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CAS No.: 67-56-1
Formula: CH4O
Exact Mass: 32.02620
Molecular Weight: 32.04190
PSA: 20.23000
LogP: -0.39150
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Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha, methyl hydrate, or wood spirits, is a chemical with the formula CH3OH (often abbreviated MeOH). Methanol acquired the name "wood alcohol" because it was once produced chiefly as a byproduct of the destructive distillation of wood. Today, industrial methanol is produced in a catalytic process directly from carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen.
Methanol is the simplest alcohol, being only a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group. It is a light, volatile, colorless, flammable liquid with a distinctive odor very similar to that of ethanol (drinking alcohol).[11] However, unlike ethanol, methanol is highly toxic and unfit for consumption. At room temperature, it is a polar liquid, and is used as an antifreeze, solvent, fuel, and as a denaturant for ethanol. It is also used for producing biodiesel via transesterification reaction.
Methanol is produced naturally in the anaerobic metabolism of many varieties of bacteria, and is commonly present in small amounts in the environment. As a result, the atmosphere contains a small amount of methanol vapor. But in only a few days, atmospheric methanol is oxidized by sunlight to produce carbon dioxide and water.
Methanol is also found in abundant quantities in star forming regions of space, and is used in astronomy as a marker for such regions. It is detected through its spectral emission lines.[12]
Methanol burns in oxygen, including open air, forming carbon dioxide and water:
2 CH3OH + 3 O2 → 2 CO2 + 4 H2O
Methanol ingested in large quantities is metabolized first to formaldehyde and then to formic acid[13] or formate salts, which are poisonous to the central nervous system and may cause blindness, coma, and death. Because of these toxic properties, methanol is frequently used as a denaturant additive for ethanol manufactured for industrial uses. This addition of methanol exempts industrial ethanol (commonly known as "denatured alcohol" or "methylated spirit") from liquor excise taxation in the US and some other countries.
Properties Feedback
Appearance & Physical State:Clear, colorless liquid
Density:0.7918 g/cm3
Melting Point:-98 ºC
Boiling Point:64.7 ºC
Flash Point:12 ºC
Refractive Index:1.328-1.330
Stability:May decompose on exposure to moist air or water.
Storage Condition:Store at RT.
Vapor Pressure:97.66mmHg (13.02 kPa, 20 °C)
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hazard declaration:H225; H301 + H311 + H331; H370
hazard declaration add:
waring notice:P210; P280; P302 + P352 + P312; P304 + P340 + P312; P370 + P378; P403 + P235
Hazard Class:3
Safety Statements:S16-S36/37-S45-S7
HS Code:2905110000
Packing Group:II
WGK Germany:1
Risk Statements:R11; R23/24/25; R39/23/24/25
Hazard Codes:F
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Author : Andrew Brereton
Now he understood what his master had meant when he said that some people come here only to never leave. The place was truly magical. Even as he watched, a man and his assistant walked by carrying two strange skulls with long ridged horns curling out the back. His imagination was captured by thoughts of strange beasts and the distant past. He wandered in body and mind.
His thoughts were interrupted as he just barely missed colliding with a man holding a rope attached to a strange hairy animal, rushing ahead with its nose to the ground. He put his head down and tried not to attract undue attention. He still remembered his master’s endless rambling about caution.
He thought to himself, “How am I supposed to find the curator of this place, if I am to forever keep myself from looking around?” It was thoughts like these that made him slowly veer off the path. It was thoughts like these that reduced his feelings of guilt. Slowly at first, he submitted to the wonders that drew his curiosity.
When he found the machine, he could barely contain his excitement. He had thought that the dragon bones had been the best, or the picture screen from the ancient times, but as he listened to the ceaseless patter of the operator, he knew he had to try the machine. He was reminded of the vendors in the market-town where he lived.
“Yes that’s right, just sit down and gaze into the “TRU-LENS” goggles, wear the “HI-Q” ear covers and grasp the controllers. You will be taken, lifted into another world! You want to go see the Dinosaurs? Easy! My machine can do it. You! Yes, you there, the small boy. Yes, that’s alright now, just step up and sit down here, hands here… yes! Good! and look into the goggles now…”
As the strange headpiece wrapped around his skull, the sounds blocked out the voice of the salesman. He wondered when he was going to see the dinosaurs, when strange lights and colors began to swirl in his vision. They mixed with the ticking and screeching sounds and made him feel slightly uncomfortable. He was sweating now. He tried to sit up, to stop the machine, but he couldn’t move. His head began to ache, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t block out the disturbing lights and sounds. He began to panic, and his vision began to fade. As he blacked out he got a strange feeling of déjà vu, then, nothing.
He was stacking strange objects into boxes, and a tall loud man was yelling at other children doing similar tasks. He couldn’t remember how he got here. Hesitantly, he called out to the tall man for help, and as he turned, recognition dawned. It was the operator-salesman. Quickly it all came back to him, and just as quickly was replaced by an odd feeling of déjà vu. He panicked. This time, the last thing he remebered was the disturbing grin on the tall man’s face. Seeing that, he understood what his master had meant when he said that some people come here only to never leave.
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255kg journalist's pledge to "go from fat to fit" goes viral
By Kristen Amiet|
But Finney's most recent column has gone viral because it's unlike anything he's published before
Daniel Finney is a columnist at Iowa-based newspaper the Des Moines Register. His round generally covers business, politics and ways in which Iowa is better than Indiana.
But Finney's most recent column has gone viral because it's unlike anything he's published before.
"I'm fat," he writes.
"Scratch that. I'm morbidly obese.
"This isn't being verbose. This is a medical diagnosis."
At his last weigh-in, Finney tipped the scales at 255kg (563 pounds). He notes that he can no longer be weighed on the scales at his doctor's office because he was heavier than the scales could handle.
But Finney hasn't always been so frank about his physical state.
"I've ignored it for at least five years, probably longer," he writes.
"I ignored it after I was diagnosed as a Type II diabetic."
For a long time, Finney says he has dealt with his obesity by joking about it.
"I joke about being fat. We're supposed to be jolly, right?"
But in December, Finney injured his back while carrying groceries into his home from his car. Figuring the pain would eventually subside, he ignored it for a number of months until it finally got so bad he was no longer sleeping through the night.
Resolving to visit his doctor at a local clinic, Finney says he already knew what had to change.
X-rays showed he had developed arthritis and his spinal cavity had narrowed under pressure from hundreds of kilograms of "extra flesh". He was also suffering from sleep apnea caused by his weight.
His doctor prescribed pain-killers to get him through the day and referred him to weight loss and sleep clinics and a physical therapist to work through his many obesity-induced issues, including anxiety and depression.
"There's a wound inside me that just won't heal. I try to salve it by stuffing my face."
Now, on the eve of his 40th birthday, Finney has made a pledge "to go from fat to fit" in a heartfelt essay shared more than 3000 times on social media.
"I know the obvious solution: Eat less. Move more."
Finney notes that the thought of giving up his favourite foods – pizza, nachos, chicken wings, Mountain Dew and fries, among others – terrifies him, but not as much as surgery, which has been recommended to him as a last resort if he's struggling to unload the weight the old fashioned way.
"This is a long road and the hardest," he writes.
"I know I'm responsible for my actions. And I'm the only person who can really fix the problem."
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The Impact Dialogues by Koldo Echebarria
Koldo Echebarria, director general of Esade, talks with Father Arturo Sosa SJ, 31st General of the Society of Jesus, about the role of higher education and the value of Ignatian pedagogy in times of Covid-19.
Koldo Echebarria [Director general of Esade]: The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the fragility of our social and economic welfare and our healthcare safeguards. Everything seems to have become more vulnerable. The pandemic has accentuated existing inequalities, causing even more abject poverty and social exclusion. The coronavirus fallout will reverse much of the progress made in humanitarian issues and accelerate the digital transformation of the most advanced societies, widening the education gap even more.
It is precisely in these difficult times that our role as educational institutions is more important and relevant than ever. How can we build a beacon of light in these asymmetric circumstances? How can Jesuit values and education prepare the leaders of tomorrow? To reflect on all this, today I am in the Vatican, together with the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Father Arturo Sosa, one of the most emblematic figures in cultural and social spheres, with an extensive career devoted to education and research.
Today’s pandemic affects different social classes, religions and race alike, and we will only pull through if we are able to think about the common good whilst exercising our individual responsibility towards society. How can we convey this message? What efforts can we universities, for example, make to convey this message?
Father Arturo Sosa SJ [31st General of the Society of Jesus]: Models are the best way to teach and convey something. If what we want to put forward is not embodied in a model, it is very difficult to convey it. When we think about a model we think about people. But I think that the great challenge at the moment is having institutional models and organisational models that point in the same direction, and creating institutional models and organisational models that focus on common good. This is far from easy but I think this is the challenge and the great change we can make today. But there has to be a joint effort between people for whom the common good is what gives their life a meaning and organisations that have the same aim too. And I think this is the path we Jesuit universities should follow.
The great challenge at the moment is creating institutional and organisational models that focus on common good
Koldo Echebarria: How do you regard this in the context of a university like ours, a university that aims to educate professionals in the business world who obviously have career aspirations? How can we improve our ability to convey this idea of life as a community and this responsibility towards the rest of society?
Father Arturo Sosa SJI’ll explain by telling you a family anecdote. My father was a businessman when he was young, but following a political shift in Venezuela in 1958 he was appointed minister of finance, and again, twenty years later. His friends criticised him and said “How can you be a minister when you have a great business career?” and he would say, “My family and my company cannot be well if the country is in bad shape... If people who are capable or even ambitious, and people who want to do something really great in their lives do not regard public life as the scenario for doing it, then we are creating a division that goes nowhere. And our universities and institutions must encourage the vocation of public service that is, I would say, as big a challenge as any career in business. If qualified people do not occupy the public arena, it will be occupied by people with other interests.
Koldo Echebarria: This can definitely be seen in this pandemic. Countries with more capable public sectors are coping much better than countries with less able public sectors. Either we focus on building public capabilities at everyone’s service or we really won’t be able to overcome this pandemic or any other future crises. This line of thought involves the idea that the public arena extends beyond the state. When we talk about the public arena we’re talking about many institutions that can play this role, aren’t we?
Father Arturo Sosa SJWhen we talk about the public arena, we’re talking about citizens as a whole. We’ve reduced the public arena not just to the state, but even worse, to governments. And the basis of any democratic policy are the citizens, the people. Only when citizens are really strong can thought be given to states working for the public good, the common good. And governments subordinate to the state. Because once again the government absorbs the state and becomes the only expression of the state, but that’s not how it is, the state has balances and counterbalances with democracy and active citizens precisely because some functions can be controlled from other viewpoints, hence the division of powers, and hence all the institutions that have been created in the last few centuries specifically to avoid the hegemony of one group or one person. The basis is the citizens, citizens who are aware, active, responsible, a community we must all take part in. Anyone not wanting to engage in this task is really sidelining a human dimension that is hugely important for personal development.
Koldo Echebarria: Allow me to mention a matter that connects the university to society, the matter of merit, meritocracy, intelligence and effort, shall we say, all combined. I think our establishments are based on meritocracy and yet, at the same time, meritocracy is under scrutiny because it sometimes depends on socioeconomic factors that discriminate against those most in need and the poorest. What is your opinion of this? What can we universities do to create a non-exclusive meritocracy?
Father Arturo Sosa SJI would go a little further. What are our universities inspired by? They are inspired by the gospel, the model Jesus gave us. The logic of our university is the logic of service, not merit but service and what should be done. Merit makes us focus on ourselves, in the sense that it is my own effort, my career or something for my benefit or that of my family or my group. And then, we once again face a conflict with the wellbeing of others. If our universities do not educate professionals able to do this as well as possible, but in order to serve, to pave the way …
Koldo Echebarria: In other words, merit must not be an end in itself; it must be capability in which we find our vocation to serve.
Father Arturo Sosa SJThat is the real merit. The aim of a Jesuit education is to maximise the potential of people and all their qualities. But these qualities are not for you, they are to enable you to grow by helping others develop. This is the real meritocracy, and the outcome is a real, collective meritocracy. The challenge the university faces is how this mindset can be conveyed to students. How can these dynamics be changed so that the university really can be transformed into a place where people are able to question their own life and develop their qualities as much as possible, but knowing that the best development is when all this can be delivered to others?
The challenge the university faces is how the mindset of collective meritocracy can be conveyed to students
Koldo Echebarria: The pandemic obviously suddenly changed the way we work at university and develop face-to-face connections with students by forcing us to adopt new teaching methods. This is something we discussed a lot at Esade when this whole change was contemplated and we talked about how to maintain the educational experience that characterises our establishment, and we had discussions about the meaning of this in Jesuit pedagogy. From this standpoint, what do you think is most important in the transformation we have undergone, in today’s very difficult situation?
Father Arturo Sosa SJCaring for people. I think caring for people is the core of what is known as Jesuit pedagogy. This means finding the best ways of listening, i.e. you can only care for someone by listening to them, understanding them, and understanding them by listening. Each person has their own path and at university they must find the way to express and nourish it. Listening and companionship comprise the other key factor of the Jesuit pedagogy or spirituality taken from the gospel.
Koldo Echebarria: As regards another issue discussed a great deal, what do you think about the contribution of technology from the viewpoint of Jesuit pedagogy?
Father Arturo Sosa SJFrom the viewpoint of Jesuit pedagogy, it is a very interesting challenge because technology is not merely a device or form of connection but a different anthropology. Technology and the change of an era are the same thing. Those born in the new era think differently, it’s a different anthropology. How can we talk in this language, how can we learn this language and really communicate? We must listen to young people and all together make it possible to journey towards a hopeful future. In this pedagogy, we all learn. It’s not just about us having and conveying knowledge, it’s not just about the university having and sharing knowledge. The categories of teachers and students have been broken down, and we learn together. Much more two-way dialogue is involved and technology is obviously useful for this in many respects but it really has to be done.
Koldo Echebarria: Once, during a conference about the role of universities, someone mentioned a very interesting concept: universities must be out in the elements, must go out into the elements. The speaker was talking about university knowledge but also about how universities position themselves. Against the backdrop of the pandemic, could you give us an example of a university out in the elements?
Father Arturo Sosa SJThe pandemic cast us all out into the elements, and obliged us to generate knowledge in these circumstances. People are out in the elements when they step out of their comfort zone. We have so many opportunities to do this now because the change of era we are experiencing constantly puts us in situations not contemplated by any science, and I mean particularly the social sciences which must devise a new concept of humanity based on anthropology, how people relate to each other, and from a political and legal viewpoint. Being out in the elements really gives us the privilege of generating knowledge and teaching it. If teaching becomes a dialogue and we are all able to have a diverse experience, it really could be a stellar moment for university research.
Koldo Echebarria: And emerging from our ivory towers because in fact, what we need is not more technical knowledge but rather, as I think you said, more wisdom based on multidisciplinary knowledge and which looks at things from a different perspective.
Father Arturo Sosa SJI think that ideally, universities should not be creating very knowledgeable people but wise people. Wisdom is not the same thing as knowing a lot... What use is a lawyer who knows all legislation off by heart and can interpret it for his client’s benefit but lacks the wisdom to put it into context and transform the law into a vehicle that really benefits society. A person can be very knowledgeable about a subject and a great expert in something, but not be wise. Universities are obliged to making their students, professors, employees and directors wise to ensure that universities are veritable sources of wisdom for society.
Koldo Echebarria: As a matter of fact, the other day I was talking to a Jesuit in Cova de Manresa about this and he said that rather than conveying knowledge, we should inspire and raise awareness in order to generate something valuable for the common good, through an awareness of knowledge.
Father Arturo Sosa SJExactly, but universities cannot fail to convey knowledge. We must ensure that Jesuit university graduates not only have a basic knowledge but also the best possible knowledge in their field. Wise persons are out in the elements.
Universities should not be creating very knowledgeable people but wise people
Koldo Echebarria: Next year is the 500th anniversary of St Ignatius’ wound in Pamplona, or the conversion as it is known, and the start of a series of events to celebrate the 5th Centenary. Thinking about this in relation to young people, how can we convey St Ignatius’ inspiration to them? Judging by what I know about St Ignatius’ life, I sometimes think he was a man able to admit his mistakes and carry on working, a man who said he was sometimes blind. I think this contains a message that can reach out more to young people, i.e. that despite his vicissitudes, St Ignatius is a human being they can relate to. What do you think about this idea? What do you think about St Ignatius’ mistakes and the possibility of celebrating them too?
Father Arturo Sosa SJSt Ignatius learnt to recognise his inner motions and recognise them in others and in society. This was the great transformation that happened to him after being wounded in Pamplona, and I think that what we can try to teach young people is precisely this, that as one learns to recognise oneself, not to judge oneself, one can interpret and learn from oneself and learn from one’s relationship with society, and learn that inside every person there is a struggle or conflict that pulls them in different directions. It’s a matter of understanding which direction will take me to where I feel I can be better, or discernment as it is known, because it is present in every moment of life. No one takes a decision for the rest of their life, they take decisions all the time.
Koldo Echebarria: I think that talking about these inner conflicts and also those of individuals and communities is something that young people can relate to. I believe that young people want to find a meaning for life but I also see all sorts of other monsters everywhere that are very active in society through technologies and other things.
Father Arturo Sosa SJI feel that young people have reasonable doubts about the world they live in. Why is our world unable to stop destroying the environment and unable to think about the long-term future of the planet’s resources?
Koldo Echebarria: Thank you Father, it has been a pleasure talking to you. I have no doubt that this is an extraordinary time for humanity, an extraordinary opportunity to reconsider many of the things we do today.
Father Arturo Sosa SJThank you to all and thank you for what you do. I hope we really realise that even out in the elements we can create things together and join forces and become not bigger but better.
Koldo Echebarria: I would like to end with a quotation by St Ignatius of Loyola that sums up the words of the Superior General quite well: "Those who wish to change the world must begin by changing themselves or they will not achieve their mission."
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Top 19 Tips For Dyeing Your Hair
Now more and more young people like to dye their hair. The main purpose of dyeing hair is to look good. Whether it is dyeing fashionable hair color or covering white hair, the starting point is to make your hairstyle more fashionable. And knowing that dyeing hair is harmful to hair, I still can't resist people's enthusiasm for dyeing hair. So what are the advantages and disadvantages of dyeing hair?
Benefits of dyeing hair
Colorless and not fashionable, dyeing hair can enhance the fashion sense of hairstyle.
Dyeing hair can improve skin tone, increase brightness, and make it more white.
It is more western than black hair and has the effect of reducing age.
Different hair colors can bring different temperaments.
The hair color that suits your skin color and is in line with the fashion trend will make your appearance burst.
The dyed hair color can match the clothes with different styles.
Cover gray hair and look young.
Professional needs.
There are too many benefits of dyeing hair, and we can see from the fashion releases of every piece that color is the mainstream. Black hair is rarely seen in the fashion circle, and almost everyone in the fashion circle, hipster circle, and entertainment circle dye their hair. It is because dyeing hair can bring many benefits to people.
Disadvantages of dyeing hair
Injury hair, no matter which way of dyeing hair, it will have a certain impact on hair quality. The more times you dye, the greater the damage to the hair;
A very small number of people will cause skin sensitivity due to hair dyeing;
Individuals are worried that dyeing hair will affect their health.
How to dye hair
Is it safe to dye your hair at home?
Yes, it is generally safe to color your hair at home as long as you follow the directions on the product's packaging. A few exceptions: You should skip a DIY dye job if you've recently relaxed or permed your hair since both processes can cause damage. And remember that treated hair will process color more quickly, so you don't want to leave it on as long.
What you'll need:
• Color brush and bowl
• Makeup removing wipes
• Disposable shower cap
• Handheld mirror
• Latex-free disposable gloves
• Clear solid lip balm
#1 Select your best shade
[hair dyeing tips-1]
To locate your best shade at the store, eye those near your present one. Enclosed colors are typically shown shading requests on a rack: Hold an area of your hair up to a case to find a nearby match, at that point browse the following two shades on either side.
#2 Buy two boxes of hair dye
You don't need to run out of color part of the way through the cycle. If your hair is shoulder length or more, you may require two boxes to cover your entire head, depending on hair thickness. In the event that you end up with an extra box, you can generally spare it for next time or bring it back.
#3 Don't mix shades for a "custom color"
[hair dyeing tips-2]
Except if you're a professional, combining numerous various shades of hair shading isn't suggested (ever!). None of the significant organizations we addressed would ensure that the subsequent shading would be an anticipated mix. Truth be told, in any event, when you stay with a solitary shading, the outcome generally shifts marginally based on what's envisioned on the case. Your smartest choice is to just pick one shade and adhere to the guidelines precisely, strand test included.
#4 Don't skip the strand test
[hair dyeing tips-3]
In spite of the fact that bypassing it is enticing, the strand test is critical, particularly while attempting another shade. Color a couple of cut or concealed hairs to start with, at that point take a gander at the outcome before you commit. A basic ghastliness story from analyzers who didn't do this: hair that turned orange and purple!
#5 Wear old, easy-to-remove clothing
[hair dyeing tips-4]
To abstain from recoloring garments, put on an old robe or catch front shirt (or as some GH analyzers revealed they do, go naked!) so you won't need to lift a top over your head when it's an ideal opportunity to flush. Spread surfaces (floor, sink) with trash containers or layers of paper you can throw thereafter rather than sheets or towels that can get splashed through and need washing.
#6 Protect your skin from the dye
There's nothing more terrible than winding up with obvious stripes of shading on your brow. As opposed to utilizing a goopy treatment to shield skin from color, monitor your skin against stains by gliding a reasonable solid lip balm along your hairline, including around your ears, before applying to shade. "Its little size makes application exact," Hill says.
#7 Take on a similar mindset as a specialist and set up your devices on the counter before you start
[hair dyeing tips-5]
Peruse the included guidelines before you hop in. That way, you'll be sure about the means and won't need to stop mid-process, which could prompt mix-ups like leaving the color on too long or missing zones.
#8 Stock up on extra gloves
You slipped on the container's plastic gloves to ensure your hands while putting on the color, however you have to wear them while cleaning the color out, too. Have an extra pair of disposable gloves on hand to protect your skin from staining when you rinse the shading off, in case your original ones are too soiled to use once more.
#9 Start dyeing on dry hair
Hair shading specialists (and hair shading bundling directions) recommend coloring your hair when it is dry. When hair is immersed with water, the color may not take to the hair strands or become weakened, delivering an unfortunate outcome.
#10 Stop squeezing from the bottle
Spurting the color out and spreading it everywhere on over your hair might be simple (and fun!), however, this technique can be untidy and imprecise. Get a bowl and a brush, similar to salon colorists use, to mix and paint on color with less wreck and the most even, proficient outcomes.
#11 Start dyeing at the roots
You should start applying hair color at the roots. Since they are the place regrowth happens first and the least harmed part of the hair, they need the most shading and preparing time. Let the hair shading produce for the measure of time demonstrated on bundling bearings. At that point go it over the remainder of your hair to convey it equally and maintain a strategic distance from a two-tone impact. Work in four to six segments like salon stars does (use hair clips as you go in the event that you wish) to guarantee full inclusion.
#12 Look into two mirrors
#13 Highlight hair with a toothbrush
[hair dyeing tips-6]
#14 Remove dye spills ASAP
To sweep away any dye splatters as they occur so they don't get an opportunity to set, have facial purifying wipes on hand like GH Beauty Lab.
#15 Put a shower cap on while you wait
Place a disposable shower cap over your head while the color processes to prevent it from dripping. Then you can don't hesitate to prepare supper or Netflix-gorge.
#16 Avoid water to make your dye last
It's standard number one for making shading last. Regardless of the accuse put for cleanser, "water is really the fundamental offender in shading blurring." Your smartest options: Apply dry shampoo at night to broaden time between washes; connect a channel to your showerhead to eliminate harming components, and cleanser toward the finish of your shower to diminish water introduction. When swimming, abstain from wetting hair, or ensure it with a dip top or a covering of conditioner.
#17 Swap in a color-safe shampoo
No cleanser is thoroughly shading safe, since all shampooing requires wetting hair — and water itself strips color.
Expand your shade's existence with a cleanser or conditioner planned explicitly for shading treated hair, like the GH Beauty Lab's best shampoos and conditioners for hued hair. Look for phrasing, for example, "shading ensure," "shading protecting" or "for shading" on the packaging. They're more uncertain to strip away included shading (which different items may), so your new shade endures longer.
#18 Use a color-boosting gloss weekly
The GH Beauty Lab has discovered that utilizing a color-saving cleanser, conditioner, or hair-sparkle treatment once every week between color occupations can renew hair color. Try Beauty Lab test winner John Frieda Color Refreshing Gloss, which comes in seven shades and stores a low degree of color, from blonde to red, earthy colored, and black. It beat the Lab's test for upgrading and extending the life of analyzers' shading and leaving healthy-looking sparkle.
#19 Prevent color from fading in the sun
Avoid the sun (or wear a cap) to shield hair from helping. "The sun works like dye, separating counterfeit shading as well as the melanin that gives common hair its color." So UV assurance is similarly as significant for your hair with respect to your skin. Since there's nothing of the sort as sunscreen for hair, "spread it up with a cap or a scarf when you're uncovered for a significant stretch of time, for example, at the seashore," he suggests.
How to care for hair after dyeing
Choose nourishing hair care products. Dyeing hair will cause some damage to the scalp, so it is best to use some products that are easy to absorb and protect the scalp to moisturize and repair
Wash your hair with warm water. If the water temperature is too high, the pigment will be lost, so use warm water to wash your hair after dyeing your hair.
Use a gentle conditioner. The too heavy conditioner may accelerate the loss of pigment, so choose a light conditioner is particularly important at this time.
Use spray. The spray can enhance the shine of hair, and can also play a role in moisturizing.
Essential oil + gesture massage the scalp. Choosing an essential oil that can soothe the scalp, and then adding the correct massage technique to do "SPA" for the scalp is also a good way to maintain and dye your hair.
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Natural Treatment Options for Skin Cancer
Natural Treatment Options for Skin Cancer
Natural Treatment Options for Skin Cancer Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and women. More than 1 million cases are diagnosed every year, and more young people have skin cancer than ever before. When you have an irregularity on the skin by drawing attention to it, then you have two immediate choices. One, you can start abusing yourself, with Western oncology, which will start tests that can lead to cancer, even if there is no cancer already present. Biopsies and all the tests that use radiation are not perfectly safe. Admittedly, their medications and treatments are dangerous and not very effective, but in most cases, skin cancer is easily treated with simple precedents.
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Before we take another step, we need to understand that the main paradigm of Western medicine is to stay away from the dangerous sun. Undoubtedly the sun is dangerous in an excessive amount of skin burn, but it is important to realize that not enough sun and therefore inadequate vitamin D, can also cause cancer. Any understanding of skin cancer and its treatment should incorporate solar wisdom, not the unreliable propaganda of dermatologists that will turn you into a sun avoider pushing you into vitamin D deficiency.
The more serious the skin cancer (the less you feel well), the more thorough the protocol needs to be. Translating that into common language right, the more you are afraid, the more you are going to need to do. If you are afraid that your cancer if you have it, could spread the most of an emergency situation that you have on your hands. This means that you have to throw the kitchen sink to your body and skin using many powerful therapies which the overlapping firepower can make you and your skin to health.
Natural Treatment Options for Skin Cancer
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An entire generation of women has grown educated on the crucial importance of sunscreen, but more people are diagnosed with skin cancer than ever before. 50 years ago, when I was young and before the advent of modern sunscreens, everyone cooked in the sun without fear and we did not have any rates of skin cancer that go out of the charts. The official view of skin cancer and its cause is perverted and manifestly dead wrong. | <urn:uuid:d339236d-211b-4824-b765-a54a95e1dfe7> | https://skinscancer.com/natural-treatment-options-for-skin-cancer/ | en | 0.951614 | 0.037638 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Calculating the MLE hash
My work to calculate PCR[18] from the last post was missing one big piece. I took a short cut and parsed the MLE hash out of the SINIT to MLE data table. This was a stop gap.
The MLE wasn’t being measured directly. We were still extracting the measurement as taken by the SINIT which is a binary blob from Intel. We don’t have a choice in trusting this blob from Intel but we can verify the measurements it takes. With this in mind I’ve gone back and added a tool to the pcr-calc module to calculate the MLE hash directly from the MLE.
The MLE Hash
Calculating the MLE hash is a bit more complicated than just hashing the ELF binary that contains it. There’s already a utility that does this in the tboot project though it’s pretty limited as it only dumps out the hash in a hex string. My end goal is to integrate this work into a bitbake class so having a python class to emit a hash object containing the measurement of the MLE is a lot more convenient.
In the pcr-calc project I’ve added a few things to make this happen. First is a class called mleHeader that parses the MLE header. This is just more of the mundane data parsing that I’ve been doing since this whole thing started. Finding the MLE header is just a matter of searching for the magic MLE UUID: 5aac8290-6f47-a774-0f5c-55a2cb51b642. Having the header isn’t enough though. The MLE must be extracted from the ELF and this is particularly hard because I know nothing about the structure of ELF files.
To do the extracting I basically ported the mlehash utility from tboot to python. The MLE is actually stored in the ELF file program header. This requires parsing and extracting the PT_LOAD segments. Writing a generic ELF parser is way beyond the scope of what I’m qualified to do but thankfully Eli Bendersky already has a handle on this. Check out pyelftools on his github page. You can download the package for pyelftools through the python package system like so:
$ pip install pyelftools
I’ve not yet integrated a check for this package into the pcr-calc autotools stuff yet but I’ll get around to it.
So in pcr-calc, the MLEUtil class does a few things. First it unzips the ELF file if necessary. Second, the ELFFile class from pyelftools is used to extract the PT_LOAD segments from the ELF. These are copied to a temporary file and the excess space is zero-filled. Once the ELF is extracted we locate the MLE header by searching for the UUID above. This header is represented and parsed by the mleHeader object.
The end goal is to calculate the SHA1 hash of the MLE. The fields in the header we need to do this are mle_start_off and mle_end_off. These are the offset to the start and end of the MLE respectively. Both offsets are relative to the beginning of the extracted ELF. The hash is then simply calculated over the data in this range.
With the objects necessary to calculate the MLE hash done I went back and updated the pcr18 utility. Now instead of parsing the hash out of the TXT heap it now hashes the MLE directly. The mlehash program is constructed in a similar way but it is limited to calculating the MLE hash only.
A significant amount of the work in calculating the MLE hash was just code reading, firstly to understand how to extract and measure the MLE, second to understand how use the pyelftools package. Using pyelftools means that pcr-calc has a new dependency but it’s a lot better than implementing it myself. Working with pyelftools has been beneficial not only in that it saves me effort but it’s also an excellent example to work from. pcr-calc is my first attempt at implementing anything in python and it shows. Having poked around in pyelftools a little bit I’ve realized that even though my code “works” it’s pretty horrible. Future efforts to “clean up” pcr-calc will model significant portions of it after the code in pyelftools.
Having completed calculating the MLE hash we’ve taken a big step forward in our effort to construct future PCR values by measuring the individual components. It’s the last step in removing dependence on the extracted heap. We can now calculate PCR[18] and PCR[19] without any knowledge of or access to the deployed platform hardware and that’s pretty great. PCR[17] by contrast contains a whole bunch of stuff like the STM hash that’s independent from the Linux OS being run. For now I’m happy to assume PCR[17] is static for a system and doesn’t need to be calculated in the build system.
Eventually I’d like to extend pcr-calc to include mechanisms for ingesting an LCP and calculating PCR[17] but that’s a long way off. Instead, my next steps will be to clean up the pcr-calc code and integrating it into the meta-measured OE layer. The end goal here is to produce a manifest that a 3rd party (an installer or a remote system) can use to either seal secrets to a future platform state or for appraising an attestation exchange. More on this front next. | <urn:uuid:7bc12f66-0112-4e1c-b21a-78956a7c4530> | https://twobit.org/2013/07/ | en | 0.918733 | 0.042141 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
The Golem and the Jinni
by Helene Wecker
N/App (Audiobook)
My Rating: 8/10
Amazon Rating: 4.5/5
LibraryThing Rating: 4.21/5
Goodreads Rating: 4.09/5
(Note: Hi! I’m John. Not Kristen. Sorry. I used to contribute to this site a while ago, but then grad school happened. And then grad school happened again. Now they’ve run out of degrees to give me, so I’m back to having some time to write here! It probably won’t be very often, but I’ll pop in from time to time.)
The Golem and the Jinni is a melting pot-era urban fantasy released in 2013 and Helene Wecker’s debut novel, which makes it all the more remarkable that it was nominated for this year’s best novel Nebula as well as many other honors. I would describe it as a gentle story, well-crafted and familiar, and in this case marvelously performed by George Guidall on audiobook.
The Golem Chava’s first vision of the world was from the inside of a crate, deep in the hold of an ocean liner steaming toward America. Her master, gravely ill, had woken her well before they and the rest of the ship full of immigrants were to make land in New York City. By the time the ship arrived Chava was alone, masterless, and without any experience of the world or idea what to do with herself; she only knew the one thing her master had told her, that nobody could ever learn she was a golem. Though she looked human she could not act human and was quickly identified by a New York rabbi who–presented with the choice of destroying a dangerous creature or saving an innocent mind–decided to teach her how to live.
The Jinni Ahmad also arrived in New York City at around the same time, though his history went back far further than Chava’s. Trapped in an anonymous lamp for a thousand years, he was accidentally released by a tinsmith who thought he was just patching an old heirloom. Though Ahmad was freed from the lamp he was shocked to find he was not truly freed: he remained bound in human form by an artifact and a wizard of whom he had no memory. Like Chava, Ahmad had to be taken in by the tinsmith and taught the ways of the world he hadn’t seen for centuries.
The Golem and the Jinni is a well-crafted tale that has earned the accolades that have been lauded upon it over the last year. I do mean crafted, too; the writing is beautiful and incredibly appropriate for the story being told. The writing style adds to the level of immersion in both the turn of the century (er, last century) setting and the mythological nature of urban fantasy. It is a story that is meant to be comfortable, and it would not have worked nearly so well without Wecker’s excellently polished language.
Since I listened to the audio book I also had the privilege of listening to George Guidall read Wecker’s words. Here again, the performance was so good and so fitting to the content of the story that it made the entire experience of the book better. I don’t listen to that many audio books, but some of the ones I have heard have been dragged down by a poor reading that masked the quality of the story itself. If anything, the opposite was true in this case. Guidall’s reading was so masterful that I keep wondering if my impression of Wecker’s writing has been artificially boosted by his voice and that maybe I’d think it less well crafted if I’d read it on the page. Either way, the presentation of the story as I heard it was great, and one of the strongest parts of the book.
I’d say that the story itself was somewhat less developed than the presentation, though. Don’t get me wrong, there was nothing wrong with it, but it was what I assume it was meant to be: comfortable, familiar, and non-threatening. Those are all valid choices that resulted in a good book, and not every book needs to set out to deconstruct the genre, but I prefer books that have a bit more of an edge to them. In the same way that many books that are marketed as young adult feel like they are aimed at or best appreciated by more mature readers, this book felt like an adult novel in its themes and references but was wrapped in language and narrative that seemed like they’d be better appreciated by readers who were less familiar with the genre. It just wasn’t narratively challenging in the way that I, as someone who knows the tropes and has been bathed in fantasy and myth for most of my life, might have preferred.
This might have bothered me less if I had seen less opportunity to push at those edges. For instance, I can see Wecker playing at the edges of some interesting thoughts about gender roles at the turn of the century. The female golem, designed from the ground up to be a good wife (read: servant), who has to figure out how to live for herself with nobody to serve; the male jinni, captured and chafing for freedom but lacking compassion or a sense of responsibility; the supporting characters who all come across as well pegged into their respective spots in society–all of them are archetypical characters who walk through the stories you’d expect them to walk through over the course of the book. They learn the things you’d expect them to learn, both about themselves and about the world, and then wrap things up in time to get home for supper. Their need to blend and remain hidden comes with the requisite rebellion against the roles that have been chosen for them. All of this absolutely fits the time, place, and immigrant experience that forms the core of the book, but I can’t help but feel like there was a missed opportunity to go against the grain and use the symmetries Wecker creates between the golem’s and jinni’s tales to tell a tale that would stick with readers for a long time. As is, while it was pleasant to listen to, I’m not sure that The Golem and the Jinni will stay in my thoughts for all that long.
Again, though, that is not to say it is not a good novel or that it is not worth reading. Any disappointment comes from comparing the novel as written to the novel I imagine could have been. I’d still recommend The Golem and the Jinni as a tender tale to read and an even better one to listen to. Since it was her first book, I’m interested to see where Wecker goes from here and if she brings the level of immersion and craft demonstrated in The Golem and the Jinni to a deeper world in the future.
My Rating: 8/10
Where I got my review copy: Purchased the audio book
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22 Questions on Bhopal Encounter that the Police Must Answer and Media isn’t Asking
Vipul Kumar
22 QUESTIONS that raise serious doubts on Police and Govt’s version of the stories AND questions which mainstream media is not asking:
Q.1) Bhopal Central Prison is a High security prison. Is it possible for alleged ‘terrorists’ to run away from ISO certified prison?
Q.2) As per media reports, prison inmates were locked in ‘terror cell’ with special security. Since the alleged crime for which they were on trial has been considered as grave, and there has been history of escape attempts earlier by couple of these inmates, its obvious that there must have been more security for them. In such a scenario, how is it possible that just with spoon and plates they were able to break free from such a tight security.
Q.3) There are inconsistency in media report on whether all 8 inmates were in same cell or they were in different cell. Why has there been so many inconsistency? Was it so difficult for authorities to figure out whether they were in same cell or different cell?
Q.4) Benefit of doubt can be given for inconsistency in reporting. But if the earlier case of possibility of all of them within same cell is considered, who brought them in the same cell? And why were they brought in the same cell?
Q.5) If they were not in the same cell, as per later reports (after the editing of script by authorities), how did they break free from different cells?
Q6) The Home Minister of MP, in an interview on National Television, on being asked the above mentioned question said that, “firstly, inmates from one cell came out after killing the security guard, and using spoons as weapons and keys made from woods and spoons they unlocked other cells.” Now, many of us have seen Jai and Veeru using their fingers as gun to escape the prison, in popular bollywood film Sholay, and one can believe, that respected home minister might probably have seen Sholay. But to make people believe in his story, that spoons and wooden keys can be used to open lock of Central Prison, the minister needs to come up with a better script. Rewrite the script sir!!
Q.7) Even if it is believed that they killed one security guard with plates or spoon and held other security guard hostage. No security alarm was made. No other guards got to know about what was happening. And this was happening in the part of the Jail which was supposed to be highest security area. ISO is going to take back its ‘High Security Prison’ certification from this prison.
Q.8) In later reports, the new script said that they were in three cells. Now let us assume one cell was opened by overpowering security personnel. How were the other two cells were broken? If they were opened by keys, who gave them keys? And if the lock was broken, how didn’t it make any noise? Also, in Prison, the general practice is that security guard who is on duty doesn’t keep the keys with himself, its kept with the jailers. This is done basically because several jailbreaks have happened in history and hundreds of films, TV series, books, novels have also been written on this idea. Probably these stories inspire the script writer.
Q.8) In the script, bedsheets and blankets were used to cross 20-25 feet high prison wall. Script writer is creative. There is no possible way that clothes would hold to any part of the wall, unless there was someone magically (or in a planned manner) on the other side of the wall holding the clothes. Our media needs to ask some of these questions rather than parrot like blind unquestioning journalism!!
Q.9) There are series of electrified wire at the top of the walls, and the inmates crossed the wire, without getting electric shock. Two possibilities, either the alleged ‘terrorists’ have been trained to resist high voltage electric shock, or, the electric wiring was magically switched off. Isn’t proper investigation required about how switched off the electronic wiring?
Q.10) All this was happening in a High Security Central Prison. One Guard has been killed, one has been injured, Eight inmates manages Hercules task of crossing the impossible High Security electrified wall. No alarms, no one gets to know all of this. No Noise, not even by other inmates, security guards. Its one and half hours later that finally alarm raises. Wow!! Now I know why, India doesn’t get Oscar in-spite of such creative script writers. Rajnikant’s films should be banned in India.
Q.11) One of the lawyers of alleged criminal shared that his client was physically unfit, it was biologically impossible for him to cross the wall. How did he manage to cross it?
Q.12) Lawyers have also shared that some of the accused cases were done with the trial phase and acquittal was expected since there were no evidences against them. Why would someone risk their life by attempting to jail break after committing a crime of murder when they know that they are anyway going to get set-free?
Q.13) This High-Security Jail does have CCTV cameras. It works 24 hours, 365 days. Security personnel are suppose to continuously look into these cameras. Till now there hasn’t been release of any footage regarding the escape or alleged murder of security personnel. One should not get even one bit surprised if tomorrow, the script writers say that, on that particular day CCTV cameras were not working, this will be investigated and nothing will come out of the investigation ever.
The media focus is more on celebration that ‘terrorists have been killed’, very few media groups are asking difficult questions. Why is media hesitant to ask these questions? Isn’t asking these questions there job?
Q.14) Where did the weapons come from? There are two versions of the story. The Home minister has confirmed again and again that they only used plates and spoon as weapons, both inside and later after escaping from the prison. Why were they fired at when they just had spoon and plates. Even if they had knives and other weapons, they could be arrested. There was no need to kill each one of them, unless the intention was to permanently mute any voice which could reveal actual story of what happened.
Q.15) As per Police narrative they fired at the police and hence there were return fires from police. In different versions of the story, there has been claim that three to seven country made pistols were recovered from them. Can 3-7 country made guns be used adequately against the such large number of police force heavily equipped with arms. There is a Supreme Court ruling which makes encounter even if the accused possesses arms as unconstitutional. Why were the police so brutal in using force?
Q16) In one of the two videos released so far (Although, the video has not been authenticated by any reliable source) Police personnel can be heard saying that “five of them wants to talk to us and one of them is leaping”, why were all of them killed, when they were willing to surrender?
Q17) In another video, while dead bodies are shown, one of the person (probably from police is asked to take out weapon and he does as he is ordered. Its almost funny to believe this as true. It looks totally orchestrated. How did the police knew that there were arms in the clothes, unless they had them-self kept it there and if they would have shot them while being attacked by these arms, the arms would be lying either in hands or would fall near by and would not be neatly kept in his trousers.
Q.18) In the same video a police personnel, inhumanely shoots at an injured (an almost dead) body. How can one possibly justify this. The Script writers version was that they were attacked by the ‘terrorists’ and they were shot from long range. We can clearly seen an already half dead person being shot from a very close range. His life could have been saved. He could have been a very important witness for the police, to reveal how did this entire episode took place? Who were the insider’s helping them, what happened in the Jail? Then why was he killed? Why were all the eight accused killed. They could have been shot in their legs. Where would they run away with an injured leg in the barren place they were shot? Unless, there were clear instructions by script writers to finish the story and leave no other version of it!!
Q.19) Can the police version of the story believed in, that they possessed fire arms, which, is not what the eye witnesses have said in their media interviews? The eye witnesses have said they threw stones, had clothes and wooden stuff and that they were sloganeering. When asked about what were they sloganeering, the eye witness said that they were talking in their language? Now, this is incomprehensible. Even if it is believed that they were terrorists, what languages would they would talk in? Definitely, not Hebrew or Japanese! Any-ways, the point is even if the account of eye-witness is believed in, he doesn’t mentions them carrying guns or armed weapons? Isn’t this extra judicial killing? Should we believe in it just because our script writers have told media that they are Terrorists? Has terror charged been proved against anyone of these!!??
Q. 20) Even if Police’s version of the story is believed in, that they had guns, where did guns come from? There has been no story so far about guns being taken away from prison! So only possibility is that there were handlers who gave them guns, fancy clothes, Sports shoe, watches, etc that we see in this video. Now firstly who were these handlers? And if they could be given guns, why country made pistols, why not nice AK-47, AK-56,Hand grenades etc? After all these were dangerous terrorists? Is it a co-incidence that in almost every (fake) encounter case terrorists have only country made pistols and they are encountered in barren area where is very difficult to hide out?
Q.21.) If these ran away prisoners had arranged pistols, why didn’t they arrange for a vehicle too. They could have gone really far by the time police reached them. Even if they didn’t had vehicles, they could have easily got one vehicle using their guns? After-all they were all dreaded criminals with lots of crime experience?
Q.22) There’s a third video, which came out recently, where police personnel can be heard talking, “one is still alive” and the other police personnel says “hit him in is chest and he would die”. Cold blooded murder captured in a video!
The question is again that this person could be kept alive not just for the humanity sake or for the sake of keeping our faith in the criminal justice system but for the sake of knowing what actually happened in this mysterious episode?
This is just the beginning. Many more questions will come up and media will try avoiding and diluting these questions!!
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So, err, how does this work?
Panama Papers: US launches criminal inquiry into tax avoidance claims
How can you have a criminal inquiry into something that’s legal: tax avoidance is by definition legal.
9 thoughts on “So, err, how does this work?”
1. You don’t. You look at the disclosed information to see if there is any evidence of illegal tax evasion or money laundering relating to the concealment of proceeds of crime or corruption.
Unfortunately everyone from headline writers for the Guardian to POTUS spew out a dog’s breakfast of noise in the area of tax policy that confuses tax evasion (clearly illegal), unwanted tax avoidance (legal but we wish we had the tax revenue anyway) or tax dodging (meaningless made up term).
2. Whoi says you need to do anything illegal to be prosecuted in the US. just look at the Enron Nigerian Barges case. 4 Merrill Lynch bankers were sent to prison for conspiracy to defraud and two charges of wire fraud. On appeal they were acquitted on the basis that whatever they had done, there wasn’t actually a statute that covered their actions.
One of the bankers was convicted on another charge of obstructing the grand jury on the basis that he said he did not know about a verbal agreement (which has never been shown), when the documents in the deal clarly stated that any side agreements to the deal were null, void and unenforceable.
Moral: if US politicians want to find a crime in a political situation, they will find one.
3. Alex, they ran war crimes tribunals with few laws broken – and ignoring allied actions. Punish the Germans and Japanese, regardless.
4. How can you have a criminal enquiry into something that’s legal? Well firstly to blacken the reputation of your victim by subjecting him (it’s always a “him”) to a criminal investigation, secondly to create an offence of “obstructing police investigation” when he fails to anser a question to which he doesn’t know the answer, thirdly to enhance the reputation with voters of the “crusading District Attorney” who plans to stand for Governor, fourthly – what, you want an excuse? – there is always a chance that his accountant made an error in filling in his tax form so he may not be entitled to the tax exemption that he claimed.
5. America has over 300,000 criminal offenses in the Federal law. Every man, woman and child commits an offense everyday by the time they finish their breakfast.
In terms of taxation, the Federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. Frankly I doubt any American is truly compliant from a tax point of view which means that they can always convict a person on the contents of their tax return.
I do sometimes wonder why Americans put up with this.
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Analysis of the procedure for the recognition and execution of foreign arbitral awards in MERCOSUR
Por: Natalia A. Dalenz Lorieto*
Esta investigación contempla la situación actual del arbitraje de inversiones en el MERCOSUR. La legislación internacional actual ha establecido principios y un amplio abanico de procedimientos que deben ser implementados en el MERCOSUR en materia de reconocimiento y ejecución de los laudos arbitrales extranjeros. El presente trabajo recomienda armonizar el procedimiento legal de la institución del arbitraje y propone implementar una Corte de Arbitraje Supranacional para incrementar y hacer efectivo el arbitraje de inversiones, considerando que aún subsisten obstáculos para su desarrollo en la región.
