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Sweden's best Eurovision moments you've probably never heard of
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Nanne Grönvall controversially did not win Melodifestivalen 2005. Photo: Mark Earthy/TT
With Melodifestivalen's six-week parade around Sweden set to kick off, Ben Robertson looks at their biggest pre-show announcement for 2020. SVT will be starting the Melodifestivalen Hall of Fame, and Ben Robertson wonders how this works and who should be part of this list.
Melodifestivalen, the six-week parade around Sweden to pick the country's Eurovision contestant, is set to kick off on Saturday – but this year there's a new addition to the schedule: The Melodifestivalen Hall of Fame.
The moments that are to be inducted into the the Hall of Fame will be presented during this year's shows, handpicked by public broadcaster SVT's Melodifestivalen leadership team. In the future however, an SVT committee will only suggest names, and the people will be able to vote to have the final say.
These moments could be entire songs, or bits of choreography, lines of text or even moments such as an interval act. The Hall of Fame prize will go to the person responsible for whatever has happened (in terms of songs, it will be the artist and composers receiving the nomination).
Ben Robertson, writing for Eurovision news and commentary site ESC Insight, has asked some commentators on Eurovision and Melodifestivalen to give their comments as to what moments should be in Melodifestivalen's Hall of Fame. Do you agree with their suggestions? Will SVT agree with their suggestions?
Ben Robertson, ESC Insight: 'Satellit' by Ted Gärdestad
I moved to Sweden in 2011. Ted Gärdestad had already passed away many years before I arrived. The Eurovision 1979 artist committed suicide at only the age of 41.
I've learned over the years living here how beloved his songs are to the Swedish population. Throughout a sadly shortened career he's written tonnes of hit songs. Enough that even a musical of his life was commissioned and Erik Linder, known from competing in Melodifestivalen 2011, spent two years touring Sweden covering his music.
Ted Gärdestad's songs especially hit home during the summer allsång season,with thousands of Swedes joining in sing-a-long sessions around the country.
Of all of them, I find 'Satellit' is one of the most bouncy and fun tracks that is a cult classic – even now it reaches fans from ages three to 93 in a collective choir. Eurovision wasn't its natural environment, and it's hard to argue with the single digits it received on the 1979 scoreboard. However, Hall of Fame entrants don't need to be successful on the scoreboard, they need to resonate with the Swedish nation.
'Satellit' was the first song that came to mind.
Ken Olausson, Schlagerprofilerna: 'Främling' by Carola
I don't know if the same person can get chosen twice, but even if it means that someone else needs to get the "blame" for the 1991 ESC-victory, Carola need to get a mention for her 1983 debut with 'Främling'.
That night, so much more than Abba, single-handedly changed Sweden's relationship to Melodifestivalen and Eurovision. Something close to five million people saw this 16-year-old girl get all the available 12 points (still an unbeaten record) and overnight become one of the country's greatest superstars – and I think the possibility that something like this might happen again kept the Swedes in front of their TVs through several decades to come. The defining moment of Melodifestivalen – no doubt!
On a more modern note I also would love to nominate Fredrik Kempe for his outstanding efforts in the 2009 Melodifestivalen final. This year he won the public vote, the Swedish jury vote and the international jury vote – with three different songs! That is also a difficult record to break.
Monty Moncreiff, Second Cherry Podcast: 'Ska vi Plocka Körsbär i min Trädgård' by Ann-Christine Bärnsten
My nomination is 'Ska vi Plocka Körsbär i min Trädgård', the fifth placed song in 1975's Melodifestivalen by Ann-Christine Bärnsten. It's a Swedish cult classic but one mostly overlooked by international fans.
A little knowledge of Swedish helps you understand the song is laden with risqué sexual innuendo, with 17-year-old Ann-Christine selected by composer Little Gerhard to innocently deliver the lines as naively as possible, a role she acquiesced with claiming, publicly at least, she hadn't realized what the song was about.
Although it might well raise an eyebrow or two were it to compete in today's Melodifestivalen, the song has an of-its-time charm, reminiscent of the bawdy humour of the British Carry On film series.
I've learned over the years that trotting out a line or two of it to Swedes when they're least expecting it makes for a great party piece and they're astonished that I know it.
Trivia: There's a brief glimpse of half of Abba in the audience about halfway through the song.
(Editor's note: We could not find the original song on Spotify, but you can listen to a cover version by the Drifters below)
Peter Baston, Melodifestivalklubben (OGAE Sweden): The voting in Melodifestivalen 2005
The artists had given their all. It was a final with many good songs, half of which have entered the "Mello canon" and would have done Sweden proud in Kyiv.
This was my first final. Along the row of seats fellow fans cheered their favourites: Alcazar, Clamp, Bengtzing, Grönvall. None of us could see Martin Stenmarck's lounge style doing well at Eurovision.
Hearts jumped into mouths as the first regional juries announced their results. 24 points to 'Las Vegas' from two northern cities. Never mind, they always vote differently. Who sits on those juries anyway?
The nagging feeling wouldn't go away. Sure enough, 5 of 11 juries rewarded Stenmarck with 12 points. Now began the nailbiting wait while the TV audience continued to call in. In the end Nanne Grönvall's 'Håll om mig' failed to overtake Stenmarck by just three points.
But the televote was not just a two-horse race. A few more votes for the untipped 'Different kind of love' would have been enough to send Nanne to the Ukraine. My lasting memory of that evening is the look of disbelief among us fans as the shock sank in.
The press was not kind. 'Håll om mig' had won almost 25 percent of the popular vote against the winning song's 14 percent. It was not the first time, and certainly not the last, that the voting system would be questioned!
Katja Vidojevic: 'En Dag' by Tommy Nilsson
In the Melodifestivalen fan discourse, the 1989 edition is rated as one of the best of all time.
Held in the newly opened Globen Arena in Stockholm, the 1989 lineup considered of some of Sweden's top artists, from the sister pop duo Lili & Susie, to the songwriters Orup and Anders Glenmark, to the new talents Sofia Källgren and Lisa Nilsson (both among the more prominent artists nowadays).
Instead the contest was won by Tommy Nilsson who had scored a massive hit with a film soundtrack song a year earlier and what has proved to be an evergreen Swedish song, 'En dag'.
The song is still considered one of the strongest Swedish entries and was also written by the Sweden's equivalent of Stock-Aitken-Waterman, namely Norell-Oson-Bard. The anthemic midtempo ballad was also accompanied by backing singers who were stars in their own right, from the 80s pop princess Ankie Bagger to the (recently deceased) musician Jerry Williams.
This entry rounded up the 80s in the Melodifestivalen history very well by also doing well in Eurovision (many fans think it should have won even) and by becoming a classic, not merely among fans by the whole of Swedish society.
Ben Robertson will be covering Melodifestivalen 2020 for both The Local and ESC Insight.
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After recent reports of widespread violent demonstrations in Addis-Ababa and other parts of Ethiopia, local church leaders and members of the World Council of Churches (WCC) joined in a call for peaceful dialogue and restraint on all sides.
"We mourn the lives of those who perished during these protests, and regret the arrests and violence against protesters that have occurred during the demonstrations in different areas of the country," said Peter Prove, director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs.
Prove urged the ecumenical family to pray for the people of Ethiopia. "We pray that all sides join hands for a better future based on social justice and human dignity," he said.
Reports indicate more than 100 protestors were killed in Oromia and Amhara during the last two weeks alone, and local church leaders said the situation is still quite tense as demonstrators continue to clash with security forces. The violence comes on the heels of months of unrest in the western and northern parts of the country.
The general manager of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abune Dioskoros, has also spoken publicly about the crisis, urging all parties to resolve their differences with dialogue and restrain from using excessive force against peaceful demonstrators.
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I am Eva Puigdollers Vivet, the designer who is behind Nou Moscada. I am passionate about fashion and, especially, everything that we have women whenever we choose a piece to dress. I decided that I wanted to be a designer to explain through the clothes we wear with simplicity and at the same time, reaffirm our personality. I believe in timeless fashion, a fashion adapted to the needs of real women, looking to be comfortable and pass through the clothes who are and what matters to them.
Trips, crafts and traditions of other countries and the commitment to an ethical fashion are a priority for me. In all my collections, there are references to the countries that I have visited and cultures I've known. Also to traditional techniques such as the block printing or completion of woven on looms. Nou Moscada is passion for fashion, love of different cultures and traditions and respect for women who are committed to a sustainable and made fashionable at home.
Here you can see everything that I love and that, in one way or another, is also part of Nou Moscada.


