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Skico allows uphilling, but some areas remain closed
Local | November 19, 2014
Scott Condon
The Aspen Times
nA uphill skier climbs through the powder of the High Alpine section of Snowmass Ski Area last season.
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Aspen Skiing Co. has one of the most inviting policies among ski resorts for uphill traffic on the slopes, and it’s going to stay that way for the foreseeable future, according to Rich Burkley, Skico’s vice president of mountain operations.
“Uphilling” — by putting skins on skis or placing special gear directly on hiking boots and then traveling to the top of a ski area — has surged in popularity at ski areas around the country. Most have responded by charging fees, banning uphill travel during hours of operations or both.
“We’re one of the few ski areas that allow (uphilling) during ski-area operation hours,” Burkley said.
At ski-industry gatherings or meetings hosted by the U.S. Forest Service to talk about ski areas’ issues, Burkley said he is often quizzed on why Skico is so lenient with its policy. Skico views uphilling as an important and surging part of the Aspen-Snowmass culture, he said.
“Five years ago, you knew everyone on the hill,” he said of the uphill crowd.
He noted that the popularity has changed drastically.
“What Smuggler (Mountain Road) is in the summer, uphilling has become in the winter,” Burkley said.
Other resorts are experiencing a similar surge.
“Uphill use by means of skinning has gained popularity at Crested Butte in recent years,” says the website of Crested Butte Mountain Resort. “(The resort) welcomes and supports individuals seeking to exercise and enjoy the quiet mountain setting. Uphill users can help preserve this opportunity by following these simple guidelines.”
All ungroomed trails are closed for uphill use at Crested Butte. Uphilling is allowed on other trails before 9 a.m. and after 4:30 p.m. Travel is restricted to designated routes during the ski area’s hours of operation.
Crested Butte requires an uphill pass, which is included in the price of a regular downhill pass. Customers who don’t get a downhill pass must pay $100 for the uphill-only pass. When they pick up the pass, users must sign a waiver that exempts the resort from any liability in case of an accident.
The U.S. Forest Service approved rules last year that allow ski areas that use public lands to charge a fee for uphill travelers when they are reaping some benefit of the ski area, such as groomed slopes or parking. Ski areas in the eastern U.S. pushed the policy, Burkley said, after a lack of snow a couple of seasons ago forced all users onto ribbons of snow. Uphillers wanted access to the same ribbons that downhill customers were using, he said. That created a safety issue.
Skico’s only concern with uphilling activity is safety, Burkley said. There haven’t been any injuries reported because of collisions between uphillers and downhillers, he said.
“We haven’t had any issues, really,” Burkley said. “For the most part, it’s been a harmonious relationship.”
To try to ensure safety, Skico requires uphillers to reach the top of Aspen Mountain by 9 a.m. and the Merry-Go-Round Restaurant by 9:30 a.m. if they plan to continue higher. There are designated routes at Highlands, Tiehack and Buttermilk. No routes are specified at Snowmass because there are so many portals and the sheer number of trails reduces concentration of traffic, Burkley said.
Burkley said Skico isn’t contemplating an uphill pass or a fee. Even if it wanted to implement such a policy, enforcing it would be difficult. There are 25 access points to the four ski areas, he said.
“Policing this is not a goal of ours,” Burkley said.
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Greece: number of enterprises in the transport sector in 2015, by mode
Number of enterprises in the transport sector in Greece in 2015, by mode of transport**
by N. Sönnichsen, last edited Nov 15, 2018
This statistic illustrates the number of enterprises in each field of the transport sector in Greece in 2015. There were a total of 5,522 companies operating in warehousing and support activities. The logistics sector was shown to be much less prevalent than the field of passenger transportation.
Number of enterprises
* Including all urban and suburban land transport modes (motor bus, tramway, streetcar, trolley bus, underground and elevated railways.) The above figures refer to those companies whose main activity lies in the mode concerned. Economic activity according to NACE Rev. 2 classification.
** All figures are estimates.
Turnover of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe 2015
Logistics sector: market size in Europe 2016, by country
Total assets of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe 2015
Long-distance coach transport use in the EU in 2014, by country
Statistics on "Transport industry in Europe"
Total turnover in the transport sector in the European Union (EU-28) in 2015, by mode of transport (in million euros)Europe (EU-28): turnover volume in the transport sector in 2015, by mode
Total turnover in the transport sector in Europe (EU-28) in 2015, by country (in million euros)Europe (EU-28): turnover volume in the transport sector in 2015, by country
Market value of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015 (in million U.S dollars)Market value of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015
Turnover volume of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015 (in million U.S dollars)Turnover of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe 2015
Net income of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015 (in million U.S dollars)Net income of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015
Total assets of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015 (in million U.S dollars)Total assets of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe 2015
Total number of employees in the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015Workforce of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015
Market size of the logistics sector in Europe in 2016, by country (in billion euros)Logistics sector: market size in Europe 2016, by country
Road freight mileage in EU from 2000 to 2016 (in billion tonne kilometers)Road freight mileage in EU 2000-2016
Rail freight mileage in EU from 2000 to 2016 (in billion tonne kilometers)Rail freight mileage in EU 2000-2016
Air freight mileage in EU from 2000 to 2016 (in billion tonne kilometers)Air freight mileage in EU 2000-2016
Inland freight mileage in EU-28 in 2016, by mode (in billion tonne kilometers)Inland freight mileage in EU-28 by mode 2016
Sea freight volume in EU from 2000 to 2016 (in billion tonne kilometers)Sea freight volume in EU 2000-2016
Amount of freight transported by all inland modes of transportation in Germany from 2006 to 2017 (in million tonne-kilometres)Total tonne-kilometres of freight transported in Germany 2006-2017
Amount of freight transported by all inland modes of transportation in Italy from 2006 to 2016 (in million tonne-kilometres)total tonne-kilometres of freight transported in Italy 2006-2016
Amount of freight transported by all inland modes of transportation in Spain from 2006 to 2016 (in million tonne-kilometres)Total tonne-kilometres of freight transported in Spain 2006-2016
Percentage of passengers using transport in the EU in September 2014, by mode of transport*Modes of transport used by EU citizens 2014
Distribution of passenger-kilometres travelled by land in the European Union (EU-28) in 2016, by mode of transport*Europe (EU-28): modal split of passenger transport on land 2016
Passenger mileage in EU-28 in 2016, by mode (in billion passenger kilometers)EU-28: passenger mileage by mode 2016
Share of passenger mileage in EU-28 in 2016, by modeShare of passenger mileage - by mode in EU-28 in 2016
Percentage of land transport passenger-kilometers travelled by train in Europe (EU-28) in 2016, by country**Europe: railway share of total passenger transport by land in 2016, by country
Percentage of passengers who used international rail transport in the EU in 2014, by country*International rail transport use in the EU in 2014, by country
Percentage of passengers who used national rail transport in the EU in 2014, by country*National rail transport use in the EU in 2014, by country
Railway passenger mileage in EU from 2000 to 2016 (in billion passenger kilometers)Railway passenger mileage in EU 2000-2016
Infrastructure quality score in the European Union in 2014, by country Infrastructure quality score by country in 2014 in Europe
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Germany from 2004 to 2016 (in million euros)Total investment in inland transport infrastructure in Germany 2004-2016
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in France from 2004 to 2016 (in million euros)Total investment in inland transport infrastructure in France 2004-2016
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Italy from 2004 to 2015 (in million euros)Total investment in inland transport infrastructure in Italy 2004-2015
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Spain from 2004 to 2016 (in million euros)Total investment in inland transport infrastructure in Spain 2004-2016
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in the Netherlands from 2004 to 2011 (in million euros)Total investment in inland transport infrastructure in the Netherlands 2004-2011
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Belgium from 2004 to 2016 (in million euros)Total investment in inland transport infrastructure in Belgium 2004-2016
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Denmark from 2004 to 2016 (in million euros)Total investment in inland transport infrastructure in Denmark 2004-2016
Malta: number of enterprises in the transport sector in 2015, by mode
Luxembourg: number of enterprises in the transport sector in 2015, by mode
Number of employees in the transport sector in Europe in 2015, by mode
Europe: number of employees in the transport sector in 2015, by country
Europe 28: number of enterprises in the transport sector in 2015, by country
Malta: number of employees in the transport sector in 2015, by mode
Luxembourg: number of employees in the transport sector in 2015
Number of employees in the transport sector in Slovakia in 2015, by mode
Cyprus: number of employees in the transport sector in 2015, by mode
Cyprus: number of enterprises in the transport sector in 2015, by mode of transport
Number of employees in the transport sector in Greece in 2015, by mode
Europe 28: number of enterprises in the transport sector in 2015, by mode
Number of employees in the transport sector in the Netherlands in 2015, by mode
Netherlands: number of enterprises in the transport sector in 2015, by mode
Luxembourg: turnover volume in the transport sector in 2015, by mode of transport
Food sales value transportation sector HRI market Japan 2011-2017
Czech Republic: number of employees in the water transport industry 2008-2015
Italy: number of employees in the water transport industry 2008-2015
Slovenia: number of employees in the water transport industry 2008-2015
Denmark: production value of the water transport industry 2008-2015
Transportation industry in Italy
Airports and aviation industry in Italy
Transport industry in Germany
Car sharing in Germany
Public transport in the United Kingdom
Public buses in the United Kingdom
Driving in the United Kingdom
An Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking 2018
Motorway infrastructure in Italy
Ridesharing services in the U.S.
Uber Technologies
Bilancio 2016 - Gruppo ATM
Mobility-as-a-service fleets
Total turnover in the transport sector in the European Union (EU-28) in 2015, by mode of transport (in million euros)
Total turnover in the transport sector in Europe (EU-28) in 2015, by country (in million euros)
Market value of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015 (in million U.S dollars)
Turnover volume of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015 (in million U.S dollars)
Net income of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015 (in million U.S dollars)
Total assets of the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015 (in million U.S dollars)
Total number of employees in the leading industrial transportation companies in Europe in 2015
Market size of the logistics sector in Europe in 2016, by country (in billion euros)
Distribution of transportation used for flow of goods within Europe in 2016, by modes of transport
Logistics market volume by segment in Europe in 2016 (in billion euros)
Total annual expenses of the EU27 countries in the logistics sector from 2008 to 2012 (in billion euros)
Total annual expenses of the EU27 countries in the logistics sector 2008-2012, as a percentage share of the EU27's GDP
Road freight mileage in EU from 2000 to 2016 (in billion tonne kilometers)
Rail freight mileage in EU from 2000 to 2016 (in billion tonne kilometers)
Air freight mileage in EU from 2000 to 2016 (in billion tonne kilometers)
Inland freight mileage in EU-28 in 2016, by mode (in billion tonne kilometers)
Sea freight volume in EU from 2000 to 2016 (in billion tonne kilometers)
Amount of freight transported by all inland modes of transportation in Germany from 2006 to 2017 (in million tonne-kilometres)
Amount of freight transported by all inland modes of transportation in Italy from 2006 to 2016 (in million tonne-kilometres)
Amount of freight transported by all inland modes of transportation in Spain from 2006 to 2016 (in million tonne-kilometres)
Amount of freight transported by all inland modes of transportation in France from 2006 to 2017 (in million tonne-kilometres)
Amount of freight transported by all inland modes of transportation in the Netherlands from 2006 to 2017 (in million tonne-kilometres)
Amount of freight transported by all inland modes of transportation in Sweden from 2006 to 2017 (in million tonne-kilometres)
Amount of freight transported by all inland modes of transportation in Denmark from 2006 to 2016 (in million tonne-kilometres)
Amount of freight transported by all inland modes of transportation in Norway from 2006 to 2016 (in million tonne-kilometres)
Percentage of passengers using transport in the EU in September 2014, by mode of transport*
Distribution of passenger-kilometres travelled by land in the European Union (EU-28) in 2016, by mode of transport*
Passenger mileage in EU-28 in 2016, by mode (in billion passenger kilometers)
Share of passenger mileage in EU-28 in 2016, by mode
Percentage of land transport passenger-kilometers travelled by train in Europe (EU-28) in 2016, by country**
Percentage of passengers who used international rail transport in the EU in 2014, by country*
Percentage of passengers who used national rail transport in the EU in 2014, by country*
Railway passenger mileage in EU from 2000 to 2016 (in billion passenger kilometers)
Tram & metro passenger mileage in EU from 2000 to 2016 (in billion passenger kilometers)
Percentage of land transport passenger-kilometers travelled by tram or metro in Europe (EU-28) in 2016, by country**
Percentage of people who used air transport in the EU in 2014, by country*
Percentage of passengers who used long-distance coach transport in the EU in 2014, by country*
Percentage of land transport passenger-kilometers travelled by passenger car in Europe (EU-28) in 2016, by country**
Percentage of land transport passenger-kilometers travelled by bus or coach in Europe (EU-28) in 2016, by country**
Percentage of passengers who used passenger ship or ferry services (including inland waterways) in the EU in 2014, by country*
Number of cruise revenue passengers at major European ports from 2011 to 2017* (in millions)
Infrastructure quality score in the European Union in 2014, by country
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Germany from 2004 to 2016 (in million euros)
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in France from 2004 to 2016 (in million euros)
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Italy from 2004 to 2015 (in million euros)
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Spain from 2004 to 2016 (in million euros)
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in the Netherlands from 2004 to 2011 (in million euros)
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Belgium from 2004 to 2016 (in million euros)
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Denmark from 2004 to 2016 (in million euros)
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Sweden from 2004 to 2016 (in million euros)
Amount of money invested in all modes of inland transport infrastructure in Norway from 2004 to 2015 (in million euros)
Number of enterprises in the transport sector in Malta in 2015, by mode of transport
Number of enterprises in the transport sector in Luxembourg in 2015, by mode of transport
Number of employees in the transport sector in Europe (EU-28) in 2015, by mode of transport (in 1,000s)
Number of employees in the transport sector in Europe (EU-28) in 2015, by country (in 1,000s)
Number of enterprises in the transport sector in Europe (EU-28) in 2015, by country
Number of employees in the transport sector in Malta in 2015, by mode of transport (in 1,000s)**
Number of employees in the transport sector in Luxembourg in 2015, by mode of transport (in 1,000s)
Number of employees in the transport sector in Slovakia in 2015, by mode of transport (in 1,000s)
Number of employees in the transport sector in Cyprus in 2015, by mode of transport (in 1,000s)
Number of enterprises in the transport sector in Cyprus in 2015, by mode of transport
Number of employees in the transport sector in Greece in 2015, by mode of transport (in 1,000s)
Number of enterprises in the transport sector in Europe (EU-28) in 2015, by mode of transport
Number of employees in the transport sector in the Netherlands in 2015, by mode of transport (in 1,000s)
Number of enterprises in the transport sector in the Netherlands in 2015, by mode of transport
Total turnover in the transport sector in Luxembourg in 2015, by mode of transport (in million euros)
Value of food sales in the transportation sector of the HRI market in Japan from 2011 to 2017 (in trillion Japanese yen)
Total number of employees in the water transport industry in the Czech Republic from 2008 to 2015
Total number of employees in the water transport industry in Italy from 2008 to 2015
Total number of employees in the water transport industry in Slovenia from 2008 to 2015
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State of Health›
Italy: prevalence of ischemic strokes among females 2012-2017
Estimated prevalence of ischemic strokes among females in Italy from 2012 to 2017
This statistic shows the estimated prevalence of ischemic strokes among females in Italy from 2012 to 2017. According to data, over the period of consideration, the share of females having ischemic strokes gradually increased, peaking in 2017 at 4.4 percent.
Share of females
Italy: number of adult smokers 2017-2018
Italy: total number of people with chronic diseases 2010-2017
Italy: individuals with cardiac disease 2010-2017
Italy: new cancer cases among males 2018, by type of cancer
Statistics on "State of health in Italy"
State of health and risk factors
Hospitalization and check-ups
Level of satisfaction with health status in Italy from 2015 to 2017Italy: satisfaction with health status 2015-2017
State of health perception in Italy in selected from 2005 to 2016Italy: state of health perception 2005-2016
Health status of individuals in Italy in 2017 (in 1,000 individuals)Italy: health status of individuals 2017
Healthy life expectancy at birth in Italy in 2017, by regionItaly: healthy life expectancy at birth in 2017, by region
Share of individuals who took medicines in the last two days in Italy in 2017, by gender and ageItaly: individuals taking medicines 2017, by gender and age
Total number of deaths by underlying cause in Italy in 2015Italy: deaths by underlying cause 2015
Total number of people whose general health was good in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)Italy: total number of people whose general health was good 2010-2017
Total number of people affected by at least one chronic disease in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)Italy: total number of people with chronic diseases 2010-2017
Total number of individuals affected by at least two chronic diseases in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)Italy: total number of individuals with at least two chronic diseases 2010-2017
Number of individuals suffering from diabetes in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)Italy: individuals with diabetes 2010-2017
Number of individuals suffering from hypertension in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 individuals)Italy: individuals with hypertension 2010-2017
Share of individuals suffering from hypercholesterolemia in Italy as of 2018, by economic conditionItaly: individuals suffering from hypercholesterolemia 2018, by economic condition
Number of adult smokers in Italy in 2017 and 2018 (in millions)Italy: number of adult smokers 2017-2018
Share of cigarette smokers in Italy in 2017 and 2018, by genderItaly: share of cigarette smokers 2017-2018, by gender
Estimated number of new cancer cases among males in Italy in 2018, by type of cancerItaly: new cancer cases among males 2018, by type of cancer
Number of new cancer cases among females in Italy in 2018, by type of cancerItaly: new cancer cases among females 2018, by type of cancer
Estimated number of new cases of multiple sclerosis in Italy as of 2017, by regionItaly: number of new cases of multiple sclerosis 2017
Number of new cases of HIV diagnosed in Italy from 2006 to 2017New cases of HIV diagnosed in Italy 2006-2017
Total number of tuberculosis cases registered in Italy from 2007 to 2016Italy: total number of tuberculosis cases 2007-2016
Number of individuals suffering from osteoarthritis and arthritis in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)Italy: individuals with osteoarthritis and arthritis 2010-2017
Number of individuals suffering from heart diseases in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)Italy: individuals with cardiac disease 2010-2017
Number of individuals suffering from osteoporosis in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)Italy: individuals with osteoporosis 2010-2017
Share of individuals resorting to hospital services* during the year preceding the interview in Italy from 2007 to 2018Italy: share of individuals resorting to hospital services 2007-2018
Share of individuals resorting to hospital services* during the year preceding the interview in Italy in 2018, by typeItaly: share of individuals resorting to hospital services 2018, by type
Share of individuals who resorted to a public hospital the last time they have had a health issue in Italy from 2010 to 2018Italy: share of individuals resorting to public hospitals 2010-2018
Share of individuals who resorted to a private accredited hospital the last time they have had a health issue in Italy from 2010 to 2018Italy: share of individuals resorting to private accredited hospitals 2010-2018
Share of individuals who resorted to a private hospital the last time they have had a health issue in Italy from 2010 to 2018Italy: share of individuals resorting to private hospitals 2010-2018
Level of patients' satisfaction for the services received in Italy in 2018, by type of hospitalItaly: level of satisfaction for the services received 2018, by type of hospital
Share of women aged 25-64 years screened for cervical cancer in Italy between 2014 and 2017, by region Italy: share of women screened for cervical cancer 2014-2017, by region
Share of women aged 50-69 years screened for breast cancer in Italy between 2014 and 2017, by regionItaly: share of women screened for breast cancer 2014-2017, by region
Italy: prevalence of ischemic strokes among males 2012-2017
Italy: prevalence of ischemic strokes 2012-2017
Italy: prevalence of COPD among females 2012-2017
Italy: share of females suffering with asthma 2012-2017
Italy: diabetes and sedentary lifestyle among females 2005-2017
Italy: share of females suffering from hypertension 2012-2017
Italy: diabetes and obesity among females 2005-2017
Italy: prevalence of thyroid diseases among females 2012-2017
Italy: awareness about hypoparathyroidism among women 2017, by area
Number of deaths due to heart disease in Denmark 2017, by disease
Italy: awareness about hypoparathyroidism among women 2017, by age
Italy: share of females suffering from migraine 2018, by frequency
Prevalence of ischemic heart disease in Canada from 2012 to 2013, by province
Italy: average spending on migraine treatments among females 2018, by type
Italy: average spending on migraine cares 2018, by gender
Italy: awareness about hypoparathyroidism among women 2017, by education level
Deaths from acute myocardial infarction in Asturias 2005-2015
Italy: infant mortality due to circulatory diseases among females 2006-2015
Deaths from acute myocardial infarction in Castile-La Mancha 2005-2015
Cardiovascular disease in the U.S.
Organ donations and transplants
Health risk factors in the U.S.
Breast cancer in the U.S.
Women's health in the U.S.
Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2019 Update
Cardiovascular disease in the United Kingdom (UK)
Cerebrovascular disease in the U.S.
Cerebrovascular disease in the United Kingdom (UK)
Abortion in Latin America
State of health in Denmark
State of health in India
State of health in Norway
State of health in Sweden
Scottish Stroke Statistics, 2016
Level of satisfaction with health status in Italy from 2015 to 2017
State of health perception in Italy in selected from 2005 to 2016
Health status of individuals in Italy in 2017 (in 1,000 individuals)
Healthy life expectancy at birth in Italy in 2017, by region
Share of individuals who took medicines in the last two days in Italy in 2017, by gender and age
Total number of deaths by underlying cause in Italy in 2015
Total number of people whose general health was good in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)
Total number of people affected by at least one chronic disease in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)
Total number of individuals affected by at least two chronic diseases in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)
Number of individuals suffering from diabetes in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)
Number of individuals suffering from hypertension in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 individuals)
Share of individuals suffering from hypercholesterolemia in Italy as of 2018, by economic condition
Number of adult smokers in Italy in 2017 and 2018 (in millions)
Share of cigarette smokers in Italy in 2017 and 2018, by gender
Distribution of male individuals consuming excessive amounts of alcohol in Italy from 2007 to 2017
Distribution of female individuals consuming excessive amounts of alcohol in Italy from 2007 to 2017
Number of overweight individuals in Italy from 2005 to 2018 (in 1,000 people)
Estimated number of new cancer cases among males in Italy in 2018, by type of cancer
Number of new cancer cases among females in Italy in 2018, by type of cancer
Estimated number of new cases of multiple sclerosis in Italy as of 2017, by region
Number of new cases of HIV diagnosed in Italy from 2006 to 2017
Total number of tuberculosis cases registered in Italy from 2007 to 2016
Number of individuals suffering from osteoarthritis and arthritis in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)
Number of individuals suffering from heart diseases in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)
Number of individuals suffering from osteoporosis in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)
Number of individuals suffering from allergic diseases in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)
Number of individuals suffering from peptic ulcer disease* in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 people)
Number of patients suffering with autoimmune diseases in Italy as at March 2018, by disease
Share of individuals suffering with asthma in Italy in 2006 and 2016
Share of individuals resorting to hospital services* during the year preceding the interview in Italy from 2007 to 2018
Share of individuals resorting to hospital services* during the year preceding the interview in Italy in 2018, by type
Share of individuals who resorted to a public hospital the last time they have had a health issue in Italy from 2010 to 2018
Share of individuals who resorted to a private accredited hospital the last time they have had a health issue in Italy from 2010 to 2018
Share of individuals who resorted to a private hospital the last time they have had a health issue in Italy from 2010 to 2018
Level of patients' satisfaction for the services received in Italy in 2018, by type of hospital
Share of women aged 25-64 years screened for cervical cancer in Italy between 2014 and 2017, by region
Share of women aged 50-69 years screened for breast cancer in Italy between 2014 and 2017, by region
Share of individuals aged 50-69 years screened for colorectal cancer in Italy between 2014 and 2017, by region
Number of ECGs performed by the pharmacies adhering to the Service Pharmacy Project* in Italy in 2017, by gender
Number of Holter procedures performed by the pharmacies adhering to the Service Pharmacy Project* in Italy in 2017, by gender
Number of Blood Pressure monitoring (24h) performed by the pharmacies adhering to the Service Pharmacy Project* in Italy in 2017, by gender
Estimated prevalence of ischemic strokes among males in Italy from 2012 to 2017
Estimated prevalence of ischemic strokes in Italy from 2012 to 2017
Estimated prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among females in Italy from 2012 to 2017
Share of females* suffering with asthma in Italy from 2012 to 2017
Prevalence of diabetes among females with a sedentary lifestyle in Italy from 2005 to 2017
Share of females* suffering from hypertension in Italy from 2012 to 2017
Prevalence of diabetes among females who were obese in Italy from 2005 to 2017
Estimated prevalence of thyroid diseases among females in Italy from 2012 to 2017
Share of women informed about hypoparathyroidism in Italy in 2017, by geographic area
Number of deaths due to heart disease in Denmark in 2017, by disease (per 100,000 inhabitants)
Share of women informed about hypoparathyroidism in Italy in 2017, by age group
Share of females suffering from migraine in Italy in 2018, by frequency
Prevalence of diagnosed ischemic heart disease in Canada from 2012 to 2013, by province
Average per capita spending* on migraine drugs and treatments among females in Italy in 2018, by type (in euros)
Average per capita spending* on migraine cares in Italy in 2018, by gender (in euros)
Share of women informed about hypoparathyroidism in Italy in 2017, by education level
Number of deaths from acute myocardial infarction in Asturias from 2005 to 2015
Infant mortality due to circulatory system diseases among females in Italy from 2006 to 2015 (per 10,000 inhabitants)
Number of deaths from acute myocardial infarction in Castile-La Mancha from 2005 to 2015
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Can businesses ever trust the remote worker?
By Rene Millman 2015-03-20T08:56:00.78Z Management
Is it possible for remote working to be a boon to productivity?
Introduction and IT infrastructure
Shifting the mindset
Working from home is increasingly becoming commonplace. The progress of technology means that employees can keep in contact with the office and the boss. Also, workers can now request flexible working arrangements as of last June. Employees with more than 26 weeks of service can apply to bosses to work remotely.
But just because you can work from home doesn't mean that you should. A recent survey by IT security firm Imation found that a quarter of employees admitted breaking security policies to work remotely. But another study, this time from private cloud provider ConnectSolutions, found that 77% of employees report greater productivity when working remotely.
Changing the infrastructure
It is clear that businesses need to start thinking about implementing changes to their IT infrastructure, and consider the types of solutions their remote staff require regular access to.
"A good place to start would be to conduct an audit of all the software programs the business currently uses," says Maria Nordborg, director of Customer Relations at Projectplace. "The next step is to evaluate how many of these solutions can still be used by staff remotely."
She adds that it may be the case that you need to find cloud alternatives for some of the office-based software to make it easier for staff to access the programs they use on a daily basis.
So how does the manager enable better productivity while keeping corporate assets secure?
There are a few pieces of technology that can be used to keep employees on track with their work while at home. For example, "Presence" services built into Unified Communications platforms such as WebEx or Microsoft Lync will tell you instantly in real-time whether an employee is where they should be.
"Online meeting services such as WebEx Event Centre and Training Centre will monitor attentiveness and the level of interaction of anyone attending and generate a real-time report for the host," says Steve O'Reilly, online meeting expert at MeetingZone.
He adds that other technologies such as CRM combined with proactive and systematic line management (setting goals, regular reviews, etc) also help to ensure levels of productivity remain high. "The staff that are unproductive at home tend to be the same ones that are unproductive in an office environment," adds O'Reilly.
When trying to ensure productivity, blocking access to particular websites (such as social media sites) could be counterproductive.
"Working life has changed and we live in an ever more connected society. The majority of people are always available either by social media or through instant messaging, email, or via their phone," says Chris Martin, Chief Technology Officer at Powwownow. "Since we are more responsive through these channels, we tend to work longer hours. Restricting access to the outside world is therefore like locking the doors to the building."
He adds that employers need to be careful not to hinder employee creativity and communication with the world, otherwise staff members and the business as a whole will become introspective and the business will fall behind with society trends and behaviours.
Remote working: the tech you need to consider
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CRP Racing unveils electric motorcycle
CRP Racing has debuted its new electric motorcycle – the eCRP 1.4.
It is said to be the first electric motorbike made in Italy.
The light-weight bike is only roughly 350 pounds, and is equipped with a 7.4 kWh lithium-polymer battery module and dual DC motors.
The electric motorcycle has a top speed of about 136 miles per hour and can go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.2 seconds.
The motorcycle is also fitted with a datalogger system that can record information from the front and rear suspensions and throttle, measure volts into and out of the controller, and monitor the temperature levels of the motors.
The data will be integrated into the GPS to note speed and acceleration in real-time, giving the team the ability to create better racing strategies.
The bike is currently only available to rent for racing purposes, the base cost of which starts at just over $7,200 per standard three-day race.
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Portugal bliver værtsnation for EM Kortbane i 2021
Den portugisiske hovedstad Lissabon bliver værtsby for EM Kortbane 2021.
Pressemeddelelse udsendt af det Europæiske Svømmeforbund, LEN, tirsdag den 7. august 2018.
Lisbon to host 2021 s/c Euros, diving ECH return to Kiev
At its meeting in Glasgow, the LEN Bureau allocated two of its top events.
The 2021 European Short-Course Swimming Championships shall be held in Lisbon (POR), as the local Government, the city and the host federation presented a strong bid which prompted a unanimous decision of the Bureau to allocate its year-end showcase to Portugal. It’s also a kind of returning to the city which already hosted the 1999 edition. This time it’s going to be a true spectacle to be staged in the Altice Arena, one of the largest multi-purpose facilities in Europe (with a maximum seating capacity of 20,000).
The stand-alone European Diving Championships will return to Kiev (UKR) in 2019 after a highly successful edition in the last year.
- We are very happy and proud that big-time swimming returns to Portugal” LEN President Paolo Barelli said. “Lisbon is a great city and the proposed venue guarantee that we shall witness another outstanding short-course event in December 2021. As for Kiev, in 2017 the Ukrainian hosts delivered a fantastic event, we are very much looking forward to be part of the second edition there.
The Bureau nominated Fernando Carpena, President of the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation, new Vice-President of LEN and Gilles Sezionale, President of the French Swimming Federation, LEN Bureau Member.
Mr. Francis Luyce, former Olympic swimmer, former President of the French Federation and the longest serving member of the current Bureau since 1994, has been nominated LEN Honorary Member.
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Credit: Marvel/Disney
Tag: opinion
Yes, Professor Hulk in Avengers: Endgame is hot and here’s why
@Ceilidhann
Tag: Hulk
Tag: Bruce Banner
Oh come on, you knew this post was coming.
The moment Avengers: Endgame cut to that very weird diner scene where our intrepid heroes dine on massive plates of scrambled eggs with the new and improved Bruce Banner, you knew someone on this beautiful website write about how we want to climb that giant green man like a beanstalk. We at SYFY FANGRRLS are, as always, dedicated to exploring the strange, unusual, and totally bangable world of weird genre crushes. Hell, by our standards, this is one is actually pretty normal.
One of the things that makes Avengers: Endgame so emotionally stirring is how it depicts the various facets of trauma and its aftermath. No two people react to grief and depression in the same way, and the ensemble of Endgame offers audiences a microcosm of these various emotional responses. Captain America remains burdened by the weight of being the nation’s hero and so must react appropriately, taking on the mantle of guide and emotional support to those lost at sea. Black Widow tries to soldier on and cling to her purpose as an Avenger, even when she’s not sure why. Thor descends into apathy and guilt, so convinced he’s undeserving of his heroic status that he’ll let it rot. Hawkeye becomes violently vengeful, taking out his anger on those he feels have not earned their right to live in this new world.
But then there’s Bruce Banner, the character in the MCU who is the most wholly defined by his rage and his constant inner battles with it. He is a man of two halves who has struggled to overcome the side of him that is driven by sheer brute force and fury. In the aftermath of a horrific event that decimated trillions of lives, Bruce didn’t give into the anger like so many of his friends. Instead, he chose to stop pitting these two parts of himself against one another and unite them for the greater good of the world and his own wellbeing. And so we got Professor Hulk!
Whenever we talk about the sex appeal of the unconventional figures of genre fiction, we spend a lot of time talking about power and its romantic dynamic. We love vampires and werewolves for that instinctive alpha thrill that comes with being sexually entwined with a creature that could easily devour us without a second thought. We’re into sexy robots because their superior intellect and separation from the frailty of human emotions taps into our deepest concerns about our own mortality. Hell, even Thanos got a boost of allure through a combination of his increasing omnipotence and Shakespearean malice. Through that obvious imbalance of power comes the full-throated sexual appeal. But that doesn’t really apply to Professor Hulk.
Sure, he probably could toss you around like a ragdoll and he has the kind of structural integrity that would allow you to slide down him like a fireman’s pole. That’s definitely part of the appeal. However, in his new form, Bruce Banner isn’t angry or struggling with power or all that keen on smashing things up. It turns out that he’s pretty happy and well-adjusted. Really, this may be the most relaxed and on top of his life we’ve ever seen Bruce in the MCU. He’s always had a good sense of humor and desire to do the right thing, but he’s never been as successful at that as he is in Endgame. Look at him, eating his giant tacos and wearing well-fitting clothes and just enjoying his life, even in the face of crushing tragedy that has utterly dominated those he cares about the most. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Professor Hulk’s main style influence seems to be full-on hipster. The memes create themselves!
Frankly, there are few things more intrinsically appealing in romantic and sexual terms than someone who is comfortable in their own skin, and Bruce has never been like that in the MCU until now. Even though Mark Ruffalo is all kinds of scruffy attractive, like that surf instructor who really cares about the environment and is probably really fun to get high with, the discomfort of Bruce’s predicament confined him for most of the franchise. He may always be angry but that hasn’t done much good for him before, and any chance of a reasonably healthy relationship with Natasha disappeared before it even had an opportunity to take root. Although that subplot remains one of the weakest and most ill-inspired elements of the franchise, the abstract notion of Bruce trying to be a regular guy with romantic feelings made sense, and the ultimate conclusion of that relationship was inevitable for him at that moment in time. That narrative seemed to hammer home the accepted truth that Bruce would always be a loner at war with himself, so seeing him refute that by embracing his strangeness is refreshing, especially in a genre dominated by heroes struggling with their endless internal conflict. Why not just be the weird one, green skin and all? It’s a hell of a lot cheerier a prospect than being a prisoner in your own mind, crushed by the weight of the world.
It remains to be seen if Bruce will remain in Professor Hulk mode for future MCU movies (and that’s assuming he’s sticking around in the franchise for Phase Four). The post-Endgame world of Marvel will be one irrevocably scarred by trauma but it may be Bruce in his new green hipster glory who represents the best way forward through the pain. So hell yeah, we’re into that!
The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author's, and do not necessarily reflect those of SYFY WIRE, SYFY, or NBC Universal.
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Sushi Hashimoto
鮨はしもと
At the heart of the bustling Tokyo restaurant scene, a rising star chef is redefining the way of Edomae sushi. Melding classic craftsmanship with eccentric ideas, Sushi Hashimoto curates a new world of his own that stages an imaginative, stimulating and delicious experience.
Since opening in 2014, Sushi Hashimoto has become a favorite among serious foodies who have instantly fallen for the young master’s dynamic cuisine. Located in an old Tokyo district close to the Tsukiji fish market, it’s always a challenge to get a reservation here, with only 8 seats available in the entire restaurant.
“I wanted to be in a neighborhood that felt at home and familiar,” Hiroyuki Hashimoto says.
Born as a son of a sushi master, the traditional cuisine has been a part of Hashimoto’s life from the start. With the knowledge and skills he acquired at Miyako Sushi, he is among the few young chefs who truly understand the traditions of Edomae sushi but is also unafraid to push the cuisine to a whole new territory.
The entrance of the restaurant is elegant and inviting. A beautiful olive green noren curtain hangs over the door, with a large print of an ivy crest at center and calligraphy of the restaurant’s name, written by the chef’s mother. Matching the season or the weather or maybe just a feeling, Hashimoto chooses from four different colors of curtains: olive, white, scarlet red and navy blue. Every detail reflects his tasteful aesthetics.
Inside, the square room is set with a counter, chairs and ceiling, all made from different shades of wood. For the corner countertop and the large cutting board, he uses the remaining half of the log that his father bought 15 years ago to make his sushi bar counter in Fukushima. It reminds Hashimoto the importance of appreciating the support of his family that has helped him realize his dream.
Unique in scent, temperature and depth of flavor.
Made up of seven small dishes and twelve sushi, the course at Hashimoto flows beautifully, with each dish unique in scent, temperature and depth of flavor. Behind the open counter, the chef moves with great rhythm and swiftness as he perfects one dish to the next.
“There is a limit in how good the ingredients can be, so technique becomes key,” the master chef explains.
Each piece of sushi is hidden with secret Edomae techniques to maximize its potential. Spanish mackerel is smoked for a deeper flavor while the boiled octopus stays marinated in broth for two days. Hashimoto’s vinegared rice uses a good pinch of salt that matches so well with the strong yet delicate flavors of the fish.
Serving the fish with the skin is Hashimoto-style. Prepared with perfectly aligned slits, the texture of the skin adds complexity while the fat offers sweetness. It creates a perfect balance for fish like red snapper or gizzard shad, which are salted for days to condense the umami.
Tuna, the king of sushi, is served in two parts. First, the akami, the learner part of tuna, is sliced generously so that it blankets over the rice, and infused with the sweetness of soy sauce. The fatty tuna is glistening with its sweet fat and melts instantly in your mouth. One fish but two completely different experiences.
Chawan mushi, a classic Japanese steamed egg custard, has become one of their signature dishes. Instead of ordinary ingredients like chicken and mushroom, Hashimoto chooses sakura shrimp and yurine is his original recipe. Yurine, the bulb of the lily plant, is sauteed in olive oil for a richer and sweeter aroma. Delicate and savory, the unusual dish astonishes every guest.
Next is a plate of three delicacies from the seas. Beautifully arranged on a single ceramic, the assortment is made up of monkfish liver, firefly squid in miso and plump pieces of mantis shrimp. “Hashimoto’s ankimo (monkfish liver) is extraordinary,” comments some fans as they continue to come back for more.
The Japanese-style rolled omelet is also no ordinary omelet. The eggs are slow cooked, taking as long as 30-40 min in just the right amount of dashi, giving them that soft and smooth texture. Sliced into squares with the dark burn on the top, they look like pieces of sweet castella sponge cakes.
Hashimoto takes daily trip to Tsukiji, taking full advantage of how his restaurant is so close to the fish market. For tuna, he selects those caught using set nets or fished with a pole and line as they tend to have a deeper umami with a balance of acidity, aroma and fat.
The rice is a blend of Nanatsuboshi, Tsuyahime and Koshihikari brands. The carefully-selected mix allows you to savor and feel each grain in your mouth. The vinegar is a blend of Yokoi and red Mitsukan. Tatsumi soy sauce from Ehime is full of umami.
Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Hashimoto’s family ran a sushi restaurant in Fukushima. As a young child, he was familiar with the art of sushi and the craftsmanship behind it. After graduating from high school, he began his apprenticeship at Miyako Sushi, one of the most established Edomae sushi restaurants in Japan. By the end of his nine-year training there, he served as the No 2 chef.
He was 31 years old when he decided he was ready to take on the biggest challenge of opening his own restaurant. To show his deep appreciation, he invited his parents and the head chef of Miyako Sushi to taste his sushi on the eve of the opening.
While honoring traditional techniques, he adds his own twist to every dish. He is close to the head chef of Jimbocho Den, a popular contemporary Japanese restaurant, and gets inspiration from their cuisine. At Hashimoto, it’s not just sushi but the small dishes that define his mastery.
Hashimoto’s philosophy is to take things a day at a time. Everyday, he focuses on the customers and the fish to create the best experience possible on that particular day. He believes it allows him to focus on what’s right in front of him, and that the daily doings will add up and make way for his own style in the long run.
SAKEWARE
Since his time as a starting chef, Hashimoto has accumulated a collection of sake cups and bottles from private exhibitions and galleries. A true ceramic lover, he would visit his favorite artists’ kiln like Asato Ikeda and Fujinoki Dohei to learn more about their work and vision. Some pieces are truly unique including bottles that stand slanted and purple coiled cups. To bring these sakeware to life, he stocks a diverse collection of 20 or so high quality sake, from light bodies to deeper flavors to match the variety of fish and dishes.
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The Hypnotic Show and Memoirs of a Hypnotist
100 days Science Dives into a Deep Artistic Fantasy
, Jae Wook Lee
Relax. Feel every parts of your body beginning to get so comfortable. Allow other outside thoughts to drift off. Just begin to relax more and more.
Relax. Feel every parts of your body beginning to get so comfortable. Allow other outside thoughts to drift off. Just begin to relax more and more. Imagine yourself standing on the top of a stair. Ten. Take the first step down. Nine. Dream and drift downward in your own time. Eight. Feel and sense the weight of your body. Seven. As you dream and drift downward and find yourself more relaxed. Six. Time goes slowly and very comfortably. Five. Four. Three. Go further and further deep down. Two. And one. All the way down now.
This is what you would probably have heard at the beginning of the Z to C Consciousness Performance by artist Marcos Lutyens at the 14th Istanbul Biennial - Saltwater, A Theory of Thought Forms. With a highly relaxed and trance-like state, a group of people lay down on the floor inside a boat. While feeling and sensing their bodies swaying with the waves of salt water, the visitors would listen to Lutyens’ gentle hypnotic voice that guided them into inner worlds. Electromagnetic vibrations were constantly flowing through the entire brain, generating one world after another with eyes closed. While their bodies were resting, the brains were running on full speed to sense, touch, and feel the world of imagination.
The Z to C Consciousness Performance is rooted in the Hypnotic Show, an ongoing project by curator Raimundas Malašauskas and Lutyens. It has been performed in various locations since 2008. The Hypnotic Show invites people into a space on the inside, and induces them into a trance-like state. With eyes closed, scripts by artists and writers or from Malašauskas’s book were delivered to listening ears. Lutyens’ voice escorted the audiences into distinct spatiotemporal fantasies. While there were no external stimuli to be sensed except the hypnotic voice reading the scripts, each person in the audience vividly experienced sensory properties like colors, textures, smells, and shapes inside the mind. Malašauskas and Lutyens literally take “imagination” as their primary site for the exhibition. The noun “imagination” excitedly found its ancestral origin from the 14th century Latin word “imāgo” with the suffix-āgo from the base im (seen) in im-āri (to imitate), which refers to the mental imitation of what is seen. In addition, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile sensation joined together to form a meshwork of connectivity with great intensity. In his book Paper Exhibition, Malašauskas describes : In a split second a touch of smell transports you to a place where you have neither been nor have not been…. A weird feeling where the tastes of dreams-never-realized, completely forgotten, but suddenly reanimated, gets back on the menu in all its crisp vagueness [1].
Memoirs of a Hypnotist : 100 days, Sternberg Press, 2015
In conjunction with the performance, Lutyens published a book called Memoirs of a Hypnotist : 100 days. The book is based around the Hypnotic Show at dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012, Kassel, Germany, which lasted 100 days and involved over 300 hypnosis-based sessions. In the foreword of the book, Malašauskas describes how he met Lutyens in several years earlier, and how this new frontier in exhibition making started. Two similarly circulating neurochemical flows for artistic innovation were drawn to each other for one another, and ultimately found their paths cross in the Bay Area in 2008. The Pacific Ocean must have witnessed their meeting and convinced them that the Hypnotic Show would flourish across the continents. Yes, in the end the Hypnotic Show traveled to Kassel for DOCUMENA (13), which became the basis for this book. Throughout the ten chapters, Lutyens details the sub-conscious journey of the Hypnotic Show from his ideas to interesting anecdotes to participants’ responses. The more you read, the more mysteries and curiosities reveal themselves as if science dives into a deep artistic fantasy. The mesmerizing book design by Goda Budvytytė also enthralls our eyes. As the chapters proceed from one to ten, you probably wake up gradually from a hypnotic state, and when you reach ten, you can find yourself in a different mood. One. Slowly coming back in your own time. Two. Beginning to feel your body very refreshed. Three. Four. Feel time speeding up now. Five. Six. Coming back now. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten.
