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Investing > What is a Reverse Stock Split?
This guide shows you how reverse stock splits can benefit companies — and their stock price.
Is a Reverse stock split good or bad for investors? It depends, but you are in the right place to find out.
A reverse stock split is a kind of corporate action in which existing stock shares are combined together to form fewer more proportionally valuable shares. Reverse stock splits reduce the total number of outstanding shares and raise the value of each individual share. They are the opposite of stock splits.
All publicly traded companies have a set number of shares held by investors. Individuals and organizations buy and sell these shares on the market. All this information is available to the public on numerous lists of publicly traded companies.
Depending on the company's health and the broader financial landscape, corporate actors may elect to change the capital structure of their organization. Stock splits and reverse stock splits are two kinds of said actions. 🎬
Reverse Stock Split
Reverse Stock Split in a Company
Effects of a Reverse Split
Reverse Stock Split and Investments
Case Study: Priceline
Can You Profit from a Reverse Split?
Reverse Stock Split Explained 📚
In a reverse stock split, the total number of outstanding shares is merged to form a lesser number of more proportionally valuable shares. By decreasing the total amount of shares, reverse stock splits increase the value of each individual share.
The total dollar amount of shares remains the same because no real value was added. Reverse stock splits are also sometimes called stock consolidations, stock mergers, or share rollbacks. It is important to differentiate the statistics regarding mergers and acquisitions worldwide are often used interchangeably, even though they represent different methods of company consolidation processes
Reverse stock split allows traders to merge outstanding shares in order to form valuable shares proportionally.
In reverse stock splits, the total share number is divided by some number to get the new total share volume. Most of the time, this number is 5 or 10. In a 5-to-1 reverse stock split, each group of 5 shares would be consolidated into a single more proportionally valuable share.
Say an investor has 1,000 shares valued at 5$ each for a total of $5,000. If the company does a 5-to-1 reverse stock split, that investor would now have 200 shares valued at $25 each.
If the company did a 10-to-1 reverse stock split, then that investor would have 100 shares priced at $50 each. In each case, the total value of the shares remains the same, but the raw number of shares decreases. Either way, there is still only $5,000 worth of shares.
💡 FYI: Generally, in cases when a person does not own enough shares to consolidate them into a single share, they will receive a cash payout. So if a person only has 5 shares and the company does a 10-to-1 reverse split, they will just be paid out the value of those 5 stocks.
Reverse Stock Split vs. Stock Split ⚔
A reverse stock split is the polar opposite of a stock split. In a stock split, the total number of outstanding shares increases so there are more proportionally less valuable shares. Stock splits increase the total number of shares in circulation but the total dollar value of shares remains the same as each individual share is worth proportionally less.
The most common kinds of stock splits are a 2-to-1 and a 3-1 stock split. In a 2-1 split, the total number of shares doubles while the value of each share decreases by half. In a 3-1 stock split, the total number of stock triples but the individual share value decreases by a third.
Say a company currently has 20 million outstanding shares valued at $2 each. The company then performs a 2-to-1 stock split.
There would then be 40 million outstanding shares valued at 1$ each. The total number of shares increases but the value of each individual share decreases.
If you want a more "scientific" sounding description of how reverse stock splits and stock splits work, we can say that the value of each individual share is inversely proportional to the total number of outstanding shares.
Given that the total stock value is kept constant, the more shares there are, the less valuable each share is. Consequently, the fewer shares there are, the more valuable each individual share is.
Why Would a Company Do a Reverse Stock Split? 🤔
Reverse stock splits might sound strange at first. Most investors like the idea of stock splits as they are usually a signal that a company is growing. Most stock splits occur because the share price of an individual stock is too high, compared to competitor companies.
By creating more shares of less proportional value, shares become more liquid so more people can invest. In that sense, stock splits are usually taken as a positive and a sign of positive investor sentiment.
In order to make shares liquid, companies can create more shares of less proportional value.
In contrast, reverse stock splits are usually taken as a negative sign. Reverse splits are most often performed when a company's share price has decreased and they need to boost their image.
If a stock falls below $1 per share, it may get delisted from exchanges that have minimum share price rules. Companies might perform a reverse split to inflate share prices and avoid the negative connotation associated with low-value "penny stocks.'
Sometimes, companies will perform reverse splits concurrently with stock splits. Such reverse/forward stock splits are normally done to cash out investors who own less than a certain amount of shares. This practice is believed to cut administrative costs by reducing the number of shareholders that need administrative support.
100-to-1 Reverse Stock Split 👨🏫
So for instance, a company may perform a 100-to-1 reverse stock split to cash out investors that hold fewer than 100 shares. The company can then perform a 100-to-1 stock split which will return the original number of shares to investors that weren't cashed out.
The total number of shareholders is decreased as those who were cashed out initially do not get their shares back.
Lastly, companies may perform a reverse split to receive a different corporate classification. For example, a Subchapter C (normal) corporation might perform a reverse split to reduce the total number of shareholders and be granted Subchapter S classification, which is reserved for corporations with fewer than 100 shareholders.
Subchapter S corporations have the benefits of incorporation but are taxed like partnerships, so it can be beneficial for companies to change classification sometimes.
Effects of a Reverse Split 📉
In and of itself, a reverse split has no effect on a company's total market capitalization. The total dollar value of the company's shares remains exactly the same, the number of shares just decreases. In an ideally rational market, a reverse stock split would not have much effect.
However, the actual market is by no means rational and emotions often drive price changes and buying behaviour. Stock splits have a generally negative connotation. These negative connotations or reverse stock splits have a compounding effect.
Stock splits are not considered to be positive.
If a company performs a reverse split so that its shares do not get delisted, investors may take that as a sign that the share price has decreased because the company is in a bad state. The negative investor sentiment can build up and decrease buying behaviour for that security.
So even if there is actually nothing wrong with a company and it's doing well, a reverse split can cause a spiralling chain of share-price decreases.
Alternatively, reverse stock splits can be a good signal for smaller companies that boosting stock price so it rises out of penny-stock territory. These kinds of reverse stock splits attract the attention of investors as it signals a company is growing enough to be traded on regular markets.
How Does a Reverse Stock Split Affect My Investments? 📙
As with pretty much everything in the stock market, it depends on the context of the specific split and broader market forces.
A reverse stock split by itself will not affect your investments as the total share value you own would still be the same (assuming you aren't cashed out during the split). However, the negative sentiment associated with reverse stock splits might cause share prices to drop a bit.
It is also important to take the size of the company into question. Large established companies might perform a reverse split to make their share prices on equal footing with competitors to attract new investors.
Some companies, such as E-Trade, have benefited greatly from stock splits as the new share prices made them more competitive among larger investors. It seems that most firms that perform reverse stock splits and manage to prosper are larger, more established businesses.
So if you own stock in a company that is performing a reverse split, don't get too hasty and immediately sell. You need to contextualize the reverse split upon recent price movements and fundamental metrics.
Good and Bad Scenarios of Reverse Stock Split ☯
If, for example, a smaller company you are invested in is performing a reverse split after a period of strong growth and profits, then it could be a good sign as that company is large enough to be traded on reputable exchanges.
Alternatively, if a smaller company is slightly struggling and announces a reverse stock split, that could signal bad news. In that case, our advice is to cut your losses. But if a larger, well-run firm you are invested in announces a reverse split, stick around and do some more research before making a decision.
Case Study: Priceline 🌟
Sometimes, a reverse split can give a company enough time to rebound and recover from a bad performing quarter. A commonly cited example of a successful reverse split was Priceline, a popular online travel agency that's now known as Booking Holdings. In late 2000 following the tech bubble burst, Priceline's share price had decreased from over $100 a share to just over $1 a share.
Normally, such signs are the death knell of a company, but in 2003, Priceline performed a 1-to-6 reverse split that changed the share price to $22. Then-CEO Jeffery Boyd stated in a press release that the reverse split was meant to enhance investor interest by making their share prices more equal to those of competitor companies.
Booking Holdings had managed to save itself with a 1-to-6 reverse split that lead to a 6,000% growth over the years. Image by TradingView.
Priceline's share price now hovers around $1,400 a share, representing an astounding 6,000% share growth since 2003. These gains were not all achieved quickly though.
Despite an initial 2-year spike in growth following the split, Priceline was hit hard by the 2008 recession. But the company's resilience saw major growth in the past 7 years after they have muscled their way into the international travel industry.