In a sequestered Manhattan room on the mid-May night of the NBA draft lottery, the ping-pong balls bounced the Cleveland Cavaliers' way and inspired a high-ranking franchise executive to deliver a loud proclamation within a roomful of rivals.
"We're never coming back here again!" the Cavaliers official blurted.
While this hadn't been the arrogantly delusional boast of a basketball decision-maker, it did speak to an organizational arrogance that surrounded the three-plus lost years under recently deposed general manager Chris Grant.
For the second time in three seasons, Cleveland had won the lottery. Only this time, front office executives were mostly relieved that they hadn't been saddled with the No. 1 overall pick in a draft that didn't include a clear-cut No. 1 pick.
Beyond selecting Kyrie Irving with the No. 1 overall pick in 2011, Grant made one draft mistake after another. Eventually, he spent his final months on the job calling teams and offering those overvalued young players in preposterous deals for marquee talents. LaMarcus Aldridge. Anthony Davis. Andre Drummond. Eventually, few executives had the inclination to listen to Grant's pitches on one-sided deals.
Within months of LeBron James leaving for the Miami Heat as a free agent, there was a belief, fostered within James' inner-circle of Cleveland-based agents and marketers, that the planet's best player could be recruited back in summer of 2014. Through mismanagement and personnel miscalculations, the Cavaliers have made it increasingly improbable that James foresees the storybook ending in Cleveland.
In a lot of ways, the elevation of David Griffin to acting GM gives the Cavaliers a chance to make some deals and improve themselves. While league officials loathed dealing with Grant and his non-starter, one-sided offers, Griffin has stronger relationships, excellent player personnel and a leadership track record with the Phoenix Suns that led to him getting two offers – Memphis and Denver – to be a GM.
"[Griffin] excels at the trade deadline, so he'll have an immediate opportunity to impress [Cavs owner Dan Gilbert]," an Eastern Conference GM told Yahoo Sports.
Nevertheless, Gilbert's plan is to search the NBA landscape for Grant's replacement. Even when few else believed in Grant as GM, Gilbert had long been his most ardent supporter. In the end, it set back the franchise when it desperately needed to reconstruct credibility in the wake of James' departure.
The Cavaliers could've had Kyrie Irving and Toronto center Jonas Valanciunas in the 2011 draft class, but Grant balked on using the fourth overall pick on the center everyone else would've selected there. Several reasons factored in, but there had been a strong belief within the Cavaliers personnel department that Grant hadn't scouted Valanciunas hard enough to gain full confidence in his abilities. Cleveland's international scouts raved about the 7-footer, and most of the Cleveland's staff agreed with them, sources said.
In the end, Grant wanted Valanciunas' agents to give the Cavaliers a signed buyout agreement with Lithuanian club Lietuvos Rytas that guaranteed the center would join the NBA for his rookie season. His agents at Creative Artists Agency, including Leon Rose, had a reasonable counter, sources said. They wanted the ability to negotiate the buyout once Valanciunas' rookie draft salary had been slotted. And Toronto, with the fifth pick, wanted Valanciunas badly and never demanded the signed buyout as a prerequisite to draft him, sources said.
Within the Cavaliers, the belief was that Grant was searching for a way to cross Valanciunas off the list and draft a player that he believed to be a safer bet: Texas' Tristan Thompson. What's more, Rich Paul, James' childhood friend and player agent now, represented Thompson.
From there, Cleveland compounded mistake upon mistake. Grant passed on Connecticut center Andre Drummond in the 2012 draft, because he didn't want to pair two such unpolished offensive players as Thompson and Drummond together, sources said. Grant had always warned player agents that the Cavaliers would never a select a player who didn't come and work out for the franchise. Only Grant did just that when he took Syracuse guard Dion Waiters with the fourth overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft. If the Cavaliers weren't going to select Drummond, Irving badly wanted them to consider his close friend, Harrison Barnes. Cleveland passed, and Irving and Waiters have struggled to co-exist together. Before his firing, Grant had started to shop Waiters to teams around the league.
There had been discussion on drafting Washington State's Klay Thompson with the fourth overall pick, but Grant believed he could get a deal done later in the lottery and snare him. The Cavaliers missed, Golden State selected Thompson with the 11th pick and he's become one of the best two-way shooting guards in the NBA.
Once the Cavaliers won the 2013 draft lottery again, they had come down to two players for the No. 1 overall pick: Anthony Bennett and Ben McLemore, sources said. Again, Indiana's Victor Oladipo was the safest pick, but Grant believed that Oladipo was too much like Waiters. Grant was too stubborn to acknowledge that maybe Waiters' future is as a bench scorer like Jamal Crawford, and Oladipo was the perfect two-way player to complement Irving.
For all those miscalculations, the Cavaliers' constant overselling of the 2013 draft's No. 1 overall pick set the stage for the most colossal of mistakes: taking UNLV's Bennett with the top pick.
Bennett's penchant for late-night pizza runs at UNLV, one of the factors contributing to his weight issues, were well known with other teams who had closely researched him. If Cleveland hadn't selected Bennett with the No. 1 overall pick, there was a strong chance that he would've dropped to the back end of the top 10 – or even further. Within hours of the draft, Bennett's agents were calling teams further back in the draft lottery, trying to secure a landing spot for him. Only the Cavs surprised everyone, selecting Bennett – who did have a season-best 19 points and 10 rebounds on Tuesday night – with the first overall pick.
Everything the Cavaliers had done until free agency in the summer of 2013 had been to clear hurdles for James' return. After passing on the two best center prospects to come out of the draft in the past several years, Grant made an extraordinary leap of faith on signing free agent Andrew Bynum.
After missing an entire season with Philadelphia to chronic knee problems, several teams investigating the signing of Bynum were convinced he had the desire to push through rehabilitation and be a productive player again. But no one made a serious offer to Bynum until Cleveland delivered him a two-year, incentive-laden deal that could've paid him $25 million. The Cavaliers preened, too. Owner Dan Gilbert tweeted, "What's next, C.G.?" Within the league, people wondered: Why are they taking bows?
Only Bynum never made it to the early January guarantee date for his full $12.5 million salary in 2013-14, and self-destructed. He stopped trying on the floor, and became a disruptive presence in practices. Before Bynum was thrown out of his final practice and suspended, he was shooting the ball every time he touched it in a practice scrimmage, sources said – from whatever remote part of the court he had caught the ball.
In the end, the Cavaliers used Bynum's contract and first-round picks to trade for Chicago's Luol Deng. To keep Deng in free agency this summer, the Cavaliers will probably have to exceed his market value. Letting Deng walk would be too embarrassing, considering how steep a price they paid to acquire him. Deng is a relentlessly positive person, but he hates losing and will be a premium free-agent target for several contending franchises.
For now, the Cavaliers are pushing toward next Thursday's trade deadline with Griffin on the phones and a mandate to keep pushing for the playoffs. Cleveland is 19-33, 11th in the Eastern Conference – four games out of the final playoff spot.
Three and a half years ago, the Cavaliers lost LeBron James, turned the franchise over to Chris Grant, and now they find themselves still far, far from contention. The NBA's draft lottery is coming again this spring, and it appears the Cleveland Cavaliers will be back where they so boldly vowed they'd never need to return again.


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On Wednesday, Oct. 28, the Miss America Organization confirmed the tragic news that former Miss America Leanza Cornett had passed away. She was 49 years old.
"Leanza had a bright and beautiful spirit and her laugh was infectious. We know she meant so much to so many, including all of you," the organization's Facebook statement read. "We are devastated by this sudden loss in our Miss America family and we are deeply sorry for her family and close friends for their loss."
The organization added, "At the moment, we do not have any further information regarding a service for Leanza and we ask that you please respect her family during this difficult time."
An individual who organized a Facebook page called "Leanza's Circle of Love" also shared the heartbreaking news, writing, "I'm here to let you know Leanza passed this afternoon. She was so loved. I don't feel like writing a lot right now; my heart is broken. Sue."
NBC News affiliate News 4 Jax in Jacksonville, Fla. reported that the pageant queen, who was crowned Miss America in 1993, died after being hospitalized for a head injury.

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As avid users of the internet today, we are driven by fun, exciting and cool content. When it comes to checking up on services and products, we can see how easy it is to market for certain things, such as movies, video games, skydiving and others. But what about sites that are geared more towards products and services that many of us would find boring? How can you get people excited for industries that aren't exactly as exciting as skydiving, such as vacuum cleaners, auto glass and bug and pest extermination?