Walking away from this whole experience of d(13), of the Hypnotic Show, of the Brain, one is left with an immense feeling of space
awe,
uncluttered
alive. [2]
[1] Raimundas Malašauskas, Ask Salad Amass Uranium, Paper Exhibition, Selected Writings by Raimundas Malašauskas, Sternberg Press, Kunstverein, 2012, p 183.
[2] Marcos Lutyens, Memoirs of a Hypnotist : 100 days, Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2015, p 155.
Jae Wook Lee
JaeWook Lee is an artist, writer, and sometime curator. Lee is the recipient of the prestigious award-the 4th SINAP (Sindoh Artist Support Program). Lee’s works have been exhibited internationally, including Museo Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo (2014), MANIFESTA 9 parallel event, Hassalt (2012), Chelsea Art Museum, New York(2011), Coreana Museum, Seoul(2006), etc. Lee is currently a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
* Logo : the Z to C Consciousness Performance by artist Marcos Lutyens at the 14th Istanbul Biennial
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All-City Space Horse Disc
Even if you own a different bike for everything, it's still necessary to have one that can do it all. That bike is the Space Horse. It's become a cult favorite because of its classic styling and ability to handle just about any task or terrain. All-City's Space Horse Disc frameset allows you to build your perfect bike with the addition of all-weather control disc brakes. The geometry is a mix of traditional road and randonneur, with a relatively short rear end and a bottom bracket that’s slightly lower than a standard road bike. This gives it both agile handling for riding unbridled and increased stability when loaded. This blend of geometry and 612 Select tubing create a bike that is capable of quick road centuries, gravel racing, commuting, and of course loaded touring. The frame accommodates front and rear racks, fenders, and tires up to 42c in size for the 700c bikes and 45c for the 650B version. It also utilizes a dropout with a replaceable derailleur hanger. All of the classic All-City touches are present: signature brazed-on seat collar, pantographed bottom bracket shell, pump peg, reinforcements on the bottle bosses, and a beautiful lugged crown fork. The fork sports both a double eyelet on the dropout and mid-blade mounts to allow you to use pretty much whatever front rack you wish.
Combine two parts versatility, one part bike-fueled thirst for the open road, and a dash of Minnesota-bred style, and you've got yourself All-City's Space Horse Disc. The 612 Select chromoly frame and fork blend traditional touring and randonneuring geometry for a bike that's at home on a fully-loaded trek across the state or commuting to and from work. The smaller sizes are designed around 650B wheels to offer a better fit to smaller riders. A relatively short rear end and a bottom bracket that’s slightly lower than a standard road bike give it both agile handling for riding unbridled and increased stability when loaded. With the addition of the all-weather control of Promax disc brakes, this Space Horse is without a doubt the best version yet. A complete set of rack and fender braze-ons let you dress up the Space Horse in whatever livery you need for your particular adventure. The long and winding road calls for equipment you can count on, and the SRAM Apex 20-speed drivetrain promises smooth shifts and hill-topping gearing for miles to come. The whole package rolls on a pair of quality WTB rims and VEE Speedster tires that offer unbelievable traction in wet or dry conditions. And all the usual All-City details are present, including a rust-fighting ED coating, a stylish integrated seatpost clamp, and signature All-City dropouts with a removable derailleur hanger.
All-City Gorilla Monsoon
Taking their love of riding drop bar bikes off-road to its logical conclusion, All-City presents you with the Gorilla Monsoon. A sweet beast whose only limits are your imagination and will power. They've taken the capabilities of their famed cross bikes and built a Monster. All-City's most densely featured bike ever, fully hitting everything on their checklist for a steed that can take you far into the unknown in comfort, style, and elegance. Want to do mixed pavement and single track rides? Put in long days off-road? Do some fire road touring? Camping? Ride across the continent? No problem. Peep the features: Front and rear thru-axles, front and rear rack and fender mounts, compatibility with Surly-8 and 24-Pack racks, stealth dropper post routing, 27.5 x 2.4” tire clearance (650b x 48 with fenders), signature All-City dropouts, E.D. coating for rust prevention, and three water bottle mounts. The Gorilla is made from All-City's 612 Select tubing and features a lovely bi-plane crown steel fork. They believe that nothing soaks up bumps or is as durable as a high quality steel fork. For on and off-road touring duties, it is the jam. Some of you will want to throw 650b x 47c’s in it and that’s cool. The resulting slightly lower BB gives the bike excellent manners when riding with a load and is fully endorsed by us. If you want to run a 700c tire the max is a 42mm tire which will raise your BB by 8mm. 700c x 38 keeps the BB about the same. As for building it up, there are three cable mounts on the downtube, giving you the option of adding a front derailleur or a dropper post. Here’s the max ring sizes for each setup: 1X = 38T, 2X = 28/42, 3X = 26/36/48.
Surly Disc Trucker Frameset (26-inch)
Surly's Disc Trucker Frameset is perfect for building a true touring bicycle that can handle any two-wheeled adventure with ease. The chromoly tubing and fork are stable and comfortable for long days in the saddle, and feature steel's inherent ability to damp road buzz. The frame has clearance for panniers, braze-ons for front and rear racks, and three bottle cages. This Trucker accepts 26-inch wheels and disc brakes for mega-strength and great all-conditions, all-weather braking power. Load it up, hit the road or trail; it's a tool to help you get lost and find yourself.
Surly Bridge Club
When your bike touring route takes you over the river and through the woods with a quick jaunt through town for supplies, you can't beat the versatility and smooth riding characteristics of Surly's new Bridge Club. First off, it's a Surly so you know the 'Natch chromoly steel frame and fork are built to handle your entire kit and caboodle, and thanks to the typical overabundance of rack and cage provisions you can mount your gear via traditional racks and panniers, go full bikepacking-style, or mix-up your favorite combo of the two. The Bridge Club rolls on plump 27.5 x 2.4-inch WTB Riddler tires for a blend of low rolling resistance on smooth pavement and confident handling on forest trails. You can also run up to a 2.8-inch wide tire for more flotation, or swap-in a 700c wheel and tire combo if your route includes a lot of on-road riding. A dependable 2x10 drivetrain ensures you'll never run out of gears as you make the push up long climbs, and mechanical disc brakes offer worry-free performance to keep you safe no matter what the weather brings. And, thanks to fully housed cabling and front and rear fender mounts, you can splash through soggy days with a smile. A comfortable Salsa Bend flat bar and WTB Volt saddle complete this relaxed all-terrain tourer.
Surly Long Haul Trucker (26-inch)
Your bike is ready, and it's time to hit the road! Surly's Long Haul Trucker is your endlessly capable world-tourer, grocery-getter, and weekend-camper. Chromoly has long been the favored frame material for bicycle tourists, and the Trucker's frame and fork are stable and smooth under load, guaranteeing long distance riding pleasure and performance. A complete set of front and rear rack eyelets, fender mounts, and clearance for high volume tires means you can truly ride this bike to the ends of the earth, and bring your gear along for the ride. Bar-end shifters are simple and durable, and the extra-wide range 27-speed drivetrain will get you and your bike up every hill. 26-inch wheels are strong and a great choice for a loaded tourer, and the high-quality Continental tires will keep you rolling strong.
Surly Long Haul Trucker
The Long Haul Trucker was designed in all aspects to go the distance in relative comfort, and to be able to haul a bunch of stuff. Its low bottom bracket and long chainstays provide comfort and stability. Surly gave it ample tire clearance for larger tires (larger tires soak up a lot of road static) with room for fenders. The frame’s tubing is thicker-walled and larger-diameter than standard road and sport-touring frames, and this pre-tunes it for the weight of cargo. And it’s got all the braze-ons, from rack mounts to water bottle cage bosses to spare spoke holders. Like all their frames, it’s made of CroMoly steel. You’ll probably never need to have the frame repaired, but if you do you’re more likely to find someone who can weld steel than someone who can weld titanium or aluminum. Repair carbon fiber in the middle of Mongolia? Good luck with that. The fork has two sets of eyelets on the dropouts as well as at proper mid-blade height, and bosses built into the side of the crown. All this makes the fork compatible with most types of racks, and provides options how you can mount racks and carry your stuff. Surly chose components that balance technical ability, durability, and value. The 3 x 10-speed Shimano Deore/XT drivetrain with Microshift bar-end shifters works well on a fully loaded tourer, will last you a while, and won’t shoot holes in your wallet. Add whatever else you need, like racks and fenders. Go somewhere. Do something. Ride a Long Haul Trucker.
Surly Ogre
The Ogre can get you to your job during the week, then way out of town on the weekend. It’s not sluggish on pavement or gravel and can also hold its own on singletrack. Ogre has many of the same features as Troll — horizontal slotted dropouts with Gnot-Boost spacing, a tweaked non-suspension corrected geometry, and a beefy tire clearance — but in a 29er platform. - Surly 4130 chromoly steel, main triangle double-butted frame - TIG-welded, Horizontal slotted with derailleur hanger, Gnot-Boost spacing allows the use of 135mm QR hub, 142 x 12mm thru-axle or 148 x 12mm Boost hubs. Features Rohloff torque arm slot and threaded eyelets for fenders, racks and Surly trailer mounts - Full-length Surly Trip Guide housing line guides for derailleurs and brakes; two sets of bottle cage mounts; upper seatstay threaded barrels, mid- and low-blade fully threaded through-blade fork eyelets; threaded holes for racks, fenders and trailer mounting nuts; Rohloff OEM2 axle plate mounting slot - Disc brakes only. Disc mounts are 51mm IS. Note: rear disc brake is limited to 160mm maximum rotor diameter and requires the use of Surly caliper adaptor (included with frames and bikes) - Frame is ED coated for increased life expectancy - Tire clearance for 29 x 2.5” or 27.5 x 3”
Surly Pack Rat
Over the years, Surly has been finding new and better ways to haul stuff on the front of their bikes — from fork braze-ons to racks to bags. The Pack Rat is the culmination of all those years and is specifically designed around porteur-style racks and front-loading optimization. Why would someone want to strap a bunch of crap to the front of their bike? Glad you asked. Having your stuff in front of you means it’s close at hand and easily accessible. It also allows for better weight distribution. We’ve all ridden with a pannier full of groceries. Some of us have wiped out around a sketchy corner and watched as our precious eggs and bananas go flying every which way in an act of Mario Kart-level carnage. A front load keeps the bike nimble and allows you to more efficiently use your body English to steer from the rear and avoid such a super market massacre. The drawback with front-loading on a lot of bikes, however, lies in how it affects the bike’s handling. The weight pulls you through turns in an awkward sort of way as if the load is doing the steering and you don’t even have control over your own life anymore. It makes for an overall less enjoyable ride. The Pack Rat’s front cargo-specific design eliminates that steering issues but also rides great without cargo. There’s no need to load it down with cans of beans every time you want to go for a ride. Unless that’s your thing. We’re not here to tell you how to live. In an effort to jumpstart your front cargo carrying dreams, Surly includes a 24-pack rack on the complete bike version. The Pack Rat rolls on 26” wheels in the smaller sizes and 650b wheels in the larger ones. Smaller diameter wheels keep the weight of the load lower than a 700c wheel would, thereby improving handling and ride feel. Pack Rat’s fork also includes some handy internal routing for generator hubs so you can safely ride off into the night. Dedicated commuters, credit card tourers, those who enjoy the occasional sub-24 campout, and sweaty back people looking to leave their backpack behind need look no further than the Pack Rat.
Over the years, Surly has been finding new and better ways to haul stuff on the front of their bikes - from fork braze-ons to racks to bags. The Pack Rat is the culmination of all those years and is specifically designed around porteur-style racks and front-loading optimization. Why would someone want to strap a bunch of crap to the front of their bike? Glad you asked. Having your stuff in front of you means it's close at hand and easily accessible. It also allows for better weight distribution. We've all ridden with a pannier full of groceries. Some of us have wiped out around a sketchy corner and watched as our precious eggs and bananas go flying every which way in an act of Mario Kart-level carnage. A front load keeps the bike nimble and allows you to more efficiently use your body to steer from the rear and avoid such a super market massacre. The drawback with front-loading on a lot of bikes, however, lies in how it affects the bike's handling. The weight pulls you through turns in an awkward sort of way as if the load is doing the steering and you don't even have control over your own life anymore. It makes for an overall less enjoyable ride. The Pack Rat's front cargo-specific design eliminates that steering issues but also rides great without cargo. There's no need to load it down with cans of beans every time you want to go for a ride. Unless that's your thing. We're not here to tell you how to live. In an effort to jumpstart your front cargo carrying dreams, Surly includes a 24-pack rack on the complete bike version. The Pack Rat rolls on 26-inch wheels in the smaller sizes and 650b wheels in the larger ones. Smaller diameter wheels keep the weight of the load lower than a 700c wheel would, thereby improving handling and ride feel. Pack Rat's fork also includes some handy internal routing for generator hubs so you can safely ride off into the night. Dedicated commuters, credit card tourers, those who enjoy the occasional sub-24 campout, and sweaty back people looking to leave their backpack behind need look no further than the Pack Rat. - 26-inch Wheel Size has room for tires up to 26 x 2.0, 650B Wheel Size has room for tire up to 650b x 48mm - Surly 24-pack rack included with complete bike - 100% Surly 4130 Chromoly frame, main triangle is double-butted; 1-1/8-inch threadless brazed Chromoly fork - Bosses front and rear for cantilever or linear-pull brakes, rack and fender eyelets at the dropouts, eyelets at the crown, and fully threaded through-blade fork eyelets for a front rack - Semi-horizontal dropouts with a derailleur hanger for geared or singlespeed drivetrains and/or wheelbase adjustability
Surly Disc Trucker
Surly's Long Haul Trucker enjoys a reputation as one of the best riding and most value-packed touring bikes out there. It's been around long enough to be tested in the real world, in all kinds of places, with all kinds of loads on all kinds of roads. Sometimes, however, a combination of load, climate and terrain demands a bit more braking performance than a standard rim-brake LHT can provide. That's where the Disc Trucker comes in. Disc Trucker is a Long Haul Trucker specifically designed for the unique forces discs impose. Surly made sure it can run discs, racks, and fenders with no jury rigging, a somewhat unique feature they've just now decided to call Simulpatibility. Most of the components on the complete bike are the same as the standard LHT; parts chosen for their balance of technical capability, durability, and value. The drivetrain uses the sort of wide gearing you will need for loaded and unloaded travel, cable operated disc brakes for their proven reliability and ease of service, and hubs that are durable and easy to maintain. You'll need to outfit it with the extras you want, like fenders and racks. Surly doesn't include that stuff because everybody's needs are different. From the casual commuter to the person who rides around the world more than once, the Disc Trucker is more than capable. It's a tool designed from the ground up to take you and a bunch of stuff just about anywhere you'd like to go. It is a tool to help you get lost and find yourself.
If you’re like us, your bike needs will likely change by the day, week, month, or year. Ogre can get you to your job during the week, then way out of town on the weekend. The latest version of the Ogre has received some fantasitic updates, including horizontal slotted dropouts with Gnot-Boost spacing, a tweaked non-suspension corrected geometry, and a beefier tire clearance — all in a 29er platform. The Ogre features Surly's Moloko handlebar offering hand positions that you didn’t even know existed and the ability to mount even more accessories. Ride it any day of the week; it’s not sluggish on pavement or gravel and can also hold its own on singletrack. - Gnot-Boost spacing allows the use of 135mm QR hub, 142 x 12mm thru-axle, or 148 x 12mm Boost hubs. - Full-length Surly Trip Guide housing line guides for derailleurs and brakes - Two sets of bottle cage mounts - Disc and rim brake compatible with removable post cantilever pivots - Upper seatstay threaded barrels with mid- and low-blade fully threaded through-blade fork eyelets - Threaded holes for racks, fenders, and trailer mounting nuts - Rohloff OEM2 axle plate mounting slot - Tire clearance for 29 x 2.5” or 27.5 x 3”
Surly Troll
Off-road touring can be a zesty enterprise, but it’s not without its perils. Bicycles are simple machines that are extremely efficient, but all simple machines carry along with them the chance of breaking down. This efficiency can get you in trouble if your bike decides to break down far away from the comforts of your parent’s basement. If you’re going to ride your bicycles where no one can see, you better take gear that’s up to the task. Troll is up to the task. Surly's Troll was once a simple mountain bike frame with a few extras that made it nice for touring. The Troll has evolved into a frame that has been pushed deeper into the category of off-road touring. Its geometry is no longer suspension corrected, which gives it more room for a larger frame bag. The Troll is a bike that has one purpose – and that purpose is to carry you as far away from society as possible.
Surly ECR 27.5+
The ECR is Surly's answer to those times when you just need to escape to the woods for a while to get away from the humdrum of life. Those familiar with this steel mule know it’s designed around plus tires, previously of the 29” variety. A fully loaded 29+ bike is an excellent way to explore and get away for a while… if you’re of a certain stature that is. For smaller riders, it poses several challenges though. And no one wants new problems when they’re in the woods trying to escape old ones. To solve this, Surly redesigned the smaller sizes of the ECR to work with 27.5+ while the larger sizes are still equipped with 29+. All you medium specimens out there get your pick of the litter as Surly's offering that size in both options. Other updates to the ECR include and are limited to: Gnot-Boost rear spacing and a killer new beige paint job. It retains the abundant accessory mounts that we all know and love like Surly Trip Guide for brakes and derailleurs, fender, rack, and Bill/Ted eyelets, and a Rohloff torque arm slot. The 27.5+ sizes also feature two sets of Three-Pack bosses. You’ve got lots of options to bring all your “necessities” with you and still have room for excess baggage if you’ve got it.
Surly ECR 29+
The ECR is Surly's answer to those times when you just need to escape to the woods for a while to get away from the humdrum of life. Those familiar with this steel mule know it’s designed around plus tires, previously of the 29” variety. A fully loaded 29+ bike is an excellent way to explore and get away for a while… if you’re of a certain stature that is. For smaller riders, it poses several challenges though. And no one wants new problems when they’re in the woods trying to escape old ones. To solve this, Surly redesigned the smaller sizes of the ECR to work with 27.5+ while the larger sizes are still equipped with 29+. All you medium specimens out there get your pick of the litter as Surly is offering that size in both options. Other updates to the ECR include and are limited to: Gnot-Boost rear spacing and a killer new beige paint job. It retains the abundant accessory mounts that we all know and love like Surly Trip Guide for brakes and derailleurs, fender, rack, and Bill/Ted eyelets, and a Rohloff torque arm slot. The 29+ sizes have two water bottle mounts and one set of Three-Pack bosses. You’ve got lots of options to bring all your “necessities” with you and still have room for excess baggage if you’ve got it.
Trek 520
520 is a steel touring bike made for the open road. It's the longest-running model in Trek's lineup, and it's built to carry you and your gear on your longest journeys. Rack and fender mounts, a wide range of gearing for climbing, and a stable touring geometry make it the perfect choice for loaded multi-day trips and comfortable all-day adventures. It's right for you if... You measure the success of a ride in the number of beautiful views, and when you're not riding you're likely to be found planning your next escape. You hear the call of the open road, and want a stable touring bike that's just as capable of carrying a heavy load on multi-day trips as it is on everyday rides. The tech you get A road-smoothing chromoly steel frame, alloy disc touring fork with a ThruSkew captured quick release skewer, wide-range 27-speed drivetrain that's great for hauling a heavy load up hills, Shimano Sora brake/shift levers, Bontrager Tubeless Ready wheels with puncture-resistant tires, included front and rear racks, and all-weather mechanical disc brakes. The final word 520 is a comfortable steel workhorse that's capable of everything from daily rides to expedition tours. It's ready for adventure right out of the box, with an included rear rack and a drivetrain that's ideal for hauling a heavy load. Why you'll love it - 520 is built to hold up, and it's super reliable over the long haul—you'll leave this bike to someone in your will - ThruSkew ensures the front wheel will never drop out unintentionally, and makes it easier to remove your wheel without removing all of your front cargo - There's no better way to see the world than from the saddle, and this is the bike that answers your wanderlust - All-weather disc brakes and puncture-resistant tires give you the confidence to take on bigger adventures in any conditions - It's the longest-running model in our lineup, and we've kept it around so long because it's one of the best-loved, too
Don’t let the road tell you what to do When the pavement ends, 920 is just getting started. This rugged adventure tourer sports 29er wheels and an off-road drivetrain, giving you endless room to roam. Don’t let a little bit of gravel dissuade you. 920 is equipped to handle whatever lies on or off the beaten path, while carrying the cargo that matters most. Key features - Built for endless adventure on and off the pavement - Strong, light aluminum frame is road quick, trail tough - Drop bars + off-road gearing + mounts = serious versatility - Balanced geometry is ultra-stable even when fully loaded
Key features - Plus-sized touring: bigger tires, bigger terrain, bigger adventures - All-new proprietary rack system for backcountry gear storage - Carbon adventure fork: light and strong, with mounts aplenty - Go-anywhere adventure spec: wide range 1x drivetrain, disc brakes, & dropper post
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Charles Bibbs has always believed that we are the keepers of our culture, and as such, has spent much of his time working towards developing a cohesive, energized African American community. He is a committed activist on behalf of economic development and empowerment in the community, spending much of his free time holding seminars and workshops with young people. In his quest to preserve and develop the visual arts, Charles Bibbs has founded Art 2000, a non-profit visual art association that informs and inspires artists and art patrons alike. Out of this association has grown Images Magazine, the first national publication dedicated to ethnic art. Another one of Charles passions is jazz music; and by founding the Inland Empire Music and Arts Foundation, another non-profit organization, he has been able to bring an annual world class jazz and art festival to Southern California, while providing much needed funding for a number of art and music programs. Charles Bibbs artwork manages to fuse African, African American and Native American cultural themes, to make powerful cross cultural statements. His work is thought provoking and capable of arousing strong emotions regardless of ethnic, gender and generational affiliation. Although he may have an idea or vision in mind when painting a particular piece, Charles prefers each individual who views his work to gain a personal vision from his artwork. Across the board, his renderings convey a deep sense of spirituality, majesty, dignity, strength and grace. It is sufficient to say, however his works are viewed, whatever individual emotions they may evoke, they remain characteristically and recognizably Bibbs.
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A Florida Judge Will Be Reprimanded After She Jailed a Victim of Domestic Abuse
By Theresa Avila
Photo: Larry Washburn/This content is subject to copyright.
The Florida Supreme Court approved a public reprimand and ordered a county judge to take anger-management classes and a domestic-violence course after the judge berated and sentenced to jail a victim of domestic abuse.
Seminole County judge Jerri Collins agreed to a public reprimand in March after video footage of her harsh words toward the victim in court became public last year.
The Judicial Qualifications Commission, the state agency that polices judges, found that Collins had been within her right to jail the woman for not showing up to court to testify after being subpoenaed.
The problem, instead, was Collins’s behavior toward the victim. The victim had no lawyer present at the time and claimed she had been undergoing depression and severe anxiety after the alleged incident of domestic violence.
Which didn’t really fly with Collins.
“You think you’re going to have anxiety now? You haven’t even seen anxiety,” Collins told the woman, according to the New York Daily News.
The wheels for the trial had already been set in motion, but without the woman as the victim witness, prosecutors had to drop the number of charges against the assailant. He ended up serving 16 days in jail for battery. After being found in contempt of court, the victim also served three days in jail.
At a judicial-panel hearing earlier this year, Collins admitted she could have been more patient with the victim.
Florida Judge Disciplined After Jailing Victim
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LICENSE TO KILL
Why It’s Time to Retire James Bond (As We Know Him)
The 24th Bond film, ‘Spectre,’ is in theaters this Friday. And it’s very, very lame.
Nick Schager
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In 1964’s Goldfinger, nefarious Auric Goldfinger famously tells Sean Connery’s British secret agent James Bond—who’s strapped to a table, a laser beam slowly encroaching upon his crotch—that the purpose of this torture isn’t to make him talk. “No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!”
He doesn’t, of course, and for the past 53 years, he’s lived on courtesy of a plethora of actors (Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and now Daniel Craig) who’ve all tried to put their own distinctive stamp on 007. But on the occasion of the character’s 24th feature, his future demands reconsideration. Because as this Friday’s highly anticipated Spectre reconfirms, James Bond and his customary wham-bam thank you ma’am sagas have grown hopelessly stale, outdated, and unoriginal. In other words, barring Eon Productions allowing for a much-needed drastic makeover, it’s time to revoke his license to kill.
As recently as 2006’s Casino Royale, that would have seemed a preposterous proposal. A blockbuster that saw the return of director Martin Campbell—the man responsible for the best Bond film of the preceding Brosnan era, 1995’s Goldeneye—and the introduction of Daniel Craig as a more rugged, animalistic 007, it was not only a smash hit commercially but an electric reinvention creatively. By transitioning the character from Brosnan’s handsome-and-I-know-it suaveness to Craig’s rugby volatility, the series was revitalized, largely because it felt as if it was reflecting a cynical contemporary geopolitical climate rife with anger, violence, betrayal, and mistrust.
Fast-forward nine years, however, and the thrill of Craig’s Bond is gone.
The 2012 entry Skyfall may have been the long-running franchise’s highest-grossing chapter, but it was a depressing devolution into The Dark Knight derivation—replete with a backstory that revealed Bond to be an orphan who, after his parents were killed, was raised by a kind grandfatherly servant in an enormous ancestral mansion, and who transformed himself into a rugged crime-fighting machine after spending a few days in a deep, dank cave-like hole. Devoid of novel ideas, director Sam Mendes opted to plunge Craig’s iteration of the character into grimdark Batman territory, marked by chilly amorality, long-buried family secrets and a Joker-esque adversary (in this case, renegade MI6 agent Javier Bardem’s Raoul Silva) who functioned as the protagonist’s dark mirror image.
Spectre could well surpass its popular predecessor’s lofty box office totals. Yet in most every other respect, it solidifies the notion that the series has become out-and-out retrograde. Returning director Mendes again exhibits scant capacity to stage a fistfight or shootout with anything approaching spatial lucidity, and unlike in Skyfall, he fails to deliver a show-stopping action centerpiece to make up for the spare-parts quality of his story, which concerns Bond’s personal mission to investigate Spectre. That shadowy corporate cabal apparently controls everything, and is run by a sinister figure named Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz) who shares a history with the spy. Anyone familiar with Bond’s most famous villains will know Oberhauser’s true identity from the start, but in a misbegotten attempt to generate suspense and surprise, Spectre pretends he’s someone other than this memorable baddie—thereby making much of the proceedings a drawn-out waiting game for the arrival of an obvious revelation.
More grating than this narrative tactic is that Spectre’s one guiding creative thought is to harken back to past entries. This is most clear with Oberhauser and his white cat-petting true nature, though it’s ultimately felt throughout. As before, Bond is presented as a brooding rogue who’s castigated by his superior (Ralph Fiennes’ M) for not following protocol. And per formula, he beds a beauty (an embarrassingly marginalized Monica Bellucci) and then abandons her in bed, never to be seen again. The Bond series’ feminism has never extended past making some of its female eye candy “doctors,” and that holds true in Spectre as well, via Bond’s latest love-for-a-day Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux). Nominally presented as a tough girl who can spit venom and handle a handgun, Seydoux’s Swann is inevitably given little to do but pout, argue, and then fall out-of-the-blue madly in love with the agent—only to then become a damsel in distress.
This has all been done before, and with far greater panache and excitement, in prior Bond films starring Connery, Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan. Consequently, Spectre, to a greater extent than 2008’s action-incompetent Quantum of Solace and 2012’s overlong Skyfall, leaves the entire franchise feeling hopelessly musty, a relic of an earlier age that’s now only capable of repeating itself. Even Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall” theme, set to a typically symbolism-laden credit sequence (Octopuses and fire and guns, oh my!), is just a dull, de rigueur concession to procedure. Of course, what’s helped 007 endure for five decades is its signature flourishes, which unite its disparate sagas and make each installment recognizable, and comfortable. Those gestures also, however, make it safe and unadventurous—a series ferociously clinging to old tics and mannerisms like a timid child clutching his blankie during a thunderstorm.
Throwing money at the screen in a vain attempt to create awe-inspiring spectacle, Spectre offers a chase through Mexico’s Day of the Dead parade, a pursuit down a snowy mountain in a rapidly crumbling plane, and a late Bond-in-a-torture-device bit—moments that are so old-hat, it’s no wonder Craig looks bored by the sound and fury surrounding him at every turn (and why the actor recently claimed he’d prefer slashing his wrists to reprising the part for a fifth time). Rarely has the character come across as more apathetic than he does in Spectre, ostensibly because he’s both literally and figuratively retracing the same old steps, be it in terms of his derring-d—some high-wire assassinations here, some bedroom lovemaking there—and in terms of his outfits (snappy tuxedos, sharp designer suits), his catchphrases, and his general, unflappable air of cold-blooded nonchalance and ladies man cockiness.
Reversing this wayward course shouldn’t, in theory, be difficult. For one, rather than hiring directors (Mendes, Marc Forster, Roger Spottiswoode, John Glen) with bland visual styles and minimal-to-nonexistent action credentials, Eon Productions could court high-profile auteurs—think Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, or George Miller—to bring an idiosyncratic angle to the material. Similarly, they could be daring in their casting, be it by heeding fans’ spot-on demands to hand a Walther PPK and the keys to an Aston Martin to Idris Elba, or by turning Bond on his head and reimagining him as a woman (Charlize Theron, ideally). For that matter, simply plumbing the moral quandaries posed by its stories would bring welcome depth to the spy’s shallow, flash-above-substance tales.
Taking risks is exactly what’s enlivened Bond’s main modern rivals—Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible and Matt Damon’s Bourne films. In the case of the former, giving free reign to stylistically inimitable filmmakers has meant that Ethan Hunt’s every new escapade (including this past summer’s Rogue Nation) comes across as unconventional and unpredictable. For the latter, a unique handheld aesthetic and sense of go-for-broke momentum, as well as a timely fixation on surveillance-apparatus technology, has made it a fresh alternative to Bond’s old-school antics—a comparison only likely to be exacerbated by the fourth Bourne installment that’s now on the horizon.
Whereas Casino Royale established the potential for forthcoming character-study complexity, Spectre’s regurgitation proves that such hopefulness was misplaced. Bond’s caretakers are content to rehash in larger-than-life ways, even if it leads to self-parody. They want to craft expansive, imitative movie-uniting mythologies that look backwards—to past classics—rather than forwards. As a result, the Bond series has lost its sense of direction, and purpose. Now merely stirring up its familiar elements rather than shaking up its tired formula, it’s an illustrious franchise that, if unwilling to radically reboot itself, should go gracefully into retirement.
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19 Ice Creams You've Never Tried Slideshow
The World’s Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae — Three Twins Ice Cream, San Francisco
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Bet you thought the Grand Opulence sundae from Serendipity 3 would be the priciest frozen dessert on this list — think again. Three Twins Ice Cream is a small chain of organic scoop shops in Northern California, and they’ve created a sundae more expensive that you can imagine. This $3,333.33 banana split is topped with three syrups made from three extremely rare dessert wines — a 1960s vintage port, a Chateau D’Yquem, and a German Trockenbeerenauslese. They ask that you order the sundae one day in advance so that they can arrange to have a cellist play while you devour the creation.
They also offer the World's More Expensive Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae for $60,000, which involves a trip to Africa.
The Fish 'n' Chips Ice Cream Sundae — George's Portobello Fish Bar, London
George's Portobello Fish Bar
At George's Portobello Fish Bar in London you can get a basket of fish and chips for dessert. The "fish" includes pieces of creamed cod ice cream coated with vanilla-pepper batter and then fried. The bed of "chips" is comprised of potato ice cream fries.
Famous Original Donut Ice Cream Sandwich — Holey Cream, New York City
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This creation is only for true gluttons — it starts with a freshly made doughnut (the folks at Holey Cream in Manhattan fry them up all day, so they don’t get soggy) that’s split in half and stuffed with two scoops of ice cream, any flavor you desire. Holey Cream sells Sedutto's ice cream and frozen yogurt in a bevy of flavors, including red velvet cupcake and pretzel.
Mallie's Colossal Ice Cream Sundae — Mallie's Sports Bar & Grill, Southgate, Mich.
Mallie's Bar
Mallie's Sports Bar & Grill is home to a number of oversized specialties, namely their four gigantic burger challenges and their Colossal Ice Cream Sundae. The frozen treat includes one-and-a-half gallons of ice cream (a combination of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry) topped with Hershey's syrup, whipped cream, chocolate chip cookies, nuts, sprinkles, and cherries.
World’s Most Expensive Popsicle — Marquis Los Cabos Luxury Resort, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Marquis Los Cabos Luxury Resort
This $1,000 popsicle is made with Tequilas Premium Clase Azul Ultra (which sells for $1,500 a bottle), edible 24-carat gold flakes, and sugar to sweeten the tequila.
The Vermonster — Ben & Jerry's
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Ben & Jerry's Vermonster sundae is a behemoth bucket full of 20 scoops of ice cream (your choice) plus hot fudge, sliced bananas, chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and all the toppings your heart desires. You'll definitely want to invite a gaggle of friends to enjoy it.
The Great Pyramid Sundae — Cabot's Restaurant, Newton, Mass.
Cabot's Ice Cream
This sundae from Cabot's Restaurant in Newton, Mass., includes 60 pints of ice cream scooped into a mountainous pyramid formation and covered with 12 quarts of whipped cream, nuts, cherries, and other toppings. Each pyramid is served in an extra-large metal bowl with your choice of ice cream, which includes everything from apple crisp and frozen pudding to Mounds candy bar.
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Bar — Shaffer's Genuine Foods
Schaffer's Genuine Foods
The sustainable food catering company, Schaffer's Genuine Foods offers a made-to-order liquid nitrogen sundae bar as one of their dessert options. The gelato for the sundaes can be custom-made per guest in a mere 30 seconds, then topped with a variety of exotic treats.
The Ice Cream Bagel — WD~50, New York City
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Chef Wylie Dufresne is known for creating whimsical dishes at his New York City restaurant, WD~50, and his ice cream bagel is the perfect example. The item, which consists of bagel-flavored ice cream is served as an amuse-bouche to the restaurant's extra special customers each night.
Personal-Sized Ice Cream Cake — Quality Meats, New York City
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Quality Meats in New York City is known for its trendy meat-focused fare. However there is a certain item on their dessert menu that lands them a spot on this list. The solo-serving ice cream cakes come in five flavors: Spicy Mexican Coffee, Toasted Banana S'mores, Strawberry Shortcake, Chocolate Covered Grasshopper, and The Monster Mash.
The Golden Opulence Sundae — Serendipity 3, New York City
Serendipity 3 in New York City has one of the world's most expensive ice cream sundaes — The Golden Opulence (weighing in at a whopping $1,000). This extravagant ice cream concoction consists of Tahitian vanilla ice cream made with Madagascar vanilla beans and chunks of Chuao chocolate from Venezuela. Toppings include Amedei chocolate sauce, gold-covered almonds, 23-carat gold leaf, and sweet caviar.
The Ice Cream Baked Potato — New York City
Maryse Chevriere
Cowgirl in New York City makes a specialty dessert that they call the ice cream baked potato, and it looks just like it sounds. To make the spud-tastic dessert they mold vanilla ice cream into the shape of a potato, dust it with cocoa, and top it with hot fudge, whipped cream, chopped pecans, and a pat of butter made of frosting.
Ice Cream Ramen — Kikuya, Tokyo
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A ramen shop near Kitasenjyu Station in Tokyo called Kikuya sells classic ramen noodles in soup topped with soft-serve ice cream cones. The dish comes in a variety of flavors, including vanilla, chocolate, and coffee. Just eat it fast before the ice cream melts!
Hot Fudge Volcano — Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour, Santa Clarita, Calif.
Farrell's
This sundae from Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour is meant to serve anywhere from one to 10 people, according to the menu. Thirty scoops of vanilla ice cream are topped with hot fudge, whipped cream, nuts, and cherries and served with a fiery display.
The Federal Deficit — Governor’s Restaurant, Old Town, Maine
Governor's Restaurant
This behemoth dessert includes a combination of Governor's specialty ice cream creations (brownie delight, strawberry shortcake, and banana split) in addition to six regular sundaes. The mountains of ice cream, fruit, and cakes, are topped with hot fudge, caramel, peanut butter, blueberries, cherries, pineapple, marshmallow, jimmies, nuts, and whipped cream.
Pretzel Ice Cream Cone — Churn, Phoenix
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Artisan ice cream shop Churn, in Phoenix, serves up outrageous and unique flavors in a cone made from pretzel dough. How about Vietnamese coffee-flavored ice cream in a salty pretzel cone? Or perhaps blueberry yogurt instead? The options are endless.
Ice Cream Cupcakes — Maggie Moo’s, Multiple Locations
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This national ice cream chain is taking the concept of ice cream cake to new heights with their ice cream cupcakes. Similar to the individual-sized ice cream cakes from Quality Meats in New York City (complete with a layer of cake in the bottom), these cupcakes have cake as well. Maggie Moo’s offers 21 flavors of cupcakes, ranging from butter pecan pie (with butter pecan ice cream and yellow cake) to sushi (vanilla or chocolate ice cream with yellow cake and gummies crafted to look like sashimi).
Ice Cream Pizza — Emack & Bolio’s, Multiple Locations
Emack & Bolio's
This Boston-based chain of ice cream shops offers a quirky and extremely indulgent ice cream treat — pizza. The confection begins with a brownie crust topped with vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, marshmallow topping, stars and moons sprinkles, raspberry-filled chocolate hearts, and a chocolate peace sign. This is one ice cream that’s sure to put you in a heavenly food coma.
Ice Cream Volcano — FAO Schwarz, New York City
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This legendary toy store includes an ice cream shop inside that serves a giant $100 sundae called The Volcano. This outrageous creation begins with a Belgian chocolate shell shaped like a volcano that’s topped with 12 scoops of ice cream, chocolate-covered candy balls, sprinkles, gummy bears, marshmallows, walnuts, caramel sauce, hot fudge, whipped cream, and cherries.
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Belmont Stakes Notes: May 30, 2018
Justify, Restoring Hope
Justify and Restoring Hope had a walk day at Churchill Downs following Tuesday's workouts. Jimmy Barnes, assistant to trainer Bob Baffert, reported all was well with both.
Mike Smith will wear the red and yellow silks of China Horse Club International while on Justify in the Belmont Stakes after sporting WinStar Farm's white and green colors in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. Justify's other owners are Louisville-based Starlight Racing and Head of Plains Partners.
Bravazo
Bravazo jogged two miles under Danielle Rosier. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas said the son of Breeders' Cup Classic winner Awesome Again is expected to have his lone timed workout before the Belmont Stakes on Thursday "as long as the weather doesn't stop us."
Lukas said he plans to send Bravazo to the track at 7:30 ET but could move it up to 5:30, when the track opens, depending on weather.
Bravazo will van to New York on Monday with Warrior's Club, who is running in the Runhappy Metropolitan Mile.
Free Drop Billy
Free Drop Billy had his first day back to the track since working five-eighths of a mile in 59 3/5 seconds Monday, jogging two miles under exercise rider Juan Segundo.
Trainer Dale Romans confirmed that Robby Albarado will have the Belmont Stakes mount on Free Drop Billy.
"In my opinion, he's still one of the best riders in the country," Romans said of Albarado, a finalist on the 2018 Hall of Fame ballot. "And for big-money races, he's the man I want."
Romans said he remains undecided whether to run Promises Fulfilled in the Woody Stephens or in the Easy Goer on the Belmont Stakes card. He said plans for King Zachary to run in the Matt Winn Stakes at Churchill on June 16.
Romans plans to fly his horses to Belmont on Wednesday, June 6.
Tenfold, third by a total of three-quarters of a length in the Preakness, galloped 1 1/8 mile under Angel Garcia after getting a day off Tuesday.
"The horse is doing good," said Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen.
Asmussen said Tenfold is scheduled to work five-eighths of a mile Saturday, and that he's looking for a nice, relaxed move in "1:01 and change, 1:02."
"It's who he is physically, and the rhythm I want him in that I think will be most effective in the Belmont for him," Asmussen said. "He's just going to have to be big, relaxed and cover the ground with the frame that he has."
Tenfold and other Churchill-based Asmussen horses running at Belmont will fly to New York on Tuesday, he said.
Edited NYRA release
Belmont Stakes, Bravazo, Free Drop Billy, Justify, Tenfold
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News Civil & structural Policy & business Rail & marine
Qualter Hall set to refurbish Port of Dover ro-ro berths
By Jason Ford 11th June 2012 5:04 pm 16th December 2015 12:25 pm
The Dover Harbour Board has commissioned Qualter Hall to carry out major refurbishment works to three ro-ro berths — 3, 2 and 7 — in the Eastern Docks, Port of Dover. The work will be carried out in partnership with Hollandia.
This refurbishment will involve an intensive programme of works, as Berth 3 must be completed in time for passengers visiting the Olympic Games. Berth 2 will then be completed in 2013, followed by the completion of Berth 7 in 2014.
Qualter Hall’s scope of work includes the design, manufacture, supply, installation and commissioning of all the mechanical, hydraulic and electrical control equipment for each berth.
All three berths are similar structures and are used for loading and unloading vehicles and pedestrians onto and off ferries using the Eastern Harbour. Each berth comprises two vehicle bridges and a passenger access walkway.
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Biomedical disc could improve treatment of chronic back pain
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Strathclyde University secures funding for research centre
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FACES OF EVIL=>London Jihadists Unmasked – Including Refugee from Pakistan (VIDEO)
by Cristina Laila June 5, 2017
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UK Police identified the Muslim terrorists responsible for Saturday’s attack in London. Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and a third terrorist plowed over people in a rented van before entering Borough Market and stabbing multiple victims.
The UK Mirror reports:
Two of the terrorists who rampaged through London Bridge killing seven and injuring 49 have been unmasked.
Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and a third jihadist drove a rented van into crowds before calmly strolling into Borough Market and stabbing multiple victims on Saturday night.
The trio were gunned down by counter terror cops who neutralised the threat within eight minutes of being called to the scene.
Butt, also known as “Abz”, is believed to be the killer wearing an Arsenal shirt pictured lying on the ground outside the Wheatsheaf pub.
The former security guard and Transport for London worker from Barking, east London, was known to police after associating with extremist Muslim preachers.
He appeared on a Channel 4 documentary last year titled “The Jihadist Next Door” where he unfurled an ISIS-style flag in London’s Regent’s Park.
At least two individuals have claimed they reported him to the anti-terrorist hotline as his radical views emerged over the last two years.
Redouane, who also lived in the Barking and Dagenham area, is believed to have been identified from an Irish ID card found in his pocket after he was executed by armed cops.
He is understood to be of Moroccan descent and had previously been living in Dublin.
Below are two videos of one of the jihadists who appeared in a documentary holding and ISIS flag:
Read the rest of the report from UK Mirror here.
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Saudi’s Crown Prince: A Youthful Gambler
Crisis puts future of Saudi reforms and GCC in doubt.
By James M. Dorsey, June 26, 2017
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The stakes for 31-year old Prince Mohammed and Saudi Arabia’s ruling Al Saud family are high.
Complicating Prince Mohammed’s reform plans is a renewed 20% drop in oil prices since January.
As the Qatar crisis drags on, concern is likely to rise among the Gulf’s trading partners.
Increased grumbling and online protests persuaded the Saudi government to roll back some austerity measures.
A foiled attack by ISIS on the Grand Mosque in Mecca was a likely effort to undermine Prince Mohammed’s reforms.
A three-week-old, Saudi-UAE-led diplomatic and economic boycott of Qatar threatens to complicate newly promoted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reform plans and undermine the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the Middle East’s most successful regional association.
Designed to impose Saudi Arabia and the UAE ‘s will on a recalcitrant Qatar, the boycott suggests that power politics irrespective of cost trump the need for reforms in Prince Mohammed’s world.
The stakes for 31-year old Prince Mohammed and Saudi Arabia’s ruling Al Saud family are high. Failure to deliver sustainable economic and social reforms could undermine the prince’s popularity.
His age has allowed him to connect with significant segments of the kingdom’s youth, who account for two-thirds of the population, in ways his predecessors could not.