The point of this case study is to show that reverse stock splits can sometimes be very beneficial, despite the negative connotations. Reverse stock splits can be a way for a company to hang on just long enough to make a big turnaround, and investors that are patient and wait out the bad times can be heavily rewarded.
Can You Profit from a Reverse Split? 💰
Yes, individual investors can profit from reverse splits by short-selling. Short selling is a form of speculation that is based on betting that the value of a specific security will decrease.
Short selling involves borrowing shares of stock one does not own from a stock broker and selling those shares at the current market price. The general idea is to rebuy these shares at a lower price and return the borrowed shares to the lender, thus generating a profit.
Short sellers are betting that the price of a security will decrease so they can make more money when they buy it back and return them to the borrower.
Short-selling is one viable method to profit from a reverse stock split as someone could borrow and sell stock, wait for the share price to decrease, then rebuy the stock and return it to the lender while pocketing the profit.
🧠 Keep in mind: Short-selling is an advanced investing technique that is extremely risky. If you make a misjudgment and share prices actually increase after you sell the borrowed shares, you could lose a lot of money.
It can be very difficult to correctly predict future price movement and find an optimal time to buy. If you do make the right call though, short selling can generate extremely high short-term returns.
A reverse stock split does not necessarily signal something bad, though it is generally associated with negative investor sentiment. If a company you are invested in announces an upcoming reverse split, then depending on the company, it could be a good or bad signal for your investments.
Some companies manage to pull off reverse splits and recover just fine while other companies falter. The key thing to remember is that a reverse stock split announcement must be analyzed in conjunction with the fundamental metrics of a company.
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Home Money, Politics and Power 2017: A Year of Reaction and Resistance
2017: A Year of Reaction and Resistance
Can progressives build on that in 2018?
by Peter Dreier
Albin Lohr-Jones/Sipa via AP Images
2017 began with President Trump lying about the size of his inauguration crowd and ended with his lying about the size of the benefits he'll get from the new tax bill. The year began with the largest protest marches in American history—the five million strong Women's Marches on January 21—and ended with an upsurge of pent-up anger and activism around sexual assault toward women. It was a year punctuated by an upsurge in hate crimes and a controversial march of neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, but also an unprecedented wave of Democratic victories in the Virginia state legislature as well as a commanding win by the Democrats' candidate for governor. It began with liberals traumatized by the results of the presidential election and ended with a surprising Democratic Senate victory in Alabama, galvanized by a dramatic increase in African American voter turnout, offering hope that the party can win a majority of seats in the House, and perhaps even the Senate, in 2018.
No year in recent memory has so tested the fabric of American democracy. President Trump, a megalomaniac with clear neo-fascist inclinations, has violated every norm of decency and has demonstrated an unparalleled disregard for the rule of law and the protocols of diplomacy. Although many of his Republican colleagues in Congress find Trump personally repugnant, they have been complicit in supporting his right-wing policy agenda of eliminating regulations on business, cutting taxes for the super-rich and big corporations, destroying labor unions, slashing the social safety net, and scapegoating immigrants, Muslims, and people of color.
That Trump has been a dysfunctional and incompetent president, however, has limited his ability to inflict pain and harm in the U.S. and around the world. Even though his own Republican Party controls both houses of Congress, during his first year in office Trump was unable to get Congress to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act, adopt an infrastructure plan, build a wall on the Mexican border, or defund Planned Parenthood. Trump had only one significant legislative accomplishment—a regressive and unpopular tax plan drafted by Wall Street and engineered by House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The policy will do severe damage to the economy and hurt the most vulnerable Americans, but it is also likely to galvanize voters in 2018 to oppose the Republicans who voted for it.
Over the past decade, efforts like Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Dreamers immigrant rights movement, the battles against the Keystone pipeline and for marriage equality, and the Fight for $15 (minimum wage) campaign have generated a new wave of activism. But nothing has inspired more protest than Trump's election.
"Lots of us woke up the morning after the election wondering whether we understood the country as well as we thought we did," said Gara LaMarche, president of the Democracy Alliance, a network of wealthy liberals who support progressive candidates and organizations. "We spent some time trying to absorb it."
But it didn't take long for people to recover from the shock. Indeed, Trump's biggest accomplishment so far has been to galvanize a growing "resistance" movement. It began on January 21, the day after his inauguration, when five million people—the largest one-day protest in American history—participated in women's marches and rallies in over 600 cities. This was followed by coordinated nationwide protests around climate change, science, immigrant rights, and Trump's refusal to release his tax returns. Many of the people marching in the streets had never been to a protest before. Many then became active in local efforts to protest Trump policies and to help elect Democrats to office.
Soon after taking office, Trump issued an executive order limiting travel from six predominately Muslim countries. Immediately, a coalition of religious, immigrant rights, and labor groups led a campaign to fight back. Spontaneously, they protested at airports, filed lawsuits, and then persuaded dozens of universities and churches, mayors of big cities, and California's political leaders, to resist cooperation with the federal crackdown. Several federal courts blocked Trump's ban, stopping the president from carrying out one of his top campaign promises.
Soon after Trump announced the nation's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, mayors of major cities and the governor of California pledged to resist Trump's efforts to reverse environmental progress.
The resistance movement involves many existing liberal groups, including labor unions, environmental and civil rights organizations, women's and LBGT groups, but also, crucially, an amazing number of newly-formed activist groups. The most successful is Indivisible, started by three former congressional staff persons. Their initial goal was to thwart the Trump agenda. They posted a "how to" guide for neophyte activists on a website. Within a month, their manual had spawned about 6,000 local groups around the country in all 435 congressional districts. They've organized protests against Republican politicians and are working to elect liberal Democrats in the upcoming congressional elections.
The anti-Trump resistance has inspired an unprecedented surge of candidates at every level of government, with an unmatched number of women among them, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers. At least 354 women—291 Democrats and 63 Republicans—are running for U.S. House seats. The number of women challenging incumbents is almost four times the number of two years ago.
In 2017, many liberal groups—including the ACLU, Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, and MoveOn.org—saw a big uptick of members and funding.
"I can't overstate how unprecedented the grassroots energy of this resistance is," said MoveOn.org's executive director, Anna Galland.
Not Normal
Part of the effort to neutralize Trump involves undermining key pillars of his support while resisting efforts to "normalize" the man and his policies.
Throughout his campaign and since taking office, Trump has waged war on the mainstream media, criticizing its reporting as "fake news" whenever it revealed Trump's own blunders and lies.
Partly in response to this upsurge of activism, Trump's mistakes in dealing with foreign leaders, and his disregard for science and facts, in 2017 the mainstream media changed the way they report and frame the president and his advisors. They started using the word "lie" in headlines and news stories to describe many of Trump's statements—an unprecedented shift in journalistic norms. On January 23, following Trump's false claim that he would have won the popular vote over Hillary Clinton if three million people hadn't voted illegally, The New York Times ran this front-page headline: "Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers." In June, the Times published a compendium called "Trump's Lies" and updated the list on a regular basis. Other newspapers have added reporters and started new columns designed to fact-check Trump's statements.
On December 28, Trump gave an impromptu half-hour interview with The New York Times. The next day, The Washington Post, reviewing the transcript, identified 24 lies that Trump told the Times reporter—one every 75 seconds.
Trump has become the butt of jokes and ridicule by popular late-night TV talk-show hosts and comedians. Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, John Oliver, Alec Baldwin, and Melissa McCarthy mock Trump on television on a regular basis, especially targeting his love affair with Vladimir Putin, his firing of FBI director James Comey (who was investigating Trump's Russian ties), and his impulsive and bizarre daily tweets. Late night host Jimmy Kimmel has delivered serious, as well as comic, indictments of Trump's policies. Actress Meryl Streep spent six minutes condemning Trump at the 2017 Golden Globe Award ceremony without mentioning his name.
Opposition to Trump has come from some surprising corners.
Members of two of the nation's championship teams—the New England Patriots football team and the Golden State Warriors basketball team—refused to meet with Trump at the White House. NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's one-man protest against racism by police grew into a national movement by NFL players and other pro athletes after Trump challenged their right to express their anger.
In protest against his racism, several major charitable organizations—including the Salvation Army and the American Red Cross—canceled plans to hold fundraising events at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Trump has alienated many other constituencies who might otherwise have been his natural allies.
January's Super Bowl football championship game – the biggest televised sports event of the year—featured commercials for Coca Cola, Budweiser, and other sponsors that promoted diversity and tolerance—a not-very-subtle dig at Trump's attacks on immigrants, Muslims, and others. In one ad, a hair-products company warned viewers that we're "in for four years of awful hair."