It's obviously not impossible for these types of "boring" industries to get traction, as any successful business is going to be needed at some point, right? We all will eventually need to do research on a new vacuum cleaner, right? But in the current search landscape, how would we get one of these industries found by searchers? High quality content. Yup. That's exactly what we need.
The entire idea is to create content that is not only high quality, but fun, engaging to the reader AND is linkable. That's the keyword here, linkable. That brings us to link building. How do you help create a link building campaign for those boring industries that centers around a niche service or product? How can you create excitement over something like very specific machine parts?
Matthew Barby has written a post for Search Engine Land entitled, "A Step-By-Step Guide To Link Building For Boring Industries Or Products," and as you can tell by that title, he will be guiding you through the link building process for the boring industries of the working world.


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NeuroQueer
queering our neurodivergence, neurodiversifying our queer
Schizo-Queer, By Praecoxious Queer
Schizo-Queer
By Praecoxious Queer
Author is a schizoaffective, queer, genderqueer, Latin@ witch living in Tacoma, Washington pursuing undergraduate degrees in Gender and Queer Studies and Political Theory. Aspirations include graduate school and an eventual visit to family in Argentina.
Abstract: This piece is an expository, associative description of a tendency within neuroqueer thought to undermine the expectations and norms governing behavior for particular neurotypes. Aiming to avoid harsh definitional maneuvers, I hope to offer a wager to neuroqueer whereby it may embrace/enjoy what I theorize as schizoqueerness to make salient the political and communitarian value of fragmentation, both as a method for escaping systems of constraint and control but also as a method for bringing communities of resistance together in a strengthened commitment to intersectionality. Positing fragmentation as foundational to some modes of consciousness or perception rather than as a contingent affliction befalling some and not others and avoiding the temptation to position whole-ness or holity as beneficial or "natural", I hope that this piece may deepen the redemptive possibilities of neuroqueer by offering schizoqueerness as a tool within conceptual repertoires of a neuroqueer vocabulary.
"Queer thinkers have brought into sharper focus than ever before the problematic nature of what we nevertheless continue to take for granted: the very notion and value of community itself. And it is in doing that that queers should command the attention of straights—that is, not because we have anything to tell them about the value of relationships or community … but rather because of our exemplary confusion"
--Leo Bersani, Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays
I remember when I realized I was not straight. I also remember when, though I wouldn't think of it this way at the time, and still don't all the time, I realized that I "hear voices." I know when I decided I was queer: but I never decided I was schizoaffective. I was told that I am. I now decide that I am schizoqueer, deploying a tendency within neuroqueerness to queer the neurotype offered by medical science to explain the phenomenology of schizophrenia through an intentional refusal of the normalizing forces at work in a social sphere embrocated by psychiatrization.
I decide I am schizoqueer when I reflect upon the reality of my psychosis. And when I say the reality of my psychosis, I do not mean the reality of my experience as a psychosis in the terms of medicine; rather, I queerly inflect reality to the effect that I mean: my psychosis was and is real but remains a psychosis nonetheless. Schizoqueerness will therefore be concerned with queering not only the expectations of a given neurotype, but also must be concerned with queering the construction of reality as reality.
Through this essay, I have chosen to resist the imperative to provide a strict definition of neuroqueerness. What I offer instead is nothing but an exposition of certain tendencies already at work within neuroqueerness; I hope to persuade any who read this of another, partial, but nonetheless insistent imperative toward fragmentation operative in the communitarian efforts of neuroqueerness, a tendency that I hope to amplify and make visible through such poetic exposition.
I will not pretend to hold the answer to the riddle of schizophrenia or psychosis. I will not pretend that I know anything about the generalities or formal structures at work within what it is that we call "schizophrenia," and I will not pretend that what I hope to articulate here is anything but phenomenological description of what this experience may be. However, I refuse to cast off the experiences of psychosis; I refuse to relent to the pacifying sway of doctors who will tell me that this psychosis-reality is in, fact, a fiction; there is value in which I experience insofar as it informs my action.
i. The world is ruled by straight people, for straight people|straight people bash me at every corner|the corner becomes a coroner, when? Well: I hear them talking about me, to me, reminding me of…my queerness, their straightness….
"Sir, have you ever had any delusions of persecution?"
"I'm not a sir, please do not call me that" per-se-cu-tion lo-cu-tion per-SIR-cution Sir sir sir sir sir sir sir sir sir sir sirrrrrrrrrrrrprise demise, reprise!
"Sir, have you ever experienced auditory hallucinations?"
ii. Is this the condition of Being
queer? In the absence of the words to state
iii. that I know what it is I am talking about,
I can only
recourse to re-course the whole syntax
of this thing that is the state, or "this reality."
The Greek word "schitzein," from which we get the prefix "schizo," refers to an act of splitting articulated in the verbal mode, which is to say it describes a doing. Like "queer," it is an action, not a mode of being; it is, in a sense, a process of splitting. "Schizo" becomes in other utterances a noun-as-slur describing one who is split, but also one who is split off (from us), one whose personality is split (in two, or more), or one (really several) who is/are 'psycho'. Like "queer" and "crip," then, terms of violence reclaimed as words and strategies of resistance, "schizo" names a sometimes futural, often anti-social, affectively ambiguous method that can also be a way to split a thing, whether that means to split it off from resources of domination, split it off from the privileges it may enjoy, split against an erasure, naming a further division within any project aspiring to universality: a way of doing that is both an un-doing (of something whole/"complete") and the rearrangement of the parts of a thing to the effect that the thing itself, formerly whole, is no longer the same, has become different and queer, a thing has been made schizo.
What I hope to articulate is the possibility of a schizoqueerness, to offer "neuroqueerness" a wager whereby it might not only be broadened definitionally or conceptually, but also to deepen it by bringing a schizomatic tendency of internal fragmentation, to consider the force of fragmentation as generative of affective tendencies that may be deployed toward social and political ends.
Here fragmentation must not be conceived of as a factionalist turning-away from one another: to reproduce such a narrative would legitimate the entire discourse that has tended toward the forcible hospitalization and incarceration of schizophrenics/schizoaffectives and others with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.
Rather, the wager of schizoqueerness is an opportunity to delve into the depths of community-making, to consider "why do we desire to come together when coming together is itself so terrifying?"
To schizoqueer something is: to analyze and sometimes reverse, or, alternately, re-verse, the processes whereby identitarian similarities and the pragmatic demands of political engagement may disappear the productions of suffering, isolation, alienation, and loneliness intrinsic to the naming of a community/consciousness united and named as such, where integrity or wholeness are posited on the side of typicality, banality, and therefore on the side of terror? That will have to do for now. But we can't let this attempt at articulation come to limit schizoqueer critique.
By all this I mean to ask: what are the reparative possibilities of splitting itself, what might splitting signify when schizo is itself split off from its use as a weapon of domination, and re-versed in a tone dis-affect(able) to the melodies of an architecture of inaccessibility, when this architecture is broadened to include reality, the construction of reality, itself?
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari take one thousand plateaus to make the same argument stated at the beginning of Anti-Oedipus, that: "The code of delirium or of desire proves to have an extraordinary fluidity … It might be said that the schizophrenic passes from one code to the other, that [they] deliberately scramble all the codes, by quickly shifting from one to another, according to the questions asked [them], never giving the same explanation" (Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 15).
But what is this insistence on explanatory drift, whereby the schizo is presumed to offer ever-new explanations for constantly variant codes of being? What is salient about schizo in schizoqueer is the expansion of psychotic fragmentation into the conceptual domain of a political weapon or tool. For Deleuze, Guattari, and a whole host of thinkers influenced by their work, this element of delirium is coded into schizophrenia and therefore the schizophrenic themselves drifts from the explanations they themselves have offered before, in the past.
But do we deliberately scramble these codes?
iv. Do I choose to engage this psychosis?
How can it be that my very existence scrambles every code, when all I can do is lock the door to my bedroom—check the windows, look for the crowd gathered beneath my house screaming Faggot! Sissy! Queer!—how is it that Deleuze and Guattari can posit this delirious nature of schizophrenic thought when my schizophrenic psychosis anchors itself around the very same, similar and recurrent experiences of antiqueerness; experiences which, too much for my childhood, adolescent consciousness to resolve by any way aside from what must have been only a total and absolute repression at the level of experience, and locked them away into a domain of my psyche so totally foreign to myself that it haunts in the form of, at times, persecutory, "delusional" feelings of subordination, annihilation?
v. What wager had I gambled when I became persuaded by the delirium conjured from within my own being? Was it that
I knew this would happen? I was told this would happen? Do I not invite this fragmentation by failing—but what/who is it "I"/we fail?