Complicating Prince Mohammed’s reform plans, laid out in a document entitled Vision 2030, is the kingdom and the UAE’s handling of the crisis as well as a renewed 20% drop in oil prices since January.
The crisis, beyond the balance between power politics and economic necessity, raises questions about key issues needed to inspire confidence in an effort to diversify the kingdom’s economy, streamline its bloated public sector, and strengthen the private sector.
Qatar sanctions
Sanctions imposed on Qatar challenge concepts of equitable rule of law, the principle of freedom of movement, security of private ownership, and a modicum of freedom of expression in a region in which that basic right is already severely restricted.
The sanctions include a ban on travel to Qatar; ordering Saudi, Emirati, and Bahraini nationals to leave the Gulf state and expelling Qatari nationals.
They also include shuttering offices of Qatari companies and ejecting Qatari-owned assets, including thousands of Qatari camels and sheep; prompting expelled Qataris to fire sell assets held in the Gulf states opposed to it; and closing airspace for flights to and from Doha.
Restrictions on freedom of expression were taken to new heights with a ban on expressions of sympathy for Qatar that in the UAE could earn someone sporting an FC Barcelona jersey with the logo of Qatar Airway, the sponsor of the Spanish soccer giant, 15 years in prison.
Space for creativity, a prerequisite for building a 21st century knowledge economy, was further cast in doubt by the Gulf states’ unprecedented effort to force closure of more freewheeling Qatari media, including the controversial Al Jazeera television network.
A rising toll
As the crisis drags on, concern is likely to rise among the Gulf’s trading partners, oil and gas customers, and migrant labor suppliers.
Those concerns are reinforced by fears that protagonists on both sides of the Gulf divide are likely to emerge from the crisis bruised and with their reputations tarnished irrespective of how the dispute is resolved.
A survey of young Saudi men conducted by Mark C. Thompson, a Middle East scholar at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals laid out what is at stake for Prince Mohammed.
Mr. Thompson concluded that youth in the kingdom were willing to buy into Vision 2030’s concept of providing economic deliverables in exchange for acceptance of an absolute monarchy that limits basic freedoms.
“There was consensus amongst these young men that reducing unemployment, providing affordable housing and decent healthcare should be the government’s ‘top priorities’ as these issues are considered the most contentious and problematic in wider society: as one young man argues ‘basically if we have these then everything else is satisfactory’,” Mr. Thompson said.
The scholar noted however that initial enthusiasm for Prince Mohammed’s vision “has evaporated amongst some young men, who complain that whilst they were hopeful when the Vision was launched, as the months have passed they see few tangible results.”
Mr. Thompson argued that performance was crucial because Prince Mohammed’s reform plans, the boldest to date, come on the back of earlier promises of change by Saudi leaders that never materialized.
Further undermining confidence is the fact that Prince Mohammed’s plan involves a unilateral rewriting of the kingdom’s social contract that offered a cradle-to-grave welfare state in exchange for political fealty and acceptance of Sunni ultra-conservatism’s austere moral and social codes.
“The problem is that Vision 2030 has become synonymous with cutting salaries, taxing people and stop-ping benefits,” Mr. Thompson said.
Saudis have, since the introduction of cost-cutting and revenue-raising measures, seen significant rises in utility prices and greater job uncertainty as the government sought to prune its bloated bureaucracy and encourage private sector employment.
Slashes in housing, vacation and sickness benefits reduced salaries in the public sector, the country’s largest employer, by up to a third. Mr. Thompson quoted a medical student as saying:
I was an intern at a SANG (Saudi Arabian National Guard) hospital and most people there were angry about the Vision because their salaries were being cut. The soldiers around here are also angry because they work all the time. It’s unfair to take SAR 1000 ($266.50) from a 5,000 salary. My military father is angry because most of his salary and allowances have been cut. Some people’s incomes have already been reduced by 30% (except if you are a soldier in the south). It seems that the government wants to solve the current economic problems by force. They are doing this by raising taxes but not explaining anything to us. Prices keep rising regardless!
Increasing opposition
Increased grumbling and online protests persuaded the government in April to roll back some of the austerity measures and restore most of the perks enjoyed by government employees.
Mr. Thompson cautioned that to succeed, implementation of Prince Mohammed’s “vision needs to be accountable and transparent, in other words a model of good governance… It is the government’s responsibility to ensure that young Saudis feel they are part of the National Transformation Plan, because if young Saudis believe they can make meaningful contributions to national development, then they will contribute.”
A foiled attempt this month by the Islamic State to attack the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca was likely an effort to undermine Prince Mohammed’s reform plans that involve a loosening of Sunni Muslim ultra-conservativism’s strict and austere social codes and morals.
A siege of the mosque in 1979 prompted the government to give the kingdom’s ultra-conservative religious establishment greater control of public mores.
The kingdom’s religious establishment has criticized Prince Mohammed’s social liberalization effort, including introduction of modern forms entertainment, but largely endorsed his economic plans. Social change has been embraced by a significant swath of Saudi Arabia’s youth.
A 24-year-old speaking to The Guardian, cautioned however that ultra-conservatism maintains a hold on significant numbers of young people.
“You know that the top 11 Twitter handles here are Salafi clerics, right? We are talking more than 20 million people who hang on their every word. They will not accept this sort of change. Never,” the youth said.
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About James M. Dorsey
James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and an award-winning journalist. [Singapore]
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The best nature books of 2017
We celebrate a trio of debut authors, a dramatic account of bird breeding and an evocative memoir of free-range childhood
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Wed 29 Nov 2017 07.00 EST Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 07.36 EST
Stunning ... an illustration by Jackie Morris from Robert Macfarlane’s The Lost Words.
In some ways, 2017 has been a quiet year for fans of the publishing phenomenon known as new nature writing. Some of the big hitters – notably Mark Cocker and Helen Macdonald – have not published new books, although Robert Macfarlane did produce The Lost Words (Hamish Hamilton), a large-format children’s book with stunning illustrations by Jackie Morris.
Their absence has left the field clear for less well‑known authors, who have filled the gap admirably. Genre debuts, including The Otter’s Tale by Simon Cooper (HarperCollins), Limestone Country by Fiona Sampson (Little Toller) and Waiting for the Albino Dunnock by Rosamond Richardson (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), deservedly won new admirers (although, sadly, Richardson died soon after her book came out).
More established names also unveiled new works. Wild About Britain by veteran travel writer Brian Jackman (Bradt) will come as a pleasant surprise to those who know the author only for his matchless prose on African wildlife. Hugh Warwick, best known for his writings on hedgehogs, also branched out with Linescapes (Square Peg), a fascinating work of landscape detection based on entirely straight journeys. The Guardian’s Patrick Barkham produced Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago (Granta), in which he managed to explore 11 small British islands and reflect his thoughts and experiences back to the larger, far more troubled mainland without once mentioning Brexit.
Original ... Neil Gower provided the illustrations for Alex Preston’s As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Photograph: Neil Gower
There was controversy, too. Chris Thomas’s Inheritors of the Earth (Allen Lane), subtitled How Nature Is Thriving in An Age of Extinction, took playing devil’s advocate to extremes by suggesting that the number of species’ extinctions recently is a sign that the planet is working just fine. Brilliant insight or dangerous nonsense? You decide.
For those who think the latter, Pádraic Fogarty’s Whittled Away: Ireland’s Vanishing Nature (Collins) serves as a timely warning. Similarly, David Cobham’s Bowland Beth: The Life of An English Hen Harrier (HarperCollins) is guaranteed to make the reader angry about the wildlife crimes being committed so blatantly by the grouse‑shooting industry.
Birds always feature extensively in these annual roundups and this year is no exception. Songs of Love and War (Bloomsbury) by Dominic Couzens delivers a dramatic behind-the-scenes account of birds’ breeding behaviour, while Adam Nicholson’s The Seabird’s Cry (William Collins) is a paean to some of our most charismatic wild creatures – as one birder puts it, “real birds eat fish”. Mike Toms and his colleagues at the British Trust for Ornithology focused on the miracles of bird migration in Flight Lines (BTO), which was illustrated beautifully by members of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Alex Preston, better known for his novels, joined forces with artist Neil Gower to produce the delightful As Kingfishers Catch Fire (Corsair), an original look at the literature inspired by Britain’s birdlife.
Other creatures got a look in this year, thanks to two series at the top of their game. HarperCollins’s New Naturalist kept up its usual high standards with three volumes: Early Humans by Nick Ashton, Farming and Birds by Ian Newton and Beetles by Richard Jones – astonishingly, the first New Naturalist to cover this fascinating group of insects in the series’ 70-year history. All three appeal to expert and beginner alike.
Princeton continued its partnership with WildGuides, producing more fabulous identification books. These included the surprise hit of this year’s Birdfair, Britain’s Spiders, by Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford and Helen Smith, which is ideal for the arachnophile in your life.
More conventional tastes are catered to in British Mammals, by Dominic Couzens et al, which is a comprehensive guide to identification, habitats, behaviour, distribution and numbers; it is absolutely brilliant.
Permission to land ... a guillemot, one of the birds featured in Adam Nicholson’s The Seakbird’s Cry. Photograph: Alamy
Mammals facing extinction feature in Critical Critters (Bloomsbury), the latest broadside from Ceri Levy and Ralph Steadman: eccentric and important in equal measure.
Plants are often relegated to the back of the nature lover’s bookshelf, but this year it is worth searching out Oak and Ash and Thorn: The Ancient Forests and New Forests of Britain by Peter Fiennes (Oneworld) and London’s Street Trees by Paul Wood (Safe Haven), which adds a fascinating new dimension to any walk through the city.
Small, independent publishers such as Safe Haven continue to outperform in this field. Another example is Fair Acre, which persuaded the naturalist Matthew Oates to write a thoughtful account of spring and summer in Beyond Spring. Larger, but no less independent, Little Toller has published the first full‑length biography of the original new nature writer, My House of Sky: The Life of JA Baker, by Hetty Saunders.
For my book of the year, however, there is only one contender. John Lister-Kaye is – and I am sure he won’t mind me saying this – an “old” nature writer, who has delighted his legion of readers since the early 70s. His memoir, The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood (Canongate), is the perfect winter read: funny, moving and packed with evocative recollections of a 50s childhood, lived under the shadow of his mother’s chronic illness. Never once does he succumb to self-pity. His accounts of adventures as a (mostly) free-range child exploring the wonders of the natural world are simply delightful.
•Stephen Moss’s latest book is The Robin: A Biography (Square Peg). To buy a copy for £8.49, go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99.
•What have you enjoyed reading in 2017? Send your choices in 150 words or fewer to readers.books@theguardian.com or Readers’ Books of the Year, Review, The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU (including address and phone number), to arrive no later than Monday 11 December. Or comment below. We will publish a selection in the paper and online on 30 December.
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Airline Distribution Strategies Complicate Life for Travel Agents
by Richard D'Ambrosio / September 26, 2017
Having had their airline commissions cut decades ago, travel agents have struggled to justify the time and expense that they invest in helping their clients book their air segments.
But as more airlines seek to drive down the cost of offering flight, fare and fee information through multiple distribution channels, agent frustration is starting to bubble up.
At the August American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) 2017 Global Convention, agents and agency owners voiced their disapproval during a special lunchtime discussion about developments in New Distribution Capabilities (NDC).
NDC is a technology standard that provides direct connections between airlines, travel agencies and travel technology providers, bypassing traditional GDS like Sabre and Amadeus. It’s similar to how consumers book directly with airline websites. A key strategy for the airlines is avoiding paying the GDS a fee for them hosting their data in the larger aggregated marketplace.
The problem is, airlines are going about surcharges, incentives and direct connect capabilities differently and on different timelines, providing different fares and other services through these various channels. Often this means agents have to toggle between various websites and tools to complete a single booking.
American Airlines earlier this year announced it is offering a $2 incentive payment to agents per segment booked through their NDC connection.
Conversely, for two years, Lufthansa has been penalizing agents and consumers by charging a €16 non-refundable fee for bookings made outside of its website and call centers – a move that is now being investigated by the European Union.
Lufthansa does offer a booking site (www.lufthansa-agent.com) where agents can book surcharge-free Lufthansa flights. The EU is investigating Lufthansa and the impact of different distribution channel strategies on competition and consumers.
The online travel publication, Skift, recently quoted Christoph Klenner, secretary general of the European Union’s Technology & Travel Services Association, as being concerned about how airlines like Lufthansa are “making available different content to different channels.”
Additionally, International Airlines Group (IAG) subsidiaries British Airways and Iberia will introduce a €9.50 (US$10) per “fare component” surcharge on November 1, 2017 for all non-NDC bookings.
Industry acknowledges NDC issues at ASTA conference
During a press conference at the San Diego ASTA conference, Mark Meader, ASTA senior vice president of marketing, industry affairs and education, called the luncheon discussion “lively and insightful,” though some attendees off the record described many agents in attendance as irritated with the airlines and GDS actions.
Reached after the conference, Wendy Burk, founder and CEO of Cadence Travel in La Jolla, CA, said the variety of booking channels can undermine an agent’s credibility with their customer. “When a travel agent puts in work to provide thoughtful air options at just the right cost with just the right details, nothing is worse than a client responding with, ‘I found it cheaper online,’“ Burk said.
“Of course, they’ll be back when they see the middle seat and 12-hour layover, but avoiding this frustration altogether comes down to changing the perception of the client. We explain that our state-of-the-art technology gives us access to information that can’t always be found online, like the quantity of aisle seats left at the most updated lowest fare.”
Investment in NDC connections will cost agents
Then there is the cost and effort imposed on agents and agencies to build NDC connections.
“Any agency large or small looking to build a connection into an airline would need a certain amount of resources to do that. It is a big undertaking for any organization. You have to either invest yourself, or pay a third party to do it,” Meader said at the press conference, which included representatives from American Airlines, Amadeus and Travelport.
“We would like NDC adopted across the industry. We recognize there is a challenge in that. There is effort in that,” said Neil Geurin, American Airlines director of distribution strategy.
Scott Alvis, chief marketing officer with Amadeus North America, said “Most travel agencies are not interested in building an IT shop” to build NDC connections. “They would love for the GDS to take care of this. We are putting our plans in place to do that.”
Meader said that ASTA is also concerned with how NDC will impact a variety of other agency systems outside of bookings, like customer relationship management databases and payment solutions. “What might this mean from a settlement perspective? Are there training implications?” he added.
Will Owen Hughes, senior director of air commerce at Travelport, said his company is monitoring the impact on agencies. “There are a lot of processes agents use through our system. We need to make sure we integrate the NDC content” with those processes, he said.
Long-term, the value of agencies will change, but won’t diminish
Interviewed by phone after the ASTA conference, Patricia Simillon, head of strategic marketing, Airline IT, Amadeus IT Group, said she believes NDC developments will only assist agents long-term.
“The value of travel agents is there. It will not disappear, and in fact, their importance might be increasing. The shift is going to be in the job of a travel agent to be more consultative, presenting options based on their knowledge of the client,” she said. “Travelers can find information through meta-search, through a number of channels. What they cannot find is the human relationship that an agent has with them, supplemented by an in-depth customer profile.”
Travel reservations are “not just about marketing” fares, schedules and other services she said. “It’s also about the upsell. You have to have the right value at the right time for your clients, because all of us are emotional, and not always rational, and therefore the data can help build that offer for the client who travel agents know best.”
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U.S. Rep Matsui Seeks Hearings on Carnival Triumph Incident
Destination & Tourism Carnival Cruise Line Theresa Norton February 17, 2013
U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, a Democrat from California, is requesting investigative hearings on last week’s Carnival Triumph ordeal by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
“The recent catastrophe with Triumph, a Carnival cruise ship, is just one more mishap for an industry that touts itself as providing safe, family-friendly vacations,” she said in a letter to the committee chairman. “While I am glad that no injuries have yet been reported, the stranding of over 4,200 people for four days is anything but safe. The power outages, limited access to food and severe sewage issues are disturbing and raise concerns that these enormous ships are not properly prepared. A thorough investigation must be undertaken immediately, and oversight procedures must be implemented, to ensure that a similar accident does not happen in the future.”
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Matsui echoes concerns shared by U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, a vocal critic of the cruise industry, who said he was “horrified” by the Carnival Triumph ordeal and asked the U.S. Coast Guard for details on the costs of its response and investigation and whether it would seek reimbursement from Carnival. Matsui in 2010 sponsored in the House the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act, which became law and requires safety and reporting standards. She expressed more concerns about the Carnival Triumph.
“The cruise line appears to have been completely unprepared to deal with such a major disaster. One small engine fire caused an enormous ship to become dead in the water,” she wrote. “We need answers about why this occurred, why there were not adequate back plans, and why it took over four days to get these people safely back to land. Someone must be held accountable.”
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Posted on June 24, 2019 by Times Gazette
Storm damages senior center
70 mph straight line winds cause damage elsewhere
By Jeff Gilliland - jgilliland@timesgazette.com
Emergency personnel and volunteers clean up glass after the majority of the front windows at the Highland County Senior Citizens Center were blown out during a storm Monday.
Jeff Gilliland | The Times-Gazette Jeff Gilliland | The Times-Gazette
Glass and other debris litter the floor of the Highland County Senior Citizens Center in Hillsboro after a Monday storm blew out the majority of the building’s front windows and caused other damage.
A quick drop in atmospheric pressure caused the front windows of the senior citizens center in Hillsboro to be blown out during a Monday storm, according to Highland County EMA Director Dave Bushelman.
He said that according to the National Weather Service, which spent more than two hours Tuesday in Highland County surveying the storm damage, straight line winds of up to 70 mph caused damage in other areas around the county Monday.
There were houses damaged on Caleb Hill Road, Bushelman said, and damage in the Buford and Danville areas that included a couple barns and numerous downed trees and tree limbs.
Mechell Frost, executive director of the Highland County Senior Citizens Center, said she received a call at 5:37 p.m. Monday from Dean Elliott, who lives across the street from the center, saying strong winds just came through and the windows on the senior center were gone.
Tall glass windows make up large portion of the side of the senior center that faces Muntz Street.
“It was just strange. I got up here and it was an absolute glass mess,” Frost said Tuesday from the center.
She said that Mark Middleton, who lives next door to the center, was already starting to clean up glass when she arrived on the scene, and the Hillsboro Police Department was also there. She said the Paint Creek Joint EMS/Fire District arrived shortly thereafter.
“Community people and Paint Creek started shoveling and sweeping all the glass. You couldn’t walk without stepping on glass,” Frost said. “When I walked inside the center I was just overwhelmed by all the glass. It was crazy. Then when I thought about it, I was so glad no one was here.”
She said the center had closed at 4 p.m. Monday and that three to four times a week there are female center members who play cards at a table near the front windows.
“The wind was so strong it sent glass through that table and it looks like someone took a knife and scratched it. I’m just so thankful,” Frost said.
Besides damage to the front windows, Frost said several ceiling panels were damage or knocked to the floor, some of the panel framing was bent, and power was knocked out to portions of the building. Glass also covered a carpeted sitting area near the front of the building, and Frost said there were so many splinters of glass in the carpet that she did not see any way it could be salvaged.
Power was not knocked out to the freezers or refrigerators, Frost said, but the center’s Meals of Wheels program was canceled Tuesday because there was a lot of dust and debris in the kitchen area. She said she expected it to resume Wednesday.
The center was closed Tuesday and remain closed until all the issues can be resolved. Frost said that will likely be a week or two.
She said that state Rep. Shane Wilkin, a former senior center board member, was “a huge help,” calling all the people needed to board up the windows and initiate the other cleaning processes. She said there were numerous other community members who stepped in to help, along with emergency personnel.
Wilkin owns Larry’s Party Shop next door and said his employees said the storm did nothing to that building except blow the front door open.
“I really can’t stress enough how much we really appreciate our community,” Frost said. “It was just awesome, because I’d still be there sweeping glass if it wasn’t for them.”
Reach Jeff Gilliland at 937-402-2522.
https://www.timesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2019/06/web1_Center-front-pic.jpgEmergency personnel and volunteers clean up glass after the majority of the front windows at the Highland County Senior Citizens Center were blown out during a storm Monday. Jeff Gilliland | The Times-Gazette Jeff Gilliland | The Times-Gazette
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The Don CeSar Resort, a Loews Hotel
Inspiration Hotels
By Charlyn Keating
Guest Rooms and Rates:
Historic and colorful pink "sand castle" amid modern condo developments on a beautiful stretch of St. Pete's beach.
Dining Options:
275 guest rooms, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico or Boca Ciega Bay
Rates range from $209/night for an Indirect Gulf View to $377 for a Deluxe Gulf View King.
Junior Suites, Suites and Penthouse accommodations are also available for up to $1653 per night.
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Three restaurants and three lounges include the award-winning Maritana Grille, plus Uncle Andy's Ice-Cream Parlor
Includes water toy rentals (including catamarans, kayaks and aqua bikes), beach volleyball, shopping, golf, tennis, fishing, tropical garden and ghost story tours, snorkeling and scuba diving
Weddings and Meetings:
Full-service spa offers massage, sauna, whirlpool and exercise equipment
The Don hosts over 300 weddings each year. Custom weddings are available. Ballrooms, conference rooms, and business services are available
Location of the Don CeSar Resort:
On December 5, 2003, the Don CeSar Resort became a Loews Hotel. It is now participating in all Loews corporate programs such as Loews Loves Pets, Loews Loves Kids, and the frequent guest program Loews First.
Contact the Don CeSar Resort:
The Don CeSar Resort is located 30 minutes from Tampa International Airport, and one and a half hours from Walt Disney World. Compare Flights
3400 Gulf Blvd., St. Pete Beach, Florida 33706
phone: 727.360.1881, 866.728.2206; email: reservations@doncesar.com
web site: Don CeSar Resort
If you're headed down to catch some Florida sun, you have no shortage of options on where to stay. In recent years, much of the coastline has been built up with high-rise condos. They stretch forward alongside the road as far as the eye can see, rising high above the surf with generic names like "Windjammer" and "Sea Breeze."
It was along just such a stretch of overdeveloped highway in St. Pete's Beach, just outside Tampa, where I found myself in an oasis. The Don CeSar Beach Resort stretches out on the other side of a small bridge, a short distance but worlds away from its surroundings.
The Don's colorful history began in 1928, when real estate developer Thomas Rowe, inspired by the Royal Hawaiian in Waikiki Beach, built the property. At its heyday, it was a favorite of notables such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarence Darrow and Al Capone. Since then, the hotel property has served as a convalescent center for World War II airmen, housed offices for the Veterans Administration and stood abandoned and neglected for years. In 1973, it was reclaimed as a hotel, and in 1994 it underwent a full renovation, restoring it to its former glory.
The only property on the St. Pete Beach designated as a National Historic Landmark, the Don is also the only resort in the state of Florida to receive the AAA Four Diamond Rating for 22 consecutive years.
The resort itself is flamingo pink and resembles a fairy-tale sand castle, earning its nickname "The Pink Palace." It is surrounded by the sugar-white sands distinctive of Florida beaches. Just past the pool area, the resort's private beach is equipped with complimentary beach chairs and umbrellas. A focal point outside is the clock tower, which can be seen for quite a distance from leisurely strolls down the beach.
My only real complaint was the standard room size; mine was smaller than I prefer. Request a corner room for more space and panoramic views of the surf.
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New gTLD Applications Revealed From ICANN
Yesterday ICANN revealed applications from about 500 companies for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) that could devalue the coveted .com extension and open up a barrage of legal issues. The close to 2,000 domains, also referred to as strings, look like .aaa, .hotels, or .ibm. If you notice, there's no need for an extension such as .com or .net because the gTLDs are essentially the same thing -- except anyone can purchase them. But before you plan on buying .yourname you might want to know how much the gTLDs cost.
A single string such as .canon costs $185,000 plus an estimated $25k per year to renew. The gTLDs, as you would imagine, are not for everyone.
There will also be a host of legal issues concerning who has the rights to own which gTLD. For example, there are seven separate competing applications for the top-level domain .news. And, four separate entities want the string .pizza. The list from ICANN also reveals the U.S. is clearly betting on the future value of gTLDs. Of the 1,900 applications under review, nearly half of them are from the United States.
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Happy Holidays to children all over the world.
Submitted by RoadSong at 2013-12-11 15:44:51 EST
Rating: 1.15 on 11 ratings (18 reviews) (Review this item) (V)
St. Nicholas, the angels, and Krampus...
Austria celebrates in style. Get drunk, put on a costume, chase kids down the street and beat them with fiery sticks.
Krampus has been a part of alpine folklore going back at least a millennium, he traditionally accompanies St. Nicholas and angels on the evening of December 5 to visit households to reward children that have been good while reprimanding those who have not. He is a beast-like creature looking for naughty children to punish in horrible ways, or possibly to drag back to his lair in a sack.
In conclusion Uber, party on and shoot fire out of your ass.
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Submitted by Spam at 2013-12-19 06:33:31 EST (#)
Needed more The Virgin Connie Swail
Submitted by RoadSong at 2013-12-18 19:36:46 EST (#)
home below :)
Submitted by Shlongy at 2013-12-18 18:12:49 EST (#)
I love Crampas...
Submitted by Ducky at 2013-12-18 17:21:45 EST (#)
Made me think of The League...oh Taco...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68S9_zWoryw
Submitted by bart made me laugh at 2013-12-16 19:51:40 EST (#)
lol perkman owned silvr
Submitted by secret_of_nimh at 2013-12-15 17:07:58 EST (#)
good shit
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Submitted by SilvrWolf at 2013-12-13 23:57:14 EST (#)
Dan_ran: of course he's an alter, you down-under wonderdoofus. SOMEONE has to shake the old-school spice of 'tard fighting around this dessicated corpse of a site, don't they?
And now you've managed to be back for one comment and taken your own idiocy to the top tier. Congratulations. You've just become the #1 contender for idiot uberchamp.
You and Perk
Pit of DOOOOOOM
a fight to the derp.
Submitted by Maj. Lee Lichtermann at 2013-12-13 20:44:12 EST (#)
Rating: -2
Hi everyone it's me, d_r.
First of all, minus 2 roadsong, you suck. Now, what's been going on *looks around* yes i see, i see...silvr's been yelling at perkman again....an obvious alter......and yet somehow PERkman's the idiot.
Okay well this place still blows.
Submitted by Perk "Grownman Perkiness" man at 2013-12-13 19:35:13 EST (#)
Sliverwolf- Do you understand sarcasm? or no? grow a joking bone, yah cunt... What is wrong with you? If you need something to get your anger out on, there are sports teams, as most sane people do. I mean that's what they are there for...
Submitted by OathMeal at 2013-12-13 11:01:18 EST (#)
SilvrWolf just destroyed Perkman.
Highlight of my morning.
What is this pagan shit? I think everyone in that photo is going to heck... that's just what I feel.
This is really how they celebrate Christmas? Where in the heck is all this done at? which country or group?
Christmas IS pagan, you stupid, stupid fuck. All of it. From the wreaths to the trees to Santa, even the gifts. ALL of it.
In no way, shape or form was Jesus born in December. The shepherds didn't field their flocks at night in the winter (so no star of Bethlehem). The Romans didn't perform censuses in the winter (the very reason for Mary and Joseph going to Bethlehem).
What did happen is that the pagans were still celebrating their winter solstice festivals, Constantine had just converted to Christianity and he needed to consolidate his power amongst both pagans and Christians. So, he stole the holiday.
Thou shalt not steal... unless it's a holiday that can help you exercise your power and assimilate the beliefs of others into your own.
And if you're willing to say "shit", you should be willing to say "hell", you serial knucklefucker. Glad I could help. Here's a nickel; go buy a clue.
Next up: your blessed Easter is a stolen holiday, too.
Submitted by TheUniter at 2013-12-11 23:45:25 EST (#)
Submitted by Fucking foul at 2013-12-11 21:05:28 EST (#)
Our American traditions are no less grotesque in their own way.
Submitted by Yozz at 2013-12-11 19:41:47 EST (#)
He reminds me of my boss.
"Austria celebrates in style. Get drunk, put on a costume, chase kids down the street and beat them with fiery sticks."
Marge: I know we didn't ask for this, Homer, but doesn't the Bible
say, "Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you
do unto me...?"
Homer: Yes, but doesn't the Bible also say, "Thou shalt not take
moochers into thy hut?"
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Woman opens fire at YouTube headquarters, shooting 3 before taking her own life
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Chief Ed Barberini of the San Bruno police comments on the shooting at the YouTube headquarters.
A woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., shooting three people with a handgun before taking her own life and causing widespread panic in the technology hub south of San Francisco.
Two law enforcement sources told The Times that the shooting was a domestic incident, with the shooter targeting someone who worked on the YouTube campus. The incident occurred in an outdoor area that's easier to access than other parts of the campus, the sources said. It's unclear if the assailant, who was not identified, worked there.
San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini told reporters Tuesday afternoon that one person, believed to be the shooter, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Four people were taken to area hospitals for medical treatment, three with gunshot wounds.
Shortly before 5 p.m., Barberini said investigators were moving from a tactical to an investigative approach after searching the building floor by floor, room by room, and finding no immediate threat to the community.
He declined to say if the incident was an act of domestic violence, but said investigators are trying to determine the woman's motive and how she got into the building. He said the shooting occurred in a "courtyard area."
Most tech companies, including YouTube, require visitors to check in with security before entering their facilities.
Officials with Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center said the hospital had taken in three patients, two women and one man. A 36-year-old man was in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman was in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman was in fair condition. None of them has been in surgery.
The fourth person suffered an ankle injury while fleeing.
"We're doing everything we can to support them and their families at this time," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a letter to employees.
Pichai said the shooting came as employees were having lunch and police, along with the company's security team, worked to evacuate the buildings.
"The best information we have is that the situation is contained," he said. "I know a lot of you are in shock right now. Over the coming days, we will continue to provide support to help everyone in our Google family heal from this unimaginable tragedy."
In a tweet, President Trump offered his "thoughts and prayers" to everyone involved in the incident Tuesday afternoon.
Several YouTube employees sent tweets Tuesday afternoon, saying people were racing out of the company's Cherry Avenue offices shortly after 1 p.m.
Was just briefed on the shooting at YouTube’s HQ in San Bruno, California. Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved. Thank you to our phenomenal Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders that are currently on the scene.
Witnesses in the area said they saw dozens of firefighters and police officers descending on the area. Other witnesses said they saw police holding rifles and other weapons.
The first reports of a shooting came in to San Mateo County dispatchers before 1 p.m., according to recorded traffic posted online by Broadcastify.com.
"Shooter. Another party said they spotted someone with a gun. Suspect came from the back patio," the dispatcher said, according to scanner traffic posted online. "Address is 901 Cherry Avenue. … Again we have a report of a subject with a gun, they heard seven or eight shots being fired. This would be from the YouTube building."
As the reports began to flood dispatchers, a sergeant was heard on the radio taking the call. He told other officers responding or monitoring the situation "to wear their gear."
Video from the scene showed people holding their hands over their heads as they left the building, which is located in a suburb south of San Francisco. An employee told the Los Angeles Times that three YouTube buildings — 900, 901 and 1000 Cherry Avenue — had been placed on lockdown.
Producers from YouTube tweeted that they believed there was an active shooter on the company's campus. Some said they heard so many people running that they believed an earthquake had struck. Others described a gruesome scene.
"I looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs," Todd Sherman, a YouTube producer, wrote on Twitter. "Peaked around for threats and then we headed downstairs and out the front."
Lucacio Simoes, 40, an Uber driver from San Bruno, learned about the shooting from a friend's text message while he was having lunch at the nearby Tanforan shopping center. Simoes said he drove his Ford Explorer toward YouTube headquarters to see if he could help.
"There were people running down the street," he said.
Simoes said he turned off the Uber app and started to pick up people he passed on the street.
"I just opened the door and asked if they needed help. I was getting people away from YouTube. At one point I had seven people in the car. I picked up one man from Sneath Lane and when he got in the car he just started crying. He was in shock."
Simoes said he performed at least six such rides Tuesday afternoon.
Michelle Tam, a hostess at the Hashes & Brews restaurant about a block away from the company's headquarters, said a swarm of police and fire vehicles drove into the area around 12:45 p.m.
"We see lots cops and firefighters," Tam said. "We can't see any people. It's just a lot of trucks along the street at the moment."
Tam said three YouTube employees came into the restaurant appearing visibly shaken.
"They came in from a back door," she said. "They sat down at a table. They were in a daze. One guy, there was a little blood on his head."
One employee had a partial fragment of a bullet in her shoe, Tam said.
At another nearby business, roughly two dozen customers barricaded themselves inside Nueve restaurant around 1 p.m., when authorities told them to "stay far away from YouTube," bartender Carlos Gutierrez told a reporter over the phone.
"Is this really happening, or is it a false alarm?" Gutierrez wondered aloud as he and others huddled near the bar.
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May 13, 2019 - Lexington, KY – The 2-1-1 Contact Center, operated by United Way of the Bluegrass (UWBG) in Lexington is among a select group of organizations to be accredited by the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (AIRS), in recognition of the quality of the information and referral service it provides to the Central Kentucky community.
2-1-1 connects residents across the region with local agencies and programs that help in various areas including health care, aging services, shelter, food, utility assistance, Veterans services and much more. The United Way of the Bluegrass 2-1-1 Contact Center has demonstrated excellence in the information and referral service field by successfully completing a detailed professional accreditation process administered by the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (AIRS).
AIRS is an international nonprofit association with a membership of more than 1,200 public and private organizations. The AIRS Accreditation Program is a multi-phase process that assesses more than 200 distinct components of the operation. The assessment includes a detailed site review, as well as an expert review of the agency's resource database, and a "secret shopper" monitoring of service delivery. "We are proud to obtain this accreditation for our 2-1-1 Contact Center, which is such a valuable resource for our Bluegrass community," said 2-1-1 Director of Operations and Development, Brittney Stokley. "Every day our trained specialists help people navigate through the maze of health and human services - a process that is often overwhelming for a person who has multiple needs and doesn't know where to start."
In addition to dialing 2-1-1, those needing assistance can search for available resources online at www.uwbg211.org. The online, searchable database includes thousands of local programs and services, with categories like food, housing, clothing, utilities and health care for each county. A texting service is also an option on the platform, allowing those who prefer to communicate via mobile devices to text their 5-digit zip code to 898211 to connect with a specialist.
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I Watched 'The Bachelor' For The First Time And Felt My GPA Drop
by Rachel Kiser Virginia Tech Jan 8, 2018
As an Odyssey editor, I have edited and read my fair share of articles centered around "The Bachelor" and "Bachelorette." For 20 years, I resisted the urge to give into temptation and waste an hour of my life watching trash. The cattiness and drama reminded me of the shit we dealt with in high school when you could find a date for homecoming. However, at the emergence of the new season, I decided to waste two hours of my life and understand why every white millennial female and wino housewife love this fucking show. I sat down with pad and paper, a glass of gin and popcorn, and prepared my IQ for its steady decline.
The only thing I knew before watching this was that the hunky Indy (not Nascar, ladies) bachelor was back to find love in all the wrong places. In my thorough research, Arie had once been on 'The Bachelorette," and after putting his heart on the line and having it stomped by Emily, he figured he would give the show another try, because that wouldn’t ever happen again, right?! As we present all the backgrounds of the contestants, I was annoyed by how attractive they all were. For a show that it is about true love, it seems to be very superficial.
Off the bat, I despise the pompous attitude of most the girls but formed an attachment to Krystal (the Cali homeless helper), Big Titty Brittany, and Jessica (the single mom). They were all funny, relatable, women who didn’t appear to be all about the competition, but were looking for their true love. Next up, the contestants filter out one by one and greet the bachelor, trying to create a spark with a wet box of matches. Some of the introductions were sweet and touching, but things like the fake proposal and taxidermist talk would have me running for the hills. Where do they find these women?
After the slightly uncomfortable interaction with an astonishing 29 girls, they start with first impressions, which is getting to know someone well enough to judge their possible status as a mate. Again, nothing superficial at all. Let me start by saying, this was the (second) worst part of the show for me, as the true nature of the show is revealed: it’s a like a hot dog eating contest, and Arie is their cash prize.
The women fight over him, especially that bitch Chelsea, not to truly get to know his sensitive side, but to play this game of “who’s dick is bigger.” The girls try to one-up each other and prove they are the alpha bitch, like the cast of "Bad Girls Club" in cheap prom dresses and caked on mascara. Of course, the girl who was the biggest kiss ass got the first rose, whoop-de-fucking-doo.
Now, the most suspenseful part, the final rose, had me ready to turn the channel and go back to football, even though I was enthralled. Like most reality shows, the breathy pauses in-between sentences and rose exchanges had everyone watching biting at the bit. I was not surprised when he picked all the ditsy bombshells and left all the people I really was rooting for without a rose.
What really had my blood boiling was the amount of fucking boohooing with the eliminated contestants. It’s not like this was their last shot at love EVER. You literally met this man for a total of 5 minutes, how can one get so butthurt, so fast? After the season recap, I quickly flipped back, having missed one of the best college football games of the year, only semi-regretting the two hours wasted at the hand of reality TV (yet again).
Watching this show has only proven the stereotypes that I conceived beforehand. Fame and competition are the show’s core values. It’s more like a beauty pageant, not a search for true love. "The Bachelor" has proven to me that this show is the perfect representation of modern-day relationships. It is all about one-upping the other person, having the perfect mixture of romantic and beautiful love that you see on your friends Instagram, and making others jealous of how great your love life is.
Our relationships breathe and grow on social media, enabling our friends to know more about our love lives than our own mothers.
Was it one of the trashiest shows I have ever seen? Yes.
Did it make me want to vomit? Yes.
Will I watch Monday’s next episode?
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Home Other News Health Pioneering scheme to detect lethal date-rape drug launched by Costa del Sol...
Pioneering scheme to detect lethal date-rape drug launched by Costa del Sol hospital following spike in reported cases
The drug affects the nervous system and can reduce free will
Elsa Maishman (Reporter)
24 Jan, 2017 @ 12:24
MARBELLA’S Costa del Sol Hospital has introduced a new protocol to detect traces of a ‘knockout’ date rape drug following a spike in reported cases.
The scheme takes blood, hair and urine sample from victims in a bid to detect substances like Burundanga, which causes ‘chemical submissions’.
The drug affects the nervous system and can reduce free will before knocking the victim out for up to 24 hours.
The new scheme comes after two Olive Press reports last year, which some labelled as ‘alarmist’, warned of a rise in attacks.
The Institute of Legal Medicine has now revealed that 2016 saw a 35% increase in sexual assaults in Malaga alone.
During New Year’s, a 19-year-old British woman was drugged and sexually assaulted in Marbella while a 20-year-old foreign girl was recently raped on a patch of waste ground in Estepona.
The scheme’s main focus is on sexual assault, but police have also noted an increase in the use of the drug in robberies and other crimes.
The new protocol is the result of collaboration between police, legal and health authorities, and is one of the first of its kind in Spain.
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11 Dec 2018 by TSZ
2018 Mzansi Super League – Paarl Rocks vs Nelson Mandela Bay Giants Preview & Prediction
When? Wednesday 12th December, 12:00 (UK)
Where? Boland Park
Weather? Sunny with a light breeze and temperatures of 26c
What channel is it on? Paarl Rocks vs Nelson Mandela Bay Giants will be broadcast live on FreeSports
Where can I stream the match? Paarl Rocks vs Nelson Mandela Bay Giants will not be streamed live on UK television
Are tickets still available? https://www.ticketpros.co.za/portal/web/index.php/event/c7301e18-4719-4019-105d-5b84e704db0a
PREVIOUS MEETING
Nelson Mandela Bay Giants beat Paarl Rocks by 48 runs
PAARL ROCKS
Coach: Adrian Birrell
Captain: Faf du Plessis
Paarl Rocks are coming off a thrilling run-chase against the Jozi Stars, as they managed to reach the target set with just three balls and six wickets remaining thanks in part to 71 not out from Grant Thomson and 61 from skipper Faf du Plessis.
It was a must-win game for the Rocks if they wanted to have any hopes of reaching the play-offs in the first season of the Mzansi Super League, as they now sit one spot and four points off their opponents here in the final play-off spot.
Despite sitting just outside the play-offs, outside of Faf du Plessis’ 312 runs, the Rocks have struggled for regular contributors in the batting department - with Aiden Markram their next highest run-scorer with 142 so that needs to be remedied, while in their bowling department, they spread the wickets around as Tabraiz Shamsi, Bjorn Fortuin and Dane Paterson who are all tied on nine wickets.
NELSON MANDELA BAY GIANTS
Coach: Eric Simons
Captain: JJ Smuts
Nelson Mandela Bay Giants consistently lost wickets which meant they fell way short in their last match as they lost to the Tshwane Spartans by 28 runs, a result that means they remain in the play-offs, but are nervously looking over their shoulder at the teams below them including their opponents here.
The Giants’ bowling line-up also failed to live up to its star billing, as players like Chris Morris and Imran Tahir were not able to stop the Spartans on their way to reaching 165/4, with opener Gihahn Cloete scoring his third fifty of the competition.
Outside of skipper Smuts and Englishman Ben Duckett, the Giants have failed to get regular run-scoring contributions from their batsmen, as all-rounder Morris has scored just 48 runs all tournament whilst number three batsmen Rudi Second has scored 99 runs in his eight games so they have to raise their game to match the Rocks here.
This is a vital match in the race for the play-offs with these two teams direct competitors for a play-off place and this being their final matches. The Giants sit in the final play-off berth and are currently just four points above Paarl Rocks so they know this match is just as important for them as it is their opponents. As for the Rocks, they will be reliant on skipper Faf du Plessis for runs, whilst they will be hoping 30-year-old Grant Thomson can continue his good form. The Giants have been the more consistent of the two teams, but if the Rocks produce what they are capable of, it is their match for the taking.
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Sanilac deputies make arrest in multi-state investigation
44-year-old Indiana man were arrested on felony warrant; subject of investigation not specified by police
Sanilac deputies make arrest in multi-state investigation 44-year-old Indiana man were arrested on felony warrant; subject of investigation not specified by police Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: https://bwne.ws/2MJxfbY
Port Huron Times Herald Published 10:06 p.m. ET Aug. 31, 2018 | Updated 10:42 p.m. ET Aug. 31, 2018
Sanilac County Sheriff’s deputies assisted in locating a mother, her three children and her boyfriend as part of an ongoing out-of-state investigation this week.
According to a news release, the investigation stemmed from Wells County, Indiana, and deputies were able to locate the family at a Forester Township residence. The Indiana Department of Human Services had requested the assistance on Thursday.
The male subject, a 44-year-old from Bluffon, Indiana, was arrested on a felony warrant and was being housed in the Sanilac County Jail, awaiting extradition and pending the Sanilac investigation.
The 36-year-old mother was interviewed by deputies and other officials and is expected to have further court proceedings in Indiana.
The three children were removed from the residence under a court order. The sheriff’s department coordinated with the Sanilac Child Advocacy Center.
Details surrounding the subject of the investigation were not released.
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When 55 points isn't enough
Conor O'Neill / Times-News
Sep 21, 2013 at 12:01 AM Sep 21, 2013 at 10:38 PM
Blue Devils come apart in shootout with Pittsburgh
DURHAM � In the ultimate feast-or-famine game, the Duke football team came up one defensive stop short of a complete comeback.
Although that didn�t come as much of a shock for an Atlantic Coast Conference game that resembled a basketball score.
Pittsburgh held on for a 58-55 victory against host Duke on Saturday, giving the Panthers� a first victory in ACC action that never lacked for excitement and came at the hands of a down-but-never-out Duke team.
�That was a bizarre game,� Duke coach David Cutcliffe said. �There was never a moment that you thought that the team was ready to shut down. The part that hurt � is why we struggle in areas of execution that have just kind of crept in.�
Duke (2-2 overall, 0-2 ACC) found itself one third-down stop from having a chance to tie or take the lead in the final act. On third-and-7 with about two minutes left, Pittsburgh quarterback Tom Savage threw a strike to Kevin Weatherspoon along the visiting sideline for 15 yards to ice the game.
It was last throw of a brilliant day for Savage, who carved up Duke by completing 23 of 33 passes for 424 yards and six touchdowns.
