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Road Test: Rudge Ulster
1938 Rudge Ulster
You'd expect a design and technology teacher to appreciate the finer points of engineering, and John Crispin traces his interest in things mechanical back to a specific machine that fired his youthful imagination, in 1967. "I remember well, I was in my teens looking at my first Rudge Ulster, with its brazed frame joints and a bronze cylinder head that was a work of art in itself, thinking that it was 20 times the quality of anything else I'd ever seen," he recalls with evident enthusiasm. John bought that bike for £10 as a basket case, which was exactly what he wanted. "I had enough bits to assemble a complete motorcycle, while putting into practice everything I'd learned about Rudges in Phil Irving's book, Tuning for Speed," he grins.
Thirty-two years later, John was on the verge of retirement from lecturing and so was able to turn his attention to a second Ulster restoration, though this time with the benefit of greater technical skills and experience. He accepted a complete 1938 bike in exchange for a scale model of Graham Walker's 1930 Senior TT mount. Walker had come second in that memorable race on his four-valve Rudge and had also taken third spot in the Junior TT on a radial-valve prototype, prompting a grateful sponsor to commission six replicas from a specialist model-maker in Regent Street, London. "It was 27in long with lovely detailing and rubber tyres," says John, "and it was certainly a hard decision to let it go, especially as it was a gift from my father. But I decided that I would rather have a full-sized Rudge that I could use on the road as well as admire."
Walker's earlier victory in the 1928 Ulster Grand Prix, at an average speed over 80mph, had prompted him, as the Rudge-Whitworth Company's sales manager, to bestow the Ulster name on a sports roadster. Early versions had a pentproof cylinder head with narrow valve angles, similar to the racers. This was replaced for 1932 with a radial layout, changing to semi-radial thereafter. Rudge placed great store by its racing success, which Graham Walker extended by syndicating the race team after the Coventry firm called in receivers during 1933. The following year, Rudge designer George Hack switched from using a cast iron cylinder head to bronze, which was fashionable for racing at the time due to superior thermal conductivity, though it carried a weight penalty. Following the death of founder John Vernon Pugh in 1936, the company's assets were sold to the Gramophone Co. Ltd. (soon to become EMI), which re-launched the Ulster with enclosed and pressure-lubricated valve gear a year later.
Production moved to Hayes, Middlesex during 1938 and a bold advertisement in the 14 April issue of The Motor Cycle appeared to herald a new era of competition glory. A whole page was left blank, save for a two-line statement in ordinary type that read, "At the Brooklands Clubmen's Day on the 2nd April, Rudges took six firsts." Southern dealer Glanfield Lawrence claimed in the same issue that Rudges were '…designed and built to give consistently high performance in the hands of average users.' Nevertheless, with a retail price double that of many rivals, there would have to be something very special about a machine that could transform a good rider into an exceptional one, on road or track.
The heart of Rudge performance was that unique cylinder head and John shows me the internal workings of a spare 1939 engine in his workshop. A branched long rocker operates both inlet valves, while a short rocker acts directly on the offside exhaust valve and then links via an intermediate rocking couple to a remote rocker for the nearside exhaust valve. Rudge adopted four valves to cure a tendency for the stems to snap off, a lighter reciprocating weight allowing higher revs without valve float, and the late-model layout of two parallel and two radial valves has since appeared in more than one design of Honda engine.
An intelligent approach to engineering was no less evident in the Ulster's cycle parts. The large hand lever on the nearside was a patented centre-stand operating device that was a huge improvement, for all its complexity and weight, over the drop-down wheel stands common to other machines at the time. Coupled brakes gave balanced deceleration from the foot pedal via a cable running to an adjustable coupler on the fork leg, with a spring-loaded compensator to avoid progressive rear-wheel bias, for example while the rider was indicating right. Tommy-bars permitted quick release of the rear mudguard, while alternate flanged bolts and spigots, developed for ISDT models, allowed rear wheel removal without disturbing the brake drum and sprocket.
The engine on John's example came with a later alloy cylinder head, possibly because the bronze heads fitted prior to 1939 were prone to cracking between the spark plug hole and the exhaust valve seats. He has now fitted the correct bronze head with a special adaptor for a 14mm long-reach spark plug. Most of the other parts that came with the bike seemed to be in serviceable condition and were evaluated with the benefit of expertise from the Rudge Enthusiasts' Club during the assembly stages.
John could not resist the opportunity to improve on even George Hack's meticulous engineering as the otherwise straightforward restoration neared completion, during 2002. He modified the oil flow from the brass pipe that lubricates each rocker spindle, to ensure good pressure along its length. He also cut a hole for a Triumph inspection cap and breather atop the nearside exhaust rocker box, since access to check the valve clearance would otherwise involve part-removal of the engine. A new plunger valve prevented wet-sumping from the oil tank feed pipe, but John added an alloy collar to hold the valve open and this fitted over the main fuel tap at rest, as a reminder that the oil supply was disconnected.
Further non-standard items made the bike more suitable for regular use on modern roads. A BSA Gold Star piston, with the benefit of an oil control ring, reduced a tendency to seize on long runs, though its different-shaped piston crown slightly lowered the compression ratio to 6.5:1. A sealed suspension unit with black spring coils, from a limited-production batch made to special order by Hagon Products (0208 502 6222), added progressive damping and an adjustable spring rate to the girder forks. A halogen headlamp bulb made the most of six-volt electrics and a later Lucas stop lamp supplemented the Miller original, while a solid-state voltage regulator fitted discreetly between the oil tank and battery box.
Eager to experience the Rudge for myself, I retard the ignition using the lever on the left handlebar and the pushrod engine fires with enough clatter from its complex rocker arrangements to sound like a parallel twin, though its pair of silencers mutes the exhaust noise effectively. A small brass plunger extends from the timing chest to indicate a healthy oil pressure, the adjacent lever being a secondary decompression device. The gear action is one up and three down, first gear seeming very low, with a big step between third and top. The gears require time to engage, each selection slowed by an external linkage behind the steel gearbox outer cover, but the engine is so eager to rev that I leave it in third gear most of the time.
I head south on the old B3181, which was formerly the main road to Exeter before the M5 was built and now runs parallel to the motorway. One of the reasons that John moved to Devon from Surrey a year ago was to enjoy deserted roads like this and the Rudge excels in such territory, its four-valve engine eager to rev at all times. The Hagon suspension at the front end feels quite stiff, so I slacken the friction damping on the girder forks right off. The coupled brakes work well on these dry roads, pulling the bike down squarely and progressively, though the front brake is effective on its own.
'To my mind, an Ulster in the right hands should have the potential to surprise the rider of any contemporary twin-cylinder machine and this one comes in such a socially acceptable package that, when I pull up outside the wisteria-clad 16th-century Red Lion Inn at Broad Clyst, customers barely look up from their trestle tables in the spring sunshine.'
The Rudge is definitely no plodder and I am reassured by stable handling at speeds adjacent to the national limit. Although direct descendants of Rudge's open-valve TT winners have more of a reputation for outright performance, this was barely contained by a relatively lightweight frame with D-section girder forks, so it is arguable that the later chassis makes for a far more practical road bike. To my mind, an Ulster in the right hands should have the potential to surprise the rider of any contemporary twin-cylinder machine and this one comes in such a socially acceptable package that, when I pull up outside the wisteria-clad 16th-century Red Lion Inn at Broad Clyst, customers barely look up from their trestle tables in the spring sunshine.
Second glances confirm that the bike looks handsome in red with gold pinstriping for its fuel tank and mudguards, this being a standard colour option of the time along with green, blue and the traditional black. Despite being in full public view, there is one more aspect of the machine that I must now try for the first time. Sitting squarely on the saddle, I reach down for the long handle by my left foot and find that the Ulster rolls easily onto its centrestand before I've begun to apply any real pressure. The mechanism works so well that it's no wonder Vincent incorporated it into its final series of machines.
That the four-valve Rudge was no ordinary motorcycle is recorded in its historic race wins, and the Ulster was its ultimate expression as a roadster. Were it not for the production of radar equipment taking priority from the end of 1939, it is quite likely that a growing reputation would have secured Rudge's future at the giant EMI factory in Hayes. John points out an irony that the quality of original engineering is now causing unforeseen problems for the Rudge Enthusiasts' Club, the West Country section of which, he informs me, is well subscribed, although its members are more scattered than in the Home Counties.
"As owners grow older, they tend to ride their bikes less and so they're no longer wearing at a fast enough rate to justify the club holding a large inventory of spare parts," he explains. "We need younger enthusiasts to follow in our wheel tracks by riding the things regularly and the best advertisement is to see a Rudge in actual use. I find that the main talking point for people under 45 is the twin exhaust pipes, which often leads into a discussion about four-valve heads and coupled brakes, both of which are generally thought of as modern inventions. So if nothing else, my Rudge is educating people about design and technology, which is why I bought one in the first place."
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Our Plan > Our Projects > Central City Safer Speeds
Central City Safer Speeds
Reviewing speeds on central city streets.
Feedback on the current engagement is now closed.
To move more people with fewer vehicles, we need to make our roads safer for everyone – especially people walking and biking. As a part of this we are proposing safer speeds in the central city.
What we're proposing
We'd like to hear what you think about lowering the speed limit to 30km/h on most central city streets. We'd also like to know what you think about keeping some of the main roads at 50km/h.
We're suggesting these main roads – Waterloo Quay, Customhouse Quay, Jervois Quay, Cable Street, Wakefield Street, Kent and Cambridge terraces, Vivian Street and Karo Drive – all remain at 50km/h.
We'll use your feedback to help refine the recommendation, which we'll consult on in early 2020 before any changes are made.
Why lower the speed limit?
We need to make a start now on moving more people with fewer vehicles. To do this, we need to create a better environment for people walking and on bikes.
Setting safer speeds in the central city is an important first step.
We're a walking city
Central Wellington has the highest numbers of pedestrians in the country.
With 80,000 people travelling into the city each day, walking is the main way people make short trips around the central city for work, shopping, eating out, entertainment or as part of their commute. Some parts of the Golden Mile have nearly 30,000 people passing through on foot each day. Lowering the speed limit will help create a more pleasant, liveable central city.
A more welcoming street environment that encourages more people to walk and bike instead of using private vehicles will also help to reduce carbon emissions.
Wellington is growing
In the next 30 years, we expect between 50,000 and 80,000 more people to make Wellington their home. This will change not just where we live but how we live.
The central city is also one of our fastest growing residential neighbourhoods, and will increasingly be a place where people want to enjoy spending time. In the next four years, we expect around 4,000 more people to live here.
A safer city centre
Research shows that a 50km/h speed limit is too high for busy city streets where many people are walking.
Small reductions in speed can have a major effect on a person's chances of survival. A pedestrian hit by a vehicle travelling at 30km/h has on average an 85% chance of surviving compared with 30% survival at 50km/h.
It all comes down to physics; a car travelling at 30km/h only needs around 13m to stop, whereas a car travelling at 50km/h needs around 28m to stop – an extra 15m. On our busy central city streets that extra 15m can be critical.
Journey times
In the central city, at peak times, most traffic is already travelling at about 35km/h. In the central city, vehicles are already stopping and starting at traffic signals and intersections. Alongside congestion, this has a much greater effect on your journey time than driving at a 30 km/h speed limit.
Safer speed zones in Wellington
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Previous proposals for lower speeds in the central city
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El Pico y placa es una medida de restricción vehicular implementada en las ciudades. Es una medida de gestión de la demanda de transporte para racionar el uso de una escasa oferta de transporte (vías) ante una demanda excesiva. Posteriormente ha sido implementado con el mismo nombre de "Pico y placa" en Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela y en Perú , en la ciudad de Lima.