In 2017, many of the nation's leading conservative columnists—including William Kristol, Charles Sykes, Peggy Noonan, George Will, David Frum, Jennifer Rubin, and Charles Krauthammer—joined the anti-Trump opposition. They want to cleanse the conservative "brand" of its association with Trump. By contrast, the right-wing Fox News network has shown unceasing loyalty to Trump, helping him spread his pernicious fictions.
Trump has also alienated some Republicans in Congress, in part by blaming them for his own failures to persuade the public to support his policy agenda. Slowly, painfully, and without much principle or courage, some Republicans abandoned Trump. Many worried that their association with Trump would hurt their re-election chances. Some were simply appalled at his ineptitude, overt racism and sexism, and erratic behavior. Senator Bob Corker, a conservative Republican from Tennessee, raised questions about Trump's "competence" and "stability." In a speech on the Senate floor in October, Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, declared that he "will no longer be complicit or silent" in the face of the president's "reckless, outrageous and undignified" behavior. Corker and Flake (who aren't running for re-election) voted with Trump on most issues, including the tax bill, but they nevertheless expressed publicly what many of their Republican colleagues have said privately.
There is a growing consensus among political analysts across the ideological spectrum that Trump is psychologically and emotionally unfit to be president. He is poorly informed about public policy, indifferent to the workings of government, values loyalty over expertise within his inner circle, and is unable to think strategically. He is also impulsive, thin-skinned, addicted to flattery, a megalomaniac, a narcissist, and lacks empathy or a social conscience.
Even Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a "moron," according to reliable sources. When asked, Tillerson refused to deny it.
Given Trump's business background, some voters thought that the new president would be an effective executive. Despite his boasts, Trump had actually run a relatively small, family-owned real estate and Trump-branding business (like the phony "Trump University") that was in constant legal and financial trouble, including multiple bankruptcies. Trump exercised dictatorial control over his company. He had no experience with collaboration and compromise, or being held accountable by a board of directors.
Now Trump views the entire federal government as his personal fiefdom and expects complete loyalty to his agenda and to him personally. Never in recent memory has morale among FBI, EPA, Department of Justice, and other federal employees reached such a nadir.
It turns out that Trump has no management skills. Since taking office, his administration has been in chaos. Trump's White House has been a cesspool of infighting among key staffers, who leak nasty things about each other and about Trump to the media. In his first year as president, he fired his chief of staff, national security advisor, two communications directors, and political strategist Steve Bannon. Several Cabinet members were caught in conflict of interest scandals. One, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, was forced to resign. Trump routinely humiliated his own top advisors, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Tillerson.
Trump completely mishandled his administration's response to the hurricanes in Texas, Florida, and especially Puerto Rico. To him, these were simply occasions for photo-ops and political score-settling. He showed no compassion for the victims, even blaming Puerto Ricans for their plight. His failure to respond to Puerto Rico's catastrophe surely cost lives.
Despite his own ineptitude, and the growing opposition to his presidency by liberals, moderates, and some conservatives, Trump remains a dangerous figure in at least four ways.
The first is Trump's impulsive war-mongering. With no understanding of geopolitics, Trump views the world entirely in personal terms. With his fear of humiliation and being seen as weak, Trump is a loose cannon in matters of war and peace. In response to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un's threats, Trump—without consulting his own top advisers or foreign allies—threatened to unleash "fire and fury" while warning that America's weapons are "locked and loaded." Despite Trump's public threats, the Joint Chiefs of Staff didn't raise the ready-to-attack status of the military—an embarrassing rebuke to the president.
Trump, who avoided serving in the Vietnam War, appointed several generals to serve in his Cabinet and inner circle, and picked General John Kelly as his second chief of staff. Ironically, many Americans believe that these military men might be needed to stop Trump from plunging the world into nuclear war.
The second danger is Trump's ability to appointment justices to the Supreme Court and other federal courts. In 2017 he appointed right-wing zealot Neil Gorsuch to the highest court to replace the troglodyte Antonin Scalia. If Trump gets to name one more justice to the nine-member court, he can shift the balance to a strongly conservative majority that could last for decades and overturn laws and previous rulings on abortion, same-sex marriage, voting rights, the separation of church and state, press freedom, and workers' rights, among other issues. Many Americans hope that the 84-year-old liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and 81-year-old swing Justice Anthony Kennedy don't die or resign until a Democratic president can be elected in 2020 and appoint their replacements. Trump also moved quickly to get the Senate to approve his nominations of reactionary lawyers, many with little or no judicial experience, to the federal bench. Some of the nominees have been so outrageously extreme or unprepared (or both) that even Republican senators have opposed their confirmations.
The third danger is Trump's ability to make policy through executive order rather than legislation. By altering the focus of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, for example, the Trump administration deported more undocumented immigrants who have no criminal or arrest record, which has made millions of immigrants and their families extremely fearful. In June, ignoring advice from several top aides and in opposition to concerns of many business leaders and environmentalists, Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris accord on global warming, despite public opinion polls showing that a majority of Americans favor the agreement.
Business lobby groups worked with Trump's agency directors to weaken regulations on business that protect consumers, workers, public health, and the environment. The Trump administration repealed rules that protect workers from exposure to toxic chemicals that cause lung disease, that limit gas emissions from power plants, that protect drinking water from pollutants, that require safety precautions for engineers on trains and truck drivers, and that protect miners from dangerous workplaces. As of late November, the number of deaths among coal miners was double the number who died in 2016.
A final dangerous aspect of Trump's presidency is his blatant racism, xenophobia, nativism, sexism, and misogyny, which has unleashed an upsurge of hate crimes and white supremacist activism. Trump's racial resentments are deeply rooted. His father was arrested during a Ku Klux Klan rally in New York in 1927. During the 1970s, the Department of Justice found that Trump's company was guilty of racial discrimination in his apartment buildings. In the 1980s, Trump took out full-page ads in newspapers to demand the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a white women jogging in Central Park. When it was discovered that they were innocent, Trump refused to apologize. Trump laid the groundwork for his presidential campaign by promoting a racist "birther" conspiracy that challenged President Barack Obama's citizenship.
Like all demagogues, Trump resorts to scapegoating to divert attention from his own failings.
During his presidential campaign, Trump's inflammatory rhetoric about Muslims, Mexicans, Jews, women, gays and lesbians, immigrants, African Americans, and people with physical disabilities triggered a dramatic increase in hate crimes. Within ten days of Trump's election, the Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 900 new bias-related incidents against minorities. That plague worsened after Trump took office. The number of anti-Muslim groups skyrocketed. Racist and neo-Nazi groups were emboldened. It was on deadly display in the gathering of neo-Nazis and other racists and anti-Semites in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer. As Roxane Gay observed in a New York Times column: "It is 2017 and white supremacists no longer feel the need to wear hoods to hide their racism and anti-Semitism."
Trump's unwillingness to strongly condemn racist vigilantes encouraged hate groups to escalate their violent marches and acts of intimidation. The surge in hate activism is likely to persist even after Trump leaves office.
Exit Strategy?
Indeed, just when Trump will exit the White House is a matter of growing discussion. In May, over Trump's objections, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Russia and related matters. Mueller has the authority to indict or prosecute Trump, even while he's still president. Some political observers now believe that Trump won't survive his first term if Mueller issues a report filled with damaging charges of Trump's corrupt and illegal activities around his ties to Russia, his obstruction of justice, and his use of the White House to advance his and his family's business interests. Should the Democrats retake Congress in the 2018 midterm elections, the likelihood of impeachment proceedings would greatly increase. Even if they don't, congressional Republicans will be under pressure to initiate either censure or impeachment proceedings—though the odds of that happening are slim unless the Republican base, which has so far stuck with Trump, decides that it's had enough.
Trump was elected without a mandate. Out of 136 million votes cast, Hillary Clinton had three million more votes. Had she won 77,000 more votes in three states—Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—she would have won the White House.
Trump began his presidency with low levels of public support and quickly squandered much of the good will that Americans grant newly elected presidents. Nine months after Trump took office, 65 percent of Americans said he had accomplished "not much" or "little or nothing," according to a Washington Post-ABC News survey. A recent Gallup poll revealed that only 38 percent of Americans give Trump a positive rating—the lowest approval rating of any president at this point in his presidency. His job performance rating has fallen—slightly, but measurably—even among Republicans.