�Their quarterback I think is terrifically talented,� Cutcliffe said. �They�ve got good football players in the right positions on offense.�
Pittsburgh (2-1, 1-1) built leads of 20 points in the first half and 23 points in the second half, using a bruising rushing game to set up Savage�s deep strikes to Tyler Boyd (eight catches, 154 yards) and Devin Street (six catches, 166 yards).
A lot of the Panthers� success through the air came off play-action, set up by freshman James Conner�s 173 yards on 26 carries.
And yet, for all the successes of Pittsburgh�s offense, it never did anything Duke didn�t see coming.
�It was just hard-nosed, pound-the-ball football trying to run it down your throat,� defensive end Kenny Anunike said. �You just have to man up.�
Cornerback Ross Cockrell said: �Nothing that we hadn�t seen before. A lot of deep shots, a lot of deep posts, just straight go routes. So nothing different, we just couldn�t stop it.�
One of the seemingly dozen momentum shifts came with 10 minutes left, when Jamison Crowder took a screen pass 71 yards for a touchdown that would have put Duke within 51-47, pending the extra point.
But a holding penalty brought the play back. Three plays later, linebacker Anthony Gonzalez picked off Brandon Connette and returned it 37 yards for a touchdown, giving Pittsburgh a 58-41 lead.
�After that play, it was devastating going that far and not having the touchdown stand,� Crowder said of his nixed touchdown.
While Crowder�s stat line of seven catches for 141 yards and a touchdown, two carries for 29 yards and a touchdown and an 82-yard punt return for a touchdown is gleaming, it was more of Connette�s line that summarized Duke on Saturday.
In the junior�s second start of the season, Connette completed 21 of 32 passes for 323 yards and four touchdowns, both career bests. He also ran for 101 yards and two touchdowns, his six total touchdowns tying a Duke record.
That was the good. The bad were four interceptions, two in the first quarter to put Duke in a deficit it never fully overcame and two in the fourth quarter that hindered its comeback.
�What we have to take out of it is we have to reduce the number of errors, turning the ball over mainly,� Connette said. �If we do that, I don�t think the game would be that close and I think we could have had a better chance of winning if we just control the ball.�
Pittsburgh took a 27-7 lead when Savage hit Boyd in stride for a 69-yard touchdown 27 seconds into the second quarter. It was one of 17 Pittsburgh passes for 10 or more yards.
But all three of Crowder�s touchdowns came in the second quarter, keeping Duke from being blown out.
A third-and-5 stop by Cockrell fired up the home sideline and forced Pittsburgh�s only punt of the first half. When Crowder fielded the punt, made a few moves in the middle of the field and raced down the home sideline for an 82-yard touchdown.
�Jamison, that�s one heck of an athlete,� Connette said.
Unfortunately for Duke, Crowder�s superb performance couldn�t make up for a shredded defense and an offense that turned the ball over four times.
▪ EXTRA POINTS
: Crowder became the first Blue Devil to score on a reception, rush and punt return since Scottie Montgomery in a 1999 game against Wake Forest. His 279 all-purpose yards rank as the fifth-most in school history. Josh Snead started at running back for Duke after sitting out last weeks game. He had 59 yards on 14 carries.
With 101 rushing yards, Connette is the first Duke quarterback to record a 100-yard game since 1979.
Duke was without starting freshman safety Corbin McCarthy, who was replaced in the starting lineup by senior Anthony Young-Wiseman (career-high 12 tackles).
The 113 combined points came up short of the scoring record for an ACC game, which was set with Georgia Techs 68-50 victory against North Carolina.
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Everything You Need to Know About Service Animals
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By Charlotte Gerber
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In the past, "service animals" usually evoked images of seeing-eye dogs helping the blind navigate the world outside their homes. Nowadays it's not unusual for the term "service animal" to include animals like birds, snakes and miniature horses. Service animals provide a necessary service to their owners, like getting help if the owner is about to have a seizure, picking up dropped items, or altering the owner to sounds, intruders or other danger.
Types of Service Animals
If you aren’t used to seeing service animals other than dogs, you may be confused as to what qualifies as a service animal. According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title III, 28 CFR, Sec. 36.104, a service animal is "any guide dog, signal dog or other animal individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability."
Not all animals are capable of taking on such serious duties, but there are some who have proven to be especially adept at service work, including Capuchin monkeys, miniature horses and certain dog breeds, such as German shepherds, Labrador retrievers, and golden retrievers.
What Service Animals Do
Service animals can be trained to do lots of things, but specific tasks depend upon the owner's disability. Capuchin monkeys can wash people’s faces, turn lights on and off, microwave food and do other human-like tasks. Miniature horses can be trained to perform like service dogs. They can guide owners around obstacles, stop at intersections and guide the owner's hand to press crosswalk buttons.
Service Animal Owners' Legal Rights
So many different types of animals qualify as service animals, but the public, including business owners, is beginning the question the legitimacy of certain animals. The American with Disabilities Act fully protects all animals that have been properly trained, but not everyone is willing to accept that. In some cases, even service dogs are unwelcome visitors at a business.
Although these animals are providing life-saving services, there are concerns. For example, a service animal might be turned away from a movie theater for fear of barking or causing an allergic reaction for a patron. Service animals like birds and rats are perceived as unclean no matter how well behaved they are.
The ADA supersedes any local or state laws that prohibit service animals in any place that is open to the public. If you have a service animal and have been turned away at a public place, that's illegal. An individual with a service has exactly the same rights as a non-disabled individual.
Service Animal Registration
Businesses can't charge you extra or separate you from other customers if you have a service animal. By law, they aren't even allowed to ask owners to prove a dog is a service animal, but that doesn't mean they won't ask. You don't have to register a service animal, but you're probably better off doing so.
There are several registry websites, including the National Service Animal Registry and the United States Dog Registry, that provide photo IDs of the owner and the service animal.
How to File a Discrimination Complaint
If you’ve been discriminated against because of your service animal, you have a legitimate legal complaint. The ADA has a discrimination complaint form you can fill out online.
You can also file a complaint by mail by sending a letter to:
Civil Rights Division
Disability Rights Section – 1425 NYAV
In the letter, be sure to include the following information:
Your contact information. Your full name, address, and phone numbers.
The organization's information. The name and address of the business, organization, institution or person you believe has discriminated against you.
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Draft law on civil procedures under review
National Assembly deputies looked into the draft Law on Civil Procedures during their sitting at the 10 th session in Hanoi on October 26. The bill stipulates that those involved in any cases are responsible for scanning and sending letters of complaint and evidence to the court and their defendants, making it easier for all parties concerned to protect their legitimate rights and interests. Legislators shared the view that evidence and related materials should be authenticated before being sent to serve as foundation for the litigation. Regarding the jurisdiction of the jury of the Supreme Court of Appeals, they stressed the need to legalise its rights to make changes to a part or full verdict as well as the courtâs decisions in force. It can be done only when criteria are met, in order to avoid abuse. They also approved recognising reconciliation attempts made outside the court, saying that it suits modern realities and international practices. The court must examine the … [Read more...] about Draft law on civil procedures under review
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National Assembly deputies debate important draft laws News
(VOVworld) – National Assembly deputies discussed the draft law on referendum and draft revisions to the Maritime Code on Wednesday. They agreed that the National Assembly discussing the draft law on referendum was a step forward in the making of Vietnamese law, allowing citizens to contribute to all major national issues. They also agreed that referendums should be held nationwide rather than in one locality only. They suggested that the draft law include punitive measures for organizations and individuals who abuse democracy and people’s right to referendums to violate the constitution. Uong Chu Luu, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly and a deputy for Thanh Hoa province. said: “The organization of a referendum can be decided only by the National Assembly, the President, the government, and one third of National Assembly deputies. According to the Constitution, the National Assembly will make the final decision.” Deputies agreed on the need to revise the … [Read more...] about National Assembly deputies debate important draft laws News
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NA Standing Committee discusses draft law on belief, religion
The National Assemblyâs Standing Committee discussed the draft Law on Belief and Religion during its 40th meeting on August 14. Most members of the standing committee agreed on the necessity of issuing a law on belief and religion, given that belief and religion is one of the rights guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights â to which Vietnam is a member. Vietnamâs 2013 Constitution also affirms that the freedom to religion and belief is one of the fundamental and important human rights, and the promulgation of the law will institutionalise the Partyâs viewpoint and policy in this field as well as realise the spirit and content of the 2013 Constitution, making domestic law compatible to international agreements and treaties to which Vietnam is a member, they said. Nguyen Duc Hien, Head of the NA Standing Committeeâs Ombudsman Committee, recommended the drafting group make a review of the current … [Read more...] about NA Standing Committee discusses draft law on belief, religion
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Draft law protects religious freedom of all people: conference
Hanoi VNA) â The draft Law on Belief and Religion has protected the religious freedom of people from all social strata, as well as the practice of religious organisations, said Most Venerable Thich Duc Thien, General Secretary of the Vietnam Buddhist Sanghaâs Executive Council. Speaking at a conference held by the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee in Hanoi on August 17 to collect feedback on the draft law, the Most Venerable said the document has dealt with bottlenecks in administrative procedures regarding the State management of beliefs and religions. Religious organisations enjoy more rights under the draft law, which affirms that religions are entities with a legal personality in the society, he said, adding that religionsâ involvement in such areas as publishing, education, health care, social welfare and humanitarian activities is stipulated in the documentâs articles. Pham Huy Thong, Vice Chairman of the Hanoi Committee for Catholic Solidarity, … [Read more...] about Draft law protects religious freedom of all people: conference
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Companies discuss concerns over draft law on consumer protection
Companies discuss concerns over draft law on consumer protection (13-08-2009) The existing law seems not to fully protect consumers in the current time. A new consumer protection law draft is being established. — VNA/VNS Photo Dinh Hue HA NOI— A conference for businesses and their associations to raise concerns over the new customer protection law draft was held yesterday by the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The ideas contributed at the event were to improve the fourth draft of the consumer law, which will regulate businesses’ responsibilities before, during and after making a deal with consumers, as well as measures that can be implemented by customers to protect their own rights. Representatives from several business associations made suggestions on eight issues relating to consumer definitions, the law’s scope and objective, dispute mediation, customer protection office models, the Customer … [Read more...] about Companies discuss concerns over draft law on consumer protection
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World’s coolest pools: The luxury hotels that are worth booking for the pool
In addition to a room you almost want to live in, a culinary offering that makes dining in better than dining out and world-class service, a pool with a post card-like view is what makes a great hotel stay an unforgettable one. Because what’s a vacation without an enviable Instagram pool post?
From Grand Hotel Tremezzo’s floating pool on Lake Como to Thailand’s infamous red pool at The Library, there are countless hotels around the world that are worth booking for the pool itself.
Scroll on the see some of the finest hotel pools to dive into — and to ‘gram.
Jackalope Hotel, Mornington Peninsula, Australia
Image courtesy of Jackalope Hotels.
Since opening the doors to its jet-black, zinc-clad exterior last April, Jackalope Hotel swiftly became Australia’s hottest new hotel. While it’s glorious location at heart of its own boutique vineyard on the Mornington Peninsula and its heritage-meets-modern structure filled with award-winning interiors have no doubt been the secret to its success, there’s no denying it’s 25-metre, black-tiled infinity pool has played a huge part in winning its first guests over, too. If you haven’t yet seen it on your Instagram feed, you obviously haven’t been scrolling.
Halcyon House, Cabarita, Australia
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As one of Australia’s most luxurious getaways, it’s only fitting that Halcyon House is home to one of the most Instagram-worthy pools in the country. If it’s beach front pool framed with blue and white stripe sun lounges, crisp white umbrellas and palm trees isn’t the setting for a quintessential Australia summer, we don’t know what is.
Grand Hotel Tremezzo, Lake Como, Italy
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Why just take in the picturesque views of Lake Como when you could swim on it, too? Grand Hotel Tremezzo’s floating pool — known as “water on water” — rests on the lake’s surface making for one of the most unique hotel swims in the world. While you’re taking a dip, look back and admire the hotel’s breath-taking palatial structure or take in the views of Bellagio across the lake.
Les Roches Rouge, Saint-Raphaël, France
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If holidaying on the French Riviera wasn’t already the definition of vacation goals, then try booking into the famed Les Roches Rouges at Saint-Raphaël and taking a dip in its 30-metre natural seawater swimming pool that is cut into the coastal rock of the Mediterranean coastline. Welcome to paradise.
King Street Townhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom
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The meaning pool with a view is defined at King Street Townhouse in Manchester. Located on the hotel’s 7th floor, the heated infinity spa pool boasts one of the most beautiful outlooks in town by overlooking the clock tower and spires of the Manchester Town Hall. BYO waterproof camera, you’re going to need it.
Alila Villas, Uluwatu, Indonesia
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Sitting atop a panoramic plateau above lime stone cliffs with the sweeping ocean below, Alila Villas Uluwatu is one Bali’s most charming resorts. One of its most impressive features is it’s 50-metre infinity pool that boasts a dramatic, yet equally spectacular view over the Indian Ocean. Its only downfall is once you’re in, you’ll never want to get out.
The Library, Koh Samui, Thailand
Image courtesy of The Library.
Located just a few steps away from the white sandy shores of Koh Samui’s Chaweng Beach, The Library’s signature red pool is a vision. Created by mosaic tiles of orange, yellow and deep red, this pool is unsurprisingly one of the most talked about hotel pools in the world. Book now, because you have to see it to believe it.
Oberoi Udavillas, Udaipur, India
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The best and only way to describe the pool at Udaipur's Oberoi Udavillas is with two words: overwhelmingly beautiful. The expansive, fifty-acre hotel is built on the shores of Lake Pichola overlooking the Lake Palace and the City Palace, and it’s wrap-around, moat-like pool therefore offers arguably the city’s most photogenic views. Prepare yourself for the most picturesque swim of your life.
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INTERVIEW: Tom Kerridge on why Pub in the Park will be a huge celebration of Great British food, chefs and pubs
By Ned Bristow @nedbristow Reporter
“IT’S a bit of an excuse for us to have a bit of a party that 18,000 people are invited along to.”
While it wouldn’t be fair to describe Pub in the Park as any old party, the celebrity chef behind the premise concedes that the event is a good opportunity for him to catch up with old friends.
Therein lies the appeal for Tom Kerridge, the renowned chef with the amiable smile and distinctly west-country accent.
Sitting upstairs in The Botanist in King Street, he speaks passionately about the happy, community feel that makes the event so special to him.
Initially designed as a 10th birthday celebration for his pub the Hand & Flowers in Marlow, Pub in the Park arrived – two years later than planned – as a whole lot more than that when it ran as a one-off in the Buckinghamshire town last summer.
“It was such an amazing, incredible event,” Tom says. “We had 18,000 tickets sold in 24 hours – the moment they were released it went bananas.
“People loved the idea of nationally, even internationally-acclaimed chefs turning up at somewhere that felt like your back garden, with brilliant music and a great food festival vibe.
“There is more to it than that – it’s a community space. It encapsulated everything that’s great about British food and British chefs and the British pub scene.
“It would have been very east to take it to Manchester or to Liverpool, but we want that feel and we want people to take ownership.”
The event combines pop-up gourmet pub food with a festival atmosphere of music and drinks, and its success last year will see it roll out to three new towns this year. Knutsford is the last of four events, with a weekend on The Heath planned for September.
“We wanted to expand it but not lose that heart and soul,” Tom said of the new format, which will see the event head out ‘on tour’.
“It felt very special. Marlow is a beautiful town with gorgeous buildings and a fantastic community and family-led space.
“We wanted places with a similar sort of vibe and the same outlook on life and food, and generally will have that same warm approach to a great festival, which feels like a national event but it’s a lovely local space.
“Knutsford ticked all of those boxes.”
Local producers from farmers to brewers will rub shoulders with Michelin-starred chefs, all to a soundtrack featuring chart-toppers and even a former Spice Girl.
Meanwhile, Great British Bake Off winner will be at the Church Inn in Mobberley as part of the Cheshire Cat pub group’s involvement.
For those with tickets to the five timed events – split into afternoon and evening sessions – there will be the chance to sample food cooked by Tom and co., and even to bend their ears about their work.
One of the chefs taking part, James Mackenzie, runs the Pipe and Glass in Yorkshire and was involved in last year’s inaugural Marlow event. For him, the event brings an opportunity for venues across the country to showcase their work to new audiences.
“What we do day-to-day is showcase wonderful food from our area from the north and indeed our whole area,” he said.
“It’s good to showcase our pubs, the food we are making, and bring that to a wider audience.
“People will have read about and seen certain chefs from different places, and will be able to sample what they are doing day-to-day.”
But no chef will be more in demand in September than Tom himself.
The face of shows such as Lose Weight For Good – having himself lost 12 stone in just three years – his Hand & Flowers pub became the first to hold two Michelin stars back in 2012.
With his new foodies’ festival venture taking flight across the UK, he hopes it could become a staple in Knutsford’s famous events calendar.
“If it proves to be a success and the people of Knutsford love it and think it was a wonderful event to be a part of, we would love to come back.
“There are supposed to feel like national events but on a really small scale.”
Tickets go on sale on Friday at 10am. Visit pubintheparkuk.com
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Cheney heads to the Hill
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By Jon Ward The Washington Times - September 23, 2008, 10:03AM
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Josh Bolton, the president’s chief of staff and a former Goldman Sachs executive, and Keith Hennessy, the president’s economic advisor, are also with Mr. Cheney, briefing lawmakers.
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Vedanta (VEDL) Receiving Somewhat Positive News Coverage, InfoTrie Reports
April 11th, 2019 - Comments Off on Vedanta (VEDL) Receiving Somewhat Positive News Coverage, InfoTrie Reports - Filed Under - by Mark Dietrich
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News stories about Vedanta (NYSE:VEDL) have been trending somewhat positive on Thursday, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by analyzing more than 6,000 news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Vedanta earned a news impact score of 0.57 on their scale. InfoTrie also assigned headlines about the basic materials company an news buzz score of 10 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the near future.
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Shares of NYSE VEDL opened at $10.85 on Thursday. The company has a current ratio of 0.98, a quick ratio of 0.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.47. The firm has a market cap of $10.07 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.03 and a beta of 1.52. Vedanta has a 12-month low of $8.34 and a 12-month high of $19.05.
Vedanta (NYSE:VEDL) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January 31st. The basic materials company reported $0.24 EPS for the quarter. Vedanta had a return on equity of 20.98% and a net margin of 9.59%. The firm had revenue of $3.29 billion during the quarter.
The firm also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Monday, March 18th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 18th were issued a dividend of $0.085 per share. The ex-dividend date was Friday, March 15th.
Several brokerages recently issued reports on VEDL. CLSA cut Vedanta from a “buy” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Friday, February 1st. Bank of America cut Vedanta from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, February 1st. Goldman Sachs Group cut Vedanta from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, February 1st. Finally, HSBC cut Vedanta from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, March 29th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating and four have assigned a hold rating to the company. Vedanta presently has a consensus rating of “Hold”.
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Water pandemic: Airborne viruses found to survive for weeks in WATER… and most water filters can’t remove viruses
05/01/2019 / By Tracey Watson
It has long been believed that enveloped viruses – viruses like Herpes simplex, chickenpox and the flu virus, which have an outer membranous envelope – are not very stable, and are only infectious through direct and speedy aerosol transmission. A new study by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research and the Institut fur Virologie of the Freie Universitat Berlin, published in the journal Scientific Reports, blows that theory out of the water.
For their study, researchers spiked a body of water with the equine herpesvirus over the course of a three-week period and in different conditions. They then looked at whether DNA could be extracted from the water, and if the virus was still infectious after the three weeks. They found that the virus was, in fact, able to survive for that period, and that it remained infectious. The only exception was when soil was added to the water; the soil seemed to pull the virus from the water and then contain it.
The study helps to explain why animals that are susceptible to the equine herpesvirus, like polar bears and rhinos, have been infected in spite of having no direct contact with an infectious host. It would now appear that shared water is likely to blame for these infections, many of which have proved fatal.
Though the study was only conducted on the equine herpesvirus, it seems logical to believe that many other enveloped viruses, including chickenpox and the flu virus, could likely also survive for extended periods in water. This has obvious implications for humans, and highlights the need for properly filtered, pure water. The problem is, very few filters – even the very high-end ones – can filter out viruses.
There is one water filtration system that claims to filter out viruses, along with pathogenic bacteria, parasites, amoeba and even heavy metals and other toxic elements. That system is the Big Berkey, arguably the world’s best gravity water filter. The Big Berkey’s ceramic filtration technology filters out even tiny impurities, because its filters contain micro-pores that are so small that these impurities simply cannot get through.
This latest study once again reinforces the importance of building our body’s natural defenses against viruses. Though the mainstream medical community would argue that the most important defense is to be vaccinated, evidence is mounting that shows the uselessness of the government’s vaccination schedule. Even people who have received all their vaccines get infected with viruses like mumps, making an increasing number of people skeptical about the value of getting them. The many side effects of vaccines also have lots of people searching for a better solution.
The best long-term solution is to alter your lifestyle in a way that shores up your own natural defenses. There are several things you can do to strengthen your immune system – the body’s own defense system – including:
Stop smoking – or better yet, don’t ever start.
Increase your intake of organic, non-GMO fruits and veggies.
Make regular exercise part of your daily routine.
Lose weight if necessary, and then stay within your healthy weight range.
Drink alcohol in moderation – the resveratrol in red wine makes it an excellent choice.
Make sure you get enough sleep.
Avoid infection by cooking meat thoroughly and washing your hands properly.
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'He can't take my freedom.' Jayme Closs' full statement for Jake Patterson sentencing
A family attorney read a statement from the kidnap victim in court Friday before Jake Patterson was sentenced to life with no chance for release.
'He can't take my freedom.' Jayme Closs' full statement for Jake Patterson sentencing A family attorney read a statement from the kidnap victim in court Friday before Jake Patterson was sentenced to life with no chance for release. Check out this story on wausaudailyherald.com: https://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/news/2019/05/24/jayme-closs-full-statement-jake-patterson-thought-he-could-own-me/1227411001/
Mark Treinen, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 3:57 p.m. CT May 24, 2019 | Updated 1:00 p.m. CT May 25, 2019
An attorney read a statement on behalf of Jayme Closs at the sentencing of Jake Patterson, the man convicted of kidnapping her and murdering her parents. Green Bay Press-Gazette
BARRON - Perhaps the most powerful personal statement in the Jake Patterson sentencing hearing on Friday came from Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old Barron girl he kidnapped after murdering her parents on Oct. 15.
Family attorney Chris Gramstrup read the statement to Barron County Circuit Court Judge James Babler, who went on to sentence the 21-year-old Patterson to consecutive life terms without parole for shooting to death James and Denise Closs, plus a 40-year term for kidnapping their only daughter.
“Judge, this is the statement of Jayme Closs,” Gramstrup said, then read the following words from the teenager, who was not present in the courtroom:
“Last October, Jake Patterson took a lot of things that I loved away from me. It makes me the most sad that he took away my Mom and my Dad. I loved my Mom and Dad very much and they loved me very much. They did all they could to make me happy and protect me. He took them away from me forever.
Jake Patterson appears in court for sentencing in Jayme Closs case
Police officers stand guard in the hallway outside the courtroom during Jake Patterson's sentencing hearing on Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Justice Center in Barron, Wis. Patterson was sentenced to life without parole for kidnapping Jayme Closs and murdering her parents. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Members of the Closs family exit the courtroom after Jake Patterson's sentencing hearing on Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Justice Center in Barron, Wis. Patterson was sentenced to life without parole for kidnapping Jayme Closs and murdering her parents. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Members of the Patterson family exit the courtroom after Jake Patterson's sentencing hearing on Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Justice Center in Barron, Wis. Patterson was sentenced to life without parole for kidnapping Jayme Closs and murdering her parents. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Jayme Closs' aunt, Jennifer Smith, addresses the media after Jake Patterson's sentencing hearing on Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Justice Center in Barron, Wis. Patterson was sentenced to life without parole for kidnapping Closs and murdering her parents. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald addresses the media after Jake Patterson's sentencing hearing on Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Justice Center in Barron, Wis. Patterson was sentenced to life without parole for kidnapping Jayme Closs and murdering her parents. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Members of the Closs family make their way to the courtroom before Jake Patterson's sentencing hearing on Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Justice Center in Barron, Wis. Patterson was sentenced to life without parole for kidnapping Jayme Closs and murdering her parents. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Barron County District Attorney Brian Wright addresses the media after Jake Patterson's sentencing hearing on Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Justice Center in Barron, Wis. Patterson was sentenced to life without parole for kidnapping Jayme Closs and murdering her parents. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Members of the Closs family proceed through a security check on their way to the courtroom before Jake Patterson's sentencing hearing on Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Justice Center in Barron, Wis. Patterson was sentenced to life without parole for kidnapping Jayme Closs and murdering her parents. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Jake Patterson is escorted to his sentencing Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Circuit Court in Barron, Wis. Patterson is found guilty of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and murdering her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their home in October 2018. TZ Kha, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Jayme Closs' relative reacts as Judge James Babler reads out Jake Patterson's sentencing Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Circuit Court in Barron, Wis. Patterson is found guilty of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and murdering her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their home in October 2018. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
A family member of Jayme Closs gets emotional during Jake Patterson's sentencing Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Circuit Court in Barron, Wis. Patterson is found guilty of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and murdering her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their home in October 2018. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
A family member of Jayme Closs wipes off tears during Jake Patterson's sentencing Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Circuit Court in Barron, Wis. Patterson is found guilty of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and murdering her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their home in October 2018. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
A family member of Jayme Closs reacts during Jake Patterson's sentencing Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Circuit Court in Barron, Wis. Patterson is found guilty of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and murdering her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their home in October 2018. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Photos of Jayme Closs family display during Jake Patterson's sentencing Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Circuit Court in Barron, Wis. Patterson is found guilty of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and murdering her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their home in October 2018. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Jake Patterson gets escorted to jail after his sentencing Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Circuit Court in Barron, Wis. Patterson is found guilty of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and murdering her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their home in October 2018. TZ Kha, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Jake Patterson gets escorted to his sentencing Friday, May 24, 2019, at Barron County Circuit Court in Barron, Wis. Patterson is found guilty of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and murdering her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their home in October 2018. TZ Kha, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
"I felt safe in my home, and I loved my room and all of my belongings. He took all of that too. I don’t want to even see my home or my stuff because of the memory of that night. My parents and my home were the most important things in my life. He took them away from me in a way that will always leave me with a horrifying memory.
“I used to love to go out with my friends. I loved to go to school. I loved to do dance.”
Jayme Closs
"I have to have an alarm in the house now just so I can sleep. I used to love to go out with my friends. I loved to go to school. I loved to do dance. He took all of those things away from me too. It's too hard for me to go out in public. I get scared and I get anxious. These are just ordinary things that anyone like me should be able to do, but I can’t because he took them away from me.
"But there's some things that Jake Patterson can never take from me. He can’t take my freedom. He thought that he could own me but he was wrong. I was smarter. I watched his routine and I took back my freedom. I will always have my freedom and he will not.
“He thought that he could own me but he was wrong. I was smarter. I watched his routine and I took back my freedom.”
"Jake Patterson can never take away my courage. He thought he could control me, but he couldn’t. I feel like what he did is what a coward would do. I was brave. He was not.
"He can never take away my spirit. He thought that he could make me like him, but he was wrong. He can't ever change me, or take away who I am. He can't stop me from being happy and moving forward with my life. I will go on to do great things in my life, and he will not.
A news conference was held Friday after Jake Patterson was sentenced to life in prison in the kidnapping of Jayme Closs and the murder of her parents. Jim Rosandick, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
"Jake Patterson will never have any power over me. I feel like I have some power over him, because I get to tell the judge what I think should happen to him. He stole my parents from me. He stole almost everything I love from me. For 88 days he tried to steal me, and he didn’t care who he hurt or who he killed to do that.
"He should stay locked up forever."
Jake Patterson is sentenced to life in prison in the kidnapping of Jayme Closs and the murders of her parents. Jim Rosandick, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
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Top of the Class: District Announces its Classified Employees of the Year
The West Contra Costa Unified School District recognized a combined 106 years of experience in our community when it announced its 2017-18 Classified Employees of the Year.
Maria Rodriguez (Food Services Aide/Clerk, Harding Elementary), Karen Rodriguez (Office, Lake Elementary), Angelica Lopez (Accounting Technician, Business Services), Marissa Lara (Instructional Assistant Special Education, Downer Elementary), Mack Carminer (Campus Security Officer, Greenwood Academy), Gustavo Aguilera (Principal Accountant, Business Services), and Thomas Scott (Senior Personnel Assistant, Human Resources) were recognized at Wednesday, May 16's school board meeting for their service to our students and district.
"We have a tremendous amount of experienced people with a great deal of dedication with us today that have devoted their lives to our students,” Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Ken Whittemore said. “These individuals recognized all started in a different position than when they were hired and worked their way up to the current roles within our community."
Their peers nominated each of the awardees and they were selected based on those nominations
Here is a look at the seven awardees.
Gustavo Aguilera is the principal accountant in Business Services and started as a substitute graduate tutor in 2012. Mr. Aguilera's motivation and hard work is what drives his staff according to his nominator.
Mack Carminer is a campus security officer at Greenwood Academy and began his service with the District in 2009 as an athletic coach. Mr. Carminer is a product of our District and his nominator called him "the pulse of Sylvester Greenwood Academy" and he is trusted by the students because he takes the time to get the students and that "students know coach Mack is in their corner at all times."
Marissa Lara is a instructional assistant for special education at Downer Elementary. She started as a substitute instructional aide in 1987. Ms. Lara's nominator said she is "a joy to work with" and that she is "calm, cool, and collected."
Angelica Lopez is an accounting technician for Business Services and started in the District as an elementary yard supervisor in 2008. The person who nominated her said, "her career trajectory alone demonstrates her drive and commitment to success."
Karen Rodriguez is the office manager at Lake Elementary and began her career with the District in 1997 as a substitute clerk. Ms. Rodriguez has been a part of the Lake community for 18 years. She was called the heart of Lake, and while her title may say office manager, she is much more than that. Her principal, Wendy Gonzalez, nominated her and said, "Students and families trust Karen. She is amazing with families, whether it is the child or a parent."
Maria Rodriguez is the food services aide/clerk at Harding Elementary and has been with the district since 2011. Ms. Rodriguez was described as enthusiastic puts a lot of joy in what she cooks. Her nominator said, "She is not only amazing with the children, and she is also a skilled and helpful trainer."
Thomas Scott is the senior personnel assistant for human resources and began his tenure in 1996 as a substitute secondary site supervisor. Mr. Scott is dynamic with a magnetic personality who has an eye for detail, according to his nominator. His nominator also said, "his involvement in the Young Scholars program helps to solidify Thomas as a beacon for students and families in WCCUSD and a liaison between the district and community."
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Fault Lines Emerge in Push to Connect Airport to Trolley
At SANDAG’s retreat last week, officials clashed over whether the “San Diego Grand Central” concept is the best way to get people to and from the airport.
A rendering of the “San Diego Grand Central” transit center concept / Image courtesy of SANDAG
This post initially appeared in the March 9 Politics Report. Get the Politics Report delivered to your inbox.
Six months ago, attempts to connect the trolley to the airport were not going well. Public agencies were trading sternly worded letters and discussions weren’t going anywhere.
At SANDAG’s annual retreat Friday, regional leaders spent the day breaking down the possibilities on a project that’s suddenly become a major priority, and couldn’t stop reminding one another how bad things had been.
“When we first got together in my office late last year, things were not good to say the least,” said Mayor Kevin Faulconer, about a clear-the-air summit he organized. “We are not going to get things done if we’re all – city of San Diego included – in our individual silos threatening to sue each other.”
But for all the goodwill, Friday’s meeting made clear that there are still plenty of disagreements about how to best proceed.
Brass tacks: A SANDAG subcommittee is working on a plan it hopes to present by June. Faulconer and SANDAG Director Hasan Ikhrata have zeroed in on what they call San Diego Grand Central, a new transit terminal at the current SPAWAR location in Old Town that would connect to the airport terminals. SANDAG asked private companies for their ideas on the best technology for an airport-transit solution, and presented those results Friday. It’ll do the same next month with the results from a call for ideas on where and how it should build a new transit terminal.
Autonomous vehicles: SANDAG staff said one idea they latched onto was the possibility of using autonomous vehicles – possibly on a dedicated right of way – to connect a nearby transit station with the airport, rather than the more typical people-mover trains at many airports. Autonomous vehicles were a recurring conversation throughout SANDAG’s retreat, even as the industry is increasingly acknowledging the technology may be further away than boosters previously suggested.
Ikhrata isn’t budging: Ikhrata outlined a simple – and ambitious – result for any project: It has to be capable of getting any person in San Diego County to the airport by transit with one connection or less. Anything less wasn’t worth the effort, he said.
He has clearly already concluded that the only way to do that is by committing to his Grand Central concept.
Anytime another suggestion came up: building the station elsewhere, implementing smaller solutions first and scaling them up – he’d give it a token nod and reiterate that Grand Central would indeed take a long time and be expensive, but that’s the cost of building great things.
La Mesa Councilman Colin Parent said the priority needs to be making sure a transit connection to the airport happens – not necessarily building a new transit station as a part of the project.
“Multi-modal centers are great, but they’re gravy,” he said.
He said it makes more sense to focus on the airport building a people-mover to an existing transit station, and if Grand Central ever actually happens, the region can extend the people mover to it.
Ikhrata wasn’t biting. Even iterative steps would be expensive, he pointed out.
“Do it right, do it once,” he said. “Do not settle for easy and cheap, because we can do it in a year, I caution you strongly.”
He allowed for some smaller steps the region could take in the interim – MTS Director Paul Jablonski said the agency supported running a shuttle from the Old Town station to the airport, and Ikhrata said that was a good idea – but he kept his distance from any capital project that wouldn’t make good on his one-transfer promise.
One dust-up: Ikhrata’s insistence on focusing on Grand Central led to one testy exchange.
County Supervisor Jim Desmond said he still wasn’t convinced that Santa Fe Depot – where multiple trolley and bus lines and the Amtrak and Coaster trains already converge – wasn’t the best place to base a new airport-transit station.
He asked that next month, SANDAG include an analysis of Santa Fe Depot in its report on all the possible locations.
Ikhrata again steered the conversation back to Grand Central, arguing it alone could achieve the scale the region needed, and cautioning against anything that would lead to a half-commitment that would keep the question unresolved.
“I want Santa Fe included. I’m not asking for your permission,” Desmond said. “As a board member, I am asking for that analysis.”
Ikhrata was undeterred. He said he would, but added that for the Coaster to be a viable airport option for North County residents, it needed to run every five or 10 minutes, and Santa Fe Depot could never handle that capacity.
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Andrew Keatts is assistant editor and senior investigative reporter for Voice of San Diego. He can be reached directly at andrew.keatts@voiceofsandiego.org or 619.325.0529.
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Windsor's MP rebels in House of Lords vote
Francis Batt
09:08AM, Saturday 14 July 2012
Windsor's MP Adam Afriyie has explained why he joined 90 other Tory rebels voting against House of Lords reform.
Tuesday's rebellion was the biggest faced by the coalition government since it came to power.
Although it still won the vote on the principle of proposed reform with a majority of 338, the government had earlier dropped plans to limit debating time on the bill as it clearly stood chance of being defeated
On Thursday, Mr Afriyie said that creating jobs and helping hard-working families must be the Government’s top priority.
He said the House of Lords did not even feature on his constituents' list of concerns.
Mr Afriyie said: “Like many of my colleagues I would like to see Lords reform deal with restricting the growth in costs and size of the Lords and securing the good work it does by putting checks on the level of party patronage.
"But the draft bill does not address these issues."
He felt it stepped outside the terms of the 2010 coaltion agreement.
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What Is an HTML Music Player?
An HTML music player is embedded into a website to play songs.
Written By: Alex Newth
Edited By: Angela B.
Last Modified Date: 26 June 2019
A HyperText Markup Language (HTML) music player is a container embedded in a website that plays music or audio. The HTML music player is just an embed tag that also can be used for videos and plug-ins. Depending on the coding, an HTML music player can either be two-button or an entire console with play and pause buttons and a progress bar. Unlike some other HTML tags, the music player has cross-browser support so it can work over all major Internet applications, though the coding for each browser used to be different. A programmer also can set the audio to start when someone enters the website, or he can allow the visitor to start the audio manually.
As of 2011, there officially is no such thing as an HTML music player, because there is no tag specifically for this type of function. Instead, when someone uses an embed tag to place a music or audio file into a website, the website shows a small or large console that plays the file. This same tag is used to embed movies and plug-ins.
An HTML music player comes in two visible formats: two-button and an entire console. If the user makes it two-button, then there are start and stop buttons. With a console, there is a progress bar, tracking buttons and start and stop buttons. There is a third type of music player — an invisible one — that this gives the user no control over whether the audio file will play.
When the HTML music player was first created, it did not have cross-browser support, meaning the coding for each browser had to be slightly different. The programmer also had to enter player information so the website knew what software to open to make the audio file play, depending on the file’s format. This music player eventually gained cross-browser support and the need for various coding to achieve the desired effect disappeared.
Typically, when an HTML music player is used, the programmer allows the user to choose whether he wants to play the file. While this is common, the programmer also may choose to make the file play when the visitor opens the website, so he has to hear the music or audio. If the music player is made invisible, then setting the audio file to auto-start is the only way it will play.
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HH asks international community to intervene, quickly
Zambia’s main Opposition Leader, Hakainde Hichilema has called on the international community to quickly intervene in the country’s deteriorating democratic tenets.
Mr. Hichilema, President of the United Party for National Development says Zambia maybe the next monarchy especially with current political turmoil being experienced under the leadership of President-elect Edgar Lungu.
The UPND President appeals to the AU, SADC, COMESA among others to help resuscitate Zambia’s dwindling democracy.
He adds that the breakdown in the rule of law has become an order of the day whereby President-elect Edgar Lungu has demonstrated with impunity how he intends to derail the future of the citizens.
Mr. Hichilema who several Zambians recognize as legitimate winner of the disputed 2016 general elections that announced Mr. Edgar Lungu as President-elect adds that there is too much instability in the Country.
He says if left unchecked, Zambia will lose even the little peace accord that the globe had accredited to it.
Mr. Hichilema who addressed the Press at his Party’s headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia this afternoon however called on the Country to remain peaceful and stop brutal attacks.
Meanwhile the UPND President who publicly got over 1.7 million votes says anyone fanning tribal divisions must be condemned.
He says Zambians have been intermarrying and that it will be un Christian for anyone to begin propagating tribal hatred amidst electoral confusions.
And Mr. Hichilema has said that President-elect Edgar Lungu is exhibiting dictatorial tendencies by refusing to abide by law a situation he describes as non democratic.
Mr. Hichilema is commanding over 1.7 million Zambians in terms of registered voters while according to the electoral body (ECZ), President-elect Edgar Lungu has slightly above 1 million a figure that has been disputed by many.
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Tableau posts mixed Q2 results but continues to attract new customers
The data visualization company had its best quarter yet in terms of bringing in new customer accounts but fell below expectations on earnings.
By Stephanie Condon for Between the Lines | August 2, 2016 -- 21:22 GMT (14:22 PDT) | Topic: Enterprise Software
Data visualization software company Tableau posted mixed second quarter results on Tuesday, with a net loss of $0.3 million, or $0.00 per share, on revenues of $198.5 million.
Wall Street was expecting earnings of 5 cents per share on revenues of $193.8 million. In Q2 2015, the company reported earnings of 7 cents per share on revenue of $149.86 million.
While missing earnings estimates, the company pulled in more than 3,900 new customer accounts for the quarter, amounting to its highest-ever quarterly addition of new accounts. The company now has 46,000 customer accounts.
"Overall, we are pleased with our second quarter results as they demonstrate that the move to visual analytics continues to thrive," said CEO Christian Chabot in a statement. "Our results demonstrate that analytics is as important as ever to companies of all sizes, and we are extending our leadership position in the market at scale."
License revenue grew to $116.3 million, up 20 percent year over year, while international revenue grew to $57.1 million, up 55 percent year over year.
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From the Heavens Above (Fanfiction)
Hey, I wrote this out in about an hour and I havent edited yet.
With that excuse out of the way. Here's the first part of my story.
Let me know what you think so far.
Happy Fourth Of July.
L-U-C-Y: My Outsider Fanfiction
Re: From the Heavens Above (Fanfiction)
From The Heavens Above
Part I Chapter 1
The voice receded as HT comfortably lowered herself. The walls shook lightly as she did so; their glow flickering as they rumbled quietly along with the humming drone of the engine. HT cursed the sound as she forced herself awake, bracing herself to exit and smell the atmosphere.
Selam stalked along the forest floor as the black dirt beneath grew darker still in the growing shadow of the moonlit canopy. Quickly, her body instinctively fell to the ground, electrically reacting to the roar of sound that impacted through her body as angry red and orange lights sharply outlined the form of the canopy above. Summoning her courage, Selam lifted her gaze upward and saw a blinding light arc across the night air, emptying the sky of its field of stars for an instant as it’s roar receded further and further into the forest.
Eventually, the light disappeared beneath the canopy only visible now through the bright orange reflections of dazzling light that boldly colored roiling clouds until… It just stopped, the sound, the light. As if it had never happened in the first place.
Selam herself might not have believed she ever saw it if it were not for the powerful drumming of her heart and her ringing ears.
The panicked sounds of the birds and beasts continued to drown out the previous silence as Selam ran through the night,
towards that gleaming light from the heavens.
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Krulle
This is ... short.
I don't know the characters, nor why the starship (?) landed on a planet where (at least) some apparently have never seen a starship before.
I lack context, for now.
But please, continue!
Vote for Outsider on TWC:
charred steppes, borders of territories: page 59,
jump-map of local stars: page 121, larger map in Loroi: page 118,
System view Leido Crossroads: page 123
A drop of sweat hung off the precipice of Angus’ nose, swinging about with his every movement and causing an itch as he leaned heavily against a nearby tree. His palm pressed against the rough bark as he breathed heavily with his head bent down. Angus’ wet hair stuck to his forehead before a hand came to roughly knead it, squeezing it into his scalp. Angus let his head loll about, rolling with the rough and clumsy shoves the now two hands applied as his scowl deepened.
“Come on,” a young, boyish sounding, voice said from behind him as his head was shoved slightly more roughly forward. “Come on,” the voice said again, in that exact same calm, almost disinterested, yet goading, tone as before. “We don’t have all day, you know,” the voice whined.
Angus breathed deeply through his nostrils, exhaling slowly as he pushed himself away from the tree with his hand and stumbled to a shaky stand.
“Why did I come out here?” he said, leaning over and resting his hands on his knees as he continued panting.
“Why, to get some fresh air and take in the amazing scenery, of course” the voice answered.
“First of all,” Angus wheezed, “a hundred degree heat and ninety-five humidity aren’t what I’d call refreshing,” he said moving one hand from his knee to peel his shirt off of his chest. “Second of all,” he continued, “why did I let you talk me into this?”
“Because I’m your sister and you love me?” the voice answered sweetly as Angus rolled his eyes.
“Aren’t you supposed to be older than me?” he quipped back with a raised eyebrow.
“Oh, stop being such a downer,” she continued on, “maybe you’d enjoy this more if you were in shape,” she said as Angus felt a finger poke painfully into his side.
“Ok, that’s it!” Angus reared up, spreading his arms apart, “Get off!” Angus said as he felt his sister's legs unwrap from around his waist.
She fell to the ground with a dampened thud as her boots impacted the black dirt. Quickly, she hopped up onto her toes and posed, awkwardly, with her hands wide apart and in the air as if she were a gymnast.
“And she sticks the landing! Allison Wiley has won gold for the third time this year. It is absolutely unbelievable, folks!” Allison yelled as her landing form promptly deteriorated into an awkward victory jig while her smile morphed into an intense face of excitement as she shut her eyes and bent forward to talk into the imaginary microphone in her grip. Her twirling dance brought her face to face with Angus’ unamused face and crossed arms.
“Oh, come on,” Allison waved her hand at him while leaning forward. “We’re on a safari!” she yelled gesturing with open arms to the grove of trees surrounding them.
