large square, formed by four stars of second magnitude. They constitute a part of the constellation of Pegasus and the large, almost empty square is known as the "Square of Pegasus". Markab (Alpha Pegasi) and Algenib, the two stars that form its base, are both located on the fifteenth parallel north of the celestial equator, while Scheat and Alpheratz, the top of the square, are almost on the thirtieth. Actually, Alpheratz (Alpha Andromedae) is already in the neighboring constellation of Andromeda, but that doesn't matter. An unmistakable object of striking beauty, the ancient astronomers of Mesopotamia saw in it the pointing fingers of the gods and used it as a starting point for mapping the sky.
The Babylonian surveyors too got the message, but they surveyed on the sunbaked floodplains of the rivers and not in the sky. Being godfearing yet practical men, they put that great "winged horse" onto the ground, and in the process turned it into the jackass is has remained to this day. Ignorant of geodesy, they started any land survey by marking a square of standard dimension, from which their survey was expanded in a checkerboard fashion. This original square the Sumerians called iku, a name that was derived from the name of the Square of Pegasus; it can be found in many a cuneiform text designating a unit of area. Their squares did not extend over a large enough area, nor were they accurate enough to let them suspect that there might be something wrong somewhere.
Geometry now had its practical foundation. The square was inscribed by a circle; centerlines and diagonals were added, and it was discovered that basic mathematical shapes could thereby be surveyed long before they could be computed. These basic shapes of square, circle and polygons turned into sacred symbols. – Noticing how the surveyors had succeeded in flattening a curved surface, the mathematicians labored for untold centuries trying to square the circle, (turning a circle into a square of equal area) oblivious to the fact that it cannot be done, but sustained by the hope that somebody would find an end to the myriad decimals of pi.
Surveyors of the ancient world measured by feet and cubits, the cubit being 1½ foot and consisting of six hands of four fingers each. The emerging sciences of mathematics and geometry were even at that time mastered only by a few, very few, of the top brains of the respective civilizations. Computing the area of an irregular tract of land without dividing it into squares would have been beyond the capability of even the best of land surveyors. However there was no need, for they worked closely with kings and priests, and the gods themselves had given them that beautiful Square of Pegasus.
Ever able to find practical solutions to perplexing problems, the surveyor would double the area of a given unit square of 100, by increasing its sides to 140, assuming that 140 squared is twice 100 squared. Sticklers for accuracy used 99 for the length of their unit square. In order to half the area of that standard square, a square of 70 units was laid out, again assuming that 4,900 was sufficiently close to 5,000 to keep the landowner happy. This lucky discovery led to the creation of septenary units of measurement and contributed to the fascination with the number seven.
The average land surveyor of Greece surveyed by the square and had never heard of Thales and Pythagoras, even if he called himself geometros. The Hebrews continued the tradition. The author of the Book of Revelation described how an angel took him in his dreams to the top of a mountain overlooking Jerusalem. "The angel who spoke with me carried a gold measuring-rod, to measure the city, its wall, and its gates. The city was build as a square …" [Rev. 21:15]. Come on now, John, you would not expect the holy City of David to have been surveyed any other way?
Not that the leading mathematicians throughout history did not try to educate the struggling surveyor. Starting with the ancient Greeks there was no shortage of learned treatises on the mathematics and geometry involved in geodetic land surveying, about which the English-American surveyor John Love as late as 1688 lamented: "I cannot find in those Books many things of great consequence to be understood by the Surveyor," upon which observation he promptly wrote his own book "Geodaesia, or the Art of Surveying and Measuring Land Made Easie." He did not say if anybody read it.
More than a century before John Love, an English part-time mathematician and full-time physician to Queen Mary by the name of Robert Recorde (1510-1558) introduced the English surveyors to algebra, which the Arabs had taken up from their Mesopotamian ancestors and perfected. He wrote a number of books, including in 1551 "Pathewaie to Knowledge", in which he published an abridgement of Euclid's "Elements of Geometry". Knowing how surveyors were operating, he warned them of the damage that could be done with all that knowledge:
"Survayers have cause to make muche of me.
And so have all Lordes that landes do possesse:
But Tennauntes I feare will like me the lesse.
Yet do I not wrong, but measure all truly,
And yelde the full right to everye man justely.
Proportion Geometricall hath no man opprest,
Yf anye bee wronged, I wish it redrest."
He need not have worried, John Love testified to that.