Within the Latin American context, the international arbitration scene lately has been subject to various changes. In principle, the Latin American countries protected themselves from receiving foreign investments and did not regulate or even include normative provisions on arbitration and this has led to a negative impact on the practice of international arbitration. This is the case with the inclusion of the Calvo doctrine, regarding investments, as a clause within the Latin American civil law codes.
With the globalization of the markets and the massive injection of foreign capital during the last half of the twentieth century, Latin America saw itself forced to introduce the practice of international arbitration as an alternative mechanism for resolving disputes. Therefore, the recognition of arbitral awards in the region was initially obtained with the regulation of this institution within its constitutional norms, the adhesion to various international instruments and the creation of specific norms on the subject.
Despite the legislative recognition achieved in the field of international commercial arbitration, barriers still exist for the development of this institution in Latin America.
In the case of the South American trade bloc, Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR), it is necessary to refer to the applicability of its rules of arbitration. One of the peculiarities that directly affect the procedure for the recognition and execution of foreign arbitral awards is the absence of a supranational character on MERCOSUR legislation.
The main objectives of this study are therefore to provide a detailed ruling description of the procedure for the recognition and execution of foreign arbitral awards in the MERCOSUR member states. It is necessary to analyze the merits of the dispute to suggest the best way to follow for the recognition and execution of foreign arbitral awards for investment arbitration.
I. International legislation on the subject
The process for the recognition and execution of foreign arbitral awards in MERCOSUR member states presents a complex system composed of both national and international laws. Braghetta[1] states “treaties and model laws envisage that the international community shall treat the arbitration award in a similar way”.
MERCOSUR member states are bonded with the following international instruments regarding the recognition and execution of foreign arbitral awards: the New York Convention of 1958; the Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration of 1975 (also known as the Panama Convention (CIDIP I)); the Washington Convention on the settlement of investment disputes of 1965 (ICSID) and the UNCITRAL Model Law of 1985.
a) The New York Convention of 1958
The procedure for obtaining the recognition of the awards is indicated in Art. III[2] of this convention, which states that each contracting state will recognize the authority of a judgement and will grant it in accordance with the procedural rules observed in the territory where the decision is invoked.
With regard to the proof for obtaining the recognition and due enforcement of the award, Art. IV of the New York Convention of 1958 provides that the requesting party must provide at the time of the request: a) the original sentence, duly authenticated, or a copy of the original that meets the conditions required for authenticity; b) the original of the agreement referred to in Art. II, or a copy that satisfies the conditions required for authenticity.
The previous three requirements seek to simplify the process of proving the existence of an award. In this context, it can be inferred that there is a presumptive obligation to recognize the foreign arbitral awards, based on the “pre-enforcement” approach of this instrument.
Even though during the last period the "culture of arbitration" has been promoted thanks to the increasing investments that have been carried out inside MERCOSUR, still the member states avoid neglecting the state´s fundamental interests to achieve an effective implementation of the awards. However, to arrive into an effective pre-enforcement approach the jurisdictional control must have minimum intervention. Generally, inside developing countries where the administration of justice is weak, the courts oppose arbitration due to a lack of effectiveness and intern corruption inside Latin-American Courts of Justice.
b) Washington Convention of 1965
The convention on the settlement of investment disputes between states and nationals of other states (ICSID) has been adopted by MERCOSUR members, apart from Brazil and Bolivia (the latter renounced the convention on May 2007).
In the specific case of Brazil, the resistance to adopting international arbitration on investments stands on the fact that “(…) it is the state itself or some of its entities that are involved. On the other hand, it is argued that if the direct recourse to an international instance is given to a foreign investor, this would be granted as privileged treatment with respect to nationals, who must resort in any case to the national courts in case of conflict” (Brill & Nijhoff, 2016, p.114).[3]
Additionally, in the matter of investments, the countries of MERCOSUR have often raised the issue of the conflict with human rights. The author Polanco[4] (2016, p.1) discuss the relationship between international investments and human rights represents a problematic issue for all of the Latin American states, who must balance the fulfillment of their international obligations under the human rights instruments, with the protection of the interests of the investors guaranteed by the international investment instruments.
For example, in the 2016 Philip Morris v. Uruguay case, it occurred that the new Uruguayan legislation called Single Presentation Regulation [SPR] required textual and graphical anti-smoking warnings to be printed on the lower half of cigarette packs. Besides prohibited the use of variants of any brand. In this situation Philip Morris company had to remove from their packages LightBlue and Fresh Mint, keeping Marlboro Red only.
This case “brought to centre-stage the right to health in investment arbitration in the context of the examination as to whether tobacco-control measures introduced by Uruguay in compliance with international agreements amounted to expropriation under a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT)”[5]After all, with its new packaging legislation, Uruguay was not only complying with its national law but also with their international legal obligations in the matter of public health, and the country did it in good faith, therefore there could not be indirect expropriation for the investment of trademarks in this case.
Another notorious case in the international arena regarding human rights, took place in the future MERCOSUR member state, Bolivia. Its city of Cochabamba has long lacked an adequate water system; almost half of its population still didn´t have running water by the year 2000. This is how Bolivia entered negotiations with the Bechtel Corporation, after forming a consortium, resulting in a forty-year agreement for the exclusive provision of water services to the city of Cochabamba.
Immediately upon the signing of the concession agreement, water tariffs increased in Bolivia by more than 100% and the Bolivian government wanted to expropriate the drinking water and sanitation facilities constructed by the Bechtel Corporation. The author De Gramont (2006, p.3) states that the case was presented before the ICSID by the Bechtel Corporation; Bechtel and it´s co-investor, Abengoa, finally agreed to abandon the case for a token payment equal to thirty cents due to the social pressure that the Bolivian people presented with the so called “Water War”.[6]
In this case water rates increased dramatically in between, but there was also a desire for profit that created the conditions for a large-scale social conflict that not only affected the users of water but also the whole Bolivian population when also a military intervention occurred. The fact of speculating on the right to water carries out a violation of other human rights at the same time which is inadmissible.
The magnitude of income generated by the exploitation of the Latin American natural resources often leads to corruption cases by foreign investors, provoking the violation of human rights. Therefore, arbitration is the best way to resolve conflicts between the parties if human rights are respected using the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (‘UNGPs’) from 2011 as a guideline in the field of business and human rights, as business enterprises are under increased pressure to ensure that human rights are respected throughout their operations
Additionally, in relation to the recognition and execution of foreign arbitral awards, the Washington Convention Art. 53 states: “The award shall be binding on the parties and shall not be subject to any appeal or to any other remedy except those provided for in this convention.”[7] Sommer (2011, p.6) has pointed out that an arbitration award issued by the ICSID provides a title comparable to a local final judgment. Therefore, it does not become reviewable or appealable by national law, even if it is subject to restrictions that may exist in the matter of forced execution of judicial sentences against the state (Art. 55, ICSID).[8]
It is important to note that the binding nature established by Art. 53 of the Washington Convention, only refers to pecuniary obligations and not to any other kind of obligation. This differentiation is based on the idea that the other type of obligations may not exist in every country but, pecuniary obligations are present in every state.
c) The Panama Convention of 1975
The Panama Convention has unified the main provisions from the American continent regarding international commercial arbitration, such as the Montevideo treaties and the Bustamante Code. Its ratification is open to all members of the Organization of American States and has been ratified by more than half of the American countries, including the MERCOSUR member states.
This Panama convention matches with the New York Convention by pursuing the recognition and execution of arbitral awards “(…) in accordance with the procedural laws of the country where it is to be executed and the provisions of international treaties”, as emphasized in its Art. IV.[9]
Unlike the New York Convention of 1958, which in article IV indicates the requirements that must be fulfilled by the party that requests the recognition and execution of the arbitral award, the Panama Convention of 1975 does not state any specific requirement for this procedure. In fact, such regulation remains subject to the national laws where the recognition of the award is required.
As a matter of fact, the Panama Convention is specific in commercial matters and the fact that this meets the necessary parameters to harmonize the procedure for the recognition and execution of foreign arbitral awards in the Americas according to this region’s requirements, makes it useful inside the MERCOSUR region.
d) MERCOSUR International Commercial Arbitration Agreement of 1998
This agreement has been signed by the four-member states that where part of MERCOSUR by the year 1998 (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay). This instrument does not establish a supranational institution to govern arbitration. Furthermore, it also refers to the Panama Convention of 1975 to cover all the legal gaps in matters of procedure, appointment, challenge, replacement of arbitrators, as well as execution and recognition of the foreign arbitral awards
e) UNCITRAL Model Laws
In 1985, the wave of new arbitration laws in Latin America were based on the publication, of the UNCITRAL Model Law on international arbitration. In the specific cases of Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay, these countries have mixed some of the provision of the Model Law with concepts and existing practices in their respective systems. Recently, Argentina and Uruguay have published new legislation on arbitration including this model law.
However, there are still some obstacles for two of the MERCOSUR member states with respect to the implementation of the Model Law. The so-called “Acción de Amparo Constitucional” (writ of security) in Bolivia, by which parties can effectively bring a constitutional mechanism as a means of immediate interlocutory appeal in arbitration matters and interfere with the execution of the foreign arbitral award.
Meanwhile, as stated by Arentsen (2014) in Brazil, the related action of so called “Mandado de Seguranca” (writ of security) has also been effectively used against arbitral awards.[10]
In any case, there continues to be significant issues about the future impact of Latin American constitutional law on international commercial arbitration, specifically on the issues of scope of arbitrability, the enforceability of choice-of-law clauses, and limitations of appeals.
I. The notion of public order
On certain occasions, public order was considered as limiting the will of the parties. However, this principle is one of the most important in private international law. In most cases, the internal public order of the Latin American countries transgresses international public order. This situation arises in cases such as Rusoro Mining Ltd vs. Boliviarian Republic of Venezuela (Case No. ARB(AF)/12/5), when Venezuela approved a decree providing for the state control of the property and the mining rights of all gold producing companies, affecting the company’s investments in the state.[11]
Another example of the transgressions of international public order in MERCOSUR member states occurred in Argentina with the case of El Paso Energy International Company v. República Argentina (Case No. ARB(AF)/03/15). In this case, the Argentine government went through a crisis with the devaluation of the currency that affected the contracts with the American company, thus changing the terms of the contract and causing the loss of large amounts of money.
These examples show in general terms the situation of MERCOSUR member states, in relation to the effective recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in the Southern Cone. Statistics demonstrate the active role that the institution of international arbitration has achieved in the Latin American continent, however they also reveal the large number of pending cases in the region. To achieve a real change in the matter of regional trade, it is important to homogenize MERCOSUR legislation, argument that will be analyzed in the following paragraph.
I. The necessity of legislative harmonization in the matter of arbitration on the trade bloc and the constitution of a Supranational Arbitration Court in MERCOSUR
The circumstances of international arbitration in the MERCOSUR trade bloc have changed dramatically during the last quarter of the century. However, even if the countries are commercially joined together, a legislative harmonization is still necessary to achieve the normal functioning and development of the member states policies, aimed at strengthening international relation agreements between the member states with the purpose of expanding integration policies.
Many commentators, therefore, have seen the necessity for creating a series of instruments to facilitate the formulation and adoption of measures for member states to achieve the purpose harmonization in accordance with Article 1 of the Treaty of Asunción [13].
The compromise assumed, in terms of legislative harmonization in Article 1 of the Treaty of Asunción, must be led by the cultural identity and the people that make up the integrated MERCOSUR space to achieve a balance between the need to solve the legislative disparities in matters of arbitration without altering the essence of the social features that constitute MERCOSUR member states.
On the other hand, within the concept of legislative harmonization it is possible to distinguish between different processes for the unification of the rules. The first process comes with the sanction of various conventions, treaties and specific agreements, that regulate the matter on a substantial form and that make part of International Private Law. With the other process, it is possible to find the issues regarding International Private Law, regulated and resolved by the internal law of each member state party, as indicated by the respective conflict of law rules.
MERCOSUR urgently needs a reform of its institutions to handle disputes and the insertion of a Supranational Arbitration Court inside the trade bloc to increase and make effective the institution of international commerce in the region.
Nowadays, there is only one permanent review court (Tribunal Permanente de Revisión) established with the Olivos Protocol of 2002[14], which resolves conflicts between states and guarantees the correct interpretation, application and compliance of the international law. In any case, it does not become a supranational body since not all the MERCOSUR member states give priority to international laws and treaties.
There is confusion caused by the numerous arbitral conventions in the same subject matter (the New York Convention, the Montevideo Convention, the Panama Convention and the Las Leñas Protocol). Not only this, but also the lack of provisions that differentiate the preference in the applicability of these arbitral conventions regarding the recognition and execution of arbitral awards, are a problem for the bloc. The Las Leñas Protocol (which seeks to establish its own supremacy) and the Montevideo Convention do not cover international commercial arbitration.
In the case of MERCOSUR, the bloc is at a stage of having its identity, in which it must be decided what type of regional organization is expected. On one hand, it must be decided if the purpose is to achieve an integration of states that have not fully harmonized their legislations (in this specific case the mechanisms for the settlement of dispute resolution), and on the other hand if it should rather aim to an organization that, at least as far as the interpretation of law is concerned, is capable of doing so in a common and imperative way for all the member states.
The integration process can only have a real consistency and, above all, stability and duration, if it will be given a sufficiently solid institutional and legal framework. The challenge consists in the creation of stable structures, with enough aptitude to resist the assault of the crises and the erosion of time.
The picture in the case of international disputes in this trade bloc tends to be always administered in foreign countries outside MERCOSUR. Even if MERCOSUR legal rules were framed according to the model of legal rules in UNCITRAL, the resemblance is, in many cases, merely formal. In communities with a different tradition, a different social structure, a different economy and a different way of life, the requirements of good faith are not weighed nor appreciated as they may be in industrialized countries where commerce and industry are held in high consideration.
The challenge for developing countries that constitute MERCOSUR trade bloc, is to welcome arbitration under such conditions considering these countries have a different development, group interest and vision of the world. Experience furthermore, is conclusive: when a dispute arises between two litigants, one from South America and one from a developed country, the arbitrators, in most cases, make their decision in favor of developed countries. This is because Latin American countries involved in the international trade are expected to conform to the usages of the trade, although the commercial practice is based on principles and values of the western world.
Currently, judicial intervention persists in the institution of arbitration. It is necessary to take judicial measures, such as the so-called anti-suit injunctions for MERCOSUR member states, to limit the judicial intervention and to prioritize the unavailability of the public interest. For sure, in response to the deficiencies of the system a need for adaptation of the methods of resolving conflicts to a more equitable mechanism and representative of different interests is required in the region.
* Licenciada en Derecho de la Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo” - La Paz (Bolivia). Master en Derecho Empresarial Internacional en la Universitá degli Studi di Padova – Padova (Italia). Investigadora independiente. E-mail:
[1] Braghetta, Adriana. Poligamy of Treaties in Arbitration – A Latin American and MERCOSUL Perspective. (Madrid: La Ley, 2010), 1.
[2] Article IV, New York Convention, [1958].
[3] “(...) La tradicional resistencia de Brasil a aceptar el arbitraje se sucita cuando es el propio Estado o alguna de sus entidades quienes se ven involucradas. Por otro lado, se sostiene que, si se permite el recurso directo a una instancia internacional a un inversionista extranjero, se le estaría otorgando un trato privilegiado respecto de los nacionales, quienes deben acudir en todo caso a los tribunales nacionales en caso de conflicto.” Tanzi A, Asteriti A, Polanco R, Turrini P, International Investment Law in Latin America (Editorial Board, 2016) p.114.
[4] Polanco, R. Arbitraje de inversiones y casos de derechos humanos en América Latina, (2016) 1. Accesible at:
[5] Feria-Tinta M, Like Oil and Water? Human Rights in Investment Arbitration in the Wake of Philip Morris v. Uruguay. Journal of International Arbitration 34, no.4, (2017), 614.
[6] De Gramont, A. After the Water War: The Battle for Jurisdiction in Aguas del Tunari, S.A. v. República de Bolivia, (2006), 3.
[7] Article 53, Washington Convention, [1965].
[8] “Así, un laudo arbitral del CIADI constituye un título válido equiparable a una sentencia firme local, y por ende, no revisable ni impugnable por la ley local, aunque sí sujeto a las restricciones que pudieran existir en materia de ejecución forzosa de sentencias judiciales contra el Estado (artículo 55 del Convenio).” G. Sommer. RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT TO ICSID AWARD: Direct Enforcement or Exequatur?. Revista Electrónica Cordobesa de Derecho Internacional Público 1, no.1, (2011), 6.
[9] Article IV, Panama Convention, [1975].
[10] Arentsen N, Weber MUNCITRAL Model Law: Still a Model or Second Best?, [2014], para. 4. Accessible at
[11] Rusoro Mining Ltd.v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/12/5.
[12] El Paso Energy International Company vArgentine Republic ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)//03/15.
[13] Article 1, Asunción Treaty, [1991].
[14] Article 1, Modifying Protocol of the Olivos Protocol [2007].
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The Magical Nokota Horse
“When I was somewhat past ten years of age, my father took me with him
to watch the horses out on the prairie. We watered the herd and about
the middle of the day came home for dinner. . .
While we sat watching the herd, my father said:
‘These horses are God-like, or mystery beings.’ ”
–Wolf Chief, Hidatsa Sioux
The Nokota® horses have lived and roamed the vast expanse of open lands for hundreds of years. They are the descendants from the last-surviving population of wild horses in the Little Missouri Badlands, located in the southwestern corner of North Dakota. For at least a century, this incredible lineage of horses lived free and among the Native American Indian Nations. They carry the blood of their ancestors; horses that survived the harshest of winters and battles between the native nations and the military, as Native Americans were forced onto reservation lands and killed. Sitting Bull, who led the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux Nation, rode the ancestors of these Nokota® horses. They are the last of Sitting Bull’s revered ponies.
Nokota® horses are identifiable by their unique characteristics. They are also known for their stamina, athleticism, and durability. While they live feral in the wild, they are cherished by so many for their “wild but mild” character. They will develop unusually strong reciprocal bonds with those they trust. They are “problem solvers” who actively think their way through different situations.
The Nokota Horse Preserve of Chester Springs, PA strives to preserve the magical American Nokota® horse breed through education and sustainable pasture. As a non-profit 501c3, they coordinate with the Nokota Horse Conservancy, in North Dakota, and provide a home for these horses who are losing their open lands, as they help them find their human partners.
These horses are the last of the true “Wild West” legends. You can be a part of preserving their place in American history as well as their place in our future.
For more information on the Nokota® horse, please visit The Nokota Horse Preserve of Chester Springs
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Optical fiber has revolutionized the communication world. They help in the transmission of information without any distortion. Optical fiber is a very thin cylindrical fiber produced from plastic or glass, as thin as one-tenth of a human hair.
In order to connect fiber cables, there is a need for connectors. You can find an adapter for fiber optic via https://www.firefold.com/collections/fiber-optic-adapters-connectors
Optical fibers use an optical phenomenon known as total internal reflection. When light is injected into the fiber out of the face, it’s restricted within the center without leaking out and losing its energy.
fiber optic connectors online
Now you understand how optical fibers operate. So what’s a fiber optic connector and what is its role at a fiber optic telecommunication network?
• Put it easy, a fiber optic connector’s purpose is exactly like an electrical power plug, it joins light from one part of optical fiber into a different part of fiber cables.
• Fiber optic connectors align two ends to finish so exactly that light may travel from one fiber to the following without bouncing off the port.
The same as any other connectors utilized in the electrical industry, electronics and computer industry, many distinct sorts of fiber optic connectors have been devised along with the progression of fiber optic communication market.
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Type::Tiny » Manual » UsingWithMouse
how to use Type::Tiny with Mouse
First read Type::Tiny::Manual::Moo, Type::Tiny::Manual::Moo2, and Type::Tiny::Manual::Moo3. Everything in those parts of the manual should work exactly the same in Mouse.
This part of the manual will focus on Mouse-specifics.
Overall, Type::Tiny is less well-tested with Mouse than it is with Moose and Moo, but there are still a good number of test cases for using Type::Tiny with Mouse, and there are no known major issues with Type::Tiny's Mouse support.
Why Use Type::Tiny At All?
Mouse does have a built-in type constraint system which is fairly convenient to use, but there are several reasons you should consider using Type::Tiny instead.
• Type::Tiny provides helpful methods like where and plus_coercions that allow type constraints and coercions to be easily tweaked on a per-attribute basis.
Something like this is much harder to do with plain Mouse types:
has name => (
is => "ro",
isa => Str->plus_coercions(
ArrayRef[Str], sub { join " ", @$_ },
coerce => 1,
Mouse tends to encourage defining coercions globally, so if you wanted one Str attribute to be able to coerce from ArrayRef[Str], then all Str attributes would coerce from ArrayRef[Str], and they'd all do that coercion in the same way. (Even if it might make sense to join by a space in some places, a comma in others, and a line break in others!)
• Type::Tiny provides automatic deep coercions, so if type Xyz has a coercion, the following should "just work":
isa xyzlist => ( is => 'ro', isa => ArrayRef[Xyz], coerce => 1 );
• Type::Tiny offers a wider selection of built-in types.
• By using Type::Tiny, you can use the same type constraints and coercions for attributes and method parameters, in Mouse and non-Mouse code.
If you've used Mouse::Util::TypeConstraints, you may be accustomed to using a DSL for declaring type constraints:
use Mouse::Util::TypeConstraints;
subtype 'Natural',
as 'Int',
where { $_ > 0 };
There's a module called Type::Utils that provides a very similar DSL for declaring types in Type::Library-based type libraries.
package My::Types {
use Type::Library -base;
use Type::Utils;
use Types::Standard qw( Int );
declare 'Natural',
as Int,
where { $_ > 0 };
Personally I prefer the more object-oriented way to declare types though.
In Mouse you might also declare types like this within classes and roles too. Unlike Mouse, Type::Tiny doesn't keep types in a single global flat namespace, so this doesn't work quite the same with Type::Utils. It still creates the type, but it doesn't store it in any type library; the type is returned.
package My::Class {
use Mouse;
use Type::Utils;
use Types::Standard qw( Int );
my $Natural = # store type in a variable
declare 'Natural',
as Int,
where { $_ > 0 };
has number => ( is => 'ro', isa => $Natural );
But really, isn't the object-oriented way cleaner?
package My::Class {
use Mouse;
use Types::Standard qw( Int );
has number => (
is => 'ro',
isa => Int->where('$_ > 0'),
Type::Tiny and MouseX::Types
Types::Standard should be a drop-in replacement for MooseX::Types. And Types::Common::Numeric and Types::Common::String should easily replace MouseX::Types::Common::Numeric and MouseX::Types::Common::String.
That said, if you do with to use a mixture of Type::Tiny and MouseX::Types, they should fit together pretty seamlessly.
use Types::Standard qw( ArrayRef );
use MouseX::Types::Mouse qw( Int );
# this should just work
my $list_of_nums = ArrayRef[Int];
# and this
my $list_or_num = ArrayRef | Int;
-mouse Import Parameter
If you have read this far in the manual, you will know that this is the usual way to import type constraints:
use Types::Standard qw( Int );
And the Int which is imported is a function that takes no arguments and returns the Int type constraint, which is a blessed object in the Type::Tiny class.
Type::Tiny mocks the Mouse::Meta::TypeConstraint API so well that most Mouse and MouseX code will not be able to tell the difference.
But what if you need a real Mouse::Meta::TypeConstraint object?
use Types::Standard -mouse, qw( Int );
Now the Int function imported will return a genuine native Mouse type constraint.
This flag is mostly a throwback from when Type::Tiny native objects didn't directly work in Mouse. In 99.9% of cases, there is no reason to use it and plenty of reasons not to. (Mouse native type constraints don't offer helpful methods like plus_coercions and where.)
mouse_type Method
Another quick way to get a native Mouse type constraint object from a Type::Tiny object is to call the mouse_type method:
use Types::Standard qw( Int );
my $tiny_type = Int;
my $mouse_type = $tiny_type->mouse_type;
Internally, this is what the -mouse flag makes imported functions do.
Type::Tiny Performance
Type::Tiny should run pretty much as fast as Mouse types do. This is because, when possible, it will use Mouse's XS implementations of type checks to do the heavy lifting.
There are a few type constraints where Type::Tiny prefers to do things without Mouse's help though, for consistency and correctness. For example, the Mouse XS implementation of Bool is... strange... it accepts blessed objects that overload bool, but only if they return false. If they return true, it's a type constraint error.
Using Type::Tiny instead of Mouse's type constraints shouldn't make a significant difference to the performance of your code.
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Britain's John Wyer has risen to the top in auto endurance racing by going fast slowly. The magician behind two Ford upsets at Le Mans switches to Porsche and duels Ferrari as Daytona opens a new season
A June morning. France 1959. Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori have driven an Aston Martin DBR1 to first place in that centerpiece of the sports car world, the Le Mans 24-hour race. For the Aston Martin Company and its race team, winning a Le Mans is the climax of 10 years of hard labor. Now David Brown, head of the industrial conglomerate of which Aston Martin is a small but vital part, flies over the 8.38-mile circuit on the way to London in his twin-engined de Havilland Dove, looks down at the debris left by the race and its 300,000 spectators and expresses one side of the love-hate emotion that so many in it have for Le Mans.
"Thank God," he says. "Thank God I don't have to come back to this damn place again."
Seated in the plane with Brown is John Wyer, a shy, intense Englishman who has been Aston Martin's racing manager during those 10 years and is now the firm's general manager as well. "I guess that means I won't be coming back, either," Wyer thinks to himself, but he is not exactly upset at the prospect. "Now I can stop playing with motor cars and get on to something more serious."
A decade of broken resolutions later John Wyer is still playing with cars. No longer is he merely an able team manager, he is the reigning wizard of Le Mans. And not because he frightened people with fast cars the way Ferrari used to. He clobbered them with antiques. His victories in 1968 and last year were won with the same aged Ford GT40—an obsolete car in among the swifties from Porsche and Matra. Wyer emerged as a man who could keep his cars together when all about him were losing theirs to the intoxication of speed, and next week his tall, slightly stooped figure, his sparse, straight, black hair and haggard face will be visible at the season-opening Daytona 24-hour race, in the pits of—ah, so—Porsche.
Tired of facing life against him, Porsche has hired him. Wyer, therefore, will be campaigning a powerful new Porsche 917, a racer capable of 225 mph flat out and already proved at record lap speeds on the track at Daytona. The enemy: Ferrari, returning to endurance racing with a new five-liter projectile called the 512. The favorite: Porsche and John Leonard Wyer.
"In a different age John might have been a General Montgomery, a man he admires tremendously," says Pieta Wyer, his wife of 28 years. "He enjoys motor racing as a strategic exercise. Everything down to the smallest detail is carefully planned out. Even in his personal life he has a great capacity for minute detail and an abhorrence of imperfection in others."
After an endorsement like this you might expect Mrs. Wyer to conclude, "but I love him anyway." However, the seemingly cold, implacable side of Wyer's personality is tempered by a quiet sense of humor and an ability to take bold, precipitous action when the situation seems to call for it. Though he married Pieta 4½ years after being introduced to her in the lobby of London's Piccadilly Hotel, Wyer proposed marriage that first evening.
"It doesn't seem like him, does it?" asks Pieta. "He really is extraordinarily shy. But I was drawn to him because he was also so exceedingly intelligent and had such a fine sense of humor. We had drinks, dinner and more drinks. It seemed an absolutely hilarious evening."
At that time, in 1936, Wyer worked for Solex, Ltd., the international carburetor cartel headquartered in Paris. But ever since childhood, when Wyer read automotive books and magazines instead of playing games, motor sports has been his strongest passion. It was a passion he was not able to indulge until he was 36. A touch of tuberculosis and being in an essential industry kept Wyer out of military service during World War II but, like everyone else in war-saturated Britain, he worked hard at his job, and by V-E day was wrung out physically and spiritually. He was ripe to take part in what could be described as the mid-'40s' version of doing one's own thing.
"There had been a Depression and then a war," Wyer said recently, "and we all felt that since we hadn't been able to do the things we enjoyed doing for such a helluva long time, we were going to start right then before we got too old and it was too late."
What Wyer did in 1945 was to get swept up in Britain's racing craze. His was a generation looking for less deadly excitement than war, but excitement nonetheless. There was a frantic search for cars to race and tracks to race them on. Wyer took a job as general manager of Monaco Motors, which prepared cars for private clients who wanted to race them. The cars won races, the firm prospered, and when Monaco was bought out by Vauxhall dealers in 1950 Wyer moved to Aston Martin, newly purchased and revived by David Brown. Brown, who put together his first works team in 1949, looked upon winning races as the most effective way to promote his product, and he viewed Wyer as the most effective way to win races. During his five years at Monaco, Wyer had developed an approach to racing. "I learned that it wasn't the lighthearted affair many people thought it was," he says. "Only a methodical, systematic approach could give results.
"Actually I looked on the job with Brown as a sort of short-term paid holiday. I'd do it for a year and then get on with something more serious."
One year somehow became 10 years, and Wyer developed a commandolike compact striking force of only two or three cars for his race teams. Occasionally members of his staff were also commandolike in bravery. A good example of the kind of dedication Wyer appreciates was provided during the 1952 Goodwood nine-hour race in England. One of the Aston Martin cars had pulled into the pit and then suddenly burst into a ball of flame while being serviced. Wyer and two of his mechanics were badly burned. The pit staff scattered for cover. All, that is, except Rob Walker, a sportsman later to become the patron of Stirling Moss and other leading drivers, who was helping out by timing one of the cars—the eventual winner—and was not going to lose track of his charge or be distracted in any way.
"When I came out of the hospital and examined Walker's time sheet months afterward," says Wyer, "I discerned no tremor at all in his neat, precise handwriting. The only indication of the disaster was the laconic marginal comment, 'No. 15 catches fire.' "
This kind of single-mindedness is fairly typical of what Wyer can generate in members of his staff. There are those unkind enough to imply that Wyer, like an Indian prince in a sedan chair, rides from success to success on the shoulders of an exceptionally able corps of assistants. For support his detractors cite the fact that at last year's Le Mans, when his GT40 nosed out a Porsche by 125 yards in that implausible upset, Wyer got the glory though he wasn't even there. True. Wyer stayed with Pieta. who was ill in the hospital, and kept in contact by phone. And don't knock it.
"If I've done my job properly I should, in theory, be able to stay at home and hear about it on the radio," Wyer happily admits. "I can leave the actual races to the people who do that for me, and they do that very well."
The two most important are John Horsman, a 35-year-old engineering graduate of Cambridge, who has worked under Wyer since the days at Aston Martin and is now his second in command, and David Yorke, 52, who won a DFC flying Hurricanes during World War II and joined Wyer three years ago as his race manager.
In a 24-hour race no driver can stay behind the wheel more than four consecutive hours. He must have an hour of rest between stints. Careless juggling of the two drivers can result in the best man sitting in the pits just when he is needed in the car or, worse, disqualification of the entire team. Yorke is rated one of the best in the world at this difficult job. "John builds the cars and David races the cars, and I just tell them what they're doing wrong." says Wyer.
Another knack of Wyer's is bending headstrong drivers to his will. Bad discipline can lose races, as Porsche discovered last year at Le Mans. Porsche had the best cars, and plenty of them, and a fine team of drivers, but lost to the slower GT40 just the same. One of Wyer's aides watched two Porsche drivers, early in the race, going like horizontal rockets down the backstraight at Le Mans, the three-mile stretch of France's Route N158 called the Mulsanne Straight.
"They were ripping down Mulsanne, hubcap to hubcap, doing close to 200 mph," he says. "They were so close together the two cars finally touched. One of them hurtled off the road; the driver was lucky to survive. The other kept on but broke down not long after and was out of the race. So Porsche lost two cars, mainly because they were trying to beat each other."
"I really began to understand drivers after I started at Aston Martin," Wyer said the other day while seated in the study of his snug white-brick cottage in Fulmer Chase, an hour's drive west of London. "I had previously thought that motor racing was rather like a school game in which the drivers would subordinate personal glory for the good of the team. I soon found out that they wouldn't. They were all individuals with strong personalities, which, of course, makes sense. If they weren't they wouldn't go in for something like motor racing. I learned that sometimes competition within a team can be stronger than the competition with the people you're running against. This is the thing you've got to overcome.
"With exceptions like Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill and Jacky Ickx, the best Formula I drivers, broadly speaking, don't make good long-distance drivers. What they really enjoy is the cut and thrust of Formula I racing, where they are driving very close to their own personal limit all the time. You've got to convince them that going flat out from the start is not the way long-distance races are won.
"The driver who was the greatest inspiration to any team was undoubtedly Stirling Moss," Wyer continued, drumming the sharp blade of a letter opener on the surface of his study desk as he recalled some of the drivers he has worked with. "He could drive in any sort of competition. Here you had a driver who every other driver recognized, without exception, as something else. He did things nobody else was able to try. He knew he was the best in the world and always made damn sure he got the best car, but even so he was good for morale, because if Stirling was driving for you it meant he wasn't driving against you.
"Ickx is one of the few drivers who is extremely good at both long-distance and Grand Prix racing. He can drive within his capacity and the capacity of the car and then go absolutely flat out, as he had to do for the final three hours last year to win at Le Mans."
Wyer finally left Aston Martin in 1963, not, he says, because Aston Martin had dropped racing, but because it did not build up the passenger-car side of the business as much as he would have liked.
"I felt we were not going to make real progress with our DB4 production car," he says. "It still remained something special for the few. I didn't want to mass-produce a cheap sports car, but I did want to make it available to a broader market."
Later that year Wyer signed a contract with Ford. This was the beginning of Dearborn's assault on Le Mans, then dominated by Enzo Ferrari and his bright-red cars. Ford planned to produce a new car, which subsequently became known as the GT (for Gran Turismo) 40 (it was 40 inches high). Under an umbrella called Ford Advanced Vehicles, Wyer would oversee the European racing program.
What happened after that constitutes one of the sagas of motor-racing history. In September 1963, with Wyer as general manager, Ford Advanced Vehicles began a crash program to get the GT40 ready for Sebring the following March.
"The GT40 was the most advanced car of its time in suspension, body shape and performance," says John Horsman. "It was one of the first of the cars to place the engine right behind the driver. It had great potential. The problem in the beginning was that it was unreliable—but if you stay with it you can make any car reliable."
Unreliable was the word. During the 1964 season the GT40 was entered in races at the Nürburgring, Le Mans, Rheims and Nassau. There were nine starters in all, and not a single one finished a race. Ferraris won at the Nürburgring and Rheims, finished one-two-three at Le Mans and won the manufacturers' championship to boot.
Panic in Dearborn. Vice-presidential memos and phone calls clogged the out-boxes and the switchboard at the Ford division. Decision: bring the entire racing program back to the U.S., where it could be kept under tighter surveillance. Concentrate on a more powerful engine (up from 4.2 liters to 4.7). Start thinking about a far more powerful car (the seven-liter Mark II).
Wyer's role was reduced to building enough GT40s (50 of them) to qualify the car under the FIA's rules of homologation.
The next year was slightly better for Ford. First at Daytona, second at Se-bring, third at Monza. But then there was disaster at Le Mans. Six Fords entered the 24 Hours and not one finished. Ferrari once again took the top three places. Now there was puzzled outrage in Dearborn. Ford's decision was to intensify the effort, spend more money, concentrate on the more powerful Mark II. The result was victories at Daytona and Sebring and a one-two-three finish at Le Mans (with Henry Ford II on hand to pour the champagne). Ford won the manufacturers' championship. There was victory at Le Mans again in '67, then retirement from sports car racing, the objective attained.
Meanwhile, back in the machine shop in Slough, Berkshire, that advocate of the compact striking force, John Wyer, was satisfied to be out of the Ford mainstream, the massive ebb and flow of Ford money, Ford cars, Ford vice-presidents. He was quietly feeding and grooming his pets and preparing to write the second part of the saga. In January 1967 Wyer purchased the assets of Ford Advanced Vehicles and severed his official connections with the company. With John Willment, a freewheeling entrepreneur, as a relatively silent financial partner, Wyer set up JW Automotive Engineering Ltd.
That year Wyer raced with some success a Ford prototype, the Mirage. In 1968, under the same special licensing arrangement with Ford, the firm prepared and raced three of the poor, neglected GT40s. Gulf Oil took over ownership of the cars, as it had the Mirage, and financed the racing program. Horsman was installed as second in command, and David Yorke was put in direct charge of the racing team. The results were fantastic. With the retirement of Ferrari from the sports car scene in 1967, Porsches had become the preeminent racers, but the three orphaned GT40s took them on, grille to grille, beating them at Le Mans and elsewhere and winning the manufacturers' title. More obsolete by the week, the GT40, of course, defeated Porsche again at Le Mans in 1969.
"Ford never gave the GT40 or the idea of a compact striking force a fair chance or enough time," Wyer insists. "I believe we could have won with the car in 1965. The feeling seemed to be that a 4.2-liter car was not powerful enough, but in fact a less powerful Ferrari did eventually win. The effort failed in 1965 because too many people had become involved, it had become too diversified. Ford finally won at Le Mans, but once the company began spending so much money and so much effort doing it the result was inevitable. As the saying goes, they didn't solve the problem, they trampled it to death. They proved that if you spend $7 million—about seven times what anyone else had ever spent—you can win at Le Mans."
But Porsche has not been reluctant to splatter the Deutsche Marks about, either. To be able to utilize up to a five-liter engine, it has had to build 25 carbon copies of the 917. The cost of each of the 917s is $70,000. Porsche will sell a few (at a loss) but even so will have invested $1 million before the cars have even gone racing. Fortunately Gulf Oil plans to continue its association with Wyer, and its contribution probably amounts to $350,000.
With Wyer, Horsman and Yorke at the controls, Porsche can expect to eliminate the errors that have plagued it the last two years: badly planned engineering, poor driver discipline. Already they seem to have eradicated the last major bug in the 917, one that Porsche engineers had been puzzling over for most of last year. The drivers found that the car handled erratically. When Horsman and Yorke took their first hard look at the 917 last November in tests at Zeltweg, Austria, they quickly found the reason why. "We noticed that there were no flyspecks on the tail of the car," says Horsman. "This meant that the tail was sloping down too sharply, that currents of air were not hitting it, not forcing the wheels into a firm position on the road. So we just raised up the tail. Suddenly the drivers enjoyed the car. Our lap times on the track immediately dropped from 1:48 to 1:43."
A month later at Daytona, in the midst of a 30-hour test, two of the 917s were hurtling around the track at lap times of 1:47 and change, almost five seconds under the official track record. Porsche, Wyer and his staff are obviously on the verge of an extremely successful year. Even so, as he looks ahead to the Daytona race and the season beyond, Wyer nurses his customary doubts about the whole business.
"It sometimes all seems so senseless," he said, recalling the way it was in the rain at Le Mans in 1968. At about 5 a.m. Wyer left the pits and went to the Welcome Inn, the race organization's tavern in the infield near the first turn, to shave and wash. He came out and walked over to the edge of the track to watch his Ford go by.
"The stands there were absolutely deserted," he said, "and the wind was sweeping the rain across the track in great, furious waves. And here were these cars driving round and round and round and not a soul watching them. I thought we all must be crazy to be there. I had to go straight back to the pits and get to work. I knew that if I had a real chance to think about it I probably would have got into my car and driven as far away as I could." | <urn:uuid:7990b2c3-6a80-4931-8e5a-8c0444d8973a> | https://vault.si.com/vault/1970/01/26/captain-cool-strikes-again | en | 0.986635 | 0.018695 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Do you remember having or playing with LEGO toys when you were a kid? Most of you will definitely remember them, and if you had a childhood without them, then you really missed out. Still, some people discover or rediscover them later in life when they become parents or take care of nieces and nephews. Most people that touch them wind up loving them. They seem to cross genders, cultures, and many other demographics.
For all the different toys that people play with as a kid, it’s actually quite remarkable how so many don’t wind up outgrowing their love for LEGO toys. Even in an age of Wi-Fi at home and iPads, kids spend countless hours playing with these. Also, quite a few adults have started collecting them. They come in so many different sets know, with various themes ranging from specific franchises like Star Wars and Harry Potter to more traditional lines like pirates, Vikings, and robots.
Even with just the basic blue, red, yellow, white, green, and other colors of bricks, it’s astounding how many people love Lego toys, and yet why is this? Have you ever stopped to consider why you love Legos still? Or why your kids do? There might not be one specific reason. In fact, there might be more than one that applies to you or anyone else.
For starters, it makes people creative. With the many different pieces, Lego bricks can tickle your imagination because you can create nearly anything that you want to make. You might just build a neighborhood of basic houses or buildings, but you can also build jets and fly them around the room. This toy is the chance to demonstrate your creativity.
Secondly, it’s relaxing. When it all comes down to it, these are the kinds of toys that can help young kids forget a bad visit to the dentist, students a hard day at school, and even adults how much they might hate their job. When you sit down and start linking pieces together, it starts relieving your stress since you’re focusing your mind on making something nice. That’s a great alternative to lingering on your daily stress.
Third, they make you feel younger again. Adults feel like kids again, if only for an hour. That usually will make them happy. Even college kids or teenagers might dial back the clock a bit and remember happier or at least simpler years. There are those who say that old folks shouldn’t play with any toys, but this particular toy is a very powerful counterargument.
Fourth, there is a sense of freedom with these. You can design anything you want, and so you have the right to do anything that you want with it. That even means designing it however you want. While there are actually Lego construction competitions out there, unless you actually participate in one, you can’t pass or fail or ever be judged about how well or poorly you supposedly do. Anyone that does judge you just doesn’t get it, so don’t share your Lego bricks with them, ever.
Fifth, it’s just fun. Freedom and creativity are great in their own right, as is feeling young again, but playing with Lego toys should above all else just be fun and entertaining. Your imagination likely doesn’t get to come out much as an adult, or even in later childhood. It’s a rare chance to express your mental ideas physically in a concrete form.
Lastly, these toys can become new toys every single day. Whenever you build something, you can disassemble it when the day is over. This fresh start means you can make a whole new toy when you sit down to play again. It’s not like the old toys are lost, as you can always rebuild them. You can take pride in your creations, and the good ones will keep showing up time and time again.
The only potential downsides to Lego toys these days might be the fact that there are so many of them to choose from, as well as the prices. The popularity of them and exploding secondary market of collectors has driven up the cost of them over the last few decades. | <urn:uuid:c9a2e900-744d-4b10-8c05-b8d113219f0e> | https://www.freeflashtoys.com/why-do-people-love-lego-toys-so-much/ | en | 0.971018 | 0.206269 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
A mum-of-four has issued a stark warning after years of sunbed use, tanning injections and nasal tanning sprays has left her with a precancerous condition.
Sarah Ashcroft has warned others not to make the same mistakes she made after undergoing treatment for precancerous cells which left her feeling like she'd been "burned in a fire".
The 38-year-old from Birkenhead has a condition called Actinic Keratosis, Liverpool Echo report.
She is being treated with “chemo cream” which leaves her skin painful and inflamed as it destroys the precancerous cells in her skin.
She said: “For years and years I've gone on sunbeds, probably for about 18 years.
“Over the last nine years I've been using tanning injections and nasal sprays. When I went on holiday I also wouldn't use sun cream because I was always really brown.
“But about three months ago I noticed a flaky, itchy mark on my nose and one on my chest so the doctor referred me to a dermatologist.”
The dermatologist told Sarah that she had Actinic Keratosis which are dry, scaly patches of skin that has been damaged by the sun.
Sarah was told her precancerous condition was caused by years of using nasal tanning sprays which together with sunbed use effectively doubled the amount of skin damage she received.
She was immediately put on a course of treatment with chemotherapy cream that attacked the precancerous cells in her skin.
She said: “When I started to use it, it reacted so badly to my skin. It goes down layers into your skin and burns any cells before they turn into skin cancer.”
Pictures show Sarah's skin after the cream had been applied causing her skin to become inflamed and break out in painful, scarlet blotches.
She added: “When I was having the treatment I couldn't physically get up because it felt like I'd been burned in a fire.
“I couldn't move my neck because it was so badly burned with the cream.”
After weeks of treatment the inflammation in her skin has reduced but she said it’s a condition she will now have to live with, and receive regular treatment for, as it could flare up again at any time.
Sarah said she is now left facing the consequences of years of using sunbeds and not wearing sun cream together with the damage caused by the nasal sprays.
She said: “It's all down to sunbeds and using nasal sprays. People don't realise just how dangerous they are, it's been a reality check for me.
“I know so many young girls who use nasal sprays. Years ago it was tanning injections but you don't hear much of them now as people are using the spray and they're going on the sunbed every day.
“They don't realise what they're actually doing. The dermatologist told me the sprays bring the pigmentation that's in your skin right to the surface and then you're going on the sunbed which exposes it and doubles the amount of damage.
“You can get them on the internet and people sell them they're so easy to get hold of.”
She added: “Now my skin looks clear but it's not healed. Over the next 12 months I've got to carry on with the treatment.
“I've got to have my arms and legs done and the rest of my face which will look horrific when I get that done.
“I just want to let people know not to abuse the sun and those treatments. Don't do what I've done, your health comes first. I'll never go in the sun again.” | <urn:uuid:9070e6ec-8934-45b5-b29b-304e91d89894> | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/sunbeds-tanning-injections-precancerous-condition-4704271 | en | 0.982154 | 0.091161 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Make 2013 the year you have a positive impact on the environment with these simple ways to be eco-friendly.
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Examining the determinants of electricity demand by South African households per income level
J.A Bohlmann, R. Inglesi-Lotz
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September 2020
For the period 1975 - 2016, this paper examines the determinants of the residential demand for electricity in South Africa including disposable income, electricity prices, food prices as well as the impact of the 2007/08 load-shedding wave and the 2008 electricity price restructuring. Given the high income inequality levels in South Africa, this relationship was investigated at aggregated and disaggregated income levels. Based on an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model, the empirical results indicate long-run cointegration between residential electricity consumption, gross national disposable income, electricity prices and food prices. Disposable income elasticities have a positive sign for the aggregate and all income groups, indicating that as income increases, South African households consume more electricity (normal good). As expected, price elasticities are negative and significant -- for both the aggregated and disaggregated models - indicating that electricity prices do influence electricity demand for all South African households. The paper also examines the complementarity or substitutability of food and electricity. At both the aggregated and disaggregated income levels, the results showed that food and electricity are substitute goods for all South African households. However, as expected, the magnitude of this relationship is marginally different for each income group.
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How Can I Know With Absolute Certainty My Mail-In Ballot Will Count?
Whether you mailed in your ballot or placed it in a designated dropbox, tracking it is as easy as tracking an Amazon package (if every state had a different version of Amazon)
Given all the chaos and uncertainty surrounding the USPS, I took it upon myself to drop my 2020 ballot directly into an official ballot dropbox. It hasn’t exactly quelled my paranoia, though. What if my signature on the envelope isn’t close enough to the one on my license? What if I unknowingly fell victim to momentary color blindness and voted with a red pen? What if I colored outside of those bubbled lines?
After all, there are numerous reasons why a ballot can be rejected, so it’s important to know whether your state requires signature matching, or the signatures of witnesses on absentee ballots, as per the National Conference of State Legislatures.
But even if that checks out, how can you be certain that your ballot will definitely be cleared and counted?
Once again, it depends on where you live.
According to the National Vote at Home Institute, there are “four different levels of ballot tracking across the 50 states and the District of Columbia.” Besides Wyoming and Mississippi, every state and Washington, D.C., offer online portals that allow voters to track their ballots throughout the tallying process.