Most Americans neither like nor agree with Trump. When it comes to key policy areas, including economic fairness, protecting the environment, and the drift toward plutocracy, polls show that a vast majority of Americans depart from Trump by leaning left. Americans are generally upset with widening inequality, the political influence of big business, and declining living standards. Public opinion is generally favorable toward greater government activism to address these and other problems, like climate change and health care. Most Americans worry that government has been captured by the powerful and wealthy.
Trump's most zealous political base is comprised of white fundamentalist Christians (who accounted for 45 percent of his total vote) and white supremacists (the two groups overlap). Many fundamentalists find Trump's personal behavior offensive but stick with him because of his pledge to appoint judges who will reverse rulings on gay rights, abortion, and the separation of religion and politics. The white supremacists see in Trump a sympathetic ally who on an almost daily basis goes on Twitter tantrums that espouse bigotry and hatred. They will stick with Trump.
Trump's unparalleled unpopularity could help the Democrats win back a majority in the House of Representatives in November 2018. A few months ago, that seemed impossible but now it looks increasingly likely. The Democrats currently hold 194 out of 435 seats and need to gain 24 more to take control of that chamber. There are now more than 60 "swing" House districts where Republicans are vulnerable. With Jones's unanticipated victory in Alabama, it's now clear that the Senate is very much in play, too.
"We need good candidates who can connect with voters—people who've been fighting for better schools, wages, the environment, and health care," said former Vermont Governor and DNC Chair Howard Dean. "And we can't just run against Trump. We need a positive optimistic message about the economy."
If Democrats and liberal groups can coordinate funding, targeting, voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts—and nominate strong candidates—they can win a majority in the lower chamber and possibly the Senate as well.
If that occurs, Trump will not only be neutralized politically, he'll also be on the defensive. Congressman Adam Schiff, one of Trump's toughest critics, will become chair of the House Intelligence Committee and Democrats will control the other committees, too. They will hold real hearings on Russia-gate, Trump's business entanglements, his taxes, and how he used the White House to enrich himself and his family.
Under those circumstances, Trump could resign before his term is over, mostly likely on contrived grounds of poor health. This doesn't protect him from prosecution unless he pardons himself before he resigns—a legal question now subject to much debate.
If Trump resigns or is impeached, Vice President Mike Pence will become president. Many Americans will feel a sense of relief, thinking that Pence—a former Senator and governor of Indiana—is, compared with Trump, "normal." True, he's not as psychologically deranged as Trump. But, as Jane Mayer recently explained in a New Yorker profile, Pence may be even more dangerous, because he's more ideologically right wing, has a better working relationship with Congress, is more disciplined, and would probably manage the White House in a less chaotic way. (Admittedly, these are all low bars to clear.)
If Trump leaves office after the Democrats control the House or Senate, however, they will be able to thwart Pence from advancing his fierce right-wing views.
Trump is a deranged autocrat. But so far America's democracy, however imperfect, has hamstrung most of his policy agenda. As the resistance grows, Americans will continue to demonstrate that they are more decent than their president.
The Trump Administration
Peter Dreier
Peter Dreier is the E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College. His most recent book is We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style (The New Press, 2020), co-edited with Kate Aronoff and Michael Kazin.
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Apologies if this has been posted previously. If so, I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.
I have a question about braid length compared to hair length. It seems as though thicker hair produces a relatively shorter braid, and that each person's hair is different. Taking all of this into consideration, how long do you think medium thickness hair has to be to make a braid that is tied off at waist length?
Also, do you think a waist length braid is long enough to wrap all the way around one's head like a crown braid?
Possibly hip length or so I would guess. It depends on how tight you braid too.
No, a waist length braid is too short. You may be able to do the coronette bun though (style in my avatar and current signature, there is an article with instructions.) The shortest length at which I've heard some one wrap a single coronette braid is a longish tailbone. In general though classic length is needed.
My hair is just past classic (circumference 2.9") and the tie for the braid (with a few inches for tassel left over) is just past hip, nearing TB. That means I lose about as much length as the distance from my wrist to the tip of the longest finger. For a waist length braid, the length eaten will be a little less, so the TB estimate mira-chan mentioned would be about right, and it also does matter how loose/tight you braid.
As for the coronet/crown/whatever you like to call it - I can barely just do that now. You might want to look into using two braids (heidi braids...) or something like mira-chan mentioned.
I've been able to do a false crown braid since mid-waist/tailbone like the one in my album (friends only, but I'm liberal about adding people). I'm able to get a better one as I approach classic though.
My hair is classic length now, and is fine and medium thin. I plait about average to tight I reckon, and it ties off about tailbone I guess (haven't really checked that - but I will tonight!). I can only barely just get it once round my head. That does not include the tassle - I mean I get one wrap round from start to tie.
If you want the effect of a braid all the way around your head with waist length hair, you can make two low pigtail braids at the very back and wrap them (the left one toward your right ear and the right one toward your left ear) up to the top of your head. I actually think it works better than a single braid because you get even thickness on both sides.
I wore my hair like this a lot in high school, trying to *ahem* look like *mumbles* Princess Leia in Empire Strikes Back. I'm going to go kiss my photo of Harrison Ford now.
My hair is 25 inches down, and 23 inches in an English braid, so that's a difference of 2 inches. (My hair is on the thick side of ii, about 3.5 inches circumference.) I was wondering, would the difference between hair down and in a braid tend to be the same, regardless of hair length (i.e. the difference between my hair down and in a braid will always be about 2 inches), or is it more complicated than that?
My hair's a bit on the thin side of average (circumference ~2.5") and just reaches the top of the "vertical smile." My braids tie off about 3 inches from the end, and the tie (well, tonight, a mini jaw clip) is right about at my waist.
I can't quite pull off the braid-around-the head yet. The ends almost reach if I start with a high braid, but the full braid doesn't make it yet. It's also unbalanced, because I need to grow out some serious taper.
I am 5'7". My hip+ length hair produces a single braid that ties off at just below waist. I can't get two braids wrapped all the way around my head unless I make them in the back, cross them in the back, and bring them up and around to finish on the top of my head.
Thanks for all of the information. It looks like I have some more growing to do.
All of the variations were helpful to read and I look forward to trying them out sometime.
Had to try the braid around head thing out :D, didn't fully work. But with 2 braids it does work, not sure why. My hair lenght is a bit difficult to define, it's kind of hip lenght at the back but shorter at the front. And it always looks much shorter then it is anyway.
You can sort of estimate how long your braid would have to be to wrap around your head if you have a floppy tape measure. Wrap it around your head loosely as if you were wrapping a braid and see how long that is from the base of your skull where the braid would start coming off your head. Does that make sense? When I do that, I get that my braid needs to be 25 inches long (measuring from the base of my skull).
But, you'd need to add a few inches to account for the fact that a braid isn't as thin as the tape measure For me, that would mean past tailbone thereabouts. I don't get that much braid length shrinkage, so I think classic length would do it definitely. Although, I get a lot of braid taper, so I think it would look funny if I just wrap one braid around my head (it's sort of lopsided because one side is thinner). The two braid variation works nicely to hide that.


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Golden Valley Pastor Partially Paralyzed After Icy Fall
4:45 PM | Thursday, January 5, 2023
A Golden Valley church pastor is attempting to recover from a devastating accident that left him partially paralyzed. Pastor David Kent of Christian Life Center in Golden Valley and Brooklyn Park slipped and fell on icy pavement on Dec. 16.
"We have a small hill that comes into our [Golden Valley] parking lot, and when I was walking down the hill, I slipped on the ice," explained Pastor Kent. "I couldn't move at all."
The 64-year-old religious leader broke his neck. He was transported to North Memorial Health Hospital, where doctors operated on his spine. He now has partial paralysis in his arms and legs.
Pastor Kent works on rehab after being partially paralyzed.
Golden Valley Pastor Optimistic About Recovery
It's going to be a long and very expensive recovery. Pastor Kent has self-pay health insurance, which results in paying most of the costs himself.
"The problem was I'm trying to save money for the church to be able to pay our bills," said Pastor Kent.
A GoFundMe has now been set up to help with medical bills.
"They're impacting us greatly. They're starting to come in, some of them already, and we've been told that we will need $350,000 upfront just to get him into rehab," said Susan Kent, David's wife.
The longtime New Hope resident is trying not to let the situation get him down. From his hospital bed, he smiles and cheers on his favorite football team, the Vikings.
"I'm an optimist. So, I always believe the Vikings are going to win, even when they don't always come through," said Kent.
Pastor Kent says he's leaning on his faith to get through this challenging journey.
"I serve a mighty big God. He's able to do exceeding, abundantly, above all that we're able to ask. So, I have total faith. My God is a healer."
