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As the New York Times reports that a contractor who was employed by Booz Allen Hamilton (the same company Edward Snowden worked for), has been arrested for stealing highly-classified "source codes" developed by the NSA to hack foreign government systems…we at The Duran are waiting for the official Washington statement that will blame this latest NSA leak on Russia.
According to the Justice Department, 51-year-old Harold Thomas Martin, who was employed by Booz Allen Hamilton — the company responsible for most of the NSA's most sensitive cyberoperations — faces up to 10 years in prison for theft of government property and one year for removing classified material. The materials he is believed to have stolen are "critical to national security", Justice Department officials added.
Mr. Harold Thomas Martin faces 10 years in prison for theft of government property and removing classified material, while Hillary runs for President.
How is what martin did, any different than taking classified US government documents and moving them to a private home server, and then deleting them with bleachbit…and then putting a hammer to the mobile devices that stored many of those classified documents…and then striking a "side agreement" with the FBI for immunity and the right to destroy the laptops that stored those documents.
Am I missing something?
And while we are pointing out the hypocrisy and irony of it all, how about this one…
Mr. Harold Thomas Martin was arrested for stealing six highly-classified documents with "source codes" developed by the NSA to hack foreign government systems. In other words, Martin stole the source code developed to hack the governments of China, Russia, Germany, etc…
Remember when the entire Washington war hawk establishment, and main street media, went into a frenzy after the Clinton Campaign cleverly accused Russian hackers for the DNC leak. HRC said the US should go to war with any state that hacks American government systems.
Hillary Clinton is ready to go to war with Russia or China (without evidence) over the very same things that the NSA has now openly admitted it does, with this latest prosecution.
The statement released by the DOJ:
"Among the classified documents…were six classified documents obtained from sensitive intelligence and produced by a government agency in 2014."
"These documents were produced through sensitive government sources, methods and capabilities, which are critical to a wide variety of national security issues. The disclosure of the documents would reveal those sensitive sources, methods, and capabilities."
"If convicted, Martin faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials, and ten years in prison for theft of government property."
Martin's attorneys are relying on the Hillary Clinton "lack of intent" argument…though we are certain this recent legal precedent only pertains to members of the Clinton family and inner-circle…
"There is no evidence that Hal Martin intended to betray his country."
"What we do know is that Hal Martin loves his family and his country. He served his nation honorably in the US Navy as a lieutenant and he has devoted his entire career to protecting his country."
"We look forward to defending Hal Martin in court."
The NSA's most famous leak, Edward Snowden, weighed in on Twitter asking if this will expose flaws in US products.
Here's the DOJ statement, minus the spin paragraphs, on the NSA arrest. via @ericgeller pic.twitter.com/EuRXHRYem2
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 5, 2016
This is huge. Did the FBI secretly arrest the person behind the reports NSA sat on huge flaws in US products? https://t.co/otgOwB5efm
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 5, 2016
Via: https://sputniknews.com/us/20161005/1046033707/fbi-nsa-arrest-contractor.html
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Duran.


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Back with THE BIG IDEA this week is alum Alexandra Franklin! Alexandra received a Scholastic Award in 2010 for her writing portfolio, and returned in the following year to edit The Best Teen Writing of 2011! Having just recently arrived in New York City to begin studies for her master's degree at The New School, Alexandra joined me on the Scholastic Greenhouse terrace to share her thoughts.
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Today we bring you the second installment of THE BIG IDEA with writer and alum Loretta Lopez! Loretta, a Guadalajara native, was a 2010 Gold Medal Writing Portfolio recipient and the editor of The Best Teen Writing of 2013. Currently residing in Austin, TX, watch the video above to hear this young alum talk about her inspiration, current projects and a sometimes collaborative creative process!
You can also take a look at Loretta's tips for staying cool and creative in the summer months HERE!

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James / September 3rd, 2010
September 3, 2010 at 8:45 pm
September 3, 2010 at 8:45 pm
WOOO YAY!The_HangMen
September 3, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Right when ppl were starting to complain ..Poof a AVGN lol im happy and pissed because i have to wait another month for a videoThebackgroundguy
September 3, 2010 at 8:47 pm
I can't wait to watch it! But I'm sure it will be another brilliant video. You are the reason I bought a NES, Atari 2600, and Sega Genesis. You guys, keep up the great work!Nightshade
September 3, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Fuck Yeah this is AWESOME¡echolocation
September 3, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Awesome, can't wait to watch!MrBucketsBalls
September 3, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Yaaay New AVGN always makes my day better!!!
September 3, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Yeah man! Watching it right now, it looks like it'll be great!
September 3, 2010 at 8:50 pm
It sounds like a good one! I'm sure its KICK- AZZ!!!
September 3, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Just, BEYOND awesome. I haven't watched it yet, but I don't have a doubt in my mind it won't be good.Undertaker
September 3, 2010 at 8:59 pm
cant wait to watch this one!Iron Tiger
September 3, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Aw man. I was really hoping this would come out on my birthday.
Ah well. Let's see what you have in store for us this time nerd.
September 3, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Goddammit! I was wanting to first my first first at 12. Oh well, at least we got the Nerd!!PeoplePlayGames
September 3, 2010 at 9:14 pm
I wonder what hell revisit. The karate Kid maybe?
September 3, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Man! What is that game yout going to revisit? Is it a game you've already reviewed? It doesn't seem like so, but whatever it is i'm pumped. This is the best website ever created!Alael
September 3, 2010 at 9:16 pm
September 3, 2010 at 9:16 pm
The next review it's going to be dr jekyll and mr hyde i just fucking know itAVGNwatcher1
September 3, 2010 at 9:18 pm
dr jekel and mr hyde i bet and it was all glithcy when i watched itTheRetroHero
September 3, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Hell Yeah! FINALLY! Its awesome too.cameron york
September 3, 2010 at 9:19 pm
@iron tiger mine was on the 28th XD
September 3, 2010 at 9:20 pm
I think its either Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or Karate KidMrBucketsBalls
September 3, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Yeah i reckon the next review is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as well can't we good work JamesAVGNwatcher1
September 3, 2010 at 9:21 pm
@Nightshade i thought of it first but i had to login fuckerJoe R
September 3, 2010 at 9:22 pm
This is your best AVGN since 2009. You give a history lesson, you swear, and it's all funny. The swearing and rage is what makes your show. Never let that die out. I can't wait for your next AVGN, especially after that cliffhanger.SURPLUS_NiNjA
September 3, 2010 at 9:23 pm
The revisit is nice but try to keep fresh content in there like ya did with this one ;). I don't think I would have liked it as much if there was the fresh Back to the Future game reviews. Oddly enough in spite of this being like 4x as long as normal episodes it has way less anger and shit (I mean shit literally) which I like, with shit jokes a little goes a long way.Butch Bitch
September 3, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Fuck yeah, James, this episode kicked ASS! What a way to start my Labor Day weekend. That Japanese Back To The Future game looked awesome! My favorite parts were when you were playing the game and you were like "My love!"….or something like that. I laughed so hard when you called the number on the Roger Rabbit. Guess who's going to be calling them tonight? 🙂NecroMaster
September 3, 2010 at 9:23 pm
It is DR. Jekyll. Who else would have that suit. Can't think of anyone else who would have it.owamon
September 3, 2010 at 9:27 pm
All I gotta say is… this was FUCKIN' AWESOME!! Remembering all the good stuff from the past, even hearing that horrid theme from BTTF on NES. Oh god I still have the cartridge and that piece of crap tortured my childhood like no other thing!
I never pass the cafe stage, it was… cool to see the game actually continues. And boy was it a surprise to see that japanese BTTF game, never heard of it, wish I could play it.
Anyway, great job James, you are the best!LJNSUCKS
September 3, 2010 at 9:28 pm
The first time I saw the Roger Rabbit review I called that number. I was like, Wow….and then I laughed. Great Episode. 🙂You Can Just Walk Over It
September 3, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Wow… the music from Super Back to the Future II had me CRYING thanks to the Nerd's expressions as the game footage was being shown. Biff's face at the end of the tunnel scene… perfect. One of those super bittersweet things like the Godzilla games on Super Famicom or ps2/xbox.
The title cards for the other NES games were also very good. The Roger Rabbit one was extremely good but needs a close up scan since it was so packed.
I forgot about the technodrome fight from the turtles game but remember Shredder had an instant kill attack that would turn you back into a regular turtle. It was hard enough to make it that far let alone beat the game. Definitely a game genie game for that last level.
Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is probably *the* game that had the least footage shown but talked about the most many years after. Since next month is halloween I'd say there's a STRONG chance that's the next video.Cogdill
September 3, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Can i smell Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?…. XD Awesome new video btw!! "Put that shit down and go to Japan!!!" hahah lmaoTheawesomeness
September 3, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I have an idea of what the nest one is but i aint given it away
September 3, 2010 at 9:33 pm
My Favirouts BTTF games are on the C64 and Amiga. Check them out BTTF 1 is so strange its cool and once you figure out how to play it you can beat the whole thing in 2 min. BTTF 2 is close to the movie and so is 3 but easier than the megadrive (Genesis) version the last level on the train is wicked!WillWill
September 3, 2010 at 9:34 pm
James, dude!