But while seven states — including California, Nevada and Virginia — will notify voters if their ballot has been rejected, voters everywhere else are on their own. To figure it out for yourself, head to the Voting Rights Lab, which provides a link to each state’s portal for tracking ballots as well as instructions on what to do if your ballot gets rejected.
For instance, I live in Illinois, a state where you’re responsible for tracking your own ballot status. Following the link provided by the Voting Rights Lab, I arrived at my local Board of Elections portal and filled in the information below:
After that, I was reassured that my ballot was found in the box I placed it in and had been accepted.
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The MP-7 truly represents the ultimate melding of E-MU’s pristine audio quality and cutting edge controller technologies, making it uniquely qualified to serve as the control center of your MIDI studio or live performance rig.
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Velocity & Pressure Sensitive Pads
Thirteen velocity-sensitive pads with aftertouch allow you to perform live or into the 16-track sequencer. These pads have been specifically designed for the Command Station and are extremely responsive, capturing all the subtle nuances of your performance.
Multi-Function Controllers
Super Sequencer
MP-7 contains a powerful, yet simple to use 16-track interactive sequencer. You can record in real-time, step and grid modes and can switch modes without ever stopping your creative flow. Sixteen dedicated Mute/Select buttons allow you to add, monitor and modify parts on the fly with cumbersome menu scrolling. It’s never been this easy to lay down your ideas. The MP-7 Command Station can store over 300,000 notes and you can import and export MIDI files to and from your Mac or PC using E-MU’s E-Loader program.
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Sixty four modulation sources include three multistage envelopes and two LFOs per layer, as well as full MIDI control over virtually every parameter. The digital patch bay, with 24 cords per layer, (and 12 more cords per preset) lets you connect modulation sources to 64 destinations in any imaginable way. The patch bay also contains a set of arithmetic modifiers, allowing you to create complex synthesis models. Synth parameters as well as arpeggiator and BEAT tempos can be controlled from internal clock (or an external MIDI clock). Up to 8 LFOs and 12 envelopes can be perfectly synchronized at different rates. This is an extremely powerful synthesizer!
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Macroeconomic impacts of cigarette consumption in Pakistan
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Pakistan has a large population of tobacco users, with about 24 million adults consuming tobacco products in one form or another. There is a dearth of research on the impact of a reduction in tobacco use on Pakistan’s economy which can inform policy-makers on the extent that tobacco control measures would affect macroeconomic indicators such as output and employment.
The objective of this study is to quantify the changes in output, income and employment resulting from changes in cigarette consumption and to quantify the impact of such changes on the overall economy.
The study uses the input–output table for the fiscal year 2010–2011 for Pakistan’s economy, to estimate the output, income and employment multipliers. The Leontief input–output model is used to estimate the sectorwise multiplier effects. It estimates direct, indirect and consumption-induced effects of changes in tobacco use on the economy.
The cigarette industry’s share in large-scale manufacturing and industrial employment is 1.1% and 0.3%, respectively. The estimates of gross output, income and employment multipliers for the cigarette industry have relatively small magnitudes indicating minimal impact on the economy. A simulation analysis based on the latest estimates of price elasticity of cigarette and input–output multipliers, shows that a 10% increase in price will lead to an 11% reduction in cigarette consumption, which translates into annual savings of Pakistani Rupees (Rs) 16 billion by households. Reduction in cigarette consumption will allow individuals to spend their savings on other commodities. For example, spending this amount on food items will lead to a net increase of Rs 40 billion annual output of the economy.
Reduction in tobacco consumption will lead to initial losses to the economy but there will be considerable gains in output, employment and income due to redistribution of tobacco expenditures. | <urn:uuid:81feb770-8238-4b93-a3de-54cd3c09e8c0> | https://spdc.org.pk/publications/macroeconomic-impacts-of-cigarette-consumption-in-pakistan | en | 0.90045 | 0.024017 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Agrolaguna's wine Castello Festigia 2007 wins gold in Canada
Agrolaguna's wine Castello Festigia 2007 wins gold in CanadaSelections Mondiales des Vins was held for the 17th year in a row in Quebec, Canada, and it represents the biggest wine competition in North America. This year the international jury evaluated 1789 samples of wine made by over 600 different producers in 32 countries in 11 categories. This was the first time that Agrolaguna sent its wine samples for evaluation in Canada and it immediately achieved an outstanding result. Its top-quality wineFestigia Castello 2007 was awarded withgold medal in Quebec, Canada. Festigia Castello is one of the 3 wines from the line of top-quality Festigia wines and its coupage is made 60% of Cabernet sauvignon variety and 40% of Syrah variety. Festigia Castello has a deep ruby red colour that indicates the seriousness of this wine. The subtle aromas of blackberries are nicely blended with gentle vanilla aromas. Its taste is complex and rich. The tannins are ripe, strongly manifested but not in any way obtrusive, gently rough. Its preservation potential is excellent. | <urn:uuid:14188229-fc16-47ec-ba49-bd524d46fbb7> | https://www.agrokor.hr/en/news/agrolaguna-s-wine-castello-festigia-2007-wins-gold-in-canada/ | en | 0.940755 | 0.038351 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Acute Cannabinoid Overdose
There is a pressing need for a reversal agent to counter Acute Cannabinoid Overdose (ACO).
• ACO can cause acute psychosis
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• Current ACO treatment options only supportive
• ACO results in days in the hospital if severe
While the opioid epidemic continues to be a national health crisis, legalization of medical and recreational use of cannabis has created an emerging problem: Acute Cannabinoid Overdose (ACO). ACO is most often associated with consuming edible products containing large quantities of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active ingredient in cannabis.
In contrast to smoked cannabis, it can take an hour or more to achieve peak blood levels of THC by consuming these “edibles”, sold as brownies, cookies, chocolates, and candies. This slow absorption often results in people consuming additional quantities because they perceive the edibles are “not working”. Edibles pose a special risk to children because they can easily be mistaken for candies and cookies. ACO is also produced by synthetic cannabinoids (sometimes called “Spice” or K2) that are generally sprayed on plant materials (such as oregano) and smoked.
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The documentary Commie Camp about Camp Kinderland, the summer camp that the right wing loves to hate, has its West Coast premiere at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival this Sunday, August 11, at 2:20 p.m. at the Grand Lake Theater (3200 Grand Avenue in Oakland). Its director, Katie Halper – a standup comedian, filmmaker, and blogger – spoke with Tikkun‘s editor-in-chief and founder, Michael Lerner. The two debated whether a secular Jewish culture really exists, disagreed over which Jews were more active in social justice, agreed about the indoctrination of children, and discussed walking like a duck.
Michael Lerner: What Does Camp Kinderland have to do with tikkun olam (repairing the world)?
Katie Halper: Tikkun olam is a huge part of Camp Kinderland’s mission. Social justice is literally everywhere you look. The bunks aren’t named A, B, or C, but named after people like Roberto Clemente, Paul Robeson, Emma Lazarus, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Earl Chaney. Other camps have the color wars, while Kinderland has the World Peace Olympics, which has a sports element but also a culture element. The teams are named after activists or organizations or movements. The summer I filmed, the teams were Greenpeace, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Highlander Center. And each team learns about its namesake and the teams teach each other about their particular history and contribution to peace and justice.
ML: So, the camp has the intention to convey a message to the children?
KH: Definitely. Its motto is, “A Summer Camp with a Conscience.” It was founded by secular Yiddish-speaking Jews in the 1920s but it was always welcoming of non-Jews. That inclusive and cooperative spirit is central. And the right wing has always hated it, which is always a good sign. The camp was almost shut down during the McCarthy era. And last year when it was “exposed” that an Obama nominee had sent her kids to Kinderland, the right wing, including Rush Limbaugh, went crazy.
ML: So, the conservatives are arguing that kids get brainwashed and indoctrinated at Camp Kinderland with certain ideas and with a worldview. At Tikkun we’re totally in favor of having kids exposed to a coherent worldview. Can you tell me more about what that worldview at Kinderland is?
KH: It’s founded on the principles of justice and fairness and solidarity and compassion. Every summer there is a theme. The theme the summer I filmed was “From Discussion to Action: making the world a better place.” And that’s what Kinderland’s about: it fosters discussion so that people will act to make the world a better place. One of the characters in the film says “The predominant values out there is consumerism for kids. We don’t make any bones about wanting to push other values… namely thinking about and caring for the rest of the world, your friends, people here at home, people around the world.” The camp believes that kids can be politically engaged and socially aware in a positive way. The film shows that kids really enjoy grappling with social issues and they’re not too young to do it.
ML: In this society, there’s no way that kids aren’t going to be indoctrinated already by the dominant worldview. So what the camp is doing is countering the dominant worldview with an alternative worldview.
KH: Yes. Humane values and social responsibility to counter the pervasive values of consumerism, accumulation, and militarism.
ML: You start the movie with Rush Limbaugh accusing the camp of being Communist. And then you call the movie “Commie Camp.” Is that what it calls itself?
KH: Kids do jokingly call Kinderland “Commie Camp.” “Commie” isa slur used to insult and diminish not only socialistsand communists but also social activists of all kinds, who may, in fact hate socialism and communism. But in the film, we see kids appropriating that hate language to revisit labels. Yes, the camp’s values are socialist in terms of justice, sharing etc. The kids actually have to share their care packages. They give the candy or chips or whatever their parents send them to the counselors who put it into a collective trunk and then distribute it among all the campers. So, it’s the redistribution of candy, if not wealth. And the camp was founded by people who were socialists and communists – almost a hundred years ago.
ML: So the people who founded the camp and then ran it for a number of years were members of the CPUSA?
KH: Some of them were. Many were “fellow travelers.” Today it’s a broadly progressive place.
ML: One of the things that progressives who are not communists ask is how could people be for social justice and then be in a party that was justifying Stalinism and the suppression of free speech. Was there any way that that got discussed at Camp Kinderland? Do they talk about this history?
KH: They do. But it is a contemporary camp and focused on recognizing and redressing injustice today. They don’t hide or deny its history.
ML: The camp is also known as a Jewish camp and welcomes non-Jews as you say. And I’m wondering if the connection is between Judaism and social justice or is the Jewish identity more about an ethnic identity and not about Judaism?
KH: There’s a character in the movie who is secular but who explains the connection between Judaism and social justice and talks about the prophets Amos and Isaiah and the idea that you are your brothers’ keeper. She explains that the people who founded camp weren’t religious but had these ideas in their consciousness. But in general I think most people at camp see the Jewish connection to social justice as coming from history more than religion.
ML: Tikkun is now interfaith but we started as a specifically Jewish magazine. So, I wanted to know what secular Jewish tradition or secular Jewishness the camp reflects.
KH: The Jewish secularism is connected to its values. There’s a particular secular Jewish social justice-focused tradition, especially in the U.S. And I think that the progressive Jewish community in the U.S. is more secular than religious. There are of course great religious people and organizations who are committed to social justice. But I think secular Jews have been most influential in progressive movements.
ML: Hmm. I might have to argue with that. The Reform movement Jewish camps are very involved in social justice and in the Reform movement. The Religious Action Center in Washington, D.C., is out there championing liberal legislation all the time. And it was Abraham Joshua Heschel of the Conservative movement (though he himself was more Orthodox) who marched with Martin Luther King Jr.
KH: I actually attended the Heschel school for a few years. But I kind of stuck out, having been raised in a totally secular home. Everyone in my class had a Hebrew name. I didn’t know what mine was because, not surprisingly, I wasn’t given one. But when everyone was going around the room one day and introducing themselves with their American and Hebrew names I racked my brain and came up with “Katchkala” a name my uncle called me, which sounded foreign enough to me but is really the Yiddish word for little duck.
ML: Well, if it walks like a duck.
KH: And I actually do walk like a duck, so it works on many levels.
ML: So, these religious movements have rituals and events from their tradition or our tradition during the year. Are the Kinderland graduates engaged in a secular Jewish movement? Is there a secular Jewish movement? And where would one find it?
KH: I think there is a secular Jewish culture which Kinderland is a part of. There is something called UNCOR which is the United Council of Resistance that is a Kinderland group that meets during the year and engages in different political activities and organizing. And Kinderland also has a shul, where the secular progressive Jewish values are taught. The prophetic tradition may have helped seed this secular tradition. But mainly it locates its origins in the labor and justice struggles of Eastern Europe, which radical Jews brought with them when they migrated to America. Lots of Kinderland people go on to become labor lawyers and social activists and teachers. The camp struggles with how to reconcile its historically Jewish origins and its commitment to being multicultural and inter-racial, but in a sense it is not a struggle because inclusiveness is so central to the Jewish radical tradition it embraces.
ML: Anything you would want people to know who are considering seeing the movie but didn’t go to the camp or don’t have any particular interest in the camp?
KH: I did not want the film to be some kind of navel-gazing activity for an inner circle, and I wanted people who aren’t interested or engaged in politics to enjoy it. The screenings so far have confirmed that the film is really accessible to anyone. People who have no interest in secular Jewish summer camps or have never heard of Kinderland watch the movie and laugh and cry because they find it both funny and moving. If you like kids or funny movies or beautiful landscapes you’ll like the movie.
ML: So, the film is going to have its West Coast Premier at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on Sunday August 11th at 2:20 at the Grand Lake Theater. But how can people see it if they’re not in the Bay Area?
KH: I’m hoping to get a distributor so it will be available as a DVD or online or on television of have some limited theatrical run. It’s also going to be in other film festivals like the Boston Jewish Film Festival, the Philadelphia Jewish FIlm Festival, The Big Eddy Film Festival in Narrowsburg NY, the Gold Coast FIlm Festival in Long Island. But it will definitely be available in other ways eventually. And if people want to organize screenings they can contact me at
Watch the trailer for Commie Camp below!
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Expert Witnesses in Medical Malpractice Cases
If you’re the victim of medical malpractice in Florida, you’re going to need the help of an expert witness to pursue your claim. Florida law requires expert witnesses in all medical malpractice cases.
You rely on your expert to verify that you have a valid medical malpractice claim. You also rely on your expert to explain medical information to the jury. Although your Tampa medical malpractice attorney will help you select the right expert for your case, it’s important to understand the requirements. Here’s what you should know about expert witnesses in medical malpractice cases in Florida.
Expert Witnesses in Medical Malpractice Cases in Florida
Florida law 766.102 establishes the standards for medical negligence in Florida. To find medical negligence, the jury must find that your medical care provider breached the prevailing professional standard of care. You rely on your expert witness to show the jury how the person who treated you acted in a way that falls below the professional standard of care.
Who Can Be an Expert Witness in a Florida Medical Malpractice Case?
Not just anyone can be an expert witness in a Florida medical malpractice case. A witness must qualify as an expert under Florida law. To qualify as an expert witness in a Florida medical malpractice case, you must:
• Have an active, valid, medical license
• Thoroughly review all of the medical records that are relevant to the case
• Specialize in the same thing as the defendant in the medical malpractice claim
• Work on the same subject matter as the topic of the case in the last three years; research, clinical programs, and teaching count
• Work on the same subject matter as the topic of the case in the previous five years for cases involving general practitioners
Why Do You Rely on a Medical Expert in a Florida Medical Malpractice Case?
There are a number of ways that a medical expert is crucial to a medical malpractice case. You rely on your medical expert to establish critical parts of your case. For example, an expert medical witness can help you prove the standard of care. They can help you show the jury what a reasonable doctor should have done in your case. Without medical training, jury members may not know what a reasonable doctor should have done. An expert witness can help the jury understand what the standard of care is for a case like yours.
Also, your expert can explain how your care provider’s actions or inaction amount to medical malpractice. They can help the jury compare the standard of care with the actions of your doctor. Finally, they can help the jury link the doctor’s actions and your injuries. Establishing how the doctor’s actions led to the harm in your case is called establishing proximate cause.
Changes to Rules for Expert Witness Testimony in Florida Medical Malpractice Cases
A decision from the Florida Supreme Court in late 2018 changed the way that the courts look at expert testimony in medical malpractice cases and all other cases. Florida law 90.702, which covers expert testimony in all types of cases in Florida, no longer applies. The Florida Supreme Court threw out Florida law 90.702.
Florida law 90.702 adopted standards for when the courts decide whether to allow an expert witness to testify in a trial. The rule was that the expert’s methods had to be based on any kind of scientific principles. As long as the expert uses a scientific approach to reach their conclusions, the jury can consider the evidence. This standard is also called the Daubert standard.
In the Florida Supreme Court case DeLisle v Crane Co et al., the Florida Supreme Court threw out the Daubert standard and Florida law 90.702. The Supreme Court chose a higher standard for the admission of expert testimony. The court may allow expert testimony only if the expert witness uses well-recognized scientific principles. The expert must base their statement on generally acceptable standards in their respective field. The criteria that they use must be contemporary standards. This standard for admitting expert testimony is called the Frye standard.
The Daubert standard is what the Florida legislature initially adopted in Florida law 90.702. But the Florida Supreme Court in the DeLisle case says that it’s up to the courts to create standards for admission of evidence. They say that it’s the job of the legislature to develop substantive laws, but it’s up to the courts to determine the admission of evidence. The Florida Supreme Court says that the more stringent Frye standard is the standard for admission of expert witnesses going forward in Florida.
How Do I Use a Medical Expert to My Advantage in a Florida Medical Malpractice Case?
If you have a medical malpractice claim, there are several ways that you can harness your medical expert to help you prove your case. First, it’s essential to have the right kind of expert for your claim. Your medical expert needs to meet the requirements for testifying in your case. In addition to that, you should ensure that the expert is fully qualified to assess your case with knowledge. Both sides have a chance to ask your expert questions, so it’s important to make sure that your expert is qualified and able to answer complex questions about the detailed subject matter.
Be completely honest with your legal team and your medical expert. If there are details that are unflattering to your case, it’s a safe bet that the other side is going to know about those details. When your medical expert knows all of the facts, they can offer you an honest opinion so that your attorney can prepare your case. Your attorney can help you understand how a medical expert can help you with your case.
Medical Malpractice Experts Attorneys in Florida
Are you facing a medical malpractice claim? Are you feeling frustrated or like you don’t know where to start? The skilled legal team at Jack Bernstein, Injury Attorneys in Tampa can help. We know how to evaluate your case and find the right medical expert to help you pursue your claim. You shouldn’t have to fight alone. Our team has thousands of satisfied customers, and we can put our experience to work for you. Contact us today to talk about your case.
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This thesis presents how to visualize a large crowd of virtual human characters in real time on a standard issue personal computer. The virtual humans are distributed into rendering fidelities such that the humans closer to the viewer are detailed and expressive while the further away they are, the less detailed they become. Fidelity partitioning starts with fully dynamic and geometric humans, meaning they can perform a full suit of animations even computed on-demand. Dynamic geometry is followed by static geometry such that a constrained set of animations can be achieved while the last and farthest detail level from the viewer is image-based and static. Various rendering accelerations applicable to each fidelity are used and compared, such as caching schemes, levels-of-detail, shaders and state sorting. Memory usage and artistic workload is reduced using template humans that are instantiated with individual varieties in animation, clothing, facial appearance and color combinations. An innovative constraining method for randomized colors is presented. With the opportunity of rendering large crowds, emerges the need for novel interaction methods such as the CrowdBrush, an intuitive spraycan interface for crowds. In the area of virtual therapy, individual human picking is presented using the GazeMap. Several other applications are shown to present the versatility and flexibility of the crowd rendering engine. | <urn:uuid:7259f89b-0809-4689-878a-62ff5138270c> | https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/83852/usage | en | 0.91331 | 0.133817 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Track your net worth like it is your business, wait…it is!
Many people work in companies and devote 60+ hours / week to those companies. We are often responsible for growing sales and profit, driving volume and coming up with ideas that will meet targets for the year. An important element in every public company is the forecast relative to the target or commitment that management has made to the street. This can have implications on profitability, inventory and total shareholder return which managers take very seriously and implement many processes to ensure their success:
Innovation: Companies will perform consumer research to understand unmet consumer needs, match those opportunities up with the production capabilities to develop an innovation pipeline that can be 3-5 years out. These projects are tested with consumers and shoppers in relative environments so companies can gather information to narrow the error range of the estimated volume associated with the innovation.
Trade investments: Companies will invest significantly to entice retailers to support their products with listings in more stores, feature frequency, display space outside of the shelf, pricing strategies to drive incrementality and shelf space to reduce out of stocks and stimulate triggers to purchase in store. Companies will also determine the specific target of each innovation or product segment and develop shopper marketing plans to drive trial, penetration. All of these investments drive estimated volumes with expected investment payouts that justify the spend; these estimates often roll up and translate to financial guidance that gets to the street. Post game analysis is usually required to understand the impact these investments have had on the business and relative to what was projected all with the hope of optimizing investments.
Marketers do similar planning and analysis using techniques like Market Mix Modeling which is a statistical analysis on sales and marketing data to estimate the impact of various tactics (marketing mix) on sales and then forecast the impact of future sets of tactics.
Before a year even starts, these companies compile a list of “Building blocks” which include last years base volume, planned innovation, trade and marketing investments with the volumes associated. The team then tracks each of those building blocks in a phased approach throughout the year.
This seems like a very rigorous logical and data based approach with elements that could be reapplied to our personal finances to drive a better return. Some steps that could be taken on the personal finance front include:
1. Tracking historical Assets and the return they have delivered.
2. Tracking the growth trajectory of various asset groups
3. Tracking the management of expenses.
4. Tracking various financial ratios like savings rate, Monthly investment income / expenses
5. Targets for the years net worth broken out by quarter
6. Building blocks to help drive the net worth target with regular tracking.
7. % of net worth in tax deferred accounts
8. % of tax deferred investment room being used.
9. Budget required while in the work force vs. in retirement.
10. Portfolio mix vs. desired allocation over time.
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Alexis Jeffery.
Alexis Jeffery. Contributed
Murder accused takes witness stand at Toowoomba trial
THE man accused of killing Goondiwindi mother Alexis Jeffery has taken the witness stand at his Toowoomba Supreme Court trial.
Robert Ian Trebeck has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ms Jeffery, 25, whose body was found on the banks of the Macintyre River at Goondiwindi on March 16, 2014.
Opening the defence case, Trebeck's barrister Ben Power told the jury his client would acknowledge that he had initially lied to police when first spoken to about the death of Ms Jeffery but that he had lied out of panic, fearing he would be accused of her murder.
Police had told him they believed he was the last person to be seen with Ms Jeffery.
However, as the defence had put to the jury earlier in the trial, Trebeck, 37, had admitted to having been intimate with Ms Jeffery on the river bank that morning when another man, Daniel Rowsell, who had shown interest in Ms Jeffery throughout that night, had arrived.
Trebeck claims he had been on top of Ms Jeffery when Daniel Rowsell approached saying "Trebeck, you're gone" before delivering a kick which struck Ms Jeffery in the head.
Trebeck said he then stood up and ran off, fearing any physical confrontation as he had a plate surgically inserted in his face due to facial injuries at the time.
He said he hadn't thought Ms Jeffery was badly injured but he deleted the text messages between them and had lost her mobile number and so hadn't contacted her later.
He had not tried to contact her by Facebook either as he had feared his fiance would find out about his infidelity that night.
He told the court he had met Ms Jeffery through a mutual Facebook friend and they had exchanged more than 300 texts and Facebook messages in the two weeks leading up to that weekend which had been the first time the pair had met face to face.
EARLIER: Robert Ian Trebeck had made what he thought to be an anonymous call to Crime Stoppers accusing his sister and her partner of the murder of Alexis Jeffery.
During evidence from arresting officer Detective Sergeant Brett Richard, Toowoomba Supreme Court heard that ordinarily calls to Crime Stoppers were not recorded.
However, because he was a "person of interest" in the murder, accused Robert Ian Trebeck's phone had been monitored and his call to Crime Stoppers on June 9, 2014, had been recorded.
In that recording, which was played to the court, Trebeck is heard telling the Crime Stoppers operator that "the person of interest" was not involved in the murder and that "he has been set up".
Asked by whom the person of interest had been set up, Trebeck said "by one local and one out of towner".
"They (police) need to look closer at his family," he was recorded as saying.
Trebeck then tells the operator that the person of interest's sister and brother-in-law had been married a few weeks after the murder and had since moved overseas.
He also claimed that shoes the person of interest had been wearing that night had been taken and disposed of as part of setting him up.
Det. Sgt Richard said "reef boots" allegedly worn by Trebeck that night had never been found and that early into the investigation police had used the media to put the word out that investigators were looking for a particular pair of shoes.
The Crown case is that Ms Jeffery had been strangled with the leg of her own jeans which were found stained with her blood two days later in a hedge near the crime scene.
The court has heard Trebeck's DNA had been found on those jeans as well as various part of Ms Jeffery's body.
The now 38-year-old was arrested and charged with murder two weeks after the Crime Stoppers call, Detective Sgt Richard told the court.
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ALBUM REVIEW: "Full flight"
Blue Falcon
"Full flight"
I hope this vinyl resurgence continues. Not just because it sounds better, but hopefully it'll change listening habits. Right now, LPs and EPs are getting gutted by digital butchery as listeners pull out only what they like. But these albums, these collections of music, have been assembled with a lot of blood, sweat, and thought. Even if a band's album isn't a concept piece, the order of the songs can drastically affect the impact.
Rochester indie-esque rockers Blue Falcon released a five-song EP, "First Flight," a couple of years ago, and it played front to back with sturdy cadence and rollercoaster dynamics. I loved it —and still do. Flash forward: Blue Falcon has taken "First Flight" and injected more cuts to arrive at a full-blown, 12-song CD.
It's excellent, touching upon all major food groups in a cool display. Does it play differently? Not necessarily. But then again, it's more of an extrapolated study of the sounds and themes that were already set in motion ... or flight. Does the fact that I love "First Flight" give me an inside track to enjoying this new record more than someone just turned onto the band? Maybe, but either way, it plays great front-to-back. The flight is just a little longer, that's all. — BY FRANK DE BLASE | <urn:uuid:a9d0ed7c-d95c-40df-ac0d-ba901f15093b> | https://m.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/album-rewview-full-flight/Content?oid=2790007 | en | 0.962332 | 0.020976 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Category Archives: healthcare
Links: Healthcare and how it’s eating the world, education, homelessness and weird public policies, the nature of the good life, and more!
* “The Pedagogical Lessons and Tradeoffs of Online Higher Education.” Education and healthcare both seem to lack silver bullets, although we keep looking for them. See also us on the need to boost apprenticeships and vocational education. This is based in part on my experiences teaching college students.
* “The U.S. Furniture Industry Is Back—but There Aren’t Enough Workers: Companies expanding American production due to consumer preferences and tariffs are finding a dearth of skilled workers.”
* “As Homelessness Surges in California, So Does a Backlash.” Who could have predicted that homelessness is part of the regulatory environment that precludes the building of homes?
* “Apple Commits $2.5B to Ease California Housing Crunch.” Unfortunately, money is not the big problem here—zoning policies that prevent new housing from being constructed is the problem. Until we decide that more housing is a good idea, more money is mostly going to be used to bid up the prices of existing housing. Oregon, for example, has legalized townhomes statewide, and California should be doing the same. We’ve worked on some homeless-service proposals, but it’s depressing to see California raise a bunch of money that then can’t be used efficaciously because of their zoning policies.
* “The Key to Electric Cars Is Batteries. Chinese Firm CATL Dominates the Industry.” Have not seen this triangulated from other sources, however.
* Unraveling an HIV cluster.
* “Why It’s So Hard to Buy ‘Real Food’ in Farm Country. An exodus of grocery stores is turning rural towns into food deserts. But some are fighting back by opening their own local markets.” Seems like an Onion story, but seemingly not.
* “San Francisco Board of Supervisors questions $900K/unit cost for Sunnydale ‘affordable’ housing.” Until we do zoning reform, we can’t build affordable housing, as noted above. Meanwhile, southern California is little better: “Some of Los Angeles’ homeless could get apartments that cost more than private homes, study finds.”
* $30 million in grants to fund nuclear fusion research. That’s cool.
* Air Pollution Reduces IQ, a Lot. If you are worried about human welfare, attacking air pollution is key. Normal people can do this, too, by choosing low-emissions vehicles.
* Medical billing: where all the frauds are legal. We’ve heard that many healthcare providers, including FQHCs, are forced to be medical billers first, and everything else second, or third, or worse. In related news, A CT scan costs $1,100 in the US — and $140 in Holland.” You’ve heard it before, but: price transparency now. What’s stopping this? “Doctors Win Again, in Cautionary Tale for Democrats: Surprise billing legislation suddenly stalled. The proposal might have lowered the pay of some physicians.” There are few if any easy wins.
* Why white-collar workers spend all day at the office. It’s a signaling race. Most writers know we have 2 – 4 decent hours a day in us for real writing, for example.
* “California population growth slowest since 1900 as residents leave, immigration decelerates..” This is purely a political and legal problem, which means it’s very solvable. Also, “‘Garages aren’t even cheap anymore:’ Bay Area exodus drives lowest growth rate in years.” California is a gerontocracy ruled by zombie homeowners who bought their properties decades ago, pay low property taxes on them, and now block anyone else from building anything, anywhere.
* Magic mushroom compound psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study.
* Letting nurse practitioners be independent increases access to health care? See also my post, Why you should become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor: the underrated perils of medical school. Healthcare fields seem to have near-infinite job growth, which is useful knowledge for job-training programs.
Telemedicine and the unstated reason it can save money for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and other providers
You may have read that Walgreens is is shuttering some of its in-store clinic, because the clinics are expensive to operate and, in addition, telemedicine services are taking off. Telemedicine competes with minute clinics, urgent cares, and some primary care offices; right now telemedicine is being vended through a variety of platforms, some of them independent of traditional medical providers (Teledoc is a relatively famous one), while others are affiliated with traditional providers, like FQHCs. The most interesting aspect of telemedicine services might be the one, unstated reason why they’re popular.
The official push towards telemedicine is justified by greater convenience and lower cost. So far, so good: those things are real, as is the nominal improvement in patient satisfaction, but the hidden reason is also revealing: a lot of in-person medical visits aren’t medically necessary and are generated by non-medical desires. Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler talk about this in The Elephant in the Brain: Chapter 13 describes how a lot of medicine seems to be generated by patients wanting reassurance from high-status people (doctors) and doctors wanting to enjoy the status that comes from people seeking out their expert knowledge. To be sure, “a lot of medicine” is not the same as “all medicine,” so you need not leave comments about broken bones being mended or cancers being treated.
A lot of medical office visits are costly for patient and doctor, so telemedicine can reduce the waste. In effect, telemedicine often ends up being triage: the distant provider tries to figure out whether something is genuinely wrong with the patient, and whether that thing needs to be seen in person. Almost all primary care providers have seen lots of patients who come in more for hand holding and an encounter with a sage doc than treatment of underlying condition. I haven’t seen studies describing exactly how many medical visits are really boredom, fear, craziness, improbable uncertainty, and the like, but anecdotally it seems to be high, and Hanson and Simler cite estimates in the 20 – 50% range. This is the sort of thing most of your healthcare provider friends won’t admit to strangers or acquaintances, but they may admit it to close friends or after a couple drinks. FQHC CEOs, who we work for, will sometimes admit this to us, their trusted grant writers (in our own way, we are the “trusted sages” in these conversations, reversing the roles).
So telemedicine can save money because it lets people with common colds, loneliness, and similar real or imagined ailments have a doctor, nurse practitioner, or physicians assistant tell them that they’re okay, bill them maybe less than they’d be billed for an in-person office visit, and then the provider can hang up and talk to another person who is also likely okay. Many people with chronic conditions also just need reassurance, direction to a specialist, or a prescription refilled. That can be done in a few minutes over the phone or via a videoconference. Because it’s socially undesirable and even unacceptable to admit that a lot of medicine is not what we typically think it’s about, not much can be done to substantially improve the system at current levels of technology, but offering telemedicine can be an improvement. HRSA has noticed something like this and is now pushing for FQHCs to offer telemedicine. Healthcare now consumed about 18% of GDP, in a $20 trillion economy, or about $3.7 trillion dollars. There’s enormous pressure on almost every player to try and lower costs as a consequence of these unbelievable numbers. One way or another, the average worker is paying about one in every five dollars earned into medicine—whether that dollar is paid to insurance companies, hospitals, or levels of government via taxes. Strangely, though, regulators are letting hospitals merge and form local monopolies and oligopolies, which is an important exception to the lower-cost trend. Telehealth, however, is right on trend.
Funders sometimes force grantees to provide services they don’t want to: FQHCs and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
We often remind clients that those with the gold make the rules. Accepting a government grant means the applicant must sign a grant agreement, in which the applicant agrees not only to provide wherever services were specified in the proposal, but also abide by a myriad of regulations and laws. While many applicants will tussle with a funder over the budget, there’s rarely any point in trying to modify the boiler plate agreement—just like one can’t modify Apple or Facebook’s Terms of Service.
In addition to the specific terms of the grant agreement, grantees quickly become subject to other influences from the funder—when the Godfather makes you an offer you can’t refuse, you know that eventually you’ll be told to do something you’d otherwise not much want to do. While a federal agency is unlikely to place a horse’s head in a nonprofit Executive Director’s bed, the grantee might end up having to provide an unpalatable service.
A case in point is HRSA’s relatively recent (and divisive) endorsement of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for treating opioid use disorder (OUD). Since HRSA is the primary FQHC funder, it is essentially their Godfather and has great influence over FQHCs. In the past few years, HRSA has strongly encouraged FQHCs to provide MAT. The CEOs of our FQHC clients have told us about HRSA pressure to start offering MAT. It seems that, even after several years of cajoling, only about half of our FQHC clients provide MAT, and, for many of these, MAT is only nominally offered. Other clients see offering MAT as a moral imperative, and we’ll sometimes get off the phone with one client who hates MAT and then on the phone with another client who sees not providing MAT as cruel.
“MAT” generically refers to the use of medications, usually in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, for the treatment of substance use disorders (SUD). For OUD, this usually means prescribing and monitoring a medication like Suboxone, in which the active ingredients are buprenorphine and naloxone. While Suboxone typically reduces the cravings of people with OUD for prescribed and street opioids (e.g., oxycontin, heroin, etc.), it is itself a synthetic opioid. While MAT replaces a “bad opioid” with a “good opioid,” the patient remains addicted. Many FQHC managers and clinicians object to offering MAT for OUD, for a variety of medical, ethical, and practical reasons:
• Like its older cousin methadone, as an opioid, Suboxone can produce euphoria and induce dependency, although its effects are milder. Still, it’s possible to overdose on Suboxone, particularly when combined with alcohol and street drugs. So it can still be deadly.
• While MAT is supposed to be combined with some form of talking or other therapy, few FQHCs have the resources to actually provide extensive individual or group therapy, so the reality is that FQHC MAT patients will likely need Suboxone prescribed over the long term, leaving them effectively addicted. We’re aware that there’s often a wide gap here between the real world and the proposal world.
• Unless it’s combined with some kind talking therapy that proves effective, MAT is not a short-term approach, meaning that, once an FQHC physician starts a patient on Suboxone, the patient is likely to need the prescription over a very long time—perhaps for the rest of their life. This makes the patient not only dependent on Suboxone, but also dependent on the prescriber and the FQHC, since few other local providers are likely to accept the patient and have clinicians who have obtained the necessary waiver to prescribe it. Suboxone users must be regularly monitored and seen by their prescriber, making for frequent health center visits.
• As noted above, prescribed Suboxone can, and is often, re-sold by patients on the street.
• Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, most FQHC health centers prefer to look like a standard group practice facility with a single waiting room/reception area. Unlike a specialized methadone or other addiction clinic, FQHC patients of all kinds are jumbled together. That means a mom bringing her five-year old in for a school physical could end up sitting between a couple of MAT users, who may look a little wild-eyed and ragged, making her and her kid uncomfortable. Since FQHCs usually lack the resources for anything beyond minor paint-up/fix up repairs, there is simply no way around this potential conflict.
Given the above, many FQHC CEOs remain resistant to adding the challenges of MAT to the many struggles they already face. Still, the ongoing pressure from HRSA means that most FQHCs will eventually be forced to provide at least a nominal MAT program to keep their HRSA Program Officer at bay. The tension between a typical mom and her five-year old against a full-fledged behavioral and mental health program is likely to remain, however. Before you leave scorching comments, however, remember that we’re trying to describe some of the real-world trade-offs here, not prescribe a course of action. What people really want in the physical space they occupy and what they say they want in the abstract are often quite different. You can see this in the relentless noise around issues like homeless service centers; everyone is in favor of them in someone else’s neighborhood and against them in their own neighborhood. Always pay attention to what a person actually does over a person’s rhetoric.
“Health insurance security” and FQHCs
I hesitate to post this, because it’s a bit more political than the topics we typically cover, but it’s explanatory more than partisan: “The 2018 Elections Were Not About Obamacare–They Were About Health Insurance Security.” In it, Bob Laszewski describes how “In March of 2016, there were 20.2 million people covered in the individual health insurance market,” but by “March of 2018 the count was 15.7 million.” Why? Because individual market “premiums and deductibles are sky high–for all but the lowest income participants.” Consider this data:
In Northern Virginia, for example, the cheapest 2019 Obamacare individual market Silver plan for a family of four (mom and dad age-40) making a subsidy eligible $65,000 a year costs $4,514. That plan has a $6,500 deductible meaning the family would have to spend $11,014 on eligible health care costs before collecting other than nominal first dollar benefits.
That same family, but making too much for a subsidy, as 40% of families do, and a typical family in the affluent Virginia 10th, would have to spend $19,484 in premiums plus a $6,500 deductible, for a total of $25,984 in eligible costs before they would collect any meaningful benefits.
Those are shocking numbers, no? Yet we rarely see them, or numbers like them, in the larger media landscape. Many people have individual experiences of such things, including me; I’m covered by a small group employer plan, not an individual market plan, but my own deductible is now about $5,000. Two years ago, it was $4,500, and when I had a minor procedure to fix a toe I’d dropped a pan on, I spent $4,500 out of pocket almost immediately. Not only that, but when I saw podiatrists to get fee quotes on the procedure, most could not or would not give them to me. Even people who say they want to pay in cash often cannot find out how much a particular service will cost. When I inquired about the price of an office visit, most receptionists were confused but could eventually get an answer, and prices varied hugely, from as little as $40 to as much as $350. Why? I don’t know.
Oh, and the podiatrist billed my insurance for something like $12,000, beyond the $4,500 I paid, and she got $900 out of the insurance company. So her net benefit from the procedure was $4,500 in cash (from me) plus $900 from the insurance company. It is almost impossible to read this paragraph and not think, “Something is horribly wrong here.”
And I am not alone: almost anyone not covered by a very large employer plan, Medicaid, or Medicare has had similar experiences.
There is also an absurdly common misconception among normal people: that “insurance” is what matters for healthcare. Insurance is only part of the puzzle, but “insurance” is only as good as the healthcare we can access with it. Many doctors, for example, don’t accept Medicaid patients. So someone on Medicaid who counts as “having insurance” may not have access to care. Laszewski points out that many people “have insurance” (which is fine), but if the insurance never kicks in for the average person, then it is not functioning like true insurance, but not as the pay-all system that health insurance means to most Americans.
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), which are federally funded nonprofits, have supersized in part because of the strange path of the US healthcare markets. Either by accident or design, FQHCs have become the default Medicaid providers in many parts of the country at the same time that the ACA significantly expanded Medicaid eligibility. Policy wonks in DC, along with some politicians, know that “insurance” is not the same as “health care” (as I myself said above). Even if politicians don’t know that, many of their constituents and voters who are on Medicaid know it. FQHCs are a partial solution, because they accept Medicaid patients and self-pays on sliding fee scales. FQHCs have also become front-line purveyors of Patient Navigation services (which link patients with Medicaid or ACA plans). Still, FQHCs usually do not have enough slots for everyone who seeks care, and waits can be long; FQHCs also often have trouble recruiting clinicians and in particular specialties like OB/GYN and psychiatrist.*
So the convoluted and intertwined health insurance and care access problems remain; the present situation likely cannot hold forever; and I do not know what will happen, politically speaking. But I would surmise that, if a family of four making $65,000 a year must pay $10,000 or more in true costs for healthcare before some manner of insurance kicks in, something has to give.
Single-payer is popular in some American political circles, though it’s not my preferred outcome and seems unfeasible financially; I’d rather see price transparency and mandatory health savings accounts coupled with true insurance for catastrophic care. Unfortunately, no one but me and a handful of healthcare wonks desire this outcome, or something adjacent. It’s hard to explain in a soundbite and normal voters have no idea what “price transparency and mandatory health savings accounts coupled with true insurance for catastrophic care” means. It doesn’t map well onto political ideologies. In healthcare, no one wants to talk about or admit to trade-offs. We write many grant proposals for FQHCs, but we never mention trade-offs. Seliger + Associates is a grant writing firm, so we’re firmly in the proposal world. All FQHCs should be in the proposal world when writing HRSA or SAMHSA or foundation applications. In the real world, however, just saying it’s so, doesn’t make it so. Trade-offs are real and pervasive. It may be socially undesirable to acknowledge them, but they are real.
The most likely political outcome will be more kludges on top of existing kludges. Fortunately, “price transparency” would fit this general paradigm. Unfortunately, there seems to be no political constituency for it. I cannot say what will happen next. I did not think Obamacare would happen, and I was wrong about that. I also did not realize that the feds would re-purpose FQHCs in the way that they have, as Medicaid providers, yet here we are. In healthcare, it seems, almost anything is, or has become, possible.
* This is largely due to barriers to entry imposed by existing doctors and especially the powerful American Medical Association. Many things could be done to increase the supply of doctors, including integrating med school into undergrad; shortening med school; allowing foreign doctors to practice without residency; or creating a special one-year residency for foreign doctors. None, however, are on the political horizon.
“Your methods are unorthodox”
As GWC readers know, getting information about state and local grants is often tricky. Every state and municipality is different, and, like foundations, few if any make any effort at standardization or the user experience; most just assume that the usual suspects will apply for grants, and consequently they end up forming de facto cartels. In theory, too, all government grant information is also public information, but that’s a little like the theory that DMV employees are public servants who work on behalf of taxpayers: connecting theory to practice can be hard or nonexistent—naive visitors to the DMV learn.
Anyway. I spent some time attempting to get into the Wisconsin “Division of Public Health Grants and Contracting (GAC) Application” page, which is stashed behind a password wall for no reason I can discern. In the process I ended up emailing “Yvette A Smith,” a contracting specialist, to request access, and in reply, she told me that “Your request is unorthodox.” While not quite as good as “Your methods are unsound,” I did actually laugh out loud; I do like to imagine I’m the grant-world equivalent of Captain Willard talking to Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
And Yvette is right: our methods are unorthodox and we do disturb the fabric of the grant/proposal world. That’s part of the reason we’re effective.
Still, I had no idea that there’s an orthodoxy in the State of Wisconsin. And if there is, what is that orthodoxy? Is it John 16:10 that describes how users should access GAC Application information? Or does orthodoxy emerge from other texts?
Alas, I didn’t inquire that far, and I also never quite got access to the GAC Application Page, but I was able to find the information I needed elsewhere. Still, I did learn just a little about the quality of governance in Wisconsin. A famous paper looks at “Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets,” and the authors find that “diplomats from high corruption countries (based on existing survey-based indices) have significantly more parking violations, and these differences persist over time.” I wonder if my own experiences interacting with local and state governments are similar: the worse the quality of random bureaucrats, the worse the overall level of governance.
FQHCs, Reproductive Health/Family Planning Services, and Planned Parenthood: An Uneasy but Symbiotic Relationship, Centered on Title X Funding
We often write about Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), in part because we often work for them in part because FQHCs illustrate many challenges facing other nonprofits. This post discusses a service that FQHCs could provide but mostly choose not to—a common circumstance among certain classes of nonprofits, like foster family agencies and substance abuse treatment providers.
To understand the dilemma, you have to know that the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) funds FQHCs under Section 330 of the Public Health Services Act and FQHCs are sometime referred to as “Section 330 providers.” While FQHCs do collect copays and most take insurance, a large chunk of their funding comes directly and indirectly (via Medicaid) from the feds. FQHCs are mandated to provide “integrated full life-cycle care” (HRSA-lingo here), including reproductive health/family planning services. Still, many of our FQHC clients are skittish about promoting these services and are consequently reluctant to seek other grants to support family planning.
Thus, FQHCs have effectively ceded the huge pot of Title X family planning grants ($288 billion in 2016) to specialized family planning clinics, which are mostly but not exclusively operated by local affiliates of Planned Parenthood. While Planned Parenthood provides great women’s reproductive and related preventative health care, with an emphasis on low-income women and girls, unlike FQHCs, their clinics do not provide full life-cycle care.
From what we can tell, FQHCs and Planned Parenthood clinics seem to operate in a symbiotic, but parallel manner, in which both stay out of each other’s turf (if you have even more specialized knowledge about this situation, feel free to leave a comment). There are about 650 Planned Parenthood clinics, which serve about 2.5 million women annually with family planning services (this does not include abortions). In contrast, there are about 1,400 FQHCs, which serve about 17 million patients annually, and these numbers are growing rapidly due to the expansion of Medicaid under the ACA. More than 50% of FQHC patients are women, so let’s call it 9 million. FQHCs serve many more women than Planned Parenthood, but readers would never know this from the media.
While I don’t know this for sure, one presumes this is because, bureaucratically speaking, there are at least two parts to Planned Parenthood that are structured separately: the family planning side, which is touted by progressives, and the abortion side, which is demonized by some conservatives. The nascent FY ’18 federal budget battle between the Trump administration/Republicans and Democrats is being fought partially over Title X funding. The media usually obfuscates the Tile X grant aspect, focussing instead on the much more sensational issue of Planned Parenthood funding.
I assume that, if Congress passed legislation making Planned Parenthood ineligible for Title X (unlikely but possible), other providers, like FQHCs, would start applying for Title X grants. In other words, no matter what happens, as far as I know, there are no proposed cuts to Title X (again, if you have specialized knowledge, leave a comment). It’s just a question of which agencies will provide Title X funded services and how those agencies will link with Planned Parenthood, which presumably would continue as the nation’s main abortion provider.
I know the potential competition between FQHCs and Planned Parenthood clinics is a big issue for Planned Parenthood, as Title X provides more or guaranteed funding to keep the lights on—a concern for all nonprofits. This basic issue was confirmed by several interesting pieces I found and that the Alan Guttmacher Institute published (it’s more or less the research affiliate of Planned Parenthood).* For example, this article makes the curious argument that FQHCs couldn’t expand to provide family planning service now being provided by Planned Parenthood:
FQHCs are an integral part of the publicly funded family planning effort in the United States, but it is unrealistic to expect these sites to serve the millions of women who currently rely on Planned Parenthood health centers for high-quality contraceptive care.
As a grant writer, I admire the carefully crafted but entirely specious reasoning, which reminds me of our needs assessments, I’m pretty confident that FQHCs would have no trouble picking up the slack and the Title X grants—if they wanted to. We have some FQHC clients with over 40,000 patients, and at that size they can begin to resemble something larger than a community clinics. At the moment, they’re mostly reluctant to tangle with Planned Parenthood—but, again, they could.
And they might.
* The Guttmacher Institute is a great source, albeit one with a point of view, for studies and data relating family planning, teen pregnancy, and the like. We sometimes use their citations in writing needs assessments. If you’re curious about research organizations with a point of view, Daniel Drezner’s book The Ideas Industry is good.