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Donald Antrim and Jonathan Franzen's memoirs.
The literary legacy of the stifling 1950s family.
Aggrieved by the recent death of his mother from cancer, a childless fortysomething New Yorker contributor writes a coming–of-age memoir in which the author never truly comes of age. The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History, by Jonathan Franzen, and The Afterlife: A Memoir, by Donald Antrim, are so filled with likenesses, reading them back-to-back is like grading student essays. To be fair, there are obvious differences: Antrim's mother was a boozed-up harridan, Franzen's was the likable bulwark against adult reality a parent is supposed to be. Nonetheless, the two books are eerily similar, as if laying the groundwork for a new literary genre. What would be its watermarks? First, it would mirror an old genre, the high-literary suburban melodrama (Revolutionary Road; Rabbit, Run; The Ice Storm; Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe trilogy) in which the death of a child tears down the postwar suburb's pretense to total human satisfaction. Instead of a child, the new genre would take as its starting point the death of a parent. Its central revelation would be that the old-fashioned nuclear family, once suspected of being an emotional prison, in fact delivered an enormous amount of psychic and material comfort. Franzen's and Antrim's memoirs, in other words, are only superficially about childhood. They're elegies for parenthood as we, the children of the midcentury middle class, once knew it.
To those who have read it, the idea that The Afterlife is an elegy for parenthood may come as something of a hard sell. Donald Antrim drew a crappy hand in life, nurturewise, and his narrative persona is toned accordingly. Hardly a sentence in the book isn't engulfed in abjection. "All our lives were given over to her," Antrim confesses of his mother, the spectacular drunk. "I once marveled that my father could endure my mother. I found his martyrdom, as I thought of it then, honorable. It seemed to me that our family was guided by a bleak, incomprehensible fate. It wasn't incomprehensible, though, and it wasn't fate that was guiding us. It was alcohol." If Antrim's book is predictable—and it is, taking us through all the standard clichés, including an episode of sexual abuse—what accounts for its strange power? The Afterlife is indeed an addiction memoir, but with a twist. Antrim is addicted to his own unhappy childhood.
Years after her death, my worry over her persists. Worry may be what I am trying to overcome when I talk to my dead mother, as I did that evening in the stairwell at the New York Public Library. I was brooding over some problem that had existed between us, and sharing with her, out loud (though not too loudly), my thoughts. On the first floor landing, I briefly imagined her floating near the ceiling. Stitched onto her silk kimono were provisions and companions for her winged journey into eternity. "Mom," I said, and, as I called out to her, I did not glance over my shoulder, and I did not, in that passing instant, dare to see, at a modest height above the ground—my mother, not there.
In that "Mom," The Afterlife sounds its note of elegy. How comforting it once was, to be offered, even in an unhappy family, a stable and consistent role to play. In contrast to Antrim, Franzen made out well in the parental lottery, and so Franzen's miseries are the stuff of small-bore comedy—a dismal trip to Disneyland, girl trouble, etc. Nonetheless, for all its happy triviality, Franzen's memoir has something about childhood dead right. The delectation the middle-class American child once took in his or her own unhappiness, even when torqued all the way to genuine misery, was, in retrospect, a fantastical luxury, hardly to be believed. And it was a gift from the very parents we thought were torturing us all along! For the elaborate rituals of middle-class cosseting assumed no particular right to self-fulfillment on the part of the average adult, whose job it was to earn a decent living, to keep house, to pair bond for life. These rituals, unthinkably dreary as they may appear to us now, were once universal, so that when they were breached, they gave children the greatest gift of all—a lifetime high on the narcosis of resentment.
Richard Ford grew up in the '40s, and his Frank Bascombe novels (soon, blessedly, to be a trilogy) are arguably finer books than any two Rabbit installments, but they are also undeniably smaller in their achievement—a strange paradox until you realize that Ford came of writing age parallel to the Beatles, to a pop universe that, having matured, drew glamour away from literary product. The novels that resulted are smaller, subtler, truer to life, and yet less grand, less assured of their large ambitions, less frankly self-important. Now note the birth dates of Antrim (1958) and Franzen (1959). They are tail-end baby boomers, and in them, the pathos of diminished expectations has hit its—what—zenith? Nadir? A family line, after all, can be traced to its conclusion along literary, as well as genealogical, lines.


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"US elections highly competitive, but voting rights not guaranteed for all groups, international observers say"
Posted on November 9, 2018 6:43 pm by Rick Hasen
The 6 November mid-term elections in the United States were highly competitive and contestants could campaign freely, with media presenting a wide array of information and views, enabling voters to make an informed choice. However, campaign rhetoric was often intensely negative and at times intolerant, including on social networks, the international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) concluded in a statement released today.
The fundamental right to suffrage was undermined in places by the disenfranchisement of some groups and the lack of full representation in Congress. Campaign finance rules do not guarantee full transparency, the observers said. While the elections were largely administered in a professional manner and voters turned out in high numbers, decisions on important aspects of the electoral process were often politicized, the statement says.
"The American people once again demonstrated their commitment to democratic elections in a hard-fought and vibrant campaign that clearly engaged voters and had millions eagerly awaiting results last night," said George Tsereteli, Special Co-ordinator and leader of the short-term OSCE observer mission. "While the rhetoric we heard from the campaign trail was often divisive, Americans came together to vote in professionally run elections."
There was an overall respect for fundamental freedoms in a campaign that was dominated by the two main parties. The intolerant rhetoric included several statements with xenophobic and anti-Semitic connotations, the statement says. Concerns were raised regarding online disinformation from both domestic and foreign sources, as well as regarding the transparency of online advertising.
The legal framework and the administration of elections are complex and diverse. As there are few nationwide procedural standards, detailed rules are made only at the state and sub-state level. Some states have amended laws to facilitate voter registration, early voting and the voting rights of ex-prisoners, partially addressing prior ODIHR recommendations. However, fundamental deficiencies remain, particularly with respect to the disenfranchisement of citizens on various grounds, the observers said. Lack of agreement in Congress to update a key aspect of the 1965 Voting Rights Act diminishes its effectiveness in safeguarding against discrimination on racial or linguistic grounds.
Voter registration is active and implemented by states, with minimum conditions set by federal law. A number of states enhanced efforts to facilitate voter registration, including online and automatic registration, but an estimated 50 million eligible citizens were not registered for these elections, for various reasons. Legislation and established practices effectively disenfranchised around 11 million otherwise eligible voters, the statement says. Voter identification is a politically divisive issue, and rules in some states can present obstacles, particularly for low-income voters, racial and linguistic minorities, and Native Americans.
"These were well-run elections, but the diverse nature of the American system means that there isn't a single picture. We welcome progress in some states to facilitate voter registration and to reinstate voting rights to citizens, but we cannot ignore that countless millions remain effectively disenfranchised," said Isabel Santos, Head of the OSCE PA delegation. "Much more attention and investment in democracy remains critical if the United States is to overcome these longstanding challenges and address new ones, like effectively securing election infrastructure."
The media landscape is pluralistic and vibrant, offering voters a wide range of opportunities to inform themselves, but is increasingly polarized. There is limited regulation and few rules for broadcast media during elections. Verbal attacks on journalists and news media by senior officials raised concerns over their safety and undermined the essential role of media in a democratic society….
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Enterprise, Season 1: Broken Bow
Enterprise, Season 1
"Broken Bow"
Airdate: September 26, 2001
1 of 97 produced
1 of 97 aired
Jonathan Archer has been champing at the bit to launch Starfleet's newest experimental vessel, equipped with a Warp 5 Engine, but the Vulcans have been discouraging humanity from striking out so boldly. Things come to a head, however, when a Klingon courier becomes involved in a firefight with mysterious aliens on Earth.
Hey, he looks pretty good for 90+. But not as good as he's going to look!
Kevin: I like the idea of showing that Vulcan would be paternalistic to Earth in a way they would bristle against. It's fun seeing the humans get treated the way they will eventually treat other species. There's a flip side to the good intentions of the Prime Directive and it's fun to see the the shoe on the other foot. It's also fun to see humans make so many well-intentioned mistakes barreling into situations they actually know nothing about. I think there's a lot of potential in mining the messy politics of Earth's entry to the intergalactic stage. I do think the Vulcans are leaning too hard into withholding information to the point of creating the problems they think they are avoiding, but overall, it's an idea with a fun potential.