This is by far the best episode of the year, if not, EVER! I truly mean that as well.
It took all of the maturity you've garnered over the 90 plus episodes, and added the charm of the "Raging Nerd" along side.
Comedic gold.
I could actually FEEL your rage and pain at certain moments. It was a masterpiece in my opinion. Well done, sir, Well done..
Thanks so much for making such high quality, amazingly funny shit. I really look forward to it. 🙂ophelius
September 3, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Nice title cards Mike! And nice video James!dnllrnt
September 3, 2010 at 9:35 pm
The Han Solo head-bob was fucking priceless James! Great video!
September 3, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Nicely done! I liked the part where you beat the shit out of the game haha!… Well, another thing, I noticed the wrinkles in the shirt in that episode and I remembered when my mom used to tell me that it had been chowed by a cow!wildgoosespeeder
September 3, 2010 at 9:36 pm
I'm putting money on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.paintrain101
September 3, 2010 at 9:36 pm
what is the game that you are thinking about revisiting??? could it possibly be Dr.Jeckyll and Mr.Hyde?? PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP!!! xDTestPatient
September 3, 2010 at 9:40 pm
I'm always thoroughly entertained when watching your videos.
You have a way of putting me in a child like state to an extent, or rather, the state in which you welcome entertainment in a relaxed atmosphere.
I haven't felt it much since childhood.
Keep doing what you want to do in film, you're obviously gifted, and I'll keep lookin' out for James Rolfe when the credits roll
All the best
September 3, 2010 at 9:40 pm
I bet the next one to be re-visited is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDakaSha
September 3, 2010 at 9:41 pm
its gotta be Dr j and Mr HLCmiracle
September 3, 2010 at 9:41 pm
James! dude! I love this episode! I love your new style! Keep it up man! You're the greatest!
Imagine this — A calm, rational, reasonable James … HOLY F–KING CHRIST IT MY DREAM F–KING COME TRUE BUDDHA! JESUSE! AND [censored] ! LAOZI AND JOSHERPH SMITH! AND THE MIGHTY SEAMAN!chandgrit
September 3, 2010 at 9:41 pm
when you started the back to the future for genesis the screen had a green line through it i thought it just did that in the game but you never mentioned it and stayed through the credit roll has anyone else encountered this problem but any way great vid dr jekel is next i supposeCless Aileron
September 3, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Really loved this revisit to the Back to the Future games. Just as funny as the old version.
I was actually caught off guard when you pulled out Super Back to the Future II for the Super Famicom. I didn't expect you to pull it out but I did know of its existence. I mean, I should be aware of its existence. I actually did play it as a kid. Yeah, I actually did find it decent when I played it as a kid. Though I was expecting a joke regarding the line Marty said in the third movie about how, "The best stuff come from Japan." In this case, it seems like the best/good Back to the Future game came from Japan. Though the best title might be dropped if the Back to the Future adventure game being made ends up being good.Undertaker
September 3, 2010 at 9:43 pm
um after about 15 minutes or so the vid goes to hell for me. anyone else have that problem. to b more specific a magnetic looking line appears and takes up half the screenabigjew9
September 3, 2010 at 9:44 pm
funniest fuckin one in long time nerdLigeiaMaloy
September 3, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Ok, with some very nice highlights, if I may say so. (don't flame me for having an opinion!).
Anyway, thanks for the new video and all your hard work and devotion, alright?
But even if the gods come into existence just to fall, the skies do crumble – I'll never, never get sick of ghost rider in the sky!
September 3, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Heh that was the best avgn Ive seen in awhile man that was a long review almost as long as Action 52 but what other game is he going to go back to review?xeoneex
September 3, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Believe it or not, there was a Back to the Future 2 and 3 for the Commodore Amiga, and they were 10x better than the NES version. Kinda makes you wonder.Noelle
September 3, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Oh and I didn't see a wedding ring on his finger, what happened did he get shall we say divorced?
September 3, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Purple Jacket = Dr Jeklye, Mr. hyde D:
September 3, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Lmao!! Loved the insults at the end, this is one of your best episodes. Hopefully your next revisit isn't the abomination that is Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde but from your reaction its going to be. Actually played that game and passed the first area but didn't know what to do afterwards
btw… I think I spotted your plane b4 in NYC lolRetrogamer1988
September 3, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Yes james very kick ass and hilarious xD omg I laughed my ass off in some parts. Keep it up, looking forward to the "mystery" game. =)
September 3, 2010 at 9:52 pm
OH MY GOD!!! Thank you for re-reviewing those games! It's so funny because I thought your classic videos were REALLY good, and to be honest, I never even thought about that stuff you skipped over. It only reminded me how bad those games really were.
And I can't believe there was a GOOD Back to the Future game! Man!
And……..if you're going to review what I think you're going to re-review……………..I'm truly sorry that you will have to go through the abomination again. My thoughts and prayers will be with you AVGN.Bloodhavoc
September 3, 2010 at 9:54 pm
awesome video, James…. got my wife and I rolling laughing our asses off. Please dear God tell me your not going to subject yourself to Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde again? You should review something that won't make you want to shoot yourself, like E.T…… wait a minute, on second thought, nevermind.redmonth123
September 3, 2010 at 9:54 pm
I think Dr. Jekyle and Mr. Hyde would ne interesting to see revisited, but I always think the original one as an AVGN classic and even though it didn't talk about much, it was perfect.kriziz2k3
September 3, 2010 at 9:55 pm
mmm… buen video no el mejor de todos pero bueno echale ganas jamescatboyjeremie
September 3, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Awesome review, the games before Back to the Future were fast but still fun to watch. It seems like Japan likes to keep some pretty good or awesome game and take a shit on North American gamers whenever they get a fucking chance.
The ending had Dr Jekyll & Mister Hyde written all over it. I played the game, its not the worst I played but dear goodness, what a abomination. Oh, you played Back To The Future… Now that I think of it… Does it mean you had a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in your ear before playing it?Christian
September 3, 2010 at 9:57 pm
dr jekkle and mr hyde of batman the prple suit makes me think its jokerangery teen
September 3, 2010 at 9:59 pm
i bet he's going to do a doctor Jackel mister hyde review like he did on his 2nd game review which btw WAS A PIECE OF SHITackofgod
September 3, 2010 at 10:00 pm
haha he Finally hit the bottom of barrellawnjart
September 3, 2010 at 10:03 pm
I was so excited to see this, especially after you posted the link to the 25th reunion. There really is nothing like BTTF, it's so magical, and the movie is just great from start to finish. The NES game was my introduction to LJN when I was younger and it taught me the burden of wasting a birthday wish. Thank you for going back, I could watch hours of that. I don't know about you, but I want to save my pennies to get the replica BTTF 2 jacket and shoes and go out for Halloween 2015 in the bars and such, with my pockets sticking out, saying, "Where am I?"
September 3, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Nice video once again nerd, never think you can stop my hunger of more videos from you.
Been waiting 10 hours now for this episode.. no joke, 5:06 AM where I live
Also, Dr.Jekyll and Mr Hyde will be a blast to see next episode, gawd I hate that fucking game!
Cheers nerd
P.S. Let a cow take a shit on that game at the end of next episodeOtaku4Life
September 3, 2010 at 10:15 pm
I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO JAPAN IN 2 MORE WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!eonblu462
September 3, 2010 at 10:15 pm
"Fucking processing! Stop being so BLAST!"
This was my favorite line. Ah, Blast Processing. What a load of bullshit, haha. This video was perfect as I just re-watched a lot of your older videos today. Awesome.
September 3, 2010 at 10:15 pm
I think it should be action 52 that he /you want to revisit. That's the one the should be so bad that you dont want to think about it
September 3, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Nice job, it was good to see more about the older game reviews!
Check this shit out!
September 3, 2010 at 10:21 pm
"um after about 15 minutes or so the vid goes to hell for me. anyone else have that problem. to b more specific a magnetic looking line appears and takes up half the screen"
Same thing happened to me, right when Back to the Future 3 for the genesis came on the screen went to hell.
Still, the rant at the end was gold. What a travesty that game was never released stateside, it looked pretty good. LJN probably had exclusive North American rights on the Nintendo and SNES or something. LJN was a fucking plague on the early video game industry.Jigglysaint
September 3, 2010 at 10:25 pm
I think sometimes the best way to go forward is by first going back. To go back to those old reviews and tie up loose ends feels like justice is done. It's like when I try to re-visit old places from my childhood. I would stand or sit on the spot an event in my life took place, and reflect on what happened, and how it made me who I am today.