Two generations after Recorde his countryman and fellow astronomer Edmund Gunter (1581-1626) introduced surveyors to the cosine and cotangent in his "Canon triangolorum". This learned tome was lost on most of them, but he had more luck when he provided them with his 66-foot chain. His squares, ten of which would make an acre, were a lot easier to deal with than worrying about the fact that the world is round.
That was of course by no means the end of it. The basic philosophy behind the congressional township and its subdivision can be found in the Square of Pegasus. A look at many subdivision of sections of the public land surveys, made as late as the recent past, will disclose greater affinity with that sacred Square than with the rules of subdivision established by the General Land Office. Observing many a tape and compass carrying land surveyor, the gods of Sumer would feel right at home, and recognize the concept as well as the methodology.
In the 1930s, officials in what was then the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (today NOAA) thought, that it might be a good idea to make the positions of the brass tablets established on the North American datum of 1927, obtained at great cost by transcontinental triangulation, and laboriously computed on Clarke's spheroid of 1866, available to the average land surveyor. In order to come up with something "to be understood by the surveyor" the agency established plane-rectangular coordinate systems for each State in the Union. Published in the familiar light blue brochures it was hoped to induce surveyors to tie their
surveys to the national geodetic grid. It could be that someone in the agency thought like Samuel Johnson, who supposedly said on the eve of his second marriage: "Perhaps hope will triumph over experience". It didn't.
Now that we have gotten squared away (pun intented) with that wonderful GPS equipment, it is only fair to be kind to our antepasados and their four-thousand-year-old profession. They surveyed fair and square. "Judge not, that ye not be judged," sayeth the Lord.


i occasionally browse through facebook and i am struck by the number of acquaintances or friends or family members who are remembering a loved one, this group of people unknown maybe to each other but bonded invisibly by a mutual intense emotion. my heart responds to their pain, their determination to keep going, their day-by-day stepping back into the world. it's indeed a "crazy maze" that they are navigating, that i have navigated as well, that we each navigate at some point in time.
although moving on to a different life presents other extraordinary challenges to live through, losing someone to dying often leaves so many unspoken words, so much un-lived living-together. "i hear you whisper, hear you cry, hear you call my name at night, over many miles and many distant skies. i hear you whisper, hear you cry, hear you call my name at night, and i believe it's not goodbye." like many of you, i, too, have listened intently to the universe, to the night, waiting to hear, believing that just-on-the-other-side is a whisper, on the wind, wafting its way to me.
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it would be 75 today. 75 years since the day my sweet momma and poppo married. and so, i am sharing two videos here today – the first is a dedication and the other is my song YOU'RE THE WIND. because i know you are. the wind. to each other and to each of us here on earth who miss and love you. always.
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Do star athletes who want to play for the NBA really need college? What LaMelo Ball got right – and wrong – about why they don't
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NBA star LaMelo Ball stirred controversy recently with comments that school doesn't hold much value for superstar athletes. Kevin Mazur
John Holden, Oklahoma State University
In a recent interview published in GQ, NBA star LaMelo Ball downplayed the importance of college for athletes who aspire to play professional basketball. When asked about his decision to forgo college and play professional basketball overseas before entering the NBA draft, Ball said: "You wanna go to the league, so school's not your priority."
The then-19-year-old Ball, now 20, quickly clarified his quotes in GQ via Instagram, stating that he was only referencing his own situation and that while school is "not for everybody," it is for many people.
LaMelo Ball's GQ interview is only the most recent point in a long-standing debate over the necessity of college for superstar athletes. Here are four points to help put Ball's comments into sharper perspective.
The NBA has a minimum-age rule
The NBA implemented its most recent iteration of a minimum-age rule as part of the 2005 collective bargaining agreement. The rule stated that starting in 2006, "U.S. players must be at least one year removed from high school and 19 years of age (by the end of that calendar year) before entering the draft."
The impetus for the rule change was to improve the quality of play in the league, the belief being that players who had a year removed from high school – time most often spent in college – would have improved skills.
The introduction of the NBA age rule was a surprising solution to something that did not seem to be a significant problem. As law professors Michael McCann and Joseph S. Rosen wrote in 2006, "The new NBA age eligibility rule has generated widespread skepticism and bewilderment, as NBA players who matriculated straight from high school comprise a small, self-selected, and remarkably successful group." The professors further observed that the main economic beneficiaries of the rule were colleges and universities. The reason is that they would now get one year to have a superstar on their team.