Esta norma de tránsito impone una restricción de circulación obligatoria en el área urbana a vehículos privados tipo automóvil y de servicio público en horarios "pico" (horarios con mayor afluencia de tráfico), dependiendo del último número de placa el automóvil, pretendiendo reducir con ella el colapso circulatorio que se formaba en estas horas. Dentro de su aplicación, cada año se rota el día de restricción de acuerdo al número de placa del vehículo.

Contexto
La restricción inicialmente fue implementada para mitigar la congestión en las horas pico (hora punta) y tratar de distribuir la demanda hacia las horas de menos demanda (horas valle). La restricción aplicaba en las horas de la mañana entre las 6:00 y las 10:00 horas y en las tardes entre las 15:00 y las 21:00 horas. Poco después a la medida le fueron ampliados los horarios y el número de dígitos.

Luego de que las autoridades se dieran cuenta que algunos ciudadanos estaban seleccionando el último dígito de la placa para que la medida no los afectara según sus conveniencias (al comprar un carro se seleccionaba la placa para poder salir los viernes en la tarde o para que le tocara los lunes debido a que el país cuenta con varios festivos en los días lunes), llevó a que desde el año 2008 se implementara la rotación anual.

A partir del 6 de febrero de 2009, la medida se amplió a todo el día, de 6:00 a 20:00, debido a que se comenzó la construcción de la fase tres de TransMilenio, según lo dictaminado por el alcalde Samuel Moreno, ya que se tenía el precedente de tránsito caótico que vivió Bogotá durante la construcción de la fase II del mismo sistema, ya que se presentaron grandes represamientos viales.

Esta medida ha obligado a que muchos habitantes de la ciudad busquen nuevas maneras de transportarse tanto con transporte público como transportes alternativos como un segundo vehículo y eventualmente la bicicleta. Otras empresas se las han ideado para ofrecer servicios que atiendan este público, como lo es el alquiler de vehículo durante un día. En todas las ciudades colombianas el incumplimiento de esta norma conlleva a la inmovilización del vehículo y a una posterior multa.

Medida y su aplicación en Colombia

Bogotá (Pico y placa ambiental)
Durante la alcaldía de Enrique Peñalosa se implementó el pico y placa, que se extendería en la administración de Luis Eduardo Garzón Bogotá a vehículos de carga. Desde la alcaldía de Gustavo Petro la medida se hizo efectiva así:

Su horario está asignado así:

Desde las 6:00 a. m. a 8:30 a. m. y de 3:00 p. m. a 7:30 p. m. de lunes a viernes.

Anteriormente, y desde su implementación, se hacía con rotatividad, para que al menos dos días a la semana se repitiera el mismo dígito final.

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|Jueves||1-2-3-4
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|Viernes||5-6-7-8
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Desde el 1º de julio de 2011, la medida tuvo la siguiente configuración:

Con la pandemia originada por el Covid-19, durante la administración de Claudia López se levantó la restricción de pico y placa hasta septiembre de 2020 cuando la Secretaría de Movilidad de Bogotá anunció el regreso de la restricción de lunes a viernes de 6:00a.m. a 8:30a.m. y de 3:00p.m. a 7:30p.m. y el lanzamiento de un nuevo esquema de cargos por congestión y contaminación, denominado Pico y Placa Solidario, y por primera vez la opción de movilizarse a través de un permiso temporal de Carro Compartido.

Con el Pico y Placa Solidario o Permiso Especial de Acceso a Área de Restricción Vehicular, PEAARV, medida para incentivar otras alternativas de transporte sostenible, los conductores en Bogotá pudieron acceder al uso de su vehículo particular a través de una compensación económica y social por 6 meses, para el 2020 el aporte por semestre fue de 2.066.200 pesos, recursos que entraron a financiar el sistema integrado de transporte público. Los vehículos de personal de la salud, híbridos de fábrica cuya motorización sea por combustión (diésel o gasolina) y funcionen, alternada o simultáneamente, con motor eléctrico o que movilicen mínimo tres o más pasajeros (incluyendo el conductor), en lo denominado Carro Compartido, estuvieron exentos de la medida, previa inscripción''.

En ese año, se decidió dejar por fuera de la excepción a todos los vehículos blindados que no pertenecieran a la Unidad Nacional de Protección (UNP), una medida que acabó en Bogotá con más de 6400 permisos a vehículos solo por el hecho de estar blindados.

A finales de 2021, el Secretario de Movilidad de Bogotá, Nicolás Francisco Estupiñán Alvarado, anunció cambios en esquema de cargos por congestión y contaminación, en los cuales se incluyó el registro y pago por día, mes y semestre, previo curso de sensibilización sobre seguridad vial.