This review is like a troubled spirit that is finally being put to rest. Hopefully for next time, we will REALLY get to see whether those weapons don't do anything or not.Jimbo
September 3, 2010 at 10:25 pm
I knew you would call the number. It's funny what the number is now.OmegaBlaster
September 3, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Power of Love is in the game, just sped up so it's nearly unrecognizable.organized
September 3, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Long live the nerd.Lavargian
September 3, 2010 at 10:32 pm
The next just has to be Dr. Jekyll and My. Hyde. It only makes sense, especially since the next video comes out in October, and that means that it has to be a Halloween video (if it goes with the trend of previous years). I just hope the Nerd doesn't wait until October 31st to release the video…because that would be the shits.
September 3, 2010 at 10:36 pm
The japaneese are awesome.CrippleMessiah
September 3, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Awesome episode. Mike, I am in awe with your title cards. The new Roger Rabbit one is amazing. I was hoping you would bring up Back to the Future 3 on Sega. I remember renting that horrible game and ruining a weekend on that damn first level.
And since everyone is guessing on the next episode and saying Dr.Jekyll and Mr Hyde Im gonna say it'll be Friday the 13th. Jason was wearing purple and that review was brought up in this episode. Just a thought.Mariusz69
September 3, 2010 at 10:38 pm
James you should get a goddamn Emmy for this episode. It's a masterpiece. Great editing, great pacing. And Kudos to Motherfucker Mike for his AWESOME artwork on the titlecards for each game. Congrats James.
September 3, 2010 at 10:43 pm
:O …..yessssLavargian
September 3, 2010 at 10:46 pm
I think the first four Halloween reviews were masterpieces, they should be left alone. Just think about what the review for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was. All it was, was James complaining about how bad he thought it was, and not wanting to play it. Then he decided to pop it in and show us the first few seconds of the game. He dies once, and then shuts it off and proceeds to try and get rid of the memory of the game by soaking his brain in Alcohol. I am sure there is so much more to why that game is so bad, and trust me there is. I actually went out and found it, and there are a lot more layers of shit buried under the shit covered surface of this game.jollygreen12
September 3, 2010 at 10:49 pm
I hope it's not that Cheetamen game. You've already done about as much as you could with that one. My other guesses would be either Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or the Silver Surfer.
September 3, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Anyways, really great video, James. Yeah, there were some times where I wanted to see a bit more of these games without going through the trouble of playing it myself. You play it, so we don't have to… why does that sound familiar? \:-|
September 3, 2010 at 10:55 pm
it sounds like Strider to me, at least if that ending music is any hintnerdyguy64
September 3, 2010 at 10:56 pm
everyone stop asking him about he personal life, like his wife, that is his fucking business, not you god damn fucking business!AmateurFilmist
September 3, 2010 at 10:59 pm
You're going to re-visit Dr.jekell & Mr.HydePiejonk
September 3, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Its gonna be Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, anyways great review as always.shadshaddo
September 3, 2010 at 11:01 pm
it's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde no doubt purple suit that cape tie hanging from his neckthe guy on mushrooms
September 3, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Ha ha you made fun of George Lucas. Great video, it was awesome to see the rest of the levels of the games that you could beat. Also, have you ever consider making a special episode about the Japanese games we never saw over here? There might be some goodies. ^^Hallwings
September 3, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Awesome episode, man! I have a feeling that October's episode is going to involve the a certain doctor.
Oh, and since you've used both the original Famicom and the Super Famicom in your reviews, have you ever thought about doing an episode which compares the Japanese and American versions of video games (oh, and have you found the RAM cartridge for the Famicom Disk System yet)?Hajalak1
September 3, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Everyone is guessing Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He hates Simon's Quest just as much…yader12
September 3, 2010 at 11:07 pm
AVGN! I'm your number 1 fan !!!! 😀 love your videosDocter Decker
September 3, 2010 at 11:12 pm
If it weren't for your video James, I would've remained oblivious as to the existence of a good BTTF game! I just bought one of very few copies off of Ebay. Like you, I'm a HUGE BTTF fan! Hell, I could watch the entire trilogy non-stop and never tire of them (and I have!). Thanks man!Ghostofthe13th
September 3, 2010 at 11:13 pm
88MPH….more like 88 FPM (Fucks Per Minute)! And this episode had a lot of them.
Epic revisit James! 😀
September 3, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Did that green colored TMNT's cart really exist or was it just made for the episode? It's awesome!Lavargian
September 3, 2010 at 11:19 pm
The Nerd already re-reviewed Simon's Quest in his 2009 Castlevania Part 2 review. The only logical answer is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Besides, He did the last Halloween special on Castlevania. I'm putting my foot down…It is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!
I'm still waiting on the Atari E.T. review, he could unload on that pile! The day that comes will be an epic day indeed!asdfasdf
September 3, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Oh my god. what a great episode. best in a long time. this one was a real tribute to the old school AVGN fans.adowd
September 3, 2010 at 11:25 pm
I got goosebumps when I saw the good version of BTTF….I got the first NES version as a birthday present. I wondered for a while if my parents hated me or something cuz that game blows so much old man weener. I pretty much suck at vid games anyway, so it's nice to see you suffering through the horrid bullshit of LJN and other game publishers who ruined several of my weekend rentals back in the 80's and 90's. Love the movie and game reviews on this site even if I haven't seen or played them so keep 'em coming, but take time to enjoy enjoy the good shit James!buckfutter
September 3, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Great Episode man!
First Japanese exclusive Godzillas now Japanese Exclusive Back to the future!?
Madness! All games should be released in EVERY region!supermark64
September 3, 2010 at 11:55 pm
its dr. jekyll and mr. hyde isnt itcantonadian
September 3, 2010 at 11:55 pm
AHHH it's gonna be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!!! CAN'T WAIT! 😀
September 3, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Awesome episode, James! The rage attack was hilarious, and it reminded me of the good ol' episodes.
And OF COURSE the next episode is gonna be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde! Can't fucking wait! 😀 😀
September 3, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Superb video, I quite like the idea of you looking back on your older videos. And using an older version of the theme song was a nice touch. Can't wait for your next episode, it should be really cool if it's what I'm thinking (and apparently everyone else is thinking the same thing).
The "Nerd shot first" reference was awesome. Don't know if everyone will get it (mostly the younger audience), but I laughed at it.
About Top Gun… I always wondered why you had trouble landing, since, the first time I played iy (bought it last year), I got it on the first try, without even paying attention to the numbers (I didn't actually see them). But seeing it cleared up is great.
I can't be the only one who finds that Jessica Rabbit's phone number leading to a sex hotline is incredibly fitting… right? RIGHT?
Love the green TMNT cartridge. Seems like the same type of cart as Battle Kid… hmmm.
Loved the BTTF part as a whole. Didn't expect BTTF 2&3 game to be that bad because of what you originally showed, but now that you properly described it, holy shit… I'm happy I didn't buy THAT one (at least the first one is… sort of okay-ish… well, it was more self-explanatory at least). Would have loved to see the other levels on the genesis game though (but I don't blame you if it was just too hard).
And I just KNEW you'd be showing the Super Famicom game, though I would have loved to see you elaborate a bit more on it… But at least the gameplay you showed for it did show that it was a really good game that followed the movie well.Browntown
September 4, 2010 at 12:08 am
Very well done video. Your work has been lacking that same charm of your older videos, but that is rectified here. I always did find it disappointing how you quit early on your old videos and loved it when you revisited Simon's Quest. Nice to see the finished versions of those reviews. =DtheJuddler
September 4, 2010 at 12:10 am
September 4, 2010 at 12:10 am
That was a great episode. I loved the ending! This might be one of my favorite ones now. Great job!mykreal
September 4, 2010 at 12:26 am
This is easily the best episode you have produced to date. The fact being that the writing is a lot smoother, wittier, clever, and the dialogue is substantially less awkward compared to your earlier videos. Your editing has reached a mastery as well, the timing of jokes is spot-on to say the least and the effects look a lot cleaner (Even you make a joke about this.)
The 2010 season is proving to be the best one and I'm happy to be a fan, always up for an opportunity to help.
Keep up the good work,
September 4, 2010 at 12:26 am
fuck that landing sequence. you had it right the first time. ASSTheEnigmaticRonin
September 4, 2010 at 12:29 am
Im pretty sure its dr jekyll and mr hyde…noahuh
September 4, 2010 at 12:30 am
I KNOW WHAT he is going to revisit that he said he hates SOOOOOOOO much………………………..Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde! MAN that games just sucks!IDaCashman
September 4, 2010 at 12:34 am
Awesome review, I AM DYING TO SEE DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE!!!
But James my great entertainer, as soon as you review the Genesis BTTF 3, the Green Gaming Glitch Goblin attacks. Maybe it's just me, but it seems that in a certain part of the video (I rewound,) it starts glitching. I'll haft to watch this another time. I have no idea what happened.darkknightdetec
September 4, 2010 at 12:36 am
Great stuff as usual James! Loved the Star Wars Special Edition references at the beginning lmfao.Rodimus440
September 4, 2010 at 12:37 am
But… hey wait a minute… looks like water in that beer bottle… whats up with that?