(If hallucinations are my mind's compensation, is it compensating for my queerness? Is my queerness not then an impairment that becomes disability, insofar as it necessitates this compensation?)
Against this assumption, I cannot and will not posit delirium as foundational to my experience of psychosis, fragmentation, or schizophrenia. On the contrary, I must posit my queerness as an aspect of my disability. My disability is therefore queer; my disability is neurological, or at least all my psychiatrists think so; therefore, is my queerness, as disability, wired into the cortexes of my brain, and, if so, what must I now think, reconsidering all the theories of performativity I had learned in Gender Studies courses, reading feminist theories?
Delirium may occur in some, it may manifest at times, but the explanatory drifting instantiated by Deleuze and Guattari offers little by way of reparative possibilities for schizos who, queerly, nonetheless desire a community, a queer community, a community which may itself queer the very typicalities which underlie the construction of reality as inaccessible. In other words: by deploying neuroqueerness within the frame of schizoqueerness, simultaneously offering schizoqueerness the queering of neurotypicalities implied within neuroqueerness, l hope that this deepening of the neuroqueer community can be the starting point for a new, queer orientation within schizophrenic thought. Situating schizoqueerness as my neuroqueerness is how I re-verse the narratives of performativity that were themselves thrown into delirium in my experience of psychosis. My queerness, then, becomes disabled in the course of engaging with a reality architecturally structured by co-constitutive forces of straightness (which make our understanding of reality narrow, confining) and neurotypicality (which summon a naturality to one mode of experience while pathologizing others as deviant).
If "neuroqueer" can be understood to act as a form of doing, where the actions of people "who are intentionally 'queering' their neurotype through a refusal to conform/assimilate […] an assertion of identity, or as a way of asserting an accommodation need without invoking the usual procedural legal channels," what might such a queering have to offer to bodies not only positioned beyond the "shared" reality architecturally created as inaccessible, but also to modes of consciousness which split from intersubjective reality-creation? I defend that schizoqueerness is a tendency already at work within neuroqueer communities: it is a radicalization of the deployment of disability as a queer act of political resistance, where particular|individual aesthetics, modes of perception, ontologies, modes of consciousness, whole ways of being are summoned by individuals but also the differences of each from the other, uniting these modes/thoughts/beings through the queer "nosology" of neuroqueerness.
In other words: when schizoqueerness comes to be understood as already in conversation with neuroqueerness, what reparative possibilities might the two have to offer one another? What projects become possible when the schizomatic tendency toward re-organization engages with this political inclination located within neuroqueerness, to queer this neurotype by deploying neuro-schizo-queerness as an aegis of resistance?
Imagine: a Rubix Cube rotating upon itself, rotating and re-arranging even the distribution of colors on the surface, the colors themselves sinking into undifferentiation, passing into a depth from which the morass of identity can later come to embellish the surface? This is how I envision a schizomatic tendency operating within a community of neuroqueerness: offering to neuroqueer this velocity, a principle of re-making, making through splitting, splitting which itself strengthens community by providing an impetus for re-making, re-modeling, re-constructing by fragmenting. This means that splitting|fragmenting might be properly understood as a splitmending, the mending of terror through a compensatory splitting that is no longer pathological.
vi. Fragmentation occurs: unable to cope with the tendencies of reality to demand blood,
consciousness wavers: insomnia roils; mania commands—itself
vii. Before hopeless, before powerless, in face of the reality-bashing-in|on-me that is what
THEY call "sanity"
viii. This is the most beautiful compensation, I could have thought.
Within my "split" consciousness, and even in the harshest throes of a manic psychosis, I never experience myself as several entirely different entities. In the same way, the fragmentation that schizoqueerness offers to neuroqueer should not be taken as a threat to the "singularity" of communities of neuroqueerness, since what this fragmentation has to offer is a coming-together by coming-apart, a coming-apart that reveals our modes of doing neuroqueerness as motivated by this velocity-toward-differentiation: it is, as all psychosis is, a wager where we risk the coherence our selves and our communities in order to deepen the conceptual definitions we offer in the name of lateral inclusion.
I will gamble here on a post-structuralist turn-of-phrase, but, in my florid episodes, any signifier which might name this entity called "myself" that would attempt to unify the fragmentations of consciousness would always only fail to name the experiences of non-existence constitutionally present in many expositions of schizophrenic life.
Language tumbles forward on itself when vocabulary attempts to define any experience of psychosis, recourse to metaphor is insufficient, and simile is rarely satisfying to reflect upon outside the mania of a florid episode. In the same way, any explanation of feelings of loneliness, isolation, alienation, and fragmentation felt by members of any community—whether communities of neuroqueerness or neurotypicality—fail to find themselves represented in the names or values that would come to constitute the community as such. The splitmending tendency of fragmentation, then, should be deployed as a way to bring ourselves closer to one another even as we recognize the conceptual difficulties we have in communication, the differences in realities that we live in, the reality that we are different from one another as well as different from the expectations of hegemonic neurotypicality.
ix. How can we re-turn the phrase, re-verse the tendencies of exclusion, when this tendency is inscribed within reality?
x. Fragmentation has its costs; splitting does not happen without pain, but a splitting is always a chance to do something new with something that was not there before. If neuroqueerness will accept the wager of schizomatizing itself, or embracing|enjoying the schizoqueer flows still hiding, even within communities of neuroqueerness, what new worlds can we, together, create?
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Neuroqueer Art by Katie F. Croteau
Image Description: A drawing on a white piece of paper sits atop a blue and yellow plaid tablecloth. The drawing is done entirely in pen, and features a few objects of interest. In the upper left corner, standing on a field of grass, an elephant with a surprised or intrigued look on it's face gazes upward and to the right, it's trunk folding inward and upwards. To the right of the elephant is a tree with fluffy spiky leaves and a palm-tree like trunk. Beneath the elephant is a large black flower with white polka dots, and a large, dotted center with a black circle in the middle. To the right of the flower, and beneath and between the elephant and the tree, is a friendly dragon's bust with two curved, striped horns atop it's head, smaller horns going down it's nose ridge, and two fangs from it's upper mouth. Behind the field and the tree are clouds and sky.
Image Description: A photo of a sketchbook drawing of a snail with lime green skin gazing upwards with its wiggly antennae. It has a blue outline, and a white shell that is crammed full of blue stars spiraling around on it. Background is white.
Image Description: A black tree with no leaves stands in the middle of a field of black grass. The tree's trunk curves in almost an "S" shape, and towards the base of its trunk fades into a crosshatching that gives a gray effect. Floating around the tree and lying in the grass are red, floral orbs that resemble chrysanthemums, which vary in size. Beneath and to the right of the field of black grass is a pond made of red water. In the upper left-hand corner is a sun that is made of the same chrysanthemum pattern, but has red lines emitting from its edges, and is the largest chrysanthemum on the page. To the tree's left is a tiny, black, leafless sapling.
Image Description: A drawing of a dimmly, warmly lit room with brown, wooden flooring stretching horizontally across the room. There are two windows on a gray-colored wall-- the window on the left features an orange-yellow striped curtain topper, and through the window is light blue water and pink fish with eyes, noses, and mouths. The window to the right has a purple curtain topper with blue polka dots. There are also fish with eyes, noses, and mouths, but they are teal and swimming in light purple water.
Beneath the window with the orange curtain is a bed with coral-colored sheets and pillow cases, topped with two pillows and a red blanket. The pillows inside the coral cases are white with thin, light blue horizonatl stripes running across them. The feet of the bed are very anthropomorphic-- you can see one of the bed's legs is bending, and the rest are implied as the bed runs off the page. The bed's foot is round and toeless, almost implying that it's wearing shoes.
Next to the bed is another anthropomorphic piece of furniture-- a lamp. The lamp's torso is spiraling upwards to the lampshade, but at the bottom has two feet which it is standing upon. The body of the lamp is yellow with green stripes, and the lamp's shade is teal.
To the right of the lamp, and partially obscuring the window with the purple curtain, is a green dresser with two drawers. The upper drawer has two round, blue knobs, which when paired with the lower drawer, which has a handle, the dresser appears to have a smiling face. The feet of the dresser are like pumps-- they are greener than the legs, which bend at slightly different angles.