Medellín
 En el 2005, el alcalde, Sergio Fajardo implementó la misma medida en la ciudad de Medellín, con la diferencia de que los días se rotan cada 6 meses (Decreto 97 de 2005 de la Alcaldía de Medellín).
La novedad que se hizo en el primer semestre de 2005 es que las horas pico en Medellín son: de 7:00 a. m. - 8:30 a. m., y de 5:30 p. m. a 7:00 p. m.

La restricción del Pico y Placa en la ciudad de Medellín se aplica para el primer semestre de 2005 de la siguiente manera:

Cúcuta y la frontera colombo-venezolana

Las autoridades viales del estado del Táchira, Venezuela decidieron implementar la medida del pico y placa para regular el tráfico en el paso fronterizo entre Colombia y Venezuela.
La alcaldía de Ureña, población cercana a la frontera colombo-venezolana, tomó la decisión de implementar el día de la parada, medida que restringe el paso por la frontera, para agilizar el paso por el puente internacional Simón Bolívar, esta restricción solo se mantiene para vehículos particulares de la siguiente manera:

Quito, Ecuador

En los primeros días del mes de enero del 2010, se anunció la aplicación de esta medida en la ciudad de Quito en Ecuador debido a la congestión que se presenta en la ciudad. Esta medida empezó a funcionar en marzo de 2010, donde por un día a la semana los autos no pueden circular según el último número de la placa, en dos turnos durante las horas pico entre las 7:00 y las 9:30 en la mañana y entre las 16:00 y las 19:30 en la tarde y noche, el calendario de aplicación de la medida es el siguiente:

De esta restricción están excluidos vehículos de emergencias, del cuerpo diplomático y del Presidente y Vicepresidente de la República.

Para los conductores que circulen por las calles de Quito en los horarios de Pico y Placa serán multados con el siguiente esquema:

La zona urbana donde aplican los horarios del Pico y Placa se encuentran dentro de los límites viales que se indican a continuación:

Extensión de la restricción
A partir del 9 de septiembre de 2019, el sistema de restricción vehicular se extendió a 15 horas entre las 05:00 a 20:00 cambiando su nombre a "Hoy No Circula" con el objetivo de facilitar el proceso de rehabilitación vial y repavimentación de 110 kilómetros de vías.

Londres, Inglaterra

La medida implica una tarifa denominada "cobro por congestión" a los conductores que transitan en el centro de la ciudad de 7a. m. a 6p. m., de lunes a viernes.

Estocolmo y Gotemburgo, Suecia

Al igual que en Inglaterra se aplica un cobro por congestión que se aplica al pasar por peajes en determinados puntos de la ciudad dentro del horario estipulado, una vez habiendo pasado el peaje el cobro llega al lugar de residencia del conductor.

Oposición y apoyo a la medida
Muchas ciudades en el mundo están llevando a cabo medidas para mejorar la movilidad de sus ciudadanos. A diferencia de la filosofía de hace algunas décadas de proveer las vías que se necesitaban, en el presente las medidas van encaminadas hacia la movilidad sostenible. Este cambio se dio por los retos que actualmente enfrenta la humanidad y en los que el transporte tiene grandes aportes, como lo son el consumo de recursos no renovables (petróleo) y las emisiones de Gases de efecto invernadero que son responsables del fenómeno del calentamiento global.

A diferencia de medios donde un solo motor permite el transporte a decenas de pasajeros como son los autobuses y los trenes, el uso del automóvil en centros urbanos se considera inconveniente, por ser el medio menos compatible con los principios de movilidad sostenible. Existen dos grandes grupos de medidas para lograr que un bien (servicio) se consuma en las cantidades que se requiere. Por incentivos (subiendo el precio) o por restricción. El pico y placa es considerada por muchos como una medida conveniente, por restringir el número de vehículos que salen a la calle. Es decir se está disminuyendo. Sin embargo, los contradictores a la eficacia de la medida sugieren que es una medida transitoria, dilatoria y paliativa.

A pesar de los problemas de tráfico que siguen presentándose, del caos vehicular, del cambio climático que afectó directamente a Bogotá, y de que la población que tiene vehículo propio no sobrepasa el 15%, existen personas interesadas en atacar la medida, inclusive, en el Senado de la República, se pretende que la cantidad de horas de la medida durante la semana tenga un límite.

Una de las críticas más fuertes realizadas a la medida de pico y placa es que no contribuye al desarrollo económico de la ciudad, es solamente una medida efectista que no soluciona de forma definitiva el tráfico en las ciudades en que se ha implementado.

En el caso de Bogotá, se estima que para finales de 2010 la ciudad tiene un flujo de 1989000 vehículos, de los cuales 622 mil automotores salen de circulación a diario por efecto de la medida. En los días que la medida no se hace efectiva, por ejemplo en las festividades de fin de año y en los días feriados es notorio el caos vehicular que se registra en la ciudad, principalmente en la zona norte, donde la proporción de vehículos por habitante es mayor.

Por otro lado, durante la alcaldía de Enrique Peñalosa se realizó un ejercicio en el que los ciudadanos votaron a favor de que la medida de pico y placa ocurriera todos los días hábiles de la semana desde las 6 y las 9 de la mañana y de las 4:30 a las 7:30 de la noche a partir del año 2015.

Véase también
 Tarifas de congestión
 Restricción vehicular
 Restricción vehicular de São Paulo
 Hoy No Circula

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Pico y Placa en Colombia
 Pico y Placa en Medellín
 Pico y Placa en la ciudad de Quito

Administración de Bogotá
Administración de Medellín
Transporte de Bogotá
Transporte de Medellín
Transporte de Quito

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Anything but Cold Feet — Married on Ice
Find out how one fun, adventurous couple used their ice-skating roots to inspire a wedding unlike any other.
Cheyenne Knight,
Photos by: Amanda Brisco Photography
We've heard of weddings in a church, weddings on the beach and weddings at the local parks and farms, but how common is a wedding on ice?
On May 30, 2015, Katelyn "Kate" Metz of Ambridge and Brian Grinnik of Economy got married at Brady's Run Ice Arena. The wedding was traditional aside from being held in an ice rick, and was followed by a reception at the Fez in Aliquippa. Kurt Bjorklund, pastor at the Orchard Hill Church in Wexford, officiated the wedding.
Kate, an ESL teacher at PA Cyber, is a figure skater, and Brian, who works in Logistics at Westinghouse in Cranberry, is an amateur ice hockey player. They both grew up skating at Brady's Run. Kate's mother was a coach there, and taught Brian's sister how to ice skate when she was younger. "To me, it made sense because we both grew up skating there and still skate today."
It was just a matter of time until Kate met Brian. Growing up skating at the same rink, attending the same school district and having mutual friends made their meeting seem like fate. When asked what her first impression of Brian was, Kate replied, "I knew he was kind of outdoorsy — that's what attracted me most."
They got engaged during Memorial Day weekend in 2014 while camping with their friends and family. "He went all out," says Kate. "I was shocked." Kate was downstairs in the cabin that Brian and his father built in West Virginia hanging out with her girlfriends. Little did she know that upstairs, Brian was carrying out his proposal plans.
When Kate came up the stairs and onto the deck, everyone was holding a candle on either side. "I didn't realize it was for me until I saw that I was the only one not holding a candle," she laughs. "I Think I Wanna Marry You" by Bruno Mars played in the background, and as the song came to an end, Brian's parents shifted to reveal Brian down on one knee. Fireworks went off after she said yes, making this Memorial Day weekend one that Kate will never forget.
After the proposal, it was show time for the next phase. Kate and Brian decided on their venue, booking it for May 30 because it was the last weekend the rink would be open for the year; when it gets too warm outside, the rink gets foggy. Kate was nervous that the fog would interfere with the wedding, but what little fog did exist added to the elegant and woodsy atmosphere of the wedding.
Kate and Brian decided on a "Twilight"-inspired wedding theme. Kate was drawn to the forest wedding in "Breaking Dawn Part 2," so she wanted to have trees and candles. She also skated down the aisle to "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri, played by a live violinist and pianist. She spoke highly of Don Barry, her mother's skating partner from when they were younger, who helped bring her vision to life by designing and constructing her set. "It was elegant, it was fun," says Kate. "It just had such a good vibe to it."
When the guests found out that Kate and Brian had decided to get married on ice, some of them were surprised. "They immediately asked if they had to wear ice skates," says Kate. Although the guests were not asked to wear skates, they were seated on the ice with carpet beneath them for safety reasons.
Once the guests were seated, the wedding party proceeded down the aisle on skates. There were 16 people in the wedding party who wore skates, as well as Kate and Brian's parents, Kate's nephew and Kate's brother. Majority of the wedding party knew how to skate, and if someone didn't they were paired with someone who knew how to.
Kate and Brian also wore skates, an incredible feat considering Kate wore a long gown. She had the dress hemmed enough so that it would cover her skating boots, and she made sure to practice. Although Kate was prepared, there was a mishap during the wedding. "We wanted to skate around the guests after the wedding, and I almost tripped twice," she says. Regardless, Kate managed to not fall, and the wedding was a success.
After planning such a unique wedding, Kate has learned a few lessons to pass on to other brides-to-be. She suggests that you need to plan ahead, not do anything last minute and "write things down" to avoid excess stress.
She also suggests that you should have both a photographer and a videographer. Although she did not have a videographer and wishes that she would have, she is thankful for being able to work with Amanda Brisco of Amanda Brisco Photography.
Amanda felt the same way about working with Kate and Brian. "I look forward to all my weddings, but that was my most exciting wedding," says Amanda. "I think that the whole feeling about it, and the excitement–Brian and Kate, they are an amazing couple together. Very in love and comfortable with each other."
All in all, Kate couldn't have asked for a better wedding day. "It was everything that I pictured my wedding to be like and more."
This article appears in the February 2016 issue of Beyond the Cookie Table.
Categories: Beyond the Cookie Table