“Keep it quiet would you!” Angus hissed as he instinctively shrugged his shoulders and looked about, shyly.
“I couldn’t let you spend our whole vacation at the hotel gym” she giggled. “And there’s no one here, you know.”
“Vacations are supposed to be fun,” Angus replied curtly, “not obligatory.” “Being at the resort,” he continued, “ is fun, and there’s air conditioning there,” he said pumping his shirt with one hand.
“Think of the adventure, though,” Allison continued. “We’ve never been in here before,” she said spinning to look at the scenery around them with wonderment in her eyes,
“We’d never been at that hotel before either,” Angus replied dryly, looking unimpressed at his surroundings.
“Seriously? You need to-” Allison fell quiet as she stumbled in her twirl when she came about to face Angus.
“Angus?” she said looking cautiously at the tree line surrounding the trail as she took tentative, confused steps towards where Angus stood, just moments ago. “Angus, Bro, are you around here?” she said, her voice growing increasingly nervous. “Angus!” she yelled, her voice swallowed by the surrounding forest. The tree line seeming more ominous as it caged her in the trail.
Allison peeked past the bars of wood into the dark, shadowed, undergrowth beyond, searching quietly for her brother.
I'm a bit confused...
Is this a third viewpoint?
Still waiting how the story develops...
(You are starting to make me curious... )
This... feels superfluous.
Okay, "she and her sister" can fly by telekinesis, or similar.
Rather long story for a felt nothing.
First, "she" walks to the shining tree, then she watches her sister and a friend play at the river, then she sttacks her sister by flying with a dirtball over the roof,(why is the sister not outside anymoe? - how much time has passed?)...
The changes are disorienting and too abrupt.
I'm not clear whether all the "she" are even the same person....
This is just disorienting, and uses far too much text to transport some news....
you've opened so many questions already, that I've lost interest in the solutions. I'm feeling overwhelmed by the tidbits of info.
I'll continue reading, it's not as if I'll be very busy readin new Outsider pages...
I'm having a hard time reading this, and I think part of it is the presentation. You've got a lot of run-on sentences, and a lot of excessive use of commas. On top of that, I think you've broken up your paragraphs too much. The prose also gets a little purple for my taste in places. There's also some inconsistency, in one line you describe the character as walking slowly, then two lines later, she's hurrying. They don't really fit together.
In trying to give the story a chance so I could comment on the content rather than the style, I started trying to reorganize it along the lines above. I'll include a snippet for illustrative purposes. I hope this is not presumptive.
She looked ahead in contentment, watching the rolling fields of her homeland stretch unbroken to the horizon. There the rising star painted the blue canvas of plant life in rich hues of red and gold. She walked towards a large and beautifully twisted tree in the distance, it's pure white skin shining in the light of the rising star, intricate set of barren branches almost twinkling. She smiled smiling uncontrollably at the sight, as if in a drugged euphoria, as she ambled towards it.
The air hung in place, warm and drifting slightly. Motes of red dust and sapphire pollen danced lazily to and fro in the current, hanging low over the ground as her movement past pushed them into swirling frenzies, then quickly slowed back into their lazy drifting.
She walked slowly and comfortably along toward the shining tree. Dry and slightly discolored vegetation crunched beneath her feet as the tip of the long and jagged shadow of the tree touched them. Smiling up at the tree, she let the reflected light fall onto her back as she continued towards her goal.
Retracting her senses and quieting her contentment she quickly walked past the invisible boundary of the community, relaxing further as the air of calmness surrounded and coddled itself around her. She traveled the worn path of flattened plant life past several houses and toward the river. She lifted the water to herself for a drink, then turned away from the depths of the clear river to wonder aloud where her sister was.
She looked ahead in contentment, watching the rolling fields of her homeland stretch, unbroken, to the horizon ahead, where the rising star painted the blue canvas of plant life in rich hues of red and gold.
She smiled, uncontrollably, as if in a drugged euphoria, at the sight as she calmly ambled along the flat terrain, towards a large and beautifully twisted tree in the distance, whose pure white skin shone resplendently in the light of the rising sun, almost twinkling as it’s intricate set of barren branches reflected light onto themselves.
The air hung in place, warm and drifting slightly. In the current, motes of red dust and sapphire pollen danced lazily to and fro, hanging low over the ground as her movement past pushed them into swirling frenzies before they quickly slowed back into their slow drifting.
She walked slowly and comfortably along toward the shining tree.
The hardy vegetation crunched beneath her feet, dry and slightly discolored, as the tip of the long and jagged shadow of the tree lay at her feet.
Smiling up at the tree, she continued onward, letting the reflected light bathe onto her back as she hurried towards her goal.
Retracting her senses and quieting her contentment, she quickly walked past the invisible boundary of the community, relaxing further as the air of calmness surrounded and coddled itself around her.
Walking past several houses, she traveled the worn path of flattened plant life toward the river, where she lifted the water to herself for a drink.
She turned away from the rocky, shadowed, depths of the clear river and wondered aloud where her sister was.
Fair, the chapter was really only meant to introduce the two characters and there was a lot of fluff. I might have gotten carried away .
As for the writing style, this particular chapter was meant to be written from the point of view of a Loroi, a lot of the setting description is actually a substitution for dialogue. I guess the concept fell flat.
In any case, thanks for the feedback. The Introductory chapters are written, so the story should be moving apace soon.
And the rest of the story should be written from a human pov, so small mercies, I suppose.
Three different perspective changes with no interconnection, narrative, or actual story. Sorry if that sounds a bit harsh, but that's how it reads at the moment.
There's the beginnings of something here, but jumping between multiple perspectives basically kills any potential momentum you might have had going.
I'm a bit too tired for a fully in-depth analysis , but if I were to briefly critique each portion:
What is HT? It's never defined, is too short to be a proper name, and is just... there.
It's a good opening, short, punchy, gets the readers attention, but then...
Change of perspective, with no follow through on the previous part.
We have two humans bantering. That's fine, but we have no sense of time or location. It could be 1948, 2048, or 2148. The only vague reference to a location is one character saying they're on a Safari, which suggests Africa, but you can go on Safari elsewhere too in my experience, so this is suspect at best.
About the only significant development is that one character mysteriously disappears. This would be a good opening too, if it were on its own and not a followup to the prior part which already served its purpose as an opening. Even so...
We get another change in perspective. At this point, any reader would be confused as to what is going on. It doesn't help that there isn't a single character name in this bit, nor is there a single bit of dialogue to break up the narrative. I'm assuming that that's deliberate; that these characters are presumably Loroi and haven't earned their names yet and the lack of dialogue is to signify telepathic communication. Even so, Loroi still have telepathic names even if they haven't yet earned a spoken name, and Sanzai can still be rendered as italicised speech even if it is a fairly dry method in comparison.
I will commend you on the length of this part, unlike the prior parts it's the right length to serve as more than an appetiser for any potential reader, but the apparent lack of direction for the narrative makes it all bit confusing. Are they witnessing the same event as in the first part, or a different event? As with the prior parts, there is no sense of time or location.
The apparent conflict between the two sisters feels hollow and generic without names, a location, history, or a sense of time and place. It's difficult for anyone to really care or relate to nameless characters.
If I had to nail down the main flaw in each of the parts, it's that there's plenty of actors, but very little stage for them to act on. Some worldbuilding would improve things very much, in addition to sticking with a particular perspective until the story has moved forward with them. The thing that crashed from another world or a character mysteriously disappearing is an inciting incident, the first step in a story, and you need to go beyond that first step and take the reader on a short walk that ends at a decisive point, a crossroads, a new mystery, an impending doom, a dilemma for the character to solve or muse upon in the next part. That's the safe point where you can change perspective to see how other characters in a different place are doing. Too soon and you cut things off without reader satisfaction. Too long and you risk exhausting the reader with needless detail.
By all means, continue writing, you get better with practice and I am curious as to where this is going.
From The Heavens Above Part II Chapter 1
...like shit. Angus felt like shit.
Feeling as if someone had rubbed onion juice into his eyes, Angus, again, tried to crank his painfully teary eyes open a sliver, glimpsing a blurred landscape before he quickly shut them again, recoiling in pain. Angus hunched forward on his knees, his muscles burning, his organs squeezed in pain and breathing pitiful wheezes through his snot clogged nose as he coughed and fell forward to support himself with his hands. His chest felt tight as if he were being forced to exhale, hold his breath, and take little gasps of air to fill his empty his lungs. His hands pressed into the firm, but deformable ground. Water rushed up to fill the hand-shaped indentations he formed as his tears dripped loudly into the newly formed puddles. Several more attempts at opening his eyes, accompanied with grunts and various curses, made it clear that to him that they weren’t opening.
“Hello?” Angus yelled, more out of habit than hope at this point, as the past however many requests had brought him nothing except silence. Angus grew worried, his heart sinking as he kept a paranoid ear out, and finally accepted that this wasn’t another prank of his sisters. She’d never done anything malicious. Taking a shaky breath, Angus shook his head and tried to think past the roar of pain and discomfort in his head. ‘Focus on your hands,” he repeated to himself, wriggling his fingers in their miniature puddles and making them into fists as he molded the firm, clay-like, substance in between his fingers. Accepting for the moment that his sister had nothing to do with this, Angus tried to assess his situation. Recalling that his sister was dancing around in front of him before he was plunged into blindness and pain, he gathered that his sister either couldn’t hear him or couldn’t respond for some reason. Briefly, he wondered if the lack of response was his sister's attempt at a warning to him that silence was the best policy at the moment. Shaking paranoid thoughts of predators and killers out of his head, Angus focused back on his environment. Keeping an ear out brought nothing but the alien sounds of the jungle. Was he in a sinkhole? Maybe he passed out after he fell into one? Would his sister be alright?
If it were a sinkhole, he thought, it would have to be a shallow one, although it would probably be deep enough to reach some underground water source.
“How deep is the water table in a forest?” he mumbled to himself. Forest soil didn’t trap water well from what he could vaguely remember about tropical forests in his biology class. Although, sinkholes were caused by underground streams, so it wouldn’t necessarily have to be that deep in order for the ground to be this wet. Of course, this was IF he even was in a sinkhole, which he probably wasn’t, he thought dejectedly. ‘In any case, whatever happened, it’s best to stay still and wait for a search party” he thought as he lifted a sleeve to wipe tears from his stinging eyes, bringing the pain, once again, to the forefront of his mind.
“Damn it,” he cursed as his eyes watered further and he moved to put his arm back on the ground.
His hand landed on a slick outcropping of stone sticking out of the ground and slid out violently from under him. Face planting in the wet clay-like substance below him, Angus quickly rose back up, gasping for breath as the water rushed in to fill the cavity his face made in the ground. Blinking his eyes open, Angus’s annoyance quickly subsided as he realized the pain in his eyes was a fraction of what it was before. His eyes widening in comprehension, he rushed to flush his eyes further with water from his makeshift and handsome, in his opinion, waterhole. After several minutes of washing out his eyes and sinuses, he snorted the last of the moisture from his nostrils and rose to breathe in deeply through his now de-clogged nose.
His face soaking with grey, smoky water Angus stood up and looked down, twisting his neck and back to get a good look at himself, his spine cracking in waves of blissful release as he did so. He shivered as he looked at the gash running down his Khaki shorts, imagining what his leg might have looked like if whatever caused that had touched flesh. He stepped forward weakly, as if testing the leg and focused on the rest of his hiking gear. Thankfully, he actually didn’t look too bad. His jacket and backpack looked worn, but serviceable, while his boots looked almost new. Breathing a sigh of relief, he scrunched his nose as he smelled a powerful, almost overwhelming atmosphere of ozone surrounding him.
Looking around at the clearing he stood in, he blinked his eyes as the feeling of wrongness that was always on the periphery of his thoughts faced him, full force. The first things he noticed were the trees. Unlike the towering jungle plants that previously surrounded and shaded him, who’s tangled and intertwining branches weaved together to shadow the forest floor; these trees stood tall and straight, taking a much simpler shape as smooth, tapering logs of wood stuck out of the ground, capped at the top with a wide, green, semi-sphere that shadowed their body like a natural umbrella. With this in mind, he was sure the white bark wasn’t because of girdling. At the base of each tree grew a brambled maze of yellow branches which seemed to make up the undergrowth of this forest.
Oddly enough, he didn’t feel too strongly about this. Everything around him seemed quiet and washed out. Despite this, he felt...no, he knew that the actions he would take from here onward would be of monumental importance to his life and potentially that of countless others. He accepted that he was on a new portion of his life that he never dreamed of having and that it was best to start by putting his best foot forward. Taking a heavy, impactful step on the ground with his hiking boot, he felt the slight shock of the step run up his leg and energize his heart as his pants fell down.
“Damn it!” he cursed as he scrambled down to cover his heart dappled boxers. Hopping slightly on one foot as he squatted down, he struggled to pull his khaki shorts up beyond his boots before his head quickly turned to look at a flash of movement in his peripherals. Focusing his eyes to the shadows under the roof of a domed tangle of dry, yellow branches, he saw a figure hiding in the darkness, lying low and shifting occasionally. Setting his foot down, Angus slowly pulled up his pants, keeping low to keep the figure in sight.
As if figuring out that it had been spotted, the figure rose higher and moved forward into the light. Angus tilted his head and looked at the curious creature. Its skin was yellow, tattooed all over with intricate, twisting, lines of black which never intersected. Its head was smooth, stout and brutish; a large, boxy, braincase slowly tapered into an elongated, very pointed snout sticking out two feet from its body and suspending itself in the air while moving about fluidly. Furthermore, it was eyeless. The snout turned to point at him and the head followed as the rest of the creature came to light. Stripes of light and shadow streaming through the yellow branches above it fell on its short neck and thick, muscular body, which itself tapered into a stiff, tail-like appendage at the rear. A singular, tree-trunk leg fell down from the middle of its body and connected to a large foot. This brought the creature to a height reaching Angus’ pelvis and was twice as long from snout to tail.
Angus bent down further, curiously observing the creature, looking at its chest for any signs of breathing and searching for any trace of eyes along its body. The creature took a short, heavy hop forward and brought more of itself into the light. Angus took a reciprocal step forward and moved his head about, trying to get a good look at the moving, pointed tip of the creature’s snout for any trace of nostrils or some sort of breathing mechanism, as he had yet to see anything on this creature that wasn’t smooth skin.
As if powered by spring steel, the creature's snout burst open, unfurling like a flower to reveal a wet, glistening sapphire surface on the underside of each, tentacle-like, “petal”. Dark black spikes stuck out haphazardly across the underside of the wriggling tentacles which now obscured the creatures face and body. A deep black hole stood in the center of this horror show, where a long, onyx tongue wormed its way out to wave along with the tentacles. Angus gripped onto the edge of his pants with one fist whilst the other waved about in his maniac run towards the other end of the clearing, his body’s aches long forgotten as fear coursed through his heart.
If he’d had the wherewithal, Angus might have noticed that his running was staggered and uneven, each of his steps coming down before he reached the ground before his practiced run cycle quickly adjusted to the slower pace. Of course, Angus’ mind was more preoccupied with cursing and the approaching thudding sound as the creature took off behind him. Still, it seemed as if everything was going in slow motion.
Angus ran past the forest edge and entered into a chaotic mess of blurring tree trunks and a minefield of roots littering the ground. Tightening his white-knuckled grip on his shorts, he rushed forward, daring not to slow down as he could hear the monster tracking him. Angus grew panicked after the second near collision with a tree trunk, his heart jolting as he knew any impact or miss-step would leave him dead one way or another. Suddenly, his heart stopped as his foot caught back on something, tripping him and jerking back at his hip joint. Angus slammed his hands down roughly onto the ground and managed to keep running. His heart beat violently at the thought of falling as his eyes drew themselves to the dangerous tangle of roots and debris littering the floor, obsessing over the dangers that lay there. Angus elected to jump higher with each step so as to minimize his chances of tripping as the monster hissed behind him, piercing his heart with fear.
Focusing back on the ground an instant before he landed, he saw that his foot was headed to land directly onto a small stone. Grimacing prematurely, his body stiffened like a log as slipped out from under him and he collapsed onto the ground, catching himself on his arms. His momentum caused him to slide onward as he desperately tried to get up once more. Falling to his side, his slide slowed to a stop as he looked back and saw the creature accelerate to his position in two hops. Angus froze, his leg shock still in the air as the creature’s tentacles flashed forward and wrapped themselves around it. The creature's leg planted itself in the ground and prepared to jerk back and tear at the object in its maw.
Angus shut his eyes, bringing his shoulder up defensively as he felt the stone cold pricks of the creature’s teeth touch his skin. With fear coursing through his body, Angus made one last desperate wish, to be anywhere but here, to escape the creature which had already caught him, to run away. Warm water rushed up Angus’ body causing him to choke as water flooded into his lungs. Angus instinctively stroked down and broke into the air, gasping for breath before he bobbed back down into the water and settled into equilibrium, breathing heavily as he looked around at the pitch black surrounding him.
Angus gripped tighter onto his shorts as he kicked his legs and stroked with his remaining arm to tread water. He quickly hushed any momentary relief he should have felt as he muted his heavy breathing and looked carefully at the dark surroundings. He stayed still and quiet for an unknown amount of time before the sky parted and revealed a white light surrounded by a ring of thick clouds. The water around him shone to match the moon, reflecting the light in its many ripples as the light twinkled all around him. And despite himself, he felt safe. He knew that the light meant that things could see him, but, after all that he had been through, he liked this. He fell back into a lazy float, calm and smiling as he let the worries and questions fade back to his mind. Despite this, one question echoed gently...
White wrote:
His eyes widening in comprehension, he rushed to flush his eyes further with water from his makeshift, face shaped and handsome, in his opinion, waterhole. After several minutes of washing out his eyes and sinuses, he snorted the last of the moisture from his nostrils breathed in deeply through his now clogged nose.
He just cleared his nose (by snorting the last of the moisture from his nostrils), how can he breath through his clogged nose? Did you mean "de-clogged nose"?
The text would be much, much easier to read if you'd assemble sentences together as paragraphs.
Now, when I want to note something I noticed down, it takes me LONG to refind the spot I was.....
(really follow Siber's hint above)
Also, after finishing:
All that I now read?
ARGH!
Why did you "unmake" Angus' teleport into a new world with another teleport? What was the point of him "waking up" in a world, describing so much of that world, and then just end it without anything else to follow up on?
I'm really asking myself why you do that? What will be the point? Will you ever get there?
Did you mean "de-clogged nose"?
Yes, thanks for the head's up. It's fixed now.
I'll try to edit it to be more readable.
You're making too many assumptions about what happened. I won't give too much away, but I haven't written anything which I didn't feel would add to the story.
Actually, that third chapter might have been overdone but there is a point to what happened in this one.
I assume so, but right now it feels so... superfluous having "had" to read all that and no follow-up....
Part II Chapter 2
“Where am I?” Angus wondered idly before a spark, and the following smoke, quickly drew his attention back and raised his heart rate.
“Come onnnnn, come onnnn,” Angus whispered nervously as he tentatively coddled a pile of dry grass, speckled with white spots of shredded paper, between his hands. Leaning in, Angus cupped the kindling and gently blew air into its center, causing the smoking pile of black embers there to glow orange before a light-orange flame burst up softly and spread across the blackening terrain of burning grass and paper.
“Yes, yes, yes!” Angus gently yipped as he quickly stood up, making sure to keep the fire steady and took short, quick steps over to the dried pile of white wood. Quickly dropping the growing fire into his dug-out fire space, Angus stepped back with a satisfied look as the fire quickly grew to encompass the now crackling pile of wood whilst a wave of heat washed over him. Tossing his chrome lighter head into his backpack, he stared at it, fascinated by the squatter arc this planet’s gravity guided it on. Angus turned back and walked over to sit on the log his possessions were piled next to. There, Angus leaned forward and offhandedly examined the taped-up tear on his shorts while allowing his mind to wander. Soon enough, his mind guided him to that question, the one that had lurked in his mind ever since he first arrived here, but one he’d also managed to ignore and distract himself from focusing on.
Where was he?
The exact answer to that, as he found out ever since he landed in that ocean, could change very quickly. Over the past several days he’d been lost in the depths of dark jungles, floating in vast oceans, standing in the howling, frigid whiteness of claustrophobic arctic snowstorms, and standing in the endless plains of grasslands that came in every color, staring at the paper thin horizon in the far distance and feeling decidedly empty of that sense of mystery that had greeted humans before him because, in all probability, he’d been beyond that horizon not too long ago.
After he’d, again, been spooked into teleporting after he felt something rub against his leg in the water, he’d started to look at his new ability and master it, exerting his will and learning to move himeslf with purpose. There was, of course, a limit to the level of control he could exert, and he found this out very soon after realizing his power. The first thing he thought to do, after touring the various terrains and places he could, was to return home and meet back up with his family, maybe try not to exploit his celebrity status too much; this led to nothing much happening as he closed his eyes and strained at invisible muscles he was convinced could teleport him. Meanwhile, his real muscles obliged and nearly gave him a hernia. The second experiment of his, which was faced with a similar failure, was an attempt to return to the clearing he’d originally arrived in. Every attempt to teleport to a known or otherwise specified location ended with him either standing around awkwardly or teleporting to another random location.
Angus wasn’t sure if this restriction was because of an intrinsic limitation in his new power or if he simply wasn’t skilled enough yet to use it. Of course, the one thing he wasn’t holding out hope for was ever leaving this planet; because if the fact that anytime he teleported over water he always found himself “standing” over the surface before falling in, and that he’d never found himself teleported into solid rock told him anything, it was that his teleportation was tied to the “surface” of this planet, or at least that definition of surface which was most convenient to him. Angus shuddered as he imagined his exploded and crushed body parts floating around on an ocean floor somewhere.
Looking around at the grassland near the oasis he had finally settled by, Angus stared at the distant line of trees marking the beginnings of a forest. Angus sat on the ground, placed his pack of materials on his lap, and wrapped himself in a blanket as he took out the final half of his last granola bar. Angus couldn’t help but chuckle as he found himself feeling grateful that his sister was being a lazy ass and had him carry everything for their camping trip; it was what allowed him to sustain himself this long. But he knew that even having a year’s worth of rations wouldn’t help in the end if he didn’t have some way to get new food. And looking around at the blue grass and white trees didn’t bring much hope that he’d see anything from the market.
Just his luck to get lost in a place that made his years of experience watching survival tv shows useless.
Ignoring the looming specter of finding nothing on this alien world that was compatible with his biology and dying by starvation or suicide, Angus thought of what exactly he was allowed to carry when teleporting. His clothes and pack came along with him, as well as his shoes and the dirt on them. So did his sweat, now that he came to think of it. Did something have to be touching him, or just be really close to him? The water that touched him teleported with him, but not the atoms of water that touched the water that touched him. Did it work differently for solids like the dirt on his shoes? Could he teleport a mountain? A continent? Leaving those thoughts aside, Angus looked up and saw the underside of the singular umbrella tree in the area, the one he sat in the shade of. He looked up and saw, several dozen feet above him, the chitinous lattice of support structures lining the underside of the giant leaf that capped the top of the tree. Briefly, thoughts of trying to teleport that tree entertained him. It would feel nice to a baser part of him, to have such power, lifting and moving such a thing, being a strong man beyond imagination. But, he thought, shaking those thoughts out of his head, moving a tree wouldn’t get him much beyond satiating his curiosity. That and leaving this place so soon after he’d become settled to go on another randomized “house hunt” for a location that wouldn’t kill him on his first night there didn’t sound too fun.
No, he’d stay here, for a while at least. He stuffed the last of the granola bar into his mouth and crumpled the empty wrapper in his hand. He threw the wrapper away and rested his head on the pile of cloth he’d placed against the log, lying comfortably in the warmth of the fire as he thought of the future. He’d take things day by day, he thought. Tomorrow he’d taste samples of things that looked edible and hope he didn’t throw up. He'd go collect some more firewood and add it to the pile he’d already made. He’d be fine, he reassured himself. He’d focus his efforts on preparing for winter and, hey, if he couldn’t handle the chill, spring would only be several thousand miles away. He chuckled at the thought. Yeah, he could handle this, all he’d have to do is think rationally. He’d already been given teleportation, and that was basically overkill in terms of survival value.
Angus smiled and settled down to get comfortable, holding his backpack firmly to his chest with one hand while his other gripped his survival knife. Feeling thoughts of that...thing coming back to haunt him, Angus quickly hummed a tune and looked up at the bright moon above. It was the first time he’d seen the full moon, he thought, looking for any images on it’s cratered surface. ‘Is Jesus on this one too? I wonder,’ was his last thought before his eyes fell shut, taking one last glimpse of the moon’s twin rushing across the sky to meet up with its sister.
Groggily, Angus’ eyes blinked open as the sun shone through and pierced his eyelids.
“Damn it, even when the days are longer,” Angus said as he shook his himself awake tiredly, barely mustering the energy to lift his head and look around at his surroundings. The sight shocked him awake. Angus quickly rose, tripping over his blanket as he rushed to take his fallen backpack into his hands and gripping it protectively before stuffing his blanket and pillow in it and placing it on his back. Everything was gone, the pond, the tree, the fireplace, a week’s worth of firewood. The log and his pillow were still there, of course. He stumbled as he walked towards his log, making sure everything wasn’t a mirage as his tired mind slowly worked at categorizing his environment.
He looked at his watch, ran some sloppy numbers in his head to account for the long days on this planet, and saw that he couldn’t have been asleep for more than five hours, yet the sun said it was noon. Looking around, one thought manifested itself in Angus’ freshly woken, cobwebbed mind. In fact, the only thought that could manifest itself in such a situation.
Where the fuck was he?
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Yeah, not on Earth.
He understood it correctly: say good bye to surviving.
Part III Chapter 1
My name is Angus, and...well...
It was a surreal moment, really.
I’d thought that I’d accepted my strange new reality, was prepared for the unexpected to strike, that I was fully aware of my residence in the Twilight Zone, forever destined to wander across a world all mine as I came in and out of existence, blinking the sole light of consciousness across the lonely surface of this world. Well, forever until I starved to death anyway. Here I was, though.
You’ll have to forgive my rambling attempt at aping someone competent enough to speak. It was a surreal moment after all. Surreal moments have a habit of leaving you not knowing what to do; they never come out with instructions on how to deal with surreal things, especially when those surreal things come in the form of blue elf ladies. As with most things, I suppose the kicker came in the presentation. There was no prophecy or glowing fairy guide that told me I needed to go to blue elf station, third left at the river. They just appeared as most things here do, as a spot on the horizon when a cool wind rushed over me as the sun beat down on the jacket I'd draped over my head. In fact, their appearance was so ordinary, and my eyes so tired, I mistook them at first for one of the numerous outcroppings of rock and umbrella trees that dotted the bright red grassland which surrounded me.
It was soon after that I noticed movement and hauled ass over to their location, eager to see them, to see something. My excitement had me abandon all caution as I hurried to see what they were, and soon enough I stood before the seven of them, huffing as I leaned forward on my knees and found that I had nothing to say. Because, really, I wasn't expecting this much; I was preparing, at most, to teleport away from a group of animals on my run to them, not to make first contact during an evening stroll. Thus, I wasn’t exactly brimming with conversational ideas. I figured that I most likely wouldn’t be able to talk to them anyhow so I settled for observing them at first.
There wasn’t much more to say about their appearance beyond them being blue elves that looked like someone took a stencil to their hair. They all wore what would be drab, utilitarian outfits if they hadn't dyed them like they were lost extras on a Star Trek set. They wore long-sleeved turtleneck shirts along with baggy cloth pants tied around their waists with blue rope, and each carried a featureless, blue, leather bag which they slung over their shoulders. A chrome sphere which reflected the sun so well it hurt to look at was placed as a latch where the cover of the bag closed snugly over. They looked uncannily human, actually. I thought that they were, perhaps, a lost race of man. They certainly looked similar enough to humans that I hazarded to read their emotions when it seemed clear that talking wasn't on the table. While their faces looked surprised, they, thankfully, weren’t panicking. It was the opposite, in fact. They were silent as killers while their faces began to morph into serious gazes which bored into me, as if they were preparing themselves for something. However, I wasn’t sure if it was my appearance that might have shocked them or the fact that a stranger came running over like a maniac to stand and stare at them. Soon, however, they appeared to have gotten over their shock before they turned their heads the slightest bit to give one another silent looks as they began to move around me: circling me so that I could only see three of them whilst I heard the rest stepping behind me in a way that threw up all the red flags someone gets before they’re mugged. I quickly brushed off the strangling sensation that wound itself inside my guts and turned to look calmly down at the tallest one present, a thin woman with crimson hair and a shirt which was yellow on her left side and red on her right. I could teleport after all, so no need to panic, they were probably just scared about the guy twice their weight that came running at them. As the one with the ability to leave unharmed at any moment, it was my responsibility, I felt, to calm tensions and find a peaceful resolution to all this. I had little to lose after all.
Oh, how wrong I was.
After flubbing my first attempt at a speech, I cleared my throat as I brought my sweaty hand to rub my dry, crusty lips while I took a deep breath. Looking back down into the eyes of the elf in front of me, who seemed to be doing a similar calming exercise herself, I exhaled slowly, keeping a fine ear out for any noise behind me. Slowly and deliberately, I moved my hand forward and upward to point at myself. Then, like a bullet, a blur rose out of the elf’s bag before shooting forward in a shallow arc and cracking into my forearm like a whip. My arm was thrown back as my shoulder and body turned to follow it. Instinctively looking at the sight of impact, I saw a fine blue rope decorated with brambles wrapped around my arm. As I said before, it was surreal, even more so with the recent turn of events. I slowly thought through everything in a millisecond as I looked at what seemed to be a freeze frame of my arm. I didn’t feel any pain. It felt like I was watching everything happen from far away, coldly analyzing the scene from a third person perspective, so my first thought at the sight was how nice the contrast was between the blue rope, decorated with sun-bright chrome spheres embedded into its brambles, and the streams of blood glistening down my arm from where those same brambles dug into my flesh and made it slick with crimson.
Soon after, however, I felt my heart stop and my veins chill. Nothing had happened, not even the second time I tried.
I couldn’t teleport.
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I never made it a habit to get into trouble.
In fact, it was my number one priority when doing anything not to get into trouble. I was always particularly sensitive to that. Nevertheless, I have gotten into trouble, big trouble at times. And with my expertise on the subject, I can tell you that it feels most raw and brutal when trouble comes to find you when you least expect it, when you feel safe. This is the trouble that was my mom bursting into the kitchen as I stuffed blissful spoon fulls of sugar into my mouth. This is the trouble of when the final boss suddenly got back up to full health to trample over that feeling of victory in my heart. This is the trouble of my car getting towed after a raise. It feels like you have something to lose and you’re about to lose twice as much, and in all my years of getting into trouble, this was perhaps the moment I’d say distilled that feeling into so potent an elixir. The card house my confidence was built upon came tumbling down around me as I stopped my breath and stared at the ground that refused to change.
I didn’t have any thoughts on this matter. Rather, I didn’t think. I ran. Whipping about, without thinking I threw my jacket to intercept the projectile rope of an elf who’d elected to toss hers at me and took off in the direction of the redhead. Looking up as I ran, I saw she’d already started running in my direction. Bursting into a sprint I charged head on towards her. I took advantage of her shock and hesitation to put my hand on her shoulder as I twirled around her and pushed her, hard, into one of her companions. I didn’t stop to look back as I made a mad dash towards the large wall of head-high, red grass that grew to the side of the path I’d been traveling on. Sound turned off as the field of grass drew nearer and nearer still. And then, my foot snagged and I fell forward. Or rather, my foot was caught. Because I’d tripped before, and that frustrating feeling of having a giving force follow your leg along with your descent was something I’d describe as intentioned. Catching myself on my hands I attempted to scramble forward, but I was held back by that annoying snag on my foot. A snag I couldn't seem to be rid of by waving my leg around, almost as if it were following me. Hearing running steps approaching me, however, I dug my toes in and broke past, pumping my arms as I entered into the sea of grass before me.
The grassy field was an area of dimmed light and extraordinary sound. Each movement I made set off a cacophony of brushing noise as I ran deeper into the forest of grass. The sound stilled as I did to think. My hands were numb, as if my arms were clubs, the fingers shaking with adrenaline as they sluggishly and clumsily responded to my commands. In fact, my whole body shook, my legs feeling weak as it did so with my shaking breath, setting off chains of noise as the grass blades around me shook and rubbed against one another. My body grew number as I could hear slithering paths of shaking grass being formed all around me as, no doubt, they came to follow me. Taking a moment to think, I noticed that they would be able to hear me, but they wouldn’t be able to differentiate the sounds I made from that of their partners as long as I moved in that lax, search party pace they seemed to favor. I stepped forward to mimic their movement speed when my hand brushed against the knife which I’d strapped to my right thigh.
I heard the noise all around me stop as the elves stilled. I was also stunned into stillness as the thought of cutting the rope around my arm and teleporting away hit me. The elves seemed to have a similar idea as, quickly afterward, the field exploded into activity as all the snake paths of sound diverged quickly onto my location as I ran forward and took the knife into my shaking hand, attempting to stick it in between my arm and the rope. The elf’s quickly changed direction to run after me and in my panic I cut along my wrist, feeling cool blood wash along my forearm before finally getting the blade underneath the rope and sawing madly at it. The elves drew ever nearer as I felt the rope coming loose and stopped to brace my feet and put my shoulder into the act of cutting the rope away. I could feel the last of the strands coming loose as I felt that light pressure in the back of my mind which signaled teleportation come into being and heard the elves come within feet of me. And finally, the last strand broke off just as a heavy object cut through the grass behind me and wrapped cleanly around both of my legs, smothering that pressure in my mind along with my hope of escape. Quickly afterward, I was tackled down from two sides as one of my arms fell underneath my body, trapped, and the other was held down as my knife was wrenched away from it. The grass in front of me had bent and fallen with us, leaving me lying on a bed of it with sunlight streaming through the clear space we’d created above and reflecting brightly off the chrome spheres I was sure were wrapped around my leg.
I could feel many things at the moment. I felt the cold of the blood-soaked cloth wrapped around my arm. I felt my leg ache from the sprained ankle, my skin sting with every passing wind from scraping against the deceptively rough blades of grass, and my hands smart from slamming against rough ground while catching my body. I even felt the numbness that came along from having those blue ropes tied tightly around my upper body and legs. I didn’t mind any of that, though. I didn’t mind it because, at the moment, I was more focused on the stomach-knotting vertigo of flying. Well, not flying exactly, hovering. I looked down to see the redhead walk below me whilst wearing an, intricately carved, shiny metal crown with a flat top. Around her, the six other elves walked, keeping relatively in step with her, each of them wearing a rectangular bar engraved with symbols I didn’t make out. Some of them put the bar on a rope around their necks, other’s tied it to a sash around their waist while others still, I guessed, must have had it in a pocket of some sort, or even in their bag. I followed along above them, rising and falling slightly in a sort of rocking motion as they stepped along. I remembered how I’d been caught, cringing at the memory of my naivety but nonetheless looking back and noting that initial strike, how the rope had blasted through the air, zigging toward me. I wondered if that was the same technology they’d used to catch me. Would they keep me in a floating cell? Would they even need a cell made out of Stuff? These were all distractions to me, however. The primary thought in my mind at that moment was the one I’d kept buried. Where was I going? I honestly wondered what it was I’d done to deserve this treatment, and the knot in my stomach only grew tighter as they refused to even acknowledge my existence, much less answer my questions. The dread within continually only grew with each step.
I didn’t sleep the first night we stopped to camp, and neither, it seems, could they. They stayed up all night along with me, sitting quietly around the campfire as they lay me down on my side facing away from them. I stared at the wall of a boulder we were camped next to and watched the shadows made on the wall as large bugs buzzed hypnotically around the fire while the shadow of an elf sitting on a rock behind me continued to look around throughout the night until dawn.
The sunlight streamed onto my face as I was turned over onto my back by that invisible force and chunks of green material were floated down into my mouth. The fact that it’d been three days and five hours since I’d had anything to eat, and the fact that they didn’t seem to want me dead for now, had me all too ready to oblige them. After the rest of my breakfast, I was brought water and we were on the move again. This was the first night in what would be two more days of the same routine. The rest of the day was more travel, now at a quicker pace along a dirt road as the terrain shifted to have fewer trees and less grass as well. Story writers always skip the details of travel because they seem to think them boring, and I was inclined to agree with them as I jerked my legs in their bindings, and flexed my arms against the ropes around them until they hurt. I whipped my head around until I became dizzy and squeezed my stomach in as I thought of songs to sing. I wasn’t trying to escape, mind you; I’d long given up on that endeavor. I was just trying to do something, anything, like a little kid tapping his foot in the backseat of a sixteen-hour car ride. Now, most writers, I would note again, usually skip these details, but in my case, I’d consider my second night the one that every writer ought to make note of because my second night was the night I cried.
I was laid down again, the exact same way as I was the last time. For some reason, it was important to me that it happened the same way, you see. The elves with the bars walked away from the one with the helmet, who remained and did something I didn’t see as I was faced away from them in mid-air, floated over to a patch of ground and gently lowered onto it before being dropped the last couple of inches. The impact jarred me, and it was during this disorientation that tears I couldn't hold back slid down my face. My muscles were restless and there wasn’t even a stone to watch the shadows on this time. This time, I had to stare into the darkness ahead when all I wanted was to run back to the human-seeming shadows I could imagine were real. Left with no tasks, I remembered my sister and my mother and my father, and I desperately wished for guidance from them. Soon, a feeling of tiredness came over me and my eyelids grew heavy as I fell asleep. Perhaps that was a sign that I would need my strength.
The march we undertook the next day was distinctive in a way that I could sense but couldn’t describe. I guess you could say it felt as if the mood had shifted or that the air was weightier, but I wasn’t sure If there was any tangible difference from how our other marches had been previously except for one thing. I saw in the distance, from my vantage point above the others, an elf walking along before us that none of the others acknowledged and, for a moment, it stopped and looked at me. I’m sure it was looking at me. I strained to see something, anything, that might hint at what was in the elf’s eyes as it did so. I wish I’d managed to find out, it might have comforted me for what was to come, or at least given me a hint at the hell into which I was about to descend.
We entered, as the sun fell, past rolling waves of tall grass too constant not to have been farmed and which formed a wall surrounding a settlement ahead. From here we entered into the second circle, where I saw an elf worker, covered in dirt and in chains puke sapphire blood at the feet of my carriers as we passed along. The second circle where I was forced into a hot wave of grotesque the smells of filth and disease. Where I saw an elven child with missing limbs sitting dejectedly in the dirt, keeping her head down as if afraid to look into the eyes of passersby retiring for the knight, where I saw dark mine entrances lined with pure white dust that lines of chained elves were being led out of, dragging along the two corpses of their compatriots chained to them and seeming more annoyed at that fact than anything else, where I saw all elves, ranging from healthy and frightened to starving and hopeless, as if laid out in a timeline, where I heard nothing but the pained groans of the sick huddled away behind walls or under blankets, where I saw their eyes shine up at me with expressions I didn’t fathom. I saw all these things and more as the crowd of elves in front of me parted before us as I was led to the city ahead.
Here in the city, I saw several white wooden houses with blue thatched roofs sitting on fields of blue grass. There was quite a bit of space between each house in the city, a stark contrast to the crowded work fields that surrounded it. I was in shock at this point, not caring for the details as I let all the sights of this new place drift in front of me as if in a dream. Despite all this, however, my eye was drawn, as if attracted, to a large statue rising in the center of it all. An obsidian figure of a female, colored black as charcoal and covered in material the texture of rust. I would note as I got closer that the details of the statue were intricately made; as if I were looking at a living being I could see the lines in her iris and I was sure I saw life in them. The statue itself was standing high atop a gray, stone pedestal twenty feet high and wide. Rising over this pedestal, stuck onto wooden stakes, were three skeletons colored white as if they’d been bleached. Two skeletons were covered in threads of somewhat colored fabric that hung off of them as well as washed out coverings over their feet which stained sections of their bones. It was like someone decided to play dress up with the dead. The third one shocked me still. This one, I hazarded, was far newer than the others. I could tell because it wore a more form-fitting and better held together, if not faded, shirt. It also wort pants which, to me, looked very much like jeans. I cringed as I saw a large gash with rotting, discolored borders run down the front of the skeleton’s shirt. Most shocking of all, however, was a book clutched in the skeleton's bony hands. Bound in red leather with an inch thick spine and decorated with three golden arcs latched on to it at the top bottom and middle of its hollow back case, and on its cover was the word, written in big, bold letters, "praecepta".
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Onaiom
Nice! The quality of the writing improved. First time I read about the Loroi being evil. Keep them coming.
Hey guys, no new chapter yet, but I'm close to finishing the next one. Although, If any of you are interested in beta reading, feel free to message me as I'm running into the most roadblocks when I'm trying to figure out if what I'm writing makes sense.
To be clear, I'm not looking for an editor, just someone willing to read a chapter ahead of time and highlight parts that aren't flowing well.
Doesn't sound too bad, does it?
If you want, I can read it for you.
One thing that was not clear the whole story is when did this happen? Human present or Loroi past?
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Product Number: WEB113918
Released: 05 Aug, 2011
Business Term: OBOU 2 Years or 52 Circs
Publisher: Tor
1875, New Mexico Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde. It's a town that lives in fear. But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breath-taking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveller Ella, he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents - townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors - all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival. Joan D. Vinge was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She has read science fiction since junior high school, and has been writing professionally since 1973. She now lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband, editor Jim Frenkel, and their two children. Joan's short story, 'Eyes of Amber', won the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novelette and her novel The Snow Queen won the 1981 Hugo Award for Best SF Novel. She has been nominated for several other Hugo and Nebula Awards, as well as for the John W. Campbell New Writer Award.
Author(s): Joan D. Vinge
Original Publish Date: 05 Aug, 2011
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IN PICTURES: The Tour de Yorkshire's previous visits to our area
Some of the world's leading cyclists will be on the Yorkshire coast this weekend when the fifth edition of the Tour de Yorkshire visits Bridlington, Whitby and Scarborough.
Thursday 02 May 2019 16:12
Here's a look back to some of the previous visits the Tour has made to our region, since the very first stage of the very first race brought riders including Sir Bradley Wiggins to tackle the roads on our doorstep.
1. Bridlington
The start of the 2017 in Bridlington, outside the Spa. Stage three starts from the same location on Saturday.
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2. Hunmanby
The village was on the route of the first race in 2015 and will welcome the cyclists again this year.
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3. Muston
Riders passing through the centre of the village last year.
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4. Filey
The Tour de Yorkshire races along Filey seafront and turns toward the town centre met with cheering crowds in 2018.
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Mammograms: What's Best for Your Breasts?
Perplexed by the new mammogram guidelines? Here, we clear up the confusion
By Alyssa Giacobbe
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To test or not to test? Or more specifically, when to test? That's the crucial query. Last November, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended that women swap their after-40 annual mammograms for biannual ones starting at 50, and quit breast self-exams altogether. It cited evidence that less frequent mammos could be equally effective at catching cancer. (Fewer tests would also save money, though the group insists it didn't consider cost.) Plus, the USPSTF argued, self-exams haven't been proven to reduce deaths but can lead instead to lots of unwarranted doctors' visits.
The screening revisions ignited a firestorm of controversy (after all,some 40,000 women die of breast cancer each year), thanks to conflicting data on mammogram efficacy. Current research hasn't yielded any hard conclusions, leaving patients confused and aggravated. "One disturbing aspect of the guidelines is that they're based on the idea that having a mammogram is anxiety provoking," says Karen L. Hiotis, M.D., a breast surgeon at the New York University Cancer Institute. "That's almost an insult to me as a woman."
Hiotis continues to favor self-exams and annual screenings for average-risk patients starting at age 40 (high-risk patients should start earlier). Yet she has noticed that fewer of her younger patients have booked mammos since the USPSTF recs were released. "Those happened to coincide with the recession, when more people were without work and health insurance," she says. "So, many thought it was OK to have fewer tests. I've spent the past year telling patients, no, it's not OK."