September 4, 2010 at 12:51 am
And The Other Thing – I see what you're doing by mocking George Lucas (who is not a Jew.) But if you were to take the original episodes and, maybe not even better effects, but make them look crisper and cleaner, I don't think it would be too bad. Seeing the "new" effects you did for those episodes, I'd actually like to see them, since they don't destroy the original effects, and only enhance 'em.
And The Jason skit, now that was funny. Especially because Jason didn't even have a gun. Han shot first, we all know that for a sure sign.Vintagecollector
September 4, 2010 at 1:34 am
I Was Hoping For October The Splatterhouse Series. That Would Be Cool. To Salute To The New Splatterhouse Game That's Coming Up This Year For The Xbox360 & PS3 In October.
September 4, 2010 at 1:55 am
idk why this is, but I cannot pause the video. I had to do something and come back to watch… instead I had to close everything and then start all over again… Can this be fixed? it's a tad inconvenient.. FANTASTIC re-review though! ^^VirtuallyJesse
September 4, 2010 at 1:57 am
Awesome video, definitely my favorite from 2010 so far. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.. I can't wait. I have never seen any footage from the game aside from your 'review' of it, I eagerly await its revisit.Zentu
September 4, 2010 at 1:57 am
I can't seem to view the last 5 minutes of the video. Is there a way I can view these videos in a way that it wount make a Green Glitchy Line across the video? Same thing happend in the Action 52 Vid. I mean I want to be able to see the "Shitty Games" as they really are, not with more shittyness due to a Vid Playback problem.myk1217
September 4, 2010 at 2:07 am
Wow, James, it's a good thing you did decide to make these monthly instead of bi-weekly. The quality of the episodes now is significantly improved. They're longer, more rich with content, and the subjects of the reviews themselves are worth waiting a month for. And I like how you gave us a cliff hanger on this one, even though it's pretty obvious what the next game is (Jekyl and Hyde). 😛
Keep up the good work, these reviews are fantastic! Definitely worth the wait!Liam Gauci
September 4, 2010 at 2:18 am
OMG, the Top Gun bit is friggin' hilarious!!!Jables
September 4, 2010 at 2:22 am
Cool James! But goddamn can u do more then 1 video at month???I cant wait so much!Liam Gauci
September 4, 2010 at 2:22 am
oh, and I never noticed that the display actually told you the exact altitude and speed needed to land! I always thought it was part of the static on-board display but NO! So thanks for that James.Ravenwolf
September 4, 2010 at 2:23 am
This video was hilarious. I can't wait for the next one. 🙂likalaruku
September 4, 2010 at 2:34 am
You shoulda mentioned that Telltale is making a new Back to the Future game…& Jurrasic Park too.Terthoran
September 4, 2010 at 2:36 am
Definitely one of your best episodes yet!Moertel
September 4, 2010 at 2:37 am
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crossing the country on a NYC Citibike
He's already en route, and will be in Pittsburgh soon.
Read his blog here.
He's on the GAP. Last check, he was in Paw Paw, WV.
We ought to give him a nice warm welcome. With a whole crapton of HealthyRide bikes.
Follow him on Twitter at @countribike
He's somewhere on the C&O. He can't be more than a day away.
9:19 a.m. he's somewhere on the GAP, approaching Pittsburgh.
I'm on approach to PGH @bus15237 @BikePGH! Are you doing a #BikeFestPGH ride tmrw? The 12 mile route looks nice. cc: @healthyridepgh
— Countri Bike (@countribike) August 29, 2015
I'm still in McCandless at 10:30. I sure hope someone is in town to meet him!
Looking like mid-to-late afternoon.
@healthyridepgh @bus15237 @BikePGH Nice! But I might be after 3pm unless I can hustle. I've been giving interviews to NY media all morning
— Countri Bike (@countribike) August 29, 2015
@countribike @healthyridepgh @BikePGH He's here! SSide Works. pic.twitter.com/r4S2uMdhPZ
— Stuart Strickland (@bus15237) August 29, 2015
I found the bike locked up next to the Penn Ave bike lane.
@countribike found you! Welcome to Pittsburgh! pic.twitter.com/Q4kkexbSip— RustyRed (@Redinthe412) August 30, 2015
I admire his chutzpah…however, from what I've read, he's effectively stolen the bike, and that doesn't seem ok.
To quote the Post(http://nypost.com/2015/08/29/this-bored-new-yorker-is-taking-his-citi-bike-for-a-ride-to-la/) :
Tanenhaus, who has already been slapped with the maximum $1,200 late fee by Citi Bike, quit his job as an event planner and checked the bike out from a dock at East 20th Street and Second Avenue on Aug. 6.
On top of all that, he could face prosecution if Citi Bike presses charges.
He said he tried to let the company know about his plans, but "the conversation didn't go anywhere."
Again, I admire his fortitude; but, if he asked, and they said no, that doesn't mean it's cool for him to do it anyway. Public and visible bike theft, in order to get people to contribute to his personal journey of discovery, is still bike theft.
Well, so long as the pays the fine, which is basically the cost of the bike, I don't see the problem. It would have been better if he'd gotten their permission. But it's not like they're out any money, right? And they get lots of free publicity.
Yeah, maybe a little iffy, but meh, there are more actual stolen bikes in the Citibike system (600) than Pittsburgh has bikes to start with (500). How are they going missing? If it ws my system to be concerned about, I'd worry more about that than this one case.
If I don't lock up or return a HealthyRide bike properly, (a) I start getting fees assessed almost immediately, and (b) there's a hefty fine if it goes missing. This guy has already handled the (a) and (b) on that front, and is getting the thing serviced regularly. So while technically he's got a few points against him, this could actually get a lot of good publicity, and do more good than harm.
Related: How does this stack up against taking out a HealthyRide bike and riding the MS150 to Erie for three days all told?
To @jonawebb, though, the $1,200 fine does not cover the cost of the bike, which is well up into four digits.
No, that is not all right. That is theft. *Maybe* paying the owner back later doesn't make it not theft. It is not "rent with an option to buy".
TBH, I suspect the sole reason that he chose to continue on the CitiBike path, after being turned down, was because he gets far more publicity on one of them than he would if he were riding a Craigslist find. More publicity == more donations via his Website, more people buying him lunch on the way, and more people offering a place to sleep.
"Related: How does this stack up against taking out a HealthyRide bike and riding the MS150 to Erie for three days all told?"
I understand he asked HealthyRide and was given permission, IE: "that conversation went somewhere"
A: good publicity for BikeShare
B: benefits a non-profit vs some guy's personal cross-country trip
C: only 150 miles and 3 days of wear on one of the bikes vs 2500 miles and weeks of wear and tear
Call it civil disobedience. He contacted CitiBike, they know his plans, he was denied permission but is doing it openly anyway, and, I'm assuming, is paying all the fines etc. I don't have a problem with this.
What cause is he championing?
[Edited to add:] And, as Stu pointed out, the fine doesn't cover the cost of the bike…
I think the cause is something about the awesomeness of the CitiBike, and his own awesomeness. But it doesn't really matter. He's not sneaking around and stealing bikes, he's following the rules, except for taking the bike without permission, which he tried to get. Close enough to the civil disobedience model for me.
I'm sorry, Jon, but I'm not understanding your argument, unless it's some variation of "no harm, no foul" (which, given the cost of the bike, does not apply here).
In my opinion, asking for permission, not getting it, then doing it anyway, *just because you feel like it*, is not "civil disobedience"…it's adolescent rebelliousness.
(Moreover, labeling something civil disobedience does not automatically make it okay…see also "Cliven Bundy" and "George Wallace", among many recent historical examples of jackholes engaging in civil disobedience. )
I dunno…perhaps I'm misunderstanding the situation. But it seems pretty clear cut: dude asked for permission to use a CitiBike, dude was turned down, dude decided to take a CitiBike anyway, rather than just get another one. I suppose an argument can be made that he's sticking to the letter of the contract (although defending the bike's use use outside NYC or NJ might be legally sticky), but he is certainly not using the share bike as it is intended, and he is using it in this way explicitly against the wishes of the owners.
I wonder how the folks at Golden Triangle would feel about a similar situation?
I met Jeff at PedalPgh. He seems like a good guy and I wish him well, but I think I'm siding with @reddan on this one. He asked for permission to use the bike and was told no.
Even if in the end citibike changes their mind when they realize how much free publicity they will be getting over the next few months, taking the bike was wrong. What if someone wanted to take one of these bikes and display it in their store to show how hip they are. Do you think paying just the fine (not the cost of the bike) would make it ok? Or how about a NY billionaire who hates bike lanes so he checks out all of the bikes and doesn't return them?
argumentum ad absurdum
I see both sides' pros and cons; you/we're both right. I'm still more worried about the losses of several hundred rolling stock. At probably $5K/bike, that's three million dollars down the hole. How or why isn't that being looked into a lot more seriously than someone demonstrating awesomeness … albeit with a tinge of ah-screw-it mixed in.