Electricity is something we take for granted. It not only regulates the temperature of our homes, gives light and cooks our food, but it connects us by cell phone and social media and helps us with everyday life whether we're searching online for a new recipe or paying bills electronically. When we are suddenly without electricity for an extended amount of time, it can be a real shock. Preparing for a hurricane can help minimize the disasters that come with these storms including loss of electricity. Asbury has 24 hour emergency electricians that can help your home and family be ready for the hurricanes!
Food – Without electricity, the perishable food in your refrigerator will only last about 4 hours if you don't open the door. If you freeze blocks of ice or ice cubes as preparation before a storm, this will help keep your perishables cold longer in ice chests, the refrigerator or freezer. It will also preserve your food longer if you freeze what you can before the storm. Milk, leftovers, and meats can be frozen. If you have more than one refrigerator or freezer, try to consolidate into fewer units. A full freezer will keep cold longer (about 48 hours).
Eat perishable food first before it spoils. If you want to stock up, buy canned or dry foods, anything that doesn't need to be refrigerated. Don't forget a manual can opener. If you need to cook, use a charcoal grill or camp stove, just not indoors.
Water – The standard is to have one gallon of drinkable water per person per day for 3-7 days. Some people fill their camping water jugs with tap water to avoid buying water. Remember you might still have running water, but it may not be potable. It can still be used for washing or flushing the toilet. You can fill the bathtub ahead of time for additional wash water. You may or may not have hot water depending on your equipment.
Phones – Your cell phone will work for a while if cell towers are not down, but it will eventually run out of battery. Having a portable charger will help for one charge. Landlines that are not wireless usually keep working, but if you have your phone numbers stored in your cell phone, you will need to have a hard copy of important numbers.
Keeping the kids occupied – If a hurricane has knocked out power for an extended period, the kids will get restless. Have some board games or card games available. Think through their toys to make sure they have low tech toys that don't need to be recharged. Books, coloring books & crayons are good. You may need to get creative.
Generator – Depending on your situation and budget, a generator may be an excellent thing to have. Watch the wattage output and make sure you know how much you want to power, whether whole house or just the essentials. Asbury's 24 hour emergency electricians service can help make sure your generator is ready for this hurricane season!
Emergency Savings – If you don't already have an emergency saving account, think about setting one up. If you lose electricity, you may have unplanned expenses – cost of extra batteries, spoiled food to replace, gasoline for a generator, insurance deductible for house damages, etc. Preparing for a hurricane can be costly, but it can also save you and your families' lives.
Remember, this is just the peak of the hurricane season which lasts until November 30. Everyone is at some risk, which is why preparing for a hurricane is so important. For more information refer to FEMA's "How to Prepare for a Hurricane" publication https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1494007144395-b0e215ae1ba6ac1b556f084e190e5862/FEMA_2017_Hurricane_HTP_FINAL.pdf and be safe.
Very helpful. Include Flashlights and medicines.


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People cut as a coping mechanism, according to Cornell University's Self-Injury and Recovery Research and Resources (SIRRR). Self-harm can be a way for a person to feel something when experiencing numbness or to distract themselves from depression or anxiety. Some people cut to create a wound that can symbolize their emotional pain, while others use cutting as a way to avoid telling loved ones about their feelings.
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine estimates that 1 to 4 percent of adults and approximately 15 percent of teens in the United States engage in self-harm. College students appear to be the group at the greatest risk with rates ranging from 17 to 35 percent.
But self-harm isn't limited to a group, gender, or age. Psychologist Dr. Vijayeta Sinh, PhD, owner of NYC Family Therapy, says children as young as 9 and 10, teens, college students, and even adults in their 40s and 50s cut.
Kirsten began cutting when she was 13 years old after her father made an insensitive comment about her acne. Her self-esteem, she says, was already low. Although she hasn't cut in six months, she's still struggling with the issue.
Penny, 36, first cut herself when she was 15 years old as a way of dealing with the emotional pain of having been raped by a family friend. She cut when she was depressed and would shut down emotionally. She says she'd tell herself, "See, you're still alive, you still feel, you still bleed." She stopped cutting just over a year ago.
Self-injury can mirror substance addiction because it's a form of self-medication that someone may crave and may have trouble stopping. People who cut often describe a specific type of high, relief, connectedness, or sense of calm.
The euphoria Brandy describes may be attributed to endorphins the body releases when we get injured.
Another woman we spoke to, Ariel, 21, started cutting when she was 17 years old. She'd just lost her brother, people were bullying her, and she'd been assaulted.
Self-harm isn't a trend that's come about in recent decades. An NPR article reports that cutting dates back to ancient Greece as a coping mechanism. Researchers also agree that rates of NSSI have increased over the last decade and a half, but studies on the topic are somewhat new and rates are hard to assess.
Movies and television shows may also play a role in the possible increased rate of cutting. Their portrayals may spread the idea that this is normal behavior. Although she knows everyone who cuts is different, Ariel says shows and movies rarely create an accurate picture of what self-harm is like.
NSSI is now listed as a disorder in the fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). The reasoning behind this, according to an NPR article, is to differentiate self-harm methods like cutting from suicide attempts because the treatments for the two are very different.
"I never wanted to kill myself any of the times I cut," Brandy says, even though her first time she took a scissor to her left arm and "laid open the flesh." People who cut are seeking something different rather than a permanent end to their turmoil.
A journal article in Child Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health reports that, on average, a person engages in NSSI for a period of 2 to 4 years before stopping. This is where therapy can be beneficial and help people working through personal issues to determine what cutting means to them.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), may give someone the tools to cope with and work through distress.
Psychodynamic therapy helps someone look at any past experiences that might have an effect on their behavior and identify issues of low self-esteem, perfectionism, or anger management.
"It was extremely difficult," Flora says of quitting. "Once I started therapy in 2015, I started learning how to reach out for help more, and self-harm became less of a problem once I had a more stable outlet and better coping mechanisms." She's now in college majoring in psychology and plans to pursue a doctorate.
If you need immediate support to help stop cutting, call the self-injury hotline at 1-800-DON'T CUT. If you're looking for therapy, visit S.A.F.E. Alternatives for some guidelines on how to find a professional who's a good fit for you or your loved one. In the event of an emergency, your local hospital may require an evaluation at a psychiatric emergency room to ensure your safety.