Other options exist for star athletes
The introduction of the NBA's minimum-age rule created the so-called one-and-done college basketball star. The one-and-done player is a star player who attends college for one year before entering the NBA draft. Star high school players have created recruiting frenzies with colleges competing to attract the players.
Yet some players have chosen alternative routes to the NBA.
Among the high school players who seemed destined for the NBA, Brandon Jennings was the first to decide to spend his year waiting to turn 19 years old somewhere other than college. In 2008, Jennings signed with the Italian professional team Lottomatica Roma, playing one year before the Milwaukee Bucks selected him as the 10th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft. Jennings' move overseas was followed by such high school stars as Emmanuel Mudiay, who became a millionaire when he opted in 2014 to sign with Guangdong Southern Tigers of the China Basketball Association. Those moves overseas were followed by those of others, such as LaMelo Ball, who opted to play professionally in Lithuania instead of finishing high school and going to college.
In 2020 the NBA launched G League Ignite, a minor league team that allows players to go professional in the United States without a year in college. The Ignite team played its first season in 2020-2021.
A growing number of players have been opting into the opportunity to play professionally in the NBA's G League minor league instead of going to college. With salaries as high as $500,000, the money exceeds the value of any college scholarship. This is, of course, not taking into account major changes that allow college athletes to monetize their name, image and likeness.
Endorsement deals are game changers for student-athletes
Since college athletes can now seek endorsement deals, some players may choose college instead of playing professionally overseas or going to the G League Ignite.
As a result of state laws that grant athletes greater autonomy over their rights to profit from their name, image and likeness – and the NCAA's adoption of an interim policy that serves as the default in states without such laws – athletes in college have the ability to earn substantial amounts of money.
Bryce Young, No. 9 of the Alabama Crimson Tide, has signed endorsement deals reportedly worth close to a total of $1 million. Alika Jenner
One study in 2020 estimated that some college stars, such as the University of North Carolina's Cole Anthony, now with the Orlando Magic, could have seen their images become worth more than $450,000 per year while still in school.
Skipping college comes with risks, but so does not going pro
The risks of not going to college, at least immediately, are likely primarily related to the skills that colleges are known for building.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has cited maturity as a key reason for the age rule. The commissioner again cited maturity and skill when the league wanted to adjust the age rule to require players to reach the age of 20 to enter the draft. However, that proposal did not succeed.
In the history of professional sports there are dozens of stories of athletes who made millions of dollars only to lose it all through bad financial decisions or trusting the wrong people. The story is so common that ESPN devoted an episode of its "30 for 30" documentary films to the issue.
While college does not provide a guarantee that athletes will make wise financial or personal choices, the college experience gives athletes an additional year to mature. And, in the case of star players, it's a year of experience being in an intense spotlight.
While many athletes benefit from the college experience, LaMelo Ball is almost certainly right when he says that college is not for everyone. The opportunity to earn life-changing money is presented to so few athletes. Therefore, it is not reasonable to expect those who are athletically gifted enough to go professional to stay amateur and risk injuries that could change or end their career. After all, contracts for tens of millions of dollars create opportunities to go to school well after their NBA career is over.
John Holden, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Oklahoma State University
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Q: Remote Linux Installation i will try to install a Linux-System to a remote System where i dont have a Monitor or Keyboard. I can access the machine with ssh. I found following Document that describe a serial connection via null-modem-cable: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/intro-why.html
Has anybody do like this? Any Suggestions?
Regards Rene

A: Its possible, but there is a very real risk that you could end up with a trashed system.
You certainly want to plan on doing at least one practice run on a machine where you do have access to the console.
Its a good idea to get the serial console set up first and check you can control the bootloader using it. NB you'll still need something at the other end of the serial cable which you can connect to (might be a computer accessible via SSH, or a modem set to auto-answer).
Of course you'll need to know whether the IP address/name is hard-coded or obtained via DHCP, location of nameservers etc. Assuming its using grub as the boot loader - do read the grub documentation carefully and grab a copy of the curent grub.conf and menu.lst - you'll later need to merge this into the new setup before you reboot the system to ensure that you can get back to a known working version.
Do not attempt to install the new OS on top of the existing one! You should install it on a seperate partition. It's probably OK to use common partitions for /var, /tmp and /home but nothing else. That implies that you may have to resize the current filesystems.
HTH

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Applicable for some prostate, abdominal, lung, head and neck and brain tumors.