Meaningful Use Regulations, CMS, HRSA FQHCs and the Stalled Push to Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
According to Mother Jones, the United States has spent billions on electronic medical records (EMRs)* and we’ve got little to show for it. Digitizing healthcare records was supposed to save time, money, and lives. It hasn’t. That news resonates with us because we’ve written dozens of proposals, mostly for Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) RFPs that either explicitly or implicitly require a discussion of our clients’ use of EMR systems. These clients are usually hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) or other primary care providers. From them we’ve heard numerous heard off-the-record stories about the fiascos that ensued for providers that have implemented EMRs. For example, we worked for a hospital in Southern California that interfaced with a much larger, nationally known hospital that attempted to implement a comprehensive EMR system. The large, famous hospital eventually scrapped a $30 million EMR system because the doctors simply refused to use it.
There seems to be no good solution to the EMR problem. EMRs have been touted for at least the last 15 years as a tech-based way of improving patient outcomes, while reducing healthcare costs or at least bending the cost curve downward (as health policy wonks like to say). EMRs got a got big push with huge amounts of EMR funding included in the 2009 “Stimulus Bill.” The advent of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA,” or, colloquially, “ObamaCare”) escalated the EMR drive. Various Federal and state agencies advocated and then effectively mandated EMRs.
But this well-meaning concept has at best moved sideways. promulgates the wonderfully bureaucratically named “Meaningful Use” regulations, which use a combination of incentives (e.g., higher Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements) and threats. The carrots are offered and the threats enforced primarily by CMS. Everyone is supposed to get to Stage 1 of Meaningful Use (data capturing and sharing) on a supposedly smooth trajectory to Stage 3 (improved outcomes). Stage 3 turns out to be like the intergalactic instantaneous travel through spacetime. We’ve yet to find an hospital, FQHC or other client that has reached Stage 3. Most are stuck at Stage 1, with a few bravely claiming Stage 2. We’ve never seen a client hit Stage 3, though they may be out there, perhaps in a galaxy far far away.
The problem is that EMRs are trying to map the extraordinary complexities of the real world into software. The complexity can be seen in the new International Classification of Diseases, ICD-10 Codes, published by our old friend CMS. ICD-10 codes are used by medical providers and billers to track patients and payments, based on the code or codes of the patient’s particular situation. When we talk to FQHCs, they invariably say that coding errors are among their major problems. ICD-10 has an astounding 68,000 individual codes, compared to only 14,000 codes in the previous ICD-9. In recent years, humans have invented or discovered an enormous number of new ways to get hurt. No one can remember more than a few hundred of these mysterious codes, which are easy to mistype into an EHR and/or be misunderstood by harried doctors and mid-level practitioners. The complexity of the codes, combined with human diversity and frailty, inherently generates huge numbers of mistakes.
Folks with too much time on their hands have published various funny ICD-10-CM codes. Some choice ones (we are not making these up) include: “V97.33XD: Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter;” Y92.146: “Swimming-pool of prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause” (how many prisons have swimming pools?); and my personal favorite, “R46.1: Bizarre personal appearance.” You can tweet your favorite bizarre ICD-10 codes to @healthcaredive.
Ask your doctor about their EMR system and you’ll likely here a lot of invective. I live with a doctor and so have heard the horror stories from her and her colleagues. Isaac’s primary care physician (PCP) hates EMRs but is more or less forced to use eClincalWorks, an EMR system that is also popular with our FQHC clients. Epic is another popular one. Still, however you feel about whether EMRs is efficacious or horrible or brilliant or whatever, pretty much every healthcare-related proposal has to mention EMRs, statistics, and tracking. That could be as minor as a project that works on childhood obesity or as major as a hospital chain implementing some new facet of EMRs.
Anyway, EMRs are a specialized case of a more general problem described in “Why Software Fails: We waste billions of dollars each year on entirely preventable mistakes.” EMRs, like other forms of software, have numerous moving parts and numerous human users. Anyone working in or around EMRs needs to read “Why Software Fails.” At Seliger + Associates, we expect to keep writing about EMRs for FQHCs and similar clients for years if not decades to come. In the real world, doing EHRs right is simply a Hard Problem—so hard that it deserves capital letters. EMRs are almost impossible to do “right” and yet have to be done right. They’re so hard that we don’t have a solution. “Why Software Fails” explains why a solution may not exist, no matter how badly HRSA or CMS wants one. As the Soviet Union discovered, mandates from above, no matter how strong, do not automatically translate into fixing problems from below.
* EMRs are alternatively referred to as Electronic Health Records (EHRs), particularly in HRSA and CMS RFPs. In ones types “EHR” into Word, or any other word processor, and the autocorrect feature will change it to “HER.” This in annoying, but does result in some unintentionally funny typos. When finished with proposal draft involving EHRs, always do a find and replace for “HER”.
Thought of the Day: Funders Could Provide Proposal Templates in Word
Federal, state, local and foundation funders could save everyone, including themselves, a lot of grief and heartache by including a Word proposal narrative template with every RFP.
Let me explain: this may not be the most compelling way to start a post, but if you don’t like to waste your time, energy, and precious life on this planet you’ll stay with me even when I write about how last week I was formatting a particularly tedious HRSA proposal. This proposal’s narrative instructions alone have more than ten pages of headers, sub-headers, sub-sub-headers, inconsistent number/bullet patterns, and instructions. I followed the model Isaac wrote about in “What Does a Grant Proposal Look Like Exactly? 13 Easy Steps to Formatting a Winning Proposal:”
Learn to love outlines. If the RFP has an outline format, reproduce it. If not, develop a simple outline format of your own, indenting .2 or .25 inches as the outline descends. It is easy to do this in Word by using paragraph styles. Make Outline 1 “A” with no indent, Outline 2, “1″ with a .2 indent, Outline 3 “a” with .4 indent and so forth.
Not surprisingly, I succeeded in creating an attractive outline.* But I also spent many hours creating styles, copying and/or rewriting header text, and deciding on the formatting necessary to reproduce this relentlessly, tediously verbose HRSA RFP. Towards the end of the process I realized: HRSA didn’t have to make me do all this! HRSA doesn’t have to make each applicant use subtly different sub-heading text, as is currently the case. They could offer an optional proposal template in Word that already has all the narrative headers in a style that’ll make proposals easier for HRSA to read and easier for applicants to write. Everyone wins!
Standardized proposal templates would be slightly bad for our business, because plenty of people see the byzantine narrative structure, become distressed, and think hard about how quickly they can pay someone else to make the pain go away. But they’d be a net win for humanity, and, at heart, I am a humanitarian. Think about it, funders: a tiny amount of work on your end could be a great virtue for all mankind.
* Don’t underestimate the value of instant attraction in just about any domain. Publishers spend a lot of time and money getting book formatting right for a reasons. They know that readers judge a book based not only on the particular words used but on the way those words are shaped and presented. We’ve seen many, many clients who turn in sloppily formatted proposals or who sacrifice readability for more words. Those are mistakes. | <urn:uuid:0057c15a-3e98-47aa-89e8-f1d7bfd438d3> | https://seliger.com/category/healthcare-2/ | en | 0.953285 | 0.031443 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
156: Mutiny on the Bounty with Brandon Huebner
1962’s Mutiny on the Bounty is one of the most popular requests to cover. Today, we’ll do that with the help of Brandon Huebner, the host of The Maritime History Podcast.
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Dan LeFebvre: [00:01:53] The movie opens by giving us a time and place where, Portsmouth Harbor in England on December 23rd, 1787. This is when the HMS bounty leaves England. Her mission, according to the movie, is to travel to Tahiti to gather what the Gardner on board, Mr. Brown calls breadfruit. And according to Mr. Brown, the breadfruit plant has the potential to be a great source of food for British colonies like those in the West Indies.
That’s how the movie kind of sets up the context for the purpose of the bounties mission. Can you give us an overview of how accurate that was to history?
Brandon Huebner: [00:02:34] Yeah, definitely. My basic answer is that that is the broad purpose of the mission. It’s pretty accurate in in the big picture, so I was pretty impressed with how they set it up there.
I think in one of the opening scenes, the gardener Brown that you mentioned, he alludes to Kew gardens, which he says is the garden in London, and that was the Royal gardens in London there. It had been around for a while. The connection with Kew gardens to the actual bounty mission was that sir Joseph Banks was the president of the Royal society, the scientific society of gentlemen in London and that time, and he was one of the guys who really helped get the Kew gardens off the ground and grow a lot in that era.
He’s the man who bankrolled the bounty expedition basically had a lot of finances and he put it together and his whole purpose for the expedition was to get breadfruit from Tahiti, like they said. So that was definitely the main purpose. Joseph Banks actually had gone on previous expeditions to the Pacific, so he was personally familiar with that area.
He went there with captain cook, who’s a pretty well known, one of the early explorers of the Pacific. There. So yeah, bringing breadfruit from Tahiti over to the West Indies was their main goal. They had some other sub goals, I guess, which were too more fully explore that area of the world cause it hadn’t been fully explored to that point.
There were broad stretches of it that weren’t on maps at all. So that was a secondary purpose of the expedition too.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:04:13] Would that be a rather consistent secondary purpose of, I guess I’m just assuming that if a ship, whether it’s bounty or you know, another ship. It goes off into an area that’s not necessarily explored very well, that automatically becomes a secondary mission to whatever it is that they’re doing.
Brandon Huebner: [00:04:32] Yeah, I think that’s pretty fair. That’s how a lot of them viewed their purpose as explorers at that time and place in history, especially the, you know, the captain’s coming from Europe in that time were the ones leading the forefront of exploration. So, yeah, having the dual purpose there I think was pretty common.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:04:51] Okay. Well, now that we know a little bit about the, when and where and what their purpose was, I’m curious about the who, especially since movies, a lot of times like to change names or make up completely fictional characters. I always like to ask about some of the characters that we see. And in this movie, there’s a few key characters that we meet early on.
There’s Lieutenant Fletcher Christian. He’s played by Marlon Brando. When I went back to watch this man, he was really young in this movie.
Brandon Huebner: [00:05:20] Yeah, I noticed that too.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:05:24] and then a captain William Bligh, who’s played by Trevor Howard. And one of the more prominent of the crew crewman, a man by the name of John Mills.
He’s played by Richard Harris. And again, I did not recognize him at first. It took a little bit cause he was so young. But were those real people on the bounty?
Brandon Huebner: [00:05:41] Yeah, all three of them were. And I agree with you, like I was kind of caught off guard by how young all the actors were. It’s been a long time since I saw this movie.
So pretty interesting. But yeah, all three of those guys were real men who went on the bounty expedition. Of course, Fletcher Christian and the captain Bligh are the two main ones. Christian, you know, was fairly well depicted. I think he was kind of coming from a family that had more means, I suppose you could say.
I don’t know if he was quite as much of, you know, a dandy is the movie depicted necessarily, but it’s a little hard to tell just from looking at records from the time, so he could have had that type of personality. Bly too. He was basically the captain of the voyage, I guess technically in that timeframe.
He hadn’t achieved the rank of captain officially for the Navy yet. Bligh was technically not a captain, but that’s the role that he played on this expedition. He was the leader and everybody knew he was. Bligh was the one who really gives us most of the records we have from the actual expedition, because as the captain, he’s the one who was writing the log book every day.
You know, he kept his own journal of events as they unfolded. So his records are pretty good contemporary running log of what would have happened on the expedition with the giant caveat. Of course, that. He could leave stuff out if he wanted to. So at that, that becomes a focal point of the historical debate, I guess.
The third guy, John Mills, he was also part of the crew. He was Gunner’s mate, I think. So. He wasn’t at the top of the leadership structure per se, and I’ve found it a little strange that they included him as more of a focus of the film’s narrative, because as far as we can tell from history, he didn’t really play that big of a role.
And we don’t have any, you know, firsthand written accounts from him. Where we do have written journals are after the fact accounts from other people who were part of the expedition. So his role in the film was a little surprising to me, but he was a real person.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:07:57] I wonder if maybe, I’ve seen this a lot with filmmakers will, in order to make it easier to understand, it’s the crew is this one essentially all coming from this one guy, because as I recall.
Mills, at least in the movie, was the spokesperson for the crew. And so the crew’s position very often was essentially whatever it was he was saying.
Brandon Huebner: [00:08:17] Yeah, I think that’s a fair way to look at it. And I kind of had the same thought watching back through the film. He’s used as like a figure head almost.
There were a fair number of other crew members that I caught their names over the course of the film, and I think they were pretty accurate as far as naming different people who were part of the crew.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:08:36] Okay. They just picked a, okay, Richard Harris is playing this guy, so he’s going to be the main guy.
Brandon Huebner: [00:08:41] Yeah. That’s probably how it went.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:08:45] Now we don’t really see any sort of dates or anything like that in the movie after they leave England, but almost immediately we start to get a sense for captain leadership. And this happens when mills is accused of stealing two 25 pound wheels of cheese by another crew member.
And initially he denies this, but then below decks with the crew mills admits that he took the cheese, but he insists that he took the cheese because captain Bligh wanted him to take the cheese to his house. It was a direct order. And then. He calls captain Bligh a thief, and just about that time, of course, as it would happen, Bly happens to walk by and he hears this, and then Bly orders mills to receive two dozen lashes.
I mean, any time watching a torture like this is, it’s difficult, but it’s also insane to think about how this is a, in least according to the movie, it’s happening over some cheese. That according to one side was. The order from captain Bligh, but then there’s even some dialogue in there as if that wasn’t enough of an indication of his style of leadership.
But there’s a, I think it was Lieutenant Christian mentions the, this infraction is minor, you know, stealing some cheese and the punishment is way too severe. But then captain Bligh says something to the effect of that may be true, but cruelty with purpose is not cruelty. It’s efficiency. And so we get the idea from the movie that captain Bligh wants to lead his crew through fear.
How well did the movie do showing captain Blind’s mentality for how he wanted to lead his crew?
Brandon Huebner: [00:10:29] That is a good question. That’s a bit of a tough one too, because again, like I mentioned a minute ago, his journal, his records are a large basis of. What we know about what happened on the expedition. We have some after the fact accounts by people who were implicated in everything.
As it plays out, you know, you can almost look at it like, by the time we get to the part where we’re looking at everybody’s story of what happened, we’re in a court trial almost, so you take people’s testimony with a grain of salt at that point a little bit. I guess. So we do know that Bly was pretty strict as a captain.
The whole cheese block incident, I guess is Christian tried to pass it off as it was a minor thing, but Bligh was coming and most of the crew, almost the entire crew were coming from this tradition of, they were part of the Royal Navy. They’d all served on ships before, and they’d been under various captains during the tenure of their careers.
Respecting the structure of authority in in the Navy especially, was a huge deal. So the cheese incident, I guess captain Bligh, if it played out that way, he was looking at it as not so much that he wanted to rule them through fear, but more that he just needed to assert his authority, I guess, and make sure that he was viewed as the captain and there was no questioning his integrity.
That’s part of it, I guess. As far as blinds, personality, there are quite a few accounts from this expedition from later expeditions that he was part of too. He had quite a few run ends with various people over the course of his life and career in the Navy and as an authority figure, once you get along enough string of.
People having run ins with the same guy over and over. You start to wonder if
Dan LeFebvre: [00:12:24] common denominator.
Brandon Huebner: [00:12:27] Exactly, exactly. So there is some of that going on beneath the surface. I guess Bly was, he was pretty strict. Even aside from his personality, he had served on previous voyages with the captain cook. Captain cook was also very strict.
He believed in keeping his crew set to a rigid. Schedule, keep them disciplined, keep them in shape, especially because when you’re going on these long voyages to the Pacific where you don’t exactly know where you’re going to wind up or when. He really believed in keeping everybody exercised and fit, eating a regular diet, and a lot of the sailors could get on board with that, but of course you always have some sailors on the crew who are just there for the rom or whatever.
They don’t want to listen to the authority figure that came into it. I think there’s a scene in the movie where he has the crew dancing up on the deck. At one point there’s the guy playing the fiddle, and I thought that was a pretty good scene to include because we know from the journals that captain Bligh, he was so insistent that they had to get four hours of dancing in.
Every night. Like he had a set schedule from four to 8:00 PM he’d have the fiddle player play and they all had to dance on deck as a way to get exercise cause there’s nowhere else to go when you’re stuck on a tiny ship. So that was reported to have gotten old rather quickly with the crew. They, they made fun of it, you know.
But black cuttingK if you just had to keep them to it, if you want it to maintain its authority. So it was things like that. He tried to keep them all in line and in order. And it does seem like the crew got tired of it kind of quickly.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:14:12] Earlier you mentioned that he wasn’t really a captain, but he was trying to prove himself.
Do you think some of it had to do with that, where he’s trying to prove himself as a captain so that when he returns home from this voyage, people in the Navy will see how good a job he did and actually give him the official title?
Brandon Huebner: [00:14:32] I do. I think that’s a very good point. And. You know, the historians that have done work on this and done the research and to everybody’s accounts and journals and whatnot.
That’s something they point to quite a bit as maybe being part of the underlying psychological basis for why BLI acted the way he did. There were letters going back and forth between him and the Admiralty in London before the voyage left. That kind of show. He was pretty concerned that they’d make him a captain before they set sail.
It was a big deal to him, so you can kind of assume from that, that it was always there on the back of his mind. He may be was frustrated because the Admiralty didn’t come through and make him a captain before the voyage to that sale, even though they were supposed to. He probably did then feel like he had to go out of his way to prove a point.
And maybe that did play a role. Yeah.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:15:27] As you’re mentioning that, and then tying that back into most of what we know about this still comes from him, and so thinking of the things that he may not have included that he might’ve thought might’ve been a little bit too much or something, I don’t know. It putting in the logs again, like you said, he can control what goes in those logs.
And so just think about how, how many things we don’t know about that might’ve happened that he just decided to omit from history.
Brandon Huebner: [00:15:55] Yeah. It’s an interesting discussion. I, I tend to think there aren’t a ton of things that he left out. He was conscientious as a captain. It seems. To try to keep as accurate of a record as possible, but it still does raise questions there.
There was a time where after they leave England, the movie set, it was some time in December, if I remember correctly,
Dan LeFebvre: [00:16:20] December 23rd, 1787
Brandon Huebner: [00:16:22] okay. So they initially were trying to leave England a couple, like two months before that in October. The Admiralty slowed them down a bit, just because this expedition wasn’t a huge priority, which is reflected in the fact that they didn’t try that hard to make BLI and actual post captain.
So there were kind of a chain of events that set them behind schedule a little bit. They got stuck by weather in the English channel, so by the time they finally make it out into the Atlantic in December, you know, he’s already annoyed. Like we’re behind schedule. Then he wants to show, he’s still the captain.
Keep his authority, go on and get everybody in a strict regimen. So, you know, there’s a way you can look at it. Like maybe things got off on a bad foot from the very beginning, but then it just becomes a debate. Like how much of that was Blythe’s fault. He should’ve been able to handle that anyways, cause he’s the captain, he’s gotta be prepared for anything.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:17:22] Yeah. You mentioned the timeframe there, and that leads right into my next question because something that we get from the movie is how captain Bligh is so focused on getting to their destination as soon as they can. And so he decides instead of taking the long way around, and I think they show a little map to kind of visualize this, but think of, you know, the, the Cape of good hope in Africa according to the movie, perceived as the safer route.
But then captain Bligh decides to take the more dangerous routes. Down around South America, which is Cape horn, but that’s shorter distance wise, but it’s more dangerous because of weather. Now, if they’re able to do it, the movie implies that they can save five months, shape five months off of their voyage, but this decision in the movie proof’s disastrous.
There’s horrible weather. Eventually. Forces them to turn around and in the process, instead of saving five months, they lose five months time, which of course makes captain Bligh not very happy at all, but was the movie correct? And showing that captain Bligh initially commanded the bounty to go around Cape horn instead of the Cape of good hope.
Brandon Huebner: [00:18:37] Yeah. I that’s, that’s another point where I think in general that is accurate. That was their initial plan was to go around South America, around Cape horn, just like you said, because it saves them so much time and so much distance traveled. The rub is that you’re going further South than you would if you had to go around.
The Cape of good hope around the tip of South Africa. So the bad weather comes into play as you’re getting close into the Antarctic regions there. They knew it was going to be a gamble, I suppose, but enough ships had gone that route. By this point in history, they knew with pretty fair certainty that if they got there early enough in the sailing season, they’d have a high likelihood of being able to make it around the Cape of good hope.
That was the initial orders from the Admiral. T2 definitely try to go that way if you can, because it saves us time and money, so it, it seems like captain Bligh, but even his superiors all were of the same mindset that that was the first way to try to go, as I mentioned a little bit. They were behind from the beginning through not really captain bias faults.
So by the time they finally got out of the English channel and into the Atlantic, he probably had a sneaking suspicion that they weren’t going to make it there in time. I suppose maybe that’s another thing that, you know, might’ve gotten under his skin, made him have a worse attitude than he was inclined to have to begin with.
So yeah, that was their first. The attempt was to go that way, but they did wind up getting stopped by weather, like you said.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:20:21] Okay. Yeah. That’s a good little tidbit about them being delayed from the onset because that’s not something they really show in the movie, and so it just, the impression I get from the movie is he is just so focused on getting there.
He wants to shave five months off. Regardless. It doesn’t really show that, Oh, they’re already starting off a little bit behind, and so wanting to save, make up some of that time is a little more of a understandable, I can understand that a little bit more. Trying to make up a little bit of that time rather than when I was watching the movie again this last time, it just seems like, Oh man, he just.
He just wants to, it’s all about making a good impression and getting there really fast and that not necessarily we just want to get there on time and we’ve already lost some time.
Brandon Huebner: [00:21:07] Yeah, that’s a good point. I think he, he was very driven to make the good impression. So maybe there’s elements of both, but that kind of muddies the waters a little bit.
If he tried to show that it wasn’t just his fault. I can see why the movie set it all up the way that it did.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:21:23] Yeah. Yeah. Well, one thing they do show in the movie was that after this happens, captain Bligh actually blames the crew for costing them five months as if it was the crew’s decision to go around Cape horn first.
Even though just a little bit earlier in the movie, they show that it captain blinds decision and they didn’t want to do it, but did he really blame the crew for that decision?
Brandon Huebner: [00:21:45] Oh, that’s a good question. I kind of wanted the same thing when the movie portrays it that way. I tend to think that that’s a bit more of a stretch than maybe some of these other points.
I’ve never read anything to that effect, but again, I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if there is a kernel of truth there. Not so much that he was truly angry at the crew, but I could see he was kind of renowned to have a temper in trying circumstances that he. Didn’t try to restrain at all, and he would just, you know, let his worst thoughts fly.
Whoever tended to be closest at the moment. So I could see they got to the Cape, to Cape horn, and they were held up by weather for a few weeks. He kept trying to push them to make. The turn around to try to get over onto the Pacific side. There were plenty of ships who could fight against the prevailing winds and they could make it around, but it’s also a renowned area of the world where there’s tons of shipwrecks because it’s so dangerous.
He was very driven to try to get them to make it around because they spent several weeks trying to fight against the winds, but he wound up just having to tell the crew. We tried, we’ll turn around. It seems like some of that decision was probably because all of the crew was sick of it at that point, and I could see in the heat of the moment and then him getting so frustrated.
He probably did lash out at crew members. I just haven’t seen anything concrete to show like what he said necessarily or anything like that.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:23:23] You make a good point though that if he was already frustrated because they were behind and then this happens. Yes. It’s just not going to help somebody who sounds like has a short fuse anyway, to begin with.
And so he’s going to lash out further. Even some of the smallest things after that,
Brandon Huebner: [00:23:39] I guess it sounds kind of like an excuse when I put it that way. I don’t mean to portray it as an excuse for him.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:23:46] No, but it rational. I it it, I’m like, I’m just trying to put myself in that mindset of why would he do the things that he’s doing and not, not to excuse them by any means.
Brandon Huebner: [00:23:55] Right, right.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:23:56] But just to try to. Try to understand it, I guess is no better way to put that than that. That’s fair. That’s fair. I wonder if while they were stuck trying to go around Cape horn in the bad weather, did they still have to do their nightly dancing?
Brandon Huebner: [00:24:10] They would have really struggled, I think. Yeah.
I mean, it’s freezing cold down there. Maybe he gave him a break. I don’t know.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:24:17] Well, going back to the movie, once the bounty reaches their destination in Tahiti. They’re welcomed by the natives. There’s singing, dancing, feasting. It’s what I pretty much would assume a Hollywood sixties movie would show on a tropical Island.
Right, and of course the crew loves this. How were they actually received when they arrived in Tahiti?
Brandon Huebner: [00:24:41] From all the accounts we have, it seems like they were received with open arms by the technicians. Like you said, I’m sure the movie romanticizes it a little bit in that sixties style that it does. it’s still fun to watch though, for sure.
But we know from the records, like captain cook had been to Tahiti before. There have been some other expeditions that have made land there. So the people of Tahiti were fairly well familiar with people coming from Europe and from the outside world by this point. And. They were glad to have people visit.
They especially loved all the wealth and the goods that the ships brought with them from the European world. So I think that was part of it. But culturally, Tahiti was also a very welcoming society, kind of like the movie portrays too. So I think it’s been about 10 months since the ship left England, by the time they make it to Tahiti here.
We said that cook had been to Tahiti. So there’s that one scene where captain Bligh sees, I’m assuming as the King of this tribe on Tahiti, and I thought that was a really cool scene. I’m not sure how accurate is it? Don’t know a ton of boat, the cultural aspects of Tahiti and all that stuff. But we do know from Blind’s records that he recognized the King.
He had known him since Bly was on the final expedition that Cooke made to the Pacific. So captain Bligh knew personally some of these people who’ve still lived on Tahiti. I think some of the other crew members were also on the expedition. Some of the bounty crew members were, so there were probably a handful of those.
On the bounty who we’re meeting old friends almost in a sense, which is pretty interesting. The Island was familiar to them for that whole point. Then I think they set up their camp on the same side. The captain Cook’s camp had been on, so it’s a little weird to think about, but they almost were coming back to a familiar environment a little bit.
And then of course he had an up decent portion of the bounty crew who had never been there. And it was just like they were all struck with the Pacific Island and all the people there. So it’s interesting to read the accounts of how taken the crew men were with the Island and the life there. The women were very open as the movie portrays, like a lot of the sailors on the bounty voyage.
Choke up with their Island wives, I guess you could call them as kind of how the movie portrays it, and that’s pretty well established and all the records that we have to all the men had their wives on the Island while they were there. I’m pretty sure captain Bligh did keep himself apart from all of that, which the movie also alludes to, but yeah, from the logs, we tell that, well, a lot of the crew members had to be treated for transmitted diseases.
So it’s pretty well established that that’s how it all operated. While they were on the Island, they were there for a period of months and they didn’t have too much to do. He wanted to keep them on lands so they could get more exercise and all that kind of stuff. So they had some duties during the day, but they had a ton of free time compared to what they would have on the ship.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:27:59] You mentioned how long they were on there for, and the movie implies. That when they get to Tahiti, the breadfruit plants that they’re going for were in their dormant season. So that means basically. They can’t transport them safely without these plants dying before they reach their destination. So this is the reason why the bounty crew has to stay on Tahiti for months because they have to stay there until the dormant season is over.
And that’s an extra five months. And you did mention that they stayed there for a few months. Was that part of the plan or was it like in the movie it’s unplanned? It was not necessarily part of the plan to stay there for that long.
Brandon Huebner: [00:28:40] Yeah, I think it’s probably fair to say that it wasn’t part of their original plan.
If everything would have gone according to the plan that they had on paper before they left England, they’d have made it around Cape horn on time. They’d have made it to Tahiti several months before they did. Their stay would have been a lot shorter and then they’ve, they would have gotten the plants and gotten out of there.
The simple way is that it didn’t go according to plan, but the plan broke down before they even got to Tahiti, like we said. So. Part of the reason they had to stay there longer was that the breadfruit had gone into that dormant period, but it seems pretty likely that captain blind and everybody, especially the gardeners that they had brought on board who did know about breadfruit, by the time they were in the vicinity of Tahiti, they probably had a good idea that they were going to have to wait it out just because they were knowledgeable about the timeline and all that stuff.
The only other reason I can think of for why they had to wait in that region of the world, they are pretty dependent on the monsoon winds that are seasonal in nature. So that was the other part of the delay. By the time they got to Tahiti, it was in the time of the year. Which one did we sit and got there 10 months after they left?
They got there in the fall, so they had to wait until spring time came back around basically, which I guess would be about five months. The winds in the fall time are blowing from the West to the East towards Tahiti coming out of like Southeast Asia in the springtime. They shift, they’re blowing the opposite direction, and that’s the direction that the bounty wanted to leave once they left Tahiti.
They were going to bring the breadfruits on board and then go through Southeast Asia, North of Australia, and then cut across the Indian ocean, go back around the Cape of good hope, but go in the opposite direction and then caught up to the Caribbean. So they needed the winds to help them do that.
Otherwise, they really wouldn’t have been able to make that journey in that direction in the fall time. So I guess that’s two parts. The breadfruit, they had to wait out, but they also had to wait for the winds to shift.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:30:58] Backing up from that. I’m curious because we were talking about the initial delay in the English channel and then the delay around South America and all of these causing that, and then of course this one here, once they actually reached their destination in Tahiti.
Yeah. Things aren’t going according to plan, but I would have to assume that things don’t go according to plan. A lot of the time and that, so that I would assume that things not going according to plan would have to be part of the plan, I guess, and kind of the norm for a lot of these expeditions. So I would assume that whoever is tracking this back in England or whoever is in charge of planning these missions and these explorations are probably pretty familiar with that and pretty lenient with that.
And so it wouldn’t necessarily. Be a reasonable reason why it would make happen blind that much more anxious and angry and upset. I dunno, that’s the way to phrase that, but does that make sense?
Brandon Huebner: [00:32:02] No, it does and I, it’s a very reasonable question. It does, you know, get us more into that. Area where we’re kind of trying to psychoanalyze Bly and why, why he was making decisions he was and had kind of the attitude he did towards things.
And I, I think you raise a good point because the Admiralty, they had there original game plan, but like you said, they had a wealthy guy bankrolling the whole thing. They had a bunch of people in the Royal society who had interests in this. And technically it was an expedition that was part of the Navy.
It wasn’t a civilian expedition. So Bligh had his orders from the Navy, and all of the men on his crew were part of the Navy who, you know, we’re oath bound to follow him and to do everything the Navy way, which is, you know, according to orders and according to the plan, once it became clear that they weren’t going to make it around Cape horn.
Maybe they knew early enough, but they had been able to send word back to England and the Admiral understood they were going to have to reroute around Cape horn and they signed off on that. So everybody in the whole chain of reporting knew that they had to adapt. They knew that the bounty put in, you know, in South Africa for a period of weeks to restock and everything, and they’d put in at various ports before they got to Tahiti and been sending letters back to England the whole time.
So yeah, Bly should have known that the Admiralty was informed of all these adaptations of the plan. And you would think that that would inform his whole perspective on everything. As best as I can tell, a lot of the. Character studies just seem to conclude that he was a, he was an Uber perfectionist. He wanted everything to be perfect according to the original plan, and he doesn’t seem like he adapted to change.
Well, he, he wasn’t quick on his feet and th it seems like over this period of months it really kept digging further and further under his skin. And you know, pushing his already sour personality even further that way.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:34:18] Yeah. It sounds like being a perfectionist and also a captain of a ship in the 17 hundreds where things don’t go according to plan, it’s probably not a good combination.
Brandon Huebner: [00:34:29] Yeah. The other thing I have heard that I suppose makes sense is I’ve alluded to captain cook a few times and how Bly was on captain Cook’s final expedition. Some people go so far as to say. Captain cook was this famous Explorer. He was the first guy to explore the Pacific and discover all this stuff.
He was a celebrity in England, basically, and captain Bligh seems to have had a desire to be viewed the same way, and Cook’s voyages had all gone, you know, really smoothly. Cook was a good disciplinary and he kept everything in line. It seems like maybe Bly with shooting for that Mark and every time that something happens where he, he felt like he wasn’t reaching up to that Mark.
It just contributed to his bad attitude, I guess. I don’t know.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:35:19] That makes sense. That’s another aspect of, I didn’t think about it. Cook being, I’m assuming kind of a mentor type. Roll in his eyes at least in wanting to live up to that as well. Yeah. Well, if we go back to the movie after they’re in Tahiti for a few months, but then after they leave Tahiti, captain Bligh just continues torturing his men.
There’s one of them that is just. Super brutal. And it’s called hauling. It’s one of the crew. Mr. Young. He claims it’s illegal, but they do it anyway. And the way that the movie depicts this is they tie a man to ropes, drop him into the water, and then the crew takes the other end of the ropes and drag him along the hall of the ship.
So he’s actually the bottom of the ship being dragged along the hall. And in this case. The man is eaten by sharks before the punishment is even done. So captain Bligh doesn’t even really seem to care. He’s like, okay, just drop the ropes in the water. Then I guess was keelhauling a real punishment and did it actually take place on the bounty
Brandon Huebner: [00:36:21] that this whole scene was?
I probably had my, Josh dropped a little bit when I was watching it. It’s definitely a real punishment. And the way that they carried out the punishment was accurately portrayed in the movie. That’s how it worked. The only issue is that we have no record of the bounty having carried out a punishment like this and the crew men who said that it was illegal.
He was right. It was highly illegal. The Royal Navy would never have put up with captains, punishing crew members like this. I don’t think there are too many records of captains even attempting to do a punishment like this. At least captains in the Navy where you see this punishment coming into the historical record more so is back way far in ancient times.
I think there were some Roman ships where they punished. I’m assuming maybe it would have been more slaves who were chained to the rowing or is back on those types of ships. They were punished like this. But the common image of this punishment is that it’s what pirates did too. Punish people because it’s such a cruel form of punishment, right?
Like you’re being dragged under the ship and. A ship that’s been in the ocean for so long has barnacles and stuff all growing on it. You’re basically getting a slow, stabbing death while you’re like submerged in salt water. I, yeah, it was a super cruel punishment. I don’t think that they used it on the bounty, but in the version of the story that the film presents.
It does make captain Bligh look like a really bad guy.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:37:58] Well, yeah. I mean, anybody that wouldn’t do that with me.
Brandon Huebner: [00:38:01] Yup. Yup. I think it’s a bit of a stretch though.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:38:04] Okay. Well I’m, I’m happy to hear that at least. I mean, not that any of the punishments that he put on people were good, but I’m happy to hear that keelhauling at least was not part of the picture.
Brandon Huebner: [00:38:16] Yeah. Yeah. There were plenty of other punishments. I think that one is just too extreme. But I guess we’re to the point in the story now where they showed that lashing related to the cheese wheel incident early on, and there were plenty of lashings that took place for various things. There were some crew members who just mouth off to the captain and that’s deserving of
Dan LeFebvre: [00:38:39] punishment.
Would lashing be the default punishment almost of whatever the infraction is, if there’s not something specific than lashing is kind of just the, the GoTo.
Brandon Huebner: [00:38:48] Yeah. As far as I know, that that was the pretty standard one, and then just the degree of the punishment to match the degree of the crime would just depend on how many lashings you actually got.
I think while they were on Tahiti, there were some incidents of sailors trying to escape and go to a different Island. I think they showed that in the movie. I don’t remember where at in the timeline. Some of those sailors did got locked up for a while on top of getting lashings and getting punished like that.
Otherwise, I think maybe some of the other punishments was just reducing rations for people who broke the rules in some way. Whether that would be to take away their grog rations, which is like their alcohol allotment for the day. That was a pretty common punishment too.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:39:39] Well in the movie, captain Bligh kind of leading up to the actual mutiny itself, he orders restrictions on the men’s water because they don’t have enough water for the plants.
The movie says that they actually took twice as many as were needed because captain Bligh wanted to impress the people in Jamaica when they get there, but that means that they need twice as much water for these plants and then captain by essentially. Takes that from the men’s water supply. The idea that captain Bligh had was he would store a ladle at the top of the mast and then whoever wanted a drink would have to go up there and get it, and then they would get one ladle of water.
And we see actually one of the men falling to his death, onto the deck trying to get that ladle up there. Then a little bit later, we see Lieutenant Christian, he tries to give the man who drank some, he actually drank some seawater and so he was going through, I’m not a hundred percent sure what it’s called when you drink too much seawater, other than not a good idea.
But, Lieutenant Christian was trying to give him some fresh water in order to save his life, but of course, that pulls from the water supply. Captain Bligh is not happy with that. So he kicks the water from his hand. She doesn’t save the water either. It just splashes it all over the deck. And then that’s when Lieutenant Christian has had enough, so he and his sailors take over the ship, and that is the actual mutiny itself.
That was the final straw as it were. How well did the movie do showing these events leading up to and during the mutiny itself?
Brandon Huebner: [00:41:16] That’s another good question, and I didn’t sync about how captain plow is just wasting all the water. He was so worried about by doing it. That’s a good irony to point out there, but yeah, I feel like kind of a broken record a little bit.
I like how the movie builds the tension and they have their good guy and the bad guy, the hero and the villain. I guess. But when it comes to what we actually know about how everything played out, they get the big
Dan LeFebvre: [00:41:43] picture
Brandon Huebner: [00:41:44] fairly accurate, but a lot of the details, they kind of twist or they change entirely to serve the narrative, I’m sure.
And it works really good in the movie. It’s probably less exciting how it actually played out in reality, but. You know, that is what it is.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:42:00] That’s usually
Brandon Huebner: [00:42:01] how it goes. It is. Yeah. so there were a couple of incidents after they left Tahiti, I think I had alluded to, and no, there’s no need to get into the particulars.
It all kind of came to a head when captain Bligh, he directly accused Lieutenant Christian of stealing something. Was, you know what, what appears set things over the edge. It doesn’t seem to have been tied to the water supply. Maybe indirectly they did bring more plants on board than maybe wasn’t necessary.
I don’t know if that’s because he wanted to impress where they were getting or just because he knew they were going to lose some along the way. And they need to make sure they had enough aye. I don’t recall too much about that. I’m sure it would have taken a lot of water to keep them all alive, so I bet he did decrease their water ration a little bit, but I don’t think it was so extreme to be to the point that the film depicts.
They had brought on a lot of other supplies when they left Tahiti too, so they, they weren’t necessarily hurting for water for supplies like that at this point yet. So the incident that set things off was captain Bligh had a stack of coconuts out on the deck that he had told everybody, don’t touch these.
These are mine. And his plan was at some point a couple of days down the road, he was just going to hand them out to the crew is kind of a treat. I guess he thought, you know, that was be nice, or something like the boss bringing in donuts or whatever. The story goes that Fletcher Christian knew this, but overnight, one night, one of the coconuts disappeared and everybody knew that it was Christian who had taken it.
It led to a confrontation where captain Bligh accused him of stealing it and things blew up from there. Some of the eyewitness accounts after the fact tend to make it look like Christian might’ve done this on purpose because he wanted to push things into a confrontation and that over a course of days and weeks, he’d been like slowly getting more and more irked with captain Bligh.
She’d been getting really moody and depressed. It seems like from the way he was acting according to other crew members anyways. And the speculation is that he was just tired of captain Bligh berating him for one, it seems like when they were on Tahiti, BLI singled him out too, you know, lecture for not working hard enough.
And he just really kept on Christian’s case the whole time. And you can imagine how over a course of months that would start the great honor. You probably get sick of the guy. So it seems like that’s maybe what happened. After this whole coconut incident that must’ve pushed Christian over the edge whether he wanted it to or not, who knows?
But the mutiny actually happened at nighttime. captain Bligh was asleep in his cabin. He had a pretty small cabin because the typical captain cabin that was, you know, the whole rear part of the ship, like you see in movies, they’d turn that into like the greenhouse basically. So captain Bligh was relegated to this little small section.
And supposedly according to the, the sailors who were on the ship, he trusted everybody so much. She just slept with the door open. He wasn’t worried about anything. It doesn’t seem like so. You know, that tends to indicate that he did not see the mutiny coming at all, whether that’s because he thought his authority was safe or he was just so oblivious to his own irritating personality.
It’s hard to tell. It probably is the latter, because he seemed to think that he was a great guy and he could never understand why people were so annoyed at him. But that is what it is. So Fletcher Christian got sick of it. He planned to do the mutiny on his own, but then some other crew members got wind of it somehow over the course of a night, and they too must have been tired of the situation.
He gets a gun and then a couple other crew members were able to grab some guns and they just stormed into Blind’s cabin, grabbed him while he was asleep and marched him up on the deck holding a Cutlass to his throat and saying that they were going to take over the ship and nobody should. You know, fight back or the captain’s going to die type of situation.
It seems like a lot of it was they were personally annoyed at captain Bligh. Like I said, it seems after the fact, maybe some of them joined in the mutiny because they missed Tahiti too, which I think the movie gets into that aspect of it a little more so. but that does seem to have been an underlying factor for some of them.
Maybe not for all of them.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:46:59] Well, the movie does imply that not all of the crew were involved in the mutiny. And you mentioned that as well. It seems like from what you were saying, maybe even less of less people were involved in the mutiny then the movie shows, I’m, I don’t, I should have counted. I didn’t actually count how many people it shows involved in the mutiny in the movie.
But we do see a split with some people following can a Christian and some people following captain Bligh, but then captain Bligh and his followers are set free in the open ocean and the bounty just sails on. Is that what happened after the mutiny?
Brandon Huebner: [00:47:39] Yeah, that’s a pretty fair summary of how it played out.
I’m trying to remember. I think there were 46 people on board the bounty total. The mutiny plays out, like you said, and there were a smaller handful who were immediately on board. They wanted to take over the ship and kickoff. The captain. There were a portion of the remainder who weren’t sure what to do either they couldn’t believe what was happening or they just weren’t sure who was going to come out on top.
So they were waiting to, you know, see what side they’re
Dan LeFebvre: [00:48:13] beyond the right side.
Brandon Huebner: [00:48:14] Exactly. Which you know, is kind of tacitly joining the mutiny, I guess. And then there was another minority who weren’t going to be part of it no matter what. And they. Would have defended their captain, except they had no weapons at hand, and you know, they’d have immediately been killed if they tried to fight back.
So the mutineers, they took the ship’s launch, which was just this tiny boat. It was like 20 some odd feet long. Maybe six or seven feet wide, a very small boat. They took captain Bligh and they took 18 other crew members who didn’t want to take part in the mutiny, and they forced 19 guys into this tiny boat, put them over the side and just like you said, dropped them off in the open ocean.
There were a few crew members who, even when the boat was that full, they wanted to get off the bounty because they didn’t want to be part of the mutiny, but there was no room left like they literally have been consigned themselves and everybody else to die because of the boat would sink. It just was too heavy at that point.
There were 25 men who stayed on board the bounty afterwards and 19 who left. Most of the 25 were fine with being there. There were a small handful who were forced to stay. I think they made the carpenter stay on board even though he wanted to leave because they needed his skills to keep the bounty afloat.
So self interested for sure. Then when they put the tiny boats launch over the side, those 19 guys had about five days worth of food and water, and then they were just left out in the open ocean. So even though they didn’t kill BLI immediately, it seems like they were hoping that’s what would happen, and they did their best to speed it along.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:50:05] They didn’t want to be responsible for actually doing it, but pretty much doing it.
Brandon Huebner: [00:50:09] Yeah.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:50:10] Well in the movie, we see captain Bligh is on the boat with his followers, as I’ll call them. He orders his men to go some 3,600 miles away to Bangalore, and from there then his plan is to head to England. We never really see their voyage.
We don’t see that in the movie, but we do see captain Bligh later on in England. So I guess we can assume that they survived. He stands trial before a court for his actions. But they absolve him of his deeds. They make it a point to say that captains, they appoint captains from gentlemen because there will never be codes that cover every situation.
And in this case, the appointment of captain Bligh was a failure. So how well did the movie show what happens to captain Bligh after the mutiny.
Brandon Huebner: [00:51:05] Yeah. Again, they, they really fast forwarded through a lot of the details and I get it for time sake cause they were compressing this whole long saga down into the movie format.
So it makes sense. Being set adrift in that tiny launch, there was a pretty harrowing experience for a lot of those guys. It really is one of the greater feats of navigational history just because of the situation they were dropped into. They weren’t planning on it. Somehow it seems like blinds personality was more well suited to that really tenuous situation where somebody just had to be in control.
No matter what, make all the shots, and nobody else really was in a position to talk back or to question his authority given you know, where they were. He somehow, he seems to have shown more in that situation than he did as captain of the bounty. They had to travel those 3,600 miles to Bangor. That wasn’t quite the initial plan, but it’s what they wound up doing.
They tried to put in at some smaller islands along the way. But there were native populations that were hostile to them, so they were able to snatch some food and run basically, but they weren’t going to get help that way. They weren’t going to get to any kind of actual safety. I think one of the crewman was killed by natives as they tried to escape one of the islands there.
So they wound up having to travel those. It’s about 4,000 statute miles, like miles on land. So it’s a little longer than we would think even although 3,600 miles is difficult to conceive of. They were on starvation rations cause they had no food, which is one ounce of bread and a quarter pint of water per day.
Effectively nothing. So just the fact that they survived this whole thing is amazing. They did make it though. They had to navigate through some uncharted territory to get there because where the bounty dropped them off and then making it over to the nearest. European settlement, I guess. I think it was a Dutch settlement and Bangor where they knew they could find safety.
They had to travel through some of those uncharted territories that the bounty was initially planning to travel through on their way back home. So since they had to go that way, Bly tried to salvage as much as he could. One of the crew men, when they put them over the side of the bounty, had given him logbooks and given him pen and paper.
So as they’re in this tiny open boat with no room, so even like breathe or turn around captain blinds, taking charts, taking logs, he’s like documenting everything they find and see on this 3,600 mile journey, which is also strange to think of. They did make it eventually, I think it was about 48 days. It took them to go from being put over the sides to making it to this Dutch settlement, and somehow or other, all of the men survived except for that one who was killed by natives on on an Island.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:54:21] Wow. With five days of water and it ended up being 48 days. And they serve. I mean, granted, you know, I’m sure water was also a top priority on some of those islands as well.
Brandon Huebner: [00:54:33] Yeah. They, they were able to supplement the supply a little bit, but not to any degree. That was, it just was enough to barely keep them alive
Dan LeFebvre: [00:54:41] and still be able to navigate.
I mean, not just barely alive, but barely alive and navigating thousands of miles of water.
Brandon Huebner: [00:54:50] Yeah. I think one of the crewman. Who was stuck on the bounty but still was on the side of captain Bligh managed to get them a compass too. I believe that was the one of the items that they got and the launch. So without some of those items, yeah, they probably wouldn’t have been able to navigate like they did.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:55:10] Well, it’s interesting that you. Talk about how little water they had, because you know, thinking of the way the movie portrays it, even before leaving the bounty, there was this ration on the water. And some of the men seem like they were almost dying on the bounty because they weren’t allowed water. and granted you, you mentioned that wasn’t necessarily the case, but it’s interesting they show that because based on what happens after that.
If they were down to that little amount of water per day on top of, even before leaving the bounty, having almost dying there and then, you know, that would surely put them over the edge. I don’t know. It’s just, it’s tough to, to fathom.
Brandon Huebner: [00:55:53] That’s a good point. I’d say for me it is impossible to think about, cause now we don’t really have to even think twice about how much water you want to drink.
Dan LeFebvre: [00:56:03] Oh, well, that’s captain blindside. But then in the movie, after the mutiny, we see the amount on the bounty. Take her back to Tahiti. That’s the first place they go. They go there to get more supplies, but then through some dialogue we find out, or they can’t really stay there because they’re afraid that if captain Bligh does manage to survive, that’s the first place that he’s going to go is to go back to Tahiti and look for these men.