In one of his blog posts, he says he was ready to fork over five times the cost of the fines, which does put it in the range of what the replacement cost of the bike would be.
Then again, thpppft, five grand vs three million. We're arguing about the wrong thing here.
Jacob McCrea
Do you actually know that the CitiBike organization is ambivalent about losing a few million dollars worth of bikes, or are you just speculating?
Whatever the answer to that question may be, this entitled clown is simply violating someone else's property rights for his own self-aggrandizement.
I'm assuming he'll return the bike, or somehow make amends. I agree that if he just took the bike off on an adventure with no intention of making things right that's not cool. But if he returns it and pays the fines, or pays for it outright, I think the benefits to CitiBike outweigh the harm and they should have negotiated with him in the first place.
I think the benefits to CitiBike outweigh the harm and they should have negotiated with him in the first place.
I think that's probably the fundamental point of disagreement here…they *did* discuss it with him, and the two parties were not able to reach agreement. "You wouldn't give me what I asked for nicely, so I'll just take it" is not a sound mode of behavior.
If he was willing to buy the bike outright, why didn't he, before setting off on his journey? (If the answer is, "because CitiBike wouldn't sell", that's their right as property owners… )
Here's an interesting question: if he is involved in some form of accident, what's CitiBike's liability? There is precedent for liability on the part of the owner of a rental vehicle, if the equipment is somehow faulty (say, inadequate brakes, for example), or if they "negligently" rented to a driver who was unsuitable.
Now, I strongly doubt that anyone in their right mind would hold CitiBike responsible for harm in this case, but, if someone else is injured, CitiBike could very easily be named as defendants, and have to face expensive litigation. Given that they, as an organization, have far more assets floating around than Jeff is likely to have, they'd be an attractive target in a civil suit.
Also, to be honest, supporting this kind of behavior is a good way to move share-bikes out of reach for the urban poor. If people can walk away with a $5000 bike for $1200, the logical response of the organization is to require sufficient available credit in the user's account to pay the replacement cost of the bike. While it's not hard for your average middle class wage slave or college student to have several $K free on their credit card, that is NOT the case for a whole lot of other people.
I've probably blathered on about this topic enough, come to think of it.
What makes these bikes so expensive? Is someone including design and development cost in the price perhaps? (If 1000 customized bikes cost $4 million to design and $1 million to build, you can reasonably claim they're $5000 bikes. But bikes 1001-2000 should be much cheaper.)
"What makes these bikes so expensive?"
They are designed by Ben Serotta ;-)
$1200 does seem like a high price — you can get a really good utility bike for that price, retail. I'd bet that CitiBike recovers most of their cost of the loss of one of the bikes once they get paid the $1200 fine.
Or how about a NY billionaire who hates bike lanes so he checks out all of the bikes and doesn't return them?
Dammit, I TOLD you not to mention Citibikes to Trump.
He sent me a tweet just a couple of days ago, snowbound in Williams AZ. Click below to see the whole four-tweet conversation, with a photo of his rig in the snow.
@bus15237 Hey Stuart! Good times in Pittsburgh this summer and now it's full-on winter in Arizona. Snowed again last night!
— Countri Bike (@countribike) December 14, 2015
Any time someone rides across the country, it is interesting and a mammoth achievement. I hope the situation is resolved, with all sides "saving face" upon his return.
It would be interesting to know how many miles any other bike in their fleet has traveled in the time he has had this one. The manufacturer would surely be interested in how well the bike has fared over several thousand miles.
When Brock Yates and a couple other writers for Car and Driver magazine did "One Lap of America" in 1974, exploring how well the new national 55 mph speed limit was being adhered to, they put something like 10,000 miles on a new Mercedes in a couple of weeks. It was great publicity for everyone. Ditto the "cannonball run" undercover races from NYC to LA at about the same time by roughly the same people.
Gerry Durishan
Stu, on the same note. Burley should be all over this. A lot of touring blogs poo poo the Travoy touring trailer. He's been using it with great success.
He's taking his time now that he's reaching the end. He's near San Beranardino now. About 70 miles from the coast. Planning to reach the Santa Monica pier 1/23.
Gerry Durishan
Here is his blog. http://www.countribike.com/ I reached out to Burley. They have been helping him along the way with any troubles he has had with his trailer.
Wild story about him getting punched in the face. Turns out the assailant was on a rampage and was already in jail b4 Jeffrey identified him.
Today's the day! Now check the irony here:
Text of tweet: Ironic ending: while @citibike is frozen in place CountriBike will roll to the sand and sea in Santa Monica in 12 hours.
[link to CitiBike's announcement of a system shutdown because of weather]
Ironic ending: while @citibike is frozen in place Countri Bike will roll to the sand and s… https://t.co/8WcR02FB0b pic.twitter.com/Waw0qUTaxG
— Countri Bike (@countribike) January 23, 2016
CitiBike's tweet text: Hey CitiBike Riders!
Due to heavy snow in the forecast, we will temporarily close the CitiBike system starting at 11:00PM tonight, Friday, January 22.
I still hope he gives the bike back. But he's put stickers on it and I doubt he will now.
What else this guy has done as he's crossed the country is raise the visibility of every city bike share system he's come across. Yeah, he's outside the realm of acceptability on one hand, but on the other, the awesome level as he's gone along has done wonders for talking up the various systems. He spent a lot of time in and around Santa Monica, generating a lot of free publicity for its Hulu-sponsored system, so it doesn't surprise me they're footing the bill to send the bike back. A couple hundred bucks well spent, in someone's book.
He's going to be a guest on Colbert tomorrow, 2/18
"…for me to POOP ON!"
(sorry, couldn't resist the Triumph joke)
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate
My maternal grandmother was born in the year 1900. My family moved to Alaska in 1975 when I was 3 years old so I never got to see her very much. I grew up so far away from her home in Georgia. I always wished I could have known her better. I know she liked to make things like my mom did and also my sister and I did.
Just recently I posted a picture of something I tatted on facebook. I taught myself how to tat using books from the library and a few websites. One of my aunts saw the picture and told me my grandmother also tatted. She told me my grandmother would be so proud of me. I don't know how to explain how this made me feel. It made me feel some sort of connection with her that I didn't have before. My aunt sent me this little baby shoe that my grandmother was working on and apparently put it away to keep it safe and forgot about it.
I held this delicate little shoe in my hand and thought about my grandmother's hands touching those same threads. I wish she was still here so I could tat with her but since she isn't I will just keep tatting and thinking of her.
Missing my mom
"The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself." ― Nancy Friday
It would be so much easier if that weren't true but it is. It makes me sad when I look in the mirror and realize how much I look like her………. or when I catch a glimpse of myself in a reflection and have a little start because I thought I saw her for a minute. I wish I could sit down and talk with her a little while about my boys and hers. I know she would want to know about mine and that she would tell me everything is going to be okay since hers turned out okay. I wish I could hear her sing or hum one last time…. "Hush little baby don't you cry….daddy's going buy you a mockingbird"
Miss you Mama
Mother's Day
Mother's day is kind of hard for me now that my mom isn't here so I have been kind of glum for a while. I tried to keep that out of my mind for today though. I woke up this morning with my husband and my youngest son bring me breakfast in bed. My youngest brought me coffee doctored up just the way I like it and he hung out and visited with me for a while. He is such a sweet kid. My oldest must have stayed up too late because he slept most of the day. That's alright though. I've been happy to just hang out in my room today. I'm learning to knit socks and I'm really enjoying myself. Between the knitting and facebook and been quite content here.
So here are my socks. I love the color of the yarn I'm using. I have another ball too that is varigated shades of green. I couldn't make up my mind so I bought it to make my next socks. Look me up if you use Ravelry.com. My username is Bugbutt and the pattern and all the details is on there.
I'm taking a beginning sock knitting class at Inua wool shoppe so there is someone helping me when I goof up. I don't think I wouldn't have gotten very far without her help! Inua's wool shoppe is like a candy store for me. I just stood there and drooled! I'll be back in there next Saturday for my 2nd class and I hope I don't get into trouble with the husband for spending too much money. I was lucky to make it out of there without heaping bags of yarn this last time. Okay, back to knitting…..
Quote of the day
"My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother."
—Sharon Doubiago


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Mirror Mind Rose
Sten Sandell [SE] piano
Szilárd Mezei [SRB] viola
Joel Grip [SE] double bass
A trio of contemporary improvised chamber music formed by the rainfall over Serbia during a mind-blowing tour there in spring 2014. Mirror Mind Rose comprise three unique characters indulged in a continuous redefinition of music.
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Their music is an enigma inviting the listener to take part of its decryption. The sound of febrile thoughts keeping the cerebral chamber in place by guts and hammers. Mirroring a flower. There were poppies sticking up their heads through the inundation of Novi Sad and Belgrade those spring days.
