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Funny People
Adam Sandler Agonistes: the trials and hypocrisies of Judd Apatow's Funny People
For years and years, I haven't really understood Adam Sandler's appeal, so the reason for his fame is a source of great and terrible wonder to me. In his 2008 article "Here Comes Everybody Again," A.O. Scott mostly boils it down to Sandler's endearing lack of acting ability that helps him popularize male immaturity:
"Mr. Sandler's special talent seemed to be that he didn't really have one. His unabashed lack of wit or polish was the basis of some oddly memorable routines, like the one in which he dressed in a cape and wig and howled in tuneless pseudo-Italian as Opera Man. . . . Nor has Mr. Sandler been alone, over the past 15 years or so, in turning male infantile aggression into the basis of a lucrative and long-running movie career . . . "
Perhaps another reason for Sandler's success can be inferred from the opening scene of You Don't Mess with the Zohan, where (as I put it in my review of the film), "Sandler (Zohan) plays hacky sack, performs some impressive (?) computer-generated stunts, and then arranges to have the sack land in his rear, whereupon a swooning woman in a bikini applauds uproariously."
Sandler's rear end and the unrealistic swooning woman are keys to this particular comedic equation. His lewd jokes get their extra kick from the way he also foregrounds his characters' wild success with the opposite sex, thereby giving the various 14-37 year old guys in the audience the fantasy that they too can be grotesquely immature Don Juans, something that I doubt happens very often in real life, but it makes for great ego-stroking in the darkness of the cineplex. Take a thirtyish guy with arrested-development, some schlemiel who lives in a dream of still getting to be famous somehow as he plays video games all day in his parents' house--Sandler's movies supply the perfect wish-fulfilment world of getting everything for doing nothing. Here the guy can regress to a readymade make-believe womb where he can baby talk with his ilk, throw tantrums, and still somehow win the Darwinian sweepstakes as the studly male seedbearer.
But now that Sandler has entered his 40s, there are signs that perhaps he's regretting this devil's deal of a film career. Like Woody Allen's character Sandy Bates in Stardust Memories, he's starting to look down on his comedic gift(?) and the alienating celebrity that comes with it. Somewhat like Bill Murray (although I hate to make that comparison), Sandler wants to try something else, something that may reflect the quandaries of fame, but his fan base's intractability won't allow it. He's locked in a kind of paradox: he would like to grow up, but the key to his success lies in the refusal to do so. You can see one sign of this maturing impulse in Click when Sandler attempted some Groundhog Day-esque pathos. As I wrote in a review at that time, "He may attempt King Lear, but he will still need enough flatulence to make it saleable."
So now, with the help of Judd Apatow, Sandler stars in the strangest movie of the summer, a film that frequently made my jaw drop as it mirrors Sandler's current celebrity and reflects back over his career. As George Simmons, Sandler has become disenchanted with the groupies, the stupid starring vehicles, and the many possessions (including a personal jet and the palatial waterfront estate where one can get lost), so he unrealistically hires a young nobody comic Ira Wright (Seth Rogen) as a personal assistant and a writer for his jokes. Apatow attempts to win sympathy for George by emphasizing the alienating effects of fame, the times when George has to stand and let people photograph him, his loneliness, lack of friends, etc., but it's very difficult to feel too bad for him, since he still enjoys rubbing the benefits of his success in Ira's face. Watching Sandler writhe around in his glass bubble, his playpen of success, made me feel both fascinated and queasy. In this time of economic hardship, are we supposed to feel sorry for him and his riches?
Perhaps in part to address this discrepancy, George contracts some mysterious leukemia-like cancer so he can soul-search and wonder what it all means, but the (spoiler alert) cancer disappears as easily as it arrives, becoming a conceit for several carpe diem moments more than anything else. Sandler persistently tries to perform in scenes that call for acting skills above his capability. In one, he tries to connect with long lost former flame Laura (Leslie Mann), but as they weep and carry on, George talks about how her hands always made his penis look small. Not only is his shtick not appropriate, he can't really handle the emotion. In his highly affirmative look at Funny People, Richard Brody writes:
"Sandler is one of the most unusual of today's younger performers; he's one of the few (and there are a few others) who has the solidity, the opacity of earlier generations of actors (indeed, of people), who, living in a more formal society, did not show their emotions readily or speak with instantly readable inflections."
Sandler's inflections are not instantly readable because he does not know how to act. Part of his appeal is predicated on the fact that he can't, but I agree with Brody that Apatow and the supporting cast lend Funny People a level of filmmaking craft and an emotional sensitivity unheard of in previous Sandler vehicles. Part of the weirdness of Sandler's work lies in the incongruity between his talentlessness and the many skillful people who help him with his movies. You keep watching these scenes where others act their heads off just to bump up against the flat affect of Sandler's line readings. One especially gets this feeling when Laura's Australian husband Clarke (Eric Bana) enters the picture late in a romantic triangle that seems tacked on. For his few scenes, Bana emotes circles around everyone else in the room, but in terms of the screenplay, his role seems tossed in to create some last second tension to the trumped up climax of the movie. At one point Clarke says of George, "He's really funny. Strange how his movies aren't funny." Just for acknowledging that point, one has to give Funny People some credit. I also liked it when Seth Rogen's character asked James Taylor "Don't you ever get tired of singing those songs over and over?" Taylor snaps back with "Don't you get tired of talking about your dick?"
These are important points of self-realization. Still, even with the film's insights into the psychology of stand-up performers, the a-list supporting players including Jonah Hill, Azziz Ansari, and Jason Schwartzman, Seth Rogen turning in one of his best performances, and Apatow's loving craft shaping every scene, all of this cannot entirely make up for the curious hollow sensation at the center of the movie. All of the mise en scene posters of W. C. Fields, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, John Belushi, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Bill Cosby, and Rodney Dangerfield cannot justify the presence of this pretender to the comedy throne and his agonies over his devil's deal, but it does make for an oddly thought-provoking summer movie.
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Richard Bellamy said…
This is impressive. I'm writing a review of the film - and I think we agree on a lot of points - but I'm approaching it as though I don't have any prior knowledge of Adam Sandler. If you knew nothing about Sandler's past career, what would you think of him in this film?
Your analysis of Sandler here is excellent. Yes, he's the weak link and, yet, in the middle of the film, I think he comes through with ... something. It IS a thought-provoking film - and I think I need to mull over some of those provoked thoughts before I finish my post.
Craig said…
Sandler generally does nothing for me, though I find him harmless enough. Yet I also think he's fascinating in Punch-Drunk Love -- or at least it's fascinating the way Anderson uses him, unearthing some pretty scary and disturbing anxiety and rage beneath the bland exterior. I'm surprised that movie hasn't been mentioned more in the reviews I've read about this one.
Also, a really minor thing, but it's Seth Rogen, not Rogan.
Thanks, Hokahey,
I don't know what I would think of Funny People without knowing about Adam Sandler's previous work, but certainly if I had never seen Mr. Deeds, my reaction would have been different. That's the chief problem with some of the massive praise I've seen for Funny People. How can the critics act as if Zohan never happened? The Merman snippets and the such make Sandler's previous work look so innocuous, but it isn't. I look forward to your review.
Craig,
Thanks for the spelling correction. I confess that I haven't seen Punch-Drunk Love (and I should).
Jason Bellamy said…
Tremendous analysis of Sandler's effect. You write: "His lewd jokes get their extra kick from the way he also foregrounds his characters' wild success with the opposite sex, thereby giving the various 14-37 year old guys in the audience the fantasy that they too can be grotesquely immature Don Juans."
That's true. And I think it transcends the Don Juan aspect. Sandler, like Chris Farley, delivers humor that just looks so easy, so unintelligent. Often it is. Sometimes it's smarter than it looks. (Steve Martin made a career out of the latter, before putting away the ridiculousness and making another career out of more distinguished comedy.)
Point is: Regardless of whether it helps get them chicks, the 'average guy' feels like Adam Sandler isn't all that different from them; perhaps even less impressive. And yet he makes them laugh. And thus he seems like a guy who could be your buddy from college.
That said, people have been saying that Apatow's humor is similarly of the everyman mentality. But, with the caveat that I haven't seen Funny People, I don't buy that. College kids obsessed with genitalia jokes? Fine. Guys in their late 20s acting that way? Get a fucking life. I don't know people like that, and I wouldn't want to. If confronted with them, I wouldn't think they were funny or charming, I'd think they were offensive losers.
But now I'm on a tangent. I need to see Funny People.
Thanks, Jason. You have helped me further understand Sandler's appeal. Oddly enough, in Funny People Apatow sometimes comments on Sandler's limitations without sugarcoating them. For instance, there's one moment when you can see Sandler and Rogen in a small jungle gym on the edge of Sandler's character's estate. They look like two overgrown kids in exile, and the image is almost poignant. Apatow gives us a grandiose privileged vision of adolescent loutishness now that Sandler has "entered" the pantheon of the great comics, and yet, like Woody Allen, Sandler disdains his earlier humorous stuff. With that attitude and his lack of talent as a serious actor, his movies can only get weirder and weirder. Watching Funny People is a bit like seeing Michelangelo try to make some sort of religious significance out of painting Spongebob Squarepants on the Sistine Chapel. For all of its artful effects, we are still just looking at a cartoon.
middlesex said…
Thanks for this funny movie. i think awesome actually i like it very much
Joel Bocko said…
Though I haven't seen them in a while I recall Happy Gilmore & Billy Madison being pretty funny. They are comparatively unpretentious (both were hits on video but largely ignored in theaters before Sandler "broke out" with The Wedding Singer & Waterboy) and manage somehow to be cleverly dumb - or so it seemed at the time. I think you should see these (though if anything, they're MORE despised by many critics than the later films) & Punch Drunk Love before writing Sandler off completely.
Funny People sounds compelling enough, though I won't be seeing it on the big screen. Actually, I think Apatow's world is more mature in a weird way because he actually tends to acknowledge his characters' immaturity, whereas in many other mainstream films we see adults acting out adolescent's fantasies of what it is to be a grown-up (nice home, emotions out front all the time - as Brody notes, strident desire to still be "cool" in a very high schoold definition of the word...). Maybe that's just because they're conceived and largely made in L.A., where perhaps the adults ARE mostly like overgrown adolescents - at least the successful ones? (Pure speculation, having never spent very long there...)
Movieman,
I think my problem with Sandler began when I incidentally watched Mr. Deeds one evening on video. I was more than appalled. What was Winona Ryder doing starring next to him? Who is this guy? I never saw his work before on Saturday Night Live or anything else, and he immediately struck me as something beyond not funny, a phenomenon that had dark implications for men everywhere. I think I sat through Punch-Drunk Love until his character started crying and then turned it off. Sandler gives me the howling fantods, so that's why it seems extra weird to see the guy try to break out of the comedic mold he made his fortune on. He has no basis for anything except being a drawling boob. I would be willing to grant, though, that my extreme dislike of Sandler may cloud my critical judgment some.
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Garnet Field Hockey Tripped Up By Gwynedd-Mercy 4-2
GWYNEDD VALLEY, Pa. - Despite continued production from the ever-more-relevant freshman class, the Swarthmore Garnet field hockey team (5-7, 2-2) could not sufficiently capitalize on ample scoring chances as it fell 4-2 to the Gwynedd-Mercy Griffins (8-5) on Sunday afternoon .
Freshman Nia Jones scored her team-leading seventh goal of the season in the 51st minute, while fellow freshman Aarti Rao also scored in the 60th minute. This marks second-consecutive game that Jones and Rao have accounted for all of the Garnet's scoring.
Rao scored the Garnet's second goal in the 60th minute.
Unlike Saturday's game, where the Swarthmore sticks were kept quiet until the second half, the Garnet came out shooting today, collecting eight shots through the first 35 minutes of play. Unfortunately, none of these shots found the back of the net, and, thanks to Griffins forwards Kate Johnson and Casey Dellostretto, Swarthmore found itself looking at a 2-0 deficit as the first half came to a close.
The offense again began to find its groove in the second half, outshooting Gwynedd-Mercy by a 9-7 margin and scoring twice on freshman Jones' team-leading seventh goal of the season and freshman Rao's third of the year. However, Gwynedd-Mercy freshman Maria Karidas scored twice in the half to ultimately put the game away for the Griffins.
The Garnet still continues to look much improved this season, as only an exceptional effort from Gwynedd-Mercy goalkeeper Kaylin Bassett, who faced 17 shots and recorded 10 saves in 70 minutes in goal, kept the Swarthmore squad from evening its record at 6-6 and equaling its highest win total since 2007.
In goal for Swat, senior Katie Ashmore made four saves.
Swarthmore will attempt to get back in the win column and jockey for Centennial Conference playoff position when it returns home to face Muhlenberg on Wednesday. Play is slated to begin at 4 pm.
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VCW Security is expanding to meet the increasing demand for IT security and infrastructure management solutions. The company has announced the appointment of Mark Thomas as Regional Sales Manager and Gordon Laverick as Senior Business Development Manager. In these new roles, they will be responsible for building relationships with the channel reseller partners and providing the highest level of support and assistance throughout the sales lifecycle.
Gordon Laverick is an IT industry veteran with over 27 years of this sector, a BA (hons) in System Analysis and a PGDip in Wireless and Mobile Networks. He joins direct from Garland Technology. Gordon has extensive experience of working with core, edge and mobile network infrastructures and was previously Managing Director of Ixia, a provider of testing, visibility and security solutions for physical and virtual networks.
Mark Thomas has over 12 years' sales experience of the IT sales and services sector and joins direct from Arrow ECS Distribution. There, as Business Development Manager, he helped to sustain the company's market leading status in IBM Education across the UK & Ireland, helping to achieve annual revenues of over £2.2m. Mark is also an experienced training services manager for Tier 1 and emerging vendors.