King’s daughter, that Lieutenant Christian didn’t really talk about this earlier, but earlier Lieutenant Christian kind of fell for her earlier in the movie. She tells him that since their last visit, there’s been a war. There’s a new chief, and then she asked if some of the two Haitian men and women can go with them on the bounty.
And on the bounty side, Lieutenant Christian now has a smaller crew because some of the men went with captain Bligh. So that’s kind of how the movie sets up that there’s going to be some to Haitians. Leaving on the bounty when they actually leave there. And when they do that, they end up finding an Island called Pitcairn.
And this an was an interesting little scene in the movie when Lieutenant Christian, he sees the lands. And then he goes to look at his maps and he realizes that this Island is chartered wrong. The official maps for the British Navy that they have show this Island being about 175 miles away from where it actually is.
Meaning it would be a great place to hide out because everybody thinks it’s in a completely different location, and once they actually get to this Island, they find out that the Island is uninhabited, which makes it even better. So is that the path that they ended up actually taking the movie shows, going from Tahiti, picking up some natives and then managing to find this uninhabited and incorrectly charted Island named Pitcairn?
Brandon Huebner: [00:57:55] Yeah, the broad strokes. That is about how it played out. There’s some, you know, intervening details that are slightly different that explain some of the details of how people ended up where they did. And I’ll try to fill those in somewhat concisely. So the main goal, they did wind up back in Tahiti. They tried to settle on a different Island that was about, I don’t know, a couple hundred miles South of Tahiti.
That was their first attempt. That didn’t work out partially because they didn’t have many supplies there. There were some natives on that Island already who also didn’t want guys setting up shop, so they got in some skirmishes. They wound up. You know, fighting some battles with these natives on, I think the Island was called
They set up a little Fort there, if I remember right. And then they went back to Tahiti with part of the crew staying on the Southern islands. They picked up two Haitians from the Island there. Some men, I think, who wanted to help them build on this other Island, but they also picked up all the women who had been their wives previously.
They brought some of them back to this other Island and they tried to set up a call on either effectively, but it still didn’t work. So then they all got back on the bounty and went back to Tahiti and I guess that’s kind of the movie cuts out that middle part. They tried to make some other attempts that just fell through.
They wind up back in Tahiti and it’s pretty clear at that point that Fletcher Christian doesn’t want to stay there. But others of the crew do want to stay there. It seems like Christian’s authority weakened pretty fast after the mutiny. He was able to hold it together, but this failed attempt on the other islands probably got people at odds and two camps developed out of those who had taken part in the mutiny.
Once they made it back to Tahiti, Fletcher Christian and the people who wanted to leave Tahiti were onboard the bounty at nighttime, they were at anchor somewhere in the Harbor there, and the rest of the men were on the Island. He let them go onto the Island with the understanding that they could stay there, but he had no plans to stick around.
At nighttime, a bunch of the technicians were on board, the bounty, some of them. You know, want it to be there. Other others of them where they’re just taking part in a feast or something. And Fletcher Christian cut the anchor and just left. So he basically absconded from the Island with a handful of, to Haitians who didn’t want to leave and he took them as captives almost.
So that’s a little bit of a window into how he operated that they didn’t necessarily show in the movie. 16 out of the original 25 mutineers wound up staying on Tahiti. So nine of them, including Fletcher Christian left. And then that’s where pet Karen comes into the story. And as you relate it that that is pretty accurate.
I, how did you say the movie depicts it?
Dan LeFebvre: [01:01:09] They see land and so he goes to the map to see what it is and he notices that at that point the Island is. 175 miles from where it actually is cause they can actually see the Island. And so that’s when he realizes there’s this mismatch.
Brandon Huebner: [01:01:27] That’s right. I think the way it played out in reality is maybe slightly flipped from that, but I guess it doesn’t make any effective difference because the Island was miss charted about 200 miles from where it actually was.
And the way that the charts had worked. I think only one expedition had drawn the original chart that put pick Karen in that position. Then every subsequent chart in all of Europe that any navigator would have had was based on that original, so literally every chart in existence, it was not where it should have been.
Fletcher Christian saw that there was this tiny Island out of the way on his version of the chart. They went to sail towards pit cause they thought it might be an option for a place to hide out. I think they knew by this point that there was a high likelihood bla had survived and that there might be.
You know, people from the Navy come looking for the people who had led the mutiny, so they wanted to get as far off the scene as they could pit. Karen was pretty far off, but then when they got to where Fletcher Christian thought it was going to be, there was nothing there. He’s a seasoned navigator though.
So he realized that the most likely mistake on charting an Island like that was that they had just gotten the longitude wrong. Latitude as a whole lot easier to calculate when you’re drawing a chart like that. So he just sailed East 200 miles along the same line of latitude, and once they got 200 miles to the East on that same mine, they ran straight into the Island.
So that confirmed that it was wrong on all the charts and they wound up staying there because they assumed nobody else would find that for quite a long time.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:03:16] You mentioned that they thought that perhaps captain blind might’ve survived. Was there any sort of indicator that might have given them that idea.
Brandon Huebner: [01:03:25] I don’t think there’s any indicator that they would have had themselves. I don’t think that they’d had any contact with the outside world still by this point, probably just trying to play it as safe as they could, I guess. I mean, they knew that captain Bligh was a very skilled navigator and they, when they put the launch over the side, they weren’t too far away from some of those smaller islands.
So it’s thought that maybe they, like we said earlier, they, they didn’t want to kill Bly and the other crew members outright, they set them adrift in the ocean, but they knew, were kind of close to land. They might just make it there and somehow or other, they’ll find their way back, even if it takes a long time.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:04:12] Okay. Yeah. And I imagine there’s going to be a fair amount of. Just the paranoia of knowing that you’ve done something like mutiny and always looking over your shoulder that is going to come with that.
Brandon Huebner: [01:04:22] Yeah, I, that’s probably a big part of it too, and the movie does portray that element of it pretty good.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:04:29] Speaking of the movie, at the very end, we see Lieutenant Christian, he’s thinking about going back to England. He suggest that if captain Bligh survived, the only way that he’s going to be charged for his actions is if. There’s another side to the argument right now, if captain Bligh is the only one there, then it’s only going to be his side of the argument.
And of course that’s going to be a pretty one sided and it makes sense the way that the movie portrays that, but then the crew doesn’t want to leave pit Karen, they found this paradise Island. So one night they go out and burn the bounty while it’s anchored in the Bay. Lieutenant Christian tries to stop the fire, but he’s burned badly.
He ends up dying on the beach just as the timing of this, and the movie, of course, I’m assuming is going to be Hollywood again. He dies on the beach just as the ship sinks to her final resting place as well. But what do we know about how the movie’s version of the story lines up with the way that the real story ended for the bounty and her crew.
Brandon Huebner: [01:05:36] This one’s probably going to be a long answer because you know as, as we’ve gotten up to this point where we saw the mutiny play out, we’re almost to like three different strands of the story now, so it takes a little bit to wrap it up. There’s one random tidbit, as you mentioned, that Hollywood scene ending where he dies on the beach and the ship sinks in.
The background. I was reading a little bit after I watched the film again and I, I never realized, but they built a full replica of the bounty ship for the movie. I think MGM funded the whole thing and they built it according to the original plans that were still somewhere in England. It was scaled down a little bit to make it work for the camera crews and filming and everything.
But I read that the original plan was they were going to burn the actual replica for that final scene, which I guess that would have looked pretty cool. It would have been more accurate. But apparently over the course of filming the movie, Marlon Brando had grown pretty attached to the boat, to the ship, so he stepped in and said, you can’t burn this thing.
Like it’s way too important. And they wound up burning a model or something. I think it looks like from that. And scene. So, that was pretty interesting to me. I Brando like tried to buy the replica later on, but he didn’t have enough money to by it by that point in his life.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:07:09] Oh, don’t, don’t burn this. I want, I want it, but I can’t buy it because I don’t have enough money for it.
Brandon Huebner: [01:07:15] Yeah. There’s a whole weird, like saga of that ship replica that they built for the movie, but that’s totally unrelated.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:07:24] That’s interesting that, you know, he’s, he’s playing the character of Christian that obviously it doesn’t want the ship burned either, so it’s kind of a little bit of a parallels there.
Brandon Huebner: [01:07:33] Yeah, I didn’t think of that. That’s a good point. Okay, so I guess we’ll try to tie up the three strands. We said that Bly, they, they did eventually make it in that boat too, the Dutch settlement. So I didn’t really wrap up his strand too much. He made it back to England. And he underwent the court martial, like you said, but after he was acquitted, and I don’t know if the AdmiralT had any ill will toward him.
They do have that line in the movie where they said they appointed captains who were able to make decisions and not just follow the book. You read that one? I don’t know for sure if they had any ill will toward him. There probably was some, but probably, I would assume through the influence of Joseph Banks who funded the whole initial expedition after he’s acquitted, Bly gets entrusted with doing a second expedition back to Tahiti to do the whole thing over again.
Basically, since the first one had failed. So he’s acquitted and then he gets a second expedition ready and he goes right back to Tahiti. After that all happens, you’d made it back to England and the Admiralty was aware that there had been a mutiny, so they assembled the security force, you know, to go find the people who’d carry it out, the mutiny and bring them back to face justice.
This expedition went back to Tahiti. They searched some other places on the way out there, but they didn’t find any crew until they got to Tahiti. On the Island there. They arrested everybody who was left from the mutiny, so I think it would have been all 16 of those men and that ship. They never did find pick Karen.
So I guess going to that miss charted Island did work out pretty well for Fletcher Christian and those other guys because the Navy Beck’s finished and never found them. There’s some more poetic justice, I guess on the way back to England though, this Navy expedition who had the, the mutineers basically in a cage, they had them in prison in the front of the ship.
It wrecked on the great barrier reef. Coming North around Australia, so I want to say like five or six of the prisoners died by drowning because they didn’t open the cage fast enough. The captain on that ship was pretty harsh, which I guess is to be expected when you think everybody took part in the mutiny.
The problem is, like we said, not everybody was willingly part of the mutiny. Some of the guys were held there against their will. So there was poetic justice for some, there was maybe a miscarriage of justice for others. They did eventually make it back to England with 10 of these prisoners, and they all underwent a court Marshall the same that, Bly and the others did.
I think four of them were fully acquitted because there was enough testimony to prove they didn’t want to be part of it. Two of them were found guilty, but because they had some influential family connections, they received the Kings Royal. Pardon? So technically they were guilty. They didn’t get hung though.
There were four others who didn’t have those connections, I guess you could say. And they wound up sentenced to death by hanging, which was the punishment for mutiny. So they had some ships in Portsmouth Harbor there. With all the admirals who came in to be part of the court martial and for men who took part in the mutiny were eventually hung from the yard arms of a ship there in Portsmouth Harbor as punishment.
But as a. Symbol for all the people in the Navy to see like this is what happens if you mutiny against the Navy. I would assume that would
Dan LeFebvre: [01:11:27] be one of the big reasons why the Navy puts such effort forth to finding mutineers like that is to send a message.
Brandon Huebner: [01:11:35] Yeah. That that was definitely the, the whole goal of that for them.
Then I guess that leads to the third strand, which is Fletcher Christian who, no, it was maybe the main one who instigated the mutiny. Him and the eight other sailors who made it out to pit Karen. Nobody knew what happened to them for a long time. The Navy expedition never found them, and nobody else did for 18 years until the first outside European ship finally stumbled upon Pitcairn Island again.
And by the time they made it there, 18 years later, there was only one man from the original mutiny left alive. I don’t know the exact number, but by that point he’d been living on the Island for so long. And a lot of the others who had gone there, like Fletcher Christian, even they, they came there with women from Tahiti.
A lot of them had children with these women on the Island. There was a colony of probably 30 or 40 people living on Pitcairn Island by the time I think it was an American ship that stumbled on the Island. So let’s gotta be a weird thing to see when you’re expecting an uninhabited barren Island in the middle of nowhere.
They reported, you know, seeing smoke coming out from the trees, and then they get there and there’s this weird colony of English speaking people, but they look like they’re to Haitians. The story, according to this one guy who was left alive is that Fletcher Christian was pretty solid once they got to the islands.
So in some respects, I think the movie tries to portray that. Leading up to the mutiny and then the whole aftermath of the knee. It seems like maybe he was regretting what happened a little bit or wondering how it could have gone differently. A lot of the details they don’t have, but once these nine men and their entourage, I don’t know what to call it, all the people that they had taken to the islands once they made it there.
Things devolved pretty quickly. Maybe they were okay at first, but over a period of a couple of years, the men who they’d taken their unwillingly felt, and probably rightly so, they felt like the English crew men, we’re just using them like slave labor because they were, they also felt like they had just steal on the Tahitian women to use as wives and nothing else, which is also
Dan LeFebvre: [01:14:00] because they’ve had,
Brandon Huebner: [01:14:01] exactly.
So some of the things that played out, I think. Were foreseeable, there came to be a lot of conflicts between the English sailors, but also between the Tahitian men. it seems from what we can tell, Fletcher Christian just was murdered by one of the Tahitian men one day. They don’t know for sure, but that’s the story that this lone survivor told.
Then there were further conflicts where maybe there were a bigger. Battles, I guess, even though it’s just a handful of men on either side, but eventually it got pared down to whether it’s just one man remaining on this tiny Island. So it’s a little bit of a strange dynamic to how that all played out.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:14:41] Did they actually burn the ship then?
Brandon Huebner: [01:14:43] They did. They did. And that was another thing that this lone survivor said. It seems like that may have been the plan early on Pitcairn islands kind of. A Rocky small islands, so there wasn’t a good Harbor to keep the ships safe in from his account. They got there and pretty quickly after they got to the Island, they unloaded all the stores from the ship.
They left it sit at anchor there for a little bit, but they didn’t have any concrete plans to ever leave again. So he gave different stories at different times depending on who he was talking to. Whether they all agreed to burn the ship, whether it was accidental. He did tell the version of the story that two men snuck out there at nighttime and they burned it, and everybody else was surprised.
So I, it’s not entirely clear how the ship burned, just that it did. And they did actually find remnants of the ship. They’re off the Island in the 60s. The 50s or the 60s and they’ve pulled up, you know, there were a couple small cannons on board the ship. It wasn’t a big ship by any means, but they have found artifacts from it.
They’re off the coast of the Island.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:16:00] So it sounds like to kind of wrap that side of it up, that the ship dead burn. For one reason or another, but it sounds like the most inaccurate part of the way the movie portrays it is how Lieutenant Christian died trying to stop the ship from being burned. It sounds like there was more of a dynamic there with the others on the Island or that the Tahitians in particular that the movie of course just never even touches or never even gets into.
Brandon Huebner: [01:16:28] Yeah. Like we’ve been saying, it’s all a bit too complex for the movie to fit all of those different strands in and to have a narrative that that’s easy to follow. So I get why they didn’t get into it. I mean, maybe some of it is the. The sixties Hollywood perspective on some of these stories too, and you know, cutting out certain perspectives from native to Haitians or stuff like that.
They, they didn’t try to cast as wide of an angle on the different interests involved in, in a story like this. I think some of the way that the story comes down though, and maybe this is the last thing I’ll say without trying to make it too complicated. It’s a weird evolution of the story because of how the court Marshall’s played out and the way that the mutiny played out.
You get blind side of the story back in England to where he didn’t really do anything wrong. It was just these horrible sailors who didn’t want to listen to his authority and they just wanted to go back to Tahiti cause all the women seduce them and they wanted the easy life. That’s kind of how he portrays it.
But once these captives who had, or once the mutineers who had stayed on Tahiti, they were then captured by the Navy and brought back their side of the story is the side where Bly is the bad guy. He’s like punishing everybody so far above what the Navy allows for. He’s a tyrant and they were just trying to save themselves from his tyranny.
Right. The way that that story all emerged was because one of the mutineers who had the family connections, he was the one who got acquitted with the Royal pardon? His brother was a lawyer in England, and he had more connections with politicians and other wealthy people. So he did this whole year’s long campaign in the press writing books to like defend his brother.
And that’s really where emerges, that Fletcher Christian is the hero of the story and William Bligh is the villain. Some of the elements in that version are true. A lot of the underlying facts are true, but it’s more in the colors of how things are portrayed and the things that are left out of the story where you get a one-sided portrayal in one way or the other.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:18:48] Well, I’m curious, I mean, cause yeah, you’re going to have multiple sides to the story, but we know how it ended for some of those mutineers who were hung to set an example for others. Was there anything that the Navy found captain blinds did that they wanted to almost set an example for other captains to not be so torturous of their crew members.
Brandon Huebner: [01:19:15] That’s something I’ve been curious about too, and I really haven’t seen too much that the Navy at least officially indicated that they wish would have been done differently. Maybe that’s because they. Would kind of be admitting that they were at fault a little bit. If they admitted that captain Bligh played a part in what happened, preserving just that chain of authority, I guess a little bit.
So they have to back up their captain. That might be part of it. Nothing Springs to mind, honestly, where they said that he did anything wrong in any way. It’s more so the events later in his life that continued to keep occurring, that I. Really briefly alluded to at the beginning that those, I think have solidified that his personality was abrasive, that he was a hard man to get along with.
He could have made better judgment calls that might have avoided some of these incidents that later blew up into a mutiny. He was. On the second expedition back to Tahiti. Most everybody got along with him, but there was one sailor who, and did the expedition, like vowing to hate captain Bligh for the rest of his life, but I didn’t find much detail about what was beneath that whole animosity there.
He was involved in another mutiny later on. I think that wasn’t necessarily his fault. It was more of a political labor dispute almost between. A lot of crew men at at various porch and, but he was still a captain on a ship, so he got swept up in this whole bigger thing. But technically he was still involved in another mutiny.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:20:58] Well, technically this one wasn’t his fault either. Right. You hear his account,
Brandon Huebner: [01:21:03] right? Exactly. Well, then the final straw and his whole life saga, I guess is he, he did get selected to go be the governor of new South Wales, which was a colony in Australia. I think because he still had some political connections even later in his life.
This was like 20 years after the bounty thing. He gets down there and he’s there for a while, but that whole endeavor on his part ended poorly. The colonists and new South Wales, and then a whole contingent of soldiers in the colony wound up just arresting him and saying, you’re not going to be the governor anymore.
He basically, it’s not a mutiny, I guess, cause it happened on land and he was a governor. But it seems like some of the same tensions were beneath the, the whole way that that scenario played out. So long story short, I don’t know that the Navy ever admitted too much when it comes to the bounty mutiny, but there’s enough there in blinds later life that maybe they should have.
It might’ve avoided further incidents down the road.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:22:14] Yeah. It sounds like a lot of how much we believe the story itself there. We have multiple versions of the story from. Captain Bligh as well as the crew. But it sounds like looking back on it through a historical lens, a lot of which sides we believe have come from later expeditions and him being the common denominator with a lot of these things.
Brandon Huebner: [01:22:39] Yeah, I think that was a big factor in it. The only other thing that Springs to mind that I’ve read is, The timing of how the court Marshall’s played out. We said that GLI went on that second expedition back to Tahiti after he got acquitted. Well, he was gone for a period of years. That’s when the ship who had arrested the mutineers came back to England and they all underwent their trial.
So there is that element of all of the men who were found guilty of the mutiny. He wasn’t even around to give his side of the story. But there was just not that overlap where both sides could give their part and, supposedly impartial third party could try to get to the bottom of it. At the same time, it wound up being just their competing narratives got swept up in the popular press of the day almost.
And that kind of took things and ran with it to a large degree.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:23:35] Thank you so much for coming on to chat about mutiny on the bounty. I know you’ve got a ton more history on your podcast. Can you share a little bit of information about your show and where someone listening can find it?
Brandon Huebner: [01:23:46] Yeah, definitely.
And thank you for having me on. I enjoyed talking about all this bounty stuff. That’s pretty interesting. yeah, so the podcast that I put together, it’s called the maritime history podcasts. It’s a descriptive name. It’s not very. Original or exciting, I guess, but anything maritime history is what I try to cover.
So that’s casting the net rather broadly. My website is just maritime history, podcast.com you can just search for the name of the podcast on iTunes or Spotify or wherever it’s available. Pretty much all the podcast catchers that are out there whereabout 40 episodes deep right now and. I’m a sucker for the details and the deep facts of history.
So we’ve really been stuck in ancient history only right now we are talking about ancient Greece. So we just covered the battle of Salomon, the triremes, all that kind of interesting battle stuff. But we’ve, we’ve also talked about ancient Egypt and some of the icons and the various boasts that have been found by the pyramids.
Stuff like that. And we’ve also talked about the Phoenicians, so a lot of Mediterranean history so far.
Dan LeFebvre: [01:24:58] Great. I’ll make sure to add a link to your podcast in the show notes for this episode as well. Thanks so much for your time, Brendan.
Brandon Huebner: [01:25:05] Yeah, thank you. I had a good time.
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All the powerful, impactful things you can do.
Means we’re going to have to dig deep because you don’t transform by hiding.
You do it by being embracing who you truly are.
What's it like with me?
You speak, I listen.
There's structure, but no script.
Powerful moments, and plenty of laughter.
Curiosity over fixed expectations.
And we do it together.
I've worked with some amazing coaches in my life. Trained with many of them. Learnt from the best.
And what I've learned is to approach every person, every client as an individual.
There's no 'one-size fits all' approach I use for each and every person I work with.
Sure, there are common aspects that come up, and we dig deep into them - ways of thinking, happiness, confidence, fears, goals, self-image and many more - but the order and emphasis varies hugely from person to person.
I love the agility we share.
The people I work with are amazing. And to truly help them I want to be the best version of myself for them.
If there was a word to describe my approach, it would be: range.
My clients appreciate how I can be a patient and present listener, and still provide question bombs that get right to the heart of why they're struggling.
And how I seem to know when to share laughter about something to create some perspective (living with teenagers helps with that one!).
It's about you right now
It's about you in the future.
Curiosity about your past helps, but this isn't about changing the past. That can't be done.
Working with me is about creating a new future.
A future where you can be who you truly want to be.
Do what you want to do.
Have what you want.
If you want to be supported in creating a happier now, transforming your life, business and relationships, then what you want is to work with me.
It’s time to create the happiest, most successful life you can
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How to Write a Vision Statement
Every year about this time, I get calls from lay and clergy leaders who want help writing a mission statement. They hope that with a clearer sense of mission, their congregations will stop reliving yesterday and start building tomorrow. I think they’re on the right track, and once upon a time I would have joined them in the mission-writing process. But today I usually suggest starting instead with a vision statement.
Getting Comfortable with the E-word
For some pastors and lay people in mainline/established traditions, the word evangelism has become, if not a “dirty” word, an unpleasant one. How can we get more comfortable with the e-word?
Who Owns a Congregation?
by Dan Hotchkiss
When I ask members of a governing board about the board’s job, someone (frequently a lawyer or a banker) often uses an obscure word that speaks rather deeply to the nature of the board’s role: “The board is a fiduciary.”
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7 Chinese Beef Soup Recipes For Slow Cooking 牛肉炖汤
1. Homemade Chinese Soups
2. Beef soup
Chinese beef soup recipes usually feature Chinese herbs and tougher beef cuts that are slow cooked to perfection in a slow cooker.
Chinese herbs used are usually those that complement beef to address certain bodily ailments. The recipes here feature goji berries, dried longan, dried tangerine peel.
Recipe 1: Beef soup recipe with shin, goji berries and dried longan
This soup nourishes the blood and complexion. It is good for people with anaemia, suffer from fainting spells or dizziness.
• 450g beef shin
• 12g chinese wolfberry
• 1 slice ginger
• 12g dried longans
• 1.5 litre water
1. Slice the beef shin thickly and parboil for 2 minutes
2. Wash the chinese wolfberry, dried longan and ginger
3. Pour the water into the slow cooker and bring to a boil
4. Add the beef and ginger and let it cook on low for 2.5 hours
5. Add the chinese wolfberries, dried longan
6. Let it cook for another 15 to 20 minutes
7. Add salt to taste before serving
Recipe 2: Beef soup recipe with shin, black dates and ginger
This soup nourishes the blood, build body strength and relieve fatigue.
• 450g beef shin
• 75g old ginger
• 6 black dates
• 8 red dates
• 750ml water
1. Slice the beef shin thickly and parboil for 2 minutes
2. Place the beef shin and ginger into the slow cooker
3. Add the water and bring to a boil
4. Cook on gentle heat for 3 hours or more
5. Add the black dates, red dates continue to cook for another 20 minutes
6. Add salt to taste before serving
Crockpot is great for cooking beef soups with tough cuts. Slow cooking breaks down the tough tissue to release the flavour.
Recipe 3: Beef soup recipe with dried tangerine peel
This recipe uses beef shin, dried tangerine peel and Chinese yam.
Dried tangerine peel is known as 陈皮 (chenpi) in mandarin. It is basically the peel of the tangerine pickled and dried in the sun. It is salty, sweet and sour at the same time. It aids digestion and alleviates feelings of bloatedness and nausea. It may also relieve symptoms of morning sickness.
If you are feeling nauseous or bloated, you can steep 2 small pieces of dried tangerine peel in hot water and drink it like tea.
Chinese yam is usually used in conjunction with meats and other herbs to aid digestion, regulate body's sugar level and control inflammation of the uterus.
• 250g beef shin
• 5g dried Chinese yam (huai shan)
• 3g dried tangerine peel
• 2 slices ginger
• 2 litre soup stock or water
• 1 tbsp cooking wine
• salt to taste
Directions (for slow cooker)
1. Cut the beef shin into thick slices and parboil for 2 minutes
2. Place the beef, ginger and stock into the slow cooker
3. Bring everything to a boil
4. Lower the heat and simmer for 2 hours
5. Add the dried Chinese yam, tangerine peel, cooking wine and salt
6. Continue to cook for another 20 minutes
7. Serve
Recipe 4: Beef soup recipe with huai shan, arrowroot, goji berries and red dates
This serve as a general tonic. With so many Chinese herbs in the soup, enough nutrients can be absorbed just by drinking the soup. If the beef is tough, discard it. The huai shan, arrowroot, goji berries and red dates can be eaten.
Allow ample time for simmering in the slow cooker.
• 50g astragalus
• 50g huai shan
• 15g arrowroot
• 25g goji berries
• 50g red dates
• 750g beef
• 15g garlic
• 3 slices of ginger
• 1 chilli
• 1 stalk of coriander
• Pinch of salt
• 10 cups of water
Directions (for slow cooker)
1. Wash and slice the beef
2. Parboil the beef
3. Add the beef, garlic, ginger, chilli and water into a slow cooker and cook for 40 minutes
4. Add the Chinese herbs and continue to cook for another 20 minutes
5. Add salt and parsley
6. Cover lid and cook for another 2-3 minutes before serving
Tough beef cuts are not a problem for long simmering soup. One of the most favourite ways of cooking beef is in a thick stew.
Recipe 5: Beef stew recipe with shin and carrot
This beef stew recipe yields a melt-in-the-mouth softness for both the tough beef shin cut and root vegetable. Beef shin is great for stewing. It is a cut from the lower leg of the cow and is a relatively cheap cut. It can also be called the beef shank.
If the shin you bought came with a section of the leg bone, don't throw the bone away. Add it to the stew to enhance the flavour of the stew.
• 200g carrot
• 200g beef shin
• 1 small section of ginger
• 8 red dates
• 1.5 litre water
• Dash of cooking wine
• Salt to taste
1. Clean the beef shin and cut into strips
2. Parboil the meat and the bone for 2 minutes
3. Peel the carrots and cut into cubes
4. Peel and wash the ginger
5. Bring the water to a boil, add the beef shin, bone, and ginger
6. Bring back to a boil, lower the heat to a simmer
7. Simmer for 1.5 hour
8. Add the carrot, cooking wine and red dates
9. Continue to cook for another 20 minutes
10. Add salt to taste
11. Remove the bone before serving
Recipe 6: Beef soup recipe with daikon, potato and carrot
Beef goes very well with root vegetables like daikon radish, potatoes and carrot.
This soup is like the beef version of the comforting potato soup with pork, a soup I have whenever I am feeling tired and overworked or sick.
The vegetables refer to the trinity of cooking: potato, carrot and onion. It is universally recognised in both eastern and western cooking.
This recipe does not contain goji berries unlike the potato soup recipe mentioned above. Add them if you like.
• 400g beef fillet
• 1/2 potato
• 1/2 carrot
• 50g onion
• 1 litre beef stock
1. Peel the potato and carrot, cut into small cubes
2. Chop the onion into small cubes
3. Cut the beef into cubes and parboil for about 10 minutes
4. Bring the beef stock to a boil in a deep pot
5. Add the beef, potato, carrot and onion
6. Lower heat and simmer for about 45 minutes
7. Season with salt, pepper and sugar
8. Serve
Recipe 7: Borscht soup Hong Kong style
This last recipe below isn't really a Chinese soup although it is served quite widely in Chinese fusion cafes. It is the borscht soup.
A visitor once asked me about 罗宋汤 (luo song tang), which is the Chinese name for borscht soup. This Russian soup is traditionally made with beetroot. But I know the visitor is asking me about the tomato-based version.
This tomato soup is sort of ubiquitous in many western cafes in Hong Kong. They are a staple in many Singapore cafes serving western food too. I guess it is not just Chinese cuisine that gets localized.
• 250g beef fillet
• 1 fresh tomato
• 1/2 carrot
• 1/2 onion
• 2 tbsp ketchup or puree
• 1/2 potato
• 1 litre beef stock
• Salt, pepper and sugar
1. Cut the beef into pieces and parboil for about 2 minutes
2. You might want to pound the beef fillet with the back of your knife to tenderize the beef slightly before slicing into pieces
3. Peel the potato, carrot and onion, cut into bite-sized pieces
4. Wash the tomato and cut into pieces
5. Place the potato, carrot, and beef pieces in a pot
6. Add the beef stock and simmer for an hour and 30 minutes or till everything is tender
7. Add the onion, tomato and ketchup
8. Cook for another 8 minutes
9. Season with salt, pepper and sugar
10. Serve
Finally, other beef cuts used in Chinese soups are beef brisketoxtail and ground beef. Click each for recipes.
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Walker Review
Generally the belief is once you get a productivity app you keep to it, because you add all the product has to offer to your vast ecosystem of devices. It quickly becomes the thing you look to for guidance on what you must remember to do today.
Walker is taking a different route, for now, settling to just be on the iOS device. This does make it vulnerable to those productivity type apps that have a web browser, computer app, are compatible with all mobile OS’s and can basic configure on any and all platforms.
On the next few updates, we may see configuration with different platforms and better ways to sync our data. The problem here is Walker works well due to its connection with the iOS platform.
iOS platform connection
Unlike all other productivity apps we’ve used, Walker is unique in the way it borrows information from your Apple apps that you cannot delete. These apps are Calendar and Reminders, both hold key information about dates and times you are needed.
The two apps are very good, but they are quite tiresome and there is no real way to connect them. Walker makes that connection, so you only have to open one app. It also connects with your Siri commands and will store them on the Walker catalogue.
Walker has a rather compelling and simple interface, although we recommend you use the Reminders and Calendars app provided by Apple rather than the Walker way of storing information, simply out of ease on setting dates and times.
One problem we found on the app was that it was rather ugly when it came to setting dates and times, so that is why we are saying use the apps that Walker wants you to connect with.
Realistically, this app is basically just a gateway from the three Apple apps it configures with and it is a solid choice if you only want to be productive with your phone or tablet.
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World Retail Congress 2019
Exclusive interview with Dr Ira Kalish
07 Mar 2019
Exclusive interview with Dr Ira Kalish
An interview with Dr Ira Kalish, Chief Global Economist, Deloitte
Q: In the Global Powers of Retailing report, you stated that you thought the global economy finished 2018 at a turning point and could be entering difficult times. This is in contrast to the optimism we felt during the first half of 2018. What has happened to cause this worrying shift?
A: Three important things happened. First, the economies of Europe and China decelerated considerably. Second, the US economy appears to be facing headwinds, generated by tighter monetary policy and trade uncertainty. Third, fraught trade relations have hurt the global economy. Tariffs have caused a slowdown in trade flows. Plus, uncertainty has had a chilling effect on business investment.
Q: Since the report published in January, a lot has happened across global politics and economics. Have recent events made you more, or less, optimistic or pessimistic and why?
A: Both. On the positive side, it appears that the US Federal Reserve has paused from its policy of tightening monetary policy. Plus, at the time of this interview, it appears that the trade war might not necessarily worsen. On the negative side, however, it is clear that the economies of Europe and China have decelerated faster than previously expected. The Chinese deceleration has spilled over into other East Asian economies. Plus, credit conditions in the US have worsened, with higher risk spreads and weakened activity.
Q: The US economy has appeared to be performing strongly and retailers have been benefitting. Do you see 2019 being another strong year for the US economy?
A: No. By the end of 2018, it was clear that consumer spending was worsening. US government data indicated that household spending and retail sales both fell sharply in December. The economy is already at full employment and facing several headwinds. Thus, it makes sense to expect slower growth at best, and possibly even an economic downturn.
Q: There is a lot of talk about a slowdown in the Chinese economy. How worried are you by current developments in China and will they impact on the Government’s stated aim to create a consumer-focussed economy?
A: The Chinese economy has faced worsening demographics, excess capacity which has hurt investment, an overvalued currency which has hurt exports, and the chilling effect of the trade wars. The government is attempting to offset these factors through fiscal and monetary stimulus, but it remains uncertain how effective this will be. For now, the shift to a consumer oriented economy remains unfulfilled.
Q: Many are worried about what is happening to the big economies in Europe. What should retailers operating in Europe be concerned about?
A: The economy of Europe has decelerated more than expected. Several factors contributed to this including higher energy prices, a high valued euro, weak demand in China, and the uncertainty about trading relations with the US. Germany was hit especially hard by the trade situation and Italy was hit by higher bond yields. Still, the ECB retains an easy monetary policy, and several countries are engaging in more fiscal stimulus. Thus, a general European recession is unlikely. For retailers, slower growth and very low inflation means a tough market share battle.
Q: Retailing is an international business. What countries and regions do you see as offering the strongest prospects for growth over the next 12 months?
A: I would say that the attractive countries are those that have one or more of the following attributes: favourable demographics, strong governing institutions, openness to investment and trade, and lots of low hanging fruit in that there remains a big opportunity to modernize retailing. Among the countries that have these attributes are India, some countries of Southeast Asia, and some countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Take a look at the Global Powers of Retailing 2019 report mentioned during Dr Ira Kalish's interview now. Dr Ira Kalish will be speaking during the World Retail Congress 2019, don't miss out the chance to hear from the Chief Global Economist from Deloitte in Amsterdam - book you pass today.
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Why Does the Chicken Coop Move with the Sheep?
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Why Team Building Is Valuable
One of the questions I like to ask when I first start working with a group is: “Who’s excited for today?” There’s usually some applause and hands shoot up… But there are hands that don’t shoot up too…
So I like to ask my second, and perhaps more important question: “And who is rolling their eyes and going, oh jeez… I have a ton of email and important things to do, and here I am stuck doing some cheesy team building thing.”
At that, I’ll usually get a hand or two that will tentatively (or boldly) go into the air. I like to give those people a high-five for their honesty (if not their enthusiasm).
I ask it because it’s a valid question, and it’s one that is worth addressing up-front: Why is teambuilding valuable?
The reality is that the BEST companies in the world hit the pause button and do team building…
Google. Exxon Mobil. Humana.
Boeing. Coca-Cola. G.E. Merck.
Microsoft. Johnson & Johnson. MetLife.
These are just a few of the Fortune 100 companies I’ve worked with and have done teambuilding activities with.
These ‘movers and shakers’ take time out of their busy schedules, push pause world-domination, and get together to do some “silly” activities for a few hours.
Because they know that without the people in their buildings and offices, they are just buildings and offices.
Companies run on the power of their skilled and talented PEOPLE… And how effective their people are is a direct reflection of their communication and the quality of their relationships.
Without trust, without communication, without collaborative relationships, any company will fail.
Companies that EXCEL understand that the only way to strengthen those bonds of communication, collaboration, trust and relationship is to periodically do away with titles and job descriptions, milestones and deadlines, and simply be human beings together.
What is the fastest and most effective way to bond people?
A quick trip to your local playground will give you the answer.
Kids are amazing at their ability to quickly bond and make friends. If I take my niece and nephew to the park, within 5 minutes they’ll be collaborating with other kids, building castles in the sand, playing games, and generally having a great time. An hour or two later, they’ve had fun, made new friends and created memories.
With kids there is no “job description.” There are no “territories” or filling forms out in triplicate. There is instead a sense of adventure, a willingness to take a risk and embrace the unknown in the name of fun… And it’s a willingness we tend to lose when we grow up, put on our suits, and head into the office.
When I run one of our team building programs, I think of it as a microcosm of the macrocosm… It’s a rapidly run simulation that doesn’t have the normal trappings of rules and boundaries you encounter in business. This is liberating!
I regularly see CEOs and COOs with sleeves rolled up, doing hilarious tasks and joking around with people who have never seen this side of their “boss.”
I see co-workers encouraging each other to do things they never thought possible. I see shy people coming out of their shells and opening up, and boisterous people finding the opportunity to let-loose and shine.
The reality is that everyone has something great to contribute, and everyone has something to learn, if given the opportunity.
But it’s very difficult to lead this kind of a day from the inside.
It’s almost impossible for someone within a company to lead these types of trainings because it breaks the first rule of team-building: we have no titles or roles, and for the next few hours, there is no longer a hierarchy.
Forcing your HR professional or (worse) Manager or Executive into a role as facilitator can do more harm than good. Having someone who normally works under the top executives try to “lead the leader” often backfires. And having the “leader” lead the group usually results in a group who are unwilling to take risks, be silly, or open up.
And that’s where a professional facilitator makes a difference. It’s only the complete levelling of the playing field that an outside facilitator can bring that allows everyone to embrace the day fully.
So what do you get when you do a successful team building program?
You get a rapid breakdown of boundaries. You get people who wouldn’t ordinarily interact or talk connecting and bonding in a way that is impossible in an office environment. You get the opportunity for renewal and reflection. You present your team with the opportunity for success and positive change.
And perhaps most importantly, you provide your team with a fun, memorable day that shows that, as a company, you actually care about THEM.
The humanizing aspect of Team Building can’t be overlooked. In Europe, they call it “Team Bonding” and in many ways I think they’ve got it right. You’ve already built your team… the real goal is to get them to bond together.
The ideal team building will keep everyone included, engaged, and active. It will be fun and memorable, and will have take-aways and tie-ins to business that will make a real difference back in the office.
Even one lightbulb turning on can turn around an entire team.
As the captain of any ship will tell you, if you’re off course by a few degrees, it makes a HUGE difference over time.
When we do a team building program, we’re looking to create a positive course correction in your team’s dynamics that will make a huge difference for years to come.
If you see the value of improving your team’s communication, trust, and want to give them an enjoyable day that they’ll remember for years, we can help.
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Nature Rules, but Miracles Happen
Infinite expression in a natural setting
Nature Rules, but Miracles Happen
by Baruch S. Davidson
April 29, 2019
Do you believe in miracles? To ask a Jew this question is like asking a raindrop whether it believes in clouds. It doesn’t take faith to acknowledge the very basis of your existence, and the Jewish people could not exist without miracles.
Isaac, the very first person to be born into Judaism, was conceived by his ninety-year-old mother long after her biological fertility had ceased. Isaac’s descendants, the Israelites, emerged from Egypt as a free nation only after G-d blitzed their taskmasters with a series of astonishing plagues. To this very day, our continued survival across the ages—2,000 years since our exile from our homeland, living among one society of anti-Semites after another—is nothing short of miraculous.
So the question is not whether we believe in miracles. The question is whether we rely on them.
And indeed, the Talmud wrestles with this question. May an individual operate under the assumption that nature will be suspended on his behalf? Can we fulfill “physical” mitzvot with objects that G-d brings into the world supernaturally?
Surprisingly, the answer is no! The sages of the Talmud taught that we are not to conduct ourselves in any manner that will depend on miracles, nor should a mitzvah—a Divine command—be fulfilled with anything other than the products of nature.
In 1798, detractors of the burgeoning Chasidic movement lodged a false report that the movement’s founder, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, was fomenting a rebellion against the Czar. The Czarist government took this accusation at face value and imprisoned the rabbi for fifty-three days.
One evening, as he was being ferried across the River Neva for interrogation, Rabbi Schneur Zalman asked the non-Jewish official to stop the boat briefly so that he could stand and recite Kiddush Levanah, the blessing over the new moon. The official refused, and Rabbi Schneur Zalman implied that he would be able to stop the boat himself if he so desired. When the official still refused, the boat stopped on its own. Rabbi Schneur Zalman thereupon recited the introductory verses—though not the actual blessing—and the boat continued on its way.
When Rabbi Schneur Zalman voiced his request once more, the official asked, “And what will I receive?” Rabbi Schneur Zalman wrote him a note carrying his blessing, which satisfied the official. The official stopped the boat, and Rabbi Schneur Zalman promptly recited the prayer.
That official saved the note, and his family preserved it under thick glass for generations. Rabbi Dov Ze’ev Kozevnikov, the rabbi of Yekaterinoslav, saw the note for himself, and related this story to nine-year-old Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson--the boy who would later become the sixth Chabad rebbe.
As a boy, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak wondered why Rabbi Schneur Zalman did not recite the entire Kiddush Levanah prayer the first time the boat stopped. Why did Rabbi Zalman wait until the official agreed to stop the boat of his own volition?
“With time,” explained Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, “I came to understand that this episode encapsulates a vital principle in Divine service: that a mitzvah is to be fulfilled in the realm of the natural.”
So on the one hand, we regard the systems of nature as a mere curtain behind which G-d exercises His deliberate providence. But on the other hand, we hallow these natural systems and insist that mitzvahs may only be fulfilled within the created order. What explains this tension?
Or to ask the question another way, why did G-d create a world governed by predictable laws of nature if he intended to break those laws? If miracles are the Creator’s way of letting us know He exists, why create laws of nature at all?
Chasidism explains that both the natural and the supernatural serve the purpose of making G-d’s greatness known to mankind.
Nature expresses G-d’s “completeness” as it manifests itself in the ability to project even finite forms of energy, including those whose systematic operations lend the impression of having a life of their own, with dependable, and seemingly undefiable rules of operation.
The infinite Creator, of course, is not confined to His creation of the universe, nor defined by it; His limitlessness is not affected by the limitations of His creations, His oneness not challenged by their diversity. This is discernible, even to the obscured senses of the natural world, when, by Divine compassion, we are privy to a miracle—a supernatural phenomenon in a world where everything seems otherwise governed by the rules of nature.
Simply put, just like G-d created the magnificent universe to bear witness to the masterful Artist who created it, He occasionally suspends the created order and causes unnatural phenomena to take place in order to demonstrate that the entire cosmos is utterly insignificant when compared to His greatness. If not for G-d’s interference with nature, we might overlook the fact that nature too, in its marvelous perfection and perpetual continuity, is testament to the infinite Creator who conceived it and continually causes it to exist.
Yet while the supernatural serves to inspire us, the mission we were tasked with when G-d gave the Torah is specifically rooted in the realm of the natural.
To cite the Midrash, all of existence came into being because G-d craved a “home” in the lowly worlds. He desired that His singular and infinite presence be fully revealed within the earthly realities He created.
Upon receiving the Torah and its expressly physical commandments, the Jewish people were given the mandate to merge the earthly with the G-dly—to elevate all aspects of creation by utilizing them in the implementation of the Divine will. In doing so, we demonstrate that the natural world cannot be at odds with G-dliness, for it too, with all its ostensibly definitive and unyielding properties, is an expression of G-d’s perfection, and can therefore be used to carry out His will.
For this reason, Judaism insists that the natural processes involved in performing the mitzvot comprise a significant component of the mitzvot themselves, for when a person does a mitzvah, they sanctify not only the object with which the mitzvah is performed (e.g., the shofar or lulav), but also any other physical means that contributed toward its fulfillment. When this involves some sort of natural challenge or hardship, it is an opportunity for even more of the world to be elevated by the holy act. If these obstructions were circumvented through supernatural means, part of the mundane world would remain unaffected, and we would miss the chance to reveal how the natural processes of life are one with G-d.
Instead, we take inspiration and courage from our history of miracles, and relentlessly work to reveal G-d in the natural and mundane, setting up a perfect home for the perfect G-d in His perfect world.
This piece is published in the Lubavitch International magazine, Spring 2019 edition. To order:
1 A similar sentiment was expressed by Israeli Prime Minister David ben Gurion in a CBS interview (October 5, 1956): “In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.”
2 Jerusalem Talmud, Yoma 1:4, and elsewhere. Some sources consider this a Biblical command, derived from the verse, “You shall not test the L-rd, your G-d” (Deuteronomy 6:16).
3 See commentaries to Menachot 69b, Tosafot s.v. chittin.
4 Likutei Dibburim (English), vol. 5, pp. 140-141 (Kehot Publication Society, 2012).
5 Tanchuma, Naso 16.
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Feeding Chicken Feet
Do any of you feed chicken feet to your Basenjis? If so, are they raw or cooked? If cooked, how do you cook them. My pup is 9 months old. I am reading a lot about using them for teeth cleaning assistance with brushing and for all the "goodies" they contain that will add to their diet. I saw a ton of raw ones in the grocery store from USA.
@daureen My understanding is that you should not give your dog cooked bones. Cooked chicken bones become brittle and break into sharp shards as a dog crunches away. Those shards can become an internal hazard and end up in a Vet visit (or worse). On the other hand, uncooked chicken bones are soft and can be digested easily by your dog.
That said, the idea of your dog cruising around the house with raw chicken (and raw chicken slobber) in their mouth seems.... undesirable. I would suggest that this might be a treat for the backyard.
@daureen - RAW only.
Thank you to tanza and elbrant.
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on jackie, letters, love, and the english lord
holy moses, it’s been awhile.
mostly because the hubbub over this english lord nonsense was so nonsensical that it was exhausting, so i just did a big eye-roll and lived my life. a sloooooow big eye-roll mind you because the story of these letters has been like a dripping faucet, where you know it’s dripping and there’s nothing you can do about it but people keep coming into the room to say, OMG, IT’S DRIPPING!!! as though this is a revelation.
while the existence of letters is exciting and the existence of actual words is indeed a legit news story, the enthusiasm with which these particular letters and these actual words have been met- in particular, the GUSH of ink- seems a bit out of proportion with the letters and words themselves.
but then mayhaps you are like, OLINE, WHAT IS THIS OF WHICH YOU SPEAK??! let’s take this double-quick…
jfk and jackie were big friends with the ormsby-gores.
(via JFKL)
david ormsby-gore was the british ambassador to the US.
they all lived in washington when the kennedys were in 1600 and everyone had high spirits and fun times (though the photo evidence makes it look a wee bit staid).
(oh, but wait… ponies!)
(via JFKL)
then jfk died. jackie was sad.
and then sylvia ormsby-gore died in 1967. david ormsby-gore (by then, lord harlech) was sad.
at the time, the press went HARDCORE HARD on the story that jackie and the lord were romancing.
which they were. but the HARDCORE HARDNESS of the press coverage was insane.
please note: i am in NO WAY exaggerating this. i actually myself had underestimated it until giving a talk on jackie in london a few years ago to an audience of people aged 60+ and literally all they wanted to talk about was how the press had misled them about jackie’s love for david ormsby-gore.
at the time, in 1967, an editor actually told a media outlet (paraphrasing here, but barely), “when i was writing sylvia’s obituary, i was thinking how jackie and david would be perfect together.”
sylvia died in may. in november, jackie and harlech went to cambodia and everyone was a-tizzy. by december, liz smith (yes, that liz smith, the liz smith) had a multi-part series in syndication about how harlech was going to win jackie. and then, of course, where liz smith leads others followed.