The majority of top doctors agree, despite evidence that benign tumors are being misdiagnosed as cancer, sometimes resulting in unnecessary biopsies or mastectomies. The problem, notes the USPSTF, is that women under 50 tend to have denser breasts, making malignancies harder to spot. On the other hand, cancerous tumors in women under 50 can be much more lethal, and overlooking one could be a fatal mistake. "Ethically, you don't want to be a doctor who misses cancer," says Sharmila Makhija, M.D., the director of gynecologic oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
For its part, the American Cancer Society issued its own review in September, reinforcing 40 as the recommended age to begin annual mammos. The group neither endorsed nor discouraged self exams-- essentially, it says, they won't hurt you, but they won't help you either. Hiotis disagrees. "I can't tell you the number of patients I see who have noted masses in their breasts themselves," she says. Adds Laura Lawson,M.D., a breast surgeon at Baptist Hospital in Nashville: "I have many breast-cancer patients in their twenties and thirties. And these are not women who were getting mammograms, so self examination is crucial."
The bottom line for now is that while mammos aren't perfect, they're the best breast-cancer detection we have. Research on new tests is in the works, and more precise digital mammogram technology is already out. Because the breast-care debate will likely wage on, it's up to you to be proactive and talk to your doctor about your individual risk, and to weigh the pros and cons of early testing. Lawson points out you can never be too careful: "For the person whose cancer is caught early, regular screening is lifesaving."
What About the Pap?
Last year, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) called for a rethinking of the Pap smear, a screen for cervical cancer: Instead of getting their first annual test after their initial sexual experience, women should start biannual screenings at age 21. And those over 30 who have had three consecutive "normal" results can wait three years between tests.
"The new guidelines are right on the money," says Sharmila Makhija,M.D. "The rate of cervical cancer in women under 21 is less than 1 percent. That's a very low-risk category we've been heavily screening." Most docs say patients have been OK with having fewer Paps, though some women still request annual screenings. "I'll tell them why frequent testing might not be vital, but if they still want one, I'll do it," says Makhija. The big caveat: You should not interpret the ACOG recommendations to mean you can skip your annual exam altogether. You still need to head to your gyno regularly to discuss birth control, STD prevention, and overall breast health.
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Home / Jobseekers / Career Advice
Why are women more reluctant to relocate abroad for work?
Almost half of staff feel unvalued and unrecognised at work
Women following their spouses for career purposes are common, but what happens when the tables are turned? Are career mothers more likely to let personal circumstance determinse whether or not they relocate for work?
The issues faced by career-driven women are abundant after they have had children. There is no denying that the quest to achieve ‘work-life balance’ can seem mythical. Career prospects post-maternity leave often appear significantly limited. Eventually some women who overcome this limbo-like phase and resume a fruitful career are confronted by a new predicament: a career opportunity which requires relocating.
In an age of fast-paced business globalisation the necessity of individuals having to relocate is on the increase. More often career relocations involve women ‘following’ their male partners, but when women are offered the same opportunities, why are they more reluctant to accept them?
One idea is that women are generally hesitant about relocating and therefore rarely even apply or accept posts which involve a major move. Unlike their male counterparts a decision to transfer is determined by their personal situation rather than the opportunity at hand, for example, the viability of a long-distance relationship. When personal circumstance extends to children the consideration period is longer and the reluctance is far greater.
When faced with decisions about careers and professional development men tend to solely examine the practicalities concerned with the new post: is the new salary being offered better? Is the company more reputable? Does the country boast an excellent education system? In comparison women are more likely to scrutinise the emotional impact of the move i.e. the extent of psychological stress felt by the family unit.
Men seem to get an easy ride in the decision-making process by doing one simple thing: making it easier on themselves. All too often women carry the heavy burden of believing they have to choose between commitment to their career and the needs of their family, but why do the two have to be mutually exclusive?
Relocating is unavoidably daunting for everyone in the family, but no more so than for the women who are embarking on a new professional challenge. A positive mindset is crucial for starting a new role as well as assimilating into an entirely new culture both at home and at work. Having children who are extremely resistant and scared can be more stressful than the enormity of the move itself.
Kris Van Sebroeck, MoveHub’s front-end developer, relocated from Brazil to London in 2008 with her family when her daughter was nine years old. She said: “My daughter was really sad about leaving her friends and family as most children would be. At the start, she didn’t have much interest in where we were going.”
Kris stresses the need to explain to children the importance of new opportunities and the exciting experiences gained from moving abroad. “Helping your children ease into the idea of moving to another country is dependent on their age – there are no set rules. If they are old enough to fully understand the situation, the best strategy is to regularly talk about all the positive things to come from the move. Stir some excitement about their new school and all the new friends they are sure to make.”
Whilst new adventures are indeed exciting, it is also important to acknowledge the support network the children are leaving behind. Kris said: “The abundance of social networking tools means it is easier than ever to maintain contact with old friends and once you explain this to your children it will give them some reassurance.”
It is also important to remember that it’s an exciting time. A big career change is a positive step forward and a prime opportunity to celebrate with the family. It’s time to balance out the trend and create more success stories of men following women.
*Jessica Laporte writes about travel and women’s issues for MoveHub.
Published: 7th October 2014
Going the extra mile for a good career life fit
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New Clip From ‘Halloween’ Pays Homage to the Original ‘Halloween II’
October 15, 2018 @GeekWriterRob Movies, News
Although completely separated from any other Halloween movie outside of the original, director David Gordon Green still manages to throw in many nods to previous films in the franchise for his version. Bloody Disgusting exclusively has a look at a new clip from the film, just ahead of it’s highly anticipated release this coming Friday. The scene apparently takes place earlier in the film upon Michael’s escape, having returned to Haddonfield on Halloween night. In the scene, Michael makes his way through the town, filled with trick or treaters, entering a house that looks a lot like the one featured in the original 1981 Halloween II. You can view it below:
Directed by David Gordon Green, in the new film…
“Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.”
“A British documentary crew comes to the States to visit Michael in prison for a retrospective of the maniac’s night of terror — but their project becomes way more interesting when Myers escapes custody, retrieves his signature mask and seeks revenge on Laurie, with others naturally being part of his impressive career body count along the way.
In the decades following the fateful Halloween night that forever altered the former babysitter’s life, Laurie has armed and prepped herself for Michael’s inevitable return — to the detriment of her family, including daughter Karen and granddaughter Allyson.”
In Halloween, the role of Karen Strode will be portrayed by Judy Greer (Jurassic World, Ant-Man). Karen is Laurie’s daughter, while Andi Matichak (Orange Is The New Black) will serve as the movie’s young lead, Allyson Strode (the daughter of Karen and granddaughter to Laurie).
Rounding out the cast are Drew Scheid (Stranger Things), Miles Robbins (Mozart in the Jungle), Virginia “Ginny” Gardner (Marvel’s Runaways) and Dylan Arnold (Mudbound). The young actors will play friends of Matichak’s Allyson.
Halloween arrives in theaters October 19th.
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YMR Exclusive: Vicetone Interview
March 2, 2013 April 12, 2013 Graham Porter Leave a comment
We’ve had Vicetone on our music radar for just over a few months now (especially after that Obama ‘Hope’ mix) and it is fair to say that the Vicetone producer/duo are on the money when it comes to ear catching tracks and remixes of gold. They’re definitely a rapidly rising star in the electronic dance music scene.
Whether you are familiar with Vicetone or are a new listener to their awesome remixes (and originals) we reckon that they are on an onwards and upwards trajectory, that’s for sure. There’s been many artists, bands, DJs that we’ve had our eyes on but we’re very sure that we are not alone in keeping an eye on these guys.
To help spread the good word of Vicetone, we tapped them up for a Q&A Interview so we can let you know what their plans are for 2013 and beyond:
YMR: How do you feel about all the positive feedback to the ever increasing success of your mixes that have been dropping recently?
It’s great to read all those comments, they’ve been very positive and it really means a lot to us! To get feedback from our fans is very important, it really motivates us and we’re very lucky to have such a loyal fanbase already.
YMR: What have some of your highlights been over the last few months since Vicetone started it’s journey to gain some audio momentum?
We’ve only been gaining serious momentum in the last few months, but the best is still to come. A couple of the highlights include signing our Youngblood Hawke remix to Universal, and seeing it get played in front of 17.000 people in a huge stadium. That really blew us away, we really wanted to be there! Nicky Romero has also been consistently supporting our tracks, and we’re very thankful for that. Signing with CAA as our booking agency was also a major highlight, and is a big step for us, since it will mean we can start putting together a tour around the world. We can’t wait for that to happen!
YMR: At what point did you feel things step up a gear for you both?
We feel that right at this moment actually! We signed a couple of originals to several labels and have official remixes coming out as well. And our free releases are doing well too, with our Bulletproof, Clarity and Reason remixes all having over 200.000 plays on SoundCloud (almost 2 million plays in total!) and receiving support from the likes of Nicky Romero, Hardwell and other big artists. And with our recent signing to CAA, we feel we’re heading in the right direction now.
YMR: You are well on your way to hitting 100,000 likes on Facebook for which has been a very short period of time. Can you put down your increasing popularity to anything in particular?
Hard work. We work every day in the studio, and for every free release that we do, we put a ton of effort in time to make sure it sounds the best we can. Some people ask us why we release a specific track for free when we could’ve sent it to labels, but we have so much more music that we’re making and ideas lying around, that we feel it’s better to give them away for free and let people spread them online. This has worked really well for us, and we have racked in millions of plays on our free tracks, and as you said, almost 100k fans on Facebook. We never expected it to get so big, and we’re very happy with all our fans sharing our music!
YMR: What is your favourite remix that Vicetone has worked on?
For me (Ruben), it has to be our Sparks remix, since it’s one of our most powerful and energetic songs we’ve done. That remix really came together well when we started out with it, and it turned out exactly how we had it in mind when we started producing it. The vocals really match the energy level and the track makes me really pumped up.
I think (Victor) it’s probably the Let’s go Remix for me, I still remember how excited we first were when we came up with the melody, and also when we finally finished the track. It was the first track we had ever put online at that time so it was a pretty big moment for us. I still love the energy in that track and it triggers my rage-mode every time I play it!
YMR: What are your plans for fulfilling your audio destiny in 2013 and is there anywhere on your travel plans that you can’t wait to get to and tour?
We hope to tour a lot this year. Since we’re in the studio pretty much every day, there will be a lot of new music coming out, and we aren’t planning on stopping. We hope to play tours this year though, and we can’t wait to showcase our music live – we can promise you it will be a show you won’t soon forget! As far as places go – we want to play everywhere really, but if we have to pick a country, we’re looking forward to playing our first gig in the USA and in Spain, since we have a lot of fans from both countries. Also we would love to see some of the big music studios around the world and maybe even make a track in one of them. All our music we made so far is produced in our home studio, so we think it would be a great experience!
YMR: Was there any Presidential or White House contact after your ‘Hope’ track came out? A twitter follow from Barack or Michelle Obama perhaps?
Barack joined us in the studio a couple of months back and complained that he didn’t really like the lead melody that we used, and he thought we could mix in his vocals a bit better… but other than that, there hasn’t really been any word from the White House yet.
YMR: Finally, if there was one track that you would want playing when we all go out in the big one from planet Earth, what track would it be?
It’s so hard to pick one track… Supermode – Tell Me Why is a great classic, so why not pick that one!
A big thanks to Ruben & Victor for taking time out of the studio to catch up with us. Here’s to a massive 2013 and beyond for Vicetone.
They’ve just dropped this pretty special track ‘Heartbeat’ featuring Collin Mcloughlin.
GET IT HERE: http://smarturl.it/VicetoneHB and get streaming the smorgasbord of Vicetone audio goodness below:
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Looks like music superstar Ed Sheeran is pretty good at keeping a secret. He revealed via his Instagram that he proposed to his longtime girlfriend Cherry Seaborn "before the new year." Check out the announcement below:
And not to frighten the Ed fans out there... but the singer/songwriter said that he wants children by the time he's 30 years old. Even though Ed is currently 26, he also claims that his musical ambition will "go to zero" once he has children in his life.
Here's hoping that an expanding family will inspire Ed even more and that we'll be enjoying his music for years to come!
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Modern day capitalism appears to need a different moniker. Todays markets and business activity are distorted by the interference of lawmakers, central banks, and regulators. Free markets are simply less free. Governments have been assuming greater control in an attempt to end recurring financial crises. Prior to 2008 (and under a Greenspan Fed), finance, in general, was viewed as self-stabilizing. Today, however, it is viewed as self-destructing. Policy makers had always believed that they had the ability to clean up after excesses (i.e., bubbles) unwound1. They had become accustomed to after-the-fact crisis management, as opposed to making the politically difficult decisions that could have prevented imbalances or financial crises in the first place. (It was the 2008 crisis that inspired US policy-makers to try to end this pattern by being more proactive.) Over the past several decades, every time that there was a dip in the business cycle (a decline of economic output), monetary or fiscal stimulus would be initiated in an attempt to halt, reverse, or ameliorate the trend. The intensity and direction of business cycles were, therefore, purposefully influenced by policy. Unfortunately, the chronic desire for growth has depleted policy-makers monetary as well as fiscal arsenals, leaving the US economy at a critical juncture. The ability of policy makers to reverse the ebbs in economic activity are now severely limited, while the importance that Fed initiatives succeed has never been more paramount. This is the primary reason that the Fed is being overly-accommodative, even as the recovery heals. Specifically, years of deficit spending have pushed governments to troublesome levels of indebtedness at the same time that central banks have stair-stepped official interest rates all the way to the zero lower bound. This has forced a reliance on unconventional measures. It is difficult to envision from where the next dose of official stimulus might come. Recent regulation, such as Dodd-Frank, the Volker Rule and Basel are all attempts at gaining a foothold on systemic risk. Fed policy is trying to keep markets stable as these new rules, which act as economic headwinds, are applied. Turbulence typically arises when old structures are replaced with new ones. Most new regulatory rules inadvertently decrease market liquidity, the consequences of which will be a main issue for capital markets in 2014. Furthermore, below the surface, financial and social pressures are intensifying into what is likely to become an unsteady and combustible situation elevating market volatilities.
1 http://kansascityfed.org/publicat/sympos/2002/pdf/S02Greenspan.pdf
Adding to the pressures, as capitalism has advanced in recent years, it has come under considerable strain. In a capitalist society, there is a constant push for corporations to improve profit margins; this goal is typically accomplished through competitive gains brought on by productivity. However, productivity gains are acting as strong drags on the Feds dual mandates of full employment and price stability (more on this point later). Moreover, the use of technology to improve productivity and profit margins demands higher skills from workers, thus eliminating many jobs. Poor demographics in developed-world countries are economic headwinds as well, since fewer workers are supporting more retirees. In turn, fiscal budgets are being negatively impacted. Eventually, new and adjusting policies, deficits, depleted fiscal budgets, and the elimination of mid-level jobs will mean that many peoples standard of living will be negatively impacted; this in turn, may progressively lead people to decide that governments are failing them. The social contract already appears to be fraying globally, witnessed by protests, unrest, and mounting support for radical parties. Subsequent sections will discuss: wealth inequality; social unrest; strains on Capitalism; talkingpoints from President Obama, The Pope, and Karl Marx; and governmental policy responses and how they have affected investor behavior and market liquidity. This treatise is followed by two sections noting market strategies, risks, and predictions for 2014. Inequality The topic of growing wealth and income inequality is a conversation that is advancing in importance and frequency. Advocates of capitalism espouse that free-market systems are vastly superior to any alternatives and cite the fact that hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty and billions have had their living standards improved. However, critics maintain that capitalistic pursuits of growth and real capital appreciation result in redistribution of income from labor to capital - and from wages to profits - causing ever-growing income and wealth disparities. This and other such criticisms of capitalism have fashioned a rebirth of the ideas of Karl Marx who detailed the inherent flaws of the capitalist model. Over 140 years ago, he described in great detail how embedded flaws would eventually cause the capitalistic model to implode; it would be brought to collapse either by revolt or a morph into Socialism, or it would give rise to dictators or despotic leaders. His conclusions have been widely criticized; nonetheless, the construct of his arguments were brilliantly assembled. [Note: According to The Guinness Book of World Records, Marxs Communist Manifesto is the second best-selling book of all time (after the Bible); and, sales of Marxs masterpiece Das Kapital have soared since the 2008 crisis]. President Obama and newly elected Mayor DeBlasio of New York City have expressed concern many times over the wealth-divide. Voters have appeared to be energized by the rhetoric: DeBalsio won his election by saying inequality would be his top focus; the Presidents State of the Union addresses and majority of speeches discuss economic inequality. He even called it the defining challenge of our time.
In November, in his first Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium2, Pope Francis weighed-in on many of the central conversations of our time; including his economic theories and thoughts on inequality and capitalism. It was widely reported when the highly-respected Pope called capitalism unjust at its root. Capitalism is (arguably) the most successful antipoverty program in history; however until its economic activity and exclusive pursuit of profits adopt broader meaning vis a vis a sense of moral responsibility, it will be difficult for the Pope to defend it. (Because his words are so interesting, a passage of his words can be found in Appenidx I) The President uses the topic of inequality resourcefully. On the one hand, President Obama denounces the trickle-down wealth policies of the Fed; however he favors the rock-bottom interest rates that drive money into equities and allow more affordable funding for government (deficit) spending programs. Critics argue that the President demonizes the rich, leading to accusations that he is inciting class warfare. They further argue that he fires-up the masses by misleadingly and disingenuously blaming the rich and Republicans, rather than blaming Fed policies, globalization, Capitalism itself, or other relevant factors that lead to wealth disparities. When income gaps are referenced, income is rarely defined. When it is defined, it may only take reportable taxable income into account, when this may not represent the entire story. This definition fails to take into account a highly progressive income tax system, or social security, Medicaid, food stamps and a host of other government programs and subsidies. There is some tipping point when a progressive and heavily subsidized system provides the wrong incentives for everyone. Those paying the most believe that they can use their money more productively than the government. They simply do not trust how the government ultimately chooses to spend its revenue. Nonetheless, the strategy of how, or whether, to address the issue of income inequality is a key factor polarizing Washingtons policy makers. The issue is complicated, but not as black and white as some politicians infer that when the rich benefit, it is at the expense of the poor. Empirical evidence suggests that when the economic pie grows, it grows larger for all3. Conversely, there is little argument that when the economy turns down, it is the rich who can weather the storm better; but, again, this does not mean it is the fault of the rich. The public sector drive for equal opportunity is a worthwhile pursuit, but it does not necessarily mean equal outcomes. It could be argued that out-sized compensation at the top is not a problem as long as it reflects ones contribution to society. In this manner, those who are most entrepreneurial are rewarded accordingly. Research by the World Bank suggests that for the first time in a few centuries the distribution across global households has become less unequal. However, the reduction in inequality is the consequence of fast growth of average incomes in large poor countries like China and India.
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazioneap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.html#I. Some_challenges_of_todays_world
3 http://www.elsevier.pt/en/revistas/cuadernos-economia-329/artigo/is-economic-growth-sufficient-for-poverty-alleviation-
empirical-90153606
The report notes rising inequality within almost all countries4. The paper says that lower and middle-income groups of high-income countries did poorly, while the worlds richest people did extraordinarily well. Many books and economic papers have been written trying to explain how technology and offshoring have changed the structure of labor demand. Alan Manning of the London School Economics coined the phrase job polarization. He offered an explanation and then concluded similarly to the World Bank paper that employment (over the last decade) rose strongly for top income earners, and modestly at the bottom, but middle-skill jobs disappeared. The unfortunate side of Moores Law5 is that the technological gains made in advancing mechanization, robotics, and algorithmic software have led to changes in labor demand where some people despite being willing and able to work have no economic value as employees. Adaptation through education and skills re-training is imperative. It might be fair to say that entrepreneurialism is good, but capitalism is good only up until a certain point. However, replacing a flawed structure with another flawed structure only results in a whole set of different problems. At a minimum, attention to the topic of inequality has become widespread, partially due to President Obamas frequent discourses on the matter. Regardless of where one stands on the topic, most would agree that perpetually growing inequality is an economic headwind and unsustainable and, therefore, it is a problem for everyone until it is effectively addressed. Most importantly, however, Marxs endorsement of social revolt, Obamas push for redistribution policies, or too progressive an economic system, or an overall drift away from Capitalism into Socialism, are not the answers. The conversation has become such an important and recurring one that it seems sensible to discuss it in greater detail below.
Capitalism and Karl Marx
Capitalism is a social economic system based upon the principle of individual rights, where trade, industry and the means of production are controlled by private owners with the goal of making profits in a market economy6. Its characteristics include capital accumulation and wage labor, with parties transacting after agreeing to a price at which assets, goods, or services are exchanged. In a pure capitalist structure the sole quest is growth to ensure the real appreciation of capital. Therefore, since shareholders want the highest return on their investment, corporate leaders and managers are incentivized to achieve this goal at almost any cost. The best way to achieve this goal is to improve productivity (i.e. increase output per hour worked). Marx is widely known for his critique of capitalism and for recommending that it be replaced with a communist society. However his critique was in fact actually guarded and two-sided. On
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/pdf/10.1596/1813-9450-6259 http://www.mooreslaw.org/ 6 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/capitalism
the one hand, it is widely known that he believed the defining features of capitalism were alienation, exploitation, and recurring cyclical depressions that lead to mass unemployment7. On the other hand, fewer people are familiar with the fact that Marx said capitalism exhibits revolutionizing, industrializing and universalizing qualities of development, growth, and progressivity. This basically means capitalism will ignite progress because technological advancement, increased productivity and growth, and scientific revolution are the cornerstone to progress. Marx considered the capitalistic class the more pioneering, due to the constant improvement in the means of production. Capitalism, he noted, can spur considerable growth, because there is incentive to reinvest profits in new technologies and capital equipment. Marx major problem with the capitalist system was with its inherently unsolvable contradictions which contained within itself the seeds of its own destruction: weak final demand leads to workers not being hired, and vice versa, in an endless loop which eventually causes capitalism to self-destruct. After all, one persons labor costs are someone elses labor income and consumption8. Certainly todays global economy bears some eerily comparable similarities to what Marx predicted. In 1798 English economist Thomas Malthus developed what is known as the Malthusian Law of Population9. The theory states that the population would grow at a geometric rate, while the food supply and the economy would only grow at an arithmetic rate, so general prosperity would be impossible to achieve. The flaw in the theory is the failure to take into account technology, disease, war, natural disasters and the benefits of productivity. As technology is applied more evenly, wage differentials become more pronounced. The theory seems reasonable and it is possible that it might just be taking longer to play out. With these thoughts in mind, is it possible that capitalisms underlying focus on profits and the necessity for endless purchases of goods and services has a practical limit? The necessity for growth is leading to over-capacity; this in turn is the root cause of deflation, one driver of the Feds futility. Marx stressed the great increase to human welfare from economic growth under capitalism; however, he argued that the situation becomes less and less beneficial over time. Could this hypothesis explain why this has been the weakest post-recession recovery in history: a recovery that is often referred to as a jobless recovery? The natural tendencies of capitalist impulses have been launched into hyper-speed due to the convergence of rapid technological advancements, debt expansion, globalization and central bank policies (QE, ZIRP). US Corporate profits have hit record levels recently, while average US incomes have stagnated at levels equivalent to 1970. The Pope and Karl Marx have outlined negative consequences of the capitalist social structure that have resulted in the budding calls for wealth redistribution and the intensification of social tensions. However, shrinking this divide and easing those tensions, as discussed earlier, are not as straight-forward as they may appear. (Please see Appendix II)
http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/95/1/45.abstract http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~pjkuhn/Ec250A/Class%20Notes/A_StaticLS.pdf 9 http://thelawdictionary.org/malthusian-law-of-population/
The Global Economy Most economists believe that the US economy is gathering momentum. They believe that Europe has bottomed and that commitment to extreme monetary and fiscal policies in Japan is sowing the seeds of a recovery there. While there are pockets of green shoots, optimism is being driven as much by hope than fact. The challenges each economy faces are great and beyond the scope of this paper, but it is fair to say that reactive ad hoc crisis management will be in full force. China could easily fail to achieve even 7% growth, a factor that would contaminate even the rosiest scenarios for the rest of the global economy. Disruptions to Chinas economic growth will have significant effects on interest rates, commodities (decline on demand-side), equity indices, and currencies around the world. According to a report by Chinas National Audit Office, local government debt levels, which include debt guarantees and contingent liabilities, have soared to over $3 trillion in the past 3 years. Since governments are not allowed to tap banks directly, most Chinese debt is parked in SIVs (Special Investment Vehicles). Much of the borrowing is secured by local land values. Local governments have been incentivized to generate high growth rates because they have typically been rewarded by Beijing. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that Chinas financial system is already inundated with a significant amount of impaired assets, fragile financial firms, and unpayable loans (and unsettling pollution concerns). Overcapacity is already crimping corporate profits before the costs of credit, electricity, water and other key inputs are set to rise from Beijings new reform agenda. In the US, the weak labor recovery has only brought nonfarm payrolls back to where it was in 2006. Today, a good portion of recently created jobs are low-wage and/or part-time. Obamacare has exacerbated this trend, as it incentivizes employers to limit both the number of hours an employee works, and the number of full-time employees in the firm. Healthcare in the US was in need of a major overhaul, as it is unconscionable for a superpower to tolerate a situation where 50 million citizens lack healthcare coverage. However, despite the good intentions, the structure of Obamacare has deep flaws and it is now conceivable that the incompetence of the rollout risks Obamacare going into a death spiral in 2014. If the huge resources thrown at fixing the problems fails to get more people enrolled, there will be insufficient premiums to allow healthy individuals to adequately subsidize the unhealthy. The world has been kept on life support mostly by government spending of trillions of dollars and central bank printing of trillions more. Both have boosted asset prices and given the allure of economic progress. Over-zealous regulators, market rule changes, and aggressive policy stimulus have temporarily stabilized markets. Market vigilantes have been hibernating, because unclear investment rules and uncertainties around the ultimate magnitude of stimulus have prevented them from attacking bad policies or distorting asset price valuations.
It is difficult to know the extent that markets and the global economy have benefited from official policy stimulus; however, five years after the crash, economic growth and the labor recovery remain subpar. Strong growth should have been ignited by now. Most economists still believe in the official position that growth is edging sustainably higher and that interest rates will slowly rise to reflect it. They could be correct, but should it fail to unfold as expected, confidence in the efficacy of official policy will diminish and the social contract will break down further. Since markets require confidence, they will also react accordingly. Some argue that economic benefits to stimulus have run its course, while the costs from looming unintended consequences have not yet been unleashed. Many believe (and I am one) that the risks and costs of current Fed policy outweigh the benefits. Experimental Fed Policies The Feds asset purchase program (QE) and Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) are the foremost factors that have widened wealth inequalities. The richest few have benefited the most, simply because the 10% richest Americans own 80% of US stocks. The FOMC believe that its assetprice-inflation-trickle-down-policy leads to spending which ultimately leads to job creation, especially for the poor. However, several FOMC members themselves have questioned Fed policies, citing that they have not worked as well as had been hoped, and pointing out that aggregate demand has been weak throughout the recovery. To his credit Fed Governor Jeremy Stein broached the subject of unintended consequences of Fed policies when he mentioned in his February paper, A prolonged period of low interest rates, of the sort we are experiencing today, can create incentives for agents to take on greater duration or credit risk, or to employ additional financial leverage in an effort to reach for yield. 10 Zero interest rates have incentivized corporations to issue debt (see page 10) in order to capitalize on the historically low interest rates; however, corporations have primarily used the money to pay greater dividends, buyback shares, or modernize plant and equipment. There is a strong case to be made that holding interest rates at zero for a prolonged period is actually counter-productive to the Feds efforts to achieve either of its dual mandates. This is because increasing productivity through modernization typically exposes redundancies: it allows firms to lay-off workers, while the improvement in competitiveness allows firms to drop prices. Furthermore, and as I referenced in my 2013 paper, Should the marginal propensity to consume of creditors exceed that of debtors, the net effect of redistribution could be to lower household spending rather than raise it. There are some conservative savers who have a predetermined goal in mind for the minimum amount of savings they wish to accumulate over time. Those investors may refuse to move out the risk curve in search of higher yields (likely widening the wealth divide). To them, lower interest rates simply mean a slower rate of accumulation, which likely
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/stein20130207a.htm
will jeopardize their minimum goal.11 The only recourse for this investor is to save more, which is the exact opposite intention of the Feds policy. For example, if interest rates fall from 4% to 3%, an investor would have to increase savings by more than 20% each year to reach the same goal over 30 years. Another negative result of ZIRP is that banks and other lenders are discouraged from lending due to puny return levels; and, therefore, the Feds desire to expand lending is compromised. Are lower (or negative) interest rates supposed to increase the incentive to lend money? To assume such is absurd. Although somewhat counter-intuitive, if interest rates rose, then the supply of money willing to be lent would increase due to wider interest margins. Policies are so unprecedented and unproven that it is possible that the Fed itself has now become a source of financial instability. This could be the case either through the potential fueling of asset bubbles, through its compromised ability to conduct future monetary policy (due to its unwieldy $4 trillion balance sheet), or due to unknown unknowns12. For example, during the May taper-talk, capital began to flow out of emerging markets, placing downward pressure on their respective currencies. This is a major consequence of the downside to the Feds programs whether the Fed wants to acknowledge it or not. The Fed has created systemic risk in the world financial system for which it takes little or no responsibility. FOMC members have indicated that what happens outside the US is not their problem. However, in a globalized world economy and as a keeper of the worlds reserve currency, the US central bank has an obligation to act responsibly and take those factors into account. On the other hand, policy makers have a tool through their privileged positions to finance international deficits and budget deficits with their own IOUs (dollars). The US continues to exercise this option to the detriment of the rest of the world. Investor Behavior In a low to zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) environment, investors desperately search for yield. This frequently chases investors into assets to which they are ill-suited and to which they will miscalculate liquidity and downside potential. Under ZIRP paradigms, riskier assets become the best-performing. Credit spreads collapse and equities soar. Massive monetary printing by global central banks has not just emboldened investors, but these actions have collectively changed their behavior and psychology. There is evidence that policies have led to mis-allocation of resources. Investors are emboldened to take what many critics believe is inappropriate or reckless levels of risk. The motto, Dont fight the Fed has taken on added meaning. Moral hazard and a deep-seated bullish psychology have become rampant. Extended Fed promises of lower rates and a continuation of asset purchases even as the economy heals, are conspiring to propel prices ever-upward. Investing today has become mostly about
Walter Bagehot and http://dallasfed.org/assets/documents/institute/wpaper/2012/0126.pdf http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2636
seeking relative yield, rather than assessing value or determining if the investments return is sufficient compensation for the risk. Simply stated, investors and speculators receive ever-lower returns for ever-higher levels of risks. Over time, the ability of an investor to assess an assets fundamental value becomes everincreasingly impaired. It should a warning sign to portfolio managers fiduciary responsibility to maximize return per unit of risk (see market liquidity section). There have been persistent cycles of asset booms (bubbles) that eventually turned to busts. Very low or negative real rates (seen recently) always create economic distortions and the mispricing of risk, thereby creating asset bubbles. Each boom had some differences, but the common factor has always been easy money which the Fed was too slow to withdraw. Providing liquidity is always easier than taking it away, which is one reason why the Fed has hit the Zero Lower Bound in the first place. Eventually (un-manipulated) asset prices always return to their fundamental value, which is why bubbles always pop. The FOMC has backed itself into a corner. Current changes in policy are being designed around efforts to manage the unwind process seamlessly. Central bank (and government officials) micro-management appears based on a belief that they can exert an allencompassing central control over markets and peoples lives. Those in power have come to believe that policies have a precise effect that can be defined and managed. This is highly unlikely. In normal times there is a more discernable connection between cause and effect. However, the usual relationships particularly break down during periods of over-indebtedness, unprecedented regulatory changes, and official rates reaching the zero lower bound. Today, the world is far from normal. It is not difficult to imagine the looming fallout from policies that have promoted asset price inflation, and which have materially compromised market liquidity. In the long run, policies that punish savers at the expense of helping risk-takers and speculators are bad long-run policies for any country. It would be better to transform the country into net savers, rather than to continue to promote policies where growth is reliant on overly-leveraged consumers or speculators, and is micro-managed by attempts of central-control. Market Liquidity In 2014, investors have asymmetric risk distributions that are skewed to the downside. Riskseeking investors are playing a high-stakes game of chicken because the door to exit will be narrow. When risk needs to be pared, market liquidity will be challenging due to fewer marketmakers, and potentially fewer new marginal buyers. The strategy of many investors has been to stay over-weight equities to capitalize on the Feds overly-accommodative policy; however the intention is for these investors to go the other way when Fed policy is not as overly-accommodative. A small taper does not quite meet that parameter, because the Fed is still providing extraordinary accommodation even after the recovery takes hold. However, there will be a tipping point.
It could be argued that the Fed is only concerned with whether the banking system can withstand financial market fallout. The Feds emphasis on vigorously monitoring markets for bubbles and hints of financial instability, essentially means that it wants to make sure that the banking system can withstand a crisis or steep market sell-off. It is probably correct to assume that the banking system is better prepared. This gives the Fed some comfort, but investors should be worried because the Fed is simply less concerned about anyone else who may have become caught up in the allure of financial speculation or leverage during the half-decade of financial repression. The details in the next paragraph describe the magnitude of global corporate issuance under a ZIRP regime and an explanation of why market liquidity will be challenging in 2014. The total outstanding amount of investment grade US corporate bonds (IG) has risen three-fold since 2007, while Primary Dealer inventory has fallen 78% over the same time frame13. The outstanding amount of Global Fixed Income securities outstanding has risen even more. Dollar dominated Emerging Market Debt has risen four-fold over this period which poses a whole separate set of problems when the local currency depreciates relative to the dollar. When interest rates begin to rise, many investors who hold this debt will want to hedge or sell their interest rate risk. There simply may not be enough market making outlets to absorb this risk without causing a troublesome overshoot with contagion potential. Unless the economic fundamentals rise to justify equity valuation, then the same logic can be applied to the crowded over-exposures in the equity sector. Structural Flaws From the 1950s until his death in 1993, economist Robert Triffin suggested fundamental reforms and improvements that should be made to make the functioning of the international monetary system more stable and less susceptible to rolling crises. He foresaw flaws in a monetary system that is anchored by a paper reserve currency of one country. The term Triffin Dilemma14 was coined. It described a doomed state in which the country supplying the reserve currency had to run an ever-growing deficit to adequately supply the world with its currency (dollars), but a growing deficit would result in ever-declining confidence in that countrys currency. Triffin found it absurd that richer, more-capitalized industrial countries were the main reserve borrowers from the global monetary system. Furthermore, he felt that the US, as the supplier of the worlds reserve currency, had enormous inflationary proclivities that would undermine the system. The head of the Chinese central bank, Mr. Zhou, cited Mr. Triffin in a paper calling for a new international reserve currency to replace the dollar. He said, The desirable goal of reforming the international monetary system is to create an international reserve currency that is disconnected from the individual nations and is able to remain stable in the long run, thus removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies.
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/quarterlyrefunding/Documents/TBAC%20Discussion%20Charts%20May%202012.pdf (page 4 of Appendix) 14 http://wps.fep.up.pt/wps/wp469.pdf
Triffin warned that other countries will sooner or later lead the initiative to find an alternative in order to limit their over-dependence on the US. Since US imbalances are growing and the Chinese economy is expected to overtake the US as the worlds largest around 2028, this matter is likely to gain momentum. At the moment, there are few, if any, good alternatives, but IMFs Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) are currently the lead candidate. In the long run, excessive debt levels block the main channels for monetary policy to influence economy activity. High indebtedness requires a minimum degree of economic growth just to ensure debt-servicing is possible. High leverage was a major factor for the severity of the crisis in 2008. The total amount of global fixed income securities outstanding (debt) has now increased three-fold in the past six years to levels not seen since the 1997 Asian crisis. However, there is not the same amount off reckless lending today, as there was prior to the 2008 crisis. In an unbalanced and highly globalized world reliant of interconnected supply chains, market contagion risks are high. Market contagion can happen quickly and lack of liquidity magnifies the fallout. Remember in 1997, Thailand devalued which was perceived to be a local event. Other devaluations followed in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. The contagion then spilled into South Korea, Hong Kong and China. The weaker currencies led to a drop in the demand for (more expensive) imported oil from Russia and commodities from Brazil. The drop in demand, ultimately led to the Russian default (oil is responsible for 75% of Russian GDP). Russia and Brazil went into a free fall. Five weeks later Long Term Capital Management was insolvent and world capital markets were on the verge collapse. Conclusion The widening of income and wealth disparities gathers momentum through globalization and Fed policy, and is a natural product of capitalism. Modern global monetary and economic structures are such that imbalances and pressures build perpetually over time. The capitalistic forces that power economic growth have practical limits that will continually be tested socially, environmentally, and technologically. Adaptation to a modernized world that has pushed productivity into warp-speed must begin with a sense of shared responsibility that leaves no individuals behind. After all, inequality is a constraint on economic growth which ultimately negatively affects everyone. At the international level, macro-prudential policies are necessary to put sovereign nations and capital markets on equal competitive footing, helping to avoid protectionist tendencies. Since these processes improve at a snails pace, many of the required changes will unfortunately be broughton by crises. Several cracks in the foundation of the global monetary system and capitalist model have already manifested themselves from the flaws detailed by Robert Triffin, Pope Francis, Karl Marx, and Alan Manning. The fragility of the system may have been witnessed in May during the first mention of taper-talk when capital quickly began flowing out of certain countries and foreign central banks reacted hastily by hiking interest rates. Governmental policies are attempting to off-set these fractures and other aggregating imbalances through aggressive regulatory actions and centralized control endeavors. Unfortunately, many policy initiatives attempting to ease the pressures merely redirect them to other focal points. 12
More so than ever before, political and social (and central bank) factors are having a vast impact on almost every asset class. One unintended consequence has been the severe damage caused to market liquidity. Investors are currently complacent because the Fed has been providing a market put. Providing the market with easy money has chased investors into the same risk-seeking trades. Investor behavior is partially being driven by fear of missing the upside: they feel pressure to not earn zero, to beat inflation and benchmarks, or to simply outperform their peers. This herd mentality is a powerful, yet dangerous force15. It should be a warning of the markets downside potential when markets are confronted with the next risk-off catalyst. Regulations and uncertain rules of trading have thoroughly compromised market liquidity. It is the Great Fool Theory for investors believe they will be able to monetize profits in aggregate. History shows that periods when central banks pivot from low-rate policy to normal rates has been accompanied by significant market volatility and a tendency for markets to over-predict the markets direction. The FOMC wants markets to believe that they can navigate a soft landing through micromanaging the unwind process. However, investors and traders care more about the final destination than the journey, to quote from Mohamed El-Erian, so there will become a time when the Fed tips investors from yield-seeking toward getting ahead of the curve. This point will occur during the process of the Fed lowering the accommodation needle. It will be flood markets with sellers who will be hard-pressed to find an economic bid from dealers or marketmakers. The apt analogy is a playground see-saw where investors (and Fed) have a seat firmly on the ground and risk assets dangling in the air. The Fed has started the process of tossing 10 pounds (billions of Treasuries) onto the seat in the air. Every six weeks after each meeting, another 10 pounds will be tossed on the high-side. At some point, a few heavy investors will decide to jump-off the seat that they have been sharing with the Fed, causing the high-seat (risk assets) to come crashing down from its high perch. The Fed would like to balance the see-saw, but history suggests the chances are infinitesimal. The financial crisis that is likely to unfold in 2014 will likely look quite different than the one in 1997 or 2008. The 2014 crisis will likely not cause bank runs or complete dysfunction in the marketplace like it did in 2008. Today, capital can flow much more easily and quickly in a modern world, due to technology and greater investible products, so what may be bad for one countrys financial assets may be good for anothers. A 2014 crisis would more likely be one characterized by too many sellers and too few market makers (i.e. lack of market liquidity). As the Fed continues its reduction of asset purchases, more investors will choose to get out of risk assets, causing lower financial asset prices. The lower prices will cause other investors to pare risk and so on. There will be times when lower prices quickly beget even lower prices.
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A liquidity-premium will be placed on liquid securities. The process from the unwinding of five years of QE and ZIRP and so many investors going the same way- will be why the Fed is likely to lose control of the process. The bottom line is that 2014 will be characterized by intermittent collapses in market liquidity, increases in market volatility, and bouts of market instability. Happy 2014 and Beyond -Guy
The rationales for the Factors and Strategies below have been the basis of this treatise. Market Factors and Risks in 2014 Market liquidity, especially during crisis periods, is the leading market attribute that all portfolio managers (PMs) miscalculate. Central bank put is weakened with tapering, so volatility will be higher. With the surge of equities (right-tail), the greater is the probability of a move down into the left-tail. Portfolios should increase the overall liquidity of their portfolios, as well as their ability to make tactical adjustments. With asset prices so elevated and distorted and with the initiation of the Fed Taper, preservation of capital must be a core investment strategy. (Long term wealth accumulation means not participating in the downside, because historically it takes approximately 10 years to return to your high-water mark.) Global capital markets will be more volatile due to capital flows triggered by changing central bank actions. Emerging market economies with current account deficits will have difficulty attracting foreign capital. Chinese growth is a key to the global economy. Chinese housing remains in a bubble. Non-performing loans are on the rise. Ecological challenges are growing. Policy pivot from export-led growth to one of domestic demand will have growing pains. Shale gas, leading to U.S. energy self-dependence, is a major positive for U.S. markets over the next 10 years and has positive implications for a revival of U.S. manufacturing. EU markets are too complacent but investors do not wish to fight the commitment of leaders who implement reactionary ad-hoc fixes to each new crisis. Abenomics will not yet achieve its 2% core inflation objective. There is a paradox: as inflation rises, the yield on the 10-year JGB will be unable to stay near 0.7%. (See strategy note from May 2013). Higher debt servicing will be a problem for a country that already spends 25% of revenues on debt servicing. Protectionism is a great potential risk to the global economy and must be monitored closely. Cyber-crime and cyber-terrorism are real and growing threats. Precautions must be taken where possible. A significant event that impacts markets is likely in 2014. Other risks include: escalation of Middle East tensions, escalation of Asian tension over disputed islands, EU disunity, civil unrest, election(s) of extreme political parties, and extreme weather or electrical grid problems.
Predictions and Strategies for 2014 The 10-year US Treasury yield: closes year at 3.40%; range of 2.60% to 3.75%. As the Fed gradually reduces QE, the 10-year will move toward Nominal GDP minus a liquidity premium. $/yen to 125, AUD/$ to .7000, EUR < 1.250, GBP to 1.55, Bitcoin to sub $100. The S&P <1400; CAC < 3300; DAX < 7800; the Nikkei > 20,000. JGB 10-year to 1.30%; Bund 10-year to 2.60%, UK 10-year to 3.5%. Markets in 2014 will continue to have great differentiation between asset classes and geographic region. 2014 will be characterized by great market swings. The decrease in QE is akin to a gradual decline in the Fed put. The put provided portfolios with downside insurance, therefore, during QE and ZIRP, selling options was a yield-enhancing strategy. Investors should reverse this strategy and be long option volatility. Anti-EU fringe parties will capture over one quarter of parliamentary seats. Scotland will vote against Independence in September. The vote for independence for Catalonia will be delayed. Protests and civil unrest will expand globally. Japan seems determined to weaken the yen. Their debt levels and demographics look terrible. Nonetheless, continue to short the yen and JGBs, and buy the Nikkei. The Nikkei benefits from weaker Yen (debasement), due to high percentage of exporters in the index. PMs should increase portfolio liquidity and their ability to hedge exposures and make quick tactical changes. PMs should implement risk-factor models. Portfolios should increase geographic diversification to exposures to countries with current account surpluses, sound banking systems and vast quantities of natural resources. Increase exposures to Frontier Markets, as well as to real productive assets, real estate, royalties, alternatives, distressed credit, infrastructure projects, timber, and natural resources. Increase exposures to non-correlated sources of idiosyncratic risk. The names of economists Thomas Malthus, Robert Triffin, Daniel Kahneman, and Joseph Schumpeter will become more widely known.