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SCHUMER, GILLIBRAND ANNOUNCE OVER $149 MILLION IN FED FUNDING TO AID NY STATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) And The HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME) Provides Essential Funds For Transformative Development Initiatives Across New York State
Programs Have Created Good-Paying Jobs By Supporting Local Housing And Development Projects, And By Investing In Neighborhood Rehabilitation
Senators: This Funding Creates Good Paying Jobs, Promotes Economic Development And Supports Affordable Housing Projects Across New York State
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $149,651,762 in federal funding for communities across New York. The funding was provided by the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD), which is part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Specifically, the funding comprises $72,988,441 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and $76,663,321 in HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME) funding.
"The Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnerships Programs are vital streams of investment that support local economic development, community revitalization and affordable housing. Without this non-replaceable funding, many local job-creating development projects that turned around upstate communities and boosted jobs might not be here today," said Senator Schumer. "This $149 million in funding is a big win for Upstate New York and will help cities, towns, villages, and hamlets throughout the state create good paying jobs, deliver essential services to families and seniors and support affordable housing. I will continue to fight with every fiber in my body to protect this critical investment for our communities and make sure New York gets the federal investment we need and deserve."
"Investing in economic development programs is essential to the health of our families and the economic strength of our communities," said Senator Gillibrand. "These federal funds will provide additional resources to move forward with ongoing projects to renovate and make long overdue repairs to aging infrastructure. The CDBG program plays an important role in revitalizing communities across New York, and I will always fight in the Senate to make sure that our communities have the resources necessary to invest in essential community development projects."
The CDBG and HOME funding was allocated through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Communities in New York State will use the funding to address a wide range of needs and enable local governments to support affordable housing initiatives, anti-poverty programs, and expand economic development. The CDBG program provides municipalities in New York with critical funding for transformative and unique development projects, and needed funding to leverage outside investment in job creation projects. The funds have played, and will continue to play, a critical role in facilitating local economic development in Upstate NY and putting local governments in a position to succeed. According to HUD, the CDBG program provides communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs. The CDBG program funds affordable housing projects, provides services to the most vulnerable members of our communities, and creates jobs through the expansion and retention of businesses. The CDBG program, received $3 billion from HUD, and the HOME program, received $950 million from HUD for FY17.
Schumer and Gillibrand said both programs are critical to New York's communities because they are capable of funding the kinds of business development, housing, and revitalization projects that are essential to the success of these local economies. HOME funding is the primary source of funding for state and local governments to buy and rehabilitate affordable housing. The program supports a variety of first-time homebuyer incentive programs, affordable housing initiatives for low- to moderate- income families, and other various neighborhood development efforts.
In September, Schumer and Gillibrand announced more than $13 million in funding for New York State. Additionally, earlier this year Schumer and Gillibrand fought to ensure that the bipartisan federal funding bill included funding for the CDBG and HOME programs. In June, Schumer and Gillibrand announced $376,888,300 in federal funding for communities across NY. Today's announcement is a result of the FY17 appropriations package, which allocated $3 billion to the CDBG program awarded $950 million to the HOME program marking major wins for Upstate NY. Schumer and Gillibrand pledged to protect CDBG and HOME funding because both programs provide an irreplaceable source of investment for economic development and affordable housing in Upstate NY.
CDBG funds are distributed to states, counties, villages, towns, and cities across the U.S. to fund development projects. According to HUD, the CDBG program funds affordable housing projects, provides services to the most vulnerable in communities and creates jobs through the expansion and retention of businesses. The CDBG program provides annual grants on a formula basis to over 1,200 general units of local and state governments.
HOME funds are distributed to villages, towns, cities and counties across the U.S. to fund housing and development projects. According to HUD, the HOME program provides grants to states and localities that communities use, often in partnership with local nonprofit groups or development companies. These communities and organizations then fund activities such as building, buying and rehabilitating affordable housing units for rent or homeownership. HOME is the largest federal block grant provided to state and local governments designed exclusively to create affordable housing.
A breakdown of the funding appears below:
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Introducing J-Man and Matt to the GEARS Crew, getting 7.5 MPG while hauling guns to the range, EPIC Drone footage and so much more!
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The GEARS CREW are back at it again, saving the world from the evils of ectoplasm and the Ghosts who cause it.
CMMG was kind enough to send us out the conversion kit to test along side the #WindhamProject. We wanted to bring the caliber count up from the stock 4 calibers of 5.56NATO,7.62x39mm,9mm and .300BLK to a fifth caliber with the .22lr conversion kit.
CMMG makes a few versions of this kit to handle the left handed rifles.
Just swap this drop in conversion with your bolt carrier group and you will be ready to shoot .22LR. Ships with 25rd 22LR magazine. All Stainless Steel Construction, includes a 25rd Magazine.
I think this is an awesome training aid. Trying to introduce people who have a fear of guns and mainly a fear of the AR platform can be at times difficult. This can be due to the noise or the simple fear of recoil hurting them.
I like being able to start someone off with a .22lr and getting them comfortable using one gun with one set of controls and then being able to graduate them to the .223/5.56 calibers. In other words, you can train on the gun that you will graduate to. This makes you comfortable with all the different parts of the gun that you will shoot long term. This is a great way to watch people get over their fear and really start to enjoy the sport.
I have to say, as an owner of over 15 different coolers, this is my best cooler to date.
The Roadie 20 is great for range days or car trips. This Yeti is for when you don't need to keep all your food and drinks together for a month long safari. The Yeti Roadie 20 is small, but when you are carrying out as much gear for a range day as I do, you don't want a monster ice chest taking up space. In our Texas heat, you just want something that will keep your drinks COLD! This fits the bill.
We can fill this Yeti with 16 bottles of water and 10 pounds of ice for a day trip.
You can pick up your very own at the link below: this is an affiliate link where we make a small commission on sales. This is one way that you can support this website, if you are going to purchase something anyway. We appreciate it too!
Here is a collection of what we thought were some of the best every day carry items (EDC) and Range Gear that we got photos of at the show.
or the lovely Black OPS made for the NRA.
Atticus James is traveling in India for the month of February. You can follow his adventures at AtticusJames.com. In the meantime, he has left all of his photos from Shot Show 2016 for those of us left behind to post for him. (This would explain any issues with photos being mislabeled. Apologies in advance if this happens).
By Atticus | January 18, 2016 - 9:09 pm | January 18, 2016 Cleaning Kit, Gun of the Day, Gun shows, INFO, Long Range, New Guns, NEW!!!, Products we like, Range Day, SHOT 2016, SHOT Show, Suppressors, Top 10, WANT!
The crew shot 960 meters for the first time with a .308 and rang a 16″ gong.
Silencerco had a .45-70 lever action suppressed, which was fun.
We used the Geissele AK enhanced trigger and made it our new favorite AK (sorry but this trigger is amazing and I need it for all of my AKs).
That one booth that had mints and they were tasty….
Kriss is talking about releasing new calibers such as the 10mm, 357SIG, .40S&W and .22lr.
My burrito was fairly tasty, minus the fact they put all the guac in the bottom and it wasn't mixed in. (sad face panda).
Click on the photo to see all the photos. We will get some captions uploaded at a later time. Just wanted to get the photos up for everyone to see what happened the first day of SHOT SHOW 2016. Stay tuned for updates!
While visiting with one of my cousins on a recent layover in Dallas, we started talking about her sister who works for Meade Instruments in the marketing department. I went home and checked out Meade's site. I had found they had a few sporting optics. I wondered why I had never heard of Meade before. I explored the website further and I looked into their sports optics. I found their target audience to lean more in the general sporting optics needs and astronomy.
I called my cousin and she set me up with a Meade Instruments Wilderness 20-60x100mm spotting scope. I requested the largest scope they make because we are trying to see 6 to 8mm holes at 200 yards. My general rule of thumb is, the bigger the optic the better chance of making out what we just hit.
Meade high-quality, 20-60 power, zoom porro prism binoculars deliver years of use.
Large 100mm objective gathers plenty of light for bright detailed images.
All Wilderness spotters feature high index BaK-4 prisms and high-quality, precision ground lenses that are coated with multiple layers of anti-reflection coatings to provide optical performance that is equal to, or better than any spotting scope in its class.
Each Wilderness spotting scope features a sliding sunshade to further reduce glare.
A rugged rubber armor covering protects your Wilderness spotting scope from abrasions and damage from regular use.
All Wilderness Series spotting scopes are waterproof, fog-proof, and nitrogen purged to ensure many years of performance regardless of the environment.
All Wilderness spotting scopes come standard with the soft case and camera adapter (requires T-Mount, not included).
I asked if they manufactured any of the scope parts or glass in the United States and sadly the answer is no as they manufacture in Mexico and China.
I used this scope during all of our range trips as well as during the September 2015 blood moon eclipse. We were fortunate enough to be able to see that event clearly here in Texas.
I own only one tripod. All of the others are owned by Clay, our videographer. My tripod is a super expensive one, a $9 deal, that I picked up on Amazon a few years back. I have only used cameras with this tripod prior to this and it had always been fine for that use.
This tripod however did not work well with the Meade Instruments spotting scope. The weight and balance of the Meade scope needs a better built tripod. With that said, the only time this was a big problem was when we used it for the lunar eclipse. Trying to keep the scope centered on the moon was challenging.
During all of our range trips, the scope was clear and crisp when defining each shot taken at 200yds. We only ran into trouble using it to define each hole in the paper at 300yds.
If you are planning on using this scope I would recommend a stronger tripod first and foremost. The scope performed well for us up to 200yards and that was our max. The MSRP is $380. I found the price of this scope to be about $260 online, which is a fair price in my opinion, for the quality of the scope. The scope comes with a carrying bag. As someone who had to carry out two trucks worth of gear for an average range day, I would definitely want to replace the bag with a hard case with foam. I like to keep my gear protected.
By Atticus | November 5, 2015 - 5:00 am | November 4, 2015 .45ACP, 2015, Ammunition, Christmas Gifts, Cleaning, Conceal Carry, EDC, Flashlight, Gift, Gifts, Glock, Hoilday Ideas, Magazines, Pistol Caliber, Pistols, Product reviews, Products we like, Rail Attachment, Range Day, Review, Semi-Auto, SHOT 2013, SHOT 2014, SHOT Show, Subcompact, WANT!
I like the idea of not trying to be in the first wave of bloggers to review a firearm. I prefer to wait a year after a product comes out to review it because it means I have a chance to request to spend more time with a firearm. That way I get to know it more mindfully without worrying about the other reviewers waiting in the long line to test a firearm out.
I own a few Glocks and my favorite of all of them is my Gen 2 G21 .45ACP 13 round pistol. I requested the Glock 30SF for review about 5 months back, after seeing it at SHOT Show 2014. I have always been someone who loves the .45ACP over just about any other pistol cartridge, because of the size of the round.
I like knowing I have the power and punch that comes with the .45ACP cartridge. The old saying about carry a bigger stick comes to mind. I do not believe that this love of the .45acp affects or deters my abilities to do my job when looking at different calibers with an objective view point. Let's face it, they are all fun to shoot.
As I said, I requested more time with this gun to get 1 or 2 more rounds down range. This brought my round count to around 2500 rounds of ball and jacketed hollow points. I never holstered this pistol, as I use a large frame drop leg holster at the range.
When I first pulled the Glock 30 SF out of the box, the empty mags wouldn't drop freely. I loaded the mags with 10 rounds each and fired all 20 rounds. After that, they had no problem falling free when I hit the mag release.
My groupings were better when I was running my Glock 21 mags out of the pistol because I had more real estate to grip the gun with allowing for better control. The 10 round mags just barely allowed for my pinky to be on the gun, not giving me as tight of a grip. The difference was a stray round left or right after shooting a few mags.
Normally I don't worry about keeping review guns clean after every range trip. I like to see how they handle and if they slow down as they get dirtier. I didn't do that with the Glock 30SF because I didn't feel there was a need to test something that had been shown for years that even dirty, they work.
I cleaned the gun after every range day and the most rounds put through it at any one time was 800 rounds of Federal American Eagle Pistol .45 ACP 230 Grain FMJ which in my opinion is decently "clean" ammo compared to the Wolf and Tula Steel case. There was just really no good reason to torture test this pistol. When I opened it up, I saw exactly what I expected.
One thing I have always noted with Glock is that they typically will shoot any brand or ammo type I run through them. I tested a box of brand new Tula steel case. After 5 light primer strikes without any ignition I switched the ammo to my 1911 and didn't have any problems with the ammo. I have seen this problem before using the Wolf barrel on my Glock 21. However, when using the factory barrel, this was never an issue. I believe this was caused by the Tula primers being seated deeper than spec.
· And a few other brands from people who shot the gun with ammo they brought.
The speed loader they ship is a good thought, in theory, but in my hands it was slow and frustrating to use. I was always faster hand loading each mag than using the speed loader provided.
When trying to load the .45s into the magazine you still have to push the previous round down as the loader doesn't offer enough room for the brass to slide in. The efforts are almost that of hand loading the mag without the use of your thumb on the round. This seems like more procedure and steps to just load one round.
I do own a Maglula for pistols I found that I was faster using that then by hand. The speed loader isn't bad; it just did not work well for me. A few of the other crew members had better luck with it. Everyone did agree, in the end that the Maglula was the fastest.
After getting out of college, my father and I figured if my sister was going to be living alone she needed a pistol to keep at her place. My sister has grown up around guns. She enjoys shooting with me every now and then.
She likes my Glock 21 and is a fairly decent shot with it. I did not want to part with my Glock 21. When I heard one of my friends was selling his Glock 22, I jumped on it and picked it up for a really great price. I thought about giving it to her, but I just like it too much.
My sister has always lived within a 40 minute drive from my folks so we were never worried about her. Recently she has been looking for another job outside of the state. She has also been expressing more and more interest in getting her conceal carry.
I looked at a few pistols for her but it always came back to wanting the .45acp. I view conceal carry pistols as something you should WANT to shoot. If you enjoy shooting it, you are more likely to train more with it than something you just carry because you were told to.
For Christmas I have ordered a Glock 30SF for her but now I am sitting here wishing I had ordered one for myself. You just can't have too many guns, right???
The Glock 30SF has a rail for a light or laser mount. I don't currently own any pistol lights or lasers due in part to the fact that I haven't found one that has sparked my interest yet. I honestly haven't looked that hard either. I am always open to recommendations.
I would equate the recoil to that of the larger Glock 21. This surprised me the first time I shot it as I was expecting a little harsher recoil. Later, I put one in each hand (the 21 and the 30SF) and I could feel that were pretty close to the same weight. I guess I should not have been surprised.
At this time in my life I do not conceal carry. 90% of the time I leave the house, the place I am going will not allow me to enter with a pistol. This makes for a tough choice for me, do I carry in my truck and risk someone breaking into the truck because it is older or do I leave my gun at home and just pray I am never in a place where I need it? I tend to keep my gun at home. One of the crew members is a police officer and I am normally within arm's length of him. On top of that I live in a good area with very low crime.
I want to tell you that my shot groups looked like I only hit the target with one round. The truth is, even if the gun was that accurate I am not that skillful. The subcompact design is not meant for competition shooters, it is meant for conceal carry. In a conceal carry situation you are not going to try and engage the target at 300 yards like you see in the movies. This pistol, for me, was just as accurate as any of my other Glocks. I can hit a man size silhouette at 50 yards.
I have been a fan of Glocks' for years (I know, you couldn't tell). The subcompact Glock 30 SF is just another in a long line of quality pistols they are known for. While picking up this pistol from my FFL I was asked if I wanted to purchase their Glock 43 Single Stack 9mm. My only comment was, why mess with 9mm when you can have the power of a .45acp?
I wish I could get more range time with this pistol just because it is fun to shoot. If you get the chance to send some lead down range running this pistol I highly recommend it.
As said earlier in this article, I will be gifting this gun to my sister. That being said, she has shot many different calibers and pistols. She knows how to handle her firearm and herself. She knows she prefers Glocks. This was an easy choice for me.
As it is getting closer to the holiday season I would like to add this word of advice to anyone thinking about buying any pistol as a gift. If the person you are purchasing for owns a lot of firearms as it is and you know for fact they are comfortable with different pistols, go for it. If not, please think about taking them to a store and seeing if they like the pistol first.
I have seen too many couples at the range, where the guy bought a pistol for his significant other without letting her size the gun up first. I see them getting into situations that makes everyone uncomfortable. It can occasionally put them and others in harm's way since they cannot handle the firearm yet.
Buying a caliber that someone is not comfortable with shooting yet can cause people to be turned off by shooting. It can even cause them to mishandle the firearm and put themselves and other people in a dangerous situation.
Introducing someone to a firearm first is always the safer bet so they get a chance to have some hands on time. They can say whether they like the weight and if they like how the gun shoots. I know you are not always able to test first a gun before you buy it, but it is worth renting that caliber firearm first. I strongly recommend letting the gift receiver try it out at the range to see how they respond. This is always a smart idea. Firearms make a wonderful gift, just make sure it's a wonderful experience.
By Atticus | June 3, 2015 - 5:00 am | June 7, 2016 .30 caliber, .30-06SPRG, .308Win, 1919, 2015, Ammunition, Cleaning, CREW, Distance Shooting, First Impressions, Gun, Gun of the Day, History, Machine Gun, Military Arms, NEW!!!, Ohio Ordnance Works, PanzerFaust, Pelican, Pistols, Product reviews, Products we like, Range Day, REALLY?!?!, Review, Rifles, Semi-Auto, SHOT 2014, SHOT Show, Stocks, Story, Tools, WANT!
Before I talk about this 1919A4 belt fed firearm I have to talk about Ohio Ordnance Works. I have never met them in person but I can tell you I have the upmost respect for the men and women of this company. Normally when working with a firearm manufacturer I work with one person and if I have any problems they are the only one I can contact to get a problem resolved. This company however is not like that. When I had a problem with the 1919 on a Tuesday morning I did not speak to my contact Bob Conroy I spoke with the owner directly. I will talk more about that a little later on and help further explain why I have to open with these comments.
The OOW M1919A4 is classified as a belt fed rifle. The machine gun classification is for full auto only, making this gun a semi auto and available without a NFA tax stamp.
As many of you may have already seen and heard, Ohio Ordnance Works has redesigned the BAR and made it their H.C.A.R. (Heavy Counter Assault Rifle). This is a very cool looking rifle but it honestly was not the first thing that peaked my interest when I first came to their website. While scrolling through their guns I saw the semi auto 1919A4 Bundle which is a SEMI AUTO belt fed tripod rifle. Side note: this means you cannot put the sig stabilizing brace on this and turn it into a pistol (I found this out at my FFL holders shop when I told him all the cool kids were making pistols and I wanted one too). When I saw that, the first thing that went through my head was this is AWESOME! who doesn't want to own a belt fed gun? and that is when I saw the price. $3,997. I honestly figured they would have this priced to be closer to $7000+. On top of all of that, the gun at the bottom of the page is a 1919A4 with a Cleaning Kit, Manual, Headspace & Timing Gage, and the .308 Trunnion Shield for $2500.
YOU ARE TELLING ME I CAN OWN A BELT FED RIFLE FOR THE SAME PRICE AS 2.5 AR-15s? Sign me up!
Let me put two images in your head.
2. You pull up to your private range, back up into your bay, unload a 1919 A4 out of your truck and not give a s**t about what anyone else thinks because you own a belt fed tripod rifle of glory?
When my gunsmith got the M1919A4 in he told me he saw the parcel service driver spending more time than normal in the back of the truck so he walked outside to see what the deal was and the driver told him he needed to get his dolly to carry this box into the shop. My gun smith told him that he didn't need to worry he would just help him carry it in. In his words, "that was a mistake".
The pelican case isn't grossly over heavy but it's a long case that is meant to be carried using the handles or rolled using the built in wheels, making it easy to move. In the cardboard box it was heavy and awkward.
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When the rifle first came in Ohio Ordnance Works was out of stock of the linker so they shipped it without one. The crew and I had plans to get this gun on the range as quick as possible because it was going to rust from all the drooling if we didn't.
I called over one of the guys to come help me hand load 500 rounds and I can tell you from experience this is a bloody ordeal and I am thankful I never have to do that with this gun ever again. It took two people about an hour of linking to get all the belts made (we made them into 40 round belts.) When we got the linker in a few days later, it took me 23 minutes by myself to do the same amount.
As I said, we shot 1000+ rounds of .308 through the M1919A4. It was the most fun you can have without full auto.
I tried both the spade grip as well as the standard grip and both of them are fun to shoot. I think I like the standard grip more because it means I don't have to take the M1919A4 down to put it back in its case… maybe I am just lazy.
This gun comes with a membership to videos on how to change the barrel and take apart the gun and they do a much better job at explaining this than I can. I will say I have watched the videos every time I have cleaned this gun and when I had to fix the gun to insure I don't miss anything. The videos are helpful and comprehensive.
I am happy about breaking the gun because of the experience I had afterwards. I hate breaking guns. I know as a reviewer I can be hard on gun but normally we know their limits and where the maximum amount of safe operating abuse is and we err on the side of caution. This however was not abuse. We were still warming the M1919A4 up when it bent.
This killed the mood at the range. Since this is a review gun and it was a weekday morning I called Ohio Ordnance Works to try and figure out what had happened. I spoke with the young lady who answered the phone and she told me, Bob Conroy wasn't in the office. She transferred me to Mr. Landies instead. Under stress, my vocabulary resorts to almost grunting so when Mr. Landies got on the phone and started helping me he was very understanding at my lost of proper terminology and told me that a picture is worth 1000 words or in my case 3 words and a grunt. So I e-mailed a photo of the bent part and he e-mailed me back just a few minutes later asking for a shipping address.
The following day I had my whole family over for lunch. When I got a knock at my door from the shipper with the part, you might say I was very surprised. I had figured I wouldn't get this gun fixed for a few days at a minimum, but they overnighted the part to me. This blew me away, no one does that. No one ships you the part overnight unless it is a dire emergency. To say the least, I was impressed.
About a month ago, while on Instagram, I saw that Ohio Ordnance Works had posted a picture of a gentleman holding a beautiful rifle with the caption of Happy birthday boss… Mr. Landies. As it turns out I wasn't transferred to some shop floor guy who builds the rifles but to the owner of the company. Again… no one does that.
After fixing the gun we took it back on the range a few weeks later and the gun ran like a champ.
The gun is battle tested. I never had any doubts that this was a good gun, if it wasn't, it would not still be in service all over the world.
While owning this 1919A4 only makes me feel cooler in my head, I know that I will not be taking this out to the range every Sunday. I know that it is a special occasion gun than is very expensive to just play with.
This is a gun that has a lot of history attached to it and since Ohio Ordnance Works has made this M1919A4 to be as affordable to own as possible I think it is a very nice piece to have in anyone's collection. Plus, when your friends are bragging that they own a Tavor or a SCAR 17 you can just look at them and say "that's cute, I own a belt fed tripod rifle".
I have been very impressed with this company from the first time I spoke with them on the phone. They have always been very helpful and ready to work with us. I know I say this a lot, but I truly love the gun community. There is, bar none, not a single community with more caring and awesome people.
By Atticus | May 12, 2015 - 6:00 am | September 9, 2018 .45ACP, 1911, 2015, Cleaning, Conceal Carry, CREW, First Impressions, Gift, Gifts, Glock, Gun, History, Holsters, Magazines, Pistols, Product reviews, Products we like, Range Day, Range Gear, Remington, Review, SHOT 2014, SHOT Show, Story, Tools, WANT!
When I was younger I fancied myself a "Glock" man. In all of the debates with my friends I held true to my Glock fandom and that there wasn't a 1911 on the face of this earth that could sway me. I have grown up a lot since then and I have experienced one or maybe two more guns since I was a youth. As I have matured and become a reviewer, I know that my tastes and knowledge has grown with me. I have been on the hunt for a 1911 that I could put the Atticus James stamp of approval on for about 2 years now, and I can say I have finally found it.
Before I get to reviewing this gun I wanted to share a story with you. As some of you know, I name my guns like they are my children and each firearm has a name that relates to a part of the gun and how it came to be mine.
On Valentine's Day 2015, I picked up the Remington R1 1911 and the OOW 1919 (it was my month of ordering firearms designed in the 1900s). I opened the Remington pistols' hard case and saw the gun for the first time. I instantly knew her name. Cupids Bow (Cupid for short). Because if Cupid was real it wouldn't carry bow and arrows, it would carry this .45ACP, so when you get hit with love it feels like a Mac truck just hit you. This is how I felt when I first held the Remington R1 Enhanced and again when I first shot this pistol. Love hitting me like a Mac truck.
I am not a good shot with pistols at anything farther than maybe 10 feet. I am working at getting my accuracy better but it has taken time. When we first took the Remington R1 Enhanced out to the range we were working in our back bay that goes out to 182 yards. We had been shooting our OOW 1919 out to the 50 yard line. We had to take a break from the 1919 and moved over to pistols for a bit. After shooting about 250 rounds down at the 7 yard with the Remington R1 Enhanced I decided to ring steel at 10y and 25 yards. I felt super confident after ringing in the silhouette at 25 yards. I wanted to try my hand at 50. After about 3 shots of walking up I rang the steel. For some of you this is nothing and I understand that, but for me this was AWESOME!
When I moved over to the knockdown plate rack I was averaging about 90% hit rate at 10 yards. I let my sister try this pistol out and she noted it was heavy when she first picked it up but after shooting the gun and seeing how the weight helped her follow up shots I think the heaviness didn't bother her after that. The crew got some time behind the gun and I heard things like "they can take this from my cold dead hands" "dibs" "do you think Atticus would notice it missing if I sneak it under my shirt and take it home".
I don't like the prickliness of the grips. I understand the reason being that it adds more slip resistance, but I am not a fan. I found that the screws were loose on the grips when I got the gun. After tightening them they haven't backed out once.
After the first day of shooting, the muzzle was very caked with carbon and powder. I always use M Pro 7 cleaner on my guns and after taking the Remington R1 down and spraying everything with cleaner all the carbon just wipes off and returned the gun to a shiny new-ish gun.
When shooting the next 1500 round (maybe 200 rounds in) is when we had our first and only failure to fire. I was being bad and using an old box of Tula and I believe the round was just bad. After cleaning the gun it is still shiny and looks new. The fiber optic front sight needed to be cleaned with a q-tip but still is red and very visible .
I have been using Blazer 230 Gr FMJ .45 Auto ammo in my .45s for years now and I have never really had any problems with it. I used 1600 round of Blazer, 50 rounds of Tula Ammo 45 ACP 230 Gr. FMJ Steel Case, 50 rounds of HPR .45 AUTO 230 JHP (the round I used to hit steel at 50 yards) and the last 300 rounds was Monarch brass .45 ACP FMJ.
Remington ships a plastic barrel bushing wrench with the pistol making the take down easier. The gun takes down just like any other 1911.
I have a Geissele Super Semi-Automatic Enhanced (SSA-E) Trigger in my AR-15. I have been complimented on this trigger more times than I can remember. The Remington R1 Enhanced Trigger is very similar. The trigger had a little more play left and right then I like but the pull and the reset are crisp and clean. It is like drinking a nice cold glass of water on a hot summer day. This trigger quenches that thirst like very few can.
The adjustable rear sight and fiber-optic front sight (red) make for an easy to see and quick to draw sight picture. Out of the box the pistol was dead on at 25 yards. When holstering this pistol in my drop leg holster I never had any problems with it snagging on the front sight. I never carried this pistol concealed because I do not have a holster to fit this gun.
In the case, it has a cut out that I could not figure out for the life of me what went there.
As to why anyone would store this in the hard case is beyond me but I guess if you are wanting to give this as a gift with the tool included it would make for a nice one piece gift.
The Remington R1 Enhanced is a custom factory made gun. Fit and finish on this pistol makes that apparent.
I loved this gun. I have never shot Remington's other 1911s but my gunsmith said he has never been happy with them and that he only liked what Remington had done with the R1 Enhanced.
2000 Rounds and only one issue is good odds. Especially if that was only due to bad ammo.
At $940 MSRP it is hard to beat the price for a custom gun. While this gun would make for a nice piece to display it is also a firearm you could can shoot day in and day out.


The next time an American "mate" asks you to "ring" her on her "mobile" about renting your "flat" during your "holiday," it's fair to ask, have we all become Madonna?
Apparently, Americans are watching too many BBC TV shows. And they like to sound posh.
Wow, that's amusing 😛 So used to the opposite.
Yeah, funny to see it from the other side.


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By Yisrael Medad
Jews in self-destruct mode
(JNS)—Increasingly, I perceive Diaspora Jewish communities inexorably moving into a self-destruct mode on several fronts.
David Rothkopf, a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, has published "this government of Israel and what it stands for must be opposed in every way possible, including, given the absence of other effective options, boycotts... [as] its acts have not only undermined its legitimacy...
"...[it is a] country part of one of the most dangerous movements afoot on the planet today."
In the past, there were Jews who rejected any national Jewish identity, preferring to be but a religious community, albeit quite non-Orthodox. Their anti-Zionism had nothing to do with what Jews were doing in Eretz Yisrael; rather, they saw them there as just another Diaspora community, even worthy of philanthropic help, though they could make no demands on the rest of world Jewry. There were ultra-Orthodox whose theology rejected any human-created nationalism.
Today, there are Jews who have shed their Judaism for political and ideological substitutions for both religion (their's is "liberalism") and any form of nationalism, preferring a globalization orientation. Israel, asserting rights to a territory and more than willing to use its military power to actively defend itself and Jewish lives, is confronting another presumptive national-identity narrative, what I term Palestinianism, a false narrative that unnerves them in the cultural and social circles they move in.
Faced with this over the past decade, the Jewish establishment has collapsed, permitting more and more corrosive machinations to control campus life, communal activities and the institutions that run them.
This was published in 2008, and while specific to Toronto, my reading over the past decade indicates that a similar malaise has spread all across the American college campus system. It includes the canceling of Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely's appearance, which was a nadir:
"Hillel at the University of Toronto has a key influence on Jewish campus life. The local Jewish Federation, United Jewish Appeal, which is the principal financial benefactor of Hillel, permits a non-confrontational non-approach to the annual event [Israel Apartheid Week]. Hillel does not actively respond to accusations against Israel, or to the protests on campus. Instead, the campus group creates feel-good programming about Israel which, while obviously important, does not directly address the dissemination of misinformation on campus which directly target Israel."
And when a group takes up the cudgels to push back, we have The Forward "exposing" the Canary Mission and other anti-BDS efforts in a negative, put-down tone. It was reported that Barnard College was due to host members of the Ramallah-based Addameer group with apparent ties with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terrorist organization. How do supposedly smart and intelligent people permit the poisoning of student minds—all students and not just Jewish ones?
However, it is not just on the Israel-Zionism front that I perceive a self-destruct mode. Here is Deborah Dash Moore, a professor of American Jewish history at the University of Michigan, commenting on what should now be the emphasis on sociological polling now that Stephen Cohen is out:
"Stop assuming that there are gradations of being Jewish that make one better than the other, that intermarriage is a bad thing or that intermarriage is a good thing."
Judaism is simply being de-Judaized.
Dropping links with Zionism and Israel—while at the same time adopting forms of Judaism that insist on contemporary forms of behavior not necessarily linked to tradition and moral values created from post-modern philosophies—are but acts of assimilation. Add to that a distinct unwillingness to entertain educational, and yes, hasbara-based programs dealing with Israel's post-1967 reality, basically accepting that Israel and Jews are engaged in wrongful behavior in Judea and Samaria; after all, Birthright does not travel to the Jewish communities or discuss Jewish national rights to its historical homeland, and Hillel rarely hosts such a speaker. In this light, the funders, lay leaders, rabbis and educators are digging their own graves and those of the younger generation for which they are responsible.
This self-destruct vortex is feeding itself, and the Jewish establishment seems incapable of pulling itself and the community out. Worse, they have found whom to blame: Israel.
Yisrael Medad is an American-born Israeli journalist and author.
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The U.S. Virgin Islands offers one financial incentive for energy efficiency. The territory encourages the use of energy service performance contracts for public facilities, but otherwise does not lead by example.
Financial incentive information for the U.S. Virgin Islands is provided by the Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIRE U.S. Territories). Information about additional incentives not present on DSIRE is listed here.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Rebate Program: Residential rebate program for select ENERGY STAR products and solar hot water heaters.
The Virgin Islands Energy Office promotes and administers energy savings performance contracts for territorial government agencies and provides technical assistance to government instrumentalities. The Energy Office also maintains a list of prequalified ESCOs.
The Virgin Islands Building Codes require compliance with the 2009 IECC for residential and commercial new construction. The territory provides training to ensure code compliance.
The Virgin Islands Building Codes require compliance with the 2009 IECC for residential new construction.
The Virgin Islands Building Codes require compliance with the 2009 IECC for commercial new construction.
Training/Outreach: The Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) - Division of Building Permits (DPNR) has hired and trained inspectors assigned exclusively to energy code compliance in each district. The Virgin Islands Energy Office and DPNR has conducted IECC code compliance training for inspectors, architects, engineers, and contractors. One-on-one instruction on COMcheck and REScheck software is provided by phone, email and in person through DPNR staff.
The U.S. Virgin Islands have limited policies to encourage CHP.
Electricity generation and distribution in the U.S. Virgin Islands is managed by the Water and Power Authority (WAPA), an independent governmental agency. Currently, there are no energy efficiency programs available to customers in the U.S. Virgin Islands. No regulatory mechanisms are in place to incentivize investments in energy efficiency at the utility level.
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use Tests\Llaumgui\CheckToolsFramework\PhpUnitHelper;
use Llaumgui\CheckToolsFramework\CheckTool\YamlCheckTool;
use Symfony\Component\Finder\Finder;

class YamlheckToolTest extends PhpUnitHelper
{

    /**
     * Check if YAML is valide
     */
    public function testDoCheck()
    {
        // Load CheckTool
        $config = $this->yamlLoader('check_tools_framework.yml');
        $yamlCheckTool = new YamlCheckTool($config['check_tools_framework']['check_tools']['yaml']);

        // Get testing files
        $finder = new Finder();
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            ->name('/\.yml/')
            ->depth(0);

        $count = 0;
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                $count++;
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Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contained veiled criticisms of the Communist regime which landed her on government watch lists. Her past continued to permeate her work and her life, as she said, "You can only fight sorrow when you look it in the eye." August is Christa Wolf's last piece of fiction, written in a single sitting as an anniversary gift to her husband. In it, she revisits her stay at a tuberculosis hospital in the winter of 1946, a real life event that was the inspiration for the closing scenes of her 1976 novel Patterns of Childhood. This time, however, her fictional perspective is very different. The story unfolds through the eyes of August, a young patient who has lost both his parents to the war. He adores an older girl, Lilo, a rebellious teenager who controls the wards. Sixty years later, August reflects on his life and the things that she taught him. Written in taut, affectionate prose, August offers a new entry into Christa Wolf's work and, incidentally, her first and only male protagonist. More than a literary artifact, this new novel is a perfectly constructed story of a quiet life well lived. For both August and Christa Wolf, the past never dies.
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Christa Wolf was one of Germany's most celebrated post-war writers. She grew up during Nazi rule and spent most of her adulthood in communist East Germany, where she increasingly came to question ideologies through her writing. In 1989, she was an instrumental figure in the protests leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall. She has been awarded many prizes, among them the Büchner Prize of the German Academy of Language and Poetry (1980), the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1985) and the Geschwister-Scholl-Prize of the city of Munich (1987). Christa Wolf died in Berlin in 2011.
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Saturday Night at Sea by George Cruikshank 1841
Sea Shanties and Maritime Music Days
Remembrance of the 51st Highland Division, 1940
Reel of the 51st Division
The Fiddler on the Capstan
"And it's windy weather, boys, stormy weather, boys
When the wind blows, we're all together, boys;
Blow ye winds westerly, blow ye winds, blow
Jolly sou'wester, boys, steady she goes"
~ Scottish Sea Shanty
Can you "sing out at a rope"? Would you have been tempted to run away to sea had you lived in the past? If so, you could start your life as a cabin boy and work your way up to admiral as did many famous personages such as Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson! If you were a cabin boy, you would have learned many sea shanties. The word "shanty" is likely derived from the French verb to sing, "chanter". With the rhythmic beat keeping the teamwork synchronized, singing shanties helped sailors go about their tasks on board like hauling ropes or raising the anchor. Shanties were divided into several categories, named after the work they were used for. There were long haul shanties and short haul shanties for long and short rope pulling. There were windlass shanties for pumping out leaked in water and capstan shanties for raising and lowering the anchor. There was also a fifth kind of sailor song, Foc'sle, forecastle or forebitters, which were songs sung after the work was over. They were named after the sailor's living quarters, where they would gather around to drink and sing wild ballads. The earliest examples of what is recognized as shanties can be found in Complaynt of Scotland (1549) with songs for "raising the anchor", "heaving on the bowline", and "hoisting the lowyard." Many maritime music festivals are celebrated throughout the year, including prominent ones in Falmouth and Liverpool in the UK; Mystic, CT and Portsmouth NH, and many others!
A shanty is a rhythmic work song, sung by labourers as they work in large groups at hard, repetitive work.
Sea shanties first and foremost served a practical purpose. The rhythmic cadence of the shanty would synchronise the movements of the sailors as they worked. This was necessary when, for example, weighing anchor or pulling up sails required a strong force of unified strength.
The songs also brought a feeling of solidarity to the crew, and could be uplifting to the spirits of the sailors. Many sailors of old had not joined voluntarily but had been press-ganged into service, and music providing a bit of solace and distraction as dissent and mutiny had to be avoided at all costs.
See below for a video of the dance performed by the Berkhamsted Strathspey And Reel Club in 2013.
And for more fascinating facts about sea shanties, click the cabin boy and his mop, 1799.


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Chevalier, Mattias
KTH, Skolan för teknikvetenskap (SCI), Mekanik.
Hoepffner, Jérôme
Åkervik, Espen
Henningson, Dan S.
Linear feedback control and estimation applied to instabilities in spatially developing boundary layers2007Ingår i: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, ISSN 0022-1120, E-ISSN 1469-7645, Vol. 588, s. 163-187Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
This paper presents the application of feedback control to spatially developing boundary layers. It is the natural follow-up of Hogberg & Henningson (J. Fluid Mech. vol. 470, 2002, p. 151), where exact knowledge of the entire flow state was assumed for the control. We apply recent developments in stochastic models for the external sources of disturbances that allow the efficient use of several wall measurements for estimation of the flow evolution: the two components of the skin friction and the pressure fluctuation at the wall. Perturbations to base flow profiles of the family of Falkner-Skan-Cooke boundary layers are estimated by use of wall measurements. The estimated state is in turn fed back for control in order to reduce the kinetic energy of the perturbations. The control actuation is achieved by means of unsteady blowing and suction at the wall. Flow perturbations are generated in the upstream region in the computational box and propagate in the boundary layer. Measurements are extracted downstream over a thin strip, followed by a second thin strip where the actuation is performed. It is shown that flow disturbances can be efficiently estimated and controlled in spatially evolving boundary layers for a wide range of base flows and disturbances.
Hoepffner, Jerome
KTH, Tidigare Institutioner, Mekanik.
Control and estimation of wall bounded flow systems2004Licentiatavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
This thesis focuses on the application of linear feedback control and estimation to channel flow. Both the initial stage of the transition and the low Reynolds number turbulent cases are studied. From sensors at the wall, the state of the flow is estimated, using a stochastic description of the flow disturbances. The estimated state is in turn fed back to the flow system in order to achieve a control objective. This model based scheme uses the linearised Navier-Stokes equations as a dynamic model for the flow evolution. The emphasis is here put on the estimation procedure, that was so far the limiting factor for the overall control performance. We show that the estimation performance rely on a correct description of the flow disturbances. We apply model reduction on the controller, and show that we can maintain the control performance even with a highly truncated system. We then introduce a representation of the feedback by means of transfer functions, and discuss the implication of the transfer function for the interpretation of the feedback, and for possible implementation of the control loop.
Hoepffner, Jeróme
Control of cavity-driven separated boundary layer2006Ingår i: Proceedings of the Conference on active flow control, Berlin, September 2006, 2006Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
Modeling flow statistics using convex optimization2005Ingår i: 2005 44TH IEEE CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL & EUROPEAN CONTROL CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-8, 2005, Vol. 1-8, s. 4287-4292Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
A method is proposed to estimate the covariance of disturbances to a stable linear system when its state covariance is known and a dynamic model is available. This is an issue of fundamental interest for estimation and control of fluid mechanical systems whose dynamics is described by the linearized Navier-Stokes equations. The problem is formulated in terms of a matrix norm minimisation with linear matrix inequality constraint, and solved numerically by means of alternating convex projection. The method is tested on covariance estimation in a low Reynolds number channel flow.
Bewley, T. R.
State estimation in wall-bounded flow systems: P. I Laminar flows2005Ingår i: Journal of fluid mechanics, ISSN 0022-1120, Vol. 534, s. 263-394Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
In applications involving the model-based control of transitional wall-bounded flow systems, it is often desired to estimate the interior flow state based on a history of noisy measurements from an array of flush-mounted skin-friction and pressure sensors on the wall. This paper considers this estimation problem, using a Kalman filter based on the linearized Navier-Stokes equations and appropriate stochastic models for the relevant statistics of the initial conditions, sensor noise and external disturbances acting on the system. We show that a physically relevant parameterization of these statistics is key to obtaining well-resolved feedback kernels with appropriate spatial extent for all three types of flow measurement available on the wall. The effectiveness of the resulting Kalman and extended Kalman filters that implement this feedback is verified for both infinitesimal and finite-amplitude disturbances in direct numerical simulations of a perturbed laminar channel flow. The consideration of time-varying feedback kernels is shown to be particularly advantageous in accelerating the convergencc of the estimator from unknown initial conditions. A companion paper (Part 2) considers the extension of such estimators to the case of fully developed turbulence.
Hoepffner, Jerôme
Chevalier, M.
Henningson, Dan
State estimation in wall-bounded flow systems: P. II Turbulent flows2006Ingår i: Journal of fluid mechanics, ISSN 0022-1120, Vol. 552, s. 167-187Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
This work extends the estimator developed in Part I of this study to the problem of estimating a turbulent channel flow at Re-tau=100 based on a history of noisy measurements on the wall. The key advancement enabling this work is the development and implementation of an efficient technique to extract, from direct numerical simulations, the relevant statistics of an appropriately defined 'external forcing' term on the Navier-Stokes equation linearized about the mean turbulent flow profile. This forcing term is designed to account for the unmodelled (nonlinear) terms during the computation of the (linear) Kalman filter feedback gains in Fourier space. Upon inverse transform of the resulting feedback gains computed on an array of wavenumber pairs to physical space, we obtain, as in Part 1, effective and well-resolved feedback convolution kernels for the estimation problem. It is demonstrated that, by applying the feedback so determined, satisfactory correlation between the actual and estimated flow is obtained in the near-wall region. As anticipated, extended Kalman filters (with the nonlinearity of the actual system reintroduced into the estimator model after the feedback gains are determined) outperform standard (linear) Kalman filters on the full system.
Stability and control of shear flows subject to stochastic excitations2006Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
In this thesis, we adapt and apply methods from linear control theory to shear flows. The challenge of this task is to build a linear dynamic system that models the evolution of the flow, using the Navier--Stokes equations, then to define sensors and actuators, that can sense the flow state and affect its evolution. We consider flows exposed to stochastic excitations. This framework allows to account for complex sources of excitations, often present in engineering applications. Once the system is built, including dynamic model, sensors, actuators, and sources of excitations, we can use standard optimization techniques to derive a feedback law. We have used feedback control to stabilize unstable flows, and to reduce the energy level of sensitive flows subject to external excitations.
Brandt, L.uca
Transient growth on boundary layer streaks2005Ingår i: Journal of fluid mechanics, ISSN 0022-1120, Vol. 537, s. 91-100Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
The linear perturbations evolving on streamwise boundary layer streaks which yield maximum energy growth are computed. The steady and spanwise-periodic streaks arising from the nonlinear saturation of optimally growing streamwise vortices are considered as base flow. It is shown that significant transient growth may occur for both sinuous antisymmetric perturbations and for varicose symmetric modes. The energy growth is observed at amplitudes significantly below the threshold beyond which the streaks become linearly unstable and is largest for sinuous perturbations, to which the base flow considered first become unstable. The optimal initial condition consists of velocity perturbations localized in the regions of highest shear of the streak base flow, tilted upstream from the wall. The optimal response is still localized in the areas of largest shear but it is tilted in the flow direction. The most amplified perturbations closely resemble the unstable eigenfunctions obtained for streaks of higher amplitudes. The results suggest the possibility of a transition scenario characterized by the non-modal growth of primary perturbations, the streaks, followed by the secondary transient growth of higher frequency perturbations. The implication for turbulent flow is also discussed.
KTH, Skolan för teknikvetenskap (SCI), Mekanik. KTH, Skolan för teknikvetenskap (SCI), Centra, Linné Flow Center, FLOW.
Bewley, T
Henningson, Dan S
Linear feedback control of transition in shear flows2006Ingår i: Sixth IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition / [ed] Govindarajan, R, DORDRECHT: SPRINGER , 2006, Vol. 78, s. 213-218Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
This work focuses on the application of linear feedback control to transition to turbulence in shear flows. The controller uses wall-mounted sensor information to estimate the flow disturbances and uses wall actuators to prevent transition to turbulence. The flow disturbances are induced by external sources of perturbations described by means of a stochastic volume forcing. We show that improved performance can be achieved if the proper destabilisation mechanisms are targeted.
Brandt, Luca
Marxen, Olaf
Schlatter, Philipp
Steady solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations by selective frequency damping2006Ingår i: Physics of fluids, ISSN 1070-6631, E-ISSN 1089-7666, Vol. 18, nr 6, s. 068102-Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
A new method, enabling the computation of steady solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in globally unstable configurations, is presented. We show that it is possible to reach a steady state by damping the unstable (temporal) frequencies. This is achieved by adding a dissipative relaxation term proportional to the high-frequency content of the velocity fluctuations. Results are presented for cavity-driven boundary-layer separation and a separation bubble induced by an external pressure gradient.
Uwe, Eherenstein
IRPH́E, Université de Provence.
Optimal growth, model reduction and control in a separated boundary-layer flow using global eigenmodes2007Ingår i: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, ISSN 0022-1120, E-ISSN 1469-7645, Vol. 579, s. 305-314Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
Two-dimensional global eigenmodes are used as a projection basis both for analysing the dynamics and building a reduced model for control in a prototype separated boundary-layer flow. In the present configuration, a high aspect ratio smooth cavity-like geometry confines the separation bubble. Optimal growth analysis using the reduced basis shows that the sum of the highly non-normal global eigenmodes are able to describe a localized disturbance. Subject to this worst-case initial condition, a large transient growth associated with the development of a wavepacket along the shear layer followed by a global cycle related to the two unstable global eigenmodes is found. The flow simulation procedure is coupled to a measurement feedback controller, which senses the wall shear stress at the downstream lip of the cavity and actuates at the upstream lip. A reduced model for the control optimization is obtained by a projection on the least stable global eigenmodes, and the resulting linear-quadratic-gaussian controller is applied to the Navier--Stokes time integration. It is shown that the controller is able to damp out the global oscillations.
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import json
import time

from vial import vfunc, vim
from vial.utils import focus_window
from vial.helpers import echoerr
from vial.widgets import make_scratch
from vial.compat import PY2, iteritems, bstr

if PY2:
    import urllib
    import urlparse
    import httplib
    from cStringIO import StringIO
else:
    from http import client as httplib
    from urllib import parse as urllib
    from urllib import parse as urlparse
    from io import BytesIO as StringIO

from .util import (get_headers_and_templates, send_collector, prepare_request,
                   PrepareException, render_template, Headers, pretty_xml,
                   get_connection_settings, CookieJar)

CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 5
READ_TIMEOUT = 30
XML_FORMAT_SIZE_THRESHOLD = 2 ** 20

def sizeof_fmt(num, suffix='b'):
    for unit in ['', 'K', 'M', 'G', 'T', 'P', 'E', 'Z']:
        if abs(num) < 1024.0:
            if not unit:
                return "%d%s%s" % (num, unit, suffix)
            else:
                return "%3.1f%s%s" % (num, unit, suffix)
        num /= 1024.0
    return "%.1f%s%s" % (num, 'Yi', suffix)

def format_json(content):
    try:
        jdata = json.loads(content)
    except:
        jdata = {}
    else:
        content = json.dumps(jdata, ensure_ascii=False, sort_keys=True, indent=2)

    return content, 'json', jdata

def format_xml(content):
    if len(content) < XML_FORMAT_SIZE_THRESHOLD:
        buf = StringIO()
        try:
            pretty_xml(content, buf)
        except:
            pass
        else:
            content = buf.getvalue()
    return content, 'xml', {}

def format_content(content_type, content):
    if content_type == 'application/json':
        return format_json(content)
    elif content_type == 'text/html':
        return content, 'html', {}
    elif content_type in ('application/xml', 'text/xml', 'text/plain') or content_type.endswith('+xml'):
        return format_xml(content)

    return content, 'text', {}

class RequestContext(object):
    def _request(self, method, url, query, body, headers):
        (host, port), u = get_connection_settings(url, headers)
        headers.set('Host', u.netloc)

        path = u.path
        if u.query:
            path += '?' + u.query

        if query:
            path += ('&' if u.query else '?') + urllib.urlencode(query)

        if u.scheme == 'https':
            import ssl
            ctx = ssl._create_unverified_context(certfile=self.certfile,
                                                 keyfile=self.keyfile)
            cn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(host, port or 443,
                                         timeout=self.connect_timeout, context=ctx)
        else:
            cn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host, port or 80,
                                        timeout=self.connect_timeout)

        cn = send_collector(cn)

        start = time.time()
        cn.connect()
        self.ctime = int((time.time() - start) * 1000)

        cn.sock.settimeout(self.read_timeout)

        cn.request(method, path, body, headers)
        self.response = cn.getresponse()
        self.rtime = int((time.time() - start) * 1000)

        self.content = self.response.read()
        self.ftime = int((time.time() - start) * 1000)
        self.response.close()
        cn.close()

        self.response.request = ((host, port),
                                 '{}://{}{}'.format(u.scheme, u.netloc, path or '/'))

        self.cj = CookieJar()
        self.cj.load(self.response)

        self.raw_request = cn._sdata
        return self.response

    def request(self, method, url, query, body, headers):
        self.connect_timeout = float(headers.pop('Vial-Connect-Timeout', CONNECT_TIMEOUT))
        self.read_timeout = float(headers.pop('Vial-Timeout', READ_TIMEOUT))
        self.certfile = headers.pop('Vial-Client-Cert')
        self.keyfile = headers.pop('Vial-Client-Key')
        self.history = []

        do_redirects = headers.pop('Vial-Redirect', '').lower() in ('1', 't', 'true', 'yes')
        original_headers = headers

        for _ in range(5):
            resp = self._request(method, url, query, body, headers)
            self.history.append(resp)

            if not do_redirects or resp.status not in (301, 302, 303):
                break

            url = resp.getheader('location')
            if not url:
                break

            u = urlparse.urlsplit(url)
            if u.netloc == headers.get('Host'):
                headers = original_headers
            else:
                headers = original_headers.copy('User-Agent')

    @property
    def rcookies(self):
        return {k: v.value for k, v in iteritems(self.cj.cookies)}

    @property
    def cookies(self):
        return {k: v.coded_value for k, v in iteritems(self.cj.cookies)}

def http():
    lines = vim.current.buffer[:]
    line, _ = vim.current.window.cursor
    line -= 1

    headers, templates = get_headers_and_templates(lines, line)
    pwd_func = lambda p: vfunc.inputsecret('{}: '.format(p))
    input_func = lambda p: vfunc.input('{}: '.format(p))
    try:
        method, url, query, body, tlist, rend = prepare_request(lines, line, headers, input_func, pwd_func)
    except PrepareException as e:
        echoerr(str(e))
        return

    rctx = RequestContext()
    rctx.request(method, url, query, body, headers)

    cwin = vim.current.window

    win, buf = make_scratch('__vial_http_req__', title='Request')
    rlines = rctx.raw_request.splitlines()

    hlines = []
    for r in rctx.history[:-1]:
        hlines.append(bstr('Redirect {} from {}'.format(
            r.status, r.request[1]), 'utf-8'))
    if hlines:
        hlines.append(b'----------------')

    buf[:] = hlines + rlines
    win.cursor = 1, 0

    win, buf = make_scratch('__vial_http_hdr__', title='Response headers')
    if PY2:
        buf[:] = [r.rstrip('\r\n') for r in rctx.response.msg.headers]
    else:
        buf[:] = ['{}: {}'.format(*r).encode('utf-8') for r in rctx.response.msg._headers]

    win.cursor = 1, 0

    size = len(rctx.content)

    win, buf = make_scratch('__vial_http_raw__', title='Raw Response')
    buf[:] = rctx.content.splitlines()
    win.cursor = 1, 0

    if PY2:
        rcontent_type = rctx.response.msg.gettype()
    else:
        rcontent_type = rctx.response.msg.get_content_type()

    content, ctype, jdata = format_content(rcontent_type, rctx.content)

    win, buf = make_scratch('__vial_http__')
    win.options['statusline'] = 'Response: {} {} {}ms {}ms {}'.format(
        rctx.response.status, rctx.response.reason,
        rctx.ctime, rctx.rtime, sizeof_fmt(size))
    vim.command('set filetype={}'.format(ctype))
    buf[:] = content.splitlines(False)
    win.cursor = 1, 0

    focus_window(cwin)

    def set_cookies(*args):
        cookies = rctx.cookies
        args = args or sorted(cookies.keys())
        return 'Cookie: ' + ';'.join('{}={}'.format(k, cookies[k]) for k in args)

    ctx = {'body': content, 'json': jdata,
           'headers': Headers(rctx.response.getheaders()),
           'cookies': rctx.cookies,
           'rcookies': rctx.rcookies,
           'set_cookies': set_cookies}

    for t in tlist:
        if t in templates:
            lines = render_template(templates[t], **ctx).splitlines()
        else:
            lines = ['ERROR: template {} not found'.format(t)]
        vfunc.append(rend + 1, [''] + lines)
        rend += 1 + len(lines)

def basic_auth(user, password):
    from base64 import b64encode
    return b'Authorization: Basic ' + b64encode(b'%s:%s' % (bstr(user), bstr(password)))

def basic_auth_func():
    user = vfunc.input('Username: ')
    if not user:
        return
    password = vfunc.inputsecret('Password: ')
    return basic_auth(user, password)

def basic_auth_cmd(user=None):
    if not user:
        user = vfunc.input('Username: ')
    if not user:
        return
    password = vfunc.inputsecret('Password: ')
    vfunc.append(vfunc.line('.'), basic_auth(user, password))


Part of the Carlsberg old brewery now operates as the Jacobsen Brewhouse & Bar so where the Jacobsen Brewhouse starts and ends vs. where Carlsberg starts and ends is a bit blurry. There is however one building where they brew Jacobsen beer and have the bar so in theory… that is all there is of Jacobsen (at least that I can tell).
The hours are limited as you live and die by the hours of the entire place. This means you can only get in between 10AM and until 5PM.


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Teenager Undergoes First Penis Reduction Surgery In The World
A 17-year-old who complained that his penis was too large has successfully undergone the world's first penis reduction surgery by surgeons at the University of South Florida. The U.S. teenager complained to doctors that the size of his penis was preventing him from having sex, and that it was preventing him from participating in competitive sports.
The boy's surgeons were shocked when he came to them complaining that his penis was too big. When flaccid, it measured almost seven inches in length and had a circumference of 10 inches - around the size of a grapefruit - as seen in xray below. Surgeons described it as being shaped like an American football.
According to doctors, the teenager was experiencing priapism, or persistent erection. Clinically, priapism refers to often painful erection occurring independent of sexual stimulation and lasting up to four hours. It happens when blood flowing into the penis is unable to drain due to blood cells with abnormal shape blocking the tiny vessels that supply the penis.
Episodes of persistent penile erection caused the teenager's penis to become firm and bloated.
He also complained that his abnormally "large and heavy" penis made it difficult for him to wear normal pants. He said he often suffered social embarrassment because his penis was often visible beneath his pants and could not enter any vaginal orifice.
The surgeon who treated the teenager, Rafael Carrion, a urologist at the University of South Florida, told MailOnline:
'There comes a time in every urologist's career that a patient makes a request so rare and impossible to comprehend that all training breaks down and leaves the physician speechless. That question was "can you make my penis smaller?"
'Lord knows there's a global race on how to make it longer and thicker in plastic surgery circles, but very little on how to make it smaller.'
Dr Carrion and his team looked at the medical literature but couldn't find any precedent for what to do. But were finally able to get it done. Said Carrion;
It's slightly longer and slightly thicker than the average male, but now it looks symmetrical, and the patient was very satisfied. It looks cosmetically appealing, and he said it was a life-changing event, he's all smiles.'
The teenager spent just two days in hospital before returning home, apparently 'ecstatic' with his new penis. The teen now has no problem having normal erections and has full sensation.


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Reflections on education in 2015
Lord Puttnam 7 Sep 2015
"The first step in solving a problem is recognizing that there is one."- Will McAvoy, 'The Newsroom', 2012.
This should be extremely obvious, yet within our education system, we face a huge problem:
96% of college principals believe their institutions are preparing young people for the world of work yet only 14 % of recent college graduates agree. Less than 12% of business leaders believe that the graduates they employ have the skills they need to build their businesses.
If the gap between those who believe themselves to be doing the educating and those who believe themselves to be educated is this wide, we're clearly doing something wrong. This is not just a gap; it's a gulf and we need to focus on closing it.
In the UK, we have a youth unemployment rate of 18.4 %, which is, by no means the worst youth unemployment rate in EU member states, but it is not the best either. Today, too many young people find themselves looking at the world without a map, unable to gauge any sense of direction for their futures. It is our job, as educators, to start drawing that map for them and start creating a world that they can understand better.
if we were to take a teacher from their classroom in 1915 and place them in a modern-day classroom, they would still be able to deliver what we recognize to be a lesson
If we were to remove a world-class doctor from his practice in 1915 and place him in an operating theatre today in 2015, he would be completely incapable. The world of medicine has developed and advanced in the last 100 years, to the extent that it would be no longer recognizable to even the very best in medicine. However, if we were to take a teacher from their classroom in 1915 and place them in a modern-day classroom, they would still be able to deliver what we recognize to be a lesson.
My question is- how is it that these extraordinary developments have taken place in the world of medicine but remain to be seen in the world of education?
Luckily- we do have a tool, and that tool is called 'digital'. Teachers understand and value the power of technology, and this year, there were 10 TES resources downloaded by teachers every second. Clearly, the very best teachers are using the very best technology to improve. This is not just a theory, this is a teacher led digital revolution and it incredibly overdue.
I'd like to conclude with my opening statement:
"The first step in solving a problem is recognizing that there is one."
Now that we have established that there is a problem, our next question must be- "how are we going to solve it?"
England Higher education Policy
Lord Puttnam
David Puttnam is the chair of Atticus Education, an online education company which delivers interactive seminars to educational institutions around the world.
David spent thirty years as an independent producer of award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone and Memphis Belle. From 1994 to 2004 he was Vice President and Chair of Trustees at BAFTA and was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship in 2006.
In 1998 he founded the National Teaching Awards and from 2002 to 2009 he was president of UNICEF UK.
In 2013 David stepped down as Chancellor of the Open University following ten years as Chancellor of The University of Sunderland.
David was awarded a CBE in 1982, a knighthood in 1995 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1997. He has been the recipient of more than 40 honorary degrees from Universities around the world.
Where are the teachers' voices in the reform of early career teacher induction?
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Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll (Hardcover)
By Robert Santelli, Chris Murray (Editor), Alfred Wertheimer (Photographer)
Annie Leibovitz at Work (Hardcover)
By Annie Leibovitz
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By Dian Hanson (Editor), Bob Mizer (Photographer)
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By Gary Dufour (Editor), Jean-Francois Chevrier (Contributions by), Thierry de Duve (Contributions by), David Campany (Contributions by)
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By Josef Koudelka (Photographer), Jaroslav Cuhra (Introduction by), Jiri Hoppe (Introduction by)
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By Vivian Maier, John Maloof (Editor), Geoff Dyer (Contributions by)
Robert Mapplethorpe: Polaroids (Paperback)
By Sylvia Wolf
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By Meghann Riepenhoff (Artist), Rebecca Solnit (Text by (Art/Photo Books))
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