Matthew: I think the episode was a little thin for a feature length show. If I were given a stab at notes or feedback, I would say the back end was bloated and the front end was anemic. Far too much time was spent shooting and running around, and too little was spent on character introductions. Hoshi got a pretty good recruitment scene, but Phlox and Travis were given very little to do or say, while Trip and T'Pol were given screen time but not back story. We were given a good deal of Archer back story, but even there, I would have liked extended scenes with Admiral Forrest, Ambassador Soval, and the like. Instead of telling us about the Vulcan Compound in Sausalito (home of humpback whales George and Gracie), why not give us a scene there? The basic plot idea of returning Klaang to Kronos is fine enough, especially given that he has sensitive political information, but as I say, it's a bit thin even for a regular length episode. If they were going to use the Temporal Cold War to stir interest, they should have given us a bit more.
Kevin: The fan service is...fine, I guess. I found Cochrane's cameo charming enough, but the shoehorning of the intro into the speech was just a bit precious. It's certainly not at the oppressive levels of Kurtzman Trek or even later episodes with superfluous Borg or Ferengi. In the minus column, I don't think the episode makes a strong enough case for why they chose to do a prequel. We know how first contact with the Klingons goes and approximately the next two hundred years of human-Klingon relations in a fair amount of detail. There's some fun to be had in the granular details of the story, but I don't think it's enough to sustain a whole series. And the more I think about the Temporal Cold War, the more annoyed I get. I'm going to lay out a theory here and see how it pans out. I think a lot of what I don't like about the Abrams and Kurtzman universes can actually trace a not-insignificant amount of its roots to Enterprise. It's a prequel for no other apparent reason than they want to rehash existing IP. We get the major, galaxy spanning conflict that we had never heard of in four prior series. By definition, it's a mushy reliance on time travel with all the attendant narrative sloppiness that allows. And as much as the show is more consistent with prior Trek overall, I think this show's ultimate failure paved the way to making the case for the 'edgier' version. That's a lot to heap on the premiere, and I'm pulling a lot of that assessment from the rest of my recollection of the show, but I want to lay this out now to see how it holds up.
Matthew: The Zephram Cochrane scene was pitched perfectly. It rewards viewers of past shows, but still functions on its own. It doesn't contradict past stories, instead adding a small layer to them. It's as if the people writing the scene actually know the character and have watched (and/or written) past Star Trek. But I am going to have to try hard not to absolve Enterprise of its sins because it's better than Kurtzman Trek (which it most certainly is, even after one episode). As such, I agree that the show overall does not really justify its prequel nature. It whiffed on the main brief, which was detailing the emergence of the Federation and humanity's ascendance to becoming a galactic superpower politically. But I can't lay that on this episode. Within the walls of this particular story, the basic ideas and conflicts are fairly compelling. The Vulcan-Human antagonism makes sense, the portrayal of humanity not mastering its technology yet has a certain charm, and Archer's desire to assert his and his species' independence is a solid character motivation. I am on record saying the prequel was a mistake, but that's with hindsight. Prequels are hard. It's hard to be dramatic enough when you know what's coming, and it's hard to make everything square in terms of continuity (on that note, I still think the ship should have had a different name - Challenger perhaps?). But this start is not bad. The story works. The same goes for Future Guy and the temporal cold war. It's an incredibly hard story line to do well - and Enterprise almost does it before giving up on it entirely. The scenes within this episode are reasonably interesting, and the time room had a neat visual gimmick.
Kevin: I saved my critique of the show's awkward attempts to be sexy for last. The decon chamber is dumb, and it's a level of dumb that on par with what would otherwise outrage us about Kurtzman Trek. There's just no way doing that manually would be as effective as a spray. What if only one person is affected? Is there a yeoman provided to get your back? It's painfully obvious the only reason it's in the script is to put two attractive people on screen in their underwear. And don't get me wrong, I love attractive people in their underwear, but that's not what I come to Star Trek for. There's a fine line between fun and tacky, and this scene is about parsec over that line. Even the decision to have T'Pol in a jumpsuit reeks of this. Vulcans of all genders in Star Trek to this point have pretty much worn robes or Starfleet uniforms. So why? She's in a jumpsuit because Seven was in one.
Matthew: I watched this with my kids, and I was grossed out by the decon scene. I would really put this more in "production values," because in my memory later scenes were not so gratuitous. It seems like a directing choice (the director, James L. Conway, does have TNG "Justice" to his credit, but not any other conspicuously titillating episodes). The problem isn't the story idea per se, but the lingering shots on T'Pol's midriff, breasts, Trip's butt, etc. These shots were sexually objectifying the characters in a sleazy way, and detracted from their dialogue, which was actually meaningful to the plot. Similarly in this category were the bug eating strippers and the dialogue about three-breasted aliens, which while less egregious, still stuck out as tone deaf and cringey.
Kevin: And now my real last comment just because. In the list of star systems that T'Pol names, Rigel is the one we actually already know, unless Vulcans know a different system named Rigel. It's a tiny thing, but it feels like something someone should have caught.
Matthew: I definitely noted that as a writing snafu. We named Rigel. It's an Arabic name.
Kevin: I think everyone here was good, but I'm not sure how much they really got to do. The most emotions on display were Archer and T'Pol being snide at each other, and they both turned in solid performances. Bakula is a veteran of television science fiction and I think that comes through. To the extent I think Trineer was a bit one note as Tucker this episode, I don't think the script asked for more than that. He needed to object to T'Pol in a Southern accent, check and double check. The rest of the cast was good, but overall, I don't think most of the cast got to do anything other than react to things.
Matthew: I think Linda Park did a good job both of delivering alien dialogue (always hard) and portraying Hoshi's nervousness with space travel. Connor Trinneer is certainly a charming fellow, and his accent is the real deal. I think Bakula is indeed the grounding presence that you say. I found Jolene Blalock a bit too snotty in this outing, but she eventually finds a groove. The character with the greatest challenge, I think, is John Billingsley. Phlox bears more than a passing resemblance to Neelix, and much of his dialogue could have been delivered by Neelix, too. You'll notice I have nothing to say about Anthony Montgomery's Travis Mayweather. That's going to become a running theme, I think.
Kevin: In the plus column, I like the uniforms, and think they did a good job of bridging the gap between modern day astronaut jump suits and introducing what would eventually be Starfleet details. I like the general attempt to marry a TOS style with the fact that early 21st century technology had already past it. I'm a stickler for tonal consistency in the story, but am happy to let the tech details and style choices be a little looser. As far as the ship itself, it certainly fits the general aesthetic of other Starfleet ships, though honestly it doesn't set me on fire. I'm certainly not saying it's bad, but it also never really cracks the top of my list.
Matthew: I hated the ship when it first premiered. My feelings have certainly softened given what has transpired in the franchise since. With some distance, I can see that it has enough external details that place it before TOS. I have no reservations about the uniforms or interior sets, though. The style, the buttons and knobs, the screens, they all look good and create a real sense of place and time. And the unis have visible rank insignia, which I am very much a stickler for since, as a show depicting a hierarchical organization, Star Trek needs an easy way to tell the viewer who's who.
Kevin: Where I think the production falters in the reliance on CGI. It certainly hasn't aged well, and even being charitable, I just don't recall being that impressed with at the time. We critiqued Voyager more than once for CGI that looked like a video game, and if anything Enterprise appears more reliant on it. Particularly for scenes like the Suliban talking to the the temporal Romulan guy was two CGI people in a CGI room with a bunch of swirling CGI light effects and it just doesn't really stand up to any close scrutiny. That said, while it still looked like a video game cutscene, the sequence in the planet's atmosphere by the Suliban base looked like a really good video game.
Matthew: Yeah, every time they tried to render a humanoid, the CGI looked extremely dated. Also pretty bad were green screen effects looking out windows. There's a reason TNG used a black curtain with sequins on it - it photographs so much better. You could see greenish outlines around Archer and T'Pol. Ship shots were not as bad, though. Not up to today's standards, but no worse than, say the TOS remade effects.
Kevin: And I know it was divisive in its day, but I'm pretty agnostic on the theme song. I get that it's a pop song with words and that's different, but while it's not my favorite, it didn't outrage me as it did some parts of the early internet. The visuals themselves are lovely. Including the shot of the Phoenix is kind of the sweet spot of fan service. A non-fan would just assume it was fictional midpoint between the real world and the show (which of course, it is) and the fan appreciates the inclusion of something that would be conspicuous in its absence if the show is in continuity. Great, and more importantly subtle work, everyone. More of that, less of paying James Cromwell to read a teleprompter of shoehorned references.