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Delivers radiation slowly, over a few days, and is often performed as an outpatient procedure
Prostate seed implants are a common example of LDR; prostate seed implants are radioactive implants that treat prostate cancer with fewer side effects such as urinary incontinence and impotence.
Including treatments for malignancies of prostate, gynecologic, esophageal, bronchial and skin.
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Involves temporarily inserting the source of radiation directly at or very near a tumor site
Limits amount of healthy tissue exposed to radiation and radiates the site of the cancer
MammoSite, one example of HDR, is a revolutionary method used to treat patients with early stage breast cancer by delivering radiation directly to the site of a breast tumor following a lumpectomy
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Treatment is delivered during short periods in which the patient holds his or her breath
Particularly useful in treatment of breast, thoracic or abdominal tumors
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Treatment usually occurs 1-4 weeks after a lumpectomy
Involves placing a catheter or implant device in chest cavity (where tumor was removed), which remains in place during the course of treatment (usually between 8-10 days)
During treatment, a radioactive (iridium) "seed" is inserted into the lumpectomy cavity to kill any remaining breast cancer cells after surgery
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Ensures radiation is delivered only when the tumor is in exactly the right place
Allows for treating smaller volumes to high doses, while also minimizing unnecessary exposure to normal, surrounding tissues
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Transducer arrays are strategically placed based on each patient's MRI to maximize the effect of treatment on the tumor
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At CES in Las Vegas, Kasey Feller, the Brand Manager for Lander introduces their new line of tech gear that is inspired by equipment designed for the great outdoors. They bring that sensibility and focus on function and durability to cables, iPhone cases, battery packs and backpacks to start. Kasey discusses their design team and what makes distinguishes their products.


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The Fort King Tennis Center (FKTC) is a City of Ocala municipal facility. The facility boasts 12 lighted clay courts and two lighted hard courts. FKTC offers year-round Adult and Junior Tennis Clinics and private lessons for any level of play.
FKTC is open from 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m. weekdays and offers family, single and student memberships. There is also an hourly court time for those who do not choose a yearly permit. Call 352-629-8453 to reserve a court.
Annual five month and student permits are offered and the fee is due the first of the month in which the initial permit is issued. Any holder of expired permits will be required to pay the hourly court rate until the permit has been renewed. Contact FKTC for more information!
Public Tennis Courts at the following Ocala Parks are available on a first come, first serve basis.


For years, Alkire Road has worked with central Ohio congregations of the Lord's church to put together and staff a booth at the Ohio State Fair every summer. The booth is an excellent means to reach people, and many people are signed up every year to participate in a Bible Correspondence Course. Tracts are available for people to take and information about local churches and their worship times is available as well. The people who staff the booth are also well trained to be able to properly present what it is we believe and to answer whatever questions visitors to the booth may direct at them. This year's fair will take place from July 26th until August 6th. For more information about this year's fair please visit the Ohio State Fair website.


To all of my faithful readers who have stuck it out, have come by blogglingbrooks everyday in hopes of finding what they were looking for. Just to leave disappointed that the content left a little something to be desired. I know it has been far too long. But fear not devoted followers, for at last I bring you more of what you crave. What you come here anticipating - another story regarding the bowel habits of one of my very own beloved children. Yes, it is true. The fading of hope for all posts that are poop ends right here, tonight. And it is all in thanks to a little boy named Hoss. (Who will probably smother me in my sleep one day when he gets a hold of such revealing stories told throughout his life by me.) Monday's snippet , with photos of Hoss doing... what Hoss was doing (go read it if you're so curious) was just a teaser. This is a whole post devoted to nothing but poop.
I am at a loss of understanding for how this little man's bowels work. In the past I have mentioned the baby's problems with constipation. We had taken him to the doctor about the problem when he was around 4 to 6 months old. The doctor gave us a prescription strength laxative. It worked for a few days and then the problem returned. Without going into too much detail he would not go poop for several days and then when he would go it was a HUGE stool and he would scream and cry as he finally passed it (many times with help from us) and often it caused some tearing. Maybe some of you are thinking that that WAS too much detail. Maybe some of you need to lighten up and become more comfortable discussing your bathroom habits with others. As comfortable as say, maybe, my own family. Maybe some of you think that my family is a little too comfortable in this department. Maybe some of you are right.