“a deepening friendship” being FOREVER LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE.
ormsby-gore was the “front-runner” in a race in which no one else appeared to be running.
anyway, if you’ve done any reading about jackie, this is a story you know and you know it well.
SURPRISE: they do not marry.
she marries onassis instead. (that last headline, ya’ll, is 24 ct. gold.)
harlech, evidently, was surprised (alongside most everyone else), though this always seems to have been a case of her just not being all that into him. (and, i know, i keep switching between his names- for years, as a young reader, i thought he was two different people.)
so these letters, what do they say?
basically they attest to the fact that harlech did want to marry her and that she did not inform him she was going to marry someone else.
and they claim to be laying down a story of NOW WE KNOW FOR ABSOLUTE SURE WHY SHE MARRIED ONASSIS.
which, well, no.
because people are complicated, human emotions and motivations are complex.
jackie told this one person, whom she knew had romantic feelings for her, that she wanted someone who wasn’t from her world and that onassis was “lonely and wants to protect me from being lonely.”
(via pinterest… ‘A 1968 sketch from the Italian magazine “Grand Hotel”, showing Jackie wanting to marry Lord Harlech, but still emotionally drawn to the tragedies she endured. This was the way the public wanted her to marry – a sophisticated aristocrat who was also a widower.’)
but that isn’t necessarily the end-all be-all to the story and it certainly isn’t the most interesting part, to me anyhoo, of what she reveals here.
“i know it [the marriage] comes as a surprise to so many people,” she writes. “but they see things for me that i never wanted for myself.”
this is the line which most interests me. this and also this one she wrote in june 1968: “one’s private despair is so trivial now – because wherever you look there is nothing to not despair over – i keep thinking of what jack used to say – ‘that every man can make a difference & that every man should try’.”
it’s expected that this is always THE STORY OF NEW FACTS ABOUT JACKIE’S BED (bonhams head of fine books and manuscripts in the UK: “These letters now show without doubt how close they came to marriage and why Jackie decided to marry Onassis instead), when actually the interesting fact here is simpler: WORDS!!!!!!
so few of hers are publicly available.
i’ve seen more than most because i’ve made deliberate efforts to dig through the correspondence of everyone she ever knew, but every letter that goes up at auction still represents a boon.
it is another piece of the puzzle, another affirmation that there was more to her than clothes and style and dignity or that damn jackie film.
there was an individual, complex and contradictory, which women are so seldom permitted to be.
wherever you look there is nothing to not despair over. we could use that now, no?
it was a small delight when, in accepting the democratic nomination for president, HRC quoted jackie, on what would have been jackie’s 87th birthday, no less.
technically, this was 1 december 1963, so not so much “after the cuban missile crisis” as immediately after her husband’s murder, but still… where does this come from? a letter she wrote to chairman khrushchev.
a letter. would that one day my genius will be recognized and i will be recruited by The Family to edit the ten volume boxed set of JACKIE: THE COLLECTED LETTERS, because so much of what she wrote in the letters i have seen, what she has to say about love and loss and grief and american life and the mess of living and trying, wanting, needing to stay alive, it is so relevant.
in the meantime, mourn with me that more isn’t available. that we’re reliant upon articles with titles like “well, now we know for sure she spurned the besotted englishman” for just a handful of her words.
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Where have all the young things gone?
Last weekend Canberra was pumping with ideas. Borrowing from K Rudd, this year the annual Manning Clark House Weekend of Ideas was titled ‘Fair Suck of the Sauce Bottle: A Celebration of Australian Language’. The sauce bottle didn’t feature much, but the evolution and current usage of language was discussed, dissected and debated.
Jack Waterford's dictionariesBarrister and philologist Julian Burnside was eloquent in his reflection on the specific language surrounding refugees which he described as ‘an exercise in double speak’. He went on to say: ‘I don’t mind when people misuse language but when they deliberately use language to anesthetise or mislead I want to reach for my revolver.’ He talked about how the word ‘illegals’ shaped public perception of refugees as criminals, therefore making it acceptable to lock them up. In reality refugees are ordinary people, including children, who have escaped horrendous situations only to be placed indefinitely behind razor wire without a trial. But this deliberate use of language took away refugees’ humanity in a political ploy to prevent the general public from realising what the government was actually doing.
During the day the issue of disappearing Indigenous languages was a recurring theme. As Aunty Agnes said in her welcome to country, ‘When language is lost, something essential is lost.’ Jeanie Bell, a linguist who is responsible for compiling the Dictionary of the Gubbi-Gubbi and Butchulla Languages with Amanda Seed, continued this theme. ‘Many generations have become very angry and resentful at the loss of language and felt that part of our identity was stolen … There’s a deep grieving and sense of loss about not having language.’ While her work has strived to revive Indigenous languages she admitted it’s a ‘loaded gun’ because there are few examples of success around the world. And with so many dialects (originally 500–600) it makes the task even more difficult. Chief Minister Jon Stanhope joined in the discussion, noting: ‘If language connects us, there is no question that it also divides us.’ Because of this he wants children in ACT schools to be taught Ngunnawal words and phrases – a good idea in my view.
Don Watson gave a rather rambling but amusing talk on the deliberately obscure management-speak that now permeates our lives. He presented a series of examples that had the audience hooting with laughter. But ultimately he worried that this kind of language ‘has a sort of anaesthetic effect … it is now everywhere and it makes us duller’.
As was to be expected during question time audience members lamented the misuse and abuse of words such as ‘literally’ or the introduction of words such as ‘unworry’ and ‘unspend’ which have recently gained currency via a series of NRMA ads. But Watson cautioned against apoplexy. ‘If you worry [for example] about ‘literal’ and ‘refute’ (when you mean deny) and plurals with apostrophes you’ll go mad.’ Like many of the guest speakers he felt unconcerned about the inevitable changing use of language. As Burnside said, ‘Most words change their meaning significantly over the course of a decade … Who’s to say when language was perfect? If change is happening you might as well roll with it.’
David Malouf was in agreement. ‘I’m not worried about change in language. Change is essential … but I am worried about the decay of language.’ He spoke about the overuse of language leading to its debasement: ‘There has never been a time in history when we have been so bombarded by language … and most of it is so unnecessary.’
All of this was entertaining and thought-provoking, yet at the end of the first day one thing was bothering me. As I sat at the back of the theatre, looking out over a sea of grey and white heads, I wondered where all the young lovers of language were. In the audience I counted six people in their twenties (all attending in a group together) and one teenager.
But this problem is not just specific to this event. Over the last decade of attending literary festivals and symposiums in Canberra I have regularly been the youngest person in the room. And there are often two decades between me and the next ‘young thing’. As a woman in my mid-thirties, who is certainly not feeling that young anymore, I find this depressing. Why are these events unable to attract young word lovers? It certainly isn’t because they’re not out there. Is it the content? The guests? The structure? The location? The failure of publicity and marketing strategies? The cost? (In this case I think not since tickets were priced at a reasonable $20 or $15 concession for the Saturday, while the Sunday was free.) I have been puzzling over this for years.
During afternoon tea a colleague and I were ruminating on this problem. ‘I might belong to the grey-haired set,’ she lamented, ‘but I don’t want to sit here listening to the same old stuff.’ We agreed that including young people on the panel might have attracted other young people to attend, but it would also have injected a different kind of energy, and perhaps offered greater balance. Why, for example, mused my colleague, could we not have someone like poet and rapper Omar Musa who would have brought a perspective on contemporary youth language that was lacking.
It greatly concerns me that young Canberrans are not part of this kind of dialogue. These events need rethinking and reinvigorating. And I’m wondering, is it like this in other states? Or is Canberra just getting it wrong?
And while I’m talking about balance, of the twelve speakers only three were women, and none of those three gave any of the major individual presentations. This had the effect of making it rather a blokey weekend.
Julian BurnsideBut back to specifics. Day two, held in the gardens of Manning Clark House, was more relaxed and generated much laughter. Sitting outside under the marquee, with coffee in hand and autumn sunshine filtering in, put me in a cruisey frame of mind. Participation from the audience was invited and taken up with enthusiasm. Julian Burnside was up again, as were Roly Sussex and Bruce Moore, but it did seem that everything had mostly been said the previous day. Consequently it became a little repetitive.
The day’s most engaging offerings came from those who had not previously spoken. Media commentator Lawrie Zion reflected on the development and characteristics of the Australian accent and the making of his documentary, The Sounds of Aus. Genevieve Jacobs from ABC Canberra was lively in her discussion of the pronunciation pitfalls radio presenters face and the type of Australian accents ABC listeners expect to hear. Canberra journalist Jack Waterford brought in some examples from his private dictionary collection (pictured) which is considered to be one of the finest in the land. ‘I’ve always loved words, they’re my favourite things,’ he explained. He went on to describe one subcontinental dictionary as ‘delicious, a delight to read’, perhaps revealing why his wife has labelled his passion ‘a serious sickness’. I should also mention John Harms, Director of Manning Clark House, who steered all the discussions skilfully. Overall it was an enjoyable, if less stimulating, day.
Manning Clark House
But there’s still that problem. Why are young Canberrans staying away from these events?
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1. I suspect events have to be
1. FREE and
2. be advertised in the medium that young people respond to (social networking?)
3. and in the places that young people read (street press? fliers at their places of study or gathering?)
4. and feature content that is relevant and speakers who are either youthful or have a youthful perspective
We have a zine fair coming up in June so we’ll be tackling the same questions of promotion and audiences!
2. I just barely fit in the this category (assuming you can call late 30s ‘young’), and the main reason I rarely get out to events of any kind is that I have two young children and a husband who works late. I probably could have made it to at least part of a weekend event, but most things seem to be on in the early evening when I am still wrangling children and cooking dinner. An event has to be really exceptional for me to make the effort.
3. I think it’s a general phenomenon. Most literary events skew old. It’s partly a reflection of the readership of Auslit. The conventional wisdom is that main book buyers of fiction and popular non-fiction are middle-aged and middle-class. That’s pretty much the impression you get at most lit festivals, too.
I must say, though, I do also wonder if younger people are less accustomed to attending public events. I mean, there was a time when a fairly large percentage of the population regularly attended Labor Party branch meetings or union caucuses or even church events. That seems to be a tradition that’s died out over the last few decades, leaving a much more atomised and isolated population.
4. A decase or so ago I want to see Def Poetry Jam at the Parramatta Riverside Theatres as part of the Sydney Festival. The audience was 97% grey (and Anglo), though the performers were mainly under thirty and African-American/Latino/Hispanic…and then there was my brother and I who stood on our seats afterwards and tried (unsuccessfully) to get a standing ovation going. I remember wondering why on earth they didn’t offer discount tickets for young people of colour in the West (ticket prices being prohibitive).
The indigenous languages preservation issue fascinates me, as in Jamaica, they are introducing patois as a seperate ‘language’ course in schools for fear it will disappear.
5. I agree with Jeff. I don’t know about other writer’s festivals but at all the events I went to at the PWF–and I went to all the free ones, so there was an even greater chance of students being spotted–my girlfriend and I were definitely part of a very small minority, perhaps less than a dozen, of younger people. I have no idea where the CW students that must exist were hiding. Perhaps they were turned off by the mostly aging speakers? I’m honestly not sure. I would have thought the wealth of knowledge that was on display would have been enough to tempt us youngsters out from in front of our computers long enough to learn something useful.
6. At face value the topic of language at the Manning Clark House Weekend of Ideas appeared to be a good “idea” but as Irma said where were all the young things? Where were the “ideas” that might have come from talented young writers, language teachers, journalists, editors, sociologists and students of communication and writing? Why wasn’t there input from younger people towards the debate?
What about the influence on the development of language that will surely emerge from sub-cultures, niche vocabularies and text speak, graffiti, Hip Hop, Rap, Slam Poetry and other contemporary aspects of youth language? One older audience member pointed out that primary and secondary school students have their own evolving language (not just slang).
Sitting behind me was a row of fresh looking young men and women. They didn’t offer any comment all day. At first I thought they were students of writing or journalism but they surprised me by saying they were public servants. I asked what they thought of the sessions. They said, “good”. I said, “only good?” They seemed embarrassed when I asked why they hadn’t contributed to the discussions. They explained they felt “too intimidated” to comment or contribute, in particular, to the session on public service jargon, the convoluted language they know in their workplace, the language that Don Watson spoke about so eloquently and with great humour in his presentation. I noticed the group of fresh young people only attended one of the two days.
For what it’s worth I googled “youth jargon and youth language” and picked out the following three websites There are many more.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/elc/resources/slangresearch.html – Slang Research and the Slang and new language archive
I chose this quote from one of the above.
“New words are a welcome inclusion into language as they ensure the way people talk continues to evolve and remain fresh. William Shakespeare invented words like ‘lonely’, ‘torture’ and ‘bedroom’, Charles Dickens penned the term ‘boredom’, and the British youth coined the phrase ‘you get me?’.”
Perhaps “ideas” from youth would add another dimension and attract new, younger audiences to this event and other literary festivals and celebrations.
7. All that being said, the MWF reports:
Our main audience segment was in the 20 to 34 years bracket, and again the 35 to 45 year bracket were second most in evidence.
Mind you, it’s possible those figures are skewed by the school events.
• Except most people aged 20 to 34 are no longer in high school.
I don’t recall providing information about my age so wonder where they got their stats from.
8. I think this is a problem with any ‘high culture’ event. These events would attract younger and more diverse audiences and participants if they actually attempted to engage with them, as Irma suggested.
Where is this ‘youth culture’ ‘less accustomed to attending public events’ hiding?
I went to the KYD launch a fortnight ago – you couldn’t breathe for all the young people there. The fact that Kill your darlings is published by and publishing young and emerging writers might be a pretty large clue.
9. We shouldn’t be asking why people aren’t at literary cultural events; we should be asking why aren’t they outside organising counter-literary cultural events?
Whose culture?
10. Maybe it’s time to stop lauding literary cultural events created by the establishment and look at ways of fostering others. Perhaps in ways that don’t require the pressures of starting another lit journal.
Solving the problem of not having enough young people at literary events only solves not having enough young people at literary events. Beyond the age factor, I think diversity at literary events is a major issue.
But what kinds of literary events do we want? Or whose culture?
11. I wouldn’t pose it like that. Culture doesn’t belong to any one group in that kind of simple way. Whose culture is, say, Patrick White?
• You’re right. Culture is more complicated than that. I don’t believe culture belongs to any one group and if you look at readers of speculative fiction, for example, you’ll have an incredibly broad cross-section of society.
But we can’t ignore the political aspects of culture. And we can’t ignore that there is some writing, like Ayn Rand’s, that represents a regressive culture. And this event, while touting the anesthetic effects of bureaucratic language, gives as much progressive change or challenge as an atheist conference.
12. Literary youth culture is definitely alive and well in Canberra. There are events – like the poetry slams for example, or launches of the Block journal (which like KYD features work by emerging writers and is published by a group of young people operating out of ANU) – which are full of young people. It’s just that they’re not engaging with these mainstream events. I do wonder if it’s partly the perception that they’re stuffy and boring, and that it’s not actually targeted at them. Jenny’s point is a telling one, I think. For those young people that did attend this event they felt marginalised and intimated to the point where they felt they couldn’t contribute to the discussion.
I find the stats on the MWF interesting and wonder, like Jacinda, how they got these results. I didn’t attend last year but unless it changed dramatically from the year before the 20-34 age group was definitely not the majority. That said representation from that group was certainly better than at most Canberra events.
I actually think it would benefit everyone to have a broader cross-section at these events (although perhaps the old guard would disagree). I suspect part of the solution is to get young people involved on the organising committees of these events. That way they inform the event AND the organisation gets to tap into their networks.
• If I were in the young demographic I would expect (correctly or incorrectly) such a weekend would devote lots of time to rants about how young people were misusing and destroying the language. Not an attractive destination.
However if it promoted artists, peformers, speakers and thinkers who celebrated my language, perspectives and interests I’d be interested.
Even the title suggests it was not for the young. ‘Fair suck of the sauce bottle: a celebration of Australian Language’ implies celebration of language…back in the day. (Before KRudd used it recently most people below the age of 23 – according to a recent poll of three – had never heard the ‘Fair suck’ term before).
What if it had been called ‘Gay, Random, Whatever: a celebration of Australian language. Now and then.’ Only half joking. One 19 yr old I spoke to wondered if her language and her friends’ could even be considered Australian. ‘It’s global now’. So perhaps the premise did not flag young concerns.
Everywhere you go – church, politics, festivals and concerts – grey is the new black – if you’re going where those people always went. This doesn’t mean non-greys are disengaged about words and ideas (or politics, ideas, music or spirituality). They’re just doing it elsewhere so maybe it’s just not the right format. Similar to the lament heard frequently: where are the protests and the protestors? Dissent and new ideas are always taking new forms – that’s why it’s dissent and why it’s new. Perhaps the format belongs to a certain time and demographic.
So Anne-Maree Britton’s comments are spot-on. Spruik where young people are plugged in, as well as everywhere else. As others have said above, spruik what young people want to come to. And as Irma, Jenny and others suggest, the young inclusion thing begins at the begining. (Watching episodes of Madmen with ad execs trying to work out what women want, is a reminder that you have to have WHO you want, planning WHAT you do).
Getting young people in is a ground-up job, not some add-on when everything else is in place.
Having said that, as Natalie suggests, sometimes not attending comes down to plain old domestic detritus.
A great article Irma and thoughtful comments too. Do you think the event was even intended for young types? Maybe organisers got what they wanted and only you and your colleague noticed or were dismayed.
• A good point Claire. Ockerisms like ‘fair suck of the sauce bottle’ and agonising over what constitutes an Australian idiom in general was a concern of the 1970s (time of the three Barry’s – Humphries, Crocker, and Mackenzie). A good time to be alive. A fine time to be alive. A great time for artists. Forty years ago – ie, not now.
13. As Irma suggests and in my experience as an events development person it is a good idea for literary and other arts events to ensure youth representation on committees either by forming separate youth committees or by inviting creative and inspired young minds to participate in the development of such events with existing committees.
Perhaps, in particular, the organisers of future The Weekend of Ideas
in Canberra might consider this.
14. 1. They’re boring.
2. There are better literary events out there.
3. They’re boring.
4. They tend to be organised and peopled by well-known older institutional figures who only invite other well-known older institutional figures to speak, thus
5. They’re boring.
6. They’re often not so much cultural events as marketing events for a city, or political/ideological events, because they tend to be funded by local and state governments, which means –
7. They’re boring.
15. I think you’re right on every point, Anne-Maree. I also think word of mouth is crucial, and of course having young people involved on the organising committee helps get the ball rolling with this. Claire is absolutely right about working from the ground up. But I wonder if the organisers are even interested in having young people there? It seems to be a bit of a chicken and an egg thing. What came first? Young people’s disinterest, or organisations’ disinterest in having them there? Either way, it seems to me that everyone is worse off.
16. Irma wonders
Sadly, Irma probably answered her own question in her first paragraph. Not a literary festival goer myself, I was attracted by a festival titled \Fair Suck of the Sauce Bottle: A Celebration of Australian Language.\ But then Irma immediately follows with \The sauce bottle didn’t feature much.\
I dare say this is the problem.
1. While Julian Burnside is unquestionably an excellent barrister who does first class human rights work, he really is the insomniac’s magic potion. At a conference celebrating Aussie vernacular, his contribution was about disjunctures between newspaper rhetoric and the language of the UN Refugee Convention?? I mean come on. First of all tabloid language IS Australian language. UN Convention language is UN-Australian.
2. What does \Aunty Agnes\ have to do with anything? She is talking about languages that are no longer spoken, or even exist. A tough lesson about linguistic natural selection to be sure, but that’s the way the sauce bottle pours.
3. Jon Stanhope’s state jackboot is the antithesis of how Aussie vernacular evolved. I am shocked that no-one questioned a politician’s presumption to decide \which Aboriginal words and languages ACT school kids must learn…\
4. Irma says \It greatly concerns me that young Canberrans are not part of this kind of dialogue.\ But what \dialogue\ was there at this festival? It was more an authoritarian denial of Aussie vernacular.
5. Quite frankly it is probably a good thing that \of the twelve speakers only three were women.\ At least there is hope that one day a festival might be held that celebrates actual Aussie vernacular.
Ultimately, the reason there were so few younger people is that this crowd of middle-aged, middle-class, white people would be absolutely horrified at the current vibrancy of the Aussie vernacular of our youth. Blue singlets are called \wife beaters;\ boring pop songs are dismissed as \so gay,\ and expressions far more shocking.
The truth is that the literary festival crowd are not interested in the Australia language at all. Unfortunately, their demographic represents everything that is antithetical to a vibrant Aussie vernacular.
• Kim, you make some interesting points, but apart from your final summation on the Aussie vernacular of our youth, there’s not much I can agree with.
A couple of points:
1. Julian Burnside (who by the way I found engaging, hardly an ‘insomniac’s magic potion’) spoke about an issue that is highly relevant: the language used by politicians and the media to describe asylum seekers. Mungo MacCallum’s excellent essay in the current issue of Overland covers similar territory. With the whole fear campaign ramping up again at the moment this kind of discussion is vital.
2. While many of the Indigenous languages have been lost, 145 languages are still spoken, although 110 of those are endangered. For example, Jeanie Bell, who I mention in this piece, compiled the Dictionary of the Gubbi-Gubbi and Butchulla Languages in an attempt to prevent these languages from being lost. They are currently still in use and are now being taught at schools in Indigenous communities in Queensland. Language is so intrinsically bound up with identity and a sense of belonging that to suggest so dismissively that the loss of language is just a ‘tough lesson about linguistic natural selection’ fails to acknowledge the repercussions for individuals and their communities. In a discussion that attempted to embrace different aspects of Australian language (although failed, as we have repeatedly noted, to embrace youth vernacular) talking about Indigenous languages is entirely relevant.
17. Irma’s point about language being intrinsically bound up with identity and belonging makes absolute sense to me. So if the language of existing literary events doesn’t resonate with ‘the young things’ they’ll stay away. As Anne-Maree said word of mouth (the kind of language used to communicate the event) is everything and will make or break an event. The fact that there doesn’t seem to be much evidence of young people creating their own literary festivals or events in the way that they create music festivals and concerts or dance parties and flock to events like the National Folk Festival must mean that there is no interest from them in supporting or becoming involved with existing mainstream literary events. This has become an interesting debate and one which Irma and I first pondered at the MCH Weekend of Ideas. I for one have certainly become fascinated with the development of new language and culture by ‘the young things’ even as young as four and five years. Last weekend Rhubarb Crumble became Rumble Crumble and though it’s probably not the best example I like it.
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In light of Brexit, was the Bank of England rate rise this week unwise?
03 August 2018
As expected, the Bank of England has raised the base rate by 0.25% to 0.75%, the highest since 2009. Whilst the vote at the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was unanimous, it has drawn criticism from several quarters. Notably a senior economist at the Institute of Directors suggested that they should have waited until November when the outcome of the Brexit negotiations should be clearer. Others have suggested that the rate cut following the Brexit vote was unnecessary and they should have raised rates sooner. The MPC retained their wording that further rate rises would likely be at a "gradual pace and to a limited extent". This was flagged so far in advance that the only surprise was that the vote was unanimous. The question as to if this was premature ahead of Brexit comes down to whether it is seen as a tightening move or just a reduction in stimulus when the economy no longer needs it.
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A vetala, or baital, is a vampire-like being from Hindu mythology. The vetala are defined as spirits inhabiting corpses. These corpses may be used as vehicles for movement (as they no longer decay while so inhabited); but a vetala may also leave the body at will.
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They are hostile spirits of the dead trapped in the 'twilight zone' between life and afterlife. These creatures can be repelled by the chanting of holy mantras. One can free them from their ghostly existence by performing their funerary rites. Being unaffected by the laws of space and time, they have an uncanny knowledge about the past, present, and future and a deep insight into human nature. Therefore many sorcerers seek to capture them and turn them into slaves.
A sorcerer once asked King Vikramaditya to capture a vetala who lived in a tree that stood in the middle of a crematorium. The only way to do that was by keeping silent.
Every time Vikramaditya caught the vetala, the vetala would enchant the king with a story that would end with a question. No matter how hard he tried, Vikramaditya would not be able to resist answering the question. This would enable the vetala to escape and return to his tree. The stories of the vetala have been compiled in the book Baital Pachisi.
There is also a strong Vetala cult in the Konkan region, under the names of Betal, Vetal, etc. It seems, however, that the relation between the literary Vetala and this demigod's is feeble at best. There is a Shree Betal temple ( बेताळ ) in Amona, Goa. Vetal is the worshipper (or sevak) of KalBhairav and is the head of all spirits and ghouls and vampires and all kinds of pisachas. He has another form which is a more potent and fiery form , that of Agni Vetal who is the sevak of none other than Kalika. Lord Agnivetal has flames on his head and controls fire. He is also known as Agya Vetal. Agnivetal is used by Tantriks to perform evil black magic on people. But it isn't Lord Agnivetal's fault because the Tantriks misuse the powers given to them on propritiating Agnivetal(rather his Daityas which are at his feet-they are the ones who accept the blood sacrifices). So one who worships Lord Agnivetal and Lord Vetal and Lord Shiva can be rest assured from evil attacks on them by jealous relatives, neighbours etc.
In Muslim religion, Agnivetal is Hajimullah the head of all jinns. So, actually speaking when Musalman karni(black magic) is sent against people, one should again worship Lord Shiva and Agnivetal or Devi Kalika to protect oneself from Muslim Black magic.
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You mean, like, do we all sit in a circle and sing the company song in the morning? Is the firm well managed? Are people happy? Oh, my God. What? You're buying SIP? No! You can't do that. That's my job. You can't start interfering in my career. It's not about that. I've wanted to move into publishing. They're the best fit. But you're gonna be my boss. Technically, I'll be your boss's boss's boss. And I'm gonna be sleeping with my boss's boss's boss. Right now, you're arguing with him. Yeah, because he's being an ass. An ass. Really? Ass. Ooh... You know that's off limits. I'm gonna need a road map. I thought you wanted to take it slow. What do you want, Anastasia? If we're to communicate, you have to tell me. I want you. I'm too dressed. Keep going. Kiss me. What do you want, Anastasia? I want all of you. Why do you think you waited? For . Mmm. Mmm. I was reading Austen and Brontë and nobody ever measured up to that. I guess I was waiting for something exceptional. And then I met you. 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Vata, and Kapha balancing Drink. This drink calms and grounds the Vata Dosha (air and ether elements) because of nourishing properties of He Shou Wu, Cacao and warming properties of spices. It has warming effect on the cool elements of Kapha (water and earth) dominant constitutions. Kapha Constitutions can opt out the sugar to make it more beneficial.
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Why Luiz really left Chelsea
David Luiz’ Chelsea departure was as abrupt as it gets in football.
In modern day football at the highest level, transfers are common. What is also common is to rely on the media to release rumours of these possible transfers from day one itself. It usually becomes a mini drama series.
However, in case of Luiz, it seemed out of nowhere, reports emerged he is ready to leave Chelsea and join Arsenal. And boy did that happen fast! The Brazilian had moved teams in London and joined our rivals in a matter of days.
So why did it happen so fast? Well both Luiz and Lampard spoke of an amicable departure. And no bad blood has been spilled. However, many new reports are now revealing that the story is about how Luiz’s insubordination cost him his Chelsea career.
Why Luiz really left Chelsea
Luis is known for his long ball specialty, something Lampard did not want him using in so much abundance as he wanted to build from the back with short passes. Hence, after the second last pre-season match, where Luiz focused solely on playing long balls, Lampard made it clear to him that his Chelsea career was all but over.
And now, he is at Arsenal! I bet you did not see this as the reason.
SEE MORE: Top 10 Chelsea most expensive departures ever
1. Frankly speaking chelsea now playing more long balls compare to previous season ….. Thats my observation though
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No Asiatic weapons, unless this world also has an analogous region.
Considering what we've been told, I'm pretty certain that there is going to be one.
I don't really see anything on the map that would lead me to believe that. What have we been told?
It's entirely possible I'm jumping the gun on this, actually. I've been going off the line from the Souls update:
And thinking that accessing a universal spiritual energy through martial training and meditation sounded a *lot* like some people in this world would fit cleanly into the Wuxia genre.
It's also obvious that they're allowing for different "religious" interpretations of the souls and the spiritual realm, which means that tapping into world religions and spiritual philosophies is pretty much necessary.
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Kukri's, Bowie Knives, Kerambits...I usually play rogues so...these would me out alot, thanks. Add the ability to place poisons and or effects on these bad boys and id buy it for that.
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As long as they have nice beefy two handed warhammers, I'll be content with that in addition to the usual staples of swords and axes.
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Also, please make the weapons realistic looking. Stay away from the Anime-style sword that's twice the size of the person wielding it or mace/hammer with a head so gigantic it would be flat out impossible to wield.
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What ever weapons there'll be - I don't really care (the standard medieval fare with some gunpowder variety) - I just hope the weaponlist won't go overboard so that they can not be balanced to offer "actual" difference in a combat situation - like the case with New Vegas, where I thought there was way too many guns behaving way too similiarly from gameplay perspective (the differences were too thin - due to the amount of weapons - to acknowlege the benefits over the next one).
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I'd love to see Flails, not maces but flails. Usually not in most games, or if they are it's not a major weapon type/done well.
Also I'd love to see poleaxes or some kind of polearms that aren't treated as "one basic attack" weapons. To be able to use each type of attacks, such as the thrusting point on some, an dthen the cleave of the axe part, or to use the back side to pull people down like they could. Many polearms had multiple ways of attacking, but most games treat it as one type and ignores all of the different things you could do with them.
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Maces, blunt
poison to aply on weapon
weapon one hand
weapon two hand
ranged weapon (crossbow, bow, long bow, pistol, black powder)
weapon siege to defend fortress.
AND the last but the least TOWER SHIELD more higher than my dwarf :o)
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I can't really say before we know more about the culture and technology level of the world. It just wouldn't feel right if the game had every sword type that has ever been used in history of mankind, so in my opinion they have to choose one art style/culture and stick with that. Well, maybe a few exotic items here and there, but only a few.
If they are going to add many different weapons, they also need to make sure rules offer enough variety. Wouldn't it be pointless to have 100 different types of swords which all behave basically the same?
My only request regarding this matter would be, they make equipment realistic and something that could actually be used in real combat. So, no blades the size of a man like in certain JRPGs.
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Realistic katanas. Absolutely useless against armors, swords and anything more dangerous than a peasant.
i know this is just herping the derp, but still: no. altough the thing we know as katana was never really a weapon designed for warfare (and even those that were played second fiddle to the spear or halberd analogues), it still is basically a sword. and swords tend to be really awesome against lightly armored people, which back in the day was pretty much everyone.
and i don't really care if they add shotels or whatever obsucre crap as long as they serve a function and are useful.
and to echo the realistic arms and armor thread here: don't look like high fantasy plastic toys.
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sarissa and short sword please. if no sarrisae then please pikes.
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I'm going to rep my region a bit and vote for kerises to be included. Just as a little tidbit, the keris wasn't just an ordinary weapon, but was imbued with mystical power as evidenced by the rituals for its forging and use.
Oh and let dual-wielding be enabled please!
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Sixty six male Sudan desert sheep representing different weight classes of sheep commonly slaughtered in the local market were sacrificed and slaughter and carcass data collected. The model, y= a x xb, in the logarithmic form, was used to describe the pattern of the relative weight changes of the com-ponents of the body and to estimate the composition of the empty body and the carcass at different nominal weights. As the sheep increased in empty body weight the percentage represented by organs and offal parts decreased and that of the carcass increased. With increasing carcass weight, wholesale cuts other than loin cut remained a constant percentage of the carcass weight. The percentage of edible meat in the carcass and its cuts increased with increasing carcass weight but that of bone decreased. The percentage of bone in the carcass was exceptionally high compared with recognized mutton breeds. A possible way to improve carcass quality of the Sudan desert sheep through breeding is, presumably to reduce the bone content of the carcass. | <urn:uuid:233e2b9b-89df-4c57-a6ef-9abac26f6b71> | https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ta/index.asp?action=viewPastAbstract&articleId=3061&issueId=288 | en | 0.914932 | 0.160897 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Are You A Disciple? Part 2
Pastor Clayton's Blog Rounded croppedIt sounds like a trick question but it’s not: Are you a disciple of Jesus? (If you’re curious, skip to bottom of this post and see how fully you can answer three questions. Then come back and read the rest.)
Ultimately, our work is to be disciples and then to make disciples. That is our primary task. This is the pattern set forth by Jesus; this is what the apostles did and this is what the early church did. Be disciples and make disciples.
Unfortunately and with disastrous results, we have divorced the idea of being a disciple from being a Christian. We focus on the name, Christian, and forget what being a Christian actually means.
To be a Christian is to be a follower of Jesus. To be a follower of Jesus is to be a disciple. A disciple is a student, one who diligently studies at the foot of his master, who learns from Jesus and his word throughout their lifetime.
Sit at the foot of a master? What does that mean? It sounds pretty vague because we’ve lost the cultural context and meaning of discipleship. Perhaps the best analogy we have today is apprenticeship – those who learn a craft or trade from someone with more experience, a master craftsman.
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Jesus being God himself is the supreme master, and he taught his disciples day-in and day-out for three years. They listened, observed, talked, shared and tried to practice what Jesus taught. Along the way Jesus both commended and corrected them as needed. They learned from him as well they could and then they spent the rest of their lives growing and maturing into his image.
While we can’t go back in time and walk with Jesus as they walked, we do have his word given to us in Scripture. Therefore, we can learn to be better disciples by asking three fundamental questions when studying his word. The questions on their face are simple but they are not simplistic. Each question has a depth to it that will last you a lifetime.
The Three Questions
1. Who is Jesus?
2. What did he teach?
3. How does that apply to me?
If you skip or ignore any of the questions, you miss the mark when it comes to being a disciple.
• If you miss the first one and don’t understand who Jesus is all of the other answers are off. Period.
• You need to determine if Jesus is God and understand why he had to die for our sin. For those who wish to have some help in understanding who Jesus is, Lee Strobel has written a very good book, “The Case for Christ.”
• If you skip the second question you are left with simply making things up out of thin air.
• You’ll hear people say, “Oh, it doesn’t matter what he taught as long as I believe in him.”
• If you cherry pick the parts of Scripture that you like and disregard the rest, you are creating Jesus out of your own image.
• If you ignore the last question it means that you might be full of knowledge but it is ultimately dead knowledge.
• Dead knowledge is knowledge that does not affect your heart, your head, your hands, your eyes, your mouth, your interaction with God and with others.
Well, how are you doing with these question? Are you willing to learn from Jesus and walk in his footsteps? Are you willing to be his disciple?
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In this video I talk about emotions, and how to lean into them, not steer away from them. It is scary, it is sad, it will make you feel lonely….nah, it won’t, but it’ll explain why emotions are important.
Embracing feelings is not easy, in fact, a lot of people spend a lot of energy trying to avoid their feelings. Thinking is easier and safer for most, thinking uses logic and rational ideas. Emotions are “wilder” and more unpredictable. They can overwhelm you. They can confuse you. Some of us have spent our whole lives running from them.
We try to cover up our feelings with success. We try to cover up our emotions with activities. We try drugs and alcohol. We try over-exercising, over-eating or over-working…but, our feelings remain with us.
Most of us were not given a vocabulary of feelings, we weren’t taught the language. It is a simple lexicon: mad, sad, happy, fear, aloneness, connectedness, shame, happiness and guilt. Because I am in a good mood: I will allow “disgust” to be included in this list of core feelings. | <urn:uuid:dc8a3e59-103d-45ae-90a0-084d918f83df> | https://www.drgore.com/feelings-a-beginners-guide-to-owning-them-and-talking-about-feelings/ | en | 0.965022 | 0.029198 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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- [Voiceover] When you take a general chemistry class, you often have to memorize some of the common polyatomic ions. So let's go through a list of some of the ones that you might see in your class. So we'll start off with Cation here, so a positively charged ion, NH four plus is called the Ammonium ion. And for Anions, there are many Anions that you should know. CH three COO minus is the Acetate ion. CN minus is the Cyanide ion. OH minus is the Hydroxide anion. MnO four minus is the Permanganate ion. And, when you get to NO three minus versus NO two minus, look at the endings. So NO three minus is Nitrate, so we have ate suffix, ate suffix here, which means more Oxygens. Versus the ite suffix, which means fewer Oxygens. So we can see that Nitrate has three Oxygens and Nitrite has two Oxygens. And that ending is important because it's gonna help you with some of the other polyatomic ions. For example, let's look at this next set here of four. And let's look at Chlorate. So Chlorate has three Oxygens. It's ClO three minus one. And Chlorite has fewer Oxygens, it has two Oxygens here, ClO two minus. So we have ate meaning more and ite meaning fewer here. What about Perchlorate? So here we have Chlorate, but we've added on a prefix this time and the prefix, per, means one more Oxygen. So Perchlorate means one more Oxygen than Chlorate. Chlorate had three Oxygens and for Perchlorate we add one on and we get four. So Perchlorate is ClO four minus. Next, let's look at Hypochlorite. So we talked about Chlorite up here, so here's Chlorite and then we put a prefix, hypo, in front of it. Hypo means one fewer, so if we look at Chlorite, we had two Oxygens, we take one away and now we have only one Oxygen. So that must be the Hypochlorite ion. We could have done this for a different halogen, here we're dealing with Chlorine, but let's say, instead of ClO three minus, let's do BrO three minus. ClO three minus was Chlorate, here we have Bromine instead of Chlorine, so this would be Bromate. So there's another polyatomic ion and we can do another example. So instead of ClO minus, which is Hypochlorite, we could have had BrO minus, which would therefore be Hypobromite. So this would be Hypobromite. Alright, let's look at our next set of polyatomic ions. Alright, so let's get some space down here. So we have SO four two minus, is called Sulfate. Right, so we have our ate ending. And then we have four Oxygens, so if we go to three Oxygens, SO three two minus, this is Sulfite, cause ite means fewer Oxygens. What about if we took Sulfate, SO four two minus, and we added on an H plus. So H plus and SO four two minus should give us HSO four and then, instead of a negative two here, instead of a two minus, we would just have a one minus, because we added on a positive charge. So one positive charge and two negative charges, give us one negative charge. So HSO four minus is called the Hydrogen Sulfate ion. You might also hear Bisulfate for this one. Next CO three two minus is called Carbonate, so if we add on an H plus to CO three two minus, we'd get HCO three and then we go from minus two or two minus, to minus one, 'cause we're adding on a positive charge here. So HCO three minus is called Hydrogen Carbonate and you'll also hear Bicarbonate a lot. Next we have PO four three minus, which is called Phosphate. If we add on an H plus to Phosphate, think about what we would get. We would get HPO four and then instead of three minus, we're adding on positive charge, so we get two minus. So we call this Hydrogen Phosphate. Alright, let's add on a proton to Hydrogen Phosphate. So we're adding an H plus onto Hydrogen Phosphate. That would give us two H's. PO four and we'd go from two minus down to one minus. So H two PO four minus is called Dihydrogen Phosphate. Alright, let's continue on. One more set of polyatomic ions to know. So we have CrO four two minus, which is called Chromate. And if we have two Chromiums, so Cr two O seven two minus this is called Dichromate. Next, C two O four two minus is called the Oxalate ion. and we have O two, two minus is called Peroxide. And here we have SCN minus, which we call Thiocyanate. So thio, think about sulfur if you see thio there. So for our next one, we have sulfur present again, is S two O three two minus and this one's called Thiosulfate. So you might see a few additional polyatomic ions in your class, but these are the ones that you see most frequently. So make sure to memorize your polyatomic ions. | <urn:uuid:6670d850-4d43-4fc3-b5ca-7db20172eca4> | https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/acid-base-equilibrium/copy-of-solubility-equilibria-mcat/v/common-polyatomic-ions | en | 0.959531 | 0.324434 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
/ Mediocre Management
The Analyst
To lean on an over-used (and scientifically-debunked) metaphor: each business has a left and right brain. It is half science and half art, half quantitative and half qualitative, half corporate entity and half tribe of people.
One half can be boiled down to a set of metrics: cost per acquisition, customer lifetime value, revenue, gross margin, net income, and so on. Those metrics can be represented in spreadsheets, and it's easy to get lost in those spreadsheets. It's easy to fall into the misconception that a business is no more than the spreadsheets that record and project its metrics. It's easy to bury yourself so deep in the numbers that you lose sight of the other half of building a business: vision and culture.
Some might argue that you don't need vision or culture. That as long as you optimize for shareholder value, you'll build a great company. But teams are not motivated by shareholder value. Tribes do not rally around shareholder value. The metrics will indicate, in unequivocal terms, whether your business is thriving or flailing, but they won't inspire your team to solve the seemingly intractable, or to keep fighting when the odds are slimming. Peter Drucker said "Culture eats strategy for breakfast", but no spreadsheet can reflect your cultural values. Most importantly, spreadsheets aren't creative. They can't illuminate new paths or challenge your assumptions.
The Analyst forgets that a business is more than the sum of its metrics, and so they fall short of motivating, orienting, and retaining world-class talent.
The Good Tendencies
The Analyst tends to be risk-averse. They favor insight over impulse. Their team is not subject to the daily whims or whiplash of a chaotic agenda. Even if the ship is floating towards a waterfall, the Analyst will strive to calculate just how fast the river is flowing, and just how far the water will fall. Because to tack away from the waterfall or, god forbid, turn the ship around and head back upstream is a last resort the Analyst is loathe to propose.
The result is a culture of calm. Some workplaces are plagued by arbitrary prioritization: "the boss wants us to tackle this new project by Friday, so we'll have to work late tonight. Not sure why its so important all of the sudden, but let's get it done!" The Analyst rarely subjects her team to a last minute hustle. Every initiative has a clear strategic purpose and preordained timeline. The cadence of her team's work is steady - they do not "hurry up and wait". This engenders trust and calcifies strategy. The team understands how each project ties to the organization's goals, and respect for their Analyst leader is not eroded by a daily tide of cavalier objectives.
The other obvious benefit of charting a course thoughtfully is that the Analyst is likely to pick the right North Star, while a more impulsive leader might orient the team towards some other shiny object in the sky. There is nothing more powerful than a team, oriented towards a clear and dazzling North Star, marching through the night with no distractions on the horizon. Of course, the fundamental assumption here is that the Analyst has sufficient data (and data-processing capacity) to find the Star and set the strategy. That is not always a safe assumption.
Let's set aside the case in which a team's data-processing capacity is insufficient, as that is a tactical problem (hire a data scientist!). There's a meta strategic question that is often overlooked, especially by the Analyst: is there a decision point here, and can we make it with data?
The Analyst tends to assume that all critical decisions show up on their doorstep, complete with the necessary data. When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and the Analyst's hammer is a spreadsheet. But sometimes the most critical decisions are not even on anyone's explicit agenda, and there is at least one category of decision that necessitates blind impulse, where analysis paralysis can be fatal. This is where the Analyst stumbles.
The Mediocre Tendencies
Imagine the landscape of solutions as a 3-dimensional space (in reality it's probably more dimensions than that, but I can't wrap my head around dimensions greater than 3, so let's stick with 3). There are lots of different sized hills, and maybe some mountains. The tallest of these is the best solution.
For example, if your company wants to fight physical pain, one of the tallest mountains will be Ibuprofen, another will be Acetaminophen, another will be Acupuncture, and there will be a little, tiny hill way off to the side that is Snake Oil.
If your team is climbing Snake Oil hill, the "local maximum" is the peak of Snake Oil hill: the very best Snake Oil solution on the market. The Analyst is great at leading their team to the peak of the hill that they are currently climbing, and finding the local maximum:
• They analyze the data: "All of our customers are saying this Snake Oil tastes like snakes!"
• They derive objectives: "Let's add some more sugar to make it taste less like snakes."
• They measure results: "Now the customers say it tastes like sugary snakes! Back to the drawing board."
Eventually, with diligent iteration, they'll find one of the local maxima.
The problem, of course, is you're still selling Snake Oil. Sometimes the best thing for your business is to hike down from the hill you're on, traverse the landscape of solutions, find a taller mountain, and start climbing that. That's finding the "global maximum", and it is where the Analyst falls short.
The Analyst has risk-aversion blinders that obscure this type of decision from their view, in part because it will rarely be presented to them by their team. "Should we throw away everything we know and start over?" is not a question asked often. The Analyst sometimes lacks the vision to see nearby mountains, and even if they conclude that the team might be hiking the wrong hill, they simply don't have enough data to make a data-driven decision. "How do we get down from here? We've only ever hiked upward! What do we do once we get to the bottom? Where is the tallest mountain?" Often there is no relevant data to answer these questions. When the leader does not have a map, sometimes the only thing to do is start hiking in a new direction. That is anathema to the Analyst.
It's rare to iterate your way to an inflection point. This is especially pertinent for businesses that have not yet found product-market fit. You have a solution on the market, but you don't yet have customers knocking down your door asking to give you money. Is it because you're still near the base of your hill, and as long as your team keeps hiking the customers will come? Or is it because you're hiking the wrong hill entirely, and missing the nearby mountain with the best view? The answer is rarely obvious or objective.
There are two phases to any problem-solving initiative. Frustratingly, they require the exact opposite perspective and skill-set. The first is throwing spaghetti at a wall: come up with as many potential solutions as you can ("No ideas are bad!") and throw them all at the wall. This phase requires creativity and an open mind to chaos. But as soon as one of the ideas sticks, the phase is finished. The second phase is doubling down on that solution and seeing it through. The second phase requires focus, discipline, and analysis. The most important analysis, of course, is determining when to toggle between the two phases. The Analyst thrives in the second phase, but sometimes misses a critical opportunity to revert back to phase one, and falters when faced with flying spaghetti.
Often the biggest risk is not taking enough risks, not turning back when a waterfall is on the horizon, or never hiking down from Snake Oil hill. The Analyst is uniquely susceptible to this paradoxical risk-aversion-risk, not only because they are risk-averse, but because the decision to turn around is often hard to justify with numbers alone. This is where art supersedes science. The leader must have conviction in their vision, and the cultural aptitude to inspire a team, even when no quantitative analysis can prove the new path is right.
Are you an Analyst?
The best Analysts have mastered self-analysis. So if you're an Analyst, you probably already know. You're risk-averse. You love crunching numbers. You're curious. You like talking things through and thinking critically.
The more important diagnostic is: "Are you on Snake Oil hill?"
The answer is deceptively simple: your team already knows. When you're hiking towards the global maximum, your team will highlight tactical, operational scaling challenges: "What do we do about all these support tickets? How are we going to build 60 widgets next month?"
But when you're hiking Snake Oil hill, the team will surface far more strategic questions: "How do we motivate customers to use our product? How do we stop Sales from selling something we can't deliver?" If you're an Analyst, your instinct might be to dive into these strategic questions and come up with strategic solutions. You might be inclined to architect ever more elaborate product packages and sales compensation plans, intended to corral customers and align internal resources. Fight that temptation. Instead ask yourself "Why is the team asking these questions?" If they are asking questions because you're scaling too fast then keep marching, you're onto something! But if they are asking questions because of fundamental misalignments, it's possible you're on Snake Oil hill, and the right answer is to a question that no one is asking: "Should we throw it all away and start over?"
What to Do if You're an Analyst
As with all the other Mediocre Management archetypes, it is critical to balance your mediocre tendencies by hiring a team that will challenge you. Don't build a team of Analysts, hire at least one crazy, impulsive person who will prod you to action. The Visionary is probably a good counterpart!
But you can also leverage your own strengths. You are organized and process-oriented. Build a lightweight process for impulsive thinking. Set aside a few hours every month to come up with questions you wouldn't dare ask out loud, and give them a little daylight. Ponder questions like: "What would our business look like if we threw away one product line? Are we systematically over-invested in one function of our business? If I had to let one member of the executive team go, what would the impact be?" These are tough questions that occur more naturally to an impulsive leader. You may come up with 5 of them each month, spend an hour on each, and decide to ignore all of them. That's okay. The mere exercise in stretching your impulsive thinking muscle is worth the effort, and may someday save your business when you find yourself halfway up the wrong hill.
Still reading? The Technocrat likes digging through the weeds just as much as the Analyst does.
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AI for Business - Leaders’ Workshop on Artificial Intelligence
Basic understanding of Artificial Intelligence is becoming increasingly important for all Business Leaders, not only those in Technology domain. Just like a better knowledge of finance allows Business leaders to make right decisions for their organization and groups, similarly a better understanding of nuances of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence would allow leaders to develop strategies to better connect with their customers and employees.
"Artificial Intelligence would not replace business leaders, but business leaders who understand AI would replace those that don’t"
In order to ensure that AI benefits all types of firms (and not just technology firms) and departments (and not just technical organization), we feel its critical to educate and evangelize the message around AI to different functional leaders. It was extremely encouraging to see a wide set of audience actively participate in a day long session on demystification of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The discussion around practical applications of AI, what to do and what not to, understanding when NOT to use AI led to some very interesting dialogues.
We look forward to many such interactive sessions and workshops in future.
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HIS-113 American History I
American History I provides a broad-based history of the origin and growth of the United States from the arrival of the first European settlers up to and including the period of the Civil War. The story of the United States is about diversified cultures and great public events, many peoples living together in a single land, and a war that is still being fought in many sections of the land.
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A Silent Atheist Inside Scientology IX: conclusion
A Silent Atheist Inside Scientology IX: conclusion
With this conclusion I am closing the longest series to date and yet the work feels incomplete. I hope you have found it useful and may agree with some of it. If you agree with this conclusion please spread the word. It is literally all we can do.
Image of newspaper publishing the famous open letter by Emile Zola.
Image of newspaper publishing the famous open letter by Emile Zola.
Then say they were not slain. But dead they are
We started this series by ‘rooting for the underdog’, reviewing all the ways in which Scientology claimed to make the world better. We passed by core Scientology believes and saw both its organisational structure and its main spiritual activities. Also its secular organisation, its political advances and its business practices passed our review and we dug into its core morality as formulated in ‘The Way To Happiness’. To cap everything of I personally visited a Scientology chapter to get a sense of whether the central monolithic perception of this organisation also reverberated at the local level. However limited the scope and the representativeness of the test we found that it did, more so than other churches from other religions did. Having glanced over many of the aspects from Scientology we must now arrive at a ‘bottom-line’ and formulate an answer to that question: ‘Is Scientology a force for good?’. So here it goes:
L. Ron Hubbard was not wrong when he stated that life was primarily about survival. With this idea he abandoned the fundamental and dreadful underpinning of the three Abrahamic religions, that life is just the precursor for death and subject to what comes after it.
Having reviewed what Scientology stands for and how it operates we must concede certain points. It is, for example, conceivable that there are scientologists out there that live a modest and happy life who, without Scientology, would have over-dosed on drugs decades earlier. Mental addiction is often much harder to beat than the physical one and it might be so that conventional therapy leaves the addicts more room for relapsing than Scientology does. It is equally conceivable that there exist people whose depression and suicidal behaviour was effectively addressed within the therapy and the pseudo-family-structure of Scientology. Still for some other people, a life in the Sea Org where they can only do as they are told, void of uncertainty and real responsibility, is the nearest state to happiness they can hope to achieve. Apart from these extreme cases I would hope that there were also people who, like with alcohol, can do Scientology with moderation. Certainly, if these existed, they would consider Scientology a ‘force for good’!
I am not a proponent of any type of religion nor of the proposition that religion is needed or necessarily inevitable. But if I’m wrong and it is true that there is a whole class of people who needs religion, I think there in nothing inherently worse about a religion that believes we had ‘Evil Alien Overlords’ and which uses pseudo psychotherapy to hypnotically make its followers more content. Who are we to judge which nonsense has greater value or to judge whether ‘trance’ is best obtained through dancing, meditation, drugs or through hypnotic-auditing? If we call Scientology a cult, then at least it is one reasonably unlikely to literally go drink the poisoned cool-aid. As a ‘designer religion’, if we may call it that, Scientology has the tremendous potential to reject archaic morality where other religions were inevitably affixed to some of the more nefarious principles of their predecessors. Take for instance Scientology’s lack of a doctrine stating to the inferiority of women or one demanding the mutilation of genitalia.
Finally we must allow for the possibility that there are those who are, for all intend and purpose, without a family; who have found much of a replacement for it, in the warm embrace of Scientology. It is a cold and hyper-individualistic world out-there and the Scientology-family may have a place in it for some. Still, if this is the case, it is equally likely that in time this embrace will come to resemble that of a serpent, specifically one of the constrictor family.
Because much like with its pastoral works in particular; are most of these ‘potential benefits’ and ‘positive effects’ from Scientology theoretical at best. Where its potential to keep addicts clean is real, it does not have a monopoly on this, nor anything close to the best track-record. Furthermore Scientology’s theoretical foundation of detoxification is entirely non-scientific and the practices of its NARCONON program are deemed ineffective, grounded in unnecessary suffering and very dangerous indeed. A brutal regime in 2013 where detoxing consisted of a 30 – days period of 5 hours straight in a sauna coupled with high doses of niacin, killed three individuals at one NARCONON centre alone.
While Scientology auditing can hypothetically cure a depression, this is a drop in the bucket compared to the number of depressions it has deliberately amplified with its signature ‘personality test’ and follow-up alone. A test that is designed to make people feel actually self-aware and considerably worse about themselves, all in the hope they will purchase ‘scientology-services’ to remedy this. Nor is this indirect and malignant tactic for recruitment and fundraising an exception to the way Scientology normally operates.
Consisting almost entirely out of converts, the actual percentage of Scientology’s ‘recruits’ that themselves sought out Scientology is virtually non-existent! Virtually all of its recruits have been ‘assimilated’ and most by using the same tactics which also drug-dealers employ: Sending acquaintances out to invite targets into the sub-culture, using free samples of something rewarding, belittling those hesitant of joining, infiltrating and picketing schools and trainings institutions and generally by actively preying on the young, the grieving, the depressed and the unsecure. Based on this statistic and their tactics, Scientology is as much an appropriate defender of the ‘War-on-Drugs’, ‘Human-Rights’ or ‘Literacy’ in the classrooms, as would be a hypothetical organisation of unrepentant paedophiles. While it’s hard to prove anyone’s motives, society tends not to give the latter the benefit of the doubt. I would propose a very similar stance towards Scientology is in order and long overdue!
Scientology clearly objects to its auditing being associated with hypnotic therapies. This ignores the fact that LRH established its core practices shortly after having followed a written training in hypnotics. The monotony, uniformity and repetitiveness that is comprised in auditing itself is enough proof of the fact that at least some level of hypnosis is taking place. Testimony from former converts confirms this aspect even though this is not generally a point of contention or a reason for them to leave the church. Considering the integration of Scientology’s core irrationalities into this therapy, there is justified scepticism to question whether people come to believe Scientology’s tenets because of religious convincing rather than because of convincing hypnotics. It does not speak well for the church that she has not been willing to advance in time the disclosure of its core beliefs to its new recruits or to the wider public nor address auditing’s potential for hypnosis.
Usually in an assessment whether a religious organisation is a force for good or bad there is a lot of mercy thrown onto the followers of that religion; even if the judgement of the religion itself often isn’t as positive. For instance the discriminating stance toward women and homosexuals may disqualify Christianity as a force for good, but many Christians are still good people even if they occasionally endorse the twisted tenets of their religion. 99.9% of Muslims are not terrorists even though, going by their scriptures, they probably had better be. It is remarkable that the Abrahamic religions are seemingly slightly more benign in practice that they appear to be in theory. The Bible doesn’t want us to allow witches to live, yet the last supposed witch to be condemned on the European continent died more than a century ago. For Scientology however we must conclude that there is a significantly smaller chance that a random scientologist would compromise on the instructions of his or her religion in equal fashion. Scientology, which perhaps replaced ‘witch’ by the much less demonic ‘suppressive person’ still employs a permanent ‘ethics’ staff which, among other things, forms a perpetual witch-hunt in search of them. Although a floating needle in this case can deliver you, where a floating witch would do very much the opposite, the reasoning behind both is equally unscientific and frighteningly similar despite the latter happening in the 21st century.
From Kaufman: I stared at the bulletin board in disbelief: ‘Richard Stiles has been declared in Condition of Doubt which carries a 72 hour [cfr.:non-stop] work penalty for having seizures in public thus invalidating Scientology. If there is any recurrence of this behaviour either consciously or unconsciously on his part he will be placed in Condition of Enemy and declared Fair Game.’
Kaufman goes on to say how Richard never invalidated Scientology ever again… since he never woke from this episode.
It appears that, as an organisation (because I’m still not sure if one should really call it ‘a religion’), Scientology is so internally focused that its centre of morality has shifted with it. ‘What is good and what is moral’ gets replaced by ‘what benefits Scientology’ and the members (are expected to) align their personal interests with those of the organisation. The ‘Way To Happiness’ may contain precepts against lying. When WOG’s are concerned, lying is norm rather than exception and members are trained in ways of optimising deceit.
The European Christian crusaders may have believed, with varying degree, that God wanted them to chop peoples’ heads of. A scientologist will not likely think like this. Instead your opposition to Scientology or even just your professional occupation are themselves sufficient and irrefutable proof of your quasi-demonic evil nature and irredeemable spirit. So Scientology will consider it morally just and generally a swell service to the world,… to chop your head off. There is a distinction if not a difference. Although, while Scientology is not in possession of supreme governmental powers, they will often suffice in loudly trying to illicit a confession from you for all the ‘messed-up stuff’ they are convinced you have done. Nothing could be wrong with Scientology, so something must be very wrong with you!
Hubbard: Only those who have a long, long list of things to hide would even begin to reprimand you.
From the “Handbook for Preclears”
Like other religions, Scientology’s ignoring of science (or just facts in general) imperils it morally. It would be perfectly possible to create a religion based on the Xenu mythology that used auditing-therapy at its core and based itself on actual science regarding neuro-psychology. Especially if they were willing to occasionally adjust for new evolutions. Instead LRH has recorded an un-transparent, internally contradictive paradigm that, even when followed to the letter, especially when followed to the letter, leads the scientologist into a quagmire of contradiction and uncertainty. Since there cannot be fault with Scientology the only acceptable ‘solution’ for Scientology is to reprogram, punish or banish the faithful subject until the contradiction is gone. Since it has replaced morality with self-interest the means applied are only limited by their cost and their potential back-lash.
There is ample testimony that when faced with adversity Scientology will use both legal and illegal coercion to obtain what it considers to be the optimum result. Apart from many testimonies indications such as its WISE-infiltration-program, its choice as to where it locates its headquarters, the clandestine meetings it holds with politicians or the way it maintains an ‘Office of Special Affaires’ demonstrate a clear politic of seeking leverage regardless of its legality.
Up to this point however most of this criticism of Scientology is based on theory. It is what is wrong with Scientology in principle. Although all of it is directly responsible for what is wrong with Scientology in practice, it can also conceal the direct way in which this is true, from sentiment. No measure of cataloguing Scientology as ‘an extremely hierarchical organisation with fascist tendencies lacking any sense of humour regarding doubt or criticism’ can convey the innumerable tragedies it has directly and often wilfully caused at the lowest level. A four-figures ‘donation’ -cost on a Saint-Hill-pricelist for hypnosis-therapy is theoretical. It hides the father who sold his house to redeem the debt of the son who ended up disavowing him and joining the Sea Org slaves after all. Theoretically speaking Scientology is not an end-times cult, at risk of Jonestown-scenes or worse. In practice its mechanistic view on ‘reincarnation’ has begotten it a death-cult in which the ruined and the subversive choose suicide at a shocking rate, both by their own initiative or glaringly otherwise, as a means to escape their dire conditions. In practice many of these suicides tend to greatly benefit Scientology even if theoretically speaking they were not involved. And although we will not say that Scientology slew them, we
‘say they were not slain, but dead they are!’
Hubbard: The suicide is simply self-executioner, having been found guilty by his own court.
From the “Handbook for Preclears”
Part of why this question, ‘Is Scientology a force for good?’ of why it seems like such a plausible question, is because of the assumption that if it weren’t so, that legal matters would be taken to quickly make right where Scientology goes wrong. This assumption however ignores both historical examples involving organised-crime-syndicates and current experiences of the global governments’ routine failing to curb manifest wrong-doings by multinational organisations. If Scientology isn’t recognised as an ‘international crime syndicate with cultish aspects’ it is because individual law enforcements have failed in getting it convicted, not because they haven’t tried! The latest acquittal in Belgium being just another example of how difficult it is to stop an organisation when those responsible do not commit the crimes and when those committing the crimes are not responsible.
Another reason why Scientology often gets the benefit of the doubt is the very successful celebrity-program. It is hard to believe these ‘admirable’ people being part of something so nefarious. The explanation of course being that they simply are not! Scientology has installed an absolute segregation between those it uses as walking PR-commercials and those it exploits in slavery. Tom Cruise is a victim of Scientology, but not as much as most. Meanwhile several television-actors have never the less experienced first-hand that their celebrity classification did not reach high enough to entirely shield them from the displeasures of vertical discipline.
A less parochial variation of the proverb ‘does a bear relieve himself in the woods?’ inquires after the religious convictions of the Catholic Pope. Implying both that ‘yes, the bear does do that there and yes, the Pope is indeed Catholic’. The same question with regard to Scientology cannot imply the same certainty since no-one actually knows if Scientology’s leadership, past and present, are actually themselves Scientologists. Consequently it cannot be determined whether Scientology is a religious organisation with criminal tendencies or if it is a crime-syndicate or mafia which coldly exploits irrational vulnerabilities in people. Although this theoretical difference may be wasted on non-atheists.
Secrecy, although the main reason, is not the only reason why Scientology only occasionally features in the press. The other reason being that it is small and currently even appears to be withering. Consequently any danger it poses to society is widely and enormously underestimated. However, I feel its size and all appearances of its inevitable demise should comfort no-one; Scientology has demonstrated both unprecedented resilience in the past and an ability for raising influence and money that surpasses most ‘conventional’ religions as well as most conventional imagination! We would be ill-advised to forget the historical lessons embedded in Christianity that once was considerably smaller and widely more unpopular than Scientology still is today.
Scientology purports to want to make this a better world. Perhaps this is not very wise of them; Since I would think that in a better world, Scientology, or rather more specifically the things Scientology does, would quickly become outlawed. In a better world they would not be able to benefit both from laws protecting international business corporations as well as those protection religious liberties. In a better world witnesses could not be intimidated so easily and its plaintiffs would not commit suicide quite as often. In a better world no-one seeking ‘Total Freedom’ would come to find himself hopelessly indebted to an organisation with an army of lawyers, an intelligence agency, a fleet, a paramilitary organisation and hundreds of affiliated enterprises standing by to protect its interests by any and all means available. In a better world one would always have a choice not to ‘volunteer’ for a reprogramming facility that was inspired both by Nazi-extermination-camps and Pol Pot’s day-dream. In a better world, those that died, They Should Not Have Died!!
In conclusion: It must be undeniably clear to anyone that Scientology is the best of all religions, unless one were to consider any of the others or even none at all! For if it is indeed to be called ‘a religion’, it must stain all others in this category, rendering them even less appealing in so far that these had not already soiled their own hands.
In any hypothetical debate regarding the relative values of theism versus atheism, once all facts are laid bare, the mere mention of ‘Scientology’ should give any theist pause on his way to the moral high ground. I fear that in this case most theists would revert to denying that Scientology is, or ever was, ‘a religion’. However, whatever its merit as an argument in future debates I suspect that most atheists would gladly sacrifice it and help Scientology further along its withering demise, condemning it to History. While it may in our time escape any definite legal conviction we are morally mandated to further starve it from obtaining any new and unwitting recruits, starving it from its ‘raw meat’, by laying bare and repeating over and over what those who went before have experienced. We must in our poems and prose mercilessly rake together these last remnants of a church, burn these remnants, burry the ashes and then nuke the entire site from orbit. As Ripley said in an entirely different space-aliens story: “It’s the only way to be sure”.
It is but the surface I have scratched here! Relying solely on the work of others, matching sources against each-other to remove bias at best as could be done. One could easily dedicate, as some so nobly do, to investigating and laying bare all aspects of Scientology for the rest of one’s life and this would be an honourable life! But those that do, are so renowned for it, that at least they are immunized against the worst of Scientology’s wrath. I have not that luxury. Still, coming from a distant past where I held a positively biased opinion on Scientology I can now no longer defend the motion ‘that Scientology is a force for good in the world’.
Allow me, in honour of Christopher Hitchens, to imitate the counts with which he put the Catholic Church in its place.
I argue, against the motion ‘that Scientology is a force for good in the world’, for:
• The misuse of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a recruitment tool.
• The usurpation of Governmental anti-drugs policies to prey on the weak.
• The imitating of actual NGO’s and the posturing as mental health-professionals during disasters.
• The direct targeting of children by various infiltrations into the national education systems.
• The exploitation of celebrity members’ reputation for propaganda purposes.
• The despicable unequal treatment of different classes of members.
• The portraying of homosexuality as an illness and an aberration.
• The unrelenting financial extortion of its affiliates through brainwashing and social engineering.
• The wilful social destruction of thousands of families.
• The thousands of remorseless abandonments of financially ruined Scientologists
• The institutionalised violation of at least 11 articles of the aforementioned Universal Declaration among which, but not strictly limited to (Art.3, Art.4, Art.5, Art.9, Art.12, Art.18, Art.19, Art.20-2, Art.23-3, Art.24, Art.30).
• The active role in the deaths of Lisa McPherson, Heribert Pfaff, Josephus Havenith and several suspected others whose names also deserved mentioning, if time would have allowed.
• The hundreds of times Scientology was held sole responsible in suicide-notes across the globe.
• The active infiltration of businesses for recruitment motives through use of covert consultancy firms.
• The shameless corruption of democracy by targeted recruitment of elected officials.
• The corruption of justice by infiltration into government institutions.
• The coerced abortions by Sea Org members.
• The deadly neglect of Sea Org-infants and the physical and mental abuse of its children.
• The commitment of children to forced-labour-programs.
• The maintaining of illegal ‘voluntary’ incarceration facilities.
• The fraudulent misuse of its religious exemption to avoid taxes on otherwise purely commercial activities.
• The employment of mob-intimidation practices to thwart any and all legal- and media-investigations.
• The abuse and non-earnest use of legal means to silence and intimidate journalists and former members.
• The dishonest portrayal of its global ambitions, its absurd tenets, its coercive means and the number of members it has enslaved.
• I accuse!, Ich Klage An!, J’ACCUSE!
Allow me to end on a quote from one of history’s most famous letters:
I have only one passion, that of the light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My ignited protest is nothing more than the cry of my heart. So may one dare bring me to criminal court, and may the investigation take place in broad daylight!
I am waiting. – From “J’accuse” Emile Zola’s open letter addressing the Dreyfus affair.
Live Long and Prosper
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
I'm going out on a limb here but I have to say what I think about this. It is not about any stupid troop surge, it has always been a deal between Iran and the United States. Don't these people in the news, who themselves reported the "meetings" between Iranian officials and American officials, not notice that this 'surge' and the decreased level of violence against occupation troops start after these meetings? That the rhetoric surrounding war with Iran and nuclear weapons went down considerably afterwards? I think my long stay in the United Kingdom has caused me to be infected with that most European of diseases, comparing everything with something in World War II, because I can't help thinking that Iraq has become the Poland of the Middle East...which makes me angry to say the least.
qunfuz said...
Hmmm - To an extent what you say is true, Wassim, but I think only to an extent. I think the fundamental problem is that the Iraqis for a variety of reasons failed to build an intelligent political resistance which could unify the sects and ethnicities against the occupation. I blame, first and foremost, al-Qa'ida and similar Wahhabi groups. When these people took over Sunni areas they turned them into Talibanland. People were whipped for having 'unislamic haircuts', people were forbidden to remove mutilated bodies from the street, etc. Because of this, and because of the horrific bombings against Shia civilians which provoked Shia revenge, the Sunnis turned against al-Qa'ida. Now the Sunnis are fighting amongst themselves, often working with the Americans against their more immediate enemy. Most American casualties were inflicted by Sunni groups who were not supported by Iran, and in areas where Iran has minimal influence, so Iranian agreements with America would not affect these groups or areas.
Likewise, the Shia are squabbling for power, the Badr militia versus the Sadrists. Exhaustion and poverty plays a role. The (Sunni) pro-American Sahwa militias are paid a wage by the Americans, ironically, as some of these same people were previously targetting Shia police on the pretext that they were working for the Americans.
I'm not saying it's the moral fault of the Iraqis, who have been through decades of war, sanctions, dictatorship and occupation. But I am saying the failure of the Iraqi resistance is our fault in general. It is Arab backwardness and division that allows the empire to occupy. Qabbani wrote, abbout the 67 defeat, "they crept through our weaknesses like ants."
G.Gar said...
Qunfuz us rally a secatrian Irania( there is o way he could be anything but an iran)
Anyway dude we- the Arabs got over the symtoms of 1967 when Ira with Egyptian help brought down the Ayatollah Khomeini on his knees and sipped him poison while having Iran totally defeated and humilated with the roads to Tahran open.
Now the Iranians found their chance to settle their score with Arabs through the covert alliance with Americans. ( Itla3aat, badr brigades and Iranian iraqis) it was the Iranian intelleigence that stopped resistance by forcing th fighters to direct their efforts towards protecting the civilians from the Iranian death squads which were liquadating all secyulars pan-Arabists and patriotic Iraqis and anyone who a role in th humilating shattering defeat of Iran in 1988.
qunfuz said...
Amre - You are insane. Really. You should seek help. And if you aren't insane, but I think you are, then you're the least pleasant person I've ever come across. You're a racist and a fantasist. I've already responded to your idiocy here:
qunfuz said...
And how dare you call me a sectarian. I am against sectarianism 100%. You are a foul sectarian hater. You are the sign and symbol of Arab backwardness, but I'm glad to say you aren't representative of most Arabs. In Egypt I found most people loved Hizbullah for instance. I won't respond to your usual charge that I'm Iranian. It so happens that I'm not, but I'm not at all insulted to be called Iranian. Great country. Lovely people. Now shut up, you Swedish worm.
G.Gar said...
Qunfuz if you ever dare to come to Egypt let me see you in person.
You are the reason why Arabs are so retarded. There is no hope for this nation, unless your likes are wiped off the face of the globe.
Please come to egypt and bring yor iranian chador wearing wfe with you. Am sure both of you will have pleasant time.
qunfuz said...
Wassim - Just to let you know what kind of person this is posting on your blog, this is the second time that this deranged fascist has threatened me. Last time it was a little more explicit - he threatened to beat me up if he saw me in Egypt. I've been to Egypt twice and will return. It's a lovely place full of people who say "Nowart al-makan, akhi!" Not scum like this.
G.Gar said...
you are shamless bastard in denial. It is you who has strted the use of dity words like the typical Iranian sel out you are.
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Jun 2020 03
Einstürzende Neubauten
Alles im Allem
Format: Album
Label: Potomak
Release date: May 22, 2020
Doctor Image
Einstürzende Neubauten celebrate their 40th anniversary by releasing a new studio album, the first one since 2014′s “Lament”. That was more of a concept album, so it’s actually been 13 years since the last studio album. Already back in 2002 they started to work with the concept of crowdfunding, allowing their fans to take a big part in the creative process. That is the case for this album also and you can tell that this is a way of working that is well suited for this band.
The new album is centered around the concept of Berlin, the city where everything started with a live gig at the Moon Club on April 1, 1980. Their sound has evolved through the years and those that are looking for metal banging chaos should look elsewhere – as has been the case with many albums. This is a calmer full-length that stays true to their heritage and, in a way, tells the history of the band. They have perfected their method of taking elements of the world around us, bringing them to the studio, cutting it up, putting it together again in a way that few, if any, can do.
I truly embraced Einstürzende Neubauten with the “Silence Is Sexy” album in 2000. For me, that still is an album that builds a lot on daring to slow down, allowing breaks, giving beats time to build up, creating a very organic sound. I hear a strong connection to that album here, where they allow beats and melodies to find their own space in the songs. The title track “Alles in Allem” is a lovely example. Blixa Bargeld takes us on a journey and it’s a wonderful example of how he can create lyrics based on what he sees, including the floor of a corridor outside their studio.
“Zivilisatorisches Missgeschick” is perhaps the closest we get to the “old” Einstürzende Neubauten, with a fair share of metallic beats. It is not aggressive though, but very balanced and delicate. “Möbliertes Lied” is also a favourite of mine and I was not surprised to learn that this was the first song to be recorded for the album. You can sense an atmosphere of taking the first trembling steps into creating something new.
I also have to mention “Taschen”, where the band creates rhythms by playing on zippered bags of the kind much used by refugees to pack their belongings in. Together with lyrics like “What are you seeking in your dreams? / We seek nothing / We’re waiting” it’s an extremely strong track forcing us to reflect on the world we live in.
In “Wedding” the band travelled to five different coordinates in the Berlin district, all selected by chance of course, made field recordings there and used them in the song. A wonderful example on how to take the outside world into the studio and creating a new world with it, if only for four minutes and 26 seconds. “Seven Screws” is lovely poetry, that sparked a lot of questions among their supporters. The band gives no answers of course, and it is a song that the listener can interpret in their own way.
There are some things on here that does not really work for me, but the songwriting is really impressive. The album demands something from you as a listener, to be able to enter their world and reflect. But if you are ready to do that, you are rewarded with a great experience that will stick with you. | <urn:uuid:fa6c7e19-11bf-469c-84a9-6db0283aeab0> | http://www.releasemagazine.net/reviews/einsturzende-neubauten-alles-in-allem/ | en | 0.962527 | 0.038823 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Sunday, October 28, 2012
This Saturday I had the honor of speaking at the New Hampshire Skepticamp, which is a small skeptical conference where the attendees give the talks. My topic was the economic claims of the "Buy Local" movement and I'm currently working on getting a video of my talk online.
I never give talks by reading off a script on stage. I do write a script to rehease and organize my speech. When it comes time for the talk, I have a list of bulletpoints to stay on track and I always keep a physical copy of the speech at the podium in case my mind goes blank, but I've never had to use it.
My rehearsal script is available after the link:
In 2007 a group of 20 artisans banded together to create a man's suit using materials harvested and processed within 100 miles. After 500 hours of labor this was the result.
I've been writing about the economic claims of the "Buy Local" movement for the last four years and show you why these claims are pure woo.
This is going to be like cutting the head off a hydra. As we know, cutting the head off a hydra allows two new ones to take its place. Just as we see when confronting conspiracy theorists and astrologers, localists will attempt to change the subject to claims about the environment , safety and security, social responsibility or aesthetic values.
Localist economic claims can be traced back to one of two organizations that produce activist "studies" that claim to show wealth creation from this method. They are the transparently-named activist organization "The institute for Local Self Reliance,” and “Civic Economics,” which as far as I can tell is two guys in Austin Texas with a pocket calculator.
My brief talk will focus on the "local multiplier effect," which is a psedoeconomic growth model presented by "Buy Local" advocates. The idea is that if consumers in a community shift their purchases to vendors that are also inside the community, those vendors will have more money that will also be spent within the community. The wealth of the community will be contained and avoid escaping to other places. Localists are willing to pay higher prices under the assumption that it will be more than made up for with economic growth. This assumption is both false and ancient
This idea is just a rehash of a ancient disproven idea called mercantilism that was refuted by Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics. Under mercantalism, entire nations tried to maximize exports, minimize imports and build up reserves of precious metals. Like many pseduoscientific ideas, local purchasing preferences do not build upon the existing economic framework, but ignore it because its advocates do not understand it and that's why they are able to accidentally recreate disproven models like mercantalism.
The biggest program with this model is that it ignores half of the equation. The focus is always on what the merchants take in, but it ignores what the customers pay out.
Another big assumptions the mercantialists made is that precious metals and gems are wealth, but it was Adam Smith who argued that real wealth is in resources, the goods and services one can command. Money is just a proxy for resources.
In 1776 Adam Smith showed in his book The Wealth of Nations that trade can increase wealth by allowing people to specialize and become more efficient.
Imagine if you and a neighbor each want to eat a hamburger and a tuna fish sandwich every day. You could prepare one of each for yourself and let your neighbor do the same, but this would require two grills to be fired up and cleaned for the hamburger. Two can openers would need to be purchased and put away, along with two bowls to mix the mayonnaise into the tuna.
What if instead you made two hamburgers and your neighbor made two tuna sandwiches and you traded. You would see a reduction in the tools needed and the cleanup. Efficiency would increase. That's why specialization is important.
In 1817 David Ricardo revealed his revolutionary idea of comparative advantage. I don't have time to explain this notoriously difficult idea in depth so I will simply sum it up as trading with people allows you to concentrate on your most productive tasks while they handle less important tasks for you. Once again, efficiency is increased.
This is why self-reliant societies usually exist on the verge of subsistence.
Jobs are not a benefit in and of themselves, and being more efficient means certain types of jobs are eliminated. This frees up workers to concentrate on other tasks. If you don't force all the workers in a community to grow food to keep everyone from starving, you are able to let some workers focus on other needs like arts, entertainment and scientific research.
But the localist model creates jobs by being purposely inefficient. Instead of buying a mass-produced cutting board, you might by a handmade cutting board from a local craftsman and pay twice as much. That creates busywork, but it doesn't increase the amount of goods produced. That ties up the members of the community with busywork when they could become software engineers, cancer researchers or airplane manufacturers.
When you limit who you will buy from, you will on average pay higher prices. When you limit the size of production, you will sacrifice economies of scale and be less productive. If your community is trying to be self-reliant, it will ultimately be poorer.
So back to the multiplier effect as promoted by localists. Let's test this model with a hypothetical community that is entirely self-reliant.
The claim is that by purchasing things entirely from within the community, money will stay in the community and the community will become wealthier. So that means that the community will turn resources into goods using jack-of-all-trade production, instead of specializing. Therefore, more resources will be used to create fewer goods. These goods will then be traded within the community. The focus is to “buy local” but not to “sell local” and occasionally goods will be sold outside the community while more green pieces of paper will come in.
However, no new goods will be allowed into the community – they must be made locally, so the volume of green pieces of paper will increase. Localism concentrates on what the merchants take in, but it forgets to factor in what consumers pay out. Higher production costs mean local goods will cost more to buy, so the purchasing power of these green pieces of paper will decrease. In addition, with resources leaving the community and more green pieces of paper coming in, the ratio of resources to currency will change.
This is essentially inflation, and merchants will demand more money as goods become scarce while they are awash in currency. Even in their perfect dream economy, dollar bills may stay in the community, but wealth will not increase, as wealth means having more goods and resources.
This community would be poorer in every sense of the world.
The "Buy Local" movement is best understood as an advertising scheme for local merchants that uses false promises and guilt to win over customers.
I'm going to share a quotation from Paul Krugman from his 1996 Pop Internationalism, a wonderful book on economic woo. He was writing about modern day protectionists, but every word of it applies to localists.
“…We learn that the authors on my reading list do not base their disdain for academic economics on a superior or more subtle understanding. Rather, their views are startlingly crude and uniformed… [the view] is dominated by entirely ignorant men, who have managed to convince themselves and everyone else who matters that they have deep insights, but are in fact unaware of the most basic principles of and facts about the world economy.”
Today I am wearing a globally-produced suit and the entire ensemble can be purchased for less than $300. If you paid every worker for the 100 mile suit I showed at the beginning a mere $10 hourly wage, the labor cost alone would be $5,000 and each worker would have to set aside a quarter of their income to buy the outfit, and it looks like it was made from a burlap sack and pressed dryer lint. Which world would you rather live in?
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Because I’m floating in the ocean
Got my head, my heart and body wide open
This drug right here boy, it’s potent
Not a damn person could tell me anything
cuz they’ll shiver in the moment
And if they take just one sip of my potion
They become the warrior that’s been chosen
Now I’m sick, sorry you just having a “bad” high
try turning over a new leaf
Quit pretending to be some bad guy
Cuz I know you only washed up
Or sinking in the low tide
How many of your followers actually differ
From them last guys
I’m something unique
I know it’s hard for you tell time
But don’t you know six o clock
is only half-time
The game is almost over
And you still sitting on the sideline
I got the balls not the bags
Because I’m rooting for the little guys
Last time I checked
In order to win wars
You need to have an army that’s bigger than your ego
So I’m pulling every fucking chain off my people
Crunch the numbers
the scales are not really equal
or did you forget we surrounded everyday
By all this evil
You think you still winning
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March 31
Good morning! It’s the last day of March, can ya believe it?
Today’s scripture:MARK 10:46-52
Yesterday I spent the day at OHSU (Oregon Health and Sciences) with Betty (my roommate) as she participated further in a medical trial for Parkinson’s. We got to the hospital at 9:30am (ish) and walked out of the doors at 4pm. This medical trial is pretty amazing really. It is a 5 year trail (she is celebrating her one year anniversary with this visit) in which they measure her bio markers along the way. This is a Michael J. Fox trial and so it is thorough and the details are taken care of plus OHSU is pretty incredible too. Thursday morning Betty had a spinal tap because it is the closest thing we have to collecting brain fluid. She gets one every 6 months. And then yesterday she participated in a process where she is injected with this radioactive kind of drug. In 3 hours, it highlights parts of her brain to show where the dopamine is in her brain. There is a window of time where the stuff shows up and then it leaves her system. They scan her brain and she is instantly useful to science. This happens once a year so they can track the process in her brain and compare with her biomarkers.
Now with that all said, I got to hang out and people watch a ton at this incredible hospital. If you have never been, I have to tell you a bit about it. OHSU is a teaching hospital but it is also a place with incredible brilliance. So there are students, world known researchers, and amazing doctors all walking around. In addition, OHSU is connected to Doernbechers Children’s Hospital and the VA in Oregon. You can walk from hospital to hospital over these amazing bridges in the air. And all around are these hang out spots that are incredible. There are cafes that are small and intimate, coffee stands, and in each hospital a really great lounge area. The artwork that is displayed all over is beautiful. Plus there are all kinds of people around for care. AND there is a sky tram from the bottom of the hill to the top (this is the picture above).
Spending all day there yesterday really got me to thinking about care, healing and all sorts of people. We started our day in one lounge that hand an incredible view while we waited for the first appointment. Then we went to another part of the hospital to start Betty’s process. Then we walked to another part of the hospital for her to be injected with this stuff. We then had 3 hours of waiting. We ate lunch and observed people. We had heard that the children’s hospital waiting area is really cool so we went there to read, watch, chat, wait AND they have the Starbucks in the place. So we drank Starbucks while we waited. Have you had a moment to pause and wait lately? Talk a moment now….
So many different locations and I watched all sorts of people deal with different levels of care and overall healing processes. I overheard a woman talk about how her son was flung from a tractor and was flown to this location. They are just glad that her son has the best care and he will heal. Another family was waiting for their kiddo to get out of surgery…and there will be healing. We watched as doctors fed themselves and talked about their days in healing. This is all pretty miraculous. I also watched as Betty was dealing with this disease that won’t be cured but her overall care and healing is extremely well cared for and she wants to contribute to future healing through this trial. A miracle for sure.
All of this to say that maybe today’s story of someone crying out for care is not so off of the mark and perhaps Jesus looking at someone to actually care is the ultimate miracle here. Jesus pays attention, listens, and asks what is up. I am sure that that moment is more than the blind man had ever dreamed of and then he walks away able to see! Miracle of all miracles. We all have those moments of needing to be recognized and healed in some way…mental, physical, something in our souls….what is your need for healing?
Today please take a moment to pray for those in need of healing, whatever that place of healing might be. Please lift up the many who funnel through OHSU and hold them for a bit for whatever is going on. Send your love and light to those in healing professions that their hands may be guided and hearts open to receive those coming to them. Amen.
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Cult Corner: A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
Director: Lucio Fulci
Starring: Florinda Balkan, Stanley Baker, Leo Genn, Jean Sorel, George Rigaud, Anita Strindberg
Words – Nathan Scatcherd
A little-seen entry in the filmography of Italian director Lucio Fulci (his better known films include The Beyond, Don’t Torture a Duckling and Zombi 2), A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin carries the classic giallo hallmarks of eroticised violence, women in trouble, melodramatic psychodrama and lots of dodgy dubbing. It operates on the level of a sleazy fever dream, only loosely tethered to the concept of logic, and fans of 70s euro-thriller weirdness will find plenty to enjoy.
The film’s plotting is comically overwrought and labyrinthine, but the essential setup revolves, as giallo films so often do, around the violent death of a woman.
Carol Hammond (Florinda Balkan) experiences a vivid dream of killing her neighbour, and finds upon waking that the woman in question has indeed been murdered. Carol’s life subsequently begins to fall apart in appropriately nightmarish fashion, and the film cedes several scenes to her psychotherapist (George Rigaud) for some vague analysis of her psyche’s dark undercurrents.
The story involves a pair of insane acid-head hippies and – infamously – a room full of vivisected dogs (more on this later), featuring some genuinely startling imagery and moments which carry a surreal slow-motion dread.
The script is entertainingly perplexing at points, and its dialogue made all the more unintentionally amusing by some very plummy English dubbing for its multinational cast (the film is set in London but features Italian, French, Argentinian and German actors). That said, a couple of actual Brits do appear; one of whom is Stanley Baker, of Zulu fame, apparently just picking up a paycheque as all working performers must.
The clash between the more natural-sounding audio of genuine UK actors and the silly comedy value of the RP dub work on the otherwise non-native English speakers only adds to the movie’s endearingly baffling tone. There are occasional confusing moments in which the dubbing is just thrown out altogether, and the film reverts to Italian with English subtitles, before dubbing is resumed once more.
The score by the immortal Ennio Morricone is comprised of fittingly schizoid funk – lurching and psychedelic, it often sounds like the soundtrack to a psychotic break.
Lizard’s main mark on underground cult film history has to be the aforementioned ‘dog scene’, which caused a legal furore upon the film’s release. The scene involves several dogs, still alive but split down the middle and wired up to machines in some bizarre medical experiment, their glistening organs on display.
While undeniably upsetting imagery, it’s also honestly impressive effects work from SFX legend Carlo Rambaldi, and at the time it was considered so convincing as to potentially be a case of genuine animal cruelty. Rambaldi had to present the dog models used in the film before a judicial court to prove no actual animals had been harmed. Personally, I’d argue that this is actually a compliment on Rambaldi’s craftsmanship, and the scene remains a very well-done example of the visceral gruesomeness that can be achieved with rubber, animatronics and fake blood.
By giallo standards, Lizard is actually fairly low-key, oscillating between its surreal horror/erotic thriller trappings and a more subdued realism, but this only makes it feel more off-kilter and unpredictable as a whole. It suffers from some laggy pacing, and its plotting is so bonkers it’s questionable as to what the hell is actually happening for much of the runtime, but ultimately the film stands as an entertaining oddity even in a filmography such as Fulci’s, which is full of oddities already. | <urn:uuid:d057dcee-a5b5-47f3-b726-76f0f152d7c7> | https://reelsteelcinema.com/2018/12/08/a-lizard-in-a-womans-skin/ | en | 0.934037 | 0.129943 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
GMAT Sentence Correction Cheat Sheet
Note: this GMAT® Sentence Correction cheat sheet can also be downloaded as a PDF. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the Complete GMAT Sentence Correction Rules, derived from the GMAT Official Guide.
1. Do NOT ignore the non-underlined portion of the sentence; it may include key information.
2. Shorter = Better.
3. –ING, especially BEING, usually = wrong. (Exceptions: idioms and participles used to join clauses). Subjects + conjugated verbs & nouns usually = right.
4. Non-essential clauses are often used to distract from errors and “pad” sentences. Cross out to simplify.
5. Semicolons separate two complete sentences.
6. Singular/plural verb split = subject-verb agreement question. –S = singular verb; no –S = plural verb.
7. It vs. they splits = pronoun agreement. It(s) = singular, paired with singular noun. They/their = plural, paired with plural noun.
8. Collective nouns (jury, agency, company) = singular.
9. This and that should be followed by nouns.
10. All items in a list must be parallel: noun, noun, and noun; verb, verb, and verb; -ING, -ING, and -ING. If items are long, focus on the beginning of each item. Also: remember that constructions on either side of a conjunction or word pair must be parallel.
11. Which often = wrong. This word must refer back to the noun that immediately precedes it.
12. Which = comma; that = no comma.
13. Where = places, not times, books, works of art, etc.
14. Whose = both people and things. Who = people only; which = things only.
15. Due to = caused by, usually wrong.
16. Keep comparisons equivalent: people = people; things = things. Correct comparisons are often introduced by (un)like.
17. Such as = introduce examples; (un)like = introduce comparison.
18. Participial phrase (e.g. having gone, written by) at the start of a sentence often = dangling modifier
19. Make sure modifiers (adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases) are placed next to the words they are intended to modify.
20. Top word pairs: not (only)…but (also); both/ between…and; so/such…that; from…to; (n)either…(n)or; just as…so
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This is a theory. Masking decreases viral inoculum--> increases asymptomatic infection. Asymptomatic infection--> strong T-cell and (memory B cell) immunity for some duration. Could masking be a crude vaccine until we get to real vaccine? .
This is a theory. Now we need more data on 1) do asymptomatic infections in settings of masking lead to natural slowing; 2) severity of infection in places that mask/don't mask; 3) duration of T-cell immunity in symptomatic vs asymptomatic.
Totally agree with Dr. Rasmussen it is a theory and I am not suggesting pox parties as the article clearly states; just saying masking could be good on multiple levels (decrease transmission, decrease disease severity, help drive up immunity). Thanks.
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The Wiseau Awards: Super 3D Noah’s Ark (SNES)
You can say a lot of things about this game, but you surely can’t say it isn’t “unique!”
Super 3D Noah’s Ark is one heck of a weird game. It’s a 16-bit first person shooter which runs on the Wolfenstein 3D engine, with the same gameplay and a similar soundtrack. Instead of nazis, robotic Hitlers, or demons straight out of hell, Super 3D Noah’s Ark features cute little goats, sheep, and other adorable creatures you need to “put to sleep” with magical food thrown by slingshots.
Feel the horror that is the goat enemy.
This is because Super 3D Noah’s Ark is, above all, a biblical game. Not only that, but it’s educational as well, full of biblical passages, trivia and questions to answer, questions that transported me way back to fifth grade’s Bible studies class in catholic school.
For an educational game, Super 3D Noah’s Ark is also insanely hard, and not because of the religious questions scattered throughout the levels. Enemies are actually fierce, being smart enough to open doors (not bad for a bunch of literal sheep), with spits so strong they take 10% of your health per second. And that’s maybe the best part about this unbelievably cheesy game: it’s challenging enough for hardcore gamers to ignore the in-your-face religious imagery and just enjoy the game for what it offers gameplay-wise: the same Wolfenstein gameplay, labyrinthine levels, secret passages, big bosses, and an “arsenal” so imbecile you can’t help but finding it charming.
This is the coolest and dumbest slingshot ever made.
The story behind the making of Super 3D Noah’s Ark is as amusing as the game itself. The game was initially planned to be a NES game based off the horror movie Hellraiser, but given the time of its development (1993-ish), the devs suddenly decided to start everything all over again and make a family-friendly game according to their Christian beliefs (even though they were making a goddamn HELLRAISER game). The game was never actually sanctioned by Nintendo, given their strict rules against religious imagery, so the developers had to sell the game as an unlicensed cartridge with a bypass chip, just like a Game Genie. If that wasn’t weird enough already, the game was only sold in Christian bookstores, and not actual video game outlets.
I still don’t know the answer.
And that’s Super 3D Noah’s Ark, a game so weird not even Nintendo wanted it for the Super Nintendo’s library, a game so weird it was only sold in religious bookstores, a game so weird it’s actually fun to play, with the right mindset, of course.
If you’re curious about Super 3D Noah’s Ark, you can either look for retro carts around the internet, or you can buy the game on Steam. There’s no better time to experience such classic gem of the 90s than right now.
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The evolution of online therapy and stress guidance
More and more people use the internet to look for solutions for medical or psychological issues such as depression. Before the internet existed, we would frequently get patients in our doctor’s practices who did not dare to take the step toward therapy until several years after their doctor gave them the address of a therapist. The step was such a large one to take. By 2011 we noticed that a part of these sufferers of stress would look for a solution via the internet. That was the reason why we, together with some colleagues within and outside of the country, took the initiative to provide online solutions on the internet: online therapy for stress-bound issues such as burnout, anxiety, tension, or depression.
What is the difference between online therapy and online self-help?
The border is more difficult to set than it used to be. Modern medicine discovers that many issues can be cured with online self-help, without medical intervention. In the past, this phenomenon did not exist. Of course it remains important that the patient consults their doctor to, together, find out which type of help is best to use. Sometimes, a combination of online self-help with therapy or even medication is needed.
Maybe the word therapy is not the proper name for online therapy because online therapy does a lot of therapeutically useful work, yet still plays out outside of a clinic, meaning it occurs without medical research. That is the reason why we recommend anyone who considers online therapy to talk about this with their doctor.
Online therapy is seen by some people as conversation via chat. Others see online therapy as communication via e-mail.
The way in which we saw it, when developing the concept ’15 Minutes 4 Me’, is that we first of all wanted to offer people online self-help therapy, which they could follow 24/7 and where they could, if they felt the need to, also request a conversation via e-mail, telephone, or chat. Yet, this was not something which is required, and did not force one to go into counselling. Most people feel that proper online self-help therapy suffices for their problems. Only a few of them ask for extra support via the internet.
Which applications for online therapy or online self-help are there?
Online therapy treats anxiety
Anxious people have one advantage: they are generally very perfectionist in their ways. So if they do something, they do it well. This is very useful when following online therapy in the form of a self-help program. Because they will generally apply and follow the program in a disciplined way. And those who do it in such a disciplined way, are the ones who of course benefit the most. Their problems disappear like snow during summer because they apply that which they learn. Especially the use of anti-worrying exercises and specific techniques is something which many such people benefited from.
Sometimes, extra conversation can be very useful for those who have suffered from ‘fear of fear’ for several years. For them, the fear that the anxiety will return at some point is dominant, as I have written in an earlier article. In this sub-group, extra online communication can help to support them in getting them to see this fear of fear in a relative way, until even this fear disappears.
Online therapy solves depression
For depressed patients, online therapy helps in the shape of self-help, given that they keep following the program, even on days where they feel hopeless. This can sometimes be an issue. That is why we developed a separate module in ’15 Minutes 4 Me’ where the participant can invite a friend of family member to support them throughout this process. The program will then guide the family member in the support of the patient, through encouragement, feedback, and support. Except for the family, we invite the family doctor to follow-up with their patient during these difficult times and to support them until the depressed patient starts feeling better and finds their own motivation. Getting rid of a real depression does still often take several weeks, even before the patient feels the first signs of getting better. Antidepressant medication takes 2 to 3 weeks and sometimes even longer until the first effects are noticeable. This often gets a little faster in online therapy, but you should still count on at least 10 days before the first signs of improvement become noticeable. So, in this period of time, those people can ask for extra support via e-mail or chat.
Stress or tension solving with online therapy
Other types of stress or tension improve a lot through online therapy. Of course, it is important here too to invest fifteen minutes per day in yourself, but this tends to be less problematic when there are no depressed or hopeless feelings present. And what we see is that many people who reduce their general stress or tension also experience a reduction in their fears and/or depressed feelings.
Burnout treatment through online therapy
Most people who are overworked and get burnt out, suffering from burnout, first need to understand what is gong on. Their doctor or our free online test (the online stress meter on this website) can help with that. Once they know what is happening to them and they have decided that they want to overcome this, online therapy is a good solution because they are guided by the program for fifteen minutes every day. This is good for them because that means that they never need to wait for their next appointment with a doctor or therapist, which can take a week every time. Rather, you feel like you can move forward a little bit every day. The online therapy program helps them day in day out to move forward in order for them to get out of their exhausted circumstances.
If you are unsure whether you suffer of some sort of stress, anxiety, tension, burnout, or even depression, you can take the free online stress test, because this test allows you to check how you are doing within 5 minutes. Afterward, you can then discuss with your doctor what type of therapy you prefer: online therapy or offline therapy.
Of course, like in any type of therapy, your result largely depends on how much your prioritize getting rid of your problem. You pick how intensively you want to make use of the program. And, together with your doctor and our stress meter, you can evaluate whether online therapy is enough for you, or if you might need support from others types of healthcare, too.
Self-test for stress, anxiety, tension, burnout, or depression
Would you like to know to what extent stress, tension, anxiety, or even depressed feelings play a role in your issues? Then you can easily test his here by filling out our free online test with 21 short questions.
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Mining Bill Prompts New Recall Efforts
A conservative group said Monday it was starting to circulate recall petitions against one state senator who opposed recent mining legislation that failed to pass the Legislature, and was exploring a recall against another lawmaker.
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Wisconsin Republicans don't have the 17 votes necessary to pass a bill being rushed through the process to make it more difficult to recall incumbent GOP lawmakers from office.Republican state Sen. Dale Schultz told The Associated Press on Monday that… | <urn:uuid:1a0f357a-9400-479e-95ce-456913f3c740> | https://www.channel3000.com/tag/sen-dale-schultz/ | en | 0.95602 | 0.043657 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Advanced Laughter - a journey embracing our spirituality and who we are.
This is a one or two day training immersing ourselves in laughter. It runs at any time and anywhere!
This is our chance to explore and undertand Laughter training - investigating the meaning, feeling and use of laughter. It's self development and awareness where we answer our own questions on the meanings, use and implications of laughter. It helps put laughter and our facilitation of it into perspective and context.
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Overview of Research Topics
• Nanoscale materials modelling and discovery i.e. Quantum, phonon and spin transport; Environmental effects
• Molecular electronics i.e. Quantum and phonon interference; Energy harvesting e.g. Thermoelectricity and Piezoelectricity; Biological sensing; Spintronic; Optoelectronics; Molecular electronic building blocks i.e. switches, transistors and rectifiers
• One and two dimensional materials i.e. Van-der Waals heterostructures; Graphene electrodes; Molecular graphene nanoribbons
• Multiscale modelling i.e. Density functional theory; Tight-binding modelling; Molecular dynamics; Quantum transport
• GOLLUM: We co-develop the next generation quantum transport simulation tool: GOLLUM
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Nanoscale materials modelling and discovery
Quantum, phonon and spin transport
Any nanoscale device consists of two or more electrodes (leads) connected to a scattering region. The electrodes are perfect waveguides where electrons and phonons can transmit without any scattering. The main scattering occurs either at the junction to the leads or inside the scattering region.
The goal is to understand the electrical. vibrational and magnetic properties of nano and molecular junctions where a nanoscale scatter or a molecule is located between electrodes. There are different approaches to study these though, our main focus is on "scattering theory" and "master equation" approaches.
Environmental effects
The electron, phonon and spin transport in a nanoscale junction could also be investigated in the absence or presence of surroundings, such as an electric field (gate and bias voltages or local charge), a magnetic field, a laser beam or a molecular environment (water, solvent, gases, biological spices, donors and acceptors, etc).
Develop quantum transport code
We co-develop the next generation quantum transport simulation tool: GOLLUM which is a program that computes the charge, spin and thermal transport properties of multi-terminal nano-scale junctions. For more information, visit GOLLUM page.
Molecular electronics
Quantum and phonon interference
Electrons and phonons (i.e. vibrations due to heat) both behave quantum-mechanically like waves and so they can exhibit interference. When a single molecule is attached to metallic electrodes, de Broglie waves of electrons entering the molecule from one electrode and leaving from the other form a complex interference pattern inside the molecule. These patterns called "quantum interference" could be utilized to optimize the single-molecule device performance.
It turns out that constructive or destructive interference of electrons and phonons within individual organic molecules can be engineered precisely by carefully selecting the connection of the molecule to external electrodes and the addition of various atomic groups to the molecule.
For many years, the attraction of the single-molecule electronics has stemmed from their potential for sub-10nm electronic switches and rectifiers and from their provision of sensitive platforms for single-molecule sensing. In the recent years, their potential for removing heat from nanoelectronic devices (thermal management) and thermoelectrically converting waste heat into electricity has also been recognized.
The efficiency of a thermoelectric device for power generation is characterized by the dimensionless figure of merit ZT = GS^2T/κ, where G is the electrical conductance, S is the thermopower (Seebeck coefficient), T is temperature, and κ is the thermal conductance. Therefore, low-κ materials are needed for efficient conversion of heat into electricity, whereas materials with high κ are needed for thermal management.
Inorganic materials for thermoelectricity have been extensively studied and have delivered ZT values as high as 2.2 at temperatures over 900 K. However, this level of efficiency does not meet the requirements of current energy demands, and furthermore, the materials are difficult to process and have limited global supply.
Organic thermoelectric materials may be an attractive alternative, but at present the best organic thermoelectric material with a ZT of 0.6 in room temperature is still not competitive with inorganics. In an effort to overcome these limitations, single organic molecules and self-assembled monolayers have attracted recent scientific interest, both for their potential as room temperature thermoelectric materials and for thermal management.
Biological sensing
DNA sequencing (sensing the order of bases in a DNA strand) is an essential step toward personalized medicine for improving human health. Despite recent developments, conventional DNA sequencing methods are still expensive and time consuming. Therefore, the challenge of developing accurate, fast, and inexpensive, fourth-generation DNA sequencing alternatives has attracted huge scientific interest. All molecular based biosensors rely on a molecular recognition layer and a signal transducer, which converts specific recognition events into optical, mechanical, electrochemical, or electrical signals.
One implementation of this approach is based on measurement of the variation in the ionic current through a solid-state or biological nanopore, due to the translocation of a DNA strand through the pore. However, the current leakage through such pores, low signal-to-noise ratios, and poor control of the speed of the strand through the pore create significant obstacles. To overcome the key technical problems, we study an alternative strategy that involves measuring changes in the electrical conductance of the membrane e.g. containing the pore, rather than variations in an ionic current passing through the pore.
Coherent manipulation of electron spins is essential for quantum and neuromorphic computing and data storage and transfer. We showed recently that the spin coherence time in the range of microseconds at room temperature is possible in bottom up molecular nanoribbons with well-defined zigzag edges decorated with organic radical molecules that bear electron spins. Our focus is on studying spin manipulation in magnetic molecules and molecular nanoribbons and the interplay between their transport and magnetic properties.
One of the main focuses of nanoscale electronics is on switching electrical conductance by an external stimulus such as an external electric field, redox chemistry, or light. In the latter, the electrical current is switched on or off in photochromic molecules in the presence of light or a change in its intensity.
In Piezoelectric molecules, electrical current is generated due to the deformation of molecule. This was observed recently in 4,16-dibromo[2.2]paracyclophane and heptahelicene derived molecules. To enhance the Piezoelectric response, molecules with low conductance and a high dipole moment are required.
One and two dimensional materials
van-der Waals heterostructures
Two dimensional materials such as graphene, molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), phosphorene, silicene and other transition metal dichalcogenides have attracted considerable scientific interest in the past couple of years due to their fascinating transport properties in both in-plane as well as stacked configurations (cross plane van der Waals structures). In device modelling group, we study both in-plane and cross plane transport to explore novel physical phenomena induced by quantum coherent electronic states in these low dimensional systems and application based on novel functionalities.
Bottom-up graphene nanoribbons
Fabrication of novel nanometers long electronic devices with single-atom level precision has been recently possible in chemically-synthesised bottom up molecular graphene nanoribbons (MGNRs). It has been predicted that MGNRs should display half-metallicity, magnetic and topological effects solely when their edges are shaped with molecular precision. Although MGNRs now provide the necessary structural control, but their potential for quantum electronics remains unexplored. In device modelling group, we exploit MGNRs as building blocks for nanoelectronic applications.
Graphene electrodes
For the purpose of attaching molecules to such metallic electrodes, a variety of anchor groups have been explored. These fundamental studies have demonstrated clear correlations between molecular structure and function but are not scalable, not CMOS compatible, and in many cases do not allow gating by a nearby electrostatic gate. Silicon-based platforms have been proposed but so far such technologies remain in their infancy. To overcome some of these limitations, strategies for contacting single molecules based on carbon nanotubes and graphene have been developed. In particular, electroburnt graphene junctions have been shown to deliver stable electrode gaps below 5 nm, which allow electrostatic gating through buried or side gates. Recently graphene-based molecular junctions were used to realize a stable and reversible photoswitch and to study quantum interference, electron transport, vibrational properties, and molecular magnetism in single molecules. However, compared with metal/molecule/metal junctions, graphene-based molecular electronics is still in an early phase of development. In device modelling group, we study the potential of graphene electrodes to form reproducible, stable and reliable junctions. | <urn:uuid:b6dc5de1-2c90-48bc-8ec2-b792c4213c87> | https://www.nanolab.uk/research | en | 0.905425 | 0.315283 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Occupy Bohemian Grove.
Protest movement Occupy are doing what they do best at this years Bohemian Grove event. Bohemian Grove has long been central to conspiracy theorist arguments in regard to an organised world agenda by the ruling class.
It is where the rich and powerful meet and share each others company but only those allowed inside the group know what is discussed. It's labeled as a secret society, it isn't all that secret but frighteningly confidential.
Every year, CEOs, media moguls and high-level politicians 'hang-out' at the secluded camp and this year, protesters gathered outside the property to demonstrate against what they say are meetings in order to eliminate democracy and civil liberties.
Taking part is Dr. Peter Phillips of Project Censored. He has been quoted as saying, "Less than a mile from us there are millionaires, billionaires, people who control the world, control the central banks, build nuclear weapons. This is their summer playground".
Dr. Phillips spent three days on the inside of the Grove once-upon-a-time, but now he protests that the public has a right to know what is happening inside the Grove.
Here's Wikipedias' description of Bohemian Grove: "Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, belonging to a private San Francisco-based men's art club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a two-week, three-weekend encampment of some of the most powerful men in the world."
Website Infowars apparently had a hidden camera in there one year and have released it on DVD. However, through the wonders on the internet you can watch on YouTube. This is the blurb to the film, "Jones' Dark Secrets: Inside the Bohemian Grove documented the first ever hidden camera incursion into the Grove and the bizzare pagan ritual, the Cremation of Care, practiced by its members, all men, including both Presidents Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell, and Henry Kissenger to name but a few" | <urn:uuid:6a57d0d7-9586-4161-ab4d-1ca821123eed> | https://www.theblueguerilla.co.uk/2012/07/occupy-bohemian-grove.html | en | 0.946541 | 0.177997 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Since Trump Appears Dead-Set On Cancelling The F-35, What Should Replace It?
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It appears Trump isn’t going to stop with one tweet about the F-35, because last night, he again tweeted about the defense project.
And, as covered by Zerohedge, the market for both Lockheed and Boeing shares reacted accordingly, as can be seen below:
Lockheed’s shares, which had regained some ground since the market had reacted to Trump’s initial tweet, quickly fell back to ~247, very close to the low they had reached after Trump’s initial tweet on 12/12/16. And, the share price of Boeing, who builds the F-18, reacted positively, though not nearly as strongly.
So, if this isn’t all just a negotiating ploy by Trump, and he truly is dead-set on finding a replacement for the F-35, what should replace it? More importantly… what can replace it?
For starters, its worth noting that the entire program should not be scrapped. As I covered in my original article about the F-35, the program was split into three variants; the Air Force’s “A” variant (70%), the Marines’ “B” variant (14%), and the Navy’s “C” variant (16%). The “B” variant, which can take off and land vertically (STOVL), is perhaps the only variant worth building, as it more than adequately replaces the AV-8B Harrier it was designed to replace. If anything, more “B” models should be built at the expense of the other two, and the Navy in particular can work on finding other aircraft to fill the gap from the remaining “C” models, as the branch clearly prefers to spend the funds elsewhere. In the short term for the Navy, the F-18 is actually a viable replacement, as it already operates the aircraft and is very aware what it is capable of.
Which once again brings us to the biggest problem with the program, the Air Force’s “A” variant, which was designed to replace the F-16 and A-10. Originally designed to be a jack of all trades, master of none, its really just a jack of no trades, reliant on its stealth and avionics to beat out the competition. Once the aircraft is forced into a low-tech role where its low-observable features don’t help it, it is far inferior to cheaper-priced, purpose built aircraft, like the A-10 and F-16. And, as Tyler Rogoway notes, while the Navy can use more F-18s, the Super Hornet is not really a viable replacement for the F-16. It will never have the low observable stealth features that the F-35 has, and advanced avionics will also bring up the price of the aircraft, making it an unrealistic option for the Air Force.
So, what can be done to actually replace the “A” variant?
For starters, the Air Force must keep the existing A-10s flying. As previously stated, it is one of the best available platforms for fighting the low-tech enemies in the war on terror, one that is extremely in demand by the armed forces today, and has proven itself in combat for over 25 years. If anything, this cheap, effective platform should be expanded upon, and not cancelled, as the Air Force has tried to do for decades, in spite of its effectiveness.
The Air Force could easily use funds from the F-35 program to upgrade the technology in the A-10. If you wanted to go a step further, you could (and should) scrap the low-observable requirement, and redevelop the A-10 with newer technology and other features that could improve its combat capabilities. If the focus was on redeveloping the existing proven airframe, the cost savings would likely be considerable. If anything, our armed services need more purpose-built flying tanks on today’s battlefield, and not overpriced stealth fighters that are inferior to the competition in almost every way.
As for the fighters… well, the easiest solution would have been to never build the F-35, and just build more F-22s. I previously noted that Robert Gates, as well as many others, were and are responsible for cancelling F-22 production far too early, and going all-in on an F-35, citing lower costs as their primary reasoning behind the F-35. Again, as I noted, had F-22 production stayed active, the aircraft would have ended up being cheaper per unit to procure than new F-35s, because of the excessive R&D cost associated with building one aircraft for three branches of the military. If the F-35A was built just for the Air Force, as the F-16 was, it wouldn’t have the ugly lift fan bulge that ruins its performance, and likely could have been better value than the F-22.
We can all wail and gnash our teeth about not building enough F-22s, or the DoD completely screwing up the F-35 program altogether, but that doesn’t solve the problem of what can be done to replace the multi-role capability of the F-16. I know, you’re already yelling it to yourself, “We should just build more F-22s and cancel the F-35!” The problem with that plan is the cost of restarting F-22 production, as just restarting the line has been estimated to cost around $3 billion dollars. If you were to price the per-aircraft cost at an already-high $300 million, you are losing 10 airframes just to restart production. Given the proven nature of the platform, and its superiority to the F-35, it might be worth considering. The Air Force has protected its F-35 baby for far too long at the cost of the F-22, so it is hard to take them at their word when they say a production restart would be too cost prohibitive.
It should be noted, that while building more F-22s is an option, it might not be necessary. If the Air Force can keep its current F-15/F-16/F-22 fleet effective for long enough, another (sixth-generation) air-to-air option could be procured. A laser as an offensive weapon could be an option, replacing missiles and possibly rendering the need for maneuverability unnecessary. Even if a laser is not an option, if technology advances far enough to permit an unmanned fighter, this would be a significant leg up on the competition. The human body can only withstand 9g, and even that requires extensive training and cannot be sustained over long periods of time. Removing the pilot from the cockpit could potentially make an unmanned fighter far superior to anything in the skies today.
A sixth-generation fighter concept
As many have noted, building more unmanned aircraft, even current designs, is a solution that should be implemented as part of an F-35 cancellation. Unmanned aircraft can loiter over the battlefield for extended periods of time (days/weeks in some cases), which offers unique advantages that cannot be provided by manned aircraft. Building drones that can carry bigger payloads, giving them more abilities to both observe and attack the battlefield, is an easy solution to a force capability that won’t be provided by the F-35.
The F-35 is obviously a failed platform, and it is one that was designed to replace many existing effective platforms. Clearly, there is no “one size fits all” solution to replacing the capability that will be lost with an F-35 cancellation. But, that was the problem with building the aircraft in the first place – not only did Lockheed overstate its capabilities, the Pentagon listed unrealistic requirements for the aircraft.
At least the program has some salvageable element, in the F-35B. Building a different mix of platforms, including drones and existing or new A-10s is a no-brainer. Keeping existing F-15s and F-16s in service as long as possible is also an option, as well as building new F-18s. Exploring a sixth-generation design to later replace them all, including the F-22, should be done regardless. Restarting the F-22 production line should absolutely be considered, as well as upgrading any newly built F-22 airframes.
No matter how the F-35 is ultimately replaced, the DoD needs to learn from its mistakes, and be prepared to be more flexible in replacing the aircraft. Certainly it makes more sense to buy a limited run of aircraft and test their capabilities in the field, before committing to purchasing 2500+ copies.
At least Lockheed can look on the bright side – even if the F-35 is cancelled, they did manufacture the F-22, and would do so again if the aircraft were brought back into production. However, if Trump is negotiating the purchase, Lockheed can expect him to hold the failure of the F-35 over their heads when he negotiates the price tag.
In less than a month, Trump will be President, and he won’t be just tweeting about the F-35 – he’ll be prepared to address the program and its possible replacements. If Trump is truly the deal-maker he claims to be, he should have no problem getting a better deal than the F-35. Whether that ends up saving money in the long run and/or leads to a lower and more flexible DoD budget is very much up for debate.
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Select the balcony window to see the profile frameless balcony window how to choose?
Nowadays there are many brands of balcony windows on the market. Consumers need to pay attention to the following three points when purchasing window frames without frame!
Create a balcony window
1. Material purchase
Aluminium profiles should use ISO-certified profile products. In order to ensure that the long-term use of the balcony window is not deformed, the thickness of the aluminum profile should be 3mm or more. The glass should be 6mm safe tempered glass with the national 3C certification mark.
The main structural parts should be made of stainless steel materials to ensure that they never rust.
2. Performance purchase
Safety performance: attention should be paid to the connection between the balcony sash and the upper and lower guide rails. It is better that the upper part of the sash has a suspension and the lower part has a supporting structure. This can concentrate the weight of the sash in the lower part of the balcony and use it more safely and at ease.
Firm performance: For balconies with arcs and corners, attention should be paid to the stainless steel reinforced connecting ribs at the corner joints between the guide rails and the guide rail beams. Such a balcony window can withstand the impact force of the sash when it moves and extends the service life of the balcony windows.
Practical performance: for balconies with arcs and corners (especially 90 degrees turn to the balcony) should use the window sash can be free to slide through any angle of the balcony window, to avoid the window sash in the 90 degree corner can not be slipped and do the opening window, so You can reduce the space wasted on the balcony due to multiple openings.
3. Product purchase
Should use a brand of the unit, because the product's accessories and technology is proprietary technology, so the perfect after-sales service is the user's primary consideration for product selection.
The product should have the insurance certificate of the insurance company.
Products should be selected by the national authoritative department of the product, and the product wind pressure performance indicators should reach more than 2000MPA.
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Health star ratings
Health Star Ratings, explained
By Sam Downing|
One of the best ways to find nutrition information about what you're eating is (this may shock you) to read the nutrition information panel on a food's packet.
But most people don't read nutrition information panels — either because they don't know how to interpret them, or because they don't have time to examine everything that goes in their shopping trolley.
One solution is health star ratings: a front-of-packaging labelling system overseen by the government, which assigns foods a score out of five to provide a nutrition snapshot. "The more stars, the healthier the choice," boasts the health star ratings site.
But it's not quite that simple.
RELATED: Food labels confuse those who need them most, study finds
Health stars ratings were introduced in 2014 after a drawn-out tussle between public health advocates and the food industry. Five years later the system is in the midst of a formal review, and both sides are still tussling over how to best update it.
That fight has left us with an imperfect system — but one that's nevertheless useful and trustworthy, if you understand its strengths and limitations.
RELATED: Nutrition information panels, explained
The problems with health stars
These begin with the complicated method used to calculate the ratings.
Health stars are determined by a multi-tiered algorithm that categorises foods, sums up their nutrients, weighs up they're "good" (fibre, for example) or "bad" (saturated fat, sugar and sodium), then spits out a final health star rating that can be used to compare similar foods to each other. (Diabetes NSW & ACT provides a simplified rundown of the process.)
Research conducted by the George Institute for Public Health suggests this calculator produces sound dietary advice in the majority of cases.
"[Health stars] get it right most of the time," says Alexandra Jones, a public health lawyer with the George Institute. "But there are still areas that could be strengthened."
Such areas have produced errant ratings that clash with common sense: Kellogg's sugar-heavy breakfast cereal Nutri-Grain scores four stars, for example; similarly sugary Zooper Doopers earn three stars; and, notably, Coles-brand Greek-style yoghurt scored only 1.5 stars, despite Greek yoghurt being venerated by nutritionists. (It's since been reformulated and has a higher score.)
Jones says these anomalies, though headline-making, are exceptions rather than rules in an otherwise dependable system.
"I think because it's the nature of our psychology, we love to focus on the 'gotcha' moments where it seems wrong," she says. "The temptation to highlight a few bad examples means most people write [health star ratings] off, which is a shame."
Many of these anomalies are being addressed in the five-year review, which proposes tweaks to the algorithm that would bolster health star ratings — such as adjusting for added sugar vs natural sugar, high-fibre whole grains for low-fibre refined grains, and whether a food is classed as a core (meaning it sits within the five food groups) or discretionary (junk food, basically).
(This consultation paper outlines proposed "enhancements" to the algorithm. A draft report of the five-year review is due to be published in early 2019.)
You've probably heard the best known instance where health star ratings appeared to fail: Milo. Tins once proudly flaunted 4.5 stars, even though the iconic kids' treat is essentially powdered sugar — a rating which rightfully earned scorn.
But Jones says this was less a failure of health stars, and more shrewdness by Milo's manufacturer Nestle: the health star algorithm can calculate ratings based on how a food should be consumed, rather than how it's sold. Milo should be consumed with skim milk, which scores highly — so therefore, Milo scored highly.
"With Milo, it's not that [Nestle] weren't using the calculator right," Jones says. "That was a specific loophole in the rules which they had managed to use."
Caving to pressure from public health advocates, Nestle chose to remove health stars from Milo altogether in early 2018
Which leads into the major problem with health stars: it's up to food manufacturers to choose whether or not they're displayed. And guess what: most manufacturers only choose to display them on products that rate relatively highly.
A George Institute paper co-authored by Jones found only 28 percent of packaged products in supermarkets display health stars — most of them Woolworths, Coles and Aldi-brand products, which all show stars, regardless of how many they earn.
"Say Kellogg's, they're putting [a health star rating] on their breakfast cereals, where they do pretty well, but they're not putting it on their LCMs or their other lunchbox products," Jones says, arguing such omissions mean consumers can't get the full health picture of what they're buying.
Making health stars mandatory is one of eight actions included in Tipping the Scales, a major report detailing strategies to combat obesity authored by the Obesity Policy Coalition (OPC) and supported by dozens of public health groups (including the George Institute).
OPC executive manager Jane Martin says health stars can't function as intended if they remain optional.
"They're meant to be developed for the consumer to make healthier choices," she tells Coach. "They were not developed for [the food and beverage] industry to put more marketing on their packaging."
The good news: A federal senate committee into the obesity epidemic in Australia recently published its final report, recommending health stars be mandatory — a move that is, unsurprisingly, opposed by the food and beverage industry.
A third criticism of health stars is that they're not the best form of front-of-pack labelling to sum up nutrition information — a charge Jones says is often made by those who would have preferred a "traffic light" system, where foods and their nutrients are graded red, amber or green.
Such a system is used in the United Kingdom and is hailed as easier to follow, though Curtin University research indicates consumers prefer health star ratings to traffic lights, and especially to daily intake guides (which show nutrients as a percentage of their recommended daily intake, and are hardest for consumers to interpret — which probably explains why they're the food industry's preferred front-of-pack labelling).
"Traffic lights are useful when you have three greens, or three reds, but they're really hard to use when you've got two reds and a green," says Jones. "What do you do when you have a mix?"
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How to use health stars sensibly
That slogan "The more stars, the healthier the choice" is misleading, because it implies consumers need only look to foods with high star ratings to eat healthily.
But the system was actually designed to compare similar types of packaged foods against each other — not to lend a health halo to products with health star ratings, which tend to be packaged foods.
That misconception potentially puts health stars at odds with the Australian Dietary Guidelines. They generally advocate eating less packaged foods (which are more likely to be highly processed junk) and more minimally processed foods from the five food groups, which may not even have health stars — although there's a proposal to award fruit and vegetables automatic five-star ratings.`
RELATED: The Australian Dietary Guidelines, explained
So a packet of frozen fries with a four-star rating just means its nutrient profile is better than one with a three-star rating. It doesn't mean you should eat frozen fries for dinner every night, or that those frozen fries are as nutritious as a yoghurt with the same score.
"It doesn't replace common sense… don't use health stars to make your shopping list," Jones advised. "You should be making your shopping list based on what we know is good, which is things that aren't in packages, basically."
She explained that health star ratings are just one of many tools intended to help us make healthier choices about what we eat.
"They're not a complete source of dietary advice and no one has ever said they should be."
What health stars illustrate (at least to me) is that there are slow-moving but powerful battles for the health of us everyday people being fought far above our heads — and the winners will have significant consequences for our long term wellbeing.
Which is why it's important to get a system that works. Though there have been (over-the-top) calls to toss out health stars for their flaws, it makes more sense to fix what we have rather than start over on some new scheme sure to be riddled with just as many teething troubles.
"It's easy to criticise but hard to suggest a way forward to improve," says Jones, adding that it's an achievement health stars even exist, given the longstanding pushback from the food industry.
"I think Australia shouldn't shy away from the fact that we're actually trying to do something that's quite progressive."
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Chili Lime Marinated Chicken
Chili Lime Marinated Chicken
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Serve on a salad and top with tomatoes, cheese, and dressing.
Yields:6 servings
To Freeze and Cook Later
1. Label your quart-sized plastic freezer bags with the name of the recipe, cooking instructions, and “use-by” date (3 months from when you prepped the meal).
2. Add all ingredients to your freezer bag.
3. Remove as much air as possible, seal, and freeze.
To Cook
1. Thaw in the refrigerator overnight or in a pan of water.
2. Grill for 6-8 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
*Nutritional calculations assume only 1/3 of marinade ingredients are absorbed by the meat.
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Turmeric Cardamom Meatballs With Curry Gravy
Turmeric Cardamom Meatballs With Curry Gravy Jalsa by Veda Mumbai Spice Company
Turmeric Cardamom Meatballs With Curry Gravy
Blending South Asian flavors with an East Coast staple? Veda has taken a refreshing look on meatballs! Packed full of earthy flavors like turmeric and brightened by cardamom, these are sure to be a knockout. This dish pairs easily with a coconut ginger leek rice side dish. Relish in the gravy and consider this another win for flavor!
For the Meatballs
• 1 lb ground pork or beef
To combine with ground meat
• 1 egg yolk
• 3 tbsp softened butter
1. Combine the ground pork, blended mixture, egg yolk, and softened butter.
2. Squeeze excess liquid out of the bread and to the meat mixture, gently combining everything.
3. Grease hands with some ghee and form into golf ball-sized meatballs (makes approximately 36)
4. Heat a heavy-bottomed pan. Add enough olive oil to coat the bottom of the pan and saute until meatballs are browned.
5. Drain cooked meatballs on a paper towel covered plate. Then, remove oil and butter from the pan, leaving only enough needed to make a roux.
Instructions For Gravy
1. Add 2 tbsp flour to the pan with a little bit of the oil left from cooking the meatballs. Stir and make the roux.
2. Before the roux burns, add 1 cup of chicken broth (or other broth of choice) and stir. Then add 1 more cup of broth stirring to remove any lumps.
3. Add 1 – 1 ½ tsp Jalsa spice mix or garam masala, salt, and 1 tsp brown sugar.
4. Stir and simmer until gravy thickens. Then add ⅓ cup half and half and simmer for an additional 1-2 minutes until correct gravy consistency is reached.
5. Add the cooked meatballs back into the gravy and gently combine.
6. Serve with coconut ginger leek rice.
Instructions For Coconut Ginger Leek Rice
1. In a rice cooker, add 2 cups Jasmine rice, 2 cups coconut milk, 2 cups chicken broth, 1 tsp ground ginger paste, green parts of leek cut in half and sliced lengthwise, and salt. Stir and cook until rice is done.
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Quick Answer: Can High PH Burn Skin?
What pH levels are harmful to skin?
How do I balance my pH balance?
To keep the pH of your vagina at a consistently healthy level, follow these tips:Whenever you have sex, use a condom. The barrier will not only protect you from STDs, but it’ll also prevent alkaline semen from disrupting your vaginal pH levels. … Take probiotics. … Don’t douche. … Eat yogurt. … See your OB-GYN.
How do you treat alkaline burns?
Chemical burns rinsed with waterImmediately rinse with a large amount of cool water. … Flush the area for at least 20 minutes. … As you flush the area, take off any clothing or jewelry that has the chemical on it.More items…
How do you treat caustic burn on skin?
If you think you have a chemical burn, take these steps immediately:Remove the cause of the burn. Flush the chemical off the skin with cool running water for at least 10 minutes. … Remove clothing or jewelry that has been contaminated by the chemical.Bandage the burn. … Flush again if needed.
What pH is corrosive to the skin?
A mixture is considered corrosive (Skin Category 1) if it has a pH of 2 or less or 11.5 or greater.
How can I restore my pH balance naturally?
Will Shocking pool lower pH?
What happens if pool pH is too high?
Is high pH bad for skin?
Skin-care products with a high pH level (also known as alkaline) pose the biggest threat to your skin’s pH and acid mantle. They’ll make your skin feel smooth at first, but it’ll be disturbed and rough in the long run, King says.
What does high pH water do to your skin?
When the PH of water becomes greater than 8.5, water taste can become more bitter. This elevated pH can also lead to calcium and magnesium carbonate building up in your pipes. While this higher pH doesn’t pose any health risks, it can cause skin to become dry, itchy and irritated.
At what pH does skin burn?
What pH level is harmful to humans?
What throws off your pH balance?
Anything that changes your vagina’s ph balance can throw off bacteria levels and lead to infection. Actions such as douching, using scented products and deodorants around the vagina, wearing tight non-breathable clothing, or using irritating products can all contribute to ph imbalance.
Can alkaline burn skin?
Should you put vinegar on a burn?
Don’t use antiseptic agents such as hydrogen peroxide and white vinegar, which can cause severe pain when applied to burned skin, Goldenberg says. The same holds true for toothpaste, which contains potentially irritating ingredients including calcium and peppermint. And skip OTC antibiotic creams for minor burns.
Does drinking water help your pH balance?
As your acid levels go up and alkaline levels go down, your body strays further from the normal pH level. To avoid that, switch to drinking pH-balanced water with a good amount of alkaline. Since it’s full of alkalizing minerals, a small change such as this can go a very long way in restoring pH balance in the body.
How do I lower my pH without alkalinity?
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SEVEN days vegetarian diet plan to boost your weight loss
SEVEN days vegetarian diet plan to boost your weight loss
Plant-based diets have been linked with immense health benefits, such as a reduced risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, & certain cancers, etc. In fact, eating a plant-based diet not only lowers the risk of chronic conditions but also promotes weight loss and improves overall health. Fortunately, most Indian diets are rich in nutritious foods consisting of grains, spices, fresh herbs, lentils and fruits. In fact, the traditional Indian diet focuses on high intake of fruits.
But, due to the growing availability of processed foods, more and more Indians are suffering from obesity and obesity-related diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. While overeating and not expending the energy can lead to weight gain, making unhealthy food choices is a leading cause of obesity. So, common sense tells us that eating a balanced diet is vital for maintaining an ideal weight. This article explains how following a healthy Indian diet can help you lose weight and get rid of that stubborn belly fat quickly. Try to include the following foods or ingredients in your daily meal plan to make your weight loss efforts a success.
Whole grains
Whole grains such as brown rice, millet, buckwheat, quinoa, barley, sorghum, are excellent sources of protein, dietary fibre, vitamins and minerals. Whole grains will help improve muscle mass, boost digestion, cleanse your system while keeping you full for a longer period. Eating them will help you lose weight and reduce belly fat easily.
100grams of brown rice contains about 111calories.
Mushrooms are low in calories but high in protein, fibre, and water content. Mushrooms are great sources of vitamin D, which is an important nutrient that may help you lose weight. Low levels of vitamin D are associated with abdominal obesity, also known as central obesity. Studies have shown that replacing higher-calorie foods with lower-calorie mushrooms can help you lose weight.
100 grams of mushrooms has only 22 calories. Read: For quick weight loss, you must include these 5 high-protein fat burning foods in your diet
Beans and legumes
Packed with protein, fibre, vitamins, and minerals, including beans and legumes in your diet can help improve muscle health and suppress hunger pangs, thereby preventing you from overeating. Try including a variety of beans and legumes in your meal plan.
1 cup of cooked black-eyed peas contains 198 calories.
Green leafy vegetables
Vegetables like spinach, kale, collard greens, carrot, and broccoli, and turnip are loaded with essential vitamins and minerals. They are very low in calories but high dietary fibre and water content. In fact, it is said that their calorie content is lower than fruits. Consuming these veggies can help boost your metabolism, improve digestion, keep you feeling full for long hours, and reduce your overall calorie intake. Veggies are one of the best foods to eat if you’re trying to lose belly fat. There are 23 calories in 100 grams of spinach.
Dairy products
You must include dairy products like cheese, yogurt, milk, ghee, etc, in your diet, if you’re lactose intolerant. They are packed with nutrients that can keep you satiated and improve health in many ways. For instance, calcium-rich food yogurt has been shown to improve fat burning and promote weight loss.
100 grams of yogurt (Greek, non-fat) contains 59 calories.
Healthy fats
There are a number of healthy fats you can consume for a lifetime of weight management - such as coconut milk, coconut oil, avocado, mustard oil, olive oil, sesame oil, ghee, etc. For instance, cooking with olive oil will not only help you lose weight but also improve your general health. Olive oil is also a heart health-friendly oil that helps lower bad (LDL) cholesterol and increase good (HDL) cholesterol.
1 tablespoon (15 grams) of olive oil contains about 124 calories.
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Lettuce is probably the most common leafy green vegetable we add in a variety of dishes, including salads, veg wraps, tacos, and more. However, many don’t know that these crispy green leaves of lettuce are rich sources of a host of essential micronutrients that could provide us amazing health benefits.
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Lettuce has an incredibly low calorie compared to other common veggies. A one hundred grams portion of lettuce leaves provides only fifteen calories; therefore you get all the nutrients lettuce has to offer without loading yourself with lots of calories.
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Review: Manjiro-Japan with children
“No Japanese ship or boat . . . nor any native of Japan, shall presume to go out of the country; whoso acts contrary to this shall die.” -Tokugawa Shogunate pronouncement, 1638. From 1641-1853, Japan cut itself off from the rest of the world with very limited trading. The Japanese were not allowed to leave and if they did leave, they were not allowed to return. In Manjiro: The Boy Who Risked His Life for Two Countries by Emily Arnold McCully, fourteen year old Manjiro is working on a fishing boat just a few miles off shore. All is well and there is no concern for the edict until a storm hits and the ship starts to founder.
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Six months after they land, a huge ship comes into view. Finally rescue! But the men on the boat speak a strange language and no one understood anything the other people said. Manjiro was fascinated by the strange men. He followed them all over the ship, trying to learn their language. The captain, William H. Whitfield, gave Manjiro a slate with letters on it and he practiced writing. He also learned to read a map and use a sextant, things he’d never seen before. When the boat stopped at the port of Honolulu for supplies, the other fisherman asked to be left there to find jobs. But Manjiro was invited to continue with the ship to Massachusetts.
When they arrived in New Bedford, Massachussetts, Captain Whitfield took them to a church to say thanks, only to be told that Manjiro couldn’t sit with him. They left and found another church where they could sit together. Manjiro was tutored in English and other subjects before being sent to school, but he still worried about his family.
He was determined to get back to Japan. With Mrs. Whitfield’s permission, he accepted a job as a steward on a boat. He worked hard, but it still wasn’t enough money to buy a vessel to get him to Japan. In 1849, the California Gold Rush had started and determined to earn enough money, Manjiro headed for the gold fields. In just 70 days, he managed to collect $600 worth of gold dust. He returned to San Francisco and boarded a ship bound for the Sandwich Islands. When he arrived in Honolulu two of his former shipmates were eager to join him in attempting to return to Japan. What would happen in Japan? Would they be allowed to return to their families? Be put to death under the Shogunate pronouncement? What would the Japanese officials think of everything they’d seen and done in America? Would they even believe them? You’ll have to read the rest of the story to find out.
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Dakota Pipeline Is Ready for Oil, Without Spill Response Plan for Standing Rock
Without a complete emergency plan or equipment, a spill at the Missouri River crossing could cause tremendous damage to the environment and the tribe's water.
May 10, 2017
Protest against the Dakota Access pipeline on March 10, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The contested pipeline is scheduled to begin moving oil on June 1, without an emergency response plan in place for the section of the line that skirts the Standing Rock reservation. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Oil is set to flow through the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, but there is still no oil spill response plan in place for the section of pipe that crosses the Missouri River just upstream from the Standing Rock reservation. The company won't be required to have emergency response cleanup equipment stored near the river crossing for another year, either.
The lack of rigorous safety measures for the crude oil pipeline is raising concerns from lawyers and pipeline consultants for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, whose protests and legal fight against the Dakota Access pipeline became a flashpoint for environmental justice and indigenous rights last year.
Despite the prolonged resistance, the pipeline is scheduled to begin operating on June 1 after President Donald Trump issued an order expediting its approval.
Dakota Access LLC, the company building the pipeline, is required by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to submit a general emergency plan for the entire half-million-barrel-a-day project before oil shipments begin. But no deadline has been set for it to submit a more detailed plan for the controversial Missouri River crossing as required by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Without a complete emergency response plan and no requirement to have response equipment in place for another year, a spill in the months ahead could cause tremendous environmental damage, pipeline safety experts say.
"If you have a catastrophic rupture, will you be able to handle it?" asked Richard Kuprewicz, president of Accufacts Inc., a consulting firm that provides pipeline expertise for industry and other parties. Kuprewicz works with the tribe's lawyers reviewing documents.
"It's hard enough when you have the detailed plan. If you don't have one, it's probably not going to work," he said.
The information about Dakota Access's emergency plans came to light last month after a legal battle over their release. The pipeline company filed a motion in federal court to keep the documents sealed, claiming they contained security-sensitive information. The tribe contested the motion, and a federal judge subsequently agreed to release most of the information—but with large sections redacted.
The documents offer the first public details of how Dakota Access would respond to a spill into Lake Oahe, a reservoir on the Missouri River and the tribe's primary source of drinking water. The pipeline crosses Lake Oahe half a mile upstream of the reservation. The plans were released as part of an ongoing lawsuit by the tribe against the company and the Army Corps, seeking a more thorough environmental analysis of the pipeline.
"Seriously incomplete, even deficient," is how Kuprewicz described the response for Lake Oahe.
In addition to the lack of plans and equipment, Kuprewicz and other pipeline safety specialists said they are concerned that the company has underestimated the time it would take to respond to a spill, and that it therefore has underestimated the volume of a worst-case scenario.
Dakota Access has said its pipeline will be equipped with state-of-the art leak detection sensors that would easily detect spills. It claims it could spot a leak within 9 minutes and could shut down the leaking section of pipe within 12.9 minutes. Federal data has shown that leak detection systems do not provide as much protection as the public is led to believe.
"Critical assumptions are being made that haven't been independently verified," Kuprewicz said. "Additional information needs to be provided."
As the company prepares to start shipping oil, other parts of the pipeline have already leaked. An above-ground station and a feeder line leaked more than 100 gallons of oil in North Dakota in March. The pipeline also leaked 84 gallons of oil at a pump station in South Dakota on April 4
Lisa Dillinger, a spokesperson for Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company of Dakota Access LLC, declined to respond to the specific concerns raised by Kuprewicz and others. She said only, "we do not agree with the comments. We comply with all the appropriate rules and regulations, and in many cases exceed those, to safely maintain and operate our pipelines."
"As with all of our pipeline projects, safety is the company's top priority—the safety of our employees who build and operate them, the safety of those who live in the communities through which our pipelines pass, and the safety of the environment which surrounds them," Dillinger said.
While Dakota Access is not required to have its own emergency response equipment in place near the Missouri River until one year after operations begin, the company has listed contractors that it would work with to provide emergency response equipment and personnel in the event of a spill. Such equipment would be further away—in some instances more than 400 miles away in Wisconsin and Minnesota—and would take more time to mobilize than an equipment storage facility built by the company near the river crossing.
Jan Hasselman of Earthjustice, an attorney representing the Standing Rock tribe, said the tribe was not consulted on the emergency plans and only saw the documents after the judge unsealed them on April 7.
"That is a big problem because they are the ones most at risk," he said, "and there has never been a discussion about their involvement."
So far, Dakota Access has produced two drafts of a detailed emergency response plan for the Lake Oahe crossing. An August 2015 draft, unsealed by the judge last month, said any oil spilled into the river would be diverted to the reservation's shoreline. A revised draft from March 2016 said the oil would be diverted to the opposite shore. Dakota Access would not say if it plans to produce a final plan.
Map in the 2015 draft Lake Oahe spill plan shows booms in the Missouri River diverting oil to the shore of the Standing Rock reservation.
Critical Details Blacked Out
Attorneys for Dakota Access tried to block the release of many of the emergency response documents in early February, arguing in a motion that they "merit additional protection because they contain information that could assist potential terrorist activity in circumventing pipeline security and response procedures designed to protect public health and the environment."
In response to the pipeline company's claims, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Sensitive Security Information program reviewed the documents and wrote that none of the records that Dakota Access sought to keep sealed contain any "sensitive security information." PHMSA, however, concluded that some of the information "could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of [individuals]," and the court agreed to redact such information.
The documents that have been unsealed include: the 2015 and 2016 draft emergency response plans for the Lake Oahe crossing, including location details for the emergency response equipment; a redacted copy of the company's more general draft emergency response plan for much of the 1,200-mile North Dakota-to-Illinois pipeline; and a redacted worst-case spill size estimate for Lake Oahe and other river crossings. That document is so heavily redacted that it offers the public little information about Dakota Access's preparations for a spill.
Document describing the worst-case spill size estimate for Lake Oahe and other river crossings was heavily redacted..
"The thing that is frustrating to me is the redactions are the things that make you able to figure out whether the plan is adequate or not," said Rebecca Craven, program director for the nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust.
Even a Wind Farm Faced Tougher Spill Response Requirements
The company is required to submit a final version of its general emergency response plan for the entire pipeline before operations begin. PHMSA officials would not say if it has been filed. The Army Corps did not set a deadline for the company to file the final version of the more detailed response plans for the Missouri River crossing as part of its granting of an easement. The agency declined to comment other than to say that "the Dakota Access pipeline project is current with conditions as required by the easement."
The U.S. Coast Guard, which regulates oil tankers and oil tanker loading facilities, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates oil refineries, require more detailed, site-specific emergency response plans than those required by PHMSA, said Paul Blackburn, a pipeline safety expert and attorney with Honor the Earth, a Native American environmental advocacy group.
The sharpest contrast to the lax emergency response requirements for the oil pipeline perhaps are the oil spill response measures required for a small wind farm off Rhode Island that came online in December.
The Block Island Wind Farm, the nation's first offshore wind farm, had to have a detailed, final oil spill response plan for the small amount of oil contained in each of the wind farm's five turbines. The turbines require small amounts of lubrication grease and oil to keep the turbine blades spinning and generators producing electricity. Mineral oil is also used to insulate an electrical transformer within each turbine.
The plan had to be approved before construction began by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the same agency overseeing the Dakota Access Pipeline. The company also had to demonstrate that it had spill response equipment in place before the project began sending electricity to the mainland via a subsea cable.
"We just made it part of our permit," said Michael Elliott, a permit project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District. We said "you can't build this wind farm and the cable unless you are all set and ready to respond to a spill."
Standing Rock's Worst-Case Scenario
Kuprewicz's main concern is the company's claim that it can identify a leak in 9 minutes and shut down the leaking section of pipe within 12.9 minutes.
Pipeline companies routinely claim they can detect and isolate a spill within minutes, but the reality is often much different, Kuprewicz said. In July 2010, for example, Kuprewicz testified in the same Congressional subcommittee hearing on pipeline safety as a vice president for Canadian oil pipeline giant Enbridge, who stated that the time it takes for his company to detect a leak and shut down a pipeline "can be almost instantaneous."
Ten days later, it took Enbridge 17.5 hours to confirm a leak and shut down its 6B pipeline after oil began gushing from the pipeline into Michigan's Kalamazoo River. Approximately 1 million gallons of tar sands crude oil spilled during the leak, making it one of the worst inland spills in U.S. history. Prior to the spill, Enbridge's emergency response plan claimed it could detect a leak and shut down Line 6B in 8 minutes.
"You may have a plan because you are required to have a plan, but you can't guarantee that it will work," Kuprewicz said.
But what if Dakota Access's assumptions are correct—that it could identify a major leak and shut down the pipeline within minutes? How much oil would spill if the line ruptured under the Missouri River near the Standing Rock reservation?
That worst-case figure was redacted in the spill model for Lake Oahe that was released by the court. But Blackburn estimated that in just under 13 minutes, the pipeline would leak approximately 630,000-903,000 gallons of oil. His calculation was based on the pipeline's diameter, flow rate and distance between shut-off valves, data that is available in public documents, as well as similar calculations from pipeline companies Enbridge and TransCanada.
The 1-million-gallon Kalamazoo spill required 157,000 feet of boom, 43 boats and 79 vacuum trucks to divert and clean up the oil during the peak of cleanup operations.
Dakota Access LLC is planning for just 6,600 feet of boom, six boats and nine vacuum trucks for a worst-case spill in the Missouri River's Lake Oahe reservoir, according to the company's draft Lake Oahe spill response plan.
"The amount that they say they have is completely disproportionate to what the actual on-the-ground experience in Kalamazoo was," Blackburn said. "PHMSA allows them essentially to have [a] completely inadequate amount of spill response equipment available to respond."
PHMSA has said it reviews and approves oil spill response plans in accordance with federal laws, and the agency is not involved in reviewing or approving the detailed response plan for the Lake Oahe crossing.
As Dakota Access readies to ship oil, the agency's assurances offer little comfort to the attorney representing the tribe.
"What if something happens tomorrow?" Hasselman asked. "There is no plan in place. There is no equipment in place. There are no protocols in place."
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