Matthew: The theme song grew on me pretty quickly. Did I enjoy it ironically at first? Sure, I've belted it out more than a few times with a certain level of snark. But you know what? Paired with the well-chosen and timed video montage, at this point it just works for me. It's been a long road, but I've gotten from there to here on it.
Kevin: I've been a little picky on this episode, and I'm trying to judge this episode for itself and not how I think the rest of the series, at least early on, turns out. I recall watching this in college, and my impression at the time was "This is fine." My impression after watching it is "This is fine." The effects are solid, even if the CGI doesn't age well. The acting is good, if not extraordinary. The story is fine, but beyond portraying the friction of early Earth/Vulcan relations, I don't have a sharp sense of the show or the characters, and the action/espionage plot wasn't sharp enough to really get past "fine." This is a 3 for me.
Matthew: I think the narrative emphasis on action over character development and scene setting hampers this slightly. It's by no means bad, and I like the narrative tensions it set up. I was entertained and interested in the plot while I watched it with my boys, but wasn't super satisfied with the level of exploration given the plot ideas. Overall, I agree with the 3 for a total of 6.
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Labels: Broken Bow, ENT Season 1, Enterprise, Star Trek
And so, we are under way. I don't expect smooth sailing, but there will be vistas worth viewing along the way, as well as some genuine nostalgia. :)
I guess the big thing we're going to disagree on is that theme song. I am so good at judging how far ahead to jump on the track to avoid it without losing any of the story. I would pay good money to have a set of discs where there is even no sound at all when it's supposed to play.
matthewweflen May 12, 2022 at 5:26 PM
The theme song is the definition of "divisive" ;-)
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Roundabout at Loop Road to double in size
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency advises Northland road users that the future expansion of the single-lane roundabout to a dual-lane configuration at Loop Road has now been brought forward and will be delivered as part of the current construction programme.
Contract awarded to improve transport options on SH20B to the airport
23 December 2019 9:49 am | NZ Transport Agency
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is pleased to announce it has awarded a contract for improvements in the State Highway 20B corridor to the airport, with construction to start in the New Year.
Taking stock: Stay safe on rural roads
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and the NZ Police are reminding motorists and rural property owners in the East Waikato to be vigilant to keep our rural roads safe over the holiday break.
Road works to get underway on South Road, Hāwera in the new year
Road repair works on South Road (SH3) in the centre of Hāwera will get underway early next year.
Road layout changes at Northern Motorway's Constellation Drive off-ramp in January
Auckland motorists are advised to look out for road layout changes on the northbound offramp from the Northern Motorway (SH1) to Constellation Drive throughout January.
Progress on Auckland Harbour Bridge walking and cycling connection
Work on the much-anticipated walking and cycling connection between Auckland's Westhaven and the North Shore is progressing well, with Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and SkyPath Trust reaching an agreement which will expedite the planning and construction of the walking and cycling connection.
Last link in Haast highway route south of Hokitika reopens 9 am
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency will reopen State Highway 6 between Harihari and Whataroa at 9am today, (Friday, 20 December).
Towing trailers safely these holidays
The holidays are nearly here, and for many Kiwis that means towing the caravan or boat to one of our great getaway spots.
New cycleway and motorway lanes open in time for Christmas
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency says transport users across all modes will benefit from years of planning and construction with the opening today of a shared path and additional lanes on two of Auckland's busiest state highways.
Milestone bridge opens in Hamilton
Local politicians, project staff and neighbours joined iwi to mark completion of the newest bridge on the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway today.
Early reminder of five-night closure of Remutaka Hill in January
Ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is reminding road users that the Remutaka Hill road will be closed overnight for five consecutive nights, from Sunday night 12 January to Friday morning 17 January between 9pm and 4am each night.
Christmas/New Year holidays – NZ Transport Agency media contacts (and other useful information)
The holidays are just around the corner, but we know that many of our friends in the newsgathering business will be at work while the rest of us are at the bach or the beach, so the NZ Transport Agency's media team will be on call to help during the 2019/20 Christmas/New Year break.
Summer journeys: expect the unexpected, but do your planning
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is reminding people travelling by road in the South Island/Te Wai Pounamu this summer to expect the unexpected.
SH4 temporary road open in time for Christmas
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is pleased to announce that access to State Highway 4 south of Raetihi will be reinstated in time for Christmas, with a two-lane temporary road opening this Friday.
Longswamp open to four lanes for holiday traffic
All four lanes of the Longswamp section of the Waikato Expressway will be open to traffic later this week.


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Becky Straw, Ember Hero
My company, Ember Arts, chose Becky Straw as our Fall 2012 Ember Hero. We're donating 50% of all online sales now thru November 9th to her organization, The Adventure Project! Shop our new Fall Lineup here!
Do not start a nonprofit, says Becky Straw, co-founder of The Adventure Project, a nonprofit. She makes a strong case. If you start a nonprofit you'll be broke, stressed, and you'll have to be boring while you work long hours with no money. You will be rejected a lot. And, by the odds, you'll fail within a few years.
Becky has been through all of it except the failing. For the last two years she lived couch-to-couch, maxing out her credit cards and relying on gracious friends and family, and working with her co-founder Jody Landers to build the foundation of an enormous vision. They aim to create one million jobs in the developing world within a decade.
Sitting across the table from Becky in a cafe in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, she says she's tired from flying across the world and spending three long days in the field catching up with a social business she partners with. Still she crackles with energy. I've been in the country three extra, less busy days and I'm fading with jet lag. She shares with me the grand vision she and her partner are building, lamenting that it's hard to shrink it down to the elevator pitch that many would-be backers want.
Her vision sees good businesses in poor countries as the final solution to poverty, and to many other endemic problems, like access to clean water and affordable healthcare. The Adventure Project aims to focus international attention and money on these businesses, helping them scale and make the biggest positive impact.
And, in a way, it all started with swimming.
"As a kid I was terrible," Becky told me later over email. "I'm not trying to be modest, I have multiple last place ribbons to prove it." Then, when she was twelve, a swim coach took her aside and gave her this advice: "Everything in life is 90% hard work and only 10% talent, so just work harder than everyone else."
"That stuck with me, and he was right," said Becky. "I put my head down and never stopped trying." Her hard work earned her a scholarship to swim collegiately on a team that won two conference titles. She still wasn't the fastest on the team ("I was the worst of the best") but, she recalls, "it didn't really matter to me, because I learned that I love to work hard, and will go to great lengths to make something happen."
"I experienced that feeling that hits you in the gut, and you know you'll never be able to live blissfully ignorant again."
That sort of determination, 'Grit', as it's often called, is being hailed by top researchers as one of the most important characteristics of successful people. And Becky clearly has large grit reserves. Which means that she could likely succeed at just about anything: movie making, real estate development, technology startups, fields that could win her fame or fortune or both. So why put all that determination towards stopping poverty?
"I think the main experience for me was volunteering in Romania after college," she said. A couple from Ohio ran a group home for kids who had been orphaned and abused. Some of them had been confined to cribs for the first ten years of their lives and had to learn to walk starting at age eleven.
"I experienced that feeling that hits you in the gut," said Becky, "and you know you'll never be able to live blissfully ignorant again. It made me horribly sad to see the vast disparity between the rich and poor. But it was also incredibly hopeful, because I witnessed resilience and love. And it gave me purpose."
She earned a Master's in International Social Welfare from Columbia before joining a fledgling non-profit called charity: water. Becky was employee number three, and helped launch one of the most innovative and successful non-profits in the world. She left charity: water during some challenging organizational growth pains and soon reconnected with a donor named Jody she had become fast friends with a year earlier during a trip to Liberia. Over dinner in Colorado they discovered their common passion for social enterprise and started a Google document titled, "Launch List," filled with items like "Assemble a board" and "Get charitable status".
They started in on the to do list in October 2010 and launched The Adventure Project a month later.
So far they have partnered with four social ventures in four developing countries, creating over 350 jobs. These businesses are helping solve the problems of hunger, water, environment, and healthcare, and are serving almost 900,000 people.
When I met her in Uganda she had been visiting one of these partners, a company called Living Goods that combines the Avon door-to-door sales model with the effectiveness of community driven healthcare. Women are trained as community health workers and visit the homes of their neighbors, checking on family health and offering advice and selling low-cost solutions where necessary.