What do you think we did next? That's right we discussed it with the doctor… again. He told us to give it a couple of more weeks. If we did not see improvement the next step would be a pediatric gastroenterologist. (Man poop related words are hard to spell) Who would, most likely, do a biopsy of the bowel. Our doctor was starting to think it might be a nerve problem that would require surgery. Hoss was 11 months old at the time. This did not sound appealing to me. I'm guessing he would not have been crazy about it either.
N decided to call his Aunt who is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in California. (Maybe it is just medical terms in general that are hard to spell, hmm, interesting) We rely heavily on Aunt Judy, as she knows practically EVERYTHING. When she heard how much of the medicine we were giving Hoss she told us that was an adult dose. She said what probably happened is that something backed him up. I'm guessing it was starting him on solid foods. So we started giving him laxatives to fix the problem. But we were giving him such a large dose (which, by the way, was the amount the doc had told us to give him) that it caused severe diarrhea. This weakened his bowel muscles, which made it not function properly. Made sense to me. She gave us an alternative recommendation for administering the medicine. It started working practically over night. We did this for two months to strengthen that muscle back up. He has been pooping along like any other normal kid. A normal bowel every 1 to 2 days as recommended for toddlers everywhere. Well Monday was the true test. Had the medicine worked? Could we start backing off slowly like Aunt Judy suggested? Or would I have a 14 month old toddling, drooling, laxative addict? I know it is my job as a mother to screw him up, but I mean really! Come on! I can think of so many other areas in which I am doing that. Why add poop inducing medicine addict to the list?
Monday came and went with no poop. Tuesday, a record 2 dirty diapers. Today, 3 dirty diapers. What? Tell me please how cutting his dosage in half has caused him to poop more. Only one of my family members I tell you, only one of my family members.
It takes a couple days for it to get into his system. Jonathan was on this stuff too. What an adventure!
Haha. Too funny (not poor Hoss's poopy problems, just the post in general). I think, once you become a parent, it becomes normal conversation. I have to stop myself from talking about this stuff in front of non-parents. I'm always getting weird looks.


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SensorMed wins latest VEF "After Hours" competition
on March 21 st, 2013 by Tom Ballard
SensorMed, one of three presenting companies, won the latest "Golden Hockey Stick Award" at last night's Tech 20/20 Venture Exchange Forum "After Hours."
The hockey stick is one of the most common symbols of success in a start-up. When a new company has reached a critical inflection point, revenue takes off, and this growth is reflected in the long handle of the hockey stick.
About 40 people attended the latest "After Hours" event that was co-sponsored by Pershing Yoakley & Associates (PYA) and held at Cherokee Mills. PYA is also the sponsor of teknovation.biz.
SensorMed is located in the University of Tennessee Business Incubator and has been profiled on teknovation.biz at https://www.teknovation.biz/2012/11/29/doody-describes-sensormed-safety-company/. In his presentation, Chris Doody, the company's President and Chief Executive Officer, reiterated that SensorMed is a laparoscopic safety company with two product lines. It uses radio frequency bioimpedance instrument guidance to alert surgeons when a laparoscopic device penetrates the peritoneal space.
The other presenting companies were another medical device start-up and an applications development firm.
Chad Seaver, one of three founders of Arkis, described his company's focus on addressing the "antiquated" manner in which hydrocephalus disease is treated. Nearly 80,000 people, more than one-half of whom are children, have procedures performed annually to treat the disease. Seaver told us the company was founded about two years ago. His partners include a local neurosurgeon and a patent agent.
Kyle McClain, Chief Operating Officer of ROAR, told the attendees about his firm that has developed 500 aps in the last year with more than 180,000 active users. The start-up has been focused mostly on non-profits and churches, but plans to expand into other verticals. Its services include access to an "App Maker Platform" as well as customized apps, mobile website development, and social media assistance.
NBIC focused on less flashy start-ups
Inaugural Tri-Cities "Small Business Festival" includes 32 workshops over three days
Gigamunch making good progress, looking for seed capital
GUEST COLUMN: Knoxville native Alex Lavidge discusses impetus for latest endeavor
It's not too late to sign-up for TVBA's "Business Plan Competition"
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Delaney is one of nearly 35,000 people living with HIV in North Carolina, with roughly 1,400 new cases per year, according to a state report from 2016. Three decades ago, an HIV diagnosis was akin to a death sentence. Now, it's a manageable chronic disease.