Mirror Mind Rose overgrow genres, cultural and political borders and with their inhabited generation-shift they put in attention vast experiences heralding Hungarian folk music, jazz, sound and text and various contemporary composed and improvised musics. The name of the trio comes from a composition of the bebop pianist Elmo Hope.
Sten Sandell
Sten Sandell, piano, voice, electronics and composer Stockholm, collaborates with amongst others Gush (trio w/ Mats Gustafsson and Raymond Strid), Evan Parker, Lotte Anker, Nina De Heney, Sofia Jernberg, Mats Persson and Kristine Scholz. He is also very active in the solo format were the idea of the music inside the language plays a profound role. Since 2013 Sten Sandell has a PhD on the subject Inside the Silence.
Music is not only music, this becomes clear when you take a look/listen to the incredibly interesting repertoire of performances bordering with drama, dance and film. Some of which are well documented in his rooster of over 40 releases (CD/Vinyl/Book/DVD).
Engagements includes most of the major improvisation-festivals in Europe and North America, and he has during the last 30 years been touring in Europe, USA, Canada, Korea and Japan
Szilard Mezei
Born 1974 in Senta, Serbia (then Yugoslavia) as a member of the Hungarian minority in the multiethnic region of Vojvodina. Completed his violin studies in Senta and Subotica and studied composition for four years at the University of Arts in Beograd under prof. Zoran Eric.
His orchestra plays contemporary improvised music, mostly performing his own compositions. As a composer, Mezei is interested in exploring the relationship between improvisation and composition (similarly to Witold Lutoslawski's aleatoric and Anthony Braxton's creative music methods), incorporating elements of jazz and authentic folk music as well. As a young musician he followed the path of B.Bartók and Gy.Szabados. Mezei is also very actively involved in composing scenic music (among others with Josef Nadj). He have a about 30 CD releases of His music at labels like Leo Records, Not Two, Creative Sources, Red Toucan, Ayler Records, Slam Productions. Played so far with musicians/improvisors like Matthias Schubert, Tamás Geröly, Róbert Benkő, György Szabados, Tim Hodgkinson, Albert Márkos, Peter Ole Jörgensen, Jens Balder, Joe Fonda, Michael Jefry Stevens, Joelle Leandre, Hamid Drake, Herb Robertson, Frank Gratkowski, Charles Gayle. He had almost 150 compositions for various ensembles.
His writings on music were published in many periodicals in Former-Yugoslavia and Hungary.
Joel Grip
With an open imagination Joel Grip ambush a silence perceived by our sounding ears, and a silence introducing the image before our eyes.
For a number of years now, energetic double bassist, filmmaker and producer Grip has played an important role for the new scenes of improvised music in Europe. As founder of Umlaut Records, he opened up for creative forms of organizing collectives of musicians and promoting their music internationally. Since 2003 he has been one of the main organizers of Hagenfesten in Dala-Floda, Sweden, a stand-alone festival, and quite frankly possibly the most pleasant venue for free improvised music not only in Sweden but in the whole of Europe. Few other places offer quite the same endearing combination of sophisticated musical risk-taking, and up-beat, social get-together. Grip's musicianship is informed by a similar knack for welding musical sophistication with social communication, often with an analog film camera at hand. With a handful of short films Joel Grip met mexican filmmaker Mauricio Hernández and shortly the film production company Umlicht was established. They are right now working on their third feature film together.


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Highest ever number of school staff
The number of teachers and support staff working in England's state schools has risen to a record level of 1.3 million people.
These annual census figures show there are about 220,000 more full-time-equivalent teaching and assistant posts in schools compared with 2005.
The profile of teachers shows a very large majority are female and white.
It means that more than one in 12 women in England's workforce has a job in a school.
The Department for Education, which published the report, says the record numbers of staff show "there has never been a better time to be a teacher".
But Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has warned the figures show a 16% increase in teachers working in schools without teaching qualifications.
Growing pupil rolls
This snapshot of people working in England's schools last November shows that the workforce grew every year in the previous eight years, regardless of changes in government or economic cycles.
The number of teachers rose by about 9,000 compared with 2012, driven by a surge in the birthrate and rising primary school rolls. There are now 451,100 full-time-equivalent teachers and 471,000 assistants and support staff.
Figures on any changes to the teacher-pupil ratio are not yet available.
But the overall staff numbers, including teaching assistants, have climbed continuously in the years since 2005 - up from about 700,000 full-time-equivalent posts to 922,000 in 2013.
A proportion of these are part-time jobs, with the total number of people working in schools, including teachers, teaching assistants and support staff, now reaching 1.3 million.
About three in four teachers are female - and an even higher proportion of assistants.
It means there are more than a million women working in schools in England - out of a total of 11.7 million women currently in employment.
A high proportion of teachers are white - about 93% - with only 1% of teachers classified as black Caribbean.
The figures show that teaching is now an almost entirely graduate profession, with 96% holding degrees.
These degrees do not always match the subjects they are teaching. More than one in five secondary school maths teachers and about a third of geography teachers do not have a relevant degree.
'Threat to standards'
But Labour has attacked the rise in teachers without qualified teacher status, increasing by the equivalent of 2,300 full-time posts to 17,100.
The workforce census says that 3.8% of teachers in state-funded schools, including academies and free schools, do not have qualified teacher status, up from 3.3% in 2012.
Within free schools, the figures show 13% of full-time equivalent posts are held by teachers without qualified teacher status.
Mr Hunt claimed this was a threat to standards: "The evidence from the best-performing school systems around the world shows us that the quality of teaching makes the biggest difference to raising school standards."
The average salary for a full-time qualified teacher is £38,100 - slightly higher in secondary than primary, slightly higher in local authority schools than in academies.
For senior staff, such as heads, deputies and assistant heads, secondary academies pay an average of £62,300 - slightly higher than in local authority schools.
'More top graduates'
The National Union of Teachers says this shows that "academies and free schools are paying excessive salaries to principals at the expense of spending on pupils and pay for other teachers".
A Department for Education spokesman welcomed the rising proportion of graduates in teaching - and rejected the claims about rising numbers of teachers without qualified teacher status (QTS).
"It is entirely right that state schools should enjoy the same advantage that private schools have to bring great linguists, computer scientists, engineers and other specialists into the classroom. It is entirely up to head teachers who they employ and we trust their judgment in getting the mix right for the pupils they know best.
"In fact, today's statistics show there are 700 fewer non-QTS teachers in schools than there were in 2010, while the percentage of non-QTS teachers in academies is down from 9.4% in 2010 to 5.3%.
"Overall the quality of the teaching workforce is rising. A record 96% of all teachers now have degrees or above, meaning there are an extra 43,000 teachers with degree level qualifications in classrooms since 2010."


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Hello and happy Thursday! Today I have a friendship card to share with you that has a real Victorian feel to it. I made this card for ABC Toys & Crafts- and that's where you'll find some of the awesome products I used to make it. I love the patterned paper I used as it reminds me of Victorian wallpaper. And paired with the beautiful die cut frame, I think it looks kind of like an antique silhouette hanging in a parlor in a beautiful old Victorian mansion ;-)
The paper is from the Crafty Secrets "Classics" collection paper pack. I have used it on so many things and never ever tire of it. It's so beautiful!
And this awesome frame is from the Spellbinders Floral Ovals frames die set. Gorgeous, isn't it? I love all the detail and by adding some tiny pearls it looks so elegant.
I used Stampin' Up!'s "Victoria" lace on top of some lovely old vintage peach colored lace I had in my stash that I got at an antiques show. And the flower is a big Prima flower that looks/ feels like a real dried flower, which had also been hanging around in my stash waiting to be used ;-)
The two little stick pins are a couple that I made and as simple as they are, I think they add just the right touch to finish things off.
Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you'll leave me a comment and let me know what you think. I'll be back soon with another card to share with you!
Items used to make this card include:
Stampin' Up Naturals Ivory, Soft Suede and Chocolate Chip card stock
Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage "Classics" patterned paper
Hero Arts 3 Silhouettes stamp set
SU! Chocolate Chip ink
SU! Oval punches
SU! Dear Friend stamp set (sentiment)
Spellbinders Floral Ovals die
SU! Victoria lace
Want2Scrap baby pearls
Prima flower
MArk Richards pink rhinestone
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Oracle Changes Cloud Financial Visibility
Database software giant Oracle shocked analysts this week, when they failed to provide their cloud software, infrastructure, and platform as a service revenue numbers. Instead, the cloud service number will be reported in a group with on-premises support services. In the company's previous Quarterly Earnings Statements, Oracle provided all three segments of its cloud industry as separate revenue numbers. This visibility allows investors and analysts to assess how quickly those segments are growing, and get a clearer picture of where Oracle services stack up against other cloud providers.
While Oracle CEO Safra Catz took a positive outlook on the quarterly report, most analysts and many investors are questioning the use behind the change. Now that cloud service revenue will be reported with so much less visibility, it will be nearly impossible to determine how much any one part of Oracle's cloud business might be growing or failing to grow. Oracle's stock prices have continued to fall since the news broke on Tuesday, and some speculate that this could be a sign that Oracle won't be investing in it's cloud solutions as a serious competitor to the major providers.