Image Description: A drawing of a peacock-esque bird. The main body of the bird is hot pink-- its neck is long and curving as it looks down and to the viewer's right. The bird's tail feathers are in a rainbow sequence of "red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo, violet," and like all the feathers on this bird, are drawn in a rounded, bolded style with a line running through the center and thin lines forming a series of "V" shapes down the line. The feathers on the wings are green, blue, teal, and yellow, and randomly but strategically placed in order of color. The bird has three feathers atop it's head-- the main and largest feather is red, and at its base has a yellow circle with and orange circle inside. The two feathers directly on either side of the red feather are violet. The bird's beak is orange, but towards the tip is greenish blue. The bird's legs and feet are orange, except for the talons which are white with blue tips. The bird has three toes and one rear talon on each foot. The background is a warm gray color.
Image Description: A close up of the wing and tail feathers from the peacock drawing.
Image Description: A close up of the head, tail, and upper wings of the peacock drawing.
Image Description: A drawing of a blue bird with two tail feather, a red bow tie, and three small buttons downing down it's chest. The bird is wearing thick, black rimmed glasses, and has it's beak open pretty wide. The bird is looking to the left, and is drawn on a white background.
Image Description: A large carrot with spiky leaves stands upright in the middle of the page. It stands atop a purple heart on a gray floor, as green vines spiral out of the leaves and consume the background. A white bunny with a blue outline and pink inner ears eagerly approaches the carrot with her arms spread wide-- she is wearing an ear ribbon and a white dress with blue polka dots. She is standing on one foot, with the other gracefully pointing behind her.
Image Description-- an acrylic painting on canvas featuring three bunnies-- the bunny in the middle is the largest, and is wearing what could either be interpreted as sunglasses or goggles without legs/straps. All three bunnies are facing the same direction (the viewer's left) and have exactly the same body shape-- similar to a gourd. The bunny on the far left is colored in entirely in black, and the bunny on the far left is colored in entirely in white. The middle bunny is a light gray. The background is a dark-ish gray, with the right and bottom edges of the canvas painted a medium gray. In total, there are 9 shades of the gray scale that make up this painting.
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Flight to Finland starts with a narrator's doctoral defense session and his/her lectio when he/she addresses custos, the opponent, and audiences, and ends with concluding remarks of custos, and in between, the narrator moves back and forth to recount his/her narratives of living, studying, and working in Finland.
A Nigerian mechanical designer student called Ty from Aalto University (name changed here) saved our family from a snow blizzard with his Uber ride. Ty is looking for a job and is pondering whether to stay in Finland or move to Norway. I asked how about the startup companies (building new business with strong tech focus and high growth potential), has he checked that out. He said he tried it and it was disappointing; all the hard work and no salary in the end.
Rock legend Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul De Smedt (Mathias Schoenaerts) when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry Hawks (Ralph Fiennes) unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson) and interrupts their holiday bringing with him an A-bomb blast of nostalgia from which there can be no rescue. "A Bigger Splash" is a sensuous portrait of desire, jealousy and rock and roll, under the Mediterranean sun.
FAROESE SINGER-SONGWRITER BENJAMIN will play his first ever show in Finland on February 11 as part of the artActica Festival (February 11 – 13). Time to find out a bit more about the musician that already sparked the interest of e.g. the German Rolling Stone magazine.


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IT all looks over, Wolves. No surprise, though, after the way they handled sacking Mick McCarthy.
The way they did that was really bad. To dismiss Mick, who had been tremendously successful at Wolves and not have the replacement lined up was foolish.
Everybody has a go at tapping up, but it goes on in all kinds of business, not just football. That does not seem to have been the case at Wolves and that is quite amazing. To say they wanted to do things properly and not go behind Mick's back, suggests a holier-than-thou approach.
They have put that forward as a right excuse for messing it up. But they did mess it up – whether or not they tried to do it the right way.
I do not know the chairman Steve Morgan well, but I found it so surprising that he would go into the dressing room after the Liverpool game actually to chastise the players in front of Mick. It just undermined the manager. Then they sack him and say, 'Yes we do have an idea of who to give it to, but we're only going to give it to him until the end of the season'.
But they end up having to give it to Mick's assistant, Terry Connor, because Alan Curbishley, Steve Bruce and Brian McDermott turned it down and they had nobody else. I know Terry, he is a great lad and I am not going to say he is not a manager, but he was pushed into the position and it could be his undoing. When a new manager comes in – which is bound to happen in the summer – he will probably lose his job.
If they had stuck with Mick they would have won more games than they have under Terry and at the end of the season, if they were not happy they could dismiss him then. Instead, it has been a shambles.


We report the first known records of Ranunculus arvensis from southern California. This alien species shows a tendency to behave as a facultative wetland plant, and could become a pest in scoured washes and flood plains, ephemeral pools, and on disturbed stream banks in the coastal lowlands.
Riefner, Richard E. Jr and Boyd, Steve (2007) "Ranunculus arvensis (Ranunculaceae), an Alien Weed New to Southern California," Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany: Vol. 24: Iss. 1, Article 4.


By John and Ceci McCormick, Co-Chairs -- Last November, a small group got together to discuss the advantages of all advocates of active transportation in Delaware (e.g. bicycle, pedestrian, bus transportation, safety, healthy lifestyle) to work together to promote active lifestyles (see Vision Statement below). We discussed the need to understand what the current advocacy efforts were and how to identify people who could organize our efforts.
The initial name of the group, Bicycle Education and Safety Training has changed to Bringing Education and Safety Together. We wanted to keep the initials the same for consistency – B.E.S.T. - but needed to show our interest in collaborating with a broader range of transportation options.
We have been meeting every two months since then to report out to the group on progress made by individuals and to decide on our next steps. Two guiding questions for these meeting are: What are the various advocacy efforts? Who would be responsible for each advocacy effort (component)? For example, Anthony Aglio & Sarah Coakley are Leads on 4th & 5th Grade bicycle programs.
Vision Statement: Promote bicycling, walking, and public transportation in a way that engages the talents, energies and influence of the various advocacy groups and local, county & state resources, so that our collective efforts are aligned and coordinated, and Delaware's active transportation initiatives are recognized nationally as a model program.


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For 25 cents, tampons are now available for purchase in the girls' bathrooms at SHS.
After receiving input from two Sharon High students, Sydney Mayo and Emma Safran, Dr. Libano agreed to install tampon dispenser machines in the girls' restrooms. Safran and Mayo proposed that putting tampons in the girls' bathrooms would provide a "discreet and time-efficient way" for girls to prevent their periods from disrupting their class time.
"The current system of having to go to the nurse for a tampon is both embarrassing and a waste of time that would be better spent learning," Mayo and Safran said said.
They said that they believe all women should be able to easily access emergency feminine hygiene products.
"For example, online retailer Alibaba sells pads for as little as 2 cents each and tampons for one cent," said the two.
"The dispensers, which may or may not be necessary, are $290 each, but it is a one time cost," they added.
Prior to Libano agreeing to install machines in SHS bathrooms, Safran and Mayo said their plan would involve the school buying feminine hygiene products in larger quantities than it currently does, but it would make the products "more affordable" by lowering the cost of each pad or tampon.
The 25 cent charge will be used to pay for tampons and pads to send to women in developing countries who cannot afford them.
"Society has made periods into an awkward issue, but something that affects 50% of the world's population shouldn't be," said the two.
"Putting tampons in the bathroom will help normalize this, and every woman can benefit from this. Something that is so natural and unavoidable should not be used to shame or ostracize the affected individual," they added.
Libano says that he thinks the machines will resolve an issue that students raised.
"Office and public restrooms usually have similar dispensers, so I think it also makes sense for a large facility like ours to have them. They're a resource for emergency circumstances and to avoid unnecessary embarrassment," he said.
"They're not intended to be a replacement for normal, self-care practices. I've heard that people don't carry change, but since we're talking about emergencies, it's best to be prepared and students might want to consider putting a quarter or two in their wallets or book bags," added Libano.
One senior says that although she usually comes prepared to school with tampons and pads in case of an emergency, she appreciates SHS's attempt to avoid an unnecessary and embarrassing trip to the nurse.
"It's good knowing that if an emergency came up, and I didn't have a tampon on me, I could just use the machines in the bathroom to purchase one rather than having to go to the nurse," she said.
"Since there is always a chance of forgetting to bring products with me to school, I'll definitely start carrying change just in case an emergency comes up," she added.


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Full Form Of IPS: How to Become an IPS Officer? Age, Exams
November 12, 2021 by myworldstuffs
People who are fond of civil service know about IPS. An IPS officer is an important part of the law and order of the country, but do you know what is the full form of ips and how to become IPS, what should be the qualification to become IPS?