David Currin, a nurse clinician in UNC's Division of Infectious Diseases, said treatment has come a long way since the AIDS epidemic broke out in the 1980s. Now, one pill per day helps most patients reach undetectable viral levels, meaning they don't show signs of the disease and can't transmit it with consistent treatment.
Yet fears and naivete about the disease persist. Because better treatment has quieted the conversation around HIV, fewer people take precautions and fewer yet understand life after diagnosis. It's created a stigma around the disease, Delaney says, because people are afraid to be educated about it.
Delaney, now a post-baccalaureate student in the UNC nursing school, has embraced his status nearly eight years after diagnosis. But it wasn't easy. He'd always been one to care for others, to shield the pain from those who couldn't handle it.
But this pain was his alone to endure, and he couldn't hide it – even from himself.
When the doctors delivered his diagnosis, Delaney broke down.
It was March 15, 2010, just two years after his graduation from UNC. It felt like his life was just beginning. Then came his new reality, and he wondered if his life could ever be the same.
He had been seeing somebody in the years after college, and he "ventured out" during an off-period before rekindling with his partner, who suggested the two get tested. So Delaney went to the Student Health Action Coalition (SHAC) in Carrboro and took a rapid antibody test, a preliminary measure for HIV testing.
It came back positive, as did an RNA test a few days later. He couldn't hide any longer. He started bawling.
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1989 Polish legislative election
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All 460 seats in the Sejm
62.7% (First round)
25% (Second round)
Majority party
Wojciech Jaruzelski Lech Wałęsa Roman Malinowski
PZPR Solidarity ZSL
Leader since
18 October 1981 1988 1981
255 seats Outlawed 117 seats
Seats won
Seat change
72 New 41
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Tadeusz Witold Młyńczak Zenon Komender Kazimierz Morawski
SD PAX UChS
39 seats, 8.5% — —
12 New New
Results by constituency
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland in 1989 to elect members of the Sejm and the recreated Senate. The first round took place on 4 June, immediately after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in China, with a second round on 18 June. They were the first free elections in the country since 1928, and the first since the communist Polish United Workers Party abandoned its monopoly of power in April 1989.
Not all parliamentary seats were contested, but the resounding victory of the Solidarity opposition in the freely contested races paved the way to the end of communist rule in Poland. Solidarity won all of the freely contested seats in the Sejm, and all but one seat in the entirely freely contested Senate. In the aftermath of the elections, Poland became the first country of the Eastern Bloc in which democratically elected representatives gained real power.[1] Although the elections were not entirely democratic, they led to the formation of a government led by Tadeusz Mazowiecki and a peaceful transition to democracy in Poland and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe.[2][3][4]
2.1 Sejm
2.2 Senate
In May and August 1988 massive waves of workers' strikes broke out in the Polish People's Republic. The strikes, as well as street demonstrations, continued throughout spring and summer, ending in early September 1988. These actions shook the communist regime of the country to such an extent that it decided to begin talking about recognising Solidarity (Polish: Solidarność), an "unofficial" labor union that subsequently grew into a political movement.[5] As a result, later that year, the regime decided to negotiate with the opposition,[6] which opened the way for the 1989 Round Table Agreement. The second, much bigger wave of strikes (August 1988) surprised both the government and top leaders of Solidarity, who were not expecting actions of such intensity. These strikes were mostly organized by local activists, who had no idea that their leaders from Warsaw had already started secret negotiations with the communists.[7]
An agreement was reached by the communist Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) and the Solidarity movement during the Round Table negotiations. The final agreement was signed on 4 April 1989, ending communist rule in Poland. As a result, real political power was vested in a newly created bicameral legislature (the Sejm, with the recreated Senate), whilst the office of president was re-established (T. Solidarity became a legitimate and legal political party: On 7 April 1989 the existing parliament changed the election law and changed the constitution (through the April Novelization), and on 17 April, the Supreme Court of Poland registered Solidarity.[8][9] Soon after the agreement was signed, Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa travelled to Rome to be received by the Polish Pope John Paul II.[9]
Perhaps the most important decision reached during the Round Table talks was to allow for partially free elections to be held in Poland.[10] (A fully free election was promised "in four years").[9] All seats in the newly recreated Senate of Poland were to be elected democratically, as were 161 seats (35 percent of the total) in Sejm.[10] The remaining 65% of the seats in the Sejm were reserved for the PZPR and its satellite parties (United People's Party (ZSL), Alliance of Democrats (SD), and communist-aligned Catholic parties).[10] In addition, all 35 seats elected via the country-wide list were reserved for the PZPR's candidates provided they gained a certain quota of support.[9] This was to ensure that the most notable leaders of the PZPR were elected.