Azure Outage Causes Uproar
Users of Microsoft took to Twitter by storm on Tuesday as a major storage outage made accessing some users' stored files impossible for several hours. The outage affected a wide variety of products and services, including users of Virtual Machines, Storage, SQL Database, Backup, as well as a number of others. Lasting over 5 hours, the outage stopped regular business functions and caused a surge of negative sentiment for Azure to flood social media.
Most of the affected users were located in the North Europe region, which was later confirmed by Azure Support on Twitter as they handled the issue. According to the official communication from Microsoft, the issue stemmed from a control system malfunction that ultimately failed to regulate the temperature of a number of datacenter resources. The location of the datacenter in question is in Ireland, where it has been seasonably temperate this past week. With the forecast edging up into 30 degrees celsius next week, some speculate that this might not be the last Microsoft outage we see due to failed temperature regulation.
The outage had a major impact on several Index scores this week, with the Azure Reliability metric down 2% and a staggering 20% drop in Sentiment scores, likely due to the large number of unhappy customers tweeting during the outage event. The Liftr team's research into Twitter Outage Mentions also showed that over 1% of all Azure tweets on Wednesday included the word 'outage'. The overall Azure Liftr score is down almost 3% at the time of reporting.
Google Cloud TPU v2 Beta Comes in Cheap
Google rolled out new pricing on their TPU v2 units currently in beta, with circuits optimized for machine learning and AI model training. The units are the same ones that run Google's own products, including Translate, Photos, Search, and Gmail among others. The release of this technology is still in beta, and the company announced that the service would be available "globally"; if globally means in three of their sixteen regions.
The new preemptible priced TPU processing does come at a nice price at just over half of what a dedicated TPU unit costs. However, there is also a drawback. The preemptible TPUs are given a lower compute priority than normal instances, meaning that if a request comes in for the GPU power after the preempted unit is running, the process will be terminated and the normal instance will execute. Google stated that because of the innovative failsafe and checkpoint save technology that goes with the instance, you won't lose much progress training your AI when this happens, but some customers are skeptical.
AWS Makes S3 Buckets Microsoft Native
Amazon made life easier for thousands of users this week when they announced that AWS Storage Gateway would now support SMB protocol. This effectively means that where applications built on microsoft infrastructure in the past would need third party tools to utilize Amazon S3 Storage, they can now do the same thing using only AWS tools.
The new File Gateway support is currently available in every region that supports AWS Storage Gateway for new gateways, and a software update for existing gateways will be made available sometime next month. While there is only a small amount of discussion about this change so far, it could have a big impact on customers currently looking to enter the cloud arena. Now that Microsoft applications have unfettered access to one of the most popular AWS services, a major barrier to migration has been removed.
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Another bald eagle was released back out into the wild, strong and healthy from the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre during the centre's annual eagle release event on Saturday, April 14.
The male bald eagle was found on the ground in the Parksville Qualicum Beach area, and though seemingly healthy, would not fly. It was kept at the wildlife recovery centre in Errington for the winter to make sure it was strong enough to fly once released.
Terri Evans, an environmental activist and wildlife enthusiast from Nanaimo was given the honour of releasing the eagle while a large crowd looked on.
NIWRA's aboriginal artist in residence, Bill Helin, gave a drum performance (along with many young helpers) before and after the release to usher the eagle on its way.
"As I was bringing him out and looking at the faces of everybody, I knew that they felt a piece of what I felt," said Evans of the experience. "When children see this, this is something that they are going to remember, and hopefully the next generation will also be wildlife rehabilitators."
"I'm so happy that I was able to be a part of this."
The release is part of the Brant Wildlife Festival, which continues in the Parksville Qualicum Beach area until April 28.
For more info on Brant Wildlife Festival events, go to brantfestival.bc.ca/events/.


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Spicy Cream of Rutabaga and Pumpkin Soup
The rutabaga, swede (from Swedish turnip) turnip, yellow turnip, or neep is a root vegetable that originated as a cross between cabbage and turnip. The roots are prepared for human food in a variety of ways, and the leaves can be eaten as a leaf vegetable. The roots and tops are also used as winter feed for livestock. Rutabaga has an earthy flavor and its taste is somewhat unusual. We love Rutabaga soup, plain or combined with pumpkin which gives a milder flavor and tones down the earthy kohlrabi.
2 chilies, you can use dried chilies as well
1 onion, in cubes
500 grams Rutabaga, diced
500 grams Pumpkin, diced
3 Tbsp oil (sunflower or olive oil)
Bay leaf
½ to ¾ cup heavy cream or to taste
Freshly ground pepper & salt to taste
In a heavy bottom stockpot sweat the onions in 3 Tbsp of oil until softened. Add the Rutabaga and Pumpkin stirring until they are well covered with oil. .
Add the water or stock and add the chilies and bay leaf. Simmer until the Rutabaga and Pumpkin are soft. Let the soup cool a little bit and take the bay leaf out. Mix the soup in a blender. Pour back in the stockpot and season to taste. Before serving, stir in some cream to taste. Enjoy with some fresh bread.


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Does your kid like to pull all the tissues out of the box?
Homa's did, so she turned an old baby wipe box and some fabric into a reusable "tissue box" toy.
(Do you know Homa Woodrum? She's been a generous sharer of links and tidbits for years. She's Oh Mah Deehness on the Web and @WoodrumLaw on Twitter. Go say hi!)
Other uses for baby wipe boxes: kitchen cabinet organizer, small toy storage, art supply box, etc., etc., etc. The list goes on forever.


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Upgrading your windows can become more costly, when you choose argon filled glass, or energy-efficient glass with triple pane. But if the window frames are old and perhaps damaged, you should really take the plunge and replace everything, as it won't do you much good to have brand new windows if there are cracks in the frames.
In some cases, you can get tax credits for choosing certain energy efficient windows. You have to check current tax laws where you live, and which brands are eligible for this benefit, but it can be an additional advantage to upgrading to windows that have a higher rating in terms of energy efficiency. In the U.S., look for windows that are approved by the Energy Star program. Check into other tax credits while you are at it, like changing out the old doors for more efficient ones or adding insulation. Your home expenditures should decrease somewhat as will your tax obligations.
To make your house look better and be more energy-efficient, all you need to do is replace the windows. Any remodel job is a big decision, and it is made easier when you have the right person doing the job for you. Replacing windows is not some small job that is easy to do, so you probably be better off hiring a professional, even if you feel that you are qualified.


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You have upgraded to Windows 10 or purchased a new PC with Windows 10 and receive the following message when attempting to log in to CX4:
"The browser you are using is incompatible with this web application. This application requires Internet Explorer version 6 or greater."
Issue in Detail:
Microsoft has replaced Internet Explorer with the Edge browser. CX4 requires that ActiveX is enabled within Internet Explorer's settings, but Microsoft's Edge Browser does not support ActiveX.
If your PC has been upgraded from Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 the previous version of Internet Explorer is still installed on your system. To navigate to the previous version of Internet Explorer follow the steps below:
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Using the 'Search the web and Windows' search next to the Start button type 'Internet Explorer'.
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Installing Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 10
If your PC was purchased with Windows 10 or if a clean install of Windows 10 was performed then download Internet Explorer 11 from Microsoft.
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If your Windows account has limited access you may need assistance from your IT department to complete the installation.
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Instagram has been updated to version 6.0 for iOS and Android, which adds the ability to control the intensity of the filters on the app with sliders. It also introduces nine new photo effects among other improvements and bug fixes.
You can download the update directly on your iOS or Android device through its respective app store or by using the following link:
With this update to Instagram, those who like more control over their photos, will no longer be required to turn to third party apps to edit their creations. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom says the idea is to keep Instagram subscribers from having to spend so much money on multiple apps. "Now instead of using multiple apps to get your photos looking the way you want, you can just come to Instagram," says Systrom.
After the update, you will be able to adjust the strength of a filter by tapping on it. With Adjust, you can crop and straighten your picture at the same time. Brightness makes your picture lighter or darker, and Contrast makes bright areas on your photo brighter. It also allows dark areas to look darker. The Warmth setting makes your picture look warmer with more orange tones, or cooler by adding blue tones.
Other settings added to Instagram by the update include Saturation. For example, you can make the colors more saturated with reds becoming redder. The Highlights setting adjusts the brightness on bright areas of your photograph. Shadows allows you to make similar adjustments, but on the dark area of your images. You can move your viewer's attention from the corners of a picture to the middle, by using the Vignette setting. This darkens the corners to move the viewer's eyes to the center of a photo. And Sharpen makes your picture crisp and clear. Using sliders with +/- settings allow users to be precise with their editing. Instagram is also making it optional for video contributors to select a cover frame. Systrom points out that most people use the first frame anyway.