One of the three main posts in the central government of India and in the civil service is the post of ips officer. Apart from IPS, IAS, IRS, CISF, IDAS, IDES, IES, IOFS, IRTS, RPF, and IFS etc.
Also come under civil service, although our main focus in this article is to get all the information related to IPS and it.
What is the full form of IPS? (IPS Full Form)
The full form of the IPS is the Indian Police Service That is, the IPS is one of the three all-India services of the Government of India, (Indian Rail Account Services-IRS), (Indian Administrative Service-IAS), (Indian Forest Service-IFS).
The IPS was formed in 1948. The Cadre Control Authority for the IPS is with the Home Ministry. An IPS officer can be employed by both the central and state governments.
How to Become an IPS officer?
The main function of an IPS officer is the state or state law, crime and crime control administration, administration. An IPS officer can be the director general of his state police.
In the central government, he could be a senior director of the CBI, the IB or the RA. The solution of an IPS officer is also in a big and responsible post like the National Security Adviser.
If you want to become an ips officer, then you must have complete information about its exam, qualification, age limit, and selection process etc., then only you can prepare well.
Now you can apply in the official website of UPSC for IPS exam in UPSC.Gov.In. you have to know that the IPS exam is conducted by UPSC. This exam and the entire selection process is divided into three phases based on the IPS exam pattern set by the UPSC.
Main Exam
The candidate who completes these three stages is appointed to the post of IPS officer.
IPS examinations
There is a change in the temperature test procedure for IPS officer. UPSC is done taking care of this work. UPSC stands for Union Public Service Commission.
The post of IPS officer in the Indian Police is a high and responsible post, so it is mandatory to give a job to a promising, educated, capable and responsible person in this post.
UPSC is an institution which conducts the examination of the biggest civil services of India like IAS, IPS, IFS, etc. This test has to be done to appear in the upsc exam.
Age limit for IPS:
The IPS officer or OPSC age limit is 21 to 27 years.
Preliminary examination Take the lead role after passing the exam.
The last stage is the test interview Interviews are also very difficult for the IPS, in which they are tested with a variety of pleasures and their personalities, life habits, and so on.
The Preliminary Exam consists of two papers of 200-200 marks in total, for which 2-2 hours are given to solve. Both the papers are of objective type which is the qualifying paper for the main exam.
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Current events Comprehension
History of Indian National Movement Interpersonal and communication skills
Indian and World Geography Logical and Analytical Skills
Economic and social development General mental ability
Environment protection General math
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Having only built one kit last year, due to major back problems and the onset of depression I was determined to build more this year. Well, here's the first build, the Hobbyboss Russian T-28 medium tank. I still have some weathering to do, once I've decided what base she is to go on, but it certainly helped get some of my mojo back. I did use Friulmodel tracks, as didn't like th ekit links.


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President Biden on Undergrounding
Mon, 2021-11-01 11:21 — meacott
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Turned on the TV last Thursday night while doing the dishes. Well, to be precise, nobody turns on the TV anymore, as we did before remotes when you rotated the on-off-volume knob. But you get the idea.
And who was on CNN but President Biden. He was doing one of those town halls. It was hardly as spontaneous as a colonial New England town meeting. But POTUS did take some tough questions from the audience.
My jaw dropped to the floor when Joe, while answering a question about the climate change provisions of his legislative initiatives, argued out of the blue for undergrounding electric lines. I immediately thought, sure, selective undergrounding is increasingly being considered within our industry. I never figured though it would rise to a White House priority.
Specifically, the Prez said:
"Nothing has been formally agreed to. The concession has been — the negotiation is I've been saying to [U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia], look, I'll take — if we don't do it in terms of the electric grid piece, what we'll do is give me that one hundred and fifty billion dollars. I'm going to add it to be able to do other things, that don't directly affect the electric grid in the way that there's a penalty, but allow me to spend the money to set new technologies in place.
For example, we can save significant amounts of money, and as a consequence of that, significant amounts of energy, if in fact we are able to put the high-tension wires underground. It costs a hell of a lot more to do it. It creates real good jobs.
It creates a hell of a lot more to do it. But in fact, it would do a lot to keep things from happening that are dangerous. Half the forest fires out west are those towers coming down setting fires, etc."
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Maryland School Shooting Victim Has Died
Published March 23, 2018 at 11:49 AM CDT
Jaelynn Willey, who was critically injured during a school shooting on Tuesday, has died.
A 16-year-old girl has died after she was shot Tuesday at Great Mills High School in St. Mary's County., Md., by another student.
Jaelynn Rose Willey was critically injured in the attack, which also injured a 14-year-old male student. The gunman, identified by the St. Mary's County sheriff as 17-year-old Austin Wyatt Rollins, was pronounced dead on Tuesday after exchanging fire with the school resource officer.
"On Tuesday of this past week our lives changed completely and totally forever," Willey's mother, Melissa, said at an emotional press conference last night. "My daughter was hurt by a boy who shot her in the head, and took everything from our lives."
Speaking while holding a toddler, Willey said that her daughter was the second oldest of nine siblings and was on the school swim team.
She said Jaelynn was "brain dead and has nothing, no life left in her." Several hours later, the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office released a statement saying that Jaelynn had died, surrounded by her family. "It is with heavy hearts and great sadness we provide this update," it said.
The sheriff's office has said previously that "all indications suggest the shooting was not a random act of violence. Rollins and the female victim had a prior relationship that recently ended."
"No parent should ever be faced with a decision like this," Maryland's Gov. Larry Hogan said in a statement. "There are no words adequate to express our compassion for her loving family and the entire Great Mills community."
The male victim was shot in the leg, according to the sheriff's office, and was discharged on Wednesday.
Mass demonstrations are planned this weekend in Washington, D.C., calling for firmer action against gun violence. The rally is organized by survivors of last month's school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 people.


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Remote-controlled cars are preparing us for our autonomous future
Your next hire car might come to you remotely
Cate Lawrence
Cate Lawrence is an Australian tech journo living in Berlin. She focuses on all things mobility: ebikes, autonomous vehicles, VTOL, smart ci (show all) Cate Lawrence is an Australian tech journo living in Berlin. She focuses on all things mobility: ebikes, autonomous vehicles, VTOL, smart cities, and the future of alternative energy sources like electric batteries, solar, and hydrogen.
The road to fully autonomous vehicles is long and marred by technological challenges, from the cost of developing the technology and commercial expansion, all the way through public acceptance and safety concerns. And that's if people even want to give up driving in the first place.
But there's something that can help this transition, that can bridge the divide between the autonomous believers and self-driving sceptics: remote-controlled vehicles.
And no, we're not talking about toy cars, these are real, adult-sized, remotely-driven automobiles. In this piece, I'm going to explain how they work, the commercial and technological implications, and if they can help ease us into an autonomous future.
What are remote-controlled cars?
Fundamentally, a remote-controlled car is a vehicle that can be operated by someone who's not physically sitting inside it.
Instead, the person controlling the car is in a remote location, but sees the road just as though they were behind the wheel. As well as on-the-road applications, remote-controlled vehicles are also used by the military in scenarios where removing the driver is the safest option.
How remote-controlled carsharing works
Imagine it: you book a vehicle via an app, but rather than you having to go and find it, the car is driven remotely to your door by someone in a command centre. Once you start driving, you gain complete control of the vehicle, and — upon your exit — the remote operator resumes control and drives the car to its next customer.
How remote-controlled carsharing can capture the public's imagination
People don't like change, especially when they are used to the convenience of stepping outside the door, jumping in their car. Who wants to walk to car share a few streets away when it's raining, or when you're juggling shopping, kids, or luggage? That's what remote-controlled carsharing delivers over the more common smart rentals.
As much as many would like us to move away from automobiles, the fact remains that, despite the best efforts of town planners to institute micromobility schemes and public transport infrastructure, the number of cars purchased is steadily increasing in Europe.
For example, in Germany, statistics reveal that there were 580 cars per 1000 inhabitants in 2021. Ten years ago, it was 517. The proportion of households with two cars also rose from 23.4%to 27% during this time.
And if we look at the utility of these privately purchased cars, despite the love of driving, most of them are driven for an hour a day, if that, and then parked for the remaining 23 hours.
Carsharing provides an alternative to privately owned vehicles, reducing the need for single or multi-car-owning households. It saves drivers money as there's no responsibility for annual registration, insurance premiums, repairs, or charging costs.