Hey Mads, WE DID NOT START THIS RUMOR. We heard it, just like you did, because of some miscommunication. We soon learned that information was false, and immediately removed our tweet about it. Please stop using our twitter as a news source -- it was never intended to be one. For more trustworthy information, contact us at uppityvassar@gmail.com, or just come to Main lobby and talk to us.
Thanks for the clarification, Robyn. Sorry about the confusion.
I'm sorry, if it was a "rumor" why did you post it to twitter as fact? This reeks of deception and backpedaling. Next time you hear a "rumor" try prefacing it with "we have heard a rumor," or something to the like.
Mat, would you question your parents before the administration. I wouldn't.
I would 100% believe that my parents might say something like that in order to convince me to stop what is obviously a dangerous and foolish endevour.


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Court strikes down possible payments to college athletes
A federal appeals court agreed Wednesday that the NCAA's use of college athletes' names, images and likenesses in video games and TV broadcasts violated antitrust laws but struck down a plan to allow schools to pay players up to $5,000.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the NCAA could not stop schools from providing full scholarships to student athletes but vacated a proposal for deferred cash payments.
"The difference between offering student-athletes education-related compensation and offering them cash sums untethered to educational expenses is not minor; it is a quantum leap," Judge Jay Bybee wrote. "Once that line is crossed, we see no basis for returning to a rule of amateurism and no defined stopping point."
A statement from NCAA President Mark Emmert said the organization agrees with the court that "allowing students to be paid cash compensation of up to $5,000 per year was erroneous."
"Since Aug. 1, the NCAA has allowed member schools to provide up to full cost of attendance; however, we disagree that it should be mandated by the courts," he said.


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Robert Welch, founder of The John Birch Society, predicted today's problems with uncanny accuracy back in 1958. He prescribed solutions in 1974 that are very similar to Ron Paul's positions today. This 9 minute video is stunning. We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past if we don't learn from them.
This clip started a little out of context. For the first three minutes I thought he was Obama's campaign manager.


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Q: running cpp project with cmake (mac) My question is very naive. Every time I ran an algorithm, it's with an IDE so I don't know exactly what is generated in backgrown.
I try to run with my MacBook an algorithm that I didn't write and I'm blocked !
In the readme file: they said "Use cmake to generate desired projects on different platforms. (See "CM.txt" in the
"src" folder)"
In the CM.txt:
project(BlProj)
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8 FATAL_ERROR)
add_executable(BlProj
   main.cpp
   thi.cpp
   thu.cpp
   mat.cpp
   Config.cpp
   Stringer.cpp
   )

I did: cmake CM.txt
A CM directory is generated. I will not list all the files inside: it's some cmake, bin, out, cpp, c, cxx, log, txt files.
I don't know what I can do with that!
I'm supposed to generate a compiled binary and run it with the command:
./BlProj data1 data2 10 config output

But it wasn't generated...
So I don't know how I can have the BlProj executable. Could you help me?
How do the cpp compilation work? What did cmake exactly?
Is cmake CM.txt is a good practice or not?

A: You can use cmake-gui to build sources.
go to CMAKE installation directory and inside bin folder run cmake-gui
Provide input where the source code is and provide an input where to build.
hit on configure and then generate.
you might need to select IDE version as well as provide additional input, it depends.
once done open generated project files with your IDE and build.


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'The world has changed' for the aviation industry: Warren Buffett sells entire stake in airlines
Berkshire Hathaway Inc sold its entire stakes in the four largest U.S. airlines in April, Chairman Warren Buffett said Saturday at the company's annual meeting, saying "the world has changed" for the aviation industry.
The conglomerate had held sizeable positions in the airlines, including an 11 per cent stake in Delta Air Lines, 10 per cent of American Airlines Co, 10 per cent of Southwest Airlines Co and 9 per cent of United Airlines at the end of 2019, according to its annual report and company filings.
The conglomerate was one of the largest individual holders in the four airlines and in 2016 disclosed it had begun investing in the four carriers after avoiding the sector for years.
Airline stocks have been hard hit by the near collapse U.S. travel demand amid the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. airlines are cutting hundreds of thousands of flights, parking thousands of planes as U.S.
Global coronavirus cases surpass 3.5 million amid underreporting fears By Reuters
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York
By Jane Wardell
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Global coronavirus cases surpassed 3.5 million on Monday and deaths neared a quarter of a million, according to a Reuters tally, concerning experts who fear substantial underreporting even as the rate of fatalities and new cases slows.
North America and European countries, where growth rates are easing, still accounted for most of the new infections reported in recent days.
But case numbers were rising from smaller bases in Latin America, Africa and Russia, and experts expressed concern that the overall data falls well short of the true impact of the pandemic.
Globally, there were 74,779 new cases over the past 24 hours, according to the Reuters tally that is based on official government data, taking total cases to around 3.52 million.
That compares with around 3 million to 5 million
From 'vice spike' to 'hitting a brick wall': How cannabis purveyors are coping during the pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic escalated in March and businesses across the U.S. began shutting down, retailers in the nascent recreational cannabis industry experienced an unprecedented surge in sales activity.
"We saw sales that were four or five times what our normal averages are for a few weeks," says Terra Tech chairman Derek Peterson, whose company cultivates and sells cannabis products in California and Nevada. Terra Tech was not alone; in California, Colorado, and other states where recreational marijuana is legal, retailers witnessed a sharp increase in sales—close to 100% in some markets—as the coronavirus outbreak worsened and authorities began rolling out stay-at-home orders.
Peterson attributes the March sales spike to "panic buying" by customers uncertain whether marijuana dispensaries would remain open much longer. "Then," he adds, "we hit a brick wall."
While dispensaries in most states have been allowed to remain open as "essential businesses," April has brought … Read More