Systrom also said that after building a network of 200 million users, it was time for Instagram to move back to photography. He also adds that the app has plenty of work to do on the social side. Perhaps that is something we will see on a future Instagram update. For now, this update is available from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
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Interpolating Convex and Non-Convex Tensor Decompositions via the Subspace Norm
Part of: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28 (NIPS 2015)
A note about reviews: "heavy" review comments were provided by reviewers in the program committee as part of the evaluation process for NIPS 2015, along with posted responses during the author feedback period. Numerical scores from both "heavy" and "light" reviewers are not provided in the review link below.
Conference Event Type: Poster
We consider the problem of recovering a low-rank tensor from its noisy observation. Previous work has shown a recovery guarantee with signal to noise ratio $O(n^{\ceil{K/2}/2})$ for recovering a $K$th order rank one tensor of size $n\times \cdots \times n$ by recursive unfolding. In this paper, we first improve this bound to $O(n^{K/4})$ by a much simpler approach, but with a more careful analysis. Then we propose a new norm called the \textit{subspace} norm, which is based on the Kronecker products of factors obtained by the proposed simple estimator. The imposed Kronecker structure allows us to show a nearly ideal $O(\sqrt{n}+\sqrt{H^{K-1}})$ bound, in which the parameter $H$ controls the blend from the non-convex estimator to mode-wise nuclear norm minimization. Furthermore, we empirically demonstrate that the subspace norm achieves the nearly ideal denoising performance even with $H=O(1)$.


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Bars & pubs The bar is one floor up with views over the mountains. Cosy place to hang out with live music some evenings, a pool table and board games. Big screen TV for SHL ice hockey games. Read more
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I love Japanese Gyudon, aka beef rice bowl. When the beef imports from the US were banned due to mad cow disease in 2004, there were Yoshinoya's (a Japanese chain restaurant whose best seller is always gyudon) maniac fans flew to Los Angeles to have a taste. This is one of the staple comfort food in Japan.
Ingredients: (yielding 3-4 servings)
2 cups of rice, steamed
1 medium onion, chopped into long and thin strips
12 oz beef, thinly sliced (make sure every slice of meat has a good ratio of lean and fatty meats. I used thinly sliced beef brisket bought from Korean supermarket)
3 stems of green onions, finely chopped
2 Tbsp of oil (I used bacon grease)
1 1/2 cup of Dashi stock or chicken broth
6 Tbsp of soy sauce
4 Tbsp of sugar
2 Tbsp of Sake or cooking wine
1 Tbsp of mirin
4 Tbsp of pickled red ginger (benisouga)
1 Tbsp of white sesame seeds
Salt and pepper
Steam the rice in a rice cooker.
Heat the oil in a shallow pot on medium-high heat. Add onion strips and cook for 2-3 min until translucent. Add the stock and let boil. Turn the heat down to medium. Add soy sauce, sugar, mirin and cooking wine, let cook for another 3 min.
Add beef to the pot and cook for another 5-8 min. Add salt and pepper to taste. To adjust the color, you can choose to add a few drops of aged soy sauce to darken the color.
Pour everything including the sauce over steamed rice and top with a pinch of chopped green onions. Finally, add a tbsp of red ginger on the top and drizzle some sesame seeds on the top.
It is so quick and easy yet tasty, I love it! Hope you like it too! 🙂
PS. A salad or a quick stir-fry on the side will help add more vegetable/fruit intake along with this savory, tantalizing dish!


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We went crabbing with old friends today. It was an interesting experience on a whole new level.
Since we've been to Sandy Point National Park before, I didn't bother reading the new signs they put up along the dock. I figured, you've done this before, you know all there is to it, right?
We set up with our friends, a visiting family from another state, and started catching some crabs. The kids were excited, and we were having fun. After about an hour, hubby and our dad-friend took the kids swimming. The rest of us stayed behind to man the lines.
So it was that a Park Ranger truck stopped near the dock. Had we been more observant, we would have noticed people tossing crabs over the side, back into the water. But we were oblivious. And so we got in trouble.
If you live in Maryland, here's a good bit of information to remember. And it's worth a $125 fine: it is now illegal to catch female crabs. And that explained the new signs.
So the two rangers, Mr. Younger and Mr. Older, found one lone female crab in our bucket. Mr. Younger, the more serious one, explained to us how we can tell the male from the female. Then he informed me he was writing me a friendly warning. I asked him if he was joking. He wasn't.
While waiting for my warning, Mr. Younger radioed headquarters to check on my license. It took some time before I was cleared. Mr. Younger, almost jokingly, asked me if I ever broke the law. I shook my head, "If I did, I wouldn't be here waiting. I'd have run away as soon as I saw you coming." Guess you couldn't argue with the truth in that.
After I was cleared, and as we were walking away, I heard Mr. Older say in a gentle voice, "They don't look like hardened criminals to me." I paused to respond, but thought the best of it. After all, Mr. Younger could still change his mind and give me a ticket. So while I appreciated Mr. Older's comment, I let it go without thanking him.
So the rest of the day went on without any other unexpected incidents. After crabbing and swimming, we went and grilled at another friend's house. Then we went blueberry picking.
But as the day ends, I couldn't help but think about a few things…
First of all, ignorance of the law really is no excuse. Especially if signs have been put up and you don't bother reading them. I totally appreciate Mr. Younger's decision to give me just a warning when I know he could have fined me.
Next, I'm not glad I had to go through this experience, but I know it'll help me be more careful. I got off lightly, and now I'm going to make sure I pay more attention next time. The other people on the dock obviously knew the rule but have figured out a way to get around it. One of them even put the female and/or smaller crabs in a separate bucket, to make it easier to toss them over the side should a ranger show up. But I wonder if I'm not better off having been caught, as I learned a lesson that will probably serve me well in the future.
Lastly, I was really grateful I had nothing to hide. In life, as in this experience, I have learned that the past really does have a tendency to creep up on us unexpectedly. Many times we are tempted to sweep things under the rug, leaving it to harden and cause a lump that to our relief goes unnoticed for some time. But someone, somewhere, is bound to see it. And then we get our comeuppance. I breathe easy today knowing there were no lumps to worry about.


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A friend found several pipes while on a trip to Iowa last summer and she brought them to me to Reserect. The lot of them were not in the best shape.
The Savinelli Punto Oro, second from the top right was to be the first. There is a Dr. Grabow Royal Duke on the left below the large block of briar. The rest of the pipes are not identifiable. There are no impressions in any of them. The Savinelli has very faint impressions.
The impressions can only be seen if held at an angle. I was able to take a picture of it before the work was done but, sadly, it is gone after. The stem has been snapped off at the button on an angle leaving it sharp.
This will be an effort that I have not attempted before, to rebuild the button. Having the opportunity of reading and rereading Steve Laug's Blog, Reborn Pipes, it gave me the courage to attempt this repair. Using black super glue and activated charcoal I put a pipe cleaner into the airway and began to build up the broken area.
I used a couple of files and Dremel tool to shape the button and begin the process of making it square again.
Then it was back to building up the filler again. More super glue and charcoal.
After a salt and alcohol bath I swabbed out the stummel with Q tips and pipe cleaners. It took several salt baths to get the bowl clean. the rim was rough from abuse, but, I did not want to lose the natural lines from Savinelli. So, I just used a tooth brush and Murphy's wood soap to clean the rim followed by some light sanding with used 320 sandpaper. I then used black leather dye to even the color.
After the bowl was done I put it asside and went to finish the stem.
After using small files to shape the button with the new charcoal and super glue, it was on to the sanding sponges to polish it. Between each course of three sponges I used Obsidian Stem Polish to help some of the very stubborn oxidisation. A couple of coats of carnuba wax on the buffer and it is ready to smoke again.
There is still a slight flaw in the bit that I will need to address, but, overall I think that this pipe is now a serviceable unit once again.


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Maria Aubrey was appointed Vice President, Business and Professional Services, in May 2015. She also served as NRC's Acting President from March to August, 2016.
Prior to joining NRC, Ms. Aubrey had an extensive career in the private sector where she held progressive senior management positions including Chief Operating Officer at XIA System Corporation, Senior VP Operations at AMEC Technologies and President of Spectrocan Ltd, which provided her with all aspects of leadership and business management experience, including the raising of capital and involvement in mergers & acquisitions.
As Senior VP Operations with Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), she gained a sound knowledge and appreciation of innovation within the government context. In this role, in addition to providing management leadership in the day-to-day operations, she led a number of strategic initiatives to ensure solid governance and compliance with the organization's mandate and was the key person for numerous audits and evaluations.
Her direct involvement with a large range of stakeholders in the innovation chain, including; government(s), NGOs, universities, investors and industry (both SMEs and large corporations) nationally and internationally, has provided her with solid insights into the different stages in the innovation chain.
Ms. Aubrey is committed to sustainability, the development of young entrepreneurs, and the delivery of solid governance and good business practices.
Maria Aubrey
VP Business and Professional Services, NRC