Another huge benefit is that drivers can try different cars based on their transport needs for each trip. For example, if you need to transport a group, you can select a people carrier. Need to move something? A van. On top of this, carsharing can offer first-time exposure to electric vehicle driving, a great litmus test for people traditionally concerned about range anxiety, as well as meaning fewer gas-guzzling vehicles on the road.
Drivers also get to appreciate the actual cost of each journey, which may motivate them to opt for other forms of transport for shorter trips.
There's also a more prosaic reason — many people drive because they enjoy driving, and cannot imagine a future when they don't have the opportunity to sit behind the wheel, at least sometimes. Remote-controlled carsharing doesn't take this away. Well, at least not yet.
Cities also benefit because from these schemes, as they reduce the need for parking infrastructure, such as garages, lots, and on-street zones.
The commercial opportunity for remote-controlled carsharing
Car sharing provides a bridge between automobile ownership and a future of on-demand, fully autonomous vehicles. And when you add remote-control operations into the mix, things get interesting.
There is an important note to reiterate here though. If you order a remote-controlled vehicle, you're not getting an AI manoeuvring the car. Instead, it's an actual human.
A remote operator behind the wheel. Image credit: Vay
The automobile is driven to you by a person stationed in a control room who sits at a console with a steering wheel and the appropriate pedals. They view a screen that broadcasts a 360-degree view of the roads. Radar and audio sensors transmit data — like road traffic sounds, and warning signals from emergency vehicles — to the remote driver's headphones. This happens in real-time over 4G (and, in some cities, 5G).
An Elmo car comes to you by remote control.
All of this equates to one thing, according to co-founder Enn Laansoo Jr of Estonia's remote caring sharing company Elmo: safety. There's no one driving under the influence or speeding. There's also less of a risk of distraction, as operators are doing nothing else but driving. Compare this to a taxi driver that may be "multitasking using apps, looking up addresses, and talking on the phone."
And distraction is the enemy of reactiveness. He explains the challenge of human latency: if you see something, it takes 800 milliseconds to react, "But If you're checking a cell phone at that moment, then it's one-second plus because you're not focusing."
Vay is on a mission to bring remote-controlled driving to Germany
I also spoke with Thomas von der Ohe, the co-founder, and CEO of Vay. He previously worked on Amazon's Alexa and at robotaxi startup Zoox. He shared that his six years in the Bay Area building autonomous cars taught him about the technical, regulatory and industry challenges for mainstream autonomous vehicle adoption.
He sees the value of humans being still in the loop. "We don't have to solve edge cases, where you must validate billions of kilometres of driving to understand what could happen because a human is always in control." Vay is currently testing its remote driven vehicles in Berlin, and aims to launch its service in Europe and the US next year.
If there's one part of the world that's striding ahead in the field of remote-controlled carsharing though, it's eastern Europe.
Looking to Estonia for the future of mobility
Starship remote food delivery has been successfully deployed in Estonia for a number of years. Image credit: Starship
Estonia is a country that has embraced the role of technology in mobility and operates as a testbed for innovation. The country is the birthplace of Starship Technologies, makers of autonomous delivery robots, ridesharing giant Bolt, and Iseauto's autonomous roboshuttles.
In the case of remote-controlled vehicles, there's Elmo and Clevon who teleoperate mid-size delivery vehicles.
According to Laansoo from Elmo, remote people-carrying kicked off five years ago. The Minister of economics started to analyze existing road regulations and found that "the traffic law says that the car must have a driver, but it doesn't say where the driver must be located."
This was soon seen as an opportunity —"from the government level, to startups and local citizens" — resulting in many market-ready solutions.
Currently, Elmo operates remote vehicles in Estonia. Its fleet has completed 20,000 rides, a number which, according to Laanssoo, is okay for Estonia, but would need to match these numbers in cities in France and Germany to scale meaningfully. The company has attracted interest in both countries, as well as Finland, Switzerland and the US.
While Estonia is roaring ahead, there are other companies also trying to muscle in on the remote-controlled carsharing sector. There's the aforementioned Vay in Berlin, Imperium Drive is trialling a comparable service called Fetch on private land and sports stadiums in Milton Keynes, and Halo in Las Vegas.
One of the most interesting is the London-Maltese company Trilvee, developers of small electric three-wheel autocycle vehicles (technically classified as motorbikes). The company showcased a prototype recently at Slush in Helsinki and is currently looking at pilots in the UK and Malta.
Remote control applications also exist in the industrial transport and logistics sector, with companies such as Fernride (Germany) and Einride (Sweden) exploring this.
An industry still in its infancy
But there are still unknowns given the infancy of remote-controlled carsharing. For example, Laansoo raised the challenge of remote operator fatigue. Currently, there's not enough data to determine the optimal duration of a work shift, the best chair, screen size, and other infrastructure.
Then there's recruitment — what makes a good remote driver? Laansoo suggests it could be anyone from a "60-year-old truck driver or a virtual rally driver." But there are so many questions about liability, ensuring remote drivers aren't distracted or inebriated that need to be ratified.
Furthermore, the remote nature of the work could cause conflict in local cities if providers take their operations offshore, so this needs to factor into licensing.
With regulations already in place, Estonia and Germany are poised to be the first countries to roll out the technology fully. Elmo is already discussing licensing its technology to other rideshare operators in Europe.
But if we see remote control cars as a stepping stone to full ridehailing vehicle automation, how exactly does one lead to the other? It's not entirely clear. Will it be an autonomously operating vehicle that comes to you, which you then take over the wheel? Laansson questions the financial merit, suggesting "it only really makes sense in a taxi where the driver's salary is 50% of all costs."
Comparatively, von der Ohe sees his company's product offering scaling up to increased automation, leveraging the data generated by fleets over time.
The fact remains that we are still Level 4 in terms of any commercial vehicle automation. Even Starship, with their small robot delivery fleets, still need remote safety drivers in the background, as do autonomous robovehicles on the roads today.
The reality is that autonomous vehicles are complex and expensive, and we need fewer cars on the roads. Furthermore, whatever exists needs to complement and coexist with public transport, micromobility, autocycles, and ebikes. And, in the future, eVTOLs and perhaps even hyperloops.
At some point, autonomous vehicles will arrive, but it's still unclear when. But what remote-controlled vehicles can do is bridge this gap, getting people used to the idea of such vehicles, and ensuring they work smoothly alongside other forms of transport.
All we know for sure is that the future is one of human-machine collaboration — and we can't wait to see if in action.
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NEW YORK Panasonic is the latest advertiser to run a promotion on popular video-sharing service YouTube.com.
The four-week contest asks YouTube users to submit and rate videos in a "Panasonic Online Video Fest." The videos are to be original live-action or animated creations of five minutes or less. Each week Panasonic will identify five nominees for the funniest submitted videos, with one entry chosen to be a finalist.
Panasonic will award prizes to makers of the four weekly finalist videos, including a first prize of a plasma high-definition TV and digital camera, worth about $5,000. The electronics company is also giving out prizes for users who rate the videos by joining the contest's group on YouTube, choosing the most creative review each week.
Panasonic is promoting the contest through a text ad on YouTube's front page. The contest itself is run on a Panasonic Web site, www.panasoniconlinevideofest.com.
New York agency Reindeer Company and Panasonic public relations firm Lime created the promotion.
Panasonic is the first non-entertainment company to run a promotion with YouTube. Record labels and entertainment companies like E! have partnered with the site for video contests.
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If you're a long-time fan you'll get a big kick out of hearing these songs. Even if you're not, it's great way to start listening to the band's music.
Main Editor Bruce Mee sounded very surprised when I asked to review this album by Enuff Z'Nuff. "Really?" he exclaimed. "Yes", I replied and went on to explain that for some reason the music of EZN, in all their ramshackle Rock 'n' Roll glory, had always been a joy to listen to. I kind of understood his surprise because he knows of my old love for all things AOR/Melodic Rock/Prog etc., so liking a band who seem to record albums by entering the studio and just making the songs up as they go would seem a departure from my usual listening pleasures. I still think that over the many years that the band have been together (in whatever configuration) they have recorded some truly great music.
'Clowns Lounge', their new album, is no exception to this rule. However, a word of caution must be added, this is not a new album as such. Instead, it features songs and demos (although the sound on the CD is fantastic) recorded around the same time the band were making their first album for ATCO Records. For an old-time fan like me that's a boon because most of the songs feature the classic line-up of Donnie Vie, Chip Z'Nuff, Derek Frigo and Vikki Foxx with some guest appearances from the late Jani Lane and James "JY" Young of Styx rounding things off nicely.