Writing negative criticism about books is something I dislike. Instead, I tend to avoid writing about the books I don't wholeheartedly admire. This isn't because I think I'm not entitled to my opinion. People have vastly different reactions to fiction and writing styles and everyone has their own personal aesthetic preferences so sometimes this is all it boils down to. But I still tend to omit a lot of my negative criticism unless I can find very specific reasons why I didn't like something. I love picking fiction apart, discovering why I reacted positively to something, why something else put me off, where the tension comes from, how the dialogue works and on and on and on. In that vein, I've spent the last few days thinking about why I didn't love my most recent re-read of Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990) was Kingsolver's second novel and there is a lot to admire, in particular the sections in third person narration about Homer. The writing in these shorter sections is really powerful and the emotional structure intricate – Homer's shifts in lucidity give the narrator the opportunity for both honesty and denial and those two moods generate a lot of tension in relation to the main story. He also muddles the past and the present in such a way that scenes spill into one another; that fluid movement provides the basis for a large chunk of the story's revelation.
The main story is a first person narration by Codi, Homer's daughter, who has recently returned to her childhood hometown, for several reasons – her father is suffering from Alzheimer's, her sister has recently gone south to work in war-torn Nicaragua and Codi is newly separated from her longtime lover. She is unmoored. She also harbors an immense distrust for the city she feels somewhat forced to return to.
Hallie had never left me before. It was always the other way around, since I'm three years older and have had to do things first. She would just be catching up when I'd go again, swimming farther out into life because I still hadn't found a rock to stand on.
Carlo was a rolling stone: an emergency room doctor, which gave him a kind of freedom almost unknown to the profession. You can always find work if you're willing to take up with the human body as soon as possible after one of life's traumas has left off with it.
I put parantheses around the sentences I think we could remove. They end up taking power away from what is ultimately a very compelling paragraph. This happens again and again in Animal Dreams. It's something I see often in first person narration. Like the author wants to make their point over and over again, just in case the reader missed it. This certainly doesn't destroy a book, but it can really slow it down.
Toward the end of the novel this excess writing happens a lot and this is where I think I started getting really frustrated. If you've decided to give your novel a happy ending I still think it's important to resist the urge to tie everything up in a neat little package. The reunion scene between Codi and Loyd (her love interest in the novel) is just screaming daytime drama. But it didn't have to be that way.
Shortly the train began to move again, very slowly, the speed of a living creature. You could still run and catch it. Loyd and Roger kept walking toward me without seeing me. (Standing there watching him, knowing what he didn't, I had so much power and none at all.) I was on the outside, in a different dimension. I'd lived there always.
Then he stopped dead, just for a second. I'll remember that. (The train moved and Roger moved but Loyd stood still.
He caught up to me in an instant, with a twinkle in his eye and his bag slung over his shoulder like a ready traveler.
This is the end of a chapter and I think where I've suggested ending the scene infers everything about the rest, without giving us the cheesy line of dialogue and that awful twinkle in Loyd's eye. Her lines about the train and the hint about running and catching it are just wonderful, they show us Codi's ambivalence about her decision to stay without hitting us over the head with the idea. Those lines are subtle. Those other last lines are not.
I'm sure some people might disagree with me, since, as I've said, we are talking about aesthetic preferences. I think Kingsolver is an accomplished writer and I'm eager to read her most recent novels like Prodigal Summer and The Poisonwood Bible (which I read maybe eight years ago but without such an intense look at the writing) to see if this is characteristic of her style in general or was it something she did in the beginning. I can't help thinking of it as a beginning writer thing – something we all do when we're still learning how to trust our instincts and the story itself. Any thoughts?
Wow. Good job. A real improvement. Your editing touch is not even especially heavy. That twinkle in the eye is a disaster.
I'm not a big fan of negative criticism. Like you, I'd rather go into detail about what works for me and why, what I've learned and how, etc. And, I'll admit, when I first came to this page and saw the strike-throughs I was a little worried. But I think this is a courageous post; and you make your case in a just and even handed way. As someone who (mostly) prefers poetry and short story and even essay to novel, I'm pretty receptive to the 'less is more' line of thinking. Not that more is automatically bad, especially novelistically. But regardless of genre, more must always make a case for itself. And here you've done a fine job of showing that it hasn't. I too longed for more inference, some subtleties, something left to think about. Great job! and thanks!
Interesting — I've heard a number of people complaining that Kingsolver can get a bit preachy — that it's clear sometimes she wants to get a message across. This seems related to the overwriting you're describing here. You have to trust your reader a little bit to get the idea!
i like negative criticism, especially when it consists of personal attacks on writers who have achieved so much more in, say, five years than i have in 20.
as for kingsolver, knowing what i know about her, she might actually agree with your criticism and even some of your suggested edits. constructive criticism offered in the spirit of improving a piece of writing is the best criticism of all.
the difference between what you've presented, and, say, "the poisonwood bible" is striking. she can get preachy, but she's talented enough to filter her preachy tendencies through the characters who actually sound natural when they're being preachy.
do you want to edit my novel? i'll pay you in autographed copies, if it ever gets published.
Dorothy – She definitely believes that literature should be (or can be) used to promote social change. In Animal Dreams I didn't have the feeling that she was being preachy, but at the same time I could see that she might sacrifice story to make sure her message gets across – which is a similar risk.
Care – thank you very much, what kind comments. I can also be dismissive of books too even if I try to be careful that it wasn't just my frame of mind at the time I was reading it or something like that. Life is short and when you love to read its hard not to toss aside anything that doesn't immediately grab you.
Bookfraud – that kind of negative criticism can feel very good once in a while 🙂 I haven't read The Poisonwood Bible for so long now but I don't remember thinking it was preachy. I remember enjoying the story and the writing, which is why I want to reread it soon. And all kidding aside, I'd love to read your novel – do you have a draft?
You've made me very interested in reading this book. I read The Poisonwood Bible several years ago and really liked her writing style but even though I own a few of her other books (including Animal Dreams) I haven't picked them up to read.


The crisis of leadership created at Steinhoff Africa Retail (Star) subsidiary Tekkie Town following the immediate resignation of its CEO and chief operating officer appears to have been compounded, following news that a raft of senior managers have resigned as well.
Tekkie Town CEO Bernard Mostert, who is also the CEO of the speciality fashion and footwear division, announced his resignation on Tuesday morning following what he termed a "hostile" and "personal" campaign to undermine him by Star's leadership team, led by CEO Leon Lourens. Mostert was joined by his right-hand man, Dawie van Niekerk, the divisional chief operating officer.
Mostert confirmed the relationship with the rest of the Star executive came under stress as animosity developed between the Star senior leadership and Braam van Huyssteen, the founder of Tekkie Town. Earlier in 2018, Van Huyssteen resigned from his position as chairman of the property and speciality divisions at Star over a dispute with his employment contract.
"The main reason we are walking away is because of the exceptionally hostile and personal campaign the Star hierarchy have waged against Dawie and myself in order to undermine us, just by virtue of our association with Braam [van Huyssteen]. It was abundantly clear to us that the whole process unfolding between them and Van Huyssteen was an agenda to settle a personal score and we always wanted to avoid that.
According to an employee relationship manager at Tekkie Town, who herself resigned with immediate effect on Monday, 57 employees had resigned as of Monday evening. These included virtually all of the company's regional managers and "most" of its area managers.
While solidarity of colleagues is one thing, being able to support oneself and a family financially is entirely another. Given that Van Huyssteen has publicly indicated he is considering launching a rival to the business he founded and sold to Steinhoff, Business Day asked him whether the resignations were an implicit or explicit undertaking to employ those who decided to leave.
Van Huyssteen denied he had offered anyone a job, and likened the situation to "day zero" in Cape Town. He sees it as his patriarchal responsibility to look after what he calls his "extended family" until such time as he has no money left to do so.
"Our guidance and advice to them regarding how the situation could be amicably handled was not taken into account. In fact, they deliberately did the opposite, with the result that it has now started to affect the business. Dawie and I both share the view that you do not accept a pay cheque from someone you do not trust and who [does] not have the best interests of the business at heart."
The previous owners of Tekkie Town have been at loggerheads with Steinhoff and Star since January, as they watched the value of Steinhoff shares plummet in the wake of accounting irregularities. They had received payment for the acquisition of Tekkie Town by way of Steinhoff shares, which included a lock-up period of a number of years, which precluded them from selling their shares.
In addition, Mostert and Van Huyssteen brought an application in the Western Cape High Court a few weeks ago requiring Star to recognise and reinstate the terms of a bonus scheme they say was agreed to by Steinhoff at the time of the acquisition, a position that appears to have been reversed by Star in 2018. Van Huyssteen had previously attributed the strong performance of the speciality division in Star's interim numbers to the existence of the bonus scheme, which had motivated the management team.
When asked if the two would be joining Van Huyssteen to start a rival to Tekkie Town, Mostert said: "At this stage, we are going to take time out and assess our options. It's been exhausting being caught in the middle of this unfolding fight, and we are not going to take any decisions in the short term."
Star earlier provided the following statement to the news Mostert and Van Niekerk had resigned: "Star regrets to advise the resignation of Bernard Mostert, the CEO of Tekkie Town, and certain other senior members of management, with immediate effect. In consequence of this, an interim management team led by Riaan van Rooyen (currently the operational director at Ackermans) has been deployed.
"Tekkie Town is an important part of Star, and further support will be provided to Tekkie Town, as required, through Star's extensive operational capability. Tekkie Town will continue operating business as usual," Star said in the statement.
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Blood Father ist ein französischer Thriller von Jean-François Richet, der auf dem Buch Blood Father: A Novel von Peter Craig aus dem Jahr 2005 basiert und am 21. Mai 2016 im Rahmen der Filmfestspiele von Cannes seine Premiere feierte. Der Film kam am 12. August 2016 in ausgewählte US-amerikanische Kinos.

Handlung
John Link ist ein ergrauter Ex-Sträfling, der nach einer langjährigen Haftstrafe wegen eines Gewaltverbrechens auf Bewährung aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wurde und nun in einem klapprigen Wohnwagen lebt und als Tätowierer arbeitet. Seit zwei Jahren ist der Alkoholiker trocken. Sein Leben nimmt eine plötzliche Wendung, als eines Tages seine leibliche Tochter Lydia bei ihm auftaucht.

Es ist drei Jahre her, dass Lydia Carson, die aus einem privilegierten Elternhaus stammt, von ihrem Zuhause in Los Angeles weggelaufen ist. Die nunmehr 17-Jährige hatte einen älteren Mann kennengelernt, der sein Geld mit zwielichtigen Methoden verdiente. Nachdem sie auf ihn geschossen hat und vor ihm hat fliehen müssen, braucht sie nun die Hilfe ihres leiblichen Vaters. Vor den Verfolgern fliehen sie in Autos und auf Johns altem Motorrad. Schließlich bringt der Verfolger Lydia in seine Gewalt. In der Wüste kommt es zu einer Schießerei. John stirbt in Lydias Armen, nachdem er die Gegner bis auf den Anführer getötet hat. Dieser wird von der Polizei festgenommen.