The Pope specifically said in his first Apostolic Exhortation in November: Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape. Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a throw away culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer societys underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the exploited but the outcast, the leftovers. In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and nave trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other peoples pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone elses responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase. In the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules. Debt and the accumulation of interest also make it difficult for countries to realize the potential of their own economies and keep citizens from enjoying their real purchasing power. To all this we can add widespread corruption and self-serving tax evasion, which have taken on worldwide dimensions.16
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangeliigaudium_en.html (sections 52-56)
The Giving Pledge One wonderful idea that could delay the Marx-style inevitable-implosion of capitalism is The Giving Pledge17, founded by Warren Buffett and Bill Gate. It should be a required case study in business schools. The Pledge is a campaign that encourages the wealthiest people in the world to make a commitment to give most of their wealth to philanthropic causes. It likely came about in a simple way. Once upon a time, Warren and Bill were playing a game of Monopoly and they each got to the point when Warren had vastly more money than the bank, so Bill suggested that he give half of it back to the bank, so they could keep having fun while consuming McDonald Cheeseburgers and Diet Cokes. Thus, a plan was born out of kindness, but could serve a greater purpose of saving contemporary capitalism from its inherent flaws. The plan also falls within the realm of the Popes plea for more humanity in economic pursuits. Capitalism is like a game anyway, so once you get to that billionaire status, you have already won. It makes sense to then recycle wealth back into the game similar to the way corporations pump money back into business investment or research and development. Pushing back against Capitalisms natural successes and entrepreneurial spirit in any other way (e.g. taxes, wealth redistribution, penalties, confiscation, anarchy, etc) could have terrible consequences for everyone. Our schools and universities must adapt to the changing state of labor demand outlined by Alan Manning. A sustainable capitalist system requires it. Technological advancement and the use of robotics have resulted in too many middle-income workers having no economic value as employees The new curriculum should include real life examples of the significant changes that resulted from voluntary commitments under The Giving Pledge. The worlds better-off should continue to help the poorer to prosper, so educational encouragement can be motivational. The pursuit of winning - the capitalist game - has to find ways to live compatibly and morally in the confines of the arena, or the game becomes like Pope Francis described:
The worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances, and above all, their lack of real concern for human beings.
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The Times They Are A-Changin'
Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'. Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'. Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside And it is ragin' It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'. Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'. The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin' And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'. Bob Dylan
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The SECI model of knowledge creation: some empirical
Stephen Gourlay
Kingston Business School
Kingston Hill
KT2 7LB
UK.
sngourlay@kingston.ac.uk
Keywords: SECI, Nonaka, knowledge creation, knowledge conversion, information creation
Nonakas theory of organizational knowledge creation, centring on the SECI model, is probably the most widely cited theory
in knowledge management. It is the contention of this paper that the empirical basis for the model is highly unsatisfactory,
and thus that the model itself may be seriously flawed.
This paper presents a critique of key empirical aspects of Nonakas model of knowledge
creation. If, as is now widely accepted, it is important to manage knowledge for a variety of
reasons, then it is equally important that we have good models to assist this process. Nonaka
and his colleagues model, in particular the SECI matrix of knowledge conversion, is
increasingly being cited by authors in a widening set of disciplines, and has evidently
achieved something like a paradigmatic status. However, as I shall argue below, it is not
supported by empirical evidence, and some of the conversion modes are not coherent. The
paradigmatic status of this theory may thus be unwarranted.
The theory of organizational knowledge creation developed by Nonaka and his colleagues
(Nonaka 1994; Nonaka et. al. 1994; Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995; Nonaka et. al. 2000; 2001a;
Nonaka & Toyama 2003) originated in studies of information creation in innovating
companies (Imai et. al. 1985; Nonaka 1988a, 1988b, 1990, 1991b, Nonaka & Yamanouchi
1989; Nonaka & Kenney 1991) and appears to have undergone two phases of development.
Initially a two dimensional theory of knowledge creation was proposed (Nonaka 1994: 16-17;
Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 57-60). The first, or epistemological, dimension is the site of
social interaction between tacit and explicit knowledge whereby knowledge is converted
from one type to another, and new knowledge created (Nonaka et. al. 1994: 338; Nonaka
1994: 15). Four modes of knowledge conversion were identified (Figure 1): tacit to tacit
(Socialization); tacit to explicit (Externalization); explicit to explicit (Combination), and
explicit to tacit (Internalization). After Internalization the process continues at a new level,
hence the metaphor of a spiral of knowledge creation (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 71-2, 89)
often referred to as the SECI model.
Figure 1: The engine of knowledge creation
(adapted from Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995, pp. 57, 62, 71)
While knowledge conversion is a social process its effects in the epistemological dimension
appear to be on the individual since the second (ontological) dimension depicts the passage
from individual to inter-organizational knowledge via group and organizational levels
(Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 73). Through this process an individuals knowledge is
amplified and crystallized as a part of the knowledge network of an organization
(Nonaka 1994: 17-18). This is the process of organizational knowledge creation and it too is
described as a spiral. The SECI components reappear at this level although in a different
order (Nonaka et. al. 1994: 342; Nonaka 1994: 17; Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 73, 89-90, 235-
Recently the two dimensions have become three elements or levels (Nonaka et. al. 2000;
2001a; 2001b). The SECI processes remain a key element but ba, or shared context of
knowledge creation, and knowledge assets have replaced the ontological dimension
(Nonaka et. al. 2001b:16). Knowledge creation, a self-transcending process by means of
which one transcends the boundary of the old self into a new self (Nonaka et. al. 2001b: 16)
clearly, if somewhat mystically, indicates a strong individual and subjective focus (see also
Nonaka & Toyama 2003). The focus of this paper is the engine of knowledge creation - the
SECI processes - so other elements of their model will not be discussed.
Although the theory was first fully described in 1994 (Nonaka 1994; see Nonaka 1991a for
some key elements) it has attracted little systematic criticism. Adler (1995) argued that it
suffered from too static a contrast between tacit and explicit knowledge which he felt was
inadequate for a dynamic model of tacit-explicit knowledge inter-relatedness (Adler 1995:
110-111). He also noted that several of the SECI modes had been studied by other
disciplines, something Nonaka appeared to have overlooked (Adler 1995: 111). Jorna (1998)
reviewing The Knowledge-Creating Company (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995) argued that since
the four phases of knowledge conversion concern a change of signs from one form to
another a semiotic framework for dealing with signs is required, but is absent. He also noted
the omission of many important philosophers, of learning theory, of earlier discussion of tacit
and declarative knowledge, and the misreading of important organizational writers.
Engestrm noted Nonaka and Takeuchis accounts suggest teams took as given the problem
to be worked on. His research, however, led him to conclude that formulating, analyzing and
systematically locating the problem are key innovation processes (Engestrm, 1999: 380,
388-90). Others have pointed to important contingent factors to the SECI processes: Becerra-
Fernandez and Sabherwal (2001) show that each of the SECI modes is dependent on the
presence of appropriate task characteristics while Poell and van der Krogt (2003), treating the
modes as forms of learning, also report that work type influences how workers learn.
These are serious criticisms that anyone wishing to use Nonakas theory must take into
account. The argument I propose to develop in this paper is that the evidence for the
processes is weak or non-existent which thus calls into question the SECI model itself. Since
this remains at the heart of the overall theory, flaws in the SECI model will also affect the
wider theory.
2. The empirical basis for the SECI model
There are two principal sources of empirical grounding for the SECI model. First a survey of
Japanese managers that Nonaka and his colleagues claimed validated the model. Second, the
case study data, particularly that presented in The knowledge-creating company (Nonaka &
Takeuchi 1995). I will deal with those two sources in turn.
2.1 The survey of managers1
In 1993 Nonaka and his colleagues surveyed a convenience sample of Japanese managers to
test the emerging theory of knowledge creation (Nonaka et. al. 1994). The questionnaire
comprised 185 items, 38 of which concerned the content of organizational knowledge
creation, as measured by the amount of time spent on specific activities (Nonaka et. al. 1994,
pp. 342-3, 350). While they cautioned that this was the first time that the survey had been
used, that generalization to other cultures remained questionable, and that more qualitative
data would have been useful (Nonaka et. al. 1994: 350), they nevertheless concluded that the
survey validated the four modes of knowledge conversion (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 91; see
Nonaka et. al. 1994).
This claim can be questioned on several grounds. First, it is doubtful whether processes as
complex as knowledge conversion can be identified through self-completion questionnaires,
at least, not without considerable prior research to validate measures of the concepts. Second,
at that time no studies of knowledge conversion had been undertaken from which measures of
the process could have been derived. Indeed, until the early 1990s Nonaka had been occupied
with studies of information creation (see e.g. Imai et. al. 1985; Nonaka 1988a, 1988b, 1990,
1991b, Nonaka & Yamanouchi 1989; Nonaka & Kenney 1991) some of which were clearly
the source for data on the knowledge creation modes. Third, the SECI model is a process
model, but the questionnaire only measured content, so the claim to have validated a
process model cannot be sustained. Finally, while the percentage of variance explained
through confirmatory factor analysis did reach acceptable levels for socialization and
combination such levels were not reached for the other two modes. At best, it seems, the
survey validated two of four hypothesized modes of information creation.
1 I am grateful to Andrew Nurse, Research Associate, Kingston Business School, for permission to draw on an
unpublished paper for this section.
2.2 The case study evidence
Nonaka and his colleagues also provided illustrative case study evidence for each of the the
SECI processes. This material is illustrative in the sense of having been selected to exemplify
a point and as has already been indicated, much if not all the data came from previous studies
of information creation. Nevertheless, it is worth evaluating just what the data shows in the
light of the model and associated theory.
The SECI model claims that knowledge conversion begins with the tacit acquisition of tacit
knowledge by people who do not have it from people who do, a process Nonaka and his
colleagues named socialization. They give three examples of this process ( Nonaka 1991b:
98-9; Nonaka 1994: 19; Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 62-4; Nonaka et. al. 2001b: 17) of which
the best documented study concerns the development of the automatic bread-making machine
showing how a tacit technical skill was socialized (Nonaka 1991b: 98-9; Nonaka &
Takeuchi 1995: 63-4, 100-109).
An early prototype machine failed to produce tasty bread, the problem focused on in the
second phase of the project (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 63, 102-3). For some unreported
reason the team felt that the secret lay in the kneading process. Since a master chef could not
tell them what they needed to know, a software engineer apprenticed herself to him to learn
the appropriate tacit skills. We are told that one day she noticed the baker was not only
stretching but also twisting the dough and for reasons not reported the team decided to try
to replicate this action. Since the new prototype was successful they concluded that they had
found the secret for making tasty bread. (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 64, 104-5).
This appears to provide a convincing and unusual case of tacit-to-tacit knowledge transfer, or
socialization the software engineer learned from the master baker by working with and
observing him. There are, however, some critical technical difficulties with this account.
First, it is not clear what the observed twisting motion actually referred to, whether to part
of the motion of hand-kneading, or to aspects of the final process of shaping the dough prior
to baking. What is clear, however, is that they focused on the manipulation of the raw dough
by the baker. This is the source of a second and crucial difficulty: kneading and manipulation
does not affect the taste of bread. Taste (apart from being subjective) is influenced by the raw
ingredients, the dough maturation process (which produces the complex chemicals that are
further changed during baking), and by the baking process itself (Barfield [1947]: 33, 84, 95-
8, 193, 207, 212; Reinhart 2001: 62-4, 94-5). It would thus appear that the team solved the
taste problem accidentally. Collins studies of scientists work shows that failure to
understand how a goal was actually achieved is not uncommon and may not even be realised
by those involved until others try to replicate their achievements (Collins 1974, 2001). The
team clearly did not know how to make tasty bread (unless we extend the meaning of the
word know to include ignorance of effects caused by actions) since they did not understand
what actually influenced the taste of bread. To suggest that such events illustrate the transfer
of 'knowledge', even if qualified by the adjective 'tacit' both stretches the meaning of
'knowledge' beyond useful bounds, and conflates knowledge with the effects of experience. It
is therefore difficult to accept this as illustrating 'socialization'.
Nonaka and Takeuchis account of the bread-making case is in fact ambiguous. While the
question of taste is emphasised, we are also told that the second prototyping stage focused on
how to knead bread dough properly (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995, pp. 63-4, 103-5). From this
perspective their account seems to provide a better example of socialization. Thus they tell
us that the developers learned how to knead bread, under the supervision of the chef, and
subsequently were able to reflect on that experience to think about how to mechanize the
process. In this context someone came up with the idea of a twist, and when they replicated
that the result was a better tasting product. However, it does not seem necessary to invoke the
notion of some mysterious kind of knowledge being transferred by an equally mysterious
process to account for what happened here. People learn physical skills both with and without
the assistance of an expert. Once people have learned a skill, they can reflect on it, and may
perhaps succeed in producing some kind of description in this case, the description was in
engineering terms explicitly connected with the need to develop a new bread-making
machine. While apparently a better example of socialization, since this data is open to other
and simpler explanations, there is no need to invoke the idea of socialization here. We are
thus left without any convincing or unambiguous evidence for this mode of conversion.
Externalization, the next step in the knowledge conversion process, involves converting tacit
into explicit knowledge, and holds the key to knowledge creation as new concepts are formed
here (Nonaka 1994: 24; Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 66). Several cases of new product
development are offered as examples of this process. The best documented case describes
how managers set up a young team charged with producing a new car that was inexpensive
but not cheap (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995:11-13, 69-70, 76-8, 86-7). When novelty proved
difficult to achieve a team leader stimulated their creativity with his idea of Automobile
Evolution. Using this and other similarly incongruous phrases ideas about what a new car
might look like were generated and subsequently developed into a formal proposal for a new
car.
The lack of detail precludes much comment on this example, but it seems to be an interesting
example of the application of standard creativity techniques. So far as externalization is
concerned, however, the principal difficulty here is the complete lack of any evidence for tacit
knowledge that was made explicit by the creativity process. Had Nonaka and his colleagues
claimed that the team leader had foreknowledge, in the Polanyian sense, of the new
product, then, despite the obvious difficulties of this notion, the product development cases
could be read as examples of tacit-to-explicit knowledge conversion. Polanyi claimed we
can have a tacit foreknowledge of yet undiscovered things. (Polanyi, 1966:23), and wrote
that the true meaning of the heliocentric system was discovered by Newton, but it was
anticipated 140 years earlier by Copernicus. (Polanyi, 1969:133). In so far as human
knowledge grows in part by standing on the shoulders of giants we might have to conclude
that cave dwellers had foreknowledge of space technology. However, the notion of
foreknowledge was not invoked, and in any case seems one of Polanyis more mystical
ideas. The phenomenon Polanyi described that one person draws inferences from anothers
ideas that the latter did not anticipate can be explained by reference to different individuals
operating in different situations, and does not require a notion of foreknowledge implying
some kind of predictive powers. Thus we are forced to conclude that no evidence is actually
offered for tacit-to-explicit knowledge conversion by these studies.
The bread-making case seems to provide a more convincing example. Thus we are told that
one of the design team was able to transfer her knowledge [of making bread] to the
engineers by using the phrase twisting stretch to provide a rough image of kneading
(Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 104). The team was able to use this metaphor to think about how
to replicate the motion in a machine. Externalization is also exemplified here in that the team
were able to put their newly acquired tacit knowledge into a form of words and ultimately
machine specifications that enabled them to produce the desired effects. This appears very
like the processes Collins (1974, 2001) described people who could do something but were
not able to fully describe how they could do it worked hard at developing a description when
it became necessary, and when it was apparent that they could not describe what they did in
such a way as to enable someone else to do the same thing. Externalization does appear to be
an important process, albeit one that is more complex than Nonakas accounts would suggest.
Moreover, as has already been suggested, it must be questioned whether it is useful to stretch
the meaning of knowledge to include what otherwise might be called ignorance. In so far
as knowledge is generally assumed to imply some kind of understanding, and that neither
the software team nor Collins' scientists fully understood how they had achieved their results
then it would be better not to refer to this lack of understanding combined with ability to do
something as knowledge.
The next step in the SECI model is combination the process of systematizing concepts into
a knowledge system (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 67), which happens when people synthesize
different sources of explicit knowledge into, for example, a report (Nonaka 1991b:99), or
through ... meetings and telephone conversations and exchange of documents (Nonaka
1994: 19; Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 67). We are also told that an MBA education is one of
the best examples of combination (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 67), and that modern
computer systems provide a graphic example (Nonaka 1994: 19). Finally, combination also
involves the embodiment of knowledge into products (Nonaka 1991b:99; Nonaka et. al.
1996: 207-8).
Combination thus apparently consists of three (or four) kinds of activities: using language
(talking, listening, reading, writing) to produce a synthesis; some unspecified aspect of
computer functioning; and the embodiment of knowledge into material goods. In so far as
formal education involves language activities it can be subsumed under the first category, but
it could also be separated out as learning/teaching, and thus constitute a fourth category of
combination activities. It is impossible to take seriously their claim that higher education
simply or even largely involves exchange of explicit knowledge (Adler, 1995). More
significantly, none of these examples were discussed or described in ways that revealed their
common properties as examples of the combination of explicit knowledge, and no
descriptions of combination processes were offered.
What might be involved in reordering explicit knowledge? If we take the case of creating a
new document from existing ones (Nonaka 1991b: 99) reordering implies first that the
document(s) are read. There are a number of theories of reading (Smith 1994). Some treat a
document as a channel along which messages pass to the reader but this application of the
mathematical theory of communication to human communication has long been criticized as
inappropriate (Cherry 1966; see also Garavelli et. al. 2002). Other reading theories treat the
process as an interactive constructive one. Rosenblatt, for example described reading as
dynamic, fluid process and an interdependent relationship in time between a reader and
part of the environment, a text. (Rosenblatt 1998: 887-8; see also Rosenblatt 1994: 17-19;
Goodman 1996; Smith 1994; Gourlay 2001). Brent (1992) has drawn attention to similarities
between Rosenblatts view, and those of others studying the reading and writing processes.
If reading and writing are interactive dynamic processes this implies, to use Nonakas terms,
that they involve explicit-to-tacit, tacit-to-explicit, and probably also tacit-to-tacit
transformations as readers/writers try to make sense of the text they are
consuming/producing. As Adler (1995: 111) noted, pursuit of combination appears to
require an important dose of tacit knowledge. If what has been said about reading extends
to all language processes these would appear to involve aspects of socialization,
externalization, and internalization and can thus hardly be introduced as examples of
combination! As for computer functioning and embodiment processes, these might be
viable candidates for a distinct combination process, but as they have not been described, it
is impossible to know what was intended. We have to conclude that the notion of
combination is far from coherent despite having been validated by a survey (Nonaka et. al.
1994). It is therefore not surprising that there is no clear empirical evidence.
The final cell of the matrix is labelled internalization, described as a process of embodying
explicit knowledge into tacit knowledge. It is closely related to the traditional notion of
learning, and to learning by doing (Nonaka et. al. 1994: 340-41; Nonaka 1994: 19; Nonaka
& Takeuchi 1995: 69) although somewhat confusingly they also say that internalization is
triggered by learning-by-doing (Nonaka et. al. 1996: 208). Individuals can also internalize
experiences by creating and reading documents: Documentation helps individuals internalize
what they experienced ... documents [help] ... people ... experience the experiences of others
indirectly (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 69). Documentation is an ambiguous word that can
mean writing or reading. Books by business leaders, for example, are seen as a useful way
of sharing mental models (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995: 70). Finally, internalization also
involves, or is achieved through, the dissemination of explicit knowledge throughout an
organization (Nonaka 1991b: 99; Nonaka et. al. 2001b: 19).
Their description of internalization is thus also a little confusing since so many activities
appear to be involved in this process. Moreover, we are not given any indication as to what
they understand by, for example, embodying of explicit knowledge, or the traditional
notion of learning. It appears, however, that they envisage it to involve three distinct routes
or processes: learning by doing, through reading, and through writing. Learning by doing is
exemplified by team members who enriched their tacit knowledge through the experience of
creating a new product (Nonaka 1991b: 99), and workers who learned what working reduced
annual hours meant by working at the new annual rate for a month (Nonaka & Takeuchi
1995, pp. 70, 117-20). The annual hours example indicates that the workers felt what the
shorter working hours meant, suggesting internalization is about acquiring a subjective
sense of meaning. In so far as tacit knowledge is subjective and personal then this would
appear to illustrate the acquisition of such knowledge but it is difficult to see what the explicit
knowledge of how many hours were to be worked as distinct from the experience of actually
working shorter hours contributed to internalization.
No examples of internalization from or through reading or writing are given, and the
difficulty with regarding reading simply as a transmission channel has already been discussed.
While those comments concerned explicit knowledge I see no reason why they should not
also apply to tacit knowledge. If, as Nonaka and his colleagues claim, language and texts
contain mental models then on the assumptions of the communication model they would
be transmitted simply by reading. But if reading is an interpretive process, such transmission
is unlikely, unless the reader is already attuned in some way to the writers tacit message.
Like combination, internalization has not been clearly described, and the examples are far
from convincing.
This paper has examined the empirical data on which the SECI model, central to Nonakas
theory of organizational knowledge creation, is based. Three points stand out. First, much if
not all the data for the survey and case studies actually came from earlier studies of
information creation. Nonaka has made much of the difference between information and
knowledge (Nonaka 1991b; 1994, pp. 15-16; Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995, pp. 57-9), and while
his earlier studies were of semantic (as distinct from syntactic) information creation (see
Nonaka 1991b), he has not produced an argument to show the equivalence of knowledge and
semantic information. His theory might therefore at best be regarded as a theory of semantic
information creation rather than of knowledge creation.
Second, the claim that the model (whether of knowledge or information creation) was
validated by a survey cannot be sustained. The survey only found support for two of the four
modes (socialization, and combination) one of which is conceptually incoherent. Indeed, the
fact that such an incoherent notion was validated by the survey raises further concerns about
the measures used in that study. Even if they were to be justified, the survey concerned the
content of the processes, and not the processes themselves. The SECI model is a process
model, and its validation must therefore require validation of processes, not simply 'content'.
Third, the detailed case materials reveal that the notions of combination and internalization
have not been clearly described, and are multi-activity processes involving activities between
which no common features have been demonstrated. There is no convincing evidence for
either of these modes, nor for socialization. There is however some evidence for the
production of descriptions of processes or activities that people could previously do but not
describe which Nonaka and his colleagues call externalization.
The SECI model has thus never had a sound empirical grounding, which must call its status
into question. Consideration of its theoretical soundness is beyond the scope of this paper, but
we can note, for example, that Nonakas key distinction between tacit and explicit
knowledge, and his conceptualization of tacit knowledge, have been called into question
(McAdam & McCreedy 1999; Tsoukas 2003) suggesting that there may also be important
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L-32717 November 26, 1970
AMELITO R. MUTUC, petitioner, vs.
COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, respondent.
FERNANDO, J.:
The invocation of his right to free speech by petitioner Amelito Mutuc, then a candidate for delegate to the Constitutional Convention, in this special civil
action for prohibition to assail the validity of a ruling of respondent Commission on Elections enjoining the use of a taped jingle for campaign purposes,
was not in vain. Nor could it be considering the conceded absence of any express power granted to respondent by the Constitutional Convention Act to
so require and the bar to any such implication arising from any provision found therein, if deference be paid to the principle that a statute is to be
construed consistently with the fundamental law, which accords the utmost priority to freedom of expression, much more so when utilized for electoral
purposes. On November 3, 1970, the very same day the case was orally argued, five days after its filing, with the election barely a week away, we
issued a minute resolution granting the writ of prohibition prayed for. This opinion is intended to explain more fully our decision.
In this special civil action for prohibition filed on October 29, 1970, petitioner, after setting forth his being a resident of Arayat, Pampanga, and his
candidacy for the position of delegate to the Constitutional Convention, alleged that respondent Commission on Elections, by a telegram sent to him five
days previously, informed him that his certificate of candidacy was given due course but prohibited him from using jingles in his mobile units equipped
with sound systems and loud speakers, an order which, according to him, is "violative of [his] constitutional right ... to freedom of speech."1 There being
no plain, speedy and adequate remedy, according to petitioner, he would seek a writ of prohibition, at the same time praying for a preliminary injunction.
On the very next day, this Court adopted a resolution requiring respondent Commission on Elections to file an answer not later than November 2, 1970,
at the same time setting the case for hearing for Tuesday November 3, 1970. No preliminary injunction was issued. There was no denial in the answer
filed by respondent on November 2, 1970, of the factual allegations set forth in the petition, but the justification for the prohibition was premised on a
provision of the Constitutional Convention Act,2which made it unlawful for candidates "to purchase, produce, request or distribute sample ballots, or
electoral propaganda gadgets such as pens, lighters, fans (of whatever nature), flashlights, athletic goods or materials, wallets, bandanas, shirts, hats,
matches, cigarettes, and the like, whether of domestic or foreign origin." 3 It was its contention that the jingle proposed to be used by petitioner is the
recorded or taped voice of a singer and therefore a tangible propaganda material, under the above statute subject to confiscation. It prayed that the
petition be denied for lack of merit. The case was argued, on November 3, 1970, with petitioner appearing in his behalf and Attorney Romulo C.
Felizmena arguing in behalf of respondent.
This Court, after deliberation and taking into account the need for urgency, the election being barely a week away, issued on the afternoon of the same
day, a minute resolution granting the writ of prohibition, setting forth the absence of statutory authority on the part of respondent to impose such a ban in
the light of the doctrine of ejusdem generis as well as the principle that the construction placed on the statute by respondent Commission on Elections
would raise serious doubts about its validity, considering the infringement of the right of free speech of petitioner. Its concluding portion was worded
thus: "Accordingly, as prayed for, respondent Commission on Elections is permanently restrained and prohibited from enforcing or implementing or
demanding compliance with its aforesaid order banning the use of political jingles by candidates. This resolution is immediately executory."4
1. As made clear in our resolution of November 3, 1970, the question before us was one of power. Respondent Commission on Elections was called
upon to justify such a prohibition imposed on petitioner. To repeat, no such authority was granted by the Constitutional Convention Act. It did contend,
however, that one of its provisions referred to above makes unlawful the distribution of electoral propaganda gadgets, mention being made of pens,
lighters, fans, flashlights, athletic goods or materials, wallets, bandanas, shirts, hats, matches, and cigarettes, and concluding with the words "and the
like."5 For respondent Commission, the last three words sufficed to justify such an order. We view the matter differently. What was done cannot merit
our approval under the well-known principle of ejusdem generis, the general words following any enumeration being applicable only to things of the
same kind or class as those specifically referred to. 6 It is quite apparent that what was contemplated in the Act was the distribution of gadgets of the kind
referred to as a means of inducement to obtain a favorable vote for the candidate responsible for its distribution.
The more serious objection, however, to the ruling of respondent Commission was its failure to manifest fealty to a cardinal principle of construction that
a statute should be interpreted to assure its being in consonance with, rather than repugnant to, any constitutional command or prescription.7 Thus,
certain Administrative Code provisions were given a "construction which should be more in harmony with the tenets of the fundamental law."8 The
desirability of removing in that fashion the taint of constitutional infirmity from legislative enactments has always commended itself. The judiciary may
even strain the ordinary meaning of words to avert any collision between what a statute provides and what the Constitution requires. The objective is to
reach an interpretation rendering it free from constitutional defects. To paraphrase Justice Cardozo, if at all possible, the conclusion reached must avoid
not only that it is unconstitutional, but also grave doubts upon that score. 9
2. Petitioner's submission of his side of the controversy, then, has in its favor obeisance to such a cardinal precept. The view advanced by him that if the
above provision of the Constitutional Convention Act were to lend itself to the view that the use of the taped jingle could be prohibited, then the
challenge of unconstitutionality would be difficult to meet. For, in unequivocal language, the Constitution prohibits an abridgment of free speech or a free
press. It has been our constant holding that this preferred freedom calls all the more for the utmost respect when what may be curtailed is the
dissemination of information to make more meaningful the equally vital right of suffrage. What respondent Commission did, in effect, was to impose
censorship on petitioner, an evil against which this constitutional right is directed. Nor could respondent Commission justify its action by the assertion
that petitioner, if he would not resort to taped jingle, would be free, either by himself or through others, to use his mobile loudspeakers. Precisely, the
constitutional guarantee is not to be emasculated by confining it to a speaker having his say, but not perpetuating what is uttered by him through tape or
other mechanical contrivances. If this Court were to sustain respondent Commission, then the effect would hardly be distinguishable from a previous
restraint. That cannot be validly done. It would negate indirectly what the Constitution in express terms assures. 10
3. Nor is this all. The concept of the Constitution as the fundamental law, setting forth the criterion for the validity of any public act whether proceeding
from the highest official or the lowest functionary, is a postulate of our system of government. That is to manifest fealty to the rule of law, with priority
accorded to that which occupies the topmost rung in the legal hierarchy. The three departments of government in the discharge of the functions with
which it is entrusted have no choice but to yield obedience to its commands. Whatever limits it imposes must be observed. Congress in the enactment
of statutes must ever be on guard lest the restrictions on its authority, whether substantive or formal, be transcended. The Presidency in the execution of
the laws cannot ignore or disregard what it ordains. In its task of applying the law to the facts as found in deciding cases, the judiciary is called upon to
maintain inviolate what is decreed by the fundamental law. Even its power of judicial review to pass upon the validity of the acts of the coordinate
branches in the course of adjudication is a logical corollary of this basic principle that the Constitution is paramount. It overrides any governmental
measure that fails to live up to its mandates. Thereby there is a recognition of its being the supreme law.
To be more specific, the competence entrusted to respondent Commission was aptly summed up by the present Chief Justice thus: "Lastly, as the
branch of the executive department — although independent of the President — to which the Constitution has given the 'exclusive charge' of the
'enforcement and administration of all laws relative to the conduct of elections,' the power of decision of the Commission is limited to purely
'administrative questions.'" 11 It has been the constant holding of this Court, as it could not have been otherwise, that respondent Commission cannot
exercise any authority in conflict with or outside of the law, and there is no higher law than the Constitution. 12Our decisions which liberally construe its
powers are precisely inspired by the thought that only thus may its responsibility under the Constitution to insure free, orderly and honest elections be
adequately fulfilled. 13 There could be no justification then for lending approval to any ruling or order issuing from respondent Commission, the effect of
which would be to nullify so vital a constitutional right as free speech. Petitioner's case, as was obvious from the time of its filing, stood on solid footing.
WHEREFORE, as set forth in our resolution of November 3, 1970, respondent Commission is permanently restrained and prohibited from enforcing or
implementing or demanding compliance with its aforesaid order banning the use of political taped jingles. Without pronouncement as to costs.
G.R. No. L-19650 September 29, 1966
CALTEX (PHILIPPINES), INC., petitioner-appellee,
ENRICO PALOMAR, in his capacity as THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, respondent-appellant.
CASTRO, J.:
In the year 1960 the Caltex (Philippines) Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Caltex) conceived and laid the groundwork for a promotional scheme calculated
to drum up patronage for its oil products. Denominated "Caltex Hooded Pump Contest", it calls for participants therein to estimate the actual number of
liters a hooded gas pump at each Caltex station will dispense during a specified period. Employees of the Caltex (Philippines) Inc., its dealers and its
advertising agency, and their immediate families excepted, participation is to be open indiscriminately to all "motor vehicle owners and/or licensed
drivers". For the privilege to participate, no fee or consideration is required to be paid, no purchase of Caltex products required to be made. Entry forms
are to be made available upon request at each Caltex station where a sealed can will be provided for the deposit of accomplished entry stubs.
A three-staged winner selection system is envisioned. At the station level, called "Dealer Contest", the contestant whose estimate is closest to the actual
number of liters dispensed by the hooded pump thereat is to be awarded the first prize; the next closest, the second; and the next, the third. Prizes at
this level consist of a 3-burner kerosene stove for first; a thermos bottle and a Ray-O-Vac hunter lantern for second; and an Everready Magnet-lite
flashlight with batteries and a screwdriver set for third. The first-prize winner in each station will then be qualified to join in the "Regional Contest" in
seven different regions. The winning stubs of the qualified contestants in each region will be deposited in a sealed can from which the first-prize,
second-prize and third-prize winners of that region will be drawn. The regional first-prize winners will be entitled to make a three-day all-expenses-paid
round trip to Manila, accompanied by their respective Caltex dealers, in order to take part in the "National Contest". The regional second-prize and third-
prize winners will receive cash prizes of P500 and P300, respectively. At the national level, the stubs of the seven regional first-prize winners will be
placed inside a sealed can from which the drawing for the final first-prize, second-prize and third-prize winners will be made. Cash prizes in store for
winners at this final stage are: P3,000 for first; P2,000 for second; Pl,500 for third; and P650 as consolation prize for each of the remaining four
participants.
Foreseeing the extensive use of the mails not only as amongst the media for publicizing the contest but also for the transmission of communications
relative thereto, representations were made by Caltex with the postal authorities for the contest to be cleared in advance for mailing, having in view
sections 1954(a), 1982 and 1983 of the Revised Administrative Code, the pertinent provisions of which read as follows:
SECTION 1954. Absolutely non-mailable matter. — No matter belonging to any of the following classes, whether sealed as first-class matter or not,
shall be imported into the Philippines through the mails, or to be deposited in or carried by the mails of the Philippines, or be delivered to its
addressee by any officer or employee of the Bureau of Posts:
Written or printed matter in any form advertising, describing, or in any manner pertaining to, or conveying or purporting to convey any information
concerning any lottery, gift enterprise, or similar scheme depending in whole or in part upon lot or chance, or any scheme, device, or enterprise for
obtaining any money or property of any kind by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises.
"SECTION 1982. Fraud orders.—Upon satisfactory evidence that any person or company is engaged in conducting any lottery, gift enterprise, or
scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or personal property by lot, chance, or drawing of any kind, or that any person or company is
conducting any scheme, device, or enterprise for obtaining money or property of any kind through the mails by means of false or fraudulent
pretenses, representations, or promises, the Director of Posts may instruct any postmaster or other officer or employee of the Bureau to return to
the person, depositing the same in the mails, with the word "fraudulent" plainly written or stamped upon the outside cover thereof, any mail matter of
whatever class mailed by or addressed to such person or company or the representative or agent of such person or company.
SECTION 1983. Deprivation of use of money order system and telegraphic transfer service.—The Director of Posts may, upon evidence satisfactory
to him that any person or company is engaged in conducting any lottery, gift enterprise or scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or
personal property by lot, chance, or drawing of any kind, or that any person or company is conducting any scheme, device, or enterprise for
obtaining money or property of any kind through the mails by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promise, forbid the issue or
payment by any postmaster of any postal money order or telegraphic transfer to said person or company or to the agent of any such person or
company, whether such agent is acting as an individual or as a firm, bank, corporation, or association of any kind, and may provide by regulation for
the return to the remitters of the sums named in money orders or telegraphic transfers drawn in favor of such person or company or its agent.
The overtures were later formalized in a letter to the Postmaster General, dated October 31, 1960, in which the Caltex, thru counsel, enclosed a copy of
the contest rules and endeavored to justify its position that the contest does not violate the anti-lottery provisions of the Postal Law. Unimpressed, the
then Acting Postmaster General opined that the scheme falls within the purview of the provisions aforesaid and declined to grant the requested
clearance. In its counsel's letter of December 7, 1960, Caltex sought a reconsideration of the foregoing stand, stressing that there being involved no
consideration in the part of any contestant, the contest was not, under controlling authorities, condemnable as a lottery. Relying, however, on an opinion
rendered by the Secretary of Justice on an unrelated case seven years before (Opinion 217, Series of 1953), the Postmaster General maintained his
view that the contest involves consideration, or that, if it does not, it is nevertheless a "gift enterprise" which is equally banned by the Postal Law, and in
his letter of December 10, 1960 not only denied the use of the mails for purposes of the proposed contest but as well threatened that if the contest was
conducted, "a fraud order will have to be issued against it (Caltex) and all its representatives".
Caltex thereupon invoked judicial intervention by filing the present petition for declaratory relief against Postmaster General Enrico Palomar, praying
"that judgment be rendered declaring its 'Caltex Hooded Pump Contest' not to be violative of the Postal Law, and ordering respondent to allow petitioner
the use of the mails to bring the contest to the attention of the public". After issues were joined and upon the respective memoranda of the parties, the
trial court rendered judgment as follows:
In view of the foregoing considerations, the Court holds that the proposed 'Caltex Hooded Pump Contest' announced to be conducted by the
petitioner under the rules marked as Annex B of the petitioner does not violate the Postal Law and the respondent has no right to bar the
public distribution of said rules by the mails.
The respondent appealed.
The parties are now before us, arrayed against each other upon two basic issues: first, whether the petition states a sufficient cause of action for
declaratory relief; and second, whether the proposed "Caltex Hooded Pump Contest" violates the Postal Law. We shall take these up in seriatim.
1. By express mandate of section 1 of Rule 66 of the old Rules of Court, which was the applicable legal basis for the remedy at the time it was invoked,
declaratory relief is available to any person "whose rights are affected by a statute . . . to determine any question of construction or validity arising under
the . . . statute and for a declaration of his rights thereunder" (now section 1, Rule 64, Revised Rules of Court). In amplification, this Court, conformably
to established jurisprudence on the matter, laid down certain conditions sine qua non therefor, to wit: (1) there must be a justiciable controversy; (2) the
controversy must be between persons whose interests are adverse; (3) the party seeking declaratory relief must have a legal interest in the controversy;
and (4) the issue involved must be ripe for judicial determination (Tolentino vs. The Board of Accountancy, et al., G.R. No. L-3062, September 28, 1951;
Delumen, et al. vs. Republic of the Philippines, 50 O.G., No. 2, pp. 576, 578-579; Edades vs. Edades, et al., G.R. No. L-8964, July 31, 1956). The
gravamen of the appellant's stand being that the petition herein states no sufficient cause of action for declaratory relief, our duty is to assay the factual
bases thereof upon the foregoing crucible.
As we look in retrospect at the incidents that generated the present controversy, a number of significant points stand out in bold relief. The appellee
(Caltex), as a business enterprise of some consequence, concededly has the unquestioned right to exploit every legitimate means, and to avail of all
appropriate media to advertise and stimulate increased patronage for its products. In contrast, the appellant, as the authority charged with the
enforcement of the Postal Law, admittedly has the power and the duty to suppress transgressions thereof — particularly thru the issuance of fraud
orders, under Sections 1982 and 1983 of the Revised Administrative Code, against legally non-mailable schemes. Obviously pursuing its right aforesaid,
the appellee laid out plans for the sales promotion scheme hereinbefore detailed. To forestall possible difficulties in the dissemination of information
thereon thru the mails, amongst other media, it was found expedient to request the appellant for an advance clearance therefor. However, likewise by
virtue of his jurisdiction in the premises and construing the pertinent provisions of the Postal Law, the appellant saw a violation thereof in the proposed
scheme and accordingly declined the request. A point of difference as to the correct construction to be given to the applicable statute was thus reached.
Communications in which the parties expounded on their respective theories were exchanged. The confidence with which the appellee insisted upon its
position was matched only by the obstinacy with which the appellant stood his ground. And this impasse was climaxed by the appellant's open warning
to the appellee that if the proposed contest was "conducted, a fraud order will have to be issued against it and all its representatives."
Against this backdrop, the stage was indeed set for the remedy prayed for. The appellee's insistent assertion of its claim to the use of the mails for its
proposed contest, and the challenge thereto and consequent denial by the appellant of the privilege demanded, undoubtedly spawned a live
controversy. The justiciability of the dispute cannot be gainsaid. There is an active antagonistic assertion of a legal right on one side and a denial thereof
on the other, concerning a real — not a mere theoretical — question or issue. The contenders are as real as their interests are substantial. To the
appellee, the uncertainty occasioned by the divergence of views on the issue of construction hampers or disturbs its freedom to enhance its business.
To the appellant, the suppression of the appellee's proposed contest believed to transgress a law he has sworn to uphold and enforce is an unavoidable
duty. With the appellee's bent to hold the contest and the appellant's threat to issue a fraud order therefor if carried out, the contenders are confronted
by the ominous shadow of an imminent and inevitable litigation unless their differences are settled and stabilized by a tranquilizing declaration (Pablo y
Sen, et al. vs. Republic of the Philippines, G.R. No. L-6868, April 30, 1955). And, contrary to the insinuation of the appellant, the time is long past when
it can rightly be said that merely the appellee's "desires are thwarted by its own doubts, or by the fears of others" — which admittedly does not confer a
cause of action. Doubt, if any there was, has ripened into a justiciable controversy when, as in the case at bar, it was translated into a positive claim of
right which is actually contested (III Moran, Comments on the Rules of Court, 1963 ed., pp. 132-133, citing: Woodward vs. Fox West Coast Theaters, 36
Ariz., 251, 284 Pac. 350).
We cannot hospitably entertain the appellant's pretense that there is here no question of construction because the said appellant "simply applied the
clear provisions of the law to a given set of facts as embodied in the rules of the contest", hence, there is no room for declaratory relief. The infirmity of
this pose lies in the fact that it proceeds from the assumption that, if the circumstances here presented, the construction of the legal provisions can be
divorced from the matter of their application to the appellee's contest. This is not feasible. Construction, verily, is the art or process of discovering and
expounding the meaning and intention of the authors of the law with respect to its application to a given case, where that intention is rendered doubtful,
amongst others, by reason of the fact that the given case is not explicitly provided for in the law (Black, Interpretation of Laws, p. 1). This is precisely the
case here. Whether or not the scheme proposed by the appellee is within the coverage of the prohibitive provisions of the Postal Law inescapably
requires an inquiry into the intended meaning of the words used therein. To our mind, this is as much a question of construction or interpretation as any
Nor is it accurate to say, as the appellant intimates, that a pronouncement on the matter at hand can amount to nothing more than an advisory opinion
the handing down of which is anathema to a declaratory relief action. Of course, no breach of the Postal Law has as yet been committed. Yet, the
disagreement over the construction thereof is no longer nebulous or contingent. It has taken a fixed and final shape, presenting clearly defined legal
issues susceptible of immediate resolution. With the battle lines drawn, in a manner of speaking, the propriety — nay, the necessity — of setting the
dispute at rest before it accumulates the asperity distemper, animosity, passion and violence of a full-blown battle which looms ahead (III Moran,
Comments on the Rules of Court, 1963 ed., p. 132 and cases cited), cannot but be conceded. Paraphrasing the language in Zeitlin vs. Arnebergh 59
Cal., 2d., 901, 31 Cal. Rptr., 800, 383 P. 2d., 152, cited in 22 Am. Jur., 2d., p. 869, to deny declaratory relief to the appellee in the situation into which it
has been cast, would be to force it to choose between undesirable alternatives. If it cannot obtain a final and definitive pronouncement as to whether the
anti-lottery provisions of the Postal Law apply to its proposed contest, it would be faced with these choices: If it launches the contest and uses the mails
for purposes thereof, it not only incurs the risk, but is also actually threatened with the certain imposition, of a fraud order with its concomitant stigma
which may attach even if the appellee will eventually be vindicated; if it abandons the contest, it becomes a self-appointed censor, or permits the
appellant to put into effect a virtual fiat of previous censorship which is constitutionally unwarranted. As we weigh these considerations in one equation
and in the spirit of liberality with which the Rules of Court are to be interpreted in order to promote their object (section 1, Rule 1, Revised Rules of
Court) — which, in the instant case, is to settle, and afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to, rights and duties under a law — we can
see in the present case any imposition upon our jurisdiction or any futility or prematurity in our intervention.
The appellant, we apprehend, underrates the force and binding effect of the ruling we hand down in this case if he believes that it will not have the final
and pacifying function that a declaratory judgment is calculated to subserve. At the very least, the appellant will be bound. But more than this, he
obviously overlooks that in this jurisdiction, "Judicial decisions applying or interpreting the law shall form a part of the legal system" (Article 8, Civil Code
of the Philippines). In effect, judicial decisions assume the same authority as the statute itself and, until authoritatively abandoned, necessarily become,
to the extent that they are applicable, the criteria which must control the actuations not only of those called upon to abide thereby but also of those in
duty bound to enforce obedience thereto. Accordingly, we entertain no misgivings that our resolution of this case will terminate the controversy at hand.