On her organization's blog Becky shares a story (with beautiful photos from Esther Havens) that epitomizes the impact she and Jody are having. A Ugandan woman named Gertrude, recently widowed and left with three young children, was hired and trained by Living Goods as they expanded to her village. When she started visiting homes she met a woman who had three children sick with malaria and no money for medication. Gertrude decided to trust the woman and paid for the medications herself before moving on to the next house. Two days later the children had recovered, the woman had repaid Gertrude for the medication, and the village was buzzing that Gertrude had saved these children's lives. Now her new health business is booming and she can afford to send her kids to school. And all throughout the village she is known as "the Kind One."
Becky's dream, and the vision of The Adventure Project, is to take Gertrude's story and multiply it by a million. One million new jobs. One million people solving their communities' problems. One million families out of poverty. It's the kind of goal that will take, more than anything, a lot of grit.
Learn more about Becky's work here. We're donating 50% of all online sales now thru November 9th to The Adventure Project! Shop our new Fall Lineup here!
Becky Straw, Ember Arts, Ember Hero, The Adventure Project


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Bananas contain a considerable measure of iron, which invigorates the generation of red platelets. Bananas additionally contain vitamin B6, which controls blood glucose levels, peopling with frailty.
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Played for a Fuel
The fact that corn-based ethanol is renewable doesn't make it sustainable. When will candidates stumping in Iowa admit as much?
Photo: Phil Roeder/Flickr
We're a little more than four months away from the first of our presidential nominating contests, which means that registered voters in Iowa are strutting around their state and acting all high and mighty, in accordance with their proud self-image as quadrennial political bellwethers. Whether that self-image is fully merited or not, I've never begrudged Iowans their early-bird status. Why? Because as long as the Iowa caucuses remain first on the electoral calendar, we can be reasonably sure that Americans will be spending at least some time hearing about—and maybe even thinking about!—our nation's renewable energy policy.
Among Iowa voters, fervent support for renewable energy is bipartisan. And most of that across-the-board approval is for one biomass-based fuel in particular: ethanol, which is primarily derived from the one crop for which the Hawkeye State is duly famous—corn. Last year, Iowa farmers grew nearly 2.5 billion bushels of it on more than 13 million acres of land; in an average year, the state produces more corn all by itself than most other countries do. The corn-based ethanol industry contributes $5 billion to the state's economy and is responsible for employing nearly 50,000 Iowans.
But corn-based ethanol, to put it mildly, is a highly problematic candidate for membership in the renewable energy club. For starters, our country's system for mandating and subsidizing the production of ethanol has meant that farmers who could be using their land to grow today's food feel economically compelled to grow tomorrow's fuel instead. Nearly half of the corn currently grown in Iowa goes toward ethanol production. (That's also corn, by the way, that might otherwise have made its way into cattle troughs or chicken coops—which is just another way of saying that ethanol mandates effectively drive up the cost of animal feed, an increase that eventually gets passed along to beef and poultry consumers.)
Still, what really rankles many environmentalists is the way that ethanol has been smilingly advertised to the public as a renewable biofuel, with all the suggestions of sustainability that the adjective entails. Indeed, what makes corn ethanol "renewable"—in the sense that we can always make more of it by planting more kernels—is actually a huge part of what makes it so unsustainable in the long term.
Along with requiring huge amounts of water and fertilizer, growing corn requires huge amounts of land. Worldwide, policies that promote ethanol production encourage the conversion of grasslands and rainforests into farmland. Many scientists and ecologists now believe that keeping those ecosystems intact offers a far greater greenhouse gas–reducing benefit—by not disturbing the carbon stored within native plants and in untilled soil—than any benefit which might be conferred by burning ethanol instead of petroleum. In fact, there's ample evidence to suggest that ethanol production may actually end up generating more carbon pollution than gasoline.
These days, when a presidential candidate of either party stumps at the Iowa State Fair—a rite of passage on the campaign trail—he or she can be sure of two things. The first is that someone will shove a corn dog (or some other deep-fried food, most likely on a stick) into his or her face and demand it be eaten on the spot while cameras click and fairgoers applaud wildly. The second is that someone will ask the candidate whether he or she supports the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS: the federal program that, among other things, requires all gasoline sold in this country to contain a minimum amount of "renewable biofuel"—which in Iowa, of course, means corn-based ethanol.
In the decade since the RFS was instituted, any criticism of it prior to the Iowa caucuses was seen as politically risky—even though valid and intellectually honest critiques can be lodged from both the right and the left. If you're a libertarian conservative, for instance, you might reflexively bristle at the idea of the federal government playing favorites with Midwestern corn farmers by guaranteeing them a market for their crops, while simultaneously adding consumer insult to free-market injury by driving up food, fuel, and livestock feed prices. And if you're an environmentally conscious liberal, you might oppose the massive water and fertilizer inputs—and carbon outputs—that come with the fuel's production.
The appropriate critique, I think, would borrow a little from both. I, for one, would find it refreshing to hear any presidential candidate discuss the RFS in the following manner, presumably after wiping a piece of deep-fried Milky Way from his or her mouth with the discarded campaign T-shirt of an irksome rival:
The Renewable Fuel Standard is an important federal requirement that needs to be maintained—but not necessarily in its current incarnation. We should continue to support the very best parts of it: the ones that encourage the production of more advanced and more sustainable biofuels, for instance, or the requirement that a renewable fuel must emit less greenhouse gas than the petroleum-based fuel it would replace.
This program can't simply be a taxpayer-subsidized corporate welfare scheme for the ethanol industry. The fact that corn-based ethanol is "renewable" doesn't automatically make it sustainable. Other biomass-based fuels, however, are genuinely sustainable—fuels derived from things like crop waste, or switchgrass, or sustainably harvested cover crops. Farmers can grow these with much less fertilizer or irrigation—and unlike corn, they can be grown almost anywhere, even on idle or degraded land.
Besides, I happen to think that Iowa corn is far too tasty to be turned into fuel! I can think of much better uses for it.
At which point the candidate should triumphantly raise the cornmeal-battered candy bar into the air—before finally lowering it to take one last, vigorous bite for the cameras. The crowd will eat it up.
Photo: Sun Brockie/Flickr


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Infinix launching new smartphone in India on November 26th, could be the Note 5 Stylus
"As the name indicates, the Infinix Note 5 Stylus is expected to come with the stylus support"
Infinix, Transsion Holdings' online smartphone sub-brand, is slated to launch a new device on November 26th in India. The company has sent out the press invites for the same, and it showcases an animated image of the handset with a stylus placed below it. Infinix is yet to reveal the details; the stylus in the image suggests it's likely that the phone could be none other than Note 5 Stylus that has already been unveiled in markets outside India.
As per the specifications of the Infinix Note 5 Stylus that's launched in countries like Nigeria and Kenya, the handset will flaunt a 6-inch 'Infinity' screen with a full HD+ resolution. The smartphone is driven by octa-core chipset, coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64GB expandable storage. In the camera department, the phone sports 16MP shooters on the rear and front. On the software front, the handset boots stock Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box.
As the name suggests, the Note 5 Stylus comes with stylus support. The company claims that the stylus allows users to write or draw on the phone's screen. Probably, for this reason, the press invite (embedded above) comes with a tagline "The Power to Create. Now in every Hand".
Other features include a beefy 4,000mAh battery, and a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. The Infinix Note 5 Stylus price and availability in India are not known right now. It also remains to be seen if it's indeed the device that's launching in India or the brand has something else in store for us. However, we wouldn't have to wait for long as the launch is just around the corner, so stay tuned.
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Go With The Flo Productions announced it has published and is making available for public performance the controversial 1984 play Stained Glass, a drama written by Sëan Moran, for performance by amateur and professional theatre groups.
Written by Sëan Moran in 1984 and produced on the Los Angeles stage in 1986, the original production was directed by Michael Donovan and ran sold-out for 28 weeks. It was revived in 1994 under the direction of Larry Dusich and ran for another six weeks.
Stained Glass is the true story of Kurt Fitzpatrick, a high school senior, athlete and altar server at St. Victor's, who seduced and had a secret affair with his priest, Father Michael Alden. The affair was discovered by the young man's mother just weeks before his eighteenth birthday and she sued the priest and the Church for the molestation of a minor. The priest's Bishop sends him away to a rustic Church retreat in the mountains to await trial. The story unfolds as they all meet at the cabin unexpectedly and their relationships explode in confrontation.
The show is published by Go With The Flo Productions and packaged as a complete kit with everything needed to mount a theatre group's production. The kit contains six bound scripts, sample publicity photo from the original production, sample press release prepared by a public relations firm and artwork, all on a CD for the producer's convenience.