The outcome of the election was largely unpredictable, and pre-electoral opinion polls were inconclusive.[11] After all, Poland had not had a truly fair election since the 1920s, so there was little precedent to go by.[9] The last contested elections were those of 1947, in the midst of communist-orchestrated violent oppression and electoral fraud.[10] This time, there would be open and relatively fair competition for many seats, both between communist and Solidarity candidates, and, in some cases, between various communist candidates.[10] Although censorship was still in force, the opposition was allowed to campaign much more freely than before, thanks to a new newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, and the reactivation of Tygodnik Solidarność.[8] Solidarity was also given access to televised media, being allocated 23% of electoral time on Polish Television.[12] There were also no restrictions on financial support.[10] Although the Communists were clearly unpopular, there were no hard numbers as to how low support for them would actually fall. A rather flawed survey carried out in April, days after the Round Table Agreement was signed, suggested that over 60% of the surveyed wanted Solidarity to cooperate with the government.[11] Another survey a week later, regarding the Senate elections, showed that 48% of the surveyed supported the opposition, 14% supported the communist government, and 38% were undecided.[11] In such a situation, both sides faced another unfamiliar aspect - the electoral campaign.[11] The communists knew they were guaranteed 65% of the seats, and expected a difficult but winnable contest; in fact they were concerned about a possibility of "winning too much" - they desired some opposition, which would serve to legitimize their government both internally and internationally.[11] The communist government still had control over most major media outlets and employed sports and television celebrities as candidates, as well as successful local personalities and businesspeople.[12] Some members of the opposition were worried that such tactics would gain enough votes from the less educated segment of the population to give the communists the legitimacy that they craved. Only a few days before June 4, the party Central Committee was discussing the possible reaction of the Western world should Solidarity not win a single seat. At the same time, the Solidarity leaders were trying to prepare some set of rules for the non-party MPs in a communist-dominated parliament, as it was expected that the party would not win more than 20 seats. Solidarity was also complaining that the way electoral districts were drawn was not favourable towards it.[10]
Results[edit]
"High Noon, June 4, 1989."
Solidarity Citizens' Committee election poster by Tomasz Sarnecki.
The outcome was a major surprise to both the PZPR and Solidarity.[13] Solidarity's electoral campaign was much more successful than expected.[14] It won a landslide victory, winning all but one of the 100 seats in the Senate, and all of the contested seats in the Sejm; the sole seat in the Senate which was not won by Solidarity was won by an independent candidate.[15] Out of 35 seats in the country-wide list in which Solidarity was not allowed to compete, only one was gained by PZPR candidate (Adam Zieliński) and one by a ZSL satellite party candidate in the first round; none of the others attained the required 50% majority.[9] The communists regained some seats during the second round, but the first round was highly humiliating to them,[16] the psychological impact of it has been called "shattering".[9] Norman Davies estimated that the elections showed that real support for the communists in Poland was between 3 and 4%,[9] however, according to the results of the election, government-supported candidates competing against Solidarity members gained 10 to 40% of votes in total, varying by constituency.[17] Altogether, out of 161 seats eligible, Solidarity took 160.[15] The single Solidarity candidate not to be elected attributed his failure to missing an opportunity to take an electoral photo with Wałęsa, something all the other Solidarity candidates were able to do.[9]
While Solidarity having secured the 35% of seats available to it, the remaining 65% was divided between the PZPR and its satellite parties (37.6% to PZPR, 16.5% to ZSL, 5.8% to SD, with 4% distributed between small communist-aligned Catholic parties, PAX and UChS).[10] The distribution of seats among the PZPR and its allies was known beforehand.[10]
Voter turnout was surprisingly low: only 62.7% in the first round and 25% in the second.[15]
Sejm[edit]
Votes for Solidarity by constituency
Votes for government coalition by constituency
Polish United Workers' Party 173
Solidarity Citizens' Committee 161
United People's Party 76
Democratic Party 27
PAX Association 10
Christian-Social Union 8
Polish Catholic-Social Association 5
Source: Sanford[16]
Senate[edit]
Solidarity Citizens' Committee 99
Aftermath[edit]
The magnitude of the Communist coalition's defeat was so great that there were initially fears that either the PZPR or the Kremlin would annul the results. However, PZPR general secretary Wojciech Jaruzelski allowed the results to stand.[18] He and his colleagues felt secure with the 65% of the votes it was guaranteed for itself and its traditional allies.[15] On July 19, the Sejm elected Jaruzelski as president by only one vote. In turn, he nominated General Czesław Kiszczak for prime minister; they intended for Solidarity to be given a few token positions for appearances.[15] However, this was undone when Solidarity's leaders convinced the PZPR's longtime satellite parties, the ZSL and SD (some of whose members already owed a debt to Solidarity for endorsing them during the second round)[16] to switch sides and support a Solidarity-led coalition government.[15] The PZPR, which had 37.6% of the seats, suddenly found itself in a minority. Abandoned by Moscow, Kiszczak resigned on August 14. With no choice but to appoint a Solidarity member as prime minister, on August 24 Jaruzelski appointed Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki as head of a Solidarity-led coalition, ushering a brief period described as "Your president, our prime minister".[1][9][15][16]
The elected parliament was known as the Contract Sejm,[15] from the "contract" between the Solidarity and the communist government which made it possible in the first place.