In der letzten Szene sitzt Lydia in einer Selbsthilfegruppe, in der sie ihre Trauer um ihren Vater verarbeitet und man erfährt, dass sie seit einem Jahr keine Drogen mehr genommen hat.

Produktion

Stab und Besetzung

Der Film basiert auf dem Buch Blood Father: A Novel von Peter Craig, der für den Film neben Andrea Berloff auch an den Arbeiten zum Drehbuch beteiligt war. Craig ist der Sohn von Schauspielerin Sally Field und war zuvor bereits an den Drehbüchern für den Film The Town und die Verfilmungen der beiden Mockingjay-Romanen der Tribute-von-Panem-Reihe beteiligt. Berloff hatte zuletzt am Drehbuch für Straight Outta Compton gearbeitet. Die Regie übernahm der französische Regisseur Jean-François Richet.

Am 28. März 2014 wurde bekannt, dass Mel Gibson die Hauptrolle von John Link und Jean-François Richet die Regie übernehmen wird. Es war für Gibson der erste größere Film seit Der Biber im Jahr 2011. Am 24. April 2014 folgte mit Erin Moriarty als Gibsons Filmtochter Lydia die Bekanntgabe einer weiteren Hauptbesetzung des Films. Moriarty war zuvor überwiegend aus Fernsehserien bekannt gewesen, so zum Beispiel aus Marvel's Jessica Jones. Am 6. Juni 2014 wurde die Besetzung von Joker, dem brutalen Vollstrecker der mexikanischen Mafia, mit Richard Cabral bekannt. Am 14. Juni 2014 erklärte William H. Macy, dass er im Film eine Rolle übernommen hat. Am 17. Juni 2014 unterzeichnete Elisabeth Röhm ihren Vertrag. Sie übernahm im Film die Rolle von John Links Ex-Frau Ursula.

Dreharbeiten
Die Dreharbeiten begannen am 5. Juni 2014 in Albuquerque in New Mexico und wurden nach einem Monat am 3. Juli 2014 beendet. Teile des Films wurden dort an Wüstenschauplätzen gedreht. Als Kameramann fungierte Robert Gantz.

Veröffentlichung und Vertrieb
Am 5. Mai 2014 wurde bekannt, dass Wild Bunch den weltweiten Vertrieb des Films übernommen hat. Am 9. Dezember 2014 erwarb Lionsgate die US-Rechte am Film.

Der Film feierte am 21. Mai 2016 im Rahmen der Filmfestspiele von Cannes seine Premiere und kam am 26. August 2016 in ausgewählte US-amerikanische Kinos. Am 28. Oktober 2016 erschien der Film in Deutschland als Blu-ray und auf DVD.

Rezeption
Der Film konnte bislang 89 Prozent der Kritiker bei Rotten Tomatoes überzeugen und ging aus den 18th Annual Golden Tomato Awards in der Kategorie Best Action Movie 2016 als Zweitplatzierter hervor.

Owen Gleiberman von Variety meint, der Film wirke wie ein Grindhouse-Film der 70er Jahre. Gleiberman bezeichnet den Film zwar als Müll, dennoch sei er packend, was er dem versierten Schauspieler Mel Gibson zu verdanken habe, der nach dem Ende seiner großen Karriere im Film zeige, dass er sein Talent nicht verloren habe.

Weblinks

 Blood Father – Production Notes von Lionsgate (PDF, englisch)