'Runaway', the superb 'Back In Time', 'Devil Of Shakespeare', 'Round And Round', 'Nothing', 'She Makes It Harder', 'Back In Time' and the Rock 'n' Roll-tastic 'Backstreet Kids' are all great songs, and show us all just why EZN have been around for as long as they have. It's also remarkable just how fresh the songs all sound, especially when you consider that they are, for the most part, almost thirty years old now. Finally, one other track to look out for is 'Dog On A Bone', a brand new song that shows us that EZN still have what it takes in spades to write great Rock tunes.
If you're a long-time fan of Enuff Z'Nuff you'll get a big kick out of hearing these songs. Even if you're not, it's great way to start listening to the band's music and you will then have a lot of fun getting hold of their fabulous back catalogue of releases.


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January 18, 2022 | More Than Two-Thirds of Adverse COVID-19 Vaccine Events Are Due to Placebo Effect
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MIT's New CRISPR-Based Rapid Test for COVID-19 Shows Improved Sensitivity
TOPICS:Biomedical EngineeringBroad InstituteCOVID-19CRISPRMITPublic HealthVirology
By Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology September 17, 2020
This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round gold objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. Credit: NIAID-RML
A CRISPR-based test developed at MIT and the Broad Institute can detect nearly as many cases as the standard Covid-19 diagnostic.
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with their collaborators at the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Ragon Institute, have been working on a CRISPR-based diagnostic for Covid-19 that can produce results in 30 minutes to an hour, with similar accuracy as the standard PCR diagnostics now used.
The new test, known as STOPCovid, is still in the research stage but, in principle, could be made cheaply enough that people could test themselves every day. In a study appearing today in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers showed that on a set of patient samples, their test detected 93 percent of the positive cases as determined by PCR tests for Covid-19.
"We need rapid testing to become part of the fabric of this situation so that people can test themselves every day, which will slow down outbreak," says Omar Abudayyeh, an MIT McGovern Fellow working on the diagnostic.
: A nasal swab is dipped in an extraction buffer containing a lysis buffer and magnetic beads. After 10 minutes at room temperature, the sample is placed on a magnet and the extraction buffer is aspirated. The STOPCovid reaction is added to the beads, and the sample is heated to 60 C. For lateral flow readout, after 80 mins, detection strips are dipped into the reaction. For fluorescence readout, after 45 mins, the reaction can be interpreted using a fluorescence reader. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers
Abudayyah is one of the senior authors of the study, along with Jonathan Gootenberg, a McGovern Fellow, and Feng Zhang, a core member of the Broad Institute, investigator at the MIT McGovern Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the James and Patricia Poitras '63 Professor of Neuroscience at MIT. The first authors of the paper are MIT biological engineering graduate students Julia Joung and Alim Ladha in the Zhang lab.
A streamlined test
Zhang's laboratory began collaborating with the Abudayyeh and Gootenberg laboratory to work on the Covid-19 diagnostic soon after the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak began. They focused on making an assay, called STOPCovid, that was simple to carry out and did not require any specialized laboratory equipment. Such a test, they hoped, would be amenable to future use in point-of-care settings, such as doctors' offices, pharmacies, nursing homes, and schools.
"We developed STOPCovid so that everything could be done in a single step," Joung says. "A single step means the test can be potentially performed by nonexperts outside of laboratory settings."
This photograph shows the equipment and consumables needed for running STOPCovid. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers
In the new version of STOPCovid reported today, the researchers incorporated a process to concentrate the viral genetic material in a patient sample by adding magnetic beads that attract RNA, eliminating the need for expensive purification kits that are time-intensive and can be in short supply due to high demand. This concentration step boosted the test's sensitivity so that it now approaches that of PCR.
"Once we got the viral genomes onto the beads, we found that that could get us to very high levels of sensitivity," Gootenberg says.
Working with collaborators Keith Jerome at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Alex Greninger at the University of Washington, the researchers tested STOPCovid on 402 patient samples — 202 positive and 200 negative — and found that the new test detected 93 percent of the positive cases as determined by the standard CDC PCR test.
"Seeing STOPCovid working on actual patient samples was really gratifying," Ladha says.
They also showed, working with Ann Woolley and Deb Hung at Brigham and Women's Hospital, that the STOPCovid test works on samples taken using the less invasive anterior nares swab. They are now testing it with saliva samples, which could make at-home tests even easier to perform. The researchers are continuing to develop the test with the hope of delivering it to end users to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The goal is to make this test easy to use and sensitive, so that we can tell whether or not someone is carrying the virus as early as possible," Zhang says.
Reference: "Detection of SARS-CoV-2 with SHERLOCK One-Pot Testing" by Julia Joung, B.S.; Alim Ladha, B.S.; Makoto Saito, Ph.D.; Nam-Gyun Kim, Ph.D.; Ann E. Woolley, M.D., M.P.H.; Michael Segel, Ph.D.; Robert P.J. Barretto, Ph.D.; Amardeep Ranu, B.S.; Rhiannon K. Macrae, Ph.D.; Guilhem Faure, Ph.D.; Eleonora I. Ioannidi, B.S.; Rohan N. Krajeski, B.S.; Robert Bruneau, B.S.; Meei-Li W. Huang, Ph.D.; Xu G. Yu, M.D.; Jonathan Z. Li, M.D.; Bruce D. Walker, M.D.; Deborah T. Hung, M.D., Ph.D.; Alexander L. Greninger, M.D., Ph.D.; Keith R. Jerome, M.D., Ph.D.; Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Ph.D.; Omar O. Abudayyeh, Ph.D. and Feng Zhang, Ph.D., 16 September 2020, New England Journal of Medicine.
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2026172
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness Evergrande Covid-19 Response Fund, the Mathers Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Open Philanthropy Project, J. and P. Poitras, and R. Metcalfe.
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Sekar Vedaraman | September 19, 2020 at 11:29 pm | Reply
Rapid testing is going to be a perrineal need for not just Covid 19, but future Viruses which may be let lose on Humanity.The ability to detect Viruses, Pathogens, and unfriendly Bacteria which may cause illneses and death AND doing so early enough so that the growth and spread of the same is controlledis a critical need. Humans need to plan ahead and adopt lifestyles to survive and manage the likelihood of future pandemics wiping out the human race , which will will be a essentail requirement in the battle that modern medicine is waging valiantly.
However, as any good medical practitioner will tell his patients, PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. Almost all these anti-human body unfriendly organisms enter the body through the nine openings all humans have and the human ecosystems sometimes fails to recognize the invading organism or over reacts to the arrival of the foreign invaders after recognizing the same late, and causes damage the very organis it was attempting to protect, leading to early demise of the patient. So, not only testing but even eliminaating the need for testing is a critical requirementfor future survival.
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She has not disclosed her exact age to the public, She was born in the USA.
She celebrates her birthday on the 21st of June every year.
Ko stands at an average height of 5 feet 7 inches with a moderate weight.
Ko was born and brought up in the USA by her loving parents are from South Korea. However, she has not disclosed any further information on her family or her siblings.
She earned a broadcast journalism degree and a minor in political science from the University of Oregon.
Sharon is yet married but she is currently engaged to her future husband Bryant. The couple has been dating for more than six years. Despite the fact that no wedding date has been scheduled, Ko says she is excited about married life.
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Sharon is a multimedia journalist and news anchor at KENS 5 in San Antonio, Texas. In January of 2014, she joined the KENS 5, news staff.
Sharon has always been the motivating factor behind KENS 5's "Mission SA" program, which recognizes the good work that our community's veterans are doing. Ko also started the "Money Smart" program, which assists residents in San Antonio deal with money problems.
She served as a multimedia journalist at an ABC station in Medford, Oregon, for more than two years before moving to San Antonio. She covered one of Oregon's worst-ever fire seasons as well as the devastating effects on rural communities when federal timber payments were slashed during her time there.
Ko worked as a bureau reporter in Roseburg, Oregon for quite a while before that. Sharon holds a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and a minor in political science from the University of Oregon. Sharon enjoys working out, seeing the city, wine tasting, and spending time with her dog, Timmy, in her spare time.
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Her parents are both from South Korea but she was born in the United States of America. Therefore, Sharon is of American descent, but her ethnicity is Asian-American.
She is currently working for KENS 5 EyeWitness News as a news anchor. She also worked for KDRV NewsWatch 12 before becoming a news anchor for KENS 5.
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