Although the elections were not entirely democratic, they paved the way for the creation of Mazowiecki's cabinet and a peaceful transition to democracy, which was confirmed after the presidential election of 1990 (in which Lech Wałęsa replaced Jaruzelski as president) and the parliamentary elections of 1991.
On the international level, this election is seen as one of the major milestones in the fall of communism ("Autumn of Nations") in Central and Eastern Europe.[1][2][3][4]
However, Solidarity did not stay in power long, and quickly fractured, resulting in it being replaced by other parties. In this context, the 1989 elections are often seen as the vote against communism, rather than for Solidarity.[19]
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^ a b c Ronald J. Hill (1 July 1992). Beyond Stalinism: Communist political evolution. Psychology Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-7146-3463-0. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ a b Geoffrey Pridham (1994). Democratization in Eastern Europe: domestic and international perspectives. Psychology Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-415-11063-1. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ a b Olav Njølstad (2004). The last decade of the Cold War: from conflict escalation to conflict transformation. Psychology Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-7146-8539-7. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ a b Atsuko Ichijō; Willfried Spohn (2005). Entangled identities: nations and Europe. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-7546-4372-2. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ Andy Zebrowski Turning the tables?
^ Pushing back the curtain. BBC News, Poland 1984 - 1988
^ Andrzej Grajewski, Second August
^ a b ‹See Tfd›(in Polish) Wojciech Roszkowski: Najnowsza historia Polski 1980–2002. Warszawa: Świat Książki, 2003, ISBN 83-7391-086-7 p.102
^ a b c d e f g h i j Norman Davies (May 2005). God's Playground: 1795 to the present. Columbia University Press. pp. 503–504. ISBN 978-0-231-12819-3. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ a b c d e f g h i Marjorie Castle (28 November 2005). Triggering Communism's Collapse: Perceptions and Power in Poland's Transition. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 146–148. ISBN 978-0-7425-2515-3. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ a b c d e Marjorie Castle (28 November 2005). Triggering Communism's Collapse: Perceptions and Power in Poland's Transition. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 154–115. ISBN 978-0-7425-2515-3. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ a b Marjorie Castle (28 November 2005). Triggering Communism's Collapse: Perceptions and Power in Poland's Transition. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 168–169. ISBN 978-0-7425-2515-3. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ Samuel P. Huntington (1991). The third wave: democratization in the late twentieth century. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-8061-2516-9. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ Marjorie Castle (28 November 2005). Triggering Communism's Collapse: Perceptions and Power in Poland's Transition. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-7425-2515-3. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ a b c d e f g h Piotr Wróbel, Rebuilding Democracy in Poland, 1989-2004, in M. B. B. Biskupski; James S. Pula; Piotr J. Wrobel (25 May 2010). The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy. Ohio University Press. pp. 273–275. ISBN 978-0-8214-1892-5. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ a b c d e George Sanford (2002). Democratic government in Poland: constitutional politics since 1989. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-333-77475-5. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^ Polish National Electoral Commission report on the results of 4 June 1989 legislative election, published on 8 June 1989, Retrieved 23 September 2015
^ Sarotte, Mary Elise. The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall. New York City: Basic Books. p. 23. ISBN 9780465064946.
^ Arista Maria Cirtautas (1997). The Polish solidarity movement: revolution, democracy and natural rights. Psychology Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-415-16940-0. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
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