It is not amiss to point out at this juncture that the conclusion we have herein just reached is not without precedent. In Liberty Calendar Co. vs. Cohen,
19 N.J., 399, 117 A. 2d., 487, where a corporation engaged in promotional advertising was advised by the county prosecutor that its proposed sales
promotion plan had the characteristics of a lottery, and that if such sales promotion were conducted, the corporation would be subject to criminal
prosecution, it was held that the corporation was entitled to maintain a declaratory relief action against the county prosecutor to determine the legality of
its sales promotion plan. In pari materia, see also: Bunis vs. Conway, 17 App. Div. 2d., 207, 234 N.Y.S. 2d., 435; Zeitlin vs. Arnebergh, supra; Thrillo,
Inc. vs. Scott, 15 N.J. Super. 124, 82 A. 2d., 903.
In fine, we hold that the appellee has made out a case for declaratory relief.
2. The Postal Law, chapter 52 of the Revised Administrative Code, using almost identical terminology in sections 1954(a), 1982 and 1983
thereof, supra, condemns as absolutely non-mailable, and empowers the Postmaster General to issue fraud orders against, or otherwise deny the use
of the facilities of the postal service to, any information concerning "any lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or
personal property by lot, chance, or drawing of any kind". Upon these words hinges the resolution of the second issue posed in this appeal.
Happily, this is not an altogether untrodden judicial path. As early as in 1922, in "El Debate", Inc. vs. Topacio, 44 Phil., 278, 283-284, which significantly
dwelt on the power of the postal authorities under the abovementioned provisions of the Postal Law, this Court declared that —
While countless definitions of lottery have been attempted, the authoritative one for this jurisdiction is that of the United States Supreme Court,
in analogous cases having to do with the power of the United States Postmaster General, viz.: The term "lottery" extends to all schemes for
the distribution of prizes by chance, such as policy playing, gift exhibitions, prize concerts, raffles at fairs, etc., and various forms of gambling.
The three essential elements of a lottery are: First, consideration; second, prize; and third, chance. (Horner vs. States [1892], 147 U.S. 449;
Public Clearing House vs. Coyne [1903], 194 U.S., 497; U.S. vs. Filart and Singson [1915], 30 Phil., 80; U.S. vs. Olsen and Marker [1917], 36
Phil., 395; U.S. vs. Baguio [1919], 39 Phil., 962; Valhalla Hotel Construction Company vs. Carmona, p. 233, ante.)
Unanimity there is in all quarters, and we agree, that the elements of prize and chance are too obvious in the disputed scheme to be the subject of
contention. Consequently as the appellant himself concedes, the field of inquiry is narrowed down to the existence of the element of consideration
therein. Respecting this matter, our task is considerably lightened inasmuch as in the same case just cited, this Court has laid down a definitive yard-
stick in the following terms —
In respect to the last element of consideration, the law does not condemn the gratuitous distribution of property by chance, if no consideration
is derived directly or indirectly from the party receiving the chance, but does condemn as criminal schemes in which a valuable consideration
of some kind is paid directly or indirectly for the chance to draw a prize.
Reverting to the rules of the proposed contest, we are struck by the clarity of the language in which the invitation to participate therein is couched. Thus
No puzzles, no rhymes? You don't need wrappers, labels or boxtops? You don't have to buy anything? Simply estimate the actual number of
liter the Caltex gas pump with the hood at your favorite Caltex dealer will dispense from — to —, and win valuable prizes . . . ." .
Nowhere in the said rules is any requirement that any fee be paid, any merchandise be bought, any service be rendered, or any value whatsoever be
given for the privilege to participate. A prospective contestant has but to go to a Caltex station, request for the entry form which is available on demand,
and accomplish and submit the same for the drawing of the winner. Viewed from all angles or turned inside out, the contest fails to exhibit any
discernible consideration which would brand it as a lottery. Indeed, even as we head the stern injunction, "look beyond the fair exterior, to the
substance, in order to unmask the real element and pernicious tendencies which the law is seeking to prevent" ("El Debate", Inc. vs. Topacio, supra, p.
291), we find none. In our appraisal, the scheme does not only appear to be, but actually is, a gratuitous distribution of property by chance.
There is no point to the appellant's insistence that non-Caltex customers who may buy Caltex products simply to win a prize would actually be indirectly
paying a consideration for the privilege to join the contest. Perhaps this would be tenable if the purchase of any Caltex product or the use of any Caltex
service were a pre-requisite to participation. But it is not. A contestant, it hardly needs reiterating, does not have to buy anything or to give anything of
value.1awphîl.nèt
Off-tangent, too, is the suggestion that the scheme, being admittedly for sales promotion, would naturally benefit the sponsor in the way of increased
patronage by those who will be encouraged to prefer Caltex products "if only to get the chance to draw a prize by securing entry blanks". The required
element of consideration does not consist of the benefit derived by the proponent of the contest. The true test, as laid down in People vs. Cardas, 28 P.
2d., 99, 137 Cal. App. (Supp.) 788, is whether the participant pays a valuable consideration for the chance, and not whether those conducting the
enterprise receive something of value in return for the distribution of the prize. Perspective properly oriented, the standpoint of the contestant is all that
matters, not that of the sponsor. The following, culled from Corpus Juris Secundum, should set the matter at rest:
The fact that the holder of the drawing expects thereby to receive, or in fact does receive, some benefit in the way of patronage or otherwise,
as a result of the drawing; does not supply the element of consideration. Griffith Amusement Co. vs. Morgan, Tex. Civ. App., 98 S.W., 2d.,
844" (54 C.J.S., p. 849).
Thus enlightened, we join the trial court in declaring that the "Caltex Hooded Pump Contest" proposed by the appellee is not a lottery that may be
administratively and adversely dealt with under the Postal Law.
But it may be asked: Is it not at least a "gift enterprise, or scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or personal property by lot, chance, or
drawing of any kind", which is equally prescribed? Incidentally, while the appellant's brief appears to have concentrated on the issue of consideration,
this aspect of the case cannot be avoided if the remedy here invoked is to achieve its tranquilizing effect as an instrument of both curative and
preventive justice. Recalling that the appellant's action was predicated, amongst other bases, upon Opinion 217, Series 1953, of the Secretary of
Justice, which opined in effect that a scheme, though not a lottery for want of consideration, may nevertheless be a gift enterprise in which that element
is not essential, the determination of whether or not the proposed contest — wanting in consideration as we have found it to be — is a prohibited gift
enterprise, cannot be passed over sub silencio.
While an all-embracing concept of the term "gift enterprise" is yet to be spelled out in explicit words, there appears to be a consensus among
lexicographers and standard authorities that the term is commonly applied to a sporting artifice of under which goods are sold for their market value but
by way of inducement each purchaser is given a chance to win a prize (54 C.J.S., 850; 34 Am. Jur., 654; Black, Law Dictionary, 4th ed., p. 817;
Ballantine, Law Dictionary with Pronunciations, 2nd ed., p. 55; Retail Section of Chamber of Commerce of Plattsmouth vs. Kieck, 257 N.W., 493, 128
Neb. 13; Barker vs. State, 193 S.E., 605, 56 Ga. App., 705; Bell vs. State, 37 Tenn. 507, 509, 5 Sneed, 507, 509). As thus conceived, the term clearly
cannot embrace the scheme at bar. As already noted, there is no sale of anything to which the chance offered is attached as an inducement to the
purchaser. The contest is open to all qualified contestants irrespective of whether or not they buy the appellee's products.
Going a step farther, however, and assuming that the appellee's contest can be encompassed within the broadest sweep that the term "gift enterprise"
is capable of being extended, we think that the appellant's pose will gain no added comfort. As stated in the opinion relied upon, rulings there are indeed
holding that a gift enterprise involving an award by chance, even in default of the element of consideration necessary to constitute a lottery, is prohibited
(E.g.: Crimes vs. States, 235 Ala 192, 178 So. 73; Russell vs. Equitable Loan & Sec. Co., 129 Ga. 154, 58 S.E., 88; State ex rel. Stafford vs. Fox-Great
Falls Theater Corporation, 132 P. 2d., 689, 694, 698, 114 Mont. 52). But this is only one side of the coin. Equally impressive authorities declare that, like
a lottery, a gift enterprise comes within the prohibitive statutes only if it exhibits the tripartite elements of prize, chance and consideration (E.g.: Bills vs.
People, 157 P. 2d., 139, 142, 113 Colo., 326; D'Orio vs. Jacobs, 275 P. 563, 565, 151 Wash., 297; People vs. Psallis, 12 N.Y.S., 2d., 796; City and
County of Denver vs. Frueauff, 88 P., 389, 394, 39 Colo., 20, 7 L.R.A., N.S., 1131, 12 Ann. Cas., 521; 54 C.J.S., 851, citing: Barker vs. State, 193 S.E.,
605, 607, 56 Ga. App., 705; 18 Words and Phrases, perm. ed., pp. 590-594). The apparent conflict of opinions is explained by the fact that the specific
statutory provisions relied upon are not identical. In some cases, as pointed out in 54 C.J.S., 851, the terms "lottery" and "gift enterprise" are used
interchangeably (Bills vs. People, supra); in others, the necessity for the element of consideration or chance has been specifically eliminated by statute.
(54 C.J.S., 351-352, citing Barker vs. State, supra; State ex rel. Stafford vs. Fox-Great Falls Theater Corporation, supra). The lesson that we derive from
this state of the pertinent jurisprudence is, therefore, that every case must be resolved upon the particular phraseology of the applicable statutory
provision.
Taking this cue, we note that in the Postal Law, the term in question is used in association with the word "lottery". With the meaning of lottery settled,
and consonant to the well-known principle of legal hermeneutics noscitur a sociis — which Opinion 217 aforesaid also relied upon although only insofar
as the element of chance is concerned — it is only logical that the term under a construction should be accorded no other meaning than that which is
consistent with the nature of the word associated therewith. Hence, if lottery is prohibited only if it involves a consideration, so also must the term "gift
enterprise" be so construed. Significantly, there is not in the law the slightest indicium of any intent to eliminate that element of consideration from the
"gift enterprise" therein included.
This conclusion firms up in the light of the mischief sought to be remedied by the law, resort to the determination thereof being an accepted extrinsic aid
in statutory construction. Mail fraud orders, it is axiomatic, are designed to prevent the use of the mails as a medium for disseminating printed matters
which on grounds of public policy are declared non-mailable. As applied to lotteries, gift enterprises and similar schemes, justification lies in the
recognized necessity to suppress their tendency to inflame the gambling spirit and to corrupt public morals (Com. vs. Lund, 15 A. 2d., 839, 143 Pa.
Super. 208). Since in gambling it is inherent that something of value be hazarded for a chance to gain a larger amount, it follows ineluctably that where
no consideration is paid by the contestant to participate, the reason behind the law can hardly be said to obtain. If, as it has been held —
Gratuitous distribution of property by lot or chance does not constitute "lottery", if it is not resorted to as a device to evade the law and no
consideration is derived, directly or indirectly, from the party receiving the chance, gambling spirit not being cultivated or stimulated thereby.
City of Roswell vs. Jones, 67 P. 2d., 286, 41 N.M., 258." (25 Words and Phrases, perm. ed., p. 695, emphasis supplied).
we find no obstacle in saying the same respecting a gift enterprise. In the end, we are persuaded to hold that, under the prohibitive provisions of the
Postal Law which we have heretofore examined, gift enterprises and similar schemes therein contemplated are condemnable only if, like lotteries, they
involve the element of consideration. Finding none in the contest here in question, we rule that the appellee may not be denied the use of the mails for
purposes thereof.
Recapitulating, we hold that the petition herein states a sufficient cause of action for declaratory relief, and that the "Caltex Hooded Pump Contest" as
described in the rules submitted by the appellee does not transgress the provisions of the Postal Law.
ACCORDINGLY, the judgment appealed from is affirmed. No costs.
G.R. No. L-6355-56 August 31, 1953
PASTOR M. ENDENCIA and FERNANDO JUGO, plaintiffs-appellees, vs. SATURNINO DAVID, defendant-appellant.
MONTEMAYOR, J.:
This is a joint appeal from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Manila declaring section 13 of Republic Act No. 590 unconstitutional, and
ordering the appellant Saturnino David as Collector of Internal Revenue to re-fund to Justice Pastor M. Endencia the sum of P1,744.45, representing the
income tax collected on his salary as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals in 1951, and to Justice Fernando Jugo the amount of P2,345.46,
representing the income tax collected on his salary from January 1,1950 to October 19, 1950, as Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals, and from
October 20, 1950 to December 31,1950, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, without special pronouncement as to costs.
Because of the similarity of the two cases, involving as they do the same question of law, they were jointly submitted for determination in the lower court.
Judge Higinio B. Macadaeg presiding, in a rather exhaustive and well considered decision found and held that under the doctrine laid down by this Court
in the case of Perfecto vs. Meer, 85 Phil., 552, the collection of income taxes from the salaries of Justice Jugo and Justice Endencia was a diminution of
their compensation and therefore was in violation of the Constitution of the Philippines, and so ordered the refund of said taxes.
We see no profit and necessity in again discussing and considering the proposition and the arguments pro and cons involved in the case of Perfecto vs.
Meer, supra, which are raised, brought up and presented here. In that case, we have held despite the ruling enunciated by the United States Federal
Supreme Court in the case of O 'Malley vs. Woodrought 307 U. S., 277, that taxing the salary of a judicial officer in the Philippines is a diminution of
such salary and so violates the Constitution. We shall now confine our-selves to a discussion and determination of the remaining question of whether or
not Republic Act No. 590, particularly section 13, can justify and legalize the collection of income tax on the salary of judicial officers.
According to the brief of the Solicitor General on behalf of appellant Collector of Internal Revenue, our decision in the case of Perfecto vs. Meer, supra,
was not received favorably by Congress, because immediately after its promulgation, Congress enacted Republic Act No. 590. To bring home his point,
the Solicitor General reproduced what he considers the pertinent discussion in the Lower House of House Bill No. 1127 which became Republic Act No.
For purposes of reference, we are reproducing section 9, Article VIII of our Constitution:.
SEC. 9. The members of the Supreme Court and all judges of inferior courts shall hold office during good behavior, until they reach the age of
seventy years, or become incapacitated to discharge the duties of their office. They shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by
law, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. Until the Congress shall provide otherwise, the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court shall receive an annual compensation of sixteen thousand pesos, and each Associate Justice, fifteen thousand pesos.
As already stated construing and applying the above constitutional provision, we held in the Perfecto case that judicial officers are exempt from the
payment of income tax on their salaries, because the collection thereof by the Government was a decrease or diminution of their salaries during their
continuance in office, a thing which is expressly prohibited by the Constitution. Thereafter, according to the Solicitor General, because Congress did not
favorably receive the decision in the Perfecto case, Congress promulgated Republic Act No. 590, if not to counteract the ruling in that decision, at least
now to authorize and legalize the collection of income tax on the salaries of judicial officers. We quote section 13 of Republic Act No. 590:
SEC 13. No salary wherever received by any public officer of the Republic of the Philippines shall be considered as exempt from the income
tax, payment of which is hereby declared not to be dimunition of his compensation fixed by the Constitution or by law.
So we have this situation. The Supreme Court in a decision interpreting the Constitution, particularly section 9, Article VIII, has held that judicial officers
are exempt from payment of income tax on their salaries, because the collection thereof was a diminution of such salaries, specifically prohibited by the
Constitution. Now comes the Legislature and in section 13, Republic Act No. 590, says that "no salary wherever received by any public officer of the
Republic (naturally including a judicial officer) shall be considered as exempt from the income tax," and proceeds to declare that payment of said income
tax is not a diminution of his compensation. Can the Legislature validly do this? May the Legislature lawfully declare the collection of income tax on the
salary of a public official, specially a judicial officer, not a decrease of his salary, after the Supreme Court has found and decided otherwise? To
determine this question, we shall have to go back to the fundamental principles regarding separation of powers.
Under our system of constitutional government, the Legislative department is assigned the power to make and enact laws. The Executive department is
charged with the execution of carrying out of the provisions of said laws. But the interpretation and application of said laws belong exclusively to the
Judicial department. And this authority to interpret and apply the laws extends to the Constitution. Before the courts can determine whether a law is
constitutional or not, it will have to interpret and ascertain the meaning not only of said law, but also of the pertinent portion of the Constitution in order to
decide whether there is a conflict between the two, because if there is, then the law will have to give way and has to be declared invalid and
unconstitutional.
Defining and interpreting the law is a judicial function and the legislative branch may not limit or restrict the power granted to the courts by the
Constitution. (Bandy vs. Mickelson et al., 44N. W., 2nd 341, 342.)
When it is clear that a statute transgresses the authority vested in the legislature by the Constitution, it is the duty of the courts to declare the
act unconstitutional because they cannot shrink from it without violating their oaths of office. This duty of the courts to maintain the
Constitution as the fundamental law of the state is imperative and unceasing; and, as Chief Justice Marshall said, whenever a statute is in
violation of the fundamental law, the courts must so adjudge and thereby give effect to the Constitution. Any other course would lead to the
destruction of the Constitution. Since the question as to the constitutionality of a statute is a judicial matter, the courts will not decline the
exercise of jurisdiction upon the suggestion that action might be taken by political agencies in disregard of the judgment of the judicial
tribunals. (11 Am. Jur., 714-715.)
Under the American system of constitutional government, among the most important functions in trusted to the judiciary are the interpreting of
Constitutions and, as a closely connected power, the determination of whether laws and acts of the legislature are or are not contrary to the
provisions of the Federal and State Constitutions. (11 Am. Jur., 905.).
By legislative fiat as enunciated in section 13, Republic Act NO. 590, Congress says that taxing the salary of a judicial officer is not a decrease of
compensation. This is a clear example of interpretation or ascertainment of the meaning of the phrase "which shall not be diminished during their
continuance in office," found in section 9, Article VIII of the Constitution, referring to the salaries of judicial officers. This act of interpreting the
Constitution or any part thereof by the Legislature is an invasion of the well-defined and established province and jurisdiction of the Judiciary.
The rule is recognized elsewhere that the legislature cannot pass any declaratory act, or act declaratory of what the law was before its
passage, so as to give it any binding weight with the courts. A legislative definition of a word as used in a statute is not conclusive of its
meaning as used elsewhere; otherwise, the legislature would be usurping a judicial function in defining a term. (11 Am. Jur., 914, emphasis
supplied)
The legislature cannot, upon passing a law which violates a constitutional provision, validate it so as to prevent an attack thereon in the
courts, by a declaration that it shall be so construed as not to violate the constitutional inhibition. (11 Am. Jur., 919, emphasis supplied)
We have already said that the Legislature under our form of government is assigned the task and the power to make and enact laws, but not to interpret
them. This is more true with regard to the interpretation of the basic law, the Constitution, which is not within the sphere of the Legislative department. If
the Legislature may declare what a law means, or what a specific portion of the Constitution means, especially after the courts have in actual case
ascertain its meaning by interpretation and applied it in a decision, this would surely cause confusion and instability in judicial processes and court
decisions. Under such a system, a final court determination of a case based on a judicial interpretation of the law of the Constitution may be undermined
or even annulled by a subsequent and different interpretation of the law or of the Constitution by the Legislative department. That would be neither wise
nor desirable, besides being clearly violative of the fundamental, principles of our constitutional system of government, particularly those governing the
separation of powers.
So much for the constitutional aspect of the case. Considering the practical side thereof, we believe that the collection of income tax on a salary is an
actual and evident diminution thereof. Under the old system where the in-come tax was paid at the end of the year or sometime thereafter, the decrease
may not be so apparent and clear. All that the official who had previously received his full salary was called upon to do, was to fulfill his obligation and to
exercise his privilege of paying his income tax on his salary. His salary fixed by law was received by him in the amount of said tax comes from his other
sources of income, he may not fully realize the fact that his salary had been decreased in the amount of said income tax. But under the present system
of withholding the income tax at the source, where the full amount of the income tax corresponding to his salary is computed in advance and divided into
equal portions corresponding to the number of pay-days during the year and actually deducted from his salary corresponding to each payday, said
official actually does not receive his salary in full, because the income tax is deducted therefrom every payday, that is to say, twice a month. Let us take
the case of Justice Endencia. As Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals, his salary is fixed at p12,000 a year, that is to say, he should receive P1,000
a month or P500 every payday, — fifteenth and end of month. In the present case, the amount collected by the Collector of Internal Revenue on said
salary is P1,744.45 for one year. Divided by twelve (months) we shall have P145.37 a month. And further dividing it by two paydays will bring it down to
P72.685, which is the income tax deducted form the collected on his salary each half month. So, if Justice Endencia's salary as a judicial officer were
not exempt from payment of the income tax, instead of receiving P500 every payday, he would be actually receiving P427.31 only, and instead of
receiving P12,000 a year, he would be receiving but P10,255.55. Is it not therefor clear that every payday, his salary is actually decreased by P72.685
and every year is decreased by P1,744.45?
Reading the discussion in the lower House in connection with House Bill No. 1127, which became Republic Act No. 590, it would seem that one of the
main reasons behind the enactment of the law was the feeling among certain legislators that members of the Supreme Court should not enjoy any
exemption and that as citizens, out of patriotism and love for their country, they should pay income tax on their salaries. It might be stated in this
connection that the exemption is not enjoyed by the members of the Supreme Court alone but also by all judicial officers including Justices of the Court
of Appeals and judges of inferior courts. The exemption also extends to other constitutional officers, like the President of the Republic, the Auditor
General, the members of the Commission on Elections, and possibly members of the Board of Tax Appeals, commissioners of the Public Service
Commission, and judges of the Court of Industrial Relations. Compares to the number of all these officials, that of the Supreme Court Justices is
relatively insignificant. There are more than 990 other judicial officers enjoying the exemption, including 15 Justices of the Court of Appeals, about 107
Judges of First Instance, 38 Municipal Judges and about 830 Justices of the Peace. The reason behind the exemption in the Constitution, as interpreted
by the United States Federal Supreme Court and this Court, is to preserve the independence of the Judiciary, not only of this High Tribunal but of the
other courts, whose present membership number more than 990 judicial officials.
The exemption was not primarily intended to benefit judicial officers, but was grounded on public policy. As said by Justice Van Devanter of the United
States Supreme Court in the case of Evans vs. Gore (253 U. S., 245):
The primary purpose of the prohibition against diminution was not to benefit the judges, but, like the clause in respect of tenure, to attract
good and competent men to the bench and to promote that independence of action and judgment which is essential to the maintenance of the
guaranties, limitations and pervading principles of the Constitution and to the administration of justice without respect to person and with equal
concern for the poor and the rich. Such being its purpose, it is to be construed, not as a private grant, but as a limitation imposed in the public
interest; in other words, not restrictively, but in accord with its spirit and the principle on which it proceeds.
Having in mind the limited number of judicial officers in the Philippines enjoying this exemption, especially when the great bulk thereof are justices of the
peace, many of them receiving as low as P200 a month, and considering further the other exemptions allowed by the income tax law, such as P3,000
for a married person and P600 for each dependent, the amount of national revenue to be derived from income tax on the salaries of judicial officers,
were if not for the constitutional exemption, could not be large or substantial. But even if it were otherwise, it should not affect, much less outweigh the
purpose and the considerations that prompted the establishment of the constitutional exemption. In the same case of Evans vs. Gore, supra, the
Federal Supreme Court declared "that they (fathers of the Constitution) regarded the independence of the judges as far as greater importance than any
revenue that could come from taxing their salaries.
When a judicial officer assumed office, he does not exactly ask for exemption from payment of income tax on his salary, as a privilege . It is already
attached to his office, provided and secured by the fundamental law, not primarily for his benefit, but based on public interest, to secure and preserve his
independence of judicial thought and action. When we come to the members of the Supreme Court, this excemption to them is relatively of short
duration. Because of the limited membership in this High Tribunal, eleven, and due to the high standards of experience, practice and training required,
one generally enters its portals and comes to join its membership quite late in life, on the aver-age, around his sixtieth year, and being required to retire
at seventy, assuming that he does not die or become incapacitated earlier, naturally he is not in a position to receive the benefit of exemption for long. It
is rather to the justices of the peace that the exemption can give more benefit. They are relatively more numerous, and because of the meager salary
they receive, they can less afford to pay the income tax on it and its diminution by the amount of the income tax if paid would be real, substantial and
onerous.
Considering exemption in the abstract, there is nothing unusual or abhorrent in it, as long as it is based on public policy or public interest. While all other
citizens are subject to arrest when charged with the commission of a crime, members of the Senate and House of Representatives except in cases of
treason, felony and breach of the peace are exempt from arrest, during their attendance in the session of the Legislature; and while all other citizens are
generally liable for any speech, remark or statement, oral or written, tending to cause the dishonor, discredit or contempt of a natural or juridical person
or to blacken the memory of one who is dead, Senators and Congressmen in making such statements during their sessions are extended immunity and
exemption.
And as to tax exemption, there are not a few citizens who enjoy this exemption. Persons, natural and juridical, are exempt from taxes on their lands,
buildings and improvements thereon when used exclusively for educational purposes, even if they derive income therefrom. (Art. VI, Sec. 22 [3].)
Holders of government bonds are exempted from the payment of taxes on the income or interest they receive therefrom (sec. 29 (b) [4], National
Internal Revenue Code as amended by Republic Act No. 566). Payments or income received by any person residing in the Philippines under the laws of
the United States administered by the United States Veterans Administration are exempt from taxation. (Republic Act No. 360). Funds received by
officers and enlisted men of the Philippine Army who served in the Armed Forces of the United States, allowances earned by virtue of such services
corresponding to the taxable years 1942 to 1945, inclusive, are exempted from income tax. (Republic Act No. 210). The payment of wages and
allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Army Forces of the Philippines sent to Korea are also exempted from taxation. (Republic Act No. 35). In
other words, for reasons of public policy and public interest, a citizen may justifiably by constitutional provision or statute be exempted from his ordinary
obligation of paying taxes on his income. Under the same public policy and perhaps for the same it not higher considerations, the framers of the
Constitution deemed it wise and necessary to exempt judicial officers from paying taxes on their salaries so as not to decrease their compensation,
thereby insuring the independence of the Judiciary.
In conclusion we reiterate the doctrine laid down in the case of Perfecto vs. Meer, supra, to the effect that the collection of income tax on the salary of a
judicial officer is a diminution thereof and so violates the Constitution. We further hold that the interpretation and application of the Constitution and of
statutes is within the exclusive province and jurisdiction of the Judicial department, and that in enacting a law, the Legislature may not legally provide
therein that it be interpreted in such a way that it may not violate a Constitutional prohibition, thereby tying the hands of the courts in their task of later
interpreting said statute, specially when the interpretation sought and provided in said statute runs counter to a previous interpretation already given in a
case by the highest court of the land.
In the views of the foregoing considerations, the decision appealed from is hereby affirmed, with no pronouncement as to costs.
Pablo, Bengzon, Padilla, Tuason, Reyes, and Labrador, JJ., concur.
Separate Opinions
BAUTISTA ANGELO, J., concurring:
Without expressing any opinion on the doctrine laid down by this Court in the case of Perfecto vs. Meer, G. R. No. L-2314, in view of the part I had in
that case as former Solicitor General, I wish however to state that I concur in the opinion of the majority to the effect that section 13, Republic Act No.
590, in so far as it provides that taxing of the salary of a judicial officer shall be considered "not to be a diminution of his compensation fixed by the
Constitution or by law", constitutes an invasion of the province and jurisdiction of the judiciary. In this sense, I am of the opinion that said section is null
and void, it being a transgression of the fundamental principle underlying the separation of powers.
PARAS, C.J., concurring and dissenting:
I dissent for the same reasons stated in the dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Ozaeta in Perfecto vs. Meer, 85 Phil., 552, in which I concurred. But I
disagree with the majority in ruling that no legislation may provide that it be held valid although against a provision of the Constitution.
G.R. No. 78780 July 23, 1987
DAVID G. NITAFAN, WENCESLAO M. POLO, and MAXIMO A. SAVELLANO, JR., petitioners,
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE and THE FINANCIAL OFFICER, SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.
MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:
Petitioners, the duly appointed and qualified Judges presiding over Branches 52, 19 and 53, respectively, of the Regional Trial Court, National Capital
Judicial Region, all with stations in Manila, seek to prohibit and/or perpetually enjoin respondents, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the
Financial Officer of the Supreme Court, from making any deduction of withholding taxes from their salaries.
In a nutshell, they submit that "any tax withheld from their emoluments or compensation as judicial officers constitutes a decrease or diminution of their
salaries, contrary to the provision of Section 10, Article VIII of the 1987 Constitution mandating that "(d)uring their continuance in office, their salary shall
not be decreased," even as it is anathema to the Ideal of an independent judiciary envisioned in and by said Constitution."
It may be pointed out that, early on, the Court had dealt with the matter administratively in response to representations that the Court direct its Finance
Officer to discontinue the withholding of taxes from salaries of members of the Bench. Thus, on June 4, 1987, the Court en banc had reaffirmed the
Chief Justice's directive as follows:
RE: Question of exemption from income taxation. — The Court REAFFIRMED the Chief Justice's previous and standing directive to the Fiscal
Management and Budget Office of this Court to continue with the deduction of the withholding taxes from the salaries of the Justices of the
Supreme Court as well as from the salaries of all other members of the judiciary.
That should have resolved the question. However, with the filing of this petition, the Court has deemed it best to settle the legal issue raised through this
judicial pronouncement. As will be shown hereinafter, the clear intent of the Constitutional Commission was to delete the proposed express grant of
exemption from payment of income tax to members of the Judiciary, so as to "give substance to equality among the three branches of Government" in
the words of Commissioner Rigos. In the course of the deliberations, it was further expressly made clear, specially with regard to Commissioner Joaquin
F. Bernas' accepted amendment to the amendment of Commissioner Rigos, that the salaries of members of the Judiciary would be subject to the
general income tax applied to all taxpayers.
This intent was somehow and inadvertently not clearly set forth in the final text of the Constitution as approved and ratified in February, 1987 (infra, pp.
7-8). Although the intent may have been obscured by the failure to include in the General Provisions a proscription against exemption of any public
officer or employee, including constitutional officers, from payment of income tax, the Court since then has authorized the continuation of the deduction
of the withholding tax from the salaries of the members of the Supreme Court, as well as from the salaries of all other members of the Judiciary. The
Court hereby makes of record that it had then discarded the ruling in Perfecto vs. Meer and Endencia vs. David, infra, that declared the salaries of
members of the Judiciary exempt from payment of the income tax and considered such payment as a diminution of their salaries during their
continuance in office. The Court hereby reiterates that the salaries of Justices and Judges are properly subject to a general income tax law applicable to
all income earners and that the payment of such income tax by Justices and Judges does not fall within the constitutional protection against decrease of
their salaries during their continuance in office.
A comparison of the Constitutional provisions involved is called for. The 1935 Constitution provided:
... (The members of the Supreme Court and all judges of inferior courts) shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by law, which shall
not be diminished during their continuance in office ... 1 (Emphasis supplied).
Under the 1973 Constitution, the same provision read:
The salary of the Chief Justice and of the Associate Justices of the Supreme court, and of judges of inferior courts shall be fixed by law, which
shall not be decreased during their continuance in office. ... 2 (Emphasis ours).
And in respect of income tax exemption, another provision in the same 1973 Constitution specifically stipulated:
No salary or any form of emolument of any public officer or employee, including constitutional officers, shall be exempt from payment of
income tax. 3
The provision in the 1987 Constitution, which petitioners rely on, reads:
The salary of the Chief Justice and of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, and of judges of lower courts shall be fixed by law. During
their continuance in office, their salary shall not be decreased. 4(Emphasis supplied).
The 1987 Constitution does not contain a provision similar to Section 6, Article XV of the 1973 Constitution, for which reason, petitioners claim that the
intent of the framers is to revert to the original concept of "non-diminution "of salaries of judicial officers.
The deliberations of the 1986 Constitutional Commission relevant to Section 10, Article VIII, negate such contention.
The draft proposal of Section 10, Article VIII, of the 1987 Constitution read:
Section 13. The salary of the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court and of judges of the lower courts shall be fixed
by law. During their continuance in office, their salary shall not be diminished nor subjected to income tax. Until the National Assembly shall
provide otherwise, the Chief Justice shall receive an annual salary of _____________ and each Associate Justice ______________
pesos. 5(Emphasis ours)
During the debates on the draft Article (Committee Report No. 18), two Commissioners presented their objections to the provision on tax exemption,
MS. AQUINO. Finally, on the matter of exemption from tax of the salary of justices, does this not violate the principle of the uniformity of
taxation and the principle of equal protection of the law? After all, tax is levied not on the salary but on the combined income, such that when
the judge receives a salary and it is comingled with the other income, we tax the income, not the salary. Why do we have to give special
privileges to the salary of justices?
MR. CONCEPCION. It is the independence of the judiciary. We prohibit the increase or decrease of their salary during their term. This is an
indirect way of decreasing their salary and affecting the independence of the judges.
MS. AQUINO. I appreciate that to be in the nature of a clause to respect tenure, but the special privilege on taxation might, in effect, be a
violation of the principle of uniformity in taxation and the equal protection clause. 6
MR. OPLE. x x x
Of course, we share deeply the concern expressed by the sponsor, Commissioner Roberto Concepcion, for whom we have the highest
respect, to surround the Supreme Court and the judicial system as a whole with the whole armor of defense against the executive and
legislative invasion of their independence. But in so doing, some of the citizens outside, especially the humble government employees, might
say that in trying to erect a bastion of justice, we might end up with the fortress of privileges, an island of extra territoriality under the Republic
of the Philippines, because a good number of powers and rights accorded to the Judiciary here may not be enjoyed in the remotest degree by
other employees of the government.
An example is the exception from income tax, which is a kind of economic immunity, which is, of course, denied to the entire executive
department and the legislative. 7
And during the period of amendments on the draft Article, on July 14, 1986, Commissioner Cirilo A. Rigos proposed that the term "diminished" be
changed to "decreased" and that the words "nor subjected to income tax" be deleted so as to "give substance to equality among the three branches in
the government.
Commissioner Florenz D. Regalado, on behalf of the Committee on the Judiciary, defended the original draft and referred to the ruling of this Court
in Perfecto vs. Meer 8 that "the independence of the judges is of far greater importance than any revenue that could come from taxing their salaries."
Commissioner Rigos then moved that the matter be put to a vote. Commissioner Joaquin G. Bernas stood up "in support of an amendment to the
amendment with the request for a modification of the amendment," as follows:
FR. BERNAS. Yes. I am going to propose an amendment to the amendment saying that it is not enough to drop the phrase "shall not be
subjected to income tax," because if that is all that the Gentleman will do, then he will just fall back on the decision in Perfecto vs. Meer and
in Dencia vs. David [should be Endencia and Jugo vs. David, etc., 93 Phil. 696[ which excludes them from income tax, but rather I would
propose that the statement will read: "During their continuance in office, their salary shall not be diminished BUT MAY BE SUBJECT TO
GENERAL INCOME TAX."IN support of this position, I would say that the argument seems to be that the justice and judges should not be
subjected to income tax because they already gave up the income from their practice. That is true also of Cabinet members and all other
employees. And I know right now, for instance, there are many people who have accepted employment in the government involving a
reduction of income and yet are still subject to income tax. So, they are not the only citizens whose income is reduced by accepting service in
government.
Commissioner Rigos accepted the proposed amendment to the amendment. Commissioner Rustico F. de los Reyes, Jr. then moved for a suspension of
the session. Upon resumption, Commissioner Bernas announced:
During the suspension, we came to an understanding with the original proponent, Commissioner Rigos, that his amendment on page 6,. line 4
would read: "During their continuance in office, their salary shall not be DECREASED."But this is on the understanding that there will be a
provision in the Constitution similar to Section 6 of Article XV, the General Provisions of the 1973 Constitution, which says:
No salary or any form of emolument of any public officer or employee, including constitutional officers, shall be exempt from
payment of income tax.
So, we put a period (.) after "DECREASED" on the understanding that the salary of justices is subject to tax.
When queried about the specific Article in the General Provisions on non-exemption from tax of salaries of public officers, Commissioner Bernas replied:
FR BERNAS. Yes, I do not know if such an article will be found in the General Provisions. But at any rate, when we put a period (.) after
"DECREASED," it is on the understanding that the doctrine in Perfecto vs. Meer and Dencia vs. David will not apply anymore.
The amendment to the original draft, as discussed and understood, was finally approved without objection.
THE PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bengzon). The understanding, therefore, is that there will be a provision under the Article on General
Provisions. Could Commissioner Rosario Braid kindly take note that the salaries of officials of the government including constitutional officers
shall not be exempt from income tax? The amendment proposed herein and accepted by the Committee now reads as follows: "During their
continuance in office, their salary shall not be DECREASED"; and the phrase "nor subjected to income tax" is deleted.9
The debates, interpellations and opinions expressed regarding the constitutional provision in question until it was finally approved by the Commission
disclosed that the true intent of the framers of the 1987 Constitution, in adopting it, was to make the salaries of members of the Judiciary taxable. The
ascertainment of that intent is but in keeping with the fundamental principle of constitutional construction that the intent of the framers of the organic law
and of the people adopting it should be given effect.10 The primary task in constitutional construction is to ascertain and thereafter assure the realization
of the purpose of the framers and of the people in the adoption of the Constitution. 11it may also be safely assumed that the people in ratifying the
Constitution were guided mainly by the explanation offered by the framers. 12 1avvphi1
Besides, construing Section 10, Articles VIII, of the 1987 Constitution, which, for clarity, is again reproduced hereunder:
their continuance in office, their salary shall not be decreased. (Emphasis supplied).
it is plain that the Constitution authorizes Congress to pass a law fixing another rate of compensation of Justices and Judges but such rate must be
higher than that which they are receiving at the time of enactment, or if lower, it would be applicable only to those appointed after its approval. It would
be a strained construction to read into the provision an exemption from taxation in the light of the discussion in the Constitutional Commission.
With the foregoing interpretation, and as stated heretofore, the ruling that "the imposition of income tax upon the salary of judges is a dimunition thereof,
and so violates the Constitution" in Perfecto vs. Meer,13 as affirmed in Endencia vs. David 14 must be declared discarded. The framers of the
fundamental law, as the alter ego of the people, have expressed in clear and unmistakable terms the meaning and import of Section 10, Article VIII, of
the 1987 Constitution that they have adopted
Stated otherwise, we accord due respect to the intent of the people, through the discussions and deliberations of their representatives, in the spirit that
all citizens should bear their aliquot part of the cost of maintaining the government and should share the burden of general income taxation equitably.
WHEREFORE, the instant petition for Prohibition is hereby dismissed.
G.R. No. L-34568 March 28, 1988
RODERICK DAOANG, petitioners, vs. THE MUNICIPAL JUDGE, SAN NICOLAS, ILOCOS NORTE, respondents.
PADILLA, J.:
This is a petition for review on certiorari of the decision, dated 30 June 1971, rendered by the respondent judge * in Spec. Proc. No. 37 of Municipal
Court of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, entitled: "In re Adoption of the Minors Quirino Bonilla and Wilson Marcos; Antero Agonoy and Amanda R. Agonoy,
petitioners", the dispositive part of which reads, as follows:
Wherefore, Court renders judgment declaring that henceforth Quirino Bonilla and Wilson Marcos be, to all legitimate intents and purposes, the
children by adoption of the joint petitioners Antero Agonoy and Amanda R. Agonoy and that the former be freed from legal obedience and
maintenance by their respective parents, Miguel Bonilla and Laureana Agonoy for Quirino Bonilla and Modesto Marcos and Benjamina
Gonzales for Wilson Marcos and their family names 'Bonilla' and 'Marcos' be changed with "Agonoy", which is the family name of the petitioners.
Successional rights of the children and that of their adopting parents shall be governed by the pertinent provisions of the New Civil Code.
Let copy of this decision be furnished and entered into the records of the Local Civil Registry of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, for its legal effects at
the expense of the petitioners. 1
The undisputed facts of the case are as follows:
On 23 March 1971, the respondent spouses Antero and Amanda Agonoy filed a petition with the Municipal Court of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, seeking
the adoption of the minors Quirino Bonilla and Wilson Marcos. The case, entitled: "In re Adoption of the Minors Quirino Bonilla and Wilson Marcos,
Antero Agonoy and Amanda Ramos-Agonoy, petitioners", was docketed therein as Spec. Proc. No. 37. 2
The petition was set for hearing on 24 April 1971 and notices thereof were caused to be served upon the office of the Solicitor General and ordered
published in the ILOCOS TIMES, a weekly newspaper of general circulation in the province of Ilocos Norte, with editorial offices in Laoag City. 3
On 22 April 1971, the minors Roderick and Rommel Daoang, assisted by their father and guardian ad litem, the petitioners herein, filed an opposition to
the aforementioned petition for adoption, claiming that the spouses Antero and Amanda Agonoy had a legitimate daughter named Estrella Agonoy,
oppositors' mother, who died on 1 March 1971, and therefore, said spouses were disqualified to adopt under Art. 335 of the Civil Code. 4
After the required publication of notice had been accomplished, evidence was presented. Thereafter, the Municipal Court of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte
rendred its decision, granting the petition for adoption. 5
Hence, the present recourse by the petitioners (oppositors in the lower court).
The sole issue for consideration is one of law and it is whether or not the respondent spouses Antero Agonoy and Amanda Ramos-Agonoy are
disqualified to adopt under paragraph (1), Art. 335 of the Civil Code.
The pertinent provision of law reads, as follows:
Art. 335. The following cannot adopt:
(1) Those who have legitimate, legitimated, acknowledged natural children, or children by legal fiction;
In overruling the opposition of the herein petitioners, the respondents judge held that "to add grandchildren in this article where no grandchil is included
would violate to (sic) the legal maxim that what is expressly included would naturally exclude what is not included".
But, it is contended by the petitioners, citing the case of In re Adoption of Millendez,6 that the adoption of Quirino Bonilla and Wilson Marcos would not
only introduce a foreign element into the family unit, but would result in the reduction of their legititimes. It would also produce an indirect, permanent
and irrevocable disinheritance which is contrary to the policy of the law that a subsequent reconciliation between the offender and the offended person
deprives the latter of the right to disinherit and renders ineffectual any disinheritance that may have been made.
We find, however, that the words used in paragraph (1) of Art. 335 of the Civil Code, in enumerating the persons who cannot adopt, are clear and
unambiguous. The children mentioned therein have a clearly defined meaning in law and, as pointed out by the respondent judge, do not include
Well known is the rule of statutory construction to the effect that a statute clear and unambiguous on its face need not be interpreted; stated otherwise,
the rule is that only statutes with an ambiguous or doubtful meaning may be the subject of statutory construction. 7
Besides, it appears that the legislator, in enacting the Civil Code of the Philippines, obviously intended that only those persons who have certain classes
of children, are disqualified to adopt. The Civil Code of Spain, which was once in force in the Philippines, and which served as the pattern for the Civil
Code of the Philippines, in its Article 174, disqualified persons who have legitimate or legitimated descendants from adopting. Under this article, the
spouses Antero and Amanda Agonoy would have been disqualified to adopt as they have legitimate grandchildren, the petitioners herein. But, when the
Civil Code of the Philippines was adopted, the word "descendants" was changed to "children", in paragraph (1) of Article 335.
Adoption used to be for the benefit of the adoptor. It was intended to afford to persons who have no child of their own the consolation of having one, by
creating through legal fiction, the relation of paternity and filiation where none exists by blood relationship. 8 The present tendency, however, is geared
more towards the promotion of the welfare of the child and the enhancement of his opportunities for a useful and happy life, and every intendment is
sustained to promote that objective.9 Under the law now in force, having legitimate, legitimated, acknowledged natural children, or children by legal
fiction, is no longer a ground for disqualification to adopt. 10
WHEREFORE, the petition is DENIED. The judgment of the Municipal Court of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte in Spec. Proc. No. 37 is AFFIRMED. Without
pronouncement as to costs in this instance. SO ORDERED.
Constitutionality
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