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(Not) Central America's Problem
By: Hector Luis Alamo
Salvadoran mother and child at a refugee camp in Honduras in 1988 (Moody College of Communication/Flickr)
Not only has the Obama administration callously rounded up Central American refugees and shipped them back to the blood-bathed countries from which they've escaped — last year the so-called "Northern Triangle" countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala suffered the first, third and fifth-highest murder rates in the Americas, respectively — it's now been revealed that even when the federal government pretends to be doing the right thing by placing child refugees in the care of family members, those children end up being the victims of further violence and abuse.
Spain-based international news agency EFE reports on the results of a six-month investigation by the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs investigations subcommittee, which found that at least 13 children were the victims of human smuggling and at least another 15 may have suffered various forms of abuse. Instead of conducting proper background checks on adults claiming to be relatives of the child refugees, the Department of Health and Human Services, charged with finding homes for the children while they await court rulings as to whether they can stay or not, merely released the children to the care of people who ended up being smugglers. In one case a 16-year-old girl was released to a person claiming to be her cousin but was actually a sex trafficker who forced the girl to have sex with him.
Claire McCaskill, a Democratic senator from Missouri and the ranking member on the subcommittee, said she was "angry and disgusted" by what the investigation uncovered. "The bottom line is when a child is admitted into our country, the United States of America should be an example for the world of how we care for those children."
Pair this bit of news with a piece published by Foreign Policy last week which describes why the crisis in Central America is becoming more deadly by the minute, as groups, specifically the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18, have evolved from lowly street gangs to sophisticated criminal enterprises. Weak and corrupt governments in Honduras and El Salvador have allowed MS-13 especially to gather strength, rebrand itself and gain new territory, all in an effort to control the lucrative cocaine supply route from South American producers to U.S. consumers. As Douglas Farah, a senior visiting fellow at the National Defense University's Center for Complex Operations, explains:
The gangs — each with tens of thousands of members — have become vicious occupying forces in much of the Northern Triangle, replacing the hollowed-out state structures with deliberate trappings of their own authority. MS-13 is now an important link in the chain that moves cocaine to Mexico and the United States — more a political military force than a street gang. The scruffy, rag-tag teens of years past were violent, brutal, and often stoned, but could only afford homemade pistols and the rare AK-47 or hand grenades left over from the 1980s. Now many of the clicas, or neighborhood gang organizations, have assault rifles, vehicles, safe houses, and encrypted satellite phones. Some factions are even able to deploy drones to monitor the movements of the police or rival gangs. ….
MS-13 also has installed a rudimentary judicial system where gang-imposed punishments — from harsh beatings to public executions — are meted out for offenses such as stealing, informing the police of gang activities, or abusing one's spouse. Some clicas in Honduras also fund school lunch programs for poor children in their territory — usually just a bowl of soup and bread, but far more than the state has offered.
For years MS-13 has been sending some of its members to law school and business school, while others are encouraged to join the military and police forces. At least 223 suspected gang members were discharged from the Salvadoran military last year, though many more remain hidden among its ranks. Tattoos, once synonymous with gang membership, are now banned, and MS-13 has moved into the public transportation industry and even opened bakeries, gas stations and other business in order to raise more income and launder money. In neighboring Honduras, MS-13 prohibits direct confrontation with security forces attempting to arrest a member, as well as bans the extortion of businesses in its territory. With the adoption of such methods, MS-13 hopes the average citizen will begin to view the gang as less of a threat and maybe even as a somewhat benign organization.
Farah places much of the blame on El Salvador's disastrous gang truce that began in 2012 and collapsed in 2014, which provided the maras with enough time and space to transform themselves into something much larger and deadlier than they were before. In exchange for promises of peace, the Salvadoran government gave incredible concessions to gangs' imprisoned leaders, including "prostitutes in prison, unfettered cell-phone communications, [and] police withdrawal from the interiors of jails." Farah cites a 2013 interview with a gang leader who described how the gangs used violence to gain leverage in their negotiations with desperate officials: "We dump bodies on the street until they say yes. And they always say yes."
Using the violence or the threat of violence to influence government policy is the very definition of terrorism. So it's no surprise that groups like MS-13 have been discovered researching the methods of other terrorists organizations, such as al-Qaeda and Daesh (commonly known as ISIS). One raid on a MS-13 safe house in El Salvador found printouts on al-Qaeda, Daesh and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a Marxist-Leninist rebel group waging war on the Colombian government since 1964. Dismissing any coordination between MS-13 and such groups, Farah nonetheless lays out some similarities between MS-13 and Daesh:
There are some striking similarities between the behavior of some of MS-13 and the Islamic State. Like the Islamic State, the gangs primarily recruit young, unemployed males with few economic opportunities, both in person and through extensive social media outreach. The recruiters promise a life of purpose and a chance to be part of something larger than oneself. The gangs radicalize recruits with videos of savage violence and a quasi-religious call to arms against other gangs and 'civilians,' as non-gang members are called. Beheadings, dismemberments by chainsaw and machetes, and savage tortures are posted to YouTube as a multipronged tool to recruit new members and show how powerless the state is to stop them. This brazen violence has shredded the fabrics of these societies in ways far deeper than the civil wars of the 1980s.
Another major similarity Farah fails to mention is that both MS-13 and Daesh were largely the product of U.S. actions in Central America and the Middle East. In the late seventies, after over a century of U.S. hegemony over Central America — guided first by the infamous Monroe Doctrine, and then by the even more detestable Roosevelt Corollary — civil war broke out across the region, as popular movements attempted to over throw U.S.-backed dictatorships. The United States, under the guise of stopping the spread of communism, trained and funded death squads to crush the uprisings by any means. The chaos of the 1980s saw the beginning of a mass exodus to the United States, especially Los Angeles, where Central American thugs were able to learn from well-established street gangs, eventually forming what became MS-13 and Barrio 18. Then, in the mid-nineties, the Clinton administration instituted a policy under which gang members were sentenced to do time in prison — universities of crime — and then deported back to their home countries upon release. Central American governments receiving the deportees were never notified of their criminal activities or gang affiliations. MS-13 and Barrio 18 found fertile ground under the weak and corrupt governments of El Salvador and Honduras, and the new arrivals were able to take what they'd learned in the United States, combine it with the weapons and tactics provided by the U.S. government in the eighties, and take depravity to new depths.
The rise of Daesh in the Middle East followed a similar path: decades of U.S. meddling, then U.S. intervention in regional strife, more chaos, the U.S. funding and training of local forces, a power vacuum, and voilà.
I'm tired of hearing talk about Central American refugees as though they're merely fleeing a touch of poverty just like any other immigrants. Honduras and El Salvador are in the midst of war, one that has been raging for the past 30-plus years and was largely created and fueled by U.S. policies. These refugees aren't fleeing countries whose governments can't simply get their act together; they're feeling countries whose governments are prevented from getting their act together by the United States. It's been U.S. policy to make Central America a living hell — albeit a bearable one, so that the people there don't come here. But Washington pushed its luck by continually turning up the heat. Now Central America has reached its breaking point, and there are hundreds of thousands of people at our door, desperate to escape a U.S.-made disaster zone. These aren't Central America's refugees; they're ours.
Hector Luis Alamo is a Chicago-based writer and the deputy editor at Latino Rebels. You can connect with him @HectorLuisAlamo.
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Acer unveiled a slew of new products today at its annual "Next at Acer" even at 4 World Trade Center in New York City. Underscoring the new devices is a commitment by the company to delve further into mobile and VR.
Like other PC manufacturers, Acer has been forced to reorient and redefine its place in the market. With Intel's recent announcement that it was slashing its workforce in the face of slowing PC sales, it's unsurprising the companies using its chipsets are looking to do things a little differently.
The pivot isn't full-fledged, however, as a majority of the new rollout remains in the PC space, but Acer CEO Jason Chen made it clear the company was going to begin changing tack.
Liquid cooling a 2-in-1
Chen unveiled a new 2-in-1 notebook called the Switch Alpha 12, proclaiming it the first fanless 2-in-1 to use a 6th-gen Skylake Intel Core i7, i5 and i3 processor. Acer calls this LiquidLoop, a liquid cooling system that transfers heat from the CPU to a heat pipe via the thermal conducter. The pipe then generates the liquid in one direction to dissipate through a continual process of condensation and evaporation.
The lack of venting does make the Switch Alpha 12 look and feel a little sleeker, though consumers are more likely to appreciate the 165-degree tilting range on the back kickstand and the fact the keyboard comes included with the unit instead of being sold separately as an accessory.
The 12-inch IPS display has a resolution of 2160 x 1440, which does look nice up close with excellent viewing angles. It runs on Windows 10, and will get the upcoming Anniversary Update release coming later this year.
Ports include two USB 3.1 Type-C, three regular USB, one DisplayPort, one HDMI, and 3.5mm jacks for microphone input for and speaker audio output. A microSD slot can expand the internal storage further. Specs will apparently be configurable, though it's not yet clear how that will pertain to Canada. Storage options are reportedly going to range between 128GB, 256GB and 512GB, with 4GB or 8GB of RAM. Battery life is rated at eight hours, but you can bet that will be lower depending on usage.
Canadian pricing for the unit has yet to be revealed, but it is confirmed to hit retail in June starting at $599 U.S.
Chromebook 14 for Work
While currently second-place in 2-in-1s worldwide, Acer ranks first in Chromebooks, particularly by volume. Enter the Chromebook 14 for Work, a 14-inch device that ramps up the specs considerably from the 14-inch consumer model the company launched last year.
It's the first Chromebook running on the 6th-gen Skylake Intel Core processor and also the first to offer Gorilla Glass — both on the display and the top panel behind it. The idea in doing this is partly aesthetic, allowing customers to personalize the panel with an image nestled within the glass. For the moment, Acer is looking to provide images consumers can choose from, and it appears regional considerations will be part of the rollout. For example, a Hello Kitty image is being marketed in Taiwan.
While unconfirmed, the plan may be to allow consumers to upload their own images or collages to truly personalize the device. What extra cost that might incur is unknown at this time.
Robust and built to the rigourous standards of the U.S. military, this is a Chromebook that can apparently take a beating. The configuration options are numerous, and it's not evident what will or won't be made available when the device launches in Canada. Backlit keyboard or standard. A 720p or 1080p display. Either 2GB, 4GB or 8GB of RAM. An Intel Core i3 or i5 or a lower-powered Celeron processor. 32GB or 64GB internal storage. You get the idea.
One constant is the USB Type-C port, indicating that Acer is embracing the burgeoning industry standard, as many other companies are expected to do this year.
Pricing for Canada hasn't been released, but the Chromebook 14 for Work will start at $349 U.S. when it launches in May.
New 'mid-tier' Liquid smartphone
By "mid-tier," Chen meant mid-range, but semantics aside, Acer is wisely staying away from the flagship category and looking to compete in a race to zero. The company has never had carrier support in Canada, so has sought retail partners instead. Most recently, that was Costco selling the Liquid Jade Z, a mid-ranger that sold for $250.
The Liquid Zest Plus is a more interesting handset, particularly for the monstrous 5,000mAh battery inside and the lofty claims about the camera. Chen hailed it as "the best camera in its price range" of under $250 U.S. We'd have to judge that after getting our hands on a review unit, whenever the phone crosses north of the border.
With a plastic body and restrained form factor, the Liquid Zest Plus isn't especially pretty. The specs are also decidedly unspectacular. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p LCD display, runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, driven by a MediaTek MT6735 chipset and 2GB of RAM. There's 16GB of internal storage and, to make room for the battery, it looks like expandable memory via a microSD card has been sacrificed.
The 13MP rear camera sports what Acer calls a "tri-focus" system that combines laser, phase detection and contrast detection autofocusing together to produce better images. Little was said about the image sensor, lens or aperture, so it's not immediately clear what this tri-focus system is up against.
Still, with a battery that big, and specs that underpowered, Acer's claim of two days of battery life may actually be a conservative estimate.
No launch date was announced, though it probably won't be long.
Predator and VR
Acer's Predator line of gaming PCs is only a year old, but Canada is among the 13 markets it outperformed competitors in. The new Predator G1 gaming desktop, which is a beast of a machine, will definitely be coming to the Great White North. A limited time promotion will also include the country — the first 1,000 customers who pre-order the device will get the special Predator G1 suitcase for free. Both look great, and it's easy to see how any gamer who needs to be mobile with his or her gear may be interested.
The G1, along with the Predator 17 X gaming laptop, have been declared "VR ready" and hands-on demos showed that. Gaming PCs figure to play a big role in VR's viability in the near-term because they have the hardware chops to handle the content.
The G1 desktop will be available in Canada in July, except Canadian pricing isn't confirmed yet. It will start at $2,299 U.S. and go up from there, depending